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THE PROFESSIONAL WORLD $1.50 Per Year In Advance. HOW AMERICA WAS FIRST PEOPLED It requires no little amount of thought, no little amount of historical knowledge, for an individual to explain to the enlightened readers of this 20th century how America really was first people? I has agitated the mind writer so greatly that we have given it close consideration, and we have consulted various authorities. We find that these authorites differ to some extent and in their difference have for an augment with no little fondation as a basis. They however, all agree that the Norsmen visited this continent at various times between the year 998 A.D. to 1000 A.D. this was at least 435 years before America's real discoverer was born, on this point the authorities do not differ. Now, as the word discoverer means first to see, then the Norsmen were true discoverer of Ameica, but as the civilized world of those days paid little attention to this discovery it soon rusted away from the minds of men. We find in the prehorstric ages as far back as 998 A.D. Byrrie Herjulson was driven a storm to Greenland and in 1000 A.D. Lief another Norse navigator sailed in search of the land Herjulson misht hav rached as he never returnred; the country he found he called Helluland or account of its rocks which is now whatis known as Labrador then he sailed southward and discovered sandy hook of level country which he called Markland on account of its eabutiful trees, which is now known as Nova Scotia. The Historian Shim tells us, that these Norse enlived upon the soils of Greenland for more than four hundred years, that they had goverments, society and commerce exhibited no little amount intelligence. Now back to the subject—How America was first people. What we have said prior certainly proves how it was first discoered; Barris says—"That it is possible that Chinese vessels coasting off the coast may have been driven by storm across the Pacific Ocean and to escape the tumiols of a watery grave if they should attempt to return decided to make this their home; or, that parties wandering out on Behing St. might have crossed the strait and finding this to be a beautiful country decided to dwell amid its fragrat clines." This however is only supposed, then, haven't we two by four historians a reason to suppose th at the blood of the Norsemen never became extingished from the soils of America. It is universally accepted that the Mound-Builders were the oldest of Prehistoric races that were enlightened, had governments, built churches and labored in the fields, but where this race came is a perplexity. In the beginning of this article we have endeavored to explain that the Norsemen possessed similar qualitis, than it would be no absurdity for as a matteer of fact men to believe the No semen were the ancestors of th. Mound-Builders. The Indian, or American red-men called Indians by Columbus, because he was quite sure he had solved the problem of the 15th. century when he named coming from the north they drove the Mound-Builders, but from where they came we know not they were not so enlightened by far but were warlike. Now trace back throughly the characters of the Noresmen and we will find that they were warlike and about the 9th. century were really priates on the high seas. It is also a fact that Wm. the Conquer, who attained the throne of England by a sine battle in 1066 on the north shore of the British Channel was a man of Norse blood, this is sufficient evidence that they were warlike. Now isn't it reason to suppose that this enlightened race surrounded by a country of ice and snow on the north checked by the cruel waves of the mighty Artic on the east, and living in wilderness that spread out to the far west might have degenerated into a state of barbarism and drove away their Norwegian brother Ladies and Gentlemen these things are possible. Historians agree that the Mound-Builders and the Indians were the earliest of perhistoric, but from whence they came they know not, now with our knowledge of the Norsemen, we would-be historians are left to wonder if it isn't possible that they first discovered and first peopled America, before the birth of Columbus. Then if history be true (which we must not doubt) we will end our supp sitirn and decide that it was through the Norsemen that America was first peopled. RILEY H. PAYNE, Principal of school Madison Mo. WANTED—An experienced house-keeper for small family must be neat industrious and a good cook, Address, JOHN GRANT, Columbia, Mo. Friday, November 29, 1901. WASHINGTON LETT L Chatty Gossip About Prominent army and Navy Officers, College Presidents. Etc. Admiral Dewey and Rear Admiral Benham and Ramsay are taking third much easier than they did while at Schley inquirry was being made, now that they have settled down to the work of sifting testimony taken during eight weeks. They two rooms in an office building, one for themselves and one for their clerical help, and a statwart sergeant marines keeps guard at the outer door to see that the wings of the court, which are seconde are not disturbed by inquisitive callers. The court holds one session a daily, from 10 to 12:30 o'clock. Admiral Dewey says the court intends to make its own abstract of the testimony taking the conclusions of no one, and that it will naturally require considerable time to separate the wheat from the chaff. By the way, Admiral Dewey's suburban residence had a narrow escape from a forresu fire in that vincinty he and Mrs. were not in the house at the time as they had moved into their city home some days before. Mrs. Dewey is not well. She is not confined to her house, but has been unable to shake off the effects of an attack of the dino- There has been a gathering of army officers in Washington this month that will arose the interest of those who are fond of looking at men of prominence, and most of us are. The Secretary of War has ordered the following officers of high rank to convene in Washington on the 25th, ins, as a board to consider several military matters, including the selection and location of army post: Lieut. Gen. Nelson A. Miles, Maj Gens. John R. Byoke, Elwell S Otis, S. M. B. Young, and Author MacAuther, and Brig. Jens Joan C. Bates, George M. Randall, and William A. Kobbe. This board will include practically all the general officers of the army on active duty in the U. S., and if its sitt men were public, which they will not be, would draw as large an audience as the Schley Court of Inquiry did, although the interest would be in the individual members of the board und not in its proceedings. Among the numen dents who are att convention of the Agricultural College Stations, now siting are Dr. W. O. Thou State University, and of the Indiana Uni tersting conversation ordinary growth of dustrial education, L. "The demand for exceeds the supply. there is a single