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DEVOTION TO DUTY.
Almost Caused Roosevelt to Miss the
McKinley Inauguration.
A vice president seated in solitary
grandeur in the senate chamber,
while the ceremony of a presidential
inauguration to which he has been
invited as an honored guest is going
on outside, surely presents a spec
tacle with an element of humor in it.
Few persons, says Francis K. Leupp,
in Century, know how near Theodore
Roosevelt came to playing such a
part on the 4th of March, 1901. 1 he
senate stickles so for minor details
of etiquette that even a reformer of
Mr. Roosevelt’s sturdy type would
hardly have ventured to transgress
rn 11>^ nnfl t 1111 v require that a for
mal motion to adjourn shall be put
before a day’s session can be put to
an end. After his inauguration as
vice president in the senate chamber,
Mr. Roosevelt took the gavel, and
when the routine business was fin
ished directed the sergeant-at-arms,
as usual, to proceed with the cere
mony of inauguraing Mr. McKinley
as president.
It was then in order for some sen
ator to move an adjournment; but
in the confusion nobody- seemed to
have his wits about him, and the
whole assemblage, including the sen
ators, quitted the chamber for the
east portico, where the oath was to
be administered and the address de
livered. In a few minutes the vice
president found himself alone, witjj
a fair prosper ^>J..re,7iain'Tng'so until
the day’s performances were over.
But it chanced that Senator HeitfeW
missed his hat while passing through
the corridor, and came back to look
for him. Face to face with the vice
president it occurred to the senator
that something must be wrong, so
with the utmost gravity he moved
“that the senate do now adjourn.”
Mr. I voosevelt. with equal solemnity,
put the motion, declared it carried,
and proceeded in Mr. Heitfeld’s
company to the place on the presi
dential stand which had been re
served for him.
WEALTH IN OLD STUMPS.
Dividends Now Paid on What Was
Once Worse Than Valueless.
“A ‘tar heeler’ from North Caro
' -"jina recently arrived in (ieorgia and
has made a barrel of money out of
the old pine stumps, left from the
timber that has been cut in the years
gone by,” said 1>. S. Atkinson, of
Atlanta, to a Washington Star man
at the Normandie the othermorning.
“He is buying all the stumps that the
farmers deliver at his plant and is
k paying a good price for them, so that
the farmers, too, are getting the ben
efit of his enterprise. From the
stumps this North Carolinian ex
tracts creosote, turpentine, tar and
charcoal, and he is now experiment
ing so as to get white lead from the
stumps and believes that he will be
successful. These stumps have not
been worth di<n>in<r u» except for the
purpose of clearing fields for plant
ing purposes, for as firewood they
would hardly pay the cost of removal,
but now the farmers have gone to
work and will not only clear up their
fields, but will secure a good price for
their stumps in addition. Stump
pulling machinery is now in great de
mand in that section. This machine
with the aid of amulepullsthestump,
root and all, in short order, while un
der the old system the farmer had to
'Y dig it up by main force.”
LITTLE CITIES.
Municipal Corporations with Less
Than a Hundred Population.
Among the curious revelations of
the census, says the Boston Tran
■ script, the fact that there are in
the United States quite a number of
cities which are so ridiculously small
in population as to make it a matter
of wonder and amazement that they
are really cities. The population of a
few such cities may be given as illus
trations. The city of Johnson, Kan.,
has a population of only 15, and the
population of the city of Coronado,
in the same state, is even less, being
only 10. There are several cities in
Kansas which have very diminutive
populations, as follows: Bird, 88;
B/ainerd, TO; Ford, 82; Freeport, 85;
Horace, 90; llugoton, 54; Richfield,
G1; Tribune, 02; Ulysses, 40. The
city of Siloam Springs, .Mo., has a
population of 98. The city of Brigan
tine, N. J., has a population of 99,
but small as is the population of that
city, it is nearly five times as large
as that of the city of Lavallette in tlie
same state, which has a population
of only 21. The city which exceeds
all the others in the diminutiveness
of its population is the city of Rainy
Lake, Minn., which has a population
of only 7.
