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f- w w "SENATORS. 2UKKO MAN'S" LCJ r-: S8RASKA STATE NEWS NEBRASKA SCHOOL MATTERS. County Superintendents Addressed by Mr. Fw!er. At the state teachers' meeting in Omaha State Superintendent- Fowler spoke to county superintendents in part, as follows: Nebraska occupies an unrivaled posi tion in having the lowest per cent cf Hiiteracy of all the states in the union. Nowhere has the value of a common school education been more generally and universally acknowledged than Here, nor has the free secondary and higher education in the state been al together neglected. The constitution)! Nebraska, adopt ed in 187S. de.ared that al! moneys arising frejf'the sale or leasing of s?ctionv?so. 1C to 36 in each township In UiiWstate should be perpetual funds ffr common school purposes, of which Hie annual interest or Income only can te appropriated; and the interest on these school lands sold and leased, to celiior with that or warrants, county Itouds and school district bonus, cer J:in fees and licenses, and the state r.-hool tax of 1JA mills or less upon 4ti? dollar of assessed valuation of all taxable property in the state, provides a sum in excess of $700,000 appor tioned annually to all the common school districts of the state. This amount will increase from year to year rather than diminish. Local r-chool districts may tax themselves not to exceed 25 mills on the dollar of assessed valuation. All fines, pen alties and license moneys are appro jiriatel exclusively to the use and sup port of the common schools in the re spective subdivisions where they may accrue. The constitution also states that the legislature shall provide for the free instruction in the common schools of all iersons between the ages of 5 and 21 years. Free education, including free textbooks and supplies, is fur nished in all school districts in the state. School government, organiza tion and management in Nebraska is amost purely Iocr-I, each one of the C.667 districts being responsible for Us own school. Each district pro vides a full course of instruction in ell of the eight grades or years of work below the ordinary high school and many of them furnish graduate certificates ur-on the completion of this work. The course includes read ing, writing. spelling. arithmetic grammar, geography, history, physi ology, etc. In some of the larger cities of the state kindergartens have Iteen established. When a school district has a popu lation of IJiO or more children of school age. it mav organize as a high school district and furnish free high school privileges to all its pupils who com- ilett the eighth grades of work below the high school. Wc have in Nebraska eiehty-five vil lages maintaining a Hieh sch.-ol course of one year, or a total of nine erodes of work: there are 173 villages with Hirh school courses of twe years: 101 villages or cities with Hizh school courses three years in length, and eighty-four cities in the state maintaining a full four years High school course sometimer differentiated commercial courses, above the eighth grades of common scnool work. Above these we have as a superstructure tiie magnificent University of Nebraska with Its faculty of 200 and an attend ance of more than 2.r00. The univers ity has a heavy endowment from lands donated to the state by th" United States and is supported by the proceeds of investment of a perma nent fund, bv other incomes and by a lav of 1 mill ron the dollar of as sessed valuation of the state. During the last school year (190.1 1M4 there were enrolled in the schools of Nebrarka 2S0.000 children; the state had 6.767 school houses, of which thirty-five were stone. 339 brick 105 log. 273 sod, and the rest wood or frame buildings. The number of sod school houses in the state in 1890 was nearly 800. but it has steadily de creased since that time, while the number of brick buildings rapidly in creases. The value of school district property in the state is estimated at ft 1.000.000: the total indebtedness of all districts at S3.2S3.O00. and the tota' annual expenditures at $4,900 iioo. N liraska employs annually 9.700 teach crs. including 3,250 in graded schools Kren-s Gives Band. LINCOLN William Krens of Cus ter county gave bond for $1 500. and was released pending the final decis ion upon his case. In the Custer county district court he was sentenced to two years in the state penitentiary for burning a stack of grain. AKSLEY More prairie chicken " trere killed in October and November this year in the neighborhood of Ans ley than ever before, but the pot hunt er who kills birds in the summer hac ltenn stopped, and the result is that th irds are both plentiful and tame. Depositors Get 29 Per Cent. LINCOLN Receiver William C. May has filed with Secretary Royse of the state banking board his final report of the affaiis of the defunct People's State bank off Gothenburg, which failed in 1901. The depositors fcave received a payment of 39 pe cent and the receiver has been di charged. The Institute for the Feeble Minded t Beatrice fittingly observed Christ saae Brotherhood Must Settle. LINCOLN The supreme court de cided that the Modern Brotherhood f America should pay S3.000 to Mrs. rfjlizabeth Hardinger. Her husband was fouad dead in a pars In Chicago and it was shown that he had been discharged from his position in ? ank. The court holds that it was ot conclusively proven that he com mitted suicide. v W. T. Seamans has been sentenced to the penitentiary