Wisconsin Weekly Advocate

WISCONSIN WEEKLY ADVOCATE DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF THE NEGRO RACE ROBERT M. OUR NEXT 1915 OUR NEXT GOVERNOR We publish in this issue the portrait of Robert Marion La Follette, who will, according to present indications, be the unanimous choice of his party for governor of Wisconsin. Mr. La Follette was born in a log cabin at Primrose, Dane county, Wis., June 14, 1855, and is the son of Josiah and Mary Ferguson La Follette. His father died when Robert was an infant. His mother, aided by her son, struggled through pioneer life until Robert entered the State university, from which he was graduated with high honors in June, 1879. He was celebrated as the winner of the interstate oratorical contest a month before his graduation. After his graduation he entered the law department of the university and HON. J. W. BABCOCK. Hon. J. W. Babcock is without doubt the best known of all our congressmen, and many years ago had achieved a national reputation. Mr. Babcock as chairman of the District of Columbia committee is virtually mayor of the nation's cap M. J. B. 1890 ital. As chairman of the Republican congressional campaign committee he has the entire direction of the congressional campaign and has won and established for himself a reputation as perhaps the shrewdest political campaign manager in the United States. He is a power in party politics, and has hosts of friends, Democrats and Republicans, and to his shrewd management much of the party success is due. He is sure of re-election. BRIEFS. We called on Messrs. Buckstaff, Edwards & Co. of Oshkosh and found them very friendly gentlemen. They too are interested in the welfare of our race and will express respond to our call for help at any time. They are very much pleased with the managing and running of the Adro ats and renewed their subscription at once. We expect to run a cut of Mr. Buckstaff, Jr., in our paper for our many readers. We next called on Hon. J. H. Davidson, congressman. We expect to run his cut and publish a long interview which we had with him in our next issue. He is a true friend to our race and by all --- VOLUME III. HON, J. W. BABCOCK. BRIEFS. was admitted to the bar and opened an office in Madison in February, 1880. Soon after he was elected district attorney and was three times elected to Congress, where he served with great distinction. He was the youngest member of the ways and means committee, the most important committee in Congress, and aided Mr. McKinley in the preparation of the McKinley tariff bill. He is widely known as one of the ablest men of the nation, a profound student of economic questions, and will be nominated by acclamation and elected by an overwhelming majority. The colored citizens of the state are unanimously in his favor. He has on many occasions demonstrated his friendship for the race and they have not forgotten it. means let us send him back to Congress. Mr. John C. Spencer has returned from Hot Springs, Ark., where he has been for the last five months, and is much improved in health. When asked about the article of June 7, he said he endorsed it and there was just as much aristocracy among the colored people as there is among the whites. Our race, he says, are much better off in the South in every respect. There they have their own bank and dealers in merchandise, drug stores, undertaking establishments, hotels, etc. They are extensive property holders, and all this has been done through management by themselves, and they receive much of the white patronage. Mr. Spencer is a true Christian man and has done more for his own race and for the colored people than any other man in Milwaukee. It was through the efforts of the editor that Mr. Spencer spoke at Rev. Oldham's church and also at St. Mark's on several occasions. And there is one thing we admire about this noble gentleman; he never decides on a story until he hears both sides of the question; and when he finds that you are right he is with you all the way. He met the colored people and some of the notable colored men at Happy Hollow, and says the progress they are making is something wonderful. We have in our office a photo of seventeen of the leading colored men in that section of the country. Not one of these noble men do we hear of trying to force himself where he is not wanted. This is the only way in which our race can solve the problem. RACINE AND KENOSHA NEWS. The barbecue and picnic held at Central park was a grand success. There were refreshments to accommodate many people of many tastes. The barbecue made one think of those good old Southern barbecues that we Northerners read about. The mayors of both cities and Rev. Miller of Chicago were present and a number of intelligent men representing the Afro-Americans. The exercises were opened by an invocation delivered by Rev. Miller, followed by short and eloquent addresses by the mayor of Kenosha and Dr. J. E. Johnson of Kenosha and Rev. A. Simons of Chicago. Lawyer W. T. Green of Milwaukee made a most excellent speech on the Declaration of Independence and the emancipation. Among the many good things he said was that it was the negro who nobly shed the first blood in the first war for the independence of the United States, and so it has been handed down from generation to generation. We are still contending for independence and freedom and will continue to struggle until the victory is won. MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN, JULY 5, 1900. CREAM CITY NOTES. Don't forget Blue Front restaurant. Oysters in season; chops and steaks to order. Henry Pelton, proprietor, 154 Main street, Oshkosh, Wis. 'Phone, 173 Main. When you deal in the grocery line you will find F. W. Mueller, dealer in staple and fancy groceries, can suit your wants to perfection. Clarence A. Harding and John Schott will wait upon you in the most pleasing manner. The firm is very obliging and kind and have proven friends to us at all times and are constant readers of our paper. Rev. Eugene W. F. Re Qua is much interested in our paper and indorses every step we have taken. He has one of the finest churches in Oshkosh and a large congregation. He is a true friend of our race. * * * * If you want anything in this line just call on George Hays, turning mill and box factory, 228-230 Fifth street, Milwaukee, Wis. Rockers and all kinds of restaurant blocks, extension ladders, tea caddies, boxes, turning, sawing; Mitchell improved washers; trestles, swinging scaffolds; repair work promptly attended to. Telephone, Main 252. 热 热 热 When in Oshkosh get a fine lunch at William Bedward's. You are invited to attend the opening of the New Opera buffet, at the corner of High street and Opera House square, this evening, Monday, July 2. A fine roast lunch will be served. William Bedward. Mrs. Rev. R. Knight, who was very sick, is now convalescent we are glad to say, her attending physician being Dr. Herren. Mrs. Clarence Mason, who is visiting our city, has concluded to remain here, as Milwaukee proves very healthful. There will be a donation given for the benefit of the pastor of St. Mark's. Mr. A. L. Bizzan called Monday evening and informed us that the colored people of Chicago are going to establish a daily newspaper, which will be backed by $5,000,000. It is to be the greatest colored Democratic paper in the United States. ```markdown ``` Mr. A. L. Burgette, a very obliging business man located at 15½ Grand, had a pressing crowd during the Carnival and to each he gave his best and prompt attention. Rev. and Mrs. Joseph Jackson have not returned from Chicago at this writing. Mr. and Mrs. Benson on Third street, between Wells and Cedar, are good representatives of the colored business men and women. Prompt attention, very obliging and striving to please their customers will lead to a flourishing business in the near future. Give them a call and you will be surprised at the results. ☆ ☆ ☆ The Carnival is over and with it a happy time. King Rex and his retinue have left us and will not return for a year. May his raven locks never grow white and, "Long live King Rex and his retinue." * * * In looking over our exchanges this week and perusing their columns we find that the Christian Recorder, published in Philadelphia, Pa., is one of the oldest papers in the United States and is worthy of the highest recognition. During his visit to that city last week the editor had the pleasure of exploring their publishing house from top to main floor. They employ twenty persons, three general secretaries and pay a salary of $418.50 each week. It is a priceless treasure, having represented the Afro-American newspaper work for more than two decades. The editor says that there are the most handsome ladies he has ever seen and they are all single. The Colorado Statesman is our representative from the wild and woolly West. It is not quite so aged as the Christian Recorder but is up to date in everything and as much so as our Eastern, Southern and Northern papers. Its worthy editor and proprietor, Messrs. S. H. Hobson and Joseph D. D. Rivers, we hope to meet in the near future and congratulate them on their success as newspaper men. We must confess that among the leading Afro-American papers the World of Indianapolis, Ind.; Star of Zion, Charlotte, N. C.; the Bee of Washington, D. C.; Mobile Weekly Press, Ala.; Dallas Express, Dallas, Tex., and the Reformer, Richmond, Va., will rank as first class and second to none. We have hundreds of papers pouring into our office daily as exchanges for our paper. The Philadelphia Evening Item is one of the leading white papers of that city. We publish this week what they say about our editor while in the city. The proprietors, Messrs. Harrington Fitzgerald, Ryder Fitzgerald and Hildebrand Fitzgerald, are business-like, easy to approach and very much interested in the progress of our race. This too is an aged paper, this being its fifty-third year. ```markdown ``` Charles Barber, president; W. F. Grunewald, vice-president, and W. C. Jenkins, secretary of the Oshkosh Times are on very friendly terms with the Advocate and extend to us a brotherly hand. It is the only Democratic paper in a city which is overwhelmingly Democratic. We have good friends even among the Democrats. They are always ready to lend us cuts or any help in the newspaper line. Mr. James Irme, the foreman, is a nice man to approach. The lady cashier is very kind and obliging. We wish we had more newspapers throughout the state like this firm. All of the above mentioned business men are subscribers of our paper and highly appreciate and encourage the work done by it. They all say that they would not be without the Wisconsin Weekly Advocate. 京 京 京 When about to take a trip to Chicago just call on Barry Transportation company. Their rates are very low and their accommodation is without equal. They are readers of our paper and are highly satisfied with it. * * * All those who are contemplating new building are invited to call on Simonsen, Classen & Co., dealers in Lumber, Lath, Shingles, Cedar Posts, etc., 726 Clinton street, Milwaukee, Wis. ```markdown ``` You will find in Louis Land's mill and yards at Manistee, Mich., everything in the line of building. All orders are promptly delivered. Just patronize him. * * * If you want any kind of sheet iron work or repairing done we will be pleased to have you call on Davis Bros. Mf.g. Co., boilermakers and machinists. They deal in all kinds of marine and stationary boilers. You will find them kind and obliging and willing to serve you in the best possible way. ☆ ☆ ☆ James and Edwards Co. sell wrapping paper, building paper, paper bags, twine, blank books and stationery, weedenware and grocery sundries. Give them your attention and you will receive the best results. * * * Rev. S. Lofskey, who has made this city his abode for a day or two, has left the city to take charge of some mission work in the North. We wish him success. *** Rev. Millard has returned from Cuba and he says he had a very pleasant trip while in that country and there is a great deal of work to be done toward bettering the condition of the Porto Ricans and Cubans. He is a good Christian man and a friend of the race. We are glad he has returned. We expect to have him speak for us in the near future. *** Our old friend John Newbern paid us a social call and informed us that his sister is in Cleveland, O., spending the summer and is getting on nicely. He also informed us that Mrs. Louise Smith of our city would graduate some time in July from one of the Chicago universities and she will be found doing business at the old stand. We wish the doctor success in her new field. \* \* \* One of Milwaukee's business men, Mr. William Tate, holds a position in the city hall. He is bright and intelligent, has a Christian wife and a beautiful home. He is one of the constant readers of our paper and says he would not be without J. H. JENKINS. We take great pleasure in presenting to the public the latest cut of J. H. Jenkins, one of Oshkosh's leading business men and president of Union National bank. He has traveled all through the Southern states and is well acquainted with the advantages and disadvantages of our people there. He advises us to follow in the footsteps of Booker T. Washington and we will come out all right. Mr. Jenkins is a true Christian and a friend of the race. He not only talks religion, but shows it in his charitable deeds, and he is the superintendent of one of the Sunday schools of Oshkosh. He was one of the very first subscribers to our Weekly Advocate. When he was asked concerning the article of June 7, 1900, in fact it has increased our circulation wonderfully. Montana has developed a "cowboy artist" in the person of Charles M. Russell, who, though a man of the plains, has done some excellent work with the pencil. His pictures are all of the frontier life around him, the only life he knows. HON. THEO. OTJEN. Hon. Thecobald Otjen, present representative of the Fourth Congressional district, is a candidate for re-election. Congressman Otjen has served two terms, and commands the respect of his fellow-congressmen and his constituents for the fearless honesty and manly integrity which has at all times characterized his [Image of a man with a mustache and a suit, facing left. The background is plain white.]] actions in the public service. Mr. Otjen has distinguished himself in many ways; he has secured several large appropriations for improving Milwaukee harbor; he has secured the passage of hundreds of pension bills for the relief of the widows and mothers of deceased veterans in his district. He is a kind, affable man, is easily approached by the humblest citizen as well as rich, and is in every sense a true representative of the people. He recently secured the appointment of a young colored woman from Milwaukee to a position in the census bureau. He is the friend of the colored people and they will support him unanimously. WHAT OUR FRIENDS SAY Among those who came from Wisconsin to attend the national convention was R. B. Montgomery, proprietor of the Wisconsin Weekly Advocate, a journal published in Milwaukee and devoted to the interests of the colored race. He came as a correspondent, primarily, but really to espouse the cause of Republicanism among the colored people. Mr. Montgomery thoroughly understands the political situation, as it is now, and as it was in the '60s, and his advance to his present position of prosperity is due entirely to his own efforts. He was born a slave in Aberdeen, Miss., and at the close of the War of the Rebellion went to Knoxville, Tenn. There he carried water, blackened boots and sold newspapers in order to support his mother and three brothers. At a big campmeeting in 1870, Mr. Montgomery associated with white people, and met Rev. William L. Gray, who invited him to come to Philadelphia to live. He remained as a servant in the family for three and a half years. Subsequently he entered the employ of the late Col. Thomas Fitzgerald as a waiter and there, by listening to the conversations of the family, was imbued with the idea that he could become an editor. After the Centennial he went to New York and remained eighteen months. Then he traveled through the West for a long time, and lived in Chicago for several years. He drifted to Milwaukee, and established the paper which he now conducts. His motto is, "The negro must work out his own problem." He strictly believes in drawing the color line, thinking that the separate work of the two classes will accomplish more than anything else. In his work Mr. Montgomery has the assistance of Mrs. Rebecca D. Lowe, president of the General Federation of Woman's clubs.-The Item, Philadelphia. R. B. Montgomery of Milwaukee, editor of the Milwaukee Weekly Advocate, came to Oshkosh Sunday to attend the funeral of Mayor Merrill. He is a colored man and his paper is published in the interest of the colored race. He said yesterday: "Mr. Merrill was a friend of the colored man and he stood by us at all times. We feel that in his death we have lost one whose sympathies were with us. On many occasions he showed that they were. With the people of Oshkosh, who in his death have sustained a heavy loss, we extend our sympathy to his wife." Among the floral offerings was a large bouquet from Mr. Montgomery.—Oshkosh Times. Give This Your Attention. Milwaukee, Wis., June 25, 1900.—We take pleasure in announcing to our friends and the public generally that we have formed a copartnership under the name of Van Wyck, Groth & Henning, for the general-practice of law, with offices at 614-615 Germania building. We shall be pleased to attend to all legal matters which may be entrusted to us and will endeavor by promptness to merit a continuance of the confidence with which we have been individually favored in the past. Howard Van Wyck, John A. F. Groth, Edward J. Henning. —Berlin has sixty-three public monuments and is making ready for some more By a Prominent Citizen of Chicago Some Thrifty Negroes and What They Are Doing Senator Vest Speaks on the Race Question. Special to Colorado Statesman. For the information of the readers of your weekly journal. I wish to submit a few facts concerning the negroes in Georgia, especially in and around Atlanta, where I have had the pleasure of stopping for a few days on business. Being so delighted with the impression of the city's colored business men, and acting in the capacity as special agent for the Colorado Statesman, I feel it my utmost duty to make a correct statement of the colored people of the South. Upon my arrival I had the pleasure of meeting some of the brightest colored business men of the South. Passing through the resident portion of the city, I found dotted here and there some of the most beautiful homes with no few of them owned by our people, architectured by negro science and constructed by negro mechanics. Passing along down the line, my company and escort, who was a very able young man, and who attains the highest character of being one of the leading lights of the city, and a staunch promoter for the welfare of the race, called my attention to the different boarding-houses, restaurants, saloons and barber shops, all operated by colored men and all doing a flourishing business. The next in line was the professional man. Dr. W. H. Mothershed, a dentist, has a neat office equipped with everything in his line of business. A little further on we were shown Mr. L. L. Lee, whose place of business would be a credit to any city. Mr. Lee is the city undertaker in whose laboratory all manner of work is being carried on to suit its demand. An excellent stable of horses and hearses ready to do business, at a moment's notice. Through a rigid civil service examination which is enforced by the state law, Mr. Lee has the distinction of making the highest average, awarding him through the many competitions (and they a'l white), the right to bury the dead. Our next visit was the custom house, where we were met very cordially by the Hon. H. A. Rucker, collector of internal revenue. His secretary and lieutenant being both negroes. In another room we were met by Capt. C. C. Winbush, collector of custom and in his office the "Time Wheel" moves by discipline. We then went to the postoffice department and I saw so many black faces sitting at the desks, I asked if the whites and blacks were separated in this department, but I could soon see the brain work of the negro forging to the front, the whites and blacks being nearly equally divided, so you can see how the colored man is progressing in the South. Mr. Moore, and others, well posted on the question, speaks candidly in voicing the sentiments of Booker T. Washington's cause—industrial education and money—as the only ray of sunshine which beckons the negro onward. OBITUARY. The funeral of James, the beloved son of Horace (now deceased) and Dorah Dangerfield, was solemnized on Tuesday afternoon at about 2:30 at St. Mark's A. M. E. church, Rev. R. Knight and Rev. J. B. Oldham officiating. The deceased had formerly been employed at the Plankinton and leaves a host of friends. He was afflicted with consumption and had been lingering some time with hopes of a recovery until all medical skill was baffled, and then he was content to depart this life. He was very much devoted to his mother during his life. Besides a loving mother he leaves one sister and two brothers to mourn for a dutiful son and cherished brother. He was 22 years of age. May many take counsel from his life of devotion and love. A National Negro Business League. A National Negro Business League. Tuskegee, Ala., June 14, 1900.—After consulting with substantial colored men in all parts of the country Booker T. Washington of Tuskegee, Ala., has decided to assist in the organization of a National Negro Business league. The object of this organization is to encourage colored people through the central organization and local organization to enter all avenues of business. The first meeting will be held in Boston, August 23 and 24, 1900.—Christian Recorder. Babies Do Not Get Enough Water. It is so natural to suppose that the tiny babies who live on milk alone have very little need of much water drinking, and it would be a surprise to many mothers to realize how often their little ones are pitifully thirsty when their restlessness is attributed to some other cause. In warm, dry weather a healthy baby will take a little water every hour with advantage, yet it is usual to offer it only once or twice a day, or even less frequently. Two Suppositions. "Confidentially," said the undertaker's wife, "Mr. Smith hasn't paid the bill for his wife's funeral yet." his wife's funeral yet. "Isn't that scandalous?" exclaimed Mrs. Gabble. "I should think he'd he ashamed to let people see how little he thought of his wife." "Yes, and his brother John. when his wife was buried, paid the very next day." "Huh! 