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VOLUME XXXI.-NUMBER 5.
COLUMBUS. NEBRASKA. WEDNESDAY. MAY 9. 1900.
WHOLE NUMBER 1,565.
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BRITISH ON THE MOVE
Bobertr' Faroe Eh Advanced Over Half a
Hundred Miles Forth
TIE I0CRS ROME OUT OF REACH
But Little Opposltloa and That From
IrlsB-Aaierlcaa Brigade Report That
the Irish Lost Severely Mounted In
fantry Ili Picketed Ita Horses oa the
Vet' Basks.
LONDON, May 5. The War office is
sued the following from Lord Roberts,
dated Brandfort, Friday, May A:
"Tfce mounted infantry has gone on
to the Vet river. The rest of the
m force will march there tomorrow. The
"railway has been repaired to this
point
"Hunter reports very satisfactory
news that the passage of the Vaal has
been carried at Windsorton without
opposition."
Lord Roberts reports to the War of
fice as follows, under date of Bloem
fonteln. May 3: "We occupied Brand
fort today without much opposition
and without, I hope, many casualties.
The rirst brigade of mounted infan
try covered the left flank of the Four
teenth brigade of the Seventh division
and the right flank was supported
by the Fifteenth brigade. Pole
Carew's division advanced directly on
Brandfort- The Boer army, which
was under command of Delarey. re
tired in a northeasterly direction."
The mounted Infantry, with Lord
Roberts, among which are the Cana
dians, has picketed its horses on the
banks of the Yet river, eighteen miles
north of Brandfort The head of
Lord Roberts column has advanced
thus, in two days, fifty-two mlle3 north
of Bloemfontein.
Little power was spent The Brit
ish work was hard nvirching. "the
Boers retiring out of reach of the
British shells. The correspondents
supplement Lord Roberts' plain state
ment with a few details.
As General Hutton, with the first
mounted infantry brigade, drew near
Brandfort he saw a khaki-clad body
of troops ahead of him. He was sur
prised, but thought they must be
British. Soon, however, thev opened
fire on the British, who replied heav
ily. They were the Irish-American
brigade from Lourenzo Marquez. and
It is reported that the Irish lost se
verely. The Boer flag was flying over Brand
fort as the British entered the town.
Several British wounded were found
in the hospital. The Boer postmaster
gave up the keys of the public build
ing to Captain Ross.
Lord Kitchener arrived at Brand
fort at noon and Lord Roberts at dusk.
General French's cavalry is sweeping
the country northward. The expecta
tion is the infantry advance will be
continued toward Kroonstad immedi-
ately. Although no prisoners were
tpken and no hot pursuit was under
taken, the news has cheered London.
Nevertheless it has not been received
with the fine rapture that attended
Lord Roberts' first successes.
General Hunter's crossing the Vaal
at Windsorton brings the relief of
Mafeking. 195 miles beyond, almost
within a calculable interval. It is
now regarded as quite possible that
Mafeking may be succorded before the
queen's birthday.
The Boer army, which was at
Brandfort commanded by General De
larey, is presumably retiring on Wln
hurg. which will possibly be the next
Immediate objective of the British.
Brandfort. thirty-five miles nearer the
Transvaal capital, is now Lord Rob
erts' headquarters.
CIBWET DISCUSSES ISLANDS.
Much Time Given to New Hawaiian and
Forto Riran Ada
WASHINGTON. May 5. At the
cabinet meeting considerable time was
consumed in discussing the new Ha
waiian and Porto Rican acts. Al
though the treaty under which Ha
waii was annexed to the United States
provided that the United States should
assume the debt of the islands,
amounting to about $4,000,000. there
was some doubt as to the right of
Secretary Gage under the Hawaiian
net to pay off the debt and it is prob
ntile that a bill will be introduced in
congress, with a view to settling the
matter right.
Nomination by the l'renidpnt.
WASHINGTON. May a. The presi
dent today sent the following nomina
tionB to the senate:
E. C. Bellows of Washington to be
ronsul general at Yokohama. Japan:
Lieutenant Commander Samuel C.
lcmley. United States navy, of North
Carolina, to be judge advocate gen
oral of the navy, with rank of captain,
for the term of four years from the
4th of June. 1900.
TmtlmoiiT Is All In.
WASHINGTON. D. C. Mir 5. The
tsking of testimony in the Couer
d'Alene closed tonight after having
continued uninterruptedly since Feb
ruary i9. a period of nearly three
months. Captain Lyons closed the
testimony for the defense and after
hearing some rebuttal evidence both
sides rested and the committee excused
all witnesses. Monday the arguments
cf counsel wiil begin, probably con
cluding that day
GENERA! 0T!S IS RELIEVED.
