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DUCKETT, PUBLISHER AND MANAGER National Republican Ticket.. FOR PRESIDENT: WILLIAM McKINLEY, OF OHIO. FOR VICE PRESIDENT: THEO. ROOSEVELT, OF NEW YORK. OUR STATE TICKET Governor ..... S. R. Van Sant Lieutenant Governor ..... L. H. Smith Attorney General ..... W. B. Douglass Secretary of State ..... P. E. Hanson Chief Justice ..... C. M. Start Associate Justice ..... L. W. Collins Railroad Commissioner, O. S. Miller and I. B. Mills (four years) and C. F. Staples (two years). Self-respect is the corner stone of all virtue.—Sir John Herschel. Talk is cheap—probably because of the overproduction—Chicago Daily News. Sunday must be the strongest day, since all the others are week-days, and yet Sunday is broken oftenest—Elliott's Magazine. If you feel that you must occasionally yield to the temptation to tell a lie, tell one so big that no one will believe it.—Atchison Globe. The so-called modest violet commands a higher price, in proportion to its size, than any other flower at a greenhouse.—Atchison Globe. Fashion may come and fashion may go, but the idigent father of several daughters goes right on forever—paying large millinery bills.—Chicago Dispatch. "How women do love to stare at a hero!" said the Cynical Youth. "Yep," assented the Savage Bachelor. "That is one reason we have a flock to weddings."—Indianapolis journal. Always Dressed Up If all were rich, no doubt 'tweest beest, in some ways, we suppose; but, oh, how sad to lose that zeet we feel in Sunday clothes.—Indianapolis Journal. Worse Yet. Smarley—They're a bad family. The father plays the stock market and the son the races. Yow—You'd think they were virtues if you heard the daughter play the piano—Syracuse Herald. Sad Catastropho Mrs. Golde Nugget—I cannot see any callers. to-day. Nanette. Nanette (five minutes later to caller)— Monsieur, I haf ze pleasure to inform you zat madame is blind to-day. — Philadelphia North American. Satisfaction Guaranteed. .. OLSON UNDER Funeral Directo 1503 E. Franklin Ave., PIANO SOLD DIRECT THE PEOPLE The Afro-American Advance. ST. PAUL Hello! I want to tell Madam E. Luverne Adams, the fashionable dressmaker on Wabasha street. No. 418, that I desire her to make me one of those summer creations, all over lace and tucks, that is so swell. I am going to Mrs. Newrich's musicale and I must have it. Correspondence, letters, etc., must reach us by Wednesday for publication. 395 Thomas street. If you are living to eat, or eating to live, the Godfrey Boarding House is the place for you. The best is served at a price you can afford. 148 East Ninth street. Madam E. Luverne Adams' fashionable dress making parlor, 418 Wabasha street (upstairs). Dr. J. E. Porter, physician and surgeon, room 410 Washburn building. St. Paul, Minn., residence 453 Carroll st. Mrs. Mattie Myers is holding very interesting meetings at St. James A. M. E. Church. Mrs. Lottie Roach, mother of Miss Lizzie Roach, was declared insane by the probate court and ordered confined at Rochester asylum for the insane, this week. Mrs. Roach had been sick for a long time before her mind gave away. Mrs. Carry Bailey, aged 50 years, died at the residence of her son, 246 East Seventh street, September 30th, and was buried Tuesday, Oct. 2, from St. James' Church. Rev. J. C. Anderson officiating. Miss Belle Clay entertained at a dinner party Thursday in honor of Mrs. F. Bland, of Keokuk, Iowa, Mrs. J. L. Dennis, of Des Moines. Those sharing the honeys were: Mrs. J. B. John, Mrs. M. S. J. Bellenes, Mrs. W. S. Martin and Mrs. J. E. Fatterson, of Minneapolis. Memorial services will be held in honor of the late Mrs. Sadie Williams at St. Peter's A. M. E. Church, Minneapolis, at 4:00 o'clock. St. James' Church choir will be in attendance. MINNEAPOLIS For good cigars call at W. S. Conrad's, corner of First avenue south and Fourt hstreet. He will suit you. Go to John L. Neal, Real Estate, Loans and Insurance, 622 Boston Block. The Advance Restaurant, 214 Washington avenue south, is up to date in service and equipment. If you want a good meal in a clean place don't fail to go to the Advance Restaurant. Mrs. R. A. Alexander, of Ottumwa, Ia., is the guest of Mrs. T. W. Elliot, of Eighteenth street. Mrs. D. E. Butler and family, the wife of the pastor of St. James' A. M. E. Church, arrived in the city last week. They are at present on Nicollet avenue and Seventh street. Mrs. Noah Stone entertained at dinner Tuesday evening Mr. and Mrs. Luther Abby, Rev. and Mrs. W. S. Brooks, Robert Stone and Mr. Stratton, of Des Moines. Elsie Wright, a young woman of 25 years of age, living in the rear of 428% Fourth avenue south, died last Wednesday morning at 2:30. She had no immediate relation. The funeral service took place at her residence at 2:00 o'clock Friday afternoon. Rev. Mr. W. M. Witers, pastor of Bethesda Baptist Church, may well congratulate himself for having secured Dr. Walker, of Pittsburg, to conduct a revival meeting. Mr. Walker has been a splendid success in this city. The A. M. E. O. C. is again gathering the broken chords that were disjointed last year, and they had a very enthusiastic meeting last Wednesday evening. Memorial services of Mrs. Sadie Williams will be held at St. Peter's, A. M. F. Church, Sunday, Oct. 7, at 4:00 o'clock The choir of St. James' Church, of St. Paul, will furnish music, Mrs. Lena A. Ragan left last Monday for southern Illinois, because of the sudden illness of her sister, Mrs. Maggie Williams. Rev F. T. Walker, D. D., known in the east as the "Gospel War Horse," will preach at the services of Bethesda the second two weeks preaching. All are invited. MRS W L JOHNSON DEAD At her home, 507 Fourth street south, Mrs. Mary Johnson, the wife of the late W. J. Johnson, died Oct. 3, at 3:45 a.m. In her death St. Peter's Church loses an earnest Christian worker, the community one of its most respected citizens. She was loved by all who knew her. She leaves to mourn her loss two brothers, Gilbert and Jacob and their children. Her funeral took place from St. Peter's church on Thursday afternoon at 2:00 o'clock. Rev N. S. Brooks officiating. MINNEAPOLIS AND ST. PAUL, MINN., SATURDAY, OCT. 6, 1900 A POLITICAL POTPOURRI The Afro-American McKinley Club of Minneapolis, held a largely attended meeting at 408 Second avenue south on Tuesday evening, Oct. 23. Phillip F. Hale presided over the meeting. George B. Matchan, chairman of the Republican county committee, was present with a super-abundance of campaign taffy for the colored brethren. Among other things, he told the colored people how good Abraham Lincoln had been to them, and said he could not understand how any colored man could be a Democrat. After he had finished jollying the boys, he abruptly left the hall without excuse or apology. He was followed by James L. Curtis, Esq., who made a rousing speech, in which he counseled the colored people to vote with such a way as to make it redeductible to their material benefit and to secure such consideration as is commensurate with their voting strength. Speeches were also made by Edward Hammond and others. There was a colored citizens' meeting at St. James A. M. E. mission, 405 Sixth avenue south, on Wednesday evening, which was addressed by Dr. A. A. Ames. Republican nominee for mayor; W. H. Williams, of New Orleans; John G. Sterretts, J. L. Curtis and others. The Kenegan County Colored Men's Political Association held an enthusiastic meeting at their headquarters, af6 Washington avenue south on last Thursday evening. The speakers of the evening were S. A. Stockwell, Mayor Gray, Attorney James L. Curtis, Rev. D. E. Butler, W. H. Williams and others. The Republican candidates who were invited, failed to appear. There are some colored men in the city who claim that a colored man who supports a local Democrat is therefore a Democrat. If their reasoning is good, their opposition to William Henry Pennyis in 1888 for governor, and their adversity to the house John Lind, should exclude them from participation in the councils of the grand old party. If you should become engaged in conversation with John M. Allison and he makes a vicious dive into his pocket, don't get scared, he is not preparing to shoot; he is only going after some campaign documents which he always has on hand to convince the skeptical that the negro should vote the straight Republican ticket. It developed from the speech by Edward Hammond last Tuesday night, that Senator Washburn, whom the colored people of Hennepin county enforced for voter presidents, while in congress encompassed the defeat of the federal elections law, having for its purpose the guarantee to the colored voters of the south, a free ballot and a fair count. Senators Davis and Nelson, of Minnesota, thought the Porto Rican tariff bill so bad that they voted and worked against its passage, and the press of Minnesota applauded their acts and the people endorsed them by electing them delegates at large to the Philadelphia convention, and they are still considered Republicans. Why can not a colored man think taxation without representation wrong—and still be a Republican? JUST LOOK HERE We will not insult your intelligence. We think you know that no man can continue in business unless he receives patronage from the people. An up-to-date meal, or a cosy room can be had from Godrey's, 148 East Ninth Street. CARD OF THANKS Mr. G. C. Carr wishes to express thanks to the many kind friends who so tenderly looked after his sister, Mrs Mey Johnson, during her long sickness. DEMAND FOR TOMATOES. Grows Rapidly and Now *the Veg- tinbite Is a Common Dish of the world* "English statistics show that of late there has been a large and rapidly-growing importation of tomatoes," writes Consul Hanauer, at Frankfort, Germany, "the Canary islands furnishing the supply, which importation amounted to 16,389 tons during the first half of this year. The wholesale price of this quantity was about $1,655,000. Tomatoes were but a short time ago an article of luxury in Great Britain, only used for the pampered palates of the rich; but now they have become a common dish on the table of the working classes. In Germany fresh tomatoes are sold at six to fourteen cents a pound according to season; they are chiefly used to flavor meats, not stewed. Only the best hotels and the wealthy buy fresh tomatoes, which are supplied mainly by southern France. Canned tomato pulp is found at the groceries of large German cities, offered at a lower price comparatively than the fresh fruit. "Cantaloupes are a great delicacy—even more so than the pineapple—in German cities. They sell at 50 cents to $1.50 apiece. Some of these are brought from Spain, others are raised in German hothouses. Considering that tomatoes have been sold as low as five dollars a ton in Delaware and New Jersey and that fine cantaloupes can be bought in Philadelphia at one to three cents apiece, the question arises, why don't we export fresh vegetables to Europe? "The growers of our Atlantic states should form an export association which—if it will send out men of mercantile ability who can speak German and French—would find the European continent, as well as England, an excellent market for their produce. No country could compete with us in the export of agricultural and industrial products we were to adopt the mercantile methods of European traders." TO COLORED VOTERS! Consider Well This Able Appeal and Argument. Extracts From an Address on "The Negro's Place in American Politics," by Bishop W. B. Derrick. The institutions under which we live were founded in righteousness. It was by no mere caprice or accident that the author of the Declaration of American Independence wrote "that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unlawable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." It is not by accident that the black man is found upon this hemisphere, dwelling among this great people. These things had their origin in the eternal council of God. In proportion as this germ thought is understood and appreciated to that extent will a solution be found to what men are pleased to call the "negro question in the United States." If there is to be a negro question because the black man elects, now that he is free, to reside in the land defended by his valor, developed by his brawn and nurtured with his tears, then, like Panon's ghost, the negro and his question will not down. It is therefore for the people as a whole to say by their vote on the City of November next if the negro is to become the disintegrating element in the body politic or if the murderous methods of men like Senator Ben Tillman are to be condemned by the election of William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt. FROM TILLMAN'S SPEECH. FROM KANAN CITY PLAY. We took the govern-ment away. We stutted. We declare again that all govern-ment institutes shot them. We declare among men instituted abashed of it. With that system-fire, tie, consent of the govern-ment坐席, etc.