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softly and pointed to d tree. alongside
which stood an immense male goril-
la. There he remained but twelve
yards away boldly facing us with his
huge chest muscular arms, fiercely-
glaring deep-gray eyes and a hellish
expression. until | moved
AT that h" dropped to all fours and
came six yards nearer. sitting up To
beat his breasts with his huge fists
detiance--so that it sounded like an
immense drum. His roar was most
singular. beginning with kind OF
bark and deepening into a bass roll
that literally resembled thunder.
The short hair on his forehead
was twitching. his powerful fangs
showed unpleasantly. and, feeling he
was about to attack. and incidentally
being scared green, | shot him
through the heart. With groan
something human and vet british. he
fell on his face and died quickly.
He measured feet 9 inches In
length his chest was 81 Inches. and
his arms spread 9 feet. was glad to
have the specimen. but somehow after
that never cared to kill gorilla I'M
less he actually menaced me-,
AinSlee'S
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-06-03

Sir Walter Scott tells of one of his
dogs that one day furiously attacked
the baker and was with great difficulty
called off. -it as the dog observed
the baker coming every day to leave
bread for the family, he began to re-
gard him in a more favorable light
and in time the dog and the baker be-
came great friends One day Sir Walter
was telling somebody how the dog had
attacked the baker, and as soon az
he began the story the dog skufked
into ths corner of the room. turned his
face to the wall. hung down bis ears
and lowered his tail and displayed
every sign OF being heartily ashamed
of himself. But when he came to the
end of his story. and said. But Tray
didn't bite the baker" the dog turned
around. jumped and frisked about, and
was evidently quite restored to his
own good opinion. To try the dog.
Scott repeated the story in a different
tone of voice in the midst of the CON
versation. bat it was always the same.
Directly he began the dog crept into
the corner. but when he came to But
Tray didn't bite the baker" he always
capered back in triumph
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AMUSING EXCUSES FOR CHILDREN
Jase Kicked by Cow AMI Henry Is
Treated TO Funeral


Teachers who require written eXcuS
es for tardiness from parents of pu-
pills sometimes receive very amusing
notes. Here are few specimens from
a number received some time ago:
Dear Sir, please excuse James for
lateness. | kneaded him after break
fast" second note reads: please
forgive Billy for being tardy. l was
mending his coat" The third excuse
goes more into details: Mister sir.my
Jason had to be late to-day. 1t is
his bizness to milk our COW. She
kicked Jase in the back to-day when
he wasn't looking or thinking of her
actin; SO he thot his back was broke.
but il amt. But it is black and blue.
and the pane kept him late. We would
get rid OF the COW if we could. This
is the fourth time she kicked Jase. but
never kicked him late before. So ex-
cuse him for me.
A girl absent for half day brought
the following excuse: Miss teecher-
My dotter's absents yesterday was un-
ayoidable. Her shoes had to be half
soled, and she had sore-throte. Her
konstitushun Is delicate and if she is
absent any more you can know that
it is on account of unavodabet sick
ness or something else A boy alb
sent for half day laid the following
explanation on the masters desk:
desk: Dear sir, please excuse Henry.
He went to grandpapa's funeral with
me this forenoon. I have been prom
Using him for several weeks that he
might if he was good. and he has been
very good. so l kept my word.
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Here is a sample Of the other ex-
IRENE. Said a Minneapolis lawyer to
me: When l began the practice OF
law l always lost two nights before I,
had case in court. tossing about and
combating every thinkabIe standpoint
OF my opponent. And | lost as much
sleep afterward upbraiding myself for
not having thought of certain points
at certain pat occasions in the prog
ress of the case" OF what value were
these night thoughts to this young at
torney? About as much value as
night sweats to a consumptive.
venture to say that all the business
planning a man does in life while
lying on his back at night isn't worth
an hours good thinking on his feet
on one June morning. AS compared
with the sleep it displaces. such night
thinking isn't worth forty winks after
dinner. Burning the candle at both
ends sometimes makes a fine bonfire
But it always makes a bad grease spot
of a good candle.-The Commercial
West. "a
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Uncle Tom" the old negro of Lex
inSton. Va. who saw a great deal of
Gen. Lee during the civil war, having
been employed as a cook at headouar-
ters. confessed that only once had he
heard anything disrespectful said
about the idol Of the south. In reiat-
ing the Incident he said:
One night. about de middle oh de
war. l seed curi'us man go inter de
ginIs tent. He cum out en- whin he
got up to whar | wuz he wuz a ripkin
en- erroarin' en- ersnorten'. 'Whut's
de tfubble?' l seq ter i'm. 'Trubbfe"
seq he. ! jes got order ter ride forty
miles ter-night wild er messidge. en-
here it's er-snowin' en- e~-blowin' en-
er-sleetin lax all persessed. I'm
darned eff | know what Gin1 Lees er
thinkin' about Wen sir, | jes looked
at 'irl fer minute en- then seq ter
i'm: Fer Gowd. doan reckin yer does
know what Ginl Lees er-thinkin'
erbout. Man. sir, eff one er Ginl Lees
thots werz ter get inter your haid
twould bus it OPEN"
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merrily And l guess we understand
each other all right. We will be good
friends. but they can't make us marry.
sc2n thG?" A
Never he replied fervently
why. hang it all want my fling
first don't you know
And I. too she replied. And I
need it more than you because 7 Mas :
spent all my life in a convent. ~ Sand
SO they parted. .TM
Now it happened that Myrtlefwas a
full blooded little creature. with all
the spirit that her full ripe lips and
clear. red cheeks indicated And all
her life she had been shut up in a
convent with no vent for her ardent
young animal spirits excepting through
the medium of her imagination-fed
only by surreptftious reading of SNUG
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IS HARD TO READ HANDWRITING
Typewriter Threatens to Make Ponmau.
ship Lost Art.

