Wisconsin Weekly Advocate

State Weistoneal Livery WISCONSIN WEEKLY ADVOCATE DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF THE NEGRO RACE We are glad to welcome into the field of newspaper work in Wisconsin the American Race Problem, published in Fond du Lac by M. F. A. Easton. We appreciate to the fullest extent his small paragraph about us. Although we cannot always be found, we are always there or thereabouts. The President's message to Congress was a lengthy paper dealing with domestic and foreign affairs. But on the question of disfranchising the colored man in the South, the President has nothing to say. One of two things is sure, the President either regards silence to be golden, or else the South has him bluffed to a stand still.—Philadelphia Tribune. A communication received this morning from a city in the interior of the state would "take the cake." The literary aspirant before having admission to the columns of this paper would do well to go back to school before trying to air her theories on the race problem which it would take hours of any man's time to put into shape for publication. If our readers before troubling us with manuscript of the kind mentioned would just please understand that the case of the negro may be safely left in our hands, it would be better for all parties. By the way, this correspondent must borrow our paper, as her name does not appear on our subscription list. After reviewing the advance in manufacturing in South Carolina since 1880 the Philadelphia Tribune sums up as follows: How did the people of South Carolina vote at the last Presidential election. Did they show by their votes that they have an intelligent idea of the party and its public policy that made such growth possible? This is a test which all reasonable minds will accept. Surely a people who will refuse to sustain an administration that has brought so many blessings to their very door, prove they are not qualified to intelligently perform the duties of citizenship. After all, it is the white man of the South who needs examine himself as to his fitness as a voter and not the colored man. HERE AND THERE. BRUCE IS A COLORED LAD. Harvard's Successful Orator a Promising Young Negro. The dispatches sent out from Cambridge, Mass., Friday night, announcing Harvard's victory over Yale in the annual intercollegiate debate, in which Roscoe Conkling Bruce was described as "the best speaker for Harvard," failed to state the fact that Mr. Bruce is a colored boy. His exceptionally fine work in the debate was but one of a series of victories the lad has won at college as an orator and debater. Mrs. Alice J. Kaine of this city, who has long been interested in the education of the negro, is well acquainted with young Bruce's mother, who is dean of the Woman's department in the institute at Tuskegee, Ala., and who is a cultivated and accomplished woman. The lad is a son of Senator Bruce of Mississippi, and is not more than 20 years old. "Mrs. Bruce is very proud of her son, as she has a right to be," said Mrs. Kaine last evening, "and has often told me about him. He is to be a lawyer and from what I hear of his talents promises to become a successful one. I think he should be given much credit for what he has accomplished." We called attention to this fact last week and we heartily endorse every word that is said in the above extract from the Sentinel concerning Mrs. Kaine as being the friend of the Afro-American race. Some years ago when Mrs. Booker T. Washington visited this city she was the guest of that lady and along with the Rev. Odam and W. A. Brown of Racine we were invited to meet Mrs. Washington at the residence of Mrs. D. M. Benjamin. At the time no one else knew that Mrs. Washington was in the city. We had an interesting and instructive time and many schemes were ventilated for the advancement of the race. Amongst these Mrs. Kaine suggested the organization of a club of colored women of the better class of this city, an idea which we are now attempting to carry out by means of the Sunshine society. We only wish that there were more ladies of the same disposition as Mrs. Kaine, as she has at all times been to the front in the idea that the negro must first help himself in order to gain the respect of others. Mrs. Kaine carries out this principle by employing colored help and we know that she has had no occasion to regret doing so. A DISTINGUI HED NEGRO. Dr. F. G. Snelson, an African Missionary. Lectures Here. Rev. F. G. Snelson, general superintendent of the African Methodist Episcopal church, Sierra Leone, West Africa, lectured last night at the camp meeting of the St. Paul A. M. E. church before a large audience. About 600 white people heard the lecture. Dr. Snelson spent three years in Africa in his youth, and for the last four years has worked in that country as the general superintendent of the branch of the missionary work being done by his church. His work extended from the Senegambia to the Congo, reaching almost 5000 miles along the west coast and 500 miles into the interior. His subject last night was "Native Africans' Mysteries, Ancient Royalties and Social Institutions." In addition to having the degrees of master of arts and doctor of philosophy, Dr. Snelson bears the rank of fellow of the Royal Geographical society of England. He was one of the anniversary orators last year in London, and was a delegate to the international geographical congress held in Berlin. He is the only Afro-American that has attained to that international distinction. Mrs. Snelson is in the city with her husband. She is promoting the national club work among her people. The lecture dealt with the people of Africa, their customs and the outlook for the Dark Continent. The work of the Europeans was sketched and the progress of the missionaries enlarged upon. Dr. Snelson gloried in the fall of the Dutch republic because they treated the natives with no consideration. He extolled the British and French in their relations with the Africans. Dr. Snelson's American home is in Athens, Ga.—The Daily Press, Indianapolis, Indiana. Pan-American Exposition Color Line Buffalo, N. Y.—Thus far not a single representative of the race has been properly placed by the management of the Pan-American exposition—either as director, superintendent of a department, honorary vice-president or even clerk in any of the departments. Our people here are indignant at this discrimination and held a meeting November 12 in one of our churches under the auspices of the "Phyllis Wheatley" club, composed exclusively of women. Mrs. William H. Talbert, corresponding secretary, read a paper entitled, "Why the Afro-American Should be Represented in the Pan-American Exposition." She alluded to our race exhibit in the Paris exposition, which attracted widespread attention, and deplored the fact that up to date the Pan-American exposition had ignored the race completely. Negroes Who Hold Sheep Skins. Two thousand two hundred and fourteen negroes, including 235 women, have taken degrees from institutions of every sort. All have been self-supporting, and letters from half of them report an average assessed valuation of real estate of $2500. Mr. Richard G. Montgomery, editor Wisconsin Weekly Advocate, gets about faster than any little black man in the state. You can't lose him, don't you know.—American Race Problem. EGYPTIAN PRINCESS FOR SALE Daughter of the Pharaohs Fetches Up in an English Auction Room. "Lot 207a," said an English auctioneer, "is a princess, an Egyptian princess in a mummied condition. There it is, a very perfect mummy." Of a truth it is an irreverent age, a dull, vandal, detestably democratic age, in which a daughter of Rameses II., together with two X-ray full-plate photographs showing the preservation of her bones, can be hawked in a Covent garden saleroom for £10 10s, says a London newspaper. True, she was, as the auctioneer put it, in a mummied condition. But what of that! Was it, then, for this that she slept for twenty centuries amid the dust of the Kings of the earth? Was it for this that the cunning embalmer, when the world was young, lapped her tender limbs in spices, swathed her unsullied body in fine twined linen? For £10 10s? Had it, now, been the dead clay of Imperial Caesar, one would have minded less; in this case Shakespeare prepared us for some such thing. But an Egyptian royal princess—one of the 119 daughters and sons of Sotep-en-Ra Ramessu-meri-Amen, "who knew not Joseph"—to be lying here on a bench, her sarcophagus burst open, sniggered at by bargain hunters! Was it revenge? "A royal mummy for £10 10s—that's absurd," groaned the auctioneer, "it's worth that to a paint manufacturer." This was the end. Novel Automobile Exhibition. The automobile is not a toy, but it means business and will use endeavors to roll itself into use as fast as possible. The manufacturers of the "autos" have a new scheme to interest the people of America in their machines, and they now propose to load up a special train with their vehicles and take an 8000-mile trip around the country, stopping at every principal city to give an exhibition of what the automobile of today can do. CREAM CITY NOTES. We shall be glad to insert personal and other items of general information to the colored race if left at the office, 209 Fifth street, before 4 p. m. Wednesdays. We ask our readers to do us the favor of bestowing at least a share of their patronage on those parties who patronize our paper by advertising therein. * * * 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. Mrs. Robert Gant and Mrs. William Tate called on us Monday. We were glad to see these ladies, and only wish that more of the race would follow their example and see for themselves the work we are attempting to carry on, viz., everything for the advancement of the race, nothing towards its deterioration. We are sure that, after the correspondence we have had with Mrs. Alden of the Sunshine society, many ladies of our race will interest themselves in our work and be a real help to us. Mr. Gant is employed at the Press club and is a general favorite with the "knights of the pen," while Mr. Tate, as we stated in a late issue, is one of the few colored men appointed by Mayor Rose at the city hall. * * * Miss Daisy Scott, 209 Fifth street, will leave in a few days to reside with her aunt in Lima, O. This aunt is an elderly lady and well-to-do in the world, and we are sure that Miss Scott will do her duty to her, as she has showed herself of a kindly and friendly disposition to all those with whom she has come in contact while here. We wish her all happiness in her change. * * * Mrs. Gerty Harris, whom we shall all miss from the district for her bright and cheery disposition, has left for Minneapolis to join her husband. We wish her all success in her new surroundings. 奉奉奉 We are sorry that the restaurant known as the Belmont is no longer conducted by Mrs. Newton, who we believe has gone to Glencoe, Ill. Many people who knew Mrs. Newton will be sorry to miss her from the town. * * * Mr. W. H. Brown, Racine, paid us a visit the other day, and among other things informed us that the so-called proprietors of the Searchlight have returned to their proper sphere. As we mentioned last week, we will allow no frauds in the state if it is within our power to prevent such. Messrs. Fountain and Green, as we have said, have returned to their own sphere—"where the woodbine twineth not." *** Mrs. Nobles, 209 Fifth street, will leave here before the holidays to spend a lengthened visit with her sister in Columbus, O. Mrs. Nobles' numerous friends hope that before she returns in the early summer she will be much refreshed and strengthened by her change. She will be welcomed back by all these friends with open hands and hearts. * * * In making mention in a recent issue of negro ladies holding positions as school teachers in Wisconsin, we were misinformed regarding the name of one of these. The lady who holds that position in West Superior is Miss Claudia A. Vaughn, Blaine school. Her father writes us a most encouraging letter on our work, and we shall be pleased to hear from him again. * * * Mrs. Charles C. Miller, 180 Thirteenth street, gave us a call Monday evening to look after help, which we were able to supply her with Thursday. Mrs. Miller expressed herself as being well disposed to our work and cheerfully became a subscriber to the Advocate. *** Mrs. Carrie E. Young of Atlanta, Ga. visited the city last week on business connected with the Advocate. Mrs. Young is one of the most gifted and accomplished of our Southern ladies and was formerly private secretary to Bishop H. M. Turner and Attorney C. H. J. Taylor, register of deeds under Grover Cleveland. The editor regrets very much that this estimable lady fell into the hands of a certain over-officious would-be-leader of the race, through whose very bad advice and incompetent judgment she was put to considerable expense which she might otherwise have saved. ```markdown ``` Widow's Son lodge, A. F. & A. M., will give their annual entertainment at Kaiser's hall, 298 Fourth street, on Thursday evening, December 27, 1900. The committee consists of Messrs. A. V. Kairney, John Walls and J. B. Buford. ☆ ☆ ☆ The law offices of Attorney W. T. Green, at 105 Grand avenue, have at last been completed and are now the finest in the city and perfect models of neatness and elegance. The Young Men's Sunday club is rapidly becoming popular and on Sunday afternoon last had an attendance of more than 125 persons. Dr. J. Robert De Witter, a colored man and a graduate of Cambridge university, England, delivered an address on "Reminiscences of Student Life in England." The lecture, which was more of an historical nature than a reminiscence, was nevertheless able and scholarly. Miss Naomi Hooper gave a rendition of "Hagar," which was one of the most charming expositions of dramatic ability to which we have ever listened. Miss Hooper is one of the best elocutionists and we predict for her a brilliant career. Miss Carrie Young has been in the city for the last few days as the guest of Mrs. Ed Blackstone, 716 Wells street. Miss Young called here the other night and we were sorry we could not entertain her better. As we mentioned last week any effort of ours for the benefit of the race would be gladly given. We believe that A. E. Wilson is supposed to be one of the representatives of the race, but as we said last week we cannot afford frauds to come about us every week. Meals at All Bours. When you want board, don't forget Stevenson's boarding house, 424 Wells street (basement), 'phone 244 B. James Stevenson, proprietor. Be sure to give him a call. CHARMS OF AN OLD BOOK SHOP Unique Collection that Held Forth the Hope of Discovery. The old book shop in Cripple street was walled to its dusky ceiling with books. Books were stacked on the floor, like split wood, with alleys between. The long table down the center was piled with old magazines and the wrecks of paper-covered novels. School arithmetics and dead theologies; annuals in faded gilt, called "Keepsake," or "Friendship's Offering;" little leathernubbins of books from the last century, that yet seemed less antique than the annuals, which counted no more than forty years—so southern and early passing was the youth of the annual; Bohn's translations, the useful and despised; gaudy, glittering prints of the poets and novelists; all were crowded together, without recognition of caste, in a common Bohemia. Finding a book sought for in that mystical chaos seemed to establish a right to it of first discovery. The pretty girl who sat in one of the dim windows and kept the accounts looked Oriental, but not Hebraic, and wore a crimson ribbon in her black hair and at her throat. She read one of the annuals, or gazed through the window at Cripple street. A showcase in the other window contained stamp collections, Hindoo, Chinese and Levantine coinage.—Scribner's Magazine CONVERTING A CHINAMAN. In Many Cases it is Said to be Money Thrown Away. The conversion of one native Chinese costs, so it is estimated, about $450, and then it is very uncertain whether the convert will remain converted, says Edgar Mels in an article on "The Missionary in China." Fifty years of missionary work on the part of the Protestant churches has resulted in the conversion of about 60,000 Chinese, at an annual outlay of $2,000,-000, necessary to maintain the thousand missionaries so employed. The Roman Catholics lay claim to nearly 200,000 converts, but this number seems a trifle large. This preponderance of Catholics is due to a treaty negotiated by the French government, by which Roman Catholic dignitaries rank equal with mandarins, governors of provinces and other Chinese officials. While this does not bestow temporal power upon the clergy, it lends great dignity to them in the eyes of the office-worshiping natives.—Pearson's Magazine. JAPANESE WAY IN DEATH. One Man Follows Another Up a Shot- tridden Pathway. When the allies lay under the fire from the wall of Tien Tsin, and to show an inch of head meant death, occurred a striking incident. The Japanese held a row of huts along a canal leading to the south gate of the city, about half a mile away. An interval of 250 yards between two rows of these houses was a zone of death, and the Japanese forces occupied both sides of it. No one knows how many thousand Chinese rifles covered this area. A Japanese officer galloped up to the shelter of the nearest house and started a soldier, with a verbal order across the open zone. Within thirty yards he fell dead. Another soldier, without an instant's hesitation, dashed out with the repeated message, and his body fell at his companion's feet. Instantly, like clockwork, as if the whole Japanese army were available to be slaughtered, the officer sent forward another white uniformed, brown-visaged messenger. To the relief of all on-lookers he got safely through.—Harper's Weekly. Remedy for a Cold. A well-known local confectioner says there is nothing so good for a cold as hot molasses. Take it before retiring, as hot as it can be swallowed. Molasses heats the throat, and the effect, taken before going to bed, is to throw the patient into a perspiration. If it is desired, lemon juice can be squeezed into the molasses. THE LADY OF THE ROOM CHRISTMAS & DRAMATIC ENTERTAINMENTS December 24 and 25, 1900, ST. MARK'S A. M. E. CHURCH FOURTH & CEDAR STREETS Music, Recitations, etc..... By Sunday School Scenic Play: "THE AFRO-AMERICAN QUEEN." Characters. Queen.... Annie Miles Prayer.... Gertie Thornton Peace.... May Coleman Truth.... Nora Young Justice.... Marie Burgett Wisdom.... Nora Rivers Industry.... Mamie Papke Virtue.... Mabel Barker Music and Art.... Minnie Bland Prejudice.... Myrtle Taylor Vice.... Irva Gant Santa Claus, Christmas Tree, Distribution of Presents, etc., Will Follow in Lecture Room.