The Afro-American Advance

TWIN CITY NEWS. PIANOS SOLD DIRECT TO THE PEOPLE CABLE CONOVER KINGSBURY WELLINGTON, SCHUBERT And other Pianos less expensive but good for prices asked. From the Largest Manufacturers of Pianos in the World THE CABLE CO., Minneapolis Branch, 56 Seventh St. So., Bet. Nicollet, and Hennepin. FRANK B. LONG, Manager. VOL. II. NO. 12. MINNEAPOLIS While you are buying and spending your money spend it first among those firms that help you. See! 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 Fourst hstreet. He will suit you. The Advance Restaurant, 214 Washington avenue south, is up to date in service and equipment. If you want a good meal in a clean place don't fail to go to the Advance Restaurant. Go to John L. Neal, Real Estate, Loans and Insurance, 622 Boston Block. Rev. and Mrs. N. S. Brooks leave next week for the general conference now in session at Columbus, O. They will enjoy a much needed vacation. Mrs. Lena Mason preached an able sermon Sunday. Thursday the final report was made. Mrs. Lena Mason is doing good work in St. Louis. All of her friends were glad to see her and welcome her to our city. The many friends in the Twin Cities of Mrs. Sadie Williams regretted to learn of her death. Mrs. Williams is a well known Christian woman, and will be greatly missed. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Luther Abbye, a fine boy. Mother and baby are doing well. Mr. F. V. Parker presented his wife with $500 piano and $50 cabinet for her birthday. Mr.arker is the swellest on Third avenue near The Oriental National fair closed Thursday evening with great success. The A. M. E. O. C.'s will meet Wednesday evening. Friends and members are cordially invited. Hon. J. Frank Wheaton, of Chicago, is visiting in our city for a week. MISSION A. M. E. CHURCH, 405 FIFTH AVENUE SOUTH. There will be a grand lecture given by Prof. Hunter, of Mississippi, on the "Colored Man of his State." Prof. Hunter is a good speaker and you should not fail to hear him at the Mission Sunday evening. The John Brown day celebration was a success in every way and was enjoyed by the singers and the trim as well as the singers and band. Mrs. Holden's little girl, Eafath, is Mrs. Holden's little girl, Eathal, is not much better. Rev. J. Will King will preach at St. James Sunday, 1 a. m. St. James' membership is going to make a dollar rally that will be called a plate rally; they will sell four hundred for one dollar apiece. The plate will be kept by the church on it, and will be kept by the one giving the dollar as a souvenir. JOHN BROWN'S DAY. The 100th anniversary of the birth of John Brown, who was hanged in Charlestown, Va., in 1859, for the raid on Harper's Ferry in the cause of the abolition of slavery, was celebrated Wednesday evening. May 9th, at Century Music Hall by the Afro-American citizens of Minneapolis and St. Paul. The Colored Young Men's Industrial Bureau had the celebration in direct charge. The affair was a success from start to finish. The hall was filled to the doors with the people of two cities. One, with one-tenth of the total prize best talent in the Twin Cities had been invited to take part in the program. The first speaker of the evening was James L. Curtis, Minneapolis' talented young lawyer. His remarks were well received. He was followed in turn by W. R. Morris, F. L. McGhee, J. Frank Wheaton and Prof. Hunt, of Mississippi. It would be no easy task to say "Who was who" they were all so fine, and spoke words that inspired their hearers to renewed efforts along the lines of race progress. Mrs. R. C. Minor was at her best and completely captivated the house with her sweet singing. Howard's brass band was in good shape. The children's chorus and May pole dance was well taken. A SNAP IN REAL ESTATE. Make an Offer. $600 cash will buy two lots $450 150 ft. one a corner lot, out on Grand avenue the most beautiful residence portion of the city. It will pay you to look this up. Owner can give you clear title Apply to Mrs. H. S. Jackson, 1234 Seventh street south, Minneapolis Minn. Funeral Directors & Embalmers 322 Wabasha street, Betw. 3d & 4th Sts. Telephone 508. Day or Night.... St. Paul, Minn. PIANO SOLD DIRECT THE PEOPLE From the Largest Manufacture The Afro-American Advance. ST. PAUL Correspondence, letters, etc., must reach us by Wednesday for publication. 395 Thomas street. 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 streets, room 205, Krahmer block, is the place to go for all kinds of fashionable hair dressing, etc. Straightening hair and scalp treatment a special. Hair work done to order. Calls made at residences. Prices made appropriate. May E. I. Alloy properties. If you are living to eat, or eating to live, the Godfrey Boarding House is the place for you. The best is served at a price you can afford. 148 East Ninth street. There is to be a very fashionable dressmaking establishment opened up on Wabasha street soon, by Mrs. A. D. Adams. Wait for the announcement. Mr. David Talbert is on the sick list. Mrs. Chas. Mason remain very ill. Her矮弱性. Next Sabbath evening Rev. D. S. Orner, of Pilgrim Baptist church, will preach on "The Valley of Dry Bones." Rally day Sunday, May 20. Program next issue. Invitations have been issued for the marriage of Miss Birdie Olma King, daughter of Mrs. Maria Patterson, to Henri Hugh Mackenzie will occur Wednesday evening, May 20. At the bride's home, 509尔Furl street. Mrs. Chas, Allen left for Cape Nome, N. W. Ter., Saturday, to be gone four months or more. St. Paul's favorite and good fellow, Mr. Chas, Miller, was married to Miss Bessie Moher last Thursday evening, at the home of the bride. The wedding was a quiet one, only intimate friends and relatives being present. The Advance extends good wishes. The Durant has received sufficiently to be removed from St. Luke's Hospital. The Eastern Minnesota Baptist Association held its tenth annual session at the Woodland Park Baptist church Tuesday and Wednesday. The delegates from Pilgrim Baptist church were Mrs. H. B. Howard, Mrs. J. H. Hickman, Mr. D. B. E. Beasley and the pastor, Rev. D. S. Orner. Among the many interesting things on the program was a series of addresses on the lost or neglected doctrines. Rev. Orner spoke Tuesday afternoon on "The Pall of Man." We can proudly say of him he always takes his place among men, and never fails to do his race and himself credit. GRAND REDEMPTION RALLY MAY 20TH The members and friends of Pilgrim church are doing some of their best work on their church debt effort, and Rev. Orner, their scholarly pastor, is doing some of his best preaching. It is said of the host at the wedding feast in Cana that he kept the best wine for the last. All who have heard Rev. Orner from his first sermon must admit that he is a powerful gospel preacher. Never has his eloquence and spiritual power been made manifest as was for the few Sabbath evenings past. Since he has offered his resignation his sermons have been more charming than ever. The people of his congregation will hardly forget the eloquence and spiritual power manifested when he delivered the following masterly sermons: God gives People, Sayay God gives Great Things and Great Hearts." "The Wonderful Christ," and never has his congregation been more wafted to a sight of Christ and Christian duty than last Sabbath evening, when he preached on "The Attractions of The Cross." The Pilgrim Baptist church has not been the only people benefited by his life in our city, the Baptist cause in the state as a whole, and the people of the city in general. At a meeting of the Twin City Baptist Pastors' Conference, held in Minneapolis last Monday, the following resolution was adopted in view of the fact that Rev. Orner is soon to leave our city, and it is worthy of note that Rev. Orner is the only-colored pastor or member of that conference. Resolved that in place with our church, D. S. Orner who terminates his pastorate of the Pilgrim Baptist church, in St. Paul, we the "Twin City Baptist Ministers' Conference," record our esteem of him as a Christian man, a wise leader and an able and effective minister of Jesus Christ. We especially desire to express our appreciation of the important service he has rendered the Baptist interest among the colored people in effecting so favorable an adjustment of the financial conditions of the Pilgrim Baptist church. Signed. Minneapolis, Minn. May 7th, 1900. At a meeting of the Baptist pastors of St. Paul, held Tuesday, the following resolution was adopted: Resolved: We, the Baptist pastors of St. Paul, Minn., desire to put on MINNEAPOLIS AND ST. PAUL, MINN., SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1900. record our high appreciation of the services of Rev. D. S. Orner as a fellow pastor. By his uniting zeal, upright walk and studious habit and especially by his faith, hope, and tact in leading Pilgrim Church through death to resurrection, he has called forth our admiration and love. Signed. REV. W. W. EVERTS. REV. W. H. TRAVIS. Philadelphia Baptist Church. REV. G. H. GAMBLE. Hebner Baptist Church. St. Paul Mimm, May 8th 1900. Though Rev. R. H. remained and his family is gone east, he will remain with the church for a few weeks to help them in their rally. JUST LOOK HERE. We will not insult your intelligence. We think you know that no man can continue in business unless he receives patronage from the people. An up-to-date meal, or a cosy room can be had in Godfrey's, 148 East Ninth Street. WAIT A MINUTE. Have you noticed that the Wim. E. Nagel Understaking Company appreciates the business that you have been giving them by advertising in our paper. See their neat card at the foot of the column. DULUTH LOCALS Miss Amelia Porter, who has been on the sick list for some time, her friends are glad to see her out again. Miss Amelia is a great friend and was greatly missed from society. CONDENSED TELEGRAMS The government of the Orange Free State has been moved from Kroonstad to Heilbron. The republicans of Illinois nominated Judge Yates for governor. Senator Cullom is endorsed, also President McKinley and his administration. During a riot between strikers and workmen at the Buttonwood mine of the Parrish Coal company at Wilkbarre, Pa., some twenty men were badly injured, including Superintendent W. T. Smythe. The strikers dispersed the workmen. A street car strike has been ordered at Kansas City, Mo. The men desire a raise in wages and recognition of the union. A dispatch from Pretoria states that the European powers have notified President Kruger that they will hold him responsible for the safety of the mines and will support England in enforcing compensation in the event of their destruction. Many important changes are to be made in the wage scale of the Amaginated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers at the 25th annual convention, which will assemble at Indianapolis. In some branches large advances over the present wages are to be asked. A resolution was introduced in congress to seek reason for recent advance in print and other papers. The Netherlands peace society has addressed an appeal to President McKinley, begging him to further the peaceful object of the Boer mission, to investigate their case, to bring about arbitration and put a stop to the pernicious war in South Africa. A dispatch from Mazeru, says the Boers have deserted both Ladybrand and Ficksburg in a panicky condition, owing to the reports that the British had occupied Senekal, thus threatening their retreat to the Transvaal. The lumber town of Corbett, Pa., was destroyed by fire. George Lude and wife, an aged couple, were surrounded by fire and burned to death. Many of the children who escaped were seriously burned. There is no intention on the part of the administration to join with other powers in suppressing piracy in China. State department officials say that it would be entirely contrary to the policy of the United States to police the rivers of the empire. The tobacco trust has declared a dividend on stock of $21,000,000. The national populist convention at Sioux Falls, S. D., nominated William Jennings Bryan, of Nebraska, for the presidency and Charles A. Towne, of Minnesota, for vice president. The British forces have crossed the Zand river, and the Boers were pushed back from their strong positions. The mid-roaders (populist), in convention at Cincinnati, nominated Wharton Baker, of Pennsylvania, for the presidency and Ignatius Donnelly, of Minnesota, for vice president. It is announced that Richard Croker, the Tammany chief, will retire from politics and is now trying to secure his old home in Ireland. Two hundred and seventy-five car repairers of the Lehigh Valley railroad have struck in sympathy with the men already out. Two offices have been opened in Milwaukee for the employment of experienced motormen to take the places of the strikers at St. Louis. The Iowa republican state convention will be held at Des Moines Aug. 12. Several new cases of bubonic plague have developed at Port Said. At Grantsburg, Wis., a prominent farmer, Rudolph Bartosch, shot his brother, Adolph, and himself in a quarrel. Rudolph is dead and Adolph dying, 40 miles northeast of Grantsburg. The Filipinos suffered a heavy loss at Tabako, near Legaspi, province of Albay, Luzon. Two hundred riflemen and 800 bolzen们 were prepared to attack the town and Captain Lester H. Simons, with a company of the Forty-seventh volunteer regiment, advanced to meet them and killed every man. Major General Wesley Merritt sailed for Europe. The Hiburnions decided to have their next convention in Densur in July 1902. TENT AT SIOUX FALLS IN WHICH THE POPULIST CONVENTION MEETS. GOVERNOR AT ST. LOUIS. Will Endeavor to Effect a Settlement of the Street Car Strike. HOLDS CONFERENCES WITH BOTH SIDES A Few Cars Run on the Suburban System-City Lines Completely Tied