Semi-weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 17 September 1897 — Page 2

SMITH, THE FIREMAN

BP FOB EXAMINATION BEFORB THE FIJKE COMMITTEE LAST NIGBX.

Che Charges Against Him Were Badly Drown and As a Whale Were Not Sastalned—Deci*ion Tonight.

William Smith, the city fireman, who is under suspension •with charges against him, was placed on trial before the board of fire commissioners last night. The trial was held at headquarters with Mayor Rose, Couneiimen Goodman aiid McLaughlin: present as onlookers, they having been invited to *be present "by the committee. ..

Smith, it will toe remembered, was asked to resign by Chief Goodman last Monday, it being stated there »were charges against the man and a resignation was the graceful way out of it. Smith did resign and turned over his badge and key -to the chief. Later, hefwever, he asked for the withdrawal of the resignation, seating he preferred to stand trial. This the fire committee granted. Srniti. was on hand 'bright and early yesterday evening with his attorney, A. A. Beecher, and the evidence adduced was taken down by a shorthand reporter-.

The trial is not yet ended, and it is thought the echoes of the case will not die out for some time to come, for it was given out tha* Smith has preferred charges against his old captain, E. F. Leonard. The filing of these charges is, of course, done in a spirit of revenge. Smith says he charges (Leonard with drunkenness and with favoritism, dn that he fails to report the shortcomings of certain members of the department at the No. 4 hose house. But the case of Leonard will not be opened until Smith is disposed of, which will be this evening, as the board will meet at 8 o'clock and pass upon the evidence, which will be reduced to writing.

The charges against Smith were badly drawn and for the most part were not sustained by the evidence. The specific charges were visiting houses of prostitution when on duty. It was shown without question that Smith left the house several times each day toTun up to 127 North Third street to see the woman he has been running around with. The woman in question is Anna Hasket, a notorious street walker, and by police recognition a prostitute. It was not shown conclusively that he had repeatedly left the house without permission, and on this one vital point it was brought out that rigid discipline has not 'been maintained at the No. 4 reel house. The men either didn't understand the rules of the department with regard to leaving the house or else things have 'been running lax.

Captain Leonard was the first witness called, and he testified as to Smith's reporting sick when there was every reason to believe he was simply indisposed as a result of a drunk the night before. Captain Leonard testified that he followed Smith to the home of the Hasket woman a week ago, and at least one citizen told him if he didn't prefer charges against the fireman he would do it himself. Be said the fireman had been in the habit of going to the house of this woman three or four times a day and sometimes without permission from his captain. He testified as to Smith being out in a Ibuggy with the Hasket woman Saturday night, which Smith admitted. It was also testified to that Smith and the woman "rushed the can" in the rear of the engine house a week or so ago. It was testified that Smith claimed he rented the rooms .from Morton L. Rankin, who lives in the back part of the same house. This statement, however, was denied by Rankin, when he was -placed on the stand. Rankin swore that the 'woman rented the rooms. The question of who had the power to excuse Smith from duty for a few minutes at a time occupied no little time and attention. Smith was under the immediate orders of Captain Lewis, but it was shown that Fireman Miller had on one occasion permitted Smith to leave the house and go up to see the Hasket woman.

Miller was called to the stand and admitted he had allowed (Smith to leave the house. It Vas shown that he probably had no right to'do tliis as, even in the case of one^of the captains being away, the otfher captain would havp been there. The question of authority on tills point is yet to be settled. Miller testified as to finding Smith at the rooms of the woman on two occasions. Mr. Williamson, the druggist ^'Ike Doty, James Caughlin.Wash Harold, Joe Shuster, Dyke Christy, Wm. Apman and Ab Shuster testified as to seeing Smith out in a buggy with the womon either Friday or Saturday nights. Captain Lewis was examined, and said Smith never left the house without his knowledge. He also said he had never appointed Miller as captain of the company in his absence and that, therefore, Miller had no right to permit Smith to leave.

Sergeants Welch and Bidaman and Patrolmen Lyons and Stoecker were "placed on the stand. They were asked relative to the character of the woman, and all admitted she was a prostitute in the eyes of the police and that her character was very bad. Patrolman Stoecker testified that he ran the woman off the streets and cautioned Smith he had best remain away from her or else he would get into trouble. Assistant Chief Shuster tofld atout the hunt he had for Smith while the latter was supposed to be Bit home sick. He said he gained the information from Smith's little boy, a bright chap of 5 or S years, and also from Smith's wife, 'whom Smith has been neglecting for the Hasket woman. He also told of Smith and the woman coming to fire headquarters •together Monday morning, and of Smith's anger because Shuster had gone to his (Smith's) house. Fireman Apman told about Smith's doings while a member of the headquarters company, and of how he had cautioned the man to leave certain people severely alone.

