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VALENTINE
NEBRASKA
DURRANT MUST HANG
LAST HOPE OFTHE CONDEMNED
MAN SHATTERED
United States Supreme Court Af
firms the Decision of the Circuit
Court of California The Decision
was Not Unexpected
Theodore Durrant Will Hang
The United States supreme court has
affirmed the decision of the circuit court
of California refusing a writ of habeas
corpus to William Henry Theodore Dur
rant under sentence of death for the mur
der of Blanche Lamout iu San Francisco
in April 1895
The news that the United States court
had decided not to interfere with the ex
ecution of Durrant spread quickly over
San Francisco Monday and crowds read
the announcement eagerly from the news
paper bulletin boards The decision was
not unexpected apparently only Durrant
and his attorneys seemed to have any hope
that he would be saved from the gallows
The decision paves the way for the exe
cution of five other murderers who have
been sentenced to death whose execution
was deferred pending a decision in the
Durrant case
Durranis parents were notified of the
decision and were deeply affected
TAX SYSTEM IS FLAYED
Brown Universitys President De
livers a Sensational Address
President Benjamin Andrews of Brown
University and James A Heme the
actor spoke at the Henry George memorial
meeting in Providence R I Sunday
f ught It was the first time President
rihdrews has spoken in public on political
matters since he withdrew his resignation
as the head of Brown University which he
endered last June on account of criticism
of his attitude on the silver question He
characterized George as the most influen
tial political economist in the world at his
death and as certain to exert great in
fluence on the days that are sure to come
Andrews thought- everything George
wrote was well worth reading He elicited
applause when he declared that in his be
lief Georges theory touching land tax
was substantially true
The most interesting part of his address
was when President Andrews denounced
the present system of taxation as unjust
paying If people knew really how bad it
is they would rise up and sweep govern
ment away Andrews spoke with great
earnestness and was applauded re
oatedlj
GET THE KLONDIKE FEVER
Three Members of a Whaling Crew
Attempt to Burn Their Ship
The whaling bark John E Winthrop
tins arrived at San Francisco from the
iteming Sea Early in July the Winthrop
sjpokethe whaler Gayhead and for the
first time heard of the Klondike gold dis
coveries Tlie crew became greatly ex
cited and three of the sailors J A
Kruegor O W Digman and H J Jones
formed a plan to destroy the vessel and
make their way to the Alaskan coast
with a view of ultimately reaching the
gold fields The men stole tar and turpen
tine from the ships stores and with other
iiflammable material started a fire in the
forehold Fortunately the flames were
extinguished before much damage was
done The three conspirators were at
once put in irons Digmas made a written
confession stating that Kruger was the
originator of the plot
GRAIN FOR EUROPEANS
A Biff Fleet of Ships Will Sail from
Philadelphia
There are twenty seven steamships in
lort at Philadelphia or under charter to
load grain for European ports Most of
the grain will be shipped in the next few
weeks They will carry in tao aggregate
8000000 bushels of corn and wheat So
far this j ear the shipments of corn have
aggregated nearly 22000000 bushels
against less than 7000000 last year
Cut the Heart from a Corpse
While Richard Simpkins and Charles
Wiser were walking through Mt Pleasant
Cemetery at Millville N J Monday
morning they were startled by finding the
fcrave of Mrs Phoebe Tilton had been
opened They followed the tracks where
the body had been dragged and about 200
yards in the woods found the corpse cut
pen with an ax from breast to pelvis and
the heart missing
Mark Twain Xot Making Money
Mark Twuins publishers at Hartford
Conn have received a cablegram from
Hie author in which he denies the report
that he recently wrote a letter to a per
sonal friend stating that he had made 82-
the last two years and had paid his
business debts in full The facts are that
ixli vieiiHiiis sun owes anout ouutK
Accouutof C L Webster Co
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Colorado Cashier Suicides
Hiram K Holder 27 years old and un
married cashier of the Central National
Bank of Pueblo Colo in a fit of tempo
rary insanity committed suicide by shoot
In himself through the head His books
