The Afro-American Advance

Minnesota Historical Society TWIN CITY NEWS. MINNEAPOLIS ST. PAUL. VOL.I. NO.51. MINNEAPOLIS THE ORIENTAL NATIONAL FAIR OF ST. PETER'S CHURCH under the auspices of the Wayman Home Circle, will be given on or about April 2nd, 1900, at some prominent place down town. Watch this paper for the exact time and place. The committee in charge has arranged to make the fair the red letter event in the church's history, and to this end they offer the following prizes to those selling tickets for the event: 1st prize, a fine upright grand Kimball piano, retailed at $350; 2nd prize, lady's writing desk or its equivalent in value, at the option of the winner; 3rd, mahogany rocking chair, or its equivalent in value, at the option of the winner. The giving of the first prize is upon the condition that the aggregate amount turned in from all the contestants exceeds $200. All persons desiring to enter the contest will hand their names in to W. W. Tucker, secretary of the committee, or at the office of this paper, 603 Northwestern building, on or before Feb. 10. Go to Miller's, Fifth street and Nicollet avenue, for your photographs. For good cigars call at W. S. Conrad's, corner of First avenue south and Fourt 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. Mrs. W. W. Tucker and Editor J. L. Curtis, represented St. Peter's C.E. society at the City Union Rally, Hennepin Ave. M. E. church, Feb. 5th. A number of competent musicians met Monday evening, at Hotel Brighton, to perform an organization the following day, elected W. W. Howard, president; M. V. English, vice president; W. W. Morton, treasurer; Fred Parkerson, secretary; J. Monroe, assistant secretary. The organization will be known as the Howard Brass Band. Refreshments were served. Adjournment to meet 15th inst. Last Thursday evening, after prayer meeting at Bethesda Baptist church, the members surprised Rev. Hart by filling the table with a variety of eatables. Rev. Hart appeared to be elated over the consideration shown him. Miss Leola Lewis, of Nashville, who was visiting her aunt, Mrs. H. H. Thompson, left for her home, Tuesday at 7:05 p. m., stopping at St. Louis for six weeks, and then proceeds home to assume her duty as a school teacher. February 14th, Normania Hall, Twelfth avenue and Third street, under auspices of West Hotel G. K. P. club, Masquerade and prize cake walk. $500 in prizes given away. Be sure and come to Valentine Social given by Wayman Home Circle, at 2205 Fourth avenue south, on Wednesday, 14th inst. Admission 50. Wednesday, 4th inst. (St. Valentine's day) Masquerade Ball and Cake Walk, given by West Hotel waiters, S. K. P. Club, Normania Hall, Twelfth avenue and Third street south. You are invited. Mr. Wm. Jenkins has made some improvements and addition in his lodging house. Miss Elleen Wheaton entertained at dinner Sunday Misses Bessie Milks; Bessie Moker; Eva Radderi; Messrs Chas, Miller, D. Kemp; G. Lucas, all of St. Paul. ST PETER'S A. M. E. The A. M. E. C. met Wednesday evening. Business of importance was transacted, after which the refreshment, Mrs. George Tillard is on the mend, Mrs. E. Danner was confined to her bed Sunday and Monday. Mrs. Lena Mason will preach the M. E. O. E. sermons, Sunday, the 18th of February, at 3 p. m. Everybody is cordially invited to attend J. Sellers, entertained Mrs. Lena Mason, and Mr. and Mrs. J. Woker, also Mrs. T. V. Parker, and Mrs. J. B. Koger, in honor of Mr. Arthur Ellis' birthday. Mr. Ellis also received a lovely box from his mother in Paris, Mo. Mr. Fred Martin is here from Mason City. Mr. Martin is expecting to get married in the near future. Mrs. Lena Mason is holding a successful revival at Rev. Allen's church, on the corner of Tenth street and Thirteenth avenue. Mrs. Sadie Williams is slowly conversing with Mrs. Franklin and Mrs. Harris, of St. Paul, were in Minneapolis last week in the interest of the Eastern Star, and called on Mrs. F. V. Parker Mrs. W. L. Redmond is going to the hospital next Tuesday. She is also on the sick list. Mrs. Lizie Noels is up again and attended services Sunday evening. MISSION OF FIRST A. M. E. CHURCH, 405 FIFTH AVE. S. Mrs. Geenup is quite sick, confined to her bed. Mrs. G. W. Lillard is some better and is able to be up. Remember the Box and Apron entertainment, Wednesday, Feb. 14th, and Valentine Postoffice at the Mission. Admission 5c; boxes 15c. Preaching on the Fast Side by the pastor at 11 a. m. Class 12 m. St. James chapel Evening at the Mission. Subject, "Go and See." By the pastor. Choir will sing. EDITOR J. L. CURTIS CALLED HOME. Wednesday afternoon, Editor Curtis received a telegram from Raleigh, N.C., the home of his parents, to attend the bedside of his dying father. He immediately responded. The Advance and pending legal business, he left in charge of a friend. Mr. Curtis will arrive at Raleigh. Saturday afternoon. With him the sympathy of his friends goes to meet the inevitable. The Afro-American Advance. ST. PAUL. DONT FORGET THE CENTURY ENTERTAIN- MENT. given by Minnesota Lodge No. 2, A. F. and A. M., on Feb. 12. On account of the great number of tickets that have been sold and the immense crowd ex- pected the place of holding the entertain- ment has been changed to Twin City Hall, corner Rice street and University avenue. An excellent program will be rendered as follows: 1. Opening Address...N. M. of Minn. Lodge. 2. Solo ..... Mrs. Bertha Wilson 3. Quartet, Mr. Chas. Charleston and Three Others. 4. "Lincoln's Favorite Poem," Miss Ella Charleston. 5. "Masonic Unity," Gr. Master J. L. Neal. 6. "Black and White," Master Freddie Parker. 7. "How Papa Was Initiated," Miss Clara Howard 8. "Lincoln".....Hon. W. R. Morris 9. Solo.....Mrs. R. C. Minor 10. Presentation of the diamond stud to the lucky winner, after which will follow the German, led by a prominent society lady and gentleman, which will last until 1 o'clock. Please take note that this is a departure from the usual entertainments, and the managers beg that all who participate in the German will appear in full dress. The committee having this splendid affair in hand are leaving no stone unturned to make it a signal success. All they ask of you is to come out, and they will do the rest. The committee consists of H. B. Howard, Daniel Roy, Howard Williams, J. H. Vincent, G. J. Charleston, J. S. Strong, Wm. Collins, Wm. Lawrence, G. S. Fabor, J. H. Dillingham, chairman. The "Advance" is prepared to do your job printing of all kinds at reasonable rates. Remember the place, 395 Thomas street. Kindly keep in mind that any item of news, social or otherwise, that you wish to publish will receive attention at 395 Thomas street also. After a stay of about 40 days at home, on account of a painful accident which he received on the dining car, Mr. B. W. Smith is able to resume his work as cook on the G. N. dining car, Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Smith entertained at dinner Wednesday Rev. and Mrs. J. C. Anderson. Mr. A. Plowin, the St. Paul and Duluth porter, that has been sick on the West Side, at the residence of Mr. Geo. Bell, left Saturday night, for his home, Memphis, Tenn., accompanied by Mr. L. D. Jackson, as traveling companion. Mr. Plowin steadily grew weaker as the days passed, and felt that he could not recover, so he begged to be carried back to his home and mother. Kind friends made it possible that his wish be gratified, and a letter has been received, telling of his safe arrival. The St. Paul and Duluth officials, Mr. Wm. Stafford, Mr. Chas. Morgan and others were Mr. Plowin's friends. The wife of Rev. Orner lies quite ill at their home on Martin street. Rev. J. C. Anderson is holding very interesting meetings at his church, corner Jay and fuller streets. He is expecting help from Chicago, in the person of the Rev. Mrs. Myers, an evangelist of great power and spiritual worth. Go and hear her. The Century entertainment given by Minnesota Lodge, No. 2, Feb. 12, at Twin City Hall, corner Rice street and University avenue, will be a circus, a regular mid-winter success. The admission fee will be 25 cents; not enough to frighten any one out of a good time. Bear in mind the german after the program. Bring your sister or some one else's sister, and have a dandy time Monday evening, Feb. 12. Godfrey's eating house, on St. Peter street, still holds first place as a clean, up-to-date cale. Meals only 25 cents. Thomas McCawley, the man who we reported at the City Hospital last week, is at his home, corner Twelfth and Jackson streets, this week, but expects to return to the hospital the latter part of the week, to undergo a delicate operation on the uterine if not both. Mr. McCawley is an Odd Fellow, therefore we do not doubt but that he will be cared for. TO BUY TISSOT PICTURES. Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences to Raise $60,000 for the Purpose. The board of trustees of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences held a special meeting the other day to consider a proposition to purchase a collection of about 400 paintings, representing the history of the life of Christ. A statement was made to the effect that, through the efforts of a number of members of the institute, an option had been secured for the entire collection of the original paintings of Mr. Tissot, at the remarkably low figure of $60,000. Carl H. De Silver, chairman of the committee on art museum, offered a resolution authorizing the director and art committee of the institute to raise by public subscription the sum of $60,000, with which to purchase the Tissot collection. After the adjournment the trustees agreed to contribute toward the fund necessary for the purchase of the collection, and to encourage subscriptions by others. The sum of $13,000 was subscribed, or more than one-fifth of the cost of the collection. Subcription papers will be prepared and circulated widely, and opportunity will be given to all the churches in the city to make contributions to the fund. The members of the board were of the opinion that while it would require considerable effort to raise the $60,000, the amount could be secured before March 1. MINNEAPOLIS AND ST. PAUL, MINN., SATURDAY, FEB. 10, 1900. THE PORTO RICAN BILL. Three Reports Are Submitted to the House on the Proposed Tariff Measure. RAISES QUESTIONS OF GREAT IMPORTANCE One Republican, Mr. McCall (Mass.), Dissents from Views of the Majority—The Minority Holds That Congress Has Not Power to Tax Our New Possessions. Washington, Feb. 9.