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TWIN CITY NEWS. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Telephone Connection. .. OLSON EARL .. UNDERTAKER, Funeral Director and Embalmer. 1503 E. Franklin Ave., Minneapolis, Minn. 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. 22. TWIN CIT MINNEAPOLIS. For good cigars call at W. S. Conrad's, corner of First avenue south and Fourt hstreet. He will suit you. Go to John L. Neal, Real Estate, Loans and Insurance, 622 Boston Block. 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. The Blakes chicken dinner served at the camp meeting every Sunday has been a winner. Mrs. P. G. Lewis, of Chicago, the missionary agent of the A. M. E. Church, and son, are in the city visiting Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Tucker, of 2005 Fourth Ave. S. Christopher Twyman has been on the sick list this week. The Mite Missionary Convention will convene at St. Peter's on the 11th of September. Mrs. Mary Johnson is convalescent. Mrs. P. G. Lewis, missionary agent, and deputy upst. of Chicago District of Sunday School Union of the A. M. E. Church is visiting the Twin Cities in the interest of her work. She is the guest of her sister, Mrs. W. W. Tucker, 2205 Av. S. Rev. David Bruce continues to draw large crowds to the Midway Camp Meeting. The Iowa Annual Conference will convene at St. Peter's on the 12th of September. Albert B. Lee, son of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. W. Lee, died July 18, at 8:30 o'clock at residence of his parents. Funeral will be under the auspices of Anchor Lodge No. 7, A. F. & A. M., of which the deceased was an honored member; and will be held from Gethsemane Church at 2 o'clock Sunday, July 23. All Master Masons of the City are earnestly requested to meet at Masonic Hall, room 2d and Washington Av., 12 o'clock sharp, Sunday. Geo. W. Day, W. M. Rufus Deleo, Secy. The Eighth Wonder of the World The Boy Preacher. Harry Killibrew, eight years of age, is a preacher of great force. He was born in Kentucky eight years ago and began preaching at the age of six years. He is now in New York state, where he has created a profound sensation. He will preach at the camp meeting at Midway beginning one week from the coming Sunday. No one should miss the opportunity of hearing the religious proclivities. He will arrive in the city Saturday and preach at the Midway camp-meeting on Sunday. Communion of the Lord's Supper will be at 11 a. m. 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 from Godrey's, 148 East Ninth Street. A SNAP IN REAL ESTATE. Make an Offer. $000 cash will buy two lots 40x10 it. 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. 1224 Seventh street south, Minneapolis, Minn. THE ORIENTAL HAIR PAR-LORS, on the corner of Seventh and Sibley streets, room 205, Krahmur block, is the place to go for all kinds of fashionable hair dressing, etc. Straightening hair and scalp treatment a specialty. Hair work done to order. Calls made at residences. Prices made satisfactory. E. M. J. E. Allen, proprietor. In the spring a map forgets where he puts things, and places the blame on the house cleaning.—Atchison Globe. The advice of some people should be accompanied with printed directions for taking.—Chicago Daily News. Everyone thinks he works for a man who is mighty unappreciative.—Atchison Globe. A hit-or-miss policy usually has few striking features.—Chicago Dispatch. The proper size for a lazy individual is exercise.—Chicago Daily News. Satisfaction Guaranteed. .. OLSON UNDER Funeral Director 1503 E. Franklin Ave., PIANO SOLD DIRECT THE PEOPLE accent The Afro=American Advance. Now that your house cleaning is all over, suppose you visit THE ORIENTAL HAIR PARLORS, on the corner of Seventh and Sibley, room 205 Beahmer block, and get your hair cleaned. You will looak good and feel good. Mrs. E. J. Allen, proprietress. Hello! I want to tell Madam E. Luverne Adams, the fashionable dressmaker on Wabasha street. No. 418, that I desire her to make me one of those summer creations, all over lace and tucks, that is so swell. I am going to Mrs. Newrich's musicale and I must have it. Correspondence, letters, etc., must reach us by Wednesday for publication. 395 Thomas street. 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. Madam E. Luverne Adams' fashionable dress making parlors, 418 Wabasha street (upstairs). Have you attended the big Methodist camp meeting? If not, be sure and go out one evening. Judge Johnson is on the sick list. Mrs. H. C. Petticord still remains sick at St. Joseph's Hospital. Mrs. Jas. B. White, who was so sick last week, is convalescent. Will you hear the Boy Preacher Sunday? Miss Viola Berry has been on the sick list for a week or so. Summer visitors are here by the dozens and gay, jolly times have begun among the young society folks. Miss Nellie Brown's Wildwood party Tuesday night was one of the sweetest affairs of the week. If you attended you know all about it, and if you didn't go and I tell you anything, you'll feel bad. St. Peter Claver's Lawn Festival opened up Tuesday night under flattering circumstances, and continued three nights, with good results. The tables were in charge of lady managers, including Mrs. F. L. McGhee, Mrs. Rogers, Miss Ward, Mrs. Pitts, Mrs. James, Mrs. Green, Miss Davis, Miss Loomis, Mrs. A. Davis and Miss Fahey. Our friend W. A. Roberson, lately appointed civil service inspector at Jeffersonville, Ind., and over whose appointment there was such a bow-wow, has been assigned to the hardware department and will have nothing to do with the furniture department. Mr. Roberson is satisfied that you can't lose him now, for he has been in touch with the hardware business half of his life. It was our good fortune to meet Dr. J. R. A. Crossland, of St. Joseph, Mo. The Dr. was a delegate to the National Republican League Convention held in our city this week. Miss Ida Hayes, of Fargo, D. D., is the guest of Miss Nellie Patterson on Martin St. Mrs. J. S. Strong, of Fuller St., has had some excitement lately forced upon her that has not been very pleasant. Mr. Strong was among the injured ones in the Montana wreck which happened about two weeks ago. His injuries were not very serious and he is almost himself again since he arrived home last Thursday. Mrs. Strong had been visitied the City. Mrs. Strong had only passed the fatal spot on her wrist two days before the terrible mishap. Now that she is over the fright and shock she recalls her pleasant trip and remembers the many honors that were shown her the twelve days she visited Butte City. She was favorably impressed with the good people of that mining center. Mrs. Geo. Rideout, who so charmingly entertained Mr. Strong, was not alone in her good treatment. Mrs. Strong was out driving; Mrs. Sadie Smith gave a dinner party; Mrs. Willis gave a lunch-eon; Mrs. White received at a large reception. The Progress Bicycle Club made their initial bow and their first spin Wednesday evening under very pleasant auspices. The club is made up of about twenty young people married and single and are as follows: Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Linsay, Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Kirtley, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Young, Misses Jenny and Mac Coombs, Narcissus Johnson, Verna Jiles, Sadie Nickens, Mable Moffet, Cora Anderson, Josie Purnell, Florence Drake, Messrs. J. Edgar Murphy, Geo. Davis, Willie Alston, Harry Walker, Fred Wilson, J. C. Garner, Chas. Stanton, W. S. Moffet, sidney Hairney, Olie Hall, J. R. Logan, Thomas Coombs, Joe Coombs, Andrew Coombs, E. J. Brack. After about two hours wheeling the party rounded up at the beautiful home of Mr. and Mrs. W. Judge Johnson is on the sick list MINNEAPOLIS AND ST. PAUL, MINN., SATURDAY, JULY 21, 1900. S. Moffet, 994 Albemarle St. The lovely rooms and yard were lit up with Chinese lanterns and flowers were everywhere artistically placed. Mrs. T. R. King, Miss Phoebe Linsay, of Stillwater, Mrs Lizzie Allen, Mrs. William Alston and the Advance people received the merry party at eleven o'clock, when refreshments in abundance were served. Music, song and fun was the order of the hour. The club will meet next with Miss Jennie Coombs. A POLITICAL POTPOURRI. Mayor Gray has publicly announced his intention to stand as a candidate for re-election. Dr. Ames, whose record in the political arena justly entitles him to the distinction of being a political nonparallel will from all appearances be pitted against him, and will land the Minnesota metropolis safely in the republican column. The opening of the campaign of 1900 by the Republican left Tuesday night in St. Paul was in every sense satisfactory to the republicans, nearly 10,000 people turned out to hear the next vicepresident, and no public speaker was ever accorded a more enthusiastic reception. It is difficult to conceive how any one could have evoked more genuine enthusiasm or been more completely apotheosized. He thoroughly dissected the Kansas City platform and expounded the tenets of the republican party in a statesmanlike manner. It is not surprising then that find it practicable to visit the state again ere the close of the campaign. The contest for the office of county attorney bids fair to be the prettiest contest of the campaign. Louis A. Reed, the present incumbent, is unmistakably popular and he finds doggedly contesting each inch of his way the suave and versatile Fred H. Boardman, the lawyer in the New York Life building. The opponent is the splendid personality of him, with whom the democratic nominee for county attorney must reckon on the 3rd of November. The campaign yell of the Roosevelt Rough Riders' Club is "Dickery, dickery, rough and ready, what the h—l is the matter with Teddy." If there is anything in a name, the gentleman who has the name of the national republican ticket of 1876, be the judge of the court, and judge Kerr's successor, but we opine that the other 'steen candidates take a different view of the situation. The friends of Judge Elliott have begun to realize that in Judge Steele their favorite has an opponent to whom more than passing attention must be paid, and one who understands the game of politics thoroughly. There is no better political organizer in this neck of the woods than this same John H. Steele. It is to say that that Capt. A. P. Loomis has the greatest sympathy of his numerous opponents for the municipal judgeship in the accident that recently laid him up—especially at this particular time. Mr. George C. Merrill's candidacy for register of deeds seems to appeal particularly to the business men of the city. Capt. Van Sant is awakening genuine enthusiasm among the voters in all sections of the state and must indeed be a veritable thorn in the flesh of one John Lind. Capt. Warren Fletcher, the venerable congressman from the 6th district, was in evidence at the sessions of the National League of Republican Clubs, and his constituents who always delight to honor him, kept him busy shaking hands and acknowledging salutations. The wise ones say that the death of Senator Gear, of Iowa, gives the Iowans an opportunity to prove to Congressman Dolliver how sincere they were in urging him for vice-president, Gov Shaw and H. B. Cummings will not submit to the eloquent congressman's promotion without a struggle. Each day brings to light added reasons upon which to predicate republican success in this state this fall, both from the strength of the republicans and the weakness of the democrats. It is an open secret that the populists are in an ugly frame of mind consequent upon the defeat of Towne at Kansas that it is self evident that the republicans were never more united and determined. The magnificent ovation given to the republican candidate for vice-president at St. Paul on last Tuesday reminds us that another candidate passed through Minneapolis a few days ago, the last vestige of the Cleveland administration, except a Stevenson No. one vet, except a commander and enterprising newspaper reported, "a lot depends nowadays upon what a feller is, as well as who he is." Grover Cleveland, speaking concerning the rumor that he will support Bryan, says he denies the allegation and defies the allegator. One suggestion to the republican voters of Hennepin county that is invitable to do not in your zeal for the natural and the political home, the citizens want a clean sweep this fall all along the line and will be satisfied with nothing less. So let her go straight: no scratching, no complimentary votes; shoot straight and low. Feminine Consistency Mrs. Greene--They do say that Mr. Slyder gambles. Is it awful? Mrs. Gray. I should say it was. Why, it's almost as bad as stealing. If he wins, he robs some other man; if he loses, he "At any rate, it is terribly wicked. By the way I forgot to tell you I won the first prize the wrestler tournament last night—"Oh, you lucky woman! How I envy you!" Boston Transcript. Good Engagement First Veteran Actor—Well, how goes it? Good engagement, I suppose—good pay? Second Veteran Actor—Well, old friend, you know how these things are. Salary, preparing for it don't get, but I steal the whole of an enormous bestseller in the second act—N. Y. World. The best diplomat is too sharp to be cutting—Chicago Dispatch. Don't judge a man's prospects by his pretensions—Chicago Dispatch. Silent neighborhood make a desirable neighborhood—Chicago Daily News. Doing nothing does half the mischief of the world—Boston Congregationalist. Time, patience and industry conquer all things—Chicago Daily News. COMMISSIONER TO CHINA W. W. Rockhill Appointed Special Agent of United States to Investigate Situation. WILL PROCEED TO CHINA AT ONCE. Brig. Gen. Chafee's Commission as Major General of Volunteers Signed—Will Take Supreme Command of American Forces in China—Oregon Not Badly Damaged. Washington, July 20.