State Ledger

We have no trouble to get ads. No tron- ble with subscribers We have the exper- ence, and you the money — pass the mask this way. By F. L. JELTZ. ROSTER OF YOUNG MEN'S POLITICAL CLUB Pres. Captain Reynolds, Vice Pres. Wm. Gough, Secty. A. W Harris, J. H. North, Ass't, Sect'y, L. Lacey, Sgt. at arms. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Jno. Patterson, B. F. Adan.s, C. S. Saunders, F. L. Jeltz, John Kelly, W. M: Hall. Geo. W. Jackson Chairman. FOR CONGRESSMAN 1ST DIST. 1900. Hon. Chas, Curtis, All humbugs look alike to us no matter what form they appear. The Negro who leaves his race that is black, can you tell us where in the divil is he 1fting(?) The State Printing Office now controlled by editor W. Y. Morgan is everything in its place, and business is business with him. All things equal is all we ask justice and fair play must reign supreme. No secret corner business goes. The poll-tax law is bothering nearly all the boys lately. What about our fair women who vote at the age of 21 years are they entitled to this franchise(?) Galen Nichols seems to be going ahead sawing wood giving no attention to his adversaries. Poor men who steal a dollar are always taken by the collar. Why is it that a grand rascal is never prosecuted? Is it because he has the name, or the "coin" (?) The fight on Galen Nichols is a "milk, cider and water fight." it will be like Grover Clevland's sheeps, "they all come hrome, if you let them alone and bring their-of course behind them. We have conversed with some of our best men in the Republican party and they tell us they are going to stand by the nominee who were successful at the primaries. Hon. J. R. Burton, is the orator who is quoted being the one who will place in nomination that good and great man Wm. McKinley, for President. Be loyal and true to your race and though they hate you, when you are dead they will cherish your memory and give you a decent burial. We have seen the time that we would oppose the supposed method talked of, practiced at the polls and bolt against the nominee, but as the parties who are successful were in no way connected, we must acquiesce with the majority, they are going to rule, be you for or against, the majority rules. In the words of Nick Chiles, 'a house divided against itself cannot stand.' Ain't it funny(?) Editor Smith, of the CURRENT DEMOCRATIC REMARK, at Lyndon should frequent our city more than he does and he would know more about moral ethics. For instance, he speaks of representative men as hold-ups and also he knew he was telling a whole bali of yarn when he said that the editor of this paper threatened to play havoc with the colored vote of Osage county, if certain officials did not approve of our course. Smith we aver thou stingeth like a serpent and biteth like an adder for God-sake aint you Democrats never going to quit(?) Smith etal did not believe we even operated a paper at Jopeka. --- The State Ledger. DO RIGHT--KNOW THAT YOU ARE RIGHT; FEAR NOMAN; BUT RENDER JUSTICE TO ALL. When colored men, at least some of them learn to respect our women better, then all other classes will follow suite. Too much vulgarity, and profanity is always flowing freely from their foul mouths, whispering and sniggering, becoming and bickering to our girls on the streets makes men comparatively low degraded. To stand high in the estimation of our best citizens, is to adopt the progressive method of entertaining and acquiring your selves more honorable. Mrs. M. H. Kirby, the Populistic Demo-Pop County Sup't. of Osage County is a candidate for re-election and expects to succeed herself. There is only one feature of the case and that is, if Mrs Kirby can carry more votes than some popular opponent on the Republican side she will be successful, which is doubtful, but no one now can tell a Pop anything. The LEDGR circulates in every city in Osage County, hence the candidates from now on will have the pleasure of finding out what influence we have. There are several Democrats in charge of county affairs at Lyndon, but as a rule they seem to be partial to colored newspaper man and the Democratic paper of that place literally lied on us, but festive Smith may some day wander up this way and of course an explanation will be prepared, above all things we certainly try to conform to the Ten Commandments, thusly: "Thou shalt not swear falsely against thy neighbor" Go ahead Smith with your nerve, and we'll be hanged if you don't serve "Fraternal Brothern" better than you did the Editor of this paper, you'll be in the poor-house before months As we travel the path of life, we often fancy that the other fellow has the best side of the road. It is a thousand pities that Oom Paul didn't find out that he was whipped until after his men had recovered confidence. Mrs Dewey has changed her religion again, this time back to Episcopalianism. She has been a Presbyterian, an Hosteric Buddhist, an Episcopalian and a Catholic in turn. In the United States unwelcome office holders are discipitated by the ballot or pen. In China the sword is us d. In this case the sword is certainly mightier than the pen. A Missouri newspaper announces that it will be conducted for one week as Jesse James would have conducted it, and simultaneously sends out voting offices to deliquent subscribers. An El Dorado woman, according to the Times, takes in washing in order to support her children, three dogs and a husband The dogs of course belong to the husband, but that makes no difference. Its a mean woman who won't hump herself to get food for her husband's dogs. How much is a man like his shoes? For instance, both have a sole to lose; both have been tanned; both are made tight—by the cobblers; both get left and right; both need a mate to be complete; and both are made to go on ice. They both need heeling, oft are sold and both in time will turn to mold. With shoes the last is first with men the first shall be last: when shoes wear out they are mended: when men wear out they're mended too. They are both trod upon, and both will tread upon others nothing loath: both have their ties, and both incline when pol shed, in the world to shine and both peg out. Two or three small shows are working in Kansas now. The proprietors will make all kinds of money, people don't: give a rip whether the first show that comes along is any good or not. They will take it in, because they will be able to go to the big shows when they come later, anyway. A Coffeyville lady has received a letter from her nephew a soldier in Philippines, in it he asks if one of his friends has married yet. "If he hasn't," writes this obliging young fellow, "I might buy him a woman over here. A person can buy a good looking woman to $10 to $20 in gold. Women are bought and sold here like horses in the states." A certain man was invited to speak at a local gathering, and being nobody in particular was placed last on the list of speakers. Moreover the chairman introduced several speakers whose names were not on the list and the audience was tired out when he said introducing the final speaker, "Mr Bones will now give us his address." Congress has decreed that it shall be spelled Porto Rico. Now the crazy "Puerto Rico" can take a back seat along with Neuva Mexico and Nouveau Orleans. Representative Dalzell, of Penn, is in somewhat of a stew. In his remarks on the Porto Rican kill he spoke of "subdized" Republican press. Later, he took it all back and substituted the word "unisguided," But his explanation caused some merriment, never the less. Now a couple have been married by telegraph, the minister being at one place, the bride at another and the groom at a third. The dispatch giving the facts does not state whether the groom called the bride pet names or not. The Lecompton Sun is for sale. The Sun like many other papers in small towns lack the support of the business men. A paper must have their support or it can not live.—Reading Recorder. A Colorado young woman has been awarded $50,000 in a breach of promise case. Which goes to show that if a woman must have her heart broken she would do well to be careful in choosing a millionaire to do the job. A proper advertisement is one of the most potent forces in modern life. Progress prevents poverty—if you don't go ahead, someone else will. Too often love is nothing more than self-love in disguise. There are successes for more humiliating than defeat. Go slow my friend; you have time and eternity both before you. Nothing to do wears out a graven image in the course of time. He who is ashamed of his poverty would be equally proud of his wealth. We are proud of our reason, and yet we guess at fully one-half we know. ex. STUFF FROM EMPORIA AND ELSEWHERE. Hew to the line let the chips fall where they may. Justice is our motto and in the election this fall we must be with the nominees. John Madden, the Pop candidate for Judge of the District court, aint in it for that place, he will be defeated. The man who blows his horn, the loudest is the weakest of all the people whom he has ever seen. Courtship is rife in Emporia. Men will leave their work to look after some other fellows girl. Pres. A. R. Taylor of the Normal gave us a special ticket to attend the lecture at the Normal. Mr. and Mrs Moore have sold their old Property on State St. and are now residing on their own property at 712 Congress St neat place indeed. Miss Luvenia Brown of Topeka is boarding at 716 Congress St. and she looks well smiling and we suppose she is doing well, Mr. T. F. Bright of Guthrie Okla. is in the city he is boarding at Ray's restaurant 314% Conn. St. he is looking for employment. Miss Mamy Johnson is attending the Normal School, and says she made 95 in Grammar just before the close of school. In a few days we will trudge the raging Cottonwood for all kinds of fishermen's duck—look for the news, We met some very prominent people here and there, namely: the Rev. J. J. Pleasant of Council Grove, Mr. Staffor I, Mann Ray, Moore of Emporia, etal doing well, We had a pleasant time fishing, caught fisherman's luck—hope to renew the attack soon. Court is session here and the many high toned and low toned jointist are on the run, it is hard to procure a glass of beer anywhere We walked three miles for the same and was disappointed. Judge Randolph is chairman and three jointists was convicted this week. Ed Briar, Downing, etal, they will receive jail sentences at the boarding house of Sheff O'Connor. Council Grove Kans., should be highly respected and commended for the very pleasant way they served our representative in that city a few days ago. Such persons as Messrs Mitchell, Loy Vancamp and co., F, E, Pritle, Mr, Methe etal. In fact all the good people there assisted us and we tender them our thanks. Mann Ray, the old veteran culinarist of Emporia is at head stand. He serves meals at a 11 hours. Mr Ray is one of the oldest in Emporia among the colored people and has a neatly appointed place at 314½ Connst St Emporia Kans. Judge Randolph is a candidate for Judge of the District court from Lynn count. Jud e Randolph is a man who says unless the Demo rits stand by him and nominate him he will not be a candidate for the office. We roosted on a gate post all night at Emporia and a Santa Fe special policeman awoke us between 2 and 3 o'clock Tuesday morning and took us for first class bums, we convinced the gentleman from cork "we were there," and he released us and we skipped town. We had plenty of coin but the gentleman was from Missouri and we had to show him. Respectfully. Editor, Now look out for big imports from Porto Kico. Silver and wheat are showing an unexpected inability to synchronize properly. Dewey says he doesn't give a hang if the Presidential bee does sting him. Republicans have at last reluctantly consented not to nominate Roosevelt for Vice President. It would be most unkind in Cleveland to remark that he was defeated because Dewey he itated. Before the Easter bonnet bills came in the circulation per capita, was estimated at $26.12. Now it s.12. We don't know whether the British have officially combined the commissary and qua termasters departments of their army, but they practically did so when they put horse-flesh on the bill of fare Dewey says that Croker is a "square" man and if that change his mind about supporting Bryan he will be justified in so doing by the fact that there is a new and unexpected candidates in the field. P. Belmont's support of Admiral Dewey will not amount to much because he is the wrong Belmont, if his brother, Oliver Hazard Belmont, would abdicate his candidacy for the second place in the Admiral's favor, it might amount to something. When a shoemaker dies he breathes his last, the candidate joins the great