Wisconsin Weekly Advocate

WISCONSIN WEEKLY ADVOCATE DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF THE NEGRO RACE Candidate for Mayor. VOLUME II. WADE H. R. Candidate Our old-time friend, Mr. Wade H. Richardson, has consented to run for the Republican nomination for mayor this spring. He is an ardent Republican, has belonged to no factions and his CREAM CITY NOTES. We call the attention of the subscribers and many friends of the Advocate to the cut of our headquarters, and advertisement of our work, published on the fourth page of this issue. * * * Mr. Edward Alexander, formerly of the Plankinton house, left for his old home, Louisville, Ky. He was agreeably surprised by receiving a very delicious basket of fruit from Mrs. Cora Robinson of Eighth street and Mrs. Lyons of 178 Sixth street, who did many kind acts for him to make him comfortable. He is much better. *** Before getting your spring suits we will advise you to call on the New York Tailoring Co., 322 Wells street. These gentlemen are kind and polite to everyone and have a large and choice selection of samples of imported and domestic woolens for spring and summer wear. They have all the latest novelties in silk and fancy woolen vestings. You can have a spring suit, overcoat or pants made to order cheaper than any place in the city. Workmanship and fit guaranteed. Pants from $3.50 up: suits from $14, overcoats from $16. They also make ladies' coats, capes and suits and all kinds of altering, cleaning, repairing, dyeing of ladies' and gents' clothes. ```markdown ``` Dr. Ferdinand C. Mock is a very learned physician, well versed in his profession, a thorough experience from practice—in fact, he is a real medical doctor and will give satisfaction. His office rooms are 8 and 9 Butler building. ☆ ☆ ☆ Mr. Wade H. Richardson of the Eighteenth ward is one of the Republican candidates for mayor. He is worthy of support and if the right steps are taken and justice is measured, Mr. Wade H. Richardson will no doubt be mayor. * * * Mrs. Dr. Miller of Oconomowoc, Wis. was in the city this week. She called on the Help and Hand mission and she decided to take two girls out to her home for help. Mrs. Dr. Miller is quite a graceful woman, full of pleasant smiles and good wishes. * * * The editor and staff had a very pleasant call from Mrs. S. A. Robinson of Milwaukee; Mrs. R. W. Wilkens, Mound City, Ill., and Miss Mattie Johnson of Chicago, Ill. * * * C. Rennecke & Co., 310 Third street, is a very attractive place. They deal in carpets, wall paper, window shades and oilcloth. This company is ready at all times to wait on anyone. They are polite and courteous, also dealing in very reasonable prices. D. J. Dalton, attorney and counselor at law, is a gentleman worthy of note. He is excellent at the bar and is doubtless one of the greatest lawyers in this state, and is out as candidate for county judge. *** The editor had the pleasure of calling on Mrs. Janvier Le Duc, sister of Mr. John C. Spencer, 488 Marshall street. She stated to me that her brother was hurt some months ago, but at present is very much better. He is now at Hot Springs, Ark. During the absence of Mr. Spencer we felt his loss very much, missing his cheering words which he so often speaks in our churches. *** Sam Wright Drug company, 600 Grand avenue, is one of the most popular drug stores in Milwaukee. Everything is arranged up to date, and a very stylish appearance is made. They have in their possession every drug and good article that completes a fine drug company. They deal in cut prices. * * * Rev. George Brown of Bloomington, Ill., is quite sick with lung fever. We regret very much to hear of his illness and wish him a speedy return of good health. * * * Mr. and Mrs. Sam Rice celebrated on last Tuesday evening their silver wedding. It was quite a nice affair. Best wishes to you both. 枣 枣 枣 Mr. and Mrs. Peoples had a very narrow escape from being burned out a few days ago. Her little girl was playing in the parlor and by using matches somehow set the lace curtains on fire, and before anyone could think the entire room was in a blaze. But it was promptly attended to by the fire department. Only slight damage. * * * The entertainment of historical living pictures which was given at the Pabst theater on last Saturday under the auspices of the Daughters of the American Revolution, was one of the grandest hits of the season. It was a success from start to finish. There was a matinee given at half-past 2 in the afternoon and a performance at night. The ladies that took part are Milwaukee's most beautiful and attractive set. Every picture was fine. It is not necessary to make mention of every picture, because whenever the Pabst theater doors are open it closes on something worthy of attention. \* \* \* The Wisconsin Telephone company is a wonderful thing. No trouble whatever to speak to each other. Just as soon as one goes to the phone they are politely waited on by central. A long-distance telephone can be gotten any time when asked for. The year of 1899 there were 7000 telephones and now there are 12,000. You can see at once that such men as Mr. John McLeod, C. B. Cottrill, D. E. Roberts, C. E. Nestor, E. J. Holmes are men of great minds, deep thoughts and great efforts. They deserve no little praise. This system is so fixed that anyone can have a phone in their house. --- There are lots of quiet work being done by the people of the Fourth ward to bring S. R. Banks out as our supervisor. He has many good qualities and is one of the leaders of his race. *** Mr. P. A. Hagenah of 425 State street are people worthy of praise and respect. They have a real nice store of staple and fancy groceries. Miss Lucy, the very intelligent and kind-hearted daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hagenah, is head clerk in the store. She is a perfect lady and it is a great pleasure to know her. Miss Mattie Johnson, a colored lady from Chicago, who is an agent for a prepared breakfast food, while being refused by most all of the other stores of Milwaukee, she was made welcome by these generous people to sell her goods. *** We sympathize with Mrs. Emma Elliott in her bereavement. A few days MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN, FEBRUARY 22, 1900. ago she lost her only sister and now we learn that she has lost her little niece. Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Hagenah of 425 State street have our deepest sympathy. Their little son, Otto Hagenah, is seriously ill; there is all hope of life gone. But we truly hope his dear life will be spared to much usefulness. A TRUE AMERICAN GIRL. Congressman Landis' Knightly Trib pto to Mien Helan Goud Congressman Charles B. Landis of Indiana was the guest of the New Haven Young Men's Republican club at the Lincoln day banquet. In his speech he referred to Miss Helen Gould of New York, who recently sent him a letter expressing appreciation of his efforts in behalf of American womanhood when he spoke against seating Congressman-elect Roberts of Utah. "Miss Gould I found to be an altogether different type of young woman from what I had pictured in my mind," he said. "Instead of the serious face that we are accustomed to conjure up when associated with the young woman with a mission, the young woman who feels and shows it that a stern line of duty is mapped out for her, I found a bright-faced, cheery, chatty girl of just such a type as you can find in the West. Miss Gould I found to be a young woman in no sense weighed down with the importance of things which she has taken upon herself. She bears herself with the manner of one who is simply doing that which is the natural thing for her to do. "She is a big-minded, big-hearted, well-informed, well-read American girl, who has the faculty of thinking the right thing and the disposition to do it. This is a type which this country produces in abundance and in which we take great pride. Why, if Miss Gould came to the little town of 3000 in which I live, she is just the kind of girl who would take part in a church fair or strawberry festival with the same interest that our own young women would. She is of the wholesome sort that it does anyone good to meet. She interested me every moment of the time I spent with her." My First Hair Cut. I watched my chance, and when no one noticed I disappeared, says Zitkala-Sa in the Atlantic. I crept up the stairs as quietly as I could in my squeaking shoes. Along the hall I passed without knowing whither I was going. Turning aside to an open door, I found a large room with three white beds in it. The windows were covered with dark green curtains, which made the room very dim. Thankful that no one was there, I directed my steps toward the corner farthermost from the door. On my hands and knees I crawled under the bed and cuddled myself in the dark corner. From my hiding place I peered out, shuddering with fear whenever I heard footsteps near by. Though in the hall loud voices were calling my name, and I knew that even Judewin was searching for me, I did not open my mouth to answer. Then the steps were quickened and the voices became excited. The sounds came nearer and nearer. Women and girls entered my room. I held my breath, and watched them open closet doors and peep behind large trunks. Some one threw up the curtains, and the room was filled with sudden light. What caused them to stoop and look under the bed I do not know. I remember being dragged out, though I resisted by kicking and scratching wildly about. In spite of myself I was carried downstairs and tied fast to a chair. I cried aloud, shaking my hand all the while until I felt the cold blades of the scissors against my neck and I heard them gnaw off one of my thick braids. Then I lost my spirit! Since the day I was taken from my mother I had suffered extreme indignities. People had stared at me. I had been tossed about in the air like a wooden puppet. And now my long hair was shingled like a coward's! The Innocence of Babes. There is a man in Washington, who is a shining light in one of the prominent churches, who nearly lost his reputation the other night all because of a child's innocent prattle, says the Star. He called upon a friend who is handsomely "fixed" as to this world's goods, and who has a tiny, golden-haired daughter of whom he is very fond. The friends adjourned to the smoking room for a chat and shortly afterward the daughter went to hunt them. She came down to her mother in the reception room a little later and found her entertaining callers. In a lull in the conversation the child volunteered the information that "papa and Mr. Blank were having lots of fun." "What are they doing, dear?" asked one of the callers idly. "Playing poker!" was the astounding answer. "Poker!" exclaimed the astonished mother; "why, Jennie, your father never played a game of poker in his life." "Well, mamma, they are in the room with the big green table, and papa pokes a little ball at Mr. Blank and he pokes it back again. Isn't that poker?" Reputations often hang on just such a slender thread. Opposed to Innovations For some time the younger members of the Quaker congregation in Plainfield, N. J., have wished to introduce steam heat, electric lights and other modern comforts in their meeting house, and recently brought the matter up in meeting. After an earnest debate on it the congregation decided to continue with the old-fashioned boxwood stove and oil lamps, as they have done since 1777. MANAGERS OF THE LOCAL REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN. (Photo by Klein & Guttenstein.) The Republican city and county campaign this spring will practically remain in the hands of the same men who managed it two years ago. The city end of the campaign will be looked after by the newly elected city chairman, Oscar H. Pierce, while A. W. Hill, the county chairman, will have charge of the details in the county. To a large extent both will work together, as their interests are identical. As Mr. Pierce is also secretary of the County committee, he will be equally posted on everything that is going on in KEEPING CUT FLOWERS. Floral Beauties Preserved Fresh for Five or Six Weeks. Here is a method by which flowers can be made to last and look well after they have been cut for six weeks, or even longer, placing them thus within the reach of even the poorest lover of flowers. Every night they should be taken out of the vases and the stalks should be thoroughly rinsed under a tap of running water, any decomposed matter being carefully removed with the fingers. Have ready a basin of strong soap-suds and place them in it for the night. Be careful that the water touches only the stalks, as it would fade the delicate blossoms. This supplies them with a certain amount of nourishment. Rinse the stalks the next morning in running water and as each bloom is ready to be placed in the vase of fresh water snip off the smallest possible portion of the stalk with a pair of sharp scissors; in arranging them be very careful to trim away any faded pieces. A few drops of sulphate of ammonia must then be put in each vase every alternate day, and will contain all the properties of good manure for keeping the blossoms alive. At night put the blossoms away in a cool, dark place; it is not good, either for the flowers or the household, that they should remain in the living room. To revive flowers, put them into warm salt water, to which has been added a few drops of sulphate of ammonia. To keep a spray of arranged flowers fresh, place them on damp cotton under a basin; this keeps the air always moist and preserves their freshness. It is especially good for maidenhair fern. England in Time of War It is far from an original saying that the English do not wear their hearts on their sleeves. In almost any other country than this I should say that the excitement over a war so novel, ominous and serious would be much fiercer than we find it here. I was in Paris, for example, two years ago last May, when the burning of the Charity bazaar in the Rue Jean Goujon caused such pathetic loss of life. The crowds on the boulevards and the wild clamor of hurrying newsboys would have betokened, to a freshly-arrived stranger with a neglected Ollendorf, that mobs were somewhere flinging up the most portentous barricades. And it all meant merely a local disaster, bitterly sorrowful, yet no more than one of those dire events which bereave the classes without threatening the masses, and which affect neither in any profound or drastic way. England's grief and anxiety are the emotions of a deep-feeling though self-repressed people. She is nationally so unimaginative that you often wonder at her romantic obeisance to royalty; for nowadays this feature can hardly be taken as a proof of her innate conservatism, since the sovereign power has been stripped of all its lordlier past prerogatives. And yet the Queen's manifest sympathy is almost everywhere a source of extreme popular delight. That she is venerable and much-respected has, of course, a great deal to do with the matter; but it has not all. Were the Prince of Wales king, his outflow of concern would appeal, as does hers, to the entire realm. This is one of the anomalies you find throughout a country whose spirit is essentially so republican. The war has not appreciably emptied London, so far as concerns its open streets. They seem populous as ever, and in the "city" portion of the vast metropolis carts, vans, buses, cabs, and all conceivable kinds of vehicles often move along with the same laborious and congested sloth. But where one misses the men is at clubs, the fashionable restaurants, and the drawing rooms of smart or less pretentious entertainments. The theaters, too, are suffering, and literary men and painters (who always, I fear me, have some sort of grievance to air) are frequently woe-begone about their sales. On the part of women there has been an enormous amount of silent heroism. Many mothers, wives and sweethearts have received severe shocks of late. Those, I mean, who thanked heaven that their sons, husbands and swains were safe at home. Then came the call for fresh troops, and from city shops as from country farms numberless offers have poured, till today the Imperial yeomany has the refusal of three times more men than it needs. Perhaps the rest, however, may be required hereafter, to fill up those blanks wrought by death's random yet unswerving scythe; and so they are retained as an attendant surplus. All of which means added anguish, though the amount of actual breakdown among the women is astonishingly small. Still, hearttrending cases do occur. Only a short time ago I heard of a poor young creature whose husband had left England in October last, and was shot in a recent battle. When the news reached her she took to her bed and soon afterward died. Her family and friends were all too impoverished to meet the expenses of her funeral, and these were defrayed by one of those numerous helpful institutions which I have already mentioned. Trained and competent nurses, on the other hand, give continuous proof of humanity and hardihood. They embark for that distant eastern coast with tears blurring the white chalk cliffs of their island birthplace, but they reach Cape Colony with brave smiles and braver hearts. A great and sweet benison has been shed over modern warfare in the shape of noble, firm-nerved, self-surrendering women; and no country more distinctly than England has shown itself richer in this impulse of tenderly-valiant volunteers.—Edgar Fawcett in Collier's Weekly. A Young Mother's Trials. The rock upon which many a young mother's judgment, and with it her baby's health and life, is wrecked is the overwhelming mass of advice she receives from relatives and friends, who would shrink back appalled if they realized the responsibility they assume and impose in making such contributions. This is a true story, and perhaps it is typical of many a sad little history. A certain young mother, before her first-born came, had mapped out a plan for raising him aright—a plan which included the schedule of his feeding hours during the first week of his existence; his school and college days; his manners and morals as a man; and even her ideal woman for his wife! After baby's advent it was not so easy to carry out even the first week's programme. Every two hours was often enough for the little man's refreshment, said the doctor and her schedule. Every two hours then, baby should be fed, declared the little mother firmly. His grandmother—paternal, as it happened, though the fact is unimportant—did not agree with her. "I have had ten children," she said, "and I never treated one of mine that way. It's cruel not to feed him when he cries." This, when baby was yelling lustily fifteen minutes after an overflowing feast. "Milk doesn't satisfy him. Give him something solid," another thoughtful mentor would add. His aunts would reinforce his grandmother; her own heart, tenderer to him than any other could possibly be, plead, too, to let baby have NUMBER 43. ICAN CAMPAIGN. H. Pierce, ity Chairman. the county as well as the city. The calls for the various conventions, preliminaries and caucuses are out, and all the minor details to be looked after prior to a campaign have been completed. Both chairmen are at headquarters in the Germania building every day. his own way. Still her great love held her firm. She would not have the light burning at night, although in her time of utter prostration he had been educated to cry for it. She would lie in the dark, patting him in his little crib beside her until he cried himself to sleep, while she, poor heart, was too distressed over his crying to quickly find sleep for herself. "You are as hard on him as if he were a big boy," they told her; and she began to wonder if she really were unkind to her baby, if she were wrong in her effort to raise him by rule. Not one of her advanced ideas met with approval from those around her; they fought her inch by inch, and used up her strength in argument and over questions not worth a moment of the energy they exhausted. They interfered a dozen times a day, corrupted his nurse by example, and robbed the mother of all feeling of security and ease—something of more value to her baby than any other thing could possibly be. She dared not trust him with anybody, tried to watch over him all the time, and to do everything for him herself and finally broke down. When July came the visible reminder of baby was a heap of flowers on a little mound.—Margaret E. Sangster in Collier's Weekly. Women's Most Winsome Age. Why do women hesitate to tell their age? By common consent it is regarded as very rude and boorish to ask a woman a categorical question regarding the number of her birthdays. Yet there should be no diffidence on the point, and reticence upon the subject is hard to explain. Except for some reason connected with business, which may find in accumulating years a handicap, a man is usually very open about his age, and as ready to proclaim it as his wife and his sister are to conceal theirs. Probably the feeling in the matter had its origin in the long ago, when matrimony was the ordinary woman's only desirable goal, and when, as she grew older, her chances of finding a mate diminished perceptibly. The situation has so entirely changed, and spinsterhood has become so inviting, that we should expect to discover an alteration in the manners of women on this point, and to find them quite candid as to their claims to maturity or the reverse. Fifty years today looks as forty did a score of years ago. Thirty, always a very winsome age, the age of woman's most captivating beauty, is not now to be distinguished in freshness and bloom from twenty-five. Outdoor life is doing for women what nothing else can do, making them beautiful, and keeping them young. Margaret E. Sangster in Collier's Weekly. Japan to Punish Young Smokers The Japanese Times of recent date says: "It is reported that a bill for prohibiting smoking by young people was presented at the House of Representatives by Mr. Nemoto and four others on Wednesday. The main purport of the bill is to the effect that juvenile smokers under 18 years of age shall be punished by a fine ranging in amount from 10 sen to 1 yen and the confiscation of pipes and fittings used by the offenders. The bill is said to have been drawn up on the model of similar enactments prevailing in Germany and the United States of America." Cardinal Gibbons on Sunday Work Cardinal Gibbons, in commenting upon the state of affairs in Baltimore has advised the authorities not to confound the Christian Sunday with the Puritan Sabbath. He says he would like to see such a law enforced as would contribute to public order and tranquillity and prevent all unnecessary servile work or manual labor on Sunday. LADYSMITH IS RELIEVED. QUEEN GIVES THE NEWS Cronje's Desperate Situation Near Bioemfontein Compelled Withdrawal of Joubert's Forces. London, Feb. 21. At a meeting of the town council of Windsor this morning, it was announced that news had reached Windsor castle that Ladysmith had been relieved. The announcement was received with immense enthusiasm and shouts of "Bravo. Buller!" The rumor of the relief of Ladysmith has again been current on the Berlin and London bourses. Though it is quite possible the report is true, there is no news corroborative of the rumor. It is reported that Gen. Hector MacDonald, commander of the Highland brigade, was severely wounded yesterday. The last news received about Gen. Macdonald and the Highlanders was that they were pursuing Gen. Cronie. 5:07 p. m.—The war office confirms the report that Gen. MacDonald has been severely wounded. London, Feb. 21.—The war office has received the following from Gen. Buller: Chieveley Camp, Feb. 21.—The Fifth division crossed the Tugela river today by pontoon and drove back the enemy's rear guard, our naval 12-pounder silencing all of the enemy's guns. London, Feb. 21.—A private telegram received here from Berlin this afternoon declares that Gen. Cronje is in a bad position, bearing out yesterday's Berlin rumer that Gen. Cronje was surrounded and that a time limit had been given him within which to capitulate. London, Feb. 21.