The Professional World

THE PROFESSIONAL WORLD. $1.00 Per Year in Advance Sturgeon News. Mr. Jeff Williams left Sunday night for Illinois. Miss M. D. Hicks has returned home from St. Louis. Samyra Robinson is visiting in the World's Fair city. Mr. Geo. Collier and family were down from Clark, Sunday. Mr. Geo. F. Barnes subscribes to the Professional World this week. Rev. Lee has just closed a three week's revival meeting, which was quite a success. Mr. Chas. Ritchie, of Moberly, was down Sunday to visit his mother, who is very ill. You should read the Professional World. It is the only newspaper published for $1.00 per year. The members of the Second Baptist church have repainted their church building and placed a new stove therein, so that all who come may be comfortable. A good cook wanted at Gerling's Bakery & Confectionery. St. Louis Locals. The corner stone of the new Y. M. C. A. building was laid last Sunday. The Professional World is always on sale at J. A. McCullah's, 3718 Rutger St. Miss Ida B. Fowler made quite a pleasant call at her sisters, Mrs. J. A. McCullah, last Friday. There must be something doing out on Lambdin ave., as Mr. L. C. Fowler is seen out there quite often. J. A. McCullah, who was formerly local editor of the St. Louis Sin, is now working on the Professional World. Cards are out for the wedding of Mr. Burt Stricklin and Miss Jennie Lewis, which is to take place on Dec. 17th. The World will be there. Mr. Clarence Drew, one of E. St. Louis' young business men, has accepted a position in Washington City and left Sunday for that place. The World wishes him success. Agents Wanted. The Professional World wants an industrious, energetic, honest man to take the general agency for the Professional World, in this state. Good salary paid to hustling agent. Address, THE PROFESSIONAL WORLD, Columbia, Mo. Moberly Items. Miss Bertha Brooks is teaching near Yates. Mrs. Doshea Beverly is visiting friends in Des Moines. Prof. A. B. Baldon, who has been ill, is again in the school room. The churches are preparing for their Thanksgiving exercises and entertainments. The Second Baptist church has had a great revival. Six were baptized last Sunday and ten Sunday before last. The members of the Second Baptist church presented their pastor, Rev. Bates, with a fine suit of clothes. Subscribe to the Professional World and you will receive the best Negro paper in the state every week in the year for $1.00. CASH OR CREDIT. Catalogue FREE. Jefferson City News. Mrs. Prof. Murry is on the sick list. Mr. Chas. D. Bruce is in Kansas City with his sick brother. Mr. Anderson Overton is visiting his daughter, Mrs. Addie Carter. Miss E. Vaughn of Moberly has returned to her studies at Lincoln Institute. Mr. M. D. Mayberry has moved his store into his new building on Lafayette St. Mrs. Phil Johnson is still in St. Louis on account of the illness of her son Leslie. Rev. Burnam of Cedar City, preached at the Second Baptist church Sunday evening. Mr. Pete Sanderson gives entire satisfaction as instructor in blacksmithing at Lincoln Institute. The Lincoln Institute football team is expecting to leave Saturday for Sedalia to play the Geo. R Smith boys. Mr. E. Carter has closed his shop on Madison St. and has gone into partnership with Mr. James Warren on Jefferson St. The teachers and pupils of the colored public school, moved into their magnificent new building last Monday. This is one of the best equipped buildings for colored children in the state. Mr. Joseph Douglass of Washington City, D. C., and grandson of the renowned Fredrick Douglass, gave an interesting musical at Lincoln Institute Monday evening, Nov. 16. Mr. Douglass is a skilled violinist and his renditions were a rare treat to the large audience. Miss Pigeon and others assisted him with much credit to themselves. The shoemaker's department has reopened, with Prof. Hoskens, as instructor. E. W. R. Huntsville Notes. Subscribe to this paper, only $100 per year. Emmett Hicks has returned from Kewanee, Ill. Prin. R. L. Logan spent Saturday in Armstrong. Huntsville is still in need of a good colored barber. Mrs. Lucy Rout is improving, after several days illness. Mrs. George Bagby entertained the sewing circle last week. Work on the new Baptist church has been suspended until spring. DIED-ROBINSON —At the residence of his mother, in Huntsville, Mo., Friday Nov. 13th, 1903, Albert Robinson of consumption, age 31 years. Funeral from family residence Sunday afternoon. Lincoln Institute Notes. A large and highly appreciative audience assembled in the auditorium of Lincoln Institute on the evening of the 16th of November, to listen to that prince of violinists, Joseph Douglass, of Washington, District of Columbia. Mr. Douglass is a grandson of the late Frederick Douglass, and with the magic of his musical talent, held the audience as completely spell bound as his illustrious ancestor was wont to do with the matchless fire of his eloquence. A considerable number of the PRICE $33.50 It will pay you to send for our Catalogue No. 6, quoting prices on Bugles, 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. DEPT 910. East St. Louis, IL. best white citizens were out, and the entire character of the concert was such as to materially raise the Anglo Saxon concept of the Negro's advancement and capacity for the highest degree of culture as well as to increase the latter's respect for the genius of his race. Mr. Douglass was ably supported by the talent of the Institute and all of the numbers, including scenes from Floroda by the students, from Leah the Forsaken, by Mrs. J. S. Moten, etc., received well merited commendations. Miss Florence Pigeon of this Department of Music, was Mr. Douglass' pianist for the evening, and he expressed himself as being impressed with the ease and skill with which this young lady accompanied him in the very difficult music selected; stating that in a period of years he had only in one other instance been able to find a pianist of color with sufficient knowledge of music to successfully render these compositions. Among the pieces given, and that were especially appreciated bringing forth encore after encore, melting the audience to tears by their pathos or exciting them to mirth by their exuberant intricacies were Fantasie Caprice, Vieuxtemps, Gypsie Dances, Parasate, Mazurka de Concert-Musin. Dr. Allen deserves much credit for his untiring efforts to place before the young people entrusted to his care high ideals of manhood and womanhood. The sermon given on Sunday by Dr. Patillo having as its theme, "Personality," was remarkable in its clearness, force and originality and is the same that he will give during the year to the schools and colleges of the Methodist Church, South, in Missouri. It was highly appreciated by all present and the story of his own struggle with poverty while obtaining an education and by that of others whom he had instructed and "lifted up" could not have been otherwise than an inspiration to the struggling student in Lincoln Institute. WANTED—a good cook at Gerliug's Bakery & Confectionery. Schools and Teachers. The executive committee of the National educational association held its meeting in Chicago on November 10, and decided to hold the next annual convention at St. Louis the week of July 4, in connection with the educational exhibit of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. It is intended to make a change in the usual form of programme so that a comparative study may be made of the exhibits, and especially of the foreign educational systems. Education is pre-eminently a training of the mind. The value of it is not what you carry in your memory at any moment. It is the power you have to analyze logically and to solve correctly any ordinary problem of science, history, literature, politics or business.