Wisconsin Weekly Advocate

WISCONSIN WEEKLY The negro must work out his own problem. ADVOCATE DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF THE NEGRO RACE THE KNOCKER VOLUME II. THE We have had occasion through the columns of this paper, time and time again, to call attention to the sly and underhand methods of the slanderer and backcapper sometimes called "The Knocker." This beast has begun to infest the neighborhood to such a degree that henceforth the Advocate will devote a special column to the pest until we succeed in rooting him out. * * * After Easter services were over a number of good sisters and brothers met at the bedside of a dying church member. Now many would say that the time would have been devoted to singing and prayer, but not in that crowd. Instead of pointing out the way to heaven these old-time gossip mongers began asking questions concerning the editor of this paper and a certain young lady. Truth soon took flight and each tried to tell a yarn to beat the other and the whole thing ended in "knocking, knocking." * * * These old virages cannot even let the dead rest in peace but "knocking,"knocking companions in life knockers after death. * * * Fifth street may not be the most fashionable street in the city. It may even be extremely popular with some of our best, but in our opinion it is almost as swell as Knocker's avenue, sometimes called Sycamore street. ```markdown ``` In our travels through the country, when the name of Milwaukee is mentioned, people turn up their noses in disgust. They will tell you that our ladies are too busily engaged in knocking each other to study good manners or the customs of polite society. * * * Let us make this our motto: "If we can't say anything good of a person don't let us say anything." Knocker!! Knocker!! * * * We know two sisters, both members of the same church, who have not spoken to each other going on to two years. Yet one of them has audacity to go to our Lord's table and partake of that holy ordinance. Knocker! Knocker!! Knocker!! * * * The Plankinton ball was a howling success, everything passed off lovely. One of our swell society ladies presented a picture of beauty as leaning on the arm of Mr. Bud Sullivan, she led the intricate mazes of the "cake walk" * * * We have not heard whether the kind-hearted lady, of whom we spoke some time ago, had recovered her lost articles or whether the parties had made the money good. Look out for our next issue. * * * In spite of the "knockers" Judge Neelen sustained the editor. Knock again. * * * There is a recent importation in our city who pretends to be educated. She has a certain refinement of speech and manner which, on first acquaintance, is really entertaining. But one does not have to know her long before he finds that she is a regular morning newspaper. All she seems fit for is to run from house to house always slandering, tattling, carrying news, gossip, knocking, knocking, Madam, the people are getting on to you. Stay at home and quit talking about your neighbors, keep your house clean, mind your own business, and you will have all that you can do. *** We are very much surprised at our church gossiper who told the minister that someone was trying to influence her husband to borrow money from her for certain uses, but he soon forgot that he has not returned the money he borrowed himself from his neighbor and friend. Knocker, Knocker, still knocking. \*.\*\* The negro is his worst enemy. When one tries to elevate himself the other tries to pull him down. Remember that in unity there is strength. Knocker, Knocker, Knocker. * * * Unless the colored race come together in this city and act as a unit they will always remain in the lower rut and be hobody, neither to themselves or anyone else. *** At our entertainment given on the 3d of April there was quite a number of tickets put in the hands of certain parties who we thought were responsible, but up to this writing we have only had one returned, and that was from our old friend, Mr. Dave Nesbit and Mr. Calve Reeves. Whether the others see fit to make a statement to us or not, we will leave that to their own conscience. Knocker, Knocker, Knocker. Chip of the Old Block There is a story reported as having been told by Col. Fred N. Dow of Portland, Me., which shows well how customary usage "broadens down from precedent to precedent." And no less plainly does it show the weight of the exceptional precedent, says the Youth's Companion. Col. Dow once visited friends at Quebec, and while seeing the sights of the city and its surroundings he took a public carriage to visit the Falls of Montmorency. At a half-way house on the road the driver pulled up his horse and remarked, "The carriage always stops here." "For what purpose?" asked the colonel. "For the passengers to treat," was the reply. "But none of us drink, and we do not intend to treat." The driver had dismounted, and was waiting by the roadside. Drawing himself up to his full height, he said, impressively, "I have driven this carriage now more than thirty years, and this has happened but once before. Some time ago I had for a fare a crank from Portland, Me., by the name of Neal Dow, who said he wouldn't drink; and what was more to the point, he said he wouldn't pay for anybody else to drink." The son found himself occupying the same ground as that on which his father had stood. Was Paid to Know. Job Hedges told a characteristic story about Mayor Strong, whom he served as private secretary, at a dinner last week, says the New York Sun. The mayor was not fond of making after-dinner speeches, and he cheerfully assigned that duty to his private secretary whenever he could do it conveniently. On one occasion the mayor called his secretary to his desk at 5 o'clock in the afternoon and said: "Joh. are you prepared to go out to a dinner for me tonight?" "Yes, sir." "I want you to go to this dinner and respond for the mayor." "This is rather short notice," said Mr. Hedges, "but I guess I can do it if you will tell me what to say." "How much salary do you get. Job?" asked the mayor. "Five thousand a year, sir." "Good," said the mayor. "If you received only $1000 a year I should tell you what to say. You get the extra $4000 a year because you are expected to know what to say." Ran in the Family. A young gentleman took his little sister with him while calling the other evening at a house where he is a regular visitor, says the Buffalo Courier. The little girl made herself quite at home, and showed great fondness for one of the young ladies, hugging her heartily. "How very affectionate she is!" said "How very affectionate she is!" said the lady of the house. "Yes: so like her brother!" responded the young lady, unthinkingly. MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN. APRIL 19. 1900. GRIM STORIES OF GOLD FIELDS Gold-Seekers on the Verge of Madness - Profanity the Safety Valve. "Here is a typical illustration of the extreme hardships of the life in Alaska. Middleton was a young Englishman, slight and small, and accustomed to all the refinements of civilized life. He had enough money to buy a modest outfit, but had never camped out or roughed it before this time. He and his partner went in by the Chilcoot Pass in 1897 and tramped the whole way. They had a sledge and four Irish setters, with 1200 pounds of freight. The partner being the stronger, buckled himself into the harness and pulled as leader of the team. Middleton's duty was to walk behind the sledge and push. There are no roads, properly speaking, in Alaska. Except in winter the trails are sloughs of icy mud worked soft by the feet of the gold seekers. The slush is always over the shoes and an unguarded step will plunge the walker to the waist. The Canadian government has done nothing to better the condition of the trails. This fact, coupled with the exorbitant fees charged the miners by that government, have led the prospectors, at more than one point on the trails, to set up boards with this derivative motto: "Millions for tribute, but not one cent for roads." "The gold seeker himself carefully refrains from doing anything more to the trails than will serve to help him out of present difficulties and to carry him on his way. "The first important thing Middleton learned was to swear. Everybody swears in Alaska. There is belief that nothing of moment can be accomplished there without profanity. It is the safety valve that keeps men from madness when the pressure of the conditions becomes excruciating. Only Swedes do not acquire the habit, and perhaps it would be better if they did. Their natural slowness of speech keeps them quiet under trouble, but the feeling is there just the same. The stress of bitter hardship is on all alike, and the effect is cumulative when it is not worked off. A story to illustrate the virtue of swearing concerns a Swede who had struggled through a long half day of small disasters. His patience was marvelous. He was wet and chilled. He righted his sledge after upsets in grim silence, and with a courage worthy of better luck. But along in the afternoon, where the trail skirted a hill, some sudden freak twitched his dogs off to one side and sent the sledge and its load rolling down into the little valley beneath. It was nothing worse than had happened before, but somehow it snapped the last cord of his resistance. He stood for a moment, his hands above his head and his features working as if in a conulsion, then with a yell he dashed after the team, pulled an axe from the leashings, killed the dogs one after another, and sunshaded the sledge and load into little pieces. Suddenly reason returned. He sat down in the snow beside his ruined outfit and cried like a child. "To rejoin Middleton at the time of his learning to swear. The whole life goes on at such high pressure that everybody is on the verge of madness. It is the strain of the thing that counts. Middleton had his turn with the rest. Once, when slipping, he saved his footing by hanging to the sledge. His partner feeling the drag, promptly cursed him for adding to the load. When Middleton got down and pushed harder to make up for lost time, his partner sulked and his head reeled with the added effort. When one of the dogs dropped on the snow to rest, the sledge stopped and each man turned furiously on the other. The words came hot and fast. Middleton noticed all at once that he was not talking, but simply screaming, and that he could not help it. Then things went away from him. When he came to himself his partner's voice, as tender as a woman's, was saying to him: "There! there! Take a brace, old man. In a minute you'll be all right." "In ten minutes Middleton was all right, and they were both laughing and plodding as before. It is this sort of thing that makes up the daily tragedy of the trails."—Warren Cheney in Ainslee's. Nicknames for Churches There is a church in Boston which is popularly known as "the church of the holy beanblowers," in allusion to the fact that on its tower are angels with trumpets at their mouths. Another goes by the name of "the church of the holy thermometer," because there is a big thermometer on its front; and still another is called "the church of the kindergarten steeples," because it has one tall spire surrounded by several small ones. And an edifice in New York was called "the church of the holy oileloth," because the ornamental tiles about its towers closely resemble pieces of floor covering. 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. * * * Diamonds and Watches on easy payments. Chas, H. Vercht, 604 Grand Ave. *** Easter services were well attended at both churches in the city. The flowers were never more beautiful. Rev. W. Knight preached a fine sermon to the Masons. The musical programme was one that will be long remembered, and being by some of our best talent here in the city, as that is the day when our young ladies and gentlemen come out in their fine spring attire, and we are proud to see so many nice new hats; it made one think spring had surely come. 宸 宸 宸 Lawyer W. T. Green is booming full of business. His office is overrun with clients, and no one knows the many cases he has on hand. And we are pleased to say that he has secured the services of Miss Luella Bradley to assist him in his busy time. Miss Bradley is the only colored lady who is capable of doing stenographic work in this city. \* \* \* We called on Mrs. Mollie M. Craft, who has just returned from the southern part of Illinois. She reports to us that she held meetings in sixty-two towns, and she had wonderful success in her gospel meetings, assisted by her noble husband, who is also an evangelist. One thing that we are happy to mention is that her daughter, Mrs. Anna Blandon, has followed the footsteps of her dear parents and given her heart to the Savior, and it is our wish that she may continue to walk in the bright and thornless path. --- We had the pleasure of being entertained while in the city by Misses Jeannette Paterson, Frances Maxley and Edna Jackson, at their residence, 31 Twenty-third street. We found it to be a beautiful place and was highly entertained by those charming young ladies. 承 承 承 Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Bryant very cordially extended an invitation to the editor of the Weekly Advocate to spend Easter with them, which was accepted with pleasure, and found their home at 38 Orleans street to be a most glorious palace, and Mrs. Bryant is a sunshine to both her husband and home. Nothing is left undone to make one feel perfectly at ease. ☆ ☆ ☆ Mrs. J. L. Law has opened a first-class cafe and lunch counter at 31 Twenty-third street and will be pleased to see her many friends, and will serve all delicacies of all seasons. And the Advocate may be found at her place, where her patrons may peruse while waiting for their order to be served, as Mrs. Law knows just how to please her customers. * * * Mrs. Blackstone, a charming and attractive lady, has accepted a position in our Cream city, and it will be to the advantage of our ladies to meet this lady. 准 准 Editor has returned from Chicago and in the next issued he will have something of interest to tell the ladies of the new Easter bonnets that were displayed in the great city. * * * Rev. Joseph Jackson has returned from Chicago and reports his trip as being a very pleasant one, being mixed with business and pleasure, but he was very glad to be on hand to fill his own pulpit and resume his own duties again on April 8. * * * The superintendent of the Illinois Steel plant at Bay View informs us that he expects to have a number of colored people from the South to work in his plant in a short time. * * * We were very glad to have Sister Adair's presence at our services last Sunday evening. Point Bluff, Wis., April 3, 1900.—Dear Unseen Friend: I don't know you but will try to write. I live on a farm thirteen miles from the city. I will be 10 years old July 28, and I study fourth reader, arithmetic, language, spelling and geography. The only things on the farm I can say are mine, are a black cat, an old hen and a few chickens. I don't know any of you only through your pictures that came in the Helpers that Lillie sent. I stand at the head of my class in everything. Do you like to go to Sunday school? I have hardly missed a Sunday in a whole year. I know most all the books of the Bible and all the golden texts for this quarter. I like the New Testament best and can understand it better. I would like to have you all write to your new friend. Georgia L. Maxey --- Mr. G. W. Faulkner of Wilkins, Faulkner & Co. has kindly consented to help us this season. 乖乖 Mr. Faulkner & Co., real estate brokers, insurance and employment agents at 2938 State street, Chicago, is to represent our paper, Wisconsin Weekly Advocate, in that city and aid us in securing help for housework, cooks, etc. Don't forget to call on him. *** Attorney Barnitt called on Rev. Wilkins, who is to represent the Conservy ator at their place of business, real estate brokers, insurance and employment agents. 'Phone, south 1218, Chicago. *** Rev. Joseph Jackson of Bay View Mission: The services at St. Mark's church was nicely attended. Rev. Dr. Knight delivered the Easter discourse which was enjoyed by everybody. Bro. Jackson made his usual calls upon the poor and needy and sick and afflicted, among them was our dear old friend, George Washington Scott, who is known all through our city and state. We sympathize with the dear brother and hope he may speedily recover. He will be pleased to see his many friends at any time. We next called upon our friend and brother, Daniel Lincoln, who is in a critical condition at this writing. The family has our entire sympathy during this affliction, and we wish the brother a speedy recovery. We had a very nice meeting last evening at Bay View, held at Deacon Scott's residence. Miss Lillian Maxcey, who is a graduate of the Northern Illinois school at Dixon, Ill., has secure a very fine position with Mrs. Dr. Miller, one of the leading society women at Oconomowoc. Wis. We congratulate Mrs. Miller on her choice of Miss Maxcey to fill the position, as she has come to us with the highest recommendations. *** The entertainment which was given at Keiser's hall has proved a success in every respect. We hope that the young men will continue to have them early and often. *** We extend to Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Roberts of Oshkosh our sincere sympathy in the death of their baby, which died on the 11th inst. God saw fit to call it home and we must bow in humble submission and feel that all cares and temptations are forever at rest and the little soul is safely with the Heavenly Father. * * * The members of the Schewanoa club of this city gave their first smoke sleep at Good Templars' hall on the corner of Farwell and North avenues on last Tuesday evening. A minstrel entertainment was put on by Toney Burgett, who made things lively and pleasant for the boys. The second smoker will occur during the next month. Lord Salisbury Seldom Smiles. Looking at the pictures of Lord Salisbury, it is difficult to believe that he ever smiles, remarks the Chatterer of the Boston Herald. But here is a story about London of his having actually laughed aloud when he read a letter from a very youthful New Zealander who wrote to condole with him on the sorrows and difficulties he has had to face, and to bid him "buck up." "The empire loves you," wrote this boy. He also inclosed a map of South Africa—all boys draw maps!—which a London newspaper suggests should come in very useful at the war office—with the suggestion that the Transvaal should hereafter be known as "Salisburie," and the Free State as "Victoria Orange." The little boy at the other end of the world has been sent a signed photograph of Lord Salisbury, but the premier's countenance is scarcely wreathed in the cheerful smiles which his letter evoked. Would Take a Little Warm Ale. A deaf woman figured as the plaintiff in a minor case recently tried in the Durham (England) assizes, and after repeated failures to make her understand the proceedings the judge suggested that her counsel should get her to agree to a com promise. "Ask her what she will take to settle it," said the court. The lawyer thereupon shouted out very loudly to his client: "His lordship wants to know what you will take?" She smilingly replied: "I thank his lordship very kindly, and if it's no inconvenience to him I'll take a little warm ale." The Most Desert Place A Scotch mother was assisting her little boy with his geography lesson, when they came to the word "desert," which he could not understand, says the Philadelphia Times. She explained that it was a barren place—a place where nothing would grow. The boy's face brightend up at her words, and feeling sure that he had solved the difficulty she asked him to explain the meaning, and the prompt answer came: In the course of the fearful march of the Irish fusiliers from Dundee to Ladysmith the men were much fatigued, owing to the rough journey, says Answers. One man in particular stumbled along as if walking in his sleep. An officer passed. "Sir," asked Michael, "what country is this at all we're marching over?" "The Natal tableland, my man," was the reply. "Bedad, sir," said Pat, "I think the table's turned upside down, and we're walking over the legs of it!" John Millais Hearty Manner. The late Sir John Millais' bluff and hearty unconventionality of manner is illustrated by the amusing story his son tells of his reception of Cardinal Newman when the latter dignitary, with a bevy of prelates, came to the studio to sit for his portrait. Pointing gayly to his sitter's chair, the famous artist cried: "Come, jump up, you dear old boy." NUMBER 51. A CARD OF THANKS. Mr. Editor: I wish, through the columns of the Advocate, to return my heartfelt thanks to the many friends who so kindly assisted me during my wife's illness. I wish to especially thank M. K. K. K. MRS. LAURA HUGHES the sisters of Electa chapter, No. 22, O. E. S., and the brothers of Widows' Sons Lodge, No. 25, A. F. & A. M., for their many acts of kindness during my bereavement. W. H. Hughes. Mrs. Laura Hughes was born April 7, 1860. Died April 6, 1900, aged 30 years, 11 months, 29 days. Had lived in Milwaukee twelve years, was a member of the A. M. E. church and worthy matron of Electa chapter, No. 22, O. E. S., by which society the funeral was conducted. Sizing Up a Trainload "One day last fall," said a well-known Montana man, "I was riding on a train in my state and got to be on pretty fair terms with the train boy by buying a few of the things he had to sell. It was not a very formal kind of a train, and when the boy had finished his rounds he came over to sit with me and 'chin a bit,' as he said. I was willing enough, as he was a sharp lad and there was nobody else to talk to, and he went right at things. "‘Do you know,’ he said, 'that I can tell by looking at a man mighty near what he is. Now, there's that fellow over there in the corner: he's a Chicago drummer. I can tell him by the way he lets his money go and the flip style he has when he talks to people. And that chap over there with the silk hat on; he's a preacher from a country town, I'm dead sure, and I'll go ask him if you say so.' "I didn't say so, because I didn't care a continental, and the boy went on with his descriptions of the people on the train. At last I asked him what he thought I was. I had on a pretty flashy suit of light stuff and was thinking I was looking pretty well, so I was willing to risk the boy's venture. He looked me over for a full minute very carefully. "Well,' he said, at last, 'you've got a sloo of money, but I ain't dead sure whether you are a cattleman or a gam- So Glad to See Him. Among the few who have a perfect genius for silence is a certain well-known artist, whose reticence is the amusement and wonder of all who know him, tells Tit-Bits. A friend who had dropped into his studio one day was vainly endeavoring to draw Mr. H. into conversation, when the artist's brother appeared in the doorway. "Hullo, Tom!" said the brother. "Hallon, John!" returned Tom, looking up from his easel, with a smile. John wandered about the room for fifteen minutes, turned over his brother's latest work, and then, going toward the door, stopped long enough to say, "Well, goodbye, Tom." "Good-bye, John," was the hearty rejoinder. Tom painted on for some minutes, and then, in an unwonted burst of confidence, he said, warmly, to his amused friend: "I tell you, I was glad to see John. Haven't seen him before for a month." What Struck Him Most. A friend of mine has an Irish servant who is an old soldier who brought an ugly scar or two from India, says a writer in the Paris American Register. One day he was describing his part in a battle—the long wait, the nervestense, the advance, the gallop, the charge—how the rider some yards ahead of him fell from his saddle and shot his own horse dead with the death-grip of his fingers on his revolver as he dragged: how the men behind uttered oaths at the sight, and set their teeth to win. "And what struck you most when it was over, and you looked back on it?" asked my friend. The servant reflected a moment, and then, with simplicity, replied: "What struck me most forcible. sir, was the bullets that missed me." Quite Irish, that. The Density of Population In Switzerland there are 73.2 inhabitants to 247.1 acres; England has 120; Germany, 96.7; Russia, 49.9; Belgium, 206; Austria, 79.6; Hungary, 54.2; Italy, 110.5, and France, 71.8, or the third lowest of the European powers. Russia and Hungary having less than France.—Conson-General J. T. Du Bois. —Oshkosh sportsmen allege that there is much illegal fishing and shooting going on in Winnebago county. WEPENER 10 BE RELIEVED The British Are Approaching’ from Two Directions. ROBERTS’ STATEMENT Rapid ineae ie die Makes the Position of the Enemy Quite Precarious. field force, has been ordered to return home. It is said that a peremptory or- der for Gen. Warren's return was cabled to South Africa this morning. London, April 1s.—Practically no de- velopments have been reported so far in teday’s South African cables. A dis- patch from Warrenton, dated Tuesday, April 17, says: ! - “Finding the Boers busy making new trenches we exploded Lyddite shells, fol- lowing up these with the Maxims. The cnemy’s ambilance was afterwards ob- served on the spot.” : Official information shows that dis- patches declaring the Boers bad aban- dened the siege of Wepener were prema- ture. Lord Roberts’ message, which left hix headquarters about noon yesterday, veports Wepener still. surrounded, al- though he represents the Boers as fight- ing half-heartedly and evincing uneasi- ness as to the security of their communi- cations. Message from Lord Roberts. The war office last night gave out the following dispatch from Lord Roberts: “Our foree at Wepener is still surround- ed, but it is reported the enemy are at- tacking in a very half-hearted manner and are anxious about their communica- ee a: forces a SS ing Wepener from two directions-—one under Cen. Rundle, via _Reddersburg. and another under Gen. Brabant, with Gen. Hart’s brigade in support. via Rouxville. On the reoceupation of Roux- ville, April 15, the few Boece there re- tired, and Gen. Brabant made some im- portant arrests. “Violent storms of rain have some- what interfered with the march of these columns, but it is hoped they will soon be able to make their presence more de- cidedly felt. Losses Heavy. “Gen. Settle reports from Kenhardt, _ April 14, that 200 Transvaalers made a determined attack the previous day on Dopaspoort, held by a party of Orpan’s horse. Our losses were two killed and one wounded. The enemy's losses must have been heavy, as they applied to as for doctors and an ambulance.” The commander-in-chief confirms the general impression that two British col- umns are approaching the besieged town, che by way of Reddersburg, the other by Rouxville. That leaves the Boers a chance of escape to the north, and Lord Roberts omits te say whether or not a third body is swinging around by way of Sannas post and the Modder river. Dalgetty’s Casualties, “i Maseru, April 17.