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'Eight t were elected by the convention, as The convention adopted a strong public issue, strongly indorsing the dent Roosevelt and Mr. Ethan Aller- prior, as an honored son of the state The contests which had been ex- cussed, did not materialize. The rials and on permanent organiz- adopted without discussion or distance through the healthy rivalry Republican State Convention met in Jefferson City and was in session two days. It was the last and ever held in Missouri, and while much was manifested, the session was conceded to be rejected are well pleased with the results. Their delegations in this convention than in any other recent years, owing to the fact that the friend were trying to control the convention by would support one faction or the other. The Kerens and the anti-Kerens or Akin crowd all who of these leaders had the strongest for convention was done in a very harmonious way was nominated and a new state committee was ticket was nominated. It included names for point of public schools and two railroad committees the state committee representing the sixteen们 announced. 'Eight members at large of by the convention, as were two colored men convention adopted a strong set of resolutions or strongly indorsing the national administration and Mr. Ethan Allen Hitchcock, secretary honored son of the state. Testests which had been expected, and have been not materialize. The reports of the committee in permanent organization and order of without discussion or dissent. Contests came through the healthy rivalry of opposing candidates The Republican State Convention met in Jefferson City last Tuesday morning and was in session two days. It was the largest convention of its kind ever held in Missouri, and while much strife between the leaders was manifested, the session was conceded to be harmonious and all interested are well pleased with the results. There were more contesting delegations in this convention than in any of the conventions held in recent years, owing to the fact that the friends of the two great leaders were trying to control the convention by electing delegates that would support one faction or the other. The factions are known as the Kerens and the anti-Kerens or Akin crowds, and it was difficult to tell who of these leaders had the strongest following. The work of the convention was done in a very harmonious way. A strong state ticket was nominated and a new state committee was elected. A state ticket was nominated. It included names for the office of superintendent of public schools and two railroad commissioners. The members of the state committee representing the sixteen districts of the state were announced. Eight members at large of the committee were elected by the convention, as were two colored members at large. The convention adopted a strong set of resolutions covering every public issue, strongly indorsing the national administration and President Roosevelt and Mr. Ethan Allen Hitchcock, secretary of the interior, as an honored son of the state. The contests which had been expected, and have been so much discussed, did not materialize. The reports of the committees on credentials and on permanent organization and order of business were adopted without discussion or dissent. Contests came in every instance through the healthy rivalry of opposing candidates. PLACES FOR TWO NEGROES. The convention then approach gramme, the election of eight mem- When the chairman announced that Boonville, moved that the rules be- two members-at-large to represent upon the committee, in addition to The motion prevailed, after some St. Charles, on behalf of the young presented the names of Prof. Char- R. C. Martin, of Kansas City. He language for recognition of the young who were ever ready to go out to waiting to locate the money for c without asking any compensation The 4th district had a candidate of St. Louis, president of the league Prof. Willhams' nomination w on the east side of the hall, and a nation for the 1st district. The ch upon two members at once in the and Campbell were elected on 1st BANKRU vention then approached the last business of the election of eight members-at-large on the stewardship chairman announced that this was in order. We moved that the rules be suspended and the co-att-at-large to represent the colored Republican committee, in addition to the eight other members prevailed, after some debate, and Rev. W. On behalf of the young negro Republicans the names of Prof. Charles J. Williams, of Kansas City. He made a strong plea in recognition of the young, ambitious and fairer ready to go out to do anything for the district the money for compensation before being any compensation further than the success a district had a candidate in the person of C. C., president of the league of negro Republicans, Williams' nomination was seconded by a co- outside of the hall, and a colored delegate second the 1st district. The chairman ruled that the members at once in the ballot. This was do- all were elected on 1st ballot. ANKRUPT SA The convention then approached the last business on the programme, the election of eight members-at large on the state committee. When the chairman announced that this was in order, W. Martin, of Boonville, moved that the rules be suspended and the convention name two members-at-large to represent the colored Republicans of the state upon the committee, in addition to the eight other members-at-large. The motion prevailed, after some debate, and Rev. W. H. Peck, of St. Charles, on behalf of the young negro Republicans of the state, presented the names of Prof. Charles J. Williams, of Boonville, and R. C. Martin, of Kansas City. He made a strong plea in eloquent language for recognition of the young, ambitious and faithful workers who were ever ready to go out to do anything for the party without waiting to locate the money for compensation before they go, and without asking any compensation further than the success of the party. The 4th district had a candidate in the person of Capt. Campbell, of St. Louis, president of the league of negro Republican clubs. Prof. Williams' nomination was seconded by a country delegate on the east side of the hall, and a colored delegate seconded the nomination for the 1st district. The chairman ruled that the delegates vote upon two members at once in the ballot. This was done. Williams and Campbell were elected on 1st ballot. The Entire Stock of Sisson & Vivion's Books, Stationery, and School Supplies at Less than Half Price. Broadway an adway and Tenth S Broadway and Tenth Street. COLUMBIA, MISSOURI, FRIDAY, JUNE 27 1902. ```markdown ``` Contracting Church Debts. Very few Negro churches are out of debt. There is a constant clamor for the rally. Special days in each month are set aside for the purpose of raising money to meet the bonded indebtedness. Concerts, entertainments, and festivals are given in the church and out, and ingenious devices are evolved for the purpose of raising money to meet these never decreasing obligations. No person will object to the payment of honest debts contracted. None will object to the building of churches. But common sense would dictate that it is not an act of wisdom on the part of a congregation to indebt itself beyond its means to pay, any more than it is for an individual. Our church people should take a common sense view of these matters, and not mortgage the children "even unto the fourth generation." We do not believe it is required by God of his followers to live in one hundred dollar homes and build ten thousand dollar churches. Two years ago, two churches were built in a western city by Negroes at a cost of one hundred thousand dollars. They are beautiful structures, and a credit to the city in which they are built, but how do they compare with homes of the majority of those who come to worship. In that city the average income of the large Negro population will not exceed thirty dollars per month throughout the year, and the majority live in rented property. How much more Christianity would have been displayed had the pastors urged the members of their congregation to buy homes; save their money; open business enterprises for the employment of their boys and girls, and satisfied their religious ambitions by worshiping God in a less pretentious edifice. It is very clear that the effectiveness of Negro churchmen as elements in the future uplift of the race will depend largely upon a changing of the direction of the energy of the church from a great church building force to a great character building force.—Topeka Plain-Dealer. Quincy Boat Excursion, Sunday, June 29, via the M. K. & T. Ry., and the fine excursion steamer "J. S." capacity 2,000. Plenty of room. The Fayette Brass Band will furnish the music. $2.25 round trip. Special train leaves Columbia at 5:15 a. m. For particulars, see Katy's agent. Dr. Perry No 2. A telegram received here Monday morning from Springfield announced the arrival of a junior Dr. Perry. Mother and son are both doing well. Dr. J. E. Perry, who is now in Springfield will return Monday and as a result of the recent arrival at Springfield will do all office work free of charge for the next ten days. Color Line Not drawn. Denver, Colo., June 24.