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PULSE AND POETRY.
RELATION OF VERSE TO HUMAN
ORGANISM.
Experiments Being Conducted to Dis
cover Law of Connection Between
Stress in Metrical Compo
sition and Heartbeat.
Berkeley, Cal. —A remarkable set of
experiments to determine the relation
of poetry to human organism is being
conducted in the experimental psy
chology department of the University
of California by Prof. James Main
Dixon and Dr. \V. S. Wrtneh. These
experiments, which were begun some
time ago, are i;. a field heretofore un
explored by psychologists. They are
al' an exceedingly delicate nature, and
the university at. Berkeley is one of
the few institutions in the United
States which possess apparatus sen
sitive enough to record the results of
the work.
Prof. Dixon has already discovered
an emotional curve in poems like
Tennyson's "The Bridge." Experi
ments are now being conducted to dis
cover a law as to the relation between
stress in poetry and the beat of the
human heart, and the relation be
tween the lines of poetry and the
respiration. A large number of tests
have already been made, and some
provisional conclusions have been ar
rived at, but before the law is fully
determined Prof. Dixon thinks it. will
be necessary to record the singing of
the Doxology or some other song by
a whole congregation.
In securing the records to be used
In drawing this general conclusion,
Prof. Dixon and Dr. Wrinch use an
exceedingly complicated machine that
records the "pulse beat of the person
receiving the poetry, the stress, the
number of lines, the respirations and
the time taken. All these results are
recorded on a smoked record and can
be preserved.
Prof. Dixon, who is a noted English j
scholar and author, and who is here i
doing research work, will present a:
thesis on his work for a doctor's de- |
gree. A great deal of interest is be- I
ing taken by scholars in the outcome j
of his researches, and his technical !
lecture before the Philological club
giving the results obtained thus far.
In speaking of the experiments, Prof, i
Dixon said:
"The work we are doing now deals !
with the expansion and contraction of
lines of poetry, according to the sub
ject matter, whether it is happy or
sad. An emotional curve has been
discovered in poems like Browning's
'Abt Vogier' and Tennyson's 'The
Bridge.' Perhaps the most remarkable
manifestation of the law discovered
was found in Tennyson's 'May Queen.'
It was shown that the three divisions
into which the poem is divided vary
in a most decided manner. The first,
giving a mood of heightened happi
ness, uses 11 per cent, more syllables
than the second, which is in a mood
of utter depression. The third divi
sion is in a mood of resignation or
sorrow, and uses three per cent, less j
syllables than the second." J
The results thus far obtained have
been sent by Prof. Dixon to the Royal j
society, at Edinburgh, of which he is
a fellow.
A further examination to find aj
norm in all poetry—that is, why some
lines should have eight syllables and I
others 15, and why the lines of 151
should break in the middle with a
caesura—has been undertaken. It is !
also Prof. Dixon's purpose to deter- i
mine what a line of poetry is psycho
logically. Experiments with the pulse
and throat seem to show that a tetra
meter verse of our common hymn
"Doxology" gives a norm. For every
pulse means a stress and every line
means the time between respiration.
An experiment with the hymn, "Rock j
of Ages." comes out regularly l(i
pulse beats and 10 stresses, four res
pirations and four lines.
Before he finishes, however. Prof.
Dixon intends to record the singing
of a whole congregation on a phono
graphic record, and see if the law
iiolds for great audiences, as well as
for individuals. By these experiments
f'rof. Dixon will seek to draw sharp
ly the line between poetry and prose
At present it is almost impossible t
tell the real difference between the
poetry and prose. If poetry is a di
rect appeal to organism, it has a di
rect connection with breathing and
the heart action, and the connection
ts to be minutely determined.
EATS 73 BUCKWHEAT CAKES
Winner of a Unique Contest at Sharon,
Pa., Rewarded with a Fine
Bit of Pastry.
Sharon. Pa.—What is undoubtedly
the long-distance record in the buck
wheat cake-eating line is held by As
sistant Postmaster Joseph L. Roberts,
who won by one cake in a contest re
cently conducted under auspices of Dr.
