The Afro-American Advance

TWIN CITY NEWS. VOL.I. NO.46. MINNEAPOLIS. Go to Miller's, Fifth street and Nicole avenue, for your photographs. The Advance Restaurant, 214 Washington avenue south, is up to date in service and equipment. If you want a good meal in a clean place don't fail to go to the Advance Restaurant. Go to John L. Neal, Real Estate, Loans and Insurance, 622 Boston Block. A stag party was given by Mr. Z. J. John at his residence Tuesday evening, at a coterie of friends. A full course dinner was served. The evening was pleasantly spent. A neat little speech made by Lawyer Curtis was well received. Those present were Messrs. J. F. Monroe, F. Fowkes, A. J. Monroe, Harry and Wim, Donaldson, A. J. Scott, Geo Coleman, W. W. Tucker, Adam Norris, Ed. Hammonds, Lawyer Curtis. Miss Lacy, who has been ill with pleurisy, is improving. The Misses, Fannie Howard and Louise Jackson, of St. Paul, were the guests of Misses, Ada and Maude Mason during the holidays. Patronize the Advance cafe, for a good meal, and get the worth of your money. A very pleasant dinner was given at the home of Miss Maude Rice's, New Years, in honor of Misses Mayne and Jennie Combs, of St. Paul, and Rev. W. F. Hart and sister. Covers were laid for twelve. Among those present were Misses Mayne and Jennie Combs, Lumnie Hart, Efie Manning, Eliza Wilson, Dennis Wesamers, Gaspio Gibbs, Goodbart, T. Rice, Messrs. W. F. Hart, J. Goodbart, F. Folks, J. Harris, W. F. Singleton. The "open door" reception held by Mr. and Mrs. Chas, Turner at their palatial residence, on New Years, was a grand success. The beautiful parlor and refreshment rooms were lavishy decorated with pink ornaments and holly. The hostess and her corps of assistants did great honors to the occasion. The hospitality displayed by the much esteemed host and hostess deserve commendation. The tendencies give evidence of emulation, and in 1909 will no doubt exemplify Mr. and Mrs. Turner's efforts in introducing the "open door" reception. Conspicuous among the callers were Messrs. Jasper Gibbs, P. F. Hale, J. L. Neal, R. J. Coleman, H. Richardson, M. E. Singleton, J. M. Allison, Dr. R. S. Brown, C. Marshall, Officer Mack Brady, Lawyer Morris, J. C. Reid et al. ST. PETER'S A. M. E. CHURCH. The watch meeting service was largely attended. We have just received greetings from Mrs. Mason to the members and friends of the church. The Scandinavians of the various churches in South Minneapolis tendered the pastor and his wife a grand reception in the church on the part of the white citizens of the city. The tables were laden with good things, after which the pastor was presented with $15. The C. E. society made a fine appearance under the leadership of Mr. L. Goye, New York. Next Sunday night the annual service of the Wayman Circle will be preached. The Mason Club will also turn out with them. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Koger have returned from a two weeks' vacation visiting friends in St. Louis and Hannibal, Mo. Mr. C. C. Caldwell, of 419 E. 18th St., is on the sick list. The A. M. E. O. C. met Wednesday evening and transacted important business. Members and friends are cordially invited to be present Wednesday evening. Mr. John Gibson is on the sick list. The greatest treat of the season will be a concert given under the auspices of A. M. E. O. C. Mrs. Jas. E. Steward entertained Mrs. Albert Gravey and Mrs. Arthur Adams Thursday at dinner. Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Storks of 4819 Fifth Ave. So., entertained Rev. Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Brooks, Mr. and Mrs. D. F. Danner and their daughter, little Miss Ruby Danner. Miss Maggie Lizzie Freeman, at 6 o'clock dinner, Tuesday dayeving. Mr. and Mrs. D. F. Danner, 337 E. 19th st., entertained Rev. and Mrs. W. S. Brooks, Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Storks. Miss Maggie and Elizzie Freeman, at 4 o'clock dinner, Wednesday evening. MISSION OF FIRST A M E church The funeral of Mrs. Jas. Moody took place at St. James Chapel, East Side. Monday 2:30 p. m. Re. J. Will officiating. The funeral was well attended by all who knew her. Her remains were laid at rest in Hill Side vault. Mrs. Sarah Howard was quite ill last week, but is some better now. Mr. and Mrs. Shepard set a 1900 dinner Monday and entertained Mrs. Lou Thomas, of Kansas City, Mo., in company with the following: Rev. and Mrs. J. Will King, Miss Elie Evartney, Mrs. Della Wright, Miss Brown. There will be a pink tea entertainment given at the mission, 405 5th Ave. So, Wednesday evening, Jan. 17th. Supper served from 6 to 8 p.m. Admission five cents. Mrs. Harry Foster entertained Mrs. Lou Thomas, Mrs. Fannie King at tea laceening. There will be sacred concert given at the mission the first Sunday, the 7th, at 8 p.m. Some of Newmopals' best talent, come and hear them. Preaching at St. James church, East Side, by the pastor at 11 a. m., 12 m. class. The ladies of St. James church are arranging to have a grand leap year chase at their mission in February. Look out boys. Rev. King is arranging to have a reading room at the mission. Not Wasted. Jonny, did you take your cough medicine regularly in school, as I told you?" "No m"; Tommy Budds liked it, an' he gimme an apple for it." Stray Stories. The Afro-American Advance. ST. PAUL. Biddle Circle, ladies of the G. A. R. elected new officers Tuesday. Mrs. J. H. Hickman remains president. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Roberts, of Minneapolis, were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Johnson Wednesday evening to tea. Everyone were exchanging New year calls Monday. Mr. and Mrs. John Martin, out at their cosy home. S.2 Martin St. had made great preparation for the day. Many called and made the jolly host happy by partaking of his hospitality. Mrs. Adam Williams gave a complimentary funcheon Tuesday evening at her home on Martin St. for the ladies that assisted her with the China Booth during St. Charles Church. A few outweared were fortunate enough to be there. Among them were: General Manager A. J. Bell Rey and Mrs. J. C. Anderson, Treas. Mrs. Jos. Adams, Mr. Davis, Mr. Will Smith, Mrs. Wm. Liggins and the Advance. The Afro-American Railway Association will meet at their headquarters, 170 E. 3d St., Feb. 15, 4 o'clock. All railroad men are earnestly invited to be present. Watch the Advance for further particulars. Read the Advance and see who among your race are in business and patronize them. Go and see Jordan and Martin, the tailors; they make first class clothes and their fit is perfect. Get a shave at Pettis, a shine at J. B. Johnson's and a good full meal at Godfrey's. Take a little more time and go down to 304 E. 71th St., to Mrs. M. A. Hopson and have your wife a nice Sunday dress made. In helping others you help yourself. FINAL REPORT OF ST. JAMES CHURCH FAIR From booths, 7 in number, gross receipts, $83,101, net receipts, $316,131. From suppers, Christmas dinner, funnel coat, etc., gross receipts, $162,75, net receipts, $142,53. Grand total, gross $45,76, net $45,284. Mrs. Adam Williams, with the abie assistance of Mrs. L. M. Terrell, brought in from the china booth alone, $174,89; after expenses were noted, $121,02 was cleared. Mrs. J. B. Buchner brought in over $20 to china booth. The Rev. Mrs. J. C. Anderson helped along things finely by bringing in $22. Every one did their best and are thankful and happy to be able to pay every cent of debt in and around about the church for the first time for many months. Riffe—In St. Paul, Minn., Jan. 2 1000. Mrs. Alice M. Riffe, aged 24 years, at her residence, 500 Aurora Ave, beloved wife of W. M. Riffe. Funeral from St. James, A. M. E. Church Thursday, 2:00 o'clock. Chicago, Ill., Jan. 1st, 1900. Editor, The Advance. Dear Sir;—It is my desire, through the columns of the "Advance," to express my thanks to the ladies and gentlemen of St. Paul and Minneapolis for their very great kindness shown me during my visit in the Twin Cities. I met so much in the city that it is impossible to individualize at this time. Suffice it to say that my visit was a continual round of pleasure, and I look forward with infinite pleasure to my second visit in the Twin Cities, which I hope will be in the near future. I also desire to express my gratitude to the St. Paul Pioneer Press, St. Paul University and the Minneapolis Advance for the valuable space they gave me in their papers. Yours very respectfully. Gertrude Palmer. THE BRITTON AND THE BOER Amid the clash of shot and steel Brave British red coats drop and reel. Fix bayonets charge the scottish greys The queen dismayed, And then with happier courage bold The Boer tactics to try unfold, They onward marched across the velt, The pangs of war they surely felt. There came a bull; the trumpet sounds. The boers' guns had mowed them down. The major dazed and all forlorn; The charge repulsed on a critical morn. The battle cry Maiuba Hill The battle cry Majuba Hill. The captain led with genius, skill. The fire was hot—a day of hell. In this great battle Lord Symore fell. Lord Butler then marched to Modders' hand. His loss was heavy both file and rank. The gallant Boer at break of day Lay silent in wait to meet the fray The British advance with sabre and lance And strike a blow, this is the chance, And before the day had passed away Young Roberts lie in lifeless clay The Boer takes war as a practical joke, And hurls defiance at the tion yoke. This is a war with great and small, United they stand, divided they fall. Their hands are fast hold of the plow. To who will win we can't say now. The lion bluffs and the Boer puffs. About the coming ball at Ladysmith's HENRI BLUDSOE. Thoroughbred. A New York society dame, who is an ardent upholder of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, owns a little dog of which he is exceeding fond. A man who called on her the other day was admiring the dog and asked her mistress how she, with all her humane theories, could have allowed the cruel dog fancier to cut off Snap's tail and ears to the fashionable defender. She said the way she herself up and replied, with some bauteur: "My dear sir, Snap expected it. My thoroughbred fox terrier expects to have his tail and ears shortened." And that "That's the first time ever thought of the nobiless oblige, as applied to fox terriers."—Cincinnati Enquirer. Notoriety is cheap to get, but dear to see.—Ran's Born. MINNEAPOLIS AND ST. PAUL, MINN., SATURDAY, JAN. 6, 1900. KEEP HAMMERING AWAY. The British and Boer Forces Continue to Fight at Various Points. COL. PILCHER EVACUATES DOUGLAS. Report on Paris Bourse That Gen- Buller Had Met with Another Check in His Efforts to Relieve Ladysmith — Another German Steamer Seized by British. Frere Camp, Jan. 5. — A vigorous shelling of the Boers' trenches on the plain Thursday morning forced the burgers to shift their position after their horses had stumped. Lieutenant and Five Men Missing. Frere Camp, Jan. 5. — Capt. Thorney- croft's patrol found the enemy in some force at the Little Tugela bridge. Their presence was discovered by scouts. It is reported that five men and a lieutenant of the party have not returned. Buller Again Reported Defeated. Paris, Jan. 5. — A report was current on the bourse Thursday that Gen. Buller had met with another check in his efforts to relieve Ladysmith. Col. Pilcher Evacuntes Douglas. Col. Pilcher Evacuates Boulmont. Belmont, Cape Colony, Wednesday, Jan. 3. — Col. Pilcher, it is officially announced, being only on a raiding expedition and, for military reasons, being unable to occupy Douglas permanently, has evacuated the town, bringing off all the loyalists. He has now returned safely to close proximity to Belmont. When he announced the necessity of evacuating the place, the inhabitants of Douglas declared their lives were not worth five minutes' purchase after the troops left. Col. Pilcher, therefore, invited them to accompany him to Belmont. The preparations were speedily completed, but the vehicles of the town were totally inadequate to convey the refugees, so the troops gave up the transport wagons to the women and children. The Canadians acted as an escort of the refugees, carrying babies for the women and kept everybody bodyly by singing as they marched pluckily along in spite of sore feet, occasioned by the heavy sand, which made marching extremely tiring. The force received Gen. Buller's congratulations on the success of the expedition with great satisfaction. Skirtish Near Belmont. Orange River, Cape Colony, Jan. 3.—There was a small skirmish near Belmont this morning. The British fired a few shots, but the Boers did not respond. A detachment of about 40 Boers attempted to rush Klokfontein this morning, but were beaten back by the mounted infantry. Possibly this force consisted of fugitives from Sunnyside. Reenforcements of infantry and artillery have been dispatched to Gen. French from De Anr. No Deaths by Lydd{e. Boer Camp, Colenso, Jan. 2.—The British naval guns at Chieveley camp continue their ineffective long-range fire night and day, in order to divert Boer attention from the movements of the troops. Federal scouts yesterday penetrated into the British camp. When returning, the British pickets discovered them, and wounded one Boer. Gen. Lucas Meyer resumes command of the division here. Gen. Joubert denies that he has ever protested against the use of lyddite. He averts that up to the present he has not lost a single man from lyddite. Another Steamer Seized. Berlin, Jan. 5.—The imperial mail steamer General has been detained at Aden and occupied by British troops, with the object of searching her cargo, which is to be discharged. The General is owned by the German East African line, the owners of the Bundesrath, previously captured by the British cruiser Magicienne off Delagoa bay. Hamburg, Jan. 5.