The Afro-American Advance

TWIN CITY NEWS. VOL. II. NO. 7. TWIN CIT ST. PAUL. Correspondence, letters, etc., must reach us by Wednesday for publication. 305 Thomas street. Mrs. John Godirey has moved from 302 St. Peter street to 148 East Ninth street, and is better prepared in every way to satisfy her regular patrons and to cater to new ones. The place is large and roomy. She can not only serve you with meals, but can accommodate you with a nice, clean, warm room. 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. THE ORIENTAL HAIR PARLORS, on the corner of Seventh and Sibley room, 395 Krahm block, is the place where for all kinds of fashionable hair dressing, etc. Straightening hair and scalp treatment a specialty. Hair work done to order. Calls made at residences. Prices made satisfactory. Mrs. E. J. Allen, proprietor. Mr. Robert Lavette, of 651 Mississippi street, is quite sick at his residence. Mr. and Mrs. H. F. McIntyre moved Thursday into their new house, 88t Thomas street, where they will be pleased to meet their friends. The ladies of Pilgrim Baptist church have organized a club and will work together in the interest of their church. They intend to have an apron sale about April 24th, to last three nights. It is hoped and prayed that the sale will be held in their own church, corner Summit and Cedar. Friends and well-wishers are earnest requested to give their aid. The "Advance" received a call this week from Mr. Fred D. McCraken, of Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. Mr. McCraken is a promising young man and brings business from leading business men of his home, telling of his sterling worth and good character. We wish all possible luck to the young man and that he may secure a lucrative position soon. J. C. Reid, of Minneapolis, made a flying visit to St. Paul, Monday, on business. Mrs. Wm. Harrison, of Western avenue, is sick. Mrs. Harrison is one of the old setters and, enjoys a visit from old-time acquaintances. Mr. Geo. Duckett is in the city this week, renewing his social fences and enjoying a "lay off," the first vacation taken in three years. Our genial friend R. B. Bebard says he not as young as he wishes to be, for a kindred complaints break him up and make him feel old. Mr. O. D. Howard is out West, looking out for a probable location some where in Washington state or Oregon. The West is the land for the "coming man," and while we would miss the family and princely good fellow, we want to see him do well. Miss Bessie Mills, of St. Paul, was entertained at the Commercial Club, Mills Park, by Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Patterson. Tuesday afternoon, to a very lunch luncheon. The Masonic Hall, heretofore at Fifth and Robert streets, will be found at Rice and University avenue. Twin City hall will be the place to find the headquarters of the Afro-American Masons. POLITICAL CORNER. THE REPUBLICAN TICKET. For Mayor- Chester R. Smith. For Controller—J. J. McCardy. For City Treasurer-August J. Fitzer. For Assemblymen: *Charles J. Nelson, of the First ward. George D. Hammond, of the Second ward. Howard Wheeler, of the Fourth ward. *H. R. Denny, of the Fifth ward. *George F. Dix, of the Sixth ward. Harry T. Drake, of the Seventh ward. *F. G. Warner, of the Eighth ward. *C. S. Reagan, of the Ninth ward. For Aldermen: First Ward—John E. Holt First Ward—John E. Holt. Second Ward—*B. F. Knauft. Third Ward—Francis A. Twiss. Fourth Ward—Emil C. Schroeder. Fifth Ward—Duncan F. Erskine. Sixth Ward—*M. J. Bell. Seventh Ward—C. E. Hamilton. Eighth Ward—Peter Zimmermann. Ninth Ward—P. D. Youngman. Tenth Ward—Nels Larson. Eleventh Ward—*J. W. Shepard. For Justices of the Peace— East of Wabasha Street—Charles S Hoff West of Wabasha Street—Frank E Baker. Sixth Ward—Louis N. Bryant. Tenth and Eleventh Wards—*J Blackwell. For Constables— East of Wabasha Street—*Peter J Quint. West of Wabasha Street—Arthur Caines, Jr. Sixth Ward—William P. Fountain. *Renominated. REPUBLICAN HEADQUARTERS. They Will Be Held in the Pioneer Press Building. The republican city executive committee has selected headquarters in the Pioneer Press building, rooms 501, 502, and 503, on the fifth oor, overlooking Fourth and Robert streets. The headquarters will be occupied tomorrow. Statistical Aid there are more than 8,000 women farmers in the United States. "Is that the reason to make my wife a hen, or a cow, and take care of me?" —Indianaapolis Journal. Anticipated News. Mr. Isaacs (in Chicago)—Iah der a delegam fer Mr. Isaacs sayin' dot his shore has parsed down in New York? Hotel Telegraph Operator—Not! None! "Vell, when von gomes schoost sendt it right up to my room, belease!—Puck. The Afro=American Advance. MINNEAPOLIS. THE ORIENTAL NATIONAL FAIR OF ST. PETER'S CHURCH under the auspices of the Wayman Home Circle, will commence May 2nd, 1900, at St. Peters A. M. E. Church, 22nd St. and 9th Ave. So. The committee in charge has arranged to make the fair the red letter event, the coolory, and they offer the following prizes to those selling tickets for the fair, or otherwise raising money to apply on the church mortgage fund, 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. There will be a mask social at Bethesda Baptist church, Eighth street south, between Eleventh and Twelfth avenues south, Friday evening, April 13, 1900, given by the Ladies Dorsac Society. Each and every member of said society, regardless of age or sex, will come in mask and take part in the program, or be fined to cents. A varied and elaborate program is being prepared, of which there are many amusing features. The costumes alone are worth coming miles to see. Hear Little Ab Cid "holler" when the bumble bee stings him. Hear Uncle Mose in his dramatic speech, telling why life is not worth living. Come one, come all. Everybody mask, laugh and grow fat. Admission to 10 cents. Lawyer James L. Curtis will give a series of lectures to the Scandinavian people, bys request. The "Indian Famine" committee secured his services. 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. Go to John L. Neal, Real Estate, Loans and Insurance, 622 Boston Block. Furnished rooms, 411 Fourth avenue south. The members of St. Thomas Episcopal mission leased a church building on the corner of 5th avenue south and 9th street, which will hereafter be their place of worship. All are cordially invited. Mr. Chas. H. Allers, of 1407 Washington avenue south, who has been ill at his residence since March 24, is now able to be out again, and left here for the "Coast" on Thursday. Rev. Nathaniel Young, of Chicago University, is in the city. He will supply the pulpit at Bethesda Baptist church during his stay. Why is it that some colored men without any brain development, will insist upon calling colored men of means and positions by their first name, and humbly call a white man of no qualifications Mister. A certain colored lad of the bowery stamp met a colored business man on the street the other day, and said: "Hello, ____." While he conversed with a prominent white man, the latter amazed at the impertinent remark, looked first at one and then the other, and departed. Born to Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Morris, a bouncing boy. Dr. Brown says he is a chip of the old block and will probably be a lawyer. Mother and baby doing well. If it is true that the Great Northern Railroad Company has cut the salaries of the colored porters from $30 to $20, it is a shame. Not satisfied with this, it is stated that the dining car conductors (white) will deprive the porters in charge of their power to collect fares. How can a man support a family on $20 per month without ____. It is a very hard pill to swallow. Colored men, if die you must, die hard! All persons are kindly requested to cease all calls upon Mrs. Sadie Williams, who lies dangerously ill at her residence. By order of physician in charge. Rev. Lena Mason preached an able sermon at Bethesda church. Sunday afternoon, last, to members of the G.A. Shorebrook School made by Revs. Brooks and Young, Col. Trowbridge and Serge Harper. Who was that colored man who told a Journal reporter that the colored population of this city felt highly elated over the fact that they were to be counted in the coming census. Could he not think of something else to say? It would have been more appropriate for this representative, and better for his people. Rev. W. S. Brooks in these days seems well nigh omnipresent, and if the members of the church catch inspiration from his tireless efforts in the behalf and emulate his example there will be no question about the mortgage on their church edifice being lifted at the close of their May rally. The contest for the piano to be given by the Wayman Home Circle to the one raising the largest amount of money, in connection with their Oriental National Fair, waxes warm and Mrs. J. L. Neal and Mrs. W. S. Brooks, each seem disposed to make the other richly earn the piano. The progress made in the preparation for the Oriental National Fair, to be held at St. Peter's church, is 2, 3, 4 and 5, reflect greatly upon the judgment home Home Garden in choosing so energetic and helpful woman as Mrs. W. W. Tucker for their president. Easter Ball—Will be given by the West Hotel Gold Key Pleasure Club at Plummer Post hall, corner First avenue north and Washington, Monday evening. April 16th. Good music by MINNEAPOLIS AND ST. PAUL, MINN., SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1900. first class orchestra. Refreshments will be served by first class caterer. All are cordially invited. The committee will spare no pains to make it pleasant for all. Admission, sgc. Pretty souvenirs will be given to all ladies present. G. W. Tyler, manager. The A. M. E. O. C. met Wednesday evening and business of importance transactions. Mr. Sadie Williams is slowly convas was transacted. Mr. Georgia Sellers, of 1828 Fifth avenue south, is sick with the croup. The Wayman Home Circle met Tuesday evening. The circle is anticipating a grand time on the 2nd of April. Mrs. F. V. Parker has been indisposed for work as a result of vaccination. Mrs. Lena Mason is holding revival for the white Presbyterians on Franklin avenue. She will preach her last sermon at St. Peters Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Cunningham entertained at their little girl's birthday Saturday. Total present, 16 ladies and 35 children. Little May Drue received quite a number of valuable presents. The whole details will appear in next week's issue. Mr. Chas Brower, who was very sick with the mumps irritated by a cold, is out again. His many friends are glad to see him out. Mrs. Sterling has moved to 2434 First avenue south. Every one is cordially invited to attend an Easter social Monday. April 9. Admission, 5 cents. Mrs. J. N. Sellers entertained Mrs. Mary Howard at tea Wednesday. Mr. Buckner wishes to tell his sister that he can't write this week. Too full of business. Look out for the collector next week, as she is peeping into all the houses that welcome the Advance. MISSION OF FIRST A. M. E. CHURCH, 405 FIFTH AVENUE SOUTH There will be a novel affair at the mission Tuesday evening. April toth, the three maid paper dress entertainment. Supper will be served by these three paper maids. Admission: 5 cents. Mrs. Kaziah Wilson is on the sick list this week. The Fish Fry was a success. Mr. Cesteney is one among the tew who know how fish should be fried, which he showed at the mission last Friday evening, March 30th. Preaching, 11 a. m., at St. James East Side, Class, 12 m. Sunday school at the mission, 2:30 p. m. Preaching at 8 p. m. Choir will sing. Subject, "Our Father." JASPER GIBRS Mr. Jasper Gibbs has assumed the entire management of the Commercial Globe, one of the most fashionable eating establishments in the city. Mr. Gibbs is one of the busiest Aro-Americans and one of the most popular Asian Loan Restaurant to look after, as well as the former. We wish him much success in his new venture. CONDENSED TELEGRAMS. The postoffice at Dewey, Wis., was burned and the postmaster injured. The president has informed several parties that the United States building at the Paris exposition will be closed Sundays. The democratic convention of Pennsylvania instructed its delegates to vote for Bryan. Ghazi Osman Nubar Pasha, the hero of Pleva, died at Constantinople, although the recent improvement in his condition led to hopes of recovery. He