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VALENTINE - NEBRASKA
Tlie announcement or a stamp collec
tor that lie lias for sale about 20000
worth of the original unused issue of
the Columbian 2 stamps at 175 each
looks as if Uncle Sam had got the bet
ter of this little speculation
The Alabama statesman who has
brought In a bill forbidding women to
-wear any article resembling masculine
clothing including bloomers tights di
vided skirts and shirt -waists is rather
an iconoclast than an old fogy so much
have times and fashions changed
Women axe going ahead in Prance
The Minister of Fine Arts has submit
ted to the Chamber of Deputies a pro
posal to admit women on terms of
equality with men to the Beaux Arts
as they are already admitted to the
Sorbonne and to the law and medicaj
schools
Prof Arlo Bates of the Institute of
Technology addressing the grammar
school teachers in Boston Friday ex
pressed a solid truth when he said the
literature best for adults is the litera
ture best for children This is just
being rediscovered says the Springfield
Republican The old school readers
were all made up of masterpieces of
literature
A Baltimore minister has declared
that all ministers who are spiritually
alive must denounce from their pulpits
dancing card playing theater going
and bicycle riding This pastor is evi
dently pained at the sight of seeing oth
ers happy We think it was Macaulay
-who said that the puritans abolished
bear baiting in England not because
It hurt the bears but because it gave
pleasure to the spectators
Hen Altwald a member of the Ger
man Reichstag was an interested arid
enthusiastic visitor to the pig sticking
establishments in Kansas City Mo
the other day But when he looked
into the Government offices and saw a
number of young -women examiniug
with microscopes pork which was to be
exported to Germany he grew strange
ly silent and evidently thought that
some sort of a joke was being played
on him
Many colored persons have held ofhce
from time to time in Boston but proba
bly the first colored woman to be so
honored is Mrs Josephine St Pierre
Ruffin The municipal convention of
the silver wing of the Boston Demo
crats headed their ticket for school
committee with her name She is well
known in Boston where she has taken
great interest in educational matters
She is well educated and has done
much toward elevating the condition of
the people of her race in Boston She
is said to be possessed of practical ideas
of school work and would be a valua
ble addition to the school committee
It is the third generation that suffers
most for the sins of progenitors Latest
Massachusetts insanity statistics show
that in 3S3 instances or 21 per cent of
alL the intemperance of the person led
to his insanity In very few cases
could the insanity be traced to the in
temperance of parents but in 354
cases where the facts as to grandpa
rents could be learned 1S4 cases were
found where the intemperance of
grandparents was considered to have
led to the insanity of the person
These are discouraging figures for
grandchildren but may help them to
guard against the tendency to mental
disease The man who knows the hab
its of his grandfather will know wheth
er or not to take especial care of him
self
A very curious point has been sub
mitted to the Derbyshire Football As
sociation for decision It is as to wheth
er artificial limbs are to be permitted
in the play It seems that the Buxton
Football Club had several members of
its team severely injured in conse
quence of a member of the Matlock
eleven having played with an artificial
arm It was reported that in Derby
shire alone there are a number of foot
ball players who owing to the loss of
an arm use artificial limbs They are
described as regular terrors on the
football field since when once they gel
on to the ball they swing their dum
my arms around with such force as to
either fracture skulls or cause concus
sion of the brain It has now been de
termined by the association that arti
ficial limbs are henceforth to be barred
in all football games
The New York Sun states that A
new appointment has been made from
Waterf ord to the chair of professor of
Gaelic in Maynooth College Ireland
The new appointee is a member of the
Gaelic League of Dublin and was the
ifirst editor of the Archeological Journal
-of Waterford The opinion is very
general that Gaelic is an extinct lan
guage or one nearly extinct and the
labors of the Gaelic Society in New
3Gork to revive its use have lent some
color to that opinion Nevertheless as
Jigures show the Gaelic tongue is most
tenacious and according to the last
-reports is spoken though not exclu
sively by 1000000 persons in the Brit
ish Isles C00000 in Ireland 350000 in
Wales and 220000 in Scotland
Thougia English is the official language
of all these countries the popularity
of English increases slowly despite the
disadvantage under which those who
use Gaelic labor that of having no es
tablished grammar and no recognition
Jn an official way Gaelic fulfills the
colloquial requirements of the farmers
and fishermen in tfie counties remote
from the large cities somewhat as the j
Basque language continues to be popu
lar In the northern provinces of Spain
In this country Gaelic has made little
headwaj though many patriotic Irish
