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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. Pills (four years) and C. F. Pills It doesn't pay a man to be honest if he is honest only for pay.-Chicago Daily News Popularity often makes a man believe what he knows isn't true.—Chicago Daily News. No, Augustus, the knapsack is not so called because it is used as a pillow.—Indianapolis News. Ignorance is a blank sheet on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one on which we must first erase.—Colton. One of the funniest things at an amateur concert is the sad faced girl in a clinging black dress who waits a comic song.—Atchison Globe. The desire for fame has betrayed many an ambitious man into committing indiscreet that forever ruined his reputation.—Chicago Daily News. "Well," said the street car conductor, as he rang up another fare. "I'm not much of a politician, but I'm generally for the ticket."—Indianapolis News. "Emerson Beaconstreet, making mud pies in your finest attire." "What matters that, nurse?" There should be no complaint until make mud pies upon my finest attire."—Boston Courier. Archaeology. "These pictures," the archaeologist of the distant future is explaining, "represents the cake walk of the ancients. The cake walk consisted of a number of movements evidently designed to assist the digestion of cake. Hence the name." -Detroit Journal. At the Summer Hotel. Miss Gabby (speaking of the mountain)—It was terribly high, and papa like to never got over it. Papa (who thinks she is speaking of something else)—Yes, and I told the landlord he had better just get a sandbag and work like any other toolpad if he expected to make charges like that. Baltimore American. Satisfaction Guaranteed. OLSON UNDER Funeral Directo 1503 E. Franklin Ave., PIANO SOLD DIRECT The Afro-American Advance. TWIN CITY NEWS. ST. PAUL Hello! I want to tell Madam E. Luverne Adams, the fashion 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 musical 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' fashion dress making parlor, 418 Wabasha street (upstairs). Dr. J. E. Porter, physician and surgeon, room 410 Washburn building, St. Paul, Milm, residence 453 Carroll st. Mr. and Mrs. Reno, of Windsor, Ont., are the guest of Mrs. M. J. Leavett, 651 Mississippi street. Mrs. Rachel King, of St. Louis, Mo., is in the city to attend the funeral of her son. Mr. T. R. King is the guest this week of Mrs. Geo. Patterson. Miss Annie Durant, of Grand Forks, N. D., is in the city visiting her aunt, Mrs J. H. Hickman. Miss Annie is a very sweet young miss, and will find a warm welcome among young society. Mrs J. B. White is quite sick at St. Joseph's hospital, having gone through a very delicate operation Wednesday morning. St. Paul chapter, O. E. S., received the warmest this week from the grand chapter, O. E. S., of Illinois. The Advance staff received a nice basket of fruit from Mr. F. Palmer, of Chicago. Next. MINNEAPOLIS For good cigars call at W. S. Conrad's, corner of First avenue south and Fourt hstreet. He will suit you. The Advance Restaurant, 214 Washington avenue south, is up to date in service and equipment. If you want a good meal in a clean place don't fail to go to the Advance Restaurant. Moved.-Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Reid, from 2683 Stevens avenue to 2834 Fifth avenue south. The Freeman sisters entertained at dinner Wednesday afternoon: Mrs. R. H. Alexander, Mrs. Jessie Waters, Rev. and Mrs. W. S. Brooks. Miss N. M. Reid and W. L. Paxton were quietly married Sunday evening at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Reid, 324 Second avenue south. A dainty supper was served to a iew friends. The house was decorated with American roses. Mrs. Jennie E. Watson, of Cincinnati, O. sister of Mr. Geo. Barnett, is in the city, the guest of her brother and sister-in-law, Mrs. Watson will remain a fortnight. Mrs. T. V. Parker served a very fashionable luncheon to a number of friends last Thursday evening. The stewardess of St. Peters gave a very successful entertainment Friday evening. Rev. W. H. Withers, of Bethesda, left this week to attend the association, which meets in this state. The sad news of the death of C. W. Preston, pastor of St. Paul's A. M. E. church, St. Louis, is indeed very appalling. The A. M. E. church will regret the loss of such a noble character as he, who was one of the most successful ministers in the connection. The members of St. Peter's church tendered the pastor a large surprise party last Friday evening. It was the largest ever known and was appreciated by the pastor and his good wife. The trustees of St. James A. M. E. church (east side) have sold their church property for the sum of $1,200. They intend to rebuild in a more desirable location. Hon. J. W. Arctander will speak at St. Peter's church, Sunday evening, Oct. 21. Wayman circle will open next Tuesday evening and enter upon its winter campaign. Mrs. Zack Johnson is planning a fine bazaar and fair to take place Nov. 14 and 15. Dean Pattee, of the state university, will address the Men's Sunday Club on next Sunday afternoon, Oct. 14th at 405 Sixth Street, south at 4 0clock the subject, "What Your Aim in Life?" There will be an excellent musical program, under the direction of Mrs. Frances E. De Leo. All ladies are invited. MINNEAPOLIS AND ST. PAUL, MINN., SATURDAY, OCT. 13, 1900 A POLITICAL POTPOURRI. On Tuesday evening, the 9th inst., the Afro-American McKinley Club held a meeting at 408 Second avenue south. There were between 50 and 100 present. Wm. H. Williams, of New Orleans, made a masterly speech in which he advocated political independence on the part of the colored citizens of the United States in this campaign, and showed in a practical way the beneficent results to be derived from a division of the negro vote. His speech was heartily applauded, showing that this is the prevailing sentiment among the thinking element of colored men in this county. Dr. R. S. Brown, who was billed to serve did not materialize. Practicing medicine he to have the call with the sagacious doctor, and to the number our colored statesmen with which the woods of Hennepin county abound, he has left his self-imposed task of saving the country from the "denim bow-wows." The meeting under the auspices of the colored citizens (?) of Hennepin county at Labor Temple hall on last Wednesday evening, looked more like a meeting of the white citizens, as 90 per cent of those present were of that race. One had to look closely to discover the colored citizens, who were supposed to be the originators of the meeting. The speaking material became exhausted early in the evening and the meeting of the colored citizens adjourned per force about 9:45 p. m. It is reported that a party of gentlemen met Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon at the office of Jno. L. Neal, 620 Boston block, to devise plans whereby all the colored political or administrative county may consolidate upon what they see the other fellow, deponent saith it. At last ex-President Harrison has spoken and in substance says that he is not in full accord with the policy of the McKinley administration and does not like the Democratic presidential nominee, and that as between the two evils he will vote for the lesser one, Wm. McKinley. The boys of the Hennepin County Colored Men's Political Association say they have a surprise up their sleeve which they will spring ere ide of November arrive. And they do say that the masses of the colored voters JUST LOOK HERE. We will not insult your intelligence. We think you know that no man can continue in business unless he receives patronage from the people. An up-to-date meal, or a cosy room can be had in Godrey's, 148 East Ninth Street. TO WORK NEW GOLD FIELDS. The Recent Discovery of Dr. Linch in South Kordofan Promises Well. Dr. Linek, professor of geology in the University of Jena, who is an intimate friend of Slatin Pasha, the new inspector general of the Sudan, in the service of the British, has just returned from a journey of exploration in the Kordofan. He reports the discovery of rich gold mines in the district known as South Kordofan. It is expected that a company will be formed at once to work the gold fields. The fact that gold exists in rich-paying quantities in the Sudan has long been known. Sixty years ago the famous Mehemet Ali employed an Austrian mine expert to examine this very district. He discovered gold, but political complications prevented development at the time, and since then the lawless condition of the Sudan under the khalifa's misrule has effectually prevented anyone from attempting to go into the district where the gold is now found. Slatin Pasha enabled Dr. Linck to investigate the neighborhood and the result of nis labors is likely to prove remunerative in the highest degree. TURK LIKES YANKEE NOTIONS. Sultan Becomes Interested and Opens the Door to American Electrical Appliances. The United States charge at Constantinople, Mr. Griscom, has written the state department, under date of September 1, 1900, that about two months ago a United States firm made a shipment or electrical appliances to Constantinople. Upon arrival there the merchandise was refused admittance to the empire, the introduction of electrical appliances of any description being prohibited. Griscom caused some samples of the goods—small reading lamps, toys with storage batteries attached, etc., to be taken to the palace and brought to the attention of the sultan. The latter was much attracted by the novelty of the articles and bought the whole consignment for his personal use. He also authorized the importation of similar articles. A Fourfold Celebration. Col. Girard, of Neufchatel, Switzerland, on one and the same day celebrated his eightieth birthday, his golden wedding, the silver wedding of his daughter, and the marriage of a grand-daughter. Part of the Cure Mr. Henpeck—The doctor says I absolutely must go away next week for a rest. Mrs. Henpeck—Goodness! I can't possibly manage to get away to go with you then. "Um-m! I guess the doctor must have known that."—Philadelphia Press. "The two-headed girl got up another rum, put this morning." "What was she angry about?" "One of her heads bought a hat just like that which the other one wore."—London Answers. FIND GOLLIERY GLOSED. Striking Miners Make Fruitless March from McAdoo to Beaver Meadow. THEN GO TO MAZLETON AND DISPERSE. Secret Conference Held in New York City Between Representatives of Conl-Carrying Railroads and Representatives of Coal Miners—Future Policy Discussed. Hazleton, Pa., Oct. 12.—About 600 strikers, composed of men from McAdoo and other south side towns and this city, gathered at McAdoo before dawn Thursday morning, marched to the Beaver Meadow colliery of Coxe Bros. & Co., which has been kept in steady operation since the inauguration of the strike, then came around Cuyles strippings, east of the city, and from the strippings marched right into the heart of Hazleton. This was the first times the strike began that the town was invaded by marchers. The parade dispersed in this city and the men returned to their homes. Several women were in the crowd. It was feared when the marchers reached Cuyles strippings that there would be trouble, but no violence was attempted. Many of the strikers were loud in their demunciation of the policemen stationed near the place, but no disturbance occurred. The march from McAdoo to Beaver Mendow was without incident. The strikers reached Beaver Meadow, which is east of MeAdoo, at about six o'clock and had the colliery been in operation they would have attempted to close it down. Owing, however, to the trouble of Wednesday at Oneida, which is also operated by Coxe Bros. & Co., work at Beaver Mendow and at the other collieries of the firm was ordered suspended until the strike was over. A large crowd collected at Beaver Meadow, but as the mine was not in operation, which the strikers did not know until they reached the town, the marchers gave three cheers and then decided to move over to Hazleton, four miles distant. On the way a number of shots were fired into the air by strikers in the ranks. Everything was quiet Thursday morning at Oneida, where the strikers and special officers clashed Wednesday. The colliery is being closely guarded, but no further outbreak is feared. It was reported Thursday morning that the Oneida store where the special officers were barricaded during the night had been burned, but there is no truth in the report. George Kellner, the special officer, and Joseph Lipko, the striker, who were wounded in Wednesday's attack, will recover. Both are at the hospital here, and their condition is much improved. J. S. Wentz & Co., operating the colleries at Haze Brook and Silver Brook, posted notices offering a ten per cent. increase in wages. All the companies and individual operators in the Hazleton district, with the exception of G. B. Marke & Co. have posted notices of an increase of wages to their emploes. Secret Conference. New York, Oct. 12.—Representatives of the coal-carrying companies have just met representatives of the coal miners in secret session. These railroad men were present: President Alfred Walter, of the Lehigh Valley; General Manager W. Lathrop, of the Lehigh Coal company; President I. A. Stearns, of the Delaware, Schuylkill & Susquehanna; R. M. Olyphant, of the Delaware & Hudson, and W. H. Truestale, of the Lackawanna. The miners' names were not revealed. It was learned that there was a protracted discussion as to what policy should be pursued after the Scranton convention had issued its decree. None was agreed upon positively. Colored Boy's Awful Crime Oceola, Ark., Oct. 12—Nelson Williams (colored) 19 years old, has been arrested for and has confessed the murder of his father and sister. After killing them he fired the house, and their charred remains were found in the ruins. The only reason he gives for the crime is that he wanted to leave home and his father would not permit him to go. Wanted in Chicago for Murder. St. Paul, Minn., Oct. 12—Chief of Police J. J. O'Connor says that the man giving his name as George Hefler, who was arrested for complicity in the attempted daylight robbery of the American News company's cash drawer, is John Bingham, wanted in Chicago for murder. Plague Subsiding at Glasgow Glasgow, Oct. 12.