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HSMAEOK IS NOW 81
TIME HONORS AND SPARES THE
IRON CHANCELLOR
-Hearty Congratulations Received by
the Great German Statesman He
Makes a Speech to Thousands Who
Come from Hamburg
Crowds Pay Tribute
Prince Bismarck was 81 years old
Wednesday and in honor of his birthday
bands of music played in the Schloss park
-at Freidrichsruhe all the morning Prince
Bismarck entered lihe salon at 1130 and
found displayed on a table his birthday
presents Ho was affectionately greeted
by his son Count Herbert Bismarck and
by his daughter Countess Rantzau After
Dr Schwenninger had congratulated the
prince the latter closely examined his
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TlilE HONORS AND SPARES 11111
portrait painted by Lenhach who ap
peared later whereupon Prince Bismarck
igreeted him -with a good morning
Among the presents was a collection of
articles from Madagascar sent by Eu
gene Wolf Emperor Williams present
to Prince Bismarck was a photograph of
the imperial family in a group inclosed
in a ihandsome frame Count Von Wal
dersee and a deputation from the Halber
tadt dined with Prince Bismarck
Thousands from Hamburg
Special trains from Hamburg brought
some 3000 persons including 300 torch
bearers After dinner was over Prince
Bismarck appeared on the balcony and
the assembled bands played a choral Re
plying to an address of congratulation
-Prince Bismarck said that the good will
of his neighbors was a necessity to every
Christian German He was pleased at
having enjoyed the constant sympathy of
Uihe Hamburgers which he had never lost
jas lie had lost several other sympathies
Expressing then a desire for the commer
Tcial prosperity of Hamburg ihe declared
that he was no fanatical agrarian but
that after all the agrarians were not
without grounds for their opinions
In conclusion he called for cheers for
Hamburg and its rulers In response to
TtMs prolonged cheers were given There
was then a brilliant torchlight procession
-which occupied forty five minutes in pass
ing Prince Bismarck stood most of
that time continually expressing his ac
knowledgments to those passing He ob
sserved that he was no longer able to
move as they did but that his heart went
with them
WINTER WHEAT AND RYE
The Farmers Review Receives Re
ports from Ten States
Reports have been received from the
-correspondents of the Farmers Review
in ten States on the condition of winter
wheat and winter rye
In Illinois winter wheat is in fair shape
but has been injured extensively by tihe
late thawing and freezing weather The
percentage of damage runs all the way
from 5 to 50 Fortunately there are not
jnany reports of the latter amount or near
It A like condition exists in Indiana
tn Ohio the loss is still greater and the
present condition is below fair Michi
gan reports great loss but the condition
taking the State as a whole is a little
above fair In Kentucky the crop is in
a very uneven condition some counties
having good prospects but others ex
pecting little more than half a crop The
loss from freezing and thawing does not
eem to be much of a factor Missouri
-also has an uneven crop nt this time and
the conditions have been various Some
-counties have a good start and no freez
ing and thawing has taken place Other
countries have lost naif of the present
stand from this cause alone We may
summarize by saying that the loss for the
State has been considerable and that
the present conditions of the crop are
fair In Kansas and Nebraska the crop
Ss in fair to good condition Little loss
Ihas been experienced from freezing and
thawing in fact some of the correspond
ents complain that they have not had as
tmuch cold as they would like In Iowa
there has been small loss on account of
recent changes of weather and the crop
In the State is in fair condition In Wis
consin the crop is reported quite poor and
the recent losses have been great
Winter rye is in much better condition
than wheat and is generally reported at
an average of fair to good
A medal of honor has been awarded
to Brevet Maj Gen William J Sewell
United States Senator from New Jersey
toy direction of the President for con
spicuous gallantry at the battle of Chan
cellorsville May 5 1SG3 Although a
colenel aril badly wounded this officer
now Senator assumed command of a
brigade of troops and remained through
out the battle on the field
H H Willey ex justice of the peace
and a well known citizen of Bertrand
Neh was publicly whipped by a mob
of women on the streets He was ac
cused of making an improper proposal to
a young girl Willeys family witnessed
lis punishment
The Treasury Department has evidence