for three years at Tork for forgery. Nebraska Better Than Pines. Charles Burch. rate clerk at th3 Burlington. Omaha, returned the other day from Cuba and the Isle of Pines, and remarked to a group of friends that he thought Nebraska was the place for him from this time on. He vent south with the idea of making aa iavestment in some of the couth en lasds which have been so thor- ghl advertised of late, but he fkfsks that the lands have been over sated, aad that a northerner with his fifclag ways has no business in the r-goiag south. NEBRASKA BRIEFS. Mr. and Mrs. S. N. Peterson of Polk county last week celebrated their gol den wedding. At a regular meeting of the Fre mont Tumverein it was voted to send a team to compete at the national turn fest, which meets next year at In dianapolis. The home of P. B. Neff, an imple ment dealer in Broomfield, was enter ed by burglars a few nights ago and robbed of $20, several rings and other pieces of jewelry. While oiling an engine at the elec tric power house at Beatrice Engineer Peter Drouland got his hand too near the machine and the index finger of his left hand was torn off. Invitations have been issued at Plattsmouth announcing the forthcom ing marrage of F. C. Kingsbury of Arizona and, Miss Para Love of Fre mont, which will occur January 4. Roscoe Pound will resign his posi tion as dean of the law school at the State University to enter practice, having formed a law partnership with Frank M. Hall and Frank H. Woods. Tho hodv of Howard Penn who killed h:mself at York in a fit of despondency arrived in Broken Bow from that place and was taken .u tne residence in Former Sheriff Arm strong. About 11 o'clock in the forenoon one of the inmates in the open ward at the asylum at Hastings escaped, coming toward Hastings. He is de scribed as being about 28 years old, weight 150, dark mustache. The city council o Grand Island has passod on its first reading an or dinance regulating the running of au tomobiles, limiting the speed to fiye miles an hour in the business district of the city and twelve miles an hour in all other districts. The other night young George Coil of Dawes county walked from the peni tentiary to the trolley car station at Lancaster a free man. beneficiary of one of Governor Mickey's Christmas commutations. Coil was convicted five years ago of murdering a sheep man named Ryan, with whom he and his father, a cattleman, had had trouble over the range. Governor Mickey has assured Su perintendent Greene of the Lincoln Hospital for the Insane that there is absolutely no need for any investiga tion into the affairs of that institu tion. The official called at the execu tive department for a conference and was assured that the governor hao perfect confidence in him and the in tegrity of his management. Phoenix. (Ariz.) dispatch: Sheriff Hall of Holt county, Neb., arrived with a requisition for Bernard W. Mc Greevy. absconding president of the Elkhorn Valley bank of O'Neill, Neb. The sheriff id he would not leave tefcre Monday and perhaps not then. He is impressed with the story that Cashier Patrick Hagerty is in hiding here and hopes to capture him. The committee that has begged the Burlington Railroad company for a new depot at York in the place of the barn-like structure now used by the company there hope that York will have a New Year's present in the vay of a notice from the company that they will build a much needed lepot at York that will be jn keeping J with the rayid growth and the size or the place. Each prisoner in the penitentiary was given a Christmas present. The gift was of modest proportions, con sisting of a large bag of candy, made in the prison kitchen, but each man was remembered. Many of them re ceived little trinkets from friends ana relatives at home. Little mementoes of home life and jars of jam and jelly, with other delicacies, were received by many of the men. The annual meeting of the Gage county poultry and pet stock show will be held in the opera house at Blue Springs January 3 and 4. December will be a good month from the standpoint of the state peni tentiary in that the census will b in creased there by twenty-nine. A circular letter will be sent out to "ounty treasurers by State Treasurer Mortensen asking them to begin the .ear properly by promptly remitting state taxes to the treasury on Monday or Tuesday. Many county treasurers are taking advantage of the renewed ffor of the Burlington and the Union Pacific to pay a part of the:r taxes, sending the decision on the applica tion for injunction. After having been mourned as a dead man for the past seventeen years John Marquardt has turned up at Harrisburg. Ore., alive and a busy man. Almost a score of years ago he 'eft Norfolk and two vears later his mother and brothers gave him up as -lead. Even the date of his death had been fixed, services held and each an niversary help apart because of the funeral tone it bore. A letter received last week came as a joyful greeting. In the case of the Missouri Pacific Railway company against Cass county Judge Jessen found for the plaintiff, fixing the amount of damage in the sum of 1 cent. The company sued for $1,000 damage. Gust Jones, a stranger in Cuming -ounty. was comitted to jail on a charge of stealing a team of horses he property of James Tighe. living near uancron. Tne prisoner was "aught with the team in his posses sion and was brought before Justice McDermott and was bound over to the listrict court in default of bail. Wiliam