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'-T55g"&J 6 Jr f T THE NEWS IN NEBRASKA APPLIED MATCH TO BOMB Explosion That Followed Seriously Injuring Two. FREMONT Otto Lottenburg and Roy Killiaa were injured by the ex plosion of a bomb near Morse Bluff in Saunders county. Lottenburg bad one leg amputated below the knee at the Fremont hospital and Killian had two fingers taken off. The men were out for a trip across country and Lottenburg found a pe culiar looking iron piece containing a bluish powder. He lit a match to look into it and a terrific crash followed. Lottenburg's legs were shattered and he fell senseless to the ground. Kil lian. a hundred feet away, had his fingers shattered by a fragment of the iron piece. No account can be given of how the bomb came to be where it was found. It evidently had not been moved for a long time, as it was partially buried in the ground and was rusty. THOMAS ELECTED PRINCIPAL OF NORMAL LINCOT N ExS'ate superintendent Fowler, who was elected principal of the Kearney formal, declined the posi tion. He declared in a telecram to the siate board of education that he had made a contract with an eastern pub lishinc house, and could not accept the place. Toe declination was accepted. The board took iwo ballots, and on the second ballot A. O. Thomas of Kear ney received four votes. He was de clared elected. Your.g Woman Kills Herself. 0NEITJ. Word was received here ihat Miss .TuPa Sullivan of this place had rommi""d pnicide at Clearwater by shooting herself in her room at a hotel there She was an except ionallv bright and an ambi'lou g rl. had been teaching cfcool and some time ago took the civil service examina tion for a position as teacher in the Philippines Having pased examina tion she was "enccirazed to believe sue would get an appointment, but was disappointed. Cannot Fcn-e Issue of License. Attorney General Brown has filed a brief in the supreme court sustaining "his demurrer to the application of E S. Spinney of the Binkers "Union of the World for a mandamus to compel the issuance of a license from the au ditor's department The state con tends that the auditor refused to isue the license in the free exercise of the discretion confided him bv the statute, and that he cannot be coerced where the act is not ministerial. NO DEFINITE NEWS OF ; WOUNDED COLONEL OMAHA Senator Millard received a telegram from Colore Edwards, chief of the inulir bureau of the gov ernment rela:ve to Colonel Tay'or. re cently reported wounded in the Philip pines. The teiecram i to the effect Ohat. owinsr to the isolated locality in which tH Srhr with the inlanders oc curred, no definite news has yet been received a to how badly Colonel Tay lor is hurt. Prominent Def.ocrat Dead. BED CLOUD J 1 Miner, one of the mot prominent democrats of southern Nebraska, died at Excelsior Sprinsrs. lo. He was a pioneer mer chant, and at the time of his death was president of the People's Bank .of this city. District Reunion G. A. R. CAMBRIDGE At a mais meeting of the citizens and members of the Grand Army of the Republic, an exe cutive committee -was appointed to carry on the afa're of the Southwest ern Nebraska district. Grand Army of the Republic, which will be held at this place Ausnst 14 to 19. 1905. "Want Estate of Deceased Irishwoman. Governor Mickey ha received a ltter from Thomas Gerrard ic Co.. of "Dublin and Drocheda. Ireland, makins inquiries as to the estate of Mary "Keiley or Mary Callachan. who is sup posed to have died within the last two years, either at Omaha or at El Paso. Texas. LINCOLN Adjutant General Cul--rer announced Monday that Rev. J. EL Tuttle of the First Concrecational church in this city has been appoint ed chaplain of the Second regiment with tSe rank of captain. GRAND ISLAND David W. David, a member of Company D. Fifty-first Illinois, admitted to the Soldiers" Home from York county, in 190fl. pass ed away. He enlisted in 1S63 and served until the end of the war. Will Make a Brick Test. HUMBOLDT At a meeting of the promoters of the new brick plant it was decided to make tests of the Humboldt clay at the brick plants at Table Rock and St. Joseph with a view to determininc whether the pro duct Is best fitted for wet or dry press ing. Practically all the $20,000 stock is sold to local investors and steps will eb taken to permanently organize and incorporate as soon as the result of the above experiment is learned to be -favorable. Board Still Makinq Uo Record. LINCOLN The .State Board of Equalization, after spending some time counting ties and measuring ra;ls J ro as to make up an impregnable rec-' ord of railway assessments, took an. adjournment until later. While the main consideration in reaching the assessments will be the market value 3f stocks and bonds and the net earn ings, the tangible proper is consider ed so that there may not be any fioubWas to the validity of the work, as a compliance with the terms of the statute. Find Relic of Civil War. BEATRICE Daniel Freeman, who lives west of this city, and who has the distinction of being the first home steader in the "United States, has just returned from the South, where he spent the winter. While in Alabama ke visited the battleground of Fort Blakely. and found a six-pound cannon ball m the sand. Mr. Freeman, to gether with General L. W. Colby of tkis city, -were both participants in tbs sattle of Fort Blakely. which took iylace April 9, 1865, aad waica was the Mt battle at the dm STATE NOTES. The Y. W. C. A. of Lincoln has planned a 530.000 structure. A. F. Bailey of Gage countJ- nas just celebrated his S4th birthday. The Humboldt band gives each Sat urday evening a concert in the public park. Fairmont has concluded to have a saloon for the first time in many years. Kazel Reed, an inmate of the fetsw minded institute at Beatrice,-died last week. Members of the Elks' club at Lin coln Have decided to put up a $30,000 building. Much damage was done in Stanton county from high water in the Elk horn river. The Ashland High school had twenty-two graduates fifteen girls and seven boys. Osceola's grievance over bad mail facilities has been quieted by better railroad service. The York auditorium was sold at sheriff's sale to Campbell Eros , of Lincoln, for $13,500. In many sections it has become necessary to rep. ant com by reason of the cold weather. The agent of the Great Northern has been in Ooakland securing the right-of-way through that town. Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Ottens of Ne maha county, last week celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their mar riage. The State Board of Education by a vote of 4 to 3 elected W. K. Fowler principal of the Kearney Normal school. There is an element in Table Rock rian Church at Wheeling, Pa. Since wantinc a saloon and their wish is , 1S93 he has also been assistant editor likely to be cranied. as the license of the Presbyterian Banner, of Pitts board is favorable. ' burg. Dr. Moffat was born at Lisbon, A special stock train left Lejsh the . O.. in 1S4C, and was graduated from o'her dav for Chicaco The train con- Washington and Jefferson College in sisted of twenty four cars of cattle and represented about S3S oo. i Some of Fremont's citizens have filed a protest asaint any more base ball on Sundays, and i i? likeiy that tho'r wishes will he complied with. Henry Gallentine. charged with stealing hoss of F. Hittner. was bound over to the district court by Judge Byrne. In default of bail he is in jail. Kimball now boasts of an excellent telephone system just completed by the Independent Telephone company, j tner tjme to e reading of what The automatic system is used and -wOUid be called in America solid gives excellent satisfaction. books. The recent report of the 11- An enthusiastic meetinc was held ( brarian of the imperial library at To in Auburn, and it was decided that the , k?0 shows that there is little demand town celebrate the Fourth of July. Mayor McClay was made chairman of the meeting and he appointed work ing committees. The District School association of Cuming county will hold its regular annual convention at West Point June 3. Deputy State Superintendent t-ii !ii j.i: .l.l- l.n nisaoil win (ieint-T ;m auuiess im cut school officers rreent, F. J- . . 1 ....J i ne nrsi uon coumy uu s auu cirls sehool convention was m ses sion at Tekamah last week. Each school had two re:nilar delegates, one boy and one cirl. The attendance was far greater than expected, nearly TOO beinc preicat. Deputy Game Warden Smith, be tween 12 and 1 o'clock Sunday mom in. arrested five men for fishing in a lake two miles west of North Bend. The men pleaded guilty and were fined S15 each and costs, making a total of S7S.T5 At Red Cloud C. L. Fuiwider and Nicholas Thomas came near meeting instant death. A scaffold on which they were working cave way and pre- j cipitated them to the floor joists be low and several cement blocks, weigh- ir" l-iii ru-ttiTiric enrn le i mon inpra. .. . . ...... i t-.7i.:.i ,-o. !,. ,.i5.ti,. t,: but young Thomas received a broken breast bone and his jawbone was frac tured, besides his hein rendered un conscious for a short time. Perry Myers for whom Governor Mickey issued a requisition after one had been refused by Lieutenant Gov ernor McGilton on the complain of a young lady of Falls City, who very t much desired to see her recreant ' lover returned from Los Angeles. ; Cal.. voluntarily after the governor j determined to send for him. and is re- J ported to have made a settlement by paying the younc lady $2,000. At their recent meetins in Grand Island ladies of the G. A. R. elected the following officers: Mrs. Camilla Elliott of Omaha, president: Mrs. Lou Hoacland of Loup City, senior vice president: Mrs. May Nay of Ord. jun ior vice president: Mrs. Gertrude Johnson of Crete, treasurer: Mrs. Christia Hoge of Kearney, secretary; delegates to the national encamp ment are Mrs. Wilda Nichols of Scrib ner; Mrs. Etta Tyler of Arapahoe, Mrs. Mary S C. Matthews of Lincoln, and Mrs. Anna Thompson of Hast incs. Carl Brock, a Johnson county farm er, jumped from the upper opening of his barn and broke is left leg in two places. His hurried