—The reports of the bill framed by the ways and means committee, imposing duties equivalent to 25 per cent. of the American tariff on goods imported into Porto Rico from the United States and vice versa, were submitted to the house Thursday. The republicans of the committee, except Mr. McCall (Mass.), agreed to report in support of the bill, devoting a considerable portion of their argument to sustaining the contention that the clause of the constitution declaring that "all duties, imposts and excuses shall be uniform throughout the United States," is not applicable to our new possessions which they say, are not United States territory within the meaning of that declaration. Republican in Opposition. The democrats, together with Mr. Newlands (Nev.), took the contrary view. Mr. McCaul, dissenting republican, practically holds with them. He made a separate report, saying he cannot support the bill, "because it does not follow the rule of uniformity prescribed by the constitution—a rule which in my opinion governs congress in legislation for the territories of the United States." Mr. McCaul is unsparing in his denunciation of the policy to which the bill will commit the government, concluding his statement as follows: "I recognize our full duty to do our utmost to secure the welfare of the people of our new possessions." I regard it as a statement that our legislative act should be framed on the theory that freedom does not follow the flag. Is it not clear that at the outset you are paving the way for a more hideous extortion and robbery that ever disfigured Synopsis of Majority Report. The majority report was submitted by Chairman Payne. A synopsis follows: It says the 25 per cent, duty is necessary to prevent United States manufacturers of spirits and cigars from being at a disadvantage. A considerable portion of the report is devoted to a discussion of the crops of Porto Rico and markets for them; also the necessities for customs duties to be applied to the revenue of the island. The report declares that the revenue laws to be applied to Porto Rico are absolutely within the power of congress to determine. Discussing the question: "Is Porto Rico included within the meaning of the term revenue in the constitution," the report says. Not Included. "That it is not so included would seem apparent from a variety of considerations. It must be recollected that the term 'United States' has more than one meaning. It means, in the first place, the several states respectively that constitute the federal sense, all the territories over which the United States has jurisdiction, just as the British empire means all the component parts of the kingdom of Great Britain. But it means in its political sense that corporation which is the result of the federal union of the states is the component nation. It is undoubtedly in this latter sense that it is used in the constitution." Acquisition of Territory. Concerning the acquisition of territory the report states: "Subsequent to the acquisition of Louisiana the United States has acquired territory in a number of instances by virtue of the treaty making it a part of the territory of Louisiana and all of these cases, both by the terms of the respective treaties and by the legislation of congress with respect to the acquired territory, the doctrines announced in the report have been reaffirmed of Louisiana have been reaffirmed. "In each and every case it has been thought necessary, in order to modify the otherwise unlimited powers of congress, the treaties by which the territory was acquired. Power of Congress Unlimited. "So far as legislation with respect to these treaty-acquired territories has been had it is to be attributed to the guaranties secured by the terms of the treaty. In the case of territory acquired with no limitation, the power is absolute and exclusive, except in so far as it is limited by the thirteenth amendment to the constitution, which prohibits the existence of slavery in any place where slavery is practiced. In the case of Hawaii express recognition was made of the fact that its laws would remain in force until action by Congress. Nowhere is the distinction between the United States as subject to constitutional government more strikingly illustrated than in the unbroken line of decisions which in terms exclude territories from one of the main articles of the con- A Summary After citing many cases in support of its contention the report concludes: "First-That upon reason and authority the term 'United States,' as used in the constitution, has reference only to the states that constitute the federal union and to 'Second-That the power of congress with respect to legislation for the territories is plenary.' "Third-That under that power congress may different rates for duty for Porto Rico from those prescribed for the United States." The Minority Report The minority report is signed by all the democratic members of the ways and means committee and Representative Newlands, the silver member of that committee. It says in part: "The bill raises two questions which must be considered and determined. "First—The right or power under our written constitution to enact the measure. "Second—Whether, if we have the power, should congress exercise it in the manner provided by the bill. "The bill is framed upon the idea and the assumption that congress enters upon the government of Porto Rico unrestrained. "Third—Is the independence of the position taken by the majority of the committee in recommending the passage of the bill be the correct one and congress has the power to govern territory of the state, or is independent of the constitution. It must fol- low that congress is not restrained by that instrument from passing laws imposing customs duties on the minerals and ores of the territories of Arizona and New Mexico; and that the number of Oklahoma, and of all other products of these territories who imported into any of the states of the union and also upon all products of any kind into the territories from the states of any one of them. The laws passed in 1858 was never before claimed in our land." Sudden Change of Front After calling attention to the president's recent recommendation for the abolition of all customs duties between Porto Rico and the United States and the report of the secretary of war to the same effect, the response to the title of the "We do not believe the people of this land, ardently attached as they are to our free institutions, can be brought to favor a policy which oppresses the inhabitants of territory owned by the United States anywhere, and over which the flag should be displayed, even if such a policy should serve in a degree to curb civil citizens of the union. We protest earnestly against the adoption of a robber policy, which makes this republic take the place of the ruthless monarchy, Spain, in depositing Porto Rico, now a portion of the United States." We recommend that the pending bill do not pass. After the presentation of the reports Mr. Payne gave notice that he would call the bill up on Thursday, February 15. The house then proceeded to the call of committees. Several minor bills were passed, and at 12:00 p. m. the house adjourned. Senate. Washington, Feb. 9.—In the senate Thursday a house bill was passed granting the New Orleans levee board authority to move the existing lines in front of the United States marine hospital in New Orleans. After the morning business had been concluded, Senator Allen (Neb.) resumed his speech on the financial bill, which he began Wednesday. TO ASK RESTRAINING ORDER. Lawyers for Taylor Appear in United States Court of Appeals in New York Cineinnati, Feb. 9—Former Gov. W. O. Bradley and Attorney W. H. Mackoy, of Covington, Ky., as attorneys for Gov. W. S. Taylor, et al., appeared before Judge W. H. Taft, of the United States court of appeals, at noon Thursday and were given a hearing in chambers on the Kentucky conflict. Gov. Bradley and Mr. Mackoy hastened away from the federal building as soon as they came out of the private office of Judge Taft, and the crowd of waiting newspaper men rushed into the office of Judge Taft for a statement. Judge Taft stated that Former Gov. Bradley and Mr. Mackoy had with them a petition for a restraining order, but he did not examine it, although it is not denied that the defendants are the democratic Gov. J. C. W. Beckham et al. After hearing the statement of Former Gov. Bradley and Mr. Mackoy, Judge Taft announced that they should at once make copies of their petition for the defendants and furnish them with the same and notify them that the case would be heard in the United States court of appeals in Cineinnati on Monday, February 12, at two p.m. Former Gov. Bradley and Mr. Mackoy would not say anything about the nature of their proceedings or of the plans of their clients, but they seemed to be greatly pleased after their conference with Judge Taft and the prospect of having the case heard on its merits for an injunction next Monday. Forerom Congressman Sweeney and other attorneys are also in the city in conference on the proceedings, but the only ones who appeared before Judge Taft were Bradley and Mackoy. Frankfort, Ky., Feb. 9. It was rumored Thursday morning that Gov Taylor had prepared a proposition to be submitted to the democrats, demanding a special agreement for the repeal of the Goebel election law, and that the Goebel-Taylor gubernatorial contest should be decided by a vote of both houses separately, instead of joint session. Louisville, Ky., Feb. 9. The democratic members of the legislature, with very few exceptions, did not venture away from Louisville Thursday. A number had made all preparations to go to Frankfort to attend the funeral of Gov. Goebel, but the stories from London of a possible attempt to arrest enough democratic members to make a quorum and take them to the sent of the republican assembly caused them to abandon the trip. The usual formal session to comply with the law was held, an immediate adjournment being had until Friday. The Clark Case. Washington, Feb. 9.—W. M. Bickford, the Butte lawyer who assisted Senator Clark in his senatorial contest before the Montana legislature last winter, was again on the stand and under cross-examination before the senate committee on elections, when that committee resumed its investigation of the Clark case Thursday. The next witness was Former Gov. S. T. Hauser. Recess was taken before Mr. Hauser had concluded. Another Trenty Signed. Washington Feb. 9.—Special Plenipotentiary Kasson, for the United States, and Baron Fava, the Italian ambassador for his government, at the state department Thursday signed a reciprocy arrangement under the third section of the Dingley act. Miller Brought Back. New York. Feb. 9. — William F. Miller, the absconding head of the Franklin syndicate, of Brooklyn, a concern which promised to pay investors ten per cent, a week, was brought to police headquarters in his city. He was arrested in Canada. Disease from Paralytic Stroke. Menasha, Wis., Feb. 9. — William Gilbert, president of the Gilbert Paper company, of Menasha, died from the effects of a paralytic stroke suffered some years ago. THE LAST OBSTRUCTION. CLAYTON- BULWER TREATY. CLEARING THE WAY FOR THE ALL-AMERICAN DITCH. TORNADO INJURES MANY. Sweeps Over Collinsville, Ill., and St. Louis and Does Much Damage. FIERCE STORMS AT OTHER POINTS. At St. Louis Woman Is Killed by Live Wire and $20,000 Worth of Property Destroyed – Many Houses Wrecked at Collinsville and 14 People Hurt. St. Louis, Feb. 9. — Considerable damage to property in various parts of the city and vicinity was wrought between two and four dwellings in the morning by a windstorm that reached a velocity of 60 miles an hour, and was of the nature of a tornado. Between those hours the barometer fell to 29.35, the lowest point ever reached in this vicinity, according to the weather bureau officials here. Previous to the windstorm a terrific thunderstorm had raged for several hours, the rain falling in torrents. The rainfall was 1.9 inches. Killed by Live Wire. Mrs. Susie Thompson was killed by a live wire at Winnebago street and Marine avenue. The greatest dam- THE LAST C MILITARY Illinois Polyte Journal CLEARING THE WAY FOR age was to property in the burned district, between Franklin avenue, Morgan street, Third and Sixth streets. Here $20,000 worth of property was destroyed. Both the Western Union and Postal telegraph companies were seriously delayed by the loss of wires and poles east of the river. At Jefferson City, Mo., the wind and rain storm was one of the most severe ever felt there. It was followed by a fall of 32 degrees in temperature and a snowstorm, which is now raging. Anton Heister, aged 65, was blown from his door onto a stone walk and killed. Many Injured at Collinsville The town of Collinsville, 12 miles from St. Louis, on the Vandana railroad, narrowly escaped destruction by the tornado. Fourteen persons were injured in the immediate vicinity of the village, some of them fatally, and there was much damage to property. The miners who live on the outskirts last the most by the wind. A group of three fine residences standing on a bill were reduced to splinters. The injured are: Paul Quarandh, aged 23, severely bruised and burned, injuries perhaps fatal; Otto Oldderhoff, aged 13, arm broken, internally fractured and bruised; fractured and bruised, thought to be fatally injured; Newton Alderson, scald wound and bruised face, not serious; Theodore Lawrence, cut and bruised and internally injured; the father of Frank Kobart, daughter of Frank Kobart, severely cut and bruised; Tony Skala, wife and two children, badly bruised; Barney Fallette, scald wound and arteries; Tom Formati, left arm broken. The last two farmers, badly bruised, hundred About 2:30 a. m. the storm was first felt at a point one mile south of Collinsville. The first house demolished was that occupied by Frank Kobart, He, his son and daughter were buried in the debris, and it was some time before they were rescued, bruised and bleeding, from the wreckage. They were carried to a neighbor's house, and given such care as could be had until physicians should arrive from the village. From this place the wind swept to the north, its path being west of Collinsville, by a quarter of a mile, and the last trace of the storm is to be observed at Hightsville, a manufacturing suburb, one mile away. Terrife Windstorm. Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 9.—A terrific windstorm swept western Indiana and eastern Illinois early Thursday morning. At one time during the early morning the Western Union Telegraph company's wires were down. The Postal Telegraph company reported wires down beyond Edwardsport, and also in the southern part of the state. Telephone messages from the western border of the state and from points in Illinois indicate that the storm was most terrific at Collinsville, Ill., a town on the Vandalia railroad west of Terre Haute. A ReuI Blizzard. St. Paul, Minn., Feb. 9.—Beginning Wednesday night this section has had the nearest to a real blizzard of the winter, which has been very open and mild thus far. It has rapidly grown colder and below zero weather is promised for the entire northwest. St. Paul, Minn., Feb. 9.—A Chippewa Falls (Wis.) special to the Dispatch says: A blizzard commenced here at 11 o'clock Wednesday night, and is still raging. About 14 inches of snow has already fallen, and a northwest wind has drifted in. The cold is intense. In Iowa. Des Moines, Ia., Feb. 9—The blizzard which raged all night has subsided. Street car traffic was blockaded for several hours, and all trains are late. St. Paul, Minn., Feb. 9—A Brita (Ia.) special to the Dispatch says: The worst blizzard in years is raging. The temperature is below zero, and several inches of snow has fallen. Heavy Wet Snow. Marquette, Mich., Feb. 9. — A heavy wet snow has been falling since early morning, completely tying up street car traffic for the first time this sea- In Wisconsin. La Crossse, Wis., Feb. 9.—Wednesday afternoon's storm developed into a brave snowstorm at night, accompanied by a high northwest wind and falling temperature. The ground is BSTRUCTION. LAYTON BULWER TREWY THE ALL-AMERICAN DITCH. now covered by six inches of new fallen, heavy, slippery snow. Street car traffic was kept open only by continuous *e*orts and all incoming trains were somewhat delayed. At Other Points. Wichita, Kan., Feb. 9.—The heaviest snow of the season began falling at night and continued Thursday. Trains are delayed on most of the roads. Omaha, Neb., Feb. 9.—The storm, reaching almost the proportions of a blizzard, which swept over Nebraska Wednesday night, is still raging. Denver, Col., Feb. 9.—Following the blizzard of Wednesday night, the weather here Thursday morning was clear but cold. THE GOEBEL FUNERAL An Impressive Affair = Immense Crowds Attend=The Services at Cemetery. Frankfort, Ky., Feb. 9. — Gov. Goebel's body lay in state all of Wednesday right with only a few guards around the bier, but very few people passed though the parlor after nine o'clock. Thursday morning the crowd was even greater than that of Wednesday. By ten o'clock the lobby of the Capital hotel was a seething, wriggling jam, through which it was almost impossible for one to thread a passage. Simple services had already been conducted in the parlor of the hotel, consisting merely of a short Scripture reading, singing and prayer. The ceremonies in the cemetery proper were on a much larger scale, and were intended for the people at large. The people were there in great numbers and when Elder William Stanley arose to make the first prayer, he stood in front of a throng numbering not less than 7,000. Then came a solo by Mrs. Jessie D. Caldwell, addresses, religions in character, by Dr. T. N. Arnold, Rev. E. G. B. Mann, Dr. Schmitt and Elder William Stanley. Then came "America," sung by a quartette, and the oration of the day, delivered by Senator Blackburn. Addresses were also made by Gov. Beckham, ex Gov. McCreary, Congressman Wheeler Judge William S. Pryor and others. Music, followed by the benediction, closed the services in the cemetery. A Desperate Deed. La Croise, Wis., Feb. 9.—A special to the Republican and Leader from Middle Ridge. Wis., snys: Edmond Ott shot and bidly wounded his wife, killed his young third, set fire to his house, which was totally destroyed, and then committed suicide. Twenty Drowned. Victoria, B. C., Feb. 9. — Oriental advices state that a junk was caught in a snow squall on the Wuhu river and turned turtle, all on board, numbering 20, being drowned. MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY. PRICE FIVE CENTS. SUFFERS A HEAVY LOSS. Gen. Buller Reports Nearly 250 British Killed and Wounded at Potgieter Drift. HOLDING HIS POSITION ON THE TUGELA. Report from Spearman's Camp Asserts That Relief of Ladysmith Is Certain —Armed Natives Found Among Boers—Boer Position at Hensberg Being Shelled. London, Feb. 9.—A cable dispatch received in this city from Spearman's camp, under Tuesday's date, says "Buller holds his position. Relief is certain." Found Armed Natives. A dispatch to the London Times from Spearman's camp says that when the Durhams reached the top of Vaal Krantz, "over 50 of the enemy, who were still defending the position, fled," and "more than half of these were armed natives." Buller's List of Casualties. London, Feb. 9.—Gen. Buller has cabled to the war office that the approximate British casualties in the fighting at Potgieter drift up to noon Tuesday are: - Officers A killed and 15 wounded; non-combatured officers and men, 261 killed and wounded. The officers killed were Maj. Johnson-Smith and Lieut. Shaffo, both of the Durham light infantry. The officers wounded include Col. Fitzgerald, of the Durham light infantry, and Col. A. J. Montgomery, of the Royal artillery, and Col. A. A. Cunningham, of the rifle brigade. Maintain His Position. Modder River, Feb. 7.—Gen MacDonald maintains his position at Koedoesberg drift. His movement has evidently disconcerted the Boers, and at the same time safeguards the operations of a portion of the Belmont garrison in the direction of Douglas, where there are still a few Boers. The British casualties till now are two men. The Ninth lancers made several attempts to draw out the Boers, but were unsuccessful. The British hold the highest portion of the kopje, the Boers' position being on the lowest portion. Owing to the steepness of the southern slope of the kopje, it is impossible to mount artillery. The usual daily shelling here continues. The outposts report that the Boers are making advanced trenches in the open plain in front of Magersfontein drift, presumably to prevent the British horse and field artillery from approaching within range of their positions. Shell Boer Position. Rensberg, Feb. 9. - The Boer positionen was vigorously shelled with lyddite for an hour early in the morning, eastward from opposite Slingerfontein, and westward from the top at Coles kop, a 15-pounder shrapnel gun paying special attention to the sites of the Boer guns, which have been unusually active lately. The Boers hold a position half way on the direct road between Renberg and Colesberg. They shelled Porter's hill Wednesday ineffectually. Important Battle Raging. London, Feb. 9.—Presamably Gen. Buller is fighting again in his third attempt to relieve Ladysmith, and news of the greatest import may arrive at any moment. Yet here there is more doubt than exultation, for, even if the recollection of Gen. Buller's two disastrous failures after auspicious starts were not keen in the minds of the public, the list of casualties published Thursday would be a sufficient reminder of the tremendous difficulties of his task. His occupation of Vaal Krantz, the key to the lower ridges, while a praiseworthy and gallant achievement, by no means signifies that he and Gen. White will inevitably join hands. Before Gen. Buller there are several days of hard fighting, and any attempt to forecast the result would be valueless. Remains Reach Washington Washington, Feb. 9.—The train bearing the remains of Gen. Henry W Lawton completed its trip across the continent at 9:30 Thursday morning, when it rolled through banks of mist into the Pennsylvania railroad station. Adjut. Gen. Corbin met the party at the depot and troop H. Third cavalry, from Fort Meyer, acted as escort to the Church of the Covenant, where Gen. Lawton's remains will rest until the funeral at Arlington cemetery Friday, To Meet at Charleston. Winona, Minn., Feb. 9. — Charleston, S. C., has been unanimously chosen by the executive committee as the place of meeting of the National Educational association, July 7-13 inclusive. The people of Charleston have made every preparation for the accommodation of delegates and visitors, and generous rates, ticket conditions, diverse routes and stop-overs are offered by railroads. Names the Committee Denver, Col., Feb. 9.—Secretary Martin, of the National Livestock association, announced the special committee appointed by President Springer to prepare and present to congress a bill for the leasing of the arid lands, with Hon. Jesse G. Northcutt, Trinidad, Col., as chairman. Culberson Can Have It Des Moines, Ia., Feb. 9. — Gov. Shaw announced that he would send the name of Banker W. L. Culberson, of Carroll, to the senate, for confirmation as a member of the board of control, if Culberson would accept. A Semination. Washington, Feb. 9. — The president sent to the senate the nomination of John M. Lenihan to be surveyor of customs for the port of Dubuque, Ia. Office, 603 Northwestern Bldg. Minneapolis, - - - - - - - Minnesota Entered at the Post Office, at Minneapolis, Minn., as second-class matter. Subscription Rates: One Year - - - - - $1.00 Six Months - - - - .60 Three Months - - - .35 Special rates if ordered by the dozen. Offer the current issue should reach the officiant. Advertising Rates. Local Reading Notices, 10c per line each insertion. Religious Notices (not over five lines), free, "Want" and "To Let" advertisements, 8 cents per line for each insertion. Display, 40 cents per inch each insertion, Special rates will be given for space by the year. Editorial Announcements. To secure the return of unsolicited manuscript postage should be enclosed. Communications must reach the office by Wednesday morning, preceding the issue in which they are to appear. All communications, enclosing news matter for publication, must bear the year of publication, but as an evidence of good faith. Contributions and items of news concerning the progress of the colored race are requested from our readers. We reserve the right to reject any communication unsuitable for publication. Subscribers ordering addresses of their paper changed are requested to give their former as well as their present address. Address all communications and make all remittances to THE APFO-AMEI-COMMUNICATIONS. JAMES L. CURTIS, Esq., EDITOR. MIR. GEO. DUCKETT, Associate Editor EDITORIAL The Goebel tragedy, which occurred at Kentucky's capitol a few days ago, is simply a beginning of the "White Man's" problem