Morton L. Rankin told the board that Mrs. Hasket rented the front part of the house on Third street. He said Smith came there three or four times a day. but that he came there before the woman moved in and, therefore, there was nothing significant in this. He was asked if Smith was ever there with the Hasket woman after night, and admitted that on the evening of her return from St. Louis there was a little "keg party" at which Smith had attended for perhaps half an hour. He said Smith had slept in the house, but that he slept in the back part and not in the rooms rented by Mrs. Hasket. The defense had several wit oesses summoned but they were not on hand to testify. Dr. Payne was among them, and IS xv&s expected to prove by his testimony that he had given Smith medicine on the day lie was supposed to have been sick The defense rested the case. There was wait of half an hour while the prosecution *-ent a£t6r some witnesses by which it hoped to prove that the house, 127 North Third, Has a house of prostitution. The police men by whom it was hoped to prove this were not forthcoming, however, and at 11 o'clock the case was closed and taken under advisement until this evening.

The persons who heard the testimony are unit in declaring the specific charges tgalnst Smith may not have been conclusively proven 9y the evidence. However, they are of one voice when it comes to a discussion of the character of the whilom fireman. Granting the charges were no: sustained beyond the question of reasonable doubt. was the belief of every one hear log the evidence that Smith has not been exactly the right man in the right place. I: was shown by evidence that he was negJeotful of his wife and little children, was

drawing good pay from the city, and was lavishing his t^.entions on a. notoriously lewd woman.

Just what Smith has to back up his charges against Ca/ptaln Leonard it "will be interesting to know. He intimates that the end of the matter will not be reached even at the termination of the Leonard case, as there are other members of the department who have been running a little wild.

Depew axKl Greeley. 1

"I had an early experience with Greeley as a political leader," says Chaunoey M. Depew. "It was over 30 years ago. I had just deliberately quit public lifo for my profession and a living when Horace came to me. one day and said that the ambition of his life wad to represent the assembly district in which he and I lived in a state convention, but he had never been able to accomplish it. He had oome tb the deliberate opinion that the state con Id not be carried the sfecond time for Fenton unless I was placed upon the ticket as lieutenant governor, and all he asked of me was to put him in the convention. I persuaded my friends up in Westchester to send Greeley at the head of the delegation. The convention was a unit behind him and the nomination assured. I modestly staid in New York to avoid the appearance of seeking what was to come to me as an enthusiastic call. The late General Husted sent me a telegram which carried me to Syracuse on the night train. As I entered Mr. Greeley's room he said, with his peculiar drawl: 'Chauncey, I have changed my mind within the last hour. I think we must put a soldier on the tioket.' And that gubernatorial boom'busted.'"

Stealing Electricity.

It has been stated that a bank burglar oan so heat the walls of a safe with an electric current as to be able to get inside without waiting more than a few minutes. Certain laboratory experiments lend some sanction to such a notion, but eleotrical journals pooh pooh it. It is muoh easier to talk about stealing electricity from live trolley and lighting wires than it is to do it that is, with safety. The Electrical Engineer, after pointing out some other difficulties in the way of such operations, remarks that "men can take and have taken the current from supply mains, even more than is required for melting through safes, thqugh in numerous instances the parties maintained perfect silence about it ever after."

Some Johnson Definitions.

An exhibition of the relics of Dr. Samuel Johnson in London recalled some of the remarkable definitions that remarkable man inserted in his dictionary. Among them not the least curious was the one given for "network," which was defined as "anything retloulated or decussated at equal distances, with interstices between the intersection® Other amusing definitions are: "Cough—a convulsion of the lungs vellicated by some sbar serosity." "Man—not a woman, not a boy, not a beast." "Pension—an allowance made to any one withoufi an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay to a state hireling for treason to his country." "Book of ComrmoB Prayer."

The "Book of Common Prayer" was prepared by the command of Henry VIII in 1646. It underwent several revisions, but the second, made in the reign of Edward YI, very nearly approaches the prayer book as used today in the church of England. The prayer for the royal family was introduced by James I.

SUPREME COURT RECORD.

Abstracts of Opiuions September 15,

Handed 1897.