pending to show that the steamship Com
modore which recently cleared from the
port of Charleston S C witih arms and
ammunition did not lose her cargo in a
storm at sea as reported by her captain
but landed it on the coast of Cuba
LEOS MANNER OF SPEECH
Deliberate but Unhesitating and His
Voice Has Great Power
The stiff mannerism of the patri
archal system which survived untij
recently from early Roman times gave
him that somewhat formal tone and
authoritative manner which are so char
acteristic of his conversation in private
His deliberate but unhesitating speech
makes one think of Goethes without
haste without rest Yet his formality
is not of the slow and circumlocutory
sort on the contrary it is energetically
precise und helps rather than mars the
sound casting of each idea The form
ality of strong people belongs to them
naturally and is the expression of cer
tain unchanging persistence that of
the weak is mostly assumed for the
sake of magnifying the little strength
they have
The Popes voice is as distinctly in
dividual as his manner of speaking It
is not deep nor very full but consid
ering his great age it is wonderfully
clear and ringing and it has a certain
incisiveness of sound which gives it
great carrying power Pius IX had as
Deautif ul a voice both in compass and
in richness of quality as any barytone
singer in the Sistine choir No one who
ever heard him intone the Te Deum
in St Peters in the old days can for
get the grand tones He was gifted in
many ways with great physical beau
ty with a rare charm of manner and
with a most witty humor and in char
acter he was one of the most kind
hearted and gentle men of his day as
he was also one of the least initiative
so to say while endowed with the high
moral courage of boundless patience
and political humility
Leo XIII need speak but half a
dozen words with one glance of his
flashing eyes and one gesture of his
noticeably long arm and transparently
thin hand and the moral distance be
tween his predecessor and himself is at
once apparent There is strength still
in every movement there is deliberate
decision in every tone there is lofty in
dependence in every look Behind these
there may be kindliness charity and
all the milder gifts of virtue but what
is apparent is a sort of energetic man
ly trenchancy which forces admiration
rather than awakens sympathy Cen
tury
Arousing the Hornets
Australian hornets have an evil repu
tationas indeed is true of hornets
generally and in Opals and Agates
Mr Nehemiah Bartley relates a laugh
able incident in which they played a
conspicuous part
There was in Queensland a land-surveyor
a man of dignified demeano
very severe with the men in his eir
ploy before whom he never unbent in
the slightest degree It happened one
day when work was over that one of
the men was taking home a tomahawk
which had been used for marking trees
and as he passed along he struck it
carefully into a decayed stump intend
ing to leave it there till the next day
An instant later out came a swarm
or hornets and the man finding them
about his head made a bee line for
the nearest water hole into which he
tlunged and squatted
Not long after this his mate came
along the same path The inhabitants
of the stump had retired from the
scene The man saw the tomahawk
and thinking it might fall from the
-stump ramoved it and struck it in a
littlo deeper
Out rushed the hornets in a body
Te man brushed and struck at the
jailing host but was worsted and
forced to make a wild stampede for
the water hole where he found his
companion still immersed The two
sufferers compared sorrowful notes as
they daubed mud over their wounds
Following in their wake along the
path came the serious boss himself
He saw the tomahawk and thinking
that the workmen had been careless
to leave it there to rust in the dews of
night he wrenched it from the stump
to take home He likewise was waited
upon by an army of angry insects and
like his workmen was compelled to
take refuge in the water
What stings those insects have he
Tied
Yes sir we know they do was the
response and then all three men broke
into a hearty laugh over the misadven
ture and their ridiculous appearance
in the water to their necks It was the
first time the boss had indulged in a
bit of pleasantry with his men but it
was not the last
Historical Records of Maryland
In speaking of the records of the
Provincial Court of the Province of
Maryland from 1G57 to the revolution
now preserved in Anne Arundel Coun
ty the Baltimore Sun says The his
torical value of these old records is
inestimable It is believed that no
other State in the Union has such rec
