The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, May 01, 1907, Image 3
i3 -Z lJt " w life' PsW L- , i ; ,v i L J- I "51 i i -ti AFTER IK' CDffl MARRYING JUDGE . ADVERTISES IN STREET CARS.' Enterprising Clayton, Mo, Justice ef Peace Out tor Cellars of Cupid's Victims Uses Busim Methods. St. Louis. Justice or the Peace A. H. Werremeyer,. of Clayton, has cre ated co little stir in his section of country by his rather original way ot advertising himself -as one author ised to perform marriage ceremonies. Justice Werremeyer is out for the -dollar and as many of them as he can get, so he is advertising in the good old-fashioned way. The justice hasn't had his signs painted on barns or fences as yet, but in the cars of all lines running into Clayton he has put up large cards with the follow ing wording and arrangement: m "Go choose the one you love the best. : : Then come to Clayton for the rest.". : ; JUDGE A. H. WERREMEYER. : : Justice of the Peace. : : Kinloch 'phone. Clayton No. 3. Im- : : mediate appointments. : Residence. Olivette: Office. County : : Court House. Clayton. Mo. : Back of this enterprise or the Clayton magistrate is the increased cost of a marriage license in St. Louis. A few weeks ago the price was raised from $1 to $1.50. In Clayton it remains at one dollar. There has been a per ceptible increase in the number of marriages at Clayton since the new schedule became effective. "I am going to let the people know that I am in the business," said Jus tice Werremeyer. "I want my share of this revenue from performing mar riage ceremonies, and I am going right after it People must come here on one of those car lines, and they will learn that I am prepared for them. Besides. I think that getting leopIe to come here to be married will be good advertising for Clayton. They will look around and see what a fine town we have." Heretofore Justice Preiss has held the championship as "marrying jus tice." Two other justices who are pleased to officiate are Frank Strobie and I. VV. Campbell. Including Werre meyer, there are four justices who can be found at the Clayton court house at practically any hour of the day. Two Clayton ministers. Dr. N'orth of the Methodist church, and Dr. Langtry, of the Presbyterian, have shared in the matrimonial fees, couples being sent to them by friends at the court housa. ' Judge G. A. Wurdeman. of the pro bate court, has presided at a sufficient number of weddings to attract atten tion. Justice Werremeyer isn't saying what be thinks his advertising will do to reduce the business of his riv :i's. but his plans are of a substantial character. The advertising is to be continuous, with a change every month. The verse on the first card was chosen from a large collection of verses For next month's card the verse will be as follows: "Where are you going, my pretty maid?" "I am ?oing to Clayton," she blushingly said. "May I go with you. my pretty maid?" "If to the Justice you'll go." she said. Nor are these simple black and white cards. That would be too con ventional for the justice, who had his first cards printed in blue and red on a white background. Electricity as Anesthetic. Paris. Professor Le Due of the Medical college of Nantes has per fected a method of anesthetization by electricity. He sends a mild electric current through the body, which so perfectly lulls the sensory nerves that any surgical operation can be per formed without the patient feeling pain. Le Due claims that his method produces anesthetization as deep as that of chloroform or ether, has none of the dangers of chloroform and is much more conveniently used than ether. Besides, the patient revives in a stronger condition than from chloroform or ether. .. few days ago Le Due himself sub mitted to a test of his discovery be fore many of his colleagues, who seemed much impressed by the re sults. Cruises by Liquid Fuel. London. The Times is informed that the steamship Goldmouth. a ves sel which burns liquid (petroleum) fuel, recently arrived at Thameshaven tfter a passage from Balik Pappan. in Horneo. a distance of over 12,600 miles, without a stop. The revolu tions averaged 54.3 and the speed throughout the passage averaged over nine knots. This is the third nonstop run made by this vessel while burning liquid fuel, the first being from Sing apore to Rotterdam in May-June. 1906. and the second from Singapore to Thameshaven in September-October. 