The Professional World

THE PROFESSIONAL WORLD. $1.00 Per Year in Advance. LOCATIONS OF TEACHERS. Where Some of Our Teachers are Located This Year. Miss Laura Douglass of Columbia is principal of the Wentzville school. She succeeds Miss Maud May Rubey of Macon City, who decided very recently to change her name. Prof. A. C. Craddock of Tipton has recently become a benedict and the people of Tipton will see a great improvement in the schools this year. Prof. O. M. Shackelford is again at Warrensburg and has as his assistants Misses Hamilton and Simpson. Miss Eulalee Dooglass of Columbia has secured a position as primary teacher in Joplin, Mo. Prof. W. H. Harrison is doing good work in the Washington school at Jefferson City. His assistants are Mrs. A. B. Moore of Columbia and Miss Emma J. Foster of Jefferson City. One of the best primary teachers in the State of Missouri, is Mrs. Levia Trist of the Clinton public school. Most of Mrs. Trist's methods are purely original, which methods have long since proved to be the best. Prof. J. B. Coleman, who assumed charge of the Fred Douglass school in Columbia this week is one of the leading principals of the state, and great improvements will doubtless be seen in the school this season. Prof. J. W. Hoffman an Agriculturalist of much renown has been employed to teach agriculture at Lincoln Institute. This is something entirely new at that place, and will doubtless prove to be a very profitable experiment since little or nothing has been done in the way of interesting the negro youth of this State in the Agricultural pursuits. There are a very few properly constructed and properly ventilated negro school buildings in the state of Missouri, to the shame and disgrace of the boards it is said. The Huntsville school opened this year with both new teachers, Prof. R. L. Logan principal, and Mrs. Ambrosia Viley assistant. The school is over crowded and the board is considering the advisability of electing another teacher. Miss Dehia Henderson who formerly taught in Huntsville is now teaching at Namrash. Prof. S. T. Pettigrew is now teaching at Jacksonville, Mo. Prof. Pettigrew has recently been elected Grand Master of the U. B. F. Lodge. Died. HARDIN.—At the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Jennie White, in Auxvasse, Mo., after an illness of several months, Mrs. Nealia Hardin, age 60 years. She had been a member of the Presbyterian Church for 35 years and was true to that faith till she died. Rev. Barker, (white,) of Fulton, preached the funeral. The white Church Choir furnished very beautiful music for the occasion. She leaves a brother, sister, two daughters and several grandchildren and a host of friends to mourn her death. 50 YEARS' EXPERIENCE PATENTS TRADE MARKS DESIGNS COPYRIGHTS & C. Anyone sending a sketch and description may quickly ascertain our opinion free whether an invention is patented, or communications strictly confidential. Handbook on Patents sent free. Oldest agency for securing patents. Patents taken through Manly & Co. receive special notice, without charge, in the A Beautiful Baptising. Rev. J. B. Parsons, of the Second Christian church conducted a very beautiful baptizing last Sunday afternoon at Mr. Henry Kirklin's lake in west Columbia. The candidates for baptism were Miss Lulu Crosswhite, Mrs. Clarence Crosswhite, and Miss Mary Jackson. A large crowd of both white and colored witnessed the exercises. Auxvasse Notes. Success to the Professional World. Rev. Wm. Young was installed as pastor of the Baptist church at 3 o'clock last Sunday afternoon. Rev. J. W. Sears, of New London preached the installation sermon to a full house. Rev. Young is engaged in a revival and quite a deal of interest is manifested in the meetings. Several have been added to the church and prospects are bright for more. Notice! Notice! We will give $1.00 in cash for the best half bushel of potatoes raised in Boone county, delivered at our store. THE COLUMBIA GROCERY CO. Mount Zion Baptists Elect Officers Armstrong, Mo., September 14. —The Mount Zion Baptist association closed its twenty-second annual meeting here to-night by electing the following officers: Rev. J. S. Swancey, Richmond, moderator; Rev. J. H. Sanders, assistant moderator; Rev. O. T. Redd, Macon City, recording secretary; Rev. W. W. Montgomery, Platte City, corresponding secretary; Rev. B. J. Guthrie, Webster, Mo., treasurer; Rev. M. L. Clay and G. C. Chinn, members of executive board. Died. LOGAN.—Claudie Logan, aged 3 years, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dixon Logan, near New Bloomfield, Mo. Little Claudie fell asleep in Jesus at 12 o'clock, Sept. 8th, 1902. And in heaven with joy we'll greet the Where no farewell tears are shed. Huntsville Notes. Mrs. Gorgia Robinson is slowly improving. Our public School is crowded with pupils. Mrs. James Birton is seriously ill with fever. Prof. S. T. Pettigrew was in Huntsville Sunday. Rev. Chinn returned Mounday from Salisbury. Subscribe to the Professional World, only $1 per year. Rev. P. W. Bryaut, of Liberty, was in the city this week. Miss Delia Henderson, of Namrash visited relatives here Sunday Miss Hallie Porter passed through Huntsville last Friday enroute to Paris. Rev. E. D. Green and bride, of Macon City, spent several days in the city last week visiting friends. Rev. Harris a student from Macon College preached at the second Baptist Church last Sunday morning and evening. The K. of P. lodges, of Huntsville and Moberly, will run an excursion from here to Macon City, Saturday, Sept. 20th. A large delegation will probably attend. He—Don't you ever get tired of being made love to? She—I might if it were always the same man. COLUMBIA, MISSOURI, FRIDAY, SEPT. 19, 1902. Marvelous Result of Treatment of Fred Hammann by Vienna Specialist. NEW YORK, August 16.—Fred Hammann, a patient with hasty consumption, selected by the New York Journal at the Vanderbilt Clinic from 100 other cases, and sent at the Journal's expense to Prof. Hoff, the eminent specialist at Vienna, to prove to the world that the disease is curable, has returned home, completely cured. Dr. Hoff's famous prescription, together with a bottle of the medicine and a twenty-four page handbook, containing the Journal's account of the cure as it progressed, is being sent out free to consumptives and all sufferers from bronchitis, asthma and catarrh, by the Journal Research Society, 891 American Tract Building, New York City. PERSONAL Miss Eulalee Douglass is teachin Joplin. Miss Laura Douglass is teaching at Wentzville. Rev. J. B. Parsons spent Sunday with his congregation here. The Fred Douglass school opened Tuesday with a large attendance, the total enrollment being 350. Miss J. Ethel Fowler arrived Saturday from her home in Ohio and resumed her school work Tuesday. JEFFERSON CITY NOTES. Miss Josephene Ramsey is seriously ill. Rev. J. Goins went to Richmond on business. Rev. Parsons is carrying on protracted meeting. Prof. J. H. Garnett left for St. Louis Saturday evening. Misses Carney and Grimshaw spent Sunday in Kansas City. Messrs. M. Irving and C. Huff have returned from Deuver Colo. Mr. J. C. McMahan of Fulton has been visiting relatives in the city. Prof. W. H. Harrison is the happiest man in the city. It is a fine boy. Mr. Ollie Brooks, the talented artist, of Kansas City, Kan., was in the city last week. Prof. J. W. Damel has bought an interest in Mr. M. D. Mayberry's grocery store. Mrs. J. S. Dorsey of Springfield, Mo., after spending a week visiting friends, returned home Sunday evening. WORLD'S FAIR NEWS-NOTES Applications for concessions at the World's Fair have reached the number of 1650. The camping grounds for civic and military organizations at the World's Fair have been laid out to accommodate ten to twelve thousand men. All lagoon and watering work for the World's Fair is to be completed this fall. Macadam roads are being built throughout the grounds so that bad weather shall not delay work. Sixty-nine cases were treated at the Worlds Fair emergency hospital during August, of which 28 were cases of injury, but only three serious. The presence of President Roosevelt at the World's Fair grounds October 1st, on the occasion of the allotment of sites for State buildings promises to attract a vast crowd of visitors from cities and towns of the Mississippi valley. Many governors and distinguished citizens from other states are coming. Construction of the Government A Woman's Paradise! Y. A. Building at the World's Fair will begin in a few days, the supervising architect of the Treasury Department, James Knox Taylor, having visited St. Louis a few days ago to advance the preparation. The building will be 20 by 800 feet, carrying a dome and having a row of massive columns in front. Col. John A. Ockerson, chief of the Department of Liberal Arts, attended the semi-centennial meeting of the American Pharmaceutical Association at Philadelphia. The Pharmaceutical display will form an important section of Col. Ockerson's great department which will occupy a building covering nine acres. The World's Fair's first baby, Louisiana O'Leary, was duly christened with great ceremony in front of the Administration building, Saturday afternoon, Sept. 6, in the presence of a large crowd. A priest and two assistants conducted the ceremony. Hayward, member of a prominent St. Louis family acted as godmother and Isaac S. Taylor, Director of Works of the Exposition, was godfather. Valuable presents were bestowed on the mite of humanity, who cried loudly when the ointments were applied. A space of 500 by 700 feet has been allotted to the French Government for its building. The building is to be a reproduction of the famous and beautiful Petit Trianon at Versailles. The Argentine Republic will present an elaborate fine arts exhibit at the World's Fair. The director of the Argentine National Museum of Fine Arts, Sr. Eduarde Schiaffine, has been appointed commissioner in charge of this feature. Bids have been opened for the construction of the Palace of Mines and Matallurgy for the World's Fair. This will stand near the Liberal Arts and Government buildings in the southern part of the main group of exhibit palaces. Its dimensions are 525 by 750 feet, covering over nine acres. The estimated cost is $500,000. The contractor will be required to have it completed August 31, 1903. The design, by Theodore C. Link, is a radical departure from the general style of Exposition architecture. Two obelisks 150 feet high will stand at each of the four principal entrances. Behind the obelisks are globes nearly as high above ground, each surrounded by the giant sculptures of human figures. The roof will project 18 feet beyond the wall line and a broad loggia will extend around the building. Paradise! N COLUMBIA. CARPETS LINOLEUMS RUGS DRUGGETS BLANKETS LACE CURTAINS BLINDS DRESS GOODS LADIES' FURNISHINGS "And then some" R. F. Rogers, Agent for STANDARD PATTERNS. GO TO Lartonoix & ...For School Book Fine Stationery, Magazine No. 222 East High St. Read The Profe NEAT NEWS NEWS $1.00 a year Sent PILES All diseases of the rectum treated on a post patient is cured. Send for free 200 page book; testimonial letters, valuable to anyone afflicted free. Address, Drs. THORNTON & MING noix & Wallendorf, school Books and Supplies.... mery, Musical Goods, Magazines, Etc. 