majority; the banker passes in his checks; the milkman kicks the bucket; the dancing master gives up the jig. the tailor's goose is cooked: the apothecary throws up the sponge; the chimney sweep goes up the queue the gambler shuffles off, and the editor expires at the hands of animate reader for having told the truth—Ex. We class the following, from one of the Kansas City papers, as a blamed lie: Old Farmer (to his son) Now, don't fergit while ye're in the city to git some ov them 'electric lights plants we heern so much about. We kin j's ez well raise 'em ourselves an' save kerosene. A short-grass editor is mourning the loss of two subscribers. One wrote asking how to raise his twins properly, while the other wanted to know how he might rid his orchard of grasshoppers. The answers were forwarded by mail, but by accident the editor put them into the wrong envelopes so that the man with the twins received this answer: Cover them carefully with straw and set fire to it, and the little pests, after jumps in the flames a few moments, will be speedily settled. And the man with the grasshoppers was to give caster oil and rub their gums with a bone. A well known school teacher instructed a pupil to buy a grammar, and the next day received a note thus worded, from the childs mother; "I do not desire fer Lu lu shall ingage in grammar as i prefer her ingafe in yuseful studies, and can learn her how to spoke and write propely myself. I have went through two grammas and can't say as they did me no good. I prefer her ingage in German and drawing and vocal music on the piano." Ex. --- We guarrantee the people who advertise, quick returns most reliable newspaper a mong all classes. VOL. 8, NO. 32 The Ex slaves Pension Association, auxiliary No. 6, held literary exercises at 2nd Baptist church, corner 1st and Monroe. Monday night, May 7th 1900, at 8 p.m. Program; Mr. T. T. Jones lectured on Cuba, lecture by J H. B, Taylor, on the present and future progress of the American Negro. Song A. Scales, "We Fed the Union Soldier," lecture by I. W. B Grant, subject on the "Disposition of Congress to Pension the Ex-slaves of America." Song by the club, Mrs. Mary E. Douglas, Mrs. Robertson and others. A. Kykendall, Pres. Mary E. Douglass, Sect'y. "I have trained my boys," writes an aged Empora mother, "to help care for their sisters. When they made pennies they took it as a matter of course that they must divide with Bessie and Mary: I think the happiest day in Jack's life was when he bought a whole dress for his sister. When my sons came to marrying age each knew something about what it costs to support a woman, They also knew that certain measures of their time, interest and attention in a social way was a woman's due. I took good care that girls should have as good training along femine lines. They were made to feel the responsibly of keeping their brothers' clothes in order, buttons sewed on, rooms dainty, and above all things, of entertaining the boys, making home sweet, merry and attractive for them. My girls knew by the time lovers *ame a-wooing what the cares and responsibilities of looking after a man's comfort involved." Ex, A Topea man combined an April fool joke and a present to his wife in a way that afforded himself at least much satisfaction. He was taking home from the postoffice a letter addressed to his wife when he noticed that the letter was but lightly sealed. An idea popped into his head an opening it he slipped a $10 bill in and sealed it again securely. On opening the letter his wife was very much surprised at finding the bill and moreso to find no mention of it in the letter. At her husbands suggestion she wrote to the sender of the letter inquiring into the matter. The reply has not yet been received but the Republican hears that the gentleman feels that he has had his moreys worth already, Ex. A THREE-FOOTED COLT. "Francis Wallace was in the city Saturday night, says the Kingman Leader," and reported a lusus naturae out at his home. The freak is a mule colt just recently foiled minus one tront foot. It was born with four legs and a healthy frisky colt but is shy one foot. The lower end of the leg instead of having a hoop stops short off at the fetlock and is baited over without a sign of a hoof. It might properly be called a triped but not a tripod as it has only three feet but four legs. It will be of no use to any one except possibly as a curiosity or as trading stock. Took No More Chances. "A gentleman on the north side," says the Hutchinson Herald "discovered that his hen house was troubled with rats. He consulted a neighbor and as their was no board floor he concluded to get a spade and dig them out The first spade full of earth he turned brought up a lively young rat nearly full grown which run up the pants leg of the old man who dropped the spade and seizing the ascending form of the enterprising rodent about the time it got to the bottom of his front pocket he started on an irregular run to his neighbor far help, when he got their his neighbor held the rat in vise like grip until the rat exterminator lowered his trousers and the rat was found dead crushed by the grip and smothered to death. Before the excavation proceeded the old man tied a string around the bottom of each pants leg. JACKSON COUNTY ANNOUNCEMENTS I am a candidate for Clerk of the Distric Court of Jackson County, subject to the dte cision of the Republican Convention. A. T. WAGGONER. Rubber Goods Especialty. YOUR TRADE SOLICITED. THE STATE LEDGER. BY F. L. JVLTZ. The Barton county fair association has applied for a charter. It has a capital stock of $10,000. Daniel Fultz, a Sumner county farmer was killed by a dehorned bull which he was trying to halter. Fred. L. Diggs, a son of Anna L. Diggs, was elected mayor of Perry, Kas., on a "wet ticket." Vaughan McKee, who enlisted from Mulvane, has been murdered in Puerto Rico. He was 23 years old. Three colored girls are members of the class which will graduate from the Sabetha high school this season. Lebanon had $176.60 in its treasury at last official count, not a cent of which was received from joints. John E. Gibson, a Santa Fe lineman, fell from the top of a pole in the Topeka yards and was seriously injured. The two new buildings to be erected in Pittsburg by the Kansas City and Southern railroad, will cost about $40,000. The steam mill at Axtell is burned at a loss of $3,000 with $700 insurance. It had been sold the day before the fire. A daughter of Captain W. R. Hardy, of Eureka, met a prince while she was studying in Italy, and is now engaged to marry him. Dr. Swan, the secretary of the state medical board, reports that there are now 2,129 registered physicians practicing in Kansas. A rate of one fare for the round trip will be named for the annual meeting of the Knights of Pythias, to be held May 13-16 at Iola. John Collins, who is in the penitentiary under conviction of killing his father, in Topeka, is foreman of the prison printing office. A new seige battery has arrived at Fort Riley. It has six guns with a seven inch muzzle. There are 145 men, 112 horses and about fifty mules. Martin Hoyer, the owner of the mill at Asherville was in a boat on the Solomon river when floating timber struck the boat and knocked the bottom out of it. He was drowned. Scott county has a doctor who was about to leave because his practice did not make a living. The county board appropriated $500 as a bonus to the doctor if he would stay, which was accepted. Valley Falls First M. E. church and parsonage are burned. There was insurance of $2,100. Only the organ and pulpit was saved from the church; the pastor saved most of his household goods. A fund for the widow of Douglas C. Coates, the Santa Fe operator at South Winfield station, who was killed in his office, is being raised among the employees of the road in the southern part of the state. Contributions have been generous. The internal revenue department for the district of Kansas issued during the last fiscal year 2,581 retail liquor dealers' special stamps. (Why will intelligent newspapers continue to speak of these stamps as "licences" when the United States has not issued a liquor dealer's licence in the past 35 years?) Clerk of Court Cook of Ness county drove to the nursery at Sedgwick for a load of apple trees. He plans to set out 40 acres of fruit this spring. Cimarron officials have effected a compromise with the holders of municipal bonds, who accept refunding bonds for $20,000 to balance the old $80,000 bonds. Thirteen cars of steel, worked into trusses, beams and plates, came to Iola for the new cement company's plant. This is the first shipment of the 200 carloads required. Frank L. Jewett and Clarence E. Klisse, two Kansas university boys, who are spending this year in Harvard, have been appointed to hold scholarships in the graduate department of that university for next year. The Winfield-Fairmount debate was won by Winfield on the remarkably close margin of one-quarter of 1 per cent. J. W. Rounds, of Logan county, marketed a car of hogs which were all less than six months old and averaged 220 pounds. Wellington's $50,000 water works bonds are to draw 5 per cent and a citizen gives assurance that they will be taken at par. William Jewell College of Missouri, met the boys of Ottawa University in Ottawa, contested in a debate and Missouri met with its third successive defeat. There is excitement in Morland over the story that turkeys sold from there and shipped to Denver had been found to carry in their vitals both gold and copper. The Cimarron calaboose is used for storage of grain. Sterling is talking of becoming a city of the second class. A hardware store is burned at Logan with a loss of $5,500. G. T. Mead, of Spivey, was killed by his team running away. A big pipe organ is being built in the Baptist church in Winfield. John James, Sr., hung himself with a strap, in his barn near Alida. S. W. Hough and his wife, of Columbus, were poisoned by canned corn. The Fifth district W. C. T. U. met in annual session at Abilene last week. Shoughnassee, the famous Pottawatomie chief, is dead. He was 90 years old. The Kansas state Sunday school convention will be held in Atchison, May 8 to 10. There are sixty-two women in the graduating class of Kansas University this year. Some Kingman county farmers held a meeting and decided to establish a creamery. Len Glanville, of Hutchinson has fallen heir to a valuable estate near Utica, N. Y. Secretary Barnes of the state horticultural society says that fruit prospects are good. During March the Kansas penitentiary received 81 convicts and only 27 wore discharged. Montgomery county has more money on hand than the law allows to be deposited in banks. There were seventy-one volunteers for the Spanish war who were Kansas University men. Labor Commissioner Lee Johnson is commencing to prosecute contractors who fail to observe the eight hour labor law. James Harris, now one of the literary lions of London, in 1873 took a special course in oratory and literature in Kansas University. The output of berries in Doniphan county is a big item in the production and this year berry growers report the right kind of prospects. Robbers tried to blow up the Missouri Pacific safe at El Dorado, but failed. They then cut open and riffled the mail sacks in the depot. At Miltonville two of the Heald boys married two of the Comfort sisters, and at the same time two of the Comfort boys married two of the Heald sisters. The waterworks system owned by the city of Coffeyville cleared $1,075.50 from January 1 to April 1. The receipts were $2,100 and the expenses about $1,000. George Helwig, an old resident of Labette county, died and the coroner's jury said his death was from arsenic poisoning. The evidence is kept secret. The officers of the Leavenworth Light & Heating company have information of a fraudulent issue of 140 bonds for $1,000 each, now in circulation and offered for sale in Chicago. H. L. McNurney and Ethel Bacon, of Butler county, were to be married, and on the same day, while riding, the horses ran away breaking the bridegroom's collar bone and bruising the bride severely. They were married on schedule time. Frank W. Elliott of the Troy Times recently convicted of libel, was sentenced to 120 days in jail and to pay $100 fine and costs. After being in jail two hours he was liberated on an appeal bond, on order of Judge Wells of the appellate court. E. Haworth, professor of geology at Kansas University, says he knows of at least a hundred assays of ore taken from different mines around Galena and there has never been any trace of gold and very slight indications of silver found. Governor Stanley has named Mrs. J. K. Hndson of Topeka, and Mrs. S. R. Peters of Newton, to be members of the women's board of managers of the Pan-American exposition to be held in Buffalo, N. Y., from May 1 to November 1, 1901. Wm. Reynolds came to Stafford county twenty years ago with but little capital. He is now building a fine residence in St. John, besides which he owns several farms. The board of regents of the state normal elected officers as follows: F. S. Laribee, of Stafford, president; C. A. Ross, Burr Oak, vice president; S. H. Dodge, Beloit, treasurer; John Madden, secretary. A contract for the erection of a gymnasium was given at $7,175. An additional $3,000 is to be expended in equipment. The Hoffmans of Enterprise, propose to plant 50,000 catalpa trees in the Smoky Hill bottoms. They will plant four feet apart each way. They do this as a ten years' investment and expect big returns. The Turners of Sabetha have had their hall seized by the sheriff and their bartenders also. They will make a fight in the courts. The Kingman county Live stock association has decided to have another picnic this year. Last year's picnic drew immense crowd COMPLETE MARKET REPORTS Kansas City. CATTLE—Common to heavy... 