The Professional World

THE PROFESSIONAL WORLD. Schools and Teachers. The Phelps-Montgomery prize of $50 for the best entrance examination to Yale law school was won by Wm. MacDonald, of Hatfield, Mass. The Murphy law goes into effect in New Jersey on December 1, when the salaries of all the teachers who have served over two years will be increased. The board of finance appropriated $29,000 to provide the increase. Principals will get an increase of $100 a year, vice principals $60, and teachers $48. The Baltimore school board, having decided to establish a cooking school, advertised for a teacher, offering a salary of $540. No cooking school graduates esponded, the only applicants being cooks, one of them a colored woman, and the superintendent would not employ any of them. Then it was discovered that the law required a competitive examination, and not a teacher in the schools was competent to hold the examination. When one of the teachers was asked what she would do if she married, she replied: "Why, hire some one, of course." Those who were previously opposed to the teaching of cooking in the schools before these facts were discovered are reconsidering the matter. The obstreperous students in many institutions of country have again brought the colleges into disrepute by what was possibly only thoughtless conduct in the beginning, but was persisted in till it became a nuisance. The recent occurrences at Missouri State University and the disgraceful class fight at Iowa are of this class. At the latter, property estimated at $700 was destroyed and many pistol shots were fired. A missile hurled by a thoughtless sophomore into the midst of a freshman dance was the exciting cause of what proved to be a very serious disturbance. The "Alumni Sentinel" a monthly journal to be published by the Alumni Association of Lincoln Institute, will make its appearance before the public during the Christmas holidays, it will be circulated in the interest of Lincoln Institute. THE TEACHERS MEETING. The Teacher's Association of Boone and surrounding counties held its first regular meeting on Saturday, Nov. 30, at the Fred Douglass school. Throughout the morning and afternoon sessions, an interesting as well as an instructive program was rendered. After singing and prayer, Prof. J. B. Coleman delivered an instructive address to the teachers. The first paper during the morning session entitled "Higher Literary Ideals" was read by Prof. E. W. Emory. It contained some excellent ideas strongly presented. Past literary ideals were compared with the present ones, these showing that taste of the present generation for good literature was declining. Miss J. Ethel Fowler then followed with a paper" Status of our English", in which she presented clearly not only the faults of our common speech, but with equal force set forth the beauties of correct English. The afternoon session opened at 2 o'clock with an increased number of teachers. The subject "An Ideal School" was handled in an excellent way by Miss Maude Richardson. Among the excellent things said were "the success and making of the school in past days depended solely upon the teacher." With our present system of education, together with the co-operation of the patrons, school board and 50 YEARS' EXPERIENCE PATENTS TRADE MARKS DESIGNS teachers, eventually the "ideal school" may be effected. "Means of securing good order was the subject treated by Prof. T. A. D. Wright, of Fankfort, Mo. The paper was full of good methods, common sense ideas—practical wisdom in dealing with the little affairs that make up school life. The difference between school keepers was depicted in a forcible manner. The last on the program was Prof. J. P. Washington, of Brown's Station, Mo., who discussed the subject "Benefits derived from Reading Circle". Not only were the benefits to the teachers set forth, but plans and helps for the good of the school in general. The arguments of the paper were so convincing that many teachers who had become indifferent to this work were inspired with new zeal to pursue the course now laid out by the Missouri State Board of Education. Discussions followed each paper and were spirited and well to the point. After the literary program officers for the ensuing year were elected. The next regular meeting of the Association will be held on the second Saturday in February. All interested in the work are invited to attend. New Bloomfield Notes. Mr. I. Scott and Miss Cora Cooper were the guests of Mrs. Hattie Baynham Thanksgiving. Miss Georgia Brown, of Carrington, Mo. attended the Thanksgiving entertainment and was the guest of Mrs. J. W. Reese. Mr. James E. Reese, of Fulton, attended Thanksgiving entertainment here. Mrs. Ellen Holt residence was discovered to be on view Friday, but by the active work of James Gatheright and Walter Smooks it was extinguished before any damage was done. Huntsville Notes. Miss Dehlia Henderson and Mrs. Cason, of Namrash, returned home Monday after spending Thanksgiving with relatives and friends in Huntsville. Mr. Columbus Smith, of Fulton, is visiting friends in Huntsville. Mrs. R. S. Finney entertained at the sewing circle Friday afternoon. Clerk Geo. W. Moorman, of the U. S. Mail service, ran up last Wednesday and spent a few hours with his old schoolmates Prof. R. L. Logan. His headquarters are in St. Louis. Mrs. Lucy Mansfield is on the sick list. Auxyasse Notes. Mr. Verney Woolery came in from North Dakota on the 27th ult., where he has been since last March. He has enjoyed perfect health during the entire time of his absence and says he likes Dakota very much, and that it is a good place to earn good wages. He is quite young to make such a trip. we are glad however, that he went as he has seen many sights that he would not have seen otherwise. The ladies of the sewing circle, not long ago, caused our pastor to smile by placing two beautiful chairs in the pulpit. Mrs. Susan Yokum from Fulton attended the Thanksgiving festival here Thursday. Subscribe to the Professional World, only $1.00 per year. Lincoln Institute Notes. Students are still flocking to Lincoln Institute from all parts of Missouri and from adjoining states and territories. President Allen, daily, is proving himself to be a strong and capable leader, not only in the larger executive management of the affairs of a college, but also in attention to details often omitted or turned over to others as matters of minor importance. The secret of his success lies very largely in "reserve power," that element of strength which so materially lessens the friction of human activity and makes one equal to emergencies, great, or small, as they unexpectedly arise. A bountiful Thanksgiving COLUMBIA, MISSOURI, FRIDAY DEC. 5, 1902. DON'T MISS THE GREAT EXPANSION SALE AT GLOBE CLOTHING CO. BROADWAY BETWEEN THE BANKS. dinner was prepared for the students, and President Allen invited as special guests, the entire faculty, the ministry of the city, and respective families of these bodies. The tastefully decorated dining room, inspired music, humorous after dinner speeches and toasts, along with carefully prepared and tooth-some dainties made this dinner one long to be remembered by those who were so fortunate as to partake of it. School was conducted as usual Friday. Elder Sawyer, of Chillicothe, Missouri, one of the soldiers who contributed to the fund with which Lincoln Institute was founded, addressed the Faculty and students with remarks that, always elequent,—were at times pathetic, at times humorous, as he related the history of the institution from its birth to the present time. Regent J. S. Harris paid Lincoln Institute a flying visit last week, and while addressing the students expressed himself as highly pleased with the present administration, the condition of the Institute, character of the work being accomplished, etc. In the course of his remarks, Professor Harris stated that it was his wish and belief that during the coming session of the Missouri Legislature, Lincoln Institute would be converted into a University. PERSONAL Prof. T. A. D. Wright, of Frankford, Mo., attended the teacher's institute here Saturday. Mr. Authur Strawn, of Lincoln Institute, spent thanksgiving here with his parents. Miss Alice Smith returned to Miami Sunday. Mr. Green Short, of Jefferson City, is in the city. Mrs. Fannie Ilyers left for Saline county Thursday. Quite a number of Columbians spent Thanksgiving in Kansas City. The Thanksgiving dinner given by the A. M. E. church was quite a success. In the contest, the "Blues" cleared $46.63 while the "Pinks" cleared $75.06. Subscribe to the Professional World, it is only $1.00 per year. Accident on the Wabash. Saturday afternoon as the Wabash train was passing Hallsville with a load made up principally of excursionists returning from the Thanksgiving holidays, a wheel under the tender gave way and stopped the train for several hours. Many persons walked to Columbia. Others waited till a wrecking train arrived and a fresh engine brought the train on to Columbia. Nobody was hurt. Miss Myrtle Alvin of Terre Haute, Ind., swallowed a pin and it became lodged in her throat. She made frantic efforts to remove it, but was unable. A physician was called and the pin located by means of the X-ray. When taken out it was badly bent and twisted. No woman should allow a man to call her "awful" pretty. And no woman, especially if she has gone to school, should say that she has had an "awful nice time" or that the music was "awful sweet." Complaint is entered against the rector of an Episcopal church in New York that he sleeps too much. That is trenching upon the privileges of the parishioners in the pews. In 1868, or thirty-four years ago, the republican candidate for president (Grant) carried Boone county by 6 majority. In 1902 the democratic majority in Boone was 2,545. Total number of votes cast in 1868-348; in 1902-4718. Clear the track for old Boone and a fair election! News From the Capital. The finest line of Christmas goods in Jefferson City, at T. G. Burkhardts Jewelry store. Dr. J. H. Garnett preached in Central Baptist church in St. Louis last Sunday. Miss Lula White, of Fulton, spent Thanksgiving with Mrs. Prof. Harrison. Mr. T. J. Bennett, of St. Louis, was in the city Thanksgiving. Mr. Geo. W. Moorman, of St. Louis, passed through the city Thursday. Miss Leona Bennett has returned to her school. The protracted meeting closed at the Baptist church last Sunday evening and Rev. Sawyers returned Monday. Prof. J. Silas, Harris of Kansas City, was in the city last week. The teachers, preachers and their families were invited to take dinner with the students of Lincoln Institute. Lincoln Institute is moving on nicely, President Allen has every thing well in hand. Prof. J. W. Hoffman, of Lincoln Institute, has clearly demonstrated to the students that he is an educator of unusual attainments. The home of Mr. and Mrs. Duke Diggs on Lafayette Street was the scene of a beautiful reception last Friday afternoon from 3 to 10, and in the evening from 8 to 10, given in honor of their guests, Mr. and Mrs. Nathaniel Diggs, of Boonville The parlors were tastefully decorated with carnations and smilax and other decorations. Yellow and white being the predominating colors. An excellent program was rendered and elegant repast was served. Among those present were Prof. and Mrs. W. H. Harrison, Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Lane, Mesdames Garnett, Wiseman, King, Goins, Woolridge, Moore, Hardin, Ferguson, Brochies, Misses Watts, Cave Foster, Brochies and Harris, Messrs. Walter Williams, and H. Wallace. On Saturday evening Miss E. J. Foster gave a very pleasant reception from 6 to 8 o'clock, at the residence of Mrs. Eva Carter, McCarty street, which was a most delightful affair. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Nathaniel Diggs, Prof. and Mrs W H. Harrison, Rev D. W. Sawyers, Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin King, Mr. and Mrs. Duke Diggs. Mesdames, Laura Woolridge and A. B. Moore, Mr. Chas Smith and Prof. R. L. Logan. An elegant lunch was served and a very enjoyable time was had. Prof. and Mrs. Harrison entertained a number of friends at dinner last Thursday in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Nathaniel Diggs. WANTED-A reliable woman for general housework, F. A. Henninger. Another Burglary. On Tuesday night, burglar, one or more, entered the residence of Wm. T. Anderson on Price avenue, and getting into the sleeping room of his two sons, got away with $50 in money and a gold watch. Twenty dollars of the money belonged to Clifford Anderson and thirty dollars and the gold watch to Prewitt Anderson. Next morning the watch was found in the yard, the burglar seeming to want money. Ed Butler Legally Dead. When Ed Butler went on the bond of an indicted boodler in St. Louis Monday Mr. Folk objected on the ground that Mr. Butler himself is legally dead, because he is now under conviction for attempted bribery, and could not be accepted as bondsman for another criminal. Judge Ryan took this view of the case, and other surety was required. Hon. John T. Heard, of Sedalia, who for a number of years was a member of congress from this district, has been elected president of the Sedalia Business Men's Club. Christmas Goods. Furniture Makes an Excellent Gift.... Especially the Kind sold by G. F. TROXELL. Corner oth and Cherry Streets Columbia, Mo. You Will Always find a fine, fashionable stock of CLOTHING with us. The only difference between our suits and the made-to-order suits is imagination. As to fit, we allow you to be judge and jury- Try us and be convinced. Your money back on any unsatisfactory article. We are bound to make a customer of you if low prices will do it. Globe Mercantile Company. 210 E. High St. - Jefferson City, Mo. Lartonoix & Wallendorf, ....For School Books and Supplies.... Fine Stationery, Musical Goods, No. 222 East High St. - Jefferson City, Mo. Patronize the Merchants Whose Advertisements Appear in these columns. Buy your Christmas Present at a Jewelry Store. We have Fine Goods and Prices are Lower than Elsewhere. VOL. II. NO. 5. Professional World RUFUS L. LOGAN, B. 8. D, Baitor, COLUMBIA, 1: : MISsOURL THE NEWS CONDENSED. Bospital was dedicated fnursiay ee impressive ceremonies. Bishop Von Rohe of Winona officiated. Notices have been posted at the vari- ‘ous shops of the Wabash system in St. Louis to the effect a revision of the ‘scale of wages for skilled labor has deen directed by the president. Surveyors who had nearly completed ‘work on the proposed Boone, Rockwell City & Northern coal road have re- ceived orders to quit work. It is un- derstood the project will be abandoned. F. W. Reul, an employe of the bank at Watertown, Wis., was shot and kill- ed early Wednesday morning while es- corting Mrs. A. L. Schissler to her home. The woman's husband was ar- rested today charged with the’ murder. Ira Merchant, for ten years city en- gineer of Bloomington, Ill., and known throughout the state, died Thursday, aged 65. He surveyed the routes of some of the first railroads in Illinois and Missouri. =, Chief Wilkie of the United States se- cret service, after Inspecting Mrs. Lena Doxheimer’s story of the plot to kill Roosevelt, said a searching investiga- tion by tlie secret service proved con- clusively she was mistaken as to the facts. Late Thursday evening papers were signed at Pittsurg, Pa., completing the combination of steel companies at Do- nora. The new company will be known ‘as the Union Steel company, capitaliz- ed at $50,000,000. ‘The principal Czech and other Ger- man parties in Vienna appear disposed to accept the proposal of Premier Von Koerber to hold a conference with a view to a settlement of the language ‘question. A coroner's inquest Into the death of Florence McFarlan, held at Rochester, N. Y., finds that Miss MacFarlan came to her death as a result of stab wounds inflicted by Mrs. Lulu Miller Youngs. ‘Mrs, Youngs was held for the grand jury. Indications are that foreign labor will be brought to Springfield, Ill., to take the place of strikers in the Wabash shops. The men refuse to accept the company’s offer to compromise wages unless protection to all employes is guaranteed. A negro captured at Lawrenceville Wednesday is suspected of being the ‘one who assaulted two women near Oakton, Ind., on Tuesday. He was shot three times by the city marshal before he surrendered. If identified he is like- ly to be lynched, OW. Johnson, a Boston contractor, has sailed from’ San Francisco for Manzanillo, from where he expects to direct a search for $1,600,000 of treas- ure which went to the bottom of the ocean when the steamer Golden Gate burned and sank 40 years ago. District Judge Mullins of Denver has ordered the arrest of 11 aldermen who Yoted for the ordinance granting 2 new franchise to the Denver City Tramway company after they had been served with an injunction which forbade the passage of an ordinance as drawn, Following the death of Mrs. Gertrude Young at Minneapolis after a fast of 40 days the coroner decided to bring to the attention of the county attorney with a view to prosecution, a cult the chief theory of which is that cures for many ills lie in total abstention from food. Ex-Queen Liliuokalani of Hawail, ac- companied by Miss Holeluli and’ Jo- seph Amoka, arrived at San Francisec from Honolilu on the steamer Ventura Monday. The former queen is on the ‘way to Washington, where she will re- side during the winter. She declined to be interviewed, Governor Yates of Ilinois was rest: less Wednesday, and while there is nc cause for alarm he was worse than or Tuesday, After a very restless evening thegovernor fell asleep about 10 o'clock with a temperature of 100 1-5; pulse 100, Wednesday night Edward Zechiel o} Culver, Ind., and Roy Zachman of Mar fon, 0., freshmen in Heidelberg univer sity, were seriously wounded by a shot gun in the hands of a member of th Sophomore class. The freshmen at tempted tu steal the conveyance of th sophomores with the above result. William J. Lomasney, aged 29 years exchange teller at the Third Nationa Dank at St. Louis, committed suicide Wednesday in the ‘court room of Jus tice Cullimane, ‘The body was found a night lying on a table with a half drained cup of carbolic acid by its side No motive is yet known for the act. Miss Florence McFarlin, aged 21, ¢ music teacher, was stabbed to death’ Ir her father's home at Rochester, N, Y. by another woman, An hour layer Mrs Lucy Young, wife of Frank Young formerly city purchasing agent, wa: arrested as being the supposed’ mur- erer. ‘The arbitration board of the Nation- al Association of Minor Basebal Leagues, has arranged a trace betweer the Milwaukee and Kansas City chub: by which each club is to play pon its ‘own grounds in these cities. The Amer. fean association, which has been an outlaw, will come into the national as. toclation, News has been Fecalved of the prob able fatal shooting of A. L. Collins poste anager of the Smuggler Un- mine at Pandora, near Telluride, by an unknown assassin. Collins was manager of the Smuggler Union mine at 1901 when the riot occurred, and it is the result af animosity engen- Ss adhe eid tee ht saclpag PREMEDITATED MURDER DEVELOPMENT IN THE CASE OF KATE HASSETT. Barry Johnstone, the Slayer, in a Crit- ical State—Story Told of How the Popular Young Actress Came to Her Denth—Bandits Loot a Mon- tana Bank and Escape—Crimes and Oritatnaie | Philadelphia, Dec, 3.—Developments today, in the murder of Kate Hassett, who was shot and killed last night by Barry Johnstone, formerly with the Richard Mansfield company, indicate the crime was premeditated. Johnstone, who, after he had shot the woman, at- tempted suicide, is tonight in a critical condition. Everett Beckwith, husband of the murdered actress, 18 on the way here from Chicago and it is reported her father is coming from Aurora, Ill. The police learned today that short- ly after Miss Hassett left the boarding house for the theater, last night, John- stone forced an entrance into her apartment. He carried a coil of rope which he attached to a post of the act- ress’ bed. The police believe it was the murderer's intention to await the re- turn of Miss Hassett and shoot her in her room, hoping to escape through the window by means of the rope. His presence in the room was discovered by other boarders. They assert that the actor was greatly excited and that he had torn to shreds all the woman's clothing which he found in the room, Fearing he meant to harm the act- ress, the boarders interrupted her at the door of the house and related what had transpired. As Miss Hassett turn- ed to seek other quarters for the night, Johnstoy, it is said, rushed from the house and joined her. They had not proceeded far before he shot her and turned the weapon upon himself. He left a letter addressed to Robert H, Jobnstone of Syracuse, N. Y., enclosing check for $290 and giving directions for the disposal of his effects and burial of his body. Friends of the dead woman say John- stone had been persecuting here for a week and that she frequently expressed fear that evil might befall her. The ac- quaintance of Miss Hassett and John- stone dates back a year, when both were members of Modjeska’s company. Bank Robbers Get $2,000. Bridger, Mont., Dec. 3.