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But if you see a man biting a dog, spare no pains or money to get the details to the Sun office." This is a poor paraphrase of a good story, when "Doc" Wood was night editor of the Sun a young reporter asked him "what constitutes news?" Mr. Wood considered for a moment and then replied: "Here's an illustration which will probably give a correct idea of what I think of that subject. If you should see a dog running down Broadway with a tin can tied to his tail, it isn't worth a line. But if you should see a dog with a tin can tied to his tail walking down Broadway, it's worth a column." Little mugs of lager, little drops of dram are the cause of nearly all the trouble in the land. --- --- "NEWS DEFINED." VOL. I. NO. 45. Just opened, fresh and new, spic-and-span; biggest stock we ever bought. Several new salesladies are helping to show these new goods, which are a "dream" for the women folk. The men will like 'em, too. Stacks of new goods on the shelves, and more a-comin'. Seek Protection from Extortion: Eight hundred residents in South London have joined a tenants' protective league, started a few weeks ago, "to enable weekly tenants to combine for self-protection against the extortionate and illegal demands of landlords and rate collectors, and for provision of the necessary legal assistance." Tit-for-TaL At an annual dinner of the St. Nicholas society Ambassador Joseph H. Choate was down for the toast, "The Navy," while Senator Depew was to respond to "The Army." Depew began by saying: "It's well to have a specialist; that's why Choate is here to speak about the navy. We met at the wharf once, and I never saw him again till we reached Liverpool. When I asked how he felt he said he thought he would have enjoyed the trip over if he had had any ocean air. Yes, you want to hear Choate on the navy." Choate responded: "Two heard Depew hailed as the greatest after-dinner speaker. If after-dinner speaking, as I have heard it described and as I believe it to be, is the art of saying nothing at all, then Dr. Depew is the most marvelous speaker in the universe." Professional World RUFUS L. LOGAN, B. 8. D., Editor. COLUMBIA, : : : MISSOURL THE NEWS CONDENSED. ‘Westrobe, who while insane murdered ‘and burned her five children near Haz~ elburst, June 16, committed suicide by Jumping into the river. The new airship that is being built for Santos-Dumont will measure 11 meters in diameter and 25 meters in Jength. It will have ten places, eight for voyagers and two for those operat- ing it. Burglars robbed the postoffice of $500 in money and stamps at Miami, Mo. ‘They also entered the Miami Savings Dank, but were unable to open the safe. All private boxes in the vault were Tobbed, however, but the extent of the Joss is unknown. Sioux Falls, Sept. 12.—J. P, Harring ton, a sign painter, tonight shot and killed his divorced wife and then sent a bullet into his breast, dying instant- ly. ‘The cause was an tnsuccesstul at- tempt to induce the woman to live with him again. Passengers on the last trip of the steamer Bertha from Alaska say that the volcanoes Redoubt, Iiammoa and Augustine mountains are in active erup- ‘tion. Great volumes of steam issued from all three, and Redoubt is throw- ing clouds of smoke miles high. Admiral Killick personal!y fired the after magazine of the Firminist gun- Doat Crete-a-Pierrot, sunk off the en- trance of Gonaives harbor, Hayti, Sat- urday, and appears to have gone down with his ship. His body was recovered Jater in the same day. President Roosevelt put his stamp of disapproval on the proposed cowboy race from Deadwood to Omaha and the contest has been abandoned. In addi- tion to the president's disapproval there had been received several protests from humane associations. The body of F. T. Merry, clerk sten- ographer of the Fifth district court at Kauaik, Honolulu, has been found in the forest. It is thought he committed suicide by shooting while temporarily insane, Merry came from Ann Arbor, Mich. ‘The emperor of Germany and Prince Henry have been formally proposed for honorary membership in the New York ‘Yacht club, and their election probably will occur at the next regular meeting, Oct. 23. At Minneapolis, Minn., because her husband failed to give her $25 he had promised her for a new dress, Mrs Louis Dahlstrom swallowed a quantity of carbolic acid. Physicians were called but their efforts were unavailing, and in three hours she was dead. According to information _ from France, that has just reached a friend of the Fair family in San Francisco, i was a defective steering wheel insteac of a collapsed tire that caused the death of Mr. and Mrs, Charles L. Fair whil they were automobiling in that coun try. All arrangements have been com pleted for receiving the bodies of th Fairs on Friday in San Francisco. Jack Shields, a hermit, living neai Maple Hill, Ky., was found dead in hi cabin door, and it is believed he wa: murdered, ' There was blood on th floor of the house and in the doorwa} and all the circumstances indicate ¢ severe struggle. It was supposed th man kept a large sum of money tr the house, ‘A band of whitecaps visited the home of Mat Sturgeon on the Wycoff farm hive miles east of Bloomington, Ind., of Monday night, took Sturgeon ‘out, an: gave him a ‘severe whipping. Stur geon's wife was also lightly switched Notices were left at the door of Roll Sturgeon, near by, wareing him t leave within a week. A great whale hunt took place a Hiliswich, in the Shetland islands, las Saturday. On that day @ school of her ring whales was reported approaching the village and the entire fishing pop ‘ulation put to sea aboard of everything that would float. They drove the whale: ashore and slaughtered 166 of them ‘Te longest whale measured 35 feet. While on their way to camp nea Brownsville, Tex., three members 0 the state rangers were shot at by me! in ambush, supposed to be friends of i man recently killed by the ranger while being arrested on a charge 0 cattle stealing. Ranger Robuck was in stantly killed. Ranger Baker wa slightly wounded and Ranger Miller’ horse was shot. Eight Mexicans hav been arrested for participation in th ambush. Willis 0. Tyler, the young colore man of Monroe county, who won th state oratorical contest in 1901 and too fourth place In a field with ten con testants in the Interstate oratorical 1 Towa, will enter the Harvard La school. ‘The burning Beaumont gusher cease flowing from natural causes Sunday an the fire was easily extinguished. There is a united,effort in Cambridg: Mass., to have President Charles V Eliot of Harvard college run for may« this fall on an independent or citizen ticket. More than 500 employes in the freigt Aepartments of the different Kanss City railroads have been granted sul stantial increases in salaries in the In month. In no instance has there bec any threat of a strike. George Huber of New York shot ar killed his wite in the town of Montere: ‘Mass,, Sunday morning, The murd Was committed on the public highws and several persons were witnesses the tragedy which brought to an ex an unhappy marriage. At Guthrie, Okla., in a quarrel ov ‘eiknnliataivs Innenh Wathina. a tact HENDERSON REFUSES NOMINA- TION FOR CONGRESS. Received as Thunder-Clap From a Clear Sky—Believes There is Grow- ing Sentiment Among Republicans That He Does Not Truly Represent ‘Their Views on the Tariff Question —Opposed to Free Trade. —Opposed to Free trade. Dubuque, Iowa, Sept. 17.—The fol- Towing letter was addressed to C. 12, Al- brook, chairman of notification com- mittee, Eldorado, Iowa, by Speaker Henderson: “[ have never answered the kind no- tice communicated by you and your as- eociates advising me of my nomination for the eleventh time by acclamation as Republican candidate for congress from the Third congressional district ‘of lowa, Reported conditions in the public mind in my district upon public policies induced me to make this delay. Since my return to the district I have made a careful study as to the senti- ment in the district and state, and I believe there is no little sentiment and growing eentiment, among Republi- cans, that I do not trly represent their views of the tariff question, Believing this condition to exist, and knowing that I do not agree with many of my people that trusts, to which Tam and always have been ‘opposed, can be cur- ed, or people benefited by free trade, in whole or in part, I must decline to ac- cept the nomination so generously and enthusiastically made, T have devoted twenty of the best years of my life to the service of my people and my coun- try, and I have fought for what I be- Heved to be best for the farmer, laborer and business interests of this’ district ‘and state, I am grateful for the devo- tion that has ever been accorded me ‘and to the hour of my death, I will hold in a grateful heart the memory of that devotion, I will give, later on, in some detail, my views and conyictions on our conditions, and on public questions, and will state my reasons why the Re- publican party and its policies should continue in the confidence of the voters of the United States and why the doc- trines of the Democracy should find no lodgement in the faith and teachings of the Republican party,” Speaker Henderson’ announced his withdrawal after a conference of sev- eral hours with Chairman Glasser of the congressional committee friends this afternoon, Henderson has been contemplating this action for two weeks, but had intimated nothing of it to his friends until yesterday. At to- day's conference his friends implored him not to take the action, but to no avail. He said he had made up his mind and no argument could cause him to change his decision. When asked for his reasons for withdrawal, Henderson sald: “My letter to Chairman Albrook is the whole thing in a nutshell, You can- not kill trusts by applying free trade without killing our industries, Foreign trusts are fighting American trusts, and I don't believe thet, for the purpose of controlling American trusts we should make a market for foreign trusts, there- by crushing out industries in this coun- try, After my conference last Satur- Gay at Waterloo, and hearing the views of the chairman of my district, I con- cluded my views on the tariff question were at variance with those of many of my party, and I did not desire to ap- pear in a false position.” Henderson gave out an address this evening which states his views on the tariff and trust questions, and because these views, in his opinion, are not in acordance with the state platform and with the opinions of prominent mem- bers of his party, he declines to accept the nomination, His address is “To Re- publican Voters of the Third Iowa Dis- trict,” and he says, being a Republican he is a protectionist, and if he ever en- | tertained a doubt a8 to the wisdom of a protective policy a hasty comparison between the present and past would dlot out such doubt. He then speaks with satisfaction of the tariff planks of the last two national platforms, Continuing, he sags: “For three years I have advocated giving control of trusts to congress. In my judgment. proper supervision can never be had until congress has power to treat them Tam glad to see from speeches made by our fearless and upright chief execu. | tive that he is advocating federal con- | trol over these corporations, and, while ‘| in some quarters they may sneer at it ‘| Thave not seen any proposition yet, ex: ‘| cept this, that seems at all likely. tc ‘bring relief. No proposition has ever | been made by the Democracy excepting | to put everything on the free list anc give the country free trade, In othe | words, they propose to kill the chik dead in order to cure it. They propos .