Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 28, 1902, Page 7

AFFAIRS - AT SOUTH OMAHA Library Bonds ‘Bold to Representative of Toledo Financial Ooncern. COUNCIL TRANSACTS ROUTINE BUSINESS Walter Bamp Dies s Re- cetved by Being Ran Over by Unton Paot Train - Magle City Gossip. The 1ibrary bonds have baen sold at la John Dale. who represented the State “Bank of Toledp,, Was_the only bidder. He oftered a_premipm of $10 along with ac- crued interest and as no. other bidders ap- ¥, who acted as aue- counctl meeting, de- clared that the sale was made to Mr. Dale, the representatiye of the Toledo bond buy- ers. These bonds run for ten years, bear interest at the rate of 5 per cent and were voted by the people at the efection last November. Chief Btter asked for supplies and also requested that action be taken at once to repair fire. wagon No. 2, 'as he says it is in bad shape. The fire and water commit- tee will consider the matter when the doc- ument gets around ta_it. The request ,of Tressurer Howe for money to send to the state fscal agency was referred to the mayor and finance committee and there will be a meeting to- day to make arrangements for the send- ing of the money, a portion of which must be borrowed. Frank Pivonka holds a judgment against the city and has been. agsessed $15-for his poolroom. He sent the council a notice that he desired the city to deduct that much from his judgment. Adkins, Brode- rick and Welsh.will haye this to look after. In order to try certain suits in the dis- trict court the council employed W. C. Lambert at am: expense of $220. The pres- ent city attorney is interested on the other side and therefore cannot serve as a rep- resentative of the. city. Street Commissioner Miller was directed to repair thd approach to the bridge at Madison street at once. The Union Pa- cific company ‘construéted the bridge with the agreement that the city keep the ap- proach in repair. Myles Welsh broke in by offering a mo- tion to the effect that only union labor be employed in the oty departments and that union wages be pald. This was carried by » unanimovg vote apd without comment. Some bills and elaims were ordered pald and then the council adjourned until the next regular meeting. Dies from Injuries. Walter Bump, whose home was at Twen- ty-ninth and R streets, dled last night from injuries by being run over by a Union P cific* freight train. Bump tried to board the freight train near the foot of N street and lost his footing. He fell beneath the wheels ‘and the #éft leg was severed just below the knee. Other Injuries of an fn- ternal nature resulted in his death. The injured man was taken to the Union Pa- cific depot and Dr. White, the county phy- siclan, did everything to stop the flow of blood, but the injuries were too serious to respond to treatment. The remains will be taken to Brewer's, where Coroner Brailey will most likely hold an inquest as soon as he can arrange for the attendance of the train crew. The deceased’ was 30 years of age, was married and leaves a wife and young child. ‘He was employed at Armour's in the fertilizing departmient. Reception to Mins Clark, Friends of Miss Della Clark tendered her ® reception ut the trcop . armory ldst ovening. A great many members of the High school class, as well as teachers, at- tended, and congratulated Miss Clark upon her victory at the state oratorical contest beld at Grand Island Jast Friday. The armory was. handsomely decorated for the occasion and the reception tended toishow the esteem in which Miss Clark is held by the puplls and teachers of the South Omaha public schools.. Dancing occupled a portion of the evening and & nymber of the members of the cavalry troop attended. Johu Fits Roberts Resigns. Yesterday John Fitz Roberts prepared his resignation and sent it to the Jacksoplan club of Omaha. It was reported on the streets iast night that qaite'a number of prominent democrats would follow the action of Nolan, McMillan, Parkhurst and Roberts and resign from the club. The question of organizing a permanent club among - democrats Nere. ‘is now being dis- cussed and it s expected that a' meeting will be called soen: for the purpose of talking matters over. The democrats appear to be all split up sfhco the action of the Jacksonian club on Saturday night ana many here now assert' that they will have nothing more to 46 With the Omaha aggre- Officers Elected. At a meeting held in Grand Island Jast Friday night the follpwing officers for the Nebraska High. School - Declamatory. union ware elagted: J. A, sean, superintendent of public’ &chool | Omaha, president; E. B. Sherman, superintendent of achools, Schuyler, vice “‘president; M. S. Brown, prineipal ot schogls, York, secretary. Theso three officers ™iso. constitute the executive committee and have WHarge