—The Stock- Growers bank here was held up and robbed of $2,000 today. Two men en- tered the bank and, pointing revolvers at Cashier Trumbo, ordered him to hold up his hands. A third stood guard at the door, Mail Carrier Williams en- tered at this time and was covered by the robbers’ pistols. He and the cash- ier were placed against the wall with their hands up. One robber tools all the money in sight. All three then left the bank, mounted horses and fled. A posse purstied them and exchanged shots with the gang until timber was reach- ed, when th erobbers disappeared and have not been seen since. PUBLISHER WANTS DAMAGES. Suit for $200,0CO Brought Against Leading Men of Salem, Ind., for ‘Social Ostracism. Indianepolis, Dec. 3.—The trial of the suit of D. A. Jennings, now of Ohio, against Eli W. Menaugh of Salem, Ind., and others of that city for $200,000 damages, began in the federal court to- day. Jennings alleges he was the vic- ‘tim of organized persecution and ostra- cism in Salem and driven from the community. He was publisher of the Salem Democrat and later of the Searchlight, and for nine years was in more or less strife, In 1900 he moved to Ohio and began suit. Among the defendants are the sherlif of the coun- ty, Judge of the circuit court, prosecut- ing attorney, postmasier and others. COL. MOSBY ON LAND FRAUDS His Testimony Before Grand Jury at Omaha Caused Something of a Sensation. Omaha, Neb., Dec. 3.—Colonel John. £. Mosby appeared on the stand before the grand jury here yesterday in the iand fraud cases, His testimony was something of a sensation, although not at all unexnected. He testified both in regard to illegal fencing and the widow scheme of the cattle companies, He added several rew names to his list of cattle com- panies violating the law. He reiierated ‘the statements he made while in Chi- cago, A letter was introduced which Colonel Mosby had written to United States Attorney Simmers here from Washington in which the former sets ‘that while the widows are technically guilty the rea! criminals to be punish- ed are the men who hired them to com- mit perjury and fraud. The letter continues: “I have before ‘me a letter from one of these witows, in which she states that Fred Hoyt. the commissioner at Gordon, refused to let the widows read the papers they signed and swore to, This was the homestead affidavit, in which the party swears that the entry is made in good faith to obtain a home for myself; that Tam not in collusion with any person, corporation, or syndicate in making such entry,’ This widow says that they were all required to sign at the time when they filed their apovileations, leases, or contracts to sell their lands to somebody. “She does not give the name of the person who hired them. As Bartlett Richards’ fence is located on their claims. no doubt he expected to be chief beneficiary in the transaction, 1 gave Richards notice to pull down his fence.” Colonel Mosby displayed the wid- ow’s letter in which she told him how she, with 50 other widows, were cheat ed ont of their londs with nothing to show for it, This letter was written by Mrs, Carrie L. Carrigan from her home in Clarinda, Ia., and was addressed to Binger Hermann, commissioner of the general land office. Suicide of a Veteran. St, Louis, Dec, 2.—Captain Edward K, Holton, aged 61, retired capitalist and veteran officer of the Loyal Legion, sufelded by shooting at hi home to- night, He was a vietim of melancholia, A BILL BY SENATOR CULLOM. Method of Procedure Proposed in An- ti-Trust Cases—Congressman ‘Hull’s Army Bill. | Washington, Dec, 3.—Senator Cullom today introduced a bill to amend the Sherman anti-trust law. It prohibits interstate commerce in articles produced by trusts, the penalty for violations be- ing # fine of from $500 to $5,000, “ecine Dill authorizes the attomey gen- eral or any district attorney to make application to federal judges for the summoning of persons before them to answer questions as to material viola- tion of the anti-trust law in advance of the trial of the case, and requires judges to issue orders for the appearance of such persons upon this application. In stich cases witnesses are to be protect- ed against prosecution on account of their revelations, but they are to be de- prived of the right to refuse to answer because of self-crimination, Annual reports are requested to be made by all persons, firms and incorporations en- gaged in interstate commerce, They are to be filed with the Interstate Commerce commission and are to be subject to the scrutiny of the attorney general, but not of tne general public. The attorney general is authorized to appoint fifty special agents to seek out violations of the iaw. Representative Hull, chairman of the house committee on military affairs, to- day introduced a bill creating a general staff corps of the United States army, It provides the staff shall be composed of officers detailed from the army at large under such rules as the president may describe. The proposed duties of the staff are to prepare places for na- tional defense and mobilization of mili- tary forces in time of war, to invest!- gate and report on all questions affect- ing the efficiency of the army and its state of preparedness for military op- erations; to render professional aid to the secretary of war and to general offi- cers and other superior commanders, and to act as their agents in inform- Ing and co-ordinating action of all offi cers in carrying out their orders. The general staff corps consists of one chief o fstaff with the rank and pay of lieu- tenaut general, one major general, one brigadier general, four colonels, six lieutenant colonels, twelve majors and twenty captains, mounted. The measure was introduced in the senate by Senator Proctor. The bil] was drawn up by the war department and differs consider- ably from the measure of the past ses- sion. FARMERS AS SPECULATORS. ‘Thousands of Them Invested in Wheat Margins on the Chicago Board of Trade Monday. Chicago, Dec. 3.—Ten thousand farm- ers who came to Chicago to see the live stock show got near enough to the board of trade yesterday to be smitten with the fever of speculation. They had been selling wheat all their lives, loading it ‘on wagons, and seeing it hauled away to the railroad. But yesterday they bought. They didn’t see any wheat on wagons. By putting up 5 cents a bushel they bought the right to sell again at a profit if Wheat goes up. If wheat goes down their money will be contributed to the men who make a business of buying and selling wheat that never grew. The faymers yesterday bought 3,500,000 bushels, checking the decline and caus- ing a reaction of half a cent to 751-8 cents at the close. Besides supplying the wants of_the farmers yesterday, Armour sold 4,50,- G00 bushel to Peavey & Co., who also have demonstrated that they know a thing or two about the market, Armour has sold 12,000,000 bushels in the past three trading days, and still has a few millions of paper wheat left, according to the gossips, all of which'he bought at a lower figure than yesterday's Lot- tom price, WIND AND RAIN IN THE SOUTH Much Damage Done by a Severe Storm in Sections of Five South- ern States. Louisville, Kyi. Dec. 3—A severe storm of wind and rain swept a por- tion of the South today, cansing gen- eral loss of property and several castal- ‘ties. The greatest damage was done ‘telegraph and telephone wires, South- ern Louisiana, northern Mississipp4, western Tennessee and southeastern Alabama wore the ehfef sufferers. ‘The storm struck New Orleans shortly be- fore daylight and blew down the houses of Prof. John Denier and Brother “Tony” Denier, the clown, probably fa- tally injuring ‘im. Mrs. Denier was also serlonsly injured, while her moth- er, Mrs, Fontich, and her 16-year-old daughter were slightly hurt. ‘The storm was also very severo in the vicinity of Clayton, Ala, where trees were unrooted and houses blown down, It is feared loss of life and £e- rious losses among livestock may be reported when full details of the dam- age are received. PLOT AGAINST JAPAN’S RULER. Conspirators Had Avranged to Blow Up Emperor's Train, But Police Senined of the Wick: Victoria, B, C., Dec. 3.—The steam- er Kaga Maru, which arrived today from the Orient, brought news of an attempt on the life of the emperor of dapan when the imperia! train was at Otaka, enroute to the scene of the maneuvers of Kinshin, A number of conspirators had gone there aud ar- ranged to blow up the emperor's train, but the police learned of the plot and the would-be dynamiters escaped, ‘Will Demand Increase, Brazii, Ind., Dee, 2.—Miners of each district representing the block coal fields of Indiana met here today in se- cret session, It is understood they will demand a ten per cent increase, and it {is belleved thelr action will be final and the demand will be granted, ‘Takes 2 Gloomy View. Pittsburg, Dee. 2.—At a convention of the National Reform association to- day the Rex, Charles 4. Blanchard, president of Wheaton college, Ilinols, rook a gloomy view of Sabbath desecra- tion and argued that people had a false den, of what constituted “nscessary la- rr BRILLIANT SCENE AT OPENING SESSION OF 57TH CONGRESS. ‘The Senate Held a Short Session— No Business Was Transacted Be- yond Customary Resolutions and Fixing an Hour to Meet—Galleries in House Packed to the Doors ‘With Prominent People. Washington, Dec, 1.