idle institution at Colum students this year college alone, and ment at salaries wa from $800 to 1,500 like big money too but there are many o breeders of sho scale who are gale of a well-informed taking entire change erties of such a cha our young men abo stoch, the value of food, the nature of subjects with which familiar who conduc cultural properties, mining industries b number of industries --- and this year there are 580 students in our engineering college acquiring practical knowledge of different branches of that subject. Representative Boreing, of Ky., loses no opportunity to head off the idea entertained by many that Kentuckians, are large consumers as well as large producers of whiskey. In the course of a talk on the subject he said: "Kentucky makes and consums a vast deal whiskey, but there are sections of the State where whiskey drinking is much restricted. In my section one finds local option and in the town of London there are no saloons nor side doors where one can buy intoxicants. True, occasionally a man has a bottle of whiskey which he brings to town, and a little moonshine is sold from the aleys, but as a general proposition the sale of strong drinks is taboed." President Roosevelt's praises are being loudly sung by those who oppose the docking of horses tails on account of his announcement that he would not purchase carriage horses with docked tails, no matter how desirable they might be in all other ways. They believe his example will result in putting a stop to the practice of tail docking, in Washington, anyway. May be it will, but fashion has before now been more powerful than presidents or Kings, and as long as fashion will for docked tails in horses, it will probably get them, just as it gets many other ridiculous and absurd things it calls for. The world is full of men and women who believe that "It is better to be dead than to be out of the fashion.—Weekly Commercial. BOYS AND HENS. Barefooted boys and hens form a curious partnership in the making of a pair of fine gloves. Thousands of dozens of hens' eggs are used in curing the hides, and thousands of boys are employed to work the skins in clear water by treading on them for several hours, says the Philadelphia Record. When a woman buys a pair of kid gloves she speaks of her purchase as "kid's." If the clerk who sold her the "kid" gloves knew the secrets of the glovemaking business he might surprise his fair customer by telling her that those beautiful, soft, smooth-fitting "kid" gloves came from the stomach and shoulders of the 3-weeks-old colt, whose neck was slit on the plains of Russia, and whose tender hide was shipped, with huge bundles of other colts' hides, to France, where they were made up into "kid" gloves; or he might, with equal regard to the truth, tell her that those gloves in the other compartment once darted from tree to tree in South America on the back of the ring-tailed monkey. And if he made the rounds of the store and could distinguish one skin from another he could point out "kid" gloves made from the skins of kangaroos from Australia, lambs or sheep from Ohio or Spain or England, calves from India, muskrats from anywhere, musk oxen from China and other parts of Astia, rats, cats and Newfoundland puppies. But the Russian colt, the four-footed baby from the plains where the Cossacks live, the colt from the steppes of Siberia, where horses are raised by the thousand, supplies the skins which furnish the bulk of the dainty coverings for my lady's hands. Hops Grow Wild in English Countrys. 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 4000 acres in all. It grows and flourishes, however, in a wild state all over the county, including the Isle of Wight. —London Express. Vol. I. No. 5. CITY NOTES. Miss Laura Deuglass of Lincoln Institute is home visiting her parents. Rev. J. B. Parsons left Tuesday for Jefferson City. Mr. Annie Lee of Kansas City, Kan. left for her home last Wednesday, after spending two weeks with Mr. and Mrs. William Taylor. Mrs. C. Henry Keys, Mrs. Annie Hicks and mother. Mrs. Campbell and Messrs: Everett Coleman and Taylor Wilson are among those who spert Thanksgiving in Kansas City. Prof. John R. Kirk, President of the State Normal School at Kirksville was in the city Saturday and Sunday shaking hands wit friends. Prof. Kirk was formerly State Superintendent of the Schools. Mr. W. J. Tomkins of the Class of '01 of Lincoln University, is studying medicine at Boulder, Colorada. President E. L. Scruggs of Western college is in Colorado, in the interest of the college. Prof. Scruggs is a tireless educational worker and is doing a great work for the negro Baptists of Missouri. Mr. R. A. West, President of the class of '01 of Lincoln Institute is attending school at Dixon, Ill. Business college preparing to take a course in pharmacy. Mr. West is a very bright young man and was for a number of years the champion athlete or Lincoln Institute. State Y. M. C. A. held its annual meeting here last week, it was very largely attended all the associations in the state where represented Messrs. Penny, Bradshaw and Lewis were delegates from Western colleges and Messrs. Williams, Pugh, and Kidd, represented Lincoln Institute. Can you guess who a certain colored woman is and how she felt last Monday evening about nine o'clock when she dressed in man's clothing and went to call on a young colored man and the white women of the house met her at the door and recognized her? One thing you can guess and that is she made her visit short. Of course she did not live in Columbia and we learn that she left on the midnight train. The reception tendered Rev. J. B. Parsons last Monday evening by the ladies of the Second Christian church was in every way a success A large number of representative citizens responded to the invitations issued. A short but interesting program was rendered. The choir under the direction of Mrs. Margaret Akers rendered several selections. The solos of Miss Kittie McClure and Mr. Christopher Hicks and the recitations by Miss Peach were the attractive features. Dainty refreshments were served by the reception committee under the direction of Mrs. M. L. Huggard. Mrs. Maupin, Mrs. Annie Hicks, and others. A social chat was engaged in being enjoyed by all present. Curbed a Nulsance Prof. Tait of Edinburgh, after having subdued a lady pianist who annoyed him by taking to bagpipes, was troubled by an amateur elocutionist in the house. One day, the story goes, when the house was filled with oratory, a volley of explosions came from Tait's room, followed by smoke and inearthly sounds. The lessons in oratory were suspended and everyone in the house collected to find out what the trouble was. Tait, with unmoved countenance, said to the landlord: "As there seems to be no restraint on the nature of studies pursued in these lodgings, I have begun a series of experiments in high explosives, from which