Maynard, a young fanner who was married only three weeks igo. was arrested In Grand Island on the charge of forgery brought by John L. Johnson, a farmer, whose name had been fraudulently put to several checks unwisely cashed by merchants recently. Maynard claims he only en dorsed the checks for other parties and had no benefit from them. The members of the York Commer cial club are pleased to read that Sec retary Shaw's report to the house rec- emmends an appropriation for the postoffice at York. After being out for seventeen hours ' he jury in the case of the state against John Thompson, charged with daylight burglary, at Beatrice, brought in a verdict of guilty. As Thompson has three days in which to file a mo tion for a new trial sentence has been deferred. Arthur Carleton. a farmer of Hay mow precinct. Stanton county, caught his coat in the spring of the seat while getting down from his wagon. This caused him to fall and resulted in the hind wheel of the wagon passing over his head, makig serious bruises. NEW YORK RAILROAD DEIfOT TO1 BE LARGEST IN THE WORLD I t The New York Central's new Grand Central station, which is in course of building in New York city, and which, with accompanying improvements, is to cost fully $50,000,000. will be the largest passenger station in the world. It is to occupy nineteen city blocks. It will have a frontage of 680 feet on Vanderbilt avenue, 625 feet on Forty- FUTURE OF THE CHESTNUT. Probability It Soon Will Become a Staple Food. The potato long ago conquered the larders of many parts of the world. The chestnut is, on the contrary, an almost undiscovered food, at least in England and the United States. Yet scientists tell us that the chestnut is a more nutritious food than the pota to. They are very much aliko in their constituents, these two foods, only the chestnut has more of the nutritive ele ments for its weight than has the po tato. The potato Is 76 per cent wa ter and the chestnut only 53 per cent. The chestnut has three times as much proteid, almost twice as much starch, four times as much sugar. and .gum. twenty times as much fat and about the same percentage of mineral mat ter as has the potato. The potato's lack of fat makes it necessary to put butter on it to make it palatable. The chestnut Is butter ed by nature. Yet, as compared with most other nuts, the chestnut is supe rior because the others contain such an excess of fat often 50 to 60 per Cntthat they are indigestible. The chestnut has little over 2 per cent. Bake or roast your chestnuts and you have as good food as anyone could want. If the chestnut had an unpleasant flavor, or if it was hard to raise it. there would be bo cause -for wonder in the failure to utilize it as food on a large .scale. But as a matter of fact it is said that a given area of land will produce the maximum amount of food possible when planted with chestnut trees. Lowever, the neglect of the chest nut may not be all a misfortune. In the days to come, when the hen. the potato vine, the apple tree and the stock range are all working industri ously and exclusively in the service of the cold storage company. It may be a comfort to have the chestnut tree to fall back upon, which can cater to us without cold storage intermedia tion. . : - F ' Growth of the Churches. Despite the clatter about outworn creeds and the anxious look on the faces of amateur diagnosticians as they sit up with the church and feel its pulse, the statistics are still on the side of the church. They show it vital, not moribund. The figures for practically every denomination show a percentage of growth during 1904 larger than the increase in popula tion. There is not such a drift away from traditional theology as many would have the world believe. The average person is not as determined to break away from the faith of th3 fathers as is currently represented. The truth is the pulpit always has taken far more interest in theological puzzles than the pews, and there can be a mighty churning of the doctrinal waters without the churca rank and file becoming disturbed. New York Globe. Cost of Rural Free Delivery. In 1S97, when the rural service was started on probation. $40,000 was deemed sufficient for its trial. Dur ing the fiscal year that ended June 30. 1904. nearly $13,000,000 was ex pended for rural free delivery. For the fiscal year upon which we have now entered $20,816,600 has been ap propriated for the continuance and ex tension of the rural mail service. There were 24,566 rural routes in ex istence at the end of the fiscal year on June 30 last. 9,446 ne wroutes hav ing been put into operation during the fiscal year. On Oct. 1, 1904, there were 27,135 routes established, and the service was being extended at the rate of about 800 routes a month. World's Work. Mark Twain Taken Literally. The librarian of the United Service Ciub of Calcutta is a native Indian. His catalogue of the library contains some remarkable classifications, among which is an amusing one in connection with a book of Mark Twain's his "Extracts From Adam's Diary." The native librarian evidently didn't know whether Adam's diary comes under religion or philosophy. So to make it sure he put it under both headings, gravely adding Mark Twain's own words, "Translated From the Original MS. ' First Woman Telegraph Operator. Mrs. Emma A. Smith, believed to have been the first woman telegraph operator in this country, is dead at her home in West Chester, Pa. She has been an invalid for the past fif teen years and was 73 years old. She was invited in 1869 to unveil the Morse monument in New York city, but was unable to participate owing to illness. Mrs. Smith was the first woman to send a message to the Pittsburg telegrapn office, where An drew Carnegie was then acting as messenger boy. Lover of Horses. Alfred G. Vanderbilt loves horses. He has a large farm near Newport, where he keeps his fine animals. He is one of the best four-in-hand whips in New York, and in the coaching season his turnout is on the road daily. Only Steamers for Navy. With the withdrawal of the train ing ships Northampton and Cleopatra from the active list, the last shred of canvas disappeared from the Brit ish navy. fifth street. 