1906. Probably there is no other re corded instance ot a single vessel hav ing made three non-stop runs of such duration with liquid fuel. MUCH USED WEDDING GIFT. Silver Card Tray Which Has Been Presented o Many Brides. Providence. R. I. A Providence girl who has been married about six months had wedding cards a short time ago from an old schooK friend who had given her a wedding present, which, of course, demanded one' in re turn. Among her wedding presents the Providence girl had duplicates in the shape of two silver card trays, and in a spirit of economy she decided to give one of these to her friend. It was marked with her own initials, bat it would he only a matter of a few minutes to have them removed aad the proper monogram cut. She took it to the jeweler and ex plained what was to be dose. He pick ed up the tray, looked at it closely and smiled. Madame." said he. lt will .he lav possible. I have already changed the initials on this same tray five times aad it has worm so this that I cassot do it agals withost csttiag x throngs Dak ttto SBansssTBsHBneaBsSZI?-''- -&bsssssssssssssssbJHIbssssssm 9MK!9BBMBBBBBBJk3T7JsBB-33 .nl&9!ssssssr'aBssssssB?SBSsm IrfidBVSBVBBSSSsKiAMdK1- .-' -YS5T mUSSST 'SEBHBm j?3?&3iaSKriSSSfefeI-'?SSSS&SSKESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSni The young Duke of Saragossa, an exceedingly wealthy Spanish grandee. has developed a passion for engine-driving, and has obtained an appointment on the regular staff of the Spanish Northern railway. Twice a week he drives the express from Madrid to San Sebastian. MANY JOBS FOR A GIRL is STATION ONLY 19 AGENT YEARS THOUGH OLD.. New England Young Woman Looks After Tickets and Freight, Car ries the Mail and Acts as Baggage Master. Rutland. Vt. Nineteen and a girl, yet station agent, mail carrier, "ex press agent, baggage master and freight agent for the Central Ver mont railroad that is Miss Bessie fclixabeth Henley of East Granville, in the Green Mountain range. And she has held all these jobs since she was 17 years old. Admiring friends claim that Miss Hanley is the only young woman in New England holding such a position, or such a multitude of positions that are so distinctively in the sphere of the male. , Although just- .emerged from childhood when appointed, she has done the work of her office for two years without a black mark against her record. Failure to be on hand at train tima is unknown not only to Miss Hanley, but to most of the residents of the hamlet East Granville is near the upper most portion of the pass in the Green mountain range through which the Central Vermont railway makes its way from one side of the state of Vermont to the other. A lumbering community, extending for eight miles back into the mountains to the west, finds a point ot connection by the road .with the world and its market places. The amount of business transacted probably makes no appreciable differ ence in the dividends which stock holders of the system receive, but it is of considerable moment in the op GREAT PROSPERITY IN HOLLAND. Agriculture and Dairy Farming Flour ished Last Year. London. The following dispatch from The Hague to the London Times is of interest: "On the whole the year 1906 m-y be described as one of the most pros perous years in Holland's recent his tory. Agriculture and dclry farming, th- economic corner stones of the Netherlands, have been more than usually profitable: the dry summer, combining with normally abundant water supply, produced excellent cer eal and grass crops and prices ruled very high. Industrial activity was at a high pitch and commerce and ship ping left little to complain of. The lov- water in the Rhine and its estu aries caused some loss and delays to the transit and river-shipping trades, but on the whole these trades also were very active, reflecting, as they did. the state of the German indus tries which use the Dutch waterways. "Still more conducive to the nation al welfare was the remarkable pros perity of the produce trades of Hol Has Signature tf Marillo. Duplicate Engraving ef Famous-Picture Owned by Denver Woman. Denver. Mrs. Samuel Gay, of 733 South Ninth street, has in her posses sion a steel engraving more than two hundred years old, from which she ex pects to realize a. neat fortune. This ancient work of art is entitled "The Virtue oLHoly Charity." and is a dup licate engraving of Murillo' famous painting. The engraving wa3 made in the year 1700, and was presented to Pope Clement XL, by the artist himself. It is the only engraving ever made of the painting, and two centuries ago was considered a thing almost sacred. Is as inscription