Infant—Netrllgence—City Inability. 18,0St. City of Evansville vs. Amelia Senhem. Warrick C. C. 'Reversed McCabo, C. J. (1) An infant of tender years can in no case le considered the blamable cause either in .whole or in part or his own injury, as he can not iba charged with his own negligence, and, being incapable of appointing an agent, the negligence of others is not to be imputed to him. (2) The cases of Lafayette and Indianapolis Railroad Compahy vs. Huffman (28 Ind., 287), and Hathaway vs. Tohttfo, Whelling and West Virginia Railway Company (46 Ind 25), with all' others In this state.,, which adopt the doctrine that the negligence of a parent or guardian^contributing to the injury of his -child, ifj to be imputed to the child so as to defeat a, recovery by t}ie child from a wrongdoer whose negligence caused the child's ihjvtry, are overruled. (3) Unless a oity had-'notice, or by the' exercise of reasonable^ :pare,v mig)i have known of the presence of. an obstruction in the street, placed there toy a third/person, in time to remove it, the city is hot liable to a person injured, by reason of the presence of such obstruction, for his injuries.

Practice—Assignment of Errors. 18,221. Daniel P. Baldwin vs. John Sutton et. a}. Cass C. C. Affiri dan, J. (1) An appeal can not be sustained unless the specific assignment of errors upon which the appelant relies Is applicable to the rulings'as shown by the record and is supported thereby. (2) Where the defendant filed a demurrer to the complaint which was overruled, and then filed an answer to which the plaintiff demurred, and the demurrer whs carried back and sustained, to the complaint, an assignment, of error that the court erred in sustaining the defendant^s demurrer to the complaint does not question any ruling made by the court, and is not available for the reversal of the case (3)An assignment of error that the court erred in rendering judgment for the defendants and against the plaintiff for 'costs, is not available on appeal, unless a motion to modify or correct the judgment in this particular was filed with and ruled on by the court below.

From out the grated window of a jail Two faces looked with angry, evil glnnoe Two aged men's—with tedious durance pale

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APPELLATE COUR*»

Llqnor Law-Prescription.

2.40S. William Kyle vs. State of Indiana Grant C. C. Affirmed. Robinson, J. (1) There are no accessories 'in misdemeanors, but all parties thereto are prin clpals. (2) Where a doctor entered a drug store while the druggist was sweeping the store room, went ibehind the counter and poured out two glasses of whisky, one of which he drank and the other of which he gave to a third person, who drank It, without objection by the druggist, who charged tooth drinks to the doctor, the druggie: was properly convicted of giving the liquor to the third person. (3) The-fact that the doctor left on the counter a paper on which he had written in I^atin, "For

Morgan, whisky, sufficient quantity take as directed," and signed and dated the same, and that the druggist hung this paper on the prescription hook, does not render him less guilty. (4) Such a writing, addressed to no one and specifying no particular quantity of Whisky, is not a prescription within the meaning of the law (o) A prescription authorized only a sing.e sale of liquor .to be made according to its terms.

Special Verdict—Negligence. 2,164. Marv Ballard, administratrix, vs Citizens' Street (Bailroad Company et a! Marlon S. C. IRefrersed. Henley,

(1) The omiswlofit of an essential -fact from a special verdict will be gfrnsidered as a firming as to such fact against the party who had the burden of proving it (2) Freedom from contributory negligence on the part of plaintiff's decedent-may proper.y be inferred where the special verdict showed a strong case of negligence on the part of the defendants In not caring for the surface of the street, an4 stated direct'.y that this caused the injuries and death cibmplained of, and also stated that the decsased was an old man, blind horse atfter it was so dark that tl» surface of the street and tracks cou.d not readily be seen, pursuing his lawful avocation, when he was Injured by toeing thrown out of the wagon as it crossed a defective place in the street, and that the manner !n which the horse was driven did not contribute in anv way to* the injury, and that the decedent did not know that the street ttnd railway, track were out of repar at that point. In such caM it was error to render judgment for the defendant.

TO HATS BIALTH ANP RAPPIRMS Stomas

TEKRE HAUTE EXPRESS, FRIDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 17,1897

JAIL WINDOW.

And stamped with hatred, vice and ignorance.

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A morning glory twined about the grate And lifted up its blossoms white and blne^.. And, as in sympathy

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Its modest freshness pitifully threw. Sweet emblem of God's love for mortals frail, Which finds in hardened natures some faipt leaven f. And from the grievous ladder of a jail ?rays them to struggle, like the flower, toward heaven! -Irving Browne in Philistine*

MOCKING THE WOLF.

