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" -"-2i. 3 Wi miiTt(3niti waaaaataaaaaijaaBiai ' -, Ts amml 3 -3- -- VOLUME XXXII. NUMBER 46. COLUMBUS. NEBRASKA. WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 19. 1902. WHOLE NUMBER 1.658. l . ,-, .r; , tBHWaa ! 1ai ijaaa'aBBJaBaaaBa'' laau -WHUiurr ---- w3r" lllllMHKSlMaCMtoMa ! it . - 2?"-'''? ".-- "B Sal I BBLBV .BBl s. - v,w --?&-. ... aa HI hT alfaa, aaaa y" WARM CROSSFIRE WHEELER AND GROSVENOR EX CHANGE LIVELY WORDS. FORMER ASSAILS PRESIDENT He Denounces Our Attitude Toward England as "Flunkeyiam" Thinks it Proper that Lord Pauncefote Be Ordered Home. WASHINGTON. Feb.. 15. The mo notony of a private pension day of the house was enlivened by an im passioned speech from Mr. Wheeler of Kentucky in denunciation of what -he denominated "flunkeyism" to for eign countries. He took the recent statements emanating from the conti nental cabinets regarding the attitude of Great Britain during the Spanish American war as a text for a whole ,sale attack upon the trend of the United States recent diplomacy. He severely scored Secretary Hay and de clared that if Lord Pauncefote had sought, as was alleged, to circumvent this- country during the war of 1898,' the sooner he was shipped across the seas the better. He also criticised the president for his reported intention to send his daughter to the coronation of King Edward and protested against the offi-' cial reception of Prince Henry. His speech aroused the house to a high pitch of excitement and elicited from .Mr. Bouteil of Illinois a spiced defence of Secretary Hay, whom he eulogized in high terms. Several members took a hand and later in the afternoon Mr. Grosvenor of Ohio took Mr. Wheeler to task for his "inop portune protest" and rehearsed the history of the visit of the prince of Wales to this country in I860 and his reception by President Buchanan. Mr. Wheeler excoriated what he termed the modern disposition toward "European flunkeyism." Until 1896. he said, all Americans had gloried In the splendid isolation of the republic and its determination to hold aloof from foreign entangling alliances. Less than fire years ago., he declared, a president, "goaded on by the pitia ble flunkey in the State department." had stretched his arras across the seas in adulation to the people of Great Britain and today the government was hugging to its bosom that which since the battle of Yorktown had systemat ically and persistently plotted our downfall. ' "I have respect for the present oc cupant of. the- White House, I frankly avowsa'd the speaker. "I think he re too honest to be palatable to the average republican partisan. A little .Quixotic, it is true, hasty-tempered, full-blooded and not exactly desirable to many of our citizens, and I indulge the hope that the lingering element of Americanism will induce him at the first opportunity to boot out that man in the State department, who in my judgment has brought us to this hu miliating condition." He continued: "England a friend of the United States? I would to God she were, but what a spectacle have we presented in order to boast that we have the friendship of Great Brtain and have become a world power. "For more ihan four years we have witnessed Great Britain maintaining military stations inside' the borders of two republics. We have se?n her agents going up and down this coun try enlisting men and buying mate rials of war. and 1 believe I will not travel outside the record when I as sert that any. member upon this flcor who has served here as much as four years has -received letters from his constituents protesting against the enforced enlistment of. American boys by the English government to do bat tle in South Africa. "We have swung further away from the democratic traditions, from repub lican ideas and repub'ican principles in the last five years than in the pre vious 10o .years."' '. W. E. West Acquitted. AMES". la.. Feb. 14. The trial of W. E. West of Grand Forks. Minn., for killing Frank March, has resulted .in his acquittal after a three weeks' ses sion. Report of Tolstoi's Death. VIENNA. Feb. 15. The Nieus Wie ner Journal publishes an unconfirmed rumor that Count Tolstoi is dead. A bill was introduced in congress by Delegate Flynn. providing for two additional judges in Oklahoma and placing judicial salaries- in the terri tory at $5.CmX a year. Introduces Treason Bill. WASHINGTON. Feb. 15. Senator Hoar today offered the following amendment to the Philippine tariff bill .now pending in the senate, the provision to be inserted at the end: "No person in the Philippine, islands shall, under the authority of the Uni ted States, be convicted of treason by any tribunal, civil or military, unless upon the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act or confession in open court." Fitz Says He is Willing. NEW YORK. Feb. 15.