The Plattsmoutli Journal

C. H. MAN. W. K. FOX. I'oblUhers.

PLATTSMOUTlf. NEBRASKA

Creat Quantities of firecrackers arnow being received In this countryfrom China, the merchants consideringthat there will be a big Fourth of July1en and for them.

Ceneral Miles has long, advocated astanding army which should consist ofone man for every thousand of our to-

tal population, and that is substantial-ly the size of the present establish-ment. The police farce of our largestcities consists of one officer to a popu-

lation of about four hundred and sixty.

Ilartford has adopted the automobilepatrol wagon, and the thief of policefinds that it has proved successful inevery way. resultirg in a saving oftime and money. An electric wagon-

ette was used pending the delivery ofan electric patrol wagon, and the chiefsays that it did the work of four horsesat the nominal expense of 18 cents aCay for power.

The Maoris, the aboriginal Inhab-itants of New Zealand, have actuallyincreased in number during the lasttferade. and grea. wonderment is ex-

pressed In European publications overthe fact that a "subject rtee" shouldsurvive and grow. Here is opportunityfor somebody to suggest that the fateof such a race depends a good dealupon the nation to which it is "sub-ject."

A man In North Carolina was sell-ing standing timber walnut trees.The man who was buying came to onevery handsome tree. He told the own-e- x

he would pay a3 much as ?50 forthat tree. The owner did not sell, butsent for experts. He got $1,500 for thetree (curled walnut) as it stood. Theman who cut it down realized $3,000for it on the cars. It was shipped toNew York and veneered one-sixt- h tofcalf an inch The sales were watched.The tree brought ?tJ0.000.

Queen Margaret of ItaV has com-missioned the architect Succonl. toconstruct a memorial an the spotwhere King Humbert was assa?sinat-cd- .

It will take the form of a votivechare!. In front a cross in marblewJlL be erected. End each side of theentrance will be flanked by a marblestatue, one representing Sorrow, andthe other Death. The first stone ofI5e edifice will be laid on July 23. theanniversary of the death of KingHumbert. SiKconi Is the designer ofthe monument to Victor Emmanuel,now in course of construction on thebill of the capitol.

Mrs. Elizabeth Burr Hamilton, saidCa be the last member of the seventhgeneration of the Burr family, whodied at Bridgeport. Conn., last week,ct the aee of ninety, was the fifthcousin of Aaron Burr, third viee-presii-de- nt

of the United States, who killedAlexander Hamilton, the lawyer andfcdtesmsn. in a duel in 1S01. Her deathrecalls the fart that, though the famil-ies of Burr and Hamilton were their.oct bitter enemies at the begininngtrZ the last century, love found a waythirty-tw- o years after the famous duelto bring the- - families together again bythe marriage of Elizabeth Burr andAlexander Hamilton in 1SHS.

America still has some things toteam from older eeuntries, particularlyiu the way of economy. New YorkCity pays about five hundred thousanddollars a year for the disposition of itsgarbage, whi! many English cities, byburning their va;?e matter in specialfurnaces, not only destroy it in themo-- t effective way. but make a profitfrom it. Being dried out, it becomesfuel, and the heat which it generatesf3 used to furnish steam for pumpingwater, operating city electric lightingplants, and grinding up such portionscl the refuse as ar capable of conver-sion into cement, tiles and paving-Mocks- .

This plan in u?e In seventycr eighty or the sniallr-- r cities of Eng-and- .

and a million dollar riant Is inprocess of erection in I,or.c!on.

There is sometimes a wide Intervalbetween the conception of a mechan-ical contrivance anil its practical ac-complishment. The flying machine,fresh experiments with which are con-stantly reported, is an example of de-lay in Invention. A few years afterthe landing of the Pilgrims. Dr. JohnWilkins. who afterward married a sis-ter of Oliver Cromwell, published awork in which he said it was possibleto make a "flying chariot, in which aman may sit. and give such motioncnto it as shall cmvey him throughthe air. And this, perhaps, might bemade large enough to rarry divers menat the same time, together with foodTor their viaticum, and commoditiesfor traffic." The suggestion of a tradeaide to air travel points to the remotepossibility of a flying machine combi-nation which will control the "air-line" of the future. At present there Isno reason to be alartied. The businessopportunities of the region overheadere still open to all.