—All the plague suspects have been dismissed, but 20 plague cases remain in the hospital. An official bulletin says: "The outbreak has been completely checked. Twenty-one days have elapsed since the last case. The reception houses will be closed to day." Liberals Make Gains London, Oct. 12.—On Thursday's election returns the liberals score two gains and the ministerialists one making their respective total of gains 29 and 28. The total number of members elected up to the present is 592, as follows: Ministerialists, 371; opposition, 221. Receiver Appointed: Richmond, Ind., Oct. 12. -A receiver was named Thursday for Loa & Company, a Chicago railroad contracting firm. The company has a contract for the construction of the Cincinnati, Richmond & Muscle railroad, but has abandoned the work. GOV. MOUNT APOLOGIZES. Expresses Regret to Gov. Roosevelt for the Rock Throwing Episode at Fort Wayne. Marion, Ind., Oct. 12.—Nothing that has happened in years gives so much pain as the attack made upon Gov. Roosevelt Wednesday night, was the comment made Thursday by Gov. Mount, of Indiana, discussing the rock throwing at Fort Wayne Wednesday night. "It was the work of rowdies only, and should not be permitted to reflect upon the good democrats of the town, for they would not countenance such an outrage," and thereupon Gov. Mount went to Gov. Roosevelt and extended an apology in the name of Indiana. Anderson, Ind., Oct. 12.—Gov. Roosevelt began the second day of his campaign tour in Indiana by making ten-minute speeches at Marion, Fairmount and Alexandria, after which the duration of the stops was increased to 20 minutes. In all the towns large delegations from the country were present, Marion giving a noteworthy parade. At Muncie there was no speaking. The time was devoted to a parade through the principal streets, all of which were profusely decorated. Winchester, Ind., Oct. 12.—A 20-minute stop was made here while Gov. Roosevelt addressed the largest crowd that ever gathered at this place. The platform was near the depot and no parade was given at this place. The special was transferred from the Big Four to the Grand Rapids & Indiana, over which it left for Richmond. GREETED BY BIG CROWDS. Hon. W. J. Bryan Spends Another Hard Day at Speechmaking in Michigan. Battle Creek, Mich., Oct. 12—Despite his arduous labors of Wednesday, Candidate Bryan was asir early Thursday morning. He made the first of 16 speeches on the programme for the day at Hastings, beginning at a quarter past seven, and, notwithstanding the early hour, he had a good audience. He was greeted with a shout as he emerged from the sleeper and sent away with a cheer as he reentered. He talked largely of "imperialism" at Hastings, saying that the Filipinos should have their own flag and not our flag, and that we should protect them in the possession of their flag. They should be allowed to work out their own destiny, as we desired to work out ours. For no nation was good enough to own and govern another nation, as no man was good enough to own and govern another man. The second speech of the morning was made at the little town of Nashville. Mr. Bryan had only five minutes, and he contented himself with suggesting a series of questions to republicans. At Charlotte Mr. Bryan ran hurriedly over the issues of the campaign during the 20-minute stop. At Bellevue Mr. Bryan made a speech of one minute, and at 9:20 reached Battle Creek, where he talked for half an hour to one of the best audiences of the tour. Youtsey Still in Stupor. Georgetown, Ky., Oct. 12. It was announced before court met Thursday morning that Youtsey was somewhat better and had eaten an egg and drank a glass of milk for breakfast. He was still in a stupor, however, and answered no questions. He was not in the courtroom when court met. Mr. Crawford asked a postponement of the trial till Friday on account of the condition of the defendant, and the order was made. Refuses to Honor Requisition Papers. Albany, N. Y., Oct. 12—Lieut. Gov. Woodruff has been served with the papers in the matter of the requisition for directors and officers of the Standard Oil company, made by Gov. Sayers, of Texas, and has declined to honor them, basing his declination upon a decision of Former Gov. Flow that unless evidence was presented that the person named had been in the state of Texas and there committed a crime it could not be honored. Attempt to Break drill Louisville, Ky., Oct. 12—Ten mountaineers, headed by James Howard, an ex-postmaster, who is under a three years' sentence received in the United States court, attempted to break jail by digging through a wall. A turnkey surprised Howard cutting into the wall and, after a struggle, knocked a big knife from his hands. Howard implicated nine other prisoners in the plot to escape. Inspect Battlefields. Chattanooga, Tenn. Oet. 12-All business sessions of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland and the Spanish-American war veterans being ended, Thursday was devoted to the inspection of battlefield monuments and markers at Chickamauga park, in accordance with the plan and invitation of the national commissioners. Alger to Build Railroad. Pensacola, Fla., Oct. 12-11. I is learned here that the Russell A. Alger syndicate will build a railroad from Poshee, Ala., to Pensacola, Fla., running through the timber lands recently acquired by that company. A large mill will be erected at Poshee and a branch factory of the American Car company at Moline, Fla. Appointed an Executor. New York Oct. 12—Surrogate Thomas has appointed Walldorf Astor, the young son of William Walbort Astor, who has only recently attained his majority, an executor of the will of the original John Jacob Astor. NO BOXERS IN SOUTH CHINA Minister Wu Denies That Serious Uprisings Are Threatened from That Direction. ALARMED AT MOVE ON PAO-TING-FU. Fears It Will Cause Serious Complications and Renewal of Agitation Among Chinese-Attitude of the Powers Towards the French Note - Imperial Court Still on Move. Washington, Oct. 12.—Minister Wu was one of Secretary Hay's early calls from China, but came to learn the course of this government on the French proposition. He expressed considerable apprehension over the press reports that a large military expedition was moving on Pao-Ting-Fu. He looks upon this as likely to cause serious complications and a renewal of agitation among the Chinese. He says that the reports of serious Boxer uprisings in the south of China are not correct, and are set afloat with a view to creating the impression on this side of the water that grave dangers exist which call for a military campaign by the allies. The best evidences of this, he says, is the fact that there are no Boxers in the south of China. The minister feels certain that Earl Li Hung Chang has arrived at Peking. Nothing has been heard from Mr. Conger for a day or two. It appears that it was an erroneous assumption that the minister had submitted to the state department a list of Chinese officials who should be punished. He did supply the department with a copy of the imperial edict in which a number of officials were mentioned, but made no proscriptions himself, although he did express the opinion that other Chinese besides those named were fit subjects for punishment. With the reply made Wednesday to the French note respecting China, the state department has assumed again an attitude of waiting. The text of the note is to be made public here after the lapse of the usual period of time allowed by diplomatic custom, which probably will be Friday morning. Standing of the Powers. Paris, Oct. 12.—Negotiations are proceeding actively on the subject of the propositions contained in the note of M. Delacasse, the minister of foreign affairs, regarding China, and, it is said here, the situation is as follows: "Russia, Italy and Austria accept the note unconditionally. Germany has not yet communicated her reply officially, but the French government has been given to understand that the German government considers that the note affords a basis for negotiations." Great Britain, also, has adhered to the French note, except respecting the permanent prohibition of the import of arms into China, on which point it makes certain reservations. The answer of the United States is known. Japan has not replied officially, but is expected to acquiesce. Although the French government is anxious to receive the reply of Japan, in view of the importance of the role Japan is entitled to play in the Chinese question, the French note has so far cleared the ground and the result is considered so satisfactory that M. Delcasse has instructed the French minister at Peking, M. Pichon, to put himself in communication with the other ministers, and has also requested the powers to authorize their representatives to confer with M. Pichon, with the view of opening preliminary negotiations with Li Hung Chang. Imperial Court Still on Move. Shanghai, Oct. 12.—The Chinese report the arrival of the emperor and dogwager empress at Chu-Ching (7) October 6, 150 miles southwest of Tai-Yuan-Fu. After a day's rest, the Chinese add, the imperial party proceeded, escorted by large forces. It is reported here that Russian troops from the southward occupied Mukden (Manchuria), without opposition, while Russians from the north captured Tie-Ling, 40 miles north of Mukden. Admiral Ho Reaches San-Chun. Hong-Kong, Oct. 12.—Admiral Ho, with 200 troops, has arrived at San-Chun (San-Shuil?) from Canton. A detachment of 400 other troops is about to land at Deep bay. The British torpedo boat destroyer Otto has been ordered to Mirs bay (near Hong-Kong). The Bombay infantry has been ordered to be in readiness to proceed to the frontier at two hours' notice. Britains Not In First. Victoria, B. C., Oct. 12. War correspondents of Japanese newspapers say that the story of the British having been the first to enter Peking is incorrect; the Russians were before them, but the British were first at the legations. The town of Tung-Chow, say the correspondents, was damaged more than Tientsin or Peking. Three-fourths of the place is in ruins. Out of a population of 75,000 families, only about 100 are left. A large supply of gunpowder stored in a temple there blew up and 47 British and German soldiers lost their lives. Hunter Killed. West Superior, Wis., Oct. 12.—Former City Engineer Arthur T. Thomas was shot, probably accidentally, near the Chippewa mine Tuesday afternoon. He was hunting and is thought to have been taken for a deer by some hunters. The death was hurried by a broken neck, received when he fell, his body striking a log. The decedent had lived here for 13 years, and was most popular. MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY. PRICE FIVE CENTS. TELL OF EXPERIENCES. Missionaries from China Appear Before the Missionary Meeting at St. Louis. St. Louis, Oct. 12.—The attendance at the ninety-first annual meeting of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, which is holding a three-days' session in Pilgrim Congregational church, was considerably Increased Thursday by the arrival of a number of belated delegates. Previous to the convening of the morning session a well-attended prayer meeting was held. Great interest is being shown, judging from the attendance, in the board's work in China, and when the discussion of that subject began Thursday, the church was crowded. After devotional exercises, Rev. Judson Smith, D. D., foreign secretary of the American board, read an interesting, somewhat lengthy, paper on "China, the Situation and Outlook." Dr. Smith's paper was followed by a general discussion of the subject by a number of missionaries and officers of the board. Among the missionaries who spoke were a number who passed through the recent Boxer outbreaks in North China and some of the hair-raising experiences recounted by them seemed beyond belief. Those who spoke were Rev. Dr. C. A. Stanley, Rev. G. Henry Ewing; Rev. E. E. Alken, Willis C. Nobile, M. D., Rev. I. J. Atwood, M. D., missionaries of the North China mission; Rev. Henry A. Stimson, D. D., President Edward D. Eaton, D. D., and Rev. Harlan I. Bench. FOR GOOD GOVERNMENT. The National League's Convention to Be Held in Allegeny, Pa., October 11, 1915. Pittsburgh, Pa., Oct. 12.—The fourth annual convention of the National Good Government league will be held in the city of Allegheny, Pa., November 28, 29 and 30, 1900. The aims and objects of this movement, briefly stated, are: 1. To unite for mutual encouragement all friends of good government. 2. Elimination of corruption from city, state and national politics. 3. Government by means of direct legislation through the initiative and referendum. 4. Promotion of the practice of good citizenship and the study and advancement of good government. 5. All organizations throughout the United States willing to cooperate with this league in obtaining the objects mentioned are entitled to representation. NEW LONDON IN DISTRESS. Wisconsin Town Threatened by the Rising of the Wolf and Embarkas Rivers. Milwaukee, Oct. 12.