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In M m sj rs X . . awTaBUawaUTll.lSta. ftotombns foutttat lattBaFatoSea,Cola i mail matter. lMMftVimte7iy M.I.TflMItCI. nan or sobsobxhio: O yfcr.fcy ll.pnfa nwil .fLM lii in taa VBDXnDAT. JAMUABI 2. IK!. Nebraska FMm Association, Lincoln. May 6 and 7. Thirty-Fourth Annual convention of the National American Woman Suffrage association, Washington, D. C, Febru ary 12-18. Got. Savage baa appointed Guy C Reed district judge to succeed Ben Baker, resigned. Governor and Mrs. Savaqe returned Saturday evening from the soatb, where they had been three weeks. It ia desired to have the Lincoln Car negie library bailding completed by the rat of May at the farthest. Two persons were killed and seventy Ire in jared by the explosion of dynamite Monday, in New York City. Former United States Senator, Arthur P. Gorman, has been elected to the United Statea senate from Maryland, receiving every democratic vote. The case of the atate against the bondsmen of Joseph Bartley ia still pending before the supreme court and it is supposed will be called in a few daya. It ia said that Admiral Prince Henry of Praasia, while in the United Statea, will visit Chicago, Milwaukee, Niagara Fall and Boston. He ia expected to arrive at New York, Feb. 22. FntDAT morning, February 14, it ia thought will be the occasion for a special program ot music and speeches, on the formal presentation of the big alumni organ to the atate university. Senators Allison and Doluver have been elected as senators from Iowa, six and f ve years respectively, the latter to 111 the vacancy caused by the death of the late Senator John H. Gear. 8rx successive elections to a six-years term is the unprecedented record just scored by Senator William B. Allison of Iowa. Iowa and Allison are mutually proud of each other. Fremont Tribune. The Union Pacific has been saed by ah Ogden man to recover damages, $3,400 for a carload of horses which he claims he shipped from Ogden to Clarion, Iowa, and that no trace of them can be found anywhere. The bearers of the ransom of Ellen M. Stone and Mme. Vstlka, having with them $7200, reached Demir-Hiasu, Boumeba, January 21, and proceeded to the mountains on horseback, accom panied by a strong escort. William H. Taft, civil governor of the Philippine islands, passed through Omaha Saturday night to his home in Cincinnati. He was accompanied by his wife and three children, and his physi cian. He had just been apprised of the death of his mother, Mrs. John Herron. His health has steadily improved since he arrived in this country. J. B. Dissmore of Sutton was elected president ot the state board of agricul ture. The new president has been asso ciated with the board for nearly thirty years; the vice president elect is W. E. Ewing, Franklin; secretary, B. W. Fur nas, Brownville; treasurer, E. Mclntyre, Seward. The next fair will open August 29 and continue until September 5, inclusive. Agent Fcnc on last Wednesday night found at Rogers near the railroad depot, the body of L. H. Garrietta, an indigent carpenter of that place. The body had bean literally beheaded, and only frag ments of the head and cap could be found. The coroner's jary exonerated the U. P. company from blame, and it ia thought to have been a case of premedi tated self destruction. The grand jary of Douglas county have returned an indictment against ex State Treasurer J. B. Meserve, charging tha embeazlement of interest of state faade deposited in a atate depository. To be specific, it is said that he deposit ed atate money, a portion of the perma nent school fund in the Stock Yards bank at South Omaha, received interest thereon and retained the same for hie Soke of the merchanta of the state propose to organize to fight the pareela Boat bill, which ia a very proper thing to do if there is any possible chance of the bill becoming a law. The mail-order hoasas and department stores have little regard for the country merehsint and unless the Utter ia prepared to pro tact hia interests it may be expected that the larger houses will do what they sea to injure hia bananas. The mail order houses are now a menace to the saaall and independent retailer without giving them farther advantages. Nor folk News. John D. Harsh, a young man 23 yeara eld, whose home ia near Osceola, met wkh a terrible accideat last Friday while leading a corn shredder at 8am CUbrd'a plana, one mDe and a half soathesst of Stroasabarg, aaya the Headlight. Hia Isft hand waa caught in the machine aad i