—The senate was in session twelve minutes today, the first day of the session, adjournment un- til tomorrow being taken out of respect to the memory of the late Senator James McMillan, who died during re- cess, Rarely has the historic chamber presented such an appearance as it did today. The custom of placing flowers ‘on the desk of senators on the opening day of the session {s one which has long been followed, but the display to- day was admitted to be the most mag- nificent of any that heretofore have been sent. Many senators were early on the floor and were kept busy ex- changing greetings with old acquaint- ances. ‘The galleries were packed to suffoca- tion and hundreds stood outside the cor- ridors anxious to gain admission. Among interested spectators were sev- eral members of the diplomatic corps, Senor Quesada, the Cuban minister, who occupied a conspicious place and exhibited much interest in the proceed- ings. ‘The absence of Rev. Dr. Milburn, the blind chaplain, was particularly no- ticed. His place was taken by Rev. J. F, Prettyman of Washington. No busi- ness was transacted beyond passing the customary resolutions that the senate was ready to proceed to ‘business and fixing the hour of convening sessions at 12 o'clock. The opening of the 57th congress In the House was as usual a spectacular event. The galleries were packed to the doors with people prominent in so- ciety and politics, and the flower show on the floor, although not as elaborate as usual, filled the chamber with per- fume and added grace and beauty to the scene. Members were good natured and jovial and there was no outeropping of partisan feeling, Speaker Henderson received a cordial reception as he as- sumed the gavel, but beyond this there was no demonstration. The proceed- ings were purely perfunctory. A prayer, calling of roll, swearing in of members selected to fill vacancies created by Geath or resignation during recess, adopting the customary resolutions to appoint a committee to wait upon the president and to inform the senate the House was ready to transact business, and fix the daily hour of meeting, sum- marizes what was done. Then the death of late Representative Charles Russell |of Connecticut, which occurred in the | early fall, was announced and the usual [resolution of regret was adopted, and the House as a further mark of respect adjourned until tomorrow, when the president's message will be received. ‘The session lasted less than an hour. In the House, ‘The reading of the president's mes- sage, witch is published elsewhere, was the jeading feature in both the house and senate on Tuesday. It occupied an hour and fifteen minutes, the reading being closely followed. Senator Alger of Michigan was sworn in and Senator Frye laid before the senate a number of annual reports of government of- ficials, and the resignation of Rev, W. H. Milburn, the blind chaplain of the senate, ‘Senator Cullom introduced a bill to amend the Sherman anti-trust law. It prohibits interestate commerce in articles produced by trusts, penalty for violation being fines of from $500 to $5,000, ‘The galleries were crowded when the house convened Tuesday. Mr, Russell of Texas and Edward Swann. who suc- ceeds A. J. Cummings of New York, took the oath of office, After a short recess the president's message was read, the members displaying great in- terest, Chairman Hull of the house committee on military affairs intro- Auced @ bill for the general staff of the army. The bill follows closely that which has been recommende by Secre- tary Root. Telticn Moasta. The United States senate was in ses- sion twelve minutes Monday, Dec. 1, the first day of the session, adjournment until Tuesday being taken out of respect. Monday. The custom of placing flowers gy of the session is one which has long oan followed, but the display this year was admitied to be the most mag- adjourned until Tuesday, ‘Treasury Estimates. Washington, Dec. 1.—The secretary of the treasury today transmitted to congress estimates of the appropria- tions required for the fiscal year end- ing June 30, next, The total appropria- tions asked for ave $589,189,112, which is $21,698,576 less than the estimates for 1903, and $23,050,014 less than the appropriations for that year. ‘The fol- lowing is the estimates by the depart- ments: Legislative ...2....+++0+++ § 11,508,000 JEMOCULIVe ..csseeevseseenes 920,000 Bia scrsuaeers spire Sere OOD Brewery veeecesececee 172814000 Wat esessscssceconsseeeee 7180(987,000 NOVY ceceeceeseerneeencees 84 720,000 Interfor ......eeeeeeee sees 188,075,000 Post Office ......-.sseeeee+ 10,863,000 ABriculture .eeeseesereveee 5,660,000 [Labor settee eeeeeeerenees 184,220 Tustlee TIS naagiooo MAINE'S X-MAS TREE HARVEST Estimated That This Year's Crop Will Net 0 Profit of at Least One Hun- died Wiceesnd ckisbes Bangor, Me., Dec, 2,—The Christmas tree industry has got an early start in Maine, this year, and already carloads and even vessel loads are going for- ward to the large cities, Only a few years ago the fir tree was looked upon a5 rather a nuisance in this state, be- cause it grew as rank as burdock, crowding out better growths, and was of no earthly use, save as it might be considered an ornament to the land- scape. Now the fir, no longer despised, fs @ source of considerable Income to hundreds of Maine's rural people, and to the transportation companies as well. Last year more than 1,500,000 were sold, and {t is expected that this year'scrop will net a profit of at least 310,000. PRINCE MIRKO IS QUEERED. Stolen Love Letters May Cost Him His Ambition to Succeed King Alexander on Servian Throne Vienna, Dev. 2.—Some stolen love letters may cost Prince Mirko, second ton of the reigning prince of Monte- negro, his ambition to ascend tho Ser- vian throne for which, in the event. of King Alexander having no heir, he is @ strong candidate. Prior to Prince iMirko’s marriage last July with Na- talie Constantinovitch, daughter of the grand uncle of King Alexander, he had a love ‘affair with a Servian act- ress and wrote her many letters con- taining criticisms on the policy of sev- eral European states, The czar and German emperor were especially hard hit, while the Servian people were slightingly and scornfully referred to. After his marriage Prince Mirko sent a trusted adjutant to buy the letters from the actress. She readily sold them, but the adjutant, who is a Ser- vian, sold them to the Servian govern- ment for a considerable sum after hay- ing had printed copies made. In_ the event of the Montenegrin dynasty making any active move to acquire the Servian throne, it is anticipated the publication of the letters would alien- ate Prince Mirko’s Servian friends and ruin his prospects of succeeding King Alexander, The Macedonian Question. London, Dec, 2.—A correspondent of the ‘Telegraph at Vienna telegraphs that Russia and Austria have agreed to make a determined effort to end the pereptual Macedonian question by car- rying out specific reforms under their combined control, COLOMBIA’S NEW MINISTER. Dr. Herran, Secretary of Legation, to Represent Colombia at Washing- ton in Canal Matter. Washington, Dec. 2.—-Senor Concha hase been relieved as minister for Col- ombia by orders from Bogota. Dr. ‘Thomas Herran, the present secretary of the legation, has been clothed by his government with full authority to pros- ectite the negotiations looking to the canal treaty. It is believed thi@question of sover- eignty which has thus far held up ne- gotiations of a treaty is in a fair way to be settled between Colombia's new representative and Secretary Hay. ‘There is no doubt but the state depart- ment will give its cordial assent to the succession of Dr. Herran as minister. Dr. Herran called at the state depart- ment today a acquainted Acting Sec- retary Hill facts in the case, ‘The department{imMatement is that Concha remains PAENew York for the sake of his health and for private rea- sons; that Dr. Herran is charge d'at- faires ad interim and that he has been empowered by the minister to conduct further negotiations of the canal treaty. This statement does not change the expectation here that in the end Herran is to be made minister. GERMAN CABINET COMPACT. In Return For Support of Compromise Tariff Bill, Law Against Jesuits ‘Will Be Repealed. Berlin, Dec. 2.—The definite state- ment {s made by the Breslau Anzeige. a Catholic journal, that the present reichstaz will pass’ another resolution asking the government to appeal the law forbidding the return of the Jes- uits to Germany, and it is affirmed the bundesrath will this time consent to the proposed repeal. The action of the gov- ernment Is understood to be due to a compact with the Center or Clerical ‘party in return for the latter's support of the compromise tarlif bill, The Cen- ‘ter party has tried for years to get the jaw reseinded and has repeatedly and siceessfully brought up the matter in the reichstag, but the bundesrath has steadily refised to agree to the repeal. ‘The law has been the subject of pollt- feal and religious agitation whenever any matter came up, like the Polish question, in which the Catholics were inftuential. AN INTERNATIONAL QUESTION. Italy Opens Negotiations for Compen- sations for Relatives of Italian Emigrants Killed in U. 8. Rome, Dec. 2.—In the deputies today Foreign Minister Prinetti announced that Italy was opening negotiations with the United States with a view to securing compensation for relatives of Italian emigrants who had been killed while employed in America. and that he hoped to get an equitable interpreta- tion of clause 3 of the existing treaty. ‘Tho Italian yovernment, the minister added, also intended to pay a share of the expenses of any lawsuit undertaken by Itallan subjects in this connection. Varied laws of different states of the Union, however, created “difficulties which’ could not always be overcome by the good will of the federal govern- ment.” TURF CASES TO GO ON TRIAL. Borrd of Review of National Trot- ting Association Will Inquire Into 135 of Them. Now York, Dec, 2.—The board of re- view of the National Trotting associa- tion will meet tomorrow. The members of the board are: Morgan G. Bulkeley, Hertford, Conn; John C. Weltey, Can- ton, 0.; Geo, W. Archer, Rochester, N. Y.; _U. C, Blake, Cedar Rapids, Iowa; P. P. Pohnson,\Leington, Ky.; John H. Shults of this clty. There are 135 cases on the docket, ite ae aa ik. New York, Dee. 1.—The Yacht club tonight adopted @ new measurement rule known as the “brace rule” end it was decided that theeAmerica’s eup race should be sailed beginning Aug 20, 1903, and continuing on alternate days until concluded. The street railway of Houston, Tex- as, was tled up Monday because of the strike of conductors. and motormen their demand for an incerase of wage: and recognition of the union haying heen: refused, ROBBERS SCARED AWAY UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO HOLD UP A TRAIN. Attempted Robbery Occurred Near In- dependence, Kas.—Brakeman Re- fused to Hold Up His Hands and ‘Was Shot by One of the Bandits— Maine Woman Charged With Kill- ing Her Family—Other Crimes. Kansas City, Mo., Dec. 1.—Two men made an unsuccessful attempt to hold up the east-bound Chicago & Alton train near Independence tonight. The two men, armed with rifles, boarded the train at Independence, As the train was pulling out the men covered the brakeman with their rifles and com- manded him to put up his hands, The brakeman refused and one of the vband- its shot him in the leg. The report of the gun was heard “by other trainmen, who hurried to the assistance of the brakeman. The robbers jumped from the train and escaped. They were not masked and the injured brakeman gave the police a good description of them. : Alleged Poisoner. Dexter, Me. Dec. 1.—Mrs. Harry L, Whitten, whose husband Mlet two years ago, her 1i-year-old daughter Fannie last September and her 9-year- old daughter Jennie yesterday, was ar- rested today on a specific charge of laving poisoned the second child. Both girls were insured, the elder for $85 and the younger for $66, An autopsy on the body of Jennie revealed evidence of poison. Mysterious Death. Chicago, Dec, 1—The police are in- vestigating the death of a young wom- ansaid to be Laura L. Pattee of Springfield, Ml., in the Grand Pacific hotel early this morning in company with a man whom she came to the ho- tel Thursday and registered under the name “C, J. O'Donnell and wife of Du- luth, Minn,” There are no marks of vio~ lence on ‘the body and everything points to heart disease as the cause of death. O'Donnell, however, will be held by the police until the coroner's in- quest, ‘Would-be Bomb Thrower. Rome, Dec. 1.