-VRobert Fitz Simmons said today that he would ac cept a proposition made by James Jef fries for a fiaish contest between them, the winner to take 60 per cent and the loser V- per cent of the purse. Fitzsimmoas said he was willing tc sign articles at any time, and the only stipulation he .wished to make was that the wiaaer should have all of the proceeds derived from the picture privilege. 'I THE STATE FAIR FOR 1902. Officers Elected and Class Superin tendents Chosen. LINCOLN, Neb., Feb. 15. Officers were elected and class superintend ents chosen by the State Board "of Ag riculture to supervise the work of the coming state fair, ihe premium list was also revised. It was practically decided to hold evening entertain ments at the fair grounds next fall. The following officers were elected: General superintendent. William Fas ter, Sal til lo; superintendent of gates, E. 31. Searle jr.. Ogalalla; superin tendent of agricultural hall, J. R Cantlin. Blair; superintendent of art hall. W. A. Poynter, Lincoln; super intendent of transportation, O. M. Druse. Lincoln ; superintendent of for age, Charles Mann,. Chadron; superin tendent of booths, George C. Furnas, Lincoln; superintendent of amphithe ater, A. L. Stillson, York; chief of po lice, George W. Overmeier. Kearney. The following class superintendents wer named: E. I. Vance, Pawnee City, horses and mules; Elijah Filley, Beatrice, cattle; R. M. Wolcott, Ar cher, sheep; L. W. Leonard, Pawnee City, swine; C. M. Llewwellyn, Bea ver City, poultry; L. Morse, Benkle man, farm products; Mrs. G. H. Dev ereux, Omaha, women's textile depart ment: Mrs. F. M. Hall, Lincoln, fine arts; S. C. Bassett, Gibbon, dairy; Charles Fordyce, University Place, ed ucation; E. Newcomb, Friend, bees and honey; W. H. Barger. Hebron, me chanical arts; H. L. Cook, St Paul, machinery; W. H. Barger, Hebron, in struments; county collective exhibits, W. E. Ewing, Franklin; discretionary, Y- H. Barger; speed. George F. Dick man, Seward. DESPERATE FIGHT FOR MONEY. Farmer Resists Robbers Until Beaten Into Unconsciousness. GRAND ISLAND, Neb., Feb. 15. Thomas R. Varah. a prominent far mer residing five miles southeast of Doniphan, was assaulted and robbed of $65 in his own home, between 9 and 10 o'clock at night. He was alone in the house with his children, the other members of the family, includ ing his son-in-lavr, having gone to a dance a quarter of a mile distant. Varah was awakened by a handker chief over his mouth. He threatened to call his son-in-law, but was inform ed by the robbers that his son-in-law was at the dance, showing that the robbers had been posted. They ordered him to get out of bed and go down stairs. Varah had been at Hastings the day before and in a business transaction had secured $250 in cash.. On the way down stairs he took the larger of the rolls of bills and tucked it under his drawers. leav ing only $G5 in his trousers' pocket. All but this amount was therefore saved. Farmer Killed by a Bull. NORT BEND. Neb., Feb. 15. A farmer named Fred Ladehoff was kill ed by a bull ia his feed yard near this place. His small son saw the animal rolling him along the ground on his horns and ran to tell his mother. When the two arrived at the yard they suc ceeded in driving the animal away, but Mr. Ladehoff was dead. It had bscn scarcely half an hour since he left his house. The man's left side was crush ed and all the ribs broken on that side. His head "and face were bruised and his arms broken. In Interest of Old Veterans. HUMBOLDT. Neb., Feb. 15. Cap tain J. P. Grinstead of this city, who served two years in the Philippines with the, Twenty-second regiment of United States volunteers and who was mustered out last spring and returned home, has gone to Washington to work with a number of his brother of ficers to secure desired changes in the army bill, which they believe discrim inated against a few by reason of the age limit, preventing their getting proper credit and advancement. Raising Angora Goats. CALLAWAY. Neb.. Feb. 