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Iff?1, fJ 4 Bj'?v The Willislon Graphic. Joint A. Cobbett, PublUher. WILLI8TON, N. $T' The' Cost of Cities. NiSw York city's budget next year Will be $116,805,490.37. This Is one fifth of the total expenditures of the 151 cities of the United States hav ing a population of over 30,000. In cluding the bond issues New York •pends one-third. New York spends more than the six next largest cities —Chicago, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Baltimore, Boston and level at. A Al though its population is only twice Chicago's, Its government costs four times as much. Its debt is more than a third of the aggregate city debt, which is larger than the national debt The per capita debt of all these cities is $57 or less than half New York's. New York's expenditures ex* ceed those of any foreign city. The London council uses only $50,000,000 a year. Parish expenditures do not bring the total to the New York fig ure. The expenditures of the Qerman empire are less than five times as great, those of the kingdom of Prus sia six times as great, those of Spain only a quarter larger. The census bu reau bulletin which contains these statistics also gives interesting In formation about municipal ownership and operation. Two-thirds of the cit ies own their own waterworks. Phila delphia owns its own gas plant. It Is one of the few cities that does, but an increasing number own elec tric light works, Chicago being the best known of these. Boston, Port land, Ore., and New York operate mu nicipal ferries. Auburn operates a stone quarry. Detroit has a muni cipal asphalt plant. One-fifth of the total revenues come from th«r water works. In almost every case these waterworks more than pay the cost of their maintenance, the interest and the sinking fund of the water bonds. One of the other interesting fact3 in this bulletin, to which the New York World calls attention, Is that Hoboken has the highest popula tion to the acre of any city. That ia because its area is only 825 acres. New York is the largest city, with an area of over 300 square miles. New Orleans is second and Chicago is third. Plaint of the Hindis. '-t The Anglo-Indian Pioneer has undertaken to print the complaint of Hindus with reference to the "injus tice and Insolence" of the English in India. A correspondent of the Ber lin Tngeblatt supplies further details. Youngr officers are accused of being specially flagrant offenders. "In driv ing through the cities they ply their whips right* and left, to clear the streets, without reflecting that there by they arouse feelings which, gain ing force from year to year, must end in an explosion." The educated Hindus are aggrieved because the English treat them with the same con tempt as the coolies, refusing to eat or associate with them. They are becoming impatient, in proportion as they share the benefits of a European System of education, at the postpone ment. of the day when they are to have a voice In the shaping of the country's' policy. The German re ferred to is at a loss to understand the British attitude toward the edu cated Hindus. "I have become ac quainted with a number of these," he writes, "whom I liked decidedly bet ter than many an English snob or Ger man official I have met." Alaska's First Campaign. Alaska is to have a novel experi ence In the shape of a congressional campaign. The "Seward purchase" is now a full-fledged territory, entitled to representation in the national leg islature at Washington, and will live up to its privileges by electing a del egate. But it is not likely that there will be anything wildly exciting about it, at least over .most of the territory, says the Troy times. Alaska has a population estimated to approximate 100,000, more than half of the inhab itants being Indian natives. The ter ritory has an area about equal to the whole of the United States east of the Mississippi river, and campaign ing over such a region will mean long rides and tramps for the spellbinders, for railroads and highways are scarce in that part of the world. However, most of the whites are to be found in settlements like Sitka and in the mining'camps. In those sections there is a prospect of vigorous campaigning. On the whole there will be consider able Interest in the first election re turns from Alaska. The new census statistics of the newspaper business are staggering, even to those who make, or help make, newspapers. In 1900 there were 19,624,757 copies printed daily in the United States, and* there are doubt less many more printed to-day. The diet expert who preached on the value of whole wheat and then gorged himself to death with boiled crabs merely emphasized the common instance of the distance between sreacbJofi and practice. •j 1 For the sixteenth time I had asked Marjory to marry me. And for the seventeenth time—twiee she didn't even notice my remark—she had given me her sweetest smile—and refused. Well, I cajoled, I threatened, premised—promised everything under the Bun from a trip to Europe to an acquiescence to any number of worn en's,clubs—and still a sweet but em phatic NO. Whish! Snap! I caught the lead er just under the forelegs and off we flew down the road rocking from side to side and Marjorie clinging desper ately to my sleeve to keep from fall ing out. With a final exhibition of skill— and I was a good whip in thos^ days— I drew the