. GIRL'S FATAL JOKE.
She Is Now Locked Up Awaiting
Trial for Manslaughter.
An extraordinary case will come
before the courts of Montreal, Que-/
bee, as the result of a verdict of man-i
slaughter returned by the coroner’*
jury at an inquest held into thr
death of A. Procal Fex, the six-yea b
old son of Joseph Fex, of St. Lagare
county, of Vaudreuill, near Mon
treal, who died after several monuhs
of terrible suffering and agony, says
the Toronto Mail and Empire. The
evidence showed that in June ft lie
fater, accompanied by the deceased,
had gone to a building bee at Mij Al
phonse Charlebois’, who resides in
the same parish. There were airreat
many farmers in the parish, present.
Some time during the day M iss Su
duda Charlebois, 20 years on age,
gave the child.a red pepper to eat.
The little fellow soon became very
sick and went into convulsions.
Vomiting was continuously kept up
for five or six days, and after that
time he was never able to swallow
food. The pause of death, according
to the medical testimony, was starva
tion.
Other testimony showed that Miss
Charlebois, for a joke had put a large
quantity of pepper in the soup of one
of the men who was at the bee, but he
did not swallow enough of it to do
serious harm. 1—
The coroner summed up the cvi
dgYiW at great length. lie pointed
nut tn ttrn llirv tliat xvl-wvn rlnofli
curs as the.result of an act which was
not in itself intended to cause death,
but merely for mischievous purposes,
the perpetrator becomes criminally
responsible for the death. The jury
was only locked up a short time,
when it returned a verdict holding
Miss Sududa Charlebois criminally
responsible for the death of the boy,
and ordered her arrest.
SENATOR COCKRELL’S APPLE.
Must Be Forthcoming Every Day at
Exactly the Same Hour.
Exactly at 1:30 o’clock each after
noon Senator Cockrell eats an apple.
Senator Cockrell is regarded as the
democratic “watch dog.” He scans
closely every bill which is being con
sidered for passage and calls atten
tion to many matters which the ma
jority are glad to have corrected. If
he is busily engaged in watching
a bill he sends to his committee room
for his apple. If, however, he can
leave the senate chamber as well as
not, he goes to his committee room
to take his refreshment of fruit.
That he gives the same careful
thought to this habit that he does to
matters of greater importance was
•illustrated one day just before the
end of the session, says the Washing
ton Star, lie was extremely busy in
the senate, but as if by instinct he
kept watch of the clock until the hour
of 1:30 had arrived. Then he drew
forth a scratch pad and scribbled this
note to the clerk: “Open the left
hand top drawer of my desk and send
me an apple. Not the reddest one,
but the one next to that in color.”
WHY SHE WAS BARRED.
How a Clerk Interpreted the Judge’s
Illegible Hand-Writing.
One of the court clerks in Brook
lyn unconsciously perpetrated a
joke on Justice William D. Dickey,
of the New York supreme court, a
short time ago which the learned
justice failed to fully appreciate. A
suit in which mother and daughter
were disputing the possession of
some property had come before
him, and after hearing the facts of
the case Justice Dickey indorsed on
the papers this memorandum:
“The mother is not entitled to
the property and should not be al
lowed to interplead.”
The jurist’s penmanship is some
times crabbed and almost illegible,
and the clerk of the court, says the
New York Times, made the follow
ing transcription in the court jour
nal:
“The mother is not entitled to
marry and should not be allowed to
interfere.’’_
First Census Ways.
The original schedules of the first
census are now contained in 20 bound
volumes, preserved in theintciiorde
partment. For the most part the
headings of the schedules were writ
ten in by hand. Indeed, up to and
including 1K20 the assistant mar
shals generally used such paper as
they happened to have,rulingit,writ
ing in the headings, and binding the
sheets together themselves. In some
cases merchants’ account-paper was
used, and now and then the sched
ules were bound inside of a newspa
per.—Director W. It. Merriam’s
“The Evolution of Census-Taking,”
in Century.
