The Cheyenne Sunbeam. (Cheyenne, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 7, No. 36, Ed. 1 Friday, January 19, 1900 Page: 2 of 4
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CHIYENNE OKLAHOMA TT
WHEN BETTY'S CHURNINQ
She stands within the dairy door
A comely maid
While I to ’proach would fain bo bold
Tet am afraid
Files ahe the daaher valiantly
My ardor spurning—
A picture In a rustic frame
Is Betty churning
Within her reach the roaea droop
All envy-laden
At aeelng the red cheeks that grace
This perfect maiden
While at her feet the violets
With line discerning -Look
up to watch the blue eyea of
My Betty churning
Ncr is the aunbeam that athwart
The door la gleaming
More golden than her smoothed hair—
‘Tls no vain seeming:
The rol'k that Alls the polished pans
To cream a-turnlng
Is no whit whiter than the arms
Of Betty churning
With sleeves up to the elbow tucked
In careless fashion
And plenteous apron hung about
In fear of aplashtn’
She plays the dasher up and down
While I a-burning
Feel that my heart is being hit
When Betty's churning
Ah met I can but sigh and hope—
Poor heart a-flutter!—
That ahe will yield and let me help
To make the butter
That she will pity me and heed
My fervent warning
And let me call her mine— my own—
My Betty churning
—Charles Monck Byan In Detroit Pep
per Sauce
Traced Through a Paper
By John 7 Armstrong
TTTHITWORTH may t borrow
YY this?” queried Sherman pick-
ing up the current number of a certain
popular weekly journal from my lit
tered table
"With pleasure” I returned readily
“I commend you on your discrimina-
tion For enjoyably passing away a
leisure space the paper you have se
cured is nil that could be wished
You’ll return it won’t you?”
“Certainly” he replied and for a
moment there was silence between us
the while I regarded him wonderingly
“Concerning that little matter be
tween us” he drawled with his nasal
Yankee twang — and I couldn’t help
but notice the supercilious curl on his
thin lips — “it’s thoroughly understood
h? The lady to the man who can win
her?”
My answer was an acquiescent in-
clination of the head
“Ah well” he went on sneeringly
T guess you'll survive the disappoint-
ment sonny I’m off to see her now”
I laughed provokingly for though
the betrothal ring had not been oh
tained by me May and myself I im-
agined thoroughly understood each
ether
Sherman turned at the door an ugly
scowl on his swarthy face and request-
ed to know the cause of my hilarity
but with an expressive shrug I signi-
fied that explanation was unnecessary
Crushing the paper savagely in his
band he departed We were fellow
curators Abe Sherman and I in the
B— art gallery and our duty consist
d in safe-guarding the various treas-
ures which were daily exhibited to the
public
At the time I tell of we curators were
smarting under a sense of stigma for
despite all precaution about three
weeks previously some costly speci-
mens of uncut gems belonging to the
permanent collection had unaccount-
ably disappeared from their case The
affair savored of the miraculous for
though the stones had vanished the
case had been left absolutely intact
Stung with the taunts of negligence
all had protested that their vigilance
bad never been relaxed and that the
theft could not possibly have been com-
mitted in their respective duties
After the stir had quieted some-
what and the vituperative energy of
tle local newspaper correspondents
bad been duly worked off the affair
looked like being relegated to the long
liBt of unsolvable mysteries But the
stigma was not so readily efifaceable
and as for myself I confess it certainly
rankled filling me with a determina-
tion to keep myself fully alive in the
future Sherman was the latent addi-
tion to the guardian staff From the
very first day he had entered the gal-
lery— two months previously — he had
performed his duties in an exemplary
anannerthatleft no room for complaint
His credentials from the other side had
been exceptional and the chief was con-
vinced of his integrity
Not so myself however for some
flays after the robbery I had been
somewhat astonished when wc bad
been on duty together to observe what
seemed to me like a prearranged signal
pass between him and a suspicious-
looking visitor whom I had been keep-
ing under close observation Probably
' it signified nothing I was mistrustful
for was he not my rival? And yet —
The very morning after the conver-
sation between us set forth at the com-
mencement of this relation however
the whole place was thrown into con-
sternation by the startling announce-
ment made by Jukes the guardian on
fluty that the Rajah's sword-hilt bad
disappeared during the night
This curio — a costly specimen of in-
crusted jewel work— had been spirited
away in a like mysterious manner
Excitedly we clustered round the case
which as far as the eye could discern
was intact and hoarsely whispered-
conjectures as to the perpetrator flew
from lip to lip the while we waited the
arrival of the chief and the local de-
tectives “It's a gang for a fiver!” was the dic-
tum of the officer as he rapidly gleaned
the facts “Who was on duty last night
in this room?”
