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THE PROFESSIONAL WORLD. $1.00 Per Year in Advance. Capital City News. Mrs. Henry Bolton is still seriously ill. Mrs. S. M. Wiseman is still on the sick list. President Allen left last Friday for Ch cago. Mrs. Prof. Harrison has been ill several days, but is much better. The legislature has adjourned and the Col. has taken Jim back to Kansas City. Prin. Chas. Brooks, of Sweet Springs, spent Saturday and Sunday in the City. Rev. J. Gains preached to the students of Lincoln Institute last Sunday afternoon. Prof. Brown, formerly principal of Sedalia school, spent several days in the city last week. The revival meeting at the Second Baptist church, conducted by Rev. T. P. Smith, will close next Friday evening. Rev. Sommerville, the newly appointed M. E. minister on the California circuit, was in the city last Monday morning. The remains of Mrs. Eliza Jackson, the daughter of Mrs. Horace Bolton, was brought from St. Louis, and was interred in the city cemetery last Sunday. Mr. Briton Chappell died last Monday night. He was seen on the street Monday afternoon and he told a friend that he never felt better in his life. But in a few hours he was locked in the cold embrace of death. 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. Columbia News. Pay your subscription to this paper. Vote for A. S. Greene for county school commissioner. Mr. Jack Lenoir of Centralia spent Sunday in Columbia. Patronize our advertisers and tell where you saw the "ad". Miss Jennie Harris left Sunday for St. Louis to spend the summer. The Fred Douglass school gave a successful entertainment at the Fifth St. Hall Monday eve. Miss Emma Cowden of Rocheport was the guest of Mrs. Harvey Pazaar Sunday and Monday. Mr. Eugene Drew left Monday for Vandalia to play at the closing exercises of Mr. J. W. Bannister's school. Rev. J. A. Grant has been assigned to the pastorate of the M. E. church another year. This is Rev. Grant's third year with us. Misses Macie and Sallie Peach arrived Tuesday from Ferguson, Mo., to attend the funeral of their grand mother, Mrs. Sarah Willis. Misses Eva Estes and Dora Woods, also Messrs. Thomas Hall and Roy Turner were the guests of Mrs. J. Williams of Centralia Sunday. 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. CASH OR CREDIT. Catalogue FREE. CENTURY MF'G CO. --- COLUMBIA AND JEFFERSON CITY, MISSOURI, FRIDAY MAR. 27, 1903. Huntsville. Mrs. Susie Robinson is on the sick list. A number of children are still sick with measles. Principal R. L. Logan spent Sunday in Jefferson City. Subscribe to the Professional World. It is only $1.00 per year. The children of Lincoln school are preparing for their closing exercises. Miss Dehlia Henderson has just closed a very successful term of school at Namrash and is now at home. A mass meeting was held at the commercial club room to discuss the proposed electric railway from Moberly to Huntsville last Tuesday evening. Rev. Mack Allen of Kansas City is in the city exhibiting his steri-opticon and passion play. His exhibitions are very interesting and entertaining. He will go to Columbia Saturday and exhibit there next week. A Request. We will consider it a great favor if our readers will patronize the merchants whose advertisements they see in this paper. Married. Billups-Richardson. At the residence of the bride's parents near Columbia, Thursday, March 19, 1903, Dr. R. W. Billups of Texas, and Miss Maud D. Richardson, of Columbia, Mo. Dr. Billups is a graduate of Mahany Medical College and his bride is a most accomplished young lady and a teacher in the Fred Douglass school in this city, which position she held most creditably for three years. Dr. Billups will locate permanently in Harwood, Ark., where he has already a lucrative practice among both races. Mrs. Billups was a model young lady and has no superior in Columbia. The Professional World joins her many friends in extending congratulations. 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. Methodist Conference Appointments. The following are the appointments for this year for this, the St. Joseph district: J. W. Jackson, presiding elder, Sedalia, Mo. Armstrong, Yates and Burns chapel, James W. Patton; Arrow Rock, John W. Payne; Columbia, John A. Grant; Des Moines, Ia., Oliver A. Johnson; Fayette, John H. McAllister; Fulton, William C. Ellis; Glasgow, George H. Reeves; Independence, John S. Clark; Asbury chapel, Kansas City, William H. Wheeler; Burns' chapel, Kansas City, James M. Harris; Clark chapel, Kansas City, Preston Overton; Mexico, John Dudley Evans; Moberly and Randolph Springs, George W. Patton; New Bloomfield, John W. Thomas; Oskalaloosa, Ia., James L. Smith; Richmond, Edmund Diggs; St. Joseph, B. D. Dixon; Sebree and Charity Hall, R. B. Williams; Slater, W. J. Deboe; Sturgeon and New Franklin, William L. Lee. It will pay you $33.50 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. SOLONS ADJOURN. Worked Sunday in Order to Complete Business. (Special Correspondence to the Professional World). JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., March 23, 1903.—The 42nd General Assembly adjourned sine die at 10 o'clock to-night, in accordance with the resolution adopted by both branches of the assembly Saturday night. Many theories are given as an explanation of the hasty closing of the assembly, but the predominating idea is that the bribery investigations, which have been in progress several days, are in a measure, responsible for the early adjournment of the session. Page and Hickock were promptly landed in jail Saturday when they refused to answer questions asked them by the members of the legislature but were released by the Supreme Court to-day, after the arguments on the writs of habes corpus issued Saturday but will in all probability be summoned to appear before the Cole county grand jury which was organized this morning. Circuit Judge Hazel read iron-clad instructions to the jury regarding secrecy of its proceedings and not even the names of the witnesses can be obtained by newspaper paper. It was learned to-night, however, that Speaker Whitecotton and Representative Barton, of the house among the witnesses examined to-day. "They have played the devil," said a democratic member of the lower house while waiting for a train at the station here to-night. "There was no necessity for all this hubbub. The democrats are wholly responsible for it all, and it will hurt the party in 1904." The court instructed the jury to inquire into the necessity of the Sunday session of the legislature; also to investigate the giving of free passes to members of the assembly, but when these instructions were read the majority of the members of the legislature were speeding away from the Capital on trains. No tears were shed by Gov. Dockery when the distinguished body adjourned, nor is his hand tired from bidding them farewell. They have not acted in accordance with the "Administration's" wishes; on the contrary they have in many cases done just what he asked them not to do. Among other things they passed the "Binding twine" measure, made larger appropriations than the "Administration" believes the revenue will admit and the Governor stated today, with a wink, that most of the appropriations would be "trimmed down." In answer to a question what this session of legislature had really accomplished, a very prominent GENERAL NEWS NOTES. M. Camille Hugo, who recently arrived at New York from France, is the biggest man in the world. M. Hugo is eight feet, three inches tall, weighs 502 pounds and has a chest measurement of sixty-three inches. At home he starts the day with two quarts of coffee and a dozen rolls. Doctor James L. Gartrell, who is to be hanged April 17 in Butler, Mo., is the oldest man ever sentenced to death in Missouri. Doctor Gartrell is now nearly 70 years old. He is six feet tall, very erect and has a long, flowing white beard. He has given up hope of a reprieve. During the winter of 1900 Garrell lived in Kansas City. About the first of March he met D. B. Donegan, a gold miner, who had just returned from Colorado and killed him in a lonely cabin. The Thomas Jefferson Memorial association at Washington will member stated tonight that it was hard to tell what they had done. "I know one thing," said he, "we did more work Sunday than we did any four days we have been here." A number of the member of the Legislature left last week and did not return. Others who did not believe in Sunday work spent the day about the lobby of the hotels or in their rooms, while others were seen at church in the morning and enjoyed a drive in the afternoon. There was, however, a good attendance at the Sunday session and a quorum was always on hand and a number of bills were disposed of. Many prominent politicians spent Sunday at the Capital. "Col." Paul B. Moore, brother-in-law of Gov. Stephens, was a spectator at the Capital building Sunday and spent the evening with the politicians at the Madison House. Judge Hawthorn, of Kansas City, a former member of the legislature, sat by Speaker Whitecotton and witnessed the proceedings for some time. Morton Jordan, former assistant Attorney General, was an interesting spectator in both house and senate. "Fire alarm" Flaunigan was conspicuous in and out of the committee room during the day. Editor Eugene Brockmeyer, the veteran newspaper correspondent, was shaking hands with