of the pex: state contest. ¢ dn Commencement Exercises. Owipg_to ‘the ifaét "that Chancellor B. Benjamin Andrews coul® not be present on t! evening ‘of June ‘13, the graduating exercises of the High, school have been postponed until the evenlag of June 13, at which time Chapgellor Andrews will deliver the wddress. The elosing ““exercises of the Grammar schools will, however, occur on the evening of June 12, as originally planned. Dr. W. 0. Heory of Creighton Medical college h coneented to give the eddr Miss Della Clark, who recently won first place in the state declamatory contest, will favor the audience with a declamation, and the one hundred. and twenty or more pupils who enter the Hfgh school _next September will, under the guidance of Miss Agnes O'Connor of the city bchools, furnish the musfe for the evening. . The high school commencement will be held in the Methodlst KEplscopal ghurch, Twenty-third and N streets; that of tho Grammar schools in the Presbyterian church, Twenty-fifth and J streets, Magie City Gossip. Mrs, 3. B, Watkins is visiting at Excel- sior Springs, Mo. Mrs. W. D. Godfrey I8 visiting relatives in Washington, D. C. A. L. Coleman, formerly ‘of this city, s now located in Chicago. Teachers' examinations will be held this year on June 19, 2 and 2. The Nebraska Telephane . company. making a number qf improvements in cable lines. Miss May Carlin, one of the clerks at the city offices, has récovered from a sickness lasting a week and 18 again.gn duty. . Mrs. W Briggs Pdlfl lrflun}ed to {lli{ home at Cedar_Kapids, la., after a vis Wih her son, Chief of Police Jotm Briges. James H. Brady, car sccountant at the stockyards, has = returned from a two eks' vacation spent at Poplar Bluffs, Mo. At the concert to be glvén at t dist_church tonight for the be; local Young Men's Christian association Miss Della Clatk will render the selection “Mercedés." The Ladles' Missionaty soclety of the Presbyterian church witl mest Thursday afternoon with Mrs. E. H, Roberts, Twen- ty-third and H streets. Rev, Thomas Stevenson, formerly of this but_now located in Colorada, is here ing friends.. He will speak at the Bap- church Wednesday night. s fts Metho- t of the v tist BALKS JUST LIKE A MULE Westberg and Goodrich Have Some Trouble with Their Horse- lean Carriage. John N. Westberg, city.-comptroller, in collaboration with C. J. Goodrich, has in- venled an automobile which it is alleged will climb a perpendicular walk: The dis- tinctive feature of it s that pawer is ap- plied to all four wheels instead of to the rear wheels only, and the steering device is also unique, The wheels, too, are a third larger than those of the ordinary horseless carriage. Aside from its climbing proclivi- ties Mr. Westbers: clalms for his machine a speed that will make its rivals look like drays in a chariot race and turn green with an automcbilious envy. The pew auto has been in. process of bullding in a local machine shop for the last six months. Several times they had to tear it down and do it all over again on account of some miscalculation. Once it was found that the storage battery ‘which feeds the sparker for. the gasoline engine was too weak; again they had neglected to provide for the “differentials” In the steering d vice, and as recently as a week ago they learaed that they had the machine geared €0 high that they couldn't keep it on the ground. Mopday all of these obstacles, ap- parently, had been removed, and late in the afternoon Messrs. Westberg and Goodrich took it out for its initial trip. Though no one was' present to break a bottle of champagne on it the launching was auspiciovs, and for the first ten blocks all went well. A remarkable burst of ‘speed was devel- oped, and Glory, Mr. Westberg's Great Dane, had to hump herself to keep the machine in sight. ‘ It was at the ‘top of the hill at Forty- second and Lake streets that the Inevitable accident happened. - After climbing the ac- clivity ‘they had stopped to oil the bearings; then both returned to the seat and gave It the *“crank start.”” It wouldn’t move; the engine had balked. ‘The spectacle of an @\tomobile declining to run down hill struck the neighborhood as unusual apd a crowd gathered. Mr. Good- ' rieh elimbed down to push, while Mr. West- berg ‘acted as' chauffeur, and Glory leaped and barked about the sulky vehicle as though: th was something humorous in the situation. A rabble of small boys fell in behind and began to give advice. < “‘Get & mule!" yelled on “Hey, you big stift! ‘Why don’t you climb down and help push!". Mr. Westberg pretended .not to notice these taunts. ' “What's the, matter with your old gar- bage. wagon?"’ “Hey, Mr. Chumptroller! axel grease!" » And so on, throughout all of that dreary trip back to the machi shop. Messrs. Goodrich and Westbérg fook turn about steering and pushing. As to just what alled the auto there seems to be some doubt. One theory is that it slipped an eccentric and another is that the gasoline was damp, but the inventors promise to have it york- ing again within a few days. Give ’er some Mortality Statistie) - The following: births and deaths were re- porjed at the office of the Board of Health urlng the twenty-four hours ending Tues- day noon; irths—Charles A. Morrison, 2537 South Tenth street. ; Hai 029 . bo; Thirty-second street, boy; Harry 3 South Twenty-ffih etreet, boy; Charles I, 1230 South Nineteenth street, boy; nk Sahan, Forest Lawn cémétery, boy. Deaths—Charles Brent, %05 Grant street, aj year: ary Welssenborn, Twenty- third and Fort street, aged 91 A Trevett, county -hospital, aged August’ H, Arriens, 168 ‘Sherman ave aeed @ years: Gertrude Odenbaygh BUre street, aged 1 year; William K 821 Davenport street, aged 48 years. PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. City Comptroller, John N. Weatberg re- turned yesterday from Btromsburg, Nel where he was called to the bedside of h mother, who s reported to be seriously ill. Nebraskans at the Merchants: W. Merkly, Valley C. Perry, Rising Cit James 'Matthews, Osceola; H. G. Clar) Cralg: Hamer, Kearney; E. E. Under- wood, Ang M A Hall fe making preparations to leave on a trip to London, England, durlf the month of June. The visit to the islan will be made for business and pleasure combined and he will remain about two months. Dr. John R. Nilsson, who been cof fined to his bed for several weeks, w removed from_his home, 1715 South Tenih to_the Methodist hospital on- Satur- d Drs. A. F. Jonas and E. J. Upde- graft performed an operation for appendi- cltly Monday morning. T, nue 268 ller, Decoration Day, ‘We beg to:apmounge that our store WILL fl M‘D PROMPTLY AT 12 NOON DECORATION' DAY/ We dppeal to the public to do thelr shopping ‘in time to make this free from mppelatment to themselves and our employes. When you pase our store Friday or'ady Hme when closed, DROP YOUR ORDERS IN THE MAIL BOXES fixed to our dborways. ' Your orders‘will be promptly filled Saturday A. M. A GRAND MEMORIAL WINDOW A WHOLE SUITE OF WINDOWS facing 16th and Harney are being arranged FOR A G! Rl AT NOON TODAY. This' will be ong of the- MEMORIAL DISPLAY. The curtaln will be withdrawn from them BUPI TRIUMPHS OF MODERN ‘WINDOW TRIMMING, designed by and carried out under the supervision of eur own e e decorative grtist. ‘1o u-o‘ul bt 5 87 MMED._IN OMABA AND VIEW BEGINS 12 NOON WE! L4 Il be & display worthy the auspicious occasion. We lnvite you Igesdy b wiiidows are “dcknowlbdged to be THE BEST H This - effort will eclipse all - previous at- IN ESDAY. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: BRITISH T00 SURE OF PEACE Protraction of Oonference Offers No Sub- stantial Basis for Oonolusions. BOERS NOT SATISFIED WITH TERMS Lon Press Posltive in Its Assertion That the Boers and British Wil Effect Amicable Settlement of Hostilities. LONDON, May 27.—Prevalence through- out of an optomistic feeling regarding the peace negotiations s hardly based on solid facts. The protraction of the conferemce at Vereeniging s not necessarily a sign. The delegates to the conference, although they have abandoned their hope of secur- ing independence, still have many points of difference with the government, while an obstinate minority still regard the re- sumption of hostilities as the best outcome of the present situation and at any moment these points of differences may be ac- centuated into a refusal to continue the negotiations. It 1 most unlikely that those who are in favor of peace will throw up the spongn 80 l1ang as a decent minority is desirous of ing the struggle and all these ele- must be taken into account before it 18 possible to give any sort of predic- tion as to the issue of the present negotla- tions. Cabinet Will Decide Details. The Dally Mall this morning says the cabinet council to be held today will decide upon points of detall, mostly of a finan- clal nature, which have been raised by the Boers in the peace negotiations. Great Britaln’s decision in the matter will then be communicated to the Vereeniging confer- ence by the delegates at Pretoria, says the paper, and, being the best obtainable terms, they will almost certainly be accepted. The results should be announced officially either Thursday or Friday of this week, probably on Friday, the day ipon which King Ed- ward's birth is celebrated. Peace s quite certain, says the Daily Mail, and the delegates at Pretoria are only engaged in endeavoring to gild the pill for the Vereeniging convention to swal- low. The Daily Mall says further: Our dis- patches from Pretoria assert that numerous communications are passing between Lords Kitchener and Milner in South Africa and London. Lord Kitchener, although he is still full of energy, is much aged in appearance in conmequence of the severe strain which he has undergone. The concensus of opinion is that the recent negotiations have proved Lord Kitchener to be a great diplomatist as well as a great soldier. It is difficult to apprecite the magni- tude of the difMculties Lord Kitchener has had to contend with. The Boer leaders are deeply impressed with his personality, and trust him implicitly. It is understood that Lord Milner (the British high commissioner in South Africa) has gracefully admitted that the ultimate credit for the accomplishment of the great task 1s due to Lord Kitchener. Hitch in Negotiations. LONDON, May 27.