literally torn off about four w the dbow. He waa brought to town and Dr. Cuehmaa with assist aaoa at Dml Makter and Little, ampu tated tha crashed portion of tha arm, it off below the elbow. He waa to hia home Saturday anemoon i getting along wall coasideriag astray the nxpenase and needs of the nlettaastri young nun for the present ami all aymaaaasM with him in hia mis- Wa are told that this is the s who has lost an arm in a corn this winter within radius of eixty aulas s ixxx: Wait aatil sine karat eomes froat the Tariff, tasteai of aa!. alessiags, before we think of ehaag lag it. There is iaager to the people aai the threat f rata to the Republic party ia erery assault aaoa the Tariff. Iroa Moaataia (Mich.) Trihaae. BAR&ErS FINE. Whan ex-State Treasurer Bartley waa sentenced to the penitentiary four years ago for a period of nineteen years for gnfryiiBff the proceeds of a warrant for $200000 drawn on the permanent school fund of tha atate, he had also a heavy fine impceed on him by Jndge Baker. Tha fine waa, we believe, double the amount of the defalcation, and thus reached a good round aum. Now that Mr. Bartley has been par doned from the penitentiary and ia said to have in hie posaoation a large number of notes given him for borrowed money by men well able to repay, it is in order for the attorney general to bring suit to collect the fine. The fine, if collected would be credited to the school fund and thus the educa tional moneys of the state which have bean depleted by Mr. Hartley's crime condoned by the governor, would be restored. At any. rate, a suit of that nature might result in bringing to the surface some of the men who hare been psrticepa criminia with Bartley, long enough to identify them. This would be of aome service and value to the peo ple of Nebraska who are in dead earnest about avoiding aome of the rocks against which they have been striking, to their sorrow. Fremont Tribune. HANDS IT BACIL The president has set a good example of honesty to the powers of Europe that it would be wholesome for them to fol low. He has signed a check to the Chinees government for $376,000, the value of the silver coin captured by United 8tates marines in the storming of Tien Tain. If all the loot taken in the alleged friendly war in China to save the empire from the boxers is returned, it will go a good waya toward paying the indemnity. It has been further proposed that when the accounte of our expenditures in restoring peace and order to the boxer infested provinces of China are computed that this government shall return to China whatever balance may remain ot the 25,000,000 indemnity, set aside to the United Statea This would be in strict conformity to our precedent in the case of the Japanese indemnity of forty years ago. The return of the sur plus after the damage account had been settled by this government to the gov ernment of Japan, did more to give us prestige in the orient than any other friendly act of Uncle Sam. "Money talks." Lincoln JonrnsL AGAINST TARIFF TINKERING. Speaker Henderson has written a letter to friends in Iowa giving his views on this important subject, and as the speak er has considerable to do with what is accompliahed in the way of national legislation, his views are of more than usual interest. He ssys: "My judgment is that it is more im important at this time in the interest of this country to reduce taxation upon ourselves and atop to a proper degree the influx of the people's money into the public treasury. With the country in an unparalleled prosperous condition, I cannot believe it wise to begin a re duction which inevitably will open up the whole field ot revision and thus put a serious check upon the business of the country. The moment the country un derstands that there ia to be a revision of the tariff jobbers will suspend large purchases, hoping to buy at lower prices. This will compel the manufacturer to reduce his business and this will compel a reduction of the pay rolls, and serious business calamity might ensue." Governor Crane of Massachusetts has asked the legislature to enact a law prohibiting savings banks from being made mere tender to national banks through the occupancy of the same buildings and through the choice of common officers. The practice grew to large proportions all over the country some time ago, and this connection was the cause of a great deal of disaster during the panic period. Now the banks of the west are more inclined to divorce their savings and commercial depart ments