was born in 1832. The naval appropriation bill was reported to the house by Acting Chairman Foss of the naval committee. The amount carried by this bill is $61,219.916—the largest ever reported to the house from the naval committee. The war department is completing arrangements for the transportation of troops and supplies to the military posts in Alaska. As a sequel to the demonstrations which attended the visit of the Argentine cruiser Presidente Sarmiento to Spanish ports recently, a cabinet council has voted a credit to hold a Hispano-American congress. The Ninth Ohio district republicans renominated James H. Southard for congress. Two bridges and two toil houses on the Logansport and Burlington pike in Indiana were blown up and burned by masked men. It is possible Chicago may abandon the Beeuw reception planned for May on account of political complications. The cannonball train on the Omaha & St. Louis railroad was wrecked near Silver City, Io. Most of the passengers were injured, two seriously. A special dispatch from Lorenzo Marquez says sharp fighting occurred April 2 in the neighborhood of Mafeking. The garrison made a sortie while Colonel Plumer's cavalry attacked the Boers at Ramathlabama. Both attacks were repulsed. Twenty of Colonel Plumer's men were found dead on the field and six others were made prisoners. The federal losses were small. The jury in the case of Oiga Nethersole, accused of maintaining a nuisance in performing the play "Sapho," returned a verdict not guilty. Secretary Hay has notified Mr. Pruyn at New York, representing the Red Cross Aid association, that the state department will transmit to United States Consul Hay at Pretoria, any negotiable paper transferring funds to President Kruger in behalf of charity. The Iowa legislature passed a bill prohibiting the sale or giving of intoxicating liquor to any student of a state educational institution. Gen. Colville and Gen. French have given up the movement against the Boers east of Bloemfontein, and have rejoined the main army. A consignment of 1,000,000 pounds of bacon left Chicago for the Philippines. FELLOW FEELING MAKES 'EM WONDROUS KIND. DEWEY'S PRESIDENTIAL "BOOM" CHICAGO CHRONICLE Both—I wonder what it's going to be when it's hatched, democratic or republican REPULSE DOUBLE ATTACK Boers Win Victory Over Gen. Plumer's Relief Column and Garrison of Mafeking. AN EFFORT TO RAISE SIEGE FAILS Loss of British Is Severe — Railroad Communication with Bloemfontein Threatened, by Boer 's Gatacre's Forces About to Engage the Enemy Near East Springfontein. London, April 8. A special dispatch from Lorenzo Mauques says sharp fighting occurred April 2 in the neighborhood of Mafeking. The garrison made a sortie, while Gen. Plumer's cavalry attacked the Boers at Ramatha labama. Both attacks were repulsed. Twenty of Col. Plumer's men were found dead on the field and six others were made prisoners. The federal losses were small. Prisoners Taken. Pretoria, April 3.—In the fight of Ramathlamba, March 31, the following were the known prisoners: Capts. Crewe, Duncan-Robertson and McLaren; Crewe and Duncan-Robertson have since died; staff officers Cecil and Granville and nine soldiers, of whom six were wounded. The prisoners all belonged to Col. Phimer's Rhodesian force. Thaba N'chu is now in possession of the federals. Forty-one British subjects were escorted across the border this morning. May Not Be Sallebury's Son. London, April 6. — It is thought the FELLOW FEELING MAKE CHICAGO CHRONICLE DEWEY PRESIDENT "BOOM" Both—I wonder what it's going to be wi offeier named Cecil, captured at Ramathlamba, is not Lord Salisbury's son, Lord Cecil, as the dispatch says he belonged to Col. Plumer's force, and if and if the Boers had captured the premier's son they would assuredly herald the fact. Threaten the Railroads. London, April 6. -Detached bodies of Boer horse, numbering from 500 to 1,000 each, have appeared at several places to the southward and eastward of Bloemfontein, threatening the railroad, but communication by wire and rail is not in the least affected. One of these forces is near East Springfontein, on the Bloemfontein railroad, and Gen. Gatacre's forces are reported to be about to engage it. Lord Roberts, except to safeguard the railroad, seemingly declines to send columns chasing the Boer bands. He is reserving his cavalry and transport animals for the forward movement. Explanations having indirect origin in the war office as to why Lord Roberts is inactive are that there has been a lack of horses for remounts, but new horses are arriving by train loads hourly. The pressure on the railroad is so great that private parcels and the officers' newspapers have not been forwarded from Cape Town for three weeks. Situation Unsatisfactory The situation in the Free State remains far from clear and is unsatisfactory to British observers. The sickness among the Boer prisoners at Simons Town continues to increase. Five men died April 3. The prisoners who were on board the transport Mongolian have been transferred to the shore camp. Unless the sickness abates it is not likely that more prisoners will be sent to St. Helena. A dispatch from Cape Town dated Wednesday announces the departure for the front of the second contingent of Canadian mounted infantry. Rudyard Kipling has returned to Cape Town. President Steve's Speech. Pretoria, April 2—In his speech at the opening of the Free State road President Steyn declared that in spite of the surrender of Bloemfontein he had not lost hope of the triumph of the republican cause. The war, he said, was forced upon the Transvaal and nothing remained for the Orange Free State but to throw in its lot with the sister republic, in accordance with the terms of the treaty. The war, he continued, was begin, with the object of maintaining by arms the independence bought with the blood of the forefathers of the nation, and had been so successful that it had caused the greatest wonder through- out the world and even to the Boers themselves. After paying a tribute to the memory of Gen. Joubert, President Steyn said that the British, notwithstanding their overwhelming numbers, were violating the flag of truce and the Red Cross and he was compelled to report the matter to the neutral powers. The president further remarked that the attempt to create dissension among the burghers by the issuing of proclamations had failed. Referring to the correspondence between the South African presidents and Lord Salisbury, President Steyn proceeded: "Not only were those efforts made, but the republics had dispatched a deputation to Europe and America in order to bring the influence of neutral powers in order to secure a cessation of the bloodshed, and I greatly deserves that these efforts be crowned in honor." After saying that the government had raised a temporary loan with the Transvaal, President Steyn concluded with a prayer that the Free State be preserved from being forced to give up its dearly-loved independence. WILL NOT USE FORCE. Beckham Forces Will Await the Result of Appeal to United States Supreme Court. Frankfort, Ky., April 6.—Representatives of the Beckham administration deny that force will be used to dislodge the republicans from possession of the state house as soon as the court of appeals renders a decision in the contest cases. They say no hostile movement will be made till after the supreme court has acted, and then only in the event the republicans refuse to vacate. Republican Gov. Taylor returned ES 'EM WONDROUS KIND. here Thursday. A squad of soldiers under command of Lieut. Col. Morrow was drawn up in front of the state capitol square, while the train stopped and let him off. He was escorted to the executive office under guard. Louisville, Ky., April 6.—The latest report from the court of appeals is that a decision in the governorship case may be expected Monday. Gov Beckham came to Louisville Thursday for a short stay. Indorse Bryan: Harrisburg, Pa., April 6. - The democratic state convention met here Thursday to nominate candidates for auditor general and congressman-at-large and select eight delegates-at-large to the Kansas City convention. The most important planks of the platform will be an endorsement of Col. William Jennings Bryan for the presidency in 1900 and the enactment of a law for ballot reform, personal registration and a more comprehensive primary election law. Dewey Goes to Philadelphia Washington, April 6—Admiral and Mrs Dewey left for Philadelphia at 11 a.m. Thursday over the Pennsylvania road in private car 180. They will attend a concert given under the auspices of Mrs. Cassatt, wife of the president of the Pennsylvania railroad, for the benefit of the widows and orphans of soldiers and sailors who lost their lives during the war with Spain. Convict Naval Officers Odessa, April 6. - The military court at Sebastopol has closed the hearing of the great naval scandal and has convicted 26 officers and civil servants of criminally defrauding the government in connection with the supply of coal and other commodities to the navy. Hispano-American Congress Madrid, April 6.—As a sequel to the demonstrations which attended the visit of the Argentine cruiser Presidente Sarmiento to Spanish ports recently, a cabinet council has voted a credit to hold a Hispano-American congress. Giga Not Guilty. New York, April 6.—The jury in the case of Ola G Nethersole and others accused of maintaining a nuisance in performing the play "Sapho," has returned a verdict of "not guilty." Cleveland Indignant. Princeton, N. J., April 6. - Former President Grover Cleveland Thursday declared indignantly that he had not given an interview to anyone on Admiral Dewey's candidacy. TO ACCEPT SENATE BILL The House Republicans Practically Agreed to Accept Amendments to Porto Rican Bill. TO AVOID ALL UNNECESSARY DELAY. Two Days of Debate Will Probably Be Allowed Before Final Vote—Naval Appropriation Bill Carrying $801,219,910 Presented to House—The Senate Proceedings. Washington, April 6.—The republican managers of the house have substantially agreed upon a programme relative to the Porto Rican tariff bill. They have canvassed the situation and have decided to hold a caucus or conference at eight o'clock at which the managers will present their plan. This plan is to concur in the senate amendments and thus avoid all the delays and problems involved in an attempt to amend the senate provisions. The managers will advocate the adoption of a rule which will allow two days for the discussion of this proposition and then bring it to a vote. A very prominent republican of the house who has canvassed the situation says that the proposition will carry by a substantial majority larger than that by which the original bill passed the house. The mangers agreed that the plan to substitute the house bill providing a civil government for Porto Rica for the senate provision would be bad policy, as there was really little difference between the two, and the senate provision had the advantage of having been thoroughly discussed in the senate and perfected there. Won't Attend Conference. The republicans of the house who voted against the original bill, at an informal conference held Thursday afternoon, decided not to attend the conference. One of the members most prominently identified with the opposition stated that "the spirit of insurrection is as strong as ever," and that a recent private meeting had shown there was no falling off in the strength of the opposition. The republican members of the insular committee of the house held an extended conference Thursday on the Porto Rico bill. Those present included Chairman Payne of the ways and means committee; Chairman Cooper, of the insular committee, and Messrs. Gannon, Hitt, Hepburn, Loud, Moody and others. No definite agreement was made, but the general sentiment was favorable to taking the judgment of the conference of all republican members to be held Thursday night. While the views expressed at the meeting differed somewhat as to whether the senate changes should be accepted, the general disposition on plans and policy appeared to be along the lines heretofore given. Naval Appropriation Bill. Washington, April 6.