—Although the manifests of the German steamer General, seized at Aden, show there was no war material on board, she was compelled to discharge her cargo. Was Contraband of War. Rome, Jan. 5. — The German steamer Kanzler, with the Dutch and Russian Red Cross detachments for the Transvaal on board, discharged a quantity of her cargo at Naples, as it was contraband of war. The Kanzler belongs to the same company as the Bundesrath and General. News Causes Satisfaction. London, Jan. 5.—There is great satisfaction here at the news that De Dar has been able to send Gen. French reinforcements of guns and infantry, of which he appears to be so much in need. The fighting in the hills is incessant. The latest telegraphs say Gen. French has almost surrounded Coisberg, but that the Boers are still defending all their positions close to the town, preventing the British from capturing it. A dispatch from Rensberg says the heavy artillery duel recommenced at daybreak. Further Details of Fighting Further details of the fighting between Gen. Gatacre and the Boers at Cyphergat show that 3,000 Boers with artillery attacked a British outpost between Cyphergat and Molteno. Gen. Gatacre, with mounted troops and field artillery, moved out in front of Sterkstroom and found the Boers strongly posted at Copperberg, whence they were quickly dislodged, the Boers fleeing in the direction of Stormberg. The Boers used the British guns captured December 10 and shot well, but the British Wanto: May 5. June 9. Oct. 27. kept under cover and there were no casualties on their side. Situation in Gataere's District Situation in Gatacre District. The war office has received a report from Cape Town dated Wednesday, January 3, reporting the situation in Gen. Gatacre's district. It says: "Dordrecht is now evacuated by Montmorency, who occupies Birds Shing, on the Indwe line. "Molteno is being attacked to-day by the enemy, who more or less surround the position, according to reports, are being forced back, and mounts of mounted infantry and field artillery have been sent by Gen. Gatacre. The result is not known. "A company of mounted infantry, under Anderson, has rejoined to Prieksa and movements with the rebel force on the north bank. "No movement of Gens. Methuen or "No movement of Gens. Methuen or French is reported." The American Hospital Ship The American hospital ship Maine arrived at Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Wednesday and reports all on board well. A report comes from Berlin that Great Britain's reply to Germany's representations on the subject of the Fundesrath is regarded as unsatisfactory and procrastinating. The traction engines have arrived at Frere and have been successfully tested. They pulled trucks over the roughest and most sandy ground without difficulty. A Dash from Ladysmith: Hoodd Laenger, Ladysmith, Tuesday, Jan. 2. — Six horsesmen made a dash from Ladysmith a few nights ago, and, though pursued, they escaped. It is believed the party included Col Rhodes, brother of Ceell Rhodes, and Dr. Jameson. BIG SUGAR YIELD. Potal Product of Bawalian Islands Is 304,603 Tons-Big Increase in Amount of Imports. Washington, Jan. 5.—Harold Sewall, late United States minister to Hawaii, has reported to the state department from Honolulu that the total sugar product of the Hawaiian islands for the season of 1899 was 304,633 tons, or 50,000 tons more than the estimate given by the celebrated German statistician Licht, of Madgeburg. The total imports of commodities into the islands for 1899 amounted to $15,944,349, an increase of $5,973,733 compared with the corresponding period of the preceding year. FRENCHMEN SENTENCED. MM. Buffet and Deroulede Banished for Ten Years and M. Guerin Given Ten Years Imprisonment. Paris, Jan. 5. - The high court (senate), in secret session Thursday condemned MM. Buffet and Deroulede to ten years' banishment. M. Guerin was sentenced to ten years' confinement in a fortified place. M. Saluces was sentenced to ten years' banishment. Vault Box Turned Over Frankfort, Ky., Jan. 5. The box said to hold four $1,000 bills and five $100 bills, which was to be passed in the alleged bribery transaction between Col. John H. Whalton and Senator Harrell, was delivered to the grand jury Thursday to be opened. What the box contains is now known only to the grand jury. The box has been guarded by detectives night and day since the exposure by Senator Harrell and County Attorney Polegrove says if the money was at any time in the box he is satisfied it will be found there to day, as there has been absolutely no chance for tampering with it. Indictments Against Nine. Philadelphia, Jan. 5. The grand jury returned true bills of indictment in the election fraud cases in the Thirteenth division of the Seventh ward, during the recent election for state treasurer when Lieut. Col. Barnett, of the Tenth Pennsylvania volunteers, was elected. There are nine defendants, as follows: Samuel Salter, deputy coroner, Philadelphia; Joseph D. Rogers, lieutenant of capitol police, Washington; William Cook, Harry McCabe, Clarence Meeser, James T. Sheehan, also of Washington; John Silberman, John Scullen and John Hanna, of this city. Conductor to Blame: Denver, Col., Jan. 5.—The coroner's jury that investigated the death of Winfield Randleman, the express messenger who was killed in the wreck on the Union Pacific railroad at Brighton, has found that the collision was caused by the criminal carelessness of Conductor E. W. McAllister. This man lost his reason at the scene of the accident, but is slowly recovering his mental balance. Nurses for the Boers New Orleans, Jan. 5.—A movement was started by Miss Emma Broderick, one of the leading trained nurses of this city, which will most probably result in the departure from this city at an early date of several prominent nurses who desire to enlist in the cause of the Boers. Trollex Lines for Holland Philadelphia, Jan. 5.—The British steamship Ping Soey has left this port for Rotterdam carrying 1,000 tons of steel trolley rails, each 45 feet long and weighing 1,000 pounds. The rails are to be used in equipping an electric railroad to be built in Holland on the American plan. Bryan Will Be Present. Louisville, Ky. Jan. 4.—A special to the Courier Journal from Frankfort says: Senator Blackburn has received a letter from William J. Bryan, stating that he will be on January 10 to witness Mr. Blackburn's election to the United States senate. The Lawton Fund Washington, Jan. 5.—The Lawton fund Thursday reached $45,007. GAGE IS UNDER INQUIRY House and Senate Pass Resolutions Requesting Information of His Recent Actions. FINANCIAL BILL TAKEN UP IN SENATE. Senate Substitute for the House Bill Is Read and Senator Aldrich Makes the Opening Speech on the Bill—Various Resolutions Introduced in Congress. Washington, Jan. 5.—In the house Thursday, Mr. Payne, chairman of the committee on ways and means, presented the Sulzer resolution as modified by the committee, for immediate consideration. The resolution, as modified, is as follows: Received. That the secretary of the treasury shall be hereby, requested to furnish the house of representatives the following information: "First-Call of all letters, agreements, papers or documents between the treasury department of the United States, any person connect therewith and the National City bank and the Kansas national bank, of the city of New York, or any person acting for them, or either of them, relating to the depositing of public funds, bonds or revenues in said bank or banks, or any other relations or business transactions now existing or heretofore had between the government and the said banks." "Second- The amount of public money, bonds or revenue deposited with said banks, or either of them, or with any national bank, by the government, upon what reasons there for, and whether said banks, or any of them, have paid the government any interest on said deposits, and if so how much, and all other information concerning the same or in any way relating to "Third- And as to the date of the sale of the customhouse property of the United States in New York city to said National City bank, the date of the execution of the deed therefor, the date and manner of payment of the sale, and the disposition of the proceeds of the sale sale and whether or not the government has paid any rents for the said property or any portion thereof for any purpose, since the day of sale and if so to whom and all facts relating to the said transaction." Accepts the Amendments. Mr. Sulzer arose after the presentation of the resolution and said he would accept the amendments. Mr. Richardson, the minority leader, asked for five minutes, which he desired to yield to Mr. Levy (dem., N. Y.). The request was complied with, and Mr. Levy offered an amendment to the resolution which included a request for the secretary's reasons for delaying the deposits in national banks until the panic had occurred. Mr. Levy said he had warned the secretary in September that a panic was imminent. Had the secretary heeded that warning and deposited government funds in national banks in September or October, instead of buying bonds, the panic would have been averted. The amendment was promptly ruled out of order, and the resolution as offered by Mr. Payne was adopted. Then at 12:20 p. m. the house adjourned until Monday. Washington, Jan. 5. The resolution introduced by Senator Allen requesting information concerning the Hanover and National City banks was modified and pressed. The Pettigrew resolution calling upon the secretary of the navy for the report of Admiral Dewey in April, 1898, in which the admiral said he could take Manila at any time, went over under objection by Senator Sponer. Senator Cullom, from the committee on foreign relations, reported the bill providing a government for the Hawaiian islands with amendments. Financial Bill Taken Up. The financial bill was then taken up, and after the senate substitute had been read, Senator Aldrich addressed the senate on the bill. He spoke in part as follows: "I propose to submit at this time a brief explanation of the substitute offered to house bill No. 1 and to state some of the reasons which led a majority of the committee on finance to recommend its adoption." "The general purpose of the bill is to declare anew that gold is the monetary standard of the United States; to establish the legal authority of our government to give the greatest possible measure of stability in value to its currency and to provide the means for the government to purchase power with gold; to lighten in every possible way the burdens imposed upon taxpayers by existing public obligations and to strengthen the public authority." Not Hostile to Bimetallism. "The bill now before the senate contains no disavowal of the position hetereotopes taken upon the question of international bimetallism and places no obstacles in the passage of the bill. If it is possible to secure permanence of relative value to gold and silver coins with the free colage of both metals at a fixed ratio, this permanence can only be maintained by the leading commercial nations." "The first section contains a clear and definite declaration that the gold dollar is and shall continue to be the standard currency of the United States, pledge on the part of the United States that all forms of money it may issue or coin shall be at all times maintained at an equality of value with the gold coin. This provision that United States notes and treasury notes, upon presentation at the treasury, be redeemed in standard gold coin. "The Reserve Fund." "The second section provides for a reserve fund of £50,000,000 in gold to secure the prompt and certain redemption of outstanding United States notes and treasury notes. This fund is increased £50,000,000 to the treasury for redemption purposes." Senator Aldrich quoted statistics on the gold production to show that there will be no difficulty in securing by use of notes the gold that is held in the bank and maintain the fund at its maximum amount. "The committees do not suggest any changes in the status of the silver dollar or the silver certificate. We do not proclaim any monetary privileges or prerogatives which Accepts the Amendments. Financial Bill Taken Up. The Reserve Fund. it now enjoys. In fact, we believe that the legislation as suggested will greatly strengthen its position in our monetary system." Converting National Debt. "The sixth section of the substitute gives to the secretary of the treasury authority to convert a portion of the national debt into bonds bearing two per cent, interest. The proposition contemplates a profitable antitization of interest payments and consequent reduction of the public debt. "We believe it is impossible to overestimate the advantage which would accrue the United States from placing its national debt in the hands of the government, keeping its obligations, issued at this rate at part in the markets of the world. "By the provisions of this bill we remove all possible doubts and apprehensions as to the character of our monetary system and we want that we intend under all circumstances to keep all forms of our currency equal in value with gold, and it would be a source of national pride if we could, in addition to this great achievement, place the credit system under our control and be occupied by that of any other country." "One of the principal reasons which led the committee to recommend this plan of conversion was that the bonds suggested would be much more desirable as a basis for the national banking outstanding securities. It is the duty of congress, in the public interest, to so modify the national banking act as to give to banking associations an opportunity to issue currency with a reasonable profit. If we do so, we will be able to law we may reasonably expect a considerable increase in the national bank note circulation in the near future, and there is no reason, if the business of the country demands it, why in time the outstanding securities will not equal the capitalization of the banks." Senator Aldrich received the inter- cited attention of all the senators