—Just before Parlli ment rose, after midnight last night, a rumor reached the lobbles that a hitch had occurred in the peace negotiations. Noth- ing officlal concerning this rumor could be ascertained, but the dispatch to the As- soclated Press from Pretoria, in which it was sald that the prevalence throughout South Africa of the optomistic feeling in regard to the peace negotiations was. hardly based upon golid facts may be regarded, as an indication that such a hitch has oc- curred. Little information from Pretoria has recently been able to pass the censor there, That the government yesterday fully an- ticipated a speedy conclusion of peace is believed to be shown by the postponement from yesterday until Friday or lat of the budget bill in the committee e, with the view, as was frankly admitted on the government side of the house, of en- abling the budget to be recast in the event that peace is secured. Glad to Drop Grain Tax. The tax on grain has proved so unpopu- lar throughout the country and has had such an unexpected effect in reuniting the liberal party with a most effective election cry, there is little doubt the government will welcome an excuse to drop it. The bellef that the government intends to drop the tax on grain is eo strong that all members of the House of Commons who have leanings toward protection met In- formally last night and made an appeal to the ministers to dispense with this tax. Another strong reason for the de; to do away with this tax is the effect it h had In the colonies, where it has been re- garded as an opportunity to demand pre- ferential treatment—a demand which will be strongly pressed at the coming confer- ence of colonlal premlers in London, and which is likely to cause the government considerable difficulty by emphasizing a sharply defined divergence of opinion in the cabls There the Chamberlain party is advocating a “Zollveren policy and the retenton of the grain tax, while the Bal- four party advocates just the reverse. Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, the chancellor of the exchequer, id to be quite willlng to surrender the tax on grain, The Dally News predicts that once peace is secured the present ministry will go to pleces in twelve months because of the irreconcilable dissensions between the Sallsbury and Chamberlain sections. In the meanwhile Lord Rosebery is drawing the liberals closer together. THE HAGUE, May 27.—It is sald in Boer eircles here that the peace proposals made to the conference at Vereningen, Trans- vaal, includes the condition that the Boers in the fleld be allowed to consult with the Boer delegates in Burope before a definite settlement is reached. It is declared also, upon the same authority, that the British government refused May 23 to accede to this request. Panctured by Rifie Ball. YANKTON, 8. D, May 27.—(Speclal.)— John Sogge of Marindahl was accidentally shot In the back a few days ago with a 22-caliber rifie. He was leaning on the gun with the end of the el pressed against bis side when it was discharged, the bullet penetrating his side. He is in a critical condition. e————— to Show You. Society Stationery Our display is the largest. Our goods the proper thing. @ BOOKS! BOOKS Faun, Bitter l'.'l.;lul Rock. each. rite or call brary edition, 3¢ for list of bargaina. ‘.,ARKALOW BROS.. Farnam Street. 'Phone 3. HOLDUP. MEN MISS AGAIN Bandits ¥ in Attempt to R gton Train Near Joseph, ST. JOSEPH. May 27.—An attempt was made to hold up Burlington express train No. 26 tonight at Roya branch, about one mile north of the city linits. The train left Omaha at 5 o'clock and it was due to ar- rive here at 9:15, leaving for St. Louls at 9:35. Engineer Fred Mudgett was star- tled by the explosion of two ftorpedoes, but looking ahead saw mnothing to indicate danger. He ran 200 yards past the point where the torpedoes exploded and looking back saw a red light ewinging near the track. Conductor Samuel T. Tatum at once di- vined the presence of traln robbers and signaled the engineer to proceed, which he did cautiously, in order to avold con- sequences of & possible error in judgment. The train arrived at Unfon station ten minutes late. The police department was notified and a switch negine was at unce pressed into service by Superintendent G. M. Hohl, who took a strong posse of policemen to the scene. The robbers had disappeared, taking with them the red lantern. Roys branch has been the scene of many ccessful holdups. Pat Crowe and his gang are believed to have stopped the two trains here seven years ago and looted the express cars. VALET OF THE HUMBERTS Man Canght by Detectives Belleved to Represent the Paris People. NEW YORK, May 27.