are correct to a penny
No Prohibition in Georgia
The Georgia senate on Saturday defeated
measure which if passed would have
had the effect of making Georgia a prohi
bition Male The bill has been pending
in the legislature since last year and has-
ween exiumsuveiy argued The vole
the bill was 18 to 23
on
Maj Handy Home from Europe
Maj Moses P Handy special cemmis
fiiouer of the United States to the Paris
exposition in 1900 returned to this country
Saturday The major reports that he hail
ja very successful mission
WEDDING UNITES NATIONS
iamous Holland Painter marries a
Remarkable Hawaiian Beauty
Holland and Hawaii have been united
by a marriage solemnized in St Paul
The crown painter to the Dutch royal
amity was married to the daughter of the
lawaiian king a widow of remarkable
heauty The groom was Joseph Hubert
Vos of The Hague and the bride
Eleanor Kalkilani Graham of Hono
lulu The wedding was very pri
vate only two personal friends and the
wo children of the bride being present
fos is one of Europes famous portrait
ainters During his several years resi
dence in this country he recently located
V tFort Cotton and supposedly to study
he Indian types Mrs Yos is said to be
long to the Hawaiian royal families Her
ormer husband is believed to have been a
planter of vast wealth The couple left
for Honolulu Saturday afternoon
Gen
COMPELLED TO RESIGN
Old Officers of the National Liife In
surance Company Ousted
Commissioner of Insurance Frederick A
Belts of Cincinnati made public on Mon
day the report of the investigations of the
National Life Association of Hartford the
outcome of which was the requested res
ignation of President Fletcher and Di
rector Wilbur the voluntary resigna
tion of H T Braman the secretary
and the reorganization of the company
According to the report of the com
missioner it became apparent in the early
stages of the investigation that the ofliccrs
of the association attempted in many ways
to mislead the insurance department and
the general public
The report gives a detailed statement
from the books of the association which
showed the many discrepancies in reports
to the commissioner
MAY ADOPT CISNEROS
Wealthy Chicago Widow Takes
left Washington Friday
way to Cuba This fact
Cuba
instructions
afternoon on his
is believed to ox-
hibit Hie confidence of the administration
in the satisfactory outcome of the pending
negotiations with Spain
Edmund S Holbrook Dead
Edmund S Holbrook for many years a
leading attorney of the west died in Chi
cago Sunday Mr Holbrook was widely
known as a poet and newspaper contrib
utor
Denver and Rio Grande Earnings
For the mouth of October the leceipts of
the Denver and Rio Grande were S76S0W
an increase of 54700 over the same month
last year or 771 percent
Buy Crokers Thoroughbreds
Gen W H Jackson of Belle Meade
Ten n has purchased the interest of
Richard Crokcr in the Belle Meade breed
ing farm of thoroughbred horses
Weekly Bank Statement
The New York weekly bank statement
shows the reserve has decreased 3000
ftflf Tlif linnl c imM sm ni nni in
of legal requirements
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Fancy to the Cuban Girl
Mrs Celia Wallace who resides at the
Auditorium Chicago and is a childless
widow has taken a fancy to Evaugelina
Cossio y Cisneros the Cuban refugee and
has offered to adopt the Cuban maid and
make her an heiress to a fortune estimated
by friends of Mrs Wallace at 500000
Evangelina looks with favor upon the
proposition and took it under advisement
When it was explained to her that the
written consent of her father would be
necessary before the adoption could be
made legally she said she thought he would
be willing to take the step
CONFIRMS THE SALE
Union Pacific Deal O KM by Fed
eral Judge Sanborn
Judge W n Sanborn of the United
States circuit court at St Paul has con
firmed the government foreclosure sale of
the main line of the Union Pacific Kail
road which took place November 1 at
Omaha when the reorganization com
mute bid upwards of 5S0O0O0a for the
governments claim on this road On Tues
day November 2 there was a second sale
under foreclosure of the first mortgage
bonds controlled by the reorgani7ation
committee
Insurance Decision
The supreme court of Illinois has handed
down a decision of great interest to insur
ance men all over the country The state
of Illinois has a law that insurance under
the Lloyds plan may not be transacted in
the state John A Barnes who
issued policies in various Lloyds
not authorized by the state insurance