Up-Down-Town Retail Stores Suffering Eminous Loss-Conference Held to Consider Situation. St. Louis, May 11. The third day of the street railway strike saw not a wheel on the various lines of the St. Louis Transit company's system moving. There is no prospect that this system, which controls all but one line in the city and county, will attempt to run cars until assured of protection. The mail cars, however, are running over all the lines without interference Suburban Lines Run. Most of the cars on the Suburban system are running with police protection. Officers are stationed on every car and all along the right of way to guard against interference. No disturbance has been reported since Wednesday night, when Frank Liebrecht, an innocent bastander, was shot and killed at the Taylor avenue crossing of the Suburban tracks. The First regiment, M.N.G., has not been ordered out, but a company is being kept at the armory constantly to protect the state's property from possible violence. Suffer Enormous Loss. Down-town retail stores are operating at enormous loss as a result of the street car strike. Their proprietors and managers are talking of reducing their forces of employees, and even of closing entirely until the strike is settled, if existing conditions continue. Instead of crowded aides and busy TENT AT SIOUX FALLS IN WHICH clerks, almost every store downtown is practically deserted, save by employees. practically deserted, save by employees. The situation have become sufficiently serious for heads of establishments to discuss among themselves what steps they may take to encourage an early settlement of the trouble, but so far without reaching a conclusion. Will Be Felt in East. The effect of the strike will also, it is stated, be felt in the east, for, while the stagnation of business continues, no orders are being sent on for goods, or the regular buyers employed by St. Louis establishments are finding themselves with nothing to do at a season when they usually are busy. Meanwhile, the depression will extend to a variety of local industries which are dependent on the retail houses for support, including many of the smaller shirtwaist factories and kindred interests. Governer Arrives. Gov. Lon V. Stephens arrived in St. Louis Thursday and registered at the Southern hotel. With him came Attorney General E. C. Crow and Insurance Commissioner Ed T. Crean. At noon, after a two hours' conference between Gov. Stephens, Attorney General Crow, President of the Police Board Hawes, Chief of Police Campbell, President Whitaker and General Manager Baumhoff of the Transit company, and H. F. Priest and E. W. Lehman, attorneys for the railway company, it was decided to apply for warrants at two o'clock for the arrest of the strike leaders. The charge alleged against them is that they are interfering with the operation of the Transit company's lines. At one o'clock Gov. Stephens began a conference at the Southern hotel with President Mahon, of the Street Railway Employees' National association, members of the striking executive committee, and their attorneys, for the purpose of ascertaining their position. When the governor has ascertained the position of both sides and the extent of their willingness to make concessions, he will appeal to them to agree to an adjustment. Gates Sails for Europe. New York, May 11.-John W. Gates chairman of the board of directors of the American Steel and Wire company, sailed for Europe Thursday on the Keiser Friedrich der Grosse. Strike at Michigan Mine Calumet, Mich., May 11.—The trammers of the Osceola mine struck Thursday for a ten per cent. advance in wages. Strike Ended. Joliet, Ill., May 11—Building trades' strike in Joliet inaugurated April 1 is officially ended. Ministerial Crisis Madrid, May 11. - The newspapers here are discussing the existence of a ministerial crisis. ANOTHER POSTPONEMENT. Consideration of Clark Case Put Off Until Next Tuesday—House Proceedings. Washington, May 11.—In the senate Thursday on motion of Senator Chandler the Clark (Montana) case went over until Tuesday next, at which time he gave notice he would ask for its continuous consideration until disposed of. Washington, May 11. Before the consideration of the Pearson-Crawford contested election case was resumed the house adopted the following resolution, reported by the foreign affairs committee in lieu of a resolution introduced by Mr. Kahn (Cal.) "Resolved. That the secretary of the foreign affairs committee should house, if not incompatible with the public interest, all the information in possession of the treasury in relation to the immigration of Japanese laborers during the last two years, what the probabilities are of such laborers entering the ensuing year, what methods have been taken to enforce the laws excluding contract laborers by the return of Japanese laborers and the punishment of those making contracts for Japanese laborers. The debate on the election contest was then resumed and Mr. Pearson, the contestant, was given 50 minutes in which to address the house in his own behalf. Washington, May 11. — The bill providing for national participation in the St. Louis exposition of 1903, commemorating the Louisiana purchase, was considered in detail Thursday by the house committee having it in charge, but the appropriation section was not reached and the main considerations involved went over until Friday. TRACT SOCIETY MEETS. Gen. O. O. Howard Reelected President—A Review of the Work of the Year. New York, May 11. — The seventy fifth annual meeting of the American Tract society was held Thursday Maj. Gen. O. O. Howard, president of the society, presided. THE POPULIST CONVENTION MEETS. A summary of the work of the past year showed the literature of the society had been translated into 153 languages and dialects; 49 permanent publications were added to the list; the aggregate number of the seven periodicals issued by the society during the year was 2,099,500. The aggregate amount of gratious distributions during the year has been to the value of $16,385,544,63,386 family visits were made and 39,319 volumes were sold or given away. Gen. O. O. Howard was reelected president. It was said before the meeting that only $25,000 of the $200,000 subscription the society set out a year ago to raise for its work had been secured. CUBAN POSTAL FRAUDS Other Arrests to Be Made Soon—One of Guilty Parties Said to Have Confessed. Havana, May 11. — The postal frauda have now reached a point where within the next few hours arrests will probably be made and it is believed a considerable sum will be recovered at the same time. One of the culprits has made a complete confession, conditional upon being accepted as state evidence. What he says proves conclusively what was known before, that several others besides Charles F. W. Neeley, late financial agent of posts at Havana, are more or less implicated. The exact dates have been obtained by the authorities. The latter refuse to give the name of the man who has confessed, but though shocked at the nature of the cold-blooded swindle and conspiracy they are still glad that they have evidence to completely justify their action in regard to Neeley. Queen in London. London, May 11. The queen arrived in London at noon. She will spend three days here and attend Friday's drawing-room. Her majesty appeared to be in excellent health and evinced keen pleasure at the warmth of the popular greeting which she received along the whole route to Buckingham palace. Destroyed by Fire. Joliet, Ill. May 11 — Kiep Brothers' slaughter house and store building, one of the finest in the state, located south of Joliet, was totally destroyed by fire early in the morning, causing *n* loss of $20,000. Included in this were *$15,000* worth of provisions and meats. Incendiarism was suspected. Hanged Camden, N. J., May 11.-Francisco Abbattio was hanged in the Hamden county jail here for the murder of Genaro De Feo, his friend and fellow countryman. Cos Repairers Strike Buffalo, N. Y., May 11.—Two hundred and seventy-five car repairers of the Lehigh Valley railroad have struck in sympathy with the men already out. BARKER FOR PRESIDENT. Nominated by Middle-of-Road Populists with Donnelly as Running Mate. DOINGS OF SIOUX FALLS CONVENTION Mention of Bryan's Name by Chairman Patterson in His Speech Calls Forth Outburst of Enthusiasm — Republican State Conventions in Iowa, Colorado and Utah. Cincinnati, May 11.—The middle-of-the-road populist convention's second session was called to order at 8:30 o'clock by Chairman W. L. Peek. The report of the committee on party organization was unanimously adopted. Delegate Jackson, of Missouri, apologized for his statements Wednesday night that there are no WHARTON BARKER. Nominee for President of the Middle-of-the-Road Populists. genuine populists in Kansas and Nebraska. A motion was carried accepting his apology. The platform was then adopted as read by Chairman Felton, with the addition of planks presented by Parker. The resolutions follow: "The people's party of the United States assembled in national convention this 10th day of May, 1900, affording our unshaken belief in the cardinal tenets of the people's party, as set forth in the constitution, in the planking ourselves anew to continued advocacy of those grand principles of human liberty until right shall triumph over might, and love over greed, do adopt and proclaim this declaration of faith. "(2) We demand the initiative and referendum. "(3) We demand the public ownership and operation of those means of communication, transportation, and production which the people may elect, such as railroad, graph and telephone lines, coal mines, etc. "(3) The land, including all natural sources of wealth, is a heritage of the people, and should not be monopolized for special use, and all owners of land should be prohibited. "(4) A scientific and absolute paper money, based upon the entire wealth and population of the nation, not redeemable for any debt, but tender for all debts and receivable for all taxes and public dues and issued by the government only, without the intervention of banks and in sufficient quantity to be sufficient to be the best currency that can be devised; but until such a financial system is secured, which we shall press for adoption, we favor the free and unlimited coinage of both silver and gold at the legal ratio of 50 to 50; (5) We demand the levy and collection of a graduated tax on incomes and inheritances and a constitutional amendment to the Constitution; (6) We demand the election of president, vice president, federal judges and United States senators by direct vote of the people. (7) We are opposed to trust, and declare the contention between the old parties on the money question is a sham battle, and no solution of this mighty problem is possible without the adoption of the principle of public ownership of the money. Nominations. The roll was called at 10:10 for nominations for president. Prof. J. A. Boyse, of Nebraska City, presented the name of Former Congressman M. W. Howard, of Alabama. Prof. Boyse said Howard was the superior of Bryan in oratory, of Debs in magnetism, and the logical candidate at this time who would shake up the dry bones of fusion. Gen. Phillips, of Georgia, presented the name of Wharton Barker, of Pennsylvania. Judge W. S. Williams, of Vincennes, presented the name of Ignatius Donnelly. P. H. Rabilly, of Minnesota, seconded the nomination of Ignatius Donnelly. At 1:20 Former Congressman Howard in a vigorous speech withdrew, but notwithstanding his withdrawal, most of his friends insisted on voting for him and he led on the first roll call, which resulted as follows: Howard, 311 6-10; Barker, 303 4-10; Donnelly, 79; Norton, 1. Necessary to a choice, 488. Donnelly's name was withdrawn, whereupon P. H. Rabilly, of the Minnesota delegation, rushed to the stage and rushed that Minnesota refused to have Donnelly's name withdrawn. Barker and Donnelly Nominated. Wharton Barker, of Pennsylvania, was nominated for president on the second ballot. On motion of Mr. Howard, the nomination of Wharton Barker was made unanimous and those two gentlemen shook hands. R.M. Chenault, of Kansas, moved that the name of Ignatius Donnelly be selected for the vice presidency. The motion was carried with a shout and the ticket completed. A recess was then taken for 20 minutes. SIOUX PALLS CONVENTION. Mention of Bryan's Name Greeted with Cheers. Sioux Falls, S. D., May 11—Temporary Chairman Ringdal rapped the convention to order at 9:45, threequarters of an hour after the time MINNESOTA HISTORICAL .SOCIETY. PRICE FIVE CENTS. set at Wednesday night's adjournment. The committee on credentials presented its report, which was adopted, declaring that there were no contesting delegations and recommending that the vote of Missouri be increased by two votes, that of Ohio by two votes and that of South Dakota by three votes. The committee on permanent organization reported the name of Thomas M. Ratterson, of Colorado, for permanent chairman; H. T. Curran, of Kansas; Leo Vincent, of Colorado, and E. M. Deisher, of Pennsylvania, as permanent secretaries. In accepting the position of permanent chairman Mr. Patterson among other things said: "The populist party stands as a mentor," he continued, "for other political parties less advanced and less progressive than we are. The people's party must and shall live, for it is the pioneer of every political reform that, by the convenance of American opinion, is essential." "What is the outlook?" asked the speaker, "for the coming presidential election? I cannot doubt the outcome. We will have to face it, and we want to face with the principles we have always professed, and under the leadership of William J. Bryan." (Cheers.) The speaker then predicted a sweeping triumph for Mr. Bryan in November, and the president would have the rights of the people are advanced to a higher level than ever before. "Whatever may be the glory of that victory," he said, "the people's party may claim the greatest share, and it will be the greatest that brought about the great result." Unsuccessful Conference. Unsuccessful Conference. The conference of chairmen of state delegations lasted until nearly two o'clock, the discussion being entirely over the question of the action to be taken in regard to the vice presidential nomination. After considerable debate the conference adjourned without having reached any agreement on the matter. The matter will therefore be fought out on the floor of the convention. Iowa, Republicans. Des Moines, Ia., May 11. At the Iowa republican convention held here Thursday the following were made delegates at large to the national convention at Philadelphia: Gov. Leslie M. Shaw, Col. George H. French, Davenport; Dr. E. H. Smith, Cedar Rapids; Lafayette Young, Des Moines. The convention was called to order in the Auditorium by H. O. Weaver, chairman of the state republican committee. Following the singing of "America," a prayer and the reading of the call, Congressman Robert G. Cousins, temporary chairman, was introduced and delivered his address. The platform as framed by the resolutions committee instructs the delegates for McInley, induces his administration, mentioning the administration's foreign policy and the currency law, and recommends a proper control of such trusts and combinations as are deemed inimical to the interests of the public generally. A. B. Funk, of Spirit Lake, was made permanent chairman and R. B. Warren, of Kosauth county, permanent secretary. **Delegates Instructed for McKinley.