|to slaughter every Interest in thy \| United States, whether capital or labor "| in a wild and blind effort to provide : | remedy for trusts, In-my opinion, I ;| combinations could be regulated ani ‘| controlled we would have very little de mand for congressional action in th tariff laws, To show how strongly th 1} Republican party feels upon the sub 1} ject, in its state platform this year i Weclares in favor of any modification o . | the tari that may be required to pre "| vent affording shelter to monopoly. “| “Our Democratic friends treat thi *|as moving into free trade grounds. I is nothing of the sort. It is a bold dec | laration that if modifications of th | tariff are required to prevent monopol ‘| trom sheltering itself under the wing {| ot protection, then the tariff shall b ‘| modified to prevent that condition, Fo my part, If any great interest in thi country ‘is prospering through protec 1} tion policies or any other legislatior -Jand is using its advantages of growt Y/ and prosperity to plunder the Ameri ‘lean people, 1, for one, am ready t Tl strike it by whatever legal means w 1) may he able to adopt, provided that £0 doing we do not hurt innocent inte r| ests. I am not prepared to say I woul schedule of the Dingley tariff law can be so amended as to relieve people from opressions of trusts or combinations of capital, however named, and that such action may involve the retarding of our expanding commerce and getting and holding of foreign markets, Indeed, 1 believe such a plan to be fraught with grave dangers to the people. “Tam a firm believer in reciprocity. 1 worked with tintiring zeal to secure rec- iprocical arrangements between Cuba and this country and I was successful in passing it through the house. The sen- ate did not act on the bill because the consideration of it would have permit. ted opening up the whole question of tariff revision, The house has nothing to say about the ratification of treaties, but the reciprocal relations upon whfch it legislated in respect to Cuba were of the bargain, although, doubtless, they would have been of great advant: age to Cuba. ‘While I canot speak for the pros- pects of favorable action upon the bill not in the nature of treaties, but they were reciprocal agreements in which, ] think, our country would have the best sent to the senate, I still hope and be- lieve that by a treaty the same result may be accomplished, and 1 have no doubt President Roosevelt is now work. ing on the question of a treaty with Cuba to give that. struggling young re- publle the needed help, a help too, in which, while they will be gainers, we will not ge losers. And now, let me say, and let there be no mistnderstanding as to my position: “I believe in protec- tion that will protect the hand of labor, the wheels of industry, every farmer and miner, and I am against wicked corporations that would trample on the right of the people to fair play and to the fruits of their honest efforts. I am against unnecessary legislation that would throw my country into panic and bring back the horrors bequeathed to us by the last Democratic administration.” A FRENCH DEFI TO ENGLAND. Minister of Marine Says His Country is Master of Situation in Medit- erranean Despite Gibraltar. Bizerta, Tunis, Sept. 17.—M. Pelletan, the French minister of marine, made a remarkable speech at an entertainment of the municipality yesterday evening which it fs expected will cause the French foreign minister, Deleasse, some trouble to explain. After pointing out the importance of Bizerta as a bulwark of France, Pellettan proceeded: “Part of the Mediterranean is French and will remain French. With this powerful rampart so well situated for cefense and attack, with Corsica and ‘Toulon, we can hold an open door ve- ‘ween the two halves of the Mediter- ‘ranean in spite of Malta and Gibraltar, ‘Certainly I do not desire a conflict oi ‘the people against England any more than against Italy, but, as we do not know what others are doing, it is part of our ditty to prepare for a holy war; for the French fatherland against its enemies, whoever they may be. I am convinced, thanks to the fellow work: ers with whom T am surrounded, that we can face every eventuality. Security hardly exists any more for the civilized world. At the end of the 19th century the whole world seems to be dominated by the maxim, ‘Might before right.’ We must then devote all our efforts to keep: | ing intact that focus of justice and | }ight—French genius.” Foreign Minister Vexed. Paris, Sept. 16.—The needlessly of- fensive allusions to Italy, Germany and Great Britain made by M. Pelletan, the marine minister, in a speech at Ajaccio, Corsica, and yesterday in a speech at Bizerta, are generally deprecated here. Foreign Minister M. Delcasse is said to have been extremely vexed at M. Pel- letan’s utterances at Ajaccio, which are caleulated to considerably irritate Italy at @ moment when the French govern- ment had succeeded in dissipating the ill feeling that existed between the two countries and had established an era of friendly relations. Germans Treat It Lightly. Berlin, Sept. 16.—The German foreign office treats M. Pelletan’s Bizerta speech lightly and is disposed to attach no more importance to it than to after- dinner indiscretions of the French min- ister of war, General Andre, a few weeks ago, of which the German gov- ernment took no official notice, M. Pel- letan’s utterances serve to draw atten- tion to French designs in the Mediter- ranean. France, while Great Britain was engaged in South Africa, made Bizerta as strong as Malta, and France is now regarded as the strongest Medi- terranean power. Great Britain has be- come aware of her relatively lower posi- tion there and of France's activity dur- ing the war, and, according to diplo- matic intelligence here, Great Britain is again looking for closer relations with Italy. ‘Set Tallon Mevtovale: London, Sept. 16.—What is desig- nated as M. Pelletan’s “new diplomacy” is not taken serionsly in London. It is pointed out here that in the course of his tour the minister similarly referred to Germany and Italy, and semi-official French papers like the Journal des De- bats declare his sentiments are those neither of France nor her government. Engineers Elect Officers. Springfield, IIL, Sept. 16,—The Na- tonal Brotherhood of \ Coal-Hoisting Engincers today elected officers, Among them were: Mack Taylor, Danville, Ii national chief; T, E. Jenkins, Danvilé, Mls,; secretary and treasurer, Joseph Dougherty, Taylorville, L. B.” King, Staunton and aDvid Collier, Diamond, vice chiefs. Bartholin Suspects to be Free. Chicago, Sept. 16.—The grand jury today voted “no bills” against Oscar ‘Thompson, John Clafly and Edward Counselman, who were arraigned in connection with the Barthoiin-Mitchell murder mystery. The immediate re- lease of the men Is expected. British Admiral in Gotham, New York, Sept. 16—Lord Charles Peresford, rear admiral of the British navy, Was among the passengers on the steamer Kron Prinz Wilhelm, which arrived today from Bremen. Manila, Sept. 16.—The headquarters. and six troops of the Ninth cavalry sailed for San Francisco today on the transport Logan. The rest of the reg!- ‘ment will gail Oct. 1. THIRTY MILLION COMBINE TO INCLUDE ALL BIG COMPANIES Twelve Leading Concerns Have Al- ready Agreed to Join—Competition Said to Have Caused the Manufac- turers to Get Together—Belvidere, Til, Will be Western Headquarters —Names of Firms Involved. Belvidere, Ill., Sept. 16—A sewing machine trust, with a capital of $30,- 000,000, is in process of formation ac- cording to information from a source of high authority. Already it is claimed that 12 concerns have agreed to join, and it is expected to secure a number of others. The firms involved so far are: ‘The New Home company of Orange, Mass. ‘The Household of Providence, R. I. ‘The Domestic of Newark, N. J. The Demorest of Williamsport, Pa. ‘The Williams Manufacturing com- pany of Plattsburg, N. Y. ‘The Standard company of Cleveland, Ohio. The White companies of Cleveland, Ohio. ‘The Davis of Dayton, 0. The Foley & Williams Manufactur- ing company of Chicago and Kankakee, ‘The Mlinois Sewing Machine company of Rockford, Ill. The Chicago Sewing Machine com- pany of Chicago. The National Sewing Machine com- pany of Belvidere, 111. It is planned to make Belvidere the principal Western manufacturing point. consolidating several factories at this city to save expense. The factory now located here has a daily capacity of over 1,000 sewing machines and employs 1,- 200 men. ‘The deal has been under considera- tion for several weeks, Representatives of the leading sewing machine concerns have been in session at the Waldorf- Astoria hotel in New York City ar- ranging the details, and it is stated that everything has been arranged satisfac- torily, and that the final settlement is how up to the auditors and appraisers. ‘The last meeting at the New York head- quarters was held last Friday after- noon, at which time all sewing ma- chine manufacturers who had been in- cluded in the proposed merger signed the necessary papers to complete the deal. It is stated that the financiers behind the proposed merger have agreed upot Barnabas Fldredge, president of the Na- tional Sewing Machine company of this city, as president of the trust. Mr. Eld- redge is an old and experienced man in the sewing machine business. He be: gan in Detroit years ago, and later lo cated in Chicago, where he conductec a business until his removal to Bel: videre 11 years ago. At present he con- trols the National Sewing Machine company, which has a capital of over $1,000,000. Mr. Eldridge returned from New York yesterday. He refused to be inter viewed concerning the formation of th trust. A sewing machine man who [i in a position to know said it was tru that the combine had been agreed upon He said everything was settled excep the work of the appraisers. ‘The combination, he said, is mad necessary because of the fierce compet! tion in the sewing machine business He said this competition came largel; from the mail order houses of the coun: try, who bought sewing machines it large quantities at a close margin an then sold them as leaders with scarcel any profit. The Singer company, which does a1 agency business exclusively, has no been considered in the combination, a the promoters figured that this com pany does not enter into competition with the companies which sell to’ th mail order houses and jobbers. Th sewing machine factories which are re ported to be in the combination are lo cated in the central West and the East CHINESE CONVERTS KILLED. Hundreds Are Reported to Have Been Murdered by Boxers in Pro- vince of Sze-Chung. London, Sept. 16.