Wisconsin Weekly Advocate

WISCONSIN WEEKLY ADVOCATE DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF THE NEGRO RACE VOLUME III. TRIBUTE TO DEAD HEROES. Monument at Kenosha Unveiled with Fitting Ceremonies. Address of the Day was Delivered by Right Rev. Samuel Fallows of Chicago Kenosha, Wis., May 30.—[Special.]—'Mid the booming of the guns on the man-o'-war and revenue cutters and the shouting of thousands of Grand Army men and loyal citizens the city of Kenosha this afternoon dedicated a monument to the memory of her soldier dead. The monument was the gift of Z. G. Simmons and in compliment to him the veil of flags which covered the graceful shaft were torn away by the hand of his grand-daughter, Miss Elizabeth Clarkson Simmons. And as the covering fell to the ground a mighty peal of applause arose from the great crowd assembled to assist in dedicating the monument to the memory of the soldiers who had given so much for the cause of the Union. The day was the greatest day in the history of the city. Early in the morning the crowds began to arrive and before noon the town was filled with visitors. Not only members of the Grand Army, but also many citizens were here from all parts of the state and of Illinois to assist in the solemn services of the day. Cover Graves with Flowers. In the morning the members of the post were called together and with a few comrades from other cities, who had arrived on the earlier trains, they marched in the old familiar step to the city cemeteries and covered the graves of their fallen comrades with beautiful flowers. Returning from the cemeteries the old comrades of other days met in different parts of the town and held informal reunions. Great crowds of the visitors spent the morning visiting the Gilbert M. Simmons memorial library and the old man-o'-war Michigan, at the harbor of Kenosha, was also an interesting sight. Toward noon the drums sounded the ensemble and the old comrades of the Fred S. Lovell post marched to the square to arrange for the great parade. This was one of the features of the day and the crowds gathered to see the formation of the long line of veterans and order organizations which had accepted the invitation to be present and take part in the ceremonies. Decorations were Beautiful. The town was in gala attire for the celebration and all along the line of march the houses and places of business were elaborately decorated. Merchants vied with each other in the richness of the decorations. The red, the white and the blue were in evidence everywhere, and here and there were to be seen some pretty designs recalling some historic incident in the inves of the soldiers from Kenosha county. In one window were placed the old, tattered battle flags carried by the Kenosha soldiers through the thickest of the fray, while in other windows were to be seen other memorials of the long conflict which engaged brother against brother and friend against friend. In the window of F. H. Lyman were displayed his costly collection of war relics, containing old muskets used by the forefathers of Kenosha citizens in the Revolution and in the war with Mexico, and also relics of the Civil war and the recent war with Spain. All the old soldiers lingered before the display made by George Hale, who had gathered together a collection of tattered and corn battle flags which had been carried in the Civil war. In one window were the flags carried by Kenosha regiments, while in the other were the relics surrounding the old flag of the "Park City Greys," so recently returned to Kenosha. A Gorgeous Parade. The parade started from Market square shortly after noon and it was certainly the most gorgeous spectacle ever seen in the city. The Kenosha organizations marched to the station to meet the organizations coming from other cities and when the parade had been formed it was as follows: Platoon of Police. Marshals—C. F. Stemm, W. J. Frost, Edward Beyersdorfer. Compton's Military Band. Three carriages with guests. U. S. Gunboat "Michigan" Marines. Waukegan Post No. 374 G. A. R. Wilcox Post of Chicago, No. 668, G. A. R. Lake Forest Post No. 676, G. A. R. SECOND DIVISION. Marshals—Louis Limpert, Henry Timme, Wolcott Post Drum Corps. Three carriages with guests. Wolcott Post of Milwaukee No. 1. National Home Post No. 8. Gov. Harvey Post of Racine No. 17. Union Grove Post No. 215. Fred S. Lovell Post No. 230. THIRD DIVISION. Marshals—Chester Allen, Allen Cole. Prof. F. Heusier's Juvenile Band (30 pieces) of Milwaukee. Three carriages with guests. Grandsons of Veterans with cannon. Twenty-sixth Wisconsin Infantry Volunteers. Spanish War Veterans of Racine. Sons of Veterans of Kenosha. U. S. Mail Carriers of Milwaukee, Waukegan, Racine and Kenosha. Wm. Rowe Co. K. of P. Uniform Rank. One carriage with guests. A. O. H. of Milwaukee, Racine and Kenosha. D. K. K. of Racine and Kenosha. FOURTH DIVISION. Marshals—Michael Isermann, Michael Bode. ZALMON GILBERT SIMMONS. Donor of the Soldiers' Monument Which KRUS Donor of the Soldiers' Monument Which Was Unveiled and Dedicated at Kenosha. Zalmon Gilbert Simmons, the generous donor of the monument and library to the city of Kenosha, is perhaps the best known citizen of Kenosha county and a man who has taken an important part in the development of the great Northwest. Long years ago, when a lad of 15 years of age, imbued with the strength and purpose of a line of rugged Eastern ancestors, he left his home in Montgomery county, N. Y., for that broader and untrammeled sphere which the West, with its immeasurable possibilities, offered to those who were willing to dare the hardships of the pioneer life, in order that they might conquer fortune. In 1856 Mr. Simmons bought a half interest in the old Wisconsin Telegraph company and at once became its president and manager. Under his guidance the company became one of the larger companies in the country and a few years ago the lines of the company were lease to the Western Union Telegraph company for ninety-nine years. Mr. Simmons completed the construction of the old Kenosha & Rockford railway and later closed the deal whereby the road became a part of the North-Western system. Mr. Simmons is president of the First National bank, of the Simmons Manufacturing. He set out by boat for Lake county, Ill., landing at Southport, now Kenosha, June 12, 1843. His early education was found in the pioneer schools of Kenosha county, but his main education was found in meeting the difficulties of life and conquering them. When he was of age he secured a position as a clerk, in a store owned by Seth Doan, one of the pioneer merchants of the city, and it was while in the employ of the little country store that Mr. Simmons first developed that courage, tenacity and strength of character that has made him a dominating factor in many of the most successful enterprises which have marked the growth of the West during the last half century. After he had been in the store for a short time he went into business for himself and twelve years later he had earned sufficient to be the principal factor in the business world of Kenosha. Schulte's Military Band. Three carriages with guests. Co. H, First Wisconsin Boys' Brigade of A. St. George's Society. St. Michael's Society. A. O. U. W. Lodge No. 109. Danish Brotherhood. M. W. of A. C. O. F. Heiss Court No. 159. C. K. A. No. 63. German Workingmen's Society. FIFTH DIVISION. Marshals—Jacob Ludwig, Edward Quigley. Jones' Imperial Band. Three carriages with guests. Royal League. Svea Society. Dania Society. St. Kasimir Society. Brewers and Malsters' Union. SIXTH DIVISION. City Fire Department. All societies to march in four ranks. Salute the Veterans. While the veterans were marching about the streets of the city the guns of the Michigan and the revenue cutters in the harbor fired salute after salute. Many of the organizations were greeted with round after round of applause as they passed along. Among the notable features of the parade was the marching of the Milwaukee mail carriers, the Twenty-sixth regiment of Wisconsin volunteers, 100 strong, two companies of Spanish war veterans and large companies of members of the Grand Army. When the parade reached the park in front of the monument the old soldiers came to a parade rest and the guns in the harbor were stilled for the opening of the ceremonies of the day. Called to Order by Mr. Hale. The vast assembly was called to order by Capt. George Hale, commander of two Loveli post. Mr. Hale, in calling the meeting to order, said: "This is a special and open meeting of the Fred S. Lovell post, No. 230, Department of Wisconsin, Grand Army of the Republic, assembled today, with their visiting comrades and friends, for the purpose of unveiling and dedicating this beautiful monument, erected by our friend and fellow citizen, Z. G. Simmons, in honor of the brave men of Kenosha county, who victoriously defended the union on land and sea during the war of the great Rebellion of 1861-1865." The ceremonies opened with the invocation of the divine blessing. The old comrades all arose and while they stood with uncovered heads Rev. Henry Scott Roblee, a son of a veteran, invoked God's blessing upon the events of the day as well as upon the old soldiers wherever --- Was Unveiled and Dedicated at Kenosha. In 1856 Mr. Simmons bought a half interest in the old Wisconsin Telegraph company and at once became its president and manager. Under his guidance the company became one of the largest companies in the country and a few years ago the lines of the company were leased to the Western Union Telegraph company for ninety-nine years. Mr. Simmons completed the construction of the old Kenosha & Rockford railway and later closed the deal whereby the road became a part of the North-Western system. Mr. Simmons is president of the First National bank, of the Simmons Manufacturing company, of the Pike's Peak Railway company of Colorado, and of the Davy Clay Ballast company. In politics Mr. Simmons has always been a Republican. He served his district as a member of the state Legislature and was mayor of the city for several years. During one of his terms as mayor he succeeded in refunding the debt of the city, at a great saving to the taxpayers. Mr. Simmons, in his long and active career, has amassed a fortune, but it has not in any way been used selfishly. Nearly every public institution in Kenosha has received aid from him, and many of the churches have been largely built by his munificent gifts. The family of Mr. Simmons consists of three children, Z. G. Simmons, Jr., of this city, Mrs. A. H. Lance, also of Kenoshaa, and Mrs. Arthur Towne of Evanston, Ill. they might be. At the close of the prayer the old comrades standing with uncovered heads all echoed the "Amen." The Address of Welcome. After the veterans had been seated the address of welcome on behalf of the people of Kenosha was delivered by Attorney Peter Fisher. He spoke as follows: Fellow Citizens: It is my pleasant duty on behalf of the county and city of Kenosha to welcome you, in a formal manner, to our exercises today, and one cannot fail to feel a pride in welcoming the soldiers and citizens of this land to our beautiful county and city on such an occasion as this. We now meet in commemoration of the deeds of the brave men who fought on land and water the stern battles of the civil war, in commemoration of their patriotic valor, in commemoration of the noble deeds of the now silent dead, in formal recognition of their zeal for their country's welfare, in perpetuation of the grand principle that this union is one and inseparable, and we most heartily welcome you, each and all, to join us in our devotions to the memory of those men and the principles for which they fought. As the memory goes back thirty-five to forty years our breasts swell with patriotic emotions and our hearts extend the warmest sympathy to the homes made desolate by that war, and with loving hearts to cherish the memory of the departed soldiers. In the Foremost Ranks. From 1861 to 1865 Kenosha county and city took a foremost place in the ranks of the federal army and navy and many a tombstone now marks the last resting place of the men who, then in early life, offered their time and their lives that the constitution of the United States might prevail and that the homes of their loved ones might be protected, and many a crutch supports the toottering limbs of the survivors of that brave band. Hence we love to meet on such occasions, so that the lessons of patriotism taught by these men, often cemented in blood, may endure for ad time, and we welcome to our midst and to our assistance the citizens of this country of whatever city, county or state, for our purpose is a common purpose, and thrice welcome to our ranks today are the brave men who stood side by side with these departed heroes through the long, tedious march and upon the bullet-ridden and blood-stained battlefield, or braved the angry waves on bullet-torn battleships; to you we extend the kindlest welcome. Through the kind generosity and warm patriotism of one of its honor d citizens Kenosha county is today able and glad to dedicate to the memory of those departed heroes a monument, beautiful and grand, symbolical and symmetrical, which is only to be exceeded in endurance and beauty by the principles for which these men fought, and of which it shall ever be a constant reminder. We thank this generous giver for his noble deed. We thank these brave men for their lessons of patriotism, for their sacrifices, for the protection of our homes, for the defense of our country, for the liberation of the bondsmen, and for the perpetuation of the American Union, and we sincerely welcome you to join us in uttering our apreciation of these things. While such exercises awaken a great many sad memories, recall a great many disappointments, they are tinged with joy when we contemplate the grand and noble deeds of the veterans of the civil war, and now see our country, then on the verge of dissolution, united and happy knowing neither North or South, East nor West, prosperous and free. We therefore welcome you, citizens and soldiers, laymen and veterans, patriots and heroes, most cordially, to participate on this beautiful May day in dedicating to the memory of these departed warriors that which shall speak to future generations when you and I shall have passed away, of the heroic acts, of the unsuilled patriotism, of the unfaltering devotion to the country, and of the unexcelled bravery of the soldiers, whether on land or water, of the civil war. Unveiling of the Monument. At the close of the speech of Mr. Fisher, Miss Elizabeth Simmons was escorted to the base of the monument by Col. E. G. Timme, the one-armed former secretary of state, and she pulled away the drapings which had enveloped the magnificent shaft. As the flags covering the monument parted to right and left the bands began to play the "Star-Spangled Banner," while the warship and revenue cutters fire a mighty salute in honor of the unveiling of the monument. As Miss Simmons returned to her place with the family of Mr. Simmons on the platform she was presented with a beautiful bouquet of flowers by Miss Laura Blood, a little girl with a great military record Miss Blood is a sister of a soldier who fought in the Spanish and Philippine war, a daughter of a veteran of the Civil war, a grand-daughter of a veteran of the Civil war and a great-grand-daughter of a veteran of the War of the Revolution. When the din of applause had subsided, Commander Hale introduced Z. G. Simmons, who turned the monument over to the old soldiers with the following well-chosen words: Fellow Citizens: Two score years ago this nation divided on the question of human slavery. This was followed by the greatest war of modern times; and now, looking back on these two score years, judging by results and consequences, we may safely claim it to have been the most important war of all time. When this war commenced Kenosha county had less than 1700 able-bodied men subject to military duty; before it ended she sent 1367 of her bravest and best to the field. Before this record I am dumb. Words cannot tell of its grandeur and its glory. This granite monument, standing before us serene and beautiful, is placed here to tell the story of their sublime achievement; not for today alone, but for all time; not to the people of this land alone, but to all people of all lands. With a feeling of profound gratefulness for the privilege, I turn this monument over to the care and keeping of the livery-loving people of Kenosha county, to be their possession forever. May the blessed sunshine bathe it until all bloodstains are washed away; may God's approval rest upon it now and forever. The monument was then accepted on behalf of the people of the county by Supervisor Samuel B. Cropley of Pleasant Prairie, who had been delegated for this duty by Chairman Jordan of the county board. In accepting the monument on behalf of the county Mr. Cropley spoke as follows: Mr. Cropley's Acceptance. Mr. Simmons: The duty of accepting from you, in behalf of the citizens of Kenosha county, this beautiful testimonial of your gratitude to the men of Kenosha county who defended the Union during the War of the Rebellion, has fallen upon me, and I assure you that I esteem it an honor, indeed, to have the privilege of accepting it from one whose patriotism and generosity has made possible these exercises. In accepting this I trust that I may safely pledge the honor of every citizen of Kenosha county that it shall be protected and cared for and the surroundings kept in harmony with its beauty. Inscribed on yonder monument are the words "In honor of the brave men of Kenosha county who victoriously defended the Union on land and sea during the war of the great rebellion, 1861-1865," an inscription teaching to the present and future generations the impressive lesson of gratitude. As one who took an humble part in that victorious defense of the Union, it occurs to me that this memorial shaft expresses still another message to future generations—a lesson of patriotism. Long may it stand where you have placed it in all its beauty—sublime yet not silent, but as an object lesson teaching that, although those to whose memory it has been erected may have sacrificed home with all its endearments—may have sacrificed health and even life itself—yet their sacrifices and achievements have not been forgotten; and may it also instill in their minds and hearts that true spirit of patriotism which shall cause them to be ready to defend their homes and coun- Grateful to the Soldiers. The motive which actuated you in the erection of this most beautiful monument, as we all well know, and as stated in your presentation, is one of profound gratitude to those in whose memory it has been placed there, and your object to tell of their sublime achievements. A few words, yet impressive and full of meaning, realizing as you do most fully that they achieved that for which they fought—the preservation of our country, that it might live as a nation, and today it does live respected and honored by all nations. I am conscious of my inability to fully express to you the feeling of gratitude which today fills the hearts of every patriotic man and woman of Kenosha county, yet I feel that I not only voice the sentiment of the survivors of those who sacrificed their lives in that great struggle, but also the sentiment of every living soldier and sailor, when I say that they are most profoundly grateful to you for what you have previously done for them and for this, your crowning effort, in the erection of your beautiful monument to their memory. And now in behalf of those who laid down their lives on battlefields, in prison pen and hospital, in behalf of all who have been laid to rest from 1861 to this Memorial day, 1900—in behalf of the fathers, mothers, widows and orphans of those who have passed away, and in behalf of the living soldiers and of each and every citizen of Kenosha KRUS. county, I most sincerely thank you. May God graciously prolong your life, that you may have the satisfaction of the completion of this, a long cherished wish, and when in the lapse of time you shall have passed to that Great Beyond, may your name ever remain fresh in the hearts and minds of everyone—remain revered and honored as long as yonder memorial shaft shall stand where your hands have placed it. Again and again I thank you. Bishop Fallows Introduced. The St. George maennerchor then sang a beautiful selection entitled "Brave Heart, Sleep On," after which James Cavanagh introduced the speaker of the day, Rt. Rev. Samuel Fallows of Chicago. In introducing the eloquent speaker Mr. Cavanagh referred to the connection which Bishop Fallows had with the Wisconsin troops during the war and said that it was most fitting that the "fighting chaplain" of the Thirty-second Wisconsin volunteers should return to assist in dedicating a monument in honor of the brave boys with whom he had fought. He had been with them in joy and sorrow and none was more eminently qualified to tell the stories of the past and its glories than Samuel Fallows of Chicago, whom he presented to the large audience. Bishop Fallows was received with great applause from the veterans and the assembled multitudes, tor many of the old soldiers had marched side by side with him in the terrible times of war. Others remembered the bishop as the colonel of the Forty-ninth Wisconsin volunteers and on this account the bonds of comradeship caused the reception to the speaker to be nothing less than an ovation. Visibly moved by the reception accorded to him the "fighting chaplain delivered an eloquent address, as follows: The Address of the Day Comrades, Fellow Citizens, Ladies and Gentlemen: The soil is scarce; green over the graves of many in both hemispheres, who listened to Edmund Burke on the floor of the British Parliament, as with his broad, majestic eloquence he spoke of America as having been within the life time of some around him "a little speck scarceely visible in the mass of the national interest; a small seminal principle, rather than a formed body." During the few short years since these words were uttered "this little speck" has grown to be one of the most populous, civilized nations of the earth. Within its borders has been carried on a war compared with which, the most gigantic military campaigns of the past, dwindle into comparative insignificance. Two million six hundred and eighty-eight thousand names were placed on the muster roll of the armies of the republic. Over one million and an half on the muster roll of the Confederacy. I need not stop to recapitulate the causes which led to this struggle. That memorable April day came when the flag of the republic, never before dishonored, was shot down and trailed in the dust—that flag of which we had often proudly sung "When freedom from her mountain height—Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night And set the star of glory there." Uprising of the People. Then came that unparalleled uprising of the people, the call for 75,000 men and the advance of "the whirlwind of the north," the darkness and defeat of the first Bull Run battle, the deepened determination, the varying fortunes of war, the piercing of that long and well-defended Confederate line stretching from the eastern mountains to the Mississippi, and the capturing of forts Henry and Donaldson, by Unconditional Surrender Grant, the battle of Shiloh, the gallant fight of the Cumberland and Monitor with the Merrimac, the immortal exploits of Farragut and Porter, and the NUMBER 5. ENT AT KENOSHA. capture of New Orleans; answering the song of the nation, "We are coming Father Abraham 300,000 more!" the battles of Antietam and Fredericksburg, the bloody conflicts of Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, the surrender of Vicksburg, the starvation, defeat and glorious victory at Chickamauga, the enthusiastic response, "We are coming Father Abraham 300,000 more;" the planting of the flag on Lookout mountain, the storming of Missionary Ridge and the "fight above the clouds." The song more earnestly than ever sung, "We are coming Father Abraham 200,000 more," the decisive battles of Atlanta and Nashville, siege of Richmond, the "Grand march to the Sea," and the final chorus of the nation, "We are coming Father Abraham 600,000 more." The surrender of Lee and Johnson, the foul assassination of President Lincoln, the passionate grief of the people, the magnificent review at Washington, the glad thundering of guns without the murderous thunderbolts, the rising tide of a redeemed nation's rapturous joy, as it swelled from the Atlantic, rolled over the Alleghanies, on over our western prairies, "God's own gardens," up and over the Rocky mountains, down the slopes of the Pacific states, till "like a sea of glory, it spread from pole to pole." And the melting of the vast army into the ranks of civilians as mist before the morning sun. Praise the Soldier Dead. Our soldier dead cannot receive their meed of praise without the fullest recognition and the most unqualified admiration of the magnificent bravery of the soldier dead; they engaged in strife on the more than two thousand battlefields of the war. Virtue is measured by the temptation it meets and masters; success is scored according to the difficulties to be surmounted; victory has its value precisely proportioned to the means and men to be overcome. In our war West Point met West Point; volunteer tied with volunteer. The flower of our hearts and homes lay down side by side in the last, long soldier's sleep with the flower of the Southland's hearts and homes: sincerity strove against sincerity; conviction confronted conviction; determination defied determination; purpose was pitted against purpose; sacrifice was set over against sacrifice; prayer plumed its petitions against prayer. Not men of alien nature were they; they were our brothers; and because they were our own kith and kin they fought as men who would not disgrace the family name. This noble shaft, raised to the memory of our heroic dead, is also a splendid tribute to the transcendent idea that wealth has its irrepeable obligations to society. He, who by genius and industry and honorable dealing has amassed a fortune, viewing his lawful acquisitions aright, truly says, "these are not my own forself and sordid uses. They are for the well-being of those dependent upon me and for my fellowmer. I will, therefore, use them to enrich and gladden their lives. I will blend in that use the gifts of architecture, poetry and eloquence, with the undying sentiments of philanthropy and patriotism. I will unfold vistas of knowledge to the opening, and gladdened eyes of youth. I will multiply for them continually the sources of inspiration and the upward paths of aspiration." Link Heart to Heart. It is thus, my friends, that money should be used, not to forge fetters to bind and enthrall, but with chains of gold to link heart to heart in the reciprocal offices of good will and glowing gratitude. In this spirit has he, whom we all delight to honor today, and whose name will be held in increasing regard as the generations come and go, caused this splendid monument to spring into being. And in fullest sympathy with the words of James Whitcomb Riley has he erected it: "A monument to the soldiers And what shall you build it of? Can you build it of marble or brass or bronze, Outlasting a soldier's love? Can you glorify it with legends As grand as their blood has writ (Continued on Fifth page.) WAR IS VIRTUALLY OVER. Dispatch from Pretoria Says that Boers will Sue for Peace. British Army Now at the Gates of Johannesburg-Anuexation Ceremony at Bloemfontein. London, May 30.—It is officially announced that the Boers are leaving Natal. Gen. Hildyard has occupied Utrecht in the southeastern portion of the Transvaal. Excitement at Pretoria. Pretoria, Tuesday, May 29.—A dispatch sent from Johannesburg last night describes the town as intensely excited throughout the day on reports that the British were approaching, but says the excitement subsided in the evening, owing to rumors that the British had been driven back. There are large numbers of burghers at Johannesburg, but remarkable order prevails there. London, May 30.—The war is virtually over. The news first came in a dispatch from Pretoria, which was sent from the Boer capital Monday, and received here at 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon, saying that the Boers had abandoned further resistance and would sue for peace. Four hours later came Gen. Roberts' dispatch announcing that he had occupied the suburbs of Johannesburg without opposition, and would enter the city at noon today. There is undoubtedly a section of the Transvaalers who would keep up the hopeless struggle to the end, but it is now regarded as almost certain that Pretoria will capitulate within a few days without further fighting. In fact, the last hours of the South African Republic have been reached, and little remains except to haul down the flag. Boers will be Liberally Treated. The pacification of the country will be undertaken most energetically. To this end the treatment of the conquered burghers will be much more liberal than they themselves expect. The irreconcilables will probably give trouble by carrying on guerrilla operations for some time, but the greater part of the regular British troops will be sent back to England at the earliest possible moment. The news that Gen. Roberts was virtually in control of Johannesburg became public in London shortly after 9 o'clock. It caused no public demonstration beyond cheering in the theaters and music halls when it was announced. May Reach Pretoria Friday. Lord Roberts gives no information regarding the direction in which the Boer forces have gone, but it is supposed that they have trekked north or northeast before the oncoming tide. The invaders, assuming that Lord Roberts takes possession of Johannesburg today as predicted, will be in front of Pretoria not later than next Friday. Gen. Buller remains stationary in Natal, where he evidently is awaiting direct pressure of the Boers by force from the north. Boers Annoy Baller London, May 30.