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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-04-01
A Bargain.

60, Got a talking machine at homer
es. " Pat did You pay for it?" Moth
hiS. Married 1t.ZTit- Bits
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-04-01

The tale shakes ones faith just a
little in JAMS genius. For of all things,
surely genius is not calculating. Yet
throughout the affair Jan has shown
himself as cold and calculating as the
villain In a melodrama, though not so
wicked. His love is countess and her
name is Marianne. They met five years
ago in Vienna and it was a case of love
at first sight. Life for awhile moved
to furioso- passionate measure Then
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-04-01

Mrs. Jacob Peterson, at the home OF
the latter on Pleasant avenue.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-04-01

Mrs. R. NJ. Newport, of Ashland ave.
nue., entertained Informally at lunch.
con for Mrs. George H. Christian, o.
Minneapolis.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-04-01

Mrs. Webster and Mrs. Hazard
will entertain the Ladies' Aid Society
of Central Park M. E. church, Thurs
day afternoon, at 90 Eleventh street
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-04-01

Mrs. J. N. Mounts. of Lincoln ave-
nue., gave an informal luncheon yes
terday at her home.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-04-01
Hall Porter Becomes an Earl.

There are few more dramatic stories
In the peerage than this of the ele-
walton of the hall porter of Chelsea
town hall to the rank of earl, viscount
and baron by a series of accidents only
less remarkable than the hard blows
that fortune had dealt him before she
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-04-01

Court Alpha No. II, United Order of
Foresters, viii hold their regular meet
ing Wednesday evening, April /. at
Central hall There will be initiation
of candidates.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-17

b. ]. McGrew of Auburn. Neb., is located
at Lopez. Tayabas province. in Luzon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Trace of Doane college are
stationed at Balayan. Batangas province.
r, H. Gearhart, from University Place.
has charge OF the school at Tagoloan, on
the island of Mindanao. ]. s. Smoyer OF
Syracuse is at Baganga on the same island.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gum. from the western part
OF Nebraska, are at Misamis. also on Min
danao G. A. Benedict of Omaha was for
several months in the treasurers ohice
at Surigao. Mindanao, but recently he has
been promoted to a position In the treas
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-17
PreOccupied

'Why is it," asked the youth. that so
many wise men are not successful?"
Because. my son." answered the sage,
"they spend so much time finding out how
things happen that they forget to go ahead
Washington Star.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-17

urer's Office at Cebu. Miss Hunter OF
Wayne, Neb., is teaching in the Manila
schools. t. o. Rinker of Lincoln was as
signed to Maribojoc on the island of BohoL
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-17

WHO VOTED AT AN ELECTION IN
NEBRASKA IN 1859.
Clollan about one year ago. as far as your
correspondent can learn, nearly all are
we'll pleased with the islands and their
work. Mr.. and Mrs. C. ID. Schell. from
Falls City. are located at Gapan. province
of Neuva Ecija, on the island of Luzon.
They are said TO have a very pleasant
station and are meeting with success in
the school work. On Christmas day the
Schells Mr.. ozman OF Beatrice. Mr. Bel
knap OF Hastings, now of Cuyapo. this
island. and your correspondent ate turkey
together at the Hotel of the Four Nations
In Manila.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-17
Nebraskans in Manila

from Manila to the Lin
coin Journal J. T. Boomer says
the colony of Nebraskans in the
Philippines is a large and growing
ono There are many former MEM
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-04-18
MUSICAL PILLS FOR THE SICK
Miss Vesce1ius Says Music's Charms
Not Only SOOthe, but Cure.

