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Columbus Journal
STROTHER & STOCKWELL, Pubs.
COLUMBUS,
NEBRASKA
NEWS OF II WEEK
TOLD IN BRIEF
MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS GATH
ERED FROM ALL POINTS OF
THE GLOBE.
GIVEN IN ITEMIZED FORM
Notable Happenings Prepared for the
Perusal of the Busy Man Sum
mary of the Latest Home and For
eign Notes.
PERSONAL.
Secretary of Agriculture "Wilson
-started on an extensive tour of the
vest in the interest of the work of his
department.
Congressman James S. Sherman ar
rived at Utica, N. Y., and was given a
great welcome, with music, fireworks,
parade and speechmaKing.
Herbert J. Hapgood, president of
"Hapgoods, Incorporated," the brain
brokers at 305 Broadway, New York,
and Ralph L. Kilby, Mr. Hapgood's
private secretary and a director of
Hapgoods, were arrested on charges of
fraud.
Joel Chandler Harris (Uncle Re
mus) is seriously ill at "Snap Bean
Farm," his home in the suburbs of At
lanta. Commander Robert E. Peary com
pleted his plans for another attempt
to reach the north pole.
Lieut Gov. George H. Prouty was
nominated for governor of Vermont
by the Republican state convention.
William H. Taft cleaned up the busi
ness of his office as secretary of war,
turned over the portfolio to Luke
Wright, and turned his attention to
the presidential campaign.
Bert M. Fernald of Poland, Me.,
was nominated for governor of Maine
by the Republican state convention.
Ferdinand Dudenhefer, formerly a
state tax collector in New Orleans,
was found guilty of embezzling about
$66,000 of state funds.
Robert Jardine, ten years old, is ac
cused at Lesueur, Minn., of the delib
erate murder of another child.
Mrs. Philip X. Moore of St. Louis
was elected president of the General
Federation of Women's clubs.
Bishop Henry C. Potter of New
York was reported to be near death.
Steven J. Adams, fire chief of Buda
pest, Hungary, is serving as a fireman
in New York city to learn American
methods.
Robert Ohnmeiss, Jr., cashier of the
Marine Trust company at Atlantic
City, X. J., was arrested charged with
a defalcation of $20,500. He made a
confession in which he says that he
played the stock market.
The shah of Persia proclaimed a
general amnesty in order to restore
tranquility at Teheran.
Secretary of State Elihu Root went
to William Muldoon's health institu
tion at "White Plains again for a course
of medicine ball throwing, hard walk
ing and riding, cold shower baths and
plain cooking.
John "W. Gates visited St Charles,
Hi., to say good-by to his mother be
fore leaving for Europe. He bought a
stock farm for $25,000 and gave it to
E. J. Baker.
Ralph A. Aldrich, wanted at Ne
vada, la., on a charge of forging notes
amounting to nearly $12,000, was ar
rested in Springfield, 111., and admitted
he was guilty.
? GENERAL NEWS.
At least 200 miners are believed to
have lost their lives in a fearful disas
ter in the Rikovsky mine at Yusovo,
Russia, caused by an explosion of gas.
A Milwaukee man who hanged him
self left a request that his body be
cremated and the ashes given to a
young woman for tooth powder.
Three small children of Mr. and
Mrs. Adams Claus were burned to
-death in a fire which destroyed the
"family home at Windsor, Col.
The federal authorities have for
bidden the issuance of "passports" to
travelers by the office of the governor
of Ohio.
Mexico will ask the United States to
punish severely the local authorities
of Del Rio, Tex., and possibly others of
the state under whose authority they
acted, on the grounds that the officers
knowingly failed in their duty by al
lowing persons who partook in the
Las Vacas raid to return to the Texas
side of the river and to bring with
them their wounded. v
Justice Bischoff of the Xew York
supreme court decided that making
oral, individual bets on races was not
against the law.
More than 600 persons were lost by
the upsetting of boats in a storm at
Uatavia.