—Col. Dalgetty’s cas- ualties since he has been , besieged at Wepener have been twenty killed and 100 wounded. ‘The Boer Josses are re- ported to have been considerably heay- jer. After the night attack on April 12 the dead were left on the field, where they still lie unburied. There is a con- , flict of opinion among the leaders. Some want to attack again, while others re- fuse to do so. Desultory cannon-firing and “sniping” continues. The Caledon 1s risimg, which alarms the Boers, who are now on both sides of the river and might be cut off if the stream was to become flooded, Five Boer guns are believed to be disabled. Boers Are Well Horsed, Plumer's Column, Gaberones, Friday, April 6, vio Lourenco Marques, Tuesday, April 17.—The Boer artillery about Ma- feking is well horsed. ‘Their pompoms are mounted on light four-wheeled car- riages, cach drawn by four smart horses, in marked contrast with those Col, Plumer fought with at Crocodile Pool. The Boers, too, are well mounted and well dressed, and have fit-looking pa- trols, ‘The grain and other crops in the district are excellent, so the Transvaal- ers are net likely to suffer from scarcity of food for a long time. Ask for Medical Aid. A letter has been received here from Commandant Snyman with reference tc the British wounded and prisoners at the Boer lauger after the engagement ot March 31, from which it is learned that Capt. Crewe died of his wounds. Lieut. Milligan is not a prisoner and is believed to be among those the Boers buried. ‘The British casualties were two officers and six men killed, three officers and thirty- six men wounded, and one officer and eleven men made prisoners. Living on Oat Bran Porridge. Mafeking, Saturday, April 7.—The sue- cess of Lieut, Smith-Eman. the Rhode- sian scout, who, with the exception of a cyclist correspondent, is the only white jnan who has entered Mafeking since the siege began, is likely to prove of great value to Col. Piumer, to whom he has returned with dispatches, should Plumer decide te raise the siege of Mafeking in earnest. A Scottish crofter has introduced a method of making nourishing porridge with oat bran, which is a great boon and is solving the question of feeding the na- tives. We are now confident of holding out twe months longer. The men in the trenches are determined to play the game to the end. Memorial Services, Paris, April 18.—Memorial services in honor of the late Gen. De Villebois Mareuil, killed while fighting against the British in South Africa, were held in Notre Dame cathedral today, the cost being defrayed by public subscription. There was a large attendance, including the consuls of the - Orange Free State and = the ‘Transvaal. The building = was especially — decorated with sable hangings and tri-colors, Gen. Mercier, on leaving the cathedral at the conclusion of the ceremony, was loudly acclaimed, which evoked a counter dem- onstration, resulting in the police charg- ing across the square in front of the cathedral. The Anglophobe deputy Millevoye lent himself to a similar fied onstration with a like result. A few arrests were made. SOLD FOR $7500. Highest Price Kver Paia far a Meu. Chicago, Ill.. April 18.—Dale, a Here- ford bull, was sold in the Dexter park amphitheater at the stockyards yester- day for $7500. The highest figure ever before paid for a bull in any country was $5100, received for Sir Bredwell a Sotham’s sale in Kansas City two years ago. The purchaser of Dale was Clem Graves of Bunker Hill, Ind. Several other animals were disposed of at prices ranging from $500 to $1500, MUCH MONEY SPENT AT LAKE GENEVA. Several Wealthy Chicagoans Great- ly Improve Their Handsome Summer Places. Lake Geneva, Wis., April 17.—[Spe- cial.J—Wealthy Chicagoans who own summer places here have been spending ‘considerable money on their property dur- ing the winter. The building, it is ex- pected, will continue during the summer. It is estimated that Otto Young has spent $200,000 on his property. Recently he has added two small farms to his holdings. The interior woodwork of his residence is said to have cost $50,000 alone. The building is of Bedford stone. H. G. Selfridge has had decorators at work on his residence for a month, and another month will be required to finish the work. The new residence now under way for J. H. Moore will be over 200 feet long and nearly 100 feet wide. The superstruc- ture will be of pressed brick, with stone trimmings. Tor the basement alone 280 cords of stone and 80,000 brick were re- quired. Col. R. C. Clowry of the West- ern Union ‘Telegraph ‘company has bought the Francis Lackner property. Tt is said to have cost $25,000. Gen. Henry Strong has had men at work im- proving his property. The O. W. Potter residence has had an extensive overhaul- ing during the winter. At the Seipp place a new veranda and a new dock have been built. Judge Sears also has been making repairs. Samuel W. Al- lerton has built a‘ new cottage on his premises, and John M. Smythe has built a new boathouse. At the head of the lake at Glenwood Springs eight new _cot- tages and a hotel addition have been built. Improvements have been going on at the golf grounds during the win- ter, and also at Englewood on Fritz Faltz, the architect, claims to have found a man who is willing to ac- cept the terms of some Lake Geneva property owners to put up a hotel. The scheme contemplates a brick and stone structure, to cost $60,000. The proposi- tion requires the donation of the old Whitney house property, the lease of a Jarge lake front park and a bonus of $5000, It is claimed that $3000 of the bonus has been subscribed. WISCONSIN COURT’S DECISION AFFIRMED. Points Passed Upon by U. S. Su- preme Court In Northern Pa- cific Terminus Case. Washington, D. C., April 17.—In decid- ing that the eastern terminus of the Northern Pacific was Ashland, Wis., not Duluth, Minn., the United States Su- preme court accept the view taken by the Wisconsin Supreme court in the same cases, The outaicns handed*down yester- day was in the case of Doherty vs. the Northern Pacific Railway company. Mr. Doherty resides in Douglas county, Wis- consin, on a tract of land acquired by him in 1882 under the homestead law. The Northern Pacific Railroad company claiming a right of way under its cession by Congress in 1864. Mr. Doherty con- tended that the railway company defi- nitely located its eastern terminus at Duluth in 1872 by the purchase of an in- terest in the Lake Superior and Missis- sippi Railroad company from Thomson Junction to Duluth, It was therefore held that the railway had right of way under the origiral act over lands in Wis- consin. Stillwater, Minn., April 17.—The de- cision of the United States Supreme court making Ashland the eastern terminus of the Northern Pacific railroad perfects the title of David Tozer, a veteran lumber- man, to 16,000 acres or land in Wiscon- sin. carrying 1,000,000 of standing pine valued at about $4,000,000. The con- tract with the company was made in 198n FOUND DEAD IN BARN. —_-—_—_ Isaac Richardson of Fond du Lac Supposed to Have Died from an Epileptic Pit. Fond du Lae, Wis., April 17.—[Special.] —Isaac Richardson, aged 65 years, who lived with his nephew, George Richard- son, on Butler street, was found dead at 7 o'clock last evening upstars in a barn on the premises. He had been missing since breakfast time yesterday morning and the chances are that he died soon after leaving home. The old man was subject to fits and would frequently go to the barn when he felt them approach- ing. and remain there until all was over. When found last night he was lying face downward on the upper floor of the structure. Justice Watson was called and immediately an inquest was con- vened. An examination of the clothing work by the old man resulted in finding $70 in money. Mr. Richardson was quite wealthy and is said to have had nearly $10,000 invested and in the bank. He went to Florida several years ago for the purpose of running a fruit-growing plantation and sunk $3000 or $4000. He was never married, and for a number of years has continued to reside with his nephew in this city. WILLIAM GILBERT’S WILL, Provision Made for His Sister is De- clared Void. Osbkosh, Wis., April 17.—[Special.]— The will of the late William Gilbert of Menasha, the wealthy paper manufact- urer, was admitted to probate this after- noon. ‘The estate is estimated to be worth $100,000, The first provision leaving an annuity of $300 to his sister, Emma A. Gilbert of Philadelphia, was not allowed as the deceased had crossed it out in lead pencil and had written the word “void” and signed his initials. The whole estate goes to his. wife, Anna M. Gilbert, to be used by her gene her life. At her death it is to be divided between the children. The children are William H., Albert M., Theodore M., George M. and Mrs. Ida M. Meargel of Philadelphia. The will was executed in 1890. The Life of a Gun. The bigger the gun the shorter its life. Those monsters, the 110-ton guns, can- not be reckoned upon to fire more than eighty full-charge rounds without becom- ing quite useless. The 67-ton gun can fire 1€5 rounds; while the six-inch breechionit- er is good for 400 or 350 full-charge rounds, The reason of this is that the terrific heat and corroding effect of the powder wears away the bore at the ¢y0™- ber end. and then the shell dovs net catch the rifling.—New York Telegraa:. The Queen's Visit to Ireland. On the Queen's previous visit to Ire- land forty years ago an old fisherman was asked what he thought of her. Too polite to tell the Englishman that he was a little disappointed in the personal ap- pearance of the sovereign, he replied, “We like the sarving maids well enough,” meaning the maids of honor, two well-known beauties—London Out- look. —The earnings of one German line be- tween Hamburg and New York in 1899 exceeded the earnings of the previous year by 4,000,000 marks. —The pee alphabet contains 202 letters, being the longest in the world. PET MOCKING BIRD | PIPED DEATH LAY. Jennie O'Neill Potter, the Boca Wisconsin Elocutionist, Passes | Away ina New York Hospital. New York, April 18.—Jennie Q’Ncill Potter is dead. Her frail body now lies in the chapel of St. Luke's hospital, awaiting thé transfer back to. Wisconsin, where her grave will be made in the vil- lage cemetery at -her old home in Patch Grove, Grant county. She passed away yesterday afternoon about 5 o'clock. Since last December Jennie Potter had occupied a room in St. Luke's hospital. She came here from Chicago, full of life, vigor and ambition, and was a success the instant she appeared. Her splendid powers as an elocutionist brought her fame, friends and BRE, and for months she was the rage. Then ‘one day her friends were told that the girl from the oo 4 a ee ba Sc ee : ee a - a fe Ma ae PROSE 5 je ae ae BS Eee BA SP SN Meee Feed 4 a gg eS = ls oe ee . a oe TAS e: . akg PEA ¥ ay A es JENNIE O'NEILL POTTER. West was stricken with ¢ancer and thai her case was hopeless. She was taken to the hospital and told that she must die. The brave girl wept for days when she realized that her case was indeed ha less, and then she settled down +) die, relinquishing all the hopes she had entertained. Her old friends did not for- get her and her room in the hospital has nm gay all the time with flowers and other things that were to brighten up the-fast-fleeting days of the unfortunate Sonny artist. In her last days she was buoyed up by the idea that the doctors were mistaken and that her malady was not fatal. The Teng are was the result of advice giv- en by alleged mediums, who secured her contidence. A remarkable incident in connection with the death of Miss Potter is told of a mocking bird that was given to her some time ago. Miss Potter kept the bird in her room at the hospital, but it was silent all the time. Nothing could be done to induce it to sing. Day after day the young elecutionist tried to per- suade the bird to sing, but it remained silent, and it was decided:that it was not a songster. Yesterday mornirg, to the infinite sur- prise of Miss Potter and the nurses, the mocking bird began to sing. It whistled and piped and trilled, and its shrill and beautiful tones echoed throughout the corridors of the hospital. The nurses and doctors remarked that Miss Potter's pet had found its voice at last and all felt pleased. because they saw in the song af the bird some amusement for the suffer- ing little patient. But the tones lasted only a few hours. The bird suddenly ceased its music. The song ended as life went from the girl who owned the singer. CZAR’S GIFT TO FRANCE. Map of Republic Costing Four Mil- lion Francs—Cities Marked by Jewels. Paris, April 18—Prince Ouroussow, the Russian ambassador, has presented President Loubet the Czar’s present to France. It is a complete map of France made of precious stones in mosaic. This map is a yard square and each department is reproduced in special stone, such as jade, onyx, agate, cornaline, and malachite, and the principal cities by genis. There is a diamond for Lyons, a ruby for Paris,.an emerald for Marseilles, and an opal for Bordeaux. The map is valued at 4,000,000 francs, and will be exhibited in the Russian pavilion, in the ‘Trocadero. The prince, in his speech of presenta- tion, warmly expressed the sentiments of cordiality the Czar felt in offering the present to France. President Loubet replied: “I am deep- ly touched by the attention of the Em- peror, which the French nation appre- ciates, as I well know that his majesty felt that in making this present he gave a new manifestation of the bonds which unite the two countries.” President Loubet then declared that in the future the place of the map would be in the Louvre galleries. SIGN LANGUAGE IN COURT. Two Deaf Mutes Give Evidence in a Suit for Divorce. New York, April 18—With flying fingers Mrs. Emma Virginia Brown and her husband, Samuel Marshall Brown, both deaf mutes, told Justice Leventritt how their twenty-seven years of married life had been a failure. ‘The sign lan- guage they used was translated by inter- preters. ‘The heightened color of the two gray-haired principles betrayed their ear- hest feeling. Mrs. Brown, through her attorney, A, H. Hummel, asked for a separation from her husband on the eo of cruelty and abandonment. th husband and wife have been promi- nent in deaf mute church work. ‘The husband is a lay reader in one of the missions of Rey. Dr. Thomas Gallandet's church for deaf mutes. Dr. Gallaudet ac companied him in court, and acted as in- terpreter while he gave his testimony. Mrs. Brown jerked her forefinger across her throat, while her face wore a fright- ened expreesian.. to illustrate her hus- band's threats with a razor, and turned an imaginary revolver upon herself, Once, she said, her husband crushed her wrists until her agony was almost in- tolerable. Mr. Brown denied his wife's story. Justice Leventritt reserved de- cision, HEIRS TO MILLIONS. Hermit Leaves Vast Estate to Two St. Louis People. St. Louis, Mo., April 18—The Post- Dispatch today says: Harry B. Wan- dell, city.editor of the Globe-Democrat, and his sister, Mrs. Adam Wiest, learned togay through a dispatch from Albany, N. Y., that they were heirs to a fortune estimated at $10,000,000 to $20,000,000 left by Rousler Wandell, a hermit of that city. A large portion of the estate is auexstond to lie in the Canary is- lands. THE SULTAN MUST PAY, Washington Authorities Are Los- ing Patience. IGNORES AGREEMEMT. Diplomacy bstiptstdeioe More Dras- tic Kfforts will Now be Employed. Washington, April 18.—Diplomatie re- lations between the United States and Turkey are in a critical state, growing out of the Sultan’s bad faith. He prom- ised to pay Uste.indemnity claims of the American missionanes for the destrue- tion of eight Boies of the Euphrates colleges at Harpoot 4nd several buildings belonging to the American missionaries at Marash during the Armenian massa- cres of 1895. Mr. Straus, the United States minister to Turkey, is at present in the United States on leave of absence. He present- ed his resignation, but the President, re- xarding the seryices of Mr. Straus as in- dispensable, definitely extended his leave, sabject to the call of the secretary of state, whenever circumstances may ne- cessitate his return, Sultau Ignores His Agreement. Diplomacy appears to have exiausted itself at Constantinople, the Sultan hay- ing promised to pay the indemnity claims, amounting to some $90,000, which prom- ise was again renewed prior to Mr. Straus’ departure, aud although sixteen months have elapsed since the promise was first made that promise still remains unfulfilled, ‘ This is not his only promise, he having stated to the minister that he would give his permit for the reconstruction of the American coliege aid school buildings, which up to the present the official per- mit, upon one excuse and another, has been withheld. | When Dr. Angell resigned in 1898 the relations between the two countries were critical by reason of the inaction of the Turkish government and its refusal te entertain ~ the indemnity claim. The ‘Turkish government shortly before the departure of Dr. Angell sent a reply de- nying all liability for the Eedings and property destroyed. A similar rep, was sent to the ambassadors of England, France and Italy, having like claims. Sultan Must Pay. It is stated that the United States charge d'affaires at Constastinople will be directed to inform the Sultan that this government must insist on payment without further delay. Unless prompt action on the Sultan’s lew? anticipates the ultimatum and the debt discharged, a resort will be made to drastic measures. Several courses’ have been urged on the President: for the collection of the $100,- 000 indemnity which is admitted by the Sultan to be due to the American mis- sionaries. Consideration has been given to a proposition to seize- the port of Smyrna and administer its customs rey- enues until the judgment and the ex- penses of collection are canceled. This course has not been wholly abandoned in the remote contingency that satisfac- tion is indefinitely deleyed. It involves serious complications in the Mediterra- nean, for which the United States is ex- tremely reluctant to assume responsibili- ty for the recovery of so sinall an amount at the present time. Would Create Alarm. It might precipitate war, through Tur- key’s sending some of its abtiquated war- ships to Smyrna to resist the temporary American occupation. In that event the necessity for sending a large fleet to the Mediterranean would create alarm among the, powers and disturb the deli- cate equilibrium now existing in Europe. Under the circumstances it has been ae: termined that diplomatic resources will be first exhausted, with confidence that the Sultan will be brought to understand that his promises cannot be lightly. broken. HUNTER BATTLES WITH EAGLE Dog Saves His Life by Joining in Ficht When Man is Down, Muncie, Ind., April _18—While hunt- ing William Kahn of Eaton had a most thrilling experience with an eagle, which he succeeded in capturing after a des- perate tight. ‘The huge bird was crip- pled by a shot from Kahn's gun and the fatter endeavored to errs the eagle alive. The bird struggled to get free and Kahn accidentally tripped and feil while the fight was on. The bird at- tacked his assailant and was rapidly quelling the spirit of the hunter with his great claws when the hunter's dog came up and joined in the fight. This freed Kahn, who was so severely in- jured that he could not attack the fero- cious bird, and shot, wounding it again. The eagle is a perfect specimen of the regular American type and measures more than six feet from its wing tips. It is the tirst one ever captured in this part of the state, HEARS OF HER OWN DEATH. Countess Festetic, in New York, Reads Story of Her Drowaing. Berlin, April 18.—A special dispatch to the Lokal Anzeiger, which gives meager details regarding the loss near Minecroy of the yacht of Count Rudolph Festetic with all on board save the owner and two servants, says that among the vic- tims was the countess, who, prior to her marriage, was Miss Haggin of New York city. New. York, April 18.—Count Rudolph Festetic was a Hungarian nobleman of fortune and a lieutenant of hussars in the Austrian army. He was of a roving disposition, and when he married Miss Ella Haggin of New York they spent their honeymoon in a crujse to the South seas. The Countess Festetic¢ is now vis- iting at her parents’ home, 28 Fifth ave- nue. She said her husband was on a cruise, and the last she heard of him he was at Colombo, Ceylon. She did not know who accompanied him. MRS. CHRISMAN’S BEQUESTS. Topeka Lady Gives Large Sums to Methodist Church and University. Topeka, Kas., April 18.—The will of Mrs, “~2a Chrisman, who died in To- peka recently, has been filed in the pro- bate court. She bequeathes the greater part of a fortune estimated at $250,000 for the founding of the University of To- ‘ka. The bequest is contingent on the Methoaist church of Kansas raising an equal amount within three years. Mrs. Chrisman also leaves $83,000 cash to the Ohio Wesleyan pate $5000 for a new parsonage for the First Methodist church of Topeka and $3000 to the Woman's Missionary oe The will provides that Rev. A. S. Embree, her former pastor, shall be administrator of the estate at a salary of $5000 per year. ; BUBONIC PLAGUE. Am Aggregate of More than 4000 Deaths in India. Cairo, April 18—The bubonic plague 1s reported to have made its appearance at several ports on the Red sea. Simla, April 18.—The deaths from plague throughout India during the past week slightly decreased in number, but the aggregate is still upwards of 4000. ULTIMATUM TO THEIR WORKMEN. seed: actihrhen Belguchuesy Oe Discharged—Effects 700 Men. Chicago, Ill., April 18.—Unless the of- ficials of the Brewery Workers’ union accede to the demand of the Chicago and Milwaukee Brewers’ association to send a delegation to their headquarters by 2 o'clock this afternoon to arbitrate the differences between the strikers and the Best Brewing company of this city, every brewery workman belonging to the union in Chicago will be discharged. This statement was given out today by the officials of the brewers’ association The anticipated lockout will affect over 700 men, ‘The strike at the Best Brew- ing company resulted from the refusal of the men to work overtime in loading cars, although at increased wages. Only ten men were affected. Labor leaders so far have refused to arbitrate the mat- ter. At 2 o’elock this afternoon it was an- nounced that no definite agreement be- tween the brewers and their employes has-been reached. It was reported, how-. ever, that the brewers had decided to give their employes more time in which to decide upon the acceptance of the terms offered. ie ry NRO BROKE HIS NECK > orgy z AND STILL LIVES. Frank Nicholi of Milwaukee Prob- ably Fatally Hurt in a New York Theater. New York, April 18.—[Special.J— While trying to turn a_ triple somer- sault, an almost impossible feat, that has cost the life of every man who has per- sisted in attempting it, Frank Nicholi of the Florence quartette, Milwaukee, broke his neck,on the stage of the Dewey theater ‘yesterday. Twice Nicholi has succeeded in turning a triple somersault. Yesterday, dressed as a woman, he tried the feat again, but, handicapped by his costume, he simply invited death. He landed on his head and the sixth vertebra was fractured. | Nicholi_ was sent to Bellevue unconscious. His parents in Milwaukee were wired for permission to perform a delicate operation and their assent came this morning, but the sur- eon thinks it is too late to save his ife, NV ip T ’ INVITED TO PADUCAH. (ole ST Sgee eS Unique Invitation to Admiral and Mrs. Dewey—Schwab’s nite, Washington, D. C., April 18.—Repre- sentative Wheeler today presented to Admiral and, Mrs. Dewey an.inyvitation to visit the city of Paducah, Ky., while on their proposed Western trip next month. The invitation was inclosed in an oak casket trimmed with gold and silver. It is on a thin sheet of birch which bears the seal of the city of Padu- cah and reads as follows: .” "Po Admiral and Mrs, Dewey: ‘This *: : town is yours. Pull the latch-string : : —we will do the rest. Don't surprise : : us but-inform us when you pull. The invitation is signed by the mayor and prominent citizens of Paducah. In- side the casket is twelve quart bottles of twenty-year-old| whisky and a quart glass decanter incased in silver. Admiral Dewey said the invitation was a beautiful piece of work. He did not give Mr. Wheeler a definite answer, but said he would communicate his reply in a formal letter. Pittsburg, Pa., April 18.—Admiral George Dewey and his wife have been tendered magnificent portraits in oil of themselves by President Charles M, Schwab of the Carnegie company, and M. Chartian, the famous French por- traitist, has been commissioned by Mr. Schwab to do the work. The sittings, it is said, will commence at once. The price to be paid for the portraits a not be ascertained, but it is learned by To- cal artists to be not under $5000 apiece. , > GOT A NEW LEG. SS Speaker Henderson Has One of Rubber and He is Very ‘Proud-of it. New York, April 18.—Speaker David B. Henderson of the House of Repre- sentatives has a brand-new leg. He got it yesterday and took it to Washington with him. ‘The speaker is very proud of it, for it enables him to walk a dis- tauce without a cane for the first time in many a year. ane leg ix of rubber, light and pliable, and provided with artificial knee and ankle joints, which perform, their func- tic. almost as acceptably as the real tunes. The leg is the fourth the speaker has had since he left the original on_the field at the battle of Corinth, in February, 1s65. while a lieutenant in the ‘4s welfth regiment. The leg was shot away to a point above the knee. Henderson re- mained in the hospital only long enough for his wound to heal. Then he put on a wooden contrivance and limped to the front at the head of the Forty-sixth Iowa. Since the war three or four op- erations have been performed upon the limb and two wooden legs have been worn out. The speaker has been laid up for months at a time and has suffered most excruciatingly. MRS. FLORENCE TO WED. Widow of the Popular Comedian will Marry Mr. Fitzsimmons, Chicago, L., April 18.