3 40 @ 5 21 HOGS—Choice to heavy... 5 25 @ 5 25 HWEAT—No. 2 red... 68% @ 69 CORN—No. 2... 68% @ 69 RYE—No. 2... 63 HWEAT—Choice timothy... 10 00 @ 10 50 Choice prairie... 7 50 @ 7 75 BUTTER... 16 @ 16 EGGS... 10 Chicago. WHEAT—No. 2 red... 69 @ 69 CORN—No. 2... 68% OATS—No. 2... 62% St. Louis Live Stock. BEEVES... 4 00 @ 5 80 STOCKERS & FEEDERS... 3 00 @ 5 05 SOUTHERN STEERS... 3 00 @ 5 05 Cotton. Uplands. Gulf. Liverpool... 5 15-32d New York... 913-16c 10 1-16c Galveston... 91-10c Wichita Grain. Open. High. Low. Today Yday WHEAT— May... 65% @ 65% @ 65% @ 65% July... 66% @ 67% @ 67% @ 65% CORN— May... 38% @ 38% @ 38% @ 38% July... 30% @ 30% @ 30% @ 30% OATS— May... 23 @ 21% @ 22% @ 22% July... 23% @ 21% @ 22% @ 22% Calls. Puts. Wheat: May... 65% @ 64% Corn: May... 38% @ 37% Wichita Live Stock. HOGS... 5 10 @ 5 30 CATTLE... @ @ Chicago Live Stock. BEEVES... $4 10 @ 5 80 CORN AND HEIFERS... 3 25 @ 4 85 STOCKERS & FEEDERS... 4 00 @ 5 20 TEXAS FED BEEVES... 4 00 @ 5 20 HOGS... 5 50 @ 5 65 SHEEP—Fair to choice... 5 00 @ 6 25 THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF. King Oscar and the queen of Sweden are in London. Statistics show that American women have 257 million dollars invested in bank stock. General Montnegro, one of the Talagos' best fighters, has surrendered to Colonel Smith. The bubonic plague is reported to have made its appearance at several ports on the Red sea. General counsel of the land grants railroads are claiming fall fare for the soldiers they have transported. The crew of the light house steamer at San Francisco have quit because their wages were cut to $35 a month. In consequence of the failure of the banana crop at St. Thomas, Jamaica, the people are in a starving situation. Turkey owes all the nations and if the Sultan pays the claim of the United States, holders of other claims may be affronted. The Baldwin Locomotive works turns out an average of four locomotives a day; employing about 8,000 men in all departments. The Chinese government directs all viceroys and governors to warn armed organizations against hostile acts against native Christians. The Canadian Pacific having got in line there is now a solid compact of the railroads not to pay any commissions on any class of passenger traffic. Governor Roosevelt, of New York, has signed the bill to secure equal rights to colored children in the public schools and abolishing separate schools. Secretary Wilson, of the Agricultural department wants rural delivery mail carriers to distribute on their routes to the farmers cards containing the latest weather forecasts and warnings. There is a Union Labor grand stand and one erected by the contractors, both prepared for the Dewey reception in Chicago. When the decision is made as to which the admiral will use there may be trouble. The conventions of both political parties in session in Chillicothe, Mo., passed resolutions prohibiting the raising of campaign funds for any purpose, not even for hiring carriages on election day. Chillicothe has a Good Government club. The bill forbidding companies to combine to regulate commissions has passed the Ohio Legislature, and as there is no veto power, is now a law. Major Thomas J. Chew, Jr., is dead. He was a wealthy citizen of St. Joseph, Mo., and part owner of the St. Joseph Herald. Two hundred waiters working in the hotels and restaurants of Des Moines, struck for an increase in wages. The legislature of Ohio adjourned without acting upon the appropriation' of $1,000,000 for the Toledo exposition The supreme court has reversed a Texas court which refused a negro the right to have negroes on the jury which tried him. Governor Taylor, of Kentucky, is in Washington to look after his interests in the contest before the supreme court for the office of governor of Kentucky After June 1, there will be a penalty of $200 throughout Cuba, against cock fighting. The total internal revenue receipts in Cuba for the first eight month of the present fiscal year were $558,374. News has been received at the war department of the arrival at Manila of 457 horses with the loss of but one on the passage. The joint committee on judiciary of the Massachusetts legislature, has reported a bill to abolish the death penalty for murder. For Malaria, Chills and Fever MAKES CHILDREN AND ADULTS AS FAT AS PIGS MAKES CHILDREN AND ADULTS AS FAT AS PIGS THE BEST PRESCRIPTION IS Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic. The formula is plainly printed on every bottle—hence you know just what you are taking when you take Grove's. Imitators do not advertise their formula knowing that you would not buy their medicine if you knew what it contained. Grove's contains Iron and Quinine put up in correct proportions and is in a Tasteless form. The Iron acts as a tonic while the Quinine drives the malaria out of the system. Any reliable druggist will tell you that Grove's is the Original and that all other so-called Tasteless Chill Tonics are imitations. An analysis of other chill tonics shows that Grove's is superior to all others in every respect. You are not experimenting when you take Grove's—its superiority and excellence having long been established. Grove's is the only Chill Cure sold throughout the entire malarial sections of the United States. No Cure, No Pay. Price, 50c A Rare Book of Autographs. The Kaiser is probably the last personage to inscribe his name in the Queen's autograph book. This book has been carefully preserved by her majesty during the sixty-one years of her long reign, and contains a remarkably rich collection of autographs, including those of a pope, four Czars, and several German kings and emperors. Among French autographs in the royal album are those of King Louis Philippe and Napoleon III. The late Shah and the Sultan Abdul Aziz also inscribed their names on the historic roll. Ancient Roman War Vessels. The men-of-war of the Romans had a crew of about 225 men, of which 174 were oarsmen, working on three decks. The speed of these vessels was about six miles an hour in fair weather. Millions for Baseball. A million of dollars are spent every year for baseball, but large as this is, it cannot equal the amount spent in search of health. We urge those who have spent much and lost hope to try Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. It strengthens the stomach. makes digestion easy, and cures dyspepsia, constipation, billiousness and weak kidneys. To be perfectly satisfactory, a sick man is glad to have his wife ask every five minutes how he is Feeling Now. Are You Using Allen's Foot-Face? It is the only cure for Swolten, 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. The elevator man is continually run- ing people down. 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Old London Sundays We have got it into our heads that Sunday was better observed in the puritanical acceptance of the word three or four generations back than it is now. It was quite otherwise. All the great ladies when the Queen came to the throne, the Duchess of Wellington, the Duchess of Rutland, the Marthoness of Salisbury, the Lady Hyde Parker, the Misses Walpole, had regular card parties on a Sunday, and there were concerts and receptions all over the town announced with becoming regularity in the Morning Post.—Saturday Review. Will It Cure Leprosy? There is a Venezuela plant called tua tua, which it is alleged is a cure for leprosy. Two dozen specimens of the plant have been sent to Hawaii from Washington and will be tested by the leprosy hospitals there. Wonderful stories are prevalent in Venezuela about the marvelous curative properties of tua tua, when applied to leprosy, and the government officials attach considerable importance to the evidence given them. It is proposed also to test it in the island of Guam, the tiny speck of Pacific land that came to us with our other Spanish war acquisitions. Encouraging the Bidders. A Dutch auction at Cape Town is frequently exciting. If a house is to be sold the auctioneer offers "fifty golden sovereigns for the man who first bids £5,000." Not only bids. A pause, and then: "Fifty golden sovereigns for the man who first bids £4,900." This is kept up until a bid is secured. But it by no means follows that the house is sold to this bidder. No, the auctioneer is then at it again. Say that £4,400 is the first bid. The auctioneer cries: "There are twenty-five golden sovereigns for the first man who has the courage to bid £4,600." Perhaps no one has it. Then £25 is offered for a $4,550 bid. If there is eventually no bid above the £4,400 the man who made that bid is saddled with the house. Otherwise he pockets his bonus and gets off free of it all. "I Would Cry Every Time I Wash My Baby." "When he was3 months old, first fes- ters and then large boils broke out on my baby's neck. The sores spread down his back until it became a mass of raw flesh. When I washed and pow- "When he was3 months old, first festers and then large boils broke out on my baby's neck. The sores spread down his back until it became a mass of raw flesh. When I washed and powdered him I would cry, realizing what pain he pained. His pittiful wailing was heart-tending when about given up hope of saving him when I was urged to give him Hood's Sarsapilla, all other treatment having I washed the sores with Hood's Medicated Soap, applied Hood's Olive Ointment, gave him Hood's Sarsapilla. The seemed to get better every day, and soon the change was quite noticeable, discharge grew less, inflammation down, the skin took on a healthy color, the raw flesh began to scale over and a skin formed as the scales dropped. 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GREEN'S SONS. BOR, Atlanta. Send to day for our sonometeer email Susan H. Wick NWICK Patent Lawyers Washington Ninety-Six Sold for an Average of $671. IMPORTED BULL FOR $3,100. Chicago, April 21. —The greatest auction sale of Hereford cattle ever held in America has been held this week at Dexter Park amphitheater, Union stock cards. It broke all records of auction sales of any breed since the Cochrane sale of Shorthorns in Dexter Park in 1874. The sale was a dispersion of the of the champion Fairview herd of Hereford cattle owned by F. A. Nave, of attica, Ind., and in this sale, occupying two days, ninety-six animals sold for $64,415, an average of $671 each. The purchasers are from thirteen states and Canada. Among the bulls sold was the annous "Dale," champion over all leads in 1898 and 1899 at $7,500. The imported bull Viscount Rupert brought $3,100, and imported Bruce $1,400. Perfection, a 16-months-old self, brought $1,300. Seven cows sold for $14,300, among them being Russett and Theresa, at $3,000 each, imported Lady Help at $2,500, and Dolly Fifth at $2,400. In all, twenty bulls brought $20,055, an average of $954 each, and twenty-six cows, $45,330, an average of $506, making a grand total of ninety-eve animals for $64,115, a general average of $671 a head for the entire herd, ages, old cows and young calves included. Flood Troubles in the South. Flood troubles in the South New Orleans, La., April 23—New Orleans has ceased to regard the flood situation as a temporary inconvenience and that instead of the worst being over the evil has just begun. There are now within the gates of the city no less than 500 waterbound travelers, who are not only unable to return to their homes now, but who do not know when the will be able to leave. partial reports of the damage have run the figures up into the millions and taking into consideration the losses, real and resultant, the amount foots to an enormous figure. The Illinois Central railroad system has incurred damages which will amount to hundreds of thousands of dollars, and the end is not yet. There is no telling when the trains will be able to run. The same state of affairs prevail on the other southern roads. The streams are still rising and rains continue to fall. Americans to Do It All. Philadelphia, April 23.