department was fined 500 and
he went to the courts represented by At
torney Myron H Beach of Chicago The
supreme court has decided that Lloyds
may transact business in the state and that
the law which seeks to prevent them from
so doing is unconstitutional This throws
the doors wide open to insurance men
from other states whom Illinois has tried
to keep out as the court says that what
has been granted to citizens of Illinois
may not be denied others
Cost of Luetgert Trial
States Attorney Deneen of Cook County
llinois has filed with Deputy Comptroller
Monoghan his bills for the expenses in
curred in the prosecution of the Luetgert
case The actual expenses incurred by the
states attorney amounts to 5735 For
this expense the county board has appro
priated 5000 The total expense of the
trial including the salaries of the jurors
and the feeding of jurors amounts to
3S808 The chief item of the cxnensu in
curred was 2S05 for expert Icstimonj
Close of Chicago Horse Show
The first annual horse show ended in
Chicago Saturday The enterprise has
been one of the mostsuccessful exhibitions
ever held in the city and its projectors
have been so encouraged by the attend
ance and the number of exhibitors that
they have determined to make the show
an annual feature The show was a finan
cial success
Lee
Leaves for
Lee in pursuance of
NINETEEN LIYES LOST
ONLY THREE OF THE IDAHOS
CREW ESCAPE
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Sank in a Terrific Gale on Lake Erie
November 6 Three Men and Two
Teams Annihilated by a Nitro
Glycerinc Explosion
Onlv Thppft nf a Creiv Rcnnnn
The following are the names of sixteen storekeePfrs
of the nineteen men who lost their lives on
the steamer Idaho which sank during the
gale on Saturday morning above Long
Point on Lake Erie Alexander Gillies
captain Buffalo George Gibson first
mate Buffalo William Clancy chief
engineer Buffalo John D Taylor Stew
ard Buffalo Nelson Skinner first assist
ant engineer Louis Gilmore watchman
Richard McLean wheelman Robert
Williams wheelman A J Rich
ards lookout Henry Thompson lookout
Conrad Blanker fireman Gregory fire
man John Healy assistant steward
FrederiekMiffort oiler Edward A Smith
deckhand Rochester N Y M Beele
deck hand three unknown
The names of the two men saved are
Louis Laforce jr second mate William
Gill a deck hand Rochester N Y
The Idaho went out of commission three
or four years ago but this summer she
was thoroughly overhauled After her
overhauling she was placed at the
posal of the Naval Veterans Association
and by that organization used as a flagship
during the G A R encampment at Buf
falo in August At the close of the en
campment she was put into commission
again as a freighter
The captain of the ill fated steamer
Alex Gillies was one of the most widely
known of lake seamen He was 41 years
old His brother Donald Gillies is cap
tain of the steamer Harlem
NITRO GLYCERINE EXPLOSION
Three Men and Two Teams Annihi
lated in West Virginia
At Pinefork near New Martinsville W
Va Saturday William Conn of Cuba N
Y drove oto the nitro glycerine maga
zine with a two horse wagon to get twelve
gallons of nitro glycerine to shoot some
oil wells over which he had supervision
While he was inside anolher two horse
wagon with two men in it who have not
been identified drove up Before these
strangers alighted the magazine blew up
with a report heard ten miles away The
only thing found that ever was human
was a piece of a mans foot All else
three human beings four horses and two
wagons were as if they had nexer existed
Where the magazine stood was a deep
cavern Windows were broken in every
dwelling within a radius of half a mile
SOLD NATURALIZATION PAPERS
Government Employes in Philadel
phia Are Put Under Arrest
A sensation has been caused in potitical
and official circles of Philadelphia by the
arrest of several city and United States
government employes of prominence on
the charge of conspiracy and the issuance
of fraudulent naturalization papers Those
arrested are Eugene Lindsey clerk in a
notarys office Richard Merrick and son
John clerks in the United States frcnit
court It is stated other arrests are in
contemplation It is said naturalization
papers were furnished for 17 each that
quite a number were issued They gave
bail for further hearing
ROBBED HIM OF SPEECH
Footpads Destroy the Vocal Chords
of a Moneyless Victim
William Kastner a cook was held up by
footpads when passing under the Lake
Street elevated railroad structure in