horses to a stop just in front of the colonel's gate, and swing ing down from my high seat I waited for Marjorie to descend. For about six seconds she just looked at me and then deliberately climbed down the other side of the seat. As she swept majestically up the narrow path that led to the house she told me in no uncertain terms her opinion of such exhibition of temper from supposed (accent on the "sup posed") gentlemen when their slight est wish was refused. Slightest wish! Darn! I drove off in dignity and disgust. After I had eaten dinner and thought the matter over, I was just fool enough to be ashamed. So I har nessed my little mare and drove over to the Curtis' to apologize. My ex cuses were somewhat apathetically received but evidently there were no 111 feelings, for after the colonel and Mrs Curtis had entered the house I was allowed to sit on the rattan couch beside Marjorie, and I honestly be lieve I must have held her hand. Whether it was. the hand or the moonlight, the. Lord knows what, I couldn't for the life of me keep off the forbidden subject, and so for the sev enteenth time I made a—that-is I pro posed. Well, there was no more of the sweet smile business. She gave me another of those withering looks and then in the vernacular of my slangy brgther, "I got mine." I sat there as quiet as a mouse and meekly took all that came. But when her flow of language ceased the beast ly unfairness of it all came over me, and I started. I accused her of unfairness and I ac cused her of having led me on and all the other crimes on the calendar that I could think of. For two weeks there was no social Intercourse between Marjorie and Jack Van Dorsen. I only saw her once during that time for I carefully avoid ed any proximity, to the Curtis estate, and I'm sure she didn't hang around my house. It was at the end of the first week and she was driving with Harry Euston.' As they went by she gave me a regular society bow, and I caught a glimpse of triumph in her escort's eye. Gosh, but was mad. I went home and fired things around for an hour. Harry Euston! Bah! To be practi cally cut before that insufferable little ass. Another week came and went and still no advances from the other side. Late one afternoon an errand called me to and as my horses had been driven hard all day, I took the train for the two miles, with the de termination of walking home. I completed my errand, had dinner In and about eight o'clock started on my homeward journey. For the first mile or so the walk was beautiful, but as I reached the corner that turned into the road that led past the Curtis house the bank of clouds that had come up from the west swept across the face of the moon and from almost daylight I was plunged Into almost the darkest night I have ever experienced. I almost collided with Mrs. Curtis when I reached their gate, and as soon as she recognized me she ex plained that she had been locked out and asked me If I would mind wait ing on the porch until either Marjorie or her father arrived, and then tell them that she would be down at Mrs. Johnston's. For a moment I hesitated and then the temptation to see Marjorie became too strong for me, and I succumbed. Almost before I knew it the old lady was going down the road, and I was left on the porch making up wonderful speeches to say when Marjorie ar rived. But when she finally came all my grand words seemed to have left and I was just about able to give her her mother's message. She thanked me, and, although I couldn't see her I could hear her fumbling with the lock. At last she exclaimed in disgust: "Dear me! I took the wrong key," and she contin ued, "might I ask you to escort me to my mother, Mr. Van Dorsen?" "Certainly," I replied in my most formal tones and then we turned to go down the steps. When we lied reached the third step or so from t'.ie bottom the heavy clouds broke'away and the moonlight streamed up the path and threw the house and surroundings into the light again. I turned my head to look at Marjorie, and then started back with a cry of horror. Just a little to the left ot the stoop lying at full length in 'Jig moonlight was a big triaek bear. Marjorie must have seen the bt.^t at tin same tinis as I, for she made no THE AID OF A STUFFED BEAR By JAS. B. HAWLEY. "*A tA sound and slowly we moved back into the shadow of the porch. There had been a report in the town of a big bear having escaped from a traveling showman, and this was evi dently the animal. I looked around in terror. I had ab solutely no weapon but a nail file and a pocket knife, and I was about to suggest to Marjorie, who was shak ing with sobs that we make a bolt for it, when In the corner of the porch I spied along pruning knife that some of the men had left about. I reached out and grasped the knife, and as I made a move toward the edge of the stoop, I heard a frightened little cry from Marjorie. I immediately re turned and gathered her up in my arms for a moment. I simply forgot all about the bear and everything except that I was holding the woman I loved the best in the world. And would you believe#it, the habit had becoJhe so strong that even there I proposed, and what is more the slight affirmative of the head showed me that I ha® been accepted. With a parting injunction to Marjorie to have no fear, I again moved toward our enemy. The beast was evidently asleep, or something, for it had made no move