—Admission, 10 Cents. Programme, December 25. DRAMA—"THE LAST LOAF." Cast. Mark Ashton—A Silversmith..... Dr. C. A. Johnson Caleb Hansen—A Baker William M. Miller Harry Hansen—His Son..... Arthur Stevens Dick Bustle—Journeyman Baker..... William Lamb Tom Chubbs—A Butcher..... George T. Bland Kate Ashton—Mark's Wife..... Mrs. R. A. Gant Lilly Ashton—Their Daughter..... Miss Neoma Hooper Patty Jones—A Yankee Girl.... Mark Ashton at Home—Harry and Lilly—Caleb Hansen makes a proposition—Hansen repulsed—Father and son are rivals—Hansen threatens vengeance—Dick and Tom after Patty—Mark Ashton tempted—"I put the glass to his lips"—Son renounces father—Harry is off for China—"Lilly Ashton shall be your wife." Ashtons in poverty—Mark a wreck Mother and daughter—Patty's fidelity— Chubbs is generous(?)-Dick Bustle again Hansen hunts his victims-Mark Ashton aroused-"Tempter, your power is gone"-Gold, Gold!-Dick explains mystery-Harry's return-"Your old home awaits you." Programme Each Evening at 8 o'clock sharp. Admission 10 cents. Kipling Relies on Her Kipling has no more regard or knowledge of the value of money than a baby. His wife, who was Carrie Balestier, is the business head of the Kipling fiction foundry. It is she to whom he goes with publishers' offers and his half-formed plans, and her decision in all matters of business is carried out to the letter by her husband, who knows her judgment to be infallible and, therefore, has the greatest confidence in her. Kipling keeps no track of himself at all, frequently having to turn to his wife for answers to the slightest personal questions. I remember distinctly one little incident which occurred while I was at the Balestiers' a few years ago. Kipling had been out tramping all morning. After dinner he used to eat noon dinners in Vermont—he went to his writing room. Coming back downstairs, where his wife sat, a few minutes later, he said to her in a pitiful little way: "Carrie, all my tobacco seems to be gone." Mr. Kipling felt for her pocket. Drawing out a little purse, she said: "How much do you want, Rudyard?" "I guess a quarter will be enough, Carrie." Kipling replied. She gave him the quarter and he went --- TABLEAU. Act I. Act II. away, radiantly happy, to buy another package of tobacco. I never knew him to have a penny about him. Carrie's his cashier.—Correspondence Lewiston (Me.) Journal. INDIAN SERVANTS IN ENGLAND For General Housework the Dusky Maids Are Not a Success. "Why not import ayahs to England, and so solve the domestic servant 'problem?'" writes a correspondent. She adds that they make very faithful, good servants; that there would be no chance of the policeman on the beat, the milkman, or the postman "walking out" with the swarthy girl, and consequently her head would not be turned and household affairs would run more smoothly. The suggestion, of course, is very good, but only workable in theory, and there are a dozen reasons why the ayah in England would not be a practical success. The servants' quarters in the ordinary middle-class house or flat are not large enough to accommodate the number of ayahs who would be necessary for the household work. No ayah could be found who would work as a general or a house-parlor maid. A woman who would nurse children would absolutely refuse to brush the carpets or cook the dinner. Then comes the great question of health. Few colored women can stand the English climate. To save their lives and keep the healthy dark color in their skins they must constantly return to their native land. Therefore the same cry, "I am changing servants!" would be heard in the land, and the housewife would be worried as ever. Add to all this the fact that many Anglo-Indians have tried the ayah in England and found her to fail.—London Express. ENGLAND'S LARGE CABINET. Official Work Done By Committees Assigned to Special Subjects. Criticisms continue to be passed on the unwieldiness of a cabinet of twenty members, says a London correspondent of the Cardiff Western Mail. As a matter of practical politics the number does not matter now it has become an accepted practice that there should be a committee of the cabinet for dealing with specific subjects. Every important government department is now represented in the cabinet by its chief. The coming in of the Marquess of Londonderry has completed the representation. It was impossible that so able and distinguished a man as Lord Londonderry should be in the government and not in the cabinet, while at the same time it was an anomaly that an old-established department like the postoffice, which had oftener than not been represented in the cabinet, should be ignored, whereas comparatively new departments, such as the Scotch office and the board of agriculture, had their chiefs in the cabinet. Proposals many there are for reducing the number of cabinet ministers. The most drastic are to leave out the respective ministers of the local government board, board of trade, board of agriculture and Scotch office and the lord chancellor of Ireland. This would reduce the number to 15, and if the premier were the first lord of the treasury the number might further be reduced to fourteen. On the other hand, instead of reducing the cabinet, there are arguments for leveling up. The Prince of Wales' Income. The truth is that from the moment of his birth the Prince of Wales has been splendidly rich. He was born, as the Irishman would say, with sixty-thousand a year in his pocket, and from that day to this the Duchy of Cornwall has yielded him that magnificent sum. At 22 the prince married, and Parliament gave him Marlborough house and a wedding present of £40,000 a year. That, too, has come to him regularly since 1863, year in and year out. In 1889, when the prince's family ran away with his money, Parliament once more came to his aid and nearly doubled the grant he had received since 1863. From 1889 the prince has been relieved of the anxieties of a father for the financial welfare of his children by a special grant of £36,000 a year, which comes to him in quarterly installments of £9000. So that the public income of the prince is £136,000 a year. That is what it is worth to be Prince of Wales—Temple Magazine. The screw in the fourth jewel wheel of a watch is so small that a lady's thimble would hold 1,000,000 of them. NUMBER 33. Very Small. FAS A> CER PEM awh - om IN sey’ are ey 3 yg itl —_ F Hh sy ea, eae = Migrgs- Safes a oN OFA baie ; a= | == ENS Yeni) i, kere mgh a= Zi ll Sai € 7? white WTVTiaeeryee se. ~ - le ‘to me bah seat the tact of ry. —_—-* ‘ e colored 2s e they desire, ere una! fo announce that I eam thts line. inc of homey Meng to tw enty-six eu) Rame Com” 3° wz New ideas, sa gp for acspondent of the New York Tgyits?fiave done away with some of th’did-fashioned notions about cattle /astening, and have brought much¢elief to stock. But all tairymen haymot yet reached the most humane anf most convenient results. A recent Ysit to the progressive owner of a dair farm was productive in se- curing sveral points that were new to the wrter, and to many others doubt- less hey are shown in various cuts WY Hay, fe ) q cD ‘ 0 af! eee eS ¥1G. 1L—FOR KEEPING FLANKS CLEAN. given herewith. Fig. 1 shows the dairy- man’s plan for keeping the cow from soiling her flanks when she lies down. A strip of joist 2 by 3 inches is nailed across the floor of the stall just behind the hind feet of the cow, when she is standing as far up in the stall as she possible can. This erosspiece is shown at A. The cow cannot lie down upon this piece of wood, so she steps ahead and lies down, all of the droppings thereafter falling behind A. Only a shallow trench is found at D. Fig, 2 shows an excellent plan for a crib. The hay comes down from the second floor into a slotted receptacle, under which is a place where corn fod- der or other material can be placed d Ree FIG. 2—PLAN FOR CRIB. from the walk in front, the front edge projecting in front of the hay crib to make it more accessible. Here the grain ration can be placed, or a grain bag can be set into this space. Fig. 3 shows how the cows are fast- ened at this dairy farm. They are not fastened at the neck at all. The stalls are 314 feet wide, with a chain or rope stretched across the stall behind the cow. The sides of the stall must be high enough and extend back far enough so that the cow cannot turn around in the stall. She can only back out, and this the chain prevents. This seems the most .humane cattle fasten- ing imaginable, and it works very sat- isfactory in the barn referred to. Of > ES VIN 4 £ fy “= i E! 4 <| Fy ae : FIG. 3—IlOW COWS ARE FASTENED. course, the manure is scraped from the rear end of the platform several times a day, though while eating her hay the cow stands well back, where the ma- nure will fall into the gutter. The shal- low trench saves the cows from many a slip and jar. Cethoel See That a ton of good wheat bran con- tains more protein than a ton of corn- meal, and is therefore more valuable as a milk-producing food, or for build- ing up the bone and muscle on growing stock, is well known to many farmers. But there is a considerable difference in the quality of bran. Some samples have been found which analyzed over 1S per cent of protein, and ‘others not much over 12 per cent, or about two- thirds the amount of this most valu- able element. Spring wheat bran ayer- ges better than the winter wheat bran, or nearly 16 per cent protein With 4.34 per cent fat and 52.86 per cent of starchy matter. This bran should always be sold on a guaranteed analysis, and at a value very nearly represented by the protein found in it. If that having the least protein is sold at $12, it may be more profitable to pay $16 for the best that can be found. Top-Dressing Fall Grai-. We think a fertilizer of 300 pounds of acid phosphate and 100 pounds of muri- ate of potash to the aere is better for fall grain than a @ressing of stable or barnyard manure, first because it costs less than the manure is worth for other crops, and because while it may not gTow as much straw it will grow a stiffer straw that will not lodge, and It will make a heavier and plumper grain. When the seed is drilled in it may be drilled in with it without extra labor, but when seed is sown broadcast we would harrow in the seed first and then sow the fertilizer above it to be carried down by the fall rains, In many sec- tions the amount we advise for one acre would be thought enough for two acres, but we think the larger amount would prove most profitable on land which had been long used for growing hay or for pasturage. If the land was very light we would top dress with from 75 to 100 pounds per acre of nitrate of soda after wheat came up, in prefer- ence to sowing it when wheat was sown, and in any case unless wheat was very rank in the spring, as jt may be where clover or other manurial crop was plowed in, we would sow about the above amount of nitrate of soda early in the spring to stimulate a good growth and early maturity.—American Cultivator. A The Department of Agriculture has not been able to find a'soil so sandy and poor that no vegetation will grow upoD it. The sandy beaches upon the sea- shore, and those places where the sand drifts almost like light snow have been planted with what are known as sand binding grasses and sedges which have been found not only to grow there, but to so fill the sand with their roots as to prevent it from blowing by the wind or even being washed away by ordinary waves or tides. Once made to grow, these plants will contribute vegetable matter to the soil, which in time may make them fertile for other plants. The department is introducing sand binding plants from foreign countries which they propose to have tested in climates here like those from which they are brought, to see if any of them are su- perior to our native sand-growing spe- cles. Even if they fail to make the sand fertile, it will be of advantage in preventing its drifting and covering other land. For some years the Goy- ernment has been setting some of the beaches with sedge or grass to prevent the shifting of the coast line, and the formation of sand bars in streams by the blowing or washing of sand from the shore, and they may find some plant which will be more valuable for this purpose than any we now have. Reantine GQut Rasta in Winter. ee ne At a Farmers’ Institute in Kennebec County, Maine, Mr. E. C. Buzzel gave his experience for the past five winters in breaking out the 100 miles of road in his town. The average depth of snowfall during a winter for the last twenty years has been ninety-six inches, or eight feet of snow a year. For the past twelve years they have used rollers, and now have six of them to cover the 110 miles. They have roads from eleyen to thirteen feet wide without high ridges at the side, so that heavily loaded teams can pass each other, safely, even after the heaviest snowfalls, which usually come in February and March. The average cost for the past five years has been $600 per year, including all expenses of shoveling when necessary to get the first rollers through. This is in the town of Fryeburg, but many towns near there are now using the same sys- tem. But there are still many towns in the State that have less than 100 miles of road that spend from $1,700 to $2,000 a year to break out their snow- drifts, using road scrapers, snow plows and gangs of shoyelers, and yet do not get as good a road as those towns that use the rollers, so says an Eastern ex- change, Method of Stacking Fodder. An excellent method of stacking fod- der, says the Ohio Farmer, is to: con- struct a long and narrow platform of rails or anything that will serve to keep the bundles off the ground. This platform can be as wide as the length of two bundles or it can be two or three times that width, if there is a large amount of fodder to be stacked, and as long as necessary. The stack should be quite long in proportion to its width, as the fodder is to be used from the ends. Begin by laying bundles closely lengthwise until the center is from four to eight feet, depending on the width of the stack, higher than the outside. Then begin laying the bun- dles crosswise, close together, butts out. Keep the center higher as the stack advances, that the top bundles may be quite slanting to shed water well. Tie a number of bundles near the top, divide into two equal parts, set half on either side of the top the whole length of the stock, and it will not take water. In using the fodder, begin at the ends; pull out the bottom bundles first, and none need be dam- aged by rain, the end only being ex- posed, Karem Machinery. The increased use of farm machin- ery was at one time thought to be tak- ing so much work away from the labor- ing class that in some places mobs burned the harvesting machinery when taken into the farming districts be- cause it was going to take away the poor man’s means of support. To-day it seems to be realized that only by the use of such machinery is the cultiva- tion of large areas made profitable and possible, and these large tracts annu- ally employ more labor than did the small ones which were grown in the days of hand labor. They have also helped the poor man in another way. They have increased the amount of food preduction, and cheapened its cost, so that we are not only obtaining our own food at less cost than thirty years ago, but are selling large amounts of it to the people of other countries, not only to the profit of the farmers, but to the advantage of those who grow it, and those who find well- paid employment in transporting it. r Soke, CASES oT SUSEAOLL AFew etic ena ets White clothing that has been discol- ored from red calico or from streaks that are often found on napkins or towels and by mistake have been wash- ed with the white goods, may be reno- vated by soaking a few days in butter- milk. Cloth that has turned yellow from long standing also may be whit- ened in the same manner. Babies are always troubled about walking when new shoes are first put on them. This may be overcome by scratching the soles with any blunt instrument. When cows have been eating wilé onions the odor may be somewhat re- moved by placing a small lump of salt- peter, about as large as a pea, in the cream can, while,one is getting a churning. A paper pail or tub may be mended by first pasting a piece of cloth over the hole on the inside and then filling the hole with putty and letting it hard- en. The stains may be remoyed from dis- colored eggs by soaking a short time in vinegar and then washing them. Virtues of Coal Oil. Try the virtues of coal oil. A few drops on cloth, moistened first with water, polishes windows and mirrors, removes dust from paint and furni- ture. Equal parts of linseed oit (boil- ed) and coal oil polishes oiled furni- ture and floors; also, cleanses painted floors. A tablespoonful in a boiler of clothes is equal to the best washing compound. Two-thirds milk and one- third oil, well shaken, is the best rem- edy for rose bugs. Kerosene removes lice from poultry and cures scaly legs. Wash perches with it now and then. Sometimes it is quite effectual in fam- ily in sore throat, rubbing on outside with the hand. This, however, is only for sore throats from cold, as sore throat with fever and pain needs a phy- sician every time, Best medical au- thority advises coal oil for hair tonic, rubbing in scalp thoroughly with ends of fingers, applying at least once a month. The odor quickly passes away. Nothing better for cleaning zinc and tin. - Olive and Keg Satad. Remove the shells from the number of hard: boiled eggs desired, and be- ginning at the small end, cut the whites, almost to the base, into fifths lengthwise, removing the yolks. Turn back the petals thus formed so that they will curl prettily, and tint them a delicate pink with beet julee. Mash the yolks to a smooth cream, add chop- ped olives—half a cup to half a dozen eggs—and a teaspoon of paprika, Mold again into balls, return to the tinted petals, prick with a fork to roughen the surface, and place on each a table- spoon of mayonnaise. Set each in a nest of fringed endive. This is espe- cially artistic, resembling pink blos- soms with golden hearts. Newile an Horseback. Allow three sardines for each person, skin them, cut off the tails and flavor with cayenne, a little butter and a pinch of salt. Roll each fish up in a very thin slice of bacon, squeeze over it a little lemon juice and lay it on 1 nar row strip of buttered toast and bake in a slow oven until the bacon is cooked. ‘Scatter over it grated yolk of egg and serve at once, Pressed Veal. Take two cups of chopped veal, sea- son with salt and pepper, one-fourth cup of stock, or a spoonful of milk, and two beaten eggs. Pack in individual molds or old teacups. Bake twenty minutes. Turn out on a hot platter. A little cream gravy or any meat sauce is an addition. Any cold meat may be treated in this way. Keenine a Meal Hot. When necessary to keep a meal hot for a belated comer, do not put the plate into the oven, discoloring the china and drying the food. Instead, set the plate over a basin of hot water, covering with a second basin that will just fit over the edge of the plate, This keeps the food hot without drying or injuring the plate. Oysters a la Poulette. Blanch two dozen oysters in their own liquor, drain and reserve half the liquid. Take half a pint of Bechamel sauce and the saved liquid in which the oysters were blanched, a little salt, a little pepper and let boil. Remove to back of range, stir in the yolk of three eggs, and when it is smooth add the oysters and serve. Dtcin Rice ate Soak half a cupful of rice in one cup- ful of milk half an hour; add a cupful of sugar and a little salt, and bake in a moderate oven two hours. Stir fre- quently. When the rice has softened and slightly thickened the milk, brown the pudding. Serve hot with apricot sauce. Cleaning Bottles. “Did you know,” said the old house- keeper, “that crushed eggshells are good for cleaning discolored or stained bottles? I used to think I must have a small amount of shot in the house for cleaning the inside of bottles. Of course, chopped pieces of potato are good, but eggshells are first-rate, too.” “Muscadine” is a disease to which silk worms are liable. It consists of a fungus growth in the body, which breaks through the skin and speedily kills the insect. 