15. Morri son Bros., ranchmen, have just enter ed into a new industry for this por tion of the country, having received seventy head of fine Angora goats, which they have placed on their ranch near their place. As the increase of these animals will more than double in a year's time, it is thought they are a paying investment. It is said they are more healthful than either cattle or sheep. Root Returns to Work. WASHINGTON. Feb. 14. Although still suffering with a severe cold. Sec retary Root today resumed his duties at the war department. Arrests for Theft of Swine. BROKEN BOW. Neb.. Feb. 15. Chris Burhof of Roten Valley, in the southwest part of Custer county, was arrested and lodged in jail by Deputy Sheriff Richardson on the charge of stealing thirteen hogs of James Byler about Christmas. .Elisha Furgerson. who is charged with being an associ ate in the theft, was arrested at Kio wa. Wash., and is to be brought here. The hogs were sold at Cozad the morning after they, were stolen. Real Estate Men Elect. ETJPWOXT. Xeh. Feb. 15. Tn roil estate dealers perfected a permanent organization under the name of the Nebraska Real Estate Dealers' asso ciation and elected these officers: President, James Conklin cf Franklin; secretary, J. F. Hansen of Fremont; treasurer, R. E. Moore of Lincoln r vice presidents. H. C. Smith of Falls City. G. G Wallace of Omaha, Alonzo Thompeon of Fallerton. A. D- Curtis of Geneva. SENATORBY VOTE HOUSE ADOPTS RESOLUTION FOR POPULAR ELECTION. MEASURE HAS NO OPPOSITION Bill to Construct Bridge at St. Joseph is Among Those Passed Ex-Confederates to Be Reimbursed for Loss of Side-Arms. WASHINGTON, Feb. 14. The house yesterday unanimously adopted a res olution proposing an amendment to the constitution cf the United States for the election cf senators by dire't popular vote. There was no demand for time to debate the resolution. This is the fourth time the house has adopted a similar resolution. Two bills of general importance were passed by the house, the re mainder of the time being devoted to minor business. One was a senate bill to provide for the payment of claims of confederate officers and soldiers whose horses, side arms and baggage were taken from them by union sol diers, contrary to the terms cf the surrender of Lee's and Johnson's armies. The amount to be paid un der the bill was limited to J50.CO0. The other bill was to confer on the Spanish claims commission authority to send for persons and papers and to punish for contempt. A bill also was passed to grant to the White River Railroad company the right to construct a railroad a?ros the government lands in Independence county, Arkansas. Speaking to a pro forma amend ment to the latter bill. Mr. Corliss (rep.) of Michigan, who is the author of the bill to provide for the laying of a government cable from San Francisco to Manila, addressed the house on the cable project H2 was opposed, he said, to congress yielding concessions to private cable monop olies, notably the Commercial Cable company, controlled by the Mackay Bennett forces, and dwelt on the im portance of the United States operat ing its own cable lines. "The right to construct cable 1 n?s," he said, "is an inherent right or the nation. No one has a right to lay a cable without permission of con gress. There is no law in existence by which cables can be laid." "Ccngress," he continued, "has as sumed the right to control ihe con struction and operation of cable lines to Alaska. Is it not far more im portant for the maintenance of peace and for the welfare of cur people to contrcl eablp communicat'on with Hawaii, the Phi'ippines and the other islands in the Pacific?" The following bills were passed: To authorize a bridge across the Arkansas river near Fort G.bscn, I. T.; to construct a bridge acrcss the Misscuri river at St. Joseph. Mo., and to authorize the Memphis. Helena & Louisiana railrcad to construct bridges across the White and Arkansas rivers. When the committee on election of president, vice president and repre sentatives in ccngress was considered. Mr. Corliss called up the jo'nt resolu tion proposing a constitutional amend ment to provide for the election of senators of the Un:ted States by pop ular vote. He expla:ned that the resolution was practically identical with the one passed by the house in several congresses and said he did not think it necessary to discuss the meas ure. STRIKES CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. Ohio House Passes a Bill Imposing Penalty. COLUMBUS. O.. Feb. 14. The house today passed a bill aimed at Christian Scientists. It provides that any parent or guardian who shall willfully deprive any sick child un der IS years of age sha'.l be fined from $10 to $200, or imprisoned for six months or both. A bill was introduced appropriat ing $75,000 for a state building and exhibit at the St. Louis exposition. The position of the house on the proposition of abandoning the canals was indicated today when a bill pro viding for the adbandonment of a remnant of the Wabash and Erie ca nal in Paulding county was passed. Only two votes were recorded against the measure. Warts Kiel Canal Widened. BERLIN. Feb. li. The German Nautical society of Hamburg has passed a resolution for the widening.' of tie Kiel canal, as this canal has already reached its traffic capacity. Too Many American Hogs. BERLIN, Feb. 14. The Association of German Swine Breeders, which has assembled here, has discussed the scarcity of hogs suitable for butcher ing. The general secretary of the ' association, Herr Burkhart explain ed that the unrestrained importation of American bacon and lard was com pletely ruining the German fattening business and making Germany entire ly dependent on the hog markets ot the United States. Germans Visit Officers. NEW YORK. Feb. 14. Rear Ad irirai Count Baudissin. commandei of the German imperial yacht Hohen zolisrn. beran to pay return calls tc the city officials and military and na val officers whose representatives were receired on the Hohenzollem yesterday. The rear adoiraL in full dress uniform of the German navy accompanied by an aide and the Ger man: consul, General Bnenz. paid his ! respects to Rear Admiral. Barker. I FOR GOVERMENT EXHIBIT. House Committee and St. Louis Man Discuss Appropriation. WASHINGTON, Feb. 14. The o- cials of the government board for the St. Louis exposition and a number of St. Louis men identified with that enterprise today were before the bouse committee on expositions rela tive to the amount required for the government exhibit. Congress has heretofore appropri ated 1250.000 as a part of the amouat for the building, but the amount for the exhibit itself was left open. Assistant Secretary of Agriculture Brigham, head of the government board, and his assistants calculate oa I800.C0O for the exhibit. They also desire a building to cost $450,000. Supervising Architect Taylor of the Treasury department stated that the building would cost from 150,000 to $75,000 more if built within the time originally set for opening the exposi tion than it would if another year was allowed. The various officials explained the magnitude of the work and the plana to make this government exhibit in every way worthy of the enterprise as a whole. RUSSIA LIKELY TO PLAY EVEN. Austrian Papers See a Way to Be Re venged. VIENNA, Feb. 14. The Anglo-Japanese treaty of alliance is the feature of today's news in the Austrian news papers and Russia's probable action is widely discussed. The consensus of opinion among those who are gen erally in touch with Russian views is that the militant Muscovites will endeavor to revenge themselves by stirring up disorders in Afghanistan, while the Russian government will lie low, awaiting the moment when Jap an, having organized the military forces of China, will join hands with the latter and drive out all Euro peans with the exception of the Rus sians, who. by that time, will occupy an impregnable position in Manchu ria. Some of the papers affect to see in the publication of the treaty at the time when Admiral Prince Henry of Prussia is starting for the United States "Great Britain's reply to Ger many's reapproachment with the Uni ted States." NOW OUT OF DANGER. Young Roosevelt is on the Road to Recovery. GROTON. Mass., Feb. 14. The most eventful day 'at the Groton school since Theodore Roosevelt, jr., became ill closed with the departure o President Roosevelt for Washing ton late last evening. Before that the president, in the homely phrase "Ted has improved with such rapid jumps that I am sure he is out of the woods." had told to the world of the lead lifted from his mind. The day was full of happiness for the president and Mrs. Roosevelt, and for all at the infirmary or near the school grounds. The first report from the bedside of young Roosevelt showed that he bad passed a good night. After