460 feet on Lexingtor avenue o eet on ony-iourui sircei. au icei uu uejren piaic om. 300 feet on Forty-second street. In the construction especial attention is to be paid to suburban 'traffic. Sub urban trains are to enter and leave the depot at a lower level than the through trains. The baggage room occupies 47,000 square feet of space. WAITED LONG FOR REWARD. Heroic Sailors Get Tardy Recognition From Congress. Unless it be for the material things which directly concern its members. Congress evidently believes in virtue being its own reward, writes Caspar Whitney in Outing. Lucky is the man who. lacking that paramount endow ment of modern America a "pull" escapes the slanders of the envious or tecelves federal recognition for a val iant deed he has been indiscreet enough to perform. Recently the Secretary of the Navy presented gold medals to Lieut. E. P. Bertholf. Lieut. D. H. Jarvis and Sur geon S. J. Call for their heroic rescue in 1897 of 275 imperiled sailors. At the risk, and very nearly at the cost, of their lives, these three men made a 1,600-mile overland trip to Point Barrow in midwinter to carry relief to sailors starving there on the ice. Nearly eight years later they each re ceive from this great and expanding nation a gold medal valued at $210! HOTEL SOLELY FOR CHILDREN. Unique Hostelry Recently Established at London. Now that the Countess. Paulett has given her patronage to the Children's hotel in London, many of England's fashionable babies will become the proud tenants of select suites in this new and extraordinary institution. The new London hotel is under the control of the Nordland Institute of Nurses and is furnished throughout to suit the peculiar needs of its fastid ious little inmates, whose parents, finding it necessary to run down to shooting preserves or across to the continent, prefer a select place of this kind to the doubtful care of their home servants. Each baby or child has its own student nurse in its own suite and the prices run from $12 a week upward. No children over 8 years of age are accepted, but babies in the feeding bottle stage may become hon ored guests and have suites as high as $100 a week. The furniture suits the age of the guest. Faithful in Arduous Task. Miss Alice M. Robertson, who has just been appointed postmistress at Muskogee, the most important town in the Indian territory, is the grand daughter of Rev. Dr. Worcester, a pio neer missionary among the Cherokees before their removal from Georgia to the Indian territory. For several years she has been supervisor of Creek schools, a position which the circum stances of her early life peculiarly fit ted her. Many of the schools are in remote and almost inaccessible por tions of the Creek nation, reached only by long drives over roads so bal that she has several times been thrown out of her buggy. She has had to ford dangerous streams, sometimes getting into swimming water, and has had to depend upon the most primi tive accommodations for food and shelter. " Woman Long Mariners' Friend. The Santa Barbara lighthouse on the Pacific coast has been kept bv a woman for thirty-eight years. In 1S56 a lighthouse was erected two miles ! south of Santa Barbara, and President Franklin Pierce appointed Albert J. Williams to be the keeper. In 1865. rear the close of the civil war. Mrs. Julia F. Williams was appointed keep er, to succeed her husband, who had died. She has had the longest serv ice of any keeper on the coast. She has been away from her post only two nights in twenty-seven years, and rarelv leaves the lighthouse ptnsnt nn Sundays, when she drives to Santa Barbara to attend church, The tower i rises 178 feet above the sea level and the solid white light can be seen sev enteen miles at sea. Mrs. Peary Not Going North. Mrs. Peary will not accompany her husband on his next trip to the arctic. Not that she does not wish to go. for she is a hardy traveler, but because Lieut. Peary is going to take such chances this time as he never took before, and he does not wish his wife to share the peril. Mrs. Peary was a most valuable member of the expedi tion in w aich she took part. Strong, courageous and determined, she was willing to take her share of privation and danger, refusing to accept any odds because of her sex. Inflicts Unique Penalties. Justice Joline, who holds court in Camden. N. J., has his own ideas of how to inflict punishment on offend ers. Two voune fellows who find ho. gun celebrating Christmas were be-! iuic uiiu iui uicaniug me peace, ne fined them $35 and $50, respectively, and gave them seven months in which to pay. dividing the penalty into monthly installments. Each hart tn ! give his note, signed by a responsible surety, un tne same day he sen tenced a wife beater to two years in state's prison. American