—A rumor, which could not be verified, was circulated at de- tective headquarters in thie city that Cap- tain Titus' men had wrrested in Jersey City today the valet of one of the Hum- berts, the people charged with wholesale ewindling in Paris. The man's name could not be learned. It is said that the New York detective department recelved information that a valet of the Humberts had preceded them, presumably for the purpose of scouring the ground here for a place of hiding, An ac- curate deecription was forwarded by the Parls police and the New York plainclothes men have been keeping up a keen watch for this man. They sald he arrived here on May 13. He was traced to Bensonhurst. L. I, where his trail was lost. It was learned there, however, that a man answer- ing to the description of the Humbert valet had crossed over Brooklyn bridge into New York and had been seen in Jersey City. There is an element of doubt that the man in Jersey City is the fugitive valet, but the information comes in an official way from headquarters that the arrest is a most important one. WANT CIVIL TRIAL FOR DEMING Federal Authorities Getting Papers for Prosecution of Ex-Soldler. Out LEAVENWORTH, Kab., May 27.—It is reported that papers are belng prepared by the federal attorney In Topeka for the civil prosecution of ex-Captain’ Peter C. Deming, who was recently released from the federal penitentiary by a decision of the supreme court, , . Deming, a volunteer army officer| was con- victed of embezziement by courtmartial of regular army officers. The supreme court held that a volunteer armiy officer could not be tried by regular abmy officers. John H. Atwood, Demiik’s attotney, say: “The alleged embezzlemedt” was committed in, 1899 and prosecutipn i a civil court is barred by the statuté of limitations. Any- way, Deming would have to be tried in C ifornia, where the offense Is alleged to have been committed."” RECORD PRICES; FOR CATTLE Ligures Pald for ‘Stock that Have Never Been Surpmased in Ka city. KANSAS CITY, May 27.—Two record prices for fat cattle were.paid at the. stock yards today. A Kansas stockman received $7.40 for thirty prime heavy ing 1,636 pounds aplece. This price i never been surpassed. at the stock yards and was equaled only, once, on June 10, 1882, N Two loads of 1,100-pound steers sold for $6.80, & record breaking price at the yards here, and, welght considered, the highest price paid at any market. The cattle were shipped from Walout Grove, Tex. Flowers for the McKinley Tomb. WASHINGTON, May 27.—A beautiful floral tribute is to be sent from here tomorrow by tho Department of the Potomac, Grand Army of the Republic, to be placed on the casket containing the remains of the late President McKinley at Canton on Decora- tion day. Quartermaster Davis of the de- partment conferred with Secretary Cortel You and ‘it was decided ‘to send the re- membrance to Mrs. McKinley for her to take to the cemetery. A #imilar offering is to be sent from the White House. To Care for Cuban Inter: WASHINGTON, May 21.—At the of President Extrada Faima, Secretary has instructed all of the' United Btat consular officers to charge themselves with any business that may arise at the places to which they are accredited appertaining to Cuban commerce. This:is & temporary arrangement and will last” only till the Cuban government can appoint its own consular officers. LOCAL BREVITIES. The Seventh Ward Pratt and Van Dusen club will meet at 512 Center street Wednes- day evening. A large crowd is expected to out and prominent speakers will be present. There was no meeting of the executive committee of the Commercial club yester- day, as matter which may be brought be- fore it were not ready for considération. A special meeting will be called Friday. The force of clerks in . the office of the clty treasurer ls being Kept busy writing out rechipts for taxes, both rerlnm\l an: real, which are now being pald at a rapid rate. The payment began Monday, and at noon Tuesday 210 receipts had been fssued Three hundred yards of red and white ribbon have been ordered by the Board of Education, to be used in tylng the dip mas of the High school graduating cla which numbers 147 puplle. It is estimated that each sheepskin will require a yard of the red and a yard of the white. ‘The superintendent of construction of the federal building has advertised for bids for construction of heating apparatus for wing of the . federal bullding. 