Wisconsin Weekly Advocate

WISCONSIN WEEKLY ADVOCATE DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF THE NEGRO RACE VOLUME III. MAYOR ROSE'S FATAL REMARK AT KANSAS CITY. REFERRED TO BY JUDSON TITS-WORTH IN A SERMON. The Official in Question was Not Mentioned by Name, but the Effect on Public Officials Uttering Them, of Such Statements as "This Dying for Principle is All Rot," was Pointed Out-What Killed J. J. Ingalls Politically. The Rev. Judson Titsworth administered a scathing rebuke to Mayor Rose in a sermon delivered Sunday morning at Plymouth church, in which he declared in effect that the mayor was committing political suicide in saying that "This dying for principle is all rott." He did not speak of Mr. Rose by name, but gave the quoation as emanating from a prominent citizen of this city. The reference to Mr. Rose's utterance was during the course of a sermon on the subject, "God in History." The sermon dealt largely with the recent wars, such as the Spanish-American struggle, the Boer-English war and the J. REV. JUDSON TITSWORTH present Chinese trouble. He referred to the conditions which are so rapidly making history in all parts of the world, and said that we could not always tell what results are to come from the events in history. It took time to work out history to the end and we have not the foresight to tell what the ultimate results of these wars might be. At first glance the Boer-British war would seem to be a battle of the Boers for freedom, but the ultimate results of England's victory might be of benefit more far-reaching than the leaving of South Africa in its former condition. So in China there might be good to come, though now it might seem that the Chinese were alarmed by the manner in which the powers were taking sections of the country. In all these events there was evidence of a far-seeing Providence which was aiming for the betterment of the world. The people of all lands, said the pastor, were firm believers in this Providence and in the purpose of God for the forwarding of the world. They would not tolerate any statements to the contrary, as Senator Ingalls had found when he said that the decalogue had no place in politics. That statement dug his grave, and was an example of the manner in which the brightest statesmen sometimes made mistakes. The utterances of public men had sometimes very prolific results, and this was one of the cases. One of our leading citizens, continued the speaker, recently made the declaration that "This dying for principle was all rot." A man who would make such a statement might as well prepare for burial at once, for the people did not generally believe it. There was an abiding belief in principle, and the people would not tolerate anything contradictory of it. The making of such a statement was equivalent to the commission of political suicide. MADISON NEWS. The editor made a flying trip to Madison and called upon Mr. A. G. Zimmerman, who has Mr. La Follette's campaign in hand, and was treated royally and he was very much pleased with our paper. He next called on Hon. Gov. Scofield and we were all in the best of spirits. They are looking forward to great success with both the state and national tickets. Mr. William H. Froehlich was called upon and he presented us with one of his photographs and a summary of caucus laws, representation in state convention and other information which each and every voter should have. Mr. Graham L. Rice, our railroad commissioner, is looking the picture of health after his return from the national convention. We hope to present his cut to our many readers in the near future. The whole administration is in line for our next governor, R. M. La Follette. CREAM CITY NOTES. The editor called on Mr. Lamb at the Kirby house this week. Mr. Lamb is a fine young man and he is pleased with the Wisconsin Weekly Advocate and promptly renewed his subscription. * * * Mrs. Noble's daughter, Mrs. Nellie Noble, is so much improved in health that she has returned home. She came Sunday, July 8. Mrs. Noble, the mother, who resides at 209 Fifth street, is a nice and motherly a lady as one would wish to meet. ☆ ☆ ☆ Another one of our young men of our race is preparing himself to attend Booker T. Washington's institution in September. This young man is Mr. Charles Maxey from Kilbourn City, Wis. He is employed now in our city and is stopping at 209 Fifth street. We hope that some day he may be one of the leaders of our race. Mr. Eddie Kemp of 521 Wells street, was getting on very nicely when we visited him last. His sister and brother-in-law from Ohio are visiting him during his sickness. They speak very highly of Mrs. Bess, who is nursing him. We wish the young man a speedy recovery. ```markdown ``` Miss Reynolds, who formerly resided at 194 Wells street, has left the city for Madison, Wis. We do not know how long she will remain there, as we have an idea that she has her mind centered upon a certain Western city. Mr. George Bland, Jr., is quite ill. We hope his illness will not continue long. Mrs. Rev. Knight is slowly recovering from a relapse. We are looking forward to the time soon when we can be greeted with her pleasant face again at church. ☆ ☆ ☆ We are in receipt of a very nice letter from Rev. Thomas L. Porter, who is now at St. Louis. He has taken the agency for the Wisconsin Weekly Advocate, and will solicit in that city. We wish him success. He informs us that he is contemplating a visit to Milwaukee soon. *** Sunday morning, July 8. St. Mark's pulpit was filled by Rev. Millard, who has recently returned from Cuba. In his text he dwelt on "Charity." The discourse was very interesting, being well delivered * * * Will some good Samaritan go and speak words of cheer and comfort to the poor sister, Nina Brown, who in an evil hour, while under the influence of that peace destroyer, King Alcohol, committed a crime which she must some day answer for and which may cause her to end her days in a madhouse or insane asylum. Her address is well known. *** Gentlemen, if you are looking for a place to room with one of Milwaukee's best families, you will find that place at Mrs. Hattie Hargrove's residence, 194 Fourth street. She is a lady of refinement and will furnish you with an ideal rooming place. ```markdown ``` We wish to correct a grievous mistake made in our last week's paper concerning a Colored paper to be published in Chicago, which should read. "It is to be the greatest Colored Republican paper in the United States." * * * Rev. Joseph Jackson and R. B. Montgomery attended services at the Congregational church. Dr. Titsworth delivered one of the best sermons they ever heard. The doctor held his audience spellbound from start to finish. 单 单 单 In the evening they attended the Grand avenue church and heard Rev. Dr. Masden discourse. His subject was Genesis 7:16. "And the Lord shut him in." The congregation was well pleased. * * * Would it not be a good plan to visit the sick and bring flowers or fruit for them to cheer their lonely hours? Your presence is always welcome, but this is merely a suggestion. Paris Exposition Notes. The celebrated porcelain artist, Camille Maudot, exhibits a series of teacups at the Exposition, the least expensive of which is $600, including saucers. The Philadelphia museum has secured some of this ware.' One of the American exhibits which is attracting tremendous crowds, is a huge octagonal refrigerator, now shown in the agricultural building. Europe has never suspected the use we make of refrigerators. Here meat is killed from day to day, and it is impossible to preserve eggs and butter. Therefore the American icebox excites great wonder. It is constructed of plate glass on all sides, and all kinds of food are artistically displayed. The whole refrigerator, though as big as a house, revolves on a pivot so that its contents are completely shown to every bystander every two minutes. A curious feature of the exposition is that no American, however hurried or poor, thinks of visiting the fair without inspecting all the fantastically-expensive jewelry mentioned by the guide books in the French and foreign sections. Any exhibit of diamonds, gold and precious stones possesses a special fascination for our people and is always surrounded by great crowds of them. Electric power has not been used to any great extent in agriculture so far, though it seems well adapted to it. RACE NOTES. IMPORTANT TO COLORED Men and Women Engaged in Business Throughout the Country. After careful consideration and consultation with prominent colored people throughout the country it has been decided to organize what will be known as a National Negro Business league. The need of an organization that will bring the colored people who are engaged in business together for consultation, and to secure information and inspiration from each other has been long felt. Out of this national organization, it is expected, will grow Local Business leagues that will tend to improve the negro as a business factor. Boston has been selected as the place of meeting because of its historic importance, its cool summer climate and general favorable conditions. It is felt that the rest, recreation and new ideas which business men and women will secure from a trap to Boston will more than repay them for time and money spent. The date of the meeting will be Thursday and Friday, August 23 and 24, because it is felt that this is the season when business can be left with least loss. Then, too, nearly all the steamship lines and railroads have reduced their rates to Boston at that time to one fare for the round trip for the entire summer. Every individual engaged in business will be entitled to membership, but as far as possible the colored people in all the cities and towns of the country should take steps at once to organize Local Business leagues, where no such organizations already exist, and should see that these organizations send one or more delegates to represent them. It is very, important that every line of business that any negro man or woman is engaged in be represented. This meeting will present a great opportunity for us to show to the world what progress we have made in business lines since our freedom. This organization is not in opposition to any other now in existence but is expected to do a distinct work that no other organization, now in existence, can do as well. Another circular giving further information as to programme and other details of the meeting will be issued within a few weeks. All persons, whether men or women, interested in the movement are invited to correspond with Yours very truly, Booker T. Washington, June 15, 1900. Tuskegee, Ala. THE NEGRO JUBOR Must be in Evidence in Texas Courts verses a Case. Austin, Tex., June 30.—The court of criminal appeals handed down several important decisions yesterday. The case of Robert Smith, colored, convicted of murder in Grayson, was reversed and dismissed because the jury commissioners excluded and refuse to select any negroes to serve on the trial jury. This action is in deference to the opinion of the United States Supreme court in the Seth Carter case. The higher court reversed the Texas court of appeals and referring to the Carter case. Judge Brooks in the opinion today says: We have had no occasion to change our views therein expressed and were it an original proposition would still adhere to our original opinion, but as indicated this matter has been passed upon by the Supreme court of the United States, which in matters of this sort controls our action. Negro Hanged and Shot. O'Brien, Fla., special: Jock Thomas, a negro, who attempted an assault on Mrs. Keene, a widow living in Suwano county, Friday night, was taken from the sheriff by a mob near Live Oak Tuesday, hanged to a tree and riddled with bullets. He made a confession. A Georgia Lynching. Albany, Ga., July 5.—John Rice, an 18 year-old colored boy, was lynched near Columbia, Ala., today. His body was shot to pieces. Mr. Booker T. Washington is always seeking how he may benefit his race. For fifteen years he has been engaged in teaching their minds to think; their hearts to obey the laws of God and man, and their hands to earn an honest living. And now he seeks to organize the business men and women of the race into a body for the purpose of encouraging those Negroes who are already in business, and to induce others to enter this department of human activity. This is a step in the right direction. The Negroes of America need to go into business more largely than ever before; they must own and operate mills, mines, factories, stores, banks, steamship and railroad lines of their own. And in order to do this they must unite their efforts and means in a business way. The Negro has numerous religious, charitable and social organizations, while he has but few business associations. As individuals the Negroes (with here and there an exception), can do but little in the way of carrying on large business enterprises, but united and wisely directed they can build and operate mills, factories, stores, etc., and become powerful factors in the material development of the South. Those who think of attending Mr. Washington's meeting at Boston, in August, should devote much time to the study of co-operative stores, co-operative insurance, etc., as the success of the Negro in large business enterprises must come along this line—if it comes at all in the near future. After lynching two colored men for the murder of Miss Winterstien at Biloxi, Miss., the authorities have offered a reward of $200 for the arrest of the guilty. Thus is afforded another instance of the injustice and cruelty of mob law. There are at present 266 negro officers and 15,048 privates in the United States army. JAPAN'S "FINEST." Some of the Rules that Govern the Police Force in that Country. If the Japanese are not generally regarded as the politest people in the world, their claim to such distinction cannot remain much longer in dispute. Ikigami Shiro, chief police inspector of Kiogo Ken, has recently issued the following instructions relating to foreigners to the chiefs of police stations: 1. It is the principle of international intercourse to treat visitors from far-off lands kindly and politely, and it is also the common spirit of civilized nations to live in harmony of feeling toward each other. Many foreign residents understand the Japanese language, and it is betetr to try to first address them in polite Japanese. Never use any unpleasant words or criticize the foreigner's movements, clothing or his business. He is able to understand our meaning very often, even if he cannot speak Japanese. Try to prevent any unpleasantness toward foreigners while they are shopping by allowing a crowd of bystanders around them. 2. Foreigners treat dogs better than we can think or, and a diligent search should be made and good protection given when notice of a missing dog is given. When a house dog barks at you, you should tell the servant of the house to pacify it. Don't treat it roughly. 3. When you call on a foreigner you should not go in the early morning, at meal hours, or late at night, if you can help it. The best hours for calls are from 9 a. m. to noon, and 2 p. m. to 6 p. m. You should pay good attention to your clothing prior to your call, and should be very careful not to commit any blunders during your call. You should ask for admittance by pushing a call bell or striking a gong placed before the door for the purpose. If there is no bell, knock at the door with your finger, but never call out for admittance. 4. If the usher appears at the door, you should ask him if the foreigner you want to see is in, and deliver your card to be conveyed to him. Before you enter the house you should clean your boots on the shoemats placed at the entrance. 5. Greetings to foreigners are conveyed by a simple bow. Don't shake hands with them if you are not invited to do so. 6. Dress your hair and beard always. Dirty clothing and an unkempt head are an insult in civilized countries.—London Mail. TRIUMPH FOR DR. HILLIS Result of a Surprise He Gave Some Quizzing Clergymen. An interesting incident occurred at the time of the ordination of Dr. Newell Dwight Hillis in his first pastorate. Mr. Hillis had already been examined in theology and licensed to preach by the Chicago presbytery. But the presbytery of Peoria insisted on a second examination. During the week following his first sermon the leading clergymen of that district gathered in his church and were about to begin the quizzing process. Hebrew was the first subject for examination. At the last moment it was discovered that the Hebrew committee had forgotten to bring a Hebrew Bible. While the dismay thus occasioned was at its height the young candidate—who occupied an embarrassing seat on the platform before the divines and many of his parishioners—came to the rescue by offering to repeat in the original the first chapter of Genesis, the committee meanwhile to follow him closely and correct any mistakes. He then began, and recited verse after verse from beginning to end of the chapter. Meanwhile the faces of the committee presented a curious study. As the young minister modestly concluded and resumed his seat one of the committee was on his feet instantly, moving that the Hebrew examination be ended. The "aye" that followed was heard a block away. So the examination went on, to the continued surprise of the examiners.—Woman's Home Companion. Figuring the Profits. If estimated figures are correct it paid this city well to have the Republican convention. It cost $100,000 to secure the convention, and the clubs spent, it is said, $250,000 in entertaining and parading. Against this total of $350,000 it is estimated that the visitors spent upward of $750,000 while in the city. The national committee expended $25,000 and the delegates and alternates close upon $200,000. The receipts of the street cars increased 12 per cent., and the hotels and boarding houses did an enormous business with political visitors. It is stated that the daily average of sightseers was at least 150,000, and that these expended at least $1 for each twenty-four hours, making $750,000 for the five days.—Philadelphia Public Ledger. Talk of Tuesday for Wash Day At the meeting of the Mothers' union recently the discussion was on the best days for the different household duties, and some even dared protest against the sacred precedent of Monday for washday and Friday for sweeping. Several women though that Tuesday was a better day for washing than Monday, as it leaves the latter day to take the necessary stitches and preliminaries often necessary before the washing of clothes. Kansas City Journal. VIEWS ON THE NEGRO QUESTION. Mr. Editor—Dear Sir: Please allow me the privilege and space to give my views on the negro question for the benefit of the readers of the Wisconsin Weekly Advocate. I was born in old Virginia, and sold when but 4 years of age to a slaveholder in Macon county, Mo., and placed among a class of people who knew only a "word and a blow;" but I took what came and made the best of it, bearing in mind all the time the last words of my grandmother, who when I was sold said, "Son, never return evil for evil, and treat everybody with respect always, let them be high or low, rich or poor, black or white; and never allow anyone to show better behavior than yourself. True principle is the key of life, and will remove obstacles which its enemies cannot." I have traveled over a large part of the United States, and have met with no serious difficulty, due to the good advice impressed in my mind while a child. Men would threaten to strike me and I would tell them I had done them no harm intentionally, and that they had better let the job out, which they did and the trouble would end right there and then. When insinuations were cast I would pass on, not seeming to hear them, or would respond with a droll joke, for I was amply able to say that it was the lick from the hand and not from their tongues that could injure. While living in Minneapolis I moved to a part of the city in which I was told only good, respectable American citizens could live. I told them that I was born and raised here and that was more than the most of them could say. The idea was that they did not want any colored people in their neighborhood, and I being the only one they were bitterly opposed to my remaining among them. To cap the climax, I bought property and built a nice house on a coveted lot, and then they did rage. They reproved the real estate dealer severely for selling to me, and I told him that it was money he was after and that a black man's money was worth just as much as any white man's, and I acquainted them all with the fact that though my face was dark I had a principle which I hoped was whiter than their faces. Some were so enraged that they let their property return to the real estate dealer's hands, and from that time have been homeless, and of those who remained who had been our most terrible enemies they became our truest friends. About that time my health began to fail and having made friends of my enemies by proving my true and firm adherence "to right will always win" I concluded to try farm life and sold my home there. When it was known that we were going to leave them they remonstrated, protested, and declared we ought not to leave, but all to no avail, said they could not do without us and would rather that any one else would go. At our present home the same feeling was expressed when we came but now one would never know such a feeling of prejudice ever existed in Adams county, Wis. Fellow-citizens, prove yourself true-hearted, whole-hearted, loyal citizens. Fortify yourselves within a breastwork of a good principle; arm yourself with truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and aim to stand by your principle to the end and you will bring your most formidable adversary weeping at your feet. I wish to approach the topic concerning the great division line which was drawn at the close of the war with the South. Had the negroes just freed from bondage been treated as free men and not as a herd of cattle (even worse than this, for they had not even a pasture in which to satisfy their hunger), had they even been granted an acre of ground, or a spot large enough on which to erect a little shanty, or allowed just a fractional part of the privileges given to the wild Indian (who is as deadly a foe to the white man in comparison as he ever was), well does the white man know that today the sons and daughters of Africa's children would have been towering head and shoulders above our more fortunate rivals. But press on, for the pathway leading "On to Victory" must get wider as thousands of youths and maidens fall in line every year. Press on, press on. Yours very truly for the welfare and uprising of our dear race. Ambrose Maxcy and wife. Point Bluff. Wis. Buttons from Skim Milk Joseph B. Harrington, proprietor of the Easton creamery, has put in a plant for making dried curd out of the milk after all the cream and butter have been extracted from it. The whey and curd are separated and the latter dried down by heat and evaporation until the residuum is left as a hard and brittle solid substance in the evaporating pans. When taken from them the cakes are broken into pieces, put in sacks and shipped to dried curd factories, where the stuff is ground into a powder and used in the manufacture of paints and glazings. Buttons and other small articles heretofore made from bone of celluoid are now made from this material. There are two factories in the United States using dried curd—one in a Vermont town and another in Philadelphia.—Easton (Md.) cor. Baltimore Sun. Women May Orate. The efforts made by male students at Syracuse university to have women students excluded from oratorical contests have failed, as the faculty decided that women have as much need of oratorical accomplishments as men. NUMBER 11. CAPE NOME MILLIONAIRES. They're Cutting Wide Swaths in California. "Some of the most amusing features of life on the Pacific coast just at present," said a California man at one of the hotels, "are being furnished by the Cape Nome millionaires. You can bump against them almost anywhere in 'Frisco, and their strange adventures are the theme of half the current stories about town. I ought to explain," continued the Californian, "that anybody who comes down from Nome is immediately rated as a millionaire. He may not have the million with him, but, if not, he owns claims 'worth at least that amount' on the fabled tundra, where the moss is rooted in solid material. Most of the lucky miners who have reached the city brought along anywhere from $5000 to $20,000 apiece. With very few exceptions they are ignorant men of the laboring class, and they have tried industriously to put their ideas of high life into immediate execution. "A big Scandinavian ex-sailor, who had a bag of dust worth $18,000, put up at the Palace for several days, but was so intimidated by the surrounding magnificence and haughty servants that he was afraid to ask for anything and nearly starved. At last he got desperate and rushed down to a 10-cent hasnery, where he ordered four plates of ham and eggs and paralyzed the tougw waiter with a $20 tip. Another Nome Croesus became infatuated with a Manhattan cocktail he got in a swell place and hired the barkeeper to travel with him as cocktail mixer in ordinary. When last heard from they were headed for the Paris exposition. Still another happened to like the tune a curbstone organ grinder was inflicting on the public and promptly bought the instrument, including a very lively monkey. Later on he paid a Chinaman to carry the outfit away. "Those are cases I know about myself. A really distressing affair amidst all the comedy of new riches was that of an old miner who had been in Alaska ever since '85 and finally struck pay dirt at Nome. He brought back about $7500, and, the first night in town, was lured into a dive, where somebody picked his pocket and stole every cent he had. The poor fellow hadn't even bought a new suit of clothes. All the fruit of fifteen years of incredible hardship had vanished like a dream."