—we got; that any govern-ment ourselves. So we put not based upon tales of the administration of the convention, and we enclosed is a tyranny and eliminated, as I have said, all of the colored people who we could force is to substitute under the fourthteen of fifteenth amend-ments for those of a republic. We declare again that all governments instituted among men derive their powers from the consent of the government; that any government not based upon the consent of the government is a tyranny and a people a government of force is to substitute the methods of impersonation for those of a republic. In our determination to uphold the party of Abraham Lincoln and to support the Republican platform we are inspired by no craven fear for the future of the negro, who as long as the republic tests will find a place in it, but we are solicitors for the good name of the nation and the peace and prosperity of the white people, which would be put in jeopardy by the surender of Republican institutions to the forces of narcity repudiation and nullification as represented by Colonel William Jennings Bryan. We realize the reincarnation of the spirit which preceded secession, with all of its baneful consequences. Had the results of the civil war been accepted in good faith by the south and had not the people of that section been encouraged by the Democratic party of the north to expect assistance in the reversal of the settlement, there would now be no negro question. It is futile, however, to evade the fact that nothing less is demanded by the Democratic south than the reduction of the negro in that locality to a state of peonage, without voice in its government, protection in its courts or security for life or property. It is equally certain that federal legislation, having as its object the utter degradation of the race, is the price which the Democratic party of the north is pledged to guarantee to the south in exchange for power. This insolvent conspiracy is unrelieved by a single redeeming feature: this coward's blow is aimed at the people upon whom the south is dependent for the development of its soil and the conduct of its industrial system. Nor is it pretended by the party of Pryan Ben Tillman and Bourke Cockran that the negro is to be supermerced by a more efficient laborer. Their plan is that he should tell in freedom as he did in bondage, with little pay and without master to defend him from the abuse of the irresponsible and worthless whose lot under the old dispensation was worse than that of the slave. It is to deliver the southern black man from this living death as well as to protect the northern negro from the debasing influences of the Democratic machine that we desire Republican success. We have no disposition to detach the colored citizen from the whole Republican platform and to create new issues for his benefit, but the negro's paramount issue is now, and must forever remain until settled, his full citizenship as guaranteed by the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the federal constitution. If these amendments that were written into the constitution with the best blood of the people are to be set at raught throughout an important and wide area of the country, inhabited by millions of negroes, then it were of little consequence to the race whether the finance of the country were on a stable foundation or otherwise, whether Republican protection had filled the coffers of the nation or Democratic free trade had depleted them, whether the country had extended its borders or had abducted its international functions. In either condition and under all the circumstances the negro would be a serf and not a free man, a pariah and not a political of other men, a hewer of wood and drawer of water for such of the outposts of Europe as possessed virility and means enough to reach these shores. You may rest assured that the Republican party, which placed the rime in the black man's hand and the uniform of the United States upon his person, will see to it that he retains the ballot as the seal of his power and evi- dence of his full and complete citizenship. We turn with contempt and loathing alike from those who would invigile us with perquisites of office to enter the ranks of our Democratic enemies and the poltroons who would solve our difficulties by deportation and expatriation. Guided by the principles of a great Republican party and protected by the constitution of our common country, we will continue to seek peace and prosperity under the ample folios of the stars and stripes. POLITICAL REVIEW OF THE WEEK A good point was made in New York the other day against Mr. Bryan by Mr. P. H. Curlin, a Democrat who will vote this year for McKinley. He said: "I hardly think the party needs a leader who takes all his law and gospel from the speeches of Mr. Lincoln, however able they may have been. He is not the kind of a Democrat whose leadership inspires me with respect for its originality or greatness." Republican patriots and statesmen have long been the models after whom Democrats have patterned. Originality of ideas or utterance upon great questions of pith and moment has not characterized Democratic leadership in this country. It does not originate; it imitates. It does not lend it follows. Lincoln's massive brain has furnished Mr. Bryan with all the original ideas he has emitted during the past four years. He knows Lincoln by heart. He lives in Lincoln and on Lincoln. Philip Jackson, a colored Democrat of Charlestown, W. Va., presented Mr. Bryan with the following and asked him to sign it: "I do not countenance the Jim Crow car law or any other measure that discriminates against any American citizen on account of color." The Dallas Express, from which this is taken, says Mr. Bryan refused, saying he did not want any new issues injected into the campaign. If Mr. Bryan doesn't want new issues injected into the campaign, why does he set the example? He has sprung a new issue—"imperialism"—and has sedulously labored with his mouth to make it overshadow the real issue—free silver—which he insisted should be incorporated in the platform adopted by the Kansas City convention or he would not accept the nomination. His words are in print showing that before the convention had adopted the platform he had made a fetish of the silver question; now he is using it as a floor mop and exploiting "imperialism" as a paramount issue. The knight of the sorrowful figures, 10 to 1, is an opportunist whose fine frenzy is only equated by that of his great exemplar. Senor Don Quixote, who had his feelings hurt fighting windmills and other dangerous enemies of his country. The versatility of Mr. Bryan is shown by the facility and celerity with which he has been able to shift the issue which is the only issue in this campaign and lug in supplementary questions which are not yet in a formative state. The fact that Mr. Bryan once trod the boards as an actor may account for the case with which he plays so many parts in the political drama in which he is a star performer. Charles W. Anderson, the new committeeman at large on the Republican state committee of New York, has been looking over the field since his election, and on a recent trip up the state in company with Senator Dolliver he found that the colored Republicans of the state of New York were very much alive and very much in earnest in their efforts to contribute to the election of Odell and Woodruff. There are a number of Republican clubs in most of the large cities, and colored Republican voters are thoroughly organized all over the state. Mr. Anderson, who is a vigorous and forceful speaker, made a number of speeches on this trip through the state and will be heard often during the campaign. He is one of the most eloquent and effective young orators in the state of New York. Trying to Catch the Colored Vote. It is now stated that Mr. Bryan will soon come out in opposition to the policy of disfranchisement at the south and pose as the special friend of the colored man. In this way the Democrats, it is said, will try to catch a large part of the colored vote. If there is anything more ridiculous and presumptuous in American politics than this, what is it? The Democratic party and the colored race are absolutely incompatible. A colored Democrat is a contradiction in terms. To be sure, there are some colored Democrats, but the idea of the Democrats winning any considerable portion of the colored vote is positively impudent in its absurdity. The colored voters can see through the trick easily enough. The Wect Virginia colored men have already shown that they understand the situation. They have issued an appeal to their brothers, and have sent it far and wide, to stand together in this crisis of their destiny and rally to the support of the only party which is friendly to them. The appeal characterizes the new disfranchisement policy as being practically the beginning of a new slavery for their race. The First Georgia District. The Republicans of the First Georgia district have nominated by acclamation William R. Leakeen for representative in congress. Resolutions were introduced by Colonel J. H. Deveaux and adopted unanimously approving the administration of President McKinley, protesting against the dischancement of colored citizens, favoring the protective tariff system and emphatically denouncing Bishop Turner of Georgia for deserting the Republican party and going over to Bryan. PREPARE FOR LONG STRIKE Miners' Unions Beginning to Make Provision for the Idle Men. LITTLE CHANGE IN STRIKE SITUATION. Only One of the Collieries of Philadelphia and Reading Company Is Now at Work—Extra Offers by the Companies Fall to Entice Men Back to Work. Shenandah, Pa., Oct. 5—Concessions announced Wednesday by the Philadelphia & Reading Coal and Iron company were not sufficient to induce the striking mine workers of the Schuylkill region to return to the collieries Thursday. Mr. Pottier, organizer and leader of the foreign mine workers here, says he made a careful canvass of this town and found the strikers determined to remain out until ordered to work by the mine workers' convention or by President Mitch- Anticipate Long Strike In anticipation of a long strike the local foreign unions Thursday appointed a committee to investigate cases of need among strikers' families. Organizer Pottier says the treasuries of the Shenandoah foreign branches of the United Mine Workers contain about $1,400, and while this lasts suffering among the strikers will be relieved. No cases of distress have as yet been reported, he says. Gen. Bobin stated Thursday that his information from the Panther Creek valley is to the effect that all the collieries there are working as usual and no trouble is anticipated. All Idle But One. Philadelphia, Oct. 5.—According to General Superintendent Luther's report to President Harris, of the Reading company, three additional collieries of that company failed to start up Thursday. This leaves but one colliery in operation out of the 39 the company was working previous to the mine workers' strike. The single property that is producing coal is the North Franklin colliery at Trevorton, in the upper end of the Schuylkill region. It employs about 700 men and boys, mostly American citizens. Many of them, the officials say, own their own homes and they have expressed a determination to remain at work. To this end the company has provided a strong guard of police, who are provided for any emergency. A dispatch from the region says that Saamokin strikers who wanted to march on the North Franklin men were disdained from doing so because of the known fact that the police will not suffer any interference. The ordinary capacity of the mine is about 3,000 tons a week, but just now it is turning out considerably more than that. The Reading company also has two small washeries at work, but they are producing only a few tons of fuel daily. Sherif Heada Off Merchers. Hazleton, Pa. Oct. 5.—The only incident of the morning in the Hazleton region worth mentioning was the march of about 130 mine workers from the Diamond, in the northern part of the city, to the No. 40 shaft of the Lehigh Valley Coal company in the eastern section of the town, where they expected to get more men to quit, Sheriff Harvey, who is in close touch with every section of Luzerne county, was early informed of the move and was waiting for the marchers at the shaft when they reached there at five o'clock. The sheriff had with him several of his deputies and half a dozen of the Lehigh Valley Coal and Iron police. Sheriff Reasons with the Men. They were kept in the background while the sheriff reasoned with the men in an effort to induce them not to go on company property. He told them if they placed a foot on private ground he would be compelled to arrest them for trespass. The strikers took the county officer's advice and dispersed without even attempting to carry out their plans. Sheriff Harvey's mild method of treating with marchers has won for him the confidence of the men. He makes it a rule not to command the strikers to disperse, but to gently plead with them to commit no violation of the law. During the 16 days of the strike he has faced a number of crowds of marchers and has succeeded in keeping them within the bounds of the law without precipitating any disturbance. Coxe Brothers & Company's Beaver Meadow colliery, the only operation on the south side which has not been tied up, is reported by the company to be working full-handed. It is said that a number of mine workers who were employed in the Coleraine mine until it was shut down last week through the efforts of the strikers are working in the Beaver Meadow colliery. One of the Markle mines, Jeddo No. 5, is reported further crippled by the defection of some men who had worked there up to Thursday morning. Fail to Get Men to Work. Scranton, Pa., Oct. 5—In spite of every preparation made by the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western company to get at least one of its colleries into operation Thursday, it was unable to do so. At the Cayuga colliery, where it was believed conditions were best for getting the men back to work, not a man or boy reported. The same experience was met with at the Bellevue working, which has figured extensively in ru- MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY. PRICE FIVE CENTS. mors of resumption, and at the 16 other collieries of the company the conditions were exactly similar. The strikers will pay no attention to the proffer of ten per cent, advance, which the company said applied only to men who would return to work Thursday. The Delaware & Hudson company and the Pennsylvania Coal company have not yet followed the action of the other big concerns here in posting wage advance notices. The individual operators say they can do nothing until the coal carrying railroads make it possible for them to act. Working Up Big Demonstration. WORKING UP A DEMONSTRATION Shamokin, Pa., Oct. 5. A Polish band started out at two o'clock Thursday afternoon in Mount Carmel to gather strikers to march on North Franklin colliery, near Trevorton, seven miles west of here. The crowd at 2:30 p.m. numbred 500, and by six o'clock when the march begins, it is thought the marchers will number several thousand. They will pass through here, where local strikers will join in the march. They are expected to reach Trevorton late Thursday night. The colliery is now the only one working for the Reading company. The mines are heavily guarded by coal and iron police and a clash is feared. The Trevorton men want to work. THE BEST FRIEND WE HAVE. Mark Twain Declares England and America Come Very Close Together in Interests. New York, Oct. 5. - Mark Twain will leave London on Saturday, to make his home in the United States, after a nine years' residence in Europe, says a London dispatch to the Herald. He returns, he says, feeling like a boy rejuvenated in body and inspired in mind. The great humorist will spend the winter in New York and will go back to his old home, Hartford, Conn., in the spring. He avers that nine years' contact with Englishmen and continentals has assured him that the Anglo-American poet exists. "England," says he, "is the best friend we have, we got in Europe, and we are the only friend she's got on earth. No one ventures to suggest a formal offensive and aggressive approach to interest that sentiment along that line should grow in the hearts of our people. The time is coming when each of the two great people will need it in their buestead. But I think that the Chinese concert, which has already become a comedy, is likely to end in tragedy. When the crash comes it will be best for England, best for America and best for the world that the union stars andatrips should wave together." Warrant for His Arrest. Philadelphia, Oct. 5. - It was learned here that on Monday a United States warrant was issued for the arrest of Isaac A. Sweigurd, lately general superintendent of the Philadelphia & Reading Railway company, charging him with discriminating against and discharging employees of the Reading railway because they were members of the Brotherhood. Four members of the brotherhood subscribed to the affidavit upon which the warrant was issued. Massachusetts Republicana Boston, Oct. 5.