The Afro-American Advance

Municarta Historical TWIN CITY NEWS. VOL. I. NO. 49. TWIN CIT MINNEAPOLIS. Go to Miller's, Fifth street and Nicole avenue, for your photographs. For good cigars call at W. S. Conrad's, corner of First avenue south and Fourth hstreet. He will suit you. 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. Mr. C. C. Carter, of Toronto, Canada, after spending a week in our city left Tuesday for his home. Mrs. Mary Samuels made a flying trip to Anoka, Minn., on business. St. Thomas' Guild gave a social at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Day last Tuesday eve. A large crowd was in attendance and the program rendered was highly appreciated by all present. Miss Mayme Weir gave two humorous selections, and Mesdames Watson and Monroe were never in better voice. Mrs. Geo. Smith played several of her own compositions. Wm. R. Morris, Esq., spoke in very flattering terms to the ladies of the guild and particularly to the young ladies. Mrs. Wm. Smith sang a solo, also Mr. W. Jones. The program ended with a quartette consisting of Mr. and Mrs. Watson and Mr. and Mrs. Monroe. Mrs. P. F. Hale acted as accompanist. The many friends of Mrs. Mary Johnson will be pleased to know that after unboring a very delicate operation at Bannabas Hospital she is improving nicely under the care of Dr. R. S. Brown. Mrs. L. A. Smith of Chicago, was the guest of Mrs. M. Brady last Saturday and Sunday. She came to St. Paul to attend the innal of her sister. Mrs. H. J. Shelton The youngest son of Dr. Brown is on the sick list. Mrs. Hattie Davis, formerly of this city, but who has been teaching in the public school of Chattanooga. Tennessee is dangerously ill at her home. Mrs. Jos. Amos is very sick at her home, 1406 Fifth street south. The St. James Mission, at 405 Fifth avenue south, has a very fine choir, under the direction of Prof. Howard. Come out. Mr. Wm. Gray is very ill at his home, 2810 Chicago avenue. Mrs. Philip P. Hale, the most accomplished pianist of which the Twin Cities Afro-Americans can boast, has consented to act as organist for the St. James Mission. Rev. W. H. Hart, pastor of Bethesda Baptist church, is surpassing the expectations of his most sanguine friends in the excellent results of his short pastorate in this city. The news reached here that Rev. J. Will King is setting Englewood, Ill., on fire, spiritually. He will return tonight. Mrs. J. C. Reid, wife of the former editor of this paper, has returned to the city, after a short visit in Chicago. A number of gentlemen met Wednesday evening and discussed the advisability of organizing a subordinate lodge to be affiliated with the United Brotherhood recently organized in Chicago and Hon. J. Frank Wheaton, imperial organizer, will probably be asked in the near future to come hither and set up the lodge. The Episcopal Mission is a source of great promise to those interested in the work it contemplates, and is constantly growing in membership. ST. PETER'S CHURCH Last Sunday night there was a large gathering out to attend the meeting of the Christian Endeavor Society. The usual program was dispensed with and James L. Curtis, Esq., addressed the society on "The Need of Individual Activity in C. E. Work." Mrs. W. W. Tucker was named as chairwoman of the "Lookout" committee and Mrs. J. L. Neal as chairwoman of the prayer meeting committee. The Wayman Home Circle met Tuesday evening with the largest attendance of the season and after completing the preliminary arrangements for the Oriental national fair to be given the first of April, spent a most delightful social time. The A. M. E. O. C. met Wednesday evening and had their usual program and refreshments. Benj. Ohman, of Co. L. 13th Mann. Regt., gave his illustrated lecture on the "Campaign in the Philippines" to a large and appreciative audience last night. The entertainment was given under the auspices of the A. M. E. O. C. The pastor, Rev. W. S. Brooks, received the cheering information last week that Rev. Lena Mason will visit the city again in February. The A. M. E. O.C. meets every Wednesday evening. All friends are cordially invited to attend. There will be a literary program at each meeting in the fall. Mr. Noll, of the Long Meadow Gun Club, is spending a two weeks' vacation in Chicago. Mrs. Lizzie Noel, of 1422 Washington avenue south, is on the sick list. We are glad to see Mrs. Sallie Williams out again. Mrs. Sadie Williams is convalescent. Conventional Confusion. "It is curious," remarked the Lay Figure, "that people think the dumdum bullet penetrates "Not at all," rejoined the Unconscious Imbecile. "You see, immediately the dumdum bullet enters a body it mushrooms. Now, most people don't know the difference between a toadstool and a toadstool is poisonous. Curious? Why, it's the most natural thing in the world for people to think that that he was a gentleman—Detroit Journal. The Brute! "He tried to kiss me, judge," said the female complainant. "Did he succeed?" queried the court. "Five dollars' fine!" thundered the court, turning to the prisoner. "Be more next time." Philadelphia North America. The Afro-American Advance. ST. PAUL DON'T FORGET THE CENTURY ENTERTAINMENT Given by Minnesota Lodge No. 2, A. F. and A. M. on Feb. 12, at Masonic Union Hall, corner Robert and Fifth streets. Have you been to Godfrey's lately? He still serves the finest meals in the city at 50 St. Peter street. Talk about a big meal, why, he gives you enough for 25 cents to last you two days; drop in and be convinced. Mrs. Cora Smith left for Duluth the latter part of last week with Mr. H. J. Shelton, to look after the household effects of his late wife. Mr. Shelton will break up his home and perhaps leave Duluth after his business is settled. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Smith, also Mr. Will Richardson, of Duluth, were in the city last week to attend the Shelton funeral. Mrs. J. E. Johnson and Mrs. Geo. Goodin were over to Minneapolis Tuesday, visiting Mrs. Sadie Williams, formerly of St. Paul. Mrs. Williams has been quite sick, but we are pleased to note her rapid recovery. The diamond contest waxes warm, so we are informed. Two women have entered the race is the latest news from the front, Mrs. Lawrence and Mrs. Pagine. Both equally popular ladies, and there is no telling what the result will be. One of the Masonic fellows says he has got "two to one" that Lawrence will beat Pagine. You see it's a Mason against an Odd Fellow, and the Masons are hard to beat and don't you forget it. The "Advance" is prepared to do your job printing of all kinds at reasonable rates. Remember the place, 305 Thomas street. Don't take time to come away out here. A card will bring me to you promptly, with business written all over my face. Our collector will be out among you in a day or two. Kindly chain up the dog, because we have been so we couldn't eat for several days and we are too weak to fight dogs and ask for money at the same time. Mr. H. F. McIntyre has bought property out at Thomas Street Addition for which he paid a neat sum. Mr. Mc is a young man and deserves great credit for this very wise investment. The family will not move right away into the new home, but will let it awhile, as they have a good paying tenant at the present time. Sull Chapter No. 9, O. E. S. is rapidly coming to the front and gaining for itself an enviable standing among the secret orders. A splendid class of initiates were received at their last meeting, namely the Rev. J. C. Anderson, Miss Rowe, Mr. Brack and Mrs. Maime Taylor. NO MATTER what your position in life may be, you should DRESS WELL. We are living in an age so thoroughly impressionist that people take their impressions from the men and women they meet largely from external appearance. You can get an elegant dress made dirt cheap at Mrs. M. A. Hopson's 304 East Seventh street. Our sick list grows shorter this week we are pleased to announce. Some are entirely well, others are better. Dr. Cook and Dr. Porter are not quite so busy this week as they were last. We take this opportunity to thank the friends who so kindly came in to see the woman "Woman" while we were sick. The flowers fruit and food, the evidence of your fond regard, will not soon be forgotten. James L. Curtis, Esq. of Minneapolis, was entertained at dinner last Sunday by Mr. and Mrs. Edward Green 426 Rondo street. NEW TEN DOLLAR NOTES The Picture of the Battleship Maine Will Be an Artistic Feature of the Bill. The new ten-dollar silver notes soon to be issued will bear a handsome tribute to the American navy. The central feature of the certificates, says the Syracuse Herald, will be a steel engraving of the battleship Maine, plowing the seas under full steam, as she left the United States for Havana, under Capt. Sigby, nearly two years ago. The engraving is unusually fine in workmanship and spirited in conception. The white hull stands out conspicuously on the water, with the dark caption of the turrets and heavy armament. Two heavy guns point over the bow, which cuts the water as gracefully as that of a yacht. The other features of the certificate are medallions of two of the naval heroes who made the flag respected early in the century by their victories over the British and the pirates of the Mediterranean. The uniform of that time, with its gold lace and fringed epaulets, gives a picturesque historical character to the portraits. Over each medallion is inclined the partly draped figure of a goddess, holding a branch of laurel. These are the essentially artistic features of the new note. They do not interfere with the general plan of all new notes, to leave a considerable expense of white paper, in which the silk threads add to the facility for detecting counterfeits. The figure "10" appears in large plain type in each corner, while the Roman numerals, in pale blue, on the left side of the note, balance the seal in the same color on the right. The words "United States of America" run straight across the top of the note in a graceful style of type. An affair between prize fighters is usually called a mill, though it could be more appropriately called a windmill. Baltimore American. Unassay lies the head that wears a bonnet in which a large-sized political bee is continually buzzing—Chicago Daily News. MINNEAPOLIS AND ST. PAUL, MINN., SATURDAY, JAN. 27, 1900 MANY DELIVER SPEECHES. Close of the Debate in the House on the Brigham H. Roberts Case. MANY ARGUE FOR MINORITY REPORT. Large Crowds Fill Galleries and Listen to the Speeches of the Congressmen – Roberts Is Present– Senate Passes Urgent Deficiency Bill with Amendments. Washington, Jan. 26.—This is the last day of the debate in the house on the Roberts case, and interest continues unabated. Large crowds again filled the galleries, when the house was called to order at 11 o'clock. Some minor business was transacted before the debate was resumed. A bill was passed to create another judicial district in the eastern division of Tennessee. A bill was passed fixing the salary of the postmaster of Washington at $6,000. February 10 was set aside for paying tribute to the memory of the late Representative Settle, of Kentucky. Mr. Johnston (W. Va.) advocated the expulsion of Mr. Roberts. Mr. Brosius (Pa.) argued that metaphysical and technical considerations should not deter congress from doing its duty. In this crisis of the nation's good name and fame, such considerations should be swept aside and the will of the people executed. Mr. Grout (Vt.) supported the contention of the majority for exclusion. tention of the majority for exclusion, Mr. Talbert (S. C.) said that in a case of such abnormal and defiant immorality technicalities should not weigh. Representing the constituency he did, he said he should vote against Roberts first, last and all the time. Mr. Adamson (Ga.) said violation of the statute against unlawful cohabitation entitled the offender to membership in the penitentiary, rather than the house of representatives. Mr. Roberts came into the hall while Mr. Adamson was speaking and listened to the debate from a lounge in the lobby behind the rail. Mr. Ray (N. Y.) was in favor of the exclusion of Mr. Roberts as a polyamist and an offender against decency. Mr. Freer (W. Va.) also advocated exclusion. Mr. Brick (Ind.) favored expulsion. He did not want to make a martyr of Mr. Roberts which would win for him pity or sympathy. Mr. Moody (Mass.) argued that the house had the right to exclude or expel, but that it was expedient that Mr. Roberts should be excluded. Mr. Grosvenor (O.) suported the views of the majority in favor of exclusion. He paid a high tribute to Mr. Littlefield's speech. He said he had never heard an abler argument on false ground. Mr. Morris (Minn.), a member of the special committee which investigated the Roberts case and who signed the majority report, advocated its adoption in an hour's speech. Lanham, of Texas. Representative Lanham, of Texas, spoke in support of the majority resolutions, saying in part: Mr. Lanham said that if there ever had been a necessity for the rational assertion and vindication of the supreme prerogative of the house, this occasion was now upon us. He loved the constitution of his country and the institutions of his government, and he asked the representatives to do anything ridiculous. The framers of the constitution never contemplated that their work or any part of it should lead to any absurdity. We can never convince an American person to admit Robert Robbins, expel him a logical and consistent procedure. The motive that will prompt the vote either to expel or exclude will be