—Mrs. William J. Plorenee, widow of the once popular comedian, is soon to be married to John F. Fitzsimmons. Mrs. Florence is past 70 years of age, while her intended hus- band is 28 years old. Mr. Fitzsimmons has been playing a minor part in the Walsh-McDowell com- pany, and. on leaving the company at Omaha last Wednesday =e told inti- mate friends that soon in New York he would be married to Mrs. Florence, and then go to Europe on a wedding trip. Mr. Fitzsimmons played the part of a page, which, in Sarah Bernhardt’s pro- ductions, is taken by a woman. He is said to have stated that Mrs. Florence had sent him money to make the trip East. CATHOLIC EDUCATORS, Conference to Bring About the Uni- fying of Co'lewiate Education. Chicago, Ill., April 18.—The second an- nual conference of Catholic colleges of America and Canada began here today at St. James’ high school hall. Promi- nent Catholic educators representing nearly all of the Catholic colleges of the country are in attendance. The object of the conference this year is the unify- ing of Catholic collegiate education. Thirteen Students Drowned. Bingen, April 18.—A boat on board of which were twenty members of the Catholic Students’ association, while crossing the River Rhine yesterday from this place, to Hacieehelat Was capsized and thirteen of its otcupants were drowned, MUSICAL JUBILEE. Grand Celebration of the Milwau- kee Musical Society on May 83d--Reduced Rates on All Railroads. Milwautee’s Well-Known Musicat Organization to Celebrate Its 50th Anniversary—Grand Concert in the Expositiou Building. Chorus of 700 Voices—Orchestra of 100 Artistse—Noted Soloists to Participate, The Milwaukee Musical ‘society, one of the foremost organizations of its kind in the United States, is Dargeriog to celebrate the first week in ay, the fiftieth anniversary of its organization. Probably no body of music lovers has done more to forter and develon in sh... thet et West a taste for true art iu music. The history of the society dates back tu 1847 “when a Ger- man male quartette composed of pioneer Germans formed an association from which grew what later came to be formally known as “the Milwaukee Mu- sical Society,” In the fifty years of it career, the so- — West a taste for (wD true art iu music Ls The history of the ed society dates back io 1847 when a Ger Cay man male quartette 4 composed of pioneer | Germans formed an Ry) association from “/ which grew what a later came to be 1 formally known as La Pethe Milwaukee Mu- h i) sical Society.” we ff, In the fifty years Pilot of it Sees the so- ciety as enjoyed Herr Andreas Dippel. the’ support of all classes of citizens of Milwaukee, and at the present time great interest is shown in the metropolis for the jubilee which is to commemorate the fiftieth birthday of Milwaukee's pioneer musicai organization. The celebration will cover a period of three days. Its crowning feature will be a grand concert which will be held on the evening of May 3 in the Exposition building. A chorus of 700 voices. made up of memberg of the Musical So- ciety, the Mil- waukee Maenner- chor, the Arion club, the Cecil- ian Ladies’ soci- ety, the A Capella chorus and the Lyric Glee club, will participate, together with an orchestra of 100 artists. An invi- tation to Carl Schurz of New Wark ¢a attend tha iE b ae yi Re Sg Cw gp Sis Schurz of New e. Gadski. York to attend the “me & concert has been accepted, and he will be present to address the gathering at the Exposition concert. A quartette of soloists of the first order have been en- gaged, including such famous singers as Madame Gadski, Madame Schumann- Heinck, David Bispham and Andreas Dippel. The society appeals to lovers of music throughout the state to attend this mag- nificent concert, than which there has been no musical event of greater magnir tude in the history of music in the state. 5. Much interest is ( being shown f throughout the z state and among ow m friends of the so- ; SP) ciety in other cit- i e=| ies. o The __ railroads Sey have granted a . fare of one and . one-third for the =) round trip in the Se) state, with the pro- oom =e yiso that parties - | purchasing excur- 1, sion tickets be in NT" nossession of ad- a7 * Much interest 1S A being shown throughout the state and among can a ay friends of the so- = ciety in other cit- i e=| ies. es The railroads 2 | have granted a . fare of one and . one-third for the oY round sep in the | \ See) state, with the pro- e . viso that parties . | purchasing excur- 1, sion tickets be in \ lave" possession of ad- Mr. David Bispham. mission tickets to the grand concert. These tickets may be obtained from local solicitors or direct from the Musical society at Milwaukee. The prices of reserved seats are $2, $1.50, $1.25 and $1. The Exposition hal} will be remodeled to hold 7000 people. The great festival of the North Ameri- can Saengerbund, which was giyen in the Exposition building during the sum- mer of 1886, will be remembered by mu- sical people throughout the state. This event was one of the greatest in the his- tory of the society, but it is the inten- tion of the festival committee to cele brate the golden ju- bilee by an event of still greater bril- liancy. The Mil- wankve Musical ‘so- ciety has always maintained a high standard for its concerts. Often- times these enter- tainments have heen given for charity. In_one in- stance $1820 was realized for the Conemaugh valley sufferers and was forwarded to Clara Tet ea oinae Ss i) ie brate the golden ju- bilee by an event e of still greater bril- liancy. The Mil- ey Lois 'S0- ciety has always maintained a high SS SOM, standard for its > concerts. Often- a times these enter- tainments have y= it He es for =i charity. In one in-7 stance” $1820 wasZ\ S @ realized for the > Aer Conemaugh “valley “>< Afbe sufferers and was forwarded to Clara aero ee Barton, Pres't of —— the National Red Cross society, to be ap- plied to the relict of the needy. Thus it is that at the present time, when the society is undertaking to celebrate its golden jubilee in a: befitting manner, Mil- waukee’s public citizens are united in making this event a crowning point in the career of this meritorious organiza- tion. A FLORAL MIRACLE. The Cooreria Presents the Appear- ance of an Enormous Honquet. “The most magnificent floral effect I ever saw in my life,” said Robert N. Wilson of the Morgan line, “was in Tex- as. They have a flower there called the rainflower, the botanical name of whicls is the cooperia. It usually blooms thre or four days after a rain. I was through the country to look after some Jand for a friend, and the thing that struck me in ‘that particular locality was the utter -barrenness of the whole landscape. There was a low piece of land of ten acres or more that was covered with low, black vines that were decideaty uninvit- ing. _ Four hours later, after a heavy thunder shower, I passed this piece of land, and it was absolutely covered with what seemed to me to be the prettic.> Doves IT had ever seen. It was one enormous bouquet, and the fragrance from it was almost intoxicating. “I could scarcely believe the evidences of my own eyes, but there it was, what seemed to be an unsigntly waste trans- formed as if by magic into a bower of bloom. ah “I made inquiry of the natives and learned that once in a loug time the rain- flower bloomed in a few hours after a rain, though ordinarily tae blossoms did not appear for three or four days, and then tsnally came in the night.""—New York Commercial. —From Constantinople comes the re- port that the Sultan has forbidden al? his stafe officers to visit the Paris expo- sition. A SONG OF EASTER. And the lily-censers swing: Sing that life and joy are waking and that death no more is king. Sing the happy, happy tumult of the slowly brightening aspiring; Winter Fill the air with the sweet tidings till the frosty echoes ring. Along the eaves the icicles no longer glitter- celling: ing cing; And the crocus in the garden lifts its bright face to the sun; And in the meadows softly the brooks begin Sing, little children, sing! The hills In the joyous Easter morning for hope are blossoming; And as the earth her shroud of snow from off her breast doth fling. So may we cast our fetters off in God's eter- nal spring. may we find release at last from sorrow So may we find release at last from sorrow and from pain So may we find our childhood's calm del- icious dawn again. Sweet are your eyes. O little ones, that look with smiling grace. Without a shade of doubt or fear in to the Future's face! Sing, sing in happy chorus! With joyful voices tell. That death is life, and God is good, and all things shall be well; That bitter days shall cease, In warmth and life and peace; That winter yields to spring; Sing, little children, sing! BILLY WARD'S EASTER. As Billy Ward turned into the street where his sister lived an organ on the corner began droning out, "Oh, Don't You Remember Sweet Alice, Ben Bolt?" "That's the first song I remember hearing father sing," thought Billy. And a vision of his father's face, with the steadfast gray eyes and cheery, whimsical smile, suddenly rose before him. And then across the mirror of his memory drifted another picture—that of a lonely grave in a far away country churchyard. He saw the laurel tree at its head, the roses nodding at the foot. Billy sighed and his honest face clouded. He missed the companionship, the advice of that dear comrade who had vanished. If it were not for Alice— Billy found himself softly whistling the sweet, old hackeneyed air as he pushed the electric button under his sister's name. The door clicked. She was at home, then. As he went up the stairs he heard his sister's glorious voice ring out in the jubilant strains of an Easter anthem: Christ, the Lord, is risen today, sons of men and angels say: Raise your voice and triumph cry, sing, ye heavens, and earth, reply. Billy listened enraptured. He was as proud of her voice as he was of her beauty. He always went to the fashionable Fifth Avenue church where she sang on Sunday mornings, simply to hear her. And when she stood and turned her lovely face toward the lofty, fretted roof, and her rich voice rolled down through the aisles, Billy always got a lump in his throat. She was rehearsing now the solo she was to sing at Easter service next morning. Billy had heard it before, with its wonderful flourishes and runs and staccato notes, and his heart had swelled with happy pride. But what Billy greatly wished was that Alice would learn some of those old familiar ballads that brought back memories of their childhood and their dear old home. Billy had not been in New York long, and tonight he was homesick. The nostalgia of spring was upon him. The soft air, the daffodils in the windows—yes, the very sound of the street organ grinding out the old song his father had loved—filled him with unspeakable longing. He hoped he might find Alice alone for once. There were so many things he wanted to talk over with her, but some way she was never alone now, she had so many engagements, and was constantly going here and there. Sometimes it frightened Billy. He felt as if she were so far above him, so immeasurably his superior. Alice came forward to meet him—a tall, attractive young woman, with a wealth of brown hair and large, melting blue eyes. She was dressed to go out, all in black—she was still in mourning for their father—and with a tiny butterfly-shaped bonnet of jet on her sleek, satin-like hair. She gave a little embarrassed laugh, "Why, Billy, I was not expecting you. Here is the general." Billy bowed gravely to the man who was lounging by the window, with an air of being very much at home. The general arose and held out a soft, fat white hand. Billy took it carelessly. "We were just going out to dinner," went on his sister. "Yes, won't you join us?" asked the general. "No," said Billy, shortly. "Don't let me detain you. I'll sit here a while and smoke, Sis, and read the papers." "Very well," replied his sister with an air of relief. Then, after a few minutes' indifferent chat she drew on her gloves and departed with the general. Billy smoked his cigar thoughtfully. Through the open window came the plaintive refrain of the music— They have fitted a slab of granite so gray, And sweet Alice lies under the stone. "I must get Alice to learn that and sing it to me when we are alone," thought Billy. Who was this man, this general, who was always with her? Billy thought of the flabby, livid face, the bold, heavily lidded eyes, the fulsome manner, like an unholy caress. "I don't like that man," said Billy, aloud. "I wish she wouldn't go out with him. I must caution her. She's too handsome to be living alone." The night wind blew stronger through the half open window of Alice's bedroom. Billy rose to shut it. Far on down the street came the strains of "Ben Bolt," dying away in the distance—In the old churchyard in the valley, Ben Bolt. Once more the vision of a lonely grave away in a country churchyard rose before him—his father's grave. On his sister's bed lay a pile of finery, like a fainting lady—her Easter gown. Billy looked at the mass of snowy silk and chiffon, the foamy lace and fluttering ribbons, with curiosity and some awe. Countryman that he was, a feint inkling of its value rose in his mind. "She always was an extravagant minx. She could never learn the value of money. I hope she is not running into debt." A bill was pinned to the corsage. Billy picked it up, looked at it and swore. "Well, I'll be damned!" he said. "One hundred and twenty-five dollars for that flimsy stuff! By George! I'll have to talk to Alice. She can't afford such luxuries." The dressing table stood before him. He looked at the silver-backed brushes, the cutglass bottles, the cushion bristling with jeweled pins—the thousand and one dainty trifles suggesting the coquetry of a charming woman. A lace-edged handkerchief had been carelessly dropped upon some object. Billy lifted it to inhale the delicate perfume that was wafted from it. He paused with the handkerchief held midway in air. The object that the lace-bordered trifle concealed was a leather jewel case containing a bracelet a king might covet. If Billy did not know the value of a woman's gowns, he did that of diamonds and rubies. A card lay with the jewel. It bore the general's name and a senile inscription—the silly maundering of a doddering old man. Billy's face flushed a deep scarlet, as if someone had struck him. He stood for a moment as if turned to stone. Then he walked slowly into the next room, and as he went he mechanically whistled "Ben Bolt." The ugly truth grinned at him like a skeleton. Many things came back to him—little glances, sotto voce remarks, extravagances. Oh, too well he knew now the significance of many hitherto mysterious details. His sister—his little sister—whom he had worshiped and cherished and of whose beauty and talents he had been so proud—was—God!—how could he speak the hideous words? It was only a moment that he stood there, his hand to his head, as if to crush back the frightful pain that snapped in his brain. Then with the fury of a madman he dashed into the bedchamber. He seized the pile of lace and silk and chiffon and rent it to tatters. The remains fluttered helplessly down to the floor, where they lay in little heaps, like a fleecy snowdrift gashed and torn by a sudden savage downfall of rain. He snatched the costly bauble from his sister's dressing case and, flinging it upon the floor, stamped upon it and ground it under his heel. And all the time, instead of cursing, he still softly whistled a bar of "Ben Bolt." The tempest passed and there succeeded a calm even more frightful. His head pained him so terribly that his sight grew indistinct. He flung himself upon the couch, face downward, and waited. * * * * * * * * * A click of a key in the door roused him. He rose and staggered into the dining-room and stood behind the screen, bending over something bright and shining which he held in his hand. "Why, Billy has gone," he heard his sister's soft voice say. "Well, that is all right. He has no love for you, general." "You don't imagine that he suspects anything, do you?" "Oh. no. Billy's such an honest old dear he thinks every one else equally so," was the reply. "Then we are alone"— Billy stepped out in the light, and as his sister's lover went toward her with extended arms he shot him directly in the heart. The general fell like a mass of lead. The general fell like a mass of lead. When they broke open the door in response to the woman's frenzied screams Billy sat by the side of his victim, speaking no word, but softly whistling, his bloodshot eyes fastened on the livid face at his feet. "One of the most dangerous patients in the institution," the alienists say, as they indicate an inoffensive looking man, who sits quietly by himself in a remote corner, and, with eyes fixed on vacancy, whistles softly from morning till night Oh, don't you remember sweet Alice, Ben Bolt? New York Herald The Perplexities of a College President Let us suppose a gentleman to be elected president of almost any college or university, says a college president in the Atlantic, outside the possibly half dozen that come immediately to mind as already reasonably well organized, well equipped, modern, up to date; presumably a gentleman fully prepared for his work, experienced in educational affairs, energetic, reasonably and properly ambitious, business-like in his methods, and with enough of a masterful spirit to make him a natural leader of men, if given reasonably free right of way. * * Even as he delivers his inaugural address he is surrounded by those who will at least wait with folded hands until he shall have been tried and proven, even if they do not actually and very potentially block his way. * * * The new president finds also that nearly every detail of administration must be submitted to its faculty for its approval. If the manager of a railroad desires to increase the speed of his trains or to make other changes in the time schedule, or change a curve or establish new grades, or improve the rolling stock, or set new requirements for entering the service of the company or for continuing in the same, or improve the system of accounting, he very properly consults those who are most directly interested in the particular matter in hand; but he is not bound by the advice given, much less is he compelled to call a mass meeting of all employees and abide by a majority vote. Not only is his own individual determination final in all matters of general policy, but he may even step inside a special department, make suggestions as to the details of its work, and insist that these be faithfully carried out. Not so in the educational world of today, by many, many miles of departure! If the average member of the average faculty is by any chance reading these lines, the chill in his veins and the horror in his heart at the bare suggestion of such assumption of authority or grant of power is easily imagined. It goes without contradiction that in our colleges and universities there is practically no educational supervision whatever. It is doubtful if the bravest college president in the country would quite dare to go into a department and make an issue on the methods of instruction obtaining therein; and it is still more doubtful if he would be sustained by his board, if he did this. The average board would probably suggest to him that he "would better get at it in some other way"—wisely neglecting to state in what other way! Couldn't Know Less than He Did There is a boy in one of the Washington schools, who, though he may never be a great statesman and diplomat, may be something equally great in some other department of human endeavor, says the Star. He is studying history at present, and a day or two ago he made a record in the class. He responded promptly when called upon. "What do you know, about the Clayton-Bulwer treaty?" inquired the teacher. "Nothing," responded the boy with superb confidence. "Is that all?" said the teacher sarcastically. "I couldn't very well know any less about it, could I?" he replied as if he were hurt by her insinuation. The teacher didn't like his manner. "What do you mean, sir?" she asked, becoming somewhat caloric under the necklace. "I mean that I know nothing at all about it." "That is no explanation, sir." "I beg your pardon, miss; don't you always tell us that whatever we do we must do thoroughly?" "Of course, but—" "Well, I couldn't see through it when I looked it over, so I thought I would be as thorough as I could and know nothing at all about it. I couldn't know much less than nothing about it, could I, miss?" "Um—er," she hesitated, "you may take your seat. I would like to see you after school a few moments." American exports to British South Africa, during the past eight months, are officially stated at $10,302,280, which is an increase of $101,982 over the same period a year ago, and $2,882,399 over two years ago. ABOUT PORTO RICANS ISLANDS IMPOVERISHED BY EUROPEAN ALIENS. Grasping Foreign Land Owners Have Warehoused Crops Expecting Free Entry Into the United States-Idaho's Mining Riots-Foreign Trade Gains. An important point in the Porto Rican question still seems misunderstood by a large number of people. Three-quarters of the land in Porto Rico is owned by Spanish grandees and other European aliens, and who live in Europe, where all of the net earnings from the products of their lands are sent. This is a system that has impoverished the islanders, and brought them to their present unfortunate industrial and social condition. From 15 to 20 cents a day is the average pay of laborers in Porto Rico, and three-quarters of the population—if not more—are laborers who cultivate the lands and harvest the crops for their European owners. Two and a half years ago, when our relations with Spain were becoming acute, these Spanish and European owners of the lands in Porto Rico foresaw a probable war, the early withdrawal of Spanish authority, and eventual free trade between the United States and Porto Rico. They therefore have been warehousing their staple crops of sugar and tobacco, so that now vast quantities are in store and accumulating, ready for shipment under free trade with the United States. To some extent American sugar and tobacco trusts have financial interest in, or complete ownership of, these crops. Of this there can be no doubt; the Porto Rican working people have nothing to lose by the imposition of the duty upon the products of their island entering the United States. Their work has been done and paid for at the prevailing rates of wages for labor—from 15 to 20 cents per day. The protests against the tariff that come from Porto Ricans were from those who represented the owners of the lands and the warehoused crops. The protests are not coming from the laboring people of the islands who will be the beneficiaries of the act. The imposition of this tariff creates a fund of several million dollars which is drawn almost entirely from aliens or American trusts. This money goes back to Porto Rico for the employment of Porto Ricans by our Government in the permanent improvement of the island. The wages our Government will pay will be higher than those paid by the land owners, and will tend to permanently raise the rates of wages all over Porto Rico. This would be impossible under immediate free trade; so, it must be plain, free trade would only benefit those whose oppression of Porto Rican labor would remain undisturbed, and who could thus all the better compete with the products of American labor in the same articles. Immediate free trade could only benefit aliens and trusts. The temporary tariff benefits all Americans and only injures aliens and trusts. A couple of years of this, and the Porto Ricans will be in receipt of wages approximating to those paid to the laborers on the sugar and tobacco plantations in the United States, from 75 cents to a dollar a day, and at the end of the two years the tariff is to remain in force the free admission of Porto Rican products into the United States will not have a disturbing effect upon those products of the mainland with which they will compete. It is impossible, in view of these facts, which are confirmed by official reports from the officers of the United States stationed in Porto Rico, for any sincere or informed person to point out where the imposition of the tariff upon the products of Porto Rico for two years will injure either Porto Rican or Americans. On the contrary, it is a distinct benefit to all whom the United States desires to benefit. The more this subject is studied the more this will become apparent. This is a case where expediency is synonymous of justice to our fellow countrymen in Porto Rico and at home. That is our first duty, and the tariff performs it. Newspaper Yaras. An interesting circumstantial story of the labor troubles in the Coeur d'Alene district, culminating in the destruction of the Bunker Hill and Sullivan mill, has been given to the military affairs committee of the House of Representatives by Conner Malett, a newspaper reporter of the Spokesman-Review of Spokane. He was sent to Wardner on April 25. On arriving there the witness said "he found a serious condition of affairs. Relations between the union and non-union elements were seriously strained, the former alluding to the latter as 'seabs' and the latter calling the other faction 'dynamiters.' There was no neutral element, and open hostilities threatened at any moment." An opportunity was given the nonunion men to join the union, of which the latter did not avail themselves. Thereupon an all night meeting of the union men was held and early the following morning a visit was paid to the Bunker Hill and Sullivan mine and the so-called "scabs" were driven out, amid hoots and pistol shots. The witness said he asked President Boyle of the Miners' Union if any further acts of violence were to be attempted by the union. The latter replied that there would not be, and expressed a fear that the