The Afro-American Advance

VOL. II. NO. 30. UT SAMUEL V. Candidate for Republican R tive Forty-first L Fifth and S SAMUEL V. MORRIS, JR., Candidate for Republican Renomination for Representative Forty-first Legislative District, Fifth and Sixth Wards. Mr. Morris is general agent of the Preferred Accident Insurance Company, with offices in the Phoenix building. He has once represented the district in the legislature, and the most critical can find no reason to oppose his nomination. He is especially popular with the colored people and deservedly His Honor's Joke. Sam Bedford relates a good joke that occurred at Caliboo this week in Judge Owen's court. A case was on trial, and the judge told him that he kept moving about in the rear of the courtroom, lifting chairs and looking under benches. "big man," Judge Owen called, "you are making a great deal of unnecessary noise. What are you about?" "Your honor," replied the man, "I have lost my overcoat and am trying to find it." "I said the judge, 'you often lose whole animals, and all that disturbance.'" -Owensboro Inquirer M. B. LOUIS A County Attorney Hennepin nomination by County Attorney Hennepin County—Candidate for Renomination by Republicans. Born 1855. Illinois. Brought up on a farm and educated in common schools and Illinois Normal and Industrial Universities. Taught school and admitted to the bar 1882. Resided in Minneapolis Horrors of War. The hardworked humorist sat at his desk, and without the slightest apparent effort he dashed this off: "Why do you Peking here?" asked Tsi Ann of the Russian general, who was reconnoitering in the imperial neighborhood. I am going to Taku," was the reference reply. Yet such things as this were not mentioned among the horrors of war discussed at the Hague conference. — Baltimore American. A nice, refined new expression is: "Aw! stop chewing the rag or you'll get lint in your lungs!" — Indianapolis News. 2 THOMAS G Candidate for Nomination Tie Mr. Gallagher, who has been a resi- dent of the city for 21 years, was a charter member of the Bricklayers' The Afro-American Advance. MORRIS, JR., ennomination for Representa- legislative District, fifth Wards. so. He did more valiant service in behalh of Frank Wheaton's election to the legislature, than perhaps any other one man in the city. Every colored voter in the forty-first district owes it to himself and his race to accord to Mr. Morris his earnest and untiring support for the office to which he aspires. An Author Wants a Chance A publishing firm recently received the following offer from an anxious autobiographer who probably had been reading Morgan Night's book to put my life beyond life. Bice if we can Anuf Out of it to give me a start in the world. I led a Criminal life 21 years Arested 29 times at 27 times Released on 29th December. I visited 7 times Broke 1 pen and taken 27 Convicts with me. Waylaid and shot my fathern law twice married seperated and Dyvosed. If I can get a start in the World I will do so. It's London News. A. REED. County—Candidate for Re- epublicans. since 1880. Always Republican and elected county attorney Hennepin in county, November, 1898, and by reason of his honest, economical and successful administration is entitled to renomination. Recreation "Have you had a vacation this summer, Mr. Cavil?" asked Tempet. "Once, my wife took me to the cemetery once, to see the grave of her first husband." — Judge. The Golden Rule in Texas When men learn to do unto others as they would have others do unto them, horse trading will have become one of the lost arts. -Galveston News. It is said that doctors never take their own medicines—yet they usually profit by their own advice. -Chicago Daily News. ALLAGHER, n for Sheriff on Republican ucket. union in the earlier days and worked at the bricklayer's trade for eight or nine years. He is well known as a friend of organized labor. MINNEAPOLIS AND ST. PAUL, MINN., SATURDAY, SEPT. 15, 1900. A Political Potpourri. CHAS G LAYBOURN CHAS. G. LAYBOURN. The nomination to the office of judge of the district court on the Republican ticket, is in many quarters conceded to Chas. G. Laybourn. Early in the campaign many believed that Mr. Laybourn was not well enough known to land the nomination, although it was admitted on all sides that where he was known that he was the most formidable candidate; but the last few weeks have told exceedingly in his favor, and those that are in a position to know, claim that he in the labor will get practically the solid labor he will receive the reason that he has the affiliations and friendship of all classes of laboring man, and is regarded as a man without race or other prejudices. The colored people of this city have had occasion to know in numerous instances in the past that Mr. Labourn was fair and impartial to all alike, whether white or black, Jew or Gentile, rich or poor, and this will undoubtedly be the means of securing to him the great popular vote. No one has anything against him, and everybody that knows him speaks in praise of him. M. B. DR. A. A. AMES, The People's Choice for Mayor. DR. A. A. AMES, The People's Choice for Mayor. JOSEPH H. JOHNSON. Candidate for alderman Fifth ward. Mr. Johnson is the head of one of the leading undertaking establishments in Minnesota, and enjoys the confidence of the business men of the city to an extent that none of his competitors can boast of. He is acquainted with the ward and its needs from one end of it to the other. He is equally popular with the banker, the merchant, and the laborer, each of whom from present indications, think him just about the kind of man to represent them in the city council. His business Mr. Johnson has often been called to the homes of poor people on the occasion of death in their family, and in innumerable occasions has he out of the fullness of his heart officiated at their funerals with nothing more substantial than a promise for his pay. Mr Johnson is a man who rates every man according to his merit and makes no difference in his treatment of men because of color or race. If he is elected alderman he will honestly and zealously guard the interests of all the residents of the Fifth ward. The best interests of the ward and the city at large demand his nomination and election to the council. The Hennepin County Colored Men's Political Association, an independent organization with a membership of over 100, has opened up headquarters at 216 Washington avenue south. Thos. B. Parker is president and John G. Sterrett is secretary. James L. Curtis is the chief of the executive meeting. They had headquarters last evening, about 300 people being out. The association bids air to be very much in evidence during the campaign. OVERSTEPPING THE BOUNDS He Wanted to Pay the Parson More But the, Rules and Regulations Were Against Him. "The first charge I ever held was in a small town in the western part of the state," said a well-known minister, who was in a reminiscence mood. "The town was very poor and unable to my congregation was very poor and unable to much toward the support of a minister, so they made up what they lacked in cash by holding donation parties now and then during the year to eke out the small salary that they had. "The first infliction of this kind that I had called a pound donation party, at which everyone was expected to bring a pound of something or other. Among the people was a member who had more worldly goods than all the rest together, but he had the reputation of being 'near,' and I confess that I looked forward with some interest to see what he would bring. Imagine my consternation when I undid his package and found nothing but a few small potatoes. "I met him the next day and had hard work to remember that I was a minister of mine and tried him pleasantly. He said that he tried him privately for a moment and drew me aside. "Parson," he said, earnestly. "I'm downright sorry that the rules and regulations prohibited me from bringing more a pound of them potatoes, but," he added, dropping his voice to a whisper, "I gave you downweight!" Something for All Seasons. In an uptown political club they are telling a story at the expense of the wife of one of the members—a man who had suddenly arisen from poverty to comparative attachement through a garbage contract. A new business, the office of a borhood, and the wife spent many busy days in furnishing it. When she reached the item of mattresses she went to a big department store on Market street and made known her wants to do. She said, "that you want the beat spring mattresses." "Not at all" was the quick retort. "You needn't think because I'm rich I'm easy. A spring mattress, indeed! Sure, I want mattresses you want winter. I'm not buying a mattress for every season in the year." Philadelphia Call. M. B. FRANK H. FORBES We present above a picture of Mr. Frank H. Forbes, who is a candidate for the nomination for register of deeds. We do not deem it at all necessary to go much into details as a means of introduction of this well known gentleman. He has lived in Minneapolis for two decades, and he is a thousand of friends who favor him. He then votes by reason of personal friendship rather than for any political "pull." He is not a politician, but a business man in whom the community has confidence. He is fully competent to fill the office acceptably if elected, and to those of the colored people who have a personal acquaintance with him, it is needless to say that he is broad minded enough to be considerate of the rights of all classes. He is a courteous and accommodating gentleman at all times. He is probably best known as the private secretary to Mayor Pratt during his two terms, where he provided him with the kind of education he often had occasion to visit that office for aid or advice. He is also largely known as a member of the Masonic quartet, whose singing has delighted so many thousands of our people and always freely tendered on occasions of charity or public interest. He solicits the vote of the colored people and no man will ever have occasion to regret whatever of sunnort or influence he may give Mr. Forbes. Certainly a Prize Thought A teacher of music in one of the public schools of the south desired to impress the pupils with the meaning of the signs "F" and "H" in a song they were about to sing. After explaining that "F" meant forte, he said: "Now, children, if 'F' means forte, what does 'F' mean?" Silence reigned for a moment, and then he was astonished to hear a bright little felt low about: "Eighty!"