y
II 11 IB
Missing Son of the Millionaire
Packet is Safe at Home
KIDNAPERS ASK BIG HANSOM
Letter Coiitiiluliitf Their Ultimatum I
lliimiu lulu rrimt Varil of lteltleiieu it
Uniiiliii TMeuty llii TIuiiikiiiiiI llolliu
Ankfil Ifi Out of lluok liv Two Men
Otnahii Dee LM Ed wind Cudahy
Jr returned to his fathers homo this
morning about 115 oclock llo came
alone Edward Cuduhy Sr re fuses
ti siiy a word concerning I lie circum
stances under winch his son returned
Young Cuunliy had hicn absent for
more than lb hours anil Is believed
to have been held a prisoner by kid
napers who demanded and received
a ransom for his return Efforts to
secure definite anil detailed Informa
tion concerning the matter after the
return of the boy were fruitless Mr
Cudahy merely notllled the police
headquarter that his son had re
turned and the search for him might
be given up lie said the boy was In
good health and that was all Then
the Cudahy family retired for the
night the father worn out with his
long siege of searching but happy to
have his boy at home again and the
mother who had been in a state of
nervous collapse during the time her
son was away relieved at his return
but unable to stand longer the physical
strain when the mental had Loon re
moved I
The boy was brought in a hack to a
point near his home on Leavenworth
street and there released With him
were two men This was a few min
utes after 1 oclock and immediately
the boy ran home It Is said that he
had been kept in an old house about
live miles southwest of South Omaha
Whether Mr Cudahy did pay the
large ransom demanded Is not known
The entire portico department and
hundreds of private citizens wore
searching for the missing boy all day i
Wednesday but without unearthing
the slightest clue as to his where
abouts
KiilnnprrV Flrnt Overture
The theory entertained early in the
day was that young Cudahy had gone
somewhere to spend the night with a
friend and that he would return soon I
but any comfort that his family de-
rived from this conjecture was dissl j
pnted when shortly before 1 oclock1
Wednesday morning a letter was re j
ceived in an unusual way from a sup
posed agent of the kidnapers making
overtures for the boys safe return
At 845 oclock a servant in the Cud
ahy household saw a man on horse
back riding rapidly toward the house
As he approached he drew in close to
the curbstone and threw a letter overi
the fence into the yard
The servant at once went out and
picked up the letter Noticing thnt It
was addressed to Mr E A Cudahy
and that it was marked personal she
took it and delivered it Immediately
This letter it is alleged sounds the
keynote of the entire situation Im
mediately upon its receipt Mr Cudahy
called in the chief of police
Captors Auk 111 KuiiHom
As to what the contents of the lottct
are the chief declines to state
It is said that 25000 was the price
named by the abductors for which
the boy should be returned and this
much is admitted by the police They
also aver that the letter contained
threats of torture and Ill treutiuent
which would be visited upon him if
the terms of tho overture were not
complied with and that If the senior
Cudahy did not come to terms within
two days the boy would be taken to
some eastern city where he would
suffer tho fate of the long lost Charley
Ross
It Is the opinion of the police that
the job was done by desperate men nud
that It Is not the work of tyros
Sellout tonal Testimony In Content Case
South Omaha Dec 20 Chief of Po
lice Mitchell gave sensational testi
mony in the election contest cases yes
terday He tesilied that on election
dny Edward Hoeewater editqr of the
Pee came to his olllce in South
Omaha and exhibited displeasure over
tho wny tho election was going and
offered to pay 100 to have two husky
men sent over to the polling place of
the Second precinct of the Third
ward where there was a big Demo
cratic majority and Incite riot in or
der to smash the ballot boxes and de
stroy the ballots and then have the
precinct thrown out
Chicago Couple Foituil Katully Shot
Chicago Dec 20 John Snyder and
his wife were found fatally shot last
night at 5423 Lake avenue The man
with two bullet wounds In his head
was In his bedroom and the woman
similarly wounded was In the dining
room Husband and wife are uncoil
pclous and no one has been found who