Hospital in Corea. i A new hospital building has just' been dedicated in Seoul. Corea. the cost of which was defrayed by L. H; Severance of Cleveland. It is to be known as the Severance Memorial hospital, and is to be conducted under the Presbyterian board of foreign mis sions. Rice Production in Siam. Siam is becoming one of the greatest rice-producing countries in the world. In the year 1903 the exports of rice from Siam exceeded $15,000,000. I :eath of Tom O'Brien of His Cuccc News cf the death D'Brien. the ncttrious con1 .nd originator of the gold "rench penal settlement a ecalls the story of attemlPTnade ive cr six years ago by his Chicago nd New York friends to rescue him. r.nie Gray. O'Brien's New;. York .weetheart. who had been devoted to tint all through his trial for murder .nd imprisonment, was author of the dot. A syndicate, said to have been com csed of eight confidence men in the wo cities, raised the money and char ered a swift steam yacht, which lay or days off the island of Cayenne vaiting for a chance to pick up the onvict. O'Brien bad been furnished money o bribe the guards, and every precau !on had been taken to insure his -scape, but the authorities learned of 'he plan and redoubled their vigilance. When the steam yacht appeared off the coast of the penal settlement it was watched by a warship. At last the plan was abandoned. When O'Brien was sentenced to Cayenne for life for the murder of "Kid" Waddell. a fellow confidence nan. in a Paris hotel, he closed a ca reer cf crime that for years had baf fled the efforts of the best detectives on two continents. He organized the confidence busi ness thirty years ago and reduced it to such a system that he became known over the world as the "king of bunko men." O'Brien not only worked confidence games himself but directed dozens of other crooks in nearly all the large cities. He dressed like a prosperous business man and wore long whiskers. He was in close touch with politicians in every city where he operated. But O'Brien's political pull finally failed him. He sold a gold brick to an Albany real estate man for $10,000 and was arrested. He got a man to go on his bond for $10,000 and sailed T -JOtT" OEUSEW for Europe. At Liverpool he was ar rested, returned to this country, and sentenced to ten years in prison. He secured temporary release on habeas corpus and escaped to France. O'Brien "went broke" in Paris and it was when he was refused a loan that he shot his old "pal," Waddell. Getting Rich Slowly. Ordinarily a great fortune is built up like a stone wall a stone at a time. The young man who declines to lay the first stone, because it comes Lso far short of a wall, will never make progress in financial masonry. An Im mense proportion of the people of this country live up to their incomes, lay ing aside nothing for the traditional rainy day. Because they can not save $1,000 in a bunch they save nothing. The greatest financial kings of the world have not been above taking care of the pennies even. The great financial institutions look after even the fractions of pennies. Troy Press. Will Climb Mount Rainier. F. Augustus Moorehousc. an aristo cratic citizen of London, England, has arrived in Tacoma for the purpose of climbing Mount Rainier. The fact that the mountain has never been ascend ed in the winter time does not daunt him. and he will leave this week for Paradise valley, on the mountain's south slope. Moorehouse says he has plenty of leisure and will remain at the task until it is finished. He has been through the Alps repeatedly and believes that a 15,000-foot mountain like Rainier can be easily ascended despite its system of fourteen glaciers. Labouchere's Chriftmas Gifts. Henry Iabouchere. editor of London Truth, recently held his twenty-fifth annual doll show. About 28,000 dolls and toys were provided by readers of the paper for distribution at Christ mas among the children in the hospit als, workhouses, workhouse infirma ries and poor law schools of the me tropolis. There was a separate gift for every child, as well as large toys and dolls" for general use by the I-1 vounesters in the different institu- tions. As in many previous years, an anonymous donor has sent 11,000 new sixpences for the children. Getting Over a Difficulty. In the north there lives a farmer whose sense of humor failed him on his wedding day. He lived at some distance from his bride-elect, and on the eventful morning he set off for the station in good time, but he met one friend after another, with the result that he missed his train. Naturally he was very much upset, but bethought himself of the tele graph. This was the message he sent "Don't marry till I come. William." Liverpool (Eng.) Mercury. Choate Long at St. James. Joseph Choate, American ambassa dor to the court of St. James, has now served longer in that position, than any of his predecessors since the re tirement thirty-five years ago of Charles Francis Adams. A Treat. "Going gunning, are you? Ill bet you couldn't hit a barn door." "Mebbe not. but I think I could hit a darn bore, and if you don't run away 111 be tempted to do it." Job for Papa. "Ah!" sighed the youne man. "l I would gladly die for you." j "Oh. thank you, kind sir," said the . fair maid. "Please do it at once, for 1 papa has just been elected coroner ana ne neeas me practice. King Proclaims..Amnesty. King FrederickAugustus of Sax ony, on his ascension to the throne, nrnclaimed&an amnpstv fnr nil mlnn. ! SfZ. . ... ... i . i uueuse except mai oi crueuy lo am- ma!s. f Longer Monopolize Seat3 in UQDer House. Ingh the senate is supposed to posed largely of old men, young are ranidlv gaining the seats. Mrl Hemenwav. who will be the new senator from Indiana, is 44. He and f his AoIIeague, Senator Beveridge. who is 42,will he among the youngest men in thel senate. But Senator Dick of Ohio, ho succeeded Senator Hanna. an old naan, is only 46. Senator Knox, after several years as attorney gen eral, is Voung as men are accounted nowaday!, being 51. which happens also to bie the age of Senator Crane of Massachusetts, who entered the sen ate with) him. The prospective sen ator fronji Nevada, Mr. George S. 