S. S. Gilbert.
Roberts defeated Paul Gilbert, secre
tary of the York (Pa.) Wall Paper com
pany. His record was 73. while Gilbert
was able to stow away only 72.
The contest was held at Dr. Gilbert's
home, and it kept two cooks busy pre
paring the cakes.
Dr. Gilbert dropped out of the con
test after he had eaten 48. and his son,
Joseph, fainted when he tackled No. 50.
This left but the two contestants, and
the tournament ended as stated above.
The cake, a big prize, was awarded to
Roberts.
A Close Second.
With a record of 13 killed and near
ly 300 injured, the football season
passes into history as a good second
to the late Fourth of July.
TRANSPORTATION OF MAILS
Annual Report of Assistant Post
master General Shows Large In
crease in the Service.
The annual report of W. S. Shallen
burger, second assistant postmaster gen
eral, shows that the annual rate of ex
penditure lor all inland mail transpor
tation service during the last fiscal year
was $07,931,430. Tot his i« added $2,510,-
053 for foreign mails. The largest items
in i he postal transportation figures are
the star routes, which number 18,74:!, ag
gregating 233.392 miles and an annual
rate of expenditure of $39,177,377; rail
way post office car routes, numbering
284. with an aggregate of 52,037 miles
ami an annual rate of expenditure ot°
$5,518,234. and railway mail service (of
ficers ami clerks), 11,444 in number, in
volving an expenditure of $12,095,437.
The number of miles traveled per an
num by all classes of routes of mail
transportation in this country, among
which are star routes, railroad routes,
siwcial office routes, mail messenger
routes, etc., aggregates 505,585.520.
In Hawaii thestar route and mail mes
senger service at the various ports is
now so arranged as to connect mail
steamers at any time, whether thesteam
ers are running on regular schedule or
at irregular intervals.
To indicate the large increase in the
volume of mails carried by the railroads
it. is pointed out that the expenditures
for railroad transportation and railway
post office cars during the four-year
period 1902-05 was $42,458,140, an in
crease of over 17 per cent, over the previ
ous four-year period, while the revenue
of the postal service was $139,781,794. an
increase of over 40 per cent, over the
previous four-year period.
The report says it is evidently the de
sire, of the American people to send
parcels of small average weight abroad,
and that our rates of postage favor this
practice.
SACRED EVEN IF DRUNK.
Queer Privilege Claimed by German
Officers—Privates Punished for
Protecting a Girl.
Berlin. —A German soldier does not
possess the right of self-defense against
attack by his superior. This aihazing
decision has been handed down in a
case just ended at Dessau. The facts in
the case follow:
Sergt. Heine, who was drunk, entered
a public dancing saloon and insulted
two girls who were in the company of
two soldiers named Guenther and
Voiglit. The girls appealed to their
companions for protection, and the sol
diers protested to Heine, who drew his
sword. He made a drunken lunge with
the weapon and slightly wounded one
of the girls.
A violent scuffle ensued, during which
Heine was disarmed and felled to the
floor.
Guenther and Voight were arrested
for striking their superior officer. In
the trial the prisoners' counsel contend
ed they acted in self-defense. He de
clared it permissible for soldiers to de
fend their honor and life, even against
a superior.
"Nothing of the sort," responded the
prosecuting counsel. "Self-defense is a
conception that does not exist in the
relations between soldiers and their
superiors."
Counsel for the defense asked: "Must
a soldier allow himself to be unresist
ingly slaughtered by a superior officer?"
"Yes," the prosecutor replied.
The court, however, partially dis
sented from this view. A soldier wheae
life is endangered mijihi parry, although
he must not strike a counter blow. The
prisoners each were sentenced to five
years' hard labor, in addition to which
they were dismissed from the army and
deprived of their civil rights. Heine
was sentenced to three months' im
prisonment for assault.
HINDOO MEDAL TALISMANIC
Brings an American Doctor Costly
Presents and a Lucrative
Position.
