Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 20, 1902, Page 19

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY APRIL 20, 1902. STEYN, THE BOER CAMBETTA Man Transformed by the Struggle for Liberty in South Africa. LEADER AND COUNSELLOR OF THE ALLIES Rev ure Now—His Wife's F Like t ed Two Years Ago, & G t ent Fig- otiam of a Rom P - A writer In the New York Sun, who has Seen service in South Africa, traces the career of President Bteyn of the Orange Free State in the present war and pays the | following tribute to his leadership One chief figure has stood out, then an- other, in the successive stages of the South African trouble. Today the both sides s turned to Martinus Thaunus Bteyn. One delegation of Transvaalers has been escorted by the British to consult with him Dear Kroonstad. From another that in- cluded C-peral Delarey he received an ad- dress draw. up a month ago in which he is called “leader and counsellor,” in which thess western Transvaal allles say to him “We thank God for your manful and steadfast attitude. We pray also that it may be granted to you to come forward as Bead and leader of United South Africa.” Whatever his fate may be Steyn Is now treated by all sides with very serfous re- spect. It was not always thus. Two years ®go, when he hastened by night from Bloemfontein a few hours before the entry of the English troops, and for months after- ward as he carried a movable capital with Bim from place to place, he was followed by execrations which were not confined to the British sectlon He will be more than human if he feels 1o triumph as he compares now with then and notes what the two years have brought Burrender outright, disarmament of his race, docile obedience to a foreign military oecupation was all that was openly offered then; but now the negotiations are con- ducted more as between equals. A Critical Time. As Lord Roberts' victorious army pressed en to Bloemfontein, flushed with the achievement of Cronje's capture, many volces called on President Steyn to sur- render his capital and the Orange Free State, to wait and hand over the keys to Lord Roberts. - In its origin, they sald, it was a quarrel of the Transvaal and Bng- land, and the first duty of the Orange Free State was to save the blood of its burghers. Mr. Steyn's opponent at the previous presidential election, his uncle by mar- riage, J. G. Fraser, pleaded with him to re- main In his capital and surrender it. Steyn remained for days In his presidency and kept bis own counsel. He had not been In arms on commando in the first stages of the war. Day followed day and the English troops drew nearer from the west and south. On the night before they entered he was still n his capital. No siege defences had been attempted, for neither the nature of the surrounding country nor the water supply allowed the idea of resistance. Lord Roberts’ main column was camped fifteen miles out. One of his divisions w thrown across the railway on the soutl and a few miles outside the town om the gorth an officer of engineers and a handful ©f volunteers had slipped past the Boer rear guard and had blown up the track and thereby blocked a score of locomotives and much rolling stock in the station, com- pletely isolating the place. Again Mr. Fraser, as member for Bloem- fontein in the Orange Free State legisla- ture, begged the president to accompany Bim and the mayor, Dr. Kellner, to meet Lord Roberts outside the capital with the Xeys the next day. They could not persuade him, but were to try agaln that night, their last opportunity. No Surrenm ‘They crossed over that night to the hand- some presidency among the trees to see the chief executive; but Steyn's answer was in the outskirts of the town on the north. There his necessary papers, the instruments pt his office required to give presidential Suthority to his decrees, in the eyes of his burghers, were walting him in a coach, guarded by a handful of followers. With two of his secretarles he rode out with Mauser and bandolier, joined the little eavalcade and rode through the night to his Bew capital at Brandfort. From that time Steyn seemed a changed man. Previously industrious and methodical he had devoted himself to the work of his office, and had been an energetic chlef of state to his republic, but had not seemed a dominant personality. Once out on the veldt among his burghers he developed ibe spirit of a Gambetta. When weariness or small numbers seemed to dampsen their spirits he exhorted them #0 eloquently in the Taal, or Boer dialect, that they turned and fought again. The present writer was in Kroonstad within a few hours of the Boer evacuation in May, 1900. One of the first things he W was & young neutral hawking photo- graphs called “Steyn Flogging His Burgh- ers.”” He asked as many responsible resi- dents s he met, Was the story of the ple- ture true? No, it was absolutely untrue. ‘What bad happened was that the previous day Steyn bhad stood at the head of the e ‘The human heart, that most wonderful of en, is scarcely larger than a man's fist. Vet in each twenty-four hours the dual heart moves approximately six tons of blood, equivalent to about two barrels of blood per hour. And this continues ‘without ceasing from the first breath of fnfancy to the last sigh of age. Is it any ;onder that vhgdn contin“d ¢bxu| strain t upon so delicate usy an or- S | s ek Gemd 1K am wonder that in this of overwor] there should be an increasing number of deaths attributed to heart failure ? Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery cures diseases of the of digestion and nutrition and purifies and enriches the blood. One of the i ients enter- iug ioto the " Dis is one of the best heart tonics known to medicine. Thus while through the action of * Golden Medical Discovery ” the body is nour- into , the heart is also strengthened and an adequate blood su) ply is pumped to the stomach and kid- Beys thus improving the action of these are invited to con- sult Dr. Pierce by letter free, and so ob- tain without charge, the opivion of & specialist on their ailments. All corres- <pondence strictly confidential. Address - R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. attention of | | part of this state Homes for the Homeless What Northwestern Ne- braska Offers in Way of Free Lands. NELIGH, Neb., April 18.—To the Editor of The Bee: The past and prevailing high prices of beef and mutton has greatly stimulated the stock industry in Nebraska and Is encouraging many persons e em- bark into the profitable business of stock- ralsing. The stimulating of the stock in- dustry has had the effect of greatly in- creasing the population of this state, and no place to any more marked extent than in northwestern Nebraska. No better stock country, for raising cattle and sheep, les under the sun than is the northwestern The territory covered by the O'Nelll, Valentine and Alliance land districts has been the scene of great ac- ivity In real estate exchanges during the last eighteen months. Many people in this territory have grown rich during the last few years raising cat- tle and sheep. These people make their money much easler and faster than do the farmers of the eastern and central states. Their principal labor is in harvesting their hay and looking after the stock that they do ngt stray away. Scores of ranches have changed hands in this territory during the last six months at figures ranging f-om $1,500 to $25,000, and at this time eastern buyers are to be seen In every locality almost every day that passes. Aside from this, the official rec- orde show that in the territory covered by the three land districts mentioned above there were during the last fiscal year 2,641 homestead filings made by heads of families, appropriating thereby 389,221 acres of the public lands to private ownership. Many of, these new settlers are locating and blocking out just as good ranches as those that have been sold for thousands of dol- lars. That Uncle Sam is still able to give us all a farm is shown by the following table, which is approximately corr giving the public land by counties that are open to settlement in the three land districts here« tofore mentioned O'NEILL DISTRICT County. Acres Public Land Boone . Boyd Brown Garfleld <eya Paha., Knox Loup Rock VALENTINE DISTRICT Acres Public La 20, County Brown Cherry 2 Keya Paha Rock E DISTRICT Acres Public L ALLIANC County. Box Butte Cheyenne Dawes Deuel Scott's Hiuft Sheridan Sioux . é i It will be noted that Brown, Keya Paha and Rock counties are each divided between the O'Neill and Valentine districts, the eastern and southern part of each being in the O'Nelll district The foregoing table is made up from the official figures of the last fiscal year, with estimates from the close of the fiscal year to the present time While the officlal fig- ures show that during the last fscal year there were 2,641 homesteads taken in the three land districts named, appropriating to private ownership 389,221 acres, the most conservative estimates aré that the same territory will this year show at least 3,000 filings, and if the present movement toward this part of the state continues, and there Is every reason to believe it will, the num- ber of filings may reach 3,500 or 4,000. All of this part of the state has splendid rail- road facilities, furnished by two competing lines, the Fremont, Elkhorn & Missourl Valley railway and the B. & M. While the public land laws are very plain there {s in the minds of the average home hunter more or less confusion about how to proceed to find a home. As a rule they seek the land office the first place they g0 and entertaln a vague idea that at the land office all the information desired can be secured, when In fact the land office is