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CHANGE IN ADDIIEBS-When ordering a c .una la the address, subscribers should be sure to j1t their eld as well as their now address. WHEN SHERMAN WAITED. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman fought hard when he fought, but he was no awash buckler. No man ever had greater reverence for sacred things, as is shown in this story, told on the authority of an army surgcoii in his campaign lefore Atlanta. The Confederates occupied a position on the line of march of the advancing Union forces. Details from the Twenty-second Massachusetts and Eleventh Indiana regiments were sent to cut an opening through the thick trees to the summit of a hill command iug the Confederate entrenchments, and the cannon were laboriously dragged up the slope to the position at the top. It was a sultry day in August. The men sweltered in the heat. But the task was finished by night, and Gen eral Sherman had said to his officers, "We will open fire in the morning." The next day the guns were man ned, minor arrangements were made, and officers stood waiting till all was in readiness to begin the hail of shells. With the general stood "Fighting Joe" Hooker, General Thomas, "The Rock of Chickamauga," General Brannou and others of his staff. The gunners grasped the lanyards, waiting for the word. All rose instinctively ou tiptoe to lessen the jar of the concussion. Then came, clear and sweet, over the quiet morning air, the sound of a church bell. Another aud auother lent its soft music, full of forceful su-- m ft gcstion that it was Sunday. With his left index-finger pointing to the sky, General Shermau removed his hat. Turning to his staff, he said, "Gentlemen, we will not open fire today. u ltti murmurs of amaze ment, the men filed down the slope. This was the time when "Old Tecums," as lie was called, he who once declared that war is hell, clamped the lid down tight. Youth's Companion. AS CRIME MAKES CASTE. Types from three stratas of Ameri can society in a city of fifty thousand, as representative as if they had been selected by a playwright (say, by Galsworthy, to write "Greed" as a se quel to "Strife"), were grouped to gether in a courtroom in Wichita, Kas. Levi Naftzger, rich, a church man, a graduate of Iowa University, and for eighteen years president of one of the most substantial banks of the city, sat stolid but pale near sneer ing John Callahan, a convict, whose house for years had been a sort of thieves' hotel. Frank Burt, formerly chief of police, might have taken his place between them as the location most appropriate for one whose busi ness has been to serve as a middleman between the underworld aud respect ability. This time, however, he was busy trading for exemption from a sentence to the penitentiary. The convict sold stolen stamps to the chief of police at 50 per cent of the market price; the chief sold them to the bank er at an advance of 20 to :J0 per cent; and Naftzger disposal of the goods at a figure as close as iiossible to their face value. The evidence produced in court did not suffice to convince the jury that the banker knew exactly how the stamps were obtained, though the judge in his final instructions said: "Decide whether a man of the defend ant's intelligence could do this with out knowing the stamps were stolen." According to Burt's story, the respect able ibfeudaut's chief concern was to hud whether or not it was lawful to s 11 stamps at a discount. The prose cutor for the government, in sum marizing the case, remaiked: "Burt was simply a middleman. He was be tween the thug and the highest strata of society." When the jury brought in its verdict, Naftzger had been found guilty on only one of the four counts charged against him, and therefore this wealthy and respected citizen was sentenced to fifteen months in the penitentiary with a S5.000 fine for a transaction in which his profit was less than SCo. The judge insisted on imprisonment: "To a man in your financial position the fine is not a punishment." "I have been a fool," observed Mr. Naftzger to a postoffice inspector. He had. AND SALEM BELIEVED THEM ALL In the Old Days of the Witchcraft Persecutions the Testimony of Chil dren Was Taken Against Mothers, That of Husbands Against Wives and Wives Against Husbands And Since Then Salem Has Stood Still, With Only Its Memories Left. A JOLLY OPTIMIST. Mexico's new ambassador to Wash ington, Scuor Manuel de Zamacona, is a jolly optimist He bids fair to be come a most delightful member of the legation circles. He is just brief aud breezy enough to fit finely into the groove of our llucnt, flippant Ameri can life. Upon his advent he announ ces to President Tallin a slum, cheery, formal address that the Mexican war is now near its end, that peace is a matter of but short time, giving such a jocular air to the whole situation as to make it seem that we had been in dulging needlos worry about what was goiug on down south. Nor were his words without the weight of per sonal assurance. spoken iu jest, but in serious earnest uess, light aud refreshing as thev were. It is to be