Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 14, 1892, Page 16

THE OMAHA DAILY BE SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1892--SIXTEEN PAGES. e —————————————SES S e L —— e | “DAKE SOMEDINGS MIT ME" ROUND ABOUT GIBRALTAR @lowing Pictures of the Famons Fortress and Historio Surronndings, ''THE NORTHERN PILLAR OF HERCULES" An Embattled Mountain of Rock and the Carlous Little City That les at Its Base — Wake. man's Letter, [Copyrighted 1892.] JINRALTAR, Jan, 20,—|Correspondence of Tite Bre.|—1 believo that one of the great- est glories of intelligent Americanism lies in the fact that, as a people, we are receptive of reasonable and just ideas, and are suscepti- ble of conversion from hereditary prejudice and the mean and little spirit of hatred and envy toward another nation because of any superiority of policy or possession it may be groat enough to pursue or enjoy. This couviction came to me more over- whelemingly than ever before as wo stoamed away from the land of the Moors and took our way across the strait toward the city and Rock of Gibraltar, Upon this Northern Pil- lar of Hercules the English flag has floated for 188 years. And I am glad of it; glad tnat Sir George Rooke, in the war of succession, was cunning and brave enough to take it; that iron hearted Elliott in the four years’ soige was soldier enough to hold it against the combined efforts of France and Spai and that all the powars of Latin and Mussel- man arms und diplomacy, with the cowardly machinations of English traitors at home, have never availed to hand over this key of the whole Levant to Spanish or other posses- 810N or retrogression; because: Just so long as England holds Gibraltarthe trade of the Mediterranean and tho east is peacefully open not only to England but to every nation of the earth with spirit enough to compete for it; ana North America,whose English speaking and thinking people now wiow outnumber those of the mo therland, in common with Great Britam, in trade, in travel and in all those things tending to- wards the world’s enlightenme:t and pro- gross, will enjoy through England’s dogged possession of Gibraltar, a common guarantee of security and respect. 1f, as I have done, you will tramp through the provinces of France; wander afoot_from Fidisterro by Valladolid to Madrid and thence across the Spanish Sierras to Barce- lona aud the sea; know Portugal from Lisbon to the Mediterranean gates;, idle among the peasants and shepherds of Italy from the Pyrences%o re- motest Apulian shores; tramp from Sicilian Cantania over old /tna to fair Palermo; and then, 1 Algiers and Morocco, come closé enough to the people to know the repulsive nature and life of the Arab and Moor; you will never havo to learn from any other source this true thing—that, av heart ana as a whoie, the Liatin races whather in southern Burope or 1n South America, possess as deep and lasting a hereditary hatred of all who own and speak the Euglish tongue as fade- lessly fires the Moslem heait in its fanatical dream of sometime everywhere planting the crescent above the cross. Differ as grievously as Americans may with Englishmen regarding the justico or injustice of this or that, on these large lines of tremendous import we cannot but remain one and indissoluble. Looking out of the history of the centuries that were, and from among the possibilities of the centuries to come, the mighty Rock and its afmament fades from sight as a mere stubbornly held possession and menace. Its mythic name, the Pillar of Hercules, merges into the Pil- lar of Peace. And Gibraltar in the possession of the English speaking and Christian living race will remain the hostage of Christian civ- ilization for all vime to-come. True Grandeur. All one’s preconceived notions of Gibraltar fall far short, I think, of conveying its true grandeur and impressiveness, From what- ever direction you approach it—from the westward over the Atlantic from the Med- iorranean on tho east, from ‘Pangier in Africa across the strait, or {rom the Spanish sierrus to the north—it has always the seem- ing of a majosic mountain of stone rising sheer out of the blue of the sea. As weap- roached it, some straggling clouds which ad formed among the peaks of the Spanish sierras, carried by northern winds, were stretched in thin folds across its upper heights. Thoy gave the huge rock alternate Dbars of ebony shadow and golden light, and, shutting its top altogether from sight, em- phasized tho impression of a mysterious alti- tude. Even when one has landed, the easiest af- fair of its kind in all Kurope, as Gibraltar is a free port, this impression is not dispelled, The white city, a pile of huddled terraces at the water's edge at the ouly spot on all Gibraltar where habitations could be patched 1iko nests of birds upon its ragged sides, 15 buta thin line of human resortupon and abovo the shore. Wherover the eye rests is sea benoath, and rock above; not very pre- cipitous on the city side, yet rising in es- carped height on height, until one feels cer- tain thut inaccessible heights are shut from sight beyond. My own first 1mpulse, as I believe must be that of all first visitors here, was to mount its ulmost crag and study its topography with my own eyes, while feast- lng upon the matchless panorama thus afforded. In two hours time, including the dignified delay requived tu the issuance of a permit by the military secretary, in Gun- ner’s lane, I stood alongside the signal tower, El Hacho, from which, it is said, with a powerful glass the bay of Biscay can be seen, while the valley in which is built the capital of Morocco, the city of Fez, is plaioly discerned. . Impregnable Gibraltar upon which one now stands is the outjutting promontory of a long, narrow strip of laud and rock, forming poninsula on the eastern shore of the bay of Gibraltar, or Algeciras, as it is sometimes called, Tho latter is shaped like a horse- shoe, open to the south, its western shore extromity terminating in Cabrita Point, This bay is perhaps eight milos long from north to south, and five miles broad from east to west, The peninsula terminating in_the rock, slopes gradually down from the Spanish mountains 10 the Spauish lines, just north of the ruins of the old Spanish fortifications, and betw een this and the Rock is what is known as neu- tral ground, a flat sandy reach, a mile and a half in length, Upon this, close to the Rocis, are the English race course, the drill ground and the Jewish and the garrison cemeteries. The narrow strip counecting Gibraltar with the mainland has every appearance of huying been beueath the waves atno remoe date, and the KEnglish have rendered Gibraltal unassailable by a land force through engi- veoring contrivarces by which the entire strip could in an instant "be blown to powder and covered by the sea. Cannon Upon Every Crag, At the southern end of this sand-covered bed of mines tho Rock rises almost perpendi- sularly for over 1,400 feet. Many fancy its coutour resembles a lion couchant, with its bead reared aloft to the morth and towards Spain, It is grand snough without the simile; breaking away in lessening crags to the south aud ain confronting Africa with lesser but ncne the less insurmountable of stone, out whose base the sea