—The naval appropriation bill was Thursday reported to the house by Acting Chairman Foss, of the naval committee. The amount carried by the bill is $61,219,916, the largest ever reported to the house from the naval committee. Aside from this the report, which accompanies the bill, is remarkable for its arrayal of facts regarding sea power the world over, foreign naval programmes, and the comparative strength of the navies of the great maritime powers, accompanied by colored charts showing the upbuilding of the various great navies. The Naval Programme. Under the head of "Naval Programme" the report set forth as follows as to new ships: "For the purpose of further increasing the naval establishment of the United States the committee recommends that the president be authorized to have built by contract two seagoon coast line battleships, carrying the heaviest armor and most powerful ordnance for vessels of their size, of 13,500 tons, and to have the highest practicable speed and great radius of action, and to cost, exclusive of armor and armament, not exceeding $3,900,000 each; three armored cruisers of about 13,500 tons trial displacement, carrying the heaviest armor and most powerful ordnance for vessels of their class, and to have the highest practicable speed and great radius of action, and to cost, exclusive of armor and armament, not exceeding $4,500,000 each; three protected cruisers of about 8,500 tons trial displacement, carrying the heaviest armor and most powerful ordnance for vessels of their class, and to have the highest speed compatible with good cruising qualities and great radius of action, and to cost, exclusive of armament, not exceeding $2,800,000 each. The Cost. "The maximum cost of the ships herein authorized, exclusive of armor and armament, will be $25,000,000. This is the largest cost of the warship in a committee on naval affairs of the house, and is in accord with the wishes and recommendations of the secretary of the navy and Admiral of the Navy, and the demands of public sentiment. The past year in naval construction has been marked by the most liberal naval programmes on the part of all foreign navies, and the cost of the warship in the rechattage of Germany is a naval bill which, if passed, will increase the tonnage of the present German navy $42,000, tons, a larger tonnage than that of her present Armor Plate. As to armor plate the report tells of the futile efforts to secure armor at $300 and $400, and says: "The battleships Maine, Ohio and Mississippi, now in process of construction, require 7,259 42 tons of armor, or 2,433 14 for each vessel. It is believed by the committee that these battleships, of nearly 13,900 tons displacement, the largest in design department, should have the best obtainable armor, and accordingly your committee recommends that the secretary of the navy be authorized to contract for each armor at a cost not to exceed $45 per ton. The department, which is, according to all naval authorities, the so-called Krupp armor, which is, at least, and has been so proven by ballistic tests, of 25 per cent. greater efficiency than that of the Harveyed armor. Every naval department has to do-day. Your committee believe that it MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY. is little short of disloyalty to recommend any other than the best protection and the best armor for these battleships to be placed between the bodies of our officers and men and the bullets of the enemy.[17] Mr. Wheeler (Ky.) presented a minority report against several features of the bill. The house then resumed the consideration of the Hawaiian territory bill. Under the order the clerk began reading the bill for amendment under the five-minute rule. Senate. Washington, April 6. — In the senate Thursday Senator Jones (Ark.) presented the credentials of J. C. S. Blackburn as a senator from Kentucky for the term of six years, beginning March 4, 1901. Senator Jones said, as the credentials were long, he would ask that they be printed in the record and as a document. After the disposition of morning business, Senator Gallinger (N. H.) addressed the senate in opposition to the seating of Senator Quay. At the conclusion of his argument the senate, at 1:30, went into executive session. LABOR DIFFICULTIES. St. Louis Car Men Anxious to Strike Miners' and Other Strikes. St. Louis, April 6.—After a conference between President Charles H. Turner, Superintendent C. H. Jenkins, and the grievance committee of the employees of the St. Louis & suburban Railway company, the status of the existing trouble has been made known by telegraph to President Mahon, of the International Amalgamated Association of Street Car Employees at Detroit, asking his permission to order a strike. Pittsburgh, Pa., April 6.—A meeting of the executive board of the United Mine Workers of the Pittsburgh district will be held here for the purpose of devising means to bring about a termination of the present strike and a general resumption of work. Pittsburgh, Pa., April 6—The strike at the Pittsburgh reduction works has been settled by the employers granting an advance of 12 per cent, recognizing the Aluminum Workers' union, of the Federation of Labor, and reducing the day's work from 12 to ten hours. Work was resumed in all departments. Pittsburgh, Pa., April 6—The 1,500 men of the Glenwood shops of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad have submitted a demand for an advance in wages ranging from five to 29 per cent. The officials are understood to have sent a favorable reply on the wage proposition, but differences remain in relation to the hours. Joliet, Ill., April 6—Nearly 500 coal miners refused to enter the shaft at the Diamond workings in Braidwood Thursday. The men assert that the new scale, which calls for an eight-hour day, and an advance from $1.75 to $2.10, has not been put into effect. Springfield, Ill., April 6. — Drivers and day men in Sangamon coal shafts Nos. 1 and 2, Starne's shafts Nos. 1 and 2, Virden Coal company's shaft and West End Coal Mining company's shaft near this city, and Riverton Coal company, who struck last week because operators refused to furnish them oil and cotton free, returned to work, deciding they would not insist on their demands. Indianapolis, Ind., April 6. — The union carpenters all quit work Thursday morning, causing a suspension of work on buildings where union carpenters are employed. The act was a result of the joint meeting of the English and German-speaking unions Wednesday night. OMINOUS PREPARATIONS. Russia Filling Port Arthur with Grain and Japan Calls Out Naval Reserves. Shanghai, April 6. The ominous preparations of the Russian and Japanese war departments continue. The Russians are making strenuous efforts to fill Port Arthur with grain, even at panic prices, and are importing quantities of wheat from north China. Japan has called out her naval reserves for service during the approaching maneuvers, when the entire Japanese fleet will be engaged. Still Favors Kansas City. St. Louis, April 6 - A. C. Drinkwater, member of the democratic national committee from Massachusetts, who passed through the city on his way home after a visit to Kansas City for the purpose of selecting headquarters for the delegates from the New England states, declared that if Kansas City would rebuild her hall he would still favor that city for holding the convention A. Horrible Death Clinton, Ia., April 6. — Henry Hurlburt, a workman in the Lyons Paper company's mill, met with a horrible death. Hurlburt fell against a swiftly-revolving shaft which caught his clothing and hurled him with great force against the side of the building. His body was crushed into a shapeless mass. Acquitted. St. Paul, Minn. April 6. — An Anoka (Minn.) special to the Dispatch says: The jury in the Melissa Blake murder case brought in a verdict of not guilty. Mrs. Blake was charged with killing her baby and burning the body in a kitchen stove. Irish Name for British Duke. 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Sigsbee, of the ill-fated Maine, is the guest of the Twin Cities. If white men hunt up and seek to parade our weakness, let us parade the evidence of our strength.—The Odd Fellows Journal, Philadelphia. Mrs. Dewey, wife of Admiral Dewey, has at last persuaded her husband to become a candidate for the presidential nomination. What wonders a woman can perform! Archbishop Ireland, of St. Paul, will deliver the dedicatory address at the unveiling of Lafayette monument at the Paris Exposition. The address will be delivered in French. A corporation company, composed entirely of colored men, will open a large grocery and provision house in Chicago, April 10th. This enterprise speaks progress for the colored man. We hope to soon see a similar one in the Twin Cities. Philadelphia Afro-Americans are the first to consider plans for a large department store. Ere long the colored people of that city will give to the race a true solution. This example deserves emulation in every city where Afro-Americans exceed in numbers upward of 5,000. The celebrated colored school case, which was decided by a jury at Alton, Ill., April 1st, excluding colored children from white schools, makes the third trial, each time a decision in favor of negro haters. An appeal will be taken to the supreme court. All honor or to the brave Afro-Americans of Alton. If the colored Baptists of the Twin Cities would unite in the support of some able minister, we think that the two churches would never suffer for a competent shepherd, and everybody would be pleased. The aggregate attendance of the two churches could bountifully supply the financial needs of one good minister. The loafing class is always in evidence, lounging on the corners, sporters on the promenade and at places of amusement, talking loud and guffawing on the street cars and making itself generally offensive on all occasions and everywhere. Decent colored people are everywhere made to suffer on their account. It is not fair, but it is so.—The Freeman. When a colored man begins to multiply progressive weight in the scale of prosperity he loses favor among his own people, and gains prestige among the whites. A striking peculiarity of the race indeed. Colored people idolize a man when he is full of chaff, despise the man of real action, and discourage the man who makes no effort to progress, by saying it is of no use. Who can locate him? It is well to lose favor for a time; if it is characteristic of the race, demand it. Perhaps such is the evolution of all rising races, but it seems to be of a peculiar kind. Rev. John G. Mitchell, A. M., D. D., Dean of Payne Theological Seminary, died last Friday morning at 12:20, after having been confined to his bed for about two days. He had been failing in health for about a year; but since last summer he had been convalescent and his friends hoped that he would recover. He was conscious up until about two hours before his death. When the end came it was so natural and easy that those watching at the bedside did not realize that he was gone, only by the cessation of his breathing. MERCERIZED COTTON. Discovery of the Process Which Converts the Cheap Material Into Fine Silk. A boy sat before the fire and watched his mother's kettle boil. The lid quivered, rose a little, and the boy gave steam power to the world. John Mercer, an English dyer, filtered caustic soda through a square of cotton cloth. Thence a new verb—to mercerize in the language, a new fabric on the market, and a new business, engaging millions of capital, to cheer the unemployed. The story of the boy, John Watt, is old, but Mercer's story is new and interesting. Mercerized cotton, either cotton yarn or cotton cloth, resembles silk absolutely. It has the luster of silk; it will take on, like silk, the richest and most brilliant dyes, and it has the unmistakable soft-harsh, nestling feel which nothing but silk ever had, says the Brooklyn Eagle. Also cotton, under this process, does not weaken, as might have been feared, but it acquires strength. A skein of cotton yarn in the natural state that will carry 13 ounces without breaking will carry, after mercerizing, 19 ounces. And if you take three coats and line the first with a plain cotton lining, the second with mercerized cotton and the third with silk, the cotton and the silk will wear out, about together, but the mercerized lining will outlast them two or three times over. Mercerized cotton is used in linings, in underwear, in spindle banding, in stockings, in dress goods, in negligee shirts. There is a profit in mercerizing of from 100 to 200 per cent. In the last