The Professional World

THE PROFESSIONAL WORLD OUR WASHINGTON LETT' R. Chatty Gossip About Mrs. Roosevelt's Society Innovation-A Diplomatic Deadshot - Senator Bailey's Metamo,phosis Etc., Etc., Etc. It is a time-honored maxim in Washington that the "first lady in the land" can do no wrong, socially speaking. Therefore Mrs. Roosevelt's innovation of sending out cards for informal receptions only 24 hours in advance of the time for holding them has been taken as a matter of course, but had the thing been started by some hostess in private life there would have been kicks in plenty. Mrs. Roosevelt's object is to meet all the men and women of prominence before the formal opening of the social season. She has no regular day for these receptions, but manages to hold one each week, limiting the invitations to 200, just one tenth of the number issued for the official White House receptions. Few persons even in Washington, know that there is a man in the d plomatic corps who is a dead shot with either the pistol or rifle. The man is Senor de Assis-Brasil, minister from Brazil. He learned ro shoot on his father's ranch, one of the most extensive in Brazil, and at an early age was able to beat any vanquero or hunter in the vicinity. He never shoots in public but there is a private shooting gallery in the Brazilian legation building in which he gives some wonderful exhibitions for the amusement of his friends, such as shooting silver quarters from his wife's hand and the ashes of the cigars smoked by several of his friends His favorite weapons are a small pair of pistols and a gallery rifle, made after his own designs. His friends tell that if he should lose all his money and his diplomatic job he could easily and quickly make a fortune giving public exhibitions of his marvelous shooting, but as he anticipates neither there is no prospect of his taking the road as a professional Among the college men who will make their debut in public life in the new Congress is Hon. Dudley Wooten of Texas, who is a graduate of Princeton, and of the University of Virginia, and the author of a history of Texas that is regarded as authority as well as high-class literature. Mr. Wooten also brings with him a reputation as an orator that his friends predict will soon make him a marked man in the house. In appearance Mr. Wooten is tall and commanding, with the face of a student and thinker. The college men in public life are now both numerous and prominent, and Mr. Roosevelt is taking especial pains to make them all feel at home in the White House, which is more than some Presideuts who might be named did. The Sunday entertainments at the Russian Embassy, which have been a marked feature of the diplomatic life in Washington for several seasons, have been resumed. As usual they consist of an afternoon reception by the Countess Cassini, the adopted daughter of the Ambassador, and thought by many to be the prettiest foreign woman in Washington, and a dinner in the evening. Representative Burton, chairman of the House committee on Rivers and Harbors who is just getting over an attack of rheumatism, said to a friend: "I don't know which is the worst, an attack of rheumatism or listening to the reasons members give for wanting a million dollars for improvements in heir districts." Brown's Station Notes. Thanksgiving day was appropriately observd here. Services were held at the Mount Hope church conducted by Mr. A. Jackson, Prof. J. Washington delivered an interesting address on the origin of Thanksgiving. An interesting program was reddered in the evening by the school children under the direction of Prof J. P. Washington who is doing excellent work as a teacher in our midst. Miss Ida Washington is the agent for "The Professional World" at this place. Western College Notes. Western with her walls crowded with students as never before is still movlng in the path of progress. The priuting press is a new feature of the school this year Prof. Leon Rhodes has supervision of this department and a number of students are taking printing. The Thanksgiving holiday lasted from Wednesday to Monday and was enjoyed by all. The Western football team met the Macon City team on the latter's gridiron recently. The game resulting in a victory for the western boys. President Scruggs has retu-ned from Colorado where he spent several weeks in the interest of ours hool The Y. M. C. A. will have pullic exercises undy afternoon at which time the delegates who attended the tate meeting at Columbia recently will make their report. Success to "he Professiona world." Why Pay Rent? When you can buy a house on your own price in Garth's addition Three good lots for sale, nicely located, $10 down, and the remainder on easy terms, apply to In The Probate Court. There were three wills probated in Judge Switzler's court this week those of John Brushwood, W. H. Bryant W. H. Toalson. John Brushwood's estate amounted to $1,750 personal property and 200 acres of good land. He left to his daughter, Alice Brushwood Calvet $700, and to his other heirs an equal amount, provided the estate will pay such legacies, otherwise the estate will be brought into hotchpotch and received W. H. Bryant's will was probated. His wife left the bulk of the estate, and named executor without bond. Friday, December 6, 1901. CITY NO ES Prof. Ernest Emory who is teaching at Ashland spent Saturday and Sunday here. Miss Josipene Huggard who is teaching at Werrensburg spent Thanksgiving with her mother Mrs. M. L. Huggard. Prof. John Pannister who is teaching in Vandalia spent Thanksgiving with his family. Irs Ellen Fields is seriously ill with fever. Mrs. Laura Farris of Deer Park was in Columbia Saturday; while she paid her subscription to the PROFESSIONAL WORLD. The Columbia "black Tigers" were defeated by the George R. Smith Jeweys Thanksgiving day score 28 to 0. There will be an interesting game of football played in Columbia a urday between Lincoln Institute Tigers and the George R. Smith Deweys, the teams are well matched having tied recently while playing in Sedalia. Thanksgiving was generally observed in Columbia Union services were held by the M.E churches and A.M. E. at St. Paul's chapel, Kev J. rlington Grant preached an excellent sermon on giving thanks. The ordinances of Baptism were administered at Second Baptist church on Thanksgiving evening. hanksgiving exercises were had at both the Independent and Fred Douglass schools last Wednesday afternoon exercises were held in all the rooms. The children of room No. 1 at the Fred Douglass school brought many donations for the poor and at the conlusion of the exercise they, in company with their teacher Mrs. r shears, distributed them among many needy individuals in the city. Miss Daisy Marshall was seriously scalded at her home last Saturday while boiling lamp burners gas accumulating in a covered vessel in which the burners had been placed, caused an explosion. The young lady was scalded on the face and arms. Dr. Annie B. Marsh