exit was to stop a team that was about to run away. Fred Miller, deputy secretary of state, said that the law requiring au tomobiles to have state registration would be strictly enforced when It goes into effect July 1. Every ma chine operated in the state will have to secure a new number before that time in order to permit its use on ana alter .liny j. niuioui uaaiijer ui ar- rest and fine. The Leigh school board has em ( ployed Prof. Georse Marshall of Elm Creek. Neb., as principal of the Leigh scnools for the coming year and Miss Maggie Coffey of South Omaha for I intermediate teacher. ' The Nebraska G. A. R. department decided to hold its annual encamp ment in Lincoln hereafter. The re solution adopted includes the annual reunion which has been abandoned of recent years. It is the intention of the veterans to ask the state for an ap propriation either in the form of money or the use of buildings and grounds for the annual reunion. James Kinney of Glenville was run down by a special freight on the St. Joseph & Grand Island railroad and is in a critical condition. Kinney was walking northwest on the track when the special came from the southeast and struck him before he had time to escape. In a hearing before County Judge Rogers, William X. Skinner, president of the Citizens' State bank of Spring view, was bound OTer to the district court in the sum of $600, charged with assault with intent to coauiit great bodily injury on the person of Charles a proaaiaeat attorney. REV. JAMES D. MOFFAT MODERATOR OF THE PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLY .BssBBBBBssf-'"- '--j saTir ' '" The Rev. James D. Moffat, elected moderator by the Presbjterian as sembly at Winona Lake, Ind., is presi dent of Washington and Jefferson Col lege. Washington, Pa. He has been at the head of that institution since 1SS2. Previously he had for eleven years i been pastor of the Second Presbyte- 1S09. Dr. J. Addison Henry, the retiring moderator of the Presbyterian general assembly, is a veteran minister of HEAVY READING FOR JAPS. Little Demand in Country for Lighter Literature. The Japanese are serious-minded people, as their literary habits show. Thev take life seriously and devote I l for light literature in that capital, for fiction of any sort, contrary to the ex perience of most of the popular li braries in England. France and Ameri ca. The Japanese mind runs to sci ence, mathematics, medicine, language and to what may be termed the graver i forms of literature. More than 40 per I -. - -i - .1 : cent of the works taken out of the im- perial library are of this character. The Japanese are very fond of history, in the making of which they are ex- i tensively engaged at present in the eastern war. Engineering, military and naval science receive much atten tion. The interest in these subjects i has been sTeatly stimulated by the war. VALUE OF SMALL COLLEGE. Best Institution That Young Men Can Attend. Complaint has been made that many college professors nowadays are more interested writing learned treatises on their subjects than in teaching them to their classes. It used to be said that Mark Hopkins, with a class of boys on a log, would make a college; but that time seems to have gone by. ' The modem professor in a big school is a reader of lectures and a preparer ' of examination papers. The real in- j include all lonely, uninsured farm struction for the student who desires houses of small value burned. It does ; to get simply an all-around education, ! not fully cover the losses of household i before taking up a professional course I goods in general less adequately in ' of study, is rather the small college ' sured than buildings. It takes no note ! with a good faculty. Better than cost- j of forest fires, the most irreparable of j ly buildings, better than big libraries, all calamities. The figures might al 1 better than elaborate apparatus and : most be doubled without exaggeration. ingenious appointments, is a live teacher, well informed and intelligent- ly sympathetic with the mind and tern-1 civilized nation knows such an appall ner of vouth. New Orleans Picayune. & waste. New York World. Mayor Breaks City Ordinance. Mayor William B. Harp, of Pitts burg, is coming in for vigorous con demnation on account of the manner in which he deliberately violated the I ordinance governing the speed of I automobiles. The river and harbors ' congressional committee was in town and the members were taken for a spin around the parks. Mayor Harp ' pounds, had to pay 15 per cent for a was in the automobile with Congress- J policy running only ten months. After man Burton and when the party start- j the assassination of Grand Duke Ser ed his honor told the chauffeur to "cut gias and the terrorist threat to wipe loose." The speed ordinance was shat-! out the imperial family the czar sud tered in a minute. Park policemen ' denly retired from activity as an in- tried to stop the procession, but were i waved back by the mayor, who is now the object of general condemnation. Dean of Patent Office Force. Prof. A. G. "Wilkinson is