'Nix on, will probably be the shortest in stature of all that branch of ccagress. He is described as nearly a head shorter thlVi Senator Knox, although, like nearlf' all the short men of the senate, possessed of much ability. Washington Post. TELLS OF SAMAR DISASTER. Gen. Corbin Sends Details of the Re cent Massacre. Gen. Corbin's report of the uprising in the island' of Samar and of the bat tle in which Lieut. Stephen K. Hayt and thirty-seven of his command of scouts were killed, has been received by the war department. The report says: "The Pula janes are on the warpath in Samar in cohsiderable numbers, as may be judgoK from the following: 'On Nov. 10 abtrat 400 Pulajanes and several hundred volunteers joined in an attack on a detachment of twenty Philipplne scouts at Oras. Samar. Killed one hospital corps man, wound- ed twelve Philippine scouts, missing five, said to have been boloed while in the river." "And again on Dec. 16, Second Lieut. Stephen K. Haka. nd thirty- seven enlisted men. Thirty-eighth company. Philippine sci ts. were kill Bres, Samar. Bott requests ed by Pulajanes at First Lieut. George F. . help from the milita: ' Vi-tt 1 1 no Town is threatened by l'oOO Pulajanes. Situation critical in both instances. I offered the Philippine government all the assistance desired. As yet none has been accepted." Joke on Archbishop Ireland. Archbishop Ireland doesn't mind telling a joke on himself. The arch bishop always dresses so unostenta tiously that no one could guess his episcopal rank from his street garb. Traveling one day in a rural district, he met a good-natured woman in the car who. after some generat'eonversa-' tion. asked him: "You're a priest, father, aren't you?" In a bantering mood, the archbishop thought he'd try a quibble to put her at her ease, so he answered: "No, my good woman, I'm no longer a priest." The woman gave him a pitying glance. Then she said, soothingly: "Oh. the Lord help us. father! It wasn't the drink. I hope?" Belated Receipt for a Slave. In looking over his morning mail this morning, J. R. Ratekin. a Shenan doah, la., seedsman, received a letter from a man at Wabbenska. Ark., con taining as an enclosure a receipt dat ed back sixty-six years ago for a slave girl. The receipt was also a warranty and read as follows: "Received. Sept. 3. 1832. of John Roberts, $576 in full for the purchase of a negro girl named Charlotte. Said girl is about 14 or 15 years of age, and I warrant her to be sound in body and mind and a slave for life. I will also defend all claims against said girl. Joseph . Hill." New York World. Buffalo Bill Going to France? It is said that William F. Cody ("Buffalo Bill") intends to expatriate himself and become a citizen of France. Cody is well along in years and his family troubles have worn him down considerably. For this reason he is desirous of turning over his Wild West show to younger hands. He is going to Europe with the show in February, and it is said that if he can settle his wife's suit for divorce and dispose of some other matters he will never return to America, but will spend the remainder of his days in France. Tribute to Oklahoma. S. M. McHarg, a Grant county far mer, found his wheat so short that he cut it with a header. Wishing to con serve the soil moisture for wheat sow ing in the fall he planted the land to corn. To his surprise the corn ma tured and yielded about thirty-five bushels to an acre. His wheat averag ed about $18.25 an acre and his corn $10.50. a total of $28.75 an acre, or $915 for his thirty-acre field. This is a convincing example of the resources of Oklahoma's soil and climate. Kan sas City Times. An Awful Mistake. Wife My dressmaker is getting al together too old-fashioned to suit me. Husband Why, my dear, your new gown is strictly up-to-date. Wife Yes, I know; but she actually sent it home the day she promised it. Like Other Girls. "Old Roxon is not a man to pay out money for nothing." "Oh, yes he is. He buys his daugh ter's clothes, and she told me herself that she really had nothing to wear." Size of Eggs Graded. Joseph Gregory of Barre. VL, has an 18-monthold Plymouth Rock hen which has laid eight eggs recently. The first was the size of a marble and round, the next a little larger and more elongated, and so on. Paper Mills in Russia. , There were last year 532 paper mills in operation in European Russia employing 46.100 hands and turninr out paper to the value of about $24, 10,000. Flag Song. Out apon the four winds blow. Tell the world your story: Thrice in hearts' blood dipped before. They called vour name Old Glory. Stream. Old Glory, bear your stars High among the seven: Stream a watchfire on the darK. And make a sign In heaven: ( Mighty harvests gild yonr plains. Mighty rivers bear them. Every wheze you fly you bid All the hungry share them: Blooms the wilderness for you. Plenty follows after. Underneath your shadow go Peace and love and laughter. When from sky to sky you float. Far in wide savannas. Vast horizons lost in light Answer with hosannas. Symbol of unmeasured power. Blessed promise sealing. All your hills are hills of God. And all your founts are healing! Still to those the wronged of earth Sanctuary render: For hope and home and heaven they see Within your sacred splendor! Stream. Old Glory, bear your stars High among the seven: Stream a watchtire on the dark. And make a sign in heaven! Harriet Prescott Spoffora. At Kenesaw. "An old diary." said a One Hundred and Twenty-Fifth Illinois man. "re minded me of that mysterious man on horseback at Kenesaw. This is what I recorded in my diary June 19. 