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Foreign.
Mail advices from Colombia report
a very critical condition of affairs in
that republic. As the result of the de
parture of President Reyes for Europe
the various political parties which a
few months ago seemed to be united
are now completely disorganized, and
there are indications that Colombia
is on the verge of a great revolution.
The German potash syndicate has
renewed its agreement, Hermann
Schmittman and his son, Waldemar
Schmittman, representing the Asher
leben and Solstedt mines, having af
fixed their signatures to the contract
A portion of the army stationed at
Baranquilla took up arms against the
Colombian government, made prison
ers of the municipal authorities and
proclaimed Gonzales Valencia as the
president.
A special dispatch from Belgrade
says that 250 Austrian soldiers and
50 Austrian gendarmes have been cap
tured on a Servian island in the River
Drina, on the frontier. The Servian
government has protested to the ad
ministration at Vienna against the
intrusion. ' '
The British, German and French
bankers concerned in the Hankow-Sze-Chuen
railroad loan of $27,500,000
began consideration of the terms un
der which Americans are to be ad
mitted to participation.
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, was
the guest at a dinner given by the
labor party at the English house of
commons.
A young woman, who for ten days
was caught in a cave-in of a railroad
tunnel at St Gall. Switzerland, was
dug out alive. She suffered agonies
of cold and hunger during this
period, but managed to sustain life by
sucking moisture from her clothing,
on which water occasionally trickled.
During the recent fighting in front
of Fez, between the forces of the
pretender and the troops of the sultan,
fourteen of the imperial soldiers were
captured and decapitated and their
heads exposed in the pretender's
camp.
General.
An investigation of the charges
made by James R. Wheeler, a gradu
ate of the Carlisle (Pa.) Indian school,
the students were cruely treated in
that institution was begun at Carlisle
by 'inspector E. P. Holcomb of the
bureau of Indian affairs.
James Yadkin Joyner of North Car
olina was chosen president of the Na
tional Educational association.
Senator Aldrich had whip hand in
the senate and sent all attempted
amendments to the table, drawing to
wards the final vote.
Customs officials will have a heavy
task in adjusting to the new tariff
schedules if it is effective when
signed.
The Governor of Nebraska may call
an extra session of the legislature to
enact a new guaranty law.
The crop report of the department
of agriculture shows grains in more
flourishing condition than the aver
age in July.
The Nebraska Liquor Dealers asso
ciation has decided to ga into court
and fight the early closing law. The
suit will be brought in Omaha.
It is said the temporary in junction
granted by Judges Van Dcventer and
T. C. Munger wil tie up the enforce
ment of the, Nebraska bank guaranty
law for a year, even though it is de
clared valid.
Ernest W. S. Pickhart of New York
died in a London hotel on July 4 of
an overdose of a drug taken to induce
sleep. Mr. Pickhart was the divorced
husband of the stepdaughter of the
late Robert Roosevelt, uncle of Theo
dore Roosevelt.
Commander John Hood has been
designated as the head of the board
appointed to make a second inquiry
into the cause of the death of Second
Lieutenant James M. Sutton of the
Marine Corps at Annapolis, in Octo
ber. 1907.
The steamer Carolina sailed from
San Juan for New York, having on
board ail the American school-teachers
who taught in Porto Rico last
year, under contract
Wages of the 3,000 men and boys
employed in the plant of the Mary
land Steel company at Lparrows
Point were increased 10 per cent.
The senate worked on Independ
ence day, it being the twelfth time in
the history of the country that; this
high legislative body so met
Oscar Straus, who was recently ap
pointed American ambassador to Tur
key, sailed for his new post at Con
stantinople. President Taft. if the tariff bill is
out of the way by August 1, will visit
a number of western states, including
Washington and the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific
exposition.
Washington,, D. C, set an example
for the rest of the country in a safe
and sane celebration.
In a riot at the National stock yards
at St Louis Chief of Detective Ryan
shot and kiled William James, a negro.
W. J. Bryan delivered his great lec
ture, "The Prince of Peace," to a large
audience at New Hampton, la., under
the auspices of the Redpath Vawter
Chautauqua.