the last place they should ordinarily seek, when (hey are ready to make a filing, or many times more convenient to make the filing before the district court clerk or county judge of the county In which the land desired is loeated. District court clerks and cou dges in counties where pub. lic land is situated are ex-officio officers In their respective districts and empow- ered to act in all ordinary matters pertaln- ing to the taking of a homestead. Such county officers are more or less famillar with the quality and value of the public lands in their respective counties, and are better prepared to give accurate information than any one else as a rule. The filing fee on 160 acres is $14 and within six months after a filing is made the applicant must establish a residence upon the land. It must be the applicant’s home exclusive of any other home, and there is no difference in the time of residence required of mar- ried or single persons. After a residence of fourteen months a commutation proof can be made and patent issued upon the pay- ment of §: per acre. Soldiers are allowed for time served in the army, that is, the time served in the army, not to exceed four years, will apply upon making five-year proof. Widows of soldiers are not required to reside upon their homestead and the time of service of their husbands in the army is eredited, not to exceed four years, upon making final proof. The homestead must be cultivated to such an extent that good faith is appar- ent. Where the land is best adapted to grazing, it is held that grazing is cultiva- tion. The above conditions apply only when the husband had never taken a home- stead or having taken oue, never made final proof and abandoned the same prior to June 5, 1900. Minor children of a soldier have, through their guardian, the same rights as a widow of a soldier Very little satisfactory information re- garding a future home can be had by writ- ing. The better way is to go’ onto the ground. A person can well afford to spend a few days in eelecting a location for a home. The tarritory embraced in the three land districts mentioned was never in as prosperous a condition as today and all signs point to many more years of good prices and prosperity for northwestern Ne- braska. R. 0. W. Andrew Carnegie’s Book | Steel King Soon to '| New Volume by the Be Issued. “The Empire of Business™ is the striking title of a new book by Andrew Carnegle, the steel king, now on the press of Doubleday, Page & Co. It is a handsome volume of ecotomic essays, dealing with thrift, the road to fortune, the uses of weaith and other topics. Mr. Carnegie does not attempt to tell how to amass a huge fortune, such as he has, but he gives good advice to young men by telling of his own success, and how they may succeed as he has. Three things in particular he warns the youth against, and first and foremost comes drink. “You are more likely to fall in your career from acquiring the habit of drink- ing than from any or all the other tempt tions likely to assail you,” he says. "It may lead to almost any other temptation and reform, but from the insane thirst for liquor escape is almost impossible. The second danger, he says, Is specula- tion. “Gamesters dle poor, and there is cer- tainly not an instance of a speculator who has lived a life creditable to himselt or ad- vantageous to the community The third danger he warns young men against is the “pertlous habit of indorsing, all the more dangerous, inasmuch as it a salls one generally in the garb of friend- ship.” The indorsement of others' notes, how- ever, is taken to be the least of the trinity of dangers. The book is full of anecdote and pleasan- try, and, while some of Mr. Carnegle’s claims will not bear strong analysis, yet it is written in a strain which is calculated to inspire ambition. Mr. Carnegle is not de- liberately misleading nor dangerous. To be able to say things which are not quite true in & way to make them Impressive is a valuable talent. Here is an example “I comgratulate poor young men upon being born to that anclent and honorable degree which renders It necessary they should devote themselves to hard work. A basketful of bonds is the heaviest basket a young man ever had to carry. He generally gets to staggering under it.”" Other excerpts from the book follow: It is very uufortunate that the irresisti- ble tendency of our age, which draws manu- facturing into immense establishments, re- quiring the work of thousands of men, ren- ders it impossible for employers who reside near to obtaln that intimate acquaintance with employes which, under the old system of manufacturing in very small establish- ments, made the relation of master and man more pleasing to both. When articles were manufactured fn small shops by employers who required only the assistance of a few men and apprentices the employer had opportunities to know every