in the South. The lawlessness which has heretofore been allowed to prevail as an offspring of the negro problem, inevitably sought "bigger game" than the life of a poor negro. The spirit of lawlessness when it has attained its full growth as that of the South, will find its victims among the law makers, judges, U. S. senators and any member of the social and political realm. All that is needed, give the "call" plenty of rope and watch the proceedings. If the good white people of the South fail to unite upon the enforcement of constitutional laws, the law breakers and assassins will completely devour the Southland. The United Brotherhood, launched by Prof. Booker T. Washington a few weeks ago at Bethel A. M. E. Church, Chicago, bids fair to be the greatest negro enterprise in the world. The imperial council officers stand among the first in their respective professions. Minnesota can boast of the citizenship of three of its chief promoters: Hons. Alex, Miles, M. H. Seeley, of Duluth, J. Frank Wheaton, Minneapolis, Hons. E. H. Morris, E. H. Wright, Rev. W. H. Weaver, D. D., S. Laing Williams, Esq., D. H. Williams, M. D., need no introduction to the public. With such men as directors great success must follow their careful and deliberate actions. Why don't our negro weeklies give us more editorials on race matters and let the Philippine and other international questions be discussed by the dailies. We read the dailies! We want opinions on subjects that our cosmopolitan dailies overlook. Give us men in the Twin Cities who will not shrink at the idea of investing a dollar, win or lose. We live by chance and no man can hope to achieve anything unless he take a chance and conform to the inevitable. Rev. D. A. Graham, former pastor of St. Peter A. M. E. church, is filling his new position as financial agent of Wilberforce University creditably. Rev. Graham is an able man and should do honor to the position he now holds. The Afro-Americans of Chicago believe in race progress. Their business places are well up in the hundreds. We hail with pleasure the new negro enterprise which is about to be launched in our city. Suspicious. Stranger- Do you know a man around here by the name of Brown? Man in the Door- Er-tall man? "Can't say; you see, I never met him. I am an attorney and a rich relative of his hawk." left him a fortune. "I'm in the inn. in. Do you know, I thought you were the new gas collector. V.- Ohio State Journal." Some Are So Clever "Sometimes it's a good deal harder not to propose," returned the man of worldly experience, thoughtfully. "It's always well to be on your guard." -Chicago Post. In Old Missouri. Mrs. Goodwin—Here's a quarter, poor man. But tell me, pray, what ever brought you to this miserable state? Dust Rhoebe—Me-met armobelm, ma'm: Dust Rhoebe—Me-met armobelm, ma'm: I axertent, lly stray 'd across de line,见—Chicago Evening News. The Cornfed Philosopher "There is only one man less respected than the man who won't pay his bill," said the Corned Philosopher, "and that is the man who can't." -Indianaapolis Journal Hia Opinton. Mr. Black—Dem Filipinos am valler. Mr. Johnson—Yes; but dat doan mean dat dey's mulatters. Dey's a inferior race. —Puck. "You shall pay dearly for this!" he hissed, and the person addressed did, for it was the coal man, who had just deposited a ton in the cellar, who made the remark. —Philadelphia North American. "Were there no servants in the intelligence officer?" asked the wife. "It was full of 'en', returned the lonely husband, 'but they had all worked for us before. —Philadelphia Inquirer." SITE GIVEN FOR MONUMENT. The City of Paris Dontates the Ground for the Statue of George Washington. The Washington Statue association, of which Mrs. Field is president, and the object of which is to present to France a statue of Washington, commemorative of the gratitude of the women of America for the aid rendered to their country in its hour of need by France, has just received a concession from the municipality of Paris of a site for the statue on the beautiful Place de Iena, at the intersection of the Avenue De Iena and the Avenue De Trocadero. The monument will be thoroughly American in that the statue was modeled in this country by American sculptors and has been cast in bronze by an American company. Moreover, the pedestal was designed by an American and will be executed in American granite. Washington is represented with uplifted sword, invoking Divine aid. The statue is equestrian, of bronze and of heroic size, being about 21 feet in height to the point of the sword, and is to be erected on a pedestal of granite 14 feet in height. The monument is to be unveiled on July 3, the anniversary of the day on which Washington assumed command of the army. The statue has been paid for, but several thousand dollars are still needed for the completion of the pedestal and for the expenses incident to the unveiling. The association hopes for the prompt cooperation of all patriotic women of the United States in raising the amount required. David Highly, of Indiana, to Pay $1,000 to a Man Who Saved His Wife. A singular damage suit was closed in the Howard court circuit at Windfall, Ind., the other day by the jury returning a verdict for the plaintiff in the sum of $1,000. Some time during the high waters last spring David Highly and wife were driving over the bridge across Pike creek after night when the structure aave way, precipitating the horse and buggy and Highly and his wife in the middle of the stream. Highly by some means managed to reach the shore, but his wife was carried down stream several rods, where she luckily caught the limb of a tree that extended above the water, and cried for help. The husband ran frantically up and down the bank calling for help. Ratherford and a man by the name of Miller, residing near, heard the cry of distress and rushed to the scene to learn the nature of the trouble. When they arrived Highly was offering $1,000 to anyone who would take the risk and rescue his wife. Retherford and Miller braved the waters, and by wading and swimming reached Mrs. Highly as she still held on to the limb and brought her to the shore. Some time afterward Retherford called on Highly for the reward as offered, but he declined to pay, saying he was excited at the time of the accident and did not really mean to offer the $1,000 reward, hence the suit, with the result of a judgment for the plaintiff for the full amount of the claim. NEARLY BURIED ALIVE Supposed Corpse Comes to Life When Put on Ice—Experience of Alfred Umbricht. Alfred Umbricht, a well-known caterer in New Haven, Conn., returned the other day from New York city with a story to the effect that he came within an ace of being buried alive. He said he was taken ill with typhoid fever and moved to St. Joseph's hospital in New York in October last. He became so low that the doctors informed his young wife that there was no hope for him. At that time, Mr. Umbricht says, he was lying in a cataleptic condition, and the doctor thought him dead, but forebore to break the news abruptly to his wife. The house surgeon, after falling to secure any signs of life by the ordinary means, concluded that he was dead and had his body taken to the ice vault, which is used as the hospital morgue. As soon as the cold air of the apartment struck Umbricht's body it affected him perceptibly, and signs of life were discovered. The body was at once taken back to the ward and Umbricht awoke. He has been improving ever since. PLEASED WITH ALBANY. United States Naval Officers Like the New Crutser Recently Completed in England. Naval officers are agreeably surprised at the admirable showing made by the new cruiser Albany, which is being completed at the Elswick works in England. The American naval attach in London recently attended the trial trip of the ship, and in his report to the navy department says: "The performance of the engines and boilers on both days gave perfect satisfaction. I have no doubt the ship can readily make 21 knots, as the firingroom and engine-room force took the work easily and quietly and steam was blewing off almost continuously during the forced draft runs. So easily were the results obtained the contractors offered to show 21 knots for the forced draft runs for a bonus of $3,000. The engine-rooms and dynamo-rooms were cool and entirely comfortable. Vibration from the screws was considerable in the captain's cabin, but outside of that neither the screws nor the engines were particularly noticeable." Population of Pretoria Pretoria, the capital of the Transvaal, is a small city of about 8,000 white population. It takes a woman to be unhappy thinking how unhappy she would be if she were not as happy as she is. — N. Y. Press. He (after the fourteenth round)—“How I love to dance!” She. “When I should think you’d learn. — Town Tones. Somehow baldness is far more contagious than goodness. — Chicago Daily News. Some people say a great deal, but talk very little. — Chicago Daily News. Don't take physics when you should take exercise. — Elliott's Magazine. ACTRESS REBUKES BOX PARTY Dorothy Morion Stops Play at Quebec and Orders Women to Cense Noise. Dorothy Morton, playing the "Greek Slave" with an opera company at the Academy of Music at Quebec, rebuked a box party. The house was crowded and in one of the boxes was a party of women, including the wife of one of the provincial ministers and the daughter of a member of the Ottawa government, while in the adjoining box were two French members of the provincial legislature. During the love scene in the first act Miss Morton suddenly stopped and, facing the people in the box, declared they were annoying and insulting her and that if they continued she would have them put out. One of the younger women leaned forward to look into the box in which were the two men, apparently assuming they were the persons reprimanded, when Miss Morton, pointing her finger at her, exclaimed: "You are the person I mean." The girl hastily withdrew into the box, blushing, and the play went on. TAKES A WIFE Jesse James, Son of the Outlaw, Mar ries Miss Stella McGown at Kansas City, Mo. Jesse James, son of the famous outlaw, was married at Kansas City, Mo., the other night to Miss Stella McGown, a pretty brunette of 18, who fell in love with young James during his trial for train robbery a year ago. When James was acquitted Miss McGown sent him a huge bunch of carvations and the note he sent in acknowledgment was the beginning of their acquaintance. Mr. and Mrs. James will spend their honeymoon on the old James homestead in Clay county, Mo., occupying the house that the elder Jesse James and his gang loopholed for defense against the officers of the law. Many persons of prominence attended the wedding, including R. L. Yeger, of the board of education, E. F. Swinney, cashier of the First national bank; Thomas T. Crittenden, Jr., and the uncle of the groom, Frank James, of St. Louis. PATRONIZE... WM. JENKINS, ROOMS FOR RENT FIRST CLASS. We Guarantee Superb Service. Prices moderate. Tel. 2737-L-8 Main. No. 9 Second St. No. Minneapolis. On Sights and Scenes of the Campaign in the... Philippine Islands BY BENJ. OHRMAN. Of the 13th Regiment, Friday night, January 26, at St. PETERS CHURCH. Admission 15c. Children 10c. J. GARNER. W. H. WELLER. The Elite Buffet 3030 STATE ST., FINE WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS. Chicago. BIJOU TRUNK FACTORY WM. LORENZ, Prop. Trunks & Traveling Bags Sample Trunks and Cases Made to Order. 18-20-82 Wash. Av. N. Minneapolis, Minn. Branch: Fifth and Nicelet. MRS. J. B. WATSON. Cutting, Fitting and Making Over a Specialty. New York and Paris Fashions Always on Hand. Parlors, 628 Fourteenth Ave. South. DR. R. S. BROWN. Physician and Surgeon. Office: 405-6 Reeve Bldg., 408 Nicollet Av. Telephone 2734-3-8. Office Hours: 9:30 to 12:30; 2:00 to 4:00 p. m.; 5:30 to 7:00 p. m. Sundays: 9:30 to 11:00; 12:30 to 2:30. Residence: 2839 Portland Ave. Telephone 317-L-South. 