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THE PROFESSIONAL WORLD. $1.00 Per Year in Advance. Minister to Liberia Shoots an Engineer at Monrovia. New York, December 7.—A copy of the Living Church Chronicle, published at Cape Palmas, West Coast of Africa, dated October 16, 1902, which has just been received in this city, brings the startling information that the United States Minister to Liberia, Dr. J. A. Crossland, shot, at Monrovia, on October 6, an electrical engineer named Faulkner, formerly of Brooklyn. According to meager details given in the Chronicle, which is a religious publication edited by S. D. Ferguson, Jr., a son of the missionary bishop of the Episcopal church in West Africa, Minister Crossland resided with Faulkner and his wife, and the relations were apparently amicable, the three having attended church together the Sunday previous to the shooting. On Monday, October 6, an altercation took place between Faulkner and the minister, resulting in the shooting, which it was feared would result fatally. It was intimated that a plea of self-defense would be put in in behalf of the minister. Dr. Crossland was appointed minister resident and consul general to the republic of Liberia in December, 1902, by President Roosevelt. He hails from Missouri and was active in politics, having won considerable distinction as an orator as well as being a physician in active practice. He is still a young man, and his appointment was attributed in large measure to the influence of Secretary Hitchcock. Thomas J. R. Faulkner, it is supposed, is the Faulkner who was shot. He was a former resident of Brooklyn and an electrical engineer by trade. He had great faith in the future development of the resources of Liberia, and had made several trips to the west coast to introduce a telegraph and telephone system. On his last visit to the United States, about a year ago, Faulkner was married, and on his return to the west coast he took his wife with him. He is a brother to Dr. Faulkner, recently of Chicago, whose wife was formerly Miss Georgia M. Debaptiste, who for several years taught in Lincoln Institute and Western College. INQUIRY ON FOOT. Dr. Crossland Has Other Trouble in Liberia. Washington, December 7. The state department has action on foot for an investigation of the shooting of Faulkner by Minister Crossland, but it will be some time before full reports can be received. The affair occurred several months ago. From what can be learned from state department officials the shooting was the outcome of a state of bad feeling that exists between Dr. Crossland and Americans residing at Monrovia, the Liberian capital. Details, however, could not be obtained tonight. One official said that the affair was so complicated by charges and counter charges in which Dr. Crossland was the principal figure, that it would be impossible to attempt to explain just how the shooting came about. It was the understanding of this official that Faulkner, like Crossland, is an American negro Dr. Crossland has been minister to Liberia for less than a year. His appointment bears date of January 16, 1902. He is a Missouri negro, and was strongly indorsed for the post by Republicans of that state. The statement that he is a protege of Hon. Allen Hitchcock, secretary of the interior, is 50 YEARS' EXPERIENCE PATENTS TRADE MARKS DESIGNS COPYRIGHTS & C. Anyone sending a sketch and description may quickly ascertain our opinion free whether an invention is patentable. Patentable Communications strictly confidential. Handbook on Patents sent free. Oldest agency for securing patents. Patents taken by Group A & Co. receive special notice, without charge, in the Scientific American. A handsomely illustrated weekly. Largest circulation of any scientific journal. Terms, $3 a year; four months, $1. Sold by all newdealer. MUNN & Co. $31 Broadway, New York Branch Office, & F St. Washington, D.C. denied. In his brief diplomatic career, Dr. Crossand has become engaged in personal difficulties with James Robert Spurgeon, of Kentucky, who has been secretary of the United States legation at Monrovia since March, 1898. Charges against the minister have been filed with the state department by Secretary Spurgeon, and to these Dr. Crossland has responded with charges against his secretary of legation. The conditions prevailing among the American negro colony in Liberia, including the members of the legation at Monrovia. D. Crossland is well known in Missouri, was an active political worker, was at the time of his appointment by President Roosevelt, a member at large of the Republican State Committee and President of the Negro Republican State League, his appointment was the recognition of the kind ever given the negroes of Missouri by the National Administration. The result of the inquiry will be awaited with much interest by Missourians. Lincoln Institute Notes. The Sunday afternoon religious service regularly held at Lincoln Institute was of unusual interest December 7th, as President Allen invited such old soldiers of the 62nd regiment,—who had helped to found the institution—as could be brought together on short notice, to conduct the meeting. The stories recounted by these old gentlemen relative to their enlistment, war service, bullet wounds, honorable discharge, etc., held the audience spell-bound and alternately provoked mirth and tears. One of the soldiers showed a certificate of his personal contribution to the fund to found Lincoln Institute; and all spoke with pride as they compared the humble beginning, with the present beautiful grounds, commodious buildings, and exceptional educational facilities that have crowned their original efforts. Truly, they "Builted better than they knew"; and fond memories of the brave thoughtful "boys" of the 62nd should forever be enshrined, not only in the hearts of Missouri boys and girls, but in the hearts of all who reap the benefits of their labors. President Allen with his usual tact and forethought has issued a call for pictures of as many of these soldiers as can be found, in order that, having been arranged in proper form, they may be placed on the walls of Lincoln Institute. He also suggests, that, in the near future, a tablet, containing the names of as many as possible, be dedicated to their memory, and that a museum be started, in which, among other things of interest, relics bearing upon the history of the institution shall be preserved. One of the soldiers present exhibited a good sized piece of the bell that for years hung in the tower of the main building, and that was destroyed with it in the fire of 1893; but formerly, morning, noon and night called to duty the students on the campus and in the city; and whose tones eagerly watched for, not only by the students, but by citizens, white' and black; and many an Alumnus who, perchance, may read these lines will recall memories and scenes of youth, as he thinks of "The old Lincoln bell. But presto! change, the bell, and the romance that clusters around it, are things of the past, and the Lincoln student of today prosaically keeps step to electric bells and a steam whistle. Some Local Paragraphs. Pay your subscription to the Professional World. Mr. and Mrs. Gus Washington and Mr Alex Hicks spent a few days in Chicago last week. Mrs. Peggie Buckner is on the sick list. Miss Annie Delly returned Saturday from Chicago. Miss Smith has returned after spending a few days in Miami. Mrs. Wm. Douglass is reported quite ill. Subscribe to the Professional World now and get the Christmas number, only $1 per year. Mrs. Mary Miller and Master James Estes were in St. Louis last week. Mr. Webster Pazar returned Sunday from St. Louis. Order a Christmas number of the Professional World, 5 cents each. COLUMBIA, MISSOURI, FRIDAY DEC. 12, 1902. Lartonoix & Wallendorf, No. 222 East High St. - Jefferson City, Mo. Huntsville News. Rev. G C. Chinn spent Sunday in Salisbury. The ordinances of Baptism were administered to several candidates at the A. M. E. church last Sunday morning by Rev. D. A. Brown. Miss Annie Henderson has returned from Kewanee, Ill. Mr. Louis Rout is on the sick list. Mr. Isaac Robinson, butchered three large hogs Tuesday. The pupils of Lincoln School will give a concert, Tuesday Dec. 23rd, for the benefit of the school. The B. Y. P. U. will give an Oyster Supper Saturday evening. Subscribe to the Professional World, only $1.00 per year. News From the Capital. The finest line of Christmas goods in Jefferson City, at T. G. Burkhardts Jewelry store. Mrs. Thomas Harrold is convalescent. The baptizing at the Second Baptist church last Sunday was largely attended. The ladies of the Missionary Circle are preparing for a Bazar and concert. Mr. James Gibbs, a stone mason and brick layer, is working on the Mayberry & McMahan buildings. The colored people of Jefferson City are not as extensively engaged in business enterprise as we would like to see. The colored physician, the dentist, and the lawyer, seem to think that Jefferson City is no place to practice their profession. The colored people spend a great deal of money here, but little of it returns to the race. Not a colored blacksmith is to be found in the City. Two barber shops, a restaurant, two baggage wagons, three job wagons, one grocery store and wood yard, represents the business enterprise among our people. Three carpenters, two stone masons, four plasterers, one flue builder are about all the trades represented. There are other men in this City who do carpentering, brick and stone laying, but do not claim to be skilled in this work. Jefferson City contains a good size colored population and we ought to be able to support a doctor, a blacksmith and more than one store. We need a joint stock company, which could control sufficient capital to build an assortment store which would be a credit to the people of this city. The majority of the colored people of this city own their homes, and since they have done so well in securing their homes we believe that they would do equally as well in building up any creditable enterprise, in a business way. Died. Viley.