precisely the same—and that is, because he is a polygamist; if a disqualification not mentioned in the constitution is imposed in the case it will be equally superadded in the other. He said there was no danger of the Robbers case ever being invoked as a precedent—that it was unique and solitary in its nature. He said that the precedent would expire with each other. He said we are not here to impose moral or religious tests. We are cheerful to accord to the people of Utah all the privileges and rights of all states. They may elect whomsoever they will. Mormon or gentle, but we will not recognize his credentials, nor welcome him in fact and have more than one living wife. The people of Utah must keep their covenants with the American people and respect the laws and civilization of the age. "In behalf of the altars and the fire-sides of our common land—the rooftops of American homes—the holy estate of matrimony and the sacred and inviolable associations of the family circle, with a solemn regard for the constitution of my country, and the dignity of the popular branch of the church, I declare the opinions of mankind, and the fear of God before my eyes. I declare my belief that Brigham H. Roberts ought not, for one instant of time, to be admitted to membership in this house of representatives." The Senate Washington, Jan. 26. At the beginning of Thursday's session of the senate Senator Cockrell (Mo.), from the committee on military affairs, reported a substitute for Senator Pettigrew's resolution calling for information regarding the Coeur d'Alene mining troubles last year. The substitute calls upon the secretary of war to submit to the senate copies of all orders given to Gen. H. C. Merriam, and to all officers under him, and especially any proclamation of Gen. Merriam, and to the orders concerning the treatment of civilian prisoners. The resolution was passed. A house bill authorizing the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad company to use a certain right of way through the Fort Reno and Fort Sill military reservations was passed. A joint resolution authorizing the secretary of war to receive for instruction Alemeda Alfaro, of Ecuador, at the West Point military academy was passed. The resolution of Senator Allen (Neb.) calling on the secretary of war for all orders and information concerning the collection of customs and revenues in the islands of Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines was passed with a slight modification. At the conclusion of morning, Senator Hale (Me.), of the appropriations committee, called up the urgent deficiency bill, and the senate proceeded to its consideration. The bill with its senate amendments was passed. Senator Money (Miss.) took the floor to speak on the resolution relative to voters in the south. Hearing on Shipping Bill. Washington, Jan. 26. The hearings on the shipping bill were continued Thursday by the house committee on merchant marine and fisheries. A. Furuseth, of San Francisco, in behalf of the International Seamen's union, spoke in opposition to the bill on the ground that it contained nothing to restore American sailors to American ships and give American boys their "sea legs." GEN. SCHWAN ACTIVE. Pursuing a Vigorous Campaign in the South of Luzon-Locates the Enemy. Washington, Jan. 26. — Gen. Otis' cabled report received Thursday morning indicates that Gen. Schwan is conducting the campaign in the south of Luzon with the greatest energy. He has located southeast of Laguna de Bay what is probably the last considerable force of insurgents remaining in one command and Thursday's report shows that, with small loss to himself, and heavy loss to the enemy, he has managed to completely dissipate this force, probably beyond the possibility of reconstruction. Gen. Otis' cablegram is as follows: "Manila, Jan. 22.—Schwan concentrated Thirteenth battalion, Thirty-seventh and Thirty-ninth Infantry, at and near San Pablo, Laguna province, on the afternoon of the 20th. Hayes, with cavalry, striking for Tayabas by lower road. The enemy had advanced from Santa Cruz to very strongly fortified positions at San Diego, Majayjay and adjacent points, in country very broken and mountainous. Schwan struck the enemy at San Diego and in an engagement lasting two hours killed 52 and wounded large number. Our casualties were one enlisted man killed and 14 wounded, including three native scouts; captured several rifles, ammunition, folios and stock of uniform clothing. On the 23rd Schwan pushed on through Lillo, driving enemy back on Majasyay. There it forced reported by an escaped Spanish prisoner to number between 1,600 and 3,600 well equipped and supplied had concentrated, waiting approach of troops. This position was impregnable via roads or trails, and the troops were working around on either side of the enemy. When the enemy retreated, they were again put on guard. Thirteenth infantry and cavalry in pursuit. It is believed that the insurgents are widely dispersed. The country is now covered by troops and our force occupies Santa Cruz, a few minor engagements at other points resulting in considerable loss to the enemy. McArthur telegraph that McRae struck an insurgent post in the mountains northward of Porac, capturing the arsenal, barracks, ten curfloods powder and ammunition, three insurgents with rifles. The barracks and arsenal were destroyed. OTIS." Columbus, O., Jan. 26.—Mr. Nippert introduced what is known as the "Cox Ripper" for the city of Cincinnati. It abolishes the present board of city affairs and creates a board of city service, to consist of five members to be appointed by the governor. The salaries are fixed at $4,000 per annum. The bill legislates out of office 4,000 city employees of Cincinnati. It is strictly a party measure. Mrs. Logan at San Francisco San Francisco, Jan. 26—Mrs. John A. Logan, Jr., widow of Mal Logan, who met his death in the Philippines with her children and accompanied by her mother, Mrs. C. H. Andrews, and a friend, Miss Pamillee, of Cleveland, O., has arrived here to await the arrival of her husband's remains on the transport Thomas, due in a few days from Manila. To Test Trust Law Columbus, O., Jan. 26. - Sait was filed in the United States court by the Michigan Sait company against W. A. Wason, of Columbus, for over $22,000, the suit being a test of the Ohio trust laws. Wason was agent of the concern and states that he has purposely held back the money to test the trust law. To Lie in State of Indianapolis Washington, Jan. 26. — Secretary Root-stelegraphed Gena. Shafter at San Francisco to amend the itinerary arranged by him, so as to permit the remains to lie in state on their way east for one day at Indianapolis, and one day at Fort Wayne, Ind. Suffers a Release. London, Jan, 20.—Prof. Max Muller, corpus professor of comparative philology at Oxford, who was supposed to be recovering from a long illness, has suffered a relapse and his condition is causing great anxiety. He was born in 1823. Wrecked in a Fog. Thomasville, Ga. Jan. 29. The special train bearing the Indiana lumbermen on their southern tour collided with a freight engine in a dense fog in the Way Cross yards. Several people are reported injured. Will Not Book Large Excursions New York, Jan. 26.—The passenger carrying transatlantic steamship lines are almost uniformly refusing to book large excursions for passage to Europe this summer. Post Office Robbed. Kankakee, Ill., Jan. 26.—The post office at Bradley was entered by burglar, the safe blown open and about $1,400 worth of stamps and $40 cash taken. SPION KOP, NATAL. Strongly Fortified Hill, on the Tugela River, Just Taken by the British Under Gen. Warren. SPION KOP IS CAPTURED. Gen. Warren Surprises Small Boer Garrison and Seizes This Strategic Point. THE BRITISH CASUALTIES ARE NEAVY. Jubilation in London Over Victory Tempered by the Fear That the Boers May Recapture the Place, Montagu White, Boer Representative, issues in Statement. London, Jan. 26. — The war office has just issued the following dispatch from Spartan's Camp, dated January 25, 12:10 morning: "Gen. Warren's troops last night opened Spion Ken, surprising the small garrison, who fled. It has been held by unallied forces, especially by a very annoying shell fire. "I fear our casualties are considerable and I have to inform you, with regret, that Gen. Woodgate was dangerously wounded. Gen. Warren is of the opinion that he has retreated the army's position untenable. The men are screaming." Possibility of Recapture. Possibility of Recapture. The jubilation over Gen. Warren's achievement in capturing Spion Kop Tuesday night is chastened by the realization that his success is only provisional, as it appears clear from Gen. Buller's dispense that the Buers fully recognize the importance of Spion Kop and at the time his message was sent off they had not abandoned the hope of recapturing the position. Nevertheless, a heavy load of anxiety has been removed from the nation, and there is general expectation that, as the Brit SPION KO Strongly Fortified Hill, on the Tugela River War ish have succeeded in keeping the hill all day long, they will manage to retain it until Gen. Warren plants guns enough on it to dominate the Born trenches right and left. Big Task Ahead. There is the usual disposition here to exaggerate the importance of the point scored, but the best informed people realize that Gen. Buller still has a task ahead of him calling for the most dogged persistence and untiring attack, and that the difficulties will increase as the position develops. **Tension on Stock Exchange Received.** The relief of the tension on the stock exchange was very marked. Business began more cheerfully all around, and with an upward movement, under the influence of the news at the war office, and at the clubs and other resorts there was a notable change from the gloomy fears of Wednesday. The appearance of the news picarches on the streets sent crowds of people to the war office, and the loblies were soon filled to suffocation. Those near the notice board read out the news at frequent intervals, for the benefit of late arrivals, who were unable to approach, and each successive reading led to a renewal of cheering. Quinion of a Scout. The American, scout, F. R. Burnham, now on his way back to South Africa, expressed considerable satisfaction at the news of the capture of Spion Kup. He said to a representative of the press: "I doubt that the Boer position is beaked shaken and I do not think it will be a long business now to drive the Boers out of the Drakenstrom. We shall then reach a rolling, open country, where there is a chance to display tactics and undertake flanking movements and cavalry operations that are sure to make most determined stand around Pretoria. It will not take long to reach the Boer capital, but the siege of Pretoria will be long and difficult." Burnham sailed for South Africa Saturday on board the Scot, to take up his appointment on Field Marshal Lord Roberts' personal staff. He says Ingham, another scout, leaves San Francisco with him to join him in South Africa. Statement Issued by Montagna White. Washington, Jan. 26.—Mr. Montguy White, the South African diplomat now in this country, authorized the following statement: "The impression that is said to exist in certain quarters that Dr. Leyda is not recognized by foreign powers as the diplomatic minister of the South African republic on account of his failure to be false. Dr. Leyda is credited to and fully recognized as minister plenipotentiary of the South African republic by the following powers: Russia, Germany, France, Holland, Belgium and Portugal, represented at different courts in Europe and on the continent for many years past by Dr. Leyda's predecessor, the late Jonkheer Beelarts Van Blockland, who had also indirectly recognized by Great Britain. The suzerainty was created by the convention of 1881, but was abolished by the convention of 1884. In 1897 it was suddenly revived by Mr. Chimberlander. The government merely repudiated the claim and they have been supported in this by every inter- national lawyer of note on the continent as well as by such eminent authorities as president of Wesley, Sir Edward Clark and William Harcourt, in Great Britain, the president of the African republic is moreover recognized by Great Britain, as the following extract from the official quoted letter of Lord Kitchener states: "Your government will be left free to govern the country without interference and to conduct its diplomatic intercourse with the United States to the requirements embodied in the fourth article of the new treaty, namely, that any treaty with any foreign state shall not be violated without the approval of the queen." BRYAN AT HARRISBURG Deliver a Speech There—Synopsis of His Speeches at New Haven and Jersey City. New York, Jan. 26. — Col. William J. Bryan left Jersey City at 10:15 Thursday morning at Harrisburg, Pa., where he spoke at night. He says that before he returns home he will accept the invitations of the legislatures of Virginia and Mississippi. At New Haven, Conn., on Wednesday, Mr. Bryan spoke to 2,000 people, who gave him an enthusiastic reception. Mr. Bryan paved the way hastily for his speech by remarking that he had so little time, scarcely an hour in which to say all that he wished to present that he would plunge at once into a discussion of the "three great leading questions of the day, namely: trusts, money and imperia"ism. Which of them is paramount depends upon the point of view of the individual, and he said, "personally I do not care to