—A dispateh to the News agency from Pekin says the “Catholies here understand that from 300 to 1,000 converts have been killed by Boxers in the province of Sze- Chuen.” ‘Missionaries in Danger. Washington, Sept. 17.—At the request of the state department the Mexican embassy here has asked the Mexican authorities to take sieps to protect the lives of Mr, and Mrs, Everet Morgan and Miss Sarah Linley, residents of Springfield, Ind., who are missionaries at Popobol, Mex. It was learned today ‘at the department that the natives of that place threatened to take the lives of the party unless they shall leave by tomorrow. BRITISH AUTHORITIES ACTIVE. Strengthening Fortifications in the ‘West Indies Against Events That ‘May Occur in Future. Oyster Bay, Sept. 17.—The Associated Press learns that the British authorl- ties are exhibiting unusual activity in connection with fortifications in. the West Indies with a view to strengthen- ‘ing strategical positions there against any eventualities consequent upon the construction of the Panama canal. ‘These efforts are not only confined to improvement of the defenses on the British islands, but include a careful in- spection ond analysis of the fortifica- tions of other powers who have terri- tory in the Caribbean sea, DESPERATE THIEF IDENTIFIED. Frank Ford Found to be One of Ten ‘Who Dynamited Their Way Out of Prison, Indianapolis, Sept. 17.—Frank Ford, arrested several days ago, wa. Identi- fled today as William Dockery, alias James Thompson, who was connected with robberies at St. Louls, Minn, Sioux Falls, 8, D., and others, each time ‘escaping prison. Recently he and nine others dynamited thelr way out of a ‘Tennessee prison. BANKER FISH WAS MURDERED. That is the Conclusion Arrived at by the New York Police—Three Persons Arrested. New York, Sept. 17.—Nicholas Fish, millionaire, diplomat and descendant of one of the best known of American fam- flies, died at the Roosevelt hospital at 8:25 o'clock this morning, from the re- sult of an injury received in Ehrhardt’s saloon, 205 West Thirty-fourth street, yesterday. Whether he was murdered or fell the police do not know. The conflicting stories such as would nat- urally follow an event in which erim- inal responsibility must be placed are told, but there seems to be no doubt that Mr. Fish had a quarrel with a pri- vate detective named Thomas J. Shar- key, who joined the banker at a table, where he had been for several hours drinking with Mrs, Libby J. Phillips and Mrs, Nellie Casey. 5 Mrs. Libbie J. Phillips, 29 years old, Mr, Nally Casey, 30 years old, and Thos. J. Sharkey, 38 years old, a private de- tective, were arrested early today in connection with the case. According to the police Mr. Fish en- tered Ehrhardt’s saloon, 25 West Thir- ty-fourth street, yesterday afternoon with Mrs, Phillips and Mrs. Casey. ‘The police say that Mrs. Phillips knew who Fish was, bet that neither Mrs. Casey nor Sharkey, who subsequently joined the party, Were aware of his identity. Sharkey, who krew the women, was not reluctant to join the party when one of the women invited him to. ‘The polies say that Fish did most of the buying. Fish then discovered that his money was exhausted and he announced that he would have to draw a check. Shar- key, ignorant of Fish’s {dentity, ques- tioned his ability to make his check good. Fish, it is said, took offense at this and angry words ensued. Then, according to the police, some one slap- ped Fish’s face. One of the women, clinging to Fish’s arm, dragged him toward the door of the saloon and out to the sidewalk, Coroner Jackson made an examina- tion of Mr. Fish’s body. He said no fracture of the skull had been found. He believed death had heen due to paraly- sis of the brain, caused by a blow on the left side of the face or head. It was thought Mr, Fish had fallen on a stone pavement and injured the skull, prob- ably fracturing it. The coroner said that a knock-down blow usually caused concussion of the brain. The pupil of Mr. Fish’s right eye was dilated, while the left one was contracted and that the coroner said was a symptom of paralysis of the brain, Coroner Jackson held Sharkey in $10,- 000 bail and Mrs, Phillip and Mrs, Casey in $500 bail each as witnesses, Sharkey made the following state- ment preliminary to his arraignment: “T went into Erhhardt’s and saw there two women with whom T am acquaint: ed. They called out when they saw me, ‘Come over and have a drink.’ “T went over and sat down with them, After Thad talked to them this banker Fish seemed to take offense at my being there. “We had a few words, and all at once he drew off with his arm and struck me. Then we both got up. I went out one door and he the other. He mus’ have stumbled down the steps and fallen in going out.” MORE COLLIERIES RES‘ME. Delaware & Hudson Company Start Three, and Ontario & Western Four—Guard in Jail. Scranton, Pa., Sept. 17.—The Dela- ware & Hudson compeny today started three more collieries, the Conygham at Wilkesbarre, Plymouth No. 2 and the Olyphant. This makes six collieries and three washeries this company has in operation. The Ontario & Western com- pany resumed operations at Pine Brook and West Ridge collieries, Scranton, and Johnson Nos, 1 and 2 in Priceburg. This company now has three mines and three washeries going altogether. Companies having headquarters here claim to be operating collieries and 21 washeries, with an estimated daily out- put of 20,000 tons. A guard on duty at the Pancoast colliery was chased by a crowd, and to hold them off he dis- charged his revolver. He was later ar- rested by Throop borough authorities and sent to jail for discharging fire- arms. ‘Will Concede Nothing. New York, Sept. 17.—A conference of leading anthracite coal ii:terests was held this afternoon at the Philadelphia & Reading company’s offices. The pre: cise subjects of the conference could not be learned, but it was stated in ad- vance of the meeting that no conces- sions would be granted and that recent events of a semi-political character would not be seriously considered, THE OCEAN RECORD BROKEN. Cron Prinz Wilhelm Lowers the Deutschiland’s Time Twenty- three Minutes, New York, Sept. 17.—Tho North Ger- man Lloyd steamer Kron Prinz Wil- helm arrived in port today from Cher- bourg, beating all westward records, ‘The steamship left Cherbourg at 9:10 p. m.. Sept 10, and arrived at Sandy Hook lightship at 4:07 this moraing, making the run of 3.047 miles in 5 days, 11 hours. 57 minutes, an average speed of 23.09 knots per hour. The time is 28 minutes better than the time of the Deutschland, MODEL FARMS IN MISSISSIPPI. Northern Capitalists Making Heavy Investments in Real Estate in the Cotton Delta, Jackson, Miss, Sept. 15,—Northern real estate dealers and capitalists are not making heavy investments in real estate in the delta with the object of developing their holdings into model plantations, and it is estimated that nearly $2,000,000 worth of land has been purchased within the present year, The land most sought after is in sections which have never been cultivated, and at the present rate of development the entire section where only about 50 per cent of land {s in cultivation will have a largely increased tillable acreage ‘within the next few months. J. H. PIGGOTT PROCLAIMS HIM- SELF THE MESSIAH. Leader of a Set Called Agapemonists Promises Everlasting Life to His Followers—Noisy Demonstration at Clapton, England —Hissed and ‘Threatened by a Large Crowd He ‘Was Protected by Police. London, Sept. 16.—Amid scenes of disorder, J. H. Piggott yesterday car- ried out! his promise to proclaim him- self the Messiah at the Abode of Love, which is the name for the Agapemon- ists’ church at Clapton. Only 200 of the waiting 5,000 persons were able to enter the building after about 300 of the Agapemonists took their places in the church, These strangers with the outside crowd kept up a continuous din throughout the service. Those who suc- ceeded in entering found themselves with bruised limbs and torn coats. In the chapel, which showed a beauti- fully decorated interior, with allegorical bas reliefs on the walls, pews of carved oak, and much carving in marble and Algerian onyx, Piggott, without surplice or robes, faced his congregation, star- ing intently and afterward assuming a mystic, far-away look. A silent prayer followed the singing of a hymn, which was interrupted by blasphemous com- ments from the non-members, three of whom were expelled. Piggott read in a well modulated yoice the verse from the epistle to the Corinthians: “Because the foolishness of God 1s wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.” He then proceeded to say that God was about to manifest this in the time that was beginning. He added: “For the second coming there was a man sent from God whose name was Brother Prince (referring to the founder of the sect). Those who received his mes- sage were very few. Tho churches re- Jected him as @ blasphemer and a wick- ed man, but his wisdom fs justified again, for those who received that mes- sage receive him now. It is not as a rector of the church that I stand before you, but as him who has come again as the son of God, come in my own body, come to please my people, to re- ceive my people to myself, and to give everlasting life to all flesh.” Immediately after the service was over the crowd rushed pell mell to catch a glimpse of Piggott, who emerged pale, but smiling, and with vacant eyes. The throng surrounded him, yelling, hissing and threatening him’ with uplifted sticks. Piggott put his head out of the window of the carriage which he had entered, his black and gray hair hanging over his face, and seemed to invite martyrdom. The police prevent- ed him from being assaulted, It is un- derstood that a man who was on the ‘vox beside the driver was an ex-prize fighter. During the service a detachment from the Salvation Army, of which Piggott was formerly a member, marched past the church ‘singing “We Shall Know When He Comes by the Nail Prints on His Hands.” The crowd backed the Salvationists against the Agapemon- ists. Some of them shouted to Piggott “Hold up your hands!” Piggott did so, showing both hands bound in white cloth. ‘A feature of the noisy scenes was that while men were jeering and joking the women were passionately angry all the time, Some of the members of the sect who drove up in carriages regarded the \ jublic with complete unconcern. Strike Conference. Wilkesbarre, Pa.. Sept. 17.