** Caucasus were held during the forenoil for the eleven districts of the state and the following delegates to the Philadelphia convention elected: First district, Capt. J. Ellrick, Koasauquan; Capt. W. Heckwith, Mount Pleasant, Second, J. N. W. Rumble, Marengo; W. L. Roach, Muscatine, Third, C. E. Hewitt, Muscatine, Fourth, E. O. Worden, dependence, Fourth, E. O. Worden, Floyd; J. J. Marsh, Winneshiek, Fifth, M. J. Tohn, Vinton; E. N. Sargent, Grundy Center, Sixth, E. M. Hinsdale, Newton; John Dunn, Brookfield, Seventh, William Dalton, Eighth, William Eaton, Sidney, J. C. Maybry, Centervills, Ninth, John A. Story, Greenfield; Haasmus Boyson, Gray, Tenth, J. E. Allen, Pocahontas; A. L. Stevena, Boone, Eleventh, William McFarlane, Blencoe, W. A. Lyon, Jr. Petrson, Eligates were in Colorado Republicans. Denver, Col., May 11.—The republican state convention met at the broadway theater at 11 o'clock Thursday. Nearly all of the counties were represented. State Chairman A. B. Seaman called the convention to order and presented United States Senator E. O. Wolcott for temporary chairman. Mr. Wolcott was enthusiastically received. He spoke at some length upon the political situation in the state and the nation, highly eulogizing President McKinley and indorsing every act of the administration. Utah Republicans. Salt Lake City, Utah, May 11. — The republican state convention met here Thursday to elect six delegates to the national convention at Philadelphia. The convention was called to order at 12:30 o'clock by Chairman Walton. The call for the convention was read and W. D. Livingaton, of Sanpete county, was made temporary chairman. Chair Makers Organize Detroit, Mich., May 11.—Seventy chair makers from all parts of the United States organized the National Chair association in the Hotel Cadillac. The purpose of the new association is said to be the discussion of questions of interest to the makers of chairs, without any idea of controlling prices of the output. G. W. Cann, of New York, was elected president. Bitten by Horse. New York, May 11: Horatio R. Harper, a member of the famous family of publishers, is in a serious condition at his home at Sand's Point, L. I, having been terribly bitten by a horse. Danger Post. Portici, Italy, May 11.—Explosions within Mount Vesuvius are infrequent. The volcano is only emitting some cinders and the eruption is considered terminated. Reaches Washington. Washington. 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Address all communications and make all remittances to THE AFRO-AMERICAN ADVANCE. 214 Washington Ave., South, Minneapolis, Minn. J. C. REID, EDITOR. MRS. GEO. DUCKETT, PUBLISHER AND MANAGER. MRS. J. B. KOGER, City Collector. EDITORIAL. J. FOUNT TILLMAN, OF SOUTH CAROLINA. J. Fount Tillman, of South Carolina; let us see is not that the place where a driver of barbarians massacred and ate, no, burned a United States post master and family. If that be so, then, why should we care taught his bawls at an institution of learning, where each and everyone, including pupils, attendants, and professors, know his calibre and worth. His ravings are caused alone from the fact that he sees the negro advancing faster than he appreciates or possibly more rapidly than Master Tillman's children. Now, then, I think it may be appropriate to even think of him, for he is not as antagonistic as he says he is, or else he should not have aspired to a position held by a colored man. BEWARE! To accept flattering and tolerate undue familiarity is the first step to immorality. Women love to be flattered and they get what they like. Men delight in undue familiarity with women, and they practice it. The result of the acceptance of either will surely destroy the very germ of virtue, whether it be known by the people or not. There is no need of trying to do or be anything if the virtue is involved with unlawful cohabitation, for the very acts of that person arrayed in vulturious taint, stands as an emblem of his or her ladying light in death. To the true, such a virtue always reminds the target of silent violence. All the faults of men and women weigh not half so much as that of sexual encroachments. The foundation of life alone, depends upon a saint decree, to forever abide by the sacred trust of sexual defense. No excuse will, or can, answer for the acts and continuance of repeated infringements upon this law of existence. No man or woman deserves the respect of their fellows, who ignores, by indulgence, the very vital principles of the person and society. The man or woman who accord respect to such persons stand upon "sandy ground." No alleged labor performed by such persons is worthy of any consideration. The foundation always determines whether or not the person is worthy of notice. If you want to be decisive in your judgment always use a standard. The standard of life is virtue and without it life is of no worth. The man or woman who attempt to parade their attainments before the people as alleged characters of sexual weaknesses, ought to be shunned, scorned and their acts hated and frowned out of existence. We as a race must fortify ourselves against the intrusion of so-called "weak" people. It matters not how affectionate, kind and charitable they are, if they are impure in the realm of sexual affinity, have nothing to do with them, for they are contaminated and condemned. The pace set by the strong and mighty is a delusive standard of being somebody. When at the end they find that they are nobody Some people want to do right, and after doing it get mad at themselves because they involuntarily please others. The person who observes in life greater achievements than wealth and position, is looked upon as a crank. If a man don't worry people think he is careless, they never think that a remedy can be found for all things. Too Much for the Elephant A Chicago showman recently advertised a "piano-playing elephant," and drew a crowd for the first performance. After a preliminary "spiel," describing the talents of the beast and his education, the elephant jumped up and ran a scale, stopped, lifted his paw and ran bellowing from the tent. The showman stepped forward. "Ladies and gentlemen," he said, "an unfortunate occurrence prevents the intelligent animal from continuing the performance. I am not a gentleman." He has just recognized his dead mother's teeth in the piano keys. "San Francisco Wave." At the Front. He was a newspaper man. "Late war news kept me downtown," he stammered, as he entered the house at 5:20 a.m. "Muppet replied his wife. "Well, we'll have a little chance right here for a late edition." And the battle was on.—Philadelphia North American. "Her husband has developed a habit of talking in his sleep, and it's driving her crazy. —Philadelphia Press. PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL Senator Hoar's faint is the cultivation of flowers. When not busy in Washington he spends several hours a day working in his garden during the season. The monument to Rose Bonheur at Fontainebleu will be completely the work of members of the artist's family, under the direction of Isidore Bonheur, the sculptor, her brother. An odd excuse for burglary was given by a one-legged boy, aged 14. He broke into a hardware store, in Kansas City, and was captured. He pleaded that he wanted to steal some tools which would enable him to make a wooden leg for himself. Admiral Sir Henry Keppel, the oldest flag officer in the British navy list, is traveling in North Borneo at the age of 02 years. He saw service in Borneo waters when a young man, chasing pirates, and published his "Expedition to Borneo," with Rajah Brooke's Journal" in 1847. Wall-paper having an apparent value of £82,000, but in reality worth nothing, decorates the study of a New York business man. It is composed of thousands of six per cent. bonds, engraved and printed at a cost of £500 for a company which, failing to attract investors, died before it could be floated. A New York sharper, who was crammed with useful information, which he was ready to impart, advertised his willingness to tell anyone "how to prevent a shotgun from scattering." A hunter in Missouri sent one dollar to the advertiser, and received this advice: "Put only one shot in your gun." Germany's crown prince, now 18 years of age, has passed his abitu- rienment examination at the Ploengym- nasium and will now serve for some months in the army with the First Prussian Foot Guard regiment at Potsdam. He will then enter the University of Bonn, like his father and grandfather. His next brother, Prince Eitel Fritz, will stay two years longer at Ploen. TAKING A DOCTOR'S LECTURE. Why a Girl Stenographer's Report Was Not Appreciated by Her Brother. "Will you go over to the medical college and take a lecture for me this afternoon?" said young Charlie Brown to his sister. Brown is studying medicine and his sister is learning stenography, says the Chicago Inter Ocean. "Yes, it will be fine practice," ascertained Charlie's sister. So she got a good seat, sharpened her pencil and prepared to take a lecture on nerves, while Charlie went to a ball game. The doctor illustrated his talk by charts and used the most informal expressions that he could, for it was a junior class. Miss Brown got along famously. Occasionally she leaned over and asked a young student in front for a word, but in the main it was gil easy. "Medical lectures are simply snaps," she announced, as she shushed Charlie the copy. "Of course I didn't understand the technical terms and I had to leave a few out, but you will know what they are." Charlie took the lecture and settled down to read it, thinking he had at last settled the problem of studying medicine without the formality of going to lectures. This is the way it read, to the extent of some ten pages: "dientlement, you will observe that this — which begins here at the — and extends over there to the — is a nerve called —. This — is sometimes attacked, gentlemen, by a disease, —, which causes — to this other nerve, which you all know is the —" It was plain that Charlie was not satisfied with the "report" of the lecture, and, on being pressed by his sister for the reason of his apparent disappointment, he told her that the omission of the medical terms made the notes worthless. "I'm sorry," said the girl, naively, "but I really didn't understand what the doctor said, and, besides, I didn't think that part of his talk amounted to much." CALLED BY NIGHT BELLS. Various Kinds of Service That Are to Be Invoked Through Their Aid. Of night bells of one sort and another there will be found in cities many. There is, for instance, the drug store night bell, which is old and familiar. In large cities there are nowadays more drug stores than formerly that keep open all night, but the drug store night bell is still an institution. Inside the window there is a light so placed that its illumination serves at once to give a glow to some highly colored jar of water — time-honored emblem of the apothecary—and make that serve as a sign, and to show to those who are seeking it, when they shall have come near, the location of the bell, says the New York Sun. Likewise is the undertaker's night bell old and familiar and to be found in numbers, with a light so placed within as to reveal it plainly. A peculiarly modern night bell is the plumber's night bell, for whose coming into existence there are two reasons; one the multiplication in cities, for the equipment of dwellings in accordance with modern ideas of comfort, of pipes and plumbing of all sorts, for steam heat, and water, and gas, and so the multiplication of emergencies arising out of the use of them; the other being the modern way of not putting things off till to-morrow, of following always a beaten track in doing things, of being ready, if called upon, for work at any time, day or night. The night bell that probably is to be found in most limited number, and then only in great maritime cities, the night bell of the wrecking company. Even in this big town there is perhaps but one such night bell, but there is at least one which may be found placed