—5:47 p. m.—The following dispatch has been received at the war office from Lord Roberts: Paardeberg, Tuesday, Feb. 20.—Between February 16 and February 18, Maj. Gen. Knox was wounded, Maj. Gen. Hector MacDonald severely wounded, and Lieut.-Col. Aldworth was killed. QUEEN GIVES THE NEWS. The Authorities at Pall Mall Are Generally Too Slow. London, Feb. 21.—The war office is unable to substantiate the reports of the relief of Ladysmith. But this does not prevent the public from believing the Queen has again forestalled the authorities at Pall Mall and preferred to communicate the glad news direct to the public through the mayor of Windsor, just as, yesterday, she dramatically announced, through Lord William Cecil, commander of a militia corps, the tidings of Gen. Buller's success, hours before the war office was able to relieve the impatient anxiety of the United Kingdom. Nevertheless, as the Queen's words are not actually quoted in today's announcement, official confirmation is eagerly awaited, especially as Gen. Buller's dispatch of yesterday is very generally regarded as foreshadowing a juncture of his and Gen. White's forces is expected some time. Public interest and anxiety, therefore, sway unceasingly and impatiently between Ladysmith and Bloemfontein. The practical relief of the former place is regarded as due more to Field Marshal Lord Roberts' brilliant strategy in drawing off the Boers than to Gen. Buller's numerous assaults, and news of the result of the battle between Gen. Kitchener and Gen. Cronje, reinforced by the forces thus drawn off from Ladysmith, is expected to almost synchronize with the announcement that Gen. Buller has reached his objective. The accomplishment of the latter event, however, is regarded with greater confidence than is the ability of Gen. Kitchener to thoroughly cripple Gen. Cronje, for the Boer general has proved himself so clever and daring in slipping through the British lines that, even if Lord Roberts quickly occupied Bloemfontein, there are many fears expressed that Gen Cronje might still preserve the effectiveness of his mobile force. The war office this afternoon announced that it has no news from other sources. There is yet nothing to throw light on the main issues. Regarding the military conditions the military critics in the afternoon papers express the keenest satisfaction at the phase of the campaign, as revealed by the latest news. THE TIDE OF WAR Indications that the British Now Have the Advantage. London, Feb. 21.—All the news from South Africa tends to indicate a complete reversal of the tide of war. There has been no heavy fighting, but the withdrawal of the Boers before the British advance in both the Western and Eastern campaigns has been so general and precipitate that it seems to be no longer possible to account for it by the supposition that the movements constitute a new and well-planned maneuver. The federal retirement now seems to be a compulsory retreat, which augurs ill for the whole Boer cause. Gen. Lord Roberts, by rapid march, has advanced unopposed more than a third of the way to Bloemfontein. Gen. Methuen has occupied Kimberley and restored railway communication between that place and Cape Town. Gen. French is still pursuing the enemy to the northeast. It is persistently reported that Gen. Kitchener has Commandant Cronje's army surrounded and practically at his mercy, but this report is not confirmed. Should this large federal force become prisoners, the whole Orange Free State would speedily fall under British control. Large numbers of Free State Boers are hurrying from the vicinity of Ladysmith to the defense of Bloemfontein, but Gen. Roberts' and Gen. Kitchener's movements are so rapid that it is doubtful if they can arrive in time to offer an effectual resistance. Buller's Important Advantage. The serious weakening of the Boer forces opposing Gen. Buller has already enabled the latter to take an important advantage, which he is sure to press to the fullest extent. Colenso has been abandoned by the enemy, almost without defense, and the whole Natal situation may be completely changed within a day or two. It is impossible to avoid the conclusion that the Boers both east and west have been seized by some sudden demoralization. This may be due to the disaffection of the Free State Boers, which has been persistently reported during the past two or three weeks. It must be remembered that there is a distinct difference in this respect between the Transvaal and Free State Boers, and that the collapse of the resistance of the Free State does not argue a change of purpose on the part of the South African republic. Nevertheless, no amount of courage or determination among the Transvaal burghers can prevent the inevitable end of the war once the conflict narrows to within the Transvaal borders. This point, however, has not yet been reached, and it would be entirely premature to assume that it is close at hand. The fate of Bloemfontein depends on the speed of Gen. Roberts' advance. He seems to fully realize this, and the present week will probably settle this feature. of the war. The whole crisis, indeed, hangs upon the events of the next few days, drawing attention to the fact that whether or not Lord Roberts succeeds in inflicting a decisive defeat, he has forced the Boers to release their grip on Ladysmith, Kimberley, Znluland and Lower Natal, though admitting that the siege of Mafeking may be made more severe by the arrival of a portion of the Boer force driven off from Kimberley, endeavoring to avenge itself on Col. Baden-Powell. Arundel dispatches dated Tuesday, February 20, show that the Boers, in force, made a determined attempt to invest Arundel, but were baffled by the smart maneuvering of the British mounted troops. Cecil Rhodes is expected to arrive in Cape Town February 24. The Boer Account. Pretoria, Tuesday, Feb. 20.—Official reports have been received as follows: reports have been received as follows: "Commandant Steyn says that Saturday, February 17, and Sunday, February 18, near Foodoosrand he fought the British who tried to encompass Gen. Cronje's langer and drove them off. They fought until late Sunday evening. The Boers had one man killed and one wounded and captured booty and twenty-one horses and mules. Gen. Dewet says that on Sunday afternoon he arrived before Parddesberg and Foodoosrand, in which direction there has been heavy firing since morning. He stormed several kopies, which the British vacated, leaving their dead and wounded and forty prisoners in the hands of the Boers, who captured the kopies. The Boer loss was two men killed and four wounded. The fight lasted until late in the evening. Report from Cropje. Pretoria, Monday, Feb. 19.—A portion of an official report from Gen. Cronje dated Sunday, February 18, has been given out as follows: "Yesterday morning about 6 o'clock, while removing the lager near Scholtznek, we were attacked by the British. The fight lasted until 7:30 in the evening. Although, on the whole, the British were driven back, they each time renewed the attack. The loss to the British must have been considerable. Thus far the Boer loss has been eight killed and twelve wounded. This morning the British shelled us with cannon. Chief Commandant Ferreieras' force was too small to stop the cavalry from entering Kimberley." London, Feb. 21.—A curious dispatch from Pretoria, dated Tuesday, February 20, announces that Commandant Ferreirs was killed February 19, adding that his death was believed to be the result of an accident. Living Underground. London, Feb. 21.—A dispatch to the Mail from Mafeking, dated Friday, February 9, says: "All business here is being conducted underground. The resident commissioner has sumptuous apartments in a subterranean 'bombproof.' The Cape police have a large hall with a piano. The Mafeking hotel dining room seats forty. All these have been dug out and are impervious to shells." Total British Losses 11,102. With the casualties just reported, the British losses in killed, wounded and captured now aggregate 11,102. Boer Women will Fight. Washington, D. C., Feb. 21.—The attention of Montague White, diplomatic representative of the Transvaal, was called to the statement of Mr. Stead that President Kruger Intended to fill the Boer trenches with women and shame the English armies, Mr. White is an Englishman by birth but he lived in South Africa most of his life, and is a citizen of the Transvaal. He read Mr. Stead's statement and smiled. "The English soldiers may find trenches occupied by Boer women if the war is carried into the Transvaal," said Mr. White, "but they will not be there by command of President Kruger, nor will they be there to shame English soldiers. They will be in the trenches to fight and defend their homes." British Are Attacked. Pen Hoek, Cape Colony, Feb. 19. Four hundred and fifty Boers, with one gun, attacked the British at sunrise, but were beaten off at all points. The Boers retired in the direction of Jamestown. Montmorency's scouts and 200 infantrymen, with two guns, have started for Looperberg. Only Feeble Opposition. London, Feb. 21.—The Morning Leader says: "The crossing of the Tugela river was scarcely opposed, but that is not to say that fierce resistance may not be looked for before the Onderbrook works are negotiated. "A high authority agreed yesterday with the opinion expressed in these columns that two-thirds of Gen. White's force will be available for active operations any time within a week. "We cannot see how an advance through North Natal can be made before Charleston and Van Reeenan's passes are secured. As for the question of Gen. Buller's invading the Transvaal, a practical difficulty exists. Our information is that his transport is utterly insufficient unless the Boers oblige him by fighting along the railway. "We look for one fight about Pieter's station and then the departure of the commandoes of Free Staters for Drakensburg and the Transvaalers for Majuba. "Nothing is doing in North Cape Colony, and the greater part of the Boers apparently have retired to fight in their own state. "Expectation sits in the gate to know the result of the chase after Gen. Cronie." Cronje Surrounded. Berlin evidently believes the report that Gen. Cronje is surrounded, as large German buying occurred on the stock exchange today. News has so often reached the continental capitals ahead of England it is possible these reports are true. The Windor report created momentary jubilation which was followed by a deluge of queries at all the official points in an endeavor to ascertain the truth. While the uncertainty was at its height, a detachment of yeomanry visited the Mansion house and crowds gathered on reports circulated in Fleet street that a bulletin announcing the relief of Lady-smith had been posted at the Mansion house an hour previous to the arrival of the yeomanry. In a few moments all traffic was almost blocked by the crowds and a large body of police gathered at the spot. But when it was learned that no bulletin had been issued the crowds dispersed. Dogs Gave the Alarm. Further details of the attack made by Col. Plumer's forces on the Boer position defended by a twelve-pounder, near Crocodile Pools, not far from Gaberones, show that as the British were struggling up the hill in the dark through a net of barbed wire, they alarmed the Boer watchdogs, who gave tongue. The Boers opened fire and the British charged, but the Boers exploded dynamite mines, doing much damage, and the British retreated. Seizure of American Goods. Lourenco Marques, Feb. 20.—United States Consul W. Stanley Hollis has sent a circular letter to merchants here stating that he is instructed to inquire into the recent seizures of merchandise from New York. He requests information as to the actual ownership of the goods, the reasons given for the seizure and other matters pertinent to the subject, and says that he is prepared to receive the sworn declarations of the parties interested. Shelled Women and Children. Shelled Women and Children. Lourenco Marques, Tuesday, Feb. 20. —The official reports from Col. Baden: Powell of the occurrences in Mafeking up to February 5, conclude as follows: "Gen. Snyman, in reply to a letter complaining of the deliberate shelling of the women's and children's laager, offered no excuse or apology, and by a transparent falsehood admits that he ordered the shelling. I have told him that I have now established temporary premises for Boer prisoners in the women's laager and hospital in order to protect them from deliberate shelling." Casualties at Modder. Toronto, Ont., Feb. 21.—A special cable to the Globe says the first Canadian contingent was engaged at Modder river all day Sunday and that eighteen men of the regiment were killed and sixty wounded. CORYDON MILLARD REACHES CHICAGO. First Stage of His Trip Around the World-Expects Instructions From the Lord. Chicago, Ill., Feb. 21.—[Special.]—A gray-haired old man, keen-eyed and erect, stood near the Rush street bridge this morning and looked around him doubtfully. Three dingy traveling bags were on the sidewalk where he had dropped them, because they were so heavy. A rainy wind from the lake whipped the skirts of his long coat about his legs and made nim gasp for breath. He waited there half an hour and as no one came to meet him he trudged off alone. The old man was Rev. Corydon Millard of Milwaukee. Mr. Millard had come down on the morning boat and the Rush street bridge was the end of the first stage in a missionary trip around the world. "This is the best period of the world's history," said the old missionary. "Now is the time to do good, and I feel that I am not too old to do my share. After a week in this big city I shall go south to Cuba to hold services among the soldiers and the natives. Then I shall go to the City of Mexico to work awhile. There I will get my instructions about the rest of my journey, for I never do anything until I get my orders from the Lord." SUES FOR $500,000; Damages Claimed by Inter Ocean for Loss of Associated Press Service. Chicago. Ill., Feb. 21.—The Inter Ocean Publishing company yesterday instituted suit for $500,000 in the circuit court of Cook county against the Associated press, the Chicago Herald company, H. H. Kohlsaat, the Chicago Daily News company and S. S. Rogers. The Inter Ocean charges the corporations and individuals named with conspiring to injure and destroy its business. The suit is the outgrowth of the trouble between the Inter Ocean and the Associated press, which culminated in the decision of the Illinois Supreme court granting to the Inter Ocean a perpetual injunction restraining the Associated press from expelling the Inter Ocean from its membership or from refusing to supply it with its press service. The trouble with the Associated press began when an arrangement was made with the New York Sun to furnish its news service to the Inter Ocean. The Sun, which had been the head of the old United press in its war with the Associated press, had been declared antagonistic by the Associated press. Upon complaint made by the Chicago Herald and Chicago Daily News, the Inter Ocean was given notice by Mr. Stone of the Associated press that a meeting of the executive committee would be held for the purpose of expelling the Inter Ocean from membership. It was at this point the Inter Ocean filed a bill asking for an injunction restraining the Associated press from expelling it from membership or cutting off its news service. On March 4 Judge Waterman made a decision on dismissing the bill for want of equity. At 12 o'clock the next night (Saturday) the Associated press discontinued its news service. Between that time, March 5, 1898, and the present, the Inter Ocean has been without the Associated press service. The increased expenses and inconvenience suffered by the Inter Ocean in consequence are made the basis of the present claim for damages. BIG LUMBER COMBINE. To Control the Entire Output of North Carolina. New York, Feb. 21.—An association of banking houses in New York and London is said to be interested in a new combination designed to control the entire lumber business of North Carolina. It is proposed to unite seven different companies which own about 4,000,000,000 feet of lumber and control about 600 miles of railroad. Their sawmill capacity is 1,500,000 feet a day and they have large planning mills and box factories. Woman Suffragists in a Big Row. New York, Feb. 21.—"Mrs. Catt means well and she is all right, but she is too young for the position to which she has been elected. She lacks the experience of Mrs. Blake, who has been working in our movement for over thirty years." This rather sensational statement was given out as the keynote of the quarrel that has developed in the ranks of the woman suffragists since the election of Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt as president. One of the most startling results of the quarrel is the report that there is to be a secession from the old organization and the formation of a new association, to be headed by Mrs. Lillie Devereaux Blake, who was Mrs. Catt's chief rival for the presidency at the Washington meeting. Mrs. Blake admits that a new plan is afoot, but naturally she is not as radical in her statements as some of her sisters. Behind all the trouble is found the name of Susan B. Anthony. It is gravely charged that this veteran aided and abetted the election of Mrs. Catt because the latter is a young woman and could be controlled, to a large extent, by the old warrior of the suffragists. It is even said that Miss Anthony has a strong personal dislike for Mrs. Blake and that, although the two have worked apparently harmoniously in the cause, at heart they have been very unfriendly and each ready at any time to oppose any plan that was likely to be approved of by the other, if the opposition could be worked out without any notice being taken of it. It is even said that the delegates who elected Mrs. Catt were taken to Washington at the expense of somebody, and that all they had to do while there was to follow the lead of Miss Anthony and elect the officers whom she approved. Now as to the ages of the interested persons. Mrs. Catt owns that she is only 42 years old. Mrs. Blake confessed to 60. Miss Anthony retired only when she was too old to do the work herself, but she was 72 when she was first elected president of the national organization. This, her friends and foes say, is one reason why Mrs. Blake thinks Mrs. Catt entirely too youthful for the head of such a stately and dignified concern. Nothing definite has yet been done about the new association, but the first meeting will probably take place in New York, and the name "suffrage" will not be used. Among the seceders are counted Mrs. Olympia Brown of Wisconsin, Belva Lockwood of Washington, Phoebe Cousins of Missouri. Laura De Force Gordon of California, Mrs. Josephine K. Henry of Kentucky and Victoria Whitney MACRUM HAS PROOFS. Late Pretoria Consul Exhibits Official Envelopes with Seals Broken and Stamped "V. R." Washington, D. C., Feb. 20.—Notwithstanding the denials put forth by the state department and the British foreign office that the official mail of the United States consul at Pretoria was violated by British officers at Durban, there is to be an investigation of the matter by Congress and Former Consul Macrum' has indubitable proofs which substantiate his charges. Macrum has in a measure discredited himself and his cause by his recent conduct, but the tangible proofs in his possession will not be so easily brushed aside. He brought back with him several envelopes, each bearing the British sticker applied to the envelopes after it had been opened by the censor. He has one envelope which contained mail matter from Consul-General Stowe at Cape Town. It is the regulation blue of the consular service. It bears upon its face the legend "U. S. Consular Service" and a stamp "Mail suspended." On the reverse side is the United States government seal impressed upon the red sealing wax of the consular service. The British sticker, resealing the letter after it had been opened, bears the potential initials "V. R." the initials of the clerk who opened the letter and the name of the place where it was opened. Mail is Confiscated. The letter was mailed at Cape Town October 4 by Consul-General Stowe. It was held there one month apparently, for the next postmark is that of Durban, dated November 4. From Durban it was sent to Pretoria and reached Mr. Macrum in its mutilated form. The circulars to consuls issued by the department, not in themselves important, but nevertheless "official mail," never reached Mr. Macrum. They were confiscated without apology or explanation by the British censor. As for Mr. Macrum's personal mail, he never heard of it. Know American Code. It will astound Americans to know that the British authorities are familiar with the American consular code. On November 8 Mr. Macrum sent a cablegram in code to the state department urgently requesting that he be permitted to come home. Usually cablegrams, because of the difference in time between South Africa and this country, consume two days in transmission—that is to say, the cable sent by Mr. Macrum on October 8 would normally have been received by the state department on October 10. But on October 9, before the cablegram was received by the state department certainly, and before it was sent from South Africa probably, the British papers in Natal, hundreds of miles away, announced in impressive type that Mr. Macrum, the American consul at Pretoria, desired to be permitted to go home. Secrecy is Impossible. The state department may not know the surprising fact that it is impossible for a United States consular or diplomatic representative in South Africa to communicate with his government without informing the British government of the nature of the message. Nevertheless, the American consular agent at Bloemfontein, of the name of Elliott, is a subject of Great Britain and pernicious active in his espousal of the British cause and the expression of his contempt for the "Dutch farmers." BABY LOSES ITS SUIT. Cannot Recover Damages for Injuries Sustained Before Birth. Springfield, Ill., Feb. 20.—A peculiar case decided by the Supreme court is that of Thomas Edwin Allaire, an infant, against St. Luke's hospital and St. Luke's Free hospital of Chicago, in which it was sought to recover damages sustained by the plaintiff previous to his birth. Ada A. Allaire, the mother of the child, brought the suit for $50,000, as the babe's next friend. Shortly before the birth of the child the mother was in St. Luke's hospital, and while being transferred from one floor to another her left leg was caught in the elevator and crushed. When her child was born his left foot, left side, and left leg were paralyzed and deformed. The mother settled with the hospital authorities on her own account, and then brought suit for the child. The Supreme court held that at the time of the accident the child could not be considered as a separate being capable of sustaining an action independent of the mother. "If an action can be maintained," the court says, "it necessarily follows that an infant may maintain an action against its own mother for pre-natal injuries." Justice Boggs files a dissenting opinion and holds that the child was a separate being. The best evidence of this fact, he says, is that the child was born alive after the injury to the mother. SOLD HIS WIFE. New York Newspaper Man Compromises a Divorce Suit. Kansas City, Mo., Feb. 20.