The Professional World

THE PROFESSIONAL WORLD. $1.50 Per Year in Advance. PRESIDENT CLARKE. New President Took Charge of Lincoln Institute -Was Science Professor in Wilberforce. Prof. Edward A. Clarke, the new president of Lincoln Institute arrived from Wilberforce, Ohio, Monday and entered upon the duties of the office this morning. He is well known here where he taught many years ago and his friends predict for him a successful administration of the Institute. Prof. Clarke is a man of middle age, and is a thorough type of a college man. He was born in the President's house, in the college campus of Wilberforce University, which school was founded by his grandfather, Bishop Payne, in 1856. His father and mother both attended this school in Ohio before the war, and both taught in the school. His primary education, was all received at his mother's knee, and he entered at the age of ten the preparatory course of the University. He graduated, B. A. with highest honors in 1881, and became principal of the high school in Evansville, Ind., at the age of twenty-one, having under his charge 600 students and a corps of 13 teachers. In this position he remained eight years, being the only colored man in the state of Indiana to hold a life state certificate. He also holds life certificates in the cities of Louisville and St. Louis. Prof. Clarke came from Evansville to Lincoln Institute in 1889, as professor of science, and spent three years here, so impressing the students, citizens and the Board of Regents, as well as the patrons of Lincoln Institute throughout the state, that after ten years he is now recalled to their highest gift, the presidency. In 1892 by civil service examination, standing first out of 90 applicants, he was appointed to the war department in Washington City. Taking a special examination there, he became an assistant examiner of patents under the Government, the only colored man in that great office by civil service examination This position demands high scientific and legal knowledge combined and is eagerly sought after by graduates of such technical and scientific schools as the Boston Technical, Cornell University, Ann Arbor and other great schools. Remaining here three years and standing first on the list for promotion, Prof. Clarke resigned to accept the chair of science in his Alma Mater. This school had already honored him with the degree of M. A., granting it to him in a class composed of such notables as ex-President William McKinley, then governor of Ohio, and the Hon. Frederick Douglass. Prof. Clarke is an ordained minister and served Wilberforce in the double capacity of professor of science and pasor of the college chapel. In his congregation were teachers, students, citizens of every denomination, Catholic and Protestant. The spiritual welfare of the student body was never in such satisfactory condition as during the five years of his stay.—The Jefferson City Tribune. Free! Free! Free! Your photo enlarged to life size will be given to the one sending the largest number of yearly subscribers to the Proessional World between now and April 1st. Contest open to all. Sample copies furnished free on application. Public School Concert. The children of the Fred Douglass school, under the direction of Mrs. H. A. Clark, gave a concert at Stone's Hall last Wednesday evening. A very creditable program, consisting of choruses, duets, solos, drills, compositions and recitations was rendered to an appreciative audience. The exhibit of school work which was shown at the State Teachers' Association last Christmas was inspected by the audience at the conclusion of the program. City Notes. Buy your meat at O. E. Rader's new meat market. Go to Gilman & Dorsey's for drugs and toilet articles. Dr. Anna B. Marsh accompanied by her mother and children, left Monday afternoon for Nashville Tenn. Miss Lucile Smith is improving after an illness of several weeks. Mrs. P. C. Crews is improving slowly. Special prices on muslin underwear at Hubbell's. Rubbers for children 10cts and rubbers for women 25cts per pair at C. B. Miller's shoe store. Mr Oscar Marshall is on the sick list. Everybody eats meat and should buy it at O. E. Rader's new meat market. All kinds of Jewelry at Gilman & Dorsey's. Mr. Beverly Chapman is seriously ill at his home on Christian College Ave. The editor of the Professional World was receiving Birthday congratulations Thursday but was too old to tell his age. All kinds of dress goods, lowest prices, at Hubbell The lowest prices ever placed high grade shoes are seen in C. L Miller's show window. The youngest child of Mrs. Amy Booth is seriously ill with pneumonia. Finest meat in the city at O. E. Rader's new meat market, two doors north of Statesman office. Watch repairing at Gilman & Dorsey's drug store. Mr. John Woods and Mrs. Ellen Williams were married last Wednesday evening, Rev. J. A. Grant, officiating. The Professional World extends congratulations. O. E. Rader has opened the most up to date meat market in the city. All kinds of meats, game and oysters. Telephone 129. Jackets, furs and capes at Hubbell's. Best shoes ever offered in the city for the money at Miller's. The Columbia Concert Band, assisted by Mrs. Margaret Akers, rendered their first program to a large audience at St. Paul's Hall, Thursday evening. Order your meat at Rader's. Polite clerks. Quick delivery. All kinds of patent medicines at Gilman & Dorsey's. Watches, clocks and Jewelry repaired by an experienced workman at Hopper's Drug Store Notice. All person who are interested in the success of The Professional World will show the same by patronizing the business men who advertise in these columns. Have prescriptions filled at Gilman & Dorsey's, the oldest continuous drug house in the city. COLUMBIA, MISSOURI, FRIDAY, FEB. 21, 1902. Macon Items. The pupils of Dumas school will give their literary concert Friday, Feb. 21. Messrs. Frank Hurley and Carl Davis, of Ohio, have come to this city to work in the shear factory. Wellington Coleman is at school again after a serious attack of pneumonia. The students of Western College are preparing to entertain Macon society with a sham law suit. Mrs. Ida Ancell is able to be out again. Miss Maud Allen, who teaches at Clarence, came home Sunday sick with lagripe. Mrs. Leaner Gooding entertained Prof. and Mrs. T. B. Burris at 4 o'clock tea Saturday afternoon. Mrs. V. A. Dodd took a flying trip to Corbin last week. Prof. J. H. Bradley, of room 3, Dumas school, is still on the sick list. Mrs. Emma Robinson transacted business in Chicago. At Dumas school Nadine Myers, of 6th grade, Roy Ford, of 5th grade, and Fred Woods, of 4th grade were stars of their classes last week. Mr. John H. Guy's house was burned Sunday night. A lamp exploded. Richard Sherwood is out again after a long illness. The churches are preparing a series of entertainments preparatory to spring improvements. Get laces, embroideries and white goods at Hubbell's. How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. Cheney & Co., Props. Toledo, O. the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by their firm. West &Traux, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O., Walding, Kinnan & Marvin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Price 75c. per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. Testimonials free. Hall's Family Pills are the best. See the display of toilet articles in Hubbell's show window. BIBLE GIVEN TO THE AMEER. Abdur Rahman's Letter of Thanks for the Scripulum Donation Abdur Rahman thought much about religious problems. It is not, however, generally known that he was the possessor of a copy of the new testament in Loewenthal's erudite translation into Pushtu, which was forwarded to him by the Rev. Worthington Jukes of the Church Missionary society, stationed in the Punjab, just after the great durbar held at Rawal Pindl by the Marquis of Dufferin and Ava, as Viceroy, in 1884. Acknowledging this, the Ameer wrote in his own hand to Mr. Jukes: "I received your letter. You had regretted therein that you had been unable to see me, and that, through want of leisure, you could not. For my part, I am exceedingly sorry that, during my present visit to the Indian frontier, I had not the opportunity of seeing the most learned and intellectual of the British kingdom. Everything has its own allotted time. The copy of the Bible which you have sent I have received, and I accept it with great reverence. Though we have nothing to do with all that is written therein, yet we respect it, accepting it as a book handed to us by God. I shall take extracts of all those verses which fully correspond with those of our Koran, besides all such passages as are interesting. I shall act upon them. I have had the greatest pleasure in receiving this present, which is the best of all"—London Taleswave Use Philadelphia as a Suburb. Few people know that Philadelphia has quite a colony of business men who, while maintaining families in the Quaker City, make New York the field of their battle for fame and fortune. Not a small percentage of these, too, suffer the wear and tear of trains daily rather than be away from their heartstones at night. Two-hour trips are shortened, of course, by conversation, card playing and the rapacious and rapidly growing American habit of newspaper reading. One exclusive set kills time on wheels with that reigning fad—bridge whist, while another, composed of men widely known socially and professionally, shortens the trip more effectually than all the rest with the fascinating game of "draw." It's a pretty good traveling pace to keep, but mammon is a relentless task master, and so these modern Jasins must go on to the end. So long as they drop their dollars here it's all right.—Philadelphia Exchange. Tribute to Seth Low The following minute was adopted by the faculties of Columbia: When its late president came to Columbia in 1889 the college had 122 officers of instruction, divided among four loosely connected faculties and teaching 1,134 students. Today Columbia has 385 officers of instruction, divided among nine closely connected, mutually helpful faculties and teaching 4,500 students. The library has increased from 81,000 volumes to 311,000; the university has removed from the nolisy crowded quarters in Madison avenue, near the New York Central tracks, to as beautiful and convenient a site as that of any institution of learning in the world, and is domiciled in a group of buildings worthy of the site.—Journal of Education. Evidence That Animals Weep. Evidence That Animals Weep Do animals weep? Explorers say they do. Lady Burton says that she has horses in the Syrian desert cry from thirst, a mule cry from the pain of an injured foot and a camel shed tears in streams. Gordon Cunning declares that he has observed tears in the eyes of a dying elephant, and Dr. Livingstone used to have a ape which cried when the explorer would not take it in his arms. Wounded apes have died crying and apes have wept over their young ones again by hunters. Sea Lions are said to cry for the loss of their young, and a giraffe which had been injured by the riffle of a hunter began to cry. Another explorer tells of a chimpanzee which had been trained to carry water lugs. It let one fall and break and in its sorrow set a crying. There seems to be a little doubt that animals do sometimes cry from pain, sorrow or annoyance, but, as a rule, we cannot catch the watch dog in tears or the family cat having a "good cry."—New York Press. Half-Fares in Switzerland. Hereafter there will be no possibility of passing off 8-year-old children as under 5 years of age in Switzerland. The railway authorities have decided that the sin of fibbing about a child's age to escape paying its car fare must be met in some other way than by means of moral instructions. The railway men claim that the loss of children's fares on the railroads every year reaches an enormous amount, and in order to avoid the chances of any dispute as to the age of the child the rule has been laid down that in case of doubt the child must be measured, says the Street Railway Review. Those under two feet in height are to be allowed free passage, while those between two and four feet in height pay half-fare. If this method is not ideal it at least puts the question of age beyond dispute—Chicago Journal. Potatoes Cheap in Ireland. The Irish potato crop or this year is proving by far the best that the farmers have grown for close on 30 years. The tubers, as a rule, are of good size, and the outcome of the highly favorable season is made clearly perceptible by the excellent cooking properties of the tubers at present on the market. It is somewhat curious that the crop should have been so very distinctly favored just at a time when advisers on all hands are recommending farmers to reduce the area under potatoes for something more lucrative. Even though the crop is such a bountiful one this season it is doubtful if it will pay, as prices are low owing to the large returns. The Gay Lothario. A gay Lothario was boasting in the presence of several gentlemen about the conquests he had gained over the female heart. "Look," sald he; "here's a handsome present I had from my last amorata," at the same time handing round a beautiful cigar case. All admired the rtitle, which had an indorsement of its quality stamped upon it. "Very nice gift," remarked one of the company. "I perceive your lady-leve even had your name put on the case." "Well, that's queer," answered the boaster. "I never noticed it." "Look again," rejoined the candid one; "the case is distinctly marked 'Real calf.'"