Kittaning. I'a. —Dr. G. A. Flower, of
this place, lias returned from St. Louis
mystified, but covered with presents.
He has also proposed to move to Ir.dia
within a year to become a private
physician to Rajah Tipo Sahib—a dig
nitary of whose existence Dr. Flower
was in complete ignorance until some
days ago, when he was confronted with
the rajah's courier in St. Louis.
Eleven years ago, while at Chicago
attending the world's fair, Dr. Flower
was instrumental in saving the foot
of a young foreigner who had been
trampled on by a camel. The lad,
who appeared to be a Hindoo, pressed
on the physician a medal and took iu
exchange the physician's card.
Some weeks ago Dr. Flower was sent
a copy of a western paper, in which
his name was mentioned. Would he
call at the Indian embassy at St. Louis,
bringing with him a medal which was
given him lor services at Chicago in
189:'. by a young native of India? The
doctor hunted up the medal and hur
ried to St. Louis, Ihe advertisement re
quiring that he should be there be
fore November 24. The Kittaning
physician was at once handed presents
from the new rajali Tipo Sahib, who.
it seems, was the lad whose foot he
saved at Chicago. The Indian digni
tary proposed thai the American doc
tor would accept his poor presents, and
would come to India to live as his prl
vate physician. The presents amount
tw about SIO,OOO. Dr. Flower will go
to India in April.
Remedy Worse Than Disease.
Music may be a cure for nervous
troubles, but in the case of composi
tions like "Hiawatha" and "Bedelia"
the opinion will prevail that the rem
edy is worse than the disease.
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1904.
A SKKIILKSS APPLE.
GROWN BY COLORADO MAN AND
EXHIBITED AT FAIR.
Much Like the Jonathan But as Solid
as a Potato —Trees Said to Be
Almost Immune to Frosts
and Insects.
St. Louis. Mo. —That it is just as easy
to grow an apple without seeds as it
is to grow an orange is demonstrated
by John K. Spencer, of Grand Junction,
Col., who had an exhibit of seedless ap
ples in the Horticultural building al
the world's fair.
The variety, as yet not technically
named, is much like the Jonathan.
Experts have examined the apple and
have pronounced it a wondei. 11 has
been the desire of apple raisers for
years to produce a variety without
seeds. The core of an apple takes up
a goodly portion of the bulk, and the
husks surrounding the seeds are disa
greeable when taken into the mouth,
not being easily dislodged if caught
in the throat.
The strange thing about the Spencer
apple is thai it is absolutely without
seeds or even cells. All the way
through the meat is of the same firm
ness and Juicy quality.
Placed in another orchard, however,
i where bees are gatheri-ig stores, it is
sometimes the case that a speck of
• pollen from blossoms in the orchard
| containing the "seed" apples may be
I deposited by an insect in one of (he
"seedless" buds.
| The result is a solitary seed in the
j heart of the new wonder in pomology.
I This is without core or even the usual
husk, proving that the seed of an ap
| pie has no relation to the fruit, ex
j cept from the standpoint of germina
tion. neither the flavor nor texture be
ing in the least affected.
Nobody knows exactly how Spencer
perfected his seedless apple. It was
j done by a series of grafting or bud
i ding, the intermingling of varieties,
j until the desired result was attained,
j All that anyone has been able to find
: out from the originator is that varie
; tics were crossed and recrossed, the
ones containing the least number of
seeds being used in experimenting.
But why apples containing a mini
mum number of seeds, should, by be
; itig budded, produce a variety absolute
ly seedless is what is puzzling •pomol
ogists.
A peculiar feature of the Spencer
pomological wonder is that the trees
do not blossom. A conical-shaped bud,
dark green and very compact, makes
its appearance, assuming shape of the
apple without opening. This. It Is
claimed, renders it almost immune to
frost or ice and makes it impossible for
moths or other insects to deposit their
e?gs. as is easily done when the ordi
nary tree is in bloom.