below the picture the great Italian artist dedicates the engraving ,to Pope Clement and asks the pontiff's blessing. There is s pretty little story is the way is which it came to Mrs. Gay. Fiftees years ago her Brother, Mrs. Bobbie, was visiting her M home m Scotland. Jest before sU left her Eagme Drirr. eration of traffic through the great ravine and to the cafety and con venience of thousands of passengers on the through trains between Boston and Montreal, as well as to the hun dreds of cars of freight which daily pass the point For on the care and watchfulness of the girl in charge ot the company's depot, under the sheer 'cliff of the mountainside, depend their safety. No difficulty is experienced by Miss Hanley in handling everything that ames East Granville way. She finds the railroad men all anxious to assist her Although not many trunks are taken on at the little depot of which she has charge, when one does show up It has as much in it as the rail road will carry without excess rates; and the station agent's heart sank when she saw the first old-fashioned Saratogas intended for transporta tion. There are no baggage tracks for the use of the agent, and she did nut feel equal to the task of, carrying the heavy boxes from the station plat form three car lengths up the track to the express oar. Willing brake men saw her dilemma and came to her aid, and four powerful arms made short work of it. So also with. much of the express matter billed to the town. One man would have difficulty in handling it, but Miss Hanley's vol untecis solve the problem in na time, pilir.g the articles on the freight shed platform, where they are left to be called for by the consignees. Not many difficulties have bees en countered by the young woman in the discharge of her duties." East Granville Is not regarded as a partic ularly healthy location for tramps .under any circumstance, and in the winter time it is too cold for them. land's vast East India colonies. To bacco, tin, sugar, spices and coffee came in abundant supplies and sold at high prices and this caused a de gree of prosperity to prevail in Java, Sumatra and the other possessions which could not fail to affect the. numerous Dutch capitalists who -have invested enormous, sums in these tropical possessions." Real Thriller. Gunner (entering circus) What is the deuce is all that din? Are we in the animal tent? Guyer No, we are about to see the great thriller for 1907. , Gunner Indeed! Is it the leaping automobile or the falling airship? Guyer Neither! They are tame In comparison. Over in that big white pit which is constructed to represent a court room you will soon see 17 wild and untamed insanity experts wrangling with each other over "brain storm." The music of this world comes from lives vocal with love. native town to return to the United States her brother, a man of advanc ed age, brought to her a package. On examining it she found the en graving. Mrs. Robbie was sot im pressed with either the value or beau ty of the picture, asd told her brother she did not believe She, cared to take up trunk' room witha "dirty old rep resentation of a painting. Her broth er insisted, however, that she should keep the engraving, and told her that years before it had been presented to him by a wealthy man for whom he had once performed some important duty. Mrs. Robbie, after hearing this explanation, packed up the engraving and brought it with her to America, but sever gave the matter sweh thought. eewVeelesCeveweM The Nattosal Union of Hmsgarian Bakers is orgsslxisg ngraad Intorsa tiosal exposition of bakery to beheld at Bsda-Pestk from May IS te Jane 30. 1897. BANK STUFFED WTTH L2J 'if FORGED NOTES -j f FINANCIERS OF FAR EA8T DUPED j BY , SKILLFUL COUNTERFEITERS Experts from the Bank ef England and the American Bank Note ' Company Are New en the Way te China te Assist in Separating the Spurious" from the Genuine , Notes Held by the Big Financial Institutions ef the Cast Powers - May Join in the Attempt te Step Skillful- Counterfeiting Which Threatens the Currency ef All ' Nations. The most stupendous counterfeit ing operations in, the history of the .world- are-coming to. light-is the ori ent. The amount of mosey involved is great almost beyond reckoning, and the method of forgery so far reaching, clever and dangerous that all the financiers of the east are alarmed. The gigantic scheme, so successful ly carried out that no living man knows its extent, is practically laid at the door of the Japanese. Point by point the fact that the little brown men flooded all Manchuria and staff ed the Rosso-Chinese bank with spur ious money during the war with Ros sis' is being established by experts. Sixteen million pounds, or 180,000,000, of the worthless stuff is said to have been detected. Nobody can guess Low much more is extant. Japanese engravers and printers have manufactured a counterfeit bask note that has defied experts for two years and puzzles them still. The Russo-Chinese, the Hongkong and Shanghai, the Imperial Bank of China and the Indo-Chinese bank all these have felt the sting of the Japanese xoney viper. What effect it will have xm as Tt be only conjectured. Even .Europe has suffered. - -.