in the wall outside of a wrecking company's office, in a waterside street, with a painted sign on the wall beside it, in the usual familiar words, "Night bell," a place where one can go to get help for vessels in distress, by night as well as by day. AUTOMOBILE NEWS. Steam omnibuses are used to a considerable extent in Algeria. There are 5,207 motor cycles in France on which the annual tax has been paid, says the Automotor Journal. An automobile recently covered the distance from Coventry to London, 92 miles, in four hours, this being an average of 23 miles an hour. The setting secretary of the treasury has ruled that an automobile is not free of duty as a personal effect, but is free of duty as a household effect if used abroad by the owner one year or more. An interesting use of the motor carriage is in delivering newspapers in long, straggling country districts, where it has proved invaluable. Two of the London journals have tried the plan with great success. Horseless carriages proved very successful in Boston, during the heavy snows of last winter. The only difficulty was after the snow began to melt, the drifts near the curb making it troublesome getting near to and away from the sidewalks. An automobile show will be held in Madison Square garden the first week in November. It will be held under the auspices of the Automobile Club of America, and will be the first exhibition of automobiles on a large scale ever held in this country, and it is expected that vehicles of European manufacture will be included in the exhibit. A circular track will be provided in the garden, so that various types of automobiles can be shown. FROM A DOCTOR'S NOTEBOOK. The great popular maladies, throat, nasal and bronchial catarrh, are quite unknown in Spitzerborgen. Berlin has 2,233 medical men; Munich, 637; Hamburg, 533; Breslau, 510; Leipaic, 411; Dresden, 408; Colgane, 332; Frankfort, 312; Charlottenburg, 298; Konegibach, 250; Hanover, 234; and Strasburg, 234. The government of India is making extensive experiments in the Deccan with the sunflower, which is considered by some medical men to be a better preventive of malaria than the eucalyptus tree. So far as can be judged at present it seems that sunflower growing in malarial districts is distinctly beneficial. THEY SAY People don't always honor us because our work is onerous. Of course there are striking differences between pugilists. A little polish won't hurt a man, however bright he may be. Somehow the man who procrastinates habitually seldom puts off doing wrong. The blunt person should not get into the habit of saying only unpleasant things. If wishes were horses the pound master would be kept busy with those their owners couldn't find. There are two species of beings who bore a bachelor more than others—a man who always talks about his children and elderly maidens who wax sentimental—Chicago Democrat. It is a woman's opinion that if you are trying her doctor you should not become discouraged in three months, but if you are trying some other doctor, you are a weak, foolish creature if you don't decide you are wasting your money in three weeks.—Atchison Globe. PATRONIZE . . . W. M. JENKINS, ROOMS FOR RENT FIRST CLASS. We Guarantee Superb Service. Prices moderate. Tel. 2737-L-3 Main. No. 9 Second St. No. Minneapolis. J. GARNER. W. H. WELLER. The Elite Buffet 3030 STATE ST. Chicago. Cutting, Fitting and Making Over a Specialty. New York and Paris Fashions Always on Hand. Fallarra, 632 Fourteenth Ave. South. DR. R. S. BROWN Office: 408-0 Reeve Bidg, 408 Nicollet Av. Telephone 2734-J-5. Residence, 2839 Portland Ave. Telephone 312-LI-South. MR. L. A. JOHNSON. The gentlemanly and obliging Porter at R. De Leo's Barber Shop, 200 Washington Av. South, is Always Ready to Dress Your Shoes in a thoroughly artistic manner, that is sure to win. JAMES L. CURTIS. LAWYER 603 Northwestern Bldg., Minneapolis. Cor. 4th St. and Hennepin Av. Telephone, Main 2460-L-1. DROPSY Treated free, Positively GUARD with Togupea Bamboo, have grown and account happily. From first dose symptoms to displacement and in one day at least two weeks of all symptoms are FREE. BOOK of treatment of minnows cases and FREE. DR. M. L. GREEN, BRUSHED FREE by mail. DR. M. L. GREEN, ATLANTA, Georgia. GARBAGE TREE PAPER copy you will use. LAMB'S Throat Candy, one of the pain relievers for Vocalitis, to LAB MFG. CO., Omaha, Canada, for sample box. $20 A hundred for your neighbors' addresses. Send 10 cents for contract and copy sample. MORRIS MAGAZINE, NEW COLOR. DROPSY NEW DISCOVERY! great quick relief and erase word stress from your face. Dr. M. L. GREEN, ATLANTA, Georgia. GET RICH QUICKLY! Read for Food. *Mississippi Wanted.* --- THE ADVANCE CAFE 214 WASHINGTON AV. SOUTH. Restaurant and Lunch Counter MANN & KOGER, Proprietors. SOCIETY DIRECTORY Officers and Standing Committees of the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge A. F. and A. M. of Minnesota and juriedation: Grand Master-John L. Neal, Minneapolis. Grand Junior Warden—J. C. Garner, St. Paul. Grand Treasurer-Daniel Roy, St. Paul. Secretary-William H. Morris, Minnesota. Grand Lecturer—G. W. Dry (7), Minneapolis. Deputy Grand Secretary—O. D. Howard (4), St. Paul Grand Chaplain—Isaac Crawford (6), Minneapolis. Grand Senior Deacon—John Martin (1), St. Paul. Grand Junior Deacon—R. De Leo (7), Minneapolis. Grand Senior Steward—J. H. Dillingham (2), St. Paul. Grand Junior Steward—Wm. Stevens (3), St. Paul. Grand Tyler—T. Bush (3), St. Paul. Grand Marshall—C. H. McDonald (5), Duluth. Grand Pursuivant—G. W. Duckett (4), St. Paul. Grand Sword-Bearer—J. Adams (1), St. Paul. Grand Standard-Bearer—G. J. Charleston (2), St. Paul. Grand Register—J. G. Sterett (6), Minnesota. District Deputy Grand Master—First District—James Woodfork (1), St. Paul. District Deputy Grand Master—Second District—E. H. Hamilton (6), Minneapolis. District Deputy Grand Master—Third District—J. K. Polk (5), Duluth. MINNEAPOLIS. G. U. O. O. O. F. St. Anthony Lodge, No. 2877. Meets the first and third Wednesday in each month for the transaction of business. A. H. MYRICK, N. G. JAMES A. SCOVENE KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS Nat. Turner Lodge, No. 2, K. of P. Meets the second and fourth Thursdays in each month. Brothers in good standing. Fourth and Eighth avenue south. RALPH WATSON, K. R. and S. Pride of Minnesota Lodge, No. 1, K. of P. Meets the first and third Thursdays in each month. All brothers in good standing welcome. At Plummer Post Hall, First avenue north and Washington, JAMES, MASON, C. W. C. J. FREKEY, K. R. and S. K. J. HILYARD Lodge. Meets the first and second month at Windom Block, Second avenue South and Washington. Masons in good standing always welcome. W. LILLARD, W. M. JASPER GIBBS, Sec., Guaranty Loan Restaurant. A. LILLARD, No. 7, A. F. and A. M. Meets the first and second Monday in each month at Windom Block, Second avenue South and Washington. Masons in ST. PAUL. ODD FELLOWS Mara Lodge, No. 3202 Mars Lodge, No. 2202. Meets second and fourth Wednesday in each month at Old Fellows Hall, 225 Wahaha street T. R. HICKMAN, P. S., 422 St. Anthony F. D. PARKER, N. G., 235 Edmund St. Household of Ruth, No. 553, G. U. of O. F. Meets first and third Monday in each month for business, second Monday for instruction, at Odd Fellows Hall, 225 MHS, SARAH C, KIRTLEY, M.N.G. MHS, A JACKSON, W, R, K74 mit place. MOST WORSHIPFUL GRAND LODGE OF MINESOTA, A. F. and A. M. J. L. NEAL, Grand Master. W. J. BURKE, Secretary, Marianne. S 14 Guaranty Loan Bldg., Minnesapolis. ST. PETER CLAYER'S SODALITY. Meets the first and third Mondays of each month. J. Gardner, Pres. J. S. Harrell, A. D. Harrell. Pioneer Lodge, No. 1, A. F. and A. M. Meets the first Monday in each month at Masonic Hall, southwest corner Fifth and Masons in good standing always welcome. S. H. HADLEY, W. M. W. A. HILYARD, Sec. 124 Atwater. Minnesota Lodge, No. 2, A. F. and A. Mets on the first and third Tuesday in each month at Masonic Hall, southwest corner Fifth and Robert street Masons in good standing always welcome. H. H. HOWARD, W. M. J. S. STRONG, Sec. 12th and Robert at. WM. STEVENS, No. 3, A. F. & A. Mets second and fourth Monday in each month at Masonic Hall, southwest corner Fifth and Robert street Masons in good standing always welcome. WM. JOHNSON, W. M. D. E. BEASLEY, Sec. Ryan Hotel. Perfect Ashler Lodge, No. 4, A. F. Meets the second and fourth Tuesday in each month at Masonic Hall, southwest Masonic in good standing always welcome. B. K. DURANT, W. M. Carnell, 461 Carroll. Bethel Chapter, No. 28. R. A. M. Meets the first and third Thursday in each month at Masonic Hall, southwest Masonic in good standing always welcome. Arch Masons in good standing always welcome. DANIEL ROY, H. P. W. T. GASSAWY, Sec. State Capital. CHURCH DIRECTORY. ST. PETER A. M. E. CHURCH. Rev. W. S. Brooks, Pastor. Cor. 22d st. 9th ave. South Sunday service: 3:00 p.m. 1140 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- ward service: 8:00 p.m. Weekly meet- ing in different residences. Parsonage, 2205 Ninth avenue South. BETHESDA BAPTIST CHURCH. Bethesda Twelfth avenues. Sunday services: Preaching. 1130 a.m.; Sunday School. 12:30 p.m.; Christian daycare. 8:00 p.m. Sunday services. Sunday service: Wednesday evening. prayer meeting: 8:00 p.m. Parsonage, 1120 Eighth street South. ST. THOMAS MISSION. Rev. W. S. Brooks, in Charge. 615 Sixth avenue South. Sunday service: 4:00 p.m.; Sunday School. 3:00 p.m. ST. PETER A. M. E. CHURCH. Rev. J. W. King, Pastor. Between First avenue and Second street Southeast, near Exposition Bldg. 8:00 p.m.; Sunday School. 3:00 p.m. evening services: 8:00 p.m. General prayer meet- ing Thursday evening. Weekly meetings ST. JAMES A. M. E. CHURCH. Rev. J. C. Anderson, Pastor. Sunday services; 12:00 a.m. and Jay streets. Sunday services; 12:00 a.m. and Jay streets. Wednesday prayer meeting; 8:00 p. m. ST. PETER CLAYERS' CHURCH. Cor. Farrington and Aurora avenues. Sunday services; Mass; 8:00 a.m. High mass; 10:00 a.m. Evening service at 7 o'clock. PILGRIM BAPTIST CHURCH. Rev. D. S. O'REVER, Pastor. Cor. 37th and Cedar. Sunday services; Mass at 11:30 a.m. and 14:45 p. m. Sunday School at 12:00 p. clock. Wednesday evening general prayer meeting. EPISCOPAL MISSION. 43 Rice street, bet. Aurora and University. Sunday services: Morning prayer, Lit- ST. PAUL. any and Sermon. 11: 9 a.m. m.; Sunday School and Children's Vespers 3: 00 p. m. Evening Sermon. 11: 9 a.m. N evening. Evening Praiser and Lecture. 8: 00 p. m.; Friday; Choir Rehearsal and Brotherhood of St. Andrew. 8: 00 p. m. All are cordially invited. Seats free. NOTICE.—Changes and corrections will be made upon notifyting the office. If we are requested to place a notice of any society in the above directory it is because we do not know of it or have not officers, and name of any Lodge, page and time of meeting name of officers and it will be inserted. OLSON EARL, ..UNDERTAKER... Funeral Director and Embalmer. Open Day and Night. Satisfaction Guaranteed. 1503 8. Franklin Ave. - Minneapolis. The Fuller Laundry Co. Free Delivery to All Parts of the City and Lake Minnetonka. Our Motto: First-class Work and Moderate Prices. Crayon, Pastel and Water Colors a Specialty. 251-213 Cedar Avenue. MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA. SEEDS OF FLOWERS Plants and Cut Cuts. Use in snap Floral Telegraph on telegraph or mail orders any time, day or night. Budding or House Plants in their season. 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THE MEMORIAL Only think of it—love and song, The passionate joy of the summer long, Matina and vespers, ah! how sweet, A nest to be in, a nest to be flashing in happy flight, Life's full cestasy and delight: Thrilling God's minstrel through and through!— All of them packed in this egg of blue! Would you believe it, holding dumb Lime and pigment 'twixt finger and thumb? Would you think there was love within Walls so brittle and cold and thin? Such a song as you heard, last night, Thrilling the grove in the sunset light? Out of the casket in which we dwell What may issue?—can you foretell? Can you say, when you find outspread Bits of our eggshell, we are dead? Can you think, if this shell be crushed, All that was in it is cold and husked? Can it be filled in this egg?