entirely, securing separate quar ters and an independent list of stock holders and ortcera. In the east the reform ia making such slow progress that it evidently needa legislation to make it general Governor Crane ia strongly commended by the more con servative bankers for taking so decided a stand on the question. Lincoln Jour- Three fingers and a thumb were amputated from William Brayton, a farmer near Cairo, Nebraska. He drove thirty miles before securing surgical attention. While attempting to dean a corn aheller, be dipped and hia hand caught in the cogs. Latter fraam Washington. EujENSRURo, Wasil, Jan. 18, 1902. Mr. Editor: It may be of interest to yoar readers, especially those who never have been esst of the Missouri river or west of the Rocky mountains, to hear a few facta ot the great Yakima valley, in eastern Washington. Kittitas valley, which ia about in the middle be tween the head and the outlet of the Yakima rivsr is about ten to twdve miles wide, and nearly twenty miles long, with tha Yakima river running dmost through the center of it. Ellensburg, the county seat of Kittitas county, is nearly in the center of the vdley. It has about 2000 iahabitanta and ia nearly 12 miles to the timbered foothills of the Cascade moun taina from the town, and not aa one ot your townsmen told n friend ot mine who came oat here from Duncan last spring, nway out in the backwoods. My friend waa sarprieed to find the town out on the prairie instead of in the backwoods. Your towaasaan must either have seen it from Noah'e ark or he waa mistaken in the name of tha town perhaps. Wa have two creameries ia town and six more scattered over the valley, but all are under the name management. ia an ideal dairy country, aa clover alfalfa are the bast feed, for milk amides the pare mountain water I rune hi ditchas through every section of J land that lays below tha irrigation ditch r XXXXXXX! that furnishes water for part of the vdley. Timothy, dover. alfalfa, fruita of dl kinds, aa well aa dl kinda ot email grain grow here to perfection, and find n good market the year ronnd. Hay on care at present is from $9 to $13 psr ton; wheat from 54 to COc a bushel; oata 36o a bushel; barley 48c a bushel; egga 35c per dozen ; country butter 25c per pound; creamery 27 to 32c per pound; beef and mutton on foot $4 to $4.50 per hun dred; hogs $5.50 per hundred. Very little grain of any kind ia used out here for fattening cattle and sheep. During the winter clover, alfalfa, wheat and barley hay are fed mostly. A neigh bor of mine by name of John Clerf, who lived for eleven years in southeastern Nebraska, but as he aaya yet, just deven yeara too long, sold 12 cows last week that were fed on alfalfa, clover and grain hay for about two months, and after driving them eight miles they weighed at an average 1290 -pounds. He sold some 90 steers dl coming three-year-olds st $60 per head. They would average from 90 to 100 pounds more than the cows did. I have seen some good feeders in the middle states, where corn is king, fed for five to eight months on hay and corn, and they would not average more than 1300 to 1450, while it cost them perhaps nearly $40 to raise and feed one of them. It did not cost Mr. Clerf out here more than hdf that to raise his cattle. If an eastern man comes into a meat market out here and sees that fine meat hang there, he wants to knew whether this waa not cornfed, but when the butcher tells him that this is simply hay fed, then he is surprised very much. Ot course there is one thing that must be taken into consideration. Most of our cattle grow and thrive from the day they are born until they are butchered, while a good many in the east are raised on skimmed milk and short pasture, and for the first year or two just about exist and that's dL Where you ought to keep 10 head in a pasture yon keep 30 to 40. SheeD and horses are wintering fine this far out on the range, aa we have had no snow yet, and there ia enough green grass in the hills for sheep to fill up good, at least where the range ia not overstocked. This vdley shipped out of Ellensburg last year over 40,000 tons ot hay, of which Uncle Sam took 8,000 tons to the Philippines, and this year the hay deders cldm there are from 12,000 to 13,000 tons more hay in the vdley than hut year. On account of the enormous shipping business this little town does, the U. P. R R. Co. had to just double up the office crew. There are now two day and two night telegraph operators, and besides the agent, dx more men in the office, where