MacArthar to Succeed In Connind of
' Division of Phil'pplnrs.
WASHINGTON, May 5. In tccord-
ance witn uenerai mis request to e j
cllowed to return to the United States, j
tne war aepartment issueu orcers to
day relieveing him. to take effect to
morrow morning. May 5. the date fixed
by General Otis for his sailing.
The orders designate Major General
MacArthur to succeed General Otis in
command of the division of the Phil
ippines. Elections Held in Havana.
HAVANA. May 5. The election
throughout the island of members of
the boards of registration three mem
bers for each district terminated at
noon today, having lasted since April
CO. those chosen being those who have
received the largest nwnber of sig
natures of qualified voters. The na
tional and republican parties claim
they have won by an overwhelming
majority of the board in the forty
-wards of Havana. The elections went
off. so far as reports yet received
-would, indicate, without trouble.
TO AN IMPERIAL TRIiUNAL
Boers Will Sahaalt All Qtleaa of Guar
antees and la leatalty.
LONDON, May 5. The Daily Ex
press publishes an interview with
Abraham Fischer of the Boer peace
commission given one of its repre
sentatives at Boulogne-SUr-Mer. Fis
cher said:
"If we are at war with the British
it is not because we wish or ever did
wish to quarrel with theffi We be
lieved the British wanted to quarrel
with us.
"Our ultimatum was issued under
the belief that our destruction had
been determined upon. We believed
all our concessions had been rejected
and that nothing we could offer would
prevent them from seizing our terri
tory. "Since then your prime minister has
declared that you want no territory
and your colonial secretary told Par
liament that he intended, in his Sep
tember dispatch, to accept nine-tenths
of our conditions.
"If these speeches had been made in
September instead of October and No
vember we would never have formu
lated an ultimatum. Therefore we
come, in the light of these belated
assurances, to see if the war can be
stopped. That is the object of our
mission and its object only. We will
gladly consent to submit all questions
of guarantees and indemnity to the
decision of any imperial tribunal.
Grant us that and we will lay down
our arms tomorrow."
LODGE TO BE THE CHAIRMAN.
Details for the Renontlnatlon or Presi
dent .Mckiolrj.
NEW YORK, May 5. Joreph H.
Manley of Maine was at the Fifth
Avenue hotel today and had talks
with several local politicians concern
ing the seating arrangements of the
Philadelphia convention. Some of
the local leaders who talked with
Manley said that it had been prac
tically settled by the national repub
lican managers that Senator Wolcott
of Colorado will be temporary chair
man and Senator Lodge permanent
chairman.
i it naa oeen seiuea mat senator
Foraker of Ohio should make the
speech renominating McKinley. Han
na's plan, it was further stated, was
to bring Governor Roosevelt forward
to second the nomination, but the
governor had not yet consented to
make the seconding speech. He will
see President McKinley tomorrow, it
was said, and this part of the pro
gram will be then settled definitely.
FURNACES MUST BE REBUILT.
Strikers Leave Tons of Copper to Cool la
Them.
NEW YORK, May 5. The situation
at the Oxford Cooper works, at Con
stable Hook, is unchanged. The strik
ers gathered at the works at an early
hour today and seemed to be in an
ugly mood, but the prcsrnce of the
police asd the deputy sheriffs pre
vented anj' outbreak. There are fif
teen policemen and about sixty depu
ties on duty at the works. The strik
ers number about 500. The men were
all discharged yesterday when they
were paid off, but it is stated that they
will make another effort to induce the
company to make roncessions to
them.
The copper works will probably not
start up again for several weeks.
When the men suddenly quit work
there were 350 tons of copper in the
furnaces. This was not run off and is
cold in the furnaces, which will have
to be taken apart and then rebuilt
The loss caused by the stoppage of
work is placed at $35,000.
D DICUES THE CHAIEL.
Edifice in raris to CoBtatenorate Hasaar
Fire.
PARIS. March 5. Cardinal Richard,
the archbishop of Paris, today per
formed the ceremonj- of the dedica
tion of the chapel in the Rue Jean
Goujon. elected to the memory of
the charity bazaar victims by Count
and Countess Castellane. The monu
ment is architecturally a fine piece of
work and its sculptural decorations
are singularly appropriate to the role
of a commemorative chapel. A colos
sal statue of the Mater Dolorosa, with
face upturned and arms outstretching
toward heaven, stands on a marble
and bronze altar. The edifice was
hung with sable trappings for today's
ceremony. Owing to the size of the
chapel only two representatives of each
family which suffered by the disaster
were invited. The dedication cere
mony consisted of a low requiem mass.