— Has it no message of hope for you? -James Buckham, in S. S. Times. JOAN WEST could not sleep. Her mind was troubled and restless, her body ill at ease. A strong and healthy girl at the age of 18 does not often lie sleepless, but Joan was in love, and the course thereof was not running as smoothly as she had every reason to believe and expect that it would. Joan and Will Larkins, the gamekeeper, had had words—altogether unnecessary words—about an imaginary grievance. There were petty jealousy on his side and wounded pride on hers. The result was that he was salky and disagreeable, and she pliqued and resentful of his humors. And now, when by chance they met, he thrust his hands in his pockets with an offhand "Mornin', Miss West." On which she tossed her head and replied: "Good day, Mr. Larkins." The July night had been hot and stifling. To lie and sleep in comfort was an impossibility; so, when she heard the kitchen clock strike three, she resolved to quit her bedroom, and, without disturbing anyone, to go down and do a bit of churning in the cool dairy. There is very little darkness on a fine night in the height of summer; still, the sun does not rise so early as three o'clock, neither does he appear first in the northwest, which was the direction toward which the dairy window looked. Whence came, then, that glow which was reflected upon the white walls, dancing weirdly and fantastically? And what was that rushing, hissing, crackling noise? The girl looked forth upon the hillside, wondering. It was on fire! That had been the reason of the glow outspread upon the white walls; and the hissing, crackling sound was the rush of the flames along the ground, as they swept upward, consuming the flowering gorse bushes and dwarfed growth of oak scrub. She gazed a moment upon the sight with a sort of spellbound fascination; and then the thought struck her, how perilously near those flames were to the cottages nestling halfway up the hill! Their inmates, doubtless, were an asleep. Even as the thought flashed through her mind, her feet were carrying her nimbly up the hill. Breathlessly, Joan hammered at doors, shouting the alarm. "Fire! Fire!" Windows were thrown open and started voices exclaimed: "Where? Where?" "Close by, on the hillside," answered Joan, and she hurried away to give the alarm elsewhere. She knew well that to extinguish flames which had once obtained a mastery over the vegetation, which was now dry as tinder through long-continued drought, would be no child's play. The scene—made so fantastic by the fierce element against which, as yet, none had come forth to match their strength—was, ee long, all alive with the forms of men vigorously striving to beat out and arrest the rapid onrush of flames. As if by magic, dark figures hurried up the hillside in quick succession, each one armed with some weapon of attack wherewith to match himself against the fierce foe. A gentle breeze sprang up, and fanned the flames into quicker life. Whence came it? From the south-west. So there was no longer any fear for the cottages. The fire was climbing the hill, leaving a black and desolated track in its rear. More than one woman—loan West among their number—as they stood looking on, breathed a fervent thanksgiving for this deliverance. "Will they beat it out afore it gets among the trees, think ye?" asked one of the neighbors. A doubtful shake of the head from the other woman. "I's got a powerful hold," said she, "and must ha' bin burnin' long after Joan roused the men. Lor! Joan girl, twas a providence as ye had a wakeful night. He'll be out with the others, surely; he's ever first at a fire." Joan wondered also; she had not seen him when the men gathered from all around. "How come the scrub alight?" asked another. "One 'nd say as 'twas done o' purpose; for droughty as 'tis, the furze don't set itself alight." "Him as done it knew what Ah was about, settin' of it afire so near the houses. Ah reckoned as suspicion might fall on them as lived in 'em." This was a daring whiskey to get abroad; but one of greater import still was that which mentioned the name o' a tipsy old charcoal burner who had been working in the pine woods for the last three weeks, during which time small fires, soon localized, had given rise to several lived excitements in the neighbor-bood. How the present fire had originated, however, was of minor importance just then. The one thing to be done was to limit its extent and to extinguish it as speedily as possible. Judging by appearances, this seemed unlikely to happen, for the gentle breeze grew and grew till it was ruffled into a small gale and sent the flames before it in a mad career. Thick volumes of gray smoke began to ascend from the other side of the hill; moreover, these smoke columns appeared to rise from various points. This was a startling sign, and the watching women understood its significance. Jean West was a watcher. no longer; flying home, she roused every available man, and saw them off in a strong brigade for action at the front. Then, throwing the cares of butter-making aside, she shortened her skirts, tied on a sun-bonnet and followed in the wake. A wild sight it was that greeted the eyes of many onlookers as the sun rose upon a clear and yellow sky with promise of another day of brazen heat. From three distinct points ascended dense columns of smoke already hurid with flame. Wherever the gaze turned, there destruction was advancing with giant strides. The hillside was now swept bare; but the fire, having reached a denser growth, crept insidiously on, defying all efforts to extinguish it. The flames had already leapt over the road which divided the hillside from the dark pinewoods. The tall trees were in the grip of the fiery foe. So hot was it that the gentlest breath of air fanned it to fresh flame. The heavens became hidden by the thick pall which hung overhead, while beyond and on every side destruction raged. Still, men battled with it bravely. Exhausted often with the immense exertion at fearful heat, they threw themselves down at full length to rest for a moment and to regain fresh nerve for the struggle. Joan West and one or two other women worked in the rear, beating out such straagling fires as threatened to revive their energy, but still, as the morning wore on, the outlook appeared as homeless as ever. In one glaze the fiery forces seemed to have concentrated. Down in its murky depths it was possible to distinguish several of the figures looking like the genii of the fire, as they moved hither and thither in the very midst. Among them Joan thought she described the well-known form of Will Larkins, and so sure did she become of the identity of that sturdy figure, swaying a mighty bough in his strong arms, as he beat and beat at the obstinate flames, that she was impelled to descend and follow. If Will should see her, he might bid her roughly to go back; but she would chance that. She must follow! Not far from him the girl distinguished another form which she thought she knew that of a disreputable charcoal burner, and he seemed to be approaching Will. That he bore her lover a grudge Joan knew, for he had been caught pouching on several occasions, and the gamekeeper had threatened to "have him up." Above the roaring of the fire came the sound of their voices in hot dispute, and Joan hurried over the smoking soil. Neither of the men had yet perceived her, for their faces were to the opposite slope. Suddenly she saw the older man aim a quick and heavy blow with the thick stick he carried right over Will's head. It came with such crushing force that the hand it struck was constrained to drop the bough. Will staggered back, and Joan, uttering a cry of pain and anger, as though she herself had felt the force of the blow, hurried her bough at the cowardly assault, and darting forward, threw her arms about her lover as though to protect him from further attack. "O, Will," she sobbed, "are you hurt?" At first he seemed inclined to shake her off. "Go home, girl!" he cried, hoarsely. But a look into her tender eyes, streaming with tears, and the wall of separation between them crumbled to nothing. The charcoal burner cast a curious glance at the pair, and then, with a muttered creech, slunk off and disappeared among the smoking trees. "How come you here, Joan?" asked Will. "Why, I've been beating out the fire along with the rest, most ever since three this mornin'," she replied, between laughter and tears. They looked at each other. He was black, hot, grimy; nor had her pretty face escaped. Nevertheless, their lips met in a close kiss. They had owed each other that kiss for a fortnight at the least. "I've been a brute to you, Joan," confessed the man. "I've been a fool, I know," admitted the girl. "Lifeain't long enough for quarrels," said he. "We've lost a fortnight's happiness," she replied. "I'll have to go home," said Will presently, with a weary sigh. "I can beat no more; I believe my thumb is broke." "O, poor Will!" cried Joan, taking the maimed hand in both her own. "Come, mother will bind it up." They turned their back on the fire and left it to take its course. "There's fuel beyond there in plenty, but 'twill burn itself out in time," said Will, nodding backwards in the direction from which they had come. And so it did. By Sunday the flames were all extinguished and a heaven-sent rain fell gently, cooling the heated, blackened soil. Will and Joan walked to church to gether, choosing the road which overlooked the devastated woods. Naught that had been green remained, except in small, eccentric patches. The lofty pines reared their grim heads, with charred trunks and scorched branches. There was no song of bird, not a chair or twitter in this region of widespread desolation. And yet the very next spring would see the tender shoots of green pricking up through the dead litter, life renewing itself and covering the bare ground, green fronds erect like so many fairy croziers, and many colored mosses hiding all this unsightliness beneath a lovely mantle. The wood piges rebuild in the old firs that survive, and the house martins shelter under the eaves where Joan and Will mate.—Sketch. Great Artesian Well in Paris. The most famous artesian well in the world is in Paris, known as the Grenelle well, which flows 743,000 gallons daily. The bore is nearly 2,000 feet deep. Its overflow supplies a considerable section of Paris with an abundance of excelent water. The Spice of Envy. Mamma--Why don't you eat your apple, Tommy? Tommy-I am waiting till Jimmy Post comes. It wouldn't taste half as good if there was nobody to see me eat it--N. Y. World. DOESN'T KNOW RIGHT HAND. Some Women, Says This Account Find It Difficult to Distinguish Right from Left. In some of the little things of life women are absurdly ignorant, says the Chicago Chronicle. "I saw by a paper last week that a colored woman was excluded from testifying in court because she didn't know her right hand from her left, and was, therefore, esteemed too ignorant for her evidence to be of any value," said an observant Chicago man the other day. "Now, do you know I don't believe one woman out of six knows her right hand from her left without stopping to consider the matter. "I was standing in the foyer of a theater the other day at a matinee watching the audience, mostly feminine, as it passes in. Well, each maid handed her cheek to the usher and he called out: 'First door to the right,' or 'Second door to the left,' as the case might be. With hardly an JUDGE WILL The recent special congressional election to Brigham H. Roberts, who was turned terminated in the election of Judge King, a platform deploring the action of con- office to Roberts. The republican con- together, and this caused dissatisfaction vored a positive utterance against polyg- mon, but he has never been a polygamist. JUDGE WILLIAM H. KING. The recent special congressional election in Utah, held to choose a successor to Brigham H. Roberts, who was turned down by the house of representatives, was the election of Judge King, the democratic candidate, who ran upon a platform deploring the government of office to Roberts. The republican convention ignored the Roberts question altogether, and this caused dissatisfaction among the voters of that party who favored Roberts. The new congressman is a Mormon, but he has never been a polygamist. The recent special congressional election in Utah, held to choose a successor to Brigham H. Roberts, who was turned down by the house of representatives, terminated in the election of Judge King, the democratic candidate, who ran upon a platform diplomatic action of congress in refusing to administer the oath of office to Roberts. The new congressional meeting altogether, and this caused dissatisfaction among the voters of that party who voted a positive utterance against polygamy. The new congressional is a Mormon, but he has never been a polygamist. exception those girls turned in the wrong direction; then they'd pause to consider, exclaim: 'We're going the wrong way,' and skurry back again. "This happened so often that I spoke to the usher about it. mixed the hard and the starchy wheats, and we find it almost impossible to obtain the pure hard grain. I did the best I could in sending Consul Covert the two bushels for analysis and in sending five bushels at once. "They always do it," he replied, laconically. I usually point so they'll know the way, but I've neglected to do that to-day. They're all right if they stop to think, but they never do think. "I myself know an intelligent young woman who has to make a little motion as if she were writing with both hands before she can determine the right one, and she declares that all her acquaintances are affected in like manner, so, perhaps, this is a general feminine failing, and the colored witness was unjustly excluded." INFANTRY IN BATTLE. It Is the Sudden Losses That Destroy the Morale of Troops in Action. In battle it is not the number of men who are disabled in the course of a WHEELING IN THE FROZEN NORTH. Oliver Lawson was the first person riding a bicycle. The entire distance was registered in boot ride over two lakes, and it was then curate measurement recorded. The ride was found possible to ride all the way, but Lawson found possible to ride all the way, but Lawson and the trails packed hard the time could picture here given depicts the adventurer's A Oliver Lawson was the first person riding from Dawson City to Skagway on a bicycle. The entire distance was registered by a cyclometer, with the exception of a boat ride over two lakes, and it was shown to be 224 miles, the first nearly accurate measurement recorded. The ride was accomplished in 14 days. It was not the first time that with the lakes frozen and the trails packed hard the time could be reduced to 10 minutes, picture here given depicts the adventurer's start and how he carried his baggage. Oliver Lawson was the first person riding from Dawson City to Skigway on a bicycle. The entire distance was registered by a cyclometer, with the exception of a boat ride over two lakes, and it was shown to be 24 miles, the first nearly necessary. The other man was the first to be found possible to ride all the way, but Lawson believes that with the lake laked in and the trains packed hard the time could be reduced to four or five days. The picture here given depicts the adventurer's start and how he carried his