present, but he was not interrupted by anyone. At the close of the speech the senate went into executive session, adjourning at 3:20 o'clock until next Monday. Hold First Meeting Washington, Jan. 5. — The house committee on interstate and foreign commerce held its first meeting Thursday and decided to grant requests for hearings by the Pacific Cable company, of New York, and the Panama Canal company. Representatives of the cable company will be heard next Tuesday and Mr. Fieley, chief engineer of the Croton aqueduct and ex-president of the American Society of Civil Engineers, will be heard on the following Friday concerning the Panama canal route. Thanks to Sampion and Schley. Washington, Jan. 5. — Representative Bingham, of Pennsylvania. Thursday introduced the following joint resolutions: "Resolved, etc., That the thanks of congress are hereby tendered to Rear Admiral William T. Sampion and Commodors of the United States to the officers and men under them for the destruction of the Spanish fleet at Santiago." Wants Thorough Investigation, Washington, J. n. 5. — Representative Lentz, of Ohio, has introduced res- tations reciting published reports that the secretary of the treasury will turn over internal revenue receipts to the National City bank of New York, and providing for the appointment of a special non-partisan committee of 12 members of the house for a "thorough and impartial investigation to deter- mine the truth or falsity of the charges." Resolution of Sympathy. Washington, Jan. 5. — Representative Quaries, of Virginia, has introduced the following house resolution: "Resolved. That we hereby extend to our two other republics in Africa, the United States and the deepest sympathy in the nobles, brave and patriotic struggle they are now making to preserve their governments from destruc Collision in Boston Harbor Boston, Jan. 5. - The United States tug Resolute, which runs between this city and Fort Warren, was sunk in a collision with the Reading Coal company's tug Seatara in the harbor Wednesday night. It is thought all the men on the Resolute were saved except the engineer, who is missing. THE MARKETS Grain, Provisions, Ete Chicago, Jan 4 WHEAT—Unsettled. May 29%@c, July 20%@c CORN—Earn Cash quoted at 21%c, July at 20%@c May at 25%@c, July at 23%@c OATR—Ready. May 22%@c. RYE-Quiet and steady. No. 2 quotable at 506e, No. 3 at 496e, and No. 4 at 48%@60. May, E29c. BARLEY—Low grades cany, but good matting firmer and in good demand. Low grade or feed: 35%@60 screenings, 28%@60. le: low matting, 27%@70: fair to good, 26%@80, and choice to fancy, 41%@50. M888 PORK—Offerings were fair and demand was active. Prices quotably higher at $10.69@10.65 for regular, and $3.69@9.69 for old; $10.49@10.69 for January, and $10.69@10.92% for May. LARD—Demand was active, and offerings not very large. Prices quotable at $3.69@5.65 for choice; $2.69@5.75 for old; $2.75@5.80 for January, and $1.87%@6.65 for May. SHORT RIB SIDE—Offerings not very large, and demand quite active. Prices quotable at $5.69@7.5 for cash, according to age; $1.56%@60 for January, and $1.66%@7.75 for May. FOTATOER—Market weaker. Burbanks, 46%@50; Hebrons and Rose, 47%@50; Farless, 47%@50; Kings, 45%@50; mixed, 46%@50. EOG—Market strong for fresh stock. Loss off: cases returned, strictly fresh eggs, 185%@50; held fresh eggs, quotably at 1.1%@50; at mark, case returned, 128%@50, according to quality. BUTTER-Firm. Creameries, extra, 250 per pound, first, 2425, seconds, 2425, dairies, 18922, imitation creameries, 1892 LIVE POULTRY-Beady. and unchanged. Turkeys, 5676; Chickens, 5676; Ducks, 7875; per pound, Geese, 12.040.4 Live Stock Chicago, 258.4 HOG8-Market fairly active. Prices less 20%. Sales lower. Rates adjusted to $28.95 per Piga; $14.58/475; for light; $14.58/45 for rough packing; $20.49/45 for mixed, and $30.49/45 for heavy packing and shipping lots. CATTLE-Good grades ruled steady; other lots were weak. Quotations ranged from $20.95/29 for good choice to extra Steers; $20.95/29 for good choice for fair to god do; $40.00 for common to medium do; $40.00 for butcher's Steers; $40.00 for fed western Steers; $15.00 for feeding Steers; $20.00/425 for Cows; $20.00/425 for Heifers; $20.00/425 for Horses and Oxen; $20.00/425 for Stags; $20.00 for Texas Steers; and $40.00/475 for Veal Calves. PRICE FIVE CENTS. The Closing Arguments Are Begun Before the Investigating Committee. ROBERTS ATTACKS TRUTH OF WITNESSES Mr. Schreeder, Bend of Gentle Delegation, Presents Argument Against Roberts, Largely on Technical Grounds—Shows Why He Is Not Enattled to a Sent in House. Washington, Jan. 5. — The Roberts investigating committee resumed its sessions Thursday for the purpose of hearing arguments and bringing the inquiry to an early conclusion. It was expected that ex-Secretary John G. Carlisle would be summ up the case against Roberts, and that Mr. Roberts in person would make the argument in his own behalf. Word came from Mr. Carlisle, however, that he had not understood his personal presence was desired, but he was ready to submit written arguments on any of the questions involved. Chairman Tayler (O.) stated that the statement of a witness absent in Utah had been received, but as Mr. Roberts declined to admit it in an informal manner, the matter would have to be taken up later. Mr. Roberts said he wished to present matter tending to show the untrustworthiness of the witnesses appearing against him. It included a published card signed by Thomas J. Brandon, disclaiming having given out certain information relative to Roberts; also court records in which Roy Brandon was a party. Mr. Roberts also offered a telegram from the proprietors of the Salt Lake Herald concerning the testimony of Mr. McDaniels. Taylor excluded the telegram, however, saying there was no color of right or propriety in receiving a telegram as testimony, in view of Mr. Roberts refusing to admit the statement of the absent Utah witnesses. Argument Against Roberts. Mr. Schroeder, head of the gentle delegation here to oppose Roberts, then opened the argument against Roberts. The argument was, largely technical, and was divided under three general heads, viz: First, whether or not the member-elect has the constitutional qualifications, including citizenship; second, whether or not the constitutional provisions as to citizenship include one who has impaired his citizenship by crime or unlawful status, and whether Mr. Roberts has so impaired his citizenship; third, whether a member-elect has the statutory qualifications, and whether the house has the power to establish qualifications beyond those in the constitution. Mr. Schroeder read from many law books concerning these propositions. "The evidence clearly shows" proceeded Mr. Schroeder, "that since 1880 Mr. Roberts has been in the status of a polygamist and the question is to the effect that Utah was admitted to statehood, Mr. Schroeder contended that Mr. Roberts' was a territory. He said that while Utah was to Roberts' disfranchise under the Edmunds and Tucker act. And when Utah was admitted to statehood, Mr. Schroeder contended that Mr. Roberts' was a territory. He said that polygamy was such that Roberts could not relieve himself from it without some affirmative act. As to the right of the house to exclude Mr. Schroeder said: "Suppose a raving man should be admitted to the house of the house and ask admission on proper credentials, could not the house in self-protection deny him admission? Suppose a man afflicted with epistasy presented himself, would not the house be admitted to the house, Mr. Schroeder said Roberts had admitted his relationship with his plural wives. He had publicly said he would "b d—" if he would give up his wives." This was an offense against the public morals as Roberts should be excluded from a seat. At this point a recess was taken until two o'clock. Found Dead. Toronto, Ont., Jan. 5. - On Tuesday a man about 30 years old registered at the Rossin house as A. Finberg, Chicago, and was assigned to a room. Nothing was seen of him Wednesday, and Thursday the bedroom door was forced. Finberg was found dead. He had shot himself twice, once in the mouth and once in the neck. Finberg is supposed to have been a traveler for a Chicago hat firm. He left nothing to explain his action. Will Lie in State Youngstown, O. Jan. 5.—The remains of the late Mate. John A. Logan will lie in state in St. John's Episcopal church upon their arrival here. It is expected now that the funeral will occur about February 5. Company H, Fitht O. N. G., of which Mate. Logan was captain for a long time, has been asked to act as an escort at the funeral service. Another Leak Found. London, Jan. 5.—When water was let into the dry dock at Milford Harven the American line steamer Paris, which is to be taken to Belfast for a thorough overhauling after running ashore near the Manacles May 21 last, and being refloated, began to fill, owing to an undiscovered leakage. His Condition Causes Alarm. Newburg, N. Y., Jan. 5.—Rev. Dr. Edward Medglynn, pastor of St. Mary's Roman Catholic church in this city, is still confined to his room by illness, and his condition is such as to cause alarm among his large circle of acquaintances. Hanged. Rome, Ga. Jan. 5. — Bud Harris was hanged here Thursday. Before the black cap was adjusted he addressed a crowd of several thousand negroes. Santiago's Export of Silcrete Santiago & Export of nitrate. Santiago de Chili, Jan. 5 (via Galveston, Tex.)- The export of nitrate last year was over 30,000,000 ountails. ADVANCE PUBLISHING COMPANY Minneapolis, - - - - - - - Minnesota. Entered at the Post Office, at Minneapolis, Minn., as second-class matter. Subscription Rates: One Year - - - - - $1.00 Six Months - - - - .60 Three Months - .33 Subscription Always Payable in AB- vance. Special rates if ordered by the dozen. Orders for current issue should reach the office by Wednesday evening. 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There is nothing to do except to quit riding or else save money and keep your "grip" ready packed, and when patience ceases to be a virtue, speedily look for other quarters. Mayor Gray promised to look into the matter of appointing a colored officer at the beginning of the New Year. We think colored citizens ought to manifest enough interest in the welfare of the city to see to it that a colored officer be appointed, a married man preferable. The Advance has in mind a worthy young man suited both in quality and quantity. This matter should be acted upon at once. The St. Paul people did not make an excellent showing at the Palmer recital under the direction of St. Paul's oldest and most admired musician Prof. J. W. Luca. Sitting room was anticipated to be at a premium. Nearly half of the audience were Minneapolis people. The local attaches did themselves proud. We wonder how Prof. Luca felt. Lawyer F. L. McGhee, of St. Paul, is making an extensive acquaintance in the capital city. Perhaps after the next presidential election Mr. McGhee will be a national character. CURRENT TOPICS. JAPAN will open 21 new ports to foreign commerce. HAWAII is complaining of a heavy influx of Chinese. THERE are 74 gold mining companies in the Transvaal. FRANCE receives £970,000 a year from taxes on bicycles. MOROCCO has an army of 40,000 men fairly well trained. NEW YORK has 12 times as many churches as Berlin. AS MANY as 4,000 dates have been gathered from a single palm. NEW ENGLAND cities may unite to help Boston improve its harbor. ONE-THIRD of the population of the world speaks the Chinese language. The word Bible means simply book, but it is now confined to the Book of Books. THE street accidents of London amount to about 3,500 a year—nearly ten a day. THE treaty for the partition of the Samao islands has been signed at Washington. Fruit wrapped in brown paper will stand 15 degrees more of cold than if not thus protected. OVER 15,000 people went through Yellowstone Park this season, breaking the record by 8,000. For every million inhabitants in Russia there are only ten newspapers and journals of all sorts. CONTRACTS have been let for a wireless telegraph system to connect the islands of the Hawaiian group. ENGLISH business men in Paris are being boycotted because of England's talk of boycotting the exposition. RENTED houses are unknown in Jetmore, Kan. Every house is occupied by its owner. The town has about 373 inhabitants. OUT of the Vatican's 11,000 rooms Pope Leo has reserved only three—a small sitting room, a little dining room and a bedroom. MODERN books, however rapidly they deteriorate from other causes, are protected from bookworms by the chemicals used in paper making. ALL the railway stations in Sweden at which meals are served are known by a sign bearing the suggestive emblem of a crossed knife and fork. IN the Sandwich islands the beauty of women is measured by their height. MRS GLADSTONE owns three acres in Niagara. This piece of land is now worth $5,000. The speed of a carrier plane in calm weather is 1,200 yards a minute. With a brisk wind prevailing and blowing in the direction of its flight a pigeon has been known to make 1,900 yards a minute. PROFESSIONAL PAWNERS. Generally Women and Theirs Is a Nice, Easy business and Quite Profitable. "I have come across a new kind of a trade for you," said a friend to the saunterer the other day. "At least, it is a new one on me. Did you ever hear of a professional pawner?" The saunterer had to confess his ignorance, says the Philadelphia Inquirer. "Well, it's this way. There are lots of manufacturers of articles of jewelry, of watches, of musical instruments and other things which would never find a sale except to the veriest duffers and greenhorns, so they have to get rid of them some other way. 