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the Howl of It^Mate,

Lew Wilmot, who lives almost anywhere in the state of Washington, is a westerner of the old type. He tells in Forest and Stream about fooling wolves by imitating: their cries. "One Sunday morning," he writes, "while we were mining on the Clearwater, along about the 1st of May, I took my revolver and went over to the cabin, of my partners, and proposed that we go to the hills and kill some grouse. While going up the hill we saw a very big wolf's fresh traok in the trail we were climbing. The trail forked, one branobing up the river, the other turning back into the hills. We stopped, wondering what a wolf could be doing in that part of the oountry at that time of the year. Suddenly the beast began to howl, and shivers crawled along my back. They always do when I hear a wolf howl. When the sound died away, I mooked it, and was answered with quick vigor. Again I answered it. I told the boys if we would wait the beast would come, but they laughed at me and we went on after grouse. The wolf howled back to our left after we got to hunting and was plainly looking for its mate. We went to a small mound, sat down ajnd howled in a low voice, because I feared it would notice the deception. It did not answer, hut pretty quiok came trotting through the small brush. "As it ran along on a fallen, rotten pine tree I shot it with my revolver, and over it went. We ran up and found it badly wounded, and, wolfllke, sulking. Its skin made a pretty good rug.

Awhile after that I was going from Mount Oregon one morning on a cayuse when a big wolf came into the trail and kept on before me, turning to the left after awhile where I bad to go to the right. went on a way, got off my animal and howled to see what would happen. An answer came baok quiok and long, and, though I knew I was perfeotly safe, I felt lonesome with the dread a wolf's howl gives me. I started on after a bit, and on reaching the divide looked baok, and there was the wolf on my trail- I kept on till came to a thicket, howling once in awhile in a way that made the wolf follow, though suspiciously. When I was 1iai^, through the brush, I dismounted ftijd crawled back.. Wben the wolf came to .the edge of the brush, I pulled on him witf}: my revolver, and over he went, §h9& through the heart." tX

JILKINS' AUTOMATIC LICKER.

Colonel Calliper's Account of a Somewhat. Remarkable Invention. "The most ourious labor saving device ever heard of,'' said Colonel Calliper, was an automatio lloker that was invented by a soboolteaober named Socrates Jilkins, who was well known at one time Borne years ago, in Storkville Center, Vt., and in that vicinity. Mr. Jilkins was as gentle hearted a man as ever lived, but he believed in whipping, and he never failed to whip the boys when he thought they deserved it. In fact, I'm not sure but what he whippeji theim rather oft^per th^n that in order to keep himself sqtfare. his conscience.

It was a,pretty blg school and a pretty lively lot of boys,'and licking 'em took up good deal of Socrates' time. So he invented this automatio licker. It was a very ingenious contrivance and at the same time extremely simple'. It was just a wooden post with clockwork inside of it near the top to turn a horizontal spindle which projected out beyond the side of the post. To the outer end of this spindle was attached, at right angles, a ruler or rattan, which, when the clockwork was in motion, whirled around in a ver^ic^l plane. It was something like a small^in^ gle armed windmill. "Mr. Jilkins set this post up oulQ corner of the platform, and when was to be licked he would call him, up tho licker, stand the boy at such J, tance that at every revolution it made

other side of the platform and'go ouWitft his teaching. You can easily see w^at^ great saving of time this was. "But Mr. Jilkins, ingenious as he^aa had overlooked one thing. He had to provide the machine with an adeauaw governor. He had figured out thai resistance offered at regularly recurring intervals by the hand of the boy would be sufficient to keep the machine fronnrunning too fast, and 60 it was as long as the machine was a novelty, but after that, when Mr. Jilkins bad gone over to the other side of the platform, the boy being whipped would as likely qs not take his hand out of line, and then th? licker would raoe as a screw propeller sometimes does when it is lifted out of water, and it wasn't long beforo the licker had racked itself out of working order. Mr. Jilkins fixed it once, but it soon got out of repair again, and then he went baok to tho old way.

But for years after that the post of the automatic lioker still stood.on tho platform. Its arm was removed, but I remember well one day tearing my jacket upon the still projecting spindle."—New York Sun.

PAID $1.50 MADE 2 GENTS.

The Drummer's Investment In Gorncobe Didn't Pan Ont Very Well. Among the delegation of cigar manufacturers that thrqnged the Auditorium was a drummer for a Buffalo house, who talked starch and ostentatiously puffed an English bulldog pipe. "For solid snookers," he said In a loud tone as he stood before a numbdr of brother drummers, "the right thing i3 a pipe. Cigars are for fellows who haven't tjie courage of their convictions. Before I got this thing I used to smoke a Missouri meerschaum. I've got to catoh the Denver train, but I'll tell youifc corncob pipe story. Last summer I made a trip up the lower Missouri on the steamer General Meada,, You know the man who invented the corocob pipe lives at Washinton City. Mo. The boat I was on wa# a freighter that carried wheat and corn down to 9t. Louis. *8 "Whenever a Missouri farmer wants to flag the boat, he puts a red shirt or something on the pile of wheat saoks, and the boat stops. I took a notion to spead^a If* days up in that country and see the natives. When we got to Washington City, the steward told aid that the oarnoob rtpe factory paid a cent apfcee for oorBoobs-ilat wouldn't pass through an iron ring tain size. They furnish these rings to the farmers. About 40 miles above I saw a big pile of corncobs near the bank, an? I thought,'Hero's my chance.' The steward had a ring from the pipe factory that he loaned mo. I made an arrangement with the farmer to board me two days until the boat oame back and sell me the pile of corncobs for SI.50. I thought that if I got lonesome looking at the natives I would pass away the fcimo sorting corncobs, ,It took-me abqat half atdar to tRtJcnflgomo?.

