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THE PROFESSIONAL WORLD. $1.00 Per Year in Advance. Capital City News. Mrs. Redman is reported very sick. The rainfall has been very heavy here. Jefferson City needs a first class fire company. Mrs. Rosa Tramel has been ill for several weeks. Mrs. Ida King and Mrs. Reuben Jackson are on the sick list. Miss Lillian Brown visited her mother at Fulton last Saturday and Sunday. Bishop Lee lectured at the A. M. E. church Tuesday evening, subject "One Hour in Rome." Old Folks concert at the Baptist church Friday evening, March 13th, conducted by Miss E. Harris and Mrs. M. E. Goins. The Masons have finished paying for their hall and will celebrate this great event Thursday evening, March 12, at the A. M. E. church. Mrs. Mary Clark who was found in an unconscious condition on McCarty St. died the following morning. Although Mrs. Clark carried insurance policies aggregating $81.50 was buried as a pauper. She has no relatives that she knew. Why that she should be buried this way the colored people do not understand. The two young men students who roomed at her house were arrested because one of them opened a trunk to get some articles which the undertaker needed. It was found that the young men were innocent, they were therefore set free. To Subscribers. When your subscription expires and you receive a notice to that effect and do not respond, your paper will at once be discontinued. Columbia News. Patronize the Columbia Grocery Company. Mrs. Rebecca Wade is visiting her parents. Mrs. Jefferson Waldon is able to be out again. Subscribe for the Professional World. It is only $1.00 per year. Mr. Wm. Potts, of Brown Station, visited in Columbia Saturday. Rev. Wm. Fisher, of Kansas City, visited his family here last week. Mrs. Wm. Pitts is spending a few days with her daughter in Centralia. Mrs. Fannie Smith (nee Bias), of Miami, visited friends here last week. Mrs. Bart Davis has returned after spending several months in Kansas City. Mr. A. M. Schweish is now in the U. S. Mail service with headquarters at Des Moines. Rev. J. A. Grant left Tuesday for Sedalia, where he is attending the Methodist conference. Mrs. W. H. Turner met with a very severe accident several days ago by falling and spraining her ankle. While the wound was very painful it is not necessarily dangerous and Mrs. Turner hopes to be out in a few days. Notice! We go to press on Thursdays. All matter for publication must reach us by that day to insure publication. No old news will be published. CASH OR CREDIT. Catalogue FREE. CENTURY MF'G CO. COLUMBIA AND JEFFERSON CITY, MISSOURI, FRIDAY MAR. 13, 1903. Auxvasse Items. The sick of the community are improving. Subscribe to the Profession World. It is only $1.00. Miss Mayme J. Wood, our competent teacher, has closed a very successful term of school. Miss Nellie Henderson left Friday for Breckenridge, Ill., to visit her cousin, Mrs. Maude Brooks. Mr. Henry Branham is preparing to open his sugar camp. Several good days have passed but the high water and bad roads prevented his opening it sooner. Mrs. S. M. Bradley received a letter recently from her brother, Warren Logan, in Chicago, announcing the death of Will Gay, who died in Jacksonville, Ill., Feb. 26th. Gay was well known here, having lived here a number of years. Mr. Sam Woolery has returned from Fort Collins, Colorado, where he has been for the past two months. He has improved much in health and was not troubled with asthma during his stay there. He believes Colorado to be a splendid health resort but does not like it well enough to move his family there. Agents Wanted. We desire to engage some good agents to solicit subscriptions for the Professional World. Liberal commissions will be paid and only one agent will be engaged for the same town, only persons of good standing need apply. Address, Professional World, Columbia, Mo. Huntsville News. Many cases of measles are reported to be in the city. Mr. William Salisbury, of Iowa, is visiting his uncle, Mr. Ed Salisbury. Mr. John Yates, of St. Paul, is visiting his mother, Mrs. James Dunn. The members of the Second Baptist church hope to begin building in May. Mrs. Dehlia Williams, wife of Chas. Williams, of Moberly, has been sent to the insane asylum at Fulton. Messrs. James and Thomas Romans, of Kewanee Ill., are visiting their mother, Mrs. Mary Romans, of Moberly. Prof. James Viley, who recently closed his school at Randolph Springs is now teaching in Parkville, Mo., having been called there to relieve Prof. J. H. Smith, who is now engaged in the U. S. mail service. We wish Prof. Viley much success in his new field of labor. A Sensible View. A practical woman remarked the other day that the most interesting things in the newpapers to her are the advertising columns. "Long ago," said she, "I quit buying of those who did not advertise. It always seems to me that the merchant who advertises invites me to trade with him; while the one who does not impresses me with the fact that he doesn't care enough for my trade to ask for it. Then, too, I have found that the merchant who advertises has fresher goods, for the reason, I suppose, he sells more." It will pay you to send for our Catalogue No. 6, quoting prices on Buggies, Harness, etc. We sell direct from our Factory to Consumers at Factory Prices. This guaranteed Buggy only $33.50; Cash or Easy Monthly Payments. We trust honest people located in all parts of the world. Write for Free Catalogue. MENTION THIS PAPER. DEP'T 910. East St. Louis, IL. Lincoln Institute Notes. (Jefferson City Tribune) March 6. Regent Harris made a brief trip to Lincoln Institute Sunday last. The following from the "Jefferson City Tribune" of March 6, is a brief account of a recent visit made by some of Missouri's law-makers who are particularly interested in the appropriation bill, the welfare of Lincoln Institute and the development of the Negro. They took lunch with students and on going to the Auditorium their expressions against the Separate Coach Bill and along other lines were spicy and to the point. Entertained at Lincoln Institute. Representatives O'Fallon of Holt, Selph of St. Louis, Chapman of Kansas City and Gardner of St. Louis County, were entertained at Lincoln Institute Tuesday by the students at a musicale. The legislators were highly pleased and made addresses complimenting the students and faculty on the work being done there. The following from the same paper of March 8 is still farther indicative of the high estimate placed on the present administration by the law-makers, patrons, and well wishers of the Institution. Lincoln Institute Notes. The boys who were arrested for grand larceny last week were dismissed, no sufficient charge against them having been sustained. President Allen is receiving each day letters from different parts of the State from patrons and friends of the school commending him for the unusual success of the institute under his administration. The concert for the benefit of the boys' reception room was a complete success both from a literary and a financial point of view. The work of the second term has just closed and the examinations were satisfactory to both the teachers and the taught. Every day members of the Legislature and their wives visit the school and express themselves as being highly pleased with the work done. The benefit concert given under the supervision of Professors Yates and Reynolds, proceeds for furnishing certain portions of the young men's dormitory, was a great success financially and otherwise. President Allen presided and gave the address of the evening. One very unique feature of the entertainment was the unexpected presentation of two United States flags, of great historic interest, by one of the best Anglo Saxon friends of the Institute, the Hon. J. E. Crumbaugh of Columbia. President Allen received the flags in behalf of the Regents, Faculty, and students, in very appropriate remarks. Teachers and students of the past, and of the present, were much pleased to read the very interesting and commendable letter by Mr. A. M. Schweich, which appeared in a recent issue of the "Enterprise." His thought of a reunion is a happy one, and Mr. Schweich, a most loyal patron of the institute, can rest assured that he and all former students, will be royally welcomed during commencement, or whenever they choose to come, by President Allen and his faculty. Mr. Bell of Fulton, visited his daughter, Miss Eunice, this week and made careful inspection of the grounds and buildings. Mr. Bell was one of the older students of the Institute, but found not one building remaining on the campus that was here when he was a student. In those days the boys slept in what was termed "the barracks," and as he slowly went through each room in the new steam heated dormitory with its cheerful, well lighted, well ventilated rooms, arranged in every respect for the comfort of the boys, he was almost moved to tears. To each boy in turn he gave some wholesome advise, and spoke again and again of the happy look on the faces of all the students in both dormitories, or wherever he chanced to meet them. Schools and Teachers. Oberlin is offering a splendid course in philosophy, probably more extensive than that of any New England college, excepting Harvard and Yale universities. Prof. MacLennan, who has had charge of the pedagogy and philosophy, will hereafter have entire charge of philosophy only, with the title of professor of philosophy and psychology, and he will carry the bulk of the work, President King still having two courses, one in the theological seminary and one in the college. The total enrollment at Oberlin for the first half-year is 1443, a gain of 61 over last year's total figures. There will be a larger graduating class at Oberlin than before and in every department of the college the number enrolled is the greatest in its history, which is very satisfactory to the friends of the Ohio college. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Mrs. Rockefeller and W. H. Baldwin, Jr., president of the Long Island Railroad Co., of New York, spent a day last week at Tuskegee as guests of President Booker T. Washington. Two years ago Mr. Rockefeller provided a large dormitory for boys at the school, costing $34,000. This building has just been completed. By mistake last week we failed to announce that Miss Mayme J. Wood, of Macon, has recently closed a very successful term of school near Auxvasse, Mo. Miss Woods is a graduate of Western college at Macon and is a most successful teacher. The printing department at Lincoln Institute has been closed, this is to be regretted as a well conducted course in printing would be quite an addition to the present curriculum of the school. Columbia, Mo., will have only eight months of school this year on account of building, the term will close May 9th. Five new school buildings are to be built in Jefferson city this year among them is a colored school. EXODUS FROM IOWA. Sioux City, Ia., March 7. Dealers in lands, railroad men and farmers, agree that the movement from Iowa to North Dakota, South Dakota, Manitoba and Alberta will be larger the season now opening than ever before. Especially is this true of the Canadaward movement, which only fairly started last year, and is expected to take 20,000 people from Iowa this year. Just as 50 years ago Ohio was colonizing the states of the middle west, so to-day Iowa is colonizing those of the Northwest and North. Iowa's basic population is the same that, moving out from New England and New York, colonized the Ohio Valley. Iowaans are a colonizing people. They have made Nebraska, Kansas, the Dakotas, Minnesota largely, and to only a less extent states farther west. Now they are turning to Canada and the 8000 who went there last year will be followed by more than twice as many more this year. Four Inmates Succeeded in Escaping and Have Not Been Captured. Futlon, Mo., March 5.—Ten criminal insane patients at the hospital for the insane made a desperate attempt to escape from their keepers while going to breakfast. Benjamin Richardson, who was admitted to the institution from the state penitentiary February 28, 1903, and served a sentence of four years for grand larceny, and who had been, in the meantime, sentenced to the penitentiary for 99 years for killing a deputy sheriff in Ozark county, cut the iron wrist bands of the ten patients and they tried to overpower their keepers. Richardson used a shoeknife similar to those used at the State Pententiary, but how he came in possession of it is a mystery. In the struggle, after the men were liberated by Richardson, supervisor Thomas Steer made a brave fight and was considerably injured. Other employees came to his assistance and six men were prevented from getting away. In addition to Richardson, the following men escaped: C.E. Morlidge, admitted from Jackson county, Missouri, who was convicted there of grand larceny in 1902 and sentenced to seven years in the penitentiary; W. S. Wilson, from Jackson county, admitted December 5, 1902, and sentenced to four years in the penitentiary for grand larceny in 1902, and Harry Edwards, from Platte county, admitted December 5, 1902, and sentenced to the penitentiary for ten years on a charge of burglary. As soon as the liberated patients who had not escaped were restrained, a posse was sent in pursuit of the missing men, but no trace of the meu has been fond. Richardson is considered a dangerous man. FACES TO THE NORTH Carthage, Mo., March 7.—I. F. Garner, pioneer stone quarryman of Carthage and one of the oldest Masons in the state, was buried here facing the north, though every other grave in the Carthage cemetery faces to the east. Mr. Garner put his scientific theories against tradition and requested that his remains be buried with the head to the south, because of the fact that the earth's electrical currents run from pole to pole, and while in life he always obtained greatest rest in sleep with his head to either the north or the south. Hence his objection to the eternal sleep with face to the east. HIS FEAR OF GRAVE ROBBERS Aged Macon Man Takes Precautions to Prevent Ghouls Stealing His Body. Macon, Mo., March 2.—Watts Johnson, aged 55, was buried at LaPlata, Macon cony. There was nothing out of the ordinary in the death of Mr. Johnson, but there was in the coffin he was buried in. It was a heavily constructed steel case with a patent lock. When the inner coffin was slipped in and the cover closed nothing short of a blast of dynamite could open it. Several months ago, when Mr. Johnson realized the end was near, he selected his coffin and personally superintended the construction of the steel case to enclose it. The case was a massive affair and was lowered into the grave by means of ropes and pulleys. Mr. Johnson's terror in life was that grave robbers would open his grave and steal his body and he had constructed the steel outer coffin to prevent any such desecration of his remains. VOL. II. NO. 19 TWO PLANS FOR GOOD ROADS. From Post-Dispatch.—Thirty states were represented at the convention of the National GoodRoads Association at Chicago, on Friday of last week. The convention decided to petition Congress for an appropriation of $20,000,000 for the establishment of better turnpikes, on the understanding that on receiving its apportionment of the amount, each state should appropriate an equal sum, the whole to be used in road betterment. The amount to be asked for appears large, but the area to be covered is so great that $40,000,000 raised in this way would only be sufficient to construct enough miles of road in each state to make a beginning and afford valuable object lessons. The belief is that such object would stimulate the people generally to complete the work. Another plan is outlined in Sunday's Post-Dispatch. It was suggested by Charles C. Bell of Boonville, Mo., and involves bonds to be issued by local road districts through the county courts, and to be endorsed by the state. The United States government is then to issue currency against these bonds, such currency to be known as "National Road Currency," and to be used in paying for the work done on the roads. The promoters of this plan claim for it that it would be comprehensive and thorough, insuring a network of good roads all over the country. The Post-Dispatch has done all in its power to further the good roads movement. It is of even more importance than the improvement of rivers and harbors. It is to be hoped that all who are working for it will be able to unite on some practical plan. The two national bodies—the National Goods Roads Association and the American Road Makers—should get together and work in harmony for this needed development of the country's resources. Notice to Correspondents. When you find it impossible for you to send the news regularly from your community after having agreed to do so, kindly notify us and do not have us reserving space for your items weekly and you not sending them. WABASH CHEAP EXCURSIONS ONE WAY RATES February 15th to April 30th, inclusive, to Points in California, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and intermediate. THROUGH TOURIST CARS For full information in regard to rates, time of trains, etc., apply to nearest ticket agent or address H. F. WAITS P. & T. A. H. E. WATTS, P. & T. A., Moberly, Mo. 50 YEARS' EXPERIENCE PATENTS TRADE MARKS DESIGNS RUFUS L. LOGAN, B. C. B., Editor. COLUMBIA. : : : MISSOURL Matters of Interest Covering Various Parts of the World and Put In Concise Form. The British cruiser Pallas, the last representative of the allies in Venezuela waters, has left La Guayra. Tirpitz declined to furnish the latter, but said he would hand Richter personally a list of the ships ready for service. Official notice has been received at St. Louis from Paris of the transfer of the Olympian games from Chicago in 2004. Colonel Michael C. Murphy, commissioner of police under the last Democratic administration, in New York, is dead. Mrs. Bayley Hit Pitcher, wife of a Jolet business man, gave birth to three girl babies, all perfect and in good health. Terry McGovern, with his trainer, has left New York for San Francisco, where he will fight Young Corbett March 31. Jennie Thomas, the stenographer who a week ago killed Fred Broderson and shot herself, is dead at the hospital in Lincoln, Neb. Patrick Breen, an old citizen of Dubuque, is dead. Breen was a civil war veteran and a member of the famous Ryan guards. The case of Capt. A. W. Horsford at Dubuque, charged with embezzlement, will be taken from the justice court to the grand jury. Josiah Muir of Morristown, N.J., died there aged 91 years. He was the inventor of the paper car wheel now in use by railroads. A strong German force sent to East Asiatic waters was, Turpitz explained, assigned to that station at the request of the foreign office. A large section of the lower part of Vicksburg is covered by water, and several warehouses and the river front have been abandoned. General Pedro Hinojosa, formerly Mexican minister of war and marine in the Diaz cabinet from 1885 to 1896, is dead at Mexico City, Mex. St. Andrew's church of Chicago has called the Rev. George B. Pratt, pastor of St. James' church of Dundee, Ill., to act as associate pastor. All hope for the recovery of the seven fishermen lost on a detached ice field last Sunday near Monominee, has been practically abandoned. About 250 employees of Tiffany's glass and Decorating company are on a strike because the daily supply of beer has been cut off by the firm. In the New Jersey house a bill requiring trust companies to make a public statement four times a year of their assets and liabilities was defeated. Tommy Glifeather of San Francisco was awarded the decision over George Monroe of New York at Hot Springs, Ark. at the end of the seventh round. Professor G. C. Maynard's department of technology, Washington, is preparing a volume on all the guns and rifles that have been used by the United States army. John Benberski, a former state industrial school inmate, attempted to murder Carl Wedel, a wealthy Mukwonago stock buyer, by shooting at Waukesha, Wis. Alfred Peldram, the newly appointed German minister to Venezuela, arrived at New York on the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse. He intends to sail for Venezuela Saturday. Medrie Robillard, known in the theatrical world as Louis Martinetti, is dead at Victor, Col., of apoplexy. Martinetti was the chief comedian in the "Devil's Auction" company. Governor Van Sant has granted two weeks repsite to Ole Oleon, convicted of the Aitkin murder at St. Paul. It is alleged he is insane. If the board finds Olson sane he will be executed. The secretary of the treasury has drawn warrants in favor of several states on payment of claims for money advanced for raising