'Uncle' comes in very handy about this time, but the difficulty is to persuade him to take the goods. He knows them very well, and he isn't going to lend money on stuff that he can never find a market for. "But he stacks up against a very hard thing when he meets a professional pawner. These people are generally women. Their business is to do so doctor and prepare the goods as to deceive the sharpest. In order to make the deception as undetectable as possible the goods are made to appear old and partly worn. Gold watches are first rubbed with mud and water, and then a few scratches are carelessly but very artistically added to complete the verisimilitude. In the case of rings the insides are made to appear worn, and pieces of jewelry rubbed on those portions which would ordinarily receive most wear and tear. Now, here is the queerest part of the whole job. All of the tickets are torn up and destroyed as soon as the goods are pledged. Hundreds of watches, rings, brooches and other articles of 'virtue and biggory', as Salary Gamp used to call them, are got rid of in this way every year. Fortunately, there are not a great many people in the business, but it is a very profitable and a nice, easy job." WHERE PLUCK COUNTS. Many Dangerous Feets Performed by the Sailors on Racing Yachts. . 'most all large sayfts when racing carry a man a loft, who is called the "mast-head man." He is aloof for the double purpose of seeing that everything is clear in the rigging and also to keep his weather eye lifting for changes of wind or calm spots, his elevation above the deck very greatly increasing his range of vision over what it could be from the deck. These men are usually picked for their ability to climb, and many is the dizzy crawl which they must make in the course of an ordinary race. When the topsail on the Columbia was to be set there were two men aloft, hoisted there in a boatswain's chair, a contrivance very like a swing seat. The hulayd that hoists this rans from the top mast head, and by this the men can be hauled to any point aloft. The gaff topsail has to be guided clear of the halyards, stays and lifts as it is hoisted, and then has to be laced to the topmast and to the gaff. This is the masthead man's work. He sits on his little board and swings round aloft like a spider on the end of his web, often hanging 120 feet from the deck, where a fall would mean certain death. He goes about his work, never thinking of using one of his hands to hold on. In many boats this chair is dispensed with, and the men climb aloft on the hoops that hold the mainsail to the mast, and then scramble round the best they can aloft, though, of course, they cannot work so well as they could if they had a chair. OOM PAUL'S NIECES. An "Up-Sitting" from Dusk to Dawn Proclaims the Engagement of a Boer Girl. The Boer girl of the country districts of the South African republic is able to go to town only once or twice a year, and then it is to attend the nachtmael, or communion, which is the chief festival of these deeply religious people, writes Howard C. Hilllegas in Ladies' Home Journal. The journey to the town is made in ox-times, and may require a week's or a month's time, but it is always an epoch in a Boer girl's life, especially if she is about 10, when she is supposed to have attained the matrimonial age. Then some tail, robust Boer youth, whom she has met at former nachtmaels, may summon enough courage to ask her whether he may call at her home and have an "up-sitting," which is a sort of ultimatum before an ultimatum. If she consents the young Boer will shortly afterward ride on horseback many miles across the plain to the girl's home, and will prove that he is worthy of her love by "sitting-up" and talking with her from sundown until break of day. For two young Boers to arrive at this period of courtship is equivalent to announcing the engagement, and then the prospective bride begins preparation for the wedding. Brought Up in Rigor The queen of the Belgians was brought up in her father's castle at Peath, amid surroundings and customs which remind one of the feudal ages. At night her father himself deseceded the great staircase to lock the outer gate and the door of the principal hall. This hall was divided into two parts, one end being raised a little above the other. At the elevated end the daughters of the house sat at their needlework or painting or music, while their attendants sat at the lower end of the hall. French Millinery A Paris journal says that Americans buy $7,000,000 worth of millinery in France annually. England following with $4,000,000, while Germany is satisfied with $600,000 worth. The Fuel Problem. "I suppose you had money to burn in the Klandike?" "No," answered the man who had been lying by the hour, "we didn't have anything but chanks of chilly, incombusible gold. We'd have paid a big price for a few scuttlefuls of dollar bills." —Chicago Chronicle. Comparisons—"What is the sensation of going up in a balloon?" asked the reporter. "Precisely the opposite to that of coming down in one," replied the professor impressively. —Philadelphia North America. The more bore sense a man has the less he bets on the races. —Chicago Daily News. THE QUEEN'S HINDUSTANL Victorian Has Mastered the Difficult Language After Many Years It will be handed down to posterity, says Pearson's Magazine, as one of the most astounding proofs of Queen Victoria's vast intellectual attainments that—In spite of all duties and responsibilities, in spite of the fact that she has devoted so much time to the study of politics as to become one of the greatest living authorities on the practical politics of Europe—she has yet so completely mastered a most difficult language that she has been able to make it a custom to note the daily events of her life in Hindustani, in a diary kept for this special purpose, and to speak the language with fluency. For more than ten years it has been the queen's custom to devote a part of every day to instruction in the chief language of her Indian subjects and in enriching her mind with the intellectual treasure of the east. Her majesty has surprised many of her Indian visitors by making unexpected observations in good Hindustani. As every one knows, she is almost invariably attended upon, at home, by one or more of her faithful, pictureque and courteous Indian servants. But it is not common knowledge that the queen always speaks to her servants in their native language. Nevertheless, this is the case—however small the remark, however important the command, whether it is a simple request for a meal or a serious matter of state, it is made in Hindustani. Universal admiration has been expressed at the determination of the queen, at an advanced age, not only to learn to speak Hindustani, but also to take an interest in the literature of India, and to acquaint herself with the ideas, wants and aspirations of her oriental subjects in their own language. KNIFE EMBEDDED IN A TREE. It Is Supposed to Be One That Killed an Indian More Than a Century Ago. The finding of a knife that killed an Indian 115 years ago was recently made under rather curious circumstances. While sawing logs on the Reynolds and Meteer mill, at Harman, Randolph county, W. Va., the saw came in contact with a hard substance. On examination it was found that the saw had struck a knife that was imbedded in a log to a depth of 115 years' growth, and which is supposed to have been there 115 years. Jackson Summerville, an aged citizen of Harman, says the knife is exactly like the one which his father often described to him when, as a boy, he used to listen to him tell about the narrow escape he had at the hands of the Indians. His father was fleeing from a band of Indians one night, but was overtaken by one of them on top of a mountain, when a terrific hand-to-hand encounter ensued. Summerville succeeded in killing the Indian with a knife. It was late at night, and, not knowing which way to go for safety, he stuck the knife in a tree and hid until morning, and then forgot the knife until he had traveled a long distance. The tree in which the knife was found was taken from the mountain where the Indian was killed. The knife will be deposited with the State Historical society, together with a statement of the circumstances of its discovery. BIJOU TRUNK FACTORY WM. LORENZ, Prop. Trunks & Traveling Bags Trunks & Traveling Bags Sample Trunks and Cases Made to Order. 18-20-22 Wash. A. V., Minneapolis, Mian Branch; Kith and Niellet. MRS. J. B. WATSON. Fashionable Dressmaker. Cutting, Fitting and Making Over a Specialty. New York and Paris Fash- ions Always on Hand. Farriers, 628 Fourth Avenue, South. DR. R. S. BROWN. Office: 405-6 Reeve Hidg, 408 Niellet Ave. Telephone: 2734-J-8. Office Hours: 9:30 to 12:30; 2:00 to 4:00 p. m.; 1:30 to 7:00 p. m. Sundays: 9:30 to 12:30 p. m. 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Grand Treasurer-Daniel Roy, St. Paul Secretary-William R. Morris, Minneapolis Grand Lecturer-G. W. Duy ( 4 ), Minneapolis Grand Secretary-O. D. Howard ( 4 ), St. Paul Grand Chaplain-Issaac Crawford ( 6 ), Grand Senior Deacon-John Martin ( 1 ), St. Paul Grand Junior Deacon-R. De Leo ( 7 ), Minneapolis Grand Senior Steward-J. H. Dillingham ( 2 ), St. Paul. Grand Junior Steward-Wm. Stevens ( 3 ), St. Paul. Grand Tyler-T. Bush ( 3 ), St. Paul. Grand Marshall-C. H. McDonald ( 5 ), Dishonorary St. Paul. Grand Pursuivant-G. W. Duckett ( 4 ), St. Paul. Grand Sword-Bearer-J. Adams ( 1 ), St. Paul. Grand Standard-Bearer-G. J. Charles- town, St. Paul. Grand Register-J. G. Steret ( 6 ), Minneapolis. Deputy Grand Master-First District-James Woodford ( 6 ), District Deputy Grand Master-Second District-E. H. Hamilton ( 6 ), Minneapolis. District Third Grand Master-Third District-J. K. Polk, Duluth. MINNEAPOLIS. G. U. O. O. O. F. St. Anthony Lodge, No. 2877. Meets the first and third Wednesday in each month for the transaction of business, 1st avenue, attorney A. H. MYRICK, N. G. JAMES A. SCOTT, P. S. P. O. Box 33. KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS. Nat. Turner Lodge, No. 2, K. of P. Meets the second and fourth Thursdays each month. Brothers in good standing Fourth and Eighth avenue south. RALPH WATSON, K. R. and S. Pride of Minnesota Lodge, No. 1, K. of P. Meets the first and third Thursdays in each month. All brothers in good standing welcome. At Plummer Post Hall. First avenue north and Washington. J. M. BOBBERT, C. C. W. C. JEFFREY, K. R. and S. J. K. Hillyard Lodge. Meets first Tuesday in each month at Windmill Avenue north and Washington. Masons in good standing always welcome. W. W. LILLARD, W. M. JASPER GIBBS, Sec. Guaranty Loan Restaurant. Anchor Lodge, No. 7, L. F. and A. M. Meets the first Tuesday in each month at Windmill Avenue north and Washington. Masons in good standing welcome. SCOTT, W. M. A. B. LEE, 2701 Aldrich avenue South. ST. PAUL. ODD FELLOWS Mars Lodge. No. 2202. Meets second and fourth Wednesdays in each month at Odd Fellows Hall, 325 Wubasha street U. T. HICKMANN, P. S., 422 St. Anthony, F. D. PARKER, N. G., 395 Edmund St. Household of Huth, No. 53, G. U. O. of N. F. Meets first and third Monday in each month for business, second Monday for instruction, at Odd Fellows Hall, 325 Wubasha street U. T. SARAH C. KIRTLEY, M.N.G. MRS. ID JACKSON, W. R., 374 Summit place. MOST WORKSHIPFEL GRAND LODGE OF MINNESOTA, A. F. and A. M. H. R. HOUSTON, Grand Master. WM. H. GARTHER, Pres. J. S. Harbord. S 13 Gustantry Loan Blade, Minneapolis. ST. PETER CLAYER'S SODALITY. Meets the first and third Mondays of each month at Garther, Pres. J. S. Harbord, A. D. Harbord. Pioneer Lodge, No. 1, A. F. and A. M. Meets the first Monday in each month at Masonic Hall, southwest corner Fifth and southwest corner sixth and seventh standing always welcome. Pioneer Lodge, W. M. W. A. HILYARD, Sec. 124 Atwater. Minnesota Lodge, No. 2. A. F. and A. M. Meets on the first and third Tuesday in each month at Masonic Hall, southwest corner Fifth and Robert streets. Master Masons in good standing always welcome. H. R. HOWARD, W. M. J. S. STRONG, Sec. 12th and Robert st. Perfect Ashler Lodge, No. 4. A. F. Meets second and fourth Monday in each month at Masonic Hall, southwest corner Fifth and Robert streets. Master Masons in good standing always welcome. ANDREW JACKSON, W. M. D. E. BEASLEY, Sec. Ryan Hotel. Perfect Ashler Lodge, No. 4. A. F. Meets the second and fourth Tuesday in each month at Masonic Hall, southwest corner Fifth and Robert street. Master JOHN C. W. A. WILSON, W. M. JOHN Q. A. WILSON, E. W. BEThel Chapter, No. 28, R. A. M. Meets the first and third Thursday in each month at Masonic Hall, southwest corner Fifth and Robert street. Royal Arch Masons in good standing always welcome. DANIEL ROY, H. P. W. T. GASSAWY, Sec. State Capitol. CHURCH DIRECTORY. MINNEAPOLIS. ST. PETER A. M. E. CHURCH. Rev. W. S. 