—Acting Chairman W. N. Hartshorn, of the executive committee of the national Sunday school congress, announced to-day that no color line would be drawn, all negro delegates being given the same recognition as whites. The congress would open Wednesday morning. President Hoke Smith, of the congress, notified the chairman of the general convention that he would not be able to attend the sessions here on account of illness. Having Serious Trouble. A very popular young lady of this city who is practicing house-keeping (while she waits) has met with a serious hindrance to her success as a house-keeper. In a certain corner in the house a very ambitious little mouse was discovered several days ago and she promptly gave the alarm and called for help to rid herself of the monster's presence and the little fellow would have been murdered in cold blood had he not found his way into a hole; the young lady at once ordered a good supply of rough on rats and cheese and placed it in the animal's pass-way, and retired hoping that this menu would save her from having to commit justifiable homicide, but to her surprise she found that this dangerous beast had devoured the prepared meal and when seen next day was much more vicious looking than ever. The young lady has been threatened with nervous prostration from the dangerous excitement and the matter will be turned over to the city authorities in a few days. Mr. Thomas Ridgeway attended the Republican convention at Jefferson City. Mr. Jerry Morrison is still improving. Mr. A. M. Schweish and Rev. Fisher attend the Republican convention this week. A moonlight picnic and social was given at the second Baptist Church last Tuesday evening. The editor of the Professional World was a spectator at the state convention this week. Subscribe to the Professional World only $1.00 per year. Mr. Willard Turner left last week for Detroit, Michigan. $2.25 Excursion to Quincy, Sunday, June 29th, via the M. K. & T. Ry., and the Excursion Steamer "J. S." The Fayette band will furnish the music. Misses Mary Richardson and Bessie Diggs, Mr. James Williams and Rev. A. A. Adams, are attendethe Baptist S. S. convention at St. Charles, Mo. Mrs. Kate grandison will leave in a few days for a visit in Detroit, Michigan. The M. E. Sunday school and Epworth League conventions are in session at Sturgeon, Mo. A number of delegates from the M. E. Church in this city are attending. Master Georgia Caldwell who has been attending school at Fisk University completed the preparatory course last week and is now spending the summer in Chicago where the President of the university has secured him a good position. Mrs. Susan Vaughn of Chicago is visiting her parents Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Morrison. [Name] To Pay the Penalty. Sheriff Bradford last Monday sent three of his boarders over the road—William Price, who was found guilty of forgery at last term of circuit court, went to the penitentiary for five years. John Smart, for the killing of a negro, went down for two years. Elijah Asbury went to the reform school at Boonville for two years. Store for Negroes. Dr. J. E. Perry, Bart Akers, and W. W. Lampkin are the promoters of a new grocery store to be opened on West Broadway for the colored people of Columbia. It is a stock company, such as has been advocated for some time by the Professional World, the organ of the colored people published by R. L. Logan. If the enterprise pays, as it doubtless will, other lines of business may be taken up in the same way. The colored people are numerous and their trade amounts to considerable in course of a year. This new firm which is to be known as the Columbia Grocery Co., will open for business about the first of July.-Statesman. Arch Buckner Found Dead. On receipt of the news that the body of Arch Buckner, colored, had been found in a pasture near Rock Bridge, 6 miles south of Columbia, Coroner Moss P. Parker, went down to that neighborhood Sunday afternoon to make an investigation and hold an inquest. The story of the killing as developed at the inquest was about as follows: Last Friday afternoon Dave Grant, Arch Buckner and four or five other negroes started from Rock Bridge and had been drinking. They stopped at the home of Bill Moore, who fires the distillery at that place, and stayed until late at night. Dave Grant left about 11 o'clock, and soon Arch Buckner went out to find him. Parties in the neighborhood heard pistol shots, and when he returned Moore's wife asked him if he had killed Buckner. He did not know. Then he left, and finally the carousel broke up. Moore's children found the body of Buckner next day, but it was not reported to the coroner till Sunday. The clothes on the upper part of the body were burned off, supposed to have been set on fire by the pistol shot. The body was literally cooked. The jury found that Buckner had been killed by Dave Grant, but Grant had left and has not been found. Record Price for Fat Cattle. The highest price ever paid for fat cattle on the Kansas City market was received Tuesday morning by Champ Workman of Grain Valley, Mo. He received $8.25 per hundred-weight for thirty-eight fancy fat 2-year-old Shorthorns averaging 1,466 pounds. They were fed by D. Lee Shawhan of Lone Jack, Mo. Sixteen months ago the cattle were bought as calves on the Kansas City market. At that time they averaged 572 pounds and cost $5.15. Columbia's P. O. Building. A letter from Congressman Rucker informs the Moberly Democrat that owing to the error of an enrolling clerk the appropriations for Moberly and Columbia for purchase of site only was incorporated into the section for site and erection, instead of a section providing for purchase of site only. As soon as it was discovered he had a resolution introduced in the house to correct the mistake. This resolution has passed the house and will pass the senate in a very few days. As soon as this is done the advertisements for site will be published. VOL. I. NO. 34. GUARDIANSHIP.CONTESTED. Important Case from Hallsville Heard by Judge Switzler Wednesday. In the matter of the persons of Georgia L. Johnson and Harrell H. Johnson, minors. These minors were children of Aubrey Johnson and Mary Johnson, both of whom are now deceased. Mrs. Rachle Johnson was appointed guardian of the persons of the three minors by the probate court on April 11 last. Her husband, Luther Johnson, was a brother of the deceased father of sald minors. A few days ago Green Johnson and Sarah Johnson, his wife, grandparents of sald minors, filed application in probate court asking that Mrs. Rachle Johnson be removed as guardian and themselves appointed, for a number of causes, in substance towit: Because the grandparents were nearer in relationship and feel nearer towards them; could give them better home and better provide for them; because Mrs. Johnson is ill-tempered and unkind to them and treats them badly and would not permit them to visit their grandparents, and lives too far from the school house where the eldest children attend school. The matter came up in the probate court for hearing last Wednesday, and the number of witnesses and interested parties was so large that Judge Switzler held the trial in the circuit court room. J. L. Stephens represented the petitioners, Green and Sarah Johnson; N. T. Gentry represented the defendant guardian, Mrs. Rachie Johnson. The trial consumed the entire day. A great number of lady witnesses were present from the vicinity where the parties live, which is near Hallsville. The case was vigorously contested by both sides. The case was extensively and ably argued by counsel on either side. The court decided that the application be overruled and the guardianship left undisturbed. It, however, made an order to the effect that the guardian was to permit the children to visit their grandparents one day out of each month, on the application of the grandparents. The two children are about 4 and 6 years of age, are the great grandchildren of Geo. W. Harrell, Sr., and also of D. B. Cunningham, of Columbia. Suit for Toll. The Columbia and Cedar Creek Turnpike Co., last Saturday filed suit in Judge Boggs' court against Irvin C. Vivion for $26.21 which they allege the defendant owes them for toll. Mr. Vivion's defense will be that the company has not fulfilled its contract as agreed in its charter and does not keep its road in good repair. The case has been set for July 3. N. T. Gentry has been engaged as counsel for the road company. C. B. Sebastian is attorney for Mr. Vivion. The case is one of special interest. New Republican Committee. Missouri republicans who will look after the interests of Akins's organizations by congressional districts: Second—R. R. Smith, Brookfield; Grant McCullogh, Milan. Third—W. J. Wrightman, Bethany; W. J. Gromer, Stanberry. Fourth—Ralph O. Stauber, St. Joseph; Samuel P. O'Fallon, Oregon. Sixth—Daniel T. Boisseau, Warreensburg; Bernard Tich, Harrisonville. Seventh—C. N. Van Hosen, Springfield; S. P. Huston, Malta Bend. Eighth—J. F. Gmelich, Boonville; R. S. Harvey, Eidon. Ninth—J. C. Parish, Vandalia; Rolla S. Paul, Montgomery. Tenth—Max Starkloff, St. Louis; Theodore Kalbfeld, St. Louis. Eleventh—A. F. Sturtevand, Chas. F. Busche. Twelfth—Hiram Lloyd, Chris Schaecker. Thirteenth—M. E. Rhodes, Potosi; Peter Geising, Farmington. Fourteenth—M. E. Leming, Cape Girardeau; J. A. Toberton, Toberton. Fifteenth—Thomas M. Allen, Cass- ville; Robert Stickney, Carthage. Sixteenth—J. W. Tuson, Marsh- field; Ed Long, Rolla. From Preacher to Lawyer. Louisiana, Mo., June 24--Elder F. A. Mayhall, pastor of the Christian church here, has announced that he will leave the ministry to take up the study of law. He has presented his resignation, to take effect September 1, when he will enter the law department of Missouri University. RUFUS L. LOGAN, B. S. D., Editor. COLUMBIA. : : : MISSOURI THE NEWS CONDENSED. THE NEWS CONDENSED. George Heweson, formerly a prominent constructing architect and builder of St. Louis, was adjudged insane and removed to the asylum at Elgin, Ill. Mr. Heweson is 67 years old and some years ago constructed several office building at St. Louis. Last week's average cost of hogs at Chicago was $7.33, being the highest week's average in nine weeks, against $7.21 the previous week, $7.09 the week ending May, 31, $6.10 March 1, $6.08 a year ago last week, $5.10 two years ago, and $3.80 three years ago. The American board of foreign missions has received word of the death of Rev. Willis C. Dewey, D. D., in New York. Dr. Dewey has been a member of the Eastern Turkey mission of the board since 1877, with his location at Mardin, in northern Mesopotamia. He was born in Canton, Ill., and was graduated from Beloit college in 1873 and from Chicago Theological seminary in 1877. According to advises received by the steamer Aorangi, at Victoria, B. C., a Malayan sailor recently arrived at Port Darwin and reported that he was the only survivor of a crew of ten men of a Malay trading schooner which had been wrecked off Cape Wilberforce, North Australia. The crew was attacked by blacks and all but one murdered. The survivor suffered severe privation before being rescued. A special bulletin issued by the weather bureau at noon Saturday says Storms of the type that appear this morning over the east gulf usually cause copious