I LIFE AT PESHAWUR.
Characteristics of Country About the
Ravines of Khyber.
The ravines of the Khyber itself
are at least as safe as the close alleys
of Peshawur. The spirit and color of
the place belong not to India, but to
central Asia. Its bazars and camel
market, says the London Tele
graph remind you that it is a point
of departure from Kabul to Bokhara,
as its history reminds you that the
old winter capital of the Afghan
court is still a stronghold of fanati
cism that has not ceased to scowl,
and still longs to strike. It is now
several years since the last murder of
a sahib. Upon that occasion the sta
tion master, a worthy man of middle
age, walked up and down his plat
form, unaware that a Ghazi from the
border was following his shadow and
studying his back meditating the ex
act spot to drive at with a curved
knife. At that point his life was
saved by the accident which ex
changed it for another. A young
British officer appeared upon the
platform, and the fanatic, at the
sight of a victim more to his mind,
dropped the station master and
killed^the subaltern.
One of the features of the Pesha
war is the tall obelisk amid the shady
foliage of the mall raised to the mem
ory of the British commissioner of
the city, who was struck down in
1853. The unattended visitor who
has walked about the bazar will con
fpss if lip is pamlirl Hint if always
rives him a slight sense of satisfact
ion when he gets back to the Ed
wardes gate, to have escaped the per
sonal sensation of six inches of steel
between the shoulders. But the
whiff of danger in the air increases
the fascination of a tour across the
most characteristic and picturesque
region in Asia. From the white
washed top of the Buddhist tower,
oalled the Gor Khattri, you look
icross a labyrinth of timbered fa
cades and khaki roofs plastered with
mud. The narrow streets run be
tween houses built of small flat
oricks, filling in a framework of
wooden uprights and crossbeams
which show in squares, and give a cer
tain distant and dingy touch of Eliza
bethan character to the walls. The
windows are closed with sliding pan
els. and when they are suddenly
pushed up by veiled ladies it is like
the opening of cupboard doors in
tales of intrigue. High wooden rail
ings surround the open galleries on
the roof. Below the craftmen ply
their trades and the merchants show
their wares. But the chief attraction
of Peshawur are the people and the
:raffic in its streets. Long strings of
?amels and mules pass through the
bazars when the caravans come in
from Khyber or set out for Kabul.
The fierce-faced crowd, in white tur
bans and ample folds, is formed of
men free of gait and savage of hand,
with neither fear nor friendship in
their eyes when a European moves
among them.
HE HAD EXPERIENCE.
Why This Man Had No Use for the
Stock Exchange.
Nodd—I wonder how the market
is to-day?
Todd—I don’t know. What’s the
market to me or me to the market?
1 am not interested in the stock ex
change.
Nodd—Don’t believe in it, eh?
Todd—No, sir! It’s gambling
pure and simple.
Nodd—Well, you know, nothing
risked, nothing gained.
Todd—Yes, 1 know, but there’s a
difference between legitimate risk
and plain idiocy. Looked at from
any standpoint, speculation is wrong.
Nodd—But a little flier occasion
ally—
Todd—Not for me. If by any
fluke you should make a few hun
dred it wouldn’t do you any good.
The worry and the artificial view of
life it gives a man more than balances
the gain.
Nodd—You don’t believe in it,
then?
Todd—No, sir; under no circum
stances. It doesn't pay. There’s
nothing in it. I know because I’ve
tried it myself. I’ve had the experi
ence.
Nodd—Oh, you have, eh? When?
Todd—Last week.—London Tit
Bits.
A New York Skyscraper.
In one of the largest of the new
skyscrapers in New York, a 29-story
structure, which took the place of a
five-story building, there are 1,125
offices, in which are employed nearly
G,000 persons. The elevators in this
building carry over 15,000 persons
daily.
