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THE PROFESSIONAL WORLD. $1.50 Per Year in Advance. The Poets. O what fine and lofty feelings, Ever in the poet's mind, Like the dreams of night are stealing For in him a friend they find. For in him they know they're welcome, Even as a thief they come; He delights to give expression Love and cherish every one. Love and grief and desolation, Joy and pain, and hope, despair, Find in him a consolation That can not be found elsewhere. He's the chief, the king of nations, Doctor, lawyer, priest and seer; Helps the high and low in stations, Gives to all a word of cheer. Let us praise our ancient muses, Let us love our modern ones, Let the books the young one uses Come from God's inspiring sons. If we want to see God's glory, Want to sit'around His throne, Want to hear that sad sweet story Told by His beloved Son, Let us listen to our poets As they sing redemption's song, For God's love they surely know it, And with angels they belong. OTIS M. SHACKELFORD. Attend the Mass Meeting. Hand bills have been circulated announcing a mass meeting of all citizens of Columbia at the Second Baptist church, Sunday afternoon. Everyone should attend as matters of interest to the entire race will be discussed. The call has been issued by Dr. J. E. Perry. Lincoln Institute LINCOLN INSTITUTE, Jefferson City, Mo., Feb. 22, 1902. Washington's birthday was celebrated with appropriate ceremonies here yesterday afternoon. The following program was rendered in Page Auditorium: Chant—Lord's Prayer, Congregation. Essay—"Washington's Mother," Miss Lilian Collier, Ironton. (D Normal, Prof. Reynold's Division.) Chorus—"The Star Spangled Banner." Paper—"A Pure Man," Frederick R. Parker, Rolla. (B Normal, Prof. Coffin's Division.) Music—Orchestra, (a) Selected. (b) Selected. Paper—"A Pure Patriot," Wilfred Wise, Kansas City. (C Normal, Prof. Murray's Division.) Paper—"First in War," Edward Keene, St. Charles. (A Elementary, Mrs. Jackson's Division.) Chorus—"Red, White and Blue." Paper—"First in Peace," T. E. Martin, Columbia. (C Normal, Prof. Bias' Division.) Oration—"First in the Hearts of His Countrymen," Jas. Fulbright, Springfield. (A Normal, Professor Garnett's Division.) Chorus—"Battle Hymn of the Republic." Essay—"Lessons of the Hour," Miss Sarah Smith, St. Louis. (A Normal, Prof. Garnett's Division.) Chorus—"America." Fulton News. Citizens of Fulton are glad to find relief from intense winter weather, in bright days and dry streets. Indeed it seemed that winter was going to continue all winter. The fire alarm was sounded at 9 o'clock a. m. Saturday and indicated a flame on Grand Avenue. The fire, it is reported, did little damage. Citizens and relatives of Rena Pleasant were saddened by her death in our city, as a result of a severe cold. The man who rides fifteen miles to see his "best girl" is not janitor of any of our churches but if he can get hold on the rope he will ring, the wedding bells. Come again, Mr. Would-be-janitor, but leave O, leave that smile. The Martha Washington club gave an entertainment at the residence of Mrs. C. Robnett. The program was excellent and consisted of an opening song by the club, invocation, Mrs. E. Harris; song by club; paper by Mrs. M. Brown, subject, "Training Children"; vocal solo, "Nobody Wants Me Now," Mrs. C. Robnett; Paper by Mrs. R. Payne, subject, "Evil Influence"; solo by Mrs. C. H. Minor. Discussion--Woman Suffrage--Affirmative, supported by Mrs. L. Bell and Mrs. Z. Young; negative, by Mrs. C. H. Nichols and Mrs. E. Williams. Closed by club motto, Visitors, Misses Martha Smith, Lena Foster, Geraldine Bell, Lillian Henderson, accompanist. Term examinations of last week in Fulton Public Schools were very satisfactory. No demotions, several promotions. The M. E. church gave an entertainment Friday evening in honor of Washington's Birthday. It was very interesting and instructive. The principal part was a discussion, "Resolved, that Washington was a greater man than Lincoln." The affirmative was supported by Mr. W. I. Cooper and Rev. C. Cato; negative, by Messrs. E. A. Minor and T. W. Broyles. Decision rendered in favor of the negative. Officers realized a handsome little amount from the affair for the church. Those who serve at the Lunatic Asylum feel somewhat unceasy as there is soon to be an inauguration of the new superintendent and other officers. We hope everything will be done for the best for the unfortunate inmates. The Telegraph in quoting from a subscriber's letter, says the colored people of North Dakota enjoy social privileges such as can not be enjoyed in Missouri. Occasionally points will show where there is good for the colored man. President Scruggs Here. President E. L. Scruggs of Western College at Macon Mo., paid the people of Columbia a visit last Sunday preaching at the Second Baptist church at 11, a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Prof. Scruggs is a leading educator and pulpit orator of our race, his work in building up Western College reflects credit not only upon the Baptist connection but upon the entire race. While here he was the guest of Dr. and Mrs. J. E. Perry. The Death of Beverly Chapman. After an illness of four weeks Mr. Beverly Chapman died at his home in this city Sunday morning. Mr. Chapman was born in Alabama in 1831 and was 71 years of age at the time of his death. He came to Columbia in 1840 and has resided here ever since. He was a most highly respected citizen a devout Christian and a man of devotion to duty. For twenty years he was superintendent of the A. M. E. Sunday school of which church he was a member. He leaves a widow, Mrs. Margaret Chapman, with whom he lived in matrimony for fifty years, and four children, Mrs Thomas Ridgeway and Mrs. Robert Rummans and William Chapman of this city and Mrs. J. W. Sexton of Hannibal, Mo. His funeral services were held at the A. M. E. Church Monday afternoon Rev. P. C. Crews preaching the funeral sermon, after which the remains were taken in charge by the Masonic fraternity and laid to rest in the city cemetery with appropriate ceremonies. Pres. R. H. Jesse and Col. W. F. Switzler of the State University were among the white friends who attended the funeral services and made very appropriate remarks concerning the life and character of Mr. Chapman. Effie Maupin and Birdie I spent Saturday and Sunday Baine. R.F. Rogers carries the complete line of carpets, oil and mattings in the city. City Notes. Prof. John Bannister of Vandalia spent Saturday and Sanday with his family. Prof. Ernest Emory, who has closed a successful school at Ashland, is now at home in Columbia. Buy meat at O. E. Rader's new meat market, two doors north of Statesman office. Buy your silks, laces and embroideries at Hubbell's dry goods store. Mr. Oscar Marshall is able to be out again after an attack of 'grippe. No one should have damp feet when rubbers are sold at less than cost at Miller's. $2,500 stock of millinery sold at public auction Saturday at 10 o'clock. Remember place, Whittle Building. Mr. Jesse J. Bass and Mr. Geo. Booth, of Mexico, attended the funeral of Mr. Beverly Chapman, Monday. R. F. Rogers', headquarters for carpets, mattings and oil cloths. Mr. James Harris is on the sick list. Go to O. E. Rader's for all kinds of meats. Special prices on muslin underwear at Hubbell's. The Columbia band has finished paying for their instruments which they purchased of Lyon and Healy of Chicago, recently. The band will be christened and named by Dr. J. E. Perry at some future date. Just received, at R. F. Rogers', a full line of carpets, rugs and mattings. Washington's birthday exercises were held at the Fred Douglass school last Saturday. O. E. Rader has the most up-to-date meat market in the city; 'phone 129. Mr. and Mrs. Scott Brashears spent Sunday with relatives at McBaine. Clearing sale of all kinds of shoes at C. B. Miller's. See samples of dress patterns at Hubbell's. The little son of Mr. Jack Booth is some better. Just received, at R. F. Rogers', a new line of walking skirts. Rev. and Mrs. J. W. Sexton left Tuesday for Hannibal. Just received, a new line of carpets, mattings and oil cloths at R. F. Rogers'. $2,500 stock of hats, ribbons and all kinds of trimmings to be sold at auction Saturday at 10 o'clock. Whittle building. Shoes of all kinds, styles and sizes at less than cost at Miller's. When you want meat, go to O. E. Rader's new meat market, two doors north of Statesman office. Mrs. J. Arlington Grant arrived from Atchison, Kansas, Monday, where she has been several weeks. Just received, at R. F. Rogers', a new line of walking skirts; call and see them. $2,500 stock of millinery to be sold at auction Saturday, beginning at 10 o'clock, Whittle building. Mrs. Charlotte Lange and Misses Effie Maupin and Birdie Lammes spent Saturday and Sunday at McBaine. R. F. Rogers carries the most complete line of carpets, oil cloths and mattings in the city. Get prices on all dress goods at Hubbelt's. O. E. Rader's meat market on North 8th St. Evidences of Race Progress. Who can express the joy which the emancipation proclamation brought to the individuals to whom freedom came as a second birth? Yet it meant more to the nation than to any individual. Who can enumerate the boundless and numberless blessings that it showered upon a race long held in bondage? Yet it meant more to the whole country than to any onerace. In celebrating this event, which shall ever remain great in the annals of our race and great in the history of this nation, and greater still as a landmark along the pathway of human life and thought and action by which man shall reach his highest development and the eternal principles of justice, freedom and liberty shall be, in fact, and not in fancy, the common heritage of all; we are not narrow, selfish or clannish, but demonstrating our patriotic, loyal American spirit, that acknowledges and honorsevery noble act and exalted ideal of the nation. We honor the flag. Standing beneath its folds we declare our loyalty to be as deep as its azure blue, and our devotion as true as its stars of white. We recall the deeds and words of statesmen, heroes, orators and legislators, and remember that we are just heirs of the best that this nation has ever won by valor on the battle field, achieved in legislative halls or proclaimed from the public platform. We honor our heroes, both dead and living. Douglass, the peerless prince of the platform; Langston, the silver tongued orator; Bruce, the renowned statesman; Williams, the historian; Garnett, Crummell and Payne, eloquent champions of righteousness and the rights of their race, have, with a multitude of others, passed over to the silent majority. They sleep in graves over which the shining marble may well tell of their valor, their virt ues and their victories. The race now pays taxes on $600,000,000 worth of property, owns 130,000 farms, 150,000 homes and has raised $10,000,000 for its own education. Two Negroes have been United States Senators and two have written their names upon the currency of the nation. A Negro has been governor of one of the states of this Union, and twenty have been members of Congress. The legislatures of all the Southern states have had Negro members, and also the Northern states of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana and Michigan. Albany, N. Y., Charlestown, Mass., and Detroit, Mich., have had Negro judges. The legislature of California has had a Negro chaplain, the District of Columbia a Negro United States marshal, the legislature of North Caro lina has adjourned in respect to the memory of a Negro and placed the flag of the capitol at half mast. Negroes have been or are now collectors at the ports of Wilmington, N. C., Bedford, S. C. Savannah, Ga., Jacksonville, Fla., and Galveston, Tex. A colored man has presided over the deliberations of the United States Senate performing the duties o Vice President of the United States. Our young men have graduated with honor from Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, Amherst, Brown, Oberlin, West Point and many other famous institutions of learning in this country. We have 30,000 school teachers, 500 physicians, 250 lawyers, 3 banks, 300 authors. 