—A former policeman named Finelli, haying in his possess sion a loaded’ bomb, was arrested in the neighborhood of the chamber of deputies. He confessed he meant to throw a bomb among the deputies. It is believed the prisoner is insane, A Pistol Duel. _ Alexandria, La., Dec. 1.—In a duel with pistols tonight near Pollock, La., Lovell Wainwright was instantly kill ed and Joe Wade probably fatally in- ‘jured. CHICAGO LIVESTOCK SHOW. Exhibits Have All Arrived and Are Now in Place—Formal Opening | on Monday. Chicago, Dec. 1.—The third annua? livestock ‘exposition opened its doors to the publie this morning, although the formal opening will not take place until Monday. The exhibits have aif arrived and are being placed in the pens allotted for them. Several delega- tions from agricultural colleges arrived today and are looking over the grounds preparatory to. the judging contest which will begin Monday. ‘The rail- roads are expecting to handle in the neighborhood of half a million peopie during the coming week, having made cheap rates from all points of the coun- try, A conservative estimste of the cash prizes and trophies offered at the exposition bring the value of the awards close upon $50,000, which is said to be the largest aggregate of premiums ever made by a livestock ex- position. Some of the trophies are mag- nificent works of art. ‘At Beaneviila tnd. Evanavilie, Ind., Dec. 2.—-A storm to- night caused much damago, sinking barges and houseboats on the river, tearing down buildings and playing havoc with telephone and -telegrapi wires, One of the new buildings of the Evansville Gas company was de- molished; los, $30,000. Father Laurens Dead. Muscatine, Dec. 2—A_cablegram to- night announces the death at. Dijon, France, of Father P, Laurents, aged 51, pastor of St. Matthews church in this city. He was one of the most prominent priests in the state, and had a national reputation. ea eee LATE MARKETS BY WIRE. — Chicago Produce. Chicago, Dec, 4—Butter—Market firm, Creamerien, Isiase; dairies, 170246, Eges—Market steady at sic. Poultry—Market firm. ‘Turkeys, 13014e; chickens, 10140120. Chicago Live Stock. , Chicago, Dec, 4—Cattle—There was 10 improvemént In the market todas there being an unusual Tuesday slow’ traite and prices were weaker, beef cattle selling mostly 47ie lower than last weok, timo lots going sc below last week's closing figures. ‘The cow and helfer trade wes fatrly “active, prices. sharing in. the: de- cline, Stockers and feeder trade was slow, Good to prime steers. $5.15908.00; Boor to medium. $3.0075.75; stockers and feeders, S.00@1.60; heifers, $2,000.00; calves. §8.5068.0. Hogs Palrly etive and absut) to low, er, although fancy hogs.sold at $9.00. once more, Mixed butchers, See: ood to chotee heavy, $5.2548.00 rong heavy. $9.7% G6; Met, '$5.6506.15; bulk wales, $6.000 6.15. +e beer -Ceneral dhe fate notive at Monday's reduced pres, Sheep, $2004.00: lambs, $3705.25. © St. Louis Live Stock. St, Louis, Dec. 4.-Cattlo—Reseipt. 6.- 000 head, Steady, “Beet stoons, $1.26405.%0; stockers and feeders, $205@4.00; cows and holfers, S2.2G8175; ‘Pexas atecrs, $2250 Hogs—Recetpts, 7.000 head. Market 50 We lower, Range, &.7500.40. Minneapolis Wheat. Minn Dec, 4.—Wheat—Dr- ‘cember, ua tis traci, No. J Merl 1. 1 Nesthern, 73; No. 2 North, ern, & COPYRIGHT,1901,BY J.S.TRIGG.ROCKFORD,IA CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED Florida will only show up with 750,- 000 boxes of oranges this year, about one-half of the crop of 1901. The northwest will produce 45,000,- 000 bushels of flax this year, worth to the producers $1.20 per bushel. A friend told us the other day that he once hauled a load of farm produce to town and got $1,000 for it. What was it? Hops? A few years ago 500 bushels of wheat were thought to be a big carload. Now 1,800 bushels are carried in the modern steel freight car. For-cent corn and five dollar pork make a very good combination, not an agricultural bonanza, but a good, legit- imate, healthy business. Almost any crop will do well on a clover sod, especially wheat, potatoes and corn. Oats are liable to grow too much straw and fall down. We are growing the blue Moldavak (Russian) plum with success. It seems to be perfectly hardy and bears a large purple plum of good quality. Winter is the best time of the year to thin out the sparrows. Baiting and shooting them is about as good a way as any to get rid of a lot of them. Another Scandinavian walks off with the first prize at the Milwaukee butter makers' convention. He exhibited butter which scored 98.12 and four years ago was the greenest of green men as a helper in a creamery. He read, watched, studied and won. The farmers of South Dakota have become so prosperous that money now goes begging at 5 per cent where not so very long since 20 per cent was demanded and obtained. We are told that one of the reasons why more corn is not raised in the southern states is the fact that after it is raised it is very difficult to keep it owing to great humidity of the atmosphere. A new fruit men whom we know have made a success of grafting choice varieties of apples on the wild crab, but it is not at all a harmonious union, for the sections will outgrow the stock, the crab being of very dwarfish habit. As soon as he had cut his cats in July he sowed five acres of the stubble to rye, putting the crop in with a disk, and when we saw the field in October he had seventy-five head of nice shots just where they liked to be. There is a great waste of the best of fertilizers in the dumping by the railway companies of the contents of their cattle cars where they cannot be used. With so much poor, starved out land this waste should be remedied. There is a good deal of satisfaction in watching the coming of the first snow when one has the corn all in the crib, the fuel in the woodhouse and the roots in the cellar. Winter is not half bad when one is prepared for it. In talking with a railroad section hand lately he told us that the old ties removed from the roadbed just about supplied the hands on the section with fuel, provided they had a section boss who would give them a fair deal. Try hunting with a camera instead of a gun. You will thus get rare pictures of wild life, which to every human person will afford more pleasure than the shedding of innocent blood. But you want meat, you say. Well, buy that at the butcher shop. The potato raised on the timber lands of northern Minnesota and Wisconsin is about the finest specimen of potato there is raised—large and smooth, full of starch and mealy as flour. Great crops they raise up there, too, 300 to 500 bushels to the acre. The state of Colorado and Kansas are having a tilt in the courts over the right of the first named state to tap the water supply of the rivers which they own in common. Colorado is so slurry that there is nothing left for Kansas. The Kansas experiment station has been securing some remarkable results in feeding weak and run down calves with a ration of dried blood, a product of the packing houses. It would seem to be a very valuable agent in the raising of calves. The idea of planting a fish under each hill of corn as a fertilizer is calculated to make the corn grower of the corn belt smile; but this thing is sometimes done on the Atlantic coast, where the porgies are plenty, and the corn likes this sort of treatment. It has been an unusually good fall for the sowing of winter wheat in Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska, and the cageage will be much larger than last year. The apple crop of the year this year is placed at 45,000,000 barrels against 27,000,000 barrels last year. While the crop is large, it is not of the best quality. The cows in Norway, it is said, will cat and are fed dried codfish. From this we infer that all that is needed to secure nice codfish gravy is to thicken their milk with flour. A good deal of live stock was killed this year through the west by October thunderstorms. A good thing about poultry is that the small flock of hens always does better than the large one, thus making it possible for the poor man and the one with limited range to still make the keeping of poultry profitable. We raised enough stalks on ten acres of corn this year to have warmed the house in good shape all winter long if only there was some way to put them in shape to be burned in a stove or a furnace. As it is, they have to be burned in the field next spring, where they will do very little good. Some cheap and effective machine which would fit this roughage for fuel would be a great blessing to the whole country. We learn that many of the big spouting wells of South Dakota furnish a water supply so strongly tinctured with magnesia and alkaline salts that such water is entirely useless for the purposes of irrigation, where so used the soil becoming so impregnated with these properties as to render it unfertile. One thing is dead sure, a young man can never get a start in life if he spends all he earns. He must deny himself somewhere. If he will save $500, the doing of which may take him two or three years, he will find it easier to get ahead. The courting business should be postponed until this $500 is saved up. We came across the historic man the other day who had actually moved his barn to get rid of the piles of manure. His crops were poor enough and needed all the fertilizer he could get, but he had to put in so much time saving the country, running to town and fishing that he had to move his barn to get rid of the manure. We never could just understand why it is that the natives of the tropics use so much red pepper in their food. The curries and sauces of India and the soups and gravies of Mexico are hot enough to almost burn the lining off a white man's stomach. One would think that, with the mercury at 100 in the shade, they would want to let red pepper alone. What the Latin races need is ginger, not pepper. Some of the work of the agricultural department at Washington reads almost like a romance. From three tiny trees of the naval or seedless orange imported from Brazil some years ago, only one of which made a live of it, has developed the enormous orange industry of the Pacific coast, amounting to 20,000 carloads of fruit this year, mostly navels. These trees were threatened by a parasite five years ago for which there seemed no remedy till a few ladybugs