—New Orleans Times-Democrat. COLOR LINE IN STREET CARS. Augusta Contemplates an Ordinance Which will be Hard to Enforce. The following ordinance has been introduced in the Augusta (Ga.) council for the separation of the races: "Be it ordained that the Augusta Railway and Electric company be and it is hereby required to provide separate accommodations for the white and colored passengers by reserving the two front seats for the white passengers and the two rear seats for the colored passengers, the intervening seats to be filled by the white passengers from the front and by the colored passengers from the rear; and when the seats of the car are filled in the manner aforesaid, then the conductor and motorman of said cars are to refuse to admit other passengers. "It is further ordained that any passengers refusing to be assigned to seats in accordance with the foregoing regulations shall be deemed guilty of a violation of the ordinance, and for said violation shall be, on conviction, before the recorder, fined in a sum not to exceed dollars, or sentenced to work on the public works of the city for any time not exceeding days, or either, in the discretion of the recorder. "It shall be the duty of the conductor and motorman to see that these regulations are carried out, and to this end it is made the duty of the police to arrest and bring before the recorder any person or persons violating this ordinance."—City Government. GREAT MEN IN POLITICS. They Are as Rare in Public Life as Elsewhere. Great men are as rare in politics as they are elsewhere, and are more needed there than elsewhere, says ex-Senator Ingalls in the Saturday Evening Post. The main part of government is plain, practical business, and requires the same traits, faculties and methods as a great manufacturing or commercial enterprise. But the field is broader and the opportunities are more alluring. Government affairs concern every citizen, and the legislator with novel and forcible ideas, which he expresses in original and striking language, has an assured audience of as many millions as there are voters in the republic. The bulk of our legislators and magistrates are men of fair average, everyday capacity, who would be content with the revenues of the leading attorney at the county seat or the teacher of languages or the principal tradesman of a country town. It would, perhaps, be within bounds to say that the speaker and twenty representatives in each congress have been the responsible architects and builders of our legislative fabric since the war. In the Senate, for obvious reasons, the proportion of influential participants is greater, but even here it is less than the majority. Public Opinion Prevents It. Political conventions do not always name the popular choice, but they afford the best means yet devised for placing candidates in nomination. There was no party organization until 1792. Up to 1824, presidential electors were chosen by the legislatures of the several states, and nothing but public opinion prevents the present state Legislature from continuing that system.—National Magazine. COAL. IRON AND TIN. THREE GREAT INDUSTRIES HAVE DEVELOPED. Production in the United States, Under a Protective Tariff, Has Far Exceeded That of Other Countries-Activity in Our Factories. Three great industries-coal, iron and tin plate-have made especial progress under the development of our manufacturing system, coal production being of itself a measure of the development of manufacturing, since coal enters so largely into that industry. The coal production of the United Kingdom during thirty years, during all of which time that country has been under a low tariff, only increased from 115,000,000 tons to 226,000,000 tons, or a little less than 100 per cent., Germany, which adopted a protective tariff about the middle of the period under consideration, has increased her coal output from 36,000,000 tons to 144,000,000 tons—a growth of 300 per cent. France, also a protection country, increased her output from 14,697,686 tons in 1868 to 35,748,644 tons in 1898, an increase of 150 per cent. The United States, which has been constantly under a protective tariff law during that period (with the exception of three years), increased her output from 31,548,960 tons in 1868 to 258,539,650 tons in 1899—an increase of over 700 per cent. It must be remembered, in addition to this, that the United States has consumed in her factories, on her railways, and among her people practically all of this enormous increase, our exports of coal averaging less than 3 per cent. of our total production, while Great Britain has been for years a large exporter of coal. Our production in 1894, the year in which the free trade tariff was enacted, fell to 170,000,000 tons as against 182,000,000 in the preceding year, and the value of the product fell from $208,000,000 in 1893 to $186,000,000 in 1894, a loss in a single year of $22,000,000 in this one article in which labor forms so important a part of its value. In 1891, under protection and the activity of the great industries of the country, the average number of days in which the men in the coal mines of the United States were employed was 232. In 1893, the year in which a low-tariff President and Congress came into power, the number of days in which the miners were employed dropped to 201, and in 1894 dropped again to 178; while in 1897, the last year of the Wilson tariff, the number was but 179, a reduction of 20 per cent. in the time in which they were employed as compared with 1891. The figures for 1898 show a marked increase in the number of days employed and an increase of 38,000 men as compared with 1893; while it is apparent that the figures for 1899 will, when completed, show a much larger increase, since the product in 1899 was 39,000,000 tons greater than in 1898, and 88,000,000 greater than in 1894, an increase of nearly 20 per cent. in production and 25 per cent. in value of the product. Pig iron production in the United States has increased from 3,835,191 tons in 1880 to 13,620,703 tons in 1899, which year placed the United States at the head of the iron and steel producing nations of the world. The pig-iron production of 1892 was 9,157,000 tons. In 1893, the year of the inauguration of Democracy and free trade, it fell to 7,124,000 tons; in 1894 to 6,657,000 tots, and in 1896 was but 8,623,000 tons. The year 1897, in which protection was again adopted, showed an increase to 9,652,680 tons, and in 1899 an increase to 13,620,703 tons. Thus the fall from the last year of President Harrison to 1894, the year in which the Democratic tariff was enacted, was 2,499,622 tons, or 27 per cent., while the increase of 1899 over 1896, the last full year under the Democratic tariff, was 4,997,576 tons, or 57 per cent. The average annual price of steel rails during the period of protection, from 1880 to 1893, fell from $67.50 in 1880, to $28.12 in 1893. In 1894, the year in which the low tariff was adopted, there was a fall of $4 per ton, but the price returned to $28 in 1896, dropping to $18.75 in 1897, the year in which the protective tariff was again adopted, $17.62 in 1898, and returned in 1899 to $28.12, the figure at which it stood in 1893 and 1896. Under this long period of protection and the development of the manufacturing industries which accompanied it, the imports of iron and steel fell from $71,266,699 to $12,100,400, and the manufacturers, besides supplying the enormous addition to the home market, which this reduced importation implies, also increased their exportation of iron and steel manufactures from $14,716,524 in 1880 to $93,716,031 in 1899. In the year 1900 the total will amount to $120,000,000, or more than eight times that of 1880. Result of Protection. Democrats used to say that Europe would not buy American goods if we barred out European goods by a protective tariff. In the 1895 fiscal year, under the Wilson bill, Europe bought from us to the extent of $634,000,000. Last year, under the Dingley protective tariff, Europe's purchases amounted to $959,000,000. The balance to the credit of the protective tariff was $320,000,000 last year in our trade with Europe alone. Their Sound Judgment. It appears that the Oregon voters, after due deliberation, decided that the emperor threat was intended for political suckers only. Prosperity the Advance Agent. Turn about is but fair play, and prosperity will attend to the advance work for President McKinley this year. SPOONER WILL RETIRE. To the Republicans of Wisconsin: There are to be elected in November seventeen state senators, who will participate in choosing at the legislative session of 1963 a United States senator, for the term beginning on the 4th day of March of that year. Having unalterably determined not to be a candidate for re-election to the Senate, I deem it my duty at this time so to declare. I have not since I was returned to the Senate in 1897 entertained the purpose of being a candidate for re-election. On the contrary, the only question which I have felt called upon to consider affecting my relation to the position has been whether duty to my family would permit me to serve out my term. It is, I think, neither usual nor ordinarily wise, for one to form, much less to announce, such a purpose so long in advance, but, as I am absolutely convinced that no change can come in my conviction of private duty in the matter. I feel that I rest under an honorable obligation to be J. B. H. SENATOR JOHN C. SPOONER. frank with my party about it, and, therefore, to make public announcement of the fact. I have lately received abundant assurances, all of course unsought, from leading Republicans in most of the seventeen senatorial districts (differing in personal preferences upon other lines), of their earnest desire for my re-election to the Senate, and of their unswerving support. To permit the not unnatural assumption that I am a candidate for re-election to go without correction, when in fact I am not a candidate, would, it has seemed to me, to be little, if anything, short of duplicity upon my part, and this I cannot tolerate. Again, there are many Republicans, among them long-time friends and supporters of mine, well entitled, by reason of ability, integrity, party loyalty and dignity of character, to be favorably considered for the succession, who might by my silence be deterred from candidacy, to their detriment, and to the detriment of the public interest. Moreover, the office is one of great responsibility, and of great importance to the people, and they are entitled seasonably to know who are and who are not candidates for it. In order that time may be afforded for that discussion and deliberation essential to correct judgment and wise action. I communicated months ago not only my purpose not to be a candidate for re-election, but my fear that I might not be able to serve out the term, with some of the reasons for it, in confidence to my colleague, Mr. Quarles, and to a few other friends. Absorbed in the important duties of the session recently ended, and distressed by the serious illness of a member of my family, I did not consider whether duty required of me a public declaration. No one, I hope, will consider me unappreciative of or indifferent to the honor which pertains to a seat in the United States Senate, honorably obtained. I will not admit that any man is more keenly sensible of its dignity and importance. It affords, to one who carries to the discharge of its duties a proper sense of responsibility, a splendid opportunity for useful public service. All things considered, there is, in my judgment, no public position which is at all comparable with it. While fully mindful of this, I have not been, nor am I, able to permit it to influence me in the opinion that it is my duty, for purely personal and private reasons, to retire at the expiration of my term. Until that time arrives I most earnestly hope to be able to serve. I cannot refrain from availing myself of this opportunity to again express to the Republican party of Wisconsin my intense appreciation of the confidence which it has repeatedly manifested in me, and my profound gratitude for the honors which it has conferred upon me. No party could more graciously and generously bestow upon one of its members the highest honor in its gift than did the Republican party of Wisconsin bestow it upon me, when it gave me in 1897, after six years of retirement, an unanimous re-election to the United States Senate. It has been to me an inspiration. I hope it will not be deemed indelicate for me also here to express my appreciation of the evidences very recently afforded with remarkable unanimity by the Republican press of Wisconsin of the continued confidence of the party in me. It certainly must be unnecessary for me, in view of my relations to the party since 1884, to give assurance that this elimination of myself from direct personal interest in Wisconsin politics will not in any degree diminish my efforts to promote at all times the success of Republican principles and of Republican tickets in the state. JOHN C. SPOONER. Madison, July 5, 1900. TELEPHONE MEN STRIKE. Big Crew of Linemen Quit Work at Green Bay. Green Bay, Wis., July 10.—A general strike has been declared by the big crew of men at work in and about this city rebuilding and extending the lines of the Wisconsin Telephone company. The trouble originated with the quitting of Foreman Ferris after some differences with the company. The crew at work under him thought that he had not been used right and stopped work pending his reinstatement. The Telephone company, however, has arranged to fill the places of the strikers with men from other cities. FARMER'S TERRIBLE DEATH. Slides from Haystack on to a Pitchfork. Omro, Wis., July 10.—Charles Bennett, an old resident and a well-to-do farmer, met with a fatal accident while stacking hay in the town of Rushford. Having finished the stack he started to slide to the ground when he was impaled on a pitchfork standing beside the stack, the handle had been broken off, leaving the end sharp and jagged. It entered his body fully fourteen inches. He died in a few moments. A FATAL FALL. Aged Resident of Whitewater Dies of His Injuries. Whitewater, Wis., July 10.—[Special.] —Patrick Cahill of this city fell down his cellar steps this morning, fracturing his skull. He died shortly afterward. He was an old resident of Whitewater and the sexton of the Catholic cemetery. He is a native of Ireland, coming to America and Whitewater about 1857. His wife and four children survive. Baraboo Man Bleeds to Death Baraboo. Wis., July 10.—[Special.]— Theodore Zick bled to death from a hemorrhage. He was 60 years of age. CAREER OF ROOSEVELT. Born in No. 28 East Twentieth street, on October 27th, 1858. Eight generations of his father's family lived there. Of mingled Dutch, Scotch, Irish and French-Huguenot ancestry. Was graduated from Harvard in 1880, a leader in college athletics and with a well-trained mind. Studied law and in 1881 was elected to the Assembly. Was re-elected in 1883, 1884 and 1885. Introduced mahy reform measures for New York City. Was Republican candidate for Mayor in 1866 against Hewitt and George. Lost by 22,000 plurality. Member of United States Civil Service Commission under Cleveland. Resigned in 1895 to become a Police Commissioner of New York. Became Assistant Secretary of the Navy in 1897. Commanded the Rough Riders in the war with Spain. Was elected Governor of New York in 1898. Will be elected Vice President of the United States in 1900. M'KINLEY'S AMERICANISM. Englishmen Do Not Enthuse Over His Renomination. A copyrighted London cablegram to the New York Tribune says if there be any doubt in the United States respecting English opinion of McKinley and Republican politics, it may be dispelled by the reticence of the London and provincial press respecting the work of the Philadelphia convention. There are few comments on it, and such as there are have a perfunctory sound. These are not eulogies of McKinley, and the Republican party is not embarrassed by English patronage or flattery. The party platform is described as moderate and the nominations as good as the circumstances permitted. The nearest approach to compliment is the Spectator's remark that McKinley is possibly too much of a politician, but that he has won and receives international respect. The English press is preoccupied with affairs in South Africa and China, and has no space in reserve for a trivial incident in Anglo-Saxon history, such as the election of a President by a nation of eighty millions. Moreover, there are no illusions here respecting either President McKinley or the Republican party. Both are known to be downright American, and not in any sense English. President McKinley is not suspected of having ever made an apology for introducing the tariff bill which bore his name, and the party which renominated him, so far from repudiating protectionism, has reaffirmed it and added to it subsidies for American shipping. Nobody in England ever speaks of McKinley as anything but an uncompromising champion of American ideas and policies. Hence his renomination is received here without enthusiasm and with quiet reserve, as possibly not the best choice, but one which divides the Republican party least. MINNESOTA REPUBLICANS Expect to Increase Their Plurality for McKinley by 60,000. Minnesota Republicans are remarkably unanimous upon the issues of the Presidential campaign and confident of the re-election of President McKinley. There was not, in any quarter, a breath of opposition to his renomination. He is regarded as the logical leader of the party upon the issues which so signally triumphed in his first election, and upon the new issues which have arisen during his administration. The triumph of sound money, the restoration of the protective principle in our tariff laws, followed by the restoration of prosperity, and the broad statesmanship with which the President has dealt with the perplexing questions and conditions growing out of the Spanish war, have convinced our people that a change would not be desirable at this time and that the best thing for the country will be another four years of the same kind of policy, with the same firm and able hand at the helm of state. I speak confidently of the conditions in Minnesota, and my observation assures me that substantially the same conditions prevail in all the States that went Republican in 1896. Minnesota will repeat her magnificent Republican victory of that year, and emphasize it. We lost our Governor in 1898 through local dissensions, but we elected all the rest of the ticket and carried the Legislature. There will be no dissensions in this State this year in regard to any candidate, and on the national ticket we expect to see McKinley's plurality of 53,875 four years ago increased to at least 60,000. The Republicans will make a clean sweep in Minnesota. Publisher the Minneapolis Tribune. Paste This in Your Hat. The following figures of Democratic excesses of expenditures over receipts in the United States Treasury should be pasted in your hat for ready reference: Fiscal year. Democratic excesses. 1894 $69,803,261 1895 42,805,223 1896 25,203,246 1897 18,052,455 Total $155,864,185 Lentz Knocked Out. Representative Lentz received his Waterloo blow right at home. The Ohio Democrats declined to adopt his resolutions on the Idaho mining riots and their platform contains no reference to the long drawn out effort to manufacture campaign material. At Large and Harmless. The Vice Presidential boom of the Hon. James Hamilton Lewis continues to cavort about without attracting the attention of the political dog-catcher. Marcellon Farmer Arrested Charged with Assaulting a Little Child in His Care. Portage, Wis., July 10.—[Special.] —Agent Brandt of the state school for dependent children at Sparta swore out a warrant for the arrest of Fred Cuff, a Marcellon farmer, for assault and battery on the person of Otto Schultz, a 10-year-old lad, who had been a ward of that institution but had gone to live with Cuff. The lad was brought to this city and his injuries photographed. His lower limbs were a mass of suppurating wounds, alleged to be the result of the beating he had received. Sheriff Leith arrested Cuff yesterday and brought him to this city. He was released on a bond for $200 to appear tomorrow for a hearing. MAY BE SHIELDING REAL MURDERER. West Superior Police Do Not Believe Ada Arlington's Account of the Killing. West Superior, Wis., July 10.—[Special.]—The coroner here is conducting an inquest to determine whether or not the story of Ada Arlington, concerning the killing of John Resberg, is correct. Several witnesses have been subpoenaed and the district attorney is working on the theory that perhaps John Beemer, the man arrested with the woman, may be the one who did the shooting and that the woman is seeking to shield him. MUCH DAMAGE DONE. Severe Electrical Storm Accompanied by Heavy Winds in IWestern Wisconsin. Chippewa Falls, Wis., July 10.—[Special.]—A severe electrical storm visited this section this morning, doing considerable damage. Lightning struck the courthouse, demolishing its dome and damaging its roof to the extent of $500. This is the third time the courthouse has been struck, each time in the same place. A dwelling-house was also struck and the family had a narrow escape. The furniture was demolished and a bed in which members of the family were sleeping was broken to pieces. No one was injured. Janesville, Wis., July 10.—[Special.]—A severe storm, accompanied by sharp flashes of lightning, struck the city this morning about 6:30 o'clock. No damage is reported to have been done by the sharp wind which preceded the storm. The lightning, which was very sharp at times, did considerable damage. The home of Albert Schnett on Milton avenue was struck by a bolt of lightning which ran down the rear end, ripping off most of the siding, doing no other damage except giving the family considerable of a scare. A bolt also struck the building occupied by F. A. Taylor & Co., on South River street. Telegraph and telephone call boxes were burnt out. MILLS AGAIN RUNNING. Book Plants in Fox River Valley Open but will Close Again Soon. Appleton, Wis., July 10.—[Special.]—The book-paper mills of the West, including those in the Fox River valley, which were shut down last week in pursuance of the agreement, resumed operations this morning. Another meeting of book-mill representatives will be held in Chicago tomorrow, at which arrangements may be made for another shutdown, possibly for a longer period than a week. The demand for book paper is still very light and mills have few orders. Most of the manufacturers figure that idleness of even three weeks in the month is preferable to a slump in prices, and as the prospects are not bright for an increased demand much before September 1, the next shutdown may be for two weeks, though nothing is certain before the meeting. STREET CARS TIED UP. Engineer of Electric Plant at Fond du Lac is Badly Injured. Fond du Lac, Wis., July 10.—[Special.]—Engineer Merrill Keister of the Fond du Lac Street Railway and Light company had his hand caught in a valve gear this morning. It was terribly mangled and torn and it will be weeks before he can use it again. The plant was forced to close down for almost an hour, as there was no engineer to take the place of the injured man. Finally, after all the cars had been held up for over an hour, the night engineer arrived and the plant resumed operations. SHORTAGE IN FUNDS. The Menominee, Mich., School Board Suddenly Finds Itself Without Necessary Funds. Menominee, Mich., July 10.—[Special.] —At the annual school board meeting a shortage in the school funds came to light. The assessor, the late Joseph Flesheim, was short in his accounts $245.13. This shortage dates back as for as July, 1898. The board will commence suit against the bondholders for the shortage. At the annual meeting $45,000 was appropriated for the expenses of the city schools in 1900-01. A deaf and dumb school will be opened here in September. TAKING A WHEEL TRIP. Missing Oshkosh Boy is Reported to be Safe. Portage, Wis., July 10.—[Special.]—Walter J. Cordy of Cambria, one of the normal students, whom Oshkosh press dispatches announced as having been lost, was in Portage yesterday. He and the other missing student, a son of Prof. Hewitt of the Oshkosh normal school, were in this city two weeks ago. Cordy says he has heard nothing of Hewitt since they separated here, the latter ostensibly to return home. Cordy says he thinks it probable that young Hewitt has started awheel to visit relatives in Indiana. AT LEGATION IN PEKIN. Wisconsin University Graduate May be Among the Slain. Madison, Wis., July 10.