friends and taking items. Conspicuous among the members present were Alonzo Williams, the limber-jawed spell binder from Scott county; Jno. T. Crisp, "the bulldog" of the House, both of whom have done nothing more than acted clowns for the house during the entire session and for getting their names in the newspapers by introducing "Jim Crow" car laws which had not a ghost of a show of passing. Crisp has been humiliated in many instances during the session as has Williams. Neither of them have succeeded in getting a single measure through the house and, in fact, have been on the blind side of every good question before the legislature. During the day Crisp simply sat in his seat and responded to his name at roll call and showed prominent signs of humiliation while Williams, who did not seem to know enough to know how badly he had been treated, stuarted up and down the aisles like a turkey gobbler Nearly all the members of the legislature have left, and the hotels have a deserted appearance and the coming session of legislature is as far off as ever give a dinner in that city April 13 in celebration of the 159th birthday anniversary of Thomas Jefferson. Toasts will be responded to as follows: "The Author of the Declaration of Independence," Senator George F. Hoar of Massachusetts: "Jefferson as a citizen of the Commonwealth," Governor Andrew J. Montague of Virginia; "The Louisiana Purchase," Charles Emory Smith of Pennsylvania; "The Statue for Religious Freedom," William J. Bryan of Nebraska. Ministers who are Bible students, and who know many other Bible students, are not able to recall the name of any person who can approach the record of Mrs. O. M. FitzGerald Newark, N. J., the mother of Bishop James N. FitzGerald, resident Bishop of the M. E. church, who has read the Bible through ninety times. She completed her ninetieth reading February 13, a few days before her ninetieth birthday. The Sunday before her ninetieth birthday, she began reading it for the ninety-first time. Mrs. FitzGerald has long been an invalid. She says: "I read it as a miner seeks for gold." When she was 12 years old she could repeat from memory each of the four gospels. She has read the Bible through in three languages beside her own language—Spanish, German and French. Each reading when she is confined to her room as at present, occupies about sixty days. 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. IMPORTANT DONATIONS TO STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY. A few days ago the State Historical Society received fifty-four publications of Wisconsin to add to the ninety others of that state already in its library. A late publication of the U. S. Government, "The Documentary History of the Constitution," in three volumes was received from Hon. G. G. Vest who was elected president of the Society at the last annual meeting. A very important donation has just been received from Judge W. S. Pratt, of Columbia, consisting of ninety-nine publications. While the Society has the most extensive collection of "Missouriana" in any library, yet this donation added fifteen publications of this kind to the collection. Among them are early catalogs of the State University worth almost their weight in coin. There is but one complete file of these catalogs known, it being in the library of the University. The set belonging to this Society is almost complete and if the attics of Boone county houses could be searched the missing ones would doubtless be found. Among the books is "Pictures of Cincinnati" by Daniel Drake, published in Cincinnati in 1815, and containing in the appendix a full account of the New Madrid earthquake. A valuable and scarce work, "History of the late war in the western country from the commencement of hostilities at Tippacanoe to the battle of New Orleans," published at Lexington, Kentucky, is not often seen. Another publication, interesting as an early Kentucky, is "A Journal of the Private Life and Conversations of the Emperor Napoleon at Saint Helena" by De Las Cases. Among the Missouri publications are three by Missouri authors, several desirable official publications, and a history of the Mormons at Independence. The donation contains many other notable books, and among them Thomas Jefferson's "Notes on the State of Virginia", the second American edition published in Philadelphia in 1874. The first edition of COFFEE. VOL. II. NO. 21 Wirt's "Life of Patrick Henry" 1818; lives of Van Buren, and Stephen Girard; and Samuel Johnson's "Lives of the English Poets" London, 1795. As early as 1815 some one whose name is not given was in fear of the future of this country and published a book which he called "The Olive Branch, or faults on both sides." A serious appeal for mutual forgiveness and harmony to save our country from ruin. Among the publications patterned after the "Spectator" are two volumes of the "Looker On" 1796, the "Enquirer" 1797, and the "Pioneer" 1812. Of foreign histories Coxe's "Travels in Switzerland" 1789, and Staunton's "Embassy to the Emperor or China" might be named. Mention should also be made of the considerable number of official publications of other states, among them the Messages and Documents of Arkansas for 1857-58 with the autograph of Elias N. Conway, Governor of Arkansas. The donation includes a number of very interesting publications and the liberality af Judge Pratt should be emulated by others. 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 NORTH. No. 30, Leave Columbia ... 9:40 a. m. No. 34, 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 ... 6:13 Brushwood ... 6:38 Turner ... 6:42 Limerick ... 6:47 Arrive Columbia ... 6:55 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. 36 6:30 6:13 6:38 6:42 6:47 6:55 A. M. No. 38 11:53 12:02 12:06 12:11 12:19 P. M. No. 57 Texas Express 3:10 3:18 3:22 3:27 3:32 3:35 P. M. No. 60 6:90 6:38 6:28 6:47 6:58 6:58 WABASH CHEAP EXCURSIONS ONE WAY RATES -VIA- WABASH ROUTE. 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. E. WATTS, P. & T. A., Moberly, Mo. Ladies Admire ....Perfect Fitting garments, and only first class tailors can make them. Suits from $25.00, up. Trousers from $6.00, up. DEN, Merchant Tailor, JEFFERSON CITY, MO. RUFUS L. LOGAN, Editor GORMAN TAKES HAND: In Putting an End to Morgan's Fillbuster Blockade. Washington, (Special)—The situation in the senate cleared up in a surprising way Wednesday and the end of the special session is in sight. There is almost a unanimous agreement among republican and democratic senators that the senate will adjourn by the end of next week, if not sooner, and that the record of the special session will be as follows. 1. The Panama treaty will be ratl 1. The Panama treaty will be ratified. 2. The Cuban treaty will be defeated. 3. The nomination of Dr. Crum will not be confirmed. It has been tentatively agreed among the leaders of the senate that the vote on the Panama treaty will be taken next Tuesday. There is no longer the slightest doubt that this treaty will be ratified. Senator Gorman, the democratic leader, was busy Wednesday trying to effect a compromise whereby the republican leader will consent to five amendments to the Panama treaty in consideration of which the democratic side will furnish the votes to make its ratification certain. He saw the leaders on the republican side and conferred with nearly all of the democratic senators. Must Police the Canal MUST POLICE THE CANAL. After the senate adjourned a conference of democratic senators was held in Mr. Groman's room, and the proposed amendments were read and discussed at length. One of the amendment which the democratic senate leader proposes would give the United States undisputed right to police the canal after it is constructed and to send armies, if necessary, to Colombia to protect American interests and keep the water way open. Mr. Gorman has discovered that one section of the treaty forbids the United States from hereafter at any time acquiring territory in any of the South American states. With his customary astuteness the democratic leader has raised the point that it certainly is not germane to a treaty between the United States and Colombia to specify that United States shall never acquire territory anywhere in South America, and he objects to placing the sanction of the senate on any such senseless proposition which might embarrass this country greatly in the future. One of his amendments is intended to cure this defeat of the treaty. Gorman Harmonizes Factions. Mr. Gorman made great headway Wednesday in bringing the opposing forces in the senate together. Some of the most influential republican leaders admitted that the treaty was been very loosely drawn and agreed to support Mr. Gorman's amendments. The democratic leader found the senators on his own side of the chamber disposed to agree with him almost with unanimity and as a result of the advanced steps taken it is not unlike that a formal agreement will be reached today, looking to the taking of a vote next Tuesday. One thing which Mr. Gorman did yesterday and which shows his power as a leader was to induce Senator Morgan practically to lay down his arms. When the executive session met Mr. Morgan was in a belligerent mood and sent one of his speeches to the desk to be read. Mr. Gorman in a short time called him out of the senate and the two had a conference in Mr. Morgan's private room lasting over an hour. Mr. Gorman then walked back to the senate and said that inasmuch as Mr. Morgan was "indisposed" he would ask that further consideration of the treaty be postponed until today. Mr. Morgan appeared in very good health when the session opened and Mr. Gorman's statement that he was indisposed is generally construed as a sly way of saying that he was not disposed to press the fight. MIDWAY ISLANDS. Turned Over to United States Navy Department by President. Washington, March 18.