The grand jury at Indianapolis re
turned an indictment against Henry
V. Marshall, president of the Western
Construction company, charging him
with presenting a false and fraudulent
claim against the city for asphalt
street patching done by his com--pany.
Miss Mary Joy Xewland of Detroit
was married to Count Limberg of
Prussia.
Mme. Sherstnova, who was confined
in the political prison at Kiev, was
shot and killed by one of the sentinels
who discovered her signaling with a
mirror to some of her co-prisoners.
Women suffragists made a riotous
demonstration at the parliament build
ings in London and some of them
were arrested. $
The mobilization of all British war
ships In home waters for the annual
maneuvers brought together 301 ves
sels with 6000 officers and men.
The Equitable Life Assurance so
ciety is to erect in Xew York an office
building of 62 stories, 909 feet high.
Ten passengers were Injured, none
fatally, in Pittsburg, when the con
troller of a street car exploded, the
red-hot debris of the mechanism being
blown Int the car.
Denver, Col., was commended by the
board .of directors of the National Ed
ucation association as the place for
the next annual convention of the as
sociation. Fire In Stamping Ground, Ky., de
stroyed a hotel and three residences.
Four persons were badly hurt 'and
two dwellings wrecked by a "black
hand" bomb at McKeesport, Pa.
An American citizen named Bar
rington has beenarrested at San Jose,
Guatemala, as a spy and may be put to
death, according to mail advices re
ceived in San Francisco.
Nine men were killed in a collision
between fast trains near Knobnoster,
Mo.
All the battleships of the" Atlantic
squadron assembled in San Francisco
harbor ready to start on their trip
across the Pacific.
Francis G. Bailey, the president of
the Export Shipping company of New
Jersey, who, together with his brother,
Albert W. Bailey, Charles H. H. My
ers and Capt Albert Oxley was placed
aboard the Norwegian steamer Ut
stein at Puerto Cortez, Honduras, in
custody of Lieut P. W. Beery of the
New York police department, made
his escape in a small boat
The Minnesota Republican conven
tion nominated Jacob F. Jacobson of
Madison for governor and adopted a
platform indorsing the work of the
Chicago convention and pledging the
party In Minnesota to continue the
work of railway regulation.
Count Zeppelin outdistanced all
world records for steerage balloons.
He remained in the air for 12 hours
and traversed the greater part of
northern Switzerland, attaining an
average speed throughout of 34 miles
an hour.
Mrs. Frances Thompson, wife of a
Fargo, N. D., school teacher, was
found strangled to death, gagged and
bound hand and foot with a clothes
line, in her apartments in a rooming
house in Chicago.
August Beltzner, aged 65, one of the
most prominent business men of
Joliet, 111., was killed while resisting
two holdup men in his grocery tore.
Wilbur F. Parker, a well-known real
estate -man of St Louis, committed
suicide.
The Idaho board of pardons com
muted the sentence of Harry Orchard,
who was under sentence to hang for
the murder of former Gov. Frank
Stuenenberg, to imprisonment for life.
One man was killed, three were seri
ously injured and a half-dozen were
slightly "hurt in a railway collision at
Des Moines, la.
Thomas Hill, a well-known land
scape artist, committed suicide at his
home at the entrance of Yosemite
valley.
Lorenzo Dow Harvey, Ph. D., su
perintendent of public schools and su
perintendent of the Stout Training
school of Menomonie, Wis., was
elected president of the National Ed
ucation association at Cleveland.
Twenty-two starving French sea
men cast away on Antipodes island
were rescued by the British warship
Pegasus.
Oliver P. Ensley of Indianapolis,
former county treasurer, was indicted
on a charge of embezzling $22,500.
Walter J. Bartnett of San Francisco
was sentenced to ten years in the pen
itentiary for having hypothecated
bonds and securities to the amount of
$205,000 belonging to the estate of
Ellen M. Colton, of which he was spe
cial administrator.