—At the residence of his father, Alexander Viley, in Huntsville, Friday, Dec. 5th, 1902, Frederick Viley aged 23 years, of consumption. Besides a father, he leaves 3 brothers and 3 sisters as fol- Claud L. Clark's Book Store Everything in Book line, Holiday Gifts of all descriptions. We purchased a line of drummer's samples which we are closing out at wholesale prices. See our Brush and Comb Sets, Toilet Articles, Picture Frames, Books, Etc., Etc. 118 E. High St. - Jefferson City, Missouri. lows: Mesdames Joseph Holmes, G. W. Smith, S. E. Robinson, Messrs. James, Walter and Edward Viley, all of Huntsville. The funeral services were held at the Second Baptist church, of which he was a member, conducted by Rev. G. C. Chinn. WANTED—A reliable woman for general housework, F. A. Henninger. Letters to Santa Claus. The following letters have been received in The Professional World's Santa Claus postoffice, and are published without corrections. Others will appear next week. Calwood Mo Dec 9 1902. I am a little 6 years old dear old Santa Claus please bring me a doll, some cady and a pink dress that is all good bye yours truly Amanda V. Wilkerson. Calwood Mo. Dec 9th 1902 I am a little boy I am 9 years old I live with my Aunty, I try to be good to her I cut wood and help brother milk, and sweet old Santa Claus please bring me, a gun some candy and nuts and a coat, so good bye Columbia Mo. Dec 10th 1902 Dear old Santa Claus, I thought I would write you a letter and let you know what I want. I want I swetter, a pair of skates some candy, oranges and banannas. My name is Beverly Schweish. My taecher is Miss Maud Richardson I will close from Beverly Schweish. Huntsville Mo. Dec 7th 1902 Dear Old Santa Claus; This is what I want for Christmas a big doll some candy and some oranges Madrew Robinson To Old Santa Claus. Huntsville Mo Dec 10th 1902. Dear Santa Claus. I thought I would write you a few lines to let you know what I want for Christmas. If you will bring me a book-strap to carry my books with I will be satisfied. From Cordell Tharps. Huntsville Mo. Dec. 1902. Dear Old Santaa Claus: I thought I would write and tell you what I want for Christmas I want a doll and some candy that is all I want. Santa Claus is very kind and he is a very good man he brings things to us every Christmas. I will thank him if he brings me what I want for Christmas From Mary Lee Watts to kind Santa Claus My Dear Santa Claus I thought I would write you a few lines to let you know what I want for Christmas I want you to bring me a othomobeal and a doll and some nigger toes. Please Dont forget Mama and Papa and My dear teacher, bring Mama a black doll. I will close. From Alberter Routt To Dear Santa Claus. Christmas Goods. This Space Reserved for Manchester News and Stationery Co., Jefferson City, Missouri. 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. Buy your Christmas Present at a Jewelry Store. We have Fine Goods and Prices are Lower than Elsewhere. GOODS. TCHES RINGS ARTICLES We want your trade and will treat you right. RUFUS L. LOGAN, B. S. D., Editor. COLUMBIA. : : : MISSOURL THE NEWS CONDENSED THE NEWS CONDENSED Matters of Interest Covering Various Parts of the World and Put in Concise Form. Andrew Carnegie, who has been lying ill at London for the past fortnight, was able to get up Sunday for the first time. The Most Rev. John MacVilly, Roman Catholic archbishop at Tuam and primate of Connaught since 1881, died Wednesday, aged 85. John Dillon, the Irish leader in parliament, is reported as in a much improved condition. His physician believes he is out of danger. Owing to the adverse result of the general elections, at which several ministers failed to be re-elected, the entire Grecian cabinet has resigned. The suitant of Morocco's forces have been attacked by Seemmour tribesmen not far from Tangier. The suitant dispersed the rebels, but his advance on Rabat has been checked. The Yorkshire (Eng.) Wool Combers' association, organized in 1899 with a capital of $9,757,000, has sent a circular to its shareholders announcing the appointment of a receiver. Mrs. Lizzie Wilson was shot and killed and Ruth Stein fatally wounded during a quarrel in a Colwell street resort at Pittsburg Monday morning by an unknown man who escaped. The Canadian steamer Bannockburn is missing. She left Port Arthur, Ont., last Friday morning and should have arrived at Sault Ste Marie Saturday, but nothing has been heard of her. While the battleship Texas was at target practice Friday at Virginia Cape two of her large turret guns exploded. No one was killed and no serious damage was done to the ship. Charles W. Allardt, James F. Donoghue and Edward Farum of Chicago were Saturday convicted of counterfeiting railroad tickets. They will receive an indeterminate sentence to the penitentiary. Sven Anders Hedin, the Swedish traveler, has been invited by several American universities to lecture before them on his explorations. He hopes to be able to accept invitations early in 1903. Wm. Hudnell of Moberly, Me. a stationary engineer, was killed and eight laborers seriously injured by the wrecking of the Vabash work train near Concuil Bluffs Monday. The train rain into a cow. William H. Murray, alias Howard, was arrested at Dunlap, Tenn. Saturday by Illinois officers on a warrant charging hi mw with the murder of a man named Woodrome at Williamsburg, Ill., committed 28 years ago. Madame Duse, the Italian actress, was received by the president and Mrs. and Miss Roosevelt Wednesday at the white house. The call lasted about half an hour, the time being occupied in a chat on various matters of personal interest. Springfield will not attempt to gain admission to the Three-I Baseball league. This decision was reached by the committee Saturday. It was decided it was too late to secure a satisfactory nine, even if admission could be gained. The dead bodies of Joe Branch, two women and a child, all negroes, were found Monday afternoon in a cabin in a lonely part on the outskirts of Turker. The heads had all been split with an axe. There is no clue to the murderers. The Colombian legation at Washington received a despatch Saturday announcing the surrender of General Vergas-Santos and Soto, two former revolutionary leaders. The dispatch adds this completes the pacification of the entire country. The Honorable Theodore Lewald, Germany's imperial world's fair commissioner, Friday assisted in the staking of the site assigned for the national pavilion of Germany at St. Louis. The site embraces a hilltop overlooking the entire exposition. Two engines crashed into a street car at the crossing of the Belt railroad in Indianapolis Wednesday morning, killing Street Car Conductor Barney Sweeney and seriously injuring Frank Plits, motorman. John Heckman, brakeman, and Miss Bertha Young. The Roman author, Antonio Valerio, whose death is announced, was better known under the pseudonyn Valletta. He was a literary antiquarian, who brought to light many new and curious facts regarding Casanova, Imperia, Goethe's Milenese beauty, and the Faustina of the "Roman Elegies." William H. Theobald, a special employee of the treasury department in connection with the New York custom house, has been discharged by direction of the secretary of the treasury. It is charged Theobald has been overzealous in the discharge of his duty, and has brought the department into disrepute by ill-advised action in connection with the seizures of imported goods. The following is the result of the fictional canvass of the recent election in Illinois: State treasurer, Buse, Republican, 450,695; Duddleston, Democratic, 450,695; superintendent of public instruction, Baylis, Republican, 442,505; Bliss, Democrat, 359,497; clerk of supreme court, Manner, Republican, 417,807; Pickering, Democrat, 278,497. Practically the entire business portion of the village of Normal, Ont. was wiped out by fire Friday. The loss is estimated at $500,000. The principal sufferers are number companies and sawmills. Twenty-five million feet of sawed木 and logs were destroyed. The fire was checked after 15 residences had been destroyed. At Providence, R. L. Henry Crochford, an niterant negro bojo player, says he lives in Washington, D. C. Saturday shot and instantly killed womale Nabel Nixon, both colored, and then fired a shot and killed himself Crochford was and 25. Miss Lewis 17 and Miss Nixon 21. Jealousy was the motive. BOY ROASTED TO DEATH BOY ROASTED TO DEATH AWFUL DEATH OF 16-YEAR-OLD LAD AT BIRD ISLAND, MINN. Was Slowly Burned to Death in Burning Building—Attempts Made to Rescue Him, But Flames Drove Rescuers Back—Dynamite Explosion Kills Four Men and Injures Four Others—Casualty Record. Bird Island, Minn., Dec 10.—Fire today caused the loss of one life and destroyed over $50,000 worth of property, George Fewer, a boy aged 16, was carrying goods out of the burning store when a kerosene tank exploded. The explosion lifted the building and Fewer's foot was caught under the sill of the front doorway. Frantic attempts were made to pull him out by his father and others. They tried to pry up the sill and the boy begged them to chop his foot off, but the flames pouring out of the door drove them back and the boy slowly roasted to death. Eight buildings were destroyed. A Frightful Explosion Wilkesbarre, Pa., Dec. 10.—Four men were killed and ten injured by an explosion of a box of dynamite in a mine of the Lehigh & Wilkesbarre Coal company at South Wilkesbarre today. The dead are: ROBERT BUMBLEBEE ARTHUR JONES. MATTHEW PHILLIPS. JAMES M'GLYNN. Phillips, in lifting a box of dynamite weighing 50 pounds from the cage, left it slip from his hand to the ground. The concussion exploded the dynamite, and 20 men in the immediate vicinity were hurled in all directions. The mine has the reputation of being the most gaseous in the entire region. It was first reported gas had exploded and a score of miners were killed outright. Fortunately gas did not explode. Whole Family Killed. Findlay, O, Dec 10—Mrs. J. C. Nealy, her two daughters, 11 and 9, and son, 7 years of age, were run down and killed by an eastbound Baltimore & Ohio passenger train one mile west of North Baltimore this afternoon. The body of one girl was not found until the train pulled into North Baltimore, when it was discovered on top of the first coach. Business Portion Destroyed Ingram, Wis., Dec. 10.—Fire today destroyed the business portion of this place. Loss, $50,000. The Ostrander Lumber company's general store and six other buildings, including the post-office, were burned. Fire Still Burning. Marquette, Mich., Dec. 9.