—The republicans of Massachusetts held their state convention here Thursday. A full state ticket, two presidential electors at-large, and an elector from each congressional district were named, and members of the state committee were named. Wintrop Murray Crane was nominated for governor. The platform adopted indorses the Philadelphia platform and approves of President McKinley's administration. Red Wing Cut Off. Red Wing, Minn., Oct. 5—Another furious storm struck here during the night and this city is now cut off from railroad communication with the outside world. Two trains on the Duluth, Red Wing & Southern are stalled between here and Goodhue and all trains on the C., M. & St. P., are temporarily abandoned. Innumerable bridges have been carried away. The loss in this vicinity will be many thousands. Mysterious Case. Rochester, N. Y., Oct. 5.—It has been reported to the city authorities that a man supposed to have been Martin Cook, secretary and treasurer of the East India Remedy company, of Cincinnati, came to Rochester about a month ago to visit his mother, having with him a considerable sum of money died mysteriously three weeks ago and was buried at midnight without a burial certificate. Makes Unexpected Speeches. Sheldon, Ill., Oct. 5.—Mr. Bryan had not expected to make any speeches on his way from Chicago to Indianapolis, but he found crowds wherever the train stopped for any length of time and to some he spoke briefly. Alleged Counterfeiter Arrested. Wichita, Kan., Oct. 5.—T. M. Frantz, said to be the leader of a gang of alleged counterfeiters, was arrested here late at night. He lives at Canton, Kan., and is a man who stood high in that community. Golf Championship Contest. Wheaton, Ill., Oct. 5.—With the world's championship as the goal, the greatest field of golfers ever gathered in the universe for a tournament was dispatched over the links of the Chicago Golf club Thursday. Well-Known Attorney Dead. Santa Barbara, Cal., Oct. 5.—Benjamin B. Campbell, a well-known attorney of Pittsburgh, Pa., is dead in this city, aged 73 years. Indiana in Session. Muscogee, I. T., Oct. 5.-The annual session of the Creek council has convened at Okmugee. EDITORIAL Women can now vote in New Zealand and South Australia. They will probably be allowed to do so at the next elections in West Australia and Queensland, and have been promised the franchise in New South Wales. In Victoria the government is opposed, but gradually weakening. The new electric motors for the steepest portions of the Jungfrau Mountain railway will be the most powerful electric rack-wheel locomotives ever constructed. The two motors will each have 125 horse-power, and will make 800 revolutions per minute driving the toothed wheels. The school superintendents of old New York city recommend the abolition of vertical penmanship in the schools, claiming that it make slow penmen. This style has been very popular with grade teachers for several years, but most professional teachers of penmanship have favored the slanting style. In New York state 910 persons were killed and about 40,000 wounded in the factories last year. In the war with Spain 208 Americans were killed and 1,557 wounded. Based on these figures, the total killed and wounded annually in the industrial pursuits in the United States would be 20,000 killed and 900,000 wounded. Chinese labor unions exist not only in New York, Chicago and other large cities, but also throughout the Pacific states, and are especially strong in California. The unions are composed of cigarmakers, shoe manufacturers, clothing makers and laundrymen. Most of the jeans coats and trousers worn west of the Rockies are made by Chinese. There are not many people aware of the fact that for the last 27 years a war has been going on between the Dutch and the people of Acheen, in North Sumatra. Since 1873 up to the present time this war has cost the Netherlands something like $100,000,000, and over 100,000 lives have been lost on the two sides. After all these years of fighting the end of this punitive war is no nearer than when it first commenced. In New York storage battery electric cars are being put in operation on the Thirty-fourth street crosstown line as fast as their various parts can be assembled at the Metropolitan Co.'s shops. There are between 35 and 40 in all, and the same number of horse cars will be taken from the service when these are all ready. Twenty-eight compressed-air cars of a new pattern are also being made ready for use on the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth street line. The tea used in the immediate household of the emperor of China is treated with the utmost care. It is raised in a garden surrounded by a wall, so that neither man nor beast can get anywhere near the plants. At the time of the harvest those collecting these leaves must abstain from eating fish, that their breath may not spoil the aroma of the tea. They must bathe three times a day, and, in addition, must wear gloves. Eleven queens use tobacco. The dowerager empress of Russia, Queen Olga of Greece, Queen Olga of Wurtemburg, the queen regent of Spain, Queen Amelia of Portugal, Queen Marguerite of Italy, Carmen Sylvan, the Roumanian queen, Queen Natalie of Servia and the queen of Egypt. The late empress of Austria used to smoke 30 cigarettes a day. The queen of Italy is said to have declared that her cigarette is more essential to her comfort than anything else in life; she always smoke in solitude. Helanfu, or Siganfu, the ancient capital of China, to which the empress dowager is said to have fled, is one of the most important cities of the Middle kingdom. More than 3,000 years ago, or about the time of Solomon, this ancient city, under the name of "Perpetual Peace," was the capital city of one of the feudal princes of the Chou dynasty, and from that time to this, under various fortunes, it has been either the first or the second city of the empire. It is situated more than six hundred miles southwest of Peking. Indigo is cultivated all over India, giving employment to millions of natives and thousands of foreigners. In three districts alone, in Behar, where some of the finest indigo is grown, European capital is invested to the extent of no less than $25,000,000. Some $70,000 acres are under cultivation. There are 700 Englishmen managing and working on the "concarnas," and 1,500,000 natives. An indigo concern may occupy anywhere between 1,000 and 10,000 acres, each cultivated are producing, on an average, about 15 pounds to 39 pounds. The polygamous wives whom the United States government compelled the Kiowa Indian men to discard a month ago are disconsolate. Among the 600 brown-skinned women who are thus left husbandless, there have been some pathetic scenes enacted in connection with the enforcement of this law. Two of the discarded wives of Chief Narjo committed suicide. Six squawns belonging to Tall Elk, a warrior, killed themselves because they had to leave their lord's tepee. Curiously enough these abandoned wives are the youngest. Probably the fact is not generally known that Texas was for many years called the "New Philippines." The first settlement in what is now Texas was made by French emigrants in 1883. During the next 25 years there was an intermittent struggle between the French and Spanish for supremacy, resulting in favor of the latter, and in 1814 the name of the New Philippines was given to the country. This was its official name in Spanish records for many years, and until the name of Texas, from a tribe of Indians, gradually came in vogue. THE GREAT SHAM ISSUE. Truth by a Georgian About the B. r. unite Bogey of Imperialism. Since Mr. Bryan has been telling people everywhere that our country paid $2.50 a head for Filipinos I have not expected much in the shape of a solid or candid argument from him. Only a few days since, in his own town of Lincoln, he made in a speech a statement which he had made before, and which he had had time to repent of, as follows: "The republican party, which was not willing that a black man should be sold for $1,000, now claims that a Filipino can be bought for $2.50. The principle is exactly the same." That statement of Mr. Bryan's was based on the payment of $250,000,000 to Spain for the Philippine islands by the treaty of Paris. He further said: "This nation had no more right, as a nation, to claim ownership of 8,000,000 Philippines than one man has a right to claim ownership of another man." This argument of his means that sovereignty, or order, carries with it ownership of the persons for whom laws are made and enforced. Hence it follows, all people subject to government are slaves. Mr. Bryan knows that the treaty of Paris was not a party measure, for it was favored by two-thirds of the senate, and he admits he advised its ratification. The policy of this government in dealing with its new dependency is the outcome of the treaty of Paris. That treaty is the law of the land, and to enforce law is the duty of the American people, regardless of party. Opposition to it now means nothing less than discredit to American honor and encouragement of resistance to American effort to restore order and establish law in legally acquired American territory—territory acquired by treaty, the ratification of which Mr. Bryan went out of his way to advise. For my part, I do not intend to agree, in the face of all evidence to the contrary, that the American people, or even any respectable political party in American, is capable of making vassals and slaves of the Filipinos, or that the American people or any respectable political party in my country are aiders or abettors in any scheme of conquest. I am not apologizing for the republican party. The Philippine policy is not the policy of the republican party alone; Mr. Bryan does that party entirely too much honor in giving it so much credit, Yet, on the strength of what has been done, and well done, and on what is about to be done, and ought to have been done in the Philippines, Mr. Bryan bases his speech of acceptance, contending that the whole thing means conquest, and that this country is bent on a deliberate scheme tending inevitably toward imperialism. Mr. Bryan ignores such men as Senator Morgan, and pays so little respect to the intelligent public as to presume that they will join him in an unceasing tirade against expansion, and that he can denominate as the "paramount" question the effort of America to restore order in its legally acquired possessions by suppressing the most groundless insurrection known to history. He says the democratic platform authorizes him to make this the paramount question. Yes, but it must be remembered that since 1896 there has been but one democratic candidate for president who from the outset has been making speeches assuming that this country was on the high road to imperialism. The masses were indifferent, and did not take this as a serious matter, for they knew that the tendency all over the world, even in monarchies, is more liberty for the people. In our country, where they vote and make our laws and shape our policy, they are not troubled about imperialism. So the whole thing went by default at Kansas City, and imperialism, the bog hatched from the mare's nest discovered by Bryan, was put in the platform and is now gravely held up by him as a thing of terror to frighten the American people as so many credulous children. Any democrat has a right to protest against this senseless issue being thrust on a great historic party as a paramount issue merely because Mr. Bryan, at the expense of the greatest and most glaring personal inconsistency, wishes it done. Can it be willfulness in Mr. Bryan or is it due to defective reasoning in him to ignore all evidence and reason and contend that his country has unworthy purposes to make conquest of islands and vassals of their people? In a nightmare of apprehension he cries out: "I am not willing that this nation shall cast aside the omnipotent weapon of physical warfare!" The way to find out the truth as to whether this country is seizing the weapon of physical warfare in the Philippines is to ascertain what witnesses who have investigated the facts and know them say about it. The most reliable witnesses are the members of the Philippine commission. That commission was composed of democrats as well as republicans, and some of its members were against expansion. They were all men of high character, acting under oath and on honor, and of this war they said: "Deplorable as war is, the one in which we are now engaged was unavoidable by us. We were attacked by a bold, adventurous and enthusiastic army. No alternative was left us except ignominious retreat." This statement is their verdict, and goes into history as the truth, and ought not to be ignored by Mr. Bryan, who discourses so loudly about the "omulpitent weapon of truth." A man having the ear of the people as Mr. Bryan has should respect what Washington Irving said: "Knowledge is power, and truth is knowledge; whoever, therefore, knowingly propagates a prejudice willfully saps the foundation of his country's strength." Jonesboro, Ga. JOHN J. HUNT.