—The president by executive order has turned the Midway islands over to the navy department. This was done at the instance of the Pacific Cable company, which has asked for the protection of its properties on the islands. Roving Japanese sailors are in the habit of putting into the islands for the plumage of sea fowl and for guano. It is probable that the navy will establish a small station on the islands and American warships will make a practice of touching there much more frequently than they have done in the past. The islands are two in number—Sand island, having 633 acres, and Eastern island, 245 acres. There is a harbor affording about eighteen feet of water. The islands are deemed essential to the operation of the Pacific cable which will touch there on its western route from Hawaii. SAVED BY A SIGN. Dallas Texas, March 18—Rev. D R Stokes, the most prominent negro preacher of Dallas, has made known to United States District Attorney W. H. Atwell the details of an effort to lynch him on the night of Feb. 25 in Gregg county by a band of white prohibitionists, because he had made speeches to the negroes urging them to vote against prohibition. Just as the party had prepared to hang him he made the sign of distress of the Masonic order as a last hope of saving his life. A leader among the white men, who had been as determined as any in advocating hanging, stepped to his side and begged for his life and saved him on the promise that Stokes would never again set his foot in Gregg county. Editor Robie of the Webster City Graphic-Herald was fined by the mayor of that city for riding his bicycle on a sidewalk. He has appealed the case on the ground that he had a right to ride on the walk because the street was impassable. MAY CALL SPECIAL SESSION OF CONGRESS Washington, (Special)—It can be stated by authority that President Roosevelt has not definitely made up his mind to call an extraordinary session of congress...He, however, is considering the practicability of doing so. When he was informed that it was the intention of the senate to amend the Cuban reciprocity treaty so as to render action upon it by the house necessary to make it effective, he informed some of the members of the senate he would hold himself free to call an extraordinary session of congress in order to secure action upon it...No definite time was mentioned by the president. GOT BIG CHECK. New Orleans Firm Returns Whopper Seat. Tham. by Mistake New Orleans, La., March 18—Somewhere between here and New York on a mail car is a check that created intense excitement in the office of Woodward, Wight & Co. yesterday. The check for $3,766,500.50 and was signed by J. Pierpont Morgan. It was drawn to the order of McCormack & Co., the big bankers and brokers of New York. Just how it came to be sent here is a mystery. Woodward, Wight & Co. took markedly good care of the little piece of paper and it was sent back to the New York bank. It is believed a bank clerk put the check in the wrong envelope. Pana, Ill., March 18.—Mrs. Mary E. Welsch was divorced and remarried Thursday within fifty minutes. The court granted her plea for a separation from Charles E. Wilson and she married W. J. Root of Chicago and left the city before the decree was recorded. Washington, March 12.—The March report of the statistical department of agriculture shows the amount of wheat remaining in the farmer's hands March 1 to be about 164,000,000 bushels, or 24.5 per cent of last year's crop, as compared with 23.2 per cent of the crop of 1901 on hand in 1902. Corn in the farmer's hands is estimated at 1,050,600,000 bushels, 41.6 per cent of last year's crop, against 29.2 per cent on hand March, 1902. Oats are estimated to be 365,000,000 bushels, or 36.9 per cent of last year's crop still in the farmer's hands, as compared with 30.6 per cent on hand March 1, 1902. The following shows the percentages of last year's crops in farmer's hands an March 1 for the states named: Michigan—Wheat, 26 per cent; corn, 29 per cent; oats, 36 per cent. Illinois—Wheat, 21 per cent; corn, 46 per cent; oats, 36 per cent. Wisconsin—Wheat 37 per cent; corn, 30 per cent; oats, 42 per cent. Minnesota—Wheat, 29 per cent; corn, 30 per cent; oats, 39 per cent. Iowa—Wheat, 28 per cent; corn, 36 per cent; oats, 35 per cent. DAKOTA WANTS TEACHERS Young School Mistresses Married to Settlers Faster Than Boards Can Engage Them. (St. Paul dispatch.)—There is a teacher famine in many rural school districts in South Dakota on account of the large number of marriages in the ranks of the school mistresses. The teachers were sticking close to their tasks until the new settlers commenced to move in. Many of these happened to be young bachelors. Then the troube commenced, as the marriage records show. "Why," remarked a disgusted director, "we've had three teachers in the last three months, with the fourth one now complaining of small wages, a sure sign of matrimony and trouble." In some districts old men are being sought as teachers, while married women or old maids are in great demand. 'the following card was seen tacked to a schoolhouse door in an isolated Hyde county district, where it had been impossible to get a teacher: "Teacher wanted; if single, must be old and unattractive, as two wealthy bachelors threaten to marry the next teacher of this school." To avoid a clash on account of the notice a compromise was agreed to so that two determined old maids now teach the school week about. San Francisco, Cal., March 18.—A piece of jade looted from Pekin during the boxer trouble has been found by the customs officers in the baggage of an army captain. The jade is valued at $2,400. The inscription on it was written 200 years ago. The captain claims to have purchased it for $50. GEN GRANT DENOUNCES DRUNKENNESS IN THE ARMY. Reviewing the Case of Private Jones. He Scores Noncommissioned Officers for Breach of Discipline. Washington, March 18.—While Congress failed to take any action looking to the restoration of the canteen at army posts, officers of the army in charge of posts and departments continue to contribute testimony to the growth of court-martials and disturbances near army posts since the abolishment of the canteen. Brig. Gen. Fred D. Grant, commanding the department of Texas, has just commented vigorously in regard to intoxication in the army. Private Jones of the 10th cavalry was court-martialed for drunkenness and attempted assault upon a citizen and sentenced to dishonorable discharge, loss of pay, and a year's imprisonment. In commenting on the case, Gen. Grant says: "The evidence shows that the accused, prior to the commission of the offenses proved, was drinking with certain noncommissioned officers of another troop, and that he became drunk in company with one of these noncommissioned officers. A noncommissioned officer who will go to a vile saloon such as those adjoining Fort Clark, and there drink with private soldiers, can not be depended upon to enforce discipline. As long as such actions are countenanced among noncommissioned officers, it will be used to deter such offenses of drinking, that is the chief obstacle to discipline and efficiency in the army. The court in awarding the sentence evidently took into consideration as extinguating circumstances the facts above stated. The sentence is approved, and will be duly executed at Fort Clark, Tex." NOTABLE DISCOVERIES. Of Early Christianity Made in Cata combs of St. Cecilia. Rome, Mar. 18.—The excavations in the Catacombs of St. Cecelia have revealed what is believed to be a large underground basilica that was used by the early Christians. A trace of the altar and the Episcopal chair were found. There was also found in a state of excellent perservation a number of ancient paintings, including a Greek portrait of Christ. Three tombs were discovered, declared by local archaeologists to be those of St. Mark, St. Marcellinus, who was martyred by Dioctian, and the famous Pope Demasus. Cincinnati, Mar. 18—Deal has been Orleans experienced the most terrific rainfall in many years today, the river tonight is 19.2, three tenths under the record of six years ago. The rainfall in the past twelve hours amounted to 7.92, of which five and one half inches fell between noon and 3 o'clock. The drainage machinery was overwhelmed and many streets flooded, the lower floors of stores in many instances being under water. It is raining tonight. Missouri—Wheat, 26 per cent; corn 52 per cent; oats, 41 per cent. Nebraska—Wheat, 34 per cent; corn 51 per cent; oats, 40 per cent. South Dakota -Wheat, 27 per cent; corn, 24 per cent; oats, 45 per cent. North Dakota -Wheat, 18 per cent; corn, 23 per cent; oats, 49 per cent. REBELS CLAIM UPPER HAND Venezuelan Revolutionists Say They Hold All Western Points From Orinoco River to Rio Chico. Willemstad, March 13—The Venezuelan revolutionists claim that they now hold all eastern ports of Venezuela from the Orinoco to Rio Chico. Heavy fighting has taken place at Coro but the result is not yet known. The revolution seems to be at Guarenas, near Caracas. The recent retreat of the revolutionists it is asserted here was only a feint. The government troops are reported to have been defeated in the battle at Tacarigua. It is reported in revolutionary circles that the revolutionists have captured Cumana. BISHOP HAMILTON DENIES IT Report Untrue That He Believes in Race Intermarriage. Des Moines, March 18.