dean of the patent office examining corps in "Wash ington, having been in charge of a di vision since 1S6S. He graduated In the Yale class of '56 along with Jas- tices Brown and Brewer of the Unit- j ed States supreme court. Senator De- pew and Gen. Wager Swayne. Mr. Wilkinson first went to the patent of fice on July 1, 1S64. During his term of service the patents granted have increased from about 43,000 to more ' than 700,000. The examining force has grown from less than fifty to 320. Crushed Indiscreet Guest. Many are the stories told at Oxford university of Dr. Jewett's formidable wit. On one occasion at one of his i own dinner parties, alter the ladies ' had retired, a guest indulged in some indecent talk. Dr. Jewett looked at the offender and saia with decisive politeness: "Suppose we continue this conversation in the drawing room." Whereupon he arose and led his guests into the presence of the ladies, thoroughly annihilating the indiscreet guesx. Mania for Fast Driving. So fond was he of fast driving that Joseph Byrne, ambulance driver for the German hospital. San Francisco, used to send in false calls from the stable at which the ambulance was kept. He had already killed two horses hy his driving when he wta caught telephoning, and confessed. Great Reform in Turkey. It is stated that for the first time in living memory every Turkish of Idal punctually received his fall salary oa April 1. i.jzTJSzsj-y. Philadelphia, having occupied a pulpit in that city for fort -five years. He is the only moderator elected by ac clamation. STATE CHOOSES GOOD MAN New Connecticut Senator Won Spurs in Lowsr House. Frank Bosworth Brandegee, the United States senator chosen to suc ceed the late Orville H. Piatt of Con necticut, has an inherited gift of ora tory, his father, Augustus Brandegee, having for years been the chief spell binder of Eastern Connecticut. He is forecful, witty, has a genius for epi grams and his subject matter is well thought out. He is retiring to a de gree hardly expected of a man who has been in the public eye so much for the last few years, and gives the impres sion at times that on the whole it is rather a bore to be a public man. Sen- ator Brandegee " one of the numerous I senators who won their spurs in the . house of representatives. Among the others are Hopkins of Illinois. Hale ' and Frye of Maine, Lodge of Massa- chusetts. Burrows - Michigan. Alli son and Dolliver of Iowa, McCreery of ! Kentucky. Newlands of Nevada. Dick of Ohio, Bailey of Texas, Carmack or Tennessee. Latimer of South Carolina, Long of Kansas, Burkett of Nebraska, and Hemenwav of Indiana. APPALLING WASTE OF FIRE. Tsx on Nation Amounts to $25 Per Family Annually. One thousand million dollars, said President Washburn of the board of fire underwriters at its meeting in this j city, is the county's loss by fire in six years. The loss for 1904 surpassed all previous records, reaching $229,000,- 000, of which 550.000,000 disappeared in the Baltimore blaze. But that is cot j the real total destruction. It does not Tbe true annual fire tax of the nation is doubtless $25 per family. No other Underwriters Fear for Czar. The czar has been the most active recent risk in English companies, says a writer in Leslie's Monthly. Up to" a week before last Christmas the rate on his life was 5 per cent per annum. On December twenty holders of Rus sian bonds, who insured him with Lloyd's for some tens of thousands of surance risk. Nobody wanted him at the price the underwriters placed on his life. Loubet Forgets Gallantry. Mme. Patti (Baroness Cederstrom) has received from President Loubet the ribbon of the Legion of Honor in recognition of her charitable work in Paris. In signing the decree confer- ring the decoration President Loubet is saia to nave uttered a remark so undiplomatic as to make every other Frenchman blush. "I do this," he is reported to have said, "with as much pleasure as I experienced long ago, when I had no gray hairs, and when I heard Mme. Adelina Patti sing in 'Lucia' and in "La Sonnambula.'" Marriages in Germany. There were 463.150 marriages in Germany year before last 7.91 in every 1,000 of the population. Ninety per cent or the grooms and SI ne cent of the brides had not been mar ried before; 44 per cent of the grooms were between the ages of 25 and 30; 56 per cent of the brides were under 5; in 9o,o77 cases the bride was older than the groom. The number of births in Germany year before last was 2, 046.206; the number of deaths was 1,234,033. Healthy and Active Centenarian. "Indian Dave," of Vassar, Mich., is at least 100 years old. Notwithstand ing his advanced age, the old man takes long tramps about the country on hunting and fishing expedition's and carries himself with an erectness that would do credit to a much young er man. Bernhardt Before Patti. A protest is being made against the nomination of Mme. Patti to tfae Legion of Honor on the ground that i Mme. Bernhardt has a prior claim. - -t i SHREWDNESS OF J. P. MORGAN. Sent Valuable Present in Way to Escape Attention George C. Thomas, one of the lead ing figures