—The cabinet meeting Thursday developed nothing of importance regarding the situation in China beyond a decision to send W. W. Rockhill, formerly secretary of the legislation at Peking and assistant secretary of state, and now chief of the bureau of American republics, to China to investigate the situation and report to the authorities here. Mr. Jackhill will go as a special commissioner to ascertain the extent of the responsibility of the Chinese government, if any, for the existing disturbances and to otherwise furnish the administration with the information upon which the case of the United States against China for indemnity and repatriation will be based. Well Equipped for the Mission. Well Equipped for the Mission. He is well equipped for the mission, having been secretary of the American legation in Peking for several years. He speaks and writes Chinese fluently. The administration expects authentic news from Peking soon; in fact, both the president and his advisers can hardly understand why some absolutely reliable news has not arrived before this time. Chaffee's Appointment Signed Washington, July 23. The commission of Brig. Gen. A.R. Chaffee as major general in command of the Chinese expeditionary force A.W. was made out at the war department Thursday morning and sent to the white house for the president's signature. Cable notice of the appointment was sent to Nagasaki Japan, where it will meet Gen. Chaffee on his arrival there. Oregon Can Be Patched. Washington, July 20—The navy department Thursday morning received the following dispatch from Capt. Wilde, commander of the Oregon, dated Kure, July 18: "Secretary Navy, Washington: Oregon and Nashville arrived Kure two o'clock this afternoon. Expect to dock on the 19th Shall I make permanent or temporary repairs to the ships which can be done in a very short time and ship go back to her duty at Taku. To make permanent repairs it will require at least 60 days, probably more. Not a single man injured in any way." "WILDE." To this dispatch Secretary Long at once replied, as follows: "Universal reoloking over safety of Oregon. She is the Constitution of this generation. If safety of Oregon permits patch reolining, we recommend your preference for service there." Losses of Marine Corps. Washington, July 20.—The navy department Thursday afternoon received from Admiral Remey a list of casualties of the marine corps in the fight at Tientsin. It is as follows: "Take, July 18, 1990—Bureau of Navigation, Washington—Official casualty report from marine regiment; "Killed-Capt Austin R Davis, Sergt C, J. Kollock,棺 Thompson, Privatez, M. McGregor, "Seriously wounded—First Leet, Henry Leonard, Corp. J. A. McDonald, Privatez P. J. Kelleher C. D. Miller, C. J. Mathews, P. J. Kelleher C. D. Miller, Privatez "Wounded—Capt. Charles G. Long, Capt William B. Lemly, First Leet, Smedley B. Butler, First Sergt, James Murphy, Sergt F. T. Enters, Corp. Joseph W. Hunt, Prt. T. Enters, Corp. Joseph W. Hunt, Prt. Desmond D. F. Gegseler, Lavrin Larzon, M. E. Mclver, J. C. Megonegal, A. B Penney, H. A. Rickers Washington, July 20.—The government authorities are finding the present Chinese agitation is having the usual effect of stimulating cranks and agitators, and many of the highest officials are receiving anonymous letters containing advice, and sometimes threats. The Chinese officials also are the victims of foolish effusions. They are not considered seriously, however, and the officials, both of the government and Chinese, dismiss them asilly emanations from ignorant persons. On their face, some of these communications look belligerent, but their illiteracy and braggadocio modify their effect. The government officials express regret that in the delicate position in which the country is placed at this time it should be embarrassed by anonymous writers, and steps are being taken quietly to apprehend the guilty parties. Viewed as Idle Tales. Washington, July 20.—In the absence of direct news from China Thursday morning, attention was directed mainly to the more or less speculative stories emanating from European capitals indicative of discord among the powers. It is realized that these little ebullitions of mutual suspicion always characterize allied movements, and so are to be expected in the present case. It can be stated that, so far as official record disclosures, there is absolutely no ground for them. Our government having fully defined its intentions in Secretary Hay's note of July 3, the other governments interested in the Chinese situation have entered into the spirit of that declaration of principle with perfect accord. At least that is the record both written and oral, and Russia, a power more than any other under suspicion in these stories, has not been backward in assuring the state department of the coincidence of Secretary Hay's declaration with Russia's purpose in China. It is, of course, possible that some of the powers are swayed by motives that do not appear in their formal declarata- tions. The state department, however, cannot go behind their formal expressions and can now only await results. Wu Not Restricted. There is not the slightest disposition on the part of our government to follow the example of certain European powers and restrict in any measure the liberty of the Chinese minister here, Mr. Wu, in communicating with the Chinese viceroy and whatever remains of the titular Chinese government. On the contrary, crediting the minister with an earnest desire to do everything in his power to protect foreigners in the Chinese empire, and confident that he has no sympathy whatever with the insurrectionary Boxer element, the state department regards it as good policy to facilitate, rather than obstruct, his communications with the Chinese viceroy. If there should e a declaration of war by Russian upon China, based on what is said to have occurred on the Siberian border, the technical relations of the allied powers towards China might, it is said, here, undergo a radical change. It is believed that the story of Boxer activity is considerably exaggerated so far as it relates to the country north of the Siberian border, and it is hoped that the troubles have been confined to Manchuria. But is war should actually and formally open between Russia and China that fact might oblige the other powers to do one of two things, either join in the declaration of war, or withdraw their forces from Chinese soil. Developments in the military situation Thursday were the formal designation of Brig. Gen. Chaffee as a major general of volunteers, and making of other arrangements for a prolonged campaign on a large scale in China. The officials hope that it will be short but they are preparing to send coal and winter clothing. FIGHT BATTLES OVER AGAIN Veterans at Atlanta Visit Historic Battlefields and Talk Over Events of Civil War. Atlanta, Ga., July 20.—In a warm brilliant sun, many hundred veterans who are here attending the Blue and the Gray reunion Thursday visited the old battlefields and stretches of woods in which bloody battles of the civil war were fought. Among the visitors are Gen. Albert G. Shaw, commander-in-chief, G. A. R.; Gen. T. F. Wood, Dayton, O.; Gen. Willard Warren, General Alex P. Stewart, Gen. Stephen G. French, Col. A. H. Crane, of New York; Col. W. H. C. P. Breckinridge, of Kentucky, and his brother, Gen. John C. Breckinridge, of Washington. At night, at the Grand opera house, a campfire was held. The veterans were given seats of honor and upon the stage were visitors. Several addresses were delivered. ASTOR APOLOGIZES. Tries to Make Amends for the Grave Blunder Which He Re- Recognizes London, July 20.—Mr. William Waldorf Astor has, apparently, reached the conclusion that he made a grave blunder when he publicly insulted Capt. Sir Archibald Berkley Milne. Thursday Mr. Astor published in his newspaper, the Pall Mall Gazette: "We desire to express regret that a paragraph which appeared in this column July 2, with regard to the presence of Sir Berkley Milne at Mr. Astor's proceeding Thursday evening should have been published under a misapprehension of the exact circumstances. Explanations of a complete categorical kind now show that Sir Berkeley Milne's presence was due to a misunderstanding that entirely abrogated the right from any intentional discourtesy." Want to Serve in China. Springfield, Mo. July 20. — Col. Fried W. Fleming, of the Third regiment, M. N. G., now in encampment here, in a letter to Gov. Stephens has authorized the latter to tender his command to President McKinley for service in China. The men lined up in company streets and polled were almost unanimous in their desire to do service in the orient. Strike Causes Shot Down Seroton, Pa., July 20. — Striking runners and drivers from the Grassay Island mine of the Delaware & Hudson company at Oliphant, have forced a complete shut down of the colliery and the Eddy Creek and No. 2 mines of the company at the same place. The officials refuse to confer with the strikers unless they return to work. A Kansas Shooting Affair. Wichita, Kan. July 20. -Jim Kennedy was ordered out of Frank Johnson's saloon at Union City, Okla., for disorderly conduct. He resented it, and drew his gun, shooting Johnson in the head. Johnson replied with two shots. Johnson is dead, but Kennedy will recover. The latter is under arrest, charged with murder. Release Two Suspects. Anoka, Minn., July 20. At the conclusion of the preliminary examination the court decided to release James Hardy and Elmer Miller, accused of the Wise murders, holding that their alibis were conclusive. Young Mattiion, whose confession first directed suspicion to Hardy and Miller, was held for trial. Swedish Singers at Rockford. Rockford, Ill., July 20.—The annual festival of the American Union of Swedish Sigers opened here and will continue three days. More than 200 singers, representatives of a score of societies, are present. Preparations have been made for the entertainment of 5,000 people. Col Baker Read South Bend, Ind., July 20. -Col. Adam 8. Baker, president of the South Bend Wagon company, and a pioneer citizen died at night, aged 70. POINT OF COMBINED ATTACK ON THE CHINESE ARSENAL. View Outside of the South Gate of the City of Tientsin. NEAR CONDITION OF WAR Events Tending Towards the Recognition of China as a Belligerent Nation. IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT BY BUSSIA Official Recognition That State of War exists in Certain Portions of Amur Territory—Senanational Report from Shanghai Says Russia Has Negotiating with Tuna. London, July 20. The action of Count von Buelow, the German minister of foreign affairs, in informing the Chinese legation at Berlin that all telegraphic messages must be in plain language and submitted for approval by the censor, and the suggestion of M. Delecasse, the French minister of foreign affairs, that the exportation of arms to China be prohibited, which are generally regarded here as long steps in the direction of treating China as a state engaged in war, have been supplemented Thursday morning by the official announcement from St. Petersburg that certain portions of the Amur territory, including parts of the Khabarovsk district and the coast territory, as well as the towns of Blagovestchenk, Khabarovsk and Nikolskussur, have been declared in a state of war since July 17. Russia's announcement is regarded in London as at least foreshadowing a speedy unconditional recognition of the POINT OF COMBINED ATTACK View Outside of the South fact that a condition of war exists between China and the civilized world, and the general opinion seems to favor such recognition as the best means of meeting the barbarian upheaval, while at the same time endowing to isolate the independent viceroys from the general confederation. Creating Uneasiness in South The revelation of the ability of the Chinese forces in the north to stand their ground against the internationalists is producing the inevitable results in the south. At Shanghai, it is announced officially that foreign women and children have been requested to leave the ports along the river. Serious rioting has occurred at Po-Yang lake, near Kiu-Kiang. Several missionaries have been killed and chapels burned. The telegraph between Kiu-Kiang and Hankow is interrupted. In connection with the story that Prince Tuan's forces have been ordered to march to Wei-Hai-Wei, it is considered as significant that Indian troops arriving at Hong-Kong have been ordered to proceed to Wei-Hai-Wei. Secret Negotiations With Tunn. A Shanghai dispatch also reports that Russia has been in secret negotiation with Prince Tuan's government, with the connivance of Li Hung Chang. In a dispatch from St. Petersburg it is stated that Russia's anxiety to minimize the alarming nature of the news from Manchuria is dictated by fears of the injury the confirmation of such news might cause in the matter of arrangements alleged to have been made in the United States for money with which to complete the Manchurian railroad. Chinese Losses Heavy. A dispatch from Shanghai received here Thursday reports that the losses of the Chinese in the fighting at Tientsin was upwards of 3,000. It is understood that Lieut. Gen. Sir Francis Grenfell will have command of the British forces in China. Li Arrives at Hong Kong. Hong-Kong, July 18—Li Hung Chang and his suite arrived here yesterday evening and landed this morning. The Chinese was received with a salute of 17 guns and, with a guard of honor from the Welsh fusiliers and a band, proceeded to the government house, where he was received by the governor, Sir Henry A. Blake, Gens. Gaselee, Badrow and other officials. Li Hung Chang was extremely reticent. He stated that he had received definite news that the ministers and foreigners at Peking, with the exception of Baron von Ketteler, the German minister, were safe July 8. The imperial edict recalling him to Peking, the vicegeron said, was due to the empress and emperor and not to Prince Tuan. Further Details of Battle. Shanghai, July 20.