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tw-v u"- iM nwi.ijmnt MA'yL' f6.--y Mjgiy,8y,"v:g' 'vfrfli T TT3" J HARDC 4 ton deliver?' -, and won) ouxml from yot he nndei vVther eOt of 1 'CSS VOLUME XXVIII. NUMBER 23. COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA. WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 15, 1897. WHOLE NUMBER 1,427. ir.-T5ij 4Bh fr m - Is. $P iiL:. A i V" A f2P If ,y k m r &v 'fc Ami IaTC! sw .sM ssl ssl - m ! am re aw 'ww -www rriYJH I 17- ' ft III II III II JIIZ B I V I I Jkv yl I I I I I'll m toe 3 t .y W m y & A &VLF AAykl A .' 5e N r r t r sj L 1" B V-f -: r I: , i "- V V . .. i- All A&JKAii ROMANCE; HEY were, I think, the happiest couple It was ever my Rood fortune to meet Margaret and Paul Fischer. They were so completely Bbsorb fcJl in each other that they seldom took the trouble to become acquainted with strangers, not feeling the need of companionship. But, as good luck would have it, they did allow me to come to see them, and when I had known them long oswugh to dare to Dtal on pergonal matters, I remarked UpbU the perftfii harmonj thSt ex isted between them. Then Margaret told me their story; and this is the romance as she gave it to me: "I will tell you my side of the story and then l'aul can ten you his. "As you may have discovered, I have dabbled somewhat in occult mutters. I have always been a natural musician and I play without difficulty any piece of music which I may p ck up. al tKhgil J.havfr never taken :i lesson or 'practiced' one hour during my life time. When I was a child 1 had only one playmate he war. a little older than myself and I v-as satisfied if I could hide away somewhere and wait for him to come. The peculiar part of the matter was that no one else was able to see him. and as for myself. I never know where be came from, nor did I evoi see him until I looked up fuddcnly and found him beside mc. Another peculiar fact was tint he al wajs carried an odd instrument similar to a harp, and we would sit sidt b side for hours, he playing. I listen ing entranced, until suddenly the mu sic would ccasp and 1 would look up to find the player gone. Then I would go into the house- and play the music over again on tho piano. Tnis went on for yeais and poopir considered me "OUper,' if not quite crazy. "I never cotild talk with my play mate because he used a language which I could not understand. As I grew older I drifted away front mm Other affairs tilled my mind and it was but seldom 1 would have a vision in which the same form always appeared, but seeming to grow older even as I was. "I began to study occult sciences when 1 was about IS years old. I attended spiritualists' seances and finally took up the study of thcosophy. JCnvor. however, had I icceivcd a so called 'test. and any deductions I made were of necessity founded upon the experiei cs of other people. "One night, after I had attended a meeting. I sat down by the table at home and. idly picking up a pencil, started to draw a portrait I who had never in my life been able to draw a straight lin The picture resulting rruesentd young man with dark eyes and hair conmed straight back from a wlda, high forhead. The fea tures were delicately molded and the mouth was partially coered by a mustache.' (Here she looked admir ingly at her husband and then resumed the thread of her narrative). "He seemed 23 or 24 years old. and was de cidedly handsome. Underneath the por tinlt I was impressed to write: 'This Is Paul . You will soon see his face.' I was told soon afterward that & WAS INTRODUCED. Paul Firchcr was a spirit and was the came little boy with whom I had been acquainted in my childhood. I was told also mat he was born in Alsace Lorraine and had never been outside of his own country. I treasured the portrait I bad obtained, it had a great fascination for me. but so much oc cupied my thoughts that I had no time, as a rule, to think much of the original. Six years parsed by and I found it necessary to go to a strange city. I reached the town early in the morning and. hunting tip a boarding house at once. I settled down for a good rest before commencing the busi nesF which had brought me to the place. "As I was gmiig to dinner that night I came face to lace, in the hall, with Paul. I started and so did he. Then with. 1 t-cg your pardon madam.' he stood f.side to allow me to pass. I was too much disturbed to be able to eat much, and I felt his eyes were watch ing me all the time, so I scon loft the table. "In the eveninc Mrs. Porter, the woman at whose house I was slaying, knocked at my door and asked me to come into the parlor. I hesitated, but went and was introduced to 'Paul Fischer" the man of my dreams the man of the portrait. I recognized the face, the voice, the way in which the hair was arranced. in fae. every de tail corresponded with my precon ceived ideas of how he would look. But my head was in a whirl. My Paul Fischer was supposed to he a spirit, h this Paul Fischer was