ords of family history showing the
manner of living among the peorle
of the colony as far bacic as 250 yc ais
ago In the wills families can be traced
back from father to son for a century
The court record books containing in
ventories of personal estates make a
complete exhibit of the character of
household furniture kitchen imple
ments farm utensils etc used by the
early settlers and their descendants
during the first century and a half of
the colony From these things we can
read much of the habits and customs
of the people
Ivory
Most of the ivory that comes to the
market is dead that is ivory taken
from animals long since dead and
which has been stored away by the
natives for years There is no dangei
in Africa of the supply being exhaust
ed for several generations at least
If there are souls in trees the cork
tree must have a cork sole
AN ASYLUM SCANDAL
CHARGES OF IMMORALITY NEG
LECT AND BRUTALITY
Against Superintendent Mackay by
Ex Employes Specifications Filed
with the Governor to Baclc Up the
Accusations
Scandal at Norfolk Asylum
Charges have been preferred with Gov
Holcomb against Dr J H Mackay
superintendent of the Norfolk Hospital
for the Insane They have been on file
several days but the Governor declines to
give them in full to the press until Dr
Mackay has filed his answer The charges
embracing some thirty pages of type
written matter are sigued by Misses Mae
Hartranft Eunice Buchanan Ella Cook
Nellie Filzgerald and Lucy OBanlon
The doctor has written a letter explana
tory of some of the charges a copy of
which has been forwarded to the Gov
ernor
The preamble to the long list of specifi
cations recites that the doctor has been
guilty of official misconduct and willful
neglect of duty and of being guilty of
immoral conduct and speech of inflicting
on the patients under his charge and con
trol unusual cruel and barbarous punish
ment of repeatedly and for long inter
vals of time willfully and wantonly neg
lecting his duties as superintendent
There are some forty specifications but
many of them are mere repetitions or the
same charges in different words One of
the specifications state that on July 18
1895 a Mrs Grimes a violent patient was
struck by the doctor with a leather strap
some fourteen or sixteen inches long so
severely that that she bled from the
hands The end is not yet
WANT THE CANTEEN CLOSED
Crawford After the Fort Robinson
Liquor Sellers
Proceedings have been begun at Craw
ford which will determine the life or
death of the canteen liquor system For
more than a year the soldiers and officers
at Fort Robinson have maintained a can
teen from which there is sold to soldiers
and citizens about 6000 worth of liquor a
month
The business men of Crawford have
grown tired of this competition and figure
that if they can prevent the sale of whisky
and beer at Fort Robinson the soldiers
will come to town and spend their money
in Crawford Warrants have been issued
and delivered to the sheriff directing the
arrest of the men in charge of the canteen
and the seizure of all the liquor in sight
The law provides that the liquor vessels
shall be destroyed
This traffic has been going on for years
and few if any were aware that it was in
violation of the laws of the state as they
supposed that the military reservation
was under the jurisdiction of the United
States and that offense committed thereon
would be tried by the United States
courts but it seems that when Forts Rob
inson and Niobrara were added to the
Government by Nebraska it reserved the
right to govern the sale of liquor on the
3ame The arrests will be made by the
sheriff of Dawes County of Lieuts Ladd
2nd Bratton who are the men in charge
of the canteen
Indians Return From Washington
The delegates from the Pine Ridge
Reservation to Washington returned some
lays ago and in a few days another big
powwow will be held that George Far
ihunder Little Wound Kicking Bear and
Captain Thunder Bear the delegates
may inform the various bands of
their reception and the results of the
trip They conferred with the Secretary
of the Interior and among the requests
made were that the annuities due them by
treaty should be paid in money instead of
merchandise etc also that their per
capita allowance which has not been
paid promptly be paid at once and in the
future upon the dates due They also
presented some grievances regarding the
infringement upon some of their alleged
rights according to old treaties Another
request was that they be allowed to have
their own Government herder The dele
gates are highly elated over their recep
tion by the great father
Killed by a Street Car
A distressing accident occurred at Lin