—The fire in the mine at Isphreming is still burning, though it is believed not as fierce as yesterday. It is impossible to determine the result. The loss will be heavy, and about 200 men are rendered idle. Great Fire in Georgia. Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 9. —Fire this morning destroyed the Snook & Austin company's furniture store, Norcoss' office building, the Jacobs company drug house, C. M. Rose company's liquor store and the Williams hotel. There was no loss of life as far as known. The damage is estimated at $500,000. Big Fire Loss New Westminster, B. C., Dec 10—The loss by fire here today was $190,000. The property burned included one furniture and two hardware stores and a hotel. LOTTERY TICKETS BY EXPRESS Case of Francis vs. United States Before Supreme Court Bears on Question of Trusts. Washington, D. C., Dec. 9.—Bearing on the question of trusts and involving the right of congress to regulate commerce between the states, the lottery case, which came up for reargument today before the United States supreme court, is of special interest. The case is that of Francis vs the United States. Francis was convicted in Cincinnati of carrying lottery tickets across the Ohio line into Kentucky. The question is whether congress can regulate interstate commerce to the extent of preventing lottery gambling by the aid of express companies. Coupled with this case is one from Chicago—Charles F. Champion vs. John C. Ames, United States marshal—which involves the constitutionality of the lottery act of 1895. Eminent lawyers and jurists regard the two cases as having decisive bearing on the future policy of courts and of congress. BADGER SOCIETY IN GOTHAM Officers Elected at Annual Meeting of the Wisconsin Society in the City of New York. New York, Dec. 9.—The first annual meeting ff the Wisconsin society of New York was held tonight at the Hotel Manhattan, Officers elected are: President, Justice James A. Blanchard, supreme court; honorary president, Frederick D. Underwood, Erie railway; vice presidents, H. L. Horton, Ellijah R. Neddy, Gilbert E. Roe, Oscar E. Binnsersey; secretary, Philip L. Allen; recording secretary, Chas. W. Ficke; treasurer, Chas. A. Jenny; trustee, George B. Hopkins; Henry S. Schwind, A. Cressy Morrison. THEY DEMAND SLIDING SCALE Shipping Clerks in Large Chicago Retail Stores Go On Strike For Advance in Wages. Chicago, Dec. 8.—With the Christmas season at hand five large retail stores in this city confraterd by a strike of employees in their shipping departments. About 200 men struck tonight and others may go out tomorrow, but the chances are the strike will be settled. Employees are now earning $5 to $12 a week. They demand a sliding scale of $15 to $20 a week. RECORD OF MANY GATHERINGS Big Meeting of Lumbermen at St Louis—Poultry Shows at Hartford, Conn., and Fayette, Mo. Washington, Dec. 8.—The senate today adopted all committee amendments to the immigration bill, with the exception of one prescribing an educational test, and also the action of the committee striking out section 3, prohibiting the sale of intoxicants within the capitol building, and then laid aside the bill until tomorrow to pass a number of unobjectionable pension bills. An amendment giving a $3 head tax on each immigrant into the United States, enshrined the principle for debate. Gallings insisted there was less necessity for it now than there was a year ago, but it was adopted without division. A new amendment was added designed to stop alleged perjury on the part of physicians seeking admission to the United States, and the committee amendment making the beef tax a lien on property of transportation lines bringing immigrants to the United States was stricken out. An amendment also was agreed to exempting from tax aliens in transit through the United States and aliens once admitted and who have nailed tax. The house today paid a remarkable tribute to the memory of ex-Speaker Thos. B. Reed. His death has created a profound impression, and there was universal desire among the members that the house show a signal mark of respect to his memory. After the chapain in his opening prayer had referred feelingly to the death of the ex-speaker, Sherman of New York, amid profound silence, arose and in a few feeling remarks offered a resolution paying a high tribute to Reed as a distinguished statesman, lofty patriot, cultured scholar, incissive writer, unequalled orator, unmatched debater, master of logic wilt and satire, and the most famous of the world's parliamentarians and a great and representative American citizen. The resolution was unanimously adopted. The house at 12:05 adjourned. AN IMPORTANT GATHERING. Publicists, Financiers, Educators and Leading Industrial and Labor Men Gather in New York. New Orleans, La., Dec. 9.—Scores of prominent manufacturers and executive officers of railroads and leading industrial concerns, and eminent publicists, educators, financiers and chiefs of great labor organizations were assembled in the rooms of the board of trade today at the formal opening of the annual meeting of the industrial department of the National Civic federation. Many more men of prominence are expected to be in attendance before tomorrow, when the most important discussions of the meeting will be taken up. The present meeting is expected to be the most important conference of its kind ever held in this country. Problems brought to the front by the recent great strike in the anthracite coal region will be considered at length. The conference intends to touch upon all the practical questions underlying industrial disturbances, such as the shorter hour work day, restriction of output, joint trade agreements, piece and premium methods of payment, incorporation of unions, etc. Alfred Mosley spoke of the president's bringing a delegation of British workmen to America and what they had come to study. Archibishop Ireland made a brief address reviewing the work of the Federation during the past year and expressed confidence in a bright future for both capital and labor. Mr. Carpenter, Dayton, O., spoke on "Labor bureaus in large industrial centers." G. C. Sykes of Chicago, former secretary of the street railway company, objected to arbitration. Charles Francis Adams discussed governmental control and relations of capital and labor. He had little hope that labor contests would reach a satisfactory conclusion during this generation, or even the next. Other speakers were heard and the meeting adjourned until tomorrow. Alabama Miners Meet Besseman, Ala., Dec. 8.—The Alabama district convention of the United Mine Workers of America began here today with delegates present from the various local unions throughout the state. The session is to continue a week or possibly longer. There will be the usual amount of discussion concerning wages and conditions of labor, and a large amount of routine business transacted. In the annual election of officers President Ed Flynn has the opposition of several rival candidates. J. L. Clemo, the present secretary-treasurer, will be re-elected without opposition. PUBLIC HEALTH CONVENTION. Medical Men and Public Health Officials Meet in New Orleans in Annual Convention. New Orleans, La., Dec. 8.—Scores of eminent medical men and public health officials from many parts of the United States, Canada and Mexico are gathered in New Orleans for the 30th annual convention of the American Public Health association. The gathering was formally opened today and will remain in session the entire week. Dr. Henry D. Holton of Vermont is the presiding officer and Dr. Charles Probst of Columbus, O., the secretary of the convention. An Insurance Decision Washington Dec. 9.—The United States supreme court today rendered an opinion in the case of the Iowa Life Insurance company vs. Lula T. Lewis, involving the question as to whether collection can be made upon a policy upon which the premium had not been paid. In this case the policy was issued by the Iowa company upon the life of Thomas M. Lewis, a resident of Fort Worth, Tex., who gave a note for payment of the first premium. This note was never paid or renewed when Lewis died. The case was decided in favor of the widow by the circuit court of the Northern district of Texas, but that decision was reversed by today's opinion. Jas. H. Reed, one of the best known mining captains in the Lake Superior district, is dead at Ispheming, Mich. DOINGS OF CONGRESS. DOINGS OF CONGRESS. In the House. The house on Wednesday went into committee of the whole, with Grosvenor in the chair, and took up consideration of the bill to defray the expenses of the coal strike commission. Gaines of Texas offered an amendment placing anthracite coal on the free list, Benton of Missouri, a member of the appropriations committee, declared he could not support the bill, claiming the president had no legal authority to create the commission. Many members warmly defended the course of the president. Lacey of Iowa, characterizing it as one of the "boldest" acts in the history of the executive. The bill passed without division and the house adjourned until Friday. The house devoted Friday to consideration of bills on the private calendar. A noteworthy incident was the introduction of a bill by Representative Jenkins by request, making newspapers or other periodicals unmailable which contain any pictures of suicides beyond the simple statement of death by suicide. The senate was not in session Friday, having adjourned until Monday. --- Great sadness prevailed when the House convened Monday, Dec. 8, the death of ex-Speaker Thos. B. Reed having created profound impression and there was a universal feeling among the members that the House should show a signal mark of respect to his memory. After the chaplain in opening prayer had referred feelingly to the death of the ex-speaker, Sherman of New York, amid profound silence, arose and in a few feeling remarks offered a resolution paying a high tribute to Reed as a distinguished statesman, lofty patriot, cultured scholar, incissive writer, unequaled orator, unmatched debator, master of logic wit, satire and the most famous of the world's parliamentarians and a great and representative American citizen. As a mark of honor to the distinguished dead, the house adjourned. No business was transacted. The house on Tuesday began the consideration of the London dockage bill which