'Peared like he was glad to get rid of her, didn't it?'—Philadelphia Press. SOUTH AND SHIPPING. SITUATION VIEWED THROUGH SOUTHERN EYES. Aute and Post-Bellum Sentiment in Favor of National Aid for Restora- tion of Our Mercantile Marine to the Seas. The rapid growth of manufacturing in the South, and its beneiicial effect: upon other industries, are arousing in the minds of the people new thoughts: and hopes for the future of their great section of the Union, One of the most reliable authorities on Southern prog- ress and development is R. H. Ed- monds, the well-known Baltimore pub- lisher, who keeps in constant personal touch with the up-to-date sentiment of the leading manufacturers, bankers and influential men of the South. It is his repeated declaration, and as a re- sult of his own observations, that the Southern business men are almost a unit in favor of national aid in the re- establishment of our ships upon the seas. He finds the sentiment among men representative of Southern indus- trial and commercial progress quite at variance with that disclosed by their Representatives and Senators in Con- gress. The latter seem to represent & theoretical opposition to the utilization of modern methods for the advance- ment of industrial prosperity that has kept back Southern development for fully a generation. In the foreign trade of the United States, as conducted between Southern and foreign ports, one of the rarest sights is the American flag floating from the sterns of the ships conduct- ing that trade. That the demand has grown in the South for national legisla- tion for the upbuilding of our merchant marine seems to Mr. Edmonds to be logical. He sees in the realization of the growing hopes of his people in this respect much of permanent benefit to the section he represents. He has made an especial study of ante-bellum senti- ment on the subject of American mari- time development, and was surprised to find that, as far back as sixty years ago, the sentiment in favor of safe- guarding and promoting our merchant marine commanded the thoughtful at- tention of the most advanced of South- ern statesmen and business men. In an address before the Cotton Spin- ners’ Association at Charlotte, N. C., recently, Mr. Edmonds stated that in 1845 John C .Calhoun presided at a convention in Memphis, at which the subject was discussed. In 1851 a re- port was made at a Virginia conven- tion in favor of facilitating the mails through the establishment of steamship lines runtiing between Hampton Roads and European ports. Another conven- tion in Memphis, held in 1853, favored Government encouragement and pro- tection in the establishment of steam- slip lines between Southern and Euro- pean ports. The Charleston conven- tion of 1854 urged Congress to encour- age the establishment of mail steam- sbips, even to the extent of granting State bounties in the form of rebates to shippers employing American ves- sels. In 1856 Louisiana’s Legislature passed an act paying $5 per ton bounty on all ships exceeding 100 tons burden built in the State. A report made to the Legislature of Alabama as far back as 1838 showed that her citizens con- tributed $1,800,000 a year to get their cotton to Europe, and contained the query, “If this amount must be paid, why should it not be paid to our own citizens?” No wonder a score of years later Alabama’s Legislature passed an act granting a bounty of $4 per ton on all steamers built within that State. At Charleston, In 1839, Robert Y. Hayne discussed the subject before a commercial convention held in that city, in which he said that Southern and Southwestern States were produc- ing nearly three-quarters of the do- mestie exports of the Union, although importing not to exceed one-tenth of the foreign merchandise entering the United States, and that foreign com- merce was “causing cities of other States to flourish while Southern cities were falling into decay.” Lieut. M. F. Maury, famous for his invaluable aids to mariners upon the oceans, was im- pressed with the immense benefits Southern States would derive from the establishment of steamship lines be- tween Southern and European ports. For many years he urged the invest- ment of Southern capital in such lines, showing the great and growing power her rich foreign commerce was giving to New York, and deploring the fact that the South was missing its oppor- tunities to share therein. He saw for Norfolk, Virginia, possibilities of de- velopment which have never been re- alized, but which it seems possible are likely of frlfillment through the grow- ing seareity of European coal and the inevitable dependence of the world in the future for the greater part of its coal supplies upon the United States. In our trade with other American re- publics Maury saw advantages even greater than those possible through our commercial intercourse with Europe, and, he was never done urging upon the people of the South the wisdom of generously encouraging American mar- itime development through the estab- lishment of steamship lines to the West *ndies. Central and South America. He tary resources were then clearly polnt- ed out, as well as their usefulness as nurseries for American seamen who would be ready to respond to their country’s call if needed. No wonder, in these circumstances, Mr. Edmonds in his speech made it very clear that the revival of our for- eign-going shipping is not a sectional or partisan question, but is a purely industrial, commercial and auxiliary navy question. He sald; “Originating, as the South 1s already doing, about $400,000,000 worth of foreign exports a year, shipped almost exclusively in yessels that fly the British, German and other foreign flags, the South may well be deeply concerned in the upbuilding of a merchant marine because of the “magnitude of its present export trade.” This trad3 he expected would rapidly multiply, and he predicted a cotton crop in the not distant future of 100,- 000,000 bales. It is not surprising to find that both of the great political parties are now vying with each other in their espousal of an American Merchant Marine. That the representative men in both parties have formally and finally re- jected the suggestion of “free ships”— which means the purchase of British instead of American built ships for our maritime needs—may be taken as an indication of both the conservatism and progressiveness whieh augurs well for early effective and permanent leg- islation in behalf of our too long neg- lected shipping upon the seas. It is this unanimity of sentiment that is converging upon a demand for such legislation that will have become 80 insistent and imperative as to compel such legislation at the next session of Congress. FISH AND FISHERIES, Progress of the Commission's Work Un- der Republican Administration. Nearly forty kinds of food and game fishes now are propagated and distrib- uted by the commission. ‘These include such well-known and economically im- portant species as the cod, mackerel, flatfish and lobster among salt-water species; the shad, striped bass, Atlan- tic salmon, quinnat salmon, blue back salmon and steel head trout among the fishes of the coast rivers; and the white fish, lake herring, lake trout, brook trout, rainbow trout, landlocked sal- mon, grayling, black bass and pike perch among the fishes of the lakes and interior waters generally. The fish output during the three fis- eal years ending with June, 1900, reached the enormous total of over 3,- 000,000,000, an amount equal to the combined results of the previous seven years’ operations. The work in 1899 was double that of 1896, and in 1900 was still larger. Some idea of the ex- tent of the artificial propagation may be obtained from the following table: Number of fish planted In public and private Fiscal year Fiscal year Species. 1898. 1900.* Shad .........++++ 288,062,000 221,078,000 Pacific salmon..... 78,378,753 33,480,000 Other salmon...... 2,002,140 1,042,562 Lake trout......... 13,006,219 18,798,000 Other trouts....... 4,452,059 8,938,140 Whitefish ......... 88,488,000 296,643,000 Pike perch......... 81,153,750 82,000,000 COD oes eee eee eee 21202,570,000 259,488,000 Flatfish .......00+4 39,337,000 87,205,000 Lobster .......+-++ 95,234,000 90,000,000 All others.......... 25,035,650 3,343,565 SSeS 2000 000.06 0Emremnaper™ . SeamenE Tere *Approximate, In case of some species. In continuation of its endeavors to enrich the food resources of all parts of the country by planting desirable non-indigenous species, the commission has recently introduced from the At- lantic to the Pacific coast the diamond- back terrapin, and has made additional shipments of lobsters and oysters to the Western seaboard. In reciproca- tion there have been planted in the Great Lakes and the rivers of the east coast large numbers of quinnat salmon and steelhead trout, which are among the choicest food fishes of the West. The steelhead has already been very successfully acclimatized in Lake Su- perior. Our leading fishery product, the oys- ter, has received much attention, and some valuable experimental research- es, of far-reaching consequence to oys- ter-planters, have been in progress. The commission recently has achieved unprecedented results in the artificial fattening of oysters for market. The Movement of Gold. The following statement of the move- ment of gold to and from the United States is interesting: Calendar Excess of year, Exports. Imports. _ exports. 1894... $101,78,689 $21,350,607 $80,628,082 1895... 104,967,402 34,396,392 70,571,010 Cleveland excess of exports, TWO YOATS 2.0.02. 2.200.044, «$151,199,092 1807... © $34,276,401 $34,022,812 "$253,580 1898... 16,194,954 158,151,852 141,956,808 McKinley excess of Imports, TWO FEATS . 00. eee eee sees eee s$141,708,309 Difference between the two administrations ...........$202,002,401 Gold and Silver Coinagc. The per capita coinage of gold and silver in the United States during the administrations of President Cleveland and President McKinley compares as follows: —Gola.— —Silver.— President. 1895. 1896. 1895. 1806. Cleveland ......$0.85 §0.€5 $2.08 $0 33 1896. 1899, 1808. 1890, McKinley ......$1.05 $1.41 $0.31 $0.36 It will be noticed that muci more silver has been coined in this country during the last two years than in 1895 and 1896. The Transport of Troops, According to a statement by the War Department the Government has spent upwards of $15,000,000 for the trans- portation by sea of men, animals and supplies to the Philippine Islands. There has been a saving to the Goy- ernment of more than $9,600,000 through owning its own transports, Haann Hite Hara Mr. Hanna makes no pretentions as an orator, but he possesses the happy faculty of presenting facts and isgic which puncture every time they come in contact with a Tillmanism or a Pet- tigrewism. THETIN PLATETRADE Snes $100,000,000 SAVED TO THE UNITED STATES. No Longer at the Mercy of the Welsh Trust Which Was Independent of Our Laws and Contributed Nothing to Our Revenue, “The manufacture of tin plate in the United States was created by the Mc- Kinley tariff of 1890, the particular section relating to tin and tin plate going into effect on July 1, 1891,” said Gen, Dick, secretary of the Republic- an national committee, “From that date until the end of 1899 we have produced in this country 1,404,552 tons of an article for which there is a great demand here and which both our late president, Mr. Cleveland, and the Democratic prospective Presi- dent, Mr. Bryan, declared could never be made in the United States. “Under the McKinley tariff of 2.2 cents per pound, our tin plate industry thrived. It was permitted to exist un- der the Wilson bill, with a duty of 1.2 cents per pound, but it would not have lived under the Wilson bill had not manufacturers been enabled to run thelr plants at a lower cost, partly due to the cheapness of wages, and partly due to the cheapness of raw material, both conditions of cheapness being pro- ducts of the Democratic free-trade tariff. “Stimulated again by the Dingley pro- tective tariff, the tin plate industry now gives employment to thousands of workers at wages much higher even than those paid under the McKinley tariff of 1890. Consumers, moreover, are buying their tin plate at much low- er prices than before the enactment of the McKinley law. “Immediately preceding the estab- lishment of this industry in 1891, we paid to the Welsh manufacturers al- most $26,000,000 for their tin plate. Our average imports had been at the rate of $20,000,000 a year. Last year we im- ported less than $4,000,000 worth, so that there has been saved to this coun- try upwarf of $100,000,000 at least through the establishment of the tin plate industry, “Objection is made by our Democrat- ie friends to the tin plate industry be- cause there has been 4n advance in its price in the last two years, But this advance has been less than the average adyance of iron and steel articles, and it is fully in harmony with advances in the cost of raw materials, and with the advance in the price of tin plate in Wales. “Another objection made by the Dem- ocrats to the tin plate industry is that it is now controlled by a trust, but they never made any objection to the con- trol of our market by the British tin plate trust before the establishment of our own industry. “The tin plate trade in Wales is reg- ulated by the manufacturers, and every pound of their product is s6ld through one selling agent, no matter to what part of the world it may be ship- ped. There was no getting away from the prices that the tin plate trust want- ed to charge. They extorted from us whatever products they saw fit, and the Democratic party fought tooth and nail when the Republicans attempted to di- vert the profits of this business into our own channels. “Admitting that there is a tin plate trust, is it still not better that our re- quirements should be filled by a trust in this country, rather than by a trust in Wales? The American trust is sub- ject to American laws. It pays Ameri- can taxes. The British trust is not sub- ject to our laws, and contributes not 1 cent to our system of taxation or rey- enue. “Another reason why, it seems to me, an American tin plate trust is bet- ter than a Welsh tin plate trust is be- cause the American {nstitution has built factories here, has created a de- mand for building material and for ma- chinery. The Welsh tin plate trust buys its building material and ma- chinery in England. Still another, and the most important reason why the American tin plate trust is more ad- vantageous to us than the Welsh tin plate trust is because the American con- cern employes thousands and thou- sands of men here, paying them among the highest rates of wages that are re- ceived by any wage earners in this country. The Welsh tin plate trust, on the other hand, employes English la- bor, paying low wages, which are spent in Wales, whereas the earnings of our workmen are spent right here at home, creating a demand for the products of our farms and other factories. “Naturally the Democrats do not like anything that even suggests prosperity for their countty. Mr. Bryan, their leader, is for free trade, and should be be nominated for zad elected to the of- ‘fice of Pree‘cnt this year, then the American tin plate manufacturers, and the workers in those mills, can rest as- sured that every effort will be made by the Democratic party to strike a blow at the American tin plate indus- try, which will divert an annual busi- ness of at least $25,000,000 into the narkote af their friends. the Knolich The Per Capita of Money. On July 1, 1896, under the last Dem- ocratie administration, the per capita of money in circulation in the United States was $21.10. This year, on June 1, it was $26.71 per capita, an increase of $5.61 for every inhabitant in the country. Quite Likely, — It will be just like the Democratic leaders and editors to charge that the Oregon voters have a secret alliance |with England, DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION First Day of the National Gath- ering at Kansas City. OVATION TO MR. HILL. The New York Ex-Senator Seemingly as Popular as Bryan with the Delegates. rage Kansas City, Mo., July 4.—The Demo- crati¢ National convention was called to order at exactly 12:02 by Chairman Jones, . The first business of the convention was the reading of the formal call by Secretary Walsh. Rey. Dr. S. M. Neel, pastor of the Cen- tral Presbyterian chureh, offered prayer. James A. Reed, Democratic mayor of Kansas City, then welcomed the con- vention, after which Chairman Jones in- troduced Gov. Thomas of Colorado, tem- porary chairman of che conyention, who delivered a speech in which he arraigned the administration of President Mc{in- ley, denounced imperiaiism and favored free silver, Charles A, Walsh of Iowa then rose and read a resolution offered by Daniel J. Campau of Michigan that the Deela- ration of Independence, drafted by that Democrat of Democrats, Thomas Jeffer- son, be read to the convention on this a anniversary of the nation’s natal day, | _ With cheers and applause the resolu- tion was adopted, while the band in the south gallery played patriotic airs in lead of the enthusiasm. When the applause had subsided Charles S. Hampton of Petoskey, Mich., read, in magnificent voice, the immortal declaration of independence. As the full and rounded sentences of the great state paper rolled through the hall the cheer- ing and enthusiasm increased, and when Mr. Hampton had coneiuded the tremen- dous applause fairly shook the building. When the orator had finished the dec- laration of independence and the ap plause had ceased Miss Fulton of New York was introduced and sang the “Star- Spangled Banner,” the audience stand- ing and cheering and applauding after each verse. Then, as she finished the last strain, the band took up “America.” The call of states then began for nam- ing the members of the various commit- tees. ‘The convention then adjourned until 4 o’cloek. fecond Session. Chairman Thomas’ gavel fell calling the convention to order at 4:43, the delay being caused by the nonarrival of the delegates and the desire on the part of the convention leaders to afford the com- mittees time to prepare their reports. Charles 8. Hampton of Petoskey, Mich., read a telegram from the Demo- crats assembled in Tammany hall cele- Lrating the 124th anniversary of the dec- laration of independence. The reading of the telegram was received with tre- mendous applause. Chairman Thomas announced that the committee on credentials was not ready yet to report. Instead of following the programme that previously had been ar- ranged, and proceeding at once to the other business of the convention, Jo- sephus Daniels of North Carolina was recognized by the chairman for a motion to adjourn until 8:30 o'clock tonight. Amid considerable confusion Chairman Thomas at 4:51 declared the motion car- ried. During the afternoon an ovation was given former Senator D, B. Hill of New York by thousands of shouting delegates and spectators which held the convention for half an hour, the chairman being powerless to stay them. Evening Session. At 8:30 Chairman Thomas rapped the ‘convention to order, although consider- ‘ably less than two-thirds of the dele- gates had arrived. There was consider- able expectancy over the arrival of Sen- ator Hill, but he failed to put in an ap- pearance. Pending the reports of the committees the convention was addressed by ex-Gov. Altgeld of Illinois. Chairman Thomas then called for the ‘report of the committee on permanent organization. When it was announced that J. D. Richardson of Tennessee had been selected as poms chairman cheers swept over the great audience. - Mr, Richardson then assumed the per- ‘manent chairmanship in a well-delivered speech, Precisely twenty minutes after Chair- man Richardson’ had mentioned _ the name of Bryan, which, like the waving of a magic wand, had conjured up a scene of such wonderful enthusiasm. as has seldom been witnessed in a political convention, he began to rap for order, but the delegates were not yet ready to yield the floor even to the chairman of the convention. The band in the gal- lery started a patriotic air, and, despite the continuous efforts of Chairman Rich- ardson to restore order, the demonstra- tion continued for nine and a half min- utes longer, its total length being twen- ty-nine and a half minutes. Order then was sufficiently restored to enable the chairman to recognize Dele- gate J. G. Johnson ‘of Kansas, who made a motion that the convention ad- journ until 10:30 2. m, tomorrow. At 10:34 the chairmas. Jeclared the conven- tion adjourned. FROM ANCIENT BABYLON. Many Important Relics on Exhibition et the British Museum. It is now three-quarters of a century since Mr, Rich, ae in the East, visited Kurdestan, Mosul and Bagdad, and sueceeded in collecting a few frag- ments of antiquities from the mounds so hountifully seattered over the valley of the Euphrates. ‘These he placed in the British museum, and thus formed a nucleus of what is uow one of its most important and most interesting departments. - The rearrangement of the anaes in the Babylonian room at the British museum, and the exhibition of many new and important records bearing on the his- tory and civilization of ancient Babylon, is 2 welcome evidence that the museum has not been unmindful of its duty in ‘the endeavor to obtain a fair share of these important relies. A new and somewhat significant collec- tion of large documentary chty tablets, inscribed with official (or temple) records of Jegal and business matters transacted 3000 years before Christ, is an interest- ing addition to the clay literature on yiew; but even more unique are the se- ries Of round cakes of baked clay with clear, incisive inscriptions giving lists of estates or a sort of Babylonian ‘Domes- ‘day Book” of a period 1900 years before Abraham. The letters and correspondence of Hammurabi, King of Babylonia B. C. 2200, are interesting as showing ie litical condition of the country at that time.—London Daily Mail. Cherry Mousse. Put one quart of cherry juice, sweet- ened to suit, into a freezer, add one cup sweet cream and freeze to a soft mush. Then pack in a meld; cover tightly, tying buttered paper about edge: bury in ‘salt and ice for four hours; garnish with pit- ted cherries when serying. sity HURLED 10 DEATH. ‘Tacoma Street Car Goes Down | Steep Embankment. RAN AT FULL SPEED. yeaa Tacoma, Wash., July 5.