baggage. day's fight that tell upon the morale of troops, but it is the losses which may be incurred within a comparatively short time that tend to demoralize and unmervee them. For example, says the International Monthly, a corps of 20,000 men may lose in a day's fight 10,000—one-half its number—without being demoralized, but should they lose one-fifth of their number—say from 3,000 to 4,000 men—in the course of half an hour, their morale would surely be destroyed. had gone out often with his wife. They were prosperous enough in business, but a little shy on social situations. If an insult was to be resented both or either of them would know just what to do at any spot in the road. When one of the women fainted from suffocating atmosphere of the overheated room both of them looked as if they didn't know what on earth to do. The pudgy man knew he didn't know what to do under such complicated circumstances, and he turned The British military operations, especially their battle tactics, have been freely and even virulently criticised by the military experts of other European nations—especially the Germans. It is not, however, at all assured that they would not have suffered at first from the indulgence in the same faulty "shock" tactics by delivering frontal attacks on intrenched troops. Sleep Protects Them. A medical paper says that in railway collisions nearly all the passengers who are asleep escape the bad effects of shaking and concussion, nature's own anaesthetic preserving them. WHEAT FOR MACARONI The bureau of foreign commerce has received a letter from Mr. James B. Simpson, of Dallas, Tex., in regard to the wheat which was sent to France to be tested as to its fitness for use in the manufacture of macaroni and similar edible pastes. Mr Simpson says in part: "It has been demonstrated beyond question that all northern Texas is perfectly adapted to the growth of the hard, glutinous wheats now in such great demand in France and Italy. The grain I transmitted through your kindness to Consul Covert, of Lyons, upon analysis shows the value of this hard wheat to Texas. With the port of Galveston now opening, give us easy access to Marseilles, this wheat is calculated to revolutionize production here. "But the difficulty lies in this: Our farmers here through negligence have WILLIAM H. KING. section in Utah, held to choose a successor ed down by the house of representatives, ag, the democratic candidate, who ran upon congress in refusing to administer the oath convention ignored the Roberts question al- own among the voters of that party who fa- gagamy. The new congressman is a Mor- st. mixed the hard and the starshy wheats, and we find it almost impossible to obtain the pure hard grain. I did the best I could in sending Consult Covert the two bushels for analysis and in sending five bushels at your request to the Paris exposition, but all had some grains of soft wheat in it. If the farmers here could obtain the Taganog hard wheat for seed it would be but a few years before Texas would control the French and Italian markets in this hard wheat." PROPER REMEDY FOR A FAINT Timely Suggestion Made by the husband of a Woman Who Swooped. "What do you think we would better do now?" asked the pudgy man, relates the Chicago Inter Ocean. It was what the wide-chested man said that made the incident worth telling: They had gone to a ball at the West side armory. They had brought their wives. A great crowd was present. They sat in the gallery and watched the dancers. Neither riding from Dawson City to Skaguay on a ped by a cyclometer, with the exception of down to the Set miles, the first nearly so, was accomplished in 14 days. It was not Dawson believes that with the lakes frozen be reduced to four or five days. The's start and how he carried his baggage. bad gone out often with his wife. They were prosperous enough in business, but a little shy on social encounters. If an insult was to be resented both or either of them would know just what to do at any spot in the road. When one of the women fainted from suffocating atmosphere of the overheated room both of them looked as if they didn't know what on earth to do. The pudgy man knew he didn't know what to do under such complicated circumstances, and he turned he'plessly to his wide-chested friend. "What do you think he would better do now?" he asked, plaintively. A dozen other women had gathered around the swooning woman, and were fanning her and pouring water on her forehead. The wide-chested man knotted his brows in thought, and then said: "Let us go and get a drink." Few Wild White Sheen. The wild white sheep is found no where in the world but Alaska, and few specimens for mounting whole have ever been obtained. BORN AMONG BULLETS. Births That Have Occurred Amidst the Flying Missiles of It is one of life's strange ironies that while battlefields have the most terrible of death-rolls they equally have their records of births; and the very guns which have taken their toll of life have given the first greeting to lives newly born. This was markedly the case in the Franco-German war, says London Tit-Bits, when hundreds of children were born in hamlets and villages which practically formed part of the battlefields, and when the first sound that new-born children in Strasburg and other besieged towns heard was the roar of the cannon thundering outside the walls. It is little more than two years since the death at Birmingham of one of our oldest and most trusted railway guards, who was actually born while the bullets were flying on the field of Waterloo. His father, who was in a Highland regiment, had gone out with our army to fight Napoleon, and his loyal wife followed him later, only reaching Waterloo in time to give birth to her child when the battle was raging at its fiercest. Ten years earlier the wife of a French soldier, called Chatasquon, gave birth to a boy on the battlefield of Austerlitz, while Napoleon's legions were mowing down Russians and Austrians by thousands; and by a sad coincidence the boy's father was killed by a cannon ball almost at the very moment of his child's birth. On the battlefield of Gettysburg where Lee's army suffered such irreparable losses, the wife of a confederate officer, who had bravely followed her husband through the campaign, gave birth to a daughter, who unfortunately died in infancy; and another "child of the battlefield" in the states lived to marry an eminent lawyer and politician, and may conceivably one day be mistress of the white house. It is not many weeks since Mrs. Miles, one of the oldest inhabitants of Melrose, died at the age of 90. Mrs. Miles earliest memories were associated with the horrors and discomforts of war. Her father, who was a gunner, fought through the Peninsular war, and his wife accompanied him with her baby daughter, who had been born at Woolwich. Mrs. Miles to the last remembered the booming of the guns at Quatre Iras, and recalled the grusome picture of a Highlander whose legs had been shot off below the knees. It is scarcely surprising to learn that a grandson of this martial old lady is fighting our battles to-day in South Africa. The wife of one of the most eloquent and successful of the younger French advocates was introduced to war in its most horrible aspect at the immature age of two years. At the close of the terrible battle of Sedan, when the field was drenched with the best blood of France, a tiny fair-haired, blue-eyed child was found toddling from one group of fallen men to another. She seemed to realize nothing of the horror of her surroundings, and when questioned was only able to say that her name was "Estelle" (which she pronounced "Etelle"), and that she wanted to go home. She was placed in the care of the wife of a French soldier; and although every effort was made later to discover her parents they were never found. Estelle grew up to be a girl of singh- lar beauty and sweetness of character and her foster-parents, who had pro- pered in business, were able to give her an excellent education. It was no sur- prise, therefore, when, ten years ago, the "Maid of Sedan" was led to the altar by the brilliant young lawyer to whom even the exalted office of president is, according to his friends, a possible ambition. BOER WIVES AS SOLDIERS. One Thousand Women Fight in the Trenches Around Ladysmith and on Spion Kop. Howard C. Hillegos, writing to the New York World from Pretoria, under date of March 1, says: "The British have opposed to them the bravest Amazons that ever the sun shone upon. At least 1,000 Boer women were with the troops investing Ladysmith. "These women are not nurses nor cooks—save when necessity demands—nor camp followers. They are female soldiers, as brave as their fathers and husbands and brothers. "The Boer troops that invested Lady-smith are now opposing Lord Roberts at Bloemfontein. The women are doubleshell with the Boers. "The world knows no finer example of heroism than that exhibited by 14 women in one of the five days' fighting around Spion kop, the second Majuba. A strictly family party of Boers, 14 men and their wives, were intrenched in one position, and held it with amazing bravery against a small force of British. For a long time the men fought incessantly and kept their wives busy reloading their rifles. "Finally 50 British soldiers, with fixed bayonets, charged on the intrenchments. As they came closer, the Boer men crept over the earthworks, and while the women began shooting, tried with the butts of their rifles to hammer back' the British. Before their wives' eyes every one of the 14 Boers were killed - bayonetted or shot. "The 14 women so quickly widowed never thought of surrender, but fought most valiantly and coolly for half an hour. The British surrounded them; not one of the 14 wives survived to mourn her husband. "Two days later, when the British forces retired across the Tugela, 28 corpses, 14 men and 14 women, were found within a radius of 100 feet. Now there is a big, long mound where rest the bodies of as brave a band as ever fought for freedom. "In the early days of the campaign the British captured three Boer women in men's clothing, and they are still held as prisoners of war, on the warships at Simonstown, near Cape Town, but they have been supplied with proper clothing." **Shoek to Fillal Trust.** The Son—Pop, the hay in the barn is all scattered about terribly. The Father—it is the work of tramps, my son. "Why, pop. I thought you told me tramps never worked!"—Yonkers man. PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS. The man who goes around with a ship on his shoulder is generally disliked.—Atchison Globe. Saying yes is often a good way to end an argument.—Washington (ta.) Democrat. It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all—better for the jeweler, the florist, the messenger boy, and sometimes for the lawyers.—chicago Daily News. Ye Small Boy“What is a pessimist, sire?” Ye Sire“A pessimist, my son, is one who is always expecting bad luck, and who is sorely surprised when it comes.”—Ally Sloper. Madge“Did you have a nice time at the box party?” Marjorie“No. It was a Wagner opera, and we couldn't hear ourselves talk.”—Town Topics. "Go 'way, dirty tramp!" cried the housewife. "But I wuz wan a professor o' grammar," replied the tramp, with dignity, "an' I know, ma'am, that, used in connection with tramp, dirty is superfluous." — Philadelphia North American. Aimless Artie — "Wisht I wuz a ship," Trudging Tommy — "Why, pat?" Aimless Artie — "Every time dey launches a ship dye bust a bottle o' wine on it," Tommy — "Yes, but it has to go into der water right away." — Baltimore American. "I suppose," said the interested visitor to the elderly rustic, who was showing him over the village church—"I suppose you are the verger?" The old man looked a trifle shocked, "Virgin, sir?" Oh, no, no, sir; certainly not, he answered, "I'm the sextant, sir, that's what I am." — Ally Stoner. Officer Claney "Faith, ye seem t' have losty yer hawd upon t' Swells blood's cook." Officer Grogan "Oh have, bad luck t' me fur a blunderin' fool! Whin I got me new suit at citizen's clothes t' ther day, Owl wint round an' let her see me in it." Philadelphia Press. ARMOR FOR SOLDIERS. Individual Metallic Shields Proposed Now to be twoed in Attack- ness The experiences of tae Boer war have shown how difficult it is to carry an entrenched position by direct assault. The natural result is that the attacking force must intrench too both forces then working round each other's flanks, or approaching each other's fronts by sap and trench, as in the slow operations of a siege. Circumstances will arise, however, in which it is necessary to carry a position at all hazards; moreover, rapidity of advance will not be given up by energetic commanders so long as there is any hope of success. Consequently the military world is continually striving to overcome, by some protective device for the attacking troops, the great power of the defense, says the New York Sun. The method proposed of producing by means of smoke bulls fired from the guns just before the infantry attack, a cloud of smoke at the enemy's trenches to shield the attacker from the enemy's view, will not always be efficient. Consequently, steel shields are now again advocated. The Boyton shield, proposed for the British troops, is a steel shield which can be used singly on a ride, or several shields may be fastened together to make a larger defensa. Each shield is three-eixteenth inch thick and has been found bullet-proof at all ranges and weighs nearly 1.5 pounds. On the march it is carried on the back, covering the knapsack, and in use it is hung on the rifle so as to protect the head and heart in firing or advancing. A seven-pound shield, one-eighth-inch thick, be sufficient up to 400 yards range. These shields are to be used only in supreme