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Omaha daily bee., 1902-03-09
Improved VentIlntIon.

st. Paul Pioneer-Press.
1t is comforting to consider that when
the Marconi system is in possession Of the
field, IL we can no longer wire messages
We can at least air our opinions.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-03-09

Prince Henry got along pretty well
until he struck the German students
eKommers." And the next day he
Omaha daily bee., 1902-03-09

Thanks to Harvard, the prince will
have at least a few letters of the alpha
bet to remember us by after he returns
home.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-03-09

For a man who announced he would
meet the embezzlement charge on its
merits ex-Treasurer Meserve is raising
p fine collection Of technical issues.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-03-09

Grand Rapids and st. Louis are two
places that bribe-givers will do well to
avoid for a reasonable period Of time.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-03-09
Wait for the Next.

Somerville Journal.
About the poorest kim OF exercise q
man can take is running for a car.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-03-09

Unless signs fail, Prince Henry has
been well initiated into the strenuous
life.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-03-09
STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.

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George b. Tzschuck, secretary Of The Bee
publishing Company, being duly sworn
complete copies OF The Daily, Morning,
Evening and Sunday Bee printed during
che month of February, 1907, was as fol-
Omaha daily bee., 1902-03-09

Prince Henry's visit is nov on the last
quarter.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-03-09

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Smyrna times., 1902-09-10
An Ancient Bible.

In the Cottonian library in England
is an old manuscript copy of part of
the Bible in Latin. The London
Chronicle says it was used at the cor
onations of English sOvereigns 300
years before the "stone of destiny
was brought from Scone to Westmin-
ster by Edward l.
If this be true, the use of this Bible
for the purpose dates back to the year
1000. 1t is a quarto of 217 leaves, con-
tanning the four gospels, and seems
from the style of the writing and illu-
minations, which are very beautiful,
to have been made about the end of
the ninth century.
1t narrowly escaped destruction in
the fire at Ashburnham House in 1871,
of which it bears evidence in its
crumpled leaves and singed margins.
There is some evidence that the son of
Edward the Elder. Athelstan the Clio
rious. who was king of the West Sax
ons from 925 to $40, owned this Bible
and gave it to the church of Dover.
Smyrna times., 1902-09-10
Rats and Vampires.

At sunset in the forest of Guiana the
bats fit from their hiding places, some
taking the place of the parrots and
focking around the fruit trees, while
the horrid vampires wander far and
near in search of some sleeping ami
NAL, or even man. in order to obtain
meal. Cows, goats, hogs, fowls as
we'll as game birds and quadrupeds all
suffer from their attacks if not Sc
cured in well lattieed pens, while the
traveller must not be surprised when
awaking to find blood oozing from
a wound in his foot or temple.
In some places domestic animals can
not be kept at all, as they are so weak
ened by repeated attacks as to ulti-
mately die of exhaustion. Fortunately,
however, the vampires are not very
common, and with proper care may be
excluded from dwelling houses and
stock pens,-Longmans Magazine.
Smyrna times., 1902-09-10
NATURAL HISTORY.

Ostriches live to the age of about
sixty years.
The mandarin duck is one of the
most beautiful Of aquatic birds.
So voracious is the cod that it will
swallow anything it sees in motion.
An eel has two separate hearts. One
beats 60, the other 160, times a minute.
y ladybird can travel 20,000,000,O0O
times its own length in an hour. In
that time a slOth can only travel fifty
times its own length.
There is no country in the world in
which the raven is not found to be ma
dive; it is also the only bird known to
ornithologists which is of such cOsmo-
pOlitan character.
Only one existing reptile can sustain
/ itself in the air. This is the flying
/ dragon of the East Indies. 1t has no
/ real wings. but can glide from tree to
tree like a flying squirrel.
The common house fly usually pro-
duces the note f in flying. To do so
it must vibrate its wings 335 times a
second. The honey bee sounds A,
which means that its wing vibrations
are 40 to the second.
Smyrna times., 1902-09-10
AN EXPLOSION OF
GRAY MATTER
By Charles CurtZ Hahn
Copyright, 1901, by A. s. Richardson

1t was two weeks after the terrific
explosion in DR.. Wainright's Office,
which had injured six men and nearly
killed the doctor. Just how it had Oc-
Cured was a mystery not only to the
public, but also to DR.. Wainright's
brother physicians, who, after carefully
examining the wrecked office, could
find no sufficient cause for such an APP
palling disaster. The doctor himself
was laid up in st. JOseph's hospital,
and his man, who had given the alarm
by shouting from the second story win
dow of the doctors Office, had been un-
til this day, when he began his narra-
ton, confined in the Presbyterian hos
pital and unable to give an account of
what he knew.
"Ye see," said Mike to the half dozen
doctors around his bed, the doctor was
diggin' away at his books an his skel
etons an cuttin' away at dead bodies
Smyrna times., 1902-09-10
rirst Analysis of AeroIiter.