—A street car on the Edison line, heavily loaded with passengers from surrounding towns, and running at a high rate of speed, left the tracks while rounding a sharp curve at Twenty-sixth and C streets yesterday morning, rolled 100 feet down an em- bankment, killing sixty people and injur- ing as many more: Following are among the dead: DRAKE, MISS LOIS. GLASS, ANNIE. SUITER, LETTIE. DINGER, DORLEY, DINGER, LOIS. BRAY. EDWARD. MOSER, CARL. MOSER, ALRERT, LEE, RICHARD. GROSSMAN. MRS, BERTOLI, G. LARSON, OTIS. RANSEEN, OLE. BENSTON, JAMES. DAVIS, CHARLES. WILLIAMS, WILLIAM. PAULUS, JOBRN. NEISEN, WILLIAM. STEELE, ROBERT. SEIDENBERG, —. GREGORY, RE*. HERBERT. VANDERSHELDEN, GRIFFITH. HEAL, A. L. M’MULLEN, G. SHAUGHER, JOHN J. UNKNOWN MAN, DAVIS, W, H. M’CANN, JOSEPH. LONGERMAN, ROY, NEWTON, GORDON. SANBORN, RICHARD. HARDINGS, WILLIE. ELLIOTT, GEORGE. . SHAUGHER, MRS. K. J. CALHOUN, J. D., conductor. UNKNOWN WOMAN. Besides these there are about sixty-five more or less seriously injured. ‘The list of dead and maimed includes residents, and in come cases nearly whole families of Edison, Lakeview, Lake Park, Bal- lard, South Tacoma and other suburban towns, who were coming here to attend the Fourth of July celebration. The Fanny Paddock and St. Joseph hospitals are crowded with those who are in the hands of physicians and surgeons, while the morgues and undertaking establish- ments are unable to care for the scores of dead bodies. }_SPORTING ITEMS. cece ccececeeceeecceecese “Buck” Weaver, who has been play- ing bull in the National and American leagues for the past twelve years, has decided to give up the diamond and de- vote his time to other business. Last year he was with Milwaukee, but was released this spring by Manager Connie Mack and immediately signed with Cleveland. “Buck” was not quite in form and was again let out,’getting an engagement with the Syracuse team in the Eastern league. Last week “Buck” was let out by the Syracuse club and he came on to Milwaukee to join his wife, who was stopping here. “Buck” an- nounced that he had accepted a position with a Providence firm and would take hold immediately and work in the West- ern district, taking care of his farm in the winter. ees Baseball may be on the decline this season, but from present indications there are lively times ahead for the Na- tional league magnates next season. | Danny Mills of the Philadelphia Times has the following article on future events: “The preneet American Asso- ciation Baseball league, which caused a great deal of talk and’ sundry agitation among players and managers at the be- ginning of the present season, and which had apparently died out of all thought | for a time at least, has come to life again _and at present is agitating the minds of professional baseball players all over the country. New life seems to have been infused into the association since tho organization of the new Amalgamated Association of Baseball Players, which was organized in New York, and whose Rares has just been aoreeee: e “It was announced that the new body was only organized to protect the men from unjust actions by club owners, but its purpose was much deeper, inasmuch as it means another brotherhood revolt. The projectors have been working se- eretly, and will not make public their lans until they are ready to do actual Business: Last spring's fiasco has taught them a lesson, and every move up to date has been made with the utmost secrecy. “It is claimed that the cirenit is_as- sured and that in six out of the eight cities the grounds have been secured and in the other two are so far advanced as ‘to be practically assured. Although the | cireuit is not positively known, it is cer- tain to include Boston, Philadelphia, Bal- timore and possibly New York or Brook- lyn in the East: Chicago, St. Louis, Louisville and Detroit or Milwaukee in the West. Until every detail has been arranged no publicity will be given the movement.” ss This matter of coming to a determina- tion at once in regard to a play is an important one, and is one of the secrets of the success of the Brooklyns. Many games have been lost through mistakes made by players at critical times, and a man’s valne to a team is partly meas- nred by his knack of thinking quickly as well as by his natural ability. ** * Over 5000 people attended the Colum- bian Knights of Chicago athletic games and picnic, held at Burlington a Chi- cago. E. M. Tourtelot of the Central Y. M. ©. A. won the 100-yard dash from the 5-yard mark. W. C. Offendale, who recently quit the First regiment of Chi- eago, won the mile run from scratch, defeating Charles D. Smith of the First regiment with 50-vard handicap and A. A. Lyman with 90 yards. one The entries of Owen Kimball, the crack sprinter of the National Cycling nssociation, and S. A. MeFarland, the big California racer, were received this morning. McFarland will enter in some of the middle-distance races while Kim ball will take part in the sprints. Ac- cording to reperts received here Maj. ‘Taylor is riding better than ever. eo 8 Al Herford, manager of Joe Gans, says: “Gans stands ready to meet Erne at 133 pounds. I have had a forfeit of $1000 up for several weeks, but not one of the men in Joe’s class, especially Erne, has seen fit to cover the money. Gans was: matched to box George Me- Fadden at the Broadway A. C. on July 29, but for some reason, not as yet ex- plained, McFadden has cancelled the en- gagement and has taken on Jack O’Brien. If Gans is unsuccessful in in- ducing the 133-pounders to fight him he will take on anyone at abs Deane: Mat- ty Matthews or Eddie Connolly pre- ferred, if they can get to that weight. i > an ae PASSING ~~~... se fee Your mirror + Nees today. Take ; (i 2 last look at ~ y : your gray yO air. Itsure- S 2 ly may be Remco eee the last if estes YOU want VE, itso; you needn’tkeep eee en re ORE ene hair a week longer than you wish. There’s no guesswork about this; it’s sure every time. To re- storel ff | color to| Sa gray hair “Mair After using it) for two orthree weeks notice how Much younger you ap- pear, ten years younger at least. Ayer’s Hair Vigor also cures dandruff, prevents falling of the hair, makes hair grow, and is a splen- did hair dressing. It cannot help but do these things, for it’s a hair-food. When the hair is well fed, it cannot help but grow. It makes the scalp healthy and this cures the disease that causes dandruff. $1.00 a bottle. All druggists “My hair _was coming out badly, but, Ayer’s Hair Vigor stopped the falling and has ‘mado my hair very thick and much darker than before. I think there is pies like it for the hair. Cora M. Lea, April 25, 1899, Yarrow, I. T. Write the Doctor. If you do not obtain all the benefits you desire from the use of the Viger, ‘write the doctor about it. Address, Da. J. C. AYER, Lowell, Mass. An Australian Railway Pass. It is nice to have a little gold ornamen: attached to your watch’ chain which every railway official recognizes at a glance, and which franks you over the railways for life. That is one of the pre- requisites of public life in Australia. Every member of a ministry gets one of the golden pendants on sppeueeae and thereafter he, his wife, and his daughters have no worries about tickets. The lat- ter have no legal right to travel on par- ental pass, but officials prudently refrain from inconvenient inquiries, The ques- tion whether this. privilege should not be withdrawn or modified is being warmly diseussed in Victoria. Dr. McCay, who was rejected by his constituents for op- posing the dispatch of Australian troops to South Africa, was ministerof education for only ten days, and yet he has the free use of the state railways for the rest of his life-—London Chronicle. Supreme Court Sustains the Foot-Ease Trade Mark. Justice Laughlin, in Supreme Court, But- falo, has ordered ‘a permanent injunction, with costs, and a full accounting of sales, to issue against Paul B. Hudson, the manu- facturer of the foot powder called ‘Dr. Clark's Foot Powder,” and also against a retail dealer of Brooklyn, restraining them from making or selling the Dr. Clark's Foot Powder, which fs declared, in the decision of the Court, an imitation and infringement of “Foot-Ease,” the powder to shake into in shoes for tired, anne, feet, now s0 largely advertised and sold all over the country. Allen $8. Olmstead, of Le Roy, N. Y., is the owner of the trademark ‘Foot- Ease,” and he is the first individual who ever advertised a foot powder extensively over the country. He will send a sample Free to any one who writes him for it. The decision in this case upholds bis trade-mark and renders all parties liable who fraudu- lently attempt to profit by the extensive “Foot-Ease” advertising, in iow upon the market a ee: and similar appearing preparation, labeled and put up in envelopes and boxes tike Foot-Ease. Similar sults will be brought against others who are now infringing on the Foot-Ease trademark and common law rights. A Tardy Recognition. Spain is trying to make up her present disasters by looking back to her past Casters The bodies of four distinguished jpaniards who died in exile were re- cently brought back to Madrid from France, where they were buried, and, af- ter a state funeral, were laid away in the San Isidro cemetery. They were Goya, the painter; Moratin, the dramatist, and the poets, Melendez Valdes and Donoso Cortes.—Indianapolis Press. Libby, McNeill & Libby. Housekeepers sreaoeatty feel the need of luncheon meats which are either ready to serve or can be prepared for the table at a moment's notice. Such a need is abundantly supplied in the superior meats ut up by the oid reliable house of Libby, Meneitl & ers Chicago, one of whose specialities is advertised in another col- umn of this paper, and their booklet, “How to Make Good Things to Eat,” is offered free on application. * Mourning Rands. The fashion of wearing a mourning band on the sleeve, that had its origin in England, has recently grown so rapidly in popetersty. here that one now sees brightly-dressed wormen using this mode in mourning dress, and only a few years ago the man who wore a mourning band on his slecve was the most conspicuous person in view. But nowadays it cre- ates little attention. Try Grain-O! Try Grain-O! Ask your grocer today to show you a package of GRAIN-O, the new food drink that takes the | ee of coffee. The cuildren may drink it without injury as well as thx 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. 15¢ and 25¢ per package. Sold by all grocers. Minnesota's Wheat Production. Minnesota alone produces approximate- Ix aboat 80,000,000 bushels of wheat, or about one-thirty-seventh of the total pro- duction of the world. Of this she is able to export two-thirds. nn» PISO2S “CURE FOR 285 eS ORES WHERE ALL a mi Best Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Use & ed in time. Sold by druggists. Le BZCONSUMPTION The Wisconsin Weekly Advocate Richard B. Montgomery Editor and Proprietor Office 200 Fifth Street. Telephone Black No. 244. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Any part of the United States and Canada, postage paid. One Year ..... $2.00 Six Months ..... 1.25 Three Months ..... 7.75 Send money by Express Money Order, P. O. Money Order or Registered Letter to the Wisconsin Weekly Advocate. ADVERTISING RATES. 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Address all business communications to the general manager. Entered at the Milwaukee P. O. as second class matter. The South African war is out of sight, behind the Chinese war cloud. The manufacturers of badges will, of course, do the first button-holing of the campaign. Forest fire reports are not surprising. The country has been dry enough in some sections to burn out to the roots. The increase in freight rates on beer shipped to Cuba is as bad for the thirsty Cubans as it is for the brewers. Two hundred miles an hour between Chicago and New York is a railroad idea that is more than a trifle electric. If Li Hung Chang succeeds in quieting the Boxers he will be forgiven for imagining that he is "the whole thing." It is evident that if a rush for slices of China ever occurs, Russia can get there first with her "cheese-knives" and guns. Greater New York is taking her place among the great powers of the world by converting her police boat into a steel-clad turret-ship. The New Jersey game wardens beat hotel prices when they made a single quail on toast, out of season, cost a farmer $24.76. The can-that-goes-to-the-saloon is not the only "growler" in Chicago, since the brewers added a dollar to the cost of each barrel of beer. The American boy finds comfort in the expectation that the trooper in China broke out too late to interfere with his supply of firecrackers. In mulcting Brigham H. Roberts only $150 for having too many wives, the court probably took into account that he had been punished to some extent at Washington. The man who dodges is given a new problem by the McClean rapid-fire gun, which operates so fast that five one-pound shells are in the air at the same time, chasing each other. The renunciation of the right to the Austrian throne by the heart-smitten Archduke Francis Ferdinand indicates either that thrones are getting cheaper or "best girls" dearer among royal lovers. It is the Chinese tael, not the pig-tail, that is in view as a result of the murderous propensities of the Boxers. The customs tael is equal to 71.8 cents, and will figure prominently in calculations as to indemnity. It is evident that both Corbett and Jeffries are afraid to have another "try" in the ring. They are using their jaws in a preliminary dispute that will furnish the necessary excuse for a permanent disagreement. Inventive genius has before it an opportunity in the discovery of an elevator cab with a door that must be closed before the cab can start. A contrivance of this kind would reduce the number of elevator accidents. The Western Society of Engineers "jollied" its Chicago hosts by discussing a waterway from Chicago to the Gulf, and thus assisting in Chicago's efforts to have the general government enlarge its river as a part of the canal project. The refusal of the French jury on wines to judge any American wines at the Paris Exposition which bear French labels is probably a protest against any interference with the right of French dealers to sell American wines as French wines. Since the numerous seizures of Wisconsin fish bound Chicagooward in packages weighing more than the law allows, all that a Chicago fisherman has to do to vouch for a "catch" is to go home swearing about the offensive watchfulness of the game wardens. Taking whisky "on the side" is more easy than making it in that way. A New Yorker thought he could run a "moonshine" establishment in the great city while the officers were searching the Southern mountains, but he soon fell a victim to a still hunt. Theodore Tilton, formerly of Brooklyn, but late of Paris, who was once a power in the newspaper world, but who for the last ten or fifteen years has completely dropped out of public notice except in a lierary way, has come to the front again and is contemplating a lecturing tour through this country. He is as tall and straight as ever and now crowned with long white hair. He can never recover his former influence or notoriety, and if he comes to this country again he will only attract a transient interest. The man who rides on a pass must be handled as tenderly as the man who pays, according to the decision of the United States court of appeals, which holds that the stipulation on the backs of passes absolving the railroads from liability for damages is against public poli New York is contemplating the construction of an island in her bay, to furnish warehouse and dock room for canal and other freight bound across the sea. This idea is similar to Milwaukee's outer harbor scheme, and it illustrates the trend of thought in regard to transportation problems. A resident of Winsted, Conn., brought in the remains of a black snake ten feet long as proof that the reptile had chased him hotly for a mile before he turned in desperation, and killed it. If he had brought in the bottle he would not have had to carry in the remains of the snake to bolster his veracity. A Hackensack minister who was moved to proceed against some boys who were playing ball on Sunday changed his mind when he came upon a fashionable game of golf at Hackensack Heights. The difference between Sunday baseball and Sunday golf is in the size of the ball and the shape of the bats—that is all Republican simplicity is evidently not particularly conspicuous in the bearing of the President of France; else Mr. Loubet might have been promptly shown through the American building, the other day, when only a few attendants who had unfortunately not been "officially presented" were present in the building when he arrived. Dr. Koch's latest discovery in regard to malaria is of great importance to the American people, who are called upon to perform new duties in tropical lands. According to a report from Berlin, the doctor writes from German New Guinea as follows: "We have already established the fact beyond doubt that by prophylactic and subsequent treatment with quinine even the worst infected districts can be cleared of malarial infection." "Memphis Billy," a pugilist, is dying of atrophy of the muscles in a New York hospital, and thus illustrating the fact that abnormal methods or conduct is responsible for the undoing of most prizefighters. "Memphis Billy" was temperate so far as the use of liquor and tobacco is concerned, but he was intemperate in his training. Secretary Root has promised Indianapolis twelve brass cannon that were captured by Gen. Lawton and the Twenty-fifth infantry, to be placed in the park near the monument that is to be erected to the memory of the General. Lawton was one of the best soldiers of his day, and it is fitting that his worth should be so recognized by the War Department. An autopsy on the body of a New York boy resulted in the official finding that he was killed by an excessive use of ciragettes, although the fact was educated that the boy had used camphorated oil as a beverage and had thus destroyed the lining of his stomach. There is room for belief that it was the camphor and oil that killed the boy, and not the cigarettes. Tobacco is tobacco, in cigarette, cigar or pipe, and the harmfulness of its use depends upon how much is smoked, and how much smoke is inhaled. The new rule for waltzing promulgated by the Dancing Masters' Association specifies that the gentleman shall offer his left hand to the lady, who, if she feels inclined to dance, places her right hand in the extended masculine hand. The lady's right arm is slightly curved, the gentleman's arm being bent or extended as required by the lady's reach. The fingers of the gentleman's right hand are clustered and touch the lady at the waist line. The lady's left hand rests on the gentleman's arm alittle above the elbow. Presumably, when the caller says "break away," the gentleman seats his partner. A MINIATURE KREMLIN A Feature of the Russian Exhibit at Paris. One of the most interesting shows at the Paris exposition, according to a French correspondent, is that of the Russian village industries, gotten up by a committee of ladies, under the patronage of the Grand Duchess Sergius, and the active management of Mme. Jacunchicof. The high steeple of the imitation Kremlin, which although, it is stated, are only on a scale of a fifth of the original, tower above the confusion of all sorts and styles of buildings covering the Trocadero gardens. At the foot of the stucco copy of the famous Moscow church and convent lies the Russian village. The visitor comes upon a straggling construction built of heavy rafters, sculptured and painted in designs artistically adapted from the Russian village churches. One of these is represented in the village. Like the isbos, it is built throughout of wood, and might be some peasant's hut on which its pious owner had raised a steepe. The altar is exactly copied from the Russian village churches, save that the "Doors of the Czar," which enclose the sacred precincts and are only opened during divine service, have been dispensed with. The holy images on the walls are all the modern work of peasant artists.—New York Commercial Advertiser. MANUFACTURED PEARLS. Frenchman's Plans for Making Them in This Country. John C. Covert, consul at Lyons, France, sends the following to the state department: "I have had an interview with M. Leuret, the manufacturer of artificial pearls from fish scales. He will go to the United States and erect works there as soon as he hears of a locality where the right kind of scales can be had in large quantities. I suggest that a suitable place might be found on the St. Lawrence river, among the Thousand Islands. The scales should be small and have a silvery sheen. The brighter they are the higher price they will command. The scales should be removed while the fish are alive, if possible. Twenty-five thousand pounds of these scales can be used per year. It is anticipated that twice that quantity may be used in a few years. The price will be 80 cents to $1.25 per pound."