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THE PROFESSIONAL WORLD. $1.00 Per Year in Advance. DR. CROSSLAND OUSTED. State Department Relieves Mis. sourian From Further Service. Washington, December 13.—The state department today notified Dr. J. R. Crossland, of St. Joseph, minister to Liberia, that his services would be dispensed with at once. The action of the department is the result of an investigation of the recent shooting affray in the legation at Monrovia, in which Dr. Crossland was implicated as a principal. This affair, which nearly resulted in a tragedy, was the culmination of a quarrel that has been in progress ever since Dr. Crossland reached his post. Officials at the state department feel that they have been exceedingly patient with Dr. Crossland during his brief connection with the diplomatic body of the nation. He was very slow in going to his post, spending several months in Missouri after his appointment. When he did get ready to start he appeared practically in the role of an attorney for the government of Liberia and asked that he be transported in a gunboat which he claimed this country owned to the Liberian government. He was advised to attend to United States' affairs and let Liberia make her claims without any of his suggestions. Then the minister went to Liberia and took with him G. W. Ellis, of Lawrence, Kan., under the promise that he should be appointed secretary of the legation. Mr. Ellis landed in Liberia to find the position occupied, and trouble started at once. Ellis was finally nominated for the place just a few days before the shooting affair. Holiday Rates Via Wabash Line. On account of the Christmas and New Years holidays the Wabash will sell excursion tickets to all points located in Western Passenger Association Territory, within 200 miles, on the Wabash, Missouri Pacific, Frisco, Santa Fe (west of Missouri river), C. R. I. & P. (west of the Missouri river), Union Pacific, B. & M. R., and F. E. & M. V. R. R., at the low rate of one fare for the round trip. Correspondingly low rates to all other points within 200 miles from selling station. Tickets will be sold on December 24th, 25th & 31st, and January 1st. All tickets limited to January 1st for return trip. For further information apply to local Agent or address, H. E. Watts, P. & T. A., Moberly, Mo. Died—Carter—At his home in Huntsville, Mo., on Wednesday, December, 10 1902, Mr. Nelson Carter, aged 62 years; besides his wife, Mrs. Josie Carter, he leaves a daughter, Miss Estella Carter and a son, Mr. Edward Carter, both of Huntsville. The funeral services were held Friday December 12th, and were conducted at the Christian church by the local Masonic Order, of which Mr. Carter was a member, and was preached by Rev. G. C. Chinn of the second Baptist church, of Huntsville. State Teachers Meeting. The programme for the eighteenth annual session of the colored Missouri state teachers' association, which is to be held in St. Louis December 29, 30 and 31, has been received by chairman Charles H. Brown of the local committee from President Shelton French, of Sedalia, and a meeting of the committee has been called for 4 o'clock Friday at the Dumas school to make final preparations for entertaining several hundred visiting teachers from all parts of the state. The sesssions are to be held in the First Baptist church, Fourteenth and Clark avenue, and a 50 YEARS' EXPERIENCE PATENTS TRADE MARKS DESIGNS banquet and a trip to the World's Fair grounds are among the features planned for entertaining the visitors. Mayor Rolla Wells, Supt. F. Louis Soldan, Rev. D. P. Roberts, Prof. R. H. Cole and W. M. Farmer are to deliver welcoming addresses, which will be responded to by Dr. J. H. Garnett, of Lincoln Institute, Jefferson City, and Prof.W. W. Yates, of Kansas City. Among the other prominent educators who will deliver addresses are: Prof. B. F. Allen, of Lincoln Institute; J. B. Coleman, Columbia; T. B. Burris, Macon, C. G. Williams, Boonville; Miss Ella N. Shadrick, St. Joseph; J. T. Payne, Brunswick; J. W. Baldwin, Kansas City; Peter H. Clark, Sumner High school, St. Louis; Miss Annie H. Jones, Kansas City; Mrs. J. S. Yates, Jefferson City; and H. L. Billups of George R. Smith college, Sedalia. Among the subjects to be discussed are: "Questions Confronting the Negro Teacher," "Modern School Discipline", "How to Overcome Lawlessness," "Reflex Action in the Schoolroom," "Compulsory Education," "The Equipment of the Teacher", etc. Schools and Teachers. Efforts are being made to establish another industrial school for negroes, which will be located at Corona, Ala., where a thousand negroes are employed in the coal and iron company. Twenty-five thousand dollars has been given by one man for the building fund. It will be something like the school at Tuskegee managed by Booker Washington. The Rockefeller hall of physics, which is to be built at Cornell, will be so located as not to interfere with the "class-day grove," this being necessary, because of the great amount of criticism which former plans excited. The New York teachers are very much disappointed because they will not be paid their December salaries on December 24, as they desired, but will have to wait until the beginning of the new year. After all, there must be some consolation in the fact that not having the money they can not spend it all on Christmas gifts, as many would no doubt be tempted to do. Now that the college football season is over, the students can return to their undivided duties, and the public, which is inclined to be somewhat hypercritical, may muse upon the fact that after all football occupied a very small part of the college boy's life and that duties that were slighted during the season may be performed with undivided interest for the remainder of the year. This is an actual copy, both in words and spelling, of an excuse sent by a woman to the principal of one of the public schools. "Please excuse Michael for being at school sinch last Tuesday because a pot of hot water fell off gass stove on his legs and he had a touchach. Oblige Ma."—New York Times. Prof. B. F. Allen, pres. of Lincoln Institute and Mrs. J. S Yates teacher of English in that institution will both read papers before the State Teachers' association at its annual meeting during the holidays. Miss Lizzie Lewis of the Paris school recently surprised her friends by changing her name to Mrs. Clark. POVERTY. The people call him rich; his lands Stretch very far and very wide; They call him rich, yet there he COLUMBIA, MISSOURI, FRIDAY DEC. 19, 1902. No. 222 East High St. - Jefferson City, Mo. Letters to Santa Clause. Huntsville Mo. Dec 14th, 1902 Dear Santa Claus. I will tell you what I want for Christmas I want a doll and a buggy and I will be satisfied Welthy Toney. Huntsville Mo Dec 16th Dear Santa Claus. There are a few things I want to ask you for Xmas and it is this Will you please bring me a doll and a piece of candy it will be quite acceptable. To Santa Claus from your little friend Alma Williams, age 11. The Professional World is only $1 per year, order now. Calwood Mo Dec 16th 1902 Dear Santa Claus: Please bring me a shawl and some candy and nuts I won't ask you for much, good old Santa Claus because you have to take so much to others. So good bye Hettie Wilkerson. Dear Santa Claus. I thought I would write you a few lines to let you now that I am well and hope you are the same please bring me some candy a doll buggy a cooking stove a big doll a set of dishes bring me a stove that I can put fire in This is all from Shirley White. Huntsville Mo Dec 16th 1902. Dear Old Santa I want a doll and some dishes and some candy for Christmas Dear Old Santa Claus will you please bring me a big sleepy doll and some dishes and a buggy and a speech book some candy and oranges three little irons, and oblige Goldie Toney. Dear Old Santa Claus I am a little girl I have no mother she is dead I live with my aunt and uncle and I go to school and I help my aunt all I can please me a white apron and a raglin, and a pair of shoes some nuts and candy so good beye to you old Santa Jefferson City Mo December 16th 1902 Dear Santa I am a little boy 5 years old I live on Elem st 819. I bring all the water and my brother help me and we bring it all please bring me a wagon and train and some candy and nuts I have a little friend name MacKinley Cope bring him somithin December the 5th 1902 Dear Old Santa Claus I am a little boy 4 years old My name is William Trammell I live at 819 Ellem and I like to work offul well I want you to bring me a wheel and a spade and a ax some candy and a big red apple I have a sweet friend his name is Teddy Cope please bring him a little Claud L. Clark's Book Store Everything in Book line, Here We purchased a line of druc closing out at wholesale pri Sets, Toilet Articles, Pictu 118 E. High St. 