was called and dressed the wound and reports she is doing nicely. WANTED-An experienced house-keeper for small family must be neat industrious aud a good cook, Address, JOHN GRANT, Columbia, Mo. ANOTHER SMART WOMAN. Found a Way to Add to Her Moderate Income. "Yes," said the dreamy-eyed real estate man, "it was a handsome gown. Made the dress of the older woman look cheap, didn't it? Well, it ought to. It cost $500." The intimate friend expressed some astonishment, says the New York World, that the real estate man should be conversant with the buying price of his customers' clothes. The dealer in dirt looked at the clock. After three," he said. "No more business around this part of town to-day. Come along over to the refectory opposite." The journey being accomplished, the dreamy-eyed real estate man began: "I don't know that I ought to tell you about this," he said, doubtfully. "In fact, I'm sure I shouldn't, but I'll tell you anyway, for I know it won't go any further. That woman who wore the $500 gown is one of my employes." "What!" said the intimate friend. "Why, I thought I recognized her as a woman who moves in very good society." "Now, see here," said the dreamy-eyed real estate man, "is there anything in me that would give you the right to suppose that any of my employees were debarred from good society?" "Why, no," said the friend; "of course not. I didn't mean it that way, but the idea of a woman of position working is rather odd." "All right," said the dealer, amiably, "think that way if you wish. But let me tell you, you're wrong. I met that tomorrow some months ago at a reception. I was impressed with her culture and her brain. I made some inquiries and learned that she was of good family, but not very well supplied with money. Her relatives, on the other hand, had plenty of wealth. She enjoyed a little income, but not much. I saw her again, and was more impressed with the fact that she could be of use to me. Finally, I wrote her a note, asking if she could drop in at the office on a matter of business. "Well, she came. I asked her, point blank, if she didn't want to make some money. She colored, and said she did if it could be made in a manner appropriate to her gentility. I assured her that it could, and we began to talk terms at once. I told her she was to bring her friends to me to buy lots. She was to explain to them the advantages or the iand and give them a general real estate talk from a society standpoint. She was, of course, to figure as having bought some lots herself and having made a profit on the investment. She demurred to this part, at first, but I finally won her over. "She is the best salesman, or saleswoman, I have—and I have three other women doing the same thing. She is a brilliant and convincing talker, and she brings good money into the office every week. Her first commission was $500, and she put that into the hands of her dressmaker. That's how I know the price of her gown. The woman she brought in to-day bought three lots at $750 a lot, which gave my clerk a commission of $22.50, one per cent. Not so bad for half an hour's work, is it?" his skin acrea well. A young English actor who had impressed his manager favorably was cast for a difficult role in a new production and his success or failure in it was a matter of vital importance to his future reputation. After the second act on the opening night his friend, William Gilbert, the popular dramatist and librettist, went behind the scenes fully realizing that in a kindly word or a sympathetic criticism he would bring hope or despair to the actor. However, on seeing that his friend was in a profuse perspiration he could not resist his own cleverness and contented himself with merely remarking: "How well your skin acts." Vol. I. No. 6. Ten Ways To Kill a Town. I—Go away from home to trade II—Never encourage a home enterprise III—Neglect appearance of streets, fences and buildings. V—Send away for your good worksmen and other things when they are at hand at home. VI—Never fail to tell every new comer all the buissessedness real to imaginary, of the citizens of the town. VII—Never seak of your town in any but a disparaging way. VIII—If a business man, especially a young man, is rising in the line—down him. IX—encourage rowdyis, disguard the Sabbath day, defy the law, and let it be known in every way that you are a practical anarchist. X—Last but not least, never dvertise your business or your own, never spend a nickle unless you can see a certian return of many times its value. These ten rules well practiced are sure to do the work. VINES IN HOMES. Few persons are, perhaps, aware, that a thing of beauty is a common peanut plant, growing singly in a six or eight-inch pot and grown indoors during the colder months. Kept in a warm room or by the kitchen stove a peanut kernel planted in a pot of lose milk loam, kept only moderately moist, will soon germinate and grow up into a beautiful plant. It is in a similar way that the peanut planters test their seeds every year, beginning even early in the winter, and the facility with which the seeds will grow in this way has suggested to many southern flower lovers the possibility of making the useful plant an ornamental plant for the parlor or sitting room window. As the plant increases in size and extends its branches over the sides of the pot in a pendant maner, there are few plants of more intrinsic beauty. The curious habit of the compound leaves of closing together like the leaves of a book on the approach of night or when a shower begins to fall on them, is one of the most interesting habits of plant life. And then, later on, for the peanut is no ephemeral wonder, enduring for a day or two only, the appearance of the tiny yellow flowers and putting forth of the peduncles on which the nuts grow imparts to this floral rarity a striking and unique charm all its own. There is nothing else like it, and florists throughout the country might well add the peanut plant to their list of novel and rare things.—Washington Star. --- Scotch Highlanders Have Money. There is more money in circulation in the Scotch highlands now than ever there was and for that the crofters have to thank the millionaire proprietor and sportsman. The advent of the millionaire desirous of acquiring pleasure grounds gave the old proprietors their golden opportunity and many of them sold out. Then came the time of speculation as to the attitude of the newcomers toward the native population. Pessimists predicted all sorts of harsh treatment on the part of the landlords. But the millionaires, as a rule, proved to be of quite another kind. They set themselves to the improvement of their estates, employing local labor whenever possible; did what they could to establish local industries of a permanent character; made roads; improved ground; built houses; planted trees and spent money lavishly all the while, not only keeping the tenants in their old homes, but providing the work which brought them a better livelihood than they had every enjoyed before.