1864: 'Again ordered forward, but the John nies have gone to higher ground. We follow them up. and at night we are at the foot of a mountain, up the sides of which are skirmish pits, and near the top seems to be breastworks, with here and there embrasures for batteries. We soon know that the bat teries are in place all right, and nine teen of our cannon open to reply to the rebs on the top of the mountain. At the same time a furious thunder cloud comes up and joins in the hurly burly, and such a roaring.' shaking, and quaking as ensued is seldom wit nessed That reads like it was writ ten at the front, under the conditions stated by a soldier present and a par ticipant. He was at the foot of Kene saw, in Georgia, and belonged to Col. Dan McCook's brigade, all right, but when he made his record he did not know the name of the location. "History later made the name mem orable: incidents of a few days later fixed themselves on my memory, es pecially the charge of June 27, 1864. on the dead angle of Kenesaw. by Col. McCook's brigade. I belonged to company K. One Hundred and Twenty-Fifth Illinois. Our colonel. Oscar F. Harmon of Danville. III., was killed after Col. McCook fell while command ing and leading the brigade in the sec ond effort to rush the works. He was within the twenty-foot line of the enemy's works. My place was on the extreme left, and after we had made the rush and during the confusion which ensued, some calling on us to go forward, others to fail back, I Iay down, uncertain just what to do. In the interim I looked just in time to see Gen. Charles G. Harker fall from his horse. He was the only mounted officer or person I saw. I cannot re call the color of the horse, nor could I say as to his leading a charge. He was to my rear and left; that is, be yond the extreme left of McCook's brigade, which was not so close to the rebel works as was the right wing, which was lodged on the outside of the works at a point about twenty feet from Hie angle to the north. I could see the colors of one of the regiments planted in the loose earth at the foot of the works and our men were lying flat on the face of the breastworks in support of the colors. "Just as that scene was before me I had one side of my hat torn out by a rebel bullet. This volley gave us a chance to get the drop on the rebs and the firing slacked. It seemed to me like pot hunting on the river below Danville when I was a boy. The fir ing got so slack that I got up and looked around. Everybody was gone except the dead and wounded. The brush and undergrowth screened me. and I straightened myself up and de liberately walked back to the rear un til I came to the rifle pits evacuated by the rebels some ways down the hill. As I recall it now it seems to me that the Joannies must have thought that they had killed enough of us for one killing, for when we had pulled ourselves together the soldier instinct resumed the ascendant and of ficers and men re-formed and pushed up to the brow of the hill, where we fortified within twenty-seven steps of the relxds and made it about the hot test place for the space of the front of the brigade that the rebels held at any time from Chattanooga to Atlanta, and wc kept it hot until the rebels evacuated their position July 2 and 3, 1864, when we followed them to the Chattahoochee river." Chicago Inter Ocean. Southern Woman's Experience. Writing in the Raleigh News and Observer Susan Dahmey Smedes gives this fragment of civil war history: "One of our war experiences was keeping house for two weeks in a box car. We were coming back home from Georgia. The journey consumed two weeks, because our engine al ways stopped us at night, and also at all the cities for a day or two. The car next ours brought the servants. We bought provisions in the towns and the-y cooked nice hot meals along side the track. We had beds, tables, rocking chairs, books, and work bas kets. Even the cat had not been left behind, she belonged to the naval branch of the service, and was given me by one of Capt. Eggleston's sailors. She personally had never smelled gun powder, but all her family, her mother, brothers, and sisters, had gone down to the 'fight in Mobile bay. and been captured by the Northern fleet, in the gunboat Gaines. "It seems a strange thing to say, but all that party look back on that trip as the most comfortable ever made by rail. While we were eating and sleeping and talking, and cow and then receiving a visitor, our serv ants were improving the fleeting moments by the most tremendous re ligious revival. The sound of their prayers, exhortations, and singing overpowered the noise of the engine and train, day and night it seemed to go on. "A pleasant incident on that