“I was so officer!” Sherman ex-
claimed promptly
"Did you note anything suspicious?"
“Nothing'!" lie returned emphatically-
“Between four and six the place
was practically descried but 1 was
right here all the time and after the
late affair I tell you a fly couldn't have
annexed a spark of dust without me
spotting him It beats me!"
“Umphl" exclaimed the officer scon-
cing the case closely through his lens
“The flies have flown this time any-
how in spite of the spider’s watchful-
ness” Sherman started at the implied impu-
tation — an action which was not lost on
the astute detective Who having com-
pleted his examination without an-
other word accompanied the chief into
his sanctum
“Well Sherman" I remarked banter-
ingiy when we were left alone — for the
temptation to have a quiet fling at him
proved irresistible — “how fared the
quest? Bid the lady prove amenable to
your i I’ishments?"
"Yen y” be retorted displaying
his slrong white teeth in an exasperat-
ing grin “you can congratulate me I
reckon right now!"
And with a short laugh he turned on
his heel and strode away leaving me
absolutely dumfounded at his amazing
audacity
"Oh by-the-bye” he remarked stay-
ing at the door "here’s your paper
Guess we’re still friends anyhow
Shake! No? Well just as you please”
As he drew the journal from his
breast-pocket all unobserved by him
a small fragment of paper fluttered to
the floor
"Well for a cool liar" I burst out
hotly “you certainly take it!” But he
only replied with a mocking laugh as
he swung through the door and disap-
peared Half-mechanically I stooped and
picked up the crumpled bit of paper
which had fallen from his pocket
Smoothing it out I discovered upon it
what at first sight appeared to be an
arithmetical calculation of some sort
It was scribbled in pencil and read as
follows:
543—4-9—4092
17483 — 19 — 222713—171114—6—
810537— 2129— 29173
Turning the paper over curiously In
ray fingers I scrutinized the figures
again and agnin in a vain endeavor to
decipher their meaning and then sud-
denly as I noted the indistinct impress
of the circular dating-stamp which
proclaimed that it bad passed through
the post office it struck me that this
was no arithmetical calculation but a
cipher message of some kind
But what could it mean? "543-4-9
Puzzled I dropped into the window-
seat and as I did so my eyes lit upon
the folded cover of the journal beside
roe The top portion of the front cover
bearing the familiar title and the date
alone was visible “543 — 4-9!” I repeat
cd abstractedly And then all in a mo-
ment it occurred to me that I also had
many times jotted down just such an-
other batch of figures in certain futile
attempts to win an initial letter com-
petition which some time previously
had been announced weekly by this my
favorite journal The idea was to form
the best sentence from the initial let
ters so taken and as I noted the nunc
ber of that issue and the date of the
paper — April 9 — the connection struck
me and I divined that the key lay to
lay fingers
Eagerly turning the leaves I found
the page indicated “409” and scrutin
ized the second column for the clew to
the hidden message Nor did I look in
vain for at a glance I discovered that
the initial letters of many of the lines
the page down were ticked by a very
faint pencil-mark
This then was why the wily Sher-
man who had never to my knowledge
manifested any interest in the period-
ical literature of the day had borrowed
my journal He bad had some ulterior
motive This weekly paper was a key
to a prearranged code of correspon-
dence with some acquaintance The
mystery was a mystery no longer The
enigma was solved!