—Dr. W. S. Woods, president of the National Bank of Commerce, paid $30,000 today to his son-in-law, Arthur Grissom, the poet of New York. Mrs. Grissom was granted a divorce and the custody of her child and the restoration of her maiden name, Julia Stone Woods, and Mr. Grissom dismissed the suits he brought several months ago against Dr. Woods for $100,000 for alienating the affections of his wife. The marriage of Arthur Grissom and Miss Woods in 1895 was romantic. She and her mother went to New York to prepare her trousseau for her marriage to a wealthy young man of Hannibal, Mo. While in New York Miss Woods met Mr. Grissom, who was doing literary work. They had been lovers at school in Kansas City. The meeting awakened the old feelings of mutual regard and they went to the Little Church Around the Corner and were married, and then announced it to the mother. Dr. Woods never forgave Mr. Grissom for thus stealthily marrying his daughter and did all in his power to bring about a separation. Triangu ation in Texas The newly-founded town of Triangle, Tex., promises to be unique. It is laid out in the form of an equilateral triangle; its lots are triangular in shape and the ground plan of each of the twenty-three houses which have thus far been erected there is three-cornered. The three principal streets are named Equilateral, Sealene and Isosceles, and the residents have even carried their curious idea into the local government, which consists of a so-called triangular council, having three members.—Indianapolis Sentinel. The number of Catholics in the Transvaal are roughly estimated to reach from 15,000 to 20,000, for the most part engaged in mining business or mechanical pursuits. They are centered mostly around Johannesburg. —The city of Dublin has been depleted of its gallant militia, who have been sent off to garrison towns in England left empty of soldiers by war. —Two recent arrivals at the New York aquarium which attract much attention are catfish from the Mississippi. MACRUM'S STORY REFUTED BY HAY. Senators Express Their Views Regarding Disclosures of Former Pretoria Consul. Washington, D. C., Feb. 21.—The Macrum disclosures are the subject of a great deal of comment at the capitol and senators of all shades of political opinion freely declare that the matter should be thoroughly investigated. In an interview Senator Spooner said: "The charges made by Consul Macrum about his mail being tampered with by British consuls in South Africa presents a serious situation for this government. That is a very grave matter and I have no doubt but that it will be most carefully and fully investigated." "This matter," said Senator Hale, "presents a serious question, which ought to be considered in the Senate in secret session. The proof seems strong, but as it means practically a charge of bad faith on the part of a friendly foreign power and relates to our foreign relations it ought not to be considered in public. If the facts are as have been represented nothing short of an investigation will satisfy the Senate." "From my point of view," said Senator Jones of Arkansas, "one of the most serious phases of the Macrum matter as told by him is the opening of United States official mail by a nation with which we are not only at peace, but one whose interests were being cared for by American consular officials in a hostile country. If this be true—and from the proof supplied by Mr. Macrum I have no doubt of it—we are confronted by a question that ought to be seriously investigated. It hardly seems possible that the United States would submit to such an indignity. The matter ought to be investigated thoroughly. The United States cannot afford to ignore it. The administration cannot afford to have its sincerity of purpose thus impugned. Whatever may have been thought of these charges heretofore, with the convincing statements that have been made and the proofs that have been submitted, Congress must inquire into it. If Great Britain is permitted to open the mail of a United States official it is high time the country knew all about it and that Congress began such steps as would lead to the utmost publicity in connection with such an outrage." Secretary Hay Explains. The answer of the state department to the House resolution calling for information regarding the Macrum charges was transmitted to the House today by the President. It is signed by Secretary Hay, and after reciting the resolution says: Answering the first part of the resolution: The department of state has been in regular communication by mail and telegraph with Charles E. Macrum, late consul of the United State at Pretoria, South African Republic, since his entrance upon the duties of the office. Communications made to him have been answered and the execution of instructions sent has been reported by him. His dispatches to the department, forwarded through the consulate at Lourenco Marques, have during that time been regularly received. The only instance of complaint in respect to the transit of the mails for Lourenco Marques and Pretoria was in November last, when a temporary stoppage of the mails occurred at Cape Town, against which Mr. Macrum and the consul at Lourenco Marques protested. Arrangements were made for the prompt delivery of the consular mails to the United States consul-general at Cape Town, by whom the mail for Mr. Hollis and Mr. Macrum was forwarded to Lourenco Marques. The delay lasted but a few days, and has not recurred so far as the department is advised. Sent by a Neutral Route. After that time the department's mail for Lourenco Marques and Pretoria was sent by a neutral route, which it appears was known and open to Mr. Macrum and Mr. Hollis as early as November 16 last. No obstacle, therefore, is here known to have existed since then to Mr. Macrum's unhampered correspondence with the department of state. At no time while at his post did Mr. Macrum report to the department any instance of violation by opening or otherwise of his official mail by the British censor at Durban or by any person or persons whatsoever, there or elsewhere. Neither has he so reported since he left Pretoria, although having the amplest opportunity to do so by mail while on the way home and in person when he reported to the department upon his return. No Secret Alliance. Answering the second part of the aforesaid resolution, the undersigned, secretary of state, has the honor to say that there is no truth in the charge that a secret alliance exists between the republic of the United States and the empire of Great Britain; that no form of secret alliance is possible under the constitution of the United States, inasmuch as treaties require the advice and consent of the Senate, and, finally, that no secret alliance, convention, arrangement or understanding or agreement exists between the United States and any other nation. JOHN HAY. Department of State, February 20, 1900. WARNING TO FRANCE. Germany Refuses to Discontinue War Precautions in Reference to Alsace-Lorraine. Berlin, Feb. 21.—During the course of the day's proceedings the Reichstag discussed the motion of Herr Winterer, an Alsatian member, to repeal the so-called "dictatorial paragraph" now enforced in Alsace-Lorraine. He likened the situation there during the last twenty-eight years to a state of siege. The imperial chancellor, Prince von Hohenlohe, said he could not hold out any bpe of the repeal of the paragraph. It must remain in force, "as a warning to the French minority, whose feelings are reflected in the resistance of the clergy of Alsace-Lorraine to the offered establishment of a theological faculty at Strasburg, although the Holy See has agreed to it. "It is true," added Prince Hohenlohe, "that our relations with the French government are the best conceivable, and in France also a friendly feeling prevails; but there is no guarantee for the duration of this feeling. For this reason we must not relinquish our weapons. We have acquired Alsace-Lorraine, not by popular vote, but by force of arms, and we shall retain the reconquered land. This is our right." These remarks of the chancellor were greeted with cheers. The Reichstag eventually adopted Herr Winterer's motion by a large majority, thus defeating the government. TRAIN MEN INJURED. Milk Train Crashes into Passenger at Edgemore, Ind. Chicago, Ill., Feb. 21.—Passenger train No. 5 of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad was telescoped by a milk train at Edgmore, Ind., twenty-one miles from here, today. Michael Kelly, engineer on the milk train; James C. Baghitt, fireman, and the steward of the dining car were seriously injured; Conductor John Emmert of the milk train was struck in the head and became insane. The passenger train was blocked by the wreck, resulting from a collision of freight trains earlier in the day. The milk train, coming an hour later, and the crew being in ignorance of the situation, or failing to see the danger signals, crashed into it. Menominee, Mich., Feb. 21.—Elisha Lusha, employed in the Kirby-Carpenter logging camp at Chalk Hill, was killed yesterday afternoon by a log rolling upon him. 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I can write in Greek and Turkish, Speak a bit in Japanese. And at making love in Spanish I have never failed to please. Now, O Kraalpan and Viljoen! Down to Wakkerstroom I trek, Vryheid, Vryburg and Spyfontein, I have got it in the Neck! Edwin L. Sabin in the Albany Argus. CAPT. STAINTON, V. C. Capt. Stainton, V. C., had been duly feted by his friends and acquaintances and brother officers. It had been a short campaign, and of all the men who had won distinction in it, perhaps no one had so much cause to congratulate himself as Capt. Stainton. Yet, truth to tell, he was not happy, and under the apparent circumstances this was strange. "You do not know how proud I am of you, Cuthbert," said the girl, sitting in an easy attitude before the fire. She said it calmly, not enthusiastically, as some women would have done, but then Edith Trevanyon was not as other women- "People make too much of these things," answered the captain. "They are performed in the heat of the moment and are not so heroic as is believed. I was absolutely astounded when I found that I had been recommended for the Cross." "Will you think me very unkind when I say that I was astonished to hear that you had got it?" "No. You are not the first to express surprise." "I have always looked upon you as such a lazy individual, Cuthbert. To find you at the right place at the right moment is astonishing. Still, it is rather pleasant to know that I am going to marry a hero." "My dear Edith, don't make any mistake. Because a man plays a man's part for ten minutes in his life, he is not necessarily a hero. I am not one I assure you." They had been alone in the room, now others entered, and their tete-a-tete ended. Edith Trevanyon had been the reigning beauty of two seasons, and when her engagement to Cuthbert Stainton was announced, people wondered somewhat. His family boasted a peer at the head of it, but the captain was by no means a wealthy man, and his chance of coming into the title was of the remotest kind possible. True Edith Trevanyon had money. So it was generally considered that Capt. Stainton was a lucky man—and a wise one, too, his friends took occasion to add. Still Cuthbert Stainton was not happy. On leaving his fiancee he walked back to his chambers, his brow puckered with thoughts. It's got to be done, and I'm hanged if I wouldn't rather face those yelling devils a dozen times than do it." He sat down at his writing table, lit a cigar, and took up his pen. His sword had been ready enough a few weeks ago, his pen just now seemed a somewhat useless implement. He scribbled a few lines on several sheets of notepaper, only to tear each sheet up in turn. He became very conscious of the fact that he was not a hero, more conscious of it than when he had made the statement to Edith Trevanyon. Before he had left England there had been two farewells: One calm, matter-of-fact, in a luxurious room—a godspeed which had much friendship in it, but which could smile at the suggestion that it might be a last parting; the other, loving and tearful, a sweet white face hidden upon his breast, a trembling woman's form in his arms, and a background of a small room simply furnished. Yet it was this picture which lived in his memory more than the other. "I can't write!" he exclaimed, throwing down the pen. "It would be too cruel, too villainous"—then he smiled contemptuously—"and I a wearer of the Victoria Cross!" He tore up the last sheet he had written upon and rang the bell. "Only 9 o'clock! I'll go tonight. Parker, just call me a cab." He opened a drawer and took out his checkbook. "Money will heal most wounds, but this one—" He paused, and mechanically slipped the book into his pocket. Then with a muttered oath—indeed, was it an oath or a prayer?—he went out. The hansom rattled along Piccadilly, and down Sloane street to Chelsea. The journey was too soon accomplished. At the corner of a street Capt. Stainton got out and dismissed the cab. He walked slowly, even passed his destination once, twice, then in a half kind of desperation ascended the half-dozen steps which led to the front door, and let himself in with a latch key. There was the sound of an opening door and then a little cry of joy as a girlish figure, clad in white, ran down the stairs to welcome him. "Oh! it is a week, Cuthbert—a long, long week since I saw you." "My dear little woman. I told you it would be at least a week before you saw me again." "I know, but I didn't think you meant it—quite." She was a pretty woman. At the first glance she seemed little more than a child—an innocent child. Her figure had scarcely yet put on the roundness of a woman's beauty, and her blue eyes opened wide, with a look of astonishment almost as though the kaleidoscope world were new to her. But a second longer glance revealed things which were not on the surface—passions, which in the best sense were deep and true; a woman's capacity for loving, and shielding with her love, never questioning whether the object of such a love were worthy or not. She had given her heart and soul to a man who was her hero, and nothing in the world beside mattered at all. She took his hand and led him into her sitting room. She pushed the easiest chair near the fire for him, put a case of cigars, which he had left when he was last there, on the table by his side, and then seated herself on a footstool and nestled her head against his knee. "I suppose your friends have been saying all sorts of nice things to you," she said, "making you eat more dinners than you want, and drink more than is good for you, perhaps." "Bertha!" "That is an Englishman's way of showing his respect and admiration, isn't it?" "What a worldly-wise little woman it is!" he said, gently. And he remembered the checkbook and THE BATTLE OF THE BAY OF BAY There are ruffians on both sides, but on the whole the war seems to have been conducted as humanely as war can. British and Boer doctors and clergymen have combined to do all that science and religion can to soften the hardships and mitigate the horrors of battle. what he had come that night to say, and hated himself. "I don't think I am very wordly-wise, Cuthbert," she answered. "If I were, you would perhaps be less to me than you are." TRUE IRISH BLOOD. There Could be No Mistake About That. "The most ludicrous mishan I ever wit "What do you mean?" "My dearest, a man's love and a woman's are so different. You have been happy since you saw me last; I have been miserable." "Why, dear, why?" And he forgot the checkbook, and the luxuriously-furnished drawing room and the beauty of two seasons. "Why, dearest?" "I wonder if you will understand, Cuthbert," she said, slowly, rising from the stool and seating herself on the arm of his chair. "You do love me?" "Yes." "More than any other woman in the world?" "Yes." He meant it. "Cuthbert, I don't want to be like other women who—" She paused and a little sob came strug gling out. "Tell me the trouble, darling." "I heard two men talking today. I went into the bank and——" "What did the blackguards say?" he asked, angrily. He had guessed her secret before it was uttered. "No, Cuthbert, they were not necessarily blackguards, but they spoke to me, you can guess how." Stainton bit his lip. "We can give them the lie," he said. The woman looked at him. "How?" "You are not as other women. Bertha, and by heaven, you never shall be." "Cuthbert, I have asked you nothing." "Haven't you, little one?" he said, drawing her closer to him. "Perhaps not, but you have taught me something. Bertha, look at me. What do you see?" "The man I love," she answered. "And a hero and goodness knows what, ch?" "No! Just the one man in the world I love." "Tell me always that, Bertha, and I shall be satisfied. There will be plenty in the world to speak ill of me. Better that I should tell you I am not a hero, child, but a selfish man, unworthy of the great love of a true woman such as you are. But I am not wholly bad, Bertha—no, I have some good in me, and, if I can, I'll live to be a good man. Little one, you must help me." "Only tell me how Cuthbert." "We have begun in a wrong fashion, little one. I cannot blush as you are doing, but I feel something of what you do, what you did when those two men spoke. Bertha, will you be my wife?" "Do you mean it—really, truly?" "I do." "Not for pity's sake—for love's?" "For love's." There was a long silence. "We will go away for a time," he said, presently. "Cuthbert, you really love me?" "As my life. Some day I will show you how true my love is." A few nights later Capt. Stainton sat at his writing table. He had finished a letter which had given him considerable difficulty in writing, and had just addressed it when Parker came in. "I have written to Lord Southborough, Parker, and I hope you will like your new place." "Thank you, sir; but, begging your pardon, I'm very sorry to have to leave my old one." "I'm sorry to part with you, but I am going abroad and my return to England is a matter of uncertainty. One thing more I want you to do. Tomorrow morning take that note to Miss Trevanyon, and there is no answer. Not before tomorrow morning, remember. Goodby, Parker." "Goodby, sir." "What a fool!" said the men. "What a coward!" said the women. Edith Trevanyon tore the note into shreds. It may be that she understood that Capt. Stainton was not altogether unworthy of his V. C.—Illustrated Bits. Queen Victoria's Three Gowns. Queen Victoria has three crowns, none of which is used except on extraordinary occasions. The crown which she wore in the last grand reception weighs eight ounces. It is of pure gold and set with 2673 diamonds and with 523 rubies. The other two crowns are simple bands of gold, each set with gorgeous jewels. It is one of these latter crowns which is worn when the Queen opens Parliament. When she appears in the House of Lords the large crown is taken from its place among the crown jewels in the Tower of London and borne on a velvet cushion ahead of the Queen. TRUE IRISH BLOOD. There Could be No Mistake About That. "The most ludicrous mishap I ever witnessed on the stage," said an actor at a little supper party the other evening, "occurred one night years ago in a small town in northern Iowa. I was new in the business then, and had joined a weird barnstorming company, headed by an old actor of the name of Fitzmorris. We had a blood-and-thunder repertory a yard long, but our chief attraction was an Irish melodrama called 'Lion-Hearted Larry; or, the Cotter's Oath.' It had the usual plot of canned Irish melodramas—the honest but financially-embarrassed peasant, his beautiful daughter, the poor but gallant lover, otherwise Lion-Hearted Larry, and the villainous landlord who insists on the daughter's hand or immediate eviction for the whole family. The great scene of the play was the rescue by Larry of the beautiful daughter from the castle of the villainous landlord, at the climax of which the heroic lover was fired upon by a file of British soldiers. At the report of the guns the white shirt which he wore was suddenly suffused with red. 'You are wounded!' the heroine cried. 'Yes,' replied Larry, 'but 'tis true Irish blood, ever ready to be shed for the cause of Erin!' This rather irrelevant remark, together with the gory shirt front, never failed to bring down the house. Needless to say, the character of Lion-Hearted Larry was assumed by Mr. Fitzmorris "The business' of the blood was managed very simply," continued the story teller. "A small rubber bulb was filled with a solution of cochineal and fastened under Larry's arm. At the right moment he gave it a squeeze and a crimson torrent poured over the shirt, which had a piece of waterproof cloth at the back, the front being renewed for each performance. We were playing a week's stand at the little Iowa town I have already mentioned, and the day before 'Lion Hearted Larry' was put on Fitzmorris gave the property man careful instructions in regard to preparing the material for the blood effect. Whether the 'prop' man had conceived some grudge against 'Fitz' we never ascertained. He was a crabbed old Englishman and perhaps he didn't like the tone of the play —anyhow he went into the scene loft, wher a lot of colors were kept mixed, and filled the rubber bulb with bright green liquid paint. That night several hitches occurred, and everybody got nervous and excited. When the time came for the rescue scene Fitzmorris got into his costume as quick as he could, felt the bulb to see it was in the proper place, and a moment later was on the stage. There things went all right up to the climax. The castle was entered, the orchestra played a few bars of tremolo music. Larry emerged with the beautiful colleen on his arm, and up jumped the ambuscaded soldiers. Bang! went the guns, and 'You are wounded!' shrieked the heroine. 'Yes!' shouted Larry, pressing the bulb, 'but 'tis true Irish blood—' He never got any further. His ample shirtfront had suddenly turned emerald green and the howl of laughter that went up from the audience nearly peeled the paper off the walls. Fitzmorris himself was so amazed by the phenomenon that he was unable to move, and stood there transfixed, his arms outspread and his mouth wide open. On that tableau the curtain fell. Then he came to himself, grabbed a club and began a frantic search for the 'prop man, but that individual had disappeared, and we saw him no more during our stay. The episode broke up the performance and ruined our business for the balance of the engagement. I'm told that Fitzmorris was afterward known as 'Green Blood Fitz' on the North Iowa and Wisconsin barn-storming circuit."—New Orleans Times-Democrat. Clever Bird in Mexico Mexico has a clever bird called the melanarpes, which has discovered a new use for the telegraph pole. At the foot of the post this bird makes a large hole, in which it rears its family. Somewhat higher up the post it makes an observatory from which bored holes permit it to observe the horizon in every direction. Still higher this sagacious bird makes its storehouse, and thus the pole serves as its house, fortress and warehouse. An Industrial Factor: A Kansas man figures that the value of the cotton flannel used in making gloves for cornhuskers in the state alone this year is about $4150. These gloves last only a few days, but this material seems to be the best that has been found for the purpose. One husker will use about four yards of flannel during the season.—New York Post. WAUPUN PIONEER DIES. John W. Ackerman the First White Settler. Held Many Public Offices and was an Honored Pioneer of Fond du Lac County. Waupun, Wis., Feb. 21.—[Special.]—John N. Ackerman, the first white settler of Waupun, died here last night, aged 88 years. Mr. Ackerman was one of the honored pioneers of Fond du Lac county, where he had made his home since 1841, covering a period of over half a century. During the greater portion of his residence here he held public offices of importance. He was elected a justice of the peace prior to the Civil war and served for eighteen years, and he A. H. JOHN N. ACKERMAN. (First White Settler of Waupun Passes Away Aged 88.) was popularly referred to as having been "the best justice of the peace in Wisconsin." As deputy marshal he took the census of his Assembly district in 1860. He was trustee of Waupun under its village organization, and when it was incorporated as a city was elected its first mayor. He was active in securing the location of the state prison at this place. He also served as postmaster. Mr. Askerman was married to Miss Hannah Ford of Oshkosh in October, 1848. Mrs. Ackerman died in 1897. Seven children were born unto them, all of whom are living. Mr. Ackerman was a charter member of Waupun lodge No. 48, A. F. and A. M. Mr. Ackerman was born at Sidney, Chenango county, N. Y., April 12, 1812, and was of Scotch and German descent. He went to Green Bay in 1836 and four years later came to Waupun with an ox team, bringing enough lumber to put up a small shanty to live in until he could build a log house. His nearest white neighbors were then about thirty or forty miles away and Green Bay was the nearest market. Mr. Ackerman was a carpenter by trade and built the first frame houses at Oshkosh and also at Waupun, and they are still standing. TRAIN SMASHED UP. Chicago Passenger on the Wisconsin Central Road Wrecked Near Curtis. Eau Claire, Wis., Feb. 21.