provides there shall be nothing in the contract between the shippers and the ship companies whereby the latter can make a charge of a dock tax at the port of London. Tawney of Minnesota in supporting the bill read a favorable petition from the large packing houses. Mann of Illinois said he had telegrams from all those houses withdrawing their support. The house adopted a concurrent resolution provid for a Christmas recess from Dec. 20 to January 5. In the Senate. Senator Lodge introduced a bill into the senate Wednesday to regulate the currency in the Phillipines, establishing it on a gold basis. Nelson of Minnesota reported a substitute for the house bill providing for the admission of certain territories into the Union as states, recommending the admission of Oklahoma and Indian territories as one state under the name of Oklahoma. The senate was in session one hour and five minutes Thursday, most of this time behind closed doors. Aftertions, the adoption of a concurrent resolution calling for papers on the Plus Fund case, recently arbitrated before The Hague tribunal, Beveridge had read resolutions accepted byb delegates to a non-partisan convention favoring the admission of Oklahoma and Indian Territory as one state and opposing the house omnibus statehood bill. Senator Hoar presented to the senate an amendment to the emigration bill providing that the wives and children of aliens who have declared their intention of becoming citizens shall be admitted without tax or fee. In case of contagious diseases among them they are to be held, and in case the disorder should prove permanent they are to be deported. The senate went into executive session and adjourned until Monday. The senate adopted all committee amendments to the immigration bill, with the exception of one prescribing an educational test, and also the action of the committee striking out section 3, prohibiting the sale of intoxicants within the capitol building, and then laid aside the bill until tomorrow to pass a number of unobjectionable pension bills. An amendment fixing a $3 head tax on each immigrant coming into the United States furnished the principal topic for debate. A new amendment was added designed to stop alleged perjury on the part of physicians seeking admission to the United States, and the committee amendment making the beef tax a lien on property of transportation lines bringing immigrants to the United States was stricken out. An amendment also was agreed to exempting from tax aliens in transit through the United States and aliens once admitted and who have paid tax. The senate yesterday took up the Dick militia bill to amend the militia laws of the United States. Cockrell offered an amendment for the mustering in and examination of the militiamen before they could be considered to be in the service of* the United States. This was agreed to and the bill was sent to the calendar to be called up Thursday. The immigration bill was then taken up. REQUISITION FOR A. A. AMES. Governor of Kentucky Honored Requisition for Former Mayor of Minneapolis, But He Is Gone Louisville, Dec. 8.—A Minneapolis detective arrived tonight from Frankfort, where Governor Beckman honored a requisition from Minnesota for the arrest of A. A. Ames, former mayor of Minneapolis. Ames and wife left here Sunday for the South. Their destination is unknown. Ames was indicted in connection with municipal scandals in Minneapolis. At a meeting of the Red Cross Tuesday in Washington Miss Clara Barton was elected president for life and Mrs. John A. Logan vice president. Other officers: Ex-Secretary of State Richard Oney, counsellor; William J. Flather, treasurer, and Samuel W. Griggs, secretary. GOVERNMENT FULLY ADVISED British-German Program Touching Venezuela Was Well Known by State Department. Washington, Dec. 10—It was perhaps for the reason that the state department had already been fully advised as to the program to be adopted by the British and German governments touching Venezuela that the incidents of yesterday at Caracas caused so little stir in official circles, and it was stated that the subject was not even mentioned at the cabinet meeting today. The attitude of our government just now is one of waiting. An official not long returned from Venezuela states that to the best of his judgment the sum of $5,000,000 will probably cover the claims upon which the ultimatum issued yesterday was based. The principal claim is that of the German railroad built at a cost of $10,000,000, upon which Venezuela guaranteed 7 per cent interest, the figure being reduced in 1895 to 5 per cent, and in which case she has defaulted for several years. The English claim also covers a number of items growing out of the government's appropriation of British railroads. Also outstanding is a large foreign indebtedness, but whether the claims of these bondholders are included in the present demand is not known here. Venezuela, by decree, set the maximum percentage of custom house receipts on these bonds, but it is said that there is also a heavy arrearage on this account. Reorganization of Consular Service. Reorganization of Consular Service. Washington, D. C., Dec. 10. The National committee of chembers of commerce met here today to urge congress to reorganize the United States consular service. The members of the committee called on a number of leaders of the house and received assurance that a consular reorganization bill would be introduced for consideration at an early date. DANGEROUS STATE OF AFFAIRS Strike of Druggists' Assistants in Gallicia Puts Vendors of Medicines in Curious Predicament. Vienna, Dec. 10.—Druggists in the province of Gallicia are at present in a curious predicament as the result of the strike on the part of their assistants. The strike movement, which started in Lemberg, spread rapidly to the principal towns and villages of the province and the druggists were forced to install members of their families and to employ other unqualified persons to dispense drugs to an extent which is alarming. Among the amateur dispensers in Gallicia who now have free access to dangerous poisons are a bank cashier, a book binder, college professor, law students and government clerks. DISTRESS IN COPENHAGEN. Commercial Depression Intensified by Unusually Severe Weather Causing Much Suffering. Copenhagen, Denmark, Dec. 10.—The widespread suffering here resulting from industrial stagnation and commercial depression has been intensified by the unpredictable severity of the winter, which set in a month earlier than usual. Building operations had largely be abandoned, thus increasing the number of persons unemployed to an extent surpassing most of the records and seriously taxing the resources of the charity organizations. HIS SENTENCE IS COMMUTED President Roosevelt Commutes Sentence of Gideon W. Marsh, Who Violated Banking Laws. Washington, Dec. 19.—The president has commuted to a term of imprisonment to expire Dec. 24 next the sentence of Gideon W. Marsh, who was convicted in Philadelphia of violation of the national banking laws, and on Dec. 13, 1898, received three sentences aggregating 12 years and three months imprisonment in the penitentiary. Marsh pleaded guilty to three indictments consolidated into one, expecting to receive only one sentence. CORNELL TRACK TEAM IN WEST Will Meet Michigan at Ann Arbor and Wisconsin at Madison During Easter Recess. Ithaca, N. Y., Dec. 10.—Plans for the Western trip of the Cornell track team, which will be taken during the Easter recess, have been completed. March 28 Cornell will meet Michigan at Ann Arbor and on March 31 Wisconsin at Madison. It is probable also that Cornell will meet Chicago, although a date has not been agreed upon. ARREST BAND OF ANARCHISTS. Thirteen Italian "Reds" Rounded Up at Spezzia After a Desperate Struggle With Police. Rome, Dec. 10.—Thirteen anarchists were arrested near Spezia last night after a desperate struggle. The police surprised them at a meeting while in the act of taking the oath with poignards to assassinate King Victor Emmanuel. One anarchist and one policeman were severely wounded. Countess Castellane Coming Paris, Dec. 9.—Countess Boni de Castellane will sail for New York Dec. 14, accompanied by her children. Count Boni will remain in France to conduct the campaign for his re-election to the chamber of deputies, which was recently invalidated. After the election the count will join the countess in New York. They will return here in the spring. Receiver Appointed. Omaha, Dec. 8.—A temporary receiver has been appointed for the W. E. Bennet company, which operates one of the largest department stores in Omaha. Liabilities are $572,000; assets $605,000. The object of application for a receiver is said to be to enable the firm to settle with creditors. THE POPE'S WARDROBE. Most Costly in the Civilized World— Finest Wool Used. The pope has the largest and most costly wardrobe in the whole civilized world. Three large rooms in the vatican barely serve to contain it and a special body of servants is told off to keep it in order. Each day in the year has its appropriate garment, which varies in color, weight and value, according to the season. The slippers alone are innumerable, all being made of velvet and embroidered, the design on the right slipper always being different from that on the left. The right, which is the one presented for the kisses of the faithful, bears a cross in gold thread, the left bears the ordinary papal design of tiara and keys. The gloves are, if anything, more numerous than the slippers. They are made of the finest wool, embroidered with pearls. The wool for the gloves and for all the garments of the holy father into which wool enters is the product of a special flock of sheep dedicated for the purpose by a family which has had the special privilege of supplying the popes with wool since the 16th century. The pallium, which is the symbol of sacdoridal authority, is usually woven of this wool by nuns, the lambs which supply the wool having been especially blessed by the pope himself on the 21st of January every year. Many of the most magnificent papal vestments, thick with gold embroidery and jewels, have not been worn for a long time, since the loss of temporal power put an end to the great public ceremonies, but they nevertheless remain in the "guarda roba," jealousy watched by the guardians, who yet hope to see the order of papal sovereignty restored.