w III. -r ym-1- airif m I,,r 1 - - iruimiM ft!AD ; BRAVE rtG T CONVICT'S Rrn * pk *r 1 " BATTLE FOR FREEDOM. Record Walk Act •» Africa I* H!»— How He Re#c ' d F -rc-e Only to Fall Into It's Hmda of Hi* Enemies New* whs received In I.otsdon re cently of the death of ,1 'seph Ct * s vlck. '!i while ft dug tin Justice Ac con i lie-fed mil of tie tne.-t remark Able walking feats on record, rays the l.otidon Globe Creswlek was undergoing a sen tenet* for forgery la Rhodesia and while i eit g conveyed from one prison to another by train (as reported aome months ago) conceived the Idea of escaping from his guards. As his legs were heavily Ironed the task was by no means an easy one, hut one night, when the train In which he was being conveyed was between Huluwayo and Salisbury and his guards were asleep Creswlek tpiictly opened the carriage door and jumped out. When he reached the ground he fell but was not badly hurt. During the remainder of the night he shuffled along In the dark and at daybreak could see the railroad In the distance He decided to walk in a straight line from It, which he did for several days, still with his feet shackled Day after day and night after night h« rubbed ills Irons with the sharp est pieces of rock lie could And until at Inst he was able to throw his man acles aside After tills Creswlek went tin With great strides through the un known country tn which lie found himself, Ills side object being to get to some white settlement Some weeks after his escape the wanderer had a wonderful piece of Imk In a hut apparently belonging to n settler he found a gun and some ammunition, which under the elrnini etanccs he did not hesitate to lake possession of. Willi tin* gun lie managed to shoot several zebras and other animals, wl leh provided him ■with ti welcome meal; hut unfor tunately Ills gun got out of order be fore his ammunition became exhaust ed and he had to rely upon fruit for Ills sustenance Just when C'reswlck wns coming to the conclusion that he had been walk log 'round and 'round without making much progress lie fell In with some natives, who gave him certain dlrec Hons as to how to find "a very long water," which t’reswlek concluded must mean the Ulver Congo, and for several more weeks he continued his t At mp. Light months after Ills escape from the train between Salisbury and Itulu wayo Crcswick was found hy a party of Belgians lying In n weak and fever ish condit ion about two hundred miles from Leopoldville on the Congo. They nursed him back to health and strength. At Bomba, arrayed In all the glory of a pair of cricket flannels and a football jersey provided by his new friends, the fugitive found ship on which he worked tils passage to Antwerp. From there he got a ship to London. That, however, led to his undoing, for while walking in White chapel he was recognized by Detective Inspector Belcher of Scotland Yard, who arrested him on the charge of es raping from lawful custody. He was taken BUhsecpiently to Rho desia as a fugitive offender, and for bis escapade he was sentenced to a further t« rut of six months imprison merit during vvtileh he died. Fire Means Free Lunch. The tlr»> alarm sounded and a vagrant who had been huddled in a dark hallway crept out and Joined the crowd hurrying to the midnight lire Presently others of his fraternity ap peared. "Why do till you JohttnieA always break your necks to get to a lire?" said a man who was something of a fire (lend himself. The vagrant pointed to a woman who was i-merging from a nearby apartment house tarrying a paiI of steaming coffee. i ut it *•» tt.t a..,a.\t-i. I., oii'.il "At every winter fire that gives the fire men a hard tussle the women of the neighborhood bring out coffee and sandwiches to brace them up Some times the firemen have time to snatch n bite, sometimes they don't Any how there is sure to be something left over, and the women—well, it's a hard hearted woman that won't give a poor devil a otip of coffee a night like this." The man kept an eye on his candid derelict, lie got two cups of coffee and two sandwiches Favorite Food. "At the age of TO years a man has consumed ha tons of food, it is said," remarked the lady at the head of the boarding house table. "And how many of those tons are represented by prunes, do you sup pose?” asked the man with