Typewriter Threatens to Make Ponmau.
ship Lost Art.
With the almost universal use of the
typewriter in correspondence billing.
mercantile papers and in authors
manuscripts. has come about the in
ability OF men to read ordinary hand
writing.
The use OF the typewriter may have
had something to do with making
handwriting more extraordinary than
it ever was. but in the days when a
certain school of almost iliegible hand-
writing was so affected by lawyers
physicians, clergymen, Journalists and
literary men, 1t Is doubtful il the mere
lack OF practice in present day pen men
causes them to turn out manuscript
to compare with that of years ago
"WhateveS is the matter" SAYS an
observer in a big publishing house, 1T
is true that young men and women of
to-day have almost lost the art OF
reading matter written by pen or pen
ell. They come to me by the dozens
every day, asking that | help them out
in deciphering letters or manuscript
In such cases | know that the manu-
scripts are not as bad as those of
forty years ago, and this for several
reasons:
We have better paper nowadays:
we have better pens, better pencils and
it no longer is fashionable for any
body using a pen to affect an untidy
letter. Some of this angular penman-
ship affected by young women is hard
to read when it comes to proper names,
but otherwise | find the pen written
letter to-day remarkably easy 10 read
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and had his5,leg cat on. Il paint d
picture Of a burning house and him.
jumping~ouf of top window with ! &
child in his arms. and yarn under it:
Kind friends, lost my leg through
reseuinx my employers child That's
a sure take Of a flyer day.
i make all these rigs myself" he
said. and hire 'em out 1t pays. but l.
have to keep dark. for the police are
very down on my sort. This hollow
wooden cap with an iron hook ITS
over your hand. and here's a club-foot
boot. and yOnder a pair for both feet.
"A queer business? You'd say so il
you knew the jobs I'm asked to do
sometimes. Only yesterday a woman
wanted vitriol sears on her face, and
actually wanted me to use real vitiol-
Didn't know what she was asking?
Oh, yes. Why. bless you. some beg
CARS maui themselves horribly to ex-
cite sympathy. In fact they'd do any
thing rather than work.'-New York
World.
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\ SPEND MONEY TO IMPROVE PARIS
efty HiNioa Dollars to He EaDoadeA
ON Public WOrks.


