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Mark Twain has decided to quit living in England. Over there, before laughing at Mark's jokes just because he tells them, they insist on first finding out what there is to laugh at. "Have you heard much laughter from London?" asks Oom Paul in substance. No, nor yet from Pretoria. It might, however, be well to watch the face of Cecil Rhodes and harken to the noises that come from his direction. The postoffice at Ponce, Puerto Rico, has been robbed. Thus do Puerto Ricans get their first genuine illustration of American industry. They have been so busy watching the custom house that they failed to keep an eye on the postoffice. Probably never in the history of the world has the prospect for general warfare been so manifest as it is at the present time. This is a most deplorable commentary on the boasted civilization of this age. But the circumstances that contribute most to the awfulness of the prospect is in the fact that the nations that pretend to be the most highly civilized are the busiest in setting the confagration. The island of St. Holena, famous in history as the place where the British kept the great Napoleon as a state prisoner from October, 1815, to his death in May, 1821, has been selected by the British military authorities as a place of confinement for General Cronje and other Boer prisoners until the end of the war. It lies in the South Atlantic, 1,200 miles from the western coast of Africa, and 800 miles from Ascension Island, the nearest land. A little more than a year ago the school children of America were appealed to by the Lafayette monument committee to give their pennies toward the erection at Paris of a monument to General Lafayette; and later, in furtherance of the movement, Congress ordered the coining of 50,000 silver souvenir dollars. The dollars, stamped with the likenesses of Washington and Lafayette, have been coined; and on the 3d of March President Loubet of France, received Mr. Thompson, secretary of the monument committee, who presented to him the first of the dollars coined. Gen. A. G. Greenwood, soldier, capitalist and traveler, thinks he has solved two difficult problems now before the people of the United States for solution—the problem of the colored people of the south and what to do with the Philippines. He would solve both by sending the colored people to the Philippines. He affirms they would be glad to go, that the climate is admirably suited to them, and that they and the Filipinos would soon fraternize and mingle, while the education the colored people have received in this country would enable them to become rich and influential in the new possessions of America in the east. Prof. Cesare Lombroso recently had an opportunity to test scientifically the effect of alcohol in developing latent criminal tendencies. The subject of his experiments was a man who had surrendered himself to the police with the avowal that anarchists wished to make him their instrument for assassinating the King of Italy. The man seemed sane, but no corroboration of his story could be obtained. Unexpectedly, after drinking wine, he broke out into anarchistic threats. Acting upon this hint, Professor Lombroso administered alcohol to him in carefully measured quantities, and discovered that after he had drunk a certain amount he developed violent criminal tendencies, all recollection of which appeared to have vanished from his mind when the effects of the alcohol had passed off. In a paper read before the Manchester Literary and Philosophical society, entitled, "On Internal Migration in England and Wales," Professor Flux gave an account of the results of the net inward and outward movement in each registration district of England and Wales in the interval between the censuses of 1881 and 1891. Measuring intensity of movement by the proportion of net migration to mean population, the absorption is most marked in the London suburbs, and in conveniently situated watering places. These movements indicate some amelioration of the evils of life in crowded cities. The districts from which efflux has been strongest are found in the southwest, in Wales, on the Scotch border, and in northeast Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. Movement from a district in one county to one in another county involved a transference of about 172,000 males and 230,000 females, whilst some 418,000 males and 201,000 females left the country. France is supposed to be, of all countries in the world, the one in which man's freedom to drink whatever he pleases is most maintained. Yet General Donop, commander of the Tenth Army Corps, recognizing the magnitude of the drink evil, has prohibited the sale of alcoholic drinks in the army "canteens." The good effect of his order is being observed, and it may yet be extended throughout the French army. For the army of the land of wine to set to the world an example of sobriety and abstinence will be a striking incident. PUERTO RICO BILL PASSED Nearly Free Trade With Our New Gate to the Gulf. SCHEME OF CIVIL GOVERNMENT Washington, April 13.—The long and bitter struggle over the Puerto Rico tariff bill ended when the house, by a vote of 161 to 153, concurred in all the senate amendments. The bill now requires only the signature of the speaker of the house and the president of the senate before going to the president for his approval. As the bill originally passed the house it was simply a bill, imposing 15 per cent of the Dingley rates on goods going into Puerto Rico from the United States and coming from Puerto Rico into the United States. As amended by the senate and agreed to by the house, all restrictions on goods coming into the United States from Puerto Rico are eliminated and certain foodstuffs and other articles which heretofore have gone into Puerto Rico free by executive order are excluded from the operation of the 15 per cent duty imposed on goods entering the island from the United States. A complete scheme of civil government for the island is also attached to the measure. Upon the final vote, nine Republicans voted against the bill—Messrs. Heatwole of Minnesota, Crumpacker of Indiana, Lane of Iowa, Littlefield of Maine, McCall of Massachusetts, H. C. Smith of Michigan, Warner of Illinois, Fletcher of Maine and Lorimer of Illinois. Two Democrats, Messrs. Davey and Myer of Louisiana, were paired with Democrats in favor of the bill, and one Democrat, Mr. Subley of Pennsylvania, voted for it outright. A Rabbi Believes in Christ. A Kabbalist Believes in Christ Indianapolis, Ind., April 12.—Rabbi Judah Wachsler lectured on "Ancient and Modern Judaism" at the meeting of the Christian ministers. He said: "The modern Jews do not believe in a personal Messiah, but rather in a spiritual Savior that will eventually redeem all men and bring peace and joy to all the world. But let me say right here that I believe in Jesus Christ, Jew though I am. I believe that the doctrines of Jesus are good and noble, and I believe that he was a great man. All right-thinking Jews agree that Christianity has done a wonderful work in the redemption of mankind. It is wrong for people to say that because the Jews do not believe in the divinity of Christ they are inclined to mock at the man Himself and His beautiful teachings. Had it not been for the fanatics Christ would never have been crucified." Civil Governor of Puerto Rico. Washington, April 14.—Charles H. Allen, at present assistant secretary of the navy, will be the first civil governor of Puerto Rico. While the formal tender and acceptance of the position could not be made in advance, it is known that Mr. McKinley has been bringing pressure to induce Mr. Allen to relinquish the care of his private interests for a sufficient time—at least to install the civil government in the island and the latter has consented to assume the new responsibilities. Inasmuch as the act takes effect on the first of May there is but little time left, in which to outline a skeleton form of government including the formation of a cabinet. It is understood that the new governor will be taken to Puerto Rico in one of the finest vessels of the navy. Union Men Discharged. Chicago, April 12.—Union workmen were turned away from the new Marshall Field building, where they had done all the work thus far, and 150 non-union men were put in their places. This action was interpreted as meaning that the United Building Contractors have secured sufficient high-class non-union workmen to carry on big contracts and that union men hereafter will be given no opportunity until they consent to do so under the contractors' rules or withdraw from the Building Trades' Council. Ohio Miners Settle Differences. Columbus, O., April 10.—It is announced that an agreement has been reached between the miners and operators of the Bellaire district at the new Philadelphia conferences and all differences settled. The Indianapolis scale was signed and a new scale made granting an increase of 20 per cent to outside day laborers. About 5,000 men are affected. Six Tramps Rounded Up: Hebron, N. D., April 14.—After a lively fight in which numerous shots were fired, six tramps who held up a freight train near here were arrested and lodged in jail. They shot at the conductor and terrorized the train crew, but were rounded up by a posse of citizens with rifles. Telephone Systems Cost Money. Topeka, April 12.—The $1,250,000 mortgage on the Missouri and Kansas Telephone Company's property, made to the Old Colony Trust Company, of Boston, has been filed here. The telephone company owns property in forty-five Missouri and thirty Kansas counties. CONDITIONS MORE EXIGENT. Four New Battle Ships With no Officers to Sail Them. Washington, April 13.