—Some fear is felt here for the safety of Attorney William E. Bainbridge, second secretary of the American legation at Pekin. Mr. Bainbridge graduated from the academy department of the university in 1886, and from the college of law three years later. He was a brilliant student and won the Lewis prize for the best commencement oration. While pursuing his law course he was assistant librarian of the state law library. He was practicing at Council Bluffs, Ia., when appointed to his position in China. DISCARD WINE AT COMMUNION SERVICE Free Baptist Church at Big Bend will Use Water Instead. Big Bend, Wis., July 10.—[Special.] The members of the Free Baptist church of this place have decided not to use wine at communion services. The congregation is composed, for the most part, of Prohibitionists. The new pastor, Rev. Mr. Hancock, seemed much surprised at first, but accepted the wishes of his flock and commemorated the Lord's Supper by using cold water. CREW NEARLY DROWNS. The Yacht Old Abe of Sheboygan Capsizes off Port Washington. Sheboygan, Wis., July 10.—[Special.]—It has just become known here that the crew of the yacht Old Abe, which went to Chicago July 4 to participate in the regatta there, had a narrow escape from drowning on the trip down. Off Port Washington the yacht capsized and the crew were thrown into the water. Edwin Imig, one of the crew, was unable to swim and the others worked desperately to save his life and their own. They managed to hold on to the overturned boat until the yacht Bradley came to their assistance. They were taken to Milwaukee, where they were put in condition and the yacht proceeded to Chicago. The mishan was kept a profound secret. The Old Abe, in command of Commodore Conley, returned home last evening from the races of the regatta of the Columbia Yacht club at Chicago. The boat was awarded second prize in class $7\frac{1}{2}$, a pair of field glasses. The report sent from Chicago relative to the measurement of Old Abe for the races is explained as follows by Samuel Fairweather, a member of the crew: "When we arrived at Chicago we looked up the official measurer of the Columbia club for the purpose of having him measure our boat, but he had some excuse or another of putting us off until the races were ever. So much of our time was spent in looking up the measurer and endeavoring to get him to measure our boat that we did not have time to go over the race course, prior to the start of the boats in the races. The race measurement of our boat is 21-6, which would have placed us in class 10, where we would have won out in first place, there not being a boat in the races which could have kept up to us, while we finished ten minutes ahead of the first boat that came in, in that class. The measurement of the boat was to have been taken light, while after the races were completed the measurement was taken loaded and the measurement made made 21-1, placing us in class $7\frac{1}{2}$, where at first it was announced that we were the winners of the first prize, but by some expert manipulation we were finally placed in second place. On presenting the prize to Commodore Conley I thought there was to be a free-for-all fight over the measurement of Old Abe. The Columbia club wanted all the honors in the races, that is where the trouble was. We finished in third place, among all the sixty-odd boats in the races, the other crafts in our class simply not being able to keep up with us. We will never participate in another regatta of the Columbia Yacht club." SUE WHOLE FAMILY. A La Crosse Woman, Examined as to Her Sanity, Now Demands Justice. La Crosse, Wis., July 10.—[Special.]—Mrs. Cameron has won the second act of the war between herself and her parents and husband. Her brother has paid for the chickens she claimed he stole. Some months ago she was examined by physicians at the solicitation of her father and declared sane. Then she began action against her brother, Toralf Sandbo, charging him with appropriating her chickens while she was sick. He claimed it was at her husband's suggestion. Mr. Sandboe, who has been attending medical school in Chicago, returned late last week and was immediately apprehended on a civil warrant and taken before Judge Prentiss. Attorney Daniels, for Mrs. Cameron, had demanded $25, and the case has finally been settled by his paying $20 and costs, amounting to $24.15. Now she threatens to sue her father and others for having her examined. ONLY FOUR PASSED. Twenty-One Applicants for County Superintendent Certificates Fail in Their Examinations. Madison, Wis., July 10.—[Special.]—Only four of the twenty-five applicants for county superintendents' certificates, who took the state examination last week, succeeded in passing and will receive certificates. Examinations were held simultaneously at three places in the state, ten taking the examination in this city, ten at Appleton, and five at Eau Claire. The four who succeeded in passing are Myra Germond of Rhinelander, P. R. Johnson of Mt. Morris, W. A. Schwalbe of New Holstein and Emma E. Janisch of Waterloo. The next examination will be held August 14, 15 and 16, at Madison, at the time of holding the examination for state teachers' certificates. CAN'T HAVE HIS CHILD. Anton M. Smith of Freedom Loses Habeas Corpus Case. Appleton, Wis., July 10.—[Special.]—Court Commissioner Boyd has rendered his decision in an interesting habeas corpus case. On February 14 he 4-year-old child of Anton M. Smith of the town of Freedom, was adopted by her grandmother, Anna Coffey. Subsequently the father married and attempted to regain his child on a writ of habeas corpus, claiming that there were irregularities in the measures of adoption. By holding that he has no jurisdiction to correct any such irregularities Commissioner Boyd has virtually rendered a decision in favor of the grandmother, who will retain possession of the child. ARRESTED AT MADISON. James Finley Charged with Victimizing Portage Merchants. Portage, Wis., July 10.—[Special.]—James Finley was arrested at Madison yesterday by Undersheriff Hurst and brought to this city on a charge of obtaining goods under false pretenses. Grocer Thomas W. Drew was the complainant. Finley, it is alleged, gave his name as John McElroy when he obtained the goods, and stated that he was working in the railroad yards in this city. Several other Portage merchants have been victimized. Will Haye Full Crop. Fond du Lac, Wis., July 10.—[Special.] —Another heavy rain fell during the night and continued at intervals during the day, the indications being that the hopes of Fond du Lac county farmers for a full hay crop will be realized. The rain was general throughout the county. MILLION A MONTH. That is What Clark is Taking Out of the United Verde Mine. "It is just the same as a mountain of twenty-dollar gold pieces," said Charles W. Akers, the secretary of the territorial government of Arizona. He is from Phoenix and will remain in Washington until time to go to the Philadelphia convention. He is chairman of the delegation. The hall of twenty-dollar gold pieces which he referred to is the United Verde mine in Arizona. "It is beyond any question of a doubt the greatest mine in the world. There is so much silver, gold and copper there that it makes one fairly dizzy to figure out how much. Senator Clark is almost the sole owner of the mine. The other shareholders have merely enough for the purposes of corporate organization. The profit now is $1,000,000 a month. This is 5 cents too little, rather than any too much. There can be no possible doubt about the profits. Now the lowest levels at which they are working is 500 feet. You know those are very shallow workings. Yet if they go no lower and keep on working as they do now, there is enough in sight to keep the mine running with the same monthly profit for fifty years. "If the mine should be worked to make as much money as possible, a tunnel would be projected at about a 2500-foot level. It would come out a river and furnish plenty of water. Borings have shown that the ore is of the same quality to this depth. If the plan of the progressive engineers were adopted, 25,000 men might be employed instead of 3000. I would not even guess at what would be taken from the mine then. The cre bears gold, silver and copper. If there were only the same quantity of one of these metals, the mine would be worth working for that alone. "Not many miles away Senator Clark has enough property which the experts say is just as valuable as this. The title to this other property has been in litigation for about six years, but Senator Clark has won the final verdict. I do not know that this other property is to be developed at once. Arizona is in a very flourishing condition at present. The mining properties are getting on a much better footing. Formerly some of the Arizona enterprises had rather poor names, but the public is learning that they have real worth."—Washington Post. MARKET REPORTS Milwaukee, July 11, 1900. D. DAIRY PRODUCTS. MILWAUKEE—Eggs—Market steady at 11c for new, cases included; 10%c for new, cases returned; 10%c for old, cases included; dirties and seconds, 7@8c. The receipts were 312 cases. Butter—Market firm. The receipts were 28,195 lbs today against 10,062 yesterday. There is a good demand for all grades of butter, especially choice creamery, while, is very scarce here. Dairy scarce and wanted here. Fancy prints, 19%c: fancy or extra creamery, per lb, 19c; firsts, 17c; seconds, 15c; extra dairy, 15c; lines, 12@14c; packing stock, 11@12c; whey butter, 9c; imitation creamery, 15@16c; grease, 4@6c. K dairy prints, 17c. Cheese—Steady. The receipts today were 24,955 lbs against 8050 yesterday. Full cream firsts, October, per lb, 11@11½c; full cream flats, new, colored, 9½@10c; New York, full cream flats, new colored, 9½@10½c; Young Americas, October, 10½@11c; Young Americas, new, 9½@10½c; bricks, 9½@9½c; limburger, per lb, 9½@9½c; imported Swiss, 24c; Block Swiss, domestic, 12@12½c; No. 1 imitation loaf, 14½@15c; Sapsago, 19@20c; farmers', 9½@10c. NEW YORK—Butter — Receipts, 9130 pkgs; steady; cremery, 17@19½c; factory, 14@16½c. Cheese—Receipts, 3728 pkgs; steady; large white, 9½c; large colored, 9½c; small white, 9½@9½c; small colored, 9½@9½c. Eggs—Receipts, 7320 pkgs; firm; Western, at mark, 10@10½c for average lots; Western, loss off, 14½c. Sugar—Raw; firm; fair refining, 4½c; centrifugal, 96 test, 4½c; molasses sugar, 4c. Coffee—Weak: No. 7 Rio, 9c. CHICAGO—Butter — Steady; cremeries, 15@19c; dairies, 14@17c. Eggs—Firm; fresh, 10½c. Poultry—Good demand, prices unchanged. SHEBOYGAN—On the board 20 factories offered 1597 boxes cheese. Sales were: Thirty-three twins at 9¼c; 516 daisies at 9¾c; 753 Young Americas at 9¾c; 116 at 9¾c; 80 at 9¾c; 99 longhorns at 10¾c. SEYMOUR—Sales of cheese were 376 flats at 9¼c; 379 twins and daisies, and 479 single daisies at 9¼@9½c. MILWAUKEE LIVESTOCK MARKET. HOGS—Receipts, 8 cars; market 10c lower; light, 5.20@5.40; mixed and medium weights, 5.20@5.40; common to choice heavy, 5.10@5.35; coarse heavy stags, 4.25@4.50. er; light. 5.20@5.40; mixed and medium weights, 5.20@5.40; common to choice heavy, 5.10@5.35; coarse heavy stags, 4.25@4.50. CATTLE—Receipts, 6 cars; lower; butcher sters, medium to good, 1050 to 1300 lbs, 4.25@5.00; fair to medium, 950 to 1050, 3.75@ 4.25; heifers, good to choice, 3.25@4.00; cows, fair to good, 2.75@3.25; canners, 2.00@ 2.50; buls, common, 2.50@3.00; choice, 3.25@ 3.75; feeders, 800 to 950 lbs, 3.50@4.00; stockers, 500 to 750 lbs, 3.25@3.75; veal calves, 5.00@6.00; milkers and springers, common to choice, 20.00@45.00. SHEEP—Receipts, 1 car; market steady, 3.00@4.00; bucks, 2.50@3.00; spring lambs, 4.50@5.50. Chicago receipts: Hogs, 23,000; cattle, 18,000; sheep, 20,000. MILWAUKEE—Flour—Steady. Wheat -- Firmer. No. 1 Northern, on track, 82%c Corn—Firm. No. 3 on track, 44c. Oats—Steady. No. 2 white, on track, 28c; No. 3 white, on track, 26%@27%c Barley—Dull. No. 2 on track, 48c; sample on track, 43@48c. Rye—Steady. No. 1 on track, 62c. Provisions—Higher; pork, 12.55; lard, 6.87. Flour is steady at 4.50@4.60 for patents; bakers'. 3.50@3.60, and 3.10@3.25 for rye. Millstuffs are quiet and quoted at 14.00@14.25 for bran, 14.50@14.75 for stand-ard middlings, and 15.25@15.50 for Milwaukee flour middlings. CHICAGO — Wheat — July — 86%@80%c; August, 81%@81%c; September, 82%@82%c; Corn-July, 43%c; August, 44%44%c; September, 44%c; Oats-July, 24c; August 24%c; September, 24%c; Pork-July, 12.55; September, 12.70; Lard-July, 6.85; September, 6.32%; November, 6.92%; Ribs-July, 7.02%@7.05; September, 7.05; October, 7.02%; Flax-Cash, 1.80; September, 1.38; October, 1.31; Rye-July, 57%c; September, 59%@59%c; Barley-40%47c; Timothy- September, 3.30; October, 3.20; Clover- October, 9.00%9.50. NEW YORK—Close — Wheat — July, 83c; September, 86%c; October, 86%c; December, 87%c; Corn-July, 49%c; September, 49%c; DULUTH—Close—Wheat — No. 1 cash, hard, 85%c; No. 1 Northern, 83%c; No. 2 Northern, 82c; No. 3, 78%c; No. 1 hard, to arrive, 86c; No. 1 Northern, 84c; July, 83%c; September, 83%c; December, 83%c. MINNEAPOLIS — Close — Wheat — In store, July, 81%c; September, 81%@81%c; on track, No. 1 hard, 84%c; No. 1 Northern, 82%c; No. 2 Northern, 80%c. LIVERPOOL --- Close-Wheat-Quiet, %d higher; September, 6s4d. Corn-Quiet, %@ %d lower; July, 4s1d; September, 4s2d. ST. LOUIS—Close — Wheat — No. 2 red cash elevator, 80c; on track, 80@81c; July, 79½c; August, 79½c; September, 80½c; No. 2 hard, 75@76c. Corn—No. 2 cash, 42c; track, 43½@44c; July, 42½c; September, 43½c; Oats—No. 2 cash, 25c; track, 25@25c; July, 24c; September, 23½c; No. 2 white, 28½@29c. Rye—57c. Flax-1.35@1.36. Lead-3.95. Spelter-4.10. ST. LOUIS—Cattle—Receipts, 3000; market steady; native steers, 4.25@5.65; stockers and feeders, 3.50@4.70; cows and heifers, 2.00@4.80; Texas steers, 4.50@5.55. Hogs—Receipts, 4000; 10c lower; pigs and lights, 5.25@5.35; packers, 5.15@5.30; butchers, 5.35@5.42½. Sheep—Receipts, 1500; steady; muttons, 4.00@4.50; lambs, 4.55@6. KANSAS CITY—Cattle—Receipts, 750; weak to 10c lower; native steers, 4.25@5.50; Texas steers, 3.25@5.10; cows and heifers, 2.25@4.85; stockers and feeders, 3.00@4.80; Hogs—Receipts, 15.000; 5@10c lower; bulk of sales, 5.12½@5.25; heavy, 5.15@5.30; mixed, 5.10@5.25; lights, 5.10@5.25; pigs, 4.50@5.05; Sheep—Receipts, 2000; weaker; lambs, 4.00@6.00; muttons, 3.50@4.65. SOUTH OMAHA—Cattle—Receipts, 2100; strong to slow; native steers, 4.40@5.40; Western steers, 3.75@4.25; cows and heifers, 3.60@4.40; stockers and feeders, 3.00@4.40; Hogs—Receipts, 10,500; 10c lower; heavy, 5.02½@5.10; mixed, 5.02½@5.05; light, 5.05@5.15; pigs, 4.50@5.00; bulk of sales, 5.07½@5.05; Sheep—Receipts, 3200; slow; muttons, 4.00@3.90; lambs, 4.50@6.25. Richard B. Montgomery.....Editor and Proprietor Office 200 Fifth Street. Telephone Black No. 244. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Three Months ..... 16 Send money by Express Money Order, P. O. Money Order or Registered Letter to the Wisconsin Weekly Advocate. 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Address all business communications to the general manager, 200 Fifth street. Entered at the Milwaukee P. O. as secondc'ass matter. Chicago philanthropy, as manifested in the keeping of blind pigs, seems to lack appreciation by the police. Perhaps the report that Andre, the Arctic balloonist, is safe, may refer to post mortem conditions. Madison advertises eighty saloon licenses, probably as evidence that she can take care of the boys next winter. Having whipped Sharkey, Ruhlin is aching to get at somebody who can whip him. It is ever thus, in the prize ring. The Racine farmer who built a fire under a balky horse probably thought that the animal needed warming to his work. The eggs which the evangelist received on the fly at Corinth, New York, were necessarily bad. Good eggs have no wings. Frost has nipped the wheat in North Dakota just enough to show that there is something worse than dry weather in that section. Indubitably, the pivotal states are the commonwealths in which the voters are liable to turn on their heels and vote for the other fellow. John L. Sullivan is said to be in sore trouble, because somebody hit him with a bottle. He isn't used to being hit with a bottle—externally. The American sweet girl graduate of the vintage of 1900 looks prettier than the New York Herald's "dainty suggestions from over the sea." One of the chief aims of the brokerage business, in times of sharp fluctuations in wheat and other speculative products is to keep from getting broke. Inventors of rat traps may get a happy thought from the continued performances of the folding bed, which holds its victims with the grip of a vise. Rice is going up in America, and ginseng is rising in China; all because the Chinese are using their chopsticks and trying to dispose of the Christians. The New York World's geography seems to be lost. It prints a group of missionaries endangered in China, including Miss Mary H. Porter of Detroit, Wis. Brooklyn bridge has dropped two feet at the middle without causing a panic, because it does the same trick annually, through the expansion of the wires by the summer sun. There is a boom in the flag business. The demand incident to the convention habit, coupled with that incident to presidential year, ought to make bunting wave hilariously. The man who bets in accordance with the claims of coaches of rival boat crews will find that sometimes a guess is as good as expert opinion, especially when the opinion is biased. A steamer was held fast for four hours at Chicago, the other day, on the crown of La Salle street tunnel. Chicago will have to drop her tunnels, or drop a large share of her lake business. Society at Huntington, Long Island, is "just whoopin'." There is an epidemic of whooping cough there, and parties are held for the whoopers, to which none but victims of the cough are invited. The Oklahoma woman who wants a divorce because her husband killed twenty-seven men is probably afraid he may become possessed of a notion to even things by butchering a like number of women. The struggle for single and double turrets is matched by that of the Eastern press, which is divided as to the superposed or superimposed turrets. Why not call them one-story and two-story barbettes? New York is wise in disinfecting its Chinatown. Cities everywhere should follow suit, and compel not only the Mongolians but all dwellers in filthy premises to clean up in the interest of the public health. The tottering of the Spanish cabinet will be matched by a tottering of the Spanish throne, if the monarchists of that country are not watchful. The condition of politics throughout the kingdom is exceedingly menacing. A New York school teacher who spanked into vicious activity a torpedo that was innocently reposing in a youngster's back pocket, has sounded a warning to teachers generally against tampering with Fourth of July arsenals. Chicago is exhibiting undue sensitivity over the discovery of a factory in which horse sausage is made. Several recent murder cases ought to have made Chicagoans rather callous to a comparatively mild sausage factory discovery. There are no buttons in horse sausage. Arms, ammunition and tactics have been revolutionized, but the "army mule" is the same old kicking but necessary adjunct of the transport service. There was a strong demand for mules from South Africa, and now 260 United States army mules are on the way to China. A toy cannon at Newark, New Jersey, that was being tried as a "really cannon" badly shot a passing boy in the leg, and reminded not only the victim but people everywhere of a danger that generally escapes the watchfulness of the police on Independence Day. Wherever boys are observed "fooling" with weapons and powder, they should be taken in hand by the police. In speaking of American artists, persons who wish to be thought in the artistic classes are accustomed to refer to them as entirely devoted to commercialism, but the managers of the Paris Exposition have assigned to American artists the second place on the list. That does not comport with the idea that American artists are "devoted to commercialism." The bargain cigarette isn't a fit thing to smoke, but the crusade against it cannot be advanced by charges which take in accidents of all kinds. The New York papers have laid against the cigarette the death of a young man who coughed himself into a hemorrhage by inhaling the smoke of a passing cigarette, and the death of a boy whose head was cleft by a cigarette machine. Fate has been unkind to millionaires in the East. It will be recalled that Mrs. W. C. Whitney died of injuries to her spine caused by a collision while riding a spirited horse. Young Duryea, who broke his neck by diving in shallow water, is still very weak and permanently crippled. Robert Goelet, who was thrown from a horse in a steeplechase, is now a hopeless cripple with a crushed spine. Life insurance officials generally will share with the New York Health Department the anxiety caused by the discovery that there has been great laxity in the matter of reporting cases of consumption. The doctors admit that they have been reporting the secondary cause, for the purpose of obliging parents with marriageable daughters, and to enable relatives of the victims to pass examinations for life insurance. Rockefeller has made himself an admiral of commerce by his acquirement of seventy big steel lake carriers. This is probably the largest fleet that ever sailed under the private signal of a single owner; and none of the ships is as small as the old time Indiamen that were owned in bunches of a dozen or half dozen, by men who in their day were regarded among the wealthiest in the world. The uproar in England over the hardships inflicted on the British sick and wounded during the impetuous rush of Lord Roberts from the Modder to Bloemfontein and from Bloemfontein to Johannesburg is natural but illogical. The English people must remember that they are at war, and, as Gen. Sherman said, war is hell. It is as much out of the range of possibility to conduct war without ignoring in many individual cases the dictates of humanity as it is to make an emelet without breaking eggs. The Board of Superintendents of New York city has taken a stand against vertical writing, on the ground that systems having a slant offer most in "legibility, rapidity, and ease of instruction." Experience in the public schools of Milwaukee has demonstrated that vertical writing is more legible than slant writing. Rapidity and ease of instruction depend upon the pupil and the teacher, and will naturally vary, whatever the style of writing. It is true, also, that the writing always takes an individual character after the pupil gets beyond the restraints of copy books and teachers. Three Oaks, Michigan, the metropolis of Peppermint Valley, whose Dewey canon from Corregidor Island was unveiled recently by Helen Gould, has evidently arrived at the conclusion that the husband of Mrs. Dewey is not the only conspicuous personality in America. Miss Sherwood, of Three Oaks, the bard of a recent event, expressed the sentiment of her environment in unmistakable terms: That Dewey can't come to Three Oaks, Is a sorrow to all of our folks. He'll miss it, we fear. But Miss Gould will be here, And the cannon still stays in Three Oaks, Three Oaks. The foot is beaten off your shoes. The fact is beyond all your jokes. With a Dewey cannon and a gracious heiress for central features, with the unique auxiliary attraction of a side-show tent containing a calf born without an upper jaw, Three Oakes held high carnival, and didn't care whether the hero of Manila came or stayed away. Frozen Tomato Salad Boil two quarts of canned tomatoes, twelve cloves, one small onion sliced, one bunch of celery, a bouquet of sweet herbs, one blade of mace, one large bayleaf and twelve peppercorns for thirty minutes; strain, season with paprika and salt, add one-fourth of a box of gelatine dissolved in a little of the boiling liquid, then cool; pour into a melon mould, wind buttered cloth about edge, and bury in salt and ice for four hours. Invert onto a bed of lettuce arranged on a round or oblong platter, and serve with mayonnaise.