—The following dispatch has been received at the war office from Gen. Buller, dated Newcastle, May 30: "The enemy having formed a laager east of the town at Dornberg, pressed my right rear annoyingly. On May 27 I directed a force under Hildyard, by Wooldsrift and Utrecht, and another under Lyttleton, by Scmangaudrift, on Dornberg. These movements have caused the enemy to retire north. "Hildyard is at Utrecht and the town has surrendered. Clery is bombarding Laing's Nek. The enemy are much disheartened and were they not in such very strong positions I doubt if they would show fight. The railway was opened to Newcastle on May 28." Federals Acknowledge Defeat. Pretoria, May 29, Tuesday.—An official war bulletin just issued is as follows: "On Sunday a fight occurred close to Van Wyck's rust, in Gabrand. The Federaals fought well and the British troops seemed tired out. At dark the Federaals were forced to retire in the direction of Van Wyck's rust on account of the overwhelming force of the British. "The British attacked Witwatersrand yesterday and were in contact with the Federaals at Gatsrand, but they were beaten back with good results by the Federaals under Commandant Louis Botha. The Federaals were heavily bombarded all day long, but kept their positions. The British loss is reported to be considerable. "The British are near Utrecht, and they are also marching on Laings Nek." OOM PAUL WAVERING. Would Like a Guarantee that He will Not be Exiled to St. Helena. Newcastle, May 30.—The following proclamation has been issued by the general in command: "The troops of the Queen are now passing through the Transvaal. Her majesty does not war upon individuals, but, on the contrary, she is anxious to spare them, so far as possible, the horrors of war. The quarrel which England has is with the government and not the people of the Transvaal, and provided they remain neutral, no attempt will be made to interfere with persons living near the line of march. Every possible protection will be given them. Any of their property which it may be necessary to take will be paid for. But, on the other hand—those thus allowed to remain near the line of march must respect and maintain neutrality. The residents of any locality will be held responsible, in both their persons and property, for any damage done to the railway or telegraph, or for violence done to any member of the British forces in the vicinity of their homes." The Standard has the following ad-vices from Pretoria under Monday's date: "The Transvaal government has opened, or is about to open, peace negotiations. It has cabled a final inquiry to its agents abroad, asking whether any hope exists of aid." Without doubt the presence of Lord Roberts with 40,000 men at Johannesburg will hasten the Transvaal's decision. Dispatches from Lourenco Marques yesterday described President Kruger as "wavering, but demanding a guarantee that he shall not be exiled to St. Helena." The fighting burghers still continue to desert and the total collapse of the Boer military organization is not far off. Bennet Burleigh, wiring from Lord Roberts' headquarters at Veereninging, on Sunday, says: "I doubt if President Kruger can muster 15,000 men, as many of the burghers have gone to their homes." ORANGE RIVER COLONY. Imposing Annexation Ceremonies at Bloemfontein. Bloemfontein, Monday, May 28. Amid salutes and cheers and the singing of "God Save the Queen" the military governor, Maj.-Gen. George Prettyman, at noon formally proclaimed the annexation of the Free State under the designa- tion of the Orange River Colony. The ceremony was somewhat imposing and the scene in the market square inspiring. An immense concourse had gathered and the town was gay with bunting. The balconies and windows surrounding the square were crowded with ladies, among them Lady Roberts and the Misses Roberts, the Countess of Airlie and Ladies Henry Rentick and Settrington. The troops were drawn up under command of Gen. Knox and entertained the spectators. The governor, accompanied by Gen. Kelly-Kenny and their staffs, escorted by the Welsh Yeomanry, was greeted with a general salute after which, amid an impressive silence and in a clear voice, heard in every part of the square, Gen. Prettyman read Lord Roberts' proclamation annexing the Orange Free State as conquered by her majesty's forces, to the Queen's dominions and proclaiming that the state shall henceforth be known as the Orange River Colony. Lusty cheers greeted the concluding words of the proclamation and these were renewed with ever-increasing volume as Lord Acheson unfurled the royal standard and the bands struck up "God Save the Queen," all present joining in singing the national hymn. The ceremony concluded with cheers for the Queen. Lord Roberts and the army, and a salute of twenty-one guns. FATE OF THE REPUBLICS. Lord Salisbury Announces His Government's South African Policy. London, May 30. Lord Salisbury, who was entertained at dinner last evening by the City of London Conservative association, made an important announcement regarding the government's South African policy. "The 'stop-the-war' party has used my name," said the premier, "in support of its ideas by stating that I promised there should be no annexation of territory, no annexation of gold fields. I never gave a pledge. I never meant to give a pledge. (Loud cheers.) "I state a simple historical fact. We were accused of going to war for lust of gold and territory. It was one of those calumnies which, under the favoring influences of Dr. Leyds, spread itself over the press of Europe. Nothing could be more untrue. We went to war to abate oppression of the Queen's subjects in the Transvaal and because our remonstrances were met by an insulting ultimatum, to which, if the Queen's government had submitted, her power, not only in South Africa, but over her colonies and dependencies, would have been at an end. We were forced into the war by the action of our opponents. Onite Ridiculous. "To say that because we repudiated the greed of territory we therefore bound ourselves never to annex any territory is a most ridiculous misconstruction. I dwell on this point because this matter of annexation is about to become a burning question. "We have made a tremendous sacrifice of blood and treasure in this conflict. There are misleading prophets, whose action bulks as large in the columns of the newspapers as the action of more influential and powerful people, who mislead the unlucky rulers of the Transvaal to continue resistance far beyond the time when all resistance has ceased to be even possibly successful. These men are perpetually pressing us to make some conditions, to offer some arranged stipulations that shall leave a shred of independence to the two republics. Our only certainty of preventing a recurrence of this fearful war is to insure that never again shall such vast accumulations of armament occur and that not a shred of the former independence of the republics shall remain. (Cheering.) War Not Yet Ended. "We are not yet at the end of the war, but I shall venture to lay it down as a primary condition of any future settlement that precautions will be taken of such a character that such a war will never occur again. Of course what measures will be necessary it is impossible at any moment to determine, because that depends largely upon the action and temper of those with whom we have to deal. "I have already intimated that their resistance has gone beyond the limit to which resistance could wisely go. It is not for us to criticise their actions in what they are pleased to call self-defense, but they have acted so that every bitterness created by the war and every severance of classes and races have been stimulated by every measure they have taken, and so they go on. "It will also be our duty to protect those native races who have been so sorely afflicted, and at the same time so to conduct their policy that so far as possible there shall be a reconciliation and that every one shall be a happy member of the British empire." PLAGUE IN CHINATOWN. Quarantine Enforced by a Force of 159 Policemen-Chinese Are Hemmed In. San Francisco, Cal., May 30.—Dr. Kellogg, who has been investigating the corpse of a Chinaman found in a Chinese undertaking establishment, expressed an opinion late last night that the Chinaman had died of the plague. "I am satisfied it is plague," he said, "and I am confident that animal inoculation and the autopsy will confirm it. One not conversant with the situation in Chinatown cannot appreciate the difficulties that confront the inspectors, but they may be imagined from the fact that we have only discovered the cases after the victim is dead." The quarantine of Chinatown is being rigorously enforced, 159 policemen being detailed to maintain a cordon around the district. Ropes are stretched across the streets and the Chinese are closely hemmed in, even the secret exits through some blocks being closed against them. The Asiatics took the quarantine stoically. They had warning of what was coming and many left the district before the arrival of the police. The proportion of those who fled was small, however, and there are thousands behind the lines. All whites in Chinatown were allowed to pass out, but persons outside the lines are not permitted to enter. The policemen have stopped freight of all kinds from coming out, but have let the Chinese understand that supplies for themselves might pass in. The Chinese watch for newspapers with eagerness. Cable cars are permitted to pass through the quarantined district only on condition that the passengers go inside the cars before entering the lines, and no person be allowed to get on or off the cars in Chinatown. Another condition is the fumigating of cars at both ends of the line. Health Officer O'Brien states that a careful house to house inspection will be begun in Chinatown today and that the inspectors will, after receiving the sanction of the board of health, force their way into the houses if necessary. FIVE MILLIONS FOR EDUCATION Munificent Donation to Washington University at St. Louis. St. Louis, Mo., May 30.—Samuel S. Cupples and Robert S. Brookings have transferred stock valued at $5,000,000 to the Washington university of St. Louis, which will make it one of the best-endowed educational institutions in the world. It already has an endowment of $2,000,000 and $2,000,000 more is in prospect now that something big has been done in this line. —Fifteen feet of ore that runs from $20 to $100 in gold per ton has been opened up in the Uncle Sam mine, in the Cripple Creek district. TROUBLE IMMINENT. Russian Minister at Shanghai Calls for Warships -- American Cruiser at Taku. Shanghai, May 29.—The Russian minister at Pekin has telegraphed asking that all the available gunboats be sent to Taku. Tientsin, May 29.—A detachment of 200 Chinese soldiers has cleared the railway between here and Pekin, and the ordinary service was resumed at noon. No news has been received from the Belgian engineers engaged in the construction of the Luhan line. Thirty Japanese have arrived from the gunboat Atagokan. The French flagship D'Entrescasteaux and the gunboat Surprise have left Taku. Tien Tsin, May 29.—A hundred American marines from the United States cruiser New York are expected here at 11 c'clock tonight. An armed reserve party of Frenchmen and Germans started to try to relieve the besieged Belgians. The viceroy, under the pressure of the French consul, has permitted the rescuers to travel by railroad to Feng Tai, where Chinese protection ends. The Belgians are besieged at Chang Tsin Tein, near Teng Tai. NOT BY POPULAR VOTE. Washington, D. C., May 29. The Senate committee on privileges and elections today, through its chairman, Senator Chandler, made an adverse report upon the House joint resolution providing for the election of United States senators by direct vote of the people. WELLAND CANAL PLOT. Canadian Secret Service Implicates Maud Gonne with the Affair. Montreal, May 29.—The Dominion government secret service has discovered that Carl Dullman, John Nolan and John Walsh, convicted of trying to destroy the Welland canal, came to Canada for the express purpose of wreaking vengeance on the colony for having sent troops to South Africa: that they threw up positions in Dublin to do so; and that at least two of them were provided with funds by the Clan-Na-Gael, which obtained the money through Maud Gonne, "The Irish Joan of Arc," who has made several visits to the United States in the interest of the "physical force" section of the Irish extremists. The agents do not say that Maud Gonne knew the Welland canal was to be blown up. ST. LOUIS SHOOTINGS. Street Railway Employes Continue the Use of Dangerous Weapons. St. Louis, Mo., May 29. Shortly after 10 o'clock the motorman and conductor on a Sixth street car fired into a crowd which was jeering them. William Brenneman was shot in the knee and will probably lose his leg in consequence. Dolly Mitchell, a little girl, was hit in the wrist by one of the bullets, while standing in her yard near the scene of the shooting. The motorman and conductor were arrested. Another disturbance occurred on South Broadway at 1 o'clock and three persons were reported badly hurt. Shots were fired from a moving car into a crowd on South Broadway, wounding Herman Tesihke, George Lacasten and Albert Wackwitz. The first named is probably fatally injured. COL. STEVENS DEAD. First White Settler in Minneapolis Educated in Wisconsin. Minneapolis, Minn., May 29.—Col. John H. Stevens, the first white man to settle in the original city of Minneapolis, died yesterday afternoon at the age of 80 years. He was widely known in the state and the house he built in 1849 is still standing at Minnehaha park, where it was placed by the school children of the city. Col. Stevens served through the Mexican war. During the Indian troubles in Minnesota he served as brigadier-general of militia. He received his education in Wisconsin and Illinois. He was married at Rockford, Ill., in 1850, to Helen Miller. During his life he edited and owned several newspapers and has contributed valuable articles to the histories of Minnesota. COMMITTED FOR TRIAL. Sir Robert Peel Held at the Old Bailey Charged with Libel. London, May 29.—At the Marlborough street police court today Sir Robert Peel was committed for trial at the Old Bailey on the charge of libeling Daniel Von Der Heydt, one of the trustees of the Peel estates, and a brother-in-law of Sir Robert. The libel is contained in letters describing Von Der Heydt as a scoundrel, blackmailer and thief. The defendant urged that proceedings were now pending in chancery relative to alleged breaches of trust under the Peel settlements and that the present proceedings ought to be suspended ad interim. But the magistrate committed the baronet for trial, accepting his own recognizances for his appearance. MACHINERY ADMITTED. Turkish Authorities Yield to the Demands of the United States. Constantinople, May 29. After a delay of a month, Lloyd C. Griscom, United States charge d'affaires, has obtained permission for the importation of an important consignment of flour-milling machinery ordered in the United States by a merchant of Ismidt. It is probable the difficulty was due to the action of the native millers, who are fearful of the competition of a mill equipped on American principles. Safe-Robber Badly Injured Muskogee, I. T., May 29.—Lloyd Wilson, in trying to rob a store at Holdenville, blew open the safe with dynamite. The explosion mashed his right hand and injured the other and he will probably die. Wilson says he is an old railreader. A Novel Checker Board It is said the most valuable draught board in existence is that of the late Prince Bismarck, who was a great lover of the game. The squares of the board are made of silver and gold, to represent the usual light and dark-colored leather. The draughts are of silver and gold, having a diamond or a ruby in the center of each.—Baltimore American. One Useful Spider Silk of the great spider of Madagascar is strong, fine and elastic. It is used by the natives for fastening flowers to sunshades. The spiders which produce it are busy spinners, and a spider has been known to produce two miles of it in twenty-four hours. — Landscape gardening, in the eyes of Miss Beatrix Jones, has attractions super- or to those of society. She has adopted it seriously as a profession. Miss Jones is a daughter of Mrs. Cadwallader Jones, and belongs to the Four Hundred in New York. HONOR THE BRAVE. Surviving Comrades Cover Their Graves with Wreaths of Beautiful Flowers. Hagerstown, Md., May 30. On the battlefield of Antietam, where the bloodiest single day's fight of the entire Civil war took place, was unveiled today, in the presence of a mingled host of the survivors of both sides, the handsome monument erected by the state of Maryland and dedicated to the memory of her sons who fell, regardless of whether they wore the blue or the gray. Two special trains from Washington arrived at Keedysville shortly before 11 o'clock and from there carriages were taken to the battlefield. The party included President McKinley, Secretary Long, Secretary Root and other cabinet officers. Gen. Miles and several other prominent army officers were also of the party. The dedicatory ceremonies included short addresses, mainly of a reminiscent character, by Gens. John B. Brooke, James Longstreet, Orlando B. Wilcox, J. E. Duryee, Senators Foraker, Burrows, Daniel and others who were prominent on the opposing sides in the great struggle. These were followed in turn by George B. McClellan of New York and other members of the United States Senate and House of Representatives. This concluded, the band played "Hail to the Chief," and Gen. Douglass introduced President McKinley. The President, upon being introduced, said that he was not aware that he was expected to make a speech on the occasion, and therefore had prepared no setation, as he should otherwise have done. He spoke briefly of the spirit of patriotism which had inspired the erection of the monument to the soldiers of both sides of the late conflict. "The union of the North and South," he said, "could work nothing but good for the entire country." The monument, which is located on a central point of the ground swept over by the contesting forces, is a beautiful open-sided octagon. It is of granite, topped with bronze. At the base it is 22 feet in diameter and has a total height of 35 feet. The dome is supported by eight columns, representing the eight Maryland commands which were engaged in the battle. Surmounting the bronze dome is a female statue in bronze, symbolic of peace. On the faces of the monument are bronze bas-reliefs representing scenes in the conflict, and there are also eight bronze tablets bearing in raised letters the names and records in commemoration of the eight regiments. Confederate Reunion. Louisville, Ky., May 30.—The United Confederate veterans had undisputed possession of Louisville today, the occasion being the opening of the organization's tenth annual reunion. Public buildings, business houses and residences are elaborately decorated in honor of the 30,000 veterans and their visitors. The feature of the day was the annual reunion exercises held early this afternoon in the big hall at Sixth and Water streets. Veterans cheered to the echo speeches which cullogized confederacy, extolled "one nation" and cast glowing tributes upon the achievements of the men of the South. On all sides was the red and white of the confederacy twined about the red, white and blue of the nation. Loud cheers from the crowded house greeted the appearance on the stage of Gen. John B. Gordon, Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner, Gen. Wade Hampton, Gen. Stephen D. Lee and other surviving generals of the confederacy. Gen. Gordon delivered a splendid speech which thrilled the hearts of his auditors and sent the famous rebel yell echoing into the rafters. The oration of the day was delivered by Rev. B. M. Palmer of New Orleans. At Arlington Cemetery. Washington, D. C., May 30. The observance of Memorial day was general among all classes of the national capital today. Government offices were closed, public and private business was suspended, and the streets were filled with marching veterans, national guardsmen, military and civic organizations, all moving toward the various cemeteries where memorial exercises were to be held, and the graves of the veterans covered with flags and flowers. At Arlington cemetery the usual impressive exercises were held with appropriate addresses delivered by men of national prominence. Exercises were also held, under the auspices of the Grand Army of the Republic, at Battle Ground National cemetery, where rest the remains of forty comrades from the states of New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Maine, Rhode Island and Vermont, who fell in action on July 11 and 12, 1864, while defending the capital from capture by a portion of the Army of Northern Virginia, under Gen. Jubal Early. The Congressional cemetery was also the scene of notable exercises this afternoon. Here the principal oration was delivered by Congressman Washington Gardner of Michigan. Gettysburg, Pa., May 30.—School children and veterans of the Civil war united in the work of decorating the graves in the National cemetery here today. In the foreconon there was a large parade of veterans, which was followed by appropriate memorial exercises at the cemetery. Lafayette's Tomb Decorated. Paris, May 30.—Larger than ever before was the number of Americans who made the pilgrimage to the Cemetery Piepus today and in celebration of Memorial day paid a tribute of respect at the tomb of Lafayette. Ambassador Porter, Consul-General Gowdy and Commissioner Peck of the exposition were among those who took part in the ceremonies of decorating the tomb with flowers and the two flags of France and America. In observance of the day many American business houses, as well as the American national pavilion in the exposition grounds, were decorated with French and American flags. At Manila. Manila, May 30.—Memorial day was observed here as a general holiday. Military ceremonies were held at the various stations and salutes were fired from the forts at Santiago and Manila. A military escort proceeded to the Malate cemetery, where the graves of United States soldiers were decorated and an address was adopted by the chaplain. Memorial exercises were held also in the theater, at which a number of addresses were delivered, interspersed with vocal and instrumental music. The observance of the day was very successful. SHOBT IN HIS ACCOUNTS. J. R. Murphy of Laurium, Mich., Charged with Embezzlement. Calumet, Mich., May 30.—[Special.] Joseph R. Murphy, former secretary of the water board of Laurium village, is alleged to be short $2430 in his accounts, and a warrant has been issued for his arrest on the charge of embezzling the funds of the village. Murphy has not been seen since last Friday morning and is supposed to be in Chicago or Duluth. FINDS A LARGE PEARL. Genoa Fisherman is in Great Luck— Valued at $150. Genoa, Wis., May 30.—[Special.]—Bert Clements has found another large pearl in the Mississippi as a result of his clam-fishing operations in that river. He sold his first pearl for $150, and his last find has been appraised at about the same amount. WORK OF CONGRESS. SENATE. Thursday, May 24.—Devoted the day to debate on the nation's duty toward its new island possessions, Messrs. Spooner, Allen and Bacon leading in the discussion. Seut to the committee on contingent expenses Mr. Bacon's resolution directing the committee on relations with Cuba to make an investigation into the island's finances. Friday, May 25.—Discussion of the Spooner Philippine bill was continued by Mr. Morgan. On the general question of government of the islands by the United States he was in accord with Senators Spooner and Lodge, but he regarded the Spooner bill as unwise and dangerous legislation because of the great power it placed in the hands of the President. Mr. Allison then called up the sundry civil appropriation bill, which carries $65,812,930, or over $4,000,000 more than the bill as it passed the House. Sixty-five of the 157 pages of the bill were disposed of. Saturday, May 26.—Agreed to the resolution for an investigation by the committee on Cuban affairs of the Cuban postal and other irregularities, authorizing the committee to visit Cuba if necessary to pursue the inquiry. Some time was given to the sundry civil appropriation bill without completing it, and to District of Columbia business. One of the latter measures provides extensive depot and terminal improvements in Washington for the Baltimore & Potomac and Baltimore & Ohio railroads, and for the removal of the historic "long bridge," to a highway from the North to the South during the war of the rebellion. Passed the bill granting a pension of $50 a month to Mrs. Mary L. Stotsenberg, widow of the late Col. Stotsenberg of the First Nebraska Volunteers, who was killed in the Philippines. Monday, May 28.--Reading of the sundry civil appropriation bill completed, but not all of the committee amendments disposed of. A lively debate was precipitated over the proposition to continue the life of the industrial commission until October 31, 1901. Charges were made that the commission was being used as a Republican campaign machine and that important testimony had been suppressed. The committee amendment, however, was agreed to. Tuesday, May 29.—The Senate added to the sundry civil appropriation bill an amendment appropriating $5,000,000 for the Louisiana purchase exposition, to be held in St. Louis in 1903, on condition that $10,000,000 in addition be raised by the exposition authorities. The amendment was adopted without debate and without division. Because an amendment offered by him subsequently was stricken out on a point of order, Mr. Gallinger (N. H.) moved to reconsider the St. Louis fair amendment, and that motion now is pending. Mr. Bacon (Ga.) addressed the Senate at length on the Teller resolution expressing sympathy for the Boers, after which the resolution was referred to the committee on foreign relations by a vote of 40 to 26. Mr. Fairbanks (Ind.) endeavored to secure consideration of the bill providing for the extradition of criminals from the United States to Cuba, but Mr. Allison declined to lay aside the appropriation bill for that purpose. Senate adjourned until Thursday. HOUSE. Thursday, May 22.—Devoted eight hours to consideration of the Alaska civil government bill. Three amendments of importance were adopted. One authorizes the secretary of war to issue permits to excavate or dredge for gold below low water mark on the beach at Cape Nome. The secretary has heretofore issued permits, but the bill as it passed the Senate canceled them. Another provides for a territorial delegate to Congress. The House also struck out the chapter relating to arrest and bail which permitted arrests in certain civil actions. The conference report on the Indian appropriation bill was adopted. Friday, May 25.—Devoted two hours to consideration of the Alaskan civil government bill without completing it. The session from noon until adjournment was devoted to private pension bills. Mr. Talberd (S. C.) continued his obstructive tactics. After 150 bills had been favorably acted upon in committee of the whole he blocked their passage in the House with the point of no quorum. Among the bills favorably acted upon were the Senate measures to pension the widow of Capt. Gridley, who commanded the Olympia in the battle of Manila, at $50 a month, the widow of Commodore R. W. Meade at $40 a month and the widow of Gen. M. F. Force of Ohio at $50 a month. Saturday, May 26. — Practically completed the consideration of the Alaska civil government bill. A few paragraphs, passed over during the reading of the bill, will be considered Monday. Mr. Cooper (Wis.), chairman of the committee on insular affairs, presented a favorable report on the Hay resolution calling upon the postmaster general for certain information regarding the reports of E. G. Rathbone, director of the posts in Cuba, and the resolution was adopted without division. Another resolution from the same committee, introduced by Mr. Jones (Va.), cailing upon the secretary of war to report in detail the payments made and to whom from the revenue of Cuba and Porto Rico, was also adopted. Monday, May 28.—Alaskan civil government bill was passed and some odds and ends of legislation were cleaned up. Mr. Dalzell gave notice that the anti-trust resolution and bill reported by the judicial committee would be considered Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of this week under a special order. Tuesday, May 29.—The House, by a vote of 107 to 124, refused to accept the Senate amendment to the naval appropriation bill relating to armor plate, and adopted a modified proposition authorizing the secretary of the navy to secure armor by contract, and if he cannot purchase it at what he deems a reasonable price, he is instructed to purchase a site and erect a factory for the manufacture of armor plate, appropriating the sum of $4,000,000 for this purpose. With regard to ocean and take surveys, the House refused any appropriation for surveys by the navy, and tied up the conferees with instructions. It also refused to concur in the Senate amendment to abolish the two years' sea cruise for naval cadets. With the above action the naval bill was sent back to conference, the conference report on the other items having been agreed to. The conference report on the postoffice appropriation bill, agreeing on all items except the Senate amendment appropriating $225,000 for pneumatic tube service, was adopted, and the House then concurred in the excepted amendment. The opponents of the extended service in the House reconciled their concurrence in this action upon the ground that the $225,000 simply carried out the existing contract. The bill now goes to the President. The House adjourned to Wednesday. Wednesday, May 30.