—E. F. Walker if this city and J. H. McCleary of Richmond, representing prominent capitalists of Philadelphia, will go to London where a conference will be held with Russian military officials. They will then proceed to Paris and Berlin for conferences with other Russian officers, as understood that the new railroad cannot be constructed at a cost less than $80,000,000. Should the contract come to this country the responsible positions in the actual construction of the railroad will be filled by Americans. All heads of departments for the planning and all foremen required for the laying of the railroad will be taken from American offices and workshops and only American material will be used. Young Japanese Coming. Tacoma, Wash., April 23.—An officer of the steamship Goodwyn, in from Japan, says that the steamers Bramer and Tacoma, now en route, are bringing 2,000 more Japanese to those land at Seattle and Tacoma within the next week or so. Most of the Japanese brought by the Goodwyn are under 2 years of age, and all are of slight unique. Right of Way Not Secured. Managua, Nicaragua, via Galveston, april 23—The Diario, the official organ of the Nicaraguan government, declares editorially that President clara and the members of his cabinet, at their recent interviews with the members of the United States canal commission did not express any intention to code sovereignty over any portion of Nicaraguan territory for a canal route. The paper also asserts that the government is not disposed to sell its sovereignty over the route. Free Homes Blll on May Third. Washington, April 20.—The house is evening, by unanimous consent, made the free homes bill an order for day 3. This means that the bill will become a law, the unanimous consent even insuring but little opposition. There is no danger in the senate, which is frequently passed a free homes bill. Free homes advocates are jubilant and justly so, after their long night. Oklahoma may now be more certain than ever of the house's favorable action. Other Countries Have Like Claims Washington, April 23. The greatest trouble is that Turkey, whose government is really friendly to the United States, would probably like to pay the comparatively small amount due to the United States, but can not well do without affronting other governments, whose similar claims have been ignored for years. Almost every Christian country holds similar claims against Turkey, amounting to millions of dollars, and similar promises to pay. CONGRESSIONAL NEWS. APRIL SEVENTEEN. The Senate received a reply to its request that the president send a statement of the ex-commissioner to the Senate and the statement is itemized and aggregates $17,185. The Senate passed the bill granting soldiers of the Mexican war pensions of $12 a month in certain cases. Senator Hoar addressed the Senate in a lengthy speech on the Philippine question. Senator Thurston (Neb.) is the author of a bill that would permit restraining orders as applied to labor disputes. It limits indictments for conspiracy to be criminal if done by any person; and that no act shall be considered a restraint of trade. In the house the naval appropriation bill was discussed. APRIL EIGHTEEN. The naval committee reported to the Senate the resolution providing for medals for disasters among officers and officers of the North Atlantic squadron at a cost of $3,000. The foreign relations committee favoredably on the convention extending the time six months in which Spanish residents of the Philippines can elect whether they will remain citizens of Spain or become citizens of the islands. The house continued consideration of the naval appropriation bill. A joint resolution was adopted by the house authorizing the secretary of the interior to exhibit the printing relics at the New York printing exposition. May 2 June 2. APRIL NINETEEN. President McKinley sent a message to both houses of congress asking for prompt action to be taken upon a necessity for government to be made more effective. May 1, the time when military control of the island must cease, under the law which takes effect on that government, will be the civil government which the law provides for. Senator Foraker immediately offered a joint resolution intended to meet the president's recommendation. The Senate naval committee reported a bill authorizing the president to buy from Spain the ten-thousand-ton, steel, floating dry dock now in Havana harbor. Senator Platt has a bill which is intended to pay the debt of the Osaka payment of the individual debts of the Osaka payment of the individual a bill providing for allotment of the lands of the Osaka reservation in severity. Senator Chandler introduced a bill for the purchase of their rights of colored voters in all the states. The house has made a special order to act upon the free homes, bill on May 3. The is a bill in the house to advance Generals Joe Wheeler. Fitzhugh Lee and James H. Wilson to the rank of brigadier generals in the regular army and then retire them from service. The debate on the naval bill drifted into politics and for sometime there was danger that partisan rancor might culminate in a sensational scene. Mr. McRae (Ark.) has introduced a bill authorizing the construction of an electric railway, connecting South McAlester with several neighboring towns. APRIL TWENTY. The Senate passed the house bill relating to allowance of exceptions. It provides that in case or disability of the trial judge in any case, the Senate may appoint representatives for a new trial and sign bills of exceptions. The commerce committee reported a joint resolution for estimates of cost for a canal for navigation between Lake Michigan and the Mississippi. There is a bill in the Senate to grant a pension of $50 a month to General Longstreet, for service in the Mexican war. The committee of the house having the Nicaraguan canal bill in charge has stricken out the provision for the 'fortification,' thus providing what is expected to be a compromise which will aid in passing the bill. The revenue bureau to redeem or make allowance for revenue stamps spoiled or destroyed or improperly or unnecessarily used. The Nicaquan canal bill will be given consideration early in May. APRIL TWFNTY-ONE. Senator Hale (Me.) introduced a bill appropriating $5,000 for the purchase of 1,900 acres of land near Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, for naval purposes. The army affairs committee reported the bill to confer rank of lieutenant general upon the senior major general. President Fry announced the appointment of the commandant of the Harris of Kansas, as members of the board of visitors to the West Point military academy to The Senate passed the joint resolution provisional administration of civil affairs in Puerto Rico, ternation of the United States. Senator Platt (c.t.) introduced a bill for the payment of the Osages' debts to traders from the Osage trust fund. _____ The naval appropriation bill received a heart blow in the house when the limit price to be paid for the naval appropriation changed that no first-class plate can be procured. Commerce committee substituted the Sherman bill for the bill passed by the Senate for the construction of the Punjab cable. It provides the Commerce committee to substitute the Sherman bill is for construction by the government. Poll Tax For Voters. Washington, April 23.—The senate has under consideration the conference report on the Hawaiian civil government measure. Mr. Cullom made an extended explanation of the changes in the bill. The report was the subject of sharp criticism. Final action upon it was postponed. A long discussion took place over a provision requiring the payment by the residents of Hawaii of a poll tax of $5 before voters could be registered. Sale of Galloways. Kansas City, April 23.—The sale of the Galloway cattle at the stock yards did not come up to the expectations of the owners. The cattle were the property of the Brookside Farm Company, and were the best of their kind. Forty-four head were sold. This is the first sale of Galloways that has been held here for some time. Sixteen bulls brought $1,790, the average being $111.87; twenty-eight cows sold for $3,950, with an average of $141.07. The entire forty-four head sold for $5,740, with an average of $130.45. Travel to South Africa Restricted. London, April 23.—In consequence of Sir Alfred Milner's dispatch to Mr. Chamberlain urging a cessation in the stream of tourist travel to South Africa, the various tourist companies have withdrawn their prospectuses of trips to the South African battlefields. The Dally News says: "On the urgent request of Lord Wolseley, implicit instructions have been issued by the government for the restriction of travel to the South African ports." A Suggestion From Russia. St. Petersburg, April 23.—In discussing American-Turkish affairs, the Novoze Vremya says: "The Porte could easily avoid undesirable reprisals by asking for the friendly mediation of neighboring European states. In the present international controversy, friendly intervention is possible upon the basis of the Hague convention, and such intervention would undoubtedly both serve the cause of peace and save Turkey from troublesome complications." A Large Majority Cuban Born---- 140,000 Native Voters. FIRST ELECTION ON JUNE 16. Washington, April 21.—Gen. Wood cables: "Census returns and electoral law published. Election June 16." The figures of the Cuban census are instructive and, in the opinion of the war department officials, fully justify the decision of the administration to allow municipal suffrage in Cuba at this early stage. The officials are satisfied to find that the native Cubans constitute so large a portion of the population; that the whites so greatly outnumber the blacks; and that so large a portion of the native population can read an write. The total population of Cuba is 1,572,797, including 851,205 males and 757,592 females. There are 447,356 white males and 462,926 white females of native birth. The foreign whites number 115,760 males and 24,151 females. There are 11,895 male negroes and 122,740 female negroes. The mixed races number 125,500 males and 145,305 females. There are 14,694 male and 163 female Chinese. The population of Havana city is 325,981, and of the province of Havana 424,804. Of the total population, according to citizenship, 20,487 are Spanish; 1,296,-367 are Cubans; 175,811 are in suspense; 79,526 are of other citizenship; and 616 are unknown. The Spanish number 129,240. Of the total population 443,-426 can read and write and 19,158 have a superior education. There will be least 140,000 qualified Cuban voters under the proposed basis of suffrage. The comparison shows a much greater preponderance of Cuban voters than was expected. There are 187,826 white adult males who were born in Cuba, as against 96,083 born in Spain; 6,794 born in other countries and 127,300 colored. Only 15 per cent of the adults were married. Nearly nine-tenths of the inhabitants were born in Cuba. Nine-tenths of the children less than 10 years of age do not attend school and 43 per cent above 10 years are literate. The Fool and his Money. Boston, April 23.—Twelve sacks of mail addressed to Francis Truth, the divine healer, who was arrested recently charged with fraud, have been impounded by the United States government under the usual "fraud order." Many of the thousands of letters contained in the twelve mail sacks carry money for "absent treatment." Truth's usual charge was $5 for absent treatment, so that necessarily the amount of money contained in the letters is very large. The twelve sacks of mail will be opened by the postal authorities. The letters which bear names and addresses on the envelopes will be returned to the writers. The other letters will be sent to the "dead letter" office at Washington to be opened. What money is contained in these letters will be returned with the letters to the writers. Let Turkey Remember Spain. London, April 20.—The Vienna correspondent of the Times says: "By further resistance to claims of the United States the sultan will expose himself to grave consequences which he probably had not forseen. The United States government is not accustomed to indulge in empty threats. If the Sultan for a moment supposes that he would find protection from any European power, let him remember Spaín." Boer Recruits From America. Washington, April 23.