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Some of the Leading Features—Events at Home and Abroad—Notable Deaths—Disasters, Murders, Hangings, Etc. The year 1859 will always be memorable as when the Spanish-American war was officially closed and the Filipino insurrection reduced to a mere disorganized guerrilla warfare, with its leader a fugitive. On the first day of the year Spain relinquished its authority over the United States assumed control. The peace treaty was sent to the senate three days later, and February 6 it was ratified. April 11 ratifications were exchanged with Spain and peace proclaimed. The work of political reorganization in Cuba has progressed. The history of the revolt of the Tagalas, under the leadership of Aguinaldo, against the sovereignty of the United States is embraced within the period of the old years, when the United States insurgents to surrender Iliole to the United States, the demand of Aguinaldo for independence and his proclamation of a republic. As this government failed to recognize him, he precipitated an insurrection in 1898, and the insurgent pear Manila February 4. Since that date there have been many encounters with the insurgents, in every one of which our forces have been successful, and numerous towns have been captured, occupied or destroyed. The government has been moved from place to place with celerity as our troops advanced, his so-called government has disappeared, his forces have melted away until there is but a handful left to keep up a guerrilla war, and the government is virtually a fugitive without following. There have been other important questions settled during the year. The army scandal, which originated in the commissionary department, has been quieted by the military martialing of General Joseph Resignation Alger. The disturbed relations between Great Britain and the United States over the Alaskan boundary have been temporarily adjusted by a modus vendi. The outbreak in Samos has led to a diplomatic tripletie agreement between Great Britain, Germany and the United States, Great Britain renouncing all its claims and receiving compensation elsewhere. The United States retains possession of the island of Pangaea, and Pangaea Pango-Pangae, Germany having possession of the rest of the Samoan group. The Old Year Abroad. The old year abroad has witnessed some events of a stirring nature. Notwithstanding the cear's spectacular exhibition at the Hague in the interests of international peace and brotherhood, the two leading powers in the world have been warlike. Early in the year the British government issued a proclamation of joint control of the Soudan with Egypt, and has effected that control by a series of brilliant victories won by Lord Roberts. In South Africa, second in command to Lord Roberts, to take part in Great Britain's second war for the subjugation of the Transvaal and Free State Boers. The causes of this war are too fresh in the public recollection to need recapitulation. Great Britain thus far has paid a heavy tribute of life and treasure to gratify colonial ambitions. The territorial dispute between Venezuela and Colombia has been civilized, to the advantage of the latter. France early in the year lost President Faure by death. M. Loubet was at once elected in his place, and from that time, in 1914, he was elected to the public has been in turmover the Dreyfus rehearing and the innumerable ramifications of the "incident," the resignation of ministers, the violent uprising of socialists against the government and revolutionary plotting. But meanwhile the government has remained firm, sedentious acts have been suppressed and Paris expects to crown the closing of a century with the brili- The Notable Dead. In the great army of those who passed during 1859 there are some who have made themselves conspicuous and have achieved international fame. A partilist Disasters. The following is a record of the prominent disasters of 1898, both in this and other countries: In January 18 persons were killed by a bombing in London, England; 1,000 by a flood in China; 20 by a fire near San Sebastian, Spain; 500 by hurricane in the Solomon islands; 14 by mine explosion at Mozaraon, Spain; 20 by drowning at Königsberg, Prussia. In February 7 were killed by a snowstorm in Hungary; B, C, 14 by fire at Boddingh, Hungary; 6 by mine explosion at Cofax, Cal; 24 by fire at the South Dakota insane asylum; 106 by drowning at Tient-Tain, China; 20 by a railroad accident at Forest, France; 5 by a mine explosion at Copenhagen, Denmark; 6 by man islands, and 9 by a cyclone at Yazoo City, Miss. In March 28 perished in a storm in Alaska; 6 by a snowslide at White Pine, Col; 7 by an explosion at Dwitzk, Russia; 60 by powder explosion at La Goûche, France; 60 by a cyclone at Yazoo City, Miss; 2,000 by a tidal wave on the coast of Corea; 7 by a landslide at Racuerga, 600 by a hurricane on the coast of Queensland; 4 by a railroad accident in New Zealand; 4 by fire in the Windsor hotel, New York in Cyclone in Alabama; 8 by fire in Chicago. In April 70 were killed by a fire in Nadrone, Japan; 20 by earthquake at Nara, Japan; 15 by a fire in New York; 15 by flood on the Harlem river, N. Y.; 15 by drowning on the Japan coast; 21 by fire at Guadalupe; 40 by a hurricane on the Australian coast; 18 by flooding in Hungary; 65 by cyclone in Missouri and Illinois; 65 by mine explosion at Troisik, Russia. In May $ were killed by cyclone in Kansas; 12 by cyclone at Hondo, Mexico; 5 by cyclone at Hermann; 12 by hurricane at Samoa; 12 by cyclone at Copenhagen; Prusia; 12 by a fire at Porsou, Poland; 14 by sinking of a ferryboot in Havarva; 7 by an explosion at Copenhagen; 7 in South Dakota; 2 by fire in Hardeville; 12 in June persons perished by drowning in the Lake of the Clouds; 25 by a cloudburst at Manvilleville, Tex.; 25 by a landmass at Tom Hollow, Ark.; 11 by a tornado at Valdane, Northwest; 6 m accident at Kimberley, South Africa. in Wisconsin; 15 by cytone at Herman, Neb.; 11 by fire at Rybiskin, Russia; 200 by powder explosion in Peking, China; 11 by mine explosion at Cape Breton, U. S.; 14 by fire at France, France; 200 by explosion at Santa Eulalia, Mexico; 50 by flood in Texas. In July 15 perished by drowning at Carnervorschire, England; 30 by flood in Texas; 44 by a mine disaster in Odessa, Russia; 200 by explosion at Cape Town; 5 by powder explosion in Pretoria; 200 by hurricane in Japan; 19 by drowning in Alaska; 211 by mine accident in Japan; 200 by a tornado in Penza, Russia; 200 by explosion in Maryland; 17 by railroad accident in Paris; 20 by drowning at Bar Harbor, Me.; 20 by a trolley car accident at Bridgeport, Conn.; 5,000 by hurricane in the West Indies; 16 by fire at St. Helena, Chile; 200 by explosion, Ind.; 400 by hurricane at Nassau; 80 by storm on coast of Carolinas; 16 by mine explosion at Haiti Crux, France; 10 by fall of Collisum, Chicago; 60 by mine explosion at Skuko, Japan; 5# by fire in Texas. In September 10 perished by flood at Fayerbach, Austria; 32 by fall of a church in Kailsch, Poland; 15 by storm on the Newfoundland coast; 1,882 by storm in Japan; 1,350 by earthquake in India; 10 by collapse of a building at Cologne; 1,000 by earthquake at Snyrna; 6 by railroad accident at Tampleo. In October 40 perished by flood at Salerno, Italy; 50 by a typhoon in Japan; 5,000 by earthquake in Norway; 10 by tornado in Cuba; 23 in a blizzard in Teton county, Mont.; 100 by tidal wave in 14 by fire at Faires, Ala. In November 30 were killed by collapse of a power line in Awerey, 10 by a theater fire in Carbon China; 120 by storm in Norway. In December 32 were killed by a mine explosion at Carbonaro, Wash.; 12 by fire at Qulney, Ill.; 40 by drowning in river Lys, Belgium; 30 by mine accident in Belfast, Ireland; 10 by earthquake at Amalfi, Italy; 5 by earthquake in southern California. The following table gives the loss of life resulting from various disasters in this country as reported by mail and telegraphs. Pires ..... 152 Fireing ..... 412 Explosions ..... 613 Hurricanes ..... 613 Failing buildings, etc. ..... 465 Cyclones, storms ..... 223 Lightning ..... 223 The loss of life by railroad accidents, reported by mail and telegraph, for 1899 was 2,552, as compared with 3,990 in 1885 and 2,764 in 1897. The number of seriously injured in 1899, as compared with 2,502 in 1888 and 2,428 in 1897. The list of marine disasters shows 1,750 lives were lost upon the ocean and 469 on inland waters, a total of 2,129, as compared to 1,681 in 1885, 1,877 in 1892, 1,866 in 1895, 4,250 in 1885 and 6,184 in 1894. Wars. The three prominent wars of the year have been the quelling of the Filipino revolt, the Anglo-dervish and Anglo-Boer, the number of persons who have committed suicide in the United States. In addition to these there have been several revolutions in South and Central America, battles in the Soudan and in various parts of Asia and Africa. The list of countries including killed and wounded is as follows: Philippines 9,475 South Africa 9,955 South Korea 9,555 China 8,582 India 97 Arabia 9,600 Formosa 951 Samoa 27 Sen. Domingo 48 Venezuela 4,800 Colombia 1,500 Ecuador 1,500 Bolivia 200 Epidemics and Famines. The loss of life by epidemics and famine shows an increase over last year. The plague in India, Africa and at other points in the world has caused over 50,000 in Russia and Africa and cholera about 2,000. Yellow fever has attacked different places between Florida and Brazil, but improved methods of treatment have reduced the number to 900. It is hard to collect statistics of this kind, but the total, so far as reported, is about 310,000, as compared with 222,000 in Summary of Disasters. An nearly as can be estimated 1,750 lives have been lost upon the ocean, 469 upon land waters, 3,352 by railroad accidents, 41,828 by disasters躲避, 6,757 by minor disasters in this country, 30,000 by epidemics and famine and 48,237 by wars, making a total of 465,711, as compared with 127,508 in 1888, 98,017 in 1887, 246,545 in 1886 and 754,201 Suicides ing 1899, as reported by mail and telegraph, is 5,340, as compared with 5,520 in 1896, 6,600 in 1897, 6,520 in 1896 and 5,520 in 1895. It will be seen that the decrease in the number of male physicians this total 4,155 were males and 1,185 females, which is about the usual proportion year by year for the last ten years. Among professional men physicians still head the list, 88 having taken their own lives in the last ten years, 47 in 1974, 59 in 1895 and 45 in 1894. During the year also 9 clergymen, 7 prominent attorneys, 7 persons engaged in the banking business, 2 actors, 7 journalists and 2 college professors. The causes of suicide were as follows: Despondency 2,573 Unknown 2,649 Injusty 127 Likewise 127 All health 220 Despair infliction 177 Despointed love 146 Business losses 74 **Murders.** The total number of murders committed in the United States during 1899 shows a decreased decrease, being 6,229, as compared with 7,840 in 1888, 9,250 in 1897, 10,622 in 1896 and 10,500 in 1895. The causes of these murders may be classified as follows: Quarter 1,369 Unknown 1,609 Jealousy 173 Liquor 29 By highwaymen 296 Infanticide 182 Resisting arrest 114 Highwaymen killed 83 Injusty 31 Self-defense 21 Strikes 28 Ourages 19 Riots 10 **Hangings.** Murders. Hangings. The number of legal executions in 1899 was 131, as compared with 109 in 1898 in the south and 111 in the north, of whom 1899 had 189 and 176 in 1892. There were 100 hanged in the south and 21 in the north, of whom 1899 had 189 and 176 in 1892. Crimes for which they were executed were: Murder, 113, rape, 17; highway robbery, 1 Lynchings. It is gratify to note that the criminal work of the mob murders, notwithstanding some instances of special barbarity in Georgia and during 1899, being much smaller than in any year since 1885. Judge Lynch executed 107 persons during the year. Of these lynchings 163 occurred in the south and 40 in the total number 144 more lynches and 23 whites. Embergements. The record of embebing, forgery, defaulting and bark wreckage for 1899 is the smallest ever known in any year in the history of business insurance in the United States, which occurs a period of 21 years. The total is but $2,218,373, as compared with $5,831,293 in 1898 and $1,248,648 in 1897. The losses are distributed as follows. Stores by public officials 324,442 By agents 640,390 By agents 233,298 Forgery 233,298 Loan associations 3,849 By postmasters 25,783 Miscellaneous stealings 633,241 Fire Losses. The losses by fire in the United States during 1898 aggregate $100,237,955, as compared with the losses by fire in 1897 aggregate $100,687,900 and $121,178,800 in 1898. Those where the loss in each case was $100,000 and upwards amounted to $71,212,000 and the losses by fire smaller to $84,784,000. A Bright Spot. Among all the records of the year 1899 not one stands out so conspicuously as that of the donations and bequests made for religion, educational institutions, charity, libraries, museums and galleries, the arts and entertainment. No year in the history of the country has ever equaled it. The aggregate thus bestowed is the imputed value of $2,696,190 in 1898, $3,612,814 in 1907, $3,679,129 in 1898, $2,943,594 in 1898, $1,967,116 in 1898. Of the total amount of educational institutions the extraordinary sum of $3,851,817; to charities, $1,506,670; to churches, $2,992,928; to museums and art galleries, $2,686,160; and to libraries, $4,612, FRANCIS W. CUSHMAN, M. C. Nicholl Washington newspaper correspondents have already dubbed this young congressman, who represents the state of Washington, as the new humorist of congress. A few days after congress convened, Mr. Cushman made a speech which he apparently opposed, and which he subsequently opposed of his own special line on the republican side of the house. Cushman is only 32 years of age. He was born in Iowa; was a cowboy at 16 in Wyoming, a lawyer in Nebraska at 21, removing to Taoma, Wash., at 24. He succeeds James Hampton. Washington newspaper correspondents have already dubbed this young congressman, who represents the state of Washington, as the new humorist of congress. A few days after congress convened, Mr. Cushman made a speech which he apparently opposed, and which he subsequently opposed of his own special line on the republican side of the house. Cushman is only 32 years of age. He was born in Iowa; was a cowboy at 16 in Wyoming, a lawyer in Nebraska at 21, removing to Taoma, Wash., at 24. He succeeds James Hampton. AUTOMOBILE CARRYING MAIL IN BERLIN. J. F. Kauff The post office at Berlin, the capital of Germany, has just put into practical use six of the Loutzik automobiles, of which the picture here given is a representation. A large additional number of these horsecross wagons is under construction at the works of the Gesellschaft fuer Automobile Wagenbau, which is a good proof that this system of mail delivery has come to stay in Germany and ceased to be an essential method. Postmaster Gordon, of Chicago, is also investigating its merits. STOPPED TRAIN FOR MATCH. Experienced of a Mail Clerk Who Had Work He Couldn't Do in the Dark. "I noticed in the paper the other day," observed an old railway postal clerk, according to the Sioux City Journal, "the story of how the captain of the little gasoline boat that left here for up the Missouri had to come back overland for 