Wisconsin Weekly Advocate

WISCONSIN WEEKLY ADVOCATE DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF THE NEGRO RACE EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS. The Negro Vindicated. eve: been traced to a graduate of any of our great industrial schools. Mr. Mebane, in referring to the female negro, has much to say in her behalf and in her praise. He is in a position to prove by the testimony of many of the leading white people of the South that there are thousands of families in which purity and chastity rule and the womanhood thereof is unquestioned. In order that the negro woman may be better safeguarded he suggests that she should be given an education, that will make her condemn the debasing aspire to the ennobling, and fit her to earn a competence, and that she should be amply protected in doing so. After disproving by statistics the accusation of general thriftlessness on the part of the whole race Mr. Mebane concludes his able article in the following words: "If the efforts made by the South to legislate the negro out of civilization, to prove that he is not a man, to prevent him from demonstrating his worthiness to be counted a man, to prove that both freedom and education have been detrimental to him, and that he has degenerated morally, physically and socially, and cannot long exist as a race; if these and other misspent energies were used in the application of Christian principles to existing conditions there would be no so-called 'negro problem' to haunt the South; but millions of wealth, endless prosperity and countless blessings would make 'that section the paradise of the Western Continent.'" Mr. Mebane deserves the thanks of the whole race for his able advocacy of their rights and privileges. Running in the "Outlook" as a serial at the present time is an autobiography of Booker T. Washington. It ought to be in the hands of every young colored person in the United States. By reading if they will be led to contrast the favorable circumstances in which they are placed in comparison to Mr. Washington's early days. In last week's number he recounts his struggles for an education, tells in graphic, pathetic language of his journey, mostly on foot, from his home to Hampton, a distance of 500 miles, to which school he ultimately gained admittance by his thoroughness in sweeping and dusting one of the classrooms. We trust that this autobiography will be published in book form at a cheap rate and that parents and teachers will see that every family where there are children growing up be provided with a copy. [Next week we shall review the second in the series of the articles "The Passing of the Race Problem," by Walter L. Hawley, New York.]—Ed. The Legalized Murder in Colorado. In common with all right-thinking, lawabiding and God-fearing citizens of this country, we condemn in no unmeasured terms the crime of which this unfortunate and degraded member of our race confessed himself guilty. No mere words can depict our horror of all such atrocities and our ardent desire and prayer is that they shall soon cease to be a disgrace and a reproach to the well-conducted among us. While this is so, we cannot but condemn in the same unmeasured terms the manner in which the criminal was made to pay the penalty of his crime, atrocious as it was. Our readers are no doubt familiar with the revolting details and it is not our object to harrow the feelings by a redescription of them. Our object is to point out that it is not only in the South, as has hitherto been supposed that such contempt for the law of the land can be displayed with impunity. In this case we have the governor and the legal officials of a great Western state openly aiding and abetting in the perpetration of what can only be termed legalized murder. The sheriff in question, who had sworn to uphold and execute the laws of his country and state, led his lamb (in this case a very black one) to the slaughter just as a butcher would do, and with as little or less compunction. Every detail had been worked out and was carried on to completion. Now we have no sympathy, as we have said, for the crime committed, but if the public is to be permitted in this case to take the law into its own hands, where will the matter end? If condoned and virtually legalized in one matter, why not in another? Why not in all? Safety is only to be found in the ultimatum. "The law must take its course." Not public and private feelings, even though outraged and lacerated, must be soothed and a healing balm made from the ashes of the victim, spread over them. If the laws of the state of Colorado are not sufficiently severe to award a suitable punishment for such detestable crimes as the criminal confessed himself guilty of, the sooner the Legislature proceeds to enact such laws the better it will be for the fair fame of that state. For our own part, we think even capital punishment too light a sentence for this particular crime. We would like to see such criminals imprisoned for life without hope of pardon, the first few months MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN, NOVEMBER 22, 1900. of the sentence to be passed in solitary confinement, with an occasional lashing, just as a reminder that he is not forgotten; but—all this to be done under and not contrary to the law of the country or state where such crime has been committed. We have always been, and always shall be, found as an advocate for the maintenance of law and order, on the part both of the rulers and those ruled over. Gov. Thomas and the sheriff of Lincoln county, Col., are evidently of a different opinion, but that that opinion is shared by any intelligent, evenly-balanced mind we are loth to believe. George Allen Mebane, the author of the article which has been reviewed in this week's issue, was born at Hermitage. Bertie county, N. C., July 4, 1850, of slave parents. He ran away from his master at the age of 13, and was mess boy in the Eighty-fifth New York state volunteers for one year. He came North and located at Prentissvale and Eldred, Pa., and remained six years. Returning South, he taught school for fifteen years in three counties. He was nominated for representative of his county in 1874, but declined to be a candidate. Nominated for senator of the Third district, composed of the counties of Northampton and Bertie, in 1876, he was elected for two years, being again elected in 1882 for a similar period. Elected register of deeds in 1884, he carried a strong Democratic township that had never before gone Republican. Mr. Mebane was the author of the present Sunday prohibitory law of North Carolina, and introduced the first reformatory bill in the Legislature. At present he is engaged as financial agent of the Normal and Industrial institute at Elizabeth City, N. C., of which he is also general superintendent. PARLIAMENT OF SARK. Unique Legislative Body of One of the Channel Islands. The other day I attended the opening of the, as yet, unreformed Parliament of Sark, says a writer in the London Daily Mail. There is but one House, and it is called the Chefs Piaids. So far so good, for I believe every sane political reformer agrees that the model state should have one legislative body only. But alas, this single House is exclusively a house of landlords, exclusively a house of hereditary legislators. The people of the island are not allowed to elect their representatives. Land alone is represented; not wealth, nor intellect, nor the toiling masses, nor the submerged tenth. And the land is represented in a peculiar way. When the island, then uninhabited, was granted in 1665 by Queen Elizabeth to Helier de Carteret, lord of St. Ouen, in Jersey, it was stipulated that he should colonize it and should grant parts of it to forty of his retainers or followers as copyholders or customary tenants under him. It was also stipulated that these tenants, though they might alienate their holdings upon payment to the lord of a thirteenth of the value, might on no account subdivide them. Thus there are still on the island the original forty estates, and the holder of each estate occupies with regard to the seigneur, or lord, almost exactly the same position as a "leude" or a baron occupied in the old feudal days of Normandy with regard to the sovereign. The existing Parliament of Sark is, in effect, the "assemblee des leudes et barons" of the island. The law of a strict primogeniture obtains, and there would be today forty hereditary members of the Chefs Plaids but for two circumstances. One is that if a tenant happens to be a woman she does not sit, though she may vote in the House by proxy. The other is that, in the course of years, certain of the members, by inheritance or purchase, have acquired more than one estate. There are now, therefore, not more than about thirty actual sitting members of the Chefs Plaids. They represent—if they can be said to represent—a population of some 570 souls and an extent of about 1275 acres. Conscious Guilt. A well-known clubman had just finished reading the account of the suicide of Yu Hsien, the Chinese governor of Shan Si, which was said to have been brought about by the use of gold leaf. To friends sitting near he recounted the incident, and said: "That reminds me of a clever pun perpetrated by Ned House, whom you all remember well. We were dining together one evening, en famille, when House produced as a liqueur a bottle of Dantzig, a sort of cordial made in the city for which it was named. It is clear as crystal, except for specks of what seem to be gold floating about in it. They are not the flakes of gold they seem, by the way, but the minute scales of a species of goldfish, so I am told, that give the liqueur its peculiar flavor and semblance of gold floating in water. "Tastes very like kuemmel, and smells like it also," I said to Mr. House. 'What is the advantage of this stuff over the ordinary kuemmel of commerce?' "Oh, nothing, unless it be the consciousness of inward gilt it gives you,' he responded, laughingly. Ratner clever for an impromptu, don't you think? I was wondering if it was a consciousness of inward guilt that the Chinese princes must occasionally have that urives them to gold leaf as a means for leaving this world at opportune moments."—New York Times. CREAM CITY NOTES. Under this heading we shall be glad to insert personal or other items of interest to the colored race if left at the office, 200 Fifth street, before noon Thursdays. [Ed.] * * * You little knew when first we met That some day you would be The lucky fellow I'd choose to let Pay for my Rocky Mountain Tea. Your blood goes through your body with jumps and bounds, carrying warmth and active life to every part, if you take Rocky Mountain Tea. It brings to the little ones that priceless gift of healthy flesh, solid bone and muscle. That's what Rocky Mountain Tea does. 35c. Carolyn King, daughter of Gen. Charles King, has been accorded an unusual honor. Miss King finished her course at the Sorbonne in June and then entered for competition in the Alliance Francaise, which meets every summer and confers its diplomas on such foreigners as can pass its rigid examinations after attending lectures and submitting essays on several of the standard authors and dramatists. Moliere, Racine, Corneille, La Rochefoucauld and J. Rousseau were assigned to Miss King, and it was her essay on Corneille which was given first place unanimously by the judges. St. Mark's A. M. E. church. The various organizazations in connection with this church are being got into good working order under the superintendence of the pastor and its associates. On Sunday evening Mr. Lewis preached a very eloquent and impressive sermon from the sixth verse of the fourteenth chapter of John's gospel. "I am the way," etc., which was listened to with devout and rapt attention. The directorate of the church has commenced a roll of honor, whereon will be transcribed the names of all those who sympathize with the objects of the church and volunteer monthly contributions for its support. This roll will be prominently displayed somewhere on the premises. We are sorry to note that the behavior of some of the young people in the Sunday school left much to be desired. Probably the publication of the names of the most prominent of these would have a deterrent effect. This seemed to be the only blot on an otherwise fair page, and we trust that the parties concerned will take this hint and take it in all kindliness as it is meant. ☆ ☆ ☆ On Sunday afternoon the Young Men's Colored club held a meeting in the church for the purpose of discussing the question, "Why has the Sunday club been a failure?" Notwithstanding the bad weather, there was a fair attendance, and a lively discussion, in which President Hawkins, Secretary Minor, Treasurer Palmer, Dr. Clifton Johnson, Rev. Lewis and Messrs. Green, Miller, Bufford, Whetford and Montgomery took part. Most of the speakers declined to acknowledge a total failure, and all attributed the partial failure of the enterprise to a lack of individual effort on the part of the members and the want of appreciation on the part of many of the colored race in the town, some of whom, from their position and desire to pose as leaders of the race, have had it in their power to help on this good cause and have failed to do so. The members present were all enthusiastic and evidently sincere in their pledges to further the work during this term. Attorney Green then gave a short address on the want of appreciation shown by the race in Milwaukee, instancing the case of West Superior, where the members of this race were forging to the front very rapidly. Mr. Green also drew attention to the lamentable facts that when the Hon. Madison Vance of New Orleans gave an address in this city only about thirty of his own race turned out to hear him; that he never saw any colored faces in the reference room of the public library. He on the other hand called attention to the fact that at the present moment there are three colored ladies employed as teachers in the public schools of Wisconsin, and these are respected and loved by their pupils, and heartily welcomed by their associates. The ladies referred to are Miss Virginia Wandt, West Superior; Miss Cooper, West London, and Miss White, Neenah. To an outsider who was present at the meeting it seemed that the club had "no kick coming," and that there was plenty of material to form the nucleus of a club which will favorably compare with any similar white men's organization. Next Sunday there will take place the election of office bearers for the ensuing term and plans formulated for the different meetings during the year. We trust that there will be a large attendance. Ladies who are desirous of having the latest thing in millinery goods at very moderate prices, or even who only like to look at pretty things, are invited to call and inspect the stock of the Gross Millinery company, 314 Third street (Steinmeyer building). Their stock for the holiday and festive seasons is a very elegant one, and we know their patrons will be well satisfied. The proprietor of this paper in his journeys throughout the state meets with all sorts and conditions of men and women and various kinds of treatment. At no place is he more welcomed and kindly received than at the home of Mrs. E. E. Squires in Watertown. She and her family of two daughters and one son form a charming home picture of a Christian family. Mrs. Squires devotes a large portion of her thought and time to the uplifting of the human race and has a very tender heart and an encouraging word and material help to those of both sexes and of all creeds and colors, who have fallen by the wayside. ```markdown ``` The dining car since moving into their new quarters in the rooms in connection with this office are rapidly making friends in the neighborhood and seemingly enjoying themselves. They seem equally at home whether escorting their lady for the time being to the theater, succumbing to the blandishments of the sex and emptying their own pockets at a church bazaar, attending church itself, or indulging in a quiet game of gossip in their own rooms. The boys in question are those of the Pioneer limited, which has the reputation of giving the best dining-car service in the states, which fact must be attributed largely to the excellence of the art of the chief cook, Ben Shivers, and his aides, H. Basmer and W. M. Shelton, and to the painstaking attention and politeness of the waiters, George Winbush, D. Ballard, J. T. Barnes and Al Bizzette, while Conductor Bowen is credited with being everywhere at the same time. Not any ways behind the Pioneer limited in the estimation of its numerous patrons is car H, to whose gastronomic wants Walter George caters, assisted by A. Thompson and C. Ellis, and who are waited upon with equal suavity and attention by George Hedges. E. Wise and C. Crowley, all being looked after by the amiable Conductor Eberhart. Among those who join the boys on alternate nights is Hobson, who is wild-catting at the buffet between Chicago and Minneapolis. We don't know if Hobson takes after his naval namesake, but are rather inclined to think so. All these mentioned above are making arrangements for giving an entertainment in the near future which is expected to surpass any thing of the kind yet attempted in Milwaukee. Conductor King, who is in charge of the Pioneer limited, has earned a well-deserved reputation on the route. He is a favorite with everybody, alike with the boys and the traveling public. Of course his handsome exterior makes him acceptable to the ladies and children, but he is suave and agreeable to all. While mentioning the crew of this train we must not omit Joe Cropper, the parlor car attendant, who in his department gives every satisfaction to his employers and the patrons of the car. ☆ ☆ ☆ Those of our readers who are lovers of true art in jewelry and silverware should pay a visit to the store of R. Seidel, 200 Grand avenue, where he is at present displaying a very handsome and choice collection which will be found suitable either for personal adornment or for presents during the approaching festive season. ```markdown ``` Mrs. Relford. 77 Sixth street. entertained a few friends at cinch last Tuesday evening. Everyone returned to their homes expressing the same sentiment of having passed a very enjoyable evening. Mrs. Relford expects a visit from her mother, Mrs. Nolls of Chicago, on Thanksgiving day. We wish her a pleasant time while in the city. ```markdown ``` Parties desiring to supply their homes with the necessary material to have a regular Thanksgiving dinner would do well to visit the shop of Charles Mather, 502 Wells street. He has contracted for a large supply of young and tender turkeys, geese, chickens, etc. Intending customers may rely upon receiving every attention to their orders from Mr. Mather and his obliging assistant, Peter Kuhl. 内 恋 力 Douglas Moore called today and informed us of the marriage of his sister to Mr. Morris of Wauwatosa. We wish the young couple every happiness. ☆ ☆ ☆ William Tate was on Wednesday appointed to run one of the elevators in the city hall, vice S. M. Burnett, deposed by Mayor Rose. He is the only colored man employed in the city department under the present city administration. We believe that this appointment was made through the influence of Congressman Otjen and other Republicans, although Mr. Tate has been a supporter of the Democrats so far as the city administration is concerned. We have to thank Mayor Rose for this recognition of the colored race. The Bishop's Mistake. The archbishop of Canterbury, when bishop of London, was telling a friend of a visit to an asylum: "You remember poor Y—— Well, I went to see him, and for about a quarter of an hour he talked so rationally that I was hoping he might soon get his discharge. He suddenly became most abusive, and as I went out of the door of his room did what I have never seen done since my Rugby school-mastering days, he put his thumb to his nose, and went—just so—at me." As Dr. Temple said this, in the excitement of the narrative, he turned to his gray-headed friend and graphically illustrated the contemptuous gesture. At that moment the open carriage in which they were seated was being driven through one of the most respectable streets of respectable Fulham, and what was the horror of several of the residents at seeing the Right Rev. Lord Bishop of London, whom they were just beginning to know by sight, guilty of such a vulgar act in broad daylight! Certainly the gesture without the explanation of the story that it was intended to illustrate, was profoundly unepiscopal. NUMBER 30. OUR EXCHANGES. We are aware that there are quite a number of white men in official positions who are anxious to disband negro soldiers upon flimsy objections, when the real point is racial prejudice. We have elected President McKinley and when Congress authorizes an increase of our standing army we feel sure he will as before recognize our merit as soldiers and as Republican voters. One of the significant and pleasing things of the campaign was the employment of many of the colored orators of the South to deliver addresses in the Northern states for McKinley and Roosevelt. The addresses of those leaders of the race were listened to by thousands of white people, as well as colored, and much good was accomplished for the race and the Republican cause. In all these schemes (disfranchisement) there is a lesson for the negro of the extreme South which he would do well to learn. He should be convinced by this time that his political future rests largely with himself and that so long as he remains in his present impecunious and illiterate condition there will be no hope for his elevation as a citizen or for the exercise of the right of suffrage. When he shows the disposition to change his present environment, to accumulate property by industry, and to educate himself, he will not be without help from the North, but he must take the initiative. His future rests chiefly upon his own achievements. The colored hotel waiters of Columbus, O., have organized and incorporated a club the purpose of which is social entertainment and intellectual improvement. Milwaukee waiters, go thou and do likewise. It is said that some of the colored people of Dallas, Tex., have organized a company for the purpose of erecting a cotton mill. Chicago: The H. M. Turner Co-operative company of colored men is about to buy a site on which to erect a building to be used as a department store. One year ago today this company was organized by seventeen colored men, with a capital stock of less than $1000. A few months later the company opened a grocery store and meat market. The venture has been sustained in the main by the colored residents of the locality, but there is also a large percentage of its customers numbered among the white families. It is the first co-operative business venture started by local colored men. The department store, in the language of Mr. Turner, the president of the company, "is to be maintained with a black crew." This is done merely as a feature that has been a prime factor in the success achieved by the grocery store and market venture. Experienced colored men and women will be brought from the South and East if necessary to take charge of the executive branches and special features. --- The colored people of Minneapolis, Minn., have organized a joint stock company and will soon open a large grocery store. J. C. Reed is president and J. Ford is secretary. Charles F. Kimball, a broker at 92 La Salle street, Chicago, was made richer by $25,000 by the will of his mother, Laura C. F. Kimball, filed for probate yesterday. Of the estate of $60,000 the son was the largest beneficiary. A grandchild, Musa Cowan, received $10,000, and the residue of the estate was left to the American Female Guardian Society of New York for the purpose of making life members of poor colored children. Preference for children of New Liberian families is made. The appointment of James H. Wolffe, one of Boston's Negro lawyers, as judge advocate general of the national department of the Grand Army of the Republic is of more significance than it could otherwise be because the appointment is the act of a Southern man, who might very naturally be supposed to be in sympathy with the color prejudice of his section. One of the principal objections which has come from the South against the reunion of the ex-Confederates with the Grand Army is the equality of the black man which obtains in that organization.—Boston Transcript. Food for the Goat. Lippincott's tells another Greeley story: "On one occasion, when Horace Greeley was a power in New York journalism, he was sitting on a hotel piazza in Peekskill, quietly scanning the columns of that morning's Tribune, when a stranger came along, glanced contemptuously at the paper he was reading and remarked: 'Fine sheet you've got there, mister! I used to read it myself, but I've subscribed for a decent newspaper now, and as fast as the Tribune comes along I feed it to my goat. That's all it's fit for.' 'So you feed your goat on Tribunes, do you?' Mr. Greeley asked in the mildest accents. 'Yes, sr; I do' blustered the stranger. 'All right, my friend,' said Mr. Greeley quietly. 'Keep right on reading some other paper and feeding your goat Tribunes, and I'll guarantee in three months' time the goat will know considerably more about what's going on in the world than its owner does." KAUGER 1S IN FRANCE, Dutch Cruiser Gelderland, with Oom Paul on Board. RECEIVES AN OVATIOM. * ao at the Docks. Marseilles, Nov. 21—2 p. m.