—President Gompers of the American oderation of Labor, President Mitchell and Treas- urer Wilson of the United Mine Work- ers, together with district presidents of the same organization in the anthracite region, spent the best part of the day in a conference here which was secret. After the meeting none of those who participated were in a communicative mood. President Gompers expressed the opinion that the miners were well able to take care of themselves and sald the federation would not be called upon earlier than November to take action on the strike, Injuries to Brooklyn. | Washington, Sept. 15.—The report of ‘the board which investigated the in- Juries to the cruiser Brooklyn in the recent navy maneuvers was made pub- le today. Repairs of damage will cost $42,500, and the ship will be laid up in dock for three months. MARKET REPORTS. f Chicago Live Steck. Chicago, Sept. 16.--Cattle—Receipts to- day were 2,00 head against 2,076 last Monday. The receipts embraced about 11,~ oi Western rangers, and any amount of A better percentage class of natives. A. good demand for fat natives of a desirable quality held prices steady. Unattractive cattle were miich too numerous, however, and such descriptions were rather slow at Weak prices, Good to prime steers, $7,500 8.0); poor to medium, #4.2507.00; stockers and feeders: $2.5005.25; heifers, §2.0018.003 calves, 3,007.00, Hoxs—About 24,000 hogs were marketed today against 28/375 last Monday. Clty packers and Eastern shippers took hold freely and prices advanced 10 to 15c, send Ing the best hogs up to $820, Mixed and butchers, §.40715.00; good to cholce heavy, S7.80718.15; rough, heavy, $7.45@7.05; lght, S7oGT.H; bulle Sales, $1.45407.70, Sheep—Receipts today were estimated at 99.000 head agalnst $3,988 last Monday. The receipts came largely from ranges, and there was the accustomed lively demand, particularly from feeders, prices ruling: steady except for inferior grades. Sheep, $2.008.75; lambs, $3.5005.75. Chicago Produce. Chicago, Sept. 15.—Buter—Market firm, Creamerles, I@2ze; dairy, 156200. Pege—Market firm, 19. Poultry—Market steady, Turkeys, 24@ ie; chickens, Nalze. Close on Rye—Sept., 4944; Deo. 49, Close on Flax—N, W., $1.88; 8. W., 8.185 Sept,, $1.2514; Oct., $1.88. Hay—Timothy—Cash, $1.40, St. Louis Cattle. St, Louts, Sept, 16.—Cattle—Recelpts, 12,000 head; lower; beet stecrs, $4.000748; stockers and feeders, $3.50704.0; cows and. helfers, $22595.50; Texas steers, $2,95(95.00, Hogs—Receipts, 4.000 head; 10@15e high er; range, $7.0@8.0. Minneapolis Grain. Minneapolis, Minn., Sept, 16.—Wheat— September, Gi4Goi4; December, G54; ‘on track No. 1 hard, 68%; No. 1 northern, 67%; No, 2 northern, 6%. We never saw smartweed grow to a height of five feet until this year. The tile draining of land results in making the soil dry in a wet time and moist in a dry time. It works both ways. Meats are high priced in all countries—England, Germany, France, Australia—everywhere save in the Argentine. Just as soon as a woman has learned how to make good soups not so much good meat is thrown out to the pigs and chickens. It is less trouble to kill off the rabbit in the vicinity of the orchard than it is to let the rabbits alone and try to protect the trees. We find some comfort in the fact that even the best farmers we know have this season more weeds than they know what to do with. No weed that we have to deal with gets such a grip on the soil as does the sourireretail grass. Its hold is worse than that of a mortgage. The hen which can be made to lay an egg every day in the year is much faarer away than the horse that will trot a mille in two minutes. While two different crops may be raised in one year upon the same piece of land, it is always a mistake to try to raise them at the same time. We know of a man who manages to keep a family of small owls in his big barn, and he tells us that as mice catchers they beat cats all to pieces. If a man could take his money with him when he dies, there are some men in this country whose death would cause a serious contraction of the currency. The daisy will run out blue grass, and for this reason the men who live in the blue grass country want to look out for the coming of this Eastern plague. The rush for land in the Northwest continues with unabated vigor, and the fine crops which are being secured in all the Northwest section are serving to intensify it. The Chester White hog does not receive the attention among our hog raisers to which it is entitled. It is not to its disadvantage that it is not as early a maturing hog as the Poland-China. There is more to encourage one to take up the poultry business today than there has ever been before. Having the use of an acre or so of land, almost any one, using ordinary intelligence, can take up this business and be reasonably sure of a profitable one. Query—So long as it has seemed best for the United States to acquire large areas of sugar producing territory, why not let this territory be developed to the fullest extent in supplying the needs of the American people? Crop experts place the value of the cereal crop alone of 1902 at the enormous sum of $2,000,000,000 for the farmers of the United States. This is all new created and original wealth. No other country on earth ever before made such a showing. A supposed perfectly worthless house cat that for long had persisted in making the front porch by our bedroom window a trysting place where duels were nightly carried on deposited the scalp and nose of a large rat on the doorstep one night recently, done, we suppose, to prove that his reputation was not as bad as we took it to be. But we are not sure that some other cat did not kill that rat. The condition of hay in the stack varies so much that it is difficult to determine the exact number of cubic feet of hay required to make a ton of hay. Where the stack is of timothy and it is not less than 12 feet in height when it has settled solid about 425 feet will make a ton, while if it is of clover at least 450 feet will be required. Where Canada thistles have got a foothold in the West they propagate not from the seed, which is infertile, but from the sucker roots. The only reliable way in which to get rid of them is to keep them persistently cut off during the growing period as soon as a sprout shows above ground. The battle with the weeks has been a hard and a long one the past season. Weather conditions have favored an abnormal growth of weeds and the germination of such seed which has lain in the ground dormant during the dry years. Then man who has a garden or field free from them in August is entitled to a credit mark. The time is not far off when a new indictment will be returned against the sparrow. When this bird becomes more plentiful, which will not be long, vast flocks of them will descend upon the wheat and out fields just as the grain gets in the dough, and if unmolested they will literally ruin the crop by squeezing the pulp out of the kernels. All over the country a persistent and organized warfare should be kept up on this bird. The Cuban grown pineapple is on the market this year in large supply and at very reasonable prices. Six million three hundred thousand French women work for a living—that is, they do that kind of work which in this country is usually assigned to men and not women. A large percentage of them work on the farms of that country and do the plowing, digging, hoeing, milk the cows, feed the stock and market the farm produce. There are plenty of them who could lay out an American hired man in the shade when it comes to hoeing potatoes or pitching hay. The state of Illinois produces two-thirds of all the broom corn grown in this country. Just why, we do not know, as any of the corn belt soils will produce broom corn. Like tobacco growing, the culture of peppermint, onions, celery and some other of what may be termed special crops, the business develops in certain localities and is confined to them. We have a friend who is always a little behind—always behind in meeting his financial obligations, behind in meeting appointments at a specified hour, behind getting in his crops, caring for them and harvesting them. He is always late for dinner, gets left by the cars, and his whole life is largely a failure for the simple lack of promess and punctuality. If your boy is taken this way, lose no time in taking the kninks out of him or he will be handicapped all his life long. The crop experts are guessing on a 2,500,000,000 bushel corn crop for 1902. This would mean 70,000,000 tons of corn, or 2,333,333 carloads, or 46,666 train loads of 5 cars each. But only a small part of this immense crop will ever be handled by the railways, for it will seek a market as beef, pork, mutton, butter, cheese, milk, wool, poultry and eggs. We have found the weeder an utter and complete failure for the cultivation of crops this season, and this not because of any inherent fault with the tool itself, but solely owing to the peculiar climatic conditions of the season—too much rain. This is essentially a dry weather tool and of no more value in a wet season than a boat would be on a dried up lake bed in Manitoba. The war between the cattlemen and the sheep herders has reached an acute stage out in the range country. Cattle and sheep cannot be herded on the same territory, for where the sheep run there the cattle will starve. The cattlemen are slaughtering the flocks of sheep and threatening to exterminate the herders. There was the same old trouble in Abrahamic days. The name of the owner of the farm printed upon the rural mailbox in front of his house is no little convenience to the traveling public. Only the men who have old, ramshackle places, with hogs in the dooryard, down fences and the