dx years ago, when I first came here, the agent with three men had easy times to do the business. Land in this vdley could be bought at dmost any price at that time for cash, but today it's all off. Land under an irrigation ditch is hard to buy at from $20 to $200 per acre, especially where there are large orchards on a farm. People have been swarming into Wash ington and Oregon the last two yeara as never before in the history of these two great states. Railroad people cldm they handle much more business in Yakima vdley than any other part along their line between Portland, Oregon, and St. Paul, Minnesota. Even the great Red River vdley in North Dakota does not produce such crops as this valley does. The climate, like in all parte of the northwest between the Rockies and the Cascades is hedthful, cool nights in summer and abort, mild winters. The only thing we don't like is too much wind in the spring and first part of the summer. It often blows for several days at a stretch. But in winter we have very little wind, and often dter n heavy fdl of snow, the wet snow will break limbs off ot young fruit trees unless the snow is shaken off in time. That's what M. Weieennuh from Duncan did not like about this country, when he came out here last spring. He ssys be left Ne braska on account of too much wind, and did not want any more of it, ao he left for Oregon and bought him a amdl farm seven miles west or rortiand, in a nice locdity, where wind seldom blows, but where rubber boots and coata come pretty handy for n few months in winter time. The right kind of a man can make more money out here on forty or eighty acres than in the east on twice and three times that amount of land, especidly in fruit and hay. Only thirty-five miles norm ot Here in wenatcnee valley are aome ot the largest and finest orchards and hay ranches I ever saw in any coun try, where they raise from five to seven tons of dfalfa hay to the acre, and dwaya find ready sde at $8 to $10 per ton on board the car for it. That beats raking corn in the east at 50c a bushel any time, aa dfdfa will not have to be reseeded for from ten to twenty-five yeara out in this country, while corn has to be planted every year. Although I don't know ot a better producing coun try than this part of Washington is, out dde ot perhaps the Sdt River vdley in Arizona, or aome ot the great valleys in California, which are aa far as I know the greatest vdleys for growing dfalfa, in this and perhaps in any other country, because the growing season there ia dx weeks longer than here. But for dl tins, we find some poor farmers out here, which yon find more or less the world over. I honestly believe there is no part of the United Statea that haa such a bright future before it as the whole Pacific coast baa, aa this coast baa mil bonsof seres of the finest timber in the country and mountaina of coal, besides dl kinds of metala and minerala. We get cheap transportation for all parte of, the globe, which ia a big boon to the producer. Alaska, China, Japan and our new posse lions are our beat markets. I have gathered maple aap on snow shoes in New York state ia April, 1864; lived in Kansas; fed sheep for three win ters near 8t Paul, Minnesota, and Aurora, Illinois, and three winters in Platte and Dodge counties, Nebraska; grated sheep in Idaho, Oragooi Wyo tning, Montana, and spent one aammef with 8,600 head of Oregon aheap near the Bad Lands in North Dakota between Medoraon the Little Missouri and Dick enson, where Teddy Roosevelt hpnted his first buffalo, and busted wild bron chos. Within .jflve yeara I arosssd the plaine about twenty-eight times, made two tripe to Europe, and came in contact with people from dl 'parte of the world,' so I ought to pretty'neariy know' whit. I am talking about. . With bast regards to all my friends in Platte, Dodge and Colfax counties, I am Very respectfully yours, "" K. O. Konxi MONETARY POLICE CURRENCY STRENGTHENED BY RE PUBLICAN LEGISLATION. r'' ataMUtr rater the Gal Itaiavi. DealrafclUty of Elasticity la BJaaai Caeeeaey -Iiaalre Tawara ataUaf of Borrower af Maaejr. The change in the treasury portfolio la likely to call very general attention to the question of currency legislation. A Democratic organ in New York aa soon as it waa known to be Secretary Gage's intention to retire printed a story to the effect that hia realgnatioa was brought about by the preatdeaf a coldness toward the subject of mon etary reform as urged by the commer cial organizationsofthe country; act-, tag