I expect to draw much advantage." The elocution ceased. KENTUCKY STRIKE RIOT ONE DEAD, ONE FATALLY HURT AND MANY WOUNDED. Western Kentucky Coal Field the Scene of Bloody Fight, Lasting an Hour and a Half—More Than Two Thousand Shots Exchanged Between Union Men and Non-Union Mine Workers. A dispatch from Madisonville, Ky., says: The Western Kentucky coal field was the scene of a pitched battle Sunday morning, which lasted an hour and a half, between a party of union miners and guards and nonunion miners at the mines of the Providence Coal company, 17 miles from here. One man was killed, one fatally hurt, and many injured. More than 2,000 shots were exchanged. James H. Smith, a negro, was the man killed, and George Crouch, another striker, the man fatally hurt. How many wounded the attacking party had is not known, although the number must have been large. John West, Hut Dawson, and Nathan Bush, the nonunion miners also were injured. The trouble began at 6 o'clock in the morning, when a party of about 75 armed men appeared on a hill about 400 yards from the slope mine of the coal company and began firing on the Tipple. At the first fire the guards were aroused and immediately prepared to resist the attack. They were soon joined by many of the nonunion miners, and the fire of the attacking party was returned. The attacking party where, while the bullets were falling all around them. IOWA AT ST. LOUIS FAIR. State Committee Visits Mound City to Look Over the Ground. St. Louis, Mo., dispatch: William Logan, Keokuk; W. C. Hayward, Davenport; William T. Hayward, Des Moines; C. J. Erickson, Boone; Samuel M. Leech, Adel, and J. J. Hartenbower of Des Moines, members of the preliminary committee appointed by Governor Shaw of Iowa to promote the participation of that state in the Louisiana Purchase exposition spent today at St. Louis. After a preliminary meeting, the party examined the ground and plans of the fair and inspected the grounds set apart for the states and territories. Later they held a meeting at which a plan of the operations was mapped out. This evening the committee were guests of President Francis at the St. Louis club. CITY'S LEDGERS DISAPPEAR Chicago Council Finance Committee Makes Discovery. At Chicago, the finance committee of the city council has discovered that the city's ledgers, covering the accounts of 1876 to 1884, are missing. It was discovered in an investigation of the sinking fund accounts, in which a discrepancy of more than $2,100,000 was recently announced. It is claimed the previous administrations borrowed from this fund for other than corporation purposes, and no return has been made of the amounts diverted. There is no record, according to the comptroller, to show to what purposes the loans were applied during the eight years. GUARDED FROM PUBLIC Court Provides Close Confinement for Rathbun. From Jeffersonville, Ind.: It is probable the public will hear nothing more soon directly from Rathbun. His lawyer has enjoined him not to talk, and Judge Morris of the county court has decided that no one shall see the prisoner except upon the order of the court. The newspaper men are also barred. FAILURE OF CHEESE FIRM. Grunert & Co., of Monroe Wis., Make an Assignment . At Monroe, Wis., the big cheese firm of Ferdinand Brunert & Co., has made a voluntary assignment. The failure of the Chicago Cheese company involved Grunert & Co., by reason of the notes given in the sum of $200,000, which are still out. They claim to have plenty of assets, if they can be collected. BACK FROM FOREIGN FIELD. American Jockeys Return from Successful European Tour. A party of American jokers who have been riding in Russia and Germany returned to New York on the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse. In the party were "Cash" Sloan, Jos Piggott, Eddie Ross, J. C. Mitchell and Nate Hall. Sloan won the Warsaw and Moscow derbies and 104 races out of 239 meunts. The entire party will go to California for the winter. The walls of the new power house being erected for the University of Chicago suddenly collapsed, killing Geo. Jenkins and fatally injuring Henry Potts. Several other workmen were seriously hurt. MISS FORAKER A BRIDE Daughter of Ohio Senator Weds Randolph Matthews. The wedding of Miss Florence Margaret Foraker, daughter of Senator Foraker, and Randolph Matthews, occurred at 4:30 p. m., Thursday in the Church of the Advent, Walnut Hills, near the senator's residence, and was followed by a brilliant reception at the bride's home. Randolph Matthews is an attorney, and is the son of C. Bentley Matthews and a nephew of the late Stanley Matthews, associate justice of the supreme court of the United States. Mr. and Mrs. Matthews will reside in the Foraker mansion in this city. Miss Gary's Nuptials. At Baltimore, Md.: Miss Midline Lavina Gary, youngest daughter of Ex-Postmaster General and Irs. aJmes A. Gary, was married to Dr. Andrew Henderson Whiteridge. RUHLIN DEFEATED. Akron Giant Disabled by a Blowin Second Round. At San Francisco, in one of the most unsatisfacory prize fights ever witnessed in this country, James J. Jeffries proved the victor over Gus Rhulin, the Akron giant. In the fifth round of what was to have been a 20-round struggle Ruhlin wilted, and then he surrendered to his peer to the utter amazement and disgust of the assembled thousands. No one was more surprised at the outcome than Jeffries himself, who asserted that while he had delivered one telling blow in the second round he did not expect to win the victory so easily Ruhlin's sole explanation of the outcome of the fight is that he received a chance blow which utterly disabled him and that Jeffries persisted in fighting him low. RUSSELL B. HARRISON. He'll Fight War Department in the Federal Courts. From Indianapolis, Ind.: Russell B. Harrison was today admitted to practice in the state and federal courts. Replying to an inquiry as to his reason for entering the profession of law, Colonel Harrison said: "This is the consummation of a long-cherished intention hastened by my own desire, and by my father's dying wish, that I should carry out his intention to fight to the end the unjust and unmilitary treatment meted out to me by the war department." BOLD RAID BY HIGHWAYMEN. They Loot Cashier's Till in Chicago Newspaper's Branch Office. At Chicago, four masked highwaymen, who approached the scene of their bold robbery mounted on horses, held up the cashier's office at the Chicago American barns on Indiana street tonight, defied the six men who fought to frustrate the crime and secured $800. They then mounted their horses and galloped away. The police are on their trail. PACKING PLANT IN LARAMIE. Swift & Co. Will Build One There to Economize. From Laramie, Wyo.: Swift & Co. are preparing to build a large packing plant here. The object is to save the car haul on live stock to the Missouri river points and Chicago. The company has vast