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'f Ste I. TSHHHI r ::'3bW!mni n' ri"-u(mM 'mm --." ' r;& w Sw&SJrw :l: r 1 ?T & -- - 1 US? v lVfffffffWfTVfj THE NEBRASKA LEGISLATURE i A Synopsis off Procoadlngi in Both Brsvnohos of the) Twenty-Eighth GoneraJ Assembly. gaaMaaaaaMItMaaasaMMaasaaaa SENATE. la the seaate oa the 27th the Brady le vator bill, senate file No. MB. was re ported back to the senate by the railroad committee with amendments. Senate file JCo, 95. providing that Insurance com panies organized under the laws of Ne braska may transact a general Insurance business, and house roll No. 46, to pro vide that school districts shall pay the cost of their treasurer's bond, cam up for final reading and were passed. Sen ate file No. 32. providing that railroad companies organised under the laws of Nebraska shall not be subject to the limit of Indebtedness which applies to other corporations; senate file No. 43, which provides that landlords shall have a Ilea upon the crops and all personal property of their tenants, and senate file No. 182. providing for a soldiers aad sail ors relief commission, were reported back by committees, with the recom mendation that they be placed oa gen eral file for passage. In committee of the whole, house roll No. 49, providing that a lease to take effect one year after making must be In writing, was consid ered and recommended for passage. At 2 o'clock the senate adjourned to the house to take part la the services la memory of J. Sterling Morton. The fol lowing bill was Introduced and read for the first time: S. F. 231. by Senator Hall of Douglas To legalise acknowl edgements and oaths heretofore taken and administered by commissioners of deeds. H. R. 46, providing that a lease to ba valid must be made In writing, came up on third reading In the senate on the 2d and failed to pass. Thla to the first bill which has failed of passage on the final vote since the senate has been la session. In committee of the whole H. R. M, giving township ofilcers authority to provide cemeteries, was recommended for passage. 8. F. 34. memorialising congress to establish the true military status of the First Nebraska militia, has been sign ed by the governor. 8enator O'Neill Is In receipt of a petition over fifty feet In length and carrying over 1.000 signatures, asking for the passage of 8. F. 52. the lien law. The petition Is signed princi pally by contractors and carpenters. It has been circulated In the following cit ies: Lincoln. Tecumseh. Tork. Craig. Os ceola, Greeley, Plattsmouth and several others. Senator Hall has a bill prepared which provides that female laborers may work more than sixty hours per week if an agreement is made with the em ployer to that effect. As the law stands sixty hours Is the limit of time which can be put In by female laborers In one week, and It is claimed this works a hardship In many cases. Where girls are employed on piecework, and where they can put In overtime for pay. the law pre vents them from doing so and thus re duces their wages quite materially. Sen ator Hall asks that laboring women cor respond with him and express their opin ion of such a revision of the law. The following bills were introduced and read for the first time: A memorial and joint resolution requesting that the federal for est reserve be Increased. To provide for the establishment and regulation of tele phone rates and service In dtles of the metropolitan class. In the -senate on the 3d senate file No. 173 was placed on the general file, with the recommendation that It be passed. This bill provides for the regulation, treatment and control of dependent, neg lected and delinquent children. The dis trict and probate courts of all counties of the state will have original Jurisdic tion In all cases coming within the terms of this act. H. R. 167. requesting con gres to amend the constitution so that senators may be elected by a direct vote f the people, was referred back by the committee, with the recommendation that It be passed. S. F. 144. requesting the Nebraska delegation In congress to support an appropriation for a larger navy: 8. F. 106. requiring Insurance com panies to file semi-annual statements of their financial condition with the state auditor, and S. F. 123. providing a decree of divorce shall not be operative until six months after trial and decision, were referred back by committees for passage. H. R. IS. empowering township boards to establish and maintain cemeteries, was read the third time and passed. In committee of the whole 8. F. 72. provid ing for the election of certain county efllcers for a period of four years, was Indefinitely postponed. H. R. 40, which waa voted on yesterday and failed to re ceive a majority of the votes cast, was taken up again on a motion to recon sider and was passed. The bill provides that a lease to be valid must be In writing. 8. F. 11. providing for the ten are of office of the commissioners and stenographers of the supreme court, waa read the third time and passed. Sheldon of Cass introduced In the sen ate on the 4th two bills to abolish the board of visitors to the 8old!ers' homes at Grand Island and SUlford. The law at present provides that the governor appoint a board of five, who shall make rules and regulations regarding the homes and have general supervision over the commandants. The bills introduced grant this power to the governor, and he shall have power to name the amount of compensation to be paid the employ as and commandants of the homes: and to provide rules by which they shall be conducted. The governor Is also re quired to visit the homes once every three months. The office of quartermas ter to abolished, and the duties of the office devolve upon the adjutant. 