through thelndJaBajfrlfr-mona4aTT convention and ltat executive-oaaunl-tee, headed by Hugh H. Hanna. How much of truth there waa ia thia aug cestlon is shown by Preddent Roose velt's selection of a successor -to Mr. Gage in the person of Governor Shaw af Iowa, who presided over the second session of the Indianapolis convention, held in January, 1808. It was at thia session that the convention approved the report of the monetary commission recommending revision of our mone tary laws in two important particuiara (1) the establishment of the gold standard, and (2; the introduction of the element of elasticity in our bank currency through what is known- aa "asset banking." ' The first and most important step in this programme has been carried out in the enactment of the gold stand ard law of March, 1900. The results of this law were apparent long before it waa enacted, for the election of Sic KInley in 1896, to the minds of farsee lng business men, settled the monetary policy of the country on the gold basis. They understood that a cheap money craze, like any other fever, dies out in time and felt sure that the result of the election would sooner or later be written into the law of the land. There was, therefore, no longer serious ap prehension or hesitation, and the in vestment of capital in productive in dustry waa begun on a scale hitherto unheard of in this or any other coun try. Manufacturing and commerce have since gone forward with astound ing strides until we are now in the midst of such prosperity as the world has never known before, with not a cloud in the sky and scarcely a man in doubt aa to the future except those .pol iticians and demagogues who find their own personal prosperity in the distress of the people. The same organization of chambera of commerce, boards of trade and com mercial clubs that insisted daily for two years on the enactment of the gold standard law until It was finally accomplished has dnce been present ing to congress the necessity of com pleting that law by providing for' the complete lnterchangeabillty of gold and silver at the treasury on demand of the holder. Under the law aa pass ed this lnterchangeabillty is accom plished in a roundabout way, but it is a clumsy arrangement that might be readily upset by a sllverlte secretary ot the treasury, and Mr. Overstreet, who Introduced the original gold stand ard bill, has this year introduced a short measure making anch lnter changeabillty mandatory and provid ing the means for it But the main contention of the mon etary convention now is for an elastic currency, and to this end it haa before the bouse a bill Introduced by Repre sentative Lovering providing for a cau tious step toward asset banking. This measure permits national banks to is sue notes against their general assets up to 10 per cent of their capital on the payment of a small tax, up to 20 per cent on the payment of a still lar ger tax and up to 30 per cent on- the payment of a tax so onerous that such notes would come out only in case of serious emergency and would be driv en back to the banks of issue aa soon as the emergency were over The pro posed asset currency ia fortified by a guarantee fund provision that would amply secure the cotes of failed banks. The general proposition of an elastic credit currency looks toward the relief of the borrower of money, the equaliz ing and steadying of interest rates and the elimination of any anch possibili ties as "money corners." Time has been, and often, when wealth waa plentiful in the country, but money waa exceeding scarce. This was the harvest time for the money lender, whose victims were of the "property poor" variety. When the west was embarrassed with a tremendous crop of corn, the northwest with a boom wheat crop or the south with a' tre mendous output of cotton, these7 sec tions" have had to" pay tribute' ftf tha "money centers" measured " by "the greatness of their necessities for mon ey to move the crops." Now, while cheap money ia a form of-credit back ed by little or nothing of real wealth, honest money is a form of credit back ed by full value in real wealth. A crop is certainly wealth, and the bigger the crop a section has the more wealth it haa. It should therefore be able to ob tain its credit in the form of current money or currency more cheaply; but under the operation of our inflexible currency system, where the money of the country naturally gravitates to the large banking centers, the result fs just the opposite. A "bumper" crop invariably means