311 Everett Street (North), PORTLAND, - OREGON. H. PERRY, Manager. Meals at all Hours, Night or Day The Very Best Coffee a Specialty. MR. L. A. JOHNSON The gentlemanly and obliquing Porter at R. De Leo's Barber Shop, 200 Washington Av. South, is Always Ready to Dress Your Shoes in a thoroughly artistic manner, that is sure to win. JAMES L. CURTIS. LAWYER 603 Northwestern Blvd., Minneapolis. Cor. 4th St. and Hennepin Av. Telephone, Main 2460 L-1. MRS. W. F. HALL. Furnished Rooms TABLE BOARD IF DESIRED. Prices Reasonable. 246 East Seventh St. Up-Stairs. 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. SOCIETY DIRECTORY. Officers and Standing Committees of the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge A. F. and A. D. Minnesota and Infractions Grand Master L. N. Lea Minnesota. Appointed Grand Master—Wade H. Hampton, West Superior. Grand Senior Warden—H. B. Howard, Sr. Grand Junior Warden—J. C. Garner, St. Paul. Grand Treasurer—Daniel Roy, St. Paul. Grand Secretary—William R. Morris, Minnesota. Grand Senior Deacon—John Martin (1), St. Paul. Grand Junior Deacon-R. De Leo (7), Minneapolis. Grand Junior Wardier-J. H. Dillingham (2), St. Paul. Grand Junior Wardier-Wm. Stevens (3), Grand Junior Tyler-T. Bush (3), St. Paul. Grand Marshall-C. H. McDonald (6), Dallas. Grand Pursuivant—G. W. Duckett (4). St. Paul. Grand Sword-Bearer-J. Adams (1). St. Paul Grand Standard-Bearer-J. G. Charleston (2). St. Paul. Register-J. G. Sterett (6). Minneapolis. District Reply. Grand Master—First District Reply. Grand Master—Second District Reply. Grand Master—Second District—E. H. Hamilton (6). Minneapolis. Third District—I. K. Kop (6). Duluth. MINNEAPOLIS G. U. O. O. O. F. St. Anthony Lodge, No. 2877. Meets the first and third Wednesday in each month for the transaction of business and personal expenses. M. H. MYRICK, N. G. JAMES A. SCOTT, N. G. KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS. Nat. Turner Lodge, No. 2, K. of P. Meets the second and fourth Thursdays in each month. Brothers in good standing Fourth and Eighth avenue south. RALPH WATSON, K. R. and S. PRIDE of Minnesota Lodge, No. 1, K. of P. Meets the first and third Thursdays in each month. All brothers in good standing welcome. At Plummer Post Hall, First avenue and Second Avenue, JAMES ROBERTS, C. W. C. JEFFEKY, K. R. and S. J. K. HILYD Lodge. Meets the first Thursday in each month at Windmound Block, Second South and Washington. Masons in good standing always welcome. W. LILLARD, W. M. JASPER GIBBS, Sec. Guaranty Loan Restaurant. Anchor Lodge, No. 7, A. F. and A. M. Meets the second and fourth Thursdays in each month at Windmound Block, Second Avenue South and Washington. Masons in good standing welcome. SCOTT, W. M. A. B. LEE, 701 Aldrich Avenue South ODD FELLOWS. Meets second and fourth Wednesdays in each month at Odd Fellows Hall, 225 West 45th Street, New York, NY 10017. T. R. HICKMANN, P. S., 422 St. Anthony thony. F. D PARKER, N. G. 235 Edmund St. Household of Ruth, N. 553, G. U. O. of O. F. Meets first and third Monday in each month for business second Monday for meetings, at Odd Fellows Hall, 525 Wabasha. MRS. SARAH C. KIRTLE, M.N.G. MIDDLE DA JACKSON, W. R. 74. 74um place. MORT WORSHIPFEL GRAND LODGE OF MINNESOTA, A. F. and A. M. H. B. HOUSTON, Grand Master. WM. B. HOUSTON, Grand Master. S. GUARANTEY Loan Bldg. Minneapolis. ST. PETER CLAYER'S SODALITY. Meets the first and third Mondays of each month. Gardner, Pres. J. S. Harcock, A. D. Harcock. Pioneer Lodge, No. 1, A. F. and A. Mets the first Monday in each month at Masonic Hall, southwest corner Fifth and sixth standing always welcome. LLEWY, W. M. W. A. HILYARD, Sec. 124 Atwater. Minnesota Lodge, No. 2, A. F. and A. Mets on the first third Tuesday in each month at Masonic Hall, southwest corner of Fifth and Robert streets. Master Masons in good standing always welcome. H. B. HOWARD, W. M. J. S. STRONG, Sec. 12th and Robert st. Perfect Ashler Lodge, No. 4, A. F. Meets second and fourth Monday in each month at Masonic Hall, southwest corner Masons in good standing always welcome. ANDREW JACKSON, W. M. D. E. BEASLEY, Sec. Ryan Hotel. Perfect Ashler Lodge, No. 4, A. F. Meets the second and fourth Tuesday in each month at Masonic Hall, southwest Mason's in good standing always welcome. JOIN O. A. WILSON, W. M. E. W. WILSON, W. M. Bethel Chapter, No. 28, R. A. M. Meets the first and third Thursday in each month at Masonic Hall, southwest Mason's in Robert stairway and Arch Mason's in good standing always welcome. DANIEL ROY, H. P. W. T. GASSAWAY, Sec. State Capitol. CHURCH DIRECTORY. MINNEAPOLIS. ST. PETER A. M. E. CHURCH, Rev. W. S. Krause, Pastor, 9th ave. South Sunday services, 3:00 p.m.; 11:30 a.m. m.; Sunday school, 3:00 p.m.; evening services, $80 p.m. General prayer meet- ing, 8:00 p.m. Main home Meeting, Home Run, Tuesday evening at different residences. Parsonage, 225 BETHESDA HAPTIST CHURCH. Sunday services, 12:00 p.m.; 11:30 a.m. Sunday school, Freedberg, 12:00 p.m. m.; Sunday school, 12:00 p.m.; Christian Endeavor, 7:00 p.m.; evening services, 8:00 p.m. General prayer meet- ing, 8:00 p.m. Parsonage, 1120 Eighth街 South, 1120 Eighth街 REV. John J. Faude, in Charge, MISSION. Rev. John J. Faude, in Charge, 15 Sixth avenue South. Sunday services, 4:00 p.m.; Sunday School, 3:00 p.m. ST. JAMES A. M. E. CHURCH, Bethenefirst avenue and Second street Southeast, near Exposition Bldg. Sunday service, Preaching at 11:30 a.m. Sunday services, 8:00 p.m. General prayer meet- ing Thursday evening. Weekly meetings ST. JAMES A. M. E. CHURCH Rey, J. C. Anderson, Pastor. SUNDAY, JULY 10, 12:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Cor. Fuller and Jay streets. Sunday, JULY 10, 12:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Wednesday meeting, 4:00 p.m. ST. PETER CLAYERS. Father Printon. Cor. Farrington and Aurora avenues. Sunday services: Mass, 4:00 a.m. High mass, 4:00 a.m. Evening services at 7 o'clock. PILGRIM BAPTIST CHURCH. Rev. B. S. Oner, Pastor. Cor. 12th and Cedar. Sunday services: Preaching at 11:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. Sunday School at 12:00 o'clock. Wednesday general prayer meeting. PILGRIM EPISCOPAL MISSION. 483 Rice street, bet. Aurora and Uni- versity. Sunday services: Morning prayer, Lit- --- ST. PAUL. ST. PAUL any and Sermon, 11:00 a. m.; Sunday School and Children's Vespers 3:00 p. m.; Monday School and Children's Vespers 3:00 p. m.; Tuesday Evening Prayer and Lecture, 8:00 p. m.; Friday; Choir Rehearsal and Brotherhood of St. Andrew, 8:00 p. m. All are cordially invited. Seats free. NOTICE—Changes and corrections will be made upon notifying the office. If we do not know of any of the society in the above directory it is because we do not know of it or have not seen its officers. And time of meeting of any of officers and it will be inserted. Funeral Director and Embalmer. Open Day and Night. Satisfaction Guaranteed. 1503 S. Franklin Ave. - Minneapolis. The Fuller Laundry Co. 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How good did I—tis such awhile Since we enjoyed the snow! Pray who is this one by your side? He looks as you did last. When — the hill we had our slide, And all the sleds we passed." This is my boy. He's here to try With me the hill you know; As once it did days of snow Just show him how to go." We hasten to the hillside gay, Where coasters thick are found; Then we meet the new boy, But now new names abound. "Just point me straight," the dear old sled Says, ere we would begin— "Then give a good strong push ahead; We'll see who 'tis shall win." We start, and go with quickening speed, The rest soon leave behind; Swift as the wind we keep our lead— We slowly stop, but far from where The others cease to slide. Who hasten forward to declare Ours was a dandy ride. -Roger H. Lyon, in Springfield (Mass.) Republican. "WHAT on earth are we to do?" cried pretty Lydia Darrell almost tearfully. "I won't marry old Ficiel-Jones—not if all the aunts in the world told me to." "Marry me and defy the old cat." "Yes, that's just what I should like to do, but one must consider things." "You mean money?" "Yes, I mean money. You see, if Aunt Judith had any rational ground for objecting to our marriage, if she said you drank, or were already married—of course I know you're not—but I am supposing a case—" "Don't you think you might suppose something a little uncomplimentary?" "No, certainly not. What does it matter in supposing? Well, then it would be different, and I should feel that, however wrong she might be, she really meant well. But when she can only say that you are one of the most arrogant opponents of all the noblest and purest aspirations of our sex—which means that she suspects you of laughing at her bloomers—why, then I know that it is not me that she is thinking of, but herself all the time. And she wants me to marry Fiebel-Jones because he flatters her to the top of her bent, and calls her a pioneer and all sorts of nonsense." "Do you think that punching his head would do any good?" "No, I'm quite sure it wouldn't, or I should have told you to before this. But for all that, Aunt Judy can do what she likes with all my money until I come of age, and if I marry without her consent before I am 21, all my property goes into trust with her as trustee, and she can allow me as much or as little as she likes. If Aunt Judith were an ordinary aunt, one might expect that she would come round, when she found out what a dear you really are. But I know she would be only too delighted to get 'he money for her movements and societies, and I should never get a penny. So we must wait till I am 21. "If I could only get round her in some way. If this was in a novel there would be dozens of ways. I should drop on her in a railway accident and soothe her last moments with my brandy flask." "You forget that she is a teetotalier." "Or I might be in the way when her horses bolted." "Only she doesn't keep any." "She would in a novel. And I should stop them at the risk of my life, and she would fall on my neck and call me her preserver." "I should like to see that," cried Lydia, with a delicious novel of laughter. "Lyddy, you have no imagination," said Bob Falk, with dignity. "I am sure the scene would be most dramatic—especially if Lady Judy hapened to be in bloomers. And her remorse would be so great that she would give me her consent written on a visiting card—or perhaps my shirt cuff, to prevent mistakes." "How can you talk such nonsense? But you have given me an idea. Couldn't you save her when she is out bicycling?" "What from? And how am I to find her at the right moment?" "Well, really, I should have thought that a man could have arranged all that in a minute." "Seems as if the surrest plan would be to arrange the accident. One might bribe a tramp to attack her, and allow himself to be driven off by me—and then he would probably blackmail me for the rest of my life. Or one might get a generous friend to do the trump part in disguise—only I can't at the present moment think of any man who would be such a jay. Besides your Aunt Judy is just the kind of energetic female who would insist on seeing the villa safe in jail after the rescue. Then I should have to give myself up to save him. The plan is not so brilliant as it seemed at first." "No, it isn't. Very far from it. But listen to me. On Monday Aunt Judy starts on a bicycle ride to Scotland—alone. She wishes to show that one woman in bloomers can go through the length of England without coming to grief. Now my idea is that you should accompany her." "Myer! Do you think she will catch on to the elopement?" "O. she is not to know. I will find out the route she goes by and you will follow at a distance and keep her in sight. Then if she gets into any difficulties—and I feel sure she