—Rev. W. D. Hyde, Congregationalist, Boston, Mass. The average monthly wages of the teachers of the United States is $49 for males and $40 for females, as reported by the commissioner of education for the year 1902. Among the many additions to the departments of Lincoln Institute, none is of more importance than the department of Domestic science, which includes cooking and house-keeping. The young ladies of the institution are taught scientific cooking and are given an opportunity to practice the same. This department is in charge of Miss Sprague, a young lady who has specialized in this branch of education. She is a granddaughter of the late Hon. Frederick Dong- Prize-winning Corn. At the corn show to be held at Columbia, Jan. 6, under the auspices of the Missouri World's Fair Commission, it is important that the finest specimens in the county be selected and that they be in the best possible condition. The best of this corn will be taken to St. Louis to compete with the world. As already announced, prizes are offered for the best corn, white, yellow and mixed, and other prizes for the best display of large ears, and still another for the best display of long ears. The best corn is not always the largest, and in selecting ears to compete for these prizes it is important that they should possess quality as well as size. Above all the entire exhibit should be uniform, that is, all of the ears should be as nearly alike in size, shape and color as possible. Each individual ear should carry its size throughout its length, that is, be as large two inches from the tip as it is two inches from the butt. Avoid ears that taper sharply toward the tip. Every row should be straight and regular and should continue the entire length of the ear. The butts and tips should be filled with deep grains that are as nearly uniform in size and shape as possible with other grains of the ear. The ears should be as large as possible, but it is not advisable to sacrifice quality for size in the entry for the best corn. In the show for the largest ears quality will not count for so much, but even there the prizes will likely be awarded on the best large ears, so they should be well filled, be uniform in size, shape and color, and should have length in proportion to their diameter. This proportion should be about as 4 is to 3, that is, an ear measuring 12 inches in length should be 9 inches in circumference, measured three inches from the butt. Handle the show corn with the utmost care so as to avoid shelling off the grains. Do not put in a sack. Handle it in boxes and keep it in bins or boxes that are mouse proof, and wrap each ear in paper before bringing it to the show. This will prevent shattering and will preserve the bright, fresh color and add materially to the attractiveness of the display. A writer in the Journal of Agriculture says: As "hog-killing time is fast approaching, I would like to tell the readers of this department of a method of curing meat which I have found very successful. As soon as the hams and shoulders have taken salt sufficiently—the time will vary according to the weather—I smoke them over a fire of green hickory chips until they are a golden brown. Then I take the meat down and immerse each piece in a boiler of strong red pepper tea. Atter it has been dried with a clean cloth I sprinkle heavily with powdered borax and hang up again. It is unnecessary to sack meat treated in this way, as the flies will not trouble it in the warmest weather. Late News Notes. The Standard Oil Company has announced a dividend of 12 per cent for December 15, making the total dividends this year $44 a share. Judge Hazell disqualifies himself in the trial of Senator Buell Matthews and continues it until Dec. 18. Judge W. W. Graves will be called in to try the cause. A motion to include "the use of tobacco" in the white ribbon pledge is laid on the table at the W. C. T. U.convention, but favorable action may be taken next year. Sewing and Dressmaking. I am again at my sewing rooms and prepared to do the latest style cutting and fitting of skirts and shirt waist. A well furnished reception room for my customers. Mrs. Minta Lange Huggard, 12 N. 6th street, COLUMBIA, MO. Phone 645 Competent Teachers, Good Location, Free Tuition, New Doritories, with Modern improvements, Buildings Heated by Steam, Diplomas are State School Certificates, Board only $8.50 per month. One of the best equipped schools in the country for negroes. Supported by the great State of Missouri. First term opens Sept. 7th. For Catalogues and information, write BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ALDEN A. M., Pres. Thanksgiving Proclamation. JEFFERSON CITY, Nov. 11. Governor Doekery this morning issued his Thanksgiving proclamation as follows: "STATE OF MISSOURI, EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT: Responsive to a well established and appropriate custom, the President of the United States has designated Thursday, Nov. 26, 1903, as a day of praise and prayer. It is a beautiful custom. All Missourians should observe it. During the twelve months past the varied interests of this progressive commonwealth have prospered greatly. Established industries have been enlarged and strengthened, and new fields of enterprise developed. For blessing so abundantly bestowed the people should return devout thanks to Almighty God. "In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused to be affixed the great seal of Missouri, done at office in the City of Jefferson, this 11th day of November, A. D. 1903. "A. M. DOCKERY." By the Governor. SAM B. COOK, Secretary of State. The Electric Line. Interest in the recently proposed Central Electric Railroad is reviving after having been in the back ground for some time. At one time it looked as if this project would materialize very soon, but there came the flurry on Wall street and capital went into hiding. The project is again being agitated. The people of Callaway county are particularly anxious to have the road built. The schemes and sharp dealing of the big Wall street are responsible for the killing of many a worthy enterprise. If an ordinary man should be guilty of some of the things that the big stock gamblers and financial jugglers are guilty of, he would be soundly condemned and perhaps dealt with by law. The Missouri Central may eventually be built to St. Charles. —St. Charles Banner. How long can a human being live without food? In one instance frequently quoted, out of a shipwrecked crew of 150 who were without food for thirteen days only fifteen survived. MISSOURI STATE SCHOOL FOR COLORED YOUTH. VOL. III. NO. 3 bissmaking. rooms and prepared to do the latest skirts and shirt waist. A well fur- my customers. Santa Lange Huggard, NO. Phone 645 REGIONAL WORLD FREE to for a year's Subscription world will get it free until Xmas. SCRIPTION IN NOW FOBS FOR Men & Women are very much in fashion Everybody it seems is wearing them. There's nothing we know of more suitable for a gift. Let us show you the Simmons Watch Fobs Some are of delightfully quaint patterns, others most delicately wrought. A large selection always on hand at C. W. Phillips, JEWELER AND OPTICIAN. Repatring of Watches and Clocks a Specialty. PECK DRUG Co. A HOLIDAY .AD. IN THESE COLUMNS WILL BRING YOU TRADE A full line of Staple and fancy Groceries and country produce EVER NEW AND FRESH. MRS. J. W. DAMEL, PROP. Corner Atchison St. and Fairview Boulevard, JEFFERSON CITY, - - MISSOURI Nov. 13, 61. [Aerial view of a city skyline with tall buildings and a large clock tower]. DARTMENTS. Industrial, Agricultural, Domestic. DURSAGES. Separatory, Normal, Inning School, Music, Instrumental, Vocal Wood-working, Machinery, and Gardening, Printing, Cooking, Laundering. PARTAGES. Free Tution, New Dormitories, with Mod- cated by Stream. Diplomas are State Board only $8.50 per month. the country for negroes. Supported by the opens Sept. 7th. For Catalogues and Infor- JAMIN FRANKLIN ALLEN, A. M., Pres. Jefferson City, Mo. VICTIMS OF DYNAMITE CRACKER Ferrell Lymburner of Dubuque Terribly Burned and May Die. Dubuque, Iowa. Nov. 18.