—An Evening Wisconsin special from New London, Wis., says: Now that the raging waters of the Wisconsin river are beginning to recede, the trouble is starting in this section of the state by the rising of the Wolf and Embarrass rivers. The water is now the highest it has been in 20 years and is still going higher. All the lands, as far as one can see, east, west and north, are covered with water. If the water continues to rise about three feet more, which appears it will, as it has been rising rapidly during the day, the principal business portions of this city will be submerged by about one foot of water. Many potato crops are under water. STRUCK BY AN ENGINE. Three Women and a Baby Killed at a Crossing in Nebraska—Two Children Hurt. Holbrook, Neb., Oct. 12. — Wednesday evening at seven o'clock, as Mrs. Herman Kielbeck and family were crossing the railroad at the depot in a farm wagon, a lee engine going west ran into them, hastily killing Miss Lizzie Horman, Mrs. Kielbeck and her baby girl and Mrs. Carl Bartenbeck; also seriously injuring the latter's four-year-old boy and 18-month-old baby girl. The latter is not expected to survive. Not a single occupant escaped unhurt. The wagon was smashed into kindling wood and one of the horses killed. Mrs. Bartenbeck was the wife of Carl Bartenbeck, who was shot and killed near here Monday night by his brother-in-law. Buys Silver for Collage. Simla (British India), Oct. 12. The secretary of state has completed the purchase of £1,000,000 of silver for coinage into rupees and £1,000,000 in gold is being shipped to London. The silver purchased replaces gold in the currency reserve, under the recently-passed act. When the coinage of the last purchase is completed 8½ crores of rupees will have been added to the stock of rupees since February. Population of Connecticut Washington Oct. 12. The population of the state of Connect cut, as officially announced by the census bureau, is 908,355. In 1890 the population was 746,258. The census for this year shows an increase of 162,097, or 21.7 per cent. Conference Over Armor Plate. Washington. Oct. 12.-Secretary Long has had another conference with the representatives of the Bethlehem and Carnegie Steel companies respecting the placing of contracts for $15,000,000 worth of armor plate for the navy. Withdraws from Ticket 8. St. Paul, Minn., Oct. 12.—A Pierce (B. D.) special to the Dispatch says: Chauncey J. Maynerd, middle-of-the road populist candidate for lieutenant governor, filed with the secretary of state a notice of his withdrawal from the ticket. THE STORY TELLER LIKE MOTHER USED TO MAKE. Of'n when we git to dreamin' o' the happy days o' yere When our lifeboat was a-floatin' out from boyhood's golden shore, Treasures that were half-forgotten come Startin' all the soul to dancin' to the music o' delight! An' there isn't one among 'em puts a yearnin' in the breast Fur another joyous season in the sacred of home nest Like them fragrant, smokin' jewels, diff'rent from the modern fake, Buckwheat cakes an' sassigle gravity like our mother used to make! Used to git up in the mornin' clus agin the break o' day, When the east was full o' color that'd take the breath away, Hustle out an 'git to chorin', working up a applite That'd throw a streak o' glory into every juices bite! Take a wash in that tinn basin on the bench Underneath the o' mulberry by the hand of ages scarred. Used to o'f n' stand an' watch her beat the batter in the crock. "Comin'! Comin'! Comin'!" was the way she'd make it talk; See her grease the smokin' griddle with a Then pour on the brownish batter with a dipper made o' tin. There 'd lay with holes a-breakin' out like measles from the top. Till she 'd loosen it an' turn it with an ol' case knife, "kerflop". Ot there 'd a modern angel top o' all the cake cut it. Buckwheat cakes with sausage gravy, like our mother used to make! Epypcures may chin till doomsday o' the toney styles o' food. Modern chefs may work on dishes that a god'd think was good. Fancy printed menu programmes in the taverns an' cefays May be full o' kitchen triumphs that'd win But if they should spread a blanket that'd make a god rejoice Side o' that o' kitchen table an' 'd tell us take our choice, You would see no hesitation in our action as we'd make Buckwheat cakes an' sassige gravy like our mother used to make! —Denver Post. Reformation of McSwatt By Paul P. Harris. (Written for this paper.) M'SWATT's college days were a revelation; not only to the faculty, but to himself also. He had never suspected the versatility of his nature or the vastness of his resource. He was summoned one day to appear before the board, under complaint of having caricatured his Latin professor on the class room walls, thereby making that worthy to appear, his face wreathed in smiles, dancing the "conchy cochy" and crying: "To Hades with Caesar, et tu, Brute" and numerous other incongruous and indicate things. MeSwatt arose to the occasion, nye, passed far beyond it and made college history; so completely was he master of the situation that Jones, head professor of Evidences of Christianity, inwardly resolved to espouse his canonization, should MeSwatt's soul soon take its flight. It was not so easy, however, to pull the wool over the eyes of his classmates. "Indignation" Smythe, who was a member of a fraternity constitutionally opposed to the one whose rolls McSwatt's name honored, and more or less dyspeptic, voiced the sentiment of the student body when he stated, with his usual variations, that McSwatt was a cheerful liar and an inimitable dead beat. The remark cost Smythe a nasal hemorrhage; McSwatt, the remainder of his reputation for the allegations were never successfully controverted. To drown his sorrow, McSwatt ingratiated himself with the bibulous crowd, and he lived to see the sorrow completely inundated. He was oftener found at the inn than at the college, and he consequently became more proficient in poker than in Greek. The quarterly report, sent home, elicited much wonder, no enthusiasm. There had been a series of extraordinary drains on the family purse for such odd purposes that the old gentleman was apprehensive lest the boy be demented. The cost of books alone, a mere drop in the bucket of general expenditures, was sufficient to have started a town library, and that of dentistry mortgaged the farm. Hence the elder McSwatt visited college, but the magnificent library had taken to itself wings, and there remained no evidence of the dentist's work. Even McSwatt's wardrobe left much to be desired. To tell the whole truth, naught of it remained save a light summer suit, which McSwatt, Sr. fancied he had seen before, and which the younger man was heroically endeavoring to make fill all of the requirements of the season. The first view which the old gentleman: obtaine, of his offspring in his college environments was through a haze of tobacco smoke, and not calculated to inspire confidence for that young man, with a coterie of maudlin companions, as mongrel a lot as ever disgraced an institution of learning, was dividing his attention between a hand of poker and a mammoth cupidor which he spat at with the regularity of an automaton, an accuracy college born. McSwatt, Sr., tightened the purse strings, and the act induced a much-needed period of reform. Under the stimulus of parental adjuration, McSwatt settled to business, forged into the first division of his class, and his natural genius would have put him in the way of honors had it not been for the ever present conviction of the inanity of it all. Where was the use of torturing oneself with iogarithms when poker was on the tapis at the inn? Self-immolation was no part of his creed. His hasty resolutions for good were repented at leisure until the time came that there seemed no longer use of struggling against his discontent, hope went glimmering, and he resolved rather than make a mess of it, to be wholly, truly bad. He broadly intimated that he intended to inaugurate the most comprehen- --- sive drunk that his I lived reedt would require, and I fort. he carried out the resolution to the letter. He solemnly pledged himself never to do another lick of honest work as long as he lived. He organized a sophomore underground fraternity, the aliased purpose of which was the subigation of unruly freshmen, but the real purpose was the encouragement to everything that was bad and the demoralization of everything that made for law and order. The flagstaff became a barber pole one night, under their treatment, and the chapel windows were made to bear the inscriptions, "Hair cut, 15 cents," and "A shave for nothing." The president's historic phaeton miraculously ascended to the roof of Dickinson hall, and even had the temerity to attempt the sealing of the huge dome when it was discovered by the proctor, who was out for his early morning rounds. To his amazed eyes, it looked for all the world like some huge spide: suspended by its slender thread midway twixt heaven and earth. As a class, they daily established a new record for unrighteousness, and whatever was bad enough for them to do at all they did with a will. One November night they broke into the rooms of two freshmen, whom they compelled to stand at the open window in the frosty air, night-robed as they were, and sing love ditties to the maid in the moon; but McSwatt never forgot to his dying day their looks of fright, or how plaintively their voices sounded in the stitn night air, and when one of the marauders, in drunken glee, proposed to drench them under the pump, somehow he could not find it in his heart to enter into the spirit of the thing, and when he saw one of the innocents, a tall, frail lad, terrorized by the orbal, sobbing to himself, he stopps, the orgie. It was the next day but one that the college bulletin reported the night's exploits, and deprecating the lawlessness and the heartlessness that made such misdeemers possible, stated that Edwin Cassel, one of the victims, was suffering with pneumonia contracted by the exposure and serious fears were entertained. McSwift slept very little during the nights that followed, and was seen several times wandering about at a very late hour, quite alone, and he occasionally stood for a few moments at a time under the window where the dim light kept vigil over the fevered patient. The fact is McSwatt thought, for the first time in his life, seriously. He thought of the tall, frail lad who had come to the great university, not as a scapegrace, seeking to do himself NIGHT-ROBED AS THEY WERE. and others all possible injury, but with a strenuous purpose to be an instrument in the uplifting of mankind; to make of himself a.1 that his strength of mind and body would permit, and MeSwatt was ashamed to think of how little for good, how much for evil he, with his vigorous intellect and his strong physique, had accomplished. He was ashamed to think that he had not been satisfied with wasting his own opportunities, but had almost) robbed a fellow being, one so much weaker than himself, of his meager powers to do. The Friday evening's issue of the bulletin reported that Edwin Cassellia was very low, that he had failed rapidly since morning, and that his parents in the far west had been telegranched. McWatt was playing a listless game of billards when the news reached him. He immediately put his cue in the rack, paid for the game and excused himself from his companions on the grounds of illness. What he really wanted was a moment for reflection. He walked down past the library building and the few houses, across the bridge and far into the open country beyond. That night and for many nights that followed, the sufferer had a new watcher, one who cared for him with a patience and tenderness that cooled the fever, and, in time, turned the tide of disease in the sick lad's favor, and when unmistakable convalescence had begun, the watcher placed the last few dollars that he possessed in the doctor's hand and went away as he had come quietly and without explanation. The watcher was McWatt. He was indefinitely suspended a little later for his implication in the hazing. If Night Humiliate Him A little story comes from a seaside village in Normandy, where a well-known man of letters is staying in company with a young writer of trifles at a somewhat primitive hotel. One fine morning the former addressed the host as follows: "You would oblige me by making your charges as low as possible for my young colleague. He is not a rich man." The landlord, delighted with the presence in his house of the man of renown, promised to have due consideration for the purse of his younger guest. But a few days afterward the famous author came to him, saying: "By the way, don't let my bill be bigger than that of my young friend. It would humiliate him; boys like that are so extremely touchy!"—Chicago Chronicle. How Nicefello Got Even. Irate Father—I found my best coat hanging on the fence, with the tail tern all to pieces. Daughter (quietly)—You shouldn't have left it in the hall. "Why shouldn't I" "Most likely Mr. Nicefella put it on over his other last night. It was a little cool, and—er—I presume you forget to tie up the dog. N. Y. Weekly. HON. JOHN BARRY STANCHFIELD. After a rather hot fight between the Hill and Croker factions this gentleman was nominated for governor by the democrats of New York. He was born in March, 1855; received an academic and collegiate education, and entered upon the practice of law immediately after leaving college, beginning his igal career in the office of David B. Hill. In 1850 he was elected district attorney of Cheming county, and in 1868 became mayor of Elmira. It 1861 he was elected assemblyman and in 1871 a first appearance among the politicians at Albany. Although a strong personal friend of ex-Senator Hill, he was Tammany's choice at the recent convention. After a rather hot fight between the Hill and Croker factions this gentleman was nominated for governor by the democrats of New York. He was born in March, 1855; received an academic and collegiate education, and entered upon the practice of law immediately after leaving college, beginning his igal career in the office of David B. Hill. In 1850 he was elected district attorney of Cheming county, and in 1868 became mayor of Elmira. It 1861 he was elected assemblyman and in 1871 a first appearance among the politicians at Albany. Although a strong personal friend of ex-Senator Hill, he was Tammany's choice at the recent convention. STIRRING UP BOXERS WITH PUNCH AND JUDY. 