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VICTIMS OF A ^ .1,. Jr'HOAX.
Tar Heel Speculators Cai’fnt by False
Rumors of a P „mium.
An advertisement in a newspaper
recently stated that a Washington
clothing store would pay “18 cents
for 1902 pennies.” Because of this
advertisement, says a Charlotte
(N. C.) letter to the Washington
Post, practically all the 1902 pennies
in the Piedmont section of North
Carolina and in half a dozen towns
in South Carolina have come into the
hands of speculators.
Several weeks ago it was rumored
that in coining the pennies of 1902
a large amount of gold had been ac
cidentally spilled into the molten
copper and that the government
wished to recall the issue of pennies
because of their intrinsic value.
Three men collected every 1902 pen
ny to be found in the banks and stores
in Charlotte and sent agents out of
town to assist in collecting pennies.
On March 3, 1902, pennies were
freely purchased here for three
cents each; on the fifth day they had
brought five cents, and on the next
day Edwin B. Gresham, of the firm
of Gresham Co., sold to Baggage
Agent Bonner, of the Southern, 330
1902 pennies for $33. Bonner stated
that the next day he sold the same
pennies to a bank in Alexandria, Ya.,
for 15 cents apiece.
The report of this transaction was
brought here and spread to neigh
boring towns, and for the last four
or fivedavs the coveted pennies have
never been sold for less than eight
cents and have frequently changed
hands at 10 and 12 cents. Gresham
and other purchasers set by baggage
agents over 6,000 pennies to Wash
ington to be redeemed at the 18-cent
valuation.
The advertisement stated that the
firm would redeem the pennies at
noon on a recent Saturday, but be
fore the large sacks of Charlotte
copper could be taken to the store it
was learned that the advertisement
had a string to it. It is said that the
first person to appear at the store
with pennies was informed that the
firm had agreed to pay not 18 cents
for each 1902 penny, but 18 cents for
1.902 pennies.
The agent for the local purchasers
did not report there until the next
Tuesday, and since his return numer
ous telegrams have been sent recall
ing the orders to buy the 1902 pen
nies. At Mooreville on that day pen
nies bearing that date sold at nine
cents, and in Salisbury and other
places they were bought at a large
premium. The rumor of the chance
to make easy money has just struck
the small town section of upper
South Carolina, and the mad
scramble for pennies is agitating the
entire population.
ENGLISH GRADE SCHOOLS.
Life and Habits of Pupils aa Com
pared with American Ways.
There is said to be more vulgarity
among the sturdy English lads in
the public schools than in our Amer
ican schools like those at Groton,
Southborough, etc., which most re
semble them in methods, and Kip
ling’s “Stalky & Co.” illustrates this;
but a sense of reverence ana a quiet,
self-poised demeanor are more ap
parent. They are not so restless as
our boys, says the Pilgrim, are less
indulged than they, and, no matter
from what homes of wealth they
come, they learn early to despise the
coddling and to endurehardness. In
most schools a temperature of CO de
grees is considered the normal one
in winter, and in one Scotch school of
which I learned the boys are re
quired to take oft their coats when
the room becomes warmer, and are
compelled to run two miles before
eating breakfast, except when the
snow' is too deep.
Coeducation prevails to some ex
tent in Scotland, and among the
low’er grades to a slight degree in
London, but it is unknown among
the well-to-do, except in the King
Alfred school, near Hampstead, not
far from Kate Greenaway’s red-tiled
cottage. Well-paid teachers, both
w:omen and men, conduct the sports
as well as classes, and the two sexes
are never left alone together, al
though, unlike our schools, boys and
girls unite in their hockey and other
games.
Courage.
No one is a coward who fears to do
wrong. In such cases apparent.cow
ardice is real courage. — Chicago
Journal.
Reaching a Conclusion.
Women jump at conclusions and
men try to reach them by reasoning.
Both land—if they are goc<l guesser*.
—Chicago Daily New*.
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