—Rochester Post-Express. AROUND THE COURT HOUSE. Cases Disposed of By Judge or Jury in Boone Circuit Court. Chicago Merc. Co., versus Julia A Procter, trial by the court, verdict for plaintiff for $33.63. T. C. Scruggs was granted a divorce. R. L. Palmer versus C & A. R. R. defendant files offer in favor of plaintiff for $100.00 and costs. The case of E. M. Biggs versus E. Penter and others, members of Ashland school board has been appealed to the Kansas City court of appeals. A 'case of peculiar interest was tried Friday. Several months ago Mr. Rawlings of More's Station put his two children on the Wabash train with instructions that they be put off at that station. The officials forgot to stop there and the children were put off beyond the specified place, and being in the dark became frightened and suffered mental anguish. This was the basis for a suit entitled Noble and Bessie Rawlings against the Wabash R. R. A ticket had been purchased for the girl, Bessie, while the other child was too young to require a ticket. On a trial before Justice Boggs the plaintiffs' were awarded damages in the sum of $250.00. The case was appealed to the circuit court where judgment was given for $250.00 in favor of the boy and $125.00 in favor of the girl. It appears that the R. R. had previously offered to compromise the case at $200. Two or three days was consumed in the trial of the case entitled Newman P. Starke versus Ewing Johnson. The jury had not reported when the Statesman went to press last week. On Friday they found for the plaintiff, Mr. Starke, giving him $50 to cover damages to cattle which were being pastured on Mr. Johnson's farm. The case will be appealed. In the case of the Parsons Band Cutter and Self Feeder Co. against Mr. J. R. Marsh the jury found for plaintiff, in the sum of $231 50. A case of some interest was that of M. A. Turner against the C & A R.R. On account of failure to furnish cars in which to ship cattle from Carrington station last summer. After having driven his cattle to that station and finding no cars he was compelled to drive them home again, and for this he asked for $250.00 damages. The case was compromised, Mr. Turner getting $87.50. Granville Allison pleaded guilty to common assault and was given six months in the county jail. The case against Landon Carter for the shooting of Bob Bondurant was tried Monday and Tuesday before a jury, which found Carter guilty and assessed his punishment at six months in the county jail. Several cases against I. L. Rule, a druggist of Wilton, were disposed of. In the first case he was found guilty of illegally selling whiskey and his punishment assessed at $40.00. He pleaded guilty to three other cases and was given $5.00 and costs in each. In another case against Rule, J. Nichols and Sam Sapp on plea of guilty a fine $1.00 and costs was assessed against each defendant. R. L. Palmer vs C & A R. R., dismissed by plaintiff at his cost. Elizabeth Acton against J. E. Crane, appealed dismissed, judgment of justice affirmed. Emaline Warfield vs Charles Hume and others, judgment by consent for plaintiff for $161.66. Fannie Jackson was granted a divorce. J. E. Kemper vs S. J. Conley and others, decree for satisfaction. Divorce was granted Virtie V. McNear. Mary Jane Sapp was granted divorce from Paris Sapp. John C. Schwabe vs L. M. Strawn, judgment revived. Jacksonville National Bank vs H. C. Wiswall and others, judgment revived. In Terrell-Crouch Lumber Co., vs W. T. Richardson, judgment was given for plaintiff for $199.50 enforcing mechanic's lien. Bart Akers dismissed his suit against W. H. Kolkmeyer. W. W Payne vs D. Klass, verdict for plaintiff for $65.20. A. G. Tipton vs Lizzie Tipton. suit money and $60.00 alimony allowed. Terrell-Crouch Lumber Co. vs. Price J. Berry dismissed at plaintiff's cost. Lucy Tinder vs. city of Sturgeon, suit for damages, continued. Divorce was granted Mary Werner with custody of minor children. Jas. R. Warren vs. T. S. Riggs, guardian, continued. C. M. Bentley pleaded guilty and received fine of $50 and stay of execution till next term as to fine. Nine cases against George Slate for sales of liquor were all continued. W. E. McKimpson vs. Wabash Ry. Co., trial by court, verdict for defendant on 1st count, verdict for plaintiff on 2nd count and damages assessed at $40. A. J. Estes vs Wabash Ry. Co., trial by court, verdict for defendant on 1st count; verdict for defendant on 2nd count. Geo. P. Naylor vs. Harrison Brown, dismissed by plaintiff. Albert P. Hamilton was examined and licensed to practise law. The sewer cases, those of Bart Akers and Mrs. M. Boulton against the sewer contractor, were argued Wednesday, but the judge has taken the case under advisement, and the case is not yet decided. The suit is a test of the legality of the city's sewer ordinance. $50,000 for Postoffice Building. During the last Congress our representative, Judge Cooney, introduced a bill, suggested by Col. Switzler, appropriating $50,000 for the erection in Columbia of a building for a post-office, which was referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds; the bill providing, among other things, (as all such bills provide) that the building should not be located less than forty feet from all others. It could not reasonably be expected, as the last was the short session, that the bill would be thoroughly considered, discussed, or passed. The present being a new Congress, and the Missouri Legislature having by redistricting placed Boone county in Judge Shackleford's district, that gentleman becomes our representative instead of Judge Cooney. On last Thursday, therefore, Judge Shackleford reintroduced the bill, at the instance of Col. Switzler, who, it seems, is its vigilant and active promoter, and it was referred to the present Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, which consists of Messrs. David H. Mercer, Nebraska; Charles W. Gillet, New York; Richard Bartholdt, Missouri; Edwin C. Burleigh, Maine; Benjamin F. Howell, New Jersey; Joseph B. Showalter, Pennsylvania; J. P. Conner, Iowa; E. W. Martin, South Dakota; E. S. Minor, Wisconsin; John H. Bankhead, Alabama; John S. Little, Arkansas; William G. Brantley, Georgia; Charles R. Thomas, North Carolina; John L. Sheppard, Texas; Robert W. Miers, Indiana. This is an intelligent and fair minded committee, headed by a chairman, Mr. Mercer, of Nebraska, of large experience in that position; and if the facts and considerations which commend the measure to Congressional approval are fully presented to it the committee, we believe, will report in favor of its passage. Our citizens should co-operate with Judge Shackleford, and the other members of both Houses from Missouri, in their efforts to make the bill a law. Let us have the new post-office building. The needs of the service demand it and the population, State University and other colleges and schools, and the large and increasing patronage of the post-office justify it. Gerig Home Burned. About eight o'clock Saturday night while the house was temporarily unoccupied, fire broke out in the residence of Mrs. Gerig on Locust St. The fire department was soon on the ground but as the house was nearly destroyed before the fire was discovered. The adjacent buildings were saved. The house and contents were a total loss but were partially covered by insurance—$900.00 on the house and $550.00 on the contents. It is not known how the fire originated. Mrs. Gerig was making preparations to visit her son in Tenn., and her trunk, which was packed was destroyed with the other goods. J. B. Upton a prominent lawyer and politician of Southwest Missouri, died Sunday night at Bolivar RUFUS L. LOGAN, B. S. D., Editor. COLUMBIA, : : : MISSOURI ORDERS FOR THE FLEET ORDERS FOR THE FLEET THEY ARE ISSUED BY ADMIRAL EVANS. All the Ships Ordered to be in Full Dress on the Day of Prince Henry's Arrival—Kaiser's Brother to be Greeted by Mighty Salute as the Steamer Passes the Line—Visit to the Hohenzollern. New York, Feb. 19.—Rear Admiral Evans today issued orders to the captains of the fleet concerning the duties on Washington's birthday, the day Prince Henry is expected to arrive. The first orders direct that at 8 a.m. the vessels of the squadron will "full dress" ship and remain so dressed until sunset. At the meridian the national salute will be fired. When the Kron Prinz Wilhelm arrives, Admiral Evans and staff will board her at or near quarantine. When the liner passes Admiral Evans' squadron the vessels will man the military tops, turrets and rails. A salute of 21 guns will be fired by each ship, the German flag being broken at the main at the first gun. At the last gun of the salute, each vessel will haul down the German flag and rehoist the American. When the Hohencolllern hoists the imperial standard, a salute of 21 guns will be fired by each ship of the squadron. After the imperial standard has ben saluted, the commanding officers of the squadron will visit the Hohencolllern and pay their respects to Prince Henry. Ships of the squadron will be illuminated, and mottoes furnished for the purpose from 7 p. m. to 9 p. m. The builders of the emperor's yacht said tonight that the platform around the yacht would only accommodate 200 people. These will be Prince Henry and party. President Roosevelt and delegates, and such others as can be accommodated. At Historic Chattanooga Chattanooga, Teen, Feb. 18.—The official program for the entertainment of Prince Henry has been completed. If the weather be fair a short drive through the principal streets will be taken after which the party will go to the summit of Lookout Mountain. Should the weather be cloudy or threatening the trip to the mountain will be abandoned, and instead the party will be taken to the crest of Missionary Ridge. General H. V. Boynton will accompany the party, and explain the military movements in and about Chattanooga during the civil war. Columbia University Program New York, Feb. 18.—Prince Henry will visit Columbia University on Feb. 26. He will be met upon the university grounds, directly in front of the main entrance to the library, by Prof William Carpenter Villard, professor of Germanic philology and secretary of the university council, who will conduct the visiting party to the library building through the main entrance, where the officers of the institution will be presented to the prince. MORGAN AFTER COAL MINES. Syndicate Headed by Magnate Plans to Operate More Properties in Ohio. Columbus, O., Feb. 18.—Reports are current of a new coal company by the Morgan syndicate to acquire 15 independent mines on the Hocking Valley and Ohio Central railroads. The new company is to be known as the Continental Coal company, it is said, and will have a capitalization of $5,000,000. The new combine will include all the mining properties in the Hocking and Sunday Creek valleys, with the exception of the new Pittsburg and Glendale mines, which have been acquired by the Pittsburg Coal company. There is a probability that the larger mines on the Columbus, Shawnee & Hocking railroad may also be included in the deal. MISS STONE IS RELEASED Husband of Her Companion Arrested for Complicity in the Kidnapping. Paris Feb. 18—The Temps this evening publishes a dispatch from Constantinople announcing that Miss Stone has been released by the brigands who held her captive since Sept. 3 last, and has been handed over in good health to the draoman of the American legation. The dispatch adds that "Reverend Tsilka" has been arested on the charge of complicity in the kidnapping. MORGAN PAYS THE DIVIDEND Financier Distributes Ten Millions to Syndicate Which Underwrote Steel Corporation. New York, Feb. 18.—J. P. Morgan & Co. distributed a dividend of $10,000,000 today to the members of the syndicate formed to underwrite the United States Steel corporation. The dividend represents five per cent of the $200,000,000 for which the syndicate was liable Place for Gage. New York, Feb. 18.—John A. Stewart, president of the United States Trust company, tendered his resignation at a meeting of the trustees to day. Stewart recommended ex-Secretary Lyman J. Gage, be elected to succeed him. It is understood Gage will be elected as soon as the necessary legal requirements are complied with. Boss Tweed's Son. Stamford, Conn. Feb. 18.—Wm. M. Tweed, aged 55, a son of the late Tam- many chieftain of that name, dropped dead at his home here today of heart disease. Approves the Pact for the Acquisition of the West Indian Islands. Washington, Feb. 18.—Today, in little more than an hour's time, the senate disposed of the treaty with Denmark coming to the United States for the consideration of $5,000,000 the islands of St. Thomas, St. John and St. Croix, composing the group of the Antilles known as the Danish West Indies and located of Port Roya and the far as this country is concerned, consummated the transaction which has been under consideration intermittently since the administration of President Lincoln. The treaty and report on it were read at length, and more or less discussion of the proposition was indulged in. Senator Cullom, chairman of the committee on foreign relations, made a speech explaining the advantages of the acquisition of the islands, and senators Bacon and McLaurin (Miss.) made brief remarks, saying that while they could not indorse all the provisions of the agreement they would place no obstacles in the way of ratification. At the conclusion of the remarks on Senator Cullom's motion the treaty was ratified by a vivi voce vote. GAME WARDEN SEEKS LIGHT Minnesota Agent Uncertain as to His Authority to Seize Nets in Wisconsin. St. Paul, Minn., Feb. 18.—Executive Agent Fullerton of the state fish and game commission today applied to Attorney General Douglas for an opinion on the right of the Minnesota authorities to seize fish nets on or near the Wisconsin shore of Lake Pepin. Agent Fullerton and his deputies made a raid on nets at Lake Pepin Friday, and burned the houses and destroyed the nets on the Minnesota side. They tried the same performance on the other side of the lake. The Wisconsin men stood them off with Winchester rifles and various side arms. The wardens, being outnumbered and uncertain as to their authority, wer forced to retreat. Agent Fullerton threatens, if he has the authority, to seize nets wherever found, and, if necessary, will take the militia to assist in the seizure. FAMOUS HERD AND RANCH. Quincy Banker Pays Nearly Half a Million for Heretford Cattle Company Property. Kansas City, Mo., Feb. 18.