新世界 In Chinese politics the value of caricature has been recognized for many years. The Punch and Judy show has the unique privilege of treating internal and foreign politics with the utmost freedom, and the secret societies of China have always availed themselves of those means to make proselytes, and the Boxers more so than all the rest. The pig always represents the missionary. The board stuck up the mast and the mastress broadcast over the country. The picture is from the London illustrated News. In Chinese politics the value of caricature has been recognized for many years. The Punch and Judy show has the unique privilege of treating internal and foreign politics with the utmost freedom, and the secret societies of China have always availed themselves of those means to make proselytes, and the Boxers more so than all the rest. The pig always represents the missionary. The board stuck up the mast and the mastress broadcast over the country. The picture is from the London illustrated News. COURT MOURNING. Period of Grief in Various Countries Depends Entirely on Rank of Decensed. Now that so many countries are plunged into grief over the loss of King Humbert of Italy and the duke of Saxe-Coburg, mourning such as prescribed by the court is being worn. In England it is customary to mourn for our king or queen three months; for a son or daughter of our sovereign, such as is the case now for the duke of Saxe-Coburg, it is to be six weeks; for a brother or a sister of a sovereign, only three weeks; for an uncle, aunt, nephew or niece, the court goes into mourning for two weeks; while from three to ten days is usual for a cousin, according to the relationship. The royal regulation for the first period is a black dress, white gloves, black or white shoes, feather and fans, white pearls, diamonds or plain gold and silver ornaments may be worn, says the London Times. For the men, black HON. JOHN BARR After a rather hot fight between the was nominated for governor by the de March, 1855; received an academic and c preface of law immediately after leaving office of David B. Hill. In 1859 he was sold and in 1886 became mayor of Elmira. made his first appearance among the p personal friend of ex-Senator Hill, he wvention. court dress with black swords and buckles. At the end of that period, which is generally a third of the whole, according to the rank of royalty being mourned for, the costume is changed, the ladies then wearing black dresses with colored ribbons, flowers, feathers, and ornaments, while the men remain as before until the court goes out of mourning. For the military and other royal servants a black brace band is fixed to the left arm for the time specified, while at night the handle of the sword is also to be enveloped in crapes. In different countries different mourning colors are used, but all over Europe black is universal. OBJECTED TO ANY DICTATION Gov. Taylor of Tennessee Effectually Ended the Interference of Legislators. Gov. Bob Taylor, of Tennessee, was just exactly opposite to Gov. Allen, with a tender heart as a woman, and the way he pardoned out convicts was something awful. He was waited upon by a committee of the legislature, who very flatly and in STIRRING UP BOXERS W In Chinese politics the value of caricature. The Punch and Judy show has the unique politics with the utmost freedom, and the availed themselves of those means to more than all the rest. The pig always represents is one of the semireligious and political cast over the country. The picture is from no uncertain way told him that this "wholesale paroaching must stop." "Gov'ner Bob" looked at the committee, tapped a bell, asked for his pardon clerk, and when he came, said: "Make out pardons for every man in the penitentiary." The clerk bowed and withdrew. Then the governor looked at the committee, who were staring as if they thought he was going mad. "Gentlemen," he said, finally, "I am governor of Tennessee, and if this committee or any other ever again seeks to interfere with my constitutional right to pardon I'll sign every one of those pardons which the clerk is making out. Good morning." Extent of the Florist Business. The borist business of the United States is by no means an unimportant industry. It is estimated that the retail value of flowers sold annually is $12,500,000 and of potted plants $10,000,000. There are no less than 10,000 establishments in the United States devoted to the growing of plants under glass. MONUMENT ON A MOUNTAIN. The Difficulty of Getting Heavy Stones for the Work to Look-out Mount's Crest. A serious problem confronts the engineers in charge of the erection of the great New York peace memorial on the summit of Lookout mountain. The question is how to get the material for the monument to the top of the mountain, 2,000 feet above the surrounding country. The railroad which has been running to the top of the mountain as a freight line has been discontinued, and the rails will be sold for old iron. It is unsafe even if it were in operation, the trestles and cross-ties being worn and rotten, says the Philadelphia Record. The track in its present condition will only safely stand a load of 30,000 pounds, the engineers say, while one of the stones to be used in the monument will weigh nearly 60,000 pounds, and many of them 50,000 pounds. There is no RY STANCHFIELD. Hill and Croker factions this gentleman democrats of New York. He was born in collegiate education, and entered upon the college, beginning his legal career in the ected district attorney of Chemung county. It 1896 he was elected assemblyman and politicians at Albany. Although a strong as Tammany's choice at the recent con- roadway near the spot where the monument is being erected, it being high above all the surrounding country. In case no other means can be devised to handle the material and move it to the top a road four miles in length will be constructed especially for the purpose. WHERE AMERICANS MAY WIN. Portugal a Great Field for American Enterprise, Snaa Our Minister There. There is a great field in Portugal for American enterprise, writes John N. Irwin, United States minister to that kingdom, in Success. Our manufacturers really ought to "prospect" in that little-known country. In the first place they are made most welcome. The king and the queen, both young and truly regal speak English perfectly and are among our warmest admirers. They reflect the sentiment of their people. In the second place, American goods are needed, and the progressive part of the population would welcome them as a means of advancing the country's prosperity. English-made machinery now used WITH PUNCH AND JUDY. ture has been recognized for many years. privilege of treating internal and foreign the secret societies of China, have always make proselytes, and the Boxers more so ents the missionary. The board stuck up drawings which the Boxers scatter broad- the London Illustrated News. there is of old type and not up to date. In Lisbon the old style of transportation is being changed to the electric system. While english capital is conducting the enterprise, every bit of material, from the smallest bolt to the modern cars, is of American make. Portugal sends us cork, and we send her petroleum and wheat, but in our opinion the balance of trade now in our favor could be materially increased if our manufacturers were to take full advantage of their opportunities in the little kingdom. Active Only at Night. Surggeon McKenna, who has passed the last six months on the island of Mindanao, does not hesitate to maintain that the number of quadrups and insects enjoying existence in the moonlight of the tropics exceeds that of their daylight rivals; so much so indeed, that whole species and groups or species are represented only by nocturnal creatures. Forests that remained as still as the grave under the glare of the vertical sun are all is ar uproar within an hour after sunset. SOCIETY DIRECTORY ST. PAUL. ODD FELLOWS. Mars Lodge, No. 2202. Meets second and fourth Wednesdays in each month at Odd Fellows' Hall, 32 Wabasha street. T. R. HICKMANN, P. S., 422 St. Anthony. P. D. PARKER, N. G., 395 Edmund St. Household of Ruth, No. 553, G. U. O. of O. F. Meets first and third Monday in each month for business, second Monday for instruction, at Odd Fellows' Hall, 328 MRS. SARAH C. KIRTLEY. M.N.G. A JACKSON, W. R. K. 744 mount place. MOST WORSHIPFUL GRAND LODGE OF MINNESOTA, A. F. and A. M. J. L. NEAL, Grand Master. WM. R. MORRIS, Grand Secretary. Juvenility Loan Bldg. Minneapolis. 27. B. MORRIS, Minneapolis. Meets the first and third Mondays of each month, W. J. Gardner, Pres., J. S. Harris, Sec.; A. Davs, Treas. 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, New York, N.Y. A. H. MYRICK, N. G. JAMES A. SCOTT, S. P. F. O. Box 33 KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS. Nat. Turner Lodge, No. 2, K. of P. Meets the second and fourth Thursdays in each month. Brothers in good standing. Fourth and Eighth avenue south. RALPH WATSON, K. R, and S. Pride of Minnesota Lodge, No. 1, K. of P. Meets the first and third Thursdays in each month. All brothers in good standing welcome. At Flummer Post Ha'i. First avenue and Washington. JAMES W. HORNES, C. C. W. C. JEFFREY, K. R. and S. J. K. Hilary Lodge. Meets first Tuesday in each month at Windom Block, Second Avenue Washington. Masons in good standing always welcome. W. LILLARD, W. M. JASPER GIBBS, Sec., Guaranty Loan Restaurant. Anchor Lodge, No. 7, A. F. and A. M. in each month at Windom Block, Second Avenue Washington. Masons in good standing welcome. SCOTT, W. M. A. B. LEE, 701 Aldrich avenue South. Officiers and Standing Committees of the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge A. F. and A. M. in each month at Windom Block, Second Avenue Washington. Masons in good standing welcome. L. Nesh, Minnesota Grand Junior Warden—J. C. Garner, St. Paul Grand Treasurer—Daniel Roy, St. Paul Grand Secretary—William R. Morris, Minneapolis Grand Lecturer—G. W. Day (7), Minneapolis Deputy Grand Secretary—O. D. Howard (4), St. Paul Grand Chaplain—Isaac Crawford (6), Minneapolis Grand Senior Deacon—John Martin (1), St. Paul Grand Junior Deacon—R. De Leo (7), Minneapolis Grand Senior Steward—J. H. Dillingham (2), St. Paul Grand Junior Steward—Wm. Stevens (3), St. Paul Grand Tyler—T. Bush (3), St. Paul Grand Marshall—C. H. McDonald (5), Minneapolis Grand Pursulvant—G. W. Duckett (4) Grand Sword-Bearer—J. Adams (1), St. Paul Grand Standard-Bearer—J. Charleston (2), St. Paul Grand Register—J. G. Sterett (6), Minneapolis District Deputy Grand Master—First District Deputy Grand Master—Second District Deputy Grand Master—Second District—E. H. Hamilton (6), Minneapolis. Third District—E. H. Hamilton—Third District—J. K, Folk (3), Duluth. CHURCH DIRECTORY. Rev. J. C. Anderson, Pastor. Cor. Fuller and Jay streets. Sunday services: 11:30 a. m.; 7:30 p. m. Wednesday: 11:30 a. m. ST. PETER CLAVER'S. Father Printon. Cor. Farrington and Aurora avenues. Sunday services: Mass. 8:00 a. m. High mass. a. m. Evening service at 0'clock. Bunday services: Preaching at 11:30 a.m. Sunday services: Preaching at 11:30 a.m. o'clock: Wednesday evening BATH. PHILLIES EPISCOPAL MISSION. 463 Rice street, bet. ucura and Universi- tate. Sunday services: Morning prayer, Lit- tany and Sermon, 11:00 a.m. m.; Sunday Sermon, 11:00 a.m. m.; Evenings and Sermon, $5.00 p. m.; Wednesday Evening Prayer and Lecture, $5.00 p. m. Day School, St. John's Rehearsal and Brotherhood St. St. John's All are cordially invited. See tree MINNEAPOLIS **ST. PETER A. M. E. CHURCH.** Rev. W. S. Brooks, Pastor. Cor. 22l st. 9th ave. South Sunday service; Preaching, 11:30 a.m. m.; Sunday School, 8:30 p.m. General prayer meeting, 8:30 p.m. General prayer meeting, Thursday evening, 8:30 p.m. Way- way; Sunday School, Tuesday evening at different residence, Parsonage, 200 Ninth avenue South. BETHEKSDA BAPSTEST CHURCH. Owen Eleventh and Twelfth avenue, Parsonage, 200 Ninth avenue South. m.; Sunday School, 12:30 p.m.; Christian Endeavor, 7:30 p.m.; evening services, evening general prayer meeting, 8:30 p.m. Parsonage, 1200 Ninth avenue South. **ST. THOMAS' MISSION.** Rev. W. S. 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Crayon, Pastel and Water Colors a Specialty. 251-253 Cedar Avenue, MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA. RHEUMATISM Cured for 2BC with Borda's Echeveria Mrs. C. Echeveria, W. & boxes, $1.99 SOULD YOU COME BACK. The blessed words you spoke before you went away. If I have been less careful than I ought While you were here, and grieved your gentle heart— If I have failed in word, or deed, or thought Heeded of lessons you have taught, And hardly done my best to bless your lot, Oh, what a holy comfort it would be To know that you again had come to earth for me! The silent country seems so far away, Can you hear you as of yore; You are at the coming of each day, And all is changed where once you used to stay, Because your gentle face is there no Come back, my dear, if only for one hour, That I may know again love's pure and perfect power. Perhaps the spirit world is near at hand, And you are close beside me here to night. Trying to make my dull soul understand The glories of God's many innsations grand, That so you lead me closer to the light. Come that key sweet saint, from that blessed shore, That I may grasp your hand and see your face once more. And when the days are dark and friends are cold. 