WILL DISCOURAGE TRAMPS.
Authorities of New York Town Will
Endeavor to Keep City Free
from Road Wanderers.
Hornellsville, N. Y—Chief of Police 1
Mickey has adopted what he intends to
be effective methods to prevent tramps
making this city one of their stopping
off points.
has issued a request to all resi- I
dents to refuse all requests for assist- 1
ance unless they know the applicant
personally and to be deserving. The po- j
lice have been ordered to arrest at once
all men found on the streets who can
not give a satisfactory account of
themselves.
The railroad officers are watching all
freight trains coming into the city and
the hoboes coming in are not allowed -
to leave the railroad property and go !
into Ihe city.
The police will temper this severity
with reason and unfortunates who
reach the city at night and are without
funds to receive a night's lodging will
be cared for at police headquarters and
allowed to continue on their way the
following morning.
Should they return the second night 1
for lodgings they are considered 1
vagrants and sentenced the next morn- :
ing as such.
LEASES CHILD FOR $5 A YEAR
Resident of Rock Grove, 11l. r Turns
Over Daughter to Learn House
keeping- for Seven Years.
Freeport, 111. Grace A. Bolander, a
nine-year-old girl, binds herself to i
serve a seven-year apprenticeship to :
the housekeeping art. and will take her j
lessons from Jacob Lauck, according j
lo a unique paper thai has been filed I
with the recorder of Stephenson coun- j
t.v. Grace is the daughter of Frann !
J. and HaU.e E. Bolanuer. All the
parties to the agreements are residents !
of Rock Grove.
In the paper that has been placed \
on record the girl binds herself to I
serve in the Lauck household until she i
is 1t; years old. During that time she >
is to "serve her master faithfully, hon- ;
estl.v and industriously, to keep his '
secrets and obey his< command." The
party of the first pan agrees to teach '
the art of housekeeping, to have her
instructed in the "ground rules of
arithmetic," and at the end of her ap
prenticeship to give her S2O, a new
Bible and two dresses. Aside from
this, the father of the gii 4 ! js to receive
five dollars a year for the service of
the child.
Famous Female Anarchist.
Louise Michel, the furious Frenrh
anarchist, has almost entirely recov
ered from the severe attack of pleuro
pneumonia which nearly ended her
stormy career recently. She is 74
years old.
SOCIETY GIRL A HOUSEMAID
Philadelphia Heiress Takes a Place
as Servant to Cook and Do
Other Menial Work.
Philadelphia.—Miss Marion Honey
man Wood, a member of the city's
j most exclusive social circles, a former
j hospital nurse and actress, is at pres
| ent engaged in a new venture, and the
| set in which she moves has been given
| a new theme for conversation. She is
donned the costume of a housemaid,
j and is serving in that capacity for
; wages at the house of her cousin. Miss
j Louise Wood, an artist. She has held
j this place for the last five weeks, and
| the matter has been kept, secret from
[ most of her friends. Members of her
family—she is a daughter of Edward
Randolph Wood, declined to give any
, information about Miss Wood's pres
i ent venture.
Miss Wood spent the summer with
i a theatrical company in Canada. This
organization failed, and the young
woman who had aspired to histrionic
honors, returned to her home. While
serving as a. trained nurse in the
| Pennsylvania hospital she learned to
j cook, and this work is included in her
I duties at the Kittenhouse street home.
; She wears the usual black, tight-fit
| ting costume with'a small apron and
cap of white. She has light hair and
blue eyes. On every afternoon ex
! cept Thursday she acts as hallmaid
and lakes Ihe cards of callers at the
door.
She also makes herself otherwise
useful about the house. She says she
likes the place, and, although the pay
is not so good as that received by
stars on the stage, she intends to con
tinue as a maid until she has an op
portunity again to take up the life of
an actress.
Miss Wood says she is very happy,
and is not thinking of giving up her
place in spite of family pre/tests. She
grants, however, that with all its
drawbacks, stage life is preferable.