the morning examina tion by the doctors it was announced that the boy's condition was pro gressing favorably. The report said that the lungs were clearing well, although the patient was still in the second stage of pleuro-pneumonia. known to medical men as the stage of education. Olympia Ready for Prince. NEW YORK. Feb. 14. The United States cruiser Olympia. Captain Hen ry Lyman commanding, went into the harbor from Boston and dropped an chor off Tompkinsville. S. I., about 1 o'clock. Olympia comes here to par ticipate in the naval reception of Prince Henry, after which it will pro ceed south to become the flagship of Rear Admiral Higginson. commanding the North Atlantic squadron, now in West Indian waters. Killed Quail. WATERLOO, la.. Feb. 14. For shooting six quail Harry Fields, taxi dermist for the state normal school, was fined $125 by Justice Hildebrant. Fields will take an appeal, as he holds that he had a right to kill the quail for scientific purposes. Commissioner of Indian Affairs Jones has given formal notice that the new leases of the 480.000 acres of KIcwa Indian lands in Oklahoma, bor dering on Texas, will take effect April 17, as originally proposed. An effort had been made to have the date post poned some months. Merging Express Companies. SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 14. The Cal intimates that the four big ex press companies of the country the Adams. American, United States and Wells-Farg(j may merge into one corporation. It says that "word comes by private message from the east that E. H. Harriman. president of the Southern Pacific company, will be elected to the presidency of the Wells-Fargo Express company at the next meeting of the stockholders." For Educating the South. NEW YORK. Feb. 14. A movement to organize educational work in the United States, especially in the south, i on a scale larger than has ever been attempted heretofore, has been gain ing ctrength rapidly in this city with in a few weeks, says the Tribune. It hzz attracted the favor of a dozen or mere men; cf great wealth, among t them John D. Rcckefeller and his som. j who are said to have determined to give needed flnaacisl support. ASKS ANNEXATION f JFH.IPINOS PETITION FOR PERMA- t; NENT UNION WITH AMERICA. fc WAiEIOwULT0CmfiESS $r . 'ays Natives Desire a Definite Civil Farm af Government All Provinces -' Except Two Said Now to Be Peace fuL WASHINGTON. Feb. 13. The me morial of the federal party of the Philippine islands was transmitted to the senate yesterday by the secretary C war, together with a letter of tramsmittal by Governor Taft, in whose charge the document was given. The memorial was adopted at an ex traordinary sessIon"or the federal party held in Manila in Noevmber. It sets forth that the performance of that obligation of the treaty of Paris which gave the United States congress au thority to fix the statutes of the Phil ippine islands, has been deferred to this time because of the attack by the Filipinos upon the sovereignty of the United States, an act brought about, the memorial says, through a misunderstanding and not through hatred of the American sovereignty. It further states that out of the sixty provinces and districts war ex ists in only two Batatngas and Sa mar. It also asserts that it is a dem onstrated fact that the pueblos, or towns, anxiously desire a "definitive civil rule," and says that those who are still in arms allege the lack of a civil regime, "agreed upon and pro mulgated by the congress of the United States as a weighty pretext far their belligerent attitude, which regime shall determine at once the political status and civil rights of the inhab itants of the archipelago in accord ance with the treaty of Paris." The memorial then makes a pres entation of the deduction of the fed eral party that congress should pro ceed to carry into effect its intention of defining the future of the Philip pines in their relations to the United States and asserts that there is no reason for not replacing the military regime "by a civil rule of a popular character in conformity with the de cisive words of the never-to-be-forgotten President McKinley." The memorial proper is divided into two parts. The first of these is a pe tition for annexation and a presenta tion of the form of government de sired. In this subdivision the federal party sets forth that' it has made an exhaustive study of both the Filipinos and the Americans