Miss Vescelius Says Music's Charms
Not Only SOOthe, but Cure.
Miss Augusta Vescelius, head of the
Society For the Culture of Musical
Therapeutics, says, according to the
New York Evening Journal, that in
mysticism is still shrouded the lengths
to which music as a balm to the Ills of
the body, heart and mind can go: that
with a little sonata salve or serenade
solution fever can be cured and all the
effects of a vapor bath be had from a
few spirited Wagnerian renditions. OF
these things the Society For the Gull
ture of Musical Therapeutics is posi-
tive.
Indeed the merger of music and med
icine has already assumed the proper
tons of a Four Hundred fad, and Miss
Vescelius will deliver a series of lee
lures in New York.
Miss Nescelius services have also
been in demand by medical men whose
business takes them to Fifth avenue,
Riverside drive and other localities
where homes of luxury abound, and it
is no uncommon thing when Il certain
member of these homes de luxe has
fallen ill for Miss VeScelius, in cooper
alton with the family doctor, to bring
there a Polish pianist or a violinist.
''The vibrations to be secured in the
playing of certain of the most fervid
Wagnerian selections" says she, will
produce not only a mental, but phys
icaI effect-the effect of a vapor bath.
It will induce perspiration, quick heart
action and enlivened blood circulation.
And in that you have cure for such
things as an9mia, paralysis and the
like
81 don't mean that music alone will
cure. But as a physicians aid it can
not be overestimated. For instance, in
fever here are two prescriptions which
have known to work absolute cures.
1.-The first is the first movement of
the Beethoven Moonlight Sonata It
should be repeated as often as neces-
sary. Calm will come to the patient.
It rarely fails to induce sleep
1.-THE other prescription is this, the
playing of Schubert's 'Serenade.' Gen
tly, sweetly, the rhythm and the har
mony steal with calming effect upon
the senses. You will see how practical
it is. With the calming of the senses
what comes but the cooling of the
blood?"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-04-18
EDUCATION IN CHINA.
How Her Young Men Are Spreading
the LeaVen of Modern Ideas.

4
the LeaVen of Modern Ideas.
Sir Chen Tung LANG Cheng. the new
minister of China to the United States,
was seen by a Washington Star re-
porter the other day at his residence
in Washington. Minister LANG speaks
of the educational movement that is
going ON in China with the greatest
interest.
Speaking of what is being done by
China in the way of giving young men
the advantages of foreign ideas he ex-
planned that while in Japan he learned
that there are in that country 700 Chi
nese students attending English
schools. that give them the same OPP
portunitieS that are accorded the Jap
aneSe. Some of these students are
sent there by the government of China,
but two-thirds of them are the sons of
rich Cinnamon, who themselves pay
their expenses. They do not seek a
polite education merely. but are tax
ing courses in scientific branches that
will be of benefit in the industrial de-
velopment of China. As rule they
seek to become civil Or mining en-
gineers.
The imperial edict by which govern
ors of provinces We're directed to send
young men abroad to be educated was
not specific in commanding any special
number that should be sent from each
province. The governors of provinces
will send whatever number they find
themselves able to look after.
From Chilli province there will come
TO the United States twenty-five stu
dents, and it is possible that the num-
Der will be increased. Minister LANG
brought to the United States with him
twenty-five students. Each of these
students will take up scientific courses
after they have passed a year or two
in preparatory work. These young
men have all studied English, and
they are proficient in mathemat tics.
They are sixteen or seventeen years of
age.
A preceptor has been sent here in
charge of the students, and they will
be under his general direction. 1t is
not likely that they will be kept to-
gether, because of the better results
that can be obtained by having them
in different institutions, so that their
contact with English speaking people
will be encouraged. Later ten stu
dents will come from Hankow prov
ince, and eventually there will go
abroad from China students from all
of the twenty-one provinces.
1t is quite likely that within year
or so there Will be studying in the
United States and in several leading
European countries over 200 Chinese
students. This will be in addition to
the more extensive educational work
of the Chinese going on in Japan. This
refers to the government students and
those of the provinces. In addition to
that it is now impossible to know to
what an extent the sons of rich China
men will be sent abroad for education
al work
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-04-18
ROOSEVELT is ARMED.
Revolver Found In Presidents over.
cont by Governor Van SAINT.

Revolver Found In Presidents over
cont by Governor Van SAINT.
President Roosevelt is not entirely
satisfied with the protection afforded
him by the constant attendance of q
squad of secret service men, so he car
ries Il big revolver in one of the out
side pockets of his overcoat, says a st.
Paul special dispatch to the Philadel-
phia Public Ledger.
Governor Van SAINT made this dis
covery the other day while the presi-
dent was in st. Paul, but the story did
not leak out until recently. When the
president arrived at the capitol to adj
dress the legislature, he was taken first
into the executive chamber, where he
and Governor Van SAINT were relieved
of their overcoats by the governors ne
gro messenger.
Later, when all were about to start
for the drive and everything was in the
confusion of preparation, the governor
happened to run his hand into the
pocket of the overcoat into which he
was being assisted, and, much surpris-
ed, he called out:
'Hello, Dave, this isn't my coat!
This one has big gun in the pocket"
Then the president, standing close at
hand, chuckled softly and, turning to
the governor with n smile, said quietly:
ooh, it's all right, governor! That
coat belongs to me-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-04-18
schvab's "Ordinary, Piano.