—Bishop Hamilton of the M. E. church, was a Des Moines visitor yesterday on his way to Missouri where he is to preside over a conference. The bishop comes from Los Angeles, California, and denies the sentiment attributed to him by news paper correspondents. It was published that he had said that the race question should be solved by intermarriage. He denies saying anything of the kind, but says he has taken no trouble to make his denial public for the reason that he is misrepresented too often. He said the bleaching out process under present circumstances would practically mean that illegitimacy which of course he did not advocate. The bishop was met at the train by the M. Mann, Rev A. B. Storms, L. H. Bush and other leading Methodists all of whom had dinner at the Grant club together Bishop Hamilton left the city last evening for Missouri. New York, March 18.—The steamer Alliance from Colon arrived today. Among the passengers was George Sawter, who was recently appointed United States Consul at Guayaquil but immediately returned to the United States upon arriving at his post having been alarmed by an epidemic of yellow fever. Sawter succeeded Thomas Nast, the cartoonist, who died at Guayaquil of yellow fever. President Roosevelt yesterday sent to the senate the nomination of Sawter to be assistant appraiser of merchandise at the port of New York. THREW BACILLI INTO THE DRAINAGE CANAL JOKE ON A NEW YORK ART COMMITTEE St. Louis Scientist Conducts Experiment TRACED TO ST. LOUIS Several Barrels of Bacilli Dumped Into Canal at Lemont and Traced to St. Louis TO BE USED AS EVIDENCE The Bacteria Were a Harmless Variety And the Experiment was Conducted Secretly St. Louis, Mar. 18.—Dr. Armand Ravold, the bacteriologist of Washington university, in his evidence before the commission appointed by the United States supreme court, to take testimony in the case of Missouri against Illinois and the sanitary district of Chicago, sitting at the Southern hotel, yesterday sprung a surprise on the nonpulsed them, and, it is thought, will have great weight in deciding the case. His testimony brought to light knowledge of a series of extensive bacteriological experiments which were carried on in a most secret manner to show that the typhoid bacilli could live through a journey through the Illinois river, the drainage canal and Mississippi river and still be alive and active when reaching the intake of the water supply for St. Louis. The experiments performed to secure this fact were the largest and among the most important ever known in the science of bacteriology. They demonstrated by actual practice conclusions reached by scientists all over the world. Numerous interesting and important facts were developed while the experiments were being performed. Two hundred barrels containing bacilli were dumped into the drainage canal almost under the noses of police stationed to prevent anything of that kind. The results looked for were obtained and witnessed by Dr. Ravold and his assistants without an intimation of what was going on reaching the camp of the enemy. The theory was held by Dr. Ravold and other local bacteriologists that typhoid germs entering the waters of the Mississippi river from Chicago reached here alive and capable of doing injury to the health of the people New York, March 18—Exact reproductions of some of the greatest works of Michael Angelo and Leonardo Da Vinci have been rejected as inartistic and immature by the municipal art commission, a body made up of a number of the rich men of the city, men who deem themselves art critics of the first class. The commissioners give their services to the city free of charge just because they want municipal art well managed. The joke was turned on them by a pair of Tammany architects, who have a contract for the erection of the hall of records, now nearing completion. The architects, Horgan and Slattery, were annoyed by what they deemed persecution and they lay all their troubles to the reform administration inaugurated by Mayor Low. This contract is a holdover since the previous administration and they claim they have been doing their best to give satisfaction. Despite every effort of the architects to please, plans, drawings, sculpture, and decorations were rejected, they claim, because the work was in the hands of Tammany men. The commission could see no art in most of the work. The best artists obtainable were secured, but it was the same MUST NOT SPEAK TO HER. East St. Louis, Ill., March 18—Threats to kill his young wife resulted in William Roy of Belleville being permanently restrained from speaking or writing to her, and an absolute divorce being given the young woman in the city court by Judge Silas Cook yesterday. Mrs. Roy sued for divorce and asked for a protecting injunction. The relief granted, however, was more complete than the lawyers for the wife expected. It means that Roy, even if he meets his erstwhile wife on the street, must not say a word to her, and if he even shows by a sign that he knows her he will be in danger of violating the spirit of the injunction. Pretty Catherine Roy, the complainant, is only 19 years old. The defendant is not much older. One of the things complained of was that the young husband was wont to chase his wife around the house and sometimes through the yard brandishing an ax and threatening to behead her. Roy was recently hauled into court by relatives of Mrs. Roy, who accused him of trying to do her great bodily harm. The divorce suit was filed at the time and Judge Cook then ordered Roy to keep away from his wife until the divorce case was decided. Stockholm, March 18.—The famine relief committee has received total subscriptions amounting to about $258,000 of which $85,000 was sent from America. ```markdown ``` of St. Louis. He set about proving this by means of the bacillus prodigiosus. This latter is an absolutely harmless bacillus, but greatly resembles the typhoid bacillus in point of longevity and general conduct under given conditions. A supply of the bacillus prodigiosus was secured from an eminent scientist of Germany by Dr. Ravold. With his supply he set about forming tremendous colonies of the bacillus. Before commencing his experiments Dr. Ravold said he ascertained that the bacillus prodigiosus did not inhabit the waters of the Mississippi river, the Illinois river, Lake Michigan and the drainage canal. The process of forming the colonies was explained in detail in the testimony. The bacilli were placed in a broth of beef extract, in which they were nourished and increased in incredible numbers. The broth was boiled to rid it of any germs and every utensil and instrument was sterilized with the greatest care. The number of bacilli in the solution when ready is too great to calculate. There were 1,000,000,000 to every cubic centimeter of the fluid. When the solution was prepared one barrel of it was taken to the St. Louis harbor boat to a point in the Illinois river just above Gratton, where it was poured into the stream. Later specimens of water were taken at the chain of rocks and from hydrants in the city and the bacillus prodigiosus was detected in these specimens. The next experiment was on a much larger scale, and it was only carried through by skill and secrecy. Two hundred barrels of the bacillus-bearing broth were loaded on two freight cars and shipped to Lemont, a town on the Chicago drainage canal about 340 miles from the mouth of the Illinois river. The cars were side tracked to await the coming of night. Under cover of darkness, so that the vigilant drainage canal police might be escaped, the 200 barrels were poured into the canal and the bacilli started on their journey to the Mississippi river. Then, as Dr. Ravold expressed it, his assistants departed with haste for St. Louis. Samples of water were taken at points between Lemont and St. Louis. The bacillus prodigiosus was found in all these samples, as it was in specimens taken at the intake at the chain of rocks, where water for the city is pumped from the river. THE NEW FUEL. Berlin, March 18—William De Laarbe, director of the Washburn-Pillsbury mills, Minneapolis, is in Magdeburg buy machinery for the briquet works that W. D. Washburn intends to build at Bismarck, N. D. Briquets, which are fuel made from lignite, are widely used in Germany. It is estimated that 55,000 square miles of lignite underlie the Dakotas and Montana, while another wide belt extends through the gulf states from Florida to Texas. German geologists have long believed that the American cities would solve the smokeless fuel question by the use of briquets. story. Then, when other artists pronounced the work of a high class, came the time for the joke. Careful copies of some of the gargoyles and cornicence decorations by Angelo and Da Vinci in St. Peter's at Rome were secured. The reproductions were pronounced perfect and submitted, but they were not artistic in the eyes of the experts. LEFT HIS DEBTS BEHIND. A Kentucky Man is Missing—He Owes $52,500. Frankfort, Ky., March 18.