2 CONGRESS. Senate. ‘Thursday, Dec. 6.—Pasged_ bill provid! for bridge across ore river at De bey Ia., so that draw shall be 175 instead of feet. Devoted rest of the day to con- sideration of the Hay-Pauncefote treaty in executive session. e Friday, Dec. 7.—Received resolution from Southern iadustrial convention, in session at New Orleans, urging passage of the ship mapa te pee the ie of the oy, ig e session prigr to adjournment unt! Monday, December 16. Monday, Dec. 10.—Oath of office adminis- tered to Charles A. Towne, appointed to succeed the late Senator Davis of Minne- sota. Day spent in executive session on the Hay-Pauncefote treaty. Tuesday, Dee. 11.—Heard Mr. Clay in op- position to the ship subsidy bill. Referred to the committee on agriculture the House Grout oleomargarine bill. Referred to the committee on privileges and elections the credentials of William A. Clark and Martin Maginuis, rival appointees from Montana. Wednesday, Dec. 12.—Transacted no_busi- ness of public Importance owing to Wash- ington’s centennial celebration. Made Mr. Hanna’s speech on the ship subsidy bill a special order for Thursday morning, De- cember 13, House Thursday, Dec. 6.—By a vote of 166 to 138 passed the army reorganization bill after adopting various amendments, the most important’ of which probtbit the sale of intoxicants at army posts or camps, pre- vent the retirement of Gen. Shafter as major-general and prevent the retirement of Gen. Fitzhugh Lee and James H. Wilson as brigadier-generals. The vote on the antl- canteen amendment was 169 yeas to 51 nays. Friday, Dec. 7.—Passed the Grout oleo- margarine bill by a vote of 196 to 92, with an amendment putting it into effect July 1, 1901. Chatrman Payne of the ways and means committee gave notice he would call up the war revenue reduction bill Tuesday, December 11. Saturday, Dec. 8.—Devoted the day to paying tribute to the memory of the late epresentative Alfred C. Harmer of Penn- sylvania, Monday, Dec. 10.—Passed the epee executive’ and judicial appropriation bill, carrying $24,496,308. 'Puesday, Dec. 11.—Passed resolution for a spec'al committee of five congressmen to Investigate the alleged fatal Sane of Cadet Booz at West Point. Began discus- sion of the war revenue reduction law, Mr. Payne (N. 1) speaking for the majority report and Mr. Swanson (Va.) for the ml- nority. Wednesday, Dec. 12.—Devoted the day to the Washington centennial celebration, SPORTING NEWS. | ESCCEECEEEESS CEES EEEECESS ee epee enn ge ee eT ree to Terry McGovern caused a Springfield (O.) paper to comment of Herrick’s fight against Joe MeKnight as follows: “The Piqua man refused to don the gloves un- less Herrick consented to a draw unless there was a knockout. As McKnight weighed fully 135 pounds it looked like a hard proposition for Terry MeGovern No. 2. Herrick, however, started off at a clip that caused the spectators to stare in amazement. It was biff, bang, biff, and Herrick’s two hands were going in straight and true. In the first round Mc- Knight was down twice for the full count. In the second Herrick went in to finish his job, but McKnight danced out of danger. The colored boy kept running away but finally Herrick by a neat shift cornered him and the way he hit McKnight was a caution. In this and in each sueceeding round Herrick scored clean knockdowns, but his oppo- nent was too big for the wonderful youngster to put away. Herrick certain- ly proved he was all George Tuohey claimed for him. eee | One of the principal objections of the ‘third and fourth-class baseball leagues ‘to the provisions of the national agree- ‘ment is the fact that they must all use ‘the baseball stipulated by the National league, and according to President Young every season he receives requests from ‘minor league presidents, asking that they ‘may use another ball. ‘This request is al- ways refused, for the reason that every year National league owners are from $15,000 to $20,000 among the minor league clubs for players, and the worth of drafted players is reckoned largely on their batting and fielding averages. If the different minor leagues were allowed ‘to use any make of ball they saw fit the batting and fielding averages of the players would be of little benefit to the ‘National league magnates. **¢ & ‘The sport of skating is one that Wis- consin university students indulge in with almost unsparing coe: Surrounded hy four lakes, as it is, the university city offers copenaates such as are rare else- | where. uring the skating season ther is always at least one. of these lakes which has been protected from the wind in whatever direction it blows, which freezes over smooth as glass. The wa- ters of Mendota have not congealed as yet. but there is skating on Lake Monona and the ice is sometimes black with the throngs of skaters. A skating club was formed Wednesday | afternoon for the purpose of encouraging skating tournaments and making trips around the lakes on the steel runners. Iceboating will soon be in full swing. There are a number of new and remod- eled ice yachts ready for winter use. The yachtsmen have not gotten together this year, the season being still young, but a number of interesting events are being talked about by the sailors. Bernard, the iceboat builder, has some craft at his Mendota shops which promise to be win- ners. If present plans of some of the in- dividual yachtsmen carry the Mendota fleet will try its speed against the fastest that Winnebago ean produce. sa 8 | Charles Gould, 1902 of Albany, N. Y., was this week elected captain of the Yale football eleven. |The choice, it is announced, was “practically unanimous.” Only one ballot was necessary to elect. The only other candidate was Perry T. W. Hale, P. G. se “Gripman” Rooney, the wrestler who figured in the contests with Paul Pons at Chicago Monday night, has taken um- brage at the statement of the French- man that he was robbed, and Wednesday posted $100 forfeit for a new match. Rooney says he will meet either Pons or Roeber, whom Pons is matched to meet in New York. see J. I. Behling received a dispatch last Tuesday from Logansport, Ind., announc- ing that his collies, Paradox and Oberia, were winners in their popes classes. Paradox. but 2 years old, has a record of ten firsts, two specials and $300 chal- lenge cup. Oberia, only over puppyhood, has to her eredit fourteen firsts, six sec- onds and three specials for “best Amer- iean bred.” Mr. Behling will send these two to the Chicago show in January, to compete for cup special offered by La- dies’ Kennel association, for “best pair American bred.” ee At the meeting of the stockholders of the Kentucky Trotting Horse Breeders’ association in Lexington the seeretars was authorized to increase the Kentucky ‘Futurity stake for 1903 and 1904 to $21,- 000, the largest trotting stake in the world. Spring foals of 1901 will be eligi- ble. H. C. Duffy of Cynthiana, Ky.. through a Lexington agent, has closed with D. T. Pulsifer of New York for a three years’ lease of the great therough- bred Tenny. = The California Jockey club will not ‘permit Tod Sloan to ride there until he is reinstated by the English racing au- thorities. This decision is official and final. eee Thomas Hutchinson, one of the best- known professional golf players. who held the open Se several years ago, died suddenly on Carnegie links, Cumberland island, Fla. The cause of his death is not know, but presumably it was heart failure. | The committee appointed by President Liginger of the Central A. A. U. to ar- range the details for the championship series of basketball games to be pares in Fend du Lae at_a meeting Monday decided to have the first game played on January 26. eee A. G. Cutler of Boston defeated Frank Billiter of Minneapolis at the amateur billiard tournament at New York by a score of 300 to 154. W., W. Kellogg of Chicago and William Paige of Boston played, Kellogg winning, 300 to 217. Victoria Crosses Are Inexpensive. The cost of making the Victoria Cross is a few shillings. The value of the ac- tual bronze is variously stated at from 144d to 4%d. Every recipient has a war- rant duly presented with it, authorizing him to wear it, and on those rare occa- sions when a cross comes under the ham- mer collectors gruw rabid, and have giv- en as much as £100 for a single specimen. A recent application to the makers for a cross in its mint state by an enthusiast in medals had to be refused, but there are a good many colorable imitations in the market, generally to be detected, however, from their being slightly small- er than the genuine cross.—London Ex- press. MARKET REPORTS. Milwaukee, Dec. 12, 1900. BUY AND Mass, 2 Sewer MILWAUKER— Eggs, Market firm; fresh, new, cases included, 24c: fresh, eases re- turned, 24%4c; old, ‘cases included, 244; held fresh, cases returned, 17@19¢; storage, candled, 19@21c¢; seconds, 10@12c. Receipts were 240 cases. Butter — Market steady. Fancy prints 26e; fancy or eas St ee eee lirsts, 22@23c; seconds. ive; dairy ints 2lec; ‘extra fancy dairy, 20c; lines, idaise: packing stock, 34@isc: whey. Je: roll, /1a@ ise. _ The receipts today were 10,650 Ibe against 7655 yesterday. There seems to be ‘an easier feeling here again for inferior grades, while fancy creamery is steady and in fair demand. “Strictly fresh creamery will really command a premium. There has ‘been a great deal of poor dairy butter com- ing in from country stotage and this sells slow owing to the poor quality. ‘The receipts are light, still the market is well supplied, owing to the limited demand. Cheese—Steady. Receipts were 8640 Tbs today against 1764 yesterday. Full cream flats, new, colored, 10%@1le; New York. full cream flats, new cotored: 10i@l1e; Young Americas, “new, Wtyallige; taney brick, 1OM@LIe; low grades, TEde: imburser. per ih, No.’ 1, 10@10%e: low grades, T@9e: Imported Swiss. 12ai2%e; | Block | Swiss, domestic, 114@l2e: choice, 11%@ize; No. 2, g@ive: Sansngo. 19a20e: farmers’. 10@11e. NEW YORK — Butter — Reeeipts, 5036 pkgs: steady: creamery, 18@26c: ' June creamery, 18@23%c;_ factory, 13@1b\e. Cheese—Receipts, 2445 pkgs: firm; fancy large fall made, 114@11%c; fall made, fancy ‘small, 11%@12c. Ezgs—Receipts, 6227 pkgs; steady; Western regular pack- ing at mark, 22@27e¢; Western, loss off, 29e. Sugar—Raw, firm; refined steady. Coffee— Weak and unsettled; No. 7 Rio, Te nominal, CHICAGO—Butter—Dull; creameries, 15 @2Ac; dairies, 13@20c. Eggs—Quiet: fresn, 26c. “Dressed poultry—Active; turkeys, 9@ OYe: chickens, TqBe. PLYMOUTH—Twelve factories sold 132 longhorns, 12c; 48 daisies, 12c; 224 do, 12Ke; | 2 twins, 105%¢; 4 Young Americas, ice; 30 do, 11%¢; 50 do, 11\%e. MILWAUKEBR LIVESTOCK MARKET. HOGS—Receipts, 30 cars; market Se low- er: light, 4.70@4:85: mixed and medium welghts, 4.7544.90; common to good nk $i, 4.006490; fancy selected hogs, 4.00 CATTLE~Receipts, 6 cars: steady; butch- steers, medium to good, 1050 to 1» ha, 4.50@5.00; fair to medium, 950 to 1050. 3.50 G4.25; heifers, common, 2.75@3,25; 00d, 3.50@4.25, cows, fair to good, 2.75@3.50; canners, 2.00@2.50; bulls, common, 2.50@ 3.00; choice, 3.25@3.75; feeders, 800 to 950 Ths. 3.00@3.75:. stoekers.-500 to 750 Ibs, 2.75 3.25; veal calves, common to choice, 5.25: milkers and springers, common, dull, 18.00425.00; choice heavy cows, steady, 35.0050.00. SHEEP—Recelpts, 1 car; market steady; 3.00@3.75; bucks, 2.50@3.00; lambs, 4.256 5.00. Chicago receipts: Hogs, 46,000; cattle, 21,000; ‘Sheep, 15,000. POTATO MARKET. Chicago, UL, Dee. 12.—[Special.]—Coyne Bros. furnish the following: Potato mar- ket continues steady; receipts, 20 cars; Rurals and Burbanks, 45@48c; mixed white, 42@44e; mixed red, 37@40c; mixed white ee red, 38@41e. / MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH. | MILWAUKEE—Flour — Slow. Wheat — “Steady; No. 2 spring, on track, 70%e; No. 1 Northern, on track, 74. Corn—Steady: No. 3 ou track, 354%c,_ Oats—Steady; No. 2 white, on track, 25%e; No. 3 white. on track, 24%4@254¢. ~ Barley—Steady; No. 2 on track, S8e; sample on track, 434@58¢. Rye—Firm; No, 1 on track, Sle. Provisions -—Lower; pork, 11.25; lard, 7.15. 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 13.50 713.75 for bran. ii oqis.z for standard middlings, and 15.50 for Milwaukee flour middlings. CHICAGO — Close — Wheat — December, Tove; January, Tie: February, 71%e: May. ee niente. aaee ak Reg 35%c; February. —35%e: May, Hie Oats—December, a January, Brayaztige: May, 23%@23%]c. ork—December, 11.25; fae°o'h 12.15; May, 12.10. Lard—Decem- ber, 7.17%; January, 6.85; May. 6.90. Ribs —December, 6.35; January, 6.2244; May, 6.32%. Flax—Cash Northwest. 1.65; No. 1, 1.61; December, 1.82; May, 1.62. NEW YORK—Close — Wheat — Decem- ber, Tie; January, 77%; March, 70%; May, 79Kc. Corn—December, 45¢; how, 42\e. DULUTH—Close — Wheat — Cash No. 2 hard, 734ge: No. 1 Northern, ihe; No. 2 Northern, 624@67%e: No. 3 *p ing. Asean COMKe; to arrive, No. 1 hard, 74%c; No. 1 ) Norchern, mies December, BH May, T%Ke, Corn—S3\e._ Oats—B34asayje. Rye —4iijc. Barley—40@38e. Flax—December, 1.6244: May, 1.61. Keceipts of wheat, 40,- 160: shipments, 3000 bus. MINNEAPOLIS — Close --_Wheat—Cash, 78e; December, 715c; May, T4%@7T44c; on track, No. 1 hard, 75: No. 1 Northern, T3e; No, 2 Northern, 684@70i%4e. a coe eon — Wheat = ay Bc; cash No. 2 rd, 3; No, 2 red, 69@70c. Corn—May, ahtastae: ‘cash No. 2 mixed, 34c: No. 2 white, 34%c. Oats —No, 2 white, 25%e. LIVERPOOL—Clove—Wheat—Steady. un- changed to %d lower; December, 58d; Feb- ruary, 6s; March, @s4d. Corn—Firm, unchanged to 44d lower; December, 4s%d; Mareh, 3s9%d. ST. _LOUIS—Close—Wheat—No. 2 red cash, Tle: track, 72@73c: December, Tle; January, 71\4c; May, T9K@T3%C; No. 2 hard, es4aede. Corn—No. 2 eash, 36e: Decem: ber, 35c: January, 35e: May, sare. Oats—No, 2 cash, 23%gc: December, 230: May, 24%c: No. 2 white, 27c. Lead—4.22% GLB. Spelter—4.00. KANSAS CITY—Cattle—Receipts, 7000: steady to lower: native steers, 4.2506.00; Texas steers, 3.00@4.85; cows and heifers, 1.40@4.75; stockers and feeders, 3.00014.80. Hogs—Receipts, 20,000; SaTige lower: bulk of sales, 4.8216@4.55: heavy. 4.8004.90; oo eee light, —— Sheep— Recelpts, : Stronger; lambs, 4.00@5.50; mnttons. 2.00@4.50. ' ST. LOUIS—Cattle—Recelpts. 4500; mar- ket steady: native steers. 3.09@4.65: stock- ers and feeders, 2.45@4.40; cows and heif- ers, 2.0004.60; Texae and Indian steers, 3.40 G4.60. | Heg<—Receipts, 1500; Sale lower: pigs and Nabts, 4.7075.80; packers. 4.15% 4.85; butchers, 4.8544.90, ‘Sheep—Receint:, Ss muttons, 3.75@4.10: lambs, 4.50 5.50. —The steamer Hazel arrived at Mack- inaw City with a large quantity of fresh and salt fish, also several nets captured by the Seeey game warden from fisher- men at uth Fox island who were caught fishing out of season. VON WALDERSEE’S FEELINGS HURT. Chaffee Used Vigorous Language in Protesting Against Lootirg by Foreign Troops. Washington, D. C., Dee. 11.—The. war department has received a report from Gen. Chaffee of the incident that occurred at Pekin in connection with his represen- tations to Field Marshal von Waldersee. It appears that Gen. Chaffee did use some pretty vigorous language in protesting against the thieving and looting of, the foreign troops. What particularly hurt the feeling of Waldersee was a pointed refer- ence by Gen. Chaffee to the fact that this disgraceful ‘and unmilitary practice of looting was being indulged in not by the men who did the fighting and opened the way to Pekin, but by the late-comers, who had borne none of the brunt of con- flict and hardship. Waldersee himself did not reach Pekin until long after the expeditionary force had occupied the town. It is recognized here officially that Gen. Chaffee had provocation for his deliver- ance, but regret Is felt that he used this tone in addressing the field marshal. It is significantly pointed out here that perhaps it was not incumbent upon Gen. Chaffee to make any rep resentations whatever on this sub- ject to the field marshal, as there is no longer any official tie between them. When the United States government changed the character of its military representation in Pekin from an expedi- tionary force to a mere Jegation guard, of course that guard no longer came under the control of the commander-in-chief at Pekin, but was simply a part of Minis- ter Conger’s official household. Outlawry Increasing. Canton, Dec. 11.—Outlawry in Kwang Si_and Kwang Tung is increasing The officials appear to be losing their old of the situation and are ——— to restore order. Pirating on the river (the West river) is increasing. FIFTH CAVALRY FIGHTS INSURGENTS. Americans Chase the Rebels Four : Miles and Kill Fourteen of Them. Manila, Dec. 11.