known who fired the shots Mrs Sny
der has been living here some time Mr
Snyder came from IaSalle Ills where
he Is employed to visit her They
are not known to have quarreled
Two II uiul rid ChrUtlun Killed
Loudon Dec 20 A dispatch to the
Daily Express from Vienna reports
Moslem excesses against the Christian
population lu tho central provinces of
Turkey where 200 Christians have
liL on killed
Vancouver 11 C Dec 18 The
Bchoouer Alpha foundered on a rock
otf the oust coast of Vancouver Island
and Is a total wreck The eaptaiu and
three euglneoru tho managing owners
the purser tn4 Uuroe iwuuueu were
irownad
LIGHT UPON BOOZ HAZING
MlllliUy CutlM r ijiiiA TiIiiic lisli
loony nl Wi it Inlnt
West Point Dec lit The military i
court of Inquiry arrived at the mill
tary academy yesterday and resumed
the Investigation of the charges of I
hazing and brutal treatment made by
tlie parents of former cadet Oscar Ij
Rook who died a couple of weeks ago
In his home In Mrlstol loiir cadets
were examined and all of them who
knew Hods declared that his standing
with his classmates was not very high
as they looked upon hint as a coward
-Every one of the witnesses denied
that any brutal hazing occurred ami
two of them described the bracing
and setting up drills as only cor
rectional measures and neither In
lurlous nor humiliating Every one of
them seemed to give a straightforward
story and one and all denied that Hook
had been Interfered with on account
of ids religious belief or tendencies
ROWEisjETFREE
AImcoihIIiik louuli niHiiKM lleleaneil Ilotti
Jlexliuu Il Non Alter beiiUK Mi
I ear ol a TMelvi er SciiIciht
Crlnnoll lu Dec It C W Uowe
the absconding Poweshiek county
treasurer has been released from
litlciu prison In the City of Mexico
after having served six years In thu
Mexican penal institution Uowe dis
appeared trout Poweshiek county with
of the county funds lie was
discovered by detectives in Mexico
IK had purchased real estate there
thus becoming a Mexican citizen and
accordingly could not be extradited
Further research disclosed a Mexican
law making it a felony to bring stolen
money into the country and on this
charge he was prosecuted and sen
tenced to 11 years penal servitude
lie lias served six years By Ro es
defalcation Ioweshiek county lost
about 50000
NEBRASKA CITIES SIZE
Cuimus Ollleo lttillitlu living Ilipulutlon
ot the Inriiiiiirutfl Ilnee
Washington Dec 1 Incorporated
pltKcs in Nebraska having a popula
tion of more than 2000 hut less than
25000 in 1900 are as follows
Alliance
Auburn
Beatrice
Ululr
Crete
Columbus
Kulrbury
Fulls City
Fremont
Jr3jiKparnpy t BIW4
LIJIHi McConk - I4r
787Xetnisliii City 73so
2070Norrutk i8si
210iNrtli Pintle 3ilUi
iJJillattHinoutli 4Ul4
ItHO Schuyler 2in7
S0T2 lYutiiiiNuli
7 Jll Wulino U10U
Grmiil Island 7Cm4 Wayne J 111
Hustings 7188 Wymote
Unlitl ege 3007Yorlc 3KI2
ELK POINTS BIG FIRE LOSS
Kutlru IIiihIiivhs Iortlnii of South Duliotn
Town 1 I ull In AhIii 9
Sioux City Dec 19 Kire at Elk
Point S D yesterday desteroyed tlia
entire business portion of the town
involving a loss of about 150000 Na
casualties are reported
CADETS TELL OF HAZING
West Pointer Deny Charfro That lloox
Vi InjiirrdSny Treatment U
Not ISruluI
West Point Dec 20 Some very in
teresting testimony was brought out
by the court of inquiry which is in
vestigating the alleged hazing of ca
dets at the military academy hero in
connection with the recent death of
former Cadet Ilooz Thirty five ca
dets were examined and of these one
was the brother of Richmond P Hob
sou of the Menimac fame and an
other was the son of General Phil
Sheridan All told of the hazing
they got during the encampment of
189S at the time Oscar L Booz was
their classmate and not one of them
snld that the treatment received or
the things they had to do were either
brutal or degrading
Hobsons worst ordeal was when
he had to stand on his head in a bath
tub In which there was about ten
inches of water He said he was pur 1
tially strangled but was all right in a
few minutes Young Phil Sheridan
was made to ride a broom stick along
Company street In commemoration of
his illustrious fathers ride and he i
hnd to keep shouting Turn boys I
turn all the time He did not think
tills was humiliating he said although
he did not relish the task I
In nearly every Instance the wit