—A deal was consummated here today by which the heretford Heretford Cattle company sold its much heretford herd of blood Heretford cattle at Ashland Neb. to Geo. A. Ricker, a prominent banker of Quincy, Ill., for $481,000. The cattle compose the largest herd of pure blood Heretords in the world, and are estimated in the deal as being worth $200,000. The herd is headed by the famous bulls, Admiral and Thickset, for the latter of which $5,050 was paid at the sale in this city. The ranch consists of 3,500 acres of land. Kills Dilating Suitor Monett, Mo., Feb. 17.—A. G. Topper, an eccentric bachelor, was shot and killed by Ernst Stringer today. Young Stringer's mother witnessed the shooting. Topper had promised to marry Mrs. Stringer, but postponed the event several times. Injured by Collapsing Shed. Guernsey, Wyo., Feb. 17.—Engineer E. C. Taylor was fatally and Fireman J. A. Johnson and Brakeman A. T. Flynn and A. W. Sawyer seriously, injured by the collapse of the Burlington coal shed here tonight. LATEST MARKETS BY WIRE. **Chicago Grain.** Chicago, Feb. 19. —Flour-The market was quiet and unchanged. Wheat-Therew as a fair trade. The market was stronger early, but weakened and closed lower. May opened at 78%@78%; highest, 79; lowest, 78%@78%; closing, 79% Corn-The market was unsettled, closing lower. May opened at 62%@62%; highest, 62%; lowest, 61%; closing, 61%. Oats-There was a fair trade, the market being unsettled and closing higher for September, No. 4 white, 44#65; No. 3 white, 35% May opened at 43%@43%; highest, 44%; lowest, 43%; closing, 43%@44. On Rye-May, 59% c bid. Close on Flax-Cash N, W., $1.71½; S, W, $1.67 bid; May, $1.71½. Close on Wheat, $866¢. Chicago Live Stock. Chicago, Feb. 19.—Cattle—the receipts today were about 22,000 head against 39,513 head last Monday. While the supply was liberal the tree was such a good general demand that last week's closing prices were high on the whole. The export trade continues to increase. The prime steers, $5,697.00; poor to medium, $4,066.16; stockers and feeders, $2,567.40; heifers, $2,256.50; calves, $2,567.70; cows, $2,150.00; Tans, $2,456.75. Hogs—the receipts today were in the neighborhood of 69,000 head against 55,465 head last Monday. This unexpectedly big increase is a fair trade. Mixed butchers, $6,066.50; good to choice heavy, $6,106.39; rough heavy, $7,556.00; light, $5,455.75; bulk sales, $7,556.05. Sheep—Receipts 26,000 head were marketed here today at 18,450 head last Monday. The liberal offerings caused a weak demand on lambs which sold about 156 to 250 lower, the best figures, but sheep and yearlings were about steady, there being a god general demand. Sheep, $3,855.65; lambs, $4,000.60. Chicago Produce Chicago, Feb. 15. Butter-The market was firm. Creameries, 17@26; dairyes, 19@ 22@. Leggs-The market was strong at 30@ 30@. Poultry-The market was steady. Tur- keys, 19@14c; chickens, 86@10c. St. Louis Live Stock St. Louis, Feb. 19. -Cattle-Receipts, 5. 5,000 head. The them arket was slow to lower. Beef steers, $3.50@6.20; stockers and feeders, $2.60@1.80; cows and hefters, $2.00@5.25; Texas steers, $3.20@5.0. Hogs -Receipts, 5,000 head. The market was 5c to 10c lower and the wage was $6.50@6.25. Minneapolis Grain. Minneapolis, Feb. 13.—Whrat—The market was weaker. Cash. $74%/10%; May, 74%/10%; July. $78%/10%. On track—No. 1. Northern. $78%/10%. Northern. $78%/10%. No. 2. Northern. $74%/10%. THE NEWS CONDENSED. MATTERS OF INTEREST FROM VARIOUS LOCALLIES. 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. The two house of the legislature in joint session at Trenton, N. J., have elected Frank O. Briggs state treasurer. The steamship Minneapolis, which has arrived at New York from London, brought 33 race horses owned by Ed Corrigan. All the horses are in good condition. Safe blowers forced the vaults of the Lemon Banking company at Ackworth, Ga., securing $5,000 in gold, a $5,000 Georgia state bond and a large amount of stock certificates. A dispatch from Rome says that at a meeting of representatives of the Italian lodges of Free Masons it was decided that Italian Free Masonry should cease to be a secret society. It is reported at El Paso, Tex., that information has been received that President Diaz of Mexico intends to retire within six months, and that General Reyes will succeed him. A solid silver statuette of Rear Admiral Schley, six inches high, has been received by Isador Raynor, at Baltimore, counsel for the admiral. Mr. Raynor has no idea who sent him the statuette. Senator Hoar, from the committee on judiciary, has favorably reported the bill for the protection of the president of the United States, the vice president, and others. Its provisions have been published. A cable message received at London from the Transvaal chamber of mines at Johannesburg, announces that the output for the month of January was 76,740 ounces of fine gold, as compared with 52,897 ounces in December last. The directors of the Texas & Pacific Railway company have declared 5 percent on the second income mortgage bonds out of the earnings of the year 1901. This is an increase of 1 percent over the payment make a year ago. In New York Wednesday it was reported in financial circles that the presidency of the United States Trust company of that city had been offered to Lyman J. Gage, former secretary of the treasury, and that he would accept. Mrs. Louisa Vennalta, aged 25, and her 2-year-old child were found dead in bed in their home at Philadelphia Tuesday, having been asphyxicated by illuminating gas. Two other children were found almost dead, but were resuscitated. Railroad companies entering at Chicago have decided that every employee shall be vaccinated before Monday under penalty of discharge. All passenger cars are to be subjected to fumigation for six hours before passengers are allowed to enter them. The Macedonians at Sofia utilized the occasion of the funeral of M. Kamtcheff, the minister of public instruction, who was assassinated last Thursday, by making a political demonstration. They gathered in considerable numbers and fired volleys from revolvers in all directions. Subscribers to the new German and Prussian loans, on which the first installments of 50 percent were payable Feb. 8, availed themselves so largely of the option of paying in full that the syndicate underwriting the issues have been relieved from all further responsibility. It is reported in Victoria, Mex., that Miguel Gonzales has arranged to transfer a large tract of oil lands below Victoria to the Southern California Oil company for $1,250,000. It is said that the contract has been drawn up and all that is necessary to the actual transfer is the deed. Mrs. Catherine Estell of Terro Haute, Ind., committed suicide because of despondency growing out of her failure to manage a small farm since the death of her husband two years ago. She left four children and wrote a note to her mother asking her to take the children. Miss Octavia Wheaton, daughter of Major General Wheaton, retired, was married at Washington, D. C., to Frederick H. Morley of Colorado Springs, at St. John's church, Dr. Rev. Mackay Smith officiating. Owing to a recent death in the groom's family, only relatives and a few close friends were present. The Baldwin locomotive works in Philadelphia closed the most successful year in its history in the number of engines turned out and in the value of the product. The output for the years 1901 was 1,375 locomotives, representing a money value of about $17,000,000, of which number 174 were exported to foreign countries. At the annual convention of the Michigan League of Republican clubs Wednesday resolutions were adopted commending the state and national administrations; favoring the present duty on raw sugar; urgently requesting the senators and representatives from Michigan to use their best endeavors to maintain the duty. Property covering a total area of five blocks in St. Louis was transferred to George J. Gould, president of the Missouri Pacific and Iron Mountain railways. The consideration was $825,000. It is rumored that Mr. Gould has made the purchase for the purpose of building an immense freight depot and to extend freight yard facilities. Sylvester L. Savignac and Charles Myers were arrested at St. Louis Wednesday, charged with having robbed the National Stock Yards bank on Jan. 9 last. The robbery was one of the boldest on record. The watchmen and the fireman were bound and gagged and tied to the posts in the press room of the stock yards paper. The safe was blown open and $12,000 cash secured. Rev. Amos Messler, a Seventh Day Adventist preacher at Marion, Ind., was arrested on the charge of being a fugitive from justice. He was later taken to Huntington, Ind., where he was wanted on the charge of embezzling between $6,000 and $7,000 from his brother, Isreal Messler, a farmer near Huntington. He gave up a large part of the money. Presley M. Rixey, the new surgeon general of the navy, has entered on the duties of that office. E. M. Harriman, president of the Southern Pacific system and chairman of the Union Pacific lines, will, it is said, leave New York in about two weeks for the City of Mexico. The state senate of Colorado has adopted by a strict party vote the joint resolutions which already passed the house, appealing to President Roosevelt to interfere in the British Boer war. The United States transport, Wright, which was wrecked Nov. 28 last by striking an unchartered rock at the entrance of San Jacinto harbor and sinking in 15 feet of water, has been successfully raised. George S. Gould has been arrested at Bellwood, Neb., charged with conspiracy in connection with the failure of the Platte Valley bank at Bellwood. He is the third of the Gould brothers to be placed under arrest. By way of experiment August Belmont, New York, has ordered a string of horses shipped from his Long Isle and training quarters to Aiken, S. C. This will permit of earlier training owing to milder climate. The Egyptian postal administration has advised the American government that postoffices for the receipt and dispatch of registered mails have been established at Khartoum, Fashoda and 25 other places in the Soudan. A mahogany piano stands in Rear Admiral Schley's apartments in Washington, and the rear admiral and Mrs. Schley are wondering where it came from. In the rear admiral's desk is a receipt bill of $1,000 for the instrument. Nora Fuller's murder is still at large, and it is believed thousands of miles from San Francisco, but the whole police force is still following every clue to the whereabouts of the mysterious John Bennett, alias G. B. Hawkins. Frank C. White, for many years the "official banker" of New York, is dead at Whitehouse, N. J., from paralysis. He supplied bread for the public institutions of New York and was rated as a millionaire. He was widely known for his charity. News of the new placer findings on the Peace river north of the Cariboo gold district in British Columbia, is contained in a private letter from J. H. Reed, a prospector. Reed says he found ground that averages $25 per day per man on the surface. The American delegates remaining at Seres, Macedonia, after the failure recently of negotiations for the ransoming of the abducted American missionary, Miss Ellen M. Stone, and her companion, Mme. Tsilka, have again started negotiations with the brigands. A school of law and jurisprudence, to be known as the school of law and jurisprudence of the University of Chicago, will be opened by the university Oct. 1. This will be the only law school west of New York requiring a bachelor's degree of three years of college work for admission. Dr. Jokici Takamine, a Japanese, claims to have discovered the possibility of bloodless surgery through the medium of a chemical composition called adrenalin, in solution, operations may be performed, it is said, on the nose, ear and eye without the spilling of a drop of blood. At present adrenalin costs $7,000 a pound. F. M. Zellers, a patient in the hospital at the national militia home at Danville, Ill., has received a letter from the American consul at Tien Tsin, China, stating that his daughter, Margaret Zellers, had committed suicide there Dec. 23, and that he held $25,000 in gold which she had left for her father. Ex-Congressman Charles F. Booher, leading attorney in the prosecution of the Richardson murder case, says there will be evidence of a highly sensational nature at the trial of Stuart Fife, the business partner of the murdered man, when it is expected an eye witness to the shooting will be produced. Mrs. Robert Johnson, aged 50 years, of Sleeth, Ind., died suddenly at her home Wednesday of hemorrhage of the brain. Mrs. Johnson was a singer of national fame and a leading member of the Methodist church of that place. It was at the church that she had started, having just finished the corus of "Nearer, My God, to Thee," when she dropped dead. At the annual meeting of the Atlantic Yacht club resolutions were adopted electing Kaiser William of Germany and his brother, Admiral Prince Henry, of Prussia honorary members of the club. The action was taken as a token of appreciation for the kaiser's action in ordering an American yacht and his expressions of good will toward the United States. The Capitol company or the X. I. L. ranch, of which the Farwells of Chicago are the principal owners, has sold to the Reynolds Land and Cattle company 18,000 acres, to L. T. Clark 40,000 acres, to William J. Tod 50,000 acres, to the Matador Land and Cattle company 210,000 acres, to T. D. Wright 70,000 acres and about 40,000 acres in smaller tracts to various purchasers. an unusual use of hypnotic power was made by Rev. W. H. Anderson, pastor of the Christian church at Pana, Ill., in the case of Policeman James Macon of Assumption, who far 36 hours had been in a comatose condition which baffled the attempts of physicians to arouse him. Mr. Anderson, upon being caller, used his power, and Macon immediately awoke. He was quite weak, but recovered rapidly. Herman Ridder, who is in charge of the arrangements for the dinner to be given to the American press in honor of Prince Henry of Prussia at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York, on the evening of Feb. 26, says that both Archbishop Corrigan and Bishop Potter had been invited to attend, and that while no reply had been received from Bishop Potter, it was expected he would be present. Archbishop Corrigan accepted the invitation. Madrid has the unenviable distinction of being in every way the most umanely capital in Europe. According to statistics just published, there have been 79,374 deaths during the past five years among a population only slightly exceeding half a million. In 1901 the deaths numbered 17,242, and of these 4,064 were of children under 4 years old. This gives a rate of about 33 per 1,000. In the five years' period consumption carried off nearly 10,000 inhabitants and smallpox and measles 5,000 more. WHAT SOLONS ARE DOING WORK IN BOTH BRANCHES OF CONGRESS. House Accepts the Challenge of the Minority Leader, and Passes Bill Repealing War Taxes Before Time Contemplated—Stormy Debate on Rule Shutting Off Amendments—Senate Passes Census Bureau Bill Washington, Feb. 18.