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s A . , m B (I Columbus Journal STROTHER at STOCKWELL, Pubs. COLUMBUS, - - NEBRASKA PERSONAL. Gov. Hughes absolutely refursed to become a candidate for the vice-presidential nomination. Gov. Johnson of Minnesota declared he would not be a candidate for a third term. Charles B. Ullmo, formerly a French naval officer, was publicly degraded at Toulon as a traitor and spy. Representative A. A. Wiley of Ala bama, a member of the past four con gresses, waa reported critically ill at Hot Springs, Va. ' Miss Annie S. Peck, well known i mountain climber, is going to Peru to . make a second attempt to reach the 1 summit of Mount Huascaran, which she believes is the loftiest peak in the western hemisphere. Raymond Hitchcock, the actor ac- 1 cused of mistreating young girls, was acquitted by a jury in New York. The empress of Germany fell from her horse while out riding, but was uninjured. J. U. Barnes, president of the in solvent Minnesota Title Insurance and Trust company, was found guilty of grand larceny at Minneapolis. The 'state board of pardons of Illi nois refused to pardon Herman Blllick of Chicago, convicted of the murder of George W. Wood, Lewln A. Wood j and Forest B. Wood pleaded guilty I In St Paul to conspiracy to defraud and were fined $2,500 each. GENERAL NEWS. The Agnew-Hart anti-racetrack gam Wing bills were passed by the New Tork senate by the constitutional ma- t jority of 26 to 25 and were at once signed by Gov. Hughes. A jury in Pontiac, Mich., decided that Henry Clay Ward of that city, a millionaire wnose eccentric actions led to his family's applying to have a guardian appointed for him, was competent to manage his own affairs. Mulai Hand, the usurping sultan of Morocco, entered Fez at the head of a large army. Ten robbers, heavily armed, invaded the customs office at Tlflls and killed the official in charge and his four as sistants, decamping with $12,000. The' police pursued the robbers, killing three. After a campaign of extraordinary bitterness the voters of Sedalia, Mo., rolled up a majority of 848 against local option. Patrick O'Hare of Pittsburg, Pa., fatally shot his wife and child and cut his own throat. Flood conditions in Missouri and Kansas were much improved, though there were three drownings at Kan sas City. Two children of Fall River. Kan., were found suffocated in a trunk in which they had hidden. Before the brewers' convention ad journed at Milwaukee it was decided to raise $200,000 to wage war against the spread of prohibition. The Republican national committee completed the hearings of contests in volving 219 seats in the convention. Of these 216 were -given to Taft and three to Foraker. Explosions and fire in the Morris packing plant at Kansas City. Kan., resulted in two deaths and the de struction of about $350,000 worth of property. The Allison Glass works of Cen tralia. 111., employing 300 men, filed a petition in bankruptcy with the fed eral court. Nine bookmakers were arrested at the Gravesend racetrack for violating the new anti-racetrack gambling laws of New York. John McGreer, a landscape artist, 69 years of age, who recently lived in Chicago, was drowned in the Hudson river near New York. 'Anthony Comstock, head of the New York Society for the Suppression of "Vice, says his society will fight the sheath gown, whether worn by chorus girls or members of the 400. The receding of the Mississippi .river flood tn the vicinity of La Crosse, Wis., revealed thousands of dollars' worth of pearls cast up by the high waters. Sam T. Stevenson, former secre tary of New Orleans Local No. 17, Typographical union, was arrested in that city with $8,000 of the union's funds. Twelve people were injured, two probably fatally, in a street car col lision in Chicago. Nine persons were killed and 65 in jured by a rear-end collision of a freight with a passenger train at Roc capietra, Italy. Roy A. Gormley. a Detroit grain broker, ended a week's debauch by coaunitting suicide In his apartment at the Auditorium Annex. Chicago. On claims aggregating $8,791,047 dne the National Car Wheel company of New York, the Wheeling & Lake Erie railroad was thrown 4nto the hands of a receiver at Toledo. O. - The Hotel Gramatan at Bronxville. Jf. Y., and the new Cliff hotel at New t -? port, R. L, were destroyed by flames. Nine hotel keepers and business men of Galesburg, 111., were arrested for violating the local option law. For kindness shown his wife in her sickness. Giles Gilbert, a Duluth pi--oneer