—The Dutch cruiser Gelderland, haying on board former President Kruger of the South African republic, is reported to be off Toulon. ‘The reception of Mr. Kruger is likely to be postponed until tomorrow. In spite of a heavy rain which pre- vailed all night and during the forenocn ae the streets of Marseilles were filled from an early hour by great crowds of ore intent on extending a welcome to Paul Kruger,. President of the South African Republic. At 11:30 a. m. the tp ae fae: Bal y 5 Oe, es 4 a ae id ae ° Ze és he 20 i " Bod 5 ede PRESIDENT KRUGER. steamer Gelderland, carrying the noted voyager, not having been sighted, the committee having the details of the re- ception in charge, announced an adjourn. ment until 2 o'clock p. m. Early in the day Dr. Leyds and Messrs. Fischer and Wessels and the other Boer delegates boarded the launch of the captain of th: ort with the See of meeting and Poardin the Gelderland outside the har- bor. The sea proved too rough, however. to permit of their carrying out their inten- tion, and they were obliged to return ‘The scene at the dock was very pic- turesque. Every coign of vantage was occupied by sightseers. The landing stage was eed decorated with the Trans- vaal and Free State colors, the French tri-color and shields bearing the blue cross of the arms of Marseilles. A red carpet covered the ground, form- ing a bright splash of color at the quay side. Decorations elsewhere in the cit: were practically non-existent, only a few flags being visible along the route, which Mr. Kruger will traverse in going from the quay to the hotel. Senator Pauliat, the president and oth- er members of the Paris and Marseilles reception committee assembled at the landing stage during the forenoon and behind them, drawn up in a long line, were delegations of various patriotic so- cieties, with embroidered silk standards. The vibe Marie lighthouse at the end of the breakwater serves as a view-point for a large gathering of spectators, as the Gelderland will be seen first from there. Numbers of small boats were flitting about the inner harbor filled with spec- tators. Some of the boats were decorat- ed with little Boer and French flags, but none of the steamers at the dock were dressed with bunting. Rain. which had ceased for a time, be- gan falling again at 11:30, whereupon, in view of the fact that the Gelderland may not arrive until late this afternoon or tomorrow, the Boer committee an- nounced that it would disperse until 2 o'clock; the delegations from the societies furled their standards and marched off, and the crowds elsewhere in the town rapidly dissolved. The Gelderland signaled Cape Cepot, off Toulon, at 2 p. m. and continued her voyage to this port. She reported that she was delayed by a slight accident to her machinery. The Gelderland cannot arrive here be fore nightfall and the former president of the Transvaal will not land until to- morrow. Marseilles, Nov. 21.—The Gelderland cannot reach Marseilles before 6 o'clock this evening. 7 y 7 A FAMOUS PRIVATEER. Rares The Schooner Polly, Which Cap- tured Many British Prizes In War of 1812. Boston, Mass., Nov. 21.—A repoft was received from Bangor that the ancient schooner Polly had been wreesed at North Brookville. The loss of the Polly removes from the merchant marine the oldest vessel flying the Stars and Stripes. It was built at pmeerars, in 1805, and hailed from Rockiand. Soy, the war of 1812 it was a privateer. It is said that the ves- sel fought scores of battles during those days and captured no less than eleven British vessels as prizes. It was cap- tured once itself, when the commander was lying sick in his bunk, but it was not long before the Yankees got the ves- sel back again, and it has been flying the Stars and Stripes ever since. ‘The Polly's last fight was with a Brit- ish merchantman, which was heavily armed, at a point half way between Mount Desert and the Duck islands. The privateer was victorious in this bat- tle and captured a rich prize. Since then it has been constantly engaged in the coasting trade. GETS $10,000 FOR A DOG BITE. Supreme Court Affirms a Decision in Favor of a Michigan Child. Kalamazoo, Mich., Nov, 21.—The de- cision in the United States Supreme court in the case of Ruth I. Fye vs. Charles A, Chapin sustains the decision of former Circuit Judge George M. Buck. Henry Fye, father of a little girl, brought suit for $25,000 damages against Chapin for damages inflicted by the latter's $400 Newfoundland dog on the child. The jury gave complainant damages for $10,- 000, which sues. Buck doubled under an obsolete law. Chapin appealed to the Supreme court, which attirmed, but de- cided the sum should not be doubled. GET FORGIVENESS AND $2,500. Mr. and Mrs. Addison Fields’ Troubles Followed by Sunshine. Shelbyville, Ind., Nov. 20.—Addisén Fields and Clara Dake, who were mar- ried last week without the consent of her grandfather, Benjamin Dake, the girl afterward being locked in the Dake home and her husband driven from the prem- ises, were yesterday forgiven by the grandparent, who presented the young folks with a check for $2500. BODY FOUND IN FIRE RUINS. Lonely ‘Telegraph Olfice at Reno, Minn., Burns and Operator May Have Been Murdered. Duluth, Minn., Nov. 20.—In a burning telegraph office at Reno, sixty miles up the Duluth & Iron Range road, charred bones and burned flesh were found Sun- day night. There are indications that J. W. Quigley, night operator at Reno, was murdered and the building set afire to hide the crime. The building was discovered on fire by Engineer Carisen, who was going past Reno on an oe He stopped at the depot, but saw it would be useless to try and save the building. He went on to a lumber camp, where he found a man who claimed to have been at Reno at the time of the fire. He said he was too drunk to know how the building happened to catch fire. When asked if there was any pe else there except the operator and imself, he said there was a stranger. Another train stopped at Reno after the fire, and the crew found a few pieces of burnt bones on a woven-wire bedspring, and in searching further through the ruins found some burned flesh. J. W. Quigley was on duty at Reno just a short time before the wire at Reno was cut off, and has not been seen since He was 35 years of age and single. 7 1 r THE RUSSIAN MISSION. Senator Wolcott will Probably Suc- ceed Ambassador Tower at St. Petersburg. Washington, D. C., Nov. 20.—Senator Edward O. Wolcott of Colorado is slated for one of the most important diplomatic posts in the service of the United States government. There is excellent authority for saying that Ambassador Charlemagne Tow, now representing the United States at St. Petersburg, will retire at the expiration of the present McKinley administration and that the eloqueat Coloradoan will be chosen as his succes- sor. It is well known that the junior sen- ator from Colorado deserted the silver pare of Colorado and returned to the publican party and is now regarded as a full-fledged Republican, as is evidenced by the fact he was temporary chairman of the national Republican convention at Philadelphia. As the next Legislature of Colorado will not be controlled by the Republicans, it is certain Senator Wolcott will not be re-elected to the Senate. He is well equipped to fill the mission at St. Peters- burg, and the President desires to reward the Colorado man for returning to the ery in the face of an almost certain lefeat for the Senate if he deserted his silver friends. Senator Wolcott has a large fortune and ‘can well afford to maintain the dig- nity of the American embassy at St. Pe- tersburg in a befitting manner. While Mr. Wolcott has had no experience in diplomacy, he has been abroad several times, being at the head of the com- mission to secure the agreement of the European nations to a ratio for silver. He is an orator of the first-class, is pop- ular with his associates, and has enter- tained extensively. Although Senator Wolcott is 52 years old, he appears to be a _much younger man. He was born at Long Meadow, Mass.; he served a few months as a pri- vate in the One Hundred and Fiftieth Qhio volunteers; entered Yale college in 1866, but did not graduate; graduated from Harvard Law school in 1871, and removed to Colorado. He is a lawyer, was elected to the United States Senate to succeed Thomas M. Bowen, and took his seat on March 4, 1889. He was re- elected in 1895 and is now serving his second term, which will expire March 3, RETURNS AFTER NINE YEARS. Missing Bridegroom Making a Search of Divorce Records. Marion, Ind., Nov. 20.—Owen B. Shat- fer, son of a Findlay (O.) banker, re- turned to Marion yesterday after an ab- sence of nine years. Shaffer came to Marion in 1891 and was married to Miss Eva B. Lugar. Immediately after the ceremony he disappeared and had not since been here. He appeared in the county clerk's office today and requested that he be allowed to examine the di- vorce records for the last nine years. He stated that he heard that his wife had been married again and that he wished to prosecute her. ‘ Bie records show that his wife applied for a divorce in 1898, but the suit was dismissed for lack of prosecution. Shaf- fer is now a passenger conductor on the St. Louis and Cairo division of the Balti- more & Ohio Southwestern. The desert- ed wife left Marion four or five years ago. NOTED CONFEDERATE DYING. Capt. Peter Everett, Who Served Un- der Morgan, Near His End, Lexington, Ky., Nov. 20.—Capt. Peter Everett, who served under Gen. John Morgan in the Civil war, and rivaled that Confederate in deeds of daring and bravery, is dying of erysipelas in the in- sane asylum here. His effort to capture Gen. Burbridge, at which time he burned a bridge and captured a train near Lexington, and his burning of the Mount Sterling, Ky., courthouse, which was used by the Fed- erals as a prison, with sixty men, in the face of .a garrison of 2000, were note- worthy incidents of his career. Everett has been in the asylum since 1874, and his less of reason was attrib- uted to illness resulting from the bite of a rabid fox, received in a chase. He lived at Mount Sterling, and is a rela- tive of Senator-elect Blackburn. STUDENT’S FATAL CLIMB. Falls from Water Tower at Princeton and is Killed Instantiy. Princeton, N. J., Nov. 20.—While at- tempting to climb an iron ladder running - the side of a high water tower on ercer heights, sone outside of Prince- ton, Leonard M. Nash of Bradford, Pa., a student here, lost his hold, fell about 110 feet and was killed instantly. The Uses of Burlap. An enormous and inereasing amount of burlap is used in this country, 500,- 000,000 yards a year. it is said. Burlap is used for making bags, it figures in coat linings. among other things, and is even entering, in a dressed-up state, into wall coverings. But it is chiefly used for packing and wrapping, and with our increasing export trade great quantities of it are demanded, —While an old Paris hawker named Mme. Jean Jacques was trying the other day to dislodge a mouse which had sought refuge in the chimney she dis- turbed some bricks and discovered a hid- ing place containing bills to the value of . which had belonged to a form- er tenant of miserly habits. —High-angle fire is that tired from guns at an elevation exceeding 15 de- grees. —An ox can carry 200-pounds weight on a day's journey, a camnel 400 pounds. RELEASE SOLDIERS. Volunteers In the Phillippines to be Brought Home and For- mally Discharged. Washington, D. ©. NOV. #2.—~Adjie Gen. Corbin authorized the statemen! that it is the intention of the war de partment to bring home from the Phi} lipines to the United States everyone 0} the volunteers who cares to come an! discharge them on or before the Ist o! July next, when, under the law, the vol- unteers must be mustered out. It is ths expectation and hope of the war depart meut that the coming Congress will, at an early period in the session, enact legis- lation which will enable the departmen{ to replace the volunteer force by a perma: nent force of soldiers. In that case, such of the men in the ranks as care to con- tinue in the service will be re-enlisted as regulars, and any vacancies that may exist through the muster out of the yolun teers will ff. supplied by original enlist: ments in the United States. It is be lieved that these enlistments can be mad: in time to replace all the retired Phil lipine volunteers before the first of th; next fiscal year, without causing any hiatus. May Change Commanders, President McKinley has under consid- eration an important change in the ar- rangement of command in the Philip- pines, which, if adopted, will cause con- sternation among certain army officers on duty in the war department. The rea- son for considering any such plan arises from the complaint made Wa general of- ficers on duty in the Philippines, who desire to return home, Most of, these of- ficers feel that they have served their al- lotted period in the field and have en- countered all the Rarelisivg and arduous duty which should by rights devolve up- on them. The officers irs have become restless and who have expressed a de- sire to be recalled are: Gen. MacAr- thur, commanding the division of the Philippines; Gen. J. C. Bates, command- ing the department of southern Luzon, and Gen. Frederick D. Grant, com- manding troops in the field, among oth- ers. The interesting proposition which the President has under consideration co- templates the withdrawai of these offi- cers and their relief by certain bureau officers, who possess the requisite of hav- ing enjoyed what is known in the army as military education. If this scheme is carried out, among those who are liable to be relieved from the congenial billets of bureau chiefs are Gen. Buffington, chief of ordnance; Al- fred E. Bates, paymaster-general, and Gen. John M. Wilson, chief of engineers. These are the only heads of the staff corps who are graduates of a military academy, the other chiefs having entered from civil life, most of them after serv- ice in the volunteers during the Civil war. England Asked to Explain. London, Nov. 21.—United, States Am- bassador Choate has made representa- tions to the British foreign office on the subject of the Filipino junta at Hong Kong. The foreign office is investigating the matter and will reply soon as the re- ports of the authorities at Hong Kong are received. DR. GILMAN RESIGNS. President of Johns Hopkins Uni- versity Quits Because Financial Support Its Insufficient. Baltimore, Md., Nov. 21.—While ad- yancing years are given by Dr. Dasiel Coit Gilman as a reason for the an- nouncement of his determination to re- sign as president of Johns Hopkins uni- versity, after a quarter of a century+of service in that capacity, the chief cause is believed to be the financial condition of the university. For some years Dr, Gilman has had to struggle against adverse circumstances as president of the great institution of learn- ing which was organized and perfected under his direction. He is now nearly 70 years of age, too old to battle longer against the lack of finance in the prose- eution of his work. The next few years are likely to be critical ones in the history of the univer- sity so far as its finances are concerned. President Gilman's appeals to the state for aid have met with but feeble re- sponse. The last Legislature appropriat- ed $25,000 a year for two years. The ay has never appropriated any funds. ‘here is much speculation as to Presi- dent Gilman's successor. Dr. Ira Rem- sen and Dr. Herbert B. Adams of the university are the faculty favorites. Dr. Woodrow Wilson of Princeton is men- tioned. Gilman's resignation does not take effect until next February. He will continue as trustee. A PLAYWRIGHT DEAD. Chas. H. Hoyt Succumbs to an At- tack of Paresis— Violent at the Last. Concord, N. H., Nov. 21.—Charles H. Hoyt, world-famous author of the Hoyt farce-comedies, died at his home in Charlestown last evening of paresis. His illness dates back two years to the death of his second wife, Caroiine Miskel, one of the greatest beauties of her time. Aft- er her death Mr. Hoyt gave no care to his health and soon laid the foundation for the terrible disease which caused his death. His malady did not become ap- parent, however, until the spring of 1899, when, in Washington, his last play, “A Dog in the Manger,” proved an utter failure. It was then seen that the author was in no condition, mentally or physi- cally, for work, and friends placed him in the care of physicians. He grew no better, and last summer he was incar- -cerated in an asylum for the insane at Hartford, Conn. This caused a great commotion among his friends, particularly at his home in | Charlestown, and after legal proceedings Mr. Hoyt was removed from the institu- tion and returned to Charlestown, where he had since remained. For the last few days Mr. Hoyt’s mania assumed a ¥io- lent form. Monday his condition was such that it was not thought he could live’ through the day. Mr. Hoyt’s death has greatly shocked this @ity, where he was born and had spent much time. As a member of the Legislature in 1893 and 1895 from the tewn of Charlestown he was prominent in New Hampshire polities, and was aft- erward urged to accept a congressional peta cd Spt ORDERS DIVIDENDS CUT. Hammond Langhs at Idea of Stratton Gold Mine Being Exhausted. Colorado Springs, Col., Nov. 21.—John Hays Hammond, the mining expert now in the employ of the Venture corporation of London, began a two-days’ examinz- tion of the Stratton peace aes gold mine at Cripple Creek, which is sensa- tionally =e as having been ex- hausted. As the result Mr. Hammond has cabled to London to cut dividends and to do development work. He says the mine has been badly squeezed to maintain the big dividends which the pi Pears eg a the shareholders. e adds that it is foolish to talk about the mine being played out. Stratton In- dependence stock is owned chiefly in Lon- don. The stripping of the mine for divi- dends reduced the ES of stock from $15 to $5 a share on the London exchange. STRIPPED OF HIS POWER, Prince Tuan Reported to Have Been Arrested. PUNISHED BY EMPEROR. "0 oie taeeanae fsenae Berlin, Nov.21.—A special dispatch from Pekin says that Prince Tuan has been arrested and strippel of power by order of the Emperor and Empress Dowager; but that fears are felt for Gen. Tung Fuh Siang, who, with 16,000 regulars, is in Hu Jang Pu. Berlin, Nov. 21.—Count von Waldersee cables from Pekin that he will return the viceroy’s visit today. He has advices from Col. Yorck’s corps showing that the Chinese Gen. Ho, with 10,000 regular troops and much artillery, is near WKal- gan prepared to resist energetically a further advance of the expedition. Col. Yorck, therefore, will await reinforce- ments before attempting to proceed. London, Nov. 21.—A special dispatch from Pekin dated November 19, says the Kalgan expedition found Admiral Heo having a strong position at Hsueng Hwa, and the commanders of the allied forces decided they were not strotig enough to attack him, and sent to Pekin for rein- forcements. Tien Tsin, Noy. 20, via Shanghai, Nov. 21.—There has been considerable firing recently in the neighborhood of Tien Tsin, and, owing to a report that the German quarter of the city would be attacked last night, the German sentries were doubled, a regiment patrolled the opposite bank of the river, and the remainder of the German troops were ordered to hold themselves in readiness for action at an instant’s notice. Nothing happened, however, to show cause for the alarm, although today all the Chinese servants of the ‘Bengal Lan- cers, officers and men, left, saying they. had been informed that the Boxers were marching in a large body on Tien Tsin and Pekin. Neither Gen. Lorne Sag? hers of the British troops nor Col. Moale of the Americans believe there is any truth in the rumor; but the natives evidently be- lieve it, and many of them are leaving the service of the foreigners. Holland will Ask Reparation. New York, Nov. 21.—A dispatch to the Herald from The Hague says: The Dutch government was recently request- ed by the Chinese minister to take part in the negotiations with China. Its re- ply was to the effect that Holland had never been at war with China, but that she intended to demand Se for anything that might have happened te her minister at Pekin, and for any loss caused to Dutch residents in the Celestial ao e 3 e Dutch minister, who is. still at Shanghai with his interpreter, Mr. Van Duysberg, has received orders to return to Pekin and forward particulars of the damage done by the Boxers. CHICAGO CORN CORNER. Young Mr. Phillips Unloads 480,- 000 Bushels of His Holdings at Laven Prolite. Chicago, Il, Nov. 21.—George Phil- lips, the young board-of-trade plunger, who is said to have cornered 3,000,000 bushels of November corn, yesterday un- loaded about 180,000 bushels of his hold- ings at large profits. There is x rumor that Phillips is being backed by wealthy grain merchants of southern Illinois. This, however, is de- nied by some of Phillips’ friends. ‘he young man's transactions of yesterday netted him several thousand dollars, and it is thought he will realize more than $1,000,000 out of his corner. Phillips be- gan to sell late Monday from 39% cents to 48% cents. The highest point reached yesterday was 42% cents. It closed at 4114, against 405% cents the day before. It is believed by some of the old-timers on the board that Phillips is am/‘itious to become a Napoleon of the cornpit. His methods seem entirely original, and many who have spent thirty years where he has spent one in market experiences say that they would hesitate long at vader- takings Phillips makes without fear. It is now believed that Phillips. as he has the November shorts in a tight place, will try the system of unloading at con- venient times and taking profits as the price advances. November corn shorts were given an- other severe shaking up today on the board of trade. The price of that option soared to 45 cents and closed with sellers at that price. This is an advance of 3% cents for the day. The market ap- parently was completely under the con- trol of George Phillips, and it is now the general opinion that the corner in No- vember corn engineered by that young speculator will be a successful one. Phil- lips showed his confidence in his position today by buying some corn while the price was near the 45-cent mark. BOLD RAID ON A BANK. ire eect Citizens Held at Bay While Robbers Dynamite the Bullding—Fright- ened by Telephone Ring. Delaware, O.. Nov. 21—A gang of twelve men made a raid on the Sperry & Warnstaff Deposit bank at 3 o'clock yes- terday morning and tore the building out at one end with five charges of dynamite in an effort_to burst the safety yvauit containing $75,000. The bank is located at Ashley, ten miles north of here, and is a deposit for the farmers living in three counties. The cash on hand is always heavy at this time of year. Four horses belonging to Al Sterrell and Ed Osbourne were hitched to carriages stolen from their barns, and were kept at the bank door. Nine men stationed at as many arts of the village held the citizens at pay’ while the dynamite was being uscd by the three men inside of the bank. The gang had stolen four shotguns and ten revolvers from Frank Phillips’ hard- ware store at Marengo. where they got off a Toledo & Ohio Central passenger train early last night. They walked three miles, stole rigs enough for the party and drove five miles to the bank. They were armed heavily enough to have killed ev- ery man in the village. Dr. Buckley and Guy Shoemaker, mer- chants, were covered with guns and com- manded not to speak. The four charges exploded laid open the safe door and the last explosion twisted the inner door enough to admit a man’s hand. There was $75,000 within touch when Banker Sperry heard the explosions. rushed to the telephone exchange, and had the cen- tral ring in the bank's telephone. This frightened the robbers, who were about ready to gather up the wealth. Shooting was going on the outside be- tween citizens and the guards and the three men weakened and rushed to the carriages, in which all got in and drove away. One team ran away, wrecking the carriage in a ditch, the horses being recovered. The other team were trot- ters, valued at $1000, and have not been found. The bank safe was ruined and the building will have to be overhauled. MONEY PACKAGE LOST. Mysteriously Abstracted from the American Express Company— Safe was Opened. | Sioux City, Ia., Nov. 20.—A $5000 package of money, sent to the Security National» bank~here by a Sheldon (la.) bank, via the American Express com- pany last Friday, is missing. It was stolen some time between its sending at 5 o'clock p. m. Friday and 9 p.m. The exact time and the manner of the rob- bery and the identity of the robber are yet a mystery. Thomas Hyland was the messenger in charge of the express car on Friday’s trip. When the safe and its contents arrived in Sioux City it was taken charge of by Levi Sawyer, night agent of the company at the North-West- ern depot. Some time later, probably an hour or two, the loss was discovered when the money packages were checked over at the uptown office by Agent ae: lor. Investigations were immediately made, but they failed to clear up the mat- ter. According to the story of Night Agent Sawyer, he received all of the money packages as usual and placed them in the safe im the station office while he attend- ed to his other duties about the train. When he returned he found the office and safe open and the money gone. General Superintendent W. A. Naylor of Chicago, Special Agent J. W. Hartshorn of Chi- eago and L. A. Garner of Omaha, super- intendent of the Western lines, are in the city making a careful investigation of the circumstances of the robbery. They have examined all the employes who might in any way have handled the package. Supt. Naylor admitted that a package of money had been stolen, but he did not state the amount. He said: “It was lost somewhere between Shel- don and Sioux City. Its loss wasn't dis- covered until some time after the train had arrived. We cannoi state at this time where the loss occurred nor how it ocenrred. Those matters are still to be brought out through our investigations.” The sapprtincs put forward by sev- eral who have interested themselves in the case is that the safe in which the money was placed at the Omaha depot was robbed while Night Agent Sawyer was out of the station office attending to train dnties GIRL’S FRIGHTFUL RIDE. Clings to Guard Rail of Vestibuled Car in Drenching Rain—Un- able to Enter. Indianapolis, Noy. 20.