one, to become well acquainted with each and to know his merits, both as a man and as a workman; and, on the other hand, the workman, being brought into closer con- tact with his employer, Inevitably kimsw more of his business, of his cares and troubles, of his efforts to succeed and, more important than all, he came to knew sowe- thing of the characteristics of the man him- self. All this is changed. Thus, the employes become more like human machines, as it were, to the em- ployer, and the employer becomes almost a myth to his men. From every point of view this 1s a most regrettable result, yet it Is one for which I see no remedy. The free play of economic laws is forcing the manufacture of all articles of general consumption more and more into the hands of a few enormous concerns, that their co to the consumer may be less. There fs no longer any room for con- ducting the manufacture of such articles upon a small scale; expensive works and machinery costing millions are required, as the amount per ton or per yard of what we call “fixed charges” s 50 great a factor in the total cost that, whether a concern can run successfully or not, in many cases, depends upon whether it divides these fixed charges—which may be sald to be prac- tically the same in a large establishment as in a smaller—by 1,000 tons per day or by 500 tons per day of product. Hence, the reason for the continual in- crease year by year in the product of your mills—not that the manufacturer wishes primarily to'increase his product, but that the strain of competition forces him into extensions that he may thereby reduce more and more per ton or per yard these fixed charges, upon which the safety of his cap- ital depends. It belng, therefore, impossible for the em- ployers of thousands to become acquainted with their men, if we are not to lose all feeling of mutuality between us, the em- ployer must seek their acquaintance through other forms, to express his care for the well-belng of those upon whose la- bor he depends for success, by devoting part of his earnings for institutions, such as co-operative stores, and I hope, in re- turn, that the employes are to show by the use which they make of such benefactions that they In turn respond to this sentiment upon the part of the employers wherever it may be found. By such means as these we may hope to maintain to some extent the old feeling ot kindliness, mutual confidence, respect and esteem which formerly distinguished the relations between the employer and his men. Every employer of labor is studying the young men around him, most anxious to find one of exceptional ability. Nothing in the world is so desirable for him and so profitable for him as such a man. Every manager In the works stands ready to grasp, to utilize the man that can do something that is valuable. Every fore- man wants to have under him in his de- partment able men, upon whom he can rely and whose merits he obtains credit for, because the greatest of ability in a manager is not the man himself, but the men withgvhom he is able to surround him- self. These books on the shelves will tell you the story of the Tise of many men from our own ranks. It is not the educated. or so-called classically educated, man: it is not the aristocracy, it is not the monarchs. that have ruled the destinies of the world. either in camp, council, laboratory or work- shop. The great. inventions, the improvements, the discoverles in sclence, the great works in lterature, have sprung from the ranks of the poor. You can scarcely name a great invention or a great discovery, you can scarcely name & great picture or a great statue, a great song or a great story, nor anything great that has not been the product of men who started, like yourselves, to earn an honest living by honest work. The importance of the sublect is sugz- gested by the fact that the habit of thrift constitutes one of the greatest differences between the savage and the civilized man. One of the fundamental differences be- tween savage and civilized life is the ab- sence of thrift in the one and the presenee of it In the other. When millions of men each save a little of their dailv earnings, these petty sums combined make an enor- mous amount, which is called capital, about which so much is written. bank facing the river «rift beseeching and urping his burghers to return to the positions they had been defending outside the town. In his oratorical gestures his arms were thrown up and the sjambok— the hide switch which every riding Boer carries—was uplifted in the alr. - And so the kodak man bad snapped him and labeled bim as described. He easily got rid of his wares to the credulous or to the wascrupulous, who saw their market value to the illustrated papers in England. It was at Kroonstad that Steyn parted from Delarey, who had just risen from a sick bed weak with fever. Delarey fell