After I had got acquainted with the family and the hogs and one thing and another, I sat down to paw some time away on the corncobs. I worked along, and every corncob seemed to go through the ring. I was a little disappointed at first, but after awhile I got interested and found a cob of the requisite size. That was the only 1 cent cob I got that day, and I put it in my pocket. "Next day the thing didn't seem to pan ant at all, and I worked away like a troopsr. It was like gambling, and I just wanted to see how many big ones I oould find. ,1 didn't find any that day. The day after that I finished up the pile just as the boat came back and was awarded one more cob that was a loose fit. When I got aboard the boat, I had a cob in each pocket, and the farmer and family bid me an affectionate farewell. Just as the boat was starting, the farmer drew me close and said, 'Say.

How the Brute Can Be Lured on by Iml- ^lend, didn't know what you wanted

them cobs for when you bought them, and after the boat had gone and we had you on our hands I didn't like to tell you, but I sorted them cobs over myself about a week ago.' "—Chicago News.

A Dainty Striped Bass.

"Fish in captivity," said a man of long acquaintance with fishes, "often become very tame, and sometimes they develop peculiarities. In an aquarium that I was connected with once, some years ago, we had in a table tank six striped bass, varying from 6 to 18 inches In length. Five of these baSs used to feed ravenously, but the sixth one, the biggest of all, would wait. The five would rush up and hustle for tho food when it was put in the water the big one would lie down in one corner and not come up at all. I thought he must be off bis feed, and I thought I'd have to get some delicacy for him. "But one day when I had fed the others, the big one still lying on the bottom, I tapped on the side of the tank and held put a live killie. He came up and took the killie sharply. There wasn't anything the matter with him ho was all right, and I couldn't aooount for his holding back except that he considered it beneath his dignity to come up then and scramble with the rest for the food thrown in the tank, and that he preferred to wait. "After that regularly I fed the big bass separately. After I had put the food for the rest in the tank I would hold out his, and he would como up and take it out of my hands. I fed him in this way every day for four months, until we lost him and all the rest of the fish in this tank by an accident.''—New York Sun.

Speaking American.

A young Boston student writog from Germany that he, together with an American Mend, recently went into a restaurant. The waitress, a pretty girl, listened to the conversation, and finally overcoming her curiosity asked, "Are you English men?" "No," was the answer. "We are Amerioans." "But you were speaking English just now, weren't you?" said the girl. "Yes, we all have to learn to speak English in school, but we generally speak American, especially as the Indians don't know any English," replied the Boston man, with a wink at his friend. "Oh, won't you speak a little American?" said the girl. "My cousin is there, but I never heard any of the language." "All right. here goes then: Allegany, polychunkinnig moosao algonquia winnepeesockeei big indjin eat much drink heap sight more pluribus unum hurrah for Blaine winnechusikoicut cocachulunk Manhattan." "Minnehaha?" said the other student. "Immovero," said No. 1 glibly, "Pax vobiscum." "But what does it all mean, what you have just said?" asked the unsuspecting girL "Oh, just that you were very pretty." And fraulein tripped off, blush ing.—Boston Courier.

The Last English Dnel.

Thelast duel—the last fatal one, at least —was fought in a field in Maiden lane in a solitary part of Holloway in 1843. The district acquired considerable notoriety from the event. It was the duel fought between Colonel Fawcett and Lieutenant Munro. The former was killed. The duelists were not only brother officers, they were also brothers-in-law, having married two sisters.

The coroner's jury on the inquest returned a verdict of willful murder not only against Lieutenant Munro, but against the seconds also. The latter, however, were aoquitted. Munro evaded the Hands of justice by seeking refuge abroad. Four years later he surrendered to take his trial at the Old Bailey. He was found guilty and sentenced to death. He was, however, strongly recommended to mercy, and the sentence was eventually commuted

to 12 months'imprisonment. The neighborhood in which this duel

was fought is no longer solitary. A wide

Scattering Her Money.

There is no accounting for whims. Quite recently a titled lady of means, who had been staying in tho Channel islands, hired a tiny, uncomfortable, bellowing tugboat to oonvey her across the channol, instead of making the passage in the magnificent .steamers that ply between Southampton and St. Peter-le-Port. Her roason for this strange freak was that she could not possibly get up at the early hour necessary to catoh the outgoing boat, which leaves Guernsey harbor at 10:30 a. m.

