The Professional World

THE PROFESSIONAL WORLD $1.50 Per Year In Advance. His Professional Work and Progress. Written for the PROFESSIONAL WORLD BY DR. J. E. PERRY. In the development of the industrial resources of a country, agricultural, mechanical, etc., pioneers are essentially necessary and are generally the the individuals who educate untold hardships and privitions. The same is true of those who are primitive in the development of the intellectual faculties of a race or nation—both literary and professional. The honors thrust upon such noble characters as these ordinarily compensate for the sacrifice made. The pioneers of the Negro doctor are now in full realization of the results of their efforts. He is no longer an experiment—no longer to be embarrassed by vile criticisms and expressions of non-confidence in his professional a requirements and ability to handle scientifically the various diseases that affect the human organism. To think or say that the succes of the physicians of our race has been impeded in the least by their white brethren in the professions is erroneous. They, (the white physicians.) were found to be broad-guaged gentlemen of the purest type; ready to lead at any time a helping professional hand to medical representatives of a long depressed race. Gradually by the merit, the Negro physicians have established a precedent which is being constantly emulated and one from the minds of both races which time cannot efface. In the various Communities of their locations they have become permanent fixtures—ever sacrificing and laboring a nestly to place their people upon a more lofty plain of recognition. The burdens of the professions to the negro doctor are not recognized wholly by any of the other professional world The disadvantages under which they labor in many instances are appalling. The poverty condition of a large percentage of people among whom they are called to labor and the hygienic environments are far from satisfactory and such a condition of affairs oftimes causes an unfavorable termination of a serious illness, which in turn casts a gloom over the successful arena of the attendant. The high death rate of the Negro race keeps the vigilant professional man constantly meditating and planning as to the proper methods to adopt which will result in a reduction of this sad state of affairs. Regardless of selfish motives, he liberally donates his time, means and acquirements in ascertaining causes conducive to the above and administering advice and treatment for same. In consequence of his services, many homes are brightened and many hovels converted from an unhealthy state of affairs to those of comfort and beauty. The demands of the hour cause numbers of negro doctors to lose sight of personal interests and labor zealously for the physical improvement of their people. The medical men of our race who possess true gentlemanly principles of manhood are always welcomed to a community of both white and colored citizens and I cannot recall a single instance where success has not attended their efforts. Standing upon a plain of self-reliance, the gentlemen with merit and still have surmounted difficulties; subdued prejudice, conquered superstition and written their names high on the pillars of fame, where they will remain as a living monument to their successors. Yet this degree of success does not in any wise appease their ambitious hopes. They recognize the fact that the meical field is extensive in area and requires much in research, investigation and a practical application of medicines and surgery to the successful treatment of the diseases before they can make the least claims to a small degree of perfection. His advancement in qualifications is apparent and universally admitted. Throughout the country hospitals, sanitariums and relief homes are being established, surgeons and nurses trained for the care of the Inmates. The Negro doctor seeks no favors on account of the pigmentation of his skin. He onlo desires to be measured by the standard of true manhood—guaged by the requirements of professional equity—weighed in the scales of proficiency and if he does not possess the proper qualifications, he says, "Cut me down." Those who have sought a higher degree of attainments have encountered many discouragements and disadvantages; but when they peruse some of the best medical jonrnals of America and recognize the writings of such men of our race as Irs. Friday, November 8, 1901. Dan H. Williams (the greatest Negro surgeon in this country and one of the acknowledged best in the land), F. A. Stewart, Curtis, Sterrs, and others to numerous to mention, it invigorates them with renewed energy and confidence to continue their efforts and never to lose hope. The progress which the Negro doctor has made is nothing by way of comparison to the work which is to be accomplished. Specific disease caused by improper care of person and irregular habits, are sapping the vitality of the race—Consumption the deadened ailment of all mankind has a special affinity for the Negro. These must be checked in their rampage of the race will become extinct. This can only be secured through the efforts and labors of the colored physician. By a constant application to duty and a consecrated life to his chosen profession, he is destined to become an important factor in aiding in the solution of the great Negro problem that is now absorbing the minds of the American people. RIVAL POETS. 126en and Ejersonn Are Very Jealous Each Other. Ibsen has a wife and one son, Sigurd Ibsen, now about 40 years old, who has been in the consular service, and I believe, says W. E. Curtis, in the Chicago Record-Herald, spent several years at Washington as secretary of legation. He is at present occupying a subordinate position in the ministry of foreign affairs. Sigurd married a daughter of Bjornstjerne Bjornsen, his father's most formidable rival in literature and popular estimation. The two authors are not friends. They are very jealous of each other. Ibsen envies Bjornson's great popularity and prosperity, while the latter regards Ibsen as "an affected old donkey," and often calls him such. In front of the new theater in Christiaia are Bronze statues of both men in heroic size, which were erected at the expense of the public and generally admired, but are unsatisfactory to the subjects. It is seldom that people have the privilege of criticising their own statues. Such honors are usually reserved until they are dead. In this case there was no formal dedication or unveiling and neither of the subjects saw his statue until after it was placed in position, and both have since expressed great dissatisfaction. A few days after his statue was in position Ibsen varied his morning walk by strolling over in that direction. For several moments he stood gazing at the effigy of himself, showing his long coat, his bushy hair and whiskers and his big eye glasses, then shook his head sadly as if in disapproval and went on his way. He has never been near the statue since. Bjornson, being a man of impetuous manners and quick temper, expressed his dissatisfaction in a more emphatic manner. When he first saw himself in bronze he became greatly excited and gesticulated wildly, declaring that it was "a permanent injury" and must come down, but his son, who is the manager of the theater, succeeded in cooling the old gentleman down, and the latter has become reconciled so far as to make jokes about the statue. WAS LEFT-HANDED. An Art Connoisseur's Discovery Concerning One Old Master. What old master among the Dutch painters was left-handed? This knowledge is a very valuable asset to a connoisseur in art. Few experts know, and those who do are particular to keep the information to themselves. It enables them to detect a spurious painting ascribed to this artist at a glance. Mr. George H. Story, of the Metropolitan museum, says, according to the New York World, that he discovered the fact for himself in a curious way. Mr. Story is the highest authority in this country upon old masters, and is especially familiar with those of the Dutch school. He gained his prestige by years of the minutest study in the galleries of Europe. One of his methods of study was to copy masterpieces for the sake of dissecting a painter's style. One day he set his easel down before a famous painting at The Hague. "Now I'll get your stroke," reflected upon the artist. He found that he could not get the stroke. There was something about it quite, out of the ordinary. Then he noticed the same oddity in the way that the original varnishing had been done. Suddenly he worked out the problem like a flash. The brush had been brought always from left to right instead of from right to left. It was easy to verify the discovery, once made. When a World reporter asked Mr. Story to name the painter he laughed. "Oh, no." he said; "I can't afford to part with that bit of knowledge." Warlize English Surnames The registers that have been preserved at Somerset house since 1837 furnish what seems at first sight to be a complete series of surraames connected with war. Supplying in the first place that invariable cause of hostilities, Quarrell, they lead on to Allies, Challenge, Charge, Battle, Greatbattle, Rout, Victory and Conquest. They proceed, as it would appear, to enumerate in detail the ghastly results of conflict in the names Gash, Gore, Slaughter, Carnage and Corpse; and seem to furnish particulars of war material in Powder, Bullett, Shott, Shell, Cannon, Sword and Lance. They mention, too, the Gunner, and further specify his deadly charges in Canister and Grape. SENATOR PLATT. Is No Nature Lover—Has Seen Adirondacks Only Once. Senator Thomas C. Platt has never been counted as a nature lover. His dealings are with politicians and business men, and his expressions of fondness for the picturesque in nature are few and far between. The mountains have no attraction for the republican leader, and his friends were surprised last week when Senator Platt made a journey to the Adirondacks. His sons talked for hours to induce him to take the trip. The stayasted three days, and when Senator Platt arived back in the Fifth Avenue hotel he said to a friend: "It is the first time I have seen the Adirondack mountains, although I have lived within a short distance of them for years. Go back to the mountains? No, I never expect to see them again. The sea breezes of Coney island suit me." One of the tender spots in Senator Platt's nature is his desire to have care cut flowers in his rooms. He delights to push a comfortable armchair close to a large vase of American beauty roses and enjoy their fragrance.