The Roosevelt expedition is enjoy
ing good hunting and all the members
of the party are well. This informa
tion was brought into Naivasba by
couriers from the Sotik district
A plea for practical education was
made by leaders of 'the educational
council at Denver,
a NOTES
In New York 4 were killed and 332
injured as the price of Fourth of
July patriotism.
Carrying four great boxes of E. H.
Harriman's favorite cigars, three of
his children, Mary, Caroline and Ro
land sailed on the Kron Prinz Wil
helm .to join him in Europe.
Moro Outlaw Chief and the whole
of his band have been wiped out ia
the Philippines. ,
The German and Austrian railroad
authorities have informed Russia that
they are about to take stepstorinstI
tue a quarantine on the frontier
against cholera.
President Taft paid high tribute to
the federal constitution in his speech
at Lake Champlaln.
The American Woman Suffrage as
sociation decided to establish na
tional headquarters In New York City.
Harvard was victorius In the three
boat races against Yale on the New
London, Conn., course.
Employes of the bureau of engrav
ing and printing have been placed on
a per diem instead of monthly payroll.
Charged with using the United
States mail for lottery purposes three
Chinese shops in Washington were
raided and their proprietors arrested.
Rear Admiral William F. Potter
who commanded the fourth division
of the Atlantic battleship fleet on its
voyage around the world, last week
became chief of the bureau of naviga
tion, relieving Rear Admiral John E.
Pillsbury, retired.
The United States and Nicarague
are hopeful of reaching an amicable
understanding on the Emery claim.
Prof. Louis T. Moore of Cincinnati,
who, it is understood, will spend the
summer with his sister-in-law, Mrs.
Taft has arrived at the summer cap
ital in Beverly.
The man and woman who committed
suicide by rowing a boat over the dam
in the St. Joseph river at South Bemh-
Ind., were H. Lindeman and wife of
Chicago. They were on their bridal
trip.
An order was issued at Pittsburg
by the local board of the United Mine'
Workers of America instructing the
striking miners in the Kansas dis
trict, 8,000 in number, to return to
work.
President Taft hopes to make a
western trip this summer, providing
the tariff bill can be cleared up by
August 1. The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific
exposition at Seattle will be the pres
ident's destination. He will visit
Omaha either going or returning. A
tentative itinerary and program is be
ing made out
i
Washington.
The senate will be represented in
the conference on the tariff bill by
eight men, five republicans and three
democrats, all of whom will be select
ed according to seniority of member
ship on the committee on finance.
Senators Aldrich, Burrows, Penrose,
Hale and Callom will be the republi
cans, and Senators Daniel, Money and
Bailey the democratic members of the
conference committee on the part of
the senate.
Cynically disposed statesmen are
opining that the effort to save from
$30,000,000 to $50,000,000 a year in
the expense of the federal government
will not only fail, but that within the
next three years there will be a large
upward turn in the national budget.
In connection with the bureau of
plant industry of the department of
agriculture, the forest service has
been carrying on a series of experi
ments relative to the re-seeding of
overgrazed areas upon the national
forests in the west
United States Senator A. B. Cum
mins of Iowa and members of the Fifty-third
regiment band, stationed at
Fort Dodge, will be guests of honor at
the midsummer picnic arranged by the
Hawkeye club of Spokane, Wash., at
Natatorium park there on August 7.
A letter received in Kansas City
from Secretary of Agriculture Wilson
announced the government would par
ticipate in the experiments being con
ducted there by Dr. C. J. Sbiler, who
is attempting to find a cure for hog
cholera. It is stated an expert on
hogs will be sent there from Wash
ington.
John W. Roberts of Lincoln has
been appointed scientific assistant in
connection with agricultural depart
ment C. E. Campbell: cf Omaha was
appointed messenger in army head
quarters in Omaha.
Personal.
Supreme Court Justice Gaynor de
nied the motion recently made before
him for the. removal of the Thaw in
sanity hearing from Westchester
county to New York county.
Chancellor von Buelow will resign
before the adjournment of the Reichs
tag, according to the report in well in
formed political circles.
Mrs. Mary Lamed Dorrance Aldrich,.
wife of Edward Burgess Aldrich, eld
est son of United States Senator Nel
son W. Aldrich, was granted a divorce
from her husband on the ground of
non-support.