in the Philadelphia louse of the Morgans, tells a story which illustrates the shrewdness of J. P. Morgan. Mr. Thomas' daughter was married not long ago and a day or so before the ceremony there came to her father's office a pasteboard box wrapped in coarse brown paper, brok en at two of the corners, tied merely with twine, but distinguished among its fellows by the address, which was in Mr. Morgan's own bold handwrit ing. Investigation brought to light that it carried a pearl necklace for the bride-to-be worth anywhere from $1,500 to $2,000. The sender had properly thought that the unnoticed was, after all, safer in transit than the parcel advertised as valuable by registry and wax seals. FEAR GOMEZ IS DYING. Family of Cuban Patriot Gathers at His Bedside. The family of General Maximo Go mez, whose illness from nephritis is considered serious, has arrived at San- Gen. Maximo Gomez. . 'iasro to be with the aged leader in j what may be his last hours. The gen- eral s extreme ase and the results of tie many wounds he received in his campaigns for the liberation of Cuba complicate his trouble. HAS FUN WITH STATESMEN. Fine Vein cf Humor Developed by I Ex-Senator Chandler. Since his retirement from the Unit ed States senate William S. Chandler of New Hampshire has devoted part of his spare time in having fun with former colleagues and other distin guished men. Recently he wrote iden tical letters to Vice President Fair banks, Secretary Shaw and Senator Foraker, pledging support to each of these presidential aspirants and tell ing each that he had written the same letter to the other two. Secretary Shaw and Senator Foraker sent hu morous replies, but the vice president apparently overlooked the fun of the situation, for his answer was stately in its grateful tone. Mr. Chandler also called at the white house and as sured the president of his support In case the Democrats should nominate him in 190S. MAY TAKE NAVY PORTFOLIO. It has been decided in Washington that Paul Morton, secretary of the navy, will leave the cabinet within six weeks. The portfolio may be offered to Victor H. Metcalf. now secretary of commerce and labor. Not a Lover of Omar Khayam. It had been suggested that the Omar Khayam society of London would do well to offer the loaf of bread and flask of wine to Sir Edward Mor timer Dnrand, British minister to the United States, who is now on a visit to his native land. The idea fell into disfavor when memory revived an ex perience Sir Edward had while min ister to Persia, the home of Omar. Certain admirers of the ancient poet wished to repair his tomb in fitting fashion and induced the British minis ter to interview the shah on the sub ject: "Not a cent." said, in effect, his most puissant majesty. "If Omar Khayan is so dear to them let them erect a memorial themselves. We have many better poets in Persia." Tamed Youngster's Exuberance. The Duke of Argyll was once visiting a school at Ascot and noticed a small boy running as hard as he could around the cricket ground. When he had been round it three times and stopped the duke asked the headmaster why he was running alone in that extraordi nary way. "Oh." said the master, "that's Lord Randolph Churchill's son. When he talks too much we make him go three times round." The truth was that Winston Churchill had just been indulging in chatter and had just been sent round the field to silence him. Slaughter of Alligators. The quantity of alligators has. great ly decreased in all the southern states, and it seems only a question of a few years when it will be impossible to obtain the hides at a price that will justify their general employment. Thousands of the animals have been slaughtered merely for sport, no use whatever being made of them. It is estimated that the number in Florida Louisiana at present is less than 20 per cent of what it was twenty years ago. Great Raft of Logs. A log raft seven hundred feet Ion, drawing twenty-five feet and contain ing 8,000,000 feet of lumber, is to be towed from Seattle to San Francisco. The shipping men are afraid it may break up en route and cover the with dangerous floating timbers. Schwab's Palace. Charles M. Schwab's palatial resi dence in New York, which will cost $9,000,000 when completed, will revert to the city when he and his wife m j dead. It is to be a museum. ynv fwa sh 5A, i i n nil 1 1 iiyv r" .wikiiu PLEADED A DUAL PERSONALITY AS EXPLANATION FOR MURDER .bbbbbbbbbbbbbbEVssbbbbbbbbbbbbbbw. ..bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbsbb9?2bv HbT BSBBBBBBBsVPSsssBKrrKssBBBBV HB flBfcBfLVKSSslBp LsF 'Tm IsbbbFbbbI ssstsB v jHifEn 'jHSKls? ?BsBsf PVtta lB "JSasr-AsPsBBSBBt ' BBBBBBBBBBBBBSE?r5cE2SBBBrSDBBQK$BHfl BBssBTOisBBBBBBBs mf p GEORGE H. WOOD AS HIMSELF AND AS THE OCCASIONAL BEING WHO COMMITS MURDER. The first picture shows George H. , Wood, sentenced at Somerville, N. J.. i to thirty years imprisonment for the s murder of Williams, as he appears . when he is in i.orir.al condition; the , second as he looks when memory leaves him, v. hen he forgets all about , America The efty.firs; anniversary