live stock interests in North Park, Colorado, and other portions of the state contiguous to this city. Negro Question the Theme. At Pittsburg, Pa., the greater part of the third day's session of the general missionary committee of the Methodist Episcopal church was devoted to appropriations, but the burning question came up late this afternoon when the "negro question" was precipitated by a motion of Bishop Foss when the application of the Alabama conferences for missionary aid came up. The bishop's motion was that the appropriations for white work in the South (Maryland and Delaware excepted) and colored work mostly in the south be referred to special committees for consideration. During the debate some of the speakers plainly intimated that the time was coming when the negro would have to retire from the Methodist church as a co-member with his white brother, and organize a branch of his own. Trouble in Glass Trade The organization of the outside window glass manufacturers in Columbus Thursday night has aroused the greatest interest in Pittsburg glass circles. It is also stated that there is talk among manufacturers that indicates a feeling in the trade and presages a conflict in the glass business that will be sharp and decisive. Regarding the prospective cut in the price of glass, none of the manufacturers would offer a prediction today. They say it will depend upon the result of the meeting next Tuesday. Blaze in a Canning Plant. At aKusas City, Mo., a fire in the canning building of the Cudahy Packing company establishment destroyed the building with a large stock of canned meat. The loss is estimated at $150,000. THE NEWS OF THE WORLD CAUGHT ON THE FLY AND PRE-PARED FOR BUSY READERS. General Happenings of the Past Few Days Taken from the Wires and condensed to Suit—Of Interest to All Who Wish to Know What Has Been Going On in This and Other Countries. Deal in Railway World Two important developments in the railroad situation of the Northwest, with tending to confirm the existing belief in the final basis of the settlement of the contest for the control of the Northern Pacific, have been definitely agreed to. The first is the incorporation at Trenton, N. J., of the Northern Securities company, with a capital of $400,000,000 and the second, the unanimous adoption by the Northern Pacific directors of the resolution providing for retirement at par of the company's preferred stock on Jan. 1, 1902. Into the Civil Service. About 200 employees of the executive branch of the rural free delivery service will be brought into the civil service by an order of President Roosevelt which, it is understood, will be issued with a week or two. These are clerks, special agents and inspectors. Six thousand rural free delivery carriers throughout the country will be brought into the civil service under the same order, but will be taken in at a later date. War to the Bitter End. Mr. Broderick, British war secretary, speaking at a banquet given in London in his honor by the Carlton club, declared that the Boers were hiding their tracks by murdering the Kaffirs behind them. Mr. Broderick explained that four battalions and two cavalry regiments would be drawn from India for service in South Africa. He added that he believed the number of Boers now in the field was about 10,000. An Earthquake in Utah. The damage to the property in Seiver county, Utah, from earthquake amounts to almost $100,000. Scarcely a building escaped damage of some kind. At Marysville, the entire population left their homes, after the first shock, built bonfires in the streets and camped out all night. In many parts of the country landslides occurred, blocking railroads, changing streams and causing general disorder. They Form Weird Compact. According to a compact entered into by a newly formed suicide club in New Jersey, a member must kill himself every year. The club was organized through the efforts of a man from Paterson, and it is reported to be in a fluorishing condition, so far as membership is concerned. Thirty-four persons are said to have been already enrolled, and it is asserted that 125 more have promised to join. Over Three Million Short. The director of the Pan-American exposition company and a number of creditors conferred and listened to the reading of the financial report of the company as prepared by the auditor. The report shows the total liabilities at present to $3,326,114.69 net, assuming that the assets of $146,454.15 are collectible in their face value. Snowstorm in New York. A blizzard struck central New York. Several inches of snow and drifts from one to six feet deep blocked traffic. The country roads are in many cases blocked, and huge drifts are piling along the fences. The streams are rising, and several places are reported threatened with floods. Explosion Wrecks a Mine Five dead bodies were taken from the Baby mine at Locahontas, Va. Several other persons are unaccounted for, and 25 persons have been rescued more or less severely burned. FROM NEIGHBORING STATES. General Items of News Culled From All Parts of the United Ovanda, Mont., a small town near Helena, is endangered by a swamp fire which has been burning for a week. If the wind turns-and blows the fire toward the town it is doomed. The treasury department has issued a warrant in favor of the administrators of the late President McKinley's estate for $1,856, which the auditor of the state department found due him on account of salary. Booker T. Washington has expressed through diplomatic channels, a willingness to accept an appointment from the St. Louis Exposition company as director of the proposed Afro-American exhibit at the world's fair. Alice Nesenbauer, under conviction of murder of her husband last year, has been saved from the gallows by the decision of the supreme court of Missouri that there were no grounds for conviction. Mrs. Nesenbauer was also accused of the murder of two of her own children in order to secure insurance money. The Dowager Baroness Carew died Tuesday at Woodstown, county Waterford, Ireland. She was 10 years old. She danced at the ball given by Lady Richmond at Brussels on the eve of the battle of Watrloo and was a noted beauty at the court of Louis Philippe. Fred V. Stowe, or Grimes, Ia., had on the Chicago market this week 54 cattle averaging 1,417 pounds that sold at $6.60. These steers were of the very well known V-V brand, bred by B. R. Brooks, of Casper, Wyo. The steers were all reds, having been sired by Short Horn bulls from Angus cows. The cattle were on feed since July 1, getting crushed corn with oil meal during the last 30 days' feeding period. They were bought by the United Dressed Beef company for shipment to New York. Dr. Tyree, a physician at McGee, I. T., shot and fatally wounded Thomas Moag, a drug clerk, in a quarrel over a prescription. Moag in turn turn, shot Tyree, causing a slight wound. The body of a man supposed