and concludes that from the mass of data collected it is "the intention of the two peoples that they should never be disunited." The memorial then proceeds: To make the Philippines a co'ony of the United States or to grant in dependence to the Philippines wouid be to hand the islands over to disorder and to anarchy, to destruction and to chaos. In effect the colonial system involves the principles of difference of citizenship, in equality of rights and other consequent abuses and in justices, of all of which we Filipinos were surfeited under the Spanish gov ernment, and for this reason we re ject everything which tends toward a colony. Philippine independence, with or without a protectorate, means a holding of power by all the tribal ele ments of the secas which predominate, and would predominate still for years, until the anger of Filipinos toward Filipinos shall have become complete ly calmed, education become general and the fanaticism we have inherited from Spain exiled. Federation or an nexation would settle all these difficul ties by concentrating the interest of the Filipino people upon education and labor. HOPE FOR AMERICAN SUPPORT. British Papers Think We Sympathize with Alliance. LONDON, Feb. 13. The liberal aft ernoon newspapers view the al.iance between Great Britain and Japan with mixed feelings and consarvative or gans generally applaud it. The St. James Gazette (conservative) express es "modified surprise at this wide de parture from British traditional pol icy," but finds solace in the thought that the policy and interests of the United States are identical with those of Great Britain and Japan, and con cludes: "Perhaps we shall find, when the policy of Great Britain is definitely known, that the United States is formally cr informally a party to the league of peace in the far east At any rate, no effort should be spared to secure its adhesion." Destroys Many Buildings. PITTSBURG, Feb. 13. An early morning fire- at Haverhill, Pa., on the West Penn railroad, destroyed $75,000 I worth of property and for a time threatened the entire place. The fire started in the plant of the Duquesne Distributing company and before it was under control consumed the main structure, a four-story brick building. the First Methodist Episcopal church: postoffice and Thompson's general store, a large frame building. 1 Cling to Spring Shooting. SIOUX CITY. la., Feb. 13. The Soo Gun club, whose membership includes 168 sportsmen in Sioux City and vi cinity, opposes the proposed passage f a bill by the Iowa legislature to prohibit shooting of all kinds. The clnb decided to call upon the legisla tors to oppose the bill, and C. C. Ham ilton, cowrt reporter, who is president of the club, and H. H. Hawman, ex chief of police, who is captain, will ha scat to lofcby against it. k..hh-:-h-:-'M'S iimi! IMFF TFIFGaMIK fiimiiiniumtiiimiT R. L. Deakin, pioneer and legislator. Is dead at St Paul. On February 1 his wife died, and while standing by her body he was stricken with paraly sis. The eleventh Continental Congress .of the Daughters of the American Rev olution is to be held in Washingtoa during the week commencing Febru ary 17. Unwilling to face her husbftnd in a compromising situation. Mrs. Lydia Timmons. wife of J. L. Timmons of Edwardsville, Kan., attempted suicide at Omaha. Emperor William visited at the al cohol exhibition which was opeaed in Berlin, and showed keen interest in the plans for introducing alcohol fuel on warships. - - The Virginia constitutional conven tion is to recommend that city, like county, treasurers should not be eli gible to re-election after two terms of four years each. Secretary of the Navy Long, in the statement sent to the senate, says the total cost of the new navy has been $99,803,928 for construction and $9, 343,233 for repairs. A report by the Illinois state board of health shows that smallpox in that state is rapidly declining, the number of cases now extant being 1,000 less than on January 1. Tommy Ryan and Australian Tim Murphy have signed articles for a ten round boxing contest at catch weights before the Tuxedo club in Kansas City Tuesday night. February 25. It is related of Samuel Alvin Sper ry. who has just died in Reno county. Kansas, that he was one of a family of fourteen children, all of whom liv ed to be more than 75 years old. Ex-Senator Chandler says President Roosevelt has set a pace in his atten tion to the transaction