There was no singing. The cardinal
recited the profundus and finally
blessed the chapel.
GR1SC0M WINS HIS POINT.
Secure Release of Armenians Detalaed
by Turkish Offcials.
CONSTANTINOPLE. May 5. The
situation regarding Ihe American in
demnity claims is unchanged:
As a result of representations by
Lloyd C. Griscom, the American charge
d'affaires.- two Armenians who had
been prevented from embarking by the
authorities at Alexandretta. as sus
pects, have been allowed to leave and
the incident is closed. The statement
that the United States vice consul at
Alexandria was maltreated by the po
lice there is untrue.
I'.lc Libel Salt Dismissed.
NEW YORK!ay 5. Justice Free.
man in the supreme court has. on
request of the plaintiffs, ordered the
discontinuance of the action for al
leged libel instituted in 1S97, by Al
Hayman. Charles Frohman, Samuel
F. Nordlinger, J. Fred Zimmerman,
Marie Klaw and Abraham L. Erlanger,
forming a co-partnership for carrying
on theatrical enterprises, against Har
rison Grey Fiske, editor of the Dra
matic Mirror, .claiming damages in
$100,000. The defendant served his
answer in the suit on January 6, 189S.
Bea-ln Laying Cable.
BERLIN. May 5. A dispatch from
Berkum island, in the North sea, says
the laying of the German-American
cable was commenced there at 11:20
this morning.
To Repeal Chinese Exclusion Laws.
WASHINGTON. May 5. Represent
ative Baker of Maryland has intro
duced a bill repealing the Chinese .ex
clusion laws and making tne general
immigration laws applicable to Chi
nese who shall prove themselves able
to read the constltatiom of the United
States in English or tne Chinese language.
MONEY IN TWO TREES
DISCOVERY IN BRAZIL OP THE
SEEDLESS ORANGE
Ab4 Ita Impartaat Basalts f Call
farakft sad tha WrldOraas Orsw
las ataroUtlaalsad by tha Xw
rralt.
Twenty-flTe years ago there were no
seedless or naval oranges grown. A
few oranges were raised in Florida,
but the bulk of the supply ita America
came from the Mediterranean ports,
and the fruit was expensive. The
total annual yield of California or
anges was less than five carloads. Now
the annual orange yield in California
is upward of 15,000 carloads, and next
year it may exceed 20,000 carloads.
The total amount invested in orange
properties in California twenty-STe
yeais ago was about $23,009. Now
something like $43,0.00e is iavested
in the orange industry in this state,
and the amount is increasing by about
$2,000,000 every year. The introduc
tion of the seedless naval orange has
caused these changes. It has revo
lutionized the orange industry of the
United States. It has drawn 13,000
men out of other pursuits. It has
transformed vast areas of sun-baked
land in California into the most beau
tiful orange groves that ever grew.
It has been the prime factor in the
growth from nothing of a dozen towns
of 5,000, 8.000 and 10,000 people in
southern California, and it has added
directly more than $43,000,000 and In
directly $60,000,000 more to the taxa
ble wealth of the state.
The first seedless orange trees were
apparently freaks of nature. In the
summer of 1872 William F. Judson,
United States consul at Bahia, Brazil,
heard an account from natives of a
few trees in the swamps on the north
bank of the Amazon some sixty miles
inland that bore oranges without
seeds. He was of scientific bent and
a consul that knew his business. He
had beard of the starting of orange
groves in Florida, and he believed
that seedless orange trees were well
worth experimenting with there. So
he sent a native up the river to cut
some shoots off the trees and get some
of the fruit When the native re
turned the consul was delighted with
the specimens. Forthwith he sent six
of the orange tree shoots, carefully
packed in wet moss and clay, to the
agricultural department at Washing
ton for propagation. The trees did not
excite as much attention as the enthu
siastic consul had expected. Two of
the shoots, which were no bigger than
horsewhips, died from lack of care in
the department grounds and the oth
ers were almost forgotten in a few
months.
In 1873 a man named Tibbetts, who
was establishing an orange .orchard in
California, secured the four shoots
from the government and planted
them on his property at Riverside.
One of the shoots died and a cow
chewed up another.
Five years passed and the two sur
viving trees came into bearing. In
the winter of 1878-79 they bore six
teen oranges, the first seedless oranges
ever grown in North America. The
specimens were carried about southern
California and shown to all ranchmen
and fruit growers. Nearly every one
believed that the fruit would become
coarse and tough in a few years more.
So the second crop was awaited with
curiosity among the neighbors. There
were about a box of oranges in the
second yield, and they were even bet
ter than those of the first crop.