to be Herbert Ellwanger of Cleveland was found in Fairmount park, Philadelphia. He had evidently committed suicide, as there was a bullet wound in the head and a pistol lying beside the body. C. E. Sismey, a London lawyer has been granted a divorce from his American wife, formerly Miss Catherine Woodhill, on statutory grounds. The couple were married in San Francisco in 1890. Mrs. Sismey is now believed to be in San Francisco with her parents. Peter Miller, a Swedish laborer, suicided at Omaha in a tragic manner. He used a knife, spike, hatchet and finally a rope. Captain Hartman's troop of the First cavalry early surprised 400 insurgents at Buan, Batangas province, in southwestern Luzon, killing 16, wounding five and capturing nine rifles. The insurgents broke and ran, the cavalry pursuing. It has developed that Mrs. Rathbun was not implicated in the insurance swindle at Jeffersonville, Ind. All efforts to find a clue to the murderer of the two women whose dead bodies were found at Evansville, Ind., have proved unavailing. The statement of missionaries affirms there is no ground whatever for criticising Miss Stone for want of precaution in making the journey at the time she was taken. Between 15,000 and 20,000 freight cars are needed for immediate use by the railroads centering in Chicago. Not since 1886 has the freight car shortage been so great as at present. The city treasurer is taking steps to collect from the American Sugar Refining company $3,000 in taxes on sugar recently shipped into Omaha to meet the demand caused by the sugar war. A meteoric shower of great brilliancy and considerable length occurred early Friday morning at Phoenix, Ariz. It continued half an hour. More than two hundred meteors were counted. The navy department has been informed that the transport Buford with two battalions of the Twenty-third infantry sailed from Gibraltar Friday for New York. The grand jury of the United States court at Indianapolis, Ind., has begun to consider the most important case that will come before it during the present session, that of Richard Davis, former cashier of the People's National bank of Washington, Ind. Davis is charged with embezzling and squandering $71,000 in bank funds. Davis made good the losses. In the sale of 15 shorthorn steers at the Chicago stock yards this week the highest price of the year was realized. The sale was made at $7.10 a hundred, the average weight being 1,572 pounds. Two cars of cattle were also sold during the day at $6.80, both sales being made on their merits. The president has signed an executive order creating a naval reservation of a large tract of land just acquired by the navy department at Onbigapo, on Subig bay, Luzon. The department now will proceed with all dispatch to construct at this point a navy yard and station. The American Anti-Cigarette association, which is said to have a membership of over 300,000, is said to have drawn a pledge which is to be read in every Sunday school in the United States on Nov. 24. It binds the signers to abstain from the use of cigarettes or tobacco in any form until 21 years of age, and it is expected that several hundred thousand signatures will be obtained. The proposed railway from Dawson to the Klondike mines will be built next summer. James Goings was found dead in his buggy a few miles south of Cave Springs, Ga., his neck having been broken. It is thought he was murdered and robbed by highwaymen. The Colonel H. G. Jordan dairy farm cow barn at Hingham, Mass., was burned causing a loss of, between $50,000 and $60,000. Besides farming implements 140 head of cattle and seven horses were burned. Rutus W. Blake, the piano manufacturer of Derby, Conn., who died of a self inflicted bullet wound in the head leaves $1,500,000 to his young widow. Mr. Blake was twice married. Mrs. Cora Lathrop Patterson, a prominent member of the society of Colonial Dames, Virginia chapter, Omaha, has filed an answer to her husband's petition for divorce. She alleges that the son of the millionaire tobacco king had treated her cruelly, has been drinking excessively and neglected her and her child. The wedding of Miss Florence Margaret Foraker, daughter of Senator Foraker, and Randolph Matthews, took place at 4:30 p. m. in the Church of the Advent, Walnut Hills, Cincinnati. One hundred representative physicians and professional men of Ohio, in the office of the secretary of the state board of health, organized the Ohio Society for the Prevention of Tuberculosis, an association in the interest of humanity. Local officials of the Burlington road admitted the night trains leaving Lincoln have gone out with a guard armed with Winchester rifles. An Italian family feud resulted at San Francisco in two pistol encounters and the wounding of three men, one probably fatally. Edward Stanton Maclay, the author of "A History of the United States Navy," who is still working as a clerk in the Brooklyn navy yard, is preparing to make changes in his history if Rear Admiral Schley is exonerated. With a view to introducing American methods into Ireland, Bishop John Clancy of the diocese of Elphin, Ireland, arrived in Chicago on a tour of 'investigation of the technical and manual training schools of the United States. The exports of merchandise from the United States in October were smaller by about $17,000,000 than those of the same month in 1900. The shipments last year, however, were phenomenally large. Private parties are to build the new dock at Fairport, O., which will be ready for the opening of navigation next year. One million dollars will be spent in fitting out the new property, which will be one of the most complete on the great lakes. Swift. & Co. are preparing to build a large packing plant at Lacamie, Wyo. The object is to save the car haul on live stock to the Missouri river points and Chicago. B. A. Palmer, a retired banker of New York, has made a gift of $30,000 to Union Christian college, located in Indiana. Mrs. Mary Preston Slosson, wife of the vice president of the faculty of the University of Wyoming, is the only woman chaplain of a prison in the United States. NEWS OF FOREIGN LANDS. Flashes From the Wires Portraying Occurrences in All Parts of the World. Information has been received that the transport Buford, bringing troops from the Philippines, has reached Gloraltar. It is due to arrive at New York on the 27th inst. Inmense anti-Chamberlain meetings have occurred at the University of Breslau and the technical institutes at Hanover and Darmstadt. They were attended and addressed by many professors. The transport Chaco, which arrived at Buenos Ayres, reports having picked up at Staten Island, the southern extremity of South America, the captain, first and second officers, and 21 of the crew of the French ship Astree. The illness and extreme debility of Premier Segasta at Madrid is causing anxiety. The Vossische Zeitung says it learns Queen