decidedly material. "It was just one week before the problem was solved. I do not intend to solve it for you Paul will do that. To make mattters short, however. T will say that I found that he was my Paul Fischer. Tt was? just one month from the time I met him until we were married. On our wedding day Paul brought out a portfolio and asked me to look through it and tell him what I thought of his drawings. The first sheet I picked up showed a portrait of myself. I was represented sitting at a Stable sketching a man's head, and the date was the same on which T had iJone my first and only drawing six rre before. But Paul must tell you $ fa . ft- ' k-8$Ria v Ay ft )J nfcm v! V'lir l mW Jfv 'xj ,"Wii I was a little boy, in tne oldjBquntry (t was born, In Alsace-Lor-Wny. People regarded, me as being frir. peculiar.' I would wander off by myself for hours where no one could find me, carrying my harp along. And when I returned I would have a Picture In my mind of a little, brown eyed, brown-haired gir!, who listened to my music and reproduced every thing which I played upon an instru ment different from any I had ever seen, i know now it was a piano, bu then I had no knowledge concernlnr It. Sometimes I would have lonr fainting spells, and while I was un conscious would babble away abou' the little maid who could not under stand what I said, because she talked a different language from my own Finally it began to be whispered about that I was possessed of a devil and ray father was forced to send me away in order to protect me. "I came to America when I was 18 years old, and. going to the far west I amassed quite a fortune. I did no see the friend of my childhood so fre quently as I grew older, because in creasing wealth brought ircreasinr cares and I bad no time to make th? customary visits. Still once in awh'l the old 'fainting spells' would comr over me and when I returned to con sciousness I would bring with mc tin numcry of a smiling face and gentle brown eyes a face that seemed ti grow older with my ircreasing years. "One night I sal in my room late As I supposed I fell aleep, but wher I awakened I found before me the por trait of a young weman who wrs sit ting beside a table sketching, and th portrait she had finished was of my rrlf. I put the picture carefully away taking it out at long intervals in ordc to familiarize myself with the fea tures, for I felt that some time, some where. I should meet her. "One night about six months ago 1 was late In leaving the office and upoi :eaching my home I hurried down tt the dining room. In the ball I cam' face to frc? with Margaret, the frient" oj" my childhood, the sweetheart of m. dreams. I ccuhl not cat I was toi excited and I begged Mrs. Porter w all the newcomer Into the parlor tc introduce us. The longer I talkec' with her the more convinced I becaim that she was the one woman in all thr world whom I could love. I was curi ous to find out whether she had any corception of the peculiar circum starces which drew me to her and I questioned her adroitly in regard to the matter. "Then, she. who had puzzled her 'ear little head in vain over the mat ter, told mc all her experience and when we compared notes we decided that, as heaven had meant us for each other from the beginning, there was no ieason why we should wait for our happiness. 'So we were married and lived nappily ever after, as they say in the fairy stories. "Now, I myself do noc pretend to give an explanation of this, but Mar garet, who has studied these matters closely, says that my astral body must have detached itself from the material form and sped across the sea to join her, drawn by some inexplicable, in visible attraction. That may be the case. If Margaret says so I am willing to accept it as truth. But this I do know. She is a dear, sweet little wom an, the sweetheart of my waking and sleeping hours, my alter ego, the cen ter of my universe." FLAGS FOR UNCLE SAM. For more than thirt- j-ears the flags which our ships and men-of-war have flaunted all over the world have been made in one suite of rooms at the Brooklyn navy yard. It is the boast of the department that the workers turn out flags better male than those obtainable in any other por tion of the globe. Not only are Amer ican flags made but flags of all nations, for each warship is required to be fit ted out with a flag of every nation which sends ships upon the sea. James Crimmins, the foreman, knows more alout flags than any one else in the world. He weighs the bunting, tests the colors, measures the stripes, cuts the cloth, carves out the stars and in spects the sewing. The department reserved foi the measurement of the flags resembles a gigantitc tennis court, only in place of white lines the floor is inlaid with strips and plates of brass. The meas urements of the flags must be perfect. The floor is so good and so large that the semi-monthly balls of the officers stationed at the Brooklyn yards are helu in the room. Some of the women