—L. B. Weisenburg of the milling firm of L. B. Weisenburg & Co., has left the city and it is said he owes the four local banks $52,500. Cashier Nichol of the Deposit bank, reported to have been hit the heaviest, says the notes given by Weisenburg to the banks were secured by warehouse receipts on wheat stored or supposed to be stored in the mill and granary of the Weisenburg company and some of them indorsed by A. Dudley Blanton, a coal merchant, interested with Weisenburg in the purchase of wheat. It is said Weisenburg lost his money in wheat and stock speculations. ADVISOR TO KING OF SIAM. Boston, March 18.—The Transcript says that one and possibly two professors of the Harvard Law school have been selected for important positions in the royal court of Slam. One selection is that of Prof. Strobel, professor of international law, to be legal advisor to the king. The name of the other appointee has not yet been announced. Strobel has been secretary to the third assistant secretary at Madrid and third assistant secretary of state in the second Cleveland administration as well as minister of Ecuador and Chill. Chicago, March 17.—The arguments in the coal case continue. The attorneys for the defense assert that the state court, in which the cases are being heard, has no jurisdiction, for the reason that the charge against the defendants implies a violation of both the state and federal statutes. It is asserted that the case against the coal operators is said should have been brought in the federal instead of the state court. The defense has moved the case be taken from the jury and the charge against the defendants dismissed. While the motion is being argued the jury has been excluded from Berlin, Mar. 13.—Princess Bernard of Saxe-Weimar, died suddenly Wednesday near Hanover. She was seized with convulsions while driving with her husband. It was for her that Bernard, who is the second son of the late Prince Hermann of Saxe-Weimar, renounced his name and royal rank two years ago. HE OFFENDED DEWEY. For This Reason or Some Other the Kaiser Drops Captain Obenheimer. Kaiser Drops Captain Obenheimer. Berlin, (Special).—Captain Obenheimer, who commanded the German cruiser Irene when Admiral Dewey captured Manila and whose conduct was criticised by many Americans as being pro-Spanish, has been forced out of the naval staff. Emperor William accepte his resignation, with that of four other officers. It is said Obenheimer's resignation is due to the emperor's desire to cultivate friendship with America, even at the cost of disciplining an able commander. In this connection attention is drawn to a semiofficial assertion to the effect that Obenheimer's resignation was not the result of the Philippine incident at this late day. Yet at the same time the official text of Prince Henry's report of July, 1898, of the irene affair is first made public on the very day when Obenheimer resigns. This report reads as follows: "The Irene brought off a number of Spanish women and children who had got into distress on Isla Grande in Subig bay. She sighted there an insurgent steamer, which disappeared at once. Upon her return from Isla Grande the Irene passed two United States cruisers, which did not speak to her." Unonically it is declared that Germany approved Captain Obenheimer's conduct as being justified in the trying days at Manila following Dewey's victory of May 1, 1898. In spite of this, however, it is well known that Admiral Dewey was sorely perplexed by the Irene's actions, which seemed to be directed toward assisting the Spaniards against the Americans. It is also well known that Admiral Dewey gave Captain Obenheimer a certain period in which to declare whether his attitude was one of peace or war. GREAT TROTTERS MATCHED. Lord Derby will Meet Major Delmar on the 4th of July. New York, March 18.—A match between the great trotters, Lord Derby, 2:05%, and Major Delmar, 2:05%, is now assured, and an agreement to that effect will probably be made Wednesday. The only point at issue was as to the division of the stake money. This was settled yesterday by a telegram from A. P. McDonald, trainer of Major Delmar, agreeing to the proposition made on Sunday by George Spears, acting in behalf of E. E. Smathers, that the winner take all. The conditions mutually agreed on now are that the horses trot the best two in three heats on July 4 for $5,000 a side. Of this $1,000 is to be deposited with a stakeholder when the agreement is signed, $1,000 30 days before the date selected for the race, and the balance of $3,000 on the night before the race. The following telegram was sent from Albany by McDonald: "I accept Mr. Spears' conditions. Will meet him at Murray Hill hotel next Wednesday at 8 p. m., prepared to post forfeit. Secretary Reeves of the Empire City track has made a liberal offer for the race. CASHIER JUMPS HIS BOND. W. P. Dickerson of Eureka, Kan., Fails to Appear in Court. Eureka, Kaitlyn March 18. — 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 aggregating $40,000, is missing. Dickerson, who was arrested a month ago, charged with falsifying his statements to the bank's condition, was to have had a preliminary hearing here. He was out on $2,000 bonds, which he raised by mortgaging his home. It was charged that the books of the bank had been changed in a most careful manner and that deposits were always underestimated. The money which Dickerson is alleged to have realized was, it is said, spent in speculation on the boards of trade in Chicago and St. Louis. The bank carried $45,000 in deposits, many of its deposits being wealthy farmers, and it carried $8,000 of the county's funds. The depositors will it is said, offer a reward for Dickerson's return to the state. BRIBERY CHARGED An Ontario Member Accuses a Minister of the Crown. Toronto, Ont., March 18.—A surprise was sprung yesterday afternoon at the first business meeting of the Ontario legislature when R. R. Gamey, the member for Manitoulin Island, rose in his seat and accused a minister of the crown, J. R. Stratton, of having bribed him to desert his party and support the liberal government. He also implicated J. M. Gibson, the attorney general, and Premier Ross. The charge caused an uproar, and the premier, G. W. Ross, immediately announced that a committee of investigation would be appointed and adjourned the house. The present government has been in power for 24 years, and at the last election had a majority of only five. Gamey stated he was paid $3,000 in cash and promised $4,000 more for a written promise to support the government. He laid on the speaker's desk $500 of the money he said he had received. Opponents predict the downfall of the Ross government. Washington March 18.—Senor Guachilla, the Bolivian minister has written the Bolivian syndicate, made up of capitalists of New York and London and also known as the Anglo-American syndicate, stating that he has been informed that the syndicate has accepted an indemnity of $570,000 from Brazil for its rights in the Acre territory now in dispute between Brazil and Bolivia, and protesting vigorously against such action by the syndicate. The minister said tonight that the taking of this indemnity by the syndicate he regarded as a waiver of its right to exploit the territory of Acre, now in dispute between Brazil and Bolivia, and that Bolivia feared Brazil would use the rights obtained through the purchase of the concession to support her claim to the 90,000 square miles of territory comprised in the Acre region. Bolivia claims that the syndicate is absolutely without authority to take this action. Mrs. Wigg's Philosophy of Life Farm, Orchard and Garden Notes Copyright, 1902, by J. S. Trigg, Rockford, Iowa. Correspondence Solicited "You never kin tell which way any pleasure is a' comin'. Who ever would 'a' thought, when we aimed at the cemetery, that we'd land up at a first-class fire?" "I b'lieve in havin' a good time when you start out to have it. If you git knocked out of one plan, you want to git yerself another right quick, before yer sperrits has a chance to fall." "The way to git cheerful is to smile when you feel bad, to think about somebody else's headache when yer own is 'most bustin', to keep on believin' the sun is a-shinin' when the clouds is thick enough to cut." "Don't you go an' git sorry fer yer- self. That's one thing I can't stand in nobody. There's always lots of other folks you kin be sorry fer 'stid of yerself. Ain't you proud you ain't got a hairlip? Why, that one thought is enough to keep me from ever gittin' sorry for myself." We note a recent sale in England of choice Shire two-year old mares at $1,000 to $1,400 each. The owners of the rich Nile valley lands have to pay an annual tax of $8 per acre. We know of men who kick at a tax of 25 cents per acre. The second and third weeks of a cow's lactate period are the ones during which she will, under normal feed and conditions, give the largest yield of butter. The ordinary average farm of the corn belt is just the place to raise the heavy draft horse, and there should be a pair of good well fed draft mares on every quarter section farm. At the late poultry show at Kansas City a three-year old hen sold for $101. This beats $4,000 for a boar pig or $12,500 for a