ceaselassly roars aud lashes, flinging the spume and spray to tremendous heights among the crags of Buropa point, It s three miles from it, landward face of rock to its seaward front of stone, The average width of the buge mono- lith is three-fourths of amile. The Rocks practically sea-encircled, 1 complotely girded av its base with cannon. Cannon protrude from inoumerable bastions and outworks from base to peak. Cannon, hun- dreds of them, are behind port holes cut from thesolid rock, in hewn chawbers be- neath the mountain, ter on tier aud miles 1o length, Cannon &re upon every crag aud precipice, upon its very peaks. It is a stu pendous mountain of stone out of whose sides at every angle can be poured more awful destruction than ever issued from the very craters of Atna and Vesuvius, The Lone Fishermaun, Barring the wmru-‘bly few cannon upon the heights it is all peaceful enough in ap pearance where you stand beside the signal station, Pretty foot and donkey paths wind to shaded roadways below. Over to the sast the Rock falls sheer 1400 feet to the Mediterranean. Away down there like a Une of sea foam and driftwood cast upon & thread of shingly shore beneath gray precipices, ltes littlo Catalan, the lonesomest and most picturesque fishiug-village i all Europe. It is said some Genoese flshermen wore shipwrecked bere, and fastenea to the rocks like things of the sea, a thousand or so years ago. Sometimes great columas of stone, falling from a quarter of a mile above thes crash through their white shells of houses and grind a score of souls into tho fliaty shore. The thunders of seige have no terrors for them. They canunot be dislodged. ~Aund they remain there the only things of life on Gibraltar's Mediterranean shore. Just opposite the “Northern Pinnacle,” on the westeru shore, the Olu Mole or break water extends 1,100 feet into the bay. Just ono-half the distance from this to Kuropa Point the New Mole has been pushed into the sca nearly 1,000 feet. Herels safe anchor ago for the entire merchant and vattle ships of Great Britain. At any time several hun- dred craft of all nations ‘may be scen in the Bay of Gibraltar; while converging or di- verging toward and from the uarrow strait dividing two continents, are cver In view stately processions of the trade argosies of the world; some under sails whito as sea- guli’s wings, and some trailing bohind their huge funnels what from your dizzy height seom like delicately penciled fronds of shadow upon the radiant water's biue. A Huge Moorish Tower, Down there betweed the two moles you can seo the flat roofs of* the city crouching be- neat the crags. At its northern ond, just abreast of the Old Mole,and well up the moun- tainside, which on the west is less precipi- tous than elsewhere, stands a buge Moorish tower, just 1,250 years old, built by the first Moorish invaders, and the 'most ancient per- fectly preserved relic of Moslem rule in Spain. It is almost entire in its massive strength, though honeycombed by innumer- able cannon balls: while its great Tower of Homage is now a powder magazine, while modern barracks and officers’ quarters with pleasant gardens fill the area within 1ts an- cient walls. i To the south,Africa seems pbut a step across a gleaming pool. To the east there is only the vast Mediterranean, dotted with many strange and curious craft. To the west, the sight ranges over a beautiful and picturesquoe harbor scene, with every manner of ship that floats, from the leviathan man-of-war to the Iateen sailed felucca, including a half dozen American schoorers and barks with their shapely hulls and slender BDArS, and rests beyond the waters of the bay upon the circling Spanish shore, There is Cabrita Point, darkening grimly against a backeround of flame wheze the sett'ng sun floods ihe entrance from the Atlantic, Around to the northwest Algeciras ghostiike lifts through the purpling pail. To the north a_score of villas and villages pink or white as the light and shadows changefully play upon them, like the ivory beds of a rosary, against of aloes and masses of vineyards: the whole with a vackground of villowy foothill, dark, then blue, then purple, and finally an opaline misty dream where tha peaks of the Spanish sierras blend with the far horizon of the north, Where the Divine Bull Rested, All this is what one can see at§kl Hacho upon the heights of Gibraltar; but what wraiths of history mythic and real, ciowd from the past uvon the wondrous scene! This spot where you st nd, and towering Apes’ Hill across the strait in Africa, where the olden Pillars of Hercules. Down be- neath vou at Europa Point is the very spot where the divine bull rested from his flight with Kurops, to whom the coutinent owes its name, Just across the strait, at Ceuta, the traitorous Count Julian, outlaw from Broderick's licentious Toledo court,first betrayed Spain to the Moslems. The result- ant invasion under command of Tarek Ibn Zeyad, then chief of the garrison of Tangier, gave to the rock the name, Gibel-ul-Tarek, mountain of Tarek, corrupted to the Gib- raltar of today. Then for 700 years it was a mount of death and glory for Spaniard und Moor 1o theiwr desperate contentions; whilo the treasure and lives it hus cost since first the cross of St. George waved above it, in 1704, would en- rich and people a kingdom. One knows anew with startling clearness the history of European and Moslem struggles in the mus- ings and memories of such a spot. But the sunset gun has belched its flame aud thunder toward the red Atlantic’s breas! the lights twinkle from the Spanish villages around the bay and, circling to the mountain’s base bring a Tosy glow to city and harbor craft beneath. Yon wend your way downward to the ter- raccd town past briskly moving sentinels crisp with duty and challenges, leaving the grim mountain top bebird, melodious with bugle notes echoing and’ reechoing their songful mimicry of war from harborside to darkened clefts of bleak and seried heights, A Spot of Rare Intercst, If Gibraltar were not a unique and the most gigantic fortress in the world, it would still be a spot of rarest interest and charm to the traveler. The scenic beauties from any portion of the embattled mountain are not surpassed in the whole 2,000 miles’ reach of the Meditterranean, Two continents and threo kingdoms are liere within _cannon shot of wherever you may stand. The rides and drives into the most luxuriant and fruitful portion of southern Spain, all within a day’s journoy, bring withiu observation and” enjoyment ev- ery feature of high or low Spanish life which could be studied 1n u journey from France to Portugal. And then the Rock and city of Gibraltar thomselves, contrary to prevalent notions, are each in their way wonderful and winsome studies of stili and human life. 7The botanist can find upon the sides of this one rock over 500 distinct species of vegetable life in flow- er, shrub, lichen, moss and vine. The tiny gardens are ablaze even in winter with gor- geous color and bloom. Far up the heights the wallea and winding roadways are bor- derea with masses of green and blossom. The washerwomen dry their clothos on hedges of geranium. The prickly pear and cactus grow to enormous size. The aloe rears its central shoots, with lateral