nesses said thnt nil the more brutal
fonns of hazing wore obsolete nnil
lll Ilnlnl no tllll nnnnflnnJ r I
1 lllllll in mill fi in in c ii
cretly It was ngaiust the regulations
Cruilits Coiuniutution Company Meet
St Louis Dec 18 A special meet
ing of the executive committee of the
Credits Commutation company of
Sioux City la was held at the Plant
ers hotel yesterday Tho Credits
Commutation company represents
about 275 banks in different parts of
the country and wns formed in 1803
to administer upon the effects of the
defunct Union Loan and Trust com-
pany of Sioux City Tho meeting was
called to receive reports of specinl com
mittees appointed at the annual meet
ing in October
Train Itobljer Foil nil Deail
New Orleans Dec 19 Tho dead
body of Channlug Karnes onj of the
robbers who held up the Illinois Cen
tral train In the suburbs of this city
Tuesday night was found yesterday
lu tho vicinity of where the crime oc
curred
Senators Dlit UHt Treaty
Washington Dee 10 Again yester
day the senate had tho
treaty under discussion in execu
tive session No business of conse
uuencc was transacted in open sesslou
THK NORFOLK NEWS FRIDAY DKCKMUKU J1 WOO
m i i
Nine of Those on Board
Wntciy Graves
and owner remaining on
failing to reach the rock
EIGHT
Total
Find
SAILOR SAVES LIVES OF 25
S ii Tliriuili tliti llwntiert nnil Can le
it llli lluit lit Dm SliiiinDlllii IN mill
On tier llemiilu mi llonril mill li Dunn
Willi lllll lll llllll Vl
Vancouver 11 C Dec IP News of
the worst marine disaster of the Kcn
on In British Columbia waters was
brought here by the steamer Viii
Union buy on the east side of Van
couver Island The famous steamer
Alpha whovc unauthorized trip to
Cape Nome last May brought It Into
trouble with the treasury department
at Washington was wieeketl on a reef
near the entrance to Union bay and not
a vestige of the steamer remains
The drowned Samuel Barboe Van
couver managing owner linglneer
Dunn Victoria Second Assistant En
gineer Murray Vancouver II L
White purser Vancouver Seamen
Crosby and Sullivan and a stowaway
name unknown
The ship Alpha was valued at 1
000 Its cavuo comprised 750 tons of
salt salmon and in tons of coal con
signed to Yokohama and valued at
K0t0i The total Insurance on tin
ship and targn was 05000
II Is two weeks since the Alpha first
started fiom Vancouver for Japan
After It had been four days out it re
turned to Victoria partly disabled
Last Saturday the Alpha left Victoria
for Union to replenish Its coal supply
A terrltle gale was raging and lale
board and
FIRES jIN BOSTON
Iohkih Will AgifreKUtn Two
dirtl ThntManil Dollar
Boston Dec II Eight tire alarms
following close upon each other neces
sitated by lire in different sections of
the city kept the lire department on
the move last night nud the total losses
will aggregate 200000
The llrst big tiro was in Charlestown
where the trunk and baggage factory
of Cutter Cutter was located The
building was destroyed and also a
largo stock of manufactured goods
mi i i li - -a d ia nnn
loss is i SLinniiLii lit T tiuuo
The six story Wakelieid building on
Canal street was also burned Tho
lower stories occupied by N Freed-
man Bro wholesale jobbers of
mens furnishing goods etc suffered
the most damage The loss to tho
Ireednians and other occupants Is
about Xl2 i000 to SllOOOO The other
flres caused small losses
Death of Dr Charles Taft
New York Dec lit Dr Charles
Taft of Mt Vernon N Y died yester
day at his residence aged 05 years
of cancer of the throat Dr Taft dur
ing the Civil war was connected with
the Union army medical corps On
the night that Booth shot President
Lincoln Dr Taft was in the seat in
the theater directly under the presi
dents bov The doctor was lifted
by bystanders into the box He did
what he could for Mr Lincoln and re
mained with the dying president dur
ing his removal from the theater and
was In constant attendance with the
other physicians until the end came
1lnyn In a Ileal Tragedy
nopowell Pa Dec 19 A C Metz
ger of Newark N J shot and killed
his wife yesterday at a hotel here and
committed suicide Mrs Metzger was
the leading lady of a theatrical com
pany playing here Her husband
from whom she had been separated
for some time hail previously con
cealed himself In her room and soon
after her entrauce the tragedy oc
curred