will—you can rush to the rescue and earn her eternal gratitude." "Supposing she sees me early in the jaunt and smokes the trick?" "You must take care she doesn't. If you keep behind her all the time, she won't be able to see you." Bob Falk was very much in love with pretty Lydia Darell, and he would have attempted anything that bore the smallest promise of advancing the date of their marriage. Besides, at that moment the young woman of the library, who, knowing them by sight and divining a love affair, had humanely left them alone in the back room for a few minutes, returned with an apologetic and at the same time decided expression. For one of the results of Lady Judith's harsh policy in ordering that "not at home" was to be said to Mr. Falk, and in exercising a strict censorship over the letters received by her niece, was that Lydia had hit upon the idea of the library as a meeting place, and Bob put messages in the agony column when he wished to communicate with her. Lydia, of course, could write to him. "In consequence of information received," the police say, Bob Falk started in pursuit of Lady Judith, partially disguised in a suit of very old clothes and a peculiarly villainous cheap hat. By the time the quarry had passed the one hundredth milestone from London, Bob was unable to resist an involuntary feeling of admiration for her pluck. She rode hills which most of her sex would have walked. She took no heed of the chaff which from time to time floated round the unacustomed spectacle of her bloomers. She kept up a steady pace, and stuck to her arranged route with an accuracy that materially helped the pursuer. At the close of the third day—during which she had beaten her previous record—Lady Judith stopped at a wayside hostelry. Hitherto Bob had avoided the hotels which she favored with her patronage, but now there was no help for it. He must either put up in the same building or ride on five miles to the next town. He thought that if he avoided the front of the house, and effaced himself among the people in the bar parlor, she would never notice him. After all, if she did, she was scarcely likely to suppose that he was there on her account. He loitered about for some little while, in order to give her time to settle down in her place, and then walked into the bar. The next minute he emerged again with singular alacrity. "What am I to do? I suppose they won't have her in the best rooms in that get-up, and she's too tired to go on. If I interfere, it is ten to one that she only hates me all the more for seeing her. It seems brutal to do nothing, or at least not to try, but no woman could forgive a man who had seen her in such a plight. By Jove! If there were only some evidence. All's fair in love, especially in a case like this." He prowled disconsolately to the back of the building, cursing his luck and wondering what he should do. There he hit upon an individual who evidently combined cycling with photography. A brilliant idea sprung into his brain. He engaged the amateur photographer in conversation, and explained his desire. The kodak changed hands, and so did a gleaming yellow coin. There was some shuffling of new films. Then Bob Falk took hasty snapshots of the back and front view of the building in order to divert suspicion from his real purpose. After that he conveyed the kodak to the bar. Some little time after her return from Scotland Lady Judith received a very singular letter: It ran: "Dear Lady Judith—I have a dozen of the inclosed. What should you recommend me to do with them?" "fours truly," ROBERT FALK. The inclosed was a photograph. She removed the silver paper hastily and saw. . . . Well, you see, when the landlady of that hotel positively refused to admit her to any of the rooms used by ladies, on the ground that her costume would do harm to the establishment, she had consented to take her meal in the barroom, and put up with an attic—rather than proceed further in her exhausted state. She had regretted this weakness ever since. She only hoped that no knowledge of the insult which she had allowed to be heaped upon the cause would come to the ears of her strong-minded sisters. Now she saw before her eyes a visible presentment of the scene—herself in her semi-many garments seated at a small table to the right, discussing provisions. To the left a knot of common men, and the apparatus of the bar. It was bad enough to be exiled from her proper place. There was the worse thought that by her presence in the bar she had given tacit encouragement to the curse of drink. Bob Falk married Lydia Darrell with her aunt's consent, and no one could ever make out why Lady Judith changed her mind so suddenly, least of all Prof. Fiebel-Jones, who thought himself aggrieved. Aunt and niece did not see much of each after matrimony. -Madame. A Model Husband Wife—I saw the loveliest lace spreads to-day, only two dollars and a half, and I wanted them awfully, but I knew you wished to economize, and so I didn't get them. Husband—That's too bad, my dear; you should have got them. Anything which adds to your happiness and brings gladness to your eyes, anything which lightens your domestic ceres and gilds the lowering clouds, anything which borders with sweet flowers the thorny paths of duty and appeals pleasantly to your aesthetic nature, making life more worth living, home a paradise, you are welcome, doubly welcome to, my angel, if it doesn't cost more than two dollars and a half—N. Y. Weekly. Thought She Had Scored. "I saw him kiss you just before he was leaving," said the sour-visaged nunt, and she said it in a regular dull-thud tone. "Yes, auntie." "Well, I can realize that it would be the last thing he would think of," and she sailed out as though she had scored every possible point—Detroit Free Press. Fatal Drawbacks. "You say you won't marry me because I am bald and because I make puns?" "Yes; if you were bald and didn't make puns or if you made puns and were not bald it would be different; but the fact that you are bald and still make puns convinces me that you are too old to reform."—Chicago Record. A. H. LONGINO, GOVERNOR OF MISSISSIPPI, The new chief executive of the state of Mississippi has had considerable fame thrust upon him as being a southern man who is emphatically opposed to the lynchings of negroes, crimes which he denounced as outrages and a blot on southern civilization. He was a man of great integrity and a man of strong parents were poor and he did all sorts of work to secure an education. While still a very young man he was elected state senator. Later he was appointed district attorney of the district of Mississippi, and in 1886 became chancellor of the seventh chancery district. NEW LIFE-SAVING COLLAR. Devices for saving the lives of those who make journeys by land and by sea continue to multiply, but the most important of those that have later come to light is the life-saving collar, the illustrated, the product of a Heiligman instructor. The collar, which is worn on the neck, can be fitted to the neck of a child or an adult, and is of such buoyancy that it will keep afloat a body weighing 300 or more pounds for an indefinite period. It is ex- TRUSTED BY WHITE MEN. A Negro's Long Record of Fidelity as Collector for a Memphis Browns The northerner who is forever harping upon the manner in which the negro is kept down in the south might open his eyes in wonder at the many cases in which the negroes have been faithful in their services for many years to their employers, says the Memphis Seimitar, and, as a reward, hold positions of trust and are esteemed as honest as any man by the white people who know them. They are not put on a social equality with white people, but their station in life is far above that which the northerner sets as the rank of the negro in the south. A fair illustration of this is to be had in the case of Prince A. Danuel, who for 26 years has been in the employ of the First national bank of Memphis. Danuel secured a position with the bank in 1871 as porter, and, after proving his efficiency and integrity, was given the work of collecting to do. A. H. LONGINO, GOVERNOR The new chief executive of the state thrust upon him as being a southern man of negroes, crimes which he denounced ination. He is not yet 44 years old, and a solicitor parents were poor and he did all sorts of a very young man he was elected state attorney for the southern district of Mississippi seventh chancery district. Never in all the time of his service has he failed to account for every cent of money intrusted to him. His collections are always made accurately; in fact, he has yet to make his first mistake in a money transaction. In executing his duties at the bank vast sums of money are handled by him, and the money is as safe in his hands as is the meat in the care of a butcher's dog. So well is Daniel thought of by his employers that not long ago the bank gave him a trip to the north, his railroad fare and all traveling expenses to Chicago, Washington and other large cities being defrayed by the bank. The president of the bank gave him a letter of introduction to all of the banks in the cities he went to. This letter made him a welcome visitor wherever he went. He was looked upon as a kind of wonder, the idea of a negro holding a position of trust in the south being before that considered out of the question. Railroads as Plant Distributors. It has been noticed that many plants, not natives of the locality, are to be Devices for saving the lives of those wishing to multiply, but the most important the life-saving collar, have illustrated, the made up of several air-tight compartments can be fitted to the neck of a child or an adult keep affloat a body weighing 200 or more, expected that the collar will be used by several moderate. found growing in the neighborhood of great railroad yards. Sometimes the seeds of these plants have been brought thousands of miles from their natural habitat. Often they flourish amid their new surroundings, and gradually spread over the surrounding country. Thus the railroads carry unsuspected emigrants, which travel to and from every point of the compass. In the Mississippi valley are to be found plants which, within a few years past, have been thus brought together, some from the Atlantic seaboard, some from the Gulf region, and some from the other side of the Rocky mountains. Carrying It Too Far "Look at me," said Rockingham; "I'm a self-made man. I ain't never had no help from nobody." "I believe you," said the young man who was applying for a job. "You have even gone so far, apparently, as to make your own English."—N.Y. World. Strikers Hanged. Strikers were hanged in England less than 106 years ago. BRAZILIAN HAMMOCKS A Necessary Article In That Country and More Often Used Than Beds. The passenger capacity of the vessels on the Amazon river is not limited by the number of berths or staterooms, which are seldom or never used except by the few foreign travelers, to dress in, but by the limit of hanging room for hammocks on the deck of the vessel. Everybody of necessity must have a hammock, says the Ledger Monthly, as the state rooms are unavailable at night. Even in the hotels hammocks are more used than beds. Some of them are very fine; those made of maqueira grass, with feather lace trimnings, are considered the best. It takes from several months to a year or more to make really good ones, and they bring anywhere from a hundred to five hundred dollars each. The feather work is most artistic and very cleverly put together. The feathers themselves are all of their natural colors, and are taken from the most ARNOR OF MISSISSIPPI, Mississippi has had considerable fame who is emphatically opposed to the lynching as outrages and a blot on southern civitas-made man in every sense of the word. His work to secure an education. While still senator. Later he was appointed district mississippi, and in 1856 became chancellor of the brilliantly colored birds that are to be found. The Indians of the Rio Branco region, on the upper Rio Negro, have a great reputation for this kind of work. These hammocks will last a lifetime though in use every day and washed once a month. The most common kind are of German manufacture, made of cotton, and imported and sold very cheaply. These, however, are very warm, and keep out the cool drafts of air. The best cotton ones are of native grown cotton and are made in Maranhao. The grass hammocks are much cooler than any bed, as they let the fresh night breezes come through their loosely woven meshes. MOUTH IN QUEER PLACE The Vornacious Shark Is Well Fitted by Nature for its Riparian beauty No doubt the shark's mouth is placed so much beneath the projecting muzzle, under which also the nestslite that it may serve its proper purpose in the best way. In all records of the habits of the fish, says the Cincinnati VING COLLAR. who make journeys by land and by sea con- of those that have latey come to light is the product of a Heiglan inventor. The collar, its so polished as to form a pliable whole, dult, and is of such buoyancy that it will grounds for an indefinite period. 