general rains in the Atlantic states. Semi-drought conditions will in all probability be broken in the south Atlantic states and in the middle Atlantic Sunday and Sunday night and east to southeast winds increasing in force and lower temperatures. W. W. Atchison, a saloonkeeper, shot and killed James O'Meara and wounded William Thayer, after a quarrel in Atchison's saioon, at San Pedro, N. M. Atchison had been drinking and was flourishing a revolver when O'Meara took it away from him. Atchison went home and secured a rifle and began to shoot, with the above result. O'Meara was a bookkeeper for the Santa Fe Gold and Copper Mining company, and his home was in Des Moines. The people of the Davis chapel section of Marshal county, Ky., were thrown into great excitement by a fusillade of bullets being fired into a Mormon meeting by some of the opposition in the neighborhood. Hardy Lamb was shot in the leg. The mormon converts, fifteen or sixteen in number, returned the fire and more bloodshed is feared. Less than a year ago the Mormon church there was burned and two elders were driven away. The degree of doctor of jurisprudence (juris utriusque doctor,) has been conferred upon former President Cleveland at the commencement exercises of the Augustianan college of St. Thomas at Villa Nova, a suburb of Philadelphia. Mr. Cleveland will bear the distinction of being the first person in the United States to receive this degree. Among others who will receive honorary degrees is Baron von Hengerva, Austrian ambassador to the United States. Lemuel Hickman, restauranteur, of Springfield, IL, found his wife in a comprimising position with another man Saturday. About 9:30 at night Hickman induced his wife to take a ride on the street car to Washington Park. While strolling in the park Hickman drew a revolver and shot his wife three times, in the right lung, right shoulder and right side of the head, the last named wound fracturing her skull. She died soon after. He then shot himself in the stomach. Mrs. George W. Parker, wife of a farmer near Ann Arbor, Mich., committed suicide Saturday afternoon. Her husband had gone to a neighboring village and while her grandmother and her 7-year-old daughter were asleep Mrs. Parker went into a chicken coop poured a quart of kerosene over herself, and then ignited it. The body was not discovered until evening. Mrs. Parker read an account of the suicide of a woman in a similar manner a few days ago and remarked how terrible a death it was. The design for the Jefferson Davis memorial arch to be erected in Richmond, Va., which was submitted by Louis Albert Gudebrod and accepted by a committee representing the United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Federation of Southern Memorial Societies, has been announced. The design propose san arch. Corinthian in style, to be constructed of Southern granite, having a height of 65 feet, a width of 70 feet and a breadth of 24 feet. The archway is to be 25 feet wide and 40 feet high in the clear. Henry C. White, the last colored man to sit in congress, a member from North Carolina in both the Fifty-fifth and Fifty-sixth congresses, is reported to be at the head of a syndicate which has purchased from Senator Robert E. Hand 975½ acres of land near Burleigh, N. J., and Cape May. It is intended to establish a colony of negroes from North Carolina. The name of the town is to be Whiteboro. Already several avenues have been laid out. Each colonist is to buy a house on the installment plan, and is to have ten years to pay for it. It is to be an agricultural colony, on the same plan as the Jewish colony at Woodbine, founded by the Baron de Hirsch fund trustees. Harry W. Bragg, a private in a company of the Twentieth United States infantry, Monday night shot and killed Mrs. Lizzie Tibbits and then shot and killed himself. The tragedy was enacted on the grounds at the Columbus barracks. Jealousy was the motive. Mrs. Tibbits was employed as cook for Major Augur of the Twentieth infantry. Her husband was an enlisted man, but was dishonorably discharged several weeks ago. Bragg became infatuated with the woman. Just preceding the tragedy, Bragg quarreled with her because she had gone out with another man. Decides to Carry on as Far as Possible Business Requiring King's Signature. London, June 24.—A cabinet council, which lasted an hour, was held at 7 o'clock this evening. It is understood it was arranged to carry on as far as possible the public business requiring the king's approval and signature without reference to his majesty in order to insure absolute mental and physical rest and quietude throughout what the ministers hope will be a period of convalescence. Feeling in France. Paris, June 25.—Paris papers this morning give great prominence to the accounts of the illness of King Edward. They are accompanied by expressions of deepest sympathy with Great Britain. President Cables. Washington, D. C., June 25.—The president just before leaving the white house for the railroad station sent the following to King Edward: "I ask your majesty to accept my sincere assurances of sympathy and wishes for a speedy convalescence. "THEODORE ROOSEVELT." CONFESSES WHEN CAUGHT. Minneapolis Detective Makes Some Startling Disclosures Implicating Many High Officials. Minneapolis, Minn., June 25—C. C. Norbeck, who jumped a $5,000 bond in this city recently, was returned this morning from Carver, twenty-two miles southeast of here, and will again undergo trial on a charge of having accepted a bribe while a detective on the city police force. Norbeck made a startling confession to the state's attorney of Hennepin county shortly after he was apprehended. He declared that he was guilty of all charges filed against him and implicated all other Minneapolis officials now under indictment. When Norbeck entered a drug store in Carver, while intoxicated, yesterday afternoon, his actions excited the suspicions of Clerk C. C. Brunis, who telephoned the town marshal. Norbeck was taken by the two men and later lodged in the Chaska county jail. Erwin Gardiner, also convicted on a bribery charge just before Norbeck escaped, was taken to the state Penitentiary at Stillwater last night. STEAMER IN DIRE DISTRESS. Sighted Outside of Baker's Island Firing Rockets and Whistling— A Steam Launch Sent Out. New York, June 25.—A large steamer was sighted early today outside Baker's island firing rockets and whistling, evidently in distress, says a Beverly, Mass., dispatch to the Herald. A steam launch from Baker's island put into Marblehead with the information which was telephoned to Beverly. It was impossible, owing to the extreme darkness, to learn the name of the vessel or to what line she belonged. A volunteer life saving crew at once left Marblehead. The tug Henry Preston also started from Beverly, manned by a volunteer crew. It was thought at that time that the steamer was either one of the Boston & Bangor line or the Portland line running from Boston, and that she became disabled and was making for the nearest port. The sea was very high, so that the possibility of a wreck was slight. HEARS FROM HER HUSBAND. Strange Disappearance of Dr. George H. Craft of Newark, N. J., Is Cleared Away. New York, June 25.—Word has just been received of the whereabouts of Dr. Geo. H. Craft of Newark, N. J., who strangely disappeared last April, says a Geneva, N. Y., special to the Times. His wife received a letter from San Francisco, where the doctor says he is in a hospital recovering from typhoid fever. The physician left his home in Newark April 19 to find his father, who had wandered away from home. The elder Craft was found and later the son disappeared. He was heard from last at Sandusky, O. The police of the western cities were asked to search for him, but no trace was found. The letter says the writer cannot explain how he reached San Francisco. A VANDERBILT IS INJURED. Mrs. W. Seward Webb, Daughter of Late William H., Thrown from Her Horse. New York, June 25—Mrs. W. Seward Webb, daughter of the late William H. Vanderbilt, has been severely injured by a fall from the horse, says a Burlington, Vt., dispatch to the World. The animal shied while Mrs. Webb was riding to Shelburn farm with a party of friends. The rider was thrown to the ground and was unconscious several hours. After an examination doctors from Burlington announced that the injuries were not serious, althoughkh Mrs. Webb would be confined to the house for some time and will suffer severely. BRITISH BOAT WAS BEATEN. Leander and Vol Au Vent Both Beat the English Schooner Yacht Cicely. Island of Heligoland, June 25.—The Leander, owned by Rupert Guinness, arrived here at 8:50 p. m. yesterday, so that both of the yawls, the Vol Au Vent, owned by John Dempsey, and the Leander, which started from Dover, Eng., at noon June 21 in the race to this island for the German emperor's cup, beat the new English schooner yacht Cicely, owned by Cicil Quentin, designed to challenge Emperor William's American built schooner yacht Meteor. The Cicely was the first yacht in the race to reach Heligoland, but she was beaten on time allowance. She alloyed the Val Au Vent five and one-half hours and the Leander three and one-half hours. EAR OPPOSED TO PEACE MINDANAO MORO CHIEFS HATE AMERICANS. They Prefer to Court Death Rather Than See the Americans Reign Supreme in the Island—Five Soldiers of Twenty-seventh Infantry Are Attacked and Two of Them Wounded — Chaffee Sends Death List. Manila, June 25.—The Moros of Mindanao report that an extraordinary conference has been held at Bacolod to consider the question of recognizing American authority. The suitan urged his followers to accept the friendship of the Americans. A majority of the dattos refused, and two of them declared they were willing to die rather than co-operate with the American invaders. Three towns on the western shore continue hostile to the Americans. The officers and troops, however, hope to win them over in a short time. Ten Moros attacked five men of the Twenty-Seventh infantry, who were guarding the transport service. They boiled two of them seriously. The Moros got away without suffering any casualties, capturing one rifle. This occurred a half mile from the American camp. The Badinglam Moros say the attackers were Moros from Bonolod, who went on the warpath in the morning for the avowed purpose of killing negligent Americans. Chaffee Sends Death List. Washington, D. C., June 25.