—The following additional details of the allied forces' attack on the native city of Tientain reached here Thursday from the press correspondent of the allien: "Tientain, Friday, July 13 (Midnight), via Chefoo, July 16.—After a day of hard fighting and having趴 for hours in shallow, hastily, dog trenches full of water and suffering from hunger and thirst, two battalions of the Ninth United States infantry that participated in the attack on Tientain retired under cover of darkness, Brit- PRICE FIVE CENTS. lsh sailors assisting them to withdraw by volleying to cover their retirement. The Americans brought out all their wounded under a terrific fire. An official list of the officers wounded is as follows: "Ninth Infantry-Maj. Regan, Capts. Brouiller and Noys. Lieuts. Lawton and Lang. "Marine corps-Capt. Davis, killed. Leon- ard, Butler, Lawton (7) and Lemley wounded. "The total loss of the Americans was 140." Safe But in Great Peril. Paris, July 20.—An official telegram from Shanghai, dated Wednesday, July 18, states that, according to the governor of Suan-Tung, the foreign ministers and their families at Peking are safe and sound, but that the danger is still very great. The vicar, according to this dispatch, informed the consular corps that he had telegraphed to Peking urging the protection of the foreign legations. Effort at United Action. Rome, July 20.—The government has received a circular from M. Delascue, the French minister of foreign affairs, which it is understood has been dispatched to all the powers, proposing an international agreement for joint action in China and the future action of the powers. The matter is still under consideration here. Lord Salisbury, the British premier, and minister of foreign affairs, it is understood, has already replied in a friendly spirit. The replies of the United States and Russia have not yet reached M. Delascue, nor has the reply of Germany. The latter government, it appears, had previously made a somewhat similar proposal to the United States alone. It is reported that President McKinley hesitates to join with the other nations, but it is regarded as practically assured that K ON THE CHINESE ARSENAL. Gate of the City of Tientsin. all the powers, in view of the danger of the situation, will negotiate regarding M. Declasse's proposal, and finally sign an agreement on the China question. Will Exhibit Himself If Acquitted. St. Louis, July 20.—A special to the Post-Dispatch from New London, Mo., says: Instead of waning interest in the Jester trial is increasing. The whole country seems to be watching this case, judging from the letters and telegrams coming from different parts of the United States, inquiring about the defendant and his alleged victim. It is said that if Jester is acquitted, and that is what the defendant and his attorneys claim to be confident of, he will not go back to Oklahoma, but he will travel and exhibit himself. Indictment Not Enough. New York, July 29.—Judge La Combe, of the United States circuit court, Thursday rendered a decision in the case of Charles F. W. Neely, charged with having defrauded the post department in Cuba, in which he declared that the mere presentation of an indictment cannot be held sufficient for Neely's extradition, and that further testimony will be heard when the case comes up on July 23. Talk of Consolidation Denver, Col., July 20.—Amalgamation of the American Federation of Labor and the Western Federation of Labor is proposed. The matter was the subject of discussion at the meeting of the executive committee of the American Federation. W. D. Boyce and Samuel Yarnell, of the Western Federation, were present. Believes the Fifth Infantry Santiago de Cuba, July 20. — The United States transport Rawlins has arrived here from Matanzas with a battalion of the Tenth cavalry, Capt. Murphy commanding, on board. This battalion has come to relieve the Fifth infantry, garrisoning the Morro. The Fifth will immediately embark for New York. Treaty with Unix Published. Washington, July 20. The state department Thursday morning made public the reciprocity treaty made with Italy. It affects fish, oil, agricultural machinery, metals, art works and admits free turpentine oil, natural fertilizers of all kinds, skins, crude, fresh or dried, not suitable for fur, and fur skins. Great Forest Fire Raging Placeville, Cal., July 20—A great forest fire is raging on the lands of the American River and Lumber company, 12 miles northwest of this city. The big chute built by the company in 1894 at the terminus of its railroad to run logs into the south fork of the American river is reported destroyed. Showa Heavy Decrease. Washington, July 20.—The statement was made by the division of customs and insular affairs, war department, that the total value of exports from the port of Havana, Cuba, for the first six months of 1900, as compared with the same period of 1899, shows a decrease of $519,109. AFRO-AMERICAN ADVANCE. Published every Saturday by the ADVANCE PUBLISHING COMPANY Office, 214 Washington Av. So. Tel. Main 2415-L-3. Entered at the Post Office, at Minneapolis, Minn., as second-class matter. Subscription Rates: One Year ..... $1.00 SN Months ..... .00 Three Months ..... .00 Subscription Always Payable in AD- XPOC Special rates if ordered by the dozen. Go to www.nytimes.com and reach the office by Wednesday evening. Advertising Rates. Local Reading Notices, 10c per line, Religious Notices (not over five lines), free Want" and "To Let" advertisements, 8 cents per line for each insertion. Display, 40 cents per inch each insertion, titles will be given for space by the year. 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Van Sant Lieutenant Governor ..... L. H. Smith Attorney General ..... W. B. Douglass Secretary of State ..... P. E. Hanson Chief Justice ..... C. M. Start Associate Justice ..... L. W. Collins Railroad Commissiver, O. S. Miller and I. B. Mills (four years) and C. F. EDITORIAL * NEGRO POLITICS. While reading Prof. R. R. Wright's views in the Augusta Journal concerning the Negro in Politics, it was my good fortune also to read the version of the able editor of the "New York Age." T. Thomas Fortune, on the same subject. Reflecting on the age in which we are now living, and our general surroundings, we come to the conclusion that this is a period of agreement and disagreement. Now in regard to a negro becoming polluted, corrupted, and non-benefited in politics, I heartily endorse our able Prof. R. R. Wright in accordance with him to the extent that we should outcraise ourselves entirely from politics. We should have a different issue at stake than public office or office-seeking, for in getting a few in public office does the masses but little good, because frequently when our brother gets in office he forgets his people and sometimes his own mother. Oft'times previous to this date he has been poorly prepared for the positions that have given him, which has caused the domineering race of the whole as unqualified, and has had the bad effect of cheaping the standing of some of our able thinkers, and caused us to lose some of our little prestige. When we go into politics with a political question (not with greed), when we frame resolutions pertaining to our race's welfare, when the thinkers can be broad enough to think of the race rather than their own self-aggrandement, I say go into politics with heart and courage. We can so-called free atmosphere of these United States, with the motto emblazoned in letters of gold: "It is not me, but us." We want the barrier of state sovereignty torn asunder and crumbled as the ruins of ancient Babylon. We want federal assistance to take hold of the abominable labor organizations and shake them as a cat shakes a mouse and make them tear down their selfish opposition and discrimination against black labor. Then, and not until then, we have achieved anything for the benefit of the entire negro. Now, a party which is a conglomeration of strikers, paupers, anarchists and office-seekers is our worst enemy. A party that has never in its eighty or ninety years of life had a plank in it for a negro's benefit is not the party to look to for comfort. **PLAIN JIM.** **The Explanation That Failed.** Professor—How did you go along with my formula for the use of "shall" and "will"? Professor's Friend—Oh, gracious, man! Before I had read half way through it I was as befuddled that I couldn't remember what it was that I started out to learn—Indianapolis Journal. Realised the Situation The colored regulars in the Philippines are as quick at repatriate as they are prompt to take action. They are a breezy western volunteer recently with: "Well, nig, what are you going to do here?" The negre replied: "We're going to take up his man's burden, I suppose." —Argonaut. Very Strange. Sunday School Teacher (finishing the narration) — And this is the story of Jonah and the whale. Johnh Cumso -Isn't it strange they knew what a Jonah was that long ago?- Harlem Life. Something Practical Many a young girl makes the mistake of thinking that because she would die for a man she really loves him. In this restless, throbbing age it is necessary for her to ask herself in all seriousness: "Would I take in washing for him?"—Detroit Journal. A Prudent Man—Ikey—"Do you believe in luck, fader?" His Father—"Vell, yes; but I don't depend on it."—Brooklyn Life. In Washington He Must Wear a Muzzle the Year Around. An Inhuman Law Which Has Aroused the Honest Indignation of Every Lover of Dogs and Other Dumb Pets. [Special Washington Letter.] "ALTHOUGH I am not partial to curs, the more I see and know of men the more I like dogs." He had been a candidate for the position of sergeant-at-arms of the senate and had received pledges of support from a good majority of the causes. But when the caucus met there was considerable discussion and finally they selected another man, whose name had not been mentioned before. The defeated candidate, showing his list of senatorial liars who had pledged him their support and violated their promises, said: "The more I see of men the more I like dogs." And why not? Dogs are honest, sincere and faithful. They do not pretend friendship without meaning it. They love their masters devotedly, although their affection is not always appreciated nor returned. Man, although indeed "the image of his Maker," does suffer in some degree by comparison with the intelligent and faithful creatures who follow and fawn upon their owners. Congress has adjourned and the statesmen have departed, but the dogs are with us yet. Nobody attacks the statesmen, no matter what they say or do, albeit many of them are exceedingly vulnerable. But dogs can be attacked and humbled and troubled, even though they be as gentle as doves and harmless as bues. The executive rulers of this national capital are three commissioners, appointed by the president. They are not elected by the people, and are, therefore, exceedingly independent of the people. They do many marvulous things in the name of law and order. As an example of their acumen, last December, when the weather was unusually cold, they issued an order requiring that all dogs in the District of Columbia should be muzzled. People who had paid their dog taxes and held licenses were ignored. Their taxes were practically confiscated, and their dogs captured if found unmuzzled. There was a popular clamor against the unwise and needless order, but the commissioners paid no attention to public opinion. Only a few weeks ago the president appointed a new commissioner; a good man, a reasonable man, a veteran newspaper man, a gatherer of facts. He has endeavored to have that muzzle order resinded, but the other two commissioners, of course, out-voted him, and the order continues in force. That the people of a large city should be stirred up over a matter of dogs and their treatment seems a little strange, but it