who sew the tiags together have worked for fifteen years. Machinery and electricity have done away with the necessity of sew ing the flags by hand, but the women who sew on stars are expert needle women. A certain number of stitches is allowed to one inch and only care ful hands can do the work. Cutting cut the white stars is interesting to watch. The foreman folds the cloth twenty times, places a metal star on the pile and marks the pattern. Then with chisel and mallet he cuts out a whole shower of stars at once. The flags used by the navy have to endure frost and snow, rain storms and blazing suns, and therefore great care is exercised in the choice of goods and coloring and many testing devices are need before choice is made of cloth. One of Those Strange Happenings. A good one is being told on a Chica go man. A few days ago, the story goes.he received a photograph from his girl in another town. The girl had wrapped the picture in a piece of news paper on which was printed the ad of a stove firm. A portion of the paper adhered to the picture and the youns man was very much surprised to see staring at him on the face, in bold, large type, the words, -"See the name on the leg." A Poor Rale. "Remember, my son, that early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy and wealthy and wise." "Is tnat the reason the farmers are the richest class of people In the nation?" Indianapolis Journal. JAMPFJLRfi SKETCHES. jood SHbhTsffcriniES 6nfrtE VETEtiitiS. iVmentinjj a Rrbel Flay How Iho TmIiIc. Were Tame I an a Fair Oaugliti'r of tlie Coufilcr4rjr Typical of ticn. Grant. tVarreu Adiltcw TAND! the grnurid's your own, iny l-raves t Will ye give It up to" slaves? Will ye look for greener graves? Hope ye incrcy still? What's the morcy despots feci? Hear it in that bat tle peal! Read It In yon bristling steel! K8SKB KT?.riri vjnirx Ask it, ye who will. Uear ye foes who kill for hire? Will ve to your homes retire? , Look behind you! they're allrc! And before jou. see Who have clone it! From the valo On they come! and will yc q-ail? Leaden rain and iron hail Let their welcome be! In the God of battles trust! Die we may and die we must; Uut. oh. where can dust to dust He coiijign'ri so well. As where heaven its dews shall shea On the martyr'd patriot's bed. And the rocks shrill raise their head. Of his deeds to tell? Iter. John Pierpont Presenting a" Itebel Flag- During our war the colonel of a fine Union regiment came to his general, in a high state of excitement. "General." said he. "I was waited on by two lovely ladles this morning, who wish to present a flag to my regiment on the coming Fourth of July." As the brigade was at that time quar tered in a very hostile southern city, this produced considerable surprise on the part of the general, but he finally said: "Well, it will be worth seeing. Turn cut your regiment and let the cere monies go on." When the famous day arrived, every soldier was clad in his best, and the colonel looked fairly resplendent In his finest uniform. There was quite a large number of spectators present. The young ladies appeared, escorted by r some of their male friends and were given a post of honor. One of them made a speech, In which she mentioned liberty as among the choicest blessings in the world, and ex tolled the conduct of our brave revolu tionary forefathers. It was a very elo quent address, and was heard by all with approval and delight. At its close she uncovered and un rolled the flag, and with a smile upon her face, said, sweetly: "I now have the pleasure of present ing, sir, to you and your regiment, the grandest and most characteristic sym bol of the liberty for which our fore fathers fought that has ever seen the light of day." She unrolled the flag, which, to the unlimited surprise of most of those present, proved to be a Confederate one! For a moment there was an intense silence. The southerners present did not dare to cheer, however much they felt like it; the soldiers were sternly restrained by their officers, as well as by their natural chivalry toward the sex. The colonel's eyes flashed fire; but ho was a man of the world, and had been an accomplished politician before entering the war; and, with a gentle and engaging smile, he advanced and received the flag from the hand of his fair (and unfair) guest. Then, in a clear, resonant Fourth-of-July tone, he responded: "Madam, you are my guest, and a lady. I am the colonel of this regiment, which is composed entirely of gentle men as well as soldiers, and, I trust, I am deserving the same appelations. "We have listened with interest to your views as to which is the symbol most typical of freedom of any In the world. We (looking at the colors of the regiment) hold a different opinion, or we should not be here. We are glad to know, too, that our views are gradually gaining ground. We have already received in surrender several flags similar to the one you have just handed mc. and shall keep this as a token, that