—Jewelers' Circular Weekly. James T. Durrell The funeral of the late Mayor Merrill was held at the city hall Sunday, July 1, 1900. The remains laid in state from 9 o'clock until 3 p. m., so that the public could view what remained of this honored man. This was the largest funeral, with the exception of ex-Senator Sawyer's, that has occurred in Oshkosh. The contribution of floral decorations by the city and state was wonderful to see. Oshkosh will mourn the loss of a good man who was a friend to everybody and MR. MUSKRAT AT DINNER. He Eats His Succulent Rush Exactly as a Boy Eats His Banana. If you know where there is a colony of muskrats—and if you don't know you can easily find out; any farmer or hunter will show you their village of grass houses by the river—you can have no end of enjoyment by going there at twilight and calling them out. Squeak like a mouse, only louder, and if there is a pointed nose in sight making a great letter V in the water, it turns instantly toward you. And if the place is all still you have only to hide and squeak a few times, when two or three muskrats will come out to see what the matter is, or what young muskrat has got into trouble If you go often and watch you may see a good many curious things: See "musquash" (that's his Indian name) digging a canal or building his house, or cutting wood, or catching a trout, or cracking a fresh-water clam, or rolling a duck's egg along on the water's edge so as not to break it, to his little ores in the den far below. And if you like bananas you may sometimes smack your lips at seeing him eat his banana in his own way. This is how he does it: First, he goes to the rushes, and, diving down, bites off the biggest one close to the bottom, so as to have the soft, white part that grows under water. Then he tows it to his favorite eating place. This is some times the top of a bog, sometimes a flat rock on the shore, sometimes a stranded log; but, wherever it is, he likes to eat in that one place, and always goes there when he is not too far away or too hungry to wait. Crawling out to his table, he cuts off a piece of the stump of his rush, and sits up straight, holding it in his forepaws. Then he peels it carefully, pulling off strip after strip of the outer husk with his teeth, till only the soft, white, luscious pith remains. This he devours greedily, holding it in his paws and biting the end off and biting it off again, until there isn't any end left—exactly as a schoolboy often eats a banana. Then he cuts off a second piece, if the rush is a big one, or swims and gets another, which he treats in the same way. And if you are a boy watching him your mouth begins to "water" and you go and cut a rush for yourself, and eat it as a musquash did. If you are hungry it is not very bad.—St. Nicholas. Rhubarb. Rhubarb is one of the most useful of vegetables. Its medicinal properties are of the highest value. Many tire of it quickly, because it usually is served in the stereotyped stew. This may be varied agreeably in several ways. RHUBARB WITH WHIPPED CREAM. Wash and cut in three-fourth inch pieces one pound of fresh rhubarb. Put into a baking dish with one cup of granulated sugar, one cup of water, one and one-half inch piece of Canton ginger and three shavings of lemon peel. Cover. bake in oven until tender. Remove from oven, cool, and pick out the lemon peel and ginger. To this add two level tablespoons of granulated gelatine and the package of coloring found in each box, previously soaked in one-half cup of cold water and dissolved over hot water. Lastly, add one tablespoon of lemon juice. Turn the mixture into a fancy mould which has been chilled and wet with cold water. Place on ice; when thoroughly chilled turn on a fancy platter, heap whipped cream in center and drop large spoonfuls around mould of jelly. Garnish each with a cherry. ORANGE AND RHUBARB MARMALADE. Remove the peel in quarters from eight sour, smooth-skin oranges. Cook the skin in water enough to cover until tender. Drain off the water and with a spoon scrape off the white part. Cut the yellow in strips, using scissors. Divide the oranges in sections, remove the seeds and tough skin. Put the sections in a preserving kettle; add five pounds of rhubard, skinned and cut in inch pieces. Heat to the boiling point and boil for half an hour. Then add four pounds of cut sugar and the cut rind. Cook slowly for two hours and turn into glasses. Stew slowly a quart of cut-up rhubarb until it is tender. Soak the contents of one-half box of gelatine in a little cold water, then add it to the cooked rhubarb with sugar to taste. Rub the mixture through a sieve and pour it into a mould, then set away to harden. Serve this jelly with whipped cream. STEWED RHUBARB. When it is to be stewed the rhubarb should be cut into small pieces with a silver knife, then measured, allowing to each quart of the rhubarb a cupful each of sugar and water. Cover the kettle and stew closely until the stalks are tender, but not falling to pieces; then turn out to cool. The best cooks never peel loved by all who knew him. It was only a few weeks ago that he made his last public speech in this city, which impressed his hearers very deeply. All the city officials turned out in a body; among them the G. A. R., the city council, judges of different courts and several lodges of which he was a member. The editor says our people have lost one of the best friends in the city of Oshkosh. The Wisconsin Weekly Advocate sympathizes with the family and friends of the deceased in this their hour of bereavement. young rhubarb, claiming that much of the flavor is thus lost. RHUBARB JELLY. Later on in the summer the housewife will "put up" her rhubarb jelly. The middle or last of August is the most suitable time for this particular work, as the early spring rhubarb refuses "to jell." Wash the rhubarb well, but do not peel it, as the skin gives the pretty pink color to the prepared plant. Cut it in inch pieces, never minding if it be stringy. Allow half a cupful of water to each pound of rhubarb, and let it stew gently in a granite or porcelain kettle until all in shreds. Strain through a cheese cloth or flannel bag; allow a pound of sugar to each pint of juice. Let the juice boil gently for twenty minutes, add the sugar, stir until all the lumps are dissolved and withdraw the spoon. Turn into glasses which have been rolled in hot water and cover closely when cold and firm. Not only will it be found a "tasty" jelly, but an exquisitely-colored one as well, that will add a rosy touch of color to the "pink tea." QUAIL HUNTING IN EGYPT. More than Half a Million a Year Are Ensnared by the Natives. Much has been said lately of the capture of quail in Egypt, touching the protest made by Frenchmen against carrying the birds across French territory for English use. Until this matter rose nobody seemed to know that quail existed in Egypt, but they do—by the millions. The passage of bands of quail over the coast of the delta of the Nile, from Port Said to Alexandria, begins in September and lasts a month and a half, the birds arriving in little groups and alighting on the dunes. Generally the chase is made by means of nets of five meters high, which the natives extend in cords fastened to poles, in the fashion of curtains gliding on their rods. In reality the net is double. The first near the side of the sea is of meshes very large and loose, but on the back is another net where the bird will really come and perch itself in the folds formed by this second net of small meshes. There is another method of capture which is more picturesque. Rows of dried branches are placed on the shore. At the foot of each branch is disposed a tuft of fresh herbs, in the middle of which is arranged an opening which ends in a snare. The quail, tired by its journey, takes refuge in the branch, without figuring to itself that it is going to put itself into a trap where a native will surprise it and kill it. With these perfected means of destruction it is not astonishing that each year more than half a million of these poor little birds are taken.—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Prince Called the Beauty Down. The Prince of Wales can be cutting as well as courteous, and when he isn't in the mood for feminine pleasantries he will not take them even from society beauties, relates the New York Press. Recently at a large bazaar the prince, being tired, entered the refreshment room and asked a certain well-known society beauty, who was performing the role of waitress, for a cup of tea. This was soon brought to his royal highness, who, smiling, asked her how much he owed her for it. "The price of the cup of tea, your royal highness, is half a crown ordinarily, but (taking a sip from the tea cup) when I drink from it the price is 1 guinea." "I see," replied the prince, quietly placing a guinea on the table. Then placing half a crown beside it he said: "The guinea liquidates my first debt, and now might I trouble you to bring me an ordinary cup of tea, as I am thirsty?" The society beauty was too crushed to bring his royal highness the second cup. Draughts as an Education. There is no game extant which so admirably combines educational and recreative features, or which is in every way so well adapted for a popular and profitable amusement among refined and appreciative classes, as draughts. Its influences are of an elevating character. It not only teaches but practically enforces the necessity of patience and perseverance, courage and courtesy, self-reliance and self-control. The game is also peculiarly and self-evidently worthy of paternal encouragement, as a knowledge of its incomparable beauties will destroy the taste for demoralizing games of chance.—Scottish American. Dogs Must Not be Teased. According to a decision of the Kentucky court of appeals, if one annoys a dog while the animal is eating, and gets bitten as a consequence, the victim is guilty of contributory negligence and cannot recover damages. ETIENNETTE. "Are you sure you understand thoroughly?" asked Mme. Durand. "Perfectly sure; mother." "Tell me what you will do?" Bernard laughed. "First, I shall eat my dinner. Then I'll change my clothes and about 10 o'clock I will take a cab and drive to the Boulevard Malesherbes, No. 99, the home of M. and Mme. Delport, who are giving a ball. Is it right so far?" "Yes. go cn." "Arrived there, I will name myself to the host and hostess, talk to them a few moments and then request an introduction to their daughter, Mlle. Etiennette. I shall then ask her to dance with me, while I study her from the point of view of asking her to marry me. Am I still right?" "Perfectly." "Well, then, I'll tell you, mother, that I think the whole plan revolting. I do not like it. I came home yesterday and am sent off the first thing to see a young girl whom you have selected to become my wife and whom I have never even seen." "Wait until you do see her, my dear. You will have nothing but gratitude for me then," replied Mme. Durand. "You think I will fall in love at first sight? But she may not, you know, smile upon me." "She is a good girl. She will do as her parents wish her to. Besides, no girl of sense would refuse you." "Don't you think you may be a little prejudiced?" suggested Bernard, good naturedly. "If I were a girl, even in France, I would not marry a man I was not in love with," he added seriously. "Fortunately our girls have no such ridiculous notions," Mme. Durand answered. "Mme. Delport and I often discussed you last summer when we were together at Dieppe. She is as anxious as I that this marriage should come off, though she has never seen you. I described you in glowing terms, you may be sure." "Does mademoiselle know anything of this plan for tonight?" asked Bernard. "Not unless her mother has told her since then," answered his mother. "And she is lovely, Bernard. You know I think only of your happiness. If you do not care for her that will end it. Only see her, and try to like her, for my sake." "Well, I will do my best. But I don't want to marry any one yet." "Wait until you seee her," said his "Wait until you seee her," said his mother strain. "What is she like? Haven't you a picture of her? Is she light or dark?" "No, to all your questions—I shall tell you nothing. I want you to be surprised. Tomorrow morning at breakfast you shall tell me all your impressions." With this Bernard Durand was obliged to be content. He departed later in the evening for No. 99, and his cab took its place in the long line of carriages drawing slowly up to the brilliantly-lighted porte-cochere. Bernard followed the many other guests up the stairs, after giving his hat and coat to an attendant. On a landing stood an elderly lady and gentleman, who shook hands with the arriving guests. "My host and hostess," thought Bernard—then, as he had reached them—"I am Bernard Durand, the son of Mme. Durand," said he, sure that he was expected, and feeling a little foolish at his position. He was greeted with the most perfect politeness, and had he not been told of the plan for his future, nothing would have betrayed it to him in the manner of his hostess. "My daughter," said the mistress of the house, turning to a young girl who stood beside her, and Bernard offered her his arm and led her off. They danced together once, twice, three times. She danced divinely. Bernard looked at her, and mentally pronounced her the prettiest girl he had ever seen and the most entertaining. Later they ate supper together, then danced again several times. When it was time to go Bernard acknowledged himself completely bewitched. She had a charm, a grace, a gayety! And she seemed to enjoy him, too, or why had she been willing to give up so much of her time to him? "Au revoir," she said, holding out her hand. "I hope you will come to see us, monsieur." "Thank you, mademoiselle," he replied, pressing her little hand. "I will, indeed, and very soon." "I wonder if she knows anything about the plan of our marriage," reflected Durand on the way home. "I am inclined to think not. She bore herself with such perfect composure and without affectation. And her mother did not once allude to my position in the house, which strikes me as very delicate." The next morning at breakfast he delighted his mother by his admission of Etiennette. He commended her choice, expressed himself anxious to carry out her wishes, and hoped that they, too, had been pleased with him. "I like even her name," he said. "Etiennette. It just suits her." A servant entered with a letter for madam. "It is from Mme. Delport," his mother said. "I know her writing. She has hurried to let me know that she is pleased with you. How kind of her!" "Read it aloud," suggested Bernard. "Madam," his mother read, "permit me to express my surprise at what happened last night. "In order that your son might meet my daughter. I gave a ball, as you know, last evening, the date having been arranged with you beforehand. Imagine my surprise when, without an excuse of any sort, the young man failed to appear. "Under the circumstances, madam. I feel justified in withdrawing my consent to a marriage between my daughter and your son. I have the honor of announcing to you the engagement of Mlle. Etiennette to the Marquis de la Veille." Mother and son sat speechless, staring at each other. Bernard broke the silence. "Then where on earth did I go last night?" "She must be mad," cried his mother. "You say you met Etiennette. Was she tall and blond?" "Decidedly not. She was small and dark!" "Oh, my gracious!" gasped madam. "You got into the wrong house." "I evidently," replied Bernard. "No wonder my hostess did not betray herself. And what do you suppose they thought of me? I must find them out and apologize and explain. Even if her name wasn't Etiennette, she is the only one for me. And you will think so, too, when you have seen her." Her name turned out to be Noemie, and she is today the wife of Bernard. Her mother-in-law adores her, and is never tired of saying: "If it hadn't been for a mistake I might have had that frivolous Etiennette for a daughter!"—From the French. OLD SILVER IN STYLE. Second-Hand and Marked, it nevertheless is the Proper Thing. "Here I am," said the June bride, as she was unpacking her presents after the wedding trip, "with seven different coats of arms on my silver, and yet none of them belongs to me or my husband. So much for the fashion of making presents of old silver at weddings. It will at least be a pleasure to look up the the girl who receives old English silver crests in some work on heraldry and speculate as to the probable owners of my silver at some future time. A mustard pot, four salt cellars, a large pepper cruet and a cream jug are the seven pieces marked with crests that are all different and plainly belonging to no branch of the family. "Times have indeed changed when a girl would accept so gratefully somebody else's old silver, however valuable it might be. But there is nothing smarter today for a wedding present than this old English plate, and even if it's battered a little bit and rather out of shape, may know that she is getting something that was not only costly but is regarded as the finest thing that she can have. It is always a little interesting to speculate how they happen to get out of the possession of the family that owned them before. Whether they were stolen by the servants or sold by Impoverished younger sons, it is never possible to tell. It is certain, though, that they are to be gotten in this country only by paying large prices for them." The most popular designs in table silver today are the reproductions of the Georgian or other patterns. Some effort has been made to put the Gothic patterns, also popular, upon the market, but they have to struggle against the general objection to all articles of Gothic design for domestic use. It is a surprise to most persons seeking small silver, that the makers do not reproduce more generally than they do the Georgian patterns in certain forms that are always in demand. The open-work silver mustard pot, for instance, enclosing a colored glass bowl, salt cellars of the same general design, and other similar small articles are always very much in demand, yet it is difficult to find them in the stores not devoted to the sale of old silver. One Fifth avenue silversmith explained it the other day by saying that imitations of these old pieces made it impossible for makers to invent their own distinctive patterns, which they were always anxious to do, as it kept their own designers employed and enabled them to keep their prices up to the standard by having something to sell which could not be bought anywhere else.—New York Sun. SAVING OLD HORSESHOES. Philadelphian Who Always Brings His Away from the Blacksmith Shop. Up in Kensington there is a teamster who has a large number of trucks, and who does much hauling in the mill district. He is a man of frugal habits, and is said to have amassed quite a snug little fortune. It is characteristic of him that he never contributes his old horseshoes to the pile which may be seen in every blacksmith shop. "Why should I?" he said the other day. "These shoes have a value, and they should be my gain; not the gain of the horseshoer. The old custom of the blacksmith receiving the benefit in this matter is entirely unjust and unreasonable. The shoes were bought and paid for, and, consequently, they are the property of the purchaser, and not of the blacksmith. The average weight of a set of four old shoes would be about four pounds. These, at the present price of scrap wrought iron, would be worth from 12 to 16 cents per set. This is an item worth looking after. Few people have any idea of the profit in horseshoeing. It will be sufficient to say that the average horseshoer makes at least $1 clear profit on each new set of shoes, and proportionately on all other work. Thus you will see that the pay of the average boss horseshoer is considerable, which makes the injustice of taking possession of the old shoes, without consideration or consent, still more pronounced."—Philadelphia Record. INDIVIDUAL REFORM. On Its Success Depends the Welfare of the Public. The act of selecting honorable and competent men to fill places of authority is not the only duty of the faithful citizen. If it be certainly true that national life and welfare depend upon national character, and that national character is only the combined character of its individual units, it follows that he who would be proud of his country's honor must keep his own unsoiled. Of what avail is it to rail at public injustice when we are ourselves unjust in our private dealings, or to accuse our rulers of cruelty and oppression when we oppress our own weaker brethren, or to point out the evils of party spirit when we wrap ourselves up in some social clique, or to expose and arraign scandal in our legislative halls when we are retailing sweet morsels of it at our own firesides? If we would see the success of public reforms let us reform ourselves; if we loudly advocate the brotherhood of men, let us cultivate the spirit of brotherhood in our daily intercourse; if we value our national independence and freedom let us see to it that we never interfere with the personal liberty and rights of any individual.—Philadelphia Public Ledger. Save Time and Trouble. Tom Higgins used to have a place up at the head of Lisbon street, where the tiger lashed his tail. The sounds therein were the mellow rustle of the cards, the voice of the dealer saying: "How many will you have, gentiemen?" and the forcible ejaculation of the party who failed to "fill." One night all the tables were occupied. There was a rap at the door. Higgins, with his quiet indifference to things that did not interest him, paid no attention to the rapping. But the man outside was impatient. He kept knocking. At last Higgins went to the door and, without unlocking it, he cried: "Who are you and what do you want?" "I am So-and-So and I want to get in and play." The man was a notorious loser. Tom looked around at the group in his room. Then he turned to the door and said to the man outside: "Shove your money under the door and go away. That will save you time and us trouble."