'Tis then I miss you most whose heart was true: Love was the story that your lips have told That kept your heart quite young when years had made you old. For there was no one in the world like you. Come back, my dear; you know me at my best. To whom my joys and grief were willingly confessed. But whether you are far away or near, I know tis valm to call you back to earth; And in my thoughts you must be ever here Who made of life for me such holy cheer That when you went it seemed of little worth. My daring, 'twill be Heaven enough for When I may see your face in golden years to be. -Charies E. Pratt, in N. Y. Weekly. Outwitting of Sorrowful Jim By Garrard Harris. ALLYN rode across the prairie joyously, and looked longingly toward the east, where the sun was scarce an hour high. The fresh, braving air seemed to permeate every fiber of his being, and he drew in great breaths of it, feeling a wild sort of pleasure in the mere fact of being alive. For once in three years he was happy—and he had been in that beatiful state for two whole days. The rest of the cowboys of the outfit did not know what to make of it. Cayuse Ike swore he had been "lococed." For Allyn had been nicknamed by the camp "Sorrowful Jim," and to see him boyishly exuberant and in a gay humor was an unheard-of thing—until the last day or so. Allyn had once made the mistake of considering life a very serious matter, indeed. And when, after trying for a year to practice law, and not getting anyone to practice upon, he had given it up in disguise, and migrated to the home of opportunity in hope of getting rich. But there was another reason—a woman. During his idle hours Allyn had fallen in love. And he took that very seriously also. It went hard with him, for he had nothing on earth except a few bonds an old aunt had left him, and the revenue from them did not amount to three hundred a year. At the gate his practice was not increasing, Methuselah would have been a youngster compared with Allyn, if he waited for the revenue from his profession to enable him to marry. Nelly, however, looked at the matter in a very common sense light. Common sense was her strong point, until she met him. Then it deserted her, and an unreasoning love for him took its place. Still, even then, she had more of it left than he had to start with. "Jim," she said, "you are acting very foolishly. What does it matter if you haven't any money? I don't want money—I've got enough, or will have when I am 24, when I get control of it. The income from two hundred thousand would keep us very nicely, and would hold us up until you could establish a paying practice. Now don't be silly." "Nelly," he replied, solemnly, "I cannot afford to marry you now. People would say that I married you for your money—and I don't intend to put myself in a position where such a motive could be imputed to me. It would be unjust to me, and to you." "Well, Jim," and there were tears in her voice. "I don't think you are acting fairly toward me. Here I am, an orphan, with nobody on the earth to love except an old guardian—and I despise him. You've made me love you so that life without you will be worse than no life at all—and now you say you cannot marry me until you make it it took my father a lifetime to accumulate. Why, by that time, I'll have wrinkles, and, maybe, false teeth and glasses, and be a horrid, snuffy, fussy old woman." "No, Nell, I don't want to make 200...000—if I had 100,000 it would be all right. And it will not take long—out west I will make it quickly. Just you stand fast, and wait for me." "Oh, I will wait, but I think you are hateful and pig-headed, just the same. Would you marry me if I didn't have any money at all?" "Yes, gladly, and we would be happy, too. We would manage, somehow. But now, my self-respect will not allow me to." So it was that he went to make his fortune, and at the same time, peace with his usurably active conscience. To his utter disgust, he found, after a year's prospecting, that gold mines were not at all pleasant, and that every foot of the mountains had been prospected over time and again. A year in Mexico assured him that the business of finding silver mines around loose had also played out, and that it took lots of capital to start ranching on a paying basis. Funds were getting low. so he secured a place one of the herdsmen of the XXX 'outfit,' and on account of his grave demeanor, was promptly named by the other cow punchers 'Sorrowful Jim,' and the name stuek to him. During all his wanderings, he had written to Nellie as regularly as possible, and had begun to regret in a measure his puritanical conscience. At $40 a month and grub he did not see that a fortune was in immediate prospect. Absence had indeed made his heart grow fonder, and he longed for a sight of Nelly's laughing eyes and dimpled face. Yet he would not acknowledge himself beaten, or that he would give in. Much against his inclination he remained, consumed with a desire to see her, yet impelled to remain in stiff-necked pride, acting as avant courier and escort for a lot of wild-eyed, long-horned steers, all the while cursing himself for a fool. So he and the rest of the outfit did not have very much in common together, and he grew more and more unsociable and lonely. Small wonder was it, then, that when he received a letter from her, he felt that his voluntary exile was broken—his penance was done, and he was free to return to civilization and Nair. "You can come on, Jim, dear," the letter said; "that is, of course, if you care to take a dowerless bride. I have only enough left to bring me in three hundred a year—exactly what you had. I do not own another thing on earth. I have concluded that the money without you is not worth having, and as long as you are so stubborn about it, I saw that I must give in, so I have done so, gladly. I have gotten to be twenty-four, as you know, and have absolute control of my property. So, in order to get you, I have given away my fortune. "You have cost me nearly two hundred thousand dollars, so I'm of the opinion you had better come on and deliver your up as a victim. I don't propose to tell you another thing about it, as you have no right to know, now. After—after—oh, well, some time, I will tell you what I did with the rest of the money, but just now it is no affair of yours. You will simply have to take my word for it. Come on, Jim, I am anxious to see you." So it was that Jim was happy. He had only two more day to wait, then he would get his month's wages. He had four hundred dollars saved up, and he reflected that he and Nell would manage to get along nicely on that for awhile. His pride was riding rampant, also, and his conscience was very self-satisfied, indeed, for had he not held out against the allurements of beauty, wealth, position, ease—everything? It was a victory well worth rejoicing over. The ceremony was over, the few intimate friends had taken their departure, and Jim and Nell looked at each other in a bewildered sort of way. "I think we ought to take a trip, Jim, I'm so deadly tired of this place I don't know what to do. Let's go to Europe. I've always wanted to go there." "Nelly, are you敢？ I can't afford a trip to Europe, and you know it—and you haven't any money, either, so how are we to go?" "I think it is very unkind for a person of your wealth to be taunting me with my poverty. For a man as rich as you, I think you are undoubtedly close." Her eyes twinkled merrily. "I want to go to Europe, and now I've got you to go with me, you ought to be glad of the opportunity." "Nell, dear, if I could afford it, you know I would be delighted to take you." "Well, you can afford it." "I tell you I cannot." "I know better, you can. Why, just look at these," and she handed him a bundle of books and papers. He picked up the first one and read from the inside page: "First national bank, in account with James M. Allyn. Deposited May 1, $35,000; May 9, $12,000; May 12, $10,000." "What does this mean, Nell?" he asked, wonderingly, as he looked at another book and read: "Received May 9, bonds, mortgages, stocks and securities, duly transferred and assigned to James M. Allyn and aggregating $130,000, and more particularly described as follows: The Trust and Safe Deposit company." Nelly was hugely enjoying the situation. She sated herself on the arm of his chair, and said: "You dear old stupid, mullish, stubborn thing, I told you the truth, for I reserved just enough to bring me three hundred a year." "Well, I'll be—" she kissed him and stopped the word. "Are we going to Europe?" she asked. "Yes, I think I'd enjoy the trip myself; but don't you think you paid too much for me?" "Oh, I don't know; not so long as you are nice, as you are now. Come on let's get ready and catch the steamer leaving to:morrow morning."—N. O. Times-Democrat. Second Attacks of Typhoid Fever. The idea is that, as one attack of typhoid gives immunity from a second, temporarily, if not lasting, immunity might be acquired by inoculation with an attenuated dose of the poison. But one attack of typhoid does not give immunity from a second, says Dr. T. J. Maclagan in the British Medical Journal. Second attacks of typhoid are as common as by the ordinary doctrine of chances, they ought to be; more common, for instance, than second attacks of pneumonia, in about the same proportion that first attacks are more common. If one attack of the fully developed disease does not give immunity, he concludes, inoculation with an attenuated dose of the poison can scarcely be expected to do so. Medical Record. Wanted to Save a Journey. WANTED to save a journey. There was a lawyer in the Indian country who had none too good a reputation for honesty. One of the aborigines employed him to do a little legal business. It was done to the client's satisfaction, the fee duly paid, and a receipt for it duly demanded, "A receipt isn't necessary," the lawyer said. "But I want it," replied the red man. There was some argument, and the attorney finally demanded his reason. "Since becoming a Christian I have been very careful in all my dealings, that I may be ready for the judgment," answered the brave sententiously, "and when that day comes I don't want to take time to go to the bad place to get my receipt from you." The receipt was made out and delivered promptly. -London Tit-Bilis. NOTES FROM THE PARIS EX POSITION. "The Singer Manufacturing Company, of 149 Broadway, New York, show their usual American enterprise by having a very creditable exhibit, located in Group XIII, Class 79, at the Paris International Exposition, where they show to great advantage the celebrated Singer Sewing-Machine which is used in every country on the globe, both for family use and for manufacturing purposes. The writer was highly pleased with this display and observed with much satisfaction that it was favorably commented upon by visitors generally. The Grand Prize was awarded by the International Jury to Singer Sewing-Machines for superior excellence in design, construction, efficiency and for remarkable development and adaptation to every stitching process used in either the family or the factory. Only One Grand Prize for sewing machines was awarded at Paris, and this distinction of absolutely superior merit confirms the previous action of the International Jury at the World's Columbian Exposition, in Chicago, where Singer machines received 54 distinct awards, being more than were received by all other kinds of sewing machines combined. Should it be possible that any of our readers are unfamiliar with the celebrated Singer Machine, we would respectfully advise that they call at any of the Singer salesrooms which can be found in all cities and most towns in the United States." CURRENT TOPICS Forest fires are driving the grizzly bears into Colorado towns. In Italy bread and sugar cost about thrice what they do in England. The world's production of lead amounted in 1898 to 777,000 tons. A Spanish bulldozer's fee for a million tons of coal. of them measure two feet in length. The skin of elephant Charlie, killed in Crystal palace, London, weighed a ton. In Spain the infant's face is swept with a pine bough to bring good luck. In Ireland a belt of woman's hair is placed about the child to keep harm away. A $500,000 yarn mill is to be erected near Talladega, Ala. It will have 20, 000 spindles. Garlic, salt, bread and steak are put into the cradle of a new-born baby in Holland. Most spiders are possessed of poison- fangs, but very few are dangerous to human-beings. The total Chinese losses during the stage of the legations in Peking are estimated at 3,000. The arbitration law has been in constant use in New Zealand for about four years and a half. In Nebraska there are 141 log schoolhouses, 517 built of sod, one of baled straw and one of steel. It is estimated that the number of Germans and their descendants in the United States is 15,000,000. The "burning mountain" of Monet, in Aveyron, France, is a coal mine which has been burning for several years. In the completed list of 40,822 pieces of game killed by Emperor William since 1872 there is only one whale. A New York florist says that the lily of the valley is poisonous, and its stem should not be placed in the month. The total quantity of diamonds found in 1898 in the Transvaal was 22,843 carats, valued at £43,730 ($212,-$12.04). The army death rate is lower in Great Britain than in any other country. In France it is nearly six times as high. the emperor of Austria always used to send the late king of Italy annually a present of 100,000 picked Virginia cigars. Kansas has two head of cattle, one hog, one-third of a horse, and one-fifth of a sheep for every man, woman and child in the state. Fort Marion, in Florida, is the oldest fort in the United States. It was built in 1565, of