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THE PROFESSIONAL WORLD. $1.00 Per Year in Advance. Schools And Teachers. In the graduate school of Yale University there will be this year about thirty woman and sixteen Japanese students. Harvard University has officially recognized the Germanic museum by appointing Prof. Kuno Francke as curator of the museum. Harvard will debate with Princeon December 12. The sophomore debating class of Harvard contains forty-three members. All the classes are well organized and much interest in this branch of education is maintained. The board of trustees of Princeton University has decided to abolish Sunday afternoon services, the question having been under consideration for nearly a year. Considerable opposition was manifested, but upon the whole the decision is thought to be wise, and it is hoped that abandoning the afternoon services will strengthen the attendance in the morning. The Baltimore Sun, commenting upon the recent remarks of President Eliot in regard to the inefficiency of the public schools, has this to say: "One just criticism which might be made of the public schools in almost every part of the country is the lack of thoroughness of teaching. This is due to the fact that too much work is undertaken. Where the public school fund is limited and where it is perfectly well known that the great majority of the students will leave school at an early age, it is folly to attempt to teach all branches of human knowledge. It would be best to confine instruction to such essential knowledge as can well be taught." Columbia University has nearly 200 more students enrolled this year than last, the final total for the year being considerably more than 5000. The teachers of Monroe county have organized a county institute which convenes monthly. PERSONAL Mr. Edward Cook of St. Joseph has been visiting friends in the city recently. Mrs. Margaret Tibbs is on the sick list. The Columbia Grocery Co. is keeping the best stock of groceries. Miss Daisy Bannister who has been ill is able to be out again. Mrs. Mattie Renicker of St. Louis arrived Saturday and will spend the winter in her old home city. Mrs. McLane of Sedalia is spending a few days in the city with Mrs. Sophia Wright. Rev. P. C. Crews was called home very suddenly on account of his mother's serious illness. Mr. Webster Pazaar returned home last Tuesday at noon. Rev. John Carter is visiting in the city. The Ladies of the A. M. church are making great preparations for Thanksgiving. 50 YEARS' EXPERIENCE PATENTS TRADE MARKS DESIGNS COPYRIGHTS & C. Anyone sending a sketch and description may quickly ascertain our opinion free whether an inventor patents a patent. Communications strictly confidential. Handbook on Patents sent free. Oldest agency for securing patent. Patents taken, through Manu & Co. receive special notice, without charge, in the Huntsville News. Mr. Chas. Humphry of Kewanee, Ill., spent several days in the city this week shaking hands with friends and returned home Wednesday. Mrs. Doshea Beverly and Miss Rebecca Prince of Moberly spent Tuesday with Mrs. Isaac Robinson. Our public school is well attended and the enrollment is unusually large. Mrs. S. T. Pettigrew of Dalton is visiting in the city. Mrs. Tennessee Warren is on the sick list. Mr. William Moss left last week for Minneapolis, Minn., to reside. The Professional World is only $1.00 per year. Auxvasse Notes. Rev. J. W. Sears, after conducting a revival of several weeks has added 44 to the church. At the recent baptizing a man who had witnessed the baptizing of his two sons, stepped forward and made a confession. Rev. Sears has recently been called to pastor our church. DIED, JONES:—At her home 3 miles southeast of Auxvasse Wednesday Oct. 29th, 1902, Mrs. Eliza Jones age 68 years. Mrs. Jones was one of the pioneer residents of this community and had been a consistent member of the Richland Baptist church for thirty years. She was born in Greene River county, Kentucky, and was the mother of 14 children and 15 grand children. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. J. W. Sears and a large crowd of friends and relatives turned out to pay the last tribute of respect to the deceased. One of her sons arrived from St. Louis just after the corpse had been lowered into the grave, but it was raised so that he might view his mother's face for the last time. Jefferson City Notes. Mrs. Nancy Pryor died at her home in this city on Oct. 30, 1902, after an illness of several weeks. Her funeral was held at the Second Baptist church. Mrs. Lillian Hord is on the sick list. Prof. F. M. G. Brown is teaching the Mount Vernon School in Callaway county. Pay your subscription to this this paper. It is only $1.00 per year. Prof. E L. Anthony, of California, was in the city last week. Mrs. Stanton Spann, of St. Louis, is in the city. Miss Anna Cohen left for St. Louis last Monday. Mrs. J. Silas Harris, of Kansas City, is visiting in this city. Mrs. Clay Vaughan, of Moberly, is in the city. Rev. Chester and family passed through the city last week on their way to his new charge in Miami, Mo. The first meeting of the State Farmers' Conference was held at Lincoln Institute last Saturday. Some of the wealthiest farmers in the state were present. The George R. Smith football team accompanied, by 75 students and friends, came to Jefferson City last Saturday to meet the Lincoln Tigers. After an exciting game the G. R. S.'s were defeated by a score of 18 to 5. The Swan Laundry leads all the laundries in the city. Because every person receives the same consideration. No work is allow- COLUMBIA, MISSOURI, FRIDAY NOV. 7, 1902. GLOBE CLOTHING CO. BROADWAY BETWEEN THE BANKS. One Price Clothiers, Hatters and Furnishers ed to leave this establishment without being carefully examined. Rev. Gordon, accompanied by his family, left last week for Butler, Mo., where he has a new charge. A deed from Martin D. Mayberry to J. C. McMahan to part of lots 859 and 860 in Jefferson City for $150 was recorded Saturday evening.—The Jefferson City Republican. Brown Station Items. Rev. Laws of Fulton, preached for us Sunday. Protracted meeting will be carried on this week. Miss Clara Johnson is at home a visit this week. Mrs. M. Bass and Mrs. A. Bass visited Mrs. M. F. Jackson Wednesday. Mr. John Brown has finished making sorghum. He made about 522 gallons. Mrs. Laura Mitchell and daughter visited Mrs. Eliza Flynn last week. Mrs. Cordelia Bailey entertained Misses Bessie Diggs and Ora Potts Saturday and Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. John Brown visited Mrs. Geo. Hayes Sunday. Mrs. Ida Rogers entertained quite a number of young people Saturday evening and an enjoyable time was reported. Little Susie Rogers is seriously ill. Mesdames Eliza Potts and Minta Johnson and Mr. Willard Woods are on the sick list. Mrs. Washington died suddenly at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Sadie Cowden at Persinger Oct. 29, 1902. Her remains were interred at Mount Myna cemetery. Mrs. Washington was born in 1848 and was 54 years of age. She leaves a husband, eight children and a host of friends and relatives to mourn his death. Mrs. Lucinda Johnson died at her home in Columbia, Oct. 30, 1902. Her funeral was preached here at the Baptist church Friday to a large number of relatives and friends, after which her body was laid to rest in the Mount Hope cemetery. Mrs. Johnson was 78 years of age and leaves three children and many friends to mourn her death. Master Webster Brown won the prize at school for being the best reader. Success to the Professional World. State of Ohio, City of Toledo, Lucas County. 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 for each and every case 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. F. J. Cheney, & Co., Toledo, O. Sold by all druggists, 75c. Hall's Family Pills are the best. It is reported, cables the N. Y. Tribune's London correspondent, that J. Pierpont Morgan has bought the manuscript of Ruskin's "Seven Lamps of Architecture" for $25,000. After debating just 19 minutes, the jury which had heard the evidence in the case of Edmund Bersche, former member of the Columbia, Mo FOOTBALL VS. PRIZE RING. The Story Told in Tell-Tale Parallel. A comparison of the dangers of football and those of prize fighting is interesting, to say the least. Here are reports of important happenings in both branches of sport. One tells of the injuries to Princeton's players in Saturday's game with Columbia College of N. Y., the other is a detailed account of the final round of the recent Jeffries-Ruhlin prize fight for the world's championship. Which seems the more brutal? THE FOOTBALL GAME. Princeton, N. J., Oct. 27.