United States immigration officials
at Seattle arrested Mrs. Vera De Noie,
who arrived recently from Hongkong,
charging that she is not entitled to en
ter the United States.
Charged with using, the United
States mails for lottery purposes, three
Chinese shops were raided in Washing
ton and their proprietors arrested.
Dr. George W. Martin, prominent as
a prison reform worker and as chap
lain at state penal institutions, died
at his home in Lincoln, Neb.
Ambassador Bryce responded to a
toast at the banquet given in honor
of President Taft at Champlain ter
centenary celebration.
T. L. McWhitney, a well known
writer, speaker and minister of the
Christian church, died at Fellow
Springs, Ohio.
Charles A. Luccock, former pastor
of the Union Methodist Episcopal
church and now in charge of a Kan
sas City church, was found dead in
a room in an office building in St
Louis.
Harry K. Thaw is to be transferred
from the Matteawan asylum to the
White Plains jail.
Dr. Streumpel, the noted physician
who is treating E. H. Harriman, says
his patient is showing much improve
ment Congressman Cushman of Seattle.
Wash., died in a New York hospital a
few days ago.
I PRESIDENTS JAUNT
UNDERSTOOD HE WILL MAKE
MANY STOPS ON THE WAY.
TO TRAVEL BY SPECIAL TRAIN
Is Being Bombarded With Requests for
Visits and -Speeches from
All Kinds of Place.
Washington. Indications multiply
that President Taft's announced itin
erary for his western and southern
trip this fall will be materially ex
tended. The president himself did not
include in the tentative list which was
published all of the places where he
expects to stop long enough to make
an address and hold a brief car-end re
ception. The itinerary was made of
those cities where the president will
spend from one to three days.
Strong efforts will be made by con
gressmen and state officials to have
the president stop, at least for a few
minutes, at all the towns of appreci
able size through which his train will
pass in the daylight hours. Already
the president has been bombarded
with such requests. He has suggested
to all his callers and correspondents
that they take the matter up with him
later.
During the trips he has made thus
far the president has adhered to the
policy of journeying in a single pri
vate car attached to regular trains.
On his far western trip, however,
where trains are run heavier and at
longer intervals than here in the east,
it is likely the president will have
to follow the policy of his predecessors
in chartering a special train, especially
if he stops at the smaller cities that
dot the way between the larger places
he will visit
Th president expects to be away
for two months on this trip, and will
carry a complement of stenographers,
clerks and telegraphers, in addition to
his secretaries. Thus far the presi
dential party has been confined to the
chief executive. Captain Archibald W.
Butt, his military aid; Assistant Sec
retary Mischler, Major Arthur Brooks,
who, in addition to being the presi
dent's confidential messenger, is com
manding officer of the First separate
batalion of colored troops in the dis
trict of Columbia; and two secret ser
vice men, James Sloan, who was with
President Roosevelt for seven years,
and "Jack" Wheeler, who has accom
panied Mr. Taft since, his election to
office.
The porters and cook assigned to
the president whenever he travels
have been traveling with presidents
for a great many years. Will S. An
derson, the porter, was promoted to
presidential service in 1901, and was
with President Roosevelt on all of his !
travels. J. C. Broadbus, chef to the
president while en route, began his
presidential service under Mr. McKin
ley, and has caused both President
Roosevelt and President Taft to mar
vel at the wonderful meals he turns
out of the tiny kitchen litle bigger
than closets which private cars carry.
The third member of the crew, E. B.
Letcher, has also seen service under
three presidents. Letcher usually acts
as waiter.
DOWNWARD OR A VETO.
President Will Talk Plainly to Tariff
Conferees.
Washington. With the tariff bill in
the house and conference committees
f the two houses appointed the scene
Df tariff legislation is changed to the
conference room.
It is understood that President Taft
will take up the tariff bill with the
conference committee and will plainly
state the position of the administra
tion. Substantial reductions in the
more important schedules on one
'land and veto on the other confronts
ihe conferees.
Senate Amendments Rejected.
Washington. The tariff question
oas been shifted from both houses of
congress to a conference committee.
After one hour and a half debate the
bouse on Friday, by a vote of 178 to
151, made a rule whereby' all of the
347 amendments of the senate were
disagreed to and the conference re
vested by the senate granted.