In 1896 a stone weighing ffty-six
pounds was exhibited in London. 1t
was said to have fallen from the sky
in Yorkshire in the previous December,
but this statement was received with
great incredulity. At that time Sir Jo-
seph Banks was president of the Royal
society, and he noticed a strong re-
semblance between the Yorkshire stone
and one sent to him from Siena, in It
ally, which was said to have fallen
from the sky. Two or three years lat
er he received an account of fall OF
stones near Benares, in Hindustan. A
chemical analysis of the stones from
all three sources proved them to be
identical in composition, and increduli
ty as to their meteoric origin began
to give way.-Notes and Queries.
Smyrna times., 1902-09-10
Mixed Metaphors.

A German lady in town in Ventura
county had a daughter who was her
mothers pride. The mamma bears
somewhat of a reputation as a Mrs.
Malaprop and is also prosperous mer-
chant On one occasion the daughter,
who assists her mother in the store,
was by dint of hard work among rela-
tives and friends chosen as queen Of a
street carnival to be held in the town.
Maternal pride ran riot in the elder
woman's breast. To a friend she burst
forth in this ecstatic strain:
"Oh, mein MOllie! She vas so peau-
tiful as neffer vas! Dere vas no gerrel
so beautiful as mein Mollie! Und she
vas sooch a gOot coOk-mein gracious,
she vas sooch a goOt cOOkl Und she
vas sooch a goot tressmaker! Oh, dere
vas no gerrel like mein Mollie! Und
she vas de best clerk vat / effer haf in
meln shtorel Und she vas a goOt mu
'sicianerl Oh. mein Mollie vas de great
est gerrel vat effer vas! She vas yust
a jack of all rabbitsw-Los Angeles
Herald.
Smyrna times., 1902-09-10
Idens ofHnpniness.

Two young women, patiently of the
'saleslady" persuasion. rode down
Chestnut street in a crowded trolley
car on a recent morning They chatted
-animatedly about the merits and de-
merits of VIII and Gus till they
reached Broad street. From there to
Twelfth they preserved a dreamy si-
lence. Then one broke out with:
Il say, Ag, what would you choose if
you could have everything in the world
you asked for?"
"Well" said Ag slowly and musingly,
81 think I'd choose enough silk dresses
to last me for the next ten years.
What'u'd you take, SadeT
"Me?" replied Sade. Its the dream
Of me life, Ag, to have all the money
I'd want, so l could go to me job in a
cab every morning" - Philadelphia
/ Times.
Smyrna times., 1902-09-10
HE TOOK THE SHOWER BATH
And 1t Drove Him From the YOsem-
lite Back to New England.

And 1t Drove Him From the YOsem-
ite Back to New England.
After week of little journeys, strik-
ing here and there a few miles to alb
sorb the Yosemite valley from dozen
cOignes of vantage, we were whipping
the IllilOuette one afternoon for noun
tain trout, says the Worlds Work.
Tomorrow" said a voice, Il shall
take a shower bath under the seven
teen hundred foot fall"
YOU" said another voice, "are a
fool"
mot at ALL" came back argumenta-
lively. ''The rivers very low. What
there is of it turns to spray in the
first hundred feet; it will simply come
down like rain. Why, you'd go under
the Bridal Veil yourself Only that's
prosaic. This is something big. Come
on"
Not l."
But 1 was there to see. The water,
as he had said came down, a cOnsid-
erable part of it, in rain and spray
| that flew out on the wind incredible
distances. But to crawl down, dressed
in a bathing suit, closer to the main
stream that falls to the pool and upon
the rocks with a murderOus swish in
the air and a roar like a railway train
when it strikes was daring to fool
hardness. At any moment a veering
wind might swing the whole mass upon
the tall, slim figure backing tentative
ly on all fours down the jagged talus
slope, his eyeglass pebbles glinting
cheerfully. A steady breeze kept the
fall swung out little the other way,
and the spray burgeOned out far up
the other slope. The roar was deafen-
ing.
All at once the wind shifted, the
water swung back, and in a flash the
human figure was blotted out in del
uge that turned me sick. For a sec
Ond-that seemed an hour-it played
on the spot fiendishly, it seemed to
me, standing Mortified there, and then
slowly it swept away.
And then there was a movement, {
painful. crawling movement down ther'
on the slope. and scrambled down tn,
slippery rocks to help blinking, creep
ing, much surprised youth, bleedinl
from a hundred cuts. up to where hi
clothes lay. He was still too daZed t
speak. When his breath returned ant
his extra glasses were perched agail
on his nose. he said:
1.-The oceans fell upon me! For Cod
sake. come back to New England"
And we went.
Smyrna times., 1902-09-10
Eccentricities Of EneIlsh.