—The Tigers are starting this week with high hopes and with a confidence in the team not seen this year. Columbia took away a defeat, but left behind them some ugly scratches on the Tigers side. In fact, Princeton suffered more than Columbia in the way of injury. The little quarter back, Burke, is out of the game for the season, if the doctor's word can be taken. He had his colar bone broken and will be on his back for a week or so at least. Kafer fared but little better having received the same kind of injury, but the bone was not broken all the way through. He may get in trim for the Yale game on November 15, but chances are against him. Tooker had three teeth knocked out and Moore has a wrenched knee. This is a long list of injuries and takes away great part of the enthusiasm over the unexpected victory. THE PRIZE FIGHT. Round 5. Jeffries' straight-arm blows were blocked. Jeffries landed light poke to jaw and short left to ribs and then again to neck with right. Ruhlin retreated. Jeffries followed, touching Ruhlin under the chin with his right and Gus went to the floor, but was up at the count of "five." Ruhlin seemed dazed and missed wild swings. Jeffries went in for a knock out. In the last minute of the round Ruhlin was struck in the pit of the stomach. Jeffries was going at him fiercely now and when the gong sounded Ruhlin was assisted to his corner. As he sat in his chair he looked distressed. He said something to Billy Madden and then "Denver Ed" Martin walked to the center of the ring and told Referee Corbett: "We give up." Ruhlin, beyond being dazed, was apparently unhurt. SNAP SHOT NEWS ITEMS Ping-pong parlor is established at Planters hotel, St. Louis. A mob of 4,000 persons at Darling, Miss., burn a negro at the stake, after he confesses to the murder of two white men. James Stokes, the Young Men's Christian Association worker of New York, was received by Emperor William. Mrs.Laura Jessie Bigwood was sworn in as a practicing attorney before the Supreme Court. She is the first woman to be admitted to the bar of Vermont. Abe Edwards, a prominent farmer of Monroe county, and an ex-member of Cockrell's Brigade, was found dead in the river south of Paris. It is believed his death was due to accidental drowning. R. O. Randall was shot and instantly killed by his wife on Oct. 31, in a lawyer's office in Carthage, Mo. She fired five shots. After the shooting she calmly remarked that there was a dead man up stairs and returned home. Mrs. Randall Just One Minute. I wish to exchange shoes for cash. I am after your business in the shoe line. If low prices and good quality is what you are looking for, call and examine my stock. No trouble to show goods. --- No. 222 East High St. = Jefferson City, Mo. Read The Professional World NEAT EWSY EWSPAPER $1.00 a year Sent to Any Address. left her husband two months ago and filed suit for divorce. They had met by agreement and a violent quarrel resulted from an attempt to settle property matters. It is said Randall attempted to cut his wife's throat, when she fired. W. P. Fulkerson, Carthage, one of the state bank examiners, tendered his resignation. With St. Louis capitalists, he has bought the controlling stock in the First National Bank of St. Joseph, and will assume the management immediately. Because of indictments found by the grand jury at White Plans, N. Y., John Quimby, his wife, Georgianna, Christian Scientists, and "Healer," John Carroll Lathrop, will have to stand trial for manslaughter in the second degree for allowing 7-year-old Esther Quimby to die from malignant diphtheria through their failure to call a physician. Maj. Emory S. Foster, former secretary of the board of public improvements and an old St. Louis newspaper man, sold his property interests in Wellston and left VOL. II. NO. 1. Minute. for cash. I am after line. If low prices you are looking for, stock. No trouble to PAPE, noe Dealer. HING C BARTH, COLUMBIA, MO. Wallendorf, Books and Supplies.... Musical Goods, es, Etc. = Jefferson City, Mo. Professional World Y PAPER to Any Address. Friday morning for Los Angeles, Cal., where he will take up a permanent abode. He is among the few surviving members of the "Drake Convention" of 1865. The Kansas City Star is to erect a mill at a cost of $250,000 for the manufacture of the paper used in printing that publication. The capacity will be about 1000 tons per month, all of it to be used by the Star, which is the first paper in the United States to manufacture its own paper. The Christian church's foreign missionary society's annual receipts reported at the Omaha national convention, were $178,323.68, a gain over last year of $6,425.48. Twenty-five men have been indicted by a grand jury at Indianapolis for robbing graves, among them being five prominent physicians. The largest apple so far reported in Missouri was raised by W. W. Jamison, near Elsberry. It was of the Fairmount variety and measured 17 1/2 inches in circumference. Professional World RUFUS L. LOGAN, B. S. D., Editor. COLUMBIA : : : MISSOURI THE NEWS CONDENSED. President Mitchell says he looks forward to the time when there will be no strikes. Firemen had two hours' hard work in subduing a fire which broke out Sunday night in the underground chambers of the College of the Propaganda at Rome. Many Italians are volunteering in support of the Macedonian cause and have appealed to General Garibaldi to assume their leadership. The general does not believe the time is yet ripe. William Coates, aged 18 years, of St. Joseph, Mo., who murdered his mother six weeks ago in order to get possession of her property, has been condemned to be hanged Dec. 8. Winnie Breese, aged 20 years, of Beloit, Wis., was arrested Tuesday in Racine, Wis., charged with forgying. Breese said he forged the checks in order to get enough money to marry. J. Pierpont Morgan is accused of sharp practices in conducting the harvester merger, by which he squeezed $2,500,000 more out of the organization that it was intended he should have. Silas Hulin, alleged to have been killed by Clarence Peck in Tennessee, appeared in the supreme courtroom just as the case was called and made himself known. Peak is a raving maniac. The Louisiana purchase exposition officials have received a letter from Secretary of the Treasury Shaw stating that the souvenir one dollar gold coins will be available some time between Dec. 1 and 15. The striking iron workers at the Reading plant of the American Steel company, who are members of the Amalgamated Association, today officially declared an end to the strike started May 16. A newspaper published at Kronstadt says that the emperor of China has issued an edict permitting the establishment of schools where the Russian language will be taught in the Chinese provinces contiguous to Aslatic Russia. In the original case of the state of Missouri vs. the state of Illinois involving the Chicago drainage canal, William M. Springer in the United States supreme court entered a motion to dismiss for want of prosecution by the state of Missouri. The Bulgarian government has sent an identical note to the powers pointing out that unless reforms in Macedonia are insisted upon the Bulgarian government will be unable to hold in check the pro-Macedonian movement, which is agitating the country. The trustees of the National McKinley Monument association met at Canton, O., Saturday. It is understood it was decided not to proceed with the building until the full amount originally decided upon shall have been received. It was decided to locate the monument on a hill north of West Lawn cemetery. In an endeavor to assist Pittsburg, Pa., families in solving the servant problem a company, to be known as the Dinned Delivery company, is being organized and will be domiciled in a large brick residence recently purchased by the president, Mrs. Bertha L. Grimes, at a cost of $25,000. The main object of the organization will be to select, prepare and deliver dinners and other meals at private residences in any part of the city. In his recent speech at Peoria Secretary Root read a letter from Jose Rizal, the greatest genius and most revered patriot of the Philippines, in which the writer pleaded with his people to submit to American sovereignty. A correspondent points out that Rizal was executed by the Spaniards in 1897, long before the United States had trouble with Spain. Now Mr. Root's friends somewhat lamely explain that the secretary was not correctly quoted. Hohsan Sanjiro Shimizu, to whom has just been awarded the Catherine M. White scholarship for excellence in the engineering department of the Armour Institute of Technology, is a young Japanese student who entered the institute four years ago, bringing from his home in Tokio a scholarship for excellence and high awards of honor. e is to receive the degree of bachelor of Science next June, and purposes to settle in this country for the practice of his profession of engineering. An incendiary's operations about Indianapolis Sunday night not only caused several fires but cost a human life. Today a charred body was found in the ruins of an icehouse near the bank of the canal, which had been destroyed by an incendiary. The body was so badly burned that it was impossible to tell even the sex. The body is believed to be that of a woman. Never before has an incendiary caused so many fires during one night. His work extended over a territory a mile square. In response to a suggestion that a flag should be adopted for the District of Columbia corresponding to the various state flags, District Commissioner MacFarland said the other day: "The American flag is the flag of the District of Columbia. It has never had any other. The states have state flags, some of which are very much older than the United States flag. But the National flag seems to me all sufficient for the National capital, which is its special home. People in the district have never been even tempted to divide allegiance between two flags, and no such temptation should ever be offered." The Awdiffred prize of $30,000 has been awarded to Mme. Meyrier, wife of the French consul at Diarbekir, in Turkey, for her heroism. The consul and his wife were at Diarbekir during the Armenian massacres in 1895. Mme. Meyrier sheltered, fed and cared for more than 700 Armenian refugees in the consolate building, and time after time M. Meyrier and his staff repulsed the Turkish assailants. This lasted 12 days. Later Mme. Meyrier led a caravan of 600 Christians to the coast, a fortnight's journey. The heroic woman was on horseback, with her four little children following in a litter. She and her party passed through the midst of the hostile tribes and safely reached the coast. NOTHING DEFINITE IN RETURNS BOTH PARTIES CLAIM CONTROL OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ODELL CARRIES EMPIRE STATE Badger State Stands by Lafollette Ohio Also Gives a Big Republican Majority Washington, Nov. 4.