at last even the fair daughters of the confederacy have de cided that their cause is a hopeless one, and have commenced capitulating their colors eulogizing them, very natural ly, as they do so." The turning of the tables had been accomplished so neatly that the crowd cheered in spite of themselves! the young lady, who had perhaps harbored an idea that she would be arrested and made a sort of martyr, rushed away in confusion; and the colonel marched his regiment back to quarters with fly ing colors. He afterward received a merry note from his acquaintance of a day, apologizing for the trick she had attempted to play upon him. thanking him for the gentlemanly manner in which he had treated her, and acknowl edging that he had the best of the in cident. During a late visit to the Nashville exposition he enjoyed the pleasure of meeting her now a handsome 'Colo nial Dame" and of laughing with her over the incident. From Everywhere. Reminiscence of the War. "The first pair of shoes I had in the trmy," said the old soldier, "were two izes too big for me. I wore sixes; ay first army shoes were eights. I didn't take them from choice I got the nearest I could to my size. We were being fitted out from head to foot for the first time that was when we were mustered in and the required numbers of pairs of shoes, of assorted sizes, had been delivered to each com pany. When I got at them they had been culled over so much that ther was nothing left smaller than eights. "I din't think it would be possible for me to wear a shoe two sizes too big for me, but I tried a pair on. They were brogans. having flaps, with two eyelets on each side, lacing over the J instep with leather shoestrings.- They tied snugly, so that the heel and often part of the shoe, and the sole, did not shuck on my foot. The forward part of my foot felt as though it were out doors, but I thought they might do. I had to have a ppjr of ihoes, and I took them. m "I wore those shoes for months, and with the greatest of conifOftj The? were enormous or they looked so to m?.- Ai soon as I began to wear them the t!ii6k feather Gf the uppers humped u'p Jntfi big, fotintl ridges'; with tal leys between, acipss" the top, giving id the top of the shoe a sort .of ntited of corrugated effect. These corrugations' remained always just the same as long as I wore the shoes. They were not what you would call a handsome shoe, hut, as I said, they did not shuck around on my feet, and they were mighty comfortable. "But it doesn't follow that after that I always got shoe3 two sizes too big" for mc; as a matter (if fart, I didn't; but I always did get shoes plenty Idrge for me; plenty; and found comfort in wearing them. "Sometimes we used to draw boot3; cavalry boots. And it was kind o fun to get boots. I remember very well the first pair of boots I drew, I think I felt (perhaps In A little maturer sort of ivay; though not much so, either) about as triheh pleased 6ver tliat pair df bootd .is I did with my first red-tops when I was a boy. To get oil a pair of cav alry boots sort of made a man fe'el a little bit less like a plodding infantry man, and a little more like a cavalry man; it gave him a sort of a horsc-and-sabrc touch. But this was only a3 he walked down the company street after drawing the boots from the quar termaster; the next day, en picket, the boots were about the same to him as shoes would have been. "Still there were men who preferred hoots and always drew boots when they could get them. Btlt for myself 1 like shoes better. A mounted man, of course, wants boots; but according to my notion the most comfortable tiling for art ihfantry soldier to wear is a good; roomy shoe that can be made snug enough somewhere so that it won'l shuck around on the foot." New York Press. Ocncra. Scott Askcil to Ite I)lt.ttor. It may surprise many readers It learn that overtures were made to Gen eral Scott by many Mexicans of posi tion and many American officers tc permanently occupy Mexico and organ ize a new government. The scheme proposed to General Scott was, in sub stance, this: It was supposed thai upon the conclusion of a treaty of peace at least three-fourths of the American army would be discharged, and that a large portion of the officers would re sign, and, with many of the men, would enter the new army of Mexico, and enough others could be recruited in the United States to make the Amer ican contingent 15,000 strong, and to this might be added a like number of Mexican soldiers. With such an army it was suggested that Mexico could be held and governed in an orderly way and prosperity might be assured. The plan contemplated a pronuncia mento, in which General Scott should declare himself dictator of the repub lic for a term of five years or more, to give time for agitators to acquire pacific habits and to learn to govern themselves and to respect an orderly government, where the rights of prop erty were not only respected, but fully protected. Already in possession of