—Major G. A. Armes, the retired cavalry officer who is well known in Washington, said he had sent to South Africa nearly 23,000 men who will join the Boer forces. Most of these men come from this country, but there is a large force from Canada, and fully 700 men have enlisted from Germany. The men were sent to their destination secretly, some of them on the regular steamers and others by other means. The fund was raised in New York. Indian Supplies Bids. Washington, April 23.—Commissioner of Indian Affairs Jones has gone to Chicago to superintend the annual opening of bids for supplies for the Indian bureau during the ensuing year. He will remain in Chicago several weeks and then go to New York, where similar work will begin May 15. Bids will be opened at San Francisco June 19. The supplies for which bids are to be submitted consist of machinery, food, clothing, etc., for Indians. A Million Dollar Electric Plant. Chicago, April 23.—Electricity sup planted steam in the operation of the packing house of Armour and Company at the Union stock yards. The new plant, which cost something more than $1,000,000, constitutes the largest electrical power-giving machinery ever put into service. Ice machines, refrigerators and motors, supplying power to all hoisting contrivances, meat trolley lines, machine shops and the like are included in the service to be rendered by the new apparatus. TIMELY DISCOURSE ON RELIGIOUS DOCTRINES. He Would Free Humanity From the Graveolesthes of Old Ecclesiastical Dogmas — Faith in Christ the Test of True Christianity. [Copyright, 1800, by Louis Klopsch.] Text is John xi, 44: "Loose him and let him go." My Bible is at the place of this text written all over with lead pencil marks made at Bethany on the ruins of the house of Mary and Martha and Lazarus. We dismounted from our horses on the way up from Jordan to the Dead sea. Bethany was the summer evening retreat of Jesus. After spending the day in the hot city of Jerusalem he would come out there almost every evening to the house of his three friends. I think the occupants of that house were orphans, for the father and mother are not mentioned. But the son and two daughters must have inherited property, for it must have been, judging from what I saw of the foundations and the size of the rooms, an opulent home. Lazarus, the brother, was now at the head of the household, and his sisters depended on him and were proud of him, for he was very popular, and everybody liked him, and these girls were splendid girls—Martha a first rate housekeeper and Mary a spirituelle, somewhat dreamy, but affectionate and as good a girl as could be found in all Palestine. But one day Lazarus got sick. The sisters were in consternation. Father gone, and mother gone, they feel very nervous lest they lose their brother also. Disease did its quick work. How the girls hung over his pillow! Not much sleep about that house—no sleep at all. From the characteristics otherwise developed, I judge that Martha prepared the medicines and made tempting dishes of food for the poor appetite of the sufferer, but Mary prayed and sobbed. Worse and worse gets Lazarus until the doctor announces that he can do no more. The shriek that went up from that household when the last breath had been drawn and the two sisters were being led by sympathizers into the adjoining room all those of us can imagine who have had our own hearts broken. But why was not Jesus there as he so often had been? Far away in the country districts, preaching, healing other sick, how unfortunate that this omnipotent Doctor had not been at that domestic crisis in Bethany. When at last Jesus arrived in Bethany, Lazarus had been buried four days and dissolution had taken place. In that climate the breathless body disintegrates more rapidly than in ours. If, immediately after decease, the body had been awakened into life, unbelievers might have said he was only in a comatose state or in a sort of trance and by some vigorous manipulation or powerful stimulant vitality had been renewed. No! Four days dead. The Sepulcher of Christ. The Sepulcher of Christ. At the door of the sepulcher is a crowd of people, but the three most memorable are Jesus, who was the family friend, and the two bereft sisters. We went into the traditional tomb one December day, and it is deep down and dark, and with torches we explored it. We found it all quiet that afternoon of our visit, but the day spoken of in the Bible there was present an excited multitude. I wonder what Jesus will do? He orders the door of the grave removed, and then he begins to descend the steps, Mary and Martha close after him, and the crowd after them. Deeper down into the shadows and deeper! The hot tears of Jesus roll over his cheeks and splash upon the back of his hands. Were ever so many sorrows compressed into so small a space as in that group pressing on down after Christ, all the time bemoaning that he had not come before? Now all the whispering and all the crying and all the sounds of shuffling feet are stopped. It is the silence of expectancy. Death had conquered, but now the vanquiser of death confronted the scene. Amid the awful hush of the tomb, the familiar name which Christ had often had upon his lips in the hospitalities of the village home came back to his tongue, and with a pathos and an almightiness of which the resurrection of the last day shall only be an echo he cries, "Lazarus, come forth!" The eyes of the slumberer open, and he rises and comes to the foot of the steps and with great difficulty begins to ascend, for the creemers of the tomb are yet on him, and his feet are fast and his hands are fast and the impediments to all his movements are so great that Jesus commands: "Take off these creemers! Remove these hindrances! Unfasten these graveclothes! Loose him, and let him go!" Oh. I am so glad that after the Lord raised Lazarus he went on and commanded the loosening of the cords that bound his feet so that he could walk and the breaking off of the cerement that bound his hands so that he could stretch out his arms in salutation and the tearing off of the bandage from around his jaws so that he could speak. What would resurrected life have been to Lazarus if he had not been freed from all those cripplements of his body? I am glad that Christ commanded his complete emancipation, saying, "Loose him, and let him go." Only Half Liberated. The unfortunate thing now is that so many Christians are only half liberated. They have been raised from the death and burial of sin into spiritual life but they yet have the graveclothes on them. They are, like Lazarus, hobbling up the stairs of the tomb bound hand and foot, and the object of this sermon is to help free their body and free their souls, and I shall try to obey the Master's command that comes to me and comes to every minister of religion. "Loose him, and let him go!" Many are bound hand and foot by religious creeds. Let no man misinterpret me as antagonizing creeds. I have eight or ten of them—a creed about religion, a creed about art, a creed about social life, a creed about government, and so on. A creed is something that a man believes, whether it be written or unwritten. The Presbyterian church is now agitated about its creed. Some good men in it are for keeping it because it was framed from the belief of John Calvin. Other good men in it want revision. I am with neither party. Instead of revision I want substitution. I was sorry to have the question disturbed at all. The creed did not hinder us from offering the pardon and the comfort of the gospel to all men, and the Westminster Confession has not interfered with me one minute. But now that the electric lights have been turned on the imperfections of that creed—and imperfect—let us put the old creed respectfully aside and get a brand new one. It is impossible that people who lived hundreds of years ago should fashion an appropriate creed for our times. John Calvin was a great and good man, but he died 336 years ago. The best centuries of Bible study have come since then, and explorers have done their work, and you might as well have the world go back and stick to what Robert Fulton knew about steamboats and reject the subsequent improvements in navigation, and go back to John Gutenberg, the inventor of the art of printing, and reject all modern newspaper presses, and go back to the time when telegraphy was the elevating of signals or the burning of bonfires on the hilltops and reject the magnetic wire which is the tongue of nations as to ignore all the exegetes and the philologists and the theologians of the last 336 years and put your head under the sleeve of the gown of a sixteenth century doctor. I could call the names of twenty living Presbyterian ministers of religion who could make a better creed than John Calvin. The nineteenth century ought not to be called to sit at the feet of the sixteenth. Change in Conditions. "But," you say, "it is the same old Bible, and John Calvin had that as well as the present student of the Scriptures." Yes; so it is the same old sun in the heavens, but in our time it has gone to making daguerreotypes and photographs. It is the same old water; but in our century it has gone to running steam engines. It is the same old electricity; but in our time it has become a lightning footed errand boy. So it is the old Bible, but new applications, new uses, new interpretations. You must remember that during the last 300 years words have changed their meaning, and some of them now mean more and some less. I do not think that John Calvin believed, as some say he did, in the damnation of infants, although some of the recent hot disputes would seem to imply that there is such a thing as the damnation of infants. A man who believes in the damnation of infants himself deserves to lose heaven. I do not think any good man could admit such a possibility. What Christ will do with all the babies in the next world I conclude from what he did with the babies in Palestine when he hugged them and kissed them. When some of you grown people go out of this world, your doubtful destiny will be an embarrassment to ministers officiating at your obsequies, who will have to be cautious so as not to hurt surviving friends. But when the darling children go there are no "ifs" or "buts" or guesses. We must remember that good John Calvin was a logician and a metaphysician, and by the proclivities of his nature put some things in an unfortunate way. Logic has its use and metaphysics has its use, but they are not good at making creeds. A gardener hands you a blooming rose, dewy, fresh, but a severe botanist comes to you with a rose and says, "I will show you the structure of this rose," and he proceeds to take it apart and pulls off the leaves and he says, "There are the petals," and he takes out the anthers, and he says, "Just look at the wonderful structure of these floral pillars!" and then he cuts the stem to show you the juices of the plant. So logic or metaphysics takes the aromatic rose of the Christian religion and says, "I will just show you how this rose of religion was fashioned," and it pulls off of it a piece and says, "That is the human will," and another piece and says, "This is God's will," and another piece and says, "This is sovereignity," and another piece and says, "This is free agency," this is this, and that is that. And while I stand looking at the fragments of the rose pulled apart, one whom the Marys took for a gardener comes in and presents me with a crimson rose, red as blood, and says, "Inhale the sweetness of this; wear it on your heart, and wear it forever." I must confess that I prefer the rose in full bloom to the rose pulled apart. Ours Not the Only World. Backed up by the teachings of your Bible, just look through the telescope some bright night and see how many worlds there are and reflect that all you have seer compared with the number of w existence, are less than the fingers of your right hand as compared with all the fingers of the human race. How foolish, then, for us to think that ours is the only world fit for us to stay in. I think that all the stars are inhabited and by beings like the human race in feelings and sentiments, and the differences in lung respiration and heart beat and physical conformation, their physical conformation fit for the climate of their world and our physical conformation fit for the climate of our world. So we shall feel at home in any of the stellar neighborhoods, our physical limitations having ceased. One of our first realizations in getting out of this world, I think, will be that in this world we were very much pent up and had cramped apartments and were kept on the limits. The most even of