specify." He believed that to assert that the money question as a political issue is dead, is folly, for the reason that it vitally concerns all men, and because they are thinking of it, no matter what their station in life. P, NATAL. er, Just Taken by the British Under Gen. Mr. Bryan was banqueted by the Robert Davis association at their clubhouse in Jersey City at night, after which he delivered a political speech before a large crowd in St. Mary's hall. Mr. Bryan received a most hearty reception from about 2,500 persons, all that could possibly get into the hall, to whom he spoke for nearly two and a half hours upon silver, trusts and imperialism. A Chilly Meeting. Indianapolis, ILL., Jan. 26. — The joint conference of operators and miners began three-quarters of an hour late Thursday morning and the atmosphere was chilly. After an际monious session a motion to adjourn subject to the call of the scale committee prevailed. The operators hustled back to the Denison and the miners scattered. Memorial to Her Parents New York, Jan. 26. Details of Miss Helen Gould's benefaction to the naval branch of the heyme, M. C. A., Brooklyn, have just been made public. She has given $125,000 to the institution, and has secured title to adjoining property for a site for a new firestore building. The new building will be a memorial to Miss Gould's father and mother. Hon. August O. Hyde Arrested Marshall, Mich., Jan. 26. — Hon. August O. Hyde, ex-superintendent of poor of Calhoun county, in whose accounts the special committee which has been investigating the accounts of county officers discovered alleged shortages in the neighborhood of $5,000 was arrested, charged with embezzlement. Baseball Magnates Meet Cleveland, O., Jan. 26. — Every club in the National Baseball league was represented at a meeting of the mongates in session here at the Hollanden hotel. The utmost care was taken by those attending the meeting to prevent their identity from becoming known. Another Dynamic Outrage Leadville, Col., Jan. 26. - The third of n series of dynamite explosions within in the city limits occurred early in the morning, wrecking the handsome residence of A. V. Hunter, the millionaire mine owner, and the home of J. C. Bitchey, adjoining. Brought to Suez. Suez, Jan. 26. — Osman Digna, the principal general of the late Khalifa Abdulah, who was recently taken prisoner by the British, has been brought here. Mother of Empress Deod. Dresden, Jan. 26. — The dowager duchess of Schleswig-Holstein, mother of Empress Augusta Victoria, who has been suffering from pleurisy, cried here. To Pet Duty on Nickel. Ottawa, Ont., Jan. 26. — A subcom mittee of the cabinet has been ap pointed to consider the question of puti ting *x* *i* export duties on rickel. PRICE FIVE CENTS. Surround the State House and Issue an Appeal to the Legislature. WARNING TO NEED IMPENDING PERIL. Rumor That All Democratic Deputy Sheriff of State Have Been Summoned to Frankfort—All But Ladies Excluded from Lower House of Legislature. Frankfort, Ky., Jan. 26, — A special train hearing more than 1,000 men carrying Wheester rifles arrived in Frankfort at 8:30 o'clock in the morning. The men hall from the counties of Bell, Allen, Knox, Harlan, Metcalf and Edmonson. The men marched to the state house, stacked their guns and took up positions in groups about the buildings. Adjit, Gen. Collier states that he had no knowledge that the men were coming. Many of the visitors are members of the state guards. The total number arriving on the special train cannot be stated exactly. The traiad had 17 cars. Ex-Secretary of State Charles Finley addressed the visitors from the steps of the state house. He said the object of the gathering was to see justice done. A committee was appointed to draft resolutions. Stephen Sharp, of Lexington, was chosen chairman. The following resolutions were drafted and presented to the legislature: "We Kentuckians here assembled in token of all the 'free and equal' men of Kentucky, do reassert 'the great and essential principles of liberty and free government', proclaimed in the bill of rights, not as derived to us therefrom, but as "Our property we may alternate from ourselves and our children, but our liberty is a heritage in us in trust for all generations, and we may neither surrender nor encumbrance it, nor restrict or freely communicating our thoughts and opinions, and to assemble together in a peaceable manner for our common good and the good of our fellow citizens, and for the sake of declare our right and authority, conferred on us by Almighty power, and not otherwise, of appealing to those invested with the power of government by either petition, petition, or by the will of them, our brethren, Kentucky, our agents in the legislature convented, that the government of Kentucky is founded on our authority, and instituted for our pence, safety and happiness and the protection of our liberty, that of the stranger within our gates. "We petition them, our proxies in the general assembly, to heed that there is peril hovering over all those things so dear to us, and wisdom need be invoked in order that truth and justice may prevail; and we exercise our right of 'remonstrance' against their suffering themselves to be led into peril, and wisdom need be invoked in order that crisis which is on us. We beech them to remember that their own just powers were loaned them by un at the polls and that among those was the jurisdiction to be held by the justice law and not otherwise, what was then our expressed will, not their present political preference. Explain them that they do not on slight or technical pretends nor flimsy or trivial causes permit the subversion of that supreme law of the land, the will of the people. Beg of them that they receive from the hands of our messengers and consider and do not spurn or despair this, our earnest address, petition and remonstrance, and that they by their considerate action and wisdom need be invoked in order that justice and welfare, had, above all, the honor of Kentucky committed to their keeping. Sensational Humor A rumor is in circulation, but persistently denied, that Judge Cantrill, of the local circuit court, has summoned all democratic deputy sheriffs of the state to come to Frankfort. Commonwealth's Attorney Franklin says he knows of no such order. Exclude All But Ladies. The lower house of the legislature met at 11 o'clock and on motion of Mr. Cantrell, democratic leader, resolution was adopted excluding all but ladies from the chamber and galleries, Mr. Catron (rep.) asked the consent of the house of representatives to permit a non-member to present a resolution, but Speaker Trimble ruled that nobody but a member could do so. Forced to Abdicate. Peking, Jan. 28.-- The imperial elet issued Wednesday says that, cwing to the emperor's poor health, he is unable to conduct the business of state, and appoints Pu Chun, son of Prince Tuano, his heir. The emperor, apparently, has been compelled by the dowager to abdicate. KLF at Fredonia Dunkirk, N. Y., Jan. 26. - Fire did $200,000 damage at Fredonia, a village three miles south of Dunkirk. Besides the loss to the buildings the power house of the Dunkirk and Fredonia Street Car Co. was destroyed, together with all the cars To Buy Tisset Paintings New York, Jan. 26. — The Brooklyn institute of sets and sciences has decided to purchase for $60,000 the famous Tissot collection of 400 paintings representing the history of the life of Christ. Kansas City After Convention. New York, Jan. 26. — A special to the Times from Washington says: Kansas City is to make a strong push here to have the democratic national convention sent to that city. Diamonds Stolen. Philadelphia, Jan. 26. - Diamonds valued at $6,000 were stolen from the safe in the office of Joseph K. Davison & Son, manufacturing jewelers. Is a Bankrupt. London, Jan. 26. — The creditors of the earl of Yarmouth met and resolved to place his estate in bankruptcy. Pe a. —THE— AFRO-AMERICAN ADVANCE. Published every Saturday by the ADVANCE PUBLISHING COrPANY Office, 608 Northwestern Bldg. ‘Tel. Main 2400-1-1. ‘Minneapolis, - - - - - = - Minnesota Entered at the Post Omece, at Minne- ‘apolis, Minn., an second-class matter, Subseription Rates: OneYenr - - - - 81.00 Six Months - = - = 00 Three Months - - - = 188 Subscription Always Payable in Au- vance. Special raten if ordered by the dozen. Orders for current neue should reach the Office by Wednesday evening. Advertining Rates, Loca} Reading Notices, 10 per Ine, ‘each insertion. Religious Notices (not over five lines), tree, Want" and “To Let advertisements, B cents per tine for each invertion. Dis- play, #0 conte per inch exch insertion. Special rates will be given for space by er Editorial Announcements, To secure the return of unsolicited manuscript portage should be enclosed, Communications must reach the office by Wednesday morning, preceding the Is fue in which they are to appear. ‘All communications, encloving news matter for publication, must bear the writer's name, not for publication, but as fan evidence of good faith, Contributions and items of news con: cerning the progress of the colored race fare requested from our readers, ‘We resorve the right to reject any com. mubication unsultable for publication. Subscribers ordering addrestes of thet paper changed are requonted to aive thel former as well ax thelr present addrona ‘Address all communleations and make ail remittances to THE AFRO-AMERL CAN ADVANCE. 608 Northweatern Huilding, Minneapolis, Minn, James L. Cunrin, Gag, Eprron Mus, Gino. Docker, Ansociate Editor. ————— NO NEGRO BLOOD IN FREDER ICK DOUGLASS. Now comes one Mrs. C. H. Dall, of Springfield, Mass., and on the authority ‘of what purports to have been an ad mission from Mr. Donglass, tains that the late lamented orator, statesman and advocate of human liberty had abso lutely no negro blood in his veins; that he was the issue of a Caucassian father and a Caucassian and Potomac Indian halé-breed mother, Aside from the etatement of his son Lewis, whieh re cently appeared in public print, that his father had often told him that he had negro blood in his veins, one glance at Mr, Douglass’ was all that was necessary to silence speculation on that score His features and hair gave unmistakable evidence of the presence of African blood. The American people have long since forgiven Mr. Douglass for having a visible admixture of African blood, and recognizing him as a negro,\con- ferred divers honors upon him, not so much in recognition of the heights to which he attained, as with special re ward to the depths from which he came, Unless it be the object of Mrs. Dall to detract from his attainments, on the ground that ay a Caueassian among the wrest galaxy of brilliant Anglo-Saxon stars he shed no special lustre, and thus cast obliquy on his memory, we can not conceive of the purpose of her alleged discovery and novel claim. We are not ‘concerned as to what blood in his body preponderated in the scales of racial distinction. We do know that he was & fearless and effective advocate of hw man liberty, and that by his efforts in that bebali, he made himself the bene factor, not only of the American people, but of the human race. All honor, then, to Frederick Douglass, the man, with: ‘out regard to his racial identity, Gene. rations unborn will be legates to the matehless deeds he wrought, and “rise ies bo Gall Delon Adesoed.” ADVOCATES COAST DEFENSES. Representative Cooper, of Wiscon- sim, Thinks, However, Men Should Me Provided to Man Them. “1 am in favor of strengthening the avy to meet all the requirements of the nation,” said Representative Cooper, of Wisconsin, “and it is Just as important to build coast defenses. ‘These two im- portant works can be carried on simul: taneously. Our country should be for- tifled in such a way as to make It se- eure from attacks, and it 8 also im- portant to preserve the fortifications Already constructed and — provide enough men to care for the guna, It is & well-established fact that the guns mounted in the emplacements at the count cities deteriorate at the rate of 25 per cent. a year, and the importance of providing enough men to care for ‘them is manifest. We have already spent $03,000,000 in fortitying our coast, and unless men are provided to Jook after these improvements they will De almost worthless in a few years. “Iam heartily in favor of the Eudi- cott plan, which provides for a system of fortifications at 27 ports, requiring 667 heavy guns and $24 mortars of modern construction, Since the war with Spain the country is deeply tuter- eated in all matters pertaining 6 the national defense, and the people are the public funds should be ex- in waking the country safe trom Attack, ‘There is a disposition on the part of the members of congress to be more liberal in this respect than they were some Years ago, and congress can be depended upon to do everything ‘that is required of this nature.” it's memory that sometimes ad- Bie Meructbebnens, —- Chcage eae ‘For real sarcastic comment, you pak to topes in the come IT WAS PREMATURE. Dr. Mechnikoff Annoyed by An- nouncement Regarding Serums, Says That While They Are Expert- menting with « Rejavenating Lymph Stilt It te Preposterons Dr. Ellie Mechnikoff, of Paris, is se- riously distressed that the London Morning Post, whose correspondent he never saw, should have printed the discovery of the so-called “elixir of lite.” Dr. Mechnikoff, when Inter- viewed, said: “That English article makes’ me a charlatan, which I am not, It is true we are conducting some experiments at the Pasteur in- stitute