She offered the London and Southwestern Railway company £100 if they would send a speoial steamer to fetch her at a reasonable hour, and on their refusal, chartering this little tug for £30, she left at 4 p. m. and reached Southampton at 4 a. m. the next morning, taking 12 hours for a journey usually performed in five or six. —London Tit-Bits.

He Was of an Inquiring Mind. An old and respected citizen of Windsor, whose mind goes off with a wet fuse, so to speak, recently met his neighbor's wife with her two little daughters. He asked: "Are these your daughters?" "Yes." "Little girls, I presume?" "Certainly." "They do not look like twins.** "No, indeed. This one is 10 and the other is 7 years old." "The one 10 years old is the older." "Yes, and the other is the younger." "Just so. Thank you. I was about to ask that."—Amusing JournaL

His Forlorn Hop*.

Editor—Here, I've told you time and time again th«t I can't use your verses. Why do you write poetry anyway?

Poet—i wish so much to see my name In print. Editor—A Bttle more perseverance, and It will get into the obituary oolumn.— New York Herald.

Very Ladylike.

First Domestic—Me new mistress Is very ladylike. Second Domestic—What do you mean by ladylike?

Fii6t Domestic—Sure, Ol mean she's different from most ladies.—New York Weekly.

Graphic.

The end of a novel, compressed hy the editor owing to lack of space: "Ottokar took a small brandy, then his hat, his departure, besides no notice of bis pursuers, meantime a revolver out of his pocket, and, lastly, his own life."—Deutsche Leschalle.

Tke French Moatpellier gave a name to the-Yeonont Montpelier. .J,

WILSON'S TRIP WEST.

THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE FOUND FARMS FLOURISHING.

He Blade Seme Valuable Discoveries and Took Copious Notes—Range Hones to Be Improved—8ngar Beet Indnrtry la

Booming—Hlnta on Irrigation. 'ftf

James Wilson, secretary of agriculture, has just returned from a trip through the western states, where he has been investigating conditions regarding irrigation and other matters which will tend to widen the scope of agricultural industry. Mr. Wilson has been investigating the systems of irrigation in western Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, part of Idaho, Montana and North Dakota, and the result of his observations will be fraught with interest to all agriculturists. He has gone into the question of the condition of the range horse. He hopes to make the animal capable of competing with the horses of Europe.

Mr. Wilson is enthusiastic concerning the agricultural future of the Wfst and is confident that hard times have passed for the farmers west of the Mississippi. During his tour through the western states he made personal investigation of the conditions existing among the farmers.

He found that the latter had felt the influence of the present market conditions and that they were buying new maohinery, making numberless improvements and are able to pay off their mortgages. He is brimful of plans to add to the prosperity of the western farmer. "I have been through the mountain states," said Mr. Wilson, "in order to learn what could be done regarding irrigation in the range lands of western Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, part of Idaho, Montana and North Dakota. The principal objeot of my trip through these states was to ascertain to what extent they could add to the annual production by further Irrigation. During the course of my.observations I have found that these states have already need up the waters in many districts without being able to Irrigate the bottom lands. They are now agitating the theory of damming the waters in winter. Various schemes are on foot to bring this about. Some advocate the idea that the government should take up the matter and pay for the post of damming. Some think the state governments should begin the work. Others are organizing companies and selling the stook in the east. Everything points to a renewed activity In agriculture in these states. "Some rivers in these states are not being used for irrigation purposes. Among these are the Grand river in Colorado and the Yellowstone river. The Yellowstone has a magnifloent valley all through Montana. It is going to cost money to get the river out of its banks, however, and to build aqueduct# so as to irrigate the higher lands of the valley. "This inquiry naturally led to an investigation of the condition of the range horse. Why is the horse of the range praotically worthless? This is a question whioh has troubled western agriculturists for years. The range horse can be made a profitable source of inoome. I find by careful investigation over these several states that the grasses of the uplands, though they are never irrigated, are very nutritious. They are just as nutritious as the blue grasses of Iowa, provided, of course, that the animal gets enough of range. "I found that the animals, with rare exceptions, have nothing to keep up their growth in the winter or to maintain the quality of sustenance obtained during the summer months. Leading range men agreed with me that a colt kept growing both summer and winter continuously for two years would be as large as a colt at five years with no feed in the winter. They also agreed with me that good wintering would give them a horse weighing 800 or 400 pounds more at 4 years than he is now at 6 years old, or, without any better blood than they have got, a 1,100 or 1,800 pound horse—just such a horse as is now used in European armies. "I have an agent in Europe at the present time investigating the requirements for heavy draft, carriage horses and animals needed for army purposes. I have very little doubt that if the range horses in the western states were properly oared for they would be able to compete with European horses. I hope to bring about such a competition and to make the mar? ket for American horses lively in European countries. "During my trip I found a very extensive interest in growing' sugar beets to