—Chicago News. MORRO CASTLE AND CARAS FORTRESS GULF COAST ENTRANCE TO HARBOR NAVY YARD The antiquated capital of Cuba is soon to be converted into a modern city with newly paved streets and an up to date system of sewerage. An American has secured the contract, but he has engaged to employ Cuban workmen, and thus relieve the industrial distress that now exists. FRENCH REACH NIGER CLASH MAY COME WITH BRIT- ISH THERE. Described by British Officer-Thinks It One of the Most Unwholesome Spots Visited. Sierra Leone letter: The strained conditions existing at the present time between the British and French governments lead to the expectancy of almost any excuse being selected as a casus belli by France at this time. An opportunity now exists for a repetition of the Fashoda incident owing to the rapidity with which both the French and British are pushing their outposts in that part of the hinterland which forms the basin of the River Niger and which is virtually a part of the Western Soudan. The recent annexation of Nigeria by the British government has already led to the interchange of several notes on the subject between the foreign offices of the two countries. By the Anglo-French agreement of 1890 it was agreed that the French sphere of influence should extend from Algiers on the north to a line drawn between Lake Tschad and the town of Say on the Niger. This arrangement was a very indefinite and unsatisfactory one as it does not state whether or not Say is included in the French sphere and it is included in the territory recently annexed by Great Britain. A French expedition has now penetrated as far as the River Niger and while ostensibly surveying with a view to accurate delimitation of the frontier is occupying a situation some distance to the south of the river in the territory recently seized by the British. It is possible that at any moment a clash may occur between the French soldiers engaged in the expeditionary work and a force of the Niger constabulary as feeling runs pretty high just now between the troops of the two countries. As a matter of fact it would be an excellent piece of revenge to take upon the enterprising Gaul if the British should retire altogether from this region and let France waste a few of her valuable lives on this tropical gehenna. For generations it has been known as the White man's grave and as such has proved simply a burying ground for thousands of young Englishmen. Only the buldog pertinacity of the race has kept the British flag flying over what is known as the West Coast Settlements. Added to the disadvantages of the climate must be considered the treacherous and despicable character of the natives. These form a valuable auxiliary to the climate, taking care to so regulate matters that there is little chance of an increase of the white population of West Africa. As very little is known of this part of Africa a brief description of a trip made by me as far Akoga, including a little experience with a primitive expedition sent to bring an offending tribe to terms, may prove of general interest. On arriving at Akassa the landing stage of the Niger company, we rested for a few days before pushing on up the river. We then proceeded up the dirty brown current of the Niger, between lowlying banks covered with swamps and grass and jungle, the paradise of fever, loathsome reptiles and huge crocodiles. The natives who inhabit the Niger Delta we found to belong to the lowest scale of humanity. The only trait they showed in common with civilized beings was the ability to get drunk, which they succeeded in doing easily on a horrible intoxicant made from the fermented juice of the palm. At Asaba, the seat of the judicial government, the appearance of the country, dotted with palm trees taking the try improved. The land rises there, and the vegetation become more luxuriant, an open country, dotted with palm trees taking the place of jungle swamp. At Idah, further up the river, we came upon a most remarkable and beautiful rock formation, exactly resembling two gates, between which the steamer passes. Beyond this villages began to appear on the banks and the natives seemed to be of a slightly higher grade. Upon reaching Lokoja we found a remarkably fine town located at the junction of the Niger and Binne. From here the view across to Gando was externally fine. Gando is the chief trading center and fishing town of the country to the east of two rivers and is situated exactly at the junction. It was said by the natives that a company of French soldiers had passed through THE CITY OF HAVANA TO BE RENOVATED. the town shortly before our arrival at Lokoja, but we saw nothing of them. It is possible they may have been hunting and have come further south in pursuit of their game than they intended. The country all around is open brush with roky hills amid which roan antelope and bush cow abound. The principal magazine of the Niger company is located at Lokoja. The cartridges shot and shell are stored in a very strong fort, surrounded by a deep ditch and a heavy stone outer wall. Here there are barracks and all conveniences for the housing of a considerable number of troops, while the manufactories of the company are down on the banks of the river. The trouble which we were sent to quell had arisen with a tribe down the river located near Asaba and our purpose was to attack their capital, Akoia. Our force consisted of four officers and 150 men, and two guns, a machine and a seven pounder. Before proceeding across the jungle we called at Onitchi to pick up the principal medical officer of the company. After collecting the necessary carriers and transport we started at three o'clock in the morning in order to get as far on the road as possible before the intolerable heat of the day commenced. Owing to the pitchy darkness our column became separated in the jungle and the second half of it found itself in an unknown country with the arrival of daybreak. The native guides were not long bringing the two sections together and after camping for breakfast and a brief rest we started off for N'tagi, the nearest friendly town to Akola. The march to N'tag1 was the worst experience I ever remember. The heat was intense and the mosquitos were a growth which, considered with any known standard, were the worst. Some of them were at least as big as the tropical wasp. Arriving at N'tag1 we were met by a number of friendly disposed natives, who, aware of our purpose, had come out to welcome us. Had is not been for this, notwithstanding our good equipment, disastrous results might have ensued. The knowledge we gained there resulted in a big advantage afterwards. The natives whom we met conducted us to a series of obstacles which well might puzzle a military expert. The town of N'tagi is situated upon a hilltop and surrounded by a belt of thick trees. The first line of defense consists of a mud parapet 9 feet high and a deep ditch 12 feet