—Returns at 10:45 p. m., with about 15 doubtful districts to hear from, indicates the Republicans will have the next house of representatives. Chairman Griggs of the Democratic congressional committee, at 11 tonight, said the returns are too meagre to permit a definite statement, but he saw no reason whatever to change his original declaration that the Democrats would have a majority of 22 in the house. He claimed a gain of five in New York, two each in Massachusetts, Maryland and Kentucky, one in New Jersey and others from various states. At midnight Chairman Griggs claimed the house would be Democratic by ten to 12. He added to his specification of gains three in California and Wisconsin, two in Michigan and two in Minnesota. Later—Chairman Griggs of the Democratic committee claims the Democrats have elected 199 congressmen or a majority of five. ODELL'S ELECTION CONCEDED. It Was a Close Fight in New York, But Republicans Carry the State by About 16,000. New York, Nov. 4.—At 9 o'clock tonight Elliott Danforth, former chairman of the Democratic committee, said the returns indicated Coler would carry Greater New York by 29,000. He claimed Coler was elected governor by 20,000. A statement from Republican quarters said the returns indicated Odelt was gaining in upstate cities and returns from the country districts, which were coming in slowly, indicated the election of Odelt. At congressional headquarters at 10 o'clock Congressman Overtreet of Indiana, secretary of the Republican congressional committee, said the big plurality for Coler in Greater New York had made it possible Democrats would be elected by every one of the first 19 congressional districts in New York. This would mean a net loss of four Republicans in the New York delegation. Overstreet said there was some chance of saving four of these nineteen. The First district, in which President Roosevelt lived, is now represented by a Republican. When Roosevelt ran for governor the Republican plurality in this district was 2.351. Concede Odell's Election. Democratic leaders at headquarters at 10:15 o'clock informed callers privately that Coler was probably defeated, and they virtually conceded the election of Odell. To the Associated Press Elliott Danforth said returns up to 10 o'clock were much more favorable to the Republicans. Shortly after 10 o'clock at Republican headquarters, three cheers were given for Odell as next governor of New York. For governor in 1,050 election districts out of 1,543 in Greater New York Odell polled 136,309; Coler, 210,655. A 8 o'clock tonight the secretary of the Democratic state committee claimed the state by 10,000. At Republican headquarters the statement was made that the Democrats had carried Greater New York by 150,000, but Odell would come down with 120,000, giving him the state by 15,000. At 8 o'clock this evening the Post stated the indications were that Odell had carried the state by a close vote, adding that Coler would have to secure 130,000 in Greater New York in win. At 8:30 indications were Odell would come down to Greater New York with 124,000 majority and Coler's majority in Greater New York would be 109,000. At 9:15 o'clock the New York World announces the re-election of Governor A Few Figures. Four hundred and seventeen election districts out of 3,091 in New York state outside of Greater New York gave Odell 87,545; Coier 72,567. The same districts in 1900 gave Odell 103,287; Stanchfield 80,670. Six hundred sixteen districts out of 613 in New York state outside of Greater New York give Odell 135,588; Coler 105,622. The same districts in 1900 gave Odell 156,246; Stanchfield 157,944. If the present ratio of votes continue Odell will come to the Bronx with 125,000 plurality. At 10 o'clock Senator Platt stated Odell would come to the Bronx with 133,000 plurality. At Republican headquarters the state is claimed by 10,000 to 15,000. The Journal Odell's election by 16,000. The Herald estimates less than 10,000 for Odell. At Oyster Bay. Oyster Bay, L. I., Nov. 4.—President Roosevelt's township complete gives Odell 1,526; Coler 1,657. In 1900 the town gave Odell 2,041; Stanchfield 1,523. President Roosevelt's own district gives 58 plurality and 21 for the Democratic state ticket. IOWA BY 75,000 PLURALITY. This is Claim Made by State Chairman Spence—Eleven Republican Congressmen Elected. Des Moines, Nov. 4.—On a basis of precinct returns the Republicans have elected their state ticket by about 75,000 plurality. Reports from congressional districts are meagre, though those received from the Third indicate that Judge Birdsaill, Republican, to succeed Speaker Henderson, ran substantially with his ticket and will be elected by 4,000 to 5,000 former Governor Boies. Returns indicate close counts in both the Sixth and Second, but they are not numerous enough to base an estimate upon. At Republican headquarters it is asserted the Republican plurality in the state as a whole is sufficient to carry all congressional candidates. Chairman Spence of the Republican committee said: "We have carried the state by at least 65,000. The figures do not indicate a large plurality but we are not claiming more at present. We have elected eleven Republican congressmen." Chairman Jackson of the Democratic committee said: "We are making no claims, but concede nothing. The Democratic committee did not receive returns tonight. THE REPUBLICANS IN ILLINOIS. State Ticket is Claimed to be Elected. But No Figures Are Given—Cook County Goes Republican. Chicago, Nov. 4.—At 9 o'clock tonight it was claimed at Republican headquarters that the state ticket was elected, but no figures were given. It is asserted that Lorimer in the Sixth and Madden in the First district are elected, though the vote is admitted to be very close. Republicans claim to have won everything in Cook county, but admit the result as to sheriff in doubt. Democrats claim the election of their candidate for sheriff, who is running ahead of his ticket. By 10 o'clock it was evident that Busse, Republican candidate for state treasurer, carried the city by at least 8,500, which will give him between 13.-000 and 14,000 in Cook county. At Democratic headquarters it was conceded the Republicans carried the county by 10,000. Five hundred and twenty precincts out of 1,310 in Cook county give Busse for state treasurer 50,492; Duddleston 49,994. Six hundred and sixty precincts out of 1,371 in Cook county give Busse for state treasurer 50,492 and seventy precincts out of 1,371 in Cook county give Busse 77,402; Duddleston, Democrat. 72,189. REPUBLICAN GAIN IN OHIO Plurality Estimated at Over 100,000, a Gain of Between Thirty and Forty Thousand. Columbus, O., Nov. 4.—At 10 o'clock the Republican state committee estimated the plurality in Ohio at 100,000, a gain of between 30,000 and 40,000 over last year. The Democratic state committee made no claims of the state tick, but claimed a gain of congressmen. Reports from Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton and other cities indicate Republican gains, but these conditions are not anticipated in the rural districts. MICHIGAN STAYS REPUBLICAN The Entire State Ticket Elected by Forty to Sixty Thousand Plurality—Legislature Sure. Detroit, Nov. 4.—Chairman G. J. Dieke of the Republican state committee said at 9:45 o'clock "Governor Bliss and the entire state ticket is elected by 40,000 to 60,000. Eleven Republican congressmen are elected, with fourteen districts still in doubt. The legislature will be overwhelmingly Republican. RETURNS FROM OTHER STATES Connecticut Elects Entire Republican State Ticket—Results in Other States By Wire. New Haven, Nov. 4.—Returns from 50 towns in Connecticut indicate the election of the entire Republican ticket by pluralities ranging about 15,000, also all four congressmen Republican and Republican congressmen at large. The general assembly will be Republican. The Democratic state organization concede the election of the entire Republican ticket with the general assembly safely Republican on joint ballot. Alabama. Montgomery, Ala., Nov. 4.—Fully Democratic state ticket is elected by a large majority. The "Lilly White" Respondent vote was not as large as expected. Colorado. Denver, Nov. 4.—At 11 o'clock returns indicate Colorado has elected the full Republican ticket by good majorities. The legislature will be Democratic, insuring the re-election of Senator Teller. Indiana. Indianapolis, Nov. 4.—Indiana went Republican today by 25,000 to 40,000. The congressional delegation remains the same with nine Republicans and four Democrats. The legislature will be Republican on joint ballot. Kansas. Topeka, Kas., Nov. 4.—Chairman Albaugh of the Republican committee said: "Kansas legislature will be safely Republican, though possibly the majority will be smaller." Massachusetts. Boston, Nov. 4.—One hundred fifty-one precincts out of 196 gives Rates, Republican, for governor, 24,254; Gaston Democrat, 33,637. The same precincts last year gave Crane, Republican, 23,430; Quincy, Democrat, 29,464. Minnesota. St. Paul, Minn., Nov. 4—The entire Republican state state ticket is elected in Minnesota by a plurality of over 20,000, possibly over 30,000. Full returns have not yet been received, but enough has come in to indicate the claim that Governor Van Sant has been re-elected by over 30,000 plurality is well founded. Chairman Buck of the Democratic committee is not yet willing to admit publicly that the Republicans have taken everything, but other Democratic leaders are more ready to concede an entire victory to the Republicans. Missouri. St. Louis, Nov. 4.—The Democrats estimate about 30,000 plurality in the gubernatorial race. Montana. Butte, Mont., Nov. 4.—Reports up to midnight give the state to the Republicans almost beyond a doubt. For associate justice of the supreme court, Holloway, Republican, has 9,567, Jerry Leslie, Democrat, 7,847. New Jersey Trenton, N. J., Nov. 4, 8:30 p. m.