—[Special.] —A passenger train from Chicago on the Wisconsin Central was wrecked this afternoon, three miles west of Curtis. All the doctors at Chippewa Falls were dispatched to the scene of the wreck. It was reported here that several persons were killed, but it was ascertained later in the day that one man was badly injured and a few slightly hurt. No one was killed. All the cars were derailed and the passengers were badly shaken up and frightened. The engine was left on the track. The details of the accident have not as yet been received and the amount of damage done cannot be learned. The cause of the accident is not known. CONTRACTS ARE LET. Kenosha, Wis., Feb. 21.—[Special.]—The building committee of the Young Men's Christian association of this city let the contracts for the new building this morning. Bids were received from all parts of the state, but most of the work was let to Kenosha contractors. The largest contracts went to Thomas Holdermess, Kenosha: Fred Bull, Kenosha; Tingley Bros., Milwaukee; O. J. Wallber, Milwaukee; Greenslade Foundry company, Milwaukee. The contracts let amounted to little over $20,000. The work on the excavations will be started at once and it is the plan of the committee to have the building completed by September 1. SAME OLD STORY. Woman Uses Kerosene to Start Fire and is Badly Burned. Dacoda, Wis., Feb. 21.—[Special.]—Mrs. Catherine Piersch was seriously burned by the explosion of a can of kerosene with which she had built the fire. She had placed the can in front of the stove and either through heat or a spark of fire it exploded. It is thought that she will recover. Dodgeville, Wis., Feb. 21.—[Special.]—The residence of Phillip Krouse, nine miles northeast of this city, was destroyed by fire, together with all the household furniture and clothing. The insurance is only $300. Beloit, Wis., Feb. 21.—The coal sheds of the Milwaukee road between this city and Rockton were burned and nearly 600 tons of coal were destroyed. The total loss was about $3000. FALL WAS FATAL. Little Boy Pushed from Chair by Brother Dies. Baraboo, Wis., Feb. 21.—[Special.]—The little son of Mrs. William Miller, who was injured a few days ago by being pushed from a high chair by his brother, died last evening. He was in convulsions much of the time and did not recover consciousness. Ellsworth, Wis., Feb. 21.—[Special.]—The 3-year-old son of John Brenner, residing near Ellsworth, fell in a pan of boiling water and was fatally scalded. The child died after many hours of suffering. Oshkosh, Wis., Feb. 21.—[Special.]—Peter Hanson, driver of an ice wagon, was seriously, if not fatally, injured at noon today in a runaway of the ice wagon team. WORK OF CONGRESS. Senate. Thursday, Feb. 15.—Passed the Senate substitute for the House currency bill by a vote of 46 to 29. Made the Hawaiian bill unfinished business, giving it right of way. Friday, Feb. 16.—Resumed discussion of the Philippine question. Mr. McEnergy strongly opposed permanent acquisition of the islands and believed United States ought to relinquish them as soon as authority of this country had been asserted. Mr. Stewart took pronounced position in favor of admission of the products of any of the island possessions of the United States free of duty. Hawaiian bill was read, but nothing was done with it. Monday, Feb. 19.—Spent the day in debate on the right of Congress to extend or withhold the constitution to territory acquired by the United States. Tuesday, Feb. 20.—Heard Mr. Kenney in opposition to retention of Philippines and then resumed consideration of Hawaiian bill. Wednesday, Feb. 21. - Passed a number of bills of local interest and spent the rest of the day in debate on the Hawaiian government bill, little progress being made. House Thursday, Feb. 15.--Completed twenty-six of the 124 pages of the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill without amendment. During the general debate Mr. Boutell (Ill.), Mr. Miers (Ind.) and Mr. Showalter (Pa.) discussed the Philippine question; Mr. Grosvenor (Ohio) and Mr. Gillette (Mass.) civil service reform, Mr. Driggs (N. Y.), pensions, and Mr. Underwood (Ala.) his resolution to repeal the fifteenth amendment to the constitution Friday, Feb. 16.—By a vote of 75 to 67, in committee of the whole, struck out from legislative appropriation bill all provision for civil service commission. Action regarded as annual joke, as item will probably be restored in open session when members have to go on record on roll call. Rest of the time devoted to assertions by Mr. Sims (Dem., Tenn.) that Northern volunteer soldiers in Spanish war were much more clamorous for pensions than the Southern ones, and attributing this to the debanching of public sentiment in the North on the pension question. Mr. Pearce (Rep., Md.) raised the storm by stating that hundreds of Massachusetts soldiers who never smelled powder had applied for pensions. This brought out an indignant reply from Mr. Fitzgerald (Dem., Mass.), who detailed the record of the Massachusetts volunteers. He was followed by others, who defended the soldiers from their several states. Mr. Hepburn (Iowa) especially assailed Mr. Sims. Saturday, Feb. 17.—Passed the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill. The civil service appropriation, stricken out in committee of the whole, was restored to the bill by a vote of 77 to 125. Monday, Feb. 19.—Began expansion debate, the Porto Rico tariff bill coming up. Passed a bill to amend sections 3339 and 3341 of the Revised statutes relating to internal revenue tax on fermented liquors, the purpose being to abolish the smaller packages of beer, one-sixth and one-eighth barrels. The bill is to go into effect July 1, 1900. Nothing was accomplished at a night session, which was to have been devoted to pension legislation. Mr. Talbert of South Carolina made the point of no quorum and blocked proceedings. Tuesday, Feb. 20.—Heard Mr. Hopkins of Illinois in support of the Porto Rican tariff bill and Messrs. Newlands of Nevada and Swanson of Virginia against it. Wednesday, Feb. 21.-Debate on Porto Rican tariff bill resumed. Adopted Senate resolution authorizing the President to appoint one woman commissioner to represent the United States and, the national society of the D. A. R. at the unveiling of the statue of Lafayette at the Paris exposition. The umpires of the American league have not yet been announced for the coming season, but there is a strong probability that they will be as follows: Cantillon, Sheridan, Haskell and Brennan. However, Ban Johnson would like to have "Adonis" Terry on the staff, and if the latter should desire to umpire this season he will probably have a chance for a berth. President Young also made Terry an offer, but it is likely that he would prefer to be near his place of business if he umpires at all. The make-up of the circuit of the American league has not been fully settled upon yet, although the announcement is expected to be forthcoming from President Johnson at any time. It seems certain now that the circuit will be as follows: Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Indianapolis, Buffalo and Kansas City. There is little doubt that a majority of the magnates would prefer to have Louisville in the circuit to Minneapolis, but this cannot be done without the consent of the Minneapolis magnates, and it is not probable now that President Salspaugh will consent to a change of base for his club. He is anxious to remain in the league as long as possible and must therefore stick to the Flour city. There is no doubt whatever that Louisville would be the best city for the league, that is, from a geographical situation, and it will not be surprising to find the Kentucky metropolis in the circuit a year hence. It will cost the clubs considerable money this season in traveling back and forth from Minneapolis, as the extra mileage will be heavy. In order to convince the sporting public that his coming fight with Champion Jeffries will not be a "fake" Jim Corbett has posted $2500 with a stakeholder with the provision that if in the latter's judgment the battle is not on the level the money can be turned over to any charity to be designated later. Corbett makes a vehement statement that he will whip Jeffries beyond a doubt. The preliminary bouts of the boxing and wrestling championships of the A. A. U. at New York drew a big crowd A bantam named Jim Jeffries won the first fight with the gloves and another, Jack Dempsey, also carried off some honors. The feature was the appearance of John L. Scholes, Jr. of Toronto, the amateur champion featherweight of England and Canada. He showed in the 125-pound class with T. F. Murphy, Mass., and promptly demonstrated his cleverness to the satisfaction of the onlookers. Scholes appeared to be as scientific as many professionals. He put it all over Murphy in the opening round, the first punch landed by the Canadian, putting the American down. In the second round Murphy rushed like a wild bull, but Scholes met him with fast smashes that soon stopped him completely. John Roberts, the English billiard champion, has given up his famous billiard hall in Piceadilly to make an eighteen-months' tour of the colonies. Fred Ward of Sutton, Eng., won the British professional skating championship at Littleport, beating G. T. Ward of Tydd Fen. The distance was a mile and a half with five turns. Ward's time was 5:33 1-5. As was predicted, Kid McCoy has cut short his proposed retirement from the ring and is going to fight again. He has posted $1000 to fight Tom Sharkey, and says that he is ready to sign articles forthwith. Steve Flanagan, the well-known Philadelphia bantam, wants to meet Terry McGovern for the championship in that class. In fighting trim Flanagan weighs 105 pounds, but he has frequently taken on opponents outweighing him by ten or twenty pounds. Flanagan says that McGovern has no right to style himself the bantamweight champion for the reason that he cannot get down to the weight prescribed. According to Flanagan the Brooklynite is now a full-fledged featherweight and cannot reduce below 118 pounds, at which he defeated Dixon, and be strong. The Philadelphia put the bantamweight limit at 110 pounds, but there is a difference of opinion on this point. McGovern won the bantam championship of the world from "Pedlar" Palmer at 116 pounds, or rather catchweight, which was close to these figures. On the strength of that victory McGovern has been considered the bantam champion ever since. But he won the featherweight championship from Dixon at a limit two pounds higher, which does not seem to be in line with the ideas of exacting critics. Flanagan's statements make it clear that the weight limits in their various classes should be revised by competent authorities on boxing. Joe Vila figures that New York may start the season with the following players: Pitchers, Seymour, Doheny, Carrick, Gettig, Mercer and Garoni; catchers, Warner, Wilson and Grady; first base, Doyle (if he is not released) and Conroy; second base, Gleason; third base, Davis; shortstop, Long; outfielders, Duffy, Van Haltren and Foster; extra men, Woodruff and Fleming. The American league can boast of the only woman magnate in the country. Mrs. Vanderbeck bought the Detroit club, as announced Saturday, in order to protect herself in getting the alimony awarded her by the court in her suit against George Vanderbeck for divorce. She will no doubt sell the club again at a private sale to Detroit parties, as she will hardly care about handling a ball team. Van may yet get into harness again. Comiskey has mapped out the spring campaign for the Chicago American league club. He will take his team to West Baden, Ind., during March to train, then come up for a series of games against the University of Illinois team at Champaign, will play Notre Dame and other college clubs in the district, and, if convenient, will wind up the practice season with games against Stagg's Maroons. THE MARKET REPORTS. Milwaukee, Feb. 21, 1900. EGG AND DAIRY PRODUCTS. MILWAUKEE—Eggs—Market firm at 13%c for strictly fresh; held fresh, 10@11c; storage, 7@9c; seconds, 5@6c. The receipts were 189 cases. Butter—Market easier. The receipts were 19,825 lbs against 14,430 yesterday. Fancy prints, 25c; fancy or extra creamery, per in, 24c; firsts, 20c; seconds, 18c; extra dairy, 19 @20c; lines, 15@17c; packing stock, 15@16c; roll butter, 16@17c; whey butter, 9@11c; limitation creamery, 18@20c; grease, 4@6c. The feeling is easier today owing to the heavy receipts. The demand is still fairly good. Karner's creamy sold at 20c on the board and the best bid on extra was 23c. There were few sales on the board. Cheese—Easy. The receipts today were 4440 lbs against 2040 yesterday. Full cream flats, per lb, 11½%@12c; New York, full cream, 12½%@13c; Young Americans, 12½%@13c; brick, fancy, 10½%@11½c; inferior, 9½%@10½c; limbarmen, fancy, 11½%@11½c; imported Swiss, 24c; Block Swiss, domestic, 12½%@12c; Loaf Swiss, 12½%@13c; Sapsago, 17½%@19c; farmers', 11½@12c. There was little doing in cheese today. NEW YORK — Butter — Receipts, 3651 pkgs; steady; June creamery, 19@22½c; Western creamery, 20@24c; factory, 16@19c. Cheese—Receipts, 4928 pkgs; fall-made fancy, large, 12½%@13c; fall-made fancy, small, 13c; choice grades, 12½%@12½c. Eggs—Receipts, 6719 pkgs; market firm at the decline; Western at mark, 13½%@12½c. Sugar—Raw steadier; fair refining, 3 15-16@4c; centrifugal, 96 test, 4½@4-716c; molasses sugar, 3½@3 13-16c; refined steady. Coffee—Quiet; No. 7 Rio, 8 11-16c. CHICAGO—Butter — Firm; creameries, 19@2c@; dairies, 19@2c@; Eggs—Easy; fresh, 13@13½c. Dressed Poultry—Weak; turkeys, 9@10c. Chickens, 8@10c. MILWAUKEE LIVESTOCK MARKET er; light, 4.65@4.70; mixed and medium, weights, 4.75@4.85; fair to good heavy, 4.80@4.00; fancy selected hogs, 4.85@4.90. CATTLE—Receipts, 2 cars; weak; butcher steers, medium to good, 1050 to 1300 lbs, 4.25@4.75; fair to medium, 950 to 1050, 3.75 @4.25; heifers, good to choice, 3.50@4.00; cows, fair to good, 3.00@3.40; canners, 2.25@ 2.60; bulls, common, 2.75@3.25; choice, 3.25 @3.75; feeders, 800 to 950 lbs, 3.50@4.00; stockers, 500 to 750 lbs, 3.50@3.75; veal calves, 5.50@6.50; milkers and springers, common, 22.00@30.00; choice heavy cows, 38.00@45.00. SHEEP—Receipts, none; market steady, 3.25@4.25; bucks, 2.50@3.00; lambs, common to choice, 5.50@6.50. Chicago receipts: Hogs, 42,000; cattle, 18,000; sheep, 15,000. CHICAGO POTATO MARKET Burbanks, choice to fancy, 43@44c; common to fair, 41@42c; Rurals, round white, 42@44c; Hebrons, common to choice, 40@42c; Rose, common to choice, for seed, 45@50c; Peerless, poor to fancy, round white, 42@43c; Kings, common to choice, 39@41c; mixed, red and white, 35@38c; white, 38@40c. New potatoes-Bernudas remain at 7.00@7.50 per bbl and sell slowly. Very few retailers are as yet willing to handle them. MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH MILWAUKEE—Flour—Steady. Wheat — Easy; No 2 spring, on track, 68c; No 1 Northern, on track, 67½c. Corn—Steady: No 3 on track, 34c. Oats—Steady: No 2 white, on track, 25½c; No 3 white, on track, 25½c. Barley—Dull; No 2 on track, 45½c; sample on track, 37@46c. Rye — Weak: No 1 on track, 57½c. Provisions—Steady; pork, 10.92; lard, 6.02. Flour is steady at 3.80@3.90 for patents; bakers', 2.80@2.90, and 2.95@3.10 for rye. Millstuffs are steady and quoted at 13.00 for bran, 12.25@12.50 for standard middlings, and 13.75@14.00 for Milwaukee flour middlings. CHICAGO — Close Wheat — February, 66%; May, 67%@67%; July, 68%@68%; Corn—February, 35%; May, 35; July, 35%@35%; September, 35%; Oats—February, 22; May, 23%@23%; July, 22%@22%; Pork—February, 107; May, 10.85; July, 10.87%; Lard—February, 5.80; May, 5.92%; July, 6.00; Ribs—February, 5.85; May, 5.92%@5.95; July, 5.92%@5.95; Flax—Cash N. W, 1.60; S. W, 1.60; September, 1.11; October, 1.08%; Rye—May, 5.50. Barley-Cash, 35%@46%; Timothy—February, 2.55; March, 2.60, Clover—March, 2.00. ST. LOUISE—Close-Wheat—No. 2 red cash, elevator, 70%; track, 72%@72%; February, 70%; May, 70%; July, 67%; No. 2 hard, 66%@67%; Corn—No. 2 cash, 33%; track, 34%; February, 32%; May, 33%; July, 34%@34%; Oats—Lower; No. 2 cash, 24%; track, 24%@24%; February, 24%; May, 24%; No. 2 white, 26%@26%; Rye-55%; Flax-1.58. Lead-4.57%@4.62; Spelter-4.60. NEW YORK — Close — Wheat — March, 75%; May, 74; July, 73%; September, 73%; Corn—May, 40%; July, 40%. DULUTH — Close — Wheat — Cash No. 1 hard, 67%c; No. 1 Northern, 66c; No. 2 Northern, 63%c; No. 3, 60c; No. 1 hard, to arrive, 67%c; No. 1 Northern, to arrive, 66c; May, 67%c; July, 68%c. MINNEAPOLIS — Close — Wheat — In store, No. 1 Northern, February, 65c; May, 65%c; July, 66%c; on track, No. 1 hard, 66%c; No. 1 Northern, 64%c; No. 2 Northern, 62%c. LIVERPOOL—Wheat—Quiet, unchanged to 1/4 lower, March, 59%d; May, 59%d; July, 59%d; Corn—Quiet, unchanged to 1/4 higher, February, 388%d; March, 388%d; May, 378%d; July, 377%d. ST. LOUIS—Cattle—Receipts, 3500; easy, native steers, 4.25%@6.00; stockers and feeders, 2.75%@4.75; cows and heifers, 2.30%@4.75; Texas and Indian steers, 3.25%@4.80; Hogs—Receipts, 8000; 5c lower; pigs and lights, 4.75%@4.85; packers, 4.75%@4.95; butchers, 4.90@5.00. Sheep—Receipts, 500; steady; muttus, 4.75%@5.75; lambs, 5.00%@7.25. KANSAS CITY—Cattle—Receipts, 9000; 5@10 lower; native steers, 3.75@5.33; Texas steers, 3.50@4.80; cows and heifers, 2.00@4.20; stockers and feeders, 3.25@5.35; Hogs—Receipts, 12,000; weak to 5e lower; bulk of sales, 4.70@4.771; heavy, 4.72@4.85; mixed, 4.65@4.80; light, 4.50@4.7212; pigs, 4.10@4.60; Sheep—Receipts, 2000; steady; lambs, 5.50@6.50; muttons, 3.55@5.75. SOUTH OMAHA—Cattle—Receipts, 3100; slow to 10c lower; native steers, 4.00@5.35; Western steers, 3.80@4.70; Texas steers, 3.65@4.25; cows and heifers, 3.25@4.25; stockers and feeders, 3.60@4.80; Hogs—Receipts, 9300; 5c lower; heavy, 4.75@4.85; mixed, 4.72@4.75; light, 4.65@4.75; pigs, 4.00@4.60; bulk of sales, 4.72@4.75; Sheep—Receipts, 6900; steady; muttons, 5.20@5.60; lambs, 5.55@6.75. ay: Rg eae ee ea: oe een ae ES = Pesce Na ey Pe: FE Wie ene Pes on OE “Sage Oe ee ee. : PMB SGE 7 Ce ° aa Serpeeer. wrenpnan: SoC is : l) Rocha eee ited a “ eh ee ee eee Pe a Se a Kes a fe Pe ee a ae sy a tea Bs Fe nat Se ee OS fi -= Sy. ‘ Se pe WO ae “Sapa cme Geet Sg ees tthe at eee a Bees Rp Gee fe es aS ees peers ft Lr ae Me Be Se ee ie aaa © eee a Pe et he gees | oe ae 8 a amas | ee ee oe Ree Sie am ol ee : pict aes eee wee hy ete eh Pee be Be ieee Pie a eee ent ee ‘ ees rt errant eee + Ps Re ok . rere ae ee = nares Petre: © 9) THEOFICEOR THE WISCONSIN <> Mm er | oe % 1 ec i205 Pete eee °°. 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Address all business communications to the general manager, 209 Fifth street. Mr. Richard B. Montgomery. Entered at tne Milwaukee P. 0. as second- The British censors in South Africa leave the public any amount of room for the play of theory. Buller’s persistency is probably stimu- lated by the reflection that faint heart never won fair Ladysmith. A mutiny among the Soudanese soldiers at Khartoum is an alarming incident for England at this juncture. So much de- pends upon native soldiery in a number of the British colonies that uprisings are fearful contingencies. Honolulu’s success in stamping out the plague is reassuring. San Francisco will breathe more freely now, as she could not burn her Chinatown and have the flames play any pranks without burn- ing out her business center. Massachusetts expends $200,000 a year in the crusade against the gypsy moth. It would seem that the inhabitants of the old Bay State are divided into two classes -—the moth-exterminators and the people who pay taxes. When the statement by Mr. Frick, that the Carnegie Steel Company made over $40,000,000 last year, strikes the depths of the popular heart with a_ piercing thrill, there may be a rush toward invest- ment in steel works. Then the promoter will have another opportunity. It is proposed in London to found a South African club, for the purpose of reuniting, on their return, the officers who fought against the Boers. If the war goes on as it has begun it will not leave many persons eligible for member- ship. oC Peace has her fatalities as well as war. it is calculated that the deaths in the British army during the first four months of the war in South Africa are equaled by the annual number of accidental deaths among the coal miners in the TTinited States. John D. Rockefeller’s latest gift of $1,- 500,000 to Chicago university swells the total of his munificence to that. institu- tion to the amount of $8,500,000. If cold eash brings success in an educational in- stitution, the future of Chicago univer- sity is assured. eo The asphyxiation of a family of three persons, in Chicago, by illuminating gas, is a sad but not uncommon occurrence. Inventors have still to provide a gas stop-cock that will close automatically, and a method of alarm when a room is filling with gas. The construction of a railroad across Persia is a strategical movement that is more reassuring to Russia than to Great Britain, at the present time. Considered in connection with the Trans-Siberian road, the new Trans-Persian line is an enterprise of great military importance to Russis_ The display of popular sorrow at the Lawton obsequies in Washington reflect- ed the sadness felt throughout the nation because of the loss of the true-hearted soldier. Lawton was made of the stuff which the American people admire, and it would have pleased his country might- ily to have had an opportunity to reward him with high military honors. —_—_—_——— The Minnesota Supreme court has ren- dered a decision sustaining the barbers’ license law. It holds that the law is a protection to the public against unclean or incompetent barbers, and is not unrea- sonable. Lawyers, doctors, dentists, plumbers—and now barbers. Some of these days a man who wants to hoe po- intoes will have to pass an examination and take out a license first. The California orange crop will break the record this season. The yield is esti- mated at from 14,000 to 14,500 carloads. In boxes it is figured at from 4,000,000 to 4,500,000. There are enough oranges to give every man, woman and child in the United States a dozen or so. Neither the exact size of the crop nor the precise number of people in the country can be determined before next June. eee The spread cf the famine in India is adding to the troubles of Great Britain. Four million people are now receiving relief, and there is a rush of panic-strick- en natives toward the relief works. The mortality incident to the low state of vi- tality among the people as a result of the lack of food is augmented by the plague, smallpox and other diseases. Great Brit- ain’s responsibilities in India are very great, and it is surprising that she has been able to accomplish so much in the way of improvement. Left to their own resources, the natives of India would be in a sad plight. Big guns are powerful, but like the horse are at the same time quite delicate. ‘Two 12-inch rifle cannon sent to the de- fenses of Puget sound are reported to have been almost ruined by a mistake in emplacing them. The weakness of guns of this size is in their great length. Some of the large guns on British war ships were found to be useless because of sag- ging under their own weight, toward the ye oy Trained alligators are an innovation. ‘The professional trainers have gotten as far as seals which play musical