-Atlanta Constitution (Dem.). Mr. Bourke Cockran will also be at a great disadvantage. The campaign will not be long enough to give him a chance to explain why he is for Bryan this time when he was for McKinley last time.—Chicago - Inter Ocean. BEHIND THE SCENES. CROKER CAMPAIGN FUNDS LARK Montana TAMMANY TRUST ICE Vincent Thugge Inter Ocean CROKER: "For Heaven's sake, Clark, don't go on with that ice. Bryan is just talking about trusts." TRUTHS PLAINLY STATED. The Prices on Many Commodities Have Been Reduced by Industrial Combinations. They were jogging along home in the wagon, after spending the day in town, and hearing a prominent democratic spellbinder roast the administration, and invigilate against the trusts and imperialism, and the younger man was giving his hearty approval to all that had been said. The other, whose head was well sprinkled with white, finally interrupted, and after cursory discussion of the question remarked: "There is one thing about it that I can't for the life of me get straight. I suppose everybody is opposed to trusts, and ought to be, but I remember when we had to pay 15 cents a box for matches, or two for a quarter; and they organized a match trust, and now we get them for ten cents a dozen boxes. Then coal oil. I used to pay 40 cents a gallon for it before the Standard Oil company gobbled up the small fellows and suppressed all competition, and now I get a better quality at ten cents a gallon. And there's sugar; we used to have to pay a dollar for six and seven pounds of brown sugar, and the poorer folks got a very dark sugar, almost black, for nine pounds to the dollar. Somebody come along and organized the sugar trust, and it went down until I got 20 pounds of the best grade of granulated sugar for a dollar in '97 and now you can get 16 and 18 pounds for a dollar. Then that fellow talked about railroads bleeding the people. Why, I remember when it cost five cents a mile straight to ride on the railroads; and now they have got fare down to two cents a mile, and instead of the old, shackley cars, and corduroy roads, that shook a man until it loosed his teeth, they have the finest kind of cars, and road beds that are as smooth as a parlor floor." BEHIND THE CAMPAIGN'S FUNDS LARK MONTANA Von Chicago InterOcean CROKER: "For Heaven's sake, C just talking about trusts." "And, as far as that imperialism business goes, I have got a boy out in Manila somewhere, and dern my hide. I am with him to the end, and I ain't afraid of him and the other boys with him doing anything but their duty and standing by the old flag. "I don't see, either, but what McKinley has done what he ought to have done, and I am going to say to you right now, Jim, I am fer him, it don't matter what Bryan or anybody else says. He is for the American soldiers, and my boy is one of them. It may be rank treason to the democratic party, but I am for America and the old flag first and the democratic party after that." And the younger man was not so certain of his position, for his older brother had tried to cibble San Juan hill. Bryan's Discredited Prophecy. In his speech at Ortonville, among other things Gov. Roosevelt said: "Mr. Bryan prophesied again and again at Minneapolis, at New York, where he addressed the noble band of reformers, Tammany Hall; and at Indianapolis, again, again, and again, he said: 'If you vote the republican ticket times will be harder and harder.' "Again, If you vote for the gold standard you vote for four years of hard times." "And again: 'If you vote for the gold standard the farmer will find that the prices of his products will grow steadily lower.'" "Again: 'If you vote for the gold standard the wage-worker will find that he stands idle more and more.'" "Again: 'If you vote the republican ticket the business men will find that the number of failures will increase and the amount of bank deposits will decrease.' "Now, I ask you not to take my word for it, but to think of your own experience, and compare how things actually were; how the conditions were in your own state and in your own towns, with what Mr. Bryan prophesied. Not for Gain or Aggrandissement. "The cause of humanity has been triumphant, and that cause committed to our hands will not suffer. Wherever we have raised our flag, we have raised it, not for conquest, not for territorial aggrandissement, not for national gain, but for civilization and humanity. And let those lower it who will!"—William McKinley. What All Want. "What you want, what we all want, is business prosperity. When you have that you have something to do. When you have it not you are idle."—William McKinley. If the McKinley administration can give California another dose of the kind of imperialism and expa- sion which has added so much to its prosperity and prospects during the last two years the prayer of every citizen should be: "More power to it."—San Francisco Chronicle. PIANOS PLAY PROSPERITY. Chicago Manufacturers Give Evidence of the Good Times Among Farmers. Manufacturers of pianos in Chicago are enjoying a great wave of prosperity. Every firm in the city complains of its inability to keep up with daily orders, for it is only when business is flourishing that people indulge in such luxuries as pianos and organs. The farmer has good crops, good prices, and money to spare, and he is able to beautify his home. His demands upon the city mean steady and profitable employment for all classes of workmen. This state of affairs has crowded the makers of pianos with more orders than they can fill in several months. Here are snap shots taken by Wabash avenue manufacturers: P. S. Healy (Henry & Healy)—We are face to face with a proposition of disposing of more instruments than we can manufacture. E. S. Conway (W. W. Kimball company)—There is an immediate market for every piano which is made, and the trade is increasing with a growing per cent from year to year. W. B. Price (Cable Piano company)—We have been forced to open a new factory at St. Charles, Ill., so that we might come somewhere near supplying the demand. Our business at the present time is unprecedented. John Church (John Church company)—We are further back in our orders than we have been ever before, and can account for it only through the fact that people seem to have more money than usual. Frank Story (Story & Clark)—We are utterly unable to supply the trade, which has been steadily increasing since 1896. I think I am conservative when I figure a third increase, and it would not surprise me if it amounted to one-half more than last year. THE SCENES. TAMMANY TRUST ICE Clark, don't go on with that ice. Bryan W. O. Bacon (Estey & Camp)—Behind in orders for two years, and it will be some time before we can catch up. George P. Bent—Far behind in orders, and have bought ground for an extension of plant. THE PENDULUM OF TRADE Remarkable Demonstration of the Soundness of the Repub- lican Constitution the influence of free trade in depressing the industries of the country and in lowering the export business are shown in the statistics of exports for the past 20 years. The statement is a most remarkable demonstration of the soundness of the republican policy that the stimulation of home industry stimulates the export trade. Exports for Five Administrations. Dem Dec. Rep Inc The bank record is below: Garfield and Arthur: $169,803,803,903 Cleveland: $128,800,800,903 Harrison: 142,292,755,707 $17,928,746,856 116,292,800,244 26,023,855,459 McKinley (3 years): 128,550,803,807 There has been over $12,292,705,415 more business done in the United States in the three years of the McKinley administration than during the free trade era of Cleveland. One to Sixteen on Bryan Richard Croker has not spent much of his time and Manhattan's money on the English race tracks for nothing. He has reduced betting to a science and has now blossomed out as bookmaker to Bryan, as well as slatemaker for the democracy of New York state. But Boss Croker is not to be caught making wagers on his second choice candidate for the presidency by any offers of odds of two or even three to one on McKinley. He is waiting to take all the bets he can get at the heaven-born ratio of 16 to 1 on Bryan. When republican money goes begging at the odds of 16 to 1 on McKinley then Croker will step into the arena to back the small end of the ratio.—Chicago Times-Herald. Porto Rico Prospering Commerce-between the United States and Porto Rico has greatly developed since the new law has been in existence. In the months of May, June and July of 1900 the exports were valued at $2,117,207, as against $873,433 in the same months of 1899, $485,278 in the same months of 1897, and $393,225 in 1896. The law has proved a great benefit to the islanders and to the people of the United States thony, F. D PARKER. N. G., 36. Edmund St. Household of Ruth, No. 553. G. U. G. of O. F. Meets first and third Monday in each month for business, second Monday for instruction, at Odd Fellows Hall, 323 north. MRS. SARAH C. KJRTLEY. M.N.O. A JACKSON, W. R. 74 50 mit place. MOST WORSHIPFUL GRAND LODGE OF MINNESOTA, A. F. and A. M. J. L. NEAL, Grand Master. WM. R. MORRIS, Grand Secretary. Gary M. MORRIS, North Minneapolis, ST. PETER CLAYER'S SODALITY. Meets the first and third Mondays of each mouth, W. J. Gardner, Pres., J. S. Har伯 Pioneer Lodge, No. 1, A. F. and A. M. Meets the first Monday in each month at Masonic Hall, southwest corner Fifth and Robert streets. Master Masons in good standing always. H. S. HADLEY, W. M. W. A. HILYARD, Sec. 124 Atwater. Minnesota Lodge, No. 2, A. F. and A. Meets on the first and third Tuesday in each month at Masonic Hall, southwest corner Fifth and Robert streets. Master Masons in good standing always welcome. H. B. HOWARD, W. M. J. S. STRONG, Sec. 32th and Robert at. WM. STEVENS, No. 3, A. F. & A. M. Meets second and fourth Monday in each month at Masonic Hall, southwest corner Fifth and Robert streets. Master Masons in good standing always welcome. WM. JOHNSON, W. M. D. E. BEASLEY, Sec. Ryan Hotel. Perfect Ashler Lodge, No. 4, A. F. A. M. Meets the second and fourth Tuesday in each month at Masonic Hall, southwest corner of the building. Meets in good standing always welcome. H. K. DURANT, W. M. B. K. DURANT, W. M. 41 Carroll. Bethel Chapter, No. 25, R. A. M. Meets the first and third Thursday in each month at Masonic Hall, southwest corner of the building. Meets in good standing always welcome. DANIEL ROY, H. P. W. T. GASSAWAY, Sec. State Capitol. MINNEAPOLIS. G. U. O. O. O. F. St. Anthony Lodge, No. 2877. Meets the first and third Wednesday in each month for the transaction of business, 1st avenue in Boston. A. H. MYRICK, N. G. JAMES A. SCOTT, B. F. O. Box 33 KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS. Nat. Turner Lodge, No. 2, K. of P. Second second and fourth thursdays in each month from June to giving welcome. At Labor Temple, Fourth and Eighth avenue south. CARRER, C. K. RALPH WATSON, K. R. and S. Pride of Minnesota Lodge, No. 1, K. Pride of Minnesota Lodge, No. 1, K. Meets the first and third Thursdays in each month. All brothers in good standing welcome Flume Ha, Ha! First avenue north Washington. JAMES BROTHERS, C. C. W. C. JEFFEENY, K. R. and S. J. KENNEDY, J. K. MEets first Tuesday in each month at Windom Block, Second avenue South and Washington. Masons in good standing Washington. G. W. LILLARD, W. M. JASPER GIBBS, Sec., Guaranty Loan Anchor Lodge, No. 7, A. F. and A. M. Meets the first and second Monday in each month at Jupon Block, Second avail- bility Washington. Masons in good standing welcome. J. A. SCOTT, W. M. A. B. LEE, 271 Aldrich avenue South. Offers and Standing Committees of the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge A. F. and A. M. of Minnesota and jurisdiction: Grand Master-John L. Neal, Minneapolis. Deputy Grand Master-Wade H. Hampton, West Superior. Grand Senior Warden-H. B. Howard, St. Paul. Grand Junior Warden-J. C. Garner, St. R. Grand Treasurer-Dantel Roy, St. Paul. Grand Secretary-William R. Morris, Minneapolis. Grand Lecturer-G. W. Day (7), Minneapolis. Grand Secretary-O. D. Howard (4), St. Paul. Grand Chaplain-Issaac Crawford (4), Minneapolis. Grand Senior Deacon-John Martin (1), St. Paul. Grand Junior Deacon-R. De Leo (1), Minneapolis. Grand Senior Steward-J. H. Dillingham (2), St. Paul. Grand Junior Steward-W. Stevens (3), St. Paul. Grand Tyler—T. Bush (3), St. Paul. Grand Marshall—C. H. McDonald (6), District Pursuvalent—G. W. Duckett (4), St. Paul. Grand Sword-Bearer—J. Adams (1), St. Paul. Grand Standard-Bearer—G. J. Charles- son. Grand Regiment—J. G. Sterett (6), Mit- neapolis. District Deputy Grand Master—First District—James Woodfork (1), St. Paul. District Deputy Grand Master-Second District—E. H. Hamilton (6) Minneapolis. District—H. K. Foley (3), Third District—J. K. Foley (3), Duluth. CHURCH DIRECTORY. ST. JAMES A. M. E. CHURCH. Rev. J. C. Anderson, Pastor. Sunday services; 11:30 a.m. 7:30 p.m. Wednesday prayer meeting, 8:30 p.m. ST. PETER CLAYER'S PRIORITY CHURCH. Sunday services; Mass, 8:30 a.m. High mound, 8:30 a.m. Evening service at 7 o'clock. PILGRIM BAPTIST CHURCH. Rev. J. C. Anderson, Pastor. Cor. Fartington and Aurora avenues. Sunday services; Mass, 8:30 a.m. High mound, 8:30 a.m. Evening service at 7 o'clock. PILGRIM BAPTIST CHURCH. Rev. J. C. Anderson, Pastor. Cor. 22th and Cedar. Sunday services; Preaching at 11:30 a.m. Sunday School at 12:30 a.m. o'clock. Wednesday, evening. prayer meeting. 661 Rice street, bet. Aurora and Uni- versity. Sunday services; Preaching prayer, Lit- ary and Sermon, 11:30 a.m. ; Sunday School and Children's Vespers 3:00 p.m. ; morning Sermon, 11:30 a.m. ; evening Prayer and Lecture, 8:30 p.m.; Friday; Choir Rehearsal and Practice, 8:30 p.m. All are cordially invited. Santa Fe MINNEAPOLIS. **ST. PETER A. M. E. CHURCH.** Rev. W. S. Brooks, Pastor. Cor. 22d st. 8th ave. South Sunday School; 11:30 p.m.; 11:30 a.m.; Sunday School; 3:00 p.m.; evening services; $30 p.m. General prayer meeting; Wayman Home Circle, evening meeting different residents. Parsonage, 235 Ninth avenue South. **ST. PETER I. CHURCH.