our small world, is water, and the water says to the human race: "Don't come here or you will drown." A few thousand feet up the atmosphere is uninhabitable, and the atmosphere says to the human race. "Don't come up here or you cannot breathe." A few miles down the earth is a furnace of fire, and the fire says, "Don't come here or you will burn." The caverns of the mountains are full of poisonous gases, and the gases say, "Don't come here or you will be asphxiated." And, crossing a track, you must look out or you will be crushed. And, standing by a steam boiler, you must look out or you will be blown up. And pneumonias and pleurisies and consumptions and apoplexies go across this earth in flocks, in droves, in herds, and it is a world of equinoxes and cyclones and graves. Yet we are under the delusion that it is the only place fit to stay in. We want to stick to the wet plank in midocean while the great ship, the City of God, of the Celestial line, goes sailing past and would gladly take us up in a lifeboat. My Christian friends, let me tear off your despondencies and frights about dissolution. My Lord commands me regarding you, saying, "Loose him, and let him go!" Getting Into the Light "But, you say, "I fear to go because the future is so full of mystery." Well, I will tell you how to treat the mysteries. The mysteries have ceased bothering me, for I do as the judges of your courts often do. They hear all the arguments in the case and they say, "I will take these papers and give you my decision next week." So I have heard all the arguments in regard to the next world, and some things are uncertain and full of mystery, and so I fold up the papers and reserve until the next world my decision about them. I can there study all the mysteries to better advantage, for the light will be better and my faculties stronger, and I will ask the Christian philosophers, who have had all the advantages of heaven for centuries, to help me, and I may be permitted myself humbly to ask the Lord, and I think there will be only one mystery left; that will be how one so unworthy as myself got into such an enraptured place. Come up out of the epulchral shadows. If you are not Christians by faith in Christ, come up into the light; and if you are already like Lazarus, reanimated, but still have your grave clothes on, get rid of them. The command is, "Loose him, and let him go." The only part of the journey I made years ago to Palestine that I really dreaded was the landing at Joppa. That is the port of entrance for the Holy Land, and there are many rocks and in rough weather people cannot land at all. The boats taking the people from the steamer to the docks must run between reefs that looked to me to be about 50 feet apart, and one mistroke of an oarsman or an unexpected wave has sometimes been fatal and hundreds have perished along those reefs. Besides that, as we left Port Said the evening before, an old traveler said: "The wind is just right to give you a rough landing at Joppa; indeed I think you will not be able to land at all." The fact was that when our Mediterranean steamer dropped anchor near Joppa and we put out for shore in the small boat, the water was as still as though it had been sound asleep a hundred years, and we landed as easily as I entered this pulpit. Well, your fears have pictured for you an appalling arrival at the end of your voyage of life, and they say that the seas will run high and that the breakers will swallow you up, or that if you reach Canaan at all, it will be a very rough landing. The very opposite will be true if you have the eternal God for your portion. Your disembarkation for the promised land will be as smooth as was ours at Palestine. Christ will meet you far out at sea and pilot you into complete safety, and you will land with a hosanna on one side of you and a hallelujah on the other. "Land ahead!" Its fruits are waving O'er the hill of fadeless green And the living waters laving Shores where heavenly forms are seen. Rocks and storms I'll fear no more When on that eternal shore. America Leads the World. The United States is now the world's greatest producer and exporter of meats, which form one of the most important features of the export trade. In 1887 the total exportation of provisions and live animals was $102,774,910, and in 1899 their total value was $207,105,637, having thus doubled meantime, and forming in 1899 17.2 per cent of the total exports of that year. THE STATE LEDGER. It is pleasant to know that the United States government has made "Woodman, spare that tree" practically an act of Congress for the protection of the giant trees of California. More than one speech during the present session of Congress has had in it the special ingredients of the force of eloquence which Emerson thus summarized: Clear perceptions; memory; power of statement; logic; imagination, or the skill to clothe your thought in natural images; passion; which is the heat; and then a grand will, which, when legitimate and abiding, we call character, the height of manhood. Steel rails weighing eighty pounds to the yard were first used upon railroads in this country in 1883. Since that time steel has practically superseded iron as a track-building material, and the weight of the rails has tended constantly to increase. Now one of the great trunk lines is experimenting with nickel steel, which is even more expensive than steel, but which will undoubtedly come into general use if the claims made for it are justified. The house committee on interstate and foreign commerce and the senate committee on naval affairs have reached different conclusions on the subject of a Pacific cable. The house committee has voted to report a bill for the construction of a cable by a private company from San Francisco to Hawaii, the Philippines and Japan, under a pledge that the government shall pay the company not more than $300,000 a year for twenty years for carrying its messages. The minority of the house committee is in favor of government construction of the cable, and the senate committee has voted to report a bill for government construction of a cable, but to extend to Hawaii only. Diplomatic intercourse does much to inform one-half of the world how the other half lives. Just now the gay society of our national capital is learning from the rules which hedge about the wife of the Turkish minister, who has recently come to Washington, something about the position of woman in Moslem lands. As a faithful Mohammedan, the minister's wife is not allowed to see men, except as she may glance out at them on the street from her closed carriage. She may receive from ladies calls, some of which she will perhaps return when assured that she can do so without encountering any of the men of the household. Her husband has even inquired if she might not be taken through some of the great government buildings on Sunday, when they would be deserted by their regular visitors. The March report of the statistician of the department of agriculture shows the amount of wheat remaining in farmers' hands on March 1 to have been about 158,700,000 bushels, or 29 per cent of last year's crop, as compared with 198,000,000 bushels, or 29.3 per cent of the crop of 1898, on hand on March 1, 1899. The corn in farmers' hands is estimated at 773,700,000 bushels, or 37.2 per cent of last year's crop, against 800,500,000 bushels, or 41.6 per cent of the crop of 1898, on hand on March 1, 1899. The proportion of the total crop of last year shipped out of the country where grown is estimated at 16.8 per cent, or about 348,000,000 bushels. The proportion of the total crop of last year that was of merchantable standard is estimated at 86.9 per cent. Of oats there are reported to be about 290,900,000 bushels, or 36.5 per cent of last year's crop, still in farmers' hands, as compared with 283,000,000 bushels, or 38.7 per cent of the crop of 1898, on hand March 1, 1899. A young freshman, while waiting one day last autumn for a room to be assigned to her in a college dormitory, picked up an old newspaper and read in it an editorial upon escape from burning buildings. The suggestion was there made that by once thinking out a plan of action for an emergency, the action itself would become somewhat mechanical. The girl laughingly said to herself that an opera cloak would be a good thing to have near in case of fire by night. When she unpacked her trunk her warm evening cloak was given a hook near the closet door. She decided also that her night slippers might reasonably be kept under the bed. A few weeks ago, on a bitterly cold night, that very dormitory burned to the ground. The young girl aroused from sound sleep by the alarm, had only time to seize her cloak and slippers and flee for her life. Not another of her belongings was saved. Having to run some distance for shelter, the wraps saved the girl from an exposure which on such a night might have been fatal. Recent anti-foreign demonstrations in China have prompted Secretary Long to order a gunboat sent to Chinese waters for the protection of American missionaries. A Chinese secret society, bearing the curious name of "The Boxers," has been active in fomenting these demonstrations, and the anti-reform attitude of the empress dowager adds to the dangers of the situation. The province in which the disturbances have occurred is partly under German jurisdiction, and the German authorities will co-operate in protecting the missionaries. THE BIGGER QUESTION GRAVE ISSUE INVOLVED IN THE PUERTO RICAN PROBLEM. It Is Whether Our Newly Acquired Possessions Are or Are Not Already Integral Parts of the Republic—Republicans Are Right. "Keep the real issue in sight, and let the president and the party be judged by that," is the wise conclusion of a very able article in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer on the Puerto Rican question. Obviously this excellent editorial treatment of a much discussed subject is the product of some knowledge and some thinking. Unfortunately the same cannot be said of a vast volume of matter that has found its way into print relative to the Puerto Rican topic. No writer has stated the issue more clearly or more intelligently than it is stated by the Post-Intelligencer thus: "It is not a question whether we ought to impose a duty of 25 per cent or one of 15 per cent or none at all upon commerce between that island and the United States. It is whether this government has constitutional power to levy such a tax under any circumstances; whether Puerto Rico is territory to be governed as all other territory added has been, by the disposition of congress, or whether its people, acquired by the treaty of Paris, constitutional rights within the United States that compel recognition by us and leave us no choice but to acknowledge the new possessions as an integral part of the nation under the constitution, and finally to admit them as states." Rightly the Post-Intelligencer insists that the contest is not waged on the question whether Puerto Rican trade should be free or untaxed. The opposition to the pending bill is based upon no such consideration. It cares nothing about the question either of tariff or revenue. Engineered by clever free-trade and anti-imperialist strategists, the movement, intended solely to "put the administration in a hole," has secured the adhesion of a considerable number of Republicans who seem to be unable to discover the use that is being made of them. They are apparently blind to the fact, so clearly pointed out by the Post-Intelligencer, that— "The constitutional question is the real bone of contention. The Republican party cannot abandon its position upon that without reversing all our precedents and destroying the practical possibility of building up a mighty commerce in the far east by exchanging for the open door in the Philippines the open door in the vast portion of Asia under European control. "We believe that those who have differed honestly from the party's policy in this particular will agree with it when they come to see what is involved; and how cunningly the advocates of retirement from the Philippines have sought to make that necessary by a pretended fight over the Puerto Rican tariff." If only the army of dissenters from the policy of the Republican administration and the Republican party could once grasp the idea that a much bigger and more pretentious question than that of 25 per cent, 15 per cent, or no tariff at all is involved in the Puero-Rican proposition, it would mightily help to clear up the situation. MUST STAND BY PROTECTION. Wanted, a Ringing Declaration in Favor of the American Policy. A danger signal which may well be heeded by thoughtful Republicans, in contemplating the approaching