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It she knew how my bosom wan torn, How I wish I had never been bora, To my wall she would surely reply: Te she don't {shall certainly dle flo that's why I ait on this stone, So that's way T make iny nad moan, All the giadrome St. Valentine's day, © While tne youths and the maldens ate gay. aa W. Dixon, In N.Y. Ledger. lk; Auer? OY, Vp, 4 W: a= & Stonyor Wr BK. i conic Vater, bie ao “ af uEN « mon re- it hl celves @n anony- ny mous communica- tion there is but Seal tontoy sie bia snes tase Pay no attention to it, The human being who has not the courage o: ine fuirneas to sign bic name to & com- Serres ui tenvosn to aomtong Of good men. erate ‘Mr. Jaroy Walker had repented ines eae boast: tales et oko often that he had come to have faith f them, He bad even advised his Saye a) Wy 2 — Bs) catia ft 4 ‘Z a bis , Set aa SSL) SE Ps ees = ( NS Cs HE SAW HIMSELF AS OTHERS BAW HIM. ‘friends in much the same terms. One ‘of his friends, Hradbury, had received 0 unsigned letter, adviaing him that he was not a civilized being, that the People who congregated In his flat of an evening were little better than say: ages, and that It was an outrage for anyoneto play the plano at two o'clock in the morning, ax at that hour all honest men and women were sup: Pored to be in bed. Bradbury was very angry. He wont to Walker with the anonymous letter in his trembling hand and asked: “Isn't that the most insulting thing you ever read? Walker behaved with admirable coolness. Ie smiled peacefully and Temarked: "Never let anything like that worry you." “Well, T think T know who sent it. ‘What is your opinion of & man who would write that kind of @ letter and send it to you without signing his name?” “Bradbury, a man who would do anything like that is simply beneath contenpt, You can’t afford to waste any righteous indignation on such a eur. Dismiss the entire matter from oer ind. Dos’ be tool. I this How is too cowardly to sign his ‘name, simply throw the letter into the ‘wasterbasket, and let that be the last of it” Conridering that Mr. Walker held such sensible anc cool-headed views concerving anoaymous insults, Bis Aubsequent conduct is not easily ex- prises, vation 1 be samitted thas 1 ‘eaxy enough 10 iygnore an inault Which is aimed at ome one else, ‘On the morning of a certain Febru- ary 14, Me. Walker Went to his break- fast 2! a later hour than usual. He found a letter lying beside his plate and tore it open, carelessly enough, unfolding a villainous comic valen- tine, printed in shrieking colors. At was the picture of a misshapen wretch with a conical head and a large Jower jaw which ‘was fastened on in Binge fashion, There were certain Ines and explosive marks to Indicate that this Jaw was In rapid motion, Below the picture was the following : ‘TO A NOISY IDIOT. seu talk and gabble all the day, 3 ‘ners ne eense In what you vay, WOT, Gente heyund 0 20st Yor a moment or two Walker was shocked and benumbed by the awful impact of such an insult. He felt the surge of hot blood.to hix head, and in thedizzinessof his wrath all the articles on the breakfast table went swinging in semicircles. He crumpled the en- velope and its contents into his pocket and sat fuming while Mrs. Walker poured the coffee. “Who sent it?” “Who sent it?” “Who sent it?" he asked himself over and over again. He tried to fix In hix memory a list of all who might be his secret enemies and to select from this list the most despicable, vindictive and unprinelpled scoundrel of all. This rep- tile he would meet. He would: meet him and then—and then he would slap him in the face and compel him to get down on his knees and apologize, and then’ he (Walker) would spurn him (the wretch) with his foot and eall bim all the vile names which may be used in propriety by a high-minded gentle- man whose feelings have been out- raged. Oh, the visions of revenge which are conjured up by a fine, feverish rage! Walker snapped at his breakfast as if he were @ caged animal, ayd there in no denying that he had murder in his heart. Once Mrs. Walker saw him staring emptily at the popovers and asked what was the matter. He did not reply, for he was absorbed in con- templation of a pleture in which he wax throttling the villain who sent the comie valentine. After breakfast and when he was anfely away from the house he took the envelope from hin pocket and studied the handwriting. He did not recognize it, It wan evident that the render had Ainguised his penmanship, of else had the address written by some one en- tirely unknown to Walker. ‘The coward! He looked at the valentine and re- rend the verse of doggerel, and it is needless to «ny that he dixcovered depths and varieties of insult not in- tended by the hack who wrote the lines. Sitting in one corner of the ear, with the valentine folded carefully, he took the lines one at a time: “You talk and gabble all the day.” It was simply brutal, He read it again, and suddenly this question flashed into his mind: “Do I talk too much?" He knew that the comic valentine was Always suppoted to touch on a ruling weakness. Could it be poxsible that the sender of this valentine had struck on his (Walker's) greatest failing and taken an underhand way of rebuking ae? “Nonsense! I don't talk too much,” thought Walker, “But if E never talk too meh, why did anyone send me this valentine? There's no point to the val- ebtine unless Ido talk too much oven: sionally, But I don't believe I do talk too much. Tought to know it if T make myself a nuisance by talking. Hold on here! Had Tought to know? When a man is a bore and a nuisance, does he ever suspeet the fact himself? Is tt possible for a man to goon, year after Sear, deluding himself with the belief that he Is a sparkling and entertaining conversationalist, whereas everyone re- ards him axa pest?” Walker was compelled to answer in the affirmative. He thought of the ease of Howelby. Mowelby is the laughing stock of a neighborhood, He Is a per- sistent chatterer, an insipid story teller, an affected and effeminate doit Yet Howelby firmly believes that he is the most popular young man on the South tide, loved by the women and en- vied by the men, “If Howelby has been fooled for so Tong a time, isn't 1t possible that some ‘of the reat of us have been fooled too?” asked Walker. “Now I notice that In company Howelby in well received and treaved with consideration. After he oer away they poke unmereiful fun At him, I wonder what they say about me after I go away, I wonder if it’s possible that they speak of me as “wolsy idiot’ oF something like that’ 1 wonder if I've been a bore for years and didn't know it? How would 1 kpow it unless some one came right out told me point blank? Rut you don’t find many people as candid as all that, There'd be no chance of my finding it oUt unleas—-well—unless some one wrote an anonymous letter or—sent a comic valentine, Come to think of it, Mrs. Walker has reproved me several times for breaking in while some one else was talking, I wonder it she—. But no, it was some one who hates me. TU keep quiet and find out.” Walker met many acquaintances that day, and every one of them was under suspicion, Walker even made signifi capt remarks, such as “Well, I suppose T'm & nolsy chump,” or “I dare say } talk too much,” and then wazched each face to see if he could detect the guilty flush, but he coukin't. However, be ‘was rather sadly impressed by the fact that no one.of his friends eoniradteted him when he said these disparaging things about himself. It was evident that whoever sent the valentine had done #0 with at least a measure of jus- tification. If Walker had stopped to consider he would have known that it in never considered polite to contradict a man when he ix saying mean things about himself, But he was not in a mood for fair consideration of any- thing. He had discovered his true char- acter, and be beld himself in contempt. Fortunately he had his pride and self- respect remaining, and he decided upon reform. $ For two days he didn't speak except when he was compelled to do so, and then he talked in monosyllables. Mrs. Walker was frightened and began to fear that he was going into a decline, ‘On the morning of the 16th, ax he was waiting at the corner for a trolley ear, a barber with black ringlets came out of the shop next to the drug store and said: “How are you, Mr. Walker—bow do you do, sir? Say, I got something here that belongs to you. I guess it wns sent to me by mistake, or at least I judge 0 as far ax Lean make out, be- ‘cause your name's here, but st came addressed to me all right. I put St in my pocket and I'says to myself: ‘Now the first time Ieee Mr. Walker passin’ by the shop here I'l! give this to him, and probably he'll know what it means; but I was sure it wasn't for me, because T haven't bought any meat from Kraseh since I bad Mttle trouble with him about a round steak that my little gir went there and got one morning. 1 told Kraseb In so many words that I'¢ never deal with him again in no way shape, manner or form, because I al low no man to send me such meat ‘My money's ax good as any other man's money, and—" Walker might have heard a great deal more if the ear had not come along In the envelope which had been hand ed to him by the barber he found ar itemized bill from Krasch, the butcher How did this bill happen to reaeb th barber? Evidently {t got into th wrong envelope. ‘Then what? He sav it all ina finsh. ‘That valentine was in tended for the talky barber, who hac quarreled with Krasch. “T don't talk too much, after all,’ thought Walker, with a feeling of in finite relief. “Pahaw! T knew it all the time.""