-New Lippincott. Elmer W. Gray was born near Cleveland, Ohio. forty-five years ago. Moved to Illinois at the age of 12. Received a common school education; learned the trade of book binder; attended the University of Illinois; taught school for three years and was admitted to the bar by the supreme court of Illinois in 1879. Practiced law in Illinois for six years, came to this city in 1885 where he has since resided. He was one of the city justices from 1893 to 1899. Was a candidate for special judge in 1899. Was second in a field of fourteen candidates. He has had a large experience in the general practice of law during the last twenty years and is eminently qualified to fill the position he seeks. Art in Pennsylvania. Our community has received a social and professional addition in the person of Mr. Blank, who returns to our nativetown to an accomplished artist. Paul Blank was regarded as one of the best men in the Hotel Blank's barber shop. He has now a position in Tom Johnson's son's social party. M. J. L. DOBBIN Candidate for Nomination for Representative to the State Legislature, Forty-first District, Comprising Fifth and Sixth Wards. Mr. Dobbin, who has been a resident of the city for 18 years, resides at present at Hampshire Arms, corner Ninth street and Fourth avenue south. He is well known in the community, having held a number of prominent positions, among them being that of commander of Geo. N. Morgan Post, G. A. R. during 1899. He was an abolitionist and entered the Union army at 16 years old, to fight for the preservation of the Union. He has been engaged in law practice for 18 years in the city, having offices at present in Temple Court. He was induced to run for the legislature by prominent men of the Fifth and Sixth wards. THE FAT MAN'S LITTLE JOKE. He Sprung It on the Steamboat Captain and Got His Large Party Aboard. A Coney Island excursion steamer was leaving New York with but few passengers aboard. The boat had just cast off, says the Sun, when a stout man with a very red face rushed down the pier, and flourishing his stick, shouted: "Hey, captain! Put back the hook, her quick. Here's a large party wants to go." The captain was at first derisive, but finally shouted from the pilot house: "How large is the party?" For an instant the fat man hesitated, then he yelled back: "Between 60 and 70." As soon as the captain heard this number he instantly insterted the steamer back and made fast again. The fat man waddled across the gangplank, and, picking out a cock seat, fanned himself with his sneeze hair. He waited for the crew wanted for the party to arrive. After waiting five minutes and the captain turned impatiently toward the stout man and asked: “Where’s your party between 7:00? This boat can't wait all day for them.” “Oh, that's all right,” replied the fat passenger, with a bland smile. “I'm the party—65 to-day, sir.” The captain's face grew redder even than the crew, who usually tang the bell to steam ahead, but the fat man at once became the hero of the boat. Family Ties Exhausted. At one of the great department stores the other day a young man was indulging in a air persiflage with the pretty shop girl behind the counter while waiting for his change. "What a wonderful place you have here he said. "What do you sell, yourself?" "What do you sell, everything?" was the incredulous comment. "What do you mean by everything?" "Just what I say," responded the girl. "Anything you want we can supply you with here." "Oh, you can, eh?" commented the pretensions Alexander. "Well, let me look at it," he said. "With demure countenance, the girl went away, but in a moment returned and said: "I am sorry, but the manager tells me that we are just out of family ties, owing to the great demand. Perhaps you'd like to look at some family jars? The young man demeaned the latter was an un desirable commodity, and he would have none of it.—N. Y. Tribune." When He Yielded. The judge of a western court decided a point adversely to a certain lawyer. The lawyer was stubborn and insisted that the judge write that he would "I tell you that I am right!" yelled the judge, with flashing eyes. "I tell you that you are not!" retorted the counsel. "Crier!" called the judge, "I adjourn the court for ten minutes." He pitched into the counsel, and, after a lively little fight, placed him hors de combat, after which business was resumed. But it was not long before another misunderstanding arose. "Crier!" cried the judge, "we will adjourn this time for 20 minutes." "Crier!" cried the counsel, "keep on your coat—the point is yielded. My thumb's out of joint and I've sprained my shoulder." Spare Moments. Stealing His Thunder. The indignant-looking passenger was about to speak, but the conductor headed him off by exclamation, in a loud tone of irritation: "This is the slowest train I was ever on. What's the use of having a schedule if it doesn't matter? You don't drink water tastes as if it hadn't been off the kitchen range ten minutes. The car doesn't look as if it had been swept for a month, and it is full of idols who insist on opening the windows when we go through the door. The passenger caught his breath and then exclaimed: "I was just about to say that this whole affair is an outrage." "I know it. But you're lucky. You can get a few of the tickets, and a few I've got to stay on this train for hours every day of my life." -Washington Star. Housewife and Burglar The burglar had entered the house as quietly as possible, but his shoes were not padded and they made some noise. He had heard some noise in the bed as he heard some one moving in the bed as if to get up, and he paused. The sound of a woman's voice floated to his ears. "If you don't take off your boots when you come in, you will be in trouble," he said. "It be trouble, and a whole lot of it. Here it is being rained for three hours, and you dare to tramp over my carpets with your muddy boots. On Goddowns and take them off." He didn't take off his boots. Instead he went out into the night again, and the "pal" who was waiting for him saw a tear gin in his eye. "I can't rob that house," he said. "I remove me of home." Lewiston (Me.) Acrobatic After supper he procured his wife's beat clothline from the back shed, fastened one end of it to his St. Bernard's collar and the other to that of his St. Bernard. He dug into the middle of the road and mounted. For about four rods, that is until the St. Bernard espied a canine friend, the sensation was dreamlike, after that he bounced the dog off the fence, desperately the rider clutched handle bars, back pedaled and fairly howled, until at last he became sufficiently cool to call to the dog to stop. It stopped and he went on till it struck the dog amidships, then it rose in the air, sending its rider toward cloudland. His head tried conclusions with the curb, and when they brought him to prompt attention never to do it again—Detroit Free Press. A Heroicful Phrase. A kind-hearted clerkman was lately compelled to dismiss a clever gardener, who used to purify his fruit and vegetables. For the sake of his health, this is how he worded it: "I hereby certify that A. B. has been my gardener for over two years, and that during that time he got more out of my garden than I man I ever employed." -Collier Weekly. Respected Her Confidence Poesia—The poem I sent you, Mr. Editor, contains the deepest secrets of my soul. Editor-I know it, madam; and no one shall ever find them out through me.—Stray Stories. Growing Optimism The Pessimist—That water is awfully slow with those cheese sandwiches. The Optimist—Oh, never mind. The longer we wait the better grows the cheese.—Indianaapolis Press. Cosmelian—"They laughed very heartily at my jokes to night." Critic—"Ah, yes. Any old humor passes for good humor if the audience happens to be in good humor for laughing." Buffalo News. Mother (sternly) "He kissed you twice, to my knowledge, and I don't know how often after that." Daughter—"Neither do I, ma. I never was much good at mental arithmetic." Philadelphia Press. The han-packed husband finds small conversation in the fact that she won't let anyone else nag him. Chicago Democrat. Mary C. REV. MRS. L. A. RAGAN, Pastor of Brown's Chapel, Hastings, Minn. The camp meeting, which has been held for ten days, at Hastings, Minn., under the management of Rev. Mrs. L. A. Ragan, who is pastor in charge of Brown's Chapel, closed last Thursday evening with a grand lawn supper. The camp meeting was a spiritual and finan- SOME QUEER COLLATERAL. Glass Eyes, Store Teeth and Artificial Digits as Pledges for a Bar Bill. "Everything carries its compensation with it, even a glass eye," said J. Jaxon, the stage manager of a St. Louis summer garden, who has an artificial optic, and being a jolly man, doesn't care who knows it, says the Republic. "I'll never forget one night when Lon Raymond and I and George Denham and Jack Cheviot and Phil Branson were at Barge cave (this was long, long time ago), and I was crying after midnight. We were all out of funds and we were too lazy to go to the manager and ask for an advance of salary; we thought it would be funnier to stand off the stage and ask for advice and said: 'Am I good for a round of drinks?' "You'll have to see the boss," said the waiter. "Ain't all of us, collectively, good for a drink?" said George Denham. "You'll have to see the boss," said the waiter. "We'll give you security," said Lou, and with that he pulled out his eye and laid it on the table. The water jumped and before he could recover from his surprise I removed the watch from the mond's. Then George Denham took a full set of upper teeth from his mouth and contributed them to the pile of collateral. "I'm in on this," said Jack Chevrolet, and he wished me to be pleased to see it on the table with the eyes and teeth. "You can't leave me out," said Phil Branson, and after fumbling with his mouth a while he produced one false tooth. "I had to wear a mask and a credit as long as we cared to ask for it." A. Dark Secret. elected? American—None of them will tell!— Poet J. FRANK The Irrepressible Sc After eight months of incessant labor in a strange city, against overwhelming opposition in his own race and among the insurance fraternity in Chicago, largely through his own efforts and as a result of his own personal magnetism, Hon. J. Frank Wheaton, imperial organizer of the United Brotherhood, a fraternal insurance company, with headquarters in Chicago, has secured a charter to do PRICE FIVE CENTS. L. A. RAGAN, napel, Hastings, Minn. cial success and although seating capacity of the tent was three hundred (300) crowds were unable to be accommodated each night. The attractive feature was the boy preacher, Harry Killebrue, among others. The citizenics of Hastings cordially invite Mrs. Ragan to repeat these meetings next season. WAS NOT ASKED AGAIN. One Occasion When the Piety of a Michigan Politician Was Not Conspicuous. M. E. Chittenden, the Michigan politician who died recently, dearly loved a joke. His own initials, "M. E. C," was always insisted, stood for Methodist Episcopal church, which would have acquired a very lively member. "Mart," as Mr. Chittenden was familarly called, relates the Chicago Chronicle, partially lost his hearing some years ago and communication with him thereafter was one of the most important aspects of the Standard Oil company for a large territory, he traveled considerably, and on a certain occasion fell in with a couple of friends at Hilladale, who invited him to go with them and to a conference on acquaintance. One of them quietly said to the host: "Mr. Chittenden is an exceedingly pious man and likes to have the food blessed before partaking. You must invite him to attend." Accordingly, when all were seated, silence fell upon the company, while the host turned to Mr. Chittenden with "Will you ask the blessing?" Chittenden's hand to his ear, with his usual, quick, nervous gesture, as in a listening attitude he responded in a tone more decided than unconscious: "I've grown so all-fired deaf likely that if you've got anything to say to me you'll have A roar from the two friends disclosed to Chittenden and the astonished host that they had been the victims of a practical joke. But "Chit!" enjoyed it amazingly when he understood what had happened. "How was Admiral Dewey's naval rank reduced when he got married?" "He became Mrs. Dewey's second mate."—Argonaut. The chronic kicker usually kicks hjmself out of joint.—Rump's Horn. WHEATON ores Another Triumph. business in the state of Illinois. Mr. Wheaton is in the city visiting his family and enjoying a much needed and well earned rest after his arduous labors. When he leaves he will begin to prosecute the work so well begun by organizing in the southern states. 