—The secretary of the navy has written a letter to the senate committee on naval affairs urging such a change in the laws relating to appointment to the naval academy as will fill the vacancies in the line of navy and also calling attention to the necessity for immediately enacting such legislation as will substantially increase the authorized quota. The secretary says that the department finds that it is absolutely unable to commission another warship "without reducing in some other particular our already meagre coast defense." "Congress has from time to time," the secretary says in another connection, "authorized the construction of powerful vessels for our naval defense, and at the present time four of these are about ready for active service: The Kearsarge, the Kentucky, the Alabama, and the Wisconsin. In order that the serious errors may be avoided, and in order that they may not deteriorate that part of their value may be lost to the country, they should be put into full commission with an adequate number of officers and men. Indeed, in these vessels we have gained nothing for the naval defense of the country unless we have the means to man and fight them." He adds that the Kearsarge is at present very greatly under-officered, having only twenty-three officers, whereas the British warship Majestic has seventy. In conclusion the secretary warms the committee and congress that conditions are growing steadily more exigent. DOCTORS ARE SCARCE THERE. The Island of Puerto Rico is One Vast Poor House. San Juan, Puerto Rico, April 14.—The startling fact was recently made public that, in many districts of Puerto Rico, where the population reaches thousands, there is no resident physician. For instances Wayuya, a town of 1,500, must depend upon the simplest remedies in the case of illness, as there is no physician within call. At Utado the death rate is 8 per cent annually, and this town is a day's ride from Ponce through the mountains. It appears that physicians have been sent to these districts, but they refuse to remain, largely because no town is able to support one. As a result of this condition of things, the order providing a physician for every 500 people is now very difficult of enforcement, because the towns reply that there is no fund to pay for such service. This island is one vast poorhouse and there are opportunities for charity at every step. Were $10,000 to be expended immediately for medicine and medical aid, it would possibly save the lives of 3,000 people. At one time the government considered the feasibility of assigning a physician to each town, at an aggregate cost of $80,000 per year, but the funds for such an outlay are not available. Farm Products From Germany. Berlin, April 13.—While the German agrarians endeavor to legislate for the total exclusion of American meats and other agricultural products, it is seen from the official figures that the agrarians have sent a number of millions in sugar to the United States, and even $250,000 in German canned meats and vegetables, which is a new line of export to that country. Altogether Northern Germany sent last quarter $4,360,777 worth of agricultural produce including hides, seeds, horse hair, bristles, wood and glue. The Boerson Zeitung, after setting forth these details, concludes with a strong plea in favor of preserving such an excellent customer, both for agriculture and industry. Pottawatomies Want to Go to Wisconsin, Pottawatomies Want to Go to Wisconsin, Washington. April 13.—The Pottawatomie Indians want to dispose of their lands in Kansas and resume their tribal relations in Wisconsin, where they propose to take up lands. The department holds that this is in violation of the established policy of the Indian bureau and the subject will be abandoned. Mr. Curtis will probably report a bill to enable the Indians to devote a portion of their trust funds to the purchase of lands in Wisconsin. In this way they will still hold their lands in Kansas. Philippine Commission Party. San Francisco. April 13.--Judge William H. Taft, president of the Philippine commission, accompanied by his family, has arrived from Cincinnati. The commission is scheduled to leave here on the transport Hancock next Monday. The party will number in all forty-five persons, including clerks and other attaches of the commission, and the families of those who compose the latter body. No Change in Army Canteen. Washington, April 14—Relative to a statement, ascribed to Bishop Hurst, to the effect that the president has made a substantial change in the army canteen, it is learned at the war department that no change whatever has been made in that institution and according to Secretary Root no change is contemplated in existing methods. REVIEW OF THE SITUATION It is Again Charged That Germany Advised the Boers. MAFEKING IN SERIOUS FIX. London, April 16.—"The forward movement of the Boers is checked," says Lord Roberts. This is taken to mean not by fighting, but by dispositions to head off their advance and bar their way to vulnerable points in the line of British communications. Relief is on the way to Wepener. The Boers in Natal appear incapable of developing an aggressive movement. Lord Methuen is twelve miles east of Boshof and is sending small, swift columns through the adjacent country. Lord Chesham, commanding one' of these, encountered a small commando. He found most of the farms occupied by women and children only. An editorial note in the Daily Mail avers that Mafeking is in a very bad way, and that the hope of relief is very far off, as no force is advancing from the south. The war office announces that 4,000 horses will arrive at the Cape this week. It is well understood that the animals are not fit for work until about ten days after the voyage. Two thousand more are due at the Cape next week. The war office has called out the reserve companies of several battalions, which will be sent to South Africa forthwith. The Boer peace envoys, now in Rome, have documents showing that urgent advances to the Transvaal to wage war were originally made by Germany and also assert that Count Von Buelow, the German foreign minister, who was said to have gone on a visit to a sick brother, really went to Milan for the express purpose of conferring with the delegates. Gomez Goes Home. Havana, April 13.—General Maximo Gomez has sailed for San Domingo. Before leaving he addressed a letter to the president of the national party, saying that he was very grateful for the recent demonstration in his honor and that he would soon return to Cuba. In the course of an interview he denied that he had any intention to attempt to become president of San Domingo, as had been intimated in a Havana paper. Mortgaged Oklahoma Cattle. Kansas City, Mo., April 13.—Albert G. Roberts and William Duncan, Jr., in the criminal court pleaded guilty to stealing $22,000 from the Barse Livestock Commission company and were sentenced to three years and six months in the penitentiary. They mortgaged Oklahoma cattle they did not own. Roberts was arrested in Detroit and returned $7,000, his share of the plunder. Large Tobacco Fire. Petersburg, Va., April 14.—The large leaf tobacco factory of W. G. Dunnington & Co., in this city, containing over 1,000,000 pounds of fine tobacco, purchased recently for the Austrian government, is, with its contents, totally destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at $100,000. Several small houses in the vicinity were also destroyed. The fire originated in the boiler room. Telephone Extension: Wellington, April 13.—The Mo. & Kas. Telephone company will soon have a gang of men in Wellington at work rebuilding the entire city system. The line will be extended to El Reno, when Wellington will have connection with Kingfisher and other important towns in Oklahoma. A metallic system will be put into Kingfisher. A Blot Averted. Chicago, April 16.—A riot between union and non-union men in front of the Merchants' Loan and Trust building, at Adams and Clark streets, would have probably resulted seriously but for the timely arrival of three patrol wagons filled with police officers who had been summoned to the scene by riot calls. The trouble was incited by strikers who attacked a number of non-union men as the latter were leaving the building shortly after 5 o'clock for their homes. Married by Telegraph Kansas City, Kan., April 14. A marriage service by telegraph, with the bride and groom 200 miles apart, was carried out between Kansas City, Kan., and Muhall, Okla. The groom was Andrew M. Candell of Washington, D.C., an entomologist attached to the Department of Agriculture of the United States government, and the bride was Miss Penelope Cundiff of Perkins, Okla., the daughter of a prosperous farmer of that place. The service lasted 25 minutes. Boers Protest. London, April 14.—The Boer governments have formally notified Portugal that they consider the shipping of British troops and munitions of war by way of Biera, to be hostile action. Whether or not the Boers will make reprisals upon Portugal remains to be seen, though the best informed opinion here inclines to the belief that the Boers are not likely to back up their protest with action that would bring them into hostilities with still another power. STAMP YOUR DEEDS. Deeds Not Stamped When Made Must G2 to the Collector. Washington, April 16.—The commissioner of internal revenue has received a number of inquiries from registers of deeds, clerks of courts and others asking whether they would be justified in recording deeds, etc., which are sent to them unstamped. They represent that deeds are often received from parties who cannot conveniently procure stamps, asking that they be affixed by the recorder. The commissioner answers in the negative, and in his reply states that the grantor, or person who makes or issues the instrument, should affix and cancel the stamp. If he omits to do so he incurs a penalty of not more than $100. If, however, the omission is inadvertent, he may present the instrument to the collector within a year from the date or issue, pay the stamp tax and present the instrument for post stamping. The commissioner advises that when an unstamped instrument for record be received, it be returned to the sender to be stamped, charging for postage and time occupied in the correspondence made necessary by the omission of the stamp. TONS OF READING MATTER. For the Soldiers and Sailors in the Philippines. New York, April 14.