** Between Eleventh and Twelfth avenue. Sunday services: Preaching, 11:00 a.m.; Sunday School; 12:30 p.m.; Christian prayer meeting; Wayman Home Circle, evening meeting different residents. Parsonage, 235 Ninth avenue South. **ST. JOHN J. MISSION.** Rev. John J. Paude, in Charge. 65th Avenue South. Sunday services; 4:00 p.m.; Sunday School; 3:00 p.m. **ST. JAMES A. M. E. CHURCH.** Rev. J. W. King, Pastor. Between First avenue and Second street Sunday services: Preaching at 11:00 a.m.; Sunday School; 3:00 p.m.; evening general prayer meeting Thursday evening. Weekly meetings of the Debating Club. NOTICE.--Changes and corrections will be made upon notify the office. If we have suspected to place a notice of any society in the above directory it is because we do not know of it or have not seen its officers. Send name of any lodge place and times of meeting name of officers and it will be inserted. THE ADVANCE CAFE 214 WASHINGTON AV. SOUTH. Restaurant and Lunch Counter RICHARD MANN, Proprietor. 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Hundreds of thousands o'er whom the earth A PRECIOUS TRUST THE firm of Twist & Taffeta was progressive—consequently considerate. So, it being July, Will Merrillvill got off at one o'clock on Saturdays. So did Iona Wray, who was in the mail order department, and who frequently came to him, in his position as manager of the cloth department, to match samples or order goods. On one of these occasions he discovered that Iona lived in the same suburb as he did. He found out, too, that they generally went out of the city at the same hour, on the same train. On learning which his spirits rose like a toy balloon. To be sure, Iona was a pretty girl. She possessed not only beauty, but distinction. She held her slender young body so exactly, she spoke so frankly, but also with such dignified reserve, and she was so earnest and so conscientious in doing the work intrusted to her that Will Merrillvill forgot while in her presence to give the firm his best duty and attention. But, then, Merrivill was extremely susceptible. If he had not been so susceptible it is quite unlikely that he would have been confided with a precious trust. And if he had not been selected for the honor conferred upon him he and Iona might have proceeded beyond the boundaries where the courtesies of casual acquaintance cease. Indeed, she did not feel sufficiently familiar with him to mention the fact of her intention to stay an hour later in town than usual on one particular afternoon, although she had come down to Merrivill that morning for six yards of lavender broadcloth to be sent to a lady living in Arizona. "Hot day," remarked Merrivill. "It will be fine to get away early." But she did not enter the Northwestern depot at her ordinary hour, although Will paced up and down just without the railing, and watched the great gates until his train had come and gone. Surely she would be here before the next train was due to leave. The thought of sitting beside her as the train rushed out of the smoky city into the beautiful green suburbs was delightful. He might even get up courage to ask to call! And if permitted to do so, how kind he would be to Bobby—if only Bobby would keep still about their little alteration. Bobby had stretched a string across the sidewalk. Merrivail, running for the train, had fallen over it and skinned his shins. Observing the culprit, he had promptly grabbed him and given him chastisement brief but effective. Confound it How was he to know that the little red-headed wretch was the brother of this charming girl? He would fall over strings all the way from Melrose to State streets, if only—"I凭 your nardon madam!" His hat was in his hand and he was bowing profoundly to a lady with whom he had almost collided when he had turned so abruptly in his impetuous walk. "Do not mention it!" cried the lady, who was young and pale and of almost tragic appearance. She was handsome, too, but evidently grief was responsible for the wild expression of her large black eyes and the piteous trembling of her lips. She wore deep mourning. She was apparently a foreigner. "But you will help me, sir? I am in desperation. Two hours from now I take a train to the west. I came down here to make arrangements for leaving. At my hotel I forgot some important papers. I must return at once and secure them. In the meantime my I beg of you to undertake the care of my daring Snowflower? It is a precious trust and one which I would not confide to every stranger. Is this asking too much, sir?" Merrivell, the susceptible, Merrivell the gallant, bowed still more courteously. "I am honored," he assured her, "highly honored! Consider me at your service!" He felt jubilant. This was an opportunity. Now, when Iona Wray arrived, she would see with what gentleness, with what tenderness he cared for this child of a stranger! She would appreciate all the lovely depths of his sympathy! She would be incredulous of the statements of that red-headed Bobby! She might even think Bobby deserved corporal reproval. And, when she passed through the gates alone what a lingering glance would she not send back to him where he sat caring for the child of a lonely young widow! He would smile sadly in answer, and she would realize that it was only his sense of chivalry which kept him from her side. And all the way out she— So deep was he in the delicious dream he did not perceive the return of the black-eyed stranger until she was close beside him. "You are so kind! I shall now feel perfectly safe about my little darling. I shall soon be back!" Then she ditappeared, and Merrill found himself staring down upon the big, covered basket she had thrust in his hand. Hello! What kind of a game was this? Her darling Snowflower. Her precious trust! Was the child in the basket? Was the child dead? Was he to be involved in an ugly mystery? His face blanched. A cold sweat broke out on his forehead. He could feel it trickling down his cheeks. He glared wildly around. He sank weakly down on the bench, never relaxing his grip of the heavy basket. Should he cut for it and run? Wouldn't that arouse suspicion? Or—mereful heavens! Here was Iona Wray now—coming directly towards him, and looking sweet as a rose in her thin summer gown and big leghorn hat. He was wildly anxious that she should not see him, but she did. She paused in some astonishment. "Are you ill?" she asked. "I have never seen you appear so—" she hesitated for a word—"so disturbed." she concluded. He staggered to his feet, still holding hard the handle of the basket in his left hand and jerking off his hat with his right. "No—no! I'm all right—at least." Here something in the basket moved. He glanced down in a panic. Iona's bewildered gaze followed his. Did that contain the mystery of his pallor, his excitement, his distracted air? "It's—it's alive!" he said, in a blood-curdling whisper. He hastily set the basket down and drew back. "What's alive?" gasped Iona. "Her darling Snowflower -- the child!" he panted. "The child!" repeated Iona, with a shriek. "A baby in that basket!" Her cry attracted the attention of the people hurrying for the trains. Many paused. A crowd gathered—augmented. "Here—here!" cried a portly policeman hastening up. "What's all this about?" "It's a child!" "It's a baby!" "It's tied in that basket!" "Here's a loophole for air!" "Who does it belong to?" "The man was abducting it!" The cries increased in number. Exclamations of horror resounded. A couple of railway officials passed through the throng. And meantime the basket rocked away on the bench in an uncanny fashion that sent shivers down the back of the least imaginative. "I don't know anything about it!" protested Merrivell in an agonized wall. "A lady gave it to me to hold until her return. I—" Lowering looks met his. A threatening growl arose. "That's all right, sir!" grunted out a man apparently panpressed with authority. "We'll attend to you. Officer, keep your eye on this fellow! I am going to open this basket." He whipped out a knife—bent down The curious crowd pressed closer. Not one of that breathless mob moved as the knife snipped—snipped along the taut lines. Suddenly the lid was jerked upward. There was a cry from the basket—not the cry of a child. It was a yelp. A woolly white poole poked out his head and looked inquisitively around. The howl that went up from the observers caused the hurrying suburbanites on the iron staircase to stand agast. The big policeman burst into a bellow. He took his hand from Merrivell's arm. Iona laughed through her frightened tears. And, just when the hubbub was at its height, a frantic woman burst through the throng. She plowed her way to the bench, to the basket, her black eyes flashing fire. "You are a fine gentleman to trust!" she screamed. She had turned on Merrell in a fury. "Letting those horrid railroad men see my Snowflower! Now, they will not allow me to take him in the passenger car! And I shall not have my beautiful little love shut up in the baggage car! I gave him the tiniest whiff of choloform to keep him quiet until we should have started. I went away to get a trifle more. He would have slept the whole way! But you—you impostor! You have beetrayed me! You have abused my confidence!" She stormed away at a wonderful rate. "O, my precious pet!" she wailed at last, catching the drowsy canine to her bosom, "it's astonishing that he didn't try to steal you!" "I—I didn't know it was a dog!" protested Merrillr, weakly. She flung fiercely around. "What did you think it was?'" she demanded. Whereat the crowd roared again. "Oak Park train—a ll a-b-ord!" hawled the starter. Merrivell and Miss Wray sat together all the way out. They laughed immediately. He was assured he might call. He did—in fact, he is still calling. To be explicit, there is a rumor that—but this may be gossip. Anyhow, the girls in the mail order department smile when Iona's work takes her to the cloth goods aisle. And Will's fellow-workers are buying him for taking down Nathijo blue when she asked for sunburn rose. At all events, these young people seem to be happy together on their free Saturday afternoons. Best of all, Bobby, by some mysterious process, has been conciliated. As a chaperon, self-satisfied, ubiquitous and decidedly superfluous, he merits commendation, and gets nickels, dimes, and sometimes even—quarters—Chicago Tribune. Murphy's Intelligent Pup. Murphy, when he lived in the bush, always shared his blanket with the pup, but when he shifted to town he had to break the pup of its old habit. First time he caught it in bed he kicked it out. Next time Toby heard him coming, and jumped up quickly, but Murphy was suspicious, put his hand on the bed and found it warm. Then there was trouble for one small dog. That day the pup earnestly watched Murphy cooling his dinner by blowing on it. Following day Murphy came home at usual time, sneaked quietly upstairs, and observed the pup blowing on the bed for all he was worth. That pup is now in a circus, and Murphy is a gentleman—the dog carls enough to keep 'em both—Sydney Bulletin. Wrong Conclusion. "Well," remarked a louder at the railway station in a college town, the day after commencement, "I know, of course, that's what she is, but I should hardly have expected her to label her trunk so." "What do you mean?" asked another louder. "Don't you see rejoined the first, pointing at the letters, "S. G. G," conspicuously marked on a large trunk standing on end at the edge of the platform. "That means 'Sweet Girl Graduate.'" "My name, air," aurist replied a dignified woman standing near, "is Sylvia Gale Gibson." There was no further conversation concerning that trunk—Youth's Companion. FAILED AS A MATCHMAKER The King of Denmark Tried His Hand at It, But Met with Misfortune. The king of Denmark takes an active interest in the welfare of even the humblest of his subjects. The man who is now the "home farmer" to his majesty had been known by him from his early boyhood and was the son of one of the king's wealthiest farmers. A few years ago, says a London paper, he fell desperately in love with a pretty milkmaid who was in the employ of his parents. As usual, the course of true love did not run smooth, for the father was extremely annoyed and humiliated when he heard of this little affair and ordered his offspring to give up any idea of ever becoming wedded to a girl belonging to the servant class. Nothing daunted, the young fellow went straight to the king and entreated him to intercede for him and for his fair inamorata. The good king, much JUDGE LEO This well-known St. Louis soldier a commander in chief of the Grand Army in 1844, and was brought when a child to broke out he was quick to take a stand, vate, in 1861. He was promoted rapidly of major. For a number of years he was He was department commander of the Gr under Commander in Chief Adams was JUDGE LEO RASSIEUR. This well-known St. Louis soldier and furist, who has recently been elected commander in chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, was born in Germany in 1844, and was brought when a child to St. Louis by his parents. When the war ended, he was sent to the United States to serve in the war, in 1851. He was promoted rapidly and at the close of the war held the rank of major. For a number of years he was probate judge of the county of St. Louis, and was a member of the Army from 1891 and 1893, and under Commander in Chief Adams was judge advocate general. touched by the evident distress of the lad, did as he was asked, and, of course, there remained nothing for the irate father to do to yield with as good a grace as he could muster. As soon as the wedding had been celebrated King Christian gave the young man the charge of his home farm and showed great kindness and generosity to the young couple. Unfortunately, however, this love match, like many another, turned out badly. Disputes became more and more frequent, the husband awakening too late, alas! to the fact that, apart from her good looks, his wife had few of the qualities which he would have liked to encounter in a woman for whose sake he had sacrificed the affection of his father. Finally, a few days ago the romance of the farmer and the dairy maid ended