—A detachment of the Fifth cavalry had a fight with 100 in- surgents south of Santa Cruz Sunday. The insurgents were chased four miles. Fourteen of them were found dead. ‘There were no American casualties. In addition to this engagement there had been several minor encounters be- tween the Scoops and the insurgents. _ The hospital ship Solace has arrived at Cavite from San Francisco. Her of- ficers say the condition of affairs at the island of Guam has considerably im- posea since a week ago. Dwellings are heing restored and the people are resum- ing their occupations. | Crops were prac: tically all destroyed, though there is no immediate want. The Solace left sup- plies there and the Arcthusa has taken a_ considerable avant St supplies to Guam from Cavite. reports as to the number of deaths are about un- changed. * The wives of Commander Seton Schroeder, governor of Guam, and other officers, who went to the island on the Solace, remained at Guam. NT FINAL ANSWER GIVEN. —_-—_—_ Dutch Government Definitely Re- fuses to Propose Arbitration of Transvaal Troubles. The Hague, Dec. 11.—The Dutch gov- ernment today finally and definitely re- fused to take the initiative in behalf of arbitration between the Transvaal and Great Britain. Berlin, Dec. 11.—In the Reichstag to- day on the resumption of the debate on the estimates, Herr Bebel, the Socialist leader concurring generally with the re- marks in the Reichstag esterday. of the imperial chancellor, Count von Buelow, as to Germany's policy in the Transvaal question, said: “We have every reason to be on friendly terms with England without thereby atone, our freedom.” The Hague, Dec. 11.—The decision of the government was communicated in an interview between Mr. Kruger and Dr. Leyds on one side and the Dutch foreign minister and*the minister of finance, N. G. Pierson,.on the other. Mr. Kru- ger explained that the Object of his journey was to disseminate the idea of arbitration, and the Dutch minister re- plied that the role of The Netherlands must be passive. The initiative belonged to the great powers, they added. When the powers had reached a decision the Dutch government might see what it could do. A serenade of Mr. Kruger by the schol- ars fixed for tonight has been prohibited by the police, out of fear of disturbances. BIG NAVY FOR FRANCE. — Budget Contempliates Building Eleven Battleships—Vete to Prohibit Absinthe. Paris, Dec. 11.—The French naval esti- mates for the coming oar amount to ae franes ($152,000,000). Pro- vision made for the building of six ironclads, five piers cruisers, twenty- eight torpedo-boat destroyers, 186. tor- pedo-boats, and forty-four submarine tor- pedo-boats. Paris, Dec. 11.—In_ the Chamber of Deputies M. Marie Edouard Vaillant, Socialist, moved a resolution calling upon the government to prohibit the manu- facture and sale of all alcoholic liquors pronounced “dangerous” by the ‘Academy of Medicine. The resolution was aimed at absinthe, the consumption of which has nearly doubled in France since 1894, and now stands at 10,000,000 liters an- nually. The chamber adopted the resolu- tion unanimously. ABSORBED BY STANDARD OIL. Rival Com psay on Pacific Coast is Bought for $1,000,000. San Francisco, Cal., Dec. 11.—A spe- cial from Los Angeles says: A deal has it been consummated whereby the tandard Oil eer, aequees ail of the interests of the Pacific Coast Oil com- pany. The ee pry ie is said to be in the neighborhood of $1,000,000. The Pa- cific Coast Oil company has been doing business in California for a quarter of a century and has been reaching out dur- ing that period until its interests include valuable oil properties in various sec- tions. It owns a steamer which is used in transporting oil from the southern coast to its refinery at Alameda, which has a monthly capacity of 25,000 barrels. The company’s entire holdings are em- braced in the transfer. ACCIDENT ON SANTE FE. 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Address all business communications to the general manager, 209 Fifth street. Mr. Richard B. Montgomery. Entered at tue Milwaukee P. O. as secord- 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 ex- peeses incurred, those parties de- siring help should become subscrib- ers for this paper. No actual charge is made. Parties who secure situa- tions through this agency are also expected to become subscribers. We have at present on our books: Cooks, General Servants, Wait- resses, Laundresses, Nurses, Coachmen, Porters, Waiters. Office hours 9-12 and 1-4. R. B. MONTGOMERY, Mgr. 209 Fifth St., Milwaukee. Gen. Egan’s request for a suspension of sentence may have been prompted by the observation that the British army in South Africa suffered from “embalmed beet” without stirring up a scandai. While naval authorities in Europe and America are experimenting with wireless telegraphy, little Japan has bought two complete Marconi plants, with an effec- tive radius of 125 miles, for immediate installation on two first-class Japanese cruisers, About that proposed anti-killing-men- by-deer-hunters law—perhaps it hdd bet- ter take the form of a prescription that no one shall enter the woods in the open season without a red cap, and that all applieants for hunting licenses shall undergo examination for color-blindness. Arizona is to furnish a novel feature for the inaugural parade in Washington next March. Two black bears captured in the Santa Rita mountains by Mary Lully, a local hunter, are to march as the result of an election bet. W. M. Hoey, collector of the port of Nogales, agreed to take the bears East and lead them in the parade if McKinley was elected. If Bryan was successful William Taggart was to lead the bears. After the parade the wild animals, which are named “Mc- Kinley” and “bryan,” will be given to the Washington zoological gardens. Property-owners of the Fox lake region in Wisconsin have banded together to rid the waters of Fox, Grass and other lakes in the vicinity of the German carp, in order to keep the game fish which make those lakes famous from being driven out. A representative of the state fish commission is superintending the seining of the waters, and so far 30,000 pounds of carp and other coarse fish have been taken out. Among them was a German carp which weighed fifty-six pounds. It transpires that Sir Thomas Lipton’s Shamrock had a sheet of aluminum along her waterline, and that this alumi- num has been eaten away by the action of sea water as was the aluminum used in the construction of the Defender. The recent races for the America cup have not developed a creditable type of ship, but they have demonstrated that alumi- num cannot be used in marine construc- tion, and thus dissipated a lot of schemes for the building of a featherweight “four-day steamer” for the transatlantic oes: The use of pontoon boats made of alumi- num for the construction of flying ‘ridges for armies was suggested some gears ago, but recently a practical test of material of this kind was made by the engineering section of one of the Aus- trian dragoon regiments stationed at Stockerau, near Vienna, with very satis- factory results. The special pontoon used had a carrying capacity of 11,000 pounds. These pontoon boats are trans- ported on specially-constructed wagons, and can be taken over the most difficult country, and at any rate of march the column may demand. A number of New York and Philadel- phia financiers and philanthropists are interested in a project to establish a model industrial town near the latter city. It is proposed to buy an extensive tract of land for the town near Phila- delphia, because of that city’s vast in- dustrial concerns, The backers of the enterprise propose to sell lots in the new town for manufactories and for working- men’s homes, It is proposed to make the houses and town in general beautiful and healthful, and after receiving a nominal per cent. on the investment it is suggest- ed that the remainder of the income from the rents of houses go to the improve- ment of the inhabitants themselves. In the words of one of the promoters, it is proposed to give the workingman a sub- stantial part of the proceeds of the work he produces. The penny-in-the-slot system of distrib- uting gas through the poorer districts of London has proved so successufl that at- tempts are now being made to apply elec- trie light in the same way. The vestry of Battersea has erected a large genera- tor station and laid the necessary cables. The fixtures are installed in each house free of cost to the customer, who simply pays for the amount of electricity be con- sumes, The profit derived from this method of distribution is said to be suf- ficient to enable the authorities to recoup themselves for the initial cost of the in- stallation of fittings in the houses. Forty-three areas have been found on the sea bottom lying deeper than three miles. Eight of these are deeper than four miles. These are: Nars deep, in the North Atlantic; Ross deep, in the Antarctic; Weber deep, in the Banda sea; Challenger, Tuscarora and Sapan deeps, in the North Pacific, and Aldrich and Richards deeps, in the South Pa- cific. Three of these deeps contain five- mile holes. They are Aldrich, Tuscarora and Weber deeps. But the Aldrich deep hole is the deepest thus far measured. Yet, deep as it is, in spite of the fact that Mt. Everest, the highest mountain in the world, if dropped into the hole would sink out of sight in the ocean, that little pinnacle called Sunday island, standing squarely in this five-mile hole, is able to rear its head 2000 feet above the surface af the sea. The Hamburg-American Steamship company has bought a line of steamers now plying between Germany and South American ports, thus adding another in- fluence to aid in the German control of South American commerce. In addition a new line is proposed to ply between New York and South America, and the service from New York to the Mediter- ranean ports is to be connected with Hamburg-American steamers reaching China and Japan by way of the Red sea. At the same time the North German Lloyd company of Bremen is arranging to establish a line of steamers between San Francisco and Australia, as well as ene from San Francisco to the Asiatic coast, both lines thus neeting those of the company plying from Europe. This will be the first competition for Austra- lian trade from the port of San Fran- otenn, A beautiful monument erected to the memory of Maj.-Gen. Joseph B. Carr, in Oakwood cemetery, Troy, has been com- pleted by the addition of handsome bronze panels and medallion. The monn- ment has been ready for the panels for some time, but owing to the first cast being unsatisfactory, a delay was caused while a new one was being designed. The monument is simple in design, but rich in ornamentation. The medallion is the work of John Francis Brines, the New York sculptor, and represents Gen. Carr in the uniform of a major-general. The two bronze tablets contain the list of bat- tles in which Gen. Carr was engaged and the record of engagements. The medal- lion is a beautiful piece of work, and the likeness of Gen. Carr is exceedingly life- like. The family name Carr is surmount- ed by the American eagle and around the name is a wreath of laurel. Underneath is a simple bronze plate bearing the in- scription, “Major-General Joseph Brad- ford Carr—1828-189).”” A movement is on foot, said to be backed by Philadelphia coalmen, to build at Summit Hill, near Mauch Chunk, Pa., a monument of coal to the memory of Philip Ginter, who discovered coal within a very short distance of Summit Hill. In September it was 109 years since Ginter made his great discovery. He lived in a rough cabin in the forests on the Mauch Chunk mountain. While in quest cf game for his family, whom he had left at home without food of any kind, his foot struck a black rock. By the roadside, not far from the town of Summit Hill, he built a fire of wood and threw pieces of the supposed stone about it, so that the embers might last longer while he was roasting a fowl. He was surprised after a little while to see te stones aglow and retain their heat for a long time. He carried a lot of the coal home and burned it there. The few neighbors soon learned of the discovery, but there was no mining to any extent in Carbon coun- ty until after the war of 1812 had begun. The expedition sent to Cuba by the Smithsonian institution to collect strange animals and plants has returned loaded down with specimens and with tales of adventure more strange than the freaks they brought with them. Rats of an ed- ible species—some 3 feet long, including the tail, and weighing 18 pounds—were captured, but none were brought back to this country alive. All were eaten by the hungry adventurers. These rats— and the snakes on the island, none of which are yvyenomous—have nearly all been eaten by the famished Cubans, and are very scarce. Ferocious giant lizards (iguanas) were captured and were brought back alive. These lizards are also eaten by Cubans, but the scientists “passed them up.” Cuba has more than thirty species of bats, and many, includ- ing white bats, were captured and will be stuffed and added to the Smithsonian collection. In capturing the white bats, in a eave 100 feet auvecgr cad: where thousands were hiding, several of the party were bitten. Capt. Edward T. Strong of the navy will be placed on the retired list as a re- sult of a recent examination by a naval retiring board. Capt. Strong was re- cently invalided home from the Asiatic station while in command of the monitor Monadnock. He is the third commander of that vessel to be incapacitated since she went from San Francisco to the Philippines, about two years ago. Capt. H. E. Nichols while commanding the vessel was sunstruck and died at Manila in June, 1899, and Capt. John J. Me- Gowan, who succeeded him in command, was sent home broken in health early this year. These cases are attributed to the hardships of life on board the low- lying monitor, with its poor ventilation, in the debilitating climate of the Philip- pines. Capt. Strong entered the navy from Massachusetts as a volunteer offi- cer soon after the beginning of the Civil war, in 1862, and has since served in all parts of the world. Prior to-taking com- mand of the Monadnock he was in com- mand of the training ship Essex. SOLDIERS AT HOME. THEY TELL SOME INTERESTING ANECDOTES OF THE WAR. How the Boys of Both Armies Whiled Away Life in Camp—Foraging Ex- periences, Tiresome Marches—Thril- ling Scenes on the Battlefield, “It seems to me,” said a Michigan yeteran at the national encampment of 1900, in Chicago, that proper atten- tion has not been paid to the National Association of Army Nurses of the Civil War during this encampment. I am sure that every soldier realizes and admits the debt which the men of the Grand Army owe to the women who followed the armies into the field and did so much to lessen the horrors of war. Often, too, the women did more than simply wait on and nurse the wounded men in the hospitals. I know of one case in my own experience where an army nurse actually rallied the men of the regiment to which she was at- tached and helped to win a battle. “Annie Etheridge was born in Michi- gan, but spent most of her childhood in Wisconsin. When the war broke out she was visiting in Detroit, and at once volunteered to go to the front with the Second Michigan as regimental nurse. Soon she was transferred to the Thimxi Michigan, and when its three years’ term of enlistment was over she, with the re-enlisted veterans, joined the Fifth Michigan. Between her and the soldiers there sprang up a degree of af- fection that was touching. It was her custom to follow ‘her boys’ into battle and on the field before the fighting was over to administer to the more severely wounded. At Chancellorsville in May, 1863, she went far out to the front with a company of skirmishers. The rebels in full force were close at hand, and Mrs. Etheridge was ordered by her Col- onel to go to the rear. She rode down the line of the trenches in which the soldiers were lying, and in the face of the enemy exhorted them to do their duty and ‘whip the rebels.’ “At Chancellorsville she was riding Sy SS rn ase | RSET TH RS ey. ad My Ze ES \ (_ = Bs dai 3 Aree Se “Uh Wo aN p <x k < Gy; RQ RG ‘ “Hh B® Se Yy s> AN lg IWS Ze Ss ee eS = BS ee Gy SSS hh 7 MME. VELASQUEZ DISGUISED AS A CON- FEDERATE LIEUTENANT. over the field and found in one corner of the field a regiment that was begin- ning to retreat. She appealed to them not to go back, and finally shamed them into obedience by actually seizing the flag and leading them into action. “Certainly the most sensational part played by a woman in the Civil War was that of Mme. Velasquez, a pretty young Southern woman of Spanish de- scent, who disguised herself as a man and for many years served as a Licu- tenant in the Confederate army under the name of Lieutenant Harry Bu- ford. In this capacity she took part in several battles, leading her men with great fearlessness and skill and win- ning the compliments of her superior officers for gallantry on the field of bat- tle. In the later part of the war she was made an agent of the Confederate secret service, and in various disguises spent months in the North, traveling re- peatedly from New York to Chicago, Philadelphia, and other cities. At one time she even succeeded in getting em- ployment under the head of the United States secret service in New York City, | and in that position was able to secure information of great value to the Con- federacy. “At the battle of Ball’s Bluff she was in command of a regiment, and the men under her charge captured more than a hundred Federal prisoners. It was the scene of bloodshed of which she was forced to witness here that finally led her to give up active service in tne army and go into the secret service, which, while quite as dangerous, did not lead her constantly into the pres- ence of wounded and dying men. Dur- ing the whole of her service she was ‘never wounded, though it is said that she often took greater chances than | were necessary. “I don’t suppose there is a member of the Grand Army who hasn't at least heard of ‘Mother’ Bickerdyke. How many thoasands of the boys knew her by sight during the war and were nursed by her hands, I can only guess, She devoted herself to the care of the private soldiers, always declaring that the officers had plenty of friends to look after them. So among the rank and file in all the hospitals she be- came known as ‘Mother’ Bickerdyke, and she was more than a mother io hundreds. “When the war broke out she was a widow, 40 years old, but strong and robust in health, as she needed to be for the work before her. When Sum- ter was fired on she was working as a housekeeper in the family of a gentle- man at Cleveland, Ohio. Almost im- mediately she gave up her place and began her work for the soldiers, “There were two sides to her charac- ter. On one side she was the sternest and most implacable of women; on the other she was as gentle and tender as a child. Everything she did was for the interest of her ‘boys.’ If the hospi- tal surgeons did not do their work properly or seemed to slight the private soldiers in any way ‘Mother’ Bicker- dyke would send in a report which of- ten resulted in the dismissal of the of- fender. It was the same way with army contractors. If the supplies fur- nished were not in good order or were not promptly delivered it was certain that ‘Mother’ Bickerdyke would never rest until she had seen the delinquent punished. “In addition to everything else she was a great organizer. After the battle of Perryville the supplies for the sur- geons were exhausted and there seeny- ed to be no way to supply the demand, But ‘Mother’ Bickerdyke was equal ti: the emergency. She organized a com- Our stock doesn’t fit the * ur toc store right—it’s too big. <contienentictniiaiin amntinastenmnmmmmncnntin: 4 Wetec tie scenes OF low prices “‘cut it down’ to fit. The real trouble is that the cold 8 a weather hasn’t come soon a i cal aa enough. We find that we're over- ———- loaded with heavy clothing. ; @ We're going to unload a bit this Fs TS 1t week and it will pay you to help & ad- us. Don’t look for these byitippines, fis ie gains next week. ft Hancock. ear ee The OVERCOATS that we advertised last week for $5.00 to Sagpettct Marinduque, i ke le for. the purpose of eae ete reared Pete Tee Week Only wo days later they fell These swell $13 RAGLANS we'll unload for $13.50 ThipWitn cities: view eee f pat a re rite bolos. SUITS to fit anybody’s body or tarte, last wi elds, telling of the engage- id: “I’ was twice wounded and Week $6.75 to $16.50. Gnscious, but soon recovered and ive the order for the command to TROUSERS—We give you a wider choice-~ad.@ way back to the station. I told es? Me with a man from the FASHIONABLE MISE IT CLOTHiikind a rice stack and tola —_—_— white flag. ‘The in- irr. a pobre, at us. The 213-215-217 WEST WATER STREET, Opposite Barret? ck a short dis- Your Money Back If You Can Show\Cause, Orea EVENINGS #™d” had to - me to me one me when I ane eee AA ee ee Pleasing Holiday Gifts Diamonds, 1 deed <eeoeieiencoampicnih Watches, Clocks, | Jewelry, Rings, 'C. J. Dewey Silverware, || JEWELER Lr Anta uy, Mes! Water Si Low Prices | MONOGRAM RINGS—LOW PRICES “MOTHER” BICKERDYKE. pany of colored women who had es- caped from their masters and set them to work picking up blankets and scraps of clothing from the Battlefield. Then she had all the material so gathered carefully washed and dried, and finally supplied not only plenty of dressings but actually fitted out a large body of men with practically new or at least clean outfits of clothing. “It is said that nobody in the army had as much influence with either Gen- eral Grant or General Sherman as ‘Mother’ Bickerdyke. They had come to know of her courage and devotion to the men and had found by investiga- tion that her word could be depended upon, Consequently she was feared and hated by the incompetents and rascals in all branches of the army. “Almost every union soldier had one or more pleasant experiences with the loyal wonien of the South, many of whom risked their lives time and again in defense of their principles. Histor- ians are now trying to prove that Bar- bara Frietchie never existed, but I know of one case almost exactly like it which can be easily substantiated. “It was in 1863, and the rebels were marching through Middletown, Md. There were a good many people in the town who were at heart loyal, but they made no boast of public exhibition of their feelings. Mrs. Effie Titlow, how- ever, was made of sterner stuff. When she saw in the distance the approach- ing rebels she took a large Union flag, wrapped it about her shoulders, and took her staud on the balcony of her house, overhanging the street. There, with the flag around her, she stood all the time the rebel army was passing and looked contemptuously down on the soldiers in gray. If Barbara Friet- chie is played out some poet might put the story of Mrs. Titlow into ryhme. “Every Wisconsin veteran will re- membed Mrs. Henrietta L. Colt. Left a widow shortly before the war, she threw herself into the work of nursing the wounded soldiers with entire devo- tion. She went at one time, for” in- stance to the Army of the Cumberland and personally visited every sick Wis- consin soldier in the hospitals. Some of her trips up the Mississippi River in hospital steamers were’ experiences which would have killed an ordinary woman, “On her visit to the army about Vicks- burg she organized, in connection with | vo Se 2 esa Sg “ MORRET Sc: | ee a ae eee y GARD os j Sees ? Bee —_ | a) ee og Sn ae 7 en 4 ba ee ae cre 2. er A es ee pe Ear ms! ep oe ‘eq MEE ~ oe | if | a” Sar eG 2 eh 2 i es m a, fh = nx. coon ; 4 | an oan 1 i | me: ae oF - LINION.... Laundry and News Co. No. 432 State Street GEO. VW. SAYLES ALL WORK CAREFULLY DONE... Lowest Prices and Satisfaction Guaranteed. JAMES T. BRETT & SON, [mer <4 EMBALMERS and & FUNERAL DIRECTORS Bi) 8307 REED STREET and ane ee lost 410 GRAND AVENUE. ct ammmeet rans 2467. Milwaukee, Wis. oo a | Sem ~ Se ong l= te =e = a = Mae: = oe z we BS | at ry ATA A Pa Te eT oak cy A | A 1) ie DAO aS Pa bee Sees es = e e Mrs. Nellie Hutchins Dressmaking and Ladies’ Tailoring En A full stock of ready-made Garments, Wrappers, etc., always on hand. 540 EAST WATER STREET - - = = MILWAUKEE Telephone 9461 Black MRS. EEFIE TITLOW DEFIES THE REBELS Mrs. Hoge of Chicago, an improvised hospital on the same steamboat which had brought her South. The boat was packed with wounded men, but they stuck to their posts, ‘and how’ much good they did nobody will ever know. Up and down the great river Mrs. Colt and her few colleagues traveled in the midst of dyiag soldiers, helpless and poverty-stricken refugees, and fright- ened slaves. She also visited no less than seventy-twohospitalsin the South- west and was able not only to relieve immediate suffering but to provide bet- ter supplies for future use through her influence with the organized societies of the North.”—Chicago Tribune. 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PEACOCK & SON Funeral Directors AND EMBALMERS 431 Broadway. MILWAUKEE, WIS. TALMAGES SERMON A. B. ROM an unnoticed incident of olden time Dr. Talmage in this discourse draws some comforting and rapturous lessons. The text is II. Samuel xix., 18, "And there went over a ferryboat to carry over the king's household." Which of the crowd is the king? That short man, sunburnt and in fatigue dress. It is David, the exiled king. He has defeated his enemies and is now going home to resume his palace. Good! I always like to see David come out ahead. But between him and his home there is the celebrated river Jordan which has to be passed. The king is accompanied to the bank of the river by an aristocratic old gentleman of 80 years, Barzillai by name, who owned a fine country seat at Rogelim. Besides that, David has his family with him. But how shall they get across the river? While they are standing there I see a ferryboat coming from the other side, and as it cuts through the water I see the faces of David and his household brighten up at the thought of so soon getting home. No sooner has the ferryboat struck the shore than David and his family and his old friend Barzillai from Rogelim get on board the boat. Either with splashing oars at the side or with one oar sculling at the stern of the boat they leave the eastern bank of the Jordan and start for the western bank. That western bank is black with crowds of people, who are waving and shouting at the approach of the king and his family. The military are all out. Some of those who have been David's worst enemies now shout until they are hoarse at his return. No sooner has the boat struck the shore on the western side than the earth quakes and the heavens ring with cheers of welcome and congratulation. David and his family and Barzillai from Rogelim step ashore. King David asks his old friend to go with him and live at the palace, but Barzillai apologizes and intimates that he is infirm with age and too deaf to appreciate the music, and has a delicate appetite that would soon be cloyed with luxurious living, and so he begs that David would let him go back to his country seat. Dislike of Excitement. I once heard the father of a President of the United States say that he had just been to Washington to see his son in the White House, and he told me of the wonderful things that occurred there and of what Daniel Webster said to him, but he declared: "I was glad to get home. There was too much going on there for me." My father, an aged man, made his last visit at my house in Philadelphia, and after the church service was over, and we went home, some one in the house asked the aged man how he enjoyed the service. "Well," he replied, "I enjoyed the service, but there were too many people there for me. It troubled my head very much." The fact is that old people do not like excitement. If King David had asked Barzillai thirty years before to go to the palace, the probability is that Barzillai would have gone, but not now. They kiss each other good-by, a custom among men oriental, but in vogue yet where two brothers part or an aged father and a son go away from each other never to meet again. No wonder that their lips met as King David and old Barzillai, at the prow of the ferryboat, parted forever. This river Jordan, in all ages and among all languages, has been the symbol of the boundary line between earth and heaven. Yet when, on a former occasion, I preached to you about the Jordanic passage I have no doubt that some of you despondingly said, "The Lord might have divided Jordan for Joshua, but not for poor me." Cheer up! I want to show you that there is a way over Jordan as well as through it. My text says, "And there went over a ferryboat to carry over the king's household." All our cities are familiar with the ferryboat. It goes from San Francisco to Oakland and from Liverpool to Birkenhead, and twice every secular day of the week multitudes are on the ferryboats of our great cities, so that you will not need to hunt up a classical dictionary to find out what I mean while I am speaking to you about the passage of David and his family across the river Jordan. An Unstable Craft. Every day I find people trying to extemporize a way from earth to heaven. They gather up their good works and some sentimental theories, and they make a raft, shoving it from this shore, and poor, deluded souls get on board that raft, and they go down. The fact is that skepticism and infidelity never yet helped one man to die. I invite all the ship carpenters of worldly philosophy to come and build one boat that can safely cross this river. I invite them all to unite their skill, and Bolingbroke shall lift the stanchions, and Tyndall shall shape the bowsprit, and Spinoza shall make the maintopgallant braces, and Renan shall go to tacking and wearing and boxing the ship. All together in 10,000 years they will never be able to make a boat that can cross this Jordan. Why was it that Spinoza and Blount and Shaftsbury lost their souls? It was because they tried to cross the stream in a boat of their own construction. What miserable work they made of dying! Diodorus died of mortification because he could not guess a conundrum which had been proposed to him at a public dinner; Zeuxis, the philosopher, died of mirth, laughing at a caricature of an aged woman, a caricature made by his own hand, while another of their company and of their kind died saying, "Must I leave all these beautiful pictures?" and then asked that he might be bolstered up in the bed in his last moments and be shaved and painted and rouged. Of all the unbelievers of all ages not one died well. Some of them sneaked out of life, some wept themselves away in darkness, some blasphemed and raved and tore their bed covers to tatters. This is the way worldly philosophy helps a man to die. A guide at Niagara Falls said to me, "Do you see that rock down in the rapids?" I said, "Yes." "Well," he said, "some years ago a man got into the rapids and floated down until he came to that rock, and he clutched that and held on. We sent five lifeboats at different times out to him, and they were all broken to splinters. After awhile we got him some food, but he could not eat it. He seemed to have no appetite. He wanted to get ashore, and the poor fellow held on and held on, and with a shriek louder than the thunder of the cataract he went over." When a man puts out from the shore of this world on the river of Death in a boat of his own construction, he has worse disaster than that—shipwreck, eternal shipwreck. Again, my subject suggests that when we cross over at the last the King will be on board the boat. Ship carpentry in Bible times was in its infancy. The boats were not skillfully made, and I can very easily imagine that the women and the children of the king's household might have been nervous about going on that boat, afraid that the oarsman or the helmsman might give out and that the boat might be dashed on the rocks, as sometimes, boats were dashed in the Jordan, and then I could have imagined the boat starting and rocking, and they crying out: "Oh, we are going to be lost. We are going down!" Not so. The king was on board the boat, and those women and children and all the household of the king knew that every care was taken to have the king—the head of the empire—pass in safety. The Soul's Companions. Now, I want to break up a delusion in your mind, and that is this: When our friends go out from this world, we feel sorry for them because they have to go alone; and parents hold on to the hands of their children who are dying and hold on to something of the impression that the moment they let go the little one will be in the darkness and in the boat all alone. "Oh!" the parent says, "if I could only go with my child, I would be willing to die half a dozen times. I am afraid she will be lost in the woods or in the darkness; I am afraid she will be very much frightened in the boat all alone." I break up the delusion. When a soul goes to heaven, it does not go alone; the King is on board the boat. Was Paul alone in the last extremity? Hear the shout of the sacred missionary as he cries out, "I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand." Was John Wesley alone in the last extremity? No. Hear him say, "Best of all, God is with us." Was Sir William Forbes alone in the last extremity? No. Hear him say to his friends, "Tell all the people who are coming down to the bed of death from my experience it has no terrors." "Oh," say a great many people, "that does very well for distinguished Christians, but for me, a common man, for me, a common woman, we can't expect that guidance and help." If I should give you a passage of Scripture that would promise to you positively when you are crossing the river to the next world the King would be in the boat, would you believe the promise? "Oh, yes," you say, "I would." Here is the promise, "When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee, and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee." Christ at the sick pillow to take the soul out of the body; Christ to help the soul down the bank into the boat; Christ midstream; Christ on the other side to help the soul up the beach. Be comforted about your departed friends. Be comforted about your own demise when the time shall come. Tell it to all the people under the sun that no Christian ever dies alone; the King is in the boat. The Ferry to Heaven. Again, my text suggests that leaving this world for heaven is only crossing a ferry. Dr. Shaw estimates the average width of the Jordan to be about thirty yards. What, so narrow? Yes. "There went over a ferryboat to carry the king's household." Yes, going to heaven is only a short trip—only a ferry. It may be eighty miles—that is, eighty years—before we get to the wet bank on the other side, but the crossing is short. I will tell you the whole secret. It is not five minutes across, nor three, nor two, nor one minute. It is an instantaneous transportation. People talk as though, leaving this life, the Christian went plunging and floundering and swimming, to crawl up exhausted on the other shore, and to be pulled out of the pelting surf as by a Ramsgate lifeboat. No such thing. It is only a ferry. It is so narrow that we can hail each other from bank to bank. It is only four arms' lengths across. The arm of earthly farewell put out from this side, the arm of heavenly welcome put out from the other side, while the dying Christian, standing midstream, stretches out his two arms, the one to take the farewell of earth, and the other to take the greeting of heaven. That makes four arms' lengths across the river. Blessed be God, that when we leave this world we are not to have a great and perilous enterprise of getting into heaven. Not a dangerous Franklin expedition to find the northwest passage among icebergs. Only a ferry. That accounts for something you have never been able to understand. You never supposed that very nervous and timid Christian people could be so unexcited and placid in the last hour. The fact is, they were clear down on the bank, and they saw there was nothing to be frightened about. Such a short distance—only a ferry. With one ear they heard the funeral psalm in their memory, and with the other ear they heard the song of heavenly salutation. The willows on this side the Jordan and the Lebanon cedars on the other almost interlocked their branches. Only a ferry. Welcome at the Landing. Welcome at the Landing. Again, my subject teaches that when we cross over at the last we shall be met at the landing. When David and his family went over in the ferryboat spoken of in the text, they landed amid a nation that had come out to greet them. As they stepped from the deck of the boat to the shore there were thousands of people who gathered around them to express a satisfaction that was beyond description. And so you and I will be met at the landing. Our arrival will not be like stepping ashore at Antwerp or Constantinople among a crowd of strangers. It will be among friends, good friends, those who are warm-hearted friends, and all their friends. We know people whom we have never seen by hearing somebody talk about them very much; we know them almost as well as if we had seen them. And do you not suppose that our parents and brothers and sisters and children in heaven have been talking about us all these years, and talking to their friends? So that, I suppose, when we cross the river at the last we shall not only be met by all those Christian friends whom we knew on earth, but by all their friends. They will come down to the landing to meet us. Your departed friends love you now more than they ever did. You will be surprised at the last to find how they know about all the affairs of your life. Why, they are only across the ferry, and the boat is coming this way, and the boat is going that way. I do not know but they have already asked the Lord the day, the hour, the moment when you are