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About Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930 | View Entire Issue (May 3, 1900)
g - y - i - - w v - to be writing these little things and mak ing up plots for farces Why if i were a man Pd win the Victoria Cross or die she adds with superfluous energy Good gracious if everybody wanted Vthe V C how would the worlds ness go on Im talking about myself personally she says resolutely To begin with you would have to be a soldier I would be a soldier You would -want an opportunity I would make an opportunity Well I hope you will hear a pibroch oritwo in the Highlands this year what makes you think you wont be able to SO Oh as for that she says with rath er a proud and hurt air I am sure 1 am at liberty to go for anything my people at home seem to care about me They dont appear -to be much concerned as to whether I go or stay No letters this morning Oh it isnt this morning or many a aorniug back I dont believe Ive heard - from home since I left London and Ive written regularly to my sister Emily ev ery Sunday sometimes oftener Dont you think they assume that you have withdrawn altogether into the wilds and that t is no use trying to find you Or isnt it just as likely that there has been some mistake about forwarding your A v V If vp NtlwiMi tVll i H MflSv 5 fJ CHAPTER XIX The top of the morning to you says Miss Peggy coming marching into the coffee room and twirling her bonnet by the strings There is a gay audacity in her face and health and youth and high spirits are in her shining eyes The same to you and many of them one answers humblyi I do believe she continues in tones of tragic vexation that your English bootmakers are the immediate descend ants of the people who lived in the Age of Iron Why French and German boot makers use leather But your English bootmakers fix your feet with iron clamps So your racing and chasing on Durd ham and Clifton Downs has found you out is that it Well youll have to come better provided to the Highlands boots with broad toes double soled and with plenty of nails in them to get a grip of the heather I am not so sure about my ever going to the Highlands she says with some thing of a change of manner and she walks along to the window and looks out Then she returns Wont you go for a Uttle stroll until they come down It Is quite pretty out there This is a command rather than an in vitation one fetches hat and stick Miss Peggy whips on her bonnet and ties the strings and presently we are lounging about the College Green which looks very well in the early sunlight And the junlight suits Miss Peggy brightening the clear rose of her complexion and lending a mystery to her shadowed eyes and making a wonder and glory of her hair Has Mr Duncombes parcel of books come she asks presently I dont know Do you think he will succeed as a writer again she asks in lier careless way How can one tell He hasnt got very far yet He is very modest about it she says His simplicity is almost amusing He doesnt aim at much does he Rather a small ambition wouldnt you call it letters and that you will find them all in a bundle when you get back to town We shall soon be making a bee line for London now Those people have come down she says discreetly glancing over to the win dows of the hotel we must go in It was now for the first time that a foreshadowing of the breaking up of our party began to weigh upon the spirits of one or two of these good folk particu larly upon Col Cameron who became re markably glum and silent when we were counting up the days it would take us to reach the Thames In the afternoon it began to get clear The clouds gradually lifted and there were gleams of yellow among the soft purples and grays The still waters of the winding Avon mirrored every feature of the bank and further off the skies were reflected too a shimmer of silver here and there a breadth of liquid lilac darkening almost to black under the trees while over the glassy surface dart- id innumerable swifts and martens busy In the still warm moist air By this time of course waterproofs had been thrown aside and as we came to a con venient landing place the boat was stop- ped as we got ashore all but Jack Dun combe who was eager to get at his books Now it was Sir Ewen Cameron who assisted Miss Peggy to step along the gang board and when she had reached the bank these two naturally went to gether at first walking pretty smartly so as to get ahead of the horse Queen Tita was in no such hurry What is taking that girl back to Amer ica he asks presently looking away along the towpath toward those two Who can tell She doesnt seem to know herself But perhaps she is right this small person continues rather wistfully Yes even if it is only some vague kind of feel ing And if she was once over there and were to come back then we couldnt be held responsible for anything that might happen Of course I hope she will come - back It is very curious what a hold fvjthat girlgets over one England wouldnt 1e half England to me if I didnt know -that sooner or later I could look to seeing my Peggy again Your Peggy Yes Indeed she continued boldly 40h any one could set how all you men liavebeen fighting for her good graces for a word or a smile or a look but she YWILLFAM LACK has kept to me all the time Do you think she doesnt know what men are Poor Peggy She seemed most unusu ally grave when we had all to