Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 17, 1903, Page 9

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, e e e e e e e e The White Dress Suit Short Story by ELLIOT WALKER. 1%, IN THE FIELD OF ELECTRICITY Review of the Progress of the Industry During the Past Year. JANUARY 1 ST ) cook, like the poet, is born, not made. An | additional interest attaches to this culinary | autocrat because of the encouragement he | gives to women cooks. | It has alwass been said that women can | 1903, acquisition by American capital of control of all the new underground electric rail- way development in the British metropolis A technical feature not to be overlooked in this connection is the award of a con- tract during the past year for a long ‘cross- not attain L\ GAIN OF FIFTY PER CENT IN MANY LINES Some of the Great Contracts Awarded ~Increased Use n Rates for ¢ Thomas Commerford Martin, editor Electrical Word and Englaeer to the New Year issue of the Times the following review of progress during 1902 The United States census returns of elec- trical manufactures in 1900, published this year by the writer as expert agent for the government, revealed a total of close upon $105,000,000. Allowing an Increase of 20 per cent each year since the figures were com- plled, a total output of $150,000,000 for 1902 is reached In many lines of electrical industry the gain this last year has been 30 per cent No line of production has shown greater activity, though some may have ylelded larger profit. When to this amount are added the various sums expended Ameriean public for electric lighting, fo electric street car service for telegraphi and telephonic facilities, an annual outlay on electricity is exhibited of between $500,- 000,000 and $500,000,000 There are not many lines of industrial and fipanclal enterprises that exceed this, and it need not surprise us that the capital, obligations In the fleld have at- tained a figure this year not less than one quarter of these quoted for the great steam rallroad system of the country. Co ing that this system has itself begun tim- 1dly but surely. the process of electrifica- tlon, it would seem that present electrical production is soon destined to be eclipsed and that next after the work of consoli- dating the steam rouds will come the equal task involved In changing their motive power. In fact, the department tion alone would serve to test the im- portance of electricity to the community during 1902, and to the New Yorker, at least, 1f not to other citizens, 1t will suf- fice to point out the tremendous changes that impend for him as a result of the developments of the year. Of a sudden he finds himselt confronted with the fact that in addition to an extensive and indispens- able metwork of underground electric lines, he s to be furnished with main elec- tric raflroad tunnels converging on Man- hattan island from every polnt of the com- pass. One might be bold enough to say that without clectricity none of these operations s0 necessary to the comfort and convenience of millions of people ‘would have been undertaken. An investment of $240,000,000 to improve transit facilities depends directly upon the electric car and the electric locomotive, with the obvious corollary that no small portion of these millions will go into such apparatus and auxiliaries, power etations, circuits, etc. Even from this point of view nlone the confidence felt by the electrical manufacturer in 1902 as to his outlook is more than justified. The “Third Ra Moreover, the rather dlscouraging ex- perience of the adoption of the third rail method on the Manhaitan system fis re- garded as so entirely fnc{dental to unfor- tunate management that, while the elec- trical engineer resents it, be sees in it no detriment to future third-rall work on transportation routes, Indeed, it may be noted that, thanks to the “thirdl rail,” the public has already traveled in greater speed and comfort than ever before within the confines of the island, and has responded with such alacrity that the Increase in tares is without precedent. This again im- plies further demand for apparatus to such an eoxtent that it is already intimated Itkely that the system will need 10,000 horse power more of generating plant when all its lines call for current. In the meantime the success of the third rall system in this country, as well as at Liverpool and Berlin, has brought here this year the managers of several English trunk ronds which are now laying their plans for its adoption, and which, like many other transportation enterprises on the other side, will require part or all of their ma- chinery from us. Incidental to this, let it oot be forgotten that 1902 has seen the ABSOLUTE SECURITY, Carter’s Little Liver Pills. f the contributes New York electrical can of transporta- FOR HEADACHE. FOR DIZZINESS. FOR BILIOUSRESS, FOR TORPID LIVER, FOR CONSTIPATI FOR SALLOW SKIN, FOR THE COMPLEXION CURE 8ICK HEARAGHE. are those weighed down by ental de- Bresian ~SE e T B W bucyent nerve force. 