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. I must close love to Old Santa Claus. HOW SHE SIZED UP THE BISHOP. From the New York Times. Here is the latest story which Bishop Potter is telling on him self. On Friday evening, November 21, the Bishop performed an ordination ceremony in Staten Island, and, as is customary on occasions, wore a small red hood at the back of his surplice. An old negro woman was in the congregation as an interested listener. After the ceremony her mistress, who was also present, asked her what she thought of it. "Well," she replied, in a hesitating way, "I liked his speech fust-rate, but I feel mighty sorry for dat man. I guess he ain't got no woman to tend to him, has he?" she asked. On being assured that the Bishop was given every possible attention, she replied positively: "Now, I know better dan dat, 'cause one time when he turned round I saw dat de back of his coat was busted and his red undershirt was showin' through". DESTRUCTION BY EARTHQUAKES. Kansas City World:—We are at present unable to find the record of any volcanic eruption more disastrous in all its features than the very recent work of the Island of Martinique. The number of lives lost in that appalling disaster was about 25,000. But an earthquake in Japan in 1703 nearly wholly obliterated the city of Jeddo and destroyed the lives of 190,000 people. In 1755 an earthquake at Lisbon, Portugal, in a very few minutes destroyed, or buried beneath the waters of the ocean, most of the houses of that city and brought death of from 35,000 to 50,000 of its inhabitants. February 4, 1797, the whole northeastern coast of South America from the southern part of Peru to Panama, was visited by a most destructive earthquake, which caused an almost incalculable loss of property and in which the lives of 40,000 human beings were buried beneath the ruins of the cities of Cuzco and Quito. The above are a few of the most prominent earthquakes known to history, but it is only proper to state earthquakes are exceedingly of more frequent occurrence than volcanic explosions or eruptions, and are seldom unattended by disaster to life or to property. MRS. JULIA DENT GRANT DEAD. Mrs. Julia Dent Grant, widow of the late President Grant, died in Washington, aged 76. Arrangements for the funeral will not be made until Brig. Gen. F. D. Grant, one of her sons, arrives from the West. It is expected that he will reach Washington Thursday, the 18th. 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. VOL. II. NO. 7. 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. Mrs. Fannie D. B. Chase, wife of Simon B. Chase, is dead. She was the first national president of the W. C. T. U. The present detail of soldiers guarding the McKinley tomb will be relieved by a company of the Twentieth infantry. Chas. T. Hills, one of the most prominent lumbermen in Michigan, manager of Ryerson, Hills & Co., of Muskegon, is dead, aged 61. German brewers protest against increasing the duty on brewing barley. They already pay $30,000,000 state and municipal tax. King Alfonso of Spain has charged Silvela to form a conservative cabinet to succeed the Sagasta ministry, which resigned on Wednesday. The International Seamen's association adjourned at Milwaukee after electing a full list of officers, headed by Wm. J. Penje of Chicago as president. Mr. White, retiring United States ambassador, and Mrs. White left Berlin Friday night for Alassio, Italy. A large party of friends bid them farewell. Dr. Joseph Parker, minister of the City Temple, London, who has been seriously ill for some time past, died on Friday afternoon. Patrick Ryan and Hugh Burns, well known farmers, were killed while attempting to cross the Great Northern in front of a train at Grand Forks, N. D. The appellate court at Franklin, Ky., awarded a new trial to Caleb Powers, convicted in the Goebel murder conspiracy and sentenced to life imprisonment. A call was issued Tuesday for a convention of the National Live Stock association at Kansas City on January 13 next. It is expected 1,700 delegates will attend. The Prussian supreme court has decided the department store tax adopted in 1900 is unconstitutional when assessed upon a turnover which is operated at a loss. Golmer Ham, aged 18, was found guilty of the murder of William Lyons of Nortonville, Ill., a year ago. The verdict fixed the penalty at 25 years in the penitentiary. The Rev. Edward H. Shuey, pastor of the First United Brethren church of Springfield, Ill., has been offered the position of secretary of field work of that denomination. The office of paymaster of the Chicago & Alton has been abolished and employees will hereafter be paid in checks to be distributed from Bloomington and Brighton Park. Louis H. Mahnke, a Chicago contractor, confessed insolvency in the United States district court Friday. Liabilities $232,513, distributed among a hundred or more creditors. According to advices received from Viadivostok the Russians are planning to capture the Chinese and Japanese coal markets by facilitating the shipment of supplies from Manchuria. At the convention of Hebrew women in Baltimore the treasurer reported receipts of $8,501.71; balance on hand, $2,021.95. Amongg the papers read was one by Miss Melinda Pappe of Sioux City, Iowa. During the gale that blew with a maximum velocity of 60 miles an hour at Norfolk Friday, houses were unroofed, and trees and telegraph wires were blown down. Much uneasiness is felt for shipping. Serious conflicts have occurred recently between Cossacks and 3,000 strikers at Vladi-Kavuas, Russia. Shots were exchanged, a few men killed and 30 wounded. Upwards of 100 strikers were arrested. A fire started in Dickinson hall at Princeton university Friday caused great excitement. The students were organized into a corps of fire fighters, and through their good work saved the buildings with a small loss. Fire Friday destroyed the general store of Loose & Co., Uttermark Bros. hardware and Weed, Gummer & Co.'s bank at Weyanwega. Wis. Loss, $40.00. The entire town was threatened with destruction, but the arrival of an engine from Waupaca prevented the fire from spreading. Last week Hartwell Warren, a Burlington brakeman, was reported lost from his train below La Crosse, Wis., and killed. It proved untrue. Wednesday night Warren fell from his train near Cassville and was cut in two. The Brunswick Balke Collender company, manufacturers of billiard and pool tables and bar fixtures, has given a deed of trust on its properties in Cincinnati and in other cities to the Union Savings and Trust company of Cincinnati for $50,000 to be applied to the enlargement of their establishment in Chicago. A stage driver carrying mails from Shawano to Green Bay, Wis., was held up Monday afternoon by a bandit. It is not known at present how much valuable mail was in the pouches. The robber disappeared in the woods. John L. Sullivan, formerly heavyweight champion pugilist of the world, has filed a petition in bankruptcy in the federal court in New York City. He said his liabilities are $2,658 and assets $60 worth of wearing apparel. In the United States district court at Kansas City John B. Henderson, Jr., of Virginia, was given a judgment of $551,000 against St. Clair county, Missouri, representing principal and interest paid for bonds by the county thirty years ago to build a railroad. Friday, while the firemen were at work on the ruins of the Likly & Rocket trunk factory, Cleveland, O., which burned last night, causing a loss of $100,000, the walls fell, burying 14 firemen, Patrick Joyce was killed, but the other firemen were taken out more or less painfully injured. DOINGS OF CONGRESS. DOINGS OF CONGRESS. The revenue bills were considered by the house on Wednesday in committee of the whole. The first one taken up was a measure providing that goods deposited in bonded warehouses can be withdrawn for consumption within three years and be subject to duty charges levied by law at the time of the withdrawal. The object of the bill is to release 70,000,000 pounds of now in bond, subject to tax of 10 cents per pound. The measure passed without division. After Jan. 1 the tea will be free of duty. The London dock bill is considered killed by the passing of the motion striking out the enacting clause. The Indian appropriation bill has been reported to the house and carries $7,715,930, about $30,000 more than estimates. The house on Thursday went into committee of the whole for the consideration of a bill for the relief of tea importers intended to meet the recent decision of the circuit court of New York that goods imported are held in bonded warehouses were subject to the customs duty assessable at the time of importation. The bill passed without division. A joint resolution was offered in the house by Shafroth of Colorado, authorizing the president to propose to Great Britain-Germany to submit their claims against Venezuela to arbitration and to guarantee the payment of the wards that may be found. The Republican members of the house committee on banking and currency have discussed the needs of financial legislation and adjourned until Saturday without reaching a conclusion. Dec. 16 there will be a general conference of Republican members of the house on the pending currency bill. Friday the house devoted the day to consideration of private pension bills. The calendar was cleared, 173 bills being passed. None of them were of especial interest. A bill to appropriate one million dollars for the eradication of the foot and mouth disease in New England was made a special order for next Tuesday, with the understanding that only the legislative features of the bill would be considered and the appropriation would be reported from the appropriations committee. On Saturday the house entered upon consideration of the legislative, executive and judicial appropriations bill and made rapid progress, fifty of the 142 pages of the bill having been completed before adjournment. Several Democratic members voiced their protests against reporting the big appropriation bill one day and taking it up the next without affording sufficient time to members outside the committee to properly consider it. No material amendments were offered. The house judiciary committee heard arguments of a number of representatives on bills affecting trusts and combines. One of these was Representative H. C. Smith of Michigan, who introduced in the house a joint resolution proposing an conferring upon congress to regulate and absolve trusts. He submitted an argument in favor of his bill, the purpose being to clothe congress with power to act when it is deemed necessary. The house Monday passed the senate bill for a union railroad station in Washington to cost four million dollars. The station is to be situated on north of the present sit of the Baltimore & Ohio depot at Delaware and Massachusetts avenues and in front of it is to be a large piazza park. The house also passed the urgent deficiency bill, which carried among other items, an appropriation for $500,000 for eradicating the foot and mouth disease in New England. A bill was passed to provide for allotment in severity of lands of the New York Indians. In the Senate. The long deferred fight