get on board again for we were now drawing near to Bath Not only that but she ap peared to be at once absent minded and apprehensive subsiding into a deep rev erie from time to time and yet anxiously responding to any remark addressed to her so that her thoughtfulness might not be noticed She had no further quips and questions about Jack Duncombes bundle of books She took some tea in silence And then these two women folk had to be left to themselves for we were now getting to the end of the days voyage The approach of the beautiful Queen of the West by the valley of the Avon is disappointing in the extreme indeed the slums here are about as bad as those of the Totterdown suburb of Bristol It was abundantly manifest that here was no abiding place for us again and for the last time on this trip we should have to sleep ashore and so when a few things had been put into the various hand bags we set off a small procession through the streets of Bath putting up at a hotel where notwithstanding our suspicious want of luggage we were made fairly welcome and furnished with rooms That night before we ooparated the humble chronicler of these events had a small folded note covertly handed to him and on subsequently opening it he found it to contain these words Shall you be down early to morrow morning I want to say something very particular to you rin private PEGGY Poor Peggy Was it the thought of going away across the wide Atlantic again that was pressing heavily on her heart CHAPTER XX This day begun with glooms and disap pointments then blossomed forth into a summer like luxuriance of all beautiful things and finally ended in joy and calm content Perhaps it was our general im patience of towns and our anxiety to be away in the wilderness again that led us to form so poor an opinion of the appear ance of Bath but anyhow the morning was wet and lowering the windows seemed dingy and the spectacle of a crowd of people hurrying along muddy pavements most of them with umbrellas up to their respective shops and offices was modern and commonplace and de pressing This was not what we had ex pected of the famous Queen of the West All her former glories seemed to have vanished away behind the mournful pall of rain And then again the appointment that had been planned the evening before did not take place TviVorrhruTr onnmn1 n r oo no opportunity of saying a word During breakfast she was quite silent and there after when there was a general hunt for waterproofs and umbrellas she set about getting ready in a mechanical way At the door of the hotel she merely said in an undertone Some other time I will speak to you and then went out Hunting for curiosities proved to be an engrossing occupation with our party so that Miss Peggy was enabled to lag a little behind without being observed while a slight finger touch on the arm secured her the listener she wanted The young lady seemed at once shy and anx ious there was more color in her face than usual and when she spoke it was in a hurried and low undertone I want your advice said she per haps you may think I should speak to your wife but but I would rather have a mans advice Your wife has very ex alted ideas she might be a little too un compromising and If would rather you would tell me what ordinary people would say and think There was a moment of hesitation then she began to speak rather slowly and with downcast eyes Tell me what you think I should be justified in doing I am involved at home in a half-and-half kind of engagement Both families were anxious for it and and I liked him a little oh yes he is very amusing and makes the time pass and I dare say he liked me well enough when everything was going prosperously Then you know how my fathers affairs went wrong she continued with an occasion al glance toward those other people to make sure they were not observing her and there was a change after that Yes he is very sensible and prides himself on it Oh I know what his ambitions are He wants to get among the millionaires he wants to run the biggest yacht afloat and to have paragraphs about himself in the papers That is why he has never come to Europe he never will come to Europe until he has money enough to get himself talked about And then when my fathers affairs went wrong I sup pose it was but natural he should begin1 to think twice and although he has never said he wanted the engagement broken off no for he is afraid of quarreling with his own people he has left me pret ty free to imagine that I can go if 1 choose Oh I am not vexed she coa tinued Of course a girl does not like to be thrown over You thrown over It is not quite so bad as that for he writes me from time to time in a kind of a way and I am left to understand that he considers the engagement binding if I wish it Well a girl doesnt quite like that she added with just the least passing tremor in her voice but doubt less it was pride rather than any sense of injury that was driving her to speak So I wont you to tell me what 1 should be justified in doing she resum ed Oh Miss Rosslyn come along here for a minute a third person broke in it was Jack Duncombe I have discovered the tablet put up to commemorate the illus trious virtues of Beau Nash Its beau tiful Come along and I will translate it for you So Miss Rosslyn was haled away some what to the relief of the person whom she had been consulting For it was not so easy as it looked to say