Eighteen republicans voted against
the rule and one democrat for it.
Sugar Boodler Kills Himself.
i.-;o. M. Sakao, president of the
Japan Sugar company, convicted dur
ing the recent trial of the so-called
scandal cases, committed suicide by
shooting himself through the head
with a revolver. Sakao was one of
the twenty-three persons on whom
sentence was pronounced.
Weston Begins Last Lap.
Sacramento. Cal. With 108 miles
of the 3.975-mile walk, from New York
to San Francisco, still before him, Ed
ward Payson Weston rested Sunday
at Roseville, eighteen miles north of
here. He will start on his last lap
at 5 o'clock Monday morning.
Secures a Gift to Nebraska.
Washington. The navy department
has promised Representative Kinkaid.
in answer to a request on behalf of
the Nebraska authorities, that the
figurehead of the battleship Nebraska
will be loaned to the state capitol or
the state university museum. The
state will have to pay transportation
charges, but the government will do
the rest. While it will be nominally a
loan and subject to recall at any time,
it will in effect amount to a gift, as
there is small chance that it ever will
be recalled.
TWENTY FELL IN BATTLE.
Report Received in London Says
Royalists Were Handicapped.
London. A special dispatch from
Teheran says-that in the engagement
between the shah's troops and the na
tionalists the latter fell back to Deh
shah, where, owing to the nature of
the ground, the royalists were unable
to make use of their guns. The only
report concerning casualities that
reached Teheran was that eight of the
Bakhtkaris were killed and twelve of
j the shah's men, wounded. .
NEBRASKA NEWS AND NOTES.
tttmsef Interest Taken From Her
and Thtr Over the State.
Ten thousand people celebrated at
CreightonNon the Fourth.
There were many enthusiastic cele
brations in Nebraska on the Fourth.
Grand Island had no formal celebra
tion, but on the 3d and 5th horse-racing
was on the program.
Fire, starting from some unknown
cause, caused about 4500 worth of
damage to one ot the new barracks at
Port Robinson.'
York county farmers' have reason
to rejoice over the great prospects
of another bumper crop, making the
thirteenth big crop in succession.
The Republican City bank, which
has been run for the last twenty-three
years by J. S. Gilford, was sold last
week to the Commercial State bank of
that place.
The western part of Merrick county
is reviving from a smallpox scare.
Several families were quarantined in
the extreme west end, and for several
Sundays the churches at Palmer were
closed.'"' The. disease was the genuine
article, but did not appear in the ag
gravated form.
Clarence Cain, who has given the
police in Beatrice considerable trouble,
Is confined in the county jail, having
been avrested after he stabbed Edward
Johnson, a relative, in the breast with
a kcife.
Kiss Nettie Jacques of Springfield,
who is attending the college at Fre?
Hunt, sustained a broken limb while
attempting to move a steam radiator.
Her right limb was 'fractured between
the knee and ankle.
Mary Johnson of Shelton, the 18-year-old
daughter of J. R. Johnson,
who was burned by the explosion of
a can of kerosene, when her sister Eva
was burned to death, died after twelve
hours of intense suffering.
The department store of Ryerson
Bros, at Broken Bow suffered a severe
loss by fire and water. It is not
known positively how the fire started,
as it is supposed to have been caused
by spontaneous combustion.
City Electrician J. B. Cassie of Fre
mont barely escaped death in that
place, sustaining a shock of electricity
of 2,300 volts, and but for some waste
that he held in his hand, he would
have undoubtedly been killed.
Forty years ago on July 5th ground
was broken for the Burlington & Mis
souri railway in Nebraska. It was at
11 o'clock in the morning of July 5th.
1869, that the first shovelful of dirt
was thrown at Plattsmouth.
Dodge DIargy, of Blue Hill, a boy of
12 years, will probably die as the re
sult of a Fourth of July accident He
had his right hand torn off as the re
sult of a premature explosion of a sky
rocket It Is said he cannot live.
As the result of a long feud, involv
ing a divorce suit and the marriage
of the wife to the other man, Thomas
L. Grafius was shot and seriously
wounded at Shelton by Andy Treat,
and but for his own quickness niiyht
have been killed.