logs, but has since often been remodeled. The German emperor has been known to change his costume 12 times in 18 hours. His wardrobe contains more than 1,000 suits. A nugget of zine found recently weighs exactly a ton. It is a beautiful object, being covered with cubes of pink spar and galena. Forty years ago Japan had only coasting vessels. Now it has several steamship companies, the largest of which runs thirty-three vessels. The tube of a twelve-inch gun has fifty spiral grooves, inside, which cause the shot to revolve 75 times per second as it rushes through the air. The Turkish mother loads her child with amulets, and a small bit of mud, steeped in hot water, prepared by previous charms, is stuck on its forehead. Mobile beats Birmingham in population by the slim margin of fifty-four. The new census gives Mobile a population of 38,469 and Birmingham 38,415. Three million more years is the limit of human life on earth. Or such, at least, is the computation recently made by Dr. T. J. J. See, astronomer of the naval observatory at Washington. Pope Leo XIII. owns a pearl left to him by his predecessor on the throne of St. Peter which is worth $100,000, and the chain of 32 pearls owned by the Empress Frederick is estimated at $175,000. All the English railways have now agreed to carry 150 pounds of baggage for each first-class passenger free of charge, 120 pounds second-class and 100 pounds and 60 pounds, respectively, as previously. The soft hat was introduced to America about 1850 by Louis Kosseh. The army campaign hat and the Rough Rider hat had their origin in a Tyrolean hat that was brought here by an American traveler. The humorist has put his butter from theream of his jokes—Chicago Daily News. FASHION NOTES. The short or rainy-day skirt is becoming very popular, not only for stormy days, but for sunshine days as well, says Ladies' World. Women are getting to be very sensible about wearing these short skirts, and it is surprising how many one sees of them now in the shopping district. At one time they were only worn for wheeling, golf and stormy days; but now one sees them at all times, and there is no skirt more comfortable than this. But if they are worn one must also wear nice shoes with them, otherwise they do not look well. Tubular braid makes a pretty trimming for gowns of wool or cloth, and if laid over a color—for instance, red or white—it is very stylish. The waist of a gray and black gown was made with bolero fronts and the vast was strapped with bands of red cloth with black tubular braid over, and this same trimming went around the edges of the jacket, collar and cuffs. Red hats will be much worn for early fall, either all red or black trimmed with red. It is at this season that the red hats look pretty when worn with black or dark blue suits. A pretty hat was of red straw with a trimming around the crown of red chiffon, and a little to the left was an immense rosette of the same material. A short-back sailor in an ceru straw was trimmed with wide black velvet ribbon bows in front, and at the back under the rim was a bunch of deep red roses and black velvet bow. Another red hat, which was very stunning, had bias bands of red velvet around the crown and on the under side of the brim, and in front was a large bow of grenadine silk-striped red ribbon, with a bunch of light red and dark red roses. Very stylish and pretty was a large white hat trimmed with white tulle and delicately veiled with black, and on either side of the crown was a long black ostrich plume, and under the rim at the left side were two large black silk flowers with yellow centers. A Tuscan straw faced with white chiffon had bands of black velvet around the crown, with large black velvet bow in front and pink roses at the back, and another was a rice straw trimmed with white silk, and just a little to the left was an immense bunch of "Jack" roses. Collars made of crinoline, to be worn under ribbon stocks, etc., instead of a linen collar, can be bought for 10 or 15 cents. These collars come in all sizes, and are wired top and bottom, with feather-bones through the middle; they are said to be very nice. The white and black chiffon boas are pretty worn with light or thin gowns, and they still have many admirers. Some of the all-white ones are trimmed with a narrow ruching edged with black and long accordion plaited ends. A dainty and simple gown for an informal evening affair is a pale yellow organdie spotted with black. Around the foot of the skirt are three narrow ruffles of plain yellow, trimmed on the edges with narrow black lace. The lower part of the waist is of the dotted organdie with a tucked yoke of the plain yellow and black lace insertion, and a bertha of the yellow trimmed with lace. The Kimona dressing jacket is most convenient and comfortable article to have in one's wardrobe, and is made of lawn, challi and flannel and cashmere. Other dressing jackets are made with tucks, yokes and bolero fronts and trimmed with lace and embroidery, and with full or three-quarter length sleeves. Shirt waists and corset covers are cut off in front at the waist line, so as to have as little fullness over the stomach as possible, for skirts now must set perfectly smooth and plain over the hips and stomach. The seamless corset cover reaches to the waist line only and is finished with belt or drawing string. The blazer is a stylish little coat for wheeling; it is open in front with small revers and extends a few inches below the waist. A very handsome street gown of fawn colored cloth polka dotted with white was trimmed with bands of plain cloth of the same color. The back of this skirt was box plaited and on the front and sides were perpendicular bands of the plain cloth of different lengths, some reaching half way and others not quite so far. The Eton was of the polka dotted cloth, while the sleeves and collar were of the plain. Both the turn down and standing linen collar are worn with shirt waists, and there are all kinds and styles of pretty bows, stocks and ties of ribbon, silk, pique and lace for the neck. Coffee Manner. Put four tablespoonfuls finely ground coffee in a small double boiler and add half a pint of boiling water; cover and let stand in a warm place 15 minutes; then strain. Return the strained coffee to the double boiler; add the yolks of six eggs and six tablespoonful sugar; stir over the fire till nearly boiling or till it coats the spoon, then add one teaspoonful vanilla, and when cold, add one pint of whipped cream. Fill this in a mold; lay over a sheet of paper; then put on a tight-fitting cover and pack the mold in rock salt and ice; let freeze four hours, then serve. Another way is by adding one gill of cold, strong coffee to one pint of whipped cream, sweeten with three-quarter cupful sugar and flavor with one teaspoonful vanilla—Ledger Monthly. Pancakes. Housewives, if your bread sponge happens to sour, do not throw it way. Simply add water to thin it, if too thick, allow one-half tea teaspoonful of soda to every quart of sponge, and fry like any pancake. They have a delicious flavor, resembling that of the best buckwheat cakes, for which they are sometimes mistaken—Ladies' World. True Greatness. True greatness is always retiring and yet self-revealing—Ram's Horn. What Will Become of China? None can foresee the outcome of the quarrel between foreign powers over the division of China. It is interesting to watch how the United States is unprogressive race. Many people. America are also going to pieces because of dyspepsia, constipation, blood, liver and stomach diseases. We are living too fast, but we are living good health can be retained if we keep hostility to disease with Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. Probably Not. Elisie - Yes, yes, my husband is a doctor, and a lovely fellow, but awfully absent-minded. Ada - Indeed! "Only fancy! During the marriage ceremony, when he gave me the ring, he felt ill, and asked me to put out my tongue. "Well, he won't do the latter again."— Spare Moments. Railway Farm Lands for Sale In Northern Wisconsin the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha railway has for sale, at low rates and easy terns of payment, about 400,000 acres of choice farm lands. Early buyers will secure the advantage of locations on the many beautiful farm lands, including 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 of cultivation. Chicago, Minneapolis, Omaha, Minneapolis, Buldhun, Superior, Ashland and Ishland are thriving cities and towns on the line of the C. St. P. M. & O. R., and other railroads in the same territory, furnish good markets for farm produce. For further par- missions, Hudson Wash., Bell, Land Commissioner, A. G. P. A. St. Paul, Minn. Gratitude. Young Lady-Give me one yard of-why haven't I see you before? haven't i see you before? Dry Goods Clerk- Oh, Maud, can you have forgotten me? I saved your life at the seaside last summer. I lay (warmly) - Why, of course you did! You may give me two yards of this ribbon, please. - Journal. Western Washington. With its vast bodies of timber, affords ample opportunity for the establishment of lumber and shingle mills. The soil is exceedingly productive, and fruit, grain and vegetations grow in great abundance. These forests provide the largest cities, and the Alaskan trade. Government timber land can still be secured, while cut-over lands, suitable for dairying and truck gardening, can be purchased at reasonable prices along the line. The timber is also used in particular, write to C. W. Mott, Gen Emigration Agent, Nori Pac.Ry, St. Paul, Minn. Difficulties in the Way. "I will make your name a hissing and a byword," savagely spoke the rejected lover, "and I will make your beauty answered, with majestic contempt, "but your own good judgment will tell you that you can't do much hissing with such a name as Della Miller." -Chicago Tribune. Business Opportunities on the line of the Chicago Grill Green Market today in Minnesota and Vermont. First class classes in growing towns for all kinds of business and for manufacturing. Our list includes locations for Blacksmiths, Doctors, Dressmakers, Furniture, Grain and Live Food, Caterers, Food Ware, Harness, Tailors, Cold Storage, Creamers and Canning Factories. Write fully in regard to your requirements so that we may advise you intelligently. G. W. Ry-601 Endicott Big. St. Paul, Minn. One on the Clerk He thrust the sealed letter through the window and put down two cents. "Well, what do you want?" asked the stamp clerk griffy. "An automobile, please," he replied, sweetly - Philadelphia North American. Best for the Bowels. No matter what ails you, headache to a cancer, you will never get well until your bowels are put right. Cascarets help nature, cure you without a gripe or pain, produce easy natural movements, cost you just 10 cents to start getting back, back, back. 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The display embraces horticulture, agriculture, minerals, timber—all natural products—manufactures and the government exhibits of fish and game. The recent deposition of J. W. McKay from the presidency of the Waynesburg (Pa.) college was due, a correspondent of the Philadelphia Ledger reports, to objection on the part of the Pennsylvania synod of the Cumberland Presbyterian church to the favor shown college athletics by Dr. McKay. Ogden H. Fethers, of Janesville, Wis., the new supreme chancellor of the Knights of Pythias, becomes greatly irritated upon receiving a letter addressed "O. H. Fethers." His peculiarity in this respect is explained among his friends by relating the story of a wag who once referred to him as "Old Hen" Fethers. Many thousands of fish are being found dead in the lakes contiguous to Fergus Falls, Minn., chiffey in Otter Tail lake, from which the city named gets its water supply through the ked river. This is a serious feature of the situation. General belief has it that severe electrical disturbances have killed the fish. A Swiss genius has invented a pith cloak weighing about one pound which will hold up a fully equipped soldier on the surface of the water. Successful experiments were made recently on the Lake of Zurich. The cloak is provided with waterproof pocketets in which food and drink may be carried as well as blue lights, in case the wearer is shipwrecked in the night. "An effort is being made," says the London St. James Gazette, "to erect a suitable memorial over the stone near Temple church, on which is written, 'Here lies Oliver Goldsmith.' It is not certain, however, that the bones of poor Oliver are buried in this spot. One who poses as an authority on the subject states that nobody knows where Oliver Goldsmith was buried, and that the stone was put there accidentally." Cigarette beetles are one of the latest discoveries of the bureau of entomology of the agricultural department. The beetles feed on all kinds of cured tobacco, but have a decided preference for ready-made cigarettes. The bug prefers to lay its eggs in packages of ready-made cigarettes, and when the eggs hatch the beetle ruins the cigarettes by boring holes in the paper wrappers in order to escape. It is reported that the catch of Norwegian cod has been the poorest and, consequently, the least profitable financially, this season, in 100 years, thousands of fishermen not having money enough to pay their fares home from the fishing banks. In consequence of these conditions it will necessarily follow that there will be a smaller quantity of cod liver oil offered than in previous seasons, and the price will also be higher. An English exchange makes the claim that one of the varieties of wheat cultivated at an immensely remote period by the lake inhabitants of Switzerland still exists. These lake inhabitants are presumed to have belonged to a race which originally came from a southeastern