Shorthorn bull and beats Shamrock, who only brought about $10 per pound, including all the prizes he won. The dairy cow expected to give a flow of milk during the winter season should be provided with some kind of a succulent ration, either roots or ensilage. In the line of roots there is nothing better for her than sugar beets or carrots. A point worth remembering in the tile drainage of land is that if the tile are laid in the near vicinity of willow trees or hedges the fibrous roots of such trees will seek the tile drain for the moisture it contains and by filling it with a mass of roots thus render the drain worthless. The roots once inside of the tile will travel an almost unlimited distance. The tendency has been in the keeping of butter in cold storage to gradually lower the temperature year by year of the room where the butter is stored. This season the butter which has kept in the most perfect condition and which shows practically no loss whatever of fine quality and flavor has been kept at a temperature of from 6 to 10 degrees below zero. No apple grown in the west has been the recipient of more unstinted abuse than the variety known as Patten's Greening, and still a fruit grower in central Iowa who has eight acres of this variety told us recently that he obtained a gross return of $200 per acre from these trees last year. This would indicate that the criticism referred to is not altogether impartial and fair. A little pest and brute almost unknown in the west thirty years ago—the civet cat or small skunk—is constantly increasing in numbers so that in many sections it has become an intolerable plague and menace to all poultry raisers. We know of just two farms, and these adjoining a city of 5,000 population, where last season were killed no less than thirty-five of these pests. A friend writes asking why apples shrink up and wither when kept in a cool cellar. The air is probably too dry and subjects the fruit to a steady process of evaporation. When kept in a cellar, apples should not be exposed to the air. They keep well packed in moist sand or in an underground pit, just as potatoes are kept. If kept in the cellar, cover them with something which will prevent the evaporation. Molasses as a byproduct of the sugar factories has always until lately been regarded as little better than a nuisance. It is now known that when it is properly mixed with other foods it makes a most valuable stock ration, especially for horses. In France and Germany it is now being used in immense quantities as food for horses and they are being kept in the best of condition at a cost of only 33 per cent of the old-time grain ration. Senator Penrose of Pennsylvania is temporary custodian at Washington of three bullets carefully preserved in a plush-covered box. They were shot into various portions of the anatomy of Captain Joe Reisinger of Franklin, Pa., during the civil war and they back up the captain's claim to a medal of honor. The hydrogen atom has hitherto been considered the smallest particle of matter, but the incandescent particles in the vacuum of a Crooks tube are but one-thousandth as large. ```markdown ``` Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch. One serious drawback to the cooperative creamy business is the seeming necessity which compels Sunday work during the summer to properly care for the milk. Of course the cows must be milked on Sunday just as on any other day, and this seeming necessity of running the creamy on Sunday has in most cases overruled whatever moral sentiment there may have been in the community against Sunday work. We notice, however, that quite a number of creameries are giving up this Sunday work, the patrons having made arrangements to care for their Sunday milk at home. Wherever it is possible to do this it should be done, as any form of labor on the Sabbath has a demoralizing influence on the community at large. The Farmer and the Trusts In these days of almost universal combination of business interests we note just two lines yet left out in the cold—the farm and the church. Each of these is jogging along at the same old gait, going it alone in the old competitive way while meeting the power of combined interests at every point. The farmer today is rocked to sleep as a baby in a cradle made by a trust, he like enough is raised on a bottle made by a trust, he goes to work later on in a trust made wamus, overalls, shoes and hat, he plows with a trust plow, seeds his fields with a trust seeder, drags them with a trust drag, cultivates his corn with a trust cultivator, harvests his crops with a trust harvester, thrashes it with a trust thrasher, hauls his crops to market on a trust wagon, has his load weighed on a trust scales and sells to a representative of the grain dealers' trust; he loads up in town with a load of trust lumber or coal, buys some trust sugar and beef and tobacco and goes home to sleep in a trust bed. When he dies, he is buried in a trust coffin after being treated by a trust doctor and laid out by a trust undertaker, about the only thing in his whole career not being controlled by a trust being the funeral sermon by the denominational parson, who alone with the deceased still fights his way through life free of any religious trust. This state of affairs should operate to turn the granger's thoughts toward religion when he finds that the trusts are too many for him. Logging Bees Fifty years ago all through the states of Wisconsin, Indiana and Michigan the logging bee was a common thing. We recall it as we knew it in the state of Wisconsin, where settlers had located in the big timber. The great thing to be desired then was to get rid of the splendid timber with which their land was covered in the easiest possible manner so that a field on which crops might be grown could be cleared up. The wood at that time had no value whatever either as fuel, fencing or for manufacturing purposes. This timber was largely hard maple, white oak and beech, the growth of centuries, many of the larger trees being three feet in diameter. The settler would cut these trees down and into lengths so that they could be moved into log piles. When he had a sufficient amount felled, the neighbors would come to the logging bee, which consisted of hauling these logs into piles and burning them up, a process which, though seemingly necessary in those early days, seems to us of this day a wicked and wanton waste of a most valuable product. We have seen a single log heap burning containing timber which would sell for hundreds of dollars today. So far as we know there are no logging bees going on today. Mav Corn. We are in receipt of a most reductive invitation from a board of trade commission house to buy May corn, "sure to advance," "big profits" and all that. We recall but just one time At the suggestion of Lord Strathcona and Lord Aberdeen a party of members of both houses of parliament is being organized to pay a visit to Canada in the autumn recess. The object is to study the resources of the dominion, with a view to a more thorough enlightenment of the people of Great Britain. By the use of liquefied gases extremely low temperatures, in the neighborhood of 390 degrees Fahrenheit below zero, can easily be obtained. "‘There ain’t no hole so deep can’t somebody pull you out.’" "‘The decidin’ time was the time fer worryin’." "‘When things first got to goin’ wrong with me, I says: ‘O Lord, whatever comes, keep me from gittin’ sour.’" "‘Can’t none of us help what traits we start out in life with, but we kin help what we end up with.’" "‘If you want to be cheerful, jes set yer mind on it and do it.’" "‘You can coax a’ elephant with a little sugar. The worser Mr. Wiggs used to act, the harder I’d pat him on the back. . . . As fer the childern,I always did use compelments on them ‘stid of switches.’" "I've made it a practice to put all my worries down in the bottom of my heart, then set on the lid an' smile." when the farmer could have safely bought futures on corn and that a few years since when a hot wind swept the western nalf of the corn belt just as the corn was in the tassel, absolutely destroying its power of fertilization, a fact which none save the farmer who closely studied the condition of the crop got on to for nearly ten days after the damage was done. Had a man been wise he then could have bought 35 cent corn in unlimited quantities which inside of thirty days, when the full extent of the damage became generally known, went up to 63 cents. The sensible farmer will let options alone, contenting his self with producing the best crops and studying the markets to determine the best time to sell. Clover in the Cornfield About sowing clover in a cornfield: It can be done successfully provided the season is favorable. In a clean field given as level cultivation as possible the clover may be sown in early July immediately after the last working and with sufficient rain will give a good stand for a crop the next season. The corn should not be pickled until the ground is frozen, and the stock should not be allowed the run of the field. The stalks should be broken down just before the frost goes out in the spring. One objection to this plan is that with the old stalks left on the field the first cutting of hay is a rough old mess. Picking Up Money We have noted several cases lately where men living on quarter section farms sold hogs during 1902 