8. F. ff, providing for the nomination of coun ty commissioners by districts and elec tion by county vote, occasioned much debate. The bill was ordered engrossed. Hsll of Douglas Introduced a bill pro viding that the standard of time through out the state shall be that of the 96th meridian of longitude west from Green wich, the central standard of time, by which all legal business shall be regu lated. Mr. Hall Introduced the bUl be cause la different parts of the state different standards of time are used. The county officers' bill by Sloan of Fillmore, to Increase the tenure of office to four years, was killed la rotatloa like clock-work. There were five or six of them, and after three had been Indef initely postponed O'Neill of Lancaster moved. In order to save time, to Indefi nitely postpone every bill Introduced by Slpaa. This, however.-waa not put. aad the bills died the regulation death. 8. F. 8. providing that county commission ers he elected by vote of the county Instead of by vote of districts, ordered engrossed. 8. F. 64. that hereafter no claim for subscription for newspaper. magazine or other periodical shall be valid for more than the time actually subscribed for: indefinitely postponed. 8. F. 90. to provide for the auperaedeaa of cases appealed 'to the supreme court; ordered engrossed. HOUSE. The house catered uooa the thirty. atxth legislative day oa the 2d. The at was irregular, some when for sickness, others he- ef detention by the severe atarm 1p their part of the state. The entire tare hours was devoted to bills oa asc end reading. Ne other order of b after en the 3d the took up consideration of H. R. Stt through the reports of the committee oa ctttoa aad towns. The majority of that committee. McClay of Lancaster. Crop aey of Jefferson. Ferrar of Hall. Caasell of Otoe aad Roberta of Dodge, recom mended the bill for Indefinite postpone ment, aad the minority, consisting of Gilbert aad Nelson of Douglas. Sweaty of Adams aad Beecher of Platte, recom mended It for passage. A good deal of dtocuaatoa took place.- Loomls of Dodge vigorously pleaded for the MIL The prin ciple Involved In It he declared to be of the moat vital concern to every taxpayer of Nebraska and added that It waa of more Importance than anything that would com before this legllslature. For that reason he thought the house would seriously err If It summarily killed the MIL Ho said the opponents of the bill were not lacking In ability to discuss the measure In committee of the whole nor were Its friends unable to hold up their end of the argument. No harm, there fore, could be done by placing the bill on general file. The vote to concur la the majority report was S3: against 38; thus the bill waa killed. H. R. X. by Gilbert of Douglas, the South Omaha charter bill, came back from the committee on cities and towns, by majority and minor ity reports. It was amended In a num ber of ways, the point of difference being the amendment providing for direct taxa tion of railroad terminals. The major ity waa against the clause and the minority. Gilbert. Nelson of Douglas and Sweesy of Adams, were for it. The ma jority report, that the bill, as amended, knocking out the taxation clause, waa sustained. Among other amendments to the bill to one providing that the rail roads keep up repairs oa the viaducts, which clause waa left out of the original MIL The Shelly bUl. providing for a governor-appointed board of fire and po lice commissioners, was Incorporated la the bill, as a compromise for the exten sion of the time of city election In South Omaha to the spring of 1994, Instead of having It come off thla year. A petition was read from the citizens of Franklin county, praying for an amendment to the revenue Mil so as to elect county assessors for four years and employ su bordinate In the house on the 4th the judiciary commltte reported for passage H. R. 4. by Nelson of Douglas, the measure pro viding a negotiable Instrument law un iform with that of twenty-one other states. The bill was held up by the com mittee to hear from lawyers, the ma jority of whom are said to be In favor of It, while some bankers are said to be opposed to It. as It imposes more stringent regulations on the bankers In making out their protest papers. A res olution by Knox of Buffalo was adopted providing for the printing of 1.000 more copies of the general revenue bill. 1.060 copies already having been printed. These bills were passed: H. R. 112, by Deles Dernier of Cass, the famous "bridge bill," that has occasioned more debate In the house than any single measure, without the emergency clause. H. R. 134. by Gregg of Wayne. Increas ing salaries of county superintendents in thirty-seven counties of the state. H. R. 187. by Robblns of Sage, providing for appointment of election officers by county commissioners. H. R. 127. by Meradlth of Tork. prohibiting the sale of Intoxicating liquors within two miles of an army post, excluding It from oper ation la Douglas county. S. F. 29, by Warner of Dakota, providing for pay ment of fees to the commissioner of pub lic lands and buildings. Bills on first reading included the following: To amend section 6 of the Code of Civil Procedure so as to allow action of re covery against trespasser after expira tion of ten-year limit. To provide for the government, regulation, examination, reporting and winding up of the business of tontine Investment associations. To declare the place of delivery of Intoxicat ing liquor to be the place of sale. To require persons sentenced to the peniten tiary to be taken thereto within five days. Appropriating $2,609 for the relief of the people suffering from famine In northern Sweden. Norway and Finland. Emergency clause. To erect and equip at the Institute for the Blind at Ne braska City a plant for furnishing water, light and refrigeration. Appropriates m.sm. LEGISLATIVE NOTES. Belden of Richardson has Introduced In the house another bill cutting off the fat feea of the clerk of the supreme court. It goes farther than the other measure and fixes the salary for the reporter, clerk and librarian of the su preme court, who Is the same Individual, at $1,566 a year for all services rendered. It allows the clerks two assistants, one of whom shall be a stenographer, and receive not more than $1,300. and three additional clerks at $680 each a year. Mr. Belden said It Is the same bill he Intro duced two years ago. He thinks that as the session Is so near an end there will be little chance of the bill's passage. Close on the death of H. R. 330 