--N. Y. Times. Light. Weights. Don't ignore a man because he is in the light weight class. It is easier to throw a cannon ball a mile than to throw a feather ten feet.—Chicago Daily News. Vol. I. No. 2 LOCAL AND PERSONAL. Mr. Eli White is seriously ill with typho pneumonia. Prof. Billups of George R. Smith College was in Columbia Sunday. Mrs. J. Arlington Grant is improving and hopes to be out in a few days. Mr. William Ridgway will spend the winter in the state of California. Send in your subscription to the PROEESSONAL WORLD our list increases daily. The first ball of the season will be given next Thursday evening at Mathews hall. Miss Jesse Renfro and Miss Ida Diggs are attending school at Western college. Miss Sadie Robnett left last week for Western college where she will attend school. Mr Anderson Schweich has sold his transfer business to Mr. D. B. Hulett for $600. Mrs. Bart Akers and little grandson Master W. B. Akers returned last Thursday from a months visit in Chicago and St. Louis Rev. J B Goins of Evansville Ind arrived Tuesday, and is conducting revival services at the Second Baptist church Rev. J. B. Parsons Pastor of the Second Christian church spent this week in the city in the inter GLEANINGS. The Univerity of Michigan is the most cosmopolitan school in the United States. Prof. A. C. Brisone of the class of '98 of Lincoln Institute is studying in his second year dental course at Mahara Medical College. Miss Portla Washington daughter of Booker T. Washington is attending Wellsley College. She is devoting her time to music preparing to teach in her father's school she is also taking a course in German and French literature Yale University has a living Alumna of over 12 000 members. Seth Low the talented president of Columbia University resged his position and was recently elected Mayor of Greater New York. The University of Mo.has 1000 studen The Boone Concert Company is now travelling in Nebraska. Every body should feel it his duty to subscribe to the Nego Christian College fund. The Geogre R. Smith College is in a flourishing condition. Prof. Tom B. the host note-taker of Mexico was seriously hurt in his training yards at Mexico last week; Columbia the noted high sooal horse falling on him while being worked out. Prof. K. L. Seruggs, President of the Western Baptist College at Macon City Mo., possesses every essential qualification for a college president. Great credit is due him for the manner in which he has conducted the western college in the last 10 years, it is a result of his management that the college has been kept in operation and is constantly increasing in attendance, and now stands second to no in the State in educational thoroughness. ee THE PHOENIX HOTEL IN CHAR- LOTTE, MICH., BURNS. Sevral Narrow Escapes from Death are Reported, but No Loss of Life Occurs—Two Women Taken from ‘Third Story on Ladder—Episcopal School for Boys Near Denver in Ashes. The Phoenix hotel, the largest in Charlotte, Mich., was burned Monday night, and severat guests had nar- row escapes. Mrs. Bearsley of St. oseph, Mich., and Mrs. James Metcalf, of Syracuse, New York, were carried out of the third story on a ladder. A. W. Brokins of lonia, was taken out uncon- scious, but may recover. The loss is $10,000, partly insured. Military Academy Burns. ‘The Jarvis Hall Military academy at Mont Clair, eight miles from Denver, a school for boys, maintained by the spiscopal church’ of Colorado, burn- ed Monday night. The loss is $75,- 000, and the insurance $40,000. ‘The library of Canon Rogers, rector of the academy, one of the finest in the West, was partially destroyed, “* ‘Big Blaze in Louisiana. Fire destroyed five blocks of the main business part of Jennings, La.. The loss is estimated at $500,000, with insurance about half. ‘The heaviest in- dividual loser is a D. McForland, $70,- 000. There was no loss of life. Another Estimate. A special from Jennings. La.. says the loss by the fire is $160,000; insur- ance $60,000. BO its Bi iets ren: Fire at Port Huron, Mich., destroyed two grain elevators owned by the Botsford Blevator company, entail- ing a loss of $300,000. ‘There were 171,000 bushels of wheat, 90,000 bushels of corn and 14,000 bushels of oats destroyed. ‘The loss on buildings was $125,000 with $62,000 insurance. and the loss on grain is $175,000, which is fully insured, During the progress of the fire the roof of one of the buildings fell and Chief Charles Thorne of the fire depart- ment, was caught underneath, receiving probably fatal injuries, DETAILS OF SCHLEY INQUIRY. Sigsbee Takes Stand to Deny That He Gave Schley Misleading Information. Captain Sigsbee was the first witness in the Schley court of in- quiry Monday. He said he had not communicated with the press. boat Premier while off Santiago, the fact the Spanish fleet was not in Santiago. He said he would have been justified in saying so if he had thought it pro- per under the circumstances:of war, When Sigsbee was excused Lemly announced he had no more witiiésses. Schley then took the stand for the purpose of correcting his testimony. ‘The admiral is suffering from a cold and his voice was quite hoarse, He began his corrections at the very first of his testimony. Most of’ these cor- rections were of typographical errors or the changing of words.to make, the sentences read more smoothly. When Schley was excused Lemly of- fered a large number of documents as evidence, At 2:20 Hanna began his argument for the government. He began his presentation of the case by saying in what he should say in the proposed summary he would like to accomplish two objects. ‘The first of these was to make his address brief, and terse, and in the second to present a careful and exhaustive citation of the evidence ad- duced, He would, he said, take up the clauses of the precept, and pre- sent the testimony bearing on the or- der in which they appeared in the pre: cept. READS LIKE FICTION. Troy Girl Thinks She is Chicago Banker's Daughter. Miss Minnie Gardiner, a waitress in t restaurant at Troy, N. Y., says Charles W. Gardiner, whom she supposed was her father, says she was stolen from her parents in Chicago when a baby, and that her father is a banker named Loeb in that city. Denial in Chicago. The story from Troy told by Miss Gardiner is denied by Banker Loeb, who says no child was ever stolen from his family or relatives. MUST FACE MURDER CHARGE Kansas Doctor Accused of Causing Wite’s Death. Dr. C. C. Calhoun was brought to Os- vo Kan., Wednesday from Mound Valley and lodged in jail, being charged with the murder of his 18-year- old wife, who died suddenly on Satur- day. ‘The post mortem examination re- vealed that Mrs. Calhoun died from a surgical operation. Her lite was in- sured for several thousand dollars. Seivatians Sake the Gane. It is now known that the Boers got away with the two guns captured from Colonel Benson's column in the recent engagement near Brekenlaagte, eastern ‘Transvaal. CONDENSED FROM ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES. Items of General Interest Prepared ‘With a View to Save Time of the Busy Reaaer—Occurrences of bel Past Few Days Put in Readable Shape From the Daily Press Re- ports. British Admit Heavy Lote. ‘The Rustenburg column, under Col- onel G. Benson, has met with a serious reverse in the southern part of the Transvaal, in the area of Commandant General Botha's operations, Colonel Benson and eight officers were killed and 13 officers wounded, be- sides 58 noncommissioned officers and men killed and 156 wounded. The war office has issued two dispatches from General Kitchener, dated Pretoria, Nov. 1, the first of which states that: “A severe attack was made on the rear guard of Benson's column, about. 