Deducing that the figures given in-
dicated the number of the respective
lines I set to work with my pencil and
in a few moments had evolved the fol-
lowing message from the initial letters
of the lines corresponding to the num-
bers: “Meet — 7— mail— I’ll— c — swag— 0
K — Kit”
For gome seconds I gazed at the words
before me at a loss to comprehend their
meaning Then their full significance
dawned upon me and 1 sprang to my
feet with a suppressed cry of triumph:
“So Mr Sherman” I muttered "you
have employed your slack time to some
purpose”
Without loss of time I sought the de-
tective and the chief and straightway
placed the facts before them The offi-
cer listened to my breathless explana-
tions in silence and when I had fin-
ished my recital his face was Illumined
by a meaning smile
“Mr Whitworth” be remarked de-
liberately carefully placing the papers
in his pocket “I congratulate you on
your perspicuity From the first I sur-
mised the culprit must be looked for in-
side the building My examination of
the case strengthened this belief The
screws along the side proximate to the
missing relie have been tampered with
allowing the case to be tilted upwards
from its supporting pedestal and the
insertion of the depredator’s hand
The marks of the screwdriver were
fresh upon them and though scarcely
apparent to the naked eye easily dis-
cernible through my glass The theft
I am prepared to swear could hardly
be accomplished under two minutes by
the most dexterous swellmobsman at
large
“Two minutes is a long time con-
sidering the publicity of the apartment
Wherefore my deduction! The robbery
was committed between four and six
yesterday afternoon
I need scarcely impress upon you
the imperativeness of absolute silence
Good! You will meet me at six in the
station-master’s office For this night
only you and 1 will pose as railway
porters”
Punctually at the time appointed I
presented myself at the rendezvous at-
tired in a great-coat with upturned col-
lar which completely shrouded my fea-
tures Molineux the officer smiled ap-
provingly at my precaution and in’a
few whispered words indicated his
plans for the capture of the cunning
rogues
In a short time we had succeeded in
transforming ourselves into passable
members of the porter fraternity and
as I regarded myself amusedly in the
glass I was prepared to defy anyone to
recognize in this rough-looking railway
servant “bearded like tbe pard he
clean-shavencustodian of the municipal
art treasures
As the London mail was signaled into
the station we made our way on to the
platform and mixing with the waiting
crowd busied ourselves officiously with
the passengers’ luggage
“Now Whitworth keep your eyes
peeled” enjoined Molineux in a hoarse
whisper as the train glided along the
platform and the passengers surged
forward to secure their seats “you’re
dealing with a deep lot Take my word
for it"
Even as he spoke I discerned a muffled
figure crouching in the shadow of the
subway anxiously regarding the stand-
still train And' then as I followed the
direction of his gaze I saw a woman
whose face was concealed by a thick
veil appear at the door of a first-class
compartment for a second and care'
lessly let fall a folded paper
It was a copy of the identical journal
I had loaned to Sherman 1 I recognized
it instantly by the color of its cover
Molineux observed the covert act
too Warning me with a glance to fol-
low him be seized a bag at his side and
shambled up to the compnrtment
reaching it simultaneously with the
mysterious man who had left the shad
ow and approached the door
Even as he placed his foot on tbe step
and thrust a small parcel into the hands
of the expectant woman the detective
was upon him There was a sudden
souffle a sharp “click! click!" and Abe
Sherman found himself lying face
downwards on the floor of the compart-
ment hors de combat
“Mark the other!" yelled Molineux
and like a flash I threw myself upon her
ere she had the ghost of a chance to use
the deadly weapon' which she was in the
act of drawing forth from her pocket
She fought like a possessed fury but
taken by surprise at the attack the ad-
vantage was all with me The struggle
was of short duration Putting out my
strength I secured her arms in a vice-
like grip and slowly forced her two
hands together when the officer coolly
affixed the bracelets and she fell back
on the cushions with a despairing
shriek of laughter
Her veil had been torn away in the
struggle disclosing the features of no
attractive woman but the clean-shaven
resolute face of a man in his prime
“Kit Gorham ‘the Yankee Terror’ by
all that’s providential!” exclaimed the
detective jubilantly “What a stroke
of luck!”