cf the first treaty Made h; Jaian with the United States. h.i'b v.s also the first treaty v. Lien it made with any i foreign country, occurred March 31. This treaty, which was negotiated by Commodore Perrv. opened Japan Xf commercial intercourse with the Unit ed States: and ib still remembered there, with the date of the first land ing of the Americans as the first step in the development that changed Ja pan from the "hermit nation" to what S. Uchida. consul general for Japan at New York, calls now the "Yankee nation of the Far East." William Speiden of No. 107 East Seventieth street (now employed in the New York custom house), one of the few survivors of the famous first and treaty visits to Japan under Commo dore Perry, spoke yesterday of his memorias of expeditions. "This treaty," he said, "was signed on the second visit which Americans ever made to Japan. The first oc curred the year before, when our na val forces landed at Gorihama under Commodore Perry, on the 14th of July, 1S53. We entered the Bay of Yeddo with four vessels, prepared for an emergency. In other words, every thing was got in readiness for action. Several days of great excitement were passed amid the preliminaries for the grand landing. In the end Commo- j -dore Perry carried ashore the presi dent's letter to the emperor of Japan, i The commissioners appointed to re j celve it wer.- 'informed hy the commo dore that he would returft the nexr year to receive the emperor's answer, and that he would bring with him the j escort of a large fleet. This piece of iniormauon was not agreeamy re ceived. "In the opening of the next year 1S54 we spent nearly a month in the Chinese port, to which we had retired, in perfecting arrangements for the second visit to Japan. Drills by day, drills by night, were held both ashore and afloat, and. In order to afford the commodore an opportunity for review ing his forces on shore a visit to the prince regent of Loo-Choo at his pal ace at Sheudi was arranged. Soon af ter this the commodore inspected every vesel and pronounced them sat- j isfactory. So early in February everything aas ready for our depar ture for Japan. "Mcnday, the 13th of February, com-1 memorates the second entrance of the Americans into Japan. It was a beau- tlful. cold dav. Awav on th mn h,i t L stood the noble Mount Fusi-Yama, ! now- 0ne of h5s h1,!'-n5S in his home covered with snow. Early in the morn- ' town is a hotel build.rc of an ancient ing everything was astir. The fla- ' type of architecture. Madison is a city ship signaled the order for moving up j of pretensions. In summer it is a re the bay. and w:h the United States I sort. In winter the legislature holds steamer Susquehanna in the lead we ! sway. On several occasions some of steamed up with a" flags flying and ' the other capitalists of the town have the bands on board every vessel plav- I agitated the proposition of erecting a Ing national airs As we passed Gori- ! hotel building commensurate with hama, where the presidents letter had ' the state capital's pride. Whenever been delivered the year before, a wave ! the proposition has been made Col. of enthusiasm swept through the men. ' Vilas has met it with a counter propo- The bay was crowded with Junks and every description of native craft, and the Japanese on board started with astonishment and terror as the war ships steamed majestically on. "About 3 in the afternoon the ves sels anchored at the 'American an- ! chorage, 12 miles south of Yeddo, the capital. On the Sth of March the sec-1 Crossed Ocean 300 Times. Chief Engineer Carl Baum, of the North German Lloyd liner Kaiser Wil helm II, arrived in New York a couple of days ago. having just completed his three hundredth trip across the At lantic. Forty years ago he began as assistant ensineer on one of the four single-screw vessels which constituted the North German Lloyd fleet. He has traveled in. that time 2.046.S32 miles by sea. enough for about five round trips to the moon. Mr. Baum was born t in Lamsdorf, Bavaria, sixty-five years ago. Morgan Dines With the Pope. On his recent trip to Rome J. Pier pone Morgan and his party spent Eas ter Sunday almost entirely in the pope's company, as they went to his early morning mass and dined with him in the middle of the day off a Venetian dinner. The fish had been. sent as a gift from Venice, the wines were Venetian and the other dishes were from Venetian recipes, while the company was also Venetian his sis ters, a niece, Monsignore Bressan.his private secretary and two noblemen. Society Woman to Be Nurse. Mrs. Henry Wallerstein, prominent in the social and club circles of New YoEk city, has just completed a four years' course in the New York Medi cal College and Hospital for Women and will soon establ.sh in that city a free clinic for women and children. South American CardinaL At the next consistory the pope will make Braga, bishop of Petropolis. a cardinal, in accordance with Brazil's special request. Braga will be the first 8ota American cardiaaL person No. 1 ard becomes filled with a desire to kill. When the period of at tack has passed he aain becomes his normal self, forget:ng in the trans ition every act of the fiend, person No. 2. His stranc claim seemingly had little effect on the jurj in Japan ond great landing ( effected. The corns . dor, with about Z f Americans was :ore, as ambassa officers, 1G0 ma il 3 bands of mu- formed the par On this occasion rines. 