strike was not to be successful. The witness said he had been approached by Sheriff Young, who had requested him to color his reports favorably to the union. About that time Sheriff Young, President Boyle and others of the miners' union went to Wallace, and there was an absence of union men for two days from the town of Wardner, but on the Saturday after, the peace and quiet of the town were seriously disturbed by a report that the miners of Canyon Creek were coming down to clean out the Bunker Hill and Sullivan. The witness went to the station, where he found quite a crowd. Shortly afterward he saw a train coming filled with armed men, part of whom were masked. It stopped and took aboard a large number of the union men of Wardner, who had been hiding in the bushes. Proceeding to the station the train discharged its load of human freight and immediately those that were masked formed a procession and marched to the mill, leaving those that were armed but not masked to guard the powder and dynamite being unloaded from the cars. Sheriff Young appeared, mounted the pyramid formed by the boxes of explosives and commanded, as an official of the county, that the mob disperse. But nobody except the sheriff dispersed. The explosives were then carried to the mill, placed under the machinery and the buildings were fired. The witness was seized and taken to a bluff overlooking the scene. The innocent spectators, closely guarded as himself, were cruelly treated by their guardians. Some were ordered to run and immediately the order was countermanded, not, however, before two took to their heels and were shot at. One of these subsequently died. As a result of the fire and explosions, he said, three large buildings and two smaller ones were destroyed. No official attempted to preserve order or prevent these acts of violence. Terror reigned in Wardner for three days following this attack, or until the Federal troops arrived. There were frequent rumors that the Canyon Creek miners were going to return to sack the town and business was suspended. The witness said he talked with the members of both factions and had been told by Mike Flynn, the committeeman of the union, that it was their intention, had he not escaped, to blow up Mr. Burbidge with the mill. The reporter was sure that the prisoners had not been subjected to inhumanity or caused needless suffering after their arrest. He had partaken of their food and had camped within a short distance of the so-called "bull pen" and was satisfied that if there was any comparison as to the rations and quarters of the imprisoned miners and the troops it certainly was in favor of the former. Of his own knowledge no prisoner had been denied the counsel of a minister or priest and he had been personally informed by Father Becker that Devine, the prisoner who committed suicide, had made no request for spiritual comfort. Every statement made by the witness tended to emphasize the necessity for maintaining Federal troops in the Coeur d'Alene district and to hold the miners' union directly responsible for the lawlessness which prevailed last April. Foreign Trade Gains. Total exports of American products and manufactures in March, as shown by the figures of the treasury bureau of statistics, were $134,313,348, against $104, 559,689 in March of last year, $75,574, 185 in March, 1896, and $66,516,571 in March, 1893. Thus last month's exports were more than double those of March, 1893 and 25 per cent greater than those of March of last year, and larger than those of any preceding March in our history. The total exports in the nine months ending with March, 1900, were $1,053, 832,675, against $947,919,405 in the corresponding months of last year, $925, 905,326 in March, 1897, and $515,490, 635 in the same month of 1886, having thus doubled in fifteen years and increased 53 per cent since 1898. Exports of agricultural products are about the same as last year, the notable increase of more than 100 million dollars in the nine months in question being largely in manufactures. It is apparent that the total exports of the fiscal year 1900 will exceed those of any preceding year in our history. Imports also show a marked increase over last year, the principal gain being in manufacturers' materials, while manufactured articles for use in the mechanic arts also show an increase. Thus the return to a protective system is followed by enormous gains in our exports and by increased activity in our manufacturing interests at home, and a consequent increase of employment and wages. To Corner Cotton. Not content with controlling trade in their own country, the latest effort of a free trade trust is to corner the cotton supply of the world. This is the task undertaken by an English combine, headed by Coats (Limited) of Paisley, and the British Fine Spinners' Co. This trust made its first deal by securing control of one-seventh of the entire Egyptian cotton crop. There is one English firm in Egypt that can handle the entire output of that country, and the reason for wishing to do this is because Liverpool has for some years been losing its hold on the cotton market of the world. They can always exert a greater "bear" influence upon the Liverpool market than any other, and they fear that Liverpool's loss of prestige means permanently higher prices for the American cotton grower which will, of course, affect the English manufacturers. A Glasgow paper says: "If the Egyptian crop can be controlled to the extent of the requirements of the powerful combination named, we see no reason why the English users of American cotton, who are already combined in the several associations of employers, should not unite, and, by agencies in the cotton States, secure all their requirements at the beginning of the season, when prices are lowest and qualities are best. Why should a vast buying agency, backed by the combination of the spinners, and controlling the market with large financial resources, not be instituted?" Democratic Changes. If consistency is any sort of a jewel, after all, it is a little puzzling to account for the antics of some of the Democratic newspapers at this time. Many of these papers four years ago were the organs of the gold Democrats, who frankly admitted that the great majority of their old associates in the Democratic ranks had wandered away after the false gods of cheap money and there was no health in them. Some of these papers went so far as to accuse the free silver wing of their party of dishonest intentions. Others went so far as to declare that their former compatriots had been seized with a wild hallucination and were then roaming about making free silver speeches from a kind of madness against which they advised the country to protect itself by voting for Mr. McKinley and the gold standard. What is so puzzling now is that these same papers are beginning to appeal to the public to put their trust in precisely the same men who, according to their own declarations, were sheer daft on the money question four years ago. The only difference in their mental attitude then and now consists in their having put by for the moment their cry against the gold standard and taken up that against "imperialism" and the "trusts." American Manufacturers. The details of our foreign commerce for the eight months ending with February are as remarkable and as gratifying as those relating to the grand total for that month. In the twenty-eight days of February the importation of manufacturers' materials amounted to $25,936,601, or nearly a million dollars a day, and the exportation of manufactured goods amounted to $34,226,128, or, in round terms, a million and a quarter dollars for every day in the month. In the eight months ending with February the exportation of manufactures averaged $1,000,000 a day (including Sundays and holidays), while in the corresponding months of the preceding year the average daily exportation of manufactures was only $851,700. In the corresponding months of 1896-97 it was but $700,000, and in the same months of 1895-96 but $593,000. McKinley Prosperity. In 1895 the hardware business was in a deplorable condition—which continued until early in 1898—during which year the business was in a fairly satisfactory condition. The year 1890, however, I am happy to state, has been universally declared to have been, without exception, the most profitable year enjoyed by the present generation of hardware merchants and manufacturers.-T. James Fernley, secretary-treasurer the National Hardware Association of the United States. An International Trust. Consul General Guenther writes from Frankfort, March 8, 1900: "According to the Cologne Gazette, a draft of by-laws for an international plate glass trust has been unanimously agreed to by the German plate glass manufacturers. As it has already been approved by the plate glass manufacturers of France and Belgium, the international trust can be considered a fact." Is the American protective tariff responsible for this European trust? Southern Steel Goes North: Last week a train of twenty-one cars, containing 462 tons of steel billets, was shipped from the Alabama Steel and Shipbuilding Co.'s works at Ensley to the American Steel and Wire Co.'s works at Worcester, Mass., to be used in the manufacture of wire. The steel is the product of Alabama red ore, and was made by the open hearth process. It can be made cheaper and sold at a lower price than the Northern product. American Ships Wanted. Congress cannot do a more necessary, nor a more patriotic, act than to provide at the present session for the upbuilding of our merchant marine in the foreign trade. The attempt to make a partisan question out of the shipping question, which is a wholly national matter, is bound to fail. The entire American people are a unit in favor of an American merchant marine, just as quickly as Congress can provide us with it. New National Banks. Since Dec. 1 Controller Dawes has received 400 applications for authority to organize national banks under the new financial laws, most of them being for banks of $25,000, the minimum capital. Frequently two applications have been received from the same town. With the exception of ten or twelve, each will have a capital of $25,000. Wages Advance, Dividends Decline. The York cotton mills of Yorkville, S. C., have announced that they would on next pay day chip 3 per cent from the annual dividend, and add it to the wages of operatives. The wages of some of the employees had recently been increased 33 per cent. These were not included in the recent increase. A Shipping Alternative The alternative of building up our shipping through the payment of subsidies such as other nations pay their ships, or permitting foreign ships to draw $200, 000,000 a year out of the United States in payment for our ocean freight charges, is one that few patriots will hesitate to favor. The Personal Grievance Man. A gentleman who was relieved of the cares of office holding by President McKinley is engaged in organizing a "German-American revolt." The personal grievance conducted revolution never gets far from the starting point. Why They Prosper. During the last half century British steamships have received in subsidies for carrying British mails $250,000,000. Consequently British steamships are more numerous than those of all other nations combined. Packed. The Democratic national committee is calling on the party workers to instruct the delegates to vote for Mr. Bryan. The man with the unhampered mind will not be very much in evidence at Kansas City in July. American Shipping. The Democratic leaders deny that they are opposed to the encouragement of American shipping, but their denials cannot offset the opinions created by their votes. A Suitable Combination. The names of Bryan and Pettigrew are revered by the followers of Aguinaldo. Perhaps this may suggest a combination for the Kansas City convention. The Smokestack Argument. The return of prosperity via Republican legislation will be sure to revive the agitation of the smoke consumption question. A Republican administration has opened the door in China and American skill and enterprise will do the rest. A Reminder Barnes—You keep that parrot to remind you of your poor husband? Why, I never thought that Shedd was particularly green. The Widow Shedd—No; but you should hear some of Polly's conversation. It is awful, but then it is so like Tom.—Boston Transcript. Charts of the Ocean. The British government keeps eleven vessels at work sounding and charting the ocean beds to find out where dangers lurk. Last year 10,000 square miles was carefully charted in different parts of the world-Asia, Africa and the south Pacific. —A reward of $4000 and no questions asked has been offered by Orrin W. Potter—whose Lake Shore drive residence was entered recently by porch-climbs and diamonds valued at $16,000 stolen—for the return of the gems. —Safe-blowers blew off the door of the time lock in the West Pullman State bank of Chicago in an attempt to steal $12,000. Policemen William Connor and Thomas Ennis chased the men, three or four in number, but could not catch them. —William J. Calhoun, former special commissioner to Cuba for President McKinley, injured his back at the Chicago Beach hotel. Mr. Calhoun stepped from the elevator before it stopped at the second floor. A physician said his injuries were not serious. —Mrs. Katharine Dalliba Burley, wife of Augustus H. Burley, died at the family residence after a lingering illness. Mrs. Burley had resided in Chicago since her marriage to Mr. Burley in Utica, N. Y., forty-five years ago. She was the daughter of Maj. James Dalliba of that city. —Max Romer, a German saloonkeeper, committed suicide and his wife says the act was due to despondency resulting from the loss of a large sum of money in the failure of E. S. Dreyer & Co. private bankers, over two years ago. Romer was 57 years old. He left a widow, a daughter and four sons, the youngest of whom is 21 years old. —Capt, David Porter Deardoff, a prominent member of the Loyal Legion and George H. Thomas post, G. A. R., was stricken with heart disease in front of his residence. He was raking the lawn when, without a word, he fell headlong. His daughter saw him fall, and, calling to several of the neighbors, had him carried into the house. Capt. Deardoff was born in Ashland county, O., in 1841. —Salvator Potis, chief engineer for the Illinois Telephone and Telegraph company and the Illinois Telephone Construction company, and one of the best-known civil and mechanical consulting engineers in the United States, was found dead with a bullet wound through his heart in his room at the Technical club. He had retired, and under the bed clothing the revolver from which the shot was fired was found clutched in his hand. MARKET REPORTS. Milwaukee, April 19, 1900. D. DAIRY, PRODUCTS. EGG AND DAIRY PRODUCTS. MILWAUKEE—Eggs — Market steady at 11c for new, cases included; 10½c for new, cases returned; 10¾c for old, cases included; dirties and seconds, 7@8c. The receipts were 418 cases. Butter—Market easy. The receipts were 20.810 lbs today against 5840 yesterday. The feeling is easy on butter and board quotations are hard to get. Prints sold on the board at 18c and extras for 17½c. Other bids of 17c were made for extras and declined. Bids of 14c were made for roll and 14c for dairy, which were held for 15c. Fancy prints, 19c; fancy or extra creamery, per lb, 18c; firsts, 16c; seconds, 15c; extra dairy, 16c; lines, 13@14c; packing stock, 12c; roll butter, 13@14c; whey butter, 9@10c; imitation creamery, 15@16c; grease, 4@6c. Fancy dairy prints, 17c. Cheese—Quiet. The receipts today were 4240 lbs against 3089 yesterday. Full cream flats, per lb, 11½@12c; New York, full cream, 12@12½c; Young Americas, 12½@130; brick, fancy October make, 10@11c; winter, 9½@10c; inferior, 9½@11c; lilbur, fancy, 10½@11½c; imported Swiss, 24c; Block Swiss, domestic, 12½@13½c; No. 1 imitation loaf, 13@14c; Sapsago, 10@20c; farmers', 11@12c. NEW YORK—Butter—Receipts, 4751 pkgs; Western creamery, 15½@18c; factory, 13@15c. Cheese—Receipts, 5238 pkgs; steady for new cheese; fancy large, white, 11½c; fancy large, colored, 11½c; fancy small, white, 10½@11c; fancy small, colored, 10½@11c. Eggs—Receipts, 16,426 pkgs; market steady; storage Western at mark, 12½@13c; Western regular packing at mark, 12½@12½c; Southern at mark, 11@12½c. Sugar—Raw firm; refined firm. Coffee—Quiet. No. 7 Rio, 8½c. CHICAGO—Butter—Firm; creameries, 16@16½c; dairyes, 13@16c. Eggs—Steady; fresh, 10½c. Dressed Poultry—Firm; turkeys, 8½@12c; chickens, 9½@10½c. MILWAUKEE LIVESTOCK MARKET HOGS—Receipts, 12 cars; market weak; light, 5.50@5.00; mixed and medium weights, 5.55@5.65; fair to good heavy, 5.55@5.70; fancy selected hogs, 5.70@5.75. CATTLE—Receipts, 9 cars; steady; butcher steers, medium to good, 1050 to 1300 lbs, 4.40@5.80; fair to medium, 950 to 1050, 4.25@4.50; heifers, good to choice, 3.50@4.25; cows, fair to good, 3.00@3.50; canners, 2.00@2.60; bulls, common, 2.75@3.25; choice, 3.25@3.75; feeders, 800 to 950 lbs, 3.75@4.35; stockers, 500 to 750 lbs, 3.65@4.10; veal calves, 5.00@6.25; milkers and springers, common, 20.00@28.00; choice heavy cows, 35.00@45.00. SHLEEP—Receipts, none; market steady, shorn, 4.00@4.75; bucks, 2.50@3.25; lambs, shorn, common to choice, 4.50@6.00. Chicago receipts: Hogs, 28,000; cattle, 14,000; sheen, 14,000. CHISAGO POTATO MARKET Burbanks, good to choice, 30@33c; do common to fair, 20@28c; Rurals, round white, 26@33c; Hebrons, common to choice, 25@30c; Peerless, poor to choice, 25@30c; Kings, common to choice, 25@30c; mixed, red and white, 20@23c; do white, 24@28c. New potatoes were steady, with moderate offerings. The cheapness of old affects sales of new. Bermuda, per bbl, choice to fine, 7.50; do No. 2. 5.50@6.00; Kentucky and Tennessee, second growth, 5.50@4.50. MILWALKEE—Flour—Steady. Wheat — Easy; No. 2 spring, on track, 66%c; No. 1 Northern, on track, 66%c; Corn—Firm; No. 3 on track, 39%c; Oats—Firm; No. 2 white, on track, 27%c; No. 3 white, on track, 26%c; Barley—Firm; No. 2 on track, 44c; sample on track, 38%45c; Rye—Firm; No. 1 on track, 58c; Provisions—Higher; pork, 12.95; lard, 7.40 Millstuffs are firm and quoted at 13.75 @14.00 for bran, 13.50@13.75 for standard middlings, and 14.25 for Milwaukee flour middlings. CHICAGO—Close — Wheat—April, 65%c May, 66c; June, 67%c; September, 68%c 68%c; Corn—April, 38%c; May, 39%@39%c; July, 40%c; September, 40%c; Oats—April, 23%c; May, 23%c; July, 23%c; September, 22%c; Pork—April, 12.92%c; May, 12.95; July, 13.10; Lard—April, 7.25; May, 7.25; July, 7.35; September, 7.40; Ribs—April, 7.15@7.17%c; May, 7.15@7.17%c; July, 7.15@ 7.17%c; September, 7.12%@7.15; Flax—Cash N. W, 1.73; S. W, 1.73; May, 1.72; September, 1.18%c; October, 1.13%c; Rye-54%@ 55c; Barley-37%@44c. Timothy-2.40 Clover-7.75. ST. LOUIS—Closc—Wheat — No. 2 red cash, 72%c; April, 71c; May, 70c; July, 86%c; No. 2 hard, 65%@66c; Corn-No. 2 cash, 38c; track, 39c; April, 38c; May, 37%c; July, 38%c; Oats—No. 2 cash, 25%c; track, 26c; April, 25%c; May, 24%c; July, 23%c; No. 2 white, 27%c; Rye-56c; Flax-1.70. Load, 4.55@47% Speller-4.60 DULUTH—Close — Wheat — Cash No. 1 hard, 68%!c; No. 1 Northern, 66%!c; No. 2 Northern, 64%!c; No. 3, 61%!c; No. 1 hard, to arrive, 68%!c; No. 1 Northern, to arrive, 66%!c; May, 66%!c; July, 67%!c. MINNEAPOLIS — Close — Wheat — In store, No. 1 Northern; April, 65%!c; May, 64%!c; July, 65%!c; September, 65%!c; on track, No. 1 hard, 66%!c; No. 2 Northern, 64%. LIVERPOOL — Close—Wheat—Quilet, ½d lower; May, 51s10; July, 59%d; Corn—Quilet, %@%d lower; May, 45%l; July, 45%l; September, 45%d. ST. LOUIS — Cattle—Receipts, 1700; steady; native steers, 3.80@5.85; stockers and feeders, 3.60@4.80; cows and heifers, 2.25@4.75; Texas and Indian steers, 3.80@5.00. Hogs—Receipts, 750c; 5c lower; pigs and lights, 5.50@5.00; packers, 5.50@5.65; butchers', 5.60@5.80. Sheep—Receipts, 2000; steady; muttons, 5.50@6.50; lambs, 5.75@8.00 KANSAS CITY—Cattie-Receipts, 10,000 steady to strong; native steers, 4.00@5.55; Texas steers, 4.00@5.10; cows and heifers, 2.35@5.10; stockers and feeders, 3.85@5.50; Hogs—Receipts, 14,000; weak to 10c lower; bulk of sales, 5.00@5.55; heavy, 5.45@5.62; mixed, 5.35@5.50; light, 5.40@5.50; plugs, 4.20 @5.25; Sheep—Receipts, 3000; strong; lambs, 3.00@7.00; mugs, 3.00@6.50. Printed in the Interests of the Negro Race, MILWAUKEE, WIS. Richard B. Montgomery..... .....Editor and Proprietor Office 209 Fifth Street. Telephone Black No. 244. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Any part of the United States and Canada, postage paid. One Year.....$2.00 Six Months.....1.25 Three Months.....75 Send money by Express Money Order, P. O. Money Order or Registered Letter to the Wisconsin Weekly Advocate. 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Address all business communications to the general manager, 209 Fifth street. Mr. Richard B. Montgomery. Entered at the Milwaukee P. O. as second-class matter. Osman Pasha seems in a fair way to have as many deaths as a cat has lives. The Dewey Arch, also, is presenting a spectacle less imposing than it did a few months ago. The Boers would make great plumbers they show remarkable skill in the construction of traps. The activity in spring bonnet-buying affords the Audubon Society a text for the observation that a bird in the bush is worth two in the hat. It is suggested that the acquittal of Olga Nethersole is due not to the impeccability of the play, but to the insincerity of the prosecution. Lord Dunraven has gone to South Africa to fight the Boers. If he is beaten, the Boers will be charged with having shifted their ballast during the fight. There is reassurance for the average citizen in the thought that the Chicago veranda climbers who secured $25,000 worth of jewelry cannot do the same trick in every house. One of the strongest combinations, in a sense, that has yet been formed was organized at Syracuse, N. Y., where the limburger cheese makers organized to control factory sales and to fix the price of milk. The real character of the bucket shop is revealed again in the fate of the young cashier of a Boston loan company, who is an embezzler to the extent of $10,-000. Yet the bucket shop is an adjunct of the modern board of trade. The maple sugar crop is reported to be short in some sections. But lovers of maple sugar know that there will always be enough "pure" maple sugar to go around so long as there is brown New Orleans sugar in the market. The citizens of Montreal, Quebec, are raising a fund of $100,000 for the purpose of erecting there a monument to the soldiers from the city who have given their lives in South Africa for the empire. They intend that it shall be the most magnificent monument in Canada. Russia seems to be capturing all the railway franchises in China; and in Corea her little bluff for a port has succeeded in compelling Corea to promise not to give the port to any other power. It is evident that the Muscovite is determined to have very much to say in Asia, in the future. The Chicago Park board mourns the loss of a cheetah, which was purchased for the "zoo" in Lincoln Park and which soon after died. It might have been expected. Why did they go abroad to buy an unacclimated cheetah? Why didn't they procure a Chicago swindlah, instead? The action of the authorities of the Paris Exposition in refusing a place for the gold statue of Maud Adams within the Exposition grounds will simply advertise the statue and send thousands to see it who otherwise might have overlooked the gold figure among the many other attractions within the big show. A French savant, Prof. Henri Courot, has devised a method of using the Roentgen rays for estimating the imperfections in coal. It is based upon the faculty which these rays have of traversing such hydrocarbons as wood and such an element as the diamond, while schists, sandstone, quartz and other like impurities found in coal are opaque to them. The bureau of foreign commerce, state department, has been informed by James B. Simpson of Dallas, Tex., in regard to a specimen of Texas wheat sent to France to be tested as to its fitness for use in the manufacture of macaroni and like pastes, that "it has been demonstrated beyond question that all northern Texas is perfectly adapted to the growth of the hard, glutinous wheat now in such great demand in France and Italy." The English people begin to be very indignant at the management of their generals in South Africa. The generals blunder so much that the Boers are taking advantage of their grave mistakes. The Boers are very much aroused because the THE OFFICE OF THE WISCONSIN WEEKLY ADVOCATE CO 209 WELCOME KRAUS MIL Home Office of the Help and Hand Society And the Wisconsin Weekly Advocate. Boer prisoners have been consigned to the island of St. Helena. President Steyn claims that this is about as bad as it would be for the Boers to consign the English whom they have captured to the Johannesburg mines. One of the novel business trades of London is that of a dealer in second-hand plate-glass. The large plates of this kind of glass are insured when put in a window, and when any of them is broken the owner of the injured glass usually prefers that the insurance company should replace the broken plate rather than he should be paid its price. The dealer in the second-hand glass contrives to utilize what remains of the unbroken parts of the glass, cutting it into panes of smaller size and disposing of them to various firms. United States Minister Bryan, at Petropolis, writes to the state department in regard to the demand for coal in Brazil that Dr. Argolla, the president of the San Francisco railroad, in the state of Bahia, will experiment with 5000 tons of bituminous coal, to be followed by regular yearly orders if the trial proves satisfactory. Dr. Argolla believes that structural iron for railroads and steel rails, if at once introduced by manufacturers in this country, would find an exclusive market in Brazil, and therefore solicits catalogues and price lists. At Bosco Reale on the slope of Vesuvius near Pompeii, where the great silver treasure was found a few years ago, recent excavations have brought to light the most remarkable paintings of the Roman period yet discovered. In the grounds of the Del Prisco villa a great peristyle and four large rooms have been unearthed, the walls of which are covered by twenty large frescoes of rich coloring and more careful execution than any hitherto known. The figures are of life size. It is