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Bozzie was the property of George B.
Oloson , a quiet gentleman living on
Bryant avenue but a few blocks from
Unity office. The achievements of this
beautiful dog have been for years a mat
ter of demonstration in private and pub
lic exhibitions. Bozzie has added , sub
tracted , multiplied and divided. She
has counted and more than that she has
demonstrated thought transference ,
mind reading , or whatever it was , to a
marvelous extent and under conditions
that would stand the severest scientific
scrutiny. She displayed her marvelous
susceptibility in the presence of school
children , before social clubs and before
university professors. She has barked
off the ages of those who have simply
placed their hands upon her head and
thought their own age.
Bozzie was but six years old. A cruel
dose of poison ( it could not have been
meant for her ) brought her to an un
timely death. Her burial , though
studiously private , brought together
half a hundred or more weeping school
children and a few sympathetic friends.
She was wrapped in the silk coverlet
which every night she shared with her
master , and the little children dropped
flowers in the grave that was hallowed
in the back yard of the home she loved.
Now that she is gone , scientists begin to
see how neglectful they have been of the
opportunity and what a loss her death
is to science.
It is not for us to speak of the tcien-
tific significance of all this , but we can
not refrain from this expression of sin
cere sympathy with the friends who
mourn her , to gladly confess our sense
of comradeship and companionship with
this dear fellow creature. Her achieve
ments throw no new light on the
mystery of mind ; we do not know more
than before what soul is or what the
subtle conditions of spirit are but we
can more confidently assert that there
are no boundary lines in this domain
cutting the quadruped from the human ,
dividing the spiritual realm in which
the dog lives from that in which man
moves. The long contact of Bozzie with
the human mind through heredity and
environment had 'brought out this
ability which exceeded in alertness many
a human mind and this sympathy which
seldom exists between two human
beings.
It is not to bo expected that the circle
of those who loved Bozzie can be much
enlarged but it will be a sorrow and a
shame if the circle of those who are to
be aroused by her marvelous achieve
ments and the study belonging thereto
will not be widely increased by her un
timely death.
When alive Bozzie belonged to a com
paratively narrow circle of friends in
Chicago. Now she belongs to the world
of science. May she find an adequate
biographer and may the problems in
volved in her story receive wide study.
LITERARY NOTE.
Ethan Allen is one of the most con
spicuous figures iu "A Danvis Pioneer , "
by Rowland E. Robinson , whoso faculty
of portraying the romance of life in the
woods and mountains has been fully
proved by his several previous volumes.
"A Danvis Pioneer" is the story of a
brave and simple settler of what is now
Vermont. The territory was secured
only after a struggle for possession with
the "Yorkers" as well as with Indians ,
and this struggle so little antedated the
revolution that the raising of the com
pany known as the Green Mountain
Boys and their part in that struggle for
liberty form much of the narrative. "A
Danvis Pioneer" contains a love story ,
full of romantic touches , which recounts
the trials of the young settler and his
act of supreme self-sacrifice to shield his
old friend's young daughter. He does
not miss his reward , and the working
out of this recompense constitutes the
romantic charm of the narrative. The
book is issued by Houghton , Mifflin &
Co. , Boston.
Th °
PER CAPITA
CIRCULATION. man ought to be
happy. For each
person in the United States the amount
of money in circulation is $26.12. In
1896 the figure was $21.53. An increase
of over 20 per cent in the per capita
within four years , making due allow
ance for increased population , should
satisfy anyone except a populist who
wants paper money to trundle around
by the wagon load. More than $2,000-
000,000 of money are now circulating in
this country , the increase in four years
reaching $492,000,000. All these dollars
are recognized throughout the world as
equivalent to gold. Four years ago the
gold circulating in the United States
was $489,000,000. Now it is $785,000-
000 , an increase of GO per cent. Has sil
ver fallen back ? Not a bit of it. The
amount of silver and silver certificates
in circulation has increased in four years
from $558,000,000 to $081,000,000. For
the first time the money in circulation
has passed the $2,000,000,000 mark , and
every dollar is worth lOOc in gold.