with lymph which shows wonderful rejuvenating — properties when tried on animals, “Of course, our ultimate purpose is to retard the atrophy of those cells In the human body whose early de- creptitude causes old age and death. But discovery and then certitude in this line must necessarily be slow work, and it is preposterous at this stage to announce that we have dis- covered the secret of prolonging hu- man life, We feel so far from cer- tainty yet that we do not dare to ex- periment on human beings. “Bat I bave "a in saying that we seem on the right track.” ; Dr, Mechnikoff added that his next great scientific discovery may be a serum which will feed the human ceils so accurately that the average life and Period of strength will be doubled or trobled. He ndded: “We do not aay we have found such a serum. We, like other scientists all over the world, have long recognized the truth of the Brown-Sequard theory. Old age Is ab- normal, and the possibility of pro- longing life fs an interesting probs Jem. We, like some German and American colleagues, are doing what we enn to solve it.” ‘Two physicians, members of the Academy of Medicine, read papers be- fore that body on their discovery of a ‘serum ngainst alcoholism, — Inter- ‘viewed, they said, like Dr. Mechnikotf, ‘that it waa premature to speak ‘through the newspapers, though suc- ‘cesatol experiments had been made oa 20 drunkards, | ‘Tho serum Is made from the blood of a horse whose system has been ‘Kept anturated with aleohol for some time. When the serum ix Injected into the patient it gives him a loathing for Niquor. Scientists in Paris regard the latter discovery as much nearer perfection than Dr, Mechnikoft's, ODD WAYS OF TELLING TIME Many New Yorkers Mark Ite Maveh Sy the Process of Cee Bo regular is the progress of business In w great city like this that many per- ‘nons mark the march of time without referring to a clock, They merely note pansing occurrences, anys the New York Mall and Express, No matter in what seotion of the elty one may live he will, after ® moment's thought, recall some daily oveurrence that will Aequaint him with the time of day, ‘The people on Washington Heights have for years been able to tell toa dot when It fs 11 p.m, on week daysand ten o’clork on Sunday nights by the toting of familiar tugbout whistle. ‘This tug whistles for a watchman. A cashier in one of the biggest banks near Wall street never looks at Trinity as he ap- proaches his office, He knows to a cer- tainty whether he Ison time by the lo- ‘eation in which he meets @ shoestring ‘pediler, If the latter be on the south ‘aide of Pine street and Broadway the cnshler knows he fs on time. Should he be to the north of that point the cashier in late, A woman on West ‘Twenty-Afth street begina to cook breakfast every morning at the mo- ment tha! a certaln police officer goes by, It in her way of telling time, and the bluecoat's approach never varies a minute, Along Third avenue some of the shopkeepers tell the time by alm- ply glaneing at the familar face of some passing motorman, It is a most Interesting study, this telling of time without watch or clock, PARDONED AFTER YEARS. ‘M, Lowls Mem, Convicted of Marder and Sentenced (o Life tmprison- ment, Proved Innocent, Incob Henze and Henry Kateor, who were convicted of the murder of Ed- win E, Brown fn St. Louis in March, 1893, and senteuced to the Jefferson City penitentiary for tite, were re- Jeased the other day and returned to St, Louis, ‘They were accompanied by Harry I, Mawes, president of the St Louis board of police commissioners. It was at the solicitation of Mr, Mawes that Gor, Stephens algned thelr pardons. Mr, Hawes became convinced several yours ago of the men's tano- cence and has worked assiduously for thelr release ever since, ‘The case of Henze avd Kalser ts probably unparalleled in erlminal an- bale, They wero eight times reprieved, ence {n three hours of the time set for hanging, ultimately being consigned to life imprisonment at hard labor, ‘The men were convicted on purely circumstantial evidence, ‘The real murderers, ax revealed by investiga: tion by the police department, were three notorious local criminals, all of whom have died since the conviction of Henze and Kalser. petgalaps recto A Canadian bas designed a water eycle which offers little resistance to the water, the floats which support the propelling mechanism being composed ‘of two long cylinders of small diameter, with the ends brought to « point to de- crease the resiatance. Output of California Oranges. 1 fy probable that Southern Califor: nia will ship out 18,000 carloads of or tuges this season. “Tis Equivalent. Pedag: (severely) Now, sin, for the lan tises what's the angie ot the hate Kor: jaipereiiy)- t's equitelond tes rately)~It'e equivalent te lickin fer me, "ie head’ Denton Tras BLOW AT FLAT BUILDINGS. Alderman GriMth, of Chicago, Wants the O1d-Vashioned Home Geiasek. Alderman Griffith will try to legis- late the people of Chicago out of big labor-saving apartment bufldings by proposing an ordinance to limit the height to four stories. He thinks there are thousands of men and women who “leave their happy homes” for the sake of ensconcing themselves in some apartment building or so-called hotel. From a sociological point of lew the alderman from the Twenty-fifth ward anid such an ordinance would be salu- tary. He said: “People are getting lazy living in ‘these big apartment buildings. It de- ‘stroys the home features of American ‘citizenship, and the council should try to check such tendencies. ‘Then these fashionable people who can afford to live in family hotels or apartment build- ings give up thelr residences and dis- charge an army of domestic servants. ‘They have no more use for their cook ‘or chambermaid or butler, and as a friend of Iabor I think the individual homes should be preserved. There are too many Inbor-saving devices in these newfangled apartment. houses to suit me. Conveniences are all right in their way. The servant girl problem may ‘eut some ice’ in this question, but it we stopped these nix snd eight-story apartment buildings we would have more homes and more servants.” Neches ‘tek aided | ‘The czar can sympathize with that ancient Indian who le edited ith ging hy name tothe city of Cheboygan. fhe had just re: ined from ong huni trp through the therm wilds of the Michigan pentovula when nie alive nue hurried Torward ted is hopes by telling him he was the father of u thied Wttle daughter. the noble Ted/snan straightened up, and, with lok of dee ton his, copper face, ute tural lane “Sher boy ‘gaint — Cleveland Plain Dealer. An Optimistic View. “The lien the blamed newspapers publish about ue." nasd one politician to,another, "it fought drive an to dn” “ter, that's 90," replied the other, “but stil! we have no cause for complaint. “Why not aad he fay aria, “Well, i might be much worse,” was the reply "hey smight publish the’ ruth Chicago Evening News Like the Admiral. Mrs. Stubb—John, is that you coming home at-tueh ap unearthly howe? Me, ‘Scubb~ Ven, M-Mariay the club had + lite DeDevwey font tonight “Weir, you remind me of Dewey.” ‘ify withat way, MeMaria® wk Tong time coming "home.”~Chiengo Evening Sewn. “Never wear shoes too small for you,” is in quod foot relee-Ctiaas Dolly eee Stereopticon Lecture! On Sights and Seenes of Philippine Islands me es i reesei plain J. GARNER. w. 4. WELLER, The Elite Buffet 9030 STATE ST., HEP otha Chicago. BIJOU TRUNK FACTORY WM. LORENZ, Prop. Tranks & Traveling Bags MRS. J. B. WATSON, Fashionable Dressmaker. Cutting, Fitting and Making Over a Speelalty,. New York aud Puris Fast iene Always on Hand Vartors, 628 Fourteenth Av. South. DR. R. S. BROWN, Physiclan and Surgeon. omeo: 405-0 Reeve Mig, 408 Nicollet Av. Telephone 2794-1-0. Oleg Hovurs: 9:90 to 12:90; #300 to 4:00 po m.t Bald to 00 pm. Bumdays! 8:30 to 1100: 12:30 to 20. Residence, 2899 Portland Ave, Tele phone 817-1-South Richelieu Restaurant, ALL Beerett Street (North), PORTLAND, - OREGON. HM. PERRY, Manager. Meals at all Hours, Night or Day The Very Best Coffee a Specialty. MR. L. A. JOHNSON, The gentlemanly and obliging Porter at R. De Leo's Harber Shop, 00 Wash= Ington Ave South, Is Always Ready to Dress Your Shoes to a thoroughly ertistle manner, that JAMES &%. CUMTIS, —LAWYER 603 Northwestern Bidg., Minncapolis. Teen MieeLe MRS. W. F. HALL, Furnished Rooms TABLE BOARD IF DESIRED. | Prices Reasonable. ies “esis St, Paul, Minn, |BUY THE BEST | OF CHAS. E. BATTLES ] UNIVERSAL STEEL RANGES AND HEATING STOVES. / 370 JACKSON, ‘ST. PAUL. THE ADVANCE CAFE 214 WASHINGTON AV. SOUTH. Restaurant and Lunch Counter MANN & KOGER, Proprietors. SOCTETY DIRECTORY. | a2iocatemten? Bec Saray Officers and Standing Committees of the Mont Worshipful Grand Lodge A. F. and Aa. of Minnesota nnd furadlton: hantnd Muster=dohn ke Neal, Minneapo- tn ‘Deputy Grand Master—Wade H. Hamp- ton. Wert. Bupertor saigna, Benion Warden—H. 1B, Howard, i. Pat. pUratd Sonlor Warden-J. C. Garner, St of Grind Treamurer—Daniel Roy, Bt, Paut Grand “Becretary—William RK. Morris, sipneupalis. Grand Lectorer—G, W. Duy @), Minne- apeils. ‘Teputy Grand Becretary—0. D. Howard 4,8. Paul wiirana “Chaplain—toane Crawford (6, ‘Grand Benlor Deacon—John Martin Bt Paul. ‘Grand Junior Deacon—R. De Leo (), Minineapalin (Grand Senior Steward—J, H. Dillingham ese, Pauls (irand Junlor Steward—Wm. Stevens (3) st. Paul, Grand "Fyter mt. Hush), St. Pant. Grand Marshall. Hi. 'MeDonald (6p puluth ‘Grand Pursuivant—G. W. Duckett () Bt. Pau, partnd Bword-Besrer—J, Adama (), St "a Grand Standard-tearer—G. J. Chartew ton), Be. Paul, Grand Register-J. G. Sterett (6), Min- Bhi Deputy Grand Maxtor .Pirat DistrictJamen Worlfork dy. Bt. Paul. Diairlets Depuey rand MagierRecond DistrictE, He Hamiiton (0), Minneapalia Pasirict, Ceptey Grand Master—Third DintrighJ. kee Polke Gi, Duluth. MINNEAPOLIS. euccaers. St. Anthony Lodge, No. 2877, Meets the frat and thied Wednesday. tn Mehta for the (anhalt et Baal! tase, Taverne W. ‘sage achy span AH. MYRICK, N. 6. gaxtus A, scott. PB PO. ox in KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS, —- Nat, Turner Lodue, No. 2, K. of F. aecis ther necondang’ foun Tharedays Westeas cnt ant ate gear aa! Ree aslccrae va lane etic’ Pears Ce BERT che ath YR PanKen, cc, RALPH WATEON. 1K. He NGE Pride of Minnesote Lodge, No. 1, K. Moots the firat_ ond third ‘Thursdays coin the frst ant Third Thursdays tn euch ‘month. All brothers. In good stand: fae tintin, ke Pleseaete Bose AIL Pa "avatie néttn etd Woah gion CMe HORA wc serene ROknd' 3. K; Milyard Lodge. aoete nite fuelty in owen orth, at Winton ilock: Berend avenue South and Warrington’ Mesose Wy sosd standing ete estomes OW LILLARD. W. Mt. JxgreR ate vat! tei Un Anchor Lodge, No, 7, A. ¥. and A. M. fiers tc*ant nel Testes Mostar ghch month at Windom Block, Hecond av Shug Bouth Sad’ Wastineton” Masons In food standing welcome WN acorn, W._ a A. B, Lite, zo Adrien avenue Routh ST. PAUL. ebinieeices) ‘Meets second and fourth Wednesdays tn Sach* month at Oda Fellows Hall,” 338 Statasha street, Me HICKMAN, P, 8, 422 Bt. An- onany. FS. PARKER. N. G., 3% Edmund Bt. Household of uth, No. 583, G. U. 0- mone Moots at and” third: Monday in each Month tor business "second Monday fot Tintrwctton, ae Odd "Bellows Heil, 85 Vaan MIS" BARAN C. UTLEY, MN. MIE IDAGACKBON. Wei: BH Buin. mit pice Most WoRSHIPFUL GRAND LopeE Oe MINNESOTA, A. Fraud A.M HB. HOUSTON. Grand Master. war tiMdntiia Gemma Secretary AF diitrnnty Loan Bides Minneapolis AT. PETER CLAVEWS SODALITY. Mecie the frst and third Mondays of exch month. W. J. Gardner. Prem, d. 8. Har: Tin Bee.: A. Davins Treas. Pioneer Lodge, No. 1, 4, F, and A. M. Meets the art Monday in each month i Masonic Halt southweat corner Fifth and Robert strteiar” ‘Master Masons th wood Siabding cleave waleome 8 ESR Ley, Ww. a W. A. HILYARD, Sec. Ht Aiwnter Minnesota Lodae, Nov 2 A. F. and a Meots om the frat ind third Tuesday in Mecham "at Masonic Hah "ssuthrest Sener ot Fifth and Wobert rirects, Mat- iee'Miasons tn good standing siwaye wel- ee HL BR. HOWARD, W. M. 3.8, STRONG, Bee HRN Aid overt at Perfect Asher Ladwe, No. 4, A. F. sada Meets second and fourth Monday in each month ar Musomie Hal, outhoat ‘cor: Sormer #itth and Robert etrecte Master Sissane in good standing always welcome ASTER SRCRSOS, Weal D. FE. MRALEY. Sec, Hyun Hotel Perfect Asbler Ladue, No.4, A. F. wont Mests the second and fourth Tuesday In Mohmpsan at Masonic Han, southwest Genet” Hith tod Htabery street” Alaier janobe in woot) sanding alwaye welcome. srs tase a aT Rw. CRANCUM Moe. dae THethel Chapter, No. sy MOA. ME, Mteetn the rat cand third tharsday tn Mch"montn’at alesone Hall” southwest Corner of Fitth and’ Robert streets. Woy SV"ArEN Mache’ In good standing always weitome. BANIEL ROY, HP. W. T, GASBAWay* Bees state Capitol CHURCH DIRECTORY. MINNEAPOLIS. ry eerem CE. cuunen, wach w Nits, SUN eo, Sa tetas, Sea Bevautitl pac tated wit gee fae Feira tiaine a pees Was Baton ralicaee eeesiit a Sy tea kh itiewileh Ckierage cuemen. glee Hiten ch aap eGR Bete ain, Megat arsine NS siikina etc ee choc a a Eee Welietbay stelle rece Poe coe ee en iateaee ia ad wat ae Be Siig gato, Mev. denen Wawa tt CSarne, ahs Eat mite RARE CTR trates ahaa" Fi dels © ww. ucmen. wont: haat suum roegett Ft Rete Sa Se rn sinsere ser bttes Peg Ay ET Sree th pis"toneeedt pair ea epee eta Welly cine Sone ekg ce ST. PAUL. ny anges Soa guumen. Tied RNY ateats, Peatue ess isi wider aces SESEER Bae ST ow Pia te Beer» wi! Fike cats, RSs Sch Soe Peri tad Ses ovens Scholes. “Bsa Sat el sees a eur eats a “en 2 Coen ro et D. A. 