district of Europe or Asia, traveling west. Perhaps the earlier reference to wheat was by the early Chinese writers. What is known as the Fenton wheat was discovered growing on a pile of basaltic remains in a quarry. A number of capitalists from Brooklyn, N. Y., have purchased the famous Penn's cave, in the heart of beautiful Penn's valley, about ten miles from Bellefonte, Pa. The consideration has not been made known yet, but some time ago $200,000 was refused for it. Although not so large, Penn's cave in beauty and splendor rivals the famous Mammoth cave in Kentucky. The entrance to it is by the way of what appears to be an ordinary sink hole in the open field, such as are common in limestone regions. Fifty years ago the Franklin, a sidewheel steamship plying between Southampton, Haven and New York, went aground on the outer bar at East Moriches, L. I. The ship washed broadside to the beach, where the sand soon banked up about her so high the wagons were driven to her to remove her cargo. The other day the old landmark, that has become so familiar to pilots and coasters, is doomed. A Boston firm with a diver has begun to wreck the old ship with dynamite to secure the cargo of valuable copper still aboard. Montreal is gorging herself with oysters. The boats have come in from Prince Edward island and the gulf, their loads piled far above the decks. They lie at the wharves below the Bonsourcies market, and a constant stream of men and boys, with an occasional woman, climbs up and down the dyke to feast at first hand. For 25 cents one is allowed to eat as many oysters as he can, and men have been known to stay from 8 o'clock till 3 o'clock on an investment of that amount. The feaster is compelled to open the oysters himself. The estate of the late C. P. Hunt- ington must pay death taxes to the amount of $200,000 to the state of New York and an equal amount to the general government under the war revenue act, the supreme court having decided the inheritance tax to be constitutional. But that is a small amount compared with the death taxes imposed by Great Britain. The returns show that nearly $70,000,000 was paid into the British treasury last year. Total amount bequeathed by 65,344 persons in England during the year was $1,460,000,000. A WEEK'S HISTORY The Important Happenings of a Week Briefly Told. IN ALL PARTS OF THE UNION All the Latest News of Interest from Washington, From the East, the West and the South. THE LATEST FOREIGN DISPATCHES FROM WASHINGTON. The report of the post office department shows receipts of $102,354,579 during the last fiscal year, leaving a deficit of $4,894,718, which is $1,500,600 less than the deficit for the preceding fiscal year. The treasury of the United States reaffirmed a ruling that legacies over $10,000 must pay inheritance tax on the full amount. The census office says the population of Delaware is 154,735; of the District of Columbia, 278,718. In Washington Col. Joseph Payson Wright, assistant surgeon general of the United States army, died suddenly at his home. President McKinley and wife arrived in Washington from Canton. THE EAST. In the United States there were 208 business failures in the seven days ended on the 5th, against 204 the week previous and 134 the corresponding period of 1899. Upon entering the fourth week of the miners' strike, a conference which is believed to mark the beginning of the end of the struggle was held at the headquarters of the United Mine Workers in Hazleton, and a joint convention of operators and employees will probably soon be called. Flames destroyed the Atlantic Transport line pier in New York, the loss being $1,000,000. The population of New Castle, Pa., is 28,330, which is more than double that of 1890. Carl Schurz has resigned the presidency of the National Civil Service Reform league. A call has been issued by President Mitchell, of the United Mine Workers, for a convention of strikers at Scranton, Pa., to pass on terms offered by operators. At the age of 71 years Andrew C. Armstrong, one of the founders of Scribner's Monthly and one of the oldest publishers in New York, died at his country home at Stamford, Conn. In the United States the visible supply of grain on the 6th was: Wheat, 55,401 bushels; corn, 7,887,000 bushels; oats, 12,019,000 bushels; rye, 935,000 bushels; barley, 1,026,000 bushels. William Schreiber, charged with stealing $108,000, is a fugitive. He was a clerk in a bank at Elizabethport, N. J., and the bank was robbed. A list issued by the American Bible society of dead and missing missionaries in China numbers 178 persons. In the Hazleton region there was no change in the strike situation, nor is there likely to be any until the conclusion of the Scranton convention. WEST AND SOUTH. Flames destroyed a large portion of the town of Byesville, O. Judge John Olney, the last Lincoln elector in Illinois and the oldest member of the Chicago bar, died at the age of 78 years. At Cleveland, O., Crescus made a new world's record for trusting stallions by going a mile in 2:04. "Sam's of Posen." M. B. Curtis, the actor, fled a petition in bankruptcy in St. Paul, with liabilities of $117,000, assets, $25. Substantial agricultural prosperity is reported throughout the region lying between Havana and Clenfuegos, in Cuba. Near Eveleth, Minn., a powder magazine blew up, killing one person and injuring 200. In Cuba the total customs receipts during the first eight months of 1900 were $10,672,69.05, against $9,493,088.46 for the same period of 1899. Youtsey, charged with implication in the Goebel murder, was placed on trial at Georgetown, Ky. In a political riot in Guayama, Porto Rico, four persons, one a woman, were killed. In Alabama the coal output this year will approximate 9,000,000 tons, an increase over last year's production of 1,250,000 tons. In Iowa the total of all cereal crops this year will be 531,349,020 bushels, which is 10,000,000 in excess of any previous year. Bottom lands surrounding La Crosse, Wis., were all overflowed by waters from the Mississippi and Black rivers. J. P. Tice, a barber at Farmington, Mo., killed Fred Trape and then committed suicide. Politics caused the crime. I. W. Keller, who was executed in Oklahoma, confessed that he had murdered seven persons. The Illinois state banks in Chicago show big increases in loans and discounts and in savings deposits. At Seneca, Mo., Maj. Edward Goldberg, United States Indian agent, died of mushroom poisoning. At the Newport News yards the launching of the monitor Arkansas has been set for November 10. In Cleveland the interment of the wife, three daughters, granddaughter and niece of Capt. James Corrigan took place in one grave in Lakeview cemetery. They were drowned by the capizing of the yacht Idler. At El Paso, Tex., 20 Chinamen and Italians have been arrested charged with being unlawfully in the United States. The Idaho soldiers' home at Boise City was destroyed by fire. There were 80 inmates, but no one was injured. Trial by jury has been inaugurated in Cuba and the writ of habeas corpus established. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE Canada's parliament has dissolved. The election will be held November 7. Eskimos in the Hudson Bay region again report that Andree is dead. The emperor and empress of China removed to Singan Fu, a fortified town in Shenai province, alleging a scarcity of food in Shenai as the reason. German papers regard the move as evidence that the Chinese court is anti-foreign as ever, and as putting peace negotiations on a farcal level. The relief column failed to find 60 men of the Twenty-ninth infantry reported captured on Marinindue island, Philippines. By the sinking of the Egyptian mail steamer Charklej 200 passengers were drowned. During a panic caused by a false alarm of fire four men and thirty-six women were crushed to death in Porkhoff, Russia. From China Minister Conger has submitted a list of Chinese whom he regards as the responsible authors of the outrages which have occurred and has made recommendations as to the extent and manner of their punishment, and his report was considered at a cabinet meeting. In the recent storm on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland 300 fishermen were lost. Orders were issued by the British war office that the bulk of the militia regiments called out for service during the South African war be disbanded. In India the general condition of the crops is excellent, and, except in a part of Bombay, famine conditions are disappearing. The total number on the relief list has fallen to 2,746,000. About 200 Boer prisoners were landed by the British transport Idaho on the island of St. Helena. LATEFIL SEWS. Secretary Hay, in reply to France and Russia rejects proposals as to importation of arms into China, permanent garrisons and the Taku forts. He urges immediate negotiations to preserve China. A Russian report says Boxers are forming great armies in south China and a terrible outbreak soon is expected. Capt. M. E. Jones, who fired the first shot at Gettysburg, died at Wheaton, Ill., aged 70 years. The treasury department gave notice of a new counterfeit $10 silver certificate, series of 1891, with portrait of Hendricks. Mrs. John Lawless died at Madison, Wis., aged 104 years. Ex-President Harrison in an interview explained why he supports McKinley for reelection. He will make no campaign speeches. Forty persons were killed by the collapsing of the barracks at Pakov, Russia. At the Paris expedition the United States received 2,745 awards; Germany, 1,826; Great Britain, 1,727, and Russia, 1,493. Mrs. Julia Duplici celebrated her one hundred and first birthday in Chippewa Falls, Wis. Edward rouseallin and his two boys were burned to death in a shanty at Roxbury, Mass. Mrs. Herman Kielback and her baby and Miss Lizzie Horman and Mrs. Charles Bartenbeck were killed by the cars at Holbrook, Neb. Edward Holken was arrested at Tiffin, O., for bigamy, it being claimed that he has nine wives. Gen. David S. Stanley was elected president of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland at its annual session in Chattanooga. The special session of the Michigan legislature began at Lansing and Gov. Pilgrine delivered his address. While insane the wife of Rev. Charles Meeder, of Farmington, Kan., jumped into a cistern with her two-year-old child and both were drowned. The government crop report shows a decline in the condition of corn for September. A. P. Deer, an aeronaut, fell from his balloon at Gays Mills, Wis., and was killed. Striking miners making an effort to close a coilery at Onelda, Pa., came in collision with coal and iron police and one man was killed and several seriously injured. MINOR NEWS ITEMS. There are about 30,000 lepers in the Philippines. Modern machinery is fast finding its way to small farms in Cuba. A German firm has built a locomotive on the American pattern. The Chicago & Alton will exclude news agents from moving trains. The United States lead all other nations in the matter of fruit growing. The gold yield of Cripple Creek for the present year is expected to amount to $27,000,000. During the last year 2,400 duels have been fought in Italy and 480 deaths have resulted. Col. Lynch, who fought with the Boers, says Kruger may come to the United States. The international peace congress in Paris condemned Great Britain's course in the Transvaal. An English inventor proposes to build a boat that will cross the Atlantic in two days. Big imports of gold from Europe are antilipated in New York as a result of the resumption of mining in South Africa. The Railway Clerks' Mutual Benefit association, in session in Detroit, Mich., elected Henry E. First, of Cincinnati, president. Lesses of the Georgia penal campa are charged with entrapping innocent negroes and forcing them into the chain gangs. Cabbage crops in Europe are generally poor this year and this country is being called upon to make up the deficiency. A well-preserved life-size marble statue of Apollo has been dug up near Athens. The workmanship is of the fifth century before Christ. Scores of sheep and hogs have been killed recently on the borders of Virginia and South Carolina by animals which seem to be half dog and half wolf. Naval officers complain that naval reserves took but little interest in summer cruises, and conclude that they would not be valuable in case of trouble. At Japanese auctions bidders write their offer on a趴 of paper, and drop it into a box. When all the bids are in the box is opened and the highest bidder named. RIOTS IN PORTO RICO. Street Fight Between Federals and Republicans—Three Men and a Woman Slain. San Juan, Oct. 9—Four persons—one of them a woman—were killed in a political street riot in Guayamo, which lasted all Sunday night. The rioting started in a cafe when a member of the federal party shot and severely wounded a republican. Several of the latter's party friends tried to lynch the federal, but were prevented by eight Americans. Federals from Arroyo hastened to reenforce the federals in Guayamo and a bloody street fight followed. Three men and a woman were killed, while 20 others, including several policemen, were wounded. Several of their will die. Armed bands paraded the streets this morning, shooting and shouting and terrorizing the town. The whole district is arming and the police force is utterly unable to cope with the rioters. The parties are about equally divided in numbers. Leaders of the republicans are urging their followers not to engage in rioting, but the federalists are determined to avenge the San Juan affair and further bloodshed is expected. Animosity between federalists and republicans is increasing as the time for the election approaches, and all over the island are evidences that trouble may break out at any moment. SIGNS OF FRAUD. Myterious Death Develops Indications of Conspiracy Against Life Insurance Associations. Chicago, Oct. 8.