mark of shiftnessness all over, object to it. The man with a neatly kept farm home is creditably advertised by his name on the box. Nineteen hundred and two will prove a very productive one in spite of numerous storms, floods and isolated crop disasters. A friend tells us that he has more potatoes this year on one square rod of ground than he had on an acre last years, another that he will get more oats from 15 acres this year than he got from 40 acres last year, while the yield of hay is more than six times as great as that of 1901. The Good Years. The farmers of the country have had three prosperous years. Aside from the actual profits derived from farm products raised and sold, there has been a very large increase in the value of the land itself, equivalent to over $1,000 per year for three years for every man who owned a hundred and sixty acre farm. This increase of wealth has been variously used. Much of it has gone to clear off the old parasite mortgage; much has gone into better houses and farm buildings; some has gone to help the boys and girls through college; a large sum for more land; some to give the boys a start; some into home securities and bank stock, and altogether too much into wildcat schemes—mining, oil and real estate fakes. The present good times will continue another year at least—perhaps longer. The wise man will improve his opportunity. Ask Her We wish that every man on the farm who reads this would just ask his wife what he could do to make the home work easier and the home itself more attractive. If this were done, a whole lot of funny things would come to the front. One woman would ask for a woodshed, another would want soft water, another one a place for the men to leave their dirty barnyard clothing, another a cleaned up doyard, another a better chicken house, another a fisherman's cabin and not one in ten of these women would want anything other than that which was sensible and practical and which almost any man might furnish. The Egyptians required their bondsmen to make bricks without straw, and there is just lots of the same sort of business going on in many a farm home today. A syndicate of well-to-do farmers came to the conclusion that it would be for their interest to invest in a good stock horse, so a company was formed with $2,500 capital, twenty-five men taking a share of $100 each. The horse was purchased, a heavy, handsome, well groomed specimen. He was sold at the end of the year for $140, as he provided to be utterly worthless. Twenty-five men know more about the ways and tricks of the wily horseman than they did before, and by common consent the subject is never to be referred to by any of them at thrashing bees and church sociables. The Editor EDGAR BAKER HOW do you feel today?" ask ed the editor of Uncle Bill as he surrendered in with smile on his face and seat ed himself as usual where he could make the editor listen, whether willingly or not. "First rate, only Ur "First rate, only I'm gettin' rather sick uv soup," replied Uncle Bill. "but havin' them seven teeth out brought me good luck, 'cause I haint had eny toothache since an' I feel like a four-time winner jest startin' in the My, but what a change it makes in the uv life, havin' a few aches an' pains. A week ago I couldn't see anything more in life that was desirable an' now everything is tinted like a rainbow. I've had my measure took fur a mouth full uv teeth, an' I will be eaten' corn beef an' cabbage again耐心 soon, but I told the dentist not ter put 13 teeth on a plate, 'cause I didn't want no bad luck with 'em." "You are not superstitious, I hope," said the editor. "No. I haint superstitious, an' I don't want anything in my mouth ter make me so. When a feller is all free from superstition he wants ter stear clear uv hoodoons an' sich like, else he may breed a lot uv it. Now if I had a set uv teeth made an they happened ter have 13 teeth on it, yer can see where I'd git off at in a month or two," said Uncle Bill. "If number 13 is lingerin' bout eny place an an anything happens different than we would like, it gits blamed fur it, an' if there is no number 13 'round no matter what happens we never think uv chargin' it ter bad luck" "I never could see," said the editor, "why the number 13 should be charged up as being an unlucky number, for everything in the history of our country goes to show it to be connected with good luck every time; for example, this nation started with 13 states and..." "It had tiger fight an eight-year warter do it," interrupted Uncle Bill. "So yer see there's a chance fur the superstition tiger on. Cause fur every victory the United States has ever had with 13 connected with it some one has had tiger lose an' there's the chance fur them tern horlar bad luck on account uv 13." "I see that you are inclined to be a little superstitious," said the editor, as he picked up a little book which was lying upon his desk and had for a title "The Unlucky Thirteen." "I've heen tell an' read so much 'bout it lately that I've been investigat'n' it an' I'm free tern confess that when a feller is lookin' fur bad luck an' the number 13 is hangin' round it's a mighty good thing lay it to. Now take fur example there's Seth Wiggers, when he subscribed fur his telephone he stipulated that the number must be 13 an' he got it. The reason he wanted it, he said, was because 'Old Glory' had 13 stripes an' our coin has 13 stars encircling the head uv Liberty an' 13 arrows grasped in one foot uv the eagle an' a branch uv 13 leaves in the other, a motto uv 13 letters in in its beak an' a hull lot uv other stuff what he'd been readin' uv a book, till he finally got ter thinkin' that 13 was a good luck omen," said Uncle Bill, as he warmed up to the subject. "He certainly had a good example to follow for 'Old Glory' and our coin stand pretty high in this world," remarked the editor in a manner which carried conviction with it. "Oh, I hain't sayin' nothin' agin the example, that's all right, but I'm talkin' 'bout Seth now. He got his number 13 telephone, as I said before, an' the day he put it in his best horse died; uv course the horse would uv died enway; an' then when he got his new barn all raised the wind blew it over, while the gang what raised it was eatin' supper. The next day while he was drivin' ter town ter order some more lumber, his colts run away with him an' broke his buggy all ter smash, an' so it kept on till finally it struck his poultry an' I'll be gosh swishellied if he could set a hen on 13 eggs but what she'd leave her nest. An' finally the lightin' struck his telephone an' come durn near burning' his house down, an' then the Widder Baxter come over an' offered sympathy an' Seth's wife got jealous an' come near leavin' uv 'im. Then Cy Prewet said 'Seth, mebby that number 13 that yer've got on yer telephone is what's raisin' hob with yer. So Seth pitched it out doors onto the wood pile where at last it was a blessin' ter him." "In what way was it a blessing?" asked the editor, who had pied a column of type while conversing about the number 13. "Why," said Uncle Bill, "it keeps hollerin' hello an' every trump in the country what passes by stops in thinkin' some one is callin' uv 'im, but as soon as they catch sight uv the number 13 they all mosoy right along until finally the tramps are all boycottin' his place, so he won't be bothered with them eny in the future. A tramp hates number 13 worse'n the devil hates a deacon an' that's gittin' it down ter a purty durn bitter hatred." "Yes," said the editor, "but don't you believe that all this would have happened to Seth if no number 13 had been on his telephone." "Uv course, I do," said Uncle Bill, "an' I 'spouse President Roosevelt would uv had his accident if it had been the 14th day uv his trip instead uv the 13th, but it all happened on the 13th jest the same, an' I don't believe that beln' the 13th day uv his trip had anything ter do with it, but it gives superstitious people a chance ter breed superstition, when it's hangin' round, an' gives people what ain't a chance ter became so. I think, take it all in all, that number 13 should be passed up ter Carnegie; he started when he was 13 years old an' now he's in hard luck; he's got so much money that he can't give it away as fast as it accumulates. An' Rockefeller made a pile uv his money on the 13th uv each month u' look at him. If all flesh is grass, as it is, why is not the meat eater a vegetarian after all? Creating Wealth When a farmer from his eighty acre farm produces and sells produce and stock to the amount of $1,500, the world is the richer by that amount, for he has created original wealth; when the miner digs out and sells $1,-500 worth of ore he has done the same thing; when the factory takes the farmer's corn or cotton or wheat or the minor's ore and by manipulating it the mining value has varied, the creating process is repeated, but when a man buys a horse or a farm or any other commodity and sells it for more than he paid, while he may have made money, the world is none the richer, for he has created no new wealth. Won't Hurt Tham. Where there are more women and girls around the farm house than there are men and boys it is all right for the women to take a hand in the lighter forms of the farmwork. We have seen as nice and pretty a girl as there could be found in a whole county, a big sunbonnet hiding her beauty, seated on a sulky plow, driving three big Percheron horses and doing as nice a job of plowing as any man could do. This is lots better than for her to have laced herself up tight as a drum in a spring corset and be working a blue yarn dog barking at a red moon on canvas while her mother was peeling potatoes in the back kitchen for the family dinner. AS OTHERS SEE US. Philadelphia Ledger: A commission of the British Iron Trade association, which visited this country to study its great steel and iron manufacturing industries, has published a report which is discussed in some of the English technical papers. The report itself has not yet reached the treasury bureau of statistics, but some extracts from it have been printed by the English papers. The commission was composed of J. S. Jeans, an authority on the subject; Axel Sahlin, an expert in blast furnace work; Ebenezer Parkes, a specialist in sheet and bar mill practice, and Enoch James, who gave special attention to the steel industry. Mr. James says that it is a mistake to suppose that Americans work harder than Englishmen. They have to be attentive in guiding operations and quick in manipulating levers and similar easy work, and they are much more desirous than English workmen to get out large quantities, but they do not work harder. They are better paid and more regular in their attendance at the works, loss of time through drinking habits or