—New York Journal. No Shipyards in Greece. No men-of-war are built in Greece. All of the vessels in the present Greek navy were constructed in English, French or German shipyards. Greece has no large or well-equipped shipyards—in fact, no shipyard of any size or account—Consul D. E. McGinley. —Four or five ounces of sugar is all that an adult in good health should eat with impunity in the course of a day. THE CHEMISTRY OF THE CHEMICALS MILKING FORCE ON A LARGE DAIRY FARM. A GREAT INDUSTRY A GREAT INDUSTRY ENORMOUS EUSINESS DAIRYING HAS COME TO BE. Seventeen Million Cows Giving Milk in the United StatesAggregate Value of Their Produce Exceeds $500,000,000 a Year-This Country Leads. Comparatively few persons realize what an enormous business dairying has come to be in the United States. In this industry, as in so many others, this country beats the world. There are over seventeen million cows giving milk in the United States, and it takes an army of over three hundred thousand men working from ten to twelve hours a day to milk them. The aggregate value of the produce of these dairy cows exceeds $500,000,000 a year. They produce nearly a billion and a half pounds of butter, three hundred thousand pounds of cheese and over two billion gallons of milk yearly, for the Yankee cow is a good cow, an industrious cow, and works all the year round. Dairying in other countries sinks into insignificance when compared with the industry in the United States. So fond are the Americans of dairy products that it takes from twenty-three to twenty-seven cows to each hundred of the population to keep the country supplied with milk, butter and cheese and provide for the export trade. The export trade does not amount to much. It has fluctuated much, but never rose beyond the produce of five hundred thousand cows. Nearly all the great output of the dairies is consumed at home. We are the greatest butter-eating people in the world, our average yearly consumption being at the rate of twenty pounds to the person, or about one hundred pounds annually for a family of average size. As cheese-eaters, however, we do not shine. The average consumption of cheese in this country does not exceed three and a half pounds per capita a year, which is far below the European average. As milk drinkers we average twenty gallons apiece yearly. Although we are not great cheese eaters ourselves we send about fifty million pounds a year to the peoples of the earth, who are fond of that form of food. In Early Days. All this great dairy industry of the United States has been built up in the last fifty years. Before that time the milch cows of the country were of the mixed and indescribable race known as "native." It was the "old red cow" of our boyhood, specimens of which occasionally are seen in out-of-the-way parts of the country living in the "old red barn." The keeping of cows on an American farm was incidental to the general work. In the fall and early winter the cow was allowed to go dry. Winter dairying was practically unknown. The care of the milk and the MILKING FORCE ON A making of the butter and cheese were in the hands of the women of the household, and the methods and the utensils used were crude. The average quality of the products was inferior, and the supply of the domestic markets was unorganized and irregular. In the Eastern and Middle States the milk was usually set in small, shallow earthen vessels or tin pans for the cream to rise. Little attention was paid The Oakes Cow to cooling the air in which it stood in summer or to moderating it in winter so long as freezing was prevented. The few who scalded milk had no idea of the true reason for so doing or why beneficial effects resulted. The pans of milk oftener stood in pantries and cellars or on kitchen shelves than in rooms specially constructed or adapted to the purpose. In Southern Pennsylvania and the States further south spring houses were in vogue. Milk received care, and setting it in earthen crocks --- BUTTER MAKING-OLD AND NEW. THE O THE NE A woman seated in a room, using a mop and bucket to wash clothes. A wooden table with a cloth and a bucket is in front of her. A rocking chair is visible to the right. THE OLD WAY. A man standing beside two large cylindrical tanks with hinged doors, each containing a large amount of liquid. The tanks are mounted on a metal frame and are placed on a flat surface with several circular objects below them. THE NEW WAY. or pots, standing in cool, flowing water, was a usual and excellent practice. Churning the entire milk was common. This is still done to some extent in the Southern States, where butter is made every morning, and where all the milk is buttermilk. In seasons of scarcity of milk there was no butter. In the Northern States there were some instances where families were supplied with butter weekly during most of the year, and with an occasional cheese, directly from the producers. But the general farm practice was to "pack" the butter in firkins, half firkins, tubs and jars and let the cheese accumulate on the farm, taking these products to the market only once or twice a year. Not only were there as many different lots and kinds of butter and cheese as there were producing farms, but the product of a single farm varied in character and quality according to season and other circumstances. Every package had to be examined, graded and sold upon its merits. It was usual for half the butter in market to be strong, if not actu- LARGE DAIRY FARM. ally rancid, and for cheese to be sharp. With the products largely low in grade, prices also were low. As a rule, except in the pasture season, the cows were fed insufficiently and unprofitably and housed poorly, if at all. It was a common thing for cows to die in winter of starvation and exposure, and it was considered no disgrace to farmers to have their cattle "on the lift" in the spring. "On the lift" was a common expression in the past in some localities, indicating the actual necessity of human aid to raise the emaciated animals to their feet. There were, of course, some farmers who took care of their cattle and who made a specialty of turning out first-class dairy products, but as a rule things were in the condition described. Toward the middle of the century, the production of cheese being in excess of the home demand, an export trade in it began. With the growth of cities and towns the business of milk supply increased and better methods began to prevail. Then came the establishment of "creameries" and the improvement of the breed of dairy cattle. When the improvement of the native stock of cattle began, a cow that would give milk that would make a pound of butter a day for two or three months was a local celebrity. As late as 1865, when good cows sold for $40 or less, an enterprising farmer in New England advertised widely that he would pay $100 for any cow that would yield fifty pounds of milk a day on his farm for two or three consecutive days. Not an animal was offered on those conditions. Nowadays a cow that does not average from six to seven quarts of milk a day for 300 days—being 4,000 to 4,500 pounds a year—is not considered profitable. There are many herds having an average yearly product of 5,000 pounds a cow, and single animals are many which give ten or twelve times their own weight in milk during --- OLD WAY. NEW WAY. the year. The quality of the milk has improved so much that the milk of one cow now will make as much butter as did the milk of three or four of the old native animals. Though the old native stock was a pretty tough and disreputable race of cows, there would appear once in a while in it a prodigy. Such was the famous "Oakes cow" of Massachusetts, which asionished the world, in 1816, by giving forty-four pounds of milk a day, out of which was made 467 pounds of butter in one season. This ostentatious cow did this when her friends and neighbors were proud they produced sixty pounds of butter a year. It made her famous, and she had her picture painted in oil, but none of her descendants took after her, and she was regarded as a freak. Nowadays the Oakes cow would be regarded as a good cow—nothing more. The Shorthorn breed led in the introduction of improved cattle into the United States and formed the foundation upon which many fine dairy herds were built. They were brought from England, and much of the Shorthorn blood can still be found in prosperous dairy districts throughout the United States. Soon, however, they began to breed the Shorthorns for their beef qualities, and now few full-blooded Shorthorns are classed as dairy cattle. Ayrshires from Scotland, Holstein-Friesians from Holland and Jerseys and Guernseys from the Channel Islands were then brought in, and upon animals graded and improved from these breeds the vast dairy industry of the country now mainly depends. The Ayrshires and Holsteins are great milk givers, and the Jerseys and Guernseys (often miscalled Alderneys) are great butter makers. Brown Swiss and Simmenthan cattle from Switzerland, the Normandy breed from France and red-polled cattle from the south of England have also been imported, but are in what is known to dairymen as the "general purpose class." They are pretty good in everything, but have no specialties. It used to be believed that successful dairying could be carried on only in the United States in a belt lying between the latitude of Philadelphia and the latitude of the northern boundary of Vermont and extending as far west as the Missouri River. Even in that belt it was believed that the true dairying districts were in detached sections which did not occupy more than one-third of its area. This idea has been exploded. It has been found that good butter and cheese can be made in almost all parts of Northern America. As a rule good butter can be made wherever good beef can be produced. Mechanical Devices. Along with the growth of the dairy business came the invention of many mechanical devices for doing by machinery what had hitherto been done by hand. One curious device is called the dairy "centrifuge," "cream separator" or "skimmer." It is a closed bowl revolving at the rate, sometimes, of 25,000 times a minute. The milk flows through a feed pipe into the rapidly whirling bowl, and from the bowl two projecting tubes discharge continuously the one cream and the other skinmed milk. A skimmer of standard factory size handles 250 gallons of milk an hour. This is different from the good wife "setting" the milk and then going around with her little tin skimmer and removing the cream for the morrow's churning. Only one thing in dairying remains unaltered and unchanged. That is the milking of the cows. Many mechanical devices have been invented and patented for the milking of cows by machinery, but none of them has been a success. Cows are milked now as they were in the days of Abraham, and still Mary "calls the cattle home across the sands of Dee." It's far easier to show another man his proper place in the world than it is to find your own. --- Prodigies. CHAS. D. MILNE, Electrical Contractor 110 Mason St. Tel. Main 527. General Repairwork. Estimates Furnished. TONEY THE ARTIST FINE ART Shining Parlor 216½ GRAND AVENUE Opposite Flanner's Music Store MILWAUKEE, WIS. GEO. W. DEWEY, Furniture, Stoves, Carpets, General House Furnisher, 230-232 West Water St., MILWAUKEE. - - WIS. Cash or Easy Payments. Established in 1881. Furniture Exchanged. THIS IS THE PLACE If you want a Suit or Overcoat made to order at the lowest price Cleaning and Repairing Done Promptly NEW YORK TAILORING CO. 322 Wells Street Sustaining Life on the choice juicy meats served by us is just what our athletic, bicycle riding, tennis playing and golfing twentieth century men and women need. Pj days have gone with the spin ning wheel. Good bone, muscle and tissue is what is needed now. You can get them by patronizing the Chicago Market. Our meats are fresh, tempting and choice, and are sold at prices that will let you feast in comfort. WILLIAM RASCH GENEVA LAKE, WIS. RAPIDLY DEVELOPING NORTHERN WISCONSIN. RAPIDLY DEVELOPING NORTHERN WISCONSIN. The settler and manufacturer who have located in the northern portion of the Badger State are developing and improving that immense tract of rich country very rapidly. Tillers of the soil are coming in and new factories are going up. There is reason for this. The quality and quantity of iron ore, clay, kaolin, marl and timber lands tell the secret. Nature yields its riches to those who toil. Opportunities are still plentiful, for much of the rich undeveloped land is awaiting the settler and manufacturer. It can be obtained on easy terms and at low figures. The Wisconsin Central Ry. The pioneer road of the northern section of Wisconsin, affords cheap and excellent transportation facilities, thus opening the markets of the entire country to the products of that section. Those interested can obtain free illustrated pamphlets and maps upon application to W. H. KILLEN. Land and Industrial Commissioner. Burton Johnson, G. F. A. Jas. C. Pond, Gen. Pass. Agent. Colby & Abbot Building, Milwaukee, Wis. Marquette Houghton AND Calumet VIA THE NORTH-WESTERN LINE CANWRY Through Sleepers TO THE COPPER COUNTRY Leave Milwaukee 12.35 a.m. Daily, and 5.15 a.m. Daily Except Sunday. Same Excellent Service South Bound. TICKET OFFICES, Chicago & North-Western Ry. 102 Wisconsin Street and Depot on Lake Front. RED JACKET CALUMET LAKE LINDEN HANCOCK HOUGHTON L'ANSE NESTORIA ISHPEMING MARQUETTE NEGAUNEE WEST GLADSTONE ESCANABA MENOMINEE MARINETTE OCONTO GREEN BAY APPLETON NEENAH-MENASHA OSHKOSH FOND DU LAO MILWAUKEE RACINE KENOSHA CHICAGO --- R. TALMAGE is now traveling in Norway, where he has been deeply interested in the natural phenomena and the quaint social life of that wonderful land. In his discourse this week he urges, contrary to the opinion of many, that religion is an active principle which works constantly for the welfare of body and mind and soul. His text is Luke xiv. 34. "Salt is good." The Bible is a dictionary of the finest similes. It employs, among living creatures, storks and eagles and doves and unicorns and sheep and cattle; among trees, sycamores and terebinths and pomegranates and almonds and apples; among jewels, pearls and amethysts and jacinths and chrysoprases. Christ uses no stale illustrations. The lilies that he plucks for his sermons are dewy fresh; the ravens in his discourses are not stuffed specimens of birds, but warm with life from wing tip to wing tip; the fish he points to are not dull about the gills, as though long captured, but a-squirm in the wet net just brought up on the beach of Tiberias. In my text, which is the peroration of one of his sermons, he picks up a crystal and holds it before his congregation as an illustration of divine grace in the heart, when he says, what we all know by experiment, "Salt is good." I shall try to carry out the Saviour's idea in this text and in the first place say to you that grace is like salt in its beauty. In Galicia there are mines of salt, with excavations and underground passages reaching. I am told, 280 miles. Far under ground there are chapels and halls of reception, the columns, the altars and the pulpits of salt. When the king and the princes come to visit these mines, the whole place is illuminated, and the glory of crystal walls and crystal ceilings and crystal floors and crystal columns, under the glare of the torches and the lamps, needs words of crystal to describe it. But you need not go so far as that to find the beauty of salt. You live in a land which produces millions of bushels of it in a year, and you can take the morning rail train and in a few hours get to the salt mines and salt springs. And you have this article morning, noon and night on your table. Salt has all the beauty of the snowflake and water foam with durability added. It is beautiful to the naked eye, but under the glass you see the stars and the diamonds and the white tree branches and the splinters and the bridges of fire as the sun glints them. There is more architectural skill in one of these crystals of salt than human ingenuity has ever demonstrated in an Alhambra or St. Peter's. God's Mercies Innumerable. God's Mercies Innumerable. It would take all time, with an infringement upon eternity, for an angel of God to tell one-half the glories in a salt crystal. So with the grace of God. It is perfectly beautiful. I have seen it smooth out wrinkles of care from the brow. I have seen it make an aged man feel almost young again. I have seen it lift the stooping shoulders and put sparkle into the dull eye. Solomon discovered its therapeutic qualities when he said, "It is marrow to the bones." It helps to digest the food and to purify the blood and to calm the pulses and quiet the spleen, and instead of Tyndal's prayer test of twenty years ago, putting a man in a philosophical hospital to be experimented upon by prayer, it keeps him so well that he does not need to be prayed for as an invalid. I am speaking now of a healthy religion—not of that morbid religion that sits for three hours on a gravestone reading Harvey's "Meditations Among the Tombs"—a religion that prospers best in a bad state of the liver! I speak of the religion that Christ preached. I suppose when that religion has conquered the world that disease will be banished and that a man a hundred years of age will come in from business and say: "I feel tired. I think it must be time for me to go," and without one physical pang heaven will have him. But the chief beauty of grace is in the soul. It takes that which was hard and cold and repulsive and makes it all over again. It pours upon one's nature what David calls "the beauty of holiness." It extirpates everything that is hateful and unclean. If jealousy and pride and lust and worldliness lurk about, they are chained and have a very small sweep. Jesus throws upon the soul the fragrance of a summer garden as he comes in, saying, "I am the rose of Sharon," and he submerges it with the glory of a spring morning as he says, "I am the light." Oh, how much that grace did for the three Johns! It took John Bunyan, the foul mouthed, and made him John Bunyan, the immortal dreamer. It took John Newton, the infidel sailor, and in the midst of the hurricane made him cry out, "My mother's God, have mercy upon me!" It took John Summerfield from a life of sin and, by the hand of a Christian maker of edge tools, led him into the pulpit that burns still with the light of that Christian eloquence which charmed thousands to the Jesus whom he once despised. Ah, you may search all the earth over for anything so beautiful or beautifying as the grace of God. Go all through the deep mine passages of Wieliczka and amid the underground kingdoms of salt in Hallstadt, and show me anything so exquisite, so transcendently beautiful as this grace of God fashioned and hung in eternal crystals. A Necessity of Life. Again, grace is like salt in the fact that it is a necessity of life. Man and beast perish without salt. What are those paths across the western prairies? Why, they were made there by deer and buffalo going to and coming away from the salt "licks." Chemists and physicians all the world over tell us that salt is a necessity of life. And so with the grace of God; you must have it or die. I know a great many speak of it as a mere adornment, a sort of shoulder strap adorning a soldier, or a light, frothing dessert brought in after the greatest part of the banquet of life is over, or a medicine to be taken after powders and mustard plasters have failed to do their work, but ordinarily a mere superfluity, a string of bells around a horse's neck while he draws the load, and in nowise helping him to draw it. So far from that, I declare the grace of God to be the first and the last necessity. It is food we must take or starve into an eternity of famine. It is clothing without which we freeze to the mast of infinite terror. It is the plank, and the only plank, on which we can float shoreward. It is the ladder and the only ladder, on which we can climb up into the light. It is a positive necessity for the soul. You can tell very easily what the effect would be if a person refused to take salt into the body. The energies would fail, the lungs would struggle with the air, slow fevers would crawl through the brain, the heart would flutter, and the life would be gone. Salt a necessity for the life of the body; the grace of God a necessity for the life of the soul. Again I remark that grace is like salt in abundance. God has strewn salt in vast profusion all over the continents. Russia seems built on a saltcellar. There is one region of that country that turns out 90,000 tons in a year. England and Russia and Italy have inexhaustible resources in this respect. Norway and Sweden, white with snow above, white with salt beneath. Austria, yielding 900,-000 tons annually. Nearly all the nations rich in it—rock salt, spring salt, sea salt. Christ, the Creator of the world, when he uttered our text, knew it would become more and more significant as the shafts were sunk and the springs were bored and the pumps were worked and the crystals were gathered. So the grace of God is abundant. It is for all lands, for all ages, for all conditions. It seems to undergird everything. Pardon for the worst sin, comfort for the sharpest suffering, brightest light for the thickest darkness. Around about the salt lakes of Saratov there are 10,000 men toiling day and night, and yet they never exhaust the saline treasures. And if the 1,000,-000,000 of our race should now cry out to God for his mercy there would be enough for all—for those farthest gone in sin, for the murderer standing on the drop of the gallows. It is an ocean of mercy; and if Europe and Asia, Africa, North and South America and all the islands of the sea went down in it to-day they would have room enough to wash and come up clean. Let no man think that his case is too tough a one for God to act upon. Though your sin may be deep and raging, let me tell you that God's grace is a bridge not built on earthly piers, but suspended and spanning the awful chasm of your guilt, one end resting upon the rock of eternal promises and the other on the foundations of heaven. Demetrius wore a robe so incrusted with jewels that no one after him ever dared to wear it, but our King, Jesus, takes off the robe of his righteousness, a robe blood dyed and heaven impearled, and reaches it out to the worst wretch in all the earth and says: "Put that on! Wear it now! Wear it forever." Pure Below the Surface. Again, the grace of God is like salt in the way we come at it. The salt on the surface is almost always impure—that which incrusts the Rocky Mountains and the South American pampas and in India; but the miners go down through the shafts and through the dark labyrinths and along by galleries of rock and with torches and pickaxes, find their way under the very foundations of the earth, to where the salt lies that makes up the nation's wealth. To get to the best saline springs of the earth huge machinery goes down, boring depth below depth, depth below depth, until from under the very roots of the mountains, the saline water supplies the aqueduct. This water is brought to the surface and is exposed in tanks to the sun for evaporation, or it is put in boilers mightily heated, and the water evaporates, and the salt gathers at the bottom of the tank—the work is completed, and the fortune is made. So with the grace of God. It is to be profoundly sought after. With all the concentrated energies of body, mind and soul we must dig for it. No man stumbles accidentally on it. We need to go down to the very lowest strata of earnestness and faith to find it. Superficial exploration will not turn it up. We must strive and implore and dig until we strike the spring foaming with living waters. Then the work of evaporation begins, and as when the saline waters are exposed to the sun, the vapors float away, leaving nothing but the pure white salt at the bottom of the tank, so, when the Christian's soul is exposed to the Sun of Righteousness, the vapors of pride and selfishness and worldliness float off, and there is chiefly left beneath pure white holiness of heart. Then, as in the case of the salt, the furnace is added. Blazing troubles, stirred by smutted stokers of darkness, quicken the evaporation of worldliness, and the crystallization of grace. Sweetness of Religion. Have you not been in enough trouble to have that work go on? I was reading of Aristotle, who said there was a field of flowers in Sicily so sweet that once a hound, coming on the track of game, came to that field and was bewildered by the perfumes and so lost the track. Oh, that our souls might become like "a field which the Lord hath blessed" and exhale so much of the sweetness of Christian character that the hounds of temptation, coming on our track, might lose it and go howling back with disappointment! But, I remark again, that the grace of God is like the salt in its preservative quality. You know that salt absorbs the moisture of articles of food and infuses them with brine, which preserves them for a long while. Salt is the great antiputrefactor of the world. Experimenters, in preserving food, have tried sugar and smoke and airtight jars and everything else, but as long as the world stands Christ's words will be suggestive, and men will admit that as a great preservative "salt is good." But for the grace of God the earth would have become a stale carcass long before this. That grace is the only preservative of laws and constitutions and literatures. Just as soon as a government loses this salt of divine grace it perishes. The philosophy of this day, so far as it is antagonistic to this religion, putrefies and stinks. The great want of our schools of learning and our institutions of science to-day is, not more Leyden jars and galvanic batteries and spectroscopes and philosophical apparatus, but more of that grace that will teach our men of science that the God of the universe is the God of the Bible. How strange it is that in all their magnificent sweep of the telescope they have not seen the morning star of Jesus and that in all their experiments with light and heat they have not seen the light and felt the warmth of the Sun of Righteousness! We want more of the salt of God's grace in our homes, in our schools, in our colleges, in our social life, in our Christianity. And that which has it will live; that which has it not will die. I proclaim the tendency of everything earthly to putrefaction and death—the religion of Christ the only preservation. My subject is one of great congratulation to those who have within their souls this gospel antiseptic. This salt will preserve them through the temptations and sorrows of life and through the ages of eternity. I do not mean to say that you will have a smooth time because you are a Christian. On the contrary, if you do your whole duty, I will promise you a rough time. You march through an enemy's country, and they will try to double up both flanks and to cut you off from your source of supplies. The war you wage will not the with toy arrows, but sword plunged to the hilt and spurring on your steed over heaps of the slain. But I think that God omnipotent will see you through. I think he will. But why do I talk like an atheist when I ought to say I know he will? "Kept by the power of God through faith unto complete salvation." The Pivotol Battle. When Gov. Geary of Pennsylvania died, years ago, I lost a good friend. He impressed me mightily with the horrors of war. In the eight hours that we rode together in the cars he recited to me the scenes through which he had passed in the civil war. He said that there came one battle upon which everything seemed to pivot. Telegrams from Washington said that the life of the nation depended on that struggle. He said to me: "I went into that battle, sir, with my son. His mother and I thought everything of him. You know how a father will feel toward his son who is coming up manly and brave and good. Well, the battle opened and concentrated, and it was awful. Horses and riders bent and twisted and piled up together. It was awful, sir. We quit firing and took to the point of the bayonet. Well, sir, I didn't feel like myself that day. I had prayed to God for strength for that particular battle, and I went into it feeling that I had in my right arm the strength of ten giants." And as the Governor brought his arm down on the back of the seat it fairly made the car tremble. "Well," he said, "the battle was desperate, but after awhile we gained a little, and we marched on a little. I turned round to the troops and shouted, 'Come on, boys!' and I stepped across a dead soldier, and, lo, it was my son! I saw at the first glance he was dead, and yet I did not dare to stop a minute, for the crisis had come in the battle. So I just got down on my knees, and I threw my arms around him, and I gave him one good kiss and said, 'Good-by, dear,' and sprang up and shouted, 'Come on, boys!'" So it is in the Christian conflict—it is a fierce fight. Eternal ages seem depending on the strife. Heaven is waiting for the bulletins to announce the tremendous issue. Hail of shot, gash of saber, fall of battle-ax, groaning on every side. We cannot stop for loss or bereavement or anything else. With one ardent embrace and one loving kiss we utter our farewells and then cry: "Come on, boys! There are other heights to be captured; there are other foes to be conquered; there are other crowns to be won." Yet, as one of the Lord's surgeons, I must bind up two or three wounds. Just lift them now, whatever they be. I have been told there is nothing like salt to stop the bleeding of a wound, and so I take this salt of Christ's gospel and put it on the lacerated soul. It smarts a little at first, but see—the bleeding stops, and, lo, the flesh comes again as the flesh of a little child. "Salt is good." "Comfort one another with these words." SHORT SERMONS. The Jews.