Wilhelmina was prematurely delivered of a child Nov. 10. The queen's condition is satisfactory. The North China Daily News in its Pekin correspondence says Conger will soon be the only foreign minister in Pekin who passed through the siege and will then become dean of the diplomatic corps. All the other ministers have been returned or expect to leave Pekin soon. Keen interest is displayed at St. John's, N. F., in the movement for reciprocity with the United States. Information has reached the Colombian legation in Washington to the effect that a committee is about to leave Bogota for Mexico City to endeavor to induce Reyes to accompany it back and take up the reins of the government. Lord Kitchener, in a dispatch from Pretoria, presents his weekly report and incidentally locates General Dewet in the northeastern part of the Orange river colony. He says the Boers have recently been collecting under his leadership, and that the British are now moving to disperse them. Diaz, the president of Tacolban, island of Leyte, who has been proved to be an agent of the Filipino junta at Hongkong, has been arrested. Many incriminating papers, implicating numerous officials, were seized at the time of his arrest. From the wreckage seen in Belfast Lough, it is supposed that the 59 collier White Abbey has been lost and her crew of nine drowned. The Danish chocolate manufactures allege that New York customs official place an overvaluation on their product. If protests now on file are heeded Denmark may adopt retaliatory measures. "King Edward's life is not worth more than two years at the very most. That is the opinion of the best physicians in the United Kingdom, and it may bet set down as truth on authority which cannot be doubted despite optimistic and inspired official bullets to the contrary." So says a London cable. A London Times correspondent who has just passed over the whole route of the trans-Siberian railway, states that the Russian declarations regarding the completion of the line are untrue. He says there are many gaps in the permanent track, the large bridges are not completed, and three tunnels have already been begun. The municipal council of Havana has unanimously voted to award Michael J. Dady the contract to pay and sewer Havana for $10,913,858. The government of Denmark is considering the most effective method of retaliating against the United States should the diplomatic representation now being made in behalf of the Danish chocolate exporters fail. Denmark will suffer little loss in the event of retaliatory duties, since her exports to the United States are only $750,000 against America's $20,000,000 exports Denmark. ‘Me Professional Worte LOFUS L, LOGAN, B.S. Dayeecss cose ofditor ‘TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTINS: One Year In Advance. ..c.cee. 54/8100 Six Months In Advance......,....+ 100 ADVEKTISING RATES ON APPLI CATIO § JOB WORK OF #LL KINDS SOLIC- ITED. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY. POLITICS LN STATE INSTITUTIONS. The address delivered by Hon, James L. Blair before the State Board of Charities which met in Columbia last week, certainly had the right ting. The making of political annexes of state institutions is a form of silk stocking cor- ruption which the people are rising up against and are de- manding that it be stopped. All penal elemosonary and educational institutions of this state are supported by the tax- payers of Missourt who have a right to demand that the money appropriated for their support should be wisely and judicious'y spent and that those who manage thesc insti- tutions be men qualified to do so. Ifthe Boards appointed to manage sueh institutions are to be mere figttre heads they should be abolished and mon- ey used for maintaining them left in the state treasury. Public institutions are main- tained for the benefit of those who need the good derived from and not to compensate political ward heelers and party sympathizers. Mr. Blair voice the senti- ment of all good citizens when he says that such corrupt. able practices are disgracefu to the commonwealth of Mis. souri and must be stopped. No man should be elected to aposition in a state institu- tion because he is a Democrat nor dropped fram such a posi: tion becaue heis a Republican. The spoil system may work in State legislatures and sub ordinate clerkships, but wher it comes to sacrificing the in- terest of State institations t satisfy political grafters it is time to cry a halt. The report of the religious census taken recently by the class in socialogy shows that 55 per cent of the white popu- lation of Columbia are church members while only 42 per cent of the colored population are church goers it also shows that 18 per cent of the adult colored popu- lation express no church pref- erence whatever ,in other words are not concerned about church matters. This certainly is not a very commendable show ing for the negroes of Colum- bia, living as we do in this educational center in a town with four colored churches with able pastors, and to find that 18 per cent. of the negro men and women sayitig noth- ing about the children they have under their influence) without any religious inclin- Pee Ts Gantaee” fr ae Me er eee hea ew. | Sa morality and to persude men to go to church is to kee, them out of prisons and rock piles but first of all those who persuade must walk in the right path themselves or no real good will be accomp- lished ia oie HISTORY OF HUNTING The recent newly awakened interest in the life and times of King Alfred, due to the eeierec of the thousandth ‘anniversary of his death and the placing of a statue at his birthplace has resulted in some interesting information jon the evolution of the sports- man. One many see by re- , viewing the customs and con- ditions of Alfred’s time, how jit was that hunting came to be jregarded as the noblest of all amusements It was abso- lutély necessary to the safety and welfare of the people that tha wolves, bears, wild boars, and other dangerous animals |which then roamed over Eng- |land, should be exterminated; land, of course, the king and | his knights, as the bravest jand best armed of the fighting |population, were setting a good example and doing good service in their huntieg par- ties. These conditions con- tinued for some hundreds of years and the nobility of the sport of hunting became firmly jestablished and hedged about with many traditions as to the proper method of killing the game, The persistence of \traditious in England is pro- | verbial; and hence, after the whole country became as safe as a barnyard, people contin- ued to suppose that there was something ¢ssentially couva- geous and fine in deer-stalking land grouse shooting. | ‘The question now confront- led by the intelligent American jeitizen is this: whether is |necessary fer a new country it» take over the ideas and con- | ventionf of its parent on this subject. Are we to consider la man a sportsman becanse he [kills rabbits and pigeons, as his father killed bears and panthers? Is the man who takes his sport with rod and ‘gun any more manly or brave than the one who arms him- | self with a camera or a micro- scope? The Englishman wot probably say yes, be- jeause he was brought up te | believe so, | ‘fhe fact seems to be, how- ever, that mere ability to go docs ‘not constitute sportsman- ship. The old-time huuts- man, enceuntering a stig at bay with the primitive wea- pous of his day, certainly did need to be brave; his modern piytotype, armed with a re- peating rifle, is generally safe: the animal is the one who needs courage. The idea that popping about with a gun there is some peculiar manli ness in shooting harmless animals is, we hope, a vanish- ing illusion.