—Chieago Daily Record. ST. VALENTINE’S DAY. How I Was Observed in the Days of Our Grandmothers—tte Probable Origin. Valentine's day to most of us means mysterious ringing of door bells and the production from no one knows where of little packets, more or less dainty, containing loving messages or droll lines from friends—the love words entwined with posies and gar- lands, and trimmed with lace or ail- ver paper. In our grandmothers! day they chose the fanciest and daintiest sheet of note paper, and, after much cuageting of brain and ‘measuring of poetic feet and counting of syllables, they took the finest quill pen that the dexterous hand of man could fashion, and in tiny flourishing letters copied their poem, refolded It inside m sheet of coarser paper, sealed it with big drops of red wax, Mamped with a device of two hearts pierced with an arrow, or a dove bearing an olive branch, and then with a beating heart and throbbing brain sent it to The One, But why do all this on the fourteenth of February? Nobody knows exactly why. ‘The day ix set apart to the mem: ory of St. Valentine, who died for his relijrion in Rome in the year 270, but what link there is between him’ and Cupid nobody pretends to guess. Some people think that as the birds choose their mates and begin to think of housekeeping together about that time, so the young men and maidens choowe their apecial friends on that day. It is a fact that the Romans had a custom at their feast of Luper- calia, which was held in February, of putting the names of young women in ® box from whieh they were to be drawn by chance by the young men, Our custom may be derived from this one, a fashion before the Christian era, The clergy of the early Christian chureh found it hard to root out these relics of heathenism, #0 they — tried to give them a Christian meaning and turn them to good account. ‘They sub- slituted the names of saints for thoxe of the women, and it is still a custom among Roman Catholies in some sec: Lions to choose a patron aaint for the year on St. Valentine's day. For centuries the day has been eel- ebrated all over northern and western Europe, in England, Scotland, and par- ticularly in France. "In the latter coun:- try the lads and lasses met on the eve of the saint's day, and each wrote the name of an acquaintance of the oppo: site sex upon a little slip of paper. These were thrown into a box and drawn ax in a lottery. Each maid thus chose her mate, and waa of course chosen by some one else, which in some cases might have caused strained re- lations before the year was over. The ‘Young man was bound 40 the service of the fair one who fell to his ahare, somewhat as the knights in the be: witching tales of the middle ages served their Indies, So, though tlge custom be from heath- en Rome, though the offering range from a coarse colored print toa jeweled trinket OF @ dainty souvenir, we find human heart responding to human heart down the ages, and many an ar. row has Cupid sent, winning its way straight aud true, on St. Valentine's day.—Anna Breath, in Christian Work A BACHELOR'S VALENTINE. If 1 were younger, Mary Jane Would not #0 gayly Mout me, Or if ahe did Pd make It plain She could not do without me. She Wil Wit be my valentine Forsoath, the malta are pleaty— VL venture that ahe would be mine It T were one-ond-tweaty! Why, forty years ago there were ‘A score 1 could have married, And every one outfavored her But then, of course, Ttarried ‘TMI Ann and Lou and Suale, too, ‘And all the rest I mind me, Deypped me because, they sald, they Bnew ‘They Anew not where to find me. Bot as it ts the Widow Black, ‘Thank heaven, has some reason, Amd Knows that men, tke frult, d0a't leek In worth Mf out of season. ‘To her UU send « bullet doux ‘And state my fortune cleariy— Some thousands, Pi, admit to yous “And she wil! love me dear —Chicage Recor, A LITTLE NONSENSE. “Is your dog full-blooded?” “Guess he i. He's been samplin’ th’ blood of most of th’ ueighbors.” — Cleveland Plain Dealer. She—“I had o kiss stolen from me yesterday." He—"No wonder.” She— “Why?” He—"You shouldn't purse your lips."—N. ¥. Press. Weary—*I uster be a great pianist and made money to burn.” Walker— “Yer did. How did yer lose yer grip on on de public?” Weary—"Me hair fell out."—Boston Traveler. Clerk—"Did you say you wished te see wine glasses, madam?" Madam (severelf)—“Wine glasses! Not at all) show me some unfermented grape juice glasses."—Indianapolis Journal. Johnny (sobbing)—“Does it really h-h-urt you to whip me, mamma? Ma—“Yes, my son, very much mors than it hurts you.” Johnny (drying his eyes)—“I'm so glad.” — Stray Stories. “Ah! Angelica, if you only knew how I loved you you could not be so formal with me, Call me Fred, darling; cal me dearest!” “Iam sorry, Mr. Softly,’ replied she, “but the best I can do fo you is to call you down."—Baltimor News. “Young man, I am afraid your going to college has taught you little of good you are going the wrong way. I jus ‘saw you coming out of asaloon.” “You don't call coming out of a saloon going the wrong way, do you, dad?” But th father was silent-—Nauvoo Rustler. Miss Swelltop—“Sister ix ko disap pointed. She can't go to the opera to night.” Mins Blugore — “Is she so il as all that?” Miss Swelltop—“O! no’ it's just a nervous affection of th throat. She's not really ill.” Mis Blugore—“Why can't she go, then? Miss Swelltop—“Why, goodness gra cious! She can't speak above a whis per.'—Philadelphia Press. DISPUTE OVER PLANT FOOD, ‘The Hotanints and the Chemists Have Different Points of View—Both Sides Inatetent. ‘There is no chemical problem more intimately connected with human wel- fare than that of plant food, according to a paper read before the American Chemical society recently by Dr. H. W. Wiley, chief chemist of the department of agriculture. Animal life ean only be sustained through the mediation of plants. Various views have been enter- tained of the nature of plant food by philosophers in different eras of his- tory. The first view of plant food may be denominated the meteoric. It was the one entertained by Pliny and Virgil in their agricultural writings 2,000 years ago. This idea of plant food supposes that plants derive their nourishment from meteoric sources, usually of | su- pernatural origin. Even at the begin- ning of the present century men whose attainments in science marked them as leaders believed that the plants had some mysterious relation with meteor- ic influences. At the close of the last century, however, and at the beginning of the present one, the progress of chemistry had been sufficient to prove the falsity of the views of the older phi- loxophers. According to Count Gyllenborg, who flourished in Sweden at the end of the eighteenth century, vegetables are nourished Jargely by watery, inflam: mable and subtle, oily or snlphurour particles which the air contains, Sir Humphry David entertained more res- sonable views of plant food, but still was of the opinion that the plant ob- tained very little of its nourishment from the mineral substances which the soil contains. It was not, however, un- til the time of Liebig, about the middle of the present century, that the organic theory of vegetable nourishment was finally overthrown, and the mineral theory, which now practically pre: vails, was established. According to the mineral theory of plant nutrition, the food of plants, especially of green plants, consists almost exclusively of mineral substances. Before organic substances ean be served as plant food they must be reduced to the mineral state by the process of decay or of bac- terial action. | Within the last few years conflicting statements in regard to the nature of plant food have emanated from differ: ent scientific sources. ‘The botanists speak of starch and sugar as plant foods much in the same manner em: ployed by chemists of a hundred years ago. It is evident that the point of view of the botanists is entirely differ- ent from that of the chemists. ‘The chemical and correct theory of plant food is that it consists of those sub: ‘stances almost exclusively mineral ip ‘thelr nature, which, entering the plant, serve to supply Its vital activity and ‘build up its tissues. ‘This point of view ‘does not include foods of white plants ‘or those which contain no chlorophyll From an economic point ofiew, the in- crease and conservation of plant food have direct connection with the pro: ‘duction of human food and the inerease Par gursnentag tn ngs Se ad Breaking It Gently. ‘The doctor came into the room rub- bing his hands and smiling. “Bverything all right?" asked the man who was anxiously waiting for him, “Couldn't be better,” returned the doctor. “Good,” said the man, with a sigh of relief, ‘Then, when he saw that the doctor intended to say nothing more, he asked, with some hesitation: “Er— ah—boy or girl? ‘The doctor stopped rubbing his hands and looked a trifle uneasy, as if the task before him were not just to his Uking. “Well,” he said, at last, “you'll need a tandem bicycle for it? — Stray Stories. Natures Bitorts, My friend's colored maid came in one day after her regular weekly out- Jing, looking as if she had enjoyed herself. “Well, Susan,” said my friend, who js sympathetic. “I suppose you saw ‘all the pretty things in the stores downtowa” “No'm; not a’actly. I ben lookin’ at de handiwork ob de Lawd.” “Indeed? So you took « ltsle trig to the country to wee the fleids flowers?” “No'm; mo, indeedy. I ben at de @ime museum. They has a hairy boy there and a two-headed man." —Waver ly Magazine. CURRENT TOPICS Jars furnishes twornsrds of the quinine used. It costs for food about $50 a weck 1) keep an elephant. Prussia has begun appointing fe male factory inspectors. Grmany has twenty-three boats. of ‘over 17,000 tons’ capacity. ‘There are 6,003 pieces in the mod- ern high-grade locomotive. The height of the atmosphere is supposed to be about 50 miles. ‘The average amount of sickaess Io buman life is ten dys per aunu:a. In China, the members of a man's family are held responsible for his debts. ‘There are as many shades of face powder as there are shades of color, almost. ‘The agricultural implement trade fn Russia is practically controlled by ‘America. Our lead pencils, the most common of all writing implements, is over 200 years old. ‘The percentage of recoveries in the Milwaukee hospital for the insane last year was 33. Miniatures of their pet dogs is the very latest affectation among New York women. Minoia monument dealers want a law enabling them to seize tombstones for bad debts. In consequence of Russian usurpa- tions there is a great exodus of the people of Finland. Vienna policemen are required to understand telegraphy and to be able to swim and row a boat. ‘There are 10 Harvard graduates in the diplomatic and consular service not counting secretaries of legation. If our southern states alone were as fensely settled as Germany they would bave a population of over 190,000,000. ‘The brass candlesticks used by Burns in his little parlor at Ellesland were sold at auction recently for $57. Texas in the greatest pecan-growing state in the union. It produces two thirds of the pecan nuts that are mar keted. During the last 12 months, at least a dozen elephant trainers have been killed—more than have been killed in 10 years previous. But three states in the union pay their governors an annual salary of $10,000. They are New York, New Jer sey and Pennsylvania. Tt has been discovered that th bark of the acacia tree which will grow in almost any soil, is an excel Tent tanning material, Omaha, Neb., has a labor temple it which 35 local unions hold their regu ar meetings, It has six halls whick fare under gonstant rental. China’s new railroud from Canton to Hankow, which, with its branches will be 1,00 miles long, is to be built entirely by®American capital. America sells nearly three times a much as she buys; Germany buys ove 250,000,000 worth more every yea than she sells; while Great Britair last year bought twice as much as she sold. ‘As the government of France cout not be persuaded to vote $4,000.00 for the purpose, a syndicate is bein formed to lay a net of wires that wil connect telephonically all of the 36, 000 communities of France. ‘A woman hanged for child murde in Vienna a few days ago was the firs woman executed in that city since 180 and the first in the Austrian mon archy since 1567. ‘There is a movement on foot amon, foreign powers to do away with th limitation of age of ambassadors making the tenure of office depen solely on a man's capabilities, Congressman J. C. Needham, of Cal {fornia, began to collect _postag stamps when he was a small boy an has never given up his collectior which is now one of the best im th eee ees WHAT A FORMER AMERICAN SAYS. Doubled Thetr Cultivated Lands and More Than Doubled Thetr ‘otain. 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