—Ferrell Lymburner, 10 years of age, and Michael Oakleaf, were seriously injured Sunday afternoon by the explosion of a dynamite cracker. The boys were near a mine on the hill at Cascade crossing and came across the dynamite. They lighted the cracker, but failed to get safely away from it and the explosion tossed them both fully ten feet in the air. Their clothes were set on fire. They ran through the woods and after scaling two fences jumped into a creek, from which they were rescued by a railroad man. Lymburner is not expected to live as his face, chest, hands and legs are horribly burned. Oakleaf was seriously burned, but his wounds are not considered dangerous. MANY FAINT IN LAND RUSH Are Trampled in Efforts to File on Government Claims. Crookston, Min., Novb. 18.—With women protesting against being crushed to death and both men and women fainting and falling under the feet of the greedy land hunters, nearly 1,000 persons packed the government land office and through the halls of the building, up to the second floor, on which the office is located, awaiting the formal opening of about 500,000 acres of land in the Red Lake Indian reservation. It was the biggest crush for land ever known in the northwest, and the number of entries was the largest of any previous day. MEMORIAL DAY AT PURDUE City of Lafayette Joins With College in Honoring Dead. Lafayette, Ind., Nov. 18.—Purdue to-day is honoring the dead football heroes who were killed in the wreck at Indianapolis Oct. 31, by holding memorial exercises in the Fowler hall. The exercises are occupying the entire day, and the entire populace of the city and many of the Purdue alumni are joining in paying their last respects to those who have passed away. The principle speakers of the day are President Stone and Oliver F. Cutts, coach of the football team. AN ANDREWS' RAIDER IS DEAD William Henry Harrison Reddick, Took Part in War Time Adventure. Muscatine, Ia., Nov. 18.—William Henry Harrison Reddick, until today one of the seven survivors of "Andrew's railroad raid," a military understaffing of 1862, is dead. Reddick with twenty-three others, seized a train near Atlanta and tried to reach Chattanooga, laying waste track and telegraph wires behind them. They were captured and all shot or hanged but seven. To Mr. Reddick and his companions who survived the raid congress awarded medals of honor. BUCKET SHOP LOSS RECOVERED Wife of Operator and Commission House Agent Gets Deficit. Charleston,-Ill., Nov. 18.—Mrs. Hattie Edman today was given a verdict of $15,000 because her husband lost $25,000 in operating a bucket shop and acting agent for a commission firm. The defendant is the Odell Commission company of Cincinnati. She sued for $75,000 under the state law, which allows one to recover three times the amount lost in gambling, the county in which the suit is brought receiving one-half the sum recovered. RECLUSE LEAVES A FORTUNE Old Woman Worth $500,000 Lies in a Squalid Basement. New York, Nov. 18.---Mrs. Mary Oliver, a widow, 86 years old has been found dead in the squallid basement of a tenement-house in Harlem, where she had lived as a recluse for twenty-five years. When the police searched the place they found United States bonds and other securities to the value of $50,000. Neighbors say the woman's estate is valued at more than $500,000. Her death was form natural causes. Although there may be no war between Japan and Russia, no one can say that Japan was 'fraid'—Indinapolis News. JUROR DIES DURING A TRIAL Legal Contest in Grand Rapids, Mich. Comes to a Sudden End. Grand Rapids, Mich. Nov. 18. — Theodore Mueller, a juror in the circuit court, today collapsed during the hearing of a case and died in two minutes of fatty degeneration of the heart. He was sixty-five years old and leaves a widow and several children at Lowell, Mich. INDUSTRIAL Nebraska's Crops the Richest. From the government crop reports it is estimated that Nebraska will stand first with the production of 45,000,000 bushels of wheat. Over 222,000,000 bushels of corn and 53,000,000 bushels of oats, having a total value of $152,000,000. Kansas is a close second in proportion to population. The value of 'Texas' crop is greater than either of these though less per capita. Mississippi expects 'a cotton crop worth $83,000,000. This year's crops in the United States will yield a total value of $2,500,000,000. The corn crop alone will be worth $1,035,000,000; cotton, $575,000,000; wheat, $492,000,000; oats, $175,000,000. A. Bottomless Lake of Gold. Gold miners in the British Yukon district are trying to find out how to reach the golden riches of Mayo lake, into which five gold-bearing creeks have flowed for centuries. According to last accounts, however, they had been unable to sound the bottom of the lake. The lake is 20 miles long by two miles wide. Output of Precious Metals The mint directors' estimate of the world's production of precious metals of 1903 shows that of gold $295,000,889,600 worth was produced, a gain of about $32,000,000. Of silver $80,000,000 was produced. In the gold output the United States was second with $80,000,000, Africa being first with $81,000,000. The Largest Locomotive. The Baldwin Locomotive works has turned out the first of 70 locomotives for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad, which weighs $143\frac{1}{2}$ tons and has a pulling stroke of 29 1-3 tons. This is the largest locomotive ever built. Its total weight is 225 tons. A common piston valve does duty for both high pressure and low pressure cylinders. New Texas Oil Strike. Dispatches from Austin, Tex. Wednesday, told of a new oil gusher on Bateon's prairie, ten miles northwest of Sour lake. The oil has a paraffine base, and is of high grade. Hundreds of operators are flocking to the new field. Destroying Georgia Forests. The fumes of copper ore furnaces at Ducktown, Tenn., have blighted the forests of five Georgia counties to such an extent that Governor Terrell deceived to ask the United States courts for relief. COMMERCIAL Negro Woman a Banker. The St. Luke's Savings bank was opened at Richmond, Monday, with Maggie L. Walker, a representative negro, as its president. It starts with $150,000 capital, and already has received large deposits, having the confidence of both colored and white people of the vicinity. Beginning of Gold Imports. It was announced at New York, Tuesday, that the National City bank had engaged $1,000,000 in gold from London. More importations were expected. Heavy remittances to the West and South made other moving of crops. War on Cunard Begun. The Morgan ship trust has taken the offensive against the Cunard line, its chief rival, by securing the Saturday European mail, changing the sailing of steamships from Wednesday to Saturday, beginning with this week. Richest State in the Union. At the close of New Jersey's fiscal year, Oct. 