—Lewiston Journal. Systematic deep-sea dredging has demonstrated that organic life is to be found in the lowest depths of the ocean. THE BRIDGE. "What is his bridge to heaven?" they cried. And the warriors held their breath, As the grizzled king of a hundred fights Went down to the river of death. And girdled strong with the iron blades Of the battles of bygone years? "And what are the voices he hears in his dreams? "Nay, nay," and they stand by in wonder and awe, And the only voice he hears in his dreams, As the world dies out in his ears, Are an old love-ballad, a baby's laugh, And the sob of a dead wife's tears. --Pearson's Magazine. A School Girl Heroine. MISS Jean Nelson had a very queenly bearing. Not that she really thought herself made of any better clay than the other members of the human family, but she was sometimes given that credit. Often had she been censured on that account by those who did not understand her. Oh! the agonies of being misunderstood! But to those who knew her, she was cordiality itself, and every girl in the dormitory worshiped at her shrine. Jean was exceedingly pretty. In fact, she was very beautiful. Her nose was as straight as Venus' own. A Cupid's bow for a mouth, about whose corners a smile so often played. Her chin wore a mischievous dimple in it, and her eyes—words fail! The wondrous wealth of hair that crowned her high forehead might have rivaled that of Apollo. She was hardly fair enough to be called fair, nor yet dark enough to be called dark. After all, the charm A "WHY ATTEMPT TO TELL WHAT HE SAID ?" of that face lay not so much in its simple beauty as in the sympathy for mankind that shone out of its eyes. * * * * * * * * "Here at last," Jean gasped, as she fairly ran up the walk leading to the girl's dormitory at Harper's University. Inside the door she dropped grip and wraps, and started up the stairs with a bound. "Everything looks just as natural. Why, they have a new stair carpet! I wonder if any of the other girls are here yet?" Suddenly her attention was attracted by the sight of a carriage at the entrance. Scarcely had it stopped before a head appeared, which proved to be that of a very flighty young woman. Catching sight of the group at the window, she ran up the walk, waving her umbrella, about her head in windmill motions (very uncouth in a young lady), leaving her purse and box of candy behind her in the carriage, which necessitated her going back after them. Jean ran down to meet her, grasping the chubby form in her widespread arms. Oh! the thousands of kisses that are wasted in that second week of September, not to mention the extravagance of affection displayed at the leave-takings in June. "You dear old girl! I was so afraid you would not come until to-morrow. When is Anna coming? This afternoon? We'll just go over to the train and surprise her. There are two poor little girls up in room 43, who are frightfully homesick. We must do all we can to keep them amused until they get used to things here. Julia, stand off. Let me look at you. Why, you're just the same dear girl you always were," which was flatly contradicted. "No, I'm not. I've lost three pounds. I only weigh 162 now. Here, have some of my candy. It's the good kind," just as if to her every kind were not good. Slowly up the stairs the two girls went, chatting like magpies. They were so different, yet who can account for friendship? One day in January, the girls were assembled in one of the rooms greatly excited over two important reports—namely, the rumor of smallpox in the town, and the certainty of a German test which was to come off next day. The president had that morning in chapel insisted that all students be vaccinated immediately, and the German professor had said, "We vill haf von test ober die endire pook, and enybody who can not make forty percent with haf to tudor. Did you understood? They were indulging in a very heated discussion, a good deal being said on both sides, when some one said, "Girls, wouldn't it be just perfectly awful if smallpox should break out in this dormitory? When my aunt was in college—" she was interrupted by a girl tossing her book in the air, contemptuously crying, "Smallpox, nonsense I say, have you forgotten all about that German? The very idea of giving a test over the whole book! I positively never heard of such presumption. No, not in Israel. Haben, hatte, gehat, kommen, kam, ge-ge-gefiddle-sticks!! who cares, anyhow? Say, do any of you happen to have any candy about your person?" Either they had become so unused to hearing this question from her, or they did not wish to commit themselves, for she received no answer. Nothing daunted, she proceeded. "When I get rich, I'm going to live in a college town and run a candy store, and give candy to the students, especially the girls. People who live in college towns don't half appreciate what a comfort they might be to students in just such little ways as that." They were all laughing heartily, when Alice Thompson came into the room with a dejected look on her face, and a German book in her hand (the two usually go in pairs), inquiring for Jean, saying: "I've got a German story here about a cow, and I can't get head or tail to it. Is Jean here?" One of the girls spoke up, saying: "No, she's not. She's up on the third floor helping Julia Mitchell make up the work she missed when she sprained her ankle. I'm sorry I can't help you. Alas! Ich spreche nicht Deutsch mesilf already gehaben sein, but you better guess Jean can. She took the gold medal in Dutch last year, you know. I don't blame George Lockwood for adoring her. My, but that pearl she wears is a beauty! And she's got clothes to match it. I don't see what would become of Kate Lennox if it were not for Jean. Jean can treat her nicely without being afraid of losing caste, and that is more than some of the rest of us can do. By the way, Kate is out of school to-day." The next day the excitement ran still higher when it was rumored that Kate had a fever. The girls were sure that it was smallpox, and all kept their distance, leaving poor, unpopular Kate to lie hours alone in her little bare room. They all protested and threw up their hands in horror when Jean declared her intention of going right up to Kate's room with a glass of lemonade. As Jean entered the room, Kate rose up and gratefully said, "I just knew you would come, I am so thirsty." Later a physician was called. And sure enough it was smallpox. The physician advised that Kate be moved from the dormitory as quickly and with as little confusion as possible. She was taken to a forlorn little cabin a mile down the river, and Jean, poor girl, went with her. This was the only thing she could do, now that she had been exposed to the dread disease. Two months, and Jean was in school again. Changed, oh, so changed. Her once beautiful face was pitted and scarred, but she still had the same queenly bearing. As she was sitting in her artistic room after her first day at school, her elbow resting on the table and her head leaning against her hand on which the pearl still shone like a crystallized tear, a feeling of utter dejection and sadness came over her as she realized that she would never be beautiful again and perhaps George Lockwood might not care for her now, although he had been as attentive as he possibly could be during her illness. The unbidden tears were creeping slowly down her face, when a tap was heard upon the door. Sam, the colored boy, handed her a card, which bore the name, "George Lockwood." She went down to the reception room with a feeling of dread, mingled with gloomy forebodings. As she entered the room and George came forward to meet her, she instinctively drew back, in a way entirely unlike her former frank self. And she said, slowly, hesitatingly, with downcast eyes: "George I have changed since you gave me this ring. Now I think it only just and right that I return it." George Lockwood was a born orator, but there never was more eloquence or more earnestness in his voice than when—but why attempt to tell what he said? Suffice to say that the ring was replaced and Jean never again had occasion to remove it. Shirt Waists in Africa Helen Caddick, one of the few white women who have ventured into the heart of Africa, has recently written about her trip from Zambesi to the great lakes—a trip for pleasure. The cotton blouses or waists which she wore were washed and "ironed" by her native "boy," and the process was extraordinary. The laundryman first spread a mat on the ground. Next the clothes to be "ironed" were placed on it and smoothed out as well as possible. Then, placing a towel or some large cloth over the garment, he rubbed his feet back and forth over it until he thought it was smooth enough. Cromwell's Pocket Bible There is a good collection of Bibles in the National Museum at Washington, and among others one of Cromwell's pocket Bibles, which he gave to every soldier in his army, with instructions to carry it in a pocket made especially for that purpose in the waistcoat over the heart. Every bride imagines that her photograph on her husband's office desk inspires him to keep onward and upward, like the boy in "Excelsior." COLLEGE YELLS Caused Martin to Change Will and Rutgers Lost Big Estate. Friends of Rutgers College learned recently the cause which led Mahion C. Martin, New Brunswick's richest citizen, who died a short time ago, to cut off the institution without a penny of the thousands which were confidently expected. The maintenance of the college athletic field in close proximity to his large park-like estate, "Shady Cliff," so close that the yells of the students destroyed the quiet of Mr. Martin's home cost Rutgers the magnificent estate, with other property valued at many thousands. Mahlon C. Martin was a millionaire rubber manufacturer. The filing of his will for probate was anxiously awaited by Rutgers professors and alumni. There was much chagrin when it was found that the entire fortune of several millions had been left to Mr. Martin's three sisters and his brother. Not a mention was made of the college in the will. The reason for this transpired through a sketch of Mr. Martin's life written by a member of his family. It is stated directly that it had been the cherished hope of the multi-millionaire to leave to Rutgers the magnificent New Brunswick estate with its extensive grounds and splendid residence, filled with curios and priceless antiques. But this plan had been changed because of a "cruel wrong" done him by the college. This "cruel wrong" was the college athletic grounds. It is stated that their establishment in such close proximity to his home shortened Mr. Martin's life. He fought against the plan from the first. He demonstrated in a friendly way, then made indignant protests. He was considered eccentric and the college authorities tried to placate him. He offered to supply Rutgers with another field in another part of the city. The offer was rejected. Mr. Martin accepted the rejection as evidence of malice. The report says: "It is fortunate that he had opportunity, after having been made to suffer this cruel wrong and many insults, to prevent so unworthy a fate befalling 'Shady Cliff' as to be given over to an institution capable of such malice." It was only after he had secured the passage by the City Council of an ordinance prohibiting the location of any athletic field in the city unless owners of the adjoining property consented, which the Mayor promptly vetoed, that Mr. Martin drew the blue pencil through the clause in his will wherein Rutgers was named as a beneficiary.—New York World. The Supercilious Camel. There are few things more interesting in North China than the great Mongolian camel trains. The two-humped Bacterian camel of Central Asia is a magnificent beast, quite throwing his African brothers into the shade. When clothed in his new winter coat of rich dark-brown fur, which even covered his knees, he is doubly imposing. A string of fifteen to twenty camels is fastened together by a cord, attached to the nose of the first and the tail of the second, and so on to the last one, which wears a large bell around his neck, so that the Mongol who is perched on the leading camel can easily discover when the connecting cord breaks. A mandarin and a camel are the most supercilious creatures upon earth. The former, wrapped in rich silks and furs, as he is carried along in his sedan chair, glances at the European with pitying disdain. But the camel ignores you altogether, and with a sneer on his mouth plods slowly along, not deigning to look at anything that is not on a level with his eyes. It is, therefore, necessary to give a camel train a wide berth, for the great beasts would calmly walk over one, and, finding some obstacle in the road, would probably give a kick which would silence one forever. An Old Man Not Living in the Past. At the Unitarian festival in Boston, Senator Hoar spoke of the fine example set by men of advanced age who still live in the future rather than in the past. "Think of old Josiah Quincy at 90," he said. "Why, Dr. Ellis told me that he called on 'Old Quin,' as the boys at Cambridge used to call him, when he was 92 years old, in 1862, the darkest year of the civil war. The old gentleman had fallen on the ice and broken his hip, and he lay on his bed, under the barbarous surgery of that time, with a weight hanging on his foot to keep the limb from shrinking. Dr. Ellis had said to Miss Quincy, when he went in, 'You go and take a walk, and I will take care of your father for an hour.' And the old fellow talked so cheerfully and hopefully of the success of the Union armies that, when the daughter got back, Dr. Ellis got halfway downstairs before he remembered that he had not once asked the old gentleman how his leg was. So he went back, and said, 'I have forgotten to ask how your leg is getting along.' And the old man brought his hand down on it, and said, 'D—n the leg! I want to see this business settled.' Was that living in the past?" In Norway and Sweden, before any couple can be legally married, certificates must be procured showing that both bride and bridegroom have been duly vaccinated. Minnesota Wheat. Minnesota alone produces, approximately, about 80,000,000 bushels of wheat, or about one-thirty-seventh of the total production of the world. Of this she is able to export two-thirds. The average policeman may not be a society favorite, but he usually has taking ways. "BLOW OFF"BY ARTIST BROWN How Well-Known Painter of Urchins Disposed of a Mob of Newsboys. J. G. Brown, famous in both hemisphere as the artistic Homer of the American street urchin, does not always find it an easy matter to procure the right kind of models for his newsboy and bootblack groups. As an example of the artist's difficulties in securing appropriate subjects for his brush, a fellow painter relates the following story: Mr. Brown had engaged a wide-awake youth to scour the streets for a boy model, "not too ragged, and not too good." The youthful agent, himself an interesting type of the street arab, had more enthusiasm than judgment, the artist soon discovered. Arriving at his studio at an early hour one morning, the venerable artist found the narrow hallway leading to his atelier literally choked with excited boys and every age and complexion, and of almost every nationality. In one thing were the boys similar; every one had a well-scrubbed countenance, clean hands, and wore his very best bib and tucker. In other words, each mother's son of them was hopelessly spruce, and, for the artist's purpose, useless. "Bless my soul, what's all this row about?" chirruped the good-natured old painter. "I tought I'd bring youse de hull gang ter choose from," spoke up the artist's agent. "Dey's none o' dem too ragged, is dey? an' none o' dem too good, eider, as youse said, see?" Mr. Brown saw, but was too dazzled by the proposition before him to speak. "Ain't dey all right, mister?" queried the master of ceremonies, noticing the artist's perplexity. "Why, of course, certainly." replied Mr. Brown. "But I don't want a Sunday school class, my lad. I want only one boy, and I want him in his working clothes, with his face unwashed and his hair all mussed up." "Oh, I can git all o' dem kind yer wants," exclaimed the enthusiastic agent, as he started for the stairs. "Here, come back!" shouted Mr. Brown, fearing the arrival of another delegation of small boys. "I'll tell you what I'll do. You take this half-dollar and treat all these boys to pie. Then you find me a lad who has just finished shining a man's boots and bring him here, and I'll give you a quarter for your trouble." "Dat's a go!" shouted the agent. Then, turning to the gaping mob, he explained: "He's give me half a dollar ter blow youse all off ter pie. He's a peach, fellers, dat's what de ole 'un is. What's de matter wid de ole gent? Now, all ter-gedder, fellers!" "He's all right!" promptly responded the throng of would-be models in a chorus that made the mahogany balustrate rattle, and brought the janitor clattering up the stairs. The boys, it may be supposed, were duly "blown off." At all events, Mr. Brown secured a desirable model—the central figure of a composition that made more comment at a recent exhibition in the National Academy of Design than anything else the artist has exhibited in years.—Success. FOREIGNERS IN PARIS. American Visitors of a Different Class from Most Other Races. The opening of the exposition brings to Paris a great number of foreigners of all nationalities and the special bureau of registration at the prefecture of police is completely overflowed. Since the beginning of the year the number of foreigners has more than doubled. Each day registrations increase. By the laws of 1888 and of 1898, foreigners living in Paris are obliged to make a declaration of residence. Since this law went into effect 381,763 foreigners have been registered, of whom 171,570 were men, 118,794 women and 88,399 children. The number of inscriptions since the beginning of the year was as follows: January 1701; February, 1499, and until March 28, 1794. This total of 5003 is divided as to nationalities in the following order: Italians, 658; Germans, 546; Belgians, 406; Americans, 114; English, 158; Russians, 191; Austrians, 213, and Spanish, 77. A great majority of each separate nationality has its own distinctive occupation. Thus the Swiss are nearly all servants, the Germans are engaged in mercantile pursuits, the Italians are usually diggers or laborers, while the bulk of the Englishmen are coachmen. From the figures quoted it will be evident that only a small proportion of the constantly increasing American colony takes the trouble to register. Unlike other races, the people from the United States belong almost entirely to the leisure classes. They select Paris as a residence for a variety of reasons—such an infinite variety in fact, that it would be impossible to give a resume of them beyond the simple statement that the gayety of the French capital and the supremacy of French feminine fashions have always exercised a peculiar fascination for Americans. Foreigners coming to Paris simply to visit the exposition will not be obliged to register, unless they should stay here during all the continuance of the great international fair.—Paris Nouvelles. The Queen Regent of Spain has signed a decree ordering the sale of a large number of obsolete men-of-war and providing for the reorganization and modernization of the other vessels. S. F. 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Matters of national or vital public interest get more space in THE TRIBUNE than in any other paper in the West. For these reasons it is the newspaper you should read during the forthcoming political campaign. THE TRIBUNE'S financial columns never mislead the public. Its facilities for gathering news, both local and foreign, are far superior to those of any other newspaper in the West. It presents the news in as fair a way as possible, and lets its readers form their opinions. While it publishes the most comprehensive articles on all news features, if you are busy the "Summary of THE DAILY TRIBUNE" published daily on the first page gives you briefly all the news of the day within one column. Its sporting news is always the best, and its Sunday Pink Sporting Section is better than any sporting paper in the country. It is the "cleanest" daily printed in the West. 2161 GRAND AVENUE Opposite Flanner's Music Store MILWAUKEE, WIS. GEO. W. 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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 RED JACKET CALUMET LAKE LINDEN HANCOCK HOUGHTON L'ANSE NESTORIA ISHPEMING MARQUETTE VIA THE NORTHWESTERN 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. OCONTO GREEN BAY APPLETON NEENAH- MENASHA OSHKOSH FOND DU LAO MILWAUKEE RACINE KENOSHA CHICAGO VON KETTELER MURDERED. Assassination of the German Min- & ister to China Confirmed. WAS HACKED TO PIECES ae Belief in London that War is Now Inevitable—Situation is Most Desperate. Washington, D. C.. July 2.—The nays department has received the following eablegram from Admiral Kempif with- * German minister going to % * tsung li yamen murdered by * * Chinese ‘soldiers. | American, @ * Italian, Dutch legations burned. < * ‘Twenty thousand Chinese sol- * * diers inside; 30,000 outside Pe- = * kin; 3000 reported bound Tien > * Tosin:still Aghting at Tien Tsin. * Communication with Tien Tsin * by rail and river insecure. - . (Signed) Kempff. eee eet eee ewes e © Berlin, July 2.—A telegram from Dr. Lenz, the German consul at Chefoo, says: “Our minister at Pekin was murdered June 18.” Privy Councilor Hamann was asked whether the course of Germany or that of the other powers toward China will be altered by the assassination of Baron von Ketteler. He replied that he was: unable to answer the question because Count yon Buelow (the minister of for- eign affairs) fete here yesterday evening to meet Efperor William at Wilhelms- haven, before the alarming news was re- ecived here. He supposed Count von Buelow will forego his vacation ans re- main in Berlin, Herr Hamann was also asked if the Chinese minister here would be given his passports, but the privy councilor did not reply. | Other Ministers in Peril. Paris, July 2.—In_ the Chamber of Deputies today, M. Delcasse, the minis- ter of foreign affairs, announced that he | had received a dispatch today from the | French consul at Shanghai saying that | the director of Chinese railroads had re- | ceived the news that the minister of a ee power had been assassinated at | Yekin and that the other ministers were in peril. M. Deleasse added that he hoped the latter news would prove untrue. Mrance, thus far, he continued, had been weakly represented among tue international | forces, but troops from Tonquin were ar- riving’on the scene and the French ad- | miral would soon have 3000 men, while. with the arrival of the other troops. on. their way, France, within a month, will have a toree proportionate to her’ posi- tion in China. Prince Tuan a Usurper. London, July 2.—A special dispatch from Shanghai containing another ver- sion of Yung Lu's message is that it was an appeal to the taotai shong to send help. Yung Lu is further said to have declared that he and the Dowager Em- pees had been seeking to protect the Europeans and legations, but that Prince Tuan usurped the imperial power Tune | 20, since when the soldiers had refused | to obey Yung Lu. The latter is also said to have stated that Tuan personaily or- dered the attack on the foreigners at Pekin. French Consulate Shelled. Paris, July 2.—3 p. m—The French consul at Tien Tsin telegraphs — under date of June 26 as follows: “Several shells were fired into the town yesterday evening, one falling on the French con- sulate and seriously damaging the Dil | ing without injuring the residents. The secretary of the consulate. who was act- ing as road surveyor for the town, and two French sailors were killed at ‘the town hall.” Italian Sailors Killed. Rome, July 2.—The commander of the Italian warship Elba cables trom Taku that the Itahan detachment at Tien Tsin 3 had a Jieutenant and six sailors killed during the recent fighting there. Trying to Save the Oregon. Washington, D, C., July 2.