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Start Aesociate Justice -- 0 W; Calling Railroad Commissioner, O. S. Milter and I. B. Mills (iour years) and C, F, Staples (two years). pene te A Memphis (Tenn.) court recently granted a divorce to Pauline Krumpner from Joseph Krumpner, ‘The terms of the decree are peculiar, ‘The home ef fects, according to the report, are grant= ed to the wife, but one room of the house is left to the husband. ‘The fure ishing of this room are to be removed by the wife, and the husband, after hav= ing secured other furnishings, will re~ ‘main in the same house with the spouse from whom he has been divorced, but having no communication with her, ‘The custody of a child also goes to Mra, Krumpner. Dancing is not an amusement mo- nopolized alone by the young and frive lous Mra, Phoebe Crabbe, of Norwalk, Conn, according to an exchange of ‘that state, by 100 years ald and whe is suffering from rheumatism brought on by that amusement, Unele Billy Kip- perly, of Fort Scott, Kan, who is 9, broke his leg recently while doing « horeniee. ‘It in related of a Denver duce that when he passed in front of the baboon's ‘enge at a clrous the other day and ade Justed his eyeginases to take a look at the orliter ft extended a hand through the bars and asked him when he left the old country and why he wasn’t out ‘With & show this season, Koreshanity tw a new religion. Dr, Cyrus Teed, it propounder, teaches that the Inhabitants of this earth are living on the inside of an enormous bell, with the sun only 900 miles away, ‘There are about 10,000 converts, we are informed, to this new belief. * Tt fe now o question with Missourl farmers as to which is the most profit. able, the dairy or the Belgian hare in- dustry, One family of hares says ove who knows, wil! consume more pasture age than a whole colony of cows, Chauncey J. Blair, president of the Merchants’ national bank, who has just returned from the Paris exposition with bis family after a two months’ stay, says that Gnanciaily the fair ive failure, DID DI DD FIDL FOP PIL II III PIP) I TY NEWS. § WIN Cl a ST. PAUL. the St. Paul office, or Thursday to Min- a neapolis office. eee Blanch Cuthbert celebrated her tenth ello! I want to tell Madam E. Lu-| birthday Tuesday. The little people en- e Adams, the fashionable dress- | joyed themselves as only little ones can. er on Wabasha street, No. 418, that| She received many oretty and useful sire her to make me one of those| presents. Those present were: Alice mer creations, all over lace and Shien and Mary Vassar, Mary Mason, s, that is $0 swell. Tam going to| Margaret and Adina Adams, Mable Newrich's musicale and I must| Porter, Mable Larson, Ruth’ Porter, it, Edna and Ruth Lawerance, Flosie and srrespondence, letters, ete, must| Ruth and Lyle Uterly, Lizzie Walker, h us by Wednesday for publication. | Lily Saiters, Minnie Allen, Eshel and Thomas street. Olive Howard, Alma Porter, Irene you are living to eat, or eating to| Saiters. Leva Moore, Charlie “Mason, the Godirey Boarding House is the | leslie Lawerence, John “Adams and for you. “The best is served at a) 1) "it and, Tibbs, Urerly and. Viol Pepe ae thee! ine of gee ia Berry heiped reduce the wants of the adam E. Luverne aes ee | young people. dress making parlors, 418 Wabasha | et t (upstairs). | en MINNEAPOLIS. con, room 410 Washburn building, St.| | For good cigars call at W. S. Con- cal, Minn, trealdence 4s3 Carroll st. | fads, corner of First avenue south and “The residence of Mr. and Mrs, Tar-| Fourt hstreet. He will suit you. cr, 4$2, St. Anthony Ave. was the| Go to John L. Neal, Real Estate, che of a pretty wedding Friday,| Loans and Insurance, 62a Boston rening, Aue, a1, when Mr. ‘Geo, Sleets | Block. nd Miss Birtha W. Wilhamns were| The Advance Restaurant, 214 Wash- ade man and wile by the Rev, J. C| ington avenue south, is up to date in nderson, of St. James. A.M, E.| service and equipment. If you want a harch. © ‘lew friends of the groom | good meal in a clean place don't fail to ianested the happy occasion, ‘and they | €0 to the Advance Restaurant. ere; Mr. and Mrs. HH. High, Mr.| Mrs. D. F, Danner is on the sick list nd Mrs. Sherwood, Mr. S. Cuthbert, | The city is crowded with distinguish: |G. Johnson, Allen Brock, Judge jed guests attending the Towa annual ahnson, Mrs. Phil Anderson and | conference. ughter, Mr. Chas. Fogg. | Mrs, Chas. M. Turner, of Fourth ay- Mrs, Hattie Davenport is sick at St. | enue, is entertaining guests from Chi- uke’s: Hospital, cago and Duluth, Minn. ‘Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Johnson have| ft is rumored that Mrs. L. B; Noel, gued 19 15 University avenue of our city, has married since going Mrs, J. H. Blair has returned home down to Chicago, The Advance ex- ter an extended visit with relative | tends congratulations. own in Tinots Rey. B, F. Watson, secretary Brd. Mr. J, H, Warren, of Thomas street, | cherch extension, of Philadelphia, Pa. et with a "serious accident Wednesday |is a very welcome guest attending the hile visiting at a neighbor's, Incross-| annual conference this week. It was ig the yard he fell and knocked his our good fortune to hear Dr. Watson nee out of pee lin our young days, and this meeting Mr. 1H. B, flousion has returned from | was a pleasant one. plearant visit down at Chicago and ——-—— attle Creek, Mich | JUST LOOK HERE. Miss Liznie Roach still remains sick | We will not insutt your Intelligence. ae Hospital |.We think you know that no man can Many of the news items sent to this | continue in business unless he receives fice come too late to appear in the | patronage from the people. An up-to- suie for which they are intended. Kind- | date meal, or a cosy room can be had send all communications intended for | at John Godirey’s, 148 East Ninth © paper not later than Wednesday to! Street. Towa Conference of the A. M. Church in Session. on behali of the church, and the man- ner in which he did it, was a revelation to his best friends, for he was both eloquent and dramatic and caught the crowd. He was responded to by Bishop Grant, in “a very. pleasing offhand ae ait Tie Bek aie, ee Paget Ml a Lak Bas | 8 % i ms | BISHOP ABRAHAM GRANT. siding. Rev. Geo. H, Gains; speech. The ladies of the church at the elder of Chicago distnet,| conclusion of the program served re. seventy-five delegates pres- memeeeneaenié initial session, and after ap- | aE eae ie aaa k | This ent at a well-known San Fran. fisge Suncliy choot!” "Feacher "When you ook around and tee all the fine houses and sores and joj do you ever think who own ‘them how? Your fathers own them, do they got Boge in chorus) "Ven maa ‘Teacher "Were will your fathery be. Yeate from now?" ” Boys. (in one shout) “Dead.” Teacher—"That'aright, And whe will own all this property then?” Boys (in Mogrammatical koncert) —"Us boys!” Teacher—"Right, “Now, tell me, did you gree im porne along the sect ‘hotig the drunkards lounging around the saloon door Walting Yor game one to treat them? Moss hearefly) Ves, mniam, “ote of them.” leacher—““Well, where will they be year from “now?” Boye—"Dead.” Teacher “And who will be the drunkards then! Moyss (in enthusiastic chorus)—"Us boys. — ‘San Francisco Wave, Wable of the Smalt Hird. Once upon a time there was a bantam rooster With an itmense opinion of inh seit wndd as he atood in the barnyard he a “SL vweill make a stir im the world. I will sunt attention ca wereiore he began to crow lustily, al though “be had! nothing” imuch Yo. chow ik. ‘Now it happened that far above the ban: tam a hawk Was wheeling iu the eircutn aiibient air. The hawk had not seen the Bantam, owing to the latter's diminutive proportions bul when the bantam crowed The" Rawk heard and. in ‘about 4 seconts had his claws full and was conteutedly ising hie fight Homeward, while all wa AUP below. Moral" i is ot s profitable thing to try to make a noise im the world without A reasonable excuse Chicago Timer Herald ‘Winehit Saaee Gaek be tokio. rate Gentleman (angry at being die turbed)—Vou book canvassers wake ine #0 Say with Yr coufounfed tre som ce that Tcannot hind words toenprene “Qanvamer (jumping with enthusiasm)— Then, sit, Laima great help to you. Thave here the ‘very thing you needa dictionary The gti ‘containitg all the words anf ein WAranes kno ad only twoand six. Take it, and you will never be at a You to exprear yoursell agaim-Ciga: retle, A Very Bad Spelt. The new reporter opened hi of the tgvee epidcmnte by eting * the heath board reports 8 new cares of tiefayd level. “The ‘city editor, ina mibd manner, an is the wont of city editors, observed tg the new "Wiereat the net reptetersapinend: “Tf had a bol apellof upbord whee young and ARENT ES "Eves Conlrag the “help wanted” Coleone again. Baltimore Aver A Different Deciaration. “She ia very proud of the fact that she bos ah anccetce Wha Wop soe sf thapigvers Phat s wothing tobe preel ol Phere’ x ae E irae te cor has fest Paukaats Baleee. The * We that you be nat worked Chines Baie Ree ST. PAUL. Hello! I want to tell Madam E. Lu- verne Adams, the fashionable dress- maker on Wabasha street, No. 418, that L desire her to make me one of those summer creations, all over lace and tucks, that is so swell. Tam going to Mrs. Newrich's musicale and I must have it. Correspondence, letters, etc. must reach us by Wednesday for publication. 995 Thomas street. Uf you are living to eat, or eating to live, the Godtrey Boarding House isthe place for you. The best is served at a price you can afford, 148 East Ninth street, Madam E. Luverne Adams’ fashion- able dress making parlors, 418 Wabasha fret (upstairs. Dr. J. E. Porter, physician and sur- §foR foom 410 Washburn building. St ‘aul, Minn., residence 453 Carroll st. ‘The residence of Mr. and Mrs. Tur- ner, 452 St. Anthony Ave, was the seehe "of a pretty wedding Friday evening. Aus: 31, when Mr. Geo. Sleets and Miss Birtha W. Williams were made man and wife by the Rev, J. C Anderson, of St. James A. ME. church. A few ‘friends of the groom witnested the happy occasion, and they were: Mr. and Mrs. Ho H. High. Mr. and Mrs. Sherwood, Mr. $. Cuthbert, H. G. Johnson, Alten Brock, Judge Johnson, Mrs. Phil Anderson and daughter. Mr. Chas. Fous. Mrs, Hattie Davenport is sick at St. Luke's Hospital Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Johnson have moved to a5 University avenue Mrs, J. H. Blair has returned home after an extended visit with relative down in Minois, Mr. J. H, Warren, of Thomas street, met with a serious accident Wednesday while visiting ata neighbor's, In cross- ing the yard he fell and knocked his knee out of pee Mr. H. B, Houston has returned from a pleasant visit down at Chicago and Bettle Creek, Mich. Miss Lizzie Roach still remains sick at the hospital Many of the news items sent to this office come too late to appear in the issue for which they are intended. Kind- y send all communications intended for the paper not later than Wednesday to The eighteenth annual session of the Towa conference of the A. M. E. chureh for the fourth Episcopal district, eon vened at St. Peter's A.M. E. church, Weinesday, Sept, tath, at 10, o'clock A. m,, sharp, with Bishop Abraham Grant presiding. Rev. Geo. H. Gains, peocane elder of Chicago district, preached the opening sermon, There were about seventy-five celeste pres ent at the ‘initial sesion, and alter ap. ne committees and outlining the work the conference adjourned till pam The feature of the afternoon, session was the singing of Dr Bo F. Watson, ‘of Philadel shins the aweet singer of the ALM. church. ‘The report of the Pre ‘of the dis- trict were made and remarks by the Dr. BF, Watson, secretary of the board of chureh extension, in