The, consul-general OF the depart
naent3of the Seine, in its last. session.
, voted .the ,issue of asiaan OF 5000, 600;
pounds for the construction of pubic
works in the department and in Paris
Some OF these new undertakings, are
OF considerable Importance. Half p
million is. to be spent in charging the
central halls, which. like the London
Covent Garden. have long outgrown
their limits and bulge out into the,
side streets. and 10000 pounds on the.
Halafs de Justice for its completion.
a school of arts and crafts. which
Paris has been crying for, is to be es-'
tabitshed at an expenditure of 3.O00.-
O0O francs, and the CID prison of st.
l-a}are. with all its tragedy and pa
thos. is to be transferred elsewhere at
a cost OF about l.5OO pounds.
Other works include the continual
ton OF Boulevard Raspaii. which, at
the present moment. presents the phe-
nomenon OF a boulevard cut into sec
tons. The naples do not give the
stranger any warning of the eccentric
ity. 80 he finds himself halted by
street which cuts the boulevard trans
vet ely and gives no avenue. He has
evard at the back of the street. An
other important work. upon which
$4,000 pounds will be spent. is con-
cerned' with the transformation OF the
Boulevard des Batignolles. This great
thoroughfare. which in former days
marked the limit of Paris, is to be
rendered more amenable to traffic. We
hicular and foot. by an alteration of
the roads surface and the enlarge
ment of pavements.
In the department. as distinct from
Paris. several new bridges will be
thrown over the Seine. But, per-
haps. the Improvement that appeals
most to the Imagination is great
avenaS which will prolong the
Champs Elysees and the Avenue de
Neuilly to Nanterre. The aspect Of
Paris. indeed is perpetually changing.
says the Pail Mall Gazette, and there
is a degree of Justice in the remark
Of an old inha bitant to the writer.
Everything has moved except the
churches.
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LITTLE CHANGE IN THE SOUTH
1t Is Almost Impossible to Overcome
Race Prejudice.

1t is in the rural regions and in
such a circle of the old academic So
ciety that you come upon the southe rn
problem-that unyielding stability OF
opinion which gives a feeling of des-
pair. the very antithesis OF social
growth and of social mobility, says
Walter H. Page in the May Atlantic
Everything lies here where il fell :"
said village philosopher in speaking
Of this temper. There are the same
rocks in the road that were there be-
forasthe war"
To illustrate: One morning went
in just such a town to 4 colored col
lege where I heard a very black boy
translate and construe a passage OF
Xenophone His teacher alss was q
fuii-bfooded negro. 1t happened that
l went straight from the school to
a club where / encountered a group
of gentlemen discussing the nmita-
lions of the African mind. Teach 'em
Creek" said old Judge So-and-So.
Now a niger could learn the Greek
alphabet by rote. but he could never
intelligently construe a passage from
any Greek writer-impossib | told
him what | had just heard. Read it?
understood it? was black? black
man teaching him? / beg your par
don .ut do you read Greek yourself?"
Sir said he at last, Il do not
for moment doubt your word
know you think the niger read Greek
but even if you knew your Nenophone
by heart, l should say that you were
deceived. shouldn't believe it if
saw it with my own eyes and heard
lit with nv own ears"
It is one thing to fiatter and nm
other to praise.
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JUVENILE OFFENDERS OF FRANCE
Percentage of Young Criminals Shows
Enormous Increase.


Enormous Increase.
Statistics prove that the percentage
of Juvenile criminals in France has in
creased with almost fabulous rapidity
during the last decade. The publica-
ton of these statistics. the compila-
ton of which was completed recently,
caused shock to the nation. The con-
slant fear of Frenchmen that France
is on the decline received a tremen-
dous impetus when the figures were
made public by Paul GARNER, chief
physician OF the Paris police depart
ment,
In thirteen years. from 1888 to 1900.
inclusive, he shows that among Grim
inals the percentage of youths Crom
sixteen to twenty years of Sse. inciu
siye) has risen seven times, or l4O0
per cent. Unless there has been
made a grave mistake in the figuring.
or unless police regulations have be-
come much stricter. the figures be-
token the downfall of diseased ma
ton.
In 1883 among ! 900 criminals twen-
ty were between the ages OF sixteen
and twenty inclusive. while in 1900
lao of ] 900 We're between these ages.
During the same years the average Of
adult prisoners tthirty to thirty-five
years inclusiyel has remained about
the same-twenty in the former year
and twenty-five in the latter. In 1900
juvenile criminality was about six
times more frequent than adult Grim
inality. In cases of assault by night.
for example, there are three criminals
between the ages of sixteen and TWEEN
ty 10 one from twenty-one to thirty
one.
To alcoholism and the hereditary
deseneracy resulting from alcoholism
NJ. GARNER ascribes the increase OF
juvenile criminals. In France the ad-
descent criminal is almost invariably
the son of a drunkard. and has in the
few years of his life acquired the
absinthe habit himself
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''You are cons2iring to cheat me out
of chance to be happy"
when, after the introduction had been
duly accomplished, she led him sweet
ly to the conservatory. and having
gotten him into corner opened up
the entire situation.
Il guess you are very nice man
everybody tells me So" she said, but
/ do not love you little bit. and
never could. / would hate you for the
fact that don't believe you could help
yourself in this pickle. Now let's be
good friends, but marry whom we
please"
The young man emerged at once
from his apparent lassitude.
BY Jove, you're brick.' he <x-
claimed cordially. Hanged If I
want to be disinherited or anything
os that sort-but hanged if | want to
marry a girl l never have seen. BY
Jove-I beg your pardon, you know.
but I mean-that is, | mean-that is
/ don't mean"
Il understand" she interrupted.
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A Large Contract.