40 miles for a repair that cost him only ten cents, but which was just as necessary as if it cost the price of the whole engine. I recalled to my mind an experience I once had on the run between here and Missouri Valley, on the Sioux City & Pacific, illustrating how much may hang upon something ordinarily quite insignificant. Between Whiting and Onawa one night a gust of wind blow out every lamp in the mail car, which, of course, made it impossible for me to work, and I had considerable to do yet to tie up Onawa's mail. I put my hand Washington newspaper correspondent man, who represents the state of Washington few days after congress convened, Mr. beyond doubt that "Private" John Allen ment of his own special line on the reput 32 years of age. He was born in Iowa in Nebraska at 21, removing to Tacoma, ilton Lewis, a democrat, and a humorist in my pocket to get a match, but couldn't find any. Something had to be done quickly, and all there was left for me to do was to pull the bell cord and signal the engine to stop. The conductor, brakeman and some of the passengers came running to the head of the train to learn what was the matter. The darkness in my car suggested that perhaps there had been a hold-up and robbery of the mail; but when I called to the conductor to give me a match, it relieved his anxiety, but it did not entirely restore his good humor. I lit my lamps again and had my mail ready when we reached Onawa. Since that time I am especially careful to see that I have an ample match supply." THE BELL HORSE. An Animal That Plays the Part of Drum Major of the Mule Train in Boerland. The most energetic and peace-destroying feature of army life in the Transvual is the mule train, and the most necessary member of this outfit is the bell horse. This animal leads the caravan and is AUTOMOBILE CARRY The post office at Berlin, the capital of six of the Loutzki automobiles, of which A large additional number of these horses works of the Gesellschaft fuer Automoblie this system of mail delivery has come periment. Several other large German method. Postmaster Gordon, of Chicap. the drum major of the whole outfit He carries no burden save a great res- ponsibility and a clear-sounding bell. All mules destined to serve her majesty are trained to follow the bell horse. A white animal is nearly invariably se- lected, as for some reason or other mules follow this color most faithfully. Pack mules become very much attached to the bell horse of their train and refuse to move either forward or backward if he is not leading. For this reason the greatest calamity that can befall an army is the death of the bell horse. On one occasion of the Indian frontier wars the whole mule train came to a sudden standstill owing to the death of the bell horse. Nor would anything induce the animals to move till one of the officers substituted another white horse in the dead one's place. On seeing, as they thought, their old favorite in his place once more all the mules moved forward to greet him, and only by driving the fraudulent bell horse forward quicker than the mules could follow was the deception kept up. MEDAL OF HONOR. Few People Would Know the Rare Decoration of Congress $ ^{1 8}} $ They Saw It. The medal of honor granted by congress for some conspicuous act of galantry is so rare that hundreds of officers have never even seen it, says the Cincinnati Enquirer. The bow knot worn in the buttonhole in lieu of the medal goes unrecognized, except by the very few. The medal is of black bronze, and is often mistaken for the grand army insignia, the latter having been patterned after it to a certain degree. It is much larger than the latter, and on the reverse side is engraved the name, rank, date and the battle in which the service was rendered, and the specific act of heredism for which it was given. The medal is only worn on state occasions, but the bow knot is always worn. It is a small affair, with its specific ribbon. It is of silk, white stripe in center, bordered by two blue stripes, which are have already dubbed this young congress- gation, as the new humorist of congress. A Cushman made a speech which indicated of Mississippi, would have a worthy oppo- blican side of the house. Cushman is only was a cowboy at 16 in Wyoming, a lawyer A. Wash., at 24. He succeeds James Ham- st likewise. bordered by two red stripes. It is an inch in length and three-eighths of an inch wide. The little emblem shows that the wearer has received from this government the highest honor that can be conferred upon man. The secretary of war recently issued an order, after a conference with the executive committee of the Medal of Honor Legion, that hereafter on all official occasions, receptions, banquets, etc., the congressional medal of honor will be worn resting on the breast and suspended by the broad official ribbon of the order around the neck. IMAGINARY DANGERS. Presentiments and Premonitions Account for the Death of Full (Judgement) "Of the whole number of persons supposed to die of disease," said the house surgeon of one of the hospitals, "at least 50 per cent, are killed by fear." In support of his statement he cited various cases where prestiments, prophecies, premonitions and genera nervousness all played their part. Some years ago four criminals, condemned in Russia to die, were taken to VING MAIL IN BERLIN. of Germany, has just put into practical use the picture here given is a representation of less wagons is under construction at the public Wagenbau, which is a good proof that to stay in Germany and ceased to be an ex-urban cities will soon adopt the same delivery ago, is also investigating its merits. a house and shown several beds, in which, they were told, a certain number of cholera patients had died. In reality, the beds had never been slept in. They were informed that they would be act at liberty if they would sleep several nights in the beds. They one and all decided to take the chances. At the end of the time prescribed two were uninjured and went free, but the others developed all the symptoms, and died of Asiatic cholera. Two physicians determined to take advantage of the impressionable mind of a patient and prove a theory for the benefit of science. The patient had complained of an itching on his back. He was told that a blister would be applied. Instead a common postage stamp was used, and it performed all the offices of the plaster which was not there. Boxing and the Ever 1. It is said that boxing improves the eye. Perhaps it does, but there are times when boxing puts both eyes in mourning—Chicago Daily News. "KAH-PEE-KOG" CLUB "DO YOU realize, gentlemen," said Kahpee-gun club gathered around the evening fire, "that this is to be our last evening together in these woods for at least a year. To morrow our vacation in the Muskoka lake district ends, and by to morrow evening, if nothing unlooked for happens, we will have nailed up the door of the clubhouse, reeled in our lines for the last time this year, stored our boats, and the night train on the Grand Trunk will be carrying us swiftly back to the states and to our various vociations. "Without going into particulars, or mentioning names, it has seemed to me that this would be an excellent time to contour our beautiful spot with a clear conscience. I would suggest." "To what do you refer, Brother Smith?" asked the Pastor. "To put it in plain English," said Smith, "I think we have all liked more or less, and that now would be a good time to tell the truth." "I presume that you realize that there are exceptions to that statement of 'all,' Brother Smith," said the Pastor. "Now, I—" "I made no exceptions, and intended none," said Smith. "As for myself, I am here to state now that I have lived; died as big as I knew how and still make it a lie that might believed, and I guess you fellows have not believed." "I have not believed a single thing you have said about fish since you have been here," said the Pastor. "Nor I," echoed the others. "The biggest lie that I have told since I have been here was that one about the number of bass Yorker and I caught in Healey lake. We were trying to outdo the Pastor, and did so far as the lie was concerned, and if he did not believe our story, it was because his own was not true. What we—" "I shall have to refer this matter to the congregation when we reach home, Brother Smith," put in the Pastor. "I would advise you not to, " replied Smith, "but as I was going to say, what we did catch that day was all in the boat when we returned, and, as several members of this club counted them, it will not be disputed when I say there were 138 bass of over the legal length." "It was only 128, for I counted them together with Husky Bill," said Tace. k "What is the matter of ten bass more or less, anyway?" replied Smith. "But there, gentlemen, in my confession, 128 bass instead of the five or six hundred that I told about, and I believe that every one will feel better if they follow my example." "I believe that the advice Smith gives us is good," said Yerker, "and I realize now as I never did before the enormity of the lie I told in reference to the muskellunge I caught in Crane lake." "You don't need to make any confession of that," said the Pastor, "for everybody knew that it was a lie when you told it." "My veracity is not in question at the present time," replied the Pastor. "No, we will hear from you later," said Yorker, "provided, of course, your conscience is not too elastic. But to return to my Crane lake story, I simply wish to say that I did catch a muskellunge, and that it did upset our boat, but that was due to our awkwardness, rather than the size of the fish, for when we got it on shore, which we finally did, it only weighed 42 pounds." "You told me the truth of that Crane lake story the day we were at Healy lake together," said Smith, "and you said it only weighed 37 pounds." "What is a matter of five pounds more or less in the size of a muskellunge?" said Yorker, and Bill Reeves hudged Muskellunge when Smith did not reply. Many different tales regarding the size and weight of fish that I have caught in these Ontario lakes and rivers," said Tiee, "that I hardly knew where to begin my confession." "Why not straighten out the Moon river story of 38 muskellunge, 79 bass and 120 trout in ten hours?" asked Muskellunge. "That might be a good place to begin, at that story was exaggerated somewhat. The truth is that I only caught 35 musketeer, 60 bass and no trout at all, for I did not fish for them. There are any number of trout in that stream and its tributaries, however, we have never seen them, but possible for a man to catch as many fish as I had caught in the Moon river in the length of time I claimed to have fished. In reality I only fished nine hours and three quarters. As for the other stories I have told about fishing in Kabupe-Kog and the surrounding lakes, I can cover all of them with the single statement that I never caught more than 100 bass in any one day in any of these lakes, but that, I imagine, is better than any of them ever did, if the whole truth was known." "Gentlemen," began the Pastor, "when Brother Smith started this little experience meeting, I did not realize the good that it was to accomplish. In fact, I was afraid it would result in more harm than good, and that the prevarications. I cannot bring myself to the point of calling them lies: that havebeen told by several of you around these evening fires would only he again exaggerated, and that some of you at least would return to your homes with an added weight upon your conscience. It has pleased me greatly to listen to such confessions as have been made this evening, and I am sure that you feel the better for having made them. There is one thing for which I am sorry, and that is that Brother Barnes is not here to retract the story he told of catching more fish than I caught and several years ago. I am sure that bad froth was carried in. I am to night he would have been moved to tell the real truth of that, and so remove a load from his conscience." "What are you going to do about that story of yours that started the trouble?" asked Tecke. "I wish to say in regard to anything that I may have told since I have been here, that to now deny the story, and offer a so-called confession would be but a farce and a liis in itself. When I told of those 500 bass my self and a friend caught in one day." "You said 500 before," said Smith. "Possibly I did, but 500 was the correct number, and I only wished to correct my former statement." "I guess those bonds you put up guaranty, seeing the Pastor's reputation will be declared forbidden when you get home," said Husk Bill to Smith, as they walked back to the house. 