of volunteers in the civil war. Wisconsin gets $458,677. The Associated Press is authorized by the British embassy at Washington to state there is no foundation for the reports that Mrs. Maybrick's release is contemplated by the British authorities. The towboat Russell Lord of the Ayer-Lord fleet came out of Tennessee river with a tow of 75,000 crossties. This is the largest consignment of crossties ever brought to Paducah by any one steamer. I. A. O'Brien, an American dentist, has been ordered to leave Saxony on account of his supposed relations with former Crown Princess Louise. He sails with his wife and four children for America Thursday. The executive committee of the Lake Carriers' association has made a contract with the Seamen's union to arrange for wages of $45 per month from the beginning of the season and $65 after Oct. 1, and 25 cents an hour extra overtime. Some new statistics show that while in England, Italy and Austria the number of births exceeds the number of deaths by over 100 in every 1,000, in France the births are but 1,006 against 1,000 deaths. The lumbermen at Washington have elected P. White of North Tonawanda N. Y., president; Lewis C. Slade of Saginaw, Mich., vice president. A banquet was held with the retailers, guests of the wholesalers. The biggest deal in racehorses made in Canada for some years was completed when Alex. and Rod MacKenzie, sons of William MacKenzie, paid $7,000 to Harry Giddings of Oakville for his two Wickham—Lady Lightfoot coils. A warm fight in the municipal elections is being waged in Cedar Falls. One faction has contracted for every available vehicle in the city for election day. N. H. Harris and H. C. Hemaway are the candidates for mayor. The schipperke is one of the very few talless dogs. Its name means Little skipper, and was gained from the fact that this dog was a common companion of the Flemish barge. DOINGS OF CONGRESS. Tuesday, March 3, was almost a repetition of Monday in the house. Slowly but surely, through the operation of ceaseless roll calls, the conference reports to complete the necessary legislation were ground out, and when the house at 7 o'clock recessed until 10 o'clock only two conference reports on appropriation bills were still undisposed of—the general deficiency and the naval. During the debate on conference reports, members on each side got in political speeches, and several times party passion flared up. Just before the recess bediam broke loose and there was an exchange of high words between two members on the floor. A personal altercation seemed imminent in the confusion, but was averted by the intervention of friends. The actual business done during the eight hours of the day session consisted of the adoption of the conference reports on the immigration, public building, and sundry civil bills, the reference of the president's veto message of a Virginia claim bill to the committee on war claims, the adoption of a resolution to correct clerical errors in the immigration bill, and the passage of a senate bill to authorize the treasury department to coin souvenir coins for the Thomas Jefferson memorial association. On Wednesday, March 4, the performance of Senator Tillman in holding up congress and compelling it to appropriate $47,000 to pay an old claim of South Carolina called out a remarkable speech from Representative Cannon of Illinois, in the closing hours of the house at 3:30 o'clock a. m. The following resolution was adopted with Mr. Cannon in the chair, amid great enthusiasm: "Resolved. That the thanks of the house are presented to the Hon. David B. Henderson, speaker of the house of representatives, for the able, impartial, and dignified manner in which he has presided over its deliberations, and performed the arduous and important duties of the chair during the present term of congress." Several matters of routine business were then transacted, among them the defeat of an attempt of Mr. Richardson to have a bill granting water power on the Tennessee river to a private individual passed over the president's veto, and the house adjourned sine die. In the Senate. Tuesday, March 3. Senator Tillman is blocking all legislation by a speech which he announced would continue until the hour of adjournment. Senator Tillman's object is to defeat the naval appropriation bill and the general deficiency bill, his reason being that the South Carolina state claims of $47,245 were cut out of the latter measure in conference. The senate accomplished considerable work. It killed the Aldrich banking bill finally, passed the sundry civil bill, the omnibus public building bill, the bill to protect the president, and several minor measures. The two new senators from Delaware were sworn in and seated. On Wednesday, March 4, although the senate was called to order at 10 o'clock business did not begin until some time later. The delay was due to the absence of a quorum and to the fact that Mr. Cockrell insisted upon the presence of the necessary number before taking up the work of the day. Mr. Bailey (Texas) called up a bill amending the rivers and harbors act so as to provide that the $125,000 herefore appropriated for certain river and harbor improvements in Texas shall be used for the construction of a channel in Sabine lake, Texas. On a yea and nay vote, demanded by Mr. Mason, the senate agreed to take the bill up 11 to 9. The effect of the vote was to displace the Philippine tariff bill. It was then temporarily laid aside, and Mr. Hoar spoke on the Philippine bill. The bill had been talked to death, he said. The point he made, he said, was that the senate, the executive, the house of representatives, and the public are not fit to govern the destinies of a people 8,000 miles away who have no voice in the government. A resolution of thanks to President Frye was then agreed to, and, amid handclapping, Mr. Frye resumed the chair, and, thanking the senate for its action, dismissed the members with the following words: "May God's benediction be with you all. Your presiding officers declares the senate adjourned sine die." Thursday, March 5, in obedience to the president's proclamation, the senate of the Fifty-Eighth congress convened in extraordinary session at noon, An immense crowd witnessed the interesting ceremony. Echoes of the Fifty-Seventh congress had not died away when President Pro Tem Frye called the body to order, and soon thereafter the senators who were reelected and those who were to take their seats for the first time, with the exception of Mr. Gorman, who had seen long service in the senate, were sworn in. Friends and admirers of the senators loaded down their desks with beautiful floral tributes. One of the features of the opening ceremony was the ovation accorded Mr. Hopkins, Mr. Cannon's speech in the house of representatives early Wednesday morning in presenting the conference report on the general deficiency bill, in which he charged that the senate conferences had resorted to "legislative blackmail," and attacked the rules of the senate formed the subject of some fervid remarks by Mr. Tillman and by the senate conferences, Messrs. Hale, Allison and Teller. The senate at 3:15 adjourned until Monday. SCHOOLS WILL OPEN MONDAY Judge Stimson Dissolves the Vaccination Restraining Order At Terre Haute. Terre Haute, Ind.. March 7.—A temporary restraining order granted by Judge Stimson to prevent the health board from excluding unvaccinated children from the public schools was dissolved. While the order has been in force all the public schools were closed. They will be reopened Monday with the vaccination order still in force. The hearing of the suit brought by the anti-vaccinationists comes up Monday. The case may be carried to the supreme court to establish a power health board. MINISTERS INDORSE INGALLS Cincinnati Evangelical Alliance Favors Him For Mayor—Two Hundred Ministers Present. Glacinnati, Ohio, March 11.—Resolutions indorsing the candidacy of M. E. Ingals for mayor on the fusion Democratic-Citizens' municipal ticket were adopted unanimously by the Evangelical Alliance at the Methodist Book Concern, about 200 ministers, representing all denominations, being present. The Rev. John Howard Mellish of the Protestant Episcopal church offered the resolution, as follows: "Resolved, That we view with favor the candidacy of M. E. Ingals for mayor of this city, a man who stands for civic virtue. "Resolved, That further action be referred to the committee on civic righteousness." FOURTEEN BODIES CONSUMED Hospital and Homes at Olean, N. Y., Filled With People Injured In the Terrible Catastrophe. Olean, N. Y., March 11.—Fourteen charred and half-consumed bodies, lying in the undertaking establishments, or in their late homes, people lying in hospitals in the area more no so seriously injured at their homes, is the result of the accident on the Erie railroad when an oil train was wrecked and several oil cars exploded, scattering death and destruction in every direction. Several patients in the hospitals are seriously burned, one of them, Richard McDonald, aged 9 years, probably fatally. KILLS HIMSELF BEFORE WIFE Kokomo (Ind.) Man Commits Suicide Because He Had Been Jeered At. Became Despondent Over It. Kokomo, Ind., March 11.—William Brooks, recently of Sterling, Ill., swallowed three ounces of carbolic acid here, and cannot recover. He was dependent because his mates at the steel mill jeered at his work. He took the poison in the presence of his family. His wife struggled to prevent the tragedy, but was overpowered. CONFESS THEY ARE GUILTY Rudolf and Collins, Bold Missouri Men, Acknowledge Looting Bank at Union. St. Louis, March 11.—William Rudolph and George Collins, arrested in Hartford, Conn., on charges of bank robbery and murder at Union, Missouri, have arrived here. After four hours of sweating process Chief Detective Desmond said they made a complete confession acknowledging having robbed the bank at Union, and having killed Detective Schumacher. MINE WORKERS OF SAGINAW Officers Are Elected At the Meeting Of the District—Larve Increase of Members. Saginaw, March 11.—The mine workers of this district have elected Stephen Corvon district president, Duncan Boyd vice president, John Harris secretary and treasurer and E. S. McCullough member of the national executive board. The convention will formulate a wage scale to be presented at the meeting of the operators and miners at Bay City next week. A gain of 315 in membership is reported by the secretary. EDWARD STEWART REMANDED Companion of Nellie Fletcher to Testify at the Inquest—He Will Be Held Until Monday. New York, March 11.