since we had discovered it, but lay there full length. Slowly, and not making a sound, I approached it and when I was within four feet of the furry thing I let him have the knife as near in the heart as I could judge in the uncertain light. Five times I stabbed him, Sitid then as he made no move, I approached with a lighted match to examine his wounds. A great, big, unswallowable lump rose in my throat, and I couldn't speak for, instead of blood pouring from the wounds, all I could see was a little straw that the knife had pulled out. A shriek of laughter greeted me when I almost yelled: "Marjorie! Marjorie! This isn't a real bear it's only stuffed." "I know it," she managed to- gasp. "Papa's guide sent it t-to him and the m-moths got into it and-and w-we put it out t-to air a-and forg-got to b-bring it in." I was mad. "See .here, young wom an, if you knew it was stuffed, what in Heaven's name were you crying about?" "I wasn't c-c-crying I was 1-1-laugh ing," and she went off into another fit of laughter. I waited until she calmed down and then I said in my most severe tones: "Marjorie, you promised to marry me. I suppose—" "I know I did, you silly boy but what has that to do with a stuffed bear?" And the little minx laughed again. (Copyright, 1906, by Dally Story Pub. Co.) FIERCE FIGHT WITH PANTHER. Adventure in Which a Little Fox Ter rier Saved His Master's Life. It was dark and the windy dark ness was full of the mysterious noises of the jungle. My shikari and I were huddled. silently on a platform in the boughs of a tree on the edge of the jungle. Below us the undergrowth was black and still, for the moon had not yet risen. Suddenly there was a movement as though a "portion of it? blackness had detached itself from the rest and begun to creep away. Just at that moment- the moon rose and revealed to us the lithe body of a panther slinking through the under growth. A shot rang out and with a yelp of pain the panther disappeared in the bushes. With the sunrise we descended from the platform and began to ex amine the panther's trail. The effect of the shot was shown by the patches of blood on the ground, which led us through a couple hundred yards ot thick jungle. After crawling on hands and knees under the brushwood we reached a narrow nullah. A little be yond this we came upon the wounded panther scaling a tree. I fired, but the range was too long and the shot proved futile. .The disturbance had the result, however, of startling the animal into falling from the tree to the ground. The shikari and I followed quickly on its track. It led finally to a deep and thickly wooded nullah, which had taken the form of a horseshoe. The panther entered the nullah at the cen ter of the bend and turned along the left arm, growling angrily AS it cov ered the ground in heavy strides. We kept about 20 yards from the nullah and skirted it along the right until the top of the bend was reached. Then all was silent. The animal seemed to have vanished. Suddenly it sprang out right under my feet, having doubled back along the water course, without making the slightest noise. Caught by-surprise, I fired rap? idly and stepped back to avoid the ani mal's spring, and in so doing fell into the nullah. The next moment the panther was on me and had fixed its teeth in my arm. Suddenly my littl€ fox terrier Toby flew at the panther and fixed itself on its back, tearing hard at its neck. This diversion caused the panther to leave lae to attack the dog, and I was able to stagger up and out of the nullah and run to whero the native trackers weru cowering. There 1 fainted and was carried back to the bungalow, I leecling from 14 wounds.—Letter to Chicago Trfbure CHICAGO 8COTCHMEN HONOR MEMORY OF GREAT POET. Movement Begun 18 Years Ag#to Erect 8tatue Crowned with Suc cess—Work of Noted Edin burgh 8culptor. Chicago.—One of the most" notable of the many magnificent monuments erected by Scots the world over to the memory of the great poet of the peo ple, "Bobby" Burns, has just been un veiled in this ctt'f. The magnificent bronze, carved by W. Grant IJtevenson, the noted Edin burgh sculptor, is the result of nearly 20 years of patient, loving effort on the part of the-Scottish citizens of Chicago. Aside from a few large do nations, the heavy-sum required for the carrying out of the great project was subscribed in small amounts and came from the hearts of the thousands of loyal sons of Scotland scattered throughout the city. Never, probably, was there a greater demonstration of & MONUMENT TO ROBERT BURN8. the love and pride of Scotchmen for their great poet than has been dis played in this long-continued and final ly triumphant effort to erect a worthy monument to him and one that will grace the second city cf America. The statue is one of the finest in the city. Its conception is noble and the execution will add fame to the al ready famous name of its creator. The four panels which adorn the sides of a splendid pedestal of Vermont granite are also the work of Steven son and provide a fitting base for the heroic bronze. The statue is ten and a half feet in height and the pedestal twelve and a half feet, giving the en- WILL HANDLE 8 AGE MILLION8 C. W. Osborne, New Power in New York Financial World. New York.