gray beard and squeaky voice Anything Familiar to You? "Why do men climb mountains?" asks the New York Sun Possibly it's so that people who don't believe they ever did can organize a party to go to the top of the mountain next sum mer. Attractive. "That widow is very attractive.” "Attractive nothing! She is as ugly as a mud fence." I was thinking of the insurance she collected on the death of her late husband "—Houston Post GOT RID OF THE KANGAROOS Vt'ic cui Sailor Explains How Clr cui l lancet Adapted Ttiemselves to Do Him a Great Favor. "Farming on the Murrumbldgea river, down No® South Wales way," mid the sailor, I was postered to d* . Iiv kangaroos Every moonlight, night they'd come and eat my grain “Well, 1 put wilt some traps, and ouo night I landed a One Mg kangaroo that I named Joe. Joe got to be quite a pet He learned to eat out of my hand, and when the cold weather came on, I rigged him up In one of my old sailor suits blue blouse, Hat hat and wide legged trousei , all com plete “The kangaroos that had kept away all this time turned up one evening, a lid just to Bee what would happen, I fastened a 1 ig dinner bell around Joe's neck ; ml |i>t him loose '•(’ling! elang' cling! clung! Joe made (or his friends like a fire engine. And in the moonlight he looked so weird In his loose milt, flying through the air with great leaps, that the herd took to Its heels with squeals of flight. I .Ike the wind they made off and Joe clanged after them. They never troubled my grain no more. In fact, I never seen thorn again but wunst. That was a morning two days later "I was eutln’ breakfast, when past the house flew that whole herd of kangaroos, a hundred or more, at a speed I never have saw equaled by man, beast or motor car Their tongues lolled out, their eyes rolled and their hones fair stuck out of the skin. They was wrecks. Now and then they turned their haggard leads to look back, then lore on at a faster clip than before. And behind them, with his clang, clang and Ids loose blue logs, came Hllllor Joe. "Well, the hunch disappeared In a grove of gum trees, and that was the last I ever heel'd of them. True, I did see in the paper I he fullering spring that a mound of kangaroo skeletons had been found son miles north of my dugnut, and the skeleton on top of the mound had a dinner hell around Its neck. Could it have been Joe'.'" Ex I change. Leopold II. and Racine. Among the many stories told of the late king of the Ilelgians Is one which shows ins majesty in a pleasing light. V Paris society entertainer was at linisscls and the king, who was in disposed, sent for her to rend to him liucine's "Andromache." Thu lady obeyed the summons with misgivings, hut she was soon unde ceived. For two hours the king Lis tened to the leading. The tender passages seemed, so the lady says, to make the least Impression upon ids majesty but frequent 1} during the heavier parts he Interrupted the read ing to observe, "Marine is a power ful writer,” or a simit ar comment. Toward the end a court attendant announced Hip arrival of some vis itors, wlio had an appointment. The king turned to the reader and said. "You finish, if you please madnipoi solle," and to tile attendant lie ob served. \sk the ladies to wait. Tell them the king is engaged with an am bassador.1’ Royal Red Tape for German Princess. The feature of the imperial court season will be the debut of the kais er's only daughter, the Princess Vic toria houtse, who was 17 last Septem ber. is the burden of n dispatch from Merlin She is not pretty, hut is toll, slender, graceful and as vivacious as her father She will he the i etltei of attention at the court hulls. The princess will be obliged to choose her own partners from the young officers of the crack regiments, as no civilian is ever allowed to dance with an imperial princess. Moreover, the princess must not choose the same partner more than once nor at two .successive halls, in order to avoid gossip. Tlie officers she ought to choose are indicated by her ladies-in waiting. The choice goes by rank and title. Though the princess tuay lose her heart to any officer she will not ho permitted in qeiirv mo* not of loviil birth. Her first season, bound about with all this red tape, is likely to prove some what less happy (hail that of de butantes who are not of royal