broad. About 50 yards behind is a similar wall and ditch. The space between is honey-combed with pits arranged like five on a dice. These pits are only about three feet apart but they are eight feet deep, funnel shaped and garnished at the bottom with bamboo stakes, so that anyone falling in is practically bound to be impaled. Beyond this was the fact that grass hd been allowed to grow over the pits, making them invisible. The difficulty of carrying such a rush can easily be imagined. Our friends conducted us to a place where we were able to circumlocute this difficulty. They took us round to a narrow causeway which had been formed and a gateway, their crude engineering admitting a gate by throwing a portion of the mud walls into the ditches. In front of the gateway was a very deep pitfall, concealed by running plants cleverly trained about it. We were shown this and thus narrowly avoided a catastrophe. We were received in a friendly manner after we had been escorted to the interior of the town, every consideration being shown us. By arrangement with the chief of the tribe we took with us a force of 170 natives armed with rifles, guns, matchlocks and spears. We left N'tagi about noon, Akoja being about a mile distant. Here we got a taste of semi-civilized warfare. Our approach to the town was heralded by a heavy rifle fire from th eouter wall of the town, which was constructed upon the same basis as N'tagl. The advance guard under the commandant advanced in skirmishing order and found themselves confronted with a high wall and a ditch. They quickly formed a hole in the wall while the artillery poured a dose of shrapnel into the bush where a number of the foe were ambushed. The breach having been made in the wall a rush was made by the troops through the outer wall of the compound. But for the rush of one of our friendless to the front our advance column would have gone through pitfalls as fatal as those at N'tagl. The ground, in fact was fairly full of pits, which we were fortunately able to circumvent and the surrender of the town was kuickly consummated. We learned that the rifles had been supplied to Chief Wacona of the Uhi- qua tribe which owns all the territory in this part of the Niger basin by agents of the French government. CAPT. A. FORSDYKE BRYCE. AN UNPAID-FOR DINNER. House, However, Got Acknowledgment of Excellent Service. New York Tribune: Dinner was in full swing at the Hotel Normandie, at Broadway and Thirty-eighth street, last evening, when a somewhat poorly clad man verging toward 30 years on age entered the dining room, and, after surveying the apartment for an instant, selected a table near the window and took up a menu card. The waiter whose business it was to serve that particular table eyed him a bit doubtful, but the man's assurance overawed him. Besides, reflected the waiter, he may be an eccentric millionaire. So he deferentially approached the incongruous guest. "Ah, waiter," said the latter, suavely, running his eye carelessly over the card, "bring me, if you please, a Martinl cocktail, composed of Plymouth gin and the other customary ingredients. And then you may bring me some blue points and—ah—somecome Julienne; these heavy soups disturb my delicate digestion." "Yessir," said the waiter, all his fears dispelled. "And—ah—while you are about it, you may bring me next," went on the eccentric guest, "a filet mignon larded with mushrooms, and be sure that it is tender—very tender. Some potatoes, French fried, and—ah—celery. That will be all for the present." The order was filled as given, and when the filet arrived the guest ordered a quart of champagne. A second quart followed the first. Then a 50-cent cigar was demanded. At last the epicure, leaning back in his chair with a sigh of content, beckoned lazily to the attentive waiter and remarked languidly: "An' now, m'good feller, be s'good s't' bring me a Queen Anne roof." A Queen Anne roof: elacated the wafter, helplessly. "What's that, sir?" But the happy guest had forgotten all terrestrial things, lost in a sea of contentment and champagne. The wafter ventured to put one hand on his shoulder and repeated: "What's a Queen Anne roof, sir, if you please?" "H'm! What?" murmured the epicure, returning reluctantly to his surroundings. "What's a Queen Anne roof, sir?" The son of luxury grinned sardonically. "It's on the house," he said. It was, too, and so was everything else, amounting to a total of $9.40. A policeman took the impecunious diner to the West Thirtieth street station, where he said that he had no money, and was James Hardy of No. 223 East Fourteenth street. It was a most excellent dinner, he said. "Upon my word," he added, "I think th' hotel's to be con—con—congrasshated." "Ah, shut up," snarled the sergeant, as they hardy to a cell. Female College Failures. The English anthropologist, Francis Galton, tells of a conversation which he had lately had with the president of a college for women. Mr. Galton asked this lady about the subsequent career of the girls who graduated from the college. She answered that about one-third of them derived real profit from their education, that another third profited very little by it, while the remaining third were an absolute failure. "And what becomes of these failures?" asked Mr. Galton. "Oh they're the ones who murmur." An Irregular Proceeding. Washington Star: "We dunno whut to do about that man." said Broncho Bob. "I shouldn't be surprised if the boys 'ud run him out o' town." "What's the trouble." "Well, we've kind got a suspicion that he doesn't mind the rules of civilized warfare. He had a quarrel with Three-Finger Sam, who is the quickest shot in Crimson Gulch. But while Sam was gettin' the drop on him this feller hit him over the head with a fence rail." The American hop fields employ about 240,000 men, women and children as pickers alone, for there are 72,000,-000 hop vines to be stripped, and the crop in a good season is worth $16,000,-000. Prof Ferdinand des Champs, of the Belgian University of Public Instruction, in this country gathering information as to the political usefulness of woman suffrage. A CASE OF RHEUMATISM BY CARRIE M. TAYLOR. (Copyright; 1901, by A. S. Richardson.) THINGS had happened in the town of Rossville—dogfights, runaways, Fourths of July, elections and finally fell to the ground. The widow cried out in alarm, and when men came on the run the stricken law and clothesline robberies—but nothing had ever happened to equal the failure of Thomas Mason, doing business for twenty years, owing his New York creditors $2,000. His failure was known at 8 o'clock one morning, and by 9 it was generally understood that his wife's extravagance had precipitated the crisis. An hour later everybody could remember just how many new hats, dresses and cloaks she had had during the last year, to say nothing of hosiery, gloves and shoes. At 11 o'clock Mr. Mason hung himself in his woodshed, and at high noon the body was discovered and public gossip