the in terest of the Christian Recorder and Rev. G. EB. Taylor, editor of the South ern Christian Recorder, Atlanta, Geot wia, were listened to with evident pleas ture by all present, Among the promi- nent divines present during the after noon session were Rev. Geo. A. Brown, president Harriet Beecher Stowe Insti: tute, Danville, Ti; Evangelist Mattie Jolson. of Chiengo; the posters, Cath ‘erine Dans Tillman, and Mrs. PG. ‘Lewis, the traveling missionary of Chi- cago, | ‘The reception to the delegates to the conierence in St. Peter church in the Bo did eat credit to the pastor, Rey. W. S, Brooks. Hon, James: ge. the deservedly popular mayor of the city, welcomed the conference on behalf of the city, which was soamotly responded to by Rev. Dr. Carey, of Chicago. Rev. Dr Marshall welcomed the conference on behalf of the ‘M. E, ministry a Minne apolis, which was responded to by Kev Norace T. Graves, of Galesburg, 11, ina very forceful manner Rey. W. S. Brooks, the pastor, of the tocal church, weleamed the delegates @ o 5 2 aS FOR ABANDONED FARMS. Worn-Oat Properties Are Utilined (« Splendid Advantage by Grow- ‘ina Viclets. Principally in Albemarle and adjacent tounties, of late have beea turned to good account by thei owners, whe bave directed their attention to visie: growing. The violet industry is spread: ing rapidly in that section and the growers, the most successfal uf whom are women, emy'oy small negro boys to carry on the work, which, while not laborious, is tedious, for the violets re- quire constant attention. The greater part of the yield is taken by Philadel phia dealers. Althongh they are not ‘making wealthy,’ the growers are re- ceiving substantial returns anc find this new industry more profitable than ordinary farming. “The great violet growing center I Poughkeepsie, N. ¥.," says Dr. B. F. Gab Joway, of the department of agricul ture, who, according to the New Yors Tribune, has had the violet hobby for years, He is the auchor of severai books on the subject of profi: in violet raising. All violets from this district find rendy market in New York city ‘and as the demand fo: them is increas ing yearly a promixlog field is opened for the young, energetic and intelligent men and women v! to-day, Answering a question as to why the violet bas always bees a popular flower, ~ Galloway sail that for four or five ‘months in the year the public has nc | siolets at all. Tt is only from the mid- @le of October to the end of Enster | time that the vioiets are !u season, ond when they do arrive they are in great | demand. On the contrary, roses |abound all the year round. There it also a certain delicacy, a modesty, about the violet that makes it always want ed, while its perfume is another point in its favor. ‘i On:y two of the doudie varietfes of violets are grown—the Maria Louir: and the Lady Hume Campbell. There are many kinds of single flowers, which, while beautiful and fragrant, are not popular. This is @ matter of taste however. In Europe, especially in Paris | the single violets are in great demand ‘There is a growing demand for the single violet in this conntry, however The o:d-fashioned way of growing violets, borrowed from the English 22 and 30 years ago, was in “cold frames.’ ‘These were cheap, boxlike arrange ments put up and covered over in win ter with a glass sash, As the demanc increased it was scen that this methor of culture was not practical, Dealers in the cities were unable to secure the flowers at times, as the frames would be covered with’ two oF three feet of |anow, and it would be impossible for the growers to get at them, American ingenuity took a hand at this point and cellars were constructed adjacent to the beds, and this ditteu:ts was obvinted. From this evolved the regular violet houses of the present time, properly heated and ventilated and $0 constructed that they can be reached at all times, Still a great num- ber of violets are grown in frames, and for the beginners it Is the best plan to adopt on account of its cheapness as valuable experience can thus be won at alight expense. Vioiets to be successful must be grown entirely from cuttings. Young offshoots taken early in the spring give the most satisfactory results. In some cases the old plants are allowed to re main year after sear, but this Is unsat isfactory, am each year's crop shows 3 decrease In the number aud the size of the flowers. ‘The best results are | obtained by replanting every year. A start should be made every spring with your offshoots—baby plants planted in smatl boxes. As soon at they make good roots they shouid be planted directly to where they are te stand all summer, It ts at this time that they should be carefully watehed Dead leaves and runnera should be taken off and the plant made to con: tract, each forming a bushy crown, By the middle of September, if prop erly treated, these plants should cover the entire ground. By October 1 thes begin to blossom, At first the flowers are small, and, consequently, of little or no value and are thrown away. By the middie of October they are sufi ciently large, however, to xend to mar. ket, and immediately bring a good price. Violets generally sel! for not lest than a cent apiece, and when the aver: age of a single plant is 30 flowers a xea. son, and, with good care, 100, the profit can be readily seen, In the vicinity of every city violet raising could be made profitable. Any land that will grom potatoes, mace rich by the addition of fertiiizer, proves excellent breeding ground for violets, In starting a violet [house care must be taken to see that there are proper fucllities for ship Ping, although 4 perton from four tc six hours from the city ean ship to good advantage. |" Im the Virginia violet farms, after the young offshoots have been trans: |planted into open frames, rolling | Wooden screens are used on the top | of the frames to reguiate the amount | of sunshine whieh shall be admitted to | the plants. Indian Wit, There was a lawyer In the Indian country who had none too good a repu: tation for honesty. One of the aborig ines employed him to do a little legal business. It was done to the client's satisfaction, the fee duty paid and » receipt for it duly demanded. “A receipt ina't necessary,” the law yer sald. “But Ewant it," replied the red man. ‘There was some argument, and the at torney finally demanded his reason. | “Since becoming a Christian I have been very careful in all my dealings that I may be ready for the judgment,” answered the brave sententiously, “anc when that day comes I don't want te ake time to go to the bad place to gel ‘my receipt from you.” The receipt was made out and delivered promptly —Philadelphia Call. Se ge eee: Were Barly Historians, The Chinese are remarkable as nation for thelr carefully preserved Bistorical annals, even from the most remote period of antiquity. The first mention of sous & found in the reign of Emperor Hoangti in 260s before the Christian ers, Porcelain was mode under the Han dynasty, 15 B.C, at least 1,600 years before it ‘was known to the western countries ef the globe.—N. ¥. Times, SOCIETY DIRECTORY sr. PAUL. enue pmaswe. Mare Ledge. No. 3208. ecorid ana faurth Wednesdays te Mth! month. st" Oda Fetows’ Watarna street, OE Fe HICEMANN, P. 8, 422 Bt Am ony FD. PARKER, N. G., 5 Edmund St. Household of Rath, No. 633, G. U. 0. oro. F- Meets first and third Monday tp each Month for buriness, second Monday” for Fpstruction, at Oud “Fellows” Hall, 3 “MRS. SARAH C. KIRTLEY, MN.G. MiB IDA YACKBON, W- Bt, 51 Bum mit place: MOST WORSHIPFUL GRAND LODGE ‘OF MINNESUTA, A.V. and A. Bk. 4b, NEAL, Grand Master Wir “ik. MOMS Grand Secretary, ‘iY Guaranty Loan Bide. Minneapotte, Moria the hrat snd tited Mondays. of exch jects the firat and third Mondays of enc! month. W. J. Gardner. Pren., J. 8. Har: fin, Bee. A.” Davie, Irene. Ploneer Lodge, No. 1, A. F. and A. M. Meets the frst Monday in each month at Masonic Fall soutnwest corner Fifth and Hovert streets, Master Manons in good Sanding always welcome 6H HADLEY. W. M. W. A. HILYAIRD. Bec. 121 Atwater Minnesota tates, oe 2, A. F. and “Meets on the fire and third Tuesday tn ‘tach mont at Mannie. Hall, southgrest Corner of Fitth and Hobert strecta. Mat: {er Masons in good standing always wel ‘Some. . HB. HOWARD, w. M. 3,8 STRONG, Bee, Ith and Robert at WM. BTEVENS, No. 8, A. F. @ A.M Meets second and fourth Monday in each Month ‘at Masonic: Hall, wouthwest ‘cor: germer Fh ‘and Rupert streets Master nora in good wanding always welco WM. JOHNSON. Wests” Tecome. DE. BEASLEY, Sec, Ryan Hotel. Perfect Ashler Lodge, No. 4, A. F. aon Mesta the second and fourth Tuesday In Sich month at Maronite. Hall, soutnwent forner Fifth and Hubert street. Master Sigsops in food standing afwayn welcome. BK: DURANT. W. SF. M SHERWOOD. See. 461 Carrol. Bethet Chapter, No. 28, R.A. M. Merts the frat wnd third "Thuesday. tn euch "month at Masonic. Hall. routhwent Sorner of Fitth and Rovert streets. Roy: Si"Aren Masons fa good standing. always oo DANIEL ROY, H. P. W. T. GASSAWAY, Sec. State Capitol, MINNEAPOLIs. 20000F, St. Anthony Lodge, Yo. 2877. Meots the first and third Yednesday tn ach "montm for the tranna, Hon ot wun Ress, Ist avenue N. and W tshington, ort MRY RICH JAMES A. SCOT? PB. F. 0! Box i KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS. Nat. Turner Lodue, No. 2, W. of P. Meets the second ond’ fourth ‘Thursdays {n'euch month. Brothers, In good. sande Ing Welcome, “At Labor ‘Temple, Fourth and Kighth avenue south, T i. PARKER, ©, C. RALPH WATSON, K. Rand Pride of Minnesoin Lodge, No, 1, K. Meets the first and third ‘Thursdays in each month. All brothers in gaod stad Inge welcome. At Plummer “Post” Huh Fifst” avenue north and Washington JAMES ROBERTS, C. C. W. ©. JEFFREY, i Hand 8 J. i. Hilyard Lodge. Meta tat “Fuegday in euch month ag Windom ‘Block, Second avenue South an Washington. Masons In good standing always welcome. ti. W. LILLARD, W. Mt. TASPER aris. Bec, Guaranty Los Anchor Lodue, No. 7. A. F. and A. M. Mects the first’ and second” Monday 16 “ench month ‘at Windom iilock, Second ay: ‘enue Bouth ‘tnd: Washington.” Aasons tn food standing welcome, SAY SCOTT. W. M. ‘A. B. LEE, 2701 Aidricn avenue South. OMicers and Standing Committees of th. Mout Wrghnful Grand tadge ‘Arr. and Rex or Minnesota and jurisaietion: patti! Master=dohn Lx Neal, Minveapo Deputy Grand Master—Wade H. Hamp tone Went Superior, puiand Senior Warden—1t. 1, Howard ee Junior Warden—J. C. Garner, at. ‘iring Treasurer—Daniel Roy, St, Paul tad, Aectotary Wiliam Ht. hori AGtind Lecturer—G. W. Day @, Minne wegaty Grane Secretary—O. D. Howart ‘rand "Chaptain—Isane Crawford @) Minneapotin Berta, Hetor Deacon—Jobm Martin ‘Grand Junior Deacon—R. De Leo () Minneapali ‘Grand Senior Steward—J. H. Diinghar @, Be Paul piirang Senior Steward Wa, Stevens rant ‘Tyler—T. Tush (2, St. Paul. wean anal eo sonata” «, parand, Pureulvant-@, W. Duckett paren Bword-Dearer—J. Adams (D, 8 Grind Standard-Dearer—G. J. Charlee tony Saha rand, Register—J. G. Bterett @, Mix ipfeeriet Deputy, Grand Master-Firs DisiictJamee Woadfork gy. Bt" Baul District, Bepury Grand. Masser Recon Djtrict se, Lo Hamilton (@), Minneapols Matrict Deputy Grand Master—Third Distriet=3, Ke Poth G)- Duluth, 1 Y 7 CHURCH, DIRECTORY. ST. PAUL. SAF £ BS peace, ASC Anderson, Pastors Cor. Fuller and dey streets, funaay aerices, Teste, ta" ym Wesshes pragee teetina bs "a, oP. paren cuayien's, Faiher Prine Cor, Ferctn ted Aurery,aveouen any gervicen: "Binet Coa Fel gnnee, 10:99 6. m. Evening service at Saat PiLanim marrisr cHuncH. } PORSRE Boruc Gave’ Tor, tin and Cedar | Bunday services: ES at 11.90 a. im. and 18 Be Sunday School at 12:0 Sedetke "WLaneiaay evening genera aver meat AiO PHILLIPS RPIsCOPAL wesstos. 