—Miss Cornelia Wetherton of Greencastle reached the depot at that place just as the vestibuled train on the Big Four was leaving the station. She caught hold of the guard rail of one of the platforms and got upon the steps. The night was dark and a heavy rain was falling, but when she tried to open. the door to reach the plat- form of the car she found it locked against her. The train quickly gained in speed, and soon was rushing over the rails at twen- ty miles an hour. The speed increased, and as the train gained in momentum Miss Wetherton’s peril increased. The rain was driven like needles against her face, and the fingers with which she clung to the hand rail were numb with the cold. She rapped on the window of the door, but the noise of the train drowned her feeble attempts to attract attention. The wind tore her hair down, blew her skirts about her and seemed striving with fury to break her grasp and hurl her from-the train. The Knick- erbocker did not stop between Greencas- tle and Indianapolis. It covers the dis- tance, about thirty-five miles, in almost as many minutes, and for something over forty minutes Miss Wetherton was com- pelled to remain in her perilous position. ‘When the express reached the union sta- tion Miss Wetherton sank to the platform exhausted. She recovered when she was led to the warmth of the depot lobby. In a few minutes she had sufficiently recov- ered to take her place in the train and leave the station on the same coach on the steps of which she had experienced her terrible ride, SPIRITED HIS WIFE AWAY. Husband of Jeremiah Rusk’s Niece Sues Relatives for $65,000. Buffalo, N. Y., Nov. 20,—Mr,. and Mrs. Charles D, Zimmermann and Dr. James W. Putnam are the defendants in a suit for $65,000 damages brought by William Yimmermann, a patent attorney of Chi- cago, for alienation of his wife's affec- tions. The suit is on trial before Judge Hazel in the United States court. Dr. Putnam has a national reputation as a specialist in mental diseases and Mrs. Jennie Fourger Zimmermann, wife of the plaintiff. was the favorite niece of Jeremiah Rusk, who was once secretary of agriculture. She is now said to be in Bergen, Norway, and the plaintiff alleges that the defendants conspired to spirit her away, He says his sister-in-law does not like him because he once expressed regret to his brother that he was a hen- pecked husband, Dr. Putnam is made a defendanit_be- cause he examined Mrs. William Zim- mermann regarding her sanity and re- fused to issue a certificate that she was insane. The plaintiff's wife lived in But- falo for some time after she left her hus- band and gave music lessons here. Zim- mermann says he called on her once while she was living in a flat in Bryant street and she scratched his face, WIFE TAKES REVENGE. Beaten by Her Husband She Accuses Him of Murder, Marion, Ind., Nov. 20.—Robert Clark, who owns # saloon and roadhouse near Converse, eleven miles west of here, was arrested on the charge of murder yester- day. About six months ago a giasswork- er came to Converse and obtained em- ployment in a factory. He was known as “Jack Jagger,” but his true name was never learned. A few days later he was found dead in front of Clark’s saloon. Clark stated to the officers that the man fell against a post, which cansed his death. The coroner held an inquest, but failed to get any evidence that pointed to murder. The officers, however, sus- pected Clark of being in some way re- sponsible. On Saturday Clark whipped his wife and she came to Marion anu told the state's attorney that Clark had killed the man. She alleges that “Jag- ger” came to the saloon in Clark's ab- sence and tattooed the image of an In- dian on the arm of their boy. When Clark returned he was so euraged that he seized a club and beat the man over the head until he was dead, and then threw him into the street. DONATE $50,000 TO SCIENCE. Drs. Quine and Steele Give $25,000 Each to College of Physicians. Chicago, Ill., Nov. 20.—Fifty thousand dollars has been given to the College of Physicians and Surgeons for endow- ment purposes by two Chicago physi- cians, who are members of the faculty. Dr. William E. Quine, dean of the school, gives $25,000 to endow the col- lege library, and Dr. D. A. K. Steele ives $25,000 to endow the pathological Gcceatacy: The gitts, following direct- ly upon Dr. Nicholas Senn's $50,000 en- dowment for Rush Medical college, make a handsome series of offerings by profes- sional uien to the science from the prac- tice of which they derive their fortunes. THIRTY-SEVEN ARE KILLEC Furious Tornado Sweeps Over Pari of Columbia, Tenn. WRECKED BY THE WIND Snowplows at Work in the Gloriou Climate of California—Cold was through Macedonia, a negro suburb. The main portion of the city was not struck. An ice factory in the suburbs was wrecked. Much damage was done in Maury county. Huntsyille, Ala., Nov. 21.—Twenty new unoccupied houses were blown away at Dallas, a suburb of Huntsville, by a heavy windstorm last night. So far as has been heard, no one was injured. Ne reports from country districts have beev received. Birmingham, Ala., Noy. 21.—A special to the Age-Herald by long-distance tele- phone from Columbia, Tenn., says: A terrific tornado moytng in a westerly di- rection struek this place at 9:30 o'clock last night and left havoc in its path. The northern and western sections of the city, which are populated principally by negroes. were almost entirely swept away. Fiftcen persons are known to have been killed and it is feared that this number will be largely increased by later reports. The dead are: EVELYN FARRELL. FLORENCE FARRELL. CAPT. A. F. AYDOLETTE, WIFE and one son; another son and daughter miss- ng. KATE FORSYTHE. JAMES CHERRY. SIX NEGROES, names unknown. The tornado lasted for about five min- utes and its path extended about 1000 feet wide, which is clearly marked by devastation. Many houses, including a large num- ber of negro cabins, were blown down and many others unroofed and otherwise damaged. ‘The fencing surrounding the United States arsenal was blown away but the building remains intact. Memphis, Tenn., Nov. 21.—Meager re- ports from towns along the line of the Illinois Central railroad in northern Mis- sissippi say that the tornado wrought much havoc. Thirteen persons are re- Ported killed between Love station and Cold Water. The tornado swept every- thing in its path. At Cold Water sev- eral houses were destroyed; also the Southern Railway company's large brick depot, the Methodist, Baptist and Pres- byterian churches. Lumber firms whose mills are located on Wolf river, the northern boundary of the city, suffered damage estimated at more than $300,000 by the overflowing of that stream last night. The sudden rise resulted from a heavy rainfall throughout this section, which at Mem- phis reached 2.84 inches. The losses are chiefly in the great number of timber rafts, moored in Wolf river, which broke loose and were carried out into the Mis- sissippi river. A vast number of logs are now scattered for miles down the river. A large force of men is trying to recover the timber, but a largep roportion of it will be lost. ep Tenn., Nov. 21.—Reports from Lulul. Tunica county, state that three negroes were killed, their bodies having been carried _a distance of three miles by the wind. Eight residences and three churches were destroyed. Nashville, Tenn., Nov. 21.—The Nash- ville & Chattanooga depot and eighteen other houses were demolished by a_tor- nado at Lavegene. A man named Rob- ertson and his child were killed. La Grange, Tenn., Nov. 21.—A tornado struck this town yesterday, causing much damage and killing three persons. Snowplows Ordered Out. San Francisco, Cal., Nov. 21.—A_ se- vere storm prevails over northern Cali- fornia, but no serious damage has been reported, though telegraphic communica- tion with some points has been interrupt- ed. The Southern Pacific company has ordered out its snowplows on the Central Pacific line. This is the first time in ten years that a November storm has made such an order necessary. Snow is failing from Colfax to Reno and at the summit it is seven feet in depth and still falling heavily. So far traffic has not been interrupted. Snowslides Do Damage. Denver. Col., Novy, 21.—A heavy snow- storm, accompanied by a high wind, has been in progress on the western slope in Colorado for the past three days. The warm weather melted the snow very fast and slides have occurred, doing consider- able damage. Railroad traffic is being interrupted-and work in the mines in cer- tain sections has stopped because of the inability to transport supplies. North of Glenwood Springs very cold weather is reported, which is gradually extending southward. Light falls of snow are reported from several places on the eastern side of the range. Blizzard Sweeps Over Iowa. Des Moines, Ia.. Nov. 21.—A_ violent etorm of wind and snow, practically a blizzard, came down from the northwest, and the ground is now covered with snow to the depth of several inches, with no prospect of cessation last night. Street ears were stopped by sleet, and it is probable that railway traffic will be delayed before morning. The cold is nct severe as yet. ‘ Grand Forks, N. D., Nov. 21.—The first blizzard of the season occurred Man- day night. The storm was general throughout the state and roads are bad- ly drifted. Seven inches. of snow have fallen and the storm is still raging. Hundreds of Cabins Demolished. Nashville, Tenn., Nov. 21.—In the vi- cinity of Nolensville, Williamson county, James Hampton was internally injured by the storm and will die. James Chris- man’s house was blown over and his baby is missing. Mrs. Bromlet was killed at the home of J. D. Vernon. Nan- nie Hampton was killed and Black Hampton seriously injured, both legs be- oe broken. Memphis, Tenn., Nov. 21.—Hundreds of cabins on plantations near Lula, Miss., were demolished. Four negroes were killed. Near Tunica five negroes were killed in the collapse of their cabin. A school- house, a church and a number of planta- tion houses in the same locality were de- molished. A white man and a negro were killed six miles south of Hernando, Miss. Many plantation houses, a cotton gin and a church were destroyed. Nineteen Killed at La Grange. Kansas oe Mo., Noy. 21.—A tele- gram_ received at the eos offices of the Kansas City, Fort tt & Memphis railway here confirms the epee that nineteen lives were lost at and near La THE GOLDEN ROD. This flower is fuller of the sun Than any our pale North can show; It has the heart of August won, And scatters wide the warmth and glow Kindled at summer's midnoon blaze, Where gentians of September bloom, Along October's leaf strewn ways, And through November's paths of gloom. Herald of autumn's reign, it sets Gay bonfires blazing round the field; Rich autumn pays in gold his debts For tenancy that summer yields. Beauty's slow harvest now comes on, And promise with fulfillment won; The heart's vast hope does but begin, Filled with ripe seeds of sweetness gone Because its myriad glimmering plumes Like a great army's stir and wave; Because its gold in billows blooms, The poor man's barren walks to lave; Because its sun shaped blossoms show How souls receive the light of God, And unto earth give back that glow— Lathank Him for the golden rod. A. WOEFUL THANKSGIVING. We had never spent "a Thanksgiving" in the country. And in town the Pilgrims' holy day has degenerated into an 'Arry and 'Arriet "blowout." It was decided in family council to hie us in a body to a country box among the hills, where we had enjoyed four idyllic summers, and there keep the hoary old festa as Yankee pre-Raphaelite aquarelles tell us it should be observed. Snow fell two days before the important Thursday. All the better! It would have been all the best had the storm held off until we were actually housed and could read "Snow-Bound" over blazing logs answering roar for roar, the "grand old harper" smiting and twanging the oaks and hickories of the stroke. We took the 9 o'clock train from the city. It was crowded, mainly with one sort and condition of men. Each of them was presumably going to the old homestead—gray, yellow or white, backed by the invariable red barn—"for Thanksgiving." Some chewed orange peel to tone down their breaths to the decorous prejudices of the old folks at home, others inhaled bad cigars in the "smoker," and brought the evil incense into our car. At least two-thirds munched peanuts and strewed the floor with the shells. One and all talked loudly and laughed boisterously. A red-hot stove at each end of the car brewed the reek of whisky, tobacco, orange peel and roasting peanuts into a nuisance. It was an accommodation train, halting at every "turn-out" to set down trippers moved by filial piety or farmhouse romance and poetry to maintain the traditions of the day. At the end of the fifteenth mile we came to a dead stand-still. A coal train had been wrecked and must be cleared away before we could go on. We were stranded in the exact center of an uncomely expanse of fields covered with sodden snow and criss-crossed by blackish stone fences. Now a farmstead was visible for over a mile on all sides of us; half a dozen mean huts knotted into a sort of settlement about some railway coaling sheds, and twenty disreputable loafers lounged from them to inspect the wreck and our train. The one sort and condition of men affiliated right speedily with these, and whereas paterfamilias made divers abortive excursions in various directions in quest of a draught of milk and slices of bread for his hungry children and a reasonably clean spot where materfamilias might retire for awhile from the growing strife of tongues dashing against the becalmed train, it was but too evident that mountain dew and Jersey lightning were to be had for good fellowship and for money. All babbled, more or less tipsily, of the day we were celebrating, drinking to it with every imaginable form of expletive, and some that, until that unhappy hour were quite unimaginable by materfamilias and her terrified younglings. The average American's one idea of a holiday is license, and the one idea increased and prevailed as the hours dragged by. We were halted at 10:30. At 3 the rails were free and the celebrants of the honorable anniversary tumbled tumultously into their seats, the one idea uppermost. All over the broad and teeming land turkeys had offered their brown breasts, reeking with richness, to the carver's blade; cranberries had bled by the million million; pumpkin pies and plum puddings had surfeited the tens of thousands of sensible people who had stayed at home and feasted conventionally. Since our early breakfast we had eaten just one water cracker apiece; we were lame with long sitting, sickened in body by foul air and in soul by foul language. What was left of spirit and hope revived with each mile left behind us. Materfamilias told stories to the confiding innocents of the sleigh drive they would have from the station, the dinner and fire and fun awaiting us at home. We had managed to get off a telegram to our caretaking gardener at 11 o'clock, ordering him to send to every train until we came and to keep the dinner hot. At 4:30 we alighted at the shabby little station nearest our idyllic cottage. No sleigh was in waiting; not a living creature was in sight, and the station was locked. A bitter wind moaned up and down the valley, and the unsympathetic sun was hardly a yard above the hills. Paterfamilias shouldered the 2-year-old baby and led the forlorn procession "across lots" of unbroken and stiffening snow. By the air line we projected for ourselves the walk was a mile long. We were wet up to the knees with snow water and exhausted to faintness when we reached the gardener's lodge at the entrance to our grounds. It was shut fast; no answer was vouchsafed to our knocking; no faint blue reek arose from chimney. The children had behaved heroically up to this instant. When their father announced darkly that the villains had never got his dispatch and had taken themselves off upon a Thanksgiving spree of their own baby began to sob, and silent tears glazed the purpled cheeks of the oldest girls. "This is the tassel upon the cap of the climax!" said their mother in deadly calmness. "We will go to the house and break our way in. Since starve we must, we will starve in our beds, under plenty of blankets." She took a child by each hand, paterfamilias reshouldered the weeping baby, and we pulled our feet out of the congealing snow. A plantation of evergreens hid the turn in the path at which we had our first glimpse of the cottage. A weak cry from the children, an astonished snort from paterfamilias, a devout ejaculation from the mother, broke into the gusty air. For royal banners of smoke, tinted by the glowing west, streamed from every chimney, each window was stained by scarlet fire-gleams from within; Frank, our faithful watchdog, bounded from the porch with a bay of welcome, and at the joyous yelp the front door was flung wide. Our telegram had arrived in good season; the sleigh had gone to meet us by the road, and, being a little behind time, had missed us, who came across lots. While our trusty retainers made breathless explanations the odor of roast turkey was borne to us upon the flood of warm air pouring through hall and doorway. Dinner would be on the table by the time we could get ourselves into dry clothes. Never did another dinner taste so good; never was wood fire more jolly than that in which the children roasted chestnuts, and beside which paterfamilias smoked the cigar of content, and M. Black and white combinations are considered very elegant this season, and are as much sought after by the young girl as by the matron. This beautiful model is of white taffeta, entirely tucked, and black mousseline de soie, also tucked finely. The closing is at the left side, giving an opportunity for a plastron effect, produced by cutting out the taffeta and applying on a black mousseline-covered foundation. The right edge has a line of tiny black passementerie buttons. A jabot of pleated mousseline, bordered with black lace, finishes the left side. The sleeves have turned-back cuffs and undersleeves of the black mousseline. At the sides the waist is slashed to show an inserted piece of plain taffeta, with lace applications. materfamilias dreamed and moralized. To the home nook, "curtained and closed and warm," came the shout of the windgod, a very paean of rejoicing for mishaps overpast and for the abundant compensations that crowned the outgoing of our one eventful Thanksgiving day.—New York World. perpetrated since the previous autumn. "—a little weigh she has."—Harper Bazar. Their Caller—"I don't see why Coun Parchesi and his American wife should quarrel." Miss Davis—"Their interests clash, do they not?" HUMOROUS ITEMS. "Is Kitts anything of a hunter?" "Well, he never lets up when he gets track of a Welsh rabbit."—Indianapolis Journal. "What is an archangel?" the Sunday school teacher asked a little girl. "It's an angel that came out of the ark," said the child. Tippie—"What was it that led to your misunderstanding with Steve?" Sibyl—"An understanding with some other fellow."—Harlem Life. An Atchison girl who can jump a five-foot fence, and accomplish other athletic feats, has put her affections on a young man who wears rubbers when there is a dew.—Atchison Globe. Casey—"So the boss fired Cassidy for being drunk? And how did he know he was drunk?" Costigan—"Whoy, th' dom fool wint and fell six shtories widout hurting himself."—Judge. "And he stole the 'possum from you,' said the judge. "Yes, suh; en wuss dan dat, he not only cooked it, en eat it, but pick his teeth right in front er my do'!"—Philadelphia North American. Customer (in barber's chair)—"So you haven't heard Herr Von Thumper, the world-famed pianist?" German Barber—"Nein. Dose bianists neffer batronize me, an' so I neffer batronize dem."—Tit-Bits. "My wife learned French in five weeks." "Does she speak it correctly?" "Well, Prof. De Verges says her French is as good as any spoken in our neighborhood."—Indianapolis Journal. He thrust the sealed letter through the window and put down 2 cents. window, and you do two cents. Well, what do you want?" asked the steward, clerk, griffin. sure, "An automobile, please," he replied, sweaty—Philadelphia, North American, sweetly.—Philadelphia North American Mrs. Jones—"I am sorry to hear of your husband's bankruptcy, Mrs. Robinson." Mrs. Robinson—"Ah, yes, it has cut him up so awfully that he is going to retire from business and go abroad."—Pick-Me-Up. Mistress—"Margaret, what does that policeman want around here so much? Whom does he come to see?" Maid—"I don't think, ma'am, he comes to see you; so there's no occasion for you to worry yourself about him."—Boston Transcript. "Gertrude, what is that awfully deep pan for?" "Oh, I'm going to make George a pumpkin pie four inches thick; according to his reports that's about the way his mother used to make them."—Indianapolis Journal. "Miss Keedick is taking the first course in the Female College of Journalism. It will last three months." "What is the subject for the first few months?" "Learning to sharpen a lead pencil."—Pearson's Weekly. "Ah! beautiful lady," exclaimed the clairvoyant, "you have come to find your future husband, is it not so?" "Not much," replied the beautiful lady; "I have come to find out where my present husband is when he's absent."—Philadelphia Press. Von Blumer—"What's the matter? You look sad." Dimpleton—"I feel sad. This morning I deceived my wife for the first time." "Oh, is that all?" Pooh! You'll recover. Don't let that worry you." "But it does, old man. She caught me at it."—Detroit Free Press. "Jack Sheppard is considered the prototype of road agents, isn't he?" "Oh. I don't know. What's the matter with Atlas?" "Atlas?" "Yes. All the world's a stage, you know, and Atlas held it up."—Philadelphia Press. Lawyer—"You say that you were in the saloon at the time of the assault referred to in the complaint?" Witness—"I was, sir." Lawyer—"Did you take cognizance of the barkeeper at the time?" Witness—"I don't know what he called it, but I took what the rest did."—Tit-Bits. "Your Aunt Almira tips the beam at less than 100 pounds, don't she?" inquired Farmer Stackpole. "Yes. It's—" Honest Farmer Dunk blatted joyously in appreciation of the only joke he had perpetrated since the previous autumn. "—a little weigh she has."—Harper's Bazar. Their Caller—"I don't see why Count Parchesi and his American wife should quarrel." Miss Davis—"Their interests clash, do they not?" Their Caller—"Not to any marked degree. She wanted a foreign alliance, and he a foreign allowance, that's all."—Harlem Life. The Young One—"Dad, give me a pointer about married life. How do you get on so well with mother?" The Old One—"Easy enough, my boy. First, I have cultivated a habit of never understanding her. Second, I am a good listener. And third, I never allow her to have anything she doesn't want."—Brooklyn Life. "You don't seem to be very sorry about it," remarked the Brooklyn citizen after the trolley accident. "No, I ain't as nervous as I was," replied the motorman; "this is my third today." "Your third victim? Great heavens." "Yes, the second one made me nervous, but there's luck, in odd numbers, you know."—Philadelphia Record. "There are some people," remarked the melancholy person, "whose fate it seems to be to stand aside while those less worthy profit by their endeavors." "That's right," answered Mr. Blykins: "I'm one of those people. We always invite our relations to the house on Thanksgiving day, and I carve the turkey."—Washington Star. "Woman!" exclaimed the angry lover, "my rival has been here." She shuddered and grew pale. "Prove it!" she demanded, determined to make a bold stand. "I will. Yonder spot on the sofa pillow. It smells like Cheatem's hair oil. That, girrul, is me enemy's brand!" Whereupon she realized that she was Whereupon she realized that she was discovered.—Denver Times. She wept. "Oh, you editors are horrid!" she sobbed. "What is the trouble, madam?" inquired the editor. "Why, I—boo—boo—I sent in an obituary of my husband, and—boo—boo—and said in it that he had been married for twenty years, and you—oo—oo—boo—hoo—your printers set it up 'worried for twenty years.'" She wept. But the editor grinned.