men have by various methods en
deavored to acquaint others less patri
otic with Its advantages While the
use of most European languages has
about doubled In seventy five years
five times as many persons speak Eng
lish as did In 1820
The Boston Watchman publishes
interesting information regarding For
mosa from the Rev John L Dearing
Among other Improvements proposed
are those with reference to the condi
tion of the cities Chinese cities are
proverbial for their uncleanllness
Within a few weeks the government
has had the condition of most of the
larger towns examined yy foreign and
native experts with reference to pro
viding a water supply and sewerage
system and the report has been most
favorable and it is likely that at once
steps are to be taken to make the con
ditions more healthful and -cleanly In
one case they propose nothing less
than to build a new city of Taiwan in
South Formosa The new city has
been properly laid out and water sup
ply and drainage arranged for and
now it is intended that the old city
with its crumbling mud walls its filth
and abominations shall be left If
Japan succeeds in removing from her
Chinese cities in Formosa those fea
tures which are a disgrace to every
city of China Pekin and Tien tsin not
excepted she will deserve praise An
interesting problem is at least on her
hands
One of the strange things about tne
collecting habit is that which some
book collectors have of gathering all
the editions of the Bible rendered rare
or curious by misprints or errors due
to imperfect translation There are
said to be nearly -a hundred such Bibles
Among them are the breeches Bible
in which our first parents are repre
sented as sewing fig leaves together to
make themselves breeches the vin
egar Bible wherein that word is sub
stituted for vineyard in the parable
the placemakers Bible where that
word takes the place of peacemaker
the wicked Bible which omits not
from the seventh commandment and
the bug Bible in which we find this
phrase in the ninety first psalm Thou
shalt not need to be afraid for any
bugges by night This in reality does
not mean insects as at first supposed
but bogies or terror as it was later
translated This edition which is mem
orable for more than the modern mis
conception of the Avord referred to was
first printed in 1549 at Antwerp and
reissued in 1551 Another curious
thing is the sixteenth century idea of
family discipline exemplified in the
translation of the first epistle of St
Peter And if she the wife be not
obedient and helpful unto him the hus
band endeavoreth to beat the fear of
God into her head that thereby she
may be compelled to learn her duty
and to do it
The determination of several leading
theatrical managers to stop poster ad
vertising and depend wholly upon the
newspapers to reach the public has re
vived the question of the relative mer
its of the poster and the newspaper for
advertising purposes The subject of
the relative merits of the two is hard
ly debatable because in this age and
country of universal newspaper read
ing the superiority of the newspaper to
every other form of advertising will be
readily admitted As a medium of ad
vertising the ordinary poster on the
wall or the fence compares with the
newspaper about as the old mail coach
compares with the express train as a
means of transportation The truth is
the crude lithographs belong to the
childhood of civilization They appeal
to curiosity and credulity In their raw
est forms To ascribe any great influ
ence to the colored portraits of players
and prctorial representation of impos
sible figures and scenes which make
up the bulk of poster advertising is to
reflect on the intelligence of the people
There has been happily some effort to
improve poster art and the work of a
few artists has developed a standard
which is having a wholesome effect on
all poster artists and printers But the
high art poster is still something of a
curiosity and its cost will bar the way
to the general use of the best work of
artists and printers in that line The
question whether there is any value at
all in poster advertising is one that the
atrical managers have not yet settled
but there is a very general impression
that it is obsolete in cities at least
and that it is a somewhat unnecessary
supplement to newspaper advertising
which offers all the opportunity need
ful for the enlightenment of the public
with regard to theatrical wares
They Will Know the Rest
Congressman Joseph Washington of
Tennessee wants to get through Con
gress a claim for 100000 made by the
Methodist Publishing House of Nash
ville whose building was destroyed by
troops during the war Speaker Reeds
policy against morgaging the next ad
ministration with large appropriations
s well known Mr Washington had
pleaded several times for recognition in
vain and the speaker had listened at
tentively Finally Mr Washington
said
Mr Speaker what can I tell my
constituents to show that I am doing
something in their behalf V
The speaker looked at the genial
Tennessee member for a moment and
drawled Joseph just tell them that
you saw me
Argentinn Growing
Argentinas population according to
the census recently taken is 4090000
nearly double its population In 1SG9
the date of the first census The city
of Buenos Ajtgs has GG3850 inhnhi
tants