40 nce sireet bot Arora and! 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Axo APTER TREATICEST OZONIZED OX MARROW Tr ontotxaL-corraionts® fs syeegta Rees gomege en Beeeerercere pany erecta t eat iat eae Ese eaans evens Berne scees tent eee ee ite Sa ean straighten yor oon watr st) bt hn eee esac Cha ea ous OZONIZED OX MARROW CO., 36 Wabash Aves Chcage, Ue SEEDS OF FLOWERS fist”: Seer uaa oe night a+ Seebiem et cee oft. Exec ditt reat orci MENDENHALL, £L02!s" 23 60h St, atncecpetty inns KLAFFKE’S WHITE SEAL | FLOUR. 449 Central Ave, Minneapolis. ‘TEL tres WEXT To rents jy | Tetepncne EOI: - §,. P. EGGAN, feo ct ae ome toes | MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA. Py «uc ONE-PRICE. HEIFER. yew wanter buy thet hetfer, Zed? IGon’t fieve yew e&n3 wouldn't sell thet Better, er, to any livin to, Lin, if yew should come an" lay a fifty in my hand. rd gv ant shet the stable door an’ let thet pelter stand. zetet her stand right where she ts tt ahe is old an gray afore 1d sell one aide of her, thet’s all I've ot to aay. tow fain! Ewinted to @ispose? Yew must hey heerd lt wrong; : rapuy 0 dozen like her, 2eb, tt yew'd bring ‘them along. rae I've got a lot of stock, more stock Ot eee what L need, ‘ga! Tam short of siable room, an’ some- Teh ahort of feed put ce for sellin” thet there beast 1 wouldn't, no sree! tet forty dollars come between thet heifer, Zeb, an’ me. tama one-price erftter, Zeb, no man kin ‘peat me down; gov't wuth a Beap more'n forty, Zeb, ash ‘any man in town. ii Hunker wants her purty bad, an’ so does ‘Deekin Hale, put ez 1 #ild before, of course, the heifer ‘rt for sale. she's gentle an’ she's good an’ kind, an’ ‘siieker then an eel; cos could mil het any tine, she'd never raise a heel se sever hooks nor Jumps the fence, she ‘hover runs away, ‘As’ comes around at mllkin’ time ex reg’ ta: cz the day. You'd orter see the mitk she gives, it's Yller, thick an’ sweet, ast tx for quantity, by gum, thet hetfer fant be beat! ‘They's junks of butter loatin’ round inside the milkin’ pall, ‘aw’ speakin’ of her butter, Zeb—but then, he ain't for sate. Yew say yew're bound to hey her, Zeb: Yew want her purty bad? ‘The alickest plece of cow-flesh, sir, a farm. fer ever had? woth thirty dollars ex she stands, an‘ no! a dollar Yeas; For Ini a one-price eritter, Zeb, yew'll tha ‘het out, Leuess. wath thirty dollars ex she stands, Tl tel yew what Tl dew: ru swap ‘her now, for twenty-fve—"twixt ime an’ her an’ yew. Jest {wenty-five, no more oF less, for T'm a ‘one-price man, An’ f'yew'd want to swap her back, why dura It, Zeb, yew ean. Jee Cone, in. Ban. : Finders and Losers : pe tONONONONONeneneonenenec D into two great classes—the ones who find and the ones who lose. Meta is a girl who finds. Ownerless earrings and brooches and shirt studs are scattered along her pathway, en- treating her to pick them up, which- exer way she strolls, and little things Ike horseshoes and four-leaved clovers seem to leap up in the most unlikely places at the first sound of herstep. “Guess what I found to-day?” is her regular form of greeting: so no one was surprised when the question came that day at Georgia's tea. “Oh, I don’t know,” said Lilian, indif- ferently. “Probably a cotton handker- chief or somebody's other glove.” Lilian is one of the girls who couldn't find anything if they would, Possibly that’s the reason she assumes the man- ner of one who wouldn't if she could. Meta gave a withering glace at the seoffer. Then she removed her Lady- smith hat andextracted from its erown roll of money, which she spread upon her lap. A $50, @ $20 and a $10 bill stared out. © “Counterfeit!” gasped Lilian. “No, sir. Uncle Mac says they're as good as any ever made.” “You didn't find them, Meta; you're joking,” protested Georgia. “No joke about it. I was walking down Wabash avenue, and stacks of people were passing in both directions, too, but suddenly there was an open place about a yard aquare right in front of me, and straight in the middle of it lay this money, all rolled up. It just seemed as though the crowd parted, and everybody looked the other way on purpose to let me have it.” “Weil, I never!” sung the chorus. “What are you going to use it for, Meta?” somebody asked, but Lilian, whose interest had revived wonderful- ly, didn't give her time to answer. “Use it for?” she eried. “Do you spose Meta would spend that money? ‘Think of the poor woman who lost it!” “Woman, indeed!" retorted Meta, “Uncle Mac doesn’t think that. He says there's a little pocket just inside’ the waistband of his trousers where he keeps a wad of hills—whenever he has ‘one—and that it's the easiest thing in the world to slip the money in back of the pocket instead of into it, And I asked him if that ever happened to him. You ought to have seen how guilty he looked when he said: ‘Onee—but don't tell Ellen!’ That's my aunt, you know. Well, we think—Uncle Mac and I—that some rich club fellow lost it, and that he'd put it to some extravagant use even if he had it again.” “But I can't help thinking about tome poor old washerwoman who hadn't another cent in the world,” mur- mured the blue-eyed innocent. “Washerwomen without another cent are so likely to go strewing $80 rolls around!” said Meta, “More likely "twas a school-teacher with her month's salary—and teaching fs such nervous work!” suggested Lilian, “Or @ fagged-out woman clerk,” adé- ed Georgia, “Well, I wouldn't take it from a wom- an apy sooner than you would,” de- clared Meta. “Of course I wouldn't mind so much if it belonged to a man. But I intend to advertise it, anyway.” “Certainly!” exclaimed Lilian as if the'd been thinking of that all the time. “That's the proper thing to do,” amd blue-eyed innocent added: “I should just use that money for adver- tising every day in every paper until ‘there wasn’t a cent left.” Meta pursed her Hips. “Well, I'm tak- ing Unele Mac's advice about this,” she ‘id, “He says to study the papers a Gay or two and see if the loser adver. ties, Then, after that, he says to ad. Yertise: ‘Found—Sum of money, at such a place, at such a time.” Not 4 _ Word to give a false claimant any help . identifying the bills, you see. But Xs coesn't think I'l ever find the own- |, and, say, girls, if he shouldn't turn %, what do you m Say to & lake trip to Stther or some kind of a regular spree “ith this money?" oo - Fm vuldn’t enjoy it,” said the right. {Xct unless you gave balf to a hos Pia.” amended another. “Ob, I don’t know,” disscnted Geor ES “I think my eonselence would take or t2 Mackinas.” youl” ‘Meta, as she Miled wp hes wealth Cad patcn her oe “We'll spend it all for gum if we want to; Georgia; and we won't treat them, ‘tither—see if we do!” They didn’t see her again for three weeks, and then she came flying into Tencheon at Lilian’s with a look in her eyes as if she'd just fallen heir to amil- lion in gold. “I've had the loveliest experience in the world!” she anuounced. “You re- member that money I found? Well, I waited a few days, as Uncle Mac said, and no one advertised the loss; 0 Iput one in myself. Told them to address X, the newspaper office, you know—the way they do, Next morning I went down to get the returns. There were nine answers, and of all the pathetic things! Not one of the people who wrote had lost their money on the day or at the place I found mine, but they were just as hopeful, for all that, and they actually made me feel responsible for their losses, “First there was a man who had aropped a small, flat, black book, with a pawn ticket, a laundry bill and two two-dollar bills in it. And distressed over it! You'd think he'd lost a gold mine. And he was so sure ‘twas his money I'd found—poor fellow! Then @ woman poured out a whole sheetful of her heart, and drew a picture of the purse she'd lost, aid tod me how the money in it belonged to her sister, who was in the hospital and who need ed it dreadfully, and how I'd be blessed forever it I only restored it. Next there was an old man who had dropped two $20 bills, and he went on in a shaky, feeble hand to explain that the reason he was carrying it was because he couldn't trust the banks; and then another girl, who to:d about an alli- gator-skin pocketbook containing a latehkey and a time pass over the Cin- cinnati, Jackson & Mackinac road. When I showed that to Uncle Mac after- ward he said that road was a regular joke, because it didn’t run to any of the places mentioned in its name, and he just shouted over the pass, because it had expired September 20, 1897, But it wasn't funny to me. I thought the girl must be in a sad way to be hang- ing on to an expired pass over @ road like that for three whole years. He- sides, she mentioned in a postscript that there was a five-dollar bill in her purse, “I got awfully worked up over those letters. Then, sudden:y, 1 had a bril- liant idea, I just made up my mind to wait a week and then, if no one claimed that $80, to send for all those forlorn people and pay them what they had lost out of what Thad found. I didn’t dare tell Uncle Mac the scheme until the week had passed aud I had really writ- ten notifying them all to be at his of- fice at ten o'clock this morning. ‘Then I just gave him the news all in one piece. I don’t believe in breaking things, especially when you've set your heart on doing them. Oh, he thought I was erazy, of course, and wished he'd answered mny ‘ad.’ himself and claimed the money. Said he could have done it through some one else so I would never have suspected, and then could have kept the money for me until this fit of sentimental foolishness had passed off—and all that sort of talk. But the end of it was that he took a chair over by the window in his of- fice and let me have things all my own way with the people I had sent for. ‘They all came, mind you, and of all the surprised-looking beings! — Each one was expecting to find the identical purse he had lost, and at first every- one looked saspicious of everyone else, ‘They couldn't seem to grasp the situa- tion, “E had the money, all changed into the right amounts and lying in tempt- ing little heaps on Uncle Mac's desk. First I made a little speech and then I served gold and siiver refreshments. It took every cent of the money, and I had to put fn a dollar besides, #0 there goes our gum, Georgia; but you wouldn't grudge it if you'd been there, Such larks! I never felt #0 much like 4 beneficent fairy in my life. Oh, dear -tun! Vaudeviiles are nowhere—and, say, the man who lost the pawn ticket will never get over his grudge against me because I couldn't give that back. Me thinks I've lost hima fortune! But the rest were more than sweet. Girls, I've been blessed and bugged. and the old man with the two $20 goid pieces actually kissed my hand, Think of that —will you? And the woman with the sister in the hospital was so happy? And I cried. Me crying—ean you see it? And Uncle Mac needn't pretend he wasn't wiping his own eyes, either! But when they were gone he squared around at me, stern as stern, and said, in a disgusted way: “Well, of all the giriy-girly per- formances!” “I looked straight back at him and just said: ‘How would you have a girl, Uncle Mac, if not girly? Do you want me manny” And honest fact, be didn't know a single thing what to say."