There is a new maid in the family,
a Swedish girl, who has many things
besides language to learn, says an ex-
change. Her new mistress. who is
young wife with a husband many
years her senior, is trying to instruct
her. One of the lessons was upon
bread, the girl being told that she
should speak of bread which had lost
its freshness as stale, and not old. The
girl was sure to remember this. for
she was quick to learn, and she did.
SO the young wife knew when a few
days later the maid remarked to her
confdentially:
''It is too bad, isn't it, that your
husband is so much more stale than
you arep-Detroit Free Press.
Smyrna times., 1902-09-10

was the doctor, for he slnt me out to
deliver thin all before he let the ovid
miser out av the room. Next day he
wint around an tried to git his money
back, but the most av 1t was drawed
out, an he couldn't.
But this did not satisfy the doctor,
an so he tore the great brain to pieces
an began moddlin' another one-the
exact opposite av the benivolint gin
tleman. He picked up a low fellow
from a saloon, who was all fight an
niver spoke paceful word in his life.
'Whin it was done, he set it up an
we began experimintin' again, first wild
animals an thin wild men, an at last
came the Obligation av preachers which
caused the trouble.
Eye know thin. There was ParsOn
Whitley av the Presbyterians, Mr..
Wesley av the MithOdists, Rector En-
sign av the EpiscOpalians, Mr.. Strang
av the Campbellites, DIR. Dipley av the
Baptists an one or two others, but
their names has slipped me mind.
"As' soon as they were seated in the
back room an the current was turned
on thin preachers began arguin' an
thin after awhile to fightin'. Aftel
watchin' thin for a few minutes thu
doctor became frightened at what HI
had done an, fOrgittin' all about tht
crank, ran in to separate the rivrin'
gintlemen.
"There be no made av me tellin' y
what happened thin!
''The influence caught him as soon a
he got into the room, an he pitches
into the fight worse than any av thin
Begorra, but it was a fine fight! Och
How me heart jumped wild joy as
watched thin peltin' one another al
breakin' the furniture into kindliI
wood!
''Sez to mesilf, Wild such piOus mi
settin' the example there can be nothil
wrong in few whacks,' so wild
whOOp / grabbed me stick an rushe
in.
"Be the DOnnybrOok fair, but it wa
a swate time we had! But it was tC
fine to last What should that Bapti
do but swing a chair over his hea,
thryin to kill DR.. Whitley, an instea
av bringin' it down where he shOu
he hit the glass jar on the shilf Il
knocked the great brain to the floor a
broke it into a million pieces.
"Thin how cristfallen an asham,
thin preachers was whin they came
thimsilves an saw what they had be-
doin'.
CAV coOrse the doctor would not i
plain, an so the preachers began be
gin him not to tell OH thin, which
promised.
'But l didn't.
"Thin the story wint around tn
there had been a terrific explosion
the doctors Office, an him an l we
taken to the hospital. Whist, the
comes the nurse wild the gruelr'
Smyrna times., 1902-09-10
The VaIue of singing.

From the medical standpoint singing
is a most important exercise both by
virtue of its influence on the emotions,
on the respiratory movements and on
the development of the lungs. Nothing
better shows the beneficial effect of
singing in developing the chest and
warding off the lung diseases than the
great pulmonary development and free
dom from pulmonary disease among
professional singers. Their general
health. moreover, is exceptionally good,
and this is probably in a large meas
ure attributable to the mere exercise
of the calling. 1t is especially useful
in defective chest development and in
chronic heart disease. Provided the
patient can sing with comfort there is
no condition in which singing is con-
traindicated unless it be a tendency to
tuberculosis or aneurismal h9mOptysis.
1t is scarcely necessary to say that the
singer should be so clad as to allow
absolute freedom of the chest move
ments, there should be no construction
of the neck or waist, the collar should
be low and ample and the stays, II
worn, ample and loose.
Smyrna times., 1902-09-10
HENRY CLAY AS AN ACTOR.
How the Great Lawyer Won a Hope
less Case.