state. Emperor In Role of Good Samaritan. Kniperor William acted the good Sa maritan In his walk Thursday after noon, says a dispatch from Merlin. While returning to the castle through the tiergarten afoot, accom panied by an adjutant, after visiting the hunting exposition in the zoologl cal' gardens, his majesty found an un conscious tnan lying in a lonely spot. lie immediately knelt and tried to revive the man, at the same time send ing his adjutant to fetch a cab. When tin' vehicle arrived, the emperor and adjutant lifted the still senseless man into it, ordering that he be driven to a hospital. The emperor continued his walk and later telephoned to the hospital and learned that the man had recovered. He was one of the unemployed and had fainted from fatigue and hunger. His majesty ordered that the man he kept nt the hospital, and promised to help him find work, A Slight Mistake. Vp old gentleman of S-t took to the altar a very young damsel The clergyman led the way to the font. “What do 1 want with the font?" asked the aged bridegroom. “Oh I beg your pardon!" answered the clerical wit. "I thought you brought the child to be christened.”— Judge HERO IS FORGOTTEN FtW BOSTON FEOPLE V'SIT HOf" OF PAUL REVERE Outsider^ L •-r*e'y p’V Tribute to Thl* Patriot rf RevetuBormry Day* —Children l.r.-d Tbalr Par ents to the Place. Visitor* tn the Paul Revere house In North annate. <'pened about a year ago ar a public museum. number rela thHj few llostoulans, and according to the custodian the larger number of Boston people who do go to the tiouBe are with genets from other place* whom they are “showing tire sights,” eays tin Boston Herald This Is my first visit here," said a Boston business man one day re eentlv, on entering the house ”1 am over lifty, and have lived In Boston all my life I have always had it in Wind to come down tills way eome day. and the only reason I didn't was because 1 (bought I eotjd come any day I finally got here through the interi st of a young son of mine He caii e tun e from school the other day bubbling over with Paul Revcre's ride, that the teacher lmd been read ing to him He asked question after question Hint I was not able to an swi-r 'What did Paul Revcre's house look like how old was it now?' His teacher said it was about 100 years ild whim Paul bought it a fact that was news to me The teacher also told him there was an old Hint-lock fowling piece in the house which was Paul's own gun, and that youngster wanted to know just what it looked like, and how was it different from other guns. The lad stumped me, so I said I wouldn't put off this \isit an other day.” According to the custodian, this case Is a parallel of many “Parents are awakened to the sig nltUanoe of the place, and its teach ings when their children begin to ask questions which they find limy can not answer \ little later these same parents will come again, accompanied hy I heir children, and you may hear one say proudly, 'Here son, look at Oils gun, which was once Paul Re core's, and listen now while dad tells you all about it.’ "Only a few children come here as yet," said (he custodian "There is much here of historic Interest, and children should be taught more fre quently about Paul Revere as a mat ter o'f patriotism. Once in a while a school teacher brings n delegation of pupils. Sometimes Sunday school teachers do the same. "In many cases foreign children of the North end can relate more facts about Paul Revere and his famous ride and about the old North church than the children of Boston. 1 know one bright little American horn Ital ian hoy to whom Paul Revere is the most wonderful hero In the world.” In summer the visiting list at tlm house is much larger than in the winter months. The summer attend ance is largely made up of west erners Charles Lamb's Friend. Who is the most absent-minded man on record? asks the London Chronicle. Our bus conductor, poslihiy, if one knew more about him. might rival Lamb's friend, Oeorge Dyer. who. leaviitg Lamb's Islington home at broad noonday, walked straight Into the New river He was known to take up a coni scuttle Instead of his hat. to walk home with a footman's cock adc on. and even to leave one of his shoes under the table and get well on 1,1s homeward way before discover He tailed it i In Bedford square one morning, heard that tl e family was away in the coun try, left his name in the visitors' book, and a few hours later called again and was astounded to see his own freshly written name Once when Proctor breakfasted with him Dyer forgot tea The omission being noted, he tilled the teapot with ginger. Proc tor left as soon as he could to get a better breakfast at a coffee tavern, and there Dyer strolled in and asked him how lip wqj ruffe ipien?ic<-t,,..