400 editors and so many preachers that no one has tried to count them. — (Southwestern Christian Advocate). TWO IMPORTANT DAYS February has two days that bid the busy rushing American pause a moment to reflect. The twelfth and the twenty-second of February are holidays in some states in honor of two great Americans—Lincoln and Washington. More and more do people grow to feel that practical lessons for the everyday struggle of living can be gained by a study of the lives of our two greatest men. To this generation, Lincoln is a name as much as Washington is. Both lived in periods that differed from our own in every condition, material and political. The nation of today bears small outward semblance to the nation that Washington nurtured in its fancy and Lincoln upbore through the pangs of maternity, for out of the storm and travail of the Civil War was born a nation, a new nationality and a new feeling of unity. Conditions have so changed that we cannot judge the men by the standards of the present but we can judge them by the never changing measure of manliness, of singleness of purpose, of simplicity of manner and of all that makes for moral and mental worth. It is to be feared that these two names may become only names with a general and vague admiration given to them by the youth of the nation. Every child in this land should be given a good readable biography of Lincoln and of Washington so that the lives of those men may be real living entities in the minds of the coming generation. Exercises are held in most of the public schools but necessarily these must be devoted to sentiment rather than fact. There are sturdy tauths and principals to be understood by a careful reading of these two lives, representing as they do the aristocratic side of our people though Washington and the "plain people" through Lincoln. Both extremes can and upbuilding of our nation by an active interest in public affairs. These two men taught that and a perusal of their lives will continue their spirit in the new generation and the new times.—Comfort. WHY CHURCH PROPERTY IS NOT TAXED. In discussing the question, "Should church property be taxed?" before the Missouri Theological institute, in session at Macon, Mo., recently, Mr. R. W. Barrow, a well-known criminal lawyer, said: "The purpose of the government is to keep the peace. In the pursuance of this object it employs soldiers, militiamen and policemen. The church is in a different, but fully as effective, way, accomplishing the same work that is performed by the strong arm of law, at no expense whatever to the government. It is daily doing police duty on a large scale. It makes men better, it induces them to obey the law, and then they need no repression. The church says: 'You should not.' The law says: 'You shall not.' The ends sought are identical." VOL. I. NO. 17. DON'T OFFEND THE KING. Congressman Wheeler of Kentucky has learned that now-a-days to speak evil of royalty even here in America is to be cast upon the world cold and friendless. How the metropolitan papers continue to dig into him for his recent utterances in the House would go to indicate such condition anyway. A great many goggle-eyed congressman have disavowed his utterances as not at all representing Democratic sentiment. We are not so sure, however, that Mr. Wheeler didn't utter a good many truths and that among the rank and file of both parties the bulk of his remarks will not be favorably accepted. "Good manners" and Democracy are not at variance but no straight-laced Democrat was ever able to find the embodiment of good manners in a flunky. Many city editors have served so long in the capacity of flunky for the corporation behind them that it comes quite natural for them to condemn disobedience on the part of the great independent element in this country. The St. Louis Republic, a Democratic paper, seems to be woefully at outs with Mr. Wheeler for his notable speech against extravagance and the stealthy approach of unamerican ideas. The Republic of the 22dinst. says: "Congressmen who will persist in criticising the protest of Representative Wheeler of Kentucky against the courteous treatment of Prince Henry of Prussia are wasting ammunition. Indeed, it is doubtful now whether Mr. Wheeler has not performed a valuable public service in making an ass of himself. The promptness of the American repudiation of his utterances will show the world that American men have a proper conception of their duty as gentlemen." The utterances of Mr. Wheeler at which the Republic is offended are as follows: "Divisions of public sentiment among the people of the United States are to be desired. But until the inauguration of the President in 1897, there never was any division of sentiment upon one great question, and that was the splendid isolation of the Republic and its fixed determination to hold aloof from entangling alliances with foreign Powers. "We are appropriating thousands of dollars and the Anglo- maniacs and the European maniacs are falling over each other to get to see the Kaiser's brother come over and take charge of a little ship. "What difference does it makes whether he is Prince Henry or not? There are thousands of citizens of this Republic following the plow as noble, as honest, as intelligent as Prince Henry or Prince anybody else. "Why do the American people give heed to this foolish and disgraceful flunkeyism enacted by the present administration?" We fear those who believe the Kentucky representative has committed an unpardonable sin do not get the sentiment for such a belief from the "American men" proper. Americans are "gentlemen" naturally and usually don't have to strain the public treasury to convince European people of their proper status. Cleveland and the Secret Service. The Hon. Daniel Scott Lamont, speaking of secret service agents, said the other day: "Mr. Cleveland was a very hard man to get along with when he was president. It is all over now, but newspapers had a lot of fun with President Cleveland over those sentry boxes erected in the White House grounds. These boxes were erected by the District of Columbia authoritatively. As a matter of fact, President Cleveland wouldn't have a secret service agent around him. He was a mighty hard man to handle in this respect. He didn't like the secret service agents and wouldn't have them with him"— New York Sun. Professional World RUFUS L. LOGAN, B. S. D.. Editor. COLUMBIA, : : : MISSOURI LAUNCH OF THE METEOR NOTABLE EVENT OCCURS ON SHOOTERS' ISLAND. Miss Alice Roosevelt Christens the Kaiser's Yacht, Which Glides Into Water Like Bird on the Wing— President, Kaiser and Prince Henry Toasted at the After Luncheon —Good Will in Speeches. New York, Feb. 26.—In a drizzling rain and in the presence of a brilliant assemblage, amidst cheering and roar of cannon the German emperor's new schooner yacht, Meteor, was launched from Shooters' Island today. Unlike the weather the arrangements were perfect, and no untoward incident marred the occasion, President, Mrs. and Miss Rosevelt, Prince Henry and the distinguished party accompanying them were enthusiastically cheered on arriving at the platform built just back of the bow of the Meteor. Without delay, after the greetings were exchanged, Miss Roosevelt stepped forward and, taking hold of a silver covered bottle containing German champagne, broke it on the side of the vessel saying, "In the name of the German emperor I christen the Meteor." Then taking a silver axe she severed the rope which released the weights holding the Meteor. The vessel went gracefully into the water, with the American flag breaking out at the taftail. American and German national airs were played, and from across the craft containing excursionists came enthusiastic cheering, Prince Henry and Miss Roosevelt were then photographed. Prince Henry immediately after the launching sent the following cablegram in German: "To the German Emperor, Berlin; Yacht just launched under brilliant auspices. Christened by Miss Roosevelt's hand. Beautiful craft. Great enthusiasm. I congratulate you with all my heart. (Signed) HEINRICH." Soon after the launching the presidential party and Prince Henry proceeded to the hall where luncheon had been prepared. The health of the Prince was drunk, and rince Henry said: "On this occasion, I wish to call for three hearty cheers for the president of the United States, Mr. Roosevelt—hip, hip, hooray." As Prince Henry spoke he waved his arms as a signal, and the building shook with the responding cheers. Then President Roosevelt raised his right hand, and, when there was silence, said: "I assk three cheers for the guest who has already won our hearts, Prince Henry of Prussia. Now a good one." President Roosevelt's "hip, hip, hooray" was drowned in the roar of applause that greeted the call for cheers. Then the prince and president shook hands warmly, and, as the party started to leave the hall, some one among the invited guests shouted, "Mr. President, I offer three cheers for the young lady, who has had the honor of launching the Meteor." Before the luncheon was given on the imperial yacht Hohenzollern innor of President Rosevelt by Prince Henry, a golden bracelet with a picture of Kaiser Wilhelm set in diamonds was presented by the prince to Miss Alice Roosevelt. It was the emperor's gift to the young lady as sponsor for the yacht Meteor. From Shooters' Island, President Roosevelt and Prince Henry went to the Hohenzollern, where luncheon was served. Prince Henry addressed the president as follows: "Mr. Roosevelt, you are here on board as guest of his majesty, the German Emperor, and I really believe that it is the first time a president of the United States of America has ever been on board his majesty's ships. Please God, it may not be the last time. I wish to thank you most heartily for the reception I have had, from the first day I landed up to this moment, and it is my sincere and certain impression that there is a strong feeling of personal friendship arising between us. May it extend to the benefit of two great nations. I propose three cheers for Mr. Roosevelt. The national anthem was played, and then president Roosevelt replied as follows: "I wish to express my hearty thanks for the kind words your royal highness...as expressed on my behalf, and I wish you to understand it is no empty compliment when I say your royal highness has already won a genuine place in our affections and good will. I highly appreciate the fact that his majesty, the German emperor, has sent you to the American people, and I thank you personally that you have taken a step which naturally must knit closer together the two great nations, whose friendship means so much for the future welfare of the entire world. To express finally a personal wish of my own, I look forward with great pleasure to the day on which I shall be your guest in your capacity as admiral on board one of your battleships. (Cheers for the prince.)" Prince Henry expressed his thanks to Miss Rooseveit, in the first place for the truly graceful way in which she had performed the ceremony of the christening of the vacht. "We sailors are said to be superstitions", continued Prince Henry, and turning to Admiral Evans, he said: I believe, Admiral Evans, we are not; but however this may be, there will be a happy future to this craft from the fact alone that—turning to the building of the yacht—she was built by the hands of artists, and was at her first appearance on the water linked with the name of a lady. We sailors are used to speak of our ships as 'her', and we keep and treat our ships like our wives. I drink to the health of Miss Alice Roosevelt. During the luncheon cablegrams were received from the kaiser by Prince Henry. President Roosevelt and Miss Alice Roosevelt. Miss Roosevelt desired to reply at once, so the president asked for a pad and pencil. He began to write the message, and had written a few words when Mrs. Roosevelt smilingly took the pencil from him and added a few words. She then passed it to Miss Alice, who completed the message. Thus the cable gram to Emperor Wilhelm was a joint production of the president, his wife and daughter. VANTAGE FOR THE MERGER. Supreme Court Declines to Assume Jurisdiction in the Northern Securities Case. Washington, Feb. 25.