How the Great Lawyer Won a Hope
less Case.
An old and well known traveller, who
has recently settled in Chicago, while
coming in from Pewee valley the other
afternoon told an interesting story
about Henry Clay, the great Kentucky
statesman. The story teller in his
youth lived in Mr.. Clay's district dur
ing the time when Henry Clay was at
his prime as lawyer.
"A man was once being tried for
murder" said the narrator, land his
case looked hopeless indeed. He had
without any seeming provocatiOn MUIR
dered one of his neighbOrs in cold
blood. Not a lawyer in the county
would touch the case. 1t looked bad
enough to ruin the reputation of any
barrister.
"The man as a last extremity ap-
pealed to Mr.. Clay to take the case for
him. Every one thought that Clay
would certainly refuse, but when the
celebrated lawyer looked into the mat
ter his fighting blood was reused, and,
to the great surprise of all, he accept
ed.
"Then came trial the like of which
| [ have never seen. Clay slowly car
ried on the case, and it looked more
and more hopeless. The only ground
of defense the prisoner had was that
the murdered man had looked at him
with such a fierce, murderous look that
out of self defense he had struck first
A ripple passed through the jury at
this evidence.
1.-The time came for Clay to make his
defense. 1t was settled in the minds
of the spectators that the man was
guilty of murder in the first degree
Clay calmly proceeded, laid all the
proof before them in his mastery way
then, Just as he was about to con
clude, he played his last and master
card.
Gentlemen of the jury he said
assuming the fiercest, blackest lool
and carrying the most undying hatred
in it that have ever seen, gentlemen
! if a man should look at you like thi
what would you do?
/, That was all he said, but that wa
+, enough. The jury was startled, ant
some even quailed on their seats. Th
4 Judge moved uneasily on his bench
n After fifteen minutes the jury file
n slowly back with a Not guilty, you
honor The victory was complete.
"When Clay was congratulated o
his easy victory, he said:
o "'It was not so easy as you think.
spent days and days in my room bt
fore the mirror practicing that lool
q 1t took more hard work to give tina
n look than to investigate the most oil
q tuse case '"-LOuisville COurieF-Jou
| nal
Smyrna times., 1902-09-10
DrIsairected philanthropy.

"Ah got no use fo' de man." said
Charcoal Eph in one Of his philo-
sophical turns, "dat donate er thousan'
dollahs t. de heather fund OBJ de fash.
ionable church wild one ham an raise
de rents on his tenement houses wild
de udder. All spec he bettah begin
practicin' crawlin' fro de eye OBJ er
needle, Mistah Observation-Disclosures
News.
Smyrna times., 1902-09-10

until he began to think that he knew
all about man an could come as near
maxim one as the Creator himself, God
forgive me for sayin' it. But he didn't
care to do that, for he said there were
entirely too many men in the world
now. What he did want to do was
make brain, an after three years av
hard study an practicin' he did so.
can't tell We what he made it av, but he
knew himself. Sure, he used to be put
term around in the Office all hours av
the night, kapin' me awake whin /
naded rest, for slept in the little room
behint the office.
''Well, after the doctor had studied
the ingredients av a mans brain until
he knew just what it was made av, he
wint to work mOddlin' one. An |
helped him. may God forgive me! He
had studied some phrenOlogy or other
an knew how to fix the bumps, too.
so that his brain would be benivOlint,
an whin it was done it was as near
like me own as two peas, barrin' the
difference in size. Ye know what in
fiuence one mind has over another?
Well. this was the principle on which
the doctor was wOrkin'. He intinded
to work on other mems minds by this
big brain av his'n.
"Ye'n be wOnderin' how he set it
goin', an that is something I'll not
tell We, either, for l don't know, but
he figured an figured wild electricity
an the powers av the air until he
rigged up a machine that did the busi-
ness, an whin he wanted to set the
thing a-goin' all he had to do was turn
a little crank, an the brain began send
in out its influence, an as it was a dOz-
en- times bigger than a common mans
brain he figured that he could make
any man do what he wanted him to II
he once got him under the influence
av it.
'Ye mind ovid Lawyer Skinner, him
as wint crazy year ago an decided
away all his money to hospitals an
churches an colleges? Av coOrse "
do. Faith, it was the doctor as die
it. May the saints presarve us, yis
the doctorl AS l told ye, this braiI
av hisn was made benivolnt, like m,
own, wild q great bulgin' forehead. W.
experiminted on a number av animal
before we came to Lawyer Skinner
We know what a close fisted man h
was an the riches ay him2 Well, on
day whin / see the doctor toolin' hin
nm the stairs 1 wondered what was i
the wind. but the doctor had every
thing ready for him unbeknowns
to me; had a checkbook an a lot a
writin' paper an deeds an convey
ances on the cinter table In the ROOF
where the brain was, an pen an in
too.
"Just step into the next room,' til
doctor said, all so pleasant as pie, I'll
I look at some papers an thin I'll joi
ye'
"Wen. the doctor seen the lawyt
seated at the table an thin he turne
the crank. which was out in the rool
BE were in, an thin we stood al
watched him through the glass top a
the door. First the ovid fellow bega
10 sauirm around in his chair as
something was hurtin' him. Thin
paceful exprission, came over his fac
an he reached for the checkbooks. /
filed ivry one av tlfm for poor peop
an churches an Hospitals, an wh
they were all used mp the doctor tun'
the power down a little an wint IN
got thin. Sure, an he was a cute on
Smyrna times., 1902-09-10
preIiminnrx.

