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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
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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. .
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' 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.
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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
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