"Curse you for a blundering fool!”
snarled that worthy to his dazed ac-
complice and in a fit of blind uncon-
trollable fury he kicked him again and
again in the face
In due course Gorham and his con-
federate the exemplary Sherman alias
“The Spider" received their just de-
serts and the generous reward of a
grateful city council removed all exist-
ing obstacles to the fulfillment of my
dearest hopes
And now when the domestic atmos-
pheric conditions are a trifle stormy —
for Mrs Whitworth has her moments
like all the dear creatures — I produce
my favorite and I quietly remark:
“Let's see his name was Sherian
wasn’t it — ?”
On the whole we are a very happy
couple— Tit-Bits
SUN'S JOURNEY
The Velocity Through Space la Be
tween Six and Twelve Miles
Fer Second
By means of the spectroscope we
can obtain a more accurate determina-
tion of the sun’s velocity through
space As is well known the velocity
of a star in the line of sight can be
found by measuring the displacement
of the lines visible in the star’s spec-
trum Now the stars near the position
of the solar “apex” should be ap-
proaching the earth on account of the
solar motion and those at the opposite
point of the sky — called the “anti'
apex” — should be receding This
method has been employed by several
astronomers especially by Vogel at
tbe Potsdam observatory This able
astronomer has found from an exam'
ination of 40 stars that the sun's ve
locity through space is about seven
and one-half miles a second but an ex
animation of a larger number of stars
would be necessary before we 'could
consider this result as thoroughly es-
tablished From an examination of
the spectra of 14 nebulae Prof Keeler
of the Lick observatory has found
velocities in the line of sight and from
these the French astronomer Tisser-
and has deduced a velocity of about
nine and one-third miles for the solar
motion a result which does not differ
widely from that found by Vogel
We may therefore perhaps con-
clude that the velocity of the sun’s
motion through space is between six
and twelve miles per second The
average velocity of the stars measured
at Potsdam is about ten and one-half
miles a second and possibly the sun
may have a similar velocity — Gentle
man’s Magazine
QUEERLY EXPRESSED
The Pnrtlngtonlnn Style of
Genius la Relating
Thing
sn Odd
Almost under the shade of the classic
elms which guard the sacred haunts of
the Emersonian philosopher lives a pe-
culiar genius whose utterances if col-
lected and polished might provoke n
revival of Mrs rartlngton lie is an
ardent church-goer and often tells his
pastor that during the sermon "it was
so quiet you could drop a pin” ne re-
marked recently in meeting that there
was & certain motony “in the daily ro-
tunda of our lives’’
His pastor to whom he is devoted has
been away on a vacation and on his re-
turn Winnie called to inform him of the
notable occurrences during the minis-
ter’s absence
Our friend had a terrible fight fo re-
late between two roosters On being
asked what part he took in the affair he
replied:
“Oh I separated one and threw the
other over the fence”
The really sad event wag the sudden
death of Mrs Baker's baby
Why Winnie what occasioned his
death?’ asked the minister
“I think it was phantoms sir"
“Phantoms!” bewildered
“Yes what children has in summer
you know”
‘Oh you mean cholera infantum?"
“Yes them’s the same" — Detroit
Free Pe's '
The Proper Season
Ferdy— In prehistoric days Guide
there were birds 200 feet long!
Guide— Ah! If them birds wuz only
sb broud as they wuz long sonny them
was the days you srter gone gunning!