were imported from Australia and turned into the orange orchards, where they soon multiplied and made short work of the parasite. Then the San Jose scale, proof against any form of spraying, threatens not only the fruit trees, but forest trees as well, and a scientist goes into far north China, where the white man has but rarely set foot, and there finds the scale held in subjection by another kind of ladybug, which he carefully collects and ships, but fourteen of them reaching the department at Washington in safety, and now the department is prepared to furnish any quantity of these bugs to any locality affected with the San Jose scale. The man was a Scandinavian. He had worked his way up from absolute poverty to one of financial and agricultural independence and is now well fixed as the owner of 320 acres of land and a good equipment of stock. He had a boy, a very commonplace, everyday sort of boy, seventeen years old. This boy had always worked on the farm, and his education had been limited to what he could learn in the country school during the winter term. It was agreed between father and son that the boy should go to one of the best agricultural colleges in the West and take a course of thirteen weeks each winter for two years, returning to his farm work during the summer. We met the father after the boy had completed this course of study at the college and asked him what it had done for the boy. He said that "it had done wonders, that the boy was taking up the farm work in a different and better way, that he could repair any of the farm machinery, adjust the farm separator, test the milk and the cows, had learned how to judge stock, could pick out a good cow on sight, knew how to properly balance the rations fed, could treat the sick animals on the farm and wanted me to take five or six of the best agricultural papers. He did all his work with more method and intelligence and so accomplished more with less labor. He did not get the big head and want to become a professor and teacher and has settled down to his old farm work as steady as an old clock. It cost me $325 to give him this course of study, and it was the best investment that I ever made. The fact is the boy knows more than I do, but he is kind enough never to rub it in." One twenty acre tract of land at Baku, Russia, has produced 40,000,000 barrels of oil. This beats Texas. Reports of outbreaks of hog cholera are beginning to come in, just as we expected, as soon as the shots were fed all the new corn they would eat. The cow is the poor farmer's best friend. She will do more to lift him out of debt and set him on his financial feet than any other animal on the farm, but just as soon as he can get along with out her he drops her, for not one man in a hundred likes to milk. When a billygoat sells for $1,500, as was the case at Kansas City last month, it is pertinent to ask, What next? This particular billy was a lord mayor of his kind, clad in a silky fleece of finest texture and with a lineage running back to Billy the Conqueror and all the rest of the other noted Billies. If one takes up one of the cut off timber tracts in northern Minnesota and Wisconsin, it will take about 15 years to convert it into a good farm. The pine stumps rot very slowly. Being an excellent grass country, the clovers and timothy doing exceedingly well, the clearing of the land with stock is a comparatively easy matter if a man is only willing to wait. We came across a discontented and fault-finding farmer the other day, the first we have met for nearly three years. It seems that his oats got wet and damaged in the shock, the frost caught 20 acres of his corn and some of his potatoes rotted. He just could not think of any of the blessings—only just these temporary losses. He had very much to be thankful for. His credit was gilt edged, he had good health, his stock liked the soft corn, he had two crops of hay instead of one, his farm had doubled in value during five years, he had plenty to eat and a comfortable home. It is so much better to think of one's blessings rather than of one's misfortunes. No one wants to go through life to lift a bell or playing Jeremiah. The bright, good world we live in has no place for this sort of thing. "Look on the bright side and keep a stiff upper lip" should have been made a part of the sermon on the mount. We are surprised that in connection with the present craze for land there is not more attention being paid to the productive South. There are great possibilities conected with the tablelands of the Cumberland mountains in Tennessee, with many sections of Arkansas and the other Southern states. While the soil is not as fertile as that of the prairies of the West, there is much compensation in the certain rainfall and the mildness and salubility of the climate, which so greatly extends the farmer's working season. We look to see more attention paid to these Southern lands in the future. Don't burn the leaves in the fall. Never mind the litter. The snow will soon cover them up. If you let them alone, the winds will whirl them up around the shrubs and plants and thus furnish the nicest sort of a winter protection. And, come to think of it, we would not burn them even in the spring, for they make the very best mulching material to be had. Rake them up and put them under the currant and berry bushes, where they will finally decay and form a rich leaf mold. Leaves were never made to be burned. Unless we miss our guess the farmers of the country are shortly going to find themselves up against two tough propositions—the meat trust and the farm machinery trust. These benevolent institutions are not doing business for their health by a long shot. We look to see these two trusts kick up a bigger row than all the others put together. MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY New York-Havana Line Has a Passenger It Cannot Land. Traveling back and forth on ships which ply between Havana and this port, Constantino Garcia, a native Cuban, is affording the steamship companies much trouble and proving himself to be a man without a country. He started four months ago by stowing away at Havana. Arriving here, the immigration officials ordered him back. At Havana, the Cuban officials refused him landing because he was practically a towaway. He was again returned to New York and again is refused permission to land. The steamship companies are compelled to obey the order and return Garcia to Havana or pay a heavy fine. They have been unable to find any work aboard ship which their unwelcome passenger can do. Meanwhile Garcia says he is letting the others "do the worrying." "Civilization of the Indian seems pretty close," says the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, "when we read that marble dealers of Omaha have just closed a contract whereby they are to erect for the Cheyenne and Ogallala Sioux Indians a monument to be placed on the battlefield of Wounded Knee, in South Dakota, which the Indians insist on regarding as a massacre. There is already a monument to the United States soldiers who fell there at Fort Riley, Kas., and with both sides to that sanctuary conflict commemorating it, it is not likely to be forgotten, although the circumstances have already faded from the memory of nearly every one. Should the Indians generally take to setting up monuments where they have met their white adversaries in battle the country would be pretty thickly sprinkled with them. Those who doubt that they will ever fall into the customs and modes of thought of the whites ought to find something convincing in this project of the Sioux Indians. It is less than half a generation since they were in blankets and turkey feathers." Mrs. Phoebe Hearst's gifts for archaeology and anthropology at the University of California amounted to $111,000 during the last academic year. Emperor William, carrying out his purpose of converting the Grunewald into a vast pleasure ground for the use of the inhabitants of Berlin, has approved plans for new roads, playgrounds, picknickers' grades and restaurants in the forest. One of the emperor's objects is to encourage outdoor athletics. The forest contains 11,550 acres. It is a royal hunting preserve, but the foresters are now killing off the deer and wild boar there. SHE'S A GAME BUYER. The Novel Occupation of a Young Woman of Milwaukee. A novel occupation is that which is being pursued with success by Miss Emily L. Marden of Milwaukee, Wis. There are now quite a number of Dianas who take out a hunting license each season, and Miss Marden is among the women to whom licenses are annually issued, but it is not to hunt the game that she obtains the legal documents necessary. With her it is a strictly business proposition. She probably knows more about the habits of game, either feathered or four-footed, than most women who hunt, but that is because she is a game buyer, and the only women engaged in that business in the state. A great proportion of the game which reaches Milwaukee each autumn season represents the results of hard work and arduous traveling by Miss Marden in the northern part of the state. For three months each year she goes from shipping point to shipping point buying direct from the hunters when she can or from the dealers to whom the hunters bring the game they have killed. This has to be done as rapidly as possible and there is little rest or sleep for the young woman until she has gathered up a sufficient quantity to make it worth while to take the long and tiresome trip back to the city. Under the game laws no shipping is allowed, and this means that every time a consignment of game reaches town some one with a hunter's license has brought it down from the North as personal baggage. With Miss Marden this personal baggage is at times excessive, and she has brought in at one trip as many as 2,000 birds which she had gathered up in the course of three or four days' travel through the woods. Traveling through the hunting district is not the pleasantest thing in the world, even for a man, for the hotel and railroad accommodations are rarely even passable, but Miss Marden, though a slight young woman of modest ways, makes little complaint about it. "How am I treated? With absolute courtesy. At first I think the hunters thought it queer to deal with a woman, but they have gotten over that long ago, and no one could be nicer to me than those men are. They are not cultivated society men, to be sure, but great rough fellows fresh from the woods, yet absolutely chivalrous in their treatment of a woman. They want to go out of their way to do a kindness for one, and seem to take it at a matter of course that they should be allowed to. The heart of the hunter is a big and generous one, if his clothes are tough and his bearing uncouth. I've always found him a gentleman."