Market Street Chicago Sunday evening
The robbers searched Kastners pockets
but finding nothing of value there they
determined to rob him of his speech One
of them placed a revolver close to the
victims throat and fired The bullet cut
through the vocal chords and completely
destroyed Kastners power of speech The
robbers escaped
BIG ARKANSAS FIRE
Lumber Company Suffers a 100
OOO Loss
Fire at Texarkana Ark destroyed four
steam lumber kilns five lumber sheds and
over one and a quarter million feet of lum
ber the property of the Central Coal
Coke and Lumber Company The aggre
gate loss is over 100000
Pupils Kill A Teacher
Runes Allen teacher in a school at
Whitland Hickory County Mo was beat
en to death Thursday by his pupils As a
punishment for misconduct Mr Allen
kept several boys after school was dismiss
ed Thursday njght When released the
youths went away angry and later as the
teacher was on his way home they way
laid him pelting him with stones and
clubs Mr Allen was knocked down and
his skull crushed He did not regain con
sciousness and died Friday morning The
youths have been arrested
Mobbed by Chinese
A Shanghai dispatch says that the cap
tain of the German gunboat Cormorant
and the German minister to China were
attacked by a mob at Wu Chang a large
city in the province of Hoo Pee on the
River The rioters are
also reported to have stoned the German
fiag and insulted the minister The latter
the dispatch says has demanded the pun
ishment of the offenders
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Prominent Lumber Man Dead
Iconic S Shaw president of the Clo
queLtMinn Lumber Company and one
of the best known lumbermen in the north
west died suddenly at his residence in
Cloquer He was 75 years of age but up
to the hour of his Ueath he remained the
active head of one of the largest lumber
concerns in the United States
Woolen Mills Are Bushed
Notice was givdn Friday that on Mon
day the Willimantic Conn woolen
mills would put to work the full force on
a full liiie schedule of sixty hours a week
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BRADSTREETS REVIEW
Unseasonable Weather Has Been an
Unfavorable Feature
Bradstreets Weekly Review says Kill
ing frosts south the raising of quarantine
embargoes in nearly all states invaded by
yellow fever the resumption of trade and
a prospective revival in demand of staple
merchandise constitute the trade features
of the week Rains in central western and
western states followed by colder
weather have favored farmers and
stimulated demand from interior
This has had a fa
vorable effect at Louisville St Louis and
Kansas City Jobbers in northwestern
states are awaiting seasonable weather to
stimulate the movement of heavy dry
goods and winter clothing Larger east
ern cities report no increase in the gen
eral merchandise movement New Eng
land centers report that orders from the
west exceed those from the south or east
ATTEMPT TO KILL MORAES
Brazilian Minister Loses His Life in
Protecting the President
A dispatch from Rio Janeiro says At
1 oclock Friday afternoon a soldier of the
Tenth batallion which constitutes part of
the local garrison attempted to shoot
President Moraes with a pistol The presi
dent was just landing at the marine ar
senal after visiting the steamer on which
Gen Barbosa minister of marine had re
turned from Bahia
Bystanders frustrated the attempt but
Col Moraes the presidents nephew was
slightly wounded in disarming the soldier
Gen Bittancour Gen Marsedo Barcourt
secretary of war then interfered and was
himself stabbed The wound was so ser
ious that he died soon afterward The
attack has caused the greatest agitatioiv
throughout the city
TAKES THE LIVES OF FOUR
Horrible Quadruple Tragedy Re
ported from Rawdon Canada
A quadruple murder is reported from
Rawdon Can The victims were three
daughters and one son of Nully a farmer
who having gone on a visit Friday morn
ing found the children murdered when he
returned home The girls were 18 16 and
14 and the boy 10 The parents went to
St Julienne on business leaving the
children home A neighbor called and
discovered the ghastly spectacle When
found the bodies of two of the girls were
in the kitchen with their throats cut The
body of the oldest girl was between the
house and the barn in the same condition
The boys remains were in the barn No
reason for the crime was discovered ex
cept a desire to assault the girls
FRAUDS IN NEW YORK
Citizens Union to Begin Prosecu
tions of Election Law Violations