— Puck
SUNSET
When de summer day Is dyln'
An’ de sunlight's gone sway
An' de shadows In de cabin
Is gettln' col' an' gray
Den I goes out In de open
An' I looks up to de eky
An' I eeee de clouds ob glory
A-floatiri dar on high
An' de sunBhlne 'bove the mountain
Makes de color red an' gold
An' It makes dem look so warmlllr
Do de valley aeeme so cold
Hit reminds me ob de glory
Dat will come to us at laa’
When de shadows an’ de coldneu
Ob dls world'y day has pas'
An’ I look up to de Blue Ridge
Leanlri dar again' d sky
An' I look down In de valley
Whar dem col blue shadows lie
An’ 1 look right at de glory
Ob de clouda dat float away
An' I tlnk dat'a how 't's swine to bt
At de Anal judgment day
When de mlty Angel Gabriel
Done come flylri troo de air
An' de sun will be a-ehlnlri
On de pearly gates up dero
When de heabens hab been open
An' de mountains an' de sea
Behold de Ood ob nations
In all Hla majesty
Yes de eunaet here reminds me
Ob dat great an' awful day
When de light shall come forever
An' de darknees fly away
An' I steal back in my cabin
An' 1 lay me down to sleep—
'Cause I know de stars are watching
An' de Lord my soul will keep
— D H Latimer In Springfield (Mass)
Republican
A NICE VALE and Lawrence Fa-
vorite married each other as a
part of their social duty They had
frown up with the expectation that
they would be married and con-
temjilated that fact without much
nterest for all the years of their
youth When Anice came home from
school and was introduced into so-
ciety it was generally understood that
she would be allowed only one season
of freedom She took a debutante’s
pleasures somewhat gravely and peo-
ple complained that for ail American
she was singularly lacking in vivacity
though she was beyond all gainsay-
ing beautiful She was tall and pale
with glowing abundant lmir and deep
red brown eyes large and pensive She
affected a peculiar fushion of attire and
seemed always to move slowly in the
midst of flowing draperies The rest of
the world might be hurried but Anice
was sednte and calm and slow Th:
draperies seemed made to trail through
lofty halls and she was never more
thoroughly herself than on the day she
was married when she walked down
the white stairs of her home in her
bridal garments pale and sad and
paced like a melancholy queen the
length of the hushed drawing-room
among the snowy roses
Adelaide Duncan who had once been
her friend used to urge that Anice
was not at heart so calm as she seemed
‘She seems the most conventional of
girls” she would sometimes remark
but as a matter of fact no one dislikes
convention so much as she She says
she has never been allowed to be her-
self— all her life lias been arranged for
her She says in our class of society
every one knows what one is expected
to do at each point in one's career She
told me she had been bored ever since
she was born I used to think she ex-
cepted me from the list of bores but
since she was married she is uncommu-
nicative even to me”
“Is she so absorbed in ber husband?”