--The programme of the leaders contemplated the launching of the debate upon the anti-trust resolution and bill, but there was a strong undercurrent in favor of adjournment on account of Decoration day. Mr. Dalzell, who presented the special order under which the House was to operate, in deference to this sentiment withdrew it in order that the 190 pension bills might be passed, and after they had been disposed of, as a further mark of respect the House adjourned. The Chinese commission bill, which was under consideration several weeks ago, has gone back to the calendar, the motion to strike out the enacting clause having been defeated. Postal Service in Corea. For a couple of years past Corea has maintained a domestic postal service in good working order, under the supervision of a French postal expert, M. Clemencet, using stamps printed in the United States. On or about January 3 last the first mail ever sent out to foreign countries by the Corean post was dispatched from the central office in Seoul. The stamps used were the ones still in use in the domestic postal service and printed in the United States. A new issue has been ordered from Japan. —Consul-General H. N. Allen. Our Unused Resources. The amount of arid lands which lie in Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas and Colorado is estimated to be at least five hundred millions of acres. This is rendered useless by the need of water, and the reclamation of this land would add billions of dollars to the wealth of the country. In many sections of Colorado and other states in which irrigation is used, the best farming lands in the country are those which were formerly worthless and are now artificially watered.—New York Journal. Milwaukee, May 29, 1900. EGG AND DAIRY MARKET. MILWAUKEE—Eggs—Market firm at 11c fer new, cases included; 10%c for new, cases returned; 10%c for old, cases included; dirties and seconds, 7@8c. The receipts were 362 cases. Butter—Market steady. The receipts were 20.850 lbs today against 12.550 yesterday. The market here is not as firm as outside markets would warrant, Elgin going 19½¢ and firm yesterday. There is a good demand here for dairy butter and high-class grades are wanted here. Creameries are not so firm, only a fair demand existing. Extras were offered on the board today at 18½¢, but no bids. Prints sold for 19½¢. The local board voted to make the market on extras 19¢. Fancy prints, 20¢; fancy or extra creamery, per lb, 19¢; firsts, 17¢; seconds, 16¢; extra dairy, 15¢; lines, 13¤14¢; packing stock, 10@11¢; roll butter, 12@13¢; whey butter, 10¢; imitation creamery, 15@16¢; grease, 4@6¢. Fancy dairy prints, 17¢. Cheese—Quilt. The receipts today were 780 lbs against 8540 yesterday. Full cream flats, October, per lb, 11½¤12¢; full cream flats, new, 9@9¢; New York, full cream, 12@12¢; Young Americans, October, 12@12¢; brisk, fancy October make, 10@10¢; new brick, 8½¤9¢; limburger, fancy October, 10@10¢; new limburger, per lb, 8@8½¢; imported Swiss, 24¢; Block Swiss, domestic, 12@12¢; No. 1 imitation ioaf, 12@12¢; Sapsago, 19@20¢; farmers', 9@10¢. Brick, new, sold on the board today at 8¢. Bids of 8½¢ were made on American Twins. NEW YORK—Butter — Receipts, 19,332 pkgs; steady; Western cream, 16%@ 20½c; factory, 14@16c. Cheese—Receipts, 6075 pkgs; weak; fancy large white, 9½c; do small, 8½@8½c; fancy large colored, 9½c; do small, 8½@8½c. Eggs—Receipts, 2001 pkgs; barely steady; state and Pennsylvania, 14@14½c; Western, loss off, 13½c@14c; Western, at mark, 11@13c. Sugar—Raw, firm; fair refining, 4c; centrifugal, 96 test, 4½c; molasses sugar, 3 13-16c; refined, steady; crushed, 5.70c; powdered, 5.40c; granulated, 5.30c. Coffee—Steady; No. 7 Rio, 71 3-16c. FOND DU LAC—Sales of 88 cheddars at 7½@7½c; 580 twins at 7½c; 150 daisies at 8½c; market active. CHICAGO — Butter — Steady; creameries, 15@19½c; dairyes, 13½@17c. Eggs—Steady; fresh, 17½c. Dressed poultry—Steady; turkeys, 6@6½c; chickens, 8@9c. MILWAUKEE LIVESTOCK MARKET. HOGS—Receipts, 49 cars; market weak; light, 4.95@5.10; mixed and medium weights, 5.05@5.20; common to choice heavy, 5.05@5.20; coarse weight stags, 4.25@4.50. light, 4.95@5.10; mixed and medium weights, 5.05@5.20; common to choice heavy, 5.05@5.20; coarse heavy stags, 4.25@4.50. CATTLE-Receipts, 12 cars; steady; butcher steers, medium to good, 1050 to 1300 lbs, 4.75@5.25; fair to medium, 950 to 1050, 4.50 @4.75; heifers, good to choice, 3.75@4.25; cows, fair to good, 2.80@3.50; canners, 2.25 @2.75; bulls, common, 2.75@3.25; choice, 3.50 @4.00; feeders, 800 to 950 lbs, 4.00@4.50; stockers, 500 to 750 lbs, 3.85@4.25; veal calves, 5.50@6.75; milkers and springers, common, 20.00@28.00; choice heavy cows, 38.00@45.00. SHEEP—Receipts, 1 car; market steady; shorn, 4.00@4.75; bucks, 2.50@3.25; lambs, shorn, common to choice, 4.50@5.25. Chicago receipts: Hogs, 23,000; cattle, 2500; sheep, 5000 CHICAGO POTATO MARKET Prices were 1@2c higher, with a good local demand early. A number of cars were sold at the advance. Trains were late in getting in and arrivals may be increased by later runs. There were sales of 2 cars choice Burbanks at 42c, 1 car at 41c, 1 car white stock at 41c, 2 at 40c. Burbanks, good to choice, 40@41c; do common to fair, 37@39c; Rurals, round white, 39@41c; Hebrons, common to choice, 35@38c; Peerless, poor to choice, 35@38c; Kings, common to choice, 35@38c; mixed, red and white, 31@38c; do white, 36@40c. MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH. MILWAUKEE—Flour—Steady. Wheat—Steady; No. 2 spring, on track, 68c; No. 1 Northern, on track, 67½c. Corn—Steady; No. 3 on track, 37½c. Oats—Easy; No. 2 white, on track, 25c; No. 3 white, on track, 24½c. Barley—Steady; No. 2 on track, 43c; sample on track, 37¼c. Rye—Steady; No. 1 on track, 56½c. Provisions—Steady; pork, 11.20; lard, 6.77. Flour is steady at 3.60@3.70 for patents; bakers', 2.60@2.70, and 2.85@3.00 for rye. Millstuffs are firm and quoted at 13.25 for bran, 13.25 for standard middlings, and 14.25 for Milwaukee flour middlings. CHICAGO—Close—Wheat—May, 66c; July, 67@67½c. Corn—May, 37c; July, 37¼@37½c. Oats—May, 21½c. June, 21½c. July, 21½c. Pork—May, 11.17½c. July, 11.27½c. September, 11.27½c. Lard—May, 6.80; July, 6.82½c. September, 6.82½c. Ribs—May, 6.50; July, 6.52½c. September, 6.50@6.52½c. Flax—Cash Northwest, 1.80; Southwest, 1.80; May, 1.80; September, 1.28@1.28½c. Rye—May, 54½c; July, 53@53½c. Barley—36@42c. Timothy—2.40. Clover—7.50 MINNEAPOLIN—Close—Wheat—In store, No. 1 Northern, May, 65¢; July, 65¢; September, 65¼¢@65¢¢; on track, No. 1 hard, 67¢¢; No. 1 Northern, 65¢¢; No. 2 Northern, 64¢¢. DULUTH — Close — Wheat — Cash No. 1 hard, 69¢¢; No. 1 Northern, 67¢¢; No. 2 Northern, 65¢¢; No. 3, 62¢¢; No. 1 hard to arrive, 65¢¢; No. 1 Northern do, 67¢¢; July, 67¢¢; September, 67¢¢. NEW YORK-Close-Wheat-May, 71%c; July, 72%c; September, 73%c; Corn-May, 41%c; July, 42%c; September, 42%c. LIVERPOOL-Wheat-Steady, 5%d higher; July, 58%d; September, 58d; Corn-Quiet, 4%d higher; July, 39%d; September, 39%d. SOUTH OMAHA-Cattle-Receipts, 4500; steady to 5@10c lower; native steers, 4.40@ 5.25; cows and heifers, 3.60@4.60; stockers and feeders, 3.75@4.25. Hogs-Receipts, 15.200; 5c lower; heavy, 4.90@5.00; mixed, 4.90; light, 4.80@4.90; pigs, 4.50@4.90; bulk of sales, 4.90. Sheep-Receipts, 3200; steady to strong; muttons, 4.60@5.20; lambs, 5.25@6.90. ST. LOUIS-Cattle-Receipts, 4500; market steady to lower; native steers, 3.50@ 5.65; stockers and feeders, 3.20@4.80; cows and heifers, 2.00@4.95; Texas and Indian steers, 3.65@5.00. Hogs-Receipts, 8000; shade lower; pigs and lights, 5.05@5.15. packers, 5.00@5.20; butchers, 5.15@5.25. Sheep-Receipts, 3500; shade lower; mut- tons, 4.50@5.00; larabs, 5.50@7.00. PE-RU-NA FOR WOMEN The debilitating drains and discharges which weaken so many women are caused by Catarrh of the distinctly feminine organs. The sufferer may call her trouble Leuchorrhoea, or Weakness, or Female Disease or some other name, but the real trouble is catarrh of the female organs and nothing else. Pe-ru-na radically and permanently cures this and all other forms of Catarrh. It is a positive specific for female troubles caused by catarrh of the delicate lining of the organs peculiar to women. It always cures if used persistently. It is prompt and certain. MEASURE HAS BADLY DISCONCERTED THE DEMOCRATS. In Attempting to Make Party Capital Out of the Shipping Bill They Show Themselves to Be About Evenly Divided For and Against It. The Democratic leaders in Congress have been making elaborate preparations to make the shipping bill a campaign issue. They have attempted to terrorize the Republicans into the abandonment of the bill at the present session at least. It is not known how much the foreign shipping lobby is willing to contribute to the Democratic campaign fund if the bill's consideration is deferred until the short session. Postponement, say the foreign shipping lobby, means the bill's defeat. A $200,000,000 a year business is the stake. If Democratic threats of filibustering are effective enough to induce Republicans to postpone the consideration of the shipping bill, the foreign shipping lobby, their free trade allies and Democratic dupes will each have carried their point. Democratic success up to this time is the more amazing, as their own disorganization on this question is disclosed. It would be imagined that they would be united in opposition to the bill, if intending to make a campaign issue of it. Just the reverse is the case. They are about evenly divided for and against it. This is shown by the two minority reports that have been filed by the Democratic members of the House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee. The first report filed was signed by Messrs. William Astor Chanler, of New York; John H. Small, of North Carolina, and Joseph E. Ransdell, of Louisiana. Their report advocates government aid and opposes free ships. Their suggested amendments to the bill are not of a character to seriously minimize its effectiveness. The other four Democratic members of the House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee who signed the other report are Messrs. John F. Fitzgerald, of Massachusetts; Marion DeVries, of California; Thomas Speight, of Mississippi, and Wm. D. Daly, of New Jersey. Their support opposes subsidies and in effect advocates free ships. Their report, said to have been written by an attorney of the foreign steamship lines, is largely an attack upon the only American steamship line engaged in the transatlantic trade. The odium attaching to the Democrats who are fighting the battle of the foreign shipping lobby in Congress, and who advocate the purchase of ships built abroad, instead of their construction in the United States, presents them in a very sorry figure. They will be infinitely more busy in defending their own attitude on this question than they can be in assailing that of the Republicans and a large contingent of their own party associates. The Democratic leaders had made desperate efforts to prevent a public disclosure of their differences, but the courage of nearly one-half of the minority made further concealment of their condition impossible. The Democratic members of the committee who advocate government aid by independently filing their report in advance of the submission of the other minority report, forced the signers of the latter to lamely limp last into the public eye. Their hopeless division shows how utterly impossible it will be for them to make a successful campaign issue of the shipping question. If Democrats attack a government-aided shipping, Democrats who have the best of the argument may be quoted in answer. Republican ammunition with which to refute Democratic attacks of this character need not be used—it is furnished by the more honest and courageous of the Democrats themselves. This is a situation which seems almost providential for the united Republicans. They seem to be assured of the votes of a large contingent—possibly one-half—of the Democrats in the House in favor of the ship subsidy bill, if it is brought up for passage now. Such an opportunity has not been presented in a generation, and may never again occur so favorable. The same situation exists in the Senate. The Democrats there are unable to prepare, much less present, a minority report in opposition to the ship subsidy bill. It is well and publicly known that a number of Democrats will speak and vote for the bill. What the Democratic leaders desire to avoid, at all hazards, is the effect it will have upon their party followers that will surely result from the discussion in the Senate of the ship subsidy bill at this session, to disclose a substantial contingent of their own party associates in advocacy and voting for that bill. If Republicans can be coerced, intimidated or cajoled into postponing the consideration of the ship subsidy bill at the present session, the Democrats may be able to conceal their own weakness in divided opposition to the ship subsidy bill in the Senate. A little incident has clearly demonstrated this, and shown the desperation of the Democratic leaders. The Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, in his rage at the filing of the Chanler-Small-Ransdell report, sent for these gentlemen and began to angrily upbraid them as traitors to their party, so the report goes, and he told them that by their ill-timed exhibition of independence and honesty they had sacrificed a splendid issue upon which the Democrats could have attacked the Republicans in the coming campaign. The Democratic Chairman, so it is said, was rendered almost speechless when he was very emphatically told by Messrs. Chanler, Small and Ransdell that he had no authority to denounce their action: that the Demo- cratic party had not declared itself on this subject in its last national platform; and that in any event they were decidedly opposed to the dragging of the shipping question into partisan politics. They told him that the shipping question was a business proposition—a commercial question, and of great and pressing national importance; that they so considered it, and that they were quite ready to defend their position at any time. In these very favorable circumstances, for the Republicans to defer action on the ship subsidy bill until the Democratic National Convention can be whipped into adopting an expression in its next national platform, opposing Government aid for the upbuilding of American shipping, will make it infinitely more difficult than ever for courageous and patriotic Democrats to support the measure. It means to gravely imperil, if not actually defeat, its final passage. The prestige of Democratic success in compelling the Republicans to defer action at this session on the ship subsidy bill—since postponement will be regarded the country over as a Democratic, free trade, foreign shipping victory—will make it all the easier for them to defeat action at the next session, and all the harder for Republicans to secure favorable action. The opportunity of a generation is within the grasp of the Republican leaders in Congress if they have the courage to grasp it by passing the shipping bill before adjournment at this session. PORTO RICANS PLEASED. British Consul There About the Only Must Ride Wine Trucks Man Who Wants Free Trade. A private letter received from an American in Porto Rica indicates that talk of the hardships predicted to fall upon the Porto Ricans following the enactment of the tariff and civil government laws for the island is moonshine. In his letter he says: "The people here, irrespective of caste or condition, hail the passage of the Foraker bbl with the greatest delight, and are now beginning to prepare for a revival of business and good times. There seems to have been a very grave misrepresentation of facts made in the United States concerning the wants of the natives and business men of this island in so far as it relates to the tariff. It is a mistaken idea that free trade is wanted here. On the contrary the merchants (99 out of every hundred) want a small tariff in preference, and in fact did not at any time object to the 25 per cent. first talked of. They are bright enough to prefer a small indirect tax to a heavy direct form of taxation, to raise the revenues necessary to conduct the government of the island. About the only ones desiring the benefit of free trade are a few foreigners like Mr. Finley, the British consul at San Juan, who have bought up all the sugar and tobacco in sight at a low figure, and have been holding the same in anticipation of a free entry to the States, thereby enabling them to realize more largely on their investment. Pearl Button Industry. Pearl button-making was first made possible in the United States by the McKinley tariff of 1892. Of course the industry was nearly destroyed by the free-trade Wilson bill of 1894. After further protection was given the industry by the Dingley tariff of 1897, the eighth biennial report of the Bureau of Labor Statistics for the State of Iowa says: "A remarkable development of the business was witnessed in 1898, no less than thirty-six factories being established during the first six months of that year." Seven towns in Illinois and six in Iowa are centers of button-making. It supports an important fishery, and as the report says: "Besides the people thus directly connected with the business, many others in more than a score of towns are benefited, including merchants, machinists, boatmen, draymen and transportation companies." Democratic free trade will kill the pearl button business, throw lots of people out of employment and injure local trade and transportation. The Republicans have captured the Bryan kopjes in Nebraska, the boy orator's own State, and are lining up in great shape for the big tussle next fall. They were successful in many municipal contests, and carried Lincoln. Bryan's home city, by the largest majority in years. Is Nebraska becoming also "the enemy's country?"—Troy (N. Y.) Times. Fewer Trade Failures. Only 706 trade failures last month, with liabilities of $7,214,787. Compare that with the April failures in the two Democratic years of 1895 and 1896. Thus: April. Number. Liabilities. 1895.....1,086 $13,665,756 1896.....1,050 14,920,714 1900.....706 7,214,787 Where Is that Slump? We would humbly inquire of the Minneapolis Journal and some other ghost dancing contemporaries where they find the great anti-Republican slump that was to punish the perpetrators of the Porto Ricc bill? The election returns show heavy Republican gains almost everywhere. Sioux Falls (S. D) Leader. Demand for Cornmeal. The foreign demand for cornmeal is becoming quite a factor, thanks to the efforts of the Department of Agriculture, under this administration. Not Convincible This year the Democratic orator will be charged with the difficult task of trying to convince the man with the full stomach that he is hungry. COTTON MILL MEN. FIVE HUNDRED OF THEM MEET IN THE SOUTH. President J. H. McAden Saves Every Industry Is Prospering and that All Are Together for Prosperity-Believes in the "Open Door." One of the largest assemblages of cotton mill representatives ever held in the United States convened recently at Charlotte, N. C., the occasion being the fourth annual session of the Southern Cotton. Spinners' Association. Five hundred mill men were in attendance, and it is estimated that the total capital represented aggregated $500,000,000. President J. H. McAden called the convention to order. After congratulating the members of the association upon the large attendance at the convention. President McAden said: "A long period of depression is at an end, every industry is prospering; every man who can work and will work, can find employment at good wages. Money is easy, the finances of the country are on a sound and safe basis, confidence is restored, a bright future awaits us, and we may confidently look for a period of industrial development unequaled in the history of this country. It gives us great pleasure to give you a cordial welcome at all our meetings. There will be no division of territory, no Mason and Dixon's line, with the manufacturers. We are all together in one common interest and one common cause. "We are endeavoring to convert the raw material into manufactured products and to find a good market in foreign countries. Our export trade alone with the empire of China, without any organized efforts on our part, will exceed $25,000,000. We should favor and urge a permanent and vigorous policy on the part of our general government in favor of the 'open door' policy with China, and we should hold and govern the Philippine Islands, which are destined to become the distributing center of the Eastern world, and make our country the center of Eastern civilization. "The great hope of the South is in its manufactures. We ask for no class legislation. With extended commercial relations with foreign countries, new territory opened before us, we can plant our products wherever our flag floats, and successfully compete with the world. " We should give strong expressions in favor of appropriations by the State governments for building and maintaining textile schools. "There are many things we could do for our operatives—make tenement houses comfortable, adopt improved sanitary and ventilation regulations, build churches and schools, and provide libraries. We should do all in our power to erect a high standard of morals, and elevate and dignify labor." Our Trade Expansion. A series of special articles recently appearing in the London Times, addressed to the British manufacturers, calls attention to the increasing exports of American products, especially to Great Britain and her colonies. The Times considers the matter one of grave importance, and it is not in England only that our increasing export trade causes comment. Continental papers have treated the matter with interest and alarm. A recent shipment of manufactured goods to Australia, the largest ever sent to that part of the world from the United States, indicated the kind of articles that constitute these increased exports. The cargo consisted of sewing machines, musical instruments, vehicles, typewriters, trolley appliances and shoes. Another large shipment recently made was seventeen carloads of cotton goods from an Alabama mill to China. Europe evidently doesn't like our expansion. Western Wool Values. Oregon wool prices are interesting, as the following values, at which the same staple grades were sold in that State, show: Year. High. Low. Average. Cents. Cents. Cents. 1894. 9 6 8 1895. $11\frac{1}{2}$ $7\frac{1}{2}$ 101-6 1896. $10\frac{1}{2}$ 6 8 1897. 12 8 $10\frac{1}{2}$ 1898. 14 9 13 1899. $15\frac{1}{4}$ $9\frac{1}{2}$ $13\frac{1}{2}$ During the last three years, on a clip of 15,000,000 pounds, there has been an average gain of half a million dollars to the farmers of Oregon every year. The Democratic Millstone. The adoption by the Democrats of Nebraska of a Populist platform, at the dictation of Bryan, shows that the free silver agent is still willing to take up with "any old thing" for the sake of catching a few votes, but his fool performance has ripped the Democratic party up the back, and they are wondering how they can get rid of the millstone that hangs about their necks. Next November will see the end of Bryan.—Norwich (Ohio) Reflector. In 1895, one of the years of Democratic disaster, the exports of American cotton goods were worth only $13,789,-810. In 1899 they amounted to $23,-506,914. Under the policy of protection there was an increase of nearly $10,000,000 in the foreign demand for American goods, and fully $8,000,000 of this amount was paid by foreigners to American wage-earners. Internal Revenue Cost. Internal revenue collections, in 1895 and 1896, cost 2.62 per cent. of the money collected. In 1899 only 1.50 per cent. of these revenues was chargeable to collection expenses. A Republican administration is always careful of the people's money. Lena Hoffman of Onalaska Poisoned by a Reptile. She Has Been Unconscious Most of the Time and Has Suffered Terrible Agony. Onalaska, Wis., May 20.—[Special.]—Dr. J. W. Lester of this city reports a most peculiar case of poisoning. Lena Hoffman, daughter of a farmer residing a short distance from town, while out after the cows, stepped on and was bitten by a snake, one of the striped water snakes common hereabouts. This was some days ago and she has ever since suffered great agony, notwithstanding the fact that she has been given every possible medical attention. She is unconscious most of the time, and each afternoon at 5 o'clock, the hour she was bitten, she experiences great pain and the sensation is just that she felt when she was bitten. Blood poisoning has set in and it is feared she will die. STRIKE AT MARINETTE. Marinette, Wis., May 29.—[Special.]— There was a strike in the lumber yards of the Pezley-Lowe company this morning. Thirty lumber-pilers, all union men, refused to continue work because three non-union men were employed in the yards. It is hard to tell when the strike will be settled. The union men demand the discharge of the non-union workmen. The lumber pilers in the Sawyer-Goodman yards went out this morning. They quit because the company refused to discharge three nonunion men. About forty men went out. There is a fear here that these small lockouts are only the beginning of a strike that may involve the thousands of other workmen employed in the mills of Marinette and Menominee. All the labor here is unionized. DUEL FALLS THROUGH. "White Buffalo" and Tom Thunder Decide to Go Into the Show Business. Chicago, Ill.. May 29.—"White Buffalo," the Irish-Indian chief, has returned to Chicago, accompanied by twenty-two Winnebago Indians, who will be exhibited. The match with Tom Thunder for the chieftainship of the Winnebago tribe fell through after both contestants were on the field, by the grave of the old chief, Black Hawk. A crowd of several hundred Indians and whites were much disappointed. "White Buffalo," whose other name is Tom Roddy, said Thunder was ready to fight and the tomahawks and war clubs were all ready, but the government Indian agent interposed as mediator. Tom Thunder will now come to Chicago to join the Roddy aggregation, and the rival chiefs expect to make a hit as sparring partners with tomahawks. BURGLARS AT MONICO. Two Saloons and a Store Are Entered and Small Change Stolen. Monico, Wis., May 29.—[Special.]—The saloons of E. L. Graef and H. Dressen and the store of M. Kelly were burglarized early this morning. Entrance was gained by raising the windows in the backs of the building. Money to the amount of $5 was taken from Graef's place and $25 from Dressen. The burglar's took a slot machine from Dressen's into the back yard and broke it open. Shoes and clothing was taken from Kelly's. OLD SETTLER PASSES AWAY. Death of Mrs. Maria Gertrade Klein in Kaukauna. Kaukauna, Wis., May 29.—[Special.] —Mrs. Maria Gertrude Klein, one of the very oldest settlers in this vicinity, died yesterday at the home of her son, Joseph Klein, at the age of 88 years. Her husband, Michael Klein, died twelve years ago. Mr. and Mrs. Klein took up a homestead in Buchanan in 1844, where they lived until a few years ago. Six sons and two daughters survive, most of whom reside here and at Appleton. Other Deaths in the State. Beloit, Wis., May 29.—James Madagan, 82 years. years. Mrs. William T. Hall, an early resident of Rock county, is dead. Janesville, Wis., May 29—Patrick Sweeney, formerly of this city, died in Chicago. Mrs. J. M. Roach of the town of Harmony, died, aged 36 years. Appleton, Wis., May 29.—Frank Baumann, of the town of Center, aged 61 years. Mayville, Wis., May 29.—Mrs. Clemens Fleischmann, aged 69 years. CLAIMS HE WAS ROBBED. Explanation of a Collector—Arrested Charged with Embezzlement. Galesville, Wis., May 29.—[Special.]—William Patterson, a resident of Trempealeau, was today arrested upon the charge of embezzlement preferred by W. M. Allen, in whose employ Patterson had been as a collector. After having collected a considerable sum for Mr. Allen, Patterson failed to make returns and after being pressed for payment he claimed that he had been robbed of the amount. The story is that a burglar entered his room in the night and rifled his pockets. It is said that Patterson did not inform his family, or Mr. Allen, of his loss until hard pressed for payment several days after. Patterson will have his preliminary hearing before Justice Coleman June 2. ON A PLEASURE TRIP. Mr. and Mrs. John Stevens of Neenah Tour Lake Superior. Kaukauna, Wis., May 29.—[Special.] —John Stevens' steam yacht Cambria, with Mr. and Mrs. Stevens of Neenah on board, passed here yesterday. They are on their way for an extended pleasure excursion on Lake Superior. At Mackinac they will be joined by their daughter, Mrs. Herbert Alward of Chicago and Mrs. J. K. Ilsley of Milwaukee. HEAVY RAINS IN THE NORTH. A Great Benefit to the Farmers—For est Fire Fxtingnished. Marinette, Wis., May 29.—[Special.]—A heavy rain last night and today has drenched the entire northern country. It is a great benefit to the farmers and will extinguish completely the forest fires which have continued to burn in different places for several weeks past. The drives will also be greatly benefited. It is the first heavy rain of the present spring. FRESH ATROCITIES. Three Christian Families Massacred by Boxers Sixty Miles from Pekin. Pekin, May 29 (Tuesday).—From all parts of the surrounding country, news is constantly arriving of fresh atrocities committed by the "Boxers." Three Christian families were massacred at Shan Lai Ying, sixty miles from Pekin, Friday, May 25. Only two escaped. A representative of the Associated press visited Fang Tai this morning and found the place occupied by a battalion of troops. The railroad station, workshops and locomotive sheds were gutted and much rolling stock was destroyed, including the imperial palace car. Large godowns (Chinese warehouses) full of valuable merchandise were burned after having been looted by the rioters. The damage done is estimated at half a million taels. The neighboring villagers seem to have joined in the attack, showing that the movement is not confined to the "Boxers." Eight rioters who were captured will be decapitated. Riding through the south gate of Pekin the correspondent found the road inside the walls lined with troops, who greeted the traveler and his party with a fusillade of stones. The whole country is much excited. Shanghai, May 30.