—The movement begun by Mrs. Greenleaf, wife of Chief Surgeon Greenleaf, U. S. N., to establish a circulating library in Manila for the benefit of the soldiers, has been most successful. Major Putman Bradlee Strong, who has heartily co-operated in the movement, and is an officer of the International Express company, said: "The undertaking has been a remarkable success, and the American soldiers in the Philippines are receiving an abundance of entertaining reading matter. By an arrangement with our company each out-going ship agrees to carry free of charge two tons of reading matter in the form of books, magazines and papers. Last Saturday we had more than four tons of such material, and, rather than hold the additional two tons here, our company paid the freight charges on the extra matter. We still have several large cases to ship." Four Story Brick Collapses. Pittsburg, Pa., April 14. Without warning and with a rush and a roar, the four story brick building at the corner of Second avenue and Wood street collapsed, burying in its ruins a number of people, three of whom were taken out dead, six were badly hurt and several others slightly injured. The collapse began by the second floor breaking through and carrying with it the two floors above. Same as the Pope's Own Stairs. Cincinnati, O., April 16.—In the observance of Good Friday thousands climbed for high mass the 350 steps to the Immaculate church on Mount Adams, for which penance the faithful, by papal decree, have the same privileges granted those who ascend the sacred stairs at Rome. The custom was instituted by the late Archbishop Purcell. Completed to San Francisco. Chicago, April 14.—The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe has announced the completion of its new line into San Francisco, the company now having its own rails from Chicago to San Francisco. It was further stated that the road would be ready to handle freight via new line May 1, but it is not expected that passenger trains will be run before July 1. Land Opened to Settlement. Washington, April 16. The president has signed a proclamation opening to settlement the northern half of the Colville Indian reservation in Washington. The proclamation will go into effect October 10 next. The land opened to settlement is all that part of the reservation which has not been allotted to the Indians and comprises about a million and a half acres. It will be disposed of under the homestead laws at a dollar and a half per acre. Scraps of News From Roberts. London, April 14.—In a roundabout way London hears that Lord Roberts, when wiring to the Prince of Wales at Copenhagen congratulations upon his escape from assassination, added two or three hopeful sentences portending an early advance with wide reaching combinations. Quiet assurances are passed around among military men that Lord Roberts is employing his great army effectively and that the adventurous Boer commands are likely to be enmeshed. Burglary Money Found. Parker, Kan. April 14.—A son of O. H. Staples, living one-half mile south of here, found $146 in fractional silver coins while cleaning out his father's barn from which a team of horses was stolen the night the Parker bank was robbed last October, and this money has been hidden in the barn ever since. The Meeks brothers, who were hanged at Fort Scott, are believed to be the robbers. The boy turned the money over to Cashier Slaughter, who made him a present of a ten dollar bill. Battle Days of the Week. It is noted that of thirty-four great battles, twelve were fought on Sunday six on Thursday, five on Wednesday two on Friday, while Monday, Tuesday and Saturday claim three apples. Among the Sunday battles were Werlo, Inkerman and the fall of Delia Gravelotel and Omdurman happen on Thursday; Tel-el-Kebir, the tittle of Alma and Balaklava came on Wednesday; Trafalgar was won on Tuesday, Sebastopol on Friday, the battles of Marengo and Abu Kuwait were fought on Saturday. She Inherits Her Talents Bue Inherits Her Talents. With the possible exception of Queen Sylva, queen of Roumania, most accomplished of European queens is the charming young Queen Amelie of Portugal. Queen Amelie, who herits her literary talents from her father, the late Comte de Paris, aunt of a history of the American civil and a history of the English lal party (besides many other works dealing with political and social questions of the day), has taken her degrees. M. D. and is now the chief physician of her husband and children. Queen was married at Lisbon three years ago to the then crown prin Duke of Braganza, now King Carlos. Rose Leaves Instead of Eles Rose Leaves Instead of Rice. The opening of the door to peek the departure of a bride and groom has heretofore been the signal for general pelting with rice—a China custom, conveying wishes for good health and prosperity. 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Looking around the churches this morning seeing flowers in wreaths and flowers in stars and flowers in crosses and flowers in crowns, billows of beauty, conflagration of beauty, you feel as if you stood in a small heaven. You say these flowers will fade. Yes, but perhaps you may see them again. they may be immortal. The fragrance of the flower may be the spirit of the flower; the body of the flower lying on earth, its spirit may appear better worlds. I do not say it will be so. I say it may be so. The anestheses of those tuberoses and camelias and japonicas and jasmines and didotrotes were born in paradise. these apostles of beauty came down on the regular line of apostolic succession. Their ancestors during the good, underground, afterward appeared. The world started with Eden; it will and with Eden. Heaven is called a paradise of God. Paradise means flowers. While theological geniuses in this day are trying to blot out everything material from their idea of heaven, and so far as I can tell, their future fate is to be a-floating around somewhere between the Great Bear and assilopea. I should not be surprised at last I can pick up a daisy on the everlasting hills and hear it say: "I'm one of the glorified flowers of earth. Don't you remember me? I worshiped with you on Easter morning in 1900?" My text introduces us into a garden. It is a manor in the suburbs of Jerudem owned by a wealthy gentleman or the name of Joseph. He belonged to the court of seventy, who had commited Christ, but he had voted in the negative, or, being a timid man, had absented himself when the vote was to be taken. At great expense he hid out the garden. It being a hot climate, I suppose there were trees road branched, and there were pathsinding under these trees, and here and there were waters dripping down over the rocks into the ponds, and there vines and flowers blooming from the wall, and all around the beauties of kiosk and aboriculture. After the antiques of the Jerusalem courtroom, now refreshing to come into this sururban retreat, botanical and promo- Most Celebrated of Tombs. Wandering in the garden, I behold some rocks which have on them the mark of the sculptor's chisel. I come earer, and I find there is a subterranean recess. I come down the marble steps, and I come to a portico, over which there is an architrave, by the bisel cut into representatives of fruits and flowers. I enter the porio. On either side there are rooms two or four or six rooms of rock, the walls of these rooms having niches, every niche large enough to hold a dead body. Here is one room that is especially wealthy of sculpture. The fact is that Joseph realizes he cannot always walk this garden, and he has provided this place for his last number. Oh, what a beautiful spot which to wait for the coming of the insurrection! Mark well this tomb, or it is to be the most celebrated tomb all the ages. Catacombs of Egypt, tomb of Napoleon, Mahal Taj of India, nothing compared with it. Christ has just been murdered, and his body will be thrown to the dogs and the ravens, like other crucified bodies, unless there be prompt and efficient hindrance. Joseph, the owner of this mausoleum in the rocks, begs for the body of Christ. He washes the poor, mutilated name from the dust and blood, shrouds and perfumes it. I think that regular embalmment was omitted. When in olden time a body was to be embalmed, the priest, with some pretension of medical skill, would point out the place between the dis where the incision must be made; and then the operator, having made the incision, ran lest he be slain for a violation of the dead. Then the other priests would come with salt of niter and cassia and wine of palm tree and complete the embalmment. But I think this embalmment of the body of Christ was omitted. It would have raised another contention and another lot. The funeral hastens on. Present, I think, Joseph, the owner of the mausoum: Nicodemus, the wealthy man who had brought the spices, and the two Marys. No organ dirge, no names, no catafalque. Heavy burden for two men as they carry Christ's body down the marble stairs and into the portico and lift the dead weight to the level of the niche in the rock and rush the body of Christ into the only resting place it ever had. Coming forth from the portico, they lose the door of rock against the recess. The government, afraid that the displeases may steal the body of Christ and may resurrection, order the seal of the sandhedrin to be put upon the door of the tomb, the violation of that seal, like the violation of the seal of the government of the United States or great Britain, to be followed with great punishment. A company of sol- diers from the tower of Antonis is detailed to stand guard. Shattered Beyond Repair. At the door of the mausoleum a fight takes places which decides the question for all graveyards and cemeteries. Sword of lightning against sword of steel. Angel against military. No seal of letter was ever more easily broken than that seal of the sanhedrin on the door of the tomb. The dead body in the niche in the rock begins to move in its shroud of fine linen, slides down upon the pavement, moves out of the portico, appears in the doorway, advances into the open air, comes up the marble steps. Having left his mortuary attire behind him, he comes forth in workman's garb, as I take it, from the fact that the women mistook him for the gardener. That day the grave