coln a day or two ago resulting in the in
stant death of Liza youngest daughter of
Lieut R L Townley secretary of the
state banking board The little girl 7
years of age had left her home to go to
the state house on an errand She fol
lowed a car on C street walking on the
track At the junction of Seventeenth
and C Streets another car bound south
met the one she was behind and as she
stepped on to the other track it struck and
killed her Motorman Ed Dennis was
first appraised of her presence when she
appeared on the track and although he
slopped his car inside of twenty four feet
it was too late
Nebraska Stock Shipped to England
Phil Unitt one of the largest stockrais
ers and shippers of Seward County
shipped a train load of fat cattle to Eng
land a few days since The train con
sisted of fourteen cars twelve containing
cattle one draft horses and one feed The
Standard Trotting Horse Company also
shipped eight thoroughbred trotters on
the same train The train was elaborarely
decorated with banners advertising Sew
ard and Seward County Frank Webb
has charge of the stock with Thomas Gan
non William Hynes Albert Bick Mr
Holland and Devoe Konkright as his as
sistants
Snded His Troubles with a Razor
Dick Ringer committed suicide by cut
ling his throat with a razor Ringer had
been bitten by a dog on the hand about
four months ago The wound healed
quickly and no bad effects were felt until
a few days ago when he was taken with
what was supposed to be the grip Doc
tors being called at once pronounced the
ease one of hydrophobia While lying on
cot in a small kitchen he sprang up
eized a razor from a stand and cut his
throat almost before his parents and three
voung men who were watching were able
o realize what was being done
Increased Water in Wells
One of the wells of the Kearney City
Water Works Company is thirty feet in
diameter and the engineer states that the
water in itis now nearly if not quite
three feet deeper than it was a year ago
and there is no apparent cause for the in
creased depth
Litigating Over a Merchants Stock
The stock of goods belonging to Lau
rence Bargmin after being boxed and
loaded in a car for shipment was attached
by the former owner G B Smith Co
The sheriff was refused possession and
broke open the car
EZl
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MAXEY COBB IS MISSING
Lancaster Countys Treasurer Caus
ing His Friends Apprehension
Ex County Treasurer Maxey Cobb has
not been seen in Lincoln since Monday
morning All kinds of rumors are flying
around Lincoln concerning the missing
man but none of them can be traced to
any authentic source Deputy County
Treasurer Harry Abbott was seen by a
press reporter He said that there could
be nothing in the rumor that Cobb had ab
sconded as he had settled up with his
bondsmen on account of the shortage in
the treasury and that there was nothing
to induce him to abscond Mr Abbott
said that the missing man had several
times disappeared for a number of days
on a debauch and that one of these period
icals had again overtaken him Judge
Amasa Cobb father of the ex county
treasurer was visited but was not in a
position to throw any light on the matter
He said that his family had not seen him
since Monday
Mrs Maxey Cobb is prostrated with
grief and anxiety It is feared by certain
citizens that Mr Cobb who was worried
a great deal over his recent financial
troubles has made away with himself
The dead body of County Treasurer
Maxey Cobb was found Thursday after
noon in a ditch three quarters of a mile
west of the penitentiary He was found
by a party of University students lying in
the ditch The body was taken to the
penitentiary but no one there recoginized
the identity of the corpse Judge Amasa
Cobb father of Maxey Cobb was serving
as a delegate in the Republican conven
tion and word was brought to him by
Mayor Graham that an unknown body
had been found A hack was called and
Judge Cobb drove immediately to the
penitentiary and identified the remains as
those of his son
Must Pay for His Crookedness
Judge Stull at Beatrice has overruled a
motion for a new trial in the bastardy
case of Walker against Walker giving
the plaintiff judgment for 700 and fixing
the allowance for the support of the child
at7 per month for a period of twelve years
It is understood that Walker who has
been pastor of the Baptist church for some
time past has departed for parts un
known leaving his ilock to take care of
itself
Juror Expressed an Opinion
Judge S H Sedgwick of York heard
the motion in the case against ex-Treasurer
Farney of Hamilton County for a
new trial The motion Avas based upon