—The unexpected happened in the house today when the bill to repeal the war revenue taxes passed unanimously without a word of debate. This action was the outcome of the challenge thrown down by Representative Richardson of Tennessee, the minority leader, after the adoption by a strict party vote of the special order for the consideration of the bill which permitted debate upon it until 4 o'clock tomorrow afternoon, but cut off all opportunity to offer amendments except such as had been agreed upon by the ways and means committee. The adoption of the rule had been preceded by a stormy debate, in the course of which the Democrats protested against the application of "gag" rule which Representative Hay of Virginia charged was meant to prevent a free expression, not only by Democrats, but by some Republicans, attention being especially directed toward Representative Babcock of Wisconsin, father of the bill, to amend the steel schedule of the present tariff law. They also charged that such a method of procedure was minimizing the influence of the house, and making it simply a machine to register the decrees of a few men in control. Representative Babcock said he supported the program on the ground that the issue was presented for the repeal of the war revenue taxes should not be complicated with other matters. At the same time he gave notice that he would press his own bill at the first opportunity. Representative Dalzell of Pennsylvania scored a point against the minority by recalling the time under Democratic control of the house when 649 amendments to the Wilson tariff bill were forced through without being read. When the rule was adopted by a vote of 159 to 120, Representative Richardson, to emphasize the fact that the debate on the bill could accomplish nothing and that deliberation upon it would be fruitless, asked that unanimous consent he given that the bill be placed upon its passage. Not one objection waived, and the vote taken forthwith. Every vote—278 in number—was cast in the affirmative, and thus quietly and unanimously came the end of what at one time had promised to be one of the most exciting contests of the session. Census Bureau Bill Passes. Washington, Feb. 18.—After extended debate in the senate today, the senate passed the bill establishing a Permanent census office. The discussion related principally to the collection and publication by the director of the census of statistics respecting the production of cotton. Senator Allison vigorously opposed the provision, maintaining that the cotton statistics gathered by the department of agriculture were complete and accurate, and that no necessity existed for their duplication. Despite his opposition, however, the provision was inserted in the bill. Several bills of importance on the calendar were passed, among them one extending the charters of the national banks. Report on Pacific Cable. Washington, Feb. 18.—The minority report on the Pacific cable bill, which was filed today, dissents from the view that the government should build the cable, and states that a private organization, the Commercial Pacific Cable company, already had contracted for a line to Hawaii by Nov. 1, next, intending to extend the line to the Philippines within two years thereafter. The minority adds: "We believe the government can obtain all advantage of governmental ownership by allowing a private corporation to lay and operate the cable. Moreover, we do not think it right for the government to lay this cable after a private corporation has started to lay such a cable." Cuban Reciprocity Next. Washington, Feb. 18.—With the passage of the war revenue reduction bill in the house today, informal plans are being considered on both sides for the consideration of the Cuban reciprocity question now pending before the ways and means committee. There is a pretty general understanding among the Republican members of the committee that they will confer on the subject later in the week. The Democratic members of the committee this afternoon considered plans for dealing with the Cuban reciprocity question when it comes up. No definite line of action was determined upon. RETAINED ON THE BOARD. United States Steel Corporation Reelects Old Directors at Annual Meeting. New York, Feb. 18.—The first annual meeting of the United States Steel corporation was held today in Hoboken, N. J. The annual report, made public several weeks ago, was presented. The following directors of Class 1, whose terms expired today, were re-elected: Marshall Field, Daniel G. Reid, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Alfred Clifford, William E. Dodge, Nathaniel Thayer, Abraham S. Hewitt and Clement A. Griscom. The election of directors of the other two class was ratified. Shoots Four Stepsons. Appleton, Wis., Feb. 17.—John G. Holmes tonight shot George Walter, Martin Walter and Henry Walter, all sons of Holmes wife, who was formerly Mary Walter, widow of the late George Walter, proprietor of the Star brewery. George is in a critical condition, but the others will recover. Holmes has been arrested. Mrs. Walter married Holmes, who was employed in the brewery, last year. The relations between her sons and Holmes have since been strained. ALL SORTS OF THINGS CAUGHT FROM THE WIRES. General Happenings Throughout the State Prepared for Perusal by Busy Readers. At St. Louis Finis E. Marshall, former cashier and recently elected president of the Continental National bank, has been committed to produce before the grand jury, which is investigating municipal franchise bribery cases, a deposit slip for $145,000 said to have been deposited in the bank in the name of Mr. Marshall as trustee in escrow in October, 1898, when he was cashier of the bank. He is also commanded to produce the individual ledger of the bank, showing the individual accounts of Robert N. Snyder with the Continental National bank. Robert N. Snyder, who came from Kansas City, was the promoter of the Central Traction company. "The Most Beautiful Girl." Miss Annye Ma Yeager of Monticello, Mo., is the young woman whom the Artists' guide of St. Louis has adjudged to be the most beautiful girl in the Louisiana purchase territory. Prof. Halsey C. Ives, chief of the art department of the St. Louis World's Fair, selected the jury which rendered this decision. The jurors were: C. M. Kurtz, assistant chief of the art department; C. W. Rhodes of the St. Louis Art museus and Rober Bringhurst, instructor in sculpture in the St. Louis art school. Their verdict was obtained by viewing hundreds of photographs submitted by the contestants or their friends. Besides Miss Yaeger five other beauties were awarded the distinction of being the fairest in their respective states. Romantic Family Reunion. On March 15, 1887, W. H. Clark, a farmer residing near Manchester, Iowa, left his family, consisting of a wife and six children to go to South Dakota to settle on government land. It was agreed that Clark should send for his wife and children as soon as he was prepared to receive them. In making the trip to Dakota Clark was caught in a roadwreck wreck between Sioux Falls and Minneapolis. He was taken from the wreck badly injured, and sent to St. Luke's hospital in Minneapolis. His mind was affected by a fracture on the skull, and he was unable to tell his name or address. He remained at the hospital two years before he was able to inform the physicians he was. He was finally released, and wrote his family telling them of his accident. He received no reply to his letters. The family, believing him dead, had moved to Arkansas and later to Joplin. Clark at once started out to find them, and after a long search a daughter was found at Oaks, S. D. A reunion of the entire family at Joplin soon followed. Injunction Was Granted. Judge Teasdale of Kansas City in the circuit court granted the application of Frank James for an injunction to stop the production of "The James Boys in Missouri," a drama depicting the James boys as train robbers and bank looters, which has been playing at a local theater. The injunction proceedings were brought by Frank James, his mother, Zerela Samuels, and his step-father, Dr. Reuben Samuels. James' petition alleges that the play is harmful to the youth of the country in that it glorifies outlawry and makes heroes out of outlaws, and said it unjustly revived a reputation that he had been trying to live down for twenty years. Judgment Reversed. The judgment convicting and fining Mrs. Amanda J. Baird, a Kansas City Christian Science healer, but failing to report to the city authorities a case of diphtheria, was reversed by the Kansas City court of appeals and Mrs. Baird was discharged. Mrs. Baird was fined $50 in police court in November, 1897, for failing to report a case of alleged diphtheria in a child that she was treating. She appealed to the criminal court, where the judgment of the police court was affirmed. Then she appealed to the Kansas City court of appeals, which in its decision, rendered recently, says the ordinance under which Mrs. Baird was convicted is aimed at physicians; that under the statutes of Missouri she is not a physician, and therefore, not liable to the ordinance under which she was convicted. The court also pointed out that Mrs. Baird did not know that the child had diphtheria, and therefore could not have reported it. Missouri in Brief. Track laying has been commenced at Mineral, Kan., on the Missouri, Kansas & Texas extension to Joplin. At St. Louis, property covering a total area of five blocks was transferred to George J. Gould, president of the Missouri Pacific and Iron Mountain railway companies. The consideration was $825,000. It is rumored that Mr. Gould has made the purchase for the purpose of building an immense freighthouse and to extend freight-yard facilities. At St. Louis John, alias "Shorty." Councelle was shot and killed by Patrolman Smyth while attempting to escape after holding up John W. Sollas, a conductor on a Springfield avenue car. Councelle and a man who escaped help up the conductor at the point of a pistol, taking his watch and money. Because he neglected to furnish his building with fire escapes and life lines, J. W. Gillham, proprietor of the Empire Hotel at St. Louis, was held responsible for the deaths of the eleven persons who lost their lives when the hotel was burned last Sunday morning. The finding of the jury was based on the evidence of Police Sergeant John, who testified that not a life would have been lost had the building been equipped with fire escapes. The Kansas City Journal says Missouri is under obligations to the Minnesota Board of Pardons for its decision. A return of the Youngers to this state would be the signal for a series of demonstrations on the part of some of our people that would reflect anything but credit upon Missouri. The people who used to treat the James gang as heroes are still alive, many of them, and there is no evidence that they have become any healthier of mind with the lapse of years. TRIGG'S FARM NOTES Copyrighted 1901, J. S. Trigg, Rockford, Iowa. Correspondence Solicited. The neatly built stack or the mow-ful of nice shredded corn fodder has this year become a common thing all through the corn belt. old-fashioned singing, spelling and debating school for the country community where it can possibly be maintained. Such a weekly gathering forms a nucleus for much social pleasure and profit aside from the indisputable and permanent value of training in such It is pretty well settled that corn planted on fall plowing will rip from a week to ten days earlier than when planted on spring plowing. It costs $30 a year more to live than it did five years ago. If you have not had your wages raised this much in that time, you are worse off than you were then. Better attend to this right away and strike the old man for a raise. Late rulings of the postoffice department shut out the circulation of fake weather forecasts from the privileges of second-class matter, and as a result the country at large is benefited. We shall have just the same kind of weather as before, but the government will not be the