otherwise not being tolerated. Mr. Sahlin gives similar testimony, and adds that Americans aspire to the higher grades of work and leave to foreigners the rough manual labor. He saw Polish and Hungarian laborers working for $1 to $1.50 per day alongside of American rollers averaging $12 per day. The average wages of men employed at Homestead was, according to Mr. Carnegie, $3 per day, or, as Mr. Sahlin puts it, £187 per annum, against £63per annum in Lancashire and £79 per annum in South Wales. Mr. Jeans gave special attention to the cost of living, and concluded that the average American workman, in most of the essentials of life, could live as cheaply as his British brother. If this be approximately true, the American must have much the better of it, with average wages in these industries of $935 against $340 in Lancashire and $395 in South Wales. Commenting on these reports, the London Statist approves Mr. Sahlin's remark that "it is not the guns that win the battle, but the men behind them," and adds: "What the American admires and honors is the ability to do; that capacity in a man, through his own sagacity, nerve, enterprise and skill, to create and employ a fortune. Nobody is above his work. Everybody works, and for the sake of work, and thus has been produced in America with a generation an industrial potentiality more wonderful and more to be feared than all the factories and machinery and 'plants' that these workers have created. It comes to this, then, that American labor is not more efficient, though it is better paid, than ours; and that American manufacturing development is due to the persistent, unresting industry which once characterized the Briton, but for which trade unionism and athletics have given an apparently growing distate. All the reporters, however, seem struck with the strenuousness of American life. The comparative absence of a leased class is as as in the prominent characteristics of the private industries and industrial centers of the United States. In the avenues of industry you without a regular business, or who is concerned in the development of some industry, is as a fish out of water. Nowhere, we are assured, is the struggling youth more kindly encouraged, more generously aided and more readily trusted—than in America; and it is pleasant to read of an esprit du corps among the works' managers which one would hardly expect to find in a land of such feverish competition." This is not merely complimentary; it is true. As a people we work hard because we like to work; we are ambitious and enterprising, and it is the human factor, not our machine tools, that foreign competitors have to dread, now that the American people have begun to enter the markets of the world. A writer in the Lancet says that children should be taught to use the nasal douche when they are taught to use the toothbrush. If the organ were daily cleaned, he says, with a slightly astringent douche, such as a weak solution of sea salt, colds and germ diseases would be much less frequent. Three Victoria crosses, 10 distinguished service medals, 2 promotions to commissioned rank and 4 mentions in dispatches have fallen to the lot of reform school lads in South Africa, says Lord Leigh. UNCLE BILL AND **W** do you feel today?" ask the editor of Uncle Bill as he sauntered in with a smile on his face and seated himself as usual where he could make the editor listen, whether willingly or not. haint got 13 hairs on his whole body. So I'm willin' ter try seven come eleven in mine rather than go ter gittin' super- stitious over number 13." And as he started out the door he said: "There flew a bat across the doorway; I'll bet somebody's sick at home." Edgar Baker New York Sun: Senator Vest has told many stories, but one experience of his has not reached the general reader. It occurred many years ago, but the senator telling it not long ago was still chuckling. In his younger days Senator Vest was an ardent hunter and an authority on the wild life of the prairies. He was living on the advance line of civilization and his home was known far and wide for its cordial and abundant hospitality. There Mr. Vest one day received a visit from a rich and famous hunter from London who brought a letter of introduction from a friend living in the English capital. And the Englishman had brought with him his hunting dog. Senator Vest had dogs of his own and he could not repress his surprise, but the Englishman asked him to wait and see. The animals from the other side of the sea would do wonders when they got to work. In order to get the best shooting—quall was the game sought—it was necessary to drive far out on the prairie beyond even the suggestion of civilization. The hunters and the attendants got in the big wagon and the dogs followed. They drove for many miles and finally the wagon was left in the care of the Englishman. The Englishman started out on the quest. They did well. The dogs of the Englishman were not worth much, but the Missouri breed gave excellent sport. "Just wait and give my dogs a chance," declared the Englishman. "All they need is a stronger scent." "They got it," said the senator, telling the story, "Yes, they got it. Some distance away was a little hill and in the side of the little hill were little holes. Suddenly the Englishman's dog got the stronger scent and started for the little hill with the little holes. "Call them back,' I shouted to the Englishman. "Oh, no," he replied. 'Now they've got it. Now they've got it.' "They will get it if they don't keep away from there," I answered. But with all I could do I could not call him back. He would not listen and he got so excited that he started on a run after his dogs. "Well, it was my time to be moving, too, for I knew what was coming; so I called my dogs and made for the wagon as fast as the good Lord would let me. Just as I crawled in I turned and saw the show, and I never pitied anybody in my life as much as I did that Englishman with the dogs that wanted a stronger scent. Out of the holes came little animals and you never saw such a mix-up in your life. The dogs ran for the Englishman and jumped around him for protection. Then the Englishman tried to get away from the dogs for protection, too, and the whole combination started for the wagon. PROPERTIES OF RADIUM. One of the Most Interesting Discoveries of the Age. Cosmopolitan. If not the most important certainly one of the most interesting discoveries of the age pertains to that new metal or substances which contains in itself such an infinite energy that since the very beginning of creation it has been emitting streams of material particles projected with the relativity of from 50,000 to 40,000 times per second. The total mass of this material thus far collected weighs only about one-thirtieth of an ounce. So rare is the substance that to produce one ounce, it is estimated, would require an expenditure of more than $300,000. The name given this possessor of these startling qualities is radium. Though the experiments thus far made have been very limited, a long line of suggestions has been indicated. A trifling particle of radium brought into the vicinity of an electroscope desults n the discharge of its electroscope into the vicinity of an electroscope radiant activity is such that the air becomes a conductor of electricity suffults in the discharge of its electroscica of the gold leaves. The ray sent out is apparently a conductor of electricity almost as if it were a copper wire. Glass brought into contact with this metal becomes permanently of a brown or violet-tinted hue. Oxygen is converted by radium into ozone. These are but a few of the many curulous changes which take place in the presence of what has become known as the Becquerel ray, in honor of the profound studies of Bacquerel, through whom the marvelous properties of radium came to be known to the world of science. These rays are so powerful that not only do they furnish light, but penetrate the most opaque bodies. Still more powerful, they not only penetrate, but seem to impart to a length of time their powers of radiation to the substances with which they come in contact. Still more contradictory in attributes, these radiations seem to possess the doubled character of the divertible cathode ray and the indivertible Bohmian radiation. Some have estimated that but a small weight of radium would furnish a light for economic purposes so brilliant that the human eye and body would have to be protected from its influence. Once in place, however, it would be installed for all time. The Strenous Life. One of the president's old cowboy friends pushed his way to the rear platform and told him that he had followed his advice of some years ago and had been married. As an afterthought he added that he also had six children. He knows what a strenuous life is. Baltimore American. Many a man who is a walking encyclopaedia is anything but a perambulating bank. MEDIAN AGE IS INCREASING. Census Bureau Report Makes Population Comparisons by Decades. The census bureau has issued a statement showing the increasing age of the population from decade to decade. The statement gives the results of computing the median instead of the average age. The median is such an age that half the population is under it and half is over it. The median age of the total population in 1900 was 22.8, as compared with 21.9 in 1890. The median age of the white population in the last decade was 22.4 and the median including negroes, Indians and Mongolians, was 19.7, while in 1890 the white population was 22.4 and the colored 18.3. The report shows there was an increase in the median age of the white population during each decade from 1810 to 1900 amounting in the 90 years to 7.4 years, or an average amount of about five-sixths of a year in a decade. The median age of the colored population increased after 1830, but with less regularity. The median age of the colored population increased three years in the 70-year period from 1830 to 1900, or only about half as fast as that of the whites. But during the last 20 years of the century the increase for the two groups has been substantially the same, 1.9 years for the colored and two years for the white. The statement concludes as follows: "Many complex influences have co-operated in producing as a result this steady change in the age composition of the population. Three may be mentioned, the rapid progress of medical and sanitary science, which has tended to increase the average length of life; the decrease in the relative number of children born, which has made the earlier periods less preponderant numerically in the total population, and the influx, especially since 1840, of great numbers of adult immigrants, increasing the number in the older age periods. "The difference between the white and colored populations is doubtless due to the fact that the differences have wrought not only powerfully on the white race than upon the colored." $100 REWARD $100 The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is known now to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. 