—The fol- lowing cablegram has been received at the navy department from Admiral Kempff, dated Chefoo. July 1: “The Oregon is not in a dangerous po- sition; about 38 degrees north latitude, 20 degrees 40 minutes east longitude. Hlave sent to her assistance three naval vessels, It is reported that there is wa- ter in one compartment. The command- er of the Oregon did not request assist- ance, a Japanese man-of-war haying boarded yessel.” Vast Army Required. New York, July 2.—A dispatch to’ the Herald trom Chefoo says: “AN the thoughts and energies of the naval and military commanders at Taku are now concentrated on the relief of the foreigners in Pekin, who have been shut off from the outside world since June 9. The allied forces now at Taku and Tien ‘Tsin are awaiting reinforcements before moving on Pekin, as it is estimated that 50,000 troops are required. ‘The tsung li yamen on June 19 or- dered the ministers to leave Pekin next day. ‘They refused to go and throw the responsibility for their safety on the tsung li yamen. It is believed that the powers will threaten to destroy the impe- rial tombs if injury befalls the legations. The foreign force in Pekin for the pro- tection of the legations numbers 428 men, of whom 56 are Americans with a Colt’s gun under Capt. Meyers. Other officers are Capt. Hill and) Dr. T. M. Lippitt. 3 Barts von Ketteler’s interpreter was also wounded, but saved himself by run- uing into a legation, Great Distress in Pekin. A runner from Pekin says that all were in great distress there and eagerly looking for relief. Those Killed of Admiral Seymour's force were fearfully mutilated. The British dispatch vessel Alacrity ar- rived at Chefoo this morning. ~ She brings’ seventeen wounded from Wei- Hai-Wei. There was an incipient riot here on Saturday evening over coolie troubles. Ali is quiet today. All the men of the naval brigade at Taku have been recalled to their ships and replaced by troops. Unrest is spreading and the mission- aries are niaking their way to the coast from all the northern provinces. A steamer sent out by the American end other consuls at Chefoo arrived here Saturday with seventy-three missionar- ies, comprising thirty-three Americans, twenty-nine English, ten Canadians and ue Chinese. The names of the Americans follow: Dr. Crawford and wife, Rev. Mr. Bos- tock, wife and family: Rev. Mr. Dawes, wife and infant; Rev. Mr. Patrich, wife and two children; Miss Burnham, M. D.; Rev. Mr. Blalock and wife, Rev. Mr. Findsen. wife and infant; Rev. Mr. ‘coming to the coast, for whom another steamer has been sent. 7 Advised to Fiee for Safety. The American consul at Chefoo and the commander of the American Saneoes Nashville urge all American citizens to seize the present opportunity to leave Chefoo on merchant steamers. The Japanese have offered rs poets transports to convey Americans to Japan. ‘At Wei Hsein in the American Presby- terian and other mission premises were entirely destroyed on June 25, but the missionaries escaped. | British refugees arriving at Chefoo are being conveyed to Wei Hai Wei by the British first-class craiser Terrible. ‘There is trouble at Moukden. The Manchuria railway has been damaged and the buildings burned and the Rus- sians are sending troops. CRUEL MURDER. German Minister Shot and His Body Hacked to Pieces. siacked to Frecese London, July 2—The worst fears as to what has been happening in Pekin since the capital was cut off from communica- tion a fortnight ago have been realized. The dispatches agree that the German minister, Baron yon Ketteler, was mur- dered in the streets of Pekin on June 16 and that all the gees were burned but three—those of England, France and Germany. ‘There was a general massacre of the servants employed by the foreigners, and all the members of the diplomatic body sought refuge in the British lega- tion. Though they were reported safe up to last Tuesday morning their situa- tion was most desperate. Cruel Murder of Von Ketteler. It is apparent Von Ketteler’s murder was cruel in the extreme. He was first shot by Chinese soldiers while go- ing to the tsung li yamen and then dragged from his horse by soldiers and Boxers and hacked to pieces. Immediately afterwards the American, Italian, Russian, Japanese and two oth- er legations were attacked and burned, followed by a general massacre of serv- ants. Believe War is Sure to Come. A majority of the London papers can draw but the one deduction that these facts mean war with China. It is officially admitted and recognized by all the powers that whether the par- tition of China follows largely depends on how nearly the powers can come to an agreement when peace is restored. Jealousies May Arise. Up to the present the powers appear to haye acted as harmoniously as could be expected, and perhaps more so, but Ad- miral Bruce’s summary of the European forees now on the scene is pretty sure to arouse jealousies, #ad, in fact, has done so already m some quarters, for attention is esiled to the fact that the Russian contingent out- numbers the combined contingents of all other powers, including the United States. Also that the Japanese contin- gent is equal to the combined contribu- tions to the force made by England, Ger- many, France and America, German Engineers in a Fight. Tsin-Tchoo, tay 2.—The German en- gineers on the Shantung railroad have been forced to abandon their work ow- ing to disturbances between Kia-Ho and Wei-Hsin. The engineers, who were plundered by rebel soldiery, managed to reach a place of safety after a running fight. in which many Chinese were killed. AQUINO SURRENDERED. ee A Prominent Insurgent Leader, with Rifles and Ammunition, Gives Himself Up. Washington, D. C., July 2.—Three ca- ble messages were received by the ad- jutant-general from Gen. MacArthur at Manila. The first and most important was received at the war department this morning, as follows: “Gen. Aquino, prominent leader of in- surgent forces, surrendered uncondition- ally to Lieut. John J. O'Connell, with Maccabee scouts, on June 29, together with sixty-four rifles and ammunition.” Gen. MacArthur also cables that Gen. Ricurte, leader of the threatened upris- ing in Manila during this year, recentiy very active, was captured July 1 by na- tive police between Paco and Stana. In another message Gen. MacArthur said that the remains of Lieut. Paul Draper, Twenty-second infantry, were recovered June 30, and were buried at San Isidro, Luzon. Draper was killed several days ago during an saeco at the aespen river in northern Luzon, when he and his men were ambushed by the insurgents. The third message stated that the transport Warren sailed- from Manila yesterday with a battalion of the 'Twen- ty-third United States infantry bound for San Francisco. The men in this bat- talion have nearly completed their terms of enlistment or are incapacitated for further active service. The departure of the transport Warren for Manila at this juncture is somewhat significant. She i¥ one of the largest troopships in the serr- ice and was relied upon to carry a full regiment with arms and pepeet to China in case of necessity. he only other large transport remaining at_Ma- nila available for that service is the Sher- man, reeently arrived from San Fran- cisco. There are two other smaller trans- ports, the Pennsylvania and Indiana, and three freight ships in the Philippines. The total carrying capacity of the entire available transport fleet now at Manila is about 4500 men whereas, including the Warren, it was over 6000. T or SHOT FOUR PERSONS. Drunken Italian Makes Trouble at Iron Mountain, Mich.—One of Wounded will Die. Iron Mountain, Mich., July 2.—[Spe- cial.]—While in a drunken spree early this morning, Giacomo Visconti, an Ital- ian, shot_four people, one of whom, Telesfor Jacques, cannot five. He es- caped, but was captured near Common- wealth, Wis., and is now in jail. DISPUTE OVER WAGES. Ten Thousand Union Miners in Alaba- ima eit Work. Birmingham, ‘Ala., July 2.—All_ the union miners in Alzbama, ahput 10,000 in number, suspended work today _pend- ing the settlement of the wage dispute between them and the eperators. The old wage contract expired yesterday and the miners demand a 40 ae cent. raise and other concessions. e operators refused this and offered to | re- new the old contract, which is an ‘advance of 40 to 70 per cent. over the old one in effect prior to July 1, 1899. This the miners rejected and a referen- dum is being held at the various mining camps for the purpose of further. in- structing the delegates to the state miners’ convention. Train Robber Captured. Tucson, Ariz., July 2.—William Stiles, train robber and fugitive, has been ar- rested at Casa ‘Grande, near the home of this mother. He was taken by surprise and was powerless to resist. ¥ He has been taken to Tombstone. Stiles is the man who released Alvord and Bravo Huan and he has been in the mountains with them since, IN FAVOR OF THE WIDOW. Mother and Wife of Dead Man Fight for Life Insurance, COURT FINDS FOR WIFE. William Evans of Chippewa Falls was Careless Abont Having Policy Transferred, Chippewa Falls, Wis., July 3.—[Spe- cial.]—After waiting for the full lim:t of time allotted for the disposition of te case of Mary Evans vs. Kathrine Ev- ans, Judge Vinje of the cireuit court bas decided against the plaintiff: The case is.a peculiar one and has been watched with interest. In 1898 William Evans became a mem- ber of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, and had a policy for $2000 is- sued in favor of his mother, Mrs. Mary Evans, About a year later Byans was married to Kathrine Bloombhart, and it was ‘his imténtion to have the insurance policy transferred to his wife. He ap- plied to the secretary of the Brother- hood and a new policy, properly filed out, was submitted to him for his sigua- ture. Evans seems to haye been nes- ligent in signing the new policy and at the termination of three months he was killed, and the question of law developed upon the right of the mother of the widow to inherit the policy was raised. The Brotherhood transferred the policy, with order for payment on the decision of the court, to the court. Yesterday the limit for. appeal was reached and the money was duly transferred to the SL FS AE AFFILIATION NOT eae a AN ENDORSEMENT. anager rae Labor Organizer Weber Explains the Relationship Between Social Democrats and Federation. © Sheboygan, Wis., July 3.—[Special.]— General Labor Organizer Frank J. Web- er explains that the action taken by the State Federation of Labor, in this city, at its recent convention, relative to the adoption of International Socialism, was net an affiliation with the Social Demo- eratic party. A report from Oshkesh is to the effect that the labor unions of that city are withdrawing from the State Federation because the State Federation has atliliated with the Social Demoeratic party. It was known here when the res- olution was adopted that there was both a majority and minority report from the committee having it in hand. Mr. Weber explains that the action was net an en dorsement of Social Democracy, but in- tended for the affiliation of the members with the International Socialistie party. IDI rT AT EDUCATIONAL ALLIANCE. Organization is Perfected at a Meeting Held in the Capito! at Madison. Madison, Wis., July 3,—[Special.]— The meeting, of which Senator Stout and others are the promoters, to perfect thc organization. of the Wisconsin Alliance, was held this afternoon at 2 o'clock, in the office of the state superintendent at the capitol. Prominent educators from all over the state are here. The object of the alliance as stated in the call is “To arouse a public sentiment in, favor’ of manual training, domestic science and the elements of agriculture as an integra! part of the course of study, and, if need be, te secure the necessary legislation for the accomplishment of this object.” Among the educators present were Sen- ator J. H. Stout, Menomonie; Dr. Ellis, Ashland; SPR D. D. Mayne, Janesville; Supt. R..B. Dudgeon, Madison; Principal F. W. Hoyt, Menomonie; ex-Attorney- General C. E. Estabrook, Milwaukee, and most of the presidents of state nor- mal schools, who are here in attendnnace also at the session of the normal school regents. One of the questions to be set- tled this afternoon is whether the alli- ance shall incorporate. It will not in any sense, its promoters say, be a rival of any other educational association, but will aim to be helpful to them. Supt. L. D. Harvey 2-1 Miss Schrei- ber of the state educational department left this afternoon for Charleston, S.C to attend the national educational ce eae oa LIGHTNING KILLS. —_ Three Person Are Struck at Thiens- ville—Man is Killed at Viroqua. Thiensville, Wis., July 3.—Henry Otto, a well-known farmer of this vicinity, was struck and killed by lightning while standing under a tree. His hired man and Edgar Albers, a 7-year-old son of Dr. H. A. Albers, were with Mr. Otto and were also struck and burned seri ously, but may recover. Mr. Otto leaves a_young wife and one son. He was about 38 years of age. Viroqua, Wis., July 3.—Herman Paum- land, a young man 25 years of age, was killed by lightning at Springfield during a heavy electrical storm, Blectricity en- tered the building from the roof, going to the ground where Paumland was stand- ing by a table, pee oe Se tS NORMAL REGENTS’ OFFICERS. Frank M. Ross of Superior is Elected President. Madison, Wis., July 3.—[Special.J— The state board of normal school regents today elected officers as follows: President—Frank M. Ross, Superior. Vice-President—J. J. Fruit, La Crosse. Seeretary—S. 8. Rockwood,’ Portage. All except the president are re-clec- ticns, A few: miner changes were made in the teaching forces at some of the schools and a few salaries increased. A rule was passed reqniring the president of the schools to expel any pupil who is unable, for any reason, to meet the re- quirements of the school or to teach after graduation. . A propusition was made to require a physical test for admission to a school, but was laid over. ATTEMPTS TC KILL HERSELF. Cleveland Woman Cuts Her Throat . $ witth a iinees. Snes Wis., July 3.—[Special.]— Mrs. Charles Mills of Cleveland, 1S eated north of Sheboygan, attemp:ed sui- cide by eutting her throat with a razor. She- wes found lying in a pool of blood very much weakened by the loss of blood. but will recover. The cause of the woman's action is thought to have been due to grief over the death of a| daughter which recently oceurred. She is the wife of a proprietor of a hotel at Cleveland, ay School Treasurer for Fifty Years. Fort Atkinson, Wis., July 3.—At the annual schogl meeting ex-Congressman L. B. Caswell: was re-elected treasurer. This time will complete fifty years of service of schodi board. Ten thousand dollars was yoted for a six-room school building. WAS WORSE THAN FIRST REPORTED. Spee es sees eee Wind Storm in Jackson County Caused a Loss of Thou- sands of Dollars. Black River Falls, Wis., July 3.—[ Spe- cial.J—The reports which came from parts of Jackson county that were visited by the recent windstorm show heavy losses were sugtained on many of the richest farms in this part of the country. Large fields of grain were laid waste. more buildings were destroyed than had been reported and detailed information gives it out that the losses ran up inte the tens of thousands of doliars. The storm passed through the very best sec- tion and demolished everything in its path. Three men, who were beating on Black river, had a close call for their lives and a number of other persons were SUSUR oe ne Seat eon as, . FIRST RATLROAD IN ADAMS COUNTY. The Princeton & Wisconsin River Company Files Articles of Incorporation. \ Madison, Wis., July 3.—[Special.]— The first railroad company to enter Ad- ams county filed articles of organization with the secretary of state today. It is the Princeton & Wisconsin River com- pany, to run from Princeton to Necedah, fifty miles through Juneau, Adams, Mar- quette and Green Lake counties. The capital stock is $750,000 and the incor- porators R. A. Crandall, Robert Jones, W. H. Hopkins, W. 8. Syrett and John C. Hopkins of Chieago. NARROWLY ESCAPES A HORRIBLE DEATH. Young Woman Falls on the Verge of a High Preci- pice. Baraboo, Wis., July 3.—[Special.J— Miss Eunice Holt of this city came very near meeting a horrible death at Devil's Lake. She was climbing the bluff just belew the Devil's Doorway when she was suddenly knocked insensible by a large bowlder. In her fall the other side of her head was severely bruised and when picked up she was lying on the verge of a precipice over 100 feet high. After much difficulty she was carried over the almost perpendicular slope to a place of safety and then was brought to this city for medical aid. It is supposed the bowlder was accidentally detached from a ledge above. PARENTS BRING SUIT. Seater ae Ask far $5000 Damages to Settle for Son’s Death—Sue Owner of the Evelyn. Oshkosh, Wis., July 3.—[Special.]— Suit has been commenced by the parents of Bert Fredericks of Fond du Lae, who was drowned in Lake Winnebago, against W. W. Knapp of this city, owner of the steamer Evelyn for $500 dam- ages. It is alleged that the Evelyn was not provided with a railing to keep peo- ple from falling in and that the engineer did not stop prompuly enough when the alarm that the boy was overboard was given, The lad was asleep on the lower deck. He awoke suddenly and walked into the water and was drowned. Fond du Lae, Wis., July 3,—[Special.] —The coroner's jury in the inquest over the remains of Bertie Fredericks ren- dered the following verdict: “We, the jury, find that Bertie O. Fredericks came to his death by drown- ing in Lake Winnebago on the 28th day of June, 1900, by walking overboard from the steamer Evalyn, on account of the boat not being properly guarded by ropes or chains. 7 y T OPERATOR HELD UP. Two Masked Highwaymen Rob the Station at West Bend. West Bend, Wis., July 3.—[Special.J— Adolph Homrig, the night operator, was held up at the depot about midnight by two masked men and at the point of re- volyers made to give up the key to the eash drawer, which contained about $20, ond then was relieved of his watch, val- ued at about $30. The safe of the West Bend Lumber company was also tam- pered with. It, however, contained no money. A search is being made by the authorities, but no clue to the robbers has thns far been found, Campbellsport, Wis., July 3.—[Spe- cial.|—Two men were arrested near Eden charged with having robbed the station at West Bend. MISS ANNE M. HAWLEY DEAD. The Librarian at Kenosha Public Library Passes Away. Kenosha, Wis., July 3.—[Special.]— Miss Anne M. Hawley, assistant libra- rian of the Gilbert M. Simmons memo- rial libtary, died at an early hour this morning at the Presbyterian hospital in Chicago, as the result of weakness caused by an operation for tumor, She was about 30 years of age and one of the most _universally-beloved young women in Kenosha. She has taken a great interest in the Kenosha Public li- brary and had been connected with it since its organization in 1896. The re- mains were brought to Kenosha today and the funeral wil be held on Thursday from St. Matthew's church. MARIA JOJRNEYS ON. La Crosse Sends the ‘Window Smash- er’? to Sonth Dakota. La Crosse, Wis., July 3.—[Special.J— Maria Ricks, whose name at present is Mrs. Richard Hanley, is now journeying toward her home in Frederick, S. D., on transportation furnished by Superin- tendent of Poor Scharpt, who desired to rid the town of her. She still maintains that she will sue the authorities of Fred- erick for sending her out of town. Manitowoc School Row Settled. Manitowoe, Wis., July 3.—[Special.J— The north side school meeting was a rather quiet affair, no mention whatever was made of the controversy over the principalship, it having been practically settled and understood between the citi- zens’ cominittee and the school board that Prof. Evans is to be re-engaged for another year. Man Killed at Racine. Racine, Wis., July 3.—Herman Miller was fatally injured at W. Pugh's coal- yard while engaged in transferring coal from a boat to the dock. He was taken to the St. Mary's hospital, where he sur- vived his wounds but an hour. He was 41 years of age and unmarried. Ask for a Receiver, Eau Claire, Wis., ay 3.—Stockhold- ers of the Eau Claire Waterworks com- pany have applied fer the appointmeat of a receiver, alleging pending litigation is damaging the business. WORKED A BIG SWINDLE. Forged Time Checks Passed in Northern Wisconsin. MANY ARE VICTIMIZED. Perpetrators of Gigantic Fraud Have Not Been Caught—They Have Probably Escaped. Marinette, Wis., July 2.—[Special.}— Officers have just discovered that be- tween $1000 and $1500 worth of fraudu- lent Holmes & Son's time checks have been passed in the vicinity of Pembine, the headquarters of the firm, and in the surrounding country. This amount has already turned up, and later develop- ments may increase the amount to sev- eral thousand dollars. The checks were passed in Pembine, Tron Mountain, Crystal Falls, Marinette, Menominee and other places. There is little prospects of capturing the culprits. They have probably fled from this part of the country, as their work was done some time ago. The perpetrators of the crime had du- plicate time checks printed. They were 4m exact copy of the original. They then forged the names, time, ete. Holmes & Son's time checks have in the past been as good as government cur- rency and people to whom they were pre- sented usually gave them only a casual inspection. Tor that reason the fraud was easily perpetrated. The worthless checks are turning up every day and the swindle will be a big one. SAVED MANY LIVES. se Engineer on a Chicago Passenger Train, Shows Great Pres- ence of Mind. La Crosse, Wis., July 2.—[{Special.]J— The fast train from Chicago on the Bur- lington road, near Victory, bumped into boulders which had rolled down from the bluffs. The engineer saw the boulders as he was coming around a sharp curve and instantly put on all his air, reversing engine and turned on steam again full foree. This brought the train to a sud- den halt just as the engine crashed into a huge rock. The passengers were badly shaken up, but the sudden action and presence of mind of the engineer saved many lives. ' 7 SMASHED HIS FACE. ee A Chippewa Falls Farmer is Fatally Injured by a Vicious Bronco. Chippewa Falls, Wis., July 2.—[Spe- cial.J—Donald Cameron, a farmer resid- ing near the city, was badly injured by being kicked by a horse. He attempted to put a bridle on a newly-trained bron- co, when the animal kicked Cameron and he fell, Before help arrived the man’s face was kicked almost beyond identification. He is suffering from con- eussion of the brain from which it is thought he cannot recover, CRACKS HIS OWN HEAD. a A Sheboygan County Man Fractures His Skull witha Hammer. Sheboygan, Wis., July 2.