—Charles W. Osborne, for many years an humble employe in the small office which bears on its door the name, "Russell Sage," by a sudden turn of fortune's wheel, finds himself one of the most powerful fig ures in Wall street. For, as executqg of the estate of the veteran of puts and calls he will have the directing of a fortune of $150,000,000. Mr. Os borne, concerning whom the financier spoke as his confidential and trusted assistant, enjoyed the confidence of Russell Sage from the very first year he entered his employ. He is now in his sixty-seventh year, a rather slen der man of about the average height. His head is surmounted by an aureole of snow-white hair and he wears a mustache, which has also taken on the frost of age. But his complexion is ruddy and his eyes have a way of sparkling. None who knows him ever remembers having seen him when he did not have a smile and a pleasant word. He had a vacation once. It was in the year 1902, and for a whole week did not come to the office. Mr. Os borne thought the matter over care fully, and actually took three days. He worked year in and year out over CHARLE8 W. OSBORNE- (A New Power in Wall Street as Ex ecutor of the Sage Estate.) the account books and the envelopes of securities and never seemed to feel the need oi /est. The only other time he was ab sent from his post was when the mad man Norchoss threw a bomb at "Uncle Russell." Osborne was carried from the office with clothing torn in shreds and was thought to be badly wounded. A few days In a hospital goon put him to rights, however. It is said of Osborne in the stivet, that he never mislaid a security. He never made a blunder in his judg ment of collateral on loans. He held the power of attorney of Rus MONUMENT TO BURNS. tiro monument a height of 23 feet. One of these panels represents the well-known sceno from 'Tam o' Shan ter," whero the witch Is shown clutch ing the tail of the gray mare, and bears the motto, But pleasures are like popples spread You seize the flower. Its bloom Is shed. Another illustrates "The Cotter's Saturday Night," and on the granite below is carved the line, From scenes like these old Scotia's grand eur springs. A third panel Iz t. carving of Burns turning up the mouse's nest, with the oft-quoted words to which the incident gave rise. The best laid plans o* mice and men gang aft aglejr. On the remaining side "The Twa Dogs" will be the subject of the carv ing, acompanied by the motto. In fair Virtue's heavenly road The cottage leaves the palace far behind. The statue standsxin the center of a'large flower bed on the slight rise opposite the refrectory building and near the lagoon. The site was chosen by representatives of the Memorial association, the park commission and the municipal art commisison and Is considered the most picturesque and appropriate that could be found, giv ing, as it does, some suggestion of a scene on one of the lochs of Scotland. The movement to build the statue was inaugurated October 25, 1888, when a meeting was called for tho purpose of forming and incorporating the Burns Memorial end Monument association. To this meeting every Scottish society in Chicago was In vited to send delegates. All entered into the project with enthusiasm and from that time until 1893 there was great activity among all the organi zations in a general and cooperative effort to further the praiseworthy en terprise.- Entertainments of all kinds were frequent and the proceeds were in all cases set aside for the monument fund. Meanwhile* subscriptions from a dollar upward were constantly re ceived from the members of every so ciety. And many of these have all along been made at considerable per sonal sacrifice. In 1893 came the world's fair, of course all things gave way to that great exhibition and the Scottish so cieties were but instances of the many organizations throughout tho entire city whose activities in consequence were held in abeyance and which, as has been the history of every similar body, remained for a time more or less inactive, requiring a froth stim ulus to arouse the latent enthusiasm. This new impetus to the movement was given during 1901 and ever since then the leaders in all of tho socie ties have cooperated actively with the officers of the memorial association in a steady effort to complete the big un dertaking which has finally been crowned with success. sell Sage for a quarter of a century. He was the only man praised in the financier's will. As executor his for tune is made. The business will go right along with Osborne at the helm. PRISCILLA'S DAUGHTER. Old House That Marks the Sequel to Miles Standish's Courtship., New York.—There is a sequel to "The Courtship of Miles Stand ish" which Longfellow didn't refer to and which therefore is not so well known as the main part of the story. On the HOUSE BUILT BY SON OF MILES 8TANDI8H. other hand there is more certainty about it. It will never he known positively whether the doughty old Captain of Plymouth did really send his yenng friend John Alden to woo the (air Prlscllla for him or not, but we do know that John Alden and Prlsuilla were married, and that Sarah Alden, the daughter of John Alden and Prls cllla, was afterward married to Alex ander Standish, the son of Miles Standish. If Prlscllla refused the old capta)n he took it philosophically, for the rec ord testifies that he afterward Mar ried "Barbara, who came in the shlppe Ann, in 1623." Alexander Standish was her son, for Rose, who lay under the grain fields, had no children. It Is certain that the two families