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Just east of the Colorado river a sandstone butte rises 1,000 feet above the plain, and the very peak of this butte is the boundary. Mr. Carpenter named the butte Site. Line Butte, Not far from this butte is another, which stands 1,300 feet above the plain, and was named Tower Peak. These two gigantic stones will always be a guide to persons who have enough curiosity to penetrate the desert in search of the state line. CASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of Menace of the Coal Strike. It is not only the individual that suffers from the coal strike. The public schools in many cities are likely to be seriously affected by the enhanced cost of coal, and if the strike continues unpleasant retrenchments may be necessary in more than one town. In Washington, D. C., real uneasiness on the part of the school commissioners is reported; and the borough of Brooklyn is troubled at the prospect of closing several schools.—Springfield Republican. Mothers will find Mrs. Winslow's Sootting Syrup the best remedy to use for their children during the teething period. Exploring a Chicago Slipper A Chicago woman had two painters arrested for stealing $2,000 from her, and then found the money in an old slipper. Knowing the size of the Chicago foot, one can imagine what an exploring job there was before that she was located. Talk about exploring the Mammoth cave!—Los Angeles Times. PASTIME NOTES. In the spring the liar's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of fish. The novel the villian of which doesn't hiss should be a howling success. The subtitle mind is only submissive when submission subserves its interest. "Vain imaginings" bring some people more misery than does hard reality. "Absence makes the heart grow fonder" when it comes to the bill colector. BarbWire Cuts HEALS them without a scar. It is an antiseptic healing powder, keeps out poud flesh. Keeps flies from wound. Send for free sample. Address I-O-D-O Medicine Co., 66 Hastings St., Chicago, Ill. CENTRAL N. U. . NO. 39-02 Twentieth Century Negro Literature This book contains One Hundred Treatises on Thirty-Eight General Topics in which the negro problem is viewed from every possible standpoint. No work could more fully represent the higher stratum of race subjects. No work could furnish the basis of future calculations on all race subjects. There are 100 PORTAITS AND 100 BIOGRAPHIES of the writers. To see the pictures and read the lives of the hundred most prominent negroes is to have a fair knowledge of the entire race. Over 100 large pages and retails at $2.50 in cloth, postpaid. AGENTS' great book, 100 canvassers at once to introduce this credit. Agent's magnificent sample book for $3e. to pay mailing expenses. Write for our proposition at once. This is the opportunity of your life. J. L. NICHOLS & CO., Naperville, Illinois. The Professional World RUFUS L. LOGAN, B. S. D. - EDITOR TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One Year in Advance - - - $1.00 Six Months in Advance - - .75 Three Months in Advance - - .50 Single Copies - - - .05 Advertising Rates on Application. Job Work of all Kinds Solicited. Entered at the postoffice at Columbumbia, Mo., as second class matter, Jan. 15, 1902. Agents wanted in every town in the state. SOME people who never have any private business of their own cannot see how any one else can have any. AFTER all it seems to be better to be an aristoocratic thief than an ordinary one. The St. Louis "Boodlers," who perhaps have beaten the people of St. Louis out of half a million dollars were given a sumptuous turkey dinner in jail last Sunday. While the fellow who stole a second handed over-coat was not permitted to smell the good things to eat. THE Teacher's Institute law as it now exists, is a complete hold-up for colored teachers. And it would be better for them if there was no Institute law. Here is an example: Two teachers attended the teachers Institutes in Cooper and Chariton counties, respectively, and afterwards took the examinations of the county boards in these same counties, where they had attended the Institutes, passed satisfactory examinations, paid Institutes, and county-board fees in these counties and were given certificates. They were elected to teach in Cole county, and when they went to take charge of their work, they were held up by the Cole county board and compelled to pay $3 each before they were permitted to teach. Making their total amount of fees $6.50, besides railroad fare, two weeks board and time to secure a certificate. Why such high-way robbery is made to confront colored teachers, we are unable to explain, unless the county boards simply take the advantage of a "good thing" brought about by a rotten legislative enactment. The legislature made no provision for the payment of colored Institute conductors, except they are to collect $2 Institute fee from every teacher who attends his Institute. And here comes another hold up. Teachers who are holding life certificates already in force are demanded to pay the two dollars Institute fee, which is not according to law. If teachers are to pay $6.50 for a certificate, which permits them to teach a $20 school it would be far better that there were no colored teachers Institute law, and that they were permitted to go before the county commissioner and be examined as was the law years ago. The more a man hurts a girl hugging her the harder she wishes he could hug her without hurting. Many a young lady would appear more beautiful, if she would make herself beautifully less. A girl with pretty feet can lose a slipper as easily as one with a scrawney neck can believe in modestly dressing. An old wife and a young husband have one chance in a thousand to be happy, but they never take it. DR. D.W. OULP HOW TO PRONOUNCE ROOSEVELT. Here Are Fourteen Different Ways Used—and There Are Others. From the New York Times. Just how to pronounce the name of our President is a matter that puzzles a great many people. His name has given rise to a greater variety of pronunciation than that of any statesman who has ever occupied the front rank. The English people shied a "D'Israeli" when they first saw it in print, and Americans when they first saw "Thiers" were given pause. Bonaparte changed the spelling of his name, and there some purists who excite amusement by still spelling it "Buonaparte" and pronouncing it accordingly. But for a man of world wide fame, as the President of the United States must necessarily be in these days, there has never before been a case like that of "Roosevelt" to puzzle mankind. Even "Goethe" and "Pepys" were not so mystifying. Elsewhere than in New York and in Holland and South Africa, where Dutch names are common, the greatest variations of the President's name are to be met with. People in England are at sea about it. On the continent almost every man has his own opinion on the subject. Here are a few of the vagaries: Rosa-felt, Ruzy-veld, Rosen-felt, Roze-veld, Roose-velt, Rose-velt, Ruzy-velt, Rosen-velt, Roosa-velt, Roosa-velt, Ruzy-felt, Roose-velt, Ruze-felt, Ruza-felt, A few million people in England think the President is a Boer. Others say: "There's another one of those queer American names." In Germany people believe him to be a Jew descended from one of those families which took their names from objects in nature, such as "Rosendale" and "Rosenstein." Many Frenchmen think he is a German, especially since he talked fluently in that language with Prince Henry, but spoke with Count Rochambeau in language which one of the French delegates described as "bizarre." Administrator's Notice. Notice is hereby given that letters of administration upon the estate of Jerry Morrison, deceased, were granted to the undersigned on August 26th, 1902, by the Probate Court of Boone county Missouri. All persons having claims against said estate are required to exhibit them for allowance to the administrator, within one year after the date of said letters, or they may be precluded from any benefit of said estate; and if such claims be not exhibited within two years from the date of such letters, they shall be forever barred. DORA MORRISON, Sept. 13th 4t. Administratrix. WE ALL SAY AMEN A recent writer asks: "Would you advise a young man with $5,000 capital, intending to become a business man, to spend that sum first on a college education?" Certainly not. Let him work in vacation and use only the interest of $5,000, and he will have both his education and his principal when he gets through. Because some foolish parents spend a sum like this each year on an effeminate or luxurious boy does not concern him. He can get a better education in the same college by his unaided efforts. If our colleges insist that their students must get down to work or go home, we should hear less of lavish expenditure or of the complaint that colleges are for rich men only. It is the college where the students are poor that will some day have the rich alumni.—President David Starr Jordon in the Independent. DAMAGING DISCLOSURE. The two candidates for the legislature were speaking from the same platform. "My fellow citizens," said the candidate with the long black mustache, rising to speak in his turn, "I am able at least to unmask the hypocrite, that has just addressed you. It is a disagreeable duty, but you have a right to know what manner of man he is. Well may he tremble at the disloosure I am about to make, for it knocks the last prop from under him and shows him to you in his true light." Here the speaker paused to take a drink of water. Then he slowly turned his head, looking over his shoulder at the other candidate with a glance of concentrated scorn, and faced the audience again. A hush pervaded the ball. "Fellow citizens," he exclaimed, in a voice of thunder, "this man poses as a friend of the common people! He goes around shaking hands with everybody! Do you know why he does it? I will tell you. He does it to deceive you. Fellow citizens, he is no horny-handed son of toil! Those callouses in the palms of his hands were never produced by work. He never did a day's work in his life. Those callouses are warts! Warts my fellow citizens! Warts! Warts in the palms of his hands? Let him deny it if he can!" The other candidate couldn't deny it, and it cost him the election. $100 Reward. $100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages and that is Catarrh. 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