Mae C. Wood, the Omaha woman
who sued United States Senator
Thomas C. Piatt for divorce, was in
dicted by a grand jury in New York
on charges of perjury and forgery.
The 2S0 employes of the Remington
typewriter works at Ilion, N. Y., re
ceived $14,000 as the semi-annual
bonus distributed by the company to
its employes.
Annie Wilson, nine years old, told
in a New York police court of suc
cessfully committing more than 50
burglaries.
Attacked by a band of 50 insurgents,
government troops at Palomas, Mex
ico, a small town in Chihuahua, killed
one rebel and wounded several oth
ers. The revolutionists fled to the
mountains, pursued by the soldiers.
Mrs. Louisiana Hobbs Douglass, one
of the numerous wives of the alleged
bogus "Lord" Oswald Reginald Doug
lass, was granted an absolute divorce
from "Lord" Douglass at Norfolk,
Va.
Two men were killed, and three
badly injured in the collapse of a liv
ery stable in Minneapolis.
At Friedrichshafen Count Zeppelin's
airship stood brilliantly the longest
and most searching test it has yet un
dergone. It remained in the air for
six hours and three-quarters, attaining
an average speed of 34 miles an hour
throughout
In order to "escape trial on a charge
of being implicated in the robbery and
killing of Frank Frorer, millionaire
banker of Lincoln, 111., William Web
ber of Springfield entered a plea of
guilty to another charge of robbery
and was sentenced to the penitentiary.
George B. McClellan was declared
to have been duly elected mayor of
New York over W. R. Hearst, in 1905,
by Justice Lambert, and by the jus
tice's orders the jury returned a ver
dict to that effect.
Judges Sanborn, Hook and Adams,
in the United States circuit court at
St. Paul, made an interlocutory de
cree whereby they temporarily sus
pend and enjoin the enforcement of
the order of the interstate commerce
commission which reduced the charge
of certain railroad companies for the
transfer of live stock from the termini
of their roads in Chicago to the Union
Stock Yards from $2 to $1 per car.
The Swiss Aero club's balloon Cog
nac has succeeds in crossing the
Alps. This feav has often been at
tempted, but never before accom
plished. OBITUARY.
Murat Halstead, one of the leaders
in American journalism for over half
a century and widely known as a vig
orous editorial and magazine writer,
died at his home in Cincinnati in his
seventy-ninth near.
.Gen. George S. Batcheller, judge of
the international tribunal of Egypt,
died in Paris of cancer of the mouth.
R. P. Nevin, who founded the Pitts
burg Daily Leader in 1872, and owned
it until a few years ago, and who es
tablished the Pittsburg Times, is dead,
aged 88.
CONVENTION IS
NOW UNDER WAY
Democrats Begin Work of Nominating Candi
dates and Formulating the Prin
ciples of the Party
Denver, Col., July 7. Chairman
Thomas Taggart of the Democratic
national committeee formally called
the national convention to order al
most precisely at noon.
The opening prayer was made by
Rt Rev. James J. Keane, archbishop
of Wyoming, and after a short inter
val Urey Woodson of Kentucky, secre
tary of the national committee, read
the call for the convention.
A period of delay followed during
which the delegates exhibited symp
toms of impatience, although the spa
cious auditorium, crowded as it was
to the very doors, was delightfully
cool, and then the committee on rules
made its report and the officers of
the convention were announced, as
follows:
Temporary chairman Theodore A.
Bell, California.
General secretary Urey Woodson,
Kentucky.
Assistant general secretary Edwin
Sefton, Washington, D. C.
Sergeant-at-arms John I. Martin,
Missouri.
Chief assistant sergeant-at-arms J.
C. Fenn, Indiana.
Chaplain for opening day Rt. Rev.
James J. Keane, archbishop of Wyo
ming. Chief doorkeeper Eugene W. Sulli
van, Illinois.
Parliamentarian H. D. Crutchfield,
Kentucky.
Official stenographer M. W Blum
berg, Washington, D. C.