of public busi ness that will kill any of his suc cessors who may attempt to keep it up. Temp Percifiefd. an expressman of Chariton. Iowa, received word from Mexico. Mo., that his grandfather has died at an advanced age and left him a portion of his estate, valued at $20, 000. General Manager Dickinson of the Union Pacific, while on a trip over the southern lines.' received a tele gram announcing the death cf his brother, James Dickinson, in Cleve land, O. Representative Cooper of Texas In troduced a bill to provide for the se lection of a site for a United States naval station and dry dock on or near Sabine Pass, cr the Neches or Sabine river. Texas. Senator Dietrich introduced a bill extending the time allowed for the Omaha & Northern railroad to con struct a railroad and erect stations on the Omaha and Winnebago reserva tions until 1906. In the senate yesterday a hill ap propriating $200,000 for the erection of a public building at Newcastle, Pa., was passed at the request of Mr. Quay of Pennsylvania, crease of $4,036. A special dispatch received in Lon don from Rome says that at a meeting of representatives of Italian lodges of Free Masons it was decided that Ital ian Free Masonry should cease to be a secret society. Former Lieutenant Diraison of the French army announces that he has now given full satisfaction to all per sons offended by his book, "Les Mart times," and will now devote himself to the advertising of his work. Robbers tunneled into a bank at Muskegon, Mich., and secured $125 in bills. The gross receipts of the Omaha postoffice for the month of January were $40,259. against $35,223 for the same period of last year The condition of General Fnnston. who was operated on recently at Kan sas City, is much improved. The Mexican government has voted $20,000 in aid of the victims of the earthquake at Chilpancingo and the 'City of Mexico will send. aid also. ' Miss Nancy Roberts died at Port land, Ore., aged 109 years. She came from Missouri to Oregon in 1852. Attorney W. A. Lewis of Spokane was sentenced to seven years in the penitentiary for the theft of $7,000 from one of his clients. Pottawattamie Indians near Guthrie, Okl.. are preparing to migrate to Ta maulipas. Mexico. Small. Maynard & Co.. publishers of Boston, have made an assignment. No statement of assets or liabilities is given. General Joseph Wheeler told a boys brigade in Philadelphia the other night that his earnest hope is that we shall never have another war. and he aded that there will never be 1 Z M - any necessity ior one u an persona LwUl be good." H. T. Oxnard, as president of the American Beet Sugar association, presented to the ways and means committee of the house a petitioa urg ing that a committee be sent to Cuba to obtain the actual facts regarding the condition of the Cuban planters. Grand lodge, Ancient Order of Uni ted Workmen, convened in biennial session. Reports showed that the or der had increased from 4.496 to f,555. Benefits paid during the past two years aggregate $212,584.21, aa in crease of $47,431.02. Major E. Latta of Waterloo, la., ha3 been appointed a pressman in ths gov ernment printing office. At Portland, Ind.. Congressman Cro mer was nominated for the thirl time over Messrs. Shockney and Duncan. Thirteen ballots were taken. aiout newspaper emmes. ThT Hav CMlts. Sohm or Which AppiT to CwMtltaUamL The average critic of the newspaper does not own stock in any newspaper ann does not know the cost of getting the news. The chances are that he has never consciously met a reporter. Yet most of what he knows from reading outside of his own business or profes sion has been taught him by the news papers. They show him every day that the world is not what he waits it to be and it is hard for him to learn their lessons and -serially hard to make allowances for their faults. He may be lazy they are industrious for him; he may be stupid they are ia tplligent for him: he may be timid they are bold for him: yet he de nounces the newspapers. When a reporter, working day aad night, throws the ardor of youth or the pity of age into tragic scenes from court where every one with a bright heart was in tears he denounces the newspapers: When an editorial- which he hunts for before breakfast in order to know what to think im mediately after some momentous trag edy is not exhaustive, he denounces the newspapers. His especial condem nation is bestowed upon what he calls the vulgar