1ll be no additional bollers, but fans run by electrlc motors, hew screens, piping and radiators are to be provided. In the United States circuit court Judge McPherson, over the protests of the de- fendant, permitted the plaintiff in the case of Williamson againat the Cudahy Pack- | Ing_Company to GClsmiss nis suit without prejudice upon ;.nYment of cos! next case called for tria! will be that of Sarah White against the City of Lincoin, a dam- age sult, City employes were being pald yesterday from the office the comptroller, where 1800 warrants await delivery 8ince | than one-third of the employes have mitted thelr warra the last ro’ur months to accumuli . the greater num- of persons lined up in” the waiting m are assignees. playfully dubbed 'body by those who shaved their Two clerks are being kept busy handing out the llow ®lips and checking them off the b for John . McGreal has appogled from the decision of the Board of County Commis sloners *disallowing bis 'clafm of §7 for services as assistant county poor agent for one month, McGreal's was one of the heads that came off when the reu'nuh}n #xe had its brief spasm of activity, bul he asserts that he was not officially notified X A e and more, that, . he should be pald. WEDNESDAY, MAY 28, 1902. NEW BOOKS AND MACAZINES "“The Mississippi Bubble” is One of the Most Popular of the New Novals, COLLECTION OF WESTERN COLLEGE SONGS lssippl Bubble,’ Hough, Is a fascinating blo founded on the life of “Jobm Lauriston,” and is selling rapidly. He was tha first great greenbacker; the father of flatlsm. Law was the originator of that wonderful financial scheme which, since its collapse, has been known as the Mississippt Bubble. Law was not simply a money king ~a promoter—he was a man of the worla, a gambler in the days when every gentle- man dealt the cards or tossed the dice. He was a daring adventurer, a brilllant talker, a famous beau. At Sadler's Well Law meets Lady Catherine and Mary Conn- yine, two really wonderful women, who took a hand with fate in shaping his destiny. The love story is out of the ordinary, but holds the attention from the very beginning. Law Is portrayed as an exceptionally strong man in every way; a man whom all obey- natural bora ruler. Because of trouble arising from a duel he flees to America, where the author carries him into a new country, where his success is just as great as it was among the first people of England. The chapters on ““Maize” and “The Sacrifice’” are intensely fascinating; probably the most interesting of his life in America. After many thrill- ing experiences he returns to England searching his first love, following the game table as A pastime. And from then the author telis his experiences as a finan- cler. He was but one of the vast crowd that flocked to Paris after the death of the grand monarch, but in a day he stood out from that crowd the focus of the eyes of Europe. He knew the desperate condition of the French treasury, he dreamed of that nation's vast possessions in the New World, and with this knowledge and with this dream he went into action. The regent espoused his cause. Law was the man of the hour. He became rich in a night, pow- erful in a day, and he tered his largess with an open hand. His friends grew rich with him and every man and women in France was his friend. It is only at the very last that Law succeeded in his greatest wish—that of winning the hand of the lady he loves. The book is far above the ordinary. Published by Bowen- Merrill company. / by Emerson “‘Bongs of the Western Colleges” is a new collection of songs published by Hinds & Noble. It has an introduction by Horace Gillette Lozler of the University of Chi- cago and Richard Walton Tully of the University of California. All the world loves the songs of the jolly college student. Many of them have become popular and universal songs for male quartets. Many of the old favorites have been included in this book. This has been done at the special request of very many alumni and alumnae, who wish to have some means of living over again in the old familiar songs, the old happy days, with their sweet mem- ories of alma mater. But the book is made up principally of western songs. For many years the western colleges have been sing- ing their college songs unnoticed. The «com- pllers have endeavored to secure all of these songs and place thém in a book which would not only reveal .these native western songs to the east, but give to the western colleges a book containing all the songs familiar to their alumni as well as to the undergraduates. Our own state is rep- resented in the book by