some one asked
'0 I shouldn’t go so far as to say
that” returned Adelaide shrugging her
shoulders
Lawrence Favorite certainly would
not have claimed that his young wife
was absorbed in him He had been welt
enough pleased to marry her He knew
the purity and dignity of her life and
could not help noting her regal beauty
but his life like hers had been mapped
out for him to a great extent He bad
upon his graduation from college gone
into the business with his father as
had been designed from the day of his
birth He had married the woman
whom the whole world thought he
ought to marry because of the close
connection of the families in business
and because of long and intimate
social relations After it was done he
began to wonder if it was well done
He tried to look at his wife with the
eyes of a stranger and after a few days
of critical surveillance it occurred to
him that he was indeed a stranger to
her
He had not thought much about her
life ne had supposed in a lordly but
chivalrous fashion that she sat in the
parlor eating bread and honey figur-
atively speaking while he was away al
business and that she watched for his
return as was the duty of a wife that
she made herself beautiful for liis
pleasure and went and came accord-
ing to his desire He had not intend-
ed to make any demands upon her but
in his heart of hearts he entertained
much the ideas set forth An indisposi-
tion which kept Lawrence at home for
a week revealed to him the fact that his
wife lived a stirring life in w hich he had
no part and the details of which she
did not confide to him She wax sel-
dom at home She gave over the keep-
ing of their great mansion to her corps
of servants and her directions to them
were of the briefest
Visitors came and were closeted with
her — visitors of whom be had never
heard She went out plainly attired
and was gone for hours and returned
greatly wearied Lawrence Favorite
was mystified and a trifle disfdensed
But for all that he began to acquire
a sort of respect for this woman whom
he had taken so ns a matter of course
He had not hitherto concerned himself
with what she thought Now he was
eager to understand her He tried to
draw her into conversation but she
gave him only polite nothings as bad
been her habit always
“You are a reticent woman my dear”
he said to ber one evening as the two sat
together at dinner She looked up and
languidly smiled
“A confidential woman is always an-
noying don’t you think so?” she re-
sponded Her tone was conventional—
most forbidding
“I don't think a confidential wife
would lie annoying Anice”
She looked at him across their dainty
table — looked at him over the violets
and was never more beautiful with her
gleaming satin gown and ber delientelv
lirted flesh than at that moment but
not a line of ber face softened at bis remark
"A progressive confidence at break-
fast luncheon and dinner would be
truly terrible Lawrence I spare you a
great deni"
“You spare me too much In these
days that I have been at home ailing it
has occurred to me that I know noth-
ing about your life”
“There is little to know"
“But you are busy all day long"
“So la almost everybody”
“Other women of your acquaintance
go to certain expected plnces Their
carriages upon the street at a certain
hour will be an indication of tbeir er-
rand abroad But you go out afoot In
the plainest garments You are out at
the most unexpected hours You re-
ceive extraordinary persons You semi
tbe carriage out to unbeard-of neigh-
borhoods" “Have you been making Inquiries of
the servants?" she inquired coldly
“Yes without meaning offense It
came about accidentally You are un-
just if you think me idly inquisitive
But I realize that you and I are stran-
gers" “I realized that a long time ago That
is why I have not confided in you”
"But why did you marry me if you
considered me a stranger?”
"For the same reason that you married
me — because it was too much trouble
to protest because it was simpler
to mnrry somebody than to remain sin-
gle and have folks forever worrying
and because whatever you did not know
about me you knew nothing objection-
able In other words we were married
because wt were too supine to protest”
He sighed and looked longingly at the
exquisite woman opposite him
“I suppose it is so” he admitted "but
I much wish we had married each other
for some better reason”
ner face seemed to grow yet paler
“We mustn’t grow retrospective” Bhe
said “It would be so — so adolescent"
And Bhe changed tbe subject
The next day he was to go to business
but he could not fix his mind upon the
letters to which he endeavored to givehis
attention and the details of his business
continually slipped from him He was
consumed with curiosity concerning
the interests with which his wife ap-
peared to be filling her life and he was
enough a man of the world to realize
that unrestricted liberty and endless
leisure are dangerous for a woman who
thinks herself unloved and who does not