—The opinion of the supreme court refusing to take jurisdiction in the Northern Securities merger case, is voluminous, but the greater part of it is a review of the history of the case. After reviewing the case at some length the opinion says: "The directors of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific companies are appointed to represent and protect not merely the private and pecuniary interests of the stockholders, but the rights of the public at large, which is deeply concerned in the proper and advantageous management of these public highways. It is not sufficient to say that an attorney general or governor, or even the legislature of a state, can be conclusively deemed to represent the public interest in such a controversy as that presented by the bill. "Even a state when she voluntarily becomes complainant in a court of equity, cannot claim to represent both sides of the controversy. Not only have the stockholders, be they few or many, a right to be heard through the officers and directors whom they have legally selected to represent them, but the general interests of the public which might be deeply affected by a decree of the court are entitled to be heard and that when the state is complainant, and in a case like the present, can only be effected by the presence of the railroad companies as the parties defendant. "Upon investigation it might turn out that the allegations of the bill are well founded and the state entitled to relief; or it might turn out that there is no inention or design on the part of the railroad companies to form any combination in disregard of the policy of the state, but that what is proposed is consistent with that policy and advantageous to the communities affected. But in making such investigation a court of equity must insist that both sides of the controversy shall be adequately represented and fully heard. "When it appears to a court that the case, otherwise presenting gound for its action, cannot be dealt with because of the absence of the essential parties, it is usual for a court, while sustaining objection, to grant leave to the complaint to amend by bringing in such parties. But when it appears likewise necessary and indispensable that the parties are beyond the reach of jurisdiction of the court or that when made parties the jurisdiction of the court will thereby be defeated, for the court to grant leave to amend would be useless." MESSAGE FROM MISSIONARY Miss Stone Cables Family, Telling of Her Release by the Brigands. Boston, Mass., Feb. 26.—The first message from Miss Stohe to her family and friends was received tonight by her brother, Charles A. Stone, of Chelsea. The cablegram told of her release by the brigands and of her warm welcome by her Bulgarian friends in Strumitza. It read: "Freed, thank God, and well after our captivity of nearly six months. Yesterday, Sabbath morning, Mrs. Tsilka and her 7-weeks-old daughter, Elena, and I found our-old left by our abductors near a village an hour distant from Strumitza. For three hours we waited for dawn, and then secured horses and came to this city. Kind hearted Bulgarian friends rushed from their houses as soon as they caught a glimpse of the strange appearing travelers, took us in their arms from our horses, with tears and smiles and words of welcome and led us into their house. "Word was quickly sent to friends engaged in their morning service at church, and they came—old and young—to greet us. What a thanksgiving to God for this proof of His faithfulness to the answer of our prayers for all—even little children—had never ceased to pray for us, their lost friends. "Since that hour our waking time has been crowded with friends from city and surrounding villages who have brought us their heartfelt congratulations for our deliverance. The Turkish government did not fail to question us to our request." "The governor of the city with his suite called this morning and again this afternoon, after the arrival of Dr. House and his son from Salonica, accompanied by M. Gargiulo, first dragoman of the American embassy at Constantinople." "The last three have come to accompany us to Salonica tomorrow, where Mr. Tsikla awaits his long-lost wife and their baby. They have brought me a bundle of letters from mother and my brothers and dearest friends. This with unspeakable gratitude to God and to all friends who, by prayers and gifts have helped to free us, we begin our life freedom." Quartered With Rector. Strumitza, Macedonia, Feb. 25.—Miss Stone and Mme. Tsilka are quartered at the residence of M. Kimoff, the Protestant pastor, where they greeted M. Gargiulo and Mr. House, the missionary, with considerable emotion. Here they presented Mme. Tsilka's baby and the man who had found them on the mountains at Gradachor to M. Gargiulo and Mr. House. During the last fortnight of their captivity, the ladies have been traveling in the mountains. They were hidden in the day time, and hurried along at night blindfolded and on horseback. Upon one occasion, Miss Stone's horse fell and she was thrown to the ground, but escaped with a badly bruised knee. At Strumitza, the ladies have been busily engaged in making dresses for themselves and the baby. When they were found they were clad in native costumes and shepherd's cloaks. The baby had no proper clothes, but was swaddled in pieces of rough materials, such as the "mountaineers" use for leggings. The baby has not suffered from the rigors of the winter. THE NEWS CONDENSED MATTERS OF INTEREST FROM VARIOUS LOCALITIES. 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. Daniel McCrery, a merchant at Martinsburg, Ia., succeeded Wednesday in shooting himself while temporarily insane. Harold M. Cole, assistant superintendent of the East Helena, Mont., smelters, shot and mortally wounded his wife and suicid. It is proposed to establish in New York city a branch of the Catholic university of America, to be known as the department of pedagogy. Asunción Esquive obtained a majority of the electoral votes in the election for the presidency of Costa Rica. The election passed off quietly. The comptroller of the currency has declared a dividend of 5.2 percent in favor of the creditors of the insolvent First National bank of Neligh. Neb. Calvin C. Burt, aged 82, a lawyer and well known in Michigan, died at Detroit Wednesday. At one time he was private secretary to General Lewis Cass. The Marquels Ito, who left Naples Jan. 23 en route for Japan, landed at Hong Kong privately Wednesday and visited the governor. There was no public demonstration. Frank B. Brookman, head of the Brookman Manufacturing company, and one of Chicago's representative German-American citizens, died of cancer of the stomach. The damage suit of Sylvester Simons against the Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway company was terminated in the district court at Mankato by a jury awarding Simons a verdict for $1,000. The Illinois pure food commission has brought guilt against fifteen Chicago grocers for alleged violations of the statute governing the sale of chocolate and cocoa, and five for violations of the provisions regulating the sale of vinegar. A cut in the price of distilled spirits has been announced and now the basis for finished goods is $1.228. While neither the representatives of the trust or the independent houses will talk concerning the cut they both admit that it is the beginning of a war. F. W. Cropsey, an employee of Altman, Taylor & Co, of Cincinnati, O., was struck and instantly killed Tuesday at Des Moines by a switch engine on the Northwestern tracks while on his way to work at the power house of the Des Moines Street Railway company. Dr. Levi Cooper Lane, the eminent surgeon, died in San Francisco Wednesday. His demise was due to a general breaking down of the system. He was the founder of the Cooper Medical college and the Lane hospital. He was 60 years of age. The De Windt expedition, bound on an overland trip from Paris to New York and which started from the French capital Dec. 19 last, has arrived at Yaluak, EastSiberia, from Irkutsk, Siberia, which place De Windt and his companions left Jan. 15. The executive committee of the National Council of Administration of the Grand Army has accepted the Washington proposition for the national encampment provided free quarters for 20,000 veterans are furnished. The date may be fixed for the early part of October. Bob Kelly, once a noted Fenian and who is said to have served nine years for shooting James Talbot, an English government employee, in Dublin, has been admitted to Bellevue hospital, New York, where he applied for aid, Kelly, who is 65 years old, said he was without funds or friends. N. Semon, of the Neenah, Wis., Cold Storage company, whose plant was recently destroyed by fire, is conferring with capitalists of LaCrosse with the intention of building a mammoth plant in that city. The plant recently destroyed at Neenah was the largest cold storage plant in the state. The Hindoo twin named Dordica, which was separated from Radica by an operation, February 9, died suddenly in convulsions, due to the advanced stage of tuberculosis from which she suffered at Paris. The death of Dordica has been concealed from Dadica, who is making excellent progress. Albert O. Klein of Chicago, a student of the University of Michigan, committed suicide by taking prussic acid. This is the second suicide among university students within the last two weeks. No reason is known for Klein's act. He left a note saying his life was a failure, but giving no reason why. Chief Postoffice Inspector Cochran at Washington received dispatches announcing that Hamilton Schuyler, postmaster at Belleville, O., had absconded and that Thomas H. Holland has been appointed to take charge. The office is a presidential one of the second class. The amount of defalcation is unknown. The executive committee of the Seventh Day Adventists has decided to build a sanitarium at Madison. Wis. The building will cost $10,000 and the equipment $5,000. Two sites are under consideration, one on Lake Mendota and one on Lake Monona. The committee will have another meeting within thirty days, and then a selection will be made. W. Froudft, a well known mining stock broker of Colorado Springs. Wednesday posted a notice on the Colorado Springs mining stock exchange that his firm was unable to meet its obligations. He was president and treasurer of the Alamo Gold Mining company, and treasurer of the Bostwick Gold Mining companies at Cripple Creek, which are involved. Gustav B. Lofberg, for seven years a member of the crew at the Chicago life-saving station, has been appointed captain at the new station at South Manitou island. Captain Lofberg was No. 2 in the Chicago crew. He had been continuously with the crew, except during the Spanish-American war, when he was in the United States navy. His successor on the Chicago crew has not been appointed. Dock-tailed horses have been exhibited to the Maryland legislature to further the bill prohibiting such mutilation. Twelve Princeton students were arrested at Trenton, N. J., for painting class numbers on the battle monument and houses. Philip Stein Miller of Terre Haute, Ind., became insane from brooding over killing a man in self-defense. The navy department has been informed that the repairs on the battleship Oregon at Puget Sound are practically completed. She will be ready for duty by March 1. Wilbur C. Draper, aged 38, who was to have been married this week at Humboldt, Ind., died while eating dinner on the day of his wedding. Heart disease was the cause. Miss Julia K. Wilson, the intended bride, is prostrated. Representative Richardson of Tennessee has introduced a bill in congress to refund to religious, charitable, literary and art institutions the taxes collected on legacies and bequests under the operation of the war revenue act. James R. Keene gave $10,000 for the relief of the poor who suffered in the blizzard at New York. It was the duplication of a similar donation made last winter by Mr. Keene and was sent to the United Hebrew Charity societies. Chancellor Magie has appointed Louis Schenck of Somerville, N. J., receiver of the Washington Co-operative bank, a building and loan association of Newark. The application was made by the department of banks and insurance. Joel W. Hopkins, one of the pioneers of Putnam county, Ill., died at his home, east of Granville. He came to Illinois in the fall of 1834, when the state was almost a wilderness, and settled on land in Putnam county, upon which he lived until the time of his death. A dispatch from Brussels says that Austria has decided, in compliance with the demand made by Great Britain, to abolish sugar bounties and to reduce the import duty of sugar to 5 francs. The correspondent declares the adherence of Hungary to this decision to be assured. John R. Hagg of Cumberland, Wis., who graduated from the civil