had it that the widow had been left without a dollar and would have to take in washing. Had a vote been taken the ballot would have stood: Sorry for her, 000; glad on't, 3,000. Mrs. Mason had always been high-headed and exclusive, nd so her "come down" was exulted over—not for long, however. The funeral had scarcely been held when it became known that the husband had left her $20,000 life insurance. Public opinion changed at once. She received so many calls of sympathy that the front gate dropped from its hinges, and had any one dared to hint that she was high-headed or extravagant there would have been a row. After a year of mourning half a dozen different men were ready to give the widow a new name and to handle her cash. She had taken no vow against a second marriage, and she looked more lovable than ever. The list of her admirers included a widower, a bachelor, a divorced lawyer and three young men, and their feet kept her front steps warm. It looked as if she would have to select one of the six to protect her from the other five, but she was in no hurry. One by one they dropped out until only the lawyer and the bachelor were left. People said it was about an even thing between them, and the lawyer, whose name was Braxton, must have argued the same way. He wouldn't have been a lawyer if he had been satisfied with an even thing. When two men love the same woman, she is kept plentifully supplied with bouquets, books, music and all else that a lover may send, and never a day passes that at least one does not long to die for her. Neither man can score an advantage, and the case is finally decided on its merits. The bachelor, Mr. Dayton, argued it out that this one would be, but the lawyer didn't. He began to study the widow's character with a view to making a grand coup. She was not ambitious; she was not vain; she couldn't be taken in by flattery; she had just one weak point, as the lawyer lover decided—she was romantic and inclined to hero worship and he would build up his case on that. It isn't an easy thing to be a hero to order. When Mr. Braxton had decided to take that line, the trouble was to find an occasion. There were no mad dogs running about the streets of Rossville, no raging conflagrations, nobody tumbling into the river to be pulled out, no anything. He walked around for a week or two looking for a hero opening, but as none came he sat down to do some hard judicial thinking. History does not state whether he got through at midnight or was still working when the sun of next morning shone on his face, but he had got his plan just the same. That forenoon at 10 o'clock he passed the Mason house on his way to the office. The widow, who was working among her pinks and hollyhocks, gave him cordial salutation. He stopped to assure her of his undying affection and, clutching the fence, cried out in pain George Dimmock of Salt Lake, Utah, 79 years old, challenges any white Christian in the United States and British islands to run, walk, or sing or talk for two hours, or to run and walk one hour and talk for another. His neighbors offer to back him freely should his challenge be accepted. and finally fell to the ground. The widow cried out in alarm, and when men came on the run the stricken lawyer was borne into her house and put to bed. It was supposed until the doctor came that it was a case of heart trouble, but he found no symptoms. Then the patient feebly explained that it was inflammatory rheumatism and that he had felt it coming on for days. If the doctor had never heard of rheumatism knocking a man down with a crowbar on the street, he wasn't ass enough to say so. The lawyer was able to pay a doctor's bill, and the doctor was there to make one. If there was anything queer and mysterious about the case, he had only to keep quiet and charge it in the bill. Thus the news went forth that Lawyer Braxton had a bad attack of inflammatory rheumatism and that as he couldn't be moved for weeks Mrs. Mason would be his nurse. A few people spoke of the trouble it would give her, but most of them said it was a romantic incident that must lead to a happy marriage. Inflammatory rheumatism is a bad thing. A doctor should call on a patient once a day at least, and if he calls twice nothing can be said except in his praise. In this case the doctor didn't hesitate to call. He spoke of the danger to the heart, and he changed medicines, gave directions to the widow about diet and selected a male assistant. The lawyer's scheme worked —that is, the widow spoke words of sympathy and hope, smoothed his fevered brow and with her own hands prepared the gruels and drinks. The patient was duly grateful, and he got hold of the smoothing hand as often and held on to it as long as he could. Eventually he couldn't go to sleep unless he was holding that dear hand. It was a matter of two weeks before the doctor decided that the hour of peril had passed, and as the patient sat bolstered up in bed he decided that the game was in his hands. All he had to do was to slowly get better and ask the widow to lay her hand in his for life. He took another three days, and then one evening after he had been read to for an hour he lovingly said: "Viola, I feel that I must speak to you tonight." "Wasn't the gruel right?" she asked in reply. "This is not a question of gruel, but of gratitude, affection and love, Viola" "Please don't get excited." "I was never more calm." "But I think you are excited, and you may have a relapse. Here, take my hand, and while you hold it I will tell you something to soothe you and make you go to sleep. Mr. Dayton was here last night." "He was?" gasped the patient. "Yes, for two hours when you were asleep. He asked about you and expressed his sympathy." "But I don't want his sympathy." "But you must accept it for my sake. I have done my best, haven't I?" "You are an angel!" he exclaimed as he patted her hand. "Not quite, I guess, though Mr. Dayton says so too." "But what business has he got talking such bosh to you?" "Can you hear some good news and not get excited over it?" "Try me." "Sure it won't send the rheumatism to your heart? I don't want you to die, you know. Mr. Dayton is going to ask you to be his best man." "B-b-est what?" stammered the sick man as his hair began to curl. "Why, his best man at our wedding. He proposed last night, and I accepted him, and we are to be married in about six weeks." That night at midnight the rheumatism lawyer a rose and dressed and left the house, and the next day it was said that he had gone to the springs for his ailment. Our Coal-Producing Lungs. The volume of carbonic acid exhaled by a healthy person in twenty-four hours is about fifteen thousand cubic inches, containing about six ounces of solid carbon. This is at the rate of 137 avoirdupois per annum; and, taking the population of the world at a thousand millions, this means that the human race breathe out every year sixty-one million tons of solid carbon. Dr. Jarvis S. Wright, the well-known