received such shattering it can never be rebuilt. All the trowels of earthly masonry can never mend it. Forever and forever it is a broken tomb. Death, taking side with the military in that fight, received a terrible cut from the angel's spear of flame, so that he himself shall go down after awhile under it. The king of terrors retiring before the king of grace! The Lord is risen! Let earth and heaven keep Easter today! Hosanna! Some things strike my observation while standing in this garden with a new sepulcher. And, first, post mortem honors in contract with ante-mortem ignominies. If they could have afforded Christ such a costly sepulcher, why could not they have given him an earthly residence? Will they give this piece of marble to a dead Christ instead of a soft pillow for the living Jesus? If they had expended half the value of that tomb to make Christ comfortable, it would not have been so sad a story. He asked bread; they gave him a stone. Christ, like most of the world's benefactors, was appreciated better after he was dead. Westminster abbey and monumental Greenwood are the world's attempt to atone by honors to the dead for wrongs to the living. Poets' corner in Westminster abbey attempts to pay for the sufferings of Grub street. Go through that poets' corner in Westminster abbey. There is Handel, the great musician, from whose music you hear today; but while I look at his statue I cannot help but think of the discords with which his fellow-musicians tried to destroy him. There is the tomb of John Dryden, a beautiful monument; but I can not help but think at 70 years of age he wrote of his being oppressed in fortune and of the contract that he had just made for a thousand verses at sixpence a line. And there, too, you find the monument of Samuel Butler, the author of "Hudibras;" but while I look at his monument in poets' corner I cannot but ask myself where he died. In a garret. There I see the costly tablet in the poets' corner—the costly tablet to one of whom the celebrated Waller wrote: "The old blind school-master, John Milton, has just issued a tedious poem on the fall of man. If the length of it be no virtue, it has none." There is a beautiful monument to Sheridan. Poor Sheridan. If he could have only discounted that monument for a mutton chop! Make the Living Happy. Oh, you unfilial children, do not give your parents so much tombstone, but a few more blankets—less funeral and more bedroom! If 5 per cent of the money we now spend on Burns' banquets could have been expended in making the living Scotch poet comfortable, he would not have been harried with the drudgery of an exscimen. Horace Greeley, outrageously abused while living, when dead is followed toward Greenwood by the president of the United States and the leading men of the army and navy. Massachusetts tries to atone at the grave of Charles Sumner for the ignominious resolutions with which her legislature denounced the living senator. Do you think that the tomb at Springfield can pay for Booth's bullet? Oh, do justice to the living! All the justice you do them you must do this side the gates of the Necropolis. They cannot wake up to count the number of carriages at the obsequies or to notice the polish of the Aberdeen granite or to read epitaphal commemoration. Gentleman's mausoleum in the suburbs of Jerusalem cannot pay for Bethlehem's manger and Calcarean cross and Pilate's ruffian judiciary. Post mortem honors cannot atone for antemortem ignominies. Again, standing in this garden of the sepulcher, I am impressed with the that floral and arborescent decorations are appropriate for the place of the dead. We are glad that among flowers and sculptural adornments, Christ spent the short time of his inhumation. I cannot understand what I sometimes see in the newspapers where the obsequies are announced and the friends say in connection with it, "Send no flowers." Rather, if the means allow—I say if the means allow—strew the casket with flowers, the hearse with flowers, the grave with flowers. Put them on the brow—it will suggest coronation; in their hand—it will mean victory. Christ was buried in a garden. Flowers mean resurrection. Death is sad enough anyhow. Let conservatory and arboretum contribute to its alleviation. The harebell will ring the victory; the passion flower will express the sympathy; the daffodil will kindle its lamp and illumine the darkness. The cluster of asters will be the constellation. Your little child loved flowers when she was living. Put them in her hand now that she can go forth no more and pluck them for herself. On sunshiny days take a fresh garland and put it over the still heart. Plant Flowers. Brooklyn has no grander glory than its Greenwood, nor Boston than its Mount Auburn, nor Philadelphia than its Laurel Hill, nor Cincinnati than its Spring Grove, nor San Francisco than its Lone Mountain. But what shall we say to those country graveyards, with the vines broken down and the slab aslant and the mound caved in and the grass a pasture ground for the sexton's cattle? Indeed, were your father and mother of so little worth that you cannot afford to take care of their ashes? Some day turn out all hands and straighten the slab and bank up the mound and cut away the weeds, and plant the shrubs and flowers. Some day you will want to lie down to your last slumber. You can not expect any respect for your bones if you have no deference for the bones of your ancestry. Do you think these relics are of no importance? You will see of how much importance they are in the day when the archangel takes out his trumpet. Turn all your cemeteries into gardens. Again, standing in this garden of the new sepulcher, I am impressed with the dignity of private and unpretending obsequies. Joseph was mourner, sexton, Iverman—had entire charge of everything. Only four people at the burial of the King of the Universe! Oh, let this be consolatory to those who through lack of means or through lack of large acquaintance have but little demonstration of grief at the graves of their loved ones. Long line of glittering equipage, two rows of silver handles, casket of richest wood, pallbearers gloved and scarfed, are not necessary. If there be six at the grave, Christ looks down from heaven and members that is two more than were at his obsequies. Not recognizing this idea, how many small properties are scattered and widowhood and orphanage go forth into cold charity! The departed left a small property, which would have been enough to keep the family together until they could take care of themselves, but the funeral expenses absorbed everything. That went for crape which ought to have gone for bread. A man of moderate means can hardly afford to die in any of our great cities. By all means, do honor to departed, but do not consider funeral pageant as necessary. No one was ever more lovingly and tenderly put away to sepulchar than Christ our Lord, but there were only four people in the procession. Wake Up to Gladness. Again, standing in this garden with a new sepulcher, I am impressed with the fact that you cannot keep the dead down. Seal of sanhedrin, company of soldiers from the tower of Antonia, floor of rock, roof of rock, walls of rock, door of rock, cannot keep Christ in the crypts. Come out and come up he must. Come out and come up he did. Prefiguration. First fruits of them that slept. Just as certainly as we come down into the dust, just so certainly we will come up again. Though all the granite of the mountains were piled on us we will rise. Though buried amid the corals of the deepest caverns of the Atlantic ocean, we will come to the surface. With these eyes we may not look into the face of the noonday sun, but we shall have stronger vision, because the tamed thing in the land to which we go will be brighter than the sun. We shall have bodies with the speed of the lightning. Our bodies improved, energized, swiftened, clarified—mortality, immortality. The door of the grave taken off its hinges and flung flat into the dust. Oh, my brethren, death and the grave are not so much as they used to be; for while wandering in this garden with the new sepulcher I find that the vines and flowers of the garden have completely covered up the tomb. Instead of one garden there are four gardens, opening into each other—garden of Eden, garden of the world's sepulcher.garden of the earth's regeneration, garden of heaven. Four gardens. Bloom, O earth! Bloom, O heaven! Oh, my friends, wake up to gladness on this Easter morning! This day, if I interpret it right, means joy—it means peace with heaven, and it means peace with all the world. Oh, bring more flowers! Wreathe them around the brazen throat of the cannon; plant them in the desert that it may blossom like the rose; braid them into the mane of the returned war charger. No more red dahlias of human blood. Give us white illies of peace. All around the earth strew Easter flowers. And soon the rough voyage of the church militant will be ended, and she will sail up the heavenly harbor, scarred with many a conflict, but the flag of triumph floating from her topgallants. All heaven will come out to greet her into port, and with a long reverberating shout of welcome will say: "There she comes up the bay, the glorious old ship Zion! After tempestuous voyage she drops anchor within the veil." New Story of Kitchener. A new story of Kitchener is said by G. W. E. Russell to be "probably not so very far astray." Cecil Rhodes made more or less trouble for the military authorities in Kemberley, and finally Col. Kekewich one day heliographed Lord Kitchener that Rhodes' interference was getting unbearable. Kitchener's prompt answer was: "You had better put him in chains!" Buy a package of... FRIENDS' OATS and find out how to obtain VALUABLE PREMIUMS FREE. Save the Round Trade-Marks. This is only a few of the premiums. A complete list mailed upon application to mfrs. of FRIENDS' OATS MUSCATINE, IOWA. When Housekeepers Are Brightening the Interiors of Them Homes Now that the backbone of this remarkable winter is broken, housekeepers are remarking the dingy look of the home interior. The question of new wall coverings is up. Paper is dear and