The executive committee of the Citizens
Union of Greater New York proposes to
institute a series of prosecutions aaainst
violators of the election laws The com
mitteemen say that they are in possession
of evidence of fraud practiced in that city
on election day It is also claimed that
the frauds are of such a gigantic nature as
to affect the official returns to a marked
extent Chairman Reynolds says that
somebody will go to prison before the in
vestigations are completed
Find No Trace of Bad Indians
The war department has received word
from Gen Otis at Denver to the effect
that he has been advised by Capt Wright
commanding the troops scouting after the
Indians whom the Colorado game
warden had a brush a few days ago in
which several Indians were killed that
there are no indications of the presence of
Indians anywhere in the vicinitv of the
fight
Rich Iron Ore Find
The most important iron ore discovery
on the Menominee range in several years
has been made a few miles east of Crystal
Falls Mich The drill hole was put down
at an angle of 80 degrees and struck the
ore at the depth of 117 feet From that
point to a depth of 104 feet the drill cut
through clean ore
North Dakota Divorces Invalid
Judge Frazier of Pittsburg Pa has
handed down an opinion in which he de
clared that a North Dakota divorce is
worthless in the state of Pennsylvania
DIAKKET QUOTATIONS
Chicago Cattle common to pnrne
ouu to qouu nogs shipping grades
iJOO to 400 sheep fair to choice 200
to 450 wheat No 2 red 92c to 94c
corn No 2 23c to 2Gc oats No 2 18c
to 20c rye No 2 4Gc to 4Sc butter
choice
creamery 22c to 24c eggs fresh
luc to 17c new potatoes 35c to 50c per
bushel
Indianapolis Cattle shipping 300 to
525 hogs choice light 300 to 400
sheep common to choice 300 to 400
wheat No 2 93c to 93c com No 2
white 24c to 20c oats No 2 white 21c
to 23c
St Louis Cattle 300 to 550 hogs
300 to 400 sheep 300 to 450
wheat No 2 97c to 99c corn No 2
yellow 24c to 25c oats No 2 white 20r
to 22c rye No 2 45c to 47c
Cincinnati Cattle 250 to 525 hogs
300 to 400 sheep 250 to 425
wheat No 2 92c to 93c corn No 2
mived 23c to 27c oats No 2 mixed 21 f
to 22c rye No 2 4Gc to 48c
Detroit Cattle 250 to 525 hoes
300 to 375 sheep 250 to 425
wheat No 2 92c to S4c corn No 2
yellow 23c to 2Gc oats No 2 white 21c
to 23c lye 47c to 48c
Toledo -Wheat No 2 red 93c to 95e
corn No 2 mixed 26c to 27c oats No
2 white 17e to 19c rye No 2 47c to 48c
clover seed 320 to 330
Milwaukee Wheat No 2 spring 84c
to 8e corn No 3 26c to 27c oats No
2 white 22c to 24c rye No 2 47c to 49c
barley No 2 40c to 44c pork mess
725 to 775
Buffa o Cattle 300 to 550 Logs
300 to 4G0 sheep 300 to 500
wheat No 2 red 96c to 98c corn No
2 yellow 29c to 31c oats No 2 white
25e to 26c
New York Cattle 300 to 525 hogs
350 to 425 sheep 300 to 475
wheat No 2 red 99c to 101 corn No
2 32c to 33c oats No 2 white 24c to
25c butter creamery 15c to 25c eggs
Western 19c to 21c
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SECRETARY WILSONS WORK
A Tears Operations of the Agrx
cultural Department
Secretary Wilson has presented his re
port to the President reviewing the opera
tions of the Department of Agriculture
for the past year The most important
recommendation made by him is one that
agents for the department should be sta
tioned at each of our more important
American embassies for the collection ol
information of interest to American farm
ers Referring to this subject he says
We are endeavoring to get informatior
from foreign countries with which w
compete in the markets of the world re
garding crops and prices We are alst
taking steps to ascertain what crops art
grown on different thermal lines so thai
seeds and plarits may intelligently bt
brought to this country to assist in thr
diversification of our crops and add to
their variety There is necessity
American agents in every foreign coun
try to which we send representatives wh
have had education in the sciences relat
ing to agriculture The agricultural col
leges endowed by Congress are educatinf
along these lines
The Secretary refers to the efforts ol
the department to extend the foreign mar
kets for our dairy and live stock products
which he thinks can be done by making
the foreigners familiar with them In
stead of sending abroad for seeds he says
the policy in the future will be to en
courage the introductioin of such seeds
as will enable our people to diversify
their crops and keep money at home that
is now sent abroad to buy what the Unit
ed States should produce