—The Jews have given to the world its art, its culture; have given to the world the first great declaration of independence; they have stood first and foremost in the history of civilization with such men as Moses, Peter and Paul, and Judah has even given to Christianity Christ.—Rabbi I. Philo, Hebrew, Akron, Ohio. Two Forces.—Two forces are always at play within man—one stretching out into the world with the effort to grasp what good it is supposed to possess. This we call desire. The other enjoys possession when acquired, and lovingly treasures it. This is called complacency. The power to restrain this gratification is humility, and through it we are prevented from overestimating the good which we possess.—Rev. Father Mahony, Roman Catholic, San Francisco, Cal. Environment.—Having suffered from many influences and many half truths, our generation has suffered grievously from the over-emphasis of environment. Multitudes are the slaves of their surroundings and the victims of events. This magic word, environment, has, so to speak, hypnotized them and left them powerless to assert their will. Carrying within themselves the powers that, if asserted, would make them the sons of happiness and strength, they go forward with bowed heads, sad, weary and dispirited.—Rev. Dr. Hillis, Congregationalist, Brooklyn, N. Y. APHORISMS. He who thinks his place below him will certainly be below his place.—Saville. The less we parade our misfortunes, the more sympathy we command.—O. Dewey. He that does good for good's sake, seeks neither praise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.—Penn. One of the most important rules of the science of manners is an absolute silence in regard to yourself.—D. H. Aughey. SHORT, IMPRESSIVE TEMPERANCE SERMONS. Dangers that Lurk in the Flowing Bowl-How Bright and Influential Men Have Been Dragged Down by the Demon Drink-Suppress the Traffic. Is the temperance movement necessary? We mean by that, Is it necessary to endeavor to abolish the custom of taking any form of alcoholic liquor as a beverage. The answer to the question depends on the ideal which we have in view as to the future sobriety of the human race, and upon the actual present necessity for the use of these beverages. To deal with this latter point first, we cannot think that any reasonable man can maintain now that alcohol is a necessity of life. There are, and have been, so many millions who have never taken these drinks or who have abandoned their use without to say the least, any harm, that to maintain their necessity is almost akin to lunacy, and is certainly a delusion or falsehood. It is also untrue that there is any necessity or even any general tendency to resort to any other nervine drug if alcohol is abandoned. There is no real proof of anything of the kind. Opium and morphia taking are more frequently resorted to by those who take alcohol, or have developed a strong alcoholic craving, than by those who are regular abstainers. We are quite aware that it is impossible to limit the possible follies of human nature. The tendency to yield to the seductive influence of narcotics, as of any other vice, is inherent in fallen human nature, but for the development of the vice there needs the temptation and the opportunity, together with ignorance of the nature of the narcotic. It is probable that in these days no new narcotic could be introduced into general use without warning of danger. The fact that apart from the use of alcohol and tobacco, there is no other narcotic in general and habitual use among English-speaking people is sufficient to reassure us on this point. There is certainly no necessity for the use of alcohol nor of any similar narcotic as a substitute. Alcoholic drinking customs may, then, be abolished without danger of other habits equally or more dangerous. But is such abolition necessary? Some affirm that drunkenness in certain circles of society is now so far abolished that nothing further is required than to extend the same improvement through the rest of the community. We say again, that this altogether depends on the ideal we have of the future sobriety of the race. Temperance reformers, at least, are not satisfied with matters at their present best. In the upper classes of society some social customs have been reformed, but from their ranks drunkards still develop. Even the clergy, the university men, the medical profession, supply numerous illustrations that alcohol is no respecter of persons. Total abstinence is as much a necessity for them, if all intemperance is to be abolished, as for any other class. And there is no other way, none which has the least pretension to success within the limits of reason. For the gross habit of intemperance fastens on a man or woman by degrees. They resent the imputation of excess long after everyone else recognizes it. They feel increasingly the absolute necessity (to them) of these beverages which are destroying them body and soul. If all the drunkards were removed to-day, in a very short time their places would be refilled by those in whom the habit is growing. As no one can foretell who those are who will never go beyond the limits of strict moderation, the only way to arrest this inevitable process is to abolish the common custom of taking alcohol in moderation. To advocate the renunciation of alcohol when it is found to be becoming an imperious necessity is evidently useless and absurd. It has been tried for ages and has generally failed. It remains, therefore, to try the new plan of total abstinence, by the individual for himself, followed by a determined discountenance of the social customs which continue the evil. In other words, we must abstain ourselves and not give alcoholic liquors to others. This will secure the sobriety of the race in proportion to its adoption.—The Medical Temperance Review. Alcohol and Anarchy. Alcohol and Anarchy. Prof. Cesare Lombroso recently had an opportunity to test scientifically the effect of alcohol in developing latent criminal tendencies. The subject of his experiments was a man who had surrendered himself to the police with the avowal that Anarchists wished to make him their instrument for assassinating the King of Italy. The man seemed sane, but no corroboration of his story could be obtained. Unexpectedly, after drinking wine, he broke out into anarchistic threats. Acting upon this hint, Prof. Lombroso administered alcohol to him in carefully measured quantities, and discovered that after he had drunk a certain amount he developed violent criminal tendencies, all recollections of which appeared to have vanished from his mind when the effects of alcohol had passed off.—Youth's Companion. It Counts. Nevertheless. It Counts, Nevertheless. The drunken Rip Van Winkle in Jefferson's play excuses himself every time by saying, "I won't count this time." Well, he may not, but it is being counted. Down among his nerve cells and fibers the molecules are counting it. Nothing we ever do is, in scientific literalness, really wiped out. Prof. W. James of Harvard University. THE BAKERY MR. GEORGE A. SCHECK, the manager of R. B. 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For the Safest and Quickest Road be-tween Milwaukee and Chicago Take the Chicago Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway. BEFORE PLACING FIRE AND BURGLAR ALARMS in your residence you would do well BRYAN NOMINATED AGAIN. Democratic National Convention Chooses Old Leader. The Usual Flood of Oratory and Bursts of Enthusiasm-Text of the Platform Convention Hall, Kansas City, Mo. July 5.—Convention hall was again besieged today by eager and excited thousands. Long before the time set for opening the second day's proceedings of the convention all of the streets approaching the building were solidly massed with humanity moving toward the many entrances. Expectancy was at a high pitch and it was universally felt that the day had in store the great events of the convention. By 10 o'clock, thirty minutes before the time set for the opening of the convention, nearly every seat in the galleries was occupied. Richardson Swings His Gavel. At 11 o'clock the slender figure of Chairman Richardson loomed up above the platform assemblage. He swung the gavel lustily and above the din faintly could be heard his call for order. Slowly quiet was brought out of the confusion, and the chairman presented Rt. Rev. John J. Glennan for the opening J. WILLIAM J. BRYAN. (Democratic Nominee for President.) invocation, the entire audience, delegates and spectators, standing reverently with bowed heads, while the words of the prayer echoed through the building. Mr. Richardson now announced that the platform committee was not ready to report and, pending word from them, he invited to the platform ex-Gov. Hogg of Texas to address the convention. At the termination of Gov. Hogg's address, Chairman Richardson stepped forward to say a few words to Sergeant-at-Arms Martin, and the crowd took advantage of the opportunity to start the cry of "Hill." It came from all quarters of the galleries, but practically little of it from the delegates. Mingled with the calls were hisses. Chairman Richardson wielded his gavel vigorously and when order was restored in some degree, announced: "Gentlemen, I have the honor to introduce to you Hon. A. M. Dockery, Missouri's favorite son." Mr. Dockery was warmly received and his prompt attack upon the conduct of the Republican administration for its management of the Philippine question was greeted with the usual demonstrations of aplaum. Mayor Rose Speaks. At the conclusion of the speech of Mr. Dockery, Mayor D. S. Rose of Milwaukee was called to the platform to address the convention. He made a fine impression instantly. Attired in a black sack suit and standing easily and speaking fluently, he soon stirred the audience. His voice was clear and ringing and penetrated to the uttermost parts of the hall. "Hill, Hill!" came the cry again as Mr. Rose concluded, but the New Yorker was not present and the bands broke out with the "Star Spangled Banner." The patriotic strains had no sooner subsided than another Hill wave passed over the assemblage. Gov. Beckham of Kentucky was given an enthusiastic reception as he came in, a large number of delegates crowding around to shake him by the hand. Again the band came to the rescue and the hurrahs for Hill gave way to "Dixie." At every pause, however, the Hill shouters clamored for their favorite. When quiet was partially secured, the chair recognized Mr. Williams, who submitted a resolution reciting: "That a committee of nine delegates be appointed by the chair for the purpose of conferring with the Silver Republican and the Populist parties, now gathered in Kansas City." Shouts of "No, No" followed the reading, but the resolution was put to a vote and amid much confusion on the floor was declared adopted. Congressman James Williams of Illinois was then introduced by Chairman Richardson. He opened his remarks by an appeal to all Democrats to stand together on the platform, which, he declared, would be broad enough to hold them all. He spoke briefly and was frequently applauded. As Mr. Williams took his seat, Chairman Richardson announced: "We will now be addressed by Gov. J. W. Beckham of Kentucky." Instantly there was a roar of applause, and delegates and spectators, springing upon their chairs to get a better view of the young governor of Kentucky, waved their hats and handkerchiefs frantically. After the cheers with which Gov. Beckham's speech was received had subsided, one of the delegates in Montana started the tuneful old song, "My Old Kentucky Home," and one verse of it was sung with vigor, the singing being followed by great cheering as the young governor resumed his seat. Chairman Richardson at the conclusion introduced J. W. Miles of Maryland, who addressed the convention in support of conservative action upon the platform. As Mr. Miles concluded, Chairman Richardson announced that he had been informed the platform committee would be ready to report at 3:30. The convention adjourned until 3:30 p.m., when, it was announced, the resolutions committee would be ready to report. Bryan Nominated. Kausas City, Mo., July 5.—William J. Bryan was nominated for President by the Democratic national convention at 8 o'clock this evening. A 16 to 1 platform was adopted with a hurrah and no one was given a chance to fight it. Imperialism was named as the leading issue of the campaign. The adoption of the platform followed at the second session, together with the tumultuous welcome of Webster Davis into the Democratic party and the triumphant nomination of Mr. Bryan, with all the states and territories up and yelling for him. The nomination came as the culmination of a frenzied demonstration in honor of the party leader, lasting twenty-seven minutes and giving utterance to all the pent-up emotions of the vast multitude. It followed also a fierce struggle throughout the last thirty-six hours concerning the platform declaration on silver and on the relative position which the silver question is to maintain to the other great issues of the day. The following platform was adopted: We, the representatives of the Democratic party of the United States, assembled in national convention on the anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, do reaffirm our faith in that immortal proclamation of the inalienable rights of man, and our allegiance to the constitution framed in harmony therewith by the fathers of the republic. We hold with the United States Supreme court, that the Declaration of independence is the spirit of our government of which the constitution is the form and letter. We declare again that all governments instituted among men derive their just powers from the consent of the governed; that any government not based upon the consent of the governed is a tyranny; and that to impose upon any people a government of force is to substitute the methods of imperialism for those of a republic. We hold that the constitution follows the flag and denounce the doctrine that an executive or Congress deriving their existence and their powers from the constitution can exercise lawful authority beyond it, or in violation of it. We assert that no nation can long endure half republic and half empire, and we warn the American people that imperialism abroad will lead quickly and inevitably to despotism at home. Believing in these fundamental principles we denounce the Porto Rico law enacted by a Republican Congress against the protest and opposition of the Democratic minority as a bold and open violation of the nation's organic law and a flagrant breach of the national good faith. It imposes upon the people of Porto Rico a government without their consent and taxation without representation. It dishonors the American people by repudiating a solemn pledge made in their behalf by the commanding general of our army, which the Porto Ricans welcomed to a peaceful and unresisted occupation of their land. It doomed to poverty and distress a people whose helplessness appeals with peculiar force to our justice and magnanimity. In this the first act of its imperialistic programme, the Republican party seeks to commit the United States to a colonial policy, inconsistent with republican institutions and condemned by the Supreme court in numerous decisions. Philippine Policy is Condemned Philippine Policy is Condemned. We condemn and denounce the Philippine policy of the present administration. It has involved the republic in an unnecessary war, sacrificed the lives of many of our noblest sons and placed the United States, previously known and applauded throughout the world as the champion of freedom, in the false and un-American position of crushing with military force the efforts of our former allies to achieve liberty and self-government. The Filipinos cannot be citizens without endangering our civilization; they cannot be subjects without imperiling our form of government, and as we are not willing to surrender our civilization or to convert the republic into an empire, we favor an immediate declaration of the nation's purpose to give to the Filipinos first a stable form of government; second, independence, and third, protection from outside interference such as has been given for nearly a century to the republics of Central and South America. The greedy commercialism which dictated the Philippine policy of the Republican administration attempts to justify it with the plea that it will pay, but even this sordid and unworthy plea falls when brought to the test of facts. The war of "criminal aggression" against the Filipinos, entailing an annual expense or many millions, has already cost more than any possible profit that could accrue from the entire Philippine trade for years to come. Furthermore, when trade is extended at the expense of liberty the price is always too high. We are not opposed to territorial expansion when it takes in desirable territory which can be erected into states in the Union and whose people are willing and fit to become American citizens. We favor trade expansion by every peaceful and legitimate means. But we are unalterably opposed to the selzing or purchasing of distant islands to be governed outside the constitution and whose people can never become citizens. We are in favor of extending the republic's influence among the nations, but believe that that influence should be extended, not by force and violence, but through the persuasive power of a high and honorable example. The importance of other questions now pending before the American people is in no wise diminished and the Democratic party takes no backward step from its position on them, but the burning issue of imperialism growing out of the Spanish war involves the very existence of the republic and the destruction of our free institutions. We regard it as the paramount issue of the campaign. Monroe Doctrine is Upheld. The declaration in the Republican platform adopted at the Philadelphia convention held in June, 1900, that the Republican party "steadfastly adheres to the policy announced in the Monroe doctrine" is manifestly insincere and deceptive. This confession is contradicted by the avowed policy of that party in opposition to the spirit of the Monroe doctrine to acquire and hold sovereignty over large areas of territory and large numbers of people in the Eastern hemisphere. We insist on the strict maintenance of the Monroe doctrine in all its integrity, both in letter and in spirit, as necessary to prevent the extension of European authority on this continent and as essential to our supremacy in American affairs. At the same time we declare that no American people shall ever be held by force in unwilling subjection to European authority. We oppose militarism. It means conquest abroad and intimidation and oppression at home. It means the strong arm which has ever been fatal to free institutions. It is what millions of our citizens have fled from in Europe. It will impose upon our peace-loving people a large standing army and unnecessary burden of taxation and a constant menace to their liberties. A small standing army and a well-disciplined state militia are amply sufficient in time of peace. This republic has no place for a vast military service and conscription. When the nation is in danger the volunteer soldier is his country's best defender. The National guard of the United States should ever be cherished in the patriotic hearts of a free people. Such organizations are ever an element of strength and safety. For the first time in our history and coeval with the Philippine conquest has there been a wholesale departure from our time-honored and approved system of volunteer organization. We denounce it as un-American, undemocratic and unrepublican and as a subversion of the ancient and fixed principles of a free people. Will War with Trusts. Private monopolies are indefensible and intolerable. They destroy competition, control the price of all material and of the finished product, thus robbing both producer and consumer. They lessen the employment of labor and arbitrarily fix the terms and conditions thereof and deprive individual energy and small capital of their opportunity for betterment. They are the most efficient means yet devised for appropriating the fruits of industry to the benefit of the few at the expen e of the many, and unless their insatiate greed is checked all wealth will be aggregated in a few hands and the republic destroyed. The dishonest paltering with the trust evil by the Republican party in state and national platforms is conclusive proof of the truth of the charge that trusts are the legitimate product of Republican policies, that they are fostered by Republican laws and that they are protected by the Republican administration in return for campaign subscriptions and political support. We pledge the Democratic party to an unceasing warfare in nation, state and city against private monopoly in every form. Existing laws against trusts must be enforced and more stringent ones must be enacted providing for publicity as to the affairs of corporations engaged in interstate commerce and requiring all corporations to show before doing business outside of the state of their origin that they have no water in their stock, that they have not attempted, are not attempting, to monopolize any branch of business or the production of any article of merchandise. The whole constitutional power of Congress over interstate commerce, the mails and all modes of interstate communication shall be exercised by the enactment of comprehensive laws upon the subject of trusts. Tariff laws should be amended by putting the products of trusts upon the free list to prevent monopoly under the plea of protection. The failure of the present Republican administration, with an absolute control over all the branches of the national government, to enact any legislation designed to prevent or even curtail the absorbing power of trusts and illegal combinations or to enforce the anti-trust laws already on the statute books proves the insincerity of the high-sounding phrases of the Republican platform. Corporations should be protected in all their rights and their legitimate interests should be respected, but any attempt by corporations to interfere with the public affairs of the people or to control the sovereignty which creates them should be forbidden under such penalties as will make such attempts impossible. We condemn the Dingley tariff law as a trust-breeding measure, skillfully devised to give the few favors which