Iowa Klitvrn Will Vlilt California
Iowa City la Dec 1 The Univer
sity of Iowa football team has accept
ed propositions to play games with the
University of California on Christmas
day nnd with Loland Stanford univer
sity on New Years day The Iowa
team went Into practice yesterday
and will leave for the west tonight
The two California teams guarantee
the expenses of the Iowa team
Amor Irani ltout InurieiiU
Manila Dec 19 Lieutenant Herbert
L Evans of tho Korty fourth volunteer
Infantry regiment with 50 men
tacked Dec 12 several hundred bolo-
men and 50 Insurgents armed with
rifles occupying an Intrenched posi
tion at Tonoxlgan islnnd of Cebu Tho
Americans had throe men wounded
nnd tho enemy lost 12 men killed and
many wounded
Fourteen HnineKleailerii Imltrted
Rapid City S D Dec 19 Fourteen
homesteaders have been Indicted for
fraudulent representations to the land
olllce as to Improvements on their
claims The local land otllclals have
received Instructions from Washington
to stop receiving homestead entries on
t lie Black Hills forest reserve after
tlw 90 day limit
Strike Will llo Contiiiuril
Chicago Dec 20 Martin Dolphin
president of the Order of Hallway
Telegraphers who arrived in Chicago
yesterday would not talk on the re
sult of the conference except to suy
tu strike would bit continued
SPARTACUS
J Tlii Author of lv He Cnnm
to Write II
A writer In the lewlston Journal
who Interviewed Rev Elijah Kellogg
nays
When asked If he had written any
declamations besides Sparlacun to tho
Gladiators legulus to the Cartha
ginians Virginias to the Itoman Ar
my ami Pericles to the People ho
replied that he had written Iclllus
but that It had hvcr been published
Then he asked the writer If lie had
ever heard how Spartacus caine to
he written and when told that he had
never heard an authentic statement
concerning It Mr Kellogg said
During my llrst year In Andover
Theological seminary we were required
to write original declamations and de
claim them before an audience A com
mittee of three seniors criticised the
speaker publicly and Professor Parko
performed the same duly privately I
always dreaded to face an nudleneo
and especially to be criticised publicly
ami so I thought I would write some
thing that would so Interest them In
the story of It that the critics would
forget to notice the errors and so I
wrote Spartacus When I hud finish
imI declaiming It the professor asked
the committee If they hail any sugges
tions to offer and they said they had
not but Professor Parke told me pri
vately that there were errors that
might be mentioned but that he was
glad I had made a departure from tho
old custom of declaiming nothing but
sermons and moral disquisitions and
had given them some rhetoric
So the author of Spartacus was tho
first declaimer of It Little did ho
think that he was the llrst of thou
sands of academic and collegiate
youths on both shies of the sea to re
cite a composition of so humble origin
S iuday night the steamer ran on a This bit of literary history Is precious
rock at Paynes sound at the entrance
to Pnlon bay It was quickly dashed
to pieces and nil would have perished
had not one of the crew made n ties
Cerate and successful effort to swim
with a line to the lighthouse on Yel
low Island In the raging sea only
part of those on the Ill fated ship man
aged to reach shore safely the n Ulcers
ns coming from the lips of this grand
old man and this Interview will forev
er have a safe place III lie treasuro
house of the writers memory
THE PARACHUTE
A Mon1n Kxiierlmeii tn In Air KIIkIiI
In the Kir yen Hi Ceiilnry
Credible accounts exist of an English
Benedictine monk Oliver of Malmes
bury lu the eleventh century having
tried to lly by precipitating himself
from the height of n tower with the as
1 slstance of wings attached to his arms
1
and his feet It Is said that having
gone along a little way he fell and
broke his legs He attributed his acci
dent to failure to provide his apparatus
with a tall which would have helped
i preserve his equilibrium and made his
descent a gentler one
In the sixteenth century Leonardo tin
Vlnel llrst demonstrated that a bird
which Is heavier than the air sustains
Itself advances In the nlr by render
i Ing the lluid denser where It passes
than wheru It does not pnss In order