the forts, arsenals, foundries, c'ties, mines and ports of entry, with nearly all the arms, it was not doubted that a very general acquiescence would follow. Scott was invited to several con claves of officers, but from the first emphatically declined to enter into the plot. He did not purpose to change his allegiance or his service or his flag, but meant, he said, to return with the Fourth regiment to the United States. He had several reasons for this de termination. He was essentially a con servative thinker and was endowed with a remarkably high sense of jus tice, and he had genuine contempt for any adventure which had any flavor of dishonesty or bad faith about it, and he would not consider for a moment the project of placing an alien govern ment over Mexico while the nation was dominated by superior force. Had still another consideration been needed to influence h's course as was not the case, however there was one most persuasive consideration his prospective bride, awaiting his return at White Haven home, near Jefferson barratks, Missouri. General Scott declined to enter into the plot and it was finally abandoned. Typical or Cirant. A story is told of General Urant which is illustrative of his tender and gentle nature. On the day of a great review he turnod. with eyes dim with tears, from the sight of his old troops, saying, "I don't believe I can stand it! I don't believe I can stand it!" In the same spirit is tho following souvenir from "A Child's Recollections of Grant" in Current Literature: The parade of the Grand Army, which was part of the Centennial cele bration, was an occasion of wild ex citement to us. We were not far from the balcony where General Grant re viewed the troops, and therefore saw all that could be seen a seemingly endless procession of soldiers, cannon and brass bands. And how the people cheered! But it puzzled us why the cheers were loud est and longest for the most forlorn, stained and tattered old flags, until wg understood that the flags, too, were vet erans. By and by the great show was over, and General Grant was going away. He did not seem at ail gay. I wondered why. "Didn't you enjoy it? Wasn't it nice to see all your old soldiers there again?" I asked. "But they were not all there," he an swered gravely. I realized what it had meant to him to review his old army. Those tattered flags had been carried by men who went to death at his command. Those dark stains had been the red life-blood of men who died obeying him. To oth ers it had been a day of jubilee, while his great heart had ached as he thought of the price of his victories. Bashful Lover I leave here tomor row. How long shall you remain, Miss Eethel? Up-to-date Girl Re main Miss'Ethel? I leave that to you. Brooklyn Life. Parents generally receive that meas ure cf filial respect ihsy deserve not always, perhaps, hijt very genpraliv. ffedlag Cattle B Afol.ttcea. At tke present time, when tho metl od of feeding crUIa and nheep on straw and molasses is being ttitfdy adopted, tockowners will lie iuteres!4 to lettrn that in Germany the fattening of ? fcattl;ii ttlolAssoR and peat "mull," or hiossjfcfs puccetwflllljr carried on. In bcrtmh there is plenty of molasses obtafeable a"t R ch'cap rate from the sugar beet factories, (tiii dn o'f the difficulties to be overcome waS tuat of finding a proper medium with which to mix the molasse3, in order to counteract the purging effect of the treacle when fed to cattle in consider ablejbuantities. It is found that the hidkftseK jn the German market eoiitain injurious salts, which are prejudicial W ite lia!tli nl tho beasts. In the course" of d fepori OH the sub ject, the British consul at Stettin siys: "The moss turf, from which the dust or 'mull is obtained by being torn up or teased out by a machine for making moss, litter, called a 'Wolf,' is taken from-the upper strata of high-lying pcat,Tncor3, and consists largely of the dried but non-de-composed fibre of the Sphagnum cuspidatum and the Erio pliarum latifolilim. The following are the advantages stated by experiment ers to accrue from the use of 'mo lasses mull fodder: H is 50 per cent, cheaper than the best fat-producing food, and yet equal in nourishment; it tends to keep the animal in health, helps the digestion and whets the ap petite; it is almost equal in nourish ment to, and is a good substitute for, bran; It prevents colic and other sick ness; It gives a glossy, healthy ap pcaranco to the skin: in consequence of the large proportion of sugar it contains it acts as a stimulant, and increases the working capabilities and stamina; with proper and careful use for milk cows, it increases the produc tion of milk, while improving the qual ity; when used for fattening, it in creases Weight, and improves the fla vor of the meat; it lessen3 the ex penses of the farmer. Loth in respect to fodder and as a manure, tho large proportion of alkali in the niolnsse being especially advantageous In tho latter; it will keep stored