—Permore American. PREFER AMERICAN FLOUR. Why South Africans Buy it in Preference to the Australian Article. American flour is making great headway in South African markets, according to the following article from The Melbourne Journal of Commerce, quoted by Censul Hughes of Coburg in a recent report to the State Department: It is the height of folly to send flour to South Africa in 200-pound bags, that being a country where the natives are not disposed to handle heavy packages. Especially is this true at present, when handy packages are so much in request for transport for mules, pack horses, etc. The 50 or 100 pound bags of flour from the United States arrive out white, clean, and tastefully branded, with no chance of rough jute fibers finding their way into the material. The Australian bag, on the other hand, is unwieldy, out of all decent shape, and looks dirty and uninviting. We are assured that repeated consignments of American flour pass through the Durban stores while one Australian importation is being got rid of. There are a few millers and shippers on this side-notably one at Newcastle, N. S. W.—who seem to understand the business, but the greater number appear altogether indifferent. French Prison Fare. "They do these things better in France!" would be the exclamation of many a British criminal could he read the list of good things annually provided for the guests of the French government in the prison of Fresnes. Our Paris correspondent sends us an extract from this interesting culinary register, which records the consumption last year of 45,000 liters of red wine, 40,000 kilos of fillets of beef and legs of mutton, 4500 kilos of jam, 100 kilos of caramels and other sweets, to say nothing of ham, macaroni, fruit, and a whole catalogue of cheeses with fancy names. Well may the Figaro reflect that next year's budget will probably include potted pheasant and "fine champagne."—London Chronicle. The Cleanest City. Paris is said to be the cleanest city in the world. Every morning 2,000 male and 600 female scavengers divided into 149 brigades, turn out to perform the toilet of the capital. The men work from 4 in the morning till 4 in the evening, less two hours off for meals, or 10 hours a day. The women are engaged in the morning only. OUGHT TO BE HANGED. SHOULD FIT THE CRIME A General Opinion that the Imperial Edicts Are Insincere and Should be Disregarded. Pekin, Nov. 17, via Shanghai, Nov. 20. The talk since Tuesday's meeting of the foreign ministers has been in regard to the imperial edicts issued on that day providing for the further punishment of "the ministers of state for having participated in and protected the Boxers and bandits in the recent movement." The unanimous opinion is that the punishment proposed in the edicts should not be regarded as sufficient, and many persons hold that the decrees are really an insult to the intelligence of the allies. The representatives of the powers believe that these edicts show the Dowager Empress has the power to further punish the guilty parties if she can go so far as to deprive Prince Tuan of his title and noble rank and sentence him to be confined within high walls, while Prince Chwang is banished to Mukden and sentenced to imprisonment for life, and all military operations are to be stopped. It is admitted that these punishments, if enforced, will be severe, but in considering this people should not forget the offenses of Tuan and Chwang. During the siege of the legations at Pekin these two men issued and had posted the following order: "Whereas, the missionary chapels in Pekin have been burned and the foreigners have no longer a place where they can hide, they have necessarily absconded from sight, therefore this proclamation is issued to inform scholars, soldiers, and brave Boxers and commenters that if foreigners are caught hiding they will certainly suffer death by decapitation. If brought to us alive a reward of 50 taels will be paid for a man, 40 taels for a woman, and 30 taels for a child. They must be alive when turned over to us, and when this is verified the reward will be immediately paid. Let all fear and none disregard this special proclamation." There is no question that Tuan and Chwang issued this proclamation, and hence it is argued that the demand for the death punishment in their cases is reasonable. Missionaries Returning to China. San Francisco, Cal., Nov. 20. The steamship China, which sails for the Orient today, will take back the first missionaries that have ventured into China since the Boxer outbreak. Among those who will depart are Rev. Dr. Trowick and his bride. The former is from Nashville and the latter from Louisville. They go to Shanghai. POLICY OF GERMANY. Radicals and Liberals Air Their Views on China in Reichstag. Berlin, Nov. 20. The debate on the government's policy in China was continued in the Reichstag today. Herr Bassermann, National Liberal, endorsed the government's policy and expressed the gratification of his party at the Anglo-German agreement. Herr Richter declared the Radicals were of the opinion after the assassination of Baron von Ketteler that a military demonstration in China was absolutely necessary, but that the dispatch of an ironclad division was superfluous. He alluded, during the course of his remarks, to the public declarations of Emperor William, saying they were obviously intended to influence public opinion. Herr Richter added that he thought the Emperor should first have reached an understanding with the competent ministers regarding the tenor and wording of these declarations, asserting that much that was objectionable and displeasing would thus have been obviated. Politics and religion, he continued, ought not to have been mixed up as they had been in the Emperor's speeches, because the effect was to spoil both. "The greatest mistake of our China policy," concluded Herr Richter, "was after the Chino-Japanese war, when we joined with Russia and France in opposing Japan." Herr Richter's advice to the Emperor to consult his ministers elicited marks of approval. SENTIMENT AT WASHINGTON. Not Disposed to Make Demands Which China Cannot Grant. Washington, D. C., Nov. 20.—The Chinese situation was the main topic under consideration at today's cabinet meeting. The administration is not disposed to join with the other governments in making demands upon the Chinese imperial authorities which the Chinese government cannot comply with. So far as our government is advised, the foreign ministers at Pekin have not yet agreed upon all points under discussion. Mr. Conger has not been heard from for a week and this fact has caused some discouragement to the officials who expected that this phase of the difficult question would soon be closed. The foreign ministers are now believed to be engaged with the difficult subjects of indemnities and guarantees. The last United States proposition was in line with the Russian project to allow The Hague commissioners to adjust the indemnities. It is believed that this proposition has never commended itself to the British or the German governments and it is believed that it will be a most difficult task for the ministers at Pekin to reach an agreement on this subject, particularly in view of the existence of a very strong suspicion of the motives of some of these ministers. M. DELCASSE SPEAKS. All Nations to Respect the Integrity of the Chinese Empire. Paris, Nov. 20.—The debate on the budget for the ministry of foreign affairs was continued in the chamber of deputies today. M. Denyschonin, Conservative, representing one of the districts of the Seine, during the course of a speech pronounced himself in favor of upholding the honor of France and of the French troops in China. M. Lucien Millevoie, Nationalist Republican, representing the Seine district, said he considered it necessary to maintain a large, expeditionary force in China. The minister of foreign affairs, M. Delcasse, explained at length the origin of the force necessary to relieve the foreign legations at Pekin. In so doing he referred to the heroism displayed in the defense of the legations and declared the accusations of cruelty against the French and international troops were unfounded. He added: "The eight powers have met in an attempt to reconcile their interests and claims, all of them wishing to respect the integrity and even the independence of China. Special claims must be shunned. It is necessary to inspire ideas for the general benefit." Continuing M. Delcasse traced the submission of the French note as the basis of the negotiations and said it was necessary to obtain a guarantee for the future against similar deeds or attempts. The foreign minister then said: "Everyone desires to end the situation. No one will think of diminishing the strength of our forces in China. The chamber may rest assured that the government will neglect nothing to conclude it quickly. But it needs the confidence of the chamber." TREATIES INVOLVED. Great Diplomatic Questions Dependent Upon the Recovery of Senator Davis. Washington, D. C., Nov. 20.—The illness of Senator Davis of Minnesota, without considering the possibility of death, is a calamity to the nation, because, just at this time, he is the most important man in the United States Senate. During the last session of Congress a number of treaties were hung up until after the election because each one of them was objected to by certain interested parties who exercise more or less political influence. The Hay-Pauncefote treaty, which must be ratified before any canal bill can be passed, was offensive to the Irish because it recognized our obligations as a government to the British nation. The French reciprocity treaty was objected to by the manufacturers of pinchbeck jewelry in Rhode Island and dress trimmings in New Jersey. The sheep owners of Ohio were not willing that the coarse wool of the Argentine Republic, which is used only for carpetmaking, should be admitted to this country at a reduction of 20 per cent. of the Dingley duty, for fear it would be used to adulterate our merino wool in the manufacture of cheap clothing. There are several other treaties of reciprocity, commerce and extradition upon which action was postponed until after the election because the Republican national committee feared to have the Senate make a record on these various points; but it was agreed all around that prompt action should be taken upon all of them at the approaching session. There will be more or less opposition, but unless the Democrats, to disconcert the Republicans, offer a solid opposition all the treaties will be ratified. Familiar with Afl Details. It is a somewhat remarkable fact that Senator Davis is the only man thoroughly familiar with these treaties. He is the only member of the committee on foreign relations who has mastered the complicated details and can explain the effect upon our commerce and international relations of the ratification of these various conventions. Nor is it possible during a single session for any member of the committee to familiarize himself with the intricate ramifications of the various provisions of the reciprocity treaties. Senator Frye stands second on the committee of foreign relations and is no doubt the ablest member of that committee as well as the readiest debater. He understands the comberecial side of the questions thoroughly, but has never given international law the same study as Senator Davis. Mr. Frye and Senator Morgan are qualified to take charge of the Hay-Pauncefote treaty and the canal bill, but they know nothing of the details of the reciprocity treaties. Senator Foraker is plunging into foreign affairs and giving that subject more attention than any of the new members of the committee. Senator Lodge is a specialist in that line, but neither of them has anything like the comprehensive knowledge that Senator Davis possesses and cannot fill his place. Spooner Resolution to Pass. It is more than likely that Congress will adopt the Spooner resolution, which gives the President exclusive right to manage the affairs of the Philippines, and the scope of the resolution will be enlarged considerably. Senator Lodge called at the white house today and discussed the Philippines situation with the President. As he left he was asked to express his views as to what action Congress would take in reference to the Philippines. He said: "The Spooner resolution, giving the President civil power until Congress shall have the information upon which to act, just what Jefferson was given in reference to Louisiana, probably will be adopted. Congress has not the information upon which to base permanent legislation, and until such information is had temporary provision for the civil government must be provided. I do not see on what basis there can be opposition to this. If ever the policy of an administration was indorsed by a people, the course of this administration in the Philippines has been indorsed. "After Congress has the complete report of the Philippines commission, which I regard as eminently capable, we shall know what is proper to be done, and then there will be legislation of a permanent character. I believe the possession of the Philippines is going to prove a great commercial advantage to this government. A large commerce will be developed in the islands themselves, and in my opinion these islands will play an important part in the development of trade with China." Hopkins' Plan is Ready. Washington, D. C., Nov. 20.—Representative Hopkins of Illinois, chairman of the committee on census and a leading member of the ways and means committee, reached Washington last evening. Mr. Hopkins said that he has made out a plan for reapportionment which he will submit to the census committee, but will not make it public in detail until he has talked with the President and with prominent Republicans. His plan is to have one representative in Congress for every 198,000 people. This will increase the membership of the house by eighteen or twenty, which he holds is not so great as to cause concern. He feels that a larger number as a basis of representation would tend to reduce the representation in various states in a manner that would call forth strenuous objections therefrom. TELEGRAPHIC CROP REPORT. Grangers Ask for Terms More Easily Understood by Farmers. Washington, D. C., Nov. 20.—Portland, Me., was selected by the National grange, Patrons of Husbandry, today, as the place for the next annual convention. The attitude of the master of the grange favoring extension of the rural free delivery of mails, establishment of postal savings banks and the popular election of senators, was unanimously endorsed. Resolutions were adopted favoring the creation by the agricultural department of a telegraphic crop report system, and asking agricultural colleges and experiment stations to use terms in their reports that are more easily understood by the farmers. Secretary Wilson will address the convention tomorrow. HUSBAND DISAPPEARS. Detroit, Mich., Nov. 20.—Mrs. Hattie Norton of Vernon, Mich., was married at Windsor, Ont., to C. R. Holmes of Detroit. She placed an advertisement in the afternoon papers here and the wedding resulted. They stopped at the Manning house, Windsor. Yesterday morning Mrs. Holmes awoke from a stupor induced by a drug and found herself minus a husband and $700 in cash. Holmes' name does not appear in the city directory, and he is evidently an impostor. One Race that Never Advances The Tziganes of Hungary have been described as "the savages of Europe," and it must be admitted that by their life and habits they have deserved the title. Who are the Tziganes? The name will be unfamiliar to most people; they are but little known outside the kingdom of heterogeneous elements which is now under the rule of the Emperor Francis Joseph; yet they are the kinsmen of our own Gypsies—kinsmen who have made no progress for centuries, but have remained in their primitive state, or have even made a retrograde movement toward savagery.—Pearson's Weekly. British and Spanish M. P.'s Get No Pay Only in Britain, Italy and Spain do M. P.'s serve their country free of charge. In Portugal the case is curious. Until 1892 Portuguese M. P.'s received 10s a day. This was then abolished. But the lawmakers still have free passes on all railways, and constituencies may pay their members a wage of not more than 14s 10d a day. As compared with his colleagues in other countries, then, we find that the British member of Parliament enjoys but few privileges; nevertheless, his position is second to none in point of importance.—London Express. MARKET REPORTS. EGM AND DAIRY PRODUCTS. MILWAUKEE—Eggs—Market steady to firm; fresh, new, cases included, 22½c; fresh, cases returned, 22c; old, cases included, 22½c; held fresh, cases returned, 17@19c; storage, candled, 16@18c; seconds, 8@9c; storage, 16@18c. Receipts were 205 cases. Butter—Market firm. Fancy prints, 27c; fancy or extra creamery, per lb, 26c; firsts, 23@24c; seconds, 20c; dairy prints, 21c; extra fancy dairy, 20c; lines, 16@18c; packing stock, 14@15c; whey, 11c. roll, 14@18c. The receipts today were 18.180 lbs against 8001 yesterday. The market is very strong at present and top prices are readily paid for fancy creamery. Dairy is very scarce and wanted here. Storage butter has been freely offered and brings a good price. The offerings on the board today were small. Cheese—Steady. Receipts were 12,480 lbs today against 11,555 yesterday. Full cream flats, new, colored, 10%@11c; New York, full cream flats, new colored, 10%@11c; Young Americas, new, 10%@11%c; fancy brick, 10%@11c; low grades, 7@9c; limbuffer, per lb. No. 1, 10@10%c; low grades, 7@9c; imported Swiss, 12@12%c; Block Swiss, domestic, 11%@12c; choice, 11%@12c; No. 2, 9@10c; Sansago, 19@20c; farmers, 10@11c. NEW YORK—Butter — Receipts, 6138 pkgs; steady; creamy, 19@20c; cuneum, 18@23%c; factory, 12@16c. Cheese—Receipts, 1491 pkgs; quiet; large September, fancy, 10%c; small do, 11c; large October fancy, 10%c; small do, 10%c. Eggs—Receipts, 6920 pkgs; steady; Western regular packing, at mark, 21@24c; Western loss off, 27c. Sugar—Raw, firm; fair refining, 3%c; centrifugal, 96 test, 4%c; molasses sugar, 3%c; refined steady; crushed, 6.00; powdered, 5.70; granulated, 5.60. Coffee. Rarely steady. No. 7 Rio, 7%c. CHICAGO—Butter—Weak; creameries, 15 @25½c; dairies, 12½c@22c. Eggs—Steady; fresh, 22c. Dressed Poultry—Steady; turkeys, 9½c; chickens, 7@7½c; ducks, 9½@ 10c. PLYMOUTH—On the board nineteen factories offered 1335 boxes of cheese, all but 112 boxes of which sold as follows: Ninety longhorns, 11c; 647 daisies 10½c; 253 twins 10c; 148 Young Americas 10½c; 85 do 10½c. SHEBOYGAN—On the dairy board the market was brisk, prices being an advance over last week. Sales were: Daisies, 377 at 10½c; 381 Young Americas at 10½c; 50 at 10½c; 75 longhorns at 11½c; 40 at 11½c; 23 twins at 10c. HOGS—Receipts, 18 cars; market steady; light, 4.70@4.85; mixed and medium weights, 4.75@4.85; common to good heavy, 4.65@4.85; fancy selected hogs, 4.85@4.90. CATTLE — Receipts, 15 cars; dull and weak; butcher steers, medium to good, 1050 to 1300 lbs, 4.50@5.25; fair to medium, 950 to 1050, 3.50@4.00; heifers, common, 2.50@2.85; good, 2.25@4.00; cows, fair to good, 2.75@3.40; canners, 1.75@2.30; bulls, common, 2.50@3.00; choice, 3.15@3.50; feeders, 800 to 950 lbs, 3.00@3.65; stockers, 500 to 750 lbs, 2.25@2.85; val calves, common to choice, 4.00@5.00; milkers and springers, common, 25.00@30.00; choice heavy cows, steady, 35.00@45.00. SHEEP—Receipts, 2 cars; market dull, 3.00@3.75; bucks, 2.25@2.75; lambs, 3.75@4.65 Chicago receplts: Hogs, 42,000; cattle, 19,000; sheep, 15,000. MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH. MILWAUKEE—Flour—Slow. When — Stronger; No. 1 Northern, on track, 75c. Corn—Steady; No. 3 on track, 37½c. Oats— Steady; No. 2 white, on track, 26c; No. 3 white, on track, 24½@35½c. Barley— Steady; No. 2 on track, 60c; sample on track, 43@00c. Rye—Steady; No. 1 on track, 49c. Provisions—Firmer; pork, 11.00; lard, 7.17. Flour is slow at 3.90@4.00 for patents; bakers', 2.90@3.00, and 2.80@2.95 for rye. Millstuffs are steady and quoted at 13.50 @13.75 for bran, 13.50@13.75 for standard middlings, and 15.50 for Milwaukee flour middlings. CHICAGO—Close -- Wheat -- November, 71%c; December, 71%@71%c; January, 72%c; Corn—November, 45c; December, 35%c; January, 35c; May, 30%@36%c; Oats— November, 21%c; December, 21%@21%c; May, 23%@24c. Pork—November, 11.00; December, 11.00; January, 11.82%; May, 11.77%; Lard—November, 7.15; December, 7.00@7.02%; January, 6.87%; May, 6.90; Ribs—November, 7.70; January, 6.32%; May, 6.32%@6.35. Flax—Cash N. W., 1.63; S. W. 1.60; November, 1.60%; December, 1.60; May, 1.59. Rye—December, 44%; January, 45%c; Barley—Cash, 36%@61c. Timothy— November, 4.30; March, 4.50. Clover— November, 10.25; December, 10.25. NEW YORK — Close — Wheat — November, 79%; December, 77%; March, 80%; May, 80%; Corn — December, 43%; May, 42%; DULUTH — Close — Wheat — Cash No. 1 hard. 76%; No. 1 Northern, 74%; No. 2 Northern, 70; No. 3 spring, 64%; to arrive. No. 1 hard. 75%; No. 1 Northern, 73%; December, 73; May, 77%; Corn— 38c. Oats — 23%; 23c. Rye — 46%; Barley — 40@35c. Flax — To arrive. 1.60; cash, 1.62; November, 1.62; December, 1.61; May, 1.61%; Receipts of wheat, 137,944; shipments, 415,961. ST. LOUIS—Close — Wheat -- No. 2 cash, 70%c; November, 70%c; December, 70%c; January, 71%c; May, 74%c; No. 2 hard, 65%c; Corn—No. 2 cash, 35c; track, 36%c; November, 35%c; December, 34%c; May, 35%c; Oats—No. 2 cash, 23c; November, 23c; December, 23c; May, 24%c; No. 2 white, 266%@26%c; Lead—4.25, Spelter—4.20, MINNEAPOLIS — Close — Wheat-Cash, 74%c; December, 73%c; May, 75%@76c; on track, No. 1 Northern, 74%c; No. 1 hard, 76%c; No. 2 Northern, 72%c. KANSAS CITY—Close — Wheat-December, 63%c; May, 68%c; cash No. 2 hard, 35%@67%c; No. 2 red, 70c. Corn-December, 33%c; May, 34%@34%c; cash No. 2 mixed, 34%@34%c; No. 2 white, 36c. Oats— No. 2 white, 26%@27c. LIVERPOOL—Wheat — Quiet, 1/4 higher; December, 5511%d; March, 65%d; Corn—Quiet, 1/4 to 3/4 higher; November, 45%d; December, 45%d; January, 310d. KANSAS CITY—Cattle-Receipts, 12,000; market steady; native steers, 4.45@5.40; Texas steers, 2.75@4.65; Texas cows, 2.25@ 3.25; native cows and heifers, 1.75@4.00; stockers and feeders, 2.75@4.15; bulls, 1.75@ 4.00. Calves-Receipts, 700; market steady; 4.40@5.95. Hogs-Receipts, 13,000; market strong to 5c higher and active; bulk of sales, 4.85@4.90; heavy, 4.82%@4.95; packers, 4.85@4.92%; mixed, 4.85@4.90; light, 4.85@4.95; yorkers, 4.87%@4.95; pigs, 4.45@ 4.85. Sheep-Receipts, 3000; market strong; lambs, 3.75@2.55; muttons, 2.25@4.30. ST. 