—In reply to a cablegram of the 15th instant to General Chaffee, to cable the names of the men of troop M. Fifth cavalry, who were captured May 30, near Morong, and murdered June 1, the war department is advised that Sergeant Lewis Steward, Corporal William J. Black, Corporal Edmond J. Finnegan, Trumpeter Charles W. Davis and Private Patrick Carr were murdered. CRISIS IN CUBAN AFFAIRS. Industrial Conditions of the Young Republic Are Bad and Growing Worse Rapidly. New York, June 25.—Charles M. Pepper returned today from a 4-month stay in Cuba. He represents the industrial conditions there as bad and growing worse and there is a distressing crisis in commercial affairs at Havana. President Palma is reducing the salaries abolishing offices to meet the economic situation and keep expenses within the income. The real trouble is the depression in the sugar industry, the big plantations doing nothing towards next year's crop. The Cubans are patient and will do everything possible to sustain Palma. WILL BE BROUGHT TO IOWA Yates Honors the Requisition of Gov Cummins and J. W. Laswell Will Come Here for Trial. Springfield, Ill., June 25.—Governor Yates today honored the requisition of Governor Cummins of Iowa for the extradition of J. W. Laswell, wanted in Fort Madison, Ia., charged with borrowing $2,000 from the Lee County Savings bank with intent to defraud the bank. He is under arrest in Carthage, Ill. PEORIA POLICE CHIEF DEAD. Chas. E. Flynn Served as Chief of the Peoria Police for Several Years. Peoria, June 25.—Charles E. Flynn for several years chief of police of Peoria and president of the Illinois Police Chiefs association, is dead. He was a resident of this city for 20 years. LIGHTNING STRIKES A CHURCH Structure at Pinerio, Spain is Struck While Funeral Services Are Being Held in It. Madrid, June 25.—While a funeral was being held in a church at Pinerio today the building was struck by lightning. Twenty-five persons were killed and 25 injured. IS SENT TO THE MAD HOUSE Jane Toppan, Insane Nurse, Makes the Horrible Confession of Having Killed 31 People. Boston, June 25.—Jane Toppan, who was sentenced to be sent to the insane asylum by the jury, at Barnstable yesterday, where she was tried for the murder of Mary D. Gibbs, has made a confession to her counsel, Judge Bixby, that she killed 31 persons, patients whom she had murdered, and was found not guilty Monday afternoon of charge of poisoning Mrs. Mary E. Gibbs, for whom she acted as nurse. She was freed of the charge because of her insanity and by order of the court she was committed to the Taunton insane asylum for the rest of her life. The defense called no witnesses except the alienists, who declared the defendant insane. WELLINGTON IS BACK AGAIN. The Maryland Senator Receives a Welcome on His Return to the Republican Party. Baltimore, Md., June 25.—Senator Wellington's friends say he is back in the Republican party again and that Senators Quay and Hanna have extended him the hand of political fellowship. It is also predicted that in view of growing opposition to Senator McComas' leadership among the Maryland Republicans Wellington will take a hand in the fight to prevent McComas' re-election as United States senator. Hanna, it is charged, has been cultivating Wellington, who voted for his ship subsidy bill and for the Panama canal measure. It is said to be due to Hanna that Wellington has not been snubbed more in the senate. TO HUNT DOWN THE REDS. Government Secret Service Men Are Searching for Anarchists at Paterson, N. J. Paterson, N. J., June 24.—The United States government is taking a hand in the anarchist troubles in Paterson. Two secret service detectives arrived here this morning to ferret the ring-leaders of the anarchists. They are the men who worked on the Bresci case. Immediately upon arriving in the town they began work in the Italian quarter, and it is expected they will make several arrests before the week is over. These detectives are working independently of the local authorities. All over the city through the mill districts in the suburbs of the town the mayor's proclamation forbidding the use of pistols, guns or fireworks was posted last night on buildings and telegraph poles. This morning when the authorities awoke hundreds of the posters were almost completely hidden by the unsigned placards calling for the joining of forces for a general strike. When the factory whistles blew this morning the few hundred men who decided to return to work pending the result of the conference between the labor leaders and the manufacturers filed into the mills silently. There were no hostile demonstrations against them and they were permitted to resume work. Jersey City Mass Meeting Union Hill, N. J., June 23—All the silk mills opened here this morning, and up to 11 o'clock the striking dyers' helpers had made no demonstration. A mass meeting is being held near Jersey City today and the police fear that an outbreak against the Union Hill mills may result. DID THE PIRATES GET IT? One of the Curious Letters Received at the World's Fair Head- St. Louis, June 24.—In a letter received from Sanibel, Florida, at world's fair headquarters, the author expresses a desire to open up a correspondence with the exposition company concerning the $15,000,000 paid by the United States for the Louisiana concessions in 1803. "Was not some of this money lost—stolen by pirates?" he asks, and he then continues: "For many years people have been searching for $11,500,000 of gold bullion buried here in the vicinity of Charlotte harbor by old Gasparilla and Laffite, noted pirates. The survivors of this huge steal say it was the Louisiana purchase money. Laffite only acted as a spy; Gasparilla did the stealing. I have searched for it seven years and find considerable evidence concerning it, though it is very difficult to exactly locate. If it can be found, it will be the making of the Louisiana Purchase exposition. Please let me know if there was a portion of the money lost, for I am very much interested." FUNERAL OF SAXONY'S KING. Dresden, Saxony, June 24. The funeral of the late King Albert took place this evening, and was impressive. The coffin was covered with a red satin pall and around it a vigil had been kept by Saxon officers and dignitaries of the Saxon court since it was conveyed to the church last Saturday. At the services this evening half of the church was occupied by the diplomatic corps of the extraordinary missions who had come to Dresden to attend the funeral, which included Andrew D. White and Marquis De Noailles, respectively, United States and French ambassadors, and deputations of foreign officers. The royal mourners included King George and the Princess of Saxony, Emperor William, Emperor Francis Joseph, the grand duke of Baden and others. The widowed Queen Caroline and Empress of Germany, together with the Saxon princesses, occupied two pews in the church. Dr. Brendlock, court chaplain, delivered the funeral oration. At the conclusion of the services the royal coffin was lowered into a vault beneath the church, and as this was done volleys of cannon and musketry were fired outside the building. Emperor William and Emperor Francis Joseph left Dresden late tonight. HON. DAVID T. LITTLER DEAD. One of the Illinois Republican Leaders and Brother-in-law of the Late Gov. Oglesby. Springfield, Ill., June 24.—David T. Littler, former state senator and well known Republican leader, died today of Bright's disease. He had been alling for more than a year, so his death was not unexpected. He was born in Clifton, O., in 1836 and came to Illinois in 1860. He was admitted to the bar and at once began a career of political activity. For over 20 years he was a strong factor in Illinois politics. YOUNG BOY HANGS HIMSELF. He Feared a Father's Chastisement Because a Team Got Away from Him. Creston, Ia., June 24.—Walter Davis, a 12-year-old living near Lenox, committed suicide by hanging himself with a halter strap. A team of horses ran away with the boy yesterday, and he is supposed to have committed the act in fear of chastisement. TRAMP HEIR TO A FORTUNE. Fred Warner, Umbrella Mender, Left a Large Fortune by a Michigan Relative. South Befind., Ind. June 24.—Fred Warner, her to $100,000, hag been beaten by the South Bend Tribune, or years he has been tramping the country as an umbrella mender. He has gone to Kalamazoo, Mich., to claim a fortune which is held for him by Mary Park. TO UTILIZE ARID LANDS PACKERS TO RAISE CATTLE IN FLORIDA. Gigantic Scheme That Will Probably Revolutionize the Cattle Raising Industry—Thousands of Acres to be Cultivated With Cassava Root—Experiment Will Show Value of the New Fattening Product. Chicago, June 23.