were always friendly, for at a wry early date they withdrew from Ply mouth, Mass., and built their homei in Duxb.ury, some nine miles distant. The Standishes and the Aldens were the first settlers of Duxbury, and their graves lie there to-day. The Alden house is still standing, as is also Alexander Standish's house, which he built for Sarah Alden in 1666. Miles Standish's home was de stroyed by fire and the son is said to have used some of the timbers from the ruins of his father's house In the construction of his own. Quill Toothpicks From France. Quill toothpicks come from France. The largest factory in the world is near Paris, where there is an annual product of 20,000,000 quills. The fac tory was started to make quill pens, but when these went out of general use It was converted into a toothpick mill. CAIHED 34 POUNDS Persistant Anaemia Cured by Or. Williams' Pink Fills After Other Remedies Had Failed. When I began taking Dr. Williams* Fink Pills," says Mrs. Nathaniel Field,, of St. Albans, Somerset county, Maine,. "I was the palest, most bloodless persoik yon could imagine. My tongue and gums were colorless and my fingers and. ears were like wax. I had two doctoral and they pronounced my tronble anaemia. I had spells of vomiting, could not eat,, in fact, did not dare to, I had such dis tress after eating. My stomach was filled with gas which cansed me awful agony. The backache I suffered was at times, almost unbearable and the least exertion, made my heart beat so fast that I could, hardly breathe. But the worst of all was the splitting neuralgia headache wljick never left me for seven weeks. About thi* time I had had several numb spells. My limbs would be cold and without any feeling and the most deathly sensations' would come over me. "Nothing had helped me nntil I began, taking Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, in fact,. I had grown worse every day. After I had taken the pills a short time I could, see that they were benefiting me and. one morning I awoke entirely free from, pain. The distress after eating disap peared and in three weeks I could eat anything I wanted and suffer no incon venience. I also slept soundly.- I have, taken several boxes of the pills and hav» gained in weight from 120 to 154 pound* and am perfectly well now.'' Dr. Williams' Pink Pills cure anaemia, because they actually make new blood. For rheumatism, indigestion, nervous headaches and many forms of weakness they are recommended even if ordinary medicines have failed. They are sold by" all druggists, or will be sent postpaid, en receipt of price, 50 cents per box, six boxes for ?2.50, by the Dr. Williams Medicine Company, Schenectady, N. Y- DONKEYS TURN UP TOES. Don't Know Enough to Get in Out. of the Raip. The war department has learned, through experience that the American donkey has not sense enough Xo live in the Philippines. Some time ago, more in the nature of an experiment than for any other reason, the bureau of insular affairs sent a dozen American donkeys, com monly known as "burros," to Manila, for use among the Spanish-speaking people. The natives did not take kindly to the new species, however, but rather looked at them from afar off. Seven died. Such was the news re ceived at the bureau recently. When, the torrential rains set in the little animals were caught out in the open, and not knowing how to shelter them selves like the native beast of bur den, seven docile, dumb beasts turned up their toes. "They ought to die," said a war department official who has a deep interest in everything pertaining to the Philippines "they ought to die if they don't know enough to get ia-. out of-the rain." The Central American Soldier. These barefooted soldiers are an tagonists not to be despised. Nearly worthless in attack, they are neverthe less tenacious in holding a position,, a trait that comes from their Spanish., descent probably. In the Cuban cam paign Gen. Garcia is said to have said, in reply to the remark of an American officer: "The Spaniards never at tack." This may have been true in. the main, but the defense cf the trenches at Caney showed that th» Spaniards would hold a position with, as much courage and tenacity as any other troops. The Central and th» South Americans have not generally showed much steadiness in war, but there have been occasions when their conduct has been conspicuous for gallantry, and all the virtues which go to make up the stalwart soldier.-— N. O. Times-Democrat. Troubles of an Author. Robert Louis Stevenson's mother wrote in one of her letters from Sa moa: "The people here are now dis covering that Louis writes, as *Th® Bottle-Imp' is coming out in the na tive paper, having been transited by Mr. It is much appreciated,. but leads to some curious results. For instance, the house in it somewhat re sembles ours, and a good many of the natives suspect that Mr. Stevenson has the 'bottle' himself." Long Journey for Pleasure. Justus Miles Fo'reman has left New York for an extended journey, the itinerary of which includes Australia, New Zealand and the South Sea isl ands, and which is undertaken, h« said, not to gain new literary mate rial, but solely because he "wants to* play a little." Tuberculosis in Germany. Under the workmen's sickness in surance law about $9,500,000 was spent in Germany in the treatment of tuberculous patienta in the yeara 1901 to 1905. A. N. K.—Q (1906—36) 2142.