20 miles northeast of Bethel, near Braken- laagte, during a thick mist. The strength of the enemy is reported to have been 1,000. They rushed two guns with the rearguard, but it is un- certain whether they were able to re- move them. I fear our casualties were heavy. Benson was wounded,” Callahan’s Nerves Give War. James Callahan, on tria: for perjury in the Cudahy kidnaping case at Oma- ha, gave way to the nervous strain un- der which he has labored and had to be removed from the courtroom and the session adjourned. Callahan became much excited when young Cudahy re- asserted his recognition of the prisoner as one of his abductors who thrust the pistol in his face and almost fainted. Young Cudahy continued his narra- tive of the kidnaping, going over the entire case, The defense tried to show the boy was addicted to excessive cigaret smoking and was therefore un- able to give a clear version of the kid- naping. Discussing Maso's Manifesto. The newspapers all comment on the manifesto issued by General Maso in which he offers himself as a candidate for the presidency and sets forth his platform. ‘The Diario de 1a Marina says it is not the radical, anti-Platt amendment document that it was prophesied it would be, but is prudent, measured and conservative, The only point that needs clearing up is the mat- ter of the payn.ent of the army. — Re- ferring to what the manifesto says re- garding Cuba’r ultimate independence, the paper declares this is the former autonomisi doctrine of evolution. | Competes with the Bulgarians. A special from Great Falls, Mont., says that a 12-year-old boy named Southwick kidnaped the 6-year-old son of G. W. Ryan, a prominent grocer of that city, and sent a note to the father demanding $1,500 ransom, threatening to ram fine pieces of glass into the child’s eyes and cut his hands off unless the demand was complied with. Mr, Ryan notified the police, who ar- rested young Southwick shortly after the Ryan boy had arrived at his father's store nharmed, haying been released by Southwick. Turks Must Settle Claim. ‘The decision to make a naval demon- stration against Turkey was taken at & meeting of the cabinet at Paris, at which M, Deleasse, minister of foreign affairs, explained the sultan's procras- tination regarding the French de- mands. Admiral Gailard's squadron consists of the armored cruisers Ad- miral Pothuau, Chancy and La-Touche- ‘Treville; second class ertisers Du Chayla ‘and Cassard and third class cruiser Galilee, and the crews agregate 2,286 men. ‘The vessels also carry landing parties, Last Condolence Arrives. Secre*ary Hay presented to the pres- ident, Dr. Jorge Munoz, as a special minister and plenipotentiary from Gua- temala, Dr, Munoz was accompanied by Dr. Yela, the secretary of the Guate- mala legation. The former is not to replace Minister Arriaga, but comes in a special capacity as the bearer of the condolences of the Guatemalan govern- ment upon the death of the last Presi- dent McKinley. Guatemala is the only country which has thus honored Pres- ident McKinley's memory. Few Cheers for Royalty. The historic town of Yarmouth bas witnessed so many naval reviews and state functions that it has ceased to be excited by displays of bunting and man- euyers of steel-sheathed fleets. Flags were fluttering everywhere aiong_ the waterfront when the Ophir entered the harbor under the escort of the Victoria and Albert and other yachts, and there were swarms of spectators on Southsea esplanade, but the town was decorated with a meager hand and the crowds i” listless and undemonstrative. French Gousdeos on Way, The dispatch from Toulon announc- ing the return of Admiral Caillard’s di- vision ef the French Mediterranean squadron to that port proves to be in- correct. The officials of the foreign office sa jdthe admiral has not returned. The admiral is now on his way to Turkish waters. Must Have It All. Despite the efforts of American off- clals and missionaries to convince the brigands holding Miss Stone captive that it is impossible to raise the ran- som of $110,000, the latter have thus far declined to reduce their demand: by a single dollar. FROM NEIGHBORING STATES. Geneval Items of News Culled From All Parts of the United States. Taal a Mrs. Julia Wagstaff and her 10- | months-ola babe were found dead in their home at Sun Dance, Wyo. ‘The woman had committed suicide by tak- ing poison and the child starved to death. Mme, Wu Ting Fang. wife of the Chinese minister to the United States, arrived in San Francisco last week, on the steamer Gaelic from China, She is accompanied by her daughter, Miss Wu Su Ching. Because he was refused a dance he claimed was promised him, Henry Manning, at Ober, ind., shot fatally James Lucas, the youth who had se- cured Miss Fannie Lawrence as part- ner for the waltz, Mrs. Dillma Burchall was fatally burned at Streator, Ill. She was total- ly blind and 74 years of age. She had for years cared Tor the home, doing all the cooking and other domestic work. While near a cook stove her clothing caught fire and burned, She lived on- ly a few hours, The important matter at the cabinet meeting last week was a_ statement mede by Secretary of War Root to his brother members that the forces in the Philippines are not to be increased. Secretary Root said the force there is amply sufficient to quell any outbreaks in Samar or the other islands, Boot and shoe workers of Chicago and the West are arranging a cam- paign to unionize al! factions now out: side the field, The fignt will probably jbegin in Chicago. It will be on the guerilla order, one employer being ap- | proached at a time. If any employer | refuses to pay the union scale, then a | strike will be called. William Gardner, aged 12, was gored to death by a bull near Hughesville, Penn. ‘The lad was driving some cows from one field to another when he was ‘attacked, | Mrs. Cynthia Prentice, said to be the Joldest woman in Illinois, died inher 105th year at Utica, that state Tues- |day night. A native of New Hamp- shire, Mrs. Prentice was born in Che- shire county, on May 8,-1797. While rehearsing a fencing scene in “The Fencing Musketeers” in New York yesterday, the button on the end of a fencing foil came off and Miss Vera Marlo, a vaudeville actress, was seriously wounded, She was taken to the home of Baron Erlanger, where her condition is said to be critical, The American Bicycle company stockholers at the special meeting | yesterday voted to rediwe the author- | ized capital from $80,000,000 to the list- ed amount, $9,294,000 preferred and $17,701,500 common, a total of $26,- 996,400. ‘This action cancels the $3; 003,600 treasury stock. The action is considered as preparatory to a reor- ganization, Chief of Police Donahue of Omaha has received assurance from Daniel Warle, handwriting expert at the Pink- erton detective agency headquarters, Chicago, that the two letters purport: ing to come from Pat Crowe about ten days ago are genuine. Chief Donahue is inclined to look upon the letters as a ruse to secure comparative immuni- ty through the withdrawal of the re- wards. Rey. Father C. Kozlowski, a vener- able priest in charge of the Polish Catholic church at Lemont, IIL, was the first to give religious instruction to Leon Czolgosz, the president's as- sassin. Czolgosz when a boy of 10 lived in Alpena, Mich., and attended |the church over which Father Koz- lowski presided. The priest says Czolgosz was bright and had no char- acteristics different from those of the ordinary boy. Advices by steamer from Nome show that 500 men are penniless at the |camp and that a winter of disorder is | expected. | The suits filed by Attorney General | Bell against the corporations accused jot violating the Texas anti-trust law call for penalties approximating $85,- 000,000, W. H. Ward of Pluma, 8. D., was convicted at Deadwood, 8. D., of the | murder of two boys of Pluma, Lee and | Kirk Shepard, and sentenced to life imprisonment. Officials of the Republic Iron and Steel company say the net earnings for August and September were more [than sufficient to pay the dividend for the quarter. Wasburn college, Kansas, has re- ceived a gift of $50,000 from a Boston man who gave the money on condition that his name be absolutely withheld. Education Commissioner Bram baugh of San Juan, Porto Rico, has sent a letter to Andrew Carnegie, ac- cepting his offer. made under certain conditions, of $100,000 to build a free | pubtie Mbrary for San Juan, Frank Rockefeller of Cleveland, O., has sued the National Bank of Com: merce of Kansas City for the return of $20,000, which he alleges he over- paid the bank on his’ guarantee of pa- per of the Siegel-Sanders Live Stock per OF ine slegel-nan Adviees received from Catbalo:.. isiand of Samar, say that a detachm *; of 12 members of Company G, infantry, under command of Sercean Willford, who had been sent here £ Basey to San Antonia to investigate a é report into the number of bolome:: i the vicinity, were viciously attackeu u: 140 insurgents, who rushed upon tir with great violence, killing two so. diers and wounding two others. lous insurgents were killed, Orange county, Cal., has 200 acres in peanuts; the output this season is erti- mated at 400,000 pounds, worth $20,009 A number of Hague bankers and oth- er wealthy men of Holland are making arrangements to establish a colony of Boers and Holland Dutch in Wyomins. In the Schley court of inquiry a num- ber of witnesses were introduced by Judge Advocate Lemly to testify in re- buttal of the evidence given in Admiral Schley's behalf. The court decided early in the day that no witnesses could be introduced at this stage of the proceedings to give testimony on im- material points. The dynamite gun was tested for the first time and both the government and constructors of the piece express satis- faction of ultimate success. A ton of base silver bullion, worth over $1,000, has mysteriously disap- peared from the criminal court room at Omaha, Neb. The decision of a New York court makes every dentist in the country lia- ble for royalties for bridge work. Thomas Meehan, for 30 years editor of the Gardener's. Monthly, and a bot- anist of note. is seriously ill with heart disease at his home in Germantown, near Philadelphia. He is the author of many valuable books and papers relat- ing to agriculture and botany, and is a member of nearly all the important botanical and horticultural societies in America, and of many in Europe. NEWS OF FOREIGN LANDS. Flashes