—Plans that were first taken into consideration about a year ago have been developing in the last few months to the point where Swift & Co. and others of the great packing establishments in Chicago have begun experiments on what may prove a revolution of the cattle industry of the country. The project involves the settlement of several hundred thousand acres of what is at present nearly valueless land in northern and northwestern Florida and southern Alabama, the cultivation on a large scale of the cassava root, and its use in feeding cattle and hogs. If the plan develops as it is now in the minds of the leading packers, the Southern states will become the center of the cattle-raising industry. The cassava root was originally a product of South America. Its value as a food product was long ago discovered by the natives, who made from it tapioca. However, it was only recently that the adaptability of the plant to Florida soil was discovered and the great value of it as food for cattle and hogs was demonstrated. Recently the agricultural colleges in the South took for cattle and hogs was demonstrated. Recently the agricultural colleges in the South took up the study of the root and declared it to possess wonderful properties as a food for animals and men. When the possibilities of the cassava became known to some of the prominent men of the South it was proposed to develop what are at present unoccupied and practically waste tracts of land. Consequently a committee was formed, which, in conjunction with officials of the Louisville & Nashville road, who are interested in booming the lands along their right of way, entered into negotiations with the Chicago packers as the center of the cattle business of the country. Preliminary correspondence was carried out, reports and investigations made. A few weeks ago the committee had an audience with the packers in Chicago, and it is believed that the big concerns, particularly Swift & Co., were so impressed with the representations made that it was determined to begin a test of the plans. It was reported to the packers that fully 1,000,000 acres of iand, were available for the project, much of it belonging to the government and open for settlement free, under the home-steed law. The experiments that were under taken are said to have shown that an acre of this land would produce twenty tons of cassava to a crop, which in turn would yield about 8,000 pounds of starchy material. Corn produces about 4,000 pounds of starch to the acre, or just one-half the cassava crop, and it is said to cost much more to grow than cassava. Furthermore, the corn crops frequently fall from crimatic conditions, while the cassava crop is said to be practically certain, yet it is not. Experiments made with cattle fed on cassava are said to have shown a great advantage in it over corn or grass feed. Live beef costs only 1.1 cents a pound to fatten by cassava, against several cents a pound by present methods. H. E. Stockbridge, a prominent agriculturist of the South, made the statement: "Cassava is distinctly a starch-forming fat and heat-forming foods for all classes of animals, human beings included. Its chief value lies in the cheapness with which fat-forming material can be produced." It appears, from the representations made by the Southerners, that experiments are also going on for the manufacture of starch and starch products from cassava instead of corn and potatoes, at present. It was pointed out by them that about twice as much starch to the acre could be grown through cassava than corn, and three times as much as by potatoes. It is hoped by them that the demonstration will be made so clearly as to carry with it a revolution of the starch-making industry. It is stated that arrangements are now being made for the accommodation of a considerable number of cattle to be shipped from the stock yards here to northern Florida, to be fed on cassava root. The results of the fattening process will be compared with similar work in the West, regarding which the conditions and cost are already definitely known. The result obtained will determine the future of the cassava experiment. THE VALLEY IS ALL AFLAME. For a Distance of Seven Miles the Green River Valley, Washington, is One Mass of Fire. Hot Springs, Wash., June 23.—For a distance of seven miles the Green river valley is a sea of flames. Since noon yesterday Dr. Kloeber and the employees and guests of the Kloeber Green river hot springs, have been persistently and successfully fighting the fire to save the hotel. Steadily the fire was held back and assistance was asked for from Tacoma, which was promptly sent by Mayor Campbell. Near Maywood, three miles below here, a lumber camp has been burned out. On each sie is a seething furnace so hot that the crew on the relief train was compelled to seek protection inside the caboose while passing. Morgan's camp, one mile down, is partially destroyed, though it is thought the most valuable effects can be saved. At Canton, nine miles below Hot Springs are congregated the few settlers and woodmen of the vicinity. They declare the forest for miles around to be ablaze. At Eagle gorge the same condition exists, and several smaller fires are reported within a radius of 25 miles. Oskaloosa, June 23.—B. P. Bacon, aged 76, a retired capitalist and banker, and widely known, died today of apoplexy. He Delivers a Forcible Speech on the Omnibus Territorial Bill—Debate in the House. Washington, June 24.—A motion was entered formally in the senate today by Senator Quay of Pennsylvania to discharge the committee on territories from further consideration of what is known as the omnibus territorial bill, the measure to admit as states the territories of Oklahoma, New Mexico and Arizona. Senator Quay spoke briefly but forcibly in support of his motion, maintaining that both political parties in national convention had pledged themselves to the admission to statehood of the territories. Senator Beveridge of Indiana, chairman of the committee, said the measure had been put over until the next session because it was not believed there would be time now to consider it properly. No action was taken on the motion. During the greater part of the session unfinished business and the bill ratifying the convention with the Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians was under discussion. It was not disposed of. Civil Government Debate Washington, June 24.—The debate on the civil government bill warmed up in the house today and henceforth promises to be of much livelier character. The increased interest is due to the injection into the debate of the comparison of cruelties charged to have been practiced in the Philippines with those which occurred during the civil war. The subject had been lightly touched up once or twice before, but attracted little attention until Grosvenor of Ohio today revived the memory of the extremities to which Grant and Jackson were put during the rebellion. This was followed late in the day, by a speech from Mahon of Pennsylvania in which he paraded the horrors of the Andersonville and Libby prisons. He predicted that in the coming election the American people would stand by the "boys in blue." Grosvenor in his speech also defended the rules of the house against criticism passed upon them and paid a high tribute to Speaker Henderson's impartiality. DeArmond of Missouri spoke at considerable length in opposition to the administration's Philippine policy. Other speakers today were Olmstead of Pennsylvania, Williams of Illinois, Corliss of Michigan and W. W. Kitchin of North Carolina. Friends of the Panama canal route are confident a motion to concur can command a majority of both houses. This, however, may become complicated by the propositions to attach conditions to concurrence, one condition under discussion being the time limit for the period of negotiations to secure perfected title. WANT LAMONT FOR GOVERNOR The Cleveland-Hill Combination Has Suggested Him for Executive of New York. New York, June 24.—The announcement that the Cleveland-Hill combination is seeking to make Daniel S. Lamont the Democratic candidate for governor is widely discussed by members of the state committee, who have been sounded by the former president and former senator about Mr. Lamont's availability. A leader with whom Mr. Hill talked the matter over said today: "Mr. Hill last April asked me my judgment as to the availability of Lamont for governor. I told him I believed he would prove the strongest man we could name, because he would hold nearly or quite all the voters who supported Bryan and Stanchfield in 1900 and would rally behind him in addition to the Democratic business men and independents who deserted to McKinley on the money issue." RECEPTION TO CORNELL CREW All Ithaca, New York, Turns Out to Welcome Home the Victorious Oarsmen. Ithaca, N. Y., June 24—The victorious Cornell crews were given a great reception on their return from the regatta tonight. They were escorted by a long procession and cannon boomed, bells rang and whistles sounded. ROADS CONFISCATING COAL Are Beating Many of the Miners and Dealers Who Fear a General Strike. Terre Haute, June 24.—The railroads are apprehensive of a suspension of work of the coal miners. To make sure of their own fuel results in placing a weapon in the hands of mine workers by curtailing the supply at this time. Operators complain in all parts of the Indiana field that the railroads have been confiscating coal for the last two weeks. Word was received at miners' headquarters that practically the same conditions exist among the Illinois mines. Meantime, the miners and dealers, who are also apprehensive of a general suspension of work, are trying to get a big supply ahead, but the railroads are beating them to it. RESPONSIBLE FOR THE FIRE. President Miller and General Manager Davis Held Blamable for Sanitarium Fire. Chicago, June 24.—O. E. Miller, president, and Henry Clark Davis, general manager of St. Lukes' Society, were held responsible tonight by the coroner's jury for the fire at the santarium, which destroyed 11 lives. Four other employees were arrested after the fire but were released. Baltimore, June 23.—Mrs. William Barrett Ridgegey, wife of the comptroller of the currency, died last night at Johns Hopkin's hospital, after an operation for appendicitis. She was the daughter of Senator S. M. Cullom, who, with Mr. Ridgley, was here when she expired. The remains will be taken to Springfield, Ill., for burial. TRADING IN SAMOA Llewella Pierce Churchill in Lippincott's: Two youngsters in dirty lavalvas come and sit on the veranda, waiting until the trader finishes his breakfast. They keep up a constant chatter, as children do the world around; they explain to one another out of their ignorance what the white man does with all the strange gear about his room. Time is no object to them; not for any Samoan does time exist. They could be content thus waiting for hours. When the trader has finished his corned beef or his salmon, when he chopped the navy plug on the corner of the table and has broken it fine for his pipe by grinding it in his left hand with the ball of his right thumb, when his pipe is alight, he is willing to traffic with his small customers. Take this as a sample of native speech and native custom: "What is it, then, that you two want," he asks in the native speech, "that you sit on my portico, beginning at sunrise and ending at all day?" "O. Apa, it is thus, and we two will declare the truth to thy highness." "Use not the high-sounding words of the talk of chiefs; call me not excellency, nor yet highness, for by that I know you two are come to beg. That thing do you two tell what you want, and quickly." "O. Apa, smooth out the wrinkle from thy