back across the Vaal with his western Transvaalers nd Steyn turned east to set up another temporary capital at Vrede in the remote east of his country. As they grasped bands in the square at Krponstad and went their ways Steyn cried out to his Transvaal ally the motto of the Orange Free State: “‘Alles Sall Recht Kommen But for a long time it bardly seemed that all would come right. For nearly two years now Steyn has been with Dewet, helping most actively in drawing recruits trom Cape Colony for the great raider In appearance he is a big, bearded man of strong physique, with a round face. In former days, now, his expression was & good deal more genial and sanguine than that shown by the faces of his grave-featured compatriots. He s & progressive president, and the postofiice, mew schoolhouse and other of Bloemfontein's best public bulldings bear the legend that their laid by Martinus Thaunus Steyn, A an Matron. His wife is & woman of remarkably hand- some appearance and her patriotism is as that of the Roman matron. The typical story of a Free State wife might be hers. A husband whose sons were on commando was willing to stay at home If his wife wished it. Her answer ‘Go. I can get apother husband, but I an never get another Orange Free State.” The Transvaal delegation that has gome to consult with him is verily composed of “grave and reverend seigniors.’” Next to President Kruger they were the chief men in Transvaal politics before the war. At its outbreak they were, except Relts, who s a0 old man, leaders from the very nature of the Boer organization of its com- munities. But such men Delarey and Louls Botha by thelr proved aptitude as fighting generals soon made it clear that the Boer cause la the fSeld was to be ia Wels bands ) - though it may have altered | cornerstones were | 1 | schalkburger, the leader of the present | envoys, was a field cornet as far back as the Anglo-Boer war of 1879-81. The office of fleld cornet is not as such a military one. Literally it used to mean a country | coroner. | A man of good standing among his nelgh- bors became field cornet for his district. It anyone were killed and the cause of death had to be considered he ted the | Inquiry. Legal machinery was almost non- | existent in the outlying thinly-peopled dis- | | tricts and to adjust matters the field cor- | net embodied the law. For the purposes of his office he had the roll of burghers in his district. When the government called on a district to furnish an armed commando for the service of the ate the fleld cornet enlisted them from his roll. He thus came to be a territorial tntelligence officer to his commandant. Schalkbu: er and Meyer. Schalkburger belongs to the eastern Trans He was for many years on the exccutive council and from his post of | president of the First Raad he was nomi- nally commander-in-chief of the Boer army during Joubert's last iliness. He is a sparely built man of medium beight, with the usual black beard and pale | features of the older Boer. His manner is very sympathetic and recalls the more tolerant type of predicant. Lucas Meyer is a man of the same school of politics as Schalkburger, but Is several years his junior. For the few years of its existence he was president of the tiny re- pubilc of Vrybeld until it was absorbed in the eastern Transvaal. It was the men on his commando who fired the first shot in the Natal campaign. The foreign military attaches with the British armies, when they inspected the Boer trenches in the Biggarsberg months afterward, marveled that a man who had Bot been taught the art of war could have planned such splendid defences. They were designed and the position selected by Lucas Merer. Yet the Boers do mot include him among their front-rank fighting generals. If there was any doubt as to who would succeed Joubert in command of the Natal Boer army the fact that Lucas Meyer was il at the time of Joubert's death decided the ques- tion in favor of Louls Botha In appearance Meyer is & very prosperous citizen, stout, and looks as though slept well of nights. He has the ample flowing beard of the man whose face has er felt & razor. His wife is a woman of political ambition and force of @aracter and ar- Qeatly attached to ber Boer patlosality, EDUCATIONAL NOTES. The Board of Education in New York City has asked 35,500,000 for new public schools, and Mayor Low advises that the amount be raised to 38,000,000 President Harrie of Ambherst college points with pride to the tact that the are proportiouateiy more college professor Who are graduates of his insttution than can be found among the graduates of any other coliege in the country. Friends of Barnard college ra handsomely at last to match Mr. Ieler s 3au,00 that they went dou,0n the mark. Mr. Kockefeller, with preise- worthy liberality, promptly met the “raise and the college today rejolces in a produc- tive fund agregating