From the Wires Portraying Occurrences in All Parts of the World. Repairs to walls, towers and palace have been almost completed at Pekin in order to conceal from the emperor the evidence of foreign invasion. ‘The bubonic plague has reappeared at Glasgow. Sir Thomas Lipton. who was inter- viewed aboard the White Star liner Celtic, denied emphatically that Sham- rock II is for sale. Emperor William has_ telegraphed the German Protestant community at Shanghai that he will give an altar and windows to the new church there in memory of Baron yon Ketteler, the murdered German minister to China. British people are quarreling among themselves over the retireineht of Gen- eral Buller and the chureh is involved in a bitter discussion of affairs in South Africa, Miss Stone and her companion in cap- tivity are reported to be in a Turkish border village in the house of a Mussul- man bey, an accomplice of the brigands, who will negotiate the ransom. European ports will disinfect vessels from Liverpool, where bubonic plague is reported. ‘The Portuguese minister at Washing- ton is recalled for prematurely an- nouncing the death of President Me- Kinley. Louise de Gardens Classe, formerly a countess of France, has been grant- ed citizenship papers at Salt Lake, Utah, Mme. de Classe is related to the royal Bourbon family of France. Anarchists in Rome held a meeting at which Leon F. Czolgosz was eulo- gized while his electrocution was oc- curring, The government endeavor- ed to suppress the meeting, but it was nevertheless held secretly. Referring to the plans of the Duke d’Abruzzi to visit American waters, the Italie says he will assume com- mand of one of the fastest Italian, cruisers next January for a voyage of 14 months along the coast of America. Joseph Herrings, a naturalized American, who was war correspondent for the Staats Zeitung of Berlin in 1898, and who also acted in China last, year for American journals, has re- ceived notice of his expulsion from Prussia, Sir Robert Hart, the imperial com- missioner of maritime customs, says the increase in the exports from New Chwang is greatly in excess of the. shipping facilities. He also praises the protection afforded by Russia of the trade with Manchuria, which is be- ing rapidly recovered, ; An earthquake was felt in many Ital- jan cities, including Spezzia, Genoa, Bologna, Brescia and Milan yesterday, ‘There were two severe shocks at Gal- larate, where a number of houses were damaged. A new development of the Gothen- burg system has made its appearance in several Swedish towns. There mu- nicipal public house companies have op- ened temperance hotels offering meals at cost price, It is called the Vexlo system, Emma Defryes, daughter of a Hawal- jan missionary, and descendant ef the kings of Maui and Hawaii, haz become a claimant to the crown lands in Ha- wali. This is the third claimant, the others being Lilioukalani and ‘Mrs, Wilcox, Fearing the loss of commerce, Eng- lish merchants are planning a con- ference upon methods of retaliation on Germany. Dr. Hope, medical officer of the port of Liverpool, has conferred with the American and other consuls regarding ‘bubonic plague precautions and has ar- Fanged to supplement | the board of trade examination of outgoing vessels 80 as to meet the desires of the ranre- sentatives of foreign countries, 1 a MISSISSIPPI NEGRO BURNED AT THESTAKE FOR A BESTIAL CRIME. He Assaults oa Wife of a Prominent Citizen, fesses After Being Identified and the Band of Aven- gers Fires His Pyre. A negro, whose name has not yet been learned, was burned at the stake in Perry county, Mississippi, on Saturday night. Usiial Crime. ‘The crime for which the negro suffer- ed was commilited early in the morning, and Mrs. Fortenberrt was the victim. ‘She is the wife of one of the most prom- inent men of that section. After recoy- ering consciousness she told the story of the crime, and described the negro. Condemned to Stake. A posse caught him, and, after being identified, he confessed, An informal court was organized, the trial resulting in the decision to burn the negro. He was taken from the honse to the scene of the crime and there burned. MOVE BY FRENCH DEPUTY. | Wants to Know If French Govern- | ment Proposes to Take Action for Relief. \ Prior to the debate on \ 83 ‘Turkish incident in the Frénch chamber of deputies, M. Berry adke leave to interpellate the government garding the measure he proposed to t in accord with the other governm to call upon the British government remove the women nd children of South African concelntration camps healthful districts. \ M. Deschanel, the president, remark that it would be difficult to interpellal the French government for acts of t British government \ * After a brief discussiols, during whic M. Milleboye was cale fa order speaking of Joseph Chamberlaia, the British colonial secretary, as 9 ooward and assassin, the chamber decided to debate M. Berry’s interpellation at a later date. Squadron Reported at Smyrna. ‘Yhe Paris correspondent of the Mail says he understands that dis- patches have been received an- nouncing that Admiral Caillard’s division of the French Mediter- ranean squadron had arrived at Smyrna and seized the customs, CHOSEN BY THE BISHOPS. American Representatives to Metho- dist Conferences Selected, In Cinciniiti” the Monday _after- noon session, 'the Methodist bishops’ board elected Bishop Vincent and Rey. W. A. Quayle of Kansas City to repre- sent the boara at the Wesley and Irish conferences next year. Y¥. W. ©. A. Financial Statement. At Monday's session of the inter- national board of the Young Women’s Christian association in Cleveland, it was shown that the association re- ceived quring the last fiscal year $825.- 024, and expended $831,000. “The value of property owned by the association is $4,250,000, Missionary Society Officers. At Monday's session of the general executive committee of the Woman's Foreign Missionary society in Philadel- phia, these officers were _ re-elect- ed: Mrs. Cyrus D. Foss, Philadel- phia, president; Mrs. J. 0. Gracey, Rochester, secretary, and Mrs. W. B. Skidmore, New York, treasurer. ONG CHASE OF ELOPING PAIR. Father's Pursuit from California to St. Joseph Is Unsuccessful. After a race across the country in pursuit of an eloping couple, Henry Johnson of Oakland, Cal., an orange planter, arrived at St. Joseph, Mich., Sunday, He is in search of his daugh- ter, Clara Belle Johnson, a belle of Oak- land, who left her home several days ago in company with Walter A. Samp- son, with the avowed intention of being married here. ‘The marriage was very objectionable to Johnson on account of the fact that the prospective bridegroom was poor, ‘The couple were traced by the father to Denver and thence to Chicago. At the latter place they took a Michigan Central train. ‘The father was only a few hours behind. He reached there at 2 o'clock in the morning and went to the home of County Clerk Chureh, where he demanded admitance. Mr. Church dressed and went to the court- house with Johnson, ‘The marriage records were scaned but the two names sought were not. found. ‘The couple had not rived in that city. ‘Svinte Shnaacen| ton Shed. “The sultan has ordered the com~- Jetion with all speed of the defense at Salonika, Smyrna and the en- rance to the Dardinelles,” says the Constantinople correspondent of the Weho De Paris. “Submarine mines will be placed and troops mobilized at points where disembarkation is likely. “A violent anti-French feeling pre- yails, and fears are felt for the safety of the French residents in Turkish cities, Constantinople excepted.” American Cigar Company. ‘The American Cigar company, organ- ized under the laws of New Jersey, was qualified by the secretary of state to do business in Obio. It has a capital of $10,000,000, and will have lis Ohio head- guarters in Cincinnati, FARM NOTES (Copyright, 1901, by J. S. Trigg.) Rockford, Ia. Correspondence Solicited. Georgia is coming to be the great peach producing state of the Union. An October fly is more annoying and persistent than a candidate for office. If one ear of corn weighing 16 ounces is produced on each hill, a yield of nearly 50 bushels to the acre will be secured. If a willow tree is allowed to grow within 30 feet of a tile drain, it will soon fill the tile with fibrous roots and render it worthless. We would not plant the Wallbridge apple. It is very slow in coming into bearing, and when it does white turnips are more easily raised. Strange as it may seem, the state of Mississippi is taking as a state more active measures in the line of road reform than any other state in the Union. The Wealthy apple is today the leading standard apple for Minnesota, the north half of Iowa and such parts of the Dakotas as are adapted to fruit culture. Broom corn market is freaky this year, the price of the brush having jumped up from $55 to $140 per ton, with a probability of a still further advance. Quality is often sacrificed for size in the breeding of our domestic animals, but this does not apply to pug dogs, for the smaller they are the meaner they are. At the prevailing price of pork it will pay to take extra care of the fall pigs this coming winter. The September pig can easily be made worth $12 by next April if decently cared for. Any dog over the age of 10 years is best humanely chloroformed and buried, for there is no bigger nuisance or more distressing animal to have around than an old and used up dog. A man cannot be very successful in bringing up a boy unless the boy at least respects him, and if a boy loves and respects his father it is not much of a trick to