-, Appeal has been made to the Jap-. inese government to enact and en .'orce stringent laws to exterminate .he swarm of shrewd conuterfeiters n Nippon, and who elude the watch ful officials of that empire. . It is claimed scant attention has been paid o this request. Japan has had many things to look after since her costly conquest of the Russian bear. Now Doubt the Truth. Experts from the Bank of England and the American Bank Note com pany are now,onrthe way to China to assist in ferreting out the tremen dous amounts of bogus money known to be mixed with the genuine. Their findings, if made public, are expected to startle the world. They may be so momentous that they win be sup pressed to 'prevent- the tottering of the strongest financial, institutions in Asia. Bankers of the orient fear., with good reason,, that they 'ant hold ing, locked in thelrv burglar-proof vaults, tens of millions of pounds in, counterfeit notes which they took" for genuine, and which will spell ruin when disclosed. ' In Kobe has been located a counter feiting plant which Is said to have cost $100,000. It has ceased opera tions, hot worthless notes, so near perfection that only the minutest fault can be found by adepts', are declared to be still coming from the land of cherry blossoms, chrysanttie mums and fighting men. Other plants and ingenious imitators are presum ed to be continuing the crooked work. Last summer in the Russo-Chinese bank doubt arose as to a certain note. It was for $10, Mexican money, and numbered .0664. It -was as perfect a reproduction of the genuine original. as could be conceived. ' The bank's experts pored for weeks over It and, a good note and could find not even the slightest discrepancy. Tet 'the bank note officials had strong cause to believe it a forgery. Worst Fears Realized. Similar doubts had come up in the Imiierial'Bank of China and at the Indo-Chinese bank. Persistent efforjs, However, revealed no visible peculiar ity of a note certainly none suffi ciently flagrant to be observed in the regular transaction of business. Utterly in the dark, the bankers turned to this side of the water for light To determine whether the sus pected notes were real or spurious, several of them and a number of un questionably good ones were sent to the American Bank Note company, New York, and also to the Bank of England, says the Cincinnati En quirer. Consternation has been caused by the replies sent to the oriental banks. To what extent they have been re ceiving these counterfeits during three years and how manyof them the banks themselves were and are holding as supposedly good money remains to be learned. Sixteen .mil lion pounds $89,000,000 Is -an SENT HIM A COFFIN C. O. D. Revenge of the J)isearded Sweetheart of a 'German Official. The police of the Silesian towns are looking for a pretty young woman on account of the vengeance she took re cently upon a sweetheart who jilted her. She sent him a coffin C. O. D., ssd the police think. she intended to find use both for it and another. if he had kept an appointment which she tried to make with him. The man in the case is a besirko feldwebeL or district sergeast at Lo bau in Prussia. The young woman is Astonie Olenick, and she Is the daugh ter of a deceased railway managing director, her socle being Maj. Ges. R. von Kraine, of Dresden. Official is qmlry shows that she had ordered a troessrau to. cost $259 from a Lobas tradesssaa ssd had spent considerable Bsosey os purchases for it is Dresses. - Whes er sweetheart totd her he had rhsagwii his sUsd aboutsjarryisg her, she isusediately appeared frost Lobas. A few days later she American expert's estimate of the amousi siresoy rosso. "lH-4 r' Fear Plates Used. V . t, It has bees esUhhesedthafsneTasIy semred. and they deteriatsed coasterfelts were oiaeed ' is circsla tios v at the opesisg. of the Russo