journey was a breakfast sent us by a former neighbor as we were lying near Colum bus, Ga. I must enumerate the viands all or nearly all were delicacies at that stage of the war. There was real cof fee, with real sugar to sweeten it (not sorghum sirup), biscuits of real wheat flour, butter, though it was selling at $4 a pound, broiled chicken, beef steak and fried potatoes. We did not leave a crumb, and every member of that party maintains to this day that there never was nor ever can be as fine a breakfast as that one. It fs now forty years since all ihese scenes were enacted. I feel to this day. and speak for nearly every Southerner whom I have - heard ex press an opinion, that it is. well the. war ended as it dlcT.8' H was always my father's opinion that if the South bad succeeded secession would have been but the beginning of many seces sions, and we should have been split up into- many weak states instead of being the mighty nation that we are. May Old Glory float till the end of time over an undivided country!" Cherishes His Old Flag. G. C. Large of Taylorville. Dr.. has in his possession the remnants of a flag which was made by the women of Buckhart township In I860. It was carried by the One Hundred and Fif teenth Illinois regiment of Spring field, where the regiment was named Mary Lincoln, in honor of the wife- ot Abraham Lincoln. The flag was not taken through the war. as only the national colors are used in the na tional service, but it was brought back to Christian county, where it has since remained. It has been used in every political campaign since the war, but this is the first time it ha;, ever seen a Republican candidate for president victorious in Christian coun ty. The flag was made entirely by hand and shows beautiful workman ship. Chicago Chronicle. Bodies of Veterans Removed. Two hundred and fifty bodies of civil war veterans who were buried in the soldiers' plot at Forest Jawn cemetery. Buffalo, were recently re moved, together with the monument, to a larger plot in the same cemetery, the small plot which they occupied being overcrowded. ' . Ex-Soldier's Big Pension. ' Uncle Sam's largest pensioner id Iowa is Hans Johnson, an ex-sold let of the Spanish-American war. whe lives at La Port, and draws $100 eact month from the United States treas ury. When the war started Johnson wen' to the front with a Vinton company and while in camp received an injur) to one of his limbs and was sent home after having been treated in a Seu'h ern hospital. He grew gradual!) worse, and finally he became para lyzed. He is now in an entirely help less condition, is totally blind and re quires the attention of a nurse con tinually. Th? $100 pension, which comes af a godsend, will about keep Johnsoz. and his wife. They have no children The Badge Mony Cannot Buy. The department of Indiana has a bronze badge, the pin bearing each year the name of the place where INDIANA. the department of national encamp ment is held. A cherry ribbon sup ports a disk containing the state seal, surrounded by the inscription. "De partment of Indiana. G. A. It." Last Casualty in Civil War. Dr. Clayton Tiffin, a well-known physician and surgeon of Hamilton. Mo., had the distinction of command ing the Union soldiers who fought the last battle of the civil war in which a life was lost. During the struggle he commanded at different times three companies at Richmond. Mo. Ill last command was comrosed cf vet erans of Ray and Carroll counties who had been mustered out but bad re-enlisted under him. It was with a handful of these that he had an encounter on May 23. 18K5 with the remaining remnant of Bill Anderson's bushwhackers and guer rillas. Anderson had been killed, and Arch demons, who had been his firs lieutenant, was in command. The engagement was fought about eight miles from Richmond. Capt. Tiffin had with him only live men. Tht-y were fired upon from ambush by th bushwhackers, and. Madison Walker was killed. Capt. Tiffin was himself shot through the toe of his boot, the ball not cutting the flesh. This skirmish occurred about S :!".(? o'clock in the evening of the day men tioned. Capt. Tiffin was reinforced and pursued demons' command aP night, and the guerrillas surrendered the next morning at Lexington. Thre days later. May 26. 1865. Kirby Smith surrendered all the Confederate sol diers west of the Mississippi river anrt all who had opposed the union forces bad been disarmed. Capt. Tiffin is quite sure the Iat fight was in Ray county and that Mad ison Walker was the last soldier in that great struggle to give up his life. Unpatriotic School Teacher. The Woman's Relief Corps ef Tole do. Ohio, recently preferred charges against a school teacher of Wood county. His school was presented with an American flag and when re ceived the teacher was evidently not in a patriotic mood, for instead of unfurling it at the top of the school house staff he buried the emblem upon the dirty floor and invited the schol ars to participate in a war dance upoc. the flag, which invitation seems to have been accepted. Day of Many Engagements. Nov. 27 was the anniversary of nine teen engagements during the civil war, as follows: Waynesboro, Greys ville, Ringgold. Brown's Cross Roads. Thomas Station. Reyrolds Plantation. Jones Plantation. Pea Vine Creek. Taylor's Ridge and Buck Head Creek. Ga.; Fort Esperanai. Texas;, Bartlett Mills. Va.; Black Rivr Bridge. Miss.: Cleveland. Lawre-i'" I a Vergne. Mill's Creek. S- "...an Carthage. Arl; v ..mWilt '..;: Sfr