'The loss 41 thls force daily d dows 1o Tajjure some of the workls MJ miuds. Buch & coudition is com. kuoww as Nervous Debility, Ml. rou lubG. confidence road] gaength. ue 'y and natve ores ot alippasis Sway, ILls high time you seck sensibie You prefer health and success to wmisery dné falture. bave mo equal Asa nerve restorer. A couple of buxes will & apel that heavy *he unpaters| we- merveus debllity, 1f meney tuck PRIy $1.00 per box ; 6 for 85,00 maile! in plaia package. ook free. le by Kuhn & Co. Omal Lrug Store. South Omaha. M Councll Eluffs, I by the | nsider- | country road to be operated by the alter- | nating current, namely, that between Wash- ington, Baltimore, Annapolis, etc., while analogous work is in hand in other parts Hitherto in America, and with but one or two exceptions in Europe, all elec- tric rallway work has been done with dlrect current, although this has often been generated as alternating and transtormed to direct at sub-stations for uee. Now, it the newer methods win out, the alvo, high pressures, long distances and small | wires wil be enjoyed without all the ex- pensive. transformation paraphersalia and losses. It is a development devoutly to be | wished and closely to be watched. New Inventions. Blectric lighting bas pursued a quiet course of expansion and has little ‘o record but prosperity and the annexation of new territory. The only new devices of great value put on the circuits are the | mereury vapor lamps of Peter Cooper Hewitt and the glower lamps of Nernst, | both affording illumination that fits into specific flelds of utility, and, while adding to the resources of the art, bid fair to in- | crease the revenues of the central stations. Heating appliances have also improved and { Increased in varlety and the difficulty of getting coal to the private house has made | many a man study the feasibility of doing more of his cooking and warming with such | clean and dainty domestic accessories. | But the greatest increase In central sta- tion income has come from plain light and | power. The New York Edison company has | signalized a year when everything went up | in price by reducing its rate for current, | although its fuel cost more, and one result of such an action has been to reduce the | number of isolated plants which in New | York, as elsewhere, have thriven while the | cost of current is high. As to electric power, the growth in 1902 was simply phenomenal, so that the com- pany just mentioned is doing thirty times much of it as it did ten years ago. The opportunities in this direction are virtually illimitable and none the less real because of their magnitude. The census statistics show that in 1900, of all the power used in American manufacturing establishments, barely 4 per cent was then electrical. The margin of possible occupation thus | bresented is such as few industries have | ever had opened up to them and s enough | to explain the intense activity of factories producing electric motor: Another ex- planation lies in the tounding fact that in America, home of invention and ingenu- ity, land of machine processes and {ntensi- fied methods, two-thirds of the shops out of over 500,000 depend on hand labor. An enviable arena of opportunity lies there, and under a regime of electric power possi- bilities of production on & colossal scale loom up, while giving to every workman his chance at individual expression in his wares. It is a significant fact that in 1902 the output of small metors for just that Kkind of use was unusuajly large 'ower T Power transmission, whether associated with or separate from electric fallway or lighting work, has absorbed large sums of money during 1902, and the coal strike marked up the values: of waterfalls in a most extraordincry manmer. Those sources of energy may,saffer from drouth, but are not subject to the caprice of walking dele- gates. Aslde from the long distance work exploited out in California or in the province of Madras, Indla—with circuits spanning 220 miles—the notable illustration 1s still td be found at Niagath. ¥ The last year saw extengiye operations there on both banks of the ‘river, and wit- nessed upon the Canadian shore the be- ginning of a plant which will shelter the big- gest dynamos yet built. These machines now being put together in New York state will bave a capacity of over 10,000 horse power each, generating current at & potential of 12,000 volts for the line. Three of them are to be set up at once. And while all around Niagara itself such power is being con- sumed in Increasing quantlties steps have been taken the last year to deliver it a far away as Toronto, seventy wumiles off across the lake, 8 g Telegraphy is not altogether‘dead, mor is it sleeping, even it for the bulk of fts work it adheres to the time-honored key ‘and under, and unfortunately looks askance at machine telegraphy which alone can cheapen it. While wireless methods are coming in for a great deal of work hitherto