—Edward Stewart, who was the companion of Nellie Fletcher of New Haven, who died under suspicious circumstances, was remanded to the coroner by Magistrate Barlow, Coroner Scholer, after securing his written statement regarding the night in question, paroled him in the custody of his counsel until next Monday, when the inquest will be held. CHARCOAL HOUSE IS BURNED. Men Fear That Explosion Of Powder May Take Place and Panic Ensues. Kenosha, Wis., March 11.—The Lafflin Rand Powder company's charcoal house at Pleasant Prairie burned. The men in the mill fearing a spark might cause an explosion of powder were panic- stricken and in their efforts to get out of the building many were hurt. The fire was confined to the charcoal house. The loss is $5,000. EXPLOSION OF A GAS TANK Kills One Man and Injures Three, One Fatally, At Hammond, Ind., Steel Mills. Hammond, Ind., March 11.—One man was killed, one fatally injured and two seriously, by the explosion of a gas tank at the Republic Steel mills here. A petition of habaes corpus in the case of Mayor Ames of Minneapolis, will come up for hearing at Manchester, N. H. Ames was brought there from Hancock and is guarded by deputy sheriffs. CASHIER OF BANK IS MISSING He Was Released On a Two Thousand Dollar Bond and Now He Cannot Be Found. Eureka, Kan., March 11—W. P. Dickerson, cashier of the defunct Toronto State bank, which was taken charge of by the state bank examiner on Jan. 24, with liabilities of $40,000, is missing. Dickerson was arrested a month ago, but was released on a $2,000 bond. WITNESS ON THE STAND SOME DISCLOSURES ARE MADE IN COAL CASE. Max Eichberg Tells of the Existence Of Ironclad Combination—Trial of the Coal Operators At Chicago Promises to Furnish a Number of Interesting Details. Chicago, March 11.—The first witness in the trial of the coal operators here was Max Elchberg, president of the Wabash Valley Coal company. He testified that an ironclad combination existed between the Indiana operators and the Crescent company by which all Indiana coal was to be sold only through the Crescent company. Elchberg identified the round-robin agreement and signatures to the agreement, and said they were made in President Bogle's office. The pooling of the output of the Indiana mines and distributing through the Crescent company, he said, was made known to him a year ago at the convention of miners and operators at Terre Haute. There, he said, the proposition was made to him by C. W. Glimore, son-in-law of President Bogle and vice president of the Crescent company. Elchberg testified that he worked under the agreement, until he disposed of one of his mines last November. All coal, he said was shipped according to the instructions of the Crescent company. He was not allowed to make contracts with outside parties. All payments were made to the Crescent company and the operators met once a month to discuss the situation. At the first meeting the price of mine-run coal, the witness testified, was raised from 85 to 90 cents. Late in the evening Elichberg concluded his evidence and the state announced its case closed. The defense will be equally brief and it is expected that the case will be given to the jury Wednesday night. Practically the whole fight is on the validity of the agreement between the operators, and whether it will be in restraint of competition. AUTO GOES OVER STEEP CLIFF A. R. Pennell, Leading Figure in Burdick Murder Case Comes to Death Buffalo, March 11.—More terrible almost than the death of E. L. Burdick, was the tragedy that occurred here when Arthur R. Pennell, one of the chief figures in the investigation of the Burdick murder, was killed. Pennell was riding in his automobile with his wife and was driving along the edge of the embankment of a stone quarry. The automobile swerved, and in some inexplicable manner leaped over the curb into the abyss. Pennell was instantly killed, his head being crushed to an unrecognizable mass. His wife was injured so severely that the surgeons say her chances of recovery are very slight. Two boys saw the tragedy, but were too far away to know positively just how it happened. Mrs. Pennell when found was unable to speak. She was only semi-conscious when taken to the hospital, but entirely unable to tell of the accident and soon after the operation lapsed into unconsciousness. BAD AIR CAUSES SICKNESS Passengers On An Ocean Liner Are Taken Sick—Vessel Is Quarantined. New York, March 11.—The steamer of Karamania, from Marseilles, Palerco and Naples, was detained at quarantine because two of her crew, and four steerage passengers died under peculiar circumstances on the voyage. All were taken with the same symptoms, cramps, nausea and collapse. It is thought they had been poisoned by some noxious gases emanating from the cargo. Symptoms of sickness preceding the deaths were similar to cholera. The boat will be thoroughly disinfected and its 733 passengers and crew sent to Hoffman's island to remain until the health officer positively knows that they are free from infection. The bodies were buried at sea and the report of the ship's doctor increased Health Officer Doty's suspicions. MEET QUIGLEY ON THE WAY Archbishop Is Welcome to Chicago By Five Hundred Prominent Catholics. Chicago, March 11.—Five hundred Catholic laymen left Chicago by special train over the Lake Shore for La-Porte, where they met Archbishop Quigley and party. Upon the irrival of the reception committee they entered the archbishop's car, and presented an address of welcome. The archbishop's train was two hours late. The party did not reach Chicago until late in the afternoon. HE WAS BOSS OF THE TRAIN Colored Man Has Crew and Passengers Completely At His Mercy Near Portage, Wis. Portage, Wis., March 11.—For about 30 minutes a colored man named Chas. Green had the train crew and passengers completely at his mercy. Between La Crose and Portage the man became noisy and refused to keep quiet, and with a jackknife threatened to kill everybody in sight. After delaying the train at Portage 20 minutes he was captured and lodged in jail. No one was injured. GERMAN POLICE BACK HOME He Came To America At Request Emperor To Study Methods Of Criminals. Pottsdam, March 11.—Police President Count Von Bernstorff has returned from a ten weeks' visit to the United States, where he went at the request of Emperor William to study the methods of criminals and the selling of girls for immoral purposes. WHO COINED "ROUGH RIDER?" Probability That It Was The Celebrated Authorsess, "Guida." "While I was reading the other night," said a scholarly Washingtonian to a Post reporter, "I was brought face to face with another instance of the probable truth of the old saying that there is nothing new in the world. Every one is familiar with the term 'rough rider.' It is a phrase which was contributed in no slight degree to the popularity of the president. It is something to conjure by, and it gives a direct answer to the question, 'What's in a name?' You can't tell me that the volunteer cavalry would have been watched with as much interest if they had been known only by their official designation. "If my memory serves me correctly, Col, W. F. Cody, known as 'Buffalo Bill,' is credited with originating the term 'Rough Rider.' He knows the value of a name as well as any one, and at the time his word was not disputed. It may have been original with him, but he certainly was not the first to use it. As I said, the other night I was reading. I am not ashamed to say that I was reading Ouida. I had picked up a copy of 'Idalla,' and had been reading some of her extravagant tributes to the hero, Erceeldonne, when I caught the phrase 'rough rider.' That startled me, but I might have forgotten all about it if it had not been repeated a few pages later on. She had used it in all the significance it acquired during the Spanish-American war. "As I do not know of its use prior to its appearance in 'Idalla,' which was published at least thirty years ago, I suppose we had better give Ouida the credit for originating the name that has aided in making one man president of the United States." He Went West and Prospered Freeland, Kans., Mar. 9th.—One of the most prosperous farmers in Harper county is Mr. N. H. Mead. Some thirty-four years ago he left his home near Clarence, N. Y., and came to Kansas. Here he has thrived splendidly and last year harvested over one thousand and forty acres of wheat alone. But everything has not gone well with Mr. Mead, for his health has not been good for the last few years. He has suffered a great deal with Kidney and Bladder Trouble and could get nothing to stop it. Lately, however, he has improved a great deal and he says that he has none of the old symptoms left and is feeling splendid again. He used Dodd's Kidney Pills and this remedy seemed to work wonders in his case. He says himself: "Dodd's Kidney Pills have made me well. They are all right and a reliable remedy for Kidney Trouble. They helped me right from the start, giving me great relief, and finally cured me." The Agile Cashier. A number of years ago suit was brought against the cashier of the State Bank of Iowa Falls to recover an alleged deposit, which deposit the bank denied, according to a story in "The Green Bag." During the trial at Eldora the defendant's attorney made a very convincing argument for his client, and took pains to tell the jury of his client's high social and religious standing and of the confidence of the people which he enjoyed, and endeavored to impress upon them indis of the jury that the defendant was not the kind of a man to make a mistake in the handling of other people's money. T. H. Milner, a witty as well as a very shrewd lawyer, represented the other side, and in addressing the jury, said: "Gentlemen, I heartily concur in what my brother has said of the defendant; I agree with him in each and every statement that he has made pertaining to Mr. —s's good self; but I would have you consider deeply this one fact—Canada is full of just such men." $100 REWARD $100 The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure that is known to the medical world that tarth be a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and giving constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The propletors have so much faith in its curative powers, that they offer one Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list of testimonials. Address. F. J CHENEY & Co., Toledo, O. Sold by Drugglust. 