branch- es, like spears of gigantic asparagus. -Huge oleanders glow above every terraced garden wall. The night blooming cerus grows in splondid luxuriance, resembling mammoth water lilies with delicate anthers of gold, Everywhere with leaves of glossy green, flowers of bridal white and fruit of gold, the orange tree hinting of tropjcal clime, bestows its welcowe shade and delicate scents, wanton in the prodigality with which all pature here seems to rival historic inter- est and grand, surpassing scene, A Jumble of Habltations, And of the cityf It has 20,000 souls exclu- sive of the 5,000 to 6,000 officers and men of the garrison. Terrace on terrace it throads along the wator's edge. 1t is & mass of arch- ways, stairs, subterranean thoroughfares, spiral passages, viaducts, vaulung footways, narrow vistas broken by quaintest corners, anglos, balcouios, und roofs, and altogether the strangest most curious and winsome jumble of humun babitations and thorough- fares men ever built to shelter men and trade. Thev of the folk of Gibraltar: were you to get together from all Spanish cities their most characteistic lowly; bring from Genoa aid Naples their most pictur- esque fishermen; bunt Tangier and Fez for weirdest Berber, Kahbayle, Moor and Jew; and draguet the entire Mediterranean shoals for waterside folk that looked the fisher, smuggler and pirate in one; and thread among all these the scarlet and blue of thou- sands of the soldiery and artillerymen of the great fortress, you would still huve a no more varied, changeful, weird and colorful scene than at any hour of any duy your eyes may behold, from the Almeda garaen below the Moorish tower, down throvgh the Waterport street, in this Moorish built, Spanish fin- ished - and English held olden fortress town. Epcan L, WAKEMAN, MASC £, Low crown aund wide brim derbys are a &0, Spring styles will be put on the market this week. In colors, browns hold tbe lead, with a £00d prospect that mwixtures, both 1 stiff and soft hats, will be popular, ‘The fate of cassimeres may be easily de- termined in advance, when one remembers that this is @ campaign year, aud secs the preparations that are belng made to product cawpaign plugsjby the million, Tle taper round crown derby is to be a popular shape. The Kossmore of soma years BgO, that had an @corn shaped crown with wide brim and beayy roll, had & phenomenal run, and the present tendency aud style is in that direction, The soft crown, stff brim hat is meeting with & large sale, particularly in the west. The curled brim bhas the preference, but & great many flat brims are selling, and no oubt will” be popular in light colors, for, with all its faults, this is & very attractive style of hat to many rouu% meu, and has & rakish air thut is irresistible, Some Omaha Canines That Have an Excuse for Their Existence. RECORDS OF SOME OF THE BEAUTIES. St. Bernards That Have Captured Prizes— Great Danes and Mastiffs—Good Hanters Searce—Dogs That You t Every Day, Curs of the “yaller” variety are as numer. ous in Omahu as elsewhere, and at all timos and nearly all piaces they are sufficiently ob trusive to insure for themselves all the rec- ognition and consideration that they may de- sire, unfavorable though it may be. On the other hand their well bred brothers, the very cream, as it were, of canine society,are com- paratively lost sight of, sumply because they stay at home, giving their caraful and undi vided attention tothe responsibilities de- volving upon them, and the full enjoyment of the care aud attention lavished upon them by their masters. Notwithstanding the fact that glimpses of these more valuable animals are not to be ob- tained every aay, all who have attended tho local bench shows know that there aro a number of highly bred dogs owned in this city, and, thanks to the interest and enthus- insm of the gentlemen who constitute the Omaha Kennel club, the number is con- stantly increasing and dog fancying is be- coming as popular as it deserves. St. Bernards, A balo of romance and religion hovers over the majestic St. Bernard, dating back 10 the time when Bernard de Menthon es- tablished a hospice on the summit of the Alps for the purpose of sheltering the poor dwellers of the valleys who crossed over the mountains on the approach of winter. 'Tho monks living on the snoweclad summits of the Alps still carry out the benevolent 1nten- tions of the founder, and to this day the brothers of that order accompanied by some of their famous dogs will meet the traveler and accompany him over the mountains, In the hospice will be found a picture of St. Bernard and his dog. The animal which the good old monk had ereatly resembles the bloodhound and has little to connect im with the recognized typical specimens of today. After the great avalanche of firty yoars ago ia which the monke lost nearly overy vauablo dog at the hospice, tho Engiish people who had previously pur- chased somo of the finest commenced the breeding of this class, and to those early breeders the world is indebted for the pres- gnl magnificent specimen of the St. Bernard og. 1n Omaha there aroc quite a number of well hred dogs of this class whose pedigrees go clear back to the English breeders. Charles Ogden owns a St. Bernard sired by Champion Victor Josoph of Belle- ville, ©., and damed by Fern- wood Jewel. This puppy s 5 months old, weighs nearly 100 pounds and measures five feet from tip of head to end of tail. He has the white blaze. dark shadings and the perfect tuwny color. Mr. Ogden prizes this pup very highly and expects that he will be a great dog some day. Mrs. J. B, Glick has a puppy out of Lady Roxano of the Boston Kennel club, sired by the famous English Falko IL, with the Champion Victor Joseph as grandfather. Lady Vinette is only 4 months old, but tips the Scale at sixty pounds and stands twenty— one inches at the shoulder. She has all the marks of a pure bred dog and will no doubt b entered in the puppy class at the coming bench show. Mr. C. W. Caulfield of South Thirty- second streets owns Lady Roxano, and a fine dog she is. Lady Koxano was bred in Boston and has an unbroken pedigree back for five generations, She stands thirty inches at the snoulder and weighs 165 pounds, 1s big boned and sound muscle and has a large head and 1ntelligent eve. Miss Jennie McClelland is often se3n upon the stroets followed by & great tawny and white St. Bernard which is greatly admired by all lovers of dogs. This animul was bred in New York and is a very valuable one. Its markings are nearly perfect and considering its age, nine months, is of rather remarkable size. Count Leo is another grand specimen of the monarch of the Alvs andis owuaed by Hon. Jobn A, McShane. This dog is of the Melrose strain and was born in Boston. 