—The British warships Orlando and Algerine are landing 100 men at Taku, where the French, Russian and Japanese guards have already disembarked. The "Boxers" are apparently without arms except those they have obtained from the soldiers, many of whom are openly joining the rebels. Tien Tsin, May 30.—American, British, Japanese, German, Italian, Russian and French troops to the number of 100 each have been ordered to guard their respective legations at Pekin, but the viceroy here will not allow them to proceed hence to Pekin on the railway without the authority of Tsung-Li-Yamen. One hundred and eight Americans with a machine gun and a field gun landed here last night amidst great enthusiasm on the part of the residents. Five Russian and one British warship have arrived at Taku and the British are now landing. Other warships are hourly expected. Three thousand Chinese troops from Lu Tai are expected here today en route to Fang Tai. There is a disposition here to believe that the "Boxers" will disperse before the foreign troops are ready to act. Tien Tsin is in no danger. As Viewed in Washington. Washington, D. C., May 30.—American interests have so far not been directly attacked during the present uprising by the "Boxers," and state department officials direct attention to the fact that up to this time the massacres have been confined to the native Christians. Not a single American citizen has been killed so far as it is known. If the situation were to continue on this basis it might be difficult to find ground for such arbitrary action as the landing of United States marines in the Chinese capital, but Mr. Conger's reports so clearly indicated the apprehension that the development of the "Boxers" uprising would involve the jeopardy of American life and property that the state department could no longer neglect his warning, hence the dispatch of marines to Pekin. LIEUT. EVANS KILLED. Rebels Attack Caterman and Lose 150 -Several Other En- Manila, May 30.—Maj. Henry T. Allen of the Forty-third infantry, while scouting from Catbalogon, Island of Samar, May 9, drove a party of insurgents from the valleys. Four Americans were killed, including Lieut. W. H. Evans (John H. Evans), who was slain while gallantly leading a charge against the entrenchments. Eleven of the enemy were killed and four were wounded. The town of Caterman, Island of Samar, was attacked at midnight, April 30, by a thousand rebels who entrenched themselves near the town over night. Capt. John Colle of the Forty-third regiment fought the Filipinos for six hours and afterward buried 150 of the enemy. One American was killed and one was wounded. The hamlet of Pawin, in the province of Laguna, Island of Luzon, the headquarters of Gen. Cailles, was surrounded May 26 by three detachments of the Forty-second regiment, Thirty-seventh regiment and Eleventh cavalry. Only a few of the enemy were encountered, Cailles having departed the day before. Pawin, which was manifestly a rebel stronghold, was burned to the ground. Capt. Nordon's scouts and two companies of the Eighteenth regiment while scouting May 12 in Western Panay, surprised a number of the enemy near Valderama and killed thirty-five of them. There were no casualties among the Americans, but some of them suffered from sunstroke. The official reports announce scouting and small engagements in Panay and Ceba islands, the Tayabas, Laguna, Zambales, Benguet and Pangazin provinces, resulting in 14 of the enemy being killed and many wounded. Lieut. Jens E. Stedje of Co. L. Forty-seventh volunteers, commanding a scouting party, in the southern part of Albay province, had several engagements with the insurgents, in which seventeen of the enemy were killed, and twenty-three, including a captain, were captured. Six explosive bombs and a number of valuable insurgent documents also fell into the hands of the Americans. The scouts burned the town of Yubi, the headquarters of the rebels. Sergt. Brickley was killed during a slight engagement near Higao, province of Albay, yesterday. Scouts of the Thirty-sixth and Thirty-fourth regiments have captured thirty-two rifles and 500 rounds of ammunition in the Pangasinin province. BIG BANKS MAY UNITE Overtures Looking to Consolidation of Two Chicago Institutions Chicago, Ill., May 30.—There is high authority for the assertion that a plan is under consideration for a merging of the First and Union National banks. Influential stockholders of both institutions have been approached to test their feeling in the matter. It is generally conceded among bankers that the modern tendency to centralize business and industry has brought about such conditions as to make combinations of banking capital inevitable. The ambition of the First National to be one of the mammoth banks of the country is well known. Its deposits April 26 amounted to $45,886,179 and the deposits of the Union that day were $14,740,144. Combined they would make $60,262,323 and would put the First National fifth in the list of American banks. BECAUSE OF ILL HEALTH. Gen. de Gallifet Resighs French War Portfolio—Gen. Andre Appointed. Paris, May 30.—Gen. de Gallifet, the minister of war, has resigned. His successor is Gen. Andre. In his letter to M. Waldeck-Rousseau the premier, asking him to place the resignation in the hands of the President of the republic, Gen. de Gallifet says: "I am very sick and my health prevents me resisting all emotions of the moment." The Flambeau Mill Owned by Milwaukee Men is Totally Wiped Out. Park Falls, Wis., May 28.—[Special.] —The Flambeau Paper company's mill and warehouse were destroyed by fire Saturday evening. The loss is estimated at $300,000. The village had a close call from destruction and had it not been for assistance sent from Medford the fire could not have been confined to the mill. A hand-engine and two hosecarts were sent here from Medford and Phillips. Property of Milwaukee Men. The mill is the property of the Sherry family and F. T. Russell of Neenah, but the First National bank of Milwaukee holds a large part of the bonds of the company. Robert Camp of Milwaukee is secretary and general manager of the company, in recognition of the bonded interest of the Milwaukeeans. The village of Park Falls developed after Henry Sherry of Neenah started his sawmills at that point on the Flambeau river some years ago, and a little later a mill was erected at the dam for the manufacture of paper pulp from spruce wood. The paper mill is valued at between $200,00 and $300,000, together with the paper which was in stock. The plant manufactures chiefly print and manila papers, but can be run on book paper also. It consumes about 4000 cords of wood annually, and its product is about twenty-five tons of finish print paper a day. The pulp mill has a capacity of twelve tons a day. It employed 125 men. The mill will be rebuilt at once. Has a Narrow Escape. Soon after the fire broke out it looked as if the entire village would be swept from the map. The protection against fire here is very limited at best, and aid was asked from Phillips, Medford and other places. The Medford department responded to the call and a special train with an engine, hose reels and a force of fire fighters was sent. The work of saving the town was the duty of the visiting firemen and it was accomplished. By the time they arrived the paper mill was in ruins. The property destroyed includes the machine room, pulphouse and a large storage building and one residence, the engine and boiler room being of brick were saved. The paper machines, which are very valuable, are badly warped and twisted into all conceivable shapes. The fire started in the engine room. It caught from an explosion of a lantern. It spread very rapidly and within forty-five minutes the entire plant was enveloped in flames. The mill will be rebuilt this summer. LITTLE CHILD DIES OF BROKEN HEART. Elsie Whitsan of Menasha Grieves for Her Mother's Loss Until Death Comes. Neenah, Wis., May 28.—[Special.]—Elsie Whitsan, the 4-year-old child of Henry Whitsan, died this morning of grief. Her mother died on Friday and from then until her death the child cried without stopping. Physicians say that death was caused by a broken heart. SCHOONER CUT IN TWO. Pere Marquette Runs Down the Silver Lake in a Fog Off Manitowoc. Manitowoc, Wis., May 28.—[Special.] —The scow schooner Silver Lake was cut in two by the carferry Pere Marquette in the fog at 3 o'clock this morning about fifteen miles east of this port. Henry Eastman, one of the crew of the schooner, was knocked out of the boat and drowned. His body has not yet been recovered. The Silver Lake hails from Racine and was owned by Nels Johnson. It was on its way from Eagle Harbor, Door county, Wis., to Racine, with a cargo of maple wood. When about fifteen miles off this place at 3 o'clock this morning it was run into by the Pere Marquette, which had a speed on of about two miles an hour. The Marquette was running from Ludington, Mich., to Manitowoc. There was a heavy fog on at the time and the crew of the ill-fated schooner were not aware that the Marquette was upon them until the ferry was within a few feet and it was too late to avoid the collision. The ferry struck the schooner directly in the middle, cutting it in two. The schooner immediately sunk, carrying with it Henry Eastman. The other members of the crew and the captain had barely time to make their escape. Capt. Samuel Martin of Racine was in charge of the schooner. He says that the fog horn had been sounded for an hour before the accident. About 10 minutes of 3 o'clock the whistle of the carferry was heard. The fog horn was then sounded with greater frequence. A few moments later the ferry loomed up and crashed into the schooner. The captain and two sailors succeeded in getting into the yawl before the Silver Lake went down and were rescued by the Pere Marquette. The lost vessel was bound for Racine with a cargo of wood and ran into a dense fog half an hour before the collision occurred. The Pere Marquette struck the scow amidship, cutting her in two. It is said that the steamer was running at nearly full speed. Henry Eastman, who was drowned, was 46 years old, unmarried, and a resident of Racine. His only relative is a sister who lives in Norway. Newman was the steward. Severin Anderson, one of the sailors, jumped on the anchor of the Marquette and saved himself by climbing over the side of the ferry. The vessel was eleven years old and was valued at about $1500. It had a net tonnage of 105. The cargo was valued at $500. Nothing was saved and there is no insurance. ANOTHER INCENDIARY FIRE. Large Barn in Heart of La Crosse is Destroved. La Crosse, Wis., May 28.—[Special.]— This city was visited by another incendiary fire early Sunday morning. A barn, which has been unoccupied for some time, in the rear of a long row of business blocks in the heart of the business section of the city, was burned to the ground. A man was seen skulking about that neighborhood about midnight, and the fire is charged up to him. Automobile Burns on the Street. Racine, Wis., May 28.—An automobile of Hi Henry's Minstrel company caught fire on Main street, and the body of the machine was burned. The fire department was called out to put the fire out. The accident was due to a leak in a pipe and the gasoline catching fire. Richard B. Montgomery Editor and Proprietor Office 200 Fifth Street. Telephone Black No. 244. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. postage paid One Year $2.00 Six Months 1.27 Three Months .73 Send money by Express Money Order, P. O. Money Order or Registered Letter to the Wisconsin Weekly Advocate. ADVERTISING RATES. One inch single insertion..... 25c One inch, per year..... $0.00 Business locals 5c per line each insertion. 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The turmoil at Atlanta over the appointment of colored census enumerators proves that the negro cannot be made to count in the South, despite the Constitution and its relevant amendment. The discovery by the compilers of the new Oxford Dictionary that nonintercommunicability is the longest word in the English language puts valetudinarianism into a secondary place, as Jeffries did Fitzsimmons. Lexicography has its triumphs, not less entertaining than those of pugilism. Windmills are largely being used in France as a source of mechanical power, used to generate electricity. The wind as hitherto bloweth when and where it listeth, but now whenever it blows where there is a windmill with a dynamo geared to it, it may be made to charge accumulators whether it listeth or not, and the accumulators will give up their stored energy when the wind is taking a rest. One of the greatest salt plains in the West is being opened up by the Santa Fe railroad in Oklahoma. This salt deposit is located in Woods county and has never been developed on account of not having the proper railroad facilities. The bed is ten miles east and west across its center and fifteen miles from north to south. The salt deposit is from one to four inches deep. The salt plain is 1320 feet above sea level. Government tests show the salt to be 98 per cent. pure. An English health officer recently traced cases of typhoid fever, diphtheria and similar ailments to water cresses raised near London on a farm irrigated by a stream which, upon analysis, showed the presence of liquid sewage, and thus calls attention to the danger of eating water cress, lettuce and similar "salads" which may be contaminated by irrigation. No matter how cleanly these green foods may seem, they should be thoroughly washed, piece by piece, in plenty of water, the best way being to hold each piece under the cold water faucet with the water turned on to its full pressure. British statesmen and military experts are deeply interested in the commercial and military consequences likely to follow the construction of Emperor William's 1000-mile railroad through the long-neglected battle-ground of the human race, the Euphrates valley. It has prompted Russia to great railway activity in Persia and Armenia and the southern shores of the Black sea. Great Britain's leading statesmen now regret they withdrew their active influence from Turkey years ago, for now Emperor William's railroad to Bagdad promises to create a colonizing factor in the Far East that is full of momentous possibilities to German influence and German policies. The only Victoria Cross ever won in Canada was won during the Fenian raid, under the following circumstances related by the Canadian Military Gazette: On June 9, 1866, Private T. O'Hea of the First battalion of the Rifle brigade was one of an escort under Sergt. Hill in charge of a railway van containing 2000 rounds of ammunition, en route from Quebec to Kingston, for the use of the militia on the frontier. On reaching Danville the van was found to be on fire, and was hastily pushed down the line away from the station, the inhabitants of the neighboring houses flying in terror. O'Hea ran down to the van, burst open the door, tore away the covering from the ammunition and extinguished the fire. Kansas City will pay dearly for the honor of entertaining the national Democratic convention July 4. This is due to certain complications which have arisen since the convention was secured. The original subscription to the national committee, which was given by the city to secure the gathering, was $50,000; it was estimated at the time that the expenses of the committee in addition would be about $25,000. It was expected that $100,000 would fully cover all the expenses. It is evident now, however, that the city will have to stand an expense of at least $250,000 to have things in readiness in July, and this sum only includes direct outlay. There is no way of estimating how much the people of the city individually will be out owing to the labor complications which have arisen through the rebuilding of Convention hall. Work upon the new Bremen cotton exchange is progressing rapidly, according to a report to the state department from Consul Diederich at Bremen. This building is to be the first one in Germany constructed entirely upon the American plan, and for the first time, says Consul Diederich, the people of Bremen will see an iron framework rise from the foundation up to the roof, and the construction of the walls, floors and ceilings afterward. Bremen stands next to Liverpool as the leading cotton market on the continent, and the exchange has grown rapidly from a small beginning, last year arbitrating upon 1,431,000 bales of cotton. When it is borne in mind, says the consul, that by far the greater part of the cotton brought into Bremen and bought and sold at the exchange comes from the United States, the completion of the new building will be watched with special interest by Americans. Today the South produces on an average 10,000,000 to 11,000,000 bales of cotton, representing, including the cottonseed, a valuation of from $350,000,000 to $400,000,000, says the Baltimore News. This enormous crop is produced on 5 per cent. of the total area of the cotton region. Of the entire cotton-growing territory of the South, only 20 per cent. is now in improved land. It is possible, with new land added to the cotton-growing area and with more scientific cultivation to increase our cotton production to 100,000,000 bales. It will be many years before we can conceive of the production of such a crop, but there is every probability that within the next twenty years the world will be demanding of the South at least 20,000,000 to 25,000,000 bales, and that the South will produce it with as much ease as it is today producing its 10,000,000 bales. Consul-General Guenther, at Frankfort, reports to the state department that railway and steamship companies in Germany are experimenting with the use of oil for fuel, and the merits of oil-fired locomotives and steamers are being thoroughly investigated. Benzine and gasoline are also used to furnish motive power for many different purposes. A benzine-worked locomotive has been running in the Kattowitz coal district for over a year, and has performed its work most satisfactorily. About twenty-two pounds of benzine are consumed daily, and this, with the remaining daily expenses, brings the daily cost of a benzine locomotive to $1.80. The locomotive has a hauling capacity of about 120 metric tons, making the cost of hauling per ton $1/2 cents, as against 2 5-6 cents with horses. The experiments in oil, benzine and gasoline as motive powers have so far, according to the consul, been encouraging to a degree, and it is claimed that liquid fuel will soon to a great extent supplant the use of coal for manufacturing purposes in Europe. Adjt.-Gen. Corbin has come in possession of a quaint and interesting specimen of the ordnance that was relied upon by the Spanish in part for the defense of Manila. It is a bronze howitzer mortar, curiously banded and wrought into a shape which, artistically attractive, is at the same time mechanically weak. The mortar is cast in one piece with a bronze slab forming its base, and the range of the projectile was changed either by graduating the charge of powder or by tilting the base plate. The bore of the ancient weapon is about eight inches, and from the marks of heavy scouring inside it seems probable that the old piece was used to fire spikes, stones and almost every kind of missile, as well as bombshells. The piece was cast early in the Seventeenth century. When the Spanish government evacuated Manila it sold a lot of the ordnance from the fortifications which was not up to modern standards, and so this piece was purchased by a friend, who sent it to Gen. Corbin. Many similar pieces were bought by an English firm in Hong Kong and melted down for the sake of the metal. SCIENCE AND ART. Medals get tired as well as human beings. Telegraph wires are better conductors on Monday than on Saturday on account of their Sunday rest, and a rest of three weeks adds 10 per cent. to the conductivity of a wire. There has been patented by a New York man a folding ladder comprising a tube cut in two sections lengthwise, with a row of pivot pins in each half to support the rungs, which are loosely mounted to allow the two parts of the tube to be shut up and contain the rungs in the interior. An improved spade for breaking up earth into fine particles has a steel frame shaped like a shovel blade, with the interior portion cut away and strung with wires, which are headed in the lower edge of the blade and have screw-threaded ends which are tightened by nuts to stiffen the spade. Water can be drawn from a well and carried to the house by a new apparatus having a carriage riding on a cable and carrying a windlass, which is revolved by a gear wheel, the latter being operated by the movement of the cable, which in turn is driven by a crank to move the carriage and windlass in either direction. At the Lotus club, New York, is an interesting exhibition of decorative panels in burnt wood. There are bowls and pipes from the Zulus, flutes and vessels from Java, teapots and caddies from Japan, together with efforts by the North American Indians, who have heated wires and drawn them across different articles with a rude idea of decoration. The Converted Lady. I was talking to a lady whom I was sitting by at a dinner party recently, and deploring the loss of so many useful British lives in South Africa. She took this coolly, for she said that Great Britain is over-populated, and that it can well afford a little blood-letting. I pointed out, however, to her that there are about a million more women in Great Britain than men, and that, consequently, the difficulty in finding a husband would be even greater after the war than it already is. The lady is unmarried herself, and this view of the South African butcher's bill so struck her that by the time we arrived at the entrees, she had her doubts as to the policy of the war; at the sweets, she was convinced that it was an immoral war; and I left her a peace-at-any-price girl.—London Truth. American Rails in Japan. An exporter calls attention to the rapid growth of our business with Japan in rails and machinery during the past four years as an indication of what may be accomplished in that quarter in the future under proper encouragement. Four years ago American rails were unknown in Japan, but at the present they more than double in quantity the rails which come from England, which up to 1896 constituted the chief source of supply. New York Commercial. Large Percentage of Graduates from Fisk University Have Become Useful Members of Society. "A negro has the same gray matter in his brain that the Caucasian has, and he is entitled to the same education," says Rev. Dr. J. G. Merrill, dean of Fisk university. In a speech at Washington two weeks ago Charles Dudley Warner took the ground that higher education is doing the negro more harm than good, and declared that increasing idleness and lawlessness among the negroes is due to false ideas of education. He also intimated that industrial training with a knowledge of the elementary branches and moral instruction are the only methods by which the masses of the negro race can be expected to improve in character and usefulness. Mr. Warner's remarks have stirred up Southern educators in schools for colored people to vigorous protest. Dr. Merrill is the head of what is perhaps the most important advanced school for negroes in the South—Fisk university, at Nashville, Tenn. He has had a long experience in teaching negro people, and he dissents from all of Charles Dudley Warner's propositions, with one exception. He heartily indorses industrial education, but he holds that a negro has just as much need as a white man to go beyond the indiments of learning. "I think that Mr. Warner was talking without knowledge of his subject," said Dr. Merrill to a reporter for the Sunday Inter-Ocean. "There is nothing so convincing as figures, and I can give statistics from Fisk university which completely upset Mr. Warner's theory. Facts are a good deal better than theories, especially when you deal with the human equation. Good Results at Fisk University. Good Results at Fisk University. "Fisk university has had 400 graduates, and out of that 400 I can locate today all but thirty-two. Most of the unclassified thirty-two are not living. The list of 400 negro graduates, with their present occupations, is as follows: College professors ..... 8 Principals of high and normal schools ..... 12 Principals of grammar schools ..... 34 Teachers ..... 165 Ministers ..... 19 Doctors ..... 17 Lawyers ..... 9 In United States government employ ..... 9 In commercial pursuits ..... 13 Students in professional schools ..... 16 Wives at home ..... 44 Living at home ..... 13 Unclassified ..... 9 Business and homes not registered by university ..... 32 "Now I challenge any Northern institution," said Dr. Merrill, "to show me a more creditable list than that. They are all pursuing work in accord with the course of instruction which they have received." Dr. Merrill declares that it ill accords with the scientific spirit of the age that the negro should be denied the opportunity to cultivate his intellect, especially in view of the above record of the use which he makes of his education. He deprecates the formation of a caste in education. To doom a race because of its color to perpetual intellectual inferiority savors little of true Americanism. It seems far better fitted to Oriental civilization than to our progressive American life. "Caste in education means caste in occupations and in life," says Dr. Merrill, "and the caste system is not in harmony with American institutions and ideas. I am sure that if once the attention of the North is called to the fact that caste education is imminent, those who fought to emancipate the negro and believe in the Declaration of Independence will vehemently protest against it. The negroes of the future must have teachers, lawyers, doctors and ministers, and certainly it is too late in the civilization of the world to hold that men who are to be leaders of society in these professions can be fitted by means of elemental and industrial training. Every year the Caucasian who is to enter any of these professions finds that the course of study which he must pursue is longer and more strenuous than in the past. Certainly a race with the heredity of fifty years of education needs an equipment no less inferior than the race which has had 500 years of education in its past. Safety Lies in Education. "That the people of our country believe in affording for professional life the best equipment is abundantly evident in the fact that in 1899 $50,000,000 was given to endow Northern higher educational institutions. Certainly fair play, which is an attribute of American life, would make exceeding fitting the equipment of educational institutions which are sending out into the dense mass of ignorance among the black people of the South young men and women of culture. Unless these people are led intelligently the direct future awaits our free institutions." Dr. Merrill has been attending the meeting of the General Missionary association of Illinois, which met in Oak Park this week. WAUKESHA NEWS. If you want a balsam unequaled in its results, nature's blood purifier and a beverage that will preserve health—in fact the best in the world—drink Almanaris. Address Almanaris Co., A. C. Powers, Manager, 275 Kinzie St., Chicago, Ill. Go to the London dining hall and lunch room for something good to eat. J. M. Kendall, proprietor, corner Main and Clinton, Chicago. Keep clean. D. T. Coates has Waukesha baths of all kinds at 512 Main street. Madam Coates, lady attendant. Mr. Charles O. Merica, superintendent of Industrial School for Boys at Waukesha, is a very pleasant gentleman to meet. He was telling us how nicely one of our colored boys was getting on in his school and we expect to find a place for him at once. We dropped in to see our old friend, Postmaster Arthur James, who is always glad and ready to receive us. The above is never too busy to help us in our work when we come to his city. We look upon him some day to be candidate for governor and then we will be with him first, last and always. Waukesha is a beautiful summer resort. The people are cleaning up and getting ready for a very pleasant summer. The season opens in June. Mrs. Carrie Blackstone. The newly-discovered copper lodes in the Red Rock country, Nevada, are turning out better than the fondest expectations of their owners. Recent assays showed their ore to carry 36 per cent. copper, besides good values in gold and silver. CREAM CITY NOTES. One taste of evil in Eden made bitter the religious taste of the whole race. * * * One step from the highway of righteousness may be sufficient to hurl us over the precipice of ruin. * * * The plate oftenest refused—the collection plate. * * * Don't be somebody else's fool; it is enough to be your own.—J. M. Steadman in Southern Advocate. * * * Mrs. Stephen Robertson of 716 Wells street entertained us very pleasantly Tues ay afternoon during our short call. She has a lovely home and can nicely accommodate these seeking rooms. * * * The Student says that the annual commencement exercises of Tuskegee begin Sunday, May 27, at which time the annual commencement sermon is to be preached by Rev. H. H. Procter of Atlanta, and continue until Thursday, May 31, at which time the graduation exercises are to be held. Dr. i. B. Scott of New Orleans is to deliver the commencement address. The meeting of the Alumni association is to be held Friday, June 1. * * * We hope soon to have another eminent doctor added to our list of colored M. Ds in the person of Mr. G. W. Lay of Meharry Medical college, Nashville, Tenn. He can be found at the Plankinton house. He is well pleased with the Wisconsin Weekly Advocate. We extend him a hearty welcome to our city. 单 单 单 What the world needs most is good mothers. Mothers control the fate of nations. In a company of 120 ministers, who were testifying for Christ, 100 referred to their mothers as the means of their conversion.—Dr. Price. * * * Miss Edna Jackson of 3123 State street, Chicago, will be in our city on a visit in a few days, in company with Miss Janette Patterson. 