Is born another measure contemplating taxatton of railroad terrmlnals for municipal pur poses, constructed on the same funda mental principle as both house rolls 171 and 339. This new bill was Introduced in the senate by Saunders of Douglas. Douglas county members assert that this Is their first step In renewing the fight, and that It will be followed by others calculated to force the sanction of this proposition upon this legislature. The Saunders Mil merely provides that the railroad property shall be assessed and taxed on Its fair cash value for city purposes the same as other property, and that In fixing the standards of as sessment and taxation the figures as re turned by the State Board of Equalisa tion shall not be taken by the city tax commissioner, except for school pur poses. A bill has been Introduced by Roberts of Dodge providing for the creation of the new state department of architec ture. It provides that the governor shall be the official head of the department and may appoint a deputy at a salary yearly of $3,089; that this deputy shall be a competent architect and have charge of the erection and repair of all state buildings and be allowed additional help at modest prices. Robblns of Gage, in the house, wants a building erected at Beatrice for the -Nebraska Institute for Feeble Minded Youths at a cost of $25,660. and he Intro duced a bill asking the legislature to set aside this amount. INVESTIGATION OF BARTLET MAT TER. This resolution waa Introduced In the house oa the 3d: Whereas, There Is an effort being made to relieve the official bondsmen of Joseph 8. Bartley, and. Whereas. Ie being of common report that there to or has been in existence a much-mooted cigar box containing h formatloB aa to why It has become acc essary for his official bondsmen to ask for legislative relief, therefore, be It Resolved, by this house. That It be re quired that the aforesaid cigar box. to gether with its contents, be produced before this body for 'official Investiga tion, aad that this house appoint a com mittee of five members of this body 'to prosecute this tavesUgaUon and be em powered to call for all papers and com pel the afpoaraace, of all Mln t Mm hto WVeatlcatioa ttS I im sert- Rsselved. That this empowered to mvesUgate the osactel conduct ef ex-State Ireuwer Jeha M K(Hm recutita hto alleged acceptance and retsattoa eC iaterest eeUeetei upea money beteaelag to the atoto which. It to altered. he had loaned aad deposited In certala banks la thla atoto. NEW JUDICIAL DISTRICTS. Reoreseatotlve Sweesy ef Adams completed his Mil for the reapportloa- ment of the judicial districts la the state. It makes some interesting changes. Leav ing the number ef districts, fifteen, the same, it cuts dowa the aumber ef judges from twenty-eight to twenty-one. taking one from the Tihrd district aad one from the Fourth. The Third district to com posed entirely of Lancaster county, with Lincoln as Its center, having- three judges, and the Fourth of Douglas. Washington. Sarpy and Burt, with Omaha aa Its cen ter and a total of seven Judges. Thus Omahaa' district would, under the Sweesy Mil. have six judges aad Llaooln two. Every other district la the state to left with one judge each. The bill contemplates a reduction of the district court expenses, including sal aries, of course, of $66,689. and to designed to give each district, aa near aa possible. 43,686 Inhabitants. Of course the Fourth district exceeds this number very ma terially. The districts under this bin are: First Richardson. Pawnee, Gage. Second Otoe. Cass, Nemaha, Johnson. Third Lancaster. Fourth Douglas, Washington, Sarpy, Burt. Flfth-Seward, Tork. Polk. Hamilton, Butler. S'xth-Saunders. Dodge, Cuming. Col fax Seventh Saline. Jefferson, Fillmore, Thayer. Eighth Thurston. Dakota, Dixon. Ce dar. Wayne, Pierce, Knox. Ninth Platte. Madison. Boone. aVmu ten, Antelope. Tenth Nuckolls. Webstev, Adams, Clay. Eleventh HalL Howard, Merrick, Nance. Valley. Greeley. Twelfth Dawson. Buffalo. Custer. Blaine. Thomas. Hooker. Grant, Logan, MePherson. Arthur and the unorganised territory adjoining. Thirteenth Incoln. Perkins. Keith. Deuel, Cheyaane. Kimball. Banner, Scotta Bluff, Sioux. Dawes. Box Butte. Fourteenth Kearaey. Phelps. Gosper, Frontier. Mayes. Chase. Dundy. Hitch cock. Red Willow, Furnas. Harlan. Fifteenth Holt. Rock. Brown. Keya Paha. Cherry, Sheridan, Boyd. Loup. Garfield. Wheeler and the unorgaatoed territory adjoining. This to the second Judicial reapportion ment Mil before the legislature. LEGISLATIVE NOTES. H. R. by Bacon of Dawson, providing for an aprpoprlatlon of $69,669 for the purpose of determining whether petrol eum, coal or gas exists and can be ob tained in paying quantities la Nebraska, has been recommended for passage la the house by the committee oa Internal Improvement. The plan of the bill to to sink six wells as a means of getting at the desired Information. In the house Weborg Introduced a bill to provide that the Board of Equallzatloa shall consist of one member to be elected from each congressional district of the state, to be elected at the November gen eral election. Three members shall be elected each alternate two years there after. The first terms of those elected ta even numbered districts shall be two years and those In odd numbered dis tricts four years. Thereafter each term shall be four years. The board shall have power to raise or lower county assessments. Senate file 203, Introduced la the senate by Fries of Valley. Is a second edition of the Tooley house MIL which waa killed In the house last week. It to a Mil for the rearrangement of the apportionment of school money. It provides that one fourth of the money shall be given to counties according to the number of school district and the remaining three fourths shall be divided pro rata accord ing to the number of pupils. Senator Fries said he believed the bill was not thoroughly understood In the house, hence he Introduced It In the senate. It seeks to take from the larger school districts money that they now get under the apportionment law and give It to the smaller districts. The revenue Mil Introduced In the house on the 22d to entitled: "A bill for an act to provide a system of revenue and to repeal articles 1. 