Mr. Tibbetts was sure that there
was a fortune in his new variety of
oranges. For two years he experi
mented wiiu propagating trees from
shoots and cuttings from his two
seedless orange trees. But all his at
tempts were failures. Finally fie hit
upon the scheme of budding from the
seedless naval trees upon seedling
trees. Experiments along that line
were successful. It was found that a
bud taken from one of Tibbett's two
naval orange trees and grafted into
the bark of a seedling tree would
grow to be a limb which bore seedless
naval oranges.
Then Mr. Tibbetts grew tiny seed
ling orange trees, just as had been
done by orange growers for ages, and
budded into the trunk of each little
tree several naval orange bude. When
the buds had become branches of the
trees he cut away all the original or
seedling branches, leaving only the
naval organge branches to bear fruit
In this way he easily created naval
orange trees, and the problem of
growing seedless oranges was solved.
The planting of groves of seedless
orange trees propagated from buds
from the two original trees on the
Tibbetts place began in earnest
throughout southern California in the
winter of 1882. In the following year
the demand for buds from the Tib
betts trees was so large that a dozen
buds sold frequently for $5, and some
growers, desirous of getting naval Gr
ange buds' of genuine quality, paid $1
each for buds. In 1884 the two Tib
betts trees furnished buds that sold
for $1,500, and a tall fence was built
about them to keep people from
stealing buds. A year or two later
the' orange trees that had been propa
gated from the Tibbetts trees began
to bear, and they themselves furnished
tens of thoisands of naval buds as
good as those from the two original
trees. Then the first naval orange
groves began to bear fruit, and from
that time the boom in naval orange
groves has continued.
The two trees from which have
come directly and indirectly all the
naval oranges in the world are still
on the old Tibbetts ranch in River
side. Since Mr. Tibbetts received the
shoots from the agricultural depart
ment and began propagating the first
seedless oranges Riverside has grown
from a hamlet of less than .30 Amer
ican residents to a beautiful, prosper
aus city of 14,000 population, with an
assessed valuation of $8,275,000. It Is
the greatest orange producing locality
in the world. Soae 16,000 acres
of land are devoted to orange growing.
The average 1 shipments of cr
inges from Brrerside are 1,600,060
boxes, valued at $2,100,000. All of this
has come trap the introduction of
Tibbetts' seedlees naval oranges.
Kind words gently spoken cost noth
ing and their infuence never fails.
LUCK IN ALASKA.
teiy f
This is the story of Alexander H
Donald, one of the best knows charac
ters in the Yukon valley, says Alas
lee's Magazine. He is a great, lttftttef-
ing Scotchman bora in Nora Scotia'
who np to the time of the Klondike
discoveries never had an idea of win
ning a greater fortune than that of a
day laborer. He worked from mining
camp to mining camp all along the
northwest. So slow' was he and so
awkward in his work his feet active
ly Itt his way and his bulk a arisfit for
the size of prospect holes that he was
reputed never to be able to hold a Job
for longer than three weeks. He was
at Dawson shortly after the irst loca
tions were made on the Klondike. He
went out with numerous stampedes,
but never arrived in time to locate a
paying claim. Finally he stumbled
across a newspaper man named Hant,
who had s claim on Bonanza Creek.
Hunt had become discouraged because
he bad not the funds necessary to de
velop it
This claim McDonald purchased for
$300, and set about developing it in
his usual slow add aimless fashion.
Finding the claim fairly rich, he pat
on a force of laborers, and in a few
Aeks he had taken out $80,(C0. This
sum he used immediately to purchase
other claims. All that year he bought
right and left everything of any prom
ise that was offered to him, often
mortgaging the claims thus bought to
buy still other ground. Many of the
ventures came to naught, but a few
gave such phenomenal returns that he
speedily took the rating of a million
aire. Out of one claim on El Dorado creek
be shoveled $20,000 in twelve hours.
Today he is probably worth between
$2,000,000 and $3,000,000.
Many others came to i.ccess even
more suddenly than McDonald. One
man on Bonanza creek took out ninety
pounds of gold about $25,000 in a
single day. A pan of gravel on Ei
Dorado creek yielded its lucky owner
$2,100. This same man cleaned up
3,000 ounces of dust and nuggets from
his first week's work.
AFTER THIRTY YEARS.
Retaraed ta Pay Marriage
-Wato-
ter Dead.