to the value of $1,500 to $2,000. The past year was the very best one for the hog raiser which we ever knew. There was an entire absence of disease in the herds and an extra high price for the hog product all the year. It is almost like picking up money to raise hogs, be free from cholera and get $7 to $8 per hundredweight for them on foot and represents the most profitable form of agriculture possible in the corn belt. From Street to Farm: A man who has been for twenty-five years wholly engaged in the strenuous life of a member of a board of trade in one of our largest cities writes and wants some suggestions and advice along the line of quitting his board of trade business and buying a good small farm and settling down as an up-to-date progressive farmer. He writes that he is fast nearing the age when he will be turned down and forced aside in favor of a younger and more vigorous man and would like to be somewhere and be doing something where gray hair would not bar him. He says that he is well read on the technical and scientific side of agriculture, but that his actual experience is limited to garden and poultry work on a small scale. The particular thing he is anxious to know is whether it is safe to make this radical change of employment in a financial way. Yes, if he will not carry to the farm his board of trade style of living and be content to begin in a very moderate way, learning as he goes. We see this difficulty—the excitement, high pressure and intoxication, as it may be termed, associated with a board of trade life would make for him the quiet, peaceful work of the farm seem inexpressibly dull and monotonous at times, and it would be strange indeed if he did not long for the flesh-pots of Egypt; but possibly the certainly improved health and appetite, the release from the ever present nervour strain of city life and the opportunity thus afforded to gratify his love of nature and natural things would to a large extent compensate and tend to make him contented. Something also depends upon how his wife and family look on this scheme for a man had better rush up and down the city streets till he drops dead than undertake to enjoy life in the country with a petulant, discon Rev. Louis Mazawakinyanna, a Sioux Indian, who, as his title would indicate, is a regularly licensed minister, was one of the callers at the rooms of the historical secretary at St. Paul, Minn., the other day. He participated in the Sioux massacre of 1862, but claims to have saved the lives of many whites during the uprising. A man always remembers the dates of his great disasters; he never has to look in his memorandum book for the day when he was married. an excellent fuel, almost equal to hard coal, and 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. Dairy Cow are indicated the parts of the cow taken its as a dairy animal. 23. Shoulder. 34. Fore udder. 24. Elbow. 35. Hind udder. 25. Forearm. 36. Teats. 26. Knee. 37. Upper udder. 27. Ankle. 38. Stifle. 28. Hoof. 39. Twist. 29. Heart girth. 40. Leg or gaskin. 30. Side, or barrel. 41. Hock. 31. Belly. 42. Shank. 32. Flank. 43. Dew claw. 33. Milk vein. used to represent the ideal or perfect the general qualities and particular the right indicating the "weight" or up the total of 100 points which lysize, apparent health, strength, ac- from front, side and top. 5 medium thickness, loose, mellow and bus (but not "wild"), indicated by marance. 5 long, set well apart. 1 and yet placid. 1 but or slightly dished. 1 and nostrils large. 1 are, yellow secretion abundant. 1 clean throat and light dewlap. 1 strong, low, but not too fleshy. 3 lean. 1 oblique. 1 not too large or coarse. 3 pointed, not too level, and smooth; a ribs broad, well arched, open, and boundant room for active heart and with a large and strong navel. 6 long. 3 anch. 3 mess; thin flanks. 1 e apart, giving open twist and not standing well forward, not fleshy. 8 arched high, not fleshy. 8 evenly placed. 5 in front of it, prominent, large, and "milk wells". 5 re to each part the number of points the scale given; use fractions of one- and is broad, full, and satisfactory, mark mark ½ or ¼, or perhaps 0; if fore ex 6, 4, or 2, as the case may be. A breed should have a total of 80 points or number of animals of each breed describ- registered in the United States, and living in 1898: The United States, and Estimated Num- living in 1898. Number registered. Number living. 22,000 6,050 2,871 1,250 18,343 10,000 1,128 500 16,600 11,000 100,000 60,000 184,000 90,000 1,321 1,200 119,068 (?) 366,545 140,000 731,876 320,000 Judging a Dairy In the accompanying illustration are indicated the into consideration in judging her merits as a dairy Diagram of cow showing points. 1. Head. 12. Withers. 23. Shoulder. 2. Muzzle. 13. Back. 24. Elbow. 3. Nostril. 14. Loins. 25. Forearm. 4. Face. 15. Hip bone. 26. Knee. 5. Eye. 16. Pelvic arch. 27. Ankle. 6. Forehead. 17. Rump. 28. Hoof. 7. Horn. 18. Tail. 29. Heart gir 8. Ear. 19. Switch. 30. Side, or i 9. Cheek. 20. Chest. 31. Belly. 10. Throat. 21. Brisket. 32. Flank. 11. Neck. 22. Dewlap. 33. Milk vein In judging dairy stock, 100 is assumed to repres dairy cow. The following is a list of the general parts considered, with the figures at the right in importance attached to each in making up the to stands for perfection: General Appearance: Constitutional vigor, as shown bysize, apparen tivity and "general appearance". Form, wedge shaped as viewed from front, si Quality, hair fine, soft; skin medium thickness unctuous, with yellow secretion. Temperament, active and nervous (but not movements, eyes, and lean appearance Head and Neck: Forehead, broad and full. Horns, small and fine, not too long, set well Eyes, large prominent, bright, and yet placie Face, lean, not too short, straight or slightly Muzzle, clean and strong, mouth and nostrils Ears, medium size, fine in texture, yellow se Neck, rather long and thin, fine; clean throat Forequarters: Chest and brisket, broad and strong, low, but Withers, well defined, firm and lean Shoulders, light, not fleshy, and oblique Legs, straight, rather short, and not too large Body: Back, well defined, lean, open-jointed, not too good spine Barrel or body, long and large; ribs broad, w well defined; a large strong body Heart girth, large and deep; abundant room lungs Belly, large, broad, and deep, with a large a Loin, broad and strong Hindquarters: Hips, wide apart. Pelvic arch, prominent and strong Rump, long and wide. Tail, long, fine, with a good switch Thighs, long and lean, no beefiness; thin fla Legs, straight, rather short, wide apart, giving too large or coarse. Fore udder, full, broad and extending well for Hind udder, broad, full and attached high, no Teats, of good size and form, evenly placed Milk veins, upon the udder, and in front of it tortuous, leading to large open "milk wells" Notes.—In scoring or marking, give to each pair which it appears to deserve upon the scale given fourth if necessary. Thus if forehead is broad, f 2; if neck is short, thick, and beefy, mark ½ or udder is deficient or defective, mark 6. 4, or 2. good cow closely criticised and scored should ha Judging a Dairy Cow In the accompanying illustration are indicated the parts of the cow taken into consideration in judging her merits as a dairy animal. Diagram of cow showing points. 1. Head. 12. Withers. 23. Shoulder. 34. Fore udder. 2. Muzzle. 13. Back. 24. Elbow. 35. Hind udder. 3. Nostril. 14. Loins. 25. Forearm. 36. Teats. 4. Face. 15. Hip bone. 26. Knee. 37. Upper udder. 5. Eye. 16. Pelvic arch. 27. Ankle. 38. Stifle. 6. Forehead. 17. Rump. 28. Hoof. 39. Twist. 7. Horn. 18. Tall. 29. Heart girth. 40. Leg or gaskin. 8. Ear. 19. Switch. 30. Side, or barrel. 41. Hock. 9. Cheek. 20. Chest. 31. Belly. 42. Shank. 10. Throat. 21. Brisket. 32. Flank. 43. Dew claw. 11. Neck. 22. Dewlap. 33. Milk vein. In judging dairy stock, 100 is assumed to represent the ideal or perfect dairy cow. The following is a list of the general qualities and particular parts considered, with the figures at the right indicating the "weight" or importance attached to each in making up the total of 100 points which stands for perfection: **General Appearance:** Constitutional vigor, as shown bysize, apparent health, strength, activity and "general appearance"..... 5 Form, wedge shaped as viewed from front, side and top..... 5 Quality, hair fine, soft; skin medium thickness, loose, mellow and unctuous, with yellow secretion..... 5 Temperament, active and nervous (but not "wild"), indicated by movements, eyes, and lean appearance..... 5 **Head and Neck:** Forehead, broad and full. Horns, small and fine, not too long, set well apart. Eyes, large prominent, bright, and yet placid. Face, lean, not too short, straight or slightly dished. Muzzle, clean and strong, mouth and nostrils large. Ears, medium size, fine in texture, yellow secretion abundant. Neck, rather long and thin, fine; clean throat and light dewlap. Forequarters: Cheek, and brisket, broad and strong, low, but not too fleshy. Withers, well defined, firm and lean. Shoulders, light, not fleshy, and oblique. Legs, straight, rather short, and not too large or coarse. Body: Back, well defined, lean, open-jointed, not too level, and smooth; a good spine Barrel or body, long and large; ribs broad, well arched, open, and well defined; a large strong body Heart girth, large and deep; abundant room for active heart and lungs Belly, large, broad, and deep, with a large and strong navel Loin, broad and strong **Hindquarters:** Hips, wide apart Pelvic arch, prominent and strong Rump, long and wide Tall, long, fine, with a good switch Thighs, long and lean, no beefiness; thin flanks Legs, straight, rather short, wide apart, giving open twist and not too large or coarse too large or coarse..... Fore udder, full, broad and extending well forward, not fleshy..... Hind udder, broad, full and attached high, not fleshy..... Teats, of good size and form, evenly placed..... Milk veins, upon the udder, and in front of it, prominent, large, and tortuous, leading to large open "milk wells" ..... 