turn out a good boy. The native wire grass of the Florida low lands wil fatten cattle for two months in the year, enable them to hold their own for four months and half starve them the remaining six months. Give a horse what water he will drink, and he will live 25 days without food; he will live 17 days without either food or drink and only five days with food and deprived of water. Eight hundred thousand bushels of cranberries are produced this year in this country. We do not know how many turkeys are raised to go with these cranberries, but not less than ten to the bushel. Continuous cultivation of orchard trees during June, July and August will make a success of fruit growing in many a dry belt of country where the man who plants fruit trees is called the community fool. Missouri hold its first state fair this year, and if the hog which carried off the sweepstakes premium was correctly photographed there is room for missionary work in that state along the line of improved breeds of hogs. It is the difference in the breed. While a good horse is worth $150 almost anywhere, the stock men of Wyoming are going to have a grand round up hunt soon and shoot all the wild horses they can to be rid of them. We note a late price list quotation of flowers in one of our large cities—violets, 50 cents a bunch; carnations, 50 cents a dozen, and American Beauty roses from $2 to $5 per dozen. It costs something to court a girl in orthodox style in that city. From faroff Manitoba comes the report this year of a good crop of the following varieties of apples: Wealthy, Hibernal, Patten's Greening, Annisett and Blusbed Calville. There was a fine crop of plums on Cheney, Wyant, Rollingstone, Blixby and Manitoba. And now comes a genius who claims he can extract oxygen from the air in the shape of a gas at a cost of a fourth of a cent per cubic foot, when the question of heating and lighting will be so solved that Standard Oil stock will not be worth 10 cents on the dollar. We do not blame a woman for scolding her husband when he makes her burn green wood in the kitchen stove when, if he had not worked so hard to save the country on dry goods boxes or at the corner grocery she might just as well have had dry wood instead. We are asked whether sheep may be able to run in an orchard pasture without injury to the trees. If they were simply allowed to have a run in such a pasture for a short time once a day to pick up windfalls and weeds, it would be beneficial to the trees, but it kept there continuously they would SK 8 8 8 8 VIII 8 8 8 8 Here are two playthings for children. Can you name them? soon seriously injure it by bunching under the trees. The value of a discovery is nowhere better illustrated than in the case of the Concord grape, which is today the standard grape of all the north half of America. As a market fruit it suffers less from the competition of other varieties than any fruit of which we have knowledge. Experiments made by the government prove that the mule will do the same work required of a horse at 25 per cent less cost for food. While this fact is to the credit of the mule, there are some offsets bearing upon the spiritual welfare of the man who has to drive and care for him. When through all the northern part of the United States the brief period between the 20th of May and the 20th of September includes all of the year when growing vegetation is free from injury from frost it is wonderful haw great a variety of cereals, grasses and fruits may be and is successfully grown. The Hungarian brome grass is making a fine record in the dry Northwest country, where the rainfall is less than 12 inches per annum. It is further said that when once the ground is seeded with it, it is as difficult to be rid of it as though it were quack grass. Its uses seem to specially fit it for the permanent pasture. In the securing of a man whose business in working for you will be largely in the line of caring for stock it is better to get one of the slow going, methodical and careful sort rather than what might be termed a hustler. It takes much patience to care for any kind of stock, especially the young things on the farm. Beet Sugar and the Trust. It has been clearly foreseen for some time that when the time arrived that the product of the beet sugar factories of this country reached a sufficiently large amount, so that it would seek a market outside that offered by the sugar trust, there would be trouble in the sugar camp. That time has now arrived, and the trust is after the home producers of sugar. The general public has a very lively interest in the probable controversy. Some Names for Farm Homesteads. Some Names for Farm Homesteads We are asked to suggest a few names for farm homesteads outside those in common use. Well, here are a few that occur to us: Doddie Hill, Clovercorn, Vine Mound, Norman Heights, Dorking Hall, Cherry Slope, Glen Jersey, Elmhurst, Wheat Mound, Bluff Burn, Brook Run, Bowder Brow, Hill House, Saint's Rest, Bluff Haven, Cragside—names suggestive of the special location or business pertaining to each place. Palestine Grapes: As a boy we remember seeing a picture depicting the spies returning from the land of Canaan, bearing on a pole, which two men carried on their shoulders, bunches of grapes from the promised land. The artist had made these bunches of grapes almost touch the ground, and we got the idea that they must have come from a great grape country. We see that large numbers of German vine growers are located in Palestine to take up the culture of the grape, the quality of which as there grown is equal to the best product of either France of Germany. Wire Grass and Wealth The largest manufacturing industry in the state of Minnesota is engaged in the conversion of the common wire grass of the Minesota sloughs into the various manufactured products for which it seems so well fitted—binding twine, cordage, matting, basket work, bagging, etc. More than 10,000 persons are being supported and doing well as a result of the development of this industry. And we well recall the time when the wire grass slough was considered the most worthless of any of Minnesota's broad acres and the owner of it an object of pity. The Family Pig. If one wants some choice pork for the family to eat, the pig should not know very much about corn at any period of his career and most certainly should not be allowed to follow a bunch of fatting steers. The family pig, while a scavenger by nature, still responds to decent rations of food and should be the product of skimmilk, barley, meal and roots, with a chance to run in a wood lot and pick up some acorns and nuts, to be finished off with a little corn at the last end. Such pork will be the typical streak of fat and streak of lean, tender, firm in texture and of the finest flavor. The Town Cow's Stall. A friend from Michigan writes up for directions how to fix a cow's stall in the barn so that she may be kept clean. The following is the way in which we have fixed our own cow stall: Stall is 4 feet wide, box manger width of stall and 2 feet high, common stanchion to hold cow, floor elevated 5 inches above the level of stable floor, and of such a length as will just permit the cow to stand upon it when she is fastened in stanchion. The width of the stall and the length of the floor will have to be varied to suit the size of the cow kept. In such a stall the cow can be kept perfectly clean without any trouble. Poverty and Piety A Western preacher whose salary has probably not been raised to make good to him the increased cost of living in these prosperous times in a recent sermon delivered by him expresses the opinion that continuous prosperity is not a good thing for the man on the farm; that money easily made is likely to be foolishly spent, and that such a condition tends to undermine the moral fiber of the farmer. The writer is always and ever an optimist—a looker on the bright side of things and for the best side of his fellows—and so we cannot agree with this preacher, who reflects a little of the 16th century piety which advocated the crucifixion of the flesh as the most orthodox method of serving the Lord. The good things of life are just as much the legitimate rewards of correct living and business intelligence as are failure, poverty and misery the rewards of shiftlessness, laziness and lack of business sagacity. The good things are placed within the reach of every man if he will but make the proper effort to win them. Piety is not the legitimate outcome of poverty, but few people are so built that they voluntarily praise God when they are hungry, poor and miserable. The men and women on the farm who today enjoy a financial independence have reached this point only after many long, hard years of toil and struggle. It will not wreck their future happiness to enjoy good crops and good prices and freedom from debt. It is hard to be a good Christian with only one shirt and an empty pocketbook. This parson should learn to look on the bright side and take his texts from the Psalms and not from Jeremiah. Protecting Orchard Trees We have a friend who is growing a commercial apple orchard of 3,000 trees in northern Iowa. His method of protecting his trees from sun scald, rabbits and borers is this: He takes tough marsh hay, and from it twists a hay rope an inch and a half in diameter, and, commencing at the bottom of the trunk of the tree, winds it snugly around the tree, fastening the upper end among the branches in the crotch. He tells us that he finds this method a perfect protection against the three worst enemies of the apple tree