to lly It has to llx its point of support
on the air Its wings lu the descend
ing stroke exert a pressure from above
down the reaction of which from be
low up forces the center of gravity of
Its body to ascend nt each Instant to
the height nt which the bird wishes to
maintain It Some sketches which
have come down to us prove that Leo
nardo occupied himself like Oliver of
Mnlniesbury with giving man the pow
er to fly by the assistance of wings
suitably fixed to the body
We owe to Leonardo also the Inven
tion of tho parachute which he de
scribed In the following terms If a
man had a pavilion each side of which
was 15 braces wide and 12 braces high
he might cast himself from any height
whatever without fear of danger It
may be said too of Leonardo ila Vinci
that be wns the first to suggest tho
Idea of the screw propeller Apple
tons popular Magazine
The Collrue Hone Hun
Two young men who must have been
medical students boarded an Angora
car late one night with a fully nrtlcu
latcd skeleton Each hnd one arm i
linked with that of the skeleton whose
bones rattled growsomely ns they walk
ed to the forward end of the car ami
gravely seated themselves with their
inanimate companion between tlicni
Between the grinning teeth of the skel
eton was a cigarette and a derby hat
adorned Its shining skull The car was
rather crowded and the other passen
Rcru most of whom were men gazed
In open mouthed astonishment nt tho
Btrango spectacle The two young fel
lows however pretended to bo uncon
scious of their surroundings and held
such converse with the skeleton as
Too bad you didnt wear your mack
intosh Bill Im afraid youll catch
cold or Say Bill better throw away
your cigarette or the conductor will put
you off
When the conductor canio through
for tho fares one of the young men
handed him 15 cents and ho rang up
three fares without a word of com
ment At Sixteenth street a young
girl entered the car and looked around
for a seat Here Bill exclaimed one
of the students whores your gallan
try Get up and give tho lady a seat
Then he yanked the skeleton out of Its
place and set It ou his knees The girl
gave one screech lied to tho back plat
form and insisted that the conductor
stop the enr and put her off
Gee Bill remarked the student
gazing reproachfully Into tho skeletons
face Youve deteriorated You used
to be qnlte a ladys man Then ev
erybody laughed Philadelphia Rec
ord
An Oild Iavr
To punish a man for nonpayment of
a certain tax by forbidding him to en
ter n restaurant Is a rather singular net
of government yet lu tho canton of
Bern such a law Is lu effect Every
man lu Switzerland must serve lu tho
Swiss army If he be physically capable
and If he be not physically capable he
must pay what Is called the military
I
exenipllon lav lu he enuton of Bern
n rip lly enforced law Is In effect which
proi is u person who has not paid
tills tax from entering any of the vari
ous beer gardens ami saloons until the
a- Is paid
Tills law Is called tho wlrtshansver
hot The roveiiiineiil says that If a
man has money to spend for coffee
beer or liquors he must also have
money enough with which to pay his
debt to the slate At Intervals one may
lead III the local olllclal papers the list
of names of Piose who must stay away
from tin guldens Tho law cannot
prohibit a person from obtaining llq
nor through the Intervention or help of
a friend but the privilege of dropping
Into a favorite resort ami hobnobbing
with friends a custom which I dear
to every Swiss -must be foregone
The law Is effective for several rea
sons The military exemption tax Is
small -it is generally paid and the or
dinary peasant does not like to see his
name publicly printed- Chicago ltec
ord
fltilttr Women SiiiiiHUlern
We never have much trouble In find
ing out a w mnn who Is guilty of
smuggling rcmnrkil a deputy mar
shal of Detroit The trouble with
women smugglers U they are not at
ease Tin customs olllcer spots them
easily There Is Homelhlug lu their
very gait that betrays them A woman
may be brought here charged wllh hav
ing smuggled goods and she may tell
a very smooth story declaring her In
nocence until there seems no way of
suspect Ing Iter further
But when she gets up we watch
her If she Is Innocent she will walk
away easily ami naturally but If she
Is gullly she will try so hard to lie nat