您 您 您 There are quite a number of strangers in our city claiming to be looking for work, all the while praying not to find any. Rev. D. R. Wilkins of the Conservator is the right man in the right place. This distinguished gentleman is one of the smartest negro journalists in our country. The circulation of the paper has wonderfully increased and we wish him success in his work. * * * Col. Faulkner, real estate broker, is a hustler and is hustling up to date in his business. He is kept busy day and night with his charming little secretary, Miss Seymour from Kentucky. She is a beautiful brunette and adds much improvement to the business. They rented thirty-six houses in one day and sold seven corner lots. For their laundry wagon they have a fine 3-minute horse. They are up to date in their business. ```markdown ``` In speaking of Mrs. Stephen Roberts I find that much interest is shown in the line of church work. The ladies want to get up a club the object of which is to look after the welfare of the church and aid it in every way possible. Long may this desire live, thrive and prosper. * * * The lady who so distinctly draws the color line, a member of the Ladies' club which will meet in our city next week, who pretends to be a Christian; the name should be changed from Buckwalter to Goatwalter because she will be numbered with the goats, unless she changes, because there will be no color line drawn in the kind of heaven. *** We have a solicitor for our paper in the person of Mrs. Carrie Blackstone, whom we feel assured will do all in her power to increase our number of subscriptions by proving to the people the value of our paper. She is a lady of talent and determination. 凉 凉 Another one of Chicago's first families, Mr. and Mrs. Conrad, who reside at 2824 La Salle street, Chicago, formerly of Jacksonville, Ill., have a beautiful home surrounded with all the luxuries of life. Mr. Conrad is a very nice gentleman to approach and his wife is a pleasant and entertaining lady. 恋 亲 事 George Washington Scott was found dead in bed by his wife early on the morning of May 31, after a long illness. Scott was a pioneer of Milwaukee and was by all odds the best-known colored man in the city. He drove an express wagon for years and stood on the corner of Broadway and Wisconsin streets. He became famous during the Centennial by accompanying Gov. Ludington and has since been prominent as a lecturer and politician. He leaves a widow to mourn his loss. He will be buried from St. Mark's church, where he had long been a member. We noticed the following from Milwaukee in the ranks at the Kenosha celebration: E. B. Wolcott post, G. A. R., with their famous drum corps; Veterans' post, No. 8, Soldiers' home; the Letter Carriers' association; Hensler's Juvenile band, and many distinguished citizens, including Maj. C. H. Anson, ex-Chief of Police Florian G. Ries, Supervisor Bell, Hon. J. J. Miles, Hon. W. H. Starkweather, Col. Henry Fink, Postmaster Stillman and many others. PROGRESS OF THE NEGROES. The negroes have made wonderful advancement since their emancipation, some thirty-five years ago. Then they were slaves, now they are free, and many of them are cultured men and women. Illiteracy has been reduced 45 per cent. There are 1,500,000 negro children in the public schools, 40,000 students in the higher schools, 30,000 negro teachers and 156 institutions for the higher education of negroes. The negro physicians number 500, authors 300, lawyers 200, and there are there banks conducted by negroes, and 400 newspapers and three magazines under negro management. The value of negro libraries is estimated at $500,000, their school property at $12,000,000, church property $27,000,000, farms $400,000,000, homes $235,000,000, and they have $165,000,000 in personal property. The negroes have raised $10,000,000 for their own education. Not a bad showing for thirty-five years.—Penny Magazine. Cermany's Increasing Trade. Germany's commerce with the world in all commodities except the precious metals amounted to $2,186,744,000 in 1899; in 1898 it was $2,103,444,000, and in 1897, $1,979,208,000. Imports in the last three years were: In 1899, $1,236,886,000; in 1898, $1,209,278,000, and in 1897, $1,114,078,000. Exports in 1899 were $949,858,000; in 1898, $894,166,000, and in 1897, $865,130,000.—Vice-Consul J. F. Monaghan. Over Two Hundred Years Old. In the trial of the suit of Oxford university against a New York publishing house for infringement of copyright, the plaintiffs introduced as evidence the first Oxford Bible ever published. It was issued from the university press in 1675, and is valued by the university at $2500. Baltimore American. A WORD TO MOTHERS. The way some of the mothers bring up their little ones is wrong: They learn them everything that is wrong and forget to teach them what is right. When they get grown they try to correct them, but it is too late, for they are beyond control. A colored man was passing down the street the other afternoon and as he passed by one of our aristocratic residences the lady of the house was seated in the portico and her little boy by her side. When the man got in front of them the little boy cried out: "Oh, mamma, there is one of those niggers." The mother said: "You must be ashamed. You must not say that." She turned to the gentleman and said: "Please excuse him; he don't know any better." But the boy said: "You told me all black people were niggers." The man told her: "You should have taught him better years ago," and passed on. The colored man's haters will never be dead. Do you know the reason why? The young ones grow up before the old ones die. Wright Kellerbrue. LET US HEAR What Each One Would Like to Do When Grown Up Women and Men. When I am grown up I would like to be a nice school teacher and have a nice class of girls and boys, but I would not be mean like some of the teachers are now. I would be kind to my pupils, and if they were very nice I would give them each a nice present at the end of the term, and I would have a missionary class, so they could give pennies for the poor, because the poor need a good education as well as the rich, and I asked other boys and girls to write and tell what they want to be when grown up. Conscience Pleads for the Church. What am I doing? Our good pastor is devoting his time, strength and energy preaching, explaining, suggesting, entreating and pleading for my help—only asking me to improve the opportunities to do good that are within my reach, and I just shake my head and murmur, "There are plenty to work and help the church along without me." But all the time conscience is gnawing and continually annoying me with the answer, "Whatever thy hands find to do, do with all your might." But I can't find anything to do, and then, if I did, I haven't the time to spare. There you have struck the keynote. Whose time is this that we are using? Who gives us health and strength, active mind, memory and hope? Along the history of man, what nation (however powerful and mighty) was ever known to neglect or disobey the first commandment (our duty to God), to thrive and prosper long? Here we have the advantage of a nice church (a privilege denied so many), and we don't even go and fill up the seats. There's one thing. We may lend an attentive ear to the words that caused our kind speaker so much study and anxious thought. We can blend our voices to those dear old familiar hymns. It has been well said that music is the life of the church. We can give the widow's mite, th' it all belongs to God. Dear young people, let us be up and a-doing, the time is not long. Our brothers are now in the field, and why stand we idle? We are called to the front to fall in and fill up the ranks. The old soldiers have fought long and well, and will we not hold up the banner which was purchased at the sacrifice of many brave soldiers? Rouse up, young people, we are called to the front. The warfare is raging, it is fearful and strong; gird on your armor and we will march to the front. The old soldiers are falling fast and we must fight or the enemy will capture us and turn our churches into dens of vice. A Fortune for a Pink. Our Vienna correspondent writes: It had long been thought in Austria that among the aristocratic ladies here the Princess Pauline Metternich, widow of the former Paris ambassador under the second empire, bore the palm in the accomplishment of charitable works in Vienna. This honor, however, the princess disclaimment not long ago in conversation with some of her friends. She said: "The most charitable lady in Austria is the Baroness Reinelt of Trieste, whose husband lately died, leaving behind him a fortune of 20,000,000 florins to the state for benevolent purposes. Three years ago," continued the princess, "when I was president of the committee for the music exhibition, we made the disagreeable discovery on winding it up that we had a large deficit. I got up a flower corso and a flower show, where ladies sold flowers. Among the visitors was Baroness Reinelt, to whom I offered a pink. 'How much may I pay for this flower?' she asked. 'There are no limits set to your generosity, baroness,' I answered. 'Well, then,' she said, 'I will pay enough for it to cover the arrears of the music exhibition.' The amount required for this purpose," added the princess, was 95,000 florins, or £8000." Possibly no future pink will ever again realize such an amount. The Middle Daughter. In large families, I think a little special favor should be shown to the middle daughter, who often has to have her new things made out of her sister's old ones; the daughter for whom frocks are turned, and hats trimmed, while the next older sisters walk out resplendent in the new purchases. A pretty ribbon, a dainty pair of gloves, a fresh parasol, something to make up for what she must go without. should be the portion of this girl, on whom fall many of the family burdens, while her seniors are going through college, and her juniors are the petted occupants of the nursery. Mary E. Sangster in Good Housekeeping To Search for the South Pole For a considerable time there was much talk of fitting out an expedition for a more thorough exploration of the Antarctic regions, but recently it has been thought that nothing practical was being done. Now, however, it has transpired that it is likely to be one of the probabilities of the early future. At a lecture in Edinburgh on the 22d ult., Sir John Murray of Challenger fame was able to make this important announcement to the members of the Royal Scottish Geographical society. The expedition will be equipped at a cost of between £30,000 and £40,000.—Scottish American. Frogs in Every State. Of the forty species of frogs known the largest is the gigantic bellower of the Louisiana swamps, which grows to four pounds' weight and is one of the most choice for table use. Next come the Potomac and the Illinois and New York frogs—all large and of superior flavor. There is not a state in the Union in which fine eating frogs cannot be found in abundance.—Chicago Inter Ocean. —Sturgeon have arrived in the Delaware river and promise to be very numerous. on the choice juicy mea's served by us is just what our athletic bicycle riding, tennis playing and golfing twentieth century men and women need. P days have gone with the spin ning wheel. Good bone, muscle and tissue is what is needed now. You can get them by patronizing the Chicago Market. Our meats are fresh, tempting and choice, and are sold at prices that will let you feast in comfort. GENEVA LAKE, WIS. ST. MARK'S A. M. E. CHURCH Corner Fourth and Cedar Sts. REV. N. KNIGHT, PASTOR. Local Preacher, Gilbert Hamilton. Residence, 256 Seventh Street, MILWAUKEE, WIS. SERVICES SUNDAY 10:45 and 7:45 SUNDAY SCHOOL 3 P. M. CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR 7 P. M. ALL ARE WELCOME. Before Starting on Your Travels CALL ON Geo. Burroughs & Sons MANUFACTURERS OF PREMIUM TRUNKS VALISES, SAMPLE CASES, Etc. 424 & 426 East Water St., Milwaukee. Pabst MaltExtract The Best Tonic Builds up both the body and nerves; brings refresh- ing sleep, insures a healthy appetite, aids digestion and feeds blood, brain and bone It cannot fail to benefit in every case where more strength is re- quired Once tried, you will never take a substitute. AT YOUR DRUGGIST RAPIDLY DEVELOPING NORTHERN WISCONSIN. The settler and manufacturer who have located in the northern portion of the Badger State are developing and improving that immense tract of rich country very rapidly. Tillers of the soil are coming in and new factories are going up. There is reason for this. The quality and quantity of iron ore, clay, kaolin, marl and timber lands tell the secret. Nature yields its riches to those who toil. Opportunities are still plentiful, for much of the rich undeveloped land is awaiting the settler and manufacturer. It can be obtained on easy terms and at low figures. The Wisconsin Central Ry. The pioneer road of the northern section of Wisconsin, affords cheap and excellent transportation facilities, thus opening the markets of the entire country to the products of that section. Those interested can obtain free illustrated pamphlets and maps upon application to W. H. KILLEN. Land and Industrial Commissioner. Burton Johnson, G. F. A. Jas. C. Pond, Gen. Pass. Agent. Colby & Abbot Building, Milwaukee, Wis. Marquette Houghton AND Calumet VIA THE NORTH-WESTERN LINE CANWRY Through Sleepers TO THE COPPER COUNTRY Leave Milwaukee 12.35 a.m. Daily, and 5.15 a.m. Daily Except Sunday. Same Excellent Service South Bound. TICKET OFFICES, Chicago & North-Western Ry. 102 Wisconsin Street and Depot on Lake Front. RED JACKET CALUMET LAKE LINDEN HANCOCK HOUGHTON L'ANSE NESTORIA ISHPEMING MARQUETTE NEGAUNEE WEST GLADSTONE ESCANABA MENOMINEE MARINETTE OCONTO GREEN BAY APPLETON NEENAH-MENASHA OSHKOSH FOND DU LAO MILWAUKEE RACINE KENOSHA CHICAGO --- TRIBUTE TO HEROES. (Continued from First Page.) From the inmost shrine of this land of thine To the outermost verge of it? "A monument for the soldiers— Built of a people's love, And blazoned and decked and panoplied With the hearts ye build it of. And see that you build it stately In pillar and niche and gate, And high in pose as the soul of those It would commemorate." Your most generous friend and fellow townsman ardently desired to go to the front when the war broke out, but considerations of business in which the vital interests of many others were concerned, interposed an insuperable barrier. And yet he always felt a keen disappointment, that stern necessity had prevented the enrollment of his name among the country's actual defenders. But, in his case we all have gladly taken "the will for the deed"—and in the beautiful and enduring form of this graceful memorial snaft has that will found a renewed patriotic expression of the profound regard he has ever cherished and the marked practical appreciation he has ever felt for the heroes of the republic. Men First and Always. This imposing granite monument has been erected, as described in the beautiful and felicitous language on its base: "In honor of the brave men of Kenosha county who victoriously defended the union on land and sea during the war of the great Rebellion of 1861-1865." Not soldiers professionally trained, but men who became soldiers for the time of strenuous need did this county and our country send forth. When the war was over, the survivors of the gallant union host resumed their places in society as men. Men first and always they were. The function of the soldier was but a temporary one in their experience. Glorious beyond power of utterance were the deeds they wrought amid the fire and tempest of battle. But they fought for harmony, unity and peace. The peace which was to make the nation one could come only by power. Loos upon the radiant figure which crowns this upspringing column. It is not the representative of the god of war crying. "To arms; to arms." It is that of the Angel of Peace breathing benediction and love. And yet without the men girded with overcoming strength, the Angel of Peace would not have descended from the skies. Of the citizen soldiers of Kenosha county others will worthily speak. They made a record of which the great state from which they went was justly proud. They greatly contributed by their valor and devotion to the glorious reputation Wisconsin soldiers always won. Complimented Badger Soldiers. Gen. Sherman said in my hearing and that of the Thirty-second Wisconsin regiment: "Had all the regiments behaved as well as the Wisconsin troops there would have been no Bull Run." And it was as much in compliment of the men we sent out as well as of the policy of the state in filling up her regiments with recruits, that he said in his memoirs: "We estimated a Wisconsin regiment equal to an ordinary brigade." It is no disparagement to the valiant soldiers from other states to say that Wisconsin soldiers were second to none in every physical, intellectual, moral and military quality. Wherever the white plume of Henry of Navarre was seen, there always was the fight the hottest. Wherever the flags of Wisconsin regiments were seen in battle you might know the thickest of the deadly fray was there. The history of the war could be made out from the records of the conflicts in which Wisconsin soldiers took part. I cannot do justice to my Wisconsin comrades. Ten thousand died in battle, on the march, in hospital, in prison pens, and through wounds and disease at home. Our noble Gov. Harvey going to care for the wounded, found a watery grave in the swiftly-flowing Tennessee. Col. Haskell, the embodiment of chivalrous courtesy, culture and daring, fell early and heroically at his post of duty. Gen. Cassius Falchild and Gen. Cutler soon after the battle's shock was over, lay down to rest, weared unto death, through the preternatural stress and strain of the war. Scores of other brave officers fell, whose names and deeds are engraven on tablet and monument enshrined in the undying remembrance of grateful hearts. True to the Last. True to the last were these Wisconsin soldiers. One of them who went from the University in the northern part of our state with the baptism of learning on his brow, fell at the head of his cavalry command, but the last words that escaped from young Paine's lips, as the sand in the road side drank his blood, was "Forward." No mouldin sentimentalism must weaken the tenacity of the iron molecules in the martial blood of our American youth. Millennial conditions do not as yet prevail. However earnestly we may wish and fervently pray for peace we can fulfill our mission as a Christian nation only as we become thoroughly prepared to compel peace when ambitious nations may desire to let slip the "dogs of war." There can be onnipotence in our ringing utterances only as we can make these nations hear the reverberations of the best cannon sighted by the best artillerists the world knows of, if occasion should demand such an accompaniment. We have sprung to the front as one of the great world powers not by any will of our own, for no statesman nor soldier dreamed of this three years ago. Let skeptics sneer at us if they choose. I but repent the thought of devout and practical men that the right hand of the God of Nations was on the hands of our American heroes when they were lifted up to destroy tyranny and make wider yet the bounds of freedom in the enlarging of our national domain. What we have we must hold and we will hold with the grip of gravitation for the good of mankind. We will strike swift and steady blows till the last armed foe expires. We are sure we are right and we are going ahead. We are going to tax to the utmost the learning and ability of our commanding constitutional lawyers, the constructive genius of our foremost governmental administrators, the knowledge and deliberate wisdom of our most impartial and patriotic legislators in dealing with the tractable and intractable human material that Providence has forced upon us. There is No Retreat. "He has sounded forth a trumpet that shall never call retreat." You may as well try to roll yonder sun backward as to turn the American people from the onward path of honor. We are working together with God in lifting up and enlightening the once enslaved people now committed to our care. "Men of thought and men of action clear the way." This Memorial day speaks to us as never before, of our common duties and responsibilities. It summons the whole nation regardless of parties and creeds to bear together the "white man's burden" to meet the red man's claims, to safeguard the brown man's rights and redress the black man's wrongs. She must check with the hand of prudence and justice, the insatiable greed of rapacious monopolies and trusts which exist by the grace and to the disgrace of the long-suffering public, and which, like the horse leech with her two daughters, are evermore crying "Give, give." She must not only shut now and forever the door of the American Congress to polygamy, but prevent the spread of this baleful evil in a common sense manner with intemperance. Each citizen must resolutely meet every obligation that American sovereignty imposes. What a profanation of such a sacred trust to think that it is not respectable to have anything to do with politics. What a cowardly thing it is to let others engage in the political fray, while we ourselves go on with our business or professional pursuits, hoping that, after all, some good will come to us out of the rough-and-tumble contest. John Milton said; "I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies forth and seeks her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat." America expects every man to do his duty. Let her not be disappointed and ashamed. It is a war with self, with its indifference to public concerns. It is a war with the constantly-assertive selfishness of men who, having everything to gain and nothing to lose, are on the lookout with Argus eyes to see what there is for them in the fat offices the people have to give and are ready with a Brifarean grasp to take all they can reach. Never was the Republic So Strong. I am full of life for this land of my maturest love and most devoted service. I heartily agree with Archbishop Ireland when he so eloquently says: "The republic of America was a supreme act of confidence in man, a confession such as never before had been heard of human dignity and human ability. And never was the republic so strong in all the elements of life, so entrancing in beauty, so menacing to all the foes of democracy, as when the sun of Appomattox shone on her banner and revealed upon its azure ground the presence of the full galaxy of its stars." of the run galaxy of its stars. The republic is living a grander life today than when Grant grasped the hand of Lee and said "Let us have peace." The years that have sped on since then have welded together the North and South into a compact and glorious unity. Beneath the starry flag of the fathers, the sires and sons who represented contending hosts have been marching victoriously forward to enlarge the reign of human liberty and human rights. They have been showing the caring critics at home and the doubting questioner abroad, as the patriotic achbishop avers that, "America does not live for herself alone; the great destinies of humanity are in her keeping. No Monroe doctrine confines her democracy to Atlantic and Pacific seaboards." "The Gem of the Ocean." I have hinted at the many and complicated problems we of today are called upon to solve, even as those who sleep in soldiers' graves had to face, during the stirring times in which they lived. But because they succeeded we have the sure promise of unfailing success if we shall be faithful as were they. It is not only poetry but prose which is embodied in the sentiment of the song, "Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean." She is the chief of the nations of the earth. I say it proudly, reverently, truthfully. We can gratefully thank the Given of all good that there is not consumption in her blood, no paralysis in her limbs, no serious impairment of her digestive powers; no signs of heart failure in that central organ of her being. The strength of the "everlasting hills" is in her glorious frame; the beauty of her rivers and lakes and seas is in her beaming face. "The sweep continental of mighty and majestic thought is in her active brain. The ardency and freshness of perennial youth are in her leaping pulses." The light of liberty is in her eyes of heaven-lit blue. The words of conciliation and affection are on her persuasive lips, and her yearning arms have clasped once more all her children to her bountious bosom in the unbroken embrace of maternal, filial and fraternal love. And the children now sing as never before could be sung—"Columbia, Columbia, to glory arise, The Queen of the World and the Child of the Skies." Gather Around a Campfire. At the close of the speech the choir sang "The Boys Who Wear the Blue Are Turning Gray" with the following refrain, which was joined in by many of the members of the Grand Army about the platform: Then sing for the heroes who yet remain, A cheer for the comrades here today; They will soon be laid to rest On the old earth's quiet breast, For the boys who wore the blue are turning gray. After the faint echoes of the song had died away the old soldiers held an impromptu camp fire and many distinguished gentlemen in attendance from other cities were called upon to make short talks and call back again the days of war and carnage. It was a festival of reminiscence and all the old comrades joined in with a hearty good will. As the speeches proceeded the old songs of the battle were sung and the crowd of thousands joined heartily in the refrains. As the afternoon was waning the entire crowd arose and joined in the singing of the national hymn, after which the crowd was dismissed with a benediction by Rev. S. W. Naylor, pastor of Park Avenue M. E. church and a son of a veteran of the Civil war. Reunion of the Twenty-Sixth. While of course the dedication of the soldiers' monument was the principal event of the day many other interesting events of minor importance were held. Chief of these was the inspection of the Milwaukee mail carriers by the government officials and the reunions of different companies of Wisconsin soldiers. Nearly every regiment that went to the war from this state was represented by large delegations and during the day they gathered at the homes of the survivors and recalled the stirring days of camp life and battlefields. The great event among the reunions was the reunion of the famous Twenty-sixth Wisconsin volunteers, which was held at the St. George hall in the evening. This regiment was distinctly a Wisconsin regiment picked from all parts of the state and of the less than 200 men there were present at the final review of the army after the close of the war over 100 with their wives and children were here today to attend the reunion. Time can never efface the glory of the Twenty-sixth. Their name has been written on the brightest pages of the history of the Civil war and historians all agree that the Twenty-sixth Wisconsin deserves more undying fame than any other single regiment which went forth to battle. Organized in Milwaukee. The regiment was organized in Milwaukee in 1862 and left in the fall of that year for the front under the command of Col. Jacobs. They were at once added to the department of the Virginias and from that time on they saw nearly all the hard fighting of the Civil war. Among the battles in which the regiment participated were the battles of Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Missionary Ridge, Raseca, Kennesaw Mountain, Chattanooga, Peach Tree Creek and Kennesaw Pass. They rounded up their glorious career of fighting by making with Sherman the triumphant march to the sea. All records of the war department are filled with the reports of the bravery of this famous regiment. At Chancellorsville the regiment received its first complimentary notice, and when the smoke of battle had cleared away thirty-seven of the brave boys had been left dead on the field while 147 had been sent to the rear among the wounded. At Gettysburg the regiment lost 41 killed and 167 wounded. In the long list of battle leading up to the capture of Atlanta the Wisconsin boys played an important part and as a result of these battles many of the bravest men of the Twenty-Sixth were left sleeping in unknown graves on the sunny hills of the South land. Finest in the Service. They were especially mentioned for their bravery at the battle of Peach Tree creek, where they bore the brunt of the battle and captured the battle flags of the Thirty-third Mississippi regiments together with forty prisoners. But the victory was a costly one for the Twenty-sixth lost ninety killed and thirty-six wounded. At this battle other troops fled in dismay, but the brave men of the twenty-sixth held their ground until they were forced to quit because the last cartridges in their belts had been used. The regiment was mustered out at the fall of Richmond and returned to Milwaukee under the command of Gen. Winkler. It is only necessary to refer to the records of the war department to show the fighting abilities of the famous Twenty-sixth. Gen. Coggswell in his report to the department after the war said, "I lieve that the Twenty-sixth Wisconsin regiment was the finest military organization in the service." Besides the coming of this noble band of survivors many of the secret and benevolent societies in the state will hold reunions with the local lodges this evening. Co. F of the Spanish war veterans of Racine will hold its annual reunion tonight and many Spanish war veterans from other parts of the state are here to attend the reunion. Germany's Beet Sugar Trade. Nearly one-fourth of all the sugar produced is German beet sugar, which amounts to 1,700,000 tons annually. Of this German production more than one-half is exported, and accordingly the price is dependent upon sugar consumption in other countries and the demand in the world's markets. The growth of the beet-sugar industry in the United States and the increase of production in other parts of the world are already causing anxiety in Germany.-Vice-Consul G. H. Murphy. M. MISS ELIZABETH CLARKSON SIMMONS. (The Grand-daughter of Z. G. Simmons, Who Unveiled the Soldiers' Monument.) A BIT OF HISTORY. How it Happened that Mr. Simmons Made the Beautiful Gifts HE PRESENTED A LIBRARY TOO. Kenosha, Wis., May 30.—[Special.]