over the omnibus statehood bill in the senate broke out earlier than was expected, when on Wednesday Senator Quay had sent to his desk immediately after the opening of the senate and read a score of telegrams from the people in Oklahoma favoring the omnibus statehood bill and protesting against joint statehood with Indian territory. Thursday the senate passed, with several amendments, the bill for compensation of the strike commission, and it now goes to conference. The name of the commission was changed to the "anthracite coal arbitration." At 2 o'clock the statehood bill was taken up and soon after was laid over till Monday, until which day the senate adjourned. Monday the senate discussed the bill to promote efficiency of the militia and also the omnibus statehood bill. After agreeing to the house concurrent resolution for adjournment Dec. 29 to Jan. 5, Proctor called up the militia bill. An amendment by Pettus striking from the bill section 24, having particular reference to a reserve force of trained men, provoked some discussion, after which the bill was laid aside for the omnibus statehood bill on motion of Dollingham of Vermont, who is opposed to the bill, occupying the time for the remainder of the day in rehearing testimony taken by the sub-committee on territories during its tour of investigation in Arizona, New Mexico and Oklahoma. After a brief executive session the senate adjourned. BUBONIC PLAGUE ON BOARD. Steamer Saxon Prince Arrives From South Africa With Three Men Ill With the Disease. New York, Dec. 16.—Three cases of bubonic plague are under treatment in Swinburne Island hospital at quarantine. The sufferers are the first and second cook and second steward of the steamer Saxon Prince, which arrived from Durban, South Africa, yesterday. Confesses an Awful Crime. Battle Creek, Mich., Dec. 16.—John Bartlinger, or Utley, his real name, confessed to the murder of Mrs. Robert Garrison, who was found dead in her home in Bedford township Monday. Late this afternoon Bartlinger confessed he ravished the body of Mrs. Garrison after he had killed her. The prisoner was taken to Hastings this afternoon by the sheriff. LITTLE GIRLS WORK AT NIGHT Chairman Gray of Strike Commission Said Pennsylvania Should Forbid It By Law. Scranton, Dec. 17.—When the coal strike commission met today Chairman Gray opened the proceedings by saying the commissioners were impressed with the spectacle of the little girls who yesterday testified they worked all night. He said the citizens of the commonwealth should not let the incident pass without taking some steps to have the legislature of Pennsylvania seriously consider the enactment of a law that will forbid the employment of children at night. At the suggestion of the commission a statement of the wages of the fathers of the girls was presented. One earned more than $1,000 last year and another over $900. The miners sprung another surprise by calling individual operator John C. Haddock of Wilkesbarre, president of the Plymouth Coal company to the witness stand. Haddock explained the miner's ton, which runs from 2,700 to 3,200 pounds, was fixed years ago so an employer could get out of a ton 2,240 pounds of pure coal above the size of a pea. Pea and all sizes below was waste. Regarding the prices of coal, Haddock said the middleman in New York are paying $11 and $12 per ton. Judge Grav—"Do they pay the operators that price?" "Possibly," was the reply. President Gompers followed Haddock, testifying as an expert on the trade union movement. He created a stir when he implied that coal companies are responsible for bringing immigrants to the coal regions. When one of the lawyers for the coal companies asked him if he knew it from personal knowledge he said he could prove it if necessary. The miners made another attempt today to have the commission admit testimony to show the anthracite coal-carrying roads charge extortionate and discriminating freight rates, and that a monopoly exists in the anthracite industry which keeps wages at a low level. The commission again decided the evidence must be limited to the scope of the commission, and that if it takes up claims made in evidence proposed to be submitted, the justifiableness of the miner's demands would still remain. The miners had not finished their case when the commission ad-journed. Harrisburg, Dec. 16.—The state factory inspector has ordered an investigation into evidence before the strike commission that little girls are working at night. THE FUNERAL OF MRS. GRANT. Final Arrangements to be Made After Arrival of General Grant—Messages of Sympathy. Washington, Dec. 17.—The president's aide, Captain Cowles, called at the Grant residence today to express the sympathy of President and Mrs. Roosevelt in the death of Mrs. Grant. Among the messages of sympathy were dispatches from Princess Cantacuzene, mother-in-law of Princess Cantacuzene, granddaughter of General and Mrs. Grant. Gen. Horace Hirton, Robert T. Lincoln and Andrew Carnegie, Final arrangements for the funeral will not be made until the arrival of General Grant Thursday, but it is settled there will be brief religious services in this city, and the body will be taken to New York and placed beside the remains of her husband in the tomb in Riverside Park. The secretary of war has directed army officers in New York and vicinity to attend the services at the tomb in full dress uniform. RENDEZVOUS OF THE FLEET. Vessels Will Be Placed at Ports Within in Easy Range of Venezuelan Coast During Holidays. Washington, Dec. 17.—The secretary of the navy, in arranging the disposition of Dewey's fleet, during the holidays, will arrange so as not to arouse suspicion unnecessarily by dispatching a large naval force to Venezuela waters. It is not likely a man-of-war be sent to La Guayra, the feeling being that it might at this time cause uneasiness among the allied powers, as well as offer encouragement to Castro to maintain his defiant attitude. On the other hand, the situation is such that both state and navy department officials are agreed that it will not be unwise to rendezvous the fleet in ports within easy range of the Venezuelan coast. British Ambassador and Lady Herbert gave their first reception today in honor of the diplomatic corps. CHICAGO STREET RAILWAYS. Companies' Petition for Rehearing of Transfer Cases Denied by the Illinois Supreme Court. Springfield, Ill., Dec. 16.—In the supreme court today a petition for rehearing in the cases of the Chicago street railway companies against the city of Chicago was denied. This ends litigation regarding transfer cases as far as the Illinois courts are concerned, but the cases, it is said, will be taken to the United States supreme court. The state supreme court some time ago held the street railway companies must give transfers on all their lines. CHURCH NORTH AND SOUTH Commissions From Both Branches Will Meet to Consider Adoption of a Hymnbook. Pittsburg, Dec. 16.—For the first time in the history of the M. E. church since the civil war, commissions from the church North and South have arranged to hold a joint meeting at Nashville, Tenn., Jan. 10. They will consider the adoption of the same hymnbook for both branches of the church. The general impression is that a compromise will be made, and some of the best hymns of the two branches will be placed in the hymnal. It is rumored that Holland and Denmark are about to present claims to Venezuela. POSITION OF UNCLE SAM VENEZUELAN QUESTION DISCUSSED BY SENATE. The Speeches Were All One Way—All United in Cordial Support of the Monroe Doctrine—No Cause for Interference—Allied Powers Within Their Rights in the Matter—Position of United States. Washington, Dec. 17.—The Venezuelan question occupied the senate in executive session today for almost an hour. The question came up informally almost immediately after the house was excluded. Teller, disclaiming all intention of being critical, and saying he merely desired information, asked Culom, chairman of the committee on foreign relations, what information he possessed as to the Venezuelan affair. Teller said the situation is such that senators felt the Monroe doctrine, at any time, might become involved if complications should continue. Cullom said he had no knowledge of recent events not published. Bacon, Hoar, Lodge and Stewart made remarks. In none of the addresses was anything harsh or critical said. The tone of the speeches, whether by Republicans or Democrats, were that our position as a nation should be one of watchfulness. There was a general agreement that, while the means adopted by Great Britain and Germany for collection of their debts was quite strenuous, they thus far had committed no infringement of the Monroe doctrine, and therefore had done nothing to which the United States could take exception. Cullom, in his remarks, reviewed the representation of Germany to the United States regarding Venezuela a year ago, and the failure of that country to pay interest on the debt due Germans. The German note explicitly stated there was no intention to interfere with the Monroe doctrine. To this Hay replied in effect that the Monroe doctrine was not intended to shield any American nation from payment of honest debts, and that its purpose was to prevent acquisition of territory by old world nations. To further elucidate the position of the United States on the Monroe doctrine, Cullom quoted the recent utterance on the subject in the president's message. Attention was also called to Lord Lansdowne's declaration that there was no disposition or desire on the part of Great Britain to acquire Venezuelan territory. Bacon of Georgia, leading minority member of the committee on foreign affairs, said that on a question of this kind there would be no party division, that everybody would stand with the administration in doing what was best for the general good. There was no desire on the part of any one to embarrass those in control of affairs, and upon whom devolved the duty of protecting American interests. The maintenance of