engineering department of the University of Wisconsin last June, was murdered by natives in the Philippines, Jan. 25. He had been in the islands several months superintending the construction of a government road. James Alexander, aged 103 years, died at Springfield, Mo., this week. He was never ill until two weeks ago, when he fell on an ice pavement, dislocating a shoulder and breaking an arm. He enlisted in the war of 1812. At the outbreak of the civil war Alexander went to enlist in the Union army, but he was refused on account of old age. G. W. Trout, former implement dealer of Wichita, Kan., charged with forgery, left that city two weeks ago. Officers pursued him into Indian Territory and sought to arrest him at Goff. He resisted and threatened the United States deputy marshal. An officer present shot him and he arrived this week at the Wichita hospital and is under the care of a surgeon. There is a school war in progress at Westfield, Mass., over the action of the principal of the high school in suspending three young men because they ate onions. The principal had cautioned the scholars several times, but on Monday, when three of the boys came to school with an extra amount of the fragrance, they were immediately expelled until further notice. Ex-Judge Rombauer, attorney for the St. Louis school board, has filed an application in the Missouri supreme court for a writ of mandamus to compel the state board of equalization to assess the franchises of public corporations at their full value. The petition alleges that the state board has not made assessments according to the value of the property of corporations. Dispatches from Cleveland, O., state that funds for the proposed McKinley national memorial are coming in more rapidly. New York state hopes to report $100,000 raised for the memorial by the meeting on Feb. 26. Knoxville, Tenn., sends a check for $311; Duluth, Minn., has subscribed $1,500; Youngstown has given $3,000. Governor Yates of Illinois has made a requisition upon the governor of Kansas for the extradition of Dawson T. Seals, wanted at Fisher, Ill., to answer a charge of working a confidence game upon Marillo Seals. Another requisition was made upon the governor of Louisiana for the return of Leopold Gibbs, wanted in Cook county on a charge of stealing a ring valued at $100. With the object of diminishing the number of unemployed in Sweden, the government has empowered the state railways to place large orders with Swedish workshops subject to consent of parliament. Other subordinate state authorities are also encouraged to find work for the unemployed. The steamer Benefactor, from Philadelphia, which has arrived at New York, brought two sailors of the schooner Joseph Pharo, which was anchored off Atlantic City in a waterlogged condition. Captain French of the Benefactor saw the schooner flying signals of distress and stood out toward it. A boat put off from the schooner and put two men aboard. The captain and the rest of the crew would not leave the schooner, but said they would wait there until a tug came to take them into harbor. Detectives in the employ of the Union Traction company at Philadelphia think they have a brother of Leon Czolgosz under arrest. A young man giving the name of Morris Goldberg was arraigned before Magistrate Smith, along, with Mrs. Sarah Brown and Bertha Leonard. The prisoners are all charged with conspiring to defraud the Union Traction company in a suit for $10,000 damages for alleged injuries. At the hearing the case went over. Goldberg refuses to talk about his relationship to Czolgosz. He resembles the assassin. George Eitell, inventor and manufacturer of incubators and hay presses, died at Pinta, Ariz., on a train crossing the desert en route to Quincy, Ill. He was suffering from Bright's disease and had spent the winter on his ranch in California. Lately he had grown worse and was being brought home to die. The decedent was born in Germany 72 years ago. He amassed a large fortune by his inventions. NEWS OF MISSOURI ALL SORTS OF THINGS CAUGHT FROM THE WIRES. General Happenings Throughout the State Prepared for Perusal by Busy Readers. The body of Lou F. Wright, a negro of Ottawa, Kan., and a member of Richards & Pringle's Georgia minstrels, all negroes, was found hanging to a tree in New Madrid, Mo., on the morning of the 17th. The troupe had showed in that city to a crowded house and before the audience had gotten out eight white men started up to the stage through a narrow passageway to get negro. Wright, who had offended two young white men during the afternoon, to take him out and whip him. Wright fired upon them with a pistol and the fire was returned. A number of women and children were seared into a panic during the shooting. Several of the troupe were slightly injured. The whole troupe was placed in jail, and later five men went out into the jail, while a large crowd waited outside. Sheriff Stone was overpowered, the keys to the cells taken from him, and the negro, Wright, taken out and hanged. Telegraph Operator in Trouble. A dispatch from Price, Utah, says: O. M. Fuller, a telegrapher of St. Joseph, Mo., and Miss Clara Mathis, a popular young lady of this place, in a joke took out a marriage license the day before Christmas. In a joke an elder of the Mormon church performed the cerlicense to marry Miss Callie Thorpe, a license to marry Miss Callie Thorpe a school teacher. The county clerk refused to issue the license and they went to Provo to be married, the ceremony being performed there under a license issued in Utah county. The bride of the mock marriage has consulted the district attorney, who says she is Fuller's legal wife, as also does the county attorney. It is held it will take a decree of the court to undo the supposed mock marriage. Families of both the women are prominent. Call Charges Unjust. Through the Kansas City transportation bureau, the Kansas City board of trade has brought suit before the interstate commerce commission to secure relief from the alleged unjust freight charges which it is claimed have seriously crippled Kansas City as a grain market. The defendants in the suit are the Santa Fe, Missouri Pacific, Union Pacific and Rock Island railroads. The complaint has been forwarded to Washington by W. P. Trickett, commissioner of the transportation bureau. Kansas City grain dealers complain that the abitrary rate of from 1 to 3 cents exacted by the railroads on all grain stopped at this market forces shipments to Chicago, St. Louis and other cities. Missouri in Brief The St. Clair county grand jury returned indictments at Belleville, Ill., against three of the suspects in the East St. Louis bank robbery case. The bills, which charge burglary and larceny, are against Charles Meyers, Sylvester Savignac and John Harrington. Meyers and Savignac are in jail at Belleville, and it is believed that the Furlong Dective agency have Harrington under surveillance here. The secretary of state issued a certificate of incorporation to the North American Lead company of Fredericktown, Mo., with a capital of $1,000,000. The incorporators are J. F. Davidson, Frank T. Stoneman, L. F. Schofield, Charles Lay, F. A. Scofield and William D. McCullough of Columbus, O. and M. S. Cordon, E. R. Darlington and Elden L. Jordan of St. Louis. In a decision by Judge Graves the bill passed by the last legislature putting a tax on whiskey was declared invalid. At Joplin James Hicks was adjudged guilty of manslaughter in the fourth degree and sentenced to two years in the penitentiary. He killed Charles Evans, his brother-in-law, in December last. A petition is being circulated in Maryville and Nodaway county asking Governor Dockery to appoint F. M. Birdsell of St. Clair county to the position of county judge in place of Judge Peden, who is in jail at Maryville, but whose resignation was accepted by Governor Dockery some time ago. General Frederick L. Funston was discharged from the hospital at Kansas City and the same night at Conventipl hall-reviewed the Third regiment, M. N. G. He appeared to be in perfect health, and took great interest in the affair. At St. Louis, Fretwell Shock, aged 12, was held responsible by the coroner's jury for the death of 16-year-old William Ledger, who was shot and killed last Friday night. The boys were members of rival "gangs." Young Shock said he fired in self-defense at another boy, and hit Ledger by mistake. Both belong to respectable families. Robert H. Snyder, the Kansas City financier, for whom a bench warrant was issued by the grand jury, charging bribery in the Central Traction franchise cose, has reached St. Louis from New York, and has given bond in the sum of $5,000 to Judge Ryan for appearance in court. At Kansas City William Prince was formally sentenced to two years in the penitentiary. Judge Davis overruled a motion for a new trial, and the prisoner decided not to appeal. Prince was found guilty of complicity in the murder of his brother-in-law, Philip H. Kennedy. Prince's sister, who did the killing, was given a ten years' sentence, and her father and another brother are still awaiting trial for complicity. A cablegram received by Vice President Sylvester of the Kansas City, Mexico & Orient railroad, announces the sailing of President A. E. Stillwell for home with $2,000,00 raised in Europe from the sale of International Construction company stock. A deal was consummated in Kansas City by which the Riverside Hereford Cattle company sold its ranch and herd of pure blood Hereford cattle at Ashland, Neb., to George R. Ricker, a banker of Quincy, Ill., for $481,000. The cattle sold comprise the largest herd of pure blood Herefords in the world, and are estimated in the deal as being worth $300,000. HOLOGAUST IN NEW YORK EIGHTEEN PERSONS KILLED IN HOTEL FIRE. Third Disaster Within Short Period on Park Avenue—Blaze Starting in Seventy-first Armory Spreads to Hotel and Five Hundred Guests are Forced to Flee for Their Lives—Fatal Leaps. New York, Feb. 24.—For the third time since New Year's day, Park Avenue, in this city, was the scene of the loss of human life. The first was the tunnel on Fifty-sixth street and Park avenue; the second a dynamite explosion in the rapid transit subway on Forty-first street, and the third, today, was the fire which started in the Seventy-first regiment armory on Thirty-third street, and then spread to the Park Avenue hotel, where 18 persons were killed, and many injured. It was the worst hotel fire since the Windsor was destroyed. The fire was first seen about 1:30 in the morning, in the armory, and in a remarkably short time that building was afame from end to end. The firemen did all possible to confine the fire to the armory, but after they had worked nearly an hour the discovery was made that the hotel was on fire. The hotel was crowded with guests, who had come to attend the festivities in honor of Prince Henry. More than 500 persons were in the house. The fire was confined principally to the fifth and sixth floors near the elevator air shaft. About the time the hotel was found to be on fire the lights went out and corridors were filled with smoke. The guests, unable to find their way through the darkened hallway, jumped from the windows or ran directly into the flame-swept portions of the buildings. This fact accounts for the large loss of life, although the hotel was not destroyed. The list of persons who lost their lives in the Park avenue fire, or who have died from injuries received in it, was compiled late tonight, and is as follows: Colonel CFMW YPCMFYPW PPPPP The dead: COLONEL CHARLES L. BURDETT, Hartford, commander First regiment Connecticut volunteers. WILLIAM J. BERNHARDT, Chicago MRS. WILLIAM J. BERNHARDT, Chicago. LEE G. CONRAD, New York. FRDRICK S. HOVEY, Lyons, N. Y. J. R. HAMES, not certain, may be Thomas Horne), Denver. CAPTAIN CHARLES O'CONNELL, formerly clerk of the supreme court. EX-CONGRESSMAN GASTON A. ROBBINS, Savannah. ESTHER SCHLESSINGER, Chicago. JACOB SPHAN, Rochester. JOHN G. WALKER, Columbia, Tenn. COLONEL ALEXANDER M. PIPER. U. S. A. retired. MRS. SALOME FOSTER, known as the "Tombs Angel." UNIDENEIFIED BODY OF WO- MAN, may be the wife of Rev. William S. Boardnard. PATIENT Bellevue hospital ATENT BELOW of hospital: The revised list of the injured follows: Lester L. Woodbury, Portland, Me.; Frank Everhad, agent candy company; E. S. Hesit, Columbia, Pa; William Stebbins, Jr., West Indies; Rev. William S. Boardman, hotel; Perry