heart, but listen. In the insignificant hut of the family of us two there is tobacco, and we have plucked the dry leaves of the banana. But there is not fire. That thing have we come to ask of thy excellency; afford to us two the fire-catcher, just one box, for great is the poverty of the family of us two." "O pig-faced, it is the lie, and you two come to beg, it is true. It is right that you two buy fire-scratchers; I do not give away the articles of wealth, lest I too become poor while you two have all things." "Thou knowest, O Apa, the great poverty of all this Samoa, and that we two are poor people and of no account. We have not wherewith to buy. But because great is the love of us two to thy excellency, we two give to thee the loving gift of the fruit of the hen, one." "Not so is it true, Dirt and Pigs. If you two love me, you give me fruit of the hen, we Give them now to me and my black-boy thing shall look through them at the sun, and he shall spin them in water lest they be bad." "O Apa, thou art wise to drive a hard bargain and Samoans are foolish. Here, then, are these two fruits of the hen; now give to us two the box of fire-scratchers." CONSUMPTIVE POOR. The address of Dr. S. A. Knopf of New York, at the national conference of charities and correction in Detroit, emphasizes the necessity of making better arrangements for the treatment of the consumptive poor in the East. Dr. Knopf pointed out that consumption, while a communicable disease, does not belong to the diseases that are properly called dangerously contagious. Much depends upon the care of the patient in the first stages of the disease. As matters stand today there is little chance for a poor person who becomes stricken with consumption in any of the crowded Eastern cities. Bad sanitary conditions in the tenement districts give the disease a firmer hold, and there is practically no place where a consumptive, without means, can turn for relief. What the Eastern cities need is not only a bettering of sanitary conditions in the poorer quarters, but the establishment of outdoor colonies, where patients in the first stages of the disease can receive proper care. Plenty of fresh air and sunshine will cure consumption, as the sanitariums in Colorado have proven. These agencies will prove as effective in the East as in the West, if the patient receives them at the inception of the disease. Dr. Knopf has shown that the large cities of the East have a great responsibility to face, and that some adequate means of caring for the consumptive poor should be provided.—Denver Republican. Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney & Co., doing business in the City of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS each and every one of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of Hall's Catarrh Cure. FRANK J. CHENEY Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence, this 6th day of December; A. D., 1886. (Seal) A. W. GLEASON, Notary Public. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials, free. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by all Drugsists, 75c. Hall's Family Pills are the best. The H. F. Brammer Manufacturing company of Davenport, Iowa, have a unique puzzle souvenir, which they are sending free to persons writing for same. The Brammer company are manufacturers of the O. K. Washing Machine, one of the best machines ever placed on the market. Any goods bearing this company's stamp may be relied upon as being what the trade mark implies, "O. K." Hallstones nearly three pounds in weight, fell during a recent storm at Jessore, in Bengal. Metal veranda roofs were perforated, cattle maimed, trees beaten down and a man killed outright by the downfall. Mothers will find Mrs. Winslow's Sootting Syrup the best remedy to use for their children during the teething period. In the autobiography which he furnished for the congressional directory Representative Davis of Florida tells of his early struggles and subsequent achievements, and gallantly adds: "Before reaching his majority he was married to Miss Mercer, and to her influence is due whatever of success he has attained." CASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of COPYRIGHT, 1901, BY J.S. TRIGG. ROCKFORD, IA CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED Wodehucks, crowns, skunks and sparrows increase in number as the country becomes more thickly settled. The year 1877 was so wet all through the West that it came about that corn was worth $1 per bushel and hay only $1.50 per ton. It takes just as much of the fertility of the soil to grow and mature a lot of weeds as it does to grow a crop of useful vegetables or grain. The crops of a dry season when not too dry are always far more satisfactory than those of a moderately wet season, quality better, less waste in harvesting. The enormous crops of strawberries raised in North Carolina, on the coast, have extended the season of cheap strawberries for all the large Northern cities one month. The specific gravity of wood varies more than one would think, a cubic foot of white cedar weighing only 28 pounds when dry and a cubic foot of lignum vitae $8\frac{1}{2}$ pounds. One of the most profitable industries of the Western farm today is the growing of hogs. A 10-months-old pig which now sells for over $20 will not cost the producer over $10, if it does that. The actual losses sustained on any farm where colts are raised by turning them into the pasture fenced with barbed wire will amount in two years to more than enough to fence the pasture with woven wire. We never could see why it is that the blackberry will grow wild where it is not wanted and will not grow in the garden. The blackberry has a good deal of meanness about it, anyhow. Dry season and scant crops result in the storing of much plant food in the fields ready for use when the rains come and make the crop. All of the so-called waste arid lands of the West are very rich in stores of plant food and only need a water supply to make them very productive. The average cost in the state of Illinois of raising a bushel of corn as determined from an exhaustive line of experiments was found to be 16 cents. When corn thus raised commands 50 cents a bushel, it is easy to see why good corn land in that state readily sells for $100 per acre and upward. Fifty cents' worth of rape seed sow with the acre of barley will furnish nearly three months' feed for and fatten for market ten medium sized sheep, or it will keep ten shots nicely for three months. One thus gets two crops in one year and finely fertilizes the land for next season's crops besides. It looks to us to be a pretty mean sort of thing to give a sitting hen goose eggs to hatch. If old Biddy has any feelings at all, how must she regard the fraud practiced upon her as she tries to feed and train the ungainly gooslings? Any self-respecting hen is justified in striking under such circumstances. Duck eggs are bad enough. A very few years ago the stock growers were howling about the meat trust and wanted an official investigation because prices were so low. Now the stock grower is very quiet, while the consumer is roaring at the prices he must pay for his shirloin steak. The law of supply and demand in its silent and irresistible work never pleases all classes. A friend of ours who has quite a large grove of matured red cedar trees derives a considerable income every spring by selling the little cedar trees which come up by the hundreds in his timber lot, the cedar seeds being carried there by the birds and finding under the shade of these deciduous trees just exactly the best conditions for germination and development. The West had to take care of nearly a foot of water on the level during the month of May. There was a general filling up of rivers, lakes, wells, cisterns, springs, swamps, such an all-round soaking up as the territory covered has not experienced for years. As a timely agricultural tople, ditching and drainage have crowded that of conserving soil moisture to the rear. A cyclonic storm in early May swept into its folds a host of migrating birds during the night, and they were blown hither and thither against buildings, wires and fences and were picked up by the hundred the next morning—grosbeaks, orioles, vireos, flycatchers, tangers, wood thrushes and scores of other varities. The keen bird instinct is not always equal to the perils which beset our little feathered friends. The cauliflower is a difficult vegetable to grow with us. Of 50 planted we will only get a few good heads. Inferior seed and too much hot weather during the growing season seem to be the cause. One needs the moist, cool climate of England to produce this vegetable at its best. Japan would hardly look at American flour in 1888, using only 1,200 pounds all told, but last year she took over 50,000,000 pounds. Breechclouts and chopsticks have made way for pants, plug hats and baking powder biscuits, and more than any other people are the Japanese today adopting the American type of civilization. A discouraging and disappointing fact is announced by the scientists. It is now asserted that the old stockyards smell, the pregnant odor of summer common to depot stockyards and feeding yards which has usually been abated by boards of health on the ground of its being a menace to the public health, is in no sense unhealthful or a source of danger to the health of the community—just simply unpleasant, that's all. But, then, unpleasant things will sometimes irritate men and move them to action just as quickly as would dangerous things. The best things always seem to have the most enemies. Here is the rose, for instance, which is best with slugs, aphils, spiders, mildew and lots of other pests, while a burdock will grow uncared for and immune from all enemies. Here is the apple, the nice sorts, borer, blear, codling moth and cankerworm and what not to fret its life out, while a wild crab will grow by the roadside untouched and fruitful. The beetles will clean out a Hubbard squash vine and let a pumpkin vine alone, and no bug that we ever knew would touch purslane, quack grass or cockleburs. There is evidently a sort of community of interest between the mean things of this world. The New Way. A friend wishes us to explain why, if the methods used and prices