2. 2. 4 and S of sections 4. 6. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11 and 12 of articles vll of chapter lxxvH Compiled Statutes of Nebraska for the year 190L" It was Introduced by J. A. Douglas. George L. Loomls. W. T. Thompson. W. G. Sears, F. A. Bweesy. C. J. Warner and W. H. Wilson, the special house committee appointed by Speaker Mockett to act jointly with Senators Browta. Pemberton. Fries. Saunders. Day. Ander sen and Reynolds In the framing of a revenue MIL The committee has been at work about a month. SALARY BILL INCREASED. H. R. 374. Introduced by Mr. Wilson of the finance, ways snd means commltee. Is the general salaries appropriation MIL paying the salaries of state officers and those of state Institutions for the coming blennlum. The total amount appropriated Is approximately $986,060, an Increase of $30,009 over the appropriations for the last session. In the governor's office the salary of the recording clerk Is raised from $900 per annum to $1,200; the salary of the deputy secretary of state Is raised from $1,609 tq $1,700; deputy superintendent of pub lic instruction, from $1,500 to $L700; dep uty land commissioner, from $1,609 to $1,700; stenographer In land commission er's office, from $840 to $900; secretary of State Board of Irrigation, raised from $1,880 to $2,000; salary of assistant secre tary of 8tate Board of Irrigation, raised from $1,099 to $1,200; the salary of $1,809 tor deputy clerk of the supreme court Is stricken from the bill, ss are the sal aries of three assistants to the reporter at $900 per annum. Salaries for the Home for the Friendless at Lincoln are raised to $6,780; salaries for the normal school at Peru are Increased from $47,500 to $55. 609: Hospital for the Insane at Lincoln, the salary of the matron of $L299 for the Mennlum Is stricken out. HOWELL'S TELEPHONE BILL. 8. F. 234. Introduced by Senator Howell of Douglas "by special request," is a bill prepared by C. C. Wright at the In stance of the telephone committee of the Omaha Commercial club. It provides for ccmpulsory Interchangeable telephone service In cities of the metropolitan class and fixes a maximum rate for such service, the rate to be based on the to tal number of 'phones operated by all the companies doing business In the city. The portion of the bill establishing maximum rates Is as follows: The monthly rental for each telephone In local telephone exchangee having 7308 telephones or leas, full metallic circuits, one party line business telephone. $6; residence. $3; two party Une business, $4: residence. $3.50: three party line busi ness. $3.50: residence. $2.25; four party lne business. $3: residence, $2; five party line business or residence, $1.75: six party line business or residence. $L59; eight party line business or residence. $L25; for extra service (two parties using same teelphone). $1: for extra name In aub ecrtber's list of party connected with subscriber in business. 29 cents; for grounded or common return circuits the rates shall be 25 per cent leas than those fixed for full metallic circuits. A reduc tion to made when exchanges have more thaa 7.599 subscribers. Some few birds, notably tie Mae throat, accomplish the whole of their xalgratory Jomrmej im oae srapeadons efort. Newfoaadlaad CarlDOtt saafce two nual BUlgTaUoas south im the fall aad north In the sprias. aaaaaaaaasBBBBBBBBBBsm ' .aaaafafSSaV - . - BaaafSfiaV aaaaavT !fmaaaaaaaaawBaaf- BDuaBKaVx79Ba& aaaQaf' i5S m The Return. The house seemed buBded ef aaeklfe. Clematis propped the perch, f rumpet vines round the old stoae ney Lifted a scarlet torch. Rose vines wreathed through the brok en windows. And crept through the crumMIng doers. Wind-blown petals -of dying rosea Huddled about the floors. Again I catered the raftered chambers. Tenanted but by three. A bold brown mouse, a nesting bird, Aad a beautiful memory. The browa mouse scurried, the nesting Mrd Whirred out by the broken pane. But the memory of my childhood raa . To welcome me home again. Fanny Kimble Johnson la Youth's Companion. Deeds ef Michigan Soldiers. Of' all the nineteen federal stats whose sons were in that woaderfal campaign of Chattanooga la 18CS, none did more brilliant work, none did more important service for the Union cause than Michigan's heroes. And nobly has the old state preserved the record of their achievements. Six regiments of infantry, two of cavalry, one of mechanics and engin eers, and two batteries of artillery are on Michigan's roll of honor -at Chattanooga; aad tho state has raised to the memory of every one a monument to endure forever. Battery D, First Regiment Michigan Light Artillery, is memorialized in the Poe field. This brilliant battery was under the command of Capt Joslah W. Church. "No commaader could have fought longer under like circumstances, nor retreated from the field with more nonor," says the re- Monument to Battery D. port of Church and his battery. They fought heroically during the entire two days. Charles Francis Adams Praises Lee. Charles Francis Adams delivered a notable speech at a dinner of the New Tork camp of Confederate Veterans recently, in which he said: "As an American as an ex-soldier of the Union as one who did his best In honest, even fight to destroy that fragment of the army of the confed eracy to which he found himself op posed, I rejoice that no hatred at taches to the name of Lee. Reckless of life to attain the legitimate ends of war, he sought to mitigate Its hor rors. Opposed to him at Gettysburg, I, here, forty years later, do him Jus tice. No more creditable order ever issued from a commanding general than that formulated and signed by Robert E. Lee as, at the close of June, i863, he advanced on a war of In vasion. " 'No greater disgrace,' he then de clared, 'can befall the army, and through it our whole people, than the perpetration of barbarous outrages upon the innocent and defenseless, and the wanton destruction of private property. Such proccsa.ngs not only disgrace the perpetrators and all con nected with them, but all