love Harassed with these reflections
he felt his indisposition returning and
too irritable to remain longer at his
desk he went home There was a cer-
tain bride holding her post-nuptial re-
ception in the neighborhood and the
carriages thronged the avenues leading
to the house
“Anice will be there” he said to him-
self “And she will be more beautiful
than the fairest"
But as be ascended the steps he was
surprised to see his wife open the door
and stand on the threshold talking with
a woman In his wife’s arms was a lit-
tie babe and she bent and kissed it
twice before she placed it in the arms of
Its mother
“Be sure and give the baby an airing
every day” she called as the woman
started away "And the food will be
sent up to-morrow and the little buggy
will be there when you get home I'll
expect you again a week from to-day
Don't forget”
Lawrence had never heard her voice
sound so hearty and full of cheer He
could hardly believe this was the wom-
an who ordinarily employed a sort of
monotonous musical intoning when
she spoke Nor could he at first believe
that those glowing eyes were the calm
and unresponsive ones into which he
had looked a thousand times only to be
balled by their opacity
“You are not at the reception Anice"
“As you see" She endeavored to re-
turn at once to her ordinary tone but
it was difficult As the door closed he
held out his arms to her
“Anice!” he cried “Anice dear love
do not change your voice for me! Do
not drive the light out of your eyes be-
cause I have come! You give your life
in ministry to others Minister also to
me Forgive me that I have not under-
stood Neither of ns has understood
Ye have been like children groping in
the dark and comfort close at hand had
we only reached for it I know I am not
worthy of your love but try to love me
and perhaps I may grow in goodness"
She interrupted him weeping
“I have loved you so long" she
sobbed “But I meant that you should
never know” — Chicago Tribune
Two Stories of Lawyer
The logic of wit is the most destruct-
ive logic that is employed against error
This was aptly illustrated at a public
reception given a few nights ago at
which a learned lawyer who is slight-
ly lame in his right foot was present
The advocate overheard a lady say to
her companion: "That is Mr C the
lame lawyer”
Turning around he replied: “No
inaiaim I am a lame man but not a
lame lawyer"
An amusing incident occurred in one
of the common pleas courts the other
day The lawyer for the defense was
making a very lengthy cross-examination
of an old lady when he was in-
terrupted by the judge with the re-
mnrk: "t think you have exhausted
this witness”
“Yes judge” she exclaimed “I do
feel very much exhausted” — Philadel-
phia Call
Had Many Praettral Idea
John Stackhouse Bailey the sun dial
maker of Centerville Bucks county
was one of the first Pennsylvanians to
appreciate the aesthetic and financial
value of the tall hall clock the spin-
ning wheel the Dutch stove the four-
post bedstead and the other colonial
and precolonial furnishings that used
to litter the attics of old farmers The
farmers then used to send for him
and working off say a -magnificent
old table of mahognny for $13 would
laugh to tliTnk how they had bested
him when he a week or so afterward
would make a profit of about 509 per
cent on the purchase — Chicago
Chronicle
Its Value I Overestimated
An English scientist shows that
liquid air cannot do the great things
expected of It ns a source of power
or of refrigeration The cost of man-
ufacture is such that it cannot pay
to use the air produced by the evap-
oration of Hie liquid for the propul-
sion of an engine For refrigeration
a lump of ice beats a bottle of tbs
liquid a Ir — Chicago Chronicle
LIMIT IN LIFE INSURANCE
la AU the Companies of tbo World a
Mon Might Get Perhaps
$10000000
Several papers have published a para-
graph to the effect that tbe prince of
Wales is insured for about £ 10000000
a portion of the insurance being for tbe
benefit of creditors and a much larger
portion in favor of persons neither re-
lated to him nor huving any interest
whatever in bis living l’rof A F Har-
vey the insurance actuary who la
authority on all such matters considers
the statements ridiculous and partic-
ularly the one that Prince Albert Is In-
sured for the benefit of people who have
no insurable interest in him
“Up to about 125 years ago the prac-
tice of taking out insurance on the
lives of kings queens and others in
authority where there was no possible
insurance interest obtained to a great
extent” said the professor when his
attention was called to the paragraph
“The practice became so general scan-
dalous and vicious that in 1774 parlia-
ment enacted a statute (14 Geo 3 c
48) prohibiting absolutely all insur-
ance in which there was no interest
to the beneficiary in the life of the prin-
cipal In the contract and prohibiting
the payment of money under a policy