agent whereby the fakir is able to catch and swallow the sucker. If you wish to destroy the grove around your orchard, turn the fruit trees in your orchard, turn the stock loose and let them have the run of grove and orchard. You may charge the death of the trees up to borers, drouth or Providence, just as you please, but the truth is that you killed the trees the day you turned the stock in. For an all 'round primary school you can't beat the little country school house, ten or more little folk and a sweet little woman to teach them. Every child may represent a separate class, but that doesn't matter. Each child has the patient, careful aid in its studies which is so largely denied it when attending the larger and graded school. It beats all how much annoyance and vexation can be worked up out of the everyday work of life if one is always looking for trouble and bound to find it. And, inverting this statement, it also beats all how a cheerful and hopeful way of looking at life and its work will checkmate trouble and make life worth living. We always feel sorry for that person who is born with the corners of his mouth turned down. The persistent boring for oil in so many sections in the arid West is developing what may prove to be worth far more than oil—viz., more valuable supplies of artesian water. Millions of acres of the far-famed Sahara desert in Africa has been redeemed by the discovery of these artesian supplies of water, and millions more will be reclaimed from the equally desert areas of this country in the same manner. A breeder of the Polled Angus cattle in Central Iowa told us, the other day, that he can produce on his farm one year with another a 1,200-pound Angus steer for each four acres of his farm. This finished steer is worth one year with another about $80, which gives him an income of $20 per acre for his land. It should be said that the use of the farm for this purpose has brought the soil up to a most productive condition. We know of a farm whose productive power has been fully doubled inside of 15 years by keeping on it as much stock as it would carry and consuming all the products of the farm upon the farm. The same thing may be done with thousands of other farms, and it matters little whether it is stocked with sheep, a dairy of cows or devoted to the production of beef. It cannot be done so well with hogs, as the hog is a very poor distributer of fertility. We lately exhibited at a farm institute a sirloin steak cut from a well bred Shorthorn heifer 28 months old and a similar steak cut the same thickness from exactly the same part of a common heifer, equally fat and of the same age. The Shorthorn steak weighed three pounds and that of the other animal only a pound and a half. It is right here where the well bred beef animal gets in its work—no more hide, not much rougher tallow, but much greater weight of meat in all the choice cuts. The farmer of the Northwest has long regarded his fur coat as an indispensable part of his winter equipment, but not until lately we have seen what should long ago have been as common as the fur coat for the man—viz., a long cut, well fitting fur jacket for his wife. The one we saw was made of coonskin, had a high collar and was one of the most comfortable and appropriate winter wraps for a woman that could be imagined. There should be more of these put on the market, for they would find a ready sale, as they are not expensive in the sense that women's furs usually are. A Cheap Sub-Soiler A friend who had for many years cultivated a field with a stiff gum subsoil, always plowing the field about four inches deep, had by the action of the plow packed and smoothed down this sub-soil so that the flow could not be made to penetrate the crust which had formed unless he set his plow to go much deeper than he cared to plow. He finally seeded the field down to clover, and when he turned the clover sod over two years later for a corn crop the crust was all gone and the hard-pan all nicely mellowed up by the action of the clover roots. Clover is the poor man's sub-soiler and worth all it costs to grow on any farm for this purpose alone. An Old But Good Thing. We very much favor the idea of the old-fashioned singing, spelling and debating school for the country community where it can possibly be maintained. Such a weekly gathering forms a nucleus for much social pleasure and profit aside from the indisputable and permanent value of training in such lines for the country boy and girl. Many a fine singer has graduated from a country singing school, many an orator spoke the first piece with his knees knocking together before his chums and mates at a country debating school while only where such spelling schools are held can hardly any one be found who can spell such stem-winder words as apothegm, Melchisedec and Sibyl. Such gatherings do not cost much to maintain and only need the interest and active work of a few bright boys and girls to get them started in almost any community. Irrigation by the Government Reclamation of waste and desert land by systematic irrigation on a large scale is to receive the attention of the general government now for the first time. It is a grand and farreaching work, of infinitely more promise than the investment of millions in pulling, snagging and dredging sandbars in unmanable and unnavigable creeks. The almost universal verdict of the American people on this question of reclamation of territory by government authority is that it should be promptly and intelligently undertaken, the proceeds of all reclaimed land sold to be devoted to the work. Like the postal department, we believe that irrigation by the government may be self-sustaining or very nearly so. Corn For North Dakota We note a very interesting fact in connection with the holding of a farmers' institute at Fargo, N. D., recently. Among other topics on the program was "Corn For North Dakota and How to Grow It." The more fact of latitude would on the face of it seem to place this territory far north of the corn belt; but, to our surprise, when there last summer we saw some large fields of corn, one at least of 40 acres, and, while no such crops of corn will there be grown as farther south, still the happy facticity of this cereal in adjusting itself to climatic conditions seems to be developing a type of corn which can be grown even in that far north country with profit. South Dakota made a splendid record on corn last year, much better than was made in some of the so-called corn states. Plant It To Evergreens. A friend who has a few acres of quite sandy soil on a ridge on his farm which was poisoned with sorrel wrote us last year wanting to know how to get rid of the sorrel. He did it by plowing twice during the drought of last August and September, and now wants to get the land into clover with a view to enriching it, as the soil is very thin and poor. This is a hard proposition unless he is sure of abundant moisture, for an August sun will about cook clover, without rain, under such conditions of soil. Instead of clover for such a case, we would try cowpeas, and, if we had such a spot on our farm we would give up the idea of trying to make either a pasture or tillable land out of it and would set it out with Scotch and white pine or red cedars. It would then look nice and cease to bother, even if it could only be regarded as a legacy for our grandchildren. The Eastern Way An Eastern farmer was lately on his first visit West at the home of a farmer friend in North Dakota. It was thrashing time, and a large field of flax was being thrashed in the Dakota way—by hauling the crop from the gavels in the field direct to the machine. The men who gathered the flax in the field were careless and wasteful, this also in the Dakota way, and left many scattered bunches here and there in the field. When the job was completed, our Eastern friend asked his host when he was going to clean up that field, and was told that it was cleaned up so far as he was concerned; that up in Dakota they did not bother with pickings and rakings. This astonished the Eastern man, who was a past master in all the petty economies compelled by Eastern farm conditions, and he felt sorely grieved over such a wanton waste, and so he asked his friend if he could have a team and wagon the next day and gather up and save some of the waste, which was laughingly assented to, with the remark that he might have all he could make out of his rakings. The team and wagon and the Eastern man went to work the next morning, and in a very short time a full load of the scattered flax was gathered up, which was hauled over to the field where the machine was at work. The load was run through the machine and gave 13 bushels of clean flax, which he sold for $1.45 per bushel, thus receiving $23.85 for his two hours' work. Dakota farmers will do things different from this before long. Four Hundred Dollars a Year We are asked by a man aged 35 who has a wife and four children whether we can suggest any way whereby he can get a start when his income from common day's labor never exceeds $400 per year. Not possessing the wisdom of King Solomon, we feel like letting this job out; still, perhaps we can offer a suggestion, even if we cannot give advice. The $400 a year, as most laboring men live, will do very little besides providing food, raiment and shelter for the family. Even with good health and no bad luck the margin of surplus is very small. Therefore, in order to get the small start which may lead to better conditions, there is involved a limited period of self-denial for both the man and his wife, such as most people would shrink from. A man, his wife and four children can ang do exist somehow in England and on the continent on an income of $180 a year and even less. Our friend will have to study this way of living, which involves a bill of fare wherein oatmeal and potatoes figure very conspicuously. To accomplish anything in the way of making the start desired there must be at least $100 saved from the living expense account to begin with. Then, as soon as possible, a good cow should be secured and some poultry kept and a small patch of land procured for a good garden. These three things will at once make the saving of $100 from the living expense comparatively easy. When the first $100 is saved, ways and means to add to it will readily suggest themselves, and little by little a more desirable condition may be brought about. In this connection we might add that any attempt to work out of the hole is useless unless a man has a wife who is willing to fully co-operate with him. We wish that we could offer a better solution of this economic problem, but it is the only way. Low Priced Stock Farms We have two or three inquiries as to where good stock farms can be secured at cheap rates. There is a vast territory in Northern Minnesota—cut over and burned over timber lands, good soil, plenty of water and a reliable rainfall—which seems to be specially adapted to all our grasses—wild grasses in greatest profusion and the natural home of clover and timothy. While these lands, with their sloughs, spectral tree trunks and rank growth of grass, look very forbidding at first sight, it seems to us that the conditions there exist to make one of the best stock countries in the North. Pasturing rough land speedily civilizes it. The tame grasses soon crowd out the wild herbage. The stumps and grubs will soon rot, and, judging from what we have seen accomplished elsewhere, it will only take a very few years to convert this wild and wooly territory into the best of farms, and that without clearing by hand. These lands are in close contact with the best markets, may be bought at low prices and on easy terms and only await occupation to make them very valuable farm lands. Then here are what are called the range lands of North and Sutoh Dakota, a region where the rainfall is deficient and not enough to insure the profitable culture of our cereal crops without irrigation—a fine stock country, where men are now making their fortunes on cattle. These lands sell for about $3 to $5 per acre, and a man wants at least a section, and more if he can get it. How the Grove Was Born. Here is the way in which nature builds up a grove of trees on the prairie: There was a piece of old rail fence left by the side of an abandoned homestead. Th drifting winds bore a cottonwood seed, a tangle of lint floating like a snowflake, and dropped it in a corner of the old fence. The little seed grew, and a migratory robin, stopping to rest in the top of the little tree, dropped a seed of a black cherry. Then some hunters, seeing the little trees, stopped under their shade to eat their dinner, and, having some wild plums for dessert, they threw the pits down, and one of these grew and soon multiplied into a plum thicket. The shelter thus afforded soon drew the birds from far away, and the birds and the winds co-operating kept adding new varieties of shrub and tree and woodland vine and flower, while the drifting snows of the winter added their mite. But just as nature in her curious way had planted the little grove the prairie fire is loosed on the front of a great south wind, and in a moment the patient work of years is blotted out. It is more than probable that, had it not been for the ever-recurring fires, what is now, or, rather, was, the prarie region of the Northwest, would, wherever the rainfall was sufficient to promote the growth of tree life, have been covered with a dense growth of timber instead of grass. Should Work the Other Way We know of a gentleman who is very earnestly engaged in the effort to breed corn back to its original type. While this may be an interesting experiment from a purely scientific standpoint, it seems to us that it would be every way better for him to turn around and work the other way. It is one of the easiest things