Dr. Steyn reports the completion ofthe excavation cf old Buddhist citiesIn Chinese Turkestan, and states thatthe results are satisfactory. The ex-

cavators discovered a large number offine Eturco sculptures. c!o. ely resem-bling the Gracco Hud Ihlst relic3 of theNorth-Wester- n Punjab.

The army allows about C3.000 poundsof food a year for f.ftfe:i men. but Inthe Arctic regions peopl eat at leastfi quarter as much more. It cos's ?3 amonth more to feel a naan In Green-land than in New York.

Daumet of the French Institute,and a r umber of o:hr French, archi-tects, have petitioned the senateagainst any interference with religio.-- s

orders, cn the ground that many oftheir tuildinE3 are th? glory ofFrance, and that they ore likely tocontinue furnishing employment tothe building trade.

Many French automobiles have alarge piece of plate glass In a steelframe In front of the driving seat, toprotect the operator from dust andwind during fast work.

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Slighted in Funston "Report.Lieutenant J. D. Taylor of the

Twenty-fourt- h Infantry, whose friendsare claiming for him some of the

, honor given General Funston for thecapture of Agulna'.do, Is 25 years o'.d,and has been in the army since 1S9S,when he was appointed Second Lieu-tenant cn the recommendations ofSenators Maliory and Fasco of Flor-ida.

Lieutenant Taylor was assigned tothe Twentieth Infantry at Fort Leav-enworth and accompanied the regl- -

ment to the Fhi'ipplnes. In April,1S99. he was promoted to First Lieu-tenant and attached to the Twenty-fourt- h

infantry. His father is a lead-ing citizen of Lake City, Fla.

Lieutenant Taylor's friends pointout that his name does not appear inthe official report of Aguinaldo's cap-ture. Although It was he who securedthe first Information as to the insur-gent leader's whereabouts. It waswhile acting Captain at Pomtabanganthat he intercepted the four Filipinomessengers carrying orders that re-

vealed their chief's hiding place. Hereceived a letter of thanks from Gen-eral Funston at the time, but hi3friends are not satisfied with thi3 par-tial recognition, and believe he shouldhave received credit in the official re-port for his work in connection withthe capture.

A Charming XXoman.The wife of Kentucky's young Gov-

ernor is one of the most charmingwomen of a state noted for the

of its fairer inhabitants.Mrs. Beckham, who, since her mar-riage has become known throughoutthe country, was Miss Jean Fuqua ofOwensboro, the eldest daughter ofColonel Joseph Fuqua. She Is 22 yearsold. and has all the charms that havemade her state's women famous. Shemet Governor Beckham while he wasspeaker of the house cf representa-tive- s.

He was visiting his sister InOwensboro. and at a reception givenIn his honor was introduced to MiS3

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MRS. BECKHAM.Fuqua. They were married on Novem-ber 12 last, after the election of Mr.Beckham as Governor.

SI Shorter Co'lege Course-- .

Professor Norton of Harvard recent-ly expressed the opinion that collegemen studying for the degree of A. B.should be allowed a free choice to ob-tain It in three years If they eo desire.He says many students can do thework of the whole course in threeyears as easily and as well as otherscan in four, and he believes the ma-

jority would be the gainers if they didit In the shorter time. The growinglength of the courses In post-gradua- te

and professional schools makes thissaving of time increasingly desir-able.