in a tragedy, for the husband shot himself in a moment of hopeless discouragement, and the king is deeply grieved and much depressed by this catastrophe, which he feels to have been brought about by his interference with a purely family matter. Every kind of glass at a sufficiently high temperature must eventually show complete solubility in water. A FARM YARD SCENE IN FRANCE. This picture, borrowed from the Cou- northern France. As everywhere on the buildings are of substantial materials, w grouted floors and iron fixtures. The ca- drained. The managers are of stone and and France are constructed of hewn st European cousins, as a general thing, ne- by fire. A This picture, borrowed from the Country Gentleman, represents a barnyard in northern France. As everywhere on the continent, the barns, stables and outbuildings are of substantial materials, with tiled roofs, and, in this instance, with grouted floors and iron fixtures. The cattle stables are roomy, well ventilated and have entrances and entrances are of stone. and France are constructed of hewn stone, and frame sheds are unknown. Our European cousins, as a general thing, need not insure their animals against death by fire. Under the pressure glass dissolves in water heated to 400 degrees Fahrenheit. Sea water more than 660 feet beneath the surface will remain liquid at that temperature, and if it penetrates the earth's crust where the temperature is equally high it will, apart from the pressure, liquefy the silicates or glassy rocks. Prof. Barus concludes that at a depth of about five miles silicates in contact with water are virtually fluid, and that the level of aqueous fluid in the earth is five times nearer the surface than is that of igneous fusion. A small rod the size and length of a knitting needle is procured. A spider is then placed on the rod. Another boy comes along and he bets a cent that his spider will whip, says the San Jose (Cal.) Mercury. Then the sport begs. The boy who is challenged produces his spider, places it on the rod with the challenger's. Each spider makes a rush for the other and a fierce bite ensues. Sometimes the stronger of the two will wind a web around the other, fastening him to the rod and completely "putting him out of bush Measure of Coin. Money is measured by troy weight, in which 24 grains make a penny- weight, 20 pennyweights one ounce and 12 ounces one pound. The silver dollar weighs 412½ grains, and $1,000, as near as it can be expressed inteli- gently in print, weighs 71.614 pounds, or a fraction over 71½ pounds. In avoirdupois the same would weigh $8.928, or nearly 29 pounds. MISSIONARIES WELL PAID. Married Men Receive One Thousand Dollars a Year and Traveling Expenses. The foreign missionary does not work for love of humanity alone. He is a well-paid person, and instead of having the usual Sundays and holidays of rest like other folks he is given a year's vacation with salary every one in from four to ten years, says the Philadelphia Call. The married men missionaries in China receive $1,000 a year and travel pay. When missionaries who are married have children old enough to require to be kept in school away from home they are allowed $150 additional. If young children are with their parents and to be supported $100 additional is allowed for each child. Of course these salaries include house rentals and traveling expenses to and from the stations. When missionaries take a vacation of a year their traveling expenses to RASSIEUR. and jurist, who has recently been elected by the Republic, was born in Germany St. Louis by his parents. When the war for the union cause, and emitted an a prie- and at the close of the war held the rank probate judge of the county of St. Louis, grand Army of Missouri in 1891 and 1893, and judge advocate general. and from their stations are paid at this time and almost their full salary likewise allowed them. More than the salary must, of course, be the impelling motive when missionaries go to such fields as China. It is good, too, to learn that the laborers are not lacking even in the face of such horrors as it is feared have recently been inflicted on Gospel workers in China. Even at the present moment foreign mission boards are in receipt of hundreds of letters from volunteers who clamor to be sent to the land of the Celestials. SPIDER TIME IN MANILA. There Is Great Sport for the Filipino Boys in Making the Insects Fight. When "spider time" arrives the Filipino boy is happy. He does not know much about marbles, but when spider time arrives, and that is just after the rainy season begins, he knows that he is to have great sport. There are two harmless varieties of spiders that are green and yellow in color that mature in June. They are as large as the common black spider so plentiful in California. The Filipino boy catches these and keeps them secure in a box. Country Gentleman, represents a barnyard in the continent, the barns, stables and outwith tiled roofs, and, in this instance, with little stables are roomy, well ventilated and iron. Many of the stables in England home, and frame sheds are unknown. Our need not insure their animals against death A small rod the size and length of a knitting needle is procured. A spider is then placed on the rod. Another boy comes along and he bets a cent that his spider will wiph, says the San Jose (Cal). Mercury. Then the sport begins. The boy who is challenged produces his spider, places it on the rod with the challenger's. Each spider makes a rush for the other and a fierce battle ensues. Sometimes the stronger of the two will wind a web around the other, fastening him to the rod and completely "putting him out of business." The spiders sometimes fight for ten minutes. Nearly every boy has from eight to ten spiders, and they all the Filipino pennies they can get on the result of the fight. two and two are four, Bobbie? Bobbie—'Cause Jimmie Dugan says so. an' he kin lick me.—Chicago American. How Are Your Bowels? A man is talking to a woman in bed. Now what you want is Cascarets. Go and get them today--Cascarets--in metal box with the long-tailed "C" on the lid--cost 10c. Be sure you get the genuine! Cascarets are never sold in bulk. Take one! Eat it like candy, and it will work gently--while you sleep. It cures, that means it strengthens the muscular walls of the bowels, gives them new life. Then they act regularly and naturally. That's what you want. It's guaranteed to be found in THE IDEAL LAXATIVE Cascarets Get the genuine if you want resultat. Tablet is marked "CCC." Cascarets are never sold in bulk, but only and always in the light blue metal box with the long-tailed "C." Lock for the trade-mark—the C with a long tail—on the lid! BEST FOR THE BOWELS 10c. 25c. 50c. ALL DRUGGISTS This is the genuine tablet, never sold in bulk. To any needy mortal, suffering from bowel troubles and too poor to buy CASCARETS, we will send a box free. Address Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago or New York, mentioning advertisement and paper. 619 ESTABLISHED 1979. WOODWARD & CO., GRAIN COMMISSION Orders for Future Delivery Executed in All Markets. BASELY DECEIVED HER. Get Her Titikb She Was Reforming Him, When He Had No Bad Habits to Break. "So your engagement is broken?" said the girl in gray, according to Pearson's Weekly. "Yes, it is," replied the girl in brown, from the cage at the collision. "What was the matter?" "He baselyceived me," answered the girl in brown. "You see, it was this way: I asked him one day to promise me that he never again would smoke cigarettes, and he promised. Then I asked him to retrain from the cage in any form, and he promised to do that. Then he promised the horror of anyone touched liquor, and he agreed to touch it. After that I suggested that I thought clubs had a bad influence on young men and I should expect him to give them up, and he said he would. I also suggested that I should have made him promise that he would stop playing cards and betting on the races." "Well, you didn't demand a great deal of him, did you?" said the girl in gray. "I suppose he deceived you in the matter?" "Broke his promise, did he?" "Oh, no! I could have forgiven that. But just when I was congratulating myself that I at least had reformed one young man I found that he didn't require any reforming. He wasn't adicted to a single one of the things he am promised to break. It was a terrible book, and I had to at once. There was no longer anything in it to make it interesting." Another De Luxe Edition of "A Message to García." The Passenger Department of the New York Central seems never to tire of sending out copies of "A Message to Garcia." The latest issue is the first five thousand of the book, and is numbered consecutively from 1,000,000 to be beautifully printed on heavy plate paper, the illustrations being brought out in a manzer equal, if not superior, to the best magician, and the book is bound in a grey cloth and heavy boards. It is intended for libraries, and was issued at the request of a large number of American libraries who are making this edition in writing. This edition contains, in addition to Mr. Hubbard's admirable preachment, a short sketch, with a portrait of Leucanten-Colonel Andrew S. Rowan, the man who wrote the sketch, with a portrait of General Calixto Garcia, the man to whom the "Message" was carried, and a short sketch, with portraits of the man who wrote A Message to Garcia. It also contains eight pages of extracts from the press, and comments from well-known educators, clergymen, professional men, and many large employers of men, on the subject of the importance of Educational Association, and a sketch on Harvard-Americanism and the Cuban teachers. A limited number of copies of "A Message to Garcia" bound in cloth and boards may be obtained at 50 cents each. A copy of the edition with illuminated paper cover, fully illustrated, will be sent free, post paid, to Garcia. A copy of the postage stamp issued by any country on the globe, or it will be sent in packages of 100 each, on receipt of 50 cents for each 100 cents. Agent, New York Central & Hudson River Railroad, Grand Central Station, New York His Speciality. **A British officer collecting cavalry mounts in Australia recently received the following orders:** Supply you with horses for cavalry, artillery and infantry. But I think my specialty is in the horse du combat, as the French soldier's horse or charger."—N, Y, Sun. Railway Farm Lands for Sale. In Northern Wisconsin the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha railway has for sale, at low rates and easy terms of payment, about 400,000 acres of choice farm lands. Early buyers will secure the advantage of locations on the many beautiful landscapes of the fish and furnish a never ending and most excellent water supply, both for family use and for stock. Land is generally well timbered, the soil fertile and easy to cultivation. Chicago, Minneapolis & St. Paul, Minneapolis, Duluth, Superior, Ashland and numerous other thriving cities and towns on the line of the C. St. P. M. & O. 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PINKHAM":** I am failing very fast, — since January have lost thirty-five forty pounds. I have a yellow, forty pound I love tired, and have bearing down pain. Menses have not appeared for three months; sometimes I am troubled with a white discharge, and I also have kidney and bladder trouble. . . I have been this way for a long time, and feel so miserable I thought I would write to you, and if you could me any good—"Miss EDNA FREDERICK, Troy, Ohio. Sept. 10, 1899. **"DEAR MRS. PINKHAM":** I have used Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound according to directions, and can say I have not felt so well for years as I do at present. Before taking your medtine a more miserable person you never knew, I could not tell and did not come to talk with any one. I did not enjoy talk at all. Now, I feel so well I cannot be grateful enough for what you have done for me. You are surely a woman's friend. Thanking you a thousand times, I remain. EMP. JOHN MISS EDNA FREDERICK, Troy, Ohio. "DEAR MRS. 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The trump of millions westward is echoed from the wheel; The strain of millions striving senations new to feel; New cities planned at twilight, perfected Our Nation's might replenished by western brain and brawn. The fruits are, aye! most luscious; the flowers fairest bloom; The men are best and bravest, and there is less of gloom Where sun of Empire, where Sun of Progress dips, And burnishes the wheat fields and gilds the grooming ships. —F. A. Murray, in N. Y. Tribune. ALL RICHMOND had surrendered to Gen. Humidity and his torrid solar army. The excessive heat had driven all, but those to whom fate had been unkind, to shelter from the fiery lances of old Sol. At Gray Manse the members of the family had sought comfort in the cooler air on the wide, vine-bowered plaza and the serving people might be found seeking the same solace in the grove back of the cook house. The evening papers were filled with accounts of victims of the invader's fury and told of the hospitals filled with persons "overcome by the heat." But Madam Grey and her daughter, Janet, were more concerned about the dispatches from Mexico. "Yellow Jack" was raging along the gulf coast. The latest news reported that the villages along the Tula river had been almost wiped out of existence. The temporary hospitals flying the "yellow flag" at Panuco were overcrowded. Physicians were not plenty and were overworked; nurses, there were none, but the natives. The newspaper correspondent wrote that no news had been received for two weeks from the outlying plantations and that it was feared that the planters had succumbed to the yellow plague. As Janet Grey read the dispatches to her mother her face whitened and in the tightening lines about her mouth Madam Grey thought she read the birth of some new resolve which no opposition could weaken. Then as the soft moonlight illuminated the younger woman's face, and in that pale light there seemed something almost divine in the inspiration, that shone from within the beating of her sweet southern beauty, she broke the silence: "Mother, I must go to him." The mother's answer came softly, resignedly, but with no reproach: "At once, love. Poor Jack!" Then