—Philadelphia Press. A bust of the late Chief Justice Jeremiah Sullivan Black, of Pennsylvania, has been added to the collection in the Law building of the University of Pennsylvania. It is the work of Mary Kimmel Plough, and was presented to the collection of Justice Black's daughter, Dr. Mary Black Clayton. THE HANSONS ARE HAPPY Ashley, N. D., Dec. 8th.—Cured of that most dangerous of all Diseases, Rheumatism of the Heart, J. H. Hanson of this place loses no opportunity of singing the praise of Dodd's Kidney Pills. "I am able to work again," says Mr. Hanson. "And am feeling better than I have for five years. Broken down and fairly used up and suffering from Rheumatism of the Heart and Dropsy I was in very bad shape. "Then I started taking Dodd's Kidney Pills and—well, you can see how I look and I feel as well as I look. My Rheumatism is gone and the Dropsy with it. "I don't think they'll ever bother me again, but if they do I'll just get some more of Dodd's Kidney Pills. I know that will fix them." Mrs. Hanson, too, whose health was far from good, took the same remedy and she joins with her husband in recommending Dodd's Kidney Pills INNOCENTS ABROAD. New Style Farmers That are Peopling South Africa. The scheme for placing settlers on the land in South Africa has not been a success up to the present, writes Reuter's Johannesburg correspondent. Almost every class of men have applied for land—except farmers. In one place a doctor and his wife arrived one day by wagon at the house of a settler, who was to put them in the way of learning farming. En route the doctor cut the wagon into splinters, all but the floor and the wheels, to cook his food. Next morning he started cutting down the farmer's trees for firewood, though a coal quarry was close by. Another novice, a lawyer, took 11 hours to inspan a team of mules, and when he and his wife arrived on the farm the lady asked if the men could not cease plowing to come up and take afternoon tea with her!—London Mall. HOW'S THIS ? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENYE & CO., Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out obligations made by their firm. WEST TRUAX, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. WALDING, KINNAN & MARVIN, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Testimonialists $5c, per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. Hall's Family Pills are the best. Growth of Motive Power One of the best illustrations of the increase of manufacturing industry in the United States is to be derived from the growth of motive power. It would be incredible if it were not officially authenticated that the motive power used in manufacturing in 1900 aggregated 11,300,081 horse power, which is double that of 1880. And more than treble that of 1880. But the efficacy of the machinery driven has increased in equal degree, which in effect upon output could be expressed for purposes of comparison by the further multiplication of this enormous total—Omaha Bee. Mothers will find Mrs. Winslow's Sootting Syrup the best remedy to use for their children during the teething period. The Constantinople correspondent of the Paris Figaro has sent to his paper a telegram asserting that in one of his interviews with the Grand Duke Nicholas the sultan expressed a desire to receive the czar at Constantinople. The grand duke promised to convey the sultan's invitation to the czar. The sultan has since sent the czar a formal invitation in an autograph letter, which was intrusted to the head of the Turkish mission sent to Livandia. FARM ORCHARD AND COPYRIGHT, 1901, BY J.S. TRIGG. ROCKFORD. IA CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED The most worthless thing which the country produces is the young man who at twenty-one years of age has determined to make a living without work and have a good time. We would almost be in favor of killing this sort off. The best farm lands in the Western and Northwestern states have now reached a valuation of close to $100 per acre, this for the choicest farms with modern improvements thereon. We are asked whether these lands will still further advance in value. Not very much until population becomes more dense than it is at present. In England and on the continent the best farms are worth much more money—from $250 to $500 per acre—but in such localities population is five times a denser as it is in this country. Strange as it may seem, the Englishman knows nothing about pork and beans. Good health seems to be largely a question of getting hold of the right breed of microbes. A mortgage on the farm is a good deal like a corn on your toe. It is always reminding you that it is there. The man who stays at home on election day and husks corn has no right to kick on the way the government is run. A friend killed his strawberry bed by dosing it with a heavy covering of hen manure. A little of this fertilizer goes a long way. Neither church connection, wealth nor social standing should prevent the dirty patron of a co-operative creamery from being promptly fired. When a man's income does not exceed $1.50 per day, it comes that his good wife has to be a permanent committee on ways and means. The beefsteak and the roasts begin to show the effect of the large crop of soft corn which is being fed liberally to get rid of it before it spoils. The length of time the heifer is kept in milk during her first lacteal period will largely determine the length of time she will give milk in future years. The machine which will successfully husk corn has not yet made its appearance, but the machine which will pick cotton has and is reported a great success. We have been taking up the tea roses, geraniums and cannas (the 1st of November), and boxing them with earth will hold them in the cellar for the winter. Style in a horse is worth in the market good money. This is the product partly of good blood and partly of training. Horses and men are a good deal alike in this particular. In crossing a railway track it is always best to concede the coming train the right of way. Some foolhardy people won't do this and make work for the parson and the probate court. The hollow brick as a building material is making great headway all through the country. It is every way superior to the solid brick and costs less money for structural purposes. Perhaps one of the very best ways to keep seed corn is to bury it in the oat bin; at least we know of several men who always care for their seed corn in this manner and never fail to have it grow. A man is pretty greedy and avaricious when he will deliberately send the first three days' milk of a fresh cow to the creamy, and he is not only a greedy man, but a mighty mean one also. We feel like saying again if you do not want to lose your hogs do not stuff them on soft and new corn. While it may seem to be the best way to use the poor corn, it is quite likely to prove an expensive experiment. If thrift and economy practiced by the New England farmer could be combined with the push and enterprise of his western brother, every such man with a Mississippi valley farm would find eighty acres plenty of land. Don't be afraid to feed the pumpkins, seeds and all, to the cows. Some old moon prophets claim that the seeds will hurt the cows, when old bossy has just the right kind of machinery to make the best possible use of them. The difference between a thirty dollar grade bull and a registered animal at $100 is $70 in favor of the scrub to start with, and with a herd of fifteen cows it is $300 or more in favor of the registered animal inside of three years. If you run an account with a store-keeper, as so many do, don't be mean enough to send off for your goods when you happen to have the cash. The man who accommodates you is certainly entitled to the benefit of your cash trade. Some folks are mighty mean about this thing and deserve more of a roast than would be proper for us to administer. Agriculture is developing wonderfully in Mexico. The old-fashioned farming implements which have been in use since the days of the Aztecs are giving way to modern American machines and tools. The soil and climate are very congenial, and three crops may be raised on the land in one year. The peons make good laborers when under proper direction. The turkey buzzards in the state of Florida are protected by law, with the result that they have so increased in number as to become a menace to the live stock interests. They follow the herds and selze on the young and weaklings of the herd, pick their eyes out first and soon make away with them. There is one thing which has left the farms of the country for good, and that is the 10 per cent farm mortgage. It was a gripper and a stayer in its day, a remorseless sucker of blood and more nearly represented one of the beasts described by the prophet Daniel than anything else we ever saw. The most worthless thing which the country produces is the young man who at twenty-one years of age has determined to make a living without work and have a good time. We would almost be in favor of killing this sort off. The science of butter making now lies almost wholly in the ability to develop and fix in the butter that delicate aroma which makes the difference between butter which sells for 20 cents and that which sells for 30 cents. This aroma is an illusive and fugitive essence born of blue grass, clover and corn and exquisite cleanliness and is always unable to hold its own with the malodorous in the barn or creamery. Will a small potato produce large ones? Yes, for the first crop or so, but if the small ones are continuously planted the breed will run out, just as it is with all other forms of vegetable and animal life. It is always best to select the very best of anything for the purpose of reproduction. Nature in a thousand different ways compels this with all her wild life, and man shoule at least have sense enough to follow her example. The sum of $250 will put up a small building in which to do the work, procure a reliable gasoline engine with shafting and connections, and then you can do the pumping, the shelling, the grinding, the churning, the woodsawing at any and all times at a mere trifle of expense and be independent of the wind, which either will not blow at all or blow so hard that it rips things to