who died a few weeks ago, left $25,000 to Miss Edith Bain, a music teacher of Chicago. ;NEWSNOTES: f FOR THE BUSY MAN j Most Important Happen- 3 !! ings of the World X j; Told in Brie 8 More than a dozen persons were hurt at Capitol Heights, a suburb of Montgomery, Ala., when' the platform used to accommodate participants in the unveiling of a statue to Gen. Rob ert E. Lee. collapsed. Federal Judge Landis granted am appeal to the United States supreme court tc Herman Billik, convicted of the murder of Mary Vrzal, just as preparations for his execution were being made in Chicago. Wisconsin Prohibitionists nominated a ticket headed by W. D. Cox of Mil waukee for governor. President J. C. Wallace of the American Shipbuilding company an nounced the permanent closing of the Bay City (Mich.) yard of the com-. pany, wnlch began operations nearly half a century ago. A silver service from a design by Paul Revere, the American revolution ary war hero, is to be presented to the United States cruiser Colorado by the state of Colorado at San Francisco prior to the sailing of the cruiser to the orient in August. The Lusitania beat the Mauretania's record on the western passage by seven minutes. For the third time in as many days an entire square of dwelling houses was burned in New Orleans. Thieves smashed a window in the jewelry store of Hyman, Berg & Co., State and Washington streets, Chi cago, and escaped with 60 gold watches and jewelry valued at $3,000. As the result of the local option elections held in Oregon, county pro hibition will prevail in 21 of the 23 counties after July. David B. Hill of New York, on sail ing for Europe, scored William J. Bryan, declared there was no longer a Democratic party, and commended the candidacy of Gov. Johnson of Min nesota. As the result of a political quarrel at Stanberry, Mo., R. H. Duncan, a lawyer and candidate for prosecuting attorney, shot and killed Charles E. Butler, city marshal. A pouch of registered mail from Los Angeles for New York, containing upwards of $50,000, was stolen after reaching Kansas City. The United States Brewers' asso ciation at its closing session in Mil waukee adopted a platform of prin ciples in which it pledges itself to the abolition of the immoral saloon and to the cause of temperance in. the use of intoxicants in the broadest sense. The great elevator of the Tri-State Grain company at Hammond, Ind., and 1 250,000 bushels of corn were destroyed by fire. Settlement of further contests by the Republican national epmmitteo gave William H. Taft 504 votes, or more than enough to nominate on first ballot The United Confederate Veterans elected Gen. Clement A. Evans of Georgia commander-in-chief and de cided to meet next year in Memphis. W. F. Burns .of Jackson pounty, S. C, while on a bridal trip across Panther mountain, in Greenville coun ty, was robbed of his pretty young wife by a gang of six men, after he had been bound, beaten and robbed. According to the school census, Chi cago now has a population of about 2.140.000. Joseph Leiter of Chicago and Wash ington and Miss Juliette Williams of Washington were married at the home of the bride's parents. Miss Margaret Sargent of Sioux City, la., found her mother and a man named Joe Ford dead with bullet holes in their heads. Archbishop Nikon, exarch of Geor gia, was assassinated in Tiflis by rev olutionists. A monument to the Russian dead at Port Arthur, erected by Japan, was unveiled. An 11-year-old boy at St Joseph, Mo., wrecked a freight train to obtain coal. The Montclair (N. J.) council adopt ed an ordinance providing a five dol lar fine for the owner of every dog that barks after 6 p. m. The Republican national committee seated both the "lily white" and "black and tan" delegates from Louisiana with half a vote each. The latter agreed to vote for Taft Six contests In Mississippi and one in Missouri were decided in favor of Taft Edward VII., king of England, and Emperor Nicholas exchanged royal visits on the waters of the Bay of Reval in the Gulf of Finland. It was a notable meeting and one which may have a far-reaching effect in the world policies of the futue. Property damage to the extent of $20,000 was done in Guthrie.