o, . Harvard observatory has ANONYMOUS BIIL OF 324,000, tions recelved an with no conai- to the manner in which it shail ed. It is proposed to take 3108 and build an extension to the photograpni library, in which are kept the 115,un Dega- tives belonging to the observatory. The Eliza Davison house, the gift of John D. Rockefeller to Vassar college, has been opened. This is the fourth residence hail at Vassar, besides the ma'n bullding. There are a greater number of single rooms than in any other of the bulldings. Although not yet entirely unished seveaty-three rooms are occupled. Walter A. Payne, instructor and secre- tary of the university extenslon depart- ment at the University of Chicago, has been promoted to the rank of assoclaté pro- fessor, and given charge of the extension depariment of which Prof. James was for- merly the chief. The Duc de Loubst recently endowed a chair devoted to the history and antiquities of the United States in the College Je France in' Paris, and provided for the es. tablishment of a library for the depart. ment. In spite of his titie, which was con- ferred upon him by the pope, he is an American citizen. C. L. Babeock of the department of Latia in Cornell has been appointed to the lel lowship in the American school at Rom recently created by the bureau of uniy sity travel. Mr. sabcock will spend two years with Prof. H. M. Powers, president of the bureau, and with differcnt partiss :rm out by him, visiting the cities of taly In the block bounded by Manhattan, Fast Houston, Lewis and East Thira streets. New York City, niles are now being driven for the foundations of what will be the rgest public school in the world. It will commodate 3915 children and every one of them will have a desk and a seat. in addition there will be in the neighborhood of 150 teachers and assistants, so that under its roof there will be gathered every school day of the year a ulation of | more than 4,000 EBeginning with the rext academlc year no student will be admitted to Columbia university college of pbysicians and. sur: geons with conditions, and the full forty- :f'fl count regents’ fl“.lflml will be the nimum requirement. The following year all st :&l’lll asking to be Tdmllll‘d will be requited o pass an examination identica wih that required by the college. At pros: ent medicine will be & purely posi-grad- uvate course, owing to the e percentage students 1o the school. to be sold. what you want. Great Spring Carpet Sale. AT THE end of the wholesale season we dump the drop patterns into the retail stock Prices less than the wholesale full piece prices and you can take Its a great clean-upatany-pri every yard of which we stand back of just what we cla Sale of the best makes of carpets, m for it. at, yard .... PRINTED VELVEL Lowell extra super carpets ... 55cand 60c¢ [Nothimg higner.] RPETS Sev erns uality tapestry Brussels, nine The whole line of printed velvet carpets, Persian patterns, Several patterns, b qualit pestry Bru ne and ten-wire, wholesale ces of these are colors warranted fast. This is the greatest 4 Tlo—gd ne lot at C velvet carpet bargain we have ever offered and 7 g0 in on a C per yard ... shee —per yard ...... . Pro=Brussels carpets that sold at 65¢ wholesale, in full rolls, put in, at, yd 6O¢ TAPESTRY BRUSSELS PARLOR TABLE like cut, made of best golden osk, quarter-sawed and | 4y knows what the Herrick hand polished, or birch | is; at least everybody should mahogany finish, 24-inch | know. Today ft is the most popular refrigerator on the top and shape under shelf, | ;. ;pee, Whny? Because it-is never sells for less than best $5.00; special Monday, each | Some pretty ones in white enamel and the new opalite tile-lined. They are mot the $3.35 REFRIGERATORS Refrigerator season is here and we are prepared for it with the Herrick refrigerator. Ever cheapest or the highest priced but the best at Let us show you, retrigerator any price A choice Others at $17.00, § line of pa mirror, each § special, $15.75. BED ROOM Never before have we been able to give the bedroom values that we offer now terns at $9 5 and $20.00. FURNITURE Solid oak dresser, Three-plece French bevel solid oak bedroom suit, $12.00, $12.50, $13.00 and $13.50. Brussels Curtains worth up to $10 per all real imported good full size, special all this week, per pair .. rair, PILLOW TOPS—Just the thing for the den, porch or lawn. Poster styles —while they last, 25 cents each Drapery Goods, Lace Curtains Some specials for the coming week. Large Catalogue Mailed FREE to Out-of-Town Requests, joods go on sale Monday morning. ' Brussels, Ara n and Irish Pol an elegant large line, In fact the L est we have ever showt —~BO AL siiiiiiiannne . " Curtain Swiss, 36 inches wide, grade, all the week 10c per yard. Saxony Brussels—a large line at prices that will tempt you to buy it you are at all in need of curtains. Japanese crepe with