—Weekly Com- mercial. Pek SOME WHYS ANSWERED, Te Anclont ou) Curious Origin of Fee CR RN, Tt is not ising what a number Of tittle things we do without knowing the reason, \Vny, for instdne’, do widows wear cays? Perhaps they may Say because (ey make them look pretty and int cllag, But the real Wesson 1g that wien the Romans were in England they shaved their heads as a sign of mourniny. Of course » woman couldn't let herself be seen with a bald head, so she inate herself & pretty cap. And now,thoug’ the necessity of wear- ing it has passed away, the cap re- mains, Why do we have bows on the left side of our hnis? In olden times, W. a men were much in the open alr and hats couldn't de bought for halt a dollar, {t was the habit to tle a cord -avound the erown and let the ends fall on the left alde to be grasped on the arising of a squall. They icll on the lett side so they raitht be grasped by se jeft hand, Dt nensity pelng more neefully Later on, tho ‘ends got to be + a bow, and later still, they became soles, yet the bow has remained, aud will probably re- main till the next deluge‘or something of that sort, What is the meaning of the crosses or Xs on a barrel of beer? They sigaity desroos of quality nowa- days. But originally they wore put on by thore ancient monks as a sort of trademark. They wore crosses in those days, and meant v sort of cath on the ) cross, sworn by t manufacturer that | bis barrel contain d Miquor. Why are bells tolled for si dead? Tits has become so familia’ w practice that a funeral without would appear wo Christian, Yet the yoason Is quite bar- seas Bells were tolled long ago, When peoplewere being buried,in order to (righten away the evil spirits whe lived in the air. Why do fair Indies break a bottle of wine on the ship they are christening? Merely another eur- vival of barbari tom. In the days of sacrifice to the is it was custom- ary to get some poor victim when a boat was being lovnched and to cut his throat over th row, 80 that his blood baptized it. hy are digni clea deafened by a saiy’> when they vieit a forelga port? It => ms a cunges sort of welcome, this fir nq off of guns, but {t seems the custom aroce in s very reasonable way, Originally, a town | or a warship fired off their guns on the approach of important aad friendly #trangers to show that they had such faith tn the visitors’ peaceful inten | tous they didn't think it necessary to keep thelr gung lovded, Why do we sometin »s throw a shoe after a bride? ‘The reason 1s not very complimentary, From of old tt has been the habit of mothers to chastise their children with f@ soe, Henee the custom arose of the father of a bride making a present ta the bridegroom of a shoe, as a sign that i was to be his right to keep ber tn order.—Cinginnat! Enquirer, ‘Transportytton in Ancient Eeypt. On the way to Philae and the hes of the cataract, a short distance south of Assouan, we come upon the aucient quarries which supplied granite for the columns, statues and obelisks througl out Egypt for many centuries, From illustrations in the temples, it is clear that these monuments were * floaied down the river on flutboats and rafts, and then carried Inland by artificlal canals or dragged overland by thou- sands of slaves, In one of the tombs at Beni-Hassan is a picture illustrating the process, The great stone is loaded upon a huge sled drawn by « muitl- tide of workmen, One man is en: gaged in pouring water upon the fua- vers to prevent friction, Another stands at the left of the statue aud beats time that the men may work in unison, while overseers, provided wiih whips, urge the laborers to their tas’ ~Chautau yuan, Yona oat Oran imocive in Amertee, ebeygan, Mich. claims to have the syunest grandmother jin America, the married ut 12, and gave birth to daughter a year later, ‘Che child, Howing her mother’s example, mare ved young and lately when 16, years 1d gave birth ton child, whose grande ‘other is how a Uttle over 29 years sia. WONDEKFUL ENDURANCE becbebineaaissy Yee SiG 44 We ny: eee ene 4 tetera arc Torko-Servian War + As an Instance of the remarkable pewers of endurance possessed by Ar- ehibvald Forbes, the famous war corre- wpondeat who died in London recently, tie following story is told: The briet war between Turkey and Servia ended with ihe battle of Djunts, In the au- tumn of 1876, Forbes was (ie only correspondent on the spot, nnd there Scrvia lay at tho mercy of the “yrke At 5 in. the afternoon, whe role away from the blazi Dejigvad, more toan 140 m tween him and his destin a teregraph office at Semlin, fn ius ary He had an order for post horses a vit the rond, and galloped hard for Paxat chin, the nearest post statiod, Wheut hm got there the postmaster had a horse but no vehicle, All night long he rode that weary journey, changing ho:zes every fifteen milos and forcing the beasts along at the beat of thelr speed, Soon after noon of the follow- Ing day, sore from head to foot, Forbes was clattering over the stones of the F lgtade main street. ‘The fleld téle- graph wires had conveyed but a curt, frarmentary intimation of - disaster; qd fll Belgrade, feverish for further news, rushed out to meet the corre- -spondent, But he hed ridden hard all 'pivht, not to gossip in lgrade, but to, get to caslht Ulegeaph: wire, | and he never drew rein till he reaeh- /ed the ferry, At Semlin he tok one {cag drink of beer, and then sat down 'to the task of writing, hour after ‘hour, against tlme, the great tidings ‘he carried. After he had written his -story and put It on the wires he lay | down in his clothing and slept twenty | hows without so much as turning. He | ted mernt to start back for Deligrad /on ihe evening of the day of his ar- rival at Belgrade, but fatigue caused ‘him ‘to. jose twenty-four hours. It | svemied to him when he recovered from | chagrin delay that perhaps, | afler all, he was entitled to a good g sleep. He had witnessed @ bat ‘ve’ that Insted six hours, ridden 14 miles und writien the Dally News a telegraphic message four columns long all In the space of thirty hours, RUSSIA <P'eS HERE. Phey tro Keep. ch