-Okla., by a violent wind and rain storm. Representatives of the large steel interests agreed on a general reduce tion in prices of finished steel prod ucts. Three hundred persons, including Marquis de Dion, were poisoned by ptomaines at a banquet of the Auto mobile club of Paris. One person is dead and many others are in a serious condition. Fire In the business district of En nis, Tex., did $150,000 damage. Mrs. Thomas Murrill of Breathitt county, Kentucky, killed Miss Mary Terry, for whom Murrill had. deserted her. OBITUARY. John Vines Wright, who was the' oldest ex-member of congress and had been a confederate officer and a su preme court judge in Tennessee, djed in Washington, aged 80 years. Charles T. Dunwell, representative of the Third congressional district of New York died in Brooklyn. Capt Edward Rabey, commander of one of the small steamers at the New York quarantine station, died. William Smith King, one of the fa mous pony express riders, died at Amazonia, Mo. Frank C. Bangs, the well-known tragedian, died at Atlantic City. A. J. Burt, for many years auditor of the Michigan Central railroad, died suddenly from heart disease at his home in Detroit Mich. Oliver H. P. Belmont the well known banker and politician, died of appendicitis at his home in Hemp stead, L. L "Young Steve" tBrodie, son of the bridge jumper, died in a New York" hospital after being found unconscious on the Bowery, where xti had passed his time since losing the fortune his J father made. mm mm SPEAKER DROPS INTO CHICAGO QUITE UNEXECTEDLY. INTEREST IN LABOR .QUESTION Says That He and Congress arc on Record Against Certain Legis lation. Chicago, III. Something of a sensa tion was caused Sunday by the un expected arrival in Chicago of ooe of the presidential candidates, "Uncle Joe" Cannon. He arrived from Dan ville late in the afternoon, going to the Union League club, where he was soon in conference with some of the most prominent leaders of congress, including Mr. Payne of New York, chairman of the committee on ways and means; Mr.( Dalzell of Pennsyl vania, the ranking member of that committee; Representative Overstreet and Representative Sherman of New York, who has the congressional back ing for the vice presidency; Richard Rerens of Missouri and a number of delegates from Illinois, Missouri and other states. It soon developed that Speaker Can non's coming was in connection with the platform. Mr. Cannon the other day learned in a general way the main features of the existing draft and did not feel that they presented any serious obstacles. However, the ar rival of the congressional leaders developed the fact that the so-called anti-injunction plank contained cen tain features which were regarded as quite opposed to the declaration made at a recent caucus of the members of the house upon that subject Mr. Can non was called on the long distance' telephone and the platform situation' was discussed. The speaker is not an adept in talking over a long-distance telephone, and he finally decided to take a train into Chicago and go over the platform in person. Meantime Mr. Cannon and his con gressional lieutenants are thoroughly going over the platform plank concern ing the restriction of injunctions. It is not only the speaker's personal view that an anti-injunction plank such as is proposed would be unneces BaTy && unwise, but as speaker of the house he feels that the formal action of the republican membership taken only a few weeks ago and strongly ex pressive of opposition to such legisla tion should receive serious considera tion before such a plank Is finally in troduced in the pronouncement of the party to the country. Some of the con gressional leaders have pointed out that such a plank would create a sin gular diversity of official representa tion, the republicans of the house formally declaring against such legis lation and the republican platform formally declaring in favor of it. The speaker's views on this subject were outlined to his friends Sunday night as being identical to those ex pressed two years ago. No Name But Bryan's. Glenwood Springs, Colo., The real interest in the democratic state con vention, which convenes here on Mon day to select ten delegates to the convention af Denver, centers in the ironclad resolutions binding Colo rado's delegates to vote for Bryan for the presidential nomination is a fore gone conclusion, as no other name is being mentioned in this connection. The contest will be fought out to a finish in the credentials committee. Pardon for Powers and Howard. Frankfort, Ky. By announcing the pardon of Caleb Powers and James Howard, Governor Willscn closed the last chapter in one of the most noted criminal cases in the history of this state, in which the people of the Uni ted States have formally expressed their interest by signing the petitions for pardon. NEBRASKANS' CAUCUS MONDAY Meet to Agree on Division of Conven tion Plums. Chicago. 