31, the comptroller announced a balance of $200,951,631. This, together with the fact that New Jersey has no public debt, justifies her claim of being the richest state in the Union in proportion to population. Rock Island's Surplus. The report of the Rock Island, and showing its income from railroads to be $2,166,000, after paying out three dividends, a surplus of over $500,000 was left. EDUCATIONAL Co-Eds Getting Too Gay. At a Chicago conference of the women deans of coeducational colleges and universities, Tuesday, the consensus of opinion was that too much social gayeyet was creeping into the college life of girl students. The deans favor the cottage plan of residence instead of big dormitories. For a Clipper Service. The Scientific American, in a leading editorial, favors the suggestion that a line of trans-Atlantic sailing ships of the clipper build be equipped purely for passenger transportation, believing it would be popular among the many who enjoy the ocean trip for its own sake and to whom the sailing vessel would appeal on a sentimental ground. It urges that the absence of engines, boilers and coal bunckers would make stateroom accommodations more gererous, while the absence of vibration and cinders would be agreeable. Schwab Attacks Nixon. When the shipbuilding trust hearing was resumed at New York Thursday Lewis Nixon, former president of the trust, took the stand and was closely questioned by Lawyer Guthrie, counsel for Schwab, who tried to show that Nixon's Crescent shipyards had been sold to the trust for more than they were worth. Both Schwab and Receiver Smith were present. Seventh Advance In Oil. Coincident with the report Tuesday that Russia had refused to let the Rothschilds own oil lands in the empire, the Standard Oil company advanced the price of refined oil 1-cent a gallon. This was the seventh advance made in two weeks, and nearly made a record price. Oil was retailing at 14 cents a gallon. Money for Chicago Tunnel. The Illinois Turnel company, with $30,000,000 capital, has been incorporated to build and operate a tunnel system tor Chicago, in connection with other objects. Steel Stocks Still Loweer. Steel stocks still lower. The bears of the stock market continued their raid on United States steel, forcing the common down to 11 Thursday, and the preferred to 56. new low records. LEGAL AND CRIMINAL The impressive feature of the trial of State Senator Farris at Jefferson City, Mo., Wednesday, was the story of shame contained in the testimony of former Lieutenant Governor John A. Lee. Lee told how he paid $7,000 of the Royal Baking Powder company's money, to be distributed among Farris and six colleagues and retained $1,500 for himself. Parks Gives Up Hope. Since his second conviction for extortion, Oct. 31, Sam Parks, the New York walking delegate, remained in the New York city jail until sentence should be pronounced for a term at Sing Sing. Parks has now given up all hope of resuming his place in the labor world., as his health is so poor that he does not expect to live out his imprisonment. Alabama Negro Outrages. In the trial of whitecappers at Birmingham it was shown that not only were negro churches burned and negro laborers terrorized, but that a colored woman with baby in arms was shot and the baby killed as she ran from her house at night. More than 150 negroes had fled from the county in terror. Big Damage Awarded. Mrs. Catherine Reddy of Yonkers was awarded a verdict of $50,000 in a suit for damages against the New York Central for injuries received in a wreck near Niagara Falls. This is the largest damage verdict for a woman on record in New York state. Lynchenbaun Not Extradited. The United States court at Indianapolis has decided not to extradite to British authorities the noted Irish refugee, James Lynchenbaum, on the ground that his crime was not of a political nature. This makes a precedent for reviewing English sentences in American courts. Grafters at Minneapolis. Another chapter in American municipal corruption is opened by the finding of the Minneapolis grand jury that graft prevails in the city council. Prosecutions are expected to follow. Before a gathering of 300 educators representing the leading Western universities, at Chicago last Sunday, Henry L. Boltwood, a high school principal at Evanston, Ill., declared that what others called meanness, rascality and cowardly brutality, college men called fun. He said that the idea of special class privilege prevalent in colleges was already spreading into the secondary schools, until vulgarity and theft were actually glori field. GENERAL POLITICAL Concerning a National Lobby. Some very plain-spoken charges of the existence of a national lobby at Washington are made editorially in the November issue of Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly. Besides recounting various instances of robbery and blackmailing in the departments, the article charges Senator Aldrich with being the head of the lobby representing the Standard Oil company. Other senators are mentioned as representing different industries. Minister to Colombia Leaves. The state department, in granting leave of absence to Minister Beaupre at Bogota, has virtually discontinued diplomatic relations with Colombia. The fact that this was done and the Dixie was sent to Colon prior to the outbreak in Panama has led some to believe that our government had fore-knowledge of the revolution. Wants Judge Impeached. In a letter to President Roosevelt, Lawyer Newlin of Philadelphia, counsel for the bondholders of the asphalt trust, has urged the impeachment of United States District Judge Kirkpatrick, charging that the judge has intimate connection with corporations, being a director in no less than 119 of them. The matter was referred to Attorney General Knox. Carter to Govern Hawaii. The president has appointed George B. Carter as governor of Hawaii to succeed Sanford B. Dole, who is to become united States district judge for Hawaii in place of Judge Estee, now dead. Carter is a Harvard man and a personal friend of the president. He has been serving as secretary of Hawaii. Alaskan Award Incomplete. It became known at Washington Wednesday that a stretch of territory 140 miles in length between Kate's Needle and Double Thumb mountains had not been definitely delimited by the Alaskan tribunal. This was due to the inadequate geographical data between those points. Warship Sent to Mukden. The policy of the administration in the Orient has taken concrete shape in the dispatch of the gunboat Helena to Newchwang at the mouth of the river on which lies Mukden, the capital of Manchuria, there to spend the winter. Addicks Would Surrender. The Addicks Republicans of Delaware conferred, Wednesday, and proposed to abandon all factional differences and return to the regular Republican fold. Addicks agreeing to retire if a majority so desires. EXECUTIVE Deficit in the Treasury. Wednesday's treasury statement shows that the expenditures of the government since the beginning of the present fiscal year, more than four months ago, have exceeded the receipts by $232,479. There has not only been an increase in the expenditures for many purposes, but there has been a serious falling off in the receipts from customs. The expenses of the government were over $5,000,000 more than the receipts in the month of October. More Money in Circulation. On Nov. 1, the treasury department estimated that the per capita circulation of money in the United States was larger than at any time in the history of the country. The circulation for each man, woman and child in the