the Monroe doctrine, he added, devolved on the whole people. Hoar said thus far nothing had been done to cause apprehension. Stewart thought the bombardment of a Venezuelan fort should be accepted as a warning of what this country might expect whenever excuse might offer. He gave as a reason for his admonition the fact that our recent acquisition of territory had aroused the jealousy of European powers and that they might attack us at any time. "Not so to our generations," he said, "could we build up and unite of Great Britain. We can strengthen our fortifications, and in view of Venezuela's experience it behooves us to do so." As there was no formal question before the senate the matter was dropped. Advices received at the German embassy today relative to the sinking of the Venezuelan gunboats by the allied fleet bring important details about this incident. It seems that of the three Venezuelan men-of-war captured by the Germans the Restaurador is of 100 tons displacement and the two others of 137 tons. Manned with German sailors, the Restaurador now flies the German flag. The others, it is claimed, were not seaworthy enough to make the voyage to Trinidad, nor was it possible to tow them to port, as the squadron was in search of Venezuelan men-of-war. The German commander, it is added, realizing that the ships were of no value, decided to sink them. As far as Secretary Hay's proposal to the powers of arbitration is concerned, it is learned from an official source that in view of the fact that the allied powers have agreed to assist in the pressuring of their claims against Venezuela there is a feeling that the reply of Germany, Great Britain and Italy should be unanimous. Italy has assured the government she wished to act in strict accordance with Roosevelt's interpretation of the Monroe doctrine. New York, Dec. 16.—At the offices of the Red Line steamers, which vessels run from here to Venezuelan ports, it was said today that the Zulla has arrived at La Guayra all right according to advices received, and that the Maracalbo, which is now due here, will leave for the port on Saturday according to her regular schedule. The company does not anticipate their steamers will be interfered with. Patriotic Demonstration. New York, Dec. 16.—E. Gonzales Esteves, Venezuelan consul in New York, received the following today from Secretary Ferris Cardensas, President Castro's secretary, dated Caracas, Dec. 16th: "A solemn meeting organized by the Honorable Patriotic Board of Citizens, presided over by General Juan Estevan Linares, a prominent mancheered was held here. Over 10,000 people marched from Washington square to Bolivar square, where President Castro and cabinet acknowledged the manifestation. Castro received an unanimous ovation. The purpose of the meeting was to approve the patriotic stand taken by the government. A battalion of students voluntarily formed acted as bodyguard to the president. Enthusiasm throughout the republic to stand by the government baffles description." Price of Coal Forced Up. New York, Dec. 16.—President Baer made a statement today deprecating the course of independent operators, who, it is alleged, forced the price of their coal up to $11.50 a ton, to dealers, equal to $14 to the consumer. GREAT DAMAGE FROM RAINS. Many Streams Out of Their Banks and Much Property Damaged in the Mississippi Valley. Louisville, Dec. 16.—Heavy rains in the Mississippi valley, which have continued in some instances since last Thursday, have sent many streams out of their banks, with consequent damages to railroad and other property. Washouts are reported at several points on the Illinois Central tracks of the Louisville & Nashville are torn up in various places. The town of Gracey, Ky., is submerged, with four feet of water flowing through the main street. Nearly a foot of water has fallen at Paducah in four days. Memphis, Dec. 15.—Railway traffic is badly demoralized because of washouts and floods caused by continuous rains the past three days. The Southern railway is temporarily cut off from Memphis. The Illinois Central is also suffering from washouts both north and south of Memphis. The 'Frisco is experiencing much trouble in moving trains. Milwaukee, Dec. 15.—Snow fell throughout northern Wisconsin, in some places blocking railways. In southern Wisconsin rain fell all day. Suffering in Austria. Vienna, Dec. 15.—Severe weather throughout Austria has caused acute suffering among the poor. The authorities fear an epidemic of typhoid and far-reaching famine. It is feared present conditions will grow worse before the end of winter. The best workmen are emigrating to the United States. AIRSHIPS ARE ON EXHIBITION. Novel Inventions on Exhibition at Madison Square Garden, New York—Airships Among Them New York, Dec. 16.—Novel in name and nature the World's Novelty Exhibition opened today in Madison Square garden and will continue for the next ten days. The big garden is filled with recent inventions and ideas both from this country and abroad. Some of them are instructive and useful, while others are interesting only because of their novelty. Included in the display are a variety of aerial machines, ranging in size from tiny toys to giant airships capable of carrying a dozen passengers. INJUNCTIONS ARE ASKED FOR. Fourteen Railroads Before the Federal Court of Appeals for Violation of Interstate Commerce. Chicago, Dec. 16.—The argument for a temporary injunction restraining fourteen railroads from cutting rates in violation of the Sherman and the Interstate commerce acts, was begun in the federal court of appeals today, Judge Grossecup of Chicago and Judge Phillips of Kansas City, sitting on the bench. General Counsel Dickinson of the Illinois Central road, took up most of the afternoon with a nargument o nbhealf of the railroads. He contended that the government's method of procedure in this case was too radical. Judge Grossecup interrupted the argument by asking: "If a majority of the shipers along a certain line are discriminated against and driven out of business are not hundreds of farmers along the same line injured by having to sell their products to only one purchaser?" "That point seems to lie outside of this bill," said Dickinson, "though I admit the wrong is sufficiently set forth as to grain shippers." "But who can assert the right of all these farmers if not the government under the interstate commerce act?" asked Judge Grossepul. "They can assert it themselves," was Dickinson's reply. "They can apply for an injunction against repetition of the wrong." "Is not that the very ground on which the government interferes? Does not the attorney general ask injunctions here so that all these individuals will not be compelled to bring separate actions?" Inquired Grossepul. Dickinson did not answer this question directly. After a brief address by District Attorney Bethea, both sides were asked to submit printed briefs of their arguments. A decision may not be announced for several weeks. HOLDUP MEN GET FOOLED. Attempt to Hold Up a Texas Bank Cashier—One of the Men Killed. Crimes and Criminals. Alvord, Tex., Dec. 16.—Three men attempted to hold up the cashier and rob the First National bank today. One of the robbers, Frank Martin, was killed; another, John McFall, desperately wounded, and the third, Claude Golden, is in custody. Woman Murdered. Kalamazaa, Mich., Dec. 15—Mrs. Robert Garrison wife of a farmer near Bedford, Barry county, was murdered today. John Brantlinger, who had been employed on a neighboring farm, was arrested at Battle Creek this afternoon charged with the murder. He asserts his innocence. He had changed his appearance somewhat, and does not explain the disguise. It is believed the motive was to secure $1,400 which Garrison had received for a farm a short time ago, and which it was supposed he left in the house. Many Indictments. Telluride, Col., Dec. 15. -Twenty-two indictments were returned today, the majority believed to be against members of the miners' union, who are charged with conspiracy in connection with the riot in July, 1901. INDIAN RISING IN ALASKA Reports That The Hostiles Have Already Committed Depredations. Apprehension at Dawson. Dawson, Dec. 15.—Much apprehension is felt over the Indians along the new government trail having taken the warpath. It is said the hostilities have already committed a number of depredation. Orders have been issued for mobilizing a troop with a view to pursuing the Indians if the reports prove true. CABELLO IS BOMBARDED GERMAN AND BRITISH CRUISERS DEMOLISH FORTS. Citizens Are Panic Stricken—President Castro Continues His Plans for Resisting the Demands of the Powers—Venezuelan Guns Return Fire of the Warships But Are Promptly Silenced. Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, Dec. 15.