moments, and are therefore not continually carried by the men, but are transported by other means and distributed when required. It has been reported recently that the British war office has purchased for the soldiers small steel shields, weighing about seven pounds, for mercy covering the heart. During the month of March a captain of the British service provision for protection a steel cylinder, six feet long, $3\frac{1}{2}$ feet in diameter, weighing 200 pounds, mounted on wheels, (which raise it about a foot from the ground), so that it can be pushed forward in advancing or pulled back in retiring. Each roller is intended to cover six men. Chrome steel of one-fifth inch thickness would be sufficient up to 100 yards, and the cylindrical form, preventing perpendicular impact, would probably make it bullet proof at any range. Two hundred of these would cover a front of half a mile. Of course, none of these, except the heart shield, has been adopted, but experiments have been conducted with the Boynton shield and with others, and the military world is actively interested in every suggestion on this important subject. A Story from Gibraltar. During the war stories in plenty have been current of the stratagems and treachery which have imposed upon British officers charged with very serious responsibilities. Changing the venue, we have the following story from Gibraltar: Some time ago a consumptive German gentleman arrived there with introductions from influential people in England. The governor and other officials received him hospitably and every consideration possible was shown him on account of his health, but, of course, he could not be granted permission, as he requested, to go to the top of the rock for the sake of the puerer air, as there is a regulation that "Foreigners are on no account to be permitted to walk about the top of the rock." Further acquaintance, however, with the German gentleman, through the medium of dinners and other social functions, resulted in a relaxation of the strict rule, and he was granted a pass. The result of the visit is now to be seen at the German war office, which is in possession of the most perfect plans from photos of all the works and defenses of Gibraltar.—London Saturday Review. Well Known. Bill—I understand Gayboy is one of the best-known men in your town? Jill—Why, he's a well known that he has to go out of town to borrow money! Yonkers Stateman. Few College Students Die. The death rate in colleges is extremely low. The strict attention to the physique is given as the cause. People outside of colleges, as the students, are strong and strength. Hostetter's Stomach Bitch is most highly for preventing as well as curing bodily weakness. It is for the blood, the nerves and all stomach disorders, and its constipation, indigestion, dyspepsia, sluggish liver or weak kidneys, are most remarkable. Naturally a man commences to go to the dogs when he begins to growl.—Chicago Democrat. Great Fame of a Great Medicine Won by Actual Merit. The fame of Hood's Sarsaparilla has been won by the good it has done to those who were suffering from disease. Its cures have excited wonder and admiration. It has caused thousands to rejoice in the enjoyment of good health, and it will do you the same good it has done others. It will expel from your blood all impurities; will give you a good appetite and make you strong and you now, when your system is in need of a tonic and invigorator. **Indigestion** — "After suffering six months from indigestion, headache, nervousness and impure blood, I began taking six bottles of well water, when I had taken six bottles I was well." Frank Nolan, Oakland, Ills. When a man becomes suddenly rich it not infrequently follows that he becomes as suddenly oblivious to his old friends. Thus, a Persian having obtained a lucrative position as a court, a friend of his came shortly afterward, and he asked the courrier asked him: "Who are you and why do you come here?" The other coolly replied: "Do you not know me, then? I am afraid, and am come to console you, having lost your sight."—San Francisco Waves Free Government Lands. There are still thousands of acres of government lands in the states of Washington and Oregon, also prairie and timber lands near railroad or water communication that are protected by state and federal awards. Finest climate in the United States. No failure of crops. If you wish to raise grain or the finest stock on earth, you will need to grow it in the shade you can do to this perfection. Take your choice. 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Best for coughs, sinusitis, runny nose, in time. Sold by druggers. CONSUMPTION --- fue STORY, se Metab Cum eR LR Rm Be ¢ Just Fun for the Bear ; eee s Cr cemiaanamioniont MQ PEAKING of bres.” maid Deacon Todgers, reminiscently, to the crowd at the corner grocery store “did any of you ever hear of Uncle Jabez and his adventure with the bear, or rather with the drunken bees ‘and the ond bear?” None of the boys had. so the des. com began: “Uncle Jaber came over to my house a spell ago, and blamed if he wasn't more kinds of « banged-up man than any I had ever seen before His neck was scratched, his arm was fn a sling, and all over his face and hands were marks like bee or hornet ‘stings. ‘What particular form of at- tempted suicide have you taken up for Your latest fad?” I inquired. “ ‘I've been trying to catch « bear, growls Uncle Jaber, like a man out of humor with the world. “‘And did you trap a nest of hor: nets instead? Or have you been in a wrestling mateh with a buzz saw? “‘t ain't any laughing matter’ sneered Uncle Jaber. “Wildeats, bears and drunken bees are ‘sponsible for thin wreck.” “Well, T was mighty curious to know how one little old man contd get mixed up with that combination. and after awhile he opened up his heart. “‘Don’t tell me that @ bear, espe- Gilly an old Pike county bear, ean’t reason out things and plan how to get out of a scrape,’ sayx Uncle Jaber, sorrowfally. "You know that old bear which has been troubling people here- abouts for months’? Well, that par- tleular animal ix cut out for ® bank burglar, and w good one at that, It's my belief that a mistake was made when he was born a benr. ‘This fall after I had lost three valued pigs and some honey, I started out to make a Dusiness of hunting that bear, caught hin trail one morning and started in all the innocence of my heart, thinking T would come back at Right with the skin of the knowingest ‘old bear that ever lifted @ pig. My dog followed the trail all right until we came to one of those little oil runs, and there we lost it, The dog nosed about for a long time, but it wns no good. 1 was clean puzsled, ‘The ground was hard, and. there waan't @ hole and scarcely a bush nar, and how an old bear dog like mine could lose © plain trail was more than T could understand, At last we gave up and came home, a waddened and wiser dog and man, "That evening while T wax pondering ‘over the problem, all of w sudden an Aden came to me, “It ain't the dog's fault, T says to mynelf. “Phat dog's been trained to ‘chase bears, not oil barrels. That old ae a ee — egy yt. Eo Ae BEN OPE Sa scBO\\ TT its REN tS Wl Wen + \ ORR AY \YRae ae (a NR YEO Titus sue Aura Sei eRAe Dear just trailed along the oll run, and after a few yards of that he would amell like & refinery, not like the sly, marauding, old pigesteating ‘boar he really is. He may be a mighty cunning bear, but after he has exper. Imented a couple of times with your Unele Jaber’ intellect he'll repent of stealing them piga, “So the next day [ started out with two of my well-trained dogs instead of one. ‘The frat dog L let take up the trail to the oil ran, Then I started dog number two on the trail after it left the ran. After the dog got on ta the fact that \t was a wily old bear, ‘fad not an oll barrel, he was expected to run down, he went along at a fast cllp. 1 was actually sorry for the bear, “Petroleum bears may fool the or: @inary run of hunters, T says to my Self, ‘but this benighted bear wit! soon realize Unele Jaber ix on bie track, An easy death is the best that poor old bear can hope for. "Hut 1 didn't need to be wasting sympathy on that bear, 1 needed it ell for myself, That bear understood wildeat nature as well ox he did the use of off runs. ‘The minute Mr, Rear tealized those dogs had caught his trail again he made tracks right for @ bole where a mother wildcat and a couple of her kittens lived. The bear yan right up to the mouth of the hole tnd then swerved to one wide, This touted out the mother wilteat, and when my dogs reached the hole she was right on hand and looking for trouble in big bunches, A wildoat with a litter of young ones ain't the ewootesttempered pet in the world My dogs were after bear, but Mrs Wildeat thought it was her precious Kittens the dogs were looking for, and the second the dogs got near ont she rushed. A mother wildeat Ix the Highting limit for anything near he: weight, Tdidn’t want to see my twe valued bear dogs all torn np. and, not daring to shoot at the mixed-up bun die, I sailed in with a club. That’ Why 1 am wearing the top of ims ead decornted with bandages anv carrying: right arm in a sling. The logs ed T. Milled the wildcat, bo when we got through it was a hospi fal and tender nursing, not a big Dinek bear, that we were looking for When L got home I kept a-think Jug to TegeaME cheat fhe: oy that ob ‘bear had tire ‘en-vee. At was by ‘easing bis breins when 1 was buogling eee Se eee ee men with liquor, and that gave me an idea. Sopposing I could get that hear good and drank, I thought to myself, there wouldn't be any diffi enity in eatehing him and avenging my numercas injuries. So I took a big lump of honey and soaked it in ap- plejack. When I got the job finished there was enough liquor in that lump of honey to get a family of bears drank. And the delicious taste of it was ruch that I certainly hated to feed it to the bear. “‘Rut the memory of my wrongs, and the way that big bear fooled me and my faithful dogs sort of recon- ciled me to the waste. knew the old bear had had hix eye on my hives, ao that night I left the door open in the shed where I kept them. I put my applejack honey on the floor near the hives and went to bed = happy and contented man, thinking that all 1 would have to do in the morning would be to go out and corral one large intoxicated bear. That bear won't meddle with the hives contain- ing my bees. He's too knowing an animal to do that. He'll be attracted by the delicious smell of the honey on the floor, which combines the ad- vantages of honey, « jag and no stings. Bot he'll get a temperance lemon which will last him the re mainder of hin life. “Just about daybreak T heard a noine like something tumbling about in the shed where { kept my honey “Mr. Bene has found that applejack and is making merry over It,” 1 says to my wife*but there’ no hurry. 1 know the power of that applejack TH just wait a couple of hours until it geta in its paralyzing effects, That bear will be dead to the world then. And w little while later, after his in: terview with Unele Jabez, he'll be dead for good. “Ho T waited « couple of hours, and then, having loaded my gan, went down to the hives, confidently expect ing to nee one big benr siretehed out there dead drunk, Hut instead of this it wax a pathetic sight that met my eyes. My hives were overturned and all my good honey kone, while the floor was littered with bees, A lot more were sticking to the apple jack honey, while here and there war 's bee trying to walk or fly, and fall ing to the floor In a staggering: way. Tt was plain enough what had hap. pened, My bees hid been attracted by the fragrant smell of that apple: Jack honey. They had flown over to it during the night and filled them selves with it until not one disrepute: ble bee was able to move. ‘Then when the bees were helpless that unsermpy Jons old bear wandered in, and, with ‘out paying any attention to the apple: jack honey, marched straight to the hives, overturned them and gorgee himself, What made me maddest war to think he had gotten away without f@ sting, while my bees were lying there drunk, “ICT had been eontent to let it eo at that my face wouldn't look sa much like ® war map today, But t wax as indignant at the vagruat #hitt Jensness of the bees ax wax at the bear. If they had been content te stay In their hives, perhaps my plan would have worked all right and the bear have eaten the applejack honey So instead of letting: my bees sleep their jag off, I started to ronse them hy throwing cold water on them, “Ne Intoxicated beew that fil themselves up on honey meant for black bears,” T maid, “are going to be allowed to sleep all day, not while they belong to Unele Jaber, Thowe bees have got to get right up and start in repairing the dainage due to their carelessness.” “Now, | had known those been al their lives, and it never occurred to ame that they would ating me, Tut in the first place that applejack hind aroused the same bad temper in them that it does in some men, ‘Then the bees didn't like having that water thrown on them a bit more than a man who is sleeping off a drank likes to be thrown inte a pond, “Ae E kept throwing the water on those bees they ot more and more awake, and the livelier they got the madder they were, Finally most of those who had been iyi on the floor were fully awake and bean to bus around the shed. All of sudden one boo: that vee evidently poling eepe cially ugly flew at me, #hen all the bees seemed to think Twas the author of their mixers, and the whole swarm settled down to the job of making: me unhappy, They sueceeded right up te the Ihmit, too, for by the thine Few cdpe? from that shed [wax stung in 50 places. ‘The bees, although they hod been roused up by the water I had thrown on them, were feeling too