Japanese war. andposBiWy. before, instead cf luviigstopped the? tike has rhws sstfl ;the iaBtcted" sasxer are afraid elf their ows-paper. because' they cassot be sure ot IL t , Daring the war it was openly charged that the Japanese , govern ment ksew of sefarkms operations carried os aad closed, its eyesj and ears to them. Every Japanese or Chinese of the coolie class appeared with plenty of money. The banks were besieged, and the report was rife that the., little brown men were securing a goodly portion of their Ightisg expenses from the four banks referred to. Experts to Investigate. Information has been received that the main counterfeiting plant itself has bees located in -Kobe. The out fit is said to have cost at least $190, 900. The most expensive machinery used in the making of money has been employed in turning out this spurious note, and some of the most skilled workmen in the world did the delicate engraving of the plates. The product of the plant is nothing less than a reproduction of the Rus sian bank note. In its perfection it passes the bounds of the word "coun terfeit.' It becomes a duplicate. . One of the leading experts consult ed regarding the dilemma is George S. Hall, of the American Bank Note company. He is cow en route to China, where his mission will keep him occupied three months. His time will be devoted toward solving the problem uppermost there. Five Days Run. ' J. S. McCune, one of the best-known experts of England on forgery and counterfeiting, is also bound for Shanghai, which offers the most fer tile field for the skill 'of such men. That appears to be the headquarters for the extended investigation now beginning. Mr. McCune claims Ja pan has been petitioned by several of the larger banking corporations of China, all of which are Europeans in stitutions, to enact a drastic law, similar to that of the United States, making it a high crime even to have a counterfeit note in possession. "This is the condition in the far east," said Mr. McCune. "The bank ers do not know where they stand. Runs have been started on them which were absolutely unaccountable. I recall in particular the ease of the Hongkong and Shanghai bank in Shanghai. 'About a year and a half ago a run started on this bank. The officials did not understand why. The institu tion is an English concern, and has I radically unlimited capital. In the middle of a warn summer day a great rush of notes began. Every obliga tion was met without question. Dur ing the afternoon it kept up. The notes were for the most part present ed by the coolies. They were univer sally of the five dollar class. The officials thought of- a counterfeiting scheme, and had their- experts in vestigate the notes. Several hours were devoted to a study of them un der a microscope. The experts had to acknowledge that no discrepancy could be found. entered an undertaker's shop in Gor litz, Silesia, and ordered the coffin. She showed marks cf profound grief and told a story which complete ly imposed on the proprietor. She said she wanted a coffin built to fit a woman of her size sent to her hus band at Lobau. She gave the name of her recent fiance as the consignee. It was for her sister she said, and she told how the poor girl had shot herself through the head because she had been cast off by her betrothed husband, a court official of Lobau. She also gave the undertaker to ship in it s myrtle wreath, a bridal veil and as elaborately printed card, printed with deep mourning borders, announcing, as she told the under taker, her sister's death, but really her own, of coarse under her maiden name. The coffis with its contests was duly delivered at Lobas to the district sergeast who was first paralysed with horror and later with rage whes the C. O. D. bill for $17 was presented to him. He indignantly refused to pay a pfessig,'ssd thes, is the Ger- BsUitHilifl I ( wMIIBSmSSsSjL llffll sssssv"ll IliF mimnKSKB'ffrSKKfSHUi IH sssssss&HD mmBSUamSI3 HI BSSSSSSSSSSSSSsU SSSSSSSsUAHI4WbII If EBBSs! P R&afl VU1UdI )ssl0SWBSSSBSSaL ft BSSSSSsHsSsHsPl I - fp!-2 ifSSLejII way, the police took s haad. I "Then the big beak did its .The officials ksew 'that every it had is drcelaUos was that if the people wasted hard foc.their paper, they ahoeJd have It That-sight, the bask restttaed-opes, and; the precessfoatef" coshes kept up.