in the world to secure the degeneration of any of our improved types, whether in the vegetable or animal kingdom; in fact, just let alone they will any and all move with astonishing rapidity back to original types. Only the use of persistent selection of the best as patent stock secures the maintenance of present improved types. Revolt Against a Russian Landlord. Revive Against a Russian Landlord. St. Petersburg correspondence London Pall Mall Gazette: A remarkable case of the revolt of an entire peasantry, against their landlord is reported as having taken place on the estate of Count Palen near Mitaxa. The mob openly laid siege to the castle, to which they set fire, dancing around the building as the flames consumed it. Everything was destroyed, including a valuable collection of paintings and other works of art. The local police were entirely powerless against the mob, and troops had to be summoned. When they arrived, however, the work of destruction was only too complete, and the peasantry had dispersed. Count Palen is a member of the council of the empire. The Classical Cannibal Baltimore American: "But why," asked the subchief of the Cannibal Isles, "do you insist upon having the men who fell while leading the charge against us served up at the banquet this evening. He seems to be hard as nails." "Huh!" answered the chief of the Cannibal Isles. "I read in a book of poetry left by our last meal that 'the bravest are the tenderest.'" Realty sales in the city of London during 1901 were £5,553,098, compared with £4,934,799 in 1900, and £6,290,314 in 1899. UNCLE BILL AND The Editor BY EDGAR BAKER KIN read the Scriptures, talk out in prayer meetin', go ter revivals an' get religion enough ter last a lifetime, an' I kin read the Commandments an' coincide with everything a-tween the lids uv the Bible, what 'tends ter civilize the race, an' then I kin dump the hull gosh durn biness off uv a step ladder quicker'n yer kin 'dock' a lamb's tall, when it comes ter putin' up a stove pipe," said Uclem Bill as he entered the editor's office with a patch on the side of his nose and his hands cut. "What in the world has come over you, Uncle Bill?" asked the editor. "Oh, I'm preplexed an 'kerfumixed,' answered Uncle Bill, "there's no use uv me donyin' the fact, I've back-slad agin, gol durn my buttons, here I've bin goin' ter revivals an' begun ter see things 'bout right accordin' ter Helen's views, when the old stove started ter smoke us out uv house an' home, an' religion is a thing what don't stand much smokin', at least up in my think garret. I've bin tried on my religion by our ole ram. He tried ter 'butt' it out uv me, an' the rhone mule tried ter kick it out uv me, an' ole 'Brindle' kicked a bucket uv milk all over me, so st most uv it run down my neck an' froze on me while I was goin' ter the house; but I stood the test an' had begun tter flatter myself that I was walkin' in the straight an' narrow path, like a Christian ought ter, when all uv a sudden I wound myself clear out in the timber." "Yes," remarked the editor, "people were beginning to say that you must have religion in earnest this time, and we were all glad about it." "Wall, the only way to get it out uw me this time was ter smoke it out. I'm like the bees, I can't stand fur that An' Then I Said Somethin'. Helen said she thought what religion I had must uv bin sowed on shallen ground, but she needn't brag; she'll need toe clips on next time we put up a stovepipe ter keep her from backslid-in,' said Uncle Bill. "Your experience must have been very exasperating. What was it like?" asked the editor. "Our kitchen stove commenced ter smoke, an 'Helen won't even let me smoke in the house, let alone a stove; so uv course I had ter take down the stovepipe an' go out in the back yard an' drum on it like a Salvation Army recruit, ter git the soot out uv it. That was the day it was 12 degrees below zero; that's the kind uv a day sich things happen, but I got through with that all right, an' went in the house, got the step ladder an' got the pipe all jinned together but one piece, an' that acted like a drunken Irishman at a 'wake. It was lookin' fur trouble an' I seemed ter be the trouble it was after; an' jest as I went ter reach ter the ceyllin' a wire what was hanging there, the durn pipe gave a lurch. I made a grab, fell off uv the step ladder, and then I said somethin' irrellgulous, 'cause the pipe come down on top uv me an' one piece shaved a clip from my nose." "Did you swear a little?" asked the editor. "Wall, I wasn't askin' bles,an," replied Uncle Bill, curly; an when a felter's shod fur the straight an' narrow path, a few jolts like that'll wear the 'corks' smooth, so st he'll sort uv slip 'round a leetle might till he gits out in the open, or timber—anyhow he's apt ter backslide 'round somewhat, an' my religion took the bit in its mouth an' run slap dab away from me, — — fur 'lection." "Uncle Bill!" exclaimed the editor, "I am sorry that you still permit yourself to be profane." "Go out an' tackle a stovepine, an" Hepner Induligin' in Some Quotations. you'll git in the band wagon all right enough," sald Uncle Bill." It's all right ter set here an' write 'bout morals. You together, 'cause when yer fall off uv uv a step ladder with a half dozen lengths uv stovepipe on top uv yer, if there's a cuss word enewhere about yer it'll jar loose, 'specially after yer've pinched yer fingers an' lost part uv yer nose." "I know that it is a perplexing job," said the editor, "Of course, one should have patience and not give away to his feelings." "I'm thinkin' that if yer'll tackle one uv them ee smoke-p刷机 stoves—where the pipe gits stopped up—that go an' rub up agin' one uv them meek an' lowly joints uv towepipe, an' try ter persuade it ter join another one uv the same kind, I tell yer the only way yer kit git 'em together is ter cuss 'em yer wert be writing nice editorials fun a day or two, but yer'll be indulgin' in some quotations what ain't claimed by eny authors, same's I was when Helen come in an' found me on the floor holdin' a service with the stove pipe." remarked Uncle ill. "I got up an' went out ter the grainery an' found another length uv stovepipe, an' when I got back Helen had the pipe all up an' wanted me ter go ter church that night, but I've postponed that until the skin grows on my nose again' an' I kni learn ter use Helen's by-words. She always uses 'I snummy;' I don't know what it means, but if I kni git used ter it, I'll join church agin' and stear clear uv stovepipes." Edgar Baker WILD TURKEYS OF ARIZONA. The Indians Kill Many and Feast for Many Days Upon Them. Phoenix, Ariz., letter to the Chicago Inter Ocean: If all the wild turkeys in the Mongolian mountains, from Turkey creek to the Mexico line, could be killed or trapped, there would be dinner material for half the families of the nation. They are big birds too. When the season opened, in the middle of October, Eud Bush, a Ciblue Apache half-breed, brought to the military post at San Carlos a gobbler which weighed 34 pounds. Three weeks later, when the turkeys had fattened on the beechnuts of the forest and the grain fields of the mountain ranches, a party of officers from the fort on a three days' hunt up White Mountain creek killed 81 turkeys averaging 19 pounds each. Even then the turkeys were not in their prime. They will be at their best weight about the first of the year, when the Ciblue braves will hold their great annual hunt and will feast for two weeks on the result. To the frugal housewife who makes her Christmas turkey last over three days, the Cibique method of cooking turkeys would be a' revelation in economy. The Cibique is probably the wildest and most exclusive of all the Apache races, and in the unexplored fastnesses of the great mountains of the Mongollon and White ranges he has held aloof from white companion-ship longer than any other American Indian. Not until two years ago, when John Dacey, the chief of the tribe, was killed in a quarrel with a deputy sheriff, did the Cibiques permit a white man to go on their hunts or to attend their feasts. Since then they have accepted the newcomer as a necessary evil, and last year they invited a number of officers from Fort Apache, together with several civilians, to accompany them. Nearly 70 bucks, with the seven on eight whites, killed more than 100 birds in the hunt of two days. In the dense and nearly impenetrable scrub oaks of the mountain sides the turkeys were extremely difficult to find. The white guests soon weared o. the tiresome work of crawling and writhing through the brush, but most of them waited at the camp the return of the red hunters. Not a bird was touched in camp until all the hunters were in, and then the squaws prepared the feast. That night and all next day the gorging lasted. The following day it continued, and then hash was made of the remains. This diet severed another day, and then the last of the white party left the village. Three days later one of the white men chanced again to visit the village. He found the whole population absorbing turkey soup, while the chief declared that the bones would serve food purposes for three more days. Last week a party from Globe shot nine turkeys near Turkey creek, three of the birds weighing over 25 pounds, and one tipping the scales at 42 pounds, the largest ever known to be killed, although the Apache guide declared he had shot turkeys weighing 50 pounds. A Smart Man's Clever Ruse New York Press: "I saw your wife in a car with you the other day," said a friend to the gay Wall street broker. "I thought she was going to stay South over the holidays." "She thought so, too," and the broker smiled. "She was with friends down there for a long time, and kept writing me not to tell her to come back just yet." "How did you man' re it?" "I didn't write for her to come back. I just sent her last month's gas bill. It was for 11 cents. She got here two days later, and her trunks have been coming in on every train since." Then they both smiled and drifted between latticed doors that swung inward. What Is the Shape of the Earth? What is the shape of the Earth? Popular Science Monthly: The exact shape of the earth is a question which cannot be settled without fresh evidence from the Antarctic. For this purpose two at least of the expeditions have been provided with pendulum outfits. By noting the exact length of time occupied by the swing of a pendulum the distance of the place of observation from the earth's center can be determined. It is held that the south polar regions projects further from the plane of the equator than does the north polar region. According to one estimate, the south pole is slightly more than one-hundredth further from the earth's center than the north pole. President Schwab seems to have advertised the United States quite extensively during his European tour. OLIO OF EVENTS. Among the 2,028 students at Glasgow university last term, there were 350 women. Organized laborers to the number of 7,000 are employed by the diamond dealers and jewelers of Amsterdam. Philadelphia drunkards are now released when sober for fear of their bringing smallpox into the jail. The total number of medical practitioners in Great Britain and Ireland is 36,788, an increase of 404 within a year. Husbands in Luneburg, Russia, must be home at 11 o'clock at night, or pay a fine of about $2.50, half of which goes to the complainant, who is usually the wife. Following the example of Leipsic, several other German universities are refusing to admit Russian girls who have only the certificates of Russian high schools. Henry Watterson is a fairly good musician, and it was at one time a serious question with him as to whether he should take up music or journalism as a profession. Booker T. Washington's autobiography "Up From Slavery" translated into French, German and Hindoostanee is now to be done into Finnish and into Spanish for Cuba. The Marquis Visconti Venosta of Italy has declined the decoration sent to him by the Emperor Menelik of Abysinia, on the ground that it was "stained by Italian bloom." Some Chinese medicine consisting of monkeys' toes boiled down and hardened by being buried underground for a number of years figured in a police court case at Shanghai recently. President Roosevelt's biography of "Oliver Cromwell" is about to be published in a French edition through the efforts of the Societe Francee de' Imphierie et de Librarie of Paris. An official statement from the British Cycle and Motor Trades association puts the average profit on a bicycle at $2.16, and the number of persons employed in the cycle trade at 100,000. "Dan" Emmet, who wrote the popular negro melody, "Dixie," which served frequently as a rallying song in the civil war, is living, at the age of 87, in a little cottage near Mansfield, O. The latest bank statement embracing all the banks in Mexico shows the total banking capital to be $80,300,000; note circulation, $82,676,626; reserves, $14,222,393, and deposits $112,000,000. A movement has been started in Toledo, O., to erect a monument to the late Chief Justice Morrison R. Waite. It is proposed to erect the monument on the battlefield of Fort Meigs, near Toledo. New complaints are being made by county officers in Nebraska against farmers who breed wolves for the bounty. At $3 a scalp, wolf culture often proves more profitable than raising hogs. One of the most expert chaffeurs in Washington is Representative Joseph Sibley of Pennsylvania. Mr. Sibley has become so expert that he can cut figure eights and do other fancy stunts in steering the machine. John F. Dryden, the new senator from New Jersey, is an expert mathematician. He has studied figures in all their combinations for recreation ever since he was a boy and can solve the most difficult problems offhand. The allopathic and homoeopathic branches of the medical profession