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I hurry past the faring lights to arms that wait for me. To taste a sweet delights of childish misfortune. To feel soft arms around my neck, to claim the fair reward That those I love so freely give—and humbly thank the Lord! No steps of marble from my door in graceful Exurexes wind. But honest peace precedes me there and care remains behind. But he whose word is law unto the men who toll away Must worry still when I am through until another day: The cares that weigh on him may not be banished from his mind. The ticker cares at night and doors are locked behind; the ticker cares their fretting and I hurry. While he walks up his marble steps with trouble in his breast. A dozen things have brough him joy, a score of others, though. Have always risen to annoy or bring him doubt or woe; The night affords him no respite—it does not end his care. The office may be dark, but still, in spirit, he is there To plan and plot and scheme and pull a hundred fragile strings And hear the fearful flapping of a host of sable wings. O little hands upon my breast, soft arms about me twined. Sweet lips that unto mine are prest, why am I not resigned? Why must there, as I toll along, come creeping through the day and wishing to fling my happiness away? At night I lie to peaceful bliss, he carries THE place known as "Larry's Lunch" is a narrow hole in the wall between two frame houses. The buildings are so old and weak that they lean toward each other in their decrepitude. The street in front is muddy and cobblest. Street lamps are far apart. They burn low, as if there was not the oxygen in this neglected air to feed a cheerful flame. The sunken and rotting sidewalk of wood is slippery to the foot. A kerosene lamp propped in the front window of "Larry's Lunch" showed as a mere smudge of light behind the dirty panes. John Hazen lifted the loose iron latch and there came into his nostrils, like the breathing from a foul creature, the smell of poverty, frying grease and bad tobacco. But he had to eat. "He had not eaten for 24 hours. A Jew dealing in pawns and junks had given him ten cents for his pocketknife, the last of his convertible property. At "Larry's Lunch" he could get meat, bread, potatoes and coffee for ten cents. He ordered and then leaned forward on the rough table, with his chin in his hands, while the meat sizzled in the pan and a ranidel smoke filled the low room. His uncle had been right. "You take your share of the money and go to Chicago and you'll be broke within six months," the uncle had said. "You're a fool with money. Any man's a fool with money, unless it's money he's earned." "I know my business," he had said to his uncle. After which they had parted, with the understanding that if John Hazen ever needed money he would not come to his uncle for it. Yes, his uncle had been right. A fool with his money? Diamonds which he had worn elumily—bravado betting at the ractracks—loans to new-made friends—experiments at the bucketshop. Six months of it and he had just sold his pooketkite that he might eat a shred of carrion in this hole and be alive for another day. Oh, what a triumph for those who had warned him—those who had told him he was a fool with money! What rejoicing there would be at home when they heard of it—and they would hear of it, because in small towns they hear of everything. They would be glad, he was sure—all except Aunt Ella. "She was the only one who ever cared for me," he said, half aloud, grinding his fists on the table. "But I don't care." Then, because he didn't care, he let his head fall down into the angle of his right arm and there in the darkness which he had made for himself he cried. He was only 22 years old. The front door elked and stammed. Larry, who was both cook and waiter (in a red shirt shirt chopped off at the elbows), brought the meat and coffee. John Hazen pulled himself up from the table. Before him, talking to Larry, stood a very small young man, with square shoulders, a pointed nose, jet black eyes and a mouth twitching into a smile whenever he spoke. This young man wore a plaid cap, with a short peak. His coat collar was turned up and within it was a blue and white handkerchief knotted closely around his neck. "If he comes around here, you tell him I want to see him," this young man was saying to Larry. "All right, Eddie." At that moment the young man named Eddie looked down and saw John Hazen's face, streaked with tears. Possibly he was surprised to know that a man may weep. Let it be assumed that he was prompted by impudent curiosity. He spoke to the young man "What's the matter?" he asked. "You'll have to excuse me," said Hazen, trying to laugh. "I'm hoeing a pretty hard row just at present. I'spose I was kind o' weak from not eating or I wouldn't have—" and he stopped. "What do you think of that?" asked Eddie, speaking to the proprietor, who had gone back to his stove. Larry nodded wisely and smiled. Eddie stood and watched Hazen tear at the fibrous strip of meat and take long gulps of the hot coffee. "First to-day?" he asked. "Yes," answered Hazen, who was distracted from shwag and hunger. "What if you hadn't any knife?" "I don't know." "How long you been in town?" "About six months." "Nice town,aint it?" Hazen shook his head dubiously and made an effort to smile. Eddie threw back his head and laughed aloud. “This is one o' the cases,” he said, calling to Larry. “Is it any wonder they start out?” Then to Hazen: “Why didn't you step some fellow and ask him to let you have a nickel or two?” “Because I'm not a beggar.” “That's the way to talk.” exclaimed Eddie, and he laughed again. Hazen looked up at him, much puzzled. “Where you goin' to night?” “I don't know. There are two or three places where I'm going to call again to-morrow to see about a job.” “The job you stand a chance of getting to-morrow or next week n't very much help to you to-night, is it?” asked Eddie, with a quizzical grin. “This is a new experience for me,” said Hazen. “I've heard about fellows being up against it this way, but I never thought I'd come to it.” "You don't care much for it, as far as you've got, do you?" Hazen looked up again, undecided whether Eddie was sympathizing with him or taunting him. "I wish I had the money I had six months ago," he said, bitterly. "They wouldn't take it away from me this time." Eddie leaned over the table and gave Hazen a hard but playful blow in the ribs. "You're all right," he said, laughing again. "I'll just stake you to a bed to-night." When Hazen had eaten the last crumb of bread and drained the last drop of coffee he followed Eddie across the muddy street and up a dark stairway into a room that held a bed, a table, a chair and a zinc-bound trunk. The bed clothes were in confusion. "Roll in there next to the wall and dream you've got all your money back," commanded Eddie, who had squatted on the trunk, giving the only chair to his guest. Hazen slept with Eddie that night and went to breakfast with him next morning, at a 15-cent place. "If you don't strike anything today, come around to night," said Eddie. Hazen did come back that night to get food and a resting place. They were on their way to the room when two big men stood before them at a corner. One grabbed Eddie and the other held Hazen by the wrist before he had time to do dodge or retreat. "Hello, Mullen," said Eddie to the man who was holding him. "Hello, Eddie, in a growling voice, "You can't stay away, can you?" "Why should I, when this is my home? This is the drag-det again, I suppose?" "I don't know. They told us to bring you in if we found you. Who's your friend here?" "It'll do me a lot o' good to tell you, won't it? If I say he's a young fellow that's gone broke and that I just happened to meet him an' stake him for a day or two till he could pick up somethin', of course everybody over at the station' will believe me?" "They may if you tell it good, Come on." A few minutes later there were Hazen and the Good Samaritan bumping over the granite blocks on their way to the police station. Hazen was surprised to find himself indifferent to the shame of arrest. He concluded that Eddie was known to the police and that anyone walking along the street with Eddie was already a criminal in the eyes of the police. "I'm sory to get you pinched, young fellow," said Eddie, through the gloom of the covered wagon. "I ought to have told you you was takin' a chance when you went around with me." "I don't blame you," said Hazen. "What right did they have to arrest either one of us?" "Eddie laughed and remarked: 'You don't half know this town.' The wagon policeman whose huge bulk was a barrier between them and the narrow door, gave a disgusted "Aw-w-w," in token of the fact that he could not be deceived by their talk. He was possessed of a brutal unbelief, which, he thought, was a fine quality of discernment. At the station they were separated. Hazen gave his right name to the man in the cage, much to Eddie's amusement. The man in the cage did not have to ask for Eddie's name. Hazen slept on a bench and he slept, too, laughed with a mild, impersonal wonder as to what his uncle and his aunt would say if they knew that their orphan charge was locked up in a police station and had not changed shirts for a week. Next morning he ate his heel of bread and drank his tin cup of coffee and looked out through the paralleled bars at the bedraggled men and women who were being mustered for the police court. He could not see Eddie anywhere. Some one was whistling at the end of the corridor. He wondered if it was Eddie. Then a turnkey in blue came and opened his cell door. "Come on," said the turnkey, and Hazen followed upstairs into a hot room where a big captain with a gray mustache sat at the desk. The captain looked at Hazen intently and said: "I don't know him." Other men with mustaches came in and looked at Hazen. They didn't know him, either, and they regretted to say it. It showed a lack of professional knowledge not to be able to identify any stranger as a professional crook. "How long have you and Eddie been working together?" one of them asked. "I've never worked with him," said Hazen. "I've been looking for work all week." He told his story—the truth of it. Five big men smiled broadly. "An' you didn't know Eddie was a dip?" asked the captain. "A what?" (Laughter.) "A dip." "I don't know what you mean." "Did you ever hear of pickpockets?" "Yes, sir." "Well, a dip is a pickpocket. That's what Eddie is." "I don't care what he is. He did me a good turn. I never saw him until night before last." "This fellow can be vagged," said one of the big men. "He admits himself he's out o' money an' ain't got a job." "That's why he ain't a vag," said the captain. "The vag has always got a job and plenty of money." Then to Hazen: "You keep away from Eddie an' his crowd." This meant that Hazen was free to go. He started to leave the station and was attracted by the buzz of the courtroom. He went in, hoping to see Eddie again. The crowd around the magistrate was shifting and noisy. Cases were being tried, but Hazen could not follow them in the confusion of sounds. At last he saw Eddie coming out of At last he saw Eddie coming out of the throng, held by a turnkey. He slipped forward along the wall and touched him on the arm. "Hello, there," he said. Eddie turned and grinned. "Did you fix it?" he asked. "They let me go." "It's a wonder—bein' with me." "Here, here!" growled the turnkey. "Come on!" "I'm sent out," said Eddie. "Where?" "The bridewell—I won't be there day after to-morrow. Good-by." "Say, I want to thank you for—" "That's all right." "You never told me your name." "You ask here at the station. They'll give you my history." "Come on!" said the turnkey, pulling. Eddie winked and the battered door closed behind him—Chicago Daily Record. HE SIGHED FOR THE REAL The Pessimist Installed that Modern Culinary Ways Were Be- neath Contempt. "There isn't much use in kicking, I suppose," the man said, "but where are the things which used to be? We can't get 'em, don't you know?" "As to what?" the listener queried, "Well, buckwheat cakes and maple syrup, for one. That's a mere samples; there are 500 others." "Well," he continued, with energy and feeling, "do you for a moment fancy that in this preposterous age of adulteration you can enter any hotel or restaurant in Chicago and have served to you a genuine buckwheat cake? I should say not. I do say not. They and genuine buckwheat cakes are strangers. And it isn't the fault of the caterers, either. There is no longer any such thing as the real, simon-pure, absolute buckwheat flour in the general market. Not a pound." "Oh, I grant you, one may buy a little, here and there, in certain stores, the delicatessen shops and all that, where they keep it as a curiosity, inside glass cases with locks on them, but you have to pay four or five prices for it at that. The normal buckwheat flour of commerce would be a joke if it were not a crime. Cornmeal, wheat flour, oats, rice, with just a flavoring of the proper goods, are its constituents. They mix it up in portable two-pound packages, with a dab of baking powder in its gizzard, and call it self-rising.' 'cakes baked while you wait!' Pisaw! They sicken one who was born where 'the glorious buckwheat flowers. They weary one of living. "My boy, for one day of griddle life, such as my mother used to live, back in the Alleghany foothills, I would give our empire in the Philippines. What a thing of joy it truly is, the cake from Buckwhentville. How tenderly brown, how mutely amorous, how lusciously melting, how divinely seductive, how poutingly ardent, how resilient, how noble. "Once there were gods who dreamed—and their sleep fancies dwelt upon cakes such as those, hived in sirup from the maple tree. Can you buy maple sirup now? Can you buy maple sugar and make your own? Not upon your Cook county life. They boil a mess of brown sugar and New Orleans molasses and tamarack bark, or something of that sort, together, wash it in maple sap and label it 'Vermont.' That's the best they can get, I assure you. It's enough to drive an honest citizen to crime if he's been properly brought up." "I should say it was," assented the listener.—Chicago Chronicle. Easian Eames Lost His Wager. Miss Emma Eames has a brother, Harold, who was an ensign in the United States navy. His ship was stationed at Leghorn, and one day the flagship entered the harbor with the fleet commanders on board. The latter was very dignified and was never known to lose his self-control. One day the commander was in swimming, and young Eames made a friendly wager with a fellow officer that he would destroy his senior's equanimity—in naval parlance, "rattle" him. The wager was accepted, and a moment afterward Eames was in the water swimming toward his superior officer. Suddenly he paused, and, stopping his powerful overhand stroke, began treading water. Then he saluted precisely as if he had been on a quarter-deck. To the young man's intense surprise the commander returned the salute with equal gravity. Mr. Eames lost his wager.