1t 1s stated that Mr. McShane paid $200 for him before his eyes were open, M., George A, Joslyn ownsa brother to Count Leo which is a very large and hand- some specimen of the breéd. Mr. k. Rowley, president of the Home In- vestment company, has a splendid St. Bor- nard which is well bred and finely marked and a very intelligent animal, A year ago Mr. Seers of New York pur- chased the noted Sir Bedivere, from T. H. Green of Wallasey, Cheshire, England, for 6,500 cash. This great dog was at once placed in the stud and Las produced some of the finest St. Bernard dogs now in this cour. try. F. E. Hewitt of the Van Cott Jawelrv com- pauy is the fortunate possessor of Bediver- ina, & six months old pup, sired by Sir Bedi- vere and out of Guess Noble. This promising animal weighs 115 pounds, has the perfect Bedivere markings and would bring a good round sum on the market any day. Mr. Hewitt also owns Hector, & 7 months old pup by Leo Barry. Hector tips the scales at 118 pounds. Besides these two splendid St. Bernards, Mr. Hewitt owns a couple of fine Italian greyhounds which he cousiders very valu- able animals, lersr T, M&Cormick of the Athletic club owns Queen, a full grown St. Bernard, and naturally is' very proud uof her majesty. Queen weighs about 125 pounds and stands twenty-seven inches at the shoulder. Outside of those mentioned there are a number of pedigreed St. Bernards whose owners have neglected to have them prop- erly registored. Engli iy, It is only within comparatively recont years that the merits und rare qualities of that noblest of dogs—the English masuff,— have become at all widely known in this country, At any rate the mastiff of today is classed the princo of watch dogs, and as he becomes better known his usefuiness is more appreciated. The mastiff is generally con- cedod to be a gentleman among dogs. Ho is quiet, selfpossessed and dignitied in manner, and is a true, faithful and affectionate friend. The reputation of the mastiff for docility and gentleness has in his native land been vory great. Judging from observation it will o equally as great in this country, for the dog as bred here seems to have all the ancient characteristics. There may be some- thing of sternness, or solemn dignity in the mustiff, but nothing of ill-temper. Oumaha has produced some really wonder- ful dogs of this strain and the local breeders of this class certaiuly have reason to be roud of their work. Among the foremost overs and breeders of the KEnglish mastiff was the late Dr. G. B. Avers, The doctor @ave a great deal of attention to his dogs and raised some of the best ones in the country today, To the mastiff line, Edric, owned by Clinton N. Powell and Mrs. Dr. Ayors 1s probably the best known aud best bred dog in Omaha. Mr. Powell claims that Edric is one of the four greatest mastiffs in the United States, When in condition this dog weighs from 100 to 200 pounds, is 20 inches high at the shoulder and })‘erleu w color., There are not over a halfidozen or so reallyjwell bred registered English mastiffs in the city. The most promising dog of that cluss just now is Mrs. Dr, Ayers’ Wellington, which took second prize at the recent Chicago bench show. Wellington is onl{ 13 months olg, but is of great size, good color, aad has all the points which go to make up & champion mastiff, Mr. Powell relates two or three ver amusing anecdotes regarding one of his 4-moutks old mastiff puppies. According to the story, this particular young watch dog was loose in the yara one day not long ago, when the grocery boy jumped over the back fence. This was something out of the ordi- nary and the pup diduo’t like it. He started for the bo_\'\u:vhn turued to run, but reached PUPS OF PROUD PEDIGREE. | the fence about a quarter of an lnch too late. The pup bad a sample of the boy’s blue jeans in his mouth, which he complaceutly con-| veyed to the house and laid down ou the stéps for the family to inspect. After that the young man wewd around by the front Rate. Bonnie Comedy ise another splendid speci men of this race smd is ownod by K. L. Marston of the IPselic Express company This animal was sived by the famous Edwy and damed by Dr. Ayers' llford Comody. She is a fine dog nediweighs about 150 pounds when in condition, amd stands twenty-eight inches high at the shisuldor. Hill's Belle, a vory promising pup, is also owned by Mr. Marston. Theve are quite a so-cailed English mastiffs in the whose ownors Have pmd a price for themn but their pedigree fect, hence they canet be regis American Kennel club. The Great Dane, The Great Dane is not very well repre sonted here, although tho Dane is a fine and very valvable dog. There has always been arivalry between the English mastiff and the Dane and the lovers ot the former have succeeded to a great, oxtent in bringiug the Dane iato bad odor. The English breedors claim that Dunes always grow treacherous with age and consequently are not reliavle as house dogs. Howover, there are several Great Danes owned in' the city which cost consiverable money and are greatly ndmired by their owners. W, H. McCord purchased tho Great Dane, Thenos, in Chicizo some time ago and is well pleasod with the animal, ‘Thenos was bred 1n Chicago from imported Danes and is a fine specimen of that breed, Ho weighs about 150 pounds and_stands 8014 inches at the left shoulder. Mr. McCord also owns a fox terricr of the Brockhurst- Rally strain which he prizes very highly. Nauon, owned by Charles Sabin, 16 probably the finest Great Dane in the western coun- try. She is by Major, out ot Juno, and measured by the stick stands 83!{ inches at the shoulder, which is remarkably tall for a femalo. John Morrison has a full grown Dane sired by Pluto and damed by Nanette; 160 pounds is the usual weight of this dog. Good Hunting Dogs Scarce, Really good padigread, registered hunting dogs are scarce in Omana. There are quite a number of hunters who do fine field work, but their pedigroes have been neglected and 1n breeding the stock has been allowed to rua down, M. C. Peters has a rogistered Gladstono setter. Blanche Kennedy owns a couplo of prizo dozs. Ope is @ red [rish setter and the other a hiver colored pointer, Thero is a movement on foot among the ‘ocal sportsmen to commence the breeding of good hunting dogs and before another year there will probably be a number of zood bird dogs here. Love Me—Love My Dog. T. K. Sudborough is often soen on the stroots followed by two massive, well be huved Newfoundland dogs. C. W. Waterman of the Union Pacific de- lights 1n bull terriers, and has a fiuo kennel devoted exclusively to the breeding of this class of dogs. John Short breeds bengles and thinks they are the only dogs in the world. President Ames of the Athletiz club has a fine fox terrier which he brought from Eng- land and thinks thero is nothing like it this side of New York. Secretary Cadagan of the Omaha Kennel club has & nico lot of bull terricrs and claims that his prize dog_is the best bred one of its kind in the United States. He also hasa fine mastiff ‘pup sired by Edric. William Meldrum has & couple of im- ported Blenheim spaniels which are greatly admired and are vory. valuable. O Conductor Charles Norton of the k'remont, Elkhorn & Missour: Valiey railway, admiros the English mastff and at present has a splendid specimen of that breed. Guorge W. Loomis of the B. & M. runs to Irisn setters and tas & couple of dogs which would be a credit to any bench show. Frank Muir delights in well bred fox ter- riors and owns one now which has a good English pedigree. J. 0. Selden is the proud possessor of a dark red, split nose pointer pup, which is considered one of the est of its kind in the state. of city good number INDUSTREAL POINTS, A glasp combine ls-announced. A company in