111. A number of the Ne braska delegates reached Chicago Sunday and are quartered at the Palmer house. Among them are: Senators Burkett and Brown. Repre sentatives Pollard j and Kinkaid, W. N. Huse of the Norfolk News and J. H. Arcnds of Otoe county. Victor Rose water has been on the ground contin ually since the national committee took up the contests, holding the proxy of C. H. Morrill of Lincoln, the present national committeeman, whom he expects to succeed. The Nebraska delegation will meet at 2 o'clock Mon day to elect a national committee man, a chairman and members of the various convention committees. Senator Burkett is slated for a speech, seconding Taft's nomination and also, it is said, for membership on the important resolutions commit tee. Governor Sheldon, it Is further stated, is to be chairman of the dele gates. , Samoan Volcano Active. Auckland, N. Z. Advices received here state that for three nights, be ginning May 10, there was. a remark able volcanic outbreak on Savali, largest of the Samoan islands. The first eruption was followed by the greatest flow of lava In the history of the island, it beins estimated at nearly 3.000 tons per minute. Soon there was an almost continuous sheet of lava "eight miles wide and from six inches to six feet deep flowing down the countaln side. It destroyed many native houses. x Bryan Has More Than Enough. Lincoln William J. Bryan, accom panied by ex-Governor J. E. Osborne of Wyoming, arrived in the city late Saturday. They spoke Friday night, at a political meeting at York. Xfter a short visit at Fairview Mr. Osborne left for Chicago. At the Commoner office it was announced that C97 dele gates to the democratic national con vention at Denver were pledged to vote for William J. Bryan for presi dent This is twenty-five more than the necessary two-thirds majority. PROMINENT NEBRASKA COMPANY Among the Prominent Financial Insti tutions In Nebraska is the Western Fire Insurance Company of Lincoln. The Company has shown remark able progress and under its manage ment has shown itself to be a pro gressive and successful inssitution. It is a Stock Company and its Stock holders are all Nebraskans. It issues most liberal policies, makes prompt settlement of all losses, which are paid in cash without discount. This Company makes a specialty of insur ing Farm and Dwelling House Risks; writes Fire, Lightning, Tornado and Windstorm Insurance on all classes or Farm Property at a fixed rate of pre mium, there being no assessments. Every policy guarantees on its face the full premium as well as me amount Insured. It does not p ro rate on Live Stock. Authorized Capital $1,000,000 Capital Stock 101.400 Assets Dec 31st, lser. Cash. Loans and Securities. ..$118,531.13 Inabilities. Including- Reinsur ance Reserve 13,885.64 Security to Policyholders 117.383.39 LOSSES UNPAID NONE Assets invested in Nebraska First Farm Mortgages. Keep your money in Nebraska by patronizing this worthy Home Company. See the Agent now, or write the Home Office, 201 South 11th St., Lincoln, Neb. NEBRASKA NEWS AND NOTES. Items of Greater or Lesser Impor tance Over the State. We publish a list ot Omaha business houses in another column. In Writing or calling on them please mention this paper. Programs are out for the Chau tauqua to be held in Wymore June 29 to July 5, and an imposing array of talent is presented. Rev. H. H. Maynard of Coe college has been offered the presidency of Bellevue college, and he has accepted that position conditionally. Regents of the state university votei to purchase a football field and drill grounds at an approximate ex pense, of $30,000. A tract adjoining the campus will be bought According to the City Clerk Avery's annual report the bonded indebted ness of the city of Beatrice at this time is $274,597. Ten years ago the city's debt amounted to nearly $700, 000. The resignation of Judge Marshal, has stirred up tne would-be judges in Washington county. Several candi dates will push their claims before the county commissioners at their next session. S. C. Basu has arrived at the state university to take a four-year college course. He' registers from a small province 150 miles north of Calcutta. India. He is a high caste Hindu. He speaks almost perfect English. Governor Sheldon has appointed William Frankee of Omaha deputy .state fish and game commissioner, to take effect June 1. Mr. Frankee has been in charge of the state fish hatch ery here since its