Brooklyn physician, who died, several days ago, was a descendant of Thomas Wright, who emigrated to this country in 1635. He invented a number of surgical instruments and wrote several valuable works on medical subjects. In Germany during the last year upward of 75,000,000 picture postal cards were sent through the post. The German government tested it for some ten days in August through all their post-offices, and found that the average was 1,445,000 each day. The Marquette club, the Union League and the Hamilton and Lincoln clubs of Chicago have joined in inviting President Goosevelt to visit that city on Grant's birthday, April 27 next. Henry Jackson, whose possessions are valued at $30,000, is the richest Indian on Klamath reservation. Every fall, for 15 years, he has sent to market $1,000 to $7,000 worth of cattle. EDITORIAL NOTES The new raglans cover a great many last winter's dresses. Great Britain says that the Monroe doctrine is all right. What else could it say and be safe? Dr. Depew is looking forward to an exceptionally merry Christmas. He expects to be married Dec. 25. The Bulgarian brigands are disposed to put Miss Stone on the bargain counter in order to hurry the cash. It is suspected that the leonids are keeping out of the way of J. Pierpont Morgan. Some men never find out how much their wives affections are actually worth until they have been alienated. Eastward the star of American enterprise points the way. Sleeping cars made in this country are going in sections to Russia. Ruddy Kipling must have had his Fezlets, the sultan of Turkey, in mind when he wrote "The Absent-Minded Beggar," with the refrain of "Pay, pay, pay!" A Chicago judge has decided that spanking does no good after a child has reached the age of 10 years. The average kid thinks it does no good at any time. It cost an Indiana man $1,000 to refuse to marry a widow. In her evidence she says he sat on her lap frequently, and hugged and kissed her repeatedly. He got off too cheap. The United States will build the inter-oceanic waterway, control and protect it, and it will not be open to our enemies in time of war. So far, so good. It is complained that "child labor slavery" is being encouraged by the inspectors in the glass factories of New Jersey. It ought not to be difficult for the courts to see through them. Gold-bricking Wall street with forged commercial paper was of course, a criminal act, but it is difficult not to admire the nerve of a man who tries to skin the professional skinners. Far the most appalling feature of the fact that 312,000 arrests for drunkenness were made in the 129 largest cities of the United States last year, is the knowledge that the 312,000 represent only about one jag in twenty. The report that drinks have been advanced in price by the Washington saloon keepers because of the reassembling of congress was a libel on the town, as well as on many men who never buy a drink. So the mail from Australia is henceforth coming via the Pacific route and not by way of the Suez canal. It will make its transit five days sooner than by the old route. "Time is money" more than ever these days. The New Jersey supreme court has made a ruling which practically fixes $1,000 as the maximum amount of damages parents may claim for the killing of a child. Haven't the learned justices any children of their own? The way things are going Chicago is a pretty good place for laboring men to stay away from. Where strikes are on in certain lines men who want to work are assaulted by former employees. After all this is not a free country. The upper house of the New Zealand legislature has affirmed the principle that either party to an industrial dispute may go past the conciliation boards direct to the arbitration court. They know how to do things in New Zealand. Canada has been invited to send another contingent to Africa, with a view to bringing the irregular warfare in South Africa to a speedy termination. But she does not seem to be so responsive as she once was. There is less glory in it. The Merchants' Association of Hazleton, Pennsylvania, has followed the example of several business men's organizations and of individuals in other places by making a rule against poster, program, circular and other miscellaneous forms of advertising. As a result they resolved that hereafter their advertising shall be confined to newspapers. ONE OF THE NEW FUR TRIMMED EVENING WAISTS. ONE OF THE NEW FOR TRIMMED EVERYING WHITE Margaret L. Poorwine Evening corsage of white tulle over white satin. Bolero effect com posed of tulle puffs separated by nar row bands of seal. FRESH FASHION FAIRIES FOR FALL Paris letter. Everybody is togged out in serious wintry array now. The demi-season creations floated on with the transient Indian summer days and belong to past days. Furs are the order of the day now. Furs and all enveloping fur trimmed wraps. Activity in the shopping districts keeps up. From 10 quite on past noon the rue de la Paix is lined with smart broughams three deep. The excited flittings of shoppers has not abated a whit since the fall shopping season began. Not until the Christmas holidays are past do the shopkeepers anticipate their dull season. New models, hats, coats, wraps and gowns are turned out at a wonderful rate and are claimed as fast as they make their appearance. And the strange part of it is that everybody seems newly coated, gowned and hatted for the winter. A touch of fur creeps in among all combinations. Nothing escapes it. Not even the flowing house gowns can afford to vaunt their independence of its softening influences. The "Piece de resistance" in one fo the swell rue de la Paix windows is a wondrous tea gown of heavy cream guipure over a princess slip of turquois blue grosgrain. A band of amethyst velvet passes over the shoulders and continues down the front of the gown broadening into a wide border as it finishes at the bottom. It is covered with a network of narrow amethyst velvet ribbons caught with tiny turquois clasps. A broad band of sable borders either side of the plastron and is slipped under the velvet. Ermine lines the high Medici color of guipure. It fastens down the front with large rosettes and straps of amethyst velvet ribbon. Strange it is that the white tulle boa and the heavy fur coat marry so well. Heralded it sounded a bit incongruous, but the real thing has only to be seen to be applauded. Instead of the white tulle boa looking like a bit of forgotten summer finery they look as though the frost king had been making gifts broadcast. There is nothing more fetching than one of these fluffy white tulle boas slipped in and filling up the space left in the flare of a high Medici collar. Quite an original tour de cou worn by a woman in half-mourning was made of black tulle, plaited full and high in broad box-plaits. Along its edges it was ornamented with tiny white rosebuds of satin. Over the tulle ends were draped garlands of white rosebuds strung on narrow black velvet