feared that the air and light will cause the paintings to fade as quickly as those at Pompeii and in the Naples museum. Smokers in Boston will have to buy their cigars in the drug stores on Sunday in the future. This is the result of a decision of the Supreme court, which has ruled against a dealer who keeps a restaurant and cigar store at Revere, the court deciding that the holder of a common victualer's license cannot sell cigars on Sunday. The police commissioners in Boston have issued orders to all the captains to enforce the law, and it is estimated that more than fifteen hundred hotel restaurants and fruit stands will have to close their cigar cases one day in the week. A peculiar work has been undertaken for the island of Guam. This out of the way spot is so far from other land that its flora is not so varied or useful as it might be. There is a great number of plants and trees that grow in a similar latitude and climate in the East that are not to be found on Guam. Gen. Otis has directed Capt. Dunlop of the Solace to take charge of the work of introducing from China, Japan and other regions in the Orient such plants and trees as will find a congenial home in Guam. The Bureau of Afforestation at Hong Kong has been applied to for assistance, which has been graciously promised. But the English authorities at Hong Kong state there is little they can furnish that would not be secured in better condition and greater variety from Japan. It is also proposed to make a selection of plants from Hawaii suitable to growth in Guam. At present the greatest demand is for fruit trees of all sub-tropical kinds. It is believed that not only for the population of the island, but for possible export, there may be large crops of fruit produced in Guam, and the experiment will be put through on scientific principles. A dredge working in the river at Savannah, Ga., for the terminals of the Georgia and Alabama railway, a few days ago picked up two old-type English cannon in the man-of-war wreck it is pulling out nearly opposite the foot of Bull street. One gun weighs about 1000 pounds, and the other about 850 pounds. The vessel is supposed to have been sunk at the time of the British occupation of the city, and when the French allies sailed up the river to attack them. The dredge has already taken out a number of cannon balls and several silver coins of a date more than 100 years ago. Secretary Root says that he has not changed his mind as to the possibility of safely reducing the number of American soldiers in Cuba. But the postponement of the Cuban elections for at least a month beyond the date originally fixed had made it advisable to delay correspondingly the diminution of the garrisons so that it might be well into the summer before the contemplated reductions could be made. The existence of a quarantine in Florida at that time would not prevent the movement of troops northward, as they could be landed without much delay at almost any point north of the Carolinas. A writer for the New York Commercial Advertiser has not been thrown into superlatives by the contemplation of the contemporary historical novel. He says that there is nothing against the historical novel in itself, and that these books at least leave the reader no worse off for reading them, and that they are monuments of diligence, and that since, on the whole, they present more facts than fallacies, they serve to impress some lessons of history upon their readers' minds. This is better than the notices that slop over with indiscriminate praise, as if they had been written by a clerk of the publisher and paid for at so much per line. Woman's progress in Germany has been so considerable in the last few years as to be worthy of record. As recently as January the federated government decided to admit women to the study of medicine, dentistry and pharmacy. The university of Giessen voted by a large majority to admit women to the philosophical and law faculties, and at Berlin the doctor's degree was conferred for the first time upon a woman. The Society for the Reform of Education of Women has already founded gymnasiums for girls at Leipsic and Berlin, and last year another was opened at Hanover. Efforts are now making to establish such girls' schools at Bremen, Breslau, Cologne, Munich and Stuttgart. Several of the South German states have appointed for the first time women factory inspectors. $100 FOR BRIGHT PEOPLE. Flower Seeds Given Away. If you are bright enough to rearrange these four groups of letters ("Guras," "Eat," "Uofrl," "Foecef,") into the names of four well-known and common food articles, which are used by every housekeeper, you are sure to secure a cash reward, for the publisher of that interesting illustrated monthly magazine "Evening Hours" will pay One Hundred Dollars to the persons sending the correct names. You can only use each letter in its own group and use no letter more times than it appears in its own group, each group makes a name. The object is to advertise and introduce my publication into new homes. Send ten cents silver or six 2-cent stamps for a sample copy, and I will also send you free three packets of fresh and beautiful flower seeds. You will like "Evening Hours," and every member of the family will enjoy its illustrated short stories, literary selections, artistic fashions and its departments for women, children, the household and garden. The $100 will be paid at close of contest April 30, 1900. If two or more persons send the correct answer the $100 will be equally divided. Send your answer as early as possible, and if your answer is correct, you will receive cash reward as above stated. Address J. W. RING, Publisher, 120 Market street, Newark, N. J. George Washington Scott, the colored expressman who for many years has been a well-known character in Milwaukee, is dying of consumption at his home, 715 State street. He came to this city from Virginia in 1865 as the servant of Licut. Southmayd of the First Wisconsin Heavy artillery. He owned an express wagon for twenty-four years, his stand in recent years being at the corner of Wisconsin street and Broadway. British Stupidity. Here is another instance of the stupidity of British war-office officialism. A few days ago the commander of a volunteer force sent up to the war office the name of a well-known clergyman as chaplain. Back came a string of questions as to age, place of birth, character, etc., among them being the following: "Has the applicant ever been in prison, and, if so, for what offense?" The commander could not so much as connect the idea of prison with his grave and reverend friend, and he left the question unanswered. A war-office clerk shook his head over this blank, and wrote back: "We note that you give no answer to question No. —. We hope this does not imply that the person you nominate has been convicted. We shall be glad of a definite answer on this point." Was Not a Chinaman. A Boston woman recently entered a Chinese laundry and said as loudly as she could: "Me gotee shirtee waiste for washee, washee, makee samee stiff on cuffee and in frontee." The celestial gazed astonished, almost paralyzed. "Makee alle samee cuffee stiffee," repeated the lady. "Madam, I cannot understand what you are trying to say, and I'm not hard of hearing," remarked the man from the Orient in the best of English as soon as he caught his breath.—Boston Journal. A Man and His Children. Young men should choose as early as they can a good and true woman for a wife and look forward to a noble family of children. My ambition was to have seven and the all-wise Father gave me nine.—Robert Collyer in Success. OH! OH! What an Opportunity --- WANT Served Men and without the State of Wisconsin, saving us we will find places free and wages. for those who need help of Western States attention to who are in kinds not the Hand Mission is the direction of Memory, who give help his attention and good color homes. The big work as the of the best and elsewhere testify and help to a large calling up will receive The office located 209 Wis. subscribive advocate will furnished free letter—Richard B WE WANT 3000 Good Colored Men and Women Throughout the State of Wisconsin. and 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 requiring good help his prompt and personal attention and at the same time places good colored people in first-class homes. The mission is now doing work as testimonials from some of the best people in Milwaukee and elsewhere will truthfully testify and has become a thing that to a large extent self sustaining. Those calling up Telephone 244 Black, will receive immediate attention. The office of the Mission is now located 209 5th Street, Milwaukee, Wis. All parties subscribing for the Weekly Advocate will have all their help furnished free. Gen'l Manager—Richard B. Montgomery. The president of a manufacturing firm in Chicago has two letters from a man in Michigan. The first set forth that the writer had settled upon a piece of land that had "rite smart pin timbur on it;" that his neighbors, with the exception of "sum french Canuckes at the north end of the lak," had also "rite smart" of timber and would hail the advent of a "sormil" with delight. "How mutch would a smol sormil cost? N. B. if a frenchman name Ike Lamorto rites you to ask about this hese no gud and a ded beat of the first water." The firm wrote back to inform their correspondent that a small sawmill such as he seemed to want would cost about $300. A catalogue was inclosed, which would give him an idea of the plant, and the firm hoped to be favored with his order. The firm had no idea that its letter would give serious offense. There was no doubt, however, that the Michigan man was quite annoyed. He wrote: "You must take me for a — fool. If i had $300 what in — wud I want a sormil for?" --- Didn't Want a Sawmill. Men and Women in the State of Wisconsin, as we will furnish places free of charge, es. who wish first- help direct from States we desire in to the many are in quest of not to overlook and Mission where free to all the very help. The Help on is under the son of Mr. Richard who gives all re- p his prompt and and at the same colored people es. The mission ark as testimonials the best people in elsewhere will and has become large extent self up Telephone receive immediate office of the Miss- ed 209 5th Street, oscribing for the state will have all used free. Richard B. Montgomery. Wonderful Honesty and Generosity. They fell into conversation on the avenue street car, as men will to pass away the time, and when one of them happened to mention he was from Pittsburg the other turned to him with: "Pittsburg, eh? Dear me, but how singular!" "How do you mean, sir?" was asked. "Why, I was in Pittsburg twenty-one years ago and lost 10 cents in a street car. I was thinking of the incident just before you spoke to me. I suppose you couldn't inform me whether the money was ever found, could you?" "Why, yes; I believe I can. I found a dime in a street car about twenty-one years ago, and have been looking for the owner ever since. Here it is. It must belong to you." "Thanks. You are an honest man. Here are 2 cents to reward you." 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Write your name and address plainly to OZONIZED OX MARROW CO., 76 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Ill. --- TALMAGES (Copyright, Louis Klepsch, 1900.) THIS sermon of Dr. Talmage rings all the bells of gladness, especially appropriate at this season, when all Christendom is celebrating Christ's resurrection; text, John xix., 41, "In the garden a new sepulcher." Looking around the churches this morning, seeing flowers in wreaths and flowers in crowns, billows of beauty, conflagration of beauty, you feel as if you stood in a small heaven. You say these flowers will fade. Yes, but perhaps you may see them again. They may be immortal. The fragrance of the flower may be the spirit of the flower; the body of the flower dying on earth, its spirit may appear in better worlds. I do not say it will be so. I say it may be so. The ancestors of those tuberoses and camelias and japonicas and jasmines and heliotropes were born in paradise. These apostles of beauty came down in the regular line of apostolic succession. Their ancestors during the flood, underground, afterward appeared. The world started with Eden; it will end with Eden. Heaven is called a paradise of God. Paradise means flowers. While theological geniuses in this day are trying to blot out everything material from their idea of heaven, and, so far as I can tell, their future state is to be a-floating around somewhere between the Great Bear and Cassiopeia, I should not be surprised if at last I can pick up a daisy on the everlasting hills and hear it say: "I am one of the glorified flowers of earth. Don't you remember me? I worshiped with you on Easter morning in 1900." My text introduces us into a garden. It is a manor in the suburbs of Jerusalem owned by a wealthy gentleman by the name of Joseph. He belonged to the court of seventy who had condemned Christ, but he had voted in the negative, or, being a timid man, had absented himself when the vote was to be taken. At great expense he laid out the garden. It being a hot climate, I suppose there were trees broad branched, and there were paths winding under these trees, and here and there were waters dripping down over the rocks into fish ponds, and there were vines and flowers blooming from the wall, and all around the beauties of kiosk and aboriculture. After the fatigues of the Jerusalem court room, how refreshing to come into this suburban retreat, botanical and pomological! Most Celebrated of Tombs. Most Celebrated of Tombs. Wandering in the garden, I behold some rocks which have on them the mark of the sculptor's chisel. I come nearer, and I find there is a subterranean recess. I come down the marble steps, and I come to a portco, over which there is an architrave, by the chisel cut into representations of fruits and flowers. I enter the portico. On either side there are rooms—two or four or six rooms of rock, the walls of these rooms having niches, each niche large enough to hold a dead body. Here is one room that is especially wealthy of sculpture. The fact is that Joseph realizes he cannot always walk this garden, and he has provided this place for his last slumber. Oh, what a beautiful spot in which to wait for the coming of the resurrection! Mark well this tomb, for it is to be the most celebrated tomb in all the ages. Catacombs of Egypt, tomb of Napoleon, Mahal Taj of India, nothing compared with it. Christ has just been murdered, and his body will be thrown to the dogs and the ravens, like other crucified bodies, unless there be prompt and efficient hindrance. Joseph, the owner of this mausoleum in the rocks, begs for the body of Christ. He washes the poor, mutilated frame from the dust and blood, shrouds it and perfumes it. I think that regular embalmment was omitted. When in olden time a body was to be embalmed, the priest, with some pretension of medical skill, would point out the place between the ribs where the incision must be made; and then the operator, having made the incision, ran lest he be slain for a violation of the dead. Then the other priests would come with salt of niter and cassia and wine of palm tree and complete the embalmment. But I think this embalmment of the body of Christ was omitted. It would have raised another contention and another riot. The funeral hastens on. Present, I think, Joseph, the owner of the mausoleum; Nicodemus, the wealthy man who had brought the spices, and the two Marys. No organ dirge, no plumes, no catafalque. Heavy burdens for two men as they carry Christ's body down the marble stairs and into the portico and lift the dead weight to the level of the niche in the rock and push the body of Christ into the only pleasant resting place it ever had. Coming forth from the portico they close the door of rock against the recess. The government, afraid that the disciples may steal the body of Christ and play resurrection, order the seal of the sanhedrin to be put upon the door of the tomb, the violation of that seal, like the violation of the seal of the government of the United States or Great Britain, to be followed with great punishment. A company of soldiers from the tower of Antonia is detailed to stand guard. Shattered Beyond Repair. At the door of the mausoleum a fight takes place which decides the question for all graveyards and cemeteries. Sword of lightning against sword of steel. Angel against military. No seal of letter was ever more easily broken than that seal of the sanhedrin on the door of the tomb. The dead body in the niche in the rock begins to move in its shroud of fine linen, slides down upon the pavement, moves out of the portico, appears in the doorway, advances into the open air, comes up the marble steps. Having left his mortuary attire behind him, he comes forth in workman's garb, as I take it, from the fact that the women mistook him for the gardener. That day the grave received such shat- tering it can never be rebuilt. All the trowels of earthly masonry can never mend it. Forever and forever it is a broken tomb. Death, taking side with the military in that fight, received a terrible cut from the angel's spear of flame, so that he himself shall go down after awhile under it. The king of terrors retiring before the king of grace! The Lord is risen! Let earth and heaven keep Easter to-day! Hosanna! Some things strike my observation while standing in this garden with a new sepulcher. And, first, post mortem honors in contrast with ante-mortem ignominies. If they could have afforded Christ such a lovely sepulcher, why could not they have given him an earthly residence? Will they give this piece of marble to a dead Christ instead of a soft pillow for the living Jesus? If they had expended half the value of that tomb to make Christ comfortable, it would not have been so sad a story. He asked bread: they gave him a stone. Christ, like most of the world's benefactors, was appreciated better after he was dead. Westmintser abbey and monumental Greenwood are the world's attempt to atone by honors to the dead for wrongs to the living. Poet's corner in Westminster abbey attempts to pay for the sufferings of Grub street. Go through that Poet's corner in Westminster abbey. There is Handel, the great musician, from whose music you hear to-day; but while I look at his statue I cannot help but think of the discords with which his fellow musicians tried to destroy him. There is the tomb of John Dryden, a beautiful monument; but I cannot help but think at 70 years of age he wrote of his being oppressed in fortune and of the contract that he had just made for a thousand verses at sixpence a line. And there, too, you find the monument of Samuel Butler, the author of "Hudibras;" but while I look at his monument in Poet's corner I cannot but ask myself where he died. In a garret. There I see the costly tablet in the Poet's corner—the costly tablet to one of whom the celebrated Waller wrote: "The old blind schoolmaster, John Milton, has just issued a tedious poem on the fall of man. If the length of it be no virtue, it has none." There is a beautiful monument to Sheridan. Poor Sheridan! If he could have only discounted that monument for a mutton chop! Making the Living Happy. Oh, you unfilial children, do not give your parents so much tombstone, but a few more blankets—less funeral and more bedroom! If 5 per cent of the money we now spend on Burns' banquets could have been expended in making the living Scotch poet comfortable, he would not have been harried with the drudgery of an exciseman. Horace Greeley, outrageously abused while living, when dead is followed toward Greenwood by the President of the United States and the leading men of the army and navy. Massachusetts tries to atone at the grave of Charles Sumner for the ignominious resolutions with which her Legislature denounced the living Senator. Do you think that the tomb at Springfield can pay for Booth's bullet? Oh, do justice to the living! All the justice you do them you must do this side the gates of the Necropolis. They cannot wake up to count the number of carriages at the obsequies or to notice the polish of the Aberdeen granite or to read epitaphal commemoration. Gentleman's mausoleum in the suburbs of Jerusalem cannot pay for Bethlehem manger and Calvarean cross and Pilate's ruffian judiciary. Post mortem honors cannot atone for ante mortem ignominies. Again, standing in this garden of the sepulcher, I am impressed with the fact that floral and arborecent decorations are appropriate for the place of the dead. We are glad that among flowers and sculptural adornments Christ spent the short time of his inhumation. I cannot understand what I sometimes see in the newspapers where the obsequies are announced and the friends say in connection with it, "Send no flowers." Rather, if the means allow—I say if the means allow—strew the casket with flowers, the hearse with flowers, the grave with flowers. Put them on the brow—it will suggest coronation; in their hand—it will mean victory. Christ was buried in a garden. Flowers mean resurrection. Death is sad enough anyhow. Let conservatory and arboretum contribute to its alleviation. The harebell will ring the victory; the passion flower will express the sympathy; the daffodil will kindle its lamp and illumine the darkness. The cluster of asters will be the constellation. Your little child loved flowers when she was living. Put them in her hand now that she can go forth no more and pluck them for herself. On sunshiny days take a fresh garland and put it over the still heart. Plant Flowers. Brooklyn has no grander glory than its Greenwood, nor Boston than its Mount Auburn, nor Philadelphia than its Laurel Hill, nor Cincinnati than its Spring Grove, nor San Francisco than its Lone Mountain. But what shall we say to those country graveyards, with the vines broken down and the slab aslant and the mound caved in and the grass a pasture ground for the sexton's cattle? Indeed, were your father and mother of so little worth that you cannot afford to take care of their ashes? Some day turn out all hands and straighten the slab and bank up the mound and cut away the weeds and plant the shrubs and flowers. Some day you will want to lie down to your last slumber. You cannot expect any respect for your bones if you have no deference for the bones of your ancestry. Do you think these relics are of no importance? You will see of how much importance they are in the day when the archangel takes out his trumpet. Turn all your cemeteries into gardens. Again, standing in this garden of the new sepulcher, I am impressed with the dignity of private and unpretending obsequies. Joseph was mourner, sexton, liveryman—had entire charge of everything. Only four people at the burial of the King of the Universe! Oh, let this be consolatory to those who through lack of means or through lack of large acquaintance have but little demonstration of grief at the graves of their loved ones. Long line of glittering equipage, two rows of silver handles, casket of richest wood, pallbearers gloved and scarfed, are not necessary. If there be six at the grave, Christ looks down from heaven and remembers that is two more than were at his obsequies. Not recognizing this idea, how many small properties are scattered and widowhood and orphanage go forth into cold charity! The departed left a small property, which would have been enough to keep the family together until they could take care of themselves, but the funeral expenses absorbed everything. That went for crape which ought to have gone for bread. A man of moderate means can hardly afford to die in any of our great cities. By all means, do honor to the departed, but do not consider funeral pageant as necessary. No one was ever more lovingly and tenderly put away to sepulcher than Christ our Lord, but there were only four people in the procession. Again, standing in this garden with a new sepulcher, I am impressed with the fact that you cannot keep the dead down. Seal of sanhedrin, company of soldiers from the tower of Antonia, floor of rock, roof of rock, walls of rock, door of rock, cannot keep Christ in the crypts. Come out and come up he must. Come out and come up he did. Prefiguration. First fruits of them that slept. Just as certainly as we come down into the dust, just so certainly we will come up again. Though all the granite of the mountains were piled on us we will rise. Though buried amid the corals of the deepest cavern of the Atlantic ocean, we will come to the surface. With these eyes we may not look into the face of the noonday sun, but we shall have stronger vision, because the tamest thing in the land to which we go will be brighter than the sun. We shall have bodies with the speed of the lightning. Our bodies improved, energized, swiftened, clarified—mortality, immortality. The door of the grave taken off its hinges and flung flat into the dust. Oh, my brethren, death and the grave are not so much as they used to be; for while wandering in this garden with the new sepulcher I find that the vines and flowers of the garden have completely covered up the tomb. Instead of one garden there are four gardens, opening into each other—garden of Eden, garden of the world's sepulcher, garden of the earth's regeneration, garden of heaven. Four gardens. Bloom, O earth! Bloom, O heaven! Oh, my friends, wake up to gladness on this Easter morning! This day, if I interpret it right, means joy—it means peace with heaven, and it means peace with all the world. Oh, bring more flowers! Wreathe them around the brazen throat of the cannon; plant them in the desert, that it may blossom like the rose; braid them into the name of the returned war charger. No more red dahlias of human blood. Give us white lilies of peace. All around the earth strew Easter flowers. And soon the rough voyage of the church militant will be ended, and she will sail up the heavenly harbor, scarred with many a conflict, but the flag of triumph floating from her topgallants. All heaven will come out to greet her into port, and with a long reverberating shout of welcome will say: "There she comes up the bay, the glorious old ship Zion! After tempestuous voyage she drops anchor within the veil." With Love—From Mother. There's a letter on the bottom of the pile, Its envelope a faded, sallow brown, It has traveled to the city many a mile, And the postmark names a little unknown town. But the hurried man of business pushes all the others by, And on the scrawly characters he turns a glistening eye. He forgets the cares of commerce and his anxious schemes for gain. The while he reads what mother writes from up in Maine. There are quirks and scratchy quavers of the pen And ponder on to find what mother meant. There are letters on his table that inclose some bouncing checks; There are letters giving promise of profits on his "specs." But he tosses all the litter by, forgets the golden rain, Until he reads what mother writes from up in Maine. At last he finds "with love—we all are well," And softly lays the home letter down And dashes at his headlong tasks pellmell— Once more the busy, anxious man of town. But whenever in his duties as the rushing moments fly That faded little envelope smiles up to meet his eye, He turns again to labor with a stronger, truer brain. From thinking on what mother wrote from up in Maine. Through all the day he dictates brisk replies, To his amanuensis at his side— The curt and stern demand and business lies— And then at dusk when all are gone he drops his worldly mask The message to the dear old home up there in Maine. The penmanship is rounded schoolboy style, For mother's eyes are getting dim, she wrote; And, as he sits and writes there, all the while A bit of homesick feeling grips his throat. For all the city friendships here with Tom and Dick and Jim And all the ties of later years grow very, very dim; While boyhood's loves in manhood's heart rise deep and pure and plain, Called forth by mother's homely words from up in Maine. —Lewiston (Me.) Journal. Titled Canadians. The number of hereditary titled Canadians has now reached thirteen, made up of seven peerages and six baronetics. Of nonhereditary titles of knights Canada can boast of thirty-two. --- BARGAINER FINE CLOTHING OME PRICE TO ALL MEN MEN FASHIONABLE MISFIT AND UNCALLED FOR CUSTOM TAILOR MEN 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: 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 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. THE BANK ...UNION.... Laundry and News Co. 328 Wells Street GEO. W. SAYLES. ...ALL WORK CAREFULLY DONE... Lowest Prices and Satisfaction Guaranteed. BRANDS STOVES AND RANGES ARE STRICTLY FIRST-CLASS. Sold by all reliable dealers. If your dealer does not keep them, write or call on TONEY THE ARTIST FINE ART Shining Parlor 216½ GRAND AVENUE Opposite Flanner's Music Store MILWAUKEE, WIS. BEFORE PLACING FIRE AND BURGLAR ALARMS in your residence you would do well to call on CHAS. D. MILNE Electrical Contractor And General Repairwork. The best in the city. Tel. Main 527. 