short lived; kalsomines are dirty and scaly; paint is costly. The use of such a cement as Alabastine, for instance, will solve the problem. This admirable wall coating is clean, pure and wholesome. It can be put on with no trouble by anyone; there is choice of many beautiful tints; and it is long lasting. Queer Fasting Case. A fasting case is puzzling the doctors at Ghent. A young girl fell ill at the beginning of November with a kind of dyspepsia, and since that time has not taken any nourishment whatever. Although exceedingly weak she retains all her faculties. Don't cry over spilt milk: hustle around and get some more milk tickets. Send for "Choice Recipes." by Walter Baker & Co. Ltd., Dorchester, Mass., mailed free. Mention this paper. The average woman wouldn't feel comfortable unless her shoes hurt her. Are You Using Allen's Foot-Ease? It is the only cure for Swollen, Smarting, Burning, Sweating Feet, Corns and Bunions. Ask for Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder to be shaken into the shoes. At all Druggists and Shoe Stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y. Great enterprises often result from small beginnings. HAVE IT READY Minor accidents are so frequent and such hurts so troublesome no household should be with- out a bottle of St. Jacobs Oil for instant use, as the world knows it is a PERFECT CURE for PAINS and ACHES TRADE MARK A "Cyranno de Bergerac" trademark case has just been decided in Paris. In the play appears a poet-pastry cook named Raguenau, and while the Cyrano fever was raging an enterprising Parislan, who writes verses, set up a pastry shop in the Rue St. Honore, which he named "The Raguenau Sign." Coquelin sent him the picture of Raguenau, and Rostand was present at the opening of the shop. Soon other dealers began to sell "Raguenau" pate. Suit was brought against them, and the courts have decided that the exclusive use of the name as a trademark belongs to the Rue St. Honore shop. If a man has no temptations it's easy to remain honest. Any cough is serious enough to warrant prompt attention. It is what it may result in that makes a cough dangerous. For all slight or stubborn coughs, for gripe, lung fever, bronchitis, asthma and other throat and lung affections you can find no other remedy so agreeable and harmless, or so promptly effective, as Morley's Honey Pectoral. Price, 25 cents. Sold by agent in every town. The Bloodiest Battle The "bloodiest battle of the century" was that of Borodino, a Russian village, where Napoleon fought the Russians on Sept. 7, 1812. Nearly 80,000 men were placed hussi du combat. Compasses of No Use. In military sketching a prismatic compass is generally used, but it is hardly likely to be other than practically useless in Natal and beyond the Drakenberg, for in Zululand the presence of iron in the earth renders the compass actually valueless for observations. A Successful Blind Newsbox A newsboy who, although blind for the past six years, carrying on a thriving business unaided is a curiosity of Chicago's streets. This prodigy is John Currier, and he makes a good living. He has a newstand and, his papers being arranged in certain places, he selects at once any one called for and makes his change accurately. He judges the value of a coin by size and never makes a mistake. Farming on the Yukon. Two American women conducting a mission school on the Yukon, 1,500 miles from its mouth, tested the Alaska climate last year in kitchen gardening, beginning operations in the open ground May 16. In spite of a lack of rain for two months and cold storms in midsummer, they harvested 250 bushels of potatoes, 500 cabbages, 80 bushels of turnips and a few bushels of carrots. The strawberry bed set out grew finely, but the crop of berries was destroyed by mice. Nothing in the Wide World has such a record for absolutely ouring female ills and kidney troubles as has Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Medicines that are advertised to cure everything cannot be specifics for anything. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound will not cure every kind of illness that may afflict men, women and children, but proof is monumental that it will and does cure all the ills peculiar to women. This is a fact indisputable and can be verified by more than a million women. If you are sick don't experiment, take the medicine that has the record of the largest number of oures. Lydia E. Pinkham Med. Co., Lynn, Mass. W. L. DOUGLAS $3 & 3.50 SHOES UNION MADE. Worth $4 to $6 compared with other makes. 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No reason for the act is known. The Rock Island's bridge over the Cimarron river at Arkalon was washed out last week. It is 160 feet long. The ladies of Delphos have a public library of 600 volumes and now propose to erect a suitable home for it. The colored people of Great Bend nominated a city ticket composed entirely of colored men. It was defeated. At an oratorical school contest in Bourbon county Patsey Kelley took first prize and Biddy Leahy the second. Mrs. Admiral Dewey owns considerable real estate in Wichita, left to her by her former husband General Hazen. The stone work on the Topeka auditorium is completed and the city hall portion of the building is ready for its roof. The fortieth anniversary of the marriage of John P. St. John and wife was celebrated at their home in Olathe last week. Will Young, of Galena, was drunk and in jail when his wife died from an overdose of cocaine. There are three children. John Jensen, a baker of Fort Scott, has baked 200 loaves of bread a day for twenty-six years, or altogether 1,500,-000 loaves. The depositors of the First National bank of Emporia get another 10 per cent dividend, making 50 per cent paid them so far. Over 150 car loads of eggs have been contracted for in Kansas to go to New Hampshire. The same party wants 300 car loads. The old flouring mill at Kingman is being made over so that it will be ready for the 1900 crop, and be among the best class of mills. The South Haven lecture course closed the season with over $75 on hand. The Burlingame is also ahead about $32, in the lecture fund. The Scottish Rite Masons held a three days' meeting in Fort Scott, last week, and initiated 40 new members from a large number of Kansas towns. The new elevator between the Santa Fe and Rock Island tracks in Wichita is approaching completion. Its capacity will be 25,000 bushels of grain. The fire departments of the cities of Kansas will receive about $20,000 this year from the tax for that purpose levied on the fire insurance companies. Leavenworth wakes up this spring on park improvements. The ladies are to take hold of the matter. It has become quite common in Kansas towns for the women to take active interest in parks. A car load of groceries arrived at Abilene recently from a Chicago store which farmers in Dickinson county had ordered from a traveling retail salesman. That is a beautiful way to break up a county. A plat of Iola was contracted for and work commenced, in March. Since then fifteen additions have been added to the city and more coming. The contractor does not know whether he will ever catch up. State Superintendent of Insurance W. V. Church has turned into the state treasury for the month of March $30,980.48. Of this sum $21,148.98 was from taxes. For February he turned into the treasury $70,190, of which $52,812.75 was from taxes. While tearing out one of the old piers at the Santa Fe bridge over the Solomon river one of the workmen found a large bundle of postage stamps in between the rocks. The bundle was composed of one and two cent denomination stamps and contained $60 worth. The boiler to the stationary engine in the Santa Fe shops at Emporia was made in 1869 and has been in use since that time. Charles T. McAlester, near Westmoreland, finished reading a chapter in the Bible and picked up a copy of the Christian Herald. The next instant he was stricken dead. The S. & H. salt plant at Hutchinson was served by two switches. Now there is a struggle between the Rock Island and the Missouri Pacific to have exclusive access to the plant. J. W. Mickey, clerk of the court of visitation fell in the basement corridor of the state house and sprained his ankle badly. He is walking on crutches. A woman, Dr. Eva Harding, was a delegate and sat in the populist convention from one of the wards of Topeka. The first instance of the kind there. Little Pearl Martin, the 8-year-old twin daughter of James M. Martin, of Havensville, was horribly burned to death while burning some rubbish in the street Galena is to have free mail delivery, commencing Aug. 1. Citizens of Great Bend brag about their handsome park. The coal miners at Burlingame have organized a labor exchange. Peabody voted 517 to 57, to put $6,000 more into its school buildings. Almena has an offer of a flouring mill if the town will furnish a site. Shoughnassee, the famous Pottawatomie chief, is dead. He was 90 years old. A McPherson horse dealer has shipped seventeen cars of horses within a few months. Rev. James, of Oakley, gives $60,000 to the Bethany hospital in Kansas City, Kansas. The members of the state board on health have all been reappointed for another term. Judge Stillwell opened court at Erie but no lawyers appeared. They had all gone fishing. Smith Center high school has a class of twelve ready to graduate; ten of them are girls. The bank commissioner is straightening up the affairs of the Citizens bank of Yates Center. Mrs. Myrtle Cade, of Osborne, died from the effects of poison contained in canned tomatoes. Everybody in Baldwin helped to wipe out the debt standing against the colored M. E. church. Horses are bought in Kentucky and are coming to Fort Riley in bunches for the Eighth cavalry. Emma Gregory, of Paola was called to the door in the night and seriously shot with a shot gun. There was last week seventy-five cases of measles in the Soldiers' Orphans' home in Atchison. The Long-Cue Lumber company is preparing to place more yards in the northern part of the state. Parsons has voted $5,000 bonds with the proceeds of which to make another effort to develop natural gas. A new