240 saiiors a sic in all about ' ty, filling 27 boats 'the answer to th. president's letter to the emperor of Japan through the imperial commissi, ners was deliv ered. This letter was a remarkable one in view of the exclusiveness which these peopit- aad hitherto main tained. It conta.t. d the following passage: 'But for us to continue big otedly attached u the ancient laws seems to misunde-stand the spirit of the age, and we -R.-h to conform rath er to what necessity requires.' "Contrast this with the sentiment expressed in the following inscription repeated on tablets of wood and stone all over the empire- 'So long as the sun shall warm the earth let no Chris tian be so bold as to come to Japan. and, let all know that the king of Spain himself, or the Christian's God, or the great God of all. if he violate this command, sha!I suffer for It with his head.' It was an exciting day, when that little band landed and faced more than 7 uno well-equipped soldiers, both eava'ry and infantry. "During the nex three weeks the time was occupied with frequent meet ings both on sea and on shore, and everything was done toward hasten ing the makinz of the treaty, which was signed March 31. 1S54. When the Americans met the Japanese for that final act it was before a pavilion gay- H- i?crorSted by "trie Japane3tTwI!JPT colored clothes and flags." The following quotation from a let ter which Mr. Speidon wrote home immediately after the event will serve to show what Americans of that day thought of the tr.aty: "I truly be lieve." he wrote -that the new era which is now about to take place in the history of the Japanese empire will be one in which far greater changes will occur than we have at this time any rpana to anticipate, and that, too. befnr- many years have passed." New York Evening Post. EX-SENATOR A MILLIONAIRE. William F. Vilas Wakes His Home at Madison. Wis. William F. Vilas, former United States senator from Wisconsin, former postmaster-general anl afterward sec retary of the intfr-.or in the first Cleveland admimsation, lives In Madison. Wis. He is a millionaire sition to erect a finer building for hotel purposes. The patronage of the town is not sufficient to warrant two big hotels, consequently it has none. Col. Vilas is master of the situation and the old hotel continues to do the buiness at the old stand. Col. Vilas being the beneficiary. Chicago Chronicle. Leaves Pulpit for Forge. Rev. M. E Eachman. a popular clergyman of Millersville. Pa.. ha3 for saken the pulpit and will co to work at the blacksmith forge. The rever end gentleman s father is one of the best edge-tool dressers in the section and taught his son the business be fore the latter was ordained a preach er. Now the yo-mger man. finding that the small salary paid by his church is not suflicient to support a larxre fam- ily, will return to the forge, being a skilled mechanic and sure of good pay. Would Close All Schools. Prince Mehusky, proprietor of a Russian newspaper, has made the more or Ip5 interesting discoverv that Gen. Kouropatkin's defeats in the far east, the famin-s. the strikes and the massacre? in Russia are all due to an "intellectual microbe," which germinates in the brain and causes people to become dissatisfied. He in sists that schools should be discoun tenanced as breeding places of these noxious microbes, spreading discon tent against things as they are. Titled German Ambassadors. The eizht ambassadors of the Ger man empire in Madrid, Rome. Wash ington. Constantinople. Paris, London. St. Petersburg and "Vienna are all members of the nobility. Their emolu ments are S25.000 in the first three cities named. J30.000 In the next three and $37,000 in the last two. Japanese Room for Sultan. The Sultan of Turkey has decided to introduce a Japanese room into his palace at Constantinople. All the fit tings will come from Tokio. TRICKS OF THE SNIPS. Biri Hm Many Methods for Us in Deceiving Hunter. T have hunted snipe ever since I was a boy," said Dr. S. H. Moore, "and each year I have learned some new trick of this long billed bird of erratic flight fame. The 'possum is a tyro compared with the snipe in its efforts to deceive the hunter. "I was hunting with George C. Mor rison near the gun club's grounds a few days ago. and for an hour or more we did not see a snipe or hear a 'scaipe.' Just as we reached the bag gy, with the intention of returning t the city, a snipe rose a few feet away from the ground over which w had trasiped. A second later another, get up and began its quick, tortuous flight skyward. We bagged both with snap shots. "The birds seemingly had laid low in tufts of grass, watching our move ments, and supposed themselves safe when they saw us preparing to depart. Mr. Morrison