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SEWARD is credited with saying in 1852: "Henceforth European commerce, European politics, European thought and European activity, although actually gaining force; and European connections, although actually becoming more intimate, will nevertheless relatively sink in importance; while the Pacific ocean, its shores, its islands and the vast region beyond will become the chief theater of events in the world's great hereafter." before the one road is completed another is being talked of that will branch off from the main line of the Siberian railway and cross Mongolia to Peking and from there to the sea. These lines of communication will open the ports of the east to the products of Siberia, and, thanks to the policy of rapid development inaugurated by the present czar, Siberia will be able to meet the demand upon her products. Her fields will undoubtedly produce much of the wheat and other food It is an easy matter to look at the conditions in the world of thought and commerce, of exploration and expansion, and realize the truth of that prophecy, made at a time when the ports of the great countries of the east, with but few exceptions, were closed to the commerce of the world; when the rid tropical islands were but stopping places for the occasional sailing vessel; when the Pacific slope of America was in much the same condition in which the red men had known it, without railroads, without cities; when Siberia was an unknown land, whose trackless wilderness and mountains were trodden by the fur traders and the convicts of Russia; a land of which the world knew little, and thought less; then none of the great powers of the world, with the exception of England and Spain, were represented by any great colonial possessions in the far east. But to-day the prophecy of Secretary Seward has been fully realized, and the nations of the world are scheming and exhausting every means known to diplomacy that they may gain a share of the rich lands, which less than 50 years have thrown open to the world. SIB IRKUISK SARKE GAMAL BENGAL CHI MONGOL SIN RIANG THIDET PAO TIMO LURUN FU SIANG YANG MAP SHOWING SPHERE OF R RAILWAYS OPEN BUILDING SURVEYED PROPOSED TREATY PORTS SIBERIA IRKUSH SAVE GARAL CHITA MANCHURIA MONGOLIA THIBET SIANG KIANG PAOTING LURANFU SHECHAU CYINA CAFELLE MOKPO NAGASAN JAPAN Consular agents and merchants from almost every land are endeavoring to capture the lion's share of the trade of these countries of the east that are but just awakening from centuries of slumber. Of the nations of the world that are interested in this scramble for commercial supremacy in the east four are far in the lead. These four are Russia, America, England and that recently awakened nation, Japan, which in less than half a century has taken its place among the foremost nations of the world as a competitor for the world's trade and commerce. In this article we will consider the position occupied by Russia in the Pacific and her possibilities for the future. vast land the development that to place it on a footing with options of the world. When her great railway is completed, and Russia can owares to the countries of the same financial basis that offers, it will be interes watch the renewed struggle f mercial supremacy in the far DANIEL CLEVE OWNS RARE OLD MANUSO John Beutler, an Ohio Man, Pe Original Copy of the Ju tinian Code. John Beutler, of Wapakoneta Just so much as the railroad trains have by their rapid movements superseded the river steamboats of Europe and America and the caravans of the east, just so much are Russia's opportunities for increased trade and commerce growing with the countries of the Pacific as her great Siberian railway project, on which she has already spent more than $200,000,000, nears completion. While Russian engineers and Russian convicts have been laying the rails that would connect St. Petersburg with the countries of the east, Russian diplomats have been carefully but rapidly laying the foundation for Russian supremacy in China and Corea when that long line of rails should be completed. With a stubbornness that has permitted of but little if any opposition, she has extended her sphere of influence within half a dozen years from the northern borders of Manchuria southward to Port Arthur, and then on southward until she connects with the great waterways of the empire over which she can reach the interior teeming with its millions of humanity to whom she would sell Russian products of farm and factory. To compare Russia's small trade with the east of to-day with that of Great Britain, with whom she is contending for supremacy in China, would prove nothing for the future. Russia with her ice bound ports on the Arctic ocean, without the means of cheap and rapid transportation across the broad stretches of Siberia, has not been in a position to compete with England with her years of experience, with her wonderful maritime resources, with her nineteenth century civilization developed to the very highest point. But Russia is rapidly attaining a position that will be equal to that of England. She could not force ope her ice bound ports, but she could, and is, building a railroad that will give to her an advantage over the ships of England. When this road is completed she will be in direct rail communication with one of the finest of the Chinese harbors in a territory which she controls, and from which it will be easy to reach all the ports of the East. --- before the one road is completed another is being talked of that will branch off from the main line of the Siberian railway and cross Mongolia to Peking and from there to the sea. These lines of communication will open the ports of the east to the products of Siberia, and, thanks to the policy of rapid development inaugurated by the present czar, Siberia will be able to meet the demand upon her products. Her fields will undoubtedly produce much of the wheat and other food stuffs sold in the east, and she will become a successful rival of the nations of the world in their efforts to capture the trade of the awakening countries of the east. The terrible climate of northern Siberia is rapidly being overcome by the advance of civilization, and it is a legitimate induction to suppose that in time even the most northern and desolate parts of Siberia may become the residence of a population able to develop its resources. Every acre of ground added to the productive fields of Siberia means a keener competition for the acres of other countries trading with the east; every new community springing into life, with its manufacturing industries, means a keener competition for the factories of other nations seeking trade in the east, and every pound of mineral taken from the Siberian mines means keener competition for the mines of other nations. The development of Siberia is the one great object of the Russian ruler. He is the one ruler of the land who has journeyed through it and witnessed its needs and its possibilities, and he is straining every point to give to this vast land the development that it needs to place it on a footing with other nations of the world. When her great railway project is completed, and Russia can offer her wares to the countries of the east on the same financial basis that other nations offer, it will be interesting to watch the renewed struggle for commercial supremacy in the far east. OWNS RARE OLD MANUSCRIPT. John Beutler, an Ohio Man, Possesses Original Copy of the Justinian Code. John Beutler, of Wapakoneta, O., has in his possession some heirlooms consisting of manuscripts and books which have been handed down from father to son since the ninth and sixteenth centuries. He has original manuscripts of the code of Justinian the Great, emperor of Rome, written in the latter part of the fifth century. He also has original manuscripts of the annals of C. Cornelius Tacitus, the Roman historian, written in Greek, about the middle of the ninth century. These manuscripts are on parchment and are well preserved. In the middle part of the sixteenth century the German ancestors of Beutler had these manuscripts printed in the Teutonic Latin, at Mainz, Germany, by Gutenberg and Faust, the first printers to use movable type. Hence these books are probably part of the first edition of the code and animals ever published. They are neatly printed, well bound in porpoise hide, and, although yellow with age, in excellent condition. Although quite small in size, Justinian contains 260 pages, and Tacitus 500 pages. They have been in the family 15 generations. Mr. Beutler's father, John Nipmuck Beutler, brought them to America from Baden, Germany. The annals of Tacitus have several Latin words on the fly leaf, written by Allen G. Thurman, formerly United States senator, who had the book in his possession for two years studying the history. He offered $800 for the book, and a larger sum for the other works, but Mr. Beutler refused. Fulfilled. "You will have trouble, miss," said the fortune-teller, "with a tall, dark man." And on her way home she was held up by a gigantic African and robbed of all the money she had failed to give the fortune-teller, amounting to 30 cents.—Chicago Tribune. Wise Crusoe. Silly Billy—Why did Robinson Crusoe call him Friday? Pious Percival—To save him from the cannibals. You can't eat meat on Friday, you know.—N. Y. Journal. ARIZONA SUN DANCE Although Ostensibly Christians the People of Various Far Western Pueblos Still Worship the Orb of Day. [Special] Acoma (Art.) Letter.1 Travelers return from India and tell us of the sun worship of the Parsees; of the prayers offered to the rising sun by devout citizens of Bombay. They would lift up their hands in amazement and horror were they told that there are thousands of sun worshipers in the United States of America at the present time. And yet such is the case. Every morning in the year men and women may be seen among our sun-worshipers, sprinkling their sacred meal to the rising sun and LEADERS OF THE SUN DANCE. praying to the great morning luminary to bestow all his best gifts upon them. "But," you ask, "where are such be- nighted heathen as this to be found in the United States?" In Arizona and New Mexico. The pueblo or town Indians of Isleta, Laguna, Zuni, Acoma, etc., are all worshipers of the sun, and daily their adoration is offered, as well as in special ceremonies of great pomp and importance which occur less regularly. If one leaves the transcontinental line of the Santa Fe railway on the journey to California, at the little town of Laguna in New Mexico, and drives, or rides horseback, 17 or 18 miles south, he will reach the wonderful "City of the Cliffs." Acoma. Here, in the first day of September of each year, the "feast of St. Stephen," the patron saint of the people, is observed. The feast is a strange and interesting mixture of Roman Catholic religious ceremonial and pure and unadulterated sun worship. I have seen the dance and its attendant ceremonies several times, and each time the "joinings" of the two kinds of worship become more apparent. The old priests, when Acoma was subjugated to Spanish rule 350 years ago, were wise. Instead of totally prohibiting the religious ceremonies of the people, they gave new and Christian interpretations to them, hence, today, we see an orthodox Catholic priest engaging in the rites of holy mass, and then marching in a procession to the plaza where the whole afternoon is spent in a dance performed in honor of the sun. During these processions the visiting Mexicans often unite with the Indians, though, regarding themselves as superior to the natives, they head the procession, and slightly to one side, and thus preserve their dignity unimpaired. One of their number, on one occasion, was induced to add charm to the performance by rendition of certain airs on his accordion. During a solemn song, when the Indians were praying for the continued blessings of Those Above, the accompanist compelled his accordion loudly and insistently to give forth the strains of "Marching Through Georgia." Soon he changed it to "La Paloma" and then, when the most solemn THE CONVERTED SCOFFER part of the ceremony was reached, he thrilled the religious feelings of his auditors by bringing forth with intense fervor and power that soul-stirring melody, "After the Ball Is Over." But, happily, unconscious of any incongruity, the earnest Indians sang on, and felt grateful to their Mexican friend for his helpful accompaniment. In one of the main streets was a bower made of cottonwood benches, in which the wooden figure of St. Stephen, the patron saint, was placed, and here, during the day, all the devout women came to pray, offer up thanksgiving, and, at the same time, deposit at the shrine corn, bread, melons, beans, and other products of their gardens as thankoffering. Then began the dances. Two families or clans took charge of this portion of the ceremonies. The women were clothed in all the finest garments they were able to obtain. Robes, elegantly woven and highly colored sashes, buckskin leggins, moccasins, necklaces and the like, and upon the head each woman wore a headress of wood or leather, a foot or more high, and painted or carved, or both, to represent symbols connected with the worship of the sun. The lightning, rain clouds, the sun, the moon, the morning and evening stars, the planets, the milky way even, were all represented upon these headresses. The men's chief article of clothing was the kilt, made of white cotton of home weaving and embroidered, in colors. Anklets, moccasins, necklaces and a hands