instru- ments, but there is no record that the gray matter which reposes beneath the skull of an alligator has ever responded sufficiently to the inspiration of human efforts to show any intelligence, until Dr. Howard Pursell of Bristol, Pa., tried it. Dr. Pursell has just returned from a trip to Florida, and brought with him three or four baby alligators. He has worked -untiringly with them until he has taught them a number of tricks, which seem al- most impossible, when one considers the apparent lack of intelilgence on the part of the subjects. A correspondent of the Philadelphia Record, traveling in Spain, writes that a delicious dish that is frequently served in Cadiz—at least we thought it delicious until we learned what it was—is called cangrejos. It is the foreclaws of crabs, that part of the animal only being used. The coast marshes beyond Puntales breed innumerable small crabs. Men, women and children make a business of hunting them, tearing off the forelegs of the living animal and then turning it loose, maimed and suffering, to grow new legs and be again and again dismembered. To be sure, they are only crabs; but, had they voices, think what cries of agony would rise to heaven from the Cadiz marshec! The bridge made famous by Longfel- lew's poem, “I Stood on the Bridge at Midnight,” was discussed during the hearing of a bridge bill before the House committee on commerce the other day. A delegate from Boston and Cambridge was present relative to the bill for a bridge across the Charles river from Bos- ton to Cambridgeport. Mayor Champlin of Cambridge advocated a drawless bridge, while ex-Assistant Secretary Hamlin and other representatives of busi- hess interests urged a draw bridge. Mr. Hamlin stated that the adjoining bridge was the one on which Longfellow wrote his immortal poem, and it had a draw, and Mr. Hamlin said further that if another Longfellow appeared twenty- five years hence, he would still address his poems to bridges with draws, which were essential to commerce. Many have been the schemes and de- vices put forward in the past for the purpose of supplying Londoners with the luxury and healthy benefits to be ob- tained from the ready use of sea water for regular bathing in the metropolis, but it cannot be said that any thorough- ly practical plan of sea water supply, which could command commercial suc- cess, has yet been suggested. A_ satis- factory solution of this hitherto uns¢lved problem is now said to be practically achieved, so far, at present, as to estab- lish sea water swimming baths at pop- ular prices. The proposed sea baths are to be somewhat similar to the ordinary floating bath-houses. According to the new scheme, as many of the new float- ing sea water baths as found necessary are to be located at convenient berths on the Thames, and the constant renewal of sea water will be maintained by com- bined water-carrying and dumping barges. These novel hopper barges will be specially designed to carry out to sea a cargo of rubble, sludge or other ref- use, to be dumped in deep water and to return with a cargo of sea water. ——— A Valentine Luncheon. A Valentine luncheon is ‘+ order,, the colors suitable being pink in place of orange. Cut four heart-shuped pieces of pasteboard, cover with pink crimped tis- gue paper aud atranes thom in too «at dle of the table with the points nearly meeting in the center. In size they must be made to suit the size of the table. Edge them with a narrow green vine. The leaves of the rose geranium would be suitable, with an occasional pink ge- ranium flower scattered among the leaves. In the middle, with the heart points touching it, stands a vase or rose bewl lightly filled with feathery foliage and pink and white blossoms.” On the center of each heart, place a small dish, two filled with white bonbons, and two with salted almonds or peanuts. Oppo- site the middle of each heart, stand a candle with pink shade, and one at each corner of the table. The menu should be written on heart-shaped pieces of pink cardboard, and then pasted to pink satin ribbon. It is not best to try to keep the dishes in roseate hues, except that small cakes and a pudding might be frosted with pink icing and a meringue tinted with confectioner’s pink. The hostess might be garbed, at least as to the bodice, in white or in green and pink with heart: shaped decorations oe the front. An ingenious woman could adorn each name card or menu with a couplet fitting to the oceasion, no two being duplicates, and a hundred original methods of decoration and serving will come to one who is at ali suggestive.—Hester M. Poole in Guod ei as, Yankee “Shrewdness.”' | The following anecdote of American smartness is told by Clifford Lanier in “An American in London,” the Interna- tional: “An oid bachelor Scotchman stopping at the hotel related with glee and laugh- ter how he was discomfited even ‘unto Hormah’ by some Amalekites of Ameri- can lady tourists. It was politely agreed that he should ne an account of ex- peuses, which should be divided and Tiq- uidated equitably; so for a week he chap- eroned, guided and treasuried the party throughout all the sightseeing, excursions and jaunts in and out, to and from Lon- don, to Oxford, Stratford, Chelsea, Ches- ter, Richmond, ete., rigidly keeping his cash account of outlay, attrading the wonder of his banker, even drawing & mild expostulation from his mentor of a solicitor, till one morning he received a dainty note of fareweil, which totally failed to enclose any banknote of Tiquida- tion, and his casual American friends had flown, fluttering, chirping and plum- ing their happy wings, for a descent ‘up- on the sunny vines of Italy. But he in- ae that he does not dislike Americans. ‘He is now a wiser and a cannier Scotch- a, more cautious, prudent, artful, yet ‘still usefal, sweet-tempered ‘und ‘pleas ing.’ HELP AND HAND SOCIETY ae What an Opportunity es Good Colored Men and Women pie, ee land by writing us we will furnish all with good places free of charge, and at good wages. And all those who wish first- class colored help direct from the Southern States we desire to call attention to the many families who are in quest of help of all kinds not to overlook the Help and Hand Mission where we can supply free to all the very best of colored help. The Help and Hand Mission is under the immediate direction of Mr. Richard B. Montgomery, who gives all re- quiring good help his prompt and personal attention and at thesame time places good colored people in first-class homes. 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BRIEF NOTES OF NOTABLES. —The Marquis of Salisbury has made his usual rebate of 30 per cent. to his agricultural tenants. —Senator Hale of Maine is something of an athlete and is particularly fond of fencing, at which he was once an expert. | —Queen Victoria always has her new | boots worn a few times by one of her dressers. whose foot is the same size. as her majesty’s. —Senator Hanna’s rheumatic leg_ is | again giving him some trouble and for | the last few days he has been walking with the aid of a cane. |, ~Aleis Burgsthaler, who has _ been hailed in Germany as the coming king of tenors, was but a few years ago a farm boy in upper Bavaria. —Thomas Wentworth Higginson has been asked to deliver an address on early Harvard athletics at the opening of the new Harvard boathouse. —The mayor of Kimberley, who for- warded a loyal message to Queen Vic- _toria on New Year's day, is the son of James Henderson, farmer, Kildarton, near Armagh, in Ireland. —Josiah Quincy, ex-Mayor of Boston, announces that he will shortly marry Mrs. William R. aa widow of the late head master of Adams’ academy at Quincey. | —Goy. A. H. Longino of Mississippi, /who opposes lynching, was once nearly mobbed by fellow-students at the Uni- versity of Mississippi for a violent speech against lynch law. _ —Collis P. Huntington is building a -new country house near Los Angeles, Cal. His fine collection of pictures is to be taken there, and will be thrown open to the public once a week. | —Lord Roberts’ Christmas message to the nation is short and simple: ‘I send my best remembrance to all in the coun- try. In all this outburst of patriotism P see a good omen of success.” | —T. B. Aldrich, the poet, is a great smoker of cigarettes. “lL always do my best work after a short smoke,” he says, “and my favorite hours for writing are before noon or after midnight.” , —Goy. Longino, the chief executive of Mississippi, who opposes lynching, is not 44 years old. He is a self-made man, and worked by nights to pay his way at Mississippi college, Clinton, Miss. —Former Secretary of War Alger has written to the mayor of Detroit offering all the bap in his power for the bringing home of the bodies of Michigan soldiers who died in Cuba and Porto Rico. —The late John Ruskin gave are a great deal of money during his life. Many years his annual income from his pen alone was $30,000, but he lived on less than a tenth of that amount. In- deed, he used to say that a gentleman ought to be able to live on a pound {about 35) a day. —Sir Philip Burne-Jones, Kipling’s cousin, relates of that author that when he is absorbed in his subject he writes with great rapidity, and each succeeding lire on a page begins a little farther to the right, so that when he gets to the end of a sheet there are but two or three words to a line, —Tolstoi said the other day: “My end is near. I anticipate it with tranquillity, as all things are inevitable. 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Rates $1.25 Per Day. Union Laundry and News Co. 328 Wells Street GEO. W. SAYLES. All Work Carefully Done. Lowest Prices and Satisfaction Guaranteed. A. THIS sermon of Dr. Talmage presents a gospel for this life as well as the next and shows what religion does for the prolongation of earthly existence; text, Psalm xci., 16, "With long life will I satisfy him." Through the mistake of its friends religion has been chiefly associated with sickbeds and graveyards. The whole subject to many people is odorous with chlorine and carbolic acid. There are people who cannot pronounce the word religion without hearing in it the clipping chisel of the tombstone cutter. It is high time that this thing were changed and that religion instead of being represented as a hearse to carry out the dead should be represented as a chariot in which the living are to triumph. Religion, so far from subtracting from one's vitality, is a glorious addition. It is sanitive, curative, hygienic. It is good for the eyes, good for the ears, good for the spleen, good for the digestion, good for the nerves, good for the muscles. When David, in another part of the Psalms, prays that religion may be dominant, he does not speak of it as a mild sickness or an emaciation or an attack of moral and spiritual cramp. He speaks of it as "the saving health of all nations," while God in the text promises longevity to the pious, saying, "With long life will I satisfy him." The fact is that men and women die too soon. It is high time that religion joined the hand of medical science in attempting to improve human longevity. Adam lived 930 years. Methuselah lived 969 years. As late in the history of the world as Vespasian there were at one time in his empire forty-five people 135 years old. So far down as the sixteenth century Peter Zartan died at 185 years of age. I do not say that religion will ever take the race back to antediluvian longevity, but I do say that the length of nunan life will be greatly improved. it is said in Isaiah lxv., 20, "The child shall die a hundred years old." Now, if, according to Scripture, the child is to be a hundred years old, may not the men and women reach to 300 and 400 and 500? The fact is that we are mere dwarfs and skeletons compared with some of the generations that are to come. Take the African race. They have been under bondage for centuries. Give them a chance and they develop a Toussaint l'Ouverture. And if the white race shall be brought out from under the serfdom of sin what shall be the body? What shall be the soul? Religion has only just touched our world. Give it full power for a few centuries, and who can tell what will be the strength of man and the beauty of woman and the longevity of all? Religion and Longevity. My design is to show that practical religion is the friend of longevity; I prove it, first, from the fact that it makes the care of our health a positive Christian duty. Whether we shall keep early or late hours, whether we shall take food digestible or indigestible, whether there shall be thorough or incomplete mastication, are questions very often referred to the realm of whimsicality, but the Christian man lifts this whole problem of health into the accountable and the vine. He says, "God has given me this body, and he has called it the temple of the Holy Ghost, and to deface its altars or mar its walls or crumble its pillars is a God defying sacrilege." He sees God's caligraphy in every page—anatomical and physiological. He says, "God has given me a wonderful body for noble purposes." That arm with thirty-two curious bones wielded by forty-six curious muscles, and all under the brain's telegraphy—350 pounds of blood rushing through the heart every hour—the heart in twenty-four hours beating 100,000 times, during the same time the lungs taking in fifty-seven hogsheads of air, and all this mechanism not more mighty than delicate and easily disturbed and demolished. The Christian man says to himself, "If I hurt my nerves, if I hurt my brain, if I hurt any of my physical faculties, I insult God and call for dire retribution." Why did God tell the Levites not to offer to him in sacrifice animals imperfect and diseased? He meant to tell us in all the ages that we are to offer to God our very best physical condition, and a man who through irregular or gluttonous eating ruins his health, is not offering to God such a sacrifice. Why did Paul write for his cloak at Troas? Why should such a great man as Paul be anxious about a thing so insignificant as an overcoat? It was because he knew that with pneumonia and rheumatism he would not be worth half as much to God and the church as with respiration easy and foot free. Prayer and Fresh Air. An intelligent Christian man would consider it an absurdity to kneel down at night and pray and ask God's protection while at the same time he kept the windows of his bedroom tight shut against fresh air. He would just as soon think of going to the top of his house and leaping off and then praying to God to keep him from getting hurt. Just as long as you refer this whole subject of physical health to the realm of whimsicality, or to the pastry cook, or to the butcher, or to the baker, or to the apothecary, or to the clothier you are not acting like a Christian. Take care of all your physical forces—nervous, muscular, bone, brain, cellular tissue—for all you must be brought to judgment. Smoking your nervous system into fidgets, burning out the coating of your stomach with wine logwooded and strychnined, walking with thin shoes to make your feet look delicate, pinched at the waist until you are nigh cut in two, and neither part worth anything, groaning about sick headache and palpitation of the heart, which you think came from God, when they came from your own folly. What right has any man or woman to deface the temple of the Holy Ghots? What is the ear? Why, it is the whispering gallery of the human soul. What is the eye? It is the observatory God constructed, its telescope sweeping the heavens. So wonderful are these bodies that God names his own attributes after different parts of them. His omniscience—it is God's eye. His omnipresence—it is God's ear. His omnipotence—it is God's arm. The upholstery of the midnight heavens—it is the work of God's fingers. His life giving power—it is the breath of the Almighty. His dominion—"the government shall be upon his shoulder." A body so divinely honored and so divinely constructed—let us be careful not to abuse it. When it becomes a Christian duty to take care of our health, is not the whole tendency toward longevity? If I toss my watch about recklessly and drop it on the pavement and wind it up any time of day or night I happen to think of it and often let it run down while you are careful with your watch and never abuse it and wind it up just at the same hour every night and put it in a place where it will not suffer from the violent changes of atmosphere, which watch will last the longer? Common sense answers. Now, the human body is God's watch. You see the hands of the watch. You see the face of the watch, but the beating of the heart is the ticking of the watch. Oh, be careful and do not let it run down! Protest Against Dissipation. Again, I remark that practical religion is a friend of longevity in the fact that it is a protest against dissipations which injure and destroy the health. Bad men and women live a very short life. Their sins kill them. I know hundreds of good old men, but I do not know half a dozen bad old men. Why? They do not get old. Lord Byron died at Missolonghi at 36 years of age, himself his own Mazepa, his unbridled passions the horse that dashed with him into the desert. Edgar A. Poe died at Baltimore at 38 years of age. The black raven that alighted on the bust above his chamber door was delirium tremens. Only this and nothing more. Napoleon Bonaparte lived only just beyond midlife, then died at St. Helena, and one of his doctors said that his disease was induced by excessive snuffing. The hero of Austerlitz, the man who by one step of his foot in the center of Europe shook the earth, killed by a snuffbox! Oh, how many people we have known who have not lived out half their days because of their dissipations and indulgences! Now, practical religion is a protest against all dissipation of any kind. "But," you say, "professors of religion have fallen, professors of religion have got drunk, professors of religion have misappropriated trust funds, professors of religion have absconded." Yes, but they threw away their religion before they did their morality. If a man on a White Star line steamer bound for Liverpool, in mid-Atlantic jumps overboard and is drowned, is that anything against the White Star line's capacity to take the man across the ocean? And if a man jumps over the gunwale of his religion and goes down never to rise, is that any reason for your believing that religion has no capacity to take the man clear through? In the one case if he had kept to the steamer his body would have been saved; in the other case if he had kept to his religion his morals would have been saved. Takes Away Worry. Again, religion is a friend of longevity in the fact that it takes the worry out of our temporalities. It is not work that kills men, it is worry. When a man becomes a genuine Christian, he makes over to God not only his affections, but his family, his business, his reputation, his body, his mind, his soul—everything. Industrious he will be, but never worrying, because God is managing his affairs. How can he worry about business when in answer to his prayers God tells him when to buy and when to sell, and if he gain that is best and if he lose that is best? Suppose you had a supernatural neighbor who came in and said: "Sir, I want you to call on me in every exigency. I am your fast friend; I could fall back on $20,000,000; I can foresee a panic ten years; I hold the controlling stock in thirty of the best monetary institutions of this country; whenever you are in any trouble call on me and I will help you; you can have my money and you can have my influence; here is my hand in pledge of it." How much would you worry about business? Why, you would say, "I'll do the best I can, and then I'll depend on my friend's generosity for the rest." Now more than that is promised to every Christian business man. God says to him: "I own New York and London and St. Petersburg and Peking and Australia and California are mine; I can foresee a panic a thousand years; I have all the resources of the universe; and I am your best friend; when you get in business trouble or any other trouble, call on me and I will help; here is my hand in pledge of omnipotent deliverance." How much should that man worry? Not much. What lion will dare to put his paw on that Daniel? Is there not rest in this? Is there not an eternal vacation in this? "Oh," you say, "here is a man who asked God for a blessing in a certain enterprise, and he lost $5,000 in it. Explain that." I will. Yonder is a factory, and one wheel is going north, and the other wheel is going south, and one wheel plays laterally, and the other plays vertically. I go to the manufacturer, and I say: "O manufacturer, your machinery is a contradiction. Why do you not make all the wheels go one way?" "Well," he says, "I made them to go in opposite directions on purpose, and they produce the right result. You go down stairs and examine the carpets we are turning out in this establishment, and you will see." I go down on the other floor, and I see the carpets, and I am obliged to confess that, though the wheels in that factory go in opposite directions, they turn out a beautiful result, and while I am standing there looking at the exquisite fabric an old Scripture passage comes into my mind, "All things work together for good to them who love God." Is there not rest in that? Is there not tonic in that? Is there not longevity in that? Suppose a man is all the time worried about his reputation? One man says he lies, another says he is stupid, another says he is dishonest, and half a dozen printing establishments attack him, and he is in a great state of excitement and worry and fume and cannot sleep. But rellgion comes to him and says: "Man, God is on your side. He will take care of your reputation. If God be for you, who can be against you?" How much should that man worry about his reputation? Not much. If that broker who some years ago in Wall street, after he had lost money, sat down and wrote a farewell letter to his wife before he blew his brains out—if, instead of taking out of his pocket a pistol, he had taken out a well-read New Testament, there would have been one less suicide. O nervous and feverish people of the world, try this almighty sedative. You will live twenty-five years longer under its soothing power. It is not chloral that you want or morphine that you want. It is the gospel of Jesus Christ. "With long life will I satisfy him." Removes Corroding Care. Again, practical religion is a friend of longevity in the fact that it removes all corroding care about a future existence. Every man wants to know what is to become of him. If you get on board a rail train, you want to know at what depot it is going to stop. If you get on board a ship, you want to know into what harbor it is going to run, and if you should tell me you have no interest in what is to be your future destiny I would in as polite a way as I know how tell you I did not believe you. Before I had this matter settled with reference to my future existence the question almost worried me into ruined health. The anxieties men have upon this subject put together would make a martyrdom. This is a state of awful unhealthiness. There are people who fret themselves to death for fear of dying. I want to take the strain off your nerves and the depression off your soul, and I make two or three experiments. Experiment the first: When you go out of this world, it does not make any difference whether you have been good or bad, or whether you believed truth or error, you will go straight to glory. "Impossible," you say. "My common sense as well as my religion teaches that the bad and the good cannot live together forever. You give me no comfort in that experiment." Experiment the second: When you leave this world, you will go into an intermediate state where you can get converted and prepared for heaven. "Impossible," you say; "as the tree falleth, so it must lie, and I cannot postpone to an intermediate state that reformation which ought to have been effected in this state." Experiment the third: There is no future world. When a man dies, that is the last of him. Do not worry about what