and I started back over fie ground we had hunted, kicking jach bunch of grass and dry weeds as ire went along, and in half an hoar we had raised a dozen snipe and killed most of them. Occasionally, when we missed kicking a bunch of weeds, a snipe would rise behind us. dart along the surface of the ground and then suddenly move upward in corkscrew like gyrations. The only thing akin to foolishness of which a snipe might be accused is its misjudgment of the distance a modern choke bore gun will carry. It has a score of cunning tricks of flight as well as the 'possum-like trick I have just mentioned."Iudianap olis News. THE NEEDS OF AFRICA. Appeals to the People of All Nations for Rights. It Is but very little that we ask the right to work on our own soil, among our own people, ruled by some, at any rate, of our own rulers, and to oe permitted to eat and drink what wo think good for us, instead of having deadly poison poured down our throats, says the Century. Even If for eign powers fchould for a time be fitancial losers, they cannot eventual ly be anything but gainers aided by i country almost unlimited in its capa silities, and the willing, grateful serv ce of 20,000,000 of people rescued 'rom the moral as well as physical Icath now staring them in the face. They will not have the obstacles" pre- . seated to them in their own country; ill will be with them in-this crusade, .eaders and people alike are stretch ng out their hands for aid. We appeal, not to England, not to France, not to Germany, not to other-' empires and states, but to the coa--.ciences of the individual men 'fors- -ng such nations. We appeal, not for a gift or favor, but for our right. Erea as the Americans appealed for their rights, and obtained them by heroic measures, so do we claim the right for 'freedom to worship God," and to wor ship Him by sobriety, industry, good rill and all the Christian graces. The Making cf Men. Cnumjre or lack if it. "Work, and tbe knak of It; Grit, or the nel of It. Haste, and the speed of U: jPurpoe. or r. r of It. Life, what Is .ne of It, Work, or tr- 'ja of It. Maketh a r-an. Luck, and t e tru?t of It. Wealth, and the lu.-t of It. -rtfrrti rind t ? tlg of it. Youth, and the tttmr of it. Ease, and the lap of It. Chance, and the hap of It. Vice. ntl the sap of it. Breaieth a man. v. Press, and the care of It. Cheer, or the share of It. Speech, or abuse ol It. Tact, am! the use of It. Trust, and the care of It. "Worth, and the -wear of It. Do. and the dare of it. ilarketh a man. Do. nor the hra;r of It. Up with the tiajf of It: Life, nor the fear of It. Taste, the sood cheer of It; Time or the waste of It. Will, try the ta.te of It: Work, that Is srraced of it; Maketh a man. J. W. Foley, in Xew York Tim ml The Effects of Love. Francis Wilson, at a wedding break- fast in New York, talked about the 3t range effects of love. "I used to know," he said, "a young; law clerk. "No steadier and more reli able workman than this young cleric existed. Like a machine he rose at 1 'n the morning and retired at 10 at night, and like a machine he executed all his employer's tasks with silent speed and accuracy. "Then it happened that a beautituf girl moved into the house next door to him, and he fell in love with her. "And now beholf the strange effects at love. " 'Jenkins. said the clerk's employer one morning, 'have you finished draw ing up the briefs of Hoskin and May bury?' "'Yes, ducky.' the young man an swered dreamily." Philadelphia Rec ord. Twas Ever Thus. "John." said Ma Twaddles, "what I? the meaning of the word 'scatopha gous'?" "How on earth should I know?" grumbled Pa Twaddles. "Probably a new kind of a germ. Write to the 'Questions and Answers' department of the morning paper and find out. The department is published on Men days, I think. Where is the paper, anyhow? had it a minute ago oh, here it is under thi3 confounded dic ticnary. Tommy," he continued, wrathfully, "take that dictionary up tn the attic. It's always in my way and what good is It, anyhow? And wnen you've done that bring me a ren and ink and 111 write to the paper tJ satisfy your mother's curiosity." And it happens every day, the edi rot says. Cleveland Leader. The New Natural History. A hard-working fancy dealer had ransacked the whole shop in his ef forts to please an old lady who want ed to purchase a present "anything real nice" for her granddaughter. For the fifteenth time she picked up and critically examined a neat little satchel. "Are you quite sure that this is gen- uine alligator skin?" she inquired. "Positive, madam." quoth the deal er. "I shot that alligator myself." "It looks rather soiled," said ths ledy. "That, madam, is where it struck the ground when it tumbled off that tree." Laborers Snub Japanese. A Japanese recently applied for' leave to attend the meetings of tie San Francisco Building Trades' cowa ciL He said he wanted to. listen ts Its deliberations and also wanted to ascertain how to proceed in order that his countrymen might be admitted to unions aHliated with the counciL His reauest was promptly refused-