"Sacred" LocK ond Key.A Washington

dispatch says thatthe lock and keyof the front gateof the Sacred Cityof Peking havebeen received atthe National Mu-

seum and will be; placed on exhibi

tion there within afew davH. Therelics are a gift from Rev. W. T.Hobart, a Methodist missionary inChina, and were presented to theUnited States through Edwin II.Conger, United States minister atPeking. The gate which the lock andkey secured was directly before thepalace of the emperor. On the lockare Inscribed a number or Chinesecharacters, and the authorities of themuseum will soon seek to have thesedeciphered and trans'ated. The lockis an Iron cylinder three feet and teninches long. Extending from the cyl-

inder Is an Iron rod bent back that Itmight pass through the gate hasps

i and into the lock

SAYINGS and DOINGS

EdUs "Lunatic Herald."The only paper of its kind in the

world is the Lunatic Herald, which ispublished at Jacksonville. 111. It isowned, edited and ccr.trolled by Gen-eral A. B. Leeper. who freely admitsthat he !2 a legal lunatic, but dec'aresthat for that reason he will be ableto do better workfor the large classof peoyle to whichhe belongs. In theLunatic HeraldGeneral Leeperwill deal with the (Mlabuses which pre-vail in some insane vasylums. He willcall for the repeal of certainstate laws which seem un- -fair to lunatics, whom they chiefly af-

fect. Nothing will be printed which isindeed to produce irritation or irra-tional excitement. It will not be thobusiness of the paper to stir up dis-content among the inmates of insaneasylums, but to furnish them with foodfor serious and healthful thought.General Leeper says that the numberof legal lunatics in the United StatesIs now so large that there is a greatfield as well as a great demand forhis paper, while if every person whois more or less crazy would subscribefor it, he declares, it would have eas-ily the largest circulation In the world.

Head of Sbueden's Jfa-Cy- .

Sir Adolf Arnold Louis Philander,the new minister of marine for Swedenand Norway, has had a distinguishedcareer as a naval officer. He won hisknighthood from King Oscar in 1SS3on his return from the famous expedi-tion in the Vega, of which ship hewas commander and which bore thecelebrated scientist and explorer.Baron Nordenskjold. on his voyage ofdiscovery to the northeast passage.Owing to the name of the ship and in

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MINISTER PHILANDER,memory of his services the naval offi-

cer was given the title of "Philanderof Vega." Since that time his promo-tion in the navy has been rapid, andat the same time well deserved. He ischief aid to the king and one of hisrayol patron's most intimate and cher-ished friends. The new minister i.s de-

rived from an ancient family of Fin-land, noted In .history for upward ofthree centuriC3. He entered the navyas a boy and was early associated withthe great Nordenskjold, whom he alsoaccompanied in 1SCS on the famousjourney to Spitzbergen.

A Chundcr MaKer.Even on the clearest, calmest day

thunder, artificial, it is true, yetEtr angel ylike naturalthunder, canbe manufac-tured by any-one who willtry the fol-lowing sim-ple, newlydevissel ex-periment:

Get a pieceordinarytwine twoor three feet in length, and place itaround the back of your head, accord-ing to the manner shown in the

picture. Next bring thetwo ends forward past the ears, or,rather, past the auricles. The earsmust then be closed by keeping thofingers pressed firmly over them, and atthe same time the fingers or handmust be pressed firmly over the twineat the point where it lies directly out-side each auricle. Now ask some oneto pull the two ends, of the twine withhis thumb and index finger, and then,a firm pressure being meanwhile main-tained, to let them slip slowly throughthe fingers.

At once an illusion of thunder willbe produced. You will hear peal afterpeal, and the firmer the pressure onthe twine the louder will be the sound.If a few knots are tied in the twinea still more startling inusion will beproduced.

j Star, ling 'Propositicn.A startling proposition is made by

the author of a work called the "BoxerBook," just published in Chicago. Thewriter believes that there is a yellow-peri- l

and a black peril and a red periland after showing that the dark racesIncrease much more rapidly than thewhite races, urges the gradual ex-

tinction of the former by the whites.He thinks the blacks should bo con-fined to certain zones placed underwhite rule under international law andthen exterminated by gradual processof humane laws applied by "the fittestrace," as the author puts it. A secretorganization having its origin in theuniversities is said to be urging thepropaganda.

Alexander Cambell, the professionalgolfer of the Country club of Brook-lin- e,

Mass.. has a driver of ancient pat-tern which is over 200 years old. Itwas the property of the Earl ofEglinton originally.