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DAY WITH MKINLEY
PRESIDENTS BUSY LIFE IN THE
WHITE HOUSE
One Day Would Make Many a Man
Crazy Every Moment of His Time
Occupied Has Xess Time than He
Who Digs Sewye
Lreads a Busy Life
Washington corresponaence
The office of the President of the United
States is no sinecure It is one of the
hardest in the gift of the nation to fill as
a sample day lived by President Mclin
ley will suffice to show
President McKinley rises at 7 oclock
and breakfasts with his family at 830
For half an hour after breakfast he
lounges around with the family a half
hour which is probably the pleasantest of
all the day By 10 oclock the President
gets into his office His special mail is
all laid out for him to glance over Here
is wnere the secretary of the President
Mr Porter gets in his fine work He
gets to his desk at least an hour before
the President and with the stenographer
goes through the three or four hundred
letters tl at are the advance guard of the
avalanche that comes during the day The
President does not see much of that mail
however It is carefully culled applica
tions for office going into the proper bu
reau political tirades into the waste bas
ket begging letters crank letters and let
ters of unsolicited advice are all consign
ed to the same cavernous maw which
yawns for them handily It would doubt
less astonish the writers of this class of
letters to know that the President never
sees one of them In the nature of things
he could not because life is short and time
is fleeting
The Raid of Visitors
From among the hundreds yes thou
sands of letters that come to the White
House bearing the name of the President
ill WM
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perhaps a dozen or two are found worthy
of his special attention and these are on
his desk for his perusal He also finds
a lot of documents ready for his signature
These disposed of he talks for a few mo
ments with the private secretary about
the business of the day and by that time
the gieat American public is clamoring
to be turned in on him At 10 oclock the
raid begins The waiting room is a study
at this time There are legless and arm
less veterans in faded blouse of blue
and in the nattiest of spring attire but
the bit of bronze button on the lapel of
each is often associated with a tiny knot
of ribbon which means a medal of hon
or man There are cranks who have
inventions that they want the President
to see and recommend There are other
cranks who have presents for the Presi
dent which they desire to present in per
son There are myriads of curious peo
ple who want to shake hands with the
President in his own office instead of
performing that ceremony down stairs in
the East room as they would have an op
portunity to do each afternoon The
women have schemes all their own It
is not often that they are after office
though some women who want postoifices
prejudice their chances by coming to make
a special plea of the President because
they are women Many of them have
sons whom they want appointed to cadet
ships at West Point or Annapolis Doz
ens of them have schemes for raising
money which they are sure will go like
hot cakes if the President will just in
dorse them Others work the charity
racket They have concerts or fairs or
plays or something equally as frivolous
which they desire the President and his
wife to patron with their names
Jeirions of Office Seekers
Among the waiters will be found as
pirants for foreign consulships and the
under offices those who are seeking pre
ferment in this country and those who
come to give timely protest against cer
tain appointments Each and every one
of them has an ax to grind and they use
the Presidents nerves for a grindstone
This Seuator has a candidate for a berth
abroad and he rings the changes on his
right to have this appointment day in
and day out day after day while his col
league who is at his heels urges some
other man with just as much persistency
for the very same place Here is a po
litical boss who wants to place one
of his lieutenants in political work He
talks and argues and all but tries to brow
beat the President into appointing the
ward heeler There is an all around good
fellow who has friends everywhere to
all of whom he feels under obligation
and he comes in with pockets and hands
filled with recommendations for half a
dozen or more He urges the claims of
each and in effect tells the President
that his place in the House or Senate as
the case may be depends upon his getting
just these particular offices For two long
hours this sort of thing keeps up the
President listening always listening nev
er talking much except to ask a few point
ed questions and then at noon the com
mon herd is run through irfto the secre
tarys room and from there is cut out in
bunches and corraled in the Presidents
room where he gives a few moments to
each This is perhaps the most trying
hour of all
Among the cranks who slip in at such
times are women who are slaving them
selves to death to pay off the mortgage on
the homestead so they inform the Presi
dent and they haye come to him as he is
rich because he draws such an enormous
salary and ask him to give them a hun
dred dollars or fifty or five as the case
may be toward that desirable end Others