W. Livingston, Campville, N. Y.; Charlotte Bennett; Sophia Beach; Emma S. Meyer, Savannah; Mar. C. Bennett, Denver; Mrs. Samuel H. Hall, Newark; Miss Anna Hall, Newark; W. B. Bradley South Carolina; William D. Hale, Williamsville, Mass; Sarah Bugham, Savannah. The fire in the armory started on the third floor, on the Thirty-third street side, where there was a tie of rooms occupied by different companies of the regiment. Within five minutes the whole structure was beyond saving, and ten minutes later the roof fell in with a terrific crash. There was no one in the armory at the time except the janitor and his family. They escaped by going through the scuttle hole in the roof, and thence along the battlements on the Thirty-fourth street side to safety on the roofs of the houses to east. This passage was attended by much danger owing to the ley condition of the roof. One of the most pathetic incidents of the fire was the death of Mrs. Calome Foster, the "Angel of the Tombs." who, for 15 years, has done service in behalf of female prisoners in the Tombs and other city prisons. Mrs. Poster was the widow of John W. Poster, and had lived for the last five years at the Park Avenue hotel. Her income, at one time, was considered large, for the most part was expended upon the deserving poor. The Seventy-first regiment armory cost the state $700,000 to build, and the loss will be somewhat more. The fire destroyed the original famous paintings of Generals Grant, Sherman and Sheridan, the $7,000 sword presented by the state of Massachusetts for the services of the Massachusetts volunteers, all the original war records, the rosters and numerous other valuable trophies and prize articles. Storm in Philadelphia. New York, Feb. 24—Mail advices from Philadelphia say the city is completely shut off from electrical communication with the outside world. The storm is the most disastrous sleet storm, as far as wires are concerned, which ever visited that section. Within the city limits, scarcely a single overhead wire is working. Poles are down in all directions, and wires are dangling from the housetops on nearly every street. Officials of the telegraph companies say it will be fully a week before all the wires are even in a fair working condition. Four persons and twenty-five horsesse were killed in Philadelphia during yesterday and last night by coming in contact with the heavily charged wires. Late last night the street railway company operating all the lines was compelled to abandon the service. By this morning, however, they succeeded in running a few cars. St. Louis Boss Indicted St. Louis, Mo., Feb. 25.—Edward Butler, St. Louis' most prominent Democratic politician, was indicted today for attempted bribery in connection with the city garbage reduction contract. " ° { i } bey ye eadae 82 62 Lee i Ser LC) clipe FARM BEEN SE ea fs iad Be 8-6-8 Fee GL LNG ee, A (CSA ES Se : see 2 = ~ FH ke o o a 7 Ze \FARM Ey \FAN a ea on yonelaor | Sal t s (Garin 4) Ccryrighted - C> aint 2, J. 8. Trigg, Rockford, Iowa. © = : . 3002, J. 8. ‘Trigg, Rockford, tows. oop ail the draws and hatural water: Sova Fanicie ways in sod, even if the flelds are Doreen canine Bol tee eae broken up, ‘The water must We would not try to raise turkeys on |find a way off during heavy rains, and the farm unless we lived at least one) where these waterways are under the half mile from a neighbor plow the loss by erosion is very great Cold storage creamery butter bought! \ poy friend wants to know what last June at 16 to 17 cents held and) four footed animal can run the fastest. sold in January at 19 cents does not) asking some boys what they thought, seem to be a bonanza. one said a deer, another an antelope eae and another a jack rabbit, While all A fruit box making machine has been |of these get over the ground at a pret: Invented which will make these boxes/ty lively rate, none of them can go and baskets for a tithe of the former |quite as fast as the greyhound, which cost. ‘The next thing will be a machine /can move at the rate of about twenty to pick the fruit, and then we will alll yards in a second, Now you boys can Ge happy. Hate cot how. tiahy anitée ati hot ‘We saw a man haul in a load of oats, a little damp, in year 1896 and sell the load for $2.50. The same man hauled In a load the other day of the same number of bushels and got $21.50 for it. ‘Times have changed. Passing by a poultry yard in the country not long since, we saw over 200 Buif Cochins in one flock, as pretty a sight as we ever saw in the line of poultry, sleek, stately, peaceful and dignified fowl, looking for all the world like a Methodist conference. ‘The owner of a yery good one hun- dred and sixty acre farm sald to us lately that he had come to the conclu- sion that he had too much land; that he was going to dispose of half of the farm and work the balance better. He struck us as being one of the wisest men we have met for many a day. ‘The sum of $100 per year in cash and what eggs and chickens the family can use are easily obtained from what poul- try may be kept upon the average farm homestead given ordinary care and at- tention. This sum may be increased to $200 where more fowls are kept and more attention given them. There are all sorts and breeds of mi- crobes—those which give the fine flay- or to butter and cheese and those which spoil them, bacilli which thrive at 100 degrees F. and produce cholera and those which multiply at 80 degrees be- low zero and hatch out smallpox. Hap- piness and health seem to depend large- ly upon what sort of bugs a man eats and carries around with him. A lady friend of ours who is very sue- cessful with her poultry, making about $200 a year from what she can care for at a farm homestead, tells us that the forcing of the hens to produce eggs In winter does not pay her, that by so do- Ing the productive power of the hens is much impaired and that they are there- by predisposed to disease. Is this a correct conclusion? ‘We came across a man lately who had several head of nice Shorthorn young stock of both sexes, all eligible to reg- istry and of good families, and the own- er complained that he could not find a market for them at so low a price as 365 per_head, the animals being year- lings. Ie sald it was almost impossi- ble to get his neighbors to pay over $20 for a bull. It is needless to add that the top of the market was never reached by the beef animals of that inantite: The man of sixty should have earned and secured the privilege of doing only Just such work and just so much of it as suits his fancy and his strength. At that age work is just as much a ne- ceasity to his physical and mental well being as at any time of his life, but he should be exempt from the compulsory feature of the work of his earlier man- hood. The hardworking man who quits work entirely at sixty but cuts short his days, becomes grouty, captious, snarly and unlovely, when it is his privilege to enjoy a genial old age. ‘The culture of tobacco as a crop Is ex- tending from Wisconsin into Lowa, 400 loads of tobacco being marketed in one day recently in an eastern Iowa town. The crop brings a return of from $100 to $150 per acre, is the worst soll robber known and involves a large amount of work and care as well as special training in order to make a success, While the crop may and prob- ably will be grown to some extent, we do not believe it will in the long run pay Iowa farmers to convert their corn fields into tobacco plantations. The very heavy losses sustained by | stockmen the past few months as a re- sult of turning their cattle into the cornstalk fields have brought out much so called information about this trou- ble. After looking carefully over what the scientists have to offer we find that. they do not at all agree as to the cause, | some assigning the trouble to smut or a fungous growth and others to a dry murrain. Cases are cited where the smut was fed to the extent of half a bushel per day to one animal without Injury, while the most careful feeding of the'stalks resulted fatally. Altitude seems to bar hog cholera, an elevation of 3,800 feet securing tm- munity for the pig from this disease, If the ladies will just watch the hostler do up the horse's tall before taking it out for a drive on the muddy road, they will catch on at once to the very latest style of doing up their own hair, No need for fashion plates now, On rolling and hilly lands under the plow In a regular rotation of crops nothing so well prevents the washing of the soil as to have It well filled with clover roots, and nothing else will be bo. good for the crop as a source of humus and fertility. “In the hill countries where the land 4s under the plow it is good policy to keep all the draws and natural water- ways in sod, even if the fields are thereby broken up. :'The water must find a way off during heavy rains, and where these waterways are under the plow the loss by erosion is very great A boy friend wants to know what four footed animal can run the fastest. Asking some boys what they thought, one said a deer, another an antelope and another a jack rabbit. While all of these get over the ground at a pret- ty lively rate, none of them can go quite as fast as the greyhound, which ean move at the rate of about twenty yards in a second, Now you boys can figure out how many miles an hour that is. When a young man first goes a-court- ing, he always Itkes to take his best gil out riding behind a showy and high strung nag. As he gets further along he prefers the steadiest old horse on the farm or in’ the livery barn. Queer, is it not? ‘The reason, however, can be found if’ one will look far enough. | We always put faith in a boy who ts ‘not afraid of work—good hard manual labor. Work is the best developer and preserver of the moral and physical qualities which go to make up a man- ly man, Show us the plodding, indus- |trious boy not ashamed of good hard work, and we will show you the future [successful man, and if he sings while \he ‘works so much the better. We came across a man not long since who has built up quite a patronage as a breeder of pure “bred Poland-China hogs, and we incidentally found out that his brood sows for the next crop of pigs were all, with the exception of one, young sows not over eight months old Jan, 1, In doing this this man is not only doing a serious injury to his patrons, Dit it will inevitably hurt his trade and good name as a breeder. Pure bred stock intended for breeding pur- poses should never be the product of an immature parentage, but of aged and well developed stock. | Prices of almost all kinds of farm produce are at the present time out of balance, so high that farming has be- come one of the most Iucrative of em- ployments. This condition will not continue, ‘The economic law of sup- ply and demand will get in its work ‘ang restore prices, if not to their for- ‘mer low level, at least to a harmonious relation between cost of production and [market value, ‘The man who Is biying ‘high priced land on long time expect- Ang 1901 returns from the crops is pre- paring the way for some mighty hard eae ar aeialar etna : Melasina SGA aren. While waiting on a train to let a westbound freight pass recently we noticed two freight cars which follow- ed each other particularly. One was loaded with hogs bound for Omaha and one with pianos. ‘This combination, hogs and planos, very fitly represents the present condition of western agri- culture, the symphony of the hogyard passing by a beautiful evolution into the sonata and nocturne of the piano— the old granger shoveling corn into the hogyard while his daughter runs trills and fantasias on the piano in the par- lor, a clear case of cause and effect. No Such Book. A friend writes and wants us to give him the name of some book which will tell _him all about the new localities of North America, their climate, prod- ucts, rainfall and all that, so that a fellow can find out where to go to get some good cheap land. ‘There is no stich book published, the makers of books these days being given to the histori- cal novel and love serapping yarns. A bok which would impartially and fair- ly set forth the facts as to all the newer parts of the country, giving full infor- mation such as a seeker for a farm and home would naturally desire, would be in great demand In this restless, mi- gratory age of ours. What pamphlets and books are isstied are by interested persons who are looking for suckers and never give all the facts, Waseda and Banteria. And