year or two many public dyers have added mercerizing machines to their plants, and a good number of mercerizing mills have been established. But there is room for more. Here is the proof of the demand for mercerized goods: Bradford, the ingenious and alert manufacturing town of England, ran night and day making cloths for us in the time of the low tariff. Bradford is still running night and day, but she is making for us now only mercerized things. Mercerizing began as far back as 1846 in the English town of Accerington, where John Mercer, manager for the firm of Hargreaves, filtered caustic soda through a cotton cloth. Mercer, by accident, kept this cloth by him, happened to test its strength, happened to splash it with a dye. He found that it was about twice as strong and about twice as susceptible to dye liquor as it had been before. Slight savings, in connection with big outputs, come in the long run to astonishing totals. Here was a saving by no means slight. Here, just by running a cotton thread through a liquid as cheap as water, it would come to do the work of two threads, and in being dyeed it would save half the quantity of the dye stuff. Mercer rejoiced. He refused for his secret an offer of $200,000 from a French firm. He had the idea of an immense syndicate, with himself at the head, rolling up millions of profits per annum. Then it was found that cotton shrunk in the mercerizing. A yard of cloth would save in dyesuffa and in raw stock, say five cents to its manufacturers, but it would come out of the mercerizing bath only three quarters of a yard of cloth. Against the profit of five cents a loss through shrinkage of about ten cents would have to be set. This is why Mercer never formed his syndicate, why mercerizing was of no commercial importance until latterly. For the remaining 20 years of his life the man toiled ineffectually on and he died disheartened. But his name lives. That is because, somewhere around 1890, Horace Lowe, in England, and Thomas and Provost, in Germany, began to try to see if it might not be possible to mercerize a cotton thread and to prevent the thread from shrinking in the process. They more than succeeded. Mercer had taken his cotton, steeped it for about three hours in caustic soda, then washed it. That is mercerizing in its simplest terms. To the Englishman, Lowe, and the Germans, Thomas and Provost, came simultaneously the idea of keeping the cotton stretched while stealing it in the caustic soda bath. They tied the ends of their cotton threads to sticks and then mercerized them. The sticks did not break, the thread did not even show signs of shrinkage. So easy was it to do what Mercer had been failing at for years and years. But, more than this, they found that cotton mercerized under tension came out glossy, soft and rustling. To their amazement they found that they had transformed cotton into silk. And ever since the Englishman and Germans have been fighting over the patients on this wonderful discovery. The explanation of the luster that cotton, being mercerized, takes on, is simple. The soda and the tension together change the nature of the cotton fiber. The natural fiber is flat, shriveled; the mercerized fiber fills out, becomes round and smooth. And just as a flat, dried raisin has no luster, whereas the full ripe ripe catches and throws back the light, so there is no luster to the flat fiber of the natural cotton, but on the mercerized sort the light shines and is reflected just as on the grape. Taken Literally. It was only playfully that she referred to her husband as "a regular heathen," but it is always well to label such remarks when made in the presence of children. The little one who overheard this remark troted away to Sunday school immediately thereafter, and in some way the subject of attendance at church came up in the class that day. "My papa doesn't go," volunteered the little one. "No?" returned the teacher inquiringly. "Oh, no. He's a heathen, you know."—Chicago Post. Similar But Different. Mrs. Blinks—There's hardly any living with my husband; he doesn't know anything. Mrs. Winks—There's no living at all with my husband; he knows everything.—Chicago Evening News. MINOR NEWS ITEMS. Mr. James G. Blaire is collecting her bushland's letters for publication in a biography. An immense body of crystallized lead ore has been found on the outskirts of Helena, Mont. Liquor exports to Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines have decreased since the Spanish war. In the last 30 years 9,675 lives were lost in and about the anthracite coal mines of Pennsylvania. Former Secretary of the Interior Hoke Smith has sold the Atlanta (Ga.) Journal to a Boston syndicate. Ex-President Cleveland says the Nicaragua canal should be regarded as the United States' gift to the world. While in the Philippines Gen. Wheeler learned several Filipino dialects, which he can speak with fair fluency. Workingmen in California are becoming alarmed at the steadily increasing number of Japanese immigrants. Cotton spinners of Japan have organized a cotton yarn trust, the object being to meet growing competition from the United States. The president of the Mexico, Cuernavaca & Pacific railroad says Mexico is just entering a remarkable era of railroad construction. Germany and Russia are said to have reached an agreement as to railway concessions, practically dividing Asia Minor between them. The first American coal ever shipped to Japan has arrived at Nagasaki. The steamer Needleless has reached that port with 6,000 tons from Virginia. Fourteen thousand people have engaged passage from Pacific coast ports to Cape Nome, Alaska, on the first fleet of steamers, which sails about May 1. The Pennsylvania supreme court has held that a company incorporated in another state and not registered in Pennsylvania cannot recover in an action at law. Cyril Arthur Pearson, principal owner, manager and editor of Pearson's Magazine and many other journals, intends shortly to launch a London daily newspaper, modeled on American lines. Naval authorities have decided that Guam strategically is of scarcely less value than Hawaii, and have begun the preparation of plans to make it one of the most important naval bases on the Pacific. THE WORLDLY PHILOSOPHER. All men tell the truth—when there is money in it. Two cats in the alley can spoil the memory of ten sonatas. It is hard to like the people who don't take kindly to our faults. Some people are never so happy as when telling their troubles. Remember that no man has ever been made better by post-morten kindness. Man boasts of his liberty, but husbands are managed and bachelors usually Miss managed. Most men get hungry when they become poets, but no man becomes a poet by becoming hungry.—Chicago Democrat. It will take three years to build the underground rapid transit road recently begun in New York. The tunnel will cost $35,000,000, and will be 21 miles long. The contract is the largest single contract ever let. More than 65,000 tons of steel will be used in constructing the tunnel, and 2,000,000 cart loads of earth will be taken from the excavations. PATRONIZE . . . WM. JENKINS, ROOMS FOR RENT FIRST CLASS. We Guarantee Superb Service. Prices moderate. Tel. 2787-L-3 Main. No. 9 Second St. No. Minneapolis. J. GARNER. W. H. WELLER. The Elite Buffet 3030 STATE ST., FINE WINES, LIQUOR, AND CIGARS. Chicago. Chicago. Cutting, Fitting and Making Over a Specialty. New York and Paris Fashions Always on Hand. Farors, 628 Fourteenth A. South. DR. R. S. BROWN. Office: 405-6 Reeve Bldg. 408 Nicolelet V. Telephone 8734-J-5. Office Hours: 9:30 to 12:30; 2:00 to 4:00 p. u. m. s. m. 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KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS. Nat. Turner Lodge, No. 2, K. of P. Meets the second and fourth Thursdays in welcome. At Labor Temple, Fourth and Eighth avenue south. RALPH WATSON, K. R. and S. Pride of Minnesota Lodge, No. 1, K. Meets the first and second Thursdays in each month. All brothers in good stand- ing welcome. First avenue north Washington, First avenue north Washington, JAMES ROBERTS, C. W. C. J. FREKEY, K. R. and S. Meets first Tuesday in each month at Windom Block, Second avenue South and Washington. Masons in good standing always welcome. G. W. LILLARD, W. M. JASPER GIBBS, Sec., Guaranty Loan Restaurant. Anchor Lodge, No. 7, A. F. and A. M. Meets the first and second Monday in each month at Windsom Block, Second avenue South and Washington. Masons in good standing welcome. SCOUTT, W. M. A. B. LEE, 701 Aldrich Avenue south Mars Lodge, No. 2202. Meets second and fourth Wednesdays in each month at Odd Fellows' Hall, 325 Wabasha street T. R. HICKMAN, P. S., 422 St. Antoine D. PARKER, N. G., 395 Edmund St. N.D. HOOK of Hook, No. 553 Edmund St. O. F. G. Meets first and third Monday in each month for business, second Monday for instruction, at Odd Fellows' Hall, 325 MRS. SARAH C. KIRTLEY, M.N.G. MRS. IDA JACKSON, W. R., 374 mount place MORSEPHILIP GRAND LODGE OF MINNESOTA, A. F. and A. M. J. L. NEAL, Grand Master. WM. R. MORRIS, Grand Secretary. 171 Guaranty Loan Bldg., Minneapolis. ST. PETER CLAYER'S SODALY. Meets the first and third Mondays of each week. J. S. HARRIS, Sec. C. A. Davies, Treas. S. H. HADLEY, W. M. W. A. HILLYBROOK, 124 Atwater. Minnesota Lodge, No. 2, A. P. and A. M. Meets on the first and third Tuesday in each month at Masonic Hall, southwest corner of Fifth Street and Robert streets. Master Masons in good standing always welcome. H. R. HOWARD, W. M. J. S. STRONG, Sec. 12th and Robert st. WM. STEVENS, No. 3. A. F. & A. M. Meets second and fourth Monday in each month at Masonic Hall, southwest cor- ner of Robert and Robert streets. Master Masons in good standing always welcome. WM. JOHNSON, W. M. D. E. BEASLEY, Sec. Ryan Hotel. Perfect Ashler Lodge, No. 4, A. P. Meets the second and fourth Tuesday in each month at Masonic Hall, southwest corner Fifth and Robert street. Master Masons in good standing always welcome. J. H. SHERWOOD, Sec. 461 Carroll. Bethel Chapter, No. 25, R. A. M. Mason in first and third Tuesday in each month at Masonic Hall, southwest corner of Fifth and Robert streets. Royal Arch Masons in good standing always welcome. DANIEL ROY, H. P. W. T. GASSAWY, Sec. State Capitol. CHURCH DIRECTORY. MINNEAPOLIS. **ST. PETER A. M. E. CHURCH.** Rev. W. S. Bishop, Pastor. Cor. 22d st. 98th ave. South Sunday school; Eighth Avenue 11:30 a.m. ; Sunday School; 3:00 p.m.; evening services; 8:00 p.m. General prayer meet- ing, Thursday evening; 8:00 p.m. Way- way; Sunday School; 3:00 p.m.; different residences. Parsonage, 2200 Ninth avenue South. BETRESDA BAPTIST CHURCH. 