want him to indorse notes for them The
autograph fiend is always there in force
and the hunter is omnipresent
One hour is given up to this class of call
ers and at 1 oclock the President goes
to lunch with his wife One hour is giv
en to lunch and to family gossip then he
goes back to his desk
At 4 oclock promptly he flings care and
business aside and goes out for an hour
Sometimes he walks sometimes he rides
a horse sonietimes goes in a carriage On
returning the President glances over the
daily papers and rests until dinner time
Dinner is served at 7 oclock promptly and
the President dons evening dress for it
He often invites friends to this meal in
formally and it is very seldom indeed that
the President and his wife sit down to a
meal by themselves After dinner if
there are men to entertain the President
takes them into the little room off the hall
where they smoke and tell stories
Theres No Let np
In the evening there is very often music
at the White House and music of the
best character and there are always call
ers It would seem as though public men
might respect the evenings of the Presi
dent and leave him to his family unless
specially invited but they dont They
invade his home life and talk consulships
secretaries ministers revenue collectors
appraisers commissioners and so on
through the list till 10 oclock or after
when they go and leave the President to
go to his office to look nt the bushel of
telegrams the two bushels of letters the
half a ton of documents to sign all of
which must be cleaned up before he goes
to bed else one days work would soon
cover another and he would never get
through By the time the last paper is at
tended to the President is as tired as
though he had been working in the har
vest field all day
Three days in the week he gives an hour
to shaking hands with the general public
in the East room This time is 3 oclock
and it is a motley assembly that greets his
eyes There are old men and young ones
old women and young ones all colors
classes and conditions of humanity and
little children make a large contingent
Two days a week are given over to cab
inet meetings from 11 to 1 and it is then
that affairs of national importance are
considered These days are particularly
hard upon the President because he must
consider conflicting interests and harmon
ize them he must keep his finger on the
pulse of the people through all TTjs cab
inet officials and decide firmly and wise
ly the questions that are brought to him
All this work is crowded upon the Pres
ident and he has one state dinner a week
to say nothing of the dinners he must at
tend the state receptions and other so
ciety functions which demand the time
and presence of the President with bills
of Congress to read and sign and mes
sages to write it will be seen that the
man who digs cellars has much the best of
it as to time he works eight and the
President nearer eighteen hours of the
twenty four
WRECKED BY BANK PRESIDENT
JReports Received at Washington on
the Logansport Failure
Reports received at the Treasury De
partment tend to show that the failure
of the State National Bank at Logans
port Ind was caused by the dishonesty
of John F Johnson the president of the
institution who it is claimed appropri
ated not only the capital stock of the
bank 200000 but also the undivided
profits amounting to 100000 more and
falsified the records so that the extent
of his peculations cannot be determined
at present The bank examiner in charge
believes that 100000 can be realized for
JOHX F JOHXS02T
the benefit of creditors from the sale of
property which Johnson has surrendered
The directors of the bank do not seem to
have taken any interest in the manage
ment but permitted the president to con
duct the business to suit himself The
liability on deposits is reported at 300
000 but an examination is necessary to
determine whether an assessment will be
made on the capital stock
Johnson was taken to Indianapolis and
now occupies a cell at the jail He went
in the custody of United States Commis
sioner Funk and Deputy United States
Marshal Clark In the afternoon Mr
and Mrs George W Prescott of Torre
Haute father-in-law and mother-in-law
of the prisoner arrived They were ac
companied by Mr Johnsons 9-year-old
daughter who was visiting them when
the crash came and who does not yet
know of her fathers disgrace Johnson
was taken to jail at 0 oclock in the even
ing and there parted with his wife Both
were perfectly self possessed even to the
point of exciting comment Johnson will
plead guilty to some of the charges
against him but others he will fight Com
missioner Funk says that if the Logans
port bank is promptly reorganized it will
be able to pay out
Telegraphic Brevities
The president of the British Iron and
Steel Institute in his annual address call
ed attention to the remarkable growth of
American competition
The Agricultural Department has sent
out 10000 pounds of beet seed to farmers
in various parts of the country and the
supply is now exhausted
Cardinal Camillo Siciliano di Rendi
archbishop of Benevento is dead at
Rome He was born in 1S47 and re
ceived the red hat in 1SS7
The Spanish Government has made an
other loan of 50000000 from the Bank
of Spain to pay troops in Cuba Foreign
financiers refused to lend