now comes the New York state milk commission and issues the edict that the men who milk the cows which supply the city with milk must shave off their beards and wear smooth faces, for the reason that beards are supposed to be nests of bacteria. This would seem to suggest the great propriety of employing only women to do the milk- ing and thereby avoid the sacrifice of those natural appendages given by the Creator to cover up an ugly mug. If the beard has to go, why not the hair of the head, and this suggests a new use for the Chinaman minus his cue, for he would not have to shave his face, not being given to whisker devel- opment. It is evident that if the pres- ent rate of progress in dairy matters continues the old hair in the butter is likely to become at best only a pleasing fiction, ‘Beware of the Bull. One of those all to common trag- edies where the old man falls a victim to the bull at the head of the herd, comes under our notice this week, the old man belng run into a corner of a barbed wire fence and jammed all to pieces by the infuriated brute. Not the ugly dog in the neighbor's yard, or the smallpox, which drives a whole community wild, or the dead gasoline can, or the carnivorous corn shredder or the gun in the hands of the small boy, is a thing to be so much ‘feared as that quiet, logy brute in the barnyard, who is given by his owner a reputation as immaculate as that of a presiding elder, but who when the fit takes him, as it ig more than likely to do sooner or tater, becomes in an instant a merciless engine of destruction with which man is utterly unable to cope. ‘fo ail in- tent and purposes he is # ton of agricul- tural nitroglycerin and should be han- died and eared for with as much cau- tion as this most unreliable and deadly explosive. Good reputations count for nothing with bulls, They should always be out on parole, with the vigilant eye of the authorities upon them. [t fs a most wretched ending of a long and sye- cessfit! agricultural career to be bunthd to death by ‘a bull on the farm one has worked so hard and so long to develop and improve. Sendtime. Tt will soon be seedtime again, and the question of seed will come to the front. No law affecting agriculture works with more relentless and merci less precision than this: “Whatsoever & man soweth that shall he'also reap” ‘The man who plants small potatoes, the tips and butts of corn and unclean- ed and small grains deliberately _in- vites a crop of Inferior quality, while the man who will carefully select all his seed, often changing for the best Send grains and roots produced north of his locality, eliminatingall immature, dwarfed, Imperfect seed, by the opera- tion of the same law invites the best which nature can give him, If you have, for instance, a rather sandy loam soll which you wish to sow to wheat, oats or barley next spring. it will pay you well to sell your seed grain and buy seed raised on some stiff clay soil some distance from you, or vice versa. We believe that there is a definite loss connected with using the same grain for more than three years on any farfa, Especially will such change be found benefleial in potatoes. ‘tn heseodnnlh: Larsen. Another case of underground rob- bery comes to our notice, a case where an old and unfailing well of water ceases to give a supply, presumably because of the tapping of the vein Which supplied it by a neighbor, and the old query of what can be done in Such a case is fired at us. As we under- stand the case, just nothing at all, When a man buys a plece of land, he gets title from heaven to China, as high above him as he can see and as far below him as he can bore, If Ke strikes water, gas, oil, mineral and coal, all are his which are included within the surface boundaries of his land. If in boring for water or oil or gas he thereby taps the source of supply of his neighbor's well, it is his good luck and his neighbor's ‘bad luck, provided his supply comes through natural avenues, but if he dug down and then bored longitudinally to tap his neighbor's supply he would be Hable for trespass and damage. ‘The only reltef in sight for the case suggested Is to drill deep- er and strike another vein. } Wants a Btock Raneh, A gentleman living in Chicago writes us that he has $20,000 which he wishes to invest in a stock ranch and wants to know where to locate. He can go to. the range territory of Oklahoma or ‘Texas and find good openings for in- vestment, or he can try the range coun- try of the Western Dakotas with al- most equal promise of success, or he can take up the breeding of blooded stock on the bigger priced lands of the Mississippi valley in the corn and cloy- er country and perhaps do Just as well. If the question of health for himself en- ters into the matter, as in this case it does, we would recommend the Dakota plan as the best. A five-year bout with Dakota range conditions will make the rundown, wheezing Chicago business man feel like a 3-year-old corn-fed Da- Kota steer—make him all over of such good stuff that he will not care a cent whether school keeps or not. Not Up to 1882. While prices for corn and its meat products have ruled high of late, they still do not yet touch the top notch fig- ures of 1882. In that year beef reach- ed $9.30 and the average price for the whole year was $6.25, while corn touch- ed 81 cents in July and that on a crop considerably in excess of that produced In 1901. Hogs went up to $9.35, and the average price for the year was $7.63, Present conditions would seem to favor a still higher range of prices on these products than now prevails before a new crop is ready for market. iterdan: Sitelnta: A variety of both musk and water- melons imported by the agricultural de- partment from Asiatic Russia which will keep all winter is proving a great success In Utah. ‘These melons are picked in October and require two months to ripen after picking and are at their best in January and February. ‘They are said to be equal in flavor to the best of the summer melons and are becoming very much sought for. ‘They were unknown in this country — five years ago. KIPLING AS A GUIDE BOOK. Rudyard's Service in That Capacity in the Far Orient. New York Tribune: Henry Sturges Ely’ of Binghamton has just returned from a journey around the world. The trip has induced in him an exalted idea of Rudyard Kipling. “There is no guide book in the far East like him,” sald Mr, Ely, “The crews of the freigh- ters and tramp steamers and all the deep-sea wanderers know him by heart. He is Baedecker plus imagination, yet an absolutely faithful reporter. ‘Tako his line, ‘And the dawn comes up like thunder outer China ’eross the bay’. not only saw the dawn do that a hun- dred times from the deck of a tramp steamer on the northeast route from Singapore, but I have heard deck hands quote the phrase. The effect of the Mine reproduces the phenomenon per- fectly—the utter surrenness of it, a8 if it leaped at you from ambush. "It is even truer of the sunset. "The night comes down like thunder,” he might have said, Kipling as a statesman may or may not be correct, but as a guide book for the Bast he has no equal.” A Noble Boy. ‘Teacher—Some one has been throw- ing paper behind my back, James, do you know who it is? James (who Js the culprit himself) — Yes, sir, but I hardly like to tell, ‘Teacher~A very honorable feeling. James. you may sit down.—London Tit-Bits. wa UNCLE BILL AND ihe @ditor RON els yy Tn Lei 4 serfs) RIC | SoG wee be hw panei HAL tne HARA © pn up agin another advertising scheme,” said Uncle Bill, ashe |. milled a sample of seed corn from ais pocket and handed it to the editor, expecting a local notice in return “What advertising scheme have you reference?” asked the editor “Oh, he’s takin’ a crack at the Chris- tian Scientists now that the yacht ex- citement ceases to entertain him. He's always got some new fad ter make the papers keep him headlined most uy the time,” explained Uncle Bill, "Most people like to see thelr names in print, whether prince or pauper,” remarked the editor “Wall, T don’t know as [ blame him fur it, only it’s a leetle tough on Chris- tian Science, ter have the Kaiser set down on them, but I s’pose they'll jest imagine that he didn’t say enything, an’ cant do enything, 50 they'll have no trouble along that line, int {t does make {t a leetle onpleasant fur a fel- ler’s imagination, when a person like the Kaiser goes ter settin’ down on it,” said Uncle Bill, as he leaned back in his chair and settled himself for a good old-fashioned gossip about current events. “Christian Science has received many hard blows,” mused the editor, but the Kaiser’s has been the most severe of all.” “I can't git over thinkin’ ‘bout. it," continued Unele Bill, “an’ T don't see jest how the Kaiser {s goin’ ter stop it, ? Cito? Bas | ose = é ooo aS 4 “yk VEL LS { Pe to : 4 Sears eat Re, L Srstel mn aagciessel 6 ; ges = 3s \ tar ay 7 eee Ai Oa — ——— I ZENG Wonder What He Will Set on Next Kingdom an’ kin imagine himself well, how he’s goin’ ter prevent it has both- ered me so’st I dream "bout it—" “Dream about it!” exclaimed the editor, “Yes sir-ee; dream ‘bout it,” replied Uncle Bill, why, only night before last I dreamed me an’ Helen was trayelin’ in Germany, an’ as I’m always in sym- pathy with ‘the persecuted, I thought that I was tryin’ ter convert the Kaiser ter Christian Science, but I had a hard Job on my hands, ‘cause he’s been im- &ginin’ things ail his life an’ gettin’ slipped up on them. I thought we got quite friendly an’ chummy with each other so’st we called each other ‘Bill’ — ‘an’ when two ‘Bills’ git tergether some- thin’s ter pay—an’ I sald, "Bill, I'll tell yer ‘bout this Christian Science, there’s a heap in imagination,’ an’ he says, “Bill, Du bist fericht, T didn’t know what he meant, but said, ‘yes, guess 1 ‘be,’ and he said ‘didn't T imagine that Admiral Von Deitrich could scare Dewey?” an’ I told him that Dewey was no Christian Scientist, he was a hard shell Baptist. ‘cause he threw the ‘hard shell inter the Spanish an’ give some on ‘em a duckin'. an’ the Kaiser was settin’ on a meetin’ house an’ I said ter Helen, I wonder what he'll set on next, An’ he said ‘Didn't [ imag- ine that I could make your country un- friendly with Uncle Ned, an’ now Alice is goin’ ter the coronation?’ an’ I said, ‘Oh, Alice is our queen, an’ yer can't ‘checkmate’ her. She's right in the swim an‘ don’t need yer boat much, ‘cause she’s no Christian Scientist, she’s a cowboy’s daughter, an’ I said “There's no use uy talkin’, Bill, yer ter gosh durn rough on the Scientists, sendin’ cn ‘em out uv yer realm,’ an’ then he started ter come down the ladder off uv the church, he said, ‘I s'pose T could fall off an’ git down quicker, if I only had faith that it wouldn't’ hurt,’ an jest then a policeman come along with h couple uy Christian Scientists, what they had arrested fur curin’ a woman uv wearin’ wooden shoes, or goin bare- LKAISERS KOURT | any “ Issa i [se is st ats Cap Goel Mabe 7, Varner SEL TE oes" qf aera egal to — Piz *y, ut am Wa" i ») He Decide the Case on Two Pints, footed, 1 furgit which now, an’ the ee said, “that'll never do, first thing know they'll have ‘em over ter Amer- fea, gittin® rich” So he appointed me as a jury, ter set on the case, an’ then T thought uv “Jack Bunsby' decidin’ a cage on ‘two pints,’ so Lasker the Kaiser if he couldn't rtwh the ‘growler’, an’ he gaid he'd have me rushed out uy the Kingdom, an’ when 1 awoke Twas standin’ om my head in the woodox while Helen was lightin’ a candie ter find out what was the matter. 