two pairs of hands became as one and the pale moon peeping between the leaves wondered at two women weeping in each others' arms. Next morning among the passengers on the fast express flying swiftly southward was a young woman who might be 25 and whose sweet, sad face contrasted strangely with the air of eager impatience which enveloped her. A grip at her feet bore the initials "J.G." Sixty miles an hour seemed slow to Janet. Five years before Janet Grey, an only daughter, had been a student in the New York training school for nurses. Not because she needed a profession, she told herself, but because she wished to be able to be useful. It was a hobby, a firmly rooted hobby, of a young woman who was to be some cay owner of some of the finest land in Virginia. So when Jack Masters, a childhood playmate and the son of an old family friend, sought her love and twice asked her to become his wife, she, though she was very fond of him, had twice put him off and had refused to consider matrimony as a serious possibility until she had won her diploma as a trained nurse. Furthermore, she had hinted to Jack that she was not sure of his constancy and that she had doubts about his business ability; for it was common property that, though Jack had inherited a most desirable estate, the young gentleman had not done all that might be expected of him as a landed proprietor, and that Masters' hall was not the hall of the old time. Madam Grey had enlisted under his standard and had fought nobly for him; but Janet remained firm in her resolve, as she usually did. She said that if he was of the same mind when she had completed her four years' training as a nurse he might again seek to win her. She would hear no more on the subject until then. In a fit of what he considered righteous indignation at this decree, Jack sold out Masters' hall, purchased a coffee plantation near the banks of the Tula river in Mexico, and had taken himself off. Before his departure he had broken taboo, and had again sought to win Mia Grey from her resolution, but she remained obdurate. He left vowing to prove himself a man of business, and that he would return in five years, and would then carry her off whether she would or not. Five years, because that time was needed to put his new purchase in the best paying condition; also a year longer than Janet's taboo, because the young man sought to outdo her in the matter of obstinacy. Somehow he felt aure that Janet loved him, at any rate she loved no one else. Letters passed to and fro frequently during the first four years. Young Masters always sent his love and respects to "Mother Grey," but never once showed any disposition to again break taboo. For some reason this was not all to the liking of Miss Janet. She had discovered soon after he left Mexico that she did love him, and that her profession was not just what she wanted most, after all; but she was too proud to say so, and she completed her course and became a full-fledged sister of the Red Crown in due time. Early in the fifth year something had happened. Something seemed to pull strangely at Janet's heart strings. Letters came but irregularly from Mexico, and during the last ten months no letters were received from Masters. Two of her own letters remained unanswered and a third had been returned to her by the post office. A letter sent to the Mexican postmaster brought no reply, and now this dreadful yellow fever plague had stricken the land where Masters plantation was located. Now, as she was speeding swiftly over the rails toward Mexico, she pondered over these things. Did she, would he, think it unwomanely of herself to seek him unasked? She would not believe that, for bad not her own mother agreed that she must go at once? Poor Jack, was he suffering alone out there among strangers? Was he alive? A long, journey full of hopes and fears, misgivings, doubts and fatigue; but all things have an end. A final change to a email-like branch road, then the yellow flag and the announcement that passengers were not permitted to enter the fever district. A hasty consultation with a cringingly polite official, and a pass to go on, as she was a trained nurse. Then the dirty station at Panuco. Almost at her journey's end—what would she find? A sense of her own littleness and helplessness came upon her for a moment, then was gone again. Did the cart little boy with donkey cart know where Senior Masters' plantation was? His name was Pippo, he knew the plantation, but t surely the beautiful senitoria would not wish to go there. They said Senior Masters was dead of the fever; he would not wish to disappoint the senitoria, but he had no wish to go to the plantation. A few silver coins, an appeal from two wet, touch-southern eyes, and Pippo thought he might drive her near the plantation, where she might walk to it if she must. It was useless to go, though, for was not the plantation deserted? Had not Fr. Antonio, the priest, said a week ago that the senor was dying? That was after he had been taken home to his plantation to die. Yes, he would take her near the plantation he would wait one little hour for her, maybe two. If her heart was being torn during that long duty ride her face gave no warning of it. From Pippo she learned that Senior Masters had been imprisoned for nearly ten months on a false charge, that he had contracted the fever in prison. The real offender had been discovered and had confessed and the senor was set free. Fr. Antonio had been kind to the senor, for the senor had been good to the church and the poor. He would not let an innocent man die in prison and had taken him home to the plantation to die. There a faithful servant had cared for him, but a week ago the father had said the senor could not live, his case was hopeless. Surely the senor was dead, but he had not seen the priest since. The senor was a good man and had been kind to Pippo. Pippo's heart was sore for the beautiful senorita who had come so far to find the senor. She left Pippo at the entrance to the plantation and hurried to the house. The place seemed deserted. Then the sound of a darky's voice, a real Virginia darky, singing: "O! Carry me back to ole Virginia," to ole Virginia shore," came softly from somewhere above. Hope grew stronger and Janet hurried in the direction of the singer. The sound of footsteps silenced the voice and then she heard: "De Lawd be praised. He done sabed de mussa. De angel hab come. Peter he hearn her a comin' an de angel's Miss Janet in de flesh, sure as dis nigger hake prayed for her." It was Peter, good old garrulous Peter! She knew Ja k was alive now and in another moment she was kneeling by her lower's bedside. The sick man recognized her. She was there, he was too weak then to know or care how, she was there, her soft, cool hand on his forehead, that was enough. That night he slept quietly while Janet and the faithful negro watched over him. The fever was broken. It was not genuine yellow jack, but a kindred malarial fever. He had called for her in his delirious moments and had begged Peter to talk about her and sing the old Virginia songs when the fever left him for a time. Janet nursed him back to convicence with the aid of good Fr. Antonio and the faithful Peter. Then the good priest married them, and with Peter they returned to Richmond. Health and strength returned in full measure, thanks to tae skillful nursing of trained nurse Janet. The sale of the Mexican plantation realized enough to again seat Jack Masters in the old family home and bring it back to something of the old-time splendor. Old Peter now guards the little Masters, and often tells them the story of "how de good Lawd sent an angel into the wilderness down in Mexico an' done saved de massa."—Boston Globe. A. Witty Justice One day before the late lord chief justice took sick he was sitting in court when another barrister, leasing across the benches during the hearing of a trial for bigamy, whispered: "Russell, what's the extreme penalty for bigamy?" "Two mothers-in-law," instantly replied Russell. On one occasion Lord Russell went to help the librals in a certain campaign. He began his speech with some badly pronounced Scotch. After the confusion caused by his blunder had subsided Sir Charles Russell (as he was then) said: "Gentlemen, I do not speak Scotch, but I vow Scotch." Tremendous applause followed, whereupon Sir Charles proceeded, "and I sometimes drink Scotch." With this his hold on the audience was secured—London Tit-Bits. Afraid He Would Swallow It NEW WORKS WE WISH TO LEAVE. New words, says Success have a special charm for many young writers, and for some who know enough to be chary of their use, like Refus Choate, who "drove a substantive-and-six" in some of his most venerous oratorical journeys. When Chief Justice Shaw heard of a new edition of "Worcester's Dictionary," with 2,500 new words, he exclaimed, in alarm: "For Heaven's sake, don't let Choate get hold of it!" **Windows of Mother of Pearl.** Many Chinese temples have windows made from the white mother-of-pearl found in oyster shells. The material is perfectly transparent and looks like opal glass. N. Y. Sun. ...S IN THE WEST. Sizes That Also Between Cattlemen in the Range States. The perennial fight between western cattlemen and sheepmen is a study for both the psychologist and the economist. At first glance the interests of these great divisions of the live stock industry would appear to be in common. But, in truth, this can never be. Cattle and sheep can no more occupy a range in common than oil and water can float coherently. The cow-puncher hates the shepherd with a hatred that is deep and oftimes pictureque, and the herder begins himself with artillery and sullenly stands on the defensive, writes Capt. James M. McClintock, in Ainslee's. The trouble between the cattle and sheep industries mainly proceeds from the natural differences between the two classes of live stock. Cattle are home-keeping in their habits. They are as hard to lose as a house cat, unless, perchance, the cheerful and reckless rustler happens along. A range cow naturally will make her "run" where she was born. Her owner and his cowbucks expect to find her within easily defined limits, usually along some certain cattle trail that starts at a watering place and leads back to higher ground. In ordinary weather, if water be easy of access, about all the cattle will be found some time during the day along the creeks, in the shade or luxuriously hock deep in the mud. The night is spent back on the feeding ground. Drive the cow away, even 100 miles, and back she will drift, though her return be to a feeding ground by far the worse. Back home she will come, though it be to starve and die. Sheep, on the contrary, are necessarily nomadic. They are gregarious, "bunching" by instinct. One man with his dog can care for even 4,000, though only half that number is usually allotted. A flock of sheep is about as devastating as a prairie fire. Where it has passed the grass is gone, even to the roots, the sage brush is defoliated and the track so reeks with the sheep's peculiar odor that cattle and horses avoid the ground for weeks afterward. And the herds in their ceaseless journeying never follow one another. To use a pat military expression, they come "en echelon," in a path parallel to and abutting one edge of the strip devastated by the preceding woolly army. Thus, if one flock cat out a half-mile strip, ten flocks will leave a baven area five miles wide. The better the feed the slower the rate of travel. The flock moves on when the grass is consumed. No diagram is needed to show the effect of such a raid on a cattle range. The rage of the cattlemens is not hard to imagine. A quarter of a century ago, when the wild west was virgin land and pasture, there was plenty of room for both cattle and sheep. But as the country has filled up and as the area of untenanted or unclaimed land has shrunk, the two branches of live stock have been driven in upon each other more and more, until they are now in contention for possession of the same field. Little by little the herders and punchers have been forced from the plains up into the mountains. Western Kansas, Nebraska and the Dakotas, the western portion of Oregon and Washington, and all of California, which were once free ranges, have become less and less available. Even Colorado and Utah and a portion of Wyoming, because of the advance of farmers and miners, afford a constantly shrinking pasturage. Both sheepmen and cattlemen have been obliged to seek the high and untenable lands in the mountains, where the forests and the watersheds are the only sections that afford sufficient feed. The struggle between them, therefore, is waged chiefly in what is known as the plateau region of the continent. From lower New Mexico and Arizona and western Texas northward to the American boundary, and from the eastern Montana line westward to the summit of the Cascade mountains, the sheepmen and the cattlemen are fighting for the control of the remaining ranges. The sheep go into the verdant meadows of the forests, and the cattlemen seek to expel them. The cattlemen occupy some section where the grasses are succulent and the water plentiful, only to find the sheep working into the same district, cropping the grass to its roots, and tainting the air with the smell which the cattle cannot endure. The closer settlement crowds in upon the formerly unsettled lands the more bitter becomes the antagonism. Frequently it breaks out in brief shooting matches, in which the cattlemen generally prove themselves the more expert. More often it culminates in strained sentiments and press reports of "trouble threatened between cowboys and sheep herders." Again it breed's feuds which are fully as swift and decisive as those of Kentucky. Twelve and a Fraction The ruler of a small German state has discovered one way of warding off the dire calamity which must result from having 13 sit at a table. A Berlin exchange is the authority for this statement. His serene highness is in the habit of giving little dinners and parties to which only the social select are called. At one of these exclusive affairs held lately the prince ordered a cover to be laid for Herr L—one of his cabinet council, Herr L—was a little late, and the rest of the guests had arrived when he presented