subversive of the discipline and efficiency of the army, and destructive of tho ends of the army, and destructive of the ends of our movement. It must be remem bered that we make war only on armed men.' "Lee did not, like Tilly and Melae, exhort his followers to kill and burn, and burn and kill, and again kill and burn, to mako war hell. He did not proclaim that he wanted no prisoners. He did not enjoin It cpon his soldiers as a duty to cause the people of Pennsylvania to remember they had been there. I thank Heaven he did not He at least, though a Confed erate In arms, was still an American, and not a Tilly or a Mclac. "And here, as a soldier of the army of the Potomac, let mo bear my testi mony to such of the army of North ern Virginia as may now be present While war at best Is bad, yet Its nec essary and unavoidable badness was not In that campaign enhanced. In scope and spirit Lee's order was ob served and I doubt If a hostile force even advanced in an enemy's country or fell back from it in retreat leaving behind it less cans? for hate and bit terness than did tne army of North ern Virginia in that memorable cam paign which culminated at Gettys burg. Because he was a soldier, Lee did not feel it incumbent upon him to proclaim himself a brute or to exhort his followers to brutality.'' Devotion to the Flag. "I see by the daily papers," said a well-known Grand Army man the other day, "that the new custodian of Faneuil Hall market voted for Mc Clellan In the trenches before Vlcks burg in 1864. That reminds me of something which his predecessor, the late Charles S. Bolton, did a few months later. On the seventh of March, 1865, he had been offered bis veteran furlough by his colonel. Henry Splalne of the Seventeenth Massachuseets Infantry., That gave him forty days to spend with his fam ily nt home, and the colonel ordered him to start at once. I will tell you the rest Just as CoL Splalne told it to me: " 'Noticing my anxiety to hurry htm away, he begged me to tell him why I wanted to get rid of him then. I took him into my confidence and told him that we were to engage In battle the next morning, and that for- that reason I wanted him to get out of danger and enjoy the furlough that was so Justly his. "Then and there he peremptorily refused to go. saying, "I will not go now, furlough or no furlough; I will not desert the flag In the hour of peril; I will not desert my comrades oa the fleld. I will stay with. them and fight It out" "Ha did stay and fight it out BBBBBB Wm w Next day In the craah at the then a. certain battle of Roads, ha feO severely remataed oa the battle ieM twenty- roar hoars without food or attention. As a remit of the received on that day aad in that bat tle he waa crippled for life."--Boston JoaraaL fHpular War (ssvernera. "Gov. Broach, it la tree, waa harsh In language and Jwigateat, aad his quarrels with oflcera were fought to the end with the bitterness of the time," says a writer la the Chicago InterOceaa. -Bat oitea he got aa good aa ha seat la several cases the of ficers under criticism wrote the gov ernor warning him to mind his owa bnaiaaaa aad in other cases his letters were returned with dlaalned hat severe comment CoL Ban McCook wrote Brough a letter which tho governor regarded aa insolent aad ho wrote in reply a stinging rebuke, which Col. Ban waa smarting under when he led ik9 assault at Keaeaaw mountain. Brough probably regretted the letter; but McCookfs friends never forgot It "Brough was a master in war af fairs. It waa oa his suggestion that the governors of. Illinois, uwo ana town offered the gov meat the lOO-daya men In 18C4. And Brough, It must be remembered, had 10.000 National guards, aa he called them, in the field In sixteen days. His plan waa that these short-term men should take the places of older troops guarding cities aad railways, and that a veteran army at full strength should be hurled against Lee, aad so end the war la a hundred days. "I knew several of the war govern ors." said the major, "aad they all were fighters. Tod weat into the governor's oslce In Ohio In 18(2, when the clouds of war were Yery dark and he waa naturally Impatient At the time of the Kirby Smith raid toward Cincinnati he hurried raw troops pell mell Into Kentucky, and after asking for tents for them three times tale graphed Stanton at Washington to the effect that ha didn't know who was to blame for not sending the tents, but he could whip the fellow whoever he was. Again he tele graphed Washington, 'For God's' sake furnish Ohio troops now in Kentucy with canteens.' All these things were irregular, but they made friends for Tod among soldiers everywhere.' Escaped a tpy's Fata. One of the most popular members of Congress Is Representative Living ston of Georgia, a former Confederate soldier, who was thoroughly "recon structed" soon after the last gun of the conflict had been fired. He was telling a story of the war In the ap propriations committee room at the capltol the other day of his narrow escape from Yankee soldiers during operations at Atlanta. He aad a Texas scout were sent on a perllon mission in citizens' clothes. 1 knew every path leading to the city and the streets aa well aa I did the hog paths around my own farm, and Gen. Hardee directed me to ascertaia information about the enemy, which I believed I could do from a woman living in the city." r-id Mr. Living ston. "We rode up to the back gate, but to our astonishment the Yankees were in her house. I sprang back iato my saddle, and we galloped away, the Yankees hot after us. Years after ward, the late Gen. Coggswell of Mas sachusetts, and I met here In thla committee room, and I happened to learn that he was the military com mander at Atlanta at that time. Then I told him my story "When I finished telling it Gen. Coggswell put bis arm on my shoulder and said: "'Let as be Menus through life. I am mighty glad the boys did not catch you. As a soldier, you know what would have been your fate under the circumstances and we never would have met under such de lightful conditions.' "From that day until his death Gen. Coggswell and myself were as fast friends aa any two men