is a fact that there are so many dogs and dog owners here that the outyery is almost as universes as though some great wrong had been done to individuals directly, instead of to their chattails. However, it appears that some dogs become as much a part of the families in which they live as the babies and children with whom they play. The owner of a splendid spaniel this afternoon said: "I'd as lief muzzle my TEDDY DIDN'T LIKE IT. little boy as to muzzle Teddy. I bought a leather muzzle and put it on him. He sat erased at it, pawed it, rubbed his nose against the wall until it bled, and finally came crying to me like a human being, looking pleadingly at me as though inquiring what he had done to deserve such torture. I took off the muzzle and shall never put it on again. The dog must remain in the backyard all day now; but in the evening, after the dog catchers have gone to roost, he shall go out on the streets. He is perfectly harmless by day as well as by night, but these inhuman commissioners have the power to declare all dogs dangerous, and their dictum is compulsory upon all citizens." These commissioners of ours may declare that hydrophobia exists when it does not exist, and we must assume that it does exist. They may declare that the "dog days" are in December instead of August, and we must agree with them, although in our neighboring city of Baltimore, and everywhere else, the "dog days" continue to be in August. Our commissioners may declare that all dogs have rabies, when there is not a mad dog here; and our citizens must submit to their autocracy. Rulers of that kind could break a camel's back with the weight of an argument, or draw an inference with horse power. Strangest thing of all, the commissioners have the backing of alleged statesmen in their crusade against the dogs. Senators and representatives who do not reside here when congress is not in session have urged the continuance of the muzzle order. Senator Cockrell, of Missouri, insists upon the muzzling of our dogs. He is now 1,500 miles from this city, but he wants all dogs muzzled here. Senator Carter, of Montana, who will soon be in Helena, 2,000 miles distant, demands that our dogs be tortured in this manner. Senator Platt, of New York, has lifted his eyes from his political plans long enough to coincide in this mattle. Senator Rawlins, of Utah, who surely lives far enough away to be free from hydrophobia in this city, also demands that our dogs shall all be muzzled. All of this local excitement has resulted in profound study of hydro- phobia and rabies by some of our learned men, and the majority of them ridicule the phantom on which our commissioners have based their action. Science demonstrates that there is such a disease as hydrophobia in man, although it is of exceedingly rare occurrence and not traceable to contagion or infection. There is no such disease as hydrophobia in animals. There is a disease known as rabies in some animals, and dogs are sometimes affected by it, but even this disease is never found in dogs that are domesticated and well cared for. In every community the cry of "mad dog" is heard, but not one man in 50,000 ever saw a mad dog. Experience makes it manifest that muzzling dogs does no good whatever, but often great harm. The dangerous dogs are those who are ownerless and live as tramps. They are not muzzled, and often have dangerously bitten household dogs that are muzzled and helpless when attacked. The interesting story of "Hab and His Friends" describes the attack of a tramp bull terrier on a gray old huge mastiff snuatter about his master's lawn. "The ballies had proclaimed a general muzzling," just as our commissioner have RAB AND THE BULL TERRIER done. "His master had encompassed his huge jaws in an apparatus made out of the leather of an ancient breechin". The trap across his mouth was as intense as a bow string. His lips curled in rage, his teeth gleaned and he roared with indignation." But he was helpless while the bull terrier gnawed at his throat. One of the boys present had a knife. He says: "I put its edge on the tense leather; it ran before it; and then—onesudden jerk of the enormous head, a sort of mist about his mouth, no noise—and the fierce bull terrier is dropped, limp and dead. The mastiff had taken him by the small of the back and broken it." That story from England demonstrates what all men of common sense understand. Not only the mastiffs, but the little fellows, the lap dogs and pets of the children, are all helpless when muzzled, and the stray tramps can throttle and kill them. Commissioner Macfarland, the man who has endeavored to have the muzzle order revoked, says: "The danger of hydrophobia has been grossly exaggerated, and probably by the supporters of institutions established ostensibly for the cure of hydrophobia, in the name of humanity, but who require $100 to $200 for treatment for the alleged disease. They have set up a theory and act upon the assumption that their theory is an established fact, when it is far from the truth." The commissioners who stand by their obnoxious order will give no reason for their action. They say that it was based originally upon the rumor that there was "a mad dog or dogs in the district of Columbia," and that public safety required the proclamation. Commissioner Macfarland says that the best dog law known is that of London, which requires all dog owners to have their pets registered and furnished with collars bearing the names of their owners, and imposes a fine of $100 upon any person keeping a dog without complying with the regulations. We have a similar law for Washington, but the fine is only $10. "If our law were properly enforced," says Commissioner MacFarland, "the uncared for, unlicensed dog would soon disappear by the impounding system, and killing, so that there would be no necessity for interfering with the dogs that are cared for, and are therefore not dangerous." Acting upon this conclusion orders have been issued by the poundmaster to increase his force, capture and destroy all stray dogs, and leave the household pets unmolested, except when they are complained of by neighbors as being suspected of savagery. The poundmaster, or dog-catcher, as he is usually called, does not believe in the muzzle order, and he will not be over zealous in its enforcement, but he is after the trump dogs with his wagons and nets and will endeavor to exterminate them. He says that the hydrophobia theory is groundless, and that "more men than dogs ought to be muzzled." SMITH D. FRY. A Sample Pair What looks these earthly mortals be? What freaks the human race begets? Mong others in the girl who paints the city black cigarettes. -Chicago Daily News. BAYRUM 9 The Victim—They call you a "Knight of the Razor," I believe? The Victim. I didn't know but what you were "The Man with the Hoe!"—N. Y. Journal. It is said there are fewer divorces among the Chickasaws than any other race of people. SOCIETY DIRECTORY ST. PAUL. ODD FELLOWS. Mars Lodge. No. 2202. Meets and fourth wednesday in each month at Odd Fellows Hall, 22 Wabasha street. Meets first and third Monday in each month for business, second Monday for Wakabashi, at Gdd Fellows Hall, 225 Wabasha. MRS. SARAH C. KIRTLEY, M.N.G. MRS. JAACKSON, W. J. 274 Summit place. MOST WORSHIPFUL GRAND LODGE OF MINNESOTA, A. F. and A. M. MRS. JAACKSON, W. J. 274 WM. R. MORRIS, Grand Secretary. 17 Guaranty Loan Bldg. Minneapolis. ST. PETER CLAYER'S SODALITY. ST. PETER CLAYER's Mondays of each month. W. B. Anderger, J. S. Harris, Sec. A. DAVIS, Treas. Monerie Lodge, No. J. A. F. and A. M. Monerie Lodge, No. J. A. F. and A. M. Masonic Hall, south west corner Fifth and Robert streets. Master Masona in good standing always with us. H. IADLEY, W. M. W. A. HILYARD. Sec. 124 Atwater. Minnesota Lodge, No. Z. A. 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Sunday services; Morning prayer, Lit- tany and Sermon, 11:30 a.m.; Sunday prayer, 11:30 a.m.; Evensong and Sermon, 8:00 p.m.; Wednesday Evening Prayer and Lecture, 8:00 p.m. Friday; Choir Rehearsal and Evensong, 8:00 p.m. All are cordially invited. Seats free. MINNEAPOLIS. ST. PETER A. M. E. CHURCH. Rev. W. S. Brooks, Pastor. Cor. 22d 8th at. st. Ave. South Sunday; 8:00 p.m.; Twelfth at. 11:30 a.m.; Sunday School, 3:00 p.m.; evening services, 8:00 p.m. General prayer meet- ing, Thursday evening, 8:00 p.m. Way- ward services, 8:00 p.m. Weekly meet- ing different residences. Parsage, 200 Ninth avenue South. BETESDA BAPTIST CHURCH. Sunday services: Twelfth at. 11:30 a.m.; Sunday School, 12:30 p.m.; Christian services; Preaching, 11:00 a.m.; Sunday School, 12:30 p.m.; Christian services, 8:00 p.m.; Wednesday evening, 8:00 p.m. prayer meeting, 8:00 p.m. Parsage, 120 Eighth street South. VISION. Rev. John J. Paude, In Charge, 63 Sixth avenue South. Sunday service, 4:00 p.m.; Sunday ST. 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For sample book THE BUSY FAIRIES econ sth einen i step 7 le ane the se ees ac eaean haty crop moron Cage ore 1 ea Ty at fod Oat Ee eat adh iy at Re des at tha tory tling’s done Se ac ener io at Tee fiberivesy’ Weans “ot” saligh ee jst arbres stor, ear Bh eee toe “aod when the sky above ts blue ia sees eens et Seba mate ates tae oe A eas col co ‘They pile up in the yard to burn, orntels cata tases, sry mate, new gowns to old to we see a eee re sce Be ee cee tee Aeris ty ating things Fate ete char ai Sears Pere PG Reset : ; : : THE TWO SKIPPERS : : bed : sugaeani : : eave : 5. ssa cavceaudiwesesceees lines of eee. Sransporsetion Dave © system of tetirement after long sery- jce, with the enjoyment of a life pen- sion representing a fair share of the Setive wages last paid. the retired inariner. ‘This is far better than Sail- or's Snug Harbor, for it does not in- terfere in the least with the ambition which every sailor thinks out in the ymid watch, namely, to retire to a farm and raise things. ‘Theoretically this is all very fine; it Js supposed to act as an incentive to faithful service over a long series of years, and to attach a man to his line, ‘and, above all, to his own ship. That {s just where the trouble comes in; the retired sailor gets so thoroughly attached to his own ship that he does not know enough to let go all holds end givé his worthy successor a fair show. That is bound to be the case with the retired first mate. Just as soon as he goes on the retired list he schemes to get @ passage on the first yoyage of the old ship, in order that he may give the benefit of his advice to his suceessor, either his old sec- ‘ond mate promoted up, or else some chief officer from some smaller ship cf the line, who thereby gets an in- crease in pay. This is such an unfail- ing source of trouble aboard that the agents positively refuse to sell a re- tired mate passage on his old ship. This leads to a conflict of scheming intelligences, and sometimes the wily mate succeeds in getting into the cab- in on that first pleasure voyage. Not, however, if he sticks to the simple- minded sailor's subterfuge of writing for passage for John Johnson, for no perton can have much to do with the eea and its affairs without discovering the wear and tear that falis to that alias. If by hook or crook the retired first mate can get off on that first voyage after his retirement, the prospects are bright that there will be a lively ebip. He turns out in the morning, no mat- ter what the weather, and he is promptly on hand to get his cup of coffee at the galley door before the hands turn to. The men for a time forget the change, and obey the old mate through sheer force of long hab- it, until at last some one happens to remember that mere passengers are not allowed to have belaying pins, and then the crew is apt to become cheeky. Nor is the new chief officer disposed to take the interference in good part. His pensioned predecessor is only too iad to nose around and find a speck M dirt under the long voat or to dis- over @ smudge of unwiped ruiten ttone on the brass work. He is sure to report it to the new mate and get a sharp retort for his: officiousness. Then arise words which might be ac- Uonable ashore, and which even jar the stout nea air. ‘The active mate is apt to suggest that passengers on deck are expected to have no views higher than ring toss and shuttleboard. And the mate emeritus is sure to retort that even passengers have a right to expect decks to be clean and not «uch a filthy mess. It is easy to see why retired mates should be prevented from taking pleasure trips on their old vessels. Even if they are stopped from voy- aging there is no way of keeping them off the dock. They know to adot when theold boatis due in port again, and not cabbages nor turnips, nor yet the whole farm, ean keep them away at that time. The station of a mate is at the bow when the ship is coming to her berth, and he cannot avoid the sight of his predecessor on the pier head, watching the mistakes he makes, and commenting thereon with great distinctness and corresponding vigor of expression. That is the one great Joy of the retired mariner's life. Tt fils his soul with glee to wateh his ‘snecessor doing the things he himself éid for so many years, and to feel the clow of satisfaction when he assures Nimeelf that the new man does not ‘begin to come up to him