United States is $29.99. The per capita circulation has steadily increased month by month for some time. A year ago it was $29.36. The total general stock of money in the United States on Nov. 1 was $2,724,579,729, a gain of nearly $4,000,000 in the last month. Thanksgiving Proclaimed. The official designation of Nov. 20 as Thanksgiving day was duly proclaimed by President Roosevelt in a devout prayer for light and strength to make war on the forces of evil. RELIGIOUS Reports from Manitoba, where nearly 50,000 American citizens have settled during the past year, say that the fanatical Doukhabors, who were brought from Russia by philanthropists are already surrendering some of the extreme tenets, of their sect. Schoolhouses are to be built in their villages Postal Looseness Exposed. The annual report of Henry A. Castle, retiring auditor of the postoffice department, exposes the existence of astounding conditions, with possibilities for enormous swindles, because of the loose methods prevailing in that department. He scores departmental regulations, and pleads for a reform in the laws. Indians Resist Authorities. A roving band of Sioux Indians which had been slaughtering game near the Cheyenne river in Wyoming, in resisting arrest last Sunday, wounded Sheriff Miller and killed one deputy sheriff. In a second battle ten Indians were killed and 11 captured. An Indian uprising was feared after this. W. A. Richards, commissioner of the general land office, in his annual report, asserts that United States commissioners in the far West have often been parties to wholesale fraud in connection with land entries made before them and makes a strong plea for a larger force of special agents. Our Gunners Improving. Admiral O'Neil of the ordnance bureau reports that during the year the naval target practice has steadily improved. It is estimated that the cost of target practice yearly on all completed vessels will amount to $1,366,000, and when all vessels under construction are completed to $2,690,000 yearly. Philippine Army Needy. General Allen, chief of Philippine constabulary, in his annual report, says the military force of 18,000 in 17 posts must not be reduced as a provision against new outbreaks. He suggests that the force thus employed would be available at any part of the orient. LABOR AND CAPITAL Spanish Miners Win Strike. Spanish Miners Win Strike. After the 25,000 striking miners at Bilbao, Spain, has resisted the coercion of 10,000 troops so strenuously as to threaten a social revolution, several of their number being killed and over 100 wounded, the employers appeared to have come to their senses by submitting the differences to arbitrators, who settled the dispute in favor of the miners. The latter will have a weekly payday, may live in their own homes and will not have to buy food from the company stores. Girl Messengers Remain. The telegraph messengers' strike at Boston continued, the Western Union making use of woman messengers, in spite of some interference, and using telephones and mails. Mayor Collins offered to arbitrate, but Superinter- lent Ames of the Western Union said he liked the girls and would keep them. Arbiters Raise Wages. The board of arbitration in the San Francisco street railway dispute has given 10 per cent increase in wages to the older employees and 5 per cent to those of short service; hours of work unchanged. Railroaders Lose Vacation. The Pennsylvania railroad has abolished its rule allowing two weeks' vacation to employees in the summer. Instead of this one day off is to be given each month. Reading Trackmen Strike. A strike of trackmen on the Reading railroad became general on the Schamokan section, Wednesday. MISCELLANEOUS Speech Heard 113 Miles. By means of the electro-phone, reporters of the London Daily Mail sitting in the office of that paper, were able to report every word of the speech delivered by Chamberlain at Birmingham, Thursday night. Greek Biga for New York. One of the rarest archaeological prizes that bronze biga or the twohorse chariot of the Etruscans, dating from the sixth century, B. C., has been brought to Metropolitan museum by the Rodgers fund. Young Rockefeller's Sermon. In his last Bible class talk at the Fifth Avenue Baptist church, New York, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., said. "Be a good business man that you may be a good Christian, and be a good Christian that you may be a good business man." He declared that corporations were a curse when they diverted capital from the public good. Those familiar with the history of the Sandard Ooll Co. marveled somewhat at young Rockefeller's statement RIOT AT THE GOELET WEDDING 10,000 People Want to Catch a Glimpse of the Bride. New York (Special)—Fifth avenue, in the vicinity of the church where the Goetel wedding took place yesterday, was a scene before and during the ceremony of excitement and disorder unparalleled at any previous great wedding in New York. From the church to the Goetel residence, a distance of five blocks, the avenue was a surging mob numbering fully 10,000, mostly women, whom a force of 200 policemen was powerless to hold in check. Several hundred women who gained entrance to the church and seated themselves in the gallery were forcibly ejected by a squad of police. Miss Goetel's carriage as it neared the church was surrounded by women who stopped the horses and in their efforts to see the brifle clung to the carriage, some getting on the steps and thrusting their heads into the open windows. A detail of police had hard work driving the women away so the carriage could proceed. Dragged Away by Ankle. The same scene followed the arrival of the carriage of Mr. and Mrs. Cornellus Vanderbilt. When the bride's carriage reached the church the women lifted the canvas of the canopy and crowded part way under, maintaining their position despite the police. A patrolman caught one well-dressed woman by the ankle and dragged her along the walk, but when forced to loosen her hold, she stood up smiling and satisfied. She had seen the bride. Fifteen well dressed women crawled down a coal hole under the chancel. They could see nothing but could hear what was going on above. A squad of police drove them out. After the ceremony the mob invaded the church and despoiled it of many of the floral decorations. CADET TEAM AT A BARBEOUE Gen. Rush Lincoln With Ames Cadets at Des Moines. Des Moines, Ia., Nov. 18.—One hundred picked men from the cadets of the Iowa state college at Ames, headed by General Rush Lincoln, and accompanied by the Ames college band, will form a conspicuous feature of the army post celebration in this city on next Friday. W. V. Willcox, director general for the celebration, returned from Ames Sunday morning after making final arrangements with Gen. Lincoln for bringing his best cracksmen to participate in the big event. General Lincoln will pick his men, taking the best drilled of the four hundred cadets which are the pride of the Ames college officials. A special train will be chartered to bring General Lincoln and the cadets to Des Moines Friday morning, the train arriving as early in the day as possibly. The band which is coming from the college is also well drilled and will add to the spirit of the occasion. The cadets will act as a part of the military escort to the distinguished visitors as they drive from the city to the army post for the exercises there Friday afternoon. The time of the arrival of the special party from Ames will be announced later. Col. J. C. Loper has been appointed as his chief assistant by Director General Willcox and the colonel will have charge of the barbecue at the army post. FEARS ESCAPE OF KIDNAPPERS Chief of Police at St. Joseph, Mo., Anxious to Hear from Packer Cudahy. St. Joseph, Mo., Nov. 18.