—Chairman Stokes of the Republican committee claimed the election of nine out of ten congressmen. Chairman Gourley, Democrat, claimed four. North Dakota. Fargo, S. D., Nov. 4.—North Dakota has gone Republican by the usual majority. Governor White, Republican, will have 7,000 to 8,000 majority. North Dakota elects two congressmen at large this year, both Republicans. The legislature is strongly Republican. Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, Nov. 4.—Returns indicate a Republican plurality in the state of 150,000 to 200,000. The Republican loss in the anthracite region is not as heavy as anticipated. Today for the first time in the history of the state more than 1,000,000 votes were cast in an election. Samuel W. Pennynacker, Rep., is elected governor by a plurality of 175,000, and the Republican ticket was generally successful in various counties. The Democrats elected two and possibly three of 32 congressmen. The state legislature will be more strongly Republican than ever before with the exception of 1987, and Penrose will succeed himself in the United States senate. North Carolina. Raleigh, N. C., Nov. 4.—Returns so far show a Democratic majority of over 30,000. The same ratio in other parts of the state will give a Democratic majority of 65,000. The Democratic state majority is apparently about 63,000. The legislature will be overwhelmingly Democratic and a Democrat will succeed Pritchard as United States senator. South Dakota. Sioux Falls, Nov. 4.—At headquarters of the Republican committee it is claimed the Republican ticket is elected by 10,700 majority. Complete returns from 16 towns in South Dakota give Herreid, Republican, for governor, 3,942; Martin, Democrat, 1,926. Tennessee The Republicans elected congressmen from the First and Second districts and the Democrats elected the other eight. Texas. Dallas, Nov. 4-The Democrats sweep Texas on state and congressional tickets. Virginia. Richmond, Va., Nov. 4.—Returns are coming in slowly, but the state certainly will return a full Democratic congressional delegation. The latest returns from 98 districts where there was the only serious contest in the state assures the election of Rhea, Democrat. SENATE WILL BE REPUBLICAN. Status of the Parties in Next United States Senate Will Be About the Same as It is Now Washington, Nov. 4.—The next United States senate will be Republican by at least 16 majority against the present majority of twenty. The present senate contains 54 Republicans and 34 Democrats. The terms of thirty senators expire with the present congress. There is a vacancy from Michigan, caused by the death of Senator McMillan. Of those thirty-one states to be filled not including two from Delaware, but including the McMillan vacancy, 19 are now Republican and 12 Democratic, Wellington of Maryland, being classified as a Republican and Harris of Kansas, McLaurin of South Carolina and Teller of Colorado as Democrats. As it now stands the Republicans are sure of 17 and the Democrats of 24 members of the next senate. The result of the contest, owing to meagre returns at this hour, is still in doubt in Nevada, Idaho, Colorado and Utah, with the chances favoring the election of Democratic legislatures in Colorado, Idaho and Nevada, and a Republican legislature in Utah. If these probabilities should be realized, the senate will stand 53 Republicans and 37 Democrats, with a loss of four Republicans compared with the present political division. If the present Republican legislature should be called in extra session and should be able to get together and elect two Republican senators before the legislature convenes. Republican strength in the senate would be increased by two, giving the dominant party a majority of twenty, or more exactly what they have in the present senate. PROMINENT HOTEL MAN DEAD Henry Brock, Well Known to Public Men, Passes Away in Washington—Other Death Records. Washington, Nov. 5.—Henry Brock, for many years proprietor of the Congressional hotel, adjoining the capitol grounds, is dead. He was well known to public men. Crede, Col., Nov. 4.—Al Bennett, champion wing shot of the West, died here today of typhoid pneumonia. Chicago, Nov. 5.—Wm. P. Cornell, a well-known Chicago newspaper man, dropped dead today just after casting his vote. He was stricken with apoplexy and had been in newspaper work in Chicago over 20 years. The steamer City of Topeka arrived at Victoria, B. C., Monday from Skagway after a very rough passage. She brought 150 passengers. The steamer Princess May has arrived at Vancouver with 118 passengers. DEED OF DEGENERATE COTTAGE IN CHICAGO HEIGHTS BLOWN INTO FRAGMENTS. Two Killed and Nine Injured as a Result—Supposed to Have Been the Work of a Former Lodger in the Home—Suspect Has Been Arrested—The House Destroyed, Also Another, Which Took Fire. Chicago, Nov. 3.—Dynamite was used to wreck a cottage home in Chicago Heights early yesterday morning. Two persons were instantly killed and nine others were injured. Joseph Cordeck, the father of the household, was blown to bits by the explosion, and a like fate befel his infant daughter. His wife, sleeping at his side, escaped with her life, and though she was terribly hurt, halted long enough to snatch one of her sleeping babies from the path of the flames that followed the explosion. Six other children, sleeping in another portion of the house, were buried under the roof and walls of the cottage, but managed to extricate themselves before the fire reached them. A neighboring house was destroyed by the flames and one of the occupants injured by a bit of the bomb. Charles Smith, formerly a lodger in the Cordeck household, is in the custody of the police suspected of being responsible for the tragedy that roused the residents of the town just as dawn was breaking. He denies his guilt, but the police see a possible double motive for his interest in the affair that he had quarreled with Cordeck over the loss of some money and in his attentions to the eldest daughter of the family, who had ignored his suit and was about to marry another man. Those dead are: Joseph Cordeck, 48 years old, asleep in room just over spot where bomb was placed; body dismembered by explosion and then burned in the ruins of his home. Lucy Cordeck, 2 years old, in bed with her father; remains disfigured beyond recognition. Mrs. Lucy Cordeck, 36 years old; portion of right side blown away and flesh torn by portions of the bomb; brought to Chicago and cared for at the Presbyterian hospital, where the physicians advance some hope of her recovery. Della Cordeck, 2 months old; face and head bruised by bits of flying glass and body bruised by falling walls; rescued by her mother. Helen Cordeck, 4 years old; head bruised and enkle wrenched by falling roof. Josephine Cordeck, 7 years old; arms and chest bruised in collapse of walls. Peter Cordeck, 10 years old; severe scalp wounds. Emil Cordeck, 13 years old; both legs injured by falling timbers and face cut by broken glass. Edward Cordeck, 15 years old; back and shoulders injured. Mamie Cordeck, 17 years old; severely shaken by explosion and slightly bruised about the body. Justin Camolawisky, 42 years old, next door neighbor to the Cordes; head cut by particle of bomb covering, which flew through his bedroom win- The Wrecked Home. The Cordeck home, a modest little affair, one story in height, stands midway between Fifteenth and Sixteenth streets in Fifth avenue. The father and mother, with Lucy and Della, occupied beds in a room off the parlor, in the northeast corner of the building. In the bedrooms to the rear the other children were quartered. For several months there had been a feud between Cordeck and Charles Smith, and once the trouble had brought them into the police court, but none of the residents of the suburb had ever considered the quarrel a serious matter. Saturday night Emil Cordeck discovered that a board had been pulled away from the woodwork surrounding the low posts on which the cottage was held up from the ground, but his parents gave this little attention, and retired as usual about 10 o'clock. The bomb was set off just at 4 o'clock Sunday morning. The assassin crept under the house through the space where the board had been torn away, and laid the infernal machine directly beneath the floor of the bedroom where Cordeck and his wife were sleeping. A long fuse was attached to the instrument of death and a match applied. The explosion literally shook the cottage apart. The floor of the front bedroom was thrown up until it broke through the ceiling above, and the bed and other furniture caught fire. Cordeck and his daughter Lucy was blown half the length of the house, but his wife was thrown out of the bed and into a corner of the room. She saw the walls toppling about her and the roof dropping down, and stopping long enough to pick up the youngest child, she sprang through a breach which had been made in the wall and gained the lawn. There she lost consciousness. The children in the rear were roused by the explosion and found their beds half buried beneath the wreckage of the house. Smoke and fire were rolling over the debris and they struggled frantically to extricate themselves before the flames reached them. The sound of the bursting bomb awakened the whole town and the fire whistles sounded the alarm. Men and women, half clad, ran through the streets to the scene. The wind carried the flames across a lawn to the cottage of Justin Camolawicky and destroyed this building too. When the police arrived they decided to arrest Smith, who lived a short distance away. They found him in bed, apparently fast asleep, but his roommate, Thomas Koblinski, declared that he had entered the house only a few minutes before the arrival of the officers, so he was led away, vehemently protesting his innocence. BADGERS WILL VISIT COAST. Wisconsin 'Varsity Football Team to Play Leland Stanford and the University of California. Madison, Wis., oNv. 3. It was decided tonight that the Wisconsin football team will make a trip to the Pacific coast for games with Leland Stanford and University of California during the Christmas vacation. Widely Known Presbyterian and Author—Well Known Illinois Odd Fellow Passes Away. Bloomington, Ill., Nov. 4.