—Chicago Chronicle. LOST TWENTY YEARS Kokomo, Ind., Dec. 1.—Twenty year is a long time to take out of one person's life, but that was the fate of Anna M. Willis of this place. For 20 years she suffered all the torments of Kidney Trouble, and any one in that state is not living, but simply existing. Now Anna M. Willis is fully recovered. 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After blowing in his substance the foolish youth visits the pawnshop for the purpose of raising the wind. When fortune begins to smile on some men they think it is up to them to sit down and bask in the smile.— BEWARE OF OINTMENTS FOR CATARRH THAT CONTAINS MERCURY. as mercury will surely destroy the sense of smell and completely derange the whole system when entering it through the mucous surfaces. Such articles should be presented from reputable physicians, as this age they will do is ten fold to the good you can possibly derive from them. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O., contains no antiseptic agent and is directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. In buying Hall's Catarrh Curde be sure you get the genuine. It is taken internally and made in Toledo, Ohio, by F. J. Cheney % Co. Testimonials Sold by Druggists, Price 75c per bottle Hall's Family Pills are the best. Uncle Sam's Big Ranch. Uncle Sam appears still to have considerable land to sell at low prices or give away. Some 19,488,739 acres were disposed of last year, according to the report of the land office commissioner. This altogether is a large area, nearly as large as half of New England. The farm and ranch emigration into the Northwest, from the central Mississippi states, accounts doubtless for the increase in sales over those of the previous year. There is going on, in connection with this migration, a lively land speculation such as has not been seen in the West since the boom of 15 years or so ago. —Springfield Republican. Mothers will find Mrs. Winslow's Scotch Syrup the best remedy to use for their children during the teething period. 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In Use For Over Thirty Years CASTORIA THE GENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY. VOTING MACHINES SUCCESSFUL. Voters Were Instructed How to Operate Them Before Casting Ballots New York dispatch: One of the unique features of the recent elections in this city was the use of the voting machines in five polling places in this city. In all but one the result was satisfactory. If voters were instructed if they did not know how to operate the machine. Two small duplicates of the machine were used in demonstration, one for the Republicans, the other for the Democrats. The voters was instructed to swing a lever at the top from left to right, which unlocked the machine and also drew a pair of curtains together, hiding him from observation. His next duty was to turn a handle attached to one of the party emblems, which were in a vertical line on the left side of the machine. This brought down the whole line of small levers to the right of the emblem, one lever for each candidate for office. If the voter wished to scratch any of these candidates he would push up the lever which had been brought down over the candidate's name, and he could, if he wished, push down a lever in any of the other lines corresponding to the other tickets, thereby voting for the candidate for that office. The lever first used was then swung back to its original position, thereby recording the vote, locking the machine again and opening the curtains. Mayor Low, who was one of the early voters, took only a few seconds, though it was remarked that even that was time enough to split or scratch, if one was familiar with the machine. He was the sixty seventh voter, and after chatting for a few moments he entered. He was in the booth but ten seconds. There was a sharp and decided click, the bell rang, and Mr. Low stepped into view again. He had voted without instructions, because he had inspected the machine thoroughly a short time before election day, and was well informed as to its operation. The first vote to be cast on the machine in this district was that of Assemblyman Bainbridge Colby, formerly of St. Louis. Everything worked smoothly in making up the returns of the machine, until the vote for senator was reached. There were six straight ballots on the Greater New York Democracy cast and in the first statement, which was made to the police, that many votes were credited to Frederick L. C. Keating in addition to the 71 he received in the Tammany column. Senator Nathaniel E. Elsberg received 157 votes. When the election officers came to make up their papers in detail, however, it was discovered that in the space for the senator in the Greater New York Democracy there appeared the words, "No nomination." On the poll clerks' sheets there was a space following the names of candidates marked "No nominations," but there was no such mark on the papers which the inspectors were to fill in. There was a wrangle over the matter which delayed business for nearly half an hour. A Democratic watcher insisted that the Greater New York Democracy had indorsed Keating, and declared that for every straight ballot cast for the rooster emblem one vote must be counted for Keating. It was finally decided that the poll clerks should put the figures 6 opposite the space for "No nominations," the inspected word for entry, and the words "Greater New York Democracy," and leaving the settlement of the question to higher authority. The representative of the voting machine company was present. He reported criticisms of the machine and said the six votes were cast for just what the New York Democracy put up, namely, "No nomination." The voting machine is in use in several up-state cities, including Rochester and Syracuse, and the returns of elections in these places have been recorded within a few minutes of the time of the closing of the polls on election day. The use of the machine, it is said, does away with the voiding of vallots, and loose votes in the present system, CENTRAL N. U. - - - - NO. 40-02 and the vote registered at the close of the poll is final, unless a machine is broken or gets out of gear, so that there as no contests over election. The first cast is about $500 for each polling place, but there is a saving in printing and Clerks.—St. Louis Republic. Judge Was Puzzled. When Judge Warren Foster came back to the bench after his vacation he was not aware that Mr. Jerome had added to his staff a deputy assistant by the name of Nott. A case came up before the court in which Mr. Nott represented the district attorney's office. The assistant in the preceding case was Mr. Krotel. When the clerk of the court called the title of the case Judge Foster asked: "Is Mr. Krotel the assistant in this case?" "I think Nott," replied the clerk. "But don't you know whether it is Mr. Krotel or not?" asked the court. "I said I thought Nott" answered the "I said I thought Nott," answered the clerk. "But are you not sure?" "Yes, I am sure it is Nott." The judge looked at the clerk in amazement. "Then, if you are sure it is not—what are you talking about? I trust you are not trying to make sport of the court," and Judge Foster's gavel beat the bench nervously. "I certainly was not, your honor, I thought it was Nott. Now, I am sure it is Nott, for I have just looked at the papers." What might have burst from the court room then can only be conjectured, for at the explosive moment Mr. Nott came forward and explained the situation to the judge—New York Times. ee eRe Ny Cre one Secs Ral op date Oe ere ee All diseases of the rectum trosted on & positive Guarantee, and no money accepted until pasfenedn gured und for free 200 page Gsk'a troation on fect gloeanea, and Wanareds of yestimonial letters, valuable to anyone aficted. Also our 100 page book for women; both sent fee, Address, Drs. THORNTON & MINOR, 999 Oak St, Kansas City, Mo: Twentieth Century Negro Literature ONF. HUNDRED OF AMERICA'S GREATEST NEGROES: and Edited by DR. D. W. CULP. ‘This book contains One Hundred Treatises on Thirty-Eight Generai Toplen invwhich the negra robin te viewed from every pos Hletandpaine No work evuld wore fully represent the higuer strata of ogra” Tei urns shea of fur ealclaion oma 100 PORTRAITS AND 100 BIOGRAPHIES of tho writers Toe the ploturer and read tho tves of the hundred most Prominent nogrocs into haven tatr knowledge of the entire Tace:" Over eo large paws and retails ot 82,00 fn cloth, postpaid. AGENTS. irae Mitiet Sniions ui ake om ‘Write tor eur proponition at once. Tinie fe tho opportanlty of Your ite.” d. Le NICHOLS & CO., Naperville, Tlinols, a RUFUS L. LOGAN, B.8.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. PRESS OF THE MISSOURI STATESMAN Get the Professional World on your list, it is the only western negro journal published weekly at $1.00 per year, The present congress should use every means possible to put an end to fraudulent elections and unjust disfranchise, ‘The provisions in the constitition framed by our fore- fathers are alone sufficient to pre- vent any such, if properly adhered to. oe The fact that Lincoln Institute has nearly 300, simply shows what the school might be if it was so fortunate as to have a Board of Regents, who had the interest of the school , rather than personal in- terest, at heart. The question with most persons acquainted with affairs at Lincoln Institute is how it has existed at all in the last few years. The termagant rowdyism that has lately prevailed among the stu- dents of the State university at Co- lumbia, isnot apt. to inspire the most roseate and inspiriting degree of public confidence in. Missouri? highest institution of learpirig. It is surely not too mucho ask that the deportment of ,Missouri university students shall be at least as good as that ‘of the negre boys who attend Lincoln Institute at Jefferson City. Ac present it is highly improbable that any of the Lincoln Instituze hoys would relish any sort of «comparison of their deportment with that of the stu- dents of the university. What the Columbia pchool_ seems to need er aaah discipline committee that is not afraid of its job.