The policeman heard high words and
poked his head in the door.
"Whats goin' on here?" he demand
ed.
'Nawthin'l Nawthin' at all" answer
ed one of the belligerent Irishmen in
the middle of the floor. There's nav
thin goin' on, but there's a fight COM
I'm off in liss than minute if yen only
keep moyin'. Chicago Post.
Smyrna times., 1902-09-10
He Hnd to Die.

"If YOU refuse me-" cried Moody,
"my blood will be upon your head. I
cannot live without your
swell, self preservation is the first
law of nature" replied Miss Cooley.
Il simply couldn't live with YOU
Philadelphia Press.
Smyrna times., 1902-09-10
Quite AmicabIe.

"Why did you quit your jobP Did
you have disagreement with the
bossw
"Oh, no; not at all. told him l had
to have more money or would quit.
and he said it was mutually satisfae-
y."-Indianapolis News.
Smyrna times., 1902-09-10
French Maid.

Mrs. Houseleigh-Your name, ! un-
derstand, is Bridget McShane. You
are Irish, / supposeg
Applicant-No, mem; Oi'm Frinch.
Mrs. Houseleigh-French? Were you
not born in Ireland?
Applicant-Yis, mem; but 0i took
Frinch Fave from it.-Boston Tren-
script
Smyrna times., 1902-09-10

The first factory for the manufac-
ture of cotton sewing thread was To-
Gated at Pawtucket, r. l.. in 1874.
Smyrna times., 1902-09-10

When there has been a death In the
family, the house seems terribly large
.-Atchison Globe.
Smyrna times., 1902-09-10

Benevolence is to love all men;
knowledge, to know all men.-Confu-
eius.
Smyrna times., 1902-09-10
After the Dance.

81 hope you have enjoyed the even
ing, Miss Oliver"
Not excessively, Mr.. Roland. The
men are such wretched dancers.
have had only one really good part
ner'
''My own experience precisely"
Eyes, Mr.. Van Twister is the best
dancer ever saw. There he goes now
with Grace Turner. 1t is a pleasure to
watch them, isn't it?'
"Yes; he does very nicely-with a
partner like your friend Grace. She
is the one to whom was referring
just now"
$50 supposed. New York Herald
Smyrna times., 1902-09-10

at times could uot leave my bed. I was badly
crippled. Tried many doctors and two Of them
gave me up to die. None of them did me much
good. The pains in my back, hips and legs
land at times in my head, would nearly XIII
me. My appetite was very bad. Everybody
who saw me said must die. took five bottles
of the Golden Medical Discovery and four
vials of Pellets and to-day my health IS good
after suffering twelve years with rheumatism"
The sole motive for substitution is to
permit the dealer to make the little
more profit paid by the sale OF less
meritorious medicines. He gains; you
| lose. Therefore accept II substitute tor
vGolden Medical Discovery"
DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets { use
the bowels and stimulate the sluggish
liver.
Smyrna times., 1902-09-10
RniIinr Them Soft.

Boiling Them SOFT.
Mrs. Newlywed-ThcSp eggs are still
hard. How long did you boil them?
New CoOk-Five minutes. ma am.
Mrs. Newlywed-WPll next time give
them ten minutes-New York Press.
Smyrna times., 1902-09-10

Nearly 1000 vessels are lost annual
".