hoied the senor has good ground for his airy assurance. It is earnestly to be hoped that he is talk ing, as it were, by the card and not making any promiscuous predictions. Somehow, though, his burst of confi dence did not seem to upset the com posure of the president enough to indicate that he was entirely carried away with the assurance. The next day after the ambassador's visit the president proceeded with his plans of m M ft lumiying American interests on the border, just as if no such herald had come with this token of relief. If Senor de Zamacona could, assure President Taft that his excellency, Senor Diaz, had decided to accede to the demands of the rebels and resign, then, no doubt, Mr. Taft would mani fest more emotion over this roseate picture painted for his edification. Washington is not swept off its feet by the ordinary run of rumors of peace so long as Jjiaz holds the fort No doubt certain important interests are opposed to the Diaz abdication, but the greater demands of the common good call for the speediest possible settlement of the war and the end of hostilities even if this can be brought about only by Diaz' self-sacrifice. Omaha Bee. A RIDICULOUS PIECE OF TRICKERY. "Cheap food products" continues to be the burden of the New York papers iu favor of Canadian reciprocity. "Cheap food products." Are they not behiud the times? Wheu that cry was started oats were worth 45 cents a bushel in Iowa aud hogs 11 cents a pound; now oats are selling for 28 and hogs for less than seven, almost down to six. So far as the farmer is concern ed, if the Kastcau cheapen these prices through the enactment of the Canadian pact, the farmers of this part of the country might as well go out of busi ness. On the farms food products are as cheap, or cheaper than they cau be produced. JJut, as matter of fact, the chcaner food products will not be brought about. Cattle, for instance, can be driven across the border free of duty, under the proposed reciprocityarrange ment, but there will remain a duty of a cent and a quarter on the meat of the steer. Will the beef men fix the prices according to the cattle brought across the Hue, or according to the duty on Protected beef? In other words, they will get the cattle cheaper, but the duty will enable them to keep up the price of the beef. The whole reciprocity arrangement is a ridiculous piece of trickery in trade. It ought not to be enacted and They were not it will not be enacted by the votes of those who want to sacrifice the farmers or who do not know anything about the actual agricultural conditions. Cedar Rapids Republican. Lace Waistcoats. A lace manufacturer at New Saw ley, near Derby, is making lace-trim med waistcoats for men. He Is using light dress net over tinted cloth backgrounds. A black net over a dark purple cloth, for morning wear, and a white net orer pale green cloth, for evening wear, are two of the com binations. The effect is said to be both rich and artistic. A Nottingham lace manufacturer. interviewed as to the prospect of lace waistcoats finding favor with the pub lic, said that while the trade would naturally welcome any innovation which would tend to create a demand for lace net, men's taste in dress would require a good deal of educat ing up to the new garments. The sentiment against the ornamentation of clothing was strong in the mascu line mind. London Daily Mail. Children Work at Home. Miss Mary Van Kleeck, who Is em ployed by the Sage Foundation, said recently in New York that the agita tion against the child in the factory had simply meant the transfer- of the bulk of the work to the homes of the poor. She says the law provides that no work shall be turned out of a tene ment that has not been licensed, bat it does not seem hard to obtain the n. I cense, and there are now more than 12.000 licensed tenerrnts The place where a great crime has been committed has always something strangely fascinating about it. Most people will go a greater distance to see the locality of a murder than they would take the trouble to do for any other purpose whatever. The house where a great man has been born is often quite unknown and unvisited even in its own neighborhood; the house that is associated with a murder or a homicide rarely is. "We may lament, then," said Judge Story in a centennial address at Sa lem, "the errors of the times which led to these prosecutions. But surely our ancestors had no special reasons for shame in a belief which had the uni versal sanction of their own and all former ages; which counted in its train, philosophers as well as enthusi asts; which was graced by the learn ing of prelates as well as the counten ance of kings; which the law supported by its mandates, and the purest judges felt no compunctions in enforcing. Let Witch Hill remain forever mem orable by this sad catastrophe, not to perpetuate our dishonor, but as an af fecting, enduring proof of human in firmity a proof that perfect justice belongs to one judgment seat only that 'which is linked to the throne of God." What was this belief, then, which had such high and legal sanction? It was this: That