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Entered at the Milwaukee P. O. as second class matter. The Helping Hand Colored Mission incorporated under the laws of the State of Wisconsin has for its object the supplying of qualified colored help to those requiring the same. In order to be able to get servants from the mission it is necessary, that in order to partly cover expenses incurred, those parties desiring help should become subscribers for this paper. No actual charge is made. Parties who secure situations through this agency are also expected to become subscribers expected to become subscribers. We have at present on our books: Cooks, General Servants, Waitresses, Laundresses, Nurses, Coachmen, Porters, Waiters. Office hours 9-12 and 1-4. R. B. MONTGOMERY, Mgr. 209 Fifth St., Milwaukee. The Chicago Yacht Club's defense of the Canada cup will give yachtsmen in this section an opportunity to see an international race without incurring great expense The battleship Kentucky's run from New York to Gibraltar in twelve days is a creditable performance. It shows that the American battleship is fast on all occasions. Don Carlos is patriotic enough to keep his hands from Spain until there is a chance to get the country without practically destroying it. He has evidently read the story of the killing of the goose that laid the golden eggs. The contract for the construction of the second Shamrock has been let by Sir Thomas Lipton, and now the imaginative reporters will begin to send in reports as to the material of which she is to be constructed—from slippery elm to gold leaf. The successful use of a life boat propelled by a gas engine marks an advance in life-saving methods. A boat of this kind can be of great service in the open sea, but the surf boats will have to do the work where breakers roar, as a wheel in the air half of the time would not be as serviceable as oars. C. Oliver Iselin has consented to sail the Columbia as a trial boat against the new America cup defense sloop. If the Columbia should win, New York yachtsmen would be in a quandary, as Mr. Iselin has said that under no circumstances would he manage another yacht in the cup races. When Admiral Croninshield says the navy is too small, he means that there are not men enough to man his ships. From another point of view this is equivalent to saying that the navy is too large. There is some danger that this may soon be the case, as the navy boomers seem to be active and influential. The death from paralysis of Lieutenant Commander Stokely Morgan, who directed the gun fire from the turret of the Olympia in the battle of Manila, reveals a new danger to modern naval warriors. Morgan was repeatedly knocked down by concussion during the battle, and his physicians are of the opinion that his fatal disease was engendered by shock. The October fire loss in the United States and Canada was lower than for any preceding month in 1900 and less than two-thirds aslarge as the October fire loss a year ago—$7,000,000, as compared with $12,000,000. The total value of the ash-heap accumulated in the first ten months of 1900 was $143,423,550, against $111,654,900 for the first ten months of last year. The successful voyage of three whaleback barges from St. Louis to New Orleans, with cargoes, suggests the enormous possibilities of Mississippi river improvement in connection with the proposed canal from Lake Michigan to the river. Water transportation has been the making of the Northwest, and it will help the inland states materially if the rivers can be made navigable for large carriers. Experiments are being made in Washington with various signal lights designed for use on the new signal towers recently authorized by Congress to be established in the principal harbors of the country. A great number of these lanterns have been submitted for examination, not only by American inventors, but by foreign ones as well. The object of the tests is to determine the carrying power of the lights. The present maximum is about six miles, but it is hoped to cover a distance of twelve miles with the new oil lamps and of fifteen to eighteen with the electric lamps. It is also seen that the tests will determine the relative merits of oil and electricity for equipping signal lanterns. The citizens' committee for the centennial celebration of the national capital announces that a commemorative medal of great beauty and historic interest will be struck from dies now being made at the Philadelphia mint. The medals will be made of metal from the old capitol and white house and as there is but a limited amount of this material at hand, only a small number of medals can be furnished. These will cost $1 each. The plans for the centennial celebration are progressing satisfactorily and the event promises to be one of the most interesting in the history of the country. The recent experiment with an emergency ration by a number of soldiers at Fort Reno, gives especial interest to the adoption of a new ration for the Austrian army. It was invented by a doctor and consists of ordinary chocolate with an admixture of albumen and certain fatty matter. In a few minutes this can be cooked either in milk or water and eaten as it is. The nourishing value of the preparation is very great, 100 grams affording as much sustaining value as nearly half a kilogram or five times the amount of beef. The chocolate is said to keep remarkably well, and is affected neither by heat nor by long storage in damp and badly-ventilated magazines. It is interesting to note in this connection that the Lancet declares that tobacco, used in moderation, is second only to food itself in the case of men enduring long labors on short rations. A curious development in the waiters' branch of organized labor is reported from New York. It appears that one William Logan, who formerly was a prosperous restaurant owner, and who has lost his money, obtained work as a waiter. All the other waiters where he went are members of a union controlled by Germans. Logan applied for admission to the union, but it was refused because he could not speak German. He brought the matter up at the Sunday meeting of the Central Federated union and obtained the sympathy of many members of that body. The representatives of the waiters' union who defended its course, said: "We can't have every Tom, Dick and Harry in the union and we won't admit anybody who can't talk German." His remarks were greeted with hisses and there were cries of "throw him out." An effort was made to have the chairman put a motion to suspend the waiters' union, but it was unavailing. It is likely that some action will be taken in the matter at the next meeting of the Central Federated union. Although the waiters' union may be acting within its rights, its position is not a sensible one. The English-speaking unions have gone to pieces through poor management. Probably an effort will now be made to re-establish them. The ownership of the Atalanta, the late Jay Gould's steam yacht, is likely to be a matter of dispute for the courts to settle. Some time ago it was announced the Colombia had bought the craft and was having it fitted out as a gunboat. It was said that $60,000 on account was paid by the government. Then came a change in Presidents, San Clemente being deposed Marroquin taking his place. Immediately after this it was reported that the government was too poor to complete its part of the bargain and would surrender the boat, letting the money already paid on her remain in possession of George Gould and the arms company, which was equipping it. On Saturday it was reported that Venezuela was thinking of buying the Atalanta. Yesterday, however, the Colombian consul-general said that his country intended to fulfill its part of the contract and that the yacht would be made ready for use in home waters. He said that the boat was not to cost Colombia as reported, $120,000, but only $85,000, of which $60,000 had been paid—$40,000 to Gould and $20,000 to the arms company. He has learned from the company that Mr. Gould refuses to surrender the boat because the remaining $25,000 was not paid by October 25. The consul-general says that the courts will be called upon to decide the matter, if an amicable adjustment cannot be made. SUNFLOWER TRADE IN EUROPE Seeds Feed England's Pheasants and Russia's Peasants. The sunflower, once the symbol of the aesthetic craze, is now a commercial asset. It is a valuable commodity in Russia, Hungary and Austria, and the fact prompts the question: Is there hope for the distressed British agriculturist in its cultivation? Many tons of the seed are imported here, and attempts have been made to produce the home-grown article. But the climate obstinately refuses to assist in producing a sunflower crop that can be grown and sold at a profit. The flower itself, however, is responsible for part of the failure—it takes too much out of the land. Consequently only a few acres under sunflower cultivation are to be found in England—acres useless for anything else except thistles or weeds; and the seeds are for the benefit of the owner's pheasants. Russia sends by far the largest number of tons of sunflower seeds. They are made into food for cakes for cattle, and something—very little—is done with the oil extracted from them for medicinal purposes. A large trade in the seeds is also done with South Africa—from London. No one seems to know what they are wanted for there, but it is suspected that the natives eat them, as the poorer Russians do, and esteem them a luxury.—London Express. Franklin's Toast. Benjamin Franklin was dining with a small party of distinguished gentlemen in Paris, when one of them said: "Three nationalities are represented here this evening. I am French, my friend is English, and Mr. Franklin is an American. Let each of us propose a toast." It was agreed to, and the Englishman, who was accorded first honors, arose and, in the tone of a Briton bold, said: "Here's to Great Britain, the sun that gives light to all nations of the earth." The Frenchman was rather taken back at this, but he proposed: "Here's to France, the moon whose magic rays move the tides of the world." Franklin then arose, with an air of quaint modesty, and said: "Here's to our beloved George Washington, the Joshua of America, who commanded the sun and moon to stand still—and they obeyed." THE TRAIN LOGGING RAILROAD IN A BIG TREE FOREST DESTROY BIG TREES. CALIFORNIA GIANTS ARE RUTHLESSLY CUT DOWN. Necessary Waste of Lumbering Mammoths Over Fifty Per Cent-Forestry Department Demand That Efforts Be Made to Save Few Remaining Groves. Gifford Pinchot, United States forester, has issued a pamphlet concerning the big trees of California which has created no little comment through its endeavors to state clearly and emphatically the necessity for the preservation of the California mammoths. The writer protests against the rate at which the big trees are being destroyed by private owners, pointing out clearly that the chances of a renewal of the wonder growths are to be little considered. "Most of the scattered groves of big trees are privately owned and, therefore, in danger of destruction," he FELLING A BIG TREE. writes. "Lumbering is rapidly sweeping them off; forty millis and logging companies are now at work wholly or in part upon big tree timber. The southern groves show some reproduction, through which there is hope of perpetuating these groves. In the northern groves the species hardly holds its own." In introducing a history of the big trees, with facts concerning each of the groves now existing, the writer says: "At the present time the only grove thoroughly safe from destruction is the Mariposa and this is far from being the most interesting. Most of the other groves are either in process of or in danger of being logged. The very finest of all, the Calaveras grove, with the biggest and tallest trees, the most uncontaminated surroundings and prac- LOGGING RAILROAD tically all the literary and scientific associations of the species connected with it, has been purchased recently by a lumberman, who came into full possession on the 1st of April, 1900. "The Sequoia and General Grant National parks, which are supposed to embrace and give security to a large part of the remaining big trees, are eaten into by a sawmill each and by private timbering claims amounting to a total of 1,172,870 acres. The rest of the scanty patches of big trees are in a fair way to disappear—in Calaveras, Tuolumne, Fresno and Tulare counties, they are now disappearing—by the ax. In brief, the majority of the big trees of California, certainly the best of them, are owned by people who have every right and in many cases every intention, to cut them into lumber." Further along these same lines the value of the big tree is thus considered: "The big trees are unique in the world—the grandest, the oldest, the most majestically graceful trees—and if it were not enough to be all this, they are among the scarcest of known tree species and have the extreme scientific value of being the best living representatives of a former geologic age. They are trees which have come down to us through the vicissitudes of many centuries solely because of their superb qualifications. The bark of the big tree is often two feet thick and almost noncombustible. The oldest specimens felled are still sound at the heart and fungus is an enemy unknown to it. Yet with all these means of maintenance the big trees have apparently not increased their range since the glacial epoch. They have only just managed to hold their own on a little strip of country where the climate is locally favorable." Everyone who is interested in the big trees, as everyone must be either from curiosity, a natural love of the forest or for scientific reasons, must deplore the destruction of these forests. Everyone who has visited a forest in any part of the world will regret the destruction of these jungles of beauty. Every thoughtful American is waking to a realization of the criminal carelessness with which the forests of this country have been wiped out. The lumbering of the big trees, with its accompanying waste and devastation, seems a particularly unnecessary and almost immoral proceeding. Forester Pinchot says of it: "The lumbering of the big tree is destructive to a most unusual degree. In the first place, the enormous size and weight of the trees necessarily entails very considerable breakage when one of them falls. Such a tree strikes the ground with a force of many hundreds or even thousands of tons, so that even slight inequalities are sufficient to smash the brittle trunk at its upper extremity into almost useless fragments. The loss from this cause is great, but it is only one of the sources of waste. The great diameter of the logs, and, in spite of the lightness of the wood, their enormous weight make it impossible to handle them without breaking them up. For this purpose gunpowder is the most available means. The fragments of logs blown apart in this way are not only often of wasteful shapes, but unless very nice judgment is exercised in preparing the blast a great deal of wood itself is scattered in useless splinters." "At the mill, where waste is the rule in the manufacture of lumber in the United States, the big tree makes no exception. This waste, added as it is to the other sources of loss already mentioned, makes a total probably often considerably in excess of half the total volume of the standing tree, and this is only one side of the matter. "The big tree stands as a rule in a mixed forest, composed of many species. The result of sequoia lumbering upon this forest is almost ruinous. The destruction caused by the fall of enormous trees is in itself great, but the principal source of damage is the immense amount of debris left on the ground—the certain source of future fires. This mass of broken branches, trunks and bark, is often five or six or more feet in thickness and necessarily gives rise to fires of great destructive power, even though the big tree wood is not specially inflammable. The devastation which follows this lumbering is as complete and deplorable as the untouched forest is unparalleled, beautiful and worthy of preservation. As a rule it has not even had the advantage of being profitable. Very much of this appalling destruction has been done without leaving the owners of the big tree as well off as they were before it began." Series of Pamphlets to Be Issued. The pamphlet which was published by the forestry division of the Department of Agriculture is one of a series which will be issued in behalf of the big trees. The report was prepared for the information of the Senate Committee on Public Lands, which was at the N A BIG TREE FOREST. time considering the preservation of the Calaveras and Stanislaus big tree groves. It is the first document on the subject which has ever been published by the government, strange as the fact may seem. Prof. W. R. Dudley, of Stanford University, who aided with the work, is now preparing a more detailed account of the big trees and the big tree groves, which will be published by the government forestry office. The pamphlet now out contains an excellent map of the forests of California, containing big trees, together with a detailed account of each of the larger groves. King Oscar Was His Host A story illustrating the simple homie of the King of Sweden and Norway is told by M. Gaston Bonnier, the botanist. M. Bonnier was botanizing near Stockholm, when he met a stranger similarly occupied. The two botanists fraternized, and M. Bonnier suggested that they should lunch together at an inn. "No; come home and lunch with me instead," said the stranger; and he led the way to the palace and opened the gate. M. Bonnier was naturally astonished, but his new acquaintance was most apologetic. "I'm sorry," he said, "but I happen to be the king of this country, and this is the only place I've got to entertain anybody in." So they went in and lunched, and talked botany together all the afternoon. Florida Tobacco. Florida, according to local papers, is becoming one of the great tobacco-producing States, and the product has been pronounced in some respects equal to that of Cuba. Sumatra wrapper tobacco raised in Florida recently took the prize at the Parls exposition over the world. A Matter of Taste "Beg pardon," said the postal clerk who had sold her the stamps, "but you don't have to put a 5-cent stamp on a letter for Canada." "I know," said she, "but the shade just matches my envelope, you know." —Philadelphia Press. When people say they will do anything in the world for you, they mean about as much as a candidate when he says his ambition is to serve his country and his countrymen. You can't tell by the size of the bill what the size of a ton of coal is. --- THE DEMOCRATIC SOLUTION Applied to the Trust Problem Would Cause Industrial Depression. Cause Industrial Depression. With the Democratic denunciations of the large combinations of capital, currently styled trusts, there is a large amount of sympathy, especially when such denunciations are directed against combinations which aim at monopoly and artificially enhanced prices. The real question to be considered by the voters, however, is what remedy does the Democratic party propose to apply? On this point Mr. Bryan and his followers have changed front. About a year ago Mr. Bryan's suggestion was for a constitutional amendment, giving Congress power to regulate, control or abolish such combinations. The Republicans in the lower house of Congress offered such an amendment, and the Democrats promptly defeated it. That ground was then abandoned, and the sole suggestion put forward by the Democrats to-day for the suppression of trusts is the abolition of the protective tariff. For the purpose of their argument, that the protective tariff is responsible for trusts, they are compelled to either ignore or manufacture facts. For example, they overlook the fact that neither the Standard Oil Company, the sugar trust, the copper trust, or any of the really monopolistic trusts are to-day under tariff protection, and consequently the suggested remedy would not affect them in the slightest degree. In the second place, they hold, without warrant of fact, that trusts could not exist under a system of free trade. The "German Magazine of Industry," advance of 10 cents a ga a journal whose specialty is the gath of linseed oil. They A GRAND OCCASION OF THANKSGIVING PROSPERITY PROSPERITY M.J. BRYAN MARSHAL WED ering of Industrial statistics, has something to say on this subject in a recent issue. This journal shows that within the past three years there have been organized in free trade England 320 industrial combinations, with capital aggregating 750,000,000 marks. Of these the largest is that of the calico printers, consisting of sixty concerns, with a capital of nearly 200,000,000 marks; next, thirty-one cotton thread manufactories, with capital of 120,000,000 marks; followed by the Bradford dyers' trust, twenty-two concerns, with 90,000,000 marks, and the wall paper trust, twenty-eight concerns, with 85,000,000 marks of capitalization. These facts absolutely destroy any theory to the effect that a destruction of the protective tariff would necessarily prevent the formation of trusts, while keeping other manufactories open. It is well understood, however, that a withdrawal of the protective tariff would have a detrimental effect upon trusts, not, however, as trusts, but as manufactories. The experiment of the Wilson bill showed that conclusively. A withdrawal of protection means the closing down of a large percentage of the mills in the United States. Among those which would suffer, of course, would be the overcapitalized trusts, with heavy bonded indebtedness, but they would suffer no more and no less than the individual concerns operating outside of any trust or combination. The principal sufferers by any such drastic legislation as this would be the men employed in the manufactories which would be compelled to suspend. With the wages of these men cut off, and their running expenses reduced to the lowest possible ebb, the next sufferers would be those who have been heretofore and are now catering to the wants of the men employed in manufactories. And so it would extend, until depression prevailed in every avenue of industry.—Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Labor Demands a 100-Cent Dollar. Railroad workers are peculiarly concerned in the maintenance of the 100c. dollar. Many of the roads have borrowed money on agreements to pay interest and principal in gold. These contracts must be fulfilled just as they stand. Congress can change the currency standard, but it cannot change the terms of a legal contract. When a railroad man votes for a free-silver platform he takes a step that, if supported by a majority of ballots, will inevitably bankrupt a large number of railroads and convulse the whole business, for the fatal embarrassment of a part must damage all. Railroad workers are not idle in regard to this threat. A membership of 30,000 is actively at work in the Railway and Telegraph Employes' Political League of Illinois. At their convention early this month they passed resolutions demanding a dollar worth 100 cents the world over. --- approving a tariff that protects American labor, and declaring their opposition to "all candidates known to be in favor of legislation detrimental to railway or telegraph companies or their employes." A similar organization in every State would be an evidence of sound business judgment.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Another Free-Trade Trust. Another Free-Trade Trust. The world will be shocked to learn that certain unscrupulous and wicked foreigners have organized a trust which absolutely controls all the available supply of orris root, which can now be had only at the most exorbitant prices. The trust is in Italy, and the orris root is there also, and there is no doubt about the facts, for they are officially reported by the British vice-consul at Leghorn. This startling information will confirm the general belief that other parts of the earth are as badly afflicted with trusts as America. And nobody but ourselves is blessed with a Bryan to deal with them. Orris root is the basis of all perfumes.—San Francisco Chronicle. The Party that Helps to Get Wealth. Mr. Bryan says the Republican party is the party of wealth. So it is, in the sense that it gives the people opportunities to accumulate wealth. The Democratic party is the party of poverty, and the longer it is in power the poorer they become. This is not theory, it is history.—Kansas City Journal. It Goes to the Farmers. Democratic newspapers will probably make a loud outcry over the advance of 10 cents a gallon in the price of linseed oil. They will preserve a J. BRYAN discreet silence as to the parallel advance of 35 cents a bushel in the price of flaxseed. The latter goes to the farmers. - Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Why Kansas Went Republican. Lack of demand for money in Kansas is said to be driving many banks there out of business. Kansas used to be known as the mortgaged-oppressed State—until McKinley prosperity came along.—Minneapolis Tribune. They Ride in Carriages, There are more Indiana farmers riding in carriages to-day than ever before, and they do not owe their prosperity to anything Mr. Bryan said in 1896, either.—Indianapolis Journal. What Night Have Happened. If Bryan was President the paramount issue would be apparent to all. "Where can I find work?" "How far is it from here to the first soup house?" —Benton (Ill.) Republican. His Epitaph. These words will be engraved on the political tombstone of William Jennings Bryan: "Great is Tammany, and Croker Is Its Prophet."—Chicago Tribune. Cheaper than a Funeral. A well-known North Dakota magistrate tells the following story, for the truth of which he vouches: At a small town in the State there were two doctors, one of whom had a great reputation for the cures he effected, and the other was not believed to be "much good." The favored doctor found his services in great request, but, as payment was not always forthcoming, he made a rule that a certain class of his patients should pay in advance. One winter's night he was roused by two farmers from a hamlet ten miles away, the wife of one of whom was seriously ill. He told them to go to the other doctor, but they refused, saying they would prefer his services. "Very well," replied the medico, "in that case my fee is $10, the money to be paid now." The men remonstrated, but the doctor was obdurate, and shut down his window. He waited, however, to hear what they would say. "Well, what will we do now?" asked the farmer whose wife was ill. And the reply that was given must have been as gratifying as it was amusing to the listening doctor. It was: "I think you would better give it. The funeral would cost you more." For Birds at the Window: Coarse oatmeal is an excellent food to provide for the wild birds that are catered to from window or doorsill. Chopped suet is always relished—birds are fond of fat. Indian corn, hemp seed and boiled chopped liver all are recommended for this philanthropic purpose. To avoid the onslaught of cats a basket hung at a window or a box on a pole may be employed. REV. T. W. LEWIS, PASTOR. Local Preacher, Gilbert Hamilton. Residence, 256 Seventh Street, MILWAUKEE, WIS. SERVICES SUNDAY 10:45 and 7:45 SUNDAY SCHOOL 3 P. 