1 told her ‘twas no use, the Kuirer was goin ter do all the imaginin’ that was ter be done in Germany an’ the Christlen Scientists had better come home an help some uy our ‘nabobs’ imagine that there was royal blood in their veiny.”" “E spose T had something, ‘cause Helen's lookin’ glum, like she always does when she thinks I'm goin’ daffy,” said Unele Bill as he yawned and start- ed out the door headed for Shake Rag. . rf Oslep j b LIGHTNING MAiL CHUTES, Wonderful Invention Claimed by Jersey City Man. Chicago Tribune: Postmaster Gener- al Smith has received a communteation from an electrical engineer of Jersey City, who claims to have invented a wonderful lightning mail carrier, which will revolutionize the methods employ- ed in the carriage of domestic mails The electrical engineer is a German, and the construction of his letter is al- most as wonderful as that of his light- ning mail carrier; but he is enthuslas- tie and claims great things for his scheme. ‘The letter tollows: “The Postmaster General: Honor- able Sir: Here is an object invented covered hy the United States patent of- fice for the Inventor,*which will rattle the wort if your excellency will please give your favorable view of it, and by which your excellency may earn dia- monds of the globe, “What is this? ‘The inventor is an electric German civil engineer and elee- ‘trician. He has invented to send let- ‘ters and any kind of mail, ete., through ‘an underground pipe at the rate of 200 miles an hour and five to ten pounds ‘every minute, and all is done by elec- trle motor force. Pneumatic is poor against this system, and nothing can compare with the new system I have in- vented, “Letters from me to you In the white house will reach you in an hour, ‘Think of that, ‘The underground pipe repre- sents the flying torpedo becoming hot. It is the mail carrier for the next cen- tury, Everything is experimented in the city of Detroit, state of Michigan, to place the system in working order. “It {8 approved by the inventor, by his friends, Frederick Bohmert of De- troft, Carl Schmidt ‘Tanner and Frank Pingree, brother of the late governor of Michigan, and other principal men of Detroit. ‘One mile to build cost $6,500, with all around power houses and ey- erything, Five pounds of letters from here to Chicago sent every minute takes two hours and 55 minutes. ‘This is the lightning mail. “Now, Mr. Postmaster General, pleas« let me know what we shall do with this and when you will investigate this mat. ter, together with your mail transit ex. perts—Fors. Lieberich, New York City Jersey City, Detroit, Mich.” ‘The postmaster general has not as yet replied to the communication of the Selectric German,” and will not unti further assurances have been received that his. “300-mile-an-hour lightning mail carrier” {s in something more than eggs pce Compulsory Conversion. Washington Evening Times: “And what,” sald the globe-trotter to the re- formed cannibal, “induced you to give put your formes lite?” “Indeed, sir. replied the man with a pious smile, “it must have been the di- rect interposition of providence. 1 ate a man one day—quite a small man, he was, too, and tender—and I had a most horrible fit of indigestion. The man was of a good character, he had his credentials in his pockets, so you see there could have been othing unwhole- some in the meal.” “H—m,” said the globe-trotter. “Where was his home?” “In Russia, I——" “Ah, that explaing It,” cried his inter- locutor, joyfully, “It was his name which agreed with you. If you had only removed the bristles you would have been all right.” And this aroused in the heathen so strong a feeling of remorse that he immediately ate the globe-trotter, Moral—It is not well to be too eager to explain things. A Sensitive Regiment. New York Times: Richard Harding Dayis relates this incident, which hap- pened while he was acting as corre- spondent during the English-Boer war: A regiment of Scottisch Highlanders, noted for their bravery in action, dur- ing the heat of one battle were sudden- ly seen to break ranks and run in all directions, ‘The officers ag well shared in the stamped, and apparently made no attempt to urge the men under them into line, Their behavior was a sur- prise to everybody on the fleld, and af- ter the battle was over the colonel of the regiment was summoned before General Roberts. “What the devil was the matter with your regiment?” asked “Bobs.” “Well, replied the colonel, “there {s not a man In the regiment agraid of a Dutchman's bullet, but we we steered into a fleld literally infested with wasps’ nest, and you know, general, we were all In kilts and with bare legs.” @urnius Bachelors. ‘The last census showed there were in the whole country 5,427,167 bachelors, against 2,224,404 spinsters—an excess of 68 per cent of bachelors over the un- married women. There was not any state in the union that did not have more bachelors than single women, even Massachusetts exhibiting a small fractional overplus of unattached males of marriageable age. To account for this situation of affairs it was explained that the population of each state being pair. ed off by marriage evenly as between the sexes only a relatively smal! frac- tion of single persons old enough. tc marry was left over. In most states th male part of this fraction was much it excess of the female part, And it mus also be remembered that women marr; much younger than men, CTIRA’S LAMEWT: Whe 414 you mock me, Sister Colimbia— Why did you tempt me here tn my rage? Why ald yon come with your Mberty kreetiigs Why dil you come with your salvos and fase? Wan st for thie your Captains came thune deri? Way It for this that your bravest wore aan? Wan it for this that you flaunted the tyrant— Naming the hour of the course of Spain? Rrave theo' pur faith tn the North Star of Teeedofy Roldly we ateor’d thro! the storm and the rack Say. shail we now, no tight tn the heavens, Diemnayt'd and’ shatter'd, drift hopes Toasty back? Once. In the days of the fathers you cherksh, Come the dread question for men to decide: Fearless. hey chose the station of honor Shall It ablde—say, shall (t abide? Sister, not ours Is the bitterest burden, ‘Tho’ clothed In our ragy and sunk in the slime: Yours, in the splendor and might of your pienty Yours tx the stain and yours ix the crime! Doom'd is the land and doom'd te the people Where Right unto Wealth bends the servient knee Speak then again to my sorrowing ehildten— Justice alone ts "the law of the free! eiohn Jerome Roce ta Sew fork Bleek, WOUNDED WIFE ELOPED. Marriage with Davison, Who Shot Her, Never a Happy One. Connected with the shooting of Mrs. Flora Davison by her Jealous husband, James G, Davison at Chicago, is a ro~ mance of 1S years’ standing, One week before she had seen her 14th birthday she eloped from her father's home and was married to the man who made stich 2 dvsperate attempt to end her life, as well as those of her father and brother. The elopment took place in Logansport, Ind. The marriage proved an unhappy one from the first, chiefly because of the Jealous disposition of Davison, He was Jealous even of his wife's brother and ‘father, and could not bear to have any- one converse with her. Lately he be- came a Spiritualist, and this departure, in which his wife did not believe, added to the bitterness, and she decided sho could not live with him, About five weeks ago she wrote her father, Peter D. Roberts, 7400 Adams avenue, saying she could bear her trou- bles no longer and would rather be dead. He sent her money and asked her to come and live in his home until she could obtain a dtvorce, as she con- templated applying to the courts for re- lease from the unhappy union. Taking her two girls, Allee, 11 years old, and Helle, 7 years old, she left her home in Indiana without the knowledge of her husband, leaving her boy Otto, 9 years old, with the father. Davison foliowed her to Chicago and took little Belle away, believing that would induce his wife to return to him, ‘That was about a week ago, but the wife refused to be reconciled The family of Mrs. Davison belleve that the attempted murder was premed- itated, as Miss Pearl Roberts, a sister of Mrs. Davidson, sald yesterday that they had learned of Davison telling his. sister in Logansport before leaving Sat urday that he would either bring his wife back with him or kill her. Davi- | son was fined recently for murderously | assaulting a woman named Wilkinson | in Logansport. Davison is confined in the county Jail hospital, where he was taken after the shooting, Dr. Boechin, the jail phy- sician, said yesterday that he was bad- ly bruised about the head and bis nose completely flattened as a result of the blow from the baseball bat. Mrs. Davi- son {s in the Englewood Union hospital, and recovery 1s still doubtful, ‘The other participants In the fray, Pe- ter D, and Edward Roberts, were inur- ed only slight; and are both nursing their wounds in thelr home at 7400 Adena abe THE ROAD TO DYSPEPSIA. Giving to the Stomach More Work Than It Should Have. London Family Doctor: It requires five hours for the stomach to work on on ordinary meal and pass it out of it- self, when it falls into a state of re- pose, Hence, if a man eats three times a day his stomach must work 15 hours out of the 24. After a night's sleep we wake up with a certain amount of bod- ily vigor which Is faithfully portioned out to every muscle of the system and every set of muscles, each its rightful share, the stomach among others, When the external body gets weary after a long day's work the stomach bears its share of the fatigue, but if when the body is weary with the day's toll we put it to bed, giving the stomach mean- while a five hours’ task which must be performed. we impose upon the very Vest friend we have—the one that gives us one of the largest amounts of earth- ly enjoyment—and if this overtaxing is continued it must as certainly wear out prematurely as the body itself will if It is overworked every day. And if persons eat between meals then the stomach has no rest from breakfast in the morning until 1, 2, 8, or 4 o'clock next day; hence it is that 90 many per- sons have dyspepala. The stomach 1s worked so much and so constantly that It becomes too weak to work at all. Railway traveling in Russia is pro- verbially slow, but has not the com- pensating advantage of safety, judging from some statistics furnished by the ministry of ways and means and com- muntcations. ‘The latest compled date are for the year 1900, In which year there were 4,447 accidents; that {s, gn an average, about a dozen per day. Of this total 1,862 were derailments, 750 collisions and 2,885 of various other de- scriptions. Altogether 1,226 persona wore killed‘and 6,933 injured, A monument to Lieutenant Frnacole Garnier, who explored Yunnan in 1866- 1868 and in 1873, has been erected at St, Btlonne, Hie discoveries ant his st er at the Red river led to the expedition to Tonkin and the eatablish- ment of the Freuch colonies ia Indo- 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 Solicited. Published Every Friday. Entered at the postoffice at Colum- umbia, Mo., as second class matter, Jan. 15, 1902. Agents wanted in every town in the state. Our thanks are due Mr. Jesse J. Bass, of Mexico, for subscription to the Professional World. Our thanks are due to Hon. Fleetwood Gordon for subscription to the Professional World. We are glad to note that a number of our readers have assured us of their intention to patronize the business men who advertise in the columns of this paper. By so doing you will add to the success of this paper. A copy of the New Bloomfield News reached our desk last week. It is a neat newsy paper, edited by R. R. Dunn, who is an experienced newspaper man. A home printed newspaper is something new for the people of New Bloomfield bailiwick and we predict for the News a success. --- AND now Senator Ben Tillman discovers that he is not permitted to eat at the table where Booker T. Washington dined last fall. Perhaps the Palmetto statesman will observe that the President takes into consideration qualities other than the color of a man's skin when selecting his guests. We regret to have learned recently of the death of the mother of Prof. B. F. Allen, of Savannah, Ga. Prof. Allen was for a number of years vice president and professor of pedagogy at Lincoln Institute, where he has many friends among the students and patrons of the school in the state who sympathize with him in his bereavement. Prof. Allen is now director of the department of pedagogy at the Georgia State Industrial College at Savannah. The students of the senior class at the University of Nebraska were somewhat divided upon the subject when it was found that Booker T. Washington had been invited to deliver the commencement address, but finally ratified the selection. The name of the colored educator was placed down eighth on the list which the students accepted. The preceding seven were unable to be present, and as the name of Mr. Washington came next in order he was chosen. LIVING ONE DAY AT A TIME A certain lady met with a serious accident, which necessitated a very painful operation and many months' confinement to her bed, says one of our exchanges. When the physician had finished his work and was about taking his leave, the patient asked: "Doctor, how long shall I have to lie here helpless?" "Oh, only a day at a time," was the cheery answer; and the poor suffer was not only confronted for the moment, but many times though the succeeding weary weeks did the thought, "Only a day at a time," come back with its quieting influence.