the devil micht and did personally appear to, enter into, aud actively direct, the everyday life of men. And he did this without the intervention of any of those magical arts or conjurations such as were once thought indispensable to induce him to put in an appearance. Fur this there was Scripture authority, chapter and verse. He was supposed to come sometimes in one form, sometimes in auother, to tempt his victims with the promise that upon their signing a con tract to become his, both body and soul, they should want for nothing, and that he would undertake to revenge them upon all their enemies. fhe traditional which was usually sonic decrepit old village crone, of a sour aud malignant temper, who was as thoroughlyhatcd or feared; but this did not exclude men from sharing in the power of becoming noted wizards though from the great number of wo men who were accused, it would ap pear that the Arch-Enemy usually preferred to try his arts upou the wea ker and more impressionable sex. The fatal compact was consummated by the victim registering his or her name in' a hook or upou a scroll of parchment, and with his own blood. The form of these contracts is no where preserved. Sometimes, as is in stanced in the negotiation between Oliver Cromwell and the Devil before the Battle of Worcester, there was a good deal of haggling. The bargin being concluded, Satan delivered to his new recruit an imp or familarspirit, which sometimes had the form of a cat, at others of a mole, of a bird, of a miller fly, or of some other insect or animal. These were to come at call, do such mischief as they should be commanded. Witches, according to popular be lief, had the iowcr to ride at will through the air on a broomstick or a spit, to attend distaut meetings or Sabbaths of witches; hut for this pur pose they must first have anoitcd them selves with a certain magical ointment given to them by the fiend. This is neither more nor less than what our forefathers believed, what was solem nly incorporated into the laws of the land and what was solemnly preached from the pulpit. A perusal of the witchcraft examinations shows how familar even children were with all the forms of this superstition. In the course of the trials at Salem, several of the accused persons, in or der to save their lives, confessed to having signed their names in the Dev ils book, to having been baptized by mm ami to having attended midnight meetings of witches, or sacraments held upou thegiecu near the minister's house, to which they came filing through the air. They admitted that he had sometimes appeared to them in the form of a black dog or cat, sometimes in that of a horse and once as "a fine, grave man," but generally as a mack man of severe aspect. These fables thow the prevalent form of the belief among the people. It was generally held In Ikj impossible for a witch to say the Lord's Prayer correctly; ami it is a matter of record that one woman, while under examina tion, was put to this test, when it was noticed that in one place she substitu ted some words of her own for those of the prayer. Such a failure of memory was considered, even by some learned judges, as a decisive proof of guilt Even the trial of throwiug a witch in to the water, to see whether she would sink or swim, was once made in Con necticut. The scene of the witchcraft out break of lb'92 is anc!cvated knoll of no great extent, rising amoug the shaggy hills and spongy meadows that lie at some distance back from the more thickly settled part of the town of Dan vers, Mass., formerly Salem Village. It is indeed a quiet little neighborhood to have made so much noise in the world. Somehow, enter prise avoids it, leaving it, as we see it today, cold and lifeless. The first ap pearance of everything is so peaceful, so divested of all hurry or excitement, as to suggest an hereditary calm a pastyral continued from generation to generation. Then, as the purpose which brought him hither comes into his mind, the visitor looks about him in doubt whether this can really be the locality of that tragedy. Yes, here are the houses that were standing when those events took place, still solemnly commemorating them, as if doomed to stand eternally. This village street is the same old highway through which the dreadful infection spread from house to house into the remote corners of the ancient shire, until, as we read, there were forty men of Andover that could raise the Devil as well as any astrologer. Here, too, is the site of the old meeting house, in which those amazing scenes, the witch craft examinations, took place. A little farther on we come to the spot of ground, as yet unbuilt upon, where the parsonage with the Ieanto chamber stood. The sunken outlines of the cellar are still to be seen, and even some relics of the house itself remain in the outbuildings attached to the Wadswortli mansion, which overlooks the "Witch Ground," and which was built in the same year that the old parsonage was pulled down. It was in this "Ministry House," as it was LEGAL FEES. Surely there is room for a revision of the fee exactions of attorneys. When, in