BLIND BOYS PLAY FOOTBALL
Three Members of Kentucky Team En
tirely Sightless—Opposing Play
ers Required to Yell.
Louisville, Kv. —The latest addition
i to ihe list of things that the blind can
| enjoy is football. Last summer the
sightless wards of the state of Ken
tucky organized a baseball team and
played many exciting games.
This year football was "adapted" for
the blind boys, and the other morning
they played a tie game of 10 to 10 at
straight football against a team that
could see.
The game was taken up about a month
ago and soon the students had perfect
ed a code of signals and mastered the
principle of guards, back tackles and
buck formation. For their backs they
selected the boys with the best vision,
including several who have a fair
measure of sight in one eye. Their
quarter backs soon acquired such apti
tude in passing the ball that fumbles
were reduced to a minimum of fre
quency.
The center, two guards and one of the
tackles of the institute team are en
tirely blind. Most of the members of
the team can distinguish an opponent
by the color of his sweater The only
regulation laid upon the opposing team
is that the quarter back shall call "pass"
when he puts the bail in play. At the
cpeniug tne iull back of ihe opposing
team kicked off deep into the territory
of the blind asylum team.
Kognen, captain of the blind boys,
caught the ball, called to his men to
form their interference about him, and
plunged 20 yards down the field, run
ning low, swiftly and with utter fear
lessness.
FISHES WITH ELECTRICITY.
Pole Seeks Patent on New Time-Sav
ing Device —Bell Rings on Ap
proach of Fish.
Berlin. —The Berlin patent ofiiee
has had some strange propositions pre
sented to it, but never a more eccen
tric one than that just handed in by a
Polish inventor living here, who lias
already invented a number ol useful
machines or modifications of others al
ready existing. This time Poienvsky,
the Pole in question, asks for a patent
on an apparatus which he nas just per
fected.
It consists of what he calls a tele
phone fishing device. A microphone
and detonator are submerged, but at
tached by wire to the ordinary tele
phone in the house of the person who
desires to do his fishing in this way.
A group of fish pajs at a certain dis
tance from the microphone, which, un
der the influence of the water's mo
tion, causes a ring at the telephone
bell in the house. Thus warned of the
presence of fish, the "fisher" leisurely
turns on the detonator by pressing an
electric button, whereupon the iish,
suddenly electrocuted, rise dead to the
surface.
Poienvsky explains that he does not
mean this to replace the sport, of fish -
ing: it is intended for purely commer
cial use in seaside cities, where res
taurants will find it saves time and
is more convenient than the old-fash
ioned method of fishing immortalized I
by Izaak Walton.
Might Mistake Wife for Daughter.
At Farmington. Me., recently a girl
15 years old was married to a man j
who had ten children. lie should he
compelled to put a tag on her so '
that there may be no danger of a
mix-up.
Good Place to Die.
Gen. Stoessel can't understand why
any Russian soldier should be so base
as to have doubts about the desir
ability of Port Arthur as a tomb.
A MARVELOUS VOICE.
NEW YORK BOY MAY BECOME
WORLD S GREATEST TENOR.
Is Nineteen Years Old and the Son of
a Saratoga Blacksmith Lad
Can Reach High C With
out Effort.
New York. —At the Metropolitan
Opera House singing school there is
a young American pupil, and neither
| Heinrich Conried, manager of the
i opera house, nor Mine. Jaager, di
rector of the school, will be greatly
I surprised if in a few years the world
i recognizes the pupil as the greatest
! tenor of the time.
I The voice belongs to a husky, hand
j some boy of ID, Romeo Fenton. He
I comes from Saratoga. The lad's brief
j history reads like fiction rather than
: fact. He is me son and grandson of
j a blacksmith. His mother is a devout
| woman and an excellent housewife.
So far as anyone knows the boy
harks back to no musical genius.
When he reached high school he
caught the attention of the singing
master and became the show boy
singer at the school entertainments.