President Errazuris of Chili and the
Chilian minister to Rio Janeiro declare
that though the Chilian populace wants
war with Argentina the better classes in
Chili are opposed to ffY
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WORK OF C0NGEESS
THE WEEKS DOINGS IN SENATE
AND HOUSE
A Comprehensive Digest of the Pro
ceedings in the Legislative Cham
bers at Washington Matters that
Concern the People
Lawmakers at Labor
The Senate Monday pasted a measure
appropriating 50000 for the relief of
American citizens in Cuba in accordance
with the suggestion contained in a mes
sage from President McKinley Sev
eral members of the House insisted upon
amending to incorporate a recognition of
Cuban belligerency and the matter was
hung up temporarily The House re
sumed consideration of the Indian appro
priation bill
The Senate was occupied Tuesday
chiefly by the Cuban question Mr Ma
son spoke in favor of the Morgan reso
lution and Messrs Hoar and Hale op
posed The debate was bitter Among
the bills passed by the Senate were those
authorizing the construction of bridges
across the Missouri River between its
mouth and the mouth of the Dakota or
James River and across the Illinois and
Des Plaines Rivers between the mouth of
the Illinois and Toliet 111 and to pre
scribe the character location and dimen
sions of the same also for a bridge across
the Red River of the North at Drayton
N D The conference report on the In
dian appropriation bill was presented and
agreed to The House did nothing of im
portance
Another stirring debate on Cuba oc
curred in the Senate Wednesday The
main speeches of the day were made by
Senators Foraker Cannon Lindsay and
Hoar Mr Foraker spoke in favor of a
reference of the resolution to the commit
tee but on the general question declared
his purpose of supporting the resolution
recognizing Cuban belligerency when it
should be reported by the committee Mr
Cannon was bitter in his denunciation of
Spanish atrocity Mr Lindsay declared
if the information furnished by United
States consuls was so shocking as to sub
ject them to danger of assassination if
their names were disclosed it was time to
send warships to Cuba and to terminate
all diplomatic relations with that coun
try It was developed in the course of a
colloquy between Senators Foraker Mor
gan and Vest that the State Department
had withheld the names of United States
consuls reporting on the serious condition
of affairs in Cuba because it might lead
to their murder No action on the resolu
tion was taken
The Senate Thursday passed the Morgan-Cuban-belligerency
resolutions by a
vote of 41 to 14 after a most exciting de
bate in which Messrs Mason Morgan
Gallinger Hall Fairbanks and Hoar par
ticipated In the House the resolution
appropriating 50000 for relief of desti
tute1 American citizens in Cuba passed
without a dissenting vote An attempt
to incorporate the Morgan resolution
iiuieu out rue aeuate was sharp and ex
citing Both houses adjourned until
Monday
BOYS PLUCK SAVES HIS LIFE
Fred Lawson Five Years Old Clings
to the Ties of a Railroad Trestle
Fred Lawson 5 years old the son of a
resident of Edgewater Park 111 was
crossing the Northern Pacific railroad
bridge at that point the other day when
the sharp whistle of an exnress trnin enns
ed him to stop short in alarm Turning
A BOVS XAT5BOW ESCAPE
his head he beheld a swiftly moving train
approaching the ties beneath his feet
quivering as the engine thundered on to
the trestlework
Escape seemed impossible and for a
second the boy was stricken with the ter
ror of impending death Acting upon sud
den impulse however he threw himself
flat upon the ends of the ties outside the
rails and clung desperately to the pro
jecting timber The whole bridge vibrat
ed as the train sped on its way but the
child clung to his position until the last
car had passed Spectators of the inci
dent were horrified at the boys peril for
the projecting gear of the car axles almost
brushed his back as he lay upon the ties
The danger passed they came to his as
sistance and led him in triumph to his
home
Told in a Few Lines
Spain has in the last two vears sent
272282 soldiers to Cuba
The French brigantine Croisme went
ashore near Lamaline Newfoundland
The crew was rescued with the greatest
difficulty
Major Henry McNamara prominent
in Fenian and circles kill
ed himself at Kansas City rather than
suffer the disgrace of being sued for 0
debt
A corps of the most skilled detectives of
continental Europe are already in London
to watch anarchist refugees from their
respective countries during the jubilee
celebration
The American Ticket Brokers Associa
tion is holding its nineteenth annual con
vention at Pittsburg About 200 of the
500 members in the association are in at
tendance
The battleships Maine and Indiana and
the cruiser Brooklyn will be sent to Eng
land to represent the United States at the
queens jubilee Rear Admiral J N Mil
ler will command
The gossip about the State Department
is that Assistant Secretary of State Rock
hill who is soon to be sucfeded by Judge
Day may be nominated for minister to
China to succeed Minister Denby
DANGERS FROM GAS
Its Poisonous Natnre Should Be3Ior
Generally Known f
Gas for heating or lighting is known rV
to almost everybody who inhabits or
visits large towns or cities but it is not