you are to do in another state of being; you will not do anything. "Impossible," you say. "There is something that tells me that death is not the appendix, but the preface; there is something that tells me that on this side of the grave I only get started and that I shall go on forever. My power to think says forever, my affections say forever, my capacity to enjoy or suffer forever. The Wages of Sin. Well, you defeat me in my three experiments. I have only one more to make, and if you defeat me in that I am exhausted. A mighty one on a knoll back of Jerusalem one day, the skies filled with forked lightnings and the earth filled with volcanic disturbances, turned his pale and agonized face toward the heavens and said: "I take the sins and sorrows of the ages into my own heart. I am the expiation. Witness, earth and heaven and hell, I am the expiation." And the hammer struck him and the spears punctured him, and heaven thundered, "The wages of sin is death!" "The soul that sinneth it shall die!" "I will by no means clear the guilty!" Then there was silence for half an hour, and the lightnings were drawn back into the scabbard of the sky and the earth ceased to quiver and all the colors of the sky began to shift themselves into a rainbow woven out of the falling tears of Jesus and there was red as of the bloodshedding and there was blue as of the bruising and there was green as of the heavenly foliage and there was orange as of the day dawn. And along the line of the blue I saw the words, "I was bruised for their iniquities." And along the line of the red I saw the words, "The blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth from all sin." And along the line of the green I saw the words, "The leaves of the tree of life for the healing of the nations." And along the line of the orange I saw the words, "The dayspring from on high hath visited us." And then I saw the storm was over, and the rainbow rose higher and higher until it seemed retreating to another heaven, and planting one column of its colors on one side the eternal hill and planting the other column of its colors on the other side the eternal hill it rose upward and upward, and, behold, there was a rainbow about the throne. Accept that sacrifice and quit worrying. Take the tonic, the inspiration, the longevity, of this truth. Religion is sunshine; that is health. Religion is fresh air and pure water; they are healthy. Religion is warmth; that is healthy. Ask all the doctors, and they will tell you that a quiet conscience and pleasant anticipations are hygienic. I offer you perfect peace now and hereafter. What do you want in the future world? Tell me, and you shall have it. Orchards? There are the trees with twelve manner of fruits, yielding fruit every month. Water scenery? There is the river of life, from under the throne of God, clear as crystal, and the sea of glass mingled with fire. Do you want music? There are the oratorio of the "Creation," led on by Adam, and the oratorio of the "Red Sea," led on by Moses, and the oratorio of the "Messiah," led on by St. Paul, while the archangel, with swinging baton, controls the 144,000 who make up the orchestra. Do you want reunion? There are your dead children waiting to kiss you, waiting to embrace you, waiting to twist garlands in your hair. You have been accustomed to open the door on this side the sepulcher; I open the door on the other side the sepulcher. You have been accustomed to walk in the wet grass on the top of the grave; I show you the underside of the grave. The bottom has fallen out, and the long ropes with which the pall-bearers let down your dead let them clear through into heaven. Glory be to God for this robust, healthy, religion! It will have a tendency to make you live long in this world, and in the world to come you will have eternal life. "With long life will I satisfy him." Christianity.—The distinctive feature of Christianity is that it lifts up humanity. The ministers should do as Jesus did, preach and work. This is especially an age of work.—Rev. Dr. Kerr Boyce Tupper, Baptist, Philadelphia, Pa. Loose statements are apt to get a tight hold. BARGAINS IN FINE CLOTHING OME PAID TO ALL MEN FASHIONABLE MISFIT AND UNCALED FOR CUSTOM TAILOR MARK CLOTHING 213 WHOLESALE RETAIL 217 Extra This Week Closing Out Overcoats and Heavy Weight Suits prices guaranteed 25 per cent. less than any store in this city also workmanship to be as good and better than any other store in this city. An example of our prices: $30 Overcoats for $20 $25 Overcoats for $15 $20 Overcoats for $13 $15 Overcoats for $10 and $12 Overcoats for $8 Also Heavy Weight Suits 25 per cent. less than we have been selling them before. Seeing is convincing. At the The Fashionable Misfit Clothing House 213-217 West Water Street, I door south of News Building and Opposite Barrett's Photograph otograph Photographer.. 296 West Water Street. Opp. Second Ward Bank Bldg. The Emerss CORNER GRAND AVENUE MILWAU MR. GEORGE A. ager of R. B. facturers of the Celebr Made Shoes, begs lea many citizens of Milw they have opened a m the new building on Third St. and Grand line of goods. This m the firm at the present A Goodyear Welt cost $5.00. The goods are hone solicited. Persons Emerson Shops BAYER GRAND AVENUE AND THIRD ST MILWAUKEE, WIS. GEORGE A. SCHECK Owner of R. B. Grover & Co. of the Celebrated Comfortable Shoes, begs leave to announce citizens of Milwaukee and visit opened a new store in the building on the northeast and Grand Ave. and c goods. This makes 31 store at the present time. Year Welt costs $3.50 and a goods are honest all through and Opp. Second Ward Bank Bldg. MILWAUKEE, WIS. The Emerson Shoe Co. CORNER GRAND AVENUE AND THIRD STREET, MILWAUKEE, WIS. MR. GEORGE A. SCHECK, the manager of R. B. Grover & Co., manufacturers of the Celebrated Comfortable Custom Made Shoes, begs leave to announce to the many citizens of Milwaukee and vicinity that they have opened a new store in this city in the new building on the northeast corner of Third St. and Grand Ave. and carry a full line of goods. This makes 31 stores run by the firm at the present time. A Goodyear Welt costs $3.50 and a Handsewed $5.00. The goods are honest all through and inspection is solicited. A who desire to hire stylish and nobby rigs for a drive will do well to patronize GEO. W. SEITZ, who has one of the best assorted livery stables, not WHEN IN WAUKESHA Don't forget to go to the VALENTINE HOUSE Where you will be well taken care of. It has all modern improvements and is only a short distance from the depot. --- --- rapher.. on Shoe Co. QUE AND THIRD STREET, KEE, WIS. 1. SCHECK, the man- Grover & Co., manu- rated Comfortable Custom ve to announce to the waukee and vicinity that new store in this city in the northeast corner of Ave. and carry a full makes 31 stores run by t time. is $3.50 and a Handsewed at all through and inspection is only in Fond du Lac, but in the Northwest. He is one of the most courteous and accommodating gentlemen in the business. A specialty made of traveling men's trade. Remember the place, 34 Forest Ave. Telephone 119. Fond du Lac, Wis. WESTERN RELIEF Association OF OSHKOSH, WIS. Protects your time against Accidental Sickness or Death for ONE-DOLLAR A MONTH Good agents wanted. Apply 209 Fifth Street or 1227 Vliet St. CALL TO REV. CHANDLER Invited by the Congregational Church at Fond du Lac. Judson Titsworth Says He will Add Strength to Congregational Church in Wisconsin. Fond du Lac, Wis., Feb. 21.—[Special.]—At a meeting of the members of the Congregational church last evening, Rev. Joseph Hayes Chandler was extended a call to the pastorate of the church in this city, which is among one of the best charges in this portion of Wisconsin. It is thought that he will accept. Rev. Chandler was born in Brattleboro, Vt., and this was his residence place until the time he graduated from Yale, in 1877. For five years he taught [Picture of a man with a mustache and a suit]. REV. JOSEPH HAYES CHANDLER. (Called to the Pastorate of the Fond du Lac Congregational Church.) in tPark institute, a preparatory school for Yale, at Rye, N. Y. He took a three-years' theological course, partly in New York city, at Union seminary, and the final year at Andover, Mass. Afterwards he received a call to the Congregational church in St. Cloud, Minn. For eight years he was pastor of the St. Anthony Park Congregational church in St. Paul. For some time he was located at Rhinelander. Afterwards he had charge of a church in Minnesota, but a loss of voice compelled him to take a vacation. He went to New Haven, Conn., and has been living there since last spring. He has had considerable experience in the newspaper field, being one of the editors of the Yale Courant while he was attending college and also one of the four class historians. He has also done newspaper work in the West. While residing at Rhinelander he was president of the North Wisconsin Home Missionary society. Only recently he served as a member of the central committee of the anti-saloon league for Minnesota. Of Rev. Mr. Chandler, Judson Titsworth of Milwaukee says: "He is such a man as we need in this state, and his coming will give added strength to the Congregational church of Wisconsin." Mr. Chandler has been supplying the pulpit here for several weeks and he has made many friends. His acceptance of the call just extended will mean much to the Congregational church of this city. Richard McNeal Arrested, Charged with Passing Forged Checks—Recently Inherited $8000. Janesville, Wis., Feb. 21.—[Special.] Richard McNeal, a well-known Janesville boy, who had $8000 left him a few months ago by relatives, is now in trouble in Chicago. McNeal is in jail there charged with passing forged checks on his landlady. Local relatives say that the boy will have to get out of his present trouble as best he can. He has a sister in Milwaukee. WILL COLLECT FUNDS. Bishop Messmer Appointed to Help Raise Money for Negro and Indian Schools. Green Bay. Wis., Feb. 21.—[Special.] Bishop S. G. Messmer of this city has been appointed one of six bishops who will collect funds for the negro and Indian schools in the United States. He will visit the churches throughout the Milwaukee and Cincinnati districts and will be away from home during the greater part of Lent. The Milwaukee district includes all of Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, while that of Cincinnati covers a territory equally as large. FROM CRANBERRIES TO STOCK 800-Acre Farm Sold Near Black River Falls. Black River Falls, Wis., Feb. 21. [Special.]—There has just been recorded by the register of deeds here a deed for 800 acres of land about six miles from the city. The land belonged to the estate of the late William Kerrigan and was a few years ago one of the finest cranberry farms in the state. Dry seasons ruined the vines and fire entirely destroyed the marshes, burning them in some places five feet deep. It was abandoned as a cranberry farm and is to be made by the purchaser, Ray S. Reid of La Crosse, one of the finest stock farms in this section, as it is admirably adapted to that purpose. He paid $6000 for the tract. HE STOLE $450. Portage Man Sent to State Reformatory for One Year. Portage, Wis., Feb. 21.—[Special.]—Tony Schultz today pleaded guilty to the larceny of $450 from N. M. Henry of this city and was sentenced to one year in the reformatory at Green Bay. DOGS TO TRACK MEN. Oneida County will Buy Bloodhounds to Chase Escaping Prisoners. Rhinelander, Wis., Feb. 21.—County Supervisor F. T. Coon and G. H. Clark leave this week for Chattanooga, Fenn., where they go to purchase man-tracking bloodhounds which are to be used by the sheriff and his deputies in tracking criminals. Several prisoners have escaped from the confines of the country jail and some of them have not been recaptured. GEN. BRAGG'S NATAL DAY Celebrates the Seventy-third Anniversary of His Birth. Members March in a Body to General's Home and Extend Their Fond du Lac, Wis., Feb. 20.—Today Gen. E. S. Bragg, commander of the Iron bridage, is keeping "open house" in honor of his seventy-third birthday anniversary, and members of the Iron brigade from all portions of the state are helping to celebrate the occasion. Monday telegrams, together with numerous letters of congratulations, were received and today each mail brought in an additional supply. The Palmer house, the headquarters of the Iron brigade, is elaborately decorated with national colors and an oil painting of the general occupies a prominent place in the main lobby. During the early portion of the afternoon the members of the Iron brigade, headed by "Doc" Aubery, the newsboy of the brigade, marched to the home of Gen. and Mrs. E. S. Bragg. They were met at the door by Mr. Henry, a son-in-law, and Mrs. Scriven, a daughter. The general then came forward and shook the hands of all those who had come to visit him on the occasion of his birthday. New Drinks for the Boys. Gen. Bragg was seen this morning by a Wisconsin reporter. The general was busy mixing drinks for the boys, and he announced to the reporter that he has some new ones to spring on his guests. He had what he called "tenderfoot" drinks—large pitchers filled with milk for the more temperate of his old comrades. "I feel 50 per cent better today than I did a year ago," announced the little general and as he paused he stood erect and his looks corroborated his statement. He looks hale and hearty and good for a great many more years of hard work. At the suggestion of Miss Hattie Aubery, the daughter of the brigade, all of the school children of the city were given flags mounted on a metal stick. On each flag was a picture of the general and the date of his birth and the date of this anniversary. The children waved the flags as the brigade passed the school on the way to the general's house. Many telegrams were received this morning. Among them was one from the Twenty-fourth Michigan congratulating Gen. Bragg and wishing him many happy returns of the day. The delegates marched to the house this afternoon headed by Lieut. McConnell of Chicago, representing the Twenty-fourth Michigan. Gov. Wheeler of the Soldiers' home, Milwaukee, was in the procession and at the general's house made the address of the day on behalf of the Iron brigade. The address was responded to by the general. Lieut. McConnell spoke of what Chicago intended to do next year when the brigade held its annual encampment there and he told of the reception which would be tendered to the general on that occasion. NEENAH DOCTOR DIES. Dr. Joseph P. Beach Passes Away After a Long Illness-End of a Varied Career. Neenah, Wis., Feb. 20.—[Special.]—Dr. Joseph P. Beach, one of Neenah's most prominent physicians, is dead. The end came last night after eleven weeks' strife against pneumonia and other complications. Mr. Beach was born July 25, 1849, at Sharon, O. He has had a varied career. A graduate of Lawrence, he taught school in this vicinity for some time. He then went to St. Louis to engage in the printing business. He next held the chair of mathematics in the university at Port Smith, Mo. He came back to Appleton and engaged in the newspaper business with Capt. J. N. Stone, and later with E. M. Platt, Sr., at Manitowoc. In 1888 he graduated from Hahneman college, Chicago, as a physician and moved to Neenah, where he has ever since resided and practiced. He was married in 1872 to Ella Vilas Platt of Manitowoc. Six children were born to them. Mrs. Beach died in 1889. Dr. Beach was again married in 1892 to Verna Irene Bullock of Whitewater. One son, Kenneth Parnell Beach, was born to them. The deceased is survived by a wife and six children, Mrs. Stephen Stiph, Roy, Alice, Lillian, Edwin and Kenneth Beach, and two sisters, Mrs. Hanna C. Hull of Rico Colo and Mrs. Emma Halstead of Neenah. The funeral will be held tomorrow under the auspices of the Woodmen. Mrs. Nancy M. Trott. La Crosse, Wis., Feb. 20.—[Special.]—Mrs. Nancy M. Trott, one of the early pioneers of La Crosse county, died yesterday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. H. N. Richardson, in Bangor. Deceased was born seventy-seven years ago in Warren, N. H., and has resided for nearly forty years in and about La Crosse. Other Deaths in the State. La Crosse, Wis., Feb. 20.—[Special.]—"Old Uncle Jeff Davis," a colored man and a former slave, supposed to be over 100 years old, died yesterday at the county poor farm, where he has been an inmate for over five years. Davis came here shortly after the Civil war. He was then blind, but until five years ago he had always succeeded in earning a livelihood sawing wood. Intelligence has been received here of the death at Quincy, Ill., of Mrs. A. S. Merriam, whose husband was for many years a prominent figure in local lumber circles. Lake Mills, Wis., Feb. 20.—[Special.] —Mrs. George Millard, an old settler, aged 60, died yesterday. Racine, Wis., Feb. 20.—[Special.] —Mrs. Bridget Quinn, who has resided in this city for the past fifty years, died this morning at the age of 73. Portage, Wis., Feb. 20.—Jerry Brosnan died at Caledonia, aged 74 years. Racine, Wis., Feb. 20.—Mrs. Mary Eva Reitz died of apoplexy. She was 70 years old. Mrs. Sarah Richards, who had lived in Racine over half a century, died, aged 71 years. Frank Rein, brother of Sheriff Edward Rein, died at Burlington, aged 33. Miss Mary McManus of the town of Dover, died of consumption, aged 27 years. Brillion, Wis., Feb. 20.—Charles Pettey, aged 54 years, a pioneer, died yesterday. Ashland, Wis., Feb. 20.—Merritt Hedge, aged 26, one of the proprietors of the Athearn hotel, died yesterday afternoon. Albany, Wis., Feb. 20.—[Special.]—Miss Eva Warren, daughter of ex-Postmaster L. H. Warren, died of heart disease. HELD UP AND ROBBED. Farmer Relieved of His Watch and $5 at Janesville. Janesville, Wis., Feb. 20.—[Special.]—G. R. Malone, a cooper by trade residing at Aurora, Ill., was held up and robbed in this city last evening. The thieves secured his watch and $5. Local talent is suspected. GEN. EDWARD S. BRAGG. (Who Celebrated His Seventy-third Anniversary at Fond du Lac Today.) BADGER INVENTS TERROR FOR WAR. BADGER INVENTS TERROR FOR WAR. Electric Gun Seems Likely to Throw Present Man-Killers Into the Shade. New Orleans, La., Feb. 20.—L. S. Gardner, who was born in New Lisbon, Wis., 32 years ago, has invented an electric gun. This weapon promises a deadliness beyond the most horrible dreams of warfare. It is built along strange lines. Instead of being pushed out from the breech, the projectile is pulled out through the muzzle by a system of powerful magnets and spit into space at a velocity regulated by the wishes of the operator. The gun is open L. S. GARDNER. at both ends, and the projectiles may pour from its muzzle as fast as they can be fed into the breech. There is no recoil, and a tube of glass would serve as well as one of steel. Indeed, the model of this wonderful weapon is made of glass, and has been taken East to attract capitalists. His own description of the weapon follows: The gun is simply a line of short coils or hollow magnets which form a continuous tube. Each magnet is provided with a mechanical device for switching on and off the electric current in it. The device consists of thin disk with a row of metal buttons running from the center to the edge. The switch is attached to the breech of the gun and is operated at the will of the gunner, slowly or rapidly. It is by the speed at which this switch is revolved and the number of magnets that the muzzle velocity of the gun can be controlled. As it turns each in succession of the hollow coils running from breech to muzzle becomes magnetized with indescribable rapidity, and the projectile is dragged to the muzzle and shot out with tremendous force. There is an opening opposite the line of buttons on the switch disk which allows projectiles to pass from the feed box to the barrel at every revolution. DEPERE SCHOOL FIRE. Building Burns Rapidly and is Totally Destroyed in a Short Time. Depere, Wis., Feb. 20.—[Special.]—At 8:30 this morning fire broke out in the assembly room of the high school, woodwork igniting from burning chimney. The building was of stone, but the roof and interior burned rapidly. The furniture and apparatus is a total loss. The public-library room downstairs was the last to burn and the books were all saved. The building was a landmark erected in 1857. The total loss estimated at $3000 with $2200 insurance. PAPER MEN COMING English Manufacturers will Visit the Fox River Valley. Appleton, Wis., Feb. 20.—[Special.]—A committee consisting of Peter Thom. John McNaughton and W. B. Murphy of this city has sent out notices to all the paper makers of the valley, requesting their presence at a meeting to be held at the Sherman hotel here to discuss plans for the entertainment of a large delegation of English paper men, who are to arrive in the valley this spring. The party is to be headed by N. C. Philipps, an old English paper maker who has visited the paper interests of this country before and who has many friends in this section. It is understood that this party is to be the largest and most representative one that England has ever sent to this country. Menasha, Wis., Feb. 20.—[Special.] By changes that are now in process at the plant of the S. A. Cook Manufacturing company employment will be furnished for forty more men. A building is being erected on the grounds to accommodate a sixty-seven-inch pulp machine recently purchased, and additional boilers and engine will be installed. WANTED CHRISTMAS GIFTS GIVEN BACK. WANTED CHRISTMAS GIFTS GIVEN BACK. Clause in the Will of Mrs. Martha Lathrop of Sheboygan—Presents Returned to Givers. Sheboygan, Wis., Feb. 20.—[Special.] A queer clause was found in the will of Mrs. Martha Lathrop, widow of Walter Lathrop, who died at her home here Saturday morning. She stipulated that she had for many years kept Christmas presents which had been presented to her and after her death they were to be returned to the givers. The request is now being fulfilled. She also requested in her will that her body be taken to New York for burial, beside that of her husband. Yesterday the body was shipped to that city. She was 87 years old. Rev. Mr. Kerr officiated at the funeral services here yesterday. EFFORT TO KEEP COACH PHIL KING. Wisconsin Athletic Council May Decide to Give Him $3500 a Year. Madison, Wis., Feb. 20.—[Special.] The directors of the athletic council of the State university will meet this evening to decide whether they will offer the terms Phil King has intimated he will accept to coach the baseball and football teams of the university. King wants $3500 a year on a three-year contract. He has been offered $3000, but would not accept. At $3500 he would spend all his time in Madison, but take entire charge only of the work of the baseball team and football teams. "We are going to have a good baseball team this year," said Manager Fisher today. "If we get King we will have a winning team or, at any rate, one very near the top. We already have three good pitchers in Reidle, Ware and Matthews MIDWINTER FAIR OPENS Great Crowds of Rock County Farmers Attend Exposition at Janesville. Janesville, Wis., Feb. 20.—[Special.]—Janesville's midwinter fair opened this morning. Fully 1000 farmers from all portions of the county were in attendance. At the large rink building, the main exhibit hall, is to be found all the farm produce that one would expect to find at a county fair held in the month of June. The fair in every respect is identical with the summer fair, only not on such a large scale. Livestock is a feature of the show this year, the horses being shown on the streets. Three bands and three orchestras furnish the necessary inspiration each day. A first-class vaudeville show is one of the side attractions. A baby show is one of the many features this year. Liberal prizes are offered for the prettiest baby. Only farmers' wives are allowed to enter their children in this contest. A cooking school is also a feature and is under the supervision of an able teacher. HAD NARROW ESCAPE. Accident to the Chicago Train Leaving Milwaukee at 7:15 a. m. on the North-Western. Racine, Wis., Feb. 20.