publicity of the newspa pers. When he reads enough papers or ex tends his reading beyond his newspa pers and his business, or. better still. tries to prevent some injustice, he may learn that vulgar publicity is often a safeguard of justice. Good taste and the modest reserve of private life too often tempt the critic to shrink from an open fight -with oppression. One ot the arts of the leading criminals among politicians is to scare off the private citizen by warning him that evil communications corrupt good manners. But public spirit "is much F more robust and efficient, says the At lantic Monthly, when coupled with a familiar knoVledge of the vulgar world. TALKING TO ONE'S SELF. BaUaff 1 Coaiaioa That It Is a Syaia tam of laaaaity. Talking to one's self has this obvious advantage over any other form of ora tory or gossip one is assured of a sympathetic audience. But it has also this peculiar draw back it is supposed to be one of the early symptoms of insanity. Wrongly so, perhaps. A mad doctor might rule the habit out of his diagnosis. Nevertheless the popular belief is firmly rooted. And it is for fear of this belief, doubtless, that we talk to ourselves, even as we dress our hair with straws, so rarely. It may be said that we never do address ourselves at any length except in the delirium of a fever. In moments of ordinary ex citement, of course, we utter to the wind some sort of appropriate ejacu lation. Delight wrings from us a cry of "Hurrah!" or "Thank heaven!" even though there be none by to echo us. Similarly in any disgust we emit one of those sounds whose rather poor equivalents in print are "Ughtf and "Faugh!" "D n!" and "Tut!" Much farther than this we do not go. "Why. what an ass am I!" cries Hamlet in one of his soliloquies. Omitting the first word and transposing the last two, the ordinary modern man does often soliloquize to that extent. But he could no more soliloquize to Hamlet's extent than he could speak in deca syllabics. Nor is there any reason to suppose that that class of the community with which, contemptuous of his own flu ency, Hamlet compared himself, is or ever was more prone to sol I loonies we cannot accept Hamlet as an unbiased authority. We merely find in him the possible origin of the belief that talking to one's self is a bad sign. Thoaxht tha Doctor Kaaw. At the last annual meeting of the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States Maj. John Van R. Hoff. in the course of his speech accepting the presidency of the association, told 1 the following story: "A lady was pass ing through the wards of an over crowded military hosiptal when she suddenly encountered two men sawing and hammering on some boards. She looked at them in some surprise and wonderingly asked: 'What are you do ing there, my menr They looked up at her and one of them said: 'What are we doing? Why, we are making a coftln, that's what we are doing. 'A coffin?' she asked. 'For whom are you making a coffin?' 'For that fellow over there in that bed. Don't you see himr The lady looked in the direction indi cated and saw a man apparently in good condition and watching the oper ation with great interest. 'Why. that man is not dead. and. indeed, he does not look as if he were going to die. Can't you postpone this work? 'No.' the men said, 'we can't postpone ir The doctor told us to make the coffin, and he knows what he gave him." WoaMa'a Sbrawd Basiaeaa Sanaa. Miss Ella Connard of New York, un til recently, was employed by a life insurance company in that city, where her shrewd business sense had come under the notice of an official of the Pennsylvania Railroad company. The company was desirous of purchasing some land in West Thirty-fourth street to be used as terminals, but did not wish this fact to become public, for the reason that publicity of that kind would inevitably put the, price away up. Miss Connard was employed to negotiate for the property, and so well did she manage that the company was saved a vast sum. the total payment being in millions. The clever young woman's commission was of such pro portions that she will have a comfort able income for life- a Gaaaraaa Mn. - Mr. Newlywed (solicitously) And how do you get along with the butcher, love Mrs. Newlywed Oh. splendidly. He is aach a generous man. Mortimer. When "I order a four-pound roa3t he always sends one weighing six or ?even. 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