Bell Rouses Enthusiasm.
The eloquent speech of Temporary
Chairman Bell was listened to with
the deepest attention, but the en
thusiasm of the audience found vent
in long-continued applause when the
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN.
speaker made a telling point or men
tioned the name of some one or other
of the acknowledged leaders of the
party.
All in Red, White .and Blue.
Red, white and blue were the only
colors used in decorating the audi
torium, and the decorations were de
clared to be the most elaborate ever'
seen in a Democratic convention. A
unique feature was 52 huge stars ar
tistically arranged on the ceiling.
These stars represented the states, ter
ritories and insular possessions, the
names appearing in blue letters on a
white background in the center of each
star. The points of the stars were red
and white.
Directly over the speaker's plat
form, against the wall of the building
near the junction with the ceiling, was
a large shield, 16 feet high, carrying
six flags 12 feet long draped in artis
tic folds. In addition to this main
shield there were four other shields
over the platform, each ten feet high.
The six flags on these shields were
eight feet long.
Fine Portrait of Washington.
Just bolow the main shield hung a
mammoth portrait of George Washing
ton, 14 b 16 feet in dimensions. Red,
white and blue bunting was draped
from the sides of the shield to the
bottom of the portrait of the "Father
of His Country."
Directly under the last shield, on
each side of the' Washington portrait.
A Picture Story.
Two hunters are seen walking all
over the moving picture.
They think they are following bear
tracks.
Suddenly the foremost hunter stops
with a start
"By gum!" he shouts, "them ain't
b'ar's tracks at all; them's the slide
j man's dirty thumb marks." Bohemian.
Full-Blcoded Indians.
Of the 284.000 Indians left in the
United States, only 60,000 ars full-blooded.
was suspended a portrait, one of
Thomas Jefferson and the other of
Andrew Jackson. On each side of
these pictures a large American-flag
was draped. 'These flags are 40 by
60 feet in dimensions. Beyond these
pictures, at each end of the wall, and
hanging above the gallery, was sus
pended a pendant ten feet in diame
ter, upon which bunting was draped.
Upon these pendants, a tiger was
painted. The back of the platform
was banked with palms. Twenty
stuffed American eagles, with extend
ed wings, were suspended over the
platform, each bird carrying in his
bill red, white and blue silk ribbons
that were draped back to the wall.
Large Amount of Bunting Used.
In the auditorium the balcony ex
tends all the way around the huge
building, but the galleries are limited
to each end. The front of the balcony
and the fronts of the galleries and
boxes were draped with bunting, 55,000
yards beir.; necessary to complete this
part of the decorative scheme. At
intervals of five feet shields, three feet
high, were placed.
Thousands of yards of bunting
were used in draping the corridors of
the building and the walls of the bal
cony and galleries. Delegates were
supplied with small American flags
to wave when their feelings reached
a pitch that compelled an extraordin
ary demonstration.
Fifteenth, Sixteenth and Seven
teenth streets, three of the main
thoroughfares in the city, were reve
lations in color. On Fifteenth and
Sixteenth streets there are eight iron
ornamental electric poles to a block,
four on each side of the street On
these streets the poles were draped
with red, white and blue bunting.
Wires were stretched across the street
from these poles and from each wire
two American flags were suspended.
The flags hung over the street and
were "weighted" to prevent them from
becoming tangled and torn by tho
wind.
On Seventeenth street the scheme
was the same, except there were only
six poles to each block, two at each
corner and two at each alley.
Business Houses Decorated.
At each crossing two wires were
strung diagonally across the intersec
tion, from which red, white and blue
incandescent lights hung. The busi
ness houses along the three streets
were handsomely decorated with
bunting and flags. Elaborate and cost
ly electric display signs had been
put in place on the buildings, and at
night Fifteenth, Sixteenth and Seven
teenth streets were a blaze of light.