in all-around ‘ficieney. But in all the annals of retired mar- ‘lters there was never such a case as that tthe two skippers of the Nellie B., a ‘og bit of a bark that sails out of this fort. Her only master for a number ¢f years was Cap'n Davies, who owned eve sixty-fourth in her. Cap'n Davis. the same name except one letter, and leading to perpetual mistakes, was the Raster of another bark belonging to ‘he same owners. This bark was ‘burned at sea, and Cap'n Davis bought ‘ene sixty-fourth in Cap'n Davies bark, | {he Nellie B. Neither had what is real- 'y & master's interest, and both set to work to buy an additional piece to make ‘S up toone thirty-second. The two sue- ‘eeded just about the same time, and tach ‘insisted om his right to be the Raster. It was evenly divided, and {be managing owner said that he could ‘Sake no division. On the quiet he sold inet ‘to Cap'n Davies to protect Erition an master, und piecemeal © Grn Davis to belp him get to be Baer; this was a good thing for the wanteicg owner, for the Nellie B. had fet been paying for w long time, and Me be been aving ba thinking of her ‘stdown for coal barge. Finally Cap'n puch of the bark as they could. and they went in a body, the two of them, to the managing owner to get him to ‘appoint one or the other master. Then the managing owner told them he did not have anything to do with it, sinee he did not own anything in the bark. When they came to compare notes they had spent a lot of tioney, and were no better off than before; in fact, the advantage was entirely with the managing owner, who had got a good price for a property that it did not pay to run. Cap'n Davis had fif- teen thirty-seconds, Cap'n Davies had fifteen thirty-seeonds also, and the re- maining two thirty-seconds was owned by the ship's husband, a South street ship chandler. He payed fair with both skippers. He would sell half to each if they wanted to buy bim out very badly, but he would not sell all to one, and thus be a party to giving him control over the other captain's in- vestment. He suggested that they ‘take the Nellie B. turn and turn about, and that's how it was that the bark had two skippers. ‘The way they fixed it up was that when Cap'n Davies brought the Neltie B. in from a voyage and had her dis- charged down to a clean floor, he should turn her over to Cap'n Davis to charter and load and sail until he got her down to a clean floor at the end of the voyage. When Cap'n Davis had her in charge Cap'n Davies was not to go aboard, but he could come down to the pier and find all the fault he wanted—and that was a whole lot— and vice versa. It was a caution to see how each of these old skippers put the bark into apple-pie order before they came into harbor from a voyage. The paint and cordage bills, to say nothing of white duck, must have been some- thing big, but the ship's husband, who was in that line of business, never let on as between the two captains, so he must have been making a good thing out of his small interest in the Nellie B. The two old gentlemen were great rivals, and it was nip and tuck be. tween them on every point connected with the bark, and it would be hard to say which was the more jealous of the other. It got so they never would speak ex cept when handing the bark over, and then they were freezingly polite. “Good-morning, Cap'n Davis,” was always the form that Cap'n Davies fol lowed, “the Nellie B. is on a clean floor, and I think you'll not find anything the matter with her.” “Thank you, Cap'n Davies,” was the unfailing response. “I suppose it seems s0 to you, but I have brought : broom with me; she'll not be the worse for a good sweeping. I suppose you'l enjoy the rest while I'm gone.” “Well, I wish you a prosperous lad: ing and a quick voyage. You're get ting old, man, and this will likely be the last voyage you'll make in the Nellie B., so make the most of it.” ‘Then they'd part, speechless with rage. Not content with sitting on the plerhead day after day watching the loading of the bark and finding fault with everything the other skipper did Cap'n Davies thought he'd take a look at the bark in some foreign port; he wanted to see whether Cap'n Davis saved up all his repairs for the home port, or whether he fixed the Nellie B up creditable when she went foreign ‘The bark had been. chartered for Mel bourne with clothespins and wooden: ware, That's a voyage that took her all of a hundred days, for she was s dull sailor, and Cap'n Davies had plen ty of time to get out to Melbourne by steamer. There he waited for the bark to be signalized from the Heads, and when her number was made he took s sailboat and hurried down Port Philip to see how the Nellie B. was looking when she came into port foreign. Whether the bark looked better thar Cap'n Davies expected to find her, o1 whether she looked worse, nobody could say for certain. But that some. thing serious was the matter anybody could see, for the old skipper hardly woke up to rip and tear more than ‘once or twice a day, and that was noth ing for him. The Nellie B. got a char. ter for London with wool, and lost no time discharging, Cap'n Davies hung about her all the time she was in Port Philip. Soom after she sailed he just up and died, ‘There wasn't much satis faction in it for Cap'n Davis, for he ied, too, before he got around Cape Horn, and he never knew that he was sole captain at last. Another scheme of the two skippers went astray. Each of them, having neither chick not child, had willed his share in the bark to the ship's hus- band, thus giving him the controlling interest on the condition that he would oust the rival skipper and put in a man of his own. But as both died at the same time there was nobody to oust, and the property came into the hands of this ship chandler. He's sail: ing her still, ax she cost him really less than nothing, for what he had paid in the beginning for his small piece was repaid over and over in his dealings with the rivalry of the two skippers.— Boston Budget Hay Fever Union of Heligeiané, The hay “fever season is now begin- ning in Germany. In North Germany it lasts from May 27 to June & in South Germany from May 20 to May 25. To counteract the mistakes of those physicians who usually send their patients to the mountains or out into the country, an association has been formed after the pattern of the Amer- ican Hay Fever association, which has, after careful consideration, selected the island of Heligoland as the most suit- able resort for hay fever patients. The society styles itself “The Hay Fever Union of Heligoland,’ and has its head- quarters in Hanover. All possible ine formation concerning the ailment is gathered and advice and other assist- ance to applicants ie given free of charge. The union is rapidly spread- ing over all parts of the empire, par- tleularly in the northern and,easterm sections, where grass and grain grow im abundance—Chicago Record. ‘Trolley Express in Connectiont. ‘The very latest bit of mews in the trolley ear world is that these cars are to be used in parts of Connecticut for the expressing of merchandise from point to point. All that regular ex- press companies now do for their pa- trons this new scheme will undertake, sod it will attempt even more—it will do shopping for all the gocniryside im ‘the populous and wicked cities, pev ting orders in the morning and deliver- ing st night or on the next reture tip ‘Chronicle. rN a i ¥ 5 &. BES pe Pie St Se es i . ees a ‘Z i We ial eae a ‘ 3 ae "pa Yi Bea he ap | oe eT ae be eee eae i — jas eee ne LARS 4 EAS SESE REE sie MISSIONS IN CHINA. They Are Protected by the Burlin- game Treaty of 1868. Bane ‘HE OPINION most generally adopted by observers of events is that the present trouble in China originated in the hatred enter- tained by the mass of natives for Chris- tian missionaries and thelr converts. Those of our people who do not believe in forcign missions have attempted to defend the Boxers on the ground that they are actuated by patriotism and love ef their own religion, and that therefore the foreign powers, whose soldiery ix now trying to restore order in northern China, are usurping an authority contrary to the highest in- ternational ethics. ‘They assert fur- thermore that aside from protecting their diplomatic representatives at Peking the United States, Great Brit- ‘ain, Germany, Russia, France and Ja. ‘pan have no cause for interference whatever; as, in thelr opinion, mission- ‘aries are not entitied to armed pro: tection. sind ithe eoltlon tat Che tine At read the treaty now in force between the Chinese empire aud the United States they would not be so loud In their denunciations of our own govern: Fment. As long ago as 1838 th iwo countries concluded an arrangement which stipulated that “the principles of the Christian religion, as professed by the Protestant and Roman Catholic ‘churches, shall be recognized as teach- ‘ing men to do good and to do to others las they would have others do to them. eer those who quietly profess and teach these doctrines shall not | be harassed oF persecuted on account lof their faith. Any person, whether [citizen of the United States or Chinese convert, who, according to these ten- ets, peaceably teaches and practices the principles of Christianity, shall in no case be interfered with ‘or mo- ested.” Ten years later, in 1868, William H, Seward and Anson Burlingame, acting respectively for the United Stutes and China, drew up a new treaty, which ix now in force and which deals with the missionary question in the following words: “The 29th article of the treaty of June 18, 1858, having stipulated for the exemption of Christian citizens of the United States and Chinese converts from persecutions in China on account of their faith, it ix further agreed that citizens of the United States in China of every religious perstasion and Chi- nese subjects in the United Btates, shall enjoy entire liberty of conscience and shail be exempt from all disability or persecution on account of their re ligious faith or worship in either coun- try.” Under the provisions of this treaty the United States is morally. responsi ble to the families of the hundreds of converts murdered by the fanatical Boxers to secure for them financial in- demnity and the punishment of the assassins. When the Boxers murdered & number of German missionaries 9 few years ago Emperor William eon- sidered the outrage sufficient provoca- tiou for the seizure of Kino Chou, and no sme ventured to criticise him for this high-handed action. The moder- ation displayed by the American gov- ernment in the trying circumstances aladdin tn Mate Et a ie Lape? eal? if, fa cak gs FAN ey aj Bom 3) ¥ ft: : LS y ee ee The Chinese government elaims to be | making strenuous efforts to rt the Boxer insurrection, but the fact still remains that the Burlingame trea- ty would justify the United States to. begin hostilities without formal dec- aration of war. Instead of engaging ernment, acting in accordance with the golden rule, is simply trying to protect | the lives of the American diplomatic and consular officers and the mixsion- aries and their converts. To accom- plish this four regiments of soldiers have been dispatched to China, to be reealled ax soon as order shall have been restored anil indemnity colleet- gd for the outrages alrvady committed. Shovild China refuse to comply with the reasonable demand of the United States it may become necessary to take possession of a strip of territory and to conduct an active war against the empire. A country. no more than an individual, ean afford fo shirk re- sponsibility; and should the worst) happep America will be forth ready to meet any emergency that may pre- sent iteelt. ‘The Boxer uprising has induced many to make # study of the foreign missiousry work conducted by the} churches of our land, and the woncern ful resuits accomplished by the heroic men and women who have devoted their lives to the spreading of the Gospel is a revelation to the scoffers, Some valuable compilation of facts concerning this subject in reneral are to be found in a book by Dr. 8.1. Taid- Win, just published by Eaton & Mains, of New York, and entitled “Forcign Missions of the Protestant Churches." Dr. Baldwin has been a careful student of missions for many years and was secretary of the exeentive committee which had im charge the recent great ecumenical council In New York. In Bis book he discusses the nature and scope, methods and administration of foreign missions and then goes on to tabuiate In historical form the origin and work of the various foreign mis- sionary societies. In a chapter of 60 pages he gives a brief account of each of the important foreign missionary bodies in this nation. First in chronologies! order and one ‘of the most efficient in achievements is the American Board. which is the Congregational missionary organiza- tion. Formally instaled in is}o, it ‘really took ita rise from the historie “haystack prayer meeting” of Wiliinus college students in 1806 to ask for guidance in the matter of sending out mnixsionaries to the heathen, Five com missioners and an audirnce of one per- son attended the opening meeting of the American Board of Commisstouers for Foreign Missions os It was /nti- ted: yet from that small beginning there spread a movement