charged by the so-called beef trust are unfair and extortionate, the retail butchers do not refuse to buy meat of the combine and instead buy and slaughter their own cattle, sheep and hogs and be independent. An answer to this question opens up the most pregnant and live issue in America today. In criticising special results in special lines of business the average man is apt to overlook the fact of the radical and unpreventable change which is taking place in the foundation principles underlying our entire system of business and commerce. Little by little every manufacturer has come to realize the fact that there are wonderful economies connected with centralization and combination, and as the law which moves all business along those lines offering the least resistance is as irresistible in its operation as is the law of gravitation it comes that the methods of doing business are being revolutionized. The meat business is only one example, but in its operation well illustrates the revolution which is taking place. The facts are that the savings and economies connected with the killing and dressing of the meats of the country at two or three central points are so great that the small concern which would be rid of the evils now so loudly complained of finds itself handicapped at a point. When the fact is understood that the running expenses and the big packing houses are provided for almost wholly from what is realized out of the offal of the animal slaughtered, and as the small concern is prevented in a score of ways from such utilization of byproducts, it is easy to see what an advantage the big houses have. Then the further fact that the animals killed by such concerns are inspected by government experts and the meat properly cured before being placed on the block, giving the consumer a better quality of meat, is a big argument in favor of the combine houses. If the present legal contention shall settle how much of the profits growing out of the economies of the centralized system of slaughtering and dressing the meats of the country belong to the retail butcher and the consumer, it will be more than we look for. The same question is seeking solution on the fuel, transportation, illumination problems—in fact with nearly all manufacturing interests of whatever kind or name. Competition sought and found a remedy in cooperation, this co-operative effort breeds trusts and combines, the trust is easily tyrannical, and tyranny the American people will not endure, and there you have it in a nutshell "Quo Vadis?" The "Water Witch." Here is an inquiry as to the practical use of the "water witch" in the location of underground water supplies. We are aware that some extraordinary claims are made for this method of locating water; but nevertheless, we believe the whole business is a harmless fake, the outgrowth of a latent element of superstition incident to an ancestry which burned witches, ducked scolding wives, regulated seed time and the weaning of coils, calves and babies by the changes of the moon and which today prevents many from beginning a journey or an important piece of work on Friday and puts a ban on hotel room No.13 and that number at a dinner party. The "water witch," like the weather prophet, will, of course, be a part of the time, and, as with the prophet, the successful predictions are alone noted. Modern progress and development in all lines are distinctively marked by an entire absence of signs, superstitions, legends and all the mysteries which swarmed around the ignorance of the past. It is cool, exact, utterly unromantic and scientific, and the "witch of the water" will have to go with all the other witches, fairies and superstitions of a past age. As well give a beringed and dirty gypsy wench a quarter to tell your fortune. The fertilizing of land by feeding off the crop grown where it was produced is but little practiced in this country and its value but little realized. In other lands, England particularly, the feeding off of the turnip, clover, vetch, trefoil and cinquefoil crops by sheep is a prime factor in maintaining the fertility of the fields so fed. The use of portable fencing makes the work of doing this easy, especially so with sheep and hogs. Largely because of the fatal barbed wire fence three horses have to be raised to secure one perfectly sound animal to apply the large markets. There is waste along this line. Shortsighted. The attempt to drain a tract of 15-000 acres of swamp land in a Western state—land which was almost worthless and which when drained would bring $60 per acre—met with the most bitter and senseless opposition from many of the landowners through whose farms the proposed ditch would have to pass. Fortunately the laws of the state were so framed that the rights of the owners of the swamp lands are fully protected, and the ditch will be dug as spite of the protests. Just a Common Boy. Sixteen years ago there was just an ordinary common sort of boy attending the public schools of a town in a Western state. He was only fairly good in his studies, undersized and no athlete and found of mechanics. His parents were poor, and when he graduated he took up farm work with his father for two years, in the themeantime reading a good deal along mechanical and engineering lines. He then took a three-years" course at the agricultural college of the state to fit himself as a mechanical engineer. While doing this he invented and patented a very valuable invention, and when he left college he had no trouble in commanding all the capital he needed to engage in the manufacture of his invention. Today at 28 years of age he is at the head and manager of a manufacturing plant employing 100 men and will soon become a very rich man. This is no fairy story, but just a fact. If your dog seems out of sorts, take no chances with him. Shut him up at once or kill him. Crows are becoming a great nuisance in some parts of the West. A thousand of them were shot in one day recently by a party of 100 sportsmen in an Illinois county. The output of genuine olive oil from the California orchardds is about 5,500 barrels, but before this product reaches the consumer the amount is largely increased by contamination with the cotton field of the South. The skimmilk from the farm separator is conceded to be worth twice as much for food for calves and the pigs as the milk frm the cremery separator. This is a fact which is bound to grow in importance. The American people can well afford to sit down on the glucose, oleomargarine and cottonseed oil type of progress, which, like the weeds in a cornfield, threatens to destroy the unadulterated and genuine products of the country. The one fruit which most seldom disappoints the grower is the strawberry. It will do well on almost any soil if furnished enough moisture and fertilizer. If people would pay more attention to the strawberry and less to some of the other fruits which so often fail them, it would be well. The John Brown Fort. A decree has been entered by the eclectic court for Jefferson count, W. Va., in the case of Alexander Murphy against the administrator of the estate of Miss Kate Field for the sale of a tract of five acres of land, on which she had located the John Brown Fort, says the Baltimore Sun. The sale is ordered to be made by special commissioners of the court to satisfy a debt of $115, which Miss Field owed Murphy for the purchase of the land and money loaned. This is the original John Brown fort, with authentic record. It is the same building that was on the government property at Harper's Ferry at the time Brown made his raid, and was the engine house in which he was captured. It was removed to Chicago during the World's fair and exhibited at that exposition. After the fair Miss Field purchased it, and removed it to this tract of land, about one mile south of Harper's Ferry. She was never able to pay all the expenses, and her death has caused its sale. Warm Welcome for Wrong Man. Here is a story which the late Congressman Amos J. Cummings was fond of telling: A member of congress was going home late one night when he met a young man who was satisfactorily "loaded." The congressman happened to know where the young man lived, and kindly guided him home. The congressman had no sooner pulled the bell than the door was thrown wide open and a tall, husky woman appeared. She never said a word, but grabbed the young man by the collar and shook him till she fairly loosened his teeth; then into the hall she took him and slammed the door. The congressman was descending the steps when the door was thrown open a second time, and his friend flew out of it as if thrown by a catapult. At the foot of the stairs he landed, and the congressman picked him up. Much frightened and considerably sobered, the young man gasped: "We don't live here—we moved last week." In a Thicket. Secretary of War Root is credited with a story about a New Yorker who left his club rather late, and, proceeding homeward, encountered a tree. He retreated and advanced again, meeting the same tree. He sat down on the street and exclaimed, in a sad tone: "Lost, lost in an impenetrable forest!" Excellent Suggestion Garouner—Here, sir, are a few dead trees that will have to be felled. New Owner—It's too bad to lose them. Why not raise dried fruit on 'hem?—New York Times. Why is the O.K. The Best ROTARY WASHING MACHINE 5. —The tub has a wringer box fastened with steel brackets. 6. —The lid on tub closes tight, no escape of steam. 