as generally known as it should be that
gas Is sometimes very poisonous
Natural gas derived very much as
well water Is from natural subterra
nean reservoirs though not good tx
breathe is not especially poisonous The
same is true of gas derived from oil
including gasoline and also of that
common variety of illuminating gas
made by simply distilling soft coal and
known as coal gas
But there is another common kind
called water gas which is exeeeding i
ly poisonous This is made by passingi
water vapor steam over hard coalj
previously raised to a white heat In
this case the white hot coal carbonj
first decomposes the steam water into
Its elements oxygen and hydrogen and
then unites with one of them oxygen t
to form a deadly gas known as car
bonic oxide
When coal is burned in a stove with
an abundant air supply it unites freely
with the oxygen of the air to form car
bon dioxide or carbonic acid gas Bub
IE the air supply is for any reason in
sufficient the far more poisonous gas
carbonic oxide may be formed instead
and we read occasionally of cases of
poisoning from this coal gas which
has escaped from stoves This form of
coal gas is not an illuminating gasr
and is really more like the water gasi
than it is like the coal gas above de-
scribed It is formed only accidental
ly never like the other gas of the
same name intentionally or for sale
It can be avoided in stoves and fur
naces by making sure that the draughts
are good and the air supply abundant
The important dangerous substance
in all these gases is the carbonic ox
ide which has a peculiar action on the
red blood cells of the animal body It
is the duty of these red cells to carrj
oxj gen from the air to every nook and
corner of the body Carbonic oxidel
turns out the oxygen within the cells
and rides up and down the
sets in its stead But carbonic oxide
cannot feed the tissues and so a kind
of internal suffocation takes place lead-
ing if continued to the death and de
struction of the body
The most remarkable cases of gas-
poisoning are those in which persons
in houses not supplied with gas have
been found dead or dying the gas
which killed them having worked its
way from a leaky main in the street
into the cellar and thence upward
through the house It is also believed
by physicians that many headaches
and other ailments of obscure origin
are due to small and unnoticed leaks
of gas long continued
So long as any kind of gas remains in
the pipes or is completely burned on
its escape from a burner it can do no
harm but unburned gas whether from
leaky pipes in the house or street or
from defective fixtures or escaping
from a burner after the flame has been- -
accidentally or intentionally blown
out is exceedingly dangerous to hu
man life Youths Companion
John Sherman as a Business 3Ian
This is a business mans adminis
tration and John Sherman is a busi
ness man He has been very fortu
nate or very skillful in his business
ventures The only unsuccessful one
which is recorded of him was away
back in the early days of Ohio when
he avus a boy of fifteen He had been
working with a party of surveyors dur
ing the summer and winfo m
on he took it into his head to go and1
see his brother
Sampson who was at
work on a Cincinnati paper He had
not much money a failing common to
most heroes in their youthful days and
as a means of paying for the trip he
bought a barge and loaded it up with
barrels of salt and apples thinking
that before the river froze over be
would get to Cincinnati and sell his
saJt and his apples at a good price
Salt was dear in those days and the
price went up like a rocket after the
river froze so that if young Sherman
had reached Cincinnati before the oth
er boats were detained by the ice he
would have realized several hundred
per cent on his investment But he
didnt He got caught In the ice and
had to wait for the Januarv thaw so
that when he and his salt reached Cin
cinnati the price of the latter was away
down and the cargo sold at a loss of
100 One of his fathers friends how
ever seemed much pleased with voung
Sherman expressing the opinion that
if the boy had the pluck and the per
severence to go into such an enterprise
and carry it out it did not so much mat
ter whether he made
anything on it or
not In this he was
probably ri ht
But for a long time after that when
he seemed to be embarking in some
wildcat scheme the
family would
re
mark John that is one of your salt
speculations Washington Capital
The Greatest Mnrderess
Aqua Tofano the poisoner who lived
In the latter part of the seventeenth
uuu ot tne
uuguiumg eighteenth cen
turies was probably the
greatest mur
deress the world has ever known It is
estimated her victims numbered
near
ly 700 mostly men The poison was a
colorless liquid devoid of taste and
put up in small
bottles bearing the im
age of St Nicholas a martvr who is
said to have been boiled in oil The
illness produced by the poison resem
bled cholera Among the noted vic
tims was Pope Clement XIV In 170
the arch
poisoner
was
arrested and it
was given out that she had been secret-
Iwv d Ut SOme histrians insist
that she lived
until the
year 1730 the
her abilities as a poison maker
J caking himseifof7bad habit a
man usually accumulates the had habit
of boasting about it
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