who ever wore the blue and gray. I waa one of his pallbearers and aaw aim laid to rest among the people he served so well." A Sort of Mather's Monument, A communication to the New York Sun from Hartford, Conn., signed "Reader," says: I noticed In your paper a letter from Mrs. Ross of Morganstown, N. C. recommending a monument to American mothers. In the little town of Union, Conn., the smallest m point of numbers In all Connecticut there is a soldiers' monument dedicated the last Memo rial day. This waa given by a citi zen of New York city, Mr. J. W. Cor bin, and the inscription reads aa fol lows: Dedicated : In grateful Memory :To the mothers who gave their sons,: :To the soldiers who gave their Uvea: and To those who, daring to die, survived : The War of the Rebellion, : : 1861 to 1865. : This Is the only soldiers' monument that I have ever heard of that recog nizes the mothers who so vicariously sent their sons to the war, and I thought it would be n good thing to let the people know of this good ex ample that has been set them In this little obscure town In Connecticut from whose borders maay noble men In the country hnve come. Statue of Lee at Gettyaatfrs. What more appropriate place could be named than the battlefield of Gettysburg for a statue of the confed erate commander In that memorable collision of great armies? Robert E. Lee's name caa never be dissociated from that fleld. He belongs to It aa much aa Napoleon belongs to Water loo. The historical fltaesa of the idea of a Lee memorial on 8eminary hill, overlooking the battleground from the Confederate side, is much more impressive than Mr. Adam's sugges tion of n Lee statue la the national capital, since the equestrian essgy on the scene of Gen. Lee's supreme fail ure would, in' the aatioaalist aease, be saved from the. possible implica tion that the military hero of the con federacy had fought for a cause which, though lost was still worthy to be gforifled. Springfield. Mass., Republican. FLACK tea Oavy Way as Offer Hsfjs in tare amy a Pie. a few years ago, white with a friend of I overheard a convetatton ta show that sympathy la aaM the rovlag the asoral hi not by nay a had one. The sjujck way la which- tho man tamed on his friend, who ham offered him aa ahunaaara of aymnathy, so far aa sympathy can be by mere words, was Tory and showed that the fellow waa aaick-wiUed and unusually bright, despite the fact that he had fallen into a rather rough road. "The young man had been out West for aoase time. Re had gone out there with the Man that he could win n for tune, hut instead of lading the way to succsss a amooth one, it waa rather rough and rocky, marred by thorns to prick the feet, pitfalls and nil that kind of thing. Put in plain, unpoetlc laagaage ha waa run down at the heel and haggiag at the knee. In order to make a living he had been forced to become a pie merchant on a small scale. He was la thla busiaess whea we found him, aad had a small mov able stand on the corner of two streets la a well known mining town. My friend recognized him nt n glance, aad rushed up to greet him. The fel low seemed to be Just a little embar rassed aad my friend thought it would be the proper thing to do to offer n little sympathy. "'Sorry to aee you situated as you are, old fellow, and in this business,' said my friend feelingly. " T your sympathy. Buy a pie,' waa the quick rejoinder of the vender, and in n few momenta we had left him shrieking out his wares to men who passed that way. "At least he convinced my friend that there are momenta In a man's life when the mere sympathy of the mouth, no matter how earnest or how fervent the words, can aot meet the requirements of the case, and that the real aad only way to offer help la such instances is to buy a pie." MtUNLEVS FAVORITE FLOWER. Haw the Carnation Came te Be Se lected by the Late President "Carnation day" has bat receatly beea observed all over the country as a sort of tribute to the late President McKialey, who during the inter years of his life was seldom seen without one of these blossoms In his button hole. It is related that Mr. McKln ley never showed any particular fond ness for the carnation until some girls attending the Lake Erie college at Palasvllle, O., elected him an honorary member of their class and pinned their class fiower la his buttonhole. The incident occurred on Nov. 19. 1893. while' the president then governor, was in Palasvllle, a guest of the Gar field club. He devoted no little time to the college girls who had honored him, and his attitude thereafter show ed that he appreciated their admira tion. He often remembered and waa remembered by them thereafter. Mrs. McKialey also took great interest in the class and its insignia and waa ac customed to provide a bunch of carna tions for her husband's room each morning. The first reunion of the class took place when Mr. McKinley waa nominated for the presidency snd the class seat him a congratulatory telegram. He visited the college sev eral times and was a member of its board of trustees. Two girds. The Mrds there are that I do love The turkey and the eagle; Oae walks the earth, one soars above The clouds, supreme aad regal. The turkey, too. can fly. but he Alms aot at elevation; Seme safe limb of an apple tree Best suits bis humMe station. By night there, from his wily foe. The fox. he's safe, and slumbers All undisturbed by any woe That mortal dreaming cumbers; By day. in orchard wandering. He humbly seeks his living; Unconscious of the Joy he'll bring To gourmands on Thanksgiving. And while the eagle, pinion borne, Doth cleave the vaulted asure. He gobMes up the golden corn And gobbles forth his pleasure. And. dally adding to his girth. For man hto chief attraction. So fills, this bird of solid worth. His role with aatlsfactlon. Each In his sphere has rightful fame; The eagle first In favor As emMem of the nation's aim. The turkey for hto flavor. But while the eagle's chief renown Lies la his life, a winner. The turkey's still, when dead and browa. Served for Thanksgiving dinner. Senator Perkins' Idea. Senator George C. Perkins of Cali fornia baa some unusual ideas regard lag