Hoke Smith, once In Mr. Cleveland'scabinet, is on his second term as amember of the Atlanta school board.

Idealism and "Realism.

"What strikes me most aboutyour country is its realism, foundedas the nation is upon an Ideal. Thereis no more realistic country than Am-erica, and there is no more idealist'cone."--Profess-or Van 't Hoff of Hol-land.

A Forgotten Chapter in History"The sale of Texas to Spain: lis

Bearing on Our Present Problems." Isthe title of an article in the JulyForum by the Hon. Henry S. Boutell.There are few who know that theUnited States held title to Texas priorto the admission of the Texas republicto the union, but such was the case,and the transfer of that tit'e to Spainby the treaty of 1S19 in exchange forFlorida has a distinct bearing on th?question recently passed on by theSupreme Court. That question is:

"Have the President and the Sen-ate, by treaty, or Congress and thePresident, by legislation, the consti-tutional power to control and d-a- l

with territory which is not a part ofone of the states of the union In amanner different from that in whichthey are bound by the constitution tocontrol and deal with the territoryembraced in the several states?"

At the time when Napoleon so'd theLouisiana Territory to the Unit dStates the Rio Grande was he dividingline between French and Snanish pos-sessions cn the Gulf of Mexico. Therefore that river was the western boun-dary of the Lou'siana purchase. ButSpain, secretly encouraged by Naro-'eon- .

insisted that Mexico extend dfarther east than the Rio Grande. Inthe opinion of James Monroe, JohnQuincy Adams and Henry Clay, theright of the United States to all ofTexas was incontrovertible, but thesouth, for natural and justifiable rea-sons, was anxious to get hold of eastand west Florida, which were not in-

cluded in the Lou'siana purchase.Hence that treaty whereby the Flori-da- s

were ceded to the United Statesand the Sabine River was made thedividing line between American andSpanish possesions. On this subjectthe Chicago Tribune says:

"During the last two years it hasoften been asserted that all terrifo-- y

acquired by the United States becomesat once 'an Integral part' thereof, andIts Inhabitants become American cit-izens. There is nowhere In th con-stitution, says Mr. Boutell, au'hortty,direct or implied, for the sale of 'anintegral part' of the United Statesand the expatriation of American citi-zens. Therefore President Monroe adthe statesmen of his day, when theybartered off Texas to Spain, d:d notconsider that territory 'an integralrarf of tho United S'ates. The viewthey took of the matter was that 'ter-ritory onside the limits of the Statesbelonging to the United States couldbe regulated and disposed of by thefederal government regirdles3 of thelimitations and restrict'ons of theconstitution.' These m-- n. if living,would hold that the United States canlawfully sell the Philippines orAlaska."

When Will the World b? Full.Without asking counsel of Malthu-sian:s- m,

but merely by applying thenineteenth cent'.'ry average of increaseto the future, Mr. J. Holt Schoolingannounces in the July Cosmopolitantnat "the world will be full" in thayear 2250, at which time it will be in-habited by 52.000 billions of persons,averaging 1,000 to the square mile.Tnis good-humor- ed prediction, how-ever, based on the assumption that thrate of 1 per cent per year of increasoin the population of the earth, whichobtained during the last century, willcontinue indefinitely, is only incidentalto several important and presumablyreliable deductions concerning themovement of the earth's populationduring the last century.

Volunteers Mustered Out.Promptly on the last day of June, In

accordance with the emeigency act of1S99, the last of the 35.C00 volunteersenlisted for service in the Philippineshave been mustered out at aan Fran-cisco. Thus closes one of the mostcreditable chapters in our military his-tory.

A British V. to.

Mr- - Andrew Carnegie speaking attho great Anglo-Americ- an banquet,said: "There can b- - no jealousy be-

tween America and England, brauseit is not 'ost what a friend gets."London Daily Expres.

An adjudicat'on in the estate ofMichnel Corr, who died sore time agoin Philadelphia, awards $112,000 to va-

rious Catholic charitable institutionsin that city.