Ssehaffhausen, Switzerland, produces nearly two,pounds of pure alumi- num for §1.25. ~ A year ago it was A recont English iuvention is a screw pro- peller in which the blades can be adjusted for manceuvring or can be feathered for run- ning under sail. It is said that three-quarters of the entire manufacturing capital of the United States, or #5,000,000,000, ‘is directly or inairectly based upon patents, In calming the ocean by means of ofl, it has been found that petroleum aud mineral oils in general aro_inadequate for the pur- pose, and that train oil is the most effective. There is no machinery in the Sierra Leone islands except tho sewing muchine. Tho colony is 103 years old and contains 50,000 people without ‘a sawmill or any other kind of a mill to do any kind of woodwork. Mwegontent with plauuing an underground railway? one of Berlin's civil engineers plans underground streets. They are to be covered with a close grating of steel, well supported, which admits air, light and rain, and over which the usual strest trafiic is carried on. ‘The cotton mills of ¢Uldham, England, tad oue of the hardest vears in their experience last year. The proiits of ninety-three com- panies, reporting for 1891, amounted to only $34,000, against profits of $1,850,000 for the yeur before, The main cause of this great dopreciation in profits was the constantly falling price of covton, which resulted in the correspondizg drop in the price of the manu- factured products, At the newly completed plant of the West Superior Iron and Steel company at Milwau- kee last week, tho converters turned out the first heat of steel, which was immediately rolled into plates and _dedicated to use in the construction of the World's fair passenger whaleback, in thepresence of an enthusiastic crowd of spectators, This is the first steel cast in Wisconsin, and probably in the north- west outside of Chicago, The working force will immedintely be ncreased to 8,000 mon, and the market is assured for the full pro- duct of the plant. The manufacture of steel rails will bo begun at once. The mills are the largest in the west outside of Chicago. The pig iron production in the United States for 1801 was 8,279,870 tons of 2,240 pounds, says the American Iron and Steel association in its last report. This is a de- creaso of 422,833 gross tons from the produc- tion of 1590, or over 10 per cent. This de- crease was in the first half of 1501, as the production of the second half was greater than either half of 1890. The stocks of pig iron 1n the bands of manufacturers and unsold on December 81, 1891, amounted to 605,021 gross tons. The amount for December 81, 1890, was 0061,521 gross tons, The pro- duction of Bessemer stoel rails in 131 was 1,218,874 gross tous, a decremse of 577,615 gross tons from the production of 1890, e L ELECTRIWAL NOT. A Moscow chemist has discovered that the white popiar tree 18 natural lightning rod. T'he Belgian wowegnment will, after Jan- uary 1, 1803, resume: the working of ali the telephone lines in thag country. The use of elecireaty as a means of illumi- nation in churches .in England has been found to increase the attendance in the even- ings to & marked degaee. ‘Among the recontapplications of electricity is one in which an electric device gives warning of a hot beaying on shafting. When the bearing reaches; & certain temperature, a mercury contact automatically closes the cir- cuit, and riugs a bell. An lilinois inventon has discovered that in- candescent lamp fillnents possessing long life with high incandescence can be produced from the roots of aeertain plant commonly known as the “ricaplaat,” a native of trop- ical countries. 2'heimoot of the plant is re- markably dense and free from pores. The lighting of the tallest peaw of Mount | pounding the table with tbhe poker with Washiugton by electricity will make an 1n- teresting spectacle, since it will be the high- est point on the surface of the giobe thus sot aglow. If there is ever to be communication with other worlds it_may be the langLage of electricity speaking from the mountain peak. The maragement of the Longdon Times has utilized the telephone in a unique way. Tele phone wires have been been lala in the un- dergrouud raillway tunnel between the com posing room in Printing-House square and the Parliamentary reporters’ gallery in the Honse of Commons. A copy-reader placed at the telephone reads the steuographic *‘turns’ from the uote book as fast as it is possiole for the compositors to take them on their type-setting machines in the Times building, a mile and a hulf away. Its great advantage becomes apparent when the factis cousidered that the Times is able,by adopting it, to print in time for the 5 &.m. newspaper trains going to all points of the United Kingdom the whole of the debates, which are cften con- tinued until a.m. Story of a Frontier Trial With a Barrel Attachment, FOR A CONSPIRACY THE DRINKS How a Thirsty Crowd Hoaxed a Justice of tently Wit the ch of a Knox arncter, Oae of tho familiar figures to be seon about the streots of Creighton, up in Knox county, answores to tho cuphoneous cognomen of Sevastian Zepf, For nearly twenty years he has been an honored resident and a fre- quenter of the village. The peculiar expres sion of his face aud the odd shape of his fig uro has always attracted the attention of oven the loast observant, and, as a conse- quonce,all whoare atjall familiar with Creigh- ton personages know Zepf. Nuture, in one of her playful moods, per- haps, endowed Zepf with a singular counte- nance. Directly across his face, just below the eves, runs a deep depression, as though when an infant a cylinder bar had been pressed heavily acros it until the pliable bones had formed themselves in 1ts accommo tion. Above the brow protrudes, with heavy eyebrows, over two small but sharp gray oyes, while below the end of his nose sticks straight out like a little round lump of red frost-bitten flesh, and where the bridge of his nose should be the depression leaves it on a level with his sunken cheeks. His head is crowned with a bushy crop of light, yellowish hair and a thick growth of closely curling reddish yel- low whiskers adorn the lower partof his face. The rheumatism, or some similar ail- ment has drawa his hond down to his shoul- der on one side and left his neck stiff, so that he turns it with an odd motion. When walking these infirmities give him a peculiar rolling motion suggesting the idea that all the joints of his limbs were of the ball and sockot nature. Zept located hove in tho early sottlement, when the Brace colony planted the first out- posts of what is now a most populous and prosperous _community, aud filed upon one of the most fertile tracts of land in the Bazlo valle, almost a mile from where Creighton now stands, and in the years which have followed by ectnomy and thrift he has built about him a fine homestead and 1s considered as substan- ual and as reliable a farmer as can be found in the country about. Zept, as his name indicates, is a German, and at’ the time had been here scarcely long enough to bocome sufficlently acqusinted with the language to do business, when ho was selected as justice o f the peace and be- came the first magistrate of the new colon: At tho time Zept