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We soon crumble back to Mother Earth. Besides it is very expensive. We have designs from $4.00 to $4.00.00. Write at once for free designs and information. It puts you under no obligations. We seal direct and deliver everywhere. The Monumental Bronze Co., 360 Howard Avenue, Bridgeport, Conn. --- Miller ST. PAUL, 171-173 E. 7th St., Opposite Olympic. THE FOX RAZOR MAKE THE RAZOR MAKE THE RAZOR The FOX $2.00 duse. FREE TIME. Razor to your Exit to try. Or, if you guaranteeing ea CIL FREE. State Every Razor hono Address for the W THE STATUE OF THE MARTYR OF THE WESTERN UNION CIVIL WAR --- DR. J. E. PORTER. OFFICE HOURS: 9 TO 10 A. M.; 1 TO 3 P. M.; 6 TO 7 P. M., AND NIGHTS. HENRY MOSLEY, PRES. PHOTOGRAPHER Finest Work. Prices Right. MINNEAPOLIS, 427-429 Nicollet Ave. Over Yerra's. Dear Brother A QUEER GIRL {SAA HALL I invite her?” _“Lwas thinking, mother,” responded stella, “whether I should invite Myra (arland to spend a week here. You know that Patty Harper, Nellie Camp- ell and Jennie Stagg are coming.” “Why not invite Myra?” asked Mrs. peeves, eyeing her daughter curiously. “Well, I don’t know,” said Stella, slowly. “She is ever so nice a girl, but she’s queer.” “How queer?” : “Very quiet, and not at al like other girls. Sometimes I like her, and some- times I do not, and that is the way with all the girls. She is not good com- pany, I am afraid, and yet I want to invite her for that very reason. She never goes home except during the summer, and it is so dreary in the acad- ‘emy during Christmas apd Easter hol- idays. But I dare say she will not come, anyhow.” “Invite her, Stella,” said Mrs. Reeves, quietly. And Stella did. It was night when Myra came, the train being late, and Mrs. Reeves did ‘not see her until they all sat at the breakfast table next morning. ‘All the girls were there, end at first Mrs, Reeves mentally decided that Myra was only a homely girl with brown hair and hazel eyes, and much like other girls, but before the meal was ended she found herself watching the girl with increasing curiosity, She ‘was queer, in her reversed, almost mo- rose, manner, in her habitual silence and her grave, sweet smile. “She is queer,” said Mrs, Reeves to herself, “but I like her.” Before the day was out she liked ‘Myra more than ever, When the other girls went out for a walk, Myra stayed indoors, fed the éanary, dusted the trie-a-brae, and shook up the sofa and air pillows, and did several other title tasks which Stella generally for- t. i like to work,” said Myra, with her grave smile, “and it is fortunate that 1 do.” Mrs. Reeves could not refrain from asking why, with her eyes. “Hecause,” continued Myra, “I must. Ihave no father or mother, and auntie has only a small income. When Tleave the academy next June I must make my own living. Lean draw, paint, play the piano and violin, and speak three languages besides my own, and I ought to be able to support my- elf.” “I should think so!” exclaimed Mrs. Reeves. And then she looked once more in amazement at the 17-year-old girl, so self-reliant and accomplished, and yet #0 quiet and queer, Within three days Myra was firmly established in the Reeves household. ‘She was so handy and so helpful and to good natured, everybody said, that Stella and the girls actually held a cau- cus to discover why they had called her queer, and failed to find a cause. On the evening of the third day Ar- thur Reeves came home on leave from ‘the naval school, where he was a cadet. Arthur was only 18, but such a big, burly fellow, expecially in his cape overcoat, that you would have taken him for 25 at ieast—at a distance, “You shall be our cavalier, Arthur,” wid Stella, “and I promise you shall lave your hands full.” “All right,” asserted Arthur, care- Iessly, “Bring on your girls; you can't frighten @ sailor.” Then began a round of gayety such & fairly took away the girls’ breath. ‘They made trips to the old mill and the abaridoned powder magazine, they went hunting and skating, and Arthur was the guiding spirit in all their Pranks, Myra revived her reputation for queerness in these expeditions. “Hy the great hoop-block!” cried Arthur, with undisguised admiration, to his mother, as he was eating a late breakfast, “I call her a jelly girl, and no mistake.” “Don't roar so, Arthur,” said Mrs. Reeves, with a smile. “Jolly, did you way “That's what I said. Why, mother, she can outwalk me and climb a bill like a soldier. She can handle a rifle like a marine, although she is too soft- hearted to aim at anything but a dead forget, and she can skate better and faster than any girl Lever heard of." r “The girls say she is queer,” said Mrs. Reeves, “Queer!” he burst out. “Well, yes, Perhaps she is, but I wish there were Tore queer girls like her. Is she rich, mother?” “I believe not, Arthur.” “That's lucky!” “Lucky?” “For her. She will have to work, and the is sure to make her mark, and it will be a big one. Mother, I think—" “Arthur!” called Stella, outside, “if You ever get through eating, we girls, Would like to have you drive us to the Pret office.” On Tuesday Arthur's leave would ex- Dire, and so it was arranged that 6n Monday there should be a picnic. It ‘Was Arthur's idea. “Why aot?” he asked. “It's mere Ronsense to suppose that you can't have a picnic enly in summer. What's the matter with taking the big sleigh. loading it up with picnic grub, inelud- ing rubber blankets, in case we want ‘to sit on the ground, and having a first- lass time generally?" Tt was unanimously voted that there Ee Ne ie ee ee ore ae picnics. Have you ever been in Cairo?” Arthur looked at her in amazement. “What a queer girl!” he exclaimed, involuntarily. Myra aetuoy laughed. “I know I am,” she said, quickly; “but that is not answering my ques- tion, Were you ever in Cairo?” “Twice.” “Do you know where the British con- sul general has his office?” “Quite weil. But what in the world—" “Patience!- Is there a large brick warehouse directly opposite, owned by an English firm, where ivory, ostrich feathers and spices are stored ?” “By Jove, there ist” ejaculated Ar- thur, in increasing amazement. “I re- member it quite well, it is such an old building. But I say—" “One more question.” interrupted Myra, for the first time betraying some excitement. “Do you remember the Englishman's name?” “Let me see," reflected Arthur. “I have heard it often enough. It is Gold- en—Garden—no, Gar—yea! Garland! Why, that's your name, isn’t it?” “Yes,” answered Myra, with another smile, “The Cairo Garland was my uncle, He is Gead, and I am going te Egypt next month to straighten out his affairs. I hear they are dreadfully tangled.” ‘Arthur nearly let the lines fall. “You are going to Egypt!” he repeat: ed, mechanically. “Do you know any: thing about Ezypt?” “Not so muca as I expect to,” replie¢ Myra, ‘And before Arthur could tell her what he thought of a 17-year-old gir going half round the world to settle anybody's affoirs, Stella called out: “Arthur, how long is it going to take to find a picnic ground?” “We won't go a foot further,” saic Arthur, reining up. “We are. eight miles from home now, and it looks like snow.’ “Let it snow!” cried the girls, reck lessly. Then they swept aclear space, spread out the eatables, and began to eat right away, as piénic folks always do, while Arthur blanketed the horses. But this picnic was just like every other picnic. Not being in summer, it couldn't rain; so it snowed, and after braving it out until they looked like snow images, it was decided to scurry home. ‘Then the usual accident occurred but somewhat more serious than usual One of the horses kicked Arthur on the knee as he was hitching him, and he sank down in a heap, with acry of pain At this there was a great uproar, an¢ the horse, highly alarmed, showe¢ signs of lashing out again, in which case Arthur would have been brained when Myra stepped forward quietly but quickly, ond led the horse out o} reach, “Are you able to stand?” she asked gently. “Just about,” replied Arthur, trying to choke off a groan. “I think some small bonés must be fractured. Car any of the girls hitch up the horses?” There was a blank silence, and ther Myra said: “I think I ean, if you will look on and keep me from going wrong.” Arthur was thereupon helped inte the sleigh, and just about the time the horses were hitched up he complicated matters by declaring that he felt s¢ faint he could not drive. “What shall we do?” wailed Stella. And there were signs of @ regula panic, when Myra said: . “I will drive, if Stella will show me the way.” Arthur was helped into the house and then Myra added to the prevailing astonishment by volunteering to go for the doctor. “It is only a mile,” she said, “and 1 have my hand in now." You may be sure that Mrs. Reeves and the girls made mugh of Myra for the next day or two, and were as much grieved as amazed when she announced her intention of leaving them for a long ‘and perhaps dangerous journey. “I thought.” sald Mrs. Reeves, in quiringly, “that you had no friends besides your aunt?” “So did 1,” said Myra, quietly, “I was the morning of the pienic that J received the letter announcing my uncle's death. “And you made up your mind within an hour what to do?” queried Arthur, who was propped up among some cush: ions. Myra smiled assent. “A very queer girl,” «aid Mrs. Reeves to herself for the hundredth time. She said it again when Stella received a letter from Myra, dated Cairo, March 10, 1885, telling her how she had admin. istered her uncle’s estate, and winding up with these words: “You need not expect to see me for some time, as I have joined the Red Cross society, and I leave for Khar. toum to-morrow.” “With all her money!" exclaimed Stella, “Well, I never! I was certain that she would go to Paris the very first thing!” Not another word from Myra until ‘a month after the cable brought the news that the war in Egypt was over ‘and then came another long and loving letter. Arthur was home again, taller and elauten dha. Guan dae adetr asinienn CURIOUS WHEAT PROBLEM | THE KI According te This Computation Bear-| There ts 1 clty of Food te Not by Any aeugw Meads Ramee, i If Sir William Crookes is to be be-| Dr. Frede lieved, scarcity of food is not by any | sonian inst tense remote; Ib may come within | two montl sight of persons now alive, and these | bay, on the not very young, says the London Spec- | found?ond, tator. The case may be very easily | pericace. 1 stated. At present the deficiencies of | stitution the wheat-eating countries are supplied | and of the | by North America, especiaily by the | were of th United States. In 1897-8 the wheat | romance ha crop of the United States was about | ing as purs 540,000,000 bushels. Of this quantity | érs, There 217,000,000 bushels were exported to | the grizzled Europe, where no country, excepting | to strike t) Russia and Turkey, grows enough for | tle steam ci its own population. The states are| The gun able to do this without trenching on | poon, with | the home supply, because the total pop- | the shaft u ulation is not more than 75,000,000. In| and then p 1931, if the increase of population goes | selves. ‘Th ‘on at the same rate as that of the last | cigar-shape $0 years, the 75,000,000 will have in-| explodes a COL. & 0 PLUMER AF > YC: p iy RR Pe Wifaa bs yy se a Ma ‘dtl A at id if (ae? zs Rte Np Et OF A= fe fe F iy gg lla ee eS } fONVECOE OF > This British oMcer, now In command of the troops of Rhodes, te sup noned to Miu disused uy tok Eaten: Fewal, Fiitisr ivan old handat Attlann service D creased to 130,000,000, and the surplus] generating a gas whie for export will be no longer available. | the fish afloat after the Whence, therefore, will the wants] of the shock on its inte of the world be supplied? Russia at | left it a lifeless mass, present exports largely, the total be-| attached to the butt ¢ ing something more than two-fifths of | and by this the whale that from the states, But it cannot be | it threshes madly tht “hoped that Russia will come to the re-| in a vain effort to ese cue of a hungry world. It ig already | enemy. Death rapidly hungry iteelf, exporting food while its | as sometimes happen ‘own people are starving. Any change | goes through the fish f here must be in the way of distribu-| when a second shot ia ‘tion. This change will be the more pene | speedy because the Russian population, START OF TH in spite of its sufferings, increases. In- ae deed, the difficulty of the general prob-| senator Clark Had ¢ ‘Tem in aggravated by the fact that, up|. Daty setghty The ‘to the point of actual starvation, searel- for 6 604 ty not only does not check, but actual- mae ly stimulates, the rate of increase. Al Gua Schmidt tells pertectly well-fed, welleducated and | gonreeticn with the te [generally comfortable population has | Clark, of Montana, wh fa tendency to diminish rather than to| sued by Marcus Daly, grow, comes apolix Press: i Judge and Dancing Master, “The start of this | An English paper tells of a Greek | their early mining ds judge who took it into his head to|was dependent on thr learn to dance. He is an elderly man, | small stream for the » and in spite of all his efforts he only | ing of his mines. Daly | ELEPHANTS AS RED CROSS NURSES. : if i al, 5 = Ke! hog Te MGIC Pie. (a Ne ES ag RA ae 1 ee ‘ 6 | F f \ yj f = et Y e . “ee > Ges | — SS tt~CS succeeded in getting out of breath, so | at lant the dancing master lost patience and told his pupil that he was incapable of learning. The judge therefore went to law, and got ihe following verdict in his favor: “Seeing that a man who has no physical defects is not unfit to be taught to dance, the professor is ereby"condemned to continue hin es sons until his pupil is proficient.” The willing magistrate and the unwilling dancing master have therefore set to work again. Double Guard, Double Beer. A war correspondent writes ftom South Afriea to the London Daily Mail: “A certain gallant corps at Chieveley camp provided the guard that should protect our precious beer till Chrint- mas day. In the morning two dozen bottles were missing. "Disgraceful!’ raid the authorities; ‘double the guard.’ ‘And they doubled it. Next day four dozen were missing.” ‘The Golden Kale im Texas, When men learn to do unto others as they would have others do unto them, horse trading will have become ove of the lost arts.—Galveston News. THE KILLING OF WHALES. ‘There Ie Little of Bxcttement or Danger in ihe Parsutt as it In Now Carried On, Dr. Frederick W. True, of the Smith- sonian institution, who has just spent two months in whale hunting in Green bay, on the northeastern coast of New- found/ond, reports an*interesting ex- pericace, ‘He was sent out by the in- stitution to study the fishback whale and of the 98 animals caught all but 11 were of this variety. The story-book romance has gone entirely out of what ing as pursued by tae Newfoundiand- és, There is no frail whaleboat, with the grizzled old harpooner in the bow to strike the whale, but instead lit- tle steam craft and a powerful gun, The gun throws a Targe iron har- poon, with erossarms which lie against the shaft until it strikes a solid body and then project out and imbed them: selves, ‘The head of this harpoon is cigar-shaped and sharp-pointed and explodes as it strikes the whale's side, generating a gas which serves to keep the fish afloat after the wrecking effent of the shock on its internal organs hax left it m lifeless masa, A stout rope is attached to the butt of the harpoon, and by this the whale da kept in leash as it threshes madly through the water in a vain effort to eseape its unknown enemy, Death rapidly ensues, unless, as sometimes happens, the projectile oes through the fish from side to side, when a second shot is necessary. START OF THE FEUD. Senator Clark Had to Pay Marcos Daly Kighty Thousnnd Dollars for m Stream. “Gua” Schmidt tells this story. in connection with the trouble of Senator Clark, of Montana, who is bitterly pur sued by Marcus Daly, says the Indian apolix Press: “The start of this feud dates from their early mining days when Clark was dependent on the water from a small stream for the snecessful work ing of his mines. Daly bought the wa }ter right for $35,000 amd compelled Clark’ to pay $50,000 for Its use. “A further item, which goes to show Clark's luck, or pluck, in that « prom: inent wentern smelting company was financially embarrassed, and an it was at a time of panie the company could not obtain ready money. Clark exam- ined ite books, and, finding them in good condition, took $100,000 stock in the company. Ip going over the books he noticed a earload of ore once in awhile that was exceedingly rich, and made inquiry of the name of the imine from which the ore came. He was told, and went to the mine dressed as ® miner and hired himself owt to the four young men who owned it, and went to work ss miner, After ering the wealth of the mine he bought it for $210,000, and this mine is now making him millions.” . A Vencemnker. First Citizen—I sey the century be- ‘pan on the int of January, 1900, "Second Citizen—I say It begins ov ‘the txt of January, 1901! ‘Third Citizen~Say, why can't you compromise thin? Why not let it begin on the Fourth of July, 19002—Duck. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. The peanut crop of 1899 is nearly 1,000,000 biusheis heavier than the eroy of 1908, |, Horses were introduced into Bxypt by the Shepherd Kingw less than 17 [B.C, No Morse figures appear on the early monuments of Egy pt | Tt has been discovered that « lot of expensive furniture in the capitol Washington, supposed to be tolld ma hogany, is only thinly veneered with that wood. ‘The sum of $2,637,000 has been ex pended in New Jersey making. 44 taller of good roads, Marsachtisett thaw spent’ $2,625.300" on. 250. unllem which are as perfect as any highways jin Europe. Buffalo, with a population of 400, 200, expended $173,210 on the poor tna year, Rochester, with, 178.4 people spent $10,000, while Syracuse, with about 125,000, inhabitants, paid ou more than $200,000. The atreet cars of Havana are heavy cumbersome, oltatyle ears, drawn By three ponies, one in the lead of xpan at the doubletree, all of then hitched too far from the ear for econ omy of effort om the part of the littl benats oF successful handling by. th driver The original copy of the deelaratios of independence ix no longer tb aeen by the public, because: exporur to the air and light has, made. th text and signatures almont illegible The document ix now kept in a wa In the library of the state departmen At Washington, and it ix believed tha the faded lines are recovering. wom of their color. ‘The: Chicago fire of October 8 an 8, 1871, Burned over about 3¥y aquar miller, destroying 17-480 bulldings Alling 200 persone and renderingy #8 500 hometexs. ‘The Tons ux over 200, 000,000, the mont dentructive fre eve known, In the Heston fire. November fs 1872, over 800 buildings wer burned; loan §80,000,000.. Tm the Pi aueiphin fire, July 9, 1830, 867 howe pics ol nelliora | A RIDE IN A NIGHT SHIRT. Mamorous Inctdent af William the Conqueror’ Eacape from a | Among several incidente of "The Hoyhood of “The Conqueror," related by Adele E. Orpen, is this account of a midnight fight ‘One of there shooting-matehes near ly cont him his life, He wax about 20 Years old when, in early summer of the Yeur 1047, he went with a large train of friends and attendants to shoot at Valogues, In those days there were great forests covering: the bills and Valleys around Valognes, and ax there forests were full of game the young duke and his friends expected to en Joy themselves. ‘They formed so lary a party that they had to separate and lodge where they could in. the town, This left the duke with only a few eery- ants in the castle. In the middle of the night he wag suddenly awakened by a jou knocking, and the shouting of rome one mounting the states to his chamber, He listened, and recognized the voice of Gallet, a strolling buffoon, whom he knew very well, and to whor he hud frequently given little trifles. “Fly! fly!" shouted the buffoon. “William, thou art lost! Fly, weet friend! ‘Thy murderers are coming! Txaw them, Fly, or thou wilt be taken!” William had been through too many dangers, and had had too many narrow excapes, to neglect such a warning. He believed that Gallet, though but a fool, spoke the truth, He sprang from his bed, and, in hin nightdrens, with only a short cloak flung upon his shoulders dashed downstairs and into the court yard, Pehraps he heard the sound of armed men approaching: perhaps he needed to hear nothing more in order to realize hin danger; at all events, he weized the first horse he could find, leaped upon It bareback, and rode for hin lite. Not a moment too soon, He had scarce galloped ont of the courtyard before several armed men hurriedly rode into it, Gallet met them at the entrance, He had seen them a short time before from his hayloft at the inn, when they were preparing fur their murderous errand, and whenes he had run to warn bin “aweet friend” William. He knew them and thelr pur pore. “Ha, hal” be eried, with mad klee, “you're late, my irr; you're Inty The duke ix gone! William bn off Your stroke hus inissed! Hut hark ye; bide» bit, He will pay yout You made him pass a bad night —he will make you see an ill day.” And then he ea pered derisively about them. — 8 Nicholas. | Vell Short of Mer Ident, When sehool girls grow confidential with one another they sometimes, | fm told, describe the Kort of a man who corresponds to what they eal their “beau ideal.” Did you ever happen to hear what Mrs. Stephen A. Douglan wax credited with waying on thin topic? “When 1 wan nt school,” she remarked, “I used to vow that there were three kinds of men 1 never could be Induced to marry Firet, 1 never would marry a man who wax younger than I. Second, | never would marry « man who wan shorter than I. Third. 1 never would marry © politician, Well, 1 kept my vow, except that in marrying Mr. Douglas t married a man who was not quite as old aa L, who wan not nx tall an J, and who was one of the mont prominent politicians of bin day." N. ¥. Mail and Express OMrint Indtanation. Quick ann flash the man snatehed her purse and was off with it, Di rectly Lehind her, not 20 yards away, stood policeman who had witnessed the crime, She turned to him, ery: ing frantieally: “Bobher! robber!” Ins few moments the policeman stood Wewide her. “say!” he eried. “Don't you yell ‘Rubber’ at me!” His tndignation was but natural, for wan it not hin duty, after all, to see just such things ?— Philadelphia Pres. ee eae | Bob—to you're waiting upon Mins Blowboy Intely? Tom—Lately? T should say so We never get anywhere on time Philedetphia Bulletin. WONDERFUL CAPE NOME. Capt. Craigte Corrohorntes the ste- Flee of the Rich Gold ‘higakane In a lotter received recently, Liewt, Wallace M. Craigie, Seventh United States infantry, now stationed at Cape Nome, Alaska, in charge of an army substation, says: “Cape Nome, according to the old- timers, will be the greatest: mining camp, in the world, Nome City, as it ix now called, in right on the const of Nehring sea, ‘and extends for some miles along the shore. Atong the beach the miners rock out gold and make from $5 to $80 oF more aday—one man, ‘This xounds like @ statement that ad- mits of doubt, but itixa fact, One maa told me himself he had worked with [three otiers for 14 days, and they had rocked out jun? $6,000, all hard-earned kold, but they had it to prove the mtate- ment, ‘Then up along the several creeks Anvil, Discovery, Snow Guleh, ete. the yield is really enormous. ‘The famous claim here is known ax No, 1 on Discovery, and has turned out about $1,000,000, A few days ago a nugget weighing 0 ounces wax found, and About a month ago one weighing a little over 19 ounces was taken from the sluice boxes on the name claim, Some men have a centrifugal pump down on the beach below the town, and have sluice boxes running buck 10 the soll, called tundra by the natives, which is filled with fine gold of a very pure ‘quality “The thing that impressed me moat was that in less than a month after the town started the ‘diggings’ was the circulating medium, and valued at $16 fan ounee, although no official axsay had been made, Men go out with thelr rockers and pans, and come buck to town, anit eat and drink, and pay for it with the result of the day's digging. There are numerous propositions to Jinterest men of capital, auch axa good water supply ayatem, electric light plants, wut the man who can lay a trolley avatem up to the mines for transporting freight and suppiies has the greatest avd surest business ven: ture of all, These are now carried by pack trains an’ freight wagons, Dogs fre also used, they being able to carry bout 40 pounds each, ‘The town han increased in five months from about 250 to 3,000 inhabitants, and it in thought when navigation opens in the spring: there will be 10,000 6F 40,000 peo ple here, Cont iy $78 a ton, lumber $128 per 1,000; yet people are building and settling bere, OUR new quarters are very comfortableframe covered with corrugated fron, We are all nicely net tled for the winter, Tam told the northern lightsas seen here are beyond deseription, and the moon ax bright and clear anerystal, which Ina measure will have to make up for no day or aun, If our monthly mail scheme only Proven muceensful there are many worse phices than Cape Nome, even though 0 isolated and distant, We hope for rent things in the spring: more United States troops and better facilities for communication with the outaide world during the long fall and winter eesaon," HOW SHE TAMED HER HUSBAND Adrolt Manner tm Whieh a Washing. ton Woman Cured Her Cap- dene deed: 1 dare say there isn't « woman on earth who hasn't « theory on the subs Jeet of how to manage « husbupd, and U have never yet come acrom a man who wax any the worse for a little neientile handling now and then If 1 were in the florist business 1d wend a palm to a certain senator’ daughter, who hax net an example managing wives imight follow with Profit, She hax a husband, this sena- tor'x daughter, who in disponed to be critical, Mont of hin friends are men of great wealth, wha live extremely well, and axsocintion with them has made him somewhat hard to please In the matter of cooking, For sume time the tendeney hax been growing ‘on him, Beareely @ meal at hin home table passed without eriticiam frou him. What fe this meant for? he would ank after tasting an entree hin wife had racked her brain to think up, “What on earth in thin?” he would say when desert oaine on, “In it nupponed to be « antad?” he would Inquire sarcastically when the lettuce wan nerved. ‘The wife stood it an long we abe could. One evening he came home in a particularly cap. tious humor. Hix wife wan dressed in her mont becoming gown and fairly bubbled over with wit, ‘They went in to dinner, ‘The soup tureen wan brought in, ‘Tied to one handle was card, and on that card the informa: ton in a big round hand: “Thin ix noup.” Roast beet followed, with placard, announcing: “Thin in rout beef.” ‘The potatoes were labeled, ‘The kravy dish was plucarded, ‘The olives bore ® card marked “Otives,” the salad how! enrried @ tug marked “Hulad.” and when the joe eream came ino curd announcing “Thin ix jee cream” come with it. ‘The wife talked of a thouxand different thing AM throngh the meal, never once re ferring by word oF look to the labeled dishes. Neither then nor thereattet did she say ® word about them and never since that evening has the captions husband ventured to inquire what anything met before him ba— Washington Post Victim of Senteny. WifeGeorge, are, you going to the club tonight? Husband—Yea, my love, 1 really don't care to go, but it te an impor: tant meeting, and it would hardly do for me to abwent myself. “What time do you expect to re turn home?” “Hy 11 o'clock at the Intent.” “Well, om your way just stop for me at the Woman's Twentieth Century club, on Keener atreet; I'll be xure to walt for you.”