—Rev, Geo. Wilson, a widely known Presbyterian and author, died today, aged 85. Pittsfield, Ill., Nov. 3.—A. N. Sanders, one of the best known Odd Fellows in Illinois, died here today. He published the state organ of the order here for 20 years. Tecumseh, Neb., Nov. 4.—Joseph E. Lamster, a pioneer Nebraska legislator and federal officeholder, and one of the most prominent politicians in the state, died here this evening, aged 72. Elkhart Lake, Wis., Nov. 4.—M. Gottfried, a millionaire Chicago brewer who has made his home here for the past 12 years, died tonight. He was ill with pneumonia nearly three weeks. Decatur, Ill., Nov. 4.—Rev. I, Willet Pfluffer died here tonight at St. Mary's hospital as the result of being struck by a train at the Wabash station Friday night. He was pastor of the First Methodist church, Cisna Park, Ill. BANKER'S GIFT TO COLLEGES. Palmer University at Muncie, Ind., is One of Dead Philanthropist's Beneficiaries. Muncie, Ind., Nov. 4.—Word received in Muncie Sunday night from New York states that Francis A. Palmer, the millionaire founder of the Broadway National bank of New York, who died at his home in that city Saturday morning, has left a substantial provision in his will for aid to the Palmer university founded by him in this city. He leaves a fortune of $6,000,000, to be divided wholly among educational institutions. The Sharkey seminary at Eddytown, N. Y., to which he has already given $500,000, and Palmer university in Muncie, which he endowed with $100,000, are especially provided for in the will. CUBAN OUTLOOK IS BRIGHT. President Palma Feels Encouraged Over a Balance in the Treasury. Relations With America. Havana, Nov. 4.—The Cuban congress, which adjourned Oct. 20, reconvened today. President Palma, in his message, takes an optimistic view of the future of the republic. The president says relations with the United States are especially cordial, and as a proof of this cites that negotiations are now pending for a commercial treaty. The Cuban treasury now has a balance of $1,561,942, a consideration Palma considers extremely encouraging. IMPROVES NAVAL ACADEMY. Armory, Boathouse, Power House and Large Sea Wall Finished—Great Change in Academy. Annapolis, Md., Nov. 4.—The first stage in the construction of a new naval academy at Annapolis was completed Saturday, when the contractors turned their work over to the United States authorities. The armory, boat-house, the power-house and the large sea wall on the north side of the academy have been finished. This work has changed the modest academy of old, with its green sward and simple buildings, to the white city which will house the finest training school of a like nature in the world. Commander Richard Wainwright, who has been superintendent of the academy since his heroism at the battle of Santiago won his promotion in the service, bade farewell to the staff officers and cadets today preparatory to taking his leave, having been transferred to a sea command. Next Monday, his successor, Capt. W. S. Brownson, will assume his duties as superintendent of the academy. Advices received from Guatemala say that 200,000 hundredweight of this year's coffee crop was lost as a result of the eruption of the volcano Santa Maria. LATE MARKETS BY WIRE. LATE MARKETS BY WIRE. Chicago Produce. Chicago, oNy, 4.-Butter-Market was steady; creameries, $10\%_{24}\%$ c; dairies, 15@21c. Eggs-Market standy at 22c. Poultry—Steady, Turkeys, @13%; chickens, @10%1½c. Close on Rye—December, 49%; May, 51%. Close on Flax—Cash N. W., $1.18; S. W., $1.15; Nov., $1.16; Dec., $1.15; May, $1.15%1@1.19. Chicago Livestock Chicago, Nov. 4.—Cattle-Notwithstanding the collapse in prices that took place last week today's receipts were 21,000 head. The market showed up better than might have been expected under the liberal supply, which included 8,000 head of cattle, $3.50 each. A commercial number of good fat beeses sold at strong prices, but fair to medium were very slow at the recent severe decline, while common were neglected but not any lower. Good to prime steers, $8.50@8.00; poor to medium, $3.50@6.55; stockers and feeders, $2.50@4.50; heifers, $2.00@5.00; calves, $3.75@8.00. Hers-With nearly 4,000 head left over from Saturday and 22,000 received today, the supply was rather large, yet buying was active at 5@16 higher than last week's close. Mixed and butchers, $3.55@7.00; to choose heavy, $6.00@8.00; rough heavy, $6.25@5.50; light, $6.25@6.55; bulk sales, $6.40@6.50. Sheep-Supplies were as heavy as ever, building largely from ranges. About 140,000 head arrived today and there was a fairly active general demand. Sheep, steady to lower at $2.50@4.00; lambs, $6.50@5.40. St. Louis Live Stock St. Louis, Nov. 4. 4—Cattle—Receipts, 4, 600 head. Strong and higher; beef steers, $4.40/$5.70; stockers and feeders, $2.90/$4.60; cows and heffers, $2.25/$5.00; Texas steers, $2.00; Hogs—Receipts, 5, 000 head; steady to 5 cents higher; range, $6.25/$6.70. Minneapolis Grain. Minneapolis, Minn. Nov. 4. —Wheat— December, 71; May, 71%^72%; on track No. 1. hard, 72%; No. 1 northern, 72%; No. 2 northern, 70%. COPYRIGHT,1901,BY J.S.TRIGG.ROCKFORD,IA CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED Corn may be king, but, like other reigning monarchs, he has a good many soft spots in his makeup this year. If you turn over the nice heifer calf to your wife to raise, she will be almost sure to get it too fat. It is a good idea to let the pigs run through the orchard and pick up the worm eaten windfalls, but they should never be fed or herded in it. The corncob can hardly be depended upon to take the place of coal this winter, for it is doubtful if the cobs can be got dry enough to burn at all. Rabbits are very fond of blackberry canes and will eat them up clean to the ground. The only remedy is to get rid of the rabbits. There will probably not be much complaints this year of loss of stock from the cornstalk disease. There is so much green and immature corn that the stalk ration will be better balanced. We have packed a lot of nice, sound Wealthy apples in oats to see if they will keep longer than they would in the barrel. We have no faith that they will, but some who have tried it claim success for this method. It is the deficiency of humus in the soil which explains the impacted condition of so much of the arable fields as a result of the heavy rains of the summer. The easiest way in which to remedy this trouble is to give the land two years' course in clover. Try baking the pumpkin in preparing the material for pumpkin plea. It is said to be just as good as boiling the fruit down and far less trouble, as the pumpkin can be quartered and baked and the cooked pulp dug out with a spoon, no paring or cutting up being required. The gang plow is gradually supereding the sulky plow simply because by putting on the extra horse more plowing may be done in a day. The necessities of the case are compelling the substitution of horse and machine work on the farm wherever it will lessen the need of hired help. If one wants June results from the cow in January, June conditions must be provided. This is the key to success in winter dairying. June furnishes an abundance of succulent milk making food, a genial temperature and plenty of sunshine. Provide these things in January and you will get June returns from the cow. There is always this to be said in honor of agriculture—its products are always honestly earned, no man engaged in it has ever cause to have a tussle between his avarice and his conscience or study to see how nicely he can violate the intent of law without breaking its letter. Its rewards are new defily filched from some other man's toil. We have an inquiry from Arizona as to where the Colorado blue spruce can be obtained for planting. Most of the up to date nurserymen offer this tree for sale, though there is much difference in the individual merit of the trees. Only a small per cent of the trees grown from the seed show the peculiar color which makes the best specimens of this variety of conifer so very attractive. Referring to an item which appeared in these notes recently commending the use of a horse to tramp and pack the center of a hay or straw stack while it was in process of building, we are asked to explain how the horse could be got down from the stack when it was finished. This is easy enough. A pile of loose straw or hay is left at the end of the stack, and he just slides or tumbles down to the ground. Mining and agriculture do not go well together. Here is a farmer in Missouri suing a smelter company for destroying eighty acres of fine clover for him by the poisonous gases and fumes of the smelter. The best combination of the two industries of which we have any knowledge is in Iowa and Illinois, where the land is worth $100 an acre to raise corn and another $100 per acre for the coal strata which underlie the cornfields. One of the warmest and most bitter political scraps we ever knew was between two men, farmers, and their respective adherents over the question of which should be elected road supervisor, an office which paid the man who held it less than $20 per annum. Things could not have been more lively and interesting had the governorship been at stake. The worst of it was that the man who was beaten would never after speak to his old neighbor who laid him out. We