A wedding fee was paid by the
groom here the other day after a lapse
of nearly a third of a century, his con
science compelling him to make a
2,000-mile trip to pay the debt, says a
Kokomo (Ind.) correspondent of the
Indianapolis Journal. The other af
ternoon a stranger who looked to be
a man of affairs called at the office of
Dr. I. W. Rayburn. He said that about
thirty years ago he and his wife, who
is still living, eloped from an adjoin
ing state and were married in Kokomo
by the Rev. Father Hayden Rayburn,
the old "hoosier circuit rider," who
during the period of his fifty years'
ministry married 1,400 couples, with
but three resulting divorces. The cere
mony was attended with much haste,
as the couple knew they were pursued
by an angry father, and in the bustle
and confusion the youngsters hastened
away, forgetting to pay the marriage
fee to the minister. The couple was
never heard of afterward until that
day when the groom returned to settle
the bill. He was pained to leartf that
Father Rayburn had been dead several
years, but he paid the son, Dr. Ray
burn, the long-delayed fee, with in
terest He exacted a promise from the
doctor not to disclose his identity. He
is a successful man in a western city.
MISS FLETCHER AND INDIANS.
Oae of Her Valuable Contributions to
Ethnological Scleace.
For years Miss Alice Fletcher has
been collecting and recording for pres
ervation in the archives of the nation
the native songs of the Indians, say
the Southern Workman. One of hei
most valuable contributions to ethno
logical science is a collection of the
rituals and chants of the Omahas and
Pawnees. Many of these have been re
corded by the graphophones as they
were rendered by the Indians them
selves. It is said that nearly 100 oi
them were secured from the lips of an
aged Pawnee who was brought to
Washington for this purpose. The rit
ual of the earth lodge among the In
dians has long been an object of spe
cial search with her, and this.thougb
almost extinct, she has at length se
cured from some of the older members
of the race.
Strange California Landslide.
A landslide of remarkable propor
tions followed the recent earthquake
in San Jacinto county, in southern
California. A tract covering 600 acres
on San Jacinto mountain and 4,000
feet above the sea level 'slid 150 feet
down the'mountain and filled the small
valley with debris. Gieat masses of
granite were split by crevices four
feet Vide and seventy-five feet deep.
The falling mass was upheaved as it
fell, giving the earth the appearance
of a mighty convulsion. The theory
of local geologists is that a vacuum
under the mountain, caused by draw
ing off water for irrigation, became
filled with gases and that the explosion
of these gases tore through the crust
of the mountain and produced the
earthquake and landslide.
Political PhUaathreaUt.
New' York World: Capt. F. Norton
Goddard, the young millionaire, phil
anthropist and political leader, if
keeping up his single-handed crusade
against the policy evil in this city. He
is a reformer of an unusual type in
more ways than one. When a policy
man he has bad arrested is convicted
and seat to prison. Capt Goddard goes
into his own pocket .nd supports the
criminal's wife and family.
That Chaaga Catar.
A peculiar rose has been successful
ly cultivated by Japanese florists. Is
the sunlight it looks red and ia the
shade it is white.
;M 8teaiy Forafga
la 1891 a society for the promotion
of the study of foreign language was
founded in Paris. It now has over
3.M0 membars.
CONSUMPTION CUBED.
FRESH AIR THE SOLE REMEDY
. FOR THE DISEASE.
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Smm BBftrkaMa afeaalts Attal
ay This Traatasaat.
Remarkable results ia the treatment
of consumptives are revealed by Dr.
C. S. Millet of Brockton, Mans. The
remedy is a most simple one and
within the reach of every victim of the
disease. It is simply to sleep out
doors. No matter where the sufferer
may live, in the balmy south or the
bleaker north, sleep outdoors. Dews
aad summer showers will do the sleep
er no harm, he asserts, whereas the
close and poisonous air of a room
would be sure to accelerate the prog
ress of the disease. Dr. Millet says
'thai lie now practices sleeping out
doors hiniself, and he laughs at the
popular idea regarding "dampness"
and "draughts." They are, he says,
mere bugbears. Many times, he con
tinues, my patients have found their
bed coverings and night clothes wet
with dew, and once in a while a sum
mer's rain has disturbed their health
ful slumbers, but with no harm be
yond the necessity of drying the bed
clothes before another bedtime. I am
quite ready to believe that if people
could be taught to fear impure air and
overheated rooms asthey now dread
a slight increase of moisture or a lit
tle air stirring in the house, tubercu
losis would become as infrequent as
smallrox. It is nosv nearly two years
since I was called to see a young man
whose family history is most re
markable, his brother, father, grand
father, two aunts one on either side
and an uncle all having died of
chronic phthisis. He was suffering
from cough wheezing and dyspnea,
and had a temperature of 105 degrees.