off hand what Miss Peggy Bhould do in those cir cumstances The beautiful valley increased in M rrimB tntj -a wi n v - t - arn r - jm M n LrucKa mi n snjarmtcMmmrmirzMm j - - - i i - -1 fd ynii - saavr5 sBmxEFmvaMmMMWtoEH 7 iiGijfcKaaBS5SsWE sktvi - Mk liness and loneliness as we followed tn I slow windings of our gallened werway high up on thuhillside We had all this world of sunlight and green leaves and sweet blowing winds entirely to ourselve3 We met with no one Miss Peggy was up at the bow her throat bare to the warm brdeze her hair unshielded by any bonnet showing threads of burnished gold in the sunligtit Jack Duncombe was standing beside her with an ord nance map spread out on the roof of the house Then we came to the Dundas Aque duct which spans the wide vale and here the spacious view was more extensive thaja ever the landscape disappearing in to tender distances of rose gray and light est green until at the far horizon line and melting into the silvery sky there were touches of pale translucent blue But this aqueduct carried us across the valley and very soon we had left the wide open country behind us and were plunged into umbrageous woods It was much hotter here there was hardly a breath of air to atir the shelving branches that felt their way out into the sunlight and it was but rarely that the interven ing foliage afforded any shelter Never theless these good people would insist on going for a stroll along the towpath all except Miss Peggy who at the last mo ment abruptly changed her mind and decided to remain with the steersman to cheer him with her company This might be a river in a Brazilian forest said she for the beauty of it and the solitude It was not of any river in Brazil she was thinking she was but waiting until those people on the bank were out of earshot Then she said presently Have you thought that over Wes Her tnext question was not put into words it was a nervous flash of inquiry that appeared in her eyes Then she look ed down again as if awaiting judgment She had a bit of red hawthorn in her hand and her fingers were pulling into small shreds one or two of the dark green leaves Well you see Miss Peggy if your de scription of the situation is literally cor rectliterally and absolutely you would be amply justified in tell ing that young gentleman in New York to go and be hanged That is what any man would say off hand and at once There may be some explanation Letters may have been delayed You may get them when you g back to London And if there were a hundred letters do you think I dont know jwhat would be in them she demanded rather proud ly And as for drifting and drifting I have grown a little tired of that It is no great compliment to a girl to put her in such a position I dare say now if I were over in America if 1 were to go to America for even a fortnight 1 could get the whole matter settled You really and honestly mean that you want to have it broken off Broken off she exclaimed with just a touch of indignation in her voice It is he who -wants to have it broken off and hasnt the courage to say so He wont own it tome he wont own it to his family but do you think I dont un derstand I am not blind And how ever stupid a woman may be at other come into the little sitting room about i times in an affair of this kind she can tne same moment nru aiisr Hpo v h wi j wufo That is true But on the other hand if you think that this half-and-half en gagement should come to an end why not let it gradually die- a natural death It seems pretty moribund at present doesnt it Cease writing to him He hasnt written to me for nearly two months Very well Stop altogether If that doesnt force him to ask for an explana tionif he asks for no explanation then the matter is at an end You go your way and he his I I suppose that is good advice and I thank you she said in rather a low voice To be continued LIKE THE LITTLE ONES Men Are Fond of the Society of Chil dren Theres a very general idea abroad in the land that men dont care to board in a house where there are chil dren said one of the sterner sex yes terday but that is I believe a great mistake just as it is an error to im agine that men generally dont like the little ones No doubt there are a few crusty old bachelors in the world who would be horribly annoyed by pattering feet and shrill little voices in the halls and on the stairs but I must confess I like to hear these noises and I find by questioning a number of my friends all young unmarried men that they do also The children give a sort of home y atmosphere thats very pleas ant to even the most comfortless places Taking one thing with another 1 believe men are fonder of children than women are anyhow What I mean Is that more men than women are fond of them I know plenty of the gentler sex who wouldnt think of going to a boarding house where young sters were admitted and I know just as many men who seek out those places and obtain a certain amount of com fort and satisfaction in their lonely HvPS in friOTlilc Ttrtfh Via TrnmiiT sters and spending valuable time rei pairing sundry broken toys or telling wonderful stories in which giants fig ure to an amazing extent A childs affection is a very delight ful thing and most men feel flattered to be the object of even a mild liking on the part of the small tyrants There are half a dozen little ones in the house where I boaid and I am the familiar fnlend of every one of