named. He leaves this rope on winter and summer until it rots off, which will be in about three years. Using this method, one thing must be guarded against, and that is the keeping of the base of the trunk free from grass and weeds, on the field mice will nest here and bark the trunk of the tree. A Business Animal. We watched an Angora goat feeding the other day. It had been turned into a garden from which all the garden stuff had been removed. There were a bed of second growth lettuce, tender and sweet, a lot of fresh cabbage stumps and leaves, plenty of fine blue grass and other nice pickings all around. What did that goat do but made straight for the clump of wild rosebushes in a corner of the garden and strip them almost down to the ground, and when we left it it was busy stripping all the foliage which it could reach from a low headed box elder. The Angora goat is a business animal and no mistake. THE KHYBER PASS. ONLY KEY TO INDIA AND ITS GOLDEN STRAND. Bombay Letter: Rightly has the Khyber Pass been called "the Key to India." In all the range of the Himalayas, from Burmah to Beloocchistan there is no opening sufficient to permit of the passage of artillery except this one solitary pass. No wonder that the British halted the Russians at Herat and that her guns are trained on the murmuring Afridis and all others who dare approach that priceless key to her Oriental possessions. It is the point where if ever the struggle comes for mastery between Lion and Bear on land the battle will be fought. It will be Britain's Thermopylae. Already there are signs that the Indian government recognizes how doubly important the Khyber Pass has become since the death of the ameer, for I hear that the fortifications are to be strengthened by the addition of some heavy guns, and every effort directed toward making it impregnable. It was in 1842 that England first earned the importance of the Khyber Pass, when Lord Elphinstone's little army tried to march through the 40-foot pass and was annihilated, one man only surviving to carry the story to Jellalabad. It was in 1877 that the next crisis came in Indo-Afghan affairs. Russia had persisted in sending an envoy to the court of Shere Ali and he was on the way thither, Lord Lytton, then Vinceoy of India, notified the amee that a British mission would be sent to Kabul at once. The amer replied that his Russian friends objected, but before his reply was received Sir Neville Chamberlain, Major Cavagnari and a small party had started for Kabut to represent British interests. At the entrance to the pass the British halted and Cavagnari was ordered to ride up and demand permission for them to enter. The Afghan commander refused permission and would have shot Cavagnari dead if he had not known him. The refusal of the Afghans to admit the British troops led to a declaration of war, and Lord Roberts made his memorable march across the Khyber Pass to Kabul, whence Shere All had fled precipitately in company with his Russian friends. The aimeer either died or was killed somewhere in Turkestan and Yakub Khan, his son reigned instead, signing a treaty with the British government which was arranged much to the advantage of the latter, through Cavagnari's diplomacy. By this arrangement it was necessary to have a British resident at Kabul and Cavagnari was selected, after having been baroneted for his services. In 1879 Sir Louis Cavagnari as the major was now entitled, bade farewell to Lord Roberts at this fateful spot and went across the Himalayas to take up his residence in Kabul with the echoes of mutiny yet ringing in his ears. Two months later the story of the massacre of the British resident and his suite reached here. Roberts was soon in the saddle again. "On to Kabul!" was once more the cry of the British and sepoy troops. It was hard work, fighting all the way, but Roberts soon subdued Kabul. Yakup Kahn abdicated and was exiled to India. Abdurrahman then was made ameer and reigned in his place over the fierce Afghans and Afridis. What he has been I gave an account of in my last letter and the reason for British uneasiness at the moment is easily comprehensible for the question of the Afghan frontier has never been definitely settled with Russia and probably never will be without recourse to the arbitriment of the sword. When Russia pushed her lines to Penjdeh, Britain objected unavailingly. The only opening in the Himalayas in a distance of three thousand five hundred miles! Surely the Khyber Pass is the key to India with a vengeance. It is estimated that five thousand men could hold it against the world. RAJAH KAHN. Boston's registration this year is the largest in the history of the city, being 108,240. The total of the presidential election last year was 106,329. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON. BROOKER T WASHINGTON. The honesty of him by our president has caused considerable comment, but the president does not feel that he has made a misstep in his action. The Various Stages of a Delicate and Interesting Process. Indianapolis Journal: Mr. J. C. Sipe recently returned from a trip to Amsterdam, where he saw much of the cleaving, cutting and polishing of diamonds. To a reporter he talked interestingly of the matter. He said: "The diamond, when mined, is very often of a shape so uneven that, in preference to cutting half off and letting that part go to dust, as was formerly done, incisions are now made running with the grain of the diamond. The incision is made with the sharp edge of another diamond. The cleaving knife is then inserted and given a sharp tap and the stone will split as the grain runs, and thus two or more smaller but better shaped diamonds are made. "After the diamond is cleft it is necessary to do the rough cutting technically known as 'bruting.' This is done by affixing two diamonds on the ends of two boxwood sticks with a very hard cement; one is then rubbed against the other and 'diamond cuts diamond.' They are held over a cutting box having two iron pegs for levers, and containing finely perforated brass pans, through which the dust falls, the chips remaining in the top pan. "The stone having been cut to the satisfaction of the master is taken to the polishing room, where a setter selects a suitable-sized brass cup, called a 'dops,' fills it with a mixture of lead and tin and melts it in a gas flame. Having worked the solder to its proper shape he places the diamond in the center, leaving only a very small part exposed. A mark is made on the solder before it is thoroughly set, and then the stone is passed on to the polisher. By the mark made on the solder the latter knows at once the precise run of the grain and the way in which it will polish to the best advantage on the mill. "The first operation is the making of the 'table' of the diamond. This done, it is handed back to the settter that he may take it out of the solder and reset it for the first corner, called the flat corner. The solder is again marked to indicate to the polisher the run of the grain of this particular corner, and so the process is continued until the diamond is polished throughout. Every facet has a name and every name denotes the grain, and how to polish that particular facet. The polisher uses a circular disc, composed of soft, porous iron, so that as the diamond is polished away in the form of dust it enters the pores of the iron, the result being that we have the diamond cutting the diamond again. Without the assistance of the diamond dust the iron would not make the slightest impression on the diamond. The polishing wheel or disc is propelled by steam power and makes 2,000 to 3,000 revolutions in a minute. Before the silently revolving discs you see men so intent upon their work that they have eyes for nothing else; for, notwithstanding the perfection of the machinery, the skill of the workman remains of primal importance. It is with their fingers and thumbs that they adjust the points, edges and facets of the diamond with extreme accuracy, keeping them constantly moist with diamond dust and olive oil. The thumbs of the workmen, being used continually and with much force, become greatly enlarged. "The beauty of a cut of finished stone depends so much upon the form and position of the facets that a moderately fire* stone, well cut and polished, is of far greater value than a large one less artistically worked. It sometimes happens that the lapidary receives a stone of very unfortunate shape. His duty will, therefore, be to take all possible care to preserve its size; and, hiding its faults, give it such a form as shall send it forth with the greatest weight consistent with beauty and brilliancy." Our Mineral Wealth. The geological bureau of the interior department has made a return of the mineral products of the United States for 1900. The metallic products of the greatest value are iron, copper, gold, silver, lead, zinc, aluminum, quicksilver, antimony, nickel and platinum. The values of each product are as follows: Pig iron. $259,941,000 Silver. 77,070,471 Gold. 79,322,281 Copper. 98,494,029 Lead. 23,561,688 Zinc. 10,654,196 Quicksilver. 1,302,588 Aluminum. 1,716,000 Antimony. 346,910 Nickel. 3,886 Platinum. 