The EneMsh railways crrt on an av-ero- ee

of 0 000 a mil": th- - tVrrnan.20.000 and the American 11.000.

GREAT A TO

HENRY FOURNIERHenri Fournier the winner of the

automobile race from Paris to Berlin,has long been known on the continentas the king of automobilists. He firstused a petroleum tricycle for his roadwork. VTith a machine of 1 horse-power he made an average of more

The WhtsXy Famine in Guam.There comes a tale of woe from dis-

tant Guam. This is the remote islandIn the Pacific where for some timeCaptain Leary of the navy was a be-

nevolent despot, forcing lazy Guam testo work and unmarried ones to wed.He appealed to the department for abrass band to aid in the civilizing ofthe inhabitants, but was unable to getit. It Is not a lack of music, however,which causes unh3ppiness in Guam.It is a scarcity of whisky. The lastbarrel of "commissiry" has beenstolen and drunk up by bad marineson duty in the island.

This sad news Is given in an orderissued by Commander Seaton Schroe-de- r,

U. S. N.. Governor of Guam. Init he calls the attention of the com-

mand to the "hoodlum'sm and law-

lessness which are rampant in it." Per-haps this language Is not too strongwhen the dastardly character of thecrime which hag been committ'd istaken into consideration. The Com-mander says excitedly:

"There Is reason for alluilln to thethrft a few weiks ago of a hirrel ofwhisky from the naval hospital that wasthe lat and sole supply of the medicaldepartment for medical purposes. An of-ficer on duty here has since then benbo reduced by clima'le fever that a cer-tain amount of whisky was considerednecessary to keep him from utter pros-tration. Fortunafly. a small supp'y waobtained from a passing vessel. Had thataccidental supply not been forthcoming,and had that officer succumbed, his deathwould have retod upon the hads of thescoundrels who committed the theft."

The percentage of Ill'terat's amongarmy conscripts in Italy Is thirty-si- x.

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PRESIDENT SHAFFER OF

Theodore J. Shaffer, who, in his ca-

pacity as president of the Amalgamat-ed Association of Iron, Steel and TinWorkers, gave out the sheet iron ma-

chinists strike order, is himself one ofthe most skillful sheet iron rollers inthe trade. He is unique among laborleaders the world over. A college

Letter-Copyi- ng Machine.Whi.e the copying of letters by

means of the dampened sheets andhandpress is a comparatively rapidoperation and allows copies of lettersto be filed away in book form forfuture reference, yet the machine il-

lustrated herewithr " - has advantages

over the formermethod both inspeed and in theconvenience forpr servation of thecopy in eonnectionwith the letter towhich it replies.

Th copying paper is in the form ofa continuous roll, which is looseiyamounted on a spindle inside the cab-

inet, where is also located a tray ofwater, through which the sheet pass-

es on Its way to the pressure rollers.A crank is used to turn the rollers,and the original letter Is slipped be-

tween the two pressure rolls, where itcomes in contact with the dampenedsheet and leaves Its copy, the letterpassing out at the opposite side of therollers and the copy ribbon falling

WINNER OF THE AUTOMOBILE FACEthai orty miles an hour at a timewh mtomcbiles were the merestnovrnes. Thus it will be seen that hewas no new hand in the big race whichuas jum mm un ai fournieris a veritable spectacle on his -- ia-chine. He flies along with bulgiri yea

Houston PlxnmEdwin Ginn, a prominent real e3- - j comfort, light, and :amiT compared

tate owner of Boston, will try an j with the old style aow in vogue, ndoriginal experi- -

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ment in tenementhouses next spring.He proposes tobuild several largefireproof structuresin the West End,which will replace mmthe dingy, unsafe,and unhcslthfulhabitations whichare now used bythe workingclasses in that partof the city. Mr.Ginn made a care-ful investigationof the facts beforehe decided to makehis experiment. Hevisited tho pc-opl-e

living in t'. e tene-ment d I s t r i c.ts,counseled them asto the kind ofhouses they wouldmost desire for therents they couldafford to pay, andthen had his archi-tects arr ne plansacco d ngly. Mr.Ginn says that at the present time aman with $16 a month to spend forrent could not secure a place fit to livein. His new houses will be marvels of