—Kichmond Dis pateb, His Ambition, Minister—Well, Johnnie, what do you propose to make of yourself when you grow up to bem man? Johnnie (thoughtfully) —Well, 1 don't know sure, but 1 have been thinking Intely that I should like to be a dogcateher—Bomerville Jour ‘sek. Spring Annually Says Take 5 Hood’s Sarsaparilla In the spring those Pimples, Boils, Eruptions and General Bad Feelings indicate that there are cobwebs in the system. It needs a thorough brushing, and the best brush is Hood's Sarsa- jpacille, wish sepa all AG fetors'It. ‘This great medielag scudicatea Borotule oubdons Salt nvm, peatralians to caldite Wash, auton epsilon ie short, purifies the blood and Uhorouguly renuyaten the whole pase ve Orehave tned Tosa's Sifvapes sill aad 10 bas given toe best be eatitestion, cogacially ua ® spring medicina, 10 Dalles. wp in wiser spits ae mee iter Dyignr'O Fake Whiteland, Indiana a --d TIORSES IN THE WAR. Sasa seen at tne Cuarestostaalan et tue Diaerent Syse0 tn ‘There are many different kinds of horses employed Ma the present cam- paign and the following gives a very good Idea of the characteriticn of the Various types, says the South African Preas, The heavy horses of the royal horse artillery are magnificent animals, towers of strength every one. They, fare splendidly trained and combine Ammiense power with great activity. It ino grand night to ree them in action. The dragoons aud huasara are mounted on great heavy chargers, which thunder over the plain, but they are lighter than the artillery horses. ‘The Australians have fine, serviceable steeds, upstanding and by no means Light, and kept in excellent order. The New Zealanders brought their mounta with them direct from the Hritain of the south and an exceptionally shape- ly lot they are, showing breed In every line, They have done a great deal of trying work since thelr arrival, really more than thelr share, In fact, and have shown themselves thoroughly re- Hable nage, They average about 15% hands and are perhaps a little lighter than the Australian mounts, A number of South American horses have arrived from the Argentine and ‘they are In remarkably good condition, fan sleek ax inoles. They are thick-aet, strongly built little horses, too large to call ponies, but nothing like the height of the chargers above men- ioned, and it {n likely that in the fleld thers “big little” South American cobs ahould prove an aerviceable as any. Last, and least In stature, are the horses of the mounted Infantry, South African horses, light, active, #trong. mall though they are, compared to the majority of the mount, they are Dy no means to be despised, for they @o thelr work well and keep up re markably. They are nimble over the | atrong ridges, and feet of foot across the native fints, and if well enred for will get through the campaign in as good order as any. It fo onid that care will kill a cat; bat Mf a nat doesn't care very much be will probably find a bootjack or & qu juat ae Hlective Chicago Daily News ‘The veracity of fiqures often depends upom Fg henenty of the stattiont Chicago A MOTHER'S STORY, ‘Tolls About Hor Daughtor's Tiness and How Bhe was Relloved— Two Lottors to Mrs Pinkhaso. “Mus, Ponca -—T write to tell you about my daughter. She is nineteen ‘pears old and is Sowing all the time, and hes been for about three months, ‘The doe tor does her but ver} Mitte nea ane ; ee ee ee eee try Lydia B. Pink- ham's Vegetable Compound, but I want your advice Before beginning ite use. I have become very much alarmed about her, as she is getting so weak.” Mua, Matinpa A. Came, — Manehester Mill,’ Macon, Ga, May 21, 1999. “Dean Mns, Prorne mam:—It affords me great pleasure to tell you of the benefit my aughter has received from the use of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com- pound. After beginning the use of your medicine she began to mend rapidly and is now able to be at her work. Her menses aro regular and almost painless. I fee! very thankful to you and expect to always keep your Vegetable Compound in my house, It fn tho best medicine lever knew. You have my permission to publish this letter if you wish, it may be the means of doing others good."—Mus, MATILDA A. Camr, Manchester Mill, Macou, Gay eptember 18, 1890. FE “ Reversible g “ Linen” Coline & Cutts \ a 1 —— 7 rere] WARS CLAD = aoe te Werk. See ree REVERSIBLE COLLAR CO 18, BOSTON | Has hsews Dr.Bull’s 23 725 Cough Syrup eirestesiss tod AMinisterial Surprise ee ce ee pected that it was for reasons which were best kept quiet. If anyone at Green island showed any talent, ev- €r¥one else was quick to proclaim that It was quite inferior—else why should the person be at Green Island? ‘The town wax without social pleasures, No @ne thought to nuk anyone elne to ine. In the strict sense of the word, Indeed, no one at Green Inland dined The folkn ato when the table was set =that was the fact of the case. Behool-teachers who went there had & melancholy tine, and usually broke down and had to go home, — Their complaints bore various names, but, ‘an a matter of fact, they were perish- {ng of homesickness, It would not have done for a Green Island girl to have taught. No one would have con- fidence in her. Even the town physi clan was regarded with constant dix trust, and his successful cases were accounted accidents, or the work of nature, while hie unsuccessful ones were remembered with unrelenting te- macity. ‘The attorneys alone enjoyed something like a reputation, and they had a great deal to do, In fact, liti- gration wan one of the few diversions of the folk at Green Island. x ‘The town had ita religion, of course. It had three different brands — all blown in on the bottle. And the one display of courteay in the place was the obligation, generally recognized, ‘af everybody to attend an ice cream focinl oF an oyster supper, regardiens of views about foreordination or lim- mersion, By such contrivances: were the clergymen paid their salaries— those microscopical salaries so grudge ingly bestowed, so complainantly ree ollected by the congregation ax It sat estimating whether or not it was gote ting its money's worth, None of the three churches had been able to se ‘cure a resident clergyman, but each divided ite preacher with certain oth: er congregations on an itinerary, and enjoyed a sermon once In three Sune days. But that Sunday might not be passed without warship, it was the euntom of the Green Inland folk to at. tend en masse whatever meeting house was open, Thin, it will be per ceived, caused a aystematic rotation, Now it happened that i.e clergy- min at one of these churches, having gathered nix olive branches about hin, found it inconvenient to live on $250 & yenr—he wan said by all to be an extravagant man—and he gave up hie Position; aye, turned his back on his calling and taught Latin in a certain high kchool. ‘That wax how it came about that the Heth Eden congreya- tion and the two other churches of that itinerary stood In need of a new Preacher. One offered himself, He came from the middle west, And he gave it out that he wax going to live At Green Island. This was really a feather in the cap of Green Island, but the people did not take it so, ‘They wondered what was the matter with him, Was there any reason why he preferred an “inland” to « railway town? It was curious, When he appeared, it seemed atilt more curious, He was different. No matter what anyone else was like, he wan different. He walked alovg with 8 big awing and stride and seemed to think all the people liked him, What Ampertinence! He was dreased in an selogant sult of shot gray—wan it not Known that the uniform of a Green Inland preacher, no matter what his denomination, was shiny black? Hix hat wax an inch and @ half too far ‘on the back of his head for clerical dignity, and from the edge protruded fringe of handsome red curla, Mix yea were red-brown, large and laugh: fog, bin heavy auburn eyebrows met ‘Aabore hik none, he was smooth-shaven, and had a dimple in his chin, He was Just the right height for hin shoul: ders, which were two Inches broader than the average, He had dark tan shoes, no cane, no umbrella, no smirk, no rubbing of the hands, no whine, no attitude of humility. And, powers above! When he got to fence he vaulted over! He had evidently made up his mind to stay, for he began his activities, not by calling on his parishioners, but by purchasing @ barn at the end of a peculiarly shady and beautiful old lot, and be proceeded to ft it up into a most ploturesque abiding place, Peo- ple came around to mee What he was doing, and he put up seats under the trees, and talked and told stories ti they forgot to go home. But thin was in the evening. If they called during the day he went right on with his carpentering oF painting or garden: ing, and invited them to take a hand. When he came to preach his first sermon everybody war agog. “Do yeh think he'll go into the pub pit in that there speckled suit?” Mary Fennig asked of Cora Helle Harmon, ‘They and the other girls were intense- ly interested, But he was in black, ‘of conventional cut, and he gave a good Gospel sermon with no personal: ities, He didn’t talk about the sins of Green Island or the religious indit- ference of the community, as the other preachers had been in the habit of do- fog. He appeared to be ignorant about these subjects, Apparently he took the religious ifterest of a community with three churches for granted. He made « good deal of the singing and the prayers, and he had the congreya toa respoud in the reading of the bad to do Its half of brotherly fend. liaess. Hitherto it had banked in the condescending, yet propitiating, amites of {tx clergyman, Rev. Kite gave @ housewarming in his barn presently and invited every- body. It was in the afternoon, and he had games and got up a football 11, No one knew how he succeeded. Even baseball had languished hitherto at Green Island, Also he invited three young fellows to go rowing up the river with him the next week, to be gone all day. And ax no one invited him to dinner he asked the deacons of his church and their wives to dine with him, He had Miss Weasles, a spinster of the discreet age and char- acter, presiding over his domestic af- fairn. Green Island went home from this remarkable housewarming in a flute ter. To begin with, it wanted to know where Rev, Thomas Kite got the money for all this entertainment, Moreover, it would be pleased to ax certain how he was to find time for upping and boating and football play ing and the like, Hix conduct with the young ladies was carefully —re- viewed, but no one wax able, even aft- er the mont strenuous efforts, to nay that he paid more attention to one than the other. Everyone was at church the next Sabbath—literally everyone.