—Castle Liberator and Fort Saliano, the ancient wooden fortress defending the entrance to this harbor, were demolished by the British cruiser Charybis and the German cruiser Vineta Saturday afternoon in a bombardment which began at 5 o'clock and continued for 45 minutes. Both forts used all the guns in answering the fire, but they were quickly silenced. A number of soldiers defending the fort were wounded. The Venezuelan commander of Castle Liberador and his men stuck to their posts during the bombardment, and were captured by a landing party of British marines. They are now prisoners on board the Charybdis. The site of the forts is now occupied by marines. None of the shells from the cruisers struck the town of Puerto Cabello. The people, however, were greatly frightened, and fled to the hills back of the town. The British and German cruisers arrived at Puerto Cabello yesterday morning at 7 o'clock, searching for Venezuelan gunboats. The two cruisers sent their boats into the inner port, but finding no gunboats the boats returned. The captain of the British marchant steamer Topaze, which was sized by the mob here last Wednesday, then visited the British commodore on board the Charybdis and lodged a protest against the violation of his ship. The British captain returned an hour later with a detachment of 50 marines, who took charge of the Topaze. The populace was greatly excited at this incident and raised the cry, "To arms!" but there was no disorder. The British commodore then sent a message to the authorities at Puerto Cabello demanding immediate satisfaction for the action of the mob in having hauled down the British flag from the Topaze, saying that if this satisfaction was not forthcoming in two hours, at 5 o'clock, the fortress and the customs house would be bombarded. On the receipt of this demand the authorities sent a message to President Castro asking for instructions. A committee of the merchants of Puerto Cabello then approached the American consul here, petitioning him to intervene. The consul accepted this mission and visited the cruisers, but he could obtain no alteration in the decision of the allies. At a quarter before 5 a reply was received from President Castro, who authorized the chief official here to give the British commodore ample satisfaction. Before the answer could be communicated by the American consul to the allied commanders the hour stipulated for its receipt had arrived, and the cruisers immediately opened fire on the fortress. The fire was returned from Fort Salano and Castle Liberador, but the Venezuelan guns were soon silenced. While the fire continued there was intense excitement in this port. Every house in town was closed. BIG FALL IN TEMPERATURE. Furious Blizzard in the Middle States. Street Traffic Suspended and Much Damage Done. Cleveland, Dec. 13.—A heavy rainfall and sleet last night was followed today by a sudden drop in temperature, a furious northeast gale driving snow. Toward noon the storm reached the proportions of a blizzard, resulting in a demoralization of the telephone, telegraph and street car service in all directions. Detroit, Dec. 13.—A blizzard swooped down upon Detroit, about 7 this morning and a 33-mile an hour wind is rapidly drifting the fine light snow. Dr. Hollister has resigned his position in connection with Northwestern university athletics at the request of the faculty. LATE MARKETS BY WIRE. Chicago Produce Chicago, Dec. 17. — Butter — Market steady. Creameries, 18@28½c; dairies, 17@25c. Eggs—Market steady at 24c. Poultry—Market activa and firm. Tur- keys, 13@7745; chickens, 9@11c. Rye—December, 49; May, 62c. Flax-Cash, N. W., $1.25 sold; S. W. $1.16 bought; December, $1.17@1.18; May, $1.25 sold. Timothy-January. $4.25 Chicago Live Stock Chicago, Dec. 17—Cattle-Current receipts were large for the season, although smaller than a week ago, and the market was 10%/5% lower. The early market yesterday was 10%/5% lower than that, with some sales reported fully 29%/5% lower. Today's market was rather more active at yesterday's decline, with good cattle selling at $4.50/5.00. Medium grades, $4.00/4.40. Good to prime steers, $3.00/4.25. stockers and feeders, $2.00/4.50. heifers, $2.00/4.75. calves, $3.75/4.50. Hogs-Greatly reduced offerings are causing daily advances in prices, and the best hogs brought $6.00 today, being 10 over yesterday's top figures, also last week. Receipts, 25.00 head; about 100 butchers, $9.90/6.30; good to choice heavy, $6.35/6.55; rough heavy, $5.95/6.30; light, $6.60/6.10; bulk sales, $8.10/6.25. Sheep-Decreased receipts have checked the decline in prices. Lambs are in good condition, and earlings are selling freely. Receipts 17.00 head. Market steady to stronger at $7.50/4.50 for sheep; lambs, $3.75/5.00. St. Louis Live Stock. St. Louis, Dec. 17—Cattle-Receipts, 9, 000 head. Market spot steady to lower. $25,640; $25,640; $25,640; stockers and feeders, $2,256;40; heifers, $2,256 4.75; Texas steers, $2,604; 4.75 Hogs- Receipts, 5.000 head. Market 5@ 10c higher; range, $6.00@6.55. Minneapolis Wheat. Minneapolis, Dec. 17.—Wheat—December, 74%; May, 75%; on track. No 1, hard. 75%; No 1 Northern, 74%; No 2 Northern, 72%. THIEVES ROUTED BY BEES. Latter Attempt to Make Away With Crocks Filled With Stingers. A novel case of larceny is reported from near Longstown, York county, and the perpetrators are the worst victims. Amos Gable, a bee raiser, recently placed upon the tops of several bee hives earthen crocks for the bees to store their surplus honey in. Three young men of Longstown, while out for a lark the other night, thought it would be a huge joke to rob the hives in Gable's orchard and enjoy a feast of honey. When they arrived at the orchard they observed the crocks and took possession of them. "How considerate," said one of the trio, "was Mr. Gable for putting these crocks of honey where we could help ourselves." The young men were not aware that the crocks were loaded with live insects, but this fact dawned upon them when one of their number uttered a blood curdling yell as a bee settled upon his neck and objected to being disturbed from its slumbers. This was the signal for all of the bees to make an attack, and the stillness of the night was broken by the cries of pain uttered by the young men as they hastened for the nearest stream in which to plunge to escape their torments. The feast of honey was postponed indefinitely. Mr. Gable, thinking that the miscreants had been sufficiently punished, will not prosecute them. He withholds their names because of their connection with prominent families.—Philadelphia Telegraph. FIFTY DOLLARS TO SIT DOWN Carmel, Ind., Dec. 15th—Mr. Joseph L. Duffey relates an experience that has aroused considerable interest in this locality. It is best given in his own words: "When I was working in the fields," says Mr. Duffey, "I would be ready to quit, but I could not get to the house, I was so weak. It was worth fifty dollars to get to sit down. "I had no strength and a person without strength is not much use. "But bless the Lord, I took four boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills and they gave me health, strength and appetite. "I might say I am cured, but I will keep on taking Dodd's Kidney Pills. Yes, I'll get them if it takes the last thing on the farm." Dodd's Kidney Pills have effected quite a number of other cures here and it seems safe to say they are an effective dpermanent cure for all diseases arising from the Kidneys. Where Duck Hunters Are Tantalized. Spot Pond, in the Middlesex Falls district, which lies between the towns of Melrose, Maiden, Stoneham, Medford and Winchester, has become the Mecca of thousands of wild ducks, most of them of the black variety. For the past five or six years, since the Metropolitan park commission has taken possession of the pond, no gunning has been allowed. This the ducks quickly learned, and every year since they have been greatly augmented in numbers, until this year there is the largest number of ducks ever seen on the pond at one time. They sit out in the middle of the pond in several bunches extending from the Stoneham to the Medford shores. There are two islands in the vicinity on which they roost each evening. It is estimated there are over 3,000 ducks at the present time in the pond, as the migration to the south takes place. There were a large number of well known gunners on the shores of the pond yesterday with hungry eyes, watching the ducks for hours. The ducks seem to know they are safe from all danger and come quite near the shore and play with each other, and seem to have no fear.—Boston Journal. DEAFNESS CANNOT BE CURED by local applications as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. We rebuilding sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed Deafness is the result, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are caused by Catarrh, which is not a inflamed condition of the mucous services. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free. Hall's Pills & Co., Toledo, O Sold by Drummists. 75c. Hall's Family Pills are the best. Speed is Costly. They tell great things about the speed of the ocean greyhounds, but omit to say that speed costs as does every other luxury. They expect to drive Kaiser Wilhelm II, twenty-four knots an hour, but it will take an expenditure of 40,000 horsepower to do it, whereas 14,000 horsepower will drive Cedric, the largest ship in the world, seventeen knots. Every additional pound of steam means more coal, more "hands" and more expense in every direction, until the increased speed is soon forbidden by the increased cost. An attempt to drive either a ship or a man too fast soon costs more than it is worth. Why not take it easy?—Boston Globe. Mothers will find Mrs. Winslow's Sootting Syrup the best remedy to use for their children during the teething period. THE BEET-SUGAR CROP In view of unfavorable reports lately received from Michigan, Colorado and other states, due to unusually wet weather, we reduce our estimate of the American beet-sugar crop from 213,100 tons to 196,000 tons of 2.240 lb. The production last campaign was 162,126 tons. The net decrease in the new beet and cane sugar crops of the world is estimated at 1,108,680 tons. Last season the crops gave an excess of 1,240,862 tons, which increased the stocks to such enormous figures as to cause prices to fall below the cost of production. The decreased production will not be sufficient to meet the demands for actual consumption; therefore, we may expect a material reduction in the heavy stocks, but the supply is likely to be excessive for some time to come.