When Earl Handly, a negro, slashed
S. Crawford of Deadwood, S. D. across
the face with a razor at Wahoo, a
crowd threatened to lynch him. The
negro was hurried to the county jail
before the gathering had a chance to
harm him.
James Goff, who was injured by be
ing caught in an elevator at the Mor-ton-Gregson
packing plant in Nebraska
City seme six weeks ago and badly
crushed about the head, has brought
suit against the packing company for
$20,000.
A fire at Belden in the dry goods
store of Westrope & Harper wiped out
an entire block of the town. The post
office burned, Martin's jewelry store, a
pool hall, a saloon-, a hardware store
and a milk depot were entirely con
sumed. The loss will amount to $75,000.
The community in and about Stroms-
burg is considerably alarmed over an
.epidemic of spinal meningitis, over
twenty cases having been reported to
the physicians within a few days. The
patients are altogether among the chil
dren and only milder symptoms of the
disease have so far been manifested.
About six feet more of the mammoth
tusk -discovered at Indianola a few
days ago, was taken out at Indianola
a few days ago, was taken out last
week by workmen. About twelve feet
of the tusk has been unearthed. The
larger end is nine inches in diameter.
Several other small bones were found
but no indications of a skeleton has
been discovered.
The Nebraska Experiment station
has just issued Bulletin No. 110 with
a report on the Nebraska Seed Labora
tory. The bulletin may be had fre6
of cost by residents of Nebraska on
application to the Agricultural Experi
ment station, Lincoln, Nebr. This bul
letin contains a large amount of infor
mation concerning agricultural seeds,
together with descriptions and illustra
tions of the more common weed seeds.
George Elliott, who killed a man in
Omaha a number of years ago, was
released from the state prison on a
Fourth of July pardon. Jacob Frahm,
the second candidate for clemency,
failed to score. Frahm is' the oldest
pnsoner in the penitentiary. He was
sont there for the murder of his wife
It is said that he does not want tc
leave tne prison. He is now over 70
years old and has spent the last fifteen
years of his life inside the gray walls
Cuming county's railroad assessment
this year amounts to $267,305, as
against $259,022 for 1908, a gain oi
$8,282. The total assessment of all
property in Cuming county for 1909
amounts to $6,337,510, as against $6,
264,451 in 1908, a gain of $73,059 foi
the year.
Quite a sensation followed the an
nouncement of the marriage of W. B
Ralston of Republican City, a promi
nent dealer in real estate and pianos,
to his adopted sister, Florence, a beau
tiful girl of about 19 summers, which
took place two years ago in Omaha
The matter had been kept secret
Rev. S. D. Bartle, pastor of the"
First Methodist church of Grand Isl
and, has received a commission from
Gov. Shallenberger to represent Ne
braska at the National Prison con
gress to be held at Seattle on August
14 to 19.
State Treasurer Brian, Secretary o
State Junkin, members of the board
of public lands and buildings, and
Charles Guenzel of Lincoln were in
Kearney looking over the work of the
Industrial school. The specifications
for the new barn have been approved
by the board and the work will start
soon.
II TEST OF SAMPLES
INVESTIGATIONS BY THE NE
BRASKA SEED LABORATORY.
RESULTS TrWT WERE SECURED
8tate Board of Assessment Completes
the Work of Valuation of
Railroade.
The experiment station bulletin No.
110 presents in a popular form the
most important results secured by the
Nebraska Seed Laboratory from the
time of its establishment to July 1,
1908, together with a statement show
ing the various tests made up to May
I, 1909.
A grand total of 463 samples was
received and 636 different tests made
during the first year and 617 samples
and 950 tests during the second year
up to May 1, 1909. Over 50 per cent
of these samples were received from
the farmers and seedsmen of Ne
braska. Alfalfa. The 201 samples of alfalfa
examined varied in purity from 56 per
cent to 99 per-cent; in germination
from 56 per cent to 100 per cent and
contained from 0.1 per cent of inert
matter and from 0 per cent to 36 per
cent of foreign seed.- Four species of
dodder were found in varying
amounts. One sampte of alfalfa con
tained over 9 per cent of dodder and
if this seed had been sown at the
rate of 16 pounds to the acre there
would have been sown 16,365 dodder
seeds to the square rod. Buckhorn,
wild carrot, wild chicory, lamb's
quarters and the seeds of about 75
other weeds were found in the alfalfa
samples.