string of elevators is projected along the valley of the Big Blue, on the Union Pacific's Lincoln branch. The postmasters of Marion county will meet on May 8 to form an association "for the good of the cause." A Labette county man had surplus money and looked over the field for the best investment in sight and bought two farms. R. S. Torrington the Wichita ticket agent of the Rock Island, has been promoted to city ticket agent of the Rock Island at Kansas City. The state Agricultural college 12 weeks dairy school used 40,000 pounds of milk and 18,800 pounds of cream, and made 9,000 pounds of butter and 1,300 pounds of cheese. The spring rush of shipment of stock is keeping the Santa Fe busy. Extra train crews are sent south to take care of the business. Many trains of cattle are rolling eastward these days. A ten year old girl, Katharine Lyons, found what she thought was a tin can near the railroad. She put it on the track and hit it with a rock. It was a torpedo and now she has but one eye and is otherwise injured. Mrs. Eliza Christman, of Topeka, who died recently, aged 80, made in her will Rev. Embree administrator at a salary of $2,500 a year. Part of the will provides for the erection of a Methodist university at Topeka. The Cimarron river is on a bender, the highest ever known. All the irrigating dams and bridges from the Colorado line to the territory are washed out. Liberal and Arkalon were without trains and mails for some time. A coursing meet occurred in Mankato at which racing dogs took a part from Mankato and Lawrence in Kansas and from Texas, California, Colorado, Nebraska, Minnesota and Indiana. Mrs Elizabeth Wells is dead. Herself and her husband were the first white settlers in Marshall county, 45 years ago. When they broke up their first planting ground, she drove the oxen while he held the plow, and the baby was visited as he lay in his blanket at the end of the return furrow. The will of John I. Blair was recorded in Barber county, as he owned some property there. The will covered 35 pages of the record book. Superintendent of Insurance Church has had occasion to examine but two insurance companies since he has held the office and in both of these cases it was by request. A divorced couple went before the district court at Concordia and asked that the judgment for divorce be set aside. The request was granted; the first case in Kansas. The Kansas City and Topeka electric line, it is said, will be running between Kansas City and Lawrence in June and be finished to Topeka by early autumn. The Rock Island has been buying ground opposite St. Joseph, in Kansas, and it is said that its terminal will be transferred to the Kansas side of the river. The deputy warden of the Kansas penitentiary has returned from Yucatan, where he bought 500,000 pounds of sisal, or about 35 car loads; at a price a trifle below New York quotations BEAR FORCING LION FROM KHYBER PASS The Russians Are Daily Defying England by Operations in the East. RUSSIAN EMPIRE BLACKBRA TRANS GAUCABIA TURKEY PEERSIA Arabia SIBERIA KIRCHIS STEPPE TURKESTAN TRANSCASPA BOKHARA AFCHANISTAN PAMIR CHINA Venkayog Maharashtra Teswargan Karnataka Gujarat Rajasthan Rewal-Pindi Srinagar INDIA Delhi MAP SHOWING TERRITORY IN WHICH RUSSIA IS CARRYING ON MILITARY OPERATIONS ALABASTINE England never forgets that the north star looks down through the Khyber pass, and that year after year the Russian outposts creep closer to the confines of India. The movement of 20,000 Russian troops to the Afghan frontier and the publication of secret Russian state papers purporting to have been stolen from the archives of the Muscovite ministry of war have created a sensation in England and engaged public attention there to a degree second only to the interest in the war news from South Africa. These papers were sold in London by a man who formerly was connected with the office of the Russian general staff, and who had fallen out with his employers and fled to England. The documents show that Russia regards England's difficulty as her opportunity, and has lately been making every preparation to overrun the "buffer state" of Afghanistan and assail the borders of northern India. A thorough military reconnoissance has been made by Russian officers of the Indian frontier, a plan of campaign outlined, native rulers and religious leaders "sounded," and a policy for stirring up the border chiefs and the native princes of the coveted MAP SHOW country has been formulated. Henry Norman and an anonymous writer have challenged the authenticity of the papers, but though it is admitted, as Mr. Norman asserts, that some of the place-names are misspelled—as Samarland for Samarkand—such mistakes might easily occur in the haste of copying and translation. Signatures, dates, names, places and maps are given, several of the places on the map, which is traced from the Russian original appearing on no English map, though they really exist, and the document seems to bear intrinsic marks of genuiness. Attempts to discredit have not succeeded. The Russian officers who made the investigation and reported were Col. Ukröff Naraksoi, Capts. Basilovich Markoff and Yonoff Kriminskii and Vasiloff Karskii, secretary of the commission. They began their secret labors last May, and made their report late last December to Gen. Kuropatkin, minister of war. Traveling sometimes together and sometimes separately in order to avoid notice, they visited all the Russian outposts, the principal strategic points in Afghanistan and along the Indian frontier, and even passed over the Chinese territory in the course of their investigations. In submitting their report they say: "We think it well to state, for the information of your excellency, that we are unanimous in the conclusions arrived at, and have not the least doubt that the invasion of India and the bringing of the millions who inhabit that country" *the beneficent rule of his im- A vineyard at Sunny Slope, enjoys the distinction of being the largest in the world. It is situated amid the most beautiful scenery of that favored land, two miles from San Gabriol. Of a total of 1,900 acres, 735 are devoted to grape vine, the remainder being distributed among orange trees of which there are 12,000, lemon and olive trees. WHAT ALABASTINE IS. Alabastine is the original and only durable wall coating on the market. It is entirely put different from all baskinries preparations. Alabastine is made ready for use in white or fourteen beautiful tints by the addition of cold water. It is put up in dry powdered form, in packages properly labeled, with full directions on every package. It takes the place of scaling kalmines, wall paper and paint for walls. Alabastine can be used on plaster, brick, wood or canvas, and a child can brush it on. perial majesty the caar are not only possible, but could be accomplished in a comparatively short space of time, the exact period requisite depending mainly on the moment chosen and the conditions of the season when the work is undertaken. That Russia is intriguing with the natives is shown by a reference to "the secret agents now engaged in the collection of information respecting the trend of events, political and strategic, on the Persian, Afghan and Kasmir frontiers." The plan recommended is secretly to collect large bodies of troops on the Afghan frontier and a strong force of Cossacks at Charog in the Pamir. All being ready and the northern chiefs and the disgruntled native princes of India being "prepared for their deliverance," a rush is to be made into Afghanistan while the Cossacks dash from the north into Chitral, where the tribes will rise and join them. A rising in the Punjab also is expected. If England advances in Afghanistan to meet the Russians she is to be overwhelmed by superior force. If she elects to fight on her strongly fortified border, which they call the Peshawar RUSSIAN BLACK BRA TRANS GAUCASIA TURKEY DAMARA ARABIA WING TERRITORY IN WHICH RUSSIAN —Quetta line—the Russians are to make a feint on Quetta, capture Kabul, and with the aid of the native tribes try the Khyber pass, while other troops are poured in from the north. The commissioners—or spies—seem to have no doubt as to the uprising of the natives in favor of Russia. THE FRENCH LYCEE. Schoolboys of That Country All Work Under One Ribbonless Rule. Under One Ridiculous Rule. Is the French Lyceen doomed? Are French lads no longer to be herded together like soldiers in barracks and guarded like juvenile criminals? Anyhow, after a hundred years, the military system of education seems about to undergo, if not radical change, at least possible modification. What the existence of a little Lyceen is M. Jules Alcaird has told us in his "Ame d'un Enfant:" M. Ribot's important work on education reform in France, just published, completes the picture. We all know that on a certain day at a certain hour every Lyceen throughout the French dominions will be busied on precisely the same task. But the absurdity of centralization does not end there. In his report as government commissioner, M. Laviss, the historian, gives the following instance in point: The uniformity of school routine is ridiculous. For instance, how inconsistent that the hours of recitation should be timed in all climates exactly at the same hour! From 1 to 2 o'clock in the south of Built "Long Toim." There are about 14,000 men employed today at the Creusot Gun Works in France. This firm will undertake an order for a 13,000-ton iron-clad or the re-arming of a notion's artillery. The gun section of the vast business is carried on with the greatest secrecy. The Boer "Long Tom" was put together in these yards. WHAT "KALSOMINES" ARE. Kalsomines are cheap and temporary preparations, manufactured from whiting, chalker clays. Why are stones on the walls with decaying animal glue. Alabastine is not a kalsomine. It is a rock-base cement, which sets, and it hardens with age. It can be re-coated and re-decoated without having to wash and scrape off its old coats. Alabastine is utilized to a great extent in hospitals, as it prevents the accumulation of dirt and the congregating of disease germs, being disinfectant in its nature. France the