Throughout that winter he continued
to lose ground, in spite of the reme
dies ordinarily used in such cases, un
til in the spring he had lost nearly
fifteen younds. I urged this young
man to try sleeping outdoors. He be
gan the last of June, 1898, and slept
with no awning or roof over his head
for five consecutive months, with the
exception of only nine nights, when
rainy weather prevented. Within the
first two weeks one could see that he
was making progress in the right di
rection. At the end of a month his
temperature was normal, his cough
and wheezing had almost disappeared,
and he was apparently on the road to
recovery. At Thanksgiving time, on
the day before the great November
storm of 1898, when he came into my
office, his weight was 144 pounds, he
having gained 22 pounds in four
months. The only medicine which he
took was the tincture of nux vomica.
He has continued perfectly well ever
since, and now tips the scales at 147.
This man has worked in a shoe fac
tory nine hours a day without the
loss of a day since his treatment be
gan. While sleeping out of doors he
wore a soft felt hat and cotton night
shirt and was covered with the ordi
nary bed clothes. He usually went to
bed at 9 o'clock because the sun awak
ened him early in the morning. Sim
ilar treatment was also tried by a man
of 64 who was suffering from the dis
ease. He blept on an outdoor platform
and has gained eleven pounds and is
markedly improved. He works every
day, and chops wood for a living.
The treatment was further tried by
a boy of 12. The amount of lung tis
sue involved in this boy's case is too
extensive to justify the expectation of
permanent arrest, but he gained 19
pounds during the summer.' I have
for several reasons not allowed him to
attend school. His mother is not con
tent to let him sleep alone under the
stars, and she has placed a second cot
beside his own on the platform. Al
though no invalid herself, the out
door treatment has done her mudh
good, for she has gained very decided
ly in weight, strength and color.
My instructions in regard to diet are
for patients to eat whatever they de
sire. Some of the patients have had
two baths a day, one has a cold sponge
bath in the morning, and another a
tepid bath at night, followed by a
good rub. When not at work they
have spent the greater part of the day
in the open air. The patient is in
structed to keep a record of the num
ber of hours he spends in the house
and to give good reasons for not hav
ing spent them out of doors. He is
urged to eat all he can in three ordi
nary meals. No hard and fast restric
tions are placed upon the diet. Milk,
eggs and vegetables are recommended
and the use of pastry and confection
ery is discouraged. All those who can
spare the time are required to take a
cold sponge bath in the morning, and
another bath at about 90 degrees be
fore going to bed.
BeaeflU of the Erie Canal.
In my opinion it cannot be doubted
that the Eric canal has done a great
deal toward making New York the
Empire state, and also toward develop
ing the great Northwest It has paid
in tolls to the state of New York far
more than all its canals have ever
cost it Fully $400,000,000 has been
paid to the people of the fate for
freight on goods passing through the
canal; and this money has been the
instrument to build up and develop the
splendid ehain of cities from New York
to Buffalo, with their varied indus
tries; the cities in turn furnishing
home markets to the farmers of the
state, and producing the most pros
perous agricultural community in the
country. Forum.
Oscar a Musical ATaaareh.
King Oscar of Sweden is a musical
monarch who may often be heard for
hours improvising on the piano, and
more particularly on the organ an
instrument which is almost unknown
in private circles abroad. His ma
festy is also a great lover of glee sing
ing. Sturdy Oeaa Paul.
President Kroger by his first mar
riage had oae child, who died young.
By his second wife he has had sixteen
:!dren. His grandchildren number
104.
A COUNTRY WITHOUT STRIKES
New Zaalaaafr Coar
Arhltratlaa
Law a Sacaeaa,
New Zealand is the naffls of the
happy country wnere. by compulsory
arbitratloa, labor and capital are
forced to live in harmony. From be
ing a country of strikes New Zealand
has become oae of industrial peace and
prosperity. New Zealand had a ter
rlbl strike nine years ago, known a
the marltiSM strike, - writes H. D.
Lloyd in th Netf York Herald. It
devastated the whole at Australasia.
It was a war between classes, the only
two classes practically which remain
to be amalgamated in modern society.
It spread from th shipping world,
where it began, into a great circle of
related industries. Merchant and
their clerks drove drays" and loaded
and unloaded merchandise; ship own
ers and their com aad friends took
the place of sailors and stokers; the
country went to the edge of civil war.
The-New Zealand minister of labor.
Wilfiam Pember Reeves, set himself
in the following.yearto find a remedy
to prevent the recurrence of struggles
not less terrible in the sum total of
losses than war itself. There had been
no compulsory arbitration anywhere
to serve as a guide; there had been no
public conciliation" or arbitration in
New Zealand itself to provide any
precedent But New Zealand did not
waste any time in beginning where
others had dropped it and carried it
forward. It was characteristic of the
country that the new opportunity
found the new men fit for it After a
great deal of study and deliberation
the minister of labor introduced a bill
into parliament in 1892. It was offered
again in 1893 and 1S94, it passing the
lower house only. In 1S95 the bill
passed both houses. The act has now
been in operation five years, and with
such general approval that recent
amending acts have been passed al
most with dissent. So far the law has
proved a workable experiment.