75c. Hall's Family Pills are the best. President Eliot of Harvard pointed out in 1883, writing on "The Education of Clergymen," that the press had become a serious rival of the pulpit as a teacher of the people. How potent is this ethical rivalry is shown in a recent bulletin issued by the census bureau, showing the newspapers and periodicals in this country from 1890 to 1900. A writer in Harper's Weekly, in an article on "The Waxing Power of the Journalist," sails attention to the figures in this bulletin, by which it is seen that in 1800 our combined monthly periodicals had a yearly circulation of 426,238,764 copies. Allowing five readers to each copy, the result is 2,131,193-820 readers a year of all the monthly periodicals. Here is a direct influence, collossal, indeed, in power. Mothers will find Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup the best remedy to use for their children during the teething period. In Lynn, Mass., 24,000,000 pairs of shoes were made last year; in Brockton 17,000,000 pairs, and in Haverhill 12,000,000 pairs. These three cities, fore, turned out enough shoes to supply one pair for two-thirds of the population of the country. CRESCENT FENCE PRICES THE LOWEST QUALITY THE BEST WRITE TODAY FOR CATALOGUE & PRICES FARMERS SUPPLY CO. LOW CITY, IA EXPLOSION OF OIL TRAIN ERIE FREIGHT BREAKS IN TWO AND SECTIONS TAKE FIRE. Awful Disaster Near Orlean, N. Y.—Great Crowd of Spectators Watch Flames and Are Covered With the Burning Oil—Large Numbers Are Burned to a Crisp—Scenes at the Catastrophe Are Heart-Rendering. Olean, N. Y., March 10. A score of more people are killed, and a large number injured by the explosion of oil near this city last night. An Erie freight train made up principally of oil tank cars filled with oil broke in two near this city. The sections came together with a crash and one of the oil tanks was demolished. Fire broke out almost instantly. A large crowd went to the scene, and lined up along the tracks. A terrific explosion occurred. The flames communicated to the other tank cars and other explosions followed quickly. Sheets of flame shot out in all directions. Scores of persons were caught within the zone of fire and enveloped in the flames. Men and boys ran screening down the tracks with their clothing a mass of flames. Others fell where they stood, overcome by the awful heat. Just how many were killed is not known, as many bodies were incinerated. Sidney Fish, a prominent business man, returned from the scene at midnight. He said after the explosion he saw several persons who started to run away drop on the railway tracks and they never moved again. He says: Their Terrible Fate. "Others who had been standing close to the wreckage were hurled through the air for hundreds of feet. The scene was awful. Half a dozen young boys ran down the tracks with their clothing on fire. They resembled human torches. I could hear their agonized screams distinctly from where I stood. They ran some distance down the track and threw themselves to the ground, grovelling in ditches in their frantic efforts to extinguish the flames. Then they lay still, some of them unconscious, others dead, I do not know how many were killed, but I counted twenty bodies before I came away." As soon as t he police headquarters had been notified of the disaster every doctor and ambulance in the city were summoned. Grocery wagons and vehicles of all kinds were pressed into service and everything possible was done to bring the injured to hospitals. Early this morning four boys, the first of the injured, arrived at the hospital. Their injuries were frightful. Great patches of flesh were burned off and hung in shreds from their bodies Canvass Is Made. It will be difficult to ascertain the names of a great many of the dead, as their bodies were burned to ashes in the intense heat. A canvass is being made of the city as rapidly as possible to learn the names of those missing. There is great excitement and the streets are thronged with people. Large crowds gathered at the hospital and the faces of the injured were anxiously scanned as they were borne into the building on stretchers. Heart-rending scenes were witnessed when one of the poor, blistered bodies was recognized by a father or a mother or brother, and it was with difficulty that persons were restrained from invading the operating room. Some Bodies Recovered. A report at 1 o'clock (Tuesday) morning says 22 bodies has been taken from the wreckage. Some are burned beyond recognition, only the trunks and skulls remaining. VISITS AMERICAN SCULPTOR Princess Henry of Prussia Compliments Mrs. Cadwalader Guild On Her Work. Berlin, March 10.—Princess Henry of Prussia recently called at the studio of Mrs. Cadwalader Guild, the American sculptor, and spent an hour in examining her work. The princess was particularly interested in a bust of the late President McKinley. RYAN GETS LIGHT SENTENCE A. B. Ryan, Convicted of Shooting Maude Stone, Sentenced to a Year and a Half. McPherson, Kas., March 10.—A. B. Ryan, convicted of shooting Maud Holmes, with whom he was in love has been sentenced to serve one year and six months in the penitentiary. An appeal to the state supreme court will be taken. HISTORIC CASE IS SETTLED Kentucky Judge Renders Opinion In Lockard Versus the Asher Lumber Company. Frankfort, Ky., March 10.—Judge Cochran, of the federal court, has rendered an opinion in the case of Lockard vs. Asher Lumber company involving the famous Lockard patent of 1873, for 42,400 acres of land in Harlan county. Judge Cochran holds that under the statute of Kentucky, 1852, which provides a patent for a larger tract than 200 acres shall not be issued, is in effect and invalidates the Lockard patent. The decision wipes out every patent for more than 200 acres issued since 1852, and will have a sweeping effect on eastern Kentucky lands, where extensive patents are held by many companies and persons, issued since the statute of 1852. CHICAGO MEN GET INCREASE Carpenters and Builders Make Terms Of Five Cents More An Hour On Their Work. Chicago, March 10.—An increase of 5 cents an hour will be paid Chicago carpenters. This is in accordance with an agreement signed here between the carpenters and builders association and carpenters executive counsel, representing 7,500 union carpenters. The new scale is 50 cents an hour. The men will be benefited to the extent of $720,000 for the next year. FARM NOTES (Copyright, 1901, by J. S. Trigg, Rockford, Iowa.) Correspondence Solicited. Rice feeds ten persons, taking the world at large, where wheat feeds one. The losses by reason of hog cholera last year in the state of Indiana are placed at near $6,000,000. The American farmer is getting the daily paper habit as a result of rural delivery, and it is a good thing for him. Steam transports having a capacity of 900,000 bushels of wheat each will soon be plying between the Pacific coast and Japan. The modern harvesting machines are now in use by twenty-nine different nations of the earth and represent in their ability to harvest the crops of the world the labor of 20,000,000 men. We do not know that the time will ever come when the lion shall eat straw like the ox, but the time has come when the hog will eat hay-alfa hay—like an old cow. It is a staple winter ration for Kansas hogs. An expert dealer in butter stated recently that he would rather handle butter which scored 92 and which would remain at that scoring until disposed of than to handle an extra grade at 98 and have it drop to 92 before it could be sold. A second cutting of timber land—oak, hickory, maple and basswood of twenty-eight years' growth yields about eighteen cords to the acre, worth net to the owner about $72. This fact explains why forestry is not profitable in a commercial sense. A farmers' mutual insurance company of a county in a Western state paid $2,375 on thirty-nine losses during the year. Of this amount $2,284.84 was for losses caused by lightning, stock killed, while only $129.75 was paid out for fire losses. This goes to show that lightning in these days of barbed wire fences is a very destructive agent. The stockmen of the West are bitterly opposed to the proposed packing house trust, believing such a combination will have the cattlemen completely at its mercy in the matter of fixing prices. This opposition is so marked and emphatic that with its threats to establish packing houses of its own it may defeat the proposed packing house merger. Years ago when black walnut was plentiful and cheap it was used largely for the construction of the wooden bridges by the pioneers because of the ease with which it could be worked and its well-known durability. Such a bridge built fifty years ago in the state of Indiana, 150 feet long, contains timber valued at present at $15,000, which would more than twice pay for a steel bridge to take its place. We are asked whether the production of cucumbers for pickles is a profitable business, what the yield is and what the profits. In such cases as we have known the crop will yield a gross return of from $40 to $70 per acre. There are two difficulties in the way of this crop—one to protect the vines from insect pests, the other to secure necessary help to gather the crop, which has to be done every two or three days during the season. If one starts out as a breeder of registered cattle of any breed, he must produce animals of such a grade of excellence that his yearling males will bring him at least $100 each. If he cannot do this, he had better confine his efforts to the production of beef or milk and let others breed for the market. Not every man is cut out for a breeder. There must be individual excellence as well as pedigree, and men cannot combine these qua. A large purchase of Belgian hares by an Eastern canning factory was logically followed by a large shipment of choice selected boned turkey from the cannery soon after. After all, it's what you think you are eating rather than what you really eat, evidenced by the serving of fried cat for squirrel as a joke at a party, the participants at the feast pleased and satisfied, only to undergo a serious digestive disturbance later when informed