coming across and that they know now, but I do know that you will be met at the landing. Meeting on the Other Shore. Meeting on the Other Shore. There was romance as well as Christian beauty in the life of Dr. Adoniram Judson, the Baptist missionary, when he concluded to part from his wife, she to come to America to restore her health, he to go back to Burma to preach the gospel. They had started from Burma for the United States together; but, getting near St. Helena, Mrs. Judson was so much better she said: "Well, now I can get home very easily. You go back to Burma and preach the gospel to those poor people. I am almost well. I shall soon be well, and then I will return to you." After she had made that resolution, terrific in its grief, willing to give up her husband for Christ's sake, she sat down in her room and with trembling hand wrote some eight or ten verses, four of which I will now give you: We part on this green islet, love— Thou for the eastern main; I for the setting sun, love; Oh, when to meet again! When we knelt to see our Henry die And heard his last faint moan, Each wiped away the other's tears; Now each must weep alone. And who can paint our mutual joy When, all our wandering o'er, We both shall clasp our infants three At home on Burma's shore? But higher shall our raptures glow On yon celestial plain When loved and parted here below Meet ne'er to part again. She folded that manuscript, a relapse of her disease came on, and she died. Dr. Judson says he put her away for the resurrection on the isle of St. Helena. They had thought to part for a year or two. Now they parted forever, so far as this world is concerned. And he says he hastened on board after the funeral with his little children to start for Burma, for the vessel had already lifted her sails. And he says, "I sat down for some time in my cabin, my little children around me crying, 'Mother, mother!' And I abandoned myself to heartbreaking grief. But one day the thought came across me as my faith stretched her wing that we should meet again in heaven, and I was comforted." Was it, my friends, all a delusion? When he died, did she meet him at the landing? When she died, did the scores of souls whom she had brought to Christ and who had preceded her to heaven meet her at the landing? I believe it; I know it. Oh, glorious consolation, that when our poor work on earth is done and we cross the river we shall be met at the landing! But there is a thought that comes over me like an electric shock. Do I belong to the King's household? Mark you, the text says, "And there went over a ferryboat to carry over the king's household," and none but the king's household. Then I ask, "Do I belong to the household? Do you?" If you do not, come to-day and be adopted into that household. "Oh," says some soul here, "I do not know whether the King wants me!" He does; he does. Hear the voice from the throne, "I will be a father to them, and they shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty." "Him that cometh unto me," Christ says, "I will in nowise cast out." Come into the King's household. Sit down at the King's table. Come in and take your apparel from the King's wardrobe, even the wedding garment of Christ's righteousness. Come in and inherit the King's wealth. Come in and cross in the King's ferryboat. But Not Ornamental. The nervous young man backed into the nearest chair. The fair girl glared at him. "You're a bird!" she cried, sarcastically. "Why—er—what?" he gasped. "You're on my hat!" she fairly screamed.—Philadelphia Press. Berlin is one of the most cosmopolitan of European cities. Though it is the capital of Germany, only 37 per cent of its inhabitants are Germans by birth. WE TELL YOU ALL ABOUT IT IN The BOOK OF THE New Century The finest Catalogue ever issued is yours on request. If interested in typewriters, you ought to have it. 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Pease, the first physician to settle in Menomonie, who was buried here Sunday, came to Menomonie in 1861, and resided here twenty years, when he moved to Cumberland, where he resided up to the time of his death. He was a conspicuous character in northwestern Wisconsin for over forty years. Kilbourn, Wis., Dec. 12.—Stewart Corning died of cancer of the stomach. He was a recent graduate of the Kilbourn high school and a student at Lawrence university, Appleton. He was one of the especially bright young men of Kilbourn, and the son of one of the most prominent men in this part of the state. The funeral will be Thursday afternoon and will be conducted by the high school alumni. Dodgeville, Wis., Dec. 12.—[Special.]—Isaac Elwood, an aged resident of this place, who took a prominent part in its affairs until failing health prevented, is dead. He had been blind and feeble for the past eight years. Merrill. Wis., Dec. 12.—[Special.]—Mrs. S. G. Bottum, wife of S. G. Bottum of the Anson-Hixon company, died here yesterday. The deceased was 25 years of age and was a graduate of the Merrill high school class of '94. Delavan. Wis., Dec. 12.—[Special.]—Thomas Ede, for thirty years a resident of this place and a prominent citizen, died this morning. Prairie du Sac, Wis., Dec. 12.—[Special.]—Florein Buehler, a prominent business man, died suddenly here today. He was one of the proprietors of the City Marble and Monument works. TO HAVE A CANNING FACTORY Janesville Business Men will Give a Bonus of $5000. Janesville, Wis., Dec. 12.—[Special.]—A Chicago canning company has offered to locate at Janesville if a bonus of $5000 is given and a suitable site provided. At a meeting of the Twilight club last evening the matter was laid before the business men and arrangements were made to comply with the conditions. The factory will give employment to 250 men and will furnish a ready market to farmers in this vicinity. MILITARY COMMISSIONS. New Second Lieutenants at Oshkosh and Tomah. Madison, Wis., Dec. 12.—[Special.]—Military commissions were issued today to Oscar M. Mick as second lieutenant of Co. K. Third regiment, W. N. G., Tomah, and to Gilbert A. Comstock as second lieutenant of Co. B, Third regiment, Oshkosh. Alleged Violation of Alien-Labor Law in Connection with New London Hired Girl Case. New London, Wis., Dec. 12.—[Special.]—The case of Charles Holz against John Hanson, on trial in this city for the recovery of judgment for $30 and one year's interest, may receive the attention of the government authorities. Holz sues Hanson for depriving him of the services of the former's hired girl by marrying her while she was under contract to work for plaintiff as domestic for a specified time. The contract was formed, it is claimed, by Holz sending transportation to the girl, who was at that time in the old country. This was done with the agreement that she come here and work for plaintiff until her wages should meet the expenses incurred for her transportation. Hanson wanted to marry her and promised to pay $30 for her release from the contract before it expired, it is alleged. His wish was realized and they were married, but Hanson, it is alleged, forgot his promise and has become defendant in a suit to recover the $30. Indications are that proceedings will be instituted charging the plaintiff with a violation of the alien-labor contract law. WISCONSIN COPPER. Members of University Geological Department will Explore Douglas County. Madison, Wis., Dec. 12.—[Special.] Dr. Buckley of the university geological department and Prof. U. S. Grant of Northwestern university left today for Superior, from which place they will start on a tour of investigation of the copper region of Douglas county. Careful tests are being made by geological experts on the wearing quality of Wisconsin stone for macadamizing roads. The experiments thus far have covered specimens taken from seventeen quarries in different parts of the state and the work will continue until the stone of the best quarries has been tried. In connection with this work data has been collected on the cost and durability of macadam roads. These experiments are of great practical value to the state and the result will be published in book form by the state geological survey. STOLE A WATCH. TOO. Evidence that Young Mosher, Who Assaulted Grover, is a Tough Character. La Crosse, Wis., Dec. 12.—[Special.]—Earl Mosher, the 17-year-old boy who so brutally assaulted Carl Grover, aged 72, near Galesville, evidently worked at the robber business with a vengeance while fleeing to La Crosse. It has just been learned that at Onalaska he entered the home of J. T. Jefferson and stole a favorite watch, bringing it to La Crosse where he traded it for another watch and $2. Watch No. 2 he then disposed of to Thomas Livingston of Midway. Grover is getting better and may live. Mosher is in jail at Whitehall yet in default of $2000 bail. He will plead guilty. STUDENTS HAVE THE GRIPPE. Disease Threatens to Become Epidemic at Madison. Madison, Wis., Dec. 12.—[Special.]—A large number of cases of the gripe has been reported among the students. The epidemic has started in with so many victims that it is feared that the unpleasant conditions of two years ago will be repeated. At that time a very large percentage of the students were taken ill within a very short period of time. At present there are seven cases reported in the Psi U fraternity house alone; four at the Beta chapter house and a number in the other chapter houses, while there are several cases reported in the students' quarters. FOUND MASTODON'S SKULL. The Finder Did Not Appreciate Its Scientific Value. Madison, Wis., Dec. 12.—[Special.]—The skull of a mastodon was found some time ago at Ferryville, Wis., and information concerning the discovery reached the university recently. Investigation was made thereupon, and it was found that a magnificent specimen of the skull of a mastodon had been unearthed, which would have been of great value had it not been broken. The finder had deliberately hammered the monstrous jawbones into pieces in order to get out the beautiful, large enameled teeth. These specimens are very rare and almost priceless to investigators. MUST WEAR LONG BEARDS. Epidemic of Barbers' Itch at Janesville, Wis. Janesville, Wis., Dec. 12.—Men with long, flowing beards are very numerous in Janesville just now on account of an epidemic of the barber's itch that has been raging here. Leading business men and day laborers have been stricken alike and there is no telling where the trouble will end. Several of the cases have been pronounced serious. The majority of the local physicians have been appealed to. In the meantime the hardware dealers are reaping a golden harvest in the sale of razors. PAYING THE INDIANS. Winnebagoes at Black River Falls Get $19.22 Each. Black River Falls, Wis., Dec. 12.—[Special.]—Special Disbursing Agent Jacobson of Wittenberg began paying the annual annuities to the Wisconsin Winnebago Indians today, the per capital amounting to $19.22, thus showing a decrease in the tribe since the enrollment of the previous year. The authorities are taking all possible precaution to prevent drunkenness during the payment, and though the town is full of Indians they have been very orderly for the first day. STRUCK BY A TRAIN. Plainfield Man Lands One Side of Track, His Horses on the Other. Plainfield, Wis., Dec. 12.—[Special.] While Arthur J. Aplin was driving a livery team across the Wisconsin Central track at this station, the buggy was struck by an incoming freight train from Portage. The buggy was smashed and Mr. Aplin was thrown on one side of the track and the horses on the other side. Mr. Aplin was injured somewhat, but not seriously. CUT ALL THEIR HARDWOOD. Oconto Company to Get 2,000,000 Feet Near Wausaukee. Wausaukee, Wis., Dec. 12.—[Special.] —The Oconto Lumber company sent out a large crew of men to cut all their hardwood timber four miles south of the town. All the logs will be shipped to Oconto by rail over the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railway. They will ship about 2,000,000 feet. BOY KILLS AN AGED MAN. Earl Mosher Slays Carl Grover Near Galesville, Wis. Was Riding in the Old Man's Wagon —Beat His Head to Jelly with a Stone. La Crosse, Wis., Dec. 10.—Earl Mosher, a boy 17 years old, assaulted and robbed Carl Grover, aged 72, near Galesville, Wis., last night, leaving the old man for dead. The boy rode with Grover in his wagon a short distance, when he hit the farmer several times with a stone, fracturing his skull, and threw him out and beat his head into a jelly and robbed him of about $25. The boy was arrested here and has confessed. Trempealeau, Wis., Dec. 10.—[Special.]—Earl Mosher, the boy who killed the aged farmer Glover, has been in numerous scrapes since last summer, including forgery and also the theft of a bicycle from a local dealer. STUDENTS WARNED BY THE FACULTY. Notice Is Given that the Class Troubles at Lawrence Universi- versity Must Cease. Appleton, Wis., Dec. 10.—[Special.]—The threatened class troubles at Lawrence university did not materialize this morning. The juniors decided not to wear their new class caps, and the sophomores failed to appear in the threatened burlesque headgear, so the freshmen refrained from molesting either. At the chapel exercises notice was very firmly and clearly given that the class jangles must stop and that any student in any way precipitating or aiding in any such disturbances as those of last week would be summarily dealt with by the faculty, expulsion being the penalty. This will probably put an end to further demonstrations, and the juniors will be allowed to wear their caps. PRISONERS DIG A LONG TUNNEL. Removed to a New Jail at Oshkosh Before They Could Complete Plan to Escape. Oshkosh, Wis., Dec. 10.—[Special.]—Traces of an attempt of prisoners to escape was found when a party of men were looking over the old jail this morning. The prisoners were removed to the new jail last week and it would appear that had they been given but a few hours' more time in the old one there would have been no tenants to remove to the new structure. A flagstone had been removed and the men had dug a tunnel twelve feet long to the outer foundation wall. It is estimated that two hours' uninterrupted work would have enabled the prisoners to escape. There are several desperate characters in the jail, among them two charged with highway robbery and two with burglary. REUNION, THEN DEATH. Sad Story of Mrs. Wilson, Who Went to Mexico to Join Her Husband. La Crosse, Wis., Dec. 10.—[Special.]—The happiness of Mrs. A. G. Wilson, who left this city some weeks ago to join her husband in Mexico after a separation of twenty-seven years, caused by his mysterious disappearance from home, was very shortlived. She went to her husband unannounced and a few days after her arrival he blew his head off with a shotgun, presumably because he was afraid of a bigamy case, as it was subsequently found that he had married another woman. In 1856 the couple were married in this city and lived happily up to about twenty-seven years ago, when Wilson disappeared from Rushford, Minn., where he was engaged as a bridge carpenter and foreman for one of the new railroads. Mrs. Wilson was with him and he left without any explanation further than that he was to go away on business for a few days, but would return at the end of a week at the very latest. Mrs. Wilson waited a week, a month, and finally gave up hopes of his return and moved to Pine Creek, where she bought a strip of land for a small sum and began to cultivate it. Later she took a little boy for a companion, and the two have managed so well that the property is now valuable. She finally arrived at the conclusion that her husband was dead. A few months ago Detective Coady of this city took up the case and after a short search located Wilson at Sabina, Mexico. He took much time to positively identify the man and then acquainted Mrs. Wilson with his discovery. They thought then that the man had never married again. Mrs. Wilson wished to go to him unannounced, and did so. It was three days before Thanksgiving that she arrived, and the postmaster of the place arranged the meeting. It was agreed that she was to have one-half of his property, for he had become a wealthy cattleman, and the deed was to have been handed over on Thanksgiving day. Early on that day Wilson took a double-barreled shotgun and went to the woods, saying he would bring back some game for the Thanksgiving dinner. Shortly afterward a report was heard, but it was thought that he was shooting at birds. Hours went by and he did not return, and finally, toward nightfall, he was found with his head blown off. It was afterwards found that after leaving the United States he fell in love with another woman and married her; about four years ago they had some misunderstanding and parted. Hence she was not there when wife No. 1 appeared. It is supposed that he feared prosecution and the consequent shame on account of the second marriage. He gave no reason for his strange disappearance from the first wife over a quarter of a century ago. Mrs. Wilson will return and spend the remainder of her life on her farm near La Crescent. SODALITY'S SILVER JUBILEE. Impressive Services at the Cathedral at Green Bay. Green Bay, Wis., Dec. 10.—[Special.] —Sunday was the twenty-fifth anniversary of the institution of the Young Ladies' sodality of St. Francis Xavier cathedral, and the silver jubilee was celebrated with impressive services at the cathedral during the day. Pontifical high mass was celebrated by Archbishop Katzer of Milwaukee, assisted by twenty-five priests. Bishop Messmer delivered the sermon in the evening. "Our Lady of Lourdes," a religious play, was presented in the Turner hall under the auspices of the sodality to an audience of nearly 1000 persons. WOMAN FALLS FROM A TRAIN. Mrs. Campbell of Chicago Meets Death While Returning Home from Ripon. Ripon, Wis., Dec. 11.—Mrs. James A. Campbell of Chicago fell from a North-Western train between here and Dartford yesterday afternoon and sustained injuries from which she died soon after the train reached this city. Mrs. Campbell was on her way home to Chicago with her husband and in passing from one car to another was pitched from the train by the swinging of the cars. The body is at an undertaking establishment in this city. LODGE'S FIRST DEATH IN TWENTY YEARS. The A. O. U. W. at Ableman Loses the Record of Being the Banner Lodge. Baraboo, Wis., Dec. 11.—[Special.]—By the death of Fred C. Schulte yesterday at Ableman, the A. O. U. W. lodge at that place has ceased to be the banner lodge because it had no death rate. The lodge was organized twenty years ago and up to the present time had never lost a member. Mr. Schulte was insured for $2000. He was about 60 years old and had resided in Sauk county for fifty-three years. LIFE SENTENCE FOR AN INDIAN. Henry Choska Sent to Prison for the Murder of a Fellow Indian -Goes to Stillwater. Madison, Wis., Dec. 11.