done by submarine cable, it is memorable that 1902 saw an all-American cable laid in the Gulf of Mexico, 540 miles in th, and that an American company bey ing a Pacific cable that will join San Fran- cisco with all the cities of the far east. Wireless telegraphy has, however, a trade of its own to foster, whether It cross the Atlantic or not for regular service, and last year as much as $300 was picked up on single trips from the passengers ofi ocean liners sending or receiving Marconigrams. Better yet, the suspicious stock jobbing in the new art has ceased, and patient merit Is slowly coming to its own. There are 50 many branches of electric endeavor one cannot note them ajl, and some are in less hopeful state than others. Thus the wild speculation in automobile stocks has seen market paper values of $98,000,000 authorized and $45,000,000 out- standing reduced Lo about $7,500,000 at pres- ent quotations. Yet electric autos are multiplying all the and there is a strong current of hope- about them, whether with existing storage batteries or the better ones prom- ised. Telpherage, the new art of aerial conveyance on overhead wire or girder rail of freight and supplies, by traveling motor, is remarkably active, and, although a nov- elty in 1902, & great number of useful plants ere installed all over the country, while arrangements were made by leading con- cerns In Burope to take it up there. But all this more novel extension of elec- trical ideas and methods s well summed up | in the Mittle facts that last month the eity | of Chicago found it necessary to appoint an X-ray expert to watch cases where his evi- dence would be helptul, and that one of the items of & large and growing export elec- | trical trade was the delivery by a Philadel- | phia firm to the Japanese government of an X-ray outfit, to be used In the national mint to detect how many of the employes have placed gold colns on deposit in thelr stomachs. Electricity is not only opposed naturally to the withdrawal of the precious metals from circulation but yearly in every way Is doing more to increase their supply and to provide mew opportunities of em- ployment for labor and Intelligenca. Fame. Your great man shines before the popu- lace in vain—without the newspaper. He spread-eagles the constitution in vatn— without the newspaper. His clarion voice wakes up the universe in vain—without the pewspaper. His most astounding financial enterprises serve him n vain—without the newspaper. His sclentific researches and achievements are in vain—without the | newspaper. Mis wireless telegraph would be complishmest of small merit—with- out the newspaver. His moving sermons, rattling hell fire In the faces of sinners, are vain—without the newspaper. His suc- cesses in every walk of life are vain—with- out the mewspaper. The newspaper is the fame-maker of the age. Of course, some of the fame is cheap, but It satisfies the living wearer of the cloak, even though posterity ‘my change it.—New York Press. advantages of the alternating current for ! What are you golng to wear, Sherman?" | Gladys Brooke put down her coffee cup | and fixed her sparkiing eyes inquiringly upon the face opposite. Her husband laughed. “Well,”" he said, “if I am. foolish enough to allow myself to be invelgled into at- tending a masquerade ball I am bright enough to keep the secret of my costume to myself. I don’t believe 1 shall tell you, my dear. “Now, that's what 1 call his pretty wife in course you'll tell me, all about mine.” The big lawyer smiled indulgently. “1 don’t know,” he sald slowly. “I am afrald you will let it out. It's such a splen- did idea that I fear you will not be able to hold it. Oh, it's fine, Gladys,” he added temptingly as Mre. Brooke's pink cheeks to flush with impatience. never breathe a word to a soul,” she asservated. “Please tell me.’ “It's a white dress sult, then,” sald Brooke. “White mask to cover my face, black shirt front with a big pearl stud and white shoes. What do you think of 1t?" “Splendid,” exclaimed the lady with en- thusiasm. “‘Won't people know your figure, though “I guess not. All men look alike in black dress suits, and I imagine no one will know me. “Whose idea was it? You neve of such a bright thing, Sherman The dapper new butler, standing silently in the corner, smiled falntly as Brooke pointed at him “Holley told me, mean,” erfed consternation. “Of Sherman. 