they do not desire and to place upon the many burdens which they should not bear. We favor such an enlargement of the scope of the interstate commerce law as will enable the commission to protect individuals and communities from discriminations and the public from unjust and unfair transportation rates. Reaffirms 16 to 1 Plank. We reaffirm and indorse the principles of the national Democratic platform adopted at Chicago in 1896 and we reiterate the demand of that platform for an American financial system made by the American people for themselves which shall restore and maintain a bimetallic price level and as part of such system the immediate restoration of the free and unlimited coinage of silver and gold at the present legal ratio of 16 to 1 without waiting for the ald or consent of any other nation. We denounce the currency bill enacted at the last session of Congress as a step forward in the Republican policy which aims to discredit the sovereign right of the national government to issue all money, whether coin or paper, and to bestow upon national banks the power to issue and control the volume of paper money for their own benefit. A permanent national bank currency secured by government bonds must have a permanent debt to rest upon, and if the bank currency is to increase with population and business the debt must also increase. The Republican currency scheme is, therefore, a scheme for fastening upon the taxpayers a perpetual and growing debt for the benefit of the banks. We are opposed to this private corporation paper circulated as money, but without legal tender qualities, and demand the retirement of the national banknotes as fast as government paper or silver certificates can be substituted for them. Direct Vote for Senators. We favor an amendment to the federal constitution providing for the election of United States senators by direct vote of the people, and we favor direct legislation wherever practicable. We are opposed to government by injunction; we denounce the blacklist and favor arbitration as a means of settling disputes between corporations and their employees. In the interest of American labor and the uplifting of the workingman as the cornerstone of the prosperity of our country we recommend that Congress create a department of labor in charge of a secretary, with a seat in the cabinet, believing that the elevation of the American laborer will bring with it increased production and increased prosperity to our country at home and to our commerce abroad. Speaks for Liberal Pensions. We are proud of the courage and fidelity of the American soldiers and sailors in all our wars; we favor liberal pensions to them and their dependents and we reiterate the position taken in the Chicago platform in 1896 that the fact of enlistment and service shall be deemed conclusive evidence against disease and disability before enlistment. We favor the immediate construction, ownership and control of the Nicaraguan canal by the United States, and we denounce the insincerity of the plank in the national Republican platform for an isthmian canal in face of the failure of the Republican majority to pass the bill pending in Congress. Hay's-Pauncefote Treaty a Crime. We condemn the Hay-Paunceforte treaty as a surrender of American rights and interests, not to be tolerated by the American people. We denounce the failure of the Republican party to carry out its pledges to grant statehood to the territories of Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and we promise the people of those territories immediate statehood and home rule during their condition as territories, and we favor home rule and a territorial form of government for Alaska and Porto Rico. We favor an intelligent system of improving the arid lands of the West, storing the waters for purposes of irrigation and the holding of such lands for actual settlers. Enforces Chinese Exclusion. We favor the continuance and strict enforcement of the Chinese exclusion law and its application to the same classes of all Asiatic races. Jefferson said: "Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none." We approve this wholesome doctrine and earnestly protest against the republican departure which has involved us in so-called politics, including the diplomacy of Europe and the intrigue and land-grabbing of Asia, and we especially condemn the ill-concealed Republican alliance with England, which must mean discrimination against other friendly nations, and which has already stifled the nation's voice while liberty is being stifled in Africa. Upholds Boer Side of War. Believing in the principles of self-government, and rejecting, as did our forefathers, the claim of monarchy, we view with indignation the purpose of England to overwhelm with force the South African republics. Speaking, as we do, for the entire American nation, except its republican officeholders, and for all free men everywhere, we extend our sympathies to the heroic burghers in their unequal struggle to maintain their liberty and independence. We denounce the lavish appropriations of recent republican congresses, which have kept taxes high and which threaten the perpetuation of the oppressive war levies. We oppose the accumulation of a surplus to be squandered in such barefaced frauds upon the taxpayers as the shipping subsidy bill, which, under the false pretense of prospering American shipbuilding, would put unearned millions into the pockets of favorite contributors to the Republican campaign fund. We favor the reduction and speedy repeal of the war taxes and a return to the time-honored democratic policy of strict economy in governmental expenditures. Appeals to the People. Believing that our most cherished institutions are in great peril, that the very existence of our constitutional republic is at stake, and that the decision now to be rendered will determine whether or not our children are to enjoy those blessed privileges of free government which have made the United States great, prosperous and honored, we earnestly ask for the foregoing declaration of principles the hearty support of the liberty-loving American people, regardless of previous party affiliations. Convention Hall, Kansas City, Mo., July 6. The convention spent the entire day in listening to speeches placing in nomination candidates for the vice-presidency. The feature of the day was the positive declination of Former Senator Hill to accept the place. This he did in a speech from the platform. He was clearly the choice of the convention and it was with difficulty that he headed off a stumpede to him. With Hill out of the way Adlai E. Stevenson, formerly vice-president, was the favorite and all other names went down before his. He received 5591 votes on the first ballot and his nomination was made unanimous. The convention adjourned sine die at 3:21 p. m. The World's Largest Vineyard Sunny Slope, Cal., enjoys the distinction of being the largest vineyard in the world. It is situated amid the most beautiful scenery of that favored land, two miles from San Gabriel. Of a total of 1900 acres, 735 are devoted to grapevine, the remainder being distributed among orange trees (of which there are 12,000), lemon and olive trees.-Indianapolis Press. The Day to Fight. It is noted that of thirty-four great battles twelve were fought on Sunday, six on Thursday, five on Wednesday, two on Friday, while Monday, Tuesday and Saturday claim two apiece. Kenosha, Wis., July 11.—[Special.]—Edward Padden of Fond du Lac, a brakeman on the Chicago & North-Western railway, met with a horrible death near the village of Pleasant Prairie last evening. He was assisting the other force on the train in switching some cars when he slipped and fell and went under the wheels. The other men saw the lantern carried by Padden fly up in the air and they made every effort to stop the train, but it was too late, as three cars, heavily laden with gravel, had passed over the brakeman, cutting his body completely in two pieces. His remains were picked up by his comrades and a special train brought them back to Kenosha, where they were turned over to the coroner. The father and mother of Padden arrived this morning and took charge of the remains and will take them back to Fond du Lac this afternoon for interment. Young Padden was 23 years of age and was one of the best-known young men in Fond du Lac. The body will be brought here at 4:20 o'clock this afternoon and taken to the family residence. 16 Brooks street Two Other Wrecks. Yesterday seemed to be a bad day for the railway company in Kenosha, for two wrecks are reported beside the killing of young Padden. Shortly after 6 o'clock last night two flatcars were telescoped in the yards and as a result of the damage the entire line to the north was in danger as all telegraphic connection with Milwaukee and Racine was cut. The cars were backed into each other in the yards and one of them broke away from the trucks and shooting over the other car struck a telegraph pole. The pole was demolished and the wires which connected Kenosha with the north were all cut. All connection was cut off for some time but no serious accident resulted from the broken lines beyond a delay of trains. A short time after the wreck in the yards three cars were knocked off a sidetrack in the Chicago and Rockford Hosiery company's yards, entailing a considerable property loss to the company. A Peculiar Accident. M. L. Lesselyoung, a carpenter, was the victim of a very peculiar accident here today. He was in the store of A. Huelsman when a chisel fell from a step ladder, striking him on the head. A severe wound was inflicted. Freight Trains Collide. Portage, Wis., July 11.—Freight No. 66 and an extra westbound freight on the Milwaukee road had a head-end collision at Elba. The engines were badly smashed, but no one was injured. DOCTORS DISAGREE. Body of Manitowoc Man May be Exhumed to Determine Cause of Death. Sheboygan, Wis., July 11.—[Special.] A controversy has arisen as to the cause of the death of Herman Ludwig, a Manitowoc young man who died in Sheboygan last week. At Manitowoc the impression prevails that the young man died of lockjaw in terrible agony. This impression is not confirmed in Sheboygan though there are conflicting statements as to the cause of the young man's death which are likely to result in the body being exhumed. The physician, who had the case in charge, says that the young man died of bowel infection and the death certificate was made out in that way. The physician says that there were drippings from a pus formation on one of the ears of the young man which infected the digestive organs. Another doctor, one of the leading physicians of Sheboygan, who saw the case fourteen hours before death came, says the young man died of mastoiditis and brain involvement, the result of an injury at Manitowoc five months ago. In this he says he is upheld by a leading physician of Manitowoc and another Sheboygan doctor, while the doctor who claims that Ludwig died of bowel infection says he is upheld by two other physicians of Sheboygan who saw the case. The young man had several teeth removed and others treated about three weeks before he died, but none of the Sheboygan physicians attribute anything from this as causing his death. Ludwig was injured on the head about five months ago while working in the woods near Manitowoc. A log fell striking a saw he was carrying and both struck him heavily on the head. He treated at Manitowoc at first, and Dr. Fraser of that city said he could not be cured without an operation for abcess of the brain. He came to Sheboygan to be treated by Dr. Grimer about six weeks ago, he being told by the Sheboygan physician who formerly lived in the vicinity of Manitowoc that an operation was not necessary. ARRESTED UPON HIS RETURN. Kenosha, Wis., July 11.—[Special.]—John Besenius, who mysteriously disappeared from Kenosha more than two years ago, showed up here this morning and a few minutes later was arrested by a police officer on a charge of burglary. More than two years ago, it is alleged, Besenius broke into the residence of a man named Steinmetz. As Besenius belonged to a well-known family he left the city to avoid the shame of arrest. It was given out that he had disappeared. However, a warrant was issued for his arrest and it was served as soon as he returned. RECOVERS STOLEN HORSE. Father Baumann of Granville Gets Back His Property. Waukegan, Ill., July 11.—[Special.]—Father Baumann of the Granville (Wis.) Theological school, fifteen miles north of Milwaukee, was here and identified the horse and buggy that was found abandoned north of here as his. It was stolen a week ago by an employee of the college, who got up in the night and skipped out with it. His name is not known by the priest other than as "Pete." Another horse and buggy has been found and awaits an owner. FOOD FOR BRITISH SOLDIERS. Meat and Butter Sent from Manitowoc to Transvaal. Manitowoc, Wis., July 11.—[Special.] —The Ann Arbor carferry No. 1 yesterday took out of this port a cargo consisting of nineteen carloads of meat and one carload of butter consigned to England and to be shipped from there to the English soldiers in the Transvaal. On board were also two carloads of Milwaukee beer for New York parties. HE JUST WORE OUT. John L. Thomas of Racine, Aged 105 Years, Dies of Old Age. Racine, Wis., July 11.—[Special.]—John L. Thomas, aged 105 years, died this morning at the home of his daughter, Mrs. James Cullen. He was born in England March 10, 1795. Death was caused by old age. John L. Thomas was born in the parish of Whifford, two miles from Holywell, Flintshire, North Wales, March 10, 1795. When about 10 years of age his mother died and his father placed the children with the grandparents, who lived at Gate House, parish of Llanlechid, Carmarvonshire. When Mr. Thomas was old enough he was sent to the Penrhyn slate quarries, located in the neighborhood, to earn his living. After- THE GREAT GRANDMA THE LATE JOHN L. THOMAS. (Photograph Was Taken With Hls Little Grandchild.) THE LATE JOHN L. THOMAS. (Photograph Was Taken With His Little Grandchild.) wards he was employed as a helper in the gardens and nurseries of Penrhyn castle, the magnificent seat of Lord Penrhyn Was a British Soldier. When 19 years old he enlisted for five years in the Carnarvonshire militia and thus he could retain his position as well as attend to his military duties, as drill was only required a few weeks in the year. This was at the time Great Britain and in fact all Europe were in great awe because of Napoleon's intrepid and successful campaigns. The militia of Great Britain was not expected to leave the United Kingdom, except in great emergency, but to do garrison duty, and consequently Mr. Thomas was not called out of the kingdom. The great decisive battle of Waterloo, which was fought June 18, 1815, ended the great wars of Napoleon. Mr. Thomas remembers the scenes and incidents of this battle and vividly describes the same. There are some people who question the age of Mr. Thomas, but when it is taken into consideration that Great Britain does not enlist men to its military service unless they are fully developed, it must be conceded that he was near 20 years old at the time of the battle of Waterloo. When the time of his first enlistment was up, he enlisted a second time for five years. Married at Eighty. Mr. Thomas became a resident of Racine in the year of 1845 and operated a dray line and had several horses going. Three times he has been married. Thirteen children were born to him by his first two wives and three sons and three daughters are still living. His third married took place at Randolph. Wis., when he was 80 years old, and little is known of it here. When 100 years old he joined the Welsh Presbyterian church. Without a doubt Mr. Thomas was the oldest man in the state. He had grown feeble and his death was not unexpected. VALUABLE INVENTION. Menasha Man Perfects a New Style Telegraph Instrument Like a Phonograph Receiver. Menasha, Wis., July 11.—[Special.]—G. H. Landgraf of this city has received notice of a grant of patent on a secret telegraph receiver. He has transferred the market right to the American Novelty company of Milwaukee under royalty and also has given them an option on the invention for a year. In event the option is accepted patents will also be taken out in Canada, England and Germany. The receiver has appealed at once to all telegraphers who have seen it as an article which will fill a long-felt want. It is constructed in the same style as the receivers used on a phonograph. It is provided with two tips, one for the mouth and one for the car. In city offices where a number of instruments are used operators receive messages under difficulties. By the use of the new contrivance after the call is received over the Morse receiver, the operator switches in and placing the tube in his ear or mouth, is ready for work. His message is heard distinctly regardless of confusion about him. Scorers at boards of trade will also find it a convenience, as it may be carried about and in no wise interfere with his scoring. It is much more susceptible to faint currents or quick strokes than the old-fashioned sounder, and may be so regulated as to be nearly as loud as the Morse instrument or so faint as to make it impossible to be heard over two inches from the car. The instrument will be placed on the market at once, and as it is inexpensive it will probably find a large sale. BOILER BURSTS. Applebaker's Sawmill Plant at Pittsville Entirely Demolished by a Terrific Explosion. Pittsville, Wis., July 11.—[Special.]—The sawmill plant belonging to Joseph Applebaker of this city was entirely demolished by the explosion of the boiler last evening. The boiler was blown about 100 feet from its position. About ten men are employed, all of whom escaped injury except the owner. Joseph Applebaker, who had three ribs broken and hip-bones crushed, and Head Sawyer Frank Murray, who was severely cut in the face and otherwise injured. John E. Troupe saw the boiler foaming badly and warned the men away, at the same time shutting down the engine and opening the safety valve and was thus occupied when the boiler exploded, but by almost a miracle escaped injury. The engine was blown from under a low room and the roof left standing. Applebaker is seriously injured and fears are entertained that his injury may prove fatal. The mill has been in operation for the past three months. Fire in Sheboygan Plant. Sheboygan, Wis., July 11.—The machine shop and pattern room of the Kohler, Hayssen & Stehn Manufacturing company was damaged by fire to the extent of about $2500. The fire started in the oilroom by spontaneous combustion. REV. JOHN O'KEEFE LEAVES WATERTOWN. Transferred to Austin, Tex.—Rev. J. J. O'Rourke Succeeds Him. Watertown, Wis., July 11.—[Special.] —Rev. John O'Keefe, president of the College of the Sacred Heart at Watertown, Wis., one of the best-known clergymen in the state, has been appointed rector of St. Mary's church at Austin, Tex. The transfer is made with transfers of the 300 members of the congregation of the Holy Cross in the United States, whose obediences for the coming year are just issued. The members of this order have half a dozen institutions scattered over the country, the most important of which are the Watertown college and the schools at Notre Dame, Ind., at Washington and at Austin, Tex., are also flourishing. Father O'Keefe's work at Watertown in the college has given that institution a decided stimulus. Rev. J. J. O'Rourke has been appointed president of the Watertown college and will enter upon his duties at once, while Father O'Keefe will leave immediately for Austin. ANOTHER VICTIM OF THE FOURTH. ANOTHER VICTIM OF THE FOURTH. August Waazk of English Lake, Dies at Manitowoc of Lockjaw. Manitowoc, Wis., July 11.—[Special.] —August Waazk, 15 years old, whose parents reside at English Lake, this county, died this morning of lockjaw at Holy Family hospital. On the Fourth of July the boy was celebrating with a revolver and blank cartridges. He shot himself in the hand and the wad entered the palm, inflicting a bad wound. Lockjaw set in and the boy died after suffering terribly. ISSUE SCHOOL BONDS. Fond du Lac will Raise $28,566 for Its New School Buildings. Fond du Lac, Wis., July 11.—[Special.]—The common council met last evening and approved of the action of the board of education in its award of contracts for two new school buildings. The board presented a request for an appropriation of $28,566 for the buildings and the city attorney was instructed to draft an ordinance for the issuance of school bonds in that amount. Bonds of contractors were approved and accepted. Manitowoc, Wis., July 11.—[Special.] —The electors of school district No. 7 have decided to erect a new $20,000 schoolhouse. The building is to be an eight-room structure and will be built in the Fifth ward, at the corner of Clark and Twen. ieth streets. The building committee is now at work negotiating a loan of $20,000 at not more than 4 per cent, for ten years, to be paid in installments of $2000 per annum. A committee of three, consisting of Ald. A. H. Pohl, J. P. Nolan and C. C. Ertz, was appointed to confer with the committees of the other wards of the city respecting the establishment of a central high school system in this city. SAVE MONEY FOR STATE Coal Contracts Are Let at a Lower Figure than Original Bids. Madison, Wis., July 11.—[Special.] A further saving in the cost of coal for A further saving in the cost of coal for state institutions has been made by the state board of control through contracts closed for 3000 tons of Youghiogheny screenings for the Home for Feeble-Minded at Chippewa Falls at $3.65 a ton, which is about 25 cents less per ton than the original bids, which were rejected. A like reduction for the same coal was secured for the industrial school at Waukesha for 2500 tons. Both contracts went to Coxe Bros. of Milwaukee. The board is at Oshkosh today and the coal contracts for the balance of the institutions will probably be awarded there. PERJURY CHARGED. Famous Case on Trial at Marinette —Testimony Declared False. Marinette, Wis., July 11.—[Special.]— The perjury cases against John Connerton of Oconto and Thomas Flannagan of Iron River, Mich., are on trial here. The defendants are accused of giving false testimony in the celebrated case of Cook Bros. vs. the "Soo" railroad, in which the former were awarded a verdict of $C0,000 against the "Soo" for the burning of their cedar yards several years ago. The case has been in the courts ever since and it is expected that the matter will be settled at this trial. David Classon of Oconto is defending Connerton and Flanigan. CURRENS IS PRESIDENT. Two Rivers Doctor at Head of State Medical Examiners-125 Licenses Granted. Madison, Wis., July 11.—[Special.]—The state board of medical examiners held its annual session here today with all the members present. It granted 125 licenses to practice medicine in the state, and still has sixty applications which were not completed. There were also four applications for admission by examination, but the applicants did not appear. Dr. J. R. Currens of Two Rivers was elected president of the board, the former president, Dr. H. B. Dale of Oshkosh, declining re-election. Dr. H. M. Ludwig of Richland Center was re-elected secretary. Several complaints were made to the board of persons who are practicing medicine without a license, on which action will be taken later. MANAGED BY BELOIT. Congregationalists will Take Charge of Mt. Horeh Academy. Madison, Wis., July 11.—Prof. A. W. Burr of Beloit college has practically concluded arrangements with Congressman H. B. Dahle whereby the Lutheran academy at Mt. Horeb will hereafter be managed by the authorities of Beloit college and be a preparatory school for that institution. The Mt. Horeb academy was closed several years ago because of a church quarrel. The property recently came into the possession of O. B. Dahle, father of Congressman Dahle. FAIR AT STEVENS POINT. Business Men Form an Association with $5000 Capital Stock. Stevens Point, Wis., July 11. At a meeting of the business men the Stevens Point Fair association was organized with a capital stock of $5000, 200 shares at $25 each. Articles of incorporation were filed here and at Madison. A fair and race meet will be held this fall. A An American, C. G. Bridgway, tried to win the Paris-Bordeaux motor race on the remarkable-looking machine shown above. The picture was taken as he was speeding around the track at a gait of 1 minute 29 1-5 seconds to the mile, or a little over 40 miles an hour. A wise young man in Pennsylvania broke his engagement with a girl because on her graduation she took the oratorical prize. The Elephant—"Haw! Haw! How'd the giraffe get the black eye?" The Monkey—"On his way home from the stag party last night he stepped on it!"—Puck. Degrees: General (haughtily)—"I went to the war and defended my country." Statesman (wearily)—"That's nothing. I stayed at home and defended the war."—Life. "Well, Bobby, did you have a good trip with your father?" "No, ma; he put my clothes on me hind side before ev'y mornin'."—Indianapolis Journal JUST REVERSED. Though rats desert a sinking ship, 'Tis proved in a trice, The weaker vessel climbs a chair To get away from mice. —Ex. Shopman—"Here is a very nice thing in revolving book-cases, madam." Mrs. Newrich—"Oh, are those revolving book- cases? I thought they called them circulating libraries."—The King. Teasing the June Bride.