know of a man who has a splendid spring of water boiling out of the rocks in a side hill pasture, and he either does not know how or does not care to utilize this rare possession. He could at a small expense put in a ram and supply his house with spring water under pressure, running the overflow down to his barns and yards for his stock, and then at a very small expense he could dam up the run through which the brook made by the spring flows and have a model fishpond in which trout or black bass would thrive and prove profitable. It is too often true that the best things in life fall to the lot of those who cannot appreciate and use them. The grass and weeds should be cleared away from around the fruit trees before the snow comes to prevent the mice from making nests and girdling the base of the trees. The meanest work which there is to be found on the farm is to have to dig potatoes where one-half of them are rotten, and that is the fix this fall through much of the country. New Jersey produces two things which are the best of their kind—peaches and sweet potatoes. If she would raise more peaches and potatoes and fewer trusts, we could love her better. A prominent fruit grower and apple raiser tells us that he would rather have the pigs clean up the windfalls in his orchard than spray his trees if he wanted to secure fruit free from blemishes. If we ever buy seed corn from a seed house again it will have to be sold to us in the car or we shall not want it. There is almost as much chance for fraud in this seed corn business as there is in the maple sugar trade. If you like pork for your own use which has a streak of lean and a streak of fat, you do not want to raise the pig on a corn diet, because it cannot make these streaks out of that sort of food. Feed skimmilk, potatoes, clover, peas, bran, barley—things which make lean meat and not fat. The crow as a carrier of hog cholera germs should not be overlooked. This bird has a great liking for feed yards and aid dead hogs, and as it goes from one farm to another it would be very easy for it to spread this disease. Doves and dogs are also agents engaged in the same line of business. We know of several farmers who are now getting their fuel supply from a ten acre grove set out twenty years ago. More of this work should be done on all the prairie farms. It is neither fair nor right to expect a woman to be sweet and good natured all the time when she has nothing but soft coal to burn. The farther north any of the small grains are raised the better is apt to be their quality and the larger the yield, provided the frosts do not catch them before maturity. The finest specimens of oats, wheat, flax, barley and rye we have ever seen grown anywhere were raised in the far northwest, where it does not get dark in the summer until 10 o'clock at night. The problem of feeding the people, in view of their constantly increasing numbers and the inevitable impairment of the fertility of much of the arable land of the country, becomes each year a more and more important matter, and thus it comes that all questions pertaining to agriculture and the production of this food command more and more attention. For this reason education is now being demanded for the farmer, the aid of science is being invoked, and the economics of agriculture are being studied as never before. More and more farmers are getting into the habit of wearing gloves while doing their rough and hard farm work. Of course some will call this a fad and dandyism, but there is much good sense connected with the practice. If it can be avoided just as well as not, where is the sense in having one's hands become so horny and cracked that they resemble the hoof of some wild beast? The rough, calloused and dirty fist may be in one sense the insignia of hard toil, but such a pair of hands are mean things to carry around and take care of. The Pioneer Home. With all our modern improvements for the farm home we still look longingly back to the home of the pioneer days—a double log house, a big fireplace, hewn joists and rafters overhead, from which depended home cured hams and bacon and dried beef, the quality of which could put to shame the best products of the modern packing houses; strings of onions and popcorn and the indispensable rifle shotgun, the furniture, much of it homemade; the only carpet a rag carpet which covered the floor of the mother's room, a ladder to reach the attic bedroom, where the boys could see the stars through the chinks of the shakes on the roof and where the winter blizzard would cover them with a white blanket in a night; a very few books and a weekly paper which was a week old when received; the root-house well stocked with vegetables and in the winter a quarter of beef or maybe a whole deer hanging up frozen in the woodshed to be used from ad libitum. Neighbors in those days, too, were the right kind, who would share anything they had and come visiting for two or three days at a time, bringing their bedding and something good to eat with them. There were bees to help raise the house for the newcomer, to husk the corn and build the log barns, and while it was all in a sense homely, plain and rough, there was the charm of a neighborly good will which is nowadays all too rare. Train the Horse. No animal on the farm can be more easily trained than the horse, and when we consider how much the horses may be taught we often wonder why so little pains are taken to teach them. The horses used in the city fire departments are a good illustration of how easily a horse may be trained, while the marvel of the trained horses of the circus is always a wonder. Instinctively the milkman's horse will go to each pattron's home with unvarying regularity, as will the horse of the rural mail carrier. The constant use of raw, untrained horses is needless when they may be so very easily trained in almost any line. Company Meals. There is no sort of sense in preparing a meal for even the most distinguished company for the housewife putting on the table two kinds of pie, three of cake and cookies, a lot more of indigestible stuff. The best rule in getting up what may be termed a company meal is to treat your guests just as you would like to be treated if at their homes. You see, when you prepare so much stuff your guests have either got to pile their plates with what they cannot and will not eat or by refusing the food when passed to them incur the suspicion of thinking you are a poor cook. One kind of meat, preceded by a soup, seasonable vegetable, a simple dessert, good coffee, bread and butter, dainty served, is lots better than a four ring circus of a meal as many women prepare, and then if the old man can't ask a blessing at least make him serve the guests. Siplicity in this eating business never conflicts with real gentility. Soft Corn. The fine corn crop of a large section of the North, during the month of September when the temperature is high enough to mature it as a rule, has this year stood still and made no progress whatever owing to the persistent low temperature. As a result that section of the country is full to overflowing of soft corn, the profitable disposal of which is putting the growers to their wits' end. It may be said here for the benefit of all concerned that the cribbing of soft and immature corn always has been and always will be a failure, and that it should be carefully separated from that which is ripened and disposed of in some way. Such soft corn makes pretty good feed for milk cows and steers in the feed yard, and may be fed to the pigs in moderation. The silo would have been the best place for it, but so very few have them. Frost Always Hurts Corn A September frost this year which came when the corn as a whole was immature and very much behind time in ripening dropped on some fields and skipped others and left abundant evidence of the folly there is in claiming that frost cann ever under any circumstances be of any benefit to a crop of corn. The smitten fields soon dried up, and, while only the leaves of the corn were touched, the stalk remaining green, the ears shriveled up and became well nigh worthless, while that not touched, though badly set back by the cold weather, has gradually matured good ears. Hereafter when anybody claims that frost is a good thing for corn tell him he does not know what he is talking about. Should Plant Trees A friend who owns a nice prairie farm, well improved, persists in trying to cultivate the sides and crown of quite a bluff that borders a stream which runs through his farm. We hardly see why he tries to raise crops on this hill, for in dry years they perish from drought and in wet ones are washed out by the roots. If we had that bluff, which is about ten acres in extent, we would set it out to trees—apple trees preferably—and if not fruit trees, then evergreens. Planted to trees the bare blotch on the landscape would soon become a thing of beauty and of far greater profit than to attempt to do the impossible by making a cornfield of it. A PROFIT OF $25,000,000. What the Coal Trust Proposes to Make During the Coming Year. Philadelphia, Pa., dispatch: That the retail coal dealers are incensed at the action of President Baer of the Philadelphia & Reading in ordering an increase to be made of 50 cents in the price of coal delivered at the mines and directing the dealers to sell to consumers at $6.75 a ton is putting it mildly. They have been told that if they do not limit their price to the figures mentioned, the Reading will establish its own depots for the retailing of coal at $6.75. In this way, they say, the Reading not only bags the profit on the advanced price of coal but claims the credit for establishing a retail price lower than that which has prevailed since the strike started. The retail dealers declare the coal companies are not only anxious to allay public opinion, but that they are planning to do an actual retail business on their own hook. The increase at the mines will net the companies an increased profit during the coming year of $25,000,000. Going Too Far. The Schenectady trade union that has expelled those of its members who belong to the militia has done an insane and insensate thing, which the enemies of trade unionism will make the most of. Such action is well calculated to antagonize public sentiment. In order to succeed, organized labor must not affront the deeply-rooted feeling of the masses of the American people for law and order.