—[Special.]—The Chicago passenger train on the North-Western road leaving Milwaukee at 1:15 a. m. had a narrow escape from being badly wrecked near County Line this morning. While the train was running at the rate of sixty miles an hour the axle in the journal on the engine broke. One of the larger drive wheels was thrown, going about 375 feet in a field, knocking down several fences in its path. The train ran a considerable distance before the engineer was able to bring it to a stop. No one on the train, excepting the engineer and fireman, knew that an accident had occurred until the stop was made. A freight train was signalled and the train was brought back to this city, where, after a delay it was able to proceed on its way. Shawano, Wis., Feb. 20.—William Gillis of Oshkosh, while working in S. W. Hollister's logging camp, was seriously injured about the head and back by a falling tree. He will probably recover. A SOLDIER'S FUNERAL. Remains of George Munroe Arrive at Marinette. Marinette, Wis., Feb. 20.—[Special.]—The remains of the late George Munroe, the Marinette man who was killed in the Philippines, arrived here today from San Francisco. The funeral will be held Thursday afternoon—Washington's birthday—and will be a public one. The services will be held at the German M. E. church. Munroe served with Co. F in the Kansas regiment. But not only the religious enthusiast and the worshiper of beauty "lose themselves" in ecstacy. The "fine frenzy" of the thinker is typical. From Archimedes, whose life paid the forfeit of his impersonal absorption, from Socrates musing in one spot from dawn to dawn, to Newton and Goethe, there is but one form of the highest effort to penetrate and to create. Emerson is right in saying of the genius: "His greatness consists in the fullness in which an ecstatic state is realized in him." Messrs. Benedict & Morsell, solicitors of patents, Old Insurance building, Milwaukee, report patents issued to Western inventors February 13 as follows: R. F. Barker, Marinette, Wis., steam networks for sawmills; Nicholas Barry, Muscatine, Ia., button machine; Stephan Brilgansch, Milwaukee, carbureeter; W. A. Crotts, Partridge, Kas., wagonbox holder; Ida M. Fuller, Forest City, Ia., theater appliance; W. J. Gould, Lawrence, Kas., cream separator; John Hallner, Mead, Neb., wrench; H. E. Herbaugh, Kenosha, Wis., feed-stop mechanism; A. Janey, Marshalltown, Ia., measuring device; Jas, McCusker, Ryan, Ia., drier; J. K. Miller, J. W. Witt and D. A. Jones, Oshkosh, Wis., electric signal and automatic alarm for railway trains; L. S. Morgan, Kendall, Kas., fence; C. T. Sears, Topeka, Kas., windmill; Frank Schurek, Sr., Milwaukee, washing apparatus for filtering materials; H. C. Swan, Oshkosh, shaft-clamp; Ed. Troy, Lacey, Ia., hayrack. A new theater, with a seating capacity of 3000 persons, is to be built in Montevideo, and a coliseum, with a seating capacity of 4000, is also to be erected. Free! Just out. New popular Songs and Chorus, "Ambrosia" The food of Gods. Words and Music by M. C. Moll. Mailed free to any address, on receipt of one Ambrosia Chocolate, or Cocoa label, and 2 cents in postage stamps. Write Ambrosia Chocolate Co., Milwaukee RAILROAD OPEN TO KIMBERLEY. Gen. Methuen will Proceed There with Reinforcement and Supplies. London, Feb. 20.—2:56 p. m.—The war office has issued a dispatch from Lord Roberts, the main importance of which is the fact that it is dated Paardeberg, 7:05 p. m. Monday. Paardeberg is thirty miles east of Jacobsdal. The dispatch announces that the railroad to Kimberley is open and that Gen. Methuen will proceed there with reinforcements forthwith and that large supplies will be forwarded to the town. London, Feb. 20.—Press cables unofficially reported state that Gen. Kitchener is within ten miles of Bloemfontein and that Gen. Roberts with the main British force is only twenty-five miles from Free State capital. Supplies for Kimberley. Cape Town, Feb. 19.—Repairs to the railway have sufficiently advanced to enable the dispatch tonight of the first train to Kimberley, laden with coal. After that the military requirements will be the first consideration, second foodstuffs and then passengers, which latter train it is anticipated, will start on Wednesday or Thursday. French's Casualties. London, Feb. 20.—The war office announces the following casualties among officers during the relief of Kimberley: Killed—Lieut. A. B. Kesketh, Sixteenth lancers; Lieut. W. McClintock Bunbury, Second dragoons, Wounded—Capt. E. R. Gordon and Lieut. D. F. Brassey, Ninth lancers; Capt. G. B. Tuson, Sixteenth lancers; Lieut. R. I. Fordyce and W. Long, Second dragoons; Lieut. H. M. Durand, Ninth lancers. This list of casualties again demonstrates the fact that a number of mere boys are serving in South Africa, Lieut. W. McClintock-Dunberg was the eldest son and heir of Lord Rathdonnell. He was born September 15, 1878. Lieut. H. M. Durand was born in 1876. He is British minister at Teheran, Persia, the heir of Sir Henry Mortimer Durand, Lieut. W. Long was born in 1879. He is the heir of Right Hon. Walter Long, president of the board of agriculture. Boers Evacuate Four Towns. Kimberley, Feb. 18.—(By heliograph to Modder River, Feb. 19.)—The country is all free around Kimberley. The Boers have evacuated Dronfield, Saltpan, Spytfontein and Scholtznek. One of their 12-pounders with ammunition was captured, as was also their laager at Dronfield, which was abandoned on Friday night. Rails are being laid to Modder river. Several herds of cattle have been captured. French's Triumphant Entry: Modder River, Monday, Feb. 19.—Although the rapid march of Gen. French's division was marked by a number of conflicts, the actual entry into Kimberley was unopposed. When the British were still eight miles off, the signaling corps intercepted a heliograph message from the beleaguered garrison to Modder river, saying: "The Boers are shelling the town." The advancing column replied: "This is Gen. French coming to the relief of Kimberley." The garrison was incredulous and thought the message was a Boer ruse and flashed the query: "What regiment are you?" The reply satisfied the defenders of Kimberley that the anxiously-awaited succor was at hand. A few hours later Gen. French, at the head of a column, made a triumphant entry into the place, the people surrounding the troops and intermingling with them, cheering wildly, grasping the soldiers' hands, waving flags, hats and handkerchiefs, and exhibiting in a hundred ways the intensity of their joy. The inhabitants had been on short rations for some time, eating horseflesh and living in the burrows under heaps of mine refuse. Diminishing rations were served out daily at 11 o'clock in the market square, under the shell fire of the enemy, whose guns opened on the square whenever the inhabitants assembled. No horsefood was left. Throughout the siege Cecil Rhodes provided the natives with work and food and thus kept them quiet. A Glad Sight. The military convoy bearing provisions for the relief of the column and the town, slowly winding its way across the plain in the direction of Kimberley, was the gladdest sight which greeted the eyes of the besieged for four months. Gen. French's march was so rapid and the heat so intense that many of his horses died of exhaustion. At the crossing of the Modder river the Boers bolted, leaving their tents, guns, oxen, wagons and large quantities of ammunition in the hands of the British. Moving northward, the Boers again attempted to stem the advance, but Gen. French turned their flank and reached his goal with insignificant losses—seven men killed and thirty-five wounded—during three days, from Wednesday, February 14, to Friday, February 16. After a night's rest at Kimberley, Gen. French's column pursued the Boers to Drontveld, surrounded the kopies on which they were posted and shelled them till nightfall, when the Boers fled, leaving many dead. Gen. Cronje left a gun, his tents, food and clothes at Magersfontein. Boers Get Shells from France. Paris. Feb. 20.—According to a dispatch from Rennes, a factory there has received an order from the Transvaal government for 150,000 artillery shells. The Jameson Raid. London, Feb. 20.—The House of Commons today was crowded when David Alfred Thomas, Liberal, moved the reopening of the inquiry into the Jameson raid. Among those in the diplomatic gallery was the United States ambassador, Joseph H. Choate. Mr. Thomas disclaimed any personal animosity against Mr. Chamberlain, the secretary of state for the colonies, but said the inconclusive nature of the first inquiry had created widespread dissatisfaction, which had deepened the indignation at the disclosures of the continental newspapers, impugning the impartiality of the committee. He said it was in the interests of the nation and the character of the reputation of the House of Commons and Mr. Chamberlain that there should be a full and searching inquiry. BETRAYED BY A TOOTHPRINT. Safe Blower's Fondness for Cheese Results in His Arrest. Omaha, Neb., Feb. 20.—Charles Mack, while trying to blow open a safe in a store, stopped long enough to take a bite from a cheese lying near. When the store was opened yesterday the imprint on the cheese showed a peculiarly-formed front tooth. A local detective, who thought he recognized the toothprint, went to Mack's home and arrested him. He forced Mack to take a bite of cheese, and found the tell-tale toothprint duplicated. The burglar confessed, and the police found much booty in his home. Will Join the Boer Army Houghton, Mich., Feb. 20.—Dr. Toros Sarkisian, a native-born Armenian, will leave Saturday to join the Boer forces. There are no front yards or doorsteps in Havana. The doors and windows of the houses open directly upon the side walks. PIRACY IS NOT PROFITABLE. No Cargoes of Gold Now Tempt the Cupidity of Mariners. A son of the old-time yachting captain, Jack White of Red Bank, picked up a Mexican silver dollar of 1834 on Sandy Hook the other day. Captain Jack said it reminded him of many a dollar he had seen that had been picked up along the Jersey coast and on Long Island shore. "Mexican silver dollars," he said, "were the money of the commercial world during all the early part of this century, and you could find them whenever there were wrecks. Nowadays pirating would not pay, but in those days every ship had to carry a lot of money every time she went on a voyage. Nowadays a captain doesn't have to have anything but a bit of pocket money, and it is a fact that many a ship goes out on a voyage with hardly a dollar on board. If the captain needs anything he can either draw money at any port he enters or else find credit there. "It was very different a generation ago. In those days a captain had to take out with him money enough to last him for the whole voyage and sometimes for emergencies besides. He often had big sums aboard also that were used in trading, or that represented a cargo sold. "It was not uncommon in those days for a ship to start out with a full cargo, bound for some foreign port, where the captain would have to hunt his own market. If the cargo wouldn't sell well there he had power to go to any other port to hunt a profitable market. Then when he had sold out he was expected to buy new cargo, either for a home port, or, perhaps, some other port of the world. It was not unusual for a captain to handle half a dozen cargoes on a long trading voyage and come home in ballast with a big box of silver dollars to help keep his ship up to the wind. Even the little vessels carried a lot of money abroad. "I guess that dollar was wrecked there fifty years or so ago, and it has been drifting around in the sands ever since." —New York Sun. The Sweetness of Self-Forgetful The Sweetness of Self-Forgetfulness, The loss of personality! In that dread thought their lies, to most of us, all the sting of death and the victory of the grave, says Ethel Dench Puffer in the February Atlantic. It seems, with that in store, that immortality were futile and life itself a mockery. Yet the idea, when dwell upon, assumes an aspect of strange familiarity; it is an old friend after all. Can we deny that all our sweetest hours were those of self-forgetfulness? The language of emotion, religious, aesthetic, intellectually creative, testifies clearly to the fading of the consciousness of self, as feeling nears the white heat. Not only in the speechless stark immobility of the pathological "case," but in all the stages of religious ecstacy, aesthetic pleasure, and creative inspiration is to be traced what we know as the loss of the feeling of self. Bernard of Clairvaux dwells on "that ecstacy of defication in which the individual disappears in the eternal essence as the drop of water in a cask of wine." Says Meister Eckhart, "Thou shalt sink away from thy self- hood, thou shalt flow in His self-possession, the very thought of Thine shall melt into His Mine;" and St. Teresa, "The soul, in thus searching for its God, feels with a very lively and very sweet pleasure that it is fainting almost quite away." The aesthetic feeling of John Bunyan's verses: Wouldn't thou be in a dream, and yet not sleep? Or would't thou in a moment laugh and weep? Wouldest thou lose thyself, and catch no harm. And find thyself again without a charm? O then come hither. And lay my book, thy head, and heart together! is the same as that of Keats' Ode to a Nightingale: My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness palms My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk. Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethewards had sunk: 'Tis not through envy of the happy lot. But being too happy in thy happiness. Patents to Inventors. Senator Cockrell is exceedingly fond of apples, and is never so happy as when he can secure one of the juicy pipkins for which his state is famous. Rheude's Business College and Mechanical Drawing School, Milwaukee. The Czar of Russia's army is the only one in Europe that can boast of feminine medical officers. Flavor your Custards, Pies, etc., with "MB" Vanilla or Lemon. 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Tootinite, and Cow beans, tools, etc. C.N. SALZER SEED CO. LACROSSE. WIS St. Dunstan's is an interesting and handsome church. The present fabric was erected in 1471, but it stands on the site and is built partly on the foundations of an older church erected by St. Dunstan himself. Since Dunstan ministered in this parish no fewer than sixty-two parish and district churches have been built in Stepney, which has now become a bishopric. Within the memory of persons still living the parish had a non-resident pluralist rector and an average congregation of thirty.—Newcastle (Eng.) Chronicle. Bachelors Never Charm-Proof. The number of middle-aged and wellfixed bachelors in this town who are getting married nowadays is getting to be something remarkable. And yet we have been frequently told by social philosophers that the comforts of luxurious living work against matrimony. Perhaps so. There is no lack of evidence, however, that all these comforts cannot prevail against the fascinations of the fair sex in the long run.—Boston Herald. Nasal Catarrh quickly yields to treatment by Ely's Cream Balm, which is agreeably aromatic. It is received through the nostrils, cleanses and heals the whole surface over which it diffuses itself. Druggists sell the 50c size; Trial size by mail, 10 cents. Test it and you are sure to continue the treatment. Announcement To accommodate those who are partial to the use of atomizers in applying liquids into the nasal passages for catarrhal troubles, the proprietors prepare Cream Balm in liquid form, which will be known as Ely's Liquid Cream Balm. Price including the spraying tube is 75 cents. Druggists or by mail. The liquid form embodies the medicinal properties of the solid preparation. Each battalion chief of the New York fire department is shortly to be supplied with a pocket telephone, which may be affixed to any firebox, and will then enable the operator to talk directly with headquarters. The attachment is simple and the device may be carried in an inside pocket. What Do the Children Drink? Don't give them tea or coffee. Have you tried the new food drink called GRAIN-O? It is delicious and nourishing, and takes the place of coffee. The more Grain-O you give the children the more health you distribute through their systems. Grain-O is made of pure grains, and when properly prepared tastes like the choice grades of coffee, but costs about $ \frac{1}{4} $ as much. All grocers sell it. 15c and 25c. —The total contribution by New South Wales of men to the South African war is 1840, and along with them 1700 horses are being sent. Lane's Family Medicine Moves the bowels each day. In order to be healthy this is necessary. Acts gently on the liver and kidneys. Cures sick headache. Price 25 and 50c. Of the food plants now in use only pumpkins and a few grapes, plums and berries were originally found in the soil. MAKES ENGLAND UNEASY MAKES ENGLAND UNEASY Advance of a Strong Force With in Striking Distance of Herat. MENACED BY RUSSIA. Foreign Office Convinced that the Central Asia Situation Demands Immediate Attention. London, Feb. 17.—What is known in Great Britain as the Central Asian peril once more obscures the pacific international aspect of affairs. As viewed by the Man in the Street, the definite news shows that in spite of denials, Russia has advanced a strong force within striking distance of Herat, and whether she intends this as a distinct demonstration against Afghanistan or merely a blind to draw off attention from or ultimately assist her objects in the Persian gulf is merely a matter of surmise. Whatever all this really means, a large portion of the British public and press is devoting serious attention to that time-worn bugbear, the menacing shadow of the bear. Though Lord Salisbury refused to discuss the question in the House of Lords, the Associated press is able to give the opinions of British government officials, which, in the main, are those of Lord Salisbury, upon this latest development. But, first of all, it will be well to say that no action has yet been taken or decided on by the British. Simp y the Annual Maneuvers. Weeks ago the report of a Russian advance was circulated, and when questioned on the subject the Russian ambassador assured his dear friends in Downing street that the reports were exaggerated. It was nothing but annual maneuvers, he explained, and, least of all, was it intended as a menace. In fact, it was so belittled by this diplomat that the British officials had no other alternative but to believe the reports were practically untrue, especially as Russia, in conjunction with every other European power had, a few weeks previous, formally assured Lord Salisbury that he had not the faintest intention of profiting by Great Britain's embarrassment in South Africa by pressing outstanding claims or interfering in any way. News from Central Asia trickles into England slowly, but this week there came from many sources information showing that Russia's ambassador had, to put it mildly, misled Lord Salisbury, and the foreign office, Wednesday last, had to bring itself up with a sharp turn to the realization that the Central Asian situation demanded immediate attention. Parting of the Ways. What form such attention will take constitutes a dilemma, on the horns of which the British government is still perched. Details of the proceedings on the borders of Afghanistan are still lacking and are likely to be so for some time. As a high official said to a representative of the Associated press: "If we politely suggest to the Russian ambassador that a further explanation is in order we are sure to get the same friendly assurances that it does not amount to anything. If we address a formal, stringent protest to St. Petersburg we deliberately cast doubt on Russia's practically spontaneous declaration of friendship and non-interference. The latter is what the Americans call a 'bluff,' but we have to be very sure of our facts before proceeding on such a basis. The ameer is not ill in spite of all the alarming reports. I suppose he will die some day and there will possibly be great disorder. But, until this occurs, I fail to see what Russia can effect. If the movement is as important as represented, I think it far likelier that she intends to make a demonstration of the strength that might be brought to bear upon some minor concessions to be asked for by Russia hereafter." A Diplomatic Game. The opinion of this official and those of the majority of persons accurately informed is that Russia's move is merely one of the finer points of the diplomatic game and that she has no more idea of forcing a war with Great Britain than she has of forcing a war upon the United States. So, while it appears that intereded with any serious break, it also appears that Russia is likely to get whatever she asks for, within reasonable diplomacy, in the near future. Nothing is more patent, from the conversation of the cabinet ministers and officials, than the desire to conciliate and not to overvalue minor concessions. However, it must not be inferred that Great Britain intends to allow herself to be bullied into granting anything asked for, and it is interesting to note in this connection that the channel squadron, consisting of eight battleships and other craft, is due in the neighborhood of Gibraltar February 26. Return of Confidence. The renewed naval activity has had almost as much to do with the return of national confidence as Lord Roberts' evident grasp of the campaign. While the nation is still looking askance at the new military programme introduced this week there is genuine gratification at learning that the reports that hundreds of thousands of tons of Welsh smokeless coal had been bought for a foreign nation are untrue. There is no substitute for that "breath of empire." It is almost as important as smokeless powder, and were the supply to be seriously diminished it would affect Great Britain's power of defense tremendously. The navy's activity is also evidenced in its progress with wireless telegrams. Experiments will shortly occur to ascertain whether it is possible to communicate by this means between ships and balloons. The importance of such a test, in ascertaining the whereabouts of an enemy and countless other points of warfare, cannot be over-estimated. The Queen's personal interest in the men fighting her battles is being constantly illustrated by her visits to Nettley hospital and the private houses where lie officers and men who were wounded in South Africa. A few days ago her majesty stood god-mother to the child of a major's wife, whose husband was killed at Elandslaagte, and she has now summoned to Osborne Bugler Dunn, aged 15, of the First Royal Dublin fusiliers, who was the first to cross the Tugela river, though men of the regiment tried to keep him back. The Average vs. the Great R The Average vs. the Great Reporter The average reporter asks, "What do people want?" The great reporter asks, "What shall I make them want?" The public flatters the average reporter with prompt success. "You give us," it says, "what we want." To the great reporter it says, in its slowly awakened but innumerably decisive way, "What will this man Kipling want next? Then we want it." The average reporter, eternally gadding about for availability instead of cultivating ability, cares more about succeeding as a writer than he does about the thing he writes about. That is why he is an average reporter. The power to make men interested in the things they have not learned to like is a power that belongs alone to the disinterested man, the man who is led by some great delight, until the delight has mastered his spirit, given unity to his life, become the habit and the companion of his power, led him out into a large place to be a leader of men.