them Its a very delightful and absorbing acquaint ance and Im fast developing into a story teller of such marked ability that Ill make d fortune in this way no doubt after awhile Not Too Fresh Stubb The other day there was a stampede of a dozen ferocious steers Police and cowboys together couldnt stem their mad rush Suddenly a half grown boy appeared on the scene Wide pantaloons and TJi S N on his cap told that he was in Uncle Sams navy When the steers saw that boy they trotted behind him like so many lambs PennHow do you account f orythat Well you tnow all cattle are very fond of a little salt Ohicago News mtmp t - - v f i V - is - QUAY IS BAERED OUT UNITED STATES SENATORS DE CIDE AGAINST HIM Deny Admission by the Close Vote oi 33 to 32 Many Republicans Cast Their Lot with the Opposition Han na Paired Against Him The Senate on Tuesday byf agote of 33 to 32 refused Matthew S uaa seat in that body on the appointment of the Governor of Pennsylvania V The entire time of the Senate was de voted to debate upon the- question many of the greatest lawyers and orators in the body delivering speeches As the days session wore on and the hour for the final vote approached the galleries gradually filled until they were thronged with multitudes while other multitudes were unable to gain admission The great throng listened with deep attention to the brilliant argument of Mr Spooner in favor of the seating of the former Penn sylvania Senator and to the dramatic and ftery eloquence of Mr Daniel As the big clock opposite the President pro tempore indicated 4 oclock there was a hush in the chamber Mr Frye in the chair announced that the hour for the final vote had arrived and that the ques tion was the pending motion of Mr Chandler to strike out of the resolution declaring Mr Quay not to be entitled to a seat the word not Sonators through out the chamber eagerly followed the roll call for all knew the vote would be close The first sensation was caused by the failure of Mr Pcttigrew of South Da kota to answer to his name although he was in his seat When Mr Vests name was called he voted No in a clear dis tinct voice thus dashing the last hope of -die friends of Mr Quay who had ex pected confidently that the distinguished Missourian would vote for his long time personal friend In perfect silence it was announced that the Senate had denied Mr Quay the seat which he has sought for some months past The following Republican Senators vot ed against the resolution Bard Burrows Hale Hawley McBride McCumber Mc Millan Piatt Conn Proctor Quarles Ross Simon Teller and Wellington Pairs were announced as follows the first named in each instance being favor able to Mr Quay and the second opposed to him Pritchard with Gallinger Depew with Hanna Foster with Kean Lodge with Thurston Kenney with Caffery El kins with Chilton Fairbanks with Mal lory Hoar with Pettus Kyle with Raw lins The following Senators were unpaired Aldrich Beveridge Clark Mont and Pettigrew The vote was then taken on the resolu tion declaring Quay was not entitled to a seat The resolution declaring Quay not entitled to a seat was carried 33 to 32 the roll call being the same as in the previous call POWERFUL COAL TRUST Three Men Now Control the Entire Trade of the United States A trust was formed by the recent alli ance of the railroads and henceforth the absolute control of the American coal trade both anthracite and bituminous will rest in the hands of this powerful combine While the coal trust has practically existed for two years and more it haa never had control of the bituminous situ ation although J Pierpont Morgan its ruling spirit has been an important fac tor in soft coal affairs But now by the alliance between the railroad interests of W K Vanderbilt J P Morgan and A J Cassatt the entire coal situation is so bottled up that it can be controlled by the three men named and the final set tlement of details is now being made Mr Morgan having gone to London to sore Mr Vanderbilt for that purpose In the hands of the interests is lodged practical control of the New York Central Delaware and Hudson Pennsylvania Norfolk and Western Baltimore and Ohio Chesa peake and Ohio and Big Four Mr Morgan has the Reading Lehigh Valley Erie Ontario and Western and enough of an interest in the small soft coal roads to make competition practically impossi ble Zola at 21 often went hungry Attorney General Griggs is a crack shot Ex United States Senator Sawyer is 83 years of age George Gould has purchased one of the finest packs of fox hounds in England President McKinleys favorite game is chess He is quite an expert player In the paper mill owned by Gov Crane at Dalton Mass workmen who become too old to labor are retired on their regu lar salary as long as they live The King of Sweden never touches a gun The King of Belgium has shot only once in his life and the Sultan of Tur key cannot bear to see a gun The late William Dickey who was a member of the Maine Legislature for fifty nine years made the longest record for service of that kind in the State Joseph L Mayers State Senator of Ohio from Coshocton walked to the cap ital from his home a distance of 1U0 miles to show his independence of rail roads Representative Littlefield of Maine who favors the prohibition laws of the State was embarrassed at a euchre par ty in Washington by winning as a prize a handsome beer stein United States Senator Nelson was born