—The unveiling of the Simmons monument to the memory of the Kenosha county soldiers recalls the story of the part played by this county in the great War of the Rebellion. Kenosha county was always loyal and the history of Wisconsin is filled with the deeds of her noblest sons. As far back as the Mexican war Kenosha, then Old Southport, sent a large delegation to fight for the flag in Mexico, and the first great event in the history of the city was the military funeral over the remains of Capt. Quarles, who lost his life while fighting with Gen. Scott. When the Civil war broke out Kenosha county, like all southern Wisconsin, was a hotbed of anti-slavery sentiment. Within the confines of the little city were to be found men closely connected with the underground railway, men who had risked their lives many times to see that a black slave from the South reached the Canadian line in safety. With the first call for arms the Kenosha soldiers began to assemble and from that on until the close of the war the deeds of the men enlisted in this county were among the brightest legends written down upon the shield of victory. When the war broke out the census of Kenosha county showed that the county had 1700 able-bodied men. Before the close of the war 1367 of these men had grasped the musket and gone to the front to fight under the tattered battle flags of the Union. Many of them never returned to their homes, but are sleeping among the sunny hills of the Southland or buried among their fallen comrades in nameless graves in the national cometeries of the North and South. Mr. Simmons' Part in the War. When the Kenosha county soldiers started out for battle their best friend was Z. G. Simmons. On account of physical ailments it was not possible for Mr. Simmons to go to the front, but he remained behind and from his bounty cared for the wives and children of the soldiers who had gone to war. This interest in the lives of the soldiers, bred in times of war and sorrow, has survived, and Mr. Simmons is today the great friend of the old soldier. It matters not where he fought, if he wear the badge of the Grand Army, he is assured a welcome from Mr. Simmons. After the war was over Mr. Simmons made a proposition to the people of the city, that he would pay one-third the cost of raising a monument to the memory of the Kenosha county soldiers, but the effort was never successful and finally Mr. Simmons decided to erect the monument at his own expense and dedicate it to the memory of the bravery of the Kenosha boys in the Civil war. The Beautiful Monument. And so the monument was raised. It stands today at the north end of Central park, a massive shaft of gray granite standing over seventy-five feet above the level of the park. The monument was designed by D. H. Burnham, who designed the buildings for the World's Columbian exposition, but the work of the famous Italian sculptor, Doceo, has greatly enhanced the beauty of the completed work. The monument stands directly in front of the entrance to the Gilbert M. Simmons Memorial library presented to the city by Mr. Simmons, and the two form a monument, not only to the memory of the brave men who laid down their lives for the country, but also a memorial of the munificence of Kenosha's nost honored citizen. The monument is grand in its simplicity—a pure Corinthian column rising from the base of white granite with paved streets leading to it from all sides. The approaches consist of four steps, eight buttresses and four settees. The lower course is circular in form and thirty-six feet in diameter. From the approaches to the great base of the column the monument is octagonal in shape, consisting of two bases, eleven feet six inches in diameter, also a die six foot six inches and a capstone of eight feet in diameter. Single Shaft of Granite. This mass of granite forms a base on which rests the magnificent shaft of granite rising to a height of twenty-eight feet and being the largest single piece of granite ever brought into the state of Wisconsin. The shaft is a fluted column corresponding with the other Corinthian architecture of the monument. It has a circumference of four feet at the bottom, tapering to three feet at the top. Above the column is the capitol stone six feet square and on top of this capris the crowning figure of the monument—an allegorical statue of winged victory holding out the rewards of the victor, the wreath and the crown. The crowning figure is twelve feet in height. The monument was erected by the William H. Morse company of Barre, Vt. It cost over $20,000 and is said to be the finest monument ever erected by private enterprise to revere the memory of the soldier dead. No elaborate inscriptions are to be found on the monument, but on the large die is the following dedication. It is traced in bold simple letters, with no attempt at decoration: IN HONOR OF THE BRAVE MEN OF KENOSHA COUNTY, WHO VIC TORIOUSLY DEFENDED THE UNION, ON LAND AND SEA, DURING THE WAR OF THE GREAT REBELLION, 1861-1865. The Memorial Library. But the soldiers' monument is not the only gift that Z. G. Simmons has given to the city of Kenosha, but at the same time as the unveiling of the soldiers monument Mr. Simmons presented to the city a magnificent public library building equipped with a library of 25,000 volumes. The library has just been completed and without a book being purchased it has cost the donor a little over $150,000. It is built of Bedford limestone according to the plans proposed by D. H. Burnham, who designed the monument. It is of a Corinthian design and the most beautiful building in the city. It has but one floor, the entire center of the building being used as a memorial hall to revere the memory of Gilbert M. Simmons, a son of Mr. Simmons, now deceased. The interior of the memorial hall is constructed entirely of white marble brought direct from Italy. The marble used in this hall is said to have been imported at a cost of over $50,000. Next to the memorial hall is the large reading room, which is quite as luxurious in its construction. The walls of the room are covered with Siena marble, the hues of the marble blending with the decorations of the ceiling, which is done in red and blue and gold. The most delicate tints have been used in the completion of the mural decorations and the whole presents a picture of rare beauty. In the other part of the building are large fireproof stack rooms offering room for the shelving of several hundred thousands of volumes of books. The basement is as complete as the main floors and it has a complete bindery, a hall for the use of the Kenosha Woman's club and various other rooms needed in the library. About the entire building is a plaza of twenty feet in width and leading up to it from every side are wide walks of concrete. Before the library is formally turned over to the city Mr. Simmons has arranged for beautifying the park and making it a fit place for the location of such a beautiful building. Miserly Man and Wife. Wiggles—"There goes the most miserly couple that I ever heard of." Waggles—"How's that?" Wiggles—"Why, they were married twenty-five years ago, and, in a burst of generosity, he gave her a $5 gold-piece for a wedding present. The next year, at Christmas, she gave it back to him. Since then they have passed it back and forth every Christmas time, and neither of them ever gave anybody any other present. Through the year they keep the gold piece in a savings bank, so that it draws interest. He came near dying of pneumonia last year, but just as he was apparently drawing his last breath, the doctor whispered: "Funeral expenses!" in his ear, and he got well. And she had her hair cut off last summer because her hairbrush was all worn out and she didn't want to buy a new one."—Somerville Journal. A South American Product. Mocha coffee formerly came from Arabia, but the trees were destroyed by a plague and that country now raises scarcely enough for its own consumption. What is known as mocha in the markets of the world is grown in Central and South America, where it was introduced by the Jesuit fathers from Arabia. We continue to receive a considerable amount of coffee from Java—$2,517,892 in 1897, $3,603,055 in 1898 and $1,502,493 in 1899.—Indianapolis Press. Mrs. Joubert a Utilitarian. Mrs. Joubert seems to be a utilitarian. The story is told of her that when she was in Amsterdam a few years ago a friend took great pleasure in showing her the fine collection of pewter in the big Rijks museum. Her only comment was: "Good to make bullets of." She ought to be a judge, for in the early wars with the natives she often was one of the women who made bullets for the use of the Boer army.—Buffalo Commercial. Gymnastics for Health. To encourage health and beauty in children they should at an early age be instructed in simple gymnastics. About 5 or 6 years of age has been named by a medical authority as the time when they should begin their lessons in calisthenics, no implements being used at first. Properly-practiced judicious movements will help to the development of the chest and muscle, encourage beauty of form, suppleness and grace, and promote healthy circulation. BARGAINS IN FINE CLOTHING ONE PRICE TO ALL MULTIPLE RISE MEM FASHIONABLE MISFIT AND UNCALLED FOR COSTOM TAILOR MAIL CLOTHING 213 WHOLESALE RETAIL 217 Extra This Week Closing Out Overcoats and Heavy Weight Suits prices guaranteed 25 per cent. less than any store in this city-also workmanship to be as good and better than any other store in this city. An example of our prices: $30 Overcoats for $20 $25 Overcoats for $15 $20 Overcoats for $13 $15 Overcoats for $10 and $12 Overcoats for $8 Also Heavy Weight Suits 25 per cent. less than we have been selling them before. Seeing is convincing. At the The Fashionable Misfit Clothing House 213-217 West Water Street, I door south of News Building and Opposite Barrett's CORNER GRAND AVENUE AND THIRD STREET MILWAUKEE, WIS. MR. GEORGE A. SCHECK, the manager of R. B. Grover & Co., manufacturers of the Celebrated Comfortable Custom Made Shoes, begs leave to announce to the many citizens of Milwaukee and vicinity that they have opened a new store in this city in the new building on the northeast corner of Third St. and Grand Ave. and carry a full line of goods. This makes 31 stores run by the firm at the present time. A Goodyear Welt costs $3.50 and a Handsewed $5.00. The goods are honest all through and inspection is solicited. FRESH MEAT 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 2164 GRAND AVENUE Crestite Flanner's Music Store MILWAUKEE, WIS. BEFORE PLACING FIRE AND BURGLAR ALARMS in your residence you would do well to call n CHAS. D. MILNE Electrical Contractor And General Repairwork. The best in the city. Tel. Main 527. CONTEST IN FEDERATION. Uncertainty Regarding Reorgan- ization of Clubwomen. MRS. NEVILLE’S VIEWS. Advantages and Disadvantages of the Changes that Are Pro- posed. Milwaukee, Wis., May 23.—[Special.]— ‘Wisconsin's stand on the reorganiza- tion question cannot be foretold at this time,” said Mrs. Arthur Courtney Ne- ville, president of the Wisconsin State Federation of Women’s clubs, this morn- ing. “Personally desirous for the ac- complishment cf reorganization, I may be inclined to take a rosy view of the outlook, hence I shall make no prophecy. But there is this fact, wherever the question of reorganization has been can- vassed by Wisconsin clubwomen, at dis- trict nieetings and the like. the senti- iff MU Me Om ee me 1) Te ay | ae me ti 7) MRS. A. C. NEVILLE. President of the Wisconsin Federation of Woman's Clubs.) (Photo by Stein.) ment in its favor has been marked, and it is significant that very few clubs will send instructed delegates, thus leaving them open te conviction after their ar- rival. Delegation Meets June 5. “There has been no meeting of the Wisconsin delegation, but Miss Hilbert, state chairman of correspondence, has issued a call for the delegates to meet on ‘Tuesday, June 5, and the hour and place of the meeting will be announced on the bulletin boards. Then the question will be thoroughly discussed and arguments presented pro and con, but whether the delegation will present a_united front remains to be seen. Wisconsin has about eighty votes.” “The reorganization questien will, of course, be the burning and yital issue to be decided,” continued Mrs. Neville, “and the arguments in its favor are many and strong. If elubs were represented through the state federations, as proposed, there is no question but that the value of the work accomplished would be increased tenfold. There would then be uniformity ef organization, and surely all must ad- mit that the individual club receives its strength and inspiration through the state federation. Tne general federation, so Vast and widespread. cannot in any pessible way have the interest in the small, individual club that is shown by the state federation, which hovers the clubs within its boundaries and cherishes and fosters them all. Effect in Wisconsin. “The opponents of reorganization are perhaps loth to lose the direct representa- tion in the General federation that is af- forded them under the present method, | ANTE HUT 4 HAY ae re i oe ae) ai me) om, BM MRS. JAMES SYDNEY PECK. resident of the Locat Biennial Board. {Photo by Stein.) by which every president of a club is a vice-president in the General federation and a member of the council, but the clubs would be amply represented through the state organization under the proposed method, the simplest solution Soom the apportioning of the delegates to each congressional district. The mi- nority report suggests five delegates for the first thousand members, and one del- egate for each additional 300 members. This would give Wisconsin nineteen dele- gates, figuring on a basis of 5000 mem- bers, which is approximately the mem- bership in the state federation, or prac- tically two delegates for each congres- sional district, And under this method each congressional district would proba- bly pay the expenses of its delegates to the biennial convention. As the state federation is composed of clubs,- this is just as direct representation as where the delegate represents a club. Per Capita Plan a Fair One. “To my mind the per capita plan of representation is the oniy right and just one. As things now are, the bylaws pro- yide that each federated club of fifty members or less shall ve represented by its president or her appointee only; each club of between 50 and 100 members shall be entitled to be represented by its president or her appointee and one dele- gate, and for each additional 100 mem- bers, or major fraction thereof, a club shall be entitled to one additional dele- gate and each state federation of over 25 clubs is entitled to one additional dele- gate for every 25 clubs or majority frac- tion thereof. S “Now, there is injustice in this. Penn- sylvania, for instance, in the last printed report of the G. F. W. C. has 71 clubs, and Kansas has 124, but S600 mem- bers are represented by the Pennsylva- nia clubs, while Kansas’ membership is | but 3000. But under the rule just quot: ed Kansas would have a much lar~ ‘representation than Pennsylvania. a “As to dues, cera it must be evi- dent that to levy the dues per capita is far more just and logical than the present method of levying a tax upon the clubs, irrespective of the size of their member- ship. If dues were collected per federa- tion, Oklahoma, with a membership of two hundred, would pay the same tax as the District of Columbia, with a roll call of five thousand. “As to the sentiment among clubs throughout the country, it is hard to say. The East. with the exception of Massa- chusetts and Pennsy!vania, is opposed to reorganization. The Middle West favors it; the opinion of the Southern clubs is an unknown quantity to me, except that it seems probable that they will follow Mrs. Lowe's lead aud oppose it. No Wire-Pulling. “I do not know,” said Mrs. Neyille, in answer to a question, “of any wire-pull- ing or office-seeking in Wisconsin. Cer- tainly we, as hostesses of this great gath- ering, cannot enter into a race for place or honor. All that the state federation desires is to extend to its guests the warmest weleome, the most cordial enter- tainment, the most gracious and beauti- ful hospitality. ‘To do this will be our de- light, and we hope to make the Milwau- kee biennial the pleasantest memory of each and every visitor. “Candidates for offices will be nominat- ed by the nominating cothmittee, one member of which is appointed by the state delegation in caucus.” 2ET (YITTIQIN A FIRST COUSIN OF CECIL RHODES. Farmer Living Near Galesville Does Not Agree with His Kinsman. Galesville, Wis., May 28.—[Special.]— The fact has just become public that there lives in this vicinity a near relative of Ceci! Rhodes of South African fame. The individual in question is Joshua Rhodes, a well-known farmer of the town of,Caledonia, near this city. Mr. Rhodes has been aware for some time that he and the celebrated Cecil were of the same bloud, but he did. net know that he was a first cousin nntil he traced the geneology of his family, which was but recently. It might be stated in this connection that Mr. Rhodes of South Africa and Mr. Rhodes of Galesville en- tertain entirely different opinions in regard to the war which is now being conducted in that country. 7 Tq r, 1 BOY IS CAUGHT IN A WHIRLPOOL. Terrible Accident at a Sunday School Picnic Near Mineral Point ~Dredge for Body. Mineral Point, Wis., May 28.—[ Special. ] —Ernest Tyrer, aged 13, was drowned at Calamine, ten miles south of this city. He was a member of a Sunday school class of this city who went to Calamine on a fishing excursion. He was wading for clams and was carried by the current into a twenty-five-foot hole, where a whirlpool drew him to the bottom and efforts for rescue proved of no avail The body was recovered by dredging. STP NTN, he LIGHTNING STRIKES. Many Buildings Throughout the State Are Damaged-Fires Are Started. Kaukauna, Wis., May 28.—[{Special.] /—Lightning struck the two-story frame dwelling of Joseph Bromer last night, and a fire resulted which badly damaged the building and destroyed all of the goods in the upper rooms. Several peo- ple composed the family, but none were injured. The house and contents was valued at $2000 on which there was an insurance of $800 on the building and on household goods $200. Algoma, Wis. May 28—The long drouth was broken by a thunderstorm of unusual severity. Large quantities of hail fell and the lightning struck a num- ber of buildings, doing considerable dam- age. Among the residences struck ws that of E. Decker, Jr., where the current tore the walls of the building, wrecking the bed occupied by Mr. and Mrs, Deek- oe neither 5f whom sustained injuries other than a slight shock. - Racine, Wis.. May 28.—During an elec- tric storm lightning struck the house of | Hugo Klopfer tearing down the chimney and the entire west end of the house. The furniture was scattered and every- ‘thing in the kitchen overturned. The house then caught fire and was damaged $1000 before it was put out. Whitewater, Wis., May 28.—The tower of the city hall was struék by lightning. ake, slate was torn frem the roof, but the building was not seriously damaged. Palmyra, Wis., May 28.—[ Special. | Lightning struck the Palmyra high school during the storm last night, de- molishing one of its large ghinmeys and rendering useless the piping through the | building. The estimated damage | is placed at $150. W. M. Millard. living fonr miles southwest of here, lost three valuable cows Saturday night, being setrnek byw lightning. HICH PLACE TE. * WHICH PLACE LEADS. Galesville, Trempeatean and Arca- dia Interested in the Census Being Taken. Galesyille, Wis., May 28.—[Special:]— Next in interest to the senatorial tight which is now being waged in this county is the outeome of the census which will be taken next month. Three towns in the county rival each other for. the su- premacy, Galesville, Trempealean and Arcadia, and each believes that it will become the metropolis after the census is taken. Trempealeau held the honor for many years, but gave way to Ar eadia in the last census, and it is doubt- ful if it can ever regain its lost prestige, and quite probable that it will be rele- gated to third place. BUTTON PLANT AT LA CROSSE. Business Men Offer a Bonus for Loca- tion of Factory. La_ Crosse. Wis., May 28.—[Special.]J— La Crosse business men are taking steps to secure for this city one of the numer- ous pearl button factories that are being located along the upper Mississippi. The city will give $500 toward starting the project. Soundings have been made on the river in this vicinity and it has been shown that there are thousands of tons of clams easily obtainable, and the su- perior shipping facilities this town has to offer make the location of a plant here a certainty. * MANITOWOC BOY DROWNED. Young Man Falis Into Lake While Fishing. Manitowoc, Wis. May 28.—William Diedrich, aged 20, while fishing on Har- bor pier, was seized with an epileptic fit and fell into the lake and was drowned. His body was recovered. Eau Claire, Wis., May 28.—William Fountain, aged 18 years, swam across the Chippewa river and started to swim back. He was seized with cramps when 100 feet from shore and drowned. The dody wes recovered. . PATRICK CARNEY EAD. Well-Known Democratic Leader of Waukesha County Dies. ILL FOR MANY MONTHS He Has Held Many Responsible Po- litical Positions in the Spring City. Waukesha, Wis. May 30.—[Special.] —Last evening occurred the death of Patrick Carney, one of Waukesha’s best- known and_ highest-respected citizens. He had been-ill for some time, having been confined to his room for the past eighteen months and to his bed for three months. His death has been expected for some time. but when it came the end was rather sudden. Mr. Carney was born in Lincoln coun- ty, Me. May 17, 1836. He came to Waukesha in October, 1847. and attend- are Pd = es ° * ‘ee ik Wiles: «4 3 De ih gee al oF THE LATE PATRICK H. CARNEY. ed Carroll college until he graduated. In 1872 he married Mary Ann Siane of New Berlin, to whom were born three children, a daughter and two sons. Mrs. Carney died in 1878. In 1880 he was married to Mary Jane Hennessey, who is still living. After leaving college he became the editor of the Waukesha County Demo- erat, and it has remained iu his posses- sion ever since. In 1868 he was elected county judge. which position he held one term, and after that began the study of l.w. During Cleveland's first adminis- tration he was postinaster, and during his life held the positions of president of the village for two terms and a member ot the state Democratic central commit- tee for four years. During Mr. Carney’s long and active career he was the leader in every project in which he took part. In polities he was the recognized leader of the Dem- ocratic party in this county for years. At the bar he was no less distinguished and until physical ailments compelled him to retire from the active practice of his profession there was little important litigation in this part of the state in which he was not retained on one side or the other. During the time when he was in active control of his paper it was looked up to as the source of all sound party organs in this county. and was regarded as one of the most influ- ential Demoeratie papers in the state. Mr. Carney’s death will be more deep- ly lamented and widely mourned than that of many other citizens who have died in recent years. The Bar association will hold a meet- ing to adopt resolutions and make prep- arations for attending his funeral in a body. The funeral will be held Friday morning. but’ exact arrangements haye not yet been completed. The deceased is survived by a wife and two sons, Harry and James. TIRE AT OFRFRTICE FIRE AT OFFICER. Two Bad Men Escape from the Watchman at Sun Prairie. Sun Prairie, Wis., May 30.—[Special.] —E. E. Beers, the night watchman, had an exciting time with two suspicious- looking characters. In his attempt to get them into jail they turned on him, each firing several times and escaped into the darkness. Beers aroused the people, but no traces of his assailants were to be found. FOR WOMANS RIGHTS. ————_———_ Remarkable Will of a Brodhead Man~—Leaves Aid for Female Protection. Monroe, Wis., May 30.—Joseph W. Stuart of Brodhead left a will giving to Meses Harman of Topeka, Kas., who was recently committed to the peniten- tiary, one $250 bond of Atlantic & Pa- cifie Railway Tunnel company, to aid him in his contest for the freedom of the press in advocacy of the right of all wom- en to equal protection after marriage without regard to the decisions of courts, enforcing marital subjection of husbands. He also directed that no church ceremo- nies be perfermed over his remains, and that his body be cremated. The will dis- poses of $7000 worth of property among his heirs. SMASH-UP NEAR LA CROSSE. A Bad Wreck is Narrowly Averted on the Milwaukee Road. La Crosse, Wis., May 30.—[Special.|— The Milwaukee read narrowly escaped a very serious wreck on the River division this morning. A freight car broke down and jumped the track above this city, which resulted in a general smashup. No lives were lost and no one was hurt. Traffic was delayed some time. The ear- ly northbound fast mail was forced to re- turn to La Crosse. It went as far as Winona over the Burlington tracks. CORNERSTONE LAYING JUNE 16 Dedication of St. Croix Courthouse at Hudson. Hudson, Wis., May 30.—Messrs. Smith, Andrews and Kinsey of the build- ing committee have completed arrange- ments for laying the cornerstone of the new St. Croix courthouse at Hudson. June 16 is the date for the ceremony and the whole county is invited to participate. Gen. Moses E. Clapp of St. Pan! and William F. McNally of New Richmond will be the orators. La Crosse Man Drowned. La Crosse, Wis., May 30.—[Special.]— Arthur Lawrence, a La Crosse man em- ployed by Fetter & Crosby, government river improvement contractors near Pe- ruque, Mo., was drowned. He was 29 years old and single. | BOLT SHATTERS A ) PESHTIGO CHURCH. Seats eae Lightning Strikes the Steeple and Demolishes the Building— Damage is Heavy. Marinette, Wis., May 29.—[Special.]— The German Methodist church near Peshtigo was struck by lightning last night and the entire building was shat- tered by the bolt. It struck the steeplt and ran down the building. The dam- age will be several thousand dollars. _ Manitowoc, Wis., May 29.—[Special.] —The barn and granary of Mrs. Wa- halea, an aged widow, two miles north of this city, on the Neshoto read, was struck by lightning last night and destroyed by fire. The contents, with the exception of a cow and a horse, were burned. ‘The loss is $800, with $300 insurance. Mrs. Wahalea is 70 years of age. Her house is close by and had it not been for the heavy rain it would have been destroyed. Mrs. Wahalea lives alone. CTR RESCUES A LITTLE 7 BABE FROM DEATH. —_-_—_ Heroic Act of Miss Laura Anderson of Oconomowoc—Narrow Escape. Oconomowoc, Wis. May 29.—{Spe- cial.]—Last evening about 7 o'clock, the time when the new passenger train is due and had nearly reached the station. Miss Laura Anderson discovered the 2- year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Herro upon the track and paying no heed to the whistling and efforts of the engineer and fireman to make her move. Wherenpou Miss Anderson ran to the track, grabbed the little child of just in time to save the little one’s life. The cylinders of the engine brushed the children’s dresses. moar 7 r DDO "; KILLED IN A WRECK. ter ceete! Train on the Kewaunee, Green Bayand Western Road Ditch- - ed Near Kewaunee. Green Bay, Wis., May 29.—[Special.] —A train coming west on the Kewaunee, Green Bay & Western road was ditched at an early hour this morning, just west of Kewaunee. The fireman, John Brown of this city, was killed outright. The engineer, M. Reardon, had his left leg so badly injured that it had to be amputated. The wreck was caused by a washout. Fuil particulars have not been received at the general offices in this city this morning. Kewaunee, Wis., May 29,.—[Special.] —A train on the Kewaunee, Green Bay & Western road leaving here at 7 o'clock this morning for Green Bay was wrecked seven miles from here. It was caused by a washout. Engineer M. Riordan lost his leg and may not live, Fireman John Brown was instantly killed. The loco- motive and three or four cars loaded with coal, were badly wrecked. r 7 = > o WILL REMOVE PLANT. The Jackson County Rolling Mills to be Taken to Courtney, N. DD. Black River Falls, Wis.. May 29.— [Special.|—The Jackson county roller mills of this city, erected a few years ago at a cost of $30,000, will be taken down and removed to Courtney, N. D., on the “Soo” line. The reason for the removal of the plant is the fact that rates could not be secured from the railroads that would allow the mill to compete with the big concerns in the Northwest. The en- terprising citizens of Courtney are under- stood to have offered a handsome bonus for the plant, which is a first-class and up-to-date mill. WEDS HIS NURSE. A Pretty Little Romance Which Cul- minates at Marinette. Marinette, Wis., May 29.—[Special.]— A romance culminated here Sauirday evening in the marriage of A. Brown, an electrical supply man of Chicago, and Mrs. Mollie Eader of Waukegan, Ut. ‘The latter is a trained nurse. Mr. Browu was taken sick at the railroad cating house here. He asked for a trained nurse and Mrs. Eader was sent to care for him. By the time Mr. Brown had re- covered from his bodily illness he had an affection of the heart and the nurse was similarly affected. A proposai of mur- riage met with a favorable response aud Justice O'Leary tied the nuptial knot. THIRD TIME IN PRISON. Janesville Boy Sent Up for Stealing Goods Valned at $4.35. Janesville, Wis., May 29.