—The Atlantic. --- Lord Rosebery Lord Rosebery has become a hermit. He spends practically all his time at one of his country houses and rarely comes up to London except on Sunday, when the great town is comparatively quiet. He dreads the roar and bustle of the city, and for months does not see any of his former political associates, a move which many wise people think shows his discriminating character. Rosebery retains his intelligence, however, as the speeches which he sometimes makes show. Medical Book Free. "Know Thyself," a book for men only, regular price 50 cents, will be sent free (sealed and postpaid) to any male reader of this paper, mentioning this advertisement, inclosing 6c for postage. Address the Peabody Medical Institute, 4 Bulfinch street, Boston, Mass., the oldest and best institution of its kind in New England. Write today for free book. Parson Meekins (to convict)—"My friend, remember we are here today and gone tomorrow." Convict (calmly)—"You might be, but I ain't."—Baltimore Jewish Comment. 1900 There is every good reason why St. Jacobs Oil should cure RHEUMATISM NEURALGIA LUMBAGO SCIATICA for the rest of the century. One paramount reason is—it does cure, SURELY AND PROMPTLY Why Sponges Come High. Consul Bertrand, who represents the French government at Benghazi, in Tripoli, gives a curious reason for the increased price of the finest grades of sponges, which are gathered in that section. The fisheries have been so well worked that the divers must go to great depths, and this has increased the dangers of the work. The mortality rate among the divers is high, from 150 to 200 dying each season in a total of 600 employed.—Chicago Tribune. Rape, Speltz, Bromus. Most remarkable trio. Will make a farmer rich despite himself if he plants a plenty. Salzer's catalogue tells. Send 10c and this notice for samples of above and big catalogue. John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis. —In the time of Louis Quatorze in France food in general was placed upon the table in one huge dish and each helped himself with his naked hand. As late as the middle of the Sixteenth century one glass or goblet did duty for the whole table. Coughing Leads to Consumption Kemp's Balsam will stop the cough at once. Go to your druggist today and get a sample bottle free. Sold in 25 and 50 cent bottles. Go at once; delays are dangerous. Cleveland men who have undergone operations for appendicitis have formed an appendicitis club. To Cure a Cold in One Day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druugugists refund the money if it fails to cure. 25c. E. W. Grove's signature is on each box. Two years ago the Boers had in their pay fifteen German officers, forty French and forty Russians. In a great many cases of Asthma, Piso's Cure for Consumption will give relief that is almost equal to a cure. 25 cents. Each British soldier on landing at Cape Town receives 170 rounds of ammunition. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c a bottle. —The famous gardens of Versailles have cost £8,000,000. A Million Women have been relieved of female troubles by Mrs. Pinkham's advice and medicine. The letters of a few are printed regularly in this paper. If any one doubts the efficiency and sacredly confidential character of Mrs. Pinkham's methods, write for a book she has recently published which contains letters from the mayor of Lynn, the postmaster, and others of her city who have made careful investigation, and who verify all of Mrs. Pinkham's statements and claims. The Pinkham claims are sweeping. Investigate them. THIRTY YEARS OF CURES 1 MILLIONS OF WOMEN USE CUTICURA SOAP exclusively for preserving, purifying, and beautifying the skin, for cleansing the scalp of crusts, scales, and dandruff, and the stopping of falling hair, for softening, whitening, and healing red, rough, and sore hands, in the form of baths for annoying irritations, inflammations, and chafings, or too free or offensive perspiration, in the form of washes, for ulcerative weaknesses, and for many sanative antiseptic purposes which readily suggest themselves to women, and especially mothers, and for all the purposes of the toilet, bath, and nursery. No amount of persuasion can induce those who have once used it to use any other, especially for preserving and purifying the skin, scalp, and hair of infants and children. CUTICURA SOAP combines delicate emollient properties derived from CUTICURA, the great skin cure, with the purest of cleansing ingredients and the most refreshing of flower odors. No other medicated or toilet soap ever compounded is to be compared with it for preserving, purifying, and beautifying the skin, scalp, hair, and hands. No other foreign or domestic toilet soap, however expensive, is to be compared with it for all the purposes of the toilet, bath, and nursery. Thus it combines in ONE SOAP at ONE PRICE, viz., TWENTY-FIVE CENTS, the BEST skin and complexion soap, the BEST toilet and BEST baby soap in the world. COMPLETE EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL TREATMENT FOR EVERY HUMOR $1.25, consisting of CUTICURA SOAP (25c.), to cleanse the skin of crusts and scales and soften the thickened cuticle, CUTICURA OINTMENT (50c.), to instantly allay itching, inflammation, and irritation, and soothe and heal, and CUTICURA RESOLVENT (50c.), to cool and cleanse the blood. A SINGLE SET is often sufficient to cure the most torturing, disfiguring skin, scalp, and blood humors, with loss of hair, when all else fails. Sold throughout the world. PORTER DRUG AND CHEX. COEP, Sole Props, Boston. "All about Skin, Scalp, and Hair," free DRESSES WILL BE NOVEL. The Bridesmaids will Wear Scarlet Coats at Aristocratic Wedding Coats at Aristocratic Wedding. The forthcoming marriage of Lord Chesterfield to Miss Enid Wilson will be a brilliant affair, and will set precedent at naught, the bride wearing a satin entrain embroidered with silver lilies, doves and stars, while the bridesmaids will wear hats. Lord Chesterfield's gift to them are big sable muffs, instead of the orthodox bangle, while his gift to the bride is a diamond tiara and a check for £2000. Rich Today-Poor Yesterday Choice building lots given away free of cost for the land to advertise new American Colony on southern coast of Cuba. Plantations for sale on your own terms. $200 to $3000 cleared yearly per acre. Send for free beautifully-illustrated book all about Cuba. City and Suburb Investment Co. 952 City and Suburban Investment Co., 253 Broadway, New York. —A Liverpool physician has discovered the bacillus of pink-eye in horses. Well begun is half done. Sow well if you would reap well. Sow GREGORY'S SEEDS and reap the best results the earth can give. 1900 Catalogue free. J. J. H. GREGORY & SON. Marblehead, Mass. CARTER'S INK is made to give satisfaction—and it does. Have you used it? FREE DYES Agents Wanted, both Old and Young. Send 2 stamps for full particulars and sample of Dye-pine Dyes for household use. SAW-YER & BOYLE, Mrs., Dover, Me. LAMBS' THROAT CANDY, one of the best confections for vocalists, public speakers, etc. Send 10 cents to the Lamb Mfg. Co., Ottawa, Canada, for sample box. SAZER'S KAPE given Rich, green food, at 25c. a ton NORTHERN GROWN SEEDS FARM SEEDS BUY NORTHERN GROWN SEEDS Salzer's Seeds are Warranted to Produce. Mahon Luther, E.Toyo, Pa., astonished the world by growing 250 bushels high (Punt Dairy, J. Breider, Mishcott, Wis., 173 bus. barley; H. Iveyey, Red Wing, Minn., by growing 250 bush. Salzer's sora per acre. If you doubt, write them. We wish to gain 200,000 new customers, hence will send on trial 10 DOLLARS WORTH FOR 10c. 10 pkgs of rare farm seeds. Salt Bush, the 3-cared Corn- Spelts, producing 80 bush. food and 4 tons hay per acre; about cata and barley. Bromus inermis the greatest cata and barley. Salzer's sora co. Rape Spring Wheat, &c., including our moth plant. Fruit and Seed Catalog, telling all about Salzer's Great Millon Dollar Potato, all mailed for 10c. postage; positively worth $10 to get a start. Seed Potatoes, 1.20 a bbl. and up. Please send this adv. with 10c. to Salzer. 35 pkgs carliest vegeta- ble seeds, $1.00. Catalog alone, 5c. C.K.: M. N. U. No 8, 1900. WHEN WRITING TO ADVERTISERS please say you saw the Advertisement in this paper. DROPSY NEW DISCOVERY: gives quick relief & cure worsen cases. Book of testimonials and 10 DAY'S treatment FREE. Dr. H. H. Green's Son, Box S, Atlanta, Ga. W. T. G R EE N 9 Lawyer, Notary Public. Btfices 17-18 Birchard Block. 105 Grand Averue. Telephone 193 Black. eee: Alommey and Counselor-al-LOw eure." | Milwaukee, Wis. If you want a Suit or Overcoat made to order at the lowest price Cleaning and Repairing Done Promptly 322 Wells Street TOMEY (case FINE ART Shining Parlor —— WHEN IN MADISON Call at the —__—. Avenue Hotel eee M. J. REGAN, Prop. $2.00 Rate....... sam—___ Free "Bus. 7 Lo ma B Curly Hair Made Straight By cea ere eS Rane. dea: fe BA Tae Sosa { Se) ae Fas ee We ee = REO oat Sa: Se as eee ys Ry Se = ay ee Lea At? oh’ aN ff Eo hy (EPRZIGS 0° “A 5 a POEs TAKEN FROK LIPS: BEFORE AND AFTER TREATMENT. 7 OZONIZED OX MARROW THE ORIGINAL—COPYRIGITED. This wonderful hair pomade is the only safe preparation in the worlt that makes kinky hair straight as shown above. It nourishes the scalp, events the hair from cones out and makes te ee Sold over 40 years and used by thousands. Warranted harmless. Testimoniais free on re- eats. Tt was the first pronecesice: ever sold for igntoning kinky hair, ware of imitations. Get the icinal Ozonized Ox Marrow, oaths poauins never fails to eee the hair pee eusiful. A toilet necessity for ladies and n Kleganily perfumed The creat ad- antago of this wonderiul pomade is that by its Use you can ee oer, own hair at home. Owing to its superior and lasting quality itis the ‘Most economical. It is not possible for anybody: to produce a preparation eatial to it., Full dive fions with every bottle, Quly SO cents. Sold by meen or send us $1.40 Postal or Express) ney Order for 8 bottles, express paid. Write your name and address plainly to AZONIZED OX MARROW CO., 76 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Ill. ‘Our Friends Should Call on — AUG. H. GEIER, FRESH, SALTED and SMOKED MEATS OF ALL KINDS Also Fresh Fish and Oysters in Season A Full Line of Vegetables. 502 WELLS STREET. Northwestern House APPLETON, WIS. JOHN A. BRILL, - Proprietor. Terms $1.00 Per Day. NORTHWESTERN ~ Se eee hs ae aa oe NEWS OF THE COURTS. S Dead Man’s Testimony. Opposes Pavement Tax. City Treasurer Bollow has been served with an injunction by the Prospect Hill Land company preventing him from sell- ing any part of the company’s land for non-payment of taxes. The company and the city are engaged in a controversy as to the payment of the cost of paving Newberry boulevard, the company insist- ing that the city pay half the expense. Levitt Case Dismissed. The suit of J. Levitt against the street railway company, which was expected to settle the legal right of the company to erect trolley poles in the center of streets and to determine whether a passenger who is obliged to stand up in a street car, is bound to exercise the same care and diligence as one who is fortunate enough to get a seat, was dismissed by Judge Williams yesterday, After having all of the testimony of Levitt read to him Judge Williams said he was compelled to direct the jury to return a verdict in fa- vor of the street railway company. It is likely that an application will be made for a new trial or that the action will be newly instituted. Suit for Lecal Services. The sixth annual report of the exeen- tors of the estate of the late E, Harrison Cawker was filed in the probate court this morning. The income for the year was $13,333.70. Of this amount the three executors each take 775; Mrs. Caw- ker receives $5000, and Leonore and Pau- line A. Cawker each receive $3004.35. The executors report that they are liable on mortgage amounting to $182,500. Judge Sutherland’s Estate, The inventory of the estate of the late Judge George E. Sutherland was filed in the probate court this morning. There is personal property to the value of $34,- 535.13. In addition there is a great deal of real estate, none of which is appraised excepting the homestead, which is worth $10,000, There are rarms in the county of Milwaukee and in South Dakota, and building lots in Chicago and Rrode Is- land, Judge Pereles entered an. order making an allowance of $500 to one of ‘the daughters of the deceased for per- | sonal expenses. Pittelko# Foreclosure Suit. The trial of the suit of the Cencordia Fire Insurance company against Charles Pittelkow is in progress before Judge Elliott. The insurance company is seek- ing the foreclosure of two mortgages each for $10,000 encumbering the home- stead of the defendant. Mrs. Pittelkow seeks to have the mortgage set aside, as- serting that she was induced to sign-it under duress. | Rax Buyer Wants Damages. Henry Warschauer has brought suit against the Cohen Bros. Iron & Me‘al -company of Des Moines, la, The plain- tiff asserts that he purchased 106,300 pounds of rags from the defendant, which were guaranteed not to be wet or burnt. The purchase price was $956.70 which plaintiff was obliged to pay before the rags were shipped. When they reached ene asserts, they weighed but 104,060 pounds and ‘were wet and burnt as well. Damaxes amount- ing to $500 are asked. Given More Time. The Linden Land company, the plain- tiff in the suit which was instituted by J. G. Trentlage to enjoin the city and | the street railway company in the 4-cent- fare ordinance proceeding, has secured an order from Judge Ludwig extending the time in which it is required to adopt and verify the Trentlage complaint or file additional pleadings, until March 17. Weed Commissioner Sned. | A suit growing out of the efforts of the | noxious weed commissioner of the town of Lake to rid the town of “cockle- burrs” is on trial before Judge Johnson. John Matchien, a farmer of the town, is suing John De Young, the noxious weed commissioner, to recover $5000 | damages growing ont of false imprison- { ment.” Mr. Matchien asserts the commis: gjoner caused his arrest for the alleged | Shiture to prevent some “cockleburrs” Another chance to Ic | = Ic $1.15 Napki buy 25c Laces at 5c # 3 each for hard f ' at ga 1 ns for 2 dover oo Black and White Silk rubber fine patent hooks at 73c Laces, Black Chantil- combs, On account of the bad weather Wednesday, we offer once and eyes, 50 D. Bl liv. Cream and White worth 10e, L sold regular!. jozen Bleached $ Laces, White and more our 1%-dollar Black and Colored Dress Goods at 25¢ ips r'Y 3 | Damask Napkins, Buiter-Colored Ori- 4 . Dita and Inter 3c 50c ny New Tartan Piaids, 50c narnnnnnf_ | all choice patterns, ane Torsion Tacs, | § a gor} Dress Goods 40-in: French Pebbis drenites, Dress Goods} 8c} | s214, ezularly at ae Shdene nar naar Lek, at )38-in. New Colored Brilliantines, - a Z $1.15 dozen, special special at a = (42-in. Fancy Brocaded Novelties, at per dozen pair} | oS ii edge skirt 36-in. All-Wool Ladies’ Cloth, for black for Friday at binding 38-in. All-Woo! Checked Debeige, tubular shoe Cc worth 7c, ¢ : 36-in. Black cranes Serges, Cc laces sold reg- 73 orth up to 50c yard, 25¢, ularly at 2cpr. Cc REPS! Re 1 =e 9 29¢ Ic 2c 9c Ic Cc yard for Un § for acake of white yard for Oil for Ladies’ Fine § for tarse pack- 59¢ petition Ladies! Damask, extra std pink tay Galtes io eed Gilt Hat Pins, age of Wire ; ie, slightly y , in g iE thew Hair Pins, fe ite Croche Heavy Cotton eed wore Bouquet Toilet and yellow, eo sold regularly ‘ ree Crochet fleece-lined black Soap worth 4c. worth 76; Seseth 160, a at 3c. 4 ed pores, Seamless Hose, a oe - Anna) tunica pani & Marseilles pat- 1) at cs tern, slightly all sizes, worth % a A site ccg teed 19. R 2c 5c 69c *« 2 soiled, worth up 19¢ zy yard for un- yard for Half} for Men’s Strictly £ to $1.25. $4.49 4 bleached Bleached Towel- § All-Wool Sample S 7c ° for Feather P Muslins, slightly ing with red bor- Undershirts, &, anwed foe Giadiee! sail: . “baa ogtee Ghee ders, 19 inches broken sizes, aS 5c Lined Kersey, or 1 WOEER De; wide, worth 8c. worth $1.50. peg yeas tis ‘ge, worth Seas yard for 36-inch M sIton, Oxford up to $1.09. x~_a“é““5eoe eee Selesia, = s Sati Boccia Coats, -09, so light and me- Dress Ginghams, all tailor-made, a Eaten i ear eran as dium colors, dark and mo- “tame (SORMmelNpaSimiei-ya) oe oe dium colors, 2c he El el ONES ‘< AA Gy worth ec. worth up to $15. for Light Gol- pas wie ; me Sac ee ae SP eas aes . Ac 49 ored Calico, =====THIRD & PRAIRIE STREETS=——— for Men’s l7c Cc some slightly CAINE ON rand tir Purkey | i! ard for Tarke for Turkey Red soiled, Ic 19¢ Ic lars, allsizes, ~ joa Tal eye and White Fring- worth : 5 diffe eed od Tahlia Covers, : yD Bar for Green Cas- for Men’s Wool Mixed Each for Elastic n Serene Dainask, sas , 6c, 4 tile Soap, Drawers in white and Corset Laces, L,Y tyles, worth slightly soiled, 2 yards equare, = sold regulariy at eS base sold regularly > le. worth 39. worth 75c. oS de. worth up to 50e. at 3c. = & Rr for Men’s ink pian nial = : E Mc we ASF chitin | 50c KY } BCT | Ichentee Ve * 8c od eS med with braid and Slack cat eons AC ha > per yard for with patent clasp, ruflles on shoulder, sold regularly regularly. < for 10) Japanese Bleached Mus- worth 50c. | oo ot hoes aise Paper Napkins, lins, 36 inches aoe neat assortment wide, slightty fo tiereonngs for a box fine for Men’s for Men's for Ladies’ of patterns, mast conte. I3cRie § 8c Sates 3 Actiteitm, § [crite § 2iciegsis \ sold regularly ferent styles, sheets and 24 envel- Handkerchiefs,with Cheviot Shirts, ette Petticoats, 9 worth opes. sold regularly § colored borders, broken sizes, worth § slightly soiled, at 19e. 50c. at lc, worth 10¢. B5e, worth 40c, I {9c Dress Goods ‘ Sale fac? 5 49c for $2 Shoes at I2tc 5c Sale of Carpets { on: Ladies’ Underwear 3 Sc , per pair for 2 39¢ heavy Ingrain C: 8 . ~ forcloth-bound BREE. C Adles ° 2 grain Carpet, $1.00 Ladies’ Heavy Ecru Fleece- ici Kid S ; 2 Cases of Double-| children’s hose} 20 different designs, special Q5c § lisse Combination " Suits, crochet { novels, covers ee oosene Width Serges, in all supporters § YATd Ati ccscusese esses euMOW $ neck, trimmed with satin slightly soiled, | O*fords, Men’s Felt- the new shades, also | #d regularly 3 49¢ Wool mixed Ingrain pe and pearl buttons, 39¢ worth Gp to lined Shoes and Stiy- Diaatnania mania at loc, Carpet, variety of new color-3Q) RB See eae i 250. - pers and Children’s : = gularly | Yn~nWnWnWWn~~~~ § ings, special at........scscsse soooes Cc egies White Ribbed Vests §~~...~~~~~.) | Button and Lace a ic, special for . i ‘ and Pants, silk taped and stitched, Sh iz Frid 10c psd ae ae ee also lot of $1.00 Wool Mixed Fleece- 10c on pokes san riday at for 12 arpet, in all the new pat- 59c lined Gray Vests and worth up to $2.00, a ee terns, special at...........sesssees! Pants, odd sizes, 50 for men’s silk whileithey last 124c Pau aoa $1.25 Wilton Velvet Carpets, all the 2 Special at.........+s+sssssesseseesseees [¥ teck ties, og ag a acca rete} | = AQ : ? ned Tights, all sizes, d stri each, Friday at... ee special ci canlarae 47c worth 250" from going to seed by destroying them. Mr. Matchieu was arrested, but four days afterwards the justice of the peace dismissed the proceeding. Bank Authorized to Sell, Judge Johnson yesterday signed an order authorizing the sale of a number of lots belonging to the Plankinton bank, in the Fifteenth ward. The lots are on the Watertown plankroad between Twen- ty-ninth and Thirty-third street. They are irregular in shape. The petition of the assignee states that a few days prior to his appointment eypaaes was made to his attorneys for their consent to sell the property for $5500. He has suecceed- ed in securing an offer for $7500, which he considers ought to be accepted. er FOR SALE—REAL ESTATE. $2 DOWN, $2 PER WEEK, NO INTEREST, BUYS A CHOICE LOT IN TIPPECANOE ADDITION. A FINE level piece of property, located on Howell avenue car line a short distance south of Tippecanoe lake and town hall, only 12 minutes’ ride from business center of Bay View, and 25 minutes’ ride from center of Milwaukee. Howell avenue is 100 feet wide at this point. Remember that one 5-cent fare will carry you to. the property from any part of the city. Com. plete abstraets of title furnished. Don’t forget the terms; $2 cash as first payment; balance $2 per week without interest un- til the whole of the purchase price is paid. For plats and prices call on of address CHARLES R. DAVIS, ROOM 23, SENTINEL BUILDING, TELEPHONE MAIN 1298. 2851 Before Starting on Your Travels Ge0. Burroughs & Sons PREMIUM TRUNKS VALISES, SAMPLE CASES, Etc, 424 & 426 Bast Water St., Milwaukee. GEO. W. DEWEY, Furniture, Stoves, Carpets, General House Furnisher, 230-232 West Water St., MILWAUKEE, .- = Wis; Cash or Easy Payments. Established in 1881. Furniture Exchanged. BEFORE PLACING — een FIRE AND BURGLAR ALARMS in your residence yon, would do well CHAS. D. MILNE Electricat Contractor And General Repairwork. The best in the city. Tel. Main 527. HO MASON sT. POR fee icoeuiiy veturetorevening star ye Has Changed Hands, and LOUIS GASS Has Stocked His Store with CHOICE GOODS Fresh Bread, Rolls, Pies, Cakes and Candies, and Choice Family Groceries, Milk and Cream, Tobacco and Cigars. 510 Wells St., Milwaukee, Wis, MILWAUKEE... GAS STOVE CO., Teall enero GAS RANGES | a0 Dersell Si. tecaaes Wis. ah , Be CX ) ase od Fe 3 Sie | TAN We . Meas ‘ | S iG | RONG , y i { : bara Berry oof GAC AP i | ee ee ) ARE STRICTLY FIRST-CLASS. ; Sold by all reffable dealers. Uf your desler does dot keep them, write or call on RRAMT : BRAND STOVE $0. Corner Sixth and Prairie Sts. MiLw wx -&, WES REV. G. W. MUGGAGE, Pastor A. M. E. Zion Church. a8 Morris se, Fond du Lac, Wis. REGULAR SERVICES—SUNDAYS: Preaching. -..;+.+-10:45 a. m. and 7:80 p. m. Sunday School. .......seceseceeeeeee +3 D. TL Prayer Meeting. ..................9:30 a. mm. Class Meeting.........-.sseseesees+-. 12m Zi P.O, Bos .ccccseeescovcccccees 6:00 D. mM, WEEK DAYS: Thursday Night Prayer Meeting, 7:30 p. m. Sacraments Quarterly Meeting, 24 Sunday every 3d month. Baptism of Infants, Special Day. Baptism of adit Easter Day SPECIAL SERVICBS—BHASTER DAY. Missionary Collections. CHILDREN’S DAY. Endowment Collection. 50centa Money—Now. BOARD MEETINGS. oe eee and third Monday in each mn ee ee after second and fourth junday. 8. 'S Board—Call of Pastor. Quarteriy Conference—Call of P. BL OE. DEAGOGK & SON Funcral Directors EMBALMERS ‘The wise poor man who bought a farm on easy payments, and the wise manu- facturer who erected a factory in North- ern Wisconsin a’few years ago, when times were not as prosperous as they are now, are reaping their reward. Northern Wisconsin is feeling expansion in the truest sense of the word. Opportunities have not passed, by any means. There are still thousands of acres of rich hard- weod timber lands awaiting the settler as well as the manufacturer, which can be obtained at low figures and on easy terms. Good roads, fine schoolhouses and other improvements are increasing and civilization is progressing. ‘The plen- itude of iron ore, clay, kaolin, marl and timber lands supplies the wants of every- _ body. ‘Transportation Facilities are unexcelled. The Wisconsin Central Railway, a strictly Badger State road, pierces the rich northern portion of the state, offering excellent transit service to the markets of the world. Those in- terested can obtain maps, illustrated pamphlets, ete., by poplying to W. H. KILLEN, Land and Industrial Commissioner. Colby & Abbot Bldg., Milwaukee, Wis. Burton Johnson, G. BP.’ A. ., Jas. C. Pond, G. P. A, Milwaukee, Wis. GEORGE HAYS, Nos. 228 & 230 Fifth St., MILWAUKEE, WIS. Packing Boxes, Tea Caddies, Hitching Posts, Butcher Blocks, Posts for Clothes Lines, Turning, Planing, Resawing, Scroll Sawing. wierdeoctei pun con anuneae er Extension, Long, Step and - Fire Ladders, Trestels, Swing- ing Scaffolds. Rockers and all kinds of Restaurant Blocks Kept Constantly on Hand and Made to Order. All Kinds of Rocker Blocks and Ladders Re- paired on Short Notice, W. H. HALSEY, Successor to Halsey Bros., Plumber « Gas Fitter STEAM HEATING, VENTILATING —AND— FINE BATHROOM FIXTURES 460 JEFFERSON ST. Telephone 873. MILWAUKEE Marquette Houghton Calumet AS Through Sleepers COPPER COUNTRY Leave Milwaukee Bio 5.15 a.m. Daily Except Sunday. Same Excellent Service South Bound. 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