—Abraham Zweekbaur of the town of Holland, this county, committed suicide by battering himself on the head with a hammer, frac- turing his skull. He attempted to take his life a few days ago by cutting his head from his body with a sharp instru- ment but was prevented from doing so. ROUTES OUT OF BARABOO. Will be Established Soon and 2000 Persons will be Served. Baraboo, Wis., July 2.—[Special.]— Postmaster A. P, Cheek and Postottice Inspector W. F. Conger went over a free rural mail delivery route today, which is to be established near this city, An- other route from Baraboo will also be laid out this week and the two routes will cover the towns of Greenfield and Fairchild. | Each will be about twenty- five miles in length and a population of about 2000 will be served. The inspec- tor says the routes will be in operation some time in August, Washington, D. C., July 2—A rural free er route has been_established at Brodhead, Green county, Wis., cover- ing an area of thirty-three square miles, and supelying, a population of 600. W. H. Clark has been appointed carrier. Washington, D. C., July 2.—[Special.] —Rural free delivery service has been or- dered established at Beloit, Rock county, Wisconsin, July_ 16 > on two routes. Length of route, 54 miles; area covered, 73 square miles; population served, 1350; carriers, A. P. Cornelius and M. E. Adams. . EATS HEADS OF MATCHES. A Young Wife Takes Her Own Life. Antigo, Wis., July 2.—Mary Karban, wife of Wenzel Karban, a farmer of the town of Neva, this county, committed sui- cide by eating the heads off four boxes of matches. She was only 16 years of age and had been married since last fall. She was a daughter of Joseph Novak, a pros- perous farmer of that town. The hus- band administered antidotes but with no effect. Medical aid was also summoned, but the woman was dead before assist- ance reached her. FINE PEARL FOUND. La Crosse Boys Find One Valued at Over $250, La Crosse, Wis., July 2.—[Special.]— The largest fresh-water pearl found in the Mississippi in the immediate vicinity of La Crosse was found quite accidental- ly yesterday afternoon by the two little sons of Policeman Cornelius N. Ashley. It is well formed and aimost perfect in color, weighing 22 grains. He was promptly offered $250 for the gem by a local jeweler, but the offer was declined. BLEW OPEN SAFE. Robbers at Washburn Got Nothing for Their Trouble. Washburn, Wis:, July 2.—[Special.}— Burglars blew open the safe at the Oma- ha depot this morning, but obtained noth- ing for their trouble. The explosion damaged considerable furniture. ‘This is the second safe-blowing within a week. Spanish War Veteran's Reunion. La Crosse, Wis., July 2.—[Special.]— Tn a special order just issued, Col. M. T. Moore of this city, as Sol aa pont com- niander of the Spanish-American war veterans in Wisconsin, endorses the proj- ect of poten S national reunion of the soldiers of 1 which is to be held “at Camp Chickamanga. near Chattanooga, Tenn., the week of October 9-15. | BLAMES TRAINMEN. anit gies Coroner’s Jury Renders Verdict in the North-Western Ac- cident at Depere. Depere, Wis., July 2.--[Special.]~—The coroner's esi at the inquest over the yic- tims in the North-Western wreck here last week brought in a verdict finding that the chief train dispatcher, J. 1° Waldo of Oshkosh, and his assistant, Mr. Luther, exercised poor management in handling the trains and that Engineer Cottrell of the excursion train was negli- gent im his duty in not applying his air brakes quickly and effectively enough after answering the danger = of the flagman; also that Engineer Rockefeller and Hazelbauer and Conductor Cottreil of the freight train violated the com- pany’s block signal rules in taking their trains out on the main track south of the south switch at Depere, but from the testimony it was found that they used precaution to protect their train by send- ing out a flagman. The road is censured for sending out imexperienced men in charge of the excursion trein. ONLY A LITTLE RAIN. Fond du Lac County People Are Disappointed by the Small Downpour. Fond du Lac, Wis., July 2—[Special.] —What was hoped to be the commence- ment of a couple of days of steady rain started this morning, but after a gentle fall of a couple of hours the skies began clearing and the faces of Fond du Lac people again took on their no-rain expres- sion, one compared to which the bicycie face is a beauty. In spite of the lack of rain, however, grain fields in the county are hone weil, a short straw being the only drawback. Pastures are dried up and the question of tiding over the stoci is a serious one. A great number of farmers have already been obliged to dis- pene of their stock at a fearful sacrifice. ’astures are burnt to a crisp and a scarcity of hay gives rise to conditions that will make it difficult for many more to hold their stock much longer un- less relief is afforded by heavy rains. Hungarian grass is being generally sown on fields from which peas or other gar- den stuffs have been harvested. HE EXPECTED DEATH. Lorenzo Hathaway of Grand Rap- ids Made All Arrangements for His Funeral. Grand Rapids, Wis., July 2.—{Spe- cial.]}—The funeral of Lorenzo Hatha- way, who died suddenly in a barber chair here Saturday, was held today. Mr. Hathaway was told by the doctors about a year ago that he could not live longer than a year, or two years at the most. He said if that was the case he was going to buy himself a monument. and fix up a lot in the cemetery. He did as he said he would and his lot was fixed up in good order and has on it a large gran- ite monument with the name “Hatha- way” across the face of it. As landlord of the Witter hotel there was not a better-known or better-liked hotel man in the state of Wisconsin. He was very popular among the traveling fraternity. Before Mr. Hathaway went into the hotel business he was a first-class river pilot and followed that occupation for years. He was a well-known character in river circles from Merrill to Prairie du Chien, and no one knew the “rocks and rills’’ between these points better than he did. Mr. Hathaway died just as he wished and said he would like to die. He always said he wanted to die “quicker than you could say Jack Robinson.” He was jok- ing and talking merrilly with Judge C. M. Webb, who was in the barber shop, when suddenly, without warning, he dropped dead. He is survived by his wife, one son. Oscar, and a daughter, Mrs. John Arpin, wife of the well-known lumberman of this city and Bruce, Wis. KILLED AT OSHKOSH. —_—_-_—_ Electric Train Passes Over Man Lying Unconscious on the Track, Oshkosh, Wis. July 2.—[Special.]— Alexander Baasen was killed last night by the electric cars. He was driving in a buggy when his horse shied and threw him on the track. He lay there uncon- scious when a train of three cars passed over him, killing him instantly. He had lived here six months and was formerly employed by the Wisconsin Telephone company. His nearest relative was an uncle named Michael A. J. Baasen of Milwaukee. He was 23 years of age. ALL WILL RECOVER. Condition of the Victims of the De- pere Wreck. Fond du Lac, Wis., July 2.—[Special.} —The condition of the patients injured in the railroad wreck at Depere con- tinues favorable in each instance. The convalescent men at St. Agnes hospital are allowed the freedom of the large ve randas and a number took walks about the hospital grounds yesterday. Reports from Green Bay state that all the in jured there are getting along splendidly and it is iis athe that a number will be moved to their homes in Fond du Lac this week, A. G. Bechand spent Sunday at the bay with his son August, one of the most seriously injured, and is hope ful of moving him in a few days, Bert Ives, whose life was despaired of the first part of last week, was in a cheerful mood yesterday and said he would be one of the first to get back home. | A delegation of about thirty Fond du Lac people visited the patients at Green Bay during the day. Dating the afternoon Emil Severin was moved from the Gen- eral hospital to St. Vincent's. ALL HIS SAVINGS STOLEN. A Fond du Lac County Farmband is Robbed. Fond du Lac, Wis., July 2.—[Special.] —Christian Halfman, a farmhand, had $60 stolen from a suit of clothes hanging in a downstair room in the house ou th. farm on which he was employed while he was at work in the field Saturday. Halfman works on the farm of Mrs. Mary Krebsbach, about a mile from St. Peters, It is supposed that the thief en- tered the house while Mrs. Krebsbach was in the barn during the mornius. Halfman attended a dance at St. Pete's Friday night and on the way home his pon and money was on his person and e is positive that the purse was in the suit when he placed it away Saturday morning. ‘The money represented his savings of the past year. There is uo clue whatever to the thief. La Crosse is Making Money. La Crosse, Wis., July 2.—[Special.]— The waterworks of the city of La Cros-« have, during the past twelve months, ac- cording to the records of the board of pes works, made a remarkable record esides paying all running expenses an‘ costs of repairs and extensions, have paid 3 per cent. interest on all outstanding w*: ter bonds and still cleared a net profit of a trifle over $12,000, which was today turned into the general fand in the hands of the city treasurer by the board. SINGH Here are some of the native staff of the Seventh Bengal infantry, en route from Bombay to Hong Kong. All are of high caste, and they regard low-caste natives of all nationalities as less than the dirt under their feet. Their men follow them to the cannon's mouth with unfailing alacrity, and they regard death on the battlefield as the most desirable end possible. HOSPITAL SCANDALS. London, June 30.—The "yellow peril," as the Chinese crisis is now called here, is, for the moment, relegated to second place. Public interest in the hospital scandals in South Africa so absorbs attention that no amount of official quibbling can suppress it. The treatment of thousands of wounded and fever-stricken British soldiers in the field threatens to become as serious a matter for public agitation as the military camps were after the Spanish-American war. If Lord Roberts was not so frankly willing to shoulder the major part of the responsibility the outcry which Burdett-Coutts' letters raised would well-nigh have swamped the government. However, few people care to seriously criticise the successful general whose consideration for his men, especially the wounded, is a byword in the army and elsewhere. The action of Lord Lansdowne, the secretary of state for war, in submitting the criticism of Lord Roberts himself was a masterstroke of politics which temporarily saved the government's head. However, if the proposed parliamentary committee finds the war office failed to adopt necessary medical precautions it will take the Conservatives a long time to re-establish their prestige with thousands in Great Britain who have suffered bitterly through the loss and illness of relatives in South Africa. It has been hard enough for those bereaved to "grin and bear" the long casualty lists, but, with the suspicion that lives were needlessly wasted there is no longer any restraint to their sorrow or limit to their indignation. Lessons of the Boer War. A significant sign of the times is the announcement in the July issue of the Nineteenth Century that some of the most distinguished men, regardless of party, have agreed to join an association with the object of fixing steadily public attention on the lessons of the war, foremost among which is the necessity for examining the defenses of the empire and the need of conducting the various departments of state on ordinary business principles. Among those who have promised to become members are Lord Rosebery, the Earl of Leven and Melville, the Earl of Rosse, the Earl of Clanwilliam, Viscount Peel, the bishop of London (the Right Rev. Mandell Creaghton, D. D.), Cardinal Vaughan, Sir Wemyss Reid, Sir Howard Vincent and a large number of members of the House of Commons and army officers. Viscount Deerhurst, colonel of a volunteer battalion of the Worcester regiment, who married an American, Miss Virginia Bonynge (daughter of Charles W. Bonynge, formerly of San Francisco), in testifying before the parliamentary committee this week, brought home with starling force the rottenness of the material supplied to the army. He declared that after paying an extra price for shoes for the battalion, after one march they were "like paper bags, with shreds of leather inside" and "you could easily put your finger through the majority of the soles." Boer House Perfumed. An amusing story is current regarding Harry Beaumont, one of the best-dressed London clubmen, who married Miss Jessie Feilowes of New York, and went to South Africa as an officer of the Cheshire yeomanry. It is said that he requisitioned a Boer house for his own use but, before occupying it, he "showered the building with insect powder" and "drenched it with eau de cologne." How tired the people of England are becoming of such kid-glove methods of warfare could be judged the other night, when Sir Evelyn Wood, the adjutant-general to the forces, who is notoriously influenced by feminine advice received a hostile reception at the hands of such a broad-minded body as the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Somewhat on these lines Sir Claude MacDonald, the British minister to China, is coming in for criticism. It is frequently said that he is a better hand at afternoon teas than in preserving the empire's interests in China. A local paper at Tien Tsin once said it was evident Sir Charles' motto was: "I do not care what her flag is so long as she is fair." It is not generally known that last September Sir Claude MacDonald was suffering so much from heart disease and other complications that he could scarcely walk a hundred yards. Society Again Active. Real social gaiety reigned this week for the first time this season. Heretofore the festivities have been few and far between and of a rather forced order. But during the last few days, what with the arrival of the Khedive of Egypt, bazaars, entertainments, the state concert and countless dinners, London has taken on its old-time aspect for this time of the year. The Americans here have taken a conspicuous share in the festivities. Mrs. Mackay's house, which had so long been closed on account of mourning in the family, was reopened Thursday with a concert. Mrs. Mackay received her guests at the top of the historic staircase, which once was in an Italian palace. She was dressed simply in black, her ornaments consisting of a few costly black pearls. With her was her daughter, the Princess Colonna, and her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Clarence Mackay, who was much admired, in white and silver with mauve orchids and a diamond tiara with turquoise points. Most of the notable persons in English and American society were present, including Mr. and Mrs. Bradley Martin. Eugene Kelly, Ladies Craven and Herketh, the Dowager Lady Strafford, Mrs. Padelford, and Mrs. Mooreton Frewton. William Waldorf Astor, who also lives in Carlton house terrace, gave a musicale the same night, at which his numerous guests heard Mme. Calve and Paderewski. Dinner that Cost $15,000. The mostl avish entertainment of the week, however, was Mrs. Rischoffsheim's dinner party for the Prince of Wales, Wednesday. The papers announce that it cost over $15,000. It began with a dinner which was not over until 11 and ended with a supper. While royalty feasted a Japanese troupe, which came here from New York on its way to the Paris exposition, but which seemed in no hurry to go there, performed three plays in a large tent erected in the garden. The prince, the Duke of York, and Prince Christian, with their hostess and her daughter, occupied the center seats in the front row. Among the invited guests were the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire, Lady Randolph Churchill, Mrs. George Keppel, Lady Granby, Mrs. William James and Mr. and Mrs. William Greenfel The afternoon reception of Mrs. Joseph B. Choate, wife of the American embassador, was as crowded as ever. Many Americans were present, including Mrs. J. J. Van Alen, who has just returned from a trip to South Africa, and Mrs. Renalds. Lady Randolph Churchill is seen almost everywhere and has been constantly congratulated, with varying degrees of sincerity, on her approaching marriage to Lieut. Cornwallis-West, and the announcement that the young lieutenant had been ordered back to South Africa came as a surprise. Society believes it is one more sign that the high and mighty influences are still working against the match, foremost among them being, it is said, the Prince of Wales. According to Truth, the Czar has issued a ukase positively prohibiting baccarat playing within his domains, even in private houses, under pain of a heavy fine, and, on a second conviction, a prolonged term of imprisonment. Consternation reigns at St. Petersberg but the British aristocerats contemplating visiting Russia are not much concerned, for baccarat has been quite supplanted in England by the game of "Bridge" which is now almost as essential in society for men and women as evening clothes. GREAT PEAT BOGS OF CANADA. Fuel Supply of the Dominion is Practical Inexhaustible. The best authorities say there are 100,000 acres of undeveloped peat bog in Ontario, principally in the counties of Perth, Welland and Essex. The largest area lies in the county of Perth, eight miles north of the city of Stratford, on the Grand Trunk railway. Here is a swamp of 40,000 acres, with a depth of good peat bog that varies from a foot to 20 feet. About a year ago the Canadian Peat Fuel company was organized, and early in the summer active operations to put the fuel on the market began. The process of manufacture is as follows: The peat is cut and air dried, after which it is pulverized by being passed through a picker, and automatically deposited in a hopper which feeds a steel tube about 2 inches in diameter and 15 inches long. The pulverized peat is forced through this tube by pressure and formed into cylindrical blocks 3 inches in length and almost equal in density to anthracite coal. The fuel is nonfriable and weatherproof by reason of its solidity and the extreme glaze imparted to it by frictional contact with forming dies. The inherent moisture of the peat is reduced to 12 per cent. of the mass. In weight it compares with coal as follows: Eighty-three pounds per cubic foot of peat equal 73 pounds of bituminous or 93 pounds of anthracite coal. It is claimed for peat that it is superior to coal in its absolute freedom from sulphur and absence of smoke soot, dust and clinkers during consumption. In a great measure this solves the problem of furnishing a cheap, clean, uniform and reliable fuel for all domestic purposes, as it is equally serviceable for grates, stoves, cooking ranges and furnaces, giving a long, bright flame and intense heat almost from the moment of ignition. It has been tested in locomotives with excellent results, showing that the thermal value of 100 pounds of peat is equal to 95.15 pounds of coal. It was also tried at the power house of the Metropolitan Street railway, Toronto, and gave great satisfaction. The heat produced was much greater than that of the coal, but it was 8 per cent, deficient in lasting power. It requires but little draught and burns best in a shallow fire box. The machinery used in manufacturing peat fuel is not expensive and requires but little attention when in operation. 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Fine Old Crop Rio, 10 lb. 97c; 50 lb. 48.5; 100 lb. 89.70. Better grade, 10 lb. $1.07; 50 lb. $5.35; 100 lb. $10.70. Fine old crop Santos, 10 lb. 97c; 50 lb. 48.5; 100 lb. $7.70. Superior old crop Santos, 10 lb. $1.17; 50 lb. $5.85; 100 lb. $11.70. Mocha Peaberry, fine, 10 lb. $1.47; 50 lb. $7.25; 100 lb. $14.00. To those who do not want to roast their own coffee, we offer some unsurpassed bargains in roasted coffees, as follows: Splendid old Rio roasted, 10 lb. $1.15; 50 lb. $5.75; 100 lb. $11.25. Rio, extra tos, fancy, 10 lb. $1.47; 50 lb. $7.25; 100 lb. $14.50. Santos, Peaberry, 10 lb. $1.47; 50 lb. $7.88; 100 lb. $14.50. African Java, 10 lb. $1.87; 50 lb. $9.35; 100 lb. $18.70. Special blends and Mocha, 10 lb. $1.77; 50 lb. $8.85; 100 lb. $17.70. In ordering from any of the above, say from SPECIAL BAROAIS in COFFEES. Order immediately, but transportation charges, Balance, COFFEES if desired. FORTUNE IN A WHEAT FIELD. In Four Years an Oklahoma Family Have Made $100,000. Four years ago without a dollar and in debt, today worth $100,000 in cash. That is the record made by one family in wheat-raising in Oklahoma. A fortune of $100,000 in four years. Half of that money they have in cash in the bank here. They will net the other half in cash within two weeks for the 150,000 bushels of wheat they are now harvesting. The Miller family operates the "101" ranch, nine miles southwest of here. The ranch has 40,000 acres of land that is divided in two by the Salt Fork river. Of this land 6000 acres is in wheat, 1100 in corn, 200 in oats, 600 in sorghum, 1200 in hay and 1100 in watermelons and muskmelons. There is one wheat field of 2250 acres, three miles long and two and a half miles broad, without a fence or road through it. The harvest on this ranch began recently. Twenty-five reaping machines began at once, working in a row. The first swath cut was five miles long around one wheat field. The reapers cut and bind 600 acres a day. A harvest of 150,000 bushels of wheat will be gathered. It will be sold from the thresher in the field for cash, all except 5000 bushels, which has been sold for seed at 30 cents a bushel more than the regular market price of ordinary wheat. Mr. Miller contracted Saturday to sell the first 10,000 bushels threshed at 52 cents a bushel, regardless of quality. CIL CROP DECLINING. Beet Sugar is Being Raised in New York Instead. The beet-sugar industry is attaining wonderful proportions in various sections of this country. A few years ago in some sections of central New York the peppermint-oil crop was the leading feature, and brought more money into the hands of the farmers than did the apple crop. But now the peppermint crop is mostly a thing of the past in that section, and the mint stills are kept in operation by the crop of a few acres near them. The beet-sugar crop has driven the mint crop westward, for the farmers find it more profitable to raise sugar beets. Ten years ago every community in central New York had a resident who was getting rich by stilling mint, but these mills are now falling into disuse. Lyons, N. Y., was the center of the mint market of the world, but that honor is now among the claims of distant Western cities. The fame of the Wayne county oils was known near and far and took the world's prize at the Columbian exposition in 1893. The Pan-American exposition will bring a new locality into similar prominence in all probability. Thus, the peppermint crop, like the march of civilization, has gone westward.