for an un limited time." The consul advises that some caution is necessary in feeding pregnant animals, the maximum quan tity of molasses allowed for cow3 in calf being 1 pound to 1 pounds per day, but for the first week from a third to a fourth of a pound per head per day should only be given until the animals become accustomed to the food. Dairying In Swrdi-n. Among the dairies the co-operative ones are the largest. The number of their members sometimes amounts to more than 400. Many of the co-operative dairies receive 1,200 to 3,300 gal lous, and the largest more than 4,000 gallons of milk daily. For the most part men are employed, but a maid is always engaged for working the but ter, and one, two, or more maids for washing. In a few dairies the work ers are chiefly women. Dairv instruc- tion is undertaken by one higher dairy SPllnnl faf pnncillanin A.nnn.n nA . vuuoureuia icajjcj ioj, "Hi Iowcr dairy school for men, seven dairy scnoois for women and twenty-four dairy stations for women. At the cost of the Government a dairy inspector is niamtained; and in every county there I is a dairy consilient fexnerti who h.is i to go about in the county in order to give advice and information in dairy ing. The number of these consulents is twenty-three, of whom one is a wo man, and they are paid by the Agri cultural Societies of the different coun ties. In order to control the quality of butter for export, there are every year in Gothenburg and Malmo twenty control butter judglngs, to which the dairies have to send a cask of butter, immediately on receipt of notice to do so. The expenses lor these itideinus amount to about 1,500 a year. In ad dition, a yearly butter exhibition is held alternately in Malmo and Gothen burg, and a larger cheese exhibition al most every year in Stockholm; while smaller exhibitions of butter and cheese take place once or twice a year in most counties. In order to promote the dairy industry, several Dairy Associa tions are in existence. In regard to the co-operative dairies it may be stated that the dairy farmers generally take back all skim and buttermilk, which is used for feeding calves and fattening pigs. Some dairies, however, keep calves and pigs in order to utilize the by-products. A small quantity of skim milk is employed for checsemaking. In Sweden there are about 800,000 pigs. Bacon is exported principally to Eng land. Dairy machines, apparatus, im plements, and supplies are manufac tured in many factories, such as those of the "Separator Company," in Stock holm; Carl Holmberg, in Lund, and A Uollingworth, in Orebro. The grant o! the Government for dairy purposes amounts yearly to a sum of about 2,700, and those of the Agricultural Societies to 5,300. Dr. Engstronj. Ashes for Gooseberries. In the April number of the Fruit Grower Mrs. Gra ham, of Indiana, writes that she har the best success with gooseberries that are not cultivated. My experience ii much the same. I use hard and soft coal ashes and cinders as a mulch, and find that the bushes I treat in this way are in every respect superior to thosr not treated with the cinders. I shall treat all my bushes, both currant ani gooseberry, in this manner as fast as 1 can get the cinders. W. B. Hall is Green's Fruit-Grower. Sheep Hard on Grass. It Is a com mon saying that sheep are hard o grass. True it is that sheep bite very close and love a tender bit of grass or weed or leaf or shrub or bush. Couched in this truth is the secret of the value of a flock of sheep on every farm. No animal en the farm is more dainty and at the szinc time uses such a great var iety of ljod if obtainable. Ex. The Cow. The higher the degree of idvanccment attained, the more room fcr deterioration in useful qualities in unskilled hands. The cow, of what ever breed, is more than 7 machine. Moreover, what her merits may actu ally be, she iB susceptible of improve ment. Never conclude her to be a thing of perfection. Ux. Don't be afraid to let ycur poultry hunt for their food. They enjoy the job and it is healthier for them. Wanted To learn of som one who has invented a hen's nest that hut om ben can get on at a time. GUAr.DliWMii.tfAlME PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT THE FRENCH PRESIDENT, Money Is SpVn't freely Deteetlves and Special Agent ArctfiMffctnr Illm on All Ilia Journejrn Very defer folic fi VIEW of the rc eerit assassination Gf- Senor Canovas, also the murderous attacks on the king S&)'JJm dent Faure of ife? Frauce. a clear ac count of the pre cautions which are being taken to prC- rfivo the head of the French fepubiic from all future dangers of this kind Will be oi timely interest. The general belief that the French 'president is constantly attend ed by a corps of p'oHcemcn and detect ives in uniform is error.9". On the contrary few si.c!i persons accoffipany him on his daily journeys. Still, let a hand be raised against him, and from all quarters paid agents would rush to his assistarco. Of course, the Elysee