the election of United States Senators, and oa account of these he refused to listen to the appeals of his friends to go to California during the receat senatorial fight there. "I regard the members of the leg islature," said he. "ss the Jury of the people, so far aa the election of sena tors is concerned. Before the elec tion of the legislature I made a cam paign which extended the length and breadth of my state. I told the people that I waa a candidate for re-election aad I made my promises to them. They elected a Republican legislature, and by so dolag made that legislature their Jury. Whea opposition appeared to my re-election my friends urged me to leave Washington and personally conduct my case before the legisla ture, but I do aot think it is right for Senators to try to innuence the action of legislatures, so I remained in Washington. In other words, I re fused to tamper with the Jury." Worshie) the Sun. A aew religion Is born, or rather re vived, in France, n fall description of which is given in 1'Ecole Noavelle, ed ited by M. Deviant chief of the Nor mal School of the Seine. The "Sons of Sol" aim to convert all Christen dom. They want the world to come back to the old rellgtba of light In reality the followers of this new re ligion are fire-worahlpers and adore "the divine star, the father of light of warmth and of life." and according to the Ecole Nnuvelle, thla Is the first phrase In their prayer: "O Thou who dost dispel the darkness surrounding lies. Thou who dost annihilate the evil Influence of prodigies, of sinister prognostications, of dreams and of evil apparitions Thou who dost baf fle the plots of the wicked, Lord Light of the Universe. Sun!" Many Miles of New Rallraad. Accordlag to the Railroad Gazette. CMS miles of aew steam railroad were built la the Ualted States dur ing 1902. The figures are exclusive of second track, sldlaga and all electric liaes. Rebuilt mileage is also ex cluded, except where the work In volved such extensive changes In aligameat that a new route waa established. YMPATMY OUT OF -Out West. which goes I Why Cattle Prices Have Fatten. Review: I have tavaatjgathma concerning the cattle trade and Its desaoralized coeditioa as to prices In tho face of plenty of feed, and find that vary great assay bought cattle early la the fall to feed, thinking at the then high prices for fat cattle It would ba goad Baying baalaess to feed castle cheap corn, aad than waa Bsemlagij no choice for the maay farmers with frost bitten corn except to feed it to cattle. Now under these coaditiona there waa an unusual aasouat of cattle put Into the f aad lots with the expectation of marketing them before the first of the year. Judging by the cmsa of feeders need. which waa lavarfably the Lett to 1.M0 pound kind. As there were a great many young feeders forced lata the busiaess on account of soft corn. It was accessary to borrow the ssoney to buy tho cattle. Thla money waa borrowed only for n abort time. Now these cattle all had to get to saarket nt about the same time, as Us ssea could not hold them after their corn was fed out and money due. So, not being fixed with shelter, etc, the cat tle were sent to market Thla ex plains for the soft com cattle. Now for the men who could hold their cat tle. They encounter a' still harder propositioa. The close of every week finds the market lower and aa yet no ndvnnce even under atoderate re ceipts. Thla means that the contlnu ous depression in cattle pricee haa caused even the most long winded snd experienced feeders to waa faith and ship cattle, as It la impossible to held cattle after they are ready to go. In .the face of the above facta. This trade haa all aesi to such a degree aa to shut the out of hto Just profita and cease practically an to loan and yet the consumers have almost the same prices to pay as whan cattle oa foot were bringing two to three cents per pound asore asoavey. To prove thla you have oaly to ask your retailer the pricee for your table supply. Furthermore you can ate by present quotations that the Bagltoh amarketa are paylag almost exactly the same prices for cattle on loot aa they were one year ago, aad the price on thla aide la about 2 cents per pound less for export steers. You may then ask why the feeders snd shippers do not go Into the export business, I can tell yon it to not be cause they are aot assart enough or do not cure to take the risk, as you may suppose. The reason is the space ta the cattle ship is an taken by a fa vored few and aa outside awt spra to assort am cattle. I taia to ba true, aa I have tried aad have been turned down with the statement, "No specs to ba had." or "Space aU contracted." Then I have had mea of aatloaal reputation, and men who hnve exported, ass their in fluence to assist ma to get boat priv Uegea aad they. too. have failed. This win prove aay first statement that the trade haa been nnd la maalpulnted. Until the feeders wake up to the altua tion nnd attract the public's attention through the press aad every other channel there will be no stability to prices. Bat when ail facta are gsaar ally known then the cattle men may depend upon at least a steady market for some time to come. H. F. PisnelL Edgar County, niiaoia. No Horseless Age Yet. There is no dssger of a horseless sge at this time nor In the near fu ture. If it ever comes it will ba when coaditiona are far different from those existing nt the present time. There are thousands of uses to which the horse is put where no form of me chanical force caa be substituted. No mnchine caa think, nnd thla la very necessary In some forms of force ss used on the farm aad la the channels of commerce. The carriage horse drags tha carriage through the snow, up the hiilaldes where the footing la bad. picking his way with a keen Intelli gence. When the mud la deep and sticky he pulls the wagon laden with produce from the farm. Tha mechaal cal force would ba at a staadstin In 8ituatioaa that are aot heeded by tha horse. Even through the soft saad tha horse picks his way with his rider. If need be the horse can create energy out of tha grass that grows by the wayside, and he can do it for n