—Chief of Police Frans said last night that he was unable to understand the present attitude of Packer Cudahy of Omaha, who seemed anxious to prosecute Thomas Costello, the self-confessed kidnapper of young Cudahy, but so far has done nothing. Costello yesterday again went over the story of the kidnapping with the police, and the officers are firmly convinced that he was with Pat Crowe in the crime. BIRD CENTER AT MADISON, WIS. Well Known Characters Appear at Gathering for Benefit. Madison, Wis. Nov. 18.—The most enjoyable social function to set our local society people agog was the Bird Center social and dance given in the beautiful and spacious Vilas Guild hall of the Episcopal church last evening. The affair was given for the benefit of the Ward school art found, one of the cherished institutions of Madison. BACKS TEAM OVER PRECIPICE Couple on Way to Secure Marriage License Seriously Injured. Deadwood, S. D., Nov. 18. - While on their way to Deadwood to get a marriage license, Milton C. Conners and Miss Jessie Gammon of Spearhsh, drove over a precipice and both are now in the hospital here. Miss Gammon's recovery is doubtful. They were to have been married today. An Arkansas Planter By OPIE READ Printed by Permission and Copyright 1856 by Rand, McNally & Co. Chicago CHAPTER XXV Early at morning, just as the dawn began to pale the sandy bluffs along the shore, and while the cypress bottoms still lay under the blackness of night, there came the trampling of horses, the low tones of men, the sharp, nervous voices of women, and the cries of children untimely gathered from their trundle-beds. The Major and his wife were ready to receive this overflow of company. A spliced table was stretched nearly the full length of the long hall, and a great kettle of coffee was blubbering on the fire. There were but three negroes on the place, one man and two women—the others had answered a call at midnight and had gone away. But the remaining ones were faithful; at a drowsy hour they left their beds and with no word of complaint took it upon themselves to execute a new and hurried task. "Bill," said the Major, "I want you and your wife and Polly to understand that I never forget such faithfulness as you are now showing, and when I come back—but now is the best time. Here are ten dollars apiece for you and you must remember that as long as I live you shall never want for anything." Fifty men arrived before the east was flushed with the sun. It was decided that ten of these, including Wash Sanders, should be left to protect the women and children. The least active were chosen. All but the younger ones had followed Lee through the dark days of his slast campaign. The Major took command and martial law prevailed. He buckled on no sword but he looked like a soldier; and short, sharp sentences that he had forgotten at the close of the war now came back to him. "Make ready, men. Time passes. Mount." There were pale faces in the hall and at the gate where the men sat their horses, but there was bravery and no tears. The command was drawn up; the Major, not yet mounted, stood talking to Wash Sanders, when suddenly down the road a chant arose. All eyes were turned that way, and strange to them was the sight they beheld—the Catholic priest, with slow and solemn pace, treading the middle of the road, holding aloft a black crucifix; and behind him followed the nego-members of his church, men, women and children. He was leading his people to the hills—out of danger. As the head of this weird procession came opposite the gate, where now the Major stood with folded arms, the priest gravely smiled and higher held his crucifix. And then, silently, and looking neither to the right nor the left, came out the three negroes who had remained at home; and taking up the chant they joined their brothers and sisters. They marched solemnly onward, turned into a road that led to the hills, the wind hushing their chant, but the black cross still seen high above their dusky, upturned faces. For full five minutes the Major stood in silence, gazing, and then hastily mounting, he shouted: "Forward!" and his troop swept down the road. He chose the nearest course and lay by the old house wherein Louise had lived; and again he heard the wind moaning in the ragged plum thicket. Along the road the scattered houses were deserted, and in many a cabin the fire-place was cold, and many a door stood open. Not a negro was seen—yes, one, an old man drawn with rheumatism, sitting on a bench, waiting for the sun to warm his joints. When the Major and his troop rode into the town they found it quiet—under the weight of a heavy dread. They were looked upon from windows, where men were posted, waiting; and obeying a shouted instruction, the Master led his men to a long, low shed Lesson in Economics Goodman Gonrong—"Here's a item in this paper 'at says two-thirds of the people of Mexico live without work. Less go to Mexico." Tuffold Knutt—"That shows jest how much sense you've got. The people down there that don't work couldn't feed you, an, the fellers that does work 'd be too dog-gone stingy. We'll stay right h'yer an' let the phlanthropes take keer on us." HOLDING ALOFT A BLACK Church and Clergy not far from the scene of expected blood-flow, to stable their horses. Following them came old Billy, the county clerk; and when the horses had been put away, he came up and thus addressed the Major: "You are to take command." "All right. What has been done?" "Not much of anything. Nothing could be done except to wait." "How many men have we?" "It is surprising how few," old Billy answered. "We didn't realize how weak the white population was until danger came. We have about three hundred, and more than a thousand negroes are marching on the town. We held a sort of council this morning and agreed that we'd better post as many as we can in the court house. It commands all the streets and besides we must save the records." They were now marching toward the court house. "Where are the wo ```markdown ``` men and children?" the Mapor inquired. "In the brick ware-house with a force of men near." "Well, I suppose you've done all you can. It would be nonsense to engage them in the open, but with our men posted about the square not more than two-thirds of them can get action at once. Those poor devils are as well armed as we and are wrought upon by fanaticism. It is going to be desperate for a time. At first they'll be furious. Has any one heard of May?" "He's at their head and the Frenchman is with him." "How is the sheriff?" They fled into the court-house, where a number of men were already gathered, posted above and below. "Bring an axe and cut loop-holes," the Major commanded. "When the fight begins you can't very well fire from the windows?" How are you, Uncle Parker?" "Able to be about, Major. You won't old enough for the Mexican war, was you? No, of course not. But I was there and this here fightin' again such odds puts me in mind of it." "Good morning, Major." It was the voice of the County Judge. "Good morning, sir. I see you have a gun. Don't you think it impolitic? But pardon me. This is no time for ill-humored banter." The Judge bowed, "Now I recall John Cranceford, the soldier," said he. "This is a great pity that has come upon us, Major," he added. "Worse than that," the Major replied. "It is a curse. The first man who landed a slave in America ought to have been hanged." "And