Mr Wilson says the department will
continue its pioneer work in the encour
agement of the sugar beet aid expresses
the opinion that the country will within
a few years raise all the sugar it requires
He expresses the opinion that nearly all
of the 382000000 sent abroad last year
for sugar hides fruits wines animals
rice flax hemp cheese wheat barley
beans eggs and silk might have been kept
at nome He also thinks the United
States should grow their own chicory cas
tor beans lavender licorice mustard
opium etc
With reference to horses the Secretary
says The American farmer can grow
horses as cheaply as he can grow cattle
We have a heavy and profitable export
trade in cattle and may have an export
trade equally heavy and profitable in
horses The department is gathering
facts regarding our horse industry at
home and the requirements of purchasers
abroad so that our farmers can learn
what foreign buyers demand
The most important work in which the
animal industry bureau has been engaged
is he says that looking to the destruction
of the cattle tick for which it is behoved
that an agent has been found in a petrole
um product known as parallin oil in which
infected cattle are dipped
The extension of the meat inspection to
abottoirs engaged in interstate business
is recommended as is the continuance of
the inspection of export animals in order
to maintain the market which has been
secured for them in other countries
The Secretary criticises the present sys
tem of crop reporting He says it is ex
tremely cumbersome lie recommends the
employment of a principal statistical agent
in each State
CHICAGO HORSE SHOW
Society Turns- Out in Iorce on the
Opening Night
Ten thousand enthusiastic Chicagoans
gave emphatic approval to their first horse
show in the beautifully decorated and
brilliantly illuminated Coliseum Society
on the opening night filled the boxes and
graced the spacious promenade which en
circled the right It was full an hour
THE CENTAUR OK TO DAY
after the opening before the places of
honor were filled by many Chicago nota
bles
The best the handsomest the fleetest
and the most aristocratic members of thi
family of horses were gathered to receive
their admirers during the week The
Coliseum had been decorated elaborately
music added to the attractions of the
show and nearly 50000 worth of prizes
were given to successful competitors
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After all the ideal foot ball colors aie
black and blue
The health department of Baltimore
wants kissing abolished on the ground
that it is a public menace Why pub-
lie
The country hears less of General Miles
since he came home than when he was
abroad He was more popular when he
was Miles away
A St Louis newspaper contain an ad
vertisement reading as follows Wanted
A woman to cook Is this a result of
the Luetgert trial
Kansas women are setting the fashion
of removing the hat upon entering
church It is an old custom to avoid the
ha at church services
And now it appears that some denning
rascal has been swindling the Indiana
farmers by charging1 exorbitant prices
for kernels from an ear of corn of mam
moth size which lias been manufactured
by neatly joining together several sec
tions of different cob As the swindle
already has been perpetrated and the
swindler is at large and unknown nothing
remains to he done by the victim i except
to acknowledge the corn
SUPERSTITIONS OF ACTORS
Comedian Crane Docs Not Like the
Number Thirteen iPjL
There are possibly no more supersti
tious people on this mundane sphere f
u vr i inivtfil nrnfesslon
man ujubc iu me ui111 x
The actor or actress who is not super
stitious is as hard to lintl as the pro
verbial needle in the haystack The
actress who would look at her reflec
tion in a cracked mirror would be an
object of sympathy among her friends
as some dire calamity would be sure to
befall her and the actor who valued
his life would never walk under a lad
der To cross a funeral would be a
very injudicious thing and there is a
popular belief that should any om
whistle in a dressing room the person
nearest the door at the time will lose
his position beltere the end of the week
To start rehearsals of a new play on
a Friday means failure for the work
and to begin a tour on a Friday is an
unheard of thing A rather good story
apropos of the superstitions of theatri
cal people is told of William II Crane
A little over two years ago the come
dian was booked to appear in Bvans
Tille Ind and his agent had reserved