of what they had really eaten. With the exception of the peach, orange, grape, nectarine and apricot it may be said that nearly all our other fruits thrive best where there are the least extremes of temperature, where neither excessive heat, cold, moisture nor aridity prevails. The climatic conditions which prevail in Nova Scotia, lower Canada, northern New York, northern Michigan, Washington and Oregon, where it would be difficult to mature a crop of corn, furnish the apple its very best conditions, also the pear, cherry and all the small fruits. The Weather Signal Service. It costs this country $1,250,000 annually to maintain the weather signal service, and a friend writes us asking what it amounts to and what good it does. Where a man's view is contracted so that he can only take in his immediate local conditions it is not strange that such a question should be asked. This service from a small beginning has been gradually extended so as to cover nearly the whole country. It furnishes the only reliable data as to rainfall, force of winds, varying temperature and barometrical readings. The reports from its agents are tabulated in each state, and very accurate forecasts can thus be made of coming marked changes in the weather. The value of these reports as applied to the coast and lake shipping interests is almost inestimable, while for the agricultural and horticultural interests of the country immense good results. A warning recently given out by the weather bureau saved the people of Florida millions of dollars, and a late notice given of a coming cold wave prevented shippers of perishable products from losing an enormous sum of money. The records thus made of the rainfall in any locality constitute the most reliable information to be obtained as to whether such locality is fit fr settlement and cultivation or not. Perhaps if the weather service assumed to be wise enough to forecast the weather a year ahead, as do some so-called weather prophets, those who doubt its value might have more faith in it. It is one of the best organized and most useful departments maintained by the general government. Wisconsin Marsh Lands. We have an inquiry as to the value of the marsh lands of central Wisconsin in of which to build up a desirable farm. If we understand it right, these marshes are largely peat formations resting on a sandy subsoil, producing in their natural state either wire grass or cranberries. We should not, assuming the foregoing statement to be correct, consider such land of inviting make-up for general farming. The peat bog on a muck or clay foundation is a very different proposition, such lands when drained being in time converted into very fertile and productive fields. This surface peat formation is largely humus and little else and is wherever found deficient in the phosphates and nitrates and where not burned over in the potash so essential as plant food. These marshes in their natural state as producers of wire brass have, because of the many uses to which this grass is now put, become really valuable lands, the wire grass cured as hay commanding a price in the market equal to the best timothy or clover. If one could secure such a marsh and place it under a proper irrigation system, planting to cranberries, he would have a very profitable investment indeed. A Costly Economy. Economy of the most pronounced type is sure to crop out in the management of all co-operative enterprises conducted by farmers, often of that kind that it becomes the most foolish and wanton waste instead. Here is a case in point: We know of a co-operative creamyery where this false economy has found vent in the wages paid to the butter maker, with the result that during the past year the product of this creamyery has sold continuously at 4 cents a pound below that of Western extra in New York. This creamyery turned out during the year 75,000 pounds of butter. The loss between what it did get for its butter and what it should have got was an even $3,000, and this loss was wholly traceable to the fact that the board of directors thought it better to pay a butter maker $40 a month rather than $70. The very first thing creamyery directors should secure for their creamyery is brains for the butter room. If they can't afford to buy brains, they had better shut up shop. An Erroneous Bulletin When the experiment stations last fall sent out a bulletin stating that soft corn—corn which was frosted and failed to mature—was just as valuable for a fod rtaion s hard corn less 20 per cent for the extra moisture which it contained, a serious mistake was made. While we do not question the correctness of the analysis made of this class of corn at the college, the truth is that the practical experiment made later on the strength of it by the feeder proved that science and practice do not always hitch. We have interviewed dozens of feeders this winter, and their almost universal testimony is that this soft corn for feeding purposes has not to exceed one-half of the value of sound, hard corn. We know of one feeder that we would like to see interview the chemist who sent out the official analysis referred to, for there would be a warm debate or we miss our gues. Lignite Coal. North Dakota and Montant have inexhaustible supplies of lignite, or half made coal, a bituminous deposit which has not had either the pressure or the age to convert it into genuine coal. In its natural state it is not available as a fuel for shipment, as it quickly slacks when exposed to the air. Companies are now being formed to convert this coal into briquettes, or pressed bricks, as is now being done very successfully in both France and Germany with similar deposits of lignite coal. When thus treated, it becomes an excellent fuel, almost equal to hard coal, nad may be placed upon the market at a very low cost, $3 to $4 per ton. The Northwest can well afford to encourage an enterprise of this sort, for the prices asked for both hard and soft coal through all the Northwest are a very serious drawback to the development and prosperity of the country. Doing Without Hired Girls. This good woman says that she cannot get a hired girl and does not see how she is going to get along and do her work alone. Lots of good women are in just this fix. She wants to know what she shall do. Hard question to answer. But perhaps we can offer a suggestion which may help out a little. Get husband and son to sit down and tell them how it is and just what things they could do, just what conveniences they could supply you with which would lighten your household toil. Then kindly but firmly insist on these things being provided. It is quite likely you could arrange to have your baked bread and the washing done by some one out of the home. Then study how to simplify the whole round of household duties and chores. If there is a young boy in the home, work him in as a helper. It will be good for him and you, too. Let style go, and study your own comfort, ease and health. Anyhow, do not be afraid to ask for those things which will make your work lighter. Most men are selfish enough, so that they had rather grant these requests than pay a big doctor's bill or have to put up with a lean widow at $6 a week as a housekeeper. Inset on hard and soft water and fuel supply handy, a hard wood floor for the kitchen, a modern cooking range, some sort of a refrigerator for summer use and hot making powder biscuits not oftener than twice a week. The native shrewdness of women should be able to evolve from the foregoing hints some relief at least. Then all that is needed is sand, sand to carry things out. Johann Fink OLIO OF EVENTS At Alzen, in Hesse, the other day, a prominent tradesman was sentenced to the "grave irreverence" of reading a newspaper in court while a case was under trial. "Etherogram" is said to be Mr. Marconi's preference for a name for dispatches sent by his wireless method. He disapproves of "marconigrams," because, he says, it savors too much of self-advertisement. Benjamin Leo, of Cleveland, the inventor of a new type of street carender with hollow rubber cylinders along the edge, allowed himself to be struck by a car going twelve miles an hour the other day and escaped injury. New South Wales (Australia) laws against child labor are very stringent, and all girls in shops and stores must have seats. All stores must close at 6 p. m., and public houses from 11 p. m. Saturday until Monday morning. The six most important Swedish match manufacturers have formed a trust, with plants worth more than $2,000,000. Swede matches furnish the principal competition of the Diamond Match company of the United States, Great Britain and Chile. Prof. Adam P. Haupt, the noted educator, has just died in Cleveland. The Haupt system is well known throughout this country and Canada, and Secretary Hay and Representative Dick have been pupils of Prof. Haupt. Dr. Leuriaux, a Brussels physician, announces the success of his serum for the cure of whooping cough. The serum is injected under the skin, on the abdomen, and a cure is performed in ten days, whereas the disease ordinarily runs six to eight weeks. A number of tests made by the Vermont experimental station found that arsenite of soda and the arsenic-sal-soda mixture are very satisfactory for killing weeds along walks and drives. These can be kept perfectly free of weeds by the use of these mixtures. Ten portraits of heroic size are to adorn the colonnade of the Industries building at the St. Louis exposition. Ten great inventors have been selected as the subjects of these statues: They are Howe, Fulton, Bessemer, Chickering, Clark, Ericksson, Watts, Colt, Hoe and Goodyear. During the last few years experiments have been carried on in the Lahore territory to cultivate beet roots. The results having been very satisfactory in every respect, it is now intended to start work on a large scale. So far India has imported almost all the sugar required from continental Europe. Instead of beating swords into plow-shares now, the Boers of South Africa have thrown their swords to the scrap-heap and ordered their plows from American dealers. One dealer in New York has agreed to ship 17,000, it is said, and orders for agricultural implements of all kinds have been received here. Large new deposits of bituminous coal have been discovered in the district of Campine, in Belgium. The field is reported to be over 45 miles in length by 5 miles in