in Norway Maines Legislature ordered a bust of ex Speaker Reed Miss Floretta Vining of Hull Mass owns nine newspapers Former Senator Ingalls mother is still living an active life in Boston at the ad vanced age of 99 years President Eliot of Harvard is some thing of a pedestrian He frequently walks from Cambridge into Boston Of the twenty five men who have filled l the Governors chair in Indiana Gov Mount ia the only one livinsr CONDITION OF CROP Improvement Reported in the Appear ance of Winter Wheat The summary of the crop conditions throughout the country as shown by the weekly crop report issued by the weather bureau is as follows The temperature conditions were gen erally highly favorable but excessive rains in the Southern States greatly in terfered with farm work and caused destructive floods In portions of Ala bama Mississippi and Louisiana much replanting will be necessary as a result of the inundation Farm work has also been retarded as a result of heavy rains in the eastern portion of Kansas and Ne braska and Southern Missouri Rain is much needed in Montana North Dakota and over the northern portion of Minne sota While freezing temperatures oc curred in the upper Missouri Valley and middle and northern Rocky Mountain re gions it appears that no serious injury has been done The week has not been favorable for the rapid progress of corn planting but preparations for this work have been act ive in the more northerly sections and un der favorable weather conditions will progress rapidly Planting has been gen erally retarded where not completed in the Southern States and also from Kan sas and Oklahoma westward over the central Mississippi Valley being later than for many years in Tennessee An improvement in the condition o winter wheat is generally reported ex cept in Michigan and Wisconsin where plowing up for other crops continue With ample moisture and favorable tem perature the crop has made rapid growth in the central valleys and Southern States its condition in Kentucky and Tennessee being exceptionally fine Wheat is heading in Texas -where a good yield is indicated The favorable outlook on the Pacific coast except in Southern California continues Early sown spring wheat is coming up to good stands over the southern portion of the spring wheat region Seeding is now nearly completed except in North Dakota and Montana where from one quarter to one half of the crop is yet to be sown All reports respecting the oat crop are encouraging seeding being well advanced in the north ern sections DEATH IN CHICAGO LABOR RIOT Union Picket Leads an Attack and Is Killed In an attack upon non union men em ployed at the Baker Vawter company lithographers in Chicago where a strike is in progress Peter Miller was shot through the head and instantly killed by H C Baster superintendent of the factory John McGuire was also shot through the right arm and right cheek by the superintendent and severely al though not fatally injured In addition to this affair the labor situation was intensified by the arrest of George P Gubbins president of the Bricklayers Union He was taken on a charge of in citing riot The trouble at the Baker Vawter com panys plant which almost assumed the proportions of a riot was the outcome of a strike which has been in existence at the factory since last January The Burlington may parallel the North ern Pacific tracks to Ogden The Canadian Pacific Railroad agreed to join other roads in abolishing commis sions The extension of the C E I from Marion to Thebes HI has been opened for passenger business It is reported that the Nickel Plate road will put in service another Chicago New York passenger train The Lake Shore has put into service a new train from Chicago to Boston which will make the 1039 miles in twenty six hours Hereaffer Sisters of Charity in uniform will be sold half rate tickets by Central Passenger Association lines without the necessity of their securing clergy certifi cates All the roads from Chicago St Louis and Kansas City to Colorado will follow the example of the Rock Island aid run excursions at half rates to Denver Pu eblo and Colorado Springs Chicago capitalists have purchased a controlling interest in the Munising Rail way which runs from Munising Bay to Little Lake Mich a distance of sixty miles The purchase is incident to the acquisition of over S0000 acres of Michi gan timber land Justice Shiras of the United States Su preme Court has handed down a decision that Ashland and not Duluth is the East ern terminal of the Northern Pacific road By reason of this decision a large area of valuable timber land conies into pos session of the road Attorneys for six big Western land grant railroads have decided to sue the j United States Government for nearly 300000 for carrying soldiers from Chi cago to San Francisco during the Spanish American war Immediately after the close of the war the roads filed claims for transporting the troops The claims ask ed for full tariff rates less deductions of 50 per cent made by the lines which hold land grants The Government re fused to recognize the claims alleging that the railroads were not entitled to rates higher than are charged parties of twenty or more persons traveling on one ticket known in railway parlance as party Tates In addition to this the Comptroller contended that the land grant roads must deduct 50 per cent The Rockefellers are reported to have obtained