1 told you thought sald Sherman with a laugh. “‘He sald he saw it used once In San Francisco with great suce 1 can get it made of cheap cloth, and have a false bosom cut out of black batiste, that will do nicely.” His wife beamed proudly upon him. “You will be grand,” she cried; “simply grand.” She was proud of her husband's manly proportions, and the notion impressed her. “Just a week from tonight, and we will be getting ready,” she observed. ‘It will take me a good while to dress. We must have dinner early, Holley, and you will have to help Mr. Brooke, and keep house for us. I'm sorry we can't go together, Sherman, but I'm going with Mrs. Prudden, and she is on the reception committee and has to be there early, You need not come until 9 o'clock. The Intermission Is at 11, when we unma “Mr. Brooke's sult is already being made, ma'am. Tl attend to everything,” said the butler, His keen, smooth-shaven face was im- passive, and his low volce pleasing and respectful, as he ‘nclined his head toward his mistress. He had been in the Brooke's employ only a few weeks and was proving a treasure. Quick, quiet and intelligent, he was already making life more comforta- ble for them in many ways and they re- garded him with grateful eyes. Armed with high references from people of prom- inence in a far western city, he had slipped into the shoes of his erring predecessor upon the very day of that worthy's di charge. Thomas' predilection for the de- canter had led to his downfall. The Brookes were very well to do, and their silver was the admiration of the many friends who dined at their hospitable board during the year. Gladys had a passion for the elegancies of gold and sil- ver, and her most valuable personal jew: were to her a source of both pride and responsibility. Her husband often laughed her habit of hiding these ornaments. never know where they are” he would say, and Mrs. Brooke would smile back, I do not mean that anyone shall know. So the little casket contalning the beau- tiful Brooke éiamonds was always finding new and cecure hiding places, and Glad. alone knew its abode. Throughout the week preceding the great soclety event Holley was very thoughtful and Mr. Brooke very busy. “I've a queer client on hand, Glady,” he sald one evening. ‘“‘He has been to consult me half a dozen times lately. Not a gen- tleman, exactly, but very intelligent and a perfect shark for getting advice. Some mining claim that he has, and he tires me all out asking questions. 1 am about through with him now, thank goodness. He pays well, though. People on the busy street occasionally noticed A tall, well bullt, soberly clad man walking bebind the lawyer, and remarked upon the similarity of the physical appear- ance of the two men, but Mr. Brooke was entirely unaware of the sharp eyes that noted his pecullarities of stride and swing. It he had, and had known that his ‘n- quisitive client with his long nose and lanky form occupled an obscure room with the big stranger who had been seen on the street so near him he might have thought it strange—or he might not. The week passed and the night of the masque ball came. Mrs. Brooke had rolled away, gorgeously atilred as a sheperdess, with a beribboned silver crook of great di- mensions protruding from the window of Mrs, Pruden's carriage. Sherman was standing before the long mirror in bis dressing room in his white dress sult. “It fits beautifully, Holley," proudly. “It's & great scheme. No one will know me except Mrs. Brooke. As my coupe won't be here for half an hour yet, I belleve I'll take a little nap. I've felt drowsy ever since dinner—ate too fast, 1 guess, or it was that new ale. You wi me in twenty minutes, Holley." He stretched himselt on the divan, yawned once or twice, and presently his sterterous breathing proclaimed him sound asleep. Then the butler listened caretully, he heard the distant volces of the kitchen, and at the far end of the hall the song of a nurse crooning to a little child. Then he stepped across the hall- way to a seldom used room and unlocked the door of a closet. “Come, Tke,” he whispered. tor you now."” A few moments' manipulation of a bottle and sponge, a quick undressing of the senseless flgure, five minutes’ more of rapld work and & blg man in a white dress suit, assisted by the little butler, carried a limp form into a bed chamber and laid t gently down “I put & few drops in his beer,” said Holley. “It worked just right. Put on your mask now and do your best. Here's your carriage. Good night, Mr. Brooke, e called his accomplice walked down the steps. “Good night,” responded the hearty voice, exactly like the butler's master's “He's perfect,” said the butler to bim- selt. “I'll keep an eye on my sieeping beauty and see that be doesn't wake. Un- less the madam comes home unexpectedly there won't be a hitch, Ike's got his voice, his walk, his motions—aow he wants to get the Information, and be will if any- body can. 1'd like to hear him work it." Gladys Brook bad been watching tho man in the white dress suit admiringly. “I would kpow him in & mipute,” she thought. “No ome else has that way of swinging his hand, or steps just as he doe 1 hope he will come and talk to me soon.” But it was a long bour before the white figure swung easily to ber side. She was sitting a little apart from the crowd, alone for & moment. The man sat down by her and drew a long breath as if tired. “Want to go bome, Sherman?’ she sald. he eaid “All ‘ready “You haven't given out so soon, have you? No,” sald he, “I'll stick it out, I guess { am enjoying it." The masqueraders surged. up to them and away Gladys chattered brightly an opportunity for more extended talk “I am glad you did not wear your jewels tonight, Gladys,” he began “Why, of course I wouldn't with costume,” she responded. “Imagine sheperdess decked out in my diamonds.” “I don’t think much of your present hid- “An upper drawer ing place,” he observed. 18 no sort of protection.” “They are not in the upper drawer. 1 What do put them in the third drawer you mean, Sherman “Why, I certainly saw them in the upper in betore one tonight. I went in after a I left the house. I can't be mi “You are,” cried Gladys. them there. “Well, I had them in my hand, and 1 ought to know, aken." somewhere elee, and forgot it. I would try a safer place, my dear.” His tone was so convincing that Gladys The crash of the orchestra, the clamor of many volces, all tended to disturb her train of was quite upset for the moment. thought as she tried to recall the exact circumstances of her last mysterious dis- posal “Sherman Brooke,” she said at last remember distinctly wrapping that casket in a silk petticoat and tucking it into the left hand corner of my third bureau drawer. There. Before that it in the bottom of my brown trunk." The man laughed softly. “Well, let it go,” he added us bother about it. get home and make sure. unusually g What orchestra is t?" “Treadway's—it is fine,” answered his vietim. “Where are you going®" “Out for a breath of alr. My head aches 1 may go home soon after we unmask. You will stay, I suppose.” “Yes, I'm going back with Mrs ‘Don’t let Pruden. It may be 2 o'clock, but don’t you stay, Sherman. I'll be all right, dear.” She watched the white figure through the laughing groups. “He probably saw something covered up and jumped at that conclusion, flected. ““How foolish.” Another man wearing cofiventional even- she re- ing dress and a black mask glided to the The pretty shepherdess eyed vacated seat. him inquisitively. “Know me, Mrs. cooly. “Why, no. Who Is it? recognize me?” Her companion lifted his disguise smiled. “Chiet Farley. Well, 1 declare “Rather off my beat, eh? I just dropped in to see how things were running. wa Brooke?" he How did you and sn't it fine. Sher— Ob, I forgot.” dreadful man. us all. Now, I've let it but.” Farley laughed easily. “1 guessed it,” he safd. *“Oh, dear! “Of course, tiv “Certainly T wi my thing: “Thin “Why, 1t My diamon« set. not in my upper drawer, and they're not at all,” concluded Glatlys cufiningly. “1 see. He knéws now."’ “He ought to. Farley rose slowly. “I must be going, I'm afraid. I hope you'll stay late and enjoy it, Mrs. Brooke.” “8-s-h! I'm little Bo-peep. Good-bye. Two minutes more and the officer leaped into & cab outside. “To the station, quick, Tom,” he said. He leaned back with a great sigh of rellef. “So that's why he has dogged Brooke. I'll take Perry along and get there first. The rascal is in the hall yet." It would have been well for Holley had he looked out the window before he opened the door. As it was, he stood in the dim light with his hand on the lock, heard a carriage stop, then careful steps. You, Tke? e The door swung cautiously, inward. A g, a strangling clutch, a flop. “Handcuft and gag him, Perry,” whis- pered Farley, his wiry fingers on the vic- tim's windpipe. “No noise. We'll take the others right here.” It was not a long wait. The officers’ con- veyance disappeared at a whistle. Another rumbled up and stopped. The man in the white dress suit and Brooke's inquisitive client were too surprised to offer much re- sistance. The revolver muzzles were too cold. A rapld trip to the station with their prisoners, then Farley drove back to the house and hastened up the stairs. “Where am 1% muttered Sherman, re- sponding to a vigorous shake. “Ohb, yes. All right, Holley! time's up, I suppos Went sound asleep, didn't 1? Well, I'll feel better for a good nap. Why—why—Chief, it fsn’t you? What in creation is it?" He sat up wildly, pressing his aching head. Nothin, tul reply. has been talking too freely with a chap in & white dress sult, and you will bave to get & new butler. Lie down again. 1 guess you don't feel llke going to any masquerade ball.” Well, he was wrong.” lightly. all right o tefl you, of course you know.' to worry about,” was the cheer- KING EDWARD'S HEAD COOK Draws a Salary of Two Thousand & Year and Has Titles o Bur King Edward's cook enjoys a salary of £2,000, about the same as & lieutenant gen- eral in the army or an admiral of the fleet. It {e more than many bishops get, and the keeper of fhe British museum has to be content with far less. M. Menager, whose reputation is second to nome as a chef, is about 40 years old and a native of southern France. This autocrat of the king's kitchen does not sleep under the king's roof, but has his private residence in a street not far away. With the king's breakfast he has nothing to do; an artist could not be expected to produce three masterpleces in one day. So, at about 11 o'clock, the prince of chefs steps into a hansom and is driven