110 MASON ST. Reaches an Alarming Height and People Fear Flood. TIES UP RAILROADS. If the Booms Break it will be Tremendous Loss to Lumber Companies. Wausau, Wis., April 18.—[Special.]— The Wisconsin river at this city and all the way north has raised to the height of an alarming attitude since last night. All the railway bridges north of this city are threatened with a washout, as the water now reaches to the bottom of some and on others it covers the rails. The water in the river has reached the highest mark since 1880, and it is rising rapidly. Large crews of men went to work this morning building temporary banks with baled hay and rocks. The railroad companies have placed strings of cars on their bridges to add weight to them. Men are also at work building the piers in the river higher that hold the booms, which are full of logs. Should the booms break, it would free millions of feet of lumber and mean a tremendous loss to the owners. The Barker & Stewart Lumber company have closed down its mills. The mills and all their lumber are located on the island, which is now entirely under water, and some of the lumber is already going down stream. It has been raining for nearly a week and as it still continues to do so the people of this city are becoming alarmed. Large crowds are watching the large volume of water going down the dam, with a roar almost deafening. It is feared that some of the bridges will be washed away before night. The water reaches nearly one block into the city. High Water at Merrill. Merrill, Wis., April 18.—[Special.]—The water in the Wisconsin river is the highest here today it has been in many years. It rose two feet last night and is rising every hour. The mills have stopped running and there is danger of bridges going out. Merrill Mills Forced to Close. The water is rising on an average of one and one-half inches an hour, and it it feared that it will submerge all the lumber yards. Hundreds of men are improvising boomage to prevent lumber from washing out into the main river. In the last twelve hours the water has risen eighteen inches. H. W. Wright telephoned W. H. Bradley of Tomahawk last night asking if he could not utilize his dams to shut the water off, but received answer that the pond was already full of water. All booms are filled with logs and if the water goes much higher they will be swept down stream. Great excitement prevails and hundreds of people are viewing the scene. The immense ice jam which had formed near Heights has subsided. The ice was piled twenty feet in height. Five years ago traffic was interrupted for several days at that point by high water caused by the river becoming choked with ice. The ice is not nearly all out of the Copper and Newwood streams and at Grandfather and all the snow in the woods is not gone. Railroads Delayed at La Crosse. La Crosse, Wis., April 18.—[Special.] The worst rains of the season fell here today; fully two and a half inches fell throughout the territory tributary to La Crosse. All railroad traffic is delayed. The Dubuque division and narrow-gauge of the Milwaukee road are still tied up. Traffic has practically been suspended for a day past. Black River Rising. Black River Falls, Wis., April 18. [Special.]—The Black river at this point has climbed to a notch fifteen feet above the low-water mark and is still rising. Logs are being held back in the upper country. The few that are coming down will be scattered over the bottoms and left on high lands when the water recedes. BREAK INTO POSTOFFICE Burglars at Hartford Fail to Crack Safe—Secure but Little Plunder. Hartford, Wis., April 18.—[Special.] Burglars broke into the postoffice last night, but only got away with about $4 in stamps. They attempted to crack the safe, but it seems they were novices at the work and had to give it up. The handle of the safe was broken off and a hole partly drilled above the lock. A good many letters, already distributed in the boxes, were opened and strewn all over the floor. Had they gotten the safe open they would have secured about $500 worth of stamps and money which happened to be left there last night. JUDGMENT AGAINST COMPANY Racine Man Is Awarded $1300 For Injuries. Racine, Wis., April 18.—[Special.]—In the case of Adam DeShoy against the Milwaukee Street Railway company, the jury, after being out eighteen hours, returned a verdict of $1300, for the plaintiff. Mr. De Shoy sued for $5000 damages for injuries he sustained in getting on a car which he alleged started before he was on, throwing him to the ground. The company will appeal. The case of Frank Bischek against the company was started this afternoon. He has sued for $5000 damages for the death of his little daughter, who was run over by a car and killed. There are about half a dozen cases on the calendar against the company. LOCATE AT KENOSHA. Chicago Furniture Company Looking for a Site. Kencsha, Wis., April 18.—[Special.]—The Frederick Kuhn Furniture company of Chicago is making an effort to secure a site to locate in this city. The company is now in business in Chicago and employs 100 men. Fennimore is Cut Off. Fennimore, Wis., April 18.—Train service on the narrow gauge division of the North-Western railroad, Fennimore to Woodman, had to be entirely suspended owing to bad washouts caused by the heavy rains. Four bridges, a number of culverts and miles of track have been washed away between Werley and Woodman. A big force of men is repairing the damages, but it is feared traffic cannot be resumed for at least a week. In New York Courts. New York, April 18.—Justice Maddox in the Supreme court, Brooklyn, reserved decision after hearing a motion in behalf of the Wisconsin Condensed Milk company, to compel James L. and John Black Farquhar to furnish additional security in the suit of the latter against the company to recover damages amounting to $65,000 for an alleged breach of contract. TO ESCAPE FROM FEDERAL OFFICERS. Anton O. Black Would Rather be Punished by State than Uncle Sam. La Crosse, Wis., April 18.—[Special.] —Tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock is the time set for the resumption of the preliminary hearing of Anten O. Black, the ex-postmaster, ex-village treasurer, etc., of Holmen, this county, who is charged with embezzlement. When the matter gets into court Judge Brindley will find an interesting tangle before him and the riddle he must solve. Black was arrested some weeks ago on a state warrant charging him with embezzlement, and he has since been in jail. Now the federal postoffice authorities want the custody of Black, and to save expense the local authorities are not anxious to prosecute him. District Attorney Thomas Morris has agreed to nolle the state case when Black gets into court tomorrow, and a United States marshal will be on hand to rearrest Black, but the programme has been complicated by the announcement that Black will insist upon pleading guilty and being sentenced under the state charge to avoid getting into the hands of the federal authorities. SCHOOL OF COMMERCE. Important Work Accomplished by the University of Wisconsin Regents. Madison, Wis., April 18.—[Special.]—The regents of the State university decided unanimously last evening to establish a school of commerce at Wisconsin university, in accordance with the recommendation made by President Adams in his annual report. Under the resolution adopted the school is to be organized and instruction therein begun with the autumn semester of this year. In accordance with the recommendation of the president, Prof. W. A. Scott is made director of the school, and the president is authorized to nominate a professor of commerce. The purpose of the school is to supply facilities for the training of young men who desire to enter business careers, especially in such fields as domestic and foreign commerce, or branches of the public service, like the consular, in which a knowledge of business is essential. The regents also decided upon the establishment of a school of history, with Prof. F. J. Turner as director, and Prof. C. H. Haskins as professor of European history. The Chicago university has been making strenuous efforts to secure Prof. Turner, and has made him a most liberal offer, but he will stay in Wisconsin. In addition to making him the head of a department, the regents voted him an increase in salary from $3000 to $3500 per year. Leave of absence was granted President Adams until next fall. President Adams is now at Hot Springs, Va., recuperating from his severe illness, and will shortly go to the Battle Creek (Mich.) sanitarium. A telegram was sent him by the regents notifying him of the leave granted. Leaves of absence were, also granted to Supt. McKerrow of the agricultural institutes and Dean W. A. Henry of the agricultural college, both of whom will go to Europe in June. Supt. McKerrow has been asked to represent the American Oxford Down Record Sheep Breeders' association at the International Sheep Breeders' meeting to be held at York, England, June 16. IS FIFTY YEARS OLD. The Semi-Centennial Celebration of Evangelical Association of Sheboygan. Sheboygan, Wis., April 18.—[Special.] Today is the semi-centennial of the organization of the Emanuel church of the Evangelical association of Sheboygan, and the meeting of the state conference this evening will be of special interest. Rev. G. Fritsch, presiding elder of the Milwaukee district, a minister of the Wisconsin conference since 1853, will preach the anniversary address. A number of the former pastors of the church will be present, as follows: Rev. G. Zimmermann of Baraboo, Rev. G. Harms of Sheboygan, Rev. F. Dite of Tomah, Rev. J. G. Kem of Hartford, Rev. F. Hommuth of Milwaukee, Rev. C. F. Reichert of Milwaukee, Rev. C. W. Wellson of Milwaukee, Rev. H. Uphoff of Milwaukee and Rev. John Schneller of La Crosse. Two members of the church who were present at the organization of the society will be in attendance. They are Philip Cudaser of Brillion and Mrs. Schener of Sheboygan. There will be a special programme of music, singing by the choir and several selections by the church band. The society holds services in a handsome brick edifice built in 1889, located opposite Fountain park, corner of North Ninth street and Erie avenue. The examination of the junior members of the conference was continued today, with the following as examiners: Rev. J. P. Dorau of Morrison, Rev. J. Trautmann of Lomira, Rev. F. Umbreit of Prairie du Sac, Rev. H. E. Erffmeyer of Fond du Lac, Rev. G. F. Zimmermann of Baraboo and Rev. J. J. Leder of Menominee. The examinations will be concluded this evening. WILL EXPLORE ALASKA. Badger Boys Going to Cape Nome in Search of Gold. Kenosha, Wis., April 18.—[Special.]—Howard Robinson, a well-known Kenosha-newsdealer, announced to his friends last evening that he would leave Kenosha on May 12 to go to Cape Nome. Mr. Robinson will be accompanied by Howard Kehlor, a former Kenosha citizen. While the two young men are going to Alaska as prospectors for gold they are taking a very elaborate outfit with them and will make an attempt to make some discoveries in some parts of the country which have not as yet been opened up. They have chartered a launch which they will take with them and which they will use in making some explorations along the inland streams of Alaska. Will Increase Contract. Merrill, Wis., April 18.—[Special.]— Langley & Alderson, who have a contract to cut 40,000,000 feet of logs per year for the Star Lake Lumber company, contemplate largely increasing their contract with that firm. They are shipping a trainload of twenty-two cars of logs per day to the Merrill Lumber company. Langley & Alderson have built twenty miles of railroad and own two locomotives. Lightning Does Much Damage Elkhart Lake, Wis., April 18.—[Special.]—The barn of F. Denzer of the town of Rhine was struck by lightning and burned to the ground, together with 1000 bushels of grain, two horses, two cows and a lot of chickens. The loss is $1500, covered partly by insurance. Assigned to the Kearsarge La Crosse, Wis., April 18.—[Special.] —Ensign John Holley Roys, United States navy, who has been at home on a thirty-days furlough, has received orders to report for duty on the new battleship Kearsarge. BOYS LEAVE THEIR HOMES Mysteriously Disappear, Leaving No Trace Behind. MARINETTESENSATION Supposed that Dime Novels Induced Them to Go Out Into the Marinette, Wis., April 17.—[Special.] —Seven Marinette boys, sons of well-known residents, mysteriously left home Monday afternoon and no trace of their present whereabouts is known. The last heard of them was in the vicinity of the North-Western roundhouse, and it is supposed that they boarded a passing freight train and left the city in search of adventure. They are from 12 to 16 years old, and it is supposed that the perusal of dime novels led them to desert their quiet home life for something more exciting. The parents are greatly distracted and are searching the entire state and upper peninsula with telegraph and telephone messages. Officers have left here in search of them. BELOIT COMPANY IS REINSTATED. Col. Falk Orders It Taken Back Into the Wisconsin National Guard. Madison, Wis., April 17.—[Special.]—The Beloit militia company, reorganized, will be readmitted to the Wisconsin National guard by order of Col. Falk, received at the adjutant-general's office today. Maj. A. B. Cambier of Milwaukee will muster the company in, probably within two weeks. The company was inspected last week by Lieut.-Col. Joachim, who made a favorable report. FAITH CURE FAILS. A Former Milwaukeean Dies at Fort Atkinson Without Medical Aid. Fort Atkinson, Wis., April 17.—[Special.]—A. B. Wentworth, formerly of Milwaukee, who died here of quick consumption last Sunday, was a firm believer in Christian Science, as was also his mother, whom, it is said, he converted to that belief. Some time ago he contracted a bad cold. He paid no attention to it, took no treatment for it, and, in time, grew better. Shortly after that he took another cold. As before, he refused medical aid. Finally his father, who does not believe in Christian Science, realizing that his son was growing rapidly worse, insisted on a physician being called in. Mr. Wentworth, however, refused to have anything to do with the doctor and the latter was sent away. As a natural consequence, the disease eventually settled on his lungs and the young man died of consumption. The funeral was held this afternoon. PLAN FOR A THEATER. Proposition is Made to Sheboygan People to Erect a $30,000 Opera House. Sheboygan, Wis., April 17.—[Special.] —A plan was instituted in Sheboygan today, which will result in the probable erection of a $30,000 theater here in the course of time. F. A. Cabow, a theater promoter and a builder of Kewance, Ill., arrived in the city this morning and submitted the proposition that he would build an opera house here that would seat 1000 persons. The plan is similar to that which has been used in the erection of opera houses in Green Bay, Wausau and other Wisconsin cities. All of the seats in the house must be sold for the initial performance at $10 a seat and there must be interested other local capital. Mr. Cabow will return to Sheboygan in two weeks and go to work on the plan, which business men think will be successfully carried out. FAMOUS SUIT DECIDED. Oconto Lumber Company Wins Case Brought by P. G. Esson $20,000 Involved. Marinette, Wis., April 17.—[Special.] Judge Hastings has decided the famous suit of P. G. Esson against the Oconto Lumber company. Mr. Esson sought to recover from $15,000 to $20.000, his alleged share, in lands which were purchased by the Oconto Lumber company from A. A. Coleman. Judge Hastings decided in favor of the defendant company. Part of the lands involved included the present town site of Amberg. The case has been in the courts for years. EXAMINE YOUNG MINISTERS. Work of Evangelical Church Association at Sheboygan. Sheboygan, Wis., April 17.—[Special.] A large number of young ministers were put under examination in the state conference of the Evangelical Church association at this city this morning. The applicants for ordination of elders are Ethan Zimmermann, North Bend; M. J. Hillmann, Wauzeka; W. Barnetzke, Hortonville; H. Koten, Bonduel; G. H. Schaible, Manitowoc; T. W. Huebner, Plymouth; E. Zipfel, Sister Bay; C. F. Rabehl, Sharon. The third class is composed of H. P. Jordan, Arcadia; H. P. Prochnow, Lake Mills; J. F. Neinstaedt, Ashland; F. W. Schoeller, West Superior; S. J. Murech, Berlin. The examination began this morning and the examiners were Rev. Eilert of Evansville, Rev. G. F. Kiekhaefer of Prairie du Sac, Rev. L. F. Emmert of Racine, Rev. J. C. Brendel of Oshkosh, Rev. J. G. Hem of Hartford. The examinations were continued this afternoon by Rev. C. W. Wellso of Milwaukee, Rev. John Schneller of La Crosse, Rev. W. Ganerke of Portage, Rev. C. Schneider of Sheboygan and Rev. John Nichol of Portage. This evening the examinations will be in charge of Rev. H. Best of Norwalk, Rev. E. W. Gossman of Westfield, Rev. O. Barowski of Appleton, Rev. F. Krueger of Forest Junction and Rev. C. Weigand of Milwaukee. This evening Rev. L. F. Emmert of Racine will preach a sermon. BUYING WISCONSIN MULES Sank County Furnishes Animals to British Government. Baraboo, Wis., April 17.—[Special.] A representative of the British government has been at several places in this county to purchase horses and mules for army service in South Africa. The use for which these animals are intended necessitates that they be of the very best, and such horses and mules are now in great demand for spring work on the farms. Prices were firm and consequently few sales were made. RUNAWAY BOYS GO BACK HOME. Marinette Youths See All of the World They Want at Depere. Marinette, Wis., April 18.—[Special.]—The seven Marinette boys who ran away from home have returned. They went as far as Depere on a freight train and spent the night there. The station-master allowed them to sleep in the warehouse, it was cold and raining and the little fellows spent an uncomfortable night. They took the first train for home the next day and arrived at their home for supper last night. They were thoroughly discouraged and glad to get home. ALLIGATOR SHOT NEAR OSHKOSH. A Winnebago County Farmer Kills a Large Reptile in a Creek. Oshkosh, Wis., April 18.—[Special.]—Theodore Eberts, a farmer of Utica, about eight miles west from here, has caused a sensation by shooting an alligator $4 \frac{1}{2}$ feet long in Eight-Mile creek. Eberts was out hunting and seeing a commotion in the shallow water of the creek, fired at it, believing it to be a big fish. To his great surprise he found that he had killed an alligator. The reptile was taken to Fisk station, where it has been viewed by scores of curious farmers, who are at a loss to account for its presence in these waters. It is recalled that Robert Mehlman, a cigar man of this city, released a live alligator ten years ago and it is suggested that it may be the same one. The Mehlman alligator when released was about three feet long and would have grown to just about the size of the one shot in Utiea. By ascending Fox river and Waukau creek it could have easily reached the spot where this one was shot. PRAISED BY GEN. KING. Final Contest in the Competitive Drill at the University of Wisconsin Madison, Wis., April 18.—[Special.]—Co. H won the competitive military drill in the final contest held yesterday afternoon in the university armory. Co. H secured 617 points out of a possible 800, and Co. E received a total of 557. The winning company is commanded by Capt. B. H. Bradley and Lieuts. Lennon of Decorah, Ia., and Markham of Milwaukee; Co. H was commanded by Capt. Lynn Tracey of Madison and Lieuts. Henry and Johnson. In the individual drill Private C. E. Long of Davenport, Ia., won out. The other contestants were Privates Brennan, Kemp, Way, Carpenter, Kellogg, Mablett and Eaton. Gen. King, speaking of the military drill said: "The boys have made a very good showing in their work, considering the length of time they have spent at it. The departure from the old rule of having these contests so early in the season, however, has been unfortunate, because another six weeks of preparation would do a great deal to raise the standard of their work. They have been instructed in the substantial part of approved army tactics instead of new-fangled ideas which have been too frequently introduced in military schools." In his address before the students in the evening on "Our Boys in the Philippines," Gen. King first reviewed the early history of military instruction in the university. Twenty years ago when the soldier-novelist was himself a military instructor here there were in use some double-weight obsolete muskets, which were almost dangerous to discharge. Uniforms of a ridiculous design were then in vogue. He referred to the fact that at that time he had had to excuse over 43 per cent. of the male students who had secured physicians' certificates to the effect that they were physically incapable of bearing the strain of military instruction. He spoke in terms of the highest praise of the men who had gone to the war from our colleges and institutes, and asserted that football players made good soldiers. The entire address was ringing with patriotism and enthusiastically received a fair-sized audience. BIG SAWMILL BURNS. Plant Owned by E. Horner & Sons of West Superior is Destroyed by Fire. West Superior, Wis., April 18.—[Special.]—The sawmill near this city owned by E. Horner & Sons has been destroyed by fire. The loss is upwards of $4000. The lumber piles and the planing mill were saved and the mill is insured. It was manufacturing lumber for Wheed, a Minneapolis lumberman. The mill ran both summer and winter and had a capacity of from 6,000,000 to 9,000,000 a year. STRIKERS GAINED NOTHING. All the Mills Are Again Running at Athens. Athens, Wis., April 18.—[Special.] The strike among the sawmill men is practically at an end. The mills are again running with full crews. Many of the old men returned on the eleven-hour day. No further trot he is looked for. Nothing was gained by the strikers. The fact that the Rietbrock & Halsey men refused to go out greatly weakened the cause of the strikers, and they gradually became discouraged. WINNEBAGO LAKE OPEN. Ice Breaks Up and is Being Blown Toward North Shore. Oshkosh, Wis., April 18.—[Special.] The heavy wind broke up the ice last evening and it is being blown toward the north shore. As soon as the lake is clear navigation will open. In Honor of Milwaukee Man. Elgin, Ill., April 18.—[Special.]—A movement has been started to raise $4000 to $5000 with to which to erect a chapel on the Elgin academy grounds in memory of the late Prof. Alfred G. Welch, who was buried yesterday in Milwaukee. Prof. Welch was for several years the beloved principal of the academy. His parents live in Milwaukee. Sent to the Coast Elgin, Ill., April 18.—[Special.]—Ensign and Mrs. L. Allison have been ordered by Commander Booth-Tucker of the Salvation army to a station on the Pacific coast, and will leave May 7 Both have spent much time at various Wisconsin points—Milwaukee, Mineral Point, Fond du Lac, Neenah, Racine and elsewhere. Funeral of O. S. Newell. Kenosha, Wis., April 18.—[Special.]