Little Howard Green. on returning
from his first visit to Sunday school,
said to his mother:
Mamma, does God watch me all the
time?"
Yes. my son." she answered
We'll" said Howard. then what is
he doing with the other people while
he Is watching me-"
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Ehavs said goes II you will have Il 90.
CAN'T be your Knight forever and
'sver-despite the fool plans OF MANI
mas and aunts?" go
Il She leased forward xId he gathered
Yer in hta arms $500 - ~
mot "A Comedy of Errors he
exclaimed triumphantiy, but ,,Alts.
Well that Ends We1l."a u. az -
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The capacity of Ireland for sending
out emigrants has been one of the
maryels of the world During 1901
the island sent out 1880 emigrants.
or in every 1000 of population. Of
whom S0.5 per cent were between the
ages of Is and 35. Even this large
total is some 1000 smaller than that Of
1900
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why cant the young folks read 1t?
Simply because they are spoiled by
typewriter letters and manuscript.
don't know if penmanship is to become
lost art. but the reading of it seems
to be promising OF such a fate
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We are made for co-operation-like
feet like hands, like eyelids. like tho
rows of the upper and uether teeth
George Eliot.
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Probably love makes the world go
round because it is so cray.
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Those We call the ancients were in
reality quite new.
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1t is one thing to fiatter and nm
other to praise.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-27
MORE TROUBLE AT BEATRICE
Superintendent and Steward M
Feeble Minded Institute I'm
able to Agree.

BEATRICE. Neb.. June 2e.-Cspecial)-
1t is a we'll known fact that there is
trouble brewing at the Institute for She
Feeble Minded here and that Superin-
tendent johnson has asked for Steward NJ.
A. MetZger's resignation. to take effect July
l. From what can be learned IL lie a con-
tinuation Of the trouble had between the
superintendent and steward last year,
when Governor Savage visited the institute
and read the Law to both sides. Shortly
after the governors visit to the city Mr..
Metzger removed his family to town and
it is understood he did SO at the request
Of Governor Savage.
Although not confirmed. 1t is reported
that II the steward resigns as requested a
number Of changes will be made at the in
stitute. Mr.. Metzger says he has not as
yet been notified Of his removal by DR..
johnson.
1t is stated on good authority that Mrs.
Pickell Of Lincoln has already been APP
pointed as Mr.. MetEger's successor.
Governor Savage Is expected here within
the next day or two and the outcome of the
trouble will be watched with considerable
interest by Beatrice citizens.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-27