the fact that prior to the trial of the case
in Hamilton County one of the jurors ex
pressed an opinion as to the same The
case went against the ex treasurer at that
time The motion was hotly contested
Judge Sedgwick has taken the motion un
der advisement
Superintendent Printers Home
Charles E Clark a printer who has
worked in Omaha for a number of years
iias been appointed superintendent of the
Childs Drexel Printers Home at Colorado
Springs Colo He will succeed Shuman
who has held the position for some time
but against whom charges of incompe
tency have been made The new appoint
ment was made by the committee which
has had the management of the home in
charge
Defunct Banks Securities Sold
J W Rose of Norfolk the receiver oi
the defunct Farmers and Drovers Bank
at Battle Creek in compliance with an
order of the district court sold at publio
auction at the front door of the Battle
Creek Valley Bank notes judgments and
accounts held by that defunct institution
to the amount of about 20000 realizing
therefrom 5910 And also one Diebold
burglar proof time lock safe for 85
Central Nebraska Teachers
The Central Nebraska Teachers Asso
ciation convened at Hastings on Thursday
for a two days session Arrangements
had been made whereby all the visitors
were pleasantly entertained A number
of well known Nebraska educators de
livered lectures and many papers of merit
were read Discussions of peculiar inter
est to Nebraska teachers were also in
dulged in
Howells Resignation Accepted
At an adjourned meeting of the state
board of irrigation the resignation of state
engineer and secretary of the board
R B Howell was formally received and
accepted to date at once Ex Senator W
R Akers who has acted as one of the
under secretaries was appointed to suc
ceed Howell The successor of Mr Akers
is not jet named
Injured by a Fractious Horse
While W H Huiburt of Osceola was
trying a strange horse it began to rear up
breaking the whifiietrees and drawing him
over the dashboard Three of his ribs
were broken and his face badly bruised
Boy Fatally Kicked
Earl Dodel a bov of De
catur was seriously kicked by a horse
cutting a deep gash in his forehead Por
tions of the skull have been taken out It
is thought he will die
Boyd County in Good Shape
From an agricultural standpoint this
season bids fair to outrival any former
one since the reorganization of Boyd
County in the matter of bounteous crops
Heir to a Fortune
An old German named Hinlz living
near Johnstown has lately fallen heir to
40000 through the death of a brother in
in the old country
Nebraska News Notes
York citizens have formed a stock com
pany for the experimental culture of su
gar beets
There are only two vacant buildings in
Ho wells and one of them will be occupied
next week
J D Wescott the first postmaster and
first county clerk of Hamilton died last
week at the age of 82
DOtoe County farmers in the vicinity of
Douglas are tearing great holes in the
ground in search of gold
York citizens are endeavoring to secure
the removal of the Kansas City and
Omaha division from Stromsburg to their
own city
The town marshal of Wilber has lodged
181 tramps since September 1 1895
Sporty Flynn of Blair pleaded guilty
to assault and cheerfully paid a fine of 5
for the pleasure of thrashing a local cor
respondent for a Kansas City paper
There is some probability that the Ra
vanna creamery will be moved to Alli
ance If the move is made a new cream
ery company will be organized at once at
Ravanna
Seward wheelmen have organized a
bicycle club with twenty seven charter
members A feature of the organization
will be a military drill with many fanoy
movements
M
RilBs
Nijni Novgorods exhibition next year
Is to be a national one of Russian pro
ducts alone It will be opened soon
after the czars coronation at Moscow
Diamonds are now engraved very ar
tistically and are even perforated so
they can be strung like beads some
times being used thus in alteration with
pearls
A free school in Dahomey conducted
by an Englishman has been closed by
the French governor on the ground
that all languages were taught there
except French
Ilka Von Palmy the celebrated Hun
garian soubrette will play a part writ
ten in broken English in Gilbert and
Sullivans new opera when it is
brought out in London
Princess Marie of Orleans wife of
Prince Waldemar of Denmark has just
startled her relatives by having her
photograph taken in a firemens uni
form helmet and all
Among Dr Donaldson Smiths dis
coveries in the region of Lake Rudolph
is that of the existence of fifteen new
tribes of Africans one of them dwarfs
none over five feet in height
Lecocq the composer of Le Fille de