presidential campaign, is the unfaithfulness of many Republicans to the protective principle. There are many Republican papers and not a few prominent men who seem to seize every opportunity to discredit the policy which has carried the party to victory in the past and which lifted the country out of the slough of despond of business depression as the result of the Republican triumphs of 1894 and 1896. "Speak well of the bridge that carries you safe over," saith the old adage; but the Republicans to whom we refer, while, as a rule, supporting the tariff plank of the Republican platform in national elections, do and say everything in their power between times to undermine protection to American industries. How eagerly, for instance, they seize upon the complaints against the trusts to demand the abolition of the tariff upon trust manufactured goods—overlooking the fact that there are trusts in free trade England as well as in the United States. And then in the Puerto Rican discussion they have given unlimited aid and comfort to the political enemy demanding the defeat of the policy recommended by the vast majority of the Republican members of congress. If the Republican party deserves well of the country as a business party it is largely because of its consistent record upon the tariff. In showing a division of sentiment now upon that issue it is playing into the hands of the Democrats. If the Republican party is to cease to be a consistent protectionist party it will lose its hold upon the element which has heretofore given it its chief strength. It is time to draw the lines. The next Republican national convention must make a clear and ringing declaration upon the subject of protection to American industry, and those who cannot indorse the principle should cease to be active in the party's affairs. For every vote lost by such a declaration we believe two would be gained from men whose experience of the benefits of protection during the past three or four years has convinced them that it is the only policy upon which the general prosperity of this country can be maintained.-Minneapolis Tribune. A DIRECT RESULT. Why Wages Have Increased So Enormously in the United States. In the current news of the day occur two announcements of more than ordinary significance. In a dispatch from Charleston, S. C., of March 25, we are told that— "The York cotton mills of Yorkville, this state, yesterday announced that they would on next pay day chip 3 per cent from the annual dividend and add it to the wages of operatives. The wages of some of the employees had recently been increased 33 per cent. These were not included in the increase yesterday. President Ashe says: "We cannot help foresee that there must be an end of the present boom some day, and if we ever get back to the depression of a few years ago, just as we voluntarily increase wages now we will be compelled to reduce them then." On the same date the following statement is made in a telegram from Philadelphia: "In accordance with their notice posted shortly after Jan. 1, 1900, promising an advance to their employees, to take effect April 1, 1900, the BerwindWhite Coal Mining company today notified all their miners of a general average advance of 20 per cent. The miners are now placed upon a basis of 60 cents per gross ton, and all day labor increased accordingly. This advance will make the wages paid the highest during the past thirty years, and in some instances the highest that have ever existed by nearly 7 per cent." This is what is aimed at in the system of protection to American labor and industry—namely, that those who work for wages shall be the gainers through the profits accruing to their employers. As a direct result of the great prosperity which has come to the country since the election of William McKinley, and the consequent reinstatement of the thoroughly American policy of first taking good care of Americans and of regarding the fortunes of foreigners as a secondary consideration, wages and employment have increased enormously in the United States, and the general rate of wages is in nearly all lines of industry the highest ever known. THE RISING TIDE. FLOURISHING BUSINESS CHICAGO PLATFORM A Fatuous Policy. That something is needed for the rehabilitation of our merchant marine has been evident for a long time, and grows more alarmingly evident as our needs of commercial expansion become more pressing. In 1873-4 our merchant marine, though ridiculously small, represented a little more than 11 per cent of the steam tonnage of the seas; last year it represented a very little more than 4 per cent. In the same space of time the steam tonnage of Germany has risen from about 4 per cent to more than 8 per cent. Within the last century the steam tonnage of Europe has increased in these proportions: Norway, 1,410 per cent; Germany, 693; Italy, 395; Great Britain, 311; France, 200; Spain, 275; Russia, 430; Holland, 399. The increase of the steam tonnage of the United States in the same period has been but 65 per cent, though our increase of exports and imports has been phenomenal. The United States now pays more money for the transit of goods across the seas than any other nation, Great Britain alone excepted, and is pressing hard upon that country in the race for commercial supremacy. But we alone, of all trading countries, have been negligent of the obvious economy of paying our own countrymen for the shipment of our own goods. The fatuous policy should be reversed at once, and the bill under contemplation provides for its reversal.—Chicago Inter Ocean. The Folly of It. We can understand an American tariff, but neither we nor our lawmakers can predict the effect of the intricate system of individual treaties which, if ratified, would be a reversion to the commercial methods of the middle ages. The American policy has hitherto been the enactment of plain and uniform laws for the American people to which all doing business with us must conform. We have prospered under this system and it is utter folly to depart from it.—San Francisco Chronicle. One of the Essentials. The manufacturing jewelers of the United States are strongly for protection. This is amply proved by their protests against any lowering of protective rates on their goods. In fact, among nine-tenths of all practical Americans protection is considered one of the essentials of business prosperity. THE PRESIDENT IS RIGHT. Common-Jense View of the True Inwardness of the Puerto Rican Matter. The men who have rushed wildly into criticism of the administration and the Republican party because of the Puerto Rican tariff bill, including some Republicans who spoke before the facts were all within their knowledge, are commended to the expression of opinion by President McKinley. It is identical with the editorial view of the question taken by the Post-Intelligence, and is absolutely unassailable in principle and in fact. Mr. McKinley prefers, as the Post-Intelligencer prefers, entire free trade between the United States and Puerto Rico. He has not changed his mind on this subject nor have we. We do not regard the difference between free trade with our new possession and a duty of 15 per cent of the rates carried by the Dingley act as vital either way. It will make no great difference to us nor to the Puerto Ricans, except that it will put money into their treasury and none into ours. But free trade between us is the ideal condition. The party in the house was forced from this position by the radicals on the other side, re-enforced by a few of its own extremists. By the speeches of these men another issue than expediency was introduced. It was contended by them that Puerto Rico must have absolute free trade, not in fairness, but as a legal right. It was held to be the due of those people under the constitution; and acquiescence in this doctrine would have bound us for all time to come with reference to the Philippines as well as to Puerto Rico. It was impossible to ratify this theory. Yet the course of the debate and the attitude of the press were such that there was only a choice left between two extremes. Either we must impose some trifling duty, or we must announce that all territory acquired came within all of the provisions of the constitution as applied to the states of this union, reverse the policy and precedents of a century, and tie our hands in the important work that we have to do in the far east. This is the argument which constrains President McKinley, as it has constrained us, to agree to the imposition of a slight tax to vindicate a general principle rather than to hold free trade with Puerto Rico at the price of conceding the new false and fatal theory of the constitution which the Democratic party have bound up with it. It is still possible that the senate may find a way out of this choice between evils. It would seem practicable to amend the house bill by abolishing the duty, if there were incorporated in it a clause denying in the strongest terms any constitutional compulsion, and asserting the unimpaired right of congress to legislate at its will on all matters relating to new territory. Or, if this is not done, a decision of the Supreme court will settle the question presently, and the Puerto Rican tariff may be repealed without danger. As matters stand today, however, the president is right and he is consistent. We suggest that those Republican newspapers in the state of Washington that have complained of his course and the policy of the party before all the facts were clearly stated should study the subject anew in the light of his utterances and of the explanations that have appeared in our columns.—Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Fault-Finder and Growler The Democrats are giving themselves a great deal of unnecessary uncasiness over the alleged Republican differences as to a tariff for Puerto Rico. The Republican party thinks for itself, and usually to some purpose and with the result of settling fairly and satisfactorily the great questions with which it has to deal. When it gets through with Puerto Rico the people of that island will have no reason to complain. The Democratic party, which never yet enacted a piece of constructive legislation, is occupying the usual position of fault finder and growler in general, with not a practical idea to suggest.—Troy (N. Y.) Times. Howlling Bryanlte Free-Traders In 1896 Bryanites yowled and screeched that prices were too low, and that if Bryan were elected higher prices would most surely prevail. But if McKinley were elected the prices of everything would fall and business and the nation would be ruined. Yet now that prices are higher, but mostly because higher wages prevail and everybody can have work, the Bryanites are howling like wolves about high prices. Nothing on earth can ever satisfy Bryanite free traders except low prices of foreign goods for genteel idlers, with one or two million wage earners looking in vain for jobs while our codfish aristocracy can buy things awful cheap, and everything will be as nice as can be, don'tcher know? He Ducked. While speaking in New York the other night Mr. Bryan said: "A dollar that rises in purchasing power is just as dishonest as the dollar that falls in purchasing power. We want a stable dollar." A gruff voice in the back of the hall asked: "Well, how do you think you're going to get it?" Mr. Bryan failed to answer. He ducked. His gas bag was punctured. The admission that the silver dollar falls in purchasing power was fatal to Bryan's argument—Benton (Ill.) Republican. Senator Pettigrew Ashamed. Senator Pettigrew declares that he is ashamed that he was born in New England.—Providence News. And New England, by the way of reciprocity, is thoroughly ashamed that Pettigrew was born at all. WHAT TURKEY MIGHT DO Invaluable Treaties Exist Which Might be Broken. COULD MAKE TROUBLE IN SULU. Washington. April 23.