—Cole County Democrat. Baotlet Execulive Board Meeting: The Executive Board of the Mt. Carmel Association of the Baptist churches met at Mount Celestial church near Providence last week with Rev, Dr, Caston, of Fulton, presiding. The meeting was well attended and a successful one. The address of welcome was delivered by Mr. G. W. Davis, of Providence, and was responded to by Rey.Wm. H. Young, of Macon City. Among those from a distance were Moderator Dr. Caston, of Fulton, Rey. G. N. Jackson, of Louisiana, Rev. O. IF. Nelson, of Louisiana, Rev. Wm. H. Young, of Macon, A, Jackson, of Brown’s Station, and Rey. Johnson, of Mexico. On Friday evening Miss Mary Lamme, teacher of the McBainc school entertained the Board with a literary program,which was quite a success. Rey. W. H. Young delivered an interesting address which was appreciated by all pres ent. A Missouri editor who is about to pull up and leave for lack of support, sarcastically remarks in parting that editors don’t need money. ‘Don’t worry about the editor,’ he says. “He has a ep charter from the state to act as door mat for the community. He'll get the paper out somehow, and stand up for yon when you run for office, and lie about your pigeon- toed daughter's tackey wedding, and blow about you big-footed sons when they get « four-dollar-a-week job, and weep over your shriveled sonl when it is released from your grasping body and smile at your giddy wife's second marriage. He'll get along. ‘The Lord only knows how—but the editor will get there somehow.”* How’s This? We offer One Hundred Dollars Re- ward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure, ¥F. J. Crmnny & Co, . ‘Toledo, 0. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last. fifteen years, and believe him perfeetly honorable in all business transac- tions and financially able to carry ont any obligations made by their firm, Wrst & TRUAX, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. WALDING, KINNAN & MARVIN, Wholesale Draggists, Toledo, O. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken ‘in- ternally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. ‘Testimonials sent free. Price Te per bottle. Sold by all druggists. Hall's Family Pills are the best. RURAL ELECTRIC ROADS. Howard B, Shaw, professor of electrical engineering in the Uni- versity of Missouri, believes the time has come for the construction of electric railways in the interior counties of Missouri. He sags: ‘ a 4 “I believe in copify clectrie railroads in Missosefi. Experience has proved tht beyond question such roadsAire of benefit to the towns and country distriets. ‘The towns‘grow in wealth, population ana’ industrial activity, not to |inention other things dependent on these. ‘The effects of the social element on trade, though in evi- dence on every hand, are often overlooked or at best under estimated. The wealth of a coun- ty depends upon the products, whether raw or manufactured, and any purt of industry which pro vides better facilities for trans portation of these produets or of persons, will eventually grow and develop at a startliug rate. Such has been the history of steam roads—such the history of the electric street railways. in cities, which in less than twenty years have practically displaced all other methods of transportation. Such, I predict, will be the story of electric lines in small districts twenty years hence. “Asto afew of the ways fn which a town and county would be benefited, imagine a system of electric lines entering a town and there connecting with a steam road; a message comes that the stock market will be high tomor. row, the mauager notifies local stockmen, stock is loaded on cars | without being driven, henled te |town, the car switched into \eeuiRe stock train und delivered | in good condition in time to eatel |the rise, Similarly with regar¢ to the products of track farming, when twenty-four hours’ delay it | marketing often means heavy loss, | When there is no local electri light plant, electricity could be ‘furnished for light and smal motors, stimulating small indus tries. A road which might not pay asa local street railway would ai an intertown read, thus gaining the advantage of local transporta- tion about town for pleasure and business, “With . special regard to this state, the availability of cheap coal and, water adds materially to the prospects of the paying quali- ties of smaller electric roads. As at present developed the electric railroad has a field peculiarly its own, designated as ‘short haul’ or ‘local traffic.’ So evident are the ‘advantages of this fleld that many steam roads have introduced it on their branch lines. “The electric manufacturing companies have in the past been spending most of their energies in developing apparatus for large city systems, but are now turning their attention to the proper equipping of country lines, During the past year there have been developed three new systems for this purpose. These systems are now being ap- plied. Hither of these systems will make a noticeable decrease in the cost of construction of the elec- trical part of the system and in the operation of the system asa whole.” On the question of good streets the Chillicothe Constitution has this to say: ‘By far the least ex- ios rant in Chillicothe are those fpaved with vitrefied brick. Paved streets take care of them- qelves and require virtually no at- tention from the street commis- sioner. It costs the city and the tax-payers more each year to\ keep up some of the principal dirt streets than it would cost to pave them.’’ Edwin L. Gates, railroad editor of the Kansas City Journal, J. D. Snively and @.W.Ogden, a newspa- per writer, in conjunction with the Railroad Club of Kansas City, have ‘organized the Kansas| City Gateway, a monthly newspaper, indorsed by the Railroad Club, to be published in the interest of the club and the territory tributary to Kansas City. The firet number will appear on December 1, and will contain a review of Kansas City as a transportation center, together with a history of Kansas City railways. The manager of the theatrical company now touring Minnesota with a production of Jesse James, the bandit hero, has been notified by the marshal of Northfield, Minn., that a performance will not be tolerated in that town. ; } Your Ready-made Clothing } and Gents’ Furnishing Goods of ; ; ; ‘ . 1 : J ‘Jno. Vogt: ys E, High St. - Jefferson City | : We also make suits to order. BNR ee wh oe Ol, Rem! The Railroads. ahaa Nata a aaa aha aaa a a ae Time Table—Columbia Branch, Gorna sovrn. No. 335 Arrive GolUMbIRGs sass. 8iR§ fea Ro. 3 Arrive Columb. sr. ita No! 3% Arve Columba 232200000345 Bua No. 30, Leave Columbia sersrsssrss. 10:00 @. NG, $2! Eeave Golumbie,.i0sssc02ssy.cts40 pe NO. $4: Keave Columbia’ 22022/s20.2".4i%s eam M.K. & T. Ry. TT Tae Pe) ee weaMteBaine .....| 6% u 4 Webnee | eas | mak | feb ‘Turner seoetel 6:42 12106 47 ‘ariimeriex: 6:47 | tat isa TM |) PM P.M. aval, aes aSenin| Hu basi Express | Kxpress: a is fetes tee | dat | Se anit ‘MeBaine......) mn:a5 335 6:55 |} ANOTHER EDUCATION! | WALTHERS HAS ALL KINDS OF FURNITURE, | AND DOES FUNERAL DIRECTING. | POSITIVELY RIGHT! | corhitenon retin = emai Lodge and Church Directory. LODGE, SMT. Mrs. Ada Douglass, Wiss Mrs. Lizzie Williams, W. 8. Meeting first Monday in each month at 8 p.m. U. BF, 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. 8. K. P. Acme Lodge, No. 24. Meet- ings second and _ fourth Fridays in each month, W. H. Turner, C. C. and D. D. a C. W. W. Lampkins, M. ©. 8. Amos Chapter, No. 30. Meetings second Friday in each month, Mrs. Beasie Washington, W. M. Mrs. Liz- zie Richardson, W. 8. 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. PAULLODGE, 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. SECOND CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Rev. J. B. Parsons, pastor. Preaching Sundays 11a. m. and 7:30 p. mn. Prayer meeting Wetines- days 7:30 p. m. Everybody cordially invit- ed to attend. A. M. E. CHURCH. Rev. P. C. Crews, Pastor. Preaching Sundays 1) a. m.; 7:30 p. m. Sunday school 2:30 p. m. Prayer meeting every Wednesday eve, at 8:30; ev- ery body invited to attend. M. E, CHURCH Rev. J. Arlington Grant, pastor, Preaching Sundays 11, a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Sunday school, 9:307a. m. Prayer meeting Wednes days 7:30 to 8:30; all are made welcome. | SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH. Rev. A, A. Adams, Pastor. Preaching Sundays 11 a. m., and 7:30 p. m. Sunday school at 2:30 p. m. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening, 7:80. A cordial invitation ex tended to all. Nine Jurors Sufficient, The Supreme Court has declared ‘the three-fourths jury rule to be constitutional. The case at point ‘came from Buchanan County where Thomas Crawford was injured while waiting for the Rock Island. He brought suit to recover, but died before his case was decided, ‘The cause was revived by the ad. ministrator and verdict of $2,000 obtained. The lower court held that the three-fourths jury rule was uncon stitutional, The Supreme Court reversed the Circuit Court, hold- ing the law constitutional, but granted the rail-way company @ new trial. Read the Professional World, It is $1.00 per year. Fle og, WU an cence Yt Slo ERS MPD ee Oa See ee é c The Columbia Gro- cery Co., ! Keeps constantly on hand afresh supply of staple and FANCY GROCERIES. | { =——EESESaSSoO™l™E=aOeeeeeeeeeee ( YOUR PRODUCE WANTED. ‘| RIPANS I had suffered for over a year with a soremouth and tongue. The doctor said it came from the stom- ach, I was advised to try Ripans Tabules and have found them the best thing I have yet taken. I would advise everybody that has any stomach trouble to try Ripans Tabules. ‘AT DRUGGISTS. The five-cent package is enough for an ordinary occasion, The family bottle, sixty cents, contains a supply for a year. | Read The Professional World | AFEAT Newsy | | [WEwsPAPER WEATHER AND CROPS. U.S. Department of Agriculture, climate and’ crop bulletin of the weather bureau, Missouri section, for the month of November, 1902, The month of November, 1902, averaged decidedly warmer than usual throughout the state, and in most sections there were almost more than the average amount of precipitation, very few stations re- porting a total of leas than 2 inches, while portions of the southern sec- tions received from 4 to over 6 inches, ‘The warm, showery weather caus- od wheat to make a vigorous growth, but in some counties there is the complaint thatithe plants wre’ being Injured by rust) Much of the earl; sown, particularly In the central ‘and southern sections, has also been dam- aged by fly, and in portions of Jasper county some fields have been partly destroyed by a green louse. The bulk of the crop, however, was sown late and is generally reported in exe cellent condition, In some counties wheat is becoming too rank and i# being pastured. Fall pastures are reported short in a few localities, but as srule they have continued in excellent condi- tion, and there is an abundance of stock water in nearly all sections. . A.B, Haokern, + Beotion Director. Bunce Quarles, of Boonville, SiANTreoutiy, ded ‘ast Fedag. shall recently, 5 Bane park from shoulders 2,