—Ram's Horn. 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. PERFUMES AND HEALTH. Pure violet essence is said to be especially suitable to nervous people. But it must be obtained from the flowers themselves, not from the chemical imitations. Chemically derived perfumes are irritant, poisonous even, to persons of especially sensitive constitution. True flower scents are obtained in three ways. First, by spreading fresh blossoms upon glass thickly smeared with pure grease, letting them stand in the sun, and as they wilt replacing them until the grease is as fragrant as the flowers; second, by repeatedly infusing fresh petals in oil, and third, by infusing them in either, which is then distilled to a dry solid. As this solid sells for about $250 an ounce it is easy to understand why the either process, though far and away the best, it is not commonly used. But the scented grease and the essences made by steeping it in pure spirit are never cheap. After all the scent possible has been extracted from the grease it is still fragrant enough to make the very finest perfumed soap. All the citrene scents, bergamot, nerol, orange-flower water, are refreshing, and in a degree stimulating, if properly prepared. To make a lasting perfume some animal base is essential—musk, civet or ambergris. How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Cattarrh Cure. F. J. Cheney & Co., Props., Toledo, O. We, 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. JUST THREE THINGS. "I once met a thoughtful scholar," says Bishop Wipple, "who told me that he had read every book he could which assailed the religion of Jesus Christ, and he said he would have become an infidel but for three things: "First-I am a man. I am going somewhere. To-night, I am a day nearer the grave than I was last night. I have all such books can tell me. They shed not one solitary ray upon the darkness. They shall not take away the only guide and leave me stone-blind. "Secondly-I had a mother. I saw her go down into the dark valley where I am going, and she leaned on an unseen arm as calmly as a child goes to sleep on the breast of its mother. "Thirdly-I have three motherless daughters—and he said it with tears in his eyes—the have no protector but myself. I would rather kill them than leave them in this sinful world, if you blot out from it all the teachings of the gospel." An early Easter is said to indicate an early spring. This year Easter Sunday comes on March 30. Do yon know how to tell when Easter is due? It is easy if you look up the history and teachings of ancient erudites. According to their teachings, Easter is the first Sunday after the first full moon after the sun crosses the equator on March 21, and the first full moon after that date is march 23, and the first Sunday after lhat is March 30. Easter Sunday comes early this year and consequently an early spring will follow. CHEMISTRY OF TEARS Tears have their functional duty to accomplish, like every other fluid of the body, and the lachrymal gland is not placed behind the eye simply to fill space or to give expression to emotion, says an exchange. The chemical prop- erties of tears consist of phosphate of lime and soda, making them very salty, but never bitter. Their action on the eye is very beneficial, and here consists their prescribed duty of the body, washing thoroughly that sensitive organ, which allows no foreign fluid to do the same work. Nothing cleanses the eye like a good salty shower bath, and medical art has followed nature's law in this respect, advocating the invigorating solution for any distressed condition of the optics. Tears do not weaken the light, but improve it. They act as a tonic on the mascular vision, keeping the eye soft and limid, and it will be noticed that women in whose eyes sympathetic tears gather quickly have brighter, tenderer orbs than others. When the pupils are hard and cold the world attributes it to one's disposition, which is a mere figure of speech, employing the lack of balmy tears, that are to the cornea what salve is to the skin or nourishment to the blood. THE NEW SHIRT WAIST. Reliable New York authority on styles forecasts the following for the new shirt waist that will soon make its appearance: The first shirt-waist of spring will have the tight upper sleeve. It will have a full lower arm. Its cuffs will be broad and very stiff. It will be buttoned at one side. The buttons will be very decorative. It will show rows and rows of pin tucking. Its collar will be quite distinct from its stock. Collars proper will be wide and will lie down in sailor fashion. Stocks will be stiff and will stand in military style. Watches, clocks and Jewelry repaired by an experienced workman at Hopper's Drug Store EXPLANATION OF BIBLE PHRASES. From the Christian World. A day's journey was about twentythree and one-fifth miles. A Sabbath day's journey was about an English mile. A cubit was nearly twenty-two inches. A hand's breath is equal to three and five-eights inches. A finger's breadth is equal to about one inch. A shekel of silver was equal to about fifty cents. A shekel of gold was $8. A farthin was three cents. A piece of silver or a penny was thirteen cents. A mite was less than a quarter of a cents. An ephah, or bath, contained seven gallons and five pints. ENDLESS CHAIN SCHEME Cleveland, Ohio, February 14—An endless-chain letter scheme, started by some person unknown to the officials of the McKinley National Memorial association, is giving serious work to the clerks of the organization, both at Cleveland and Canton. Already $1000 has been received through the chain letters, each of which contain 10 cents. These letters are being sent to Judge William R. Day at Canton, and the office force of the association there has found it impossible to handle the big volume of mail. As a result the letters are placed in sacks and shipped from Canton to Myron T. Herriek the national treasurer at Cleveland. The last shipment contained 3000 letters. 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. FACTS ABOUT THE WABASH. Republic, Feb. 4. The Wabash has just placed orders for more than $3,000,000 worth of eighty-pound steel rails. This summer $1,000,000 in steel rails will be laid on the Wabash lines to Kansas City, to Omaha, and to Des Moines. Sixty-thousand tons of steel rails will be laid on the Wheeling and Lake Erie and on the Pittsburg division. It is the intention to have the rails for the Western lines down in time for the World's Fair in St. Louis. Contracts for the work will soon be let, and the construction will then immediately begin. Orders for these rails have just been placed by President Joseph Ramsey, Jr. He said yesterday: "The finest roadbed in the world is not too good for us. The World's Fair is going to bring hundreads of thousands of people into St. Louis. We intend to make our record for carrying visitors to the Fair eclipse that made by us during the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo." The road is already figuring on an enlargement of service, and an addition to equipment to handle a tremendously heavy business. Increase in the company's gross earnings for the fiscal year, July 1, 1901 to January 31, 1902, have reached almost $1,000,000, and the passenger department has made the remarkable record several times of almost equaling the earnings of the freight department. The company's Pittsburg improvements are well under way. Everything in that direction will be completed in time for the Fair, which is the objective time of all the road's improvements. QUEER CONTEST From the Stoutville Banner. Het Watson, who is telegraph operator for the M. K. & T. at McKittrick, says the people of that vicinity engaged in a 'gander pulling' contest on Tuesday of last week, which he states is an annual event at that place and creates considerable excitement. A gander is hung up, his feet being tied tight and fast to a cross pole, and the contestants ride under at full speed in tournament fashion and take a pull at his neck, which has been greased in order to render the feat more difficult. There is a prize for the one who jerks off the gander's head, and he is the man of honor at the evening ball which always follows the contest. The ladies also engage in a similar contest, a rooster being substituted in place of the gander, and the lady who gets his scalp is the honored lady at the ball. The people of that community do not consider the sport of doubtful propriety. Het says he took no part in the contest, but just stood by and watched the performance. It may be great sport for both contestants and spectators, but our sympathy is with the gander and rooster. It's sure pretty tough on them. THE SEDALIA FAIR From Mexico Intelligencer. Hon. J. A Potts is home from Sedalia, where he attended a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Board of Managers of the Missouri State Fair, of which he is a prominent number. Among other arrangements made for the holding of this exhibition in 1902, was that of arranging for the opening of the state circuit, which includes all the State Fairs in the United States. It was arranged so that the opening of the Missouri State Fair on the 18th of August would also be the opening of the United States Fair circuit, the Missouri fair being the first on the circuit. For this reason in particular and many others in general, the exhibition of live stock at the fair this year is expected to be much greater and more extensive than last, and the people of the state are assured of a goodly number of all other kinds of exhibits as well. 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. TAX COMMISSIONERS APPOINTED. Gov. Dockery Monday appointed following named State Tax Commission, as provided by the act of April 17, 1901, to revise Chapter 119 of the Revised Statutes of Missouri of 1899, relating to revenue and the assessment and collection thereof: Judge William M. Williams, Boonville; General Edward C. Crow, Jefferson City; Hon. Peyton A. Parks, Cliuton. The Commission will meet in Jefferson City on Saturday, February 22nd, for the purpose of organization. MARCH WEATHER IN COLUMBIA The following data for month of March have been compiled from the records of the local Weather Bureau office and cover a period of twelve years: The mean or normal temperature of March is 42 degrees. The warmest March was that of 1894, with an average of 50 degrees, and the coldest was that of 1890, with an average of 37 degrees. The highest temperature recorded during any March was 85 degrees, on the 27th, 1895, and the lowest, 6 degrees below zero, on the 1st, 1890. The average number of days with minimum temperature below 32 degrees is 17. The average date of the last killing frost in spring is April 13th. The average precipitation for March (rain and melted snow) is 3.07 inches, and the average number of days with .01 of an inch or more, 11. The greatest March precipitation was 5.33 inches, in 1897, and the least, 1.13 inches, in 1896. The greatest amount of precipitation recorded in any 24 consecutive hours was 1.91 inches, on the 30th and 31st, 1895. The greatest amount of snowfall recorded in any 24 hours was 6.5 inches, on the 19th and 20th, 1895. The average number of clear days is 8; partly cloudy days, 9, and cloudy days, 14. The prevailing winds have been from the northwest. The highest velocity of the wind was 51 miles, from the southwest, on the 11th, 1899. A Child's Odd Notions. John Kendrick Bangs is of the opinion that the finest humor frequently drops unconsciously from the lips of childhood. As an illustration of the idea he tells this story: "Hennessey, formerly foreman of the Herald's composing room, had a little daughter who said: 'Mamma, what are the stars?' 'The stars, my child, are the Angel Gabriel's lamps. Every night at willlight the angel flies out of the gate of Paradise with a torch and lights all the stars.' On the following evening a storm darkened the heavens and the lightning zigzagged across the sky, The child ran to her mother, exclaiming: 'Mamma, I think the angel is going to light its lamps now.' 'Why do you think so, my daughter?' 'Because he is striking his matches on the sky.'"—New York Times. Comets of a Centurion. 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