He grew rapidly and in cnildhood
his bulk distributed itself over a big
frame. He stands six feet in his socks,
has shoulders as broad as Pol Plancon,
and a chest as deep as Edouard de
Reszke. He has big. deep blue eyes,
wavy brown hair and a complexion of
the kind women sometimes try to buy
in shops.
If he attends to business, and doesn't
get a swelled head, he will probably
be chosen as one of the six or eight
picked from the school each spring to
go abroad with Mme. Jaager, visiting
France, Italy and Germany, and spend-
I ing the summer in study at Mine. Jaa
j ger's home in the Austrian Tyrol,
j Mme. Jaager's son said about young
| Fenton:
"The boy has an unusual voice. It is
a most, natural young voice and of
beautiful quality. When he opens his
mouth a stream of melody seems to
flow from his throat. He sings B flat
now, and is sure togo above high C
with training, and that note is as high
as the greatest tenors sing. I have
known the beginnings of some of the
greatest tenors, and young Fenton has
a much better voice fo begin with than
they.
I "It is literally true that he starts
with no bad singing faults. If he
keeps his head and devotes himself to
hard, conscientious, intelligent work
he has a great future. But all the
singing possibilities of the future do
not appeal much to the boy's father.
When anything like a career is men
tioned to him he replies: 'That's all
very well. The boy can try it.for
awhile down there in New York, but
the place for him is at home.'"
THIS MULE BIGGEST EVER.
Comes from Missouri, of Course, and
Bears the Weil-Known Name
of Folk.
Philadelphia, Pa. —For an hour the
other day Broad street was all but
blocked by a crowd of several hundred
men that had gathered about a mule
thai stood in front of the Betz build
ing, placidly gazing over the heads of '
iho turong.
The mule, which had jusi been pur- i
chased by Yare Bros., is believed to I
be the largest animal of its kind in the !
world.
It was born in Missouri seven years I
ago, weighs 1,900 pounds, and stands j
l'J hands, or 7 feet 11 inches, high,
and has been on exhibition at ihe
world's fair in St. Louis.
It was there that Senator George
Yare first saw the animal, and it did
not take the senator long to decide
that Folk, as the mule is called, in
honor of the governor-elect of Mis
souri, was just what he wanted for
work on the South Philadelphia boule
vard.
Folk had won blue ribbons at the
fair l'or size, weight, strength and gen
eral conformation, and came high, but
Senator Yare had made up his mind
to have him and the purchase was
made.
The mule reached here, and about
noon the other day it was driven up
Broad street as far as Ihe Betz build
ing. where it was admired by hundreds
of Senator Vare's friends and ac
quaintances.
The mule is so large it cannot get
between the shafts of any ordinary
vehicle, so it will be used as a "lead"
for the horses that are working on the
boulevard.
Tails in Disuse.
Columbus.—The state board of char
ities makes a commendatory report
upon the morals of the villages of
Hollansburg and Webster. Darke
county, as secured from information
given by the board of visitors of that
county. When the members of the
Hollansburg jail wanted to inspect
that prison the town constable was
unable to open the lock, as it had be
come so rusty from long disuse. At
Webster the key to the "lock-up"
could not he found, and the oldeFt In
habitant did not l.now who kept it.
Had Better Save It.
By the terms of an election bet a
man in Emporia, Kan., obligated him
sc'f to burn his shirt in front of the
state eapitol in Topeka. In Kansas
the wind is not always tempered to
the shirtless idiot, either.
The First Shackle.
The first thing the zemstvos should
ask of that proposed Russian legisla
ture is authority to change their
naxues.
KEEPS COW IN HER PARLOR
Buffalo Woman's Home Also Houses
Her Pigs, Goats, Bogs, Chick
ens and Children.
Buffalo, N. Y.—Dr. William B May,
an inspector l'or the health depart
ment, and Detectives Condon and
Shook, under orders from Capt. Ward
and Health Commissioner Greene, in
vestigated a case of unsanitary living
the other day, which they say is be
yond belief in this age of unlimited
soap and water and rigid sanitary reg
ulations. The case was at the seawall
at the foot of Michigan street, in the
house of one Ludwig Staronski. The
house is a small frame dwelling of
three rooms.