„ ,,f having seen him earlier. Old English Bookkeeping. Not so many years ago our na ilotial system of bookkeeping was a! most as clumsy as the primitive method of cotinting on fingers, says the London Chronicle. This was the exchequer way of keeping accounts by means of notched sticks of elm wood called tallies, a plan that strong ly resembled Robinson Crusoe's mode of keeping his calendar on the desert Island. In the reign of George III. an Inquiry was made by some revolt! tlonary spirit as to whether pen. ink and paper could not be substituted, but tite whole civil service rose against the Innovation It took many years to pet the sticks abolished And when they were privately and confi dentially burned in a Rtove at the house of lords in 1S.14 the paneling of the room caught fire and both houses were reduced with the tally sticks— to ashes Such Is the dreadful thing that happens when the upper cham ber touches iinniice' A Lot of Them Have. The beggar approached the pedes trian. "Could you let me have a quarter to get something to eat?” he asked piteously. "I have nothing but a two-dollar bill, my good man." said the kindly faced person. “That's all right, governor," said the beggar, his face lighting up. “I've got change for a two spot.” ASK NATIONS TO SAVE BIRDS. Ametica to Urge Bird Conservation at' International Conference. New York, February 'JllMu- To] urge the world powers to unite vi el:ei kflift the commercial butchery ! that is known to be rapidly exter- j initialing the most valuable bird peeler, from the face of tie* globe, a conservative mov -ment of interna-1 tional scope was organized in ibis city today. At the fifth quinquennial con-: vcntlon of the International Ornitho-1 logical congress, cChieh will he held! in iterliu on May ItOlh. an Amerkauj represeillative from tin- National As-J (h iation of Audubon societies ha been instructed to present for the consideration of the nations a plan; for uniform protection against tin army of poaetiers Unit scour the; earth to supply its great millinery | markets with tin* plumage of billions; of the birds,on whose natural autlvlt ics Hie human race must depend for agrieulaunil prosperity and sanitary safety To enlist Mexico ill a trip artite agreement with the i’nite.i States and Canada in the interest of the migratory birds of the North American continent, a representative from this countity is ttlso preparing to appear before the Mexican eon-' grcss. Headed by the National unsocia l Mott of Kish and (lame Commissioners! 'the North American Kish and Maine] Protective association and the Atnori ’ (tin Ornithologists’ union, as well as tile National Association of Audubon j societies, litis campaign of protest against the rapid destruction of tin* I .feathered resources of every land ; will In* tarried from this country to all eivili'.ed nations Testimony from the foremost agricultural and hygienic scientists showing the great part played by tin* insect caters in check ing crop pests ami by the sea birds in averting pestilence, is now lie in prepared as proof of the imme diate need of their international pto tectloti. Until the authorities of every nation join to check the ll-1 legal raids of the scouts for the millinery markets, who are scouring the ends of the earth more widely each year, tin ornithologists de clare no hop** can in* held out again st quick and final extinction of tit ■ most useful bird spot ies that inhabit * \* r.v land. Details of tin* recent raid of .Jap : i esc pottelifts upon the bird re* mves of the l’tilted States about Hawaii have just been received here end will be laid before the coming international conference with the towing demand for reciprocal bil l ,'toleition among tit ' nations Tut .ons of of valuable Pacific Al._ . ceies with the skins and wings of over 23,000 birds have been found to be some of the booty that