* But still Rev. Kite neglected to mention Green Inland oF its pronpects or condition, xpiritual or temporal. He complained of no lack of interent. He merely waid he would take the Bible class for a pianie the following ‘Thursday and naked that the Lady's society arrange for a pienic for the younger Sunday Achool scholars, Without knowing it Green Island began to enjoy itnelf. Tt Degan to find itself Interesting. It wan profoundly complimented when Rev. Kite put the stamp of approval on Ninn Cutler's singing by inviting everyone to hear her at his house one autumn evening, It was vastly enter- tained by the Tennyson readings he gave Monday nights. All of thene af falrx were held in the large room in the renovated barn, where the great red brick fireplnce was, and the shelves of books, and the piano and comfortable plain chairs. Mins Wee sili fap") 4 ey “x Grays ONT Te NA Sa aN re eae) Ss ome” MNS \ \ Sg ee lea had grown urbane, She wore @ bine gown and a high-ribbed collar, and she developed a genius for enter- talning which had hitherto been une suspected, She dispensed the simple hompitality of the place with a gra: cious air, Green Island, which had always supposed there must be a big apread*of cakes and pickles, jammed meats, wondered at the calm eouns tenance with which the young mins Inter nerved a few cookies or crackers and tea, But it concluded, after a time, that thin was sensible, if rome: what conspicuously frugal At the end of @ year Green Island found itself in a state of activity. 18 had two literary sovietion, a singing club, a class in lathe work of an ornae mental ebaracter, a guild of ine needle workers, a civic committee whe cut weeds down beside the streets, cleaned up unsightly dumps, made a flower garden in the school, and ress cued the cemetery from unseemly neglect, Moreover, It had golf links north of the town and Rey, Thomas Kite was president, major-domo, crack player. Green Island people began to wonder why more folks didn't. move to town, and to marvel if anybody left it, It Dewan to talk about ite Inter: eating social circles. It thought it would be a good thing for the rail: road if {t should come there, And it concluded, finally, that it couldn't af- ford to let Thomax Kite go to some other town two Sundays out of every three, So It multiplied his anlary in ratlo, and even went the length of paying what it agreed to, “Me made this town,” said Deacon Fennig to hin dauchter. “There's no getting around that, It was because he wam alive way through. ‘Them thes ological corpses almost done us up. Hat T guess there vas a good doal of the corpse about the lot of us Mr. Kite, he kind a’ galvanized us." Mory Fennig alghed, but said nothe ing. She had her own view of the cae, Tt didn’t seem at all diientt to imagine & more appropriate mistress for the pleturesque parsonage than the aquinteyed Martha Weaslea— Chicago Tribune. Wis Value Rremptined. The German emperor likes nothing better than to occusionally: fraterniee with his vokliers. His experiences are sometimes rather amusing. Ata te: cent inspection of recruits his majesty asked one of them hit name, and was told “Andree,” On his majesty asking him 1€ he was aware that he hac a fa- ous namesake, the sollier answered in the aMimative, “Who told you that?" asked the em- peror. “My captain, your majesty.” “And what cid your eaptain tell you about Andree “Your majesty, the captain said that ‘he only wished Andree had taken me with him!"—Chiengo Times-Herald, Te Chicane, Me. PorkchopeThat waa a corkin’ dinner last might, Maria; but T eau’s get used to a dress suit, © Mrs, Borkchope—No? “No. Wouldn't T have enjoyed that dinner If T could have eat it in my shirt sleevea!”—Puck, A Man's Pocketbook, You can’t estimate @ man's finances by the size of hie pocketbook. He may carry his dunning letters in it,—Chiea ana, * eaette gy ALABASTINE. ‘The Ident Man. ‘There js much rivalry between the various colleges ati ich si produce the Hea : one Intellecttal man, whe wil make the word better for having lived. “Health will demand rst consideration, for upon. that depends brainand achievement. Hostetter’ Stomach Bittern wil keep the bowels regular aod the Stomaach ‘healthy by caring all'stomach dix riers, Tt also’ peeventa malar, fever and Sgue. Try ite | An Overworked Bird. Dorothy—Our Audubor elub bad » love ty meeting thin alter. Papa What did ‘Fou do, dear? “Ohe we pumed ‘an eniunaaic real tion appointing s committee to take immedr et stepe—right off, You kaow-for the pre Keeton of the cuckoo.” Vey topes ip the sist, eH papa; ip the cuckoo clock, know.” trait Pree Prem” Oo 708 A SUCCESSFUL FARMER. Within three miles of the town go- ing eastward is the farm of Mr. W. Creamer, one of the municipality's ‘largest and most prosperous mixed ‘farmers. Mr. Creamer came to this | country in 1880 and settled on a por- tion of the land which comprises his | present enormous farm of 1,20 acres, In common with many others of similar period he experienced all the hardships and difficulties common to the absence of railway and market fa- cilities, In no wise daunted, hy en- ergy, industry and indomitable will | he has been able to surmount all ob- ‘stacles and bas achieved an unpar- alleled success, and ix known through- ‘out the district as one of its preemi- nent farmers. His operations extend over 1,280 acres, two sections (the ‘thought alone of so much land makes the eastern farmer dizzy); 800 acres of thix is broken and the remainder is excellent pasture land and wood. ‘This harvest he took off a crop of 500 acres of wheat and 200 of other grains. Four hundred acres are plowed and ready for wheat next spring. Mr. Creamer is, as has been stated, a mixed farmer of no mean proportions, having at the present time 40 horses, 60 head of cattle and 50 pigs, The most modern farm buildings are found on his premises, the main building being a barn 55 feet square on a stone foundation ‘containing stabling for 16 horses and a large number of cattle, The loft ‘is stored with 29 loads of sheaf oats for feed and tons of hay; there is also a cutting box, Another building of large dimensions ia the granary, in which after teaming large quantities to market he stil has stored 3,000 bushels of wheat. A crushing ma- chine is in the building. There are a number of lesser buildings contain- ing chicken house, pig pens and cattle sheds. ‘The farm residence is a hand- some frame structure of ample pro- portions, {n connection with it is a wood shed. The water supply is un- excelled; besides house supply there Is a well in the stables and a never failing spring situate in a bluff, which never freezes, Surrounded by a thick bluff of poplars, extending in a semi circle to the west, north and enst, the winter storms are broken and ac- cumulation of snow unknown, Added to his farming operations, Mr. Cream- er conducts a threshing outfit for the season, His success is only one in- stance of what can be accomplished in Western Canada.—Baldur (Man) Gazette, Nov, 16th, 1899, Thousands are going to Western Canada this year to take advantage of the free homestead laws that are be- tae offered be the eovernment. CURRENT TOPICS. Uncle Sam has sizty-one warships under construction. ‘The United States and Canada con- tain 400,000 coal miners. Senator Hanna wants an elevator put in the white house. Ex-Congressman Tom [. Johnson will soon return to Cleveland to live There im talk in Jackson, Miss., of turning the old statehouse into « hotel. ‘The first Indian regiment to don khaki became known as the “dust- men.” | London spends $140 @ year on the education of each child in the public echools, | During 1898, 278,820 pounds of good ivory were brought to the market ot Zanzibar. Gen. Wheeler has brought home « ‘collection of Philippine curios valued ‘at a considerable sum. | It in stated the Hoers test every rifle bought, but the British buyers for the army only 1 per cent. | To South African oxen the tulfy plant, which the beasts greedily de ‘Your, Is a rank poison. Monroe, Ga., is to have another eot ton mill. The entire capital stock o! $75,000 bas been subscribed. ‘The new automobile stages running on Fifth avenue, New York, are built to accommodate just thirteen per sons. ‘The Duke of Newcastle, one of Eng land's richest peers, owns a London newspaper and writes for it contin = AMERICAN ENTERPRISE. ‘The pastor of the First Presbyte- rian church at Pine Bluff, Ark., was telling his congregation of his ‘tray els in the Holy Land, and closed his remarks with this incident, illustrat: ing American enterprise: “When at ‘Jacob's Well’ he drew therefrom with hia own hands a bucket of water; after doing so and looking at the tin bucket, he found it was a lard bucket with the name of "Swift and Com- ‘pany’ branded om same, which was ‘the same as be had seen in Pine Bluff ‘many times.”—Kausas City Gazette. WRAT ALARASTINE 18, Alabastine is the original and only Pe ey ead atively" disterwnt from all Ralsomine pra eae Se ean oe ei ps Se pereere wees Baeuenanrt eciee Eo eee ee eres i Winer arnare Scieea cares cenes See Seretasee cart ade BACK wood | HE WAS AGREEABLE. Would Let the Ol@ Uncle Shoot tf Me Found Him in Such @ | Pesttion. ‘This young fellow is engaged to a ‘Detrort pithy but they don't care to pi the bane until alter Lent, ‘This. daturbs fim irascible old uucle ‘of hers, who has a daughter of his own, too much after hes form abe taba ataroritee He took i'upaa Mlnadt to send for the young man the et er day. f ; “Are to marry that, niece of ‘mine!” he asked! sternly, when they were item mer ir, eek, T awant decline te a “i, ine answer. She bas a father and mother ‘and I'm on good terms with them. I fail tovsee that it e your affair.” “Theres a whole lot that you fail to see. yong, man’ Tim realy the ead of at aly, and’ ‘ot ahyee my duty Her parents are a couple of chumps. Are you brygge go nat engaged” : “Fou foree me vo aay, sir, that it s none of your iaferaal business atid that you are fat what heard you mgr, « su, tome aruiped oid eurmudgeon™ "ce heres sonny. Ili not bandy words with the likes of 3a, but if you hud been foing with my daughter os long as you have thy niece, T'woudn't dos thing but put & revolver to your head, informing you that iF joa dat marcy her Va shou And I'd beg of you to shoot."—Detroit Free Press. : WHAT THEY REALLY SAY. Masband and Wite at the Theater ‘Who Appear to Be Engawed ta Geuvedaation A map and wile enter the theater. As soon un they are seated and ahe digs round fore hat pins sod removes heat they ook at each other smiliogly atl seem, (3 onlookers, to be carrying om an acimated conversation, Here's what they're really saylog: ‘isband—Your hair's crushed and plas Ticshand—Your hair's crushed and pla tered down in {rot like s”dago. barber's Ga you pve ts wipe that” ‘Wite—Unreasonable thing! How ean you expect me to have my hair all uly. and fice ax soon as T lake off « heavy toreador Bag haces down over my “Well, give ita couple of dabs, anyhow. Look ow ae it youd been tag 2 gh ive off : Cth —now does it suit your lordlord ip? “Oy, oll, it ian’t an dinky an it was. Whats Tecome of ¢htt— what you callie {rat thing you got to put under your fro hemp awhile ago! ‘Phat made it stick up some, anyhow, and—" “The gate it up, and it was too warm, nyray. Tip, hata agit Mace pout baer gave you tour Makes you look Bikes flassian moujik! Don't you think ou'd. better change Your barber?” ete Washington Post. i » <ie 1 60. get make friends on easily 98 I used to with my fellow-trayelers,”” maid the man who war relating. European ex- periences. “It is not because I feel less so. Eiably. inclined, but because of the cold setback T received at Gibraltar. In the ho- tel office one morning T entered into conver sition with an Eoglithman and woman who seemed to me to be the right sort. ‘They did not meet, my friendly overtures with the ttrual “Oh!” and an English stare.” On the contrary, they seemed anxious to become ‘Aequainted with me, and soon we were chat: ting plea . 1 congratulated myself pen my apod fortune i falling in with such agreeable people, who were almost nice ‘enough to be Americans. We discussed Gib- alta and were jst planning a night seeing expedition Tor the following day when one of the hotel waiters thrust his head in the doorway and said: “The missus wants the “both of ext My new found trend “were the maid and man servant of the duch, em of Cleveland, Lord Rosebery's mother.” Detroit Free Press. How's Thist ob%9,oet, One, Hundred Dollars Reward lor any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrp Care, F; J: Cheney & Co. Propa., Toledo, 0. the undersigned, have known’ FJ. 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