ralac is constantly guarded by uold iers, and policemen are regularly on duty wherever the president may hap pen to be. Not so much oil iheni, how ever, do the authorities rely as ca the detectives, whom very few see and hardly any one recognizes. Twenty such detectives arc constantly at the Elysee, their chief being M. (Jotmlot. These twenty arc divided into two" brigades, c;ch of which is on duty e ery second day. These men are care fully selected by the chief of police, and they receive their instructions from the officer in charge of the presi dent's residence. When the president leaves Paris eleven of these detectives go with him and nine remain at the Elysee. The eleven receive each a salary of 10 francs dally, which is paid to them through the minister of the interior. Ten of them arc divided into two brigades, and the eleventh acts as a sort of watchdog for the president's carriage, being assisted by five special guardians, who walk on each side of the carriage, two on the left and three on the right, the latter being the side on which the president always sits. These special guardians are expected to take care of the president's person. When he makes a tour through France he is attended by twenty-five or thirty of them. What the Lair Decide. An insurance company which under its contract elects to repair and fails to do so is held, in Henderson vs. Cres cent insurance company (La.), 35. L. R. A. 3S3, to bo liable for the cost of the repairs without reference to the amount of the insurance, if the as sured completes the lcpairs. The right of a bank to set off the nnmnliirnl nnlo nf nn insnlrnnt ilnnnEi. . . . tK' ., -f . ; , r .' Thomas vs. Exchange Bank of Angus (Iowa), 35 L. R. A. 379, to be superior to the rights of the drawee of a check en the deposit, of which the bank had no notice until after it learned of the depositor's insolvency. Applying the doctrine that a loss or injury is due to the act of God where it is occasioned exclusively by natural causes such as c:uld not be prevented by human care, skill and foresight, it is held, in Wald vs. Pittsburg, Cincin nati, Cnicago & St. Louis railroad com pany (111.). 35 L. R. A. 35C, that an un precedented flood by reason of which the baggage of a passenger is swept away is an act of God; but that where unnecessary delay of a carrier made the loss of the property by such flood iossiblo the cirrier is liable. A trust under a will to dispose of property among the charitable and benevolent institutions of a city as the trustees shall choose and in such sums and proportions as he shall deem prop er is held, in People vs. Powers (X. Y.), :;." L. R. A. 502, to be unenforceable because of the failure to designate or describe the class or kind of benefi ciaries to whom distribution is prac ticable, or who can with reasonable c?rtainty be i Icr.tificd. The New York laws of 1S93, chapter 701, is held inap plicable to such a trust previously cre ated under which the rights of prop erty had become vested. The existence of an unpaid assess ment against the shares of stock in a 'crporation is held, in Craig vs. Hes peria Land and Water company (Cal.), 3C L. R. A. SOfi, insufficient to justify a refusal to transfer the stock upon its bcoks into the name of another owner. The right of the owners of a major ity of the stock in a corporation to agree to be bound by the will of a majority of themselves in voting the stock fcr a term of five years so as to keep the control of the corporation tom passing to other persons is held, in Smith vs. San Francisco & Northern Pacific railroad company (Cal.), 35 L. R. A. 309, to be valid when it was made by persons who united in purchasing a block of stock. In order to render a newly organized corporation liable at common law for the debts of an established corpora lion or firm to whose business and property it h?s succeeded it is held, in Austin vs. Tecumseh national bank (Neb.), 35 L. R. A. 414, that it should, in the absence of a spc'al agreement, affirmatively appear that the transac tion is fraudulent as to c-cditors of the old corporation, or that the new ccrporation is in effect a mere con tinuation of the former. Overdrafts of a corporation which was entirely owned by one member of a barking firm ore held, in Potts vs. Schumucker (Md.), 35 L. R. A. 392, to rive no rights to the trustee of the in solvent bank to share in the assets of the corporation until after the cred itors of the corporation have been paid. Too Swcft to Tll. "I'd rather our engagement were not announced until the end of the scs nion," said the statesman. "And why, dear?" asked the woman he had won. "I don't wcit it charged that I am spec ulating in sugar." Indianapolis Jour nal. In a perfectly proportioned human fr-rm the entiie fiaure If seven times ,rir,'W S'lia jpm I -he length of tbr hai! STOVE FOR HOT WEATHER. Ik IUdlatea CoM Instead ( Heat, ad Will tm Popalar. Prof. William M. Watts of Still Pond, Md., has a novelty Jn the form of tl cold