—Springfield, Mass., Republican. At the Zoo. The Cockatoo—"Hey, down there! What the dickens are you laughing about?" The Hyena—"You oughter seen the stork when he heard that 17 pairs of twins had been born into the crocodile family. By gosh! he went straight up in the air."—Judge. An English expert says our railways are careless of human life. He condemns our automatic couplings and our grade crossings. He is right about the grade crossings, but we suspect that his condemnation of our couplings is inspired by the cost of supplying them to the English road he represents. FIRST USER OF HARD COAL. Daniel Fell, Just a Century Ago, Discovered It Was Wrong to Burn. It is just a century ago that Daniel Fell made the first successful test of hard coal in Luzerne county, Pa., for heating purposes. It is said that the Indians knew of the "black stones" and made pipe bowls of them. Moravian missionaries early came across the strange mineral in their long journeys through the woods. Even after the coal had begun to be mined it was difficult to sell any. The people did not understand how to use it and asserted that it would not-burn. Signed certificates that "stone will burn" had to be sold intending purchasers. Even as late as 1821 the Lehigh and Navigation company sent but 365 tons to Philadelphia. Hard coal was at first successfully used at the wire mills of White & Hazard, Falls of Schuylkill, through an accident in December, 1814. The coal cost $28 a ton. But the men could not ignite it. In exasperation they pitched a quantity of coal into a furnace, shut the doors, and went about some other work. Some hours later the furnace doors were found to be red hot and the interior a mass of fire. William Henry, a manufacturer of muskets near Nazareth, had secured some of the coal in 1798 for his forges. His blacksmith told him the neighbors called him a fool for trying to burn the "block stones." In 1808, however, he built a mill and successfully used hard coal in it—New York Tribune. A WONDERFUL PILL Freedom, Mo., Nov. 3rd.—A splendid remedy has recently been introduced in this neighborhood. It is called Dodd's Kidney Pills and it has cured Rheumatism right and left. On every hand may be heard stories of the remarkable recoveries and from what has been stated already there seems to be no case of Rheumatism that Dodd's Kidney Pills will not cure. One of those who has already tested the virtue of Dodd's Kidney Pills is Katie Anderson of this place, who says: "I can't say enough for Dodd's Kidney Pills. They have helped me so much. I suffered very severely with Rheumatism. Five boxes cured me completely. They are certainly the most wonderful medicine I have ever used." Osage County abounds in just such cases and if the good work keeps on there will soon be no Rheumatism left in this part of the state. Wisdom's Whispers. How often men carry a burden which could easily be thrown off? How many women place small value on the time of a business man? How often men bestow slights without intending to do so? How many women think men are interested in feminine affairs? How often men appear insincere through excessive enthusiasm? How many women discuss men as though they were the owners of them? How often men fall into errors by not taking time to think? How many women are their own most pronounced enemies? How often men indulge in gossip in a spirit of wantonness women fail to estimate the full form of Friendship?—Philadelphia Bulletin. It Wouldn't Harm If Consul-General Bragg should let slip some criticisms of the Chinese similar to those which he made of the Cubans in his private correspondence, it will probably not be so serious. The Chinese have been abused so much that they will hardly mind it by this time.—Washington Star. $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 the only positive cure. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the foundation strength by building up the constitution and dissolving its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers, that they offer one Hundred Dollars for any nase that it falls to cure. Send for list of testimonials. Address. F. J. HENEY & Co., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggist, 75c. Hall's Family Pills are the best. A Gloomy Spectacle The Rev. Dr. Herbert, E. Foss of Philadelphia has been preaching a sermon in which he lamented that "there were never so many musicians and lovers of music as today; never so many artists and lovers of art; never so much literature and never so many who feed upon it. So, too, there were never so many well-dressed, well-born, well-mannered people who are living at ease-eating, drinking and making merry." Brother Foss's pessimism is a peculiar and hopeless kind. There is no cure for it in this age, and the only alleviation for it would seem to be for the afflicted to take up his habitation among the remotest recesses of the cave-dwellers. — Louisville Courier-Journal. Quite Friendly "When I want to borrow a dollar I never go to a friend," he said as if he were leading up to something. "Ah! well," replied the other, extending his hand, "let us be friends."—Yonkers Statesman. The German steamer Hercynia has reached Kingston, Jamaica, from Colon, Colombia. 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For many years this pair or their predecessors are said to have occupied an old shell of a sycamore in the midst of the woods at Milesgrove, Pa., not far from the station. When this aged tree finally succumbed to the storm, the second and more famous nest was begun at North Springfield in 1885. This lasted fifteen years until January 1900. With the aid of the photographs of this nest, made in May, 1899 and actual measurements upon the prostrate tree, I was able to determine the exact dimensions of the nest itself. It was nine feet tall and six feet in diameter, and contained enough wood, earth and stubble to fill a good-sized hayrack. Until its overthrow it rested in the skeleton arms of a huge sycamore which had become reduced to a shell of bary and rotten wood for many yards from its base. The top of the nest was exactly seventy-seven feet from the ground, and the tree trunk measured three and a half feet in its greatest diameter. The tree suffered a general collapse in its fall, but the simple construction of the nest could easily be made out. Its foundations and outer walls were composed of dead sticks of any length from six inches to four feet, laid crosswise and packed closely together. Some of the larger fagots were two inches thick and a yard long. The sticks also supported the center of the nest, where the interstices were filled with straw, weeds, cork stubble, and much earth brought in with the latter. In consequence of annual repairs carried on during fifteen years, this nest had risen until it was three feet taller than broad, while the first year's nest is several times broader than deep. Though its lease may be short, the eagle chooses well in placing its aery on the commanding summit of a dead tree which stands boldly against the sky, for its home is always in sight and easily guarded; but, best of all, it can come and go with perfect freedom, there being no foliage or branches to interfere with the broad sweep of its wings. Accordingly, I was a little surprised to find the new nest not only in a sycamore which had thus been preferred for the third time, but in a live and healthy one, which seemed good for a hundred years. It had a girth of 12 feet at the ground, and a clean, straight hole without a branch for 40 feet, at which point it suddenly spread and bent its arms, forming a spacious and secure support for a nest of great size. This huge spreading crotch had evidently attracted the birds, although close beside it rose a stately tulip tree, whose branches touched those of the sycamore and partly overshadowed them. On approaching this nest, not a sound was heard for fully 20 minutes, when suddenly the male came upon the scene, and, circling overhead, sounded his peculiar alarm—kakl kakl kakl. Then, alighting in the topmost branch of a dead tree, he expressed his emotion in the characteristic manner in which he shares, in some degree, at least, with other birds of kin as remote as the night hawk. With depressed head and outstretched neck, with drooped and quivering wings, his manibles would open and close as if moved by springs, and he uttered his prolonged monosyllabic cry of distress. To my surprise, the female was sitting quietly at the nest all the time, as became evident when she suddenly left it, and, with protesting screams, began to circle over the tree tops. Both birds had evidently become shy and suspicious of visitors since their former CENTRAL N. U. — NO. 36-02 nest had been destroyed, and neither would now go to their young while a human being was in sight. My camera chanced to catch an eaglet as it rose to the edge of its wicker platform, but ordinarily the young were invisible from below. At this time (June 8) this bird appeared as large as a good-sized domestic fowl. When I paid a second visit to the aery, on the following day, neither bird was at home, but both soon appeared under full sail, and in a moment the place resounded with their cries. At times the voice of the male degenerated into a low grunt, as, with giant strides, he moved from place to place. I noticed that when the eagle wheeled in mid-air he suddenly dropped his legs, but, on recovering himself, drew them up out of sight. The eagles were constantly assailed by a pair of kingbirds, who seemed to take a special delight in tormenting their big neighbors. They would be quite helpless in returning the kingbird's quick assaults, whether perched on or on the wing, and apparently did not care to waste their energies in fruitless attempts. They also found trouble in another quarter, where some crows possibly had a nest of their own, for, whenever an eagle approached a certain cluster of evergreens, it was forced to beat a speedy retreat, which often brought it again into the sphere of the doughty kingbirds. According to Audubon and other observers, the young eagles cling to the nest until they are finally driven off by their elders.