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thoroughfare, known as the Brecknock road, runs through it, and a rifle ground beside the Brecknock arms appropriately indicates the plaoe where the final shot was fired.—Chambers'JournaL

Grand Island, Neb., is on

sugar. _.

the o{ tt,e

belt. The sugar beet is

i.1

one crop that grows independently of droughts. About 8,000 to 4,000 acres of land are necessary to cultivate a.sufficient crop of beets to keep a factory in operation. "The dry product, or the pulp, is not being used to the best advantage. At Grand Rapids and Lehigh, Utah, it is fed to range steers. The amount of it that would make two pounds of gain on a first class steer, worth 6 or 7 cents, would make a pound of butter, but this has not ocourred to the sugar beet growers. "While in Utah I made some inquiry regarding the oondition of affairs from an educational standpoint in that state. I found that the state has a good common school system. Tho children of Mormons and gentiles attend the same schools. I learned that these children intermarry. I observed that they were fine looking young people, and I have no doubt of tho future of Utah. I became acquainted with the intense production on small areas in Utah. The people are very industrious, and the state, I think, will develop into one of the best In the nation."—Chioago limes-Herald.

and passengers (armed) have the advantage of being between the forces of robbers, and with every probability can throw the greater number in the fight, and, Napoleonlike, repulse or defeat in detaiL

Under the present order of things th# crime of "holding up" trains has be coin# one of almost daily occurrence. And why? Because two, throe or four men oan suocessfully effect it, and the ill gotten gains are large. Render the set one more difficult and dangerous of accomplishment, and the attempts will be less frequent. It matters not how Invulnerable the car, so long as it remains in tho train near the engine it will offer but slight resistance to tho robber and his stlok of dynamite.

LOVEHS' STATISTICS.

How the 'Han Who Dares Act* When Ha Goes Cfartint. Out of 100 cases 8& gentlemen take lady in arms, 67 gentlemen kiss lady on lips, 4 gentlemen kiBs lady on cheek, 8 gentlemen show very good taste by kissing lady on eyos, 2 gentlemen kiss lady on hand. It is to be presumed that these two out of 100 are the timid, diflldent kind, though it Is possible that they might be of the quietly sentimental nature. One gentleman kisses lady on nose. It must be added that the statistician is careful to insert tho saving clause "by mistake."

There is even a reoord of a man kissing a lady on the edge of her shawl but, thank goodness, there is only one In 100, and the chances are that this man is peculiar.

Sevanty-frveo hold lady's hand, 17 bold it very tightly, 14 have lumps in their throats and 0 exclaim aloud, "Thank God I" Only 7 out of 100 declare themselves to be deliriously happy, and 6 aro too full for utterance.

Three out of 100 stand on one foot when they make a proposal, and 2 go down on one knee, while 9 make a formal prelude, something like the slow musio at tho play, we suppose, when tho villain appeals to heaven to witness the oonsuming flame of his affections for the heart ho plots to ruin, etc.—New York Advertiser.

Reminiscences of Fronde.

Until a year or two before his death Froude had retained muoh of his youthful vigor. His eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated. He could still land his salmon, and he had been a famous angler. He oould still handle a gun, and he had been a crack shot in his time. When aboard the tidy little craft that he kept at Sal com be, especially if the waves ran high, he was almost boyishly elate. Sometimes, no doubt, he was sad, but it was the sadness of one who, looking before and after, has found that the riddle is hard to read. He bad Indeed an ever present sense of the mysteries of existence and of the awful responsibility of the creature to the unknown and invisible Lawgiver.

I have heard him described by shallow observers as "taoiturn" and "saturnine." No two words could be less descriptive.

REPELLING TRAIN ROBBERS

A Sew Plan of Defense Outlined by an Army Officer. Itmay safely be assumed that the "point of attack" is the engine and then the express car, writes Lieutenant Wright in The North American Review. Why, then, not separate them as much as possible by putting the express oar the last in the train? Have alarm bella on each ooaoh and sleeper, which can be rung by the express messenger when he is directed or requested at this unusual time, and place to open the door of his car. In each coach and sleeper have, in a glass front case similar to those now in use for the ax and saw, two repeating shotguns, each magazine containing five buckshot cartridges, thus giving from 6 to 12 most effeotive weapons in the hands of the train crew and passengers. Tha alarm bells should be electric, though it is believed that the ordinary bellcerd could be made to serve the purpose. Whon the messenger sounds his tocsin of war, there would soon be a sufficient force of brave men at the express oar to give the robbers a warm welcome. For the latter to

cover

the engine cab and each

door and side of each ooaoh or sleeper would require a force of men too great in numbers to make "the divide" profitable. Besides the greater number of accomplices or principals the greater the ohances of a capture and the pa&ibillty of someone turning "state's eviAflnce."