what about the men who freed them?" "They were American soldiers, sir, as brave a body of men as ever trod the face of the earth. Captain Batts, what are you trying to do there?" The seventieth anniversary of the founding of Fayette Street church, Baltimore, Md., was celebrated last week. Bishop E. Nutall, archbishop of the West Indies, after spending two months in London, has sailed for Jamaica, where he has been officially established for four years. "Thought I'd take a nap," old Gid answered. "You can wake me up when the fight begins—don't want to miss it." "If you go to sleep I will court-martial you, sir. Superintend the cutting of the loop-holes." "All right, don't believe I very sleepy, anyway," and as he shuffled away the Englishman turned to the Major and asked: "And is he game, sir?" "As a lion," the Maojr answered. "But he blows, you know," said the Englishman. "And so does a lion roar, sir," the Major reloined. The Major inspected the other posts, to the right and left of the square, and then took active command of the lower floor of the court-house; and when the holes had been cut Gld was told to command on the floor above. Tom Cranceford was ordered to serve on the floor above. At this he began to grumble, pouting that he couldn't be in the rush if one should come; but the Major stormed at him. "It is more dangerous up there if that's what you want, and I'll be with you now and then to see that you are kept busy. March this instant, or I'll drive you to home duty under Wash Sanders." From .ne windows and the loopholes guns could be seen bristling everywhere, and the minutes that passed were slow and weary with waiting. Directly across from the court-house was a broad and low brick store house, with but a single window above, facing the square; and the Major looking at it for a time, turned to the old clerk and said: "That building is the strongest one in town, but no men appear to be posted in it. Why so?" "The rear wall is torn out and the men would be unprotected from behind," the clerk answered. "The wall as pulled down about a month ago. Evans was going to have the house built deeper into the lot so he could ```markdown ``` HOLDING ALOFT A BLACK CRUCIFIX use it as a cotton shed, but hasn't." "Bad that it was left that way. How long since the last scout came in?" "About an hour and a half." "And where was the enemy then?" "In the neighborhood of Gum Springs." "That's bad. The militia won't have time to get here." The Major went above where he found Gid's men posted at the windows and the loop-holes. "How is everything?" he asked. "Good." And after a time he added: "The 'south road is so crooked 10 A THE MAJOR DISTRIBUTES HIS FORCES that we don't command it very far, therefore look sharp. Back to your post!" he stormed as Perdue looked up from his loop-hole. "This is no time for idleness." The Rev. Joseph N. Blanchard, D. D., has become assistant minister at Trinity church, Boston. Dean William McNulty celebrated recently the forty-sixth anniversary of his ordination as a priest and the forty years' administration to the wants of his flock in St. John's parish, Paterson, N. J. --- "And is he game, sir?" "Lovely, John." "Don't call me John." "I wonder what time we eat," said Gid. "You may never eat another bite," the Major answered. "Then I don't reckon there's any use to worry about it, John, or Major, I mean." The Major returned to the floor below. "This is getting to be quite a lark," said the Englishman. "It's beastly cruel to fight, but after all it is rather jolly, you know." "I'm glad you think so, sir; I can't," the Major replied. "I regard it as one of the worst calamities that ever be-fell this country." "Do you think there will be much pillage by the blacks—much burning of houses?" "Possibly, but to sustain their cause their commander will hold them in some sort of check. He is looking out for the opinion of labor unions, the scoundrel. He is too sharp to give his war a political cast." "Ah, but to butcher is a beastly way to look after good opinion. What's that?" the Englishman cried. "From afar, through the stillness that lay along the south road, came the popping of rifles; and then all was still. Then came the sounds of hoofs, and then a riderless horse dashed across the square. "Steady, men, they are upon us!" the Major shouted, and then all again was still. From the windows nothing could be seen down the road, and yet the advance guard must be near, for a gun was fired much closer that before. Now upon the square a rider dashed, and waving his hat he cried: "They are coming through the fields!" He dismounted, struck his horse with his hat to drive him out of danger and ran into the court-house. The Major met him. "They will be here in no time," the man said. "But how they got so close without my seeing them is a mystery to me. But of course I expected to see them in the road and didn't look for them in the fields. And that ann' all. They've got a cannon." "What: the Major exclaimed, and the men at the loop-holes looked back at him. "Yes," the scout went on, "and I know all about it. Just before the war ended an enormous gun was spiked, dismantled and thrown into a well way down on the Dinkler place. It was got out a good while afterward and the spike drilled out, and since then it has been used for a Christmas gun. Well, they've got that thing on an ox wagon, but they've got no way to fire it for—" The guns to the right and the left of the square blurted out, then came a roar and a yell, and in an instant the opposite side of the square was black with negroes pouring out from behind the low brick building. With a howl and a rush they came, but from three sides volley after volley was poured into them, the white men using their shot guns. The effect was terrible, and soon the square was ceared of all but the dead and the wounded. A cessation fell, and Mayo's voice could be heard, shouting at his men. He saw that no attempt to take the house by storm was certain, so to comparative safety behind the house and into a deep-cut road a little farther back he withdrew his men. He has not expected so early to find such opposition, and his aim was to crush with the senseless weight of force, but the shot-guns were too deadly. Now he was cool and cautious. The fire from the whites was straggling. Suddenly out from behind the brick building rushed three black giants, torches in hand, making desperately for the ```markdown ``` court-house. One by one they fell, but last by a desperate effort reached the steps and flung his flaming torch into the hall-way. (To be continued.) The Bulgarian missionaries named Furnajieff and Popoff have left Vienna for New York to tour the United States to raise money for destitute Macedonians. Both are graduates of American colleges, the former of Princeton and the latter of Hamilton. Aye! Aye! In the civic ship A lot more graft May still be found. By looking aft. --- IMPROVEMENT IN OUR GREAT CITIES Things Science Cannot Explain All Sorts of Humor Within a year or two Alaska will be traversed by railroads almost from end to end. . .ome, the western terminus of the railroad system of Northwestern Alaska, is already a city o. 25,000 population. The railroad tracks that run to Nome are furthest north of all the world; they are almost within the Arctic circle. Nome has good hotels, daily papers, banks, electric lights, telegraphs and telephones—in short, a complete outfit of civilization. It is connected by cable with St. Michael's and by telegraph with Dawson and Skagway. When the railroads now building and projected are completed it will only