pieces. But if you get a gasoline engine, get a good one, for there are some which will tempt a man to break all of the commandments while trying to get them to run. The feeders of the country have got on to the ill effects of Jersey blood in the steers of the dairy sections and will not give more than one-half as much per pound for the steers of this kind as they will for those not tainted with Jersey blood. The butchers do not like this sort of beef ever when it is well fattened, for the fat of such animals is of such a very deep yellow color that it looks almost repulsive, and people will not buy the meat. The Jersey is strictly of value as a dairy cow and for no other purpose whatever. The male calves are best killed very young. Should Work for $10,000. Every man should work hard and economize to make himself worth $10,-000 for the reason that he should have this much at least to care for him and his when he gets too old to work, and having got this much which he can call his own it then is small odds whether he gets very much more or not. More money makes more worry and care, more scrapping in the probate court, more fees for the lawyers, and still worse that the men who work the hardest to make more and more money are the very ones who do not in any sense need it and who only find it an additional burden and worry when they get it. Special Crops Certain states best produce certain agricultural products. At least it seems to be taken for granted that such products will do better in such states than anywhere else. For Instance, Connecticut is noted for its fine grade of tobacco. So is a limited area in Dane and Walworth counties, Wis. New Jersey sends us the best sweet potatoes, and Michigan from just a narrow strip on the lake shore our finest peaches. The growing of broom corn is centered in one or two counties in central Illinois, while we take it for granted that all peanuts come from Virginia and North Carolina. The good butter comes from a limited area of Iowa, Minnesota, South Dakota and Nebraska, while if you get hold of a piece of good cheese it is more than likely that it was made at a Wisconsin or York state cheese factory. Some localities run to be sugar and some to sweet corn and canning factories. In most of the cases named it is not true that any particular locality has any special advantage over other places, save as the growing of certain crops may be arbitrarily regulated by climatic conditions. For instance, it has been discovered that the special soil needed for growing a choice grade of tobacco is not confined to the limited localities where it has been heretofore grown, that peanuts will grow on any of the light soils of the south, that as good apples can be produced in Iowa and Minnesota as in the eastern states, that broom corn is a good crop for Kansas and Oklahoma and that as fine butter can be made in Louisiana as in Minnesota. The mission of improved agriculture is to look into these things and open new areas of territory for the growing of new crops. The Wheatfields of Canada. Western Canada has 40,000,000 acres of the best wheat producing land in the world. The crop of No. 1 hard amounts to 100,000,000 bushels this year, and it is in a fair way to be trebled if the price will justify. If the Chinaman and his rice eating kin of the occident take a nation to like wheat bread, as it seems they are likely to, the wheat product of western Canada may all be wanted for the western trade. The government has sold no less than 19,488,500 acres of the public lands the past year, more than in any year since the present law went into effect. The man who wants to take up a homestead has got to get a move on himself, and he will find it pretty poor picking even now. We are asked about the fall planting of trees. If the ground is thoroughly moist, trees may be successfully planted in the fall, but we do not regard it as any advantage, save as it may save valuable time in the spring. If the earth is dry, however, we would on no account plant in the fall. The best farm lands in the Western and Northwestern states have now reached a valuation of close to $100 per acre, this for the choicest farms with modern improvements thereon. We are asked whether these lands will still further advance in value. Not very much until population becomes more dense than it is at present. In England and on the continent the best farms are worth much more money—from $250 to $500 per acre—but in such localities population is five times as dense as it is in this country. Higher prices for land will only come as a result of higher prices for the product of land. Won't Milk It seems on the face of it strange that a time of general agricultural prosperity such as the country has rarely known could in any way injure any farm industry, but it is a fact that such a condition has seriously hurt the creamery business. It comes about in this manner: The farmers, finding themselves on easy street, very naturally sought some relief from the heavy burdens of farm work, and the keeping of a dairy herd being one of the most slavish and burdensome of the farm interests they naturally decided to quit milking, with the result that not a few creameries have been forced to quit business in those localities where they had done business successfully for many years. Hunting for Borers We completed the last of September a close and critical examination of 2,800 apple trees in our orchard hunting for borers. It is hard, back breaking work. We find that in order to make a thorough job of it it is necessary to remove the dirt from the base of the trees to a depth of an inch or two, as these borers quite as often work down as up. As showing the absolute necessity for this close examination we add that of the 2,800 trees, mostly four and five years planted, we found no less than 300 trees with borers at work in them. Let alone, these pests would have certainly killed these 300 trees inside of four years, and then if we had not known any better we should probably have assigned the climate as the cause of their death. The borer kills more fruit trees than any other enemy of our orchards. The absolute need of remembering this fact is sufficient excuse for so frequently referring to it. Recalls the Past. There is no fragrance to be found like the fragrance of the woods these autumnal days. The ground carpeted with the fallen, rustling leaves which so lately emblazoned the forest with splendor gives forth an aroma which stirs the old barbarian instinct and makes one want to get away from the grind of business, the daily paper and the telephone and live some days of the long ago over again, watch the wood duck preen his glorious plumage on some secluded forest pool, hear the chatter of the squirrels and wild pigeons, the drumming of the ruffed grouse, hear the distant bay of the hound on track of the deer or cast a line in the woodland stream for a trout or a bass. Strange how so small a thing as the fragrance of the dying leaves could recall so much of the almost forgotten past, but for us it does. Heir to Russell Stage. Russell Sage being childless, it has often been the subject of comment as to who would succeed him in the event of his death. Although old in years, Mr. Sage is still so active a man that selection of a successor may be the question of a number of years. However, when this successor is needed, it is generally supposed that it will be Dr. John Pixley Munn, his physician and his closest personal friend. Dr. Munn is one of the leading physicians of New York City and for years has been prominent in his profession and in the world of finance. He has long since given up general practice, and only gives his professional services to a few families like the Goulds, whose physician he has been for years. Dr. Munn is already a man of wealth. He is president of the United States Insurance company, a director of the Missouri Pacific and Texas Pacific railroads, is largely interested in railroads in Virginia, a director of the Merchants' Trust company and Fifth Avenue bank, New York, and a member of the council of the New York university. In appearance Dr. Munn is slightly below medium height, has a young face in spite of iron gray hair and beard and walks and acts like a man in the prime of life. He is affable in manner, cordial and generous in disposition and has made a large circle of warm, personal friends—Philadelphia Press. Worst Effect of a Strike. Here in our towns these irritated and enraged men will continue to live, and so strong is their hatred that in social, political, industrial, and religious life they will never let pass an opportunity to "do" their man. Should not this lamentable condition of affairs, due to industrial conflict, count for something in the eyes of the world's men of action and of thought? The Thirty Years' War scotched the progress of society in Germany for fifty years. A six months' industrial war leaves our communities in a state of material, intellectual, and moral confusion which will need many years of patient work to set in order.—Outlook. Urged His On. Miss Gotrox: "The idea of your proposing to me! Why, I never gave you any encouragement." Mr. Poorman: "You forget that you once informed me that you had a half million in your own right."—Chicago News. The Indiana College association at its annual meeting declared against the plan suggested by President Butler, of Columbia university, shortening the college course to three years. It is held that plenty of time for specializing remains even after a four years' course. Cascarets CANDY CATHARTIC THEY WORK WHILE YOU SLEEP ANNUAL SALE 10,000,000 BOXES Greatest in the World A MILLION AMERICAN BEAUTIES keep their blood pure, their complexion soft and clear, their breath sweet and their whole bodies active and healthy with CASCARETS Candy Cathartic. The quick effects of CASCARETS as system cleaners and blood purifiers; their promptness in curing pimples, boils, blotches, liver-spots, blackheads, and in sweetening a tainted breath, have become known through the kind words of ladies who have tried them. Hence the sale of nearly A MILLION BOXES A MONTH. 