an Increase of interest rates until tha crop la moved from first hands and well on its way to market The small banks of the corn belt the wheat belt and the cotton belt cannot afford to keep a large amount of currency afloat all the year when they can find opportu dty to use it only a few montha of the year, and under the boad.baaai system currency once act aaoat.by, a bank ia called in only, by a,leatajKl laborious process instead af aawiagjln naturally for redemption as cJteckaTata. The legislation proposed by, the Lav ering bin la a first step towardf sys tem that will admit of a mach!BMfv ready conversion of real .wealth lata money, thus operating darectiy relief of the borrower, the farmer with a big to send to market, the a blcstoekof- FLOODED WITH WATER fl"HE GOLD SNAP Saturday night froze and bursted the water V pipes over our store, and the water poured through the ceil ing and soaked thousands of yards of goods. We Before Our Big Spring Stock arrives We are marking them according to condition; some are only damp, others wet or soiled. Calico 3Jc worth 5 and 6. Percale 5c worth 8 to 10c. LL Muslin 4c. Pine I bleached J at 6c., Dress Goods according to condition-rat half value. Rugs, Tarns, Furs, Underwear, Hose, Fascinators and lots of other things you can use, priced so you will take them. We had just received a shipment of our new Spring Wash Goods fine Organdies, Batiste, Silk Tissues, eta They are wet and MUST GO WITH THE REST. NOT A YARD OF WET OR SOILED GOODS WILL BE KEPT. Must clean it all out as quick as possible. tribute or'the manufacturer who wanta to keep hia shops going, even though thia shall mean something of an accu mulation of manufactured product in bis hands. The true function of money la aa a representative of real wealth for fa cilitating the exchange of such wealth, and the nearer we get to an immediate convertibility of anch wealth, whether it be in the ahape of corn, wheat, cot ton, steel, machinery or what not, into currency without paying too heavy tribute to the lender of money, while conserving the safety of our currency, the nearer wc snail attain to an ideal currency system. ALL FOR PROTECTION. fteflaetlea la ae Schaaales Walek Will Prave the Prlaelale. It must be conceded that nothing could be in the nature of thlnga more threatening to the continuance of pro tection than an abuse of it. By an abuse of it we mean the maintenance of protection on products that in fact no longer need protection to insure American wages to American labor and a fair return on capital invested. If there is anything that is elementa ry, it la that the need for protection must coexist with protection. It Is undeniable that in what la call ed the middle west at the present time there is prevalent a belief that aa to aome products the need for protection no longer exists. No one questions the beneficence of the protective principle. The question Involved is simply one of fact It Is the prevalence of the idea mentioned that accounts for the ap pearance in many of the leading pa pers of that section of editoriala auch aa the one following that we take en tire from that rock ribbed Republican paper, the Chicago Inter Ocean, and originally printed under the caption - Why Not Think of the Millions?' The Hon. Sereno Payne is evidently Inclined to hearken to prayers for a re duction of the so. called "war taxes." T. have no doubt" he remarks, "that the ways and means committee will frame a bill reducing revenues on the general lines of the last reduction." "There is," comments a Washington correspondent, "sentiment in favor of wiping out the entire list of 'war taxes,' thus leaving the revenue laws upon the basis that existed prior to the Spanish war." Of course it is entirely proper for the Hon. Sereno Payne to take heed to the welfare of certain great and legitimate commercial interests, yet. In view of certain facts relating to the present in cidence of our national taxation, it might be well for him and other con gressmen to took a little further to take a day off. aa it were, and devote it to thought about the welfare of the millions of American taxpayera. The protective policy haa conferred upon thia nation benefits almost Im measurable. It has built up home in dustry and given ua economic inde pendence. No sensible man thinks of departing from its principles. Yet, like all other good things, it has its price. Its tax burden falls nearly aa heavily upon the poor aa upon the rich. The so called "war taxes," by putting ad ditional burdene