control of the Missouri Pacific and will consolidate it with the Missouri Kansas and Texas A train of twenty five flat cars loaded with thrashing machines from a Racine Wis factory was taken west from Chi itm hv thp Burlincton A Drivate par and a brass band accompanied the train i The Central Passenger Association has decided to adopt a composite ticket with coupons for both first and second class passengers m order to do away with any ii SSaA - XT 4 ECLIPSE OE THE SUN PHENOMENON OCCURS MAY 28 AND WILL BE TOTAL In the Path of Totality the Orb of Day Will Be Obscured for Nearly tf wo Minutes The Event Is Attracting World WHe Attention The forthcoming total eclipse of the sun on May 2S is attracting world wide attention and astronomers everywhere have long been making preparations for observing and photographing the phenom enon Besides making the usual time ob servations interest largely centers in pho tographing the corona the coronal streamers the spectra of the chromo sphere and particularly the celebrated flash spectrum appearing both at begin ning and end of totality Fortunately for us it will be possible to witness the phe nomenon from many sections of the Unit ed States On the occasion of the last eclipse scientists who desired to study the sun during the brief period of totality hurried to western India and many of them were successful in obtaining excel lent photographs of the great event On May 28 the circular shadow of the moon cast by the sun upon the earth and about eighty miles in diameter will come sweeping across the American continent fonftqv Orleans to Cape Henry Along the center of the path traveled by this swiftly moving shadow the sun will be completely hidden for a period of about two minutes More than forty miles away on either side of the track the eclipse will be partial not total To witness this astronomical marvel it will only be necessary to take up a favor able position in the State of Mississip pi Georgia South Carolina North Carolina or Vir ginia As it has ueen many years Wp POSITION OF THE PLANETS since an eclipse has occurred under cir cumstances so favorable to American as tronomers it will undoubtedly be wit nessed by thousands of students who have felt regret that previous exhibitions have occurred at distances so great as to prevent them from witnessing the events An eclipse of the sun that will be vis ible to us can occur only when the moon s new At that time she passes exactly between us and the sun If an eclipse should happen when she was at her least distance from us say 222000 miles away the apex of the shadow would pass over our heads at a distance of many thou sands of miles In the first instance the eclipse will be total along the path made by the falling shadow In the second instance the eclipse will be annular as the moon will be so diminished that at no time will she be able to completely ob scure the sun Prof Langley who is an authority upon sun eclipses is enthusiastic in anti cipation of the exhibition that is to be given next May Such eclipses he says are impressive and awful to the last degree and must be seen to be ap preciated A total eclipse of the sun is worth a journey round the world to be hold and repetition does not dull the in terest According tq the calculations of Prof Lumsden the round black shadow of the moon like a great arm will sweep in out of space some time after sunrise on the morning of May 28 This gigantic arm will come into contact with the earth somewhere near the Revilla Gigedo isl ands in the Pacific ocean With tremen dous velocity the shadow will rush to ward the mainland and will enter Mexico near Corrientes at a speed of more than 100 miles a minute In eight minutes it will have crossed the Rocky mountains and by 730 central or 830 eastern time it will have crossed the gulf and entereaC Mexico Then on it will pass over its selected path until it is lost again in -pace The period of totality of the eclipse va ries at different points along the track At the Rocky mountains the spectacle will last but about thirty seconds and at New Orleans the period will have been lengthened thirty seven seconds At Un ion Print Green County Georgia the center of the path for the United States the time of totality will be ninety two seconds while those who are at the At lantic cpast just south of the city of Norfolk will be able to continue their observations for 105 seconds While the occasion will be a most in teresting one to all who are able to wit ness the phenomenon to astronomers the event will be of the utmost importance as there are several questions that they hope to be able to answer after they have made their next observations One of the most important problems relates to the composition and arrangement of the various layers of vapor and dust tliat envelope the sun as with an atmosphere Another relates to the existence and posi tion of what is sometimes called the re versing layer Municipal Matters The City of Mexico has 411 artesian wells t Philadelphia has appropriated 750000 for new bridges Brooklyn has 31G87 apartment houses and 500000 tenement house dwellers It is estimated that gamblers in New York have been paying over 2000000 a year for protection An agent of the New York State RPITIPP VinSJrrl llOC tuum 4 n U1 i - t - 1 wnJn T I u inui iu JW upjwuuuu i wc i y to mvestigate the municipal civil sei w I mg car service on second class tickets- 3 y Y