—[Special.]—Henry Choska, convicted in the United States court of the murder of Niganigijig on the Lac du Flambeau Indian reservation, was sentenced by Judge Bunn this morning to imprisonment for life in the state prison at Stillwater, Minn. The court denied Attorney Aylward's motion to set aside the verdict on the ground of lack of jurisdiction and that Choska is not an Indian. Mr. Aylward says he will take an appeal to the United States Supreme court. WOODSMEN'S WAGES. No Dearth of Men This Year and the Scale will be Somewhat Lower. West Superior, Wis., Dec. 11.—[Special.]—Woodsmen in this vicinity will have to accept from $17 to $27 per month this winter or hunt for jobs elsewhere. That is the attitude now being assumed by some of the large lumbermen here. The season started out with wages as high as last year, running from $26 per month up, that figure being the lowest. It was supposed that men would not be much more numerous than a year ago, when they gave the loggers a great deal of trouble on account of jobs being so plentiful that they felt very independent. The loggers have come to realize now that in this "neck of the woods," at least, there is no dearth of men just now. One reason for this probably is the fact that early cold got things moving and the men prepared to start out for the winter. Then came the soft snap which suspended operations and left the men looking for jobs. There is still another reason. While the lumber market is still good, the cut will not be so large as last year. One lumberman estimates that in the head of the lakes district there will be 100,000,000 feet less logs felled than a year ago. Last year anything was good enough to cut up for timber when buyers were accepting anything for a board. Now they are getting more particular. They want lumber of a higher grade and the demand for culls will drop, and the price with it. In picking up and manufacturing such logs there is much waste, and that made considerable work for nothing. MEDALS FOR BADGER EXHIBITS State of Wisconsin Wins Honors at Paris Exposition. Madison, Wis., Dec. 11.—The state of Wisconsin was honored at the Paris exposition with two gold medals. Halford Erickson, state commissioner of labor and industrial statistics, has received an official notice that he has been awarded a gold medal for the excellence of the exhibit sent to the exposition by his bureau. This exhibit consisted of samples of the reports of the bureau, a synopsis of the present work of the bureau, and the plans for the future. The other gold medal was awarded to the state board of control, for the excellence of the exhibit sent by the state institutions under the management of the board. The exhibits consisted of views of the various institutions and samples of the handiwork of the inmates. Commissioner Erickson's medal is one of only two such awarded in the United States, except the gold medal awarded to the national bureau of labor. The state which shares the honor with Wisconsin is Massachusetts. PESHTIGO NATIONAL BANK. Has $25,000 Capital and will Open for Business January 15. Marinette, Wis., Dec. 11.—[Special.]—The Peshtigo National bank has been organized here with a paid-up capital of $25,000. William Ellis, Jr., was elected president and A. G. Fowler of Lake City, Minn., cashier. The directors are William Ellis, Jr., John Burke, Harry J. Brown, Warren J. Davis and A. G. Fowler. A new bank building is now in course of erection and will be completed and ready for business by January 15. CONSUL RETURNS TO POST. J. N. McCunn Leaves Green Bay for Dunfermline, Scotland. Green Bay, Wis., Dec. 11.—[Special.] —J. N. McCunn of this city, United States consul at Dunfermline, Scotland, after spending six weeks in Green Bay, started last night on his return to his post. He will spend several days in Washington, D. C., before sailing. He is booked to sail from New York on December 19 and expects to spend Christmas on the ocean. His leave of absence expires January 1. Most of his vacation was spent in Green Bay in looking after his business interests. FACTORY FOR CEDAR GROVE. Milwaukee People will Make Steel Ranges There. Sheboygan, Wis., Dec. 11.—[Special.] Cedar Grove has secured the new manufacturing plant and foundry to be located by Milwaukee parties. It will be a stock company with a paid-up capital of $20,000. Patent steel ranges and windmills will be manufactured. The site will occupy two acres and a force of sixty men will be employed to start with. It is expected everything will be in running order by next spring. Ingenious Advertising. A German firm of publishers a little while ago hit upon a novel and ingenious method of advertising, which has been attended by the happiest results. They caused to be inserted in most of the newspapers a notice to the effect that a certain nobleman of wealth and high position, desiring a wife, wanted one who resembled the heroine in the novel named. Thereupon every marriageable woman who saw the notice bought the book to see what the heroine was like, and the work had an immense sale. But it is said that the publishers had to engage the services of several additional clerks to deal with the deluge of feminine correspondents from the numberless women who claimed to be the "image" of the heroine.—London Chronicle. Tied Up When the muscles feel drawn and tied up and the flesh tender, that tension is Soreness and Stiffness from cold or over exercise. It lasts but a short time after St. Jacobs Oil is applied. The cure is prompt and sure. SWOLLEN FEET and hands usually indicate an advanced stage of Kidney disorder. It is one of the last special pleadings of nature to seek a remedy. Look out also for backache, scalding urine, dizziness, headache and brick-dust or other sediment in urine which has been allowed to stand. Heed these warnings before it is too late. $50 reward will be paid for a case of backache, nervousness, sleeplessness, weakness, loss of vitality, incipient kidney, bladder and urinary disorders, that cannot be cured by reward will be paid for a case of backache, nervousness, sleepiness, weakness, loss of vitality, incipient kidney, bladder and urinary disorders, that cannot be cured by The Great Scientific Discovery for Shattered Nerves and Thin, Impoverished Blood. WISCONSIN AND IOWA People Cured by Kid-ne-oids. In writing them please enclose stamped addressed envelope. Mrs. W. E. Lefever, 14 8th St., Fond-du-Lac, Wis. Mrs. Emma Hancock, 326 15th St., Dubuque. N. D. Nagle, 845 Iowa St., Dubuque. Mrs. A. Orth, 176 Francis St., Dubuque. Mrs. Thos. Ward, 11th St. & 3rd Ave., Fort Dodge, Elmer Davis, Blacksmith, Fort Dodge. J. F. Monk, Teacher, Fort Dodge. Mrs. Hulsizer, 327 13th St., South, Fort Dodge. John King, Carpenter, Independence. J. R. Mann, Engineer, Independence. Morrow's Kid-ne-oids are not pills, but Yellow Tablets, and sell at fifty cents a box at drug stores. JOHN MORROW & CO., SPRINGFIELD O. ABSOLUTE SECURITY. Genuine Carter's Little Liver Pills. Great Wood Very small and as easy to take as sugar. CARTER'S LITTLE IVER PILLS. FOR HEADACHE. FOR DIZZINESS. FOR BILIOUSNESS. FOR TORPID LIVER. FOR CONSTIPATION. FOR SALLOW SKIN. FOR THE COMPLEXION Price 25 Cents GENUINE MUST HAVE SIGNATURE. Purely Vegetable GRAIN-O THE PURE GRAIN COFFEE Grain-O is not a stimulant, like coffee. It is a tonic and its effects are permanent. A successful substitute for coffee, because it has the coffee flavor that everybody likes. Lots of coffee substitutes in the market, but only one food drink—Grain-O. All grocers: 15c. and 25c. IDEAS FOR PRESENTS. IDEAS FOR PRESENTS. Pearls Are in Favor with Those Who Can Afford to Give Them Away. In these days when the Christmas holidays, to say nothing of numerous weddings in "high life" are coming on apace, "what to give" is the burning question. If there be sufficient depth to the pocketbook, a visit to any of the first-class jewelers' shops ought to suggest an appropriate answer, for surely never before have the wares of the silversmith and the goldsmith been fashioned in more attractive form, for the delight of those who can afford to indulge in them. Popularity of Pearls. The head of one of the big jewelry stores says that there is nothing quite so popular for gifts as pearls, and Wisconsin pearls, first of all. "It has taken a long time to educate Western people up to a fine appreciation of pearls," he said the other day, fondly displaying some beautiful specimens. "It takes an educated, discriminating taste to appreciate the beauties of a pearl. Our largest sales heretofore have been in the East, but surely, though slowly, people in the West are learning, and this season we are selling more pearls than almost anything else." He set forth a tray of scarf pins, set with the beautiful gems. There were the pure white ones, and then there were the colored pearls, the tints ranging through lavender and pink and phosphorus green. The price for these averaged about $30 apiece. Then he went to a safe and brought forth a box of purple velvet, wherein, on a pure white bed, reposed a pair of large pink pearls, perfectly round and perfectly matched in size and color. "That pair of pearls has just been sold for $700," he said. "We had one of them in stock for over four years, before we succeeded in finding another to match it." For those who do not want to buy pearls, however, there are hosts of other things. In Silver. First on the list is the new Martele silver, which comes in tea sets of five pieces, at the pretty price of $1200. A smaller set of less elaborate design may be had for $500, and an after-dinner coffee set is but $200. The designs in this work are most artistic, and are wrought exquisitely in bold relief upon the gracefully-shaped vessels. Single pieces in this beautiful ware may also be had, at varying prices, and it bids fair to become the favorite as a choice for this season's gifts. So exquisite are the designs and colorings in the enamels prominently displayed that words fail in description. Some of the new brooches shown in the transparent enamel are sure to be hailed with delight by the girl so fortunate as to find one in her Christmas stocking. One shows a golden lily reposing on enamel perfectly representing clear blue water, with a tiny diamond dewdrop sparkling on the leaf. This pretty trifle may be had for $25 and is an exact counterpart of one shown at the Paris exposition. In the lovely Norwegian enamel now high in favor there are all manner of pretty things. Some tiny spoons have handles entirely of enamel, looking like beautiful bits of jeweled work, so brilliant are the colors. A tea strainer in this ware is of dark blue enamel, set around the edge with tiny dots of white, having the appearance of seed pearls. Novel Purses. Bead purses are among the novelties, wrought in conventionalized designs and in fanciful arabesques, and they range in price from $30 to $64. There are chate laine bags as well, all leather-lined and mounted in gold or silver. Blue designs on a white ground, gold on black, sprays of rosebuds on white, silver on white, black and lavender—there are no end of pretty combinations to choose from, if one have a desire for this fancy of the hour. Egyptian jewelry is the craze just now, with turquois matrix, in settings of dull gold, fashioned in exact imitation of the jewelry of Pharaoh's time. A necklace in dull gold, of Egyptian design, with a dozen pendant pear-shaped turquoises, is one of the novelties, and may be had for $100. Lorgnette chains in this same ancient style, set with diamonds, emeralds and garnets, are popular, and so are the lorgnettes of the same design. Brooches set with Egyptian scarabai cost from $25 to $100. The medallion jewelry, carved delicately in rose gold and green gold, is another new thing and comes in seal rings and fobs for men, as well as in many attractive shapes for women. The new spring bracelets of rose gold, set with diamonds and rubies, are trinkets that will be hailed with delight by girls with pretty round arms, and so will a pearl necklace with heart-shaped pendant set with tiny pearls. In the fine glass of Austria and Bohemia there are many new and graceful designs, and these beautiful wares are always dear to the heart of the bride or the housewife who delights in fine table furnishings. Gifts for Men. What to buy for the man's Christmas stocking is puzzling many a woman these days. If he smokes, she might get him one of the new cigar lighters, little silver alcohol lamps in the form of a sphere set in a rim of silver in such a way that they tip this way and that, the tiny wick supplying a light for cigar or pipe. These cost from $7 to $15. Or if you are sure that he is not at all sensitive, you might buy for him one of the sad-looking little donkeys, with a back full of bristles, which serve as a pen wiper. A silk hat held by a fat little demon serves for an ash receiver, and so does a bowl held by a merry-looking pig. An open valise, with a tiny darky inside, makes an acceptable paperweight. These novelties come in some kind of metal, and are not at all high-priced, costing from 75 cents to $1.50. Among other moderate-priced notions are comb cleaners of long strands of white horsehair, fixed in a silver bar that is fastened to a silver ring. These are $1 and will doubtless fill a long-felt want, as will the toothbrush holders of celluloid with silver filagree bands and a silver plate for the monogram costing $1.75. For the devotee to homeopathic medicines there is a pretty little leather case, with six small, silver-topped bottles, all for $2.75, and quite the prettiest things are the little Japanese dollies which beneath their gay silken skirts conceal a wee "cat basket." softly lined and padded for milady's jewels.—Milwaukee Evening Wisconsin. Mansfield's Orders Obeyed Nearly 100 people figured in Richard Mansfield's production of "Cyrano de Bergerac" last season, and, in order to prevent any outsider from getting behind the scenes, he provided each member of the company with a ticket not unlike those used by suburbanite commuters, which served as a means of admittance to the rear stage-entrance and a tally for the salary-list. In order to see if his orders were strictly enforced, Mansfield one evening presented himself at the door, but as he had no ticket, the inflexible guardian of the stage not only refused him admittance, but proceeded to use force to make him move on. When the joke had gone far enough, Mansfield wrenched himself free from the grasp of the burly custodian, and asked impressively: "Don't you know who I am?" "No," replied the guard, eyeing the speaker with distrust; "do you belong to this show?" "No," laughed Mansfield, as he started to go away; "but the show belongs to me." The next day the incorruptible guardian received a raise for carrying out his orders so unfinchingly. Capt. Kiekitup—"I see the English defeated the Boers again yesterday." Tackle M. Wright (absently)—"What was the score?" "Why do you call that speckled hen Macduff and the pig Barkis?" "Because Macduff lays on and Barkis is swillin'."—Life. He—"You climed ze Matterhorn? Za was a great foot." She—"Great feat, you mean, count." "Ah! Zen you climed him more as once!"—Punch. Mrs. Wildway (vivaciously)—"The late Mrs. Mellow was cremated, you know." Mrs. Stare (absent-mindedly)—"Oh! ah, yes; what did she wear?"—Boston Transcript. "Turn sideways," cried the cab driver from his perch to the stout lady struggling to get inside. "It's no use," exclaimed the stout one, "there ain't no sideways." She—"I hear you are to be congratulated." He—"Not at all, I assure you." She—"Then you are engaged to Miss Jones, after all"—Exchange. Mistress—"Polish this furniture so as you can see your face in it, Bridget." Bridget—"Shure, mum, there's no need to. Oh've got a lookin'-glass to see me face in, mum."—Pick-Me-Up. Miss Black—"I'm sure I hit something that time, Gwen!" Miss Gray—"Looks like it, dear. One of the beaters over there is having his leg bandaged up."—Pick-Me-Up. She (at football game, as player is carried off field) "Isn't it perfectly awful?" He—"I should say it is! Why, that fellow is no more unconscious than I am—he's playing to the gallery."—Brooklyn Life. "Haw-haw!" laughed the Chicago man, as he read the bill of fare. "You Easterners make some queer mistakes. You've got croquettes under the head of entrees. Out West croquette is a game."—Boston Courier. Bunko Bill—"Do you know that there are 76,000 people in this country?" Chimmie—"Dat's McCorker, de heavyweight. Me cousin used ter go ter school wid 'im." Billie—"Dat ain't nuthin'. Me brudder had t'ree front teet' knocked out by 'm onct."—Brooklyn Life. "Scribbler has had a story accepted at last." "Is it possible?" "Yes. He went home late last night with an awful yarn, and his wife believed it."—London Tit-Bits. Unkind Insinuation.—"Mr. Homewood proposed to me last night," said Miss Northside to her dearest girl friend, Miss Manchester. "He lost an election bet, I suppose," was the latter's comment.—Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. "Do I make myself plain?" asked the angular lecturer on "Women's Rights," stopping in the middle of her discourse. Enjoyment Worth the Punishment.—"Willie," said the elder sister at the juvenile party, "you'll be ill if you eat any more, and then you won't be able to go to school tomorrow." "Well," said Willie, with a sigh, "it's worth it."—Moonshine. Little Edith had been to church for the first time, and on her return her grandma asked her how she liked it. "I don't like the organ very well," was the reply. "Why not?" asked the old lady. "'Cause," answered Edith, "there wasn't any monkey with it." Wife—"I am sorry I bought one of those doormats with the word 'Welcome' on it." Husband—"Why so?" Wife—"Some stupid fellow mistook the meaning of the word and helped himself to it the first night."—Illustrated Bits. "I thought you said you never again would elect her president of your club," he suggested, after she had told him all about the result of the club election. "Well, we didn't intend to," she replied, "but when she broke down and cried we just couldn't help it."—The Smart Set. Friend—"Your wife has occasional fits of bad temper, I believe." Henpeck—"Oh, you've been misinformed." Friend—"Indeed?" Henpeck—"Yes; she has semi-occasional fits of good temper."