in Sioux City, Ia., are about to perfect a third organization for the purpose of maintaining fees. Hereafter it will cost more in that town to be sick. The annual appropriation for the expenses of the president's office, including the president's salary, compensation for his clerks and secretaries, the furnishings of the white house and the maintenance of the grounds, is less than $300,000 a year. The death of Dr. McManigle, a prominent citizen of Harper, Kan., was chroniced in the telegrams the other day. Dr. McManigle was the father of Ferdinand McManigle, who, under the name of Carl Atheno, has been practicing the buried-alive fake in different parts of the country. Prof. A. A. Trevor of Greencastle, Ind., has been nominated by the faculty of Boston university to the John Sleeper fellowship of that institution, which provides free of expense for a fiscal year, the making of a personal research in a foreign country. He has selected Palestine for this work. At Governor Cummins' inauguration in Des Moines, Ia., on Wednesday four generations were represented—his father and mother, his daughter, who is Mrs. Grace Rawson, and his grandchild, Cummins Rawson, being present. The governor's father is 79 and his mother is 75 years old. They were both born in Greene county, Pa., where they were married in 1847. Charles Meadows, known on the Pacific coast as "Arizona Charley," Indian scout, has started for Tiburon or Shark island, in the gulf of California, to see what can be done toward taming or exterminating the Seri Indians, who have resisted all attempts to civilize them. The island can be made valuable from mineral and agricultural standpoints. Milan M. Hulbert of New York, who has just been appointed chief of the department of manufacturing of the world's fair at St. Louis, represented the United States in Paris in 1800, and for his services was decorated by the French government, and he was also a prominent figure at the Chicago world's fair and at the Nashville and Omaha expositions. Prof. Charles Whitney Carman of Chicago has invented a machine which will produce on a screen solid, liquid, opaque, transparent, animate and inanimate objects. The lens acts as an opera glass, and the photograph or painting, or picture, is enlarged about 15 times its area when thrown upon the screen, making a reproduction that is perfect in color and shading. Prof. Charl. Whitney Carman of Chicago has invented a machine which will produce on a screen solid, liquid, opaque, transparent, animate and inanimate objects. The lens acts an an opera glass, and the photograph or painting, or picture, is enlarged about 15 times its area when thrown upon the screen, making a reproduction that is perfect in color and shading. The Professional World RUFUS L. LOGAN, B. S. D. - EDITOR TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One Year in Advance - - - $1.50 Six Months in Advance - - - 1.00 Three Months in Advance - - - .50 Single Copies - - - .05 Special rates of $1.00 per year to ministers. Advertising Rates on Application. Job Work of all Kinds Sollicited. Published Every Friday Entered at the postoffice at Columbia, Mo., as second class matter, Jan. 15, 1902. Agents wanted in every town in the state. PRESS OF THE MISSOURI STATESMAN SEND fifty cents in stamps and receive the Professional World for three months and you will want it all the year. The Negro teachers of Missouri should have a teachers' employment bureau located in the central portion of the State and so manipulated as to aid the rural district teachers in securing positions. We are glad to give the reader of this paper a sketch of the life of Prof. E. A. Clarke, the newly elected president of Lincoln Institute. Judging from all reports President Clarke is the right man in the right place OUR thanks are due the following new subscribers to the Professional World: Miss Zetta Scott, Mrs. Jennie Samuels, Mr. Jesse Washington, and Mrs. Peggie Buckner, of Columbia, and Miss Jessie Drake Shannondale, Mo. PROF. J. H. Jackson, ex-president Jefferson City (Missouri) Lincoln Institute, and the present editor of the Colorado Springs Western Enterprise, is one of the most forcible and conservative Negro quill drivers in the North-west. The Speaker favors a Colorado Afro-American Press Association with Brother Jackson as president.—The Times-Speaker. THE lynching of Lon F. Wright, one of Richard and Pringle's minstrels, at New Madrid last Sunday night, is a disgrace to the State of Missouri. The facts of the case are that Wright was lynched because he attempted to protect himself against a gang of hoodlums. We can no longer point to the South as being the place where men are lynched without cause. When Negroes are lynched in the South they are at least charged with committing some dastardly deed; but in "Grand Old" Missouri a man is lynched for resenting an insult. A Serious Accident. New Bloomfield, Mo., Feb. 20, 1902.—Harvey Hubbard, a 14 year old boy living near here, met with a serious accident while hunting Wednesday. A part of three fingers were blown entirely off by the bursting of a gun barrel in his left hand. Dr. C. H. Christian was called and found it necessary to amputate the wounded parts. The Memorial Exercises. A large crowd gathered at the Second Baptist church last Sunday afternoon to witness the memorial exercises held in honor of the late Rev. T. Jehoy Marsh. Appropriate music was furnished by the choirunder the direction of Mrs. F. M. Brashears. Papers were read by Mr. Wm. Chapman, Mr. W. W. Lampkin, Mrs. L. L. Maupin, Mrs. Ridgeway, Miss Carrie Smith, Dr. J. E. Perry, Mrs. Rosa Marshal, and Mr. Moss Williams. Short addresses were made by Rev. Atkins, Rev. J. B. Parsons, Rev. P. C. Crews, and editor of the Professional World. The biggest span of mules on earth were seen recently at the Kansas City stock yards and of course they were bred in Missouri. They are five years old, 18 hands high and weigh 1,820 pounds each, and were raised on the farm of J. W. George, near Harrisonville, Mo.—Ex. CIDER AS A SMALLPOX CURE. In Wonderful Medicinal Value Discovered by Arizona Doctors. It is reported on what appears to be excellent authority that pure apple cider may be used with good effect as a preventive and a cure of smallpox. The discovery of this new and wonderful medicinal value in apple juice is attributed to Arizona physicians. It appears that during an epidemic of the dread disease in that territory last winter an attendant in a pesthouse discovered by accident that the use of pure apple cider was helping his patients, one of them having received a quantity from the east and distributed it among his fellow-sufferers. Resident physicians made tests with cider on other patients and found most gratifying results. A pint each day, in doses each hour, drove away the eruption in from five to fifteen days, and the patients were entirely cured and discharged within a month. The medical fraternity in Arizona and regions adjacent have followed up the matter with other experiments and investigations, all of which have proved satisfactory. This will be good news to the farmers of the eastern states and other parts of the country, where the products of the apple orchards during the past few years have brought distressingly low prices. That cider has valuable medicinal qualities has long been the belief of country people by whom it has been used in combination with wild cherry or other ingredients for various ailments.—Leslie's Weekly. WOMEN AS DRUMMERS. In Some Lines They Are Far Superior to Masculine Competitors. to Masculine Competitors. A member of a firm of wholesale merchants in a southern city declares that women make better drummers than men in some respects. "The fact is," he says, "that when it comes to certain lines the women who have an aptitude can do much more than men. Time was, and it was only a few years ago, when it was generally believed that a woman could not sell anything on the road except books and certain articles of wearing apparel peculiar to her sex. The observations of the female drummer were for a long time confined to a very limited field. But in recent years she has branched out somewhat, and I simply state an open secret when I say she may be regarded as a success on the road. In some instances she has proven herself a more valuable member than men. Take certain lines, like tea, coffee, spices and things of that sort, and in a majority of instances she will place more goods than a man will in the same length of time. This is probably true of these articles because she can talk more intelligently about them. They are used in every home, and the average business woman that one finds out in the world manages to keep up with the things needed by the housewife, and hence the woman drummer can make a fairly good talk about things of this kind. The woman drummer has come to stay and if the men are not careful of their laurels she will divide them equally if she does not get the bigger half." LOOKED LIKE OHERBIES But the Purchaser Will Ultimately Discover to the Contrary. There are many varieties of red peppers, or Chill peppers, in the market, of many shapes and sizes. They are "hot i' the tongue," but some are hotter than others. One variety resembles a cherry in appearance, and these are called cherry peppers, and are hotter than all the others; in fact, no thermometer can go high enough to show their hotness. A box of these peppers was displayed in front of a commission store on Front street, the top layer packed with stems down, so that even an Oregonian might have taken—or, rather, mistaken—them for Royal Anne cherries. A passer-by stopped to ask the price of the "cherries." He was told $1.50 a box. He asked how much the expressage would be to his home in Kansas, and was told ninety cents. He planked down $2.40, and the box was ma ked with his address and handed to an express messenger. When the Kansas man had gone a person who witnessed the transaction asked the dealer what he meant by swindling him. The dealer asked how "By selling him peppers her les, and he began to wonder two lld hppen in suffering, bleed- Kansas when the peppers reach- there and were tasted. And he is all wondering—Portland Oregonian urble Place of Czars. The church of St. Peter and St. Paul has been the burial place of all the Czars since Peter the Great. Their bones are placed in low tombs of marble without carving or other ornamentation, so plain that they look like packing boxes, and they lie in rows in the order of their reigns, awaiting the summons of the angel of resurrection to the bar of judgment. The last Czar buried was Alexander III., whose widow, Dowager Dagmar, sister of the Queen of England, keeps fresh flowers upon his tomb. He lies beside his father, Alexander II., in whose coffin is the hair of the Princess Dolgouroky, his morganatic wife. She was considered the most beautiful woman in Europe, and her hair, which was of dark chestnut color, reached to her heels. When her imperial husband was living he admired it more than any other of her many attractions, and when he was buried, as an evidence of her devotion, she cut her tresses close to her head and laid them upon his breast—St. Petersburg letter Chicago Record-Herald. FIRE-ENGINE CHASERS. New Species of Business Drummer Has Appeared in New York. The ambulance chaser is no new figure in New York life, and the class is now recognized as a more or less regular branch of the profession of law in New York. But the chaser of the fire engine is a wholly new product of business competition in New York. This latest business drummer is always an emissary from the offices of the real-estate agent, who sends him to interview the tenants. In view of the fact that they may be burned out of their places of business, the chaser takes with him a list of vacant business buildings in the neighborhood. In several cases business men watching the destruction of their places have been known to agree with the chaser to take the new quarters he offered. The enterprise is still in its infancy and capable of developments, yet unsuspected, but it is gaining adherents every day, and one firm has already decided to adopt these profitable tactics in reference to dwelling houses and apartments, although it is thought that the method may be less successful when the chasers are compelled to deal with women who are watching their homes being destroyed by fire—New York Sun. "Something Just as Good." "I don't pretend to know what an Indian is made of," said a Montana editor, "but I guess he must be at least half rubber. Three or four years ago I was casting a new roller for the press. I stripped the old one off the core and threw the stuff out of the door. Rollers are cast from a composition of glue and molasses, you know, and when the stuff gets old it's about as tough as anything I know of. I was working away when three bucks and two squaws came along in the rear of the office, and, seeing the stuff I had thrown away, sat down and began to eat. It wasn't my business to interfere, and I'm telling you that the five of them ate six pounds of the old composition and looked happy over it. I expected results, but none came. A week later I met one of the bucks on the street and asked him how he felt, and he smiled and replied: "Heap good—just like hoss. Maybe you got more ice cream for me, eh?" THE LITTLE ONE'S PRAYER How He Occupied the Time Set Apart For Silent Devotion. The little son of an Episcopal clergyman of Los Angeles was visiting with his mother a Canadian city, where the two attended services at a certain church. It is the custom in that church for the clergyman and congregation to bow in silent prayer for a minute or two just be 'ore the sermon begins. It was a new proceeding to the child, for he was not accustomed to seeing this done in his father's church, but the little chap bravely and reverently did his part. After the service was over the clergyman, one of the old evangelical school, who had noticed the apparent devotion of the child, spoke to him and commended his reverence with an affectionate past on the head. "It was very pleasing," he remarked to a group of bystanders, "to see this little fellow so deeply engaged in earnest prayer just before I began my sermon. What prayer did you offer to the Throne of Grace, my little boy?" All unconscious of the effect it produced the little fellow candidly and instantly replied: "I said, 'Now I lay me down to sleep; I pray the Lord my soul to keep.'"