upon wealth, tended to equalize the burden of our tariff taxes. They gave a anbstltnte, rude and imperfect, yet still useful, for an income tax. They relieved the Republican party to a certain extent from the charge of regarding too exclusively the Interests of property. They were. In general, n charge upon the profits of the prosper ous, from which the poor escaped; hence the Republican majority hi con gress should let them alone and do the work of reducing revenue along the lines suggested by William McKlnley in hia latest speeches. The Iistfe af Brcata. It waa not a well considered and hon est belief in free coinage that Induced the party to take up the silver issue and Bryan in 1806. Indeed, practical ly every man of large prominence in the party, every man that had been largely Influential In leading it to suc cess in 1884, waa opposed to free coin age when the Chicago convention met In 1806. Bnt they were pushed aside. Long training of the party hi following such will-o'-the-wisps aa the Greeley movement of 1872 had taught it to run pellmell after every temporary "craxe," and there waa evidence on all bands that Populism had become for the mo ment a "craze" of large proportions. And such waa the strength of Demo cratic habit that after the convention fully 00 per cent of the party leadera that had gone to Chicago emphatically opposed to free silver or any other form of cheap money fell Into line and declared a change of mud and stead fastness of heart toward "the party of Jefferson and Jackson." Time haa 'cured them, and these same leadera are now declaring that the logic of events haa relegated the silver Issue to tha roar. Thia name logic of eventa haa relegated the Dem ocratic party to the rear for many yeara to come. Asicsla Thickly planted trees are the best protection against avalanches. The snow which haa fallen in the woods cannot well ablft lta place, and when the manses of enow from the atopea above dash against the timber they are unable to break through so strong a barrier, sad after overturning some of the aM trees thetrffoajraa to arrested. Frett Leaves. must get these out of the way at once, W B Cfc.- Ketffaailek. . "Since our t.'-ps have been la fkf Phlllppines ny friends among the of ficers stationed aere have at frequent Intervals been remembered with boxes of Mauila cigars." remarked a mem ber of Uncle Sam's fighting force, who waa severely wounded at El Cauey and is now ou the retired list, to a reporter. I have learned to prefei the tobacco of the far east to the do mestic brand, aud do not see Ijihv I could now get along without the fra grant Manilas. "Recently I received a shipment of cigars." he continued, "but they proved a sad disappointment. In fact, they seemed to me to be entirely worthless. 1 puffed at one after another, but they almply could not be smoked. In de spair I finally consulted a well-known tobacconist. The situation was no problem to him. He promptly told me to lay the cigars aside for a few weeks, after which 1 would find them all right. He was correct. When I sought an explanation the tobacconist assured me iu all seriousness that the cigars had been seasick from the voy age across the Pacific and needed rest. "1 have since learned." added the offi cer, "that wines aud liquors are affect ed in a similar uiauner by ocean ship ment" New York Times. - ITEMS OF INTEREST. White flowers are the most odorifer ous. It ia illegal to practice hypnotism In Belgium. Thoroughbred dogs are less Intelli gent than mongrels. Nearly all the royal personages of Europe are cousins. Quite 30 per cent, of the property of England Is insured. Loudca requires 000,000 cows to sup ply It with dairy produce. Colored rates never have blue eyes. Their eyes are always dark brown, brown, brownish, yellow or black. Lovers of Japanese carvings are finding it increasingly difficult to ob tain the choicest specimens In New York. Connoisseurs say that the Jap anese at home, now grown more pros perous, bave set up a demand for these carvings for themselves, both on patriotic and artistic considerations. Lake Superior is the deepest of the great lakes, its greatest depth Is 1.003 feet aud the lake is Mil feet above the level of the sea. A church in London still possesses an income originally giv.n to it for the purpose of' buying faggots for burning heretics. A token of American influence in Manila is the adoption of an ordinance prohibiting smoking in theaters during performances. 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