himself at the door. A superstitious baroness excalined, as he entered: "Good gracious! There are 13 of us!" "Calm yourself, my dear baroness," said his serene highness, "Eerr L—is not one of us; he belongs to a burgher family." Praise for Queen Victoria. The king of Sweden has a high opinion of Queen Victoria, as the following extracts from the Gem, of London, secured from his notebook will show: "No wonder that the people of Great Britain love and deeply respect their queen! As the king of Sweden, I am a happy and honored man; but so highly and lovingly do I respect the sovereign of England that I could come down from my position of king and serve happily, without any feeling of regret, the queen of England as a British subject. Her majesty by chance became a queen—but not by chance has she gained the love and respect of all living monarchs of all her people!" SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. Snails, by means of an acid which they exude, contrive to bore holes in solid limestone. Formosa produces by far the greatest quantity of camphor. The annual output amounts to between 6,000,000 and 7,000,000 pounds, while the Japanese annual production is about 300,000, and that of China 220,000 pounds. Experts who have examined rye straw are of the opinion that a very high grade of paper, not only adapted to newspapers, but suitable for books as well, can be made from that material, of which Louisiana produces thousands of tons that are now gotten rid of as a waste product. Many chemists regard sulphur, carbon, arsenic and some other substances as elements. M. Fittica, a French savant, however, says that arsenic is not an element, but a compound of phosphorus probably with oxygen and nitrogen. He has obtained arsenic by treating phosphorus with a large number of oxidizing agents, such as nitric acid, peroxid of barium, etc. The soil of Peru contains the largest number of mineral species—at Pluria, in the north, petroleum and sulphur; silver, lead, copper and coal in the great mining basin of Cerro de Pasco, in central Peru, and phosphate, quicksilver, auriferous grounds and borax at Arequipa, Carabaja, in the south. At the present time the number of mines in exploitation is 2,500 employing 70,000 workmen. At the University of Illinois, F. C. Koch, of the department of applied chemistry, is carrying on an investigation of Illinois coals, with special reference to the process of coal washing. The process of washing ordinarily removes 50 per cent. of the slate and ash ingredients and 50 per cent. of the sulphur; the reduction in sulphur rendering them more fit for gas-making and cooking—Railway and Engineering Review. In the first half of the present year one of the London banks made a profit of $1,150,000 and another cleared over $1,200,000. Three more ranged from $1,150,000 down to $653,000, the smallest figures being equivalent to $1,300,000 in a year, or ten per cent. of $13,000,000. Banks that do as well as that are scarce in the United States. At least ten English banks, not including the Bank of England, made profits of more than $400,000 apiece in the first half of the present year, and they averaged about $800,000. IMMUNE TO SNAKE POISON. Father and Son in Georgia Who Think Nothing of Being Stung by Reptiles. A gentleman from northern Georgia, whose statements cannot be doubted, told a story of a family, at least father and son, almost incredible. They live near the Durham mines on the Sand mountain and are named Wilson. The remarkable thing connected with them is an entire absence of fear of snakes, even of the most venomous description, and their immunity from any evil effects from the bites of the deadliest reptile, says the Chattunooga News. The father and son came to the mines not many days ago, according to the statement of this gentleman, the son with a large copperhead, one of the deadliest of Georgia's many deadly snakes, coiled in his cap on top of his head. The father had a large rattlesnake, about five feet long, in his bosom next to his skin. They seemed no more afraid of them than if they were pet mice, and after putting these strange pets upon the ground this extraordinary pair, in order to prove their lack of fear, provoked the snakes until each was bitten in the arms and legs a number of times. No ill effects whatever were manifested, and the man told the narrator that no snake bite had the slightest effect on him. He and his son can take up the most deadly snakes, such as the copperhead, rattlesnake and moccasin, without any thought of possible snake bites, other than the slight pain naturally experienced. The man had no explanation to offer, saving that he has been that way since he can remember. Physicians try to explain it by saying that they have become proof by continuous bites and innoculation, somewhat in the same way that innoculation with smallpox virus or vaccination protects against contracting smallpox. But this can hardly be true, if the man is to be believed, since he states that he has enjoyed immunity since his earliest childhood, and the son, a small boy, is also immune and has been all his life. The case is one which might be profitably investigated by physicians and scientific men. A few such cases have been told of before, but vaguely and indefinitely, but this is touched for by such undeniably good and reliable authority that there can be no possible doubt of its truth. The informer is positive that the poison fangs of the snakes exhibited had not been extracted, and he is equally positive that there was no deception practiced. After submitting to the bites the man and the boy both showed their hands and legs, and the small punctures with the blood exuding therefrom were seen by dozens of people. Whatever the power possessed by this abnormal pair, there is no question as to the poisonous character of the snakes, nor of the fact that they bite their keepers, and that the bites were absolutely innocuous. Women at the Paris Exposition. Mathematical cranks are busy figuring upon an estimated number of visitors at the Paris exposition. The last and most interesting one endeavors to fix the proportionate number of men and women, and the women, as usual, carry off the palm. Of the 150,000 Americans due, according to his estimate, to make the journey, 100,000 of them will be females. If this statement is true, or even proportionately true, America can be congratulated on being "beautifully" represented, at least.-N. Y. Herald. Good Advice. "My boy," said Uncle Obadiah, "when you get ready to pick out a gal for a wife, pass up the prodigal, and select one of the fre-gal sort that suits your conju-gal notions."—Chicago Evening News. REASONS FOR ENLISTING. Unrequited Love Drives Many Men Into Uneile Sam's Service-Rejections Are Many. In one of the smaller cities of Texas is a big man with a small conscience who has accomplished one of his chief objects in life. He has got rid of a small boy whose dying parents consigned him to the big man's car. He did it by sending him to Chicago to exist in Uncle Sam's navy, though he must have known that the boy could not pass a physical examination. When the boy arrived at the recruiting station in the Masonic temple and related his story to Commander Blockinger, who has charge of it, he was sent to the officers of the Y. M. C. A., and by them was found work and a home in a city in central Illinois, says the Chicago Tribune. Of the many strange cases that have come into the recruiting station here, that of the boy excited the greatest interest. He was not more than 15 years old, and had been left by his parents when a small child in the care of a guardian who never liked him. There wasn't much of an estate and the old man was not half the friend to the boy's parents after they died that he had been before. So he hunted for some means to get the youngster off his hands. He found it when he saw a big advertisement calling for recruits and which said apprentices were wanted in the navy. There is a suggestion attached that the boys must pass a physical examination and had better be examined by their home physicians before they start, so that if they are deficient they may be spared the expense of car fare to Chicago. The big man kept still about that, gave the boy a box of lunch to last him till he got here, put him in a day coach, with a ticket and no money, and went home to have a quiet laugh by himself on his own elevenness. The boy arrived here and was found to be lame, deaf in one car, and near-sighted, but he told such a pitiful tale that he was well cared for. Commander Blockinger has many strange cases among the hundreds of young men who enlist. There is something in the evolution of youth that makes him peculiarly tragic in his love affairs when he has about reached the age at which he is eligible for an apprenticeship in the navy. As a result there are many bitter-hearted youngsters who come to be examined and started either on the road to fame or to oblivion—for they are usually divided in opinion between becoming great and disappearing as the best means of making "her" sorry. Not long ago a young man, son of a rich New Yorker, was brought to the local office for enlistment. He had had money all his life and had misused it until he was a moral wreck. The old man decided nothing but naval discipline far at sea would make a man of him, so he came out here where the boy was living, "corralled" him and took him up to the office and bound him over to Uncle Sam. It is safe to say the boy will learn to do without some things during the term of his enlistment. From 60 to 100 boys pass through the office in the Masonic temple every month on their way from farm or city home to the sea. Of these the greater number are from the city, but out of the total number of applicants from country and city the percentage accepted is larger among those from the farm. These boys are sturdier, and the most of them have taken advantage of the department's notice and have had themselves examined first in their country town before chaining a trip to Chicago. This preliminary examination culls out those who are obviously unfit. As between city and country lads when once enlisted there is said to be little choice. Each is about the best there is. At army recruiting quarters on West Madison street, on the contrary, there is a demand for city men. The recruiting sergeant declares that the country-men are not so apt to pass the rigid examinations, and they do not make as good soldiers as the city men, having not as much endurance. Many colored men are being enlisted just now over there, as there is a demand for men to fill the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth regiments, both of which are in the Philippines with "depot battalions" at Fort Wright and Fort Bliss in this country. The white men who are taken on are sent, to join their home service, to Fort Wayne to join the Fourteenth regiment, or if they wish to go immediately to the Philippines are sent to Columbus barracks, Ohio, to await the sailing of a transport. Elopers at Barge Office Of runaways there are scores every year at the barge office. It seems that whenever a married woman has deserted his wife and children for a comely young girl, or a married woman has forsaken an elderly husband for a younger lover, they make straightaway for New York, as if it were the universal haven of refuge. In most cases the officials of the barge office manage to get the exact truth; for, having no marriage papers, "husband" and "wife" are separately questioned as to the time and the place the ceremony was solemnized. As both are lying, their stories frequently do not agree. It is usually the man who is first to confess to the runaway. This is because the woman has everything to lose and the man everything to gain, for he can desert her at will, even as he deserted wife and children abroad, and with even less compunction of conscience. The woman, and sometimes the man, suffer deportation. If the latter has money he is allowed to remain, since there is no law to prevent him, unless, of course, the wife across the water has caused her husband's arrest through the foreign consul here. There is usually a property as well as a personal crime in these runaway events.—Ainslee's Magazine. It Didn't Matter The Doctor—Above all things, madam, your husband mustn't worry. Perhaps you'd better not show him my bill just now. "But I did doctor, and it didn't make any difference. He said he knew he couldn't付 it anyway."—N. Y. Life. Corn Acreage in America SHE WOULD GET THERE. It Was None of the Ticket Seller's Business Where She Wanted to Go. He was long, lank, lank and raw-boned, and he shambled up to the ticket window at the Union passenger station much after the fashion of a scared canine when he applauded him for thrashing. He got as far as the outside railing and stood there with a bashful blush gazing at the man behind the brass bars, says the St. Joseph News, was the encouraging welcome from within. He accepted the invitation and brought up against the marble ticket counter with more confidence in his face, "the char," he said, in a half whisper, "is this the place where you git tickets for the kyars?" "Yes; where do you want to go? Hurry up; we're rushed." 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A north Missouri editor, who first studied baseball rules while a Sunday school boy, enters into the following antiquities of the school: a coach, Evestele first. Adam stole second. When Isaac met Rebecca at the well she was walking with a pitcher. Samson struck out a good man when he beat the Philias and drew the Egyptian sword to siew the Egyptians. Cain made a base hit when he killed Abel. Abraham made a sacrifice. The prodigal son made a home run. David was a long-distance thrower and the Red Sea captain at the Red Sea."—Chicago Chronicle. Try Grain-01 Try Grain-01 Ak your Grocerio-to day to show you a package of GRAIN-O, the new food drink that takes the place of coffee. Children may drink it without injury as well as adults. The dark, creamy, seal brown of Mocha or Java, is made from puregrets, and the most delicate stomache receives it without distress. the price of coffee. 15c. and 25c. per package. All grocers. Horrid Fear. The timid suitor had finally stated his case. 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