ural that she will Invariably fall She
will start off quite slowly so fearful
that she will appear to be In a hurry
that her nervousness gets the best of
her and she will suddenly make such
a change lu her gait that we at once
recall her
Here madam we say plenao
come back a moment There Is a little
mutter we forgot She returns crest
fallen nnd perhaps Indignant Then
we say Look here madam you did
this thing Confess It make a cle in
breast anil settle up all scores And
she will do It nearly every time al
though some sputtering Is the usual
accompaniment Detroit News-Tribune
OnnilillnK llmmrt In lnnilnn
There were In I72J In Loudon alone
flfi well known gambling houses Near
ly all our most respectable west end
clubs were originally gambling houses
ns the Cocoa Tree which Is still nour
ishing as a club One night late In the
eighteenth century there was a cast at
hazard tho difference of which wns
180000
That present pink of perfection
Whites was perhaps the most ap
palling gambling den In Europe The
young men of the age says Walpole
lose there 10000 15000 20000 lu
au evening Tho play of this club
was only for rouleaux of 50 each and
generally there wns 10000 in gold on
the table The gamesters begun by
pulling off their embroidered clothes
and put on frieze garments or turned
their coats Inside out for luck They
put on pieces of leather to save their
lace rullles and to guard their eyes
from the light and to prevent tum
bling their hair wore high crowned
straw hals with broad brims and some
times masks to conceal their emotions
Saturday Review
Town Nninril For Itnl
R J Sharpe admits that Rat Port
age the name of his home city In On
tario Is not euphonious
But It Is unique he adds The
town was named for Just wlmt tho
words convey a portage for rats It
Is on the Winnipeg river Just below
the outlet of the Lake of the Woods
Long ago before the country wns set
tled as It Is now there was n portage
nt tho point where the town Is built
for the thousands of muskrnts that
passed from the river to the lake lu
winter and back again to the river in
spring At the outlet of the lake there
Is a waterfall 19 or 20 feet high that
the rats could not pnss over so they
went around making the portage
Well that was before my time but I
have heard old timers tell of seeing the
j rats by thousands taking days to the
portage Denver Republican
The IllKhorn
Among the wonderful stories of the
bighorn that arc current the most
absurd Is that of their pitching them
selves headlong down precipices strik
ing the sharp rocks with their horns
and thereby breaking their fall Kro
mont a great explorer Is alas one of
the first to start this ridiculous rumor
in the account of his travels 112
when describing the mountain goat
as ho calls the bighorn He says that
the use of those huge horns seems to
do to protect the animals head In
pitching down precipices to avoid pur
suing wolves How history does re
peat herself Pletro Clrneo the fif
teenth century chronicler of Corsica
eays that the moullon throw them
selves down precipices head first and
brenk tho fall by their horns Bnllllo
Qrahmnus Game nnd Life lu the Far
West
Would Drnv n Crovril
A singer named Gordon once com
plained to Handel of the style of bis
accompaniments which attracted the
attention from the singer saying that
If ho did not accompany him better he
would jump upon the harpsichord aud
destroy It
Very well snld Handel Teltma
ven you will do dat and I vlll advertise
It More people vlll como to see you
jump dan to hear you slug
Calves are never killed In Morocco
because of a popular notion that If de
prived of them the cpwa would cease
to give milk
3
An t telniiiMliiry Nninf
n Mye lulled the just lei In tins
Itanlsoii si reel polli ourt today and
a silence fell over the room while thn
eiowd looked around to see why the
Justice hud ulteieil the sudden ox
clamatloii
O Myei Mye again called tho
maglsliate more loudly ami Bailiff
Baruef hurried to the bar nnd asked
the Justice what was offending his dig
nity
Call O Mye Mr Bailiff ordered
the couit and Baiiielt repeated tho
words In tones that could be heard ou
the street The olllcer glared about for
the person who he thought was guilty
of contempt of i Mint and when a meek
appearing im u left his seat and walk
ed tow nil the bar Burnett seized him