that inspired Aimost all cases and fostered in many cases the foreign missionary efforts of board has 101 prineipal stations, 1.271 | municants, 1.270 sehoo!s. 36,641 persons under instruction, 839 American labors ers and 2.975 native laborers. Is year- ly income is $644,200. ‘The Presbyterian bourd was organ. ized in 1837 and has at present an in- come of nearly $000,000, with which it supports 111 prineipal stations, 1,081 out-stations, with 35,895 communicants and 21.016 persons under instruction. ‘There Is besides @ southern Presby- terian board with 40 principal stations, 176 out-stations and 3178 communi cants. ‘The American Baptist Missionary union has the largest number of com municants, 128204, in 1/1 prineipal «ta tions, and 1,495 outs tations supplied 1,028 churches. ‘The nnnual income at the union is $563,404. This is the next 10 the oldest society in the country having been formed in 1844. ‘The Methodist. Epixeopat Church Missionary society wax founded in 1819, and Ik now one of the largest, having 104 principal stations, 5i0 out sations, 616 churches, 124611 com: ‘municants, and the largest income of Any missionary soviet y, 454,063. ‘The society of the Protestant Epireo- pal chureh was formed in 1838, 1 now hax 200 principal stations, 43 churches 5,582 communicants, and an income of more than a quarter of @ million dok lars. ‘The Disciples of Christ, a small but strong denomination, particularly r= ‘voted to foreign mixsionary work, maintain gl churches, with 5.260 eom= -municants, and an income of $144.75 The undenominational Awerivan Bible society, founded in 1816, haw an Income of $152,094, upon which it Fup: ‘ports 33 American workers and 243 native workers, . Among other denommations having missions in the foreign field ore the Dutoh Reformed, United Preaby teriin, Covenanter, Cumberlond Preslys terion, German Reformed, Southern lapti='s, Evangelical Lutherans md Ameriein Friends. In his chapter on “False and True Conceptions of Mirsions und Mission: ary Work,” Dr. Baldwin declares that for a missionary to look upon his work as a civilizing and elevating ageney for the barbarous or semi-clvilized nations in “a low and unworthy conception of the work.” ‘The missionary, he says, must have in mind simply the carry ing of the Gospel, and nothing else. Civ Mization and elevation may come in- cidentally, but they are no part of the mission work, In reyares to Chinn, the chapter having been written, of course, before the present outbreak, he writest The great dislike for foreigners, in the prevalent superstitions, the bitter antagonisin of the literary cluss, the opium habit and ather difficulties have barred the way to Cheintinnity, but it is gradually overcoming there abv: stacles, Christianity im surely gathers ing momentum, and its outlook for the tsentieth century is very promising.” WILLIAM WALTER WELLS. Tee Much Mink. “Mrs. Wigging,” remarked the mine ister, “we wiah You would let your daughter join the choir.” “Oh, | couldn't think of it,” was the reply. “Minnie has such a sweet din- position and J don't want to spoil her." —Obio State Journs) ‘Teapot of No Importance. “My cook broke three two-dollar tea pots in ove month.” “How dreadful!” “Yes: then I bought @ temcent one, and it has lasted a whole year."—In- dianapolis Journs!. Net That Kina, “So Jobn in at college?” ve “1 suppore, then, he’s busy sowing hie wild omte?” “Ne; John is at sn ogrieultursl col lege”Town Copier. A Serious Cuber Nodd-Ie Glipina really henpecked? Todé—I rhould say so. Why, he goose to church with biy vife every Sunday. —Tows Topi, / tt i A gin Cf i Tia 7 Ati .'|sh ‘ire ELT “ie Vn, 4 \ 7 Uh = \ Ok el ee é eae Tn San Se Ls eran ee | Cale cree iene taunae tix up in dav seats when dey saw me | inable the way they are tinkering eae —. ea ie — ye UAE Awe AC: ' sy 7 S this Pollynarris water? Slimmy Rhodes Yep. Fatty Walker=-How did it taste? Slimmy Rhodes -Jist like yer foot wie axleep-Cinelnnath Commercial ‘Tribune, ‘The Mystery Solved. She nover smiles. Max frowning griet With bonds of tron bound her? Mas care a long, lean finger rained, ‘To cunt nome mpell around her? Max one so young the lesson learned, ‘That true love tm oft betrayed? Ah, no! Bhe never smiles becaure— Hier front tecth are decayed —Chleago Dally News: = Im Freneh. Kendrick (who for two months hax been studying French) Say, Sutton, 1 zan write a good letter in French now, Sutton I'm! Tx that so? Well, you may be able to write a good letter in French, but 1 don't believe you ean write a letter In good French. Hoxton Transeript. . Proof, “Did you say that trusts were the means of raising wages?" “Certainly,” answered Senator Sor: ghum, “Lknow the president of a com Dination who has raised his salary four times in the last two yeare,"—Waabing- ton Star. A Grent Raving, Aunt Dinah—-Whatfoah you wenhs Urack, Deacon Ebony? You am not a widower. Deacon Ebony—T tx economesal, honey. One brush do me fouh a hat brush, ha'r brush, clothes brush, shoe brush and flesh brush.—N.Y, Weekly, A Dteerepaney. This thing they call money's a mystery The wludy—there’s no way of ending It In something that taken days of tolling warn. Hot a minite’s sufficient for mpending it. Washington Star. Neat (o Mie Worat Habit “Your husband, [ presume, like many other men, is addicted to the coffee habit?” “Yes, but I don't mind that as much ax Ido his clove habit."~Chirngo Tribe une. ‘unt ieeiee Kan” nee | r. Bats, lal th as ee ¥ Ye Ply 77) ys A Tip or | And 10, alan’ she died, and when ined puased the poarly este, he saved m sster-nogel there “yay are my wings on straight?” —Clevetind Plain Dealee Sympatheste. Proud Mother (discussing her daugh- ter, who is singing in the next room) “Such enormous sums as we have spent on Clara's voice! ‘Sy mpathetic Neighbor—And ean you really do nothing for 1t?—N. ¥, World, A Tent, Jogway—Did you have s good time At that stag dinner the other night? ‘Toperiy—The greatest time T ever had! Why. | can't remember thing that beppened.—Brooklys Life, ‘Too Much Tinkering. Mrs, Winks=I see the question of omitting the word “obey” {rom the marriage service ix up again Mrs, Minky Yes, it's perfectly abom- Inable the way they are tinkering at the marriage service. ‘They'll be leav: ing out “love and honorynext, and bring the beautiful sacrament down to 4 commonplace eivil contract. Well, L must be xoing. I want to take this bundle to the tailor’s before his place is shut up. 1 fe rome of my husband's duds, which he told me to mend, bat J think I see myself Good-by, dear N.Y, Weekly. ‘The Acorm and the Oak, “When F heard your son reading hit graduation essay Teould not help think Ing of the mighty oak and the litte acorn, Why? Me didn't meption them any: where In his paper, “No, Mut the grandeur of hi style and the way he held himself kept re aninding me of the mighty oak.” “And where did the acorn come in? “You were there, you know." Chi cago Times Herald, ‘ han eae ecotenae City Cousin—Bat don't you find ft dreadfully dull? Country Cousin Dull? The ident Why, there’s the Epworth league one evenings and class mecting, another; nnd prayer meeting always on Wednes Gays; and the Doreas meeting, and the other means of grace, ‘There's almost Always something excite going oF after suppers—Brooklyn Lie Mer Comparison, Mrs, Mecks-I'm atrald that young man who ts courting our daughter doesn’t amount to much, Mr. Merks—Why do you think that, my dear? Mra, Mecks—T really don't know why—unless It’s because he reminds me ko much of yous Chicago Dally News, a masts Sta Po | | gx | al! Pe BE ea AIS TAN) ral Ke v aN Rea i , ‘The bird site moving on the bough, And takes It rather iil ‘That he. foreooth, te killed to drese ‘The girl that rented tu Kill Detroit Journal Maraly to te Papected. Mrs. Motiorry-—Marrity, who was killed by bein’ blown two hoondred feet in the air by am ixplonion, left a wolfe an’ ngine children, didn't he? MeGorry-He did thot. He hod ne tolmie to make provisions for takin’ ‘em wid bim—Jdudge, Why He Was Proud. Magistrate (to prisoner) You are charged with beating your wife, Prisoner--Yes, yer honor, on’ I'm proud of it Magistraie- Proud of It? Prisoner—Hecause, yer honor, she weighs 20 pound more'n me—'Tit-Bite. Unmevensnry. Mrs. Hiram Offen--Dinnh, Uhope you didn't forget Yo. wash the fish beiore you put it in to bake New Setvant—Mah Lan’! Whut fur Ah gwine wah a fish dat’s wiibin" in de wahtah all hits life? — Catholie Standard and Timer. Wilally Misundersiond, Mrs. Strongmind— Women would not be the blind slaves of party. ‘They would be quite ready to seratch eandi- dates, Prot. Sneere—Shoulde't wonder, 1 suppone they would even use hat pias— Brooklyn Lite. ee ene | Marie--How d’ye do, Isabel? Lwould have spoken sooner, but I didn't know you. Young Woman Who Kesembles Inn- bel-eg pardon: my name's not Ina- bel, s0 you don't know me yet.—Chiea- go Record. Not Just What Me Meant, “Her face,” he sald, desiring to volow his admiration of her frankness and honesty, “in like an open book.” “¥en,” replied ber dearest friend, “she does twik & good deal.” —Chleago Put Mary J. Kennedy, manag f Ar mout & Co.'s Exhibit at the Sean Missle mppi Exposition at Omaha, Neb., writes the following of Peruna, as a gure for that Fee, sania basa Sy ot summed car O/ tarth, known as indigestion, W/ Miss‘ Kennedy “IT found os iG found the oe con ttnwat change of diet Bey || faciSentas ts PMA eight years EAB tsatcling com AB | jiciely ipset my & B | ceive sate in eonaultin MH) escent phy a OPM Cann’ they” de. *] cided 1 euffered } with catarth of oa Titan rs heir pre: scriptions, dtd z A wot ween to help PPE ioc of the re { markable cures N Vj effected by the f ts ef Peruna tr e decided to try it mS vy ani. om found \\S Ss tyne well re WSS Pot save insir NY = = used Peruna’ for BRA > = about — three JB months and feel he J an juvenated. FT believe I am permanent! cured, and do not hesitate loge unvtinted Praise to your great remedy, Berna.” ‘The caiiwen of summer catarth are first chronic catarth ‘second, derangements of the stomach and liver; third, impure blood. Such being. the case, anyone who knows anything Whatever about the operations of Peruna ean understand why thie rensedy 18 a permanent cure for suminer catarrh. Tt eradicater chronic eatarth from the aystern, invigorating the stomach and liver, cleanses the blood ‘of all" impurities, aud: therefore Fetmanenty caren by removing the eauiey ‘« howt of maladies peculiar to hiot weather. ‘The cause being removed the aymptonte dis: appear of themmelves “Summer Catarth” sent free to any ad- dress by The Peruna Medicine Co,, Colum bus, Obio, ‘SOMETHING NEW IN SURGERY. (Am Operation That Was Descry= tng of World-Wide Cel~ f ata. “T see," said the old man Pimpernel the other evening, relates the Cleveland Plata Henin, “that they've mended another broke en neck fora feller. “He had fall somes rest! he’ county, an when they Gor him to th” hospital th’ doctors foun fhe Wi ner, spina coltnoe Waa cracked Clean Acton. Keller couldn't hold bie head tant hie Foce wae lean gine "sitow did they pateh hin up? inqui John Howmany Neus “You'll be siprised, when I tell you," tee plied the old’ man “Tt was so dead eany. Burt, they crowded over th' left phalanx ta i lame he rghit vertpickle ant then they stuck Kh? ewo ends towethor with aunty toxuan fi, hate fer blued peenny, sou Know, Tien they got the broken ends of the me: dulla together an? fastened “em in place with tp chadheain’ plaster. After that they hailed ‘narrow rodh of sine ap and down hie Backbone and clinched ‘em together with fivite, When thia wan all fixed the surgeon tent out an! got an old-fashioned hoot sack, bry iy ted Rom histo tha dhe open Xe at'The on would ua eatch under ig chin--an’ bold sunt the give hardens. Ape toon" I doen harden the young feller Heat ae gound an ever, with few riviun thrown in jy ahinden'” ered Joah Rowman. “Ain't i wonderful” Yeas Seat bet it i,” ead the old man. Momearekers’ Excursions Via Chie geet gy Reng ey Mog On the Aret and third Tuesdays of June July gn Ace th Choate & astern ant: ion Haivoal "wi place on ane Nomeseek- tra! Bxeuision tickete to various polsts ia Alabama) Arkossan, Florida, Georpin, Kene {cee Loviating,” Mins pn, "Hissourt, North carolina, South Carolina; Tennessee, Temas ‘One Fare (plus #200) for the Round ‘Trip. Ticketslare inited-on going trip Be een days {row date of sale. wih stopover vee In Ticmeneehate® Ternonyy Tie Morning eee ae Tamed awenty one days rom: date of sale, Hemember. that we now have in service 0 new wide veatibuled (rain between ¢hienge tnd Waco and Ft, Worth, Texas, leavi Ghienge daily ac 1300" MC Theotgh Pull nan Meeping Carn and Pree Reclining Chair rn Boe Toate parley call oor ad tees any ayent Chicago & Exstern fltne Heilrond’ or C. Le, Stone, G, Pe and Ty Ay Chicago, Acrobatto, After supper he prorated ia wie’ beat eit rom the back hyd, fatened ope tno fh Bernat’ fll ang he ther tthe handlebar ol hie epee They Arwen out nt the mide ofthe road an mounted. For about four rods, that fant The St Teroard eapied canthe friend, the fetaaton wan deca, afer that be fame one horrible mightivare, tice the rider clutched: bantie bars, bach dae ai Tiny howl unt a Tea he Fectme auicienty coat eal he dog terton. "Watoppad al ght, but the Kad motions of Kevewn, it went on tatis