around the head to bind the hair, with armlets and rattles, completed their outfit, while the women held twigs of pine or juniper in their hands, which they moved back and forth in time with the rattling of the men. Now watch the dance. The men come two by two, followed at a yard or so distance by two women, side by side, men rattling, women gently shaking their pine twigs. The men move their lower limbs in a wild, quick, hippety hop fashion that is as impossible to describe as it is to imitate, for I verily believe a French dancing master would strive in vair to learnt that "step." The women, or the other hand, follow the men in a kind of slow, gentle, shuffling movement, merely advancing a few inches at each "shuffle forward," and scarcely lifting their feet from the ground, but keeping perfect time to the gesticulating antics and frog-like jumpings of the men. By the side of the dancers is a band of men who form the chorus. These are singing with a lusty vigor never excelled by the congregation at a negro camp meeting. Their leader gesticulates with hands and arms, waving them to and fro, tossing them upwards and thus invoking the favors of the sun god and Those Above upon the dance. Some of their music is wild and crude, but one song was sung with a precision and accuracy of tone and attack that would have compelled admiration from the most critical of eastern audiences. Now the dancers face each other, and march and countermarch, then they march in open order, some going north and others south. Several complex figures are danced with perfect time and order, until the dancers are very weary and return to their underground "kiva" for a rest. Then the dancers from the other kiva come forth and keep up the ceremonies until they are ready to retire. And thus the afternoon is occupied. Here and there on the housestools groups of interested spectators may be seen, clothed in their picturesque garments, highly colored, white and variegated, and almost as interesting because of their pronounced absorption in the ceremony as the dancers themselves. Do you see that energetic dancer there? He seems to be the most sincere and earnest worshipper of the lot. And yet a few years ago that young man was taken into one of the kivas in the dead of the night, bound hand and foot and gagged, and whipped with a cruel rawhide scourge until his incarcerated back flowed blood, because he had ridiculed and scoffed at this religious service of his people. He had been to one of the United States government's Indian schools, where he was taupe ONE OF ACOMA'S WISE MEN. to look above the superstitious ideas of his people, and when he returned home his education complete, he dared to give expression to his radical ideas; this was the method taken to convince him that "conservation was the best policy." He evidently learned the last lesson well, for, when telling me the story, he said: "Watch me to-morrow, and you will see that I dance more vigorously than any other Acoma Indian." And so he did, but the religious influence of it was somewhat lost by the fact that each time I passed him and he thought he was unobserved by his people, he turned and gravely "winked" at me. Just as sun is about to set all the visiting Indians are called together and the chief shaman or medicine man throws one after another among them the gifts that have been placed on the shrine during the day. There is a great scramble for these gifts, for not only are they deemed of value, but the prayers and thanksgiving of the donors to the Great Sun are supposed to accompany the gifts, and thus bring blessings and good luck to the recipients. G. WHARTON JAMES. OPPOSED BY NAVY. Suggestion to Crente Two Grades of Vice Admiral Meets with General and Strong Objections. There is general opposition throughout the navy to the creation of two grades of vice admiral. This opinion was expressed to the president at the conference held with the Santiago captains in regard to the suitable reward which should go to the officers of the North Atlantic fleet. It is hardly likely the president will recommend congress to provide for two such grades, which is out of all proportion to the requirements of the service, and would furnish three high grades beyond any in the military service. In the conference there was little offered of personal character, and the discussion was on the broad lines of the needs of the service rather than on whether Sampson or Sebley was entitled to the glory of the Santiago victory. The creation of the grade of vice admiral will be used as an argument for the revival of the grade of lieutenant general in the army, and it is said that one of the first actions of Gen. Miles' friends in the senate will be the introduction of a measure which will have the effect of creating the new grade for him. It is by no means certain, however, that Miles will secure the place. There is abundant opposition to him still in the war department, and the withdrawal of Alger does not appear to have altered the conditions which prevailed under the latter's administration Miles' recommendations are unheeded and his communications are practically ignored. It took three weeks of time and the personal offices of a prominent army officer to secure Secretary Root's attention to a letter which Miles had written to the war department concerning the detail of a line major to his regiment in the Philippines. An amiable Dog. "I never saw one that I liked better. Is died the next day."—Titia. FUNNY FOLKS A Cause of Action "Uxory has sued Soaksm, the furrier, for alienating his wife's affections." "You don't mean it! Why. I didn't suppose Mrs. Uxory ever knew him." "She doesn't. But he exhibited the finest sealskin ever in this town in his window, and she won't speak to Uxory because he won't buy it for her." --N. Y. World. Both Modest Why cry for the moon, my wee laddie? There, then, of toys such a dearth? You want me to thank more than your daddy. You want me to take care of the earth. -Dirigit Erepe Pace ALEXANDRE BOURGOGNE Lord Potsoffin—Do you know what happened at your dance last night? No? Well, I'll tell you. I'm going to take away your sister. Does that surprise you? Tommy—No fear! Why, mother said it was 6 to 4 on about your popping; Sis said it was sixes; dad laid 2 to 1 against and 1 had a bet on at events!—Ally Sloper. A Crafty Fellow First Girl—There goes Mrs. Newly- wed; her husband is so careful of her health that he will not allow her to go shopping on a wet day. Second Girl—Hum! He probably fears she might get near enough to the counters to buy something— Judge. A Man's Revenge. "Mrs. Skinner has had to give up all the five clubs she belongs to." "Has she nervous prostration?" "No; but every time she went out of the house her husband moved all the furniture around."—Indianapola Journal. A. Necessary Requlste Dorothy had never seen any pumpkin pie until her first visit to the country, and to her grandmother's asking her if she'd have a piece the little girl replied: "No, I thank you. I never eat pie without a roof on it." —Judge Distinction. "I don't blame you for discharging your miud," said the friend. "She wasn't worth her salt." "All that I objected to," said Miss Cayenne, "was her fiery temper. She was worth her salt, but she wasn't worth her pepper."—Washington Star. Forestalling Accidents Severe Father—Clara, what is the meaning of the diamond ring on your finger? Clara—Oh, it is a sign that Harry has something to ask you that it will! do no good to refuse. Jeweler's Weekly. A Nocturne. I would I were a gentle owl, Then none would say me nay If all the night I chose to prowl Wept in the evening day. -Washington Star Old Lady—Aren't you cold, little boy? Boy—Nit! Dis cigar keeps me comfortable—N. Y. World. In Vino Veritas. A corkscrew has mounted its pull Upon a bottle that was full. "The trouble is, 'You must confess' It's owing to your crookedneck.' —Chicago Record. Judging by Appearances. Tommy—Say, Jimmie, wot is classic music? Jimmie—It's the kind you can't un- understand unless you wear long hair. N. Y. Journal. Explained. Knicker — Wonder why Cholly's so popular with the girls? He can't even express himself. Bocker—No; but his father can pay the freight!—Puck. A. Few Lines. Ida—Sometimes a few lines will cause a woman no end of worry. May—Yes; especially if they happen to be in her face.—Chicago Daily News. Borrows Everything Else. "Short leigh is always cheerful—never borrows trouble." "He has to draw the line somewhere." —N. Y. Journal. Always Host: Hewitt—Gruet has an eye to business. Jewett—Yes; one eye to his own and two to other people's—Town Topics. About the Size of It The giddy young man very early in life Falls in love with each girl he sees; He so nooner gets down on his lip on his knees on his knees. -Chicago Daily News Domestic Tragedy. Mrs. Grimes—How in the world do you get rid of your stale bread? I have to throw lots of mine away. Mrs. Smarte—There's no need for you to do that. Why not do as I do? I just hide it away from the children. Mrs. Grimes—Hide it away from the children? What then? Mrs. Smarte—Then the children find it, and eat up every morsel of it.—Tit-Its. Then She Called the Dog. Miss Sourface (to tramp)—Did you ever have a romance in your life? Tramp—Yes; mum; I had a sweet-heart once dat looked like you. Miss Sourface (setting out another piece of pie)—And did she die? Barred Out Dashaway—Hello, old man, what makes you look so sad? Billboard (the tragedian)—A friend of mine who lives in a town in Connecticut has asked me there to take dinner with him, and I can't go. Dashaway—Why not? Billboard—I acted there last month. -Harlem Life. A Mechanical Reply: Judge—And what did the prisoner say when you told him that you would have him arrested? Complainant—He answered mechanically, yer honor. Judge—Explain. Complainant—He hit me on the head with a hammer—Tit-Bits. Didn't Laugh with the Rest. Jones—What were the boys all laughing so heartily over? Brown—Smith got off one of his jokes. Jones—Why didn't you laugh with the rest? Brown—It was on me—Ohio State Journal. But the grocer said "Nit, No trust—not a bit, I'm an anti-trust advocate—see?" —Baltimore American DESPICABLE INSINUATION. Walker Dyes (telling of his success) —During the second act the audience arose in a body. Friend—Gee! Didn't any of 'em come back for the next act, old man?— Chicago Inter Ocean. Smoke. The chimneys that loom up so high Are like the men we know; Oftimes the lots of smoke above, —Chicago Times-Herald. Wonderful Preserity. New York man I hear you've had prosperous times in the west. Ohio Man—Well, I should say so! Why, potatoes grew so large this year, that they're mistaken 'em for pumpkins. Yonkers Stateman. His Thinker She—Oh! Then that must be the reason that you often sit around for an hour at a time without saying a word.—Chicago Times. Herald. Unusual. Dora- I wonder why Ernest has never thought seriously of getting married? her perhaps he has thought of it terse, seriously, Brooklyn Life. A. Mistake. Gladys—I thought you said he was rich? Mildred—Oh, no! I merely said he had more money than brains.—Chicago Times-Herald. The Two Filenames "It's influence that counts in politics," said the voter. "Yes," answered the practical politician; "but not so much as affluence." —Washington Star. Private. The young man asked to kiss the girl, And she, fearing he might fall, Did just what he intended to— She gently drew the veil. —Chicago Daily News. THE VOICE OF JEALOUSY. "He t'links her lips are sweet as sugar, does he? Well, dey oughter be, stuck up wid 15 cents' wort' of me candy."