—With insurance upon her life amounting to $12,000; Marie Defenbach died August 25 in a room at 310 La Salle avenue alone and under conditions which the police believe indicate a gigantic swindle upon insurance companies, if they do not point to a murder. Charges of conspiracy, back of which are allied insinuations of murder, are lodged against three men, two of whom are already in custody. These men will have to answer allegations of a carefully-laid plot to swindle an insurance company and two insurance societies—a plot which, it is said, progressed with the growth of fear into the actual death, by poison, it is thought, of the insured person. According to the theory on which the prosecution will proceed the dead person, a young woman of Chicago, was originally one of the quartette of conspirators. She had expected that her death was to be feigned, and that another dead body was to play the passive role of her corpse; instead of that, real death came to her. The Missionary Cause. St. Louis, Oct. 11. Several hundred officers, charter members, missionaries and workers of the American board of commissioners for foreign missions, together with many prominent ministers and lay workers in Congregational churches of the country, met in Pilgrim Congregational church Wednesday for a three-days' session. The event that occasioned the gathering was the ninety-first annual meeting of the board, which is holding its most important session since 1810, the date of organization. The crisis in China and the famine in India, two of its largest fields, bring before the board conditions never before met by that body. The presence of so many missionaries from foreign fields and the reports given by them at the afternoon session gave added interest to the proceedings. Reports of officers and missionaries were the order of the day. Many Lost. St. Johns, N. F., Oct. 10—According to reports from St. Pierre, 17 fishing vessels that were operating on the Grand Banks during the gale of September 12 are still missing, with crews aggregating over 200 men. A number of other vessels that have arrived here within the last few days have reported a loss of one to seven men each. The fatality list probably exceeds 300. Serious disaster has visited a number of New Foundland fishing harbors, Buril, on the west side of Plaicea bay, alone losing 35 men. Jewa. Crens. Des Moines, In., Oct. 9.—The official preliminary estimate of the crop yields of Iowa for the current year show: Corn, area, 8,618,668 acres, average 41 bushels to the acre, total product 353,355,060 bushels, which is greater by 18,000,000 than ever before harvested in the state. The total of all cereals will be 531,349,000 bushels, which is 10,000,000 in excess of any previous year, and 131,000,000 above the average yearly output the past ten years. Schura Designs New York, Oct. 8,—Carl Schurz, who resigned his presidency of the National Civil Service Reform league, as well as of the Civil Service Reform association, explains his action in a letter to Secretary George McAenny. Mr. Schurz says he resigns rather than be criticised as carrying on a systematic course of antagonism to the administration, his opposition to it in regard to other policies having in the meantime become more conspicuous. Challenge Is Seen London, Oct. 11.—There has been much talk lateally about Sir Thomas Lipton's having again challenged for the America's cup. Much of it has been denied, but there is now no doubt about the matter. Sir Thomas, flauding that no challenge was likely to be sent, has once more, with a sports-manship that will be appreciated all over America, forwarded a challenge for the America's cup to the New York Yacht club. A Fatal Error. St. Stephen, Mina., Oct. 10.—While Nelson Fernatrom was hunting near here he mistook Mrs. Stromer for a wolf and instantly killed her. The woman was out searching for cattle and climbed up a strawattack to see if she could locate them. Night was approaching, and in the darkness Fernatrom made his fatal mistake. Mother Drowned Self and Child Atchison, Kan., Oct. 11.—The wife of Rev. Charles Meeder, of the Emanuel Evangelical church, near Farmington, jumped into a cistern with her three-year-old child about midnight and both were drowned. Mrs. Meeder had shown signs of insanity. THEY FIGHT AGAIN. Nonunion Men Attacked by Strikers at Mine Near Hazleton—Many Are Injured in Shooting. Hazleton, Pa., Oct. 11.—A special policeman was instantly killed, another was wounded in the head, a striaker was probably fatally shot and ten nonunion men were more or less seriously wounded at the Onelida colliery of Coxe Bros. in a clash between the officers and 500 strikers Wednesday morning. The Onelida colliery having been in operation since the inauguration of the strike, the union men at Onelida and Sheppton, where many of the employees of the Onelida and Derringer collieries of Coxe Bros. & Co. live, decided early Wednesday morning to close down the mine. They gathered in groups on the streets as early as three o'clock. As the nonunion men went to work they were asked by the strikers to remain at home. Some turned back, others did not. Those who went to the colliery were stoned. The strikers remained at the colliery all morning. As the small mine locomotive used in hauling coal from the No. 2 and No. 3 collieries to the Oneida breaker pulled up on the road near the latter colliery a crowd of women blocked the track. The women were told by General Superintendent Kudleck to go home. He assured them that their husbands would get an increase in wages and that their other grievances would be properly adjusted. The women refused to listen and stoned the superintendent, who was wounded in the head. Then the striking men and the women rushed toward the No. 2 colliery. A force of about 50 special policemen who had been brought down from Beaver Meadow to prevent trouble attempted to intercept the mob, but they were powerless to do anything and retired to the engine house. Just as the officers got close to shelter a shot was fired. This was followed by another, and in a few seconds many shots rang through the air. Policeman Milla was the first to fall. Then Joseph Lesko, a striker, staggered to the ground. No one knows who shot first, but it is believed that both the strikers and the officers used their weapons. Scranton, Pa., Oct. 11.—Thousands of striking mine workers marched in review through the crowded streets of this city Wednesday and showed their loyalty to the cause for which they have been battling for the past three weeks. Not only did the strikers manifest loyalty to their principles, but showed the confidence they had in their leader, John Mitchell, who came here to participate in the parade and to address the men in mass meeting. Buried in One Grave. Cleveland, O., Oct. 10.—the bodies of the wife, three daughters, grand-daughter and niece of Capt. James Corrigan were lowered together into one large grave in Lakeview cemetery, Tuesday afternoon. Rev. Dr. Sprecher, of the Euclid Avenue Presbyterian church, conducted the services. On July 7, the schooner yacht Idler, owned by Capt. Corrigan, capsized in a squall on this port and Mrs. James Corrigan and Ida Corrigan, Jane Corrigan and Mrs. Rieley, her daughter, and baby Rieley, were drowned. The last of the bodies was recovered only a few days ago. Miss Mabelle Hall, a niece of Capt. Corrigan, and a beloved inmate of his home, died within the last week and she was buried with the victims of the wreck. New York, Oct. 10.—Charged with having stolen from the Elizabethport Banking company of Elizabethport, N. J., nearly $108,000, William Schreiber, utility clerk, 26 years old, has disappeared. Frederick Heidritter, president of the banking company, and its counsel, ex-Judge H. P. Gilhoooly, came to this city to make efforts to recover $20,000 worth of diamonds and other valuables which the clerk is said to have lavished upon a young woman living here. Although the young man had been abstracting money from the bank for several years, his employers say that he accomplished his thefts so cleverly as even to deceive a state bank examiner. Struck by an Engine. Holbrook, Neb., Oct. 11.—Wednesday evening at seven o'clock, as Mrs. Herman Kielbeck and family were crossing the railroad at the depot in a farm wagon, a lone engine going west ran into them, instantly killing Miss Lizzie Horman, Mrs. Kielbeck and her baby girl and Mrs. Carl Bartenbeck; also seriously injuring the latter's four-year-old boy and 18-month-old baby girl. The latter is not expected to survive. Not a single occupant escaped unhurt. The wagon was smashed into kindling wood and one of the horses killed. Mrs. Bartenbeck was the wife of Carl Bartenbeck, who was shot and killed near here Monday night by his brother-in-law. Will Go Back to Work. Dauville, Pa., Oct. 8.—The employees of the Dauville rolling mill held a meeting Saturday night and decided to accept the 25 per cent. cut in their wages against which they struck last week. The puddlers will now be paid $3 a ton for their work, instead of $4, the price formerly paid, and a proportionate cut in wages will be made in the other departments. The reduction affects several hundred men. The fires were started Sunday and work will be resumed to-day. Soldiers' Home Burned Boise, Idaho, Oct. 10.—The Idaho soldiers' home was destroyed by fire Tuesday night, entailing a loss of $40,000. There were 80 inmates. No one was injured. The old men will be housed in buildings in town, some being taken to the statehouse. The home was erected in 1893. Population of New Hampshire Washington, Oct. 8. The census bureau has made public the figures for the state of New Hampshire. The population of the state in 1900 is 411, 588, as against 376,530 in 1890, representing an increase since 1890 of 35, 058, or 9.3 per cent. Railroad Disaster Heldelberg, Oct. 9. - Five persons were killed and 75 injured in a railway collision at Karlshorst Sunday evening. 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"I have also written a love song which is as tender as an April rose." "What a dear, sweet soul you are! I'm sure that's good for a can of lard and a bottle of wine." "Woman?" said the poet, sternly, "do you know what genius is?" you know what gennie is "ket," she said, broughtfully, "Sometimes I call the door to call again, shutting the door on the baker, hidin' from the house reent man, and singing, when sunday comes, 'I would not live always; I ask not to stay!' He Addressed the Jury A man who had never seen the inside of a courtroom until he was introduced as a witness in a case pending in one of the Scottish court, on being sworn, took a positional stance, telling his story to the judge. The judge, in a bland and courteous manner, said: "Address yourself to the jury, sir." The man made a short pause, but, notwithstanding the court's narrative, the judge was then more explicit, and said to him: "Speak to the jury, sir; the men sitting behind you on the benches." The witness at once turned and looked up, and bowed his head with perfect gravity: "Good morning, gentlemen."—Buffalo Courier. If the poor insist upon playing golf, it will be the prefectly it was with appendix; our best people will drop it—Detroit Journal. CALIFORNIA'S SPLENDID SHOWING AT THE PARIS EXPOSITION. Following is an extract from a letter recently written by Mr. Wm. H. Mills, of California, while in Paris in charge of the Southern Pacific Company's exhibit at the Exposition. It is remarkable for two reasons, first, as evidence of the great interest which is everywhere manifested in that wonderful State; also for the valuable information it contains, and for which it is here reproduced: Paris, July 19th, 1900. The panorama at Paris, July 19th, 1900. Grove is admitted by all, including photographers, to be the most wonderful photographic reproduction that has ever been made. Yesterday I visited Grove-Growing Association of France, to the number of fifteen, visited the office. They were in the largest individual fruit grower in the Republic. They came here to get an illustration of the industrial and climatic conditions of France. I explained to them fully the proficial character of our climate, and by pictures and illustrations showed, that our danger was from over-bearing; that our danger was from over-bearing; that in no instance had we missed two crops in succession from any cause. I caused an intense interest of this interview until it is explained that this Fruit-Growing Association practices fruit cultivation under glass (1 forego French designations). The out-door cultivation of fruit in France is extra-hazardous and is the means of with and glass. The gentlemen who were here yesterday explained that the most profitable cultivation process was in the hands of the cultivator. I have used this argument many times for the promotion of the policy of cultivation. The moisture can be controlled, both with reference to moisture and drainage, civilized culture will have been achieved; that at least in some places where natural conditions are depended upon and are not under the control of man the cultivation has not risen to the level that main factors are at the hazard of chance. When I explained, however, the conditions under which fruit was grown in California are the same as in self and my auditors; that the natural conditions in California are as nearly perfect for the production of fruit as it is in the rest of the world, there are economies with us which will give us the fruit markets of the world. We are here to demonstrate by our exhibit and observation here. California is hereafter to be the orchard of the world, for reasons which are easily made apparent in a personal interview. 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