c. NJ. Schwab, president of the Unit
ed States Steel corporation, resents the
statement made in a recent publication
that he owns a $4,000 piano, says a
special dispatch from Braddock. Pa,
to the Philadelphia Press. Mr.. Schwab's
relatives at Braddock recently entered
a denial to the story, backed by d let
ter from him in which he is quoted as
saying that it would SAVIOR of extrava-
gance for any man, no matter how
wealthy, to own a piano costing S1O,-
600. Mr.. Schwab's piano, it is stated,
is Just an ordinary one."
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-04-18

mand of the reserve detachment. He
was present at the surrender of Gen
eral Lee at AppomattoX April o, 1865.
He handed down his opinion in the
Northern Securities case on the thirty
eighth anniversary of the surrender.
An incident of Judge Thayer's serv-
ice on the state bench showed how
sometimes his sternness and kindness
were in conflict. a mother brought
habeas corpus proceedings to get pos
session Of her child, which had been
taken from her as Il baby and placed
with an old couple who had reared it.
She had been adjudged unfit to care for
the child when it was taken from her,
but under a new statute at the time
the habeas corpus proceedings were
brought Judge Thayer was compelled
to order the child delivered to her.
The aged couple were ordered to pro-
duce it in court. They appeared, but
did not bring the child. The old man
was placed on the stand and asked
where the child was.
''The last 1 saw of it it was being
led north from Ninth street and Frank
lin avenue" said he. II cannot bring
it here because l don't know where it
is now
''That is mere quibbling," said Judge
Thayer. do you refuse to produce
the child?'
81 do"
"Then 1 must send you to Jail until
you obey the courts ORDER
''Send me there until 1 die" replied
the old man. II will not surrender the
child"
Commit this man to JAIL" ordered
the judge, his voice very stern, The
order was obeyed, and the old man
was locked up.
a month later he was still in Jail
when Judge Thayer went away for his
summer vacation. But he had been
gone only two days when the judge
who was holding the summer session
in st. Louis in his place received a tel
egram from him. 1t read, Turn that
man loose" And the order was
obeyed.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-04-18

at 800 years will be old while some one
will be young at seventy? Years are
piling up on that remarkable boy; but,
as you see, he is not getting old. The
chemical change of each cell in his
whole anatomy is deferred and pro-
crosses one-siXth as fast as that of an
ordinary person.
''Why will he not, then, last six times
as long as an ordinary person? He is
not wasting away. He is growing,
slowly, but surely. Six years to
him are the same in effect as one year
to you. Three hundred to him would
be fifty to you. 1t is scientific, though
amazing This boys career will startle
the world
There are other prominent physicians
who hold the same view as DR.. Camp
bell and are just as enthusiastic i'll
making the announcement of what they
regard as a new and startling discov-
cry in life history.
Clyde's parents have received nu-
merous offers from circus managers,
but they refuse to place him on exhibit
ton. He has never been more than Il
mile from his Radnor home. At the
present time Clyde is learning his A
B C's and can count up to ten. When
he is 200 or 300 years old, he will be an
unusually bright young man, and DR..
o. C. Campbell, though probably then
forgotten for awhile, will be resurrect-
ed to fame
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-04-18
A womnn's Strange Mania.