Mme Angot is trying to get a di
vorce from the wife to whom he has
been married for twenty years on the
ground of incompatibility of temper
The new ocean greyhound under con
tract for the North German Lloyds at
the Vulcan works Stettin is to make
an average of twenty knots on her
first trip from Southampton to Sandy
Hook
The highest price ever paid for a
tooth is supposed to have been 3500
000 trade dollars In a small Asiatic
war the Portugese captured the tooth
of a sacred monkey from the Siamese
and this was the ransom agreed upon
Paris intends to revive the carnival
and Mardi Gras festivities this winter
with a procession that shall be really
artistic A proposal to raise 80000
for the purpose by a lottery is under
consideration by the municipal council
The Moody tabernacle at Atlanta
which cost a little over 2000 has been
sold for 350 to a local clergyman who
will retain it as a meeting place for re
ligious assemblies Sam Jones will
shortly begin a series of revival servi
ces within its walls
It brings back the days of the Alger
ian corsairs to read that the cardinal
prefect of the propaganda distributed
200000 francs last year for the ransom
of slaves from captivity The money
was spent by Catholic missionaries in
the interior of Africa
Doctors at Montreuil near Paris re
fuse to give their services to the munic
ipal dispensary because a woman has
been appointed to serve in it one day
in the week Their grievance is aggra
vated by her being paid while their
services are given free
The aggregate shipments of forest
products from Saginaw river ports
from the opening of navigation to Dec
1 1895 were as follows Lumber 136
120632 feet shingles 8 415000 pieces
lath 2002000 pieces The showing is
the smallest in thirty years
At Blackwell England the largest
battleship in the world is nearly ready
for launching and will be called the
Fuji instead of Fusi Yama as origi
nally intended It is a battleship of
Harveyized steel armor 400 feet long
73 feet broad and 44 feet deep
A personal in the New York Herald
If magnificent stout lady who left
Broadway car at Hilton Hughes
Cos yesterday will walk down Broad
way Thursday at 12 from Twenty
third street the stout gentleman with
full beard who sat opposite will try
and meet her
Within the past three years Philadel
phia has laid 171 miles of asphalt and
235 of Belgian block a total of 406
miles of street pavement The work
has cost 15510000 of which the street
railway companies operated by elec
tricity have paid 13510000 accord
ing to law or agreement
Here is a notice clipped from the
obituary column of a leading morning
newspaper of New York Sullivan
Bridget Sullivan the faithful servant
for twenty one years of Mrs John H
Screven No 40 West Thirty ninth
street entered into rest peacefully on
the evening of Dec 31 aged 60 years
M Lugne Poe is going to try a new
form of theatrical entertainment in
Paris It is a guignol or puppet show
in which living actors will take the
part of the puppets and make the ges
tures while the text is recited by the
showman The living guignol has been
given with success at Lyons where
the puppet show originated
One of the strangest competitions
ever heard of has been decided at Mar
seilles It was a mussel opening com
petition Experts at the business were
invited to a trial of skill the trial to
last five minutes The first prize a
purse of 50 francs was accorded to
one Doria nicknamed Biftek who
opened 128 mussels within the prescrib
ed time
Custer battlefield in Montana where
Custer and his command were massa
cred is to be greatly beautified next
spring and made into an attractive
park The government is to put in a
system of waterworks and plant trees
and a substantial stone wall three feet
high will be built to take the place of
the present stake fence enclosing the
battleground
Versatility Required of a Teacher
That the old conditions of village
lifein New England in which the meet
ing house was a real center of public
life and had an intimate connection
with certain official things still prevail
In some places in Massachusetts la lr
dicated by a recent occurrence A
young gentleman who had been recom
mended through a teachers agency fou
the place of master of a public high
school was in correspondence with the
school committee of the town and
among the questions asked as to his
qualifications was this Are you nbla
to sing in the church choir The
young gentleman can sing he obtain
ed the position and every Sunday hi
voice is heard in the village choir
Moreover he teaches the high schoot
well The people of the village say
that their high school master always 1
lias sung in the choir and they see noj