struck the dog amidshipa, then it rose in the tin sending sits Tider, toward choudiand. His etd fed ‘conconigns with the eu nd. when they brought him to he pe Ain wile never to'do't again—Detroit Free ie e ‘These July Days. Corn, we know, i eood for man, yet here's flaw io, nature's plan; for weather hich ig fers tr soxm maker man woh he weer wan ae tae ne eee ABSOLUTE SECURITY. Genuine Carter’s Little Liver Pills. (heuwKonet c= sees. oat MY GARDEN. ‘My garden ait'a shimmer of leaves, All 8 glowing glory of light; Flowers, golden and blue and red, ‘Crowding together In my sight. Mighty billows of softest atr Blowing In. the trees o'erhead; 1am altting alone, and think ‘Thus will it be when 1 am dead. ‘Thus will the soft wind blow and thus ‘The fowers will bloom and the wun will shine; And others, I know not who, will sit, ‘As I do tow, in this garden of mine. And I shall be gone from here—but where? Dead, and lying within the ground: OF living and gina amid scenes more fair. ‘With flowers still Drlghter than these ‘around? =. P. Johnston, in Chambers’ Journal. e ’ e = Col. Brodie’s Two Wounds : 8 roomy neee maectcl inet Sbyr WAS a strange coincidence,” Sap Gener Coy, 82 Ae Wie Oe ee soattered band of famous Mghters wer ‘waiting for a train to Williams, “It's astrange coincidence that I was wound ed when I was a teutenant, just fresh from West Point, om the 2ith day of June, by Apaches out here, and it way the 24th day of June, over 20 yenrs later, I was wounded at Los Guaymax in Cuba, and nearly in the same place." “I was nothing but a kid then, and was stationed at Fort Grant. A short time afterward I wax sent to Fort Apache during the outbreak in ‘7 built up the place, and was helping to keep the red cusses in shape there with a few men, I rode into the country on horseback, over 700 miles, and you'd have to ride 150 more miles to get to the nearest point on the railroud to the north, “We had been cooped up at Fort Apache for over four months without any mail; the men were getting rest Jear—guens It was enough to make them restless, too, for we expected the whole herd of Apaches down on us at any time. You never could tell what 014 Geronimo would do. One day the captain gave me a detail of 15 men and told me to go to Fort Grant for mall and a few supplies, It was over 100 miles and through the Indinn country all the way, hills and desert where a jackrabbit would have trouble to keep on a trail. About half way out, eight of my troopers deserted. There ‘was no use in my trying to get them back again, for you couldn't find them in the first place to get them back again, and I couldn't have took ‘om back with me if I had found them, be- cause I didn't have enough men to doit, “We had been dodging hostile bands of Indians for some time before we had a brosh with them. Coming up through a long draw we jumped up a band of about 15 oF 20 and the musie commenced, ‘There was no way of get ting in any fancy moves on them,—we were in the bottom of a long draw, or canyon, just about wide enough, for fan ordinary road. It was either go ahead, retreat of climb a aide of the canyon. ‘There wasn't much to hes tate over; we would have had a long retreat down that draw and been potted if we attempted to climb the sides of the canyon. My sergeant was an old: timer, ax were a number of my little band. ‘They knew ax well ax I did that the only thing that would save us was a quick dash right into them something that the Indian can't stand little bit unless they outnumber you ten to one, We gave them a volley to stir them up, and let them know we ‘were coming, and had the satisfaction of seeing three or four of them drop, then, yelling like a lot of hyenas, we started down the draw on a dead run, headed straight into them, Each trooper swung out bis six-shooter ready for © snap-shot at the firet In- dian he could reach, The old sergeant was close at my heels, with every fel low hugging down close to the saddle, T turned balf around in my saddle just Uefore we struck them, and as I did so ® bullet broke through my saddle horn and another cut through my vest and ripped me across the stomach about a haltineh deep. “The ‘Paches couldn't atand the rush, We run them up the canyon about a mile before they could find any aide breaks to get out of and scatter, We Jost three troopers in the fight, After it was over we went back to where they were, rolled them in their blankets and buried them among the rocks aa best ‘we could, There wasn't much ceremony or tears for the poor fellows—we hadn't time for it; we all expected the same thing all the time; besides there was & splendid possibility of the whole Dunch of us going the same way before we got through, without anyone left to roll us ins blanket, If the ‘poor’ In- dian gathered in & band of blue-coats, he also gathered up thelr hair, and left 8 flock of busearda to do the reat, ‘After burying the troopers we struck @ trail up the canyon side and camped in a clearing where we could command a view of the country aur rounding, and doctored up our wounds fs best we could; mine was painful bat only a flesh wound. 1 think I was sorer over my ruined new coat and veut than from the wound. “The band of Indians clreled around our camp again that afternoon, and we exchanged long shots with them, without doing any damage to either aide, As soon as night came we atrack out for Fort Grant as fast as we could make It through the night, and eluded them. Antndian won't fight at night. anyway, unless you force him to, “We reached the fort late the next day. The closer we came to It the levs anger tDete wes, for troops from the tkeptthe country ‘round pretty well cleaned up and quiet, “We staged ot, the fort tor several days, wntll our tg healed, before snaking p tetarn trip: The colonel in the fort insisted on my for a time, as there were over: Indians on the warpath scattered all over that country. He told:me ‘was foolish to make the at ad never expected to see me ‘but T was young. and had “Paptata Td be back a» soon 0 ee ee took a few shots at us; then went inte camp just over # bill from where we were camped. We couid hear them holding powwows and singing while making preparations to dangle out scalps in their belts the next day. “L remember 1 sat looking into the campfire that night, wishing I was back home and wondering what in thunder to do, when the old sergeant came over to me and asked: “Lieutenant, you don't think we can liek thet hull outfit, do you?” “'No, xergeant; Idon't What do you think we'd better do?" “Well, I think we hed better build up a big fire, so they kin see {t, then drift out of this.” “And we did. We struck a trail and followed it all that night. About day- light we found ourselves on a hill top and right in the center of an old, de- serted Indian village. It was that night's trip that first gave me my high appreciation of the mueb maligned old government mule. Every mule in that pack train seemed to understand the situation and there wasn’t a whimper ‘of a bray from any one of the lot until we had put a good night's travel be tween us and that gang of redskinn, “We didn’t have any more trouble Jn getting yack to the fort, though we crossed a number of warm trails of bands, I met the chief when he came into the fort a long time after to make pence, and he told me how many times he had shot at me on that trip and couldn't understand how it was that he never got me. “The wound that I got at Lox Guay: mas, in Cuba, was another lucky one too, You remember, Sellers, how A and B troops of the regiment were lined up that day at the foot of the hill, and we were getting a perfect hell of fire from the Spanish entrenched up on top of the hill? Well, I wax walking up and down before my battalion, and had orders to hold them fast to pro- tect our right flank from the enfilade fire on the right. I had just turned around and waved my glove at them te hold fast, and dropped my hand to my. side again, When a Mauser struck me in the arm. If I hadn't dropped my arm just as I did, the ball would have cut me straight through the center. It turned me around and knocked me down, but in a short time I gathered myself up, went to the rear to nee how badly I was hit, and found that the bone was badiy shattered. It was three days before I had the wound at- tended to. ‘Phere was a lump on the inside of my arm, and when the sur: geon examined it he said it was a piece of bone sticking out, and that he would have to cut It out. He made a cut across the lump and oat popped the ballet wrong end first. If it had come straight 18 most of them do, It would never have stopped In the arm, but went on straight through me. “The following day T wandered around back of the firing line trying te help the poor fellows that were worse off than I was, and T remember seeing oue of the A troop boys—Buck O'Niell’s company, coming down the rond with tears running down hix cheeks and 1 thought he must be wounded badly. He saw me and yelled: “‘Hello, major, where ts the firing line!’ I told him it way away on ahead! in the other direction, but the fight wan over. “Then he seemed to feel worse shea ever, and broke out with ax choice » lot of ornamental cuss words ax T ever heard a mule driver get rid of. and wound up by saying: “‘It's a shame that @ feller comes, all the way here from Arizona to fight and then gets knocked out by the eli maté within a few yards of the aries iine.* “That forced march was the hardest I ever aaw. Packed down with about % pounds of blankets, rations and oth: or stuff In that hot country, we double: wicked right by the regulars, that were coming Up at a good tiff gait, too, right straight into trouble. Fellows would drop out of the ranks along the line of march like they were shot, some of ‘em wouldn't come to for a day or two after and some never were right acterwards, “Teddy Roosevelt came over to my tent at four o'clock in the morning after the fight and woke me up to tell me that the Arizona boys made his regiment. He said he knew that knew it, but wanted to tell me that he knew it and wanted to tell it first “There's fellow, that Teddy; full) of life, vigor and energy, that enjoys ving and fighting. Twas in New York after he was elected governor and went over to Albany to call on him at the capitol, T hardly expected to. ree him, as he was busy, but thought I'd just send tn my card to let him know I was in town, I met the secre: tary at the door and asked him to take in my card to the governor.” He told me there was ho use, the governor wan busy on some important case or other, and there were several delegn: tions of lawyers arguing something be- fore him. I insisted that be take in the cant, anyway, and handed It to him. Ie took a look at it and went in. In a minute he came back with @ smile on his face and said that the gayernor a See eee Aes Sie were eee Not Making Much Progress, “O, Frautein, I love you! Listen to my suit, a8 T knee! here im the dust be- fore you!™ “Excuse me, sir, but our carpets are not dusty!"—Pliegende Blaetter, ‘Waste Paper, Servant of Society Swell—Thuntlert Tow am I going to light the fire this morning? There's not a single bill ta the mail! —Piiegende Blaetter, Cowardice. The plea of consistency often meane cowardice —Ram's Hors. SCHOOL AND CHURCH. ‘The Catholfe Truth society in Eng land has restored the tomb of Cardinal Pole. A Benedictine priest at Maria Stein Switzerland, was recently elected s @eputy to the grand council of the canton of Soleure. It is the first time ® monk became a member of that as sembly. ‘The United States commissioner of education says that the percentage of iMiteraey among the colored people of ten yents of age and over in 1570 was ‘79. [n 1580 4t was 70, and in 1990 it wan 56, ‘The fine private collection of im- sects belonging to the late state en- tomologist; Dr. J. Albert Lintner, is to be given to Cornell university by his widow ax a memorial of her distin- guished huxband, President E, A. Alderman, of the University of North Carolina, who has Just, been elected to the same post at ‘Tulane university, New Orleans, is one of the youngest college presidents im the world, being but 34 years old. In Algiers one can drop a nickel in the slot and get prayers blessed by the haji. But beware of playing tricks. Over the machine is placed a notice, in Arabie, to the effect that Any miscreant who dares to cheat the prophet by annexing @ prayer in re turn for a disk of lead or a spurious coin will be consigned to eternal pun- ishment ‘The church of Sousorov, in the vil- lage of Kotchansk, near Novgorod, has just been transported bodily to St. Pe- tersburg. The celebrated Preobras- Jenski regiment wished to possews the church, which contained many sou- venirs of the famous Marshal Sou- vorov. It was accordingly removed from its foundations and carried to the nearest railway station by means of 350 wagons. At a recent meeting of the trustees of Amhurst college, it was voted that students who are prepared in one ancient language and in etude jew equivalent to the second an cient language, in addition to oth- er studies required may be candi- dates for the degree of bachelor of arts, ‘This signifies that either Latin or Greek is required, but that both languages are not required, ‘The Boston Transeript tells of an Fpixcopal