—St. Nicholas Magazine. Boston's Return to Beans Now here is a curious and noteworthy outcome of the advance in prices of meat. It is that in at least one town the general health has improved. Boston's sanitary officers and statisticians attribute the general good health in that city to the decline of meat as an article of food. The prices demanded by the trust for what the laborer and mechanic till recently regarded as vital to their existence have induced a much smaller consumption of meat than during the time preceding the advance and a compensating increase in the demand for vegetables. 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High St. - Jefferson City, Mo. Twentieth Century Negro Literature WRITEN BY ONE HUNDRED OF AMERICA'S GREATEST NEGROES and Edited by DR. D. W. CULP. 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 negro citizenship. It will furnish the basis of future calculations on all race subjects. There are 100 PORTRAITS AND 100 BIOGRAPHIES of the writers. To see the pictures and read the lives of the hundred most prominent negroes is to have a 411 knowledge of the entire race. Over 100 large pages and written at $8.50 in cloth, postpaid. AGENTS. We want 5,000 convassers at once to introduce this great book. Highest commissions paid. Books on credit. Agent's magnificent sample book for $8.00 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. Published Every Friday. Entered at the postoffice at Colum- umbia, Mo., as second class matter, Jan. 15, 1902. Agents wanted in every town in the state. IT is a sad fact that so many negro boys are leaving the farm and flocking to the cities to do almost nothing. Boys, stay on the farm. SOME energetic colored man should establish a wood and coal yard in Columbia. It is a business that will pay if rightly managed. OUR thanks are due Mrs. Leona Furgerson and Mr. Harrison Wiseman, of Jefferson City, for subscriptions to the Professional World this week. THOSE who have been waiting to see if the Professional World was going to succeed before they subscribed should be convinced by this time at least enough to risk a dollar. WHEN a business man says it does not pay to advertise in negro papers, it means that he does not appreciate negro patronage. We urge the readers of this paper to patronize the business men whose advertisements they see in this paper. THE attention of the next legislature should be called to the fact that no provision has been made for negro girls in the Industrial Home for girls at Chillicothe, Mo. This is a state institution supported by the tax payers of all classes. Yet when a colored girl was recently sentenced to be placed in that institution, she was refused admittance because "no provision had been made for negroes." A CORRECTION. By a typographical error it was announced that at the rally recently held at the Baptist church in this city $15 was raised. The amount was $115. The Election. The state election passed off quietly last Tuesday. Very little interest was manifested only in You Will find a fine, fash CLOT certain communities. The entire state democratic ticket was elected, which of course was no surprise to those acquainted with the political situation in Missouri. Only one republican congressman was elected and that being Richard Bartholdt, of the tenth congressional district. On the whole a very light vote was polled in the state. National Gleanings. No democrat in all the party or out of it is better known than the Hon. David Bennett Hill, and while some may have thought that Mr. Hill was no longer a power in his party because he had apparently gone into retirement, it is not so in fact. Mr. Hill is now one of the guiding influences in New York state, and what he will be when the next democratic presidential convention assembles in 1904, nobody can say. France has recently gone through a cabinet upheaval and the old ministry has given place to a new one. It once was the case that France was almost as bad as the South American republics, but that day has passed and now changes in the government are made without any great disturbance. The new Premier of France is M. Combes, who is also Minister of the Interior. Ordinarily when we think of kings they are associated with crowns and scepters and thrones, and we can only imagine them with glittering diadems on their heads, golden rods in their hands, purple robes on their backs and lofty thrones under them. But the picture we give of King Edward conveys a very different impression and we see only a very nice-looking English gentleman who looks about like any ordinary, well-dressed man. And that is what he is when we get him away from all the pomp and circumstances that are thrown about him. Kings are not what they used to be. The first United States minister to the republic of Cuba is Herbert G. Squires, of New York, former first secretary of Legation at Pekin, China. Mr. Squires has had much experience as a diplomat and is a man of wealth. The salary of the position is $10,000 a year. No American woman spends more money on society in London, than does the wife of John W. Mackay, the millionaire business man of New York, who made his first million in western mines. Mrs. Mackay lives in London and her husband lives in New York, but he gives her money enough to spend to her heart's desire. News of the death of Mr. Mackay in London has just arrived. Read the Professional World. It is $1.00 per year. To Our Subscribers. We sent out this week a number of notices to persons who have ordered the Professional World but who have not as yet sent in their subscription. We trust that these reminders will cause no hard feeling and that you will remit at once. The Professional World is the cheapest negro paper in the west. To Our Jefferson City Readers. In other columns will be found the advertisements of clothiers and gent's furnishings of Jefferson City. We ask our readers to call on them when in need of anything in their line. They are polite and accommodating gentlemen, and show by their advertising that they appreciate your patronage. Official announcement is made at Washington that General S. B. M. Young will succeed General Miles as Lieutenant General of the United States Army who will retire from service from age on August 8, 1903. General Young, who is now president of the War College, will have but six months to serve as he retires in January, 1904, from age. A Milan, Missouri, young woman who has been visiting in the city wrote home that she was "just in love with Ping Pong." Whereupon her father took the next train to bring her home, declaring he didn't want no daughter of his to fall in love with no Chinaman." The Chicago news clips this little gem from a small boy's essay on parents: "Parents are things which boys have to look after them. Most girls also have parents. Parents consist of pas and mas. Pas talks a good deal about what they are going to do, but mostly it's the mas that makes you mind." Your Ready-made Clothing and Gents' Furnishing Goods of Jno. Vogt 112 E. High St. - Jefferson City We also make suits to order. A WORD ...To the Ladies... You Will Find Here The Best Stock of Ladies' Furnishing in the Town R. F. Rogers. Agent for Standard Patterns. GO TO MOSES H. CALDWELL, 803 Ash St., Columbia, Mo. For Horse Shoeing and First- Class Blacksmithing of all Kinds. FURNITURE! EVERYONE INVITED TO VISIT OUR STORE AND INSPECT THE LARGEST LINE OF FURNITURE AND UNDERTAKER'S GOODS EVER CARRIED IN THIS SECTION OF THE STATE. WALTHERS HAS ALL KINDS OF FURNITURE AND DOES FUNERAL DIRECTING. PAYNE BUILDING ANOTHER WALTHERS HAS AND DOES POSITION CITY HALL BLDG. PHONE 363 Lodge and Church Directory. Mrs. Ada Douglass, W. P.; Mrs. Lizzie Williams, W. S. Meeting first Monday in each month at 3 p. m. U. B. F. Crispus Attucks Lodge,No. 62. Meetings 2nd and 4th Tuesdays in each month. Visiting members cordially invited. Caleb Hall, W. M. A. M. Schweich, W. S. K. P. Acme Lodge, No. 24. Meetings second and fourth Fridays in each month. W. H. Turner, C. C. and D. D. G. C. W. W. Lampkins, M. F. O. E. S. Amos Chapter, No. 30. Meetings second Friday in each month. Mrs. Bessie Washington, W. M. Mrs. Lizzie Richardson, W. S. LADIES COURT. Golden Queen Court No. 19 meets first Friday in each month. Mrs. Annie Williams M. A. M. Mrs. V. L. Waldon Sec. ST. PAUL LODGE, NO. 12. St. Paul Lodge, No. 12, A. F. & A. M., meets every first and third Tuesday in each month. A cordial invitation extended to all visiting brothers. J. A. Mosely, W. M. J. A. Grant, Secretary. Rev. J. B. Parsons, pastor. Preaching Sundays 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Prayer meeting Wednesday days 7:30 p. m. Everybody cordially invited to attend. A. M. E. CHURCH. Rev. P. C. Crews, Pastor. Preaching Sundays 11 a.m.; 7:30 p. m. Sunday school 2:30 p. m. 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