—f Special. ]— Ernest Byers of this city was sentenced this morning to state prisen for ene year for larceny of goods valued at $435. This makes the prisoner's third prison trip. He is 22 years of age. Only “Dusted.” A few days ago a well-known Wash- ington woman, being unexpectedly bereft ‘of her kitchen assistance, advertised for a colored woman capable of performing general housework, The first caller in response te the ad- vertisement was a mulatto damsel, be- decked with ribbon and finery. From her airs and graces she might have been a graduate from a seminary. She an- nounced that she had noticed the adver- tisement and was desirous of securing employment. “Are you a good cook?” inquired the lady of the house. “No, indeed, I don't cook,” was the reply. “Are you a good washer and ironer?” was the next query. “I wouldn't do washing and ironing: it’s too hard on the hands,” declared the caller. “Can you sweep?” the housewife then wanted to know. “No.” was the answer, and it was a positive one. “I'm not strong enough for that.” “Well, in the name of goodness, what can you do?” said the lady of the house, exasperated. The placid reply was: “I dusts.”—Washington Star. The Work of Reformers. Walter Crane has painted a signboard for. the Reform publie house. the Fox and Pelican, which was opened at Guildford, FEng.. last autumn, and is managed on the Gothenburg system by an association of local residents with Sir Frederick Pol- lock as president. The name of the house commemorates Fox, the great bishop of Winchester, whose device was “aq pelican in her piety.”"—New York Post. Two Cannon for Racine. Racine, Wis., May 29.—[Special.J—A telegram was this morning received from Congressman Cooper saying that he had secured two Spanish cannon for Racine. They will be forwarded at once and placed in Monument square. —Goy. Robert B. Smith of Montana, has, like Senator Clark, made a fortune in mining. He is popular in the mining districts, the men regarding him almost as one of themselves, but respecting him none the less. SSFILD Fighting Bedbues. While house cleaning is the time when a good bedbug remedy can best be used, if the family could leave the house for a few days the work could | be more quickly and thoroughly done. ‘If not, then take one room at a time, take the beds all apart, put up a clothes line in room, hang bedding and clothes on it, open everything in room so smoke can penetrate, and if you have plants or birds in there take them out, or the strong sulphur fumes will kill them. Of the druggist get a three or four ounce bottle full of corrosive sublimate (poison) and alcohol. Get also not less than five pounds of sulphur to a room. if rooms are ready, take an old iron kettle or tin pan, into which put live coals and plenty of sulphur to make a dense smoke, which must be kept up not less than a day and night. Close every door, window and crack so as not to lose any smoke. When done, open doors and windows and carry every- thing out of doors to air. Give the room a thorough cleaning. With a feather put corrosive sublimate in ev- ery crack and crevice of the bedstead— every place where a bug can enter. Be careful in pulling feather out of bottle that not a particle flies in the eyes. Smoke will penetrate where nothing else will. Be not afraid of using too much sulphur. Corrosive sublimate is a deadly poison; keep it out of the reach of children. System in Housework. Brush all the sashes with a small whisk broom. Wipe the windows bard with a dry cloth. Wash sashes with a cloth dipped in warm water. Have clean water to wash glass; nev- er use soap. Use a few drops of ammonia in wa- ter; wring out the cloth hard and wash one pane ata time and dry immediately with a dry cloth. Polish with tissue paper or crumpled newspaper. Sweeping: Raise the shades. Sweep with windows closed. Commencing at corners and edges, sweep toward the center. Sweep with short strokes, holding broom close to floor. In sweeping stairs, sweep into dust- pan held under each stair. Sweep sick-rooms with cloth on broom if floor is bare, or wring out eloths in another room and bring in in pail and rub carpet with one and then another rapidly and quietly —Kitechen Maga- zine. Egg Pie. Grease a pie dish, then break into it about half as many whole eggs as it will conta.». They should be dropped in carefu:y, so as not to break the yolks. Then for each egg add a table- spoonful of cream and one teaspoonful of run butter. Season the whole with pepper, salt and chopped parsley, sar- lic, if it be liked. Cover the pie dish with a top crust, eut slits acress it and bake at once in a sharp oven to a deli- eate brown. Siiditatin: Miinten Bie Two cupfulwof graham flour, one tea- cupful of corn meal, half-teacupfui of white flour, one teacupful of black Or- leans molasses, one teaspoonful of soda, one tablespoonful of butter, one and a half cups of sour milk or butter- milk; mix flonr together, add molasses, put soda in little cold water; add that and the butter and milk, mix all to- gether; put in one tin and steam for three hours or in two tins for two hours. Aiuminnm Kitchen Utensils, Alumiuum utensils are beloved by amateur cooks aud professors of the art of light housekeeping. They are always bright. easily kept clean and very light. Any number of attractive table cooking utensils come in this metal, such as chafing dishes, egg boil- ers and coffee pots. The skillful house- wife is able almost to cook breakfast seated at her own place at the table. Shirt Bosom Board. The best shirt-bosom bozrd is one made of seasoned wood, 1 foot wide. 144 feet long and 1 inch thick. This should be covered with two or three thick- nesses of flannel, drawn tight and well tacked in place. Cover again with can- ton flannel drawn very tight. and tack it. Make outside slips of white cotton cloth fitted te the board. These slips should be frequently changed. Curried Rice, Boil one cup of thoroughly washed rice in two cups of boiling salted wa- ‘ter. Boil for ten minutes and strain. Add a teaspoonful of curry powder ‘that has been rubbed smooth in cold water. Boil the rice thus seasoned in a -cupful of s.ock until tender. Strain, place in the center of a platter. cover with the liquor and sprinkle with chop- ped parsley. Douzhnuts. S Half a teacup thin sour cream or rich buttermilk, one teaspoon soda dissolved in a seant teacup sweet milk, one tea- spoon salt, one and one-half teacups sugar, made into a dough with flour a little stiffer than when eggs are used. Flavor with nutmeg.-—S. W. How to Wash Lamp Chimneys, Wash chimney first in a lukewarm suds, then rinse well in warm water and polish with a soft cloth until dry. This is an excellent way to clean them Try it. MISS CLARK’S WEDDING. Daughter of Montana Millionaire Married to Lewis Ruther- ford Morris. New York, May 28.—The wedding of Dr. Lewis Butherford Morris and Miss Katherine Stauffer Clark, daughter of William A. Clark of Montana, took place this afternoon in St. Thomas’ Protestant Episcopal church. The ineidents which attended the union were of such a char- acter as to render the event quite as splendid as the Paget-Whitney nuptials and other notable weddings that have taken place in fashionable St. Thomas’ in recent years. ‘The interior of the church presented a gorgeous picture. White and pink were the prevailing colors. With the exception of three or four altar vases filled with roses the decorations within the chancei rail were few, and the beauty of the chancel was not hidden behind a curtain of plants, as has often been done in the past. The elaborate decorations were contined to the body of the church. Here the first decoration to catch the eye was that of the twelve Gothic arches. These followed the line of the church. They were fifteen feet high and made entirely of white and pink flowers. The nave anid the side aisles, midway between the en- trance and the altar, were spanned by arches of the same height. ‘The floral gates under these arciies were in charg of small pages. The columns of tle churth were prettily ornamented with cherry and apple blossoms, and hanging from the columus were festoons of tlower- ing vines. The musical arrangements were on 2 scale fitting to the ceremony. Soon after 3 o'clock, to the strains of the wedding march, the bridal yates. proceeded to th chancel in the following order: Ushers, William Andrews Clark, Jr., brother of the bride; her brother-in-law, Dr. Ever ett H. Culver, Dr. Charles Thorndyk- Parker, Newbold Morris, Frederick Stat. ford Young and Wirt Howe. Then came four little flower maidens, each carryinz a_large basket of lilies-of-the-valley and pink and white roses. Following thes. came the bridesmaids, Miss Christin Pomeroy of California and Miss Mai Pfouts of Butte City, Mont. Mrs, Ever ett M. Culver acted as her sister's mat ron of honor, The bridesmaids’ gowns, to correspond with the decorations in th church, were of pink silk, veiled with white organdie. An Exquisite Gown. Miss Clark’s wedding gown was one of exquisite beauty. It was of heavy, ivor- white satin, but little of this was to b. seen, so entirely was it covered by point lace of rare value. The long train was flounced with yards and yards of almos: priceless lace of the rose pattern, and about the neck it was arranged in Sch. fashion. A cluster of white orchids was famened at the left side on the waist line, and the veil was made of whit+ tulle, which augmented the beauty of th gown. The bridal eed were met at the chan- cel steps by the groom and the best man. William M. Harriman. The bride ami groom were met at the chancel steps by Bishop Tuttle of Missouri and the re<- tor, Dr. John Wesley Brown, where the charge was read, Bishop Tutile perform- ing the betrothal service ané Dr. Brown officiating at the marriage service proper at the altar rail. At the close of the ceremony at the church the guests repaired to the home of the bride’s sister, Mrs. Culver, in West Fifty-eighth street, where | the wedding reception was held. Here the wedding gifts were displayed to inti- mate friends. To Go Abroad. After a brief wedding trip to the South, Dr. Morris and his bride will go abroad. and will spend the summer cruising along the English coast, and afterwards will proceed to the North Cape, thence to Norway, through the Baltie sea and Gulf of Finland to St. Petersburg. The voy- age will be made on the steam yacht Latharna, which has been chartered for the summer. Mr. Clark's gift to bis daughter is a diamond and ruby tiara and stomacher of pure white diamonds. A jeweler who knows says that Mr. Clark must have parted with $80,000 to have possessed himself of the trinkets. The design of the tiara and the stomach- er is Mr. Clark’s own. SUD Vt) 1 Taye DEWEY’S PRIZE MONEY. a eek Supreme Court Renders an Opinion Adverse to the Admiral’s Claim. Washington, D. C., May 28.—The United States Supreme court today de ceded Admiral Dewey’s bounty claim against the admiral’s contention. The effect is to deprive the admiral and the men engaged with him at Manila of half the amount claimed by them. Chief Jus- tice Fuller delivered a dissenting opinioa. FORBIDDEN TO LAND. Phoenix Park Assassins to Appeal to Authorities at Washineton. , New York, May 28.—The special board of inquiry at the immigration station bos forbidden the landing of James Fitzhsr ris and Joseph MulLett, and orders that they be deported. These men were recently released from prison in Ireland, where they have serve sentences for complicity in the Phoenix Park murders of 1882. The law explic't ly states that the United States will not admit anyone who has been adjudze! guilty of a “felony, infamous crime + misdemeanor involving moral turpitude.” and the board rules that Fitzharris and Mullett come under this paragraph. The decree comes as a distinct surpris to the two men, and it is announced that they will probably appeal from the boar! of inquiry to the authorities at Washin< ton. COLLEGE YELLS COSTLY. Millionaire Revenged by Cutting Rut- gers’ Out of His Will. New Brunswick, N. J., May 28.—It eosts much to make a noise in this tow! Rutgers’ college has lost probably $25". 000 because her students yelled Jong and loud when at their games. _Mahlon ©. Martin, a rubber million aire, owned a great home and floral gar- den adjoining Rutgers. When an athleti field was to be built he offered to buy + plot in another part of town, but his of fer was declined. Then he_ protest! against it being built on the collec» grounds. Again he was ignored. Then he cut out a large slice of his will. Then he died. When the will was read Rutgers got not a cent and a relative officially an “nounced the reason therefor, as Mr. Mar- tin had given it to him. | REGARDED AS DEAD. | Maj. Rockefeller Not Heard from for More than a Year. Washington, D. C.. May 28.—Ti« name of Maj. Charles M. Rockefeller is no longer borne on the army register He is regarded by the war department as dead. Maj. Rockefeller went to the Philippines in April, 1899, and disap- peared while inspecting outposts. All sorts of stories reached Manila regarding the lost officer, but nothing conclusire. _ Should Maj. Rockefeller now show up it would require an act of Congress to restore him to his rights. Military au- thorities are convinced that he is dead. W: NCHESTE Ff FACTORY LOADED SHOTGUN SHELLS “New Rival,’ “Leader,” and “Repeater” ~~ aes, How Much You Eat Js not the question, but, how much you digest, because food does good only when it is digested and assimilated, taken up by the blood and made into muscle, nerve, bone and tissue. Hood's sarsaparilla restores to the stomach its powers of digestion. Then appetite is patural and healthy, and dyspepsia is gone. Stomach Trouble—“My mother had a very bad stomach trouble. She weighed only 111 pounds. After taking four bottles of Hood’s Sarsapar- illa she weighed 136 pounds. She took t again after the grip and one bottle got her up.” Miss Otie McCoy, 528 La- fayette ave., Lebanon, Ind. 3 Hood’s Sarsaparilla Ie America’s Greatest Blood Medicine. An Aristocratic Peasant. A curious case of historic ancestry has just been discovered in Gascony. There lives in a village of the old province a peasant named Auguste de Noyers, who is a lineal descendant of Miles de Noyers, marshal of France in the reign of Philip the Fair. This noble was one of the most powerful vassals of the monarchy, und_was in high command at the battle of Crecy. His humbie descendant goes daily to work in the vineyards, and is lit- tle affected by the fallen fortunes of his family.—New York Commercial Adver- tiser. The Situation in France. Should the exposition be a pronounced success, and should, ere its close, the war in South Africa be over, the Waldeck- Rousseau government will have a fair oppertunity to complete the work it has so well begun. But.should wailure attend the great industrial enterprise, and should the Boers be still holding their own, France will again be at the parting of the ways, with the revived spirit of An- glophobia drawing it toward certain dis- aster.—Harper’s Weekly. ——_—— PILES OF PAIN. “For Twenty Years I’ve Suffered, and Now I Am Well.” A Miracle Performed for a Father and His Three-Year-Old Son—Millions of People Need Relief. ef oie oe Nothing but irregular working of the bowels. When a nauseous mass of undl- gested food ferments in the intestines in- Stead of being passed out of the body, its pressure congests the blood vessels, ‘and produces ali kinds of piles—bleeding, Wind, itching, all horribly painful and annoying. Nothing will cure them except to go at the cause, make the bowels regular, and then tone up the intestines so they can keep regular. Only a strong intestinal tonic can do it, and Cascarets Candy Cathartic are the best known. ‘The best kind of a proof is the experience of Mr. Heitz: Chicago, Ill, February 19, 1899. Gentiemen—I have been using your Cas- carets for almost a year with great success, not only relieving chronic constipation, but they have enred ine of bleeding piles (which two surgical operations failed to do, putting me to great expense and needless pain). I have recommended them to many friends, with good results. Very truly yours, PRANK ROGERS, No. 228 East Forty-first street, Chicago, 1, Sufferers from piles! Go and do lixewise! Buy and try Cascarets to-day! It's what they do, not what we say they'll do, that proves their merit. They make the liver lively, the bowels regular, the blood pure. All druggists, 10c, 25¢. or 50c. or mailed for price. Send’ for booklet and free sample. Address. Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago; Montreal, Can.; New York. ‘This is the CASCARET tablet. Every tablet of the only genuine Bred okerd (asciinets bears the magte letters “CCC.” Look at the tablet before BJ von buy, and bewnre of frauds, imitations and substitutes. W. L. DOUCLAS $3 & 3.50 SHOES Union Faw orth $4 to $6 compared ¥) with other makes. ‘ Indorsed by over 5B fit} 1,000,000 wearers. [oH , af The genuine have W. L. 3 f Douglas’ name and price % y 1 B stamped on bottom. ‘Take Ba no substitute claimed to be &, j Fs as good. Your dealer ae (\ 4 should keep them —if a . not, we will send a pair . Ne on receipt of price and 25c. eh Waea/ 2" WEN. Gextra for carriage. | State kind of leather, use Nag) size, and width, plain or cap toe. Cat, free. TST eee Hi. L DOUGLAS SHOE GO., Brockton, Mass. Goenless tndin. In spite of British rule India is still virtually a seapless country. Throughout the villages of Hindustan soap is indeed regarded as a natural curiosity, and it is rarely, if. ever, kept in stock by the na- tive shopkeeper, In the towns it is now sold to a certain extent. but how small this is may be gathered from the fact that the total yearly consumption of soap in India is about 100,000 hundredweight that is to say, every 2500 persons use on the average only 112 pounds of soap among them. or, in other words, consid- erably less than an ounce is the average consumption per person, Son of “Informer” Carey. One of the soldiers now on the way to the Cape is going there for the second time in his life. His first visit was paid under strange conditions seventeen years ago. He went with his father, James Carey, the “Invincible” informer, who was shot on board the Melrose by Pat- rick O'Donnell. Now he is journeying once more to the land where his father lies buried on the outskirts of Port Eliz- abeth. He joined the army some years ago, and before being called out as a_re- servist was employed as a tram conduc- tor in London, bearing an assumed name. —Weekly Telegraph. agp hceebe ete eendee sis Ruse of a Wounded Burelar. A wounded man went to the Red Cross hospital in New York and said he was a soldier and had been shot in the Phil- ippines. It turned out that he was a burglar and had been shot in the hip. ~-A placer proposition on the Lower Boise river has been sold for $75,000, Amer egtaAe LIMBS. rer Patented oes sae The Doerflinger Artificial Limb Go, Wiscouss: THE BENEFIT OF RAILWAYS. Into Direct Communication. The construction of the great Siberian railway has even now begun to produce a marked effect on Siberian trade, which formerly was carried on entirely by monopolists. In each district or town there was a local capitalist, who laid in a stock of goods at the fairs of Nijni- Novgorod, or elsewhere, and then fixed his own prices according to the means of his customers, and competition was non- existent. An enterprising man, who had neither capital nor credit, could not com- pete with these monopolists, because of the absence of good means of communi- cation. This abnormal state of affairs is al- ready improving. The railway which has connected Siberia with centers of production has rendered traveling cheap- er and quicker and made capital circulate more freely. People of small means are now enabled to make long journeys for the purchase of stock, and they can enter into direct communication with the pro- ducers and wholesale merchants in large centers. The trade of Siberia has be- come more democratic, and increasing competition has affected a change in its character.—North American Review. THE SURGICAL ANT. Natives of Brazil Utilize it for Sew- ing Up Wounds. The native Brazilian, far removed, as he usually is, from doctors and surgeons, depends upon a little ant to sew up his wounds when he is slashed or scratched. This odd creature is called the surgical ant, from the use to which it is put. The ant has two strong nippers on his head. They are his weapons for battie or forage. When a Brazilian has cut himself, for example, he picks up an ant, presses the nippers against the wound, oue on cach side and then gives the bug a squeeze. The indignant insect snaps his uippers together, piercing the flesh and bringin the lacerated parts close together. The Brazilian at that moment gives the ant’s body a jerk and away it flies, leaving the nippers embedded in the fiesh. To be sure that kills the ant, but he has served his most useful purpose in life. ‘The operation is repeated until the wound is sewed up neatly and thoroughly. To Grow Earthworms, Cut ‘Em in Two At the meeting yesterday of the 4o- ological club Mrs. W. H. Pinney read an interesting paper on earthworms: “I saw stated in a natural history volume that if a worm should be divided the anterior part would grow a tail and the posterior part would grow a head. I took twelve worms and divided them, placing the di- vided parts of each worm in a separate glass. In less than a month I had twen- ty-two worms, losing only two tail parts. The head parts had grown tails and the tail parts had grown heads, Two weeks ago I divided two worms into halves and put the four parts into a glass into which I placed earth, but no food, and the head parts ate the tail parts.—Spring- field Union. STATE oF O10, CITY OF TOLEDO, } gg Tucas COUNTY. Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he Is the senior partner of the firm of F, J. Cheney & Co., doing business in the City of ‘Toledo, county aud state aforesaid, and that said’ firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of Hall's Catarrh Cure. FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and subseribed In my presence, this 6th day of December, A. D. A886. A. W. GLEASON { sxat.} ‘Notary Public. ae er} W. GLEASON, { seat } a Notary Public. ayes Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken Interna!ly and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testi- monials, free. ir. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, 0. Sold by druggists, T5c. An English Tronsides. The British ironclad Warrior, which is the oldest warship of her kind in her majesty’s navy, has just been stricken from the roll of vessels in active service. ‘The Warrior was launched in 1830 and completed the next year. She has a dis- placement of 9210 tons, and her iron ar- mor is 444 inches thick.—Washingtou ‘Times, 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 nourish- ing, 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 4 as much. All grocers sell it. We and 2he In six months it will be a whole half century since Galusha A. Grow was elected for his first term in Congress. 4 * NONE SUCH ae SORENESS and STIFFNESS piel Sesion rape St. Jacobs Oil fr. ~ A a A ( dy :} \y 3 i ij “4 _ PISO’S CURE FOR, = RES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS. a pq Best Cough Syrup. ‘Tastes Good. Use pM rel in time. Sold by druggists, aa “CONSUMPTION. &% WILL BECOME A VANDERBILT ae t—iS Pe | és 3 oe A eg Sy | ee te = di » & : 4 i : eel: 9) | : BS ee | i i = ee i : } 3 a . ® | eae res S | ae os . ste | eS & ba oes ah Bei 8 SO. oo This is an excellent likeness of Miss Elsie French, fiancee of Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, whose father, the late Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jeft him the bulk ot his huge fortune, It is announced that the wedding will not take place for a year. eee 5 lite at present. There is just a suggestion 3 TEA-TABLE SALAD. 3 Jo! resemblance in its weave to the or “a . leondie so much used fer summer gowns A Wise Woman—"“Nobody can per- suade Aunt Hetty to get on a_bieycle.” “She knows when she's well off.’—Phil- adelphia Bulletin. Frank—“Mr. Speedwell must be awful- ly rich; he’s got-tive automobiles.” Florz—“Yes. T guess he’s an automo- bilionaire."—New York Herald. “They've gota calf in Wilkesbarre with twe tails.” “LI bet it shudders every time a boy with a tin pail passes through the lot." Cleveland Plain Dealer. A girl from the Nineteenti ward, when asked where she lives, | says: “Bobtail fiush half-minute street." On being asked what she meant she replies, "1234 Thirty-second street.” Foreed Economy: De Sporte—Speak- ing of economy; my brother Jack hasn't spent a cent in five years.” Chappie— “Indeed?” De Sporte—*Yes; but he'll be out next week.”—Harlem Life. A bow-legged Baltimore man has sub- mitted to an operation in order to over come the objections of a girl who doesn't admire the wishbone effect in husbands. Yet there are persons who affect to be- lieve that love is deteriorating. THE OLD SHELL GAME. A turtle one day, on the shore, Wished to race Mr. Hare, as of yore; But the rabbit said, “Nit, Mr, Turtle, I've bit On that little old shel game before.” —Philadeiphia Inquirer. Nodd—“I guess that doctor of mine will give me something to stop the baby's crying now. Todd—“Why ?" Nodd—"'m going to move next door to him.” —Tit-Bits. Doctor—"The bicycle gives people the best exercise in the world.” Patient—“But 1 can’t afford to ride a bicycle.” Doctor—“Oh, you needn't ride one; just dodge them.”—Tit-B.ts. Billings—"You are the last man to play the races, What ‘do you know about horseflesh, anyway?” Stillson—“T ought to know a good deal gbout it. T was in the army and lived en szlt horse for months at a time.”— Toston Transcript. Mr. Jackson—*Mose Johnson got fine S2 an’ costs fo’ drunkenness, and his wife came around and paid it and took him home!” Mr. Linkum—“Yes. She suspected dat he wanted to go to jail so’s to get out ob house cleaning!’—Duck. Motker—"So you have been at the jam again, Adolphus!’ Son— “The cupboard docr came open of itself, mother, and I thought-——" Mother—“Why didn't you say. ‘Get thee behind me, Satan’?” Son —"So I did, mother; and he went and pushed me right in!’—Brooklyn Life. Police Captain—*Why dont you do something? You haven't made an arrest for a week.” Wherenpon the police officer brushes up his coat and helmet, scours his star and club and goes out to the park, where he arrests the attention of the house- maids. New Combination —"We are having changeable weather,” said) Mr. _Titt. we are, indeed,” replied Mr. Penn, “Ino you know what my theory is?” “What is your theory?” “I have an idea that the icemen and the fuelmen have divided the weather between them.”—Pittsbarg Chronicle. The Bronson-Wilkins had been quarrel- ing as usual, when he wearily groaned: “Oh, dear! I wish I were dead.” “Ah!” replied Mrs. B. W. “You'd see how different it was then!” “Well! I’m sure to go to heaven!” “You! You go to heaven!” “Yes! It would be no change if 1 went to the other place.”—Pick-Me-Up, Inclined to be Cautions. The death of the venerable Corsican brigand, Antonio Bellacascia, who in the later years of his life was a very re- spectable: member of. society, and_ with whom M. Lockroy lunched when, as minister of marine, he was making a tour in the island, calls to mind a remark made by Edmond About, who had the very quintessence of Paris wit, and who, like M. Lockroy, was partaking of an al fresco repast with Bellacascia. — Ed- mond About was anxious to make him a little present, and noticing that Bella- cascia had heen eyeing very attentively a table’ knife of delicate workmanship which he was in the habit of carrying with him to use when traveling, he of- fered this to the brigand, who very cor- dially thanked him and accepted it. As he handed it over to Bellacascia he said in an undertone: “If you should hap- bey to use it elsewhere than at table do not leave it in the wound: it has my name cn the handle.”—London World. Novelties in Writing Paper. ihe most approved tint for writing paper at present is _ pistachio green. And the women who are fortunate enough to have a country house have the name of their summer home printed i: white letters at the topof the green sheet. It is a matter of individual fancy wheth- er the paper has a white border or not. It is equally correct either way. The pistachio green paper is also stamped with the owner’s monogram in very small white ietters inside a circlet of silver. Khaki paper is much used by the young person addicted to fads. But it is-not an attractive paper. Khaki color. that dull shade of Manila brown, is auy- thing but pleasing. The Khaki paper can be bought plain, and also with a narrow red, white or dark blue border. The newest papers sre known as or- gandie, chiffon, coquille, Tarlatan and Dongola. The organdie paper is a special fayor- ite at present. There is just 1 suggestion of resemblince in its weave to the or- gendie so much used for summer gowns. Tt can now be bought in the bend paper, as weil as thicker quality, and comes ir heliotrope, bine and white. The coguille paper, which has an egg shell finish, is also mach in demand. The majority of the tinted papers at present ave made with a very narrow wh te be: dey. Both the oblong and the square en velope are used. An envelope novelty which promises to be a favorite is oblong in shape, with the flap extending diagon- ally acress the back of the enve.ope, and the point ‘nstead of bemg in the center, as usual, is at the extreme left hand cor- ner. ‘ Deep-tinted papers, with the exception of the new fad of khaki, are seldom nsed by the woman of refinement. The pale tints are the fashion of the moment. Delicate heliotrope, p'stachio green, pate blue and faint gray are all in favor, Monograms and crests (are smaller than they were at the beginning of the winter, and are invariably inside ef a circle, The woman who always does the cor vect thing never perfumes her note pa- per She never uses paper of a striking. y pronounced tint, and she does not change it with every whim of fashion. She adopts a style of paper which she intends to make distinetively her own and then clings to it—New York Jour- a SNAP SHOTS. Away with ‘em—trunks. A money drawer—the dentist's foreeps. Eggs never get beaten because they are bad. | The top manufacturer makes hum-spun goods. With the deaf and dumb, actions speak louder than words. Every town and city makes its mark. ‘That is, its postmark, That fellow in the moon is net the only man who gets under a cloud. Piano-playing girls seem to be fond of putting irills on their bangs. An appropriate piece of slang when you order apple pie is “cheese it.” Some people consider a circus bad, and stil we say “as good as a circus.” Picnic parties who forget to carry salt 2nd pepper are entirely out of season. If the “open door” prevails, what an opening there will be for book agents! Mother Hubbard dresses ought to be econcmical, they xo seldom get worn out. “Figures can’t lie,’ they say. but the artist sometimes requires his model to sit. Yon can't outdo open-air amusements, but they are continually being dene out. Bargain day in_a big store looks very much like the Woman's Press associa- tion, | A woman gives her hand in marriage, ‘but after she's been married x while she tikes a, hand herself.