the settlement or litigation, the sum of 81,000 is paid by one liti gant, of which only a matter of $250 goes to the other, there is time for reform and insurgency is certainly justifiable when a committee of law yers goes into an investigation and professionally declares that the levy of such fees is right and proper. Cases are not uncommon wherein attorneys secure contingent fees often running as high as half the amount recovered. While even this practice is unprofessional, there is nothing unfair to the client in it, for the attor ney runs the risk of getting nothing for his services by failing to win his case. It is to the public, however, that the contingent fee is unfair, as its inevita ble tendency is to promote litigation that would not otherwise be instituted, and to lead the lawyer to many times resort to methods aud practices that he would not otherwise stoop to if his fee were not dependent on his wiuning. To say that it is -right and prober for lawyers in a suit to get $750 out of a 81,000 settlement portion, and the successful litigant but 8250, is to say that our courts are operated chiefly for the enrichment of our lawyers. Some how the suggestion of insurgency in protest against such practices as this seems to strike a responsive chord. Perhaps if the lawyers could fix up a bond to he given by them when the litigant applies to them, wherein they would not take oyer 75 per cent of the amount recovered, it might materially reassure litigants. Lincoln Star. IN FEAR OF HONORARY TITLE HtiiiMe II 10WA1ll Makes Home Baking Easy Royal Baking Powder helps the housewife to produce at home, quickly and economically, fine and tasty cake, hot biscuit, puddings, the frosted layer cake, crisp cookies, crullers, crusts and muffins, fresh, clean, tasty and wholesome, with which the ready-made food found at the shop or grocery does not com pare. Royalis the greatest of bake-day helps. ROYAL COOK BOOK-Mt RECQF Sati Name ami Addnsu oval SMina rowocs ca. tw vom. Baron Steuben Alarmed Lest He Should Meet Mishap That Befel Lafayette. iuscribimr then called, that the circle of young girls met, whose denunciations, equiv alent to the death warrant of the accused person, soon overspread the land with desolation and woe; aud it j was here that the alleged midnight convocations of witches met to cele brate their unholy sacraments, and to renew their solemn league and covenant with Satan by their uanies in his fatal book Aud in Salem a child only 1 1 years old, Abigail Williams, look away the lives of men aud women who had always borne unblemished reputations among their friends and neighbors, by identifying them as having attended these meetings, aud of having hurt this or that person. These poor crea tures could scarcely understand that they were seriously accused. Hut their doubts were soon removed. Once they were accused, every man's baud was against them. Children testified against their own parents, husbands against their wives, wives against their husbands, neighbor against neighbor. It is an amazing history; but, iucredi ble as it seems, it is yet all true. Hundreds of innocent persons were thrown into prison, while twenty were executed, at the iustance of some young girls of the village, who went into convulsions, real or pretended, as soon as they were confronted with the prisoners at the bar. The convictions were had upon "specter" evidence that is to say, the strange antics of the possessed girls were considered as proof positive of the criminal power of witchcraft in the accused shown too in open court with which they stood charged. The statute assumed that this power could only proceed from a familiarity or compact with the evil one, and punished it with death. The evidence, however, was of two kinds. When interrogated by the magistrates, the girls first gave their evidence calmly, like ordinary witnesses to the criminal acts, and then went into their spasms, which all believed were caused by the prisoners. Their incoherent ravings and outcries were also taken as good and valid testimony, and are so recorded. These remarkable proceedings are not, however, without a precedent. The tragical story of Urbain Graudier develops the same characteristics. His popularity as a preacher having excit ed the envy of the monks, they insti gated some nuns to play the part of persons possessed, and in their convul sions to charge Graudier with being the cause of their evil visitation. This horrible, though absurd charge was sanctioned by Cardinal Kichelieu on grounds of personal dislike. Graudier was tried, condemned, aud burnt alive, April 18, 1834, more than half a cen tury earlier than the proceedings occurring; t Salem. Kansas City Star. Some men have shunned honorary titles almost as earnestly as others have coveted them. After Lafayette bad been made a doctor of laws by a New Jersey col lege shortly before the close of the Revolutionary war. Baron Steuben was In great fear lest he should meet with a similar mishap. Having to pass through a college town where the marquis had been thus distinguished, the old warrior, so the story runs, baited his