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Immigrants described as "domestic servants" are arriving in greater numbers than ever before: 56,000 of them came in during the year that ended June 30 last. Yet the supply of domestic servants, even of the just-landed grade of ability, was never so scant. Domestic wages have risen, of course, in obedience to the late Benjamin Harrison's maxim that when two jobs hunt one person labor is worth more than when two persons hunt one job. But the testimony of the employment-office managers, as well as the answers collected by the special inquiries of the Wisconsin state labor bureau, indicates that something more than the question of wages is the cause of the famine in servant girls. A sentimental grievance is at the root of the matter. The American young woman of the period resents the term "servant." Still more does she resent the conditions of household service which, as she complains, include longer hours than any other occupation, less personal freedom, less leisure and pleasure, and a constant implication of social inferiority. It is not, then, a matter of money, but one of sentiment. Benjamin Disraeli said a sentimental question was the hardest to settle. American matrons who keep house are face to face with the democratic sentiment that has invaded the kitchen and filled Mary Ann with an ambition to have all her evenings free, to be called "Miss" just like salesladies and other female wageworkers, to have her working day limited to eight or at most ten hours, and to have in all things something like equality with other working women, regardless of previous conditions of servant-girl tude.—New York World. OUR NORTHERN EMPIRE. The Great Size of Alaska as Compared With Iowa. Alaska is as large as ten states like Iowa. 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The main portion of the territory covers almost the entire area of the great plains and of the Mississippi valley as far south as Arkansas. The Ilaaska panhandle, in which are situated Sitka and Juneau, extends to the Atlantic in Georgia. Nome falls in South Dakota, near the Wyoming line. The Aleutian islands extend in a curve across Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California, to the Pacific coast near Los Angeles. In other words, Alaska placed on the map of the United States would cover in whole or in part 23 states and territories and the western third of Lake Superior and would reach from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from Canada to Mexico. When this great territory of 600,000 square miles was purchased the American people were taught by the anti-expansionists to believe that Alaska was valueless except for its furs, and that it had been transferred to us because Russia had found it a burden, without commercial or strategic possibilities, and was glad to get rid of it. Because this impression prevailed at the time, because the climate and soil were misrepresented, and because of its remoteness, Alaska for 30 years was little understood. But now that investigation has shown the marvelous resources of the territory, and indicated methods for their development, and has dispoiled the misconceptions based on prejudice, the American people find ready to their enterprise an empire rich in resources and so situated as to form a most important base for control of the trade of the Pacific. The eye of William H. Seward saw in 1867 what is now taking place in the great ocean between America and Asia, and with the sagacity of a real statesman he saved Alaska to serve a great purpose in the development of the commercial and political power of the United States.—Chicago Inter Ocean. AMERICAN PACIFIC CABLE. The Terms Under Which it Will be Laid to Manila and Yokohama. The Pacific Cable company has agreed to the terms which the president and attorney general offered it in pursuance of the law passed at the last session of congress, with one modification. It is not required to employ American operatives only. It undertakes to do so when feasible. This was the least important of the conditions. The company agrees to lay a cable from San Francisco to the Philippines, touching only at American islands, and to lay an extension from Luzon to the Chinese coast independent of the existing British cable. The government may at any time buy the cables at a valuation to be fixed by disinterested parties, but it probably never will care to do so. The company further agrees to lay a cable from Guam to Yokohama, no doubt because it expects that it will profit more from the Chinese and Japanese business over that route than it can over the line to Manila. At the same time it is announced that the cable ship now en route to San Francisco will complete the line to Honolulu before Christmas, and to Manila before the end of summer. The imperial plan of an all Bristish round the world cable has been carried out a year before the American cable can be completed. In spite of this it is doubtful if the English will gain much by their commendable enterprise and energy. The line runs by almost tradeless islands to Australia, and will come into direct competition with the Eastern Extension cable for messages to London. It will no doubt reduce the tolls from Australia, but the entire business of the island continent would hardly suffice to make the cable profitable, and there are no feeders, actual or prospective, on the long line diagonally across the Pacific. The American line will have the Philippine business, the Japanese messages for the United States, a great part of those intended for Europe, and a considerable proportion of those from China, which now go via the Siberian route or the Eastern Extension and India. The British Pacific cable has the start, but the American line will be fully as important politically and will be more important commercially. —Chicago Tribune. Constantly catching on—the grip car. Rudyard Kipling has an American wife, and likewise an American mother-in-law. The latter, Mrs. Wolecott Balestier, lives in New York. The other day Mrs. Balestier sent her famous son-in-law a present. What do you think it was? A glass rolling pin for use in making pie crust. In making the purchase she explained that Mr. and Mrs. Kipling and all the little Kiplings are passionately fond of pie. Here is a pointer for those who would win literary fame. Pie is the stuff that dreams are made of.—Utica Observer. The new department of education in the University of Tennessee is to be opened on Jan. 6, 1903. The department is largely modeled on the Teachers' college of Columbia university, and is the outcome of a desire to meet the growing demand in the South for an advanced and extensive school for the professional training of teachers. It will include courses in modern pedagogy and psychology, also instruction in the latest methods of teaching English, history, the physical sciences, nature study, manual training and domestic science. It aims to prepare men and women of good scholarship for superintendents, principals and teachers in public and private schools of cities, towns and country districts. Teachers and persons pledging themselves to teach will receive free tuition. Prof. J. F. Whitson Institute of Magnetic Magnetism. Located at 308 Brady Street. DAVENPORT, - - - IOWA. Magnetic treatment cures Rheumatism, Heart, Liver, Lung, Stomach, Bowels, Kidneys and Female Troubles. Removes Cancers and Tumors without the use of poisonous drugs or knife, and from people here in the city, and the same can be seen here at my institute at any time. Twenty-five years' experience means new life and happiness to all. CONSULTATION FREE PURIFIES AS WELL AS Beauties that Skin No other medicine will do it. Removes Tan, Pimples, Freckles, Moth Patches, Rash and Skin diseases, blemish on beauty, and dofles detec- tion of skin stood the test of 55 years, and is so hardened that taste it to be sure it is properly ceptinoun- terfeit of similar name Sayre said to a lady o' the haut-ton (a patient): "As you ladies will use them, I recommend 'GOURAUD'S CREAM' as the least harmful of all the Skin preparations' as made by all Fancy-Goods Dealers in the U. S., Canada and Europe. Ferd. T. Hopkins, Prop., 27 Great Jones St. N. Y If you have tried other pile remedies, and they have failed, do not be discouraged, but send 50 cents to the Hydriodio Medicina Co., box of SURE CURE Pile remedies. It curets. HYDRIODIO MEDICINE CO. 533 West Third St., Davenport, Iowa. PILES NO MONEY TILL CURED. All diseases of the rectum treated on a positive Guarantee, and no money accepted until patient is cured. Send for free 200 page book: a treaties on rectal diseases, and hundreds of testimonial letters, valuable to anyone affected. Also our 100 page book for women; both sent free. Address, Drs. THORNTON & MINOR, 999 Oak St. Kansas City, Mo; This book contains One Hundred Treaties on Thirty-Eight General Topics in which the negro problem is viewed from every possible standpoint. No work could more fully represent the higher stratum of race subjects. Furnish the basis of future calculations on all race subjects. There are 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 Columb- umbia, Mo., as second class matter, Jan. 15, 1902. Agents wanted in every town in the state. RENEW your subscription to The Professional World, it is only $1.00 per year and contains as much news as the journals for which you pay $2.00. No rowdyism should be tolerated in any institution of learning and when such is engaged in, the participants, should be dealt with severely. Faculties that indulge such in to keep the "good will" of students, should be relieved. The Honorable T. Thomas Fortune, editor of the New York Age, was recently appointed by President Roosevelt, special Commissioner to investigate conditions in our insular possessions. We congratulate brother Fortune, and commend the act of the President highly. The death of Thomas B. Reed, which occurred last Sunday morning in Washington, D. C., removes from the stage of action one of the greatest men America has ever produced. Mr. Reed was a man of his own convictions and as a parliamentary ruler he had no equal. During the last session of Legislature through the efforts of Prof. J. H. Jackson, then President of Lincoln Institute, an appropriation was secured for the erection of a Boys' Dormitory on the campus of that Institution. It is very probable that the coming session of the Legislature will be over before this Dormitory is completed. The Dormitories at Lincoln Institute are now so crowded that five and six girls are