—Philadelphia Bul- letin. Unintentionally Roasted Jay Gould. Some years ago George Jay Gould and a companion came cowntown on the ele- | vated road and were standing on the plat- form of the car, relates the New York | Triana, Mr. Gould, after selecting a cigarette from his case, offered the case Ito the guard. That worthy took a cigar- lette, and with a “thank you” stowed it | away in his pocket. “Ob, take more than that,” Mr. Gould urged, good-naturedly. [fake a half dozen,” “No, thanks,” re- ‘turned the guard, “one will do me. It’s ;lucky, though,” he added; as an after- thought, “that I'm not old Gould. You weuldn’t have got off so easy. He'd probably have taken all you have, and the case as well.” Gould and his friend looked at each lochér silently for a moment and then burst into uncontrollable shrieks of laughter. The guard looked suspiciously first_at one and then at the other of the laughing pair, and then apparently com- ing to the conclusion that he had fathered Jan tmexpectedly-witty speech, joined in the mirth, and at intervals said to one jor the other, “That's a pretty good crack I made, wasn’t it?’ “It was,” they beth assured him. “Hanever square!” called the guard, and this being their des- itination the other man said. “Give me one of your cards, George,” which being done he pressed it into the hand ef the man as he got off the car. The guard said “Thank you. Come and ride with me again.” Then he glanced at the card, and from the brick red of his natural i ¢ lot he turned a pasty, motiled white, bis jaw worked and he seemed to essay | speech as the train drew out of the sta- tion. “It seems like fate,” commented the other man, “that out of the two million or mere to whom he could have made that remark without ill effect he should have made it to ene of the very few with whom it could work him harm. J hope you won't do anything to him. “Of course I won't,” replied Mr. Gould. “He's punished enough as it is.” And sure enough, he didn’t. Our Meat Product Exports. ‘This country last year exported more meat products, leaving out sheep and mutton, than all the rest of the world combined. The amount was nearly $200.- 000,000, and the great crops of Indiax corn are the foundation of the trade. i y - Perhaps you have already discovered that FE : powders and washes will not cure ; f- 28 these eruptions on your face. ; {f° They may cover up and sup- F ) ee ptess, but they cannot re- Jf move. Rashes, boils, salt-rheum, e re h: K shingles, hives, eczema, tetter, etc. | s ate but surface indications of a deeper jt FP OS trouble. And A ij / That’s The question for you now is, — how to make bad blood good blood: how to get rid of all these impurities in your system. Everybody knows the answer,—a perfect Sarse- parilla, No ordinary Sarsaparille, such as you can buy at almost any store, will answer; it must be a perfect one. et There is such a Sarsaparilla, and it differs widely in every oe wy from all other Sersaparilles. | Thats AYER’S } “The only Sarsaparilla made under the personal supervision of three gradvates: a gradvate in pharmacy, a graduate in chemistry, and a graduate in medicine.” a Be ) $1.00 a bottle. All druggists. : “" «6 hiad frequent and most painf1 boils. I was treated by a number of phy- ff sicans, but they did me ro good. I tried many Kinds of patent medicines, but without effect ; but whe I tried Ayer’s Sanaparilla I got hoid of the right thing, for 1 was s00n complete'y cured.""—R. P. Caovse, Attica, N.Y. ; CE nn a; * ‘ y The Perils of Panama. Valuable information was furnished iast winter to Washington officials con- zerning Panama conditions by David W. Bartlett, who died recently at Spring- field, Mass. Before De Lesseps’ far- reaching scheme had been exploited, Mr. Bartlett took a contract to build twelve miles ef railroad on the isthmus. He took with him 120 men, and left behind on the isthmus more than 100 graves, malarial fever being an overpowering ad- versary to all except the strongest of con- stitutions. Despite the havoc, Mr. Bart- lett carried out his contract.—New York Commercial. Try Grain-O! Try Grain-O! Ask your grocer today to show yon a package of GRAIN-O, the new food drink that takes the place of coffee. The children may drink it without injury as well as the adult. All who try 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. Ic and 25¢e per package. Sold by all grocers. Seven Presidents were Masons. Seven Presidents of the United States were members of the Masonic fraternity ~ Washington, Jackson, Polk, Buchanan, Johnson, Garfield and McKinley. Wash” ington was master of his lodge at Alex- andria, Va. Jackson was at one time grand master of the grand lodge of ‘Ten- hessee, and Buchanan was sepaty grand master of the grand lodge of Penusylva- nia. 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 feet and Ingrowing Nails. _Al- len’s Foot-Hase makes new or tight shoes easy. Sold by all druggists and shoe stores. 25c, Sample mailed FREE. Address Alien S. Olmsted. Le Roy, N. Y. What Children Fear. It has been ascertained by a series of questions that what children are most afraid of are thunderstorms. Next come reptiles, strangers, darkness, fire, death, domestic animals, illness, wild animals, water, insects, ete.—New York Post. Lane's Family Medicine Moves the bowels each day. In order to be healthy this is necessary. Acts gently ou the liver and_ kidneys. Cures sick headache. Price 25 and 50c. First Manufacture of Quinine. _ The manufacture of quinine was begun in Philadelphia by John Farr in 1820, the year of its discovery. You will Never Know what good ink is unless you use Car- ter’s, It costs no more than poor ink. All dealers. —There is such a variety of climate in Costa Rica that by going a few miles north or south ef a given point avy kind of climate may be enjoyed. Dropsy treated free by Dr. H. H, Green's Sons of Atlanta, Ga. The great- est dropsy specialists in the world. Read their ad. in another column ef this paper. —-Nutmegs are slight stimulants. and when administered in warm water they make a gentle nervous sedative and a fair stomachie. The population of Vanceuver, B. C., increased 5000 in 1899. a me bepae: SSRN t | i y - Perhaps: JS powd “fs ae “ HOW THEY GET TH&IR FIRE. Madagascar Savages Are the Most In- genious in the World. Various savages have different methods of kindling fire. In New Holland a peint- ed stock is twirled between the palms of the hand until the wood on which it stands begins to smoke, and at last breaks into flame. Other savages obtain a spark by sticking one bit of wood upright in the earth, cutting a slit in it lengthwise, in which’ they rub another bit of wood with a protruding piece until it flames. The most ingenious method is, however, that followed by the inhabitants of west- ern Madagascar. These use a string of animal hide, by which they twirl the up- right stick rapidly and hasten the fire lighting. To us who have merely to strike a match under the mantelpiece the value of fire is little appreciated, but_sup- pose that we were caught in the wilder- ness without a match, how would we go about lighting the tire to warm ourselves er cook our food? Perhaps the savage will point a way, especially as every boy of any account has a piece of twine in his pocket.—Washington Post. Lincoitn Casket Moved Ten Times. The casket containing the remains of Lincoln, through fear of vandal thieves, has been removed no less than ten times since it was first placed in the vault ia Oak Ridge cemetery, May 4, 1865. Animals Recognize Themselves. A German naturalist has collected evi- dence that monkeys, dogs, cats, birds and other animals recognize themselves or other animals in mirrors and pictures. Pinkham Plemedies For disorders of the feminine organs have gained their great renown and enormous sale ke~ cause of the permanent good they have done and are doing for the women of this country. if all ailing or suffer- ing women could be mada to understand how ab- solutely true are the statements about Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, their suffer- ings would end. Mrs. Pinkham counsels women free of charge. Her address is Lynn, Mass. The advice she gives is practical and honest. You can write freely to her; she is a wa- 72M La tes and Gents’ Clothes and l- LACE Kinds of 'aamils idy-etungs at real sonable prices, Mail orders prompt- CURTAINS ly attended to. Wrie HACK & ALTEN, 534 Clinton Street, Aid- 25 to 40c pair, waukes Wis. ee er picase say you saw the Advertisement ta this paper, NSION 2 W.MOBRIS, MS Washington, D.c. ai ras eeeee petylly Rrospoutes, Clnims: $rsincivil war, adjudicating claims, atty auon, D R o PSY NEW DISCOVERY: cives quick rusts cures wort cases. Book of testimonials and 10 DATS" treatmeos PREE. Dr. 8. M. Green's Sons, Box 8, Atlanta, Ga This is the path to Wake-Robin-Land, Oh, come, my dearest, and we will g... Like two little children, hand in hand— This is the path to Wake-Robin-Land! The waves break silver along the sand, The air is sweet and the time is low— This is the path to Wake-Robin-Land, Oh, come, my dearest, and we will go! Love, let us tarry in Wake-Robin-Land, With only the bird-songs and blossoms and God! Tis even sweeter than we had planned— Love, let us tarry in Wake-Robin-Land! Like two little children, hand in hand— The sky our tent, and our pillow, the sod— Love, let us tarry in Wake-Robin-Land, With only the bird-songs and blossoms and God! -Ella Higginson in Woman's Home Companion. _____ HAUNTED BY A TELEGRIP MESSAGE. Dick Ramsey and I had gone West to make our fortunes. What that means none but a Eastern boy who has tried it can tell. We roughed it together, sometimes faring well, when we happened to fall into the camp of a hospitable Westerner, but more often tramping it from village to village looking for the work which was never found and wondering when we should strike our "streak" of luck. Finally we separated, Dick to take the position of station agent at Lakeville, a new settlement, I to go on to Riverdale, ten miles beyond, to hold a similar position. We could talk by wire, but we found that further communication would be impossible, for we were well tied down, and, after our separation, did not see each other again. Dick was a gentle sort of fellow, one of those dreamers who never get on in a worldly way, but the dearest companion imaginable. I missed him terribly for awhile, but his occasional talk at the wire told me he was alive and well. One afternoon there came a frantic call at the wire, and I hurried to the instrument to hear Dick tapping off the words that the express train had been delayed and to hold the "runaway," due at the station ten minutes later, until I heard from him. Directly after the message came the line "Express train in sight. Something wrong. Stand by." I waited a full minute, then came Dick's familiar tap-tap: "Express is being run by strange hands. They have stopped at this station. Send relief." There was a second's silence; then, before I could flash the alarm along the line, the tapping began again. It ran: "Everything all right. Goodby." "I signaled for him to repeat the message, and again came the words: "Everything all right." Goodby." I held the instrument in my hand and debated with myself upon my course of conduct. I did not want to needlessly send the alarm along the line. On the other hand, why had Dick sent his first message. I touched the instrument and asked, "Is everything all right, Dick?" And the answer came back, "Everything is all right." If did not seem at all like Dick's touch, but I laid it to nervousness and quieted my fears while I waited for the "runaway." "I recalled that Dick had told me over the wire the previous evening that the "runaway" would have a large sum of money aboard, which it was to transfer to the express at his station. When the "runaway" came up I notified the engineer that the express was waiting for him at Lakeville, and I also casually mentioned that the alarm had come from there; but that afterward I had received a message that all was well. He seemed disturbed and advised me to repeat the story to the United States marshal aboard, which I did, with the result that the train pulled out of the station prepared for emergencies, though neither they nor I thought anything of the hasty message that had been flashed to me. Ten minutes later the message came over the wires from Lakeville: "Found train in charge of highwaymen. Dick Ramsey murdered at instrument. Object was to rob the 'runaway,' but we overpowered them after a desperate struggle. Notify the stations along the line to send relief." This, in brief, was the story of the death of Dick Ramsey, and after I had seen him laid away in the graveyard at Lakeville I packed up my goods and journeyed farther on, for I could not remain so near the scene of my old friend's death. Well, strange things happen, and after I had found a position with the same company fifty miles away I was assigned back to Lakeville. I found the village grown into a settlement of very fair size and the simple little station replaced by a very pretentious one, while the humble little churchyard, where they had buried poor Dick Ramsey, was gay with flowering shrubs, and spires of marble lifted themselves here and there among the trees. Dick's grave was still marked by the rude cross I had placed over it. Well, in the duties of my new position, I am afraid I forgot Dick and for weeks at a time I never thought of the mound behind the church, and the poor fellow who had come with me from home and whose joys and sorrows had been mine for so long. In Dick's place at the instrument there sat an honest little chap and assisting him was another lad, for the station at Lakeville now boasted half a dozen employees. High above the station, on a bluff that commanded the finest view in town, was the home of the president of the company, a man who had fought his way up and who now boasted his millions. The president was a tall, dark man, with stern features, but a kind heart, and often I watched him with envy as he alighted from his private car and entered the handsome victoria which carried him behind his spanking black team up to his home on Lakeville heights. Often the president did not go up to the city, and on these occasions he wired me on his private line, and I wired to the city for him. One day, chancing to sit at the instrument, there came a call on the president's wire and responding I received this message: "Let me know if the road is clear." A minute later I called up his private wire and tapped, "The road is clear." "All right," came back the answer. It was a simple-enough message, but it set my pulses throbbing. Mechanically I touched the button and repeated the message, "The road is clear." and immediately came back the words, "All right." I sat at the instrument like a man in a dream and my thoughts were with Dick, who had sat at the same spot five years before and had touched that same instrument. What was there in that reply that so fascinated me? Or was it the anniversary of poor Dick's death that made me fanciful? That afternoon the president came down to the station on business, and I looked at him closely. He must have seen me watching him, for he shifted his position uneasily and nervously handled the instrument. I may say that he was an expert operator and preferred telegraphing his messages to writing them. As I watched him I remembered hearing the strange story of his rise. How from an operator on a distant road, he had suddenly become a stockholder, a director, and finally the president of the road; and how his wealth and holdings were known far and wide. He seemed ill at ease that day, and I withdrew my eyes and busied myself elsewhere: but more than once he caught me looking at him. GIVING SUPERI Men's Furnishings Men's Balbriggan Underwear, fancy colors, regular 35c garment 18c Bargain Friday only. One lot Men's Ties including tecks, bows and string ties, made of the finest silks, your choice, Bargain Friday. 8c Men's Unlaundered Shirts, all lineu bosom and cuff bands, reinforced in all weak points, Bargain Friday, only. 25c Men's Negigee Shirts made of best madras and percales, in checks, stripes, etc., well made and really worth 50c, Bargain Friday, only. 29c This shoe section would not maintain its enviable position in local shoedom if it did not meet the demands for every new and stylish shoe. Balance of a lot of Ladies' Dongola Button 59c or Lace Shoes while they last only. Balance of a lot of Men's $1.50 Shoes while 98c they last. Balance of a lot of Youth's Fine Satin Calf Button Shoes, solid soles and counters, sizes 12 to 69c 2-a regular $1.25 shoe at. Balance of a lot of Infants' Black or Tan Button Shoes, new coin toe, hand turned soles, sizes 4 to 8—really worth 75c. Bargain Friday. Draperies and Curtains Women with thoughts of home decorating will be interested in this brief notice of Draperies. The styles are not new, but who would know it? They look for all the world like the latest patterns. The mill man sent them here at half prices. You can buy them on that basis. Plaid and Figured Swiss for draperies (in colors). Bargain Friday, the yard.....6c Tapestry Bordered Table Covers yard square, regular 69c quality. Bargain Friday.....35c Hungarian Cloth Couch Covers in Oriental designs, with tringe all around, sold usually at $2.00. Bargain Friday only.....$1.59 Odd lot Chenile and Tapestry Portieres, worth up to $2, Bargain Friday.....98c Striped Scrim for curtains, 8c quality Bargain Friday, only.....3c Tambourne Musiin for bed room curtains, they're slightly soiled and go for.....15c Avalion Draperies, the 25c quality, Bargain Friday, per yd.....15c It is estimated that during the past fourteen months upwards of 10,000 wolves have been killed in Wyoming, in addition to mountain lions, wildcats, lynx, bear and coyotes. $2 DOWN. $2 PER WEEK. NO INTEREST. BUYS A CHOICE LOT IN TIPPECANOE ADDITION. A FINE level piece of property, located on Howell avenue car line a short distance south of Tippecanoe lake and town hall, only 12 minutes' ride from business center of Bay View, and 25 minutes' ride from center of Milwaukee. Howell avenue is 100 feet wide at this point. Remember that one 5-cent fare will carry you to the property from any part of the city. Complete abstracts of title furnished. Don't forget the terms; $2 cash as first payment; balance $2 per week without interest until the whole of the purchase price is paid. For plats and prices call on or address CHARLES R. DAVIS. FOR RENT—Furnished rooms 315 Vict Street 1st flat. Morning before 10; evening after 7. Avenue Hotel... Free 'Bus. GEO. W. DEWEY, Furniture, Stoves, Carpets, General House Furnisher, 230-232 West Water St., MILWAUKEE, WIS. Cash or Easy Payments. Established in 1881. Furniture Exchanged. For the Safest and Quickest Road be- tween Milwaukee and Chicago --- Twice that day the president drove down to the station, and slowly he drove home again as though he were disturbed about something. The third time he came it was almost dark, and I heard him send his coachman home, telling him that he would follow soon on foot. For half an hour the president busied himself around the station, a most unusual thing for him, and when he finally took leave it was to walk hurriedly away in the direction of the churchyard, a journey which I often took myself. Scarcely realizing what I was doing, I pulled my cap over my eyes and started after him. What excuse I would make if he turned and saw me I knew not. I only understood that some force was pulling me onward and that same force was taking me over the same road and in the very footprints of President Greydon of the Lakeville & Laska railway. To my surprise he turned the corner as he reached the church and plodding his way past it, opened the gate which led into the churchyard and slowly wended his way among the graves. Noiselessly I followed him. Through the narrow paths we went, he the substance, I the shadow close after him. When, horror of horrors, he stopped! And, my God, he bent over Dick Ramsey's grave. Lower and lower he sank until he was upon his knees and his hands were spread out upon the sod. In the uncertain light of the rising moon I could see that he threw back his head and his face was drawn and deadly white, and that his lips were moving. I must have stepped upon a twig, for a sound betrayed me. Springing to his feet he turned and faced me, not ten feet away. With a cry of rage, he sprang toward me. "So you followed me," he cried fiercely, between his teeth; "you dogged my steps!" He was a powerful man, but in the struggle which followed I easily mastered him and had him pinioned, white and panting. "Do not add another murder." I said, fiercely, "to that of Dick Ramsey." "How did you know?" he whispered. "I recognized your hand upon the wire. I was the agent at the next station when you—took Dick's place—you remember—five years ago—today?" "Oh, God, yes!" he cried. "Shall I ever forget? When I had come to this cursed place to live I thought it might disappear after a while. But it grows stronger every day. I live with it, see it, hear it: that poor fellow—all the time. Yet I had to do it or be killed. There was a gang of us. Oh, oh!" he cried, and breaking down utterly the proud president of the road buried his face in his hands. It was a strange scene, we two there in the moonlight, accuser and accused, he trembling, I revengeful. "I tried to lead a better life," he continued, "and, on my gains, I succeeded well. But oh! the misery of these years. I thought tonight if I could see his grave and pray upon it I might be forgiven and have rest." His eyes sought the spot where poor Dick lay with crushed skull. "What are you going to do?" I asked, after we had stood there in silence. "Give myself up, now, I suppose?" said he; "there is no other way." The next day the whole country was ringing with the strange confession of President Greydon. He made a clean breast of it and was so manly and sincere in his repentance that nobody was sorry when his sentence was placed at a term of imprisonment instead of the death penalty which is so summarily dealt out to criminals in the newest of the Western towns.—Columbus Dispatch. -In 1895 and 1896 many of the American railways were in the hands of receivers. Now they are doing an unprecedented business. BOSTON ST GRAND AVE. AND FOURTH ST. Sensational Suit We do not hesitate at an enormous loss to clean up our Prices one-half and less. Our entire line of suiits have bee lots-none reserved, The entire stock will be sacrificed. Some assortments have been broken by the brisk selling days—lines that had eight or ten colors are now represented—these remaining ones have had their price reduced for bar Striped Taffeta Silks, regular 80c 45c Genuine Swiss Pure quality, the yard. worth $1, the yard a Regular $1.00 Black Satin Du Chessse, 27 inches wide, warranted all suk. Friday the yard. White and Wash Goo A bright array of newness-a generous gathering describes the stock-to particularize there are Swiss Mus Cotton Mulls, Piques, Patistis, Nainsooks and Fancy Men priced very low for bargain Friday. WASH GOODS-All the seasonable and stylish wash far extremely low, especially these special items for Friday Bargain Balance of Silk Stripe Ginghams, Covert Cloth Suiting for cycle Plain regular 20c quality, to costumes, 15c value, 10c Dim close the yard only..... the yard only..... the Black Stripe Grenadines, the regular 121/2c Tan Colored Grenad quality, while it lasts Friday, the yd. only 5c 18c quality, while Great Slaughter of Wolves. FOR SALE—REAL ESTATE. ROOM 23. SENTINEL BUILDING. TELEPHONE MAIN 1298. 2851 WHEN IN MADISON Call at the M. J. REGAN, Prop. $2.00 Rate . . . . . Take the Chicago Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway. LOT---Includes values ranging up to $23 the popular materials in all colors, garn silk man-tailored suits, never offered bet ally low price. LOT---This lot includes all of the highest ed suits in all the popular styles, tight-collarettes, Etons, etc. Suits lined with b naud silks, values in this lot are from $ Silk Bargains ments have been broken by the brisk selling he had eight or ten colors are now represent- ing ones have had their price reduced for ba , regular 80c 45c Genuine Swiss Pure worth $1, the yard a Satin Du Chesse, 27 inches wide, warranted all suk White and Wash Go array of newness—a generous gathering ock—to particularize there are Swiss M Piques, Patistis, Nainsoooks and Fancy M for bargain Friday. in by the brisk selling s are now represented price reduced for bar Genuine Swiss Pure worth $1, the yard a wide, warranted all suk.. Wash Good a generous gathering there are Swiss Mus books and Fancy Mer "Fruit of the Loom" and Bleached Muslin, the yard 9-4 Unbleached Heavy Sh 18c quality, the yard at ... 9-4 Bleached Heavy Sheetin lar 20c kind, the yard for ... 100 doz. 3/4-size all linen unb Dce Napkins, w'rth $1.75, I ODS—All the seasonable and stylish was especially these special items for Friday Bath Ginghams, Covert Cloth Suiting for cycle Plain to costumes. 15c value, Dam the yard only.....10c the lines, the regular 12½c 5c Tan Colored Grenadines Friday, the yd. only 18c quality, while iting for cycle Plain value, 10c the Tan Colored Grenadine 18c quality, while WONDERFUL Curly Hair Made TAKEN FROM LIFE This wonderful hair pomade is the only safe preparation in the world that makes kinky hair straight as shown above. It nirrises the scalp, prevents the hair from falling out and makes it grow. Sold over 40 years and used by thousands, it is the first preparation ever sold for straightening kinky hair. Beware of imitations. Get the Original Ozonized Ox Marrow, as the genuine never fails to keep the hair pliable and beautiful. A toilet necessity for ladies and gentlemen. Elegantly perfumed. The great advantage of wonderful pomade is you can straighten your hair at home. Owing to its superior and lasting quality it is the most economical. It is not possible for anybody to produce a preparation equal to it. Full directions with every bottle. Only 50 cents. Sold by dealers or send us $1.40 Postal or Express Money Order for 3 bottles, express paid. Write your name and address plainly to OZONIZED OX MARROW CO., 76 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Ill. W. T. GREEN, Lawyer, Notary Public. Offices 17-18 Birchard Block. 105 Grand Avenue. Telephone 193 Black. REEN, yer, Public. irchard Block. Avenue. Instant Adjusta For Nat 139 Do You M You know $10.00 a is so exp of the tr PA on Signa ting, Gra ing. TH CO on profa know af MR.T.W. BARTO, of 511 Wells Street. has opened up a new Bakery and Lunch. Has stocked his store with Choice Goods, Fresh Bread, Rolls, Pies, Cakes and Candies and Choice Family Groceries, Milk and Tobacco and Cigars. 511 WELLS ST. Don't forget to give him a call. Phone 405 Black. —Nelson was 39 when he won the victory of the Nile. Wellington was only 40 when he opened the Peninsular war. Cromwell was 46 when he won at Naseby. --- PERFECTION GAS RANGES AND SPECIALITIES Instantaneous Cleanable Star Burners, Adjustable Needle Valve. For Natural, Artificial or Gasoline Gas. 139 Burrell St., Milwaukee, Wis. Do You Wish to be a MASTER PAINTER You know Good Painters make from $5.00 to $10.00 a day easy. OUR BOOK is so explicit that even Boys can become Masters of the trade. PAINTING POINTERS on Sign, House and Carriage Painting, Decorating, Graining, Gilding, Silvering and Calsomining. This Book will also teach you how to CONTRACT FOR BUSINESS on profitable basis. It will teach you all we know after having spent a life time in the business, and will generally SAVE YOU MONEY. Mailed postpaid for only 50c. VAL. SCHREIER SIGN WORKS, Milwaukee, Wis. Northwestern House APPLETON, WIS. JOHN A. BRILL, - Proprietor. At exactly one-half price for Bargain Friday— Ladies' Plain Colored and Lock Stitch Hose, all colors, and Fancy Colored Top Hose, Friday the pair.....7c Children's Ribbed Full Seamless Hose, fast black, the pair.....5c Infants' Fine Ribbed Lis'e Thread Black Hose, Friday, the pair only.....12 $ _{2}^{1} $ c Linings Mercerized Sateen for skirts and linings, all colors, per yd... 25c All Linen Canvass Skirt Facing, per yard..... 8c Black Taffeta Skirt Lining, per yard..... 9c 'Varsity Brush Braid at.....3c Stockinet Dress Shields, regular 10c quality.....3c Gold-eyed Needles, the paper at.....1c Good quality Pearl Buttons, 2 dozen on the card.....10c "Hook-on" Laces' Hose Supporters, the pair.....19c Children's "Velvet Grip" Hose Sup- porters, black or white, the pair.....10c "White Cloud" Sewing Silk, all colors and black, 20 yard spool.....1c Paper 200 sharp pointed Pins at.....1c Bixby's "Satino'a" Combination Shoe Polish, the bott e.....5c Mennen's Boraetd Talcum Powder, 2 boxes for.....25c Arnica Tooth Soap—box at.....17c Dr. Graves' Tooth Powder, the bottle at.....12c On Blache Face Powder, the box .....34c EV. G. W. MUGGAGE, A. M. E. Zion Church. se., Fond du Lac, Wis. REGULAR SERVICES—SUNDAYS: SPECIAL SERVICES—EASTER DAY. Missionary Collections. CHILDREN'S DAY. Endowment Collection. 50cents Money—Now. BOARD MEETINGS. Official—First and third Monday in each month. Trustees—Monday after second and fourth Sunday. S. S. Board—Call of Pastor. Quarterly Conference—Call of P. M. NEW YORK TAILORING CO. 322 Wells Street Funeral Directors AND EMBALMERS 431 Broadway. MILWAUKEE. WIS CHAS. D. MILNE, Electrical Contractor 110 Mason St. Tel. Main 527. CONECTOR Hosiery Sale --- Mining.....10:45 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Day School.....3 p. m. Peer Meeting.....9:30 a. m. Ms Meeting.....12 m. P. C. M.....6:30 p. m. Sacraments Quarterly Meeting, 2d Sunday every 3d month. Baptism of Infants, Special Day. Baptism of Adults, Easter Day. THIS IS THE PLACE If you want a Suit or Overcoat made to order at the lowest price Cleaning and Repairing Done Promptly S. F. PEACOCK & SON