Red Clover The 61 samples of red
clover examined varied in purity from
75 per cent to 99 per cent; in germina
tion from 67 per cent to 100 per cent
and contained from 0.3 per cent to 12
per cent inert matter and from 0.1 per
cent to 22 per cent foreign seed
Clover dodder seeds were found in
eight of these samples and a total of
over 70 other more or less noxious
weed seeds were found in the various
clover samples. Buckhorn, for ex
ample, was present in nearly 50 per
cent of the clover samples.
Brome Grass The 26 samples oi
awnless brome grass examined varied
in purity from 33 per cent to 96 per
cent; in germination from 0 per cent
to 86 per cent and contained from 2
per cent to 46 per cent inert matter
and from 0.1 per cent to 56 per cent
foreign seed. The various species of
wheat grass are most frequently found
in awnless brome grass, though com
mon cheat and other sorts of brome
grass of little or no value are often
present.
Pure Seeds and Sure Seeds Farm
ers should not buy and plant weed
seeds. The Nebraska Seed Labora
tory is prepared to undertake, without
cost, the study of any samples of seed
sent to it for the purpose of determin
ing the following points:
1. Presence of adulterants or dod
der. 2. Mechanical purity.
3. Germination.
The bulletin may be obtained free
of cost by writing the Nebraska Ex
periment Station. Lincoln. Neb., and
asking for Bulletin No. 110.
Franchises Are Assessed.
The state board of assessment met
and completed the work of placing a
-aluation on the franchise and rolling
stock of the various railroads. This
valuation will be distributed to the
various towns of the state under the
terminal tax law according to mileage
of the railroads.
The actual value per mile of the
franchise and rolling stock of the
Union Pacific and its branches is the
same as last year, while the North
western is increased from $10,000 a
mile to $11,500 a mile. The Missouri
Pacific is decreased on its main line
from $'18,000 a mile to $16,000. Both
of its branches are also decreased.
The following table shows the value
of the franchise and rolling stock per
mile of the various railroads of Ne
braska fixed by the state board of
equalization:
1P0S.
C'nion Pacific $67,500
1209.
$67,500
26.000
15.000
1O.0C0
2.000
11.000
18.000
5.000
23.000
18.000
12.000
16.000
17.000
17.000
13.500
C.000
3.500
11.0C0
Omnha & Rep. Valley Br... 26.000
Kearney branch 13.000
Central City branch 10.000
North Platte branch 2.000
Chicago & Northwestern... 10.000
C, St. P.. M. & 0 18.000
C. St. P.. M. & O. extension 5.000
Uock Islan.1 25.000
3t. Joe line 1S.000
Nelson line 12.000
Missouri Pacific 18.000
Missouri Pacific extension.. 19.000
Lincoln branch! 1?.C00
Crete branch 15.500
Kas. City & Northwestern.. 8.000
Pacific Ry. in Nebraska... 5.000
St.' Joseph & Rock Island.. 10.000
The Burlington system was assessed
different this year from last. Last
year the assessment ranged from
$3,000 to $55,000 a mile and this year
the assessment ranges from $50,000 to
$3,000.
Extra Session Probable.
"Should the federal court make per
manent the temporary injunction
against the banking lav. going into ef
fect, it is my intention to call a spe
cial session of the legislature imme
diately after the decision is known."
Gov. Shallenberger made this state
ment "The decision will set out just
what is wrong with the present law
and then it will be an easy, matter to
prepare a bill in accordance with the
decision. I see no necessity for wait
ing until the supreme court of the
I United States passes on the question."
Ban en Bank Ads.
The state banking board is prepar
ing a circular letter to send to all
state banks warning them against
making unwarranted statements in re
gard. to the guaranty law in their ad
vertisements. One instance has come
to the attention of the board in which
a bank advertises the guaranty law
goes into effect July 2 and that all de
posits are guaranteed by the state
The advertisement asserts a time cer
tificate in the bank is as good as a
state bond. The banking board holdr
the advertisement is unwarranted.