Electric display signs are one of
the main features of business life in
Denver. Every merchant has an elec
tric sign, and as all of the streets that
cross the three thoroughfares de
scribed are live business streets, the
committee on illumination did not find
it necessary to add much in the way
of light to these avenues of trade.
However, the business houses were
handsomely decorated with bunting
and flags, so the entire business sec
tion of Denver was a mass of color
when the big convention opened.
Didn't Take it Seriously.
Bingley Here is an English physi
cian who says that talking too much
makes women nervous, and he sug
gests that some way should be found
to induce them to keep quiet.
DIngley (thoughtfully) That's an
old gag, isn't it? Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Cebbae in Flats.
Lettuce is said to cause measles and
scarlet rash it is known beyond
cavil that bo:led cabbages have caused
rows in fiats.
THE STATE CAPITAL
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO ALL
CITIZENS.
ILL NOT DISTURB PENSIONS
State Board ' of Public Lands and
Buildings Will Not Take the
Old Soldiers' Mcney.
As to Pension Money.
The rule requiring members of sol.
diers' homes in Nebraska to pay a
percentage of pension money to the
cash funds of the homes, a rule that
was bitterly contested in the courts,
has been suspended by order of the
board of public lands and buildings
pending further orders of that board.
The supreme court held that such a
rule was legal. Land Commissioner
Eaton, chairman of the board, sent
notice to commandants of state homes
under date of June 27 not to take any
part of pension money until further
orders from the board.
The board met and discussed the
making of some new regulations, but
no agreement was arrived at. One
member suggested a rule that all
inmates of the homes who are able
to earn a livelihood or who have
means of support be discharged from
the home, at the discretion of the
board, and that this rule also apply
to the admission of soldiers, the in
tent of the suggested rule being that
i y ov .
Nebraska Military Academy, Lincoln's latest educational institution.
soldiers who are able to work or who
have large pensions or other means
of support be not admitted, and those
of this character be discharged when
ever the board finds it necessary to
make room for purely indigent veter
ans. The suggestion was not accept
ed by the board.
In the discussion it was stated that
the former commandant, Mr. Ask-
with. of the Grand Island soldiers
home, had never enforced the old rule
regarding the payment of all pension
money over $12 a month to the sup
port of the home. It was enforced at
the Jlilford home. Commandant Pres-
son said when he went into office the
pensioners there voluntarily came to
him and paid over all in excess of $12
a month. An investigation of the ac
counts of the Grand Island home
showed that little pension money had
ever been collected there. The pres
ent board supposed the rule had been
enforced. In his letter to command
ants Commissioner Eaton explained
that the board believed the old rule
had been enforced and the board
thought its new rule would be satis
factory to all concerned because it
wa" more liberal than the old rule.
He said the board desired to treat
the veterans with fairness and had
modified the rule. The court had up
held the legality of the contention
that the board has contiol of the
homes and can make any reasonable
rule It sees fit, but that for the pres
ent the pension rule will be sus
pended. Vacancies for Young Men.
Senator Burkett received word from
Major J. F. Elliott at Washington
that there are fiftv-seven vacancies in
the rank of second lieutenant in the
marine corps. The major stated that
he would be glad to allow any young
men Senator Burkett might recom
mend take the examination for the
positions. Applicants, Major Elliott
explained, must be educated and com
ply with the physical requirements
of the United States army.
Game Laws Fractured.
Chief Game Warden Carter received
a report from Seward to the effect
that Harry Bradley, who some time
ago pleaded not guilty when arrested
for illegal fishing, came inm court and
pleaded guilty. A fine cf $15 and cost
was paid by him. Alexander Hitch
cock was caught at Lincoln park by
the game warden and Deputy Hunger
in the very act of working a dip seine.
State Fish Exhibit.
Superintendent W. J. O'Brien of lho
state fisheries at South Bend called
on the state board of agriculture for
the purpose of asking for improve
ment in the fisheries building on the
Etate fair grounds. He desire to give
a credible showing for hatcheries sup
ported by the state and finds it nec
essary to have some large aquariums
In the exhibition building. The orig
inal plans called for large ones in the
front of the structure where they
can be viewed, but for some reason
were never put in.