languid to chase me. 1 hunted for the water bueket. When I finally lifted my face ont of it and had opened my bunged-up eyes with cou sisderable difficulty, [naw a wight which added a pang to my misery There on the eilyge of the clearing was that old bear, He was sitting on his haunches, tairly hugging bimself with Dix fromt paws and chuckting to him }nele at the fix Twas in. My yum was Lover by the shed. Hy the time LE eould get It the bear was gone, and all tha wen Mt Sor me wee my mourafe ‘The Professor Bx ptains, “Can you tell me, professor,” asked Grignby, “what an ‘extempore planixt is? [see that the performances o such a planint are advertised.” “Certainly.” sald the profesor: “ex out of; tempo, time: an extempor Pianist Is one that plays out of tine’ ~—Tit-Rite WORLD’S COPPER SUPPLY. CRANKS O} This Authority ‘Tella Why There In| Peculiar Devi Ko Immediate Prospect of am (at Washins ‘Overproduction. ¥ The dominating position taken by| “There are er the United States among the contril- | tion, and many ators to the world’s supply of copper |ehow us their i has already been commented on, sax | marked the gen the Engineering Magazine. The im-| the lite-serving menae activity of the Americans, added | adopted, they 11 to their mechanical genius, bax led to | serving service be initiation by them of a scale of op- |on a banis of ¢ erations hitherto unprecedented in the | any other in th history of mining. But, if the inereas-| Recently a m ing demand for copper continues, pres- |eallen on Ger ‘ent sources of supply will soon be in-| Kimball, and eects aatses ehast r shaiig | Son ney ‘mines can be still further stimulated. | Jacket, for the It is doubtful, however, whether the |strating ite 1 production of mines like the Anaconda |The permiasior ‘and Rio Tinto ean be very largely in-| the visitor pr creased, the jacket, whi: Ohad there in another side to the ques- | only salvation o tion that mnst not be loxt sight of— | ple, aays the Ws the more rapidly an ore deposit is ex-| In the numerc ploited the sooner it will be exhausted. | ment he had It is true that there are immense re-| flask, a box con servex of copper are at Lake Superior, |eandie and ma! HON. FRANK W. HACKETT. Ve Vj yy Ue Ai ® Ew. | Tai) ir, Mc ae YS £G-_ ee SSN EE tj) zg a Sy ZZ Yi lf it SERS Meena NAD RRR Lian VX RS Vie Loe | SY Ge a CaS Dh SS 11 TTT , aw f WY \ W\\\Nae @S ATR Tarte ee ene rome nasneenes Spates Seger fos tes tt oe Star eataees Sete ieee mince eee tee assuming that the beds can be profit- ably worked down to a vertical depth Of 6,000 to 7,000 feet, but it seems like- ly that even this source of supply will fail to cope with the increased demands of the early part of next century, and three or four decades will probably see it exhausted. We are bound to ax- sume, therefore, that unless new and abundant sources for the metal are opened up in the early part of the next century or some substitute is found for it in the electrical industry, there in no prospect of copper being overpro- duced. THE POOR DINER-OUT. A Gourmet Suewents the Fsinbiinh~ ment of a Much-Needed Hro- fective Leane. A gourmet suggests the establish- ment of a league of diners-out and of bureau of inquiry and information, whitre notes about hosts and hostesses would be obtainable, said notes to be collected and dixseminated in the in- terests of the culinary art, as well ax in those of publie health in general. VISCOUNT HINTON, SAID TO HAVE WON AN EARLDOM. TH aaah.) <a! | j att as a Bye | = (BEN WAR SEG: ee | Cee if Fa ef rh " VO J oS 1 Gal ty ee - fo oreo Ce WRG ae ae, and that of the members of the league in particular, says the New York Cons mercial Advertiser, ‘This cautious qourmet gives some samples of the en tries which a bureau of the kind he advocates would make: “Mrs. Ac-Rauces dangerous, red wines fair, champagne third rate, com pany good, Robust members of the ieague only can venture to sit at Mrs Avs table. ‘The hostess hay bees warned, but hitherto disdainy eriti ism.” “Mra. B.—Soup always bad, plates in. sutticiently heated, claret dangerously adulterated, coffee cups cold.” “Mrs. C.—Serves tepid eottee, in cups that have not been previously warmed! Dinner elaborate; nothing but entrees nothing to eat, Pretentious bat hope- leas Mrs, C. is an okt offender, Two babitues of her Tuesday dinner par- tier died lant year. (XN, R~These un fortunate victims were not members ‘of the league)” “Ure, D.—Meniber of the league: soaker great efforts to satiafy the re avirements of high gastronomic art; coffee perfect, Cups, xpooms and even ‘the sugar are warmed.” | CRANKS ON LIFE SAVING. Peculiar Devter Exhibited to mictale ‘ot Wasbtgaion by Ove of the Prewersity. | “There are eranks of every deserip- tion, and many of them come here to thow us their inventions,” recently re- marked the general superintendent of the life-serving service. “which, if adopted, they insist. will put the Hfe- serving serviee of the United States oa 8 tasis of eMicieney weequaled by any other in the world.” Recently a man from New Jersey ealien on General Superintendent Kimbell, apd ssked permiesion to don bis newly invented life-saving feckeh, for the perpene of demon: Zrating fis many ‘good features ihe, peratadije was’ granted, amd fee itor prometeh to pet on the Socket, which he clelmed wes the only asvation of all shipwrecked peo- ple. says the Washington Times. Ta the nemerous pockets of the gar- ment he had stowed away a whisky Genk, & box eontalolng mest tablets, a candle and matches, a pipe and to haceo, a revolver and a number of eart- ridges. To protect himself against sharks and other dangerous inhabit- ants of the waters, ashe said, he gird~ ed on himself a long, razor-edged ma chete. He then inflated the air reser: soirs concealed between the outer and inner cover of the jacket, which caused him to assume the appearance of a huge rubber ball. After he bad fin- inhed these preparations he tied his large red handkerehief to a bamboo fishing rod ax a signal of distress. and, turning to General Kimball, said in a self-satisfied manner: “Now, general, E gamble I could live ‘and float in the ocean thix way over a week and feel perfectly comfortable.” | Dr, J, IL. Bickerton calis attention in a recent number of the British Medical Journal to a enrious eaxe of color biind- nest. ‘The individual cited was the offi cer of a steamer, and owing to bis in- “ability to distinguish between white _and green lights narrowly escaped run: ning down another vessel. He had pre- | viously been subjected to the Holmgren test, which consists of matching col- ‘ored wools, and after the narrow es- cape noted he was again subjected to the test, and om both occasions passed successfully. ‘The author then goes on to state that thix form of defective Vision is not so ungommon, and he con- [siders it imperative that some other | test be devised, #0 as to exclude unfit persons from the merehant marine | service, Corteme of the Cane, ‘The cear of Russia's suite consists of 173 persons, of whom 73 are general, and 70 extra aidedecamp, To the suite belong 18 members of the im: perial family; 17 princes of not impe- rial birth: 17 counts, 9 barons and 112 other noblemen, Their nationalities are: 128 Russians, 30 Germans, 6 Finns, 1 Pole, 4 Circassians, 2 Greeks and 2 Roumanions, There Were Others. “t married sou.” he observed, “for yourself alowe, but now—" It was clear the honeymoon was on ies Inst legs, “Now T find T have got the whote family."—N. ¥, Presa, PE) MAvvan PO) || DON'T YOU HEAR BABY CRY? hs WN Lait NGA SS! Do you forget that summer’s coming with ? Ra a | ' gts teas o the little ones—all troubles SH the bowels. hag Vi. wii | The summer's heat kills babies and little > I (~} 1. Hi children because their little insides are not in Y) a ell good, clean, Sioa condition. 7 Cee y NY i Winter has filled the system with bile. fe | }\| Belching, vomiting up of sour food, rash, # . | il flushed skin, colic, restlessness, diarrhoea or en : | cppipatieny all testify that the bowels are out 1, fii odio want the litle ones to face the coming dangers with- EY amen Siac cate oe eh Ji Sed made strong tad hesithy before het weather sels ta. Lae eB, The only safe laxative for children, pleasant to take (they a wie CSCRETS Nee ee ae and. thens "Mama, cats’ 1 CASCARET® baby oc the bench, Tay, itt Sead for a 100 box of CASCARETS to-day aad you will lind that ss ‘ee guarantee, all irregularities of the little and big childrens insides are CANDY CATHARTIC 10c, SEST Yoe ALL 25. 50. FORTH DRUGGISTS sud wee ben enced rac adc buy CASCARETS we ae _—e | Is Sought by Female Suffer- ers From Ocean to Ocean. Goulden, 158 (aa ae | erg) Island, '111., | eet Be A) writes: | Pee Sy I was at. ee | titel iorie ee a ix years eae, | wich cater ay | diticutties land was ge growing PHBE] worse all the iB cd A time. I began iB fog [A terute Sit | Be : fo 24a marked im. LE SP £ {provement ks £2 trom the first | Baa Me A Independen' Poel: OR Foot curing ae EA that, the Pe runs pretty tn. i : proved my ke eee PN “Every bot tle of Peruns = is worth it | = valehs is espe by FAX, cially to me 6G) Ke —_ Sop ier towe = a AY present goo Ome Peer ret A aim) ee rss ee Ee eS aa ee ; Dy CPL Sp ~S ie a a) A |All over the country there are women who have been Tavalide for, many years, suffering with female derangements which the family doctor cannot cure. 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When this tube feta inflamed you have « rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed deafness is the result, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal con- dition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases of of ten are caused hy catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condition Of the mucous surfaces ‘We will give One Hundred Dollars for any cane of ‘Deatnens (eansed by catarth that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure, Send for circulars, fre, j F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O. | Sold. by Drugiata, To. | Hali’s Family Pills are the best. Some men live and learn, while others de- vote their time to talking about things. o Which they know abvolutely nothing “Chi cago Duly News, ‘sige A powder to shake see shoon It rests Wot, Callous Aching. Sweating fect nad in? Callous, Aching, hy rong al ‘alfca'y Foot Ease, ‘ake Sow or ight shoes east. Sold by all dru tnd shoe storem, 360. Kaimple allo FILEE. ‘Address Allon ®. 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A BIT OF SPRING. The Pensive Poet Said the Crocus Ie the Rooster of Sewer: “Do you wish ing to-day” sngnred’s loop beravcalen and ihe mb Ike editor reached for bis gun, The caller prt 3 ‘motion and held up his hand ap- PeASpsot if you will this long-haired head, tbat do sot Kil the poe: dead” he eroaned tauy? “bia I ungtrtand you to aay 708 would like some spring poetry to-day?” be / added, with mild insistence. wef Gould like i as well to-day as any day,” | replied the editor, “bat I do not Tiket it a Ty. There's hontecleaning and moving |S yaperabundance of bile and torpid fiver fod tefluenza and enough other things to Soatend with in the spring, without having Say poetry shoved inonga” | “Bat think of the kind mine a insisted thera, lien” and he, pulled oat Ging lookiég slip of paper and read: dig enon sip fate crn To tmect the growing showers, And there the crocus presses its plumes, Pha voowter of the towers.” “What do {ot ‘think of that?” “Who in thunder ever heard of a flower being a rooster!” queried the editor. “The mot! unlimited poetic license will not per nt that sort of wrench to the imagiua fon. “Steady, steady, my Pegasis,” said the vis itor, soothingly, “Lknew Prom be kek ‘ing out of the traces, and I don’t blame you, for there is a really startling thought in that suagention. Ht i plain enough when you ote “Which isn’t saying that anybody car ener eee it” “Only the blind will not see. Now ob- serve, please, The crocus is the rooster of the flowers is what I said, didn’t I? And I am Batt cor ee is a erow cuss, ain’ c? 'Now, what have you got to aay?” | And what the editor aid not fit fe lication N.Y. Sua, nee | THE POET’S GRIEVANCE. ‘His Lines Were Badly Treated by the | rinter and Me Was Jentty Indignaat. elton iting i in ofon one aay when & man whose brow was clothed wit Thunder entered Ferely sizing & cha he slammed his hat on the table, buried hi Umbrellavon the floor and sat down, say Collier's Weekly. Ate you the editor?” he asked. es “Can you read writing?” “Of courses” | Read that, then,” he said, thrusting a the editor an’ envelape with aa inscription omit, “Bt” said the editor, trying to spell it | sPiats not a Beis was ad ties man ‘Sob, yes, I, see,” Well, 3t looks hike “Salt for Dinner,’ or ‘Souls of Sinners’ | No, sir,” replied the man, “nothing of the kind.” That's my name~Samuel 6H. Brunner. I knew you couldn't read. Called to. see You about that poem of mine you eimted the other day ot the “Sarcease of teow Don't remember it.” » “Of course vou don't, because it went int the paper unilerneath the infamous tile of ‘Smearvase ‘To-morrow.’ |The etor te ‘Accommodating: | “T am a British subject,” he said, ax he signed. the. regiter, with & flourish’ “Al | right,” replied. the hotel clerk, “if 1 notice any Boers lurking about 1'l eee ‘tip to rush to cover.”—Philadelphia North American,” O" = ‘A Short Order. Mr. Dobbs—T tell you, the telephone is grent convenience. Nir. Bobbs—Sure thing. Fellow down at Beamer's ertaurant gave me a hot roatt Leite nine Sastenars elitnere betas “My son, you should remember that you must begin St the very bottom.” Why Dob, a» toon an. the marble season is ovet we'll ‘begin at the top."—Youkers. States a a Serious Its of Women a —— all kinds of trout), svemeeeses very way promptly to L & ham’s Vouclable poms pound. 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