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Postal Statistics
W
ASHINGTON. If you want to
read an official fairy tale in fig
ures of the nation's commercial prog
ress get a copy of the latest bunch of
postoffice statistics, just issued by A.
L. Lawshe, the third assistant post
master general.
How he got all the figures on one
page is still a mystery, but he cer
tainly suceeded in piling up enough
millions and billions to make any
one's head swim.
Counting postage stamps must be
a lot like counting the grains of sand
at the sea. At any rate, these careful
counters of Uncle Sam's postoffice de
partment have found out that last
year the department issued 7.651,400,
405 of the little sticky .things. An
overheated figurer, who doesn't work
for the postoffice department, figured
out that if these little squares of
paper were placed end to end they
would run a couple of thousand feet
over 120,760 miles.
A footnote to the statistics shows
that Uncle Sam didn't begin printing
postage stamps until July 1, 1847. The
first year he succeeded in putting
800,380 on the market Last year he
issued 9,500 times that many a fair
ly decent increase in the postoffice
business in fifty-two years.
The biggest figure on the page is the
one that designates the number of pieces miles, and costing $34,500,000.
Miscellaneous Account of the Senate
THE United States senate pay,
maintenance, odds and ends
costs about $2,000,000 a year. To be
exact, the amount was $1,859,189.77.
according to the last report rendered
by Charles G. Bennett, secretary of
the senate. The latter sum figures to
$19,500 each per each of 92 senators.
The money goes for a thousand and
one things that classify between sal
aries and snuff. Compensation and
mileage of senators, notably the mile
age, requires a tidy sum. Pages, mes
sengers, special police, clerks, private
secretaries, minor senate officers, the
senatorial army of retainers use up
another large lump. Repairs, new
furniture, the senate library, the sen
ate stable, stationery and newspapers,
the expense accounts of senate emis
saries, the cost of the upkeep and ex
pense of special committees, report
ing senate debates and committee
meetings, all form just a few of the
other varieties through which the
spare change of the senate flows in a
steady stream.
New Successful White House Hostess
X
PRESIDENT TAFT took his family
to Beverly recently and left his
wife and children there while he re
turned to Washington to stay out the
tariff bill with congress.
Mrs. Louise More of Cincinnati, sis
ter of Mrs. Taft, accompanied the
family to Be-erly and will remain
there some time, so as to relieve Mrs.
Taft, who has been ill, of as much
care as possible. Mrs. More is the
wife of Prof. Louis More of the Uni
versity of Cincinnati. She acted as
hostess of the White house since Mrs.
Taft suffered a nervous breakdown
several weeks ago. She came to Wash
ington with Judge Herron, her father,
for a short visit, but when Mrs. Taft
became ill she abandoned her own
social programme in Cincinnati and
remained in Washington. This made
it possible for Mrs. Taft to carry out
the remainder of the entertainments
which had already been scheduled,
and Mrs. More took her place a
hostess at several official dinner par
ties which Mrs. Taft had planned
earlier in the season. Mrs. More won
Belmonts to Dazzle
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MRS. PERRY BELMONT has not
abandoned her plan of invading
Washington society. The new home
of the Belmonts, just completed, which
stands in a fashionable section of
New Hampshire avenue, will be dedi
cated to the objects for which it was
built and will become the center of
social and political interests in the
national capital.
There was a story that the Bel
monts had decided to give up their
Washington venture on account of
the obstacles which President Roose
velt put in the way of their social
plans. This disposition of President
Roosevelt to regulate everj-thing took
a remarkable turn in the case of the
Belmonts, and Mr. Roosevelt, it is said,
asked bis cabinet officers and others
high in the official scale to stay away
from the Belmonts functions.
The first entertainment was a fail
ure because of this taboo. The men
came in large numbers and their
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a Mass of Figures
of mail matter that were mailed in the
United States last year. These to
taled 13,173,340.329. A large propor
tion of these consisted of newspapers,
for which no stamps are used. But
in addition to the stamps which were
sold a tiny rifle of 1.266.602,559
stamped envelopes and wrappers was
sold by the department These Uncle
Sam began to sell in 1852. when he
placed a round 5,000.000 on the mar
ket The figures for the mail handled
were begun in 1S86, when Uncle Sara
carried 3,474.000,000 pieces of mail.