7. —Has Gilded Hoops, Castings and Name. Send for beautiful Souvenir, free. VILLAGE DOG POLICEMAN NAMED BUM He Goes Out on Patrol, Catches Burglar and Has Many Friends. New York Sun: The policemen all like Bum, anyhow, and it is not recorded that he has any enemies in the precinct, except possibly some burglar who have felt his teeth. He arrived at the police station on Eighty-eighth street, far toward the East river, one bitterly cold night four winters ago. Captain Freers was in command at the time, and he happened to be sitting beside Sergeant Tom Reilly behind the desk. The street door opened and a diminutive black-and-tan dog dodged in at the heels of Roundsman Hawkins. "Here's a poor little bum almost frozen to death," said the roundsman. "Lets thaw him out." "Sure," said the captain; "let him lie down by the stove." But Bum didn't like the stove. He was so numbed by the cold that he could hardly walk. He managed to drag himself around behind the desk, however, and curl up by Sergeant Reilly's chair. That was the beginning of their friendship. Sergeant Reilly was his favorite from the first, and has continued so. "He looked up at me in such an appealing way," said the sergeant, "I could not help but pity the little creature." Bum was not the spick-and-span-looking dog then he is today. He was small, scraggly and half-starved. Sergeant Reilly sent out and bought him some meat and liver when he was thawed out. It was probably the first square meal Bum had ever had. His next acquisition of fortune was an old blanket to lie on upstairs in the dormitory. The men all came to know him soon, and his fortune prospered correspondingly. He made his home about the police station and began to go about the precinct with the men when they went on post. But he stuck to Sergeant Reilly more than any of the rest, and ever since that time they have ben accustomed to take long walks together. The name "Bum" stuck to him from the remark made by Roundsman Hawkins the first night he came into the house. Before long the policemen in the house chipped in and bought him a handsome collar, inscribed "Bum" and also bearing regulation brass figures "$8," used to indicate the number of the precinct. He is very fastidious about his meals now, but he has friends about the precinct who give him anything he wants. The night watchman at the Astoria ferry house has a plate of cooked meat or liver ready for him every night at 11 o'clock. And Bum is usually on hand. So between the policemen in the house and his friends on the outsid e hares pretty well. He always turns out with the midnight platoon and barks his approval as the men march out. The conductors on the Eighty-sixth street crosstown horse cars all know him, and he rides with them just like a policeman in uniform. He has learned the limits of the precincts from the men on post, and has never been known to go below Seventy-ninth street or above Ninety-sixth street. He has the record also of having fastened his teeth in the trousers of more than one burglar or thief running to escape arrest. Bum always managed to interest them until a policeman could make the capture. Altogether the men of the Twenty-eight precinct think they have a pretty intelligent dog. Spain to Send a Minister. Madrid, June 16.—It was announced today that the government has decided to appoint a minister to the Cuban republic. A New York book publisher says it is impossible to sell many copies of a book without a great deal of advertising. He has tried many kinds of publicity, even employing persons to lecture about the books, as well as dressing up persons to represent characters in the stories and sending them through the streets; but he finds that nothing brings such large results as newspaper advertising. BarbWire Cuts HEALS them Address I-O-D-O Medicine Co., 66 Hastings St., Chicago, Ill. WE HAVE IT A SURE CURE FOR REZO TRADE MARK Blind & Bleeding PILES Prompt Relief-Certain Cure-Try it. Send 2c stamp for sample. Rezo Remedy Co. Iowa City, Ia. BECAUSE 1.—It is the only Rotary washer that has Revolving Steel Ball Gearing, reducing the friction and thus making machine so light running and almost noiseless. 2.—The tub is made of Louisiana Red Cypress Lumber, and corrugated similar to a washboard. The legs are solid with tub (not removable, breakable legs fastened with screws). 3.—The wheel turn right or left, pin wheel or wheel reverses automatically, turning the clothes back and forth through the hot soap-suds, and cleaning them without rubbing them to pieces. 4.—This washer is made by experienced mechanics and will out-last any other washer on the market. Colorado's Live Exhibit Will Contain Millions of Workers—State House of Bee Hives. St. Louis dispatch: The liveliest live exhibit at the Louisiana Purchase exposition in 1904 will come from Colorado." Thus spoke Van E. Rouse, the Colorado Springs mine owner and capitalist, during his visit to St. Louis this week with the Colorado World's Fair Commission, of which he is an active member. "The world generally knows that as a mining country Colorado leads all nations on the globe," continued Mr. Rouse, "and this has naturally created the impression outside of Colorado that all the wealth of our magnificent state is hidden underground. Our exhibits at the World's Fair will show Colorado to be not only great in mining, but that it is a world-leader in horticulture and agriculture." "the World's Fair management in their plan and scope of the exposition declared they wanted live exhibits, so in casting about for plans to make our exhibit conform to that idea we interested one of our wealthiest and most public spirited citizens, Mayor Swink of Rocky Ford. Mr. Swink is an aplarist, and he has, perhaps, the largest bee plant in America. He is going to bring his bees to the World's Fair, and they will work here from the time the Exposition opens until it closes. Mr. $10,000 of his own money, is to bring to St. Louis enough beehives to construct in miniature a counterpart of the Colorado state house at Denver. The bees will then be turned out to find material for honey making in the country surrounding the World's Fair grounds. It will require about 640 hives to construct the little state house and in it about five and one-half million bees will work. It will be a great exhibit. In Colorado we make the finest honey in the world. We have one bee man who works his bees all the year through. In summer they work in his alfalfa fields in Colorado, and in the fall he ships them to his plantation in Florida, where they work among the flowers and orange groves until time to return them to the West in the spring. "In Colorado we have each year a Watermelon day at Rocky Ford, a Potato day at Greeley, a Strawberry day at Canon City, and a Fruit day at Grand Junction. These are holidays, and all Colorado turns out to the celebrations. In 1904 these celebrations will be held in St. Louis, and we expect many trainloads of people here to participate in them, and on these days Colorado fruit will be as free as water for those who celebrate with us." The Colorado exhibit will cost a total of $300,000. The commissioners appointed by the governor under the law creating the World's Fair Commission, have so far refused to draw on the state appropriation for their services, preferring to leave the money in the treasury to be used in making the exhbit. Notes of the Fair Two more rivals of Santos-Dumont, the wizard of the air, have come into public notice during the past week. One of these is a Prof. Barnard, of Lynn, Mass., who has a flying machine all but ready for the contest in the air at the World's Fair. The other is Parvin Wright of Denver, Col., a mechanical and electrical engineer of twenty years experience. Now that Santos-Dumont has packed his aerial craft and gone back to Paris from London it is quite probable that daring aeronaut will be kept busy until 1904 perfecting his flying machine for the World's Fair races. Iowa has more button factories than any other state in the union, according to the United States census report, and this fact prompts an Iowa editor to suggest that it would be more appropriate to erect a "Button Palace" instead of a "Corn Palace" at the Louisiana Purchase exposition. Sir Sydney Fisher, minister of agriculture for Canada, has appointed Mr. William Hutchison as Canadian commissioner to the World's Fair at St. Louis. Mr. Hutchison will have charge of all the preliminary arrangements for Canada's big exhibit at the exposition in 1904. His headquarters will be with the department of agriculture, Ottawa, Canada. Rev. Samuel I. Lindsay, secretary of the World I. Fair Religious, Building and Exhibit committee, has written President Francis of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, conveying to that officer the thanks of the committee for the kind consideration he has already shown their request for the erection of a building of sufficient capacity and of suitable architectural design to accommodate the vast exhibit contemplated. There will be no difficulty, Dr. Lindsay says, in securing the united co-operation of all the religious bodies involved for making an exhibit worthy of the World's Fair and the cause of religion. The plan of the religious committee has been unanimously endorsed by each general religious body before which it has been laid. 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 Columbumbia, Mo., as second class matter, Jan. 15, 1902. Agents wanted in every town in the state. PRESS OF THE MISSOURI STATESMAN Our thanks are due the following named individuals for subscription recently: Prof. W. H. Lynch, Mountain Grove, Mo., M. Emil Schott of Jefferson City. The Columbia Grocery Co. will open its doors to the public tomorrow for business; there is no reason why that a colored grocery store should not succeed well in this city. We urge the public to give them their patronage. THE negro State League which was organized several years ago, like most negro organizations has gone to nothing, caused, of course, by a few negroes trying to use the organization for personal promotion. Unfortunate for the negro, so few of them, if given power can refrain from sacrificing his race for personal gains; the negro in Mo., can never expect to get the proper recognition till he ceases to be dishonest and treacherous with his fellow negro. SOME weeks ago there appeared in the columns of the Omaha Enterprise a statement charging the Faculty at Lincoln Institute with "indulging cheating in examinations." The following week The Professional World refuted the charges and suggested that the Enterprise inform itself as to the affairs at Lincoln Institute before publishing such statements. Last week the Enterprise attempted to defend itself by saying that "subsequent developements at Lincoln Institute prove conclusively, that the writer of that article knew what he was talking about," inferring that the change made there recently was due to the indulgence of "cheating in examinations." We are glad to state that the people of Mo., know why that Pres. E. A. 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