—San Francisco Argonaut. How Tuberculosis Spreads The danger of living in a house that harbors consumptives is illustrated by the fact that 6,273 patients officially examined by the German Imperial Board of Health, 2,177, or 34.7 per cent belonged to families that included other victims of tuberculosis. OHANGE IN RACIAL FACES. Alleged Metamorphoses in Carous National Phylogenomics Looking abroad, we are shown the Frenchman gradually growing lighter of hair and complexion, owing to the greater fecundity of the Norman and the constant infusion of Swiss and Alsatian blood. The habit of drinking beer in preference to wine is also said to be influencing the physique and facial tint of the Gallic race. There can be no question of a slight increase of stature and a more erect carriage among the males, this resulting from the same cause which has transformed the whole race of Germans from round shouldered, shambling men, with a profusion of adipose tissue, into grim, sinewy automatons—namely, the severity of universal military discipline. But, with the Germans, they have to thank the army for a decrease, instead of an increase of stature—the height of men, as shown by official reports, having gradually diminished since 1851. The Russian face is undergoing a pronounced change, owing to new blood and different food habits and conditions of life. But perhaps the most extraordinary metamorphosis of all is taking place under our eyes among two nations as widely separate in origin and history as it is possible for any civilized countries to be—America and Japan. The American physiognomy is as completely marked as that of any race under the sun that has, as Anthony Trollops remarked, "bred in and in for centuries." Yet, as the same traveler pointed out, the American owes a more mixed blood than any other race known. His chief stock is English, and with this are mingled the bloods of Ireland, Holland, France, Germany, Scandinavia, Italy and Slovakia Austria—Chambers' Journal INDIAN PRAIGIE DOGHUNTS. The Little Animals Deemed a Dainty Dish by Navalog. The Navajo Indian, while he cannot be prevailed upon to eat a rabbit, is greedily fond of fat prairie dogs, and has resorted to many ingenious methods for trapping his coveted dainty. When the animal ventures from his bedroom, deep under ground, he sees a familiar image mocking him at the front door, and he hurries out to confront the imminent intruder when he is pinned to the ground with an arrow. But the most effective method is what the Indians call the rain hunt. As soon as the steady downpour of summer rains begins every Navajo who can walk repairs to the prairie dog village with hoes, sharp sticks or any digging implement. With these they hollow out trenches, that will lead the storm water into as many burrows as possible. Soon a little stream is pouring down each small home, and the inmate, much disturbed, pops out to see what the matter can be. Many of the animals remain under ground until they are drowned, and their bodies float to the surface. After such a hunt, in which many pounds of prairie dogs are generally secured, there is a feast for many days in the Navajo huts. AN EXPENSIVE TITBIT. Peanut-Bud Paste of China Costs an Euromum Price China, possessing the oldest aristocracy, may naturally be expected to furnish the most expensive luxuries. And she certainly does in so far as costly food is concerned. Compared with the peanut-bud paste of China, such dishes as nightingales' tongues or strawberries at Christmas are merely inexpensive trifles. This paste, a combination of peanut buds and ginger jelly, is brownish in color, and is to be obtained in small jars. The price is $10 an ounce, more than half its weight in gold—an almost sufficient guaranty that it is eaten very sparingly. Peanut-bud paste is said to have a flavor for Oriental palates ten times more exquisite than that of birds' nest soup. At the base of the kernal of a peanut is a small, cope-shaped formation, usually surmounted by two microscopic leaves. The nuts are first roasted, then these minute growths are carefully extracted. They are so small that many thousands of them are necessary to fill a small teacup, but when a sufficient number are collected they are put into a mortar and ground into a fine flour, which is afterward mixed with ginger jelly and rubbed down to a smooth paste.—New York Journal. Is Hog Raising Profitable? It is difficult to see why the average farmer believes there is no profit in raising hogs. If one will go over the market prices for a dozen years back it will be found that the average price is such that a good profit can be made, taking the years as they go. There is scarcely a farm of thirty or more acres in the country where hogs can not be raised profitably. In hogs, as in poultry and other stock, quality counts for much on the market, and to obtain quality one must needs have the best breeds and then care for them properly. Hog cholera is a bug-bear too most farmers when they think of raising hogs on a large scale, but if the proper degree of cleanliness is observed there will be little trouble in this respect.-Indianapolis News. A Gigantic Dwelling House The largest dwelling house in the world is the Freihaus, situated in a suburb of Vienna. It contains in all 1,200 rooms, divided into upwards of 400 separate apartments. This immense house, wherein a whole city lives, works, cats and sleeps, has thirteen courtyards—five open and eight covered—and a garden within its walls. FILIPINO MUSICAL TASTE Capt. Palmer of Manila says Native Playing is Magnificent. "The Filipinos are the finest musicians I have ever known," said Capt. Charles D. Palmer of Manila at the Washington yesterday. "I have listened to some excellent orchestral music, but want to say I have never heard anything so magnificent as the playing of those natives. Nothing in this country certainly can touch them. They have all the instruments known to our people, but they play them much better. Strange to say, too, they play nothing but the most beautiful classical music. Naturally the Filipinos are a bright, apt and intelligent people. I am connected with a hemp company in Manila which employs large numbers of natives as clerks, bookkeepers, etc., and their services are entirely satisfactory. They learn as rapidly and as thoroughly as the young men and women of this country. I think it would be the greatest mistake imaginable for the government to let the islands go. Of course, the people have not all agreed to American sovereignty as yet, but they will in time, and when they do that country will begin to develop and will prove the richest holding of any nation in the world. I think the United States has been a little too fast in some places in establishing civil government. Better results would have been attained by keeping up the military control, but at that things are moving along in a satisfactory manner. Five years from now the Filipino will be a good American citizen, and give him ten years of the little white schoolhouse and his next generation will be our equal."—Washington Post RIPANS The simplest remedy for Indigestion, Constipation, Billiousness and the many ailments arising from a disordered stomach, liver or bowels, is Ripans Tablets They have accomplished wonders and their timely aid removes the necessity of calling a physician for the many little ills that beset mankind. They go straight to the seat of the trouble, relieve the distress, cleanse and cure the affected parts and give the system a general toning up. Japan's Great Actor: Japan's Great Actor. Otojiro, the Henry Irving of Japan, who is now playing with much success in London, was originally a diplomatist attached to the Japanese embassy in Paris. On returning to his native country, having meantime become fascinated with the French theater, he began applying the lessons he had learned in Europe and now has completely revolutionized the stage in Japan. He has made many excellent adaptations of European plays. Peculiar Provision as to Oaths. Peculiar Provision as to Oaths. The Maryl.1nd State constitution contains a peculiar provision as to oaths taken in court proceedings in that State. It is as follows: "That the manner of administer the oath or affirmation to any person ought to be such as those of the religious persuasion, profession or denomination of which he is a member, generally esteem the most effectual confirmation by the attestation of the divine being." Bad Habit of Mouth-Breathing: Bad Habit of Mouth-Breathing. Attention should always be paid to the habit of mouth-breathing. It is often due to a certain growth in the top of the throat, back of the palate, this, in time, affects the child, causing the mouth and nose to grow larger. It not infrequently gives rise to a deformity of the chest, which may lead to a pair of weak lungs and consumption. Consult a physician, and, if necessary, operate as soon as possible. The removal of the growth is very simple and in nowise dangerous. A Bequest tor Tracts. A Protestant clergyman of Sheffield, England, just deceased, has left the large sum of $97,500 to the Religious Tract Society to be spent in circulating anti-Roman and anti-ritualistic literature. The whole of this sum must be spent within ten years. Everything must be given away, and nothing sold, even at a reduced price. The same gentleman has also left a second sum of the same amount to the British and Foreign Bible Society to be spent in printing the Bible in languages in which it has never been printed. Governors Talk Over Early Days. Governor Shaw of Iowa and Governor Savage of Nebraska recently met in the town of Dakota City, Neb., have both delivered addresses to the donors. Thirty years ago the two donors were residents of Denison, in the Iowa executive a young lawyer and the Nebraska executive a justice of the peace. It happened that in the first case that Governor Shaw had was before Governor Savage, en justice of the peace. Longevity of Princes. The entry of the grand duke of Luxemburg into his eighty-fifth year seems to call attention to the remarkable development of longevity among reigning princes during the last half century. In July, 1819, there were fifty-one sovereigns, great and small, in Europe, among whom there was but one, the king of Hanover, over 70 years of age. Today there are forty. "Polka Dot Revelation" Bishop W. A. Candler has been talking to the St. Louis southern Methodist ministers on the higher criticism and the tendency to ritualism in the church. He deprecates special musical programmes and paid choirs and soloists. The higher criticism, he declares, insists on a "sort of polka dot revelation." Ribbon Secret In the room of a college girl was discovered a secret for an always perfect ribbon, stock or belt. She had eight or ten little toy rolling pins, such as children use, in her ribbon drawer, and on each she wound smoothly as soon as she took it off, a belt or ribbon, fastening it with a tiny pin. The crush vanished instantly from her neckwear. Lodge and Church Directory. Mrs. Irena Akers, W. P.; Mrs. Lizzie Williams, W. S. Meeting first Monday in each month at 3 p. m. U. B. F. Crispus Attucks Lodge,No. 62. Meetings 2nd and 4th Tuesdays in each month. Visiting members cordially invited. Caleb Hall, W. M. A. M. Schweich, W. S. K. P. Acme Lodge, No. 24. Meetings second and fourth Fridays in each month. W. H. Turner, C. C. and D. D. G. C. W. W. Lampkins, M. F. O. E. S Amos Chapter, No. 30. Meetings second Friday in each month. Mrs. A. B. Moore, W. M. Mrs. Lizzie Richardson, W. S. SECOND CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Rev. J. B. Parsons, pastor. Preaching Sundays 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Prayer meeting Wednesdays 7:30 p. m. Everybody cordially invited to attend. A. M. E. CHURCH. Rev. P. C. Crews, Pastor. Preaching Sundays 11 a. m.; 7:30 p. m. Sunday school 2:30 p. m. Prayer meeting every Wednesday eve, at 8:30; every body invited to attend. M. E. CHURCH. Rev. J. Arlington Grant, pastor. Preaching Sundays 11, a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Sunday school, 9:30 a. m. Prayer meeting Wednesdays 7:30 to 8:30; all are made welcome. Why Rosewood is So Called. Rosewood is so called, not because it is red, but because, when freshly cut, it emits the fragrance of roses. It is of only moderate weight, a cubic foot weigling 45.5 pounds. Hard Night Work for Pupil. A teacher in the Dallas county public school has received the following letter: "Sir—Will you in the future give my son easier some to do at nites? This is what he's brought hoam two or three nites back: 'If fore gallins of bere will fill thirty to pint bottles, how many pints and half bottles will nine gallins of bere fill?' Well, we tried and could make nothin' of it, at all, and my boy cried and laughed and sed he didn't dare to go bak in the mornin' without doin' it. So I had to go and buy a nine gallin keg of bere, which I could ill afford to do, and then he went and borrowed a lot of wine and brandy bottles; we fill them, and my boy put the number down for an answer. I don't know whether it is right or not, as we split some while doing it. P. S.—Please let the next some be in water as I am not able to buy more bere."—Mobile Dally Register. ---