—Chicago Daily Record. ‘The poetry of practical people is apt to be queerly mixed with prose, but it is original. All accounts of President Kruger’s wife represeut her as a very matter-of-fact woman, who would never sncrifice the useful to the beau: tiful. On one occasion, however, ahe seems to have combined the two~ ‘owing to her love for dumb creatures. ‘The story is told in Animal Friends. Some time ago the Boers wished to raise a statue of thelr president, and the sculptor who was to make it ‘brought some drawings to Mrs. Kru- ger tc see which she liked best. The pictures showed him in his ev: ‘eryday clothes, with the tall hat which ‘he always wears. When Mrs. Kroger ‘saw this she asked that the top of the crown of the hat should be made ‘hollow, #0 that after rain the birds ‘might be able to drink out of it, This was done, and now whenever 0 welcome shower has fallen a little cloud of birds may be seen fluttering round the top of the Kruger statue, drinking and bathing in the crown of the hat. ‘The Inevitable Sequence. Jane—Willy got bis feet soaking wet, and caught ée croup. ‘Maria—How did he come to git his feet soaking wet? Mudder bought him e new pair of rubber boote!”—Puck, coll Gade, Gitfoyle—Kilduff's elopement wasn't wucoresful, was it? Poindexter—O, I don't know. The old man caught them before thes Tenched the misister’e—The Smar FIELD MARSHAL COUNT VON WALDERSEE. ~*. I Liodiokg VG oo yg -.% We. . \ (ta ea \y, thn y 70 a ZZ ps. TINS WAZ Mei = FT ee PAS LE fmm MIMD WP a LOT) ME IO : \ WAY W/Z ‘This famous German general te now on his way to China to arsume command of the allied forces of Europeans, Japanese and Amerteans now fighting or gAt= Tisoned In that unhappy country. Gen, Waldersco In one of the most distingulshed atrategints and military leaders of the present generation, and the fact that, his appointment as commander-in-chlef was sanctioned by all the world powers ts & compliment of which he may well be proud. He Ia whout 6) years of age, afd most Of his life has beon devoted to milltary studies, His wife Is an American, the daughter of a rich New York merchant. CHINESE WATCH TOWERS AND BEACONS, WIN ceili oe Sion se ‘ Nig ee Pe eat Fee i 4) 25 ie wire | 2h fie Be bomen J as he oe ee te Kae Fi Scan i eapaeee oe Bis saree a A re i y 4" i yn : as Pe ei. ¢ a ae verge A < P tm ‘ A 5 ED eae me Glee [Tolesraghy has not yet been introduced many parts of the Chinese empire, seaiy attics mecuagte faster nes ta sifeal igs Wien Se Seabee inne Tee & comparatively short space of Use orders are carvied trem ens end et ma 8 comparatively PEOPLE EAT TOO MUCH. Starvation Is Successfully Used ana Cure for Many Disenacs by a Philadelphia Physician, A Philadelphia physician of note, Dr. Edward H. Dewey, claims to cure all torts of diseases by starving his pa- tients, The brain, says this practi- tioner, never loses weight in either tickness or starvation. Usually the mind remains clear when the body has wasted away. The head is the power- house of the body. ‘The stomach is run by brain power. When the stom- ich Coes too much work {t makes too great a demand upon the brain. “For more than 20 years,” writes this doctor, “I have permitted my sick to do without food so long as there Was no desire for it, Not a mouthful was enforced in any case, vot one mouthful denied on the first hint of hunger, “In this T have had all the medicai textbooks and the entire medical pro- fession as authority unquestioned against me. That food ts needed to sustain the strength of the sick has never been a matter of question with the medical profession. “Many of my sick have gone for more than a month without food. One very sick, in bed for more than a month with acute rheumatism, was able to wa:k about the room on the forty-sixth day before the first food was taken. Another patient, a woman of 37, went until the forty-third day before she broke her fast, and without any omis- sion of her ordinary duties. A dis- eased stomach was cured as the result and now, after five years, there has been no return of the trouble.” Physicians are pretty generally agreed that Americans eat too much— especially too much meat. The no- breakfast habit may mot be so very silly after all, BETTER THAN FLY PAPER. A Mouse im Phitndetphia Whten Catches the Beats and Kats Them, A tiny mouse that seems to have Its own way in ailit cares to do has taken up quarters in a butk window on Chest- out street, Philadelphia, The window contains a fine display of traveling bags and dressing cases. and under ordinary circumstances the presenee of the little intruder would not be talerated a minute. But this is not an orditary mouse. Instead of ere- ating havoc and damage by gnawing holes {a the valuable bags and grips this particular mouse does a valuable service to the firm by spending ite time im catching the flies that ure unwise enougn to come within reach. Every evening after the store has been cloned and the elerks have gone home a crowd gathers ou the pavement outside and watches the little feliow capture the vnwary flies It Is a wonderful per- formance, a4 60 quick of movement and keen of aye is the mouse that fly rarely excapes that it aprings for. The mouse’s mode is simple and ef- fectual, From a erouching attitude it waite ontil a fly comes close enough, thee it straightess upon its hind legs. ‘the two front paws, like tiny bands, are thrust upward, and the unwary fly fs clutehed and brought down. After that the mouse eats the fly and thea gets ready to ented evother. PAYING DUTY IN KIND, One Care Where @ Thieving Turk War Ditten—How Justice In Meted Oni, ‘The rapacity of Turkish officiate ot All sorts is notorious, but that of the customs officers exceeds all other kinds. ‘An interesting instance of paying duty in kind is to be recorced. An official of the British embassy bought in Paria a dress for his wite, for which he paid £10, The customs official valued it at £60 and demanded uty on that amount, ‘The Englishman protested, and, Knowing the law, said they might keep the dress, paying him the value they had fixed upon It, less the eight ‘per cent. This was done, and a month Tater at the public action of confiscated goods he bought back the dress. for £6, thus getting the dress for noth ing and making a profit of £39 4s on the bargain. Tustice is meted out rapidly in Tur: key. On one oceasion a Kurd picked up a tobacco box in the street, which was promptly claimed by an Armenian, Just as they were coming to biows & policeman interfere’. Both Arme- nian and Kurd claimed the box, when the former suggested that the Kurd rhould say what was in it. “Tobacco and elgarette paper," promptly an: swered the Kurd, "Nothing of the sort," erled the Armenian. “It contains only a five piastre pieee.” ‘The box was gravely opened by the policeman, wha then said: “The Armenian ia right and the Kurd isa liar.” Here he emote the Kurd's head. “Burthermore, Als lah be praised!—for my trouble in de- ciding this complicated ease I keep the five plastres.”* EARNINGS VERY LARGE. Sleeping Cars Pay for Themselves tn Conatderably Leas Than = Year, ‘The well-patronize: sleeping enr paya for itself in considerably less than @ year. Take the run from New York to Chicago, 1,000 miles, Every road in the United States pays three cents « mile for the privilege of hauling « sleeper and contracts to return suid car in ae good shape as it iv received and to pay for all damages, The journey on the limited expresses to Chicago is mace in 24 hours, therefore the eas earns $90 a day for travel, If it is full, whieh Ip generally the cane, receipts from berths, sections and staterooms amount to $165, making a total revenue of $215 8 day. Out of this must come the wages of the porter and conductor—the latter, however, usually heving charge of several carw—the towels, beets, soap, ice, ete., the wicle amounting to but a small sum. | Then there are the wear and tear and general depreciation, the daily cleaning, the annual refitting and re- painting. Set these charges down at tem per cent. and give the ear three trips a week Of 1000 miles eneh, and we have its earnings at over $60,000 an- punlly, Some ean earn great deal more. Hard Lark, Mr, Timmid—I dos’ suppose 1 would be propor for me to you on such short sequaintance? Misa Innit—No, I euppose not; but ien't it too bad we haven't been ee | quainted longer?—Judge le Al i = YU ee. Every spring you clean the house you AC) WG: live in, to get rid of the dust and dirt which ah LE, collected in the winter. Your body, the € \..' Mee house your soul fives in, also becomes filled Bd a SB up during the winter with all manner of Ce VE: filth, which should have been removed from ‘i (7. oe day to day, but was not. Your body needs UM (gamed cleaning inside. If your bowels, your liver, ath Se) yy Wp your kidneys are full of putrid filth, and a RAY h /, you don’t clean them out in the spring, | SONI 7/7) you'll be in bad odor with yourself and OAV 7-7 \4 Rd) ] }, everybody else all summer. 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Chittenden, the Michigan peitican who died recently, dearly loved a joke, His own initials, “M. £. C..” he always insisted, stood for Methodist Episcopal church, which organization, could it have secured him, would hae éequired a very lively member, “Mart,” as Mr. Chittenden was familiarly called, relates the Chicago Chronicle, pare tially “lost. his hearing some years ago and communication with him therealter was ong of the fine, carta. cing the, agent of the Standard Oil company for a large tern tory, he traveled consiverably, and on a cer tain’ occasion fell in with a couple of friends At Hillsdale, who invited bim to go with then to dinner at the house of a resident ac: quaintance. One of them quiet'y aaid to the host: “Al, Chittenden is an exceeding'y {igas man aia likes to have the fod Hewed fore partaking, You titst iayite hin to tak the blessing. Accordingly, when all were seated, silence fell upon the company, while the boat turned to Mr. Chittenden with “Wal you ask the Dlewsing?” ‘Up went Chittenden’s hand to his ear, with is usual, quick, nervous gesture, as tna Iistening ‘attitude be responded in toue note decided than unctuous: “I've grown to all-fired deaf lately that if zon've gor authing 1 say to me you'd have fo say it devilih loud.” A Four from the (Wo friends disclosed to Chittenden and. the astonished host that they, hat eet the vicina a practical joke ‘But “Chit” enjoyed it amazingly when be un- derstood what iad happened. | PRESENCE OF MIND. A Little BIC of Mom That Fatled to Work with a Wide Awake Man, Te there be one thing that T more than an- otheradmire itisthe Having one mite about Sue perhaps because T never had mine, To te panseased.oniy of Vespritd’escaliers is Nmpiy an-ageravation, writes Job Paul ig ilivpersMagueine. ‘At illustrative of ready-witted men Tore call'an incident that T bave often told Dut Dever published, Let me do that now ia Surtice to one that is gone. Tn company with the late J. R. Osgood 1 once of an evening dropped in'at Walinck's ld Fourteenth Street theaters, We could Get no seats, av there was standing room ‘Only’ At the end of the frat act two or. chesira seats were vacant in front, and we ‘walked down and took them. Dately were ‘We seated when. two. gentlemanly look ny ‘young men came dowd the aisle and ad: Uremed me “Dex pardon, but have you checks for hombre rabdhanpeen Sree cm the point of rising, when Ongoo rope Ne fiat yout 7 hey hadn't. 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L Fear yore taht agrd the attgaling fithor "It certainty doeen't appear to be fsccepting."