compelled to occupy one room, which, not only uncomfortable but unhealthy. No account can be given for this state of affairs other than negligence of the distinguished Board of Regents by which Lincoln Institute is so honored to have. This will probably serve to show how much interest they have in the welfare of that institution. Our Christmas Number- The Christmas number of the Professional World will be an interesting edition. It will contain biographical sketches of some of our leading race, men and women, order one now. To Our Readers. When you go to do your Christmas shopping don't fail to call on the merchants whose ads you see in these columns, it is with them that you will get the best bargains. THE TURTLE AND THE SUCKERS The following up-to-date Fable is copied from an exchange, and shows how it is in politics: "One day the turtle announced that he could walk on the water, and that he would do it at a certain date and place. The turtle was known as a good mixer, being equally at home in the dry and in PILES N All diseases of the rectum treated on a post patient is cured. Send for free 200 page book: petitimmial letters, valuable to anyone adiecte free. Address, Drs. THORNTON & MIN DR. D.W. OULP ```markdown ``` ue wet. He also had a record with the sporty boys on account of a certain affair with the hare, wherein he had won out. So he had lots of friends who were anxious to see if he could get there. When the day came all the fish assembled at the place, while the frog sat on the bank and croaked. The turtle stood on the shore and watched the assembling of the multitude, which at last filled the stream. Then he approached the water and calmly walked across on the heads of he suckers, side-stepping occasionally to get his foot on a lobster. Moral—That is the way it is in politics." Catarrh Cannot be Cured with Local Applications, as they cannot reach the seat of the disease. Catarrh is a blood or constitutional disease, and in order to cure it you must take internal remedies. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces. Hall's Catarrh Cure is not quack medicine. It was prescribed by one of the best physicians in this country for years, and is a regular prescription. It is composed of the best tonics known, combined with the best blood purifiers, acting directly on the mucous surfaces. The perfect combination of the two ingredients is what produces such wonderful results in curing Catarrh. Send for testimonials free. F. J. Cheney & Co, Props., Toledo, Ohio Sold by druggists, price 75 cents. Hall's Family Pills are the best. ORIGIN OF "WATERED STOCK." The expression "watered stock" which describes so well the expansion of the stock of a company beyond the value of the property, originated, it is said, in connection with Daniel Drew, who was once the wealthiest and most unique manipulator in Wall street. Drew had been a drover in his younger days and it was said of him that before selling his cattle in the market he would first give them large quantities of salt to make them thirsty and then provide them with all the water they could drink. In this way their weight was greatly increased and the purchaser was buying "watered stock." ETHICS OF A KISS. From the Baltimore American. —A kiss is a peculiar proposition. Of no use to any one, yet absolute bliss to two. The small boy gets it for nothing, the young man has to steal it and the old man has to buy it. The baby's right, the lover's privilege, the hypocrite's mask. To a young girl, faith; to a married woman, hope, and to an old maid, charity. CAUGHT FEEDING BURIED WIFE. Kansas Hypnotist Passed Food Down an Air Shaft. At Emporia Kan., recently, a reporter and Night Marshall, Low, caught Prof. Van Ora passing food down an eight-inch air shaft to his wife, whom he buried last Saturday night in an alleged hypnotic sleep. When burying her Van Ora stated that she would remain in an uninterrupted sleep till Wednesday night at 8 o'clock. Van Ora had buried the woman in a box thirty inches deep and eight feet long. He has been going to resturants at midnight, when no customers were in, and buying milk and sandwiches and passing them down the shaft. The woman would then sit up in the box and eat her lunch. Van Ora has contracts for exhibitions in several towns in Kansas. He also claims to have a contract for 30 days at the St. Louis exposition. A "RHEUMATIZ" REMEDY. The other day, savs the Little Rock Gazette, Dr. Washington, a colored man, was arraigned before a justice of the peace, charged with mal-medical practice. He had given a colored man a dose of medicine, and the colored man didn't live but one hour afterward. The justice was a colored man, and probably knew as much of law as the doctor did of medicine. When the doctor had been arraigned, the justice asked: "Dr. Washington, how long is you been practisin' ob medicine?" Sence de wah, sah." "What books on de fizick an de human reconstruction did yer study?" "Oh, I studied 'nuff—Corn-stalk's philosophy 'mong de number. Now, jedge, let me ax you one pint. What books on de law did yer study? "Ise heah, prisoner afore de bar, ter try dis case, an' not to stan' a 'zamination. Comin' down from de law language to plain nigger an' mule, what the h—ll made you kill dat man? 'Splain yourself, sah, or I'll put de clamps of my 'thority on ver." "Ef dar's a man in dis country what can 'splain hisself, I'se de man," said the doctor, arising. "'Some few days ago I'veented a new medicine from roots dug outen de groun." Hit struck me dat de medicine would cure d rheumatiz, an' when I went ter see de man what is dead now I concluded to 'speriment on him. No medicine aint no 'count till you 'speriment wid hit. All medical 'ventions has ter be proved. When Bright 'vented ter kidney disease he didn't now hit would work till he tried hit. I figured hit up jes' dis way. Says I ter myself, if dis medicine cures dis man hits good; but ef hit kills him, hit won't do ter tamper wid, or let lie aroun' loose 'mong chillun. Well I gin him der medicine, and about an hour afterward he was dead. Who would a 'nowed dat de medicine want fiten for use if I hadn't a tried it? Don't yer see de geography ob my gegement? Science must be vanced, ver know." "Dat's a fack," said the justice, after musing awhile "de pint are well sustained. Mr. Constable, turn dis man loose, and caution him not to 'vent any moah medicine in my township." Marriage Licenses Last Week George LeGrand, Ripley county, and Millie Johnson, Boone county. George Dennis and Bessie Burks, Huntsdale. Joseph Elliott and Birdie Price, colored. J. O. Murray, Sturgeon, and Miss Nandeville Murray, Centralia. BUY Your Ready-made Clothing and Gents' Furnishing Goods of Jno. Vogt 112 E. High St. - Jefferson City We also make suits to order. The Railroads. WABASH A. M. No. 36 A. M. No. 38 P. M. No. 40. Leave: McBaine ... 6:30 11:53 4:05 Webster ... 6:33 11:58 4:08 Brushwood ... 6:38 12:02 4:13 Turner ... 6:42 12:06 4:17 Limerick ... 6:47 12:11 4:22 Arrive Columbia ... 6:55 12:19 4:30 TRAINS SOUTH. A. M. No. 35 St. Louis Express P. M. No. 37 Texas Express P. M. No. 39 Leave Columbia ... 11:00 3:10 6:30 Limerick ... 11:08 3:18 6:38 Turner ... 11:12 3:22 6:42 Brushwood ... 11:17 3:27 6:47 Webster ... 11:22 3:32 6:52 Arrive McBaine ... 11:25 3:35 6:55 --- Lodge and Church Directory. S.M.T. 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. SECOND CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Rev. J. B. Parsons, pastor. Preaching Sundays 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Prayer meeting Wednesdays 7:30 p. m. Everybody cordially invited to attend. Rev. P. C. Crews, Pastor. Preaching Sundays 11 a. m.; 7:30 p. m. Sunday school 2:30 p. m. Prayer meeting every Wednesday eve, at 8:30; every body invited to attend. M. E. CHURCH Rev. J. Arlington Grant, pastor. Preaching Sundays 11, a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Sunday school, 9:30 a. m. Prayer meeting Wednesdays 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, 7:30. A cordial invitation ex- tended to all. Walter Williams has resigned his position as editor of the Herald, but will be a contributor to that paper, and will make Columbia his home. Other duties and a demand for him in the lecture field are given as reasons for his resignation. Of the eight papers in the United States reporting a circulation of over 100,000, four are published in this state "Poor old Missouri"—Kansas City Star. James Carr of Greenfield advertises his livery barn as Carr's horse cafe. He ought to open a mule buffet and a cow ice cream parlor next summer. Jefferson City's plan to use automobiles as street cars has gone up in the air. It doesn't seem strange though, that an automobile scheme should explode. --- YOUR PRODUCE WANTED. At Present, the Best Sight in Jefferson City is the Handsome S Goods at Geo. Porth's Jewelry St Street. Charming Gifts—plenty of and waiting for your inspection. Watches, Jewelry, Silverware, Clocks, Ebo Silk Umbrellas, Etc. This Fine Holiday full of Quality, Beauty and Good Taste, and at the Most Reasonable Prices. R·I·P·A· Owing to close confined business, I suffered from touch of indigestion, so much to cause me intense pain tongue was coated; had pains around my eyes and erable. Through the persua a friend I tried Ripans Tabu after taking them for two obtained some relief. I taking them, and can say they have cured me. in Jefferson City is the Handsome Stock of Holiday Goods at Geo. Porth's Jewelry Store, 110 E. High Street. Charming Gifts—plenty of them, are ready and waiting for your inspection. Watches, Jewelry, Silverware, Clocks, Ebony Goods, Silk Umbrellas, Etc. This Fine Holiday Stock is full of Quality, Beauty and Good Taste, and is offered at the Most Reasonable Prices. RIPANS Owing to close confinement in business, I suffered from a bad touch of indigestion, so much so as to cause me intense pain. My tongue was coated; had severe pains around my eyes and felt miserable. Through the persuasion of a friend I tried Ripans Tabules, and after taking them for two days I obtained some relief. I kept on taking them, and can safely say they have cured me. AT DRUGGISTS. The five-cent package is for an ordinary occasion family bottle, sixty cents, or a supply for a year. 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 NEAT EWSY NEWSPAPER $1.00 a year Sent to Any Address.