heat of summer quite prevents the pupils from walking about in the recreation ground. But the same rules are in force for Marseilles and Dunkirk! Too often the recreation ground is a bare, walled-in space after the manner of a prison yard. "How do you amuse yourself out of school hours?" asked an English visitor of a 15-year-old Lyceen. "Stroll up and down and talk." was the reply. Athletic sports of a modified kind are being gradually introduced into French schools. But, as M. Ribot words it: "We do not want to turn French lads into English ones. Rough sports do not suit our race, more refined in its vigueur elegante (how adequately translate the phrase?) than that of the Anglo-Saxon." Our good friend, M. Demolins, is almost alone in France in his preference of Anglo-Saxon sturdiness to the "vigueur elegante" of his young compatriots—London News. Wasn't So Green. Two men sat in a saloon and drank the beer which is sojd in Kensington. In the brief intervals wherein he rest- SIBERIAN Railway Orenburg EMPIRE KIRCHIS STEPE SIBER TURKESTAN TRANKHAN SCASPIE BOKHARA FERCHANA PAMIR AFGHANISTAN Mebed Bol Husbk Rush Kandohar Chagos Mallah INDIA A IS CARRYING ON MILITARY OPERATION ed his swallowing apparatus one of the men said: "I was drivin' that year, and Bill was conductin'. Electricity wasn't known at that time. Bill used to give me a dollar every night after the day's work was over. I lived high. Then Bill was changed to another run. He told me they was goin' to put a greenhorn on with me, and I began to cut down expenses, for I knew a greenhorn wouldn't do much alongside of a capable old hand like Bill. This greenhorn made me sick when I seen him. He was young, pale and pious. He didn't even chew. I watched him like a hawk the first day, and he done no business—none whatever. I cursed the luck that had hitched me up to him, you bet. That night, after hours, he said to me with his ladylike smile: 'Mr. Perkins, I am from a country road, and I don't know just how your rates are in this big city, but here is $2, and if it ain't enough I'll try and do better for you tomorrow.' Oh, he was a slick youngster, all right. In four years he owned his house."—Chicago Tribune. ```markdown ``` Characteristic Story of Ruskin. During the proceedings of a recent conference of the British Library association, a characteristic story of John Ruskin was told in connection with the subject of village libraries. A library for the laborers of a lake-country village had been established, and just before the opening Mr. Ruskin was asked to inspect it. He cordially consented, and upon leaving expressed his admiration of the arrangements and A Fortune Every Trip. A modern Atlantic liner must earn about $80,000 clear per trip before a penny of profit is made. No Street Car Straps If the conductor of a street car in Hamburg carries even one passenger for whom there is no seat he is subject to a fine of 60 cents. CHURCHES AND SCHOOL-HOUSES. The interior walls of churches, schoolhouses and all public halls should never be coated with anything but the durable and pure Alabastine. So evident has this fact become, that hundreds of tons are used annually for this work. The genuine Alabastine does not rub or scale off. It is cleanly during the long period of its usefulness. Every owner of a building should use it. Ask your paint dealer or drugist for card of tints, and write for free copy of our interesting booklet to Alabastine Co., Grand Rapids, Mich. promised to send a present, which came in the form of a sumptuous set of Scott's novels. The wife of the founder er thought the edition much too sparse did for the purpose, and at the earliest opportunity told the donor "Madam," said Ruskin, "if the more the books cost had been spent in decorations or wines for a dinner nothing would have been said again it, but because it has been laid out the enjoyment of the simple village it is thought extravagant." WORK OF POSTAL SERVICE Immense Labor Involved in Sorting Transmitting the Mails. There is no department of police service with which the individual citizen, regardless of sex, politics and a ligation, is more intimately connected than the postal service. There are handled by railway post clerks during the year 7,118,422,840 pieces of first-class matter, and 6,223,568 pieces of all other class matter, making a total of 13,351,992,725 pieces which includes 519,870,465 pieces of city mail separated in railway post offices. This amount of mail is a increase of between 4 and 5 per cover the railway post clerks 15,847 packages and cases of register matter, 1,063,049 through register pouches and 607,162 inner register sacks, making in all 17,537,058. There are 1,312,388 errors made by the clerks in distributing this matter which is over 10,000 correct to every NA NA RATIONS one made. Under the head of 'inklite' (matter so illegible or improper addressed that it could not be delivered in the wait it stood) there were embraced 14,606,085 pieces, as compared with 13,503,486 of last year, an increase of 1,102,599 pieces. Seven lion seven hundred and twenty-four thousand nine hundred and forty-s pieces were returned to writers or corrected and forwarded to destination the rest being sent to the dead letter office for disposition. Examination are held every year to test the knowledge of the clerks as to their duties. During 1899 there were 20,194 examinations of regular and probation clerks, comprising 22,032, 415 cards with an average per cent correct 98.71, as against 98.30 the year previous. In addition to the same there were 2,082 examinations of subtutes; number of cards handled, 19,911; per cent correct, 98.42. -Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. Took Her Statement Literally. The Wife's Wife (who is very stout O, yes, I'm devoted to my poun farm, but lately I have sold very eggs for the table. I have entire confined myself to hatching. Tor Curate—How very gug-good of ye but d—d—didn't you smash a lot shells? Quotations Called For. Cecile—What would you give have such hair as mine? Jeannie don't know—what did you give Stray Stories. It is proposed to utilize the river Cilina and part of the river Plave in ally for the generation of electric power for transmission to Venice. The Cilina is capable of supplying 100 horse power at a distance of 59 miles. The Plave scheme offers 27,000 horse power conducted 43 miles distant, at the amount could even be increased — Electrical World. REJECT THE "JUST AS GOOD." The dealer who tells you that he can sell you the "same thing" as Alabastos or "something just as good" as another potato or is trying to devise you a offering something he has bought cands and is trying to sell on Alabastos himself, he may not realize the danger himself as well as to you. Beware all new substitutes. Dealers risk suit for damages by selling and contracting by using an infringement. Co. own the right to make and sell coatings adapted to mix with cold water. State Ledger. THE OFFICIAL ORGAN F. L. JELTZ. SUBSCRIPTION six months 50c One Year 1.00 ALL SUBSCRIPTIONS CASH IN AD- ANCE. entered at post office at Topeka, Kansas, at see adress-rates. Published every Saturday at 431 Kan. ave 100 in advance. PHYSICIANS. I. A. SHIELDS M. D. PHYSICIAN and SURGEON. Office and Residence 1331 VanBuren St. prosibly attended. DR.AGNES McKEE WAL- LACE. Office 724 Kan. Ave, Phone 250 H. B. HOGEBOOM PHYSICIAN and SURGEON, 30 Kans Ave. All calls prosibly attended. DR; C. A. TAYLOR. PHYSICIAN and SURGEON. Office Hours, 9 to 11 a. m. From 2 to 5 p. m. OFFICE 226½ KAS, AVE. (Cver Kohl's Drug Store,) Wm. B. Swan, M. D 725 Kansas Avenue, Topeka, Kansas. office hours, 11:00 to 12 m, 2:00 to 4:30 pm. Residence 624 Buchanan St. Bell Telephone, 600 GEORGE DICK, M, D, HomoeopathiSt. Residence 626 Filmo St. Telephone 360. S. G. STEWART, M. D. FFICE 621 KANSAS AVE. TELEPHONE 541. RSIDENCE 511 W. 5TH ST. TELEPHONE 442. a14 Wm. E. JACKSON, M. D. PHYSICIAN and SURGEON. FFICE HOURS; 9 TO 11 A. M. J TO 5, and 7 TO 9 P. M. TELEPHONE 558. OFFICE 117 WEST 5th st. DR J. C. ISERMAN, Office 112 East 6th street Calls Promptly Attended To. Special Attention Given to Diseases *Stomach and Lungs and Female Troubles. Office Hours: -9 to 12-2 to 5-7 to 9 Phon e DR, R. O RHODES, OFFICE 600 Kansas ave. Topeka, Kansas (Over Hub Clothing C.) OFFICE HOURS: 9 to 11 A. M. 2 to 5 P. M. Residence, 900 West Sixth street Phone 656. W. P. BROCKETT. PHYSICIAN & SURGEON, RESIDENCE in CONNECTION WITH OFFICE and STORF. calls answered day or night. ALSO—dealer in Drugs, Medicines, and all articles kept in a Drug store. Mayette, Kansas. The American School of Magnetic Healing. WELTMER METHOD. Every knuwa disease cured without medi ne DOCTOR M. M PENDROY, 614 Marke Sreet, Emporia, Kansas. GIBRALTAR DRUG CO. 823 KANSAS AVENUE. Topeka, Kansas HOMEPATHIC'REMELIES. ART MA TERIALS. Attorney at Law, Practices n all courts, Office 116 W. 6th FRED C SLATER, ATTORNE, AT LAW, Practices In All Courts. Office 600 Kas, ae ISENHART and LEXANDER Attorneys at Law. 517 Kansas Ave. P. HITTLE FOILCIES & UNITARY GOODS. 326 North Main Street. HUTCHINSON KANSAS people should remember Mr. Hittle When in need of Funeral Supplies. BOOK EXCHANGE Stationery and all kinds of writing material—832 Kansas avenue ROHRING SHCE SHOP, 527 Quincy Street repairs BOOTS and SHOES. Neatly done while you wait. Rubber Heels 40 and 50 cents The Best On The Market ROHRING THE SHOE MAKER. GILCHRIST BROTHERS PROPRIETOR'S NATIONAL STABLES Good Turnouts delivered to any part of the city. Boarding a specialty. tel. 46 706 Jackson st. H. A. KLAUER For the best Gold-Bug, Silk Edge, and a fine line of Tobbaccos, and Smoking Articles, 526 Kans. ave. a22 I. N. PETERSON, LIVERY, FEED and BOARDING STABLES Prices Reasonable. Give us a trial 522 Jackson Street JNO. CHELANDR RANDOLPH KANS. THE LANDIS HOME BAKERY, Many years experience. French home Bakery 316 E. 41n St. Pure Tea and Spices etc. TOPEKA SPICE MILLS 109 E. Sixth Street. Rel. 71 W. D. Wood, I. Mason and Cistern builder also wells. Partie needing service leave orders at LEDGER office F. A. BECKSTROM. DEALER IN FINE WALL PAPER, and VARNISHES, Paints and Painters' Supplies. 