kept a small stock of gro. cories ana such provisions as the meagro wants of bis neighbors demanded, and in ad- dition to his other stores, in one corner of the room stood & barrel of whisky, from the salo of which be realized not a little profit. Monocy was uot very plentiful in the new settlement and alinost anything that had a somblance of valdity as a claim passed current at his store, aud in the course of traffic Zepf found it con- venient as well as lucrative to take assign ments of claims for witness fees, ete,, in ex- change for what he had to seil, veimbursing himself whon the amounts were paid into court. About a mile east of Zepf lived a great wag, afterwards county clerk of Knox county, and now recciver of the United States land ofice at O'Neill, Hon. A. L. Towle, and in the newly laid out but scarcely occupied town of Creighton living with his parents, and then quite a young mau, was anothar irrepressible personage, afterward fairly well known to Noeoraska politicians and others. Hon. Miner W. Bruce, once pri- vate secretary Lo General Van Wyck, while he was United States senator, and later reg- ister of the land office while 1t was located at Niobrara, One night, mnot loug after ZopP’s becoming justice, these two worthies with a number of others ware sitting in the postoflice, then kent by a brother of Miner’s, when the subject of the new justice of .tho veace and s barrel of whisky became the theme of the conversation and how to get possession of some of the lat- ter at the expense of the former be- came a question upon the solution of which all minds were bent. After some discussion Towle unfolded to his companions a great scheme. One of the party,a stranger to Zepf, should be arrested; a great. trial was 0 be held before his honor, and the witness fees. juror foes, ete., exchanged for the con- tents of the coveted barrel in the corner. So 1t was arranged that onc of their num- ber, a young fellow who had just located upon & claim in & _ north- westerly direction should be the prisoner. Bruce was to yrosecute and Towle defend him, the others numbering adozen or more were taken as witnesses, Before reaching Zept’s house the remainder of the community who could be trusted were lot into the scheme and when Zepf opened his dvors to his tirst criminal case he found himself confronted by fully a score of excited citizens surrounding the dejected looking oner. gesticulating forcibly and talking of their voices. Zopt had never even seen & criminal case tried and had not the slightest idea of the necessary preliminsries. No complaint was made except the verbal statements of adozen persops all talking av once and the idea never occurred to the magistrate to issue & warrant and of course none was asked for. The stories pro and con about the alleged crime. which were launched at the magistrate from all sources, greatly frustrated the gentleman and in awe-stricken tones he asked: “Do the shentlemens waut a chowry "’ The required six took seats and no ques- tions were asked, the justice forgetting to administer the regulation oath i the excite- ment. Then tho row commevced. Every- body talked at once and at bis highest key. 1t was little short of miraculous to Zep! how 50 many people had been eye-witnessos to the crime, which as yet had not oeen mado sufticiently clear to him to entirely under- stand it, but he was assured that he was about to preside over the most important criminal trial ever held in the state. Amidst the hubub and wrangle Miner Bruce Bsuggested to the court, in his most wily and confidential manuer, that quiet could only be restorod by treating the crowd and then the case could be oponed. The court was begiuning to get anxious and not a little nervous, aud he caught readily at the suggestion, ‘The almost angry discussions about bhim had not tended Lo allay his anxioty, and jumping ot what seemed to be a sofution, he grasped an iron stove poker, and rapping on a long pwo table near him exclaimed: ‘‘Shentiemens! Snen- tlemens! We now haf orders! Take some- tings mit me!" The - whole crowd liguidated and the fun opened, For four or five hours the pandemonium was broken only when some witness or juryman offered 10 cash up bis fees for whisky. About 2 o'clock ir the morning the trial reached its heigbt. Two jurorsgwere quar- reling over the merits of the case on one side of the room and two witnesses having a sham battle on the other side over coutra- dictions in their testimony. In the middle of the room stood Towle, his sonorous voice pitched to its highest key, dopicting in his most eloquent and persuasive manner, the misfortunes of his poor client, the tears run- ning down is cheeks, while the judge was might and main, the perspiration streawing from s face aud yelling at the top of his voice for “Order!" Unce more the wiley Bruce worked the ssuggestion’ upon the desrerato magistrato and again it offered the straw at which to cluteh to bis mind, ana increasing the fre- quency und severity of his strokes he yelled: “Haf sometings mit we, shentlemeu: Haf sometings mit we!” > “Phe effect, as upon all such occasions, was magical, but when the crowd had been served, lo! it was discovered that the prisoner was missing and Iawyers, witnesses, jurymen and spectators made & wild break for the door to capture bim. Zepf was really glad of the breathing spell, but fore morning came and he still sat alone waiting for their return he ‘‘smelt a mice." He nevér founa out though for several days that tho whole trial was & boax. Zept was angry about it and chagrined at 1 tho loss of his store of whiskey for a long time, but he Isughs about it now as hearty as any of tho boys. SETH SMOCK. - ETCHINGS FROM LIFE. Tt must 6o a protty serious oceasion when Chauncey M. Depaw canuot crack a joke, Something is sure to break aown whoen those inveterate wits and story-tellors, Depew and icnoral Horace Portor, happen to got together. When the general was president of tho Wast Shore road, and whilo that rond was but little better than acorduroy arrange. meut, but chock full of menace for the Van- derbilt property, the two gontlemen hap pened to be on the same steamer going to Barope. It was very rough ono day, aud Mr. Depew had a sharp attack of the mal do mer. Ho was loaning over the ship's raiiing, contemplating the great blue dopths below and incidentaily doing uis level best to feed ull the fishes in the sea, when the goneral camo up to hum with real commiseration and said “My dear Mr. Depew, Iamv sorry. Is ther for yout Y-y-yes," nate, “What is i1 tho gencral. ‘“Ihere’s just one thine I want, an4 that's o pass over that West Shore road of yours.” is is 30 bad, and anything I can do stammered the choking mag- I'll do it at once, replied It was in one of thosé quick lunch places where the walls are covered with illuminated scripturo texts, says the New York Trioune, Said a gentleman yesterday who elanced at them: ““T'hey are not so economical of words hero as thoy wero in two churches t 1 know of. Some time azo one of these churchos was decorated and otherwise improved in- side. Amoug the many new features was a handsome hoxagonal elozk, which was placed on tho front of the organ gallory, soas to tace tho pulpit, and over it were the words 1n illuminated text: *Now is tho accopted, the clock being left to ropresent the romain’ ing word ‘time’ of the passage. Amoag the interior decorations of the other church was alarge thevmometer, over which wero tho words from the Apocalypse: “I would that thou wert neithier,’ tlic thormometer boing utilized to express the romaining words ‘cold nor hot.” These are funny examples of tho unintentlonal fun which’ good men some- times perpotrate ! W. . Eaton, onco & well-known nows- paper man in Chicago, but lately a Londoner and a promoter, has récently come back to his old home, Chicago. “Munchausen” of the Chicaco Press was talking to him a few days ago about tho gen eral obtusenoss of the averago Englishman in tho appreciation of joko, but Mr. [aton would notadmit that point. He argued that in their way thoy hada keen sense of humor und he told somo stories in illustration, one of which was concerning a_one time noted race-torse which was named very peculiar “Present Arms.” The owner of the horso was o man that no one would ever suspect of verpotrating a joke and when he was asked why ho gave his horse such o name he re plied: *Why, that's a good name. I call him that becauso he is from Martinet out of Boggar.” o« Phrases and slang terme are froquontly born of interesting episoaes, savs Harper's Bazar, as witness the following: Poter the Great, while off driving in tho noighborhood of ‘Moscow on one occasion, was soized with the pangs of hunger. **What bave wo in the hamper?’ he askea of nis aid. “Thero is but one candle loft, your majes- ty,” replied the aid, **but I think I can e chango it for a fow] at the next farmnouse, if you wish,” “Doso.” replied the czar, “for Iam fam- ished, and do not care for a light luncheon.” The aid laughed. and, as he surmised, man- aged the exchangs; but the bird was founa to be unusually tough.” “I do not think, Vosky,” said the emperor later, *1 do not think thé game was wortn the candle.” J. W. Orr, the Missouri Pacific attorney, once in the trial of & case made a statement that reflected on the integrity of the oppos- ing counsel, says the Kansas City Star. **Do You mean to insinuate_anything{" roared tho onraged uttorney. *No. I am reminded of 8 story,” replied Mr. Orr, A lotof men wero playing poker. One of the piayers was a ono.cyed man, and it was noticed that every littlo whilo'he stole a chip. At last one of tho other players pullod out a pistol, laid 1t on the table, and said: ‘I don't insihuate against any body, and 1 don't refer to any- body in particuiar or mention any names, but the next time a man steals a chip off this here table I will shoot his other eye out.’ A western congressman who has been in Washington for a month has been doing society with more or less success, says the Dotroit F'reo Press. The othor night te was talkiog to @ lady who nas agricultural ideas, and she tursed the conversation on the grain yield in various states, After mixing hor Subject up with life in Washington politi society aad other items of interest, sbo denly inquired: *How large is your corn?” Well,” he said, hesitatingly and with much confusion, ‘“since I've beén in Washington wearing tight boots and walking oa hard pavoments, it’s about As big #s a walnut, und gotting bigger every day.” Now he's won- dering what mado the lady look so peculiar and change the subject. ihe audacity of Senator Edmunds in_leot uring the supreme court on a point of law rocalls an anecdote of Henry Clay, who onco, while arguing a case before that” hugust tri- al, stopped in the middle of his speech, anced to tho beneh and helped himself to of snuff out of Mr. Justice Washing: ton's box. Then as he returned to his vlace he remaried: *I seo that your Honor still sticks to the Scoteh.” Clay was the only man of his time who could dare do such i thung, as 1Sdmunds is of bis own day. * The strictly veracious Eugene Field of the Chicago News stands behind the statement that Senator Wolcott of Colorado, after he and Senator Higgins of Delaware, had both tried witbout success to get the chairman ship of the Library committee, observed: “Higgins wants the earth—he would not be satisfied even with that; he wants the uni- verse, fenced in and labeled his very own, That is why I fear that by and by Higgins's interests and mine may possibly clash ! B EDUCATIONAL, Andrew Carnegie has the use of one of tho leadiug New York dailios for a series of at- tacks upon university education as it exists at present. President David St Jordan of the Stan- ford university in California says that ho 1s the heaviest man that ever ascended the Matterhorn, The Vassar alumuowe have appointed a specisl committee to seo that nothing but the truth 1s told in the newspapers rogarding that institution, Purdue university of Lafayotte, Ind., has just added to its laboratories a very completo engineering deparvment for experimental work in steam engineering,applied mecaanics and hydraulics, The department of suparintendence of the National Educational association holds its annual meeting in Brooklyn, N. Y., on tho 16th, 17¢h and 15th inst. ~The program em braces instructive papers and maps out profitable discussion, By the will of James Howard of St. Johns- burv, Vt., Dartmouth receives a boquest of $10,000 t0 found four scholarships. 0 heirs of Richard W. Shapleigh, who died re- cently at Brookline, Mass., have presented the college with £1,100 for a memorial fund, The death of President Edward A, Tanuer of Tlinois college, which occurred last week at lis home in Jacksonville, is widely and Qdeeply regrotted. As a preacher, teacher and college president, the Rev. Dr, Tanuer | possessed gifts of u very High order, Prof. Mitehell, graduate of an Ohio college, has accepted tho Grieco-Roman chair in the Hartford Theological seminary. 1t may be necessary to explain that the department is one devoted to wrestling with anclent church history, aua does not vecognize sthletics. Chauncey M. Dzpew has consented to pro- side over the second jolnt devate between Haryard and Yale at New Huven, probably on March 25, The Harvard orators want to argue “That Immigration to the United States Should Be Restricted” and have presented that proposition for Yale's accept- ance, ‘The funds for the Brokaw memorial field at Princeton lack but a few thousand dollars of the required amount, and this is expected to come from the students. The field will cost about #0,000. Plans for & gateway and club bouse have been finished, The new un- iversity club bhouse 1s expected to be ready for occupancy by May 1. e Tu soft hats, the now stapes in tourists haye taken well, and in some special desigus A WORLD'S FAIR SQUABBLE An Insight Into the Trouble for Which President Bakor is Responsiblo. HEIS TRYING TO RUN THE WHOLE SHOW Fred Nye Tells Everywh of the Dissatisfaction 1 at the Policy Baker—Chicago Are N rsued by Papers Creaco, Feb. 10.