to Buck- ingham, palace. There, in a large, sunny | kitchen, overlooking the lawns, he receives the luncheon carte, drawn up by Lord Farquhar, and his work begins. First of all, he orders what will be required, and the master of the kitchen sees that all the articles come in, checks each item, and then sends the account to Sir Nigel Kings. cote, the paymaster, who writes” ot & check in payment. After luncheon rved M. Menager rev tires at once, to reappear at § o'clock, when the t event of the day—the preparation for dipner—commences. That over, the artist ls free for the evening. It is worth poting that he owes his enviable post solely to bard work amd—genlus, for the and made guesses at random. Every little while & gap in the immediate crowd would leave this ‘I never put returned her companion. “You may have intended to have put them think 1 “1 Only look when you Isn't that music push fnquired By the your friend In white is well got up.” She clapped a finger to her lips In dismay. “You You see, T think you know “When I saw you in such an argument 1 ¢ouldn’t help it.” “You were 80 posi- 1 kibw where I hide r. Brooke 1s so 1 couldn’t convinee him that they were “Only that a certain shepherdess to great helghts as cooks and creators of dishes, and that, just as they fail to excel in music, poetry and painting they fail also in the higher mysteries ot a | cooking. It is very Interesting to learn the testimony of the king's cook, that this is no longer true, however true it may have been formerly. M. Menager 1o the first chef to admit that women have any talent in this direction, and says that hix women assistants do conceive great works for | which he, as chef, gets the credit. For | | this generous concession women ought to | teel very grateful, for, coming from such a | high quarter, it woll undoubtedly do much | to remove the popular notion as to women’s | lack of creative capacity in the kitchen. | And, further, M. Menager says that there | are renowned kitchens in London which have frequently served up linners ao his| royal master and are controlled entirély by | women cook | DOGS TRAINED TO HUNT MEN | Polnts on the Education of Blood- hounds Employed to Track | | | | Criminals, I The first attempt to track a criminal in the city of Washington with bloodhounds, relates the Washington Post, was made | recently when Detective Trumbo set | his two hounds In pursuit of the murderer of Mre. Kate Jordan in Ana- costia, a few hours after the erime In Washington it has been thought that blood hounds would be of little service, and it is found that they can pick up the scent on asphalt pavement only with the greatest difficulty. Conditions in the Anacostia case, however, were differen The hunt for the murderer was going on with promise ot awift success until a fall of snow covered the trail so effectively as to make it im- possible, after the scent had been lost on one side of the river, to pick {t up on the other. Detective Trum s bloodhounds are ugly animals, but their looks belie their Intelli- gence, as well as thelr aristocratic lineag for which thelr owner prizes them. T dogs, now grown to be large, were puppie that he slid into his overcoat pocke when he bought them down in Tennessee. Now they are 9 months old and have graduated from a course of education in Washington. The first thing they learned was to re- spond to their nAmes—Raymond and Mame | —and then to a peculiar whistle that the detective composed for the purpose. After. ward came a course of kindergarter work | in the ordinary dog play of locating things by scent. The dogs, after sport taught to hunt for it Mame from the start seemed to h e the keener olfactory sense, while her companion was inclined to become tired after the least work After the hounds had been educated to locate objects with which they were familiar they were allowed to smell of an unfamiliar ob- Ject and then told to hunt it. They becamo proficient In returning the objects of their quest to thelr master. To teach them' this took weeks of patient toll. It completed their grammar school course. Finally they were taken out in the coun- try for college education. They were held while Detective Trumbo would take a run off out of sight. It was easy for them to follow one with whom they were 5o fa- miifar as their master, especially as the scent was In the open air. , Their final leasons came in their being allowed to fol- low colored men hired to travel across the country. When the dogs were pcrmitted to follow Human beings they ecemed to’be 1 their element. They have been very accurate in following the exact path taken by men. On one trial the trail led along a creek bounded on both sides by steep banks. The man pursued was fully an hour ahead ot the dogs and their master. Suddenly, as the dogs were followlng the scent, they left the creek and started up the bank, to the consternation of Detective Trumbo, who had ordercd ihe “fugitive” to follow the creek. The hounds went to the summit of a bluff, but