518 Jackson St. Topeka, Kansas GO TO GO TO Emerson's fine meat market at Havenville is the place to patronize. All you want good medicine to do the work quick all kinks diseases it will pay you to consult Mr. Chas Hantlon office main st. Sterling Kans. Mrs M. E. Fair gives meals 15cts you trade olicited Ablene Kans. Martin and Hutchison 15 East Sherman st. Hutchison Kans. New and second hand goods bought and sold. Give him a call. E. W. Griggs for photos, five pictures. Car--901 Kas. ave. GO TO--W. B, Warrens for any thing you want in the line of HOT TAMALES, and CHILLI SOUP, he makes the best. His parlors are UP TO DATE. Give him a call 504 East 4th street. When in Lawrence stop at Bush's Rest tourant 611½ Mass. St. will serve you right Dont forget the Candy Kitchen 115 south main st, Ottawa K. Mr., H. L. Hendrix Prop ure Cand.es Home md.e Dont forget that Sth & Trowbridge at everything n the line of groceries a store 5 3-505 W, toth st. Go to J, P, Johnsons for any thing you want in the line of fine cigar's tobbacco and confectionery, 409 Kas Ave. A, L, Wilson the painter and decorator 701 Vermont st. is the one to see if you want good work done in his line. --- Jennie Melton, by her Atty W. I. Jamison, (Attest) A.M. Callaham, Clerk of Dist. Court First pub. Dec. 16. '99. PUBLICATION NOTICE, In the District Court of Shawnee County Kansas. John Wood, Plttf. vs. Minnie Wood, Deft: { No. 20330. To Minnie Wood, you are hereby notified that you have been sued by the plaintiff, John Wood, in the dinstrict Court of Shawnee County Kansas, and that you must answer the petition filed therin against you by her plaintiff, on or before the 22nd day of December 1899, or the petition will be taken as true and judgement divorcing said plaintiff from you will be rendered accordingly. (Attest) John Wood, A. M, Callaham, By Jas, H, Guy Clerk District: Court. His Atty. SUMMONS OF PUBLICATION In The District Court In and For Shawnee County Kansas. The above named defendant is hereby notified that he has been sued in the District Court of Shawnee County Kansas by the above name plaintiff for divorce and that unless he answers the petition filed by said plaintiff on or before the 24th day Nov. 1899 the same will be taken as true and judgement rendered as prayed for in said petition. (Attest) Hannah Ransom A, M, Callah, m. Clerk Dist, cou.. W, I, Jamison First Publication, Oct. 14. GO TO LOUIS VANDORP. FOR HARDWARE and STOVES Screen Doors, Ice-Cream Freezers, Hammocks and Garden Tools. These are the things you need. Give him a call. 828 Kansas Ave. WHERE TO GET YOUR HATS And CLOTHES CLEANED. if you have a first rate looking suit of clothes that you would like to have cleaned and put in shape, take them to I. S. Harding's as you go to the State 108 W 9th street. If you have straw goods or silks, don't forget that he does this kind of work. Try him. For Sale--By John L. Howard 415 Kansas Avenue. Houses o. W. 51st St. rating item $5c $1200 centrally located at reasonable prices on easy payments. Give him a call. CURRENT MAGA ZINE AT 1-4 OFF. CURRENT MAGA ZINE AT 1-4 OFF. ST. LOUIS GLOBE DEMOCRAT or ST. LOUIS REPUBLIC and: CLASS A. LADIES HOME JOURNAL A. McCLURES, POPULAR MONTHLY, MUNSEY'S AINLEE, and SELF CULTURE. All for 40 cents per. Month. CLASS B. SCRIBNER'S, HAFFER'S MAG IZINE, COSMOPOLITAN, McCLURES, LIPPINCOTT'S, and LADIES HOME JOURNAL. All for 50 cents per. Month. CLASS C. THE CENTURY, FORUM, NORTH AMERICAN REVEIW, ATLANTIC MONTHLY, CURRENT LITERATURE AND SCRIBNER'S. All for 7 cents Month. --- M. Hogan. Undertaker And Reliable in His Dealings--Open day and Night.--314 Kan. Avenue. U.S. CYCLE CC. NATIONAL NO. 27. 118 East 8th Street. Difficult Bicycle Repairing a Specialty Lock and Key Work, Umbrellas Repaired, Valcanizing. Good WHEELS to rent-and for Sale Second Hand, We Are Experts CALL AND SEE OUR '99 NEW MODELS U. S. CYCLE CO, 118 East 8th Street Kansas Packing House Marked SCHMIDT 1 RO'S, PROF'S, 306 E. 2ND STREET Dealers In FRESH AND CURED MEATS. Wholesale and Retail. Give Them Your Trade. John Kinneu. Merchant Tailor. I keep a full line of goods and samples constantly on hand and guarantee to please AF cus owners. (south of State Bank.) HOL. ON, KANS PALACE HO E C. THRALL PROP. Serves first class meals and Lodging Meals' and Lodging open day and night 11S W 6th St. CASINO CAFE T, J. CARSON PROP, Short order merchants lunch Oysters, lunch Chili and game in season open day an- ight. 110. E. 7th St. Sells Watches, Clock and Fine Jewelry. Patches cleaned, $1,100, mainsprings $1,00 All work first class, and warranted one year Money to loan at 8 per cent on valuable Miller's Pharma- 6th & TOPEKA AVL. Drugs, Medicines, Prescriptions Carefully Compounded. Give Us a Trial. FOR SALE Will you buy Will you sell Will you rent Real Estate Try us. Barnes Real Estate Co. Tel. 202. 113 West 5th st. Henderson paint works. J. A. HENDERSON, PROP. Manufacturers of all kinds of PAINTS. Strietly Pure. 609 Mass, Street. LAWRENCE, KANSAS. I. T. OWENS 312 Kans, Ave. Short order and meals, Lodging 25 cents, Solicits your trade, Ge ou Hurness and saddlery good s Geo, Keins and Co, 718 Kans, Ave. Re pairing a specialty, all work guaranteed GO TO W. M. H. HEBB. For all kinds of Feed: Flour, Hay Straw and Poultry Supplies. 120 East 8 Ave. Bowersock Ming Co. Dr, Dutton's Botanic Blood and St0mach We will Serve You R Open day and night. Quick set Rahrer's Restaurant 615 East Fifth St. Opposite Santa Fe Depot. C. A, RAHKEK Prop. Cues INDEGESTION, KIDNEY and LIVER trouble and PHEUATISM. Sold by W. A. Travis, Shorey, P O., Adjoining Capital of Kansas. Mar, 27. CARPENTER & BUILDER FURNITUE AND JOB WORK SOLICI TED. 119 E, 7th St. Passons de DEAKEN Crockery, china, glassw and all kinds of 739 Mass. St. THE WEAR AND TEAM Passons dep't store, DEAKER IN glassware, tinware, notice of household goods. St. Lawrence Kan Crockery, china, glassware, tinware, notice and all kinds of household goods. 739 Mass. St. Lawrence Kan THE WEAR AND TEAR OF MEN'S NERVES Results in debility—exhaustion, not only on haustion of the body, but exhastion of the mental faculties as well. The nerve cells of the body have been robbed of their vital forces. The nerves have no life in them; therefore all the organs of the body suffer from lack of nerve control, and the blood vessels that supply these organs are not in proper tone. "HUDYAN corrects the evil. HUDYAN provides this vitality of nerve force that is wanting." Are you proaching this condition of Nervous Debility? Are you growing prematurely old? Do you suffer with headaches (Fig. 1); hollow eyes or dark rings under eyes (Fig. 2); pale, thin face and sunken cheeks (Fig. 3); weakness of indigestion (Fig. 4); a poor appetite and impaired indigestion (Fig. 5); torpid liver (Fig. 6), and costious, a coated tongue (Fig. 7)? Or have you dizzy spells? Do you suffer sleepless night? Do you have horrid dreams? Do you awaken in the morning hollow-eyed and tired out. Are you despondent, melancholy? Do you shun society? Are your knees shaky? Have you pain in the small of the back? These symptoms all tell you that your nails are failing you; that you will grow old before your time. HUDYAN will save you HUDYAN will make a robust, strong, man of you. HUDYAN revives, restores, juvenates. Go to your druggist at once and get HUDYAN. No other remedy; just HUDYAN, for HUDYAN is what you need. Other symptoms of this terrible affliction that visits so many men are cold hands and feet, palpitation of the heart, hot flashing memory, nausea after eating, twisting of muscles, spots before the eyes, shooting pains, weariness, tremblings, sediment in urine, blary eyes, swimming in ears, a shaky all-gone feeling. Remember HUDYAN. Be a vigorous, bust man, a man with nerves of steel, a man with muscles of iron. ing medical men to be the greatest nerve in cal science. HUDYAN will lift you from and discouragement that you are now in, an man. Try HUDYAN, you will soon be convince erves. Thousands of women use HUc. n. your druggist, 50c a package, six packages $3.0 ur druggist does not keep it, send direct to CO., Cor. Stockton, Ellis and Market Street San Francisco, Cal. acknowledged by our leading medical men to be the greatest nerve tissue builder known to med cal science. HUDYAN will lift you from that life of despondency and discouragement that you are now in, will make of you a happy man. Try HUDYAN, you will soon be convict Hudyan Cures Woman L Kerves. Thousands of women use Hudy n. GET HUDYAN from your druggist, 50c a package, six packages If your druggist does not keep it, send direct to HUDYAN REMEDY CO. Cor. Stockton, Ellis and Market Street San Francisco, Cal. acknowledged by our leading medical tissue builder known to med cal sci that life of despondency and discount will make of you a happy man. Try H Hudyan Cures Women L Nerves. T GET HUDYAN from your drugg If your druggis HUDYAN REMEDY CO., --- GO TO W.M. H. HEBB. For all kinds of Feed; Flour, Hay Straw and Poultry Supplies. 120 East 8 Ave. use Hudyan. Hon. W. F. Weber is visi relatives and friends in Indi Gov. Richter was in Coun Grove last week. Pot Thomas, of Lawrence, in James Harper and all the L rence, elites were in the city week. Maude E. Jeltz, one of our positors, has been ill for weeks, and you all know the campaign year and other wise positors are scarce. For the benefit of Shiloh Baptist Church on the second Sunday in May, Rev. Will will a grand raley at his church, the incomplete it is one of the best structures of the colored ministers have been built push forward to erection, since the date the Rev. II. B. Parks, who built St. fine edifice, 7 h and Topeka ave. Rev. is a stirring worker in whatever he takes. RESTAURANT SHORT ORDER When in Lawrence stop at their place 611% Mass. St. Lawrence Kas High Grade Flour, ROBET. R. CL PALACE RESTAURANT Eskridge, Kans. The Best Place to get a g "Clean, Square Meal" for 25 From Maine to California. The Proof of the Pudding is Eating it. Try us and see. M. F. LAWLOR. Home Bakery L. C. BOYCE, Prop. 810 N Kas. Ave. (Successor to Geo. Mayer) Wholesale and Retail Bakery goo We Socht Your Trade, JOHN SHEAHAN & SON. CONTRACTOR FOR Plumbing, Storm and Lake Water Heater 123 East Seventh St. HUDYAN is wonderful. HUDYAN