—"Dear me, Edgar, I wish we had something funny to read tonight." "Well, my dear, there's your graduating essay."—Indianapolis Journal. LIFE. Life is golf. Temptations The better game by far. —Detroit Journal. "The pastor of the church has been trying to boss the choir for six weeks, but they have won." "What did they do?" "Got his wife to join."—Harper's Bazar. "Did I understand you to say that he is a retired officer? Regular army?" "Oh! Policeman, eh?"—Indianapolis Press. "I nebber could un'stan,'" said Uncle Eben, "why it is dat I finds so much mo' satisfaction in marchin' foh miles, hollerin' 'hurrah,' dan I does walkin' a few furlongs behin' a mule, sayin' 'giddep.'"—Washington Star First College Man—"You say your arrest was a case of mistaken identity?" Second College Man—"Yes. The cop had on citizen's clothes and I didn't know he belonged to the police in time to get away."—Puck. "Yes." she declared, "I am an ardent advocate of women's rights." "Yet you married a widower," they pointed out. "Surely it is inconsistent for an advocate of women's rights to annex a woman's left."—Boston Transcript. Mrs. Hatterson—"What! You have breakfast at half-past 7? Isn't that very early?" Mrs. Catterson—"Yes. But it is necessary now since my husband has given up business to play golf."—Life. Miss Plainface (earnestly)—"But if I had not all this money, do you think you could still be happy with me?" Mr. Seekrox (startled but equal to the emergency)—"A—a—a-Happy is not the word for it!"—Brooklyn Life. Hewitt—"What did your wife say when she caught you kissing the cook?" Jewett—"Oh, she said it was all right; that we must do all we could to keep her, and that she knew I was acting from a purely-unselfish standpoint."—Bazar. "It is hard for me to acknowledge that I do not know it all," said the Cornfed Philosopher, "but I confess I cannot see why the rock-the-boat idiot is allowed to live until he is strong enough to tip it over."—Indianapolis Press. Gen. Lloyd Wheaton is the only Illinois man in the regular army holding the grade of general. Gen. Wheaton was born in Mich. gan, but spent his early days in Illinois and enlisted in the Union army from that state. Father—"Now, darling, I want you to let the public know that I didn't write your graduating essay." Daughter—"Oh, pa, don't you worry about that; everybody that knows you will know you didn't.'—Indianapolis Journal. "I wish I had stayed away from that fortune teller." "Didn't she promise you a prosperous and pleasant future?" "Yes, but she told me I had an uncle who blew out the gas."—Detroit Free Press. Consistent at Any Rate.—"Why, Dolly, where's Marie? I thought you were playing circus."—"Well, she got mad and went home 'cause I wouldn't give her any peanuts. I was the monkey and she was the tiger, and tigers don't eat peanuts."—Harper's Bazar. Tommy (whispering)—"Say, Chimmy, why don't yer show de teacher yer mumps, so she will let yer go home?" Chimmy (hoarsely)—"Sh! yer idyut. I wants ter have de whole school ketch de disease, so as I kin have some uv de fellers ter play wid."—Judge. Bass—"Groty and his wife haven't had anything to say to one another for years, but last night, I am told, words passed between them." Biskum—"You don't say!" Bass—"Yes; he threw the dictionary at her."—Boston Transcript. Mamma (to Bobby, just returned from an afternoon party)—"What kind of refreshments did you have, dear?" Bobby—"Liquid." Mamma—"Liquid?" Bobby—"Yes; us fellers all skipped out and went swimmin'."—Puck. The Parvenu Again—"That Wigglewee girl is telling around that her grandfather moved in the best society." "Exactly. And he also moved out the best society. He had one of the best trucks in his native village."—Indianapolis Press. Violet Record—Mr. Inwit (starting for business)—"I have to stop on my way to the office to get a ribbon." Mrs. Inwit—"For whom, pray?" Mr. Inwit—"For my typewriter." Mrs. Inwit—"I'd like to see you buying ribbons for any typewriter!"—New York Herald. Photographer—"Excuse me, sir, but you have been sitting on your hat for the last ten minutes." Customer (furious)—"Well, why in the thunder didn't you tell me before?" Photographer—"I wished you to look pleasant, sir."—Ohio State Journal. "He's in hard luck. He's had a stiff neck for months, and now he's afraid it's getting better." "Aw, g'on! W'at yer givin' us?" "Dat's right. Yer see, he got a job as butler on de stren'th of it, an' now he's afraid he can't imitate de real t'ing."—Philadelphia Record. I was terribly shocked to have seen Geraldine, my betrothed, with what appeared to be a toothpick in her mouth. "Perhaps," I muttered, hoping against hope, "it was only a cigarette, after all!" It was the best society, of course, which Geraldine and I were members of.—Detroit Journal. A Kansas boy, writing from the Philippines, says: "We have caught on to the word 'aunties' to express the idea of anti-expansion, and in contrast we call the others 'uncles.' And, say! there ain't aunties enough here to even start the gossip about a new baby, while your uncles are as thick as fleas." Woman—"Well, what do you want?" Tramp—"Last time I was round here you gave me a pie wot yer said yer cooked yerself, lady." Tramp—"Well, I merely called here to know who's goin' to compensate me for the time I wasted in hospital?"—Punch. Should Have Been Good.—Mr. Newliwed—"Goodness, where did you get these peaches?" Mrs. Newliwed—"Why, dear?" "They don't taste very good. Are they the best you could get?" "I picked them out myself. The picture on the can was much prettier than those on any of the others."—Philadelphia Press. Hester—"Tell me, Kate, you ought to know all about it. Do men—did Charley go down on his knees when he proposed?" Kate—"How absurd! How could he have gone down on his knees, when I—Where do you suppose I was, anyway?"—Boston Transcript. Lawyer—"Perhaps we can make out an alibi!" Prisoner—"Ise 'fraid not!' Dar warnn't no pra'r meeting dat night, no revival, de Tennyson club didn't meet dat night, nor de social purity league—and, besides, dey kotched me comin' right out ob de coop wif de chickens!"—Puck. Here is a gem from the Oxford Magazine: "A few days ago the rector of Oxford university received from a gentleman the following: 'How much would I have to pay for the education of my son in your university? Let me know if I shall have to pay more in case my son, besides rowing, should wish to learn to read and write.'" "Yassir," said Erastus Pinkley, "when I made my appearance in dat convention, I was de object of mo' attention dan anybody else in de place. Dey jes' riz up in their seats when dey saw me comin' down de aisle." "Did you make a speech?" "No, indeed; I had a bucket of ice-water an' a glass."—Washington Star. The Wife—"Do you know what condition you came home in last night?" tion you came home in last night?" The Husband—"I can imagine, dear." "You deceived me." He Hassima I can imagine, dear. "You deceived me." "Deceived you, dear?" "That's what I said. You told me you were only going out for a little while." "Did I say a little while, dear? I meant I was going out for a little time." —Yonkers Statesman. Johnny—"Mamma, don't you think it wicked to be such a good cook that you tempt others to do naughty things?" Mamma—"What an idea! Why do you ask?" Johnny—"Nothing; only that cake you made and put in the cupboard last evening was awfully good."—Boston Transcript. Father—"Where is your mother, Johnny?" Johnny-"She's out in the back yard whittling." Father—"Are you sure she is whittling?" Johnny—"Yes, sir; she's trying to sharpen a lead pencil."—Bloomington Pantagraph. "Heilo, central!" "What number, please?" "Give me Pekin, and connect me with the palace of the Dowager Empress." "All right." "Is that the Empress?" "Yes, who are you?" "I am Paul Kruger, President of the South African republic." "Well?" "I merely called you up to advise you to load your capital into a jinricksha and get ready to trek."—Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. Pet Dog's Kiss Causes Death. The kiss of a pet dog was the direct cause of the death of young William Culver Mearns of Hackensack, N. J., who died at the Flower hospital in this city, after he had been operated on for parasite in the liver. The young man suffered for four years before the physicians were able to ascertain what the trouble was. His stomach was so swollen that for the past two years Mearns was compelled to live in pajamas, as all extra-weight clothing caused him terrible pain. When Dr. Helmuth had removed a part of the diseased liver he saw beyond doubt that Mearns had been suffering from an incurable disease, and, though the operation had been successful, the physician knew that the patient would not recover. The Czar's Suite. The Czar of Russia's suite consists of 173 persons, of whom 73 are general and 76 extra aides-de-camp. To the suite belong 15 members of the imperial family, 17 princes of not imperial birth, 17 counts, nine barons and 111 other noblemen. We Have Sold MORE STEEL RANGES in the last year than all other dealers combined. The reason for this is that we sell The BEST RANGE sold in Minneapolis, as we can get thousands of people using it to testify, and sell it for less money than other dealers ask for an inferior make of Range. These Ranges are no experiment with us, as we have sold this one make for more than 10 years and on customers who have used them the No.125-4-hole RANGE oven 14x20. $14.10 will Quarrapees them in every manner, shape and form; we do not ask for any loop hole; if they do not work perfectly we will take them back and refund purchase price. Hotel RANGES a Specialty. Stove catalogue free. CURRLY HOUSE MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. Do You Need Printing? We Can Suit You Both in Price and Quality of Work. TRY THIS OFFICE= QUEER VOCATIONS. What was Uncertified by the New York Census Enumerators. There can be no better illustration of the truth of the moss-grown expression that "one-half the world does not know how the other half lives" than is found in the discoveries made by a number of census agents of this city. Occupations that were never known to exist have been unearthed by these questioners, and have given the students of odd jobs and unique livelihoods food for much thought. For instance, a man's sole business is the making of monstrosities. He turns out sea serpents and mermaids as readily as the tailor cuts a pair of trousers. One of the census takers in East Forty-fifth street found a professional spanker. His advertisement in a German paper said: "Unruly and wayward boys disciplined at parents' residences." There was discovered close to Fort Greene park, in Brooklyn, a man named Brenner, with a sign reading: "Cockroach killer to the United States navy." The cockroach killer made his "reputation" when he removed twenty-one barrels of cockroaches from the old, wall-sided Pensacola. He does it with a sort of paste and is an expert. Another queer occupation discovered is conducted by a man who "calls people." His chief customers are those who have to get up at unusually early hours, such as bartenders, policemen, motormen and the like. The woman whose business it is to collect corks, and who is said to make $10 a day, is another queer one on the long list of oddities. She gathers all the whisky, champagne and mineral water corks, through a number of employees, and sells them to the firms that originally cut them. Close to Bellevue hospital is a woman who sells bottles. The poor who go to the dispensary for medicines usually fail to take bottles along. The "bottle woman" sells for 1 or 2 cents each glass bottles of all sizes, ranging from the half-ounce vial to the one big enough for the horse finiment. Still another odd business is that of an east side firm which is down in the books as an "ejectment company." The firm does nothing except get rid of tenants. Up on Broadway, near Fifty-seventh street, is a man whose business it is to bite off dogs' tails. He says the animals must be of an age at which their tails are tender. He doesn't believe in a knife, because every dog's tail has a worm in it, and the only way to remove it is to bite the tail off. A man named Kelly charges $2.50 for destroying bad trees, a woman in Harlem trains college men for plays, three firms furnish clean jackets for bartenders and charge them from 50 cents to $1 per week. Even the women on the east side, who make a business of lighting fires on holidays, are remembered in the list.—New York Cor. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. THE CITY OF BAGDAD. Its Characteristics Still Suggest the Days of the Caliphs. Bagdad is one of the last of the unspoiled great cities of the East. The bazaar of Constantinople has been defiled by Western innovations, and European fashions are stealing into the shops of Tabriz. Bagdad is changing, too, but its colors and ways are rich still with suggestions of the days of the caliphs and the luxurious era of Islam. The old part of the customshouse is the palace of the caliphate, hoary with the marks of more than eight centuries, and mosque and minaret recall great names of great days which will never come again. In the palace court now are iron from Birmingham and cotton from Manchester, matches from Sweden and cheaper and more sulphurous ones from Japan, chinaware from China and Russia, spirits and sugar from Marseilles, with wheat for shipment to London and wool and hides for America. Where the caliph's favorites once sold kingdoms, inspectors now take their petty bribes. It is a curious bedlam. Caravans come in from Persia, Arabia and Mesopotamia. The laden camels, horses and donkeys surge out east, north, west and south. A hamal, or porter, pushes by carrying on his back a 350-pound bale of cotton. And the Bagdad natives are distinguished from the rest by the Bagdad button, a scar about the size of a date, often on the end of the nose, always on the face, the mark of an ugly scab, which sooner or later comes to disfigure almost every resident of Bagdad. Hebrews, of whom there are 40,000, one-third of the population of the city; Armenians, many of whom have been married to Europeans; Arabs from the desert, Turks, soldiers and fat civilians, some dark, some blonde as the janizaries; chavadars with their caravans, Persian traders of all kinds, pass to and fro under the covered streets between the bazaar shops displaying all the produce of the East.—Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly. An Effect of Cannonading A German scientist has been making some observations in South Africa on the subject of the influence of repeated detonations on the ear. He examined the ears of ninety-six soldiers before and after a battle, and found marked changes in no fewer than forty-four, or nearly 50 per cent. In seven cases he found small hemorrhages in the ears, and in one case a large bleeding, while the firing caused the edge of the ear drum to become red in thirty-seven cases.—New York Post. The Utility of Pain. Although looked upon as an evil, pain is kind. It tells that the laws of Nature have been violated and warns us to correct the cause. If it were not for pain we should go on doing things that would destroy us. Pain is a warning that something is wrong, and, instead of trying to hush the pain with some drug we should seek to remove the cause.—New York Telegram. On Reading Aloud. A good deal of time, now devoted to commentaries and text study, might profitably be given to reading the text aloud, without note or comment. A work of art slowly discloses its full meaning, and familiarity with it is the first condition of comprehension.—Harper's Bazar. Washington's Automobile Craze If the craze for automobiles continues they will, before long, entirely supersede the use of the horse at the nation's capital, for not only have they become a fad with society people, but the shops, the express companies and the transit companies are rapidly adopting them. Edwin Conger, American minister to China, knows the Oriental character as thoroughly as any diplomat in the East, and, unlike most, he speaks several Chinese dialects. $14.10 AMULETS IN GREAT DEMAND. A Fad that is Growing in Popularity, but Really Demands Careful Study. Amulets and lucky stones of one sort and another are becoming more and more popular with women, and the bangle of detested memory is revived in a more romantic and interesting form. The modern girl is decidedly up in fetichism and though some frivolous fair ones wear jeweled cows and pigs and lizards and shamrocks and bells and boots indiscriminately and impartially, the really up-to-date young woman chooses her talismans fastidiously and is learned in talismanic lore. To be really wise and occult one must go in for astrology and choose one's talismans in accordance with the symbols of the planet under whose influence one was born; but it is asking too much of the modern society girl to insist upon her adding astrology to her already-depressing repertoire. Still it doesn't require much research to find out whether Capricorn or Cancer or some other zodiacal sign is most appropriate for one's lucky piece. For general mascot purposes a white elephant is about as satisfactory as anything one could choose. There is nothing exclusive about him. Like the rain, he patronizes both the just and the unjust, and he is a terror to evil spirits of all sorts and varieties. In the far East he is worn in all sizes and materials, and the more white elephants one can introduce into household decorations the surer one is of domestic felicity. The idea ought to be adopted by Western decorators. If a frieze of white elephants could foil the divorce courts it would be worth having. The pig, too, is a fair success as understudy to one's guardian angel, and serpents bring blessings; but a lizard is a hoodoo of the most fatal sort, and the amount of harm being done by jeweled lizards is beyond calculation. Boot and shoe ornaments, which have become so popular, are also inimical to happiness, and as for tiny bells—well, only a brave and dauntless soul can wear them and come out with life and morals intact. Their tinkling, as is well understood by every student of the occult, calls up all evil spirits within hearing, and the wearer of a bell bangle lives in a Walpurgis Nacht crowd. The short life and violent death of the average love affair is intelligible when one realizes that by all the laws of fetichism the exchanging between lovers of hair or any ornament in shape of a heart is a sure token of disaster. Some philanthropist should have made a crusade in behalf of ignorant lovers, and have explained the evil occult influence of hair and hearts, in emotional matters; but men and maids have been allowed to rush on their fate unwarned. The four-leaved clover loses all its efficacy when it leaves the hand that gathered it; and indeed no charm green in color should be worn, as it is more than likely to bring a misfortune in its wake. The left hind foot of a graveyard rabbit that was caught in the light of the moon has its virtues, but no other rabbit's foot is worth pocket room; and even the powerful piece of rope by which a man has hanged himself will bring nothing but ill-luck to the possessor if the suicide happened to be born under the influence of Saturn. Altogether, the intricacies of the mascot question are many and devious, and no one should go in for charms recklessly. The Twentieth century is, so say the prophets, to be especially noted for its fatal accidents: and that being the case, mascots should be in great demand, but unless one has time to study the hidden mysteries of occult lore it would perhaps be safer to stick to the benign and ever-amiable white elephant.—New York Sun. TO INDIA BY RAIL Less than Six Hundred Miles of Road Are Now Lacking. All that is wanted is an agreement between Britain and Russia as to Afghanistan. Already the enterprising Muscovite has extended the scope of the Transcaspian railway to such a degree that Russian cars are actually running well inside Afghan territory. Kushk, an Afghan frontier town, is practically in Russian hands, and a light railway is already under construction to famous Herat. This is the situation on Afghanistan's northern frontier. On the south British India is apparently not less active. The Beloochistan railway system, terminating at Gulistan Karez, on the Afghan border, is to be extended, and already work is being pushed forward in order to connect Kandahar with the Indian railroad system. In Central Asia Russia is actively engaged in surveying and constructing. When this is completed all that will remain in order to make it possible to go by train from Calais to Bombay will be to link up the chain between Herat and Kandahar—an insignificant distance of 585 English miles. That link being made, and the Central Asian railway finished, London to Bombay will mean that the only chance for seasickness will be on the twenty-one-mile strip of channel between Dover and Calais. By the Straits of Gibraltar and the Suez canal the distance is 6500 miles, and the time occupied by the fastest peninsular and Oriental steamer is twenty-one days. By the land route, allowing the average approximate speed to be twenty-five miles an hour by the express trains, the journey would occupy only eleven days, four hours over a distance approximately estimated at 6700 English miles. This speed is on the average considerably exceeded even on Asiatic railways, and, of course, doubled on European lines. Two changes of cars would be necessary on the journey from Calais—at the frontier on entering Russia and at the Indian frontier. This would be occasioned by the fact that the Russian lines have a gauge nearly a foot wider than the rest of European railways.—London Mail Oil Engines for Palestine Wells. According to an English consular report oil engines are rapidly advancing in favor in Palestine for the purpose of drawing water from the deep wells to irrigate the orange gardens. Hitherto the water was pumped by animal power. There was a large water wheel, and from four to eight mules were required to revolve it, according to the size of the wheel. Soldiers Versus Preachers. Under favorable conditions of peace the mortality among soldiers is practically the least known, with a death rate of only five in every 1000. Compared with a soldier's life the placid days even of a clergyman are full of danger, for his death rate is eleven in 1000, or more than, twice as great as that of his militant brother. You Look Cross What makes you look that way? There certainly must be some good reason for it. If your tongue is coated, if you are bilious, if your head aches, if your food rests heavy on your stomach, and if you are constipated, then the whole trouble is with your liver. What you need is a good liver pill, an easy liver pill, a purely vegetable liver pill. You need a box of Ayer's Pills, that's what you need. These pills cure constipation, biliousness, dyspepsia, and sick headache. 25 cents a box. 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The public is asked to find the rest. Lord Roberts is the president of the society. His two years of office have been the most progressive in the history of the gardens. Through his instrumentality many valuable additions have been made. A pair of splendid Bengal tigers were presented by the Nizam of Hyderabad, and a very fine leopard from Triyandrum. The new lion house, the council points out, would be a permanent memorial of "Bobs" presidency. It is intended to present Lord Roberts with an album containing the signatures of those whose money will pay for the cost of the new house. During the last fifty years over 200 lion cubs have been born in the gardens, and their sale has realized £5000.—London Daily Mail. Queen Elizabeth's Autograph An autograph signature of Queen Elizabeth of England was recently submitted to Librarian Allen of the department of state for his opinion as to its authenticity. It has been in the possession of a prominent Washington family and was about to be sold. Mr. Allen is a recognized expert in such matters, and after comparison with copies of the Queen's handwriting to which he has access pronounced it genuine. It is a very rare specimen. It is on a small square of parchment framed in an old-fashioned daguerreotype frame, and was presumably clipped—perhaps stolen—from some old patent of nobility.—Chicago Chronicle. 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 place of coffee. The children may drink it without injury as well as the adult. All who try it like it. GRAIN-O has that rich seal brown of Mocha or Java, but it is made from pure grains, and the most delicate stomach receives it without distress. One-fourth the price of coffee. 15c and 25c per package. Sold by all grocers. School Discipline in Munich. A judicial decision which has just been rendered at the court of Munich shows that corporal punishment is still regarded in Germany as an indispensable factor of education. "A school teacher," says the judge, "has the right to inflict corporal punishment as well on the pupils of his own class as on those of other classes. As pupils are amenable to scholastic jurisdiction even after the school hours are over, they may be punished by the teacher even outside of the school."—New York Herald. Unmoved by Human Suffering No Chinaman cares if a famine breaks out near him, or is shocked if another Chinaman is tortured, or will exert himself against his own interest to prevent suffering to any other human being. And no Chinaman ever forgets or questions that he is a member of the supreme civilization of the world—indeed, of the only one to which, in his judgment, that great term in its original meaning can be fittingly applied—Philadelphia Telegraph. Best of Excuses. 