Rhodes Scholarship Examinations.
Announcement is made that the
qualifying examination for the Rhodes
scholars to be elected for 1910 will be
held toward the end of October, 1909,
instead of in the month of January
as heretofore. It is believed th.it an
examination held in October will in
terfere less than one held in January
with the regular work of American
university students, and that the ear
lier selection will give better oppor
tunity for the selected scholars to di
rect their work on lines most advan
tageous for the course at Oxford.
HALF MILLION IN TREASURY.
Treasurer Brian Is Negotiating for
Large Block of Bonds.
State Treasurer Brian has 1500,000,
according to his monthly report, avail
able for investments in securities, and
with two prospective deals on, he
hopes to have the sum invested with
in a few days. He has permitted this
large amount of money to accumulate
for the purpose of buying a large
block of bonds which are about to
be placed on the market. Should he
fail on this proposition he will call
in the bond men and buy what they
have on hand. He has on deposit in
state depositories $599,600.63, all of
which is drawing 3 per cent interest,
and ?46.205.72 not in depositories on
which no interest is being received.
Because the state depositories have
all the state funds they are permitted
to receive under their bonds this
money is on hand, but will be depos
ited immediately after Mr. Brian
makes his investment.
The permanent school fund con
tains 421.096.56 at the close of the
month. The total investments of the
state now aggregate $7,653,377.49, sud
this amount will be largely increased
within the next ten days if the bond
deal now in view matures. Follow
ing is the detailed report of the trust
funds invested:
Permanent school fund $6,9DS,200.57
Permanent university 154.4S6.92
AsricuUural college endow
ment 444.000.00
Normal endowment 5,600.00
S7.G53.377.-t9
..$6.992.6S7.r9
.. C60.6S9.9o
$7,653,377.49
Bonds of all kind"!
Warrants of all kinds..
Statement showing receipts and
disbursements of the state treasury
for June, 190S:
Balances
June 1.
Balances
June 30.
13.432.00
421.096.S6
4S.243.37
29,917.62
4S.444.67
2.9S2.62
S3.32
4.653.1S
143.S3
37.it
2t.:;s
10.212.N7
1.373.02
1.933.09
34.S17.93
2.193.2S
21 21S.93
3,149.91
.01
1.392.94
Funds.
General ......
27.550.32
Permanent school.
Temporary school.
Permanent univer-
sitv
Apricultural college
endowment
Temporary univer-
-i. ............
Penitentiary
Redemption
Kearney Normal li
brary Orthopedic hospital
Forest reserve . . .
Institutions' cash..
Hospital for Insane
State library
University cash
Peru Normal li
urirj Normal endowment
Normal interest ..
Apricultural and
Mechanic Arts..
L". S. expei iment
station
170.944.90
330.9S6.S9
50,167.04
43,074.71
6,469.92
83.7.2
41.19S.7S
766.69
37.94
2.2SS.93
12.210.19
1.226.63
90.S4
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O J , t .1 m
S.96S.04
.:o
3.030.71
6.6S9.17
6.2S3.12
Totals
S7C2.630.26 5643.S06.33
Escaped Convict Brought Back.
A convict named Ingram from Lan
caster county, who escaped from the
Nebraska penitentiary nearly nine
years ago, is back in the penitentiary
ence more to serve one month of an
unoxpird term As he lost two
months' time by escaping, he will
tcve to serve three months instead of
the one unexpired month that was be
fore him when he left. He was serv
ing a term of one year for burglary
and was employed as a trusty about
the grounds wLen he decided to de
sert the idace. He lost no time in
committing a burglary in Kansas and
was sentenced to ten years in the
state nris-on at Lansing, Kas. At the
expiration of his service there he was
brought back to make good the sen
tence of the law in Nebraska.
Sheldon Will Serve.