for him at the St George Hotel the
principal caravansary in the town the
best suite of rooms in the house Par
ticular Instructions wore left regarding
the making of the rooms as comforta
ble as possible Hardly had the actor
reached the hotel when he discovered
that the suite of rooms reserved for
him was number thirteen He became
nervous at once and there was a fever
ish pressing of the bell which did not
cease until a boy all out of breath put
in an appearance Send the clerk
here at once thundered Crane ask
him what he means by putting me in a
suite numbered thirteen Doesnt he
know any better The boy made a
hurried effort to get his breath and
then smiled iu a proud way Why
sir he answered all of the star
gemmen what come to this town Htop
in these rooms Then as if to carry
honie conviction to the actor that ho
was in favored quarters he said
Why sir John T Raymond died In
that bed Had any of the comedians
friends seen him during the next live
minutes ho would certainly have lost
the reputation of being a mild-mannered
and amiable gentleman In half an
hour he was out of the hotel bag and
baggage and on his way to a priyato
car at the depot in which he slept that
night
Another incident in regard to the
number thirteen is probably worth the
telling The morning after The Gov
ernor of Kentucky was produced for
the first time in New York Crane arose
rather early in order to see what the
critics thought of the comedy A sot
of the morning papers had been placed
at his bedside and on top the valet had
carelessly placed a copy of the theater
program the first by the way that
came from the press While dressing
ing the actor carelessly glanced at th
bill His attention was arrested in a
moment and in order to assure him-
self that he was seeing straight ho put
on his glasses Ella Ella he called
to his wife What do you think There
are thirteen characters in the play
Thirteen there were sure enough some
thing no one had noticed during all of
the time that the play was in rehear
sal Breakfast and the papers vere
quickly forgotten and the actor was on
his way to see Mr Fyles the author of
the comedy To him he explained the
trouble and said that another charac
ter had to be introduced at once This
the author did not find a difficult mat
ter All through the play a Mr Loonar
was spoken of but never soon and Air
Fyles found it easy to bring him on in
the last act The second night that the
play was presented it boasted of four
teen characters and the comedian was
happy Joseph Brooks the actors
manager would be indignant with the
man who said he was superstitious
and for that reason a little story about
the first performance of A Fool of
Fortune might not be amiss The play
had progressed up to the last scone
when a coal black cat walked on the V
stage and brushed up against the old
broker as he was about to die The
curtain down Brooks rushed back to
the actors dressing room Will he
exclaimed did you see that cat I
should say so answered Mr Crane
it came near ruining the scene
Nothing of the kind replied the man
ager that cat has brotght us the big
gest kind of good luck You can go
home and rest assured that we have
a big hit and the man who is not su
perstitious went around to the front
of the house in a contented frame of
mind
Food that Makes Brains
According to a celebrated health ex
port blanched almonds give the high
er nerve or brain and muscle food and
the man who wishes to keep his brain
power up would do well fo include
them in his daily bill of fare Juicy
fruits give more or less the higher
nerve or brain and are eaten ly all men
whose living depends on their clear
headedness Apples supply the brain
with rest Prunes afford proof against
nervousness but are muscle feeding
They should be avoided by those Tvho
suffer from the liver But it has been
proved that fruits do not have the same
effect upon everybody Some men have
never been able to eat apples without
suffering the agony of indigestion to
others strawberries are like poison
Safe Pledge
Customer 1 am not yet entirely satis
fied of the superiority of your bicycle
Dealer Ill tell you what Ill do You
buj one of our wheels and if you dont
say its the best wheel in theworld De
fore youve had it twenty four hours
Ill buy it back and pay you two price
for it Detroit Journal
See This Point
The women of all foreign lands
To pur shores should flock in bands
For women all their chance awaits
To enter the United States
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