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He tried a number of experiments on dogs, and found that a diet of horseflesh invariably produced digestive disturbances, oftentimes very severe in character. He then made inquiries at the Cologne Zoological gardens and found that the use of horseflesh as a food for the animals had been discontinued for the same reason. The trouble with the meat seems to be its poverty in fat, and not any specific toxic agent, and Prof. Pfluger found that by mixing either ox or mutton fat with the horseflesh all digestive disturbance was avoided. He concludes his article with some suggestions for cooks in beleaguered cities who are reduced to horseflesh as a food. In one mode of dressing the horseflesh is converted into a pulp, and for every two pounds about three-quarters of an ounce of ox fat or mutton fat, taken from the region of the kidneys, is served up, with a sauce of meal, as a hash. 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Can Suit You Both in and Quality of Work. SHIPS OF WAR. What though the eastern sky be black With death for those that rove. Though darkness of the damned inguils Palm and palmetto grove. Your fires flash along the shore. Your searchlights flood the bay. And Liberty can enter where Your great guns blaze the way. Advance, ye steel-clad Ships of War, Dispelling doubts and fears! Your bosoms hold a precious freight, The fates of future years. High o'er your conquering conning-towers The pennants fly unfurled; The stars and stripes above you are The best hope of the world. James Eugene Farmer in the Bookman. The Missing Queen's Messenger The Missing Queen's Messenger Many people have wondered, and not without reason, why Napoleon III. plunged France into a war with Germany, unsupported as he was by any of the great powers. Yet at the first the Emperor's tone was one of proud confidence; it was only too late he discovered that he had been overreached by the man who was the bane of his existence, his arch enemy—Bismarck. But Napoleon III. was neither so blind nor so rash as is generally supposed. He had taken certain measures beforehand and counted upon support which was destined to fail him. Had matters turned out as he expected the issue of the struggle might have been vastly different. The prime minister of England drove in haste to the foreign office late in the afternoon, for the matter which engaged his attention at the moment was one of pressing and vital importance. He had just returned from an official visit to Windsor, where a document, upon which hung the fate of a European nation, had received the sanction and signature of her majesty. Upon reaching the foreign office he encountered the secretary on the stairs, and they proceeded together to the private room of the latter. Depositing the treaty on the table the premier inquired: "Is the messenger ready?" "He is waiting here. When must he start?" "This evening. The treaty must reach the Emperor in the morning, for war may be declared at any moment." "It has received her majesty's sanction, then?" "It has. It will come as a surprise to Germany, no doubt, when it is made known, but we are bound by motives of interest and policy alike to support the French in this struggle. Backed up by England, France can scarcely fail to be victorious, and then we can dictate terms to Europe." "But Bismarck—does he suspect?" The premier paused before replying. It was the one point upon which he did not feel quite secure. "No," he said at length, "though he is ever on the alert, on the watch. I think we have effectually blinded him to this move. But this messenger—can we rely upon him?" upon him. "I think I can answer for Mr. Whar- t of tact and resource." ton, a man of tide and resource. "Very well. I will write a dispatch at once. Meanwhile we must communicate with the Emperor by wire, informing him that our messenger leaves for Paris tonight with the treaty. He will then feel his position secure and can act accordingly." An hour later Spencer Wharton was summoned into the premier's presence, who, with his own hands, delivered to him the secret treaty. "I need scarcely impress upon you, Mr. Wharton," he said, "that this is a matter requiring the utmost secrecy and dispatch. This document must be placed in the Emperor's hands tomorrow morning or the consequences may be fatal." Having seen the treaty safely sealed up in the messenger's dispatch bag, the premier went home, not a little relieved at having got this weighty matter off his mind. Added to this there was the pleasing consciousness of having overreached the wily Bismarek, who had been making strenuous efforts to secure the neutrality of England. Meanwhile Spencer Wharton lingered at the foreign office, never trusting his precious dispatch bag out of sight. This hasty journey to Paris was not altogether without its attractions for him; in fact, he was impatient to be off, to get this state mission over, so that he might have a day or two in the French capital, which he intended to devote to purely personal affairs. Just as he alighted from his cab at the station his attention was attracted to a group of loungers and one or two grinning porters. In the center stood a lady, who was being subjected to the abuse of a drunken cabman. Just then Spencer Wharton caught sight of her face. He started, and the next moment was elbowing his way vigorously through the crowd. "Mme. Vincent!" he cried in amazement. "You in England! I thought—" Instantly the lady turned toward him with a look of pleasure and relief, and held out her small, gloved hand. "Ah," she exclaimed, with a slightly foreign accent, "what it is to behold a friend! This man is grossly insolent! He has lost one of my boxes, and declares he never received it! What am I to do?" "Leave me to deal with him," replied Wharton, with rising indignation. "If you go inside I will join you in a moment." He roundly rated the cabman for his incivility, but could get little out of him. The man declared he had never seen the box and Wharton had to content himself with taking the man's number, and hastened to rejoin Mme. Vincent. "Ah, how grateful I am to you, my friend!" she said, raising her eyes to her companion's face with a look that thrilled through him. "But my box? Shall I recover it?" "I hope so." returned Wharton. "I have taken the man's number and will see to it on my return from Paris." "Paris!" she cried. You are going to Paris?" "How fortunate! I am returning there myself! I confess that I dreaded the journey; but now I shall travel with an easy mind, for I know there is a friend at hand." "I shall not trust you out of sight," he said in a low voice. "Fear nothing; you will not be exposed again to such insolence. But how comes it that you are in England? I thought you had settled down in Paris, and looked forward to the pleasure of seeing you when I had transacted the business which takes me across the channel." "A dear friend of mine was ill here in London—dangerously ill," she replied. "I hastened across a week ago to see her. But you," she added, raising her beautiful eyes to his face again, "I have not seen you for a month at least. I thought you had quite forgotten me." 7 Considerable indignation was aroused over the report that the national memorial to Abraham Lincoln was in danger of collapse and steps at once were taken to repair it. This is the first photograph showing the Lincoln monument in process of rebuilding. The illustration in the right-hand corner pictures the memorial as it will look when rebuilt. PATRIOTISM FOR PORTO RICO. M. B. Prof. Martin G. Brumbaugh, commissioner of education for Porto Rico, will include a course of patriotic instruction in the curriculum of the insular schools. The pupils will learn not only the history of the United States but the inner meaning thereof, and will be coached in the higher feelings of patriotism as well as in political economy. Every child will be taught to lift his hat to the Stars and Stripes wherever he may see them. Prof. Martin G. Brumbaugh, commissioner of education for Porto Rico, will include a course of patriotic instruction in the curriculum of the insular schools. The pupils will learn not only the history of the United States but the inner meaning thereof, and will be coached in the higher feelings of patriotism as well as in political economy. Every child will be taught to lift his hat to the Stars and Stripes wherever he may see them. "Forgotten you!" he said ardently. "I assure you I welcomed this journey to Paris, as I hoped it would afford me an opportunity of seeing you again." The train was rather crowded, but they selected a compartment in which two gentlemen were already seated, both deep in their newspapers. On the journey down an extraordinary and somewhat ludicrous incident occurred. The two gentlemen—foreigners evidently—were discussing the burning question of the hour—the prospect of hostilities between France and Germany. stances the messenger had disappeared. Then, strangely enough, news came on him from America. It appears that he had been living there under an assumed name, and upon his deathbed told his story to a friend. Briefly it was this: Upon reaching Calais it had occurred to him to examine his bag in order to ascertain if the treaty was safe. He opened it, and, to his horror, found—blank papers! Looking at the bag more carefully, he saw that it was not really his, but on They appeared to hold different views upon the subject. The discussion waxed warm; high words arose. Finally, one of the disputants seemed to lose complete control of himself. Springing to his feet, he dashed his newspaper into the other's face. Madame screamed, and as it appeared highly probable the two excited politicians would come to blows. Wharton sprang forward to separate them. It was some little time, however, before he succeeded in pacifying them. This incident, joined to the scene at the station, was evidently too much for Mme. Vincent's nerves. Upon reaching Dover she declared that she felt too weak and ill to proceed farther, and would remain at a hotel for the night. "I wish I could stay and see you safely across in the morning," whispered Wharton as he lingered by her side. "It is really too bad, but unfortunately there is no help for it. Duty renders it imperative that I should reach Paris early in the morning, otherwise—" "Go!" she murmured faintly. "You have been most kind, most attentive. As for me, a good night's rest will restore me." "When shall I see you again?" "Tomorrow evening, in Paris. Oh, those wretched men! They have quite upset me. Now, do not miss your boat on my account. Goodby till tomorrow." Tucking his dispatch bag under his arm, Wharton stepped on board the boat, his mind agitated by conflicting emotions. The following morning the secretary for foreign affairs reached his office rather earlier than usual, for the papers had announced to him that war had already been declared. The French Emperor, relying upon the telegraphic communication which had reached him the evening before from the prime minister of England, had taken that decisive step. To the general public the announcement was startling, for many thought that actual hostilities were yet far distant. The foreign secretary was engrossed in a copy of the Times when he was interrupted by the hurried entrance of the premier himself. "We have been either tricked or betrayed!" said the premier, excitedly. "Read this. It has just reached me from the Emperor of France." He laid a telegram on the table. The communication was in cipher, but the rendering of it was written underneath. It contained the startling announcement: "Messenger has not arrived." Consternation reigned in the foreign office that morning. Messages were flashed to Dover, to Calais, making anxious inquiries for the missing messenger. It was found that he had reached the latter port in safety, but there all trace of him was lost. It was too late, however, to remedy the evil. War having actually been declared. England was forced to withdraw from the position which she promised to take with regard to France. Sne was compelled to remain neutral, which was precisely what Prince Bismarck desired. Not for many years afterward was it discovered how, or under what circum- stances the messenger had disappeared. Then, strangely enough, news came of him from America. It appears that he had been living there under an assumed name, and upon his deathbed told his story to a friend. Briefly it was this: Upon reaching Calais it had occurred to him to examine his bag in order to ascertain if the treaty was safe. He opened it, and, to his horror, found—blank papers! Looking at the bag more carefully, he saw that it was not really his, but one closely resembling it, even to the many half torn labels which covered it. Then the truth suddenly dawned upon him. His own bag had been purloined in the train to Dover, and another substituted in its place! And Madame Vincent—she who had won his affections, who had repelled or encouraged him to suit her purpose? Too late he saw that she was one of Bismarck's secret emissaries. It flashed across him that the scene at the station, the quarrel in the train was all prearranged. While his attention was engaged with the two foreigners Madame Vincent had effected the change of bags. The wretched messenger, knowing the consequences that would ensue, was driven to despair. He vowed never to return to England. Disguising himself he made his way to Havre, whence he embarked for the United States.—Penny Pictorial Magazine. CUTERS'S CLOSE CALL. Confederate Bullet Which an Officer Failed to Fire. Maj. Thomas Lawson, a prominent ex-Confederate of this city, tells an interesting story of Gen. George Custer, the dashing Federal commander, who afterward fell in the massacre of the Little Big Horn. Maj. Lawson served with the Virginia troops. He was in Pickens' charge at Gettysburg, and although still hale and hearty, bears the marks of three serious wounds. "During the Virginia campaigns," said Maj. Lawson, "our forces made a night attack. Our regiment charged into Custer's camp and stampeded the Yankees. Chance sent us in the direction of the general's readquarters. In the midst of the route I saw a handsome man rush from a tent a few feet from me. He was only half dressed, and from his long hair I recognized him, even in the dim light, as Custer. He had no arms of any sort, and the Confederates were in almost complete possession, but hastily pulled a bridle over his horse's head, and without waiting to saddle, up he jumped on the animal and galloped off, without arms, to attempt to rally his routed men. He was within ten feet of me for more than a minute, and I drew my revolver to shoot him, but I could not kill so brave a man when he had no means of defense himself. It would have been too much like murder. "I have always been glad that I did not fire on the gallant Custer that night." —Louisville Post. A Market for Depreciated Coin. Paris is alive with Peruvian, Chilean, Bolivian and Mexican coins which look enough like 5-franc pieces to be readily accepted by such by one who is unfamiliar with French money. These pieces are worth less than half of 5 francs. Spanish, Papal and Italian coins are also in circulation. This particular form of roguery is a recognized industry of the city. The principal operators are waiters, who buy up debased coins and palm them off on innocent visitors.—Philadelphia North American. BEATRICE HARRADEN'S WAY. She Works Exactly Ninety Minutes a Day. While recently visiting a Chicago friend, says the Commercial-Official of Memphis, Miss Beatrice Harraden, the English novelist, gave this account of her first experience as an author: "From the start my aim was high. When only 17 I made my first serious literary attempt. It was a short story, called 'The Voice of the Violin,' and I summoned the bravery to send it to Blackwood's Magazine, wherein George Eliot and many other great British authors had made their fame. Oh, how eagerly did I watch the post for something from the celebrated editorial office which should make known the fate of my first effort. Finally the token came. The bulky envelope told me the whole story of rejection and disappointment. With the impulsiveness of an irritated school girl, I threw the packet unopened into my trunk and turned my thoughts in other directions. Weeks later, in obedience to another impulse of the moment, I went to my chamber, took the envelope from the trunk and tore it open. There was the ill-fated story, to be sure, but with something which was destined to exercise a strong influence upon the bent of my life. It was a long and kind autograph letter from William Blackwood himself, in which he said that, though the first little story could not be given place in the pages of the magazine, he saw in it the promise of things to come so excellent that he felt convinced that experience would make me a real Blackwood writer. This compliment was not lost on me, for I was familiar with the rich literary traditions of the Blackwood's house. The letter also invited me to continue sending stories until acceptance should finally be the reward of perseverance and assured me that Mr. Blackwood would give me the benefit of personal criticism. "That first story was sent to Belgravia and accepted; but my ambition was to get something into Blackwood's. Time after time I sent to the famous Edinburgh house the best work of which I was capable—only to receive it back with a generously painstaking letter, pointing out its defects and giving definite advice for future efforts." Miss Harraden has probably the shortest working day of any writer who labors systematically. She permits herself to work but ninety minutes a day. In this brief time, however, she accomplishes a marvelous amount of work. When asked if she did not do any mental work outside of her appointed hour and a half of labor, she answered: "Unconsciously, perhaps, but not to focus anything. During all the remainder of the time I try to be diligently idle so far as literary thought is concerned." Of her own novels Miss Harraden is said to regard "The Fowler" as a much stronger piece of work than "Ships that Pass in the Night." SOUTH AFRICAN STORM. Career of a Dust Devil-Able-Bodied Thunder and Lightning. As you sit looking over the veldt early of an afternoon, you suddenly see a little corkscrew-shaped column of dust whirling in front of you. It is so small that you could put a barrel over it when it begins. I wonder no one has ever thought of doing it. But it whirls and grows and grows and whirls, until the first thing you know it is as big as a tent and something near the same shape except that the point at the top may reach straight up in a long brown thread sixty or eighty feet high. Well, it whirls and grows and grows and whirls, until it is half an acre in size and has begun to pick up big planks and men's coats and hats and heavy waterproof wagon covers, and to fling them around in its uttermost circle. At last, when it has become a full-grown devil it turns right about and makes for the camp. Everyone, except the sentries, rushes for shelter, and all find that shelter from such a demon is impossible to get. It squeezes under tents, into windows, through crannies and cracks, between the doors and their frames. It sifts through outer clothes and underclothes, and paints its way under the lids of the cooking pots—aye, it drives itself into the watch in your pocket and clogs its wheels. In five minutes it has gone, and then we have an hour of dust storm, which is the same thing, except that it drives straight ahead and does not whirl around. And now come the thunder and lightning—the "pucker" thing as they say in India, or "number one proper" as it would be called in China. I hope the wicked will experience nothing worse hereafter. Crash! comes the thunder, and always on the same instant a flash comes which means to sing your eyeballs. Very soon the heavens open and the rain comes down in torrents, with thunder and lightning to punctuate the showers. It rains in such an enthusiastic, high-spirited wholesale fashion that each storm puts the rivers in flood. Whenever we see our shallow stream, the Modder, suddenly choking with liquified mud and rushing along at twelve miles an hour, and playing havoc with our ferries and pontoons, we know that there has been a shower somewhere in the Free State.-Julian Ralph in London Truth. African Burials. In certain parts of Africa it is considered a mark of disrespect to bury out of doors at all. Only slaves are treated in such unceremonious fashion. The honored dead are buried under the floor of the house. A play-from-the-French young man, A carriage-at-ten young man, A soul-eyed demoniac, Cocktail-and-cognac. Tra-la-la-la young man. A cut-away-coat young man. A very-sore-throat young man. A smoke-c'gareet-ery, Get into debt-ery. Two-for-a-cent young man. NO "FRILLS" ON CHAFFEE. Seidom Wears the Distinguishing Mark of His Rank. One thing that endears to his men Gen. Adna R. Chaffee, who has just been assigned to command the United States troops in China, is the fact that, as the men express it, "he doesn't put on any frills." In the field he is clad about the same as one of his men in the ranks, and, in common with many other officers, often wears no distinguishing mark of his rank. A little incident which occurred at Siboney during the Spanish war serves to illustrate this. While most of the troops were in the trenches at the front, there was a detachment left at Siboney to guard the baggage and supplies, and look out for the unloading of the transports. In the detachment was a part of the Michigan regiments of volunteers which was encamped on the beach. A young lieutenant of this regiment was the officer of the guard one day, and was walking around in his brand new khaki uniform, filled with the sense of his own importance. He had been down to the end of the wharf, and was walking back to the beach when he noticed a man dressed in what looked like the cast-off clothes of a private soldier coming toward him. The man was apparently about 55 years old, dark complexion, with dark hair and mustache, streaked with gray, and was dressed in a faded blue army shirt open at the throat, khaki trousers covered with mud, tucked into boots in the same condition, a gray campaign hat much the worse for wear and having several holes cut in it for ventilating purposes. He was strolling down the wharf with his hands in his pockets and the stump of a cigar between his teeth, and he passed the young lieutenant without a salute or sign of recognition. This was more than the young officer's dignity could stand, so he stopped the man with a sharp "Halt, there." The man halted and faced about, and the lieutenant said: "Are you in the army?" "Yes, sir," was the reply. "Regulars or volunteers?" "Regulars, sir." "Haven't you been in the service long enough to know that it is customary to salute when you meet an officer in uniform?" "I know that, sir, but down here we've kind of overlooked salutes and ceremony." "Well, I haven't, and I want you to understand it. Now, attention!" The man stood at attention. "Salute!" The salute was given. "How long have you been in the service?" "Well, you have learned something about army regulations and customs this morning. Remember who gave the lesson, and when you meet me in uniform, salute. I am Lieut. —— of the —th Michigan regiment. Now, what's your name and regiment?" The man who had been given the lesson had been smiling slightly under his mustache, and when tnis last question was shot at him, he straightened up, saluted again, and replied: "Gen. Chaffee, sir commanding the —th division." The lieutenant was thunderstruck, and for a moment was too dazed to answer or say a word of apology. When he found the use of his tongue again, and started to excuse himself, the general said, kindly: "That's all right, my boy. You were right. Of course you didn't know me, and an enlisted man should salute an officer, even if we do overlook it sometimes. You always stick as close to regulations as that and you'll make a good officer." And nodding to the young man, he walked away. Arctic Fruit. The Eskimo children have other things than snowballs and icebergs to eat. Things grow very fast in the short Arctic summer. As soon as the snow melts off in many places the ground is covered with a vine which bears a small berry something like a huckleberry, porwong it is called. It is sour, and has a pungent taste, and the Indians leave off work and go porwong hunting, cramming themselves with the berries. It is a lucky thing for them that the summer is so short, or there would be an epidemic of cholera. —The South African winter begins towards the end of April and lasts until September. S. F. PEACOCK & SON Funeral Directors AND EMBALMERS Builds up both the body and nerves; brings refreshing sleep, insures a healthy appetite, aids digestion and feeds blood, brain and bone It cannot fail to benefit in every case where more strength is required Once tried, you will never take a substitute. AT YOUR DRUGGIST ABST MALT LUTE The Best Tonic MALT LUTE MALT LUTE HOPP FAST BREWING CO. MILWAUKEE, WI. FOR RENT—Furnished rooms 31 Vict Street. 1st flat. Morning before 10; evening after 7. 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