ribbons. Tulle boas edged with just the merest line of fur have found much favor of late in feminine eyes. In the combination contrasts are sought. Dark fur is most effective in outlining white tulle and ermine tips most fetchingly black tulle edges. The craze for applique ornamentation is at its height here. Lace and gulpure appliques on cloth; cloth appliques on velvet and silk; velvet appliques on cloth; velvet floral designs applipped on lace; touches of Persian applique embroidery, all knowing infinite variations. One of the new all enveloping driving coats has a most stiking appliqué ornamentation of yellow velvet roses giving it quite an air of elegance. It is built of dull finish cloth in a deep shade of old ivory verging on to buff. At intervals over the cloth there are appliqued enormous roses cut out of yellow velvet in several soft shades and appliqued so as to give the effect of shaded yellow roses. They are darned with innumerable tiny gold threads. There is a round yoke of chinchilla with long stole ends reaching nearly to the bottom of the wrap. It is topped by a high Medici collar faced with orange velvet and trimmed at the base with a wreath of shaded yellow velvet roses. Around the edges of the yoke there is draped a scarf of burnt orange panne velvet caught at the front with an "art nouveau" buckle. The ends fall straight under the fur stoles and are finished at the bottom with a border of yellow velvet roses. A broad band of chinchilla finishes the flowing cloth sleeves. One of the most effective of all the appliqué trimming is the cut unborn Persian lamb that comes in rich borders or arabesque motifs. Sometimes it is treated to a darning process with silver, steel, gilt or bronze threads that enriches it greatly. The richer mid-winter coats and gowns boast this trimming and it is a prime favorite for ornamenting cloth toques. A charming mid-winter gown worn by an early morning shopper was built of stone blue camel's hair. The habit back skirt had an inlet of white cloth at the lower part cut in points top and bottom. It was stitched in close lines and bordered at either edge with an appliqué trimming of unborn Persian lamb. Straps of black velvet ribbon were drawn across the white cloth from the scallops points and held with tiny steel buckles. The jacket was a double breasted blouse of cloth that fastened with heavy military frogs of black silk cord and fur. The unborn Persian lamb was appliqued on in the form of a high corset and at the back it merged into quite extensive swallow tails. The jacket was caught down loosely into a narrow stitched ceinture of white cloth. A large glossy black hat of the fur and an ample fur muff completed this toilette. The fluffier white evening corsages made of gauze tulle chiffon, etc., are rich beyond description with their delicate touches of dark fur. Hardly broader than pin lines are some of the bands o f furr that peep out from among nuffs and edge gauzy fills. One dainty decollete cosage made of white tulle over white satin has a sort of bolero effect. This is composed of puffs of white tulle alternating with the narrowest bands of seal. Under this the tulle of the blouse is laid in tiny tucks with a thread of silver finishing their edges. The full balloon elbow sleeves are composed of strips of fur with tulle puffs intervening. A long scarf of heavily spangled tulle falls from the shoulders stole fashion. It is trimmed with lines of the fur. It looks now very much as if we were going to extremes again in sleeves. A glance at the latest corsage prepares us for all sorts of startling surprises in that direction. Balloon sleeves of ample dimensions have made their appearance again. NINA GOODWIN. A MARVELOUS CLOCK. Description of the Product of German Watchmaker. A poor German watchmaker has just achieved a wonderful work of ingenuity and art, consisting of an astronomical and calendar clock. Twenty-four years ago he was fired to attempt the task by a study of the famous horological monument at Strasburg cathedral. He immediately began to execute his design to excel even this surprising piece of ingenuity. For 19 years he devoted all his time to the project. At one time, his means being of the scantiest character, he had no alternative but to sell by degrees everything he could spare. His wife, being extremely indignant at this procedure, brought her complaints before the local magistrate. He promised her his help, being convinced that a man's mind must be deranged who thought he could make an astronomical calendar clock even surpassing that of Strasburg. His mental activity and financial and domestic troubles told upon the patient worker, and at last his friends declared him insane. At the thought of parting from his clock he became more excited. He was forthwith put into a straight waistcoat and sent to a lunatic asylum. At length he managed to regain his liberty on the understanding that he remained under police surveillance. He found that his home was no place for him, so he journeyed to Carlsruhe, Baden, taking the clock and his tools with him. In this town he obtained, with the assistance of a privy councilor, free board and lodgings at the permanent industrial exhibition. After a stay of 18 months he lost his place of refuge, and fled with his work by night to his son in Switzerland. In Carlsruhe he had been able to make some small savings and a few friends gave him assistance. The German emperor, though his majesty thought his task hopeless, sent him a sum of money. At last the clock however, was finished, but the constructor had no funds for the case. On this occasion a parish priest came for ward with generous and unselfish help and the project was completed. It is claimed that this clock is as valuable for its artistic beauty and workmanship as for its ingenious mechanical arrangements. It is inclosed within glass, so that its every movement can be seen. It consists of 2,200 parts, 112 of which are wheels. Every detail is the watchmaker's own handiwork. The clock indicates the seconds, minutes, hours, dates, the days of the week, month, and the seasons of the year, the pictures of the signs of the zodiac, the sun, moon and stars, and the rising and setting, as well as the exact position of the celestial bodies. It shows, besides, the moon phases, all the eclipses of the sun and moon. Its calendar, it is urged, will last forever, with minute accuracy. At the beginning of the year it fixes by itself the statements of the astronomical practitioners in explanation of the everlasting calendar, as well as Easter, and the changeable festival days for the coming year. A glass ball, representing the spherical globe exactly, shows the movements and positions of the planets Mercury, Venus, earth and moon, Mars Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus. The work is beautified by over 100 movable pictures and figures. Every quarter of an hour the figure of a guardian angel appears on the left side of the principal