establishment. Attorney Ge'neral Thompson will at .tend the annual meeting of the asso ciation of attorneys general at Den ver. The meeting last year was held at St. Louis. This year it will be held some time in the month of August. Four men from Hamburg drove to Nebraska City with a team which did not belong to them, and the team was deserted by the men there and taken in charge by the sheriff on a message from the owner at that place, and he came over after the same. A number of boys from the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth grades at Cedar Rapids have entered the Ne braska boys' corn-growing contest, and each hopes to win a place cf merit with his corn. Tne result of their work is being watched with in terest W. O. Cooley, who lives at Steele City, in Jefferson county, has a freak in the shape of a chicken with four legs. The bird is 4 weeks old and is in apparent good health. It uses all four legs in navigating and seems to experience no difficulty in getting around. Charles C. Whistler, aged 32. was drowned at Ashland in Salt creek. In company with three others he sought to cross the stream which was the highest since the flood of one year ago, and his gasoline launch became unmanageable, tipping over and throwing the doctor into the water. Land Commissioner Eaton and State Treasurer Brian returned from Geneva and reported on the damage done the state industrial school by the recent "twister." The laundry has been completely demolished. The roof was lifted from the boiler house. The damage amounts to about $3,000. The season for destructive storms is at hand. WIND and LIGHTNING will destroy and damage buildings and kill and maim stock in barns and pastures. Protect yourself by insur ing them in the Nebraska Mutual Ins. Co., home office. 141 South Twelfth street, Lincoln, Neb. Write us for particulars. A special to the Journal of Platts mouth from Murray reports the seri ous injury of Charles Swan, jr. Swan was returning horseback with other young men from a basket social which occurred near Union. He fell from his horse and was tramped upon. Mayor W. A. George, who Is a dele gate to the republican national con vention, left last week and will go by easy stages to Chicago, where he will establish headquarters at the Palmer house. At the close of the convention Mr. and Mrs. George will make a tour covering two months, visiting Nova Scotia before returning home. Floval Strohin, 18 years of age, was was killed near Hatmerville. He was riding a horse in a pasture when a bull attacked the horse, throwing him and the horn of the saddle striking him in the side, inflicting fatal in juries. The annual Johnson county teach ers' institute will be held in connec tion with the Tecumseh chautauqua, .the dates of the institute being July J3 to 18, inclusive. The chautauqua will be held July 10 to 19, inclusive. There will be an able corps of in structors in attendance at the institute. THE STATE CAPITAL MATTERS OF INTEREST TO ALL CITIZENS. II SLUMP IN BANK DEPOSITS Not a Single Bank, However, in Ne braska Went Down in the Panic of Last October. Banks in Nebraska. Not a single state bank in Nebraska went down during the panic last fall, but Secretary Royse of the state bank ing board is obliged to report a de crease of $2,500,000 in. deposits in one year and a decrease of $1,000,000 in loans. This decrease he attributed largely to withdrawals for March set tlements and for the purchase of cheap lands in the newer unsettled states and in the British possessions. The reserve is 34 per cent, or double the legal requirement "This indicates that since last fall's stringency people are showing up and paying their debts," said Secretary Royse. Those who remember that the state banks total deposits in 1896 were only about $11,000,000, as compared with nearly $63,000,000 now, are disposed to feel that Nebraska Is more than keeping pace with the financial progress of the country., "A comparison of this report," says the secretary, "with the report of February 28, 1908, shows a shrinkage in deposits of a little over one mil lion dollars, and a corresponding de crease in loans of nearly half a mil lion dollars. The number of banks have increased four, with an increase of seventy thousand dollars in paid in capital. Notes and bills re-discounted and bills payable have been reduced one hundred and ten thousand dol lars. "Compared with the report of a year ago deposits are found to have de creased about two and one-half mil lio dollars, and loans have decreased