—Country Gentleman. Sheep are selling at from 10 to 20 cents a head in parts of Australia on account of the drought. California will ship a large amount of celery to eastern markets this winter. It is one of the growing industries of the coast. The Devon cattle are hardly known in the West. With the passing of the ox as a beast of burden the special use for the Devon ceased. Other breeds better fill the needs of the dairy and the feedyard. The Argentine Republic produced this year 86,000,000 bushels of corn, or just about one-third of the crop of the state of Kansas, and the Argentine Republic is the only competitor America has in the corn business. It is much easier to put fat on an animal when it is warm than when it is cold, easier to feed with the sun than without it. For all practical purposes sunshine and warmth mean fat and the want of them a curtailed ration. Cows are fond of turnips and rape, but it is poor stuff for their ration, as it is almost impossible to feed them so that they will not taint the milk. If a root ration is desired for the cow in winter, there is nothing better than sugar beets or carrots. The spiraea known as the bridal wreath and the high bush cranberry are specially noticeable for the rare beauty of their foliage in the fall. No shrub or tree we know excels them. While it is all right to serve refreshments to one's guests, it always grinds us to serve those who come only for what they can get to eat. It is so much like throwing a basket of corn to the hogs. We know of a poor man who raised two acres of New Yorker potatoes this year. He raised 200 bushels per acre and sold the crop in the field for 50 cents a bushel, or $200. Allowing $8 for rent, $10 for seed and $16 for planting, cultivating and digging, he had the nice net profit on the crop of $166, or more than he could have earned at day's work during the four months' work for other people. Other poor men might do as well. It cost us $48 to raise and care for seven-eighths of an acre of onions this year, hiring all the work done, and this on land which was free from weeds. The season was such that it was almost impossible to kill the weeds and involved more expense than ordinarily attaches to raising this crop. The yield was 400 bushels and the net profit on the crop $160. The most pitiful fate of any dumb creature is that of the horse. He graduates down from the carriage to the lumber wagon, then into the hands of the horse trader, then on to the peddler's cart, his last remaining atom of strength whaled out of him till he falls dead in the harness. If he were only recognized as fit for food, this would not be so. The syndicate system of farming is a bane to any country. It is death to schools, society and almost bars the natural development of any section where it is practiced. It is the worst kind of land skimming in its operations and blights everything desirable in our American rural life. It is a comfort to know that it so seldom pays that only here and there has it got a foothold. A stranger coming to this country would of course be informed of the fact of our big things—our millionaires, great corporations and manufacturing interests—and just as like as not he would not be told about the best thing which the country can boast of, and that is the way up from poverty to the ownership of ideal American homes and a comfortable competency for old age. Think of it. Three crops, or six tons in all, of alfalfa in one year and a crop of seed to taper off on, the hay worth $42 and the seed $24; no plowing or seeding; just harvesting, that's all. Is not that a dandy crop for you? You do this in Kansas, and if you live farther north and have the right sort of soil you can get the two crops of hay and the seed. Most valuable plant grown in America if you can only grow it. Try. Speaking of agricultural swindles, there is the steel range trap. We know of dozens of men who paid $68 for a range to some traveling agent who could have got precisely the same thing for $45 of their merchant, but the trouble was that the local merchant did not go out in the country and illustrate the nonbreakable qualities of malleable steel by taking a stove lid and mauling it with a ten pound sledge, as did the traveling agent. you want 25 cent eggs to sell in winter, make the hens scratch or a living, feed corn only once a day, wheat once and oats once and see that they have a feed of ensilage or its equivalent in some sort of green food once a day. No roosters are wanted for winter egg production. It has been too cold the past summer for the tea roses to do well out of doors. It was with the greatest reluctance that they bloomed at all and many of the blossoms were imperfect because of the cool and damp weather, but it just suited the cabbages, which grew and grew until they bursted wide open. The laws of England touching master and man, the employer and the man employed, are better than in this country. There, when a man hires out for a given length of time, which is the usual custom with farm labor, he has to fulfill his contract and can't throw up his job when some other man offers him a little better wage. Here the farmers seems to have no redress, and most men never know whether they have got a man who will stay with them through the busy season or not. The apple never has been regarded as, and really is in no sense, a tropical fruit, but here is a case where elevation offsets latitude, the Pecos valley, in New Mexico, with an elevation of 4,000 feet, having an apple orchard of 800 acres, from which will be shipped this year 200 carloads of the finest apples ever seen in our Western markets. This orchard is said to be exempt almost entirely from the swarm of insects which make the growing of this fruit such a risky business in many parts of the country. A friend writes us that he has an orchard of Wealthy apple trees fifteen years old and that they never bear any fruit. Same old story—got fooled by a tree peddler and did not get Wealthy at all, but instead some worthless seedlings. We have never known this apple to refuse to bear, and bear when young at that, usually within five years from planting, which fact makes it one of the best varieties of apple we have when its excellent quality and productiveness are also taken into account, Lots of men get fooled just as our friend has, and it is one of the most exasperating things connected with fruit growing. To one familiar with this variety it is easy to identify it even before it fruits, but not so with the amateur. One of the biggest nuisances in the country is the man who hunts and fishes for a living. Almost every community has one or more such parasites. They are always lazy and no 'count, a degenerate offshoot of pioneers who, compelled to hunt and fish to get the wherewithal to live, were always true sportsmen and killed only to the line of supplying their needs. These latter day pirates and poachers are always game hogs, having little regard for open or close seasons on game or the law in general. The spear, dynamite, the trap and the pump gun are their tools. No sort of wild life, not even our song birds or the red squirrel, is safe when they start out, and they literally clean out every vestige of our game birds in every civilized community. The Reason Why. A friend claims that a laboring man should be paid such a rate of wages that after he had worked 25 years he would have enough so that he would not have to work thereafter for a living. As a theory this sounds all right, but there are so many conditions which are attached that it counts for nothing. In this country there is always some good reason why a man is not worth a dollar when he is 60. It may be whisky, gambling, inborn laziness, general unthrift, the eating, drinking and being merry, for tomorrow we die type of living, the lack of ordinary business sagacity, speculation, ill-health, going security for one's friends, helping children who should be made to hoe their own row or restlessness which keeps one on the move all the time. We have known a section hand at a dollar a day to pick and shovel out independence for himself in 20 years, while we have seen the man die in the poorhouse whose father gave him $20,000 to start in life with. It is all in the man. Industry, self denial and economy will in this country place any man beyond the reach of the poverty wolves; but, given the same chance, the man who starts on three fingers of whisky a day and a jackpot Saturday night will never have anything better than second-hand suit of hand-me-downs for a Sunday suit. This law of living is as inexorable as death. If one would live on Easy street at 60, he must be willing to shovel dirt in the alley when he is 20. A Slick Swindle. About the slickest swindle which comes the farmer's way is the cloth deal. It is a catcher, and some of the shrewdest men get caught. It is safe to say here that when a peddler wants to sell you a five dollar blanket for $1 and thirty yards of calico for a cent a yard there is a hen on, and the time is right there and then when you should whistle for Towser and make a bee line for the old shotgun and inside of three minutes either have a job for the coroner or see a peddler flying for his life in a cloud of dust up the highway. Post over your parlor door alongside of "God Bless Our Home" this truth: "You Can't Get Something For Nothing"—never could and never will. In this cloth deal the man and his wife are always equally involved, and so the bitterness of having been so easily swindled is shared alike, and neither can rub it in on the other. When so caught the subject is never referred to, and the duds bought are either donated to the poor or laid away on some attic shelf where they will not be a constant reminder of the old saw about a fool and his money. He got his herd of fine stock this way: He paid $100 for registered Red Polled heifer in calf. The calf was a heifer, and from these two, with the addition of a male calf costing $75, he has built up as nice a herd of these fine cattle in eight years as one would wish to own, and he now has a demand for all his young animals at prices around the $100 mark as soon as they are nine months old. What he did you can do with any of the good breeds. It is an experiment well worth trying. The richest and best milk which the cow gives is the last she gives—the strippings—so when she is not milked clean the loss is a serious one. Every man owning a good farm in richer by one-third than he was five years ago just in the advance in the value of his land, but this increase of wealth is not available to sell or mortgage his property, the land itself being in no sense more productive because of its increased value. Sunday