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He makes a man for that place. Moses has passed off the stage, and Joshua, the hero, puts his foot on the platform of history so solidly that all the ages echo with the tread. He was a magnificent fighter, but he always fought on the right side, and he never fought unless God told him to fight. He got his military equipment from God, who gave him the promise at the start, "There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life." God fulfilled this promise, although Joshua's first battle was with the spring freshet, the next with a stone wall, the next leading on a regiment of whipped cowards and the next battling against darkness, wheeling the sun and the moon into his battalion, and the last against the king of terrors, death—five great victories. As a rule when the general of an army starts out in a war he would like to have a small battle in order that he may get his own courage up and rally his troops and get them drilled for greater conflicts, but the first undertaking of Joshua was greater than the leveling of Fort Pulaski, or the assault of Gibraltar, or the overthrow of the Bastile. It was the crossing of the Jordan at the time of the spring freshet. The snows of Mount Lebanon had just been melting, and they poured down into the valley, and the whole valley was a raging torrent. So the Canaanites stand on one bank, and they look across and see Joshua and the Israelites, and they laugh and say: "Aha, they cannot disturb us until the fresh-ets fall! It is impossible for them to reach us." But after awhile they look across the water, and they see a movement in the army of Joshua. They say: "What is the matter now? Why, must be a panic among those troops, and they are going to try to march across the river Jordan. Joshua is a lunatic." But Joshua, the chieftain, looks at his army and cries, "Forward, march!" and they start for the bank of the Jordan. One mile ahead go two priests carrying a glittering box four feet long and two feet wide. It is the ark of the covenant. And they come down, and no sooner do they just touch the rim of the water with their feet than, by an Almighty fiat, Jordan parts. The army of Joshua marches right on without getting their feet wet, over the bottom of the river, a path of chalk and broken shells and pebbles, until they get to the other bank. Then they lay hold of the oleanders and tamarisks and willows and pull themselves up a bank thirty or forty feet high, and having gained the other bank they clap their shields and their cymbals and sing the praises of the God of Joshua. But no sooner have they reached the bank than the waters begin to dash and roar, and with a terrific rush they break loose from their strange anchorage. No Going Backward. As the hand of the Lord God is taken away from the thus uplifted waters—waters perhaps uplifted half a mile—they rush down, and some of the unbelieving Israelites say: "Alas, alas, what a misfortune! Why could not those waters have staid parted? Because perhaps we may want to go back. O Lord, we are engaged in a risky business. Those Canaanites may eat us up. How if we want to go back? Would it not have been a more complete miracle if the Lord had parted the waters to let us come through and kept them parted to let us go back if we are defeated?" My friends, God makes no provision for a Christian retreat. He clears the path all the way to Canaan. To go back is to die. The same gatekeepers that swung back the amethystine and crystalline gate of the Jordan to let Israel pass through now swing shut the amethystine and crystalline gate of the Jordan to keep the Israelites from going back. Victory ahead, but water thirty feet deep behind, surging to death and darkness and woe. But you say, "Why did not these Canaanites, when they had such a splendid chance, standing on the top of the bank thirty or forty feet high, completely demolish those poor Israelites down in the river?" I will tell you why. God had made a promise, and he was going to keep it. "There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life." But this is no place for the host to stop. Joshua gives the command, "Forward, march!" In the distance there is a long grove of trees, and at the end of the grove is a city. It is a city with arbors, a city with walls seeming to reach to the heavens, to buttress the very sky. It is the great metropolis that commands the mountain pass. It is Jericho. That city was afterward captured by Pompey and once by Herod the Great and once again by the Mohammedans, but this campaign the Lord plans. There shall be no swords, no shields, no battering ram. There shall be only one weapon of war and that a ram's horn. The horn of the slain ram was sometimes taken, and holes were punctured in it, and then the musician would put the instrument to his lips, and he would run his fingers over this rude musical instrument and make a great deal of sweet harmony for the people. That was the only kind of weapon. Seven priests were to take these rude, rustic musical instruments, and they were to go around the city every day for six days—once a day for six days—and then on the seventh day they were to go around blowing these rude musical instruments seven times, and then at the close of the seventh blowing of the ram's horns on the seventh day the peroration of the whole scene was to be a shout, at which those great walls should tumble from capstone to base. Victory Follows Defeat. The seven priests with the rude musical instruments pass all around the city walls on the first day and score a failure. Not so much as a piece of plaster broke loose from the wall, not so much as a loosened rock, not so much as a piece of mortar lost from its place. "There," say the unbelieving Israelites, "did I not tell you so? Why, those ministers are fools. The idea of going around the city with those musical instruments and expecting in that way to destroy it. Joshua has been spoiled. He thinks because he has overthrown and conquered the spring freshet he can overthrow the stone wall. Why, it is not philosophic. Do you not see there is no relation between the blowing of these musical instruments and the knocking down of the wall? It is not philosophic." And I suppose there were many wiseacres who stood with their brows knitted and with the forefinger of the right hand to the forefinger of the left hand arguing it all out and showing that it was not possible that such a cause could produce such an effect. And I suppose that night in the encampment there was plenty of caricature, and if Joshua had been nominated for any high military position he would not have received many votes. Joshua's stock was down. The second day the priests blowing the musical instruments go around the city and again a failure. The third day and a failure, fourth day and a failure, fifth day and a failure, sixth day and a failure. The seventh day comes, the climacteric day. Joshua is up early in the morning and examines the troops, walks all about, looks at the city wall. The priests start to make the circuit of the city. They go all around once, all around twice, three times, four times, five times, six times, seven times, and a failure. There is only one more thing to do, and that is to utter a great shout. I see the Israelitish army straightening themselves up, filling their lungs for a vocation such as never was heard before and never heard after. Joshua feels that the hour has come, and he cries out to his host, "Shout, for the Lord hath given you the city." All together the troops shout: "Down, Jericho! Down, Jericho!" And the long line of solid masonry begins to quiver and to move and to rock. Stand from under! She falls! Crash go the walls and temples, the towers, the palaces, the air blackened with the dust. The huzza of the victorious Israelites and the groan of the conquered Canaanites commingle, and Joshua, standing there in the debris of the walls, hears a voice saying. "There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life." The Saviour's Deliverance. Only one house spared. Who lives here? Some great king? No. Some woman distinguished for great kindly deeds? No. She had been conspicuous for her crimes. It is the house of Rahab. Why was her house spared? Because she had been a great sinner? No, but because she repented, demonstrating to all the ages that there is mercy for the chief of sinners. The red cord of divine injunction reaching from her window to the ground, so that when the people saw the red cord they knew it was the divine indication that they should not disturb the premises, making us think of the divine cord of a Saviour's deliverance, the red cord of a Saviour's kindness, the red cord of a Saviour's mercy, the red cord of our rescue. Mercy for the chief of sinners. Put your trust in that God, and no damage shall befall you. When our world shall be more terribly surrounded than was Jericho, even by the trumpets of the judgment day and the hills and the mountains, the metal bones and ribs of nature shall break, they who have had Rahab's faith shall have Rahab's deliverance. When wrapped in fire the realms of ether glow And heaven's last thunder shakes the earth below, Thou, undismayed, shalt o'er the ruins smile And light thy torch at nature's funeral pile. But Joshua's troops may not halt here. The command is, "Forward, march!" There is the city of Ai. It must be taken. How shall it be taken? A scouting party comes back and says: "Joshua, we can do that without you. It is going to be a very easy job. You must stay here while we go and capture it." They march with a small regiment in front of that city. The men of Ai look at them and give one yell, and the Israelites run like reindeer. The northern troops at Bull Run did not make such rapid time as these Israelites with the Canaanites after them. They never cut such a sorry figure as when they were on the retreat. You who go out in the battles of God with only half a force instead of your taking the men of Ai the men of Ai will take you. Look at the church of God on the retreat. The Bornesian cannibals ate up Munson, the missionary. "Fall back!" said a great many Christian people. "Fall back, O church of God! Borneo will never be taken. Do you not see the Bornesian cannibals have eaten up Munson, the missionary?" Tyndall delivers his lecture at the University of Glasgow, and a great many good people say: "Fall back, O church of God! Do you not see that Christian philosophy is going to be overcome by worldly philosophy? Fall back!" Geology plunges its crowbar into the mountains, and there are a great many people who say: "Scientific investigation is going to overthrow the Mosaic account of the creation. Fall back!" God's Soldier's Must Advance. But friends of God never have had any right to fall back. Joshua falls on his face in chagrin. It is the only time you ever see the back of his head. He falls on his face and begins to whine, and he says, "O Lord God, wherefore hast thou at all brought this people over Jordan to deliver us into the hands of the Amorites, to destroy us? Would to God we had been content and dwelt on the other side of Jordan. For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear of it and shall environ us round and cut off our name from the earth." I am very glad Joshua said that. Before if seemed as if he were a supernatural being and therefore could not be an example to us, but I find he is a man, he is only a man. Just as sometimes you find a man under severe opposition or in a bad state of physical health, or worn out with overwork, lying down and sighing about being defeated. I am encouraged when I hear this cry of Joshua as he lies in the dust. God comes and rouses him. How does he rouse him? By complimentary apostrophe? No. He says, "Get thee up. Wherefore liest thou upon thy face?" Joshua rises, and, I warrant you, with a mortified look. But his old courage comes back. The fact was that was not his battle. If he had been in it he would have gone on to victory. He gathers his troops around him and says: "Now, let us go up and capture the city of Ai. Let us go up right away." They march on. He puts the majority of the troops behind a ledge of rocks in the night, and then he sends comparatively small regiments up in front of the city. The men of Ai come, out with a shout. The small regiments of Israelites in strategem fall back and fall back, and when all the men of Ai have left the city and are in pursuit of these scattered, or seemingly scattered, regiments, Joshua stands on a rock—I see his locks flying in the wind as he points his spear toward the doomed city, and that is the signal. The men rush out from behind the rocks and take the city, and it is put to the torch, and then these Israelites in the city march down, and the flying Israelites return, and between these two waves of Israelitish prowess the men of Ai are destroyed, and the Israelites gain the victory; and while I see the curling smoke of that destroyed city on the sky, and while I hear the huzza of the Israelites and the groan of the Canaanites, Joshua hears something louder than it all, ringing and echoing through his soul, "There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life." No Place to Stop. But this is no place for the host of Joshua to stop. "Forward, march!" cries Joshua to the troops. There is the city of Gibeon. It has put itself under the protection of Joshua. They send word: "There are five kings after us. They are going to destroy us. Send troops quick. Send us help right away." Joshua has a three days' march, more than double quick. On the morning of the third day he is before the enemy. There are two long lines of battle. The battle opens with great slaughter, but the Canaanites soon discover something. They say: "That is Joshua. That is the man who conquered the spring freshet and knocked down the stone walls of Jericho and destroyed the city of Ai. There is no use fighting." They sound a retreat, and as they begin to retreat Joshua and his host spring upon them like a panther, pursuing them over the rocks, while the catapults of the sky pour a volley of hailstones into the valley, and all the artillery of the heavens, with bullets of iron, pound the Canaanites against the ledges of Bethhoron., "Oh," says Joshua, "this is surely a victory!" "But do you not see the sun is going down? Those Amorites are going to get away after all, and then they will come up some other time and bother us, and perhaps destroy us. See, the sun is going down. Oh, for a longer day than has ever been seen in this climate!" What is the matter with Joshua? Has he fallen in an apoplectic fit? No. He is in prayer. Look out when a good man makes the Lord his ally. Joshua raises his face, radiant with prayer, and looks at the descending sun over Gibeon and at the faint crescent of the moon, for you know the queen of the night sometimes will linger around the palaces of the day. Pointing one hand at the descending sun and the other hand at the faint crescent of the moon, in the name of that God who shaped the words and moves the worlds he cries: "Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon, and thou, moon, in the valley of Ajalon!" They halted. Whether it was by refraction of the sun's rays or by the stopping of the whole planetary system I do not know and do not care. I leave it to the Christian Scientists and the infidel scientists to settle that question, while I tell you I have seen the same thing. "What?" say you. "Not the sun standing still?" Yes. The same miracle is performed nowadays. The wicked do not live out half their day, and their sun sets at noon. But let a man start out in battle for God and the truth and against sin, and the day of his usefulness is prolonged and prolonged and prolonged. John Summerfield's Influence. John Summerfield was a consumptive Methodist. He looked fearfully white, I am told, as he stood in the old Sands Street Church in Brooklyn preaching Christ and again on the anniversary platform in New York pleading for the Bible until unusual and unknown glories rolled forth from that book. When he was dying, his pillow was brushed with the wings of an angel from the skies, the messenger that God sent down. Did John Summerfield's sun set? Did John Summerfield's day end? Oh, no! He lives on in his burning utterances in behalf of the Christian church. He said: "I cannot die now. I am only 27 years of age. Sun of my Christian influence, stand thou still above America!" And it stood still. Robert McCheyne was a consumptive Presbyterian. 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I am now in better health than I have been in over twenty years, and I feel sure my catarrh is permanently cured." Peruna cures catarrh wherever located. As soon as Peruna removes systemic catarrh the digestion becomes good, nerves strong, and trouble vanishes. Peruna strengthens weak nerves, not by temporarily stimulating them, but by removing the cause of weak nerves—systemic catarrh. This is the only cure that lasts. Remove the cause; nature will do the rest. Peruna removes the cause. Address The Peruna Medicine Company, Columbus, Ohio, for a book treating of catarrh in its different phases and stages, also a book entitled "Health and Beauty," written especially for women. Dr.Bull's Cures all Throat and Lung Affections. COUGH SYRUP Get the genuine. Refuse substitutes. IS SURE Salvation Oil cures Rheumatism. 15 & 25 cts. LACE CURTAINS Ladies' and Gents' Clothes and all kinds of Family Dyeing at rea- sonable prices. Mall orders prompt- ly attended to. Write, HACK & ALTEN, 534 Clinton street, Mil- waukee, Wis. COUNTRY MANAGER DESIRED. No books or insurance. New attractive business without competition. Exclusive control given. PHILIP S. BATES, San Bernardino, Cal. If afflicted with sore eyes, use Thompson's Eye Water e ta in b li g d FIRST T-RAILS IN AMERICA. Made in Cardiff, Wales, for the Camden and Amboy Railroad. In recognition of Andrew Carnegie's gift of £10,000 for a new building for Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey, it has been decided to present him with a section of an original 36-pound T-trail from the Camden & Amboy railroad enclosed in a suitable receptacle. The incident has a local interest inasmuch as the rails were rolled in the Dowlais works in 1831 and were the first T-trails designed or made, although the Vignoles rails produced in France several years later have generally been credited with being the earliest. The former were designed by Robert L. Stevens, who was sent to England to have them made, there being in America at that time no mill cannable of doing the work. Arrived in England, he called for bids on the job from various iron works, but at first none of them ventured to undertake it. After a while he persuaded Mr. (subsequently Sir) John Guest to attempt the task, not, however, before guarantees had been given against damage to the machinery in performing the mighty task of rolling a 36-pound rail. Finally the rails were satisfactorily rolled. They were sent to the United States in a good many different vessels, a few tons at a time, for they were regarded as a perilous sort of freight. Dr. Morton has fac similes of letters, specifications and bills connected with this matter, which are to be enclosed in the silver box which is to contain, the section of rail.—Cardiff Western Mail. Charms of English Waterways. Norfolk and Suffolk possess 500 miles of inland waterways that flow amidst rich meadow lands, margined with reeds and water lilies, or through low marshes, the haunts of stint, snipe, duck, whimbrel and other wild fowl; by ancient villages with grey church towers; beneath bridges, over the parapets of which old men look down into the silent waters; and finally you reach the sea from whence, if you are yachting, you pause to notice that the landscape you have left behind is marked against the horizon by a line of windmills and churches after the manner of Tennyson's Lincolnshire wolds and fens, and with faint suggestions of Holland.—Newcastle (Eng.) Chronicle. Italy's Trade Giong to Germany Italian trade with Germany in 1808 reached 157,250,000 lire for imports and nearly 192,000,000 for exports. The chief German goods taken by Italy which affect British trade are cotton, wool and silk goods, and metals and machinery. This last heading includes a third of all the German exports to Italy, and at one time this branch of trade was almost wholly in British hands. Germany takes more Italian wine year by year; Crefeld takes a large and increasing quantity of Italian silk, while vast quantities of fruit and vegetables are now being taken by Germany from Italy.—London Mail. How Knights Are Made. The ceremonies at the creation of a knight have been various; the principal were a box on the ear and a stroke with a sword on the shoulder. The blow with the naked fist was in use among the ancient Normans. It was afterward changed into a blow with the flat of the sword on the shoulder of the knight, and this ceremony is still in use. —Sugar manufacturers in Queensland invariably purchase the year's crop of cane standing, and cut it at their own cost. —The Royal Army Clothing factory of Great Britain has only two commissioned officers, a director and a doctor. Dr. Greene's NERVURA for the Blood and Nerves WISCONSIN FARMERS' INSTITUTES. County. Adams..... White Creek, Town of Monroe. Barron..... Cameron, Dallas. Brown..... Town of Lawrence, Wayside. Buffalo..... Fountain City, Modena, Waumandee. Calumet..... Jericho. Chippewa..... Stanley. Clark..... Abbottsford, Humbird, * Loyal. Columbia..... Cambria, * Fall River. Crawford..... Eastman. Dane..... Blue Mounds, Cambridge, Middleton. Dodge..... Brownville. Dunn..... Elk Mound, * Knapp. Eau Claire..... Brackett, Fairchild. Fond du Lac..... Brandon, * Fond du Lac. Grant..... Burton, Lancaster, Mt. Hope. Green..... Juda, Stewart. Green Lake..... Manchester. Iowa..... Cobb, Dodgeville, Mineral Point. Jackson..... Black River Falls, Taylor. Jefferson..... Waterloo, * Juneau..... Camp Douglas, Mauston, * Union Cent'r. Kenosha..... Salem. Kewaunee..... Alaska, Pilsen. La Crosse..... Holmen. Lafayette..... Wiota. Langlade..... Antigo. Lincoln..... Bloomville. Manitowoc..... Cato, Melnik. Marathon..... Spencer. County. Marinette..... Marquette..... Milwaukee..... Monroe..... Oconto..... Outagamie..... Ozaukee..... Pepin..... Pierce..... Polk..... Portage. Price..... Racine..... Richland..... Rock..... St. Croix..... Sauk..... Shawano..... Sheboygan..... Trempealeau..... Vernon..... Walworth..... Washington..... Waukesha..... Waupaca..... Waushara..... Winnebago..... Wood..... Pound. Endeavor. Oakwood. Tomah, Warrens. Abrams. Kaukauna,* Horn's Corners, Thiensville. Arkansaw. Ellsworth, Rock Elm. Balsam Lake, Clear Lake, St. Croix Falls Amherst. Phillips. Waterford, Western Union. Ithaca, Sylvan. Orfordville. Houiton. North Freedom, Lime Ridge. Angelica, Birnamwood. Parnell, Sheboygan Falls. Eleva, Whitehall. DeSoto, Ontario, Viroqua. Genoa Junction, Millard, Walworth. Fillmore, Nenno. Eagle, Oconomowoc, * Sussex. Ogdensburg, * Weyauwega. Pine River. Eureka, * Winchester, Oshkosh* (closing institute). Marshfield. INSTITUTES WITH DATES AND CONDUCTORS. DATE. CHAS. THORP, Conductor. W. C. BRADLEY, Conductor. L. E. SCOTT, Conductor. H. C. TAYLOR, Conductor. GEO. WYLIE, Conductor. December. 11-12 Town of Lawrence Antigo. Pound. Spencer. Bloomville. 13-14 Angelica Birnamwood. Abrams. Phillips. Marshfield. 18-19 St. Croix Falls Knapp. Ellsworth. Arkansaw. Dallas. 20-21 Balsam Lake Clear Lake. Houlton. Rock E.m. Cameron. January. 8- 9 Brackett Fountain City Loyal. Holmen. Modena. 10-11 Abbottsford Waumandee Stanley. Taylor. Eleva. 15-16 Mt. Hope Eastman. Burton. Dodgeville. Wiota. 17-18 Sylvan DeSoto Lancaster. Stewart. Mineral Point. 22-23 Juda Walworth Blue Mounds. Ithaca. Town of Monroe. 24-25 Orfordville Eagle Cobb. Middleton. White Creek. 29-30 Whitehall Humbird* Warrens. Ontario. Camp Douglas. 31-Feb. 1 Fairchild Elk Mound* Black River Falls. Viroqua. Tomah. February. 19-20 Cambria* Lime Ridge Endeavor. Cambridge. Brownville. 21-22 Mauston* Union Center Fall River North Freedom. Manchester. 26-27 Pilsen Weyauwega Wayside. Kaukauna*. Amberst. 28-Mch. 1 Alaska Winchester Melnik. Ogdensburg*. Pine River. March. 5- 6 Western Union Genoa Junction Waterloo*. Sussex. Thiensville. 7- 8 Millard Salem Oconomowoc*. Waterford. Oakwood. 12-13 Parnell Horn's Corners Nenno. Cato. Brandon.* 14-15 Jericho Fillmore Fond du Lac. Sheboygan Ealls. Eureka.* Cooking School will be held in connection with Institute. Fifteenth Annual Closing Institute, Oshkosh, March 19, 20 and 21, 1901. All Inquiries relative to Institutes will be promptly answered. HE IS CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT IN 1904. "Old John" of Kenosha, Formerly Senator Quarles' Coachman, Spends Money Freely. Kenosha, Wis., Nov. 21.—[Special.]—"Old John," a familiar character in early times in Kenosha, and later a coachman for Senator J. V. Quarles, is a candidate for President in 1904. It seems that the old man is laboring under a strange delusion. He had not been in Kenosha in years until yesterday, when he returned to the city and began to expend money in a lavish manner. He went to the office of a well-known real estate man and paid him $5 to tell him where a street was, $10 more went for a view of a city map and other funds were spent in treating friends to all sorts of wet goods. After a while old John returned to the office of the real estate man and insisted that he was to be a candidate for President at the next election. He put up with the real estate man a large sum of money to be used as campaign expenses. Then he started to Chicago to open his campaign headquarters. The police of Chicago have been notified to look out for him. LOST IN THE WOODS. Two Kenosha Business Men Who Went Hunting, Missing for Three Weeks. Kenosha. Wis., Nov. 21.—[Special.]—Considerable anxiety is felt in this city on account of the failure of Chris Buckenhauser and Charles Radtke, two well-known local hunters, to return from the northern woods. They left Kenosha more than three weeks ago, presumably for a week's hunting, but since that time no trace of them has been found. There were three men in the original party and one of them returned when the week was up and stated that the other men would be back in a few days. Both the men were business men, but none of their associates have heard from them and it is feared that they have met with some mishap in the woods. When the companion of the men left them to return to Kenosha they stated that they were going into the woods for a day's more sport before returning home, and it is feared that they have either met with foul play or have been lost in the woods. The wives and children of the men have made every effort to locate them, but the efforts have been of no avail. DEATHS IN THE STATE. John Vau Derbrook, Kaukauna. Kaukauna. Wis., Nov. 21.—[Special.] —John Van Derbrook, aged 62 years, was buried here this morning. His death was very sudden, resulting from the effects of a stroke of paralysis. Mr. Vau Derbrook came to Kaukauna twenty-seven years ago and in 1880 was employed on the construction work of the Kaukauna waterpower canal. Leo Sorenson, Menasha Menasha, Wis., Nov. 21.—[Special.]—Leo Sorenson, son of C. A. Sorenson of this city, died of typhoid pneumonia this morning, aged 17 years. C. E. Scott, Whitehall. Whitehall, Wis., Nov. 21.—[Special.]