The figures have quadrupled in a lit
tle more than twenty years.
In 1S79, when Uncle Sam's postoffice
started business with Benjamin Frank
lin as postmaster general, there were
seventy-five postoffices, and in the
first year of their operation they did
$37,935 worth of business, at an ex
pense of $32,140. Since then the
balance has moved to the other side
of the ledger, and for the last year
the revenues of the department wer
the pretty little sum of $191.47S,633,
while the expenditures were $203,351,
S86. The number of postoffices jumped
from 75 to 61,158; the extent of the
post routes from 1,875 to 450,738; the
miles of mail service performed from
a little over 800.000 to 538.438,722, and
the compensation of the postmasters
from $88.1 9S Sto $25,599,397.
The most astounding growth wa3
marked by the rural free delivery
service. It was begun in 1897, with
S3 routes, covering 1,843 miles, at an
expense of $14,840. Last year it had
grown to 39,143 routes, with S91.432
Last, but not least, is that elastic
account headed as "miscellaneous
items."
The senate's pin money pays for all
the telegrams senators send and the
replies. It supplies ice without stint;
one month's bill, that for December,
having been $24S.5S. It provides Ap
polinaris. White Rock and other spe
cial waters, Poland Spring being fa
vored because Senator Hale of Maine
introduced it years ago. This water
has come to possess a traditional
standing as the proper thing of its
kind to slack the senatorial thirst.
The miscellany fund buys type
writers and bicycles, horses, wagons,
and, maybe, an auto or two, although
none are found listed in the classified
accounts. No senator was ever seen
upon a bicycle. There are bicycle
messengers, however, and the senate,
being a big-hearted institution, gives
the necessary machine. ""
From January 1 to 31, 190S, Ida
Bamiley received $122.10 for washing
and ironing 407 dozen towels for the
senate. In the same month A. L.
Ford got $79.80 for washing and iron
ing 266 dozen towels. During the
same 31 days Edith A. Washington
profited to the sum of $66.60 for wash
ing and ironing 222 dozen towels.
Problem: How would you like to
be the washerwoman?
( admiration by the grace with which
she fitted into the position of a White
House hostess.
Mrs. Taft's first social season as
mistress of the White House was a
brilliant success in spite of the ner
vous trouble which necessitated her
withdrawal. Never in the history of
generations has there been so much
social activity at the White House.and
never has society been more diplo
matically and pleasantly brought to
gether. Persons who had not been in
the White House for many months,
and some for several years, were
again welcomed and hobnobbed with
each other to an extent hard to be
lieve. Mrs. Taft had hoped to accompany
the president to Seattle the latter
part of the summer. She is an ex
perienced and an enthusiastic traveler,
and in the past has accompanied Mr.
Taft on practically every trip of im
portance he has ever made.
The president's wife will continue
to submit to the restrictions .placed
upon her by her attending physicians
and will rest absolutely throughout
the summer in preparation for the ac
tivities of next season. When the of
ficial j-ear begins at the White house
Mrs. Taft will be found in her ole
place as hostess, and will undoubtedly
feel the great benefit which the sum
mer rest at Beverly is expected to
provide.
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wives with lew exceptions absented
themselves. But the Belmonts had
already made plans for their new
home. They had brought their archi
tect from Paris and incurred much ex
pense. Mrs. Belli ont was not daunted. Be
fore long ihe was entertaining Col.
Bromwell, the official major doino of
the White House under the Roosevelt
regime, ?nd his wife at theater par
ties, and her field of social conquest
was gradually extended until now she
is perfectly at home as an entertainer.
Next winter on her return from
abroad she will throw open her new
palace for entertainments that are
likely to make her critics sit up.
."leaned Up Their Pin Money.
r,wo Indiana women clubbed to
gether and purchased a small vacuum
bouse cleaner at $30 and are now
.arning good' pin money in that way
They rent it out to neighbors at $2 a
day for cleaning houses and house
furnishings, a boy being employed a:
small charge to operate the simple
machine.
There are cheaper vacuum cleaners
on the market, but they bought a gocd
make, which has paid big retruns oju
their investment of S13 each.
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