manded that a few shots be fired. $50 l
had to fire and kill a few people" said
the admiral. but the Spaniards did not
fire. because he dewey bad warned them
not to do SO.
He did not believe the FTipinos could
have taken the city unaided. but the Span
iards were greatly demoralized.
The dmiral said he never received a
letter from Consul Pratt telling him he
must cooperate with Aguinaldo. He added
that Pratt wrote q number Of foolish let
tiers about that time.
Admiral Dewey said he had written the
Navy department that the Filipinos we're
more capable of self government than the
Cubans. because he saw that congress con-
templated giving independence to Cuba and
he knew that the American people had
little information concerning the Filipinos.
The dmiral said that when Aguinaldo
was at the height Of his power the British
admiral, Seymour, had advised the Filipino
chief to tie to the Americans. as they were
his best friends. He said that when he
let the Filipinos have guns and ammuni-
ton he thought that IL was a military
necessity. Looking backward, he could see
that they were not needed. He considered
them very ungrateful in turning against
the United States. The admiral said he and
not the Filipinos had captured subig bay
and he had taken possession because a
German man-of-war was preventing Ag-
uinaldo from passing.
Admiral Dewey had not concluded when
the committee adjourned.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-27
WARRANTS LOOK PECULIAR
Stranger Presents Number Of School obliga-
items to q Norfolk Bank.
is ARRESTED ON THE CHARGE OF FRAUD
Error In one Exeites Suspicion and
Men Alleged to Have signed Them
Called In, but Deny saving
Issued the Warrants.

NORFOLK, Neb., June 26.-CSpecial Tele-
gram.)-A stranger giving the name Of L.
L. VIM disposed Of school warrants
amounting to about $500 to the Norfolk
National bank late yesterday afternoon.
The warrants were drawn on country dis
triets surrounding Norfolk and in sums
ranging from SIS to t45. The names of the
proper officers were signed to the war
rants and but for a mistake in one Of the
signatures, discovered by former County
Treasurer Carl Wilde, now in the employ
Of the bank, all would have passed for
genuine. This led to suspicion Of all the
warrants. and as several Of the school on
GERS were in town, they were shown the
warrants. and while they could not deny
the genuineness Of the signatures, they
said they had never issued any such war
rants for the amounts named nor for the
purposes named.
An unsvailing search was made for VIM
until a late hour last night This morn
ing he again appeared at the bank for the
purpose Of disposing OF more warrants and
was informed that, while they did not care
to take any more warrants, they wanted
him. He then turned and left the bank
abruptly, but was overtsken by President
Bucholz and brought back Later on he
was turned over to the police and is now
in jail awaiting his preliminary hearing.
To a reporter he said he had nothing to
say.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-27
WILL NOT EFFECT KRAFT
Additional Article to Mexican Elk
tradition treaty Does Not Operate
Against Alleged Briber.

WASHINGTON, June 26.-It is learned
that the additional article to the Mexican
extradition treaty. including bribery in the
list of extraditable onenses. which was
signed in Mexico yesterday by Mr.. Clayton
and the minister for foreign affairs. will
not operate against Charles KratE, late
alderman OF ST. Louis, charged with having
accepted a bride. Earnest representations
we're made to the Mexican government by
the State department, with q purpose 10
induce them to make the clause retroactive
in effect. But while DESTROYS OF meeting
our wishes in that respect the Mexican
government held that It was Inhibited By
the Mexican constitution from doing what
was desired. It is believed that while the
State department here can act no further
toward securing Kratz' return to the
United States for trial. counsel for the
state OF Missouri may N to secure
the punishment OF Kratz in Mexico on their
own initiative.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-27
CONFERENCE OF NOMINEES
Fusion Candidates to Select onhcers
of state Committed with
Joint omcerH.
From a stan Correspondent

LINCOLN. June 26.-(Special Telegram-)
The nominees on the fusion ticket will
be called to meet in Lincoln within the
next two weeks to consider plans for the
campaign and to select a chairman and sec
rotary OF the populist state central COM
mittee. 1t has been customary for the pop
ulist committee to select its own officers.
but this year the convention gave the ap-
pointing power to the candidates. c. b.
Manuel OF st. Paul was selected by the
convention to act as temporary chairman
and H. z. Dawes Of Lincoln as temporary
secretary. 1t is likely that both commit
tees will open joint headquarters in Lin
coin. Provision was made by the conven-
ton for a joint campaign committee to
consist Of a democrat and a populist from
each congressional district and most Of the
work for the fusion ticket will be done
through its agency.
Charles Q. DeFranee, having been nom
mated for a state office, is not likely to
be reappointed chairman Of the populist
convention.
At a conference Of the candidates on the
republican ticket A B. Allen OF Tecumseh
was selected for secretary Of the repub-
lican state committee. l. d. Richards Of
Fremon was reelected treasurer.