-Vhiladetphia Press The letter P, tke the welfch friend, first fn pity ania help-Chicago Daly What He Wanted, She—Toke care, Alfred; that ten't the remedy for acentchnevs. Hon't you see the Ieee at ee et Je (gronning) thats the oue T want nek. Wert! Tf a woman wants to work the tremulo stops on her husband, she should put on her Preltiet ren wien she doce i Nothing thule wet dene guicher than ae wrappers—Atchiwon Globe. Ty a surprising what a strong, case loafer can take tut against an taduatrious ee teas Gee THE STORY TELLER O *pert* and pudgy baby, sometime you and I, may be, We all skip to Fairyland where wond- rour blossoms grow, Where little folks are mighty, though somewhat flip and flighty, And shine and shadow's shuttles weave strange patterns to and fro; Where nothing is smiling, where nothing is defiling. Where children outrank grown-ups with the brownies and the elves. Where make-believe's forbidden, no ambushed hurts are hidden. Where people are contented to be just their simple selves. And there are wondrous glories, you've heard of them in stories. A million marvels covering us with mystery and amaze. signs just all ablaze; Where no one has to labor, where no one hates his neighbor; Where no one is loving and the big ones just the same; Where countless playthings please you, where nobody may leave you. where nobody may tease you, Where gorgeous insects flutter like gay jewels all afame. Where firely lamps are living, good bees much honey giving, No colts and no bugaboos to tie kids into knots; Where fruit has extra silkness, in it no lurking silkness. And bables frolic freely in beds of forget-meeds. Where streams are ever flowing, all folks extremely knowing. The babes considered wiser than the solon or the sage. Where lady-slippers are the sort in tinted beauty growing. And not the kind which paddle pets and put them in a rage. Where no one worships money, long-faced folks counted funny. Each person packed with happiness from nose tip unto toes; Where none read books and papers, but all read novels. And wind which nips with frostiness and chiliblains never blows; Where juveniles are jolly, no kidling meltdown. Where tempers sour are ever weak and love is ever strong; O pert and pudgy baby, we can remain there may be, there may be, And sing duets together in that summer MAJ. LOWRY'S home was one of the finest in Binghamton. The old mansion, with its many widening wings, glittering windows and heavy-columned porticoes, painted always a creamy white, was a treat to the eye; but the spacious lawns that stretched about it were the attraction before which townspeople and strangers alike stopped with exclamations of delight. There were stately trees from northern climes shedding their cones and needles with their soft rustle, and standing ever green and beautiful through the coldest months. There were flowering shrubs from the far south that burdened the air with their fragrance through the summer. The gravel walks twisted away, past the fountain where a marble boy stood ever catching the heavy spray with outturned hands, past handsome beds of verbenas, glowing clumps of gladioluses, and away to the stables in the rear where three fine carriage-horses arched their necks and whined to their painstaking groom. Yet despite the delight of all this, the major's grandson was the most miserable little boy in the world—and all because Jim Dorsey's dog had pups! Jim Dorsey was the boy that lived in the little tumble-down house, adjoining the major's handsomest lawn. The major thought seriously of buying the grounds on which the little shanty stood, at an outrageously high figure, too, simply because he considered it a blot upon the face of nature. Not a blade of grass dared to rear its head on that 40-foot lot. If it did, Jim Dorsey, or Bill Dorsey or Jerry Dorsey or one of the other five Dorseys ran or leaped or turned handsprings upon it, and promptly ended its miserable existence. Mrs. Dorsey was not nervous. Maj. Lowry was. And this brings us back to Jim Dorsey's pups. They were beauties: Two jet black, one marked with a white star upon its forehead, the other two spotted liberally with white and a brick-colored red. The breed was—well, never mind, the Dorseys didn't care anything about that, and for that matter neither did the major's grandson as he stood over the pups, with a kindling feeling of jealousy and adoration, and a feigned expression of indifference and putonage, doing battle upon his face. "How many you going to keep?" said Benjamin Lowry Hargraves, thrusting his small hands into his velveten pockets and stretching his small legs apart, after the manner of a connoisseur. "Keep! Keep 'em all, of course," said Jim Dorsey, fondling the pups with a fearfully grimly hand. "I if I was going to own one," observed Benjamin, slowly, with the faintest perceptible quiver in his voice. "I'd take the black one with the spot on its head." Mrs. Dorsey put her head for a moment through the door of the "leanto." She was a large woman with a wide mouth, a decidedly upturned nose, but with aal kind, motherly face. "If you want one of the pups, Benjamin," she said, "Jim will spare you one when it's old enough; won't you, Jim?" "Yep," said Jim, still absorbed in fondling his treasures. Benjamin swallowed hard. "I'd like one," he said, "but I don't know. My grandpa doesn't like dogs. I'll ask mamma." That evening at his mother's knee Benjamin's prayer contained a supplementary appeal, none the less sincere for being whispered within his own little heart, that blended in this wise: "Bless everybody, and make me a good boy. Amen. And, God, will you please make grandpa like dogs. Make him like that one of Jim Dorsey's with the spot on its forhead, forever and ever. Amen." Something kept sleep out of Benjamin's eyes for a very long time after this prayer was whispered, while his mother mended the pockets of the small velleten trousers by the softly shaded lamp. Then a small voice spoke from the little white bed: "Mamma, why doesn't grandpa like dogs?" The sweet-faced lady bent her head a little lower over the needle. "I don't know, dear," she answered, softly. "All people do not like dogs. Grandpa likes a great many other things—flowers and trees and—" "I hate flowers!" said the small voice, passionately. "They don't know anything—they ain't alive!" "Grandpa is proud of his horses, too," went on the soothing voice. "I don't like 'em," said the small voice, decidedly. "They don't follow a fellow when he calls em, and they don't sit up and beg, or carry baskets in their mouths. They don't like a fellow the way a dog does." "Go to sleep now," said his mother, gently. Two brown eyes shut tightly for a moment and then opened wide again. "Mamma, didn't papa like dogs?" "Yes." "And if he had lived wouldn't I have had a dog?" "Perhaps. Go to sleep, Benjamin." The gentle face was bent still lower over the needle. But sleep was impossible with the thoughts that surged through Benjamin's rebellious brain. "Jim Dorsey is going to give me a pup. They have five. They have the old dog, too, and three rabbits and a pair of white rats and a coon. But I wouldn't want a coon. Do poor people always like dogs?" "Perhaps. But I wouldn't take the pup, Benjamin. Not now. We love grandpa too well to cause him any annoyance." The lady folded up the trousers and drew a chair beside the little bed. "Once, a long time ago," she went on, "when I was a little girl, I loved dogs, too, and used to weep and be very angry because my father would not allow me to have one. But now I am glad that I did not disobey him. I am glad that I have never disobeyed him—and so will my little boy be when he is older. We will buy Jim Dorsey's pup, if you wish, and give it to some poor little child who has no other pleasure. We will talk about it tomorrow, dear. I am going to take the lamp out now. Good night." "Good-night," said Benjamin, very near to tears. "But if you please, mamma, if I can't have that pup I'd rather just leave it with its mother." Yet as the light receded, a trustful little heart prayed again: "Please, God, make grandpa like dogs." The major was a handsome, erect old gentleman, past 65 years of age. His mustache, his flowing side whiskers and his hair were quite white, but his eyes were as alert and his tones as decided as a man in earlier prime. Jim Dorssey's pupils were three weeks old when he announced to his daughter one morning at breakfast: "Maude, the governor of the state, and as you know, an old school friend of mine, will be in town to-morrow for the purpose of inspecting the state asylum for the blind. I shall invite him to dinner, so you may prepare accordingly. Of course you will know what to get, but I would suggest that you have quail as a side dish. The governor used to be very fond of quail." All that day and half the next Benjamin lived in blissful anticipation of the coming of the governor. His lively fancy painted him at least six feet tall, wearing a helmet with a nodding plume and possibly a suit of silver mall. He was sure this last would be very handsome and appropriate, and perhaps he would carry a sword. When in due time the governor appeared, wearing a black suit after the pattern of the major's a soft hat, and carrying not even a cane, Benjamin's amusement and disappointment knew no bounds. But the governor was fine-looking and pleasant, after all. Benjamin studied this out in the unoccupied intervals between the 11 courses that did honor to the major's board. And he smiled across the table at Benjamin as if he knew boys, and commiserated with him upon his beruffled shirt waist and yellow shoes. After dinner, when the major suggested a stroll about the grounds, and this great man stretched out his hand to Benjamin with a smile, the last remnant of regret for the suit of silver mail vanished, and Benjamin laid his own hand in the governor's and loved him with all his grateful, loyal heart. How finely the sunlight shifted, and how pleasantly the autumnal leaves crunched under foot that day, as the governor smoked and commented pleasantly on the fine effects everywhere present. The stables were visited, and the horses petted and admired. "I have a new cigar," said the major, "that I had in mind to have you flavor in the open air. If you will excuse me, I will step to the house and get it." The governor and Benjamin were alone. The major's grandson looked timidly up into the great man's face, while a sudden thought made his brown eyes snarkle with enthusiasm. "Maybe you would like to see Jim Dorssey's pups," he said, a note of eager anxiety in his voice. "Jim Dorssey's pups? Certainly," said the governor, all attention. In a moment the dingy lean to sheltered the head of the chief dignitary of the state, and Jim Dorssey, proud and flushed, held the pups up, one after another, to the eyes of the admiring audience. "That one would have been mine," said Benjamin, as the pup with the star on its forehead hung suspended for a moment by the back of the neck. "Yes?" said the governor, pleasantly, as if waiting to hear more. For one awful moment all the pent-up grief threatened to overwhelm the stout little heart. The next Benjamin finished quaveringly: "But grandpa doesn't like dogs." "That's a pity," said the governor, and looking hard at the pup. "That will make a fine dog some day. Have you taught the old one any tricks?" The proud mother squirited herself of a number of astonishing feats, while the governor stood by blowing white rings of smoke in the air. Perhaps the years rolled back and he saw another faithful little dog, no handsome than this, that bounded through his own circled arms with joyous bark. The performance was finished, and Jim Dorsay stood staring after his departing guests, his heart filled to over- flowing and his hand closed upon a 50-cent coin. "That was a fine pup, of Dorsey's," said the governor again, as they crossed the lane to meet the major. A few weeks later Maj. Lowry was honored by a letter from the governor. It spoke pleasantly of many things, and toward the end ran thus: "I have picked up something fine in its way—I know your love for excellence—and I send it by express, hoping you will be pleased. I also send a little gift for the boy." For 48 hours the major lived in a glow of pleased anticipation. One of the morning papers chronicled the fact that Maj. Lowry has been made the recipient of an elegant gift from his friend, the governor of the state. Then an expressman labored up the steps with a heavy box, from the slatted sides of which peeped out a finely bred greyhound and a small pup with a white star upon its forehead! The major reeled for a moment, and then swallowed the dose bravely. The pup was taken jurupruously to Benjamin's boxom, while the greyhound stepped forth into the major's welcoming hands. "The hound is beautiful," said Benjamin's mother, her face aglow with delight, "but the smaller dog doesn't seem so fine." "Tut, tut!" said the major, sharply, "the pup has a pedigree, rest assured. My friend, the governor, would buy nothing else." In the early dawn of the next day Benjamin made his way to the Dorsey lean-to. "Yep," said Jim, "I sold the pup. The gentleman that was here that day wrote for him and sent five dollars. He was a good pup," added Jim, meditative. Up in the stillness of their own chamber Benjamin whispered the secret to his mother. "And in spite of the silver collar, mamma." he whispered, "I knew he was my own pup." But the major never knew.