—The funeral of ex-Mayor Octavius S. Newell will be held from the family residence on Thursday afternoon. The services will be conducted by Rev. H. Roblee of the First Congregational church. The mayor and city officials will attend the funeral in a body. BLUES Ever have "the blues"? Then you know how dark everything looks. You are completely discouraged and cannot throw off that terrible depression. A little work looks like a big mountain; a little noise sounds like the roar of a cannon; and a little sleep is all you can secure, night after night. That’s Nerve Exhaustion The truth of the matter is, your nerves have been poisoned and weakened with the impurities in your blood. The thing for you to do is to get rid of these impurities just as soon as you can. You want a blood-purifying medicine,—a perfect Sarsaparilla,—that’s what you want. You want a Sarsaparilla that is the strongest and best nerve tonic you can buy, too. That’s AYER'S “The only Sarsaparilla made under the personal supervision of three graduales: a graduate in pharmacy, a graduate in chemistry, and a graduate in medicine.” $1.00 a bottle. All druggists. “During last year I was suffering from nervous prostration. For weeks I grew worse, became thin, could not sleep, had no appetite, and was in a wretched condition. After taking several kinds of medicines without result, I took Ayer’s Sarsaparilla with more than pleasing results. My appetite returned, I slept soundly, my strength and weight increased, and now I am well and strong without the slightest trace of my old trouble. Indeed, I would hardly believe it possible for medicine to bring about such a change in any person.”—CLARA MEALEY, Winter Hill, Somerville, Mass., Dec. 21, 1899. A HINT FOR SPRING. When Housekeepers Are Brightening the Interiors of Their Homes. Now that the backbone of this remarkable winter is broken, housekeepers are remarking the dingy look of the home interior. The question of new wall coverings is up. Paper is dear and short lived; kalsomines are dirty and scaly; paint is costly. The use of such a cement as Alabastine, for instance, will solve the problem. This admirable wall coating is clean, pure and wholesome. It can be put on with no trouble by anyone; there is choice of many beautiful tints; and it is long lasting. Tales of Our Men in the Philippines. Lieut.-Col. H. H. Sargeant, U. S. A., before the late conflict with Spain won literary laurels by two scholarly volumes on the campaigns of Napoleon Bonaparte, relates the Saturday Evening Post. During that war he had little opportunity to take part in battle, his duties being to organize and drill the volunteers at the mobilization camps and, after August, to look after engineering and sanitary matters at Santiago de Cuba. Early last year he was sent to the Philippines, where he has had his full share of the hardest campaigning. He was under the immediate command of Lawton at the battle of San Mateo and was being praised by Gen. Lawton for his gallantry when that officer fell, pierced by a hostile bullet. Col. Sargeant tells many enjoyable war stories. Once when instructing some men, he asked: "When you are on the skirmish line and suddenly encounter the enemy, what would you do?" "Fall flat." "And what next?" "Stay there." On another occasion he was questioning a man respecting his absence for six hours. "I was chasing a Filipino an hour, sir." "How about the other five hours?" "The Filipino and his friends were chasing me, sir." Her Ragtime Clothes. "For heaven's sake, tell that new servant of yours to get a new dress before she comes here tomorrow! She is positively too slovenly to come into the dining room." This "heavy" was dealt out by a suburbanite to his wife the other morning. She informed the negress of the desire of the master of the house, but that gentleman had no idea his instructions would be so well carried out. When the breakfast was brought in the following morning what was his surprise to behold the negress toged out in a magnificent evening dress, with sparklers in her hair and other adornments on her bare arms and neck. "What's all this?" he cried. "Have you fired that other girl and got an Egyptian princess in her place?" "No, boss," said the girl, speaking for herself, "I se de same nigger, but I jes' put on muh ragtime cloes, as you wuz so particler 'bout muh personal 'pearance."—Memphis Scimitar. 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. Mistaken Identity. "De lack of eddication is an orful t'ing," remarked Wraggy Wriggles, musingly. "W'en did yer find dat out?" asked Hungry Hawkes. "De udder day. I swiped a box from de freight station and lugged it a mile inter de woods. It was marked 's-o-a-p' an' I t'ought dat spelled 'soup.'"—Philadelphia Press. —The fastest-flowing river in the world is the Sutlej, in India. Its descent is 12,000 feet in 180 miles. 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. —It is estimated that gamblers in New York have been paying over $2,000,000 a year for "protection." Nothing in the Wide World has such a record for absolutely curing female ills and kidney troubles as has Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Medicines that are advertised to cure everything cannot be specifics for anything. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound will not cure every kind of illness that may afflict men, women and children, but proof is monumental that it will and does cure all the Ills peculiar to women. This is a fact indisputable and can be verified by more than a million women. If you are sick don't experiment, take the medicine that has the record of the largest number of cures. Lydia E. Pinkham Med. Co., Lynn, Mass. Sorry He Didn't Go. "You should have gone with me to hear the 'Persian Garden,' dear," chirped Mrs. Bird, when she found her husband still at home the night of that concert, and he looked as if he had smoked too many strong cigars in her absence. "Humph! I've sworn off from Persian and Egyptian and all sorts of gardens since the Midway closed." "But this would have interested you," she asserted. "It was oriental in sentiment and music and so poetic. Omar Khayyam must have written it to please some men's club. Didn't you ever hear the titles of some of the songs and recitations?" "No; what were they?" he asked with some show of languid interest. "I can't remember but two," replied his wife musingly. "One was 'The Earthly Drinks Mez. Set Their Hearts Upon,' and the other was 'The Bruised Mint That from Our Cups We Throw.'" "What's that? Can't we go tomorrow night?" "No, indeed, sir. This was one night only. Your chance is gone until next winter."—Omaha World-Herald. Passion Play at Oberammergau. Extensive preparations are being made for this year's representations of the Oberammergau Passion Play, which takes place every ten years. The old wooden playhouse has been demolished, and one supported on iron girders has been erected in its place. The new building is roofed over, not open to the sky like its predecessor, but it will be open towards the mountains and the stage, so that the illusion will not be destroyed. The stage will be the same as in 1890, and the new playhouse will accommodate 4000 persons. Many of the performers in the representation of 1890 will fill the leading roles. The representations will take place, weather permitting, on the following days: May 20 (grand rehearsal), 24 and 27; June 4, 10, 16, 24 and 29; July 1, 8, 15, 18, 22 and 29; August 5, 8, 12, 15, 19, 25 and 26; September 2, 8, 9, 15, 22 and 30, and on each occasion will last from 8 a. m. until 5:30 p. m., with one hour and a half's interval. California has a prune known as the "Gold," which is said to be twice as prolific and double the size of the ordinary French prune. THE TEEMING WEST. The Prairie Lands of Western Canada Being Filled with Excellent Settlers. ‘The salient fact that presents itself in taking a birdseye view of the Cana- dian West is that of intense activity in every department. Whether the glance be turned upon the district east of Winnipeg, the Red River valley south or north, the Dauphin and M. & N. W. district, the southwestern, or whether it take in the great central division along the main line of the ©. Pp. R. stretching away out to the Rock- jes and from there bending north and south to Prince, Alberta and Edmon- ton, McLeod and Lethbridge—whether the examination be made in any of these. directions the same activity, growth and hopefulness is observable. The Canadian West is not only a good place to locate permanently, but it is also a good place to invite their relatives and friends to come to. This is the spirit that seems to animate the West at the present time, and its ef- fects are to be seen on every hand. ‘To enumerate the towns where hand- some and substantial blocks and resi- dences have gone up this year would be simply to.give a list of the towns and villages along the railway lines. And this moyement has not been con- fined to these centers of population, but in many cases it has been: overshad- owed by the improvement in farm buildings. So far as one can see, this is no pass- ing phrase, no repetition of any tempo- rary boom following a period of good crops and fair prices. It is a movement more spontaneous, more general, more marked than anything that has gone before, and seems to indicate that the great West, like Samson bursting the encompassing bands, has awakened to a period of. activity and development that will surpass anything we have known in the past and which will only be paraileted by the opening out of some of the most fertile of the Western States of the Union. Look at some of the figures. Over a thousand schools in Manitoba, and the number going up by leaps and bounds. Something like five hundred schools in the territories, Winnipeg as representing the gateway of the West, the third cityinthe Dominion in regard to bank clearings, postal business and probably in regard to customs, the cus- toms returns at Winnipeg running about thirty to forty per cent greater month by month than in the fiscal year of 1897-8, the largest previous year for actual business entries, when over $900,000 was paid throigh the Winni- peg office for duty. The,C. P. R..and Canada. Northwest land sales together run over $1,500,000 for the year. These, and a thousand more signs, show how the West has leaped into new life. This is an inspiring and cheering spectacle, but it brings with it great responsibilities, The business men real- ize this, the banks realize it, and have spread their agencies through every bustling little town clear out to the coast, the churches realize it, and one denomination alone bas opened an av- erage of about thirty new stations in each of the past two years, and will increase this in the year now entered upon, the Government departments re- alize It, and there is talk of redistribu- tion and additional members. The ed- ucational branches realize it and new schools are springing up everywhere. Over 12,000 settlers came in from the United States alone last year, and these, with the people who came in from the East. prove the most vigorous Westerners. They lose no time in de veloping their farms, in filling their grazing lands with stock, and in every district are to be found evidences of thrift and prosperity. Fish Scales in Demand. There bas been a call at the American consulate in Lyons, France, for fish scales, to be used in the manufacture of artificial pearls. The supply is not equal to the demand. It is said that good prices will be paid for them. ‘The scales should be packed in salt as soon as re- moved from the fish and. packed in. tin cans. Specimens sent to the consulate from America will be examined and re- es about them made to the sender.— New York Tribune. 7 ~-Lady Georgiana Grey, daughter of the Reform minister, Earl Grey, entered upon her 100th year not long ago, appar- ently in good health. 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PORTO RICO IN THE PUBLIC EYE. a ee : i} aoe (e | ; ee, = Eh EL Cuore | ; amt Tel at , | ae “EST Seer a ed Lara ahem TO a 2 ene The above is a peaceful picture of part of the plaza at San Juan, Porto Rico, which has been the scene of several got popular demonstrations during the last few days. The agitation was led by Luys Ribera,: the Federal leader, who. de- mands- unrestricted trade and proper civil government. IN GAY NEW YORK. SIGNS OF SPRING. ‘The gazabo loafs on the street, A cane he idly twirls While gazing at the booted feet Of spring-style cycle girls. ‘The grasses peep from rae rest, The blood boil lifts its head; The hen refurnishes her nest And goats begin to shed; ‘The soda fountains, full of biz, ‘Their saulrty ‘welcomes sing. Aud greet with sparkling flags of fizz ‘The first sweet smile of spring. —Exchange. MODERN CALENDARS. What though the grass be growing green, Who knows that spring is nigh, 3 Except for hats in windows seeu And’ women. crying “‘Buy 7" —New York Herald. Koster & Bial’s Music 'hall within a year has changed management a_ half dozen times, and now it is said to have fallen into the hands of the Hashim brothers, vandeville managers, of Phila- delphia. It is said the transfer would be made on May 1, The confectioner is up to date when he molds icecream in the popuiar form of an automobile, and pins a tiny driver to the front seat. This delicious auto runs down the throat without the slight- est effort, while the driver is carried home, as a dinner favor. There's another Net to wear the long string of beads or that gold jewel-dot- ted chain, girls, than plain round the neck, A certain leader, who never does anything like anybody else, slings her chain of amethysts over her left shoulder, so it crosses under the right arm and conveniently holds her fan. You needn't do it if you don’t want to; but, if the jewels are real, the glittering epaulette ie is quite stunning from behind. The humble game of craps is played nightly in fashionable society, accompa- nied with all of its old-time supersti- tions. “Fade me.” “Come seven,” “Come “leven” are heard in the land of the high and mighty. In a swell resi- dence the other night a young woman, who learned the game in St. Louis, had a bat’s liver, which she laid on the table every time it came her turn to pick up the ivories. As a result she won all the money her companions had. Fortunate are the horses in the stable of Frank Gould. Their owner is prepar- ing for them, at a cost of more than $90,- 000, a private exercising ring, where they may prance daily in “any kind of weather. » It will be the largest private exercising rit in New York, fronting fifty feet on West Fifty-seventh street, and running back 100 feet toward Vifty. eighth street, connecting with Mr. Gould's stable, which fronts on Fifty- eighth street, by a sheltered driveway. Mrs. Langtry is not wasting her time while she is “resting” this week. Last night, in a spirit of fun, she applied for and secured a job as “extra lady” at the Garden theater. She was assigned to duty by Joseph Humphreys, and, with several others, occupied one of the “make-believe” boxes in the music “hall scene in “Hearts are Trumps.” Consid- ering that she went on without any re- hearsals, the actress played her role ex- tremely well and applauded vigorously at_the proper time. Several ,persons in the audience recog- nized her and gave her quite a round of applause. There's a new game in New York city, and it’s played for_drinks. It is called Smiling Tommy. Business was over in Wall street the other day and there was a crowd around one of the desks. ‘Let's play Smiling Tommy,” said one of the brokers. “How?” demanded the others. “Every man hold up his hand with as many fingers extended as he cares to.” Hands went up. Seventeen fingers were extended. The ‘proposer began counting with the first person to his right. He counted around until he reached seventeen and then he said, “You're it.” The seventeenth man set ’em up. “It beats dice,” said the proposer, “and you can't do any fixing beforehand, and cheating is impossible.” Last summer the flannel suit became | for the first time in New York an ar- ticlé for general city wear. It had previ- ‘ously been confined to country use, but English tailors, sending over these gar- ments in dark colors, made them popu- jar in town. In all probability many more of them will be seen this summer. They have the advantage of being some- what cheaper than serge or the cloths customarily used and they possess the merit for lightness. _ Most of those seen last year in New York were' made of imported goods, while this summer's sup- ply will in all probability be home made. Aiwerican manufacturers have turned out this winter a large supply of this flannel, and, after their custom, have im- preved on the original in designs and colers. They -have made these cloths mere attractive’and the flannel suit will protatly be a pervading feature of the coming summer. There is a story that the ladies of the Coe ee. ee eg ee ee em vs Ribera, the Federal ‘leader, who. de- il government. a Civitas chapter of the Audubon society of Brooklyn, who had an aute-Easter luncheon the other day, were horrified because they found squab on the menu. It was found that no one at the table knew exactly what a squab was when it was alive, although all of them were ‘familiar with the ne dish when served up at table. The president ‘thought she knew, however, and, ad- dressing her fellow members, she said: “Take them away. Who could have consented to having the tuneful squab, ‘one of the sweetest songsters of the for- jest, placed on our bill of fare, What was the committee thinking of?" So the squabs were sent away, for the delectation of the waiters, and the lunch- eon proceeded with entire success. But when some of the members of the Audu- bon society looked up authorities on their own account, they discovered that a squab is a young pigeon, whose “tune: fulness” is not admitted by everybody. Countess Spottiswood Mackin, whe sailed for her home in Paris Saturday, accompanied by her niece, Miss Katte of Yonkers, possibly wears more honor badges than any other American-born woman. Amopg them is one given. by the Pope for her chatity to the poor of Paris. King Humbert bestowed upon her a badge for her charitable work in Italy. Countess Mackin came to Ameri- ea several weeks ago on account of the death of her father, former Mayor Britton of St. Louis, who died in Yon- kers. The countess, before her marriage to James Mackin, who died fifteen years ago, was a belle in St. Louis. Her title was bestowed upon her by the Pope, in recognition of her kindness to the poor. She has established a convention in | Paris. Countess Mackin is an author, having published several books, among them “A Society Woman on Two Conti- nents.” Her new book, soon to be is- sued, has been dedicated to the Tope. | The countess will entertain the Daugh- ters of the American Revolution during | the Paris exposition. Ten-cent stage fare will become a fea- ture of New York surface transportation July 1. This fare will be between any two points on the stage line, regardless of distance. It will mark the inaugura- tion of a plan to substitute automobile stages for the majority of cross-town street car lines. Six of the big stages are now being constructed, and will be ready to operate July 1. In size they are about equal to horse cars and will com- fortably seat twenty-two passengers. They will be double-deckers, with a spir- al staircase at the rear of the car. The average speed of the ’buses will be from six to ten miles an hour. As far as pos- sible seats will be provided for all pas- sengers. It is the intention of the com- pany to limit the standing passengers in each stage two two or three, the idea be- ing that these will not have to stand long, because seats are constantly vacat- ed in the ordinary course of travel. The company that will operate the automo- bile stages in New. York is one of a. se- ries of similar organizations which the Electric Vehicle company has organized in Philadelphia, Chicago and Boston. The Whitney interest, the same that controls all the surface railroads of New York, controls the Electric Vehicle com- pany. A violet-smudged shirt front plays an important part in the divorce trial of James King Clark, son of Charles J. Clark, the multi-millionaire, who died re- cently, and Esther Bartlett Clark, a for- mer society belle of Washington. Some spicy testimony, taken at the Fifth Ave- nue hotel. MelIntosh Kellogg, the co- respondent in tae case, who was an usher at the church wedding which took place in Washington, April 26, 1899, and _ac- companied Mr. and Mrs. Clark to New York, testified that he dined with the bride and groom at the Holland house. Mr. Clark, the witness said, invited him to their room in the hotel where they were stopping. Ordering the bellboy to bring whiskies, and, failing to get them promptly, told’ Kellogg to remai:: with Mrs. Clark while he went downstairs. Kellogg said he was in the room alone with Mrs. Clark twenty minutes or half an hour. He was asked what took place in the room, and replied: “Well, we were fooling around there and she had some violets on and had some pictures— photographs—on her bureau, and I was fooking. at these and teasing her about them, and I got some violet stains on ‘my shirt front scuffing around there, I also had the violets down in my shirt bosom, so much so that when Clark came up he asked me how I got them there. I put them down in the shirt front. She threw the violets at me.” Stokes’ Later but Easier Days. | Edward 8. Stokes has beaten the rep- Hdward 5S. Stokes has beaten the rep- resentatives of the Hoffman house in its suit against him for $35,000. The appel- late division handed down its decision to that effect today. Mr. Stokes is not so young as he was in 1873, when he de- pended upon the courts to save his life, and was saccessful, but he is still 4 handsome man. His snow-white hair and clear-cut features are striking to anyone who happens to look at him, and he is tc be seen almost any afternoon in Broad- way in the neighborhood of the hotel of which he was for many years the man. ager. The strennous experience he suf. fered after the killing of Jim Fisk and his own trial for his life may have left some lines in his face, but they do not show unless one looks very closely at ee York Letter to Pittsburg Dis- patch. FAIR WOMEN SPEAK. Pe-ru-na Works Wonders for the Gentler Sex in Catarrhal Ailments. el tp ——— OR. : Oy U LE ~~ a = Wi eas. y Pet Li gra oS Sy Cosi Zi SAV 2X SS eQ EE SA G Pe y GZ NTS YS eS = — ~geN | Wee 2S Ss A Se ay, aa ae Be PANN a Se Al Be ee / “ See as NN \ WZ = | MRS.COLONEL HAMILTON. | That Pe-ru-na has become a household remedy in the home of Mrs, Colonel Ham- ilton is well attested by a letter from her, which says: “I can give my testi- mony as to the merits of your remedy, Pe-ru-na. I have been taking the same for some time, and am enjoying better health now than I have for some years. I attribute the change to Pe-ru-na. and recommend Pe-ru-na to every woman, believing it to be especially beneficial to them.” Mrs, Hamilton’s residence is 259 Goodale street, Columbus, Ohio. Mrs. Margar- ear. etha Danben, oy eel No. 1214 North pea ey Superior street, ABS Racine City, ~ eS Wis., says: “I < feel so well and good and health- S ful now that pen h he j cannot describe nee OS it, Pe-ru-na is C&, Jy everything to toetay# me. I feel healthy and well, ee eee eee etha Danben, a aa No. 1214 North iaust Superior _ street, as Racine City, > By Wis., says: “I < feel so well and good and health- 3 A ful now that pen h ea cannot describe Ro» cae it. Pera is C&, Jf everything to toetiy fs me. I feel healthy and well, but if I should be sick I would know what to take. I have taken several bottles for female complaint. I am in the change o! life and it does me good,” Have you catarrh of the head, throat, Iungs, stomach or any other organ of the body? If so, write to Dr. Hartmar at once. He will send you directions for treatment without charge. Address Dr. Hartman. Columbus, O. @10.000.000 a Year for Peanut. The people of the United States con- sume 4,000,000 bushels of peanuts an- nually, at a cost of about $10,000,000, The growing of the peanut in this coun- try is gradually increasing, but much of the product consumed is still brought from abroad, notably from Spain, Egypt and Japan. Yetethe South Atlantic sea- board and the lower Mississippi valley, as well as other Mees of the United States, have been shown to be abundant- ly responsive to the cultivation of this ground nut, the average yield__ being about. sixty. bushels per acre.—Kansas Citv Journal. Chronic Nasal Catarrh poisons every breath that is drawn into the lungs. There is procurable from any druggist the remedy for its cure. A small quan- tity of Ely’s Cream Balm placed into the nostrils spreads over an inflamed and angry surface, relieves immediately the painful inflammation, cleanses, heals and cures. Drying inhalants, fumes, smokes and snuffs simply develop dry catarrh; they dry up the secretions which adhere to the membrane and decompose, causing a far more serious trouble than the ordi- nary form of catarrh. Avoid all drying inhalants, use Ely’s Cream Balm. It is reliable and will cure catarrh, cold in the head and hay fever easily and pleasantly. All druggists sell it at 50 cents. or it will be mailed by Ely Brothers, 56 Warren St, N. -¥. —During his coming visit to England King Oscar of Norway and Sweden is to deliver an address at Oxford on the literatire of his own country. Ask Your Dealer for Allen's Foot-Ease, A powder to shake Into your shoes. It rests the feet. Cures Corns, Bunions, Swollen, Sore, Hot, Callous, Aching, Sweating fect and 1n- growing Nails, Allen's Foot-Mase makes new or tight shoes easy. Sold by alldruggists and shoe stores, 25c. Sample mailed PKEL. Address Alien S. Ulmsted, Le Koy, N. X. —Among 100,000 Germans there are twenty-one suicides every year, most of them aged between 20 and 30. rere east te at eee HAVE IT READY St. Jacobs Oil a) & hi "PAINS yw, ACHES MISS ANNIE WYANDOTTE. Miss Annie Wyandotte, queen of the operatic stage and dramatic soprano, says: “FIFTEENTH St. AND JACKSON AVE. Kansas City, Mo. “Dr. Hartman: “Dear Sir—Pe-ru-na has been my sal- vation, It has given me back a_beauti- ful voice, a gift of God; it has brought me once more to my old profession. | can talk now, and sing, where before, | could scarcely whisper. Can you wonder at my delight? 