the revenue cutter Thetis brought buck with twenty-five suit Joels of liipitn who had In on landed on American soil lo put in it year at killing and mutiliating the tame flocks mi the. o rmnote islands.'I'lte value of these bloody trophies in the wholesale millinery market is esti mated at some $Hio.oOO, while the bird life lhat the Japanese destroyed in taking them is calculated to he worth to the people of this country , at least a million dollars. “As long as billions of the most ] economically valued birds of the ( earth may l>e destroyed in some countries and shipped to tin4 millinery centers in others, it will be impos- ; silile to prevent their ultimate ex Unction." said William Uuteher. pres ident of the National association to day. “For instance the bird of par adise, one of the most striking and beautiful of Natures creations- is now on the verge of extinction. The sale of tin' plumage cannot be check ed until the tuitions cooperate to Ibis i ad. This trade in feathers N the chief cause of the world's alarm ing loss of its bird resources which are essential to the health and pros perity of the human race every where. Migratory birds know no: geographical. Hut s And wo do not be-1 licve tic ir existence should be men-1 sued any longer by tile link or the uniform prob etlve laws we propose to advocate to the world powi rs." Dissolution Notice. Tiie corporation heretofore existing its tiie mum of the Falls ( ity Park and Improvement company wherein John Liehly, W. A. Greenwald, John Powell. W W Jenna and T. .1. Gist, nil of Falls f'i'y and state of Nebras ka. This corporation is dlsoh <-d by mutual consent. The affairs of said corporation are all adjusted and settled. JOHN EIGHTY, VV, A. GflEENWALU. IOHN \V. POWELL, W \Y. JENNE. T. .1. GIST. Subscribi d and sworn to tliis 12th day of February, I'llO. John \V. Powell, Notary Public. Mv commission expires No. 24-' 15. At The Gehling, Hypnotism plays a unique part in that musical melodrama, “The Phan tom Detective,” a part that lias t au * d endless discussion by the believers or incredulous in the won derful occult art. There are many who elaint that no person tinder the influence can ho wrong; others claim tin y can, and the \illian in “The Phantom Detective" supplies an endless topic of discussion by ex posing in a complete maimer many of the theories held for and against I hypnotic influence. Thirty pi ogle at' in the cast; a chorus of exceptional talent and good looks, the greatest, it all quail >ttes, the American News boys quartette, a cage of real lions and two tar loads of special seenl-ry, electrical and mechanical effects at'1 used in “The Phantom Detective, ’ which comes to the (lehling Theater Thursday, March M. under the man agement of the Rowland it Clifford Amusement Co. No cut. rprise that could under pres i ni conditions lie Induced* to come to Pails City could possibly bring P ROWLAND AND CLIFFORD'S'''"** »« phantom-detective! S'V -XnN 1 LAURA PLEADS WITH~THE FIERCE RAJAH* to our town as much by way of suit ! stunt in 1 income, as a standard high' grade commercial school, such as Mr. Darner contemplates organizing. It is estimated that in three years the school should have at least 200! students. Two hundred commercial | stud nts in one year would leave in 1 Falls City not less than $40,000 in j hard cash, besides the moral and: social advantages gained from hav ing such a large body of live, ener getic young people among us. We believe that the proposition made to the Commercial club by Mr. Dr met’ Tuesday evening represents, fro a a strictly economic point of view, the lies) thing yet offered us. > .tl he a serious mistake for the i 1 to p riiiit this matter to lay .it all. It is a worthy proposition and M ould bo given the necessary sup port at onie. Pioneer of Shorthand Writing. Phonographic shorthand writing was the invention of Pitman, in 1S37. ''' ~Lmk!£XSS3f&St2ttEM ! * | 'HIS ad. is directed at the I man who has all the business in his line in this community. <| Mr. Merchant — You say you’ve got it all. You’re sell ing them all they'll buy, any how. But at the same time you would like more business. •I Make this community buy more. l Harness Made to Order and Up Hand and Machine-Sewed Harness. Harness Oiling and General Repairing. L. B. N ITZEL. Preston, Nebraska