- -The. next day the, bask dM set .cfoee;X'AAdevery aW for five days asd five nights this rash continued. "Extra fends frost other braschee of the owixftaYioa were hurriedly re called asd every noto.met. Thes the drain slackened and -the officials treathed easier. How masy thou sands of dollars is good Esgliss'cdls was withdraws has sever bees di vulged. Suffice it to say that whes the year was, rousded put, asd the statement ot the banfe'taade. the high er officials 'were 4 surprised. They agals set about to see if forgery had not. been, perpetrated. Their Is vestigatlon merely. Brought out the fact that practically every note is ued by the bank had bees returned, and that all appeared genuine. Thes more notes began to come in. Gen uine depositors and those holding the real notes began to be frightened by the rumors floating broadcast, asd coming for the most part from drunk en, opium-crazed coolies who had se cured unacustomed amounts of mos ey. These depositors begasxto pre sent their notes for payment Thes the bank officials knew there had been a great crime. Inspection prov ed futile, and they decided to lay the matter before Americas and English experts. The result is now knows. "The Indo-Chinese bank in Shang hai was similarly affected. It oc curred about a year ago. I remem ber it well. A run started through a rumor 'that forged, notes were In circulation. The Japanese who were 'in on the counterfeiting, game were 'augmented by the holders of genuine notes, and In a' swarm they descended upon the bank. Where Will It Stop? "This institution is understood to be backed by the French government It paid dollar for dollar on every note. The run continued in tremen dous volume, and the officials fixed upon a drastic move. They recalled every note of the bank that was in circulation, and for five days kept them from passing out to the public. It was hoped in this way to unearth the holders of the counterfeits. It was unsuccessful, and the bank resumed the circulation of its notes. "The Imperial Bank of China has experienced similar runs. Where this is going to stop the bankers cannot say. The only reason it has not caus ed a suspension of business in the far east is that every man thinks he has a genuine note and therefore does not worry. The only mas sow wor thing is the banker, who is almost palsied by the thought that the mil lions of notes he is carefully guarding in his vaults may be merely a mass of counterfeits made by the Japanese. "The bankers look to the paper manufacturers to save the day. So i'ar the only basis for declaring any of the notes forgeries has been a dis crepancy in the paper. It takes some thing more than imitation to make' the grade of paper required for bank notes. This last condition may be the means of putting a stop to ..the activities of the Japs, and likewise the greatest of counterfeiting schemes." They at once saw something more in the case-than a ghastly joke. The sergeant told them that the girl had written urging him to give her a meet ing on the evening previous to the arrival of the coffin. He had takes no notice' of the request bat the police had no trouble is establishing that she was os haad and waited until late into the sight st the place she had appointed. She spent the night is the railway station, and Is the morning hired a sleigh to drive her to Relchenbach, a town sear Lobau. She told the driver to wait for her at a hotel, but flipped away to the' railway station asd took a strain to Gorlltx. There all trace of her. was lost The driver is still wait ing for his pay.. The police are of two sUads. Sobm of them believe she intended to shoot her faithless lover asd thes herself. Others thisk she intended aserely to kill herself is his presence, flgmrisg that his ssavalnsc; regrets wosJd stake hist pay for the coffis and thes asssre her the style of bsriai craved for. V PM a TtrassweCirs ' LMlwTC BsPaN i "The sUsd is a said Prof. Zacsariah TerwUHswr to hk clase is psychology. t "Let ss consider one point that pressed is the good, old hossely, -sukisg'ss one's srisd "A problem cosies sp for selstien let ss say. Or, to give yet greater di-" icctsess to the SMtter, let ase cite a presesLperseasl fact, cosdUioe. "I am os the threshold of as hsv pertast decision. What I detenaise' to do may have s grave bearing soon my whole future. "Let as examise ray mental pro cesses, taking from the study ssch lessons as we may. , "First I pander over the matter carefully. I look at it is its every aspect, turning it round asd rossd. so to speak; examining it search isgly is all lights, from all angles. . "By the subtle. Indefinable processes of reasoning I arrive at a certain cos elusion; perhaps it would be better to .say that I receive certala strong impressions. For I happes to be gift el with as unusually opes mind. v "Thes as a man ef discretion it behooves me to secure counsel: 'to let other misds see this issue in timately and to allow whatever re sulting impressions there may be to become duly arranged, orderly v fashion; set' forth asd exposed. - "I listes carefully to these judg ments, noting zealously each per son's, individual bias, the so-called 'personal equation, in order to make proper allowance In each case. "Then 1 assort asd. as it were, catalogue these several outside opin ions. I (nage them alongside my ows half formulated one. "I thes step apart psychically asd view the whole array as the con noisseur is an art gallery might view asd observe s group of core lated paintings. "Having, -as I modestly beg to claim, s singularly plastic though notably individual asd strong mind. I am able to thus project what. the Theosophists might call my astral shape. I am able eves to place my self momentarily is the attitude, the personality of Brows, Jones, Smith and Robinson and to view.-my own im pressions and my ows status as they might view them. "This young gentlemen, is as espe cially valuable and illuminative exer cise. I urge yon to cultivate the facul ty or seek to create it is yourselves. "Finally I return to propria persona and give one last, sweeping survey to the entire subject Then I decide, my misd is made up. Irrevocably. "No stress, no threats, so duress could alter the decision. , "No pleading, no cajolery, no urging could modify it "Fojr next to moderation asd open mindedsess, let me impress upon you. there is nothing so valuable. as firm ness. I may, indeed, err, but I wffl follow that course, for I have by this intricate and painstaking process ar rived at the absolute conclusion that it is best "As .1 intimated, the illustration has bees taken from actuality. I have just come to my unalterable decision. What I have determined upon shall unequivocally take place. "As a further object of study, I give you leave to note the results." The students departed much im pressed. A little later the professor, yet is a glow of agreeable self-satisfaction, sought his home. Mrs. Terwilliger met him at the door. "Zachariah." she said, "have yon come to a decision on that matter?" "Yes, my dear; I have thought it over most carefully and have decided to say no.'" "Really!" There was a touch of irony in the good lady's tone that the professor did not altogether like. "Well, I've thought it over, too. and I've decided that you most accept, it would be nonesease to " Mrs. Ter williger's aspect was ominous. "Very well, my dear," interjected the' professor, quickly and meekly. "All right, do not let as have any words. Of course I shall accept; of coarse." Too Rich te Travel. Camille van Crestenberghe, his wife and four children were marooned in Aberden all night because of the fact that they had too much money. Van Crestenberghe, who is said to be a wealthy merchant of Detroit. Mich., had been visiting with his fam ily at Ipswich, S. D. They came here to take a train for Detroit In pay ment for their tickets Van Cresten berghe tendered the station agent a $1,000 bilL The agent could not change the bill, nor could any one is town be found with money enough to break the bilC As a consequence the family were compelled to remain in Aberdeen all night and to await the opening of the banks next morning before they could pursse their jour ney. Aberdeen Correspondence 9t Paul Dispatch. Bern in Him. The little sos of the lawyer had fin ished working an elaborate sum on the blackboard, and, after the usual detailed explanation of the operation, he concluded with: "Therefore the. answer is 2.645." "Asd can yoa prove it?" asked the teacher. The boy look-' ed wise. "Prove it? Tes, ma'am. I will sub poena the entire class as witnesses, bat I must request a postponement for tes days in order to prepare my defease." Children's Defective Eyesight Either defective sight is os the in crease among the scholars of the New York city schools, or else a more care ful examination of eyes is being made. Recent examinations made by the board ot health show that one-hair ot the scholars are in need of glasses. Furniture Mover's Advice. A lady, who is s fsmitsre remover, carrying os buslsess at MasweU, has as her vans the followlsg appeal to the public: "Don't worry rled end keep on ova.' I Standard. i "1 J.'i ;l l v 51 21 il rvl . $MkMiiM3? vi rr-'JiU.,1 fi . V .t xi-A-. . ar.&trfi&je'i-rtf',