—Philadelphia Press. Little 4-year-old Harry was not feeling well, and his father suggested that he might be taking the chickenpox, then prevalent. Harry went to bed laughing at the idea, but early next morning he came downstairs looking very serious, and said: "You're right, papa; it is the chickenpox, I found a feather in the bed." Boy—"Please, sir, may I have the afternoon off? My grandmother is to be buried." Employer—"This is the eighth grandmother you have buried since the football season opened." Boy—"I know it, sir. I come of a very old family, and my ancestors can't stand the excitement of the game. They're dying off very fast."—Tit-Bits. Tess—"Goodness! Talk about decollate 'gowns.' Did you ever see any so extreme as Mrs. Galley's?" Jess—"No; they are rather extreme." Tess—"I should think she'd catch her death of cold." Jess—"Oh, there's no danger. She's so completely wrapped up in her own conceit."—Philadelphia Press. Angry Politician—"Look here, I've a good mind to have you arrested for libel! What do you mean by picturing me as you have?" Cartoonist—"But the picture looks like you." Angry Politician—"I know it does! I know it does! But do I look like a man who likes to look like himself?"—Modern Society. OUTNUMBERED. The moon was full. So was the man. He leaned against the fence. The night policeman came along, And told him to get hence. The man frowned at the officer, Then moved—reluctantly. "All right!" says he, "There's (hic) two of (hic) you. Greene—"Suppose we ask this gentleman that is coming up the aisle." man that is coming up the aisle. Gray—"No; he's dressed too well, and he has too much the air of enterprise and activity. He is undoubtedly an underling on a small salary. We will tackle that slouchy-looking, woe-begone little man at the desk. He is sure to be the head of the establishment."—Boston Transcript. Strange Cause for Damage Suit. John Bunch, a pioneer citizen of Macon county, Missouri, is suing the town of La Plata for injuries alleged to have been received while in the calaboose at that place last August. He was arrested for some trivial cause, and found on being locked up that he had for cellmates an active and exceedingly indignant hive of bees. The insects regarded him as an intruder and stung him severely during his six hours of confinement. ENGLISHWOMEN WANT TO VOTE Movement on Foot Looking Toward General Female Suffrage. Our women are as determined as ever, if not more so, to have their rightful votes. In war times domestic reforms must wait, and among them women's suffrage. But there is no reason why the interval should not be utilized for consolation and preparation for resolute action when war is behind us and the time cries aloud for the repression of old scandals. This is what the women's suffrage people have been doing. Once upon a time the movement was single and solid. Then came the home-rule split, and the women, protesting their independence of parties, followed the men and split also. Two women's suffrage societies arose, both non-political, but one for Liberals, the other for Conservatives and Liberal Unionists. Time went by, home-rule rancor softened, and the ladies, ever eager for the truth, resolved that there really was no object in having two women's suffrage societies, and that henceforth there should be but one, as of old. Women have been stung by the retrograde exclusion of women from the new municipal councils—thanks to the House of Lords and the singular acquiescence of the Commons, after the yeoman service done by women on the vestries; their spirit has been stirred and they are in earnest. Meantime practice in voting for local bodies is training women for greater things.—London Daily Mail. HER HEART WAS TOUCHED. A South Dakota Mother and Her Little Girl Expresses Their Gratitude in an Open Letter. Folsom, Custer Co., South Dakota, Dec. 10.—(Special.)—Mrs. H. D. Hyde has given for publication a letter expressing her unbounded gratitude to Dodd's Kidney Pills for the double cure of herself and little daughter. Mrs. Hyde has been troubled with pains in her heart for over three years, and for a long time her little girl suffered from weak kidneys. The grateful lady does not seem able to find words strong enough to express her gratitude. She has written the following: I cannot say too much in praise of Dodd's Kidney Pills. They are the greatest kidney and heart medicine I ever used. I had been troubled for over three years with a severe pain in my heart, which entirely disappeared after I had taken a few doses of Dodd's Kidney Pills. I also gave them to my little girl, whose kidneys had been weak, and she commenced to improve from the very first dose. Dodd's Kidney Pills are certainly a wonderful medicine. I would be pleased to have this, my statement, published, as I feel it my duty to let others know just what the Pills will do for them. MRS. H. D. HYDE. Dodd's Kidney Pills always cure. 50c a box. All dealers. Pigeon Service in the French Army. Special attention has recently been paid in France to the use of carrier pigeons by the cavalry. The pigeons are carried in a basket attached to the rider's shoulders in the same way as a knapsack, says a foreign correspondent. Each bird is placed in a tube made of wicker and lined with hair, the elasticity of which deadens the effect of the jolting.. One, two or three such tubes can be carried in the basket. The birds are in a numbed condition when first taken out of the tubes, but they speedily recover unless they are left several days in the tubes, when the numbness ends in death. To prevent this a light form of folding cage is carried, in which the birds can rest and recover themselves during a halt and partake of nourishment. Twelve men belonging to the cavalry are sent every year to attend a course of instruction in the handling and treatment of pigeons at the military pigeon station at Vau-girard. Royal Badge of the Cheshires. The Cheshires bear the unique honor of being the only regiment in the British army who have the names of "Meanee, Scinde and Hyderabad" on their colors. They received from Sir Charles Napier, who commanded in this campaign, the highest praise for their courage and endurance, and were on their return accorded the honor of the whole garrison of Kurrachee, where they embarked for England, turning out to salute them. They wear the oak leaf as their badge in remembrance of having saved the life of George II. at Dettingen. They rallied round him under an oak tree when hard pressed by the French cavalry, and he gave them a sprig of oak as a badge.—London Sphere. Deafness Cannot be Cured by local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube is inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed, Deafness is the result, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars; free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 75c Democracy at West Point. A recent examination of the records of nearly 400 cadets for the past ten years shows that outside the sons of army officers, of which there were 65,149 were sons of farmers,115 sons of merchants, 100 sons of lawyers,37 sons of manufacturers,32 sons of mechanics,20 sons of insurance agents,19 sons of real estate agents,14 sons of clergymen,13 sons of editors, bankers and bookkeepers,10 of druggists,9 of drummers,8 of school teachers and 6 of dentists. Among the others almost every calling is represented by the fathers of one or more.—Cram's Magazine. Nasal Catarrh quickly yields to treatment by Ely's Cream Balm, which is agreeably aromatic. It is received through the nostrils, cleanses and heals the whole surface over which it diffuses itself. Druggists sell the 50c size; Trial size by mail, 10 cents. Test it and you are sure to continue the treatment. Announcement. To accommodate those who are partial to the use of atomizers in applying liquids into the nasal passages for catarrhal troubles, the proprietors prepare Cream Balm in liquid form, which will be known as Ely's Liquid Cream Balm. Price including the spraying tube is 75 cents. Druggists or by mail. The liquid form embodies the medicinal properties of the solid preparation. —Houses that are damp because of proximity to undrained land may be rendered more habitable by planting the laurel and the sunflower near them. —Cork and poplar are the lightest woods in the world and pomegranate one of the heaviest; it is more than one-third heavier than water. —The number of emigrants from Russia proper to Siberia has increased from 203,000 in 1896 to 225,000 last year. Your Storekeeper Can Sell You Carter's Ink or he can get it for you. Ask him. Try it. Carloads are sent annually to every state in the Union! Do you buy Carter's? The Real "Flowery Kingdom." Flowers bloom in the Sandwich Islands all the year round; therefore, it is believed that that country is more deserving than Japan of the title "Flowery Kingdom." Jell-O. the New Des sert. pleases all the family. Four flavors:— Lemon, Orange, Raspberry and Strawberry. At your grocers. 10 cts. Try it today. Chest Standard First. Men who, though slight, yet reach the chest standard, are preferred as recruits to those that are stout, the former being considered to possess the better frame. TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund the money if it fails to cure. E. W. Grove's signature is on each box. 25c. Creditors have caused the Cutting-Kaestner company's manufactory of leather novelties at Muskegon to close down. FITS Permanently Cured. No fits or nervousness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. Send for FREE $0.00 trial bottle and treatie. DR. R. H. KLINE, Ltd., 381 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa. Two potatoes on exhibition at Scio Or., weigh 7½ pounds and measure 15 and 12½ inches in length, respectively. Christmas Candies. To introduce our delicious Chocolates and Bon Bons we will sell all 40c and 60c Candies for 27c, or 5 lbs, for $1.00. The Philadelphia, 258 West Water St., Milwaukee, Wis. Specimens of exceedingly rich ore have been brought to Los Angeles, Cal., from the La Florida mines in Arizona. I do not believe Piso's Cure for Consumption has an equal for coughs and colds.—John F. Boyer, Trinity Springs, Ind., Feb. 15, 1900. Of the 16,000 islands scattered between Madagascar and India, only about 600 are at present inhabited. Each package of PUTNAM FADE- LESS DYE colors either Silk, Wool or Cotton perfectly at one boiling. —The Omaha Packing company will establish a $50,000 plant for the manufac- ture of salt near Detroit. Why doth the bus man improve each sting minute because he so oks the White Flag 5-cent cigar that has Havana in it. Mfg. by M. S. Meyer, Milwaukee. —Inoculations for the plague are made in Bombay at the rate of about 5000 a week. Fisher's Flavoring Extracts are Endorsed by pure food laws and the U. S. government for their PURITY and STRENGTH, A. J. Hilbert Co., Milwaukee. —High angle fire is that fired from guns at an elevation exceeding 15 degrees. E. W. BEEBE. M. . . Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat, 173 Wisconsin St. (opp. P. O.) Milwaukee, Ws. Office hours from 10 to 12 and 3 to 5. The explosive force of gun cotton is more than twice that of gunpowder. MINISTER Rev. Henry Langford entire tration by Dr. Green and Nerve MINISTER SAVED REV. HENRY LANGFORD. Rev. Henry Langford, the eminent Baptist caped utter nervous and physical prostration, years," he said, "I have been nervous and groan four or five years I became so nervous I could I was so nervous that I could not read my own awhile. "I was unable to hold my head steady in books and papers without embarrassment, on hands and arms. I was so nervous that I could system was wrecked. "I tried many remedies recommended by "One day I was in the store of R. S. Og 'You take two bottles of Dr. Greene's Nervur don't help you, you need not pay for it." "I took two bottles of this medicine and f bottles, and now I am wonderfully improved in vura blood and nerve remedy did it. I can be sick. Too much cannot be said in praise of the of other sufferers from nervous and prostratin For myself, I am thankful to God that I for remedy, and for what it has done for me." DR. GREENE'S OFFE Rev. Henry Langford, the eminent Baptist divine, of Weston, W. Va., has just escaped utter nervous and physical prostration. He is pastor of four churches. "For ten years," he said, "I have been nervous and growing worse all these years. During the last four or five years I became so nervous I could scarcely sign my name so it could be read. I was so nervous that I could not read my own sermon notes after they had been laid aside awhile. "I was unable to hold my head steady in the pulpit, nor could I hold or handle my books and papers without embarrassment, owing to the trembling and weakness of my hands and arms. I was so nervous that I could scarcely feed myself. In fact, my nervous system was wrecked. "I tried many remedies recommended by physicians, but found no permanent relief. "One day I was in the store of R. S. Ogden, at Sardis, W. Va., and he said to me: 'You take two bottles of Dr. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve remedy, and if you say it don't help you, you need not pay for it.'" "I took two bottles of this medicine and found so much relief that I bought two more bottles, and now I am wonderfully improved in health and in strength. Dr. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve remedy did it. I can heartily and truthfully recommend it to the sick. Too much cannot be said in praise of this splendid medicine. I say this for the good of other sufferers from nervous and prostrating diseases who can be cured by this remedy. For myself, I am thankful to God that I found Dr. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve remedy, and for what it has done for me." DR. GREENE'S OFFER OF FREE ADVICE. Dr. Greene, Nervura's discoverer, will give his counsel free to all who write or call upon him at his office, 35 West 14th Street, New York City. His advice is from his great skill and experience and will shorten the road to health. Thousands come to him and write to him constantly. Do not put off getting the right advice, if you are ill. FREE Our 160 page illustrated catalogue. FREE WINCHESTER SHOTGUNS and FACTORY LOADED SHOTGUN SHELLS the winning combination in the field or at the trap. All dealers sell them. WINCHESTER REPEATING ARMS CO. 180 WINCHESTER AVE., NEW HAVEN, CONN. Winchester Factory loaded shotgun shells, "NEWRIVAL," "LEADER," and "REPEATER." A trial will prove their superiority. Chest Standard First. YOU FEEL LIKE THIS? Pen Picture for Women. "I am so nervous, there is not a well inch in my whole body. I am so weak at my stomach and have indigestion horribly, and palpitation of the heart, and I am losing flesh. This headache and backache nearly kills me, and yesterday I nearly had hysterics; there is a weight in the lower part of my bowels bearing down all the time, and pains in my groins and thighs; I cannot sleep, walk, or sit, and I believe I am diseased all over; no one ever suffered as I do." This is a description of thousands of cases which come to Mrs. Pinkham's attention daily. An inflamed and ulcerated condition of the neck of the womb can produce all of these symp- J. toms, and no woman should allow herself to reach such a perfection of misery when there is absolutely no need of it. The subject of our portrait in this sketch, Mrs. Williams of Englishtown, N.J., has been entirely cured of such illness and misery by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and the guiding advice of Mrs. Pinkham of Lynn, Mass. No other medicine has such a record for absolute cures, and no other medicine is "just as good." Women who want a cure should insist upon getting Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound when they ask for it at a store. Anyway, write a letter to Mrs. Pinkham at Lynn, Mass., and tell her all your troubles. Her advice is free. WHEN WRITING TO ADVERTISERS please say you saw the Advertisement in this paper. DENSION Washington, D.C. Successfully Prosecutes Claims. Late Principal Examiner U.S. Pension Bureau 3 yrs in civil war, 15 adjudicating claims, atty since DO MRS. JOHN WILLIAMS. 2 sue : aN fox wapm Bixby—It’s the litile things that wor- ry us. Mrs, Bixby—is your conscience troubling you again?—Town Topics. Kitty—She isn’t pretty, but she knows a great deal. Tom—Does she know she isn’t pretty?—New York World. “Dobley has at last painted a picture that will keep the wolf from the door.” “That so? Painted it on the door, did he?’—Town Topics. “A thoroughbred gentleman puts on his clothes and then forgets them.” “That’s what I try to do: but my tailor won't let me.”—Chicago Record. Client—Has a man a legal right to open his wife’s letters? Attorney— Certainly you have the right—but will she allows it?—Unsere Geselschaft. “I’ve got to stop dictating letters for awhile now.” “Why?’ “Our type- writer girl has begun to crochet hersel? a pink fascinator.”—Chicago Record. Little Willie—Pa, what's a financier? Pa—A financier. my son, is a man who is capable of inducing other men to pile up a fortune for him.—Chicago News. “What profession does your friend follow?’ “That of the light-fingered gentry.” “You don’t mean it?” “Yes; he's a detective.”—Catholie Standard and Times, Waiter—Haven’t you forgotten some- thing, sir? Guest—By George! So ! have. I forgot to post that letter my wife gave me this morning.—New York Kyening Journal, The Exception: “When a thing is ended, it’s ended,” said I, “and that's all there is to it!’ My friend smiled. “You forget,” said he, “the revolution in the Philippines!’—Bazar. “Kuow anything about golf?’ “Not much. Why?” “What's a bunker, do you know?” “I suppose it’s one of those cranks that simply live and sleep on the links.”—-Philadelphia Press. Jackson—No, I never take the news- paper home. I’ve got a family of grown- up daughters, you know, Friend—Pa- pers too full of crime? Jackson—No; too full of bargain sales.—Tit-Bits. Mrs. Youngwife—I have at last dis- covered how to receive guests properly. Mr. Youngwife—? ? ? ? Mrs. Young- wife—I have everything ready and then look awfully surprised to see them.—-Life. He—Do you understand the language of flowers, dear? She—Ohb, yes, a little. “Do you know what those dozen roses { sent you last night mean, love?’ “Why, yes; about $2.75, dear.”—Yon- kers Statesman. “That newly rich Billson carves beau- tifully.” “Yes, he learned how to do that when they lived in a Harlem flat and he had to make one chicken go round with nine in the family.”—Cleve- land Plain Dealer. ‘Too Late: Stuttering Employer (writ- ing a letter)—B-b-b-boy, hand me a b-b- b-bi-bl-bl Otlice Boy—A_ blotter, sir, do you wish? Stuttering Employer —Never mind n-n-n-now; the Ink hag d-d-d-dried,—Bazar, | Mrs. Goodsoul—I think it's a perfect shame that the early settlers killed off | the Indians the way they did. Miss De Pretty—Indeed it is; just think what tovcly furs they used to sell for a few glass beads.—New York Weekly. Myer—Who is the man across the way with the gold medal on his coat? Gyer—Oh