Dr. May's report am the conditions
in substance is as follows: "The
premises were in the most unsanitary
condition possible. Adjoining the
house on the rear is a small summer
kitchen. In that apartment was a
closet in which a pig was quartered.
The improvised sty was so narrow
that the animal was unable to turn
around. In the front room, what
might be termed the front parlor, was
a cow.
"While we were on our tour of
inspection," said Dr. May, "two goats
dropped into see what was going on.
The stench was unbearable. Four
dogs comprise the rest of the menag
erie, not to mention the numerous
chickens which were allowed to roam
at will around the house. We were
informed that eight persons, includ
ing some small children, lived in the
small rooms, along with the cow, the
pig, the goats, the dogs and the
chickens.
"As it was a violation of the health
ordinances to keep a cow within the
city limits without a license," said
Dr. May, "I informed Mrs. Staronska
that she would have to dispose of the
animal. That she promised to do.
She also said she would kill the pig
within a few weeks, it could not be
learned that the Staronskis sold any
of the cow's milk."
PENSION LIST INCREASING.
More Than a Million Names Added to
the Roll, and More in
Prospect.
Washington.—-The pension roll ot
the United States has reached the
high water mark, now containing
1,000,81 names, an increase of more
than 4,000 since June 30. In his last
annual report Commissioner Ware
stated that the pension rolls then car
ried more than 997,000 names. That
was in June of this year. For the
first time in history the pension roll
is above the 1,000,000 mark, and it
will be further enlarged as a result
of the operation of order No. 78, the
issuance of which precipitated a par
tisan debate in congress last winter.
Adding to the rolls thousands of vet
erans who were previously ineligible
is not the only effect of the rule pro
viding for old age pensions. An
nouncement is made unofficially that
on account of the falling off in work
in the pension bureau, due to order
No. 78, it will soon become necessary
to dispense with about 500 clerks.
Many of these will be dismissed,
and some given appointments in other
departments by transfer. The age rule
will have another eftect more l'ar
reaching and widespread. There is a
pension board of medical examiners
in nearly every county in the United
States. Under order No. 78 a veteran
is placed upon the rolls immediately
upon application when he reaches the
age of 02 years. This, of course, ob
viates the necessity of medical exam
ination, and hence will result in a re
duction in the number of boards.
HEADSTONE FOR HORSE. >
Lover of Steeds at Le Sueur, Minn.,
Erects Marble Shaft Over Grave
of Pet Animal.
Le Sueur, Minn.—George M. Tons
ley, of Le Sueur, is a great lover of
horses, and his love for them takes
a different trend than is usually the
case with horsemen. He cares not
particularly to use or drive them, but
merely to have them in his owner
ship, and see that they have a good
time.
He has a very large farm adjoining
Le Sueur, and on the farm he has a
drove of horses that roam about the
broad acres practically in a state of
nature, wild and untrammeled.
They never do any work, and are
not even broken.
He has about 18 of them in this
condition, and several of them are
seven years old, but never had a strap
on them.
For several years he had a favor
ite horse, old Prince, who lived to be
25 years old, was raised by Mr.
Tousley from a colt, and died in har
ness one day. Mr. Tousley buried the
faithful old horse not far from his
house and set up a marble headstone
over the grave.
Tramp Is Wealthy.
Detroit, Mich. —Otto Ganz, a trani?>,
was arrested for begging on Grand
River avenue the other day. Police
men went through his clothing and
nearly fainted when they found 1.400
shares of western mining stock, tiOO
shares in a salt works, deeds to 13
lots in New York city, and $11.G5 in
cash. Ganz claims he came to De
troit from Columbus, 0., but declined
to give a history of himself. He was
sent to jail. It is believed he is
mentally unbalanced, and may have
wandered away from home.
Winning a Home.
A Chicago man transferred a house
and lot to his fiancee before the wed
ding. There's one woman who really
has won a home.