two songs. One, ‘Scarlet and Cream''—University of Ne- braska—and another, “The Yellow and the Brown"—Nebraska Wesleyan university. It is & collection which, through its cherished and familiar melodles, will be welcomed by many. “The Gate of the Kiss,” by Jobn W. Harding, is a biblical story dealing with one of the most eventful passages in the history of Judab—the war between Heze- kiab, the king, and Sennacherib, the terri- ble ruler of Babylon. The prophet Isalah is one of the conspicuous figures. But the hero is a younger man, a poet and soldier of noble lineage, Naphtali, a orite at court and a friend of the king, altogether & fine type of Jewish mankood. Sennacherib is envious of Judah's wealth and power, and s plotting against Hezeklah, using ools the reactionary idol worshipers, still strong in Jerusalem. Naphtall is enamored of one of the Assyrian conspirators, Miraone, a marvelously beautiful woman, who has been proscribed in Jerusalem for playing the part of Ashtoreth at an idolatrous orgy. She adroitly blinds the Jewish noble to her bl character, and he is surprised while making love to her at a rendezvous, by one of his comrades, Talmon, a military officer, to whom Miraone's real nature -and purpose have been revealed by Vashtl, one of her servants. This maiden has fallen in love with Naphtali, and tries to save him from impending disaster. Talmon is killed in the struggle which ensues, and Miraone is saved from captivity. Naphtall is blind to the truth, and bears her to his house as his wife. There she has every advantage to continue the plotting against Judah, and in a great battle the Assyrian hosts defeat the king, and Sennacherib encompasses Jerusalem. Meanwhile Naphtali has been deathly i1l of a fever, and, recovering, learns from Vashtl, the servant who loves him, the true character of his wife. Miraone escapes to Babylon, becoming. the favorite of the king there. Naphtall swears vengeance and proceeds with the devoted Vasht! to Babylon, where he kills Miraone in the presence of the king. The faithful Vashti, whose unrequited love for her lord is the most beautiful element in the story, saves him and her- self from the tortures by entreating a kiss as the last favor from Naphtall, when, with a vial of poison concealed in her lips, she releases both from the terrible ordeal. Published by Lothrop Publishing Company. The June Century is alike = man's and & woman's number. For so-called business men there are articles on “Making Laws at hington,” & searching exposition of the machinery of congressional action, by Henry Loomis Nelson, the well-known stu- dent of public affairs, with attractive pic- tures by Keller; on “Tirumphs of Amer- lcan Bridge Building,” by Frank W. Skin- ner, with pictures of the most mnotabls bridges built by Americans; the second psper by Ray Stannard Baker on ““The t Southwest,” dealing with “The Des- “An Audience with Diaz," by Francls E. Leupp, the well-known Washington cor- respondent, and a curlous article' on “Bloodhounds in America” and their grow- ing in the west as detect! of par- ticular appeal to women are the third part of Mary Adams’ much-discussed *'Con- fesslons of & Wife," dealing with “Mother- hood,” and “The Royal Family of Eng- land,”” by Prof. Oscar Brownlng of Cam- bridge, England, setting forth some char- acteristics of the royal family based on personal acqualigtance, with several por- traits of the king and queen, two of which, in tint, form the double frentispiece of the sumber. The illustrations have great va- riety and include some pictures by Max- fleld Parrish in the series of the south- west, whose colored frontispleces in the WILD WITH ECZEMA And Other Itching, Burning, Scaly Eruptions with Loss of Hair. Speedy Cure Treatment $1.00 Bathe the affected parts with Hot Water and Caticura Soap, to cleanse the surface of crusts and scales, and softem the thickened cuticle. 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Scribner's Magazine for June shows, in & striking manner, both the progress of the times due to the latest advances in knowl- edge and a wealth of original literary material—notably the two great serials by the leading American writers, Richard Harding Davis and F. Hopkinson Smith. These two stories, which reach the highest mark in the achievement of each writer, are entirely different in scope and tre ment. One I5 a story of adventure and the other is & romance of artist-life in New York. “The New Agriculture,” by W. Harwood, is what the author calls glimpses into “the pages of a book of magic.” Few people realize that a thousand trained sol- entific men are at work, and a million dollars are expended annually by the gov- ernment to support the agricultural experi- ment stations in the various states. 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