need a short northern spur from Russia's great Siberian railroad to give all-rail communication from New York to Paris. Meanwhile Dawson is the city to which all railroad building leads. Dawson has 1,200 population, and its municipal equipment includes all modern improvements. Its assessment for taxation is over $11,000,000. It is now installing a $5,000,000 water supply plant. Primarily the railroads so far have been built to tap the enormous mineral wealth of Alaska and the Canadian Yukon. But contrary to old notions, there is immense agricultural and forest wealth to be developed in the Hudson Bay, North Saskatchewan and Peace River districts. Nearly 1,000 miles north of the boundary between Alaska and the Canadian Northwest, in the valley of the Peace river Municipal government is an especially important feature, because it is in a way the foundation of all others. The states and the nation itself are but the reflection of the cities of the country. It is in the cities that the importance and variety of the national life are seen at their best; the city draws to itself the best in the rural population; it is the center of business, of art, of science, of politics. Man is a gregarious animal by nature, and his work in the world cannot be well done unless it is done in contact and communion with his kind. The city is the first unit in American government, and gives the keynote to the other and apparently larger governments, deciding the public welfare. Unless the standard of political life is raised in the cities it is useless to expect it to be high elsewhere. They are the arteries of the country through which its greatest tide of lifeblood flows, and if they contain an impure or a sluggish stream the national life cannot be expected to be healthy. If intelligence is rated highly in the city its influence in the state and nation will soon be felt; if social life is of the better and more vigorous kind in cities, the social influence of life will soon react beneficially on the whole people. Much of the brain and sinew and nerve of the nation have been drawn from the country, but they are drawn to the city, and there find their advantages, their opportunities and their developments. When the number and violence of magnetic storms are recorded and compared, it is found that they correspond to the spots on the sun, and go through the same period of 11 years. The conclusion seems almost inevitable; magnetic storms are due to some emanation sent out by the sun, which arises from some cause that produces the spots. This emanation does not go on incessantly, but only in an occasional way, as storms follow each other on the earth. What is it? Every attempt to detect it has been in vain. Prof. Hale, of the Yerkes observatory, has had in operation from time to time, for several years, his ingenious spectro-hellograph, which photographs the sun by a single ray of spectrum. This instrument shows that violent actions are going on in the sun, which ordinary observation would never lead us to suspect. But it has failed to show with certainty any peculiar emanation at the time of a magnetic storm or anything connected with such a storm. A mystery which seems yet more impenetrable is associated with the so-called new stars which blaze from Mr. Wise—What makes Bobby's cough so bad this morning? Mrs. Wise—It's nearly time for him to start for school.—Denver Republican. "Come and dine with me tomorrow," "Afraid I must decline. I'm—aw—going to see 'Hamlet.'" "Oh, never mind. Bring him with you."—Boston Globe. wheat, barley and oats are grown in quantities limited only by the number of farmers. The most northerly roller process flour mill on the continent has just been built at Vermillion. The wheat which took the first prize at the Centennial exposition of 1876, at Philadelphia, came from the Peace River country, which is estimated to contain more than 15,000,000 acres of good grain-growing soil. The faeces of Alaska are rich beyond calculation. Its cod banks are believed to equal in wealth those of Newfoundland. More than half of our entire salmon product is Alaskan, and last year it was worth $7,000,000—exactly what we paid Russia for the whole territory. The winters of Alaska are less rigorous than those of Wyoming or Montana, and horses and cattle are worked there without fear of being frozen. The cold is intense, but there are no storms. Except on the coast of Bering Sea all the hardy vegetables are grown with marked success throughout Alaska and the Canadian Yukon, south of the Arctic circle. As a measure of Alaska's growth it is noted that her total foreign trade, all she bought and all she sold, in 1892, was less than $29,000 in value, while for the fiscal year ending June 30 last it reached a total of $35,000,000. There is less difference between the ancient and the modern Greek tongues than between Chaucer's English and the English of today. Indeed, municipal government is the most serious problem of the social scientist and the patriot of today. It is our political life at its source. In the cities are the homes of the nation, and it is the material sent out from them that affects the interests and the tone of the people as a whole. When the secret of good municipal government has been found, then the whole political problem of good government will be solved. Cities are like individuals; some are more corrupt than others; some are struggling with this corruption, others are sunk in sloth concerning its abolition. The kind of municipal corruption varies very little in the average American city; the chief difference is in degree. In some it is open; in others hidden. In some it is defiant of public opinion and bold in its operations; in others it is afraid of public wrath and flies to cover at the first hint of exposure. But in all it is the same system, with money greed as its foundation; in all it depends upon the indifference of the citizen for its life and its spoils. Not one of the least benefits to be expected from these mutual comparisons is that the interest they arouse may prove a quickener of public conscience.—Baltimore American. Mr. Dowie may eventually conclude that he has done very well if he keeps New York from reducing the standard of righteousness in his own cohorts.—Washington Star. time to time. These offer to our sight the most astounding phenomena ever presented to the physical philosopher. One hundred years ago such objects offered no mystery. There was no reason to suppose that the Creator of the universe had ceased His functions, and, continuing them, it was perfectly natural that He should be making continual additions to the universe of stars. But the idea that these objects are really new creations made out of nothing, is contrary to all our modern ideas and not in accord with the observed facts. Granting the possibility of a really new star—if such an object were created, it would be destined to take its place among the other stars as a permanent member of the universe. Instead of this, such objects invariably fade away, after a few months, and are changed into something very like an ordinary nebula. A question of transcendent interest is that of the cause of these outbursts. It cannot be said that science has, up to the present time been able to offer any suggestion not open to question.—Prof. Simon Newcomb, in Harper's Magazine. Women should remember that to catch a man needs only a net, but to hold him a cage.—New York Press. Ascum—If your wife treats you so badly why don't you get a divorce from her? Henpeck—Oh! Goodness! She wouldn't give it to me.—Philadelphia Press.