of Ninflists Who Seeks Ketuge in Aracriea. The Russian secret police are prob- ably the most skillful in the world; they need to be, In the days of, Na poleon Ill. the’ police of France had that reputation, They haven't it now for the best of reasons, An e nperer Qeeds siiiifulsspies in all the world @ republic doesn’t, Russia bus had tts lessons in the death of the lute ezar and in many altempts made upon the present ruler So tue chief of political Police Keeps agents in every great city im the world. New York, where so |many Rissian nihilists have found Tefuge; San Francisco and Chicogu are especially favored in this way, is- caped convicts frow Siberia sometimes ‘drift to the Pacific coas: city, while Chicago {5 watched on general prin- eiples, New York, however, is getting to be wore and more the chief objet Of the solfeitous attentions of the ezar's people, The spies who keep tub on nibilists In America always claim to be nihilists themselves, exiled for their politieal views, or escuped sus- pects, It is their plan to secure admit- tance to come of the many nihilist elr- eles here and keep the police informed of what goes on, So long as the nfhi- ‘Usts confine themselves to speech muk- ‘ing nothing tt done about if. But, if one of them should start for St, Peters- burg with such a mission as that which took Bresei from Paterson the home authorities would be warned and stand ready to recelye him after certain well- 4nown recedents. As for the spy, hts is a dangerous ft, If suspected’ he ‘may become at almost any time the “hero of a mysterious murder casa Ancentive to Good Ronde. A natural effect of the free delivery system is the Improvement of high: Ways throughout tie country. In lo- cating free deliywty routes the condi- lion of the roads i «ways an impor tant consideration, aud many petitions have bee denied on the ground that the highways were not fit for travel luring the muddy mouths of the year: Phis point. is now understood, aud curly every peuition that comes. te te departinent those days is accom riled by an olfer or a pledge on the art of the eourty commissioners (a rprove {he rouds and put them ia t condition os rapidly as che now em fs eatahliehed. a 3; 1 Cube Wy eluded by face, for ie boneilt of o ehartiable tnstitutions of y, The races were partielpated y elite of Flerduce, and a large ‘unable eudience, including # Turin and his party, wite ort. Three ladies of the aE) colony--Miss ‘Thompson, #* Lglind aud Mlés -Walsh-—took {a the raves, whieh were a-great eocs Ay B Harniseb, in-Chicago Reeord. ae, Sonning Gitte : An example of the cunning of gulle wes observed at Tacoma, when severas ali,uiucd on @ bunch of logs that had been in the water for’ a long time, with the submerged sides thick with barnacies. One was a big gray fellow who seemed to be the captain, He walked to.a particular log, stood om one side of it, close to the water, and then uttered peculiar cries, The other gulls came and perched on the same aide of the log, which, under thelr combined weight, rolled over a few incdes, The gulls, step by step, kept the log rolling until the barnacles showed above the water, The birds picked eugerly at this food, and the jog was not abandoned until every yarnacle had been picked.—Goldem Days. WISE KING CANUTE. How Te Taughe Hix Courtiors & Leseu in Humility. 4 1¢ old story of Canute rebuking his r is well known to most of us, kt nute, desirous of teaching his f © courtiers a lesson, caused his th ) be set up om the seashore © was coming In and nearing t t Surrounded by all’ the g itaries of the kingdom, he u d the flatterers to his pres- ul avbed them if they belleved yuld recosnlze his authority, ‘cried Earl Balfryd, “there \ fit. Your majesty has nond, you will be obeyed.” 1 ous courtiers joined in @ i “So say we, all of us.” “Very "sald the king, “now do you, ) tara, stand on the steps of yon- nd bid the sea retire.” vend was obeyed and courtier , alter complying, retired d the jecring laughter of In this manner the time lly occupied until the hour of land the tide was just when the king ascended He bade the waves re- wos soon left in triumph nd, amid the loud ap- of his loyal subjects, “You see, * he said ,turning to his there is all the difference i v between a regular three oly all-wool king, lke myself, and # { insignificant subjects ke you, ! experience teach you heme DIET OF CRUSTACEANS. How Moukeys Hunt for Land Crabs ta Jangles. Most monkeys have a liking for jond crabs, and the beasts when in jeir neiural element in the jungle will offen travel for miles to some inarsby region in search of a erusta- cean moa,” said a dealer in all sorts of wild enimals to a Washington Star writer me years ago, when I was in Singapore wading with the natives for monkeys, | was one day greatly mused to see the artful methods acticed by jocko to trap crabs. The monkey, having located the where outs of the crabs, Mes flat down om is stomach, feigning death, Presente y from the countless passages piero & the mud in every direction thou- nds of little red and yellow crabs aake their appearance, and after sus icfously eyeing for a few minutes the rown fur of the monkey they slowly and cautiously slide ap to him in great giee at the prospect of a big feed off he bones of Master Jocko. The latter .oW peeps through his half-closed eye- ids and fixes upon the biggest of the ssembled multitude. When the crab oes within reach, out dashes the nonkey's arms, and off he scampers ato the jungle with a ery of delight, > discuss at leisure his cleverly earned inner. Rarely did the monkeys seem. miss their prey. 1 saw, however, n old fellow do so, and it was ludi- rous in the extreme to see the rage ¢ put him in. Jumping for fully @ uinute up and down on all fours at he mouth of the hole into which the rab had escaped, he positively howled vith vexation, Then he set to work poling the mud about with his fingers ut the entrance to the passage, fruft- vsely trying Bow and again to peep inte #."" Speaker Farrise amd Sel Cram, Co}. Crisp, when {n the Missour! leg {sla‘ure, Was one of the central figures in @ scene which promised bloodshed, which ended in a hearty laugh, and which Was the cause of au astounding remark from Hon. John W, Farris, the then speaker, Crisp and another bele Mi nt son of Anak got into a debate w srew into a quarrel, They shook their fists at each other and roare@ 1 pair of Numidian Mons, Every= body expected and many hoped to see a © old-fashiéned knock-down an s-out fight, which expectations end hopes were frustrated and dashed to ‘he ground by Speaker Farriss ree morkive: “If you gentlemen do not quit fussing and take to your seats I wis order the chaplain to take you into custody!” which so amaged the beliicose legislators that they stood in a state of Iingual paralysis, while the spectators laughed till they were red in the face, Humor gaved the day, Champ Clark, in Denver Republicam,