church that is being sued because it is not sufficiently “High church.” It appears that a certain person left money to the ehureh, with the provision that the services should came up to a certain standard of churehmanship, ‘The minister has failed, it in claimed, to get as much ritualism into the service and the re- sponses of hin flock a» the money calle Sor. THE OLD, BOYISH FEELINGS. Mow the Sight of Urchine Bathing in Fountain Adected Siaid Mem akmabaaies! ade aie cation anht ce ties ee made me envious,” said an elderly éot- ton broker, sighing deeply, relates the New Orleans TimesDemocrat, “You know there ix a fountain dfrectly back ‘of the Hennen building, at the Com- mon street end of Cotton Exehange alley. It bax a perfectly plainsoval basin and no attempt at ornament be- ‘yond a languid little jet in the mid- ‘ie; but, set down there in the very heart and center of the business /tumult, it i a grateful and pleasant spectacle, L never pans it without feel- ing refreshed, and the mere sight of its clean, living water is somehow ‘soothing to the eyes. “Leame down the alley during # lull in trade, and ax I drew near the foun- tain I became aware of a commotion of some sort. A lot of ragged street urchins were clustered about the basin and others dodged in and out the corners of near-by buildings, ap- parently keeping watch against inter. ruption, One of the sentries eyed me pretty sharply and then sang out: ‘He's all right, fellerst I blacks his shoes!” At that there was a tremen- dous splash, and four small naked bodies suddenly bobbed up from. be- hind the rim of the fountain, “Then I understood, They were tak- Ing ® surreptitious public bath— the most public that could posstbly be im- agined, Two of the boys wore tat- tered pantaloons, rolled up to the hips, ut that was the total wardrobe, and they splashed around as happy ax a school of young porpoises. I looked on and grinned, and my mind gal- loped back to the good old days when Lused to play hookey from school and go swimming in the branch, and the more I thought about it the more 1 wanted 40 pull up my trousers and jump into the fountain, “At the door of the Hennen build- Ing wax a solemn old banker of my acquaintance, amfling quietly to him- felt. ‘Like to go In? | called, “You bet!" he replied, Just then one of the sentinels came tearing down the alley. ‘Cheese it, fellers!” he yelled; ‘dere’s a cop a-comin’,” ‘The effect was magical, The four boys jumped out of the water, dragged on ragged shirts and pantaloons, stuck thelr caps on the backs of their heads and seized four bundles of newspapers. There was an air of exaggerated Innocence about the crowd that clearly pro: claimed some recent mischief, and the policeman smaited suspiciously ax he passed. ‘What have you kida beep doin’? he demanded. ‘Nothin’,” re. plied the biggest: ‘have we, mister” ‘Not withing.’ said the banker, prompt; ly. I think the recording angel handled that @b very gently.” ‘When Umbrellas Are Sela. According to the superintendent of & large department store a sudden shower means a boom in the umbrella trade. He says that while there isa constant steady sale for rain shedders, It takes an unexpected downpour to bring o8 a large sale. He figures it out that if a shower lasted an hour, his store would sej! not less than 3,000 um- brellas, and that somewhere near 25,. 000 umbrellax would be sold by the large downtown stores.—Chicayo Ree = agin ‘Treaty Bim. A monument now marks the place ‘where stood the famous tree in the en- viroms of Philadelpbia, Pa. under which William Peom negotiated the treaty with the Indina chiefs, of which ft bas been said that it is “the only one ever made without an oath, and the only one never brokes,"—Detrait Pree Press, IRON BEDS AT 4: CENTS Bae ce = Seren AAAS ee eer oes ee T. & ROBERTS’ SUPPLY HOUSE, - GINNEAPOLIS, GINK. CURRENT TOPICS. oe eee Of the 3,700 Chinese in New Zealand only 26 are females. * ‘The Egg Inspectors’ union is the latest one in Chicago. Cherokee Indians decorated the Graves at Ft Gibson, LT. A college of photography has been founded at Effingham, Ill. It is estimated that there are 15¢ 000,000 Germans in America. In 1800 there were 200 horses in Aus tralia; in 1900 there are 2,000,000. New Zealand has now sent nearly 2,000 men to the front in South Africa, A train was stopped in Coffee coun- ty, Tenn., to allow a bear to get off the track. Parliament building, Wellington, N. Z., is the largest wooden structure in the world. No receptacle made has sufficient ‘strength to resist bursting power of frozen water, Bank of England notes are number- ed backward, that is, from 1 to 1,000, hence the figures 09,0001. It Is entimated that the number of Germans and their descendants in the United States is 15,000,000. London has 13,564 policemen, or 19 to the square mile. Sixty per cent, of them are on night duty. Under British rule the cotton crop ot Fgypt, has doubled, and now ‘amounts to over 500,000,000 pounds » year. ‘The Newfoundiand sealing season has been the largest for the past 25 years, 373,000 seals having been cap- tured. An official return from the British war office shows that the distinctly Scottish regiments in the war contain 20,000 men. Residents.of Atlanta hope that cir- uses will come there, now that the license has been reduced from $1,000 @ day to $500, According to s report of the labor commissioner of New Hampshire the shoe output of that state last year ‘was $22,900,000, President Eliot, of Harvard, has been asked to deliver an address at the opening exercises of the Univer- sity of Michigan next fall. Miss Gail Laughlin, of New York, has been appointed by the Industrial commission at Washington to investi- gate the servant girl question. In three British regiments—the Black Watch, the Argyll and Suther- land Highlanders—over 40 per cent. of the men are total abstainers. Long before school boards were es tablisbed in England Canadian chil- dren were instructed free of cost be- tween the ages of seven and twelve. ‘This education is compulsory. Henry Chang, son of Chang Yin ‘Tang, Chinese minister to Madrid, is to be educated in Philadelphia. Henry is thirteen years old and during the last year he attended school at a pre- Paratory fhstitution in Virginia., ‘There were 500,000,000 fowls in the United States last year, and the num- ber of eggs luid as estimated at about 1,594,000,000 dozen, oF —17,400,000,000 eggs. The value of these fowls and thelr product is set down at $420,000, 00, In England there are only abont 178 centenarians; in Ireland, 578, and in Scotland, 46. Sweden has 10, and Nor- way 3; Belgium, 5; Denmark, 2; Switzerland, none. Spain, with a pop- tulation of 15,000,000, has 401 persona ‘over 100 years of age. Of the 2,250,000 inhabitants of Servia 575 have passed the century mark, France with a pop- ulation of 40,000,000, has 213 cen tenarians. ‘The largest nugget yet found jn the Klondike was picked up on Gold Hill recently. It weighed seventy-seven ‘ounces and was valued at $13,000, In the fourteenth century armor became so heavy that many soldiers only 30 years old were detormed or permanently disabled by its weight. ‘The North German Lloyd is about to start @ steamship line on the Yang-tse-Kiang river, in China, to con- nect Shanghai with the ocean ships. ‘The stairway leading to the tower of the Philadelphia city hall contains 898 steps, and is said to be the long- est continuous stairway in the world. A proposal to erect a memorial of Lord Roberts’ military achievements has met with considerable favor in London, The present plan is to place © monument in Guildhall. In the experiments which have been carried on in South Africa with wire- Jess telegraphy it was found that the vibration caused by the firing of heary guns had no effect on the system. There are nine branches in New York state of the Woman's Interna- tional Labor league, whose object is to persuade workingmen and women to buy only goods bearing the union label. The government of Greece is now more liberal with mining concessions, and as a result mines are being work- ed in the provinces of Attica, Thes taly, Mile and Bocotia, A Briton from London has gone to South Africa with 100,000 pocket hand- kerchiefs. He hoped to be able to sell bee CARRIAGE CONTROVERSY. Contention Between Gens. Miles, Bute Siugton and Wilson Referred to ; Board of Ordnance. ‘The controversy on disappearing gun carriages which was waged so fiercely between Gen. Miles and Gen. Buffington, ehiet of ordnunce, and Gen. Wilsou, army chief of engineers, has been carried to the board or ord nance and fortifications. Gen. Miles in ® communication to the secretary of war last October called attention to what he believed was a fatal and costly error of this government in building so many expensive disappear- ing gtn carriages as mounts for the big guns of our coast defense. He called attention to the practice of foreign governments who maintain similar fortifications, The disappear- ing gun carriage system was prac- tically abandoned abroad, and he be- lieved that this government is build- ing too many such types of mounts. His position in the matter was com bated by Gen. Buffington and Gen. Wilson, and a good dea of volumin- ‘ous and somewhat spicy official cor ‘respondence was exchanged, The ‘fight came out in « hearing before senate subcommittee on appropria- ‘tigts, which had charge of the an- nual fortifications bill and there was & threatened open rupture between headquarters of the army and the ‘army ordnance office of the chief of engineers. The conflict was averted by Secretary Root, who sent for the ‘officers and fnsisted that the contro- “versy should be conducted on strictly technical lines. The question raised by: Gen. Miles has now been referred to the board of ordnance and fortifications, of which Gen, Miles ix president and Gens. Wil- son and Buffington are members. The Impression prevails that the two lat ter will agree with the main points named by Gen. Miles and that the board will sustata his-original po- dittos. BATTLES WITH LION IN CAGE, ‘Trainer at Philadelphia Shoots an Enraged Beast Before a Large Crowd. Sprtnging suddenly upon Hicardo, bis trainer, Wallace, the lion of the “Anglo-American Sebool of Zoology” ‘at Woodside park, Philadelphia, caught the man by the left arm and would have killed him but for the prompt ac- tion on the part of Ricardo and the at- tendants, ‘ No exhibition hed been given with the lion since the show had come from Chester several days ago. The heat had irritated the big animal and had made his ugly temper even worse than St {s ordinarily. He was restive and hard to control. Noone except Ricardo would go near the brute. Every afternoon the trainer en- tered the cage to give Wallace his daily exercise. Ricardo went into the cage about four o'clock in the afternoon for ‘a drill with the lion, He had scarcely entered when Wallace sprang at him and caught him by the left arm below the elbow. ‘The lion bit him a seeond time in the lower part of the arm. ‘As he did ao Ricardo shot at him with the revolver which he was carrsing im his right hand, He missed, but the shot scared the lion and be released the trainer, Attendants of the show, run- ning up, kept the big brute in one cor- ner of the cage while othere dragged Ricardo out through the door. His left arm was Iacerated and the flesh torn from the bones. The arm began to swell at once, and Ricardo was taken ina hurry to the Presby- terian hospital. After having the wounds treated and dressed the trainer returned to the show. Hundreds of ex: cited people witnessed the attacks. HORSE BREAKS INTO PARLOR. ‘Phe Frightened Antma} Dashes Into Room in a Washington Motel, ‘The proverbial “bull in the china shop” was emulated about 4:30 o'clock the other morning when a runaway horse dashed Into the Indies’ parlor of the Ebbitt house, Washington, de- stroying plate glass, chandeliers, fur- niture and bric-a-brac to the estimated value of $400, That more serious damage did not result was due to the fact that the horse was promptly got under control. ‘The horse was one of a pair at- tached to the “hurry-up,” or repair, wagon of a local street railway com- pany, which had been called out to repair the line. The team was fright ened by firecrackers and ran away. ‘The one which afd the damage be- came separated from its mate and dashed into the ladies entrance and parlor of the hotel, where it became maddened by {ts confinement. The frightened hotel employes and guests en dishabille subdued the an- imal and led him into the street. The railway company promptly agreed to pay for the damages. Fortunately the hour was extremely early and nobody was hurt, GIRLS AS MESSENGER BOYS. Experiment Being Trie@ ta London Meets with tuecsee ta Meany Duntvicts, ‘The messenger service of London has been carried on the last two months with the aid of girls, and girl messengers have now come to stay, ‘They have been introduced because of the dearth of boys, the greater dit- flcuky experienced n keeping boys tm order, and the superior reliability of girl. Their hours are from nine & m, to five p.m, and their pay {s $2.50 a week. The change has an- ewered satisfactorily and will doubt lens be gradually extended. A Meavy Case. 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