width. Boring trials have shown several veins of a thickness of 25 feet. The government has already granted 17 concessions for the exploitation of these deposits. Madame Emelka Szigavari, who was once the most popular actress on the Hungarian stage, has died in the workhouse at Moiskolez, in Hungary, where she had spent the last ten years of her life as a pauper. She went on the stage at the age of twenty, and for nearly thirty years she was in receipt of an annual income of over $25,000. Since Japan has gone to school in Europe and America her influence throughout the East has been steadily growing. In the interior of China, where no European merchant has ever thought of going, the Japanese are locating themselves, and in Manchuria, where Russia is supposed to have supreme control, the Japanese tradesmen outnumber the Russians 50 to 5. Dr. Charcot, who is projecting a polar expedition, is a son of the late Dr. Charcot, who was famous for the use of hypnotic suggestion in the treatment of diseases. Last spring he made a three months' trip, pushing as far as Jan Mayen Island. In the expedition he is now planning he intends to proceed to Franz Josef Land. No French expedition in that direction has been undertaken since Dumont d'Uvrille's, in 1826, and Dr. Charcot says it is high time to repair this omission. Nate Salisbury, who died at Long Branch on December 24 last, by his will left $210,000 in personal property and no real estate. His widow, Rachel Salisbury, is made sole legatee, "knowing that she will devote the income of my estate to the care and education of our children," as the will reads. The will names Milton E. Milnor of Fort Benton, Mont., as executor, but it is understood that he has renounced in favor of the widow. The author of a new biography of ex-Queen Margarita, "La prima regina d'Italia" relates that when the present king was a boy his mother shared his lessons in Latin and music. To the music teacher she said: "If the prince does not attend to his lessons, do not hesitate to pull his cars." The queen has translated those of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poems which relate to her country into Italian, and she has written poems of her own in Italian, French, English and German. Gubernatis gave her lessons in Sanskrit. "Ce-sera pour mes vieux jours," she said. She associated much with Italian artists and poets—except D'Annunzio, whom she never liked. Among her musical proteges were Puccini and Teresina Tua; also Sgambati, whose chamber music concerts she helped along. The British and German governments have decided on the immediate dispatch to West Africa of a mixed commission to demarcate the boundaries laid down by the Anglo-German agreement of 1893. The frontier which is now to be fixed is that from the southern shore of Lake Tchad to Yola, a distance of some 300 miles. The remainder of the Anglo-German boundary in this region, namely from Yola to Old Calabar, will not form part of the work of the present commission, but it is probable that the coast section from Old Calabar to Nsakpe, dividing southern Nigeria from the German Cameroons, will shortly be fixed locally, leaving the portion between Yola and Nsakpe, about 400 miles, to be demarcated later. NEW YORK A FOREIGN CITY. And the So-Called Knickerbockers Rapidly Becoming Extinct. The 250th anniversary of the reception of a charter by the city of New York was regarded with mixed feelings by the descendants of those who controlled the town up to the great inflow of Irish and German immigrants in 1848. In the Borough of Manhattan, the native whites both of whose parents were born in the United States, now constitute only 16.9 per cent of the population. Even of the native whites born of native parents only about two-thirds were born in the state of New York. The largest contingent of outside natives came from the New England states, and, curiously enough, there were more immigrants coming to the city of New York from the Southern than from the Middle and Far Western states. Not only are the native-born children of native Americans vastly outnumbered by those who are foreign-born or the children of foreign immigrants, but the racial nature of the foreign element is materially changing. Instead of being almost exclusively Irish and German, as it was 50, or even 40, years ago, the Irish-born are now fewer by nearly 21,000 than they were 12 years ago, and the Germans fewer by upward of 5,000. The increase of the foreign-born during the last decade has come almost entirely from Russia, Italy, and the Hapsburg dominions. As the birthrate among the newcomers just mentioned is incomparably higher than that among the native-born who were children of native parents, it looks as if, 50 years hence, the native American element would dwindle to a very small fraction of the metropolitan population, to possess a greatly disproportionate share of the city's wealth. As for the so-called Knickerbockers, they are likely to be nearly extinct by the end of another generation. Even now, only a very few of them can be discerned struggling painfully on the surface of society.—rari nantes in gurgite vasto.—Harper's Weekly. Displeased at the notoriety which had been given the "cake walk" in Paris, those society journals of the French capital, which draw their inspiration from the Fauborg Saint Germain, have entered into a concerted movement for discouraging what is termed "a demoralizing American innovation." Le Gaulois, which is the mouthpiece of the Royalists, asserts that "genuine Paris society has never given any encouragement to this barbarous and ungainly dance," which it considers altogether unworthy of the patronage of fashionable Parisiennes. All the same, what Le Gaulois elsewhere stigmatizes as a "danse des negrés" is still more popular than ever at the music halls and at the Nouveau Clioque, where it was first introduced. ABSOLUTE SECURITY. Genuine Carter's Little Liver Pills. Must Bear Signature of Brentwood See Pac-Simple Wrapper Below. Very small and as easy to take as sugar. CARTER'S LITTLE LIVER PILLS. FOR HEADACHE. FOR DIZZiness. FOR BILIOUSNESS. FOR TONPILO LIVER. FOR CONSTIPATION. 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Price $25 per acre. 260 Acres Near Clinton, Henry county, Missouri. Good house, large barn; farm fenced into five different fields; soil rich and productive; no waste land; 80 acres pasture, 60 acres meadow and balance under plow. Price $42 per acre. 120 Acres Four miles from Deepwater, Henry county, Missouri. This farm is well improved and nearly all nice land. Good house of five rooms, small barn. Forty acres second bottom land in cultivation, about 40 acres in pasture, some timber and balance in meadow. Price $37.50 per acre. 480 Acres Near Clearfield, Taylor county, Iowa. This farm is well improved—one of the best in the county. Price $50 per acre it taken soon. 30 Acres Near Conway, Taylor county, Iowa. Pasture land, about half in timber, no buildings, fenced. Price $35 per acre. A large list of farms in northeast part of the county at from $45 to $90 per acre. Write for list. Acres Near Lenox, Taylor county, Iowa Splendid land, but cheap buildings. Price $60 per acre. Eighty near by at $55 and another $8 at $60 per acre. 560 Acres Near railroad town and about ten miles from county seat of Clarke county, Iowa. Two hundred acres nice level land, balanced with acreage for improvements worth over $5,000. The farm is fenced into several fields and pastures. Abundance of water, which is pumped by windmills into tanks in every field on the property, is used for church three miles. Price $40 per acre. 240 Acres Located within two miles of a railroad town, and five miles from Butler, the county seat of Bates county. Missouri. One mile to school and church. The land is well wooded, with cross-fenced; good wells and springs, fine orchard and all kinds of fruit; 150 acres in cultivation and balance good tame grass. Good house of five rooms, large barn and barnyard, all buildings, all in good repair. This is a very desirable farm. Price $40 per acre. 340 Acres Near Garnett, the county seat of Anderson county, Kansas. All bottom land except about 20 acres where buildings are located. Creek and timber on land. The bottom is cleared and the land is bare. There is a yard and a meadow. 15 acres alfalfa. Twenty acres of clover plowed up last fall and put in wheat; also 30 acres adjoining in wheat, making 60 acres now in wheat, which is in fine condition, improvements are now in place. 20x32 with wing 1x36 with 14 ft. stuuding; two large porches, good cellar, good cistern and pump on porch. House well painted and insured for $2,500. Big horse barn, took house, chicken house, hog pens. 20 with through cement trough for cooling milk, on each side, equipped with carriers and room for machinery. Spring runs into a trough breast-high for stock, located between house and barns; water also runs through cement trough for cooling milk, on each side, equipped with carriers and barn and cattle. The alfalfa will pasture two head of cattle eight months each year. Price $50 per acre. For further information address C. 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Communication's should be made to reach us not later than Thursday morning, to insure insertion in the current issue. VOTE for A. S. Green for county school commissioner of Boone county. WHY pay $2.00 for a newspaper when you can get the same news for $1.00. WHEN you are in St. Louis and want to spit you must go down to the river. "Don't spit on the town." OUR thanks are due the following named persons for subscriptions: Mr. Martin Freeman, Mrs. Annie Scott, Mr. Walter Turner, of Columbia. Now that spring is coming you should spend some time in fixing up your homes; clean up the back yard, nail on the torn-off pickets, remove those tin cans and other worthless rubbish, throw some lime in the cellar, etc. It will only take a few hours to do it and you will feel better and your home will look much more like a live person lives there—See? As was predicted by the Professional World, the separate coach bill, or, better known as the "Jim Crow bill," was killed in the house of representatives last Wednesday morning. While Missouri has been classed with the southern states and it is well known that considerable race prejudice exists here, we have never believed that those who are selected to enact laws for the state are so narrow minded and biased as to allow themselves to go on record as voting for the enactment of such a law. During the entire consideration of the bill not a single plausible reason was given for the enactment of such a law, not even by the two braying asses who introduced the two bills, namely: John T. Crisp and Alonzo E. Williams, who have done nothing in the present legislature except introduced the two "Jim Crow bills" and drawn their $5 per day and made themselves laughing stocks for the legislature. But Crisp and Williams are not the only prejudiced people in Missouri as the fact that the bill on its vote received fifty-five votes revealed. Another evidence of the ill feeling against the negro was shown in the many petitions presented to the legislature asking for the passage of the bill, four different counties—Boone county not excepted. It is gratifying, however, to note that this class of individuals have by no means a majority either in the legislature or in the state, but that the better people think that such a law would be a menace and that it is entirely uncalled for. Wanted For Our File. A few copies of the Professional World, dated Feb. 13th, 1903. Any person having a copy of this date, will do us a favor by sending us the same. A Request. We will consider it a great favor if our readers will patronize the merchants whose advertisements they see in this paper. Original "Uncle Tom" Dies at the Age Of III. Lancaster, Ky., March 8.—Norman Argo, born a slave, died today at Pain's Lick at the reputed age of 111 years, the authenticity of which is fairly well established by the family in whose service he spent the greater years of his life. Argo belonged to Gen. Samuel Kennedy, one of the wealthiest planters in Garrard county and the first representative of the county in the Kentucky legislature. He was only 3 feet, 4 inches tall, and for that reason was known as "Little Norman." He was employed as a house servant and was a great favorite with the children. Mrs. Stowe got most of the material for "Uncle Tom's Cabin" from the Kennedy place. Argo is said to have been the original Uncle Tom, as many of his traits which made him respected by his owner are found in Uncle Tom. Argo was proud of this distinction. He has been repeatedly written up. Fifty years and more ago he was a wonder as a jockey, and by his skilful riding won thousands of dollars for his owner. Jim Crow Bill Defeated. Jefferson City, Mo., March 11. The House had some fun with the Jim Crow Bill this morning when it adopted a resolution, declaring that as "a doubt exists as to the parentage of one Jim Crow, be it resolved that it is the sense of this House that Alonzo B. Williams of Holt county is the father of said Jim Crow and that Coi. John T. Crisp is his stepfather, and that Jim is the joint heir of both." Both Williams and Col. Crisp introduced Jim Crow bills and each accuses the other of stealing his thunder. When the House took up the Jim Crow bill, Williams made an appeal for its passage. Murphy of St. Louis asked Williams if he thought the negro had a soul. "We're not trying to regulate his soul," said Williams, "we want to keep his body out of white men's coaches." "I'll tell you," said Reinmiller, a nigger is only an Irishman turned inside out." The House roared and petitions against the measure began to pour in. Crisp got the floor and attacked the people who opposed a separation of the races. "I admire President Roosevelt," he said, in a burst of rhetoric. "Yes, I love him; but he's a freak, a strange freak, like I am. His peculiar actions with regard to the negro will cause his overwhelming defeat if the Democrats nominate a man who has sense enough to keep his mouth shut." The bill was lost by a vote of 55 for it and 71 against it. THE ANTHRACITE ARBITRATION. The findings of the Anthracite Coal Strike Commission have not been given out, but the published forecast goes to show that the miners have won a substantial victory. Wages will be advanced, operators will be required to pay by weight and adequate protection will be afforded against arbitrary docking. On the other hand, boycotting is condemned and the right of a man to work whether he is a member of the union or not is declared. Whether or not the union is to be formally recognized is not known, but the indirect recognition is ample. The great gain, however, does not accrue to the operators or miners. The arbitration of this controversy is in the interest of public order and benefit. The findings, whatever they may be, will be accepted and a precedent established which cannot be overthrown. This is the benefit. A step in progress has been recorded which can never be retraced. In future neither operator nor miner can arrogantly refuse to listen to reason. The public right has been asserted and made good. And it will not again be questioned. TELEPHONE ON THE FARM It is difficult to realize the great change which has taken place in the west, particularly in the region lying between the Missouri River and the Rocky Mountains. Unless one has lived through these changes and witnessed them they are almost beyond belief, says the New York Sun. The great change is well illustrated in the experience of J. N. Norton, a farmer who lives near Moran, Allen county, Kan. Mr. Norton settled there with his par ents 31 years ago. "At that time," he said, "one could get on a horse and gallop for miles in any direction and never see a house or a man: now every spot of land about here is occupied and under fence. "Eight long-distance telephone wires pass my house, and right by my own desk is my own telephone. When I have produce to sell I can telephone to town and get the price before I leave home. "Once recently I decided I needed a new suit of clothes to attend a wedding the next day. I telephoned into town at eight o'clock in the evening and the clothes were delivered at my door at nine o'clock the next morning. When my wife needs some groceries in a hurry she can telephone to town at eight o'clock in the morning and they will be delivered to her an hour latter." A farmer's wife made a note of the advantages which were secured by the farm telephone recently. Here are some items: Before breakfast the farmer discovered that some of his cattle had broken out of pasture and were missing. He began telephoning to his neighbors and within five minutes had the strays located. Without the telephone he would have put in two hours looking for them. A few minutes later a half bushel of peaches which had blown from the trees during the night were brought in, and it was evident that they must be pat up right away in order to save them. The housewife had not a sufficient supply of sugar. It required only a minute to telephone to town, five miles away, and the rural delivery carrier brought the sugar out two hours later. The farmer intended to cut hay, but before doing so he telephoned to the post office, where the government weather report was received daily by telegraph, and asked what the weather indications were. He was told that storms threatened. As a consequence, he did not cut his hay and probably avoided a considerable loss. A bunch of cattle were driven past the farm and were noticed by the farmer. Fifteen minutes later a telephone message announced that some cattle had been stolen the night before over in the next county. The description tallied with those the farmer had seen. Within two hours the thieves had been captured and the owner of the cattle notified by telephone where he could find them. ON CREDIT. $22.90 Free Catalogue CENTURY MFG. CO. EAST ST. LOUIS, IL. Century Steel Range, No. 80-A-18 Has six 8-inch lids, oven 172x121x12, splendid reservoir and warming close, lined throughout with asbestos, burns anything, bake bakers and roasters on Earth. Guaranteed 10 years. Weight 475 lbs. Only $22.90. Terms $9.00 cash, balance payment $3.00 a month, no interest. Shipped immediately on receipt of $3.00 bill. People located in all parts of the World. Cash discount $1.50 on Range. Freight average $1.25 for each 600 miles. Send for free catalogue, but this is the greatest e bargain ever offered. We refer to Southern Illinois National Bank. CENTURY • MANUFACTURING • CO. Dept. 910, East St Louis, IL. The Railroads. WABASH Time Table—Columbia Branch. GOING SOUTH. No. 33, Arrive Columbia.....8:15 a. m. No. 35, Arrive Columbia.....1:20 p. m. No. 37, Arrive Columbia.....8:45 p. m. GOING SOUTH. No. 30, Leave Columbia.....9:40 a. m. No. 32, Leave Columbia.....1:40 p. m. No. 34, Leave Columbia.....4:10 p. m. M. K. & T. Ry. TRAINS NORTH. Leave: McBaine ... 6:30 Webster ... 6:33 Brushwood ... 6:32 Turner ... 6:42 Limerick ... 6:47 Arrive Columbia ... 6:55 A. M. No. 36 6:30 6:33 6:32 6:42 6:47 6:55 A. M. No. 38 11:53 11:58 11:62 12:06 12:11 12:19 P. M. No. 40. 4:05 4:08 4:13 4:17 4:22 4:30 TRAINS SOUTH. Leave: Columbia ... 11:00 Limerick ... 11:08 Turner ... 11:12 Brushwood ... 11:17 Webster ... 11:22 Arrive McBaine ... 11:25 A. M. No. 39 St. Louis Express P. M. Texas Express 3:10 3:18 3:22 3:27 3:32 3:35 P. M. No. 39. 6:30 6:38 6:42 6:47 6:52 6:55 Lodge and Church Directory. Mrs. Ada Douglass, W. P.; Mrs. Lizzie Williams, W. S. Meeting first Monday in each month at 3 p. m. U. B. F. Crispus Attucks Lodge,No. 62. Meetings 2nd and 4th Tuesdays in each month. Visiting members cordially invited. Caleb Hall, W. M. A. M. Schweich, W. S. K. P. Acme Lodge, No. 24. Meetings second and fourth Fridays in each month. W. H. Turner, C. C. and D. D. G. C. W. W. Lampkins, M. F. LADIES COURT. Golden Queen Court No. 19 meets first Friday in each month. Mrs. Annie Williams, M. A. M., Mrs. Lizzie Richardson, Secretary, O. E. S. Amos Chapter, No. 30. Meetings second Friday in each month. Mrs. Bessie Washington, W. M. Mrs. Lizzie Richardson, W. S. 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. K. OF P. Harrison Lodge No. 12, Huntsville, Mo. Meeting the second and fourth Thursdays in each month. M. W. Tony, C. C., W. T. Ansel, K. R. S., I. A. Robinson, M. E. 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. 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. Do You Want a Cut? If so send us your photo and $2 and we will furnish you a cut, guaranteed for twenty years and 1 so return your photo. The Columbia Gro=cery Co., Keeps constantly on hand a fresh supply of staple and FANCY GROCERIES. YOUR PRODUCE WANTED. with us. 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