Governor Sheldon of Nebraska has
agreed to .serve as one of the vice
presidents of the international con
gress on tuberculosis that is to be
held in Washington under the aus
pices of the national association for
the study and prevention of tubercu
losis, from September 21 to October
12. The arrangements for Nebraska's
participation in the congress and in
the exhibition to be held in connec
tion with it are in the hands of a
committee of which Dr. A. S. Von
Mansfelde of Ashland is chairman.
Dr. Charles O. Giesse of Holdrege is
treasurer and Rev. Stephen P. Morris
of Omaha is secretary of the asso
ciation. A conference was held between Ad
jutant General Schwarz. Major David
son and Governor Sheldon concern
ing a proposition of the militiamen
to secure an island in the Platte, river
as a rifle range. The officers point
ed out to the governor the fact that
the new ammunition for the Spring
field rifle is very dangerous, the
needle-pointed bullets carrying about
three miles. While the present range
southwest of the penitentiary is fairly
satisfactory, the slightly raised ele
vation of a sight would send the ball
over the hill and into Lincoln.
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Lancaster county is at present car
rying tornado insurance to the
amount of $70,000 on the court hous
and the same will expire within a
short time. The present policies
have been in effect for five years and
the county paid for the protection
$525, or $7.50 per thousand for the
period. It is expected that the com
petition to write this risk for the
coming period, providing the county
commisisoners decide to carry torna
do insurance in the future, will be
fully as keen as was that for the fire
insurance which was recently written.
The reason why you shouldn't say
I appropriated instead of took is be
cause it gives the smooth getnieman
more time to get away in.
'GATOR ON THE RAMPAGE.
Edifying Story That Is Vouched far ky
. the Georgia Ananias.
"Yes," said the fisherman; "the maB
had fished all the forenoon, an' hadn't
( got a nibble, so he took another swal-
ler out the jug. pulled off his boots, an'
lay down on the river bank an' went
to sleep. As soon as he went to
snorin good, a alligator that had been
watchin' him all the mornin' crawled
up an' swallered his boots, likewise
the jug, with 'bout half a gallon In it,
I reckon. The cork came out. and, of
course, the 'gator got the full benefit
o the whisky, which so turned ita
head that it lashed the water with Its
tail till the river was a foamin mass,
after which it crawled up on the bank
agin an' made desp'rit efforts to climb
trees an' turn double-somersaults, an'
do all manner of impossible things!"
Why didn't it swallow the fisher
man, instead of his boot?" some one
asked.
" 'Gators, gentlemen," said the story
teller, "can't stand ever'thing They
must draw the line some'ra." Atlan
ta Constitution.
Romance and Reality.
"Let the youngsters have their ro
mancean' it'll be all the better for
'em ef they git a purty good dose on
it; but don't hide from 'em the fact
that thar's somethln' in the shape of
trouble a-waitin fer 'em up the road,"
said Mr. Billy Sanders. "Not big trou
ble, tooby shore, but jest big enough
to make em stick closer together. It
ain't no use to -try to rub out the fact
that life is what it is. It's full or
rough places, an thar are times when
you have to leave the big road an
take a short-cut through the bamboo
briers for to keep from slippin' in a
mudhole. The briers hurt, but tho
mudhole mought smifflicate you. . It
ain't no use to deny it, trouble is sea
sonin. I never know'd it to hurt any
body but the weak-minded, the willful
an' them that was born to the purple."
Joel Chandler Harris, In Uncle Re
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Up to His Tricks.
Lord Rosslyn, at a dinner in New
York, said of a notorious London
spendthrift:
"When he was at Oxford he wired
once to his uncle, whose heir he was:
"'If you don't send me a hundred
by Saturday, I'll blow my brains out
"His uncle wired back:
"'You telegraphed me that before,
and when I forwarded you my best
revolver, you went and pawned it "
Why He Kicked.
Stella My fiance refused to let me
take charge of a booth at the church
fair last week.
Mabel What were you going to
sell?
Stella Kisses at a quarter apiece.
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