A singular case has been received at
the City hospital in Cincinnati, says
the Philadelphia Press. Mile Edward,
aged thirty-seven, has a mania for sing
ing. The attack came on her suddenly
at her home. She sings almost continu-
ally. When her physician puts questions
to her, she answers them sensibly
enough, but she sings the answers in
stead of speaking them. She seems to
have lost the power to speak. Her
wishes, orders, interrogations, exCla-
mations al are uttered in SONG
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-04-18
THE MERGER
SUIT DISCUSSED
Northern Securities Decision Is
Sweeping, Says J. w. Griggs.
HIS OPINION OF WHAT IT MEANS

Former Attorney General Says 1t Az
fects the Natural Right to Acquire
and Hold ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 1t APP
pIicabIe to All Interstate COMPETE
tion Consultations Made Since Enc
actment of sherman Law.
Former Attorney General John W.
Griggs, one of the counsel for the
Northern Securities company, was in
terviewed at his home in Paterson, n.
J., by New York Herald reporter on
the decision rendered in the merger
suit.
Without saying word as to his
chances before the highest court it was
evident that the former attorney gen.
eral, though his disappointment was
keen at the decision. believes firmly
that the supreme court will uphold him.
81 maintain" he said, that the &C
quiescence by the government for nine
teen years in the actual consolidation
of many parallel and competing lines
of railroads has given as a practical
construction of the Sherman law that
it does not forbid the natural processes
of consolidation under modern meth
DDS. But the Northern Securities COM
pany, mind you, was organized to pro-
mote rather than to restrain competi-
ton. 1t was its aim to build a great
transcontinental road that could COM
pete with the Santa Fe, Southern Pa
cific and other systems.
Il maintain that congress has the
right to control the use, not the owner
ship, of property. 1t has no business
with the title of private property. 1t
can tell an eXpreSSman how much he
must charge, but cannot forbid him to
sell his wagons or buy as many as he
wants. If 1 own a steamboat on the
Hudson. L must run a prescribed speed,
charge q certain fare, make so many
trips, but what power is there to stop
my selling that boat to my competitor
or any one else? l can blow it up if
want to, and that would restrain COM
petition equally.
Il can give you the whole Northern
Securities situation in word An en-
CINE driver controls an engine. super
intendent controls the engine driver,
but does not directly control the en-
CINE. That is the position we held at
St Louis. The Securities company ex-
ercises n secondary, not primary,
power over the railroads.
I'VE all know of many instances in
which moral power is exercised by
some financial institution over prop
erty without owning a share Of that
property. How are you going to con-
troll every one who has influence? To
say that one person or several persons
cannot acquire stocks in companies
that might restrain competition is to
say that the power to commit crime
is equivalent to its actual commission
Nobody questions the right of con-
gress to regulate rates. If these COM
panies should use their power to re-
strain trade. congress has a remedy at
hand by compelling them to run u GER
tain number of trains and to charge
certain rates and provide full and just
accommodations.
"Just think what the decision means
to- the development of the country.
III
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-04-18
HARNER'S ODD CAREER
Physician Says He Will Live to
Be Three Hundred.
HE Is A CHILD AT TWENTY-FIVE.

Remarkable Case OF a Man In Rad
nor, Ind, Who Is Only Thirty-six
Inches High and Looks Like "A Boy
of Five-Eats Only Three Meals Per
Week.
Radnor, Ind, has a remarkable case
of scientific and human interest in the
person of Clyde Harner, aged twenty
five years, who, eminent physicians
say, will live to be 300 years old, says
dispatch from Delphi, Ind, to the
New York Herald.
DIR. o. c. Campbell, one of Indiana's
best known medical men, insists that
Harner, who is the son of Mr.. and
Mrs. George Harner. will live to this
extraordinary age owing to the pecul-
iarities in his life and his slow but
sure development.
Clyde Harner. though twenty five
years old, does not look older than a
boy of four or five, is thirty-six inches
high and weighs but thirty-five pounds.
At his birth Clyde weighed ten pounds
and was different in no way from 9th
er children. He grew and progressed
rapidly and in normal way until he
was five years old, when his develop
ment, both mental and physical, was
suddenly and mysteriously arrested.
He looks to be young boy and in
every respect, save age, is Il young boy.
he is developing in every particular,
but at only one-siXth the natural rate.
He eats but three meals per week,
sleeps twenty-feur hours and plays
twenty-four hours, nor have his habits
in this respect varied in nineteen
years.
AS the years go by they have only
one-siXth the usual effect upon this re-
markable man. and this fact has been
so APPARENT that it attracted the atten-
ton of DR. Campbell about a year ago
and caused him to finally announce
that the little man would live 300
years.
The statement seems Strikingly pre-
posteTous, yet when the learned doc
tors line of argument is considered
there is made apparent a strange fea-
slbility about it that attracts the notice
of the most conservative medical au
thorities.
''The boy will live to be 800 years
old just as sure as l have lived to be
sixty" said DR.. Campbell. Have you
ever noticed" he continued, that some
men are old at fifty years, while others
are young at seventy? 1 attach the
greatest Importance to the variance of
time at which different men become
aged
THAT some men become scar and old
at what is commonly called n prema-
ture time because of dissipation is n
theory almost universally accepted, yet
it is all wrong. While debauchery may
in small degree hasten gray hairs and
n bent form, it does not of itself pro-
duce that condition.
Longevity depends upon a physio-
logical condition of the person In in
fancy. This is 4 fact 1 have myself
discovered. The seed of vitality is
planted at an early time and is always
unimpaired through life by any other
element. The different degrees of vi
tally in different men cause vast diff
ference in the length of time they will
exist on earth.
''Now, if one man can be old at fifty
while another can be young at seventy,
why cannot the variance be phenome-
nally made so great that Clyde Harner
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-04-18
CnuIdn,t Find ROSA.