—The Sultan of Turkey is the ablest diplomat now reigning and it is inconceivable that the Turkish minister has not warned his sovereign of the American attitude, after officially learning at the state department that the matter had not been magnified by the press, that the patience of the president and the people had been exhausted and that the prompt redemption of the Sultan's repeated promises might have to be peremptorily demanded. It is intimated by diplomats familiar with the situation that the sultan of Turkey does not care particularly whether an ultimatum is issued by the United States because of the neglect to pay the claim for $100,000 which the United States is now demanding, after years of promise, as he has means of reprisal at hand. There are in the Philippines more than 3,500,000 Mohammedans, in the Sulu Islands, whose devotion to their Calipha is fanatical. The sultan would have to but lift his finger and these Malays and Moros would join forces with the Tagalos. The war in Luzon would be extended in every direction throughout the islands and the American forces would necessarily have to be greatly increased. More then that, a break would give the sultan a long desired chance to break certain treaties between the United States and the Ottoman empire. One of these, concluded shortly after Commodore Decatur punished the Tripolitan pirates, guarantees that any American accused of a crime or misdemeanor within the Turkish empire shall be tried only by a United States consular court and be punished only according to American laws. This is a privilege not granted to the subjects of any other power, and its advantages are of peculiar importance to the missionaries in Turkey. To Retire Puerto Rican Coln. Washington, April 21.—The treasury department has completed arrangements for the retirement of Puerto Rican money and the substitution of American currency. The work is to be done under the Puerto Rican bill recently passed by congress, which provides for the retirement of the Puerto Rican peso and all other money on the island and the exchange therefor of American money. It is estimated that there are 10,000,000 pieces of silver and other metallic currency in the island and now in circulation. These are worth $5,000,000 pesos. Congress has decided that the exchange shall be made on the basis of 60 cents for the pesos. About $3,000,-000 of American money will therefore be required to take up all the minor money in Puerto Rico. The money which they will use in making the exchange will be taken to Puerto Rico in an army transport and the Puerto Rican money will be brought back here as it is taken up, and recoined. Attacked While at Work. Chicago, Ill., April 19.—A band of strikers, led by men who claimed to represent the carpenters' union, attacked a force of non-union workmen on Madison street, in full view of hundreds of pedestrians. Six non-union carpenters were driven from the building and two of them. Peter Broillard and an unknown man, were seriously injured. The strikers were not interfered with by the police or passersby. Waterspout in Illinois. Peoria, Ill., April 19.—A waterspout near Rock Island washed out the tracks of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific. the Rock Island & Peoria and the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy. The Rock Island and Peoria passenger out of Peoria had a narrow escape from wreck between Coal Valley and Milan, where the track was washed out for 400 feet. Accepted Resolutions Houston, Tex., April 20.—The resolutions committee of the trans-Mississippi commercial congress had over 100 resolutions before them. All that represented special interests were turned down. At the first meeting of the committee resolutions were favorably reported upon as follows: On development of trained consular service; relating to the admission of existing territories as states; relating to pure food; favoring the establishment of the national department of mines and mining; favoring the establishment of a department of commerce and industry. Thinks Turkey Will Pay. London, April 23.—The Times says: "Disputes with a single power, which knows what it wants and is determined to get it, always give the Porte far greater concern than matters which have to be arranged by collective action. It is just possible, for the sake of Oriental notions of dignity, that hint of force may be needed, but the money will be forthcoming. In any case, the United States will have the entire sympathy of England in energetically prosecuting a just demand." Indian Schools May Manufacture Cream Supplies. Washington, April 23.—The ferees on the Indian appropriation have reached an agreement on an amount of more than local interest relation the practical application of Indian industrial education at such school the Haskell institute, Carlisle. The item was put on in the senator motion of Senator Kyle and read follows: The secretary of the interior is when practicable, arrange for manufacture by Indians upon the recessions or at industrial schools of the clothing, leather, harness and wear and such other articles as the secret of the interior may deem advisable and the sum of $103,000 is appropriate to enable the secretary of the interior to carry this provision into effect. The substance of this paragraph always been in the Indian apportion bill, but this is the first time an appropriation has been recommended to carry out the policy of allow the Indians to manufacture and purchased by the government Indian reservations. The object give the policy a thorough trial, to utilize the industrial education the Indians for a practical purpose Agent Pollock Resigns Agent Pollock Resigns. Washington, April 21.—William Pollock, agent of the Osage Indians Oklahoma, has tendered his resignation and will retire from his position on May 1. This ends a long pen fight upon Pollock, which invoices charges of all kinds and an investigation. The Indians complained to many acres of grazing lands leased for which no account wasdered. The investigation failed show any evidence of corruption, tended strongly to confirm the claim of incompetency. It is unders that O. A. Jitscher, of Oklahoma O had been determined on as Pollock successor. Floods in the South Jackson, Miss., April 20.—Dispatches from several sections of this state indicate that the three days' flood caused damage greatly in excess of first estimates, especially to grow crops. Many truck plantations still under water and will be almost completely destroyed unless the war soon recede. The Illinois Central again tied up by a freight train which tumbled off the track just below city. Ten More Indictments Frankfort, Ky., April 19.—Franklin county grand jury return indictments against ten perse charging them with complicity in murder of William Goebel. Beside the ten indicted three men are directly referred to as accessor though no indictments were report against them. They are Governor S. Taylor, Green Golden and Caph John Davis. Taylor's Indictment Reported. Frankfort, Ky., April 21.—It is persistently reported here that Governor Taylor has been indicted by the gajury and that the indictment was turned along with those against Cain Davis and Green Golden, but this indictment will not be given until Governor Taylor returns for Washington. Hard on Sheep Herds Denver, Col., April 23.—Reports received here from the grazing region indicate that heavy losses of livestock will result from the prolonged rain snow storms. State Senator Bar says that the losses of sheep in the cinity of Trinidad aggregate not to than 20,000 head. Prompt Act of Justice Hopkinsville, Ky., April 13. -Morgan Boone, colored, swaggered through excursion train cursing and branding a pistol. He broke a white man skull with a coupling pin. Boone shot and killed and his body thrown from the train. The passengers were panic stricken. Reclprocity With Triplada Reciprocity With Trinidad. Ottawa, Ont., April 18—The office correspondent which has reached it from Trinidad shows that the legislation there has rejected the offer Canada for reciprocal trade and added the convention with the United States by a vote of 13 to 5 in favor the United States. The reason of this is largely due to the nearness of unlimited market of the United States compared with the small business with Canada. The United States fers Trinidad a reduction of 12.3 cent on can sugar, asphalt, fresh fruit and vegetables, while in return Trinidad places some forty-one articles of the free list and makes reductions on other articles. 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"Last July my oldest daughter was taken sick, and I was on my feet, it seemed to me, night and day for weeks taking care of her. I had no other help than that which my husband gave me, and by the time daughter began to mend I was down sick myself. I was discouraged, and did not care much whether I lived or died. My husband got me a bottle of Ayer's Sarsaparilla, and its effects were magical. Two bottles of this medicine put me on my feet and made a well woman of me."—JANE M. BROWN, Bentonsport, Iowa, Jan. 10, 1900. NEW YORK CENTRAL TO EASTERN CITIES. (Effective April 29th, 1900.) v. ST. LOUIS.....8: 00 A. M. v. PEORIA.....7: 30 A. M. r. INDIANAPOLIS.....2: 25 P. M. r. CINCINNATI.....6: 00 P. M. r. COLUMBUS, O.....8: 10 P. M. r. CLEVELAND, O.....9: 55 P. M. r. NEW YORK.....2: 55 P. M. r. BOSTON.....4: 50 P. M. TO EASTERN CITIES. (Effective April 29th, 1900.) v. ST. LOUIS.....8: 00 A. M. v. PEORIA.....7: 30 A. M. r. INDIANAPOLIS.....2: 25 P. M. r. CINCINNATI.....6: 00 P. M. r. 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C.; Philadelphia, Pa.; New York city, N. Y.; Northampton, Mass.; San Francisco, Cal.-Meehan's Monthly A Remarkable Pear Tree. Charles J. Tinsley of Henrico county, Virginia, has a remarkable and most accommodating pear tree. This is the second year this tree has borne. A few days ago Mr. Tinsley gathered the fruit of his tree. He found then that it had produced a pear for each member of his family—thirteen in all—he and his wife and eleven children. The tree had remembered every one. This pear tree did not do little, sneaky ways, either. It bore not a pear that weighed less than a pound. The pear for the old man weighed 18 ounces and for the mother 17 ounces. How London Respects Soldiers. There are no novelties in table decorations just now, as no large dinner parties are being given during the war time. An elaborately decorated table would not be considered in good taste, and when friends are invited to dinner a few choice flowers in glass vases answer all practical purposes. But a number of flowers and foliage plants are to be seen in drawing-rooms and entrance halls, and wall decorations have never been more popular than at present. Invisible bamboo stands are used for the corners of rooms or halls, and the correct thing is to fill them with alternate branches of mimosa and mauve illac.—London Graphic. The Sultan's Wives and Wealth. It is said that if the sultan of Turkey were allowed to consult his own tastes he would only have one wife, instead of the 30 he now maintains in his harem. He dare not abolish the institution, for he knows that the day he saw the last of his royal harem would also see the last of his reign. Each occupant of the harem receives the title of princess, hence it is the ambition of every Turkish officer to get his daughter into it. She is given a large dower, a staff of ten servants and a coach and four. The maintenance of the harem costs the country about $15,000,000 yearly. The sultan is probably the richest man in Europe. 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Ancient Mines of Sinai History furnishes records of the working of the copper mines of Sinaf from about 5000 B. C. to 1200 B. C. These possessions brought on several bloody wars. The scepter of Pepl II of the sixth dynasty is preserved in the British museum. The entrance, the ruins of the furnace, the crucibles, the huts of the miners and some fragments of tools still exist. In the debris have been found remains of furnaces and crucibles, slag and cinders. A Six Weeks' Nap. About six weeks ago Pauline Fitzgerald of New Haven, Conn., went to sleep after having attended during the season 87 dances. She has not yet awakened. Miss Fitzgerald was a healthy young person, exceptionally fond of dancing and never missed a ball if she could help it. The sleeper has wasted somewhat during the six weeks of her trance, and physicians have forced a little liquid nourishment into her system. Except for this she has eaten nothing. It was thought possible that she might have been put to sleep by hypnosis. A hypnotist was called but he failed to awaken the young woman. Fighting Rams in India. In India the chief pastime of the natives is ram-fighting. The greatest possible care is taken in rearing and training the rams for fighting. When the horns first appear on the lamb they are pulled out. A second pair then grows, which are much larger and stronger than the first. As the ram grows older it is taught to buck. The trainer uses a shield, which is padded somewhat, so that the ram will not break its horns. Gradually the animal learns to take a long run before bucking and finally, when full grown, it is all that two men can do to hold the shield against its onslaughts. A remarkable thing about the animals is that the one which has been defeated will never face its conqueror again. Save the Labels and write for list of premiums we offer free for them. 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