2,500 Pig iron, $259,941,000 Silver 77,070,471 Gold 79,322,281 Copper 98,494,039 Lead 23,561,088 Zinc 10,654,196 Quicksilver 1,302,586 Aluminum 1,716,000 Antimony 346,909 Nickel 3,886 Platinum 2,500 Total value $552,418,627 The same report says that of the non-metallic minerals, the coal amounted to $307,000,000, natural gas to $24,000,000, petroleum $65,000,000; precious stones amounted to $233,170. The total value of non-metallic minerals was $552,418-627, while the aggregate of substances produced by mining and quarrying was $1,070,108,889. It will be seen that the total value of metallic and non-metallic minerals amounted to the enormous sum of $1,070,108,889. A vast amount of labor was required to dig this from the earth, and that labor was well paid. This is truly a country of wonderful resources. Through trains are not always best. Ex-Governor Hogg of Texas took an accommodation, stopped over at Beaumont, and happened upon an oil land deal that netted him $1,000,000. A French engineer named M. Sousa, of Vitry-sur-Seine, is reported to have made successful experiments with a motor car plow. The assessed valuation of the state of Idaho has increased $4,619,580 in a single year, and the total now in $52,135,-486. The Professional World RUPUS L. LOGAN, B. S. D.,.....Editor TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTIONS: One Year In Advance.....$15.0 Six Months In Advance.....1 00 ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION JOB WORK OF ALL KINDS SOLICITED. Trifles kill more good men and women than do calamities. To the right ambition there is a sky full of stars but no horizon. Hon W. T. Carrington has made an excellent official he will doubtless be renominated without opposition. Ex-Queen Lil is to visit President Rossevelt, and of course will be entertained at the White House which means more squerming for the southern newspapers. All matter for publication must reach us not later than Wednesday; except special news from correspondents which may be received as late as Thursday morning. The election of Seth Low as mayor of New York last Tuesday certainly speaks well for the citizens of the metropolis. The talented ex-college President will doubtless give the city a clean business administration while Tammany will have rest. Every cat has his day. In another column is found an interesting article contributed to the PROFESSIONAL WORLD by our genial friend. Dr. J. E. Perry. Dr. Perry is a deep thinker and a forceful writer, and is establishing quite a reputation as a physician and surgeon in the state. The Daily Tribune claims to have found the name of President Rossevelt on our sub. list. Strange to say on looking over the list of subscribers to the Tribune we fail to see the name of Col. W. J.Bryan We are informed, however, that the "Col."will subscribe as soon as he gets in the White House, which will be about 19—? ? ? In the large cities of this country there are more than 10,000 children who cannot receive the benefits of education because there are not enough school buildings. Even Boston, the best equipped city in America, needs twenty-seven more buildings for school purposes. The showing in all cities this fall is worse than ever. The accommodations have not kept pace with the increase of population, it is a disgrace to us all, and as usual its explanatis found in politics, what we need is more school men on school boards. FOR SALE. A Square Piano; originally costing $500; will be sold cheap for cash. ENQUIRY AT This OFFICE WRITES SWEET SONGS LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON'S GREAT FAME. No Other American Woman Has Attained Such a High Degree of International Success—Was a Child of Connecticut. Every reader of the best magazines and every lover of real poetry must be familiar with the name of Louise Chandler Moulton, a Boston writer who has won for herself a high place in American literature. Although it is as a poet that Mrs. Moulton has won the highest distinction, her prose writings have had many admirers, her letters of travel being particularly good. Mrs. Moulton is of eastern birth, having been born in Promfret, Conn., in 1835 Hers was a home in which the theology and traditions of the Puritans survived, and her childhood was not like the childhood of the children of today. Some very innocent amusements were strictly prohibited and her childish companions were few. Happily for her one had a highly imaginative nature that helped her to people her little world with agreeable companions and she was not unhappy. Like most poets, Mrs. Moulton began to write when she was very young, and she was but 13 years of age when she wrote for a composition in school a poem that her teacher could hardly believe M. LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON. was original, and he detained her after school to ask if she had really written the poem. When 14 years old she sent a little poem to a local newspaper and for the first time saw her own lines in print. No lines of hers that appeared in after years in the great magazines and that brought her praise from Longfellow and Holmes and Browning and Matthew Arnold ever gave Mrs. Moulton the peculiar thrill of delight she felt on seeing her first lines in that little village newspaper. Only once in a lifetime can one experience the delight of seeing one's first literary effort in print. When 18 years old the young Connecticut poet brought out a small volume of the stories, poems and sketches she had had published in various periodicals up to that time. Some of these poems and stories had appeared in the Boston True Flag, then edited by William V. Moulton, who had become greatly interested in his young contributor, and they were married in 1855. From that time until now Mrs. Moulton has lived in Boston, with the exception of many summers spent abroad. It is doubtful if any other American woman ever attained the prestige in literary circles attained by Mrs. Moulton in both America and Europe. A woman of a kindly and sympathetic nature, fond of social pleasures, and eager to give pleasure to others, she has made friends everywhere. One of the memorable events in the literary history of London was a breakfast given for Mrs. Moulton by Lord Houghton (Richard Monckton Milnes) some years ago. The most noted poets, novelists, actors and artists have attended Mrs. Moulton's London "at homes." Her Friday afternoon receptions at her home in Boston partake more of the nature of the salon than any other social gathering in the city. The writer remembers seeing at Mrs. Moulton's at one of these receptions Oliver Wendell Holmes, Julia Ward Howe, Sarah Orne Jewett, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Julia Marelowe, and a host of artists, writers, college professors, and men and women of distinction in the higher walks of life. No other woman in Boston has entertained so many men and women of the highest distinction, and no other woman has been kinder or more helpful to struggling young writers and artists. She has encouraged when others have ridiculed and has helped when others have hindered. Her sonnets have been unsurpassed by any American poet, and all of her work bears the imprint of a master hand. FAITHFUL SENTINEL. Gun That Scares Wolves by Shooting Every Hour. The wolf gun was considered such a foolish device that the United States government for a long time refused to issue a patent for it. Now it is in operation, and is saving thousands of head of cattle, sheep, and swine. Dozens of ranchmen in Colorado and Wyoming are providing themselves with the weapons, and it is said that they are "worth their weight in gold." The wolf gun is an ordinary gun arranged to explode a blank cartridge every hour during the night by a clever little device invented by a Kansas man. The ranchman places it near his herd and goes to sleep, knowing that they will be safe from the attack of predatory animals, because these animals fear the report of a gun. It is a faithful watch. Every hour its report can be heard, and if there are coyotes within half a mile of the machine they will endeavor to get more distance between them and the noise—Denver Times. Sweden. In cold and cheerless weather a great concourse of working people gathered on a hill in the outskirts of Stockholm and listened to their orators, adopted resolutions and finally adjourned in the midst of a blinding snowstorm. A speaker who attracted not a little attention was a Norwegian woman named Mrs. Anna Sterky. Between the speeches songs were sung, and but for the weather a pleasant time was spent. About 16,000 persons took part in the meeting, and everything was conducted in the most orderly manner. Meetings also took place in Upsala, Orebro, Ekilstima, Malmo and Norrkoping.—Charles Sanders, in Chicago Record. ICE FROM NORWAY. All Europe Is Supplied from the Soundtinavip, Peninsula. We have all heard about Greenland's icy mountains, but Norway's are a trifle less familiar to us by name, despite the fact that they are of far more practical service to us, for in summer and winter we draw our ice supplies from the mountain lakes of that country. The lakes of crystal-clear water are high up in the mountains and are surrounded by countless pine trees that grow to a great height. Europe's ice supply from these sources is controlled by syndicates. The ice which is considered by experts to be the finest in the world, is cut up into huge, square-shaped blocks by means of plows constructed for the purpose. These blocks are sent down the mountain side on huge slides. Owing to their great length the ice often acquires an amazing velocity ere it reaches the enclosed pool, outside which the bulky ice ships ride at anchor awaiting their cool cargoes. In spite of these arrangements it sometimes comes about that the ice supply does not continue altogether uninterrupted, for, apart from the occasional delay of ships, orders sometimes come which necessitate phenomenal quantities being cut from the lakes, and when this occurs after a drouth the demand quickly exceeds the supply and scarcity ensues. That is why we often have to pay dear for our ice even in winter time CATHERINE WAITE, ESQ. lorado Woman Lawyer Who Is Hes Husband's Partner. Mrs. Catherine V. Waite, aged 71, is about to form a law partnership in server, Colo., with her husband, former Judge Charles B. Waite. The firm will be C. B. & C. V. Waite, and friends will be disappointed if the aged couple not make some of the hustling western firms do their best to maintain Mrs. Waite, who is now in Detroit, has lived in Chicago at various times since 1865, and her home is at present with her daughter, Mrs. Lucy Waite, 98 Loomis street. She has been a lifelong friend of Susan B. Anthony, and is one of the most remarkable women of the west. Having lived in many states of the union, Mrs. Waite is going to Colorado because she believes it has the only atmosphere congenial to women of business ability and who desire a voice in the administration of public affairs. The versatility of this energetic woman is shown by the fact that she has been a farmer, a teacher, a lecturer, an author, a merchant, a contractor and a manager of large moneyed interests, and has attained enment success in each of these callings.—Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. Hops Grow Wild in English Countrie It is a somewhat remarkable fact that the hop, although only cultivated in a few districts in a few English counties, yet grows freely in a wild condition in very many places. It is a perennial, flowering in July and August, and to be found in hedges and thickets. The plant is only cultivated, for instance, in the northeastern portions of Hampshire, and about Petersfield, and even there it does not cover 3,000 acres in all. It grows and flourishes, however, in a wild state all over the county, including the Isle of Wight. —London, Express. Chatty Personal Gossip the Man Who Declined An Invitation to DINE WITH OUR PRESIDENT Mrs Roosevelt and Her House hold Arrangements; Admiral Schley and Others. (From Our Regular Correspondent) WASHINGTON: C. C. Nov. 3, 1901 The "first lady in the land" finds after arranging for her family that there will be only one spare room at the disposal of any guests who may chance to spend the night with the family of the President of the United States—there is likely to be doubling up, tripling up and even quadrupling up in that room during the coming social season. The large oval library, on the second floor, just over the Blue Room, and the same shape and size, is the sitting or living room of the family. It has three large windows facing south, and commanding a beautiful view of the Potomac river and the Virginia hills, with the Washington Monument in the foreground. Mrs Rosevelt's room is at the southwest corner of the building and previous to the McKinley regime was always the the chamber of the chamber of the mistress of the White House. Miss Alice will have the Blue Room, in the northwest corner known for the past five years as Mrs. McKinley's room, and a smaller room opening from this will be occupied by Miss Ethel. As no announcement has been made about the beds, it is presumed they are to be tucked away in any old corner of the mansion. Mrs. james G. Blaine and daughter Mrs Beale have returned to Washington and reopened their K street house Mr and Mrs. James G. Blaine, Jr. are settled in New York, where they will make their home, but they will spend some time in Washington during the winter. "Jim" is saip to have come a full-fledged Wall street speculator, and it is to be hoped he will not figure later as a "well-fleeced lamb." as so many would-ba Napoleons of finance have done. Rear Admiral Schley accompanied Capt. Parker, one of his counsel, went into the hotel at which Mr. Raynor his chief counsel is a guest, and it took him more than a half hour to get away from the crowd of ladies and gentlemen who surrounded him and began to shake his hand and extended their congratulations on the look of a complete vindication from the Court of Inquiry. Mr. Charl Janish, of Berlin, who is in Washinton, is an ardsnt admirer of Emperor William In the course of an interesting conversation he said: 'Your people do not understand our Emperor. He is like your president; he has—what you call it? Push Yah, that is it. He's a hustler like Roosevelt, anwe who understand him anmire him much. Others do not know what it means, but he's alright. We learn much from America. Why don't we make good maehinery like yours? I do not know unless it is we have no push. Mrs. Hay and her youngest daughter. Miss Alice, are in Cleveland. The family being still in deep mourning on account of the tragic death of Adelbert Hay, last flune, will taking no part in the social ayeties of the coming season, although Mr. Hay, as Secretary of State, will have to be present at some of the official functions, especially those in which members of the diplomatic corps participate. The original intention of making the marriage of Miss Edyth Patten to Adjutant Corbin a big social event, which was abandoned for a time on account of the death of President McKinley will be cried out. This week cards were issued in the name of Miss Patten, a sister of the Bride-to-be, for Wednesday, Nov. 6, at noon. Many Washingtonians are pleased at the announcement that Miss Cushman K. Davis, widow of the late Senator Davis, of Minnesota, will make her prernaht home in Washington. TO SAVE TIME. A Reform That's Suggested for Commercial Correspondence Not content with the destruction of the art of letter-writing through the invention of the telegraph, the typewriter and other time-saving devices, an iconoclastic Camden genius makes what he calls a plea for reform in commercial correspondence by eliminating the few courteous words, such as "Dear Sir" and "Yours very truly," which still survive in the arid waste of business letters. "By actual experiment," he says in the Philadelphia Record, "it will be found that it takes a typewriter one hour to write these formal introductions and conclusions to 500 letters. Now, the estimated total annual letter mall of the world is 8,000,000,000 pieces. Of course, this is not all commercial correspondence, nor is it a.l. typewritten, but for the purpose of having some statistical starting point it will be assumed that it is. To write the 'Dear sirs' and 'Yours very truly' for this number of pieces would take one typewriter 16,000,000 days, or allowing 300 working days to the year, about 6,700 years. To translate this into an approximation of its money value, allowing $10 as the wage of the typewriter and eight hours as the average days' work, the cost would be $3,350,000. If it worth it? Or, to go a step further, is it worth anything? Little by little the forms of address have been condensed until such old-school phrases as 'My Dear and Respected Sir' and 'Your humble and obedient servant' are obsolete. Why not continue the good work and 'reform it altogether?' Why not adopt the following sensible straightaway, businesslike form: "John Smith & Co.: "We wish to order, etc. "'T. Brown & Co.' That is what you mean. Why not say it and stop!" YELLOW FEVER. Worst Place for the Disease Is Senegal Africa From the reports there can be little doubt that just now the worst yellow fever spot on earth is Senegal, the French colony in East Africa. "Fifteen per cent of the population of this colony is already destroyed by the fearful disease. One per cent die every day with hopeless regularity during the incessant winter rain. There is still nearly 100 days of this in prospect. Imagine an epidemic in any city that should carry 75,000 inhabitants in three months, or 800 persons daily, suppose that during the last five days one 25,000 individuals, or 5,000 persons daily, had been carried off, and that the probabilities were in favor of an increase of the epidemic, and one can get an idea of the situation in Senegal. "We are guarded," says the report, "by a military cordon, which fires on those unfortunates who attempt to escape. It does not take long. On a Saturday Colonel de Cœur was in full health. On Sunday morning he entered the hospital. On Monday evening at 3 o'clock he was buried." Usually, however, a case lasts three or four days. The mortality is always about 86 per cent in proportion to the number of those attacked. The epidemic started from the extreme western section of the town, and after following a regular line of march, is on board the warship Heroine, moored at the extreme eastern end of the town. For fifteen days the officers and men have been consigned on board this old vessel and have not appeared on shore. Nevertheless, the disease has found means to reach them. "Physicians die like files," continues the report. "Sisters and infirmia," follows the same road. Mass is no longer said in public on account of contagion. Fortunately there will always remain a negro priest to absolve the last who die, for it is a curious fact that the negroes are completely immune." Incentive to Good Roads. A natural effect of the free delivery system is the improvement of highways throughout the country. In locating free delivery routes the condition of the roads is always an important consideration, and many petitions have been dented on the ground that the highways were not fit for travel during the muddy months of the year. This point is now understood, and nearly every petition that comes to the department these days is accompanied by an offer or a pledge on the part of the county commissioners to improve the roads and put them in fit condition as rapidly as the new system is established.