week. a month or n year. He caa carry his asaster thousands of mUea with this as the only source of force supply. The machine is helpless as soon as the supply of high-class, artificial energy producing material gives out There was a flurry a few yean ago among the buyers and sellers of carriage horses because some one had started the theory that the horse was shout to be discarded by man for a power that coufd live on coal and oiL Some farm ers even listened to this rumor snd stopped breeding horses, only to And In a few years that horses were com manding a high price and they hnd none to selL The wise farmer mill go right on breeding fine carriage horses and tha best quality of drafts. Berkshire Breeders Meat. The twenty-eighth annual meeting sf the American Berkshire Associa tion was held la the office of the asao clatloa, Springfield, 111., January 28, 1903. The meeting was largely at tended, members being present from several states. The auditor's and treasurer's reports showed that the receipts for the year were $6,996.80 and the disbursements fC.650.88. As there was a balance on hand nt the beginning of the year of $1,399.45, the balance In the treasury was $1,745.37. The stock of the association that haa beea held la blocks by Individuals waa purchased by the associatioa, and a resolution waa adopted hereafter re strictlag the holding of mora than one share of stock at $100.00 or four shares st $25.00. by say one Individual or firm. A committee was appointed to make accessary arrangements to reduce the shares of stock to $25.00. Tha following ofilcers were elected: President Geo. 8. Prine. Oskaloosa. Iowa; vice-president Geo. F. Weston, Biltmore, N. C; secretary. Frank S. Springer, Springfield. 111.; treasurer. O. W. 8attta. Springfield. BL; auditor. Thomas Race. 8prlagfield. DL; direct ors. N. H. Gentry. Sedslia, Ma. and Geo. F. Weston. Biltmore. N. a The hold-over directors are: Geo. 8. Priae. Oskaloosa, Iowa; A- J. Lovejoy. Ros coe. ni.; Geo. W. Jessun. Rockviile, Ind.; June K. King, Marshall. Ma; Geo. P. Lilliard. Segula, Texas; D. W. Smith, Sprlagfield. I1L, aad Frank S. Spriager, Sprlagfield. DJ. Potassium, the basis of potash pounds, is Indispensable to tha growth of all our cultivated alaata. AGRJCUyWRFl ?S asvTts'avnWIIIwfJ fufvlVlJfs) There are several methods ef blanching; four of which are ffiustrat ed hi a vacant government salleUa. Ceiory la blanched for the purpose ef depriving It of Rs natural green color nnd of certain hitter properties, thus . CUT 1-BLEACHINO CELXRT EARTH. WITH readertag It asore palatable. Tha prin ciple iavolTed la the exclusion of light One of the methods of doing thla is 'he heaping of earth against the cel ery, as showa la oar first Ulastratloa. In the celery fields north of Chicago thla method la very largely the oas practiced. The soil la tarowa ap against tha celery by the use of a horse. Thla makaa little aaad work In our second ffluatratton we show tha method of blanching with boards. It win be observed that the rows of celery are quite far apart, aad that the plants are aot very close la the Thla gives room for the full CUT Z-BLEACHING CELERY WITH BOARDS. development of each plant nnd larger stalks result In bleachlag. the boards are tipped up agalast the cel ery and held In position by wires cut nnd bent for the purpose. This meth od of bleachlag la satisfactory, bat re quires quite an outlay for lumber. The boards will, however, last for sev eral years If taken care of. Our third illustration shows n meth od now practiced to some exteat Whether it becomes popular or aot depends on the quality of the celery anally turned oat by thla bleachlag process. Thla haa beea termed the "aew celery culture." It depends on the plants being grown so close to gether that they will shade and thaa blanch each other. The celery is asuslly grown In rows only 13 inches m CUT 3-BLEACHIKG CELERT CLOSE SETTING. BT apart with plants only 8 Inches apart In the rows. This proves a suc cess only where there Is a rank growth of plants. To make sure of this rank growth, both water and fer tilizers are used in abundance. When this plaa of bleaching is to be em ployed, it is best to use what is known as n self-bleaching variety. The advantage of this system Is In Its cheapness, neither boards nor labor of heaping up dirt being required. Boards are used only arouad the out side of the patch. In the fourth cut is shown the method of blanching celery by means of paper. This was practiced by the Cornell station whea forcing celery CUT 4-BLEACHING CELERY PAPER. WITH for the May aad June market. This celery was grown in a hothouse. About six weeks or two months after the plants were set in. permanent po sitions they were ready for bleaching. la the experiments reported all the usual methods of bleaching were tried, but without success. When, however. the plants were wrapped with a thick, hard wrapping paper with an almost "sized" surface, the bleaching was successful. By this method the stalks were brought together and tied and a width of paper reaching to within 2 or 3 inches of the tops of the leaves was rolled tightly about the plants. As the plants grew, another width of paper was rolled about the first, and again reaching nearly the top of the plant Two applications of the paper were found to be sufficient. From a month to six weeks was required to bleach the celery by this process in a cool bouse in April and May. Farm ers' Review. Experiences Wanted en Cow Fens, From Farmers' Review: I am a subscriber of the Farmers' Review and would like some oae to tell me something about cow peas. I have a piece of thin land on which I intend sowing cow peas la the spring, thee whea they have made a good growth I want to plow them in nnd leave tha land '.lie till fall, then work up aad snv wheat Will some reader of the Farmers' Review tell me their experi ence on the subject aad when it la best to plow the peas aad If there la any danger of souring the soli, sm I was told? AIL Thalmnn. Madison County. Illinois. il.uWluuuuuuuu $" 1' Ifi , gTTaS "WWySillil - III 111 I III I 1 : 'I SijmgSS2fc- f .1 V MLv , . f,.-rfli:' V -r.' .OY J -4-' v J -1 ,