BACTERIA IN STAIR RAILING.
Dangerous ta Grasp It TThea Ascend! as
er Deceadlng.
"I have no doubt whatever," said a
well-known physician the other day,
"that many contagious diseases arc
communicated through grasping the
stair railings or banisters in our office
buildings, and the theory certainly has
common sense to back it. People whe
are in good health very seldom use the
hand rail in mounting flights of stairs,
but those who are sick or weak are
quite apt to need its assistance. II
they happen to have some contagious
disease, especially some form of ecze
ma, the next person who comes in
contact with the iail stands an excel
lent chance of catching it. I have
treated several people for skin disease
in my private practice who first show
ed signs of the malady on the palms ol
their hands, and I am convinced that
stair-rails were the source of infection.
Of course the janitors of all public
buildings ought to see that the
rails are frequently washed down, but
janitors are like everybody else they
occasionally forget things. There is a
historic example, by the way, of the
readiness with which certain forms ol
eczema may be transferred through
some such an agency as I suggest. Dur
ing the siege of Toulon. Napoleon, who
was then a sub-lieutenant of artillery,
is said to hare snatched the swabbing
rod from a clumsy gunner and helped
serve the piece himself for several
rounds. The gunner happened to have
an unpleasant skin disease, and the
sub-Iieutcnant was an emperor before
he got rid of it."
GENERAL VON MOLTKE.
With Caerrlag Glance of a True Coai
asaader. Took tha need Cigar.
The late Prince Bismarck was not
given to the telling of stories, but
once, at a banquet in Berlin, he told
one of Gen. Moltkc, who was dining
at the same table. "Do you remember,
general," he said, turning to the great
strategist, "the last time you accepted
a cigar from me?" Moltke could not
recall the occasion. "Well," rejoined
Bismarck, 'I myself shall never forget
the circumstances. It was on the day
of Koniggratz, during the anxious
time when the battle stood still and
we could neither go backward nor for
ward when one aide-de-camp after
another galloped off without ever re
turning, and we could get no news ol
the crown prince's coming. I was
frightfully uneasy, and my eyes wan
dered round in search of you. I saw
you .standing not far off. You were
gazing on the course of the battle with
a look of the most serene indifference,
and the stump of a cigar in your
mouth. 'Well, said I to myself, 'it
Moltke can go on smoking so calmly
as that it can't be so very bad with us
after all.' So, riding up, I offered you
my case, which contained two cigars,
a good and a bad one. With the un
erring glance of a true commander
you selected the good one. I smokec
the other myself after the battle, anc
I never enjoyed a smoke better in m
life."
New Shoplifting Device.
.Tew York correspondent Chicago In
ter Ocean: Three women and a man
composing an expert gang of shop
lifters from this city, were arrested ii
Newark Saturday night with nearly i
wagon load of plunder taken from th
counters of three or four big depart
ment stores in that city. The detec
tives found that the women had no blf
pockets in their skirts or shoplifters
bag3, but were provided with hook:
and strings, and had books on thi
heels of their shoes. Things whict
they had brushed from the counter tc
the .floor were adroitly lifted with i
heel hook and suspended inside of thi
skirt One worked at a time, anc
transferred 'the loot to a companion ic
some dark hallway, where the goodf
were made secure under the skirts un
til the final transfer was made to th
satchels carried by the man.
Crylag afaao Her Blind.
Excessive weeping over the deatr.
of her only child has made Mrs. Ma
tilda Quitman of New York totally
blind. The child died last June and
the mother's crying over her loss has
since been constant. Doctors say that
there is littlo hope of her ever regain
ing fcsr sight She is 36 years old,
TWO GIRLS- HUN A RANCH.
ate Bath tha Oat-af-Daar aa Fiaaaelat
Warn.
Gussle and " Louise Lamm run a
iheep ranch covering fifty miles ef
California mountains. They run it
both mentally and physically. Both
the financial and out-of-door work
they do themselves, and it is a success,
says the Louisville Courier-Journal.
"How did I come to begin this son
of life?" Gussie said, as we sat on the
steps. "Well, it was five years ago,
when wool Irst wentso low. Before
that father had three men, and after
that he could only afford to pay one
Indian. I was at home for my Christ
mas vacation. It began snowing, and
it snowed all day and all night and
was still snowlag when father and
6am were out trying to get the sheep
id. They did not come to dinner tili
after 4 o'clock, and when father came
in he was so tired he could hardly get
off his horse. About 700 sheep were in
the anor down ia the gulch back of
me; iSiune juuuumtu. jitcj ,.