The youngster in the art gallery look
ed long and earnestly at the painting.
Then he read the inscription.
''Do you like it?'' asked his mother.
ooh, 1 like it well enough" he an
swered, ''but don't understand it"
"What is it you'don't understands
"Why, it says Wild Horses-After
Rosa Bonheur.' 1 see the horses all
right, but where's the girl they're aft
er?'-Chicago Post.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-04-18
The Up TO Date Indian.

According to the Bliss q. IT, Breeze,
because of the thieving propensities OF
the palefaces, the Indians have aban-
doned their old time burial customs of
putting valuables belonging to the de-
ceased into the grave with the corpse
Now they put the money in bank and
bury certificate of deposit, which the
departed one may cash in the happy
hunting grounds g..
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-04-18
SUBMARINE WIRELESS TEST
British Successfully Communicate
with Boats Under Water.


In the course of experiments with
the new submarines at Portsmouth an
attempt was made to communicate
with them by means of wireless teleg-
raphy, which was found possible, says
q special cable dispatch from London
to the New York Times. A further
trial revealed the fact that communia
cation could only be established so long
as the light penetrated to the subma-
rines. 1t ceased as soon as they were
submerged to a depth where the light
was unable to reach them.
This discovery will, 1t is expected,
have an important bearing on the fu-
ture of submarine warfare. Expert
ments made aboard ship to detect the
approach of submarines were also sue
c0SSful
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-04-18
train Speed Record Broken.

The Burlington road has put out a
claim for the train speed record. Re
Gently a special mail train ran from
Burlington to Chicago, 206 miles, in 21O
minutes, including stops. The actual
running time was 1917 minues. The
eighty miles between Galesburg, Ill,
and Mendoza were made in seventy
minutes.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-04-18

Attorney General Douglas of st. Paul
has in his Office Il hybrid plant which
at the roots is putting forth potatoes
and above the ground several well de-
Feloped tomatoes. says the New York
Times. 1t was produced at the state
experiment station by grating a toma-
to vine 10 potato plant.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-04-18
UNION WITH CANADA.
Carnegie Predicts That Dominion
and United States VIII BE One.

Carnegie Predicts That Dominion
and United States VIII BE One.
Canada and the United States shall
be one nation" is the prophetic note of
letter from Andrew Carnegie in his
reply to an invitation to attend mon
ster demonstration at Toronto in July
of the Canadian born from all parts of
the continent, says the Philadelphia
Press. After expressing his belief in
such a gathering and regretting his in
ability to be present Mr.. Carnegie says:
'That the people of Canada and Of
the United States and of Great Brit
ain are to remain divided. talking of
boundaries and military forces to pro-
tect one from the other, is not to be
thought of. Some day they will move
together in all international affairs. In
deed they will not be different nations.
They will be one politically as they are
racially."
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-04-18
Jade Found In Oregon.

"Jade, the sacred and rare stone used
by the Chinese in making bracelets,
rings, vases, ETC., has been found re-
Gently in large quantities in the state
of Oregon" said S. T. Taliaferro of
Portland to Washington Star report
er. 1.-The discovery is considered quite
an important one from mineral as
well as commercial standpoint. This
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-04-18

find is said by biologists to be the first
of the kind in the United States. The
Oregon jade is tough and compact and
varies in color from pure white to a
dark green.''