—Philadelphia Record. Napoleon Had Dog Teeth. "In the world's history," said Charles Roberts of Buffalo, at the Hotel Manhattan, "there are three characters who in the popular mind stand pre-eminent—Alexander the Great, Caesar and Napoleon. Napoleon lived so near our own time as to be almost within the memory of living men, and there are plenty of men today in France who heard of Napoleon from their fathers, who lived in the stirring times connected with his name. There is a curious fact in connection with Napoleon's personal appearance that I have never been able to find mention of in any of the biographies, and that is that two upper front teeth were very long and lapped over the lower ones to an unusual extent, giving him a most peculiar appearance when smiling. These teeth—the two upper incisors, on either side of the mesial plane—ordinarily form a line that meets with the corresponding teeth in the lower jaw, but in Napoleon's case they over-lapped. This information came to my father directly from the son of Napoleon's dentist, who made a memorandum of the fact."—New York Tribune. As Trim as a Yacht. The battleship Kearsarge, which recently made her first trial trip in charge of her regular officers and crew, is considered the finest type of warship which has yet been added to the American navy. Marine experts are of the opinion that she is the equal of any vessel afloat in armament, power and destructive possibilities. Although literally a floating fortress, the Kearsarge has really a beautiful model and sets in the water like a yacht.—Collier's Weekly. And Both Snickered. "Don't get hot under the collar," she was saying, with delicate irony, "or you'll explode that celluloid shirt-front!" you'll explode that celiacoid shirt-front!" "What?" he cried. "The shirt-front that has had laid trustingly upon it a head of hair as red as yours? Not in a thousand years!" He laughed last; but they both laughed equally far from well.—Detroit Journal. Look to the Step. 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Take them up with a skimmer and serve hot. —Philadelphia Times. Americans who contemplate going to Porto Rico or Cuba, or coming to Mexico, would do well to learn Spanish. English will "do" around hotels and barber shops, and among the better educated people, but not for every-day, all-around intercourse with the people. Linguistic changes are effected slowly always. Americans will never gain that intimate commercial hold on Latin America that the Germans have till they learn Spanish, and, for Brazil, Portuguese.—Mexican Herald. BEST FOR THE BOWELS. No matter what ails you, headache to a cancer, you will never get well until your bowels are put right. CASCARETS help nature, cure you without a gripe or pain, produce easy natural movements, cost you just 10 cents to start getting your health back. CASCARETS Candy Cathartic, the genuine, put up in metal boxes, every tablet has C. C. C. stamped on it. Beware of imitations. The Original Kearsarge. Apropos of the old sloop-of-war Kearsarge and her building at Portsmouth, N. H., an eye witness tells of the curious way in which she was "launched." "She was built," he says, "on the marine railway at the head of the drydock at Portsmouth navy-yard, pushed into the dock by hydraulic rams and floated out into the river." The Kearsarge was not a "ninety-day gunboat" or an emergency cruiser. She was authorized by Congress before the Civil war began.—Boston Journal. Crosby Transportation Co. and Grand Trunk Ry. system, Grand Haven Route. Shortest, cheapest and most popular line to all points in Michigan, Canada and the East. Steamers leave Milwaukee every night at 9:15 p. m. Write or call at ticket office, 400 East Water St. —The exports of Palestine for last year amounted to a value of £316,000, the imports being £390,000. The whole trade of Palestine in 1899 exceeded the trade of 1898 by a little over £77,000 and exceeded the trade of 1897 by almost £160,000. —The biggest fish catch of the season is reported from Hampton, L. I., where a net set for sturgeon entangled and held a finback whale 30 feet long. milk and 500 gallons of icecream. Or course, this is not an exhaustive list, but it will serve to give an idea of the enormous appetite which the storerooms of the ocean liner must satisfy." East-End Innocence. An East End clergyman tells a moving tale of innocence. A frail little girl came into a public house with a jug to fetch her parents half a pint. When the jug was filled she nervously put down two half-pennies on the counter and made for the door. The barman, though he hardly liked to frighten the poor little thing, called after her in a gentle voice, "You're a half-penny short." "No, you're a half-penny short," she answered and disappeared.—London Globe. American Money for France. Were each American visitor to spend only $100 in Paris—and very few come off so cheaply—still the good hotelkeepers, merchants and dealers of all sorts would come in for $100,000,000 of American money. Even if their profits be only 10 or 15 per cent, they will have cause for sound rejoicing.—Saturday Evening Post. 7. We ask no money until you have examined the machine and convinced yourself it is such a machine as was never before offered at anything like the price. OUR OFFER. Mention No. 92 if you have any use for a sewing machine. 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FREE. ICELAND DINNERS. They Usually Consist of Little Else than Dried Fish and Butter. In Iceland the native's dinner usually consists of dried fish and butter. The fish is ling or cod, which, when caught, is split open and then hung up on lines by the seashore to dry in the cold winds and hot sun. When thus preserved they will keep for years, being as hard as the nether millstone. When wanted for dinner the fish is well hammered by a stone mallet and then cut up into strips. In this state they are eaten, but it is said that it needs an Icelander's teeth to get through the meat. The butter is not spread on the fish, but the two are taken alternately, first a mouthful of fish, then a mouthful of butter. It may easily be supposed that the Icelander is thankful to have his jaws well greased after every mouthful of the tough morsel. What Do the Children Drink? Don't give them tea or coffee. Have you tried the new food drink called GRAIN-O? It is delicious and nourishing, and takes the place of coffee. The more Grain-O you give the children the more health you distribute through their systems. Grain-O is made of pure grains, and when properly prepared tastes like the choice grades of coffee, but costs about $ \frac{1}{4} $ as much. All grocers sell it. 15c and 25c. To Protect Wild Birds. It is proposed by the American Society of Bird Restorers, Boston, to form a branch of its society in every town and city in the Union. Some of its distinctive features are: The organization of adults and youths into patrols to observe and protect birds, especially during the nesting season; concerted action without cruelty against the English sparrow and the appointment of bird wardens.-Baltimore News. Medical Book Free. "Know Thyself," a Book for Men Only, sent Free, postpaid, sealed, to any male reader mentioning this paper. 6c for postage. 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To counteract the mistakes of those physicians who usually send their patients to the mountains or out into the country, an association has been formed after the pattern of the American Hay Fever association, which has, after careful consideration, selected the island of Heligoland as the most suitable resort for hay fever patients. The society styles itself "The Hay Fever Union of Heligoland," and has its headquarters in Hanover. All possible information concerning the ailment is gathered and advice and other assistance to applicants is given free of charge. The union is rapidly spreading over all parts of the empire, particularly in the Northern and Eastern sections, where grass and grain grow in abundance.—Bremen Letter in the Chicago Record. England's New Patriotic Color. 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THE ASHANTEES AND THEIR KING. ; Against These Superstitious Africans England Has Been : Waging War for Twenty-six Years. , ZN an A NN Apres Sa fh I Ne es i LE Ne i SS it pe i Deg Ca at F502 eS, meni 3 PD isle aah \K i Se. Be a, ea oe |, SN TE A A ON se an 2 el PT RT ENN a Be S17) fh, bg es i) a ma Wh Wes * ey Sy Vy see: AV b = poy Gare iS ol a (ERE: ee sy Bi \) oa Sap of fem t eon a Rees Vo ae oe i. j foi. y Se 4 AE. 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He is picturesque, powerful and a merci- less despot. Twenty-six years ago Eng- land sent out an expedition at a cost of $4,000,000 to bring the King of Ashantee to terms, and since then it has cost $34,000,000 more. This King lives in the interior of Af- rica, several hundred miles from the Gold Coast, on the western shore. He wears a girdle of dried grass around his loins, and a “plug” hat. Where he got this hat nobody knows, but it is his only crown. He has no throne, but in- stead he has a stool of solid gold, which four slaves carry around for him wherever he goes. Upon this he sits and gives his orders. They are all ver- bal, but often they mean either life or death. The King’s name is Prempeb, and he is the absolute monarch of more than 3,000,000 savages. His emblem of au- thority is a giant umbrella. The spokes ‘are of embossed gold, and on the end of each spoke is a human skull. This emblem has descended to him through a long line of ancestry. King Prempeh has exactly 3,333 wives. Why this number should have been decided upon he does not know. Like several other things they came to him by inheritance. “He takes them for granted. The kingdom of Ashantee is rich in gold, and Prempeh is many times a millionaire. He wears earrings of solid gold, All of his personal adornments are of gold. He owns the only house in his kingdom. It is a rude structure of stone. His Royal Highness sleeps on the floor. King Prempeh is a bloodthirsty ruler, and is in the habit of making human sacrifices, This is one of the practices which England desires him to stop, for whenever his gods are displeased he seeks to propitiate them by having a few hundred of his subjects beheaded. It was to put a stop to this that Eng- land made war on the King of Ashan- tee in the seventies. There was fight- ing again in 1895, and again in 1896. Now there are indications of more trow- ble. Still the King of Ashantee goes on with his barbarous practices, killing whenever he pleases and ruling with absolute power. His subjects love him because he is of their royal blood, and fear him because of his cruelty. But they will allow no other country to in- terfere with their affairs, if they can help it. When, in 1874, England sent an expe- dition against King Koffee, the prede- cessor of King Prempeh, Sir Garnet Wolseley was at the head of it. He burned the King’s capital, Coomasie, and forced him to agree to certain con- ditions, among others that he would abolish the practice of human sacri- fices, but these arguments neither Koffee nor Prempeh has carried out. The consequence has been frequent trouble ever since Great Britain has undertaken the task of civilizing these black-skinned and untutored savages. The fact that the country of Ashan- tee is exceedingly rich in gold, and that France controls the neighboring country of Dahomey, may have some- thing to do with England's solicitude for the people of Ashantee and their comic opera King. There is probably no other savage || race who are capable of putting up|‘ such a stiff fight as are the people of |! }| Ashantee, for they are born warriors | ‘ >|and love their country with a sayage ! . | kind of patriotism. Besides, they would »|not dare refuse to fight. Refusal |! :| would mean not only disgrace, but in- |! stant death. The power of this pictur- | § 1) esque monarch js unquestioned. Should L | the Czar of all the Russias even think || 1; of doing what King Prempeh does and |! ; | thinks nothing of doing, there would | ‘ »| be a vacancy at the Winter Palace. The | ‘ » | Sultan of Turkey is a novice in tyranny | ;j;as compared with the black King of }1 | Ashantee. If his breakfast does not |! i | happen to agree with him, the cook is 1| liable to lose her head, literally. If sj one of his subjects should even hap- ‘| pen to look at one of his wives, the »| said subject would be conducted by a || subordinate to some shady grove or to EVOLUTION OF JOHN CHINAMAN. tne rear or tne woodsheaq—ani ne would never return. Should any of his warriors refuse to fight—well, there is no telling where the gore-shedding pro- clivities of the monarch with the plug hat would stop! Whenever a King of Ashantee dies a guard of 2,000 of his subjects are slaughtered to conduct him to the oth- er world, It is said that as many as 10,000 people have been slain on such oceasions, Every time there is a national fes- tival there are human sacrifices. In fact, blood letting seems to be oue of the principal occupations of royalty in Ashantee.o% Back ofthe town of Coomasie there is a place called by travelers the Grove of Skulls, where the bones of victims are thrown. Here is what Henry Stan- ley said of it when, in 1874, as a war correspondent, he accompanied the ex- pedition of Sir Garnet Wolseley: “AS we drew near the foul smells * * * became suffocating. It was almost im- possible to stop longer than to take a general view of this great Golgotha. We saw thirty or forty decapitated bodies and countless skulls, which lay piled in heaps and scattered over a wide extent. The stoutest heart and most stoical mind might have been ap- palled.” Several officers of the exedition, al- though it remained in Coomasie only two days, visited this Grove of Skulls, and subsequently described it as sur- passing in horror anything to be seen in the world. The King of Ashantee is opposed to progress. He does not want any roads: in his domain. When the English cut their way inland from the gold coast they left a fine road behind them, With several pistols pointed at his head, the King agreed to keep this road in repair and not allow it to be overgrown, but he knew that the rainy season was at hand and that the English would have to hurry back to the coast. The road was never touched. The system of human sacrifices prac- ticed in Ashantee is founded on a wild idea of filial duty, for it is believed that the rank of dead relatives in the next world will be measured by the number of descendants sent after them from this. There are two periods, call- ed “The Great Adai” and “The Little Adai,” suéceeding each other at inter- vals of eighteen and twenty-four days after the death of some member of the royal house, at which human victims are immolated to a monstrous extent. On the Great Adai the King visits the graves of the royal dead at Ban- tama, where their skeletons, held to- gether by links of gold, sit in grim mockery of state. Secured Her Hired Man. “We ministers have many strange experiences in performing the mar- riage ceremony,” said the Rey. W. F. Sheridan, of Pontiac, Mich, in the Pittsburg Dispatch. “One.of the most curious in my experience occurred not long ago. <A large and heavy woman, accompanied by a comparatively small and meek-looking man, had come in and asked to be married. Everything was regular and the ceremony was per- formed. After it was over the bride explained her position. “*You see, Mr. Sheridan,’ she said, ‘farm hands are mighty hard to get in this part of the country and they are even harder to keep. You get a good hired man and get him well broke in to work around the farm and the first thing you know he quits the job and goes off to town or somewhere else, Last spring I had a first-class hand, about as good as I ever expect to get, but just when the season got right busy he up and quit me. “I just made up my mind that I wasn't going to be left in the same fix this summer, so here we are.’ “The bridegroom in the case simply stood and smiled meekly. He had noth- ing at all to say.” His Beginning. Yerrs ago there was a cold night in the fatter part of December at Brattle- boro, Vt. There had been many freez- ing nights there before, but on this one something happened. A young man, Larkin G. Mead, at- tracted by the beauty of the great white stillness, went out-of-doors, and slow- ly, yet with much delight, inodeled a figure which, in his mind, stood for the Recording Angel writing down the events of the year just dead. All night the statue grew, and the sculptor threw on water at intervals, to freeze it into hardness. He was alone and happy. The next morning the neighbors awoke to tind the snow angel, pen in hand, recording their history upon a snowy scroll. Local history says that this bit of work decided the future of the young man who did it. He resolved to be- come a sculptor, and went abroad to study. Well known as his work after- ward became, perhaps he took no such pleasure in it as in that little bit of modeling under the cold Vermont sky. The Japs’ Hot Bath Among Japanese a daily hot bath is the rule. When people are too poor to have a bath intheir own houses they patronize the public baths. TRAVELS OF THE JIGGER. his Industrious Little Flea Is Circum- navigating the World, The very small species of the flea, »runonly known as the jigger, whose ative home is tropical and subtrop- sal America, set out in 1872 to cir- amnavigate the world and has now alf completed his journey, says a vriter in the New York Sun, His ar- ival in India and Madagascar is al- sost simultaneously reported. On Lis onquering way he has badly fright- ‘ned many barbarous tribes by his pro- vensity to bore through the skin und ind lodgment under it, and many vil- ages and sometimes whole districts were abandoned by the natives during iis journey across Africa. In September, 1872, a sailing vessel from Brazil dumped a quantity of sand ballast on the beach at Ambriz, a Little south of the Congo. This event has bistoric importance from the fact that the jigger crossed the ocean in this ‘sand, and it is believed to have Deen his first introduction to foreign terri- tory. His rate of advance across Afriva ‘depended upon the means 9f transpor- tation at hand, for the jigger will not ‘hop when he may ride. It was thir- teen years before he struck tie cara- van route to Stanley Pool, and then he journeyed quickly and comfortabiy with ‘the porters in the freight service to that starting point of the upper Congo steamers, which carried him halfwav across Africa. Twenty years after his arrival in Afriea the jigger appeared on the shores of Victoria Nyanza, and ‘six years later he was hopping aleng the sands of Zanzibar Island. _ The jigger was thus established In 1898 at the busy mart whence many vessels sail for the East Indies and Oceanica. It was predicted that he would soon invade India, and sure enough his arrival at Bombay, whither he had- been brought by coolies return ing from Africa, is now reported. Le Tour du Monde says he may be ex- pected in French Indio-China at any time, and that he will evidentiy ‘n- -vade the whole of Southern Asia, and letters trom Nossi Be, in Northwest ‘Madagascar, report his advent there sand on the adjoining islands, where he is flourishing and multiplying in the sandy soil. We may next expect to hear of this persevering and successful traveler among the Pacific islands, and all re- gions in or near the tropics seem des- tined to make iis acquaintance, HOW EXPRESSES OROP MEN. Custom: that Is a Drain on the Rail- road Crew. “While coming from Chicago last week,” said a prominent business man of this city, “1 noticed a peculiar rail- road custom which interested me con- si@erably. 1 happened to be in the last car of the limited when the train stop- ped in a desolate spot between stations, The rear brakeman, of course, dropped off and went down the track with a flag to warn any train that might be fol- lowing us. In a moment or two we started up again, but minus the brake- man, I wondered at this, but was still more surprised later on to see the same thing repeated when we were obliged to stop on account of a threatened hot box. Upon inquiry I found that this Was the custom on fast trains. ‘Some- times, if we have lots of time,’ said the conductor, ‘we whistle for the men to come in, but in most cases we leave them to be picked up by the next train, or to walk to the nearest station.’ “But isn’t that rather hard en the men? I asked. ‘Oh, it’s part of the business,’ he replied. ‘I have known of cases where men dropped off in this way were frozen to death or waylaid by tramps, but the railroads have to make the time, and that's why it’s done. I have seen trains running with only a conductor aboard them, at times, because the rest of the crew had been left behind in just this way.’ ”--New York Mail and Express. Stole the Bridezsroom. A young man in 2 convivial party at a Broad street hotel told the following story: “I had a good time ata wedding last week. It was the wedding of a friend of mine, and I and some of the boys played a good joke on bim, and he didn’t get mad either. The joke was to steal him. Yes, right after the cere- mony we grabbed him up, banged him into a cab, and then drove him out six- tcen miles into the country, where we locked him up ina barn and kept him there three days. The bride waited for him in a royal suite of rooms in an As- bury Park hotel. We had persuaded her to travel down alone, promising her the groom would arrive at any minute. Every evening, after our day’s work was done, we trotted out into the coun- try to see the groom, with baskets of food and liquid. Pretty good-natured about it the duffer was, too, I tell you. though, those three days were different slightly from what he and the girl had been counting on.”—Philadelphia Ree- ord. Water at Hambure. 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