Chores The doing of the Sunday chores on a farm is a good deal of a problem in many cases. The stock must be fed and cared for and the cows milked and we have sometimes thought that more little pigs, calves and lambs were born on Sunday than on any other day in the week. This is all clearly a work of necessity and as much a Sabbath duty as the going to church, the singing of psalms and the giving to the heathen. Now we doing of this necessary work interferes with the Sunday program and involves a good deal of bother in changing clothing two or three times during the day. Where there are two men on the farm, as there are in most cases, it is much better to take turn about, one hand to do all the chores and cultivate a spiritual frame of mind as he does the milking and other work while his partner keeps up the church business. We know of one old granger that we do not believe will ever get into the kingdom just because he has all the Sunday chores to do, his hired man wanting all of the first day of the week for church and courting. Let Her Rest. Quite a good many good women find Sunday the hardest day of the week because a family custom has compelled the getting up of an extra good dinner on that day and the entertainment of more or less friends. This is all wrong. The wife and mother is as much entitled to a rest day on the first day as is any member of the household, and the dinner for that day should be something easily prepared, and if company is entertained the friends should get their dinner before coming. We know of one man, who is quite a good cook by the way, who always gets the Sunday dinner and washes the dishes while his good wife just takes a layoff and there is no need of the worsted worked prayer, "God Bless Our Home," in that house. Wants the Right Microbe. A matter of interest has been recently developed at the Illinois experiment station with reference to growing alfalfa. Working on the theory that the soil upon which alfalfa failed was deficient in the microbes which are essential to the proper development of this plant, just as is the case with clover, inoculated soil was procured from Kansas and Nebraska and sowed with the alfalfa seed, the result being that the crop has since done remarkably well. This is a point worth looking into where alfalfa has failed. Oysters Versus Oats: It is pretty good land and pretty good farming where a crop is produced each year the gross value of which is $70, and for large areas this value is seldom reached but the oyster beds of the eastern coast easily bring in a return of $70 per million thousand acres. The ocean is more productive than the land. HARD TIMES NOW IN GERMANY Condition of Large Sections of the Working Classes Critical With the setting in of piercing cold weather the condition of large sections of the German working classes becomes critical. The iron and coal industries in Westphalia and Silesia are far from being prosperous. Workmen continue to me dismissed, apparently with the object of keeping up high prices. Complaints are heard on all sides of coal owners and ironmasters supplying foreign markets at prices less than the home consumer is obliged to pay. According to the Vorwarts, want of work in many branches has reached so calamitous a stage that the measures taken to meet it are altogether inadequate. In Cologne, for example, where a communal insurance institution has started a bank to insure against lack of employment, the bank has had to be closed owing to the drain on its resources. The Vorwarts calls on the state to take instant measures to relieve the distress by starting public works, by shortening the hours of labor, and by organizing the labor market. In Berlin matters are no better than in the provinces. Hundreds of applicants, young and old, compete for every vacant post. The refuges for the destitute are overflowing. The worst of it is there are no signs that the condition of affairs will speedily improve. The depression will certainly continue for some time longer. Probably one of the best illustrations of the general stagnation may be drawn from the iron trade. In the year 1900 131 kilograms of iron were either used or exported for every inhabitant. In 1901 the production had sunk to 89 kilograms. This year it will not be more than 66. Another illustration is found in the fact that the number of marriages in most of the large cities throughout the empire is decreasing, notwithstanding the advance in population. In Berlin, for example, in 1900 22 per thousand of the population were married; 1901 not quite 21, and this year the number will probably not reach 20 per thousand.—London Chronicle. A Yorkshire village has been sold at Stockton for the sum of £1,510, which seems cheap enough for such a desirable lot. As the auctioneer remarked, to be able to refer to "my village up in Yorkshire" was alone worth the money, apart from the substantial consideration of a farmhouse and buildings and 16 acres of grass land, two dwelling-houses, four cottage, several small gardens and a blacksmith's shop. 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That the policy of feeding the Indian at public expense on reservations was the outgrowth of a mistaken philanthropy and was foolish in that it exempted the Indian from the natural and inexorable law that man must earn his living by labor of some kind is now universally recognized. How to rectify the errors growing out of this policy and supplant it by a system that would ultimately induce the Indian to put his hand to the play is a problem that has engaged the study and activity of Commissioner Jones since his induction into office. The most radical change inaugurated was the departure from the custom of dealing with the tribe to that of dealing with the individual. The results attending this change, according to Commissioner Jones, have been most gratifying. The manhood of the Indian is appealed to, and he is taught self-reliance and self-respect. As a result of this policy over 12,000 have been dropped from the ration roll, being wholly self-supporting, and others not yet self-supporting have been put to work. As an incident in this "civilizing process" the order directing the agents to encourage the discontinuance of the Indian custom of wearing long hair and painting the face has been productive of good results. The success of the policy of dealing with the individual Indian instead of the tribes warrants its continuance and justifies the hope that the Indian may yet be converted from a costly ward of the nation into a self-supporting citizen.-Chicago Record-Herald. SOME SOUTHERN "RED BONES." Peculiar Name Given to Certain Class of People in the South. "Have you ever heard of a class of people called 'red bones'" said Mr. Lewis Marshall of Charleston, S. C. "They are the most peculiar people in the United States. No one living absolutely knows the race from which they sprang or from where the original settlers came. They live nearly on the boundary line between South Carolina and Georgia, in the northwestern part of the first named state. They are clanish, mix little with people not of their race, and in a manner are quite thrifty. In slavery times they owned slaves, visited the several summer resorts of the southern mountains, and in a way put on quite a little style. While I have nothing but supposition to guide me, I am of the opinion that they are descendants of the Basques of southern France. They do not lack courage, for a company of them served in Hampton's legion during the late civil war and bore themselves bravely at the first Manassas. Their skin is of a swarthy red, resembling that of the Indian, but at that point all resmblance ceases, except it be that they are not of temper. I have often wondered why the ethnologists of this country have not studied these people. Surely a monograph on them would be highly interesting."—Washington Star. The Colored Sentinel. Booker T. Washington recently told a gathering of negroes that one of the great faults of his race was a disposition to exhibit knowledge under any and all circumstances, and asserted that, until the negro learned not to display his vanity, he was useless in any confidential capacity. By way of illustration, he told a story which, he said, might be or might not be apocryphal, but which was good enough to be true. General Sherman had been told that the soldiers of a negro regiment in his command were very lax when on sentry duty, and showed a fondness for CENTRAL N. U. - - - - - NO. 42-02 passing doubtful persons through the line just to indulge their power to do so. To ascertain if this were so, he muffled himself one night in a cloak, and tried to get past a black sentry. After the "Who goes there?" the "A friend," and the "Advance, friend, and give the countersign," had been exchanged, Sherman replied: "Roxbury!" "No, sah!" was the polite but firm response. "Medford!" "Noccal" "Charleston!" Sherman next tried. "Charleston!" Sherman next tried. "No, sah! No sah!" said the negro, determinedly. Then he added: "Now, see heah—yo" can go frth 'th' whole blamed joggrafy; but Massa Sherman he done say that nobody can get pas' mifwow sayin' 'Cambridge!'"—Exchange. A perusal of the annual report of Gen. John F. Weston, chief commissary of the army, will convince the reader that to be an efficient officer one must have a knowledge of business methods, as well as of tactics. The army consumed in the last year 8,574,972 pounds of beef and mutton, and by the business arrangements of the department this was delivered at a reasonable price. The Philippine supply was sent from Australia, and was of the "first-class refrigerated" kind. The beef was bought at an average of 6.68 cents a pound, and the mutton for 5.50 cents a pound. The delivery at army stations averaged 2 cents a pound. In drawing comparisons between prices paid by the United States government and England, General Weston points to the fact that a ration of beef alone, delivered to the British army in South Africa, cost more than "our entire ration of beef, flour, fresh and dried vegetables, fruit, coffee, etc., delivered at Manila." Last season Edward McWade, the author of "Winchester," had occasion to visit an inland town, so he hired a horse and wagon to convey him to the village. The horse was slow and the driver a sleepy lout of a boy who, in spite of all urging, failed to get more than a compromise between a walk and a trot out of the sorry beast. Just as the vehicle turned into the town Mr. McWade roused himself and said: "Bub?" "Yaas, Sir." "What are you going to be when you grow up?" "Dunno; g'lang. Why d'ye ask?" "What-ever you do, don't be an undertaker." "Why not Mr. McWade?" "Because you'd never get your first corpse around in time for the resurrection, that's why." 