1 wish every person who is suffering as 1 suffered. might know Pe-ru-na. Only those who. have been afflicted can ever know the intense satis- faction and gratitude that comes with a complete cure. My voice was completely gone. April 15 I felt so elated over the restoration of my voice that I inserted an adyertisement in The Star for vocal pupils. The advertisement, which cost me 65 cents, brought me tive pupils, and that was the beginning of my present large class. Yours gratefully, “Annie Wyandotte.” A congestion, inflammation or ulcera- tion of the mucous membrane, whether of the head, stemach, kidneys or other organ, is known to the medical profession is catarrh. It is known by different names, such as dyspepsia, Bright’s dis ease, female complaint, diarrhoea, bron: chitis, consumption and a host of othe: names. Wherever there is a congestec mucous membrane there is catarrh, acut¢ or chronic. A Year Behina. A missionary of one of these out-of the-way stations, where mail comes tc him but once a year, says he subscribes for a daily newspaper and has all the numbers sent him at once. He arranges them in consecutive order, and every morning after breakfast, on the right day of the month, reads his paper that is just one year old, ‘In this way I get my news consecutively,” he says, and enjoy a morning paper all through the winter, for I do not allow myself to read ahead. You cannot imagine what com- pany it is, and how civilized I feel.”— ndianapolis Press. How’s This! We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure, I, J. CHENEY & CO., Props., Toledo, 0. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cherey for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorabie 1a" all business transactions and financially able to earry out any obligation made by thelr firm. West & Truax, Wholesale Druggists, To- ledo, 0. Walding, Kinnan & Marvin,~ Wholesale Drugeists, Toledo, Ohio. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Price, 75. per bot- tle. Sold by all Druggists. Testimonials oe? A Strange Coincidence. By a strange coincidence the bronze Spanish cannon which was presented to the city of Bangor through the influence of Congressman Boutelle»was mounted in front of the customs house building on its oWn birthday, February 9. On the breech is engraved the date of its make —February 9, 1787—which was just 115 years before the gun was mounted in Bangor—Philadelphia Record. Try Grain-O! Try Grain-O! Ask your grocer today to show you A ‘package of GRAIN-O, the new foot rink that takes the pace of coffee. The children may drink it without injury as well as the adult. All who er it like it. GRAIN-O has that rich seal brown of Mocha or Java, but it is made from pure grains. and the most delicate stom ach receives it without distress. One- fourth the price of coffee. 15¢ and 25c per package. Sold by all grocers. —Johannesburg has a German school which last June was giving instruction to 113 boys, 84 girls and 25 children in the kindergarten. Lane’s Family Medicine Moves the bowels each day. In order to be healthy this is necessary. Acts gently on the liver and ee Cures sick headache. Price 25 and £ —The United States consul at, Viadi- vostock, Russia, is Richard T. Greener, a negro and a graduate of Harvard. Carter's Ink. Good ink is a necessity for good writ- ing. Carter's is the best. Costs no more than poor ink. --It is announced in Boston that Bish- op Lawrence of Massachusetts is to give a new dormitory to Harvard. I am sure Piso’s Cure for Consumption saved my life three years ago.—Mrs. Thos. Robbins, ae Street, Norwich, N. Y., Feb. 17, 1900. —A Cincinnati firm is working on an order received from London for 500,000 British flags. Mra. Winslow's SooTHixe SYRUP for chiltrey teething, softens the guin4 reduces inflammation, allays pain, cures wind colic. 26¢ a bottle. —Port Tampa is built;on piles driven deep in the bottom of the bay. | MISS CLARA STOECKER. | Miss Clara Stoecker says: “I had chronic catarrh for over a year. 1 tried many remedies. but found no relief until I saw an advertisement in the paper of your treatment for chronic catarrh, & tried it and I think I am now well. & recommend Pe-ru-pa to all my_ friends who are afflicted with catarrh.” Miss Stoecker livea at Pittehnre Pa Irs. Margareth itz, Wilcox, Ia., writes: “E end my sincere inks for the nd advice you ve givenme. J not believe L —) would be liv- ing now if it were not for you. I had suffered with flow of blood for four months, and the doctors could help S Mrs. Margareth cS Fritz, Wilecex, RAMS Okia., writes: “L Sad ode extend my sincere FR BSN thanks for the ay, s00d advice you — mag hive given me. 4b 7 )) do not believe I would be liv- HT TMG | ins now it it we AGIAN | sere not for THA HWA | offered. wiek Mi HS ZF il | | | Suffered wit! AN | flow of blood a wy ———] st i for four 7 7 (months, and the doctors could help me but little. They operated on me three times. -It was very painful and I only obtained little relief. I was so weak L could not turn in bed. Then I applied to Dr. Hartman. I did not know whether he could help me or not, but I followed his adyice, and used only three bottles of Pe-ru-na and Man-a-lin. Now I am welt and as strong as I ever was, thanks to your remedies.” Velvic catarrh has be- come so frequent that most women are more or less afflicted with it. It is usu- ally called female disease, ! A Battle-Field Jest. 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FREE Acute, Wanted: both old and Young Bend 2 anak for fall particulars and se DYES of Dye-mine Dyes for household we. BAW XER & BOYLE, Mfrs., Dover, Me. JOHN W.MORRIS, NSION Wetnincon, pc _ Sulonopal ly prowpatics ciple: Stein civil war, iSadiudicating claims, atty amon, NEW DISCOVERY; DROPSY smoot ere Pita Dba: Srcse'a Sone, Boxe acacseneet DIN, Unccsseessorese sees sseeereesensaraian NO 16, 1900. oe ne. WRITING TO ADVERTISERS please say you saw the Advertisement In this paper. “4 _PISO’S TURE FOR. .; & GURES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS r S) west Cough Syrup, ‘Tastes Good. Use pa ved in time. Sold by druggists. “+ “ CONSUMPTION _* A GIFT OF FLOWERS. Flowers I bring you, Roses and heartsease, Sunshine and joy, with Roses and heartsease. Soon are they faded, Perfume soon vanished, Thoughts of the giver Forever banished. In years yet to come, In life's December, These poor May blossoms Will you remember? Day dreams may bring you Visions departed, Longings for roses And the true-hearted. If your heart tells you— Sorrow would lighten— A dark day of life My presence brighten. Then will I bring you Roses and heartsease Sunshine and joy, with Roses and heartsease. —Leo G. Benedict AN AWFUL HOLE. It began in a rather commonplace way. Reginald Chatters, looking very hot and uncomfortable, fingered his mustache twice, arranged his tie three times, and looked longingly back at the deserted staircase. But at last he set his teeth hard, held his breath and opened the door. There was only one other in the room—a corpulent personage, with a shiny pate and a quick, jerky action. He glared inquiringly at the newcomer. “What do you want?” he said, with an air that spoke of something in store for the visitor, behind it. “Well, I—you—we—that is. Rose, you know—ask—you—thought I might—” "Ha!" barked the old man savagely, "You want to become my son-in-law, eh?" The young man stood first on one leg and then on the other. "Well," he returned, falteringly, "I suppose I'll have to be if I marry Rose." The old man regarded him with a curious smile. "Income?" snapped he. "Er—one hundred a year," trembled the incomer. "One hundred a year! What on earth's the good of that? You know very well Rose has been brought up in a style that six times that amount wouldn't support." He was a rude old man, and rather purse-proud. Reggie considered carefully before speaking this time. "It seems to me," he said, confidently. "that if you were to advance the other 500 yearly, till I had it for myself, you know, matters might—" "Leave the room," said the old man, quietly. Rose Druce was very pretty, and worth a much more tactful effort than Reggie had made before her father. After all, he had done his best, and though he had made a decided mess of it, he hadn't hoped for anything much better. One hundred a year was not much to offer. Rose left the window as he came into the drawing room and looked her inquiries. She was brown-eyed, slim and rather hopeful in disposition; but the result of the forlorn hope did not disappoint her, for she had not expected anything else. "Poor boy!" she said, soothingly. "He wouldn't love me at all." complained Reggie. "I'll manage it somehow, though." "How?" inquired Rose, simply. How: inquired Rose, simply. Reggie laid five wiry fingers on his left biceps, and worked his forearm to and fro half a dozen times, staring pensively at the wall. He was powerfully built. "Would you mind if I damaged him a bit?" he inquired cautiously; "not irreparably, you know, but—" "Oh, no, no, not that!" pleaded Rose, clasping her hands. "He's my father, after all. Besides, it wouldn't mend matters at all—rather the contrary." He had exhausted the resources of his mind, and fell into abstract silence. He was a lovely boy, but not brain-brilliant. Reggie had read a good many stories of what fellows do under such circumstances; but his ideas were thrown out by the fact that Mr. Druce kept no bulldog. All the stubborn fathers in the tales he had read kept bulldogs, and he felt that, given the usual material, he would know what to do. But the absence of a bulldog puzzled him, and threw out his train of thought. There was a terrier, certainly; but it was rather fond of him than otherwise, and never bit his trousers. When he wished to climb over the back wall there was nothing to prevent him. He explained this difficulty to Rose. "Do you think you could persuade the old man to buy a bulldog?" he suggested tentatively. "I should know how to proceed then. I could either make friends with him by giving him steak with aniseed oil on it, or else poison him out of the way, to begin with. All heroes in books do that. It would give me a sort of start, don't you know." "I'll try," said Rose, doubtfully: "but I should have thought it saved you trouble not to have to do all that. Besides, he might take a fancy to you at once and spoil everything. Can't you think of something else?" "Well," said Reggie, after mature consideration. "I think I'll go by way of the back garden wall when I depart, just as a sort of beginning, eh? Practice is what I want." And when Reggie's time came to go he did make his exit by way of the garden wall. It was dark by that time, and he barked his shins a good deal. A neighbor's dog charged him as he dropped into the next garden. He avoided it with difficulty, and presently made the street. As he jumped down on to the pavement, after carefully chipping away some broken glass from the barrier's top, a policeman made rude inquiries, and he was obliged to give his name and address before he was allowed to go. This upset his calculations somewhat, for none of the books he had read said anything about policemen in such a connection. However, he felt the attack by the dog was a step in the right direction. It was only a neighbor's dog, certainly, but he felt more in his element with dogs than with policemen. He made his trousers particularly muddy in the escape, for Mr. Druce's spacious garden was upheaved in every direction for the purpose of pipe-laying. There were innumerable holes, to say nothing of forbidding mountains of smooth yellow clay. He narrowly escaped falling into the biggest pit of all, a slimy hole, fifteen feet deep, with an inch or two of water at the bottom. It lay about 400 yards from the house and was concealed therefrom by shrubberies. The sides were steep and unscalable. The hole impressed itself on Reggie's memory, and he dreamt of it all night. The next evening, impressed by his experiences, Reggie started to call on his fiancee by way of the back gardens again. It was a chill, raw autumn night, and a thick drizzle fell ceaselessly. With the aid of a convenient plum tree, trained against the bricks. Reggie clambered up, paused for breath on the summit and dropped on to the dead leaves and sticky clay beyond. As he arrived there a woeful snuffle arose from the ground beneath his feet. He jumped back a pace or two. "Rose has got him to buy that bulldog after all," he thought dolefully. CREAM STRAW HAT Hat of soft cream fancy straw trim of cream mousseline. Front of tea rose Mary Hat of soft cream fancy straw trimmed with Renaissance lace and rosette of cream mousseline. Front of tea roses and black ribbon velvet. "Help!" said a voice faintly. "That sounded like Mr. Druce," thought Ireggie. He stepped gingerly up to the edge of the big pit before referred to, and peered into its oozy depths. There crouched a dim figure at the bottom. By the rim lay Mr. Druce's hat, and from the pit's bottom came the voice of Mr. Druce, feebly demanding succor. "Is that Mr. Druce?" queried Reggie calmly. "Of course it is!" snapped the old gentleman angrily. "And you are Reginald Chatters, I presume. I thought I should meet you." "It is scarcely a meeting," said Reggie. "Confound you!" roared the irate parent. "I know of your infernal clamberings over my wall last night. It's lucky for you I'm down here. I've been here for half an hour, and I can't make those deaf idiots at the house hear me. However, help me out, and mayhap I may overlook the trespass this once." "That's very good of you!" said Reggie. He sat down on an upturned wheelbarrow and lit a cigarette. He had never read anything of this sort, but it seemed a good opportunity to strike out an original line of his own. The action enraged Mr. Druce to a dangerous extent. He snorted and pawed like a tethered bull. As he drew his feet from the mud Reggie heard them suck and squish dolefully in the sticky clay and water that lined the bottom. Reggie's cigarette went out, and he lit it afresh. "Suppose we strike a bargain?" he said, flicking off the ash. "If you will recall your decision of yesterday anent my proposed marriage with Rose, perhaps I might overlook your rudeness on that occasion, for once, and help you out." "You young blackguard!" roared Druce. "Do you think I'll be dictated to by you? I'll stop here all night before I concede you an inch. And when I get out, heaven help you!" "All right," murmured Reggie, sweetly, "I'll stay here and keep you company." He picked up Mr. Druce's hat and hung it on a corner of the wheelbarrow. Mr. Druce lifted his voice and shouted for help. As a vocal effort it did not amount to much. The angry parent had already exhausted himself by shouting, and the damp clay had imparted a distinct hoarseness to his voice. Reggie was very sorry for him, but he had brought it on himself. In prowling about on the watch for Reggie he had fallen into the pit. It was soft enough to preclude any risk of broken limbs. Reggie knew the shouts would not reach the house, for all the windows were shut, and it was unlikely that anyone would search for the lost one in the garden—he hardly ever went there even in summer. The waiter on the wheelbarrow lit another cigarette. Mr. Druce, after an hour had passed in silence, fell into a distressing fit of coughing. "It's very bad for you, you know," said Reggie, sympathetically; "without a hat, too. I'm afraid you'll catch cold." "Confound you!" coughed Mr. Druce. "When I want your opinion I'll ask you for it. I shall have a long score to settle with you when I get out." "When you get out!" echoed Reggie, sweetly. He brushed the ash of his cigarette into the pit. Reggie felt more and more happy as time went on, whilst the unfortunate Mr. Druce at length began to find the clammy pit too much for him. He tried a more conciliatory tone. "I'm subject to acute rheumatism," he said peevishly, "and you may have my death at your door. There is such a charge as manslaughter. I repeat, I am subject to rheumatism of the most violent nature." "That's bad," said Reggie. "Have you ever tried senna tea? My aunt was completely cured—" The old gentleman relapsed into a sudden fit of powerful metaphor, which interrupted the history of Reggie's aunt. Eventually there came a vanquished voice from out of the pit. Mr. Druce gave in. The raw air and oozy clay had done its work, and he hauled down his colors. "Get me out!" he growled. "I've had enough of this! You can marry Rose—if she'll have you?" "And the £500 a year—as a start?" queried Reggie. Mr. Druce slipped on the floor of the pit, sat down heavily in the sticky clay, and slowly rose again. He scanned the yellow walls wearily. "Yes," he muttered; "I'll throw that in—for ten years!" "On your word of honor?" insisted Reggie. "Yes, yes! On my word of honor!" snapped the old man, testily. "Only get me out at once, or there will be an inquest instead of a wedding!" Reggie bade the victim stand aside, and dropped the wheelbarrow into the pit as a stepping-stone. Then he found a couple of garden chairs, which the prisoner piled up on the barrow. Another seat, up-ended, completed the ladder, and Mr. Druce climbed high enough to grasp the sinewy hand of Reggie, and was --- med with Renaissance lace and rosette es and black ribbon velvet. hauled up, kicking and gasping like a newly-landed bream. The two stood eyeing each other on the abyss' brink for a whole minute, while Mr. Druce regained his breath. Then that worthy spoke. "You are a cunning young man, aren't you?" he said savagely. Still, there was a trace less resentment in his voice than before. "Well," said Reggie, "I didn't want your money; I wanted Rose, but I had to have something to keep her in the style to which she has been accustomed." "Do you think you could endure hardships for her sake?" sneered the father. "You can't go back on your word as a man of honor," said Reggie, calmly. "But if it comes to that, I could endure anything for her sake." As he concluded this noble sentiment Mr. Druce gave him a terrific push. His heels flew up in the air, and he slithered hopelessly into the muddy pit which had just held the old man, missing the pyramid of wheelbarrows by a few feet. He landed with a sounding squash in the mud and water. "And now it's my turn!" grinned Mr. Druce from the top. "You shall stay there till daylight, my young friend, at any rate. Or perhaps you would like to get out on rescinding the conditions you wrung from me?" Reggie looked at the ladder of chairs. Even if he climbed it he would be some feet from the top, and there was no foothold in the soft clay. "Thanks," he said cheerfully, after ascertaining that his cigarette case held still a dozen rolls. "I'll stand by my guns. You can't go back on your word, as I said before, and I shan't go back on mine if I stay here a week." Mr. Druce went indoors and indulged in coffee and a cigar. "Something in him, after all," he thought, when warm comfort had grown over him once more. At 8 the next morning, some time after the cold, damp dawn had broken, Mr. Druce and Rose went down the garden together. On the way the old man told his daughter of the night's happenings. Rose was annoyed to some extent at the thought of her hero spending the night in a mudhole, but the result soothed her. The two of them found a ladder and slid it into the hole. Reggie, wet and muddy, but still steeped in calm triumph, threw away the end of his last cigarette, and mounted. "I think," said Mr. Druce grimly, "you had better have a hot bath and then change into some clothes of mine." An hour later Reggie came down to breakfast in tow of the flushed and happy Rose. He looked a little lost in the ample garments of Mr. Druce, but otherwise he was sedate and cool. "I should like a talk with you in the study when you come up," said Mr. Druce as he left the pair after the meal had waned. The firm of Druce & Chatters is now the most prosperous of its kind, and Mrs. Chatters is amply supported by Reggie in "the style to which she has been accustomed."—Penny Pictorial Magazine. Didn't Know Cushman was so Homely. Representative Cushman of Washington claims to the homeliest man in the House of Representatives, says some Washington correspondence. Mr. Eddy of Minnesota enjoyed that honor until the present session, and it is still a matter of serious doubt whether he is any better looking than Mr. Cushman. Mr. Cushman says, however, in proof of his claims that on the first day of the session when he attempted to enter the House of Representatives he was stopped by the doorkeeper, who said: "I'm sorry, sir, but I cannot let you go in there. It is against the rules." "But I am a member of the House," said Mr. Cushman, "I have to go in." "You say you are a member of the House of Representatives!" exclaimed the doorkeeper in surprise. "What is your name and where do you come from?" "My name is Cushman and I come from the state of Washington," he responded modestly. The doorkeeper took down a large card upon which the roll of the House was printed, and looking at the list of members whose names begin with "C" remarked in a sotto voce tone: "Yes, there is a new member from Washington by the name of Francis W. Cushman. Is that you?" "Yes, that's me," said Mr. Cushman, and the doorkeeper nodded his head as much as to say, "That's all right, you are entitled to the floor," and Mr. Cushman says that as he passed into the vestibule he heard him say to his mate: "Tom. I guess we can let in most anything after that." Dr. Levin, who accompanied the Nathorst expedition to Spitzbergen, examined over 5000 gallons of air without finding a single disease-producing microbe. The very few organisms found are quite harmless.—Philadelphia Press. A Healthy Climate. Identified Against Her Will. A richly-dressed women entered the office of a trust company in Philadelphia the other day to rent a box. "Have you anyone to identify you?" asked the attendant. "Certainly not." said the woman, indignantly; "everybody knows who I am." "That may be," was the reply, "but I don't know that you are the woman of that name." Just then another woman, who had been transacting some business, raised her head, and a frigid nod passed between them. "Do you know this woman?" asked the bank official. "I don't want to know her," snapped the woman. "She lives next door to me, and instructed her footman to kick my dog, just because it chanced to be on her step. You needn't ask me to identify her, for I won't." "I wouldn't let you identify me," retorted the applicant for a box. "I think you have acted horridly about your old dog, and you left the Dorcas society, telling everybody you wouldn't belong as long as I was a member. A nice Christian spirit!" In the meantime the bank official, entirely satisfied that the identification was complete, handed over the key to the box, to the ill-concealed chagrin of the other woman, who had identified her against her will. Intelligence of Negro Porters President Eliot of Harvard told this story at the Cornell club dinner the other evening: "A friend of mine, a college professor, went into a crowded restaurant in New York city for luncheon one hot day last summer. The negro in charge of the big corridor where the hat shelves stood was an intelligent-looking fellow, and his bow and smile were not of the obsequious, stupid kind so often affected by colored waiters and doormen in hotels. He took my friend's hat and gave no check for it in return. An hour later, when the professor came out of the dining room, the negro glanced at him in a comprehensive way, turned to the shelves and handed him his hat. "My friend is a man who prides himself on his powers of observation, and the negro's ability to remember to whom each article of clothing belonged struck him as being something very wonderful. 'How did you know this was my hat?' he asked. 'I didn't know it, sah,' was the reply. "Then why did you give it to me?" the professor persisted professor persisted. "‘Because you gave it to me, sah.’"— Boston Journal. "According to Their Meanness." "Bruddren and sistahs," sternly said good old Parson Woolimon, after the collection had been taken up upon a recent Sabbath morning, "before the hat was done parsed I expounded the request dat de congregation contribute accawdin' to deir means, and I sho expectorated dat yo' all would chip in magnanimously. But now, upon examinin' de collection, I finds dat de concocted amount contributed by de whole entire posse ob yo' am only the significant and pusillanimous sum of sixty-free cents. And at dis junction dar ain't no 'casion for yo' all to look at Brudder Slewfoot, what done circummulated de hat around, in no such auspicious manner; for, in de fust place, Brudder Slewfoot ain't dat kind of a man, and, in the second place, I done watched him like a hawk all de time muhself. No, sixty-free cents was all dat was flung in; and I dess wants to say dat, in my humble opinion, instead ob contributin' accawdin' to yo' means, yo' all contributed accawdin' to yo' meanness. De choir will now favor us wid deir reg'lar melodiousness."—Harper's Bazar. Lost His Jurisdiction. Justice Brewer the other day told a story of an Indiana justice of the peace who owned a farm. One line of his fence formed the boundary of the states of Indiana and Ohio. Like others in rural districts who hold that office, he had an abnormal appreciation of the responsibility of the office, and never lost an opportunity to exercise his prerogative of demanding that the peace be preserved. One day his son and his hired man got to fighting on a stretch of the farm near the boundary line fence, and the justice of the peace rushed out and mounted the fence. Then, with head cocked high and the air of one who has but to command, he shouted: "In the name of the state of Indiana I demand the preservation of the peace!" Just then the fence gave way under his weight, and as he went down with the fence toppling over to the Ohio side he shouted to his son: "Give him the mischief, Jim; I've lost my jurisdiction!" Wanted to Keep Up His End. James Russell Lowell was a great student of dialect, says the Glasgow Evening Times. One day while in England he entered a South Shields restaurant and sat down opposite a barefooted Shields yokel, who had been walking and whose feet were tired. "Waiter," he said, "bring me a steak and fried potatoes." The yokel leaned his elbows upon the table. "Bring me yan, tee," he said. "Bring me a cup of coffee and rolls," continued Lowell. "Bring me yan, tee," said the yokel. "And, John, you may bring me a bootjack. "Bring me yan, tee," added the yokel. "Why, what on earth can you want with a bootjack?" asked Lowell, surprised into asking the question. The retort nearly took away his breath. "Gan away, ye fule," said the yokel; "d'ye think I canna eat a bootjack as well aye?" —The English Parliament makes liberal allowances to the women of the royal family. A Queen Dowager's annual income from that source is $500,000. That of a dowager princess of Wales is $200,000. Other widows of royal princes receive $30,000. 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