WorKcrs' Strife

THE SHEET IRON WORKERS.

graduate, a former clergyman and amost earnest and eloquent pulpit or-

ator, Mr. Shaffer may be consideredout of his sphere in a rolling mill, butthe theological iron worker prefersthat trade to the church. He Is a na-

tive of Pittsburg, 45 years old. and began his career as an iron worker when

through a slot into the bottoa of thecabinet. In filing the copy away theendless sheet is taken up and clippedto separate letters, which are thenplaced with the letter to which theoriginal is the reply, the two beingfiled together and making it unneces-sary to look in both the letter file andcopying book when information is de-

sired.

The "Rcligiour F.ght in Franee.The French Associations bill i3 now

safely through the legislature, and thodebate, which has occupied the greaterpart of a year, is closed. During theprogress of the discussion severalamendments to the measure have beenintroduced and passed, and the gov-

ernment has receded on some points,the most important of which was theproject to confiscate the property ofthe religious congregations under cer-

tain conditions for the benefit of asuperannuation fund.

A Hundred years Aflod.Reviewing some famous ships that

fly the British flag, a London papertells anew the story of the fight in

"RACE

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FROM PARIS TO BERLIN.cast groundward, hair streaming Inthe wind, and his motor puffing likemad under him. He is so accustomedto these hazardous trips that he i3 per- -xectiy cool wciie traveling over acountry road at express train speed. A

, second r ice may be run.

the rents, if anything, will be lowerIt is estimated that from 7 to 10 pelcent interest will be cleared oa thes.1improved tenements.

he was still under 20. He next went t5eollfge. studied theology, took uchurch and preached with great suc- -

cess for several years. Oddly enou thj

his health was not so robust in th4pulpit as in the mill, and he gave unhis charge to return to his trade, to!which he has since devoted himself. IHwas first elected president of thiAmalgamated Association at its con- -

vention in Cincinnati.

Lincoln and John Uro'zun.A Kan.-a-s paper says an old citizen,

of that state attended a meeting h Idat Atchison In 1S."9 at which Mr. Lin-

coln made a speech. Acco din1? to th'sold citizen, some one in the audienceasked. "How about John B whohad been hang'd a few days before,to which Mr. Lincoln repli d: "Hewas hanged and he deserved it. I

don't know much about Brown's his-tory in Kansas, but John B-o- vio-

lated the laws of his country, aidGovernor Wise did right in hanginghim."

Whether Mr. Lincoln ac'ua'ly st'dthis, it is Impossible to d e'de. Thememories cf old men plsy them sadtricks sometimes. They s ncere'y be-

lieve often that they h a d at firsthand what they may have rd atsecond hand, or may not have rd

nt all. But whatever Mr. Lin. oln mayhave said or thought of th exeeiijonof John Brown, he certainly

of what John Brown d'd atHarper's Ferry. Chicago Tribune.

The Rev. Edward S. Tead, pastorof Prospect Hill Congregation!church, Sorr.erviile. Mass., has beenelected secretary of the CongregationalEducational society in Boston, to suc-

ceed the Rev. Charles O. Day, the ne-v- .

president of Andover Theological Sem-

inary.

General Lew Wallace is at work up-

on his autobiography. He m-- de a tripto Kentucky recently to confer withsome veterans on certain features ofthe battle of Shiloh which will be in-

cluded In the work.

which four British vessels overcameand captured the water-logge- d frigatePresident, commanded by CaptainStephen Decatur. The London paperadds the Interesting information thatthe President, after nearly a centurvof service in war and peace. Is stilluseful as a "drill ship of the fourthclass for the royal naval reserve inthe southwest India dock basin, where

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she Lejs lain for a cuarter of a century,though very few Inndoners have seen

her" The illustration given herewithshows the famous old fighting ship a

she appears in her last days.

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