men and thus addressed them: "You shall have to spur the horses well and ride through this place? like the devil, for, if they catch you, they will make doctors of you." There Is another story that only a few yars ago, when college degrees were scattered somewhat lavishly, an illiterate old man of great wealth, hav ing been honored with a degreo by a college which he bad laid under ob ligation, made a wager that he could obtain a similar honor for his serv ant He won the wager and, en couraged by bis success, made anoth er that he could obtain a degree for his horse. This time, however, he lost The college authorities got wind of his game, and in answer to bis request for a doctorate for So-and-so the president wrote a courteous note, saying that though the trustees were anxious to oblige so good a friend of the college, they had found on exam ination of the records that though tnpy had once conferred a degree upon a Jackass, there was no prece dent for conferring one upon a horse. MYRIAD FOES OF THE' OAK Most Afflicted of Trees Is the Prey of Over Fifteen Hundred Kinds of Insects. Along the Hudson river, from Spuy ten Duyvil to Osslning, according to reports of foresters, thousands of elm trees have been saved from destruc tion since last fall, the spraying pro cess, more freely employed than ever before, (having hilled the eggs of de vastating beetles by the million. Men. provided with machines that throw a poisonous fluid even to the highest branches of the threatened trees, have been busy at this work for several months when the weather was favor able for such operations. "Strange," said a workman in charge of a spraying apparatus, "but the bee tles never attack a maple or a horse chestnut or any other kind of tree. These pests always go for the elm, but the oak has troubles of its own that aro entirely different from those of other trees. We've found that the oak Is greatly afflicted. Xo less than fir teen hundred kinds of Insects feed upon it at one time or another during the season of verdure. What do you think of that? The great wonder Is that the elm, as a species, is not ex tinct." And the man wanted to read tho names of tho devouring pests from a list of them he had in his pocket Solon on Strike. Legislation in the Isle of Man, off the shore of England. Is at a stand still because the house of keys has gone on strike. Manxmen can afford to mark time, for their laws have long been advanced. Every woman, widow or spinster. In the Isle of Man, wheth er she be owner, occupier or lodger, enjoys the parliamentary franchise. Every widow enjoys half her husband's personal estate and has a life Interest In his real estate, and she cannot be deprived of this by will. The sale of cigarettes and intoxicants to children was forbidden in Man for years before such a prohibition was enforced in England Itself. England baa legis lated mildly against money lenders. The highest Interest that can be charged for a loan In the Isle of Man is 6 per cent, and that has been the law for over two hundred yean. And there are many other Instances In which Manx lawmakers have adonted progressive measures with entire sue- I cess. Blaze Had Lasted Long. A delegation of officials of fire de-i partments of western cities was on a visit to Are headquarters in New York' city a few days ago and their talk, turned upoon big fires in their expert-! ence. "We had a big fire In our city a few years ago. The blaze wasn't en-r tirely extinguished for nearly a week," aid one of the visitors. "A week may seem lour in soma- An Admirer of Mary Queen of Scats. Theodore Napier, who for eight years has brought a wreath from Edin burgh to lay on the site of Mary Queen of Scots's execution at Fbther Ingay, near Peterborough, attended for the same purpose yesterday in full Highland attire. On this occasion, however, he waa refused admission to the castle site by the occupier of the farm of which it forms part Mr. Nanier left th cases, but wo had a fire in this city! wreath on an adjacent hedge, and will that was not extinguished In two, years," eald Commissioner Waldo with' a smile. "It was only the other day that 1 ordered a fireboat up to Hiker's Is land in the East River to throw water on a Are that started two years ago. The fire was in the ground that had been reclaimed from the water by dumping cinders and other refuse: from the city. In spite of the rains and water the underground fire has persisted. The reduction of the cin ders and refuse to ashes has caused the ground to sink." abandon the pilgrimage unless the prohibition Is withdrawn. London Evening Stands. NOTICE TO CONTKACTOK8. Healed nruiMMMln will bo received by the Secre tary of tlio Hoard of Education of the city of Colninbus. Nebraska, on or before 7:30 p. m., April 2!. 1911. for tho repair and alteration of the Columbus HiRh school bnilding. Proposals to be considered mast be accom panied by a certified check einal to three per cent of the bid. Plans and specifications for said work may be seen at theoth'caof Wonleman & Urabe, Archi- i.u, oiuhiodh, ieDrasau. 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