written to secure a debt beyond tbe
actual sum due This law against
wager or gambling policies was fol-
lowed up in France and Germany and
in most of the states of this country
and has since been rigidly enforced
everywhere"
Tbe amount of life insurance carried
by the prince of Wales has never been
made public and is probably known to
only a few people It is evident how-
ever that the total is not one-tenth of
the sum named in the paragraph re-
ferred to The most heavily insured
man in the United States is ex-Post-master
General John Wunamaker of
Philadelphia and his insurance
amounts to only $2025000 The word
“only” applies here because of the com-
parison with $48600000 or to be more
accurate $48775000 according to the
present market value here of £ 10000
000 At a meeting of the National Life
Underwriters’ association in Philadel-
phia four years ago Mr Wanamaker
stated that one of the first things he
did after becoming of age was to in
sure bis life When Mr Wanamaker
addressed the association his life in-
surance amounted to $1525000 and all
but $60000 had been taken after be was
50 years of age
According to an eastern insurance
journal “tbe amount of life insurance
which can be secured upon a single life
among the United States companies
foots up $2600000" The paper gives
a tabulated list of 42 old line companies
and what purports to be the limit of
each The figures are correct in the
main but there are some bad errors in
the list
Some of the companies insure for
more than the amounts credited to
them but in every such case the com-
pany reinsures a portion of the risk
The figures in the table represent the
limits without such reinsurance Of
course there could be no reinsurance
on a person that took the limit in every
company Legal reserve and stipulated
premium companies that are not usually
classed as old liners are omitted front
the table as also assessment compan-
ies fraternal organizations and several
industrial companies that write very
little if any ordinary life insurance
Accident companies that pay death
claims but do not write ordinary life
insurance are likewise omitted In-
cluding all these the total life insur-
ance that a person could get in the
United States would probably still fall
below $3000000 There are about 350
life insurance companies in the world
not counting American companies
Very few of them insure for ns much
ns $25000 and the average is not half
that sum but supposing it were $20000
the total would be only $700000“
which added to the American tot
would still make only about onc-fifll
the sum the prince of Wales Is report-
ed to be insured for— St Louis Globe-
Democrat PROTEST AGAINST TITLES
Present Itrlllsh System Contrasted
with Simplicity of the
Anclenle
The following letter deserves all the
publicity 1 can give it:
‘Do you not think that the time has
arrived when the practice of adding
meaningless prefixes to otherwise re-
spectable names should go the way of
many other useless and obsolete cus-
toms? Why should a robust cleric in
the prime of life be designated ' as
‘venerable’ — a description which he
would doubtless object to in tbe or-
dinary way? Why should a magistrate
be styled ‘worship’ though he may fre-
quently have been overwhelmed with
ignominy while occupying the truth
pillory? Why should a youth of shady
habits and questionable morals be
marked out as 'honorable above all his
follow-men?”
These interrogatories might be con-
siderably extended Why should hum-
ble John Jones be addressed as “mis-
ter” — a corruption of the imposing
Latin “mngistcr?" Why should plain
Tom Smith set so much store by the
suffix “esquire” — a rank which has
had no practical meouing since the
day of chivalry? The ancients were
much ahead of us in this respect It
never seems to have occurred to them
that tbeir great men would appear any
the greater for being spoken of as Mr
Socrates or Mr l’lato M T Cicero
Esq or tbe Hon Julius Caesar
Though they occasionally used official
titles the Greeks never obscured a
hero's identity by such n title as Lieut
Col Leonidas or Maj Gen Miltiades
Publius Cornelius Seipio Africanus is
a good mouthful but wbat Is it beside
Field Marshal the Right Honorable
Lord Pumpingborough of Yizigapa-
tam K C B K C S I D C L and
all the rest of it? I entirely agree that
it would be a good thing if we could
revert to tbe simplicity of the ages
when a man’s family and personal
names were considered good enough to
know him by At the same time I fear
there is little prospect of it in spite
of my correspondent's opinion that cer-
tain titles are out of date The ten-
dency of the time seems all the other
way — London Truth
The Infant I'rodlsr
The infunt prodigy at four may be
t fool at 40 — Chicago Daily News
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Thanks’ "—Chicago Evening News
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Noble Conduct
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