about one million dollars. "A portion of the decrease in depos its, in my oplnon, represents unusu ally heavy wlthdrawls for March set- ' tlements and investments outside of the state, no inconsiderable part of which has gone to British possessions, Texas, Oklahoma and other places of fering cheap lands. "While a decrease in deposits at this season is unusual, it will be noted that loans have also been reduced at al most the same ratio, leaving the banks with a reserve of 34 per cent, being more than double the legal re quirement, and indicating that as a re sult of last fall's money stringency people are slowing up and paying their debts." Rain Much Above Normal. The week was cloudy, says the Ne braska crop report, with about normal temperature and an excess of rain in most parts of the state. The daily mean temperature was between 64 de grees and 70 degrees, which, at most places, was about one degree above the normal. Thursday and Saturday were the warmest days, with maxi mum temperatures quite generally about 85 degrees, but in some places in southwestern counties the tempera ture was about five degrees higher. In nearly all parts of the state the rainfall was above normal. In most of the central and eastern counties it exceeded two inches, while in consid erable areas it ranged irom four to eight inches. Several severe local storms occurred, accompanied by high and destructive wind. The total rain fall from April 1 to date is decidedly above the normal, except in the south western counties. Athletic Meet at Fair. The state fair board has voted to ap propriate $200 for the use of Physical Director George . M. Pinneo. with which to conduct a state athletic meet during the state fair this fall. Accord ing to Mr. Pinneo's plans, this meet will be more successful than the one held last year, and with a great deal of enthusiasmkhe predicted that there would be at least twice as many ath ietes from over the state to take part in the contest events this year as did last year. The meet will be held on Tuesday, September 1, from 1 to 2 o'clock in the afternoon, during which hour the track will be open. The events will take place in front of the grandstand. Fourth of July Orators. A census of the state officers and heads of departments who will deliver Fourth of July addresses has not been completed, but thus far it shows that several will perform such patriotic duties. Governor Sheldon will do double duty. He will speak at Weep ing Water in the forenoon and Platts mouth in the afternoon. Railway Com missioner Williams will spvak at Ge noa. Labcr Commissioner Ryder has accepted an invitation to deliver an cration at Sutton. Moore a Resident of Connecticut. The reports published some weeks ago that R. E. Moore, Lincoln's wealth iest citizen, had moved to Connecticut have been verified by his returns to the county assessor. Mr. Moore gave his address as 111 Bedford street. Strandford, Conn. It is understood Mr. Moore moved east for business reasons. The 1500,000 added to his as sessment last year by the assessor has not yet been collected and no steps have been taken looking toward its collection. This sum was added to his personal property. Kern is Persistent. The Board of Public Lands and Buildings is still trying to get Super intendent Kern to handle his cash funds In the manner prescribed by the board and also to get permits be fore making purchases with his cash fund. Secretary of State Junkin has been notified by the board to again admonish Dr. Kern to voucher up the claims against the cash fund, each month and also notify him to here after secure permits before making purchases out of this fund. The board has spaat much time in this matter. SEEKS GEORGIA GOVERNORSHIP. ! Joseah Brawn Conduction fiumthai Campaign for Office. Atlanta, Ga. Gov. Hoke Smith, who swept the state two years ago by an overwhelming majority will not be re elected if Joseph Brown who, by order of Gov. Smith, was recently dismissed from the railroad commission, can pre vent it. Mr. Brown's father was once governor of this state. Brown wants the governorship for himself and is conducting a gumshoe campaign that is increasing his follow ing everywhere throughout Georgia. Not a single address has he made to the people heasks to make him governor. Ever since the fight started he has been spending his time in his apartments receiving reports, writing cards and consulting with friends. He would be no match on the stump for Hoke Smith, whose powers of endur ance are the marvel of Georgia. All