returned to th creek again. When the man was found De- tective Trumbo asked him why he went up the bluff. At first he denied it, but, afte thinking, said: *Oh, yes; I went up thero to tle my shoe.” Christmas eve, when the dogs were taken to the scene of the Anacostia murder, the work of tracking men was not new to them They obtained a scent of the eriminal from a chair on which he had been seated, and followed his track directly to the river The ancestors of the dogs are sald to be the coldest-nosed inbred breed in the United States. Last July their mother, owned by J. W. McCall of Knoxville, Tenn., earned $1,000 reward by running down criminal elghty-three miles away and on a | track twenty-eight hours old. The sire of with a ball, were Na ride. “If I were not an Englishman,” said the | Briton, patronizingly, *I should wish to be an Irishman.” “Indade?’ exclaimed the Irishman. “Faith, if Of was not an Irishman, Oi'd wish 01 was one."—Philadelphia Press. ve on | { val, 'C’3, | Hamilton. | C., division No. | are’ minors it would see | pleader obviously inten | president, appearing on the rote was m; SUPREME COURT SYLLABI. reported 117%. bank. Day, C. State alnst Omaha National Error from Douglus. Affirme writes opinion of affirmance; Nor concurs; Sedgwick, J rcurs Holcomb, ' J., concurs; Sullivan. L dis: senting; Hastings, C., dissenting Where property 'has beer iaken from the plaintiff without his knowledge or or of those having the lawful custe control over it, the motive which pr the defendant to rec and_dispose is an immaterial issue. ' But this rul not apply when the piaintiff, his age servant having the lawful custody or con- trol over the property, nts to or re quests the defendant to e and disy of it. In such case guilty intent Is essentlal element of conversian 9457, Solt against Anderson. Appeal from iand dismissed. * P ive t must be in accordance with nd record as a whole, and if_the plaintiff’s pleadings, taken togéther show that he Is not entitied to recover judgment in his favor is erroneous, though ould be sustained by the petition and swer. As a sale of real property is in equity a conversion of the land Inte money, ex- cept in case of a homestead, the vendor's interest passes to his personal representa- tives on his death, and the legal title is considered to he heéld as security for pay- ment of the pyrchase m 3. The personal representative ceascd vendor may maintain a specific performance of the cont section 2354, chapte Compile 1901 4. Unless the property is a homestead the nllegations of the personal representative in such a suit, at least in the absence of fraud and collusfon, are binding upon all )ns interested in the estate. 5. An allegation by a personal representa tive in such a suit that the property s a nomestead. ls for the benefit of the heirs and cannot be said to prejudice them 6. Ordinarily ~the . purchase money re covered in such a suit Is personalty and is to be distributed as such: but where the land in question is a homestoad, so that he proceeds would stand as exempt an lleu of the land, the purc money. not exceeding $2.000, i ot 10 be regarded as personalty. but should be turned over to those to whom the homestead would descended by operation of law 7. In such ease, ‘as the statute requires the heirs at law to be made parties, the decree should provide that they, and not the personal representative, recover the 1. A judgm the ‘pleadings de- for nder itutes, of a sult rct 4 vendor in a contract for sale of a homestead which has not been acknowl- ¢dged property may withdraw ut any time before a deed has been executed and de- livered, or the homestead right zbandoned, pursuant thereto, 9. 1f he dies before ofiment of the homestead © e or wband- contract those who succeed to his rights | under the statute may refuse to complete e sale, 10. In case such persc or some of them, way in which such a coptract can be car- rled out. Hence, it seems that specific pe formance of a contract to convey a_home stead, not properly executed and acknowi- edged, will not be granted at suit of either party 11 Admission in an answer tract for the sale of land was hat a con- executed” | in the alsence of anything to restrict the meaning of that term, admits that it was duly acknowledged when acknowledgment was necessary to make the contrcet valid and enforceable 12. But the me xecuted' xt, may be restricted by the con- and will then cover such acts as il d ty refer to, 11048, Preston aga‘nst Northwestern Cereal company. Appeal from Douglas. Affirmed Hastings, C.. division No. 1 1. An accommodation i{ndorsement by a manufacturing and trading corporation is witra vires. 2. Evidence examined and held to sustain finding that loan was made +o the signer | POFt th and first endorser of note, and the endorse- ment of the corporation, of which he was de and accepted as an accommodation indorse- ment and created no Hablity 11688, Dufrene against Anderson. ,Error from Douglax. Former judgment vacatec reversed. Albert, C., division No. 2. 