Just He down and die unless they were
driven out. 'Father', I am going down
to help get those sheep in,' I said, and
Just made father let me. .We worked
in the snow till every sheep was out
and safe. They were wet and chilled,
and we had to keep them moving till
they got some life into them. It was
nearly daylight when we went home,
and mother was waiting, asleep in her
rocking chair, with lots of hot coffee
and a blazing fire in the ktichen stove.
Such a sight as 1 was! Every time I
Jumped off that horse I- caught my
skirt, and it was torn from top to
bottom and off the band, and I was
wet to my neck. When I woke up next
morning father was getting ready tc
ride the range to see how the otter
sheep had stood the storm. You know,
he was an old man, past 60, and it was
at least thirty miles' hard riding. 1
put on his clothes and went, and 1
have been doing it ever since. I don't
think it is half as hard as mother's
work, and I know there is not one
thing about it which hurts any girl,
and we like it, don't we, Lieschen?"
HOUSE INDULGES IN FUN.
Orlglaated with tha Measbar Who Da
Bed tha Mace.
The grand sacred mace of the house
of representatives is a gilded standard
crowned by an American eagle, sup
posed to symbolize the authority of
the government. It is used to sup
press any disturbance beyond the con
trol of the speaker, and when held be
fore obstreperous members its effect
upon such belligerents is in most cases
wonderful, says the St Louis Republic.
One of these few exceptions, however,
brought forth a most amusing remark
from the bearer of the mace. Col. Ike
Hill, a veteran official of the lou
and then sergeant-at-arms. a remark
which convulsed those within earshot.
A lively exchange of personalities was
taking place between two members,
one of whom was particularly boister
ous and noisy. After commanding him
to sit down, which he refused to do.
the speaker pounded fiercely with his
gavel and ordered the sergeant-at-arms
to preserve order. Holding the
mace aloft and with grave and digni
fied mien he slowly walked up to the
offending member and held the sacred
symbol before him. The member,
however, still refused to be seated,
much to Col. Ike's irritation. Finally
he could stand the suspense no loader,
and, pointing the eagle-topped staff at
bim in a threatening manner, ex
claimed in a high-pitched stage whis
per: "I'll peck you if you don't sit
right down!"
Marabebea Are LoyaL
Capt. Matthew A Batson. the or
iginator of the now celebrated Bat
son's Macabebe scouts, who played so
important a part in the recent cam
paign in northern Luzon, is at his
home, in Newark. N. 3.. on sick leave,
nursing a wounded foot. He is most
enthusiastic in his commendation of
the Macabebes as soldiers, and he will
urge the formation of a cavalry regi
ment. The Macabebes, he says, ar
the personification of loyalty to theit
officers, and never during the entirt
campaign was there so much as a sus
picion of anything akin to disloyalty.
In entering towns he was always care
ful to give them specific orders not to
loot, and he never heard of a caso of
disobedience of this order.
The Iroa-Clad Warrior.
England has struck off the Warrior,
the first British ironclad, from the
roll of vessels in active and effective
service. The Warrior was launched in
1860 and completed the next year. She
has a displacement of 0,210 tons, armor
of Vz inches of iron, an armament of
320 muzzle loading guns and with en
gines of 5,300 norse power is rated at
a speed of 14 knots. Till this year
she was included in the British navy
list of armored battleships, though
Brassey's Annual excluded her. Peo
ple in England are wondering whether
many more such relics are still In
cluded In the effective list.
Paris a City of Fxl cea.
Paris is a veritable city of palaces,
and most of the public buildings if not
really palaces are modeled after such.
The Palace of the Elysee is the town
residence of the French president, and
is splendidly furnished and decorated.
It was built at the beginning of the
18th century for the Count of Evreux,
and was afterward in the hands of
Mme de Pompadour, the Duchess of
Bourbon and Napoleon I. and III. Its
large gardens stretch to the Champ?
Elysees.
Matheamatlea la Music.
A teacher of music in one of the pub
lic schools of the south desired to im
press the pupils with the meaning of
the signs "V and "ff" in a song they
were about to sing. After explaining
that "f" meant forte, he said: "Now,
children if T means forte, what does
'IT mean?" Silence reigned for a
tioment and then he was astonished
to hear a bright little fellow shout:
"Eighty!"
A Paoaaaaaea' Iaaalt.
Maud I can't understand , how
Sladys ever became engaged to young
Sof tleigh,. he's such an apology for a
man. Ethel I suppose she had to ac
cept the apology.
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