—[Special to Tnr Brr.] From reasons which everybody will easily understand tho press of Chicago is exceed= ingly discroet in its publications rogarding the wrangling in tho World's fair inner eirs cle, as well as upon all othor matters cons corning which publicity might bave & weak- ening or disastrous effect upon tho success of the great outerprise. lutimations have, indoed, been made 1 several of the local papers that W. 1. Baker, the president of tho local board, might be more useful in r tirement than in his official position, but the real fecliug against his course has scarcely been hinted at. Mr. Baker was electea fox one year in April last. He was tho third choice of the local Board of Diroctors, ana in overy seuso the last, for they had canvassed and exhausted all other possible caudiaates, Lyman J. Gago was oftered the position first—or rather the continnation of the posi- tion, for he had been serving in thal capacity. but he had just been elected prosi- dent of the First Nationat bank and felt that that oftfice would requiro his undivided ate tention. Tho choico vext fell upon Jamen W. Scott, but it may by readily understood that the publisher of the Herald had not the oxtra time to devote to the mauifold dutles of the presidency. Mr. Baker was elected with a proviso, His pugnacity was well known, He had boen prosident of the Board of Trade, selocted when tho war agaiust the bucket shops was fresh und earnest, and so- lected bocause of his already acquired roput- ation as a fighter. Mr. Baker was told that he might have the prosidency of the local World’s fair board 1f ho would behave him- celfand if, ubovo all things, ho would not antagonize Dircctor Genoral Davis and the natlonal commission. He promised and was elocted. Prosident Baker's installation lowed at once by a policy forced the dircctors to regret their choice. Opportunity for direct hostilitics with the national commission did not immediately arise, but Mr. Buker's attis tude toward overything in geueral was such that the most stupid observer could not fail to understand that he considered the World's fair to nave been placed on his shouldors and that he proposed to run off witn it. Iis disposition exhibited itsell in a wuititude of ways, most of them trivial at first. Mr Gage had been arawing $6,000 a year nomi- nally as prosident, but when he stepoed out he took only $1 of his salary and turned the rest back into the treasu Mr. Baker se< cured the fixing of his salary at $12,000 ana has drawn his §1,000 8 month with character- istic regularity. Among the first ofiicial s to which he assigned himself was that sning passes for the admission of visitors 10 Jackson vark. Thousands of these passes have been issucd and anyvody can get ous who makes application in a conditionof so- bricty. But whilo railway presidents or managers all ove the country were delegating to subordinates the duty of aflixing their signatures to passes ropresent- ing thousands of dollars, the painstuking Mr. Buker lusisted upon laboriously writing hig name in person upon every ticket of admis. sion to Jackson Park. The number of days ho spent in this occupation is not on racord, but the few visitors who were unfortunate enough to bo admitted 1o his uncongenial resence at that time, saw a man sitting at & arge table, looking worn and nervous but proud and determined, with freshly signed passes around himlike' the caunous at Bala- klava. Another instance of President Baker’s nae ture aud policy was furnished in his treate ment of tho roporters of the Chicago daily press. Near the president’s room is one in which the World’s fair reporters meet every afternoon. These gentlemen are not always the quietest in the world and one day nop Tong ago they congregated 1n the room mers tioned, they wers perhaps more noisy than | usual. In the midst of their discussion of ™ some more or less pertinent affaie President Baler appearea i hizt dudgeons “Discharge these men at once!” ho ex-( claimed to the head of the department where tho reporters had met. ] was fol which al addressed, ‘0 nov wy ems I can'tdischarge them ; they ployes, they are reporters.” T dow't care a d—— what they are,” cried the president: “they'ro making too much noiseand [ want thom discharged.” Tho next day the dent wrote a letter to the city editor of every piper repre- seuted by the offending reportevs demandin their dismssal, U'his failing, he appealed t the editors in chief, and received no satisfac- tion there. He visited the journalistic court of last resort—the propri He did not got the reporters discharged, but it is under- stood that he received from the proprietors an estimate of his own conduct, which re- duced him to silence and inaction In the auditing of small bills and in varle ous other ways President Baker exhibited his narrow mindedness, but it was not until he wantonly clashea swords with Directon General Davis that the feciing aaiust him erystalized and found vebement and con- clusive expression, The couflict arose over the question of jurisdiction in the handling of forcign exhibits, A grout deal depends upon the settlement of this question and President Baker has nothing to sustain the claim of the local board to jurisdiction. It is estimated that the value of these exhibits will be over §400,000,000, and that the forca of omployes required to take charee of them will be in the neighborhood of 20,000 men. It is a big responsibility aud involyes an amount of patronago which any politician would struggle to control. Buteverything opposos President Buker's claim. Tho law is against bim primarily. Precedent 13 agawst him. The New Orleans oxposition was practically independent of government control, und yot Fronch artists whose pics tures were = damaged al tho exposis tion present thew billls through 4 diplomatic channels and tby United States paia them. The interests of the fa are against him, ners would cone sent to exhibit articles ol value if they wore forced to dopend for care and responsibility upon a local organization. But more than all else the interests of the fair are ugaiust President Baker because it 1s absolutely Dnecessary Lo nationalize the exposition. Five million dollars are asked from cougress and the basis of the request is the nsseriion that the fair is a national enterprise. Tne chiet danger to the appropriation Lies 1 the charge that the exposition is, to & greater or loss ex- tent, & local undertaking. Th the pres) dent of the local board, it 50 critical & juncs s ture, when the enemies of the falrare besiegs ing congress to defeat the appropriation, should seels to usurp an arvitrary power, is looked upon as an exercise of poor judgment uttle short of calamitow Iudeed, the opinion is freely expre that he has done the Columbian exposition wore damage than all other influences which voluntarily or inadvertentally have worked against it President Baker has been in Washington for several weeks. Every day or two be telegraphs, with all the cothusiasm aud une reason of Colonel Sellers, tuat beis sure to secure the passage of the appropristion, When he started for the capitalotber friends of the fair volunteered o accompugy bim, “No," said this quiet man—ihis Chicage Parturin—*I want uo help; [ can do botter aloue,’” and the worst man for tne work ia hand, went alone. ‘The local poard wiil elect 8 new president in Aopril. If Mr. Baker shall receive & vois it will be his own. N Fuep Nis, e e Mark Twaln says “some folks ure s0 stubboro that a they need is four logs ana they would pasg for & mule.” Mayue if people use more of Haller's Barbed Wire Liniment mules have had & boom, which still continues, wouldn't be s0 stubbora, +