nnd deilared litn under arrest
Is this the man who Is gullly your
hoiiorV iikcil tin bulllir
What Is your name asked tho
court without heeding Burnetts ques
tion
Mye answered Mie prisoner nud
the bailiff took a llghuv hold ou his col
lar
O Mye queried the court
Yes your honor from the prisoner
Then It dawned ou the hnlllfT that ha
had made a mistake O Mye who said
his llrst name was Oliver had been ar
rested for begging on the street When
the policeman who arrested him told
him thai he had abused several persons
wlio had refused him ulins Ills nnine
was uttered by several In the court
The prisoner likewise said Oh myl
w hen he got a line of 50 Chicago
News
IIimv Miullotiuli IiinI n lift
William II Crane the actor oiico
told this story ou his old friend McCul
lough He said that one night In Sail
KrniielHco he was awakened from n
hound sleep by McCullough pounding
ou the door of ills room and in response
to Ids sleepy Inquiry as to what warn
wanted responded Let me lu Billy
I want you to decide a bet
Once lu McCullough told Crane thnt
he and the man who accompanied him
had bet a 20 gohlplece as to who could
stand the longer ou one foot and thnt
Crane must referee the contest The
preliminaries being arranged and tho
stakes deposited time was called and
eaeli contestant lifting a foot from tho
floor stood like a crane while the real
Crane lay back lu a recumbent posl i
lion with n drowsy eye on the contest
ants The seconds dragged Into min
utes which again threatened to extend
Into the hour without either disputant
giving up
Suspecting something was wrong
Crane waked himself up and examined
his men more elm ly The other man
was wavering a bit but McCullough
was standing like it rock Another llvol
minutes went by and then Crane hop
ping out of bed discovered thai McCul
lough hail oik fool resting against an
adjacent sofa and could have stood
there for a week If necessary Thoi
oilier man won the bet but the Joke
was on the referee
Never Ailmlt Defent
Never ndmlt defeat or poverty
though you seem to be down nnd have
not a cent Stoutly assert your divine
right to lie a man to hold your head
up and look the world in the face Step
bravely to the front whatever opposes
and the world will make way for you
No one will Insist upon your rights
wlille you yourself doubt that you pos
sess the qualities requisite for success
Never allow yourself to be a traitor
to your own cause by undermining
your self confidence
There never was n time before when
persistent original force was so much
in demand as now The nntnhy pam
by nerveless man has little show In
tho hustling world of today In tho
twentieth century a man must elthen
push or be pushpd
Every one admires the man who can
assert his rights and has the power
to demand nud take them If denied to
The Truthful MnnnKer
Business manager of great London
newspaper to clerk
George takedown an advertisement
as I dictate It aud then send It up
Ready All right Wanted a mnn for
a pleasant indoor position Short
hours light work no experience neces
sary place permanent salary 1000 a
year Answer lu own handwriting
Millionaire Great Dally ofllco
Clerk I have it down sir nnd will
send It to the printers nt once
Business Manager a week later
George how many answers were re
ceived lu reply to that advertisement
Clerk- Eighteen thousand
Business Munager an hour later
Good morning sir Wliat can we do
for you sir
Seedy Individual What do yon
charge for an advertisement for situa
tion wanted
Business Manager Our charges are
high 2 shillings a line but you must
remember the vast number of people
wo reach Why sir in reply to ono
single advcrtiseinunt Inserted laat week
there were received 1S000 answers
Loudon Tit Bits
The IIlKlieat Court
No said the judge firmly I will
not consent to your marriage with my
daughter
Sir returned the young lawyer
haughtily I shall not take this de
cision as final
You wont
No sir I will not I shall appeal
to the court of last resort
Oh very well replied tho Judge
Submit your case to her mother l
vou waut to Chicago Post
Only once lu their history as a na
tion have the Spanish achieved a naval
victory That was at the battle of
Lepauto in 1571 when with tho aid
of Venetians and Genoese they anni
hilated the Turkish fleet
The greatest troubles In
those which do not happen
life are