tinsel, worth 10¢ per yard, while it lasts at, only be per yard. 150 Window shad each, 25c. Silkoline, every piece in the store worth 15¢, at 10c per yard. good rollers, 3x6 ft., Carpet Orchard & Wilhelm QUAINT FEATURES OF LIFE, The following ambiguous advertisement recently appeared in a Detroit paper: “Notice—If——, who is supposed to be 1n Chicago, will communicate with hie friends at home he will hear of something to his advantage. His wife is dead.” John Quincy Adams has just completed his half-century of service as town clerk of Canaan, Me., and his friends there claim that in all the fifty years he has never missed attending the annual and speclal town meetings and no hand but his bas ever recorded the proceedings in the ofclal records. A man the other day went to a Boston | dentist to have a tooth extracted, and de- | cided to take gas. The doctor administered the hypnotic and the man soon appeared to be under its influence, but he conttnued to keep one eye open. This worried the doc- tor, and he gave the man more gas; still the eye remalned open. “Shut that eye,” sald the doctor, finally, losing patience. “Can't,” euld the man in a drowsy voice; “it's glass.” A well known apothecary of the City of Mexico has been the veitim of a curlous deceit. The other day he bought a lottery ticket from a girl in the street. One morn- ing the same girl called at the apothecary's house before he had arisen and sent word to him that he had won the $10,000 prize, in confirmation of which she also showed the list of winning numbers. The apothe- cary fully believed the good news and gave the girl $20 for a present. On golng to the offices of the lottery company, however, he discovered that the list was an old one, doctored by the wily girl for the occaston, and that his ticket had won nothing. Maine is one of the few states that still observes more or less seriously an_snnual fast day, and Governor John F. HIll has this year selected Thursday, April 24, as the date. In his proclamation, which 18 very brief, be says: “This day, revered by the fathers, come to us consecrated by ob- servance for many generations. It 1s ap- propriate that we should continue to respect a custom o deeply enshrined in the hearts of the people, and I earnestly recommend that the day be observed in & manner con- sistent with the purposes for which it has been set apart.” Wings and webbed feet were the weapons used in & battle to the death between two water fowls in the Lincoln park ‘*zoo,” Chicago, the other day. One of the flock of wild geese was killed by a swan. White Prize, the largest of the swans, wielded his powerful wings with such force as to break the neck of his feathered opponent The nolse of the battle was like that of a large washing bung out in & windstorm. Blow after blow fell upon the swan and on the wild goose as the powerful wings of each awept together. Again and again they separated and then came together with a rush. In one of these clashes the swan landed a right uppercut, winging his op- ponent in the neck. Then the wild goose fell and White Prize swatted his fallen enemy a few more sweeping blows and strutted away & conqueror. Perhaps the most curious town in all the United States is Quarry Sloss, Ventura county, Cal. There are just two dozen dwelling houses besides one general store and a barber shop. In the matter of in- habitants there are close to 300 brawny men, two women and one dog. . The little town is neither graced by a church nor dis- graced by a saloon and s altogéther & well- behaved settlement. The stone gquarries there are run by a railroad company, the general management being in the hands of C. Bruckman, Daniel Ogden being superin- tendent. Mrs. Ogden is ome of the two women, the barber's wife the other. The | dog, an animal of the Mexican hairles variety, belongs to everybody. Mr. aod Mrs. Ogden live 1n & freight car whose out- ward appearauce is not different from the | ordinary conveyance of that kind. Insid it is fitted up very cosily, showing ml bandiwork of & tasteful woman. UNION PACIFIC - DAILY TOURIST CAR SERVICE TO DENVER The UNION PACIFIC has placed in service a through Ordinary (Tourist) Car on “The Col- orado Special” running between Omaha and Denver, Both first and second class tickets will be honored on these cars, and passengers wishing to economize in their traveling expenses may avail themselves of this excellent service. The rate for a double berth between above points is $1.80 The cars are fust as neat and clean as Palace Sleeping Cars are well ventilated, have sepa- rate lavatories for ladles and gentlemen, and all the cars being carpeted and upholstered. This train leaves Omaha 11:30 P. M., Today, Arrives Denver 2 P. M., Tomorrow. City Ticket Office, 1324 Farnam St. Telephone 316 Union Station, 10th and Marcy St Tel. 629-316. 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