—Youth's Companion. TALISMAN AGAINST ALL EVIL A Strange Prayer In Use Four Hundged Years Ago to Ward Off Danger. This prayer was found in the fiftieth year of our Lord and again in the year 1515. It was sent by the pope to Emperor Charles V. when he was going to battle for his safety, and whosoever shall repeat this prayer, hear it read, or keep it about him, shall never die a sudden death, or fall into the hands of his enemies, or be burnt in any fire, or be overpowered in any battle; being read over by a woman in labor, she shall be delivered in child-birth; if you see a man in fits, lay this prayer on his right side, and he shall rise up and thank you, and he who shall write this from house to house shall be blessed by me, says the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and he laughs at it shall suffer. Cross of Christ, ward off from me a dangerous death and always give me life. "Oh, adorable Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, dying on the gallows tree of the cross for our sins, altogether holy cross of Christ, see how I believe in thee; oh, holy, cross of Christ, tie up in me all the good and truth; oh, holy cross of Christ, will I be on the right way to happiness, oh, holy cross of Christ ward off from me a dangerous death and always give me life; oh, crucified Jesus of Nazareth, have mercy on me; that the enemy may keep off from me now and for evermore, in honor of Jesus Christ, in honor of His blessed and sacred passion and unmerciful death, in honor of His holy resurrection and Godlike ascension, through which He lives to bring us in the right way to Heaven. True as Jesus was born on Christmas day in a stable in Bethlehem; true as the three kings brought their offerings to Him on the twelfth day; true as He ascended into Heaven, so the honor of Jesus Christ will spare me from all enemies to be seen and not seen. "Now and forever into Thine hands, O Lord, I offer myself, amen; O Jesus, have mercy on me; O Mary and Joseph, pray for me through Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathea, who took Him down from the cross and buried Him; O Lord Jesus, through the bitter agony Thou hast suffered on the cross, in particular when Thy soul was parting from Thy body, have mercy on my poor soul when it parts from its mortal body and this sinful world; O Lord, save me, that I may cary my cross with Thee, and teach me that I may make my dangers all good. Amen." COMMENT BY A CARDINAL. Some Time Before the Ladies Grasped the Full Significance of His Words. It is not generally known that papal etiquette does not countenance decolletie dresses in the pope's presence, moreover his honiness holds them in great abhorrence, says the London Madam. This is rather awkward for those who are not aware that it is considered a breach of etiquette to appear at a papal reception in ordinary court dress, as the following instance will show. A snort time ago some American ladies who were visiting Rome, wishing to attend one of those receptions, made their appearance in ordinary court dress, having availed themselves to the fullest extent of the decolletage. His holiness was horrified when he noticed them, but at the time refrained from taking any personal notice. Nevertheless, he determined to take steps for its prevention in future. A certain well-known cardinal was instructed by him to inform the ladies of their breach of etiquette. The cardinal was a man of the world, and realized that the matter must be approached with the utmost taet and delicacy; after due consideration he approached the ladies and addressing them said: "The pope is old fashioned and does not like decolletie dresses; but," he continued, waving his hand lightly in the air, "for me, I am quite accustomed to them, you know, I have been so much among savages that I do not mind them." It was some time before the ladies grasped the full significance of the cardinal's words. Imperialite Trace A regiment of 1,300 men could readily find shelter under a single banjan tree. In Indian there is one of these trees which has 400 main trunks and over 8,000 smaller ones. WITH THE FUNNY FELLOWS Partly Qualified. "What is his occupation?" asked the warden of the penitentiary, referring to the latest arrival. "He hasn't any regular occupation?" said the subordinate. "He is nothing but a ward heeler." "All right," rejoined the warden. "Put him in the sohoeming department."—Chicago Tribune. Their First Command "Well," said Mrs. Cornwallis West after they were fairly started on their honeymoon, "we are partners for life now, aren't we, dear?" "Yes, darling," he replied, "and you are the senior partner, too, aren't why, lovey, what's the matter? There, there, little girl, don't cry!"—Chicago Times-Herald. His Blank Despair "Speaking of the races, wasn't it the two-mile dash free-for-all that Binks lost all his money on?" "Yes. Why?" "Nothing, only I remember he used about a two-mile dash in expressing himself after it was over."—Chicago Tribune. An Experienced Architect. Architect—About what size house would you like? Gottrich—It need not be large. We have few friends. Architect—Ah, but you will have plenty of friends when your new house is done.—N. Y. Weekly. Abdominal? Miss Brown—What's the matter with your husband? Some stomach trouble, isn't it? Mrs. Malaproch—Oh, worse'n that! The doctor didn't specify. He just said it was some "severe abominable complaint."—Philadelphia Press. Envious Admiration: a illustration. When Mandy gets a little lied I listen by the hour. Cause I wouldn't git stage-frightened every time I made a speech. —Walter S. Cohn A SEASHORE EPISODE. BATHING 5 Why Miss Le Grande decided not to bathe.—Harlem Life. Poor Economy. I find I'm losing flesh, but not because I'm overworked or breaking nature's laws; It is that I may save a little self—I just begun to try to shave myself. Touched. The Parson—Don't you think I touched them rather deeply this morning? The Deacon—I don't know. I haven't counted up yet.—Indianapolis Press. A. Spartan Father Miss Jackson (tragically)—If you don't let me marry Jim Loafley, I'll drowned mahse'! Papa Jackson—Wall, honey, It's often heard dat dat wus an easier death deen starvation.—Puck. Wherein They Differ. "Papa, what's the difference between a defaulter and a bank robber?" "One is a respectable gentleman and the other a disreputable scoundrel, my child."—Yonkers Herald. Mud His Doubts: "They sny," said the landlady, "that a piece of steak dropped into liquid air can be broken with a hammer." "Steak like this?" asked the sandy-wiskered boarder. in a tone of mild astonishment —Indianapolis Press. For Instance: Aunt Sally—These summer boarders puts all sorts of nonsense into the young people's heads. Aunt Hannah—That's so! All the young gals in this village is worryin' about their freckles.—Puck. **Got Even.** He cut his uncle out. The maid Was willing. But the rich old fellow laughed to scoff, And subsequently cut him off. With a shilling. —Chicago Tribune. **The Custy Bachelor.** Friend—Where are you going? Crusty Bachelor—To a tea. Friend—Informal? Crusty Bachelor—No; infernal.—Syracuse Herald. Often the Case. Teller—Oh, yes! He makes a different kind of fool or himself every day in the week.—Fuck. Most Decidedly. "Pardon me for asking you, madam," said Rev. Dr. Goodman, making a friendly call upon the family who had lately moved into the neighborhood, "but have you any church connections?" "My, yes!" answered the smiling matron. "Two of my cousins are Baptist preachers, and my aunt married a Methodist class leader." — Chicago Tribune. The Old Man's Secret. They tell me I am handsome yet, And the ladies, bless them, say: "Do look at him; the dear old boy Really grows younger every day." And when asked: "How at your age, Are you so free from ills?" My answer always is the same— "Because I promptly pay my bills." — Chicago Daily News. NO MOON IN SIGHT. Little Girl—Oh, mamma, I don't like to go to sleep with the moon shining in my face. Mamma—Oh, that's all right, dearie, that's your papa's head on the front porch—Chicago Daily News. A Mistake How oft we see him blinking With assurance so sublime— The man who thinks he's thinking When he's only killing time. —Washington Star. The Evolution in Literature. Jones—A few years ago boys read Indian stories, got false ideas of life, and then ran away from home to fight redskins. This is all changed now. Smith—Yes; now they read the monthly magazines, and when they run away from home they go to the city to marry the girl in the corset advertisement—Judge. Not a Fault Finder. "You are not one of these men who find fault with the cooking at home?" "No," answered Mr. Meekton; "I don't exactly find fault, but occasionally I do feel called on to apologize for the way things taste when Henrietta gets home from the club. You see, I never could learn to make good coffee." —Washington Star. May Have Picked Them Out "Queen Victoria keeps always on hand a box of cigars for her guests, but the latter are never permitted to smoke in the presence of her majesty." "Perhaps her majesty knows how much the cigars cost a hundred."—Chicago Times-Herald. The Saucey Thing. "Have you learned," he asked, "To fliirt with a fan?" "No," the maiden said, "I prefer a man." —Chicago Times-Herald. ASKING TOO MUCH. Guest—Hi, there! proprietor! there's a chicken in this egg! Proprietor—Sorry if you're disappointed, but times are hard, and we can't afford canvas-back ducks in the eggs, sir.—Chicago Chronicle. But why should all my neighbors show Such an inanimate conceit? —Philadelphia Press. As to the Bird. "You call your parrot 'Money,' I see. Money talks." "Not at all. Don't tell anyone, but I call him that because nobody about the house can make him fly as well as my wife can." —Chicago Tribune. Witching Hour. "I find I can cultivate the muse better at night," said the poet. "Yes," replied the blind man, "that" the favorite time for the commission of crime."—Philadelphia North American. The Industrialous Commentator. Cora—Don't you think Browning's poetry is very condensed? Merritt—Apparently. It takes about three volumes of notes to explain each volume of poetry. - Judge. 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