field. The striking of the quarter is done by two angels, standing in the second recess on the left, while in the sixth recess two figures at a time, representing the four ages of men, are changing alternately. On the right side of the principal field the angel of death advances, pointing with his scythe to the dial plate. When the full hour strikes the center angel of the second recess appears, holding an hourglass, while the angel on the right side above is sounding a trumpet. Under the roof an allegorical figure represents symbolically the right season of the year, while above in the principal field the guiding star of the year appears. On the left side of the cabinet stands a cock, which, five minutes before noon beats its wings, stoops its neck, opens its beak, and crowds three times. When the picture shows "spring" there appears a cuckoo above; with the season "summer" a quail comes forth on the left side, both calling seven times. When the picture "autumn" appears a bull lying at the feet of the evangelist St. Luke roars, and when "winter" is indicated a lion, which lies close to St. Mark, raises its voice. Every time the clock strikes 12, Christ, bending his head, appears with his 12 apostles, and a monk, standing in the portal below, rings his "ave." The work contains also a small chime, which plays five minutes after the striking of an "even" hour, the melodies changing and each lasting one minute. This work has 12 little bells, and on the roller there are 997 pins, which make the music. Now that the patient worker has finished his task, he has been unable to find anyone to buy it from him. The Chicago board of local improvements has decided to use creosoted block for pavements in the city. Different kinds of material for paving were looked into by the board, but the decision was in favor of the wood. The first order for this kind of pavement will aggregate about 15 miles of streets to be paved. NEWS OF MISSOURI ALL SORTS OF THINGS CAUGHT FROM THE WIRES. General Happenings Throughout the State Prepared for Perusal A St. Louis special says: Coal and wood will be barred as fuel from the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. Oil from Texas will be piped to the engine-rooms of every plant on the grounds and in this way smoke, dust, and ash will be avoided. The main power plant will be one of the largest in the world, and, instead of being housed in a remote part of the grounds, will be made a central attraction of the machinery exhibit. The central power house will supply energy for all the illuminations, intramural railways, exhibit machines, pumps, cascades, fire and water supplies. It will have a capacity of over 15,000 kilowatts, or more than 31,000 horse power, a capacity that represents more than the combined powers of all electric and motor establishments now in operation in St. Louis. Bids for this plant will be taken for individual units of 1,000 kilowatts and for the entire plant. Henry Rustin has opened the electrical construction office of the fair Wreck Victim Was Wealthy. Kansas City Mo.: George W. Youmans, killed in the Wabash wreck at Seneca, Mich., was a well-known building and paving contractor, and a member of the board of public works of Kansas City. He erected many of the large buildings in Kansas City and has held heavy contracts throughout the southwest. Mr. Youmans was the father of Frank E. Youmans, a well-known young broker, who was arrested recently in Detroit on a charge of embezzlement. Mr. Youmans was engaged on a big contract in Texas at the time of his son's arrest, and had arrived in Kansas City and shortly proceeded east. He intended, he said, to persuade his son to return to Missouri and face the charge. Mr. Youmans was 58 years old. He leaves a widow in Kansas City. Missouri in Brief. At Kansas City: Sarah B. Lester, aged 5, daughter of a well known merchant, was burned to death recently while attending a birthday party at the residence of J. D. Riddell, late general freight agent of the Memphis road. With other children she was playing with birthday candles when her dress caught fire. Mrs. J. D. Riddell was seriously burned while trying to extinguish the flames. John Hill, an engineer, and A. D. Robinson of Joplin, were killed by the explosion of a boiler at the Ida zinc mining plant, three miles northwest of that city. Robinson was visiting the plant. Chief of Police Kiely of St. Louis received a telegram from Rev. M. G. Coleman of Pana, III., asking for information of the whereabouts of Thos. J. Smith, missing city clerk of Pana. A man who gave the name of Thomas F. Smith, a clerk from Pana, was found lying in the street last Thursday night in a semi-conscious condition. He was treated at the city dispensary and sent to the Four Courts, where he was held for the night. Next morning he was discharged. A fire destroyed a two-story brick building owned by Zarn & Wells of Platte City. A building owned by William Davis was also burned. The losses on buildings and stock is about $9,000. Insurance $2,500. Wesley Gann, constable of Center township, and William Little had an exiting experience with chicken thieves about 3 o'clock Thursday morning, in South Park. Shots were exchanged and Contsable Gann believes that he wounded one of the thieves. He himself was wounded by being tsruck over the left eye with a shotgun. He received a serious wound. The thieves escaped. L. C. Williams, the negro editor of the Kansas City Observer, is dead at a local hospital from the effects of a stab wound received in a fight with another negro. Williams' brains was penetrated with a pair of shears. At Duluth the Minnesota Log and Timber company has been formed with W. H. Cook, president; William O'Brien. Its capital is $100,000 and its intents its capital is $100,00 and its intents are to do business along the line of the Duluth, Virginia & Rainy River road, now under construction to the northern region. The company expects to build mills, perhaps one at Duluth and others along the road, and to manufacture timber owned and controlled by kindred interests. Unusual warmth has prevailed in the Arctic regions this year, and consequently an enormous number of icebergs has been set free and driven to the middle of the Atlantic. The reports of various transatlantic steamer captains state that their vessels have met with dozens of icebergs, some over 100 feet high. A Chinese manuscript lately discovered in the Paris library proves the startling fact that anaesthetics were used in China 1,700 years ago. A certain concoction, it states, was given by the doctors before performing an operation, which rendered the patient unconscious. The anaesthetic was a simple preparation of hemp. The German millionaire Jakob Plaut, who died in Nice last February, left the greater part of $2,000,000 for charitable purposes and institutions in Berlin, Hamburg and Saxon cities. The Tageblatt names more than three dozen institutions in Berlin alone which were remembered by him.