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THORNTON & MINOR, 999 Oak St, Kansas City, Mo; Twentleth Century Negro Literature WRITTEN BY This book contains One Hundred Treaties on Thirty-Eight General Topics in which the negro problem is viewed from everypossibly negro citizenship. It will furnish the basis of future calculations on all race subjects. There are 100 PORTAIRS AND 100 BIOGRAPHIES of the race in pictures and drawings. The hundred most prominent negro is the knowledge of the entire race. Over 700 large pages and retails at $2.50 in cloth, postpaid. AGENTS: We want 5,000 canvassers at once to introduce this book to the public. We will pay the agents on credit. Agents magnificent ample book for $3c to pay mailing expenses. Write for our proposition at once. This is the opportunity of your life. 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. Our thanks are due Miss Gertrude B. McKim, assistant principal of Fulton school, for subscription this week. The Memphis Scimitar published at Memphis, Tennessee is one of the few narrowminded newspapers that came so near dying, when President Roosevelt entertained Booker T. Washington at dinner, and evidently, has not yet recovered from the effects of the shock, as it recently spoke sneeringly of Booker T. Washington as being Roosevelt's "chum". The editor of the Scimitar need not worry, he will never be compelled to eat at the table where Booker T. Washington ate. DR. CROSSLAND'S SUCCESSOR. The recalling of Dr. Crossland as minister to Liberia, by the state department at Washington, is already causing considerable comment among Missouri politicians, owing to the fact that Dr. Crossland is a Missourian and at the time of his appointment was President of the Negro Republican State league, and the only negro member of the Republican state committee. Dr. Crossland received the undivided support of the prominent republicans when he was seeking the appointment as minister. As to Crossland's successor, it is not very probable that his successor will be named from Missouri. Nor would it give satisfaction to those interested in politics, for the President to make another selection from Missouri. Just at this time, owing to the factional strife which now exists among the Missouri political workers and party leaders, as it is not at all probable that any man in Missouri could be named whose appointment would meet the approval of all factions. It would probably be well for the president to select some western editor., for instance, Editor J. H. Jackson, of the Western Enterprise, would be an excellent selection. Huntsville Notes. The children of Lincoln school will render a program at Sandisons Hall, Tuesday evening. A large attendance is expected. The Sunday school of the Second Baptist church will have a Christmas tree December 25th. The A. M. E. church will have their Christmas tree, Christmas evening, December 24. Principal R. L. Logan will attend the State Teachers' association at St. Louis during the holidays. Mr. Sam McDemic was seriously injured in the coal mine last Wednesday by a large rock falling on him. He will probably be confined to his room all winter. Huntsville is soon to have both electric and gas lights and water works. The Professional World is only $1 per year. PILES All diseases of the rectum treated on a po- patient is cured. 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Mrs. Sam Woolery left on the 15th for the state of Colorado, where he goes for his health and will remain during the winter and if benefited by that climate he will move his family there in the future. Nearly all the people of this neighborhood have killed hogs, some have a few to sell and have their corn cribs filled and are not yet done gathering. Oh yes! we heard what we are to have during the holidays, but do not tell anybody. Subscribe to this paper it is only $1 for one year. News From the Capital. The finest line of Christmas goods in Jefferson City, at T. G. Burkhardts Jewelry store. Rosetta Bennett, Mrs. S. M. Wiseman, and master Otus Moore have all been on the sick list. Mr. Preston Higginbottom is convalescent. Mrs. Marshal Irving, of the class of 1903, at Lincoln Institute, has gone to St. Louis to be treated for throat trouble. Mrs. Elizabeth Williams is very ill. Mr. Smith Moore has moved into the Pryor house on Cherry street. The Tabitba Court conferred degrees upon the following persons, Mesdames Ida King, McKinzie, Messrs. B. King, C. Lane, Hayes Sexton and Wheeler Sexton. Mrs. Prof. Yates and Mrs. M. E. Goins are expecting to attend the Woman's Frederation, in St. Louis, during the holidays. The Woman's Club, of Jefferson City, feels proud of having Mrs. Porf. Yates, president of the National Association as a member of their club. Mrs. Prof. Morten has also joined this club. Prof. A. L. Reynolds owns two good houses and other property in this city; what a good catch young ladies! Mrs. G. W. Dupee has returned from St. Louis. Mrs. Logan has gone to Independence on the account of the illness of her son-in-law, Prof. S. A. Nuttall. Now is the time to subscribe to The Professional World and get the Christmas number. PERSONAL Mrs. Robert Banister has returned after a few weeks visit in Mexico. Mr. David Brown of Miami, is in the city. Miss Fanny Smith of Grandfork, N. D., was called home by the death of her father. Mr. Fred Wilson of Kansas City is spending a few weeks with his parents. Mr. Virgil Schweich, who has been in Kansas City for several weeks has returned to accept a position as mail carrier. Mr. Logan Williams and Miss Mildred Williams who attend Lincoln Institute, were called home by the death of their grandfather. Mrs. Annie Fisher was called to Denver, Colo., to the bedside of her daughter, who is reported to be very ill. NEGROES ORGANIZE BANK. Pine Bluff, Ark., Dec. 10.—A bank was launched here today by negro citizens, under the name of the Southwestern Investment, Trust and Banking Company. It was incorporated three years ago, but for various reasons did not open until today. The officers are: J. N. Donahoe, president and general manager; F. N. Sneed, of Clarendon, vice president G. W. Fletcher, secretary; Phil Coleman, treasurer; H. B Hockenhall, attorney, and John Ward, teller. 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 No. 33, Arrive Columbia..... 8:15 a. m No. 33, Arrive Columbia..... 1:20 p. m No. 37, Arrive Columbia..... 8:45 p. m GOING NORTH. No. 30, Leave Columbia..... 10:00 a. m No. 32, Leave Columbia..... 1:45 p. m No. 34, Leave Columbia..... 4:15 p. m M. K. & T. Ry. A. M. No. 30 A. M. No. 38 P. M. No. 40 Leave: McBaine ... 6:30 11:53 4:05 Webster ... 6:33 11:58 4:08 Brushwood ... 6:18 12:02 4:11 Turner ... 6:42 12:06 4:17 Limerick ... 6:47 12:11 4:22 Arrive Columbia ... 6:55 12:19 4:30 TRAINS SOUTH. 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 Wester ... 11:22 3:32 6:52 Arrive McBaine ... 11:25 3:35 6:55 --- WALTHERS HAS ALL KINDS OF FURNITURE AND DOES FUNERAL DIRECTING. Lodge and Church Directory. LODGE. 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. Walden 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. K. OF P. Harrison Lodge No. 12. Huntsville, Mo. Meeting the first and fourth Thursdays in each month. Martin Tony, C. C., W. F. Ansel, K. R. S. L. A. Robinson, M. E. SECOND CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Rev. J. B. Parsons, pastor. Preaching Sundays 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Everybody cordially invited to attend. A. M. E. CHURCH. Rev. P. C. Crews, Pastor. Preaching Sundays 11 a. m.; 7:30 p. m. Sunday school 2:30 p. m. 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 extended to all. New School For Kirksville There will be a college in Kirksville known as the Lovejoy Industrial Institute for colored boys and girls. This college will be founded by Prof. W. L. Jones. He is appealing to all well wishers of the race throughout the United States for the contribution of 10 cents toward erecting the college, all donations sent to Kirksville National Bank, Pres. Mills. Mr. Jones is an able worker for the race and has done some noble work for them throughout Arkansas and Texas.—Exchange. --- The Columbia Gro=cery Co., Keeps constantly on hand a fresh supply of staple and FANCY GROCERIES. YOUR PRODUCE WANTED. --- At Present, the Best Sight in Jefferson City is the Handsome Goods at Geo. Porth's Jewelry Street. Charming Gifts—plenty and waiting for your inspection. Watches, Jewelry, Silverware, Clocks, Silk Umbrellas, Etc. This Fine Holiday full of Quality, Beauty and Good Taste, at the Most Reasonable Prices. RIPA Owing to close confidance business, I suffered from touch of indigestion, so I to cause me intense tongue was coated; his pains around my eyes are erable. 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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 for an ordinary occa family bottle, sixty cent a supply for a year. ve-cent package is ordinary occasion bottle, sixty cents, or for a year. The five-cent package is enough for an ordinary occasion. The family bottle, sixty cents, contains a supply for a year. Staple and Fancy Groceries. All Kinds of Fresh Lunch Goods. Wood and Coal. Prompt and Careful Attention Given to all Orders. Telephone 580. Lafayette St. Jefferson City, Mo.