—N. Y. Journal. With a Photograph Look on this portrait with a genial eye; if faults you chance to note, please pass And, as you show it, do not say with glee: "This picture flattens human awfulness." Antithesis. "How did you come out with your little flyer in the stock market?" "That wasn't a flyer," answered the morose friend. "That was a sinker." —Waashington Star. A Louisville girl, who was recently in Germany, met a young English officer who was in the same city, and, in fact, in the same house with her for two months, studying German for his promotion. Like most people, he was a usual school idol about the girls of this country, who in the minds of the untravelled foreigner, are rather hoyden creatures who smoke and have other masculine traits. In one day, in the early acquaintance of the couple, the officer offered the Louisville girl a cigarette, and, upon her refusing it, he said: "Why, I thought all the girls in the United States smoked." The girl, "but never sigarettes; only pipes. If you will get that pipe off the mantellepiece in the next room I shall be charmed to smoke with you." Not suspecting the joke she was playing on, she told me that she and filled it, and it was not until he saw the wry faces his friend made in attempting to carry out the joke that he appreciated the situation. He was continually telling the American girl that he was like the girls at home in England, and her rejoinder was: "Leutenant, don't you think a lady is a lady, a world over?" -Lousville Courrier Journal. WILLING TO TRY IT. No Lineage Necessary as Long as He Had a Sufficiency of the Colin. "I suppose," she said, "that you had an ancestor in the celebrated little party that 'came over' with William the Conqueror?" He heaped the cake, "but I have never looked the matter up." "Of course you are a linear descendant of some one who came over in the Mayflower?" "I don't know. It is possible that I am, but have never hunted up the records. We had an ancestor we are descended from an officer of the revolutionary war, aren't you?" Finding himself cornered he broke down and confessed. My father's name was Sebo扎塞罗冬斯基 he changed to Dows with the sanction of the court." She sat for a moment, almost crushed. The hope seemed to return to her and she saw. "How much did you say you expected your father to leave you?" I figure that my share of the estate will be his. He said, "All right," she answered briskly, "we an worry along without the lineage and still be happy, dear." Chicago Times-Her NEEDED THE SOAP. The Amiability of Women Shoppers in a Bargain Store Rush Is Truly Fetching. It was at a department store bargain counter for odds and ends. Women squeezed and elbowed and shoved to get alongside the counter. Frequently two of them happened, to pick up the same bargain at one and the other, and clutch on it and looked daggers at each other until the stronger of the two won the victory or the bargain was rent into ribbons. A haughty matron with an electric seal coat picked up a box containing three cakes murrose for soap for eight cents at the same moment. She took the cakes out and an in a faded tan coat had fastened her grasp on the box. "I believe I was the first to take hold of this," said the matron in the electric seal coat, freezing. "The looking little woman held on for a minute, studying her antagonist, then she slowly relaxed her hold on the box. "Well, you can have it," she said, amably. "You look as if you need the soap." The bargain counter is the place to obey and love they one another—Washington Post. A. New Method. The public schools of a certain New England city have recently taken to an exacting form of art. The pupils are placed before a model and told to sketch as they see, they are given a model of the platform, and her classmates were given the usual order. The results varied. Some of the drawings looked like a human being in a state of repose, others like wooden dolls. A little older girl had drawn the chair and a little boy stood in front of it. "Mary," she said the discouraged teacher, "didn't I say: 'Draw Amelia as you saw her.'" "I'm," she said. "Well, is she standing in front of the chair?" "No'm. She's sitting in it." "Then why didn't you draw her sitting?" Tears came into the child's eyes. She was misunderstood. "But I hadn't got to it," she said. "I was just going to bend her down when you rang the bell."—Youth's Companion. A Trap of Her Own Setting. We have all met people whose pride in their possessions is so great that they can see no charns in those of others. A young botanist in a greenhouse gathers them through a conservatory of some of the choicest plants. Among the visitors was a would-be young-looking, middle-aged lady who at every description volunteered the task of taking care of the plants had at home were quite the equal of anything here or indeed anywhere. Just as they were passing a giant cactus she said, "Well, this is nothing extraordinary. I have a cactus at home that is still larger. I planted and reared it myself. The professor gently observed, "How remarkable! This specimen is 63 years old, and if yours is still larger—my lady did not stay to hear any more, but executed a strategic movement to the rear—Philadelphia Press. Just Like a Razor. The other day a man walked up to the cashier's desk in a large stockbroking concern and asked for a pen to indorse a note. He sputtered, blotting his signature, and he threw it aside with the popular exclamation: "Hair on it." "No wonder," one of the bystanders remarked, "it is shaving notes all day."—Chicago Chronicle. A Small Boy's Sarcasm Aunt Jane wanted to study, but little Wilie wanted to ask questions. After answering a few, saintie told Wilie not to talk Wilie there was a dead silence on Wilie's part for a moment, then in a plaintive voice he said: 'I s'pose you don't mind me thinking? You can't hear the thinking machine going, can you?'-Pittsburgh Dispatch. Some folks say this word is not dey home. Dat's why dey moves w'weener house rent come due—Atlanta Constitution. Clam chowder is often productive of the deepest melancholy—Chicago Daily News. Wit without wisdom becomes wearisome—Chicago Daily News. Most circus performers are well-posted.—L. A. W. Bulletin. Calling terms—telephone rates.—Philadelphia Record. If you are not entirely well, you are ill. Illness does not mean death's door. 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A LONDON physician declares that a person in robust health walks with his toes pointed to the front, while one with his health on the wane gradually turns his toes to the side and a bend is perceptible in his knees. In Mexico vanilla is a much used as a heart tonic. The plan is simply to take a piece of vanilla, as is used for flavoring, and to chew it. MINNESOTA FARMER DOES WELL IN CANADA. Virden, Manitoba, 18th Nov. 1899. Florence, Canada, the interior of Ottawa, Canada. Sir-Thinking that my experience in Manitoba might be both useful and interesting to my fellow-countrymen in the United States who may be looking to Manitoba and the North-West with the intention of settling there, I have much pleasure in stating that through information received from Mr. W. F. McCreary, Immigration Commissioner at Winnipeg, I was induced to visit Manitoba in February, 1698. When I called upon Mr. McCreary he spared no pains to give me all the information, &c., in his possession, the result of which was that I came here with a letter of introduction from him to the Secretary of the Virden Board of Trade. That gentleman provided with a competent land guide and altho' there was considerable snow on the ground, I had no difficulty in selecting three homesteads for myself and sons. Having made the necessary and fond entries at the Land Office in Brandon, I returned to my home in Lyon County, Minnesota, and came back here in May following accompanied by one of my boys, bringing with us two teams of horses, implements, &c. Our first work was to erect a temporary shanty and stable, after which we broke and levelled 75 acres and put up 30 tons of hay. I went back to Minnesota about 20th July, leaving my son here. I returned in October bringing my family with me. I found that the land we had acquired was of good quality being a strong clay loam with clay subsillow. Last Spring I sowed 100 acres in wheat, 50 acres in oats and barley (75 acres of this grain was sowed on "goback" plowed last Spring.) My crop was threshed in October, the result being over 2700 bu. of grain in all. My averaged 13 bu. p. ac. and graded No. 1 hard but that which was sown on land other than sod ("goback") went 24% bu. p. ac. To say that I am well pleased with the result of my first year's farming operations in Manitoba does not adequately express my feelings, and I have no hesitation in advising those who are living in districts where land is high in price to come out here, if they are willing to do a fair amount of work. I am 10 miles from Virdae, which is a good market town, and 9 miles from Hargrave where there are two elevators. This summer I erected a dwelling house of native stone and bought a half-section of land adjoining our homesteads for which I paid a very moderate price. There are still some homesteads in this district, and land of fine quality can be purchased from the Canadian Pacific Rye. Co. at $3.50 p. ac. on liberal terms. Good water is generally found at a depth of from 15 to 20 ft. I have 175 ac. ready for crop next year. The cost of living here is about the same as in Southern Minnesota. Some commodities are higher and others lower in price, but the average is about the same. I remain. Your obt. servant. (Signed) Jacob Reichert. New Wife—"I wish to get some butter, please." Dealer—"Roll butter, ma'am!" New Wife—"No! We wish to eat it on biscuits."—N. O. Times-Democrat. Dropsy treated free by Dr. H. H. Green's Sons, of Atlanta, Ga. The greatest dropy specialists in the world. Read their advertisement in another column of this paper. 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Admiral Blake Among the Pirates A Page from the History of Tamil. By David Ker. "HERE," said my French companion, pointing southward over the smooth, bright water, as we glided into the Bay of Tunis under the splendor of the African sunrise—"there is the place where a battle was fought which you Englishmen ought all to know by heart." "Admiral Blake's attack on Goletta, you mean?" "Just so. Yonder, where that sand-bank juts out, stood the five forts that defended the place, and the pirate ships were moored just behind them, in that little bay. Not mucu sign of all that now, is there?" Indeed it was not easy to call up any thought of battle amid the untroubled stillness and repose of that glorious landscape. Far along the eastern sky the great purple mountains stood out in endless range crowned with the two-peaked summit of the mighty Hamet-El-Lif. Through the deep, narrow gorges that cleft the huge mountain-wall every here and there the first rays of sunrise were just streaming across the vast expanse of blue, sparkling sea that stretched away to the north far as the eye could reach, with a few tiny white sails dotted over it like wreaths of foam. Along the western shore of the bay extended a line of low, green hills, upon the crest of which a mass of crumbling masonry marked the spot where the ancient citadel of Carthage had fallen before Scipio and his Romans. Just at the nearer extremity of the broad yellow sand-bar that spanned the whole breadth of the deep blue bay nestled the dainty little town of Goletta, and on the opposite hillside lay, like a drift of snow, the countless white houses, and crumbling walls, and tall minarets, and clustering palm trees of imperial Tunis. But despite the perfect peace of the spot which once witnessed the finest battle fought there since the fall of Carthage, the memory of that day's work will never die while one man of Anglo-Saxon blood remains to keep alive the instinct of courage and fair play, and standing up against the strong in behalf of the weak. It is well worth while for anyone, however he may hate war and blood-shed in general, to look back and see what was done here on a certain fine spring morning, two centuries ago. It is the 3d of April, 1653, and the whole city of Tunis is in an uprora. Wild faces, Ivid with fear or black with rage, crowd the narrow, winding, gloomy streets, which echo with the clamor of countless tongues, the tramp of feet, the clatter of horsehoofs and the rumble of artillery-wheels. Hundreds of swarthy figures, sword in belt and maten-lock on shoulder, are swarming over the decks of the nine huge war-galleys which lie moored close under the forts of Goketta. In the forts themselves crowds of men are hard at work running out heavy guns, pilling up cannon-balls, filling powder-hests, or laying sandbags along the ramparts as an additional shelter; and all eyes are turned watchfully toward the entrance of the bay, and the five great line-of-battle ships that are gliding into it, with the black mouths of loaded cannon gaping hungrily through their open ports, and the red cross of England—not yet altered into the union jack—futtered jauntily at the mizzen. High on the poop of the English flagship stands a talk, handsome man, in the uniform of a British admiral. His fine face is perfectly calm, but a close observer would notice that he wears the same set, stern look that it wore when he held Tauntontown years ago, against the bravest of Charles I's cavaliers. In truth a hard fight against overwhelming odds is nothing new to Robert Blake, the worthy forerunner of Rodney and Nelson; and the cause in which he is to fight to-day might well nerve any man to do his best. Yonder, behind those batteries that frown upon him from behind the shore, are thousands of Christian captives—many of them Englishmen like himself—chained, ragged, half-starved, blistered by the scorching sun, and seamed with the tears of whip and branding iron. And now, after years of hideous bondage among brutal pirates, which have made the memory of home and friends, and the hope of one day returning to them, seem clim and distant as half-forgotten dreams, their weary eyes see once the mwing of English flags over a fleet coming to their rescue. Well may the haggard faces brighten, despite the curses and blows of their savage taskmasters. When Admiral Blake came here three weeks ago with a demand for the "surrender of all Christian captives," and sailed away again with no answer save an insolent defiance from the bey of Tunis and his pirate chiefs, there was many a heavy heart among the prisoners. But to day he is here again, no longer to threaten, but to do; and the message which he brings this time is one which Tunis will long remember. "Don't thee be troubled, lad," says one of the admiral's crew to a curry-haired boy who is looking wistfully toward the shore. "We'll get thy father out of their claws yet, never fear!" The boys face glows at the words, and there is fight in his clear blue eyes which shows that if fighting is to be done to day he will not be hindmost. Ten weary years have passed since stout Tom Jackson, struggling for life on a dismasted wreck, was seized by these pitiless rovers; and the son, who was a child of five when he disappeared, had come back as a boy of 15, to take part in his rescue. Onward come the great floating castles, in a grim silence which aws the fierce Arabs in spite of themselves. Suddenly there comes a rattle and a splash, as all five ships cast anchor at once. Then a boat is seen gliding shoreward from the admiral's vessel with a flag of truce