DOING QUITE WELL , THANK YOU.
Commissioner General Peck's Paris
expense bill is a beauty. For traveling ,
$36,245.15 ; miscellaneous , not itemized ,
$10,400.46 ; total bill , $46,645.61. Mr.
Peck would make a first-class drummer
for a whisky house. His traveling ex
penses would have taken him around
the world about fifty times. But the
"miscellaneous" item is rather small.
Philadelphia Record.
IMPROVED RAILWAY SERVICE.
One of the substantial advantages se
cured to Omaha and Nebraska during
the past year was the opening of the
new line of the Illinois Central railway.
Heretofore the- western termini of that
line have boon at Onawa , la. , Sioux
City and Sioux Falls , but the building of
140 miles of new road southwest from
Fort Dodge , la. , has brought its chief
terminus to Omaha. This accession to
Omaha's railway advantages brings in
tributary relations with the Nebraska
metropolis over a hundred prosperous
towns in populous and productive-sec
tions of Northern Iowa and Minnesota ,
giving them direct connection and quick
train service to and from Omaha. Here
tofore it has been necessary for all
Omaha traffic to and from the rich fields
of the northern half of the Hawkeye
state to come and go by way of Des
Moiues , but this line makes Fort Dodge ,
nearly a hundred miles farther north
and located in the very midst of that
territory , the gateway of western traffic.
The construction of this line from
Fort Dodge has given Omaha direct con
nection with such important towns as
Fort Dodge , Waterloo , Cedar Rapids ,
Cherokee , Webster City , Cedar Falls ,
Iowa Falls , Storm Lake , Humboldt ,
Waverly and Dubuqne , affording also ,
in connection with the M. & St. L. Ry. ,
a new line to Minneapolis and St. Paul ,
and other Minnesota points. The dis
tance to most of these towns and time
consumed in reaching them , has been
materially shortened , while freight and
passenger tariffs have been reduced.
The officials of this growing and expand
ing artery of western commerce have
manifested an outspoken disposition to
do to Omaha all the good within their
power and have demonstrated their
friendship for their new western connec
tion in numerous substantial ways.
They have given every assurance that
they may be counted among the allies of
Omaha and tributary territory in every
conflict of interests between this section
and rive Is not on their line.
Among the most substantial benefits'
accruing from the now Illinois Central
line is that it gives connection with its
kindred line , the Minneapolis & St.
Louis , at Fort Dodge , whereby the
traveler from Omaha may reach Min
neapolis and St. Paul , and the many
summer resorts thereabouts , without
ohango of cars , the distance being
shortened some thirty-five miles and the
fare sustaining a corresponding decrease.
This material betterment of facilities
for interchange of traffic is destined to
prove of mutual benefit to both Omaha
and the popular resorts which it opens
to the pleasure seekers of the west.
That Omaha people have not made
more noise over the acquisition of this
important railway connection is due
doubtless to the fact that the commer
cial factors in Omaha had relied upon
the coming of this road to relieve them
of the bridge arbitrary toll which has
been maintained by the old connections
for many years. By this toll , shippers
between Omaha and points in Iowa are
required to pay 5 cents 'per hundred on
freights crossing the river , which toll is
not inflicted upon shippers between
Council Bluffs and points in Nebraska.
Prior to the coming of the Illinois
Central shippers in Omaha entertained
the conviction that it would put in a
schedule of rates that would force the
other lines to abolish this bridge arbit
rarily , but it did not , and its failure to dose
so tempered the enthusiasm with which
its advent to Omaha was marked. How
ever , Nebraska people generally fully
appreciate this new line , with its oppor
tunities for the subjections of new com
mercial fields , its splendid train service
and equipments and its commendable
disposition to be friendly in a beneficial
sense.