—Postmaster C. E. Scott of this place died very suddenly at the age of 69 years. Other Deaths in the State. Milladore, Wis., Nov. 21.—[Special.]—Barbara Hanna, 19 years old, in the town of Milladore, died of typhoid fever. John Cister, aged about 50 years. Grand Rapids, Wis., Nov. 21.—Isaac Henry, aged 76 years. ENLARGE RACINE HOSPITAL Church People of the City Are Subscribing Funds. Racine, Wis., Nov. 21.—[Special.]—The church congregations of this city have held meetings for the purpose of securing money in the aiding of the building of an addition to St. Luke's hospital, which is owned by the Danish Hospital association. The hospital is too small. HUNTER IS KILLED BY FATHER-IN-LAW. Ed. Matchett of Bruce Mistaken for a Deer and Shot Down in the Woods. Chippewa Falls, Wis., Nov. 21.—[Special.]—As the result of a gunshot wound Ed Matchett, living six miles south of Bruce, Chippewa county, is dead. Blood poison set in on Sunday and the efforts of three physicians to save his life were unsuccessful. Matchett was in the woods with his father-in-law, hunting deer. He had wounded one and was crawling on his hands and knees locating the animal's tracks when his companion, mistaking him for a deer, fired. The bullet lodged in the right leg. WORD FROM THE DEAD. Spiritualists at Whitewater Celebrate Golden Wedding Anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Pratt. Whitewater. Wis., Nov. 21.—[Special.]—An unusual golden wedding anniversary wedding was held here today. Fifty years ago Mr. and Mrs. Morris Pratt were married. For the last few years the couple were desirous of celebrating their golden wedding anniversary and made plans for the observance of that event. About a year ago Mrs. Pratt died. Just before death she promised her husband that she would be with him on their golden wedding day. The Pratts were leaders of the Spiritualists in the state. Today Mr. Pratt invited twenty friends to his house and read to them a communication from his dead wife, which he said came to him today. She said she was present in spirit to receive the congratulations of her friends on her fiftieth wedding anniversary. A feast was spread and the wedding celebration was held. just as though the dead woman was present in spirit. FIND SIX SKELETONS. Workmen Find an Old Cemetery Near Sheboygan. Sheboygan. Wis., Nov. 21.—[Special.] While workmen were engaged in excavating for a sidetrack on Thirteenth street, between Erie and St. Clair avenues, six skeletons were unearthed. The place they are excavating is the side of a hill which has been washed away some by the rains in years past. In the early '40s the first cemetery owned by the city was located at this spot, but for many years has been abandoned until at present there was not the slightest evidence that it was ever used for such a purpose until the unearthing of the skulls and bones yesterday. A number of the bones were reburied yesterday in a nearby lot. One skull was that of a woman and the long dark hair was in an excellent state of preservation. WIFE GETS A DIVORCE. Thomas Goodwin of Lost Lake Charged with Attempted Murder. Portage, Wis., Nov. 21.—[Special.]—Judge Dick has granted a divorce and $2000 alimony to Mary Goodwin of Lost Lake. Thomas Goodwin, a saloonkeeper of that place, was charged with throwing his wife into an abandoned well. She was rescued after she had nearly died from fright and exposure and after remaining in the well most of the night. Goodwin was arrested, charged with attempted murder and his wife brought suit against him for divorce. The divorce has now been granted and the charge against Goodwin is to be heard later. BLOWS DOWN WALLS. New Factory Building at Racine Wrecked by Wind. Racine, Wis., Nov. 21.—[Special.]—The north and west walls of the new brick factory building, which the Lange Manufacturing company is erecting at Lakeside, were blown down at an early hour this morning by the high winds. The loss will be $800. The walls were two stories high. THREATENED TO KILL HIS FAMILY. Insane Farmer Terrorizes Neighborhood-Cuts Throat of Horse and is Sent to Asylum. Chippewa Falls, Wis., Nov. 21.—[Special.]—Erick Johnson, an insane farmer living near Bruce. Chippewa county, will be taken to Mendota asylum today. He threatened the lives of his family and kept the neighbors in constant terror. Saturday night he cut the throat of one of his horses with a razor, killing the animal. BADGER BOYS GET EXTRA MONTH'S PAY. Wisconsin Regiments Are Notified of Auditor-General's Decision in Their Favor. Madison, Wis., Nov. 21.—[Special.]—Officers and members of the First, Second and Third Wisconsin regiments, who served in the Spanish-American war, are receiving notice from Claim Agent Mullen, who represents Wisconsin claims at Washington, that the auditor-general has decided that they are entitled to an extra month's pay for waiting time, being the time that they were under orders while awaiting muster-out. BIG BUILDING SOLD. W. A. Quick Buys the Postoffice Building at Fond du Lac for $15,000. Fond du Lac, Wis., Nov. 21.—[Special.]—The postoffice block was sold this morning by Thomas J. Bolger of Chicago to W. A. Quick of this city. The consideration was $15,000. The building was erected in 1853 by W. C. Hamilton of this city and A. K. Hamilton of Milwaukee. It is a three-story brick structure located on Forest avenue and Macy street. The entire first floor is occupied by the postoffice. The second story by the grand recorder of the Ancient Order of United Workmen. The remainder is used for office purposes. The third story is the Workmen's hall. APPOINTS A JUDGE. Attorney Frank Johnson of Black River Falls is Named by Gov. Scofield. Madison, Wis., Nov. 21.—[Special.]—Gov. Scofield today appointed Frank Johnson, an attorney of Black River Falls, county judge of Jackson county, to succeed David Barclay, deceased. HAS A REMARKABLE ESCAPE. Kaukauna Man Injured at North- Western Railway's Powerhouse. Kaukauna, Wis., Nov. 21.—[Special.] —Bert Goss, who was employed at the Ashland division shops of the North- Western railroad, came near having his life crushed out of him by a 70-foot gin- pole breaking. The pole was being used to raise a smokestack at the company's powerhouse, when the rigging broke and fifty feet of the larger end, fifteen inches in diameter, came crashing to the earth, barely missing young Goss. Goss was thrown about ten feet by the concussion and rendered unconscious. His back is somewhat injured. TO SUE ASHLAND COUNTY. Winnebago County is Trying to Collect Old Accounts. Oshkosh, Wis., Nov. 21.—[Special.]—District Attorney Quatermass reported to the county board that he had a number of county orders against Ashland county aggregating several hundred dollars, which that county refuses to pay because there are no funds in the treasury. He said Ashland county is practically bankrupt and he advised that suit be instituted since nothing but judgments against the county are being paid The Way a Pembine Man Showed His Affection. Choked Woman and Pounded Husband When He Interfered-Now in Jail at Marinette. Marinette, Wis., Nov. 20.—[Special.]—Charles Messenger of Pembine, commonly known as "Dutch," is in the county jail here with a bullet wound in his head and charged with assault with intent to do great bodily harm. His arrest was the result of a row in the saloon of Frank Bush. Messenger came in the place, picked up a row with Bush's wife and attempted to choke her, when the husband ran to her rescue. Messenger attacked him with a cuspidor, maiming him in a terrible manner. Mrs. Bush then ran to a backroom and secured a revolver. She fired at Messenger and the bullet grazed his skull. The wound is not a dangerous one. Bush is in a precarious state as a result of the pounding given him by Messenger. Love for Mrs. Bush is said to have prompted Messenger to do his desperate work. DEATH OF OLDENGINEER Madison, Wis., Nov. 20.—[Special.]—Elisha E. Thompson, a veteran engineer of the Milwaukee road, died at his home in this city, aged 69 years. In 1855 he came to Wisconsin to take a position as engineer on the St. Paul system. He came to Madison in 1861, and this has been the home of the family ever since. About twenty-one years ago Mr. Thompson was injured in an accident, his engine going through a bridge at Wauwatosa. About the same time he was affected by creeping paralysis. Mr. Thompson is survived by his widow and one son, Charles Thompson, and four brothers and one sister living in Vermont. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity. Neenah, Wis., Nov. 20.—Mrs. Schneller, wife of Rev. Schneller, died, aged 48 years. Interment will be at Prairie du Sac. She leaves a husband and nine children. William Manu, Appleton. Appleton, Wis., Nov. 20.—[Special.]—William Mann, a pioneer resident of Appleton, aged 58, died this morning, death being the result of complications arising from an attack of dropsy. Isaac Hewey, Grand Rapids. Grand Rapids, Wis., Nov. 20.—[Special.]—Isaac Hewey, an old settler and soldier, aged 76 years, died today of old age. O. T. Hamilton, Whitewater. Whitewater, Wis., Nov. 20.—[Special.] —O. T. Hamilton, an old resident of this city and a justice of the peace for many years, died yesterday at the age of about 70 years. Other Deaths in the State. Whitewater, Wis., Nov. 20.—George Astin, aged 65 years. Elkhart Lake, Wis., Nov. 20.—Phillip Laubenstein of the town of Russell, aged 43 years. Kaukauna, Wls., Nov. 20.-John Brooks, aged 60 years. aged 60 years. Belloot, Wis., Nov. 20.—John Fredericks, aged 34 years. Mrs. Dwyer Alexander, aged 50 years. Barnboo, Wis., Nov. 20.—Mrs. Owen Logan died. New Richmond, Wls., Nov. 20.—[Special.] —Mrs. George Gardner of Hammond is dead. CAN'T GET JUSTICE. West Superior Has No Facilities for Handling Admiralty Cases Deputy Marshal Wanted. West Superior, Wis., Nov. 20.—[Special.]—There is a great lack of facilities provided here for handling admiralty cases. The matter has just been brought up again by an instance involving some sailors who came before the United States court commissioner and demanded a warrant for their captain who had, they alleged, withheld their pay. The boat was to sail within a few hours and the commissioner was compelled to inform the men he could do nothing for them because there is no deputy marshal near here and the marshal would not have time to come from Madison. The commissioner states that he has this season turned away twenty-five or thirty similar cases for similar reason. TWO BADLY INJURED. Fifteen Big Logs Fall on Woodsmen at Marinette-Miraculous Escape from Death. Marinette, Wis., Nov. 20.—[Special.]—Joseph Timbert and Patrick Kane, two woodsmen, were seriously injured while decking logs yesterday. The skid broke and about fifteen big logs came down on them. Their escape from death was miraculous. Timbert had one leg fractured and sustained other serious injuries. Kane had an ankle fractured and it is feared has sustained serious internal injuries. BURNED TO DEATH. Child's Clothing Catches Fire While His Parents Are Away from Home. Baraboo, Wis., Nov. 20.—[Special.]—George Mentes' 5-year-old son, at Loganville died as the result of his clothing catching fire while his parents were away from home. SUSPECTS ARE ARRESTED Sheriff Working on the Eau Claire Assault Case--Two Men in the Tolls. Eau Claire, Wis., Nov. 20.—[Special.] —Sheriff Chrisler arrived from Menomonie today with young man giving name of Frank Brown and claiming St. Paul as his home. He is suspected of committing the murderous assault of W. C. Johnson last night. He protests his innocence, but has been locked up. The sheriff went on to Fall Creek, where another suspect has been arrested. ANGUISH CAUSES SUICIDE. Ashland Man Takes Poison Because of Financial Troubles. Ashland, Wis., Nov. 20.—A. J. Kerr, an old and respected citizen of this place, was found in a cheap lodging house last evening. An empty bottle that had contained carbolic acid was found by his side. In a letter to his son, a society young man of this city, the parent had written that the load of responsibility caused by financial indebtedness, together with a horrible mental anguish which he had suffered for days was the cause of his action. Mr. Kerr had taken a contract to cut cedar and the reverses which he met with were many. LONG-DISTANCE DIPLOMACY. The Telegraph Has Added to Its Complexity—Used to Mislead. In this year of "Conger dispatches," trans-Pacific cable projects and long-distance diplomacy, an incident connected with the early days of the electric telegraph may have repetition. M. Louis Adolphe Thiers, afterwards President of the French republic, was even then a veteran in the public service of his nation, and had little to learn of the ways of the world. To him came a young attache, full of enthusiasm over the new era which telegraphy should usher in. There were to be no more international misunderstandings. The long delays of the post were annihilated, and the truth of any diplomatic situation could be known almost instantaneously in all capitals of Europe! To his glowing vision the chief obstacle to millennial peace had been swept away by the wonderful invention. Thiers heard him to the end of his rhapsody, but chilled him with a word. "Millennium, nonsense! The devil will control the telegraph within a decade!" As we recall the history of a half-century of telegraphy, and consider how the Morse alphabet has been used to spell out lies, to throw the bourses into a panic, to mislead and confuse public opinion and to influence governmental policies for evil, the significance of the astute minister's saying is readily apparent. Indeed, the part played by the telegraph in the lightning diplomatic strategy which precipitated the Franco-Prussian war of 1870 is ample warrant for the ill-boding remark.—Chautauquan. New Use for Peat. A large Dublin manufacturer has a room entirely furnished with Irish peat. The carpets on the floors, the curtains at the windows and the paper on the wall are made from this substance. For years he has experimented with the material, which is now very largely exported as fuel, and he has discovered that from it is possible to produce almost any kind of fabric. The process is simple—the fibers, which are strong and tough, being extracted and woven like cotton or silk. The fabrics have the toughness of linen and the warmth of wool. Blankets made of them are found to excel in warmth and lightness anything yet discovered. Germany in World Politics. The German empire has left its period of evolution behind it and has entered upon its epoch of growth, says Sig. Crispi in the Chicago Tribune. Thirty years ago the task consisted in laying the foundation of the structure of the empire and in cementing it together with blood and iron. Then came a period of blissful work devoted to the inner completion of the structure. After that had been finished new tasks presented themselves to the new generation, and it is merely a sign of health and strength that the living generation of the German people bravely devotes itself to the solution of all those problems which are at present comprised in the words "world politics." Knowing Where to Find It. Education, it has been said, is not knowing many things, but knowing how to find out what one wants to know. There are persons who have the commendable habit of writing to a newspaper when they want to find out anything. Then the editor picks a book of reference from the shelf and answers the question, and it is as likely as not that the questioner had the same book on his own shelf, only he was not educated to the point of knowing that that was the book to look in.—New York Tribune. Brilliant Glass Bedstead. It is said that a bedstead of unique and remarkably brilliant design is being made for one of Queen Victoria's princely Indian subjects. The head and foot rails and the pillars of the bedstead are entirely of diamond cut glass, while the crimson velvet hangings are ornamented with crescents and stars of cut glass and bordered with a fringe of the same material. —English "auto" builders contemplate a uniform advance of about 20 per cent. in the prices of their vehicles. LIBBY'S Premier Soups TEN CENTS Libby's soups are as good as soups can be. Some cooks may know how to make soups as good. None can make them better—none so cheaply. Six plates of delicious soup for 10 cents—and think of the bother saved! Oxtall, Mullagatawny, Chicken, Mock Turtle, Tomato, Vegetable, and Chicken Gumbo. At your grocers, in cans ready for instant serving—just heat them. Write for our booklet, "How to Make Good Things to Eat." DO YOU COUGH DON'T DELAY TAKE KEMP'S BALSAM THE BEST COUGH CURE It Cures Colds, Coughs, Sore Throat, Croup, Influenza, Whooping Cough, Bronchitis and Asthma. A certain cure for Consumption in first stages, and a sure relief in advanced stages. Use at once. You will see the excellent effect after taking the first dose. Sold by dealers everywhere. Large bottles 25 cents and 50 cents. What Shall We Have for Dessert? This question arises in the family every day. Let us answer it to-day. Try Jell-O, a delicious and healthful dessert. Prepared in two minutes. No boiling! no baking! add boiling water and set to cool. Flavors:—Lemon, Orange, Raspberry and Strawberry. Get a package at your grocers to-day. 10 cts, Scenes and Incidents of Everyday Life in the Paris of America. You see her on the corner and you flee in frantic haste; You see her on the avenue, you see her on Broadway: You see her at Delmonico's and execute her taste— her taste She haunts your anguished vision night and day. At theater and opera you count her by the score. At Auto Show and football game she's seen. Till your prayer goes up to heaven you may meet her nevermore The girl who wears the flannel waist of green. —New York Sunday Telegraph. Across the breakfast table in her sunny room at the Fifth Avenue hotel recently Mrs. Carter linked Lillian Russell and Elsie De Wolfe in the sweetest phrases. They were speaking of Miss Russell's beautiful voice, which grows richer and sweeter every year, and Mrs. Carter was telling how superbly the prima donna sang some of the impassioned lyrics of Charminade. "Her voice was grand," she declared. "There was power and tenderness; there was pathos and sweetness in it; there was the ecstacy of hope and the haunting sadness of memory. It thrilled you, and it set you dreaming. It held the chill, cold purity of an Arctic dawn and the rich graciousness of a tropical night; it was wine; it was flowers; it was—well, it was simply Elsie De Wolfe's beautiful eyes set to music!" Two immmaculate Chinamen walked down Broadway recently, stared at in amazement by every feminine shopper and by many men. They wore gay silks and elaborate padded jackets. But the clothes did not excite all the attention. Each Celestial wore around his neck a fur boa, with a mink head and grinning teeth at the end. Placidly unaware of the sensation they created, the Chinamen strolled through the crowd, while every woman who passed them was consumed with envy. Finer boas were never seen on the promenade. An announcement of interest to the many New Yorkers who are familiar with English society has been recently made in London. This announcement is to the effect that the celebrated Mrs. George Keppel is comig to America to see Mr. Keppel, who has an appointment on this side of the Atlantic. It is further said that Mrs. Keppel will be here about two months. There is no woman in England more talked about at present than Mrs. Keppel. She has held her place in a certain important circle longer than any of those called her predecessors. Although not beautiful, she is a remarkably-attractive woman, and is noted for her vivacity, unfailing good humor and her rare taste in gowns. She will doubtless be widely entertained during her stay here, as she will probably bring letters from personages of position and influence in England. The old jest about the different reasons that take men and women to church, "Some go there to close their eyes and others go to eye their clothes," is changed into something new by a witty curate who had sat under his prosy rector's ministrations, thus: I never see my rector's eyes; John Drew's engagement in "Richard Carvel" will continue at the Empire theater until Saturday, December 29. Then the Empire Theater company will return for the regular winter season, beginning on December 31. The first play in which the company will appear will be Henry Arthur Jones" "Mrs. Dane's Defense." In the new piece William Faversham will have the part of Sir Daniel Carteret, which Charles Wyndham is playing in London; Miss Jessie Millward will appear as Lady Eastney, the part now played by Miss Mary Moore, and Miss Margaret Anglin will have the part of Mrs. Dane. The Empire Theater company this season will also include Miss Elsie De Wolfe, Miss Sara Perry, Miss Jessie Busley, Mrs. G. H. Gilbert, Miss May Robson, Miss Margaret Dale, Guy Standing, Edwin Stevens, Joseph Wheelock, Jr., Sidney Herbert, Oswald Yorke, George W. Howard, E. Y. Backus and others. The first passenger to descend the gangplank of the steamer Majestic from Liverpool was Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt. She was followed by her daughter, Miss Gladys M. Vanderbilt. They were met by Mrs. Vanderbilt's sons, Alfred Gwynne and Reginald Vanderbilt. The widow and her three children entered a carriage and were driven to her Fifth avenue mansion. Minnie Ashley, who has won the hearts of Daly audiences this season in the opera "San Toy," has caused a stir among wealthy property-owners in Great Neck, L. I., because she is seeking to secure a home in their community. A committee of residents took action to frustrate her plans. It was reported that when she resented the stand they took against an actress securing a residence in Great Neck she burst into tears, and exclaimed: "Why, I'm going to retire from the stage next year. I'm going to marry William Astor Chanler." Mr. Chanler is congressman from the Fourteenth New York district. He organized a battalion for the Spanish-American war, is a Harvard graduate, society man, and a millionaire in his own right. Miss Ashley laughingly denied last night her reported engagement to Mr. Chanler. A new high record for seats on the Stock exchange was made when that of S. C. Goffee was sold for $46,500. Albert J. Elias, former president of the Third Avenue railroad, recently purchased a membership for $46,000. The engagement is announced of James Gerard, elder son of the late noted lawyer and author, James W. Gerard, and whose mother was Miss Angell, and Miss Mary Daly, younger daughter of the late Marcus Daly. The engagement of Miss Margaret Daly and H. Carroll Brown of Baltimore was only recently announced. The wedding of Mr. Brown and Miss Margaret Daly was to have been celebrated early next month, but in consequence of Mr. Daly's death may now be postponed. It is reported that Mr. Daly has left his enormous fortune to his widow, so that the daughters, if this story be true, will not inherit directly from their father's estate. Mr. Gerard is a well-known young lawyer of this city and is also a prominent figure in fashionable society. The news of his engagement to the daughter of the multi-millionaire Western copper king the day following the latter's death comes as a great surprise to his friends of the legal and social worlds of New York. Mrs. John Jacob Astor, Mrs. C. Oliver Iselin, Mrs. Ogden Goelet and Mrs. Charles A. Post will receive at the first assembly ball on December 13 at the Waldorf-Astoria. The other day a tall young man in a light overcoat made some purchases in a popular cakeshop. "My man will call for the package," said he. "Dear me," said the merchant, "he must be a howling swell." She was accustomed to seeing prosperous-looking personages cram tarts into both overcoat pockets and walk out of the shop quite unconscious of or indifferent to public opinion. In a short time a colored man appeared upon the scene. "Did the Earl of Yarmouth leave a package here for me?" he asked in pompous tones that could be heard all over the shop. The girls tittered, and the man cashier was about to interfere when the negro went into details of the appearance of his master and the cakes he had bought. When the gentleman's gentleman had secured the package and departed the girl who had waited on the noble lord had to be given ten minutes' recess in which to get her breath. When she recovered she shrugged her irreverent, republican shoulders and said, scornfully: "Pooth! I don't believe he was an earl! An earl eatin' jelly doughnuts!"