to give the over-confident pirates one last chance to surrender before it is too late. But instantly there comes a puff of white smoke from the nearest port, and heavy shot splashing up the water close to the boat's bow, showing what an answer the message of mercy has to expect. Then Blake's face is seen to darken ominously, and with his wonted tug of repressed anger at the point of his long, black whiskers, he gives the word to open fire. Then up through the still airs the stern cadence of the old Puritan battle-paulim, to the sound of which Cromwell's Ironsides had swept the best of the royalist soldiers from many a hard-fought field. "God is our refuge and our strength. In every in a strength aid." "Though hills amid the sea be cast, Though waters roaring make And troubled be; ye, though the hills are still Instantly sea and shore and sky were wrapped in one thick gust of hot, stifling smoke, while the warlike music was drowned by the roar of 500 cannon. Fire, smoke, yells, groans, curses, pelting shot, crashing timbers, falling stones, deafening cannon-thunder, all at once. Far away in the desert the wandering Arab stopped to listen to the dull booming of the distant cannonade, and trembled as he heard it. Men with powder-blackened faces fired at random into the cloud of sulphurous smoke that velled alike ships and forts, broken only by the sudden flashes that brought death along with them. Masts and yards came crashing down on one side, stones and mortar on the other; and still the smoke billowed, and still the cannon roared. But although the Arabs fought as fiercely as men could do, the dogged, unslackening steadiness of the English fire at length began to tell. The fort which had fired upon the flag of truce was fast crumbling into a shapeless ruin. Five guns had been dismounted in the second fort, and three more were standing盟, with all their gunners lying dead around them. In vain the Tunisians yelled and fired and struggled and shook their swords at the death-dealing ships, and lashed their prisoners forward to repair the shattered breastwork. Slowly but surely the battle was going against them more and more. Suddenly a curl of smoke was seen to rise from one of the pirate's galleys. The Arabs rushed like midden to quench the fire, but in vain. The smoke reddened into flame, while fresh spouts of fire broke from galley after galley, till the while pirate fleet was one red and roaring blaze. Then the enemy began to lose heart altogether. As their fire slackened, that of the British redoubled, and the cheers of the sturdy blue-jackets were heard, even through the thunder of the bombardment. "Hurrah for old England!" shouted a gray haired prisoner in the nearest battery. "Silence, dog!" roared a ferous Arab, striking him savagely across the face. That blow was an unlucky one for the striker. One swing of the iron bar with which the Englishman was working felled the Arab dead on the spot, and the next moment came a splash in the water, a shout from the flagship, and in a few minutes more the long-lost Tom Jackson was being hauled on board of her by his own son, amid a burst of cheering that seemed to split the very sky. Half an hour later all was over. The pirate prince, as abjectly mean now as he had been boastfully insolent before, sent to beg for mercy, and to promise the surrender of all his prisoners. The next morning Blake sailed out again with the rescued captives, leaving the defeated corsairs to recover their courage by slow degrees, and to bring down upon themselves by fresh misdeeds a still more terrible punishment. —Golden Days. Questions and Answers An inspector, well known for his weight, was trying to extract the word "desh" from a class. His eforts had failed, but, taking hold of his fat cheek between his thumb and forefinger, he pulled it out, and asked: "What's this?" The unhesitating answer came promptly: "Pork, sir." The same inspector was once giving an object lesson on an umbrella. To illustrate his subject he took his own silk umbrella, which happened to have a small hole in it. "Surely you know. What kind of an umbrella would you call it?" "An old 'un, sir.'—Good Words. How Long? Miss N. Eway—I see that the papers say Mrs. Weeds and the captain are to be married as soon as her period of mourning is over. Miss De Witte—Period, indeed! With most of these widows their periods seem to be merely question marks!—Puck. Costly Water Supply. London's new water supply will cost $35,000.00. Something for Mothers to Think About. EVERY CHILD born into the world with an inherited or early developed tendency to distressing, disfiguring humors of the skin, scalp, and blood, becomes an object of the most tender solicitude, not only because of its suffering but because of the dreadful fear that the disfiguration is to be lifelong and mar its future happiness and prosperity. Hence it becomes the duty of mothers of such afflicted children to acquaint themselves with the best, the purest, and most effective treatment available. FRUITS IN PUERTO RICO. Special Agent of Agricultural Department After Investigation Reports Them Of Poor Quality. Dr. O. F. Cook, special agent of the agricultural department, has returned from Puerto Rico, where he went to ascertain what species and varieties of plants are found there, in order that the department might be able to enter upon the work of securing others likely to be of use in improving and extending the agricultural industries. He finds that coffee, sugar and tobacco are the principal productions, and that fruits and vegetables sold in the markets of Puerto Rico are inferior in quality and unsuitable for export. The banana, for instance, has scarcely been considered as a source of income or an article of export. It has been planted principally for shade in coffee plantations, and as one variety was as good as another for this purpose, most of the bananas are unsalable. As the conditions for commercial banana growing are favorable, it may be expected that attempts in this direction will soon be made. It is necessary, however, that at least 500 acres be put under thorough cultivation, for the product of less land can hardly be marketed to advantage. There is room for great improvement in the production of coffee, and if modern methods were employed this industry would be much more profitable than it is at present. Oranges, limes and other citrus fruits, European grapes and other semitropical fruits and vegetables can be produced in the drier parts of the island, while from the moister parts vanilla, cocoa, mangoes and other strictly tropical plants can be exported. There are no localities sufficiently hot and humid for the rubber-producing plants of the Amazon valley, but the African rubber vines, if planted on the rocky pinnacles of the foothills, will thrive, and the wealth of the island can be greatly increased by their cultivation. English as She Is Spoke. Mrs. Brown—Our language is full of misnomers. For instance, I met a man once who was a perfect bear, and they called him a bear. Mrs. Smith—Yes, but that is not ridiculous as the man they call a "teller" in a bank. He won't tell you anything. I asked one the other day how much money Mr. Brown had, and he just laughed at me—Collier's Weekly. 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The hungry mendicant prefers the cold ham to the cold shoulder—Chicago Daily News. That the Cuticura remedies are all that could be desired for the alleviation of the suffering of skin-tortured infants and children and the comfort of worn-out worried mothers has been demonstrated in countless homes in every land. Their absolute safety, purity, and sweetness, instantaneous and grateful relief, speedy cure, and great economy leave nothing more to be desired by anxious parents. Evidence is found in the mass of letters received from grateful parents, testifying to the incalculable benevolence of the Cuticura remedies in the treatment of infantile skin and scalp disorders. There is a ring of truth and sincerity about the testimonials here submitted that stamps them genuine, and when a mother writes, as does Mrs. E. Butler of 1289 Third Avenue, Brooklyn, N. 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Mr. Lapham writes as follows:— "Our little daughter was troubled from her birth with eczema. Her face, arms, hands, and neck would break out with red pimples which would swell and become terribly inflamed, water would ooze and cause itching. Her skin would dry up and the skin would crack and peel. She suffered scratches and soft mittens on her hands to keep her from scratching. We gave two of our leading physicians a good trial, but neither of them helped her in the least. I purchased CUTICUA SOLUTION. She improved at once and is now never troubled, although we still need RESOLVET, three basks of CUTICUA SOLUTION." In a few forceful words, Mrs. C. Brand of Conesville, N. Y., vividly portrays an experience common to many mothers, and her letter, which follows, is full of comfort and encouragement for anxious parents: — I will never forget my boy began to break out with a scaly rash. It may have caused me to growl, but it glowing reports of CUTICHEA remedies and thought to try them. 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Women are especially liable to catarrh of the pelvic organs. There are one hundred cases of catarrh of the pelvic organs to one of catarrh of the head. Most people think, because they have no catarrh of the head, they have no catarrh at all. This is a great mistake, and is the cause of many cases of sickness and death. "Health and Beauty" sent free to women only, by The Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, Ohio. Send your name and address on our postal, and we will send you our 150- page illustrated catalogue free. WINCHESTER REPEATING ARMS CO. 180 Winchester Avenue, New Haven, Conn. The economy of the Cuticura treatment is shown by the letter of the man, W. M. Nichell, of Lexington, Okl., who spent one thousand dollars with doctors, specialists, and medical colleges in a vain attempt to find relief for his little son. A friend recommended the use of the Cuticura remedies, and he gives the following account of the cure:— "My son, when he was six weeks old, had a破陪 on the toes. It injured. It was over his head, and then his arms broke out from shoulder to wrinkle, this is what his legs from his knees to his ankles, was a solid scab. My family doctor treated him for eighteen months, but no good was accomplished. I tired four more, and then a medical college in St. Louis took him to a hospital, a thousand dollars in money and time. Old Mr. Barney Garris had my trying Cuticura remedies, telling me he had a spell like my child's himself. By the time my wife had used the Cuticura Ointment up, he began to improve and got so he could sleep short naps, and he was able to sleep for hours, fat, hearty, and stout as any boy, after six long years of liking, crying, and worrying. Cuticura cured him." Three children in one household suffering simultaneously from eczema. Such was the distressing condition of Mrs. Annie Ring of 515 East Thirteenth Street, New York City, who tells her experience in these words:— "My second child got eczema when seven months old. Three months later my first child got it, and following him the last one, two years old, for a victim. For twenty months they suffered sore rashes, and the other ones especially the sore and raw that the little ones were blind half the time. No words can describe the suffering of my second child, whose whole body was one bloody mass. He was constantly crying, could get no sleep, and he actually did not look human. I tried doctor after doctor, and the doctor ordered me to CUTICUA. The first application brought relief in case, and after fourteen days' treatment with CUTICUA SOAP and CUTICUA Ointment, the worst case was cured, and the whole neighborhood is surprised at the wonderful effect of CUTICUA." One of the most wonderful of cures is that of the little daughter of Mrs. G. A. Conrad of Lisbon, N. H., whose sufferings from eczema were so intense that her hands had to be tied to keep her from tearing her flesh. The mother writes: — "When my little girl was six months old, she had eczema. We had used cold creams and all kinds of remedies, but nothing did work. We had tried writing words, I used to write her hands, and when I would dress them, I used to table, for I could not hold her. She would kick and scream, and when she could, she would tear her face and arms almost to pieces. I used four boxes of CUTICUA Ointment, two cakes of CUTICUA REMOVAL, and she was cured, and I see no traces of the humor left. I can truthfully say that they have saved her life." It will afford us pleasure to have parents whose little ones are afflicted with any form of skin, scalp, or blood humor, write to any one of the above addresses for corroboration of the facts given, and we have no doubt that such an appeal will elicit still stronger testimony regarding the wonderful curative properties of the CUTICURA remedies. The full set, for complete external and internal treatment, costs but $1.25, and consists of CUTICURA SOAP (25c.), to cleanse the skin of crusts and scales and soften the thickened cuticle; CUTICURA Ointment (50c.), to instantly allay itching, irritation, and soothe and heal, and aid, the RESOLVENT (50c.) to cure the blood. A single set is often sufficient to cure the most torturing, disfiguring skin, scalp, and blood humors, rashes, itchings, and irritations, with loss of hair, when the best physicians, and all other remedies fail.