1. On the facts siated a conveyance of real estate by a debtor is held to have been in fraud of his creditors 2, In an action to set asid ance the finaneial condition convey- grantor | at the time of making the merely un_evidental fac question of fraud, and ne , his financlal ¢ iment of such 3. The defense of the statute of limitations ts walved unless Interposed by demurrer 1 not be ple ndition at the fon. com- ‘suant to the | that there 18 no | ning to be given the term | | The following opinions will be ofclaily | | clent ¢ | Habiity i | chaser | | | on by | | l | or by sufficient averments in the answers, 1. Ar averment in the answer, couctied in the Janguage of & general demurrer to the petition. is a bare conclusion of law and insuficient to interpose the defense of the statute of Hmitations 11813, Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Rall road company against Wintrey. Error from Nemaha. Affirmed. Holcomb, J 1. Ihe finding of @ jury on a disputed ? fact when suppurted by suM- mpetent evide will not be di 1 by o roviewing court, even thoug examination of the record, the scems to preponderate to the con- stato that 0 carrying i e of them imputation of neg s and the to respond fixed unless It s made injury arc J th of the passen violation of sc tion of the car wotice of the party 3. Ordinarily existence of negligence such as will sustity or defeat a right of recovery for damages a jury recelved by a passe r while being transported by a rallway company fs for the jury to deter- mine as It determines other questions of fact 4. Where a plea of ¢ mony is con or peguln- rctunlly brought' to the Infured upon an fesue of fact raised hy tributory negligence the testi- Cting, ' or whe the evidence as a whole is such a ¢ as that reasong minds* migh fairly draw dif- ferent conclusions therefrom it Is for the jury and not the court to determine the question of contributory negligence. It fs only where the facts are not In ontroversy or the evidence is of such a character as but one rational inference can be drawn therefrom that the court Js wa ranted In determining the question of negll- gence as a matter of law "6 It 18 not necesearfly gross negligence in every case for & pussenger 1o attempt to leave a train, even though at the time 1t in_motion, Contributory negligence on of ‘u passenger which will avold a recovery must be an act committed under such clr- cumstances as to render it obviously and necessar erllous and to show a willful rd of the danger incurred thereby. nintiff was a passenger on defendant rain; when she had reached her on and while attempting to leave r in which she was riding and before d reached the door. the train began and she was compelled 10 chonse instantly and without time for reflection as to her course of action and continued the act of alighting from the train ard in dolng so was Injured thereby. held, that such a would not of itself necessarily bar a r y and that the question of contributory negligence was properly’ sub- mitted to the jury and its determination thereof was final 9. Criminal negligence as used i the statute which will defeat a recovery for an injury. received by a passenger s defined to mean gross negligenee, such as ameunts 1o a reckless disregard of one's nwn safety and a willful ndiffe to the conse- uence Habls to fol Burlington y Rallroad company against Porter, the part ence examined and held sufficlent to support the verdict of the jury. 11. Certaln instructions ecomplained of riven to the jury examined and held not to be prejudiclally_erroneous 118, Citizens State bank of Newman Grove against Nori Error from Boone. Reversed. Lobingler, C., division No, 1. 1. In this sta a statute will not be econ- strue s 10 make a negotlable instru- ment vold In the hands of a hona fide pur- unless the act specifically so de- clares. 2. A note given for medical services by an unlicensed practitioner may be recovered a bona fide purchas otwithstand- Ing the provisions of chapter & f the Com. piled Statutes prohibiting the practice of medicine without a license 11946, Fremont Brewin, Hansen. Error from Dodge ment vicated; afirmed B umsmly against ormer judg- 0 iffe, C., division No. Evidence examined and found to sup- finding of the jury. 11459, National Life Insurance compan: against County of Dawes. Reversed, Sedg- 1. The purpose of the requirement that county warrants shall cxpress on thelir face the amount levied and wppropriated to the fund upon which they are drawn, and the amount already eypended of such sum, is to guard against the over drawing of warrants against the fund. 2. A county arrant, in excess of 8 per cent of the levy againit which it is drawn, is vold. The county board eannot esto the county to assert the invalidity of sucl warrant by indorsing on the warrant a false statement of the amount of the levy which makes the warrunt on its face mp- pear to be within the statutory limit. Bacon against Dawes county, 8 N. W. Rep., 313, followed.