the attacks made upon Brown, all the shouts for him to come forth and give the public a view, have failed to bring him into sight, have failed to cause him outward irritation. Joe Brown is a man of about 55. He was born in Canton, Ga., was given a fair education in grammar schools and was then sent to the University of Georgia, and afterward took a legal course at Harvard. His education completed, he came home and went to work, at times aiding his father in his political fights. He began his railroad work in 1877, when he was hired as a clerk in the freight department of the Western & Atlantic road. He became general freight agent in 1881, general freight and passenger agent In 1884 and traf fic manager In 1889. In the succeed ing years he filled various railroad po sitions of responsibility. Mr. Brown was appointed a railroad commissioner and was ousted by Gov. Smith as the result of an alleged threatening note. LORD'S PRAYER ON A PIN HEAD. Wonderful Feat of a Young New York Photo-Engraver. New York. The Lord's Prayer en graved in perfectly legible letters on the head of a common, ordinary pin it doesn't seem possible, yet this is a feat that has been performed by Wil liam Stuart, a young photo-engraver, of this city. Mr. Stuart succeeded in putting the entire Lord's Prayer on the head of the pin, together with his name and the year, making a total of 267 letters. Even then Mr. Stuart did not "stretch" himself, but was content to stop when he had finished with the prayer and his name. By crowding KowFsther B." rone on eat;, ic :"f-.w 1 I teae-us not ne tlmp tatrion ffi Lfrwer ant? th Glory '!rj iv" CSIIAOT..- ' Bw "iv-iV ,3( :r .' Pin Head Enlarged 784 Times. and filling up small gaps he could have cut in many more letters. The pin, looked at with the naked eye, seems merely to have a slightly roughened head. The letters can be read only with a magnifying glass. The work was done at odd times during a regular week's work. It would be sup posed that such a feat required spe cially prepared tools of a very fine and expensive make. On the contrary, it was done with a common wood en graver's tool, known as a "No 1 ellipti cal picture tint" and costing ten cents, and an ordinary finder magnifying glass, such as is used in examining linen cloth, and which costs 25 cents. Mr. Stuart does not consider the Lord's Prayer engraving a remarkable feat as he once succeeded in putting 264 letters on a bank pin, which is smaller than the ordinary. Several years ago it was quite a fad to wear as watch charms gold dollars on which were engraved the Lord's Prayer. This was considered remark ably fine work at the time, but the pin used by Mr. Stuart measured only one sixteenth of an inch in diameter. The photograph of the pin head presented here has been enlarged about 784 times. It Sounded Too Good. Nikola Tesla. the famous inventor, the harnesser of Niagara, said the other day of a Spanish invention that had been described to him: "It sounds too good. In fact, it is so excellent that it reminds me of a bargain that a millionaire acquaint ance of mine secured last month. "'Congratulate me,' the man ex claimed on Broadway. I have ob tained absolute control of the best patent medicine on the market.' "'What Is the medicine good for?' I asked. "'Any prevailing epfdemic was the reply." Washington Star. FROM A NOVEL. BBJBF BBBBBBBBBBBBBa HB IS me stood gazlmi Into empty space. A Bars Possibility. In his diary, which Is incorporated In the "Life and Letters of Sir Richard! Claverhouse Jebb," the great Greek scholar recorded a flash of his own wit which is of a most appealing variety. At dinner at Cambridge Sir Rich ard, then Mr. Jebb. took in a young woman, who got through the first course with little conversation.. Sud denly she startled him by saying, Ik the most unprovoked way, while she was still dining 'with apparent good appetite: "Prof. Jebb, do you think women ever die of a broken heart?" s- "Perhaps other organs may have something to do with it," he proffered la reply Youth's Companion. Water, Water, Everywhere. During the flood of 1903 an old darky living in the East bottoms awoke one morning to find his premises four feet under water. Later he was found by a party of rescuers walking about the yard prodding Into the ground with a fish ing pole. He was asked his purpose. "Good gracious, men," said he, "what do you think Ah am a-doin'? Ah am try in' to find man dog-goned well so Ah can git mahself a pail of watah." 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