Under such an arrangement In the makeup of a train, should the rear or express oar be the sole point of attack, then the first step would be to cut this oar loose from the train and then loot It. The automatio airbrake would give the alarm to the engineer, and he, in turn, to the coaches, or, bettor still, the ooncealed eleotrlo wire could be so attan#ed as to sound the alarm when tbe oar parted from the train. Should the engine, as in the past, ,La first,retort ok atftack. Uuui tb&,Qre

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He was a singularly bright and vivacious companion. His smile was winning as a woman's. Possibly he did not always unbend, but when he unbent he unbent wholly. In congenial society he was ready to discourse on every topic in the heaven above or on the earth beneath, and when at his best he was not only a brilliant and picturesque, but a really suggestive talker. —Blackwood's Magazine.

A Piece of Good Advice.

A dear, pretty old lady once said to mo, when I, with the sublime uncharitable* neas whioh youth considers divine hlienor, had been ridiculing some one's personal appearance: "My dear, never quiz people for what they can't help. That's their Creator's affair—not yours. Be as down on them as you like for what they can help, but always draw the line there and make it a rule through life." We can't shape our noses as we can our lives, and really I think, considering the mess that some of us make of the latter, It is perhaps just as well. We can't model our cbeeks as we can our waists, and that is decidedly a pity, for so long as men admire smail waists so long shall we dutifully seek to attain them, by fair means or fouL I sup-( pose we can make our faces Innocent or wicked, and that is unfortunate, for the innocent often like to wear wloked masks,1 and the wicked oftener contrive angel faces. Ah, well!"—Philadelphia Times.

Ark—The Beal Thing.

Noah's ark still contains nothing bub the primitive species which have been dear to generations of children. The temptatlon to revise the list has been bravely resisted. If there were any evidence needed that these are the real representatives of the" animals saved in the-Noachio deluge, we need only point to the fact that there is not among them a single animal from the new world. Not even the kangaroo or the easily identified American bison has been pormitted to intrude among the creatures which were let loose upon Mount Ararat.

Color, shape and form have not been modified to suit the notions of an improving age. They are all as lean as wo know them in the past.

The

paint 6mells just

the same. The pigs aro still a china gray, spotted with black and yellow. The cows retain their brick red hue, with a bluo line along the spine, and the only concession to modern exploration, one so old that perhaps it fixes the date of the stereotyped ark menagerie, is the pair of canaries, in gamboge yellow, which, after all, are

only

.intruders since the middle of

tho sixteenth century, when Noah's ark perhaps first became the plaything of seri-, ous "reformed" children.—Spectator.

His Wife Bought Him.

An instance has been cited at Towson of the purchase in the days of slavery in Maryland of a slave by his wife, who was a free woman. The colored man in question, whose name was Elijah, was owned by a Mr. Dlmmett and worked as a teamster for tho Rov. John R. Keech, who at that time lived near Fallston, in Hartford county, and was rector of churches in that county and in Baltimore county for about 40 yoars. After being purchased by his wife Elijah was, of course, free, but he continued for some time to work for the Rev. Mr. Keech. He was paid $10 a month for his services and was also given hla hoard. The first year after being free Elijah did not draw any of his wages until the end of the year, and he then drew the $120 all in a lump. It was a large sum of money for him to have, and he was very proud of it, as before his purchase by his wife his wages were paid t» his owner.—Baltimore Sun.

Invisible Ink.

Dissolve in a fluid ounce of distilled w&ter 50 grains of chloride of cobalt, and after the crystals have dissolved add 10 minims of glycerin. Shake this nntil it is thoroughly mixed. Write upotr ordinary paper with this Ink, then give it to some one who sits or stands near tha st«ve. As t-' the paper becomes warm the writing will ,• E turn blue, but will fade again wben .exposed to cold or dampness.—New York. Ledger.

The Wrong Fellow.

"My little man," said the benign ola 3 gentleman to one of the boys while the other was cleaning out the ring, "don't. you know It's wrong to win marbles?" "Well, yer taking to the wrong fel-r*. ler," was the reply. "Yer can preach to Jim role there, for he's won all the marbles and is three into my agate. "—Atlanta Journal.

The huge ruff was brought from Italy.t^ France by Catherine de' Medici. It became so wide that sptoons, with handles a isot long, were provided for ladies at dinner, am tbej'oouW get th*r tfettqdr