—Philadelphia Post. Effectual. Gentleman (to village cobbler)—What's that yellow powder you are taking so constantly, my friend? Cobbler? It's snuff—catarrh snuff. "Is it any good? I'm troubled somewhat that way myself." (With the air of a man who could say much if he chose)—"Well, I've had catarrh for morn 30 years, and I've never took nothin' but not this." Epoch. An Excuse. "Science," remarked the eastern man, "is a great thing." "Yes, indeed, suh!" exclaimed Col. Kaintuck; "by findin' germs in watuh, suh, it confirmed ouhah suspicions."—Kansas City Independent. By Fan She—Maude says she's saddest when she sings. He—Well, she's mistaken. She's more miserable when sae isn't asked to sing.—Puck. 'POSSUM TALKS. Zeb White Tells About a Mountain Ghost. One evening, when night had fallen dark and grim over the peaks of the Cumberland, and had brought with it such a strange stillness that one could hear the opening of the chestnut burrs and the fall of the nuts on the shriveled leaves below, I asked the old 'possum hunter if he had never met with anything weird and mysterious up there on the rugged slopes. "Yes, I've met up with some quare things in my time," he replied after a minute, "and I've always sorter reckoned that a ghost or speerit once helped me out o' a powerful tight place." Being pressed for the story, he stirred up the logs on the fire, lighted his pine and continued: "I reckon I have told yo' why I went into moonshine whisky. It was the same way with all the rest. We could turn our coo' into money that way, and in no other. Nobody ever did make any money at it, and every man about a still run the risk of bein' sent off to state prison most any day in the week. I did a heap o thinkin' befo' I went into the bizziness. The ole man was agin it from the start, and many a night she woke me up as she cried out: "Zeb White, I've bin dreamin' that them revenoon fellers had catched yo' and sent yo' to the penitentiary fur two y'ars!" "Bimeby," continued the old man, "I decided to go into it. We had to pack the still 13 miles over the hills on our L. THE WATER CITY THE WORKERS "LIKE SO MANY GOHSTS." backs, and we had only jest got to makin' moonshine when the woods was full o' revenoen fellers sarchin' fur the plant. It was in that ravine over the to west, with the big dead tree standin' sentinel, and though they run us mighty clus they couldn't find it. They was so watchful, however, that we couldn't git any of the stuff out to make a sale, and there came a time when I had 30 kegs of good co'n whisky hid away in the bresh and ready to go over the trail. Then the boss of the revenoen fellers stops yere at the cabin one day fur a drink of water and says: "Zeb White, yo've got a still, and yo've got whisky on hand. We hain't found the spot yit, but I've sent fur 'two mo' men, and we ar' goin' to stay right yere fur the next ten years. I ain't wishin' yo' any bad luck, but if I don't hew yo' in Albany in less than three months, then I'll resign my place and go to huntin' rabbits!" "That sort o' talk upset the ole woman and rayer sheeed me," said Zeb. "and I made up my mind I'd hev to move that still and git the hevs outer the way as quick as possible. I sent word around, and one arteroon about 20 men gathered in the thicket jest beyond the creek. We talked things over and agreed that sunthin' must be done, but at the same time it was takin' big chances. When night come down it was jest sich a night as this, only a white fog riz up and made everything look quare and strange. Arter sundown, when that fog spread all over the mounting, yo' jest couldn't help thinkin' of speerers and ghosts. We couldn't say how it would affect the revenoon fellers, but we got down to the still about eight o'clock in the evenin' and every one of us was feelin' tremble. It wasn't so powerful dark, but that white fog lay everywhere like a shroud fur the dead, and it was so still that the fall of a dead twig gave yo' a sort o' the shiver. I hadn't said nuthin' to the ole woman, but I reckon she suspicioned what was up. We went at them kgs fust. Each man was to carry one fo' miles, and we known revenoon men would be hidin' on the trail if they was abroad at all." "Well, how did you come out?" I asked as the old man paused. "It was quare, suh--might quare, We was movin' along the trail like so many ghosts, when we heard sunthin' wail out like a woman in distress. The wall was drawn out, like, and it ended up in a sort o' laugh, Lawd, suh, but the hull crowd of us turned as cold as ice and felt our ha' standin' up. Some was fur runnin' away, and some fur goin' back, but as we stood thar with our hearts thumpin' we heard the reveno men crawlin' away through the breesh and sayin' to each other that a ghost was wanderin' about. That heartened us up a bit and we went ahead. About every two minits the ghost would utter that cry. Sometimes it would seem to be ahead of us, and sometimes behind, and though we stuck to our kegs, everybody was keeerket half to death. I shouldn't be ashamed to say that we thrown away the whisky and run fur our lives, fur I was never so badly upsot, but we stuck it out till all the kegs was safe. Then we had a talk and determined to move the still." "And you continued to hear the voice?" "Right along, suh. It wasn't like no human beln', nor yit like an animal, and nobody could rightly say from --- --- "Mebbe yo've bin walkin' in yo'r sleep and fell into the branch?" "Mebbe I hev,' says she as she sits up and stares at me and can hardly speak loud fur hoarseness. 'Is the whisky all safe?" "All 'all safe.' "And did yo' move the still?" "Moved it two miles." "Then git yo'self a bite to eat and lemme sleep till noon, fur thar' was quare noises about last night and I didn't git a wink o' sleep." "And it was Mrs. White who played the ghost?" "Can't say," replied Zeb with a smile, "I never dun axed her, and she never dun told me." "And what did the revenue men have to say about it?" "Nuthin't tall—not to me. As soon as daylight come they headed fur Knoxville, and we didn't see no mo' of 'em fur months. They give out that a ghost roiled six of 'em over a cliff and hit the rest of the gang with stones and clubs, and none of 'em wouldn't come back fur love or money." "Well, it was a smart trick on the part of Mrs. White." "Yes,ray therpear, I reckon—rayer thpear, That is, if it was her." "But it must have been her." "Can't say as it was, though it took most a quart of coon's lie to git that hoarseness out o' her throat arter-wards." STOLE CHICKENS FOR PUPPY. Intelligent Dog Keeps Her Offspring Alive While It Is Chained in the Cave William Wilderman, of Mont Vail, N. J., has a dog of which he is extremely fond, although he has had it only since Saturday. He and a friend were wandering through the woods between Mont Vail and Pearl River on Saturday afternoon when he discovered tracks which he thought were those of a fox. "These explain why a chicken or two disappeared from Mont Vail every day for the last fortnight," said he to his friend. "Let's see where these fox tracks lead to," was the response. The trail led to a sapling, to which a young dog was found tied by a stout rope. Lying at the feet of the pup was its mother, and all about it were scattered the feathers of at least 30 chickens. An examination of the rope showed that the mother had made futtle attempts to free her offspring by cutting the rope with her teeth. True feathers indicated that, failing in this, she had stolen chickens for its food. Mr. Wildman led the pup home by means of the rope. The mother followed joyfully. **TRUE TO HER CALLING.** "Are you more comfortable since you went to the dentist, Susie?" "Yes, ma'am, thank you, but I find it rather difficult to domesticate my food."—Moomshine. Dend Gone. She—Would you be willing to die for me? He—Why. I'm dying for you now!—Brooklyn Life. THE RETIRED BURGLAR A Night Adventure That Was Profit able Enough But Still Not Al- together Satisfactory. "One night in the dining-room of a house where I was making a short call," said the retired burglar, "I found the gas left burning, but turned down low, and when I'd turned that up a little I found on the table under it the beautiful little cold lunch you ever saw. There was about half a turkey, pretty near all one side of him, including the second joint, which is my special fancy—and I do like cold turkey!—and bread and pickles and things, and off on the edge of this spread there was a plate of some sort of cakes and candies; and what silver there was on the table was of the kind worth carrying away. "Well, now, you know, my motto has always been business before pleasure, but I couldn't resist that turkey, and I just simply pulled out the chair from the end of the table, the one that was closest to it, and went at it, and it was as good as it looked, the only disturbing thing about it all being that it was contrary to good sense and good judgment to set there and eat it. I plugged away on the turk until I had eaten about all there was to it, and then I reached over for that plate of cakes and things and drawn it toward me—I wasn't going to eat any of them, but I wanted to look at 'em—and as I pulled the plate along there rose up back of it on the table the top fold of a little folded paper that had been placed under it; and I picked it up and opened it. It read something like this: "Dear George: When you get through eating don't fail to put away the silver." "I'd already put away most of it, dropping it into my bag as I got through with it, as I went along, and I'd just reached over for a last pickle and got that, and dropped the fork in my bag and was reaching for the pickle stand to get the bottles out and take that, when I heard the rattle of a key in the front door; and I knew what that meant well enough: it was George. "I am obliged to state that for about a sixteenth part of a second I was more or less paralyzed, because I'd come in myself at the front door, finding no lock on but the night latch, and that was my way out; and in that time George was looking .n the dining-room door; he was a quick, springy chap, and he'd come in the front door, swung that to and turned the key in the lock and swung round toward me all in practically one movement. He was no sardine, George; it was all clear as a bell to him, and he lit out for me without a moment's hesitation. I was handicapped myself, of course, by that foolish, hearty lunch I'd just eaten, but I held my end up as well as I could, and we went at it there in the dining-room. "The carpet was thick and we hustled around there on it in a sort of rough-and-tumble-hammer-and-tongs kind of way for half a minute or so without making any noise, and then one or the other of us jounced up against the under side of the edge of the table, in some way, hard, so it made the dishes on it fairly jump. Then we slugged away at each other for half a minute or so more, getting pretty well warned up to it, but not making any particular noise, either, till he run in on me and we both fetched up again the table again with a jolt this time that made things just rattle; and then the first thing that I knew somebody upstairs was hollering; "Murder," Murder!" "That, you understand, meant that something had got to be done, and soon; because that sort of hollerin', if it kept up long, always attracts attention; and I lit into George now as well as I knew how, and I managed to get in finally one grand North American bulger on him that doubled him up and sent him humpin' over to the other side of the room. As he went down he upset some sort of a stand there was over there with a big image on it, solid, and that went down on the floor with a jam that jarred the house, alongside of him. "Naturally, that was the time for me to go, and I went, without the least trouble in the world; front door easy as pie, and long before he was up and around I'd got away. But, do you know, I always kind o' reproached myself for that whole business. It was bad enough to take the silver; but to double up George, too, must have been annoying to the lady."—N. Y. Sun. COMPANY DINNERS DREADED. By the Majority of Guests and Keep the Hostess in a State of Anxiety. It is a curious fact that American housewives are so loath to believe that a dinner with fuss and feathers is dreaded by the vast majority of people. The highest compliment we can possibly show a guest at dinner is to let him partake of an ordinary meal; to let him come quietly in and "be one of the family;" yet this is the very compliment which we withhold from him. Instead of giving a guest what he would relish most, we give him what he really enjoys least. A hostess be ever so graceful and tactful, let there be years of experience on her shoulders, yet nothing can conceal from her guests that the dinner which she is serving is other than an unusual one. It is a formal affair, and no amount of grace can make anything else out of it. For nothing speaks so loudly nor so unerringly as a formal company dinner. Every course shows it; every movement of the waitress proclaims it; every piece of china fairly cries out the occasion. And of course no one at the table really enjoys it. The guest certainly does not, because he knows he is being company of, and that feeling is always enough to, and that enjoyment. The hostess does not, for she hasn't the time. Her eyes are for the table and her servants; not for her guest. Edward W. Bok, in Ladies' Home Journal. Baby Cream. Boll together four cupfuls of sugar, one-fourth teaspoonful of cream of tartar, and a cupful and a half of water. Do not stir it, but when it will harden in cold water pour it on a buttered tin to cool. Drop a little vanilla on the maze, and when cool enough to handle pull it very white. Sift a little powdered sugar on a warm platter, and pull the candy out until half an inch thick, and ent into six-inch lengths. Arrange these pieces on the warm sugared platter and sift a little powdered sugar over the top, then set aside until quite hard, usually about a day—Ladies' World. Mormonism This is a question that should interest every one. 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