reason why he shouldnt be expected to
sing Boston Transcript
ROBBERS RUN GREAT RISKS
Hoiv a Diamond Thief Periled His IifeJ
to Secure Rich Booty
The gold and diamonds of South Afri t
ca have already attracted a very fair1
proportion of the thieves of the world
to that favored region Some very fine
hauls have been made and others all
but made Decidedly the most
tional attempt was one made a few
years ago on the diamond train To
reach Cape Town from Kimberly used
to take three days or at least two days
and three nights The diamonds used
to be carried in a safe in a postofficei
sorting van Some expert thieves foundj
out where the safe always stood in the
van and under that spot beneath the
bottom of the van rigged up a plat
form of rope and plank whereupon a
man could lie and work with a drill as
the train sped on its way It is at
lonely journey with hours and hours
between stations The thief enduredj
his uncomfortable position beneath the
moving train long enough to bore a cir
clet of holes in the bottom of the iron
safe having first cut a- piece out of the
bottom of the van His plan was to
complete the circle in this tedious way
so as to remove a piece of safe bottom
and leave a hole large enough for the
insertion of an arm the removal of a
bag and the capture of a fortune in dia
monds Unfortunately for him he was1
either disturbed or got tired or he
dropped off his plank At any rate he
did not cut out the piece of metal con i
sequently he did not reap -his glittering
reward He escaped The postofficej
people in the van heard nothing of the-
drill which was probably silent save
When there was the clatter racket of the
wheels to drown its notes When the
platform and pierced safe were discov
ered the thief had gone and left no
clew beyond his handiwork which
never proved sufficient for tracing him
Railway Review
Polite Policeman
The Boston Herald tells of a brave
policeman who is especially attentive
to the wants of little women who want
to cross the streets It is seldom thatt
kindness makes an error but in this
case the policemans good natured help
fulness was mistaken
The pleasant weather had brought
out a crowd of shoppers and among
them was a pretty little woman who
seemed to be in terror of moving across
the street
She stood on the corner and gazed
at the passing throng unmindful of the
many admiring glances cast at her A
car passed the crossing and was close
ly followed by another Then she ran
into the street and the policeman saw
her just as she left the sidewalk
The second car was coming along
under right of way when the officer
raised his hand and seized the little
woman by the arm She was so slight
that he almost lifted her out of the
way of the car and dashed in front of
a team on the other side landing her
safely on the opposite sidewalk
There youre all right he said as
she stepped up on the walk and turned
to face him
She shook out her skirts straightened
her hat and smiled sweetly at him as
she replied
Yes Im all right but I ran out to
take that first car I didnt want to
come over her Now will you please
escort me across
Bough on the Lawyers
Apropos of the efforts lawyers maks
to escape from tthe New York courts ot
special sessions as soon as their cases
are over In order to avoid being ap
pointed as counsel for impecunious de
fendants this story is told
An old hand had just concluded a
case and was doing his prettiest to
reach the door with a young lawyer a
yard or two behind making for the
same goal Just as the older man dis
appeared Justice Jerome called hia
name but of course got no answert
The other had his hand on the door
knob when the Justice called to him
intending that he should take the caser
Mr Jones will you he began -
Yes your Honor I will interrupt
ed young Jones Ill call him baclc
hes just outside And before ths
Court could interfere he darted out
the door
Joe the Judge wants you there in
court he said catching up to his fel
low lawyer who with a wry face re
traced his steps
Did you send for one your Honor
he asked Justice Jerome and court
lawyers and spectators caught on ta
the joke and there was a great laugh
I did not Mr Smith said the Jus
rice but now that youre here will yoc
kindly act as substitute in this case fox
your departed colleague Mr Jones1
Young Jones kept out of special ses
sions for the remainder of the week
A womans ambition is not only to
make both ends meet but to have
enough to lap over and cut off for her
kin
Tom That Tnan over there has been
quite successful I believe Bob Per
haps he takes a great deal of interest
in his business Tom Yes he is
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