—New York Commercial Advertiser. A remarkable rehearsal took place at Herald Square theater the other afternoon. A dozen well-known stars were being drilled as "supes" for a benefit performance of "Arizona." Some bitter examples of professional jealousy were witnessed. For instance, John Drew and DeWolf Hopper had a heated argument as to which should be a Mexican vaquero in the front row. Digby Bell would be nothing but a cowboy, having had years of experience as the hindlegs of a calf in "Adonis." William H. Crane and James J. Jeffries will "act" side by side, with Augustus Thomas on the right end. The only demand upon these Arizona cowboys consists of much noise. DeWolf Hopper was fined peremptorily for introducing a megaphone after his entrance. Four managers are among the "supers," and unholy delight is experienced by the Drew, Crane, etc., combination at the manner in which they meekly receive and obey orders. According to an oldtimer who witnessed the rehearsal, it was the most unique affair of the kind witnessed on the Rialto for months. With the proceeds of the benefit Thomas J. Oberle, a well-known actor, will be sent to southern California for his health. One of the popular Broadway restaurants adopts a method of providing its waiters with sufficient customers that is rather trying to persons not familiar with the system under which the service is distributed among the men. A few nights ago a guest sitting at a small table observed a waiter several feet away who tried by every means within his power to attract somebody to the same table. Everybody that entered alone was cordially waved to the one vacant seat at the small table, and the waiter showed so much interest in supplying the guest with a companion at dinner that the guest felt himself called on to tell him to mind his own business, as he had no desire for society. Ultimately somebody did sit down at the table. It was only then that the first comer learned of the strange rule by which one-half of the table was allotted to one waiter and the other half to a second. The tables stretched along the wall of the restaurant are the most popular, and in order to make an equal division of tips and profits each one is served by two men. In case two persons together sit at a table the waiters arrange between themselves to divide the compensation, or if one waits on the two his companion gets the next party. GRAY HAIR IN FASHION Popular Stage Favorites who Show a Slightly Maternal Air. It used to be said five years ago that middle age was having its innings at last and the innocent maid of 18 had to give place to the experienced woman of 40. For a while the dramatists who wrote plays about persons of this age, chiefly because most of the popular actors and actresses were too old to appear as young men and young women, and the authors who put two or three mature characters into their books made it seem as if middle age were really having a vogue. Men who had begun to lose their waists and women who were uncomfortably tight in their stays, began to regard themselves as once more at the age for sentiment. But this fashion did not last long and the newest style in ages is not likely to survive much longer. It is admitted even by the hair dressers with all their anxiety to dye as many heads as possible, that gray is no longer regarded with horror even by persons who have reached an age that entitles them to it. Such people were always more apt to be worried over the change than persons prematurely gray, who might be expected to mourn the premature loss of the characteristics of youth. Now people need give this sign of advancing years no thought, for it has been decreed that gray hair is the fashion. Ada Rehan was the first woman in public life to allow her hair to turn gray without making the slightest attempt to conceal what is commonly regarded in a stage career as a sign that the end has come, or at all events near. Other actresses have since accustomed the public to the idea of gray-headed heroines. Mrs. Rehan, of course, always wore a wig on the stage, but Eleonora Duse plays Camille without the least attempt to conceal the fact that since she was last here her hair has grown so gray as to give her scenes with Armand a slightly maternal suggestion. Signora Duse has carried naturalness on the stage further than any other actress ever did, but its last point must be her refusal to act such a role with a wig and her course in presenting the rather curious spectacle of a young lover driven to such impassioned love-making by a very obviously gray-haired woman. Such cases have undoubtedly happened, but they are exceptional, so Signora Duse is probably entitled to more credit as the creator of a new fashion than as an observer of theatrical proprieties. Lilli Lehmann's hair has been nearly white for five years, and of course as a vegetarian she could no more be persuaded to dye it than she could be to wear tight stays, but she never encouraged the fashion of gray hair to the extent of appearing as Brunhilde or Venus without a wig. The latest actress to be added to the gray-headed group has for years had nearly white hair. The secret was known only to herself, her maid and her hairdresser, though other persons must have suspected that Ellen Terry's hair was not still blond with the yellow hue of nature. As a matter of fact, it has been dyed for years, but it was only the other day that the English actress made her first public appearance after a long vacation and astonished her admirers by appearing with perfectly white hair and wearing spectacles. It was at a benefit performance that she gave this first view of her natural locks to the public. She did look very lovely once, when in "The Dead Heart" she appeared as a sorrowing French aristocrat. Sarah Bernhardt has worn a wig always for some years, and has never had to contemplate the inconvenience of growing gray. Mrs. Le Moyne took time by the gray forelock, as it were, when she became a star, and the mature, if amorous, heroine of a drama in which she was the mother of two sons. She ameliorated to some extent the grayness of her locks, which when she was seen on the stage two years ago were uncompromisingly gray. Now the chestnut tones predominate and probably will for some seasons to come.—New York Sun. CHINESE HOUSES. Some of the Peculiarities of the Imperial Capital. In the four cities which make up the capital, and particularly in the imperial city, live most of the leading and opulent class, and, therefore, the houses are of a more important and solid appearance than is the rule elsewhere. High brick walls, with a single stone entrance, surround a multitude of courts, flanked by the roofed dwelling rooms. It is a curious and universal custom among the Chinese to put up immediately facing the outer door a stone or brick screen, bearing tablets or painted scrolls, inscribed with the names of ancestors or classical texts. The object, according to time-honored superstition, is to ward off evil spirits, for the demon on entering knocks his head against the obstacle, and, being devoid of all sense but an elementary hatred of mankind, is repulsed and goes away sorrowful. Why the aforesaid demon should have the cleverness to turn in at the gate yet not sufficient to wheel round the screen is difficult for the unitiated to understand. There is no attempt at ostentation, or even of decent comfort, about these dwelling places. Within they are mere ramshackle bungalows, with stoneflagged floors and paper windows, fantastically cut up by wooden partitions, and papered without taste or cleanliness. The furniture is polished wood made in the stiff, square style that is not unfamiliar. Ornaments are few, and of the most commonest foreign make; while the bronze vessels to be seen are all modern and coarse in workmanship.-London Telegraph. NEARLY A BREAKDOWN. Mrs. Olberg, a Prominent Minnesota Lady, Tells a Remarkable Story. Albert Lea, Minn., Nov. 19, 1900.—(Special.)—There are few men and women in this State, or indeed in the whole Northwest, who have not heard, or do not know personally, Mrs. Henriette C. Olberg of this city. 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"I have great confidence in the efficacy of Dodd's Kidney Pills, and am always glad to speak a good word in their favor. "Dodd's Kidney Pills are weak women's best friend." All Dealers, 50 cents a box. Religion of Laziness in Kieff Kieff papers give particulars of an extraordinary religious community in that city, whose chief tenet is idleness. They are known as the Melevantchina, from the name of their founder, Corrado Malevaning, who was released from a lunatic asylum in 1872 and straightway began to propagate his strange sect. Basing themselves upon the parable of the lilies which "toil not, neither do they spin," the Malevantchina reject all work except that of the household, wear coarse, somber garments, and restrict themselves to a diet of bread and cheap fruits.—London Express. Try Grain-O! Try Grain-O! Ask your Grover 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. 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Use in time. Sold by druggists. CONSUMPTION ponte man by the interlacing of tree ranches and parasitical plants across rivers. Probably monkeys used them be- fore men did. In yery mountainous coun- tries, such as Thibet and Peru, they have mpearceny, been used since the dawn of history, possibly earlier. —There are twenty-two counties in Montana, three of which, Chotan and Dawson on the Canadian border and Custer county on the North Dakota bor- der, make up one-half of the area of the state. Chotan casts 1300 votes, Dawson 500 and Custer 1400. Of more than 50.- 009 electors in Montana, less than 3300 are to be found ‘in-the counties covering one-half of the state. —On clear nights a person with good sight can see 2000 stars. As but half of the celestial sphere is viewed, and as many stars near the norizon are obscured py the vapors of our atnpopinte, the to- tal number of stars visible with the naked eye is pe at 5000, certainly, an very likely as high as 8000. The number the largest telescope ane into view is estimated at over 50,000,000. —A restaurant for concentrated food is to be siarted in Paris by an eee French chef. The happy diner will enjoy a menu of tabloids. From the. hors Woenyres to dessert his entire meal will be presented to him in a few square inches. In this way a busy man will be able to eat his dinner in a few minutes, and carry it about with him in his waist- coat pocket to swallow in spare moments. —The English law of libel makes pro- fanity a money-saving vice. If you call a man a thief, and cannot prove your as- sertion, you commit libel. If, however, you garnish your re by any of the adjectives usually deemed unfit for ‘publication, any libel action brought ‘against you will fall through, for the law says your profanity proves that you have lost your temper, and therefore you are not actionable for your words. —Since the Lutheran teachers’ semi- naries in the Baltic provinces of Russia were closed by the government, although they had been established and were. sup- portéd by the Lutheran nobility, the num- ber of efficient organists and choristers is getting smaller every year. The Syned of Livonia wishes to establish a cburch- musie school at Yurjew (Dorpat), but the government shows no willingness to ap- prove of the plan, although it is not asked to make a grant of money. ee An hPa et ett tra ete Peep neta ats nig LLL LE eee oe eee ZEEE a eae beeceticotceneces SMINI RSE] | ft Op 2 9 een tect ecctcewmeecmete VRE | UOC — ii i BAG), ¢ é §& V4 "i ee ; mee one - ba oe Ee 3 i ee ee MM 6S ene ieee B Se, pone = et ef tei he ‘ 2 iy : fe Reece $ ees 3 a pec ll 0 - sce ee ke ee Blue and tan, camel’s-hair dress for school wear. The reveres and cuffs are <f blue cloth with white braid trimming. The guimpe is blue taffeta, tucked to shape a deep yoke and released to form a blonse front. About a fortnight ago experiments were made in Paris with a new oil lamp which it is said will in certain portions of the city supplant gas, if not electrieity. A number of these lamps, which are mounted upon elaborately designed wrought-iron eee and which have an light of 1000-candlepower each, now il- luminate the Quai des Tuileries. It is said that they adequately light up the Tuileries gardens on one hand, while their rays are sent across the terrace to the water's edge, and on the other to the Quai and the Seine as far as the left bank to the Gare d’Orleans. Le Petit Parisian says that if the experiment “of effectually lighting up the dense gloom of the Quai des Tuileries, which has ‘been especially chosen for this purpose, is successful, as everyone believes it will be, petroleum lamps will shortly replace gas and electricity in all the large squares and open spaces in Paris, and no doubt they will eventually be utilized for light: ing the Bois de Boulogne.” Dr. Stubbs, the bishop of Oxford, has a pretty wit. An importunate lady, knowing his experience of the Holy land, kept on asking him what places she ought to visit, as she was starting on a trip to Palestine. After answering to- pographical questions without number, he was again asked: “But really, what place wou'd you advise me to go to?” “To Jericho, madam,” said the bishop, sweetly. Another story turns on a remark he made some time ago at a big meeting of ‘church dignitaries. On the way to the ‘meeting he had passed through a some- what hilarious crowd, from which he emerged with a damaged tall hat. This ‘caused no little amusement on his arti. ‘yal, and someone proposed that the hat ‘should be brought forward and put on ‘the table for general view. “I propose,” said the bishop, “that it be passed ahaa 2 According to an American who visited Cape Trafalgar last summer, there is a yillage near the promontory, in which he stayed for a week. of which not one of the inhabitants had ever heard of the historic battle that was fought off. their coast ninety-five years ago. An itiner- ant and venerable muteteer whom the traveler interviewed was better informed. He had in his young days heard old peo ple talking about a sea fight, and had a vague notion that Christopher Columbus was a leading performer. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. ford, Conn.. is. the richest city In te Union. —Within eleven years the De Beers mines have yielded diamonds to the value of over $160,000,000. —Oue authority on botany estimates that over 50,000 species of plants are now know» and classified. —The British naval vessels nearing completion are the Hyacinth, Britomart, Bramble, Severn and Carysfort. —The length of the world's railways is more than seventeen times the circumfer- ence of the earth at the Equator. —The man who buiit the city hall of Denver is now selling cigars and tobacco at a stand in the corridor of the building. —Signs of an awakening are apparent down in Arkansas. The mayors of the cities of the state are organized in the in- terest of municipal improvement. —Ten years’ immigration, according to the census returns, counts up searly 4,- 009,000, almost 1,000,000 more than the entire population of the nation at its birth —A hundred and twenty blacks are pro- fessional kangaroo hunters in western ‘Australia, of whom twenty-seven are fe- males. —Two of the greatest literary produc- tions of the Chinese are a dictionary in 5020 volumes, and an encyclopedia in 22,- 937 volumes. —Austrian autemobile manufacturers are not able to compete with foreign builders and have asked the government to impose heavy duties on imported ye hicles. —During the recent maneuvers of the British fleet at Smyrna communication between the ships was made at a distance of sixty miles by means of wireless tele- graph. ~Portable schoolhouses are being used in the congested districts of Boston. In time the congestion will be relieved and the authorities will have no costly build- ings on valuable sites thrown on their hands. —Au English enthusiast has suggested that a corps of volunteer motor militia be formed to demonstrate to the war office the capacities of the motor vehicle as an adjunct to the system of home defense. —Nearly 1,000,000 women in Spain work in the field as day laborers: 350,000 women are registered as day servants— that is, they work for their food and Jodging. There is no such ciass any- where else. —An enterprising wine and spirit firm has engaged an aeronaut to give a series of ‘balloon ascensions in Ceylon, and while ascending to drop small sample bot- thes of whisky attached to miniature parachutes. —There are some Prohibitionists in Ar- kansas, but they do not predominate in the politics of that state. At the Sep- tember election eighty-four counties were earried for license and thirty-one counties for non-license, —An interesting feature of the new Boston Symphony hall is the arrange- ment by which the auditorium is protect- ed from outside noises by being complete- ly surrounded by a system of wide corri- dors and foyers. —'The barbers in some towns in Ger- many. are compelled by law to cleanse and disinfect their combs, brushes and razors immediately after use and before they are applied to the hair or head of another customer. —Capt. Jonannsen, a Dane, who, ac- companied by his son, sailed last August from Gibraltar to cross the Atlantic in an open boat, has telegraphed announc- ing his safe arrival at Pine island, off the coast of Florida. —Switchbeards for the handling of electric currents have grown in size and complexity with the increasing power of the modern dynamo until they are now highly important and costly adjuncts of electrical installations. —Lord Ross’ telescope, which was the pride of the astronomical! world a genera- tion ago, is no longer looked upon as unique. Other enormous instruments have been made, and one will soon be in working order at Oxford. —The German railway in Shantung province, in China, is well under way. Over forty miles are completed, and in spite of the present disturbances in the Celestial empire work on the line is car- ried on at a feverish speed. —A smart piece of work was recently accomplished on the railway at Street- ville, near Toronto, where an old bridge was replaced by a new steel lattice girder bridge of 130 feet span, the traffic being interrupted for 40 minutes only. —The use of Niagara Falls as a gener- ator of electrical power on a large scale, followed by successful experiments all over the United States as well as in Eu- rope, has led to the investment of enor- mous sums of money. elsewhere for wa- terpower schemes. —The Chinese regiment of infantry at Wei Hai Wei consists of nine compagies, none of which are officered by Celestials. ‘The Hong Kong regiment, however, has native subadars and jemadars, the ju- niors of the latter being young Muham- med Kasin Khan. —As seen from the moon the earth would appear four times greater in di- ameter and thirteen times wider in sur- face than the moon dees to us. The illumi- nation of the éarth is fourteen times greater on the moon that that of the moon on the earth. —The goyernor of Ceylon, in opening the legislative council, said the revense for the year 1899 had amounted to £2,- 000,000, surpassing that of any preyious year, and had yielded a surplus of £7400. ‘The current year showed a stiil greater increase of revenue. —In his principles of economics Prof. Marshall says that perhaps $500,000,000 annually is spent by the working classes and $3,000,000,000 by the rest of the pepulet ion of England in ways that do ittle or nothing toward making life no- bler or truly happier. —The officials of the New. Yor™ Central railroad have been investigating motor vehicles of various types with a view of establishing not only an automatic cab service, but auxiliary freight feeders to their lines at various pores from towns not connected therewith. —Siberians, as a rule, are not great consumers of lemons, nor do use them in tea as much as may be cus- tom : central ees, crea “fe eome into general use by the importa jon of condensed milk from the’ United Stcatac Beanta ana Searitearian!, FOR LITTLE MAID OF TEN New Scheme for Lighting Paris. Dr. Stubbs’ Wit. Muleteer was Posted. —————_— _ ——&&oeo“™€ - . — - THIRD AND PRAIRIE STREETS. Aen. I i ti bl F 1 d B al Attractive Values <s $ 2 Atrective Vaite* Dress Goods and Silks Petticoats and Dress Skirts 50 pieces of Atl-Silk Black Taffeta with excellent GIT Petticoats — Mercerized Underskirts, full finish, 45 pieces Colored Taffeta in the fi ee width, deep flounce with two shades that are in great demand, 46 a a pinked ruffles, $1.00 value bought to sell at 75c, Friday..........:ssssscresereesseseeees ba Bb n-.sescersesosenedessetbvecvsveecteosaseaees A lot of Silk and Wool Mixed Novelty 3) $1.50 Mercerized Underskirts, ac- Goods, a great value at @5c, goes 4 C 7 TS cordeon plait with pinked 8 Friday at......c.cceccecceeescseeeseueeescerereeteeeeneeeeeeeeeseeee M7) A Pei Priday <..c thei 75c 52-inch Suitings and Homespuns-—right SS ea OSS a Dress Skirts—Friday only we offer an ex- for now—grays, blues and Oxfords, ~~ cellent quality Dress Skirt, in the Friday sale 5 Ac nicely lined and finished, worth $2.75, for ] bec Loic Sal Goossacenacchabasensesaeinienes. <useasave uacceacoacsusaree OE ceca sc sgiga dss hatek sabcescbca cess cessdeonesstacssecksuestececes 6 A Marvelous Shoe Sale i -lannels Our lines are unsurpassed for . quality and cheapness. t There's no occasion to exagger- Imported Velour Flannel! s— 8-cent Outing Fiannels, light 1 es f thi I see thea) $f equal in style to the fine French and dark grounds, some 5 ‘B ate the values of this sale—it's the cleaning — —, e designs to plains, mostly stripes......... iC " : , select from, worta 15¢e, : f i up of broken lines — manufacturer's Bee ees s ae Outing Flannel Skirt Patterns, R (PSX samples and manufacturer's replevied 8-cent Dark Striped and Checked in a variety of colors, crochet X aa ; . Outing Flannels for shirts 91 edge, worth 25 cents, ‘ se ae goods wien So nc going to close out. and a WGiisi chia heca pe vinnaesscascoanee 19c BPRS Our merciless price-cutting will \ Sm» make them vanish quickl aan nay" ; Und Kae nderwear AN $3, $3.50 and $4 Women’s Children’s Vici Kid and Box : is 2 Es F ll i Vici Kid, Box Calf and Pat- Calf Shoes, lace and button, Women’s | Keru Ribbed a “08 : 1 ent Leather Shoes, lace and opera toe and foot-form lasts, Fleece Vests and Pants, are Ta isket! ai ie ! button, all leather and cloth 815 regular 35-cent G \ 5 hand ~ 31-50 and : Drawers, fleeced— Ayes tops, hand turned and hand 5 Finda tembercw Cc nee Be f welt—mannish heavy shoes $2 values, ee ail sizes—for a 65- RY HH { and dainty dress shoes—all tomorrow, j Misses’ Union #uite— cent grade 46c A i ; i @ SAY.....6-- Ny! y} sree 95 the pair..... fleeced—crochet edge and Citic Ponte iN [i i the pair e Infants’ and Children’s Lace sti pi _" auc Vests, ene ia only ......-. ~———~ and Button Patent and Kid cae oa 23c a cola: to % Es Misses’, Boys’, Youths’ and Tipped Shoes, hand - turned, Sree ee slight imperfection which doves not Little Gents’ Lace and Button values up Children’s Knit Under- effect the wear—we offer 15 Shoes, vici kid, box calf and to $1.35— waists, ecru — with hold- them at ....ssceseececceeeseerseeeerens Cc wax calf—extension and tomorrow ; aary'y Children’s Double Heel and Toe, Half light weight soles, iashion- me fea buttons—18 =™"12¢ Woo! Black Hose, 15-cent 9 able shapes — some dressy Seer Kinds, at.....sssesseees quality, Friday, the pair............ Cc shoes, some built for hard Misses’ and , 1 Men’s Extra Good Grade wear, worth cee: Women’s Fast Black Cot- Merino Sox, worth 15 ae Ic $1.50 to ital o ton Hose, fleeced — made Ten’s Fine Elastic Web Suspenders, $2.50 g Hels Sole with double heel and goods we have been selling 19 BE ccgeces Shoes ....... toe, worth 15 tnie PO for 25 cents, Friday..,......s0-seoe C a eS Se ee ee ee ee + a ee a eee ae LL eee a Ss a a ed ee ea Be ma ) i eet a aa — rg Ep ae < fae Nae et eee aed pa ae Me oe ee foe eee eS co ae ae oe (hae eS rd aaa i Cit hee ae: s = CZ oF ts Ee er / eae “a — ets, a mes 4) Se: on Bee Pe ie ee : | i {3 ees: ESPRESSO a A NION.... Laundry and News Co. No. 432 State Street GEO. W. SAYLES ALL WORK CAREFULLY DONE... Lowest Prices and Satisfaction Guaranteed. Ee Gross Millinery Co. MILLINERY 314 Third St.,Ssuc" Milwaukee, Wis. ST cad wie aban <a a ee in the West of England. In describing the preliminaries of the annual meet of the Devon and Somerset staghounds at Cloutsham, a London npwspaper says that it is an event that excites a great deal of intérest in the west country. The rendezvous is a farm lying under Dunkery beacon and com- manding some of the most magnificent views of land and sea, hill and dale, bar- ren moor and fertile fields than even the west country can show. The meet, it is anticipated, will be at- tended as usual by thousands. All the sporting element of West Somerset will ve there, and hunting visitors from all parts of England. Cloutsham Ball, on which the meet takes —prace, will be crowded with vehicles of every size and shape, from the four-horse coach to the char-a-bane or break and downto the farmer's two-wheel dogeart. The first The Emerson Shoe Co. | CORNER GRAND AVENUE AND THIRD STREET, MILWAUKEE, WIS. Mf*. GEORGE A. SCHECK, the man- = ager of R. B. Grover & Co., manu- facturers of the Celebrated ComfortableCustom Made Shoes, begs leave to announce to the ‘many citizens of Milwaukee and vicinity that they have opened a new store in this city in the new building on the northeast corner of Third St. and Grand Ave. and carry a full line of goods. This makes 31 stores run by the firm at the present time. A Goodyear Welt costs $3.50 and a Handsewed $5.00. The goods are honest all through and inspection is solicited. JAMES T. BRETT & SON, | gem) EMBALMERS and Fane FUNERAL DIRECTORS OF tcc | SY. mes tat South 122, Milwaukee, Wis. day is a great viele, a parade of hounds, ending probably with a kill, after an easy run, but the real business of hunt- ing only commences at the meets that follow, and a twenty-mile point is by no means an unusual circumstance. ‘The master of the Devon and Somer- set staghounds has already held several bye-mects to get the new entry into training before the season actually be- gins. The herds of deer are very plenti- ful, as the farmers in the deer country ean testify by the damage done to their -tetephone Main 1178. Established 1877. | : s | Richard Seidel, | Diamonds, Watches, | Fine Jewelry and Silverware, 200 Grand Avenue, Seccsa%:., Milwaukee, Wis. Frogs Are Fish. A citizen of Hartford, Conn., was ar- rested for catching frogs in a public reser- voir. He was fined and appealed the case. The Supreme court has just de- cided that frogs are fish within the meaning of the statutes and that the ac- etsed was, therefore. liable under the law. The citizen had eeet that the statute did not refer to frogs.