stove. The stove is for use , in the hdstl months of summer for ! reducing the" temperature, just as loves heated by fire arc used to raise lh taniDerattire in Winter. By ti:e use of aU, a small quantity of ice ann a patented Chemical tho most Intense degree of cold is retired. So great is the cold that it is as dangerous to touch this cold stovo when it is In operation as it would be to place the hiia1 on a fire utovc at a high degree of heat. Th skin is instantly taktn off and painful injuries are the result of the slightest contact. Prof. Watts states that during the hottest weather tho temperature of a room may be run" down and made pleasant by the use of this novel device. The new process was dicovercd by a college mate of the teacher of the Still Pond school. The eost of operating the tove is very slight. Current Topic. Thrc is no effort for the improve- ment o! the people that has taken a more prominent form than that show ing itself in the establishment and maintenance of public libraries. The multiplicity of books, their Io;v cost and the natural love there is of reading have leu to the popularizing of n- lie libraries until few villages of any resprsiamc size are witnoiit collections of books to which the people have freo access. Men of wealth have devoted their money to the establishment of larg libraries ann two of the very best of these In this country are in Chica go, the gifts of public-spirited citizens? who left their wealth for that purpose States generally have provided for the cttpport of public libraries, al though the average state legislator has about asi much use for books as a duc"h has for an umbrella. Of all the state Minnesota has exhibited the best Judg ment in its laws relating to libraries: There is an annual appropriation made ' of $10,000 to encourage the establishv ment of public school collections of books. The law provides that $20 shall be given the first year and. ?lt) annually thereafter to any school that rahscs an equal cr a greater sum for a library, the stimulus of which donation has resulted in a large excess of individual giving over the amount donated by t he state. This plan has been in operation', for the last ten years and since it be gan over 1.800 public school libraries have been established, having an aver age of sixty-five volumes each, making a total of more than 117,000 volumes. This number of books, large as it is. is not so significant of public interest n the plan as the fact that the growth of each library is continuous, while the number of them is steadily increasing. The plan pursued in the state is not to purchase books at random or ac cording to the whims of any one indii- idtial but to purchase a year's quota of Looks devoted to one special subject, so that the result is the formation of a library especially adapted to reference purposes, which supplements the edu cational work of the school proper. While popular works of romance ami travels are not omitted the body of the books may be considered as sup plementary to the text books and the work of the teachers. It Is not probable that any equiva lent sum appropriated for any othr purpose brings the state of Minnesota so large a return as the $10,009 donated to the purchase of books for the pub lic EChool libraries and the example of that state might profitably be fol lowed by any other, especially at the west, where large cities are infre quent and technical libraries arc rare Forgot Tlirlr Dignity. The old gate keeper of Virginia Springs in speaking recently of the early days of that resort, told of a din ner given by Henry Clay to his friends. The dinner was solemn enough until almost dawn, when the cloth was re moved and the pipes passed around and a negro fiddler brought in. Then Hen ry Clay, the great statesman, and Ru fus Shoate, the lawyer, stood up before the company, and while Clay danced a Kentucky breakdown. Choate danced a New England pigeonwing. Irony of Fate. Guest "Who is that pale, frail look ing man with spectacles who comes here every evening and drinks a bottle of Apollinaris?" Bartender "Why, that's the man who writes those lively drinking songs that the students liko so." Jtigend. Otitic 1niT. "How is this, Rosa; you are still in mourning, and yet you mean to go to the masked ball?" "What does it matter? I am going as queen of the night, all in blatt. black." Kolner Tage- 1U-SI ret Ions. "Every man lias hie price," said tlio man with the bald head and the wor ried air, "but it is a sad state of af fairs when he marries and does not get it." Exchange. BLUNT THOUGHTOGRAPHS. Such as thy words are, such will thy affections be; such thy deeds as thy affections, such thy life as thy deeds. There is a great struggle between vanity and patience when we have tc meet a person who admires us but who bores us. One of the highest mountains upon which we may stand in this life, is to be able to look back upon a long life well spent. 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