5 Notes.—In scoring or marking, give to each part the number of points which it appears to deserve upon the scale given; use fractions of one-fourth if necessary. Thus if forehead is broad, full, and satisfactory, mark 2; if neck is short, thick, and beefy, mark ½ or ¼, or perhaps 0; if fore udder is deficient or defective, mark 6.4 or 2, as the case may be. A good cow closely criticised and scored should have a total of 80 points or more. Numbers of Registered Dairy Cattle. The following table shows the number of animals of each breed described in this bulletin which have been registered in the United States, and the estimated number of the same living in 1898: The following table shows the number of animals in this bulletin which have been registered in the estimated number of the same living in 1898: Number of Animals Registered in the United States ber of these living in 1898 Breeds. Ayrshires Brown Swiss Devons Dutch Belted Guernseys Holstein Friesians Jerseys Polled Durhams Red Polls Shorthorns Total Breeds. Number registered. Number living. Ayrshires 22,000 6,050 Brown Swiss 2,871 1,250 Devons 18,343 10,000 Dutch Belted 1,128 500 Guernseys 16,600 11,000 Holstein Friesians 100,000 60,000 Jerseys 184,000 90,000 Polled Durhams 1,321 1,200 Red Polls 119,068 (?) Shorthorns 366,545 140,000 Total 731,876 320,000 Includes all in Great Britain and United States. Markley—I was foolish enough to remark to my wife that I rather admired those new waists that button down the back. So she got one. Ascum—Well, you practically told her to get it. Markley—Oh, that was all right, but now she insists that she must have a maid to button it for her.—Philadelphia... Press. The trolley lines have effected a reduction of 12,000 annually in the number of passengers carried by steam railroads. W. A. Melbourne, said to be the oldest telegrapher in the world, has removed from Swanwick, ill., to Denver where he intends to pass the remainder of his days. He began manipulating the keys in 1847, and during the civil war was attached to the army of the Potomac. "I don't think it's a nice thing to say of Mrs. Oddsent that she got her husband at a bargain counter." "O, but it's true. He was the young man that seved her life in a crush at a glove sale at Spotcash's one day." 2013 ```markdown ``` tented wife in a farm home. If it was our case, we should let the women folks settle this matter. LIGNITE COAL. North Dakota and Montana have inexhaustible supplies of lignite, or halfmade 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 blocks, as is now being done very successfully in both France and Germany with similar deposits of lignite coal. When thus treated it becomes Numbers of Registered Dairy Cattle. Lightning killed two steers for a farmer late last fall. He sold the carcasses to a traveling junk peddler, who took the hides. In his wagon was a freshly skinned horse hide bought of a man miles away who happened to have an outbreak of hog cholera on his place. Before skinning the steers he spread out the horse hide on the ground to dry. A bunch of small pigs, getting scent of it, came up and commenced to nose the horse hide around. Four days after the cholera broke out among this herd of hogs and made a clean sweep of $700 worth of choice hogs. See? Dr. Davidson, the new archbishop of Canterbury, England, in an address at the banquet following his enthronement, made the rather remarkable statement that the first intelligence he received of his elevation to his high office came in the form of a congratulatory cable message from Bishop Doane of Albany, N. Y. Senator Frye once refused to write his reminiscences for a magazine, declaring himself opposed to the telling by public me of "tales out of school." Fatal Error. State Dairy Commissioner Wright is sending out several circulars to dairymen and farmers on subjects of importance to them. One of these circulars is on "Growing Alfalfa in Iowa." Mr. Wright is strongly in favor of more extensive growth of alfalfa, and says if its value was more generally appreciated a more persistent effort would be made to discover just how to proceed in growing it. He says further: "Not only does successfully grown alfalfa produce three or more tons of hay to the acre, but it has a feeding value almost exactly equal to that of bran. It furnishes the protein which is not found in sufficient amount in any of the commonly grown grains or fodders from which a balanced ration can be put together. If Iowa farmers can grow alfalfa they will no longer need to buy bran and oil meal to feed with corn to their cows, and neither will the steer feeder find it necessary to buy cotton seed meal to balance his ration for his steers. The extraordinary value of alfalfa will warrant considerable expense in experimenting on a few acres. "It is useless to try alfalfa on soil that is wet or that has a hard pan sub-soil. It requires soil sufficiently porous so that its roots may go down from ten to 15 feet. Mature alfalfa is one of the most vigorous plants, but young alfalfa is one of the weakest plants grown. It grows slowly, is a weak feeder, and is easily checked by weeds or other unfavorable conditions of soil or weather. Hence, the soil should be free from weeds, in the best possible tilth, rich in plant food and not too loose on the surface or the seed will lack moisture on the surface for germination and growth. Alfalfa Alfalfa should be seeded at the rate of 20 or more pounds per acre and should have the full use of the land the first year, and should be moved but not removed from the ground as soon as the blossoms begin to appear. If soil is at all sour, lime may be added with profit. "Some experiments in Illinois seem to indicate a probability that inoculation of the soil will be a valuable aid in growing alfalfa. By putting in the soil some of the soil brought from old alfalfa fields of western Iowa or Nebraska it is believed that the bacteria necessary for the successful growth of alfalfa will be furnished and will quickly multiply and insure the best results from the alfalfa. The dairymen of the state will find the question of the proper ration completely solved as soon as they can raise sufficient alfalfa hay for their cows, as alfalfa hay and corn make a balanced ration for cows. Under present conditions, even if the farmer has good clover nay, he must buy oil meal or bran or some other feed that will supply the lack of protein in corn and corn fodder and the other farm grains and rough feeds." In another circular Mr. Wright urges all producers of milk to provide some green feed to supply his cows late in the summer to make up for short pasturage. He advises planting a few acres of some variety of corn, planted thick, and fed to cows late in July or August. Sorghum planted at the rate of 100 pounds to the acre is also favored.—Des Molnes Register. WHO BUYS SNUFF. The general impression is that there has been a great decline in the use of snuff. Snuff boxes are no longer in evidence in fashionable society. In the cities not one man in 10,000 takes snuff. In the country districts of the North not one man in a township is addicted to the use of snuff. In the rural districts of Kentucky and Tennessee less is used than before the civil war. Yet the American Snuff company, which controls 95 per cent of the product in the United States, reports net earnings for last year of $1,739,617, and pays dividends of $995,042. After paying dividends, the company, with assets of $25,315,000, has a surplus of $1,442,848. This would indicate a heavy business in snuff. There were manufactured in the United States in 1876, 3,317,000 pounds of snuff; in 1902 there were manufactured 16,800,000 pounds. In other words, five times as much snuff was made in this country last year as 25 years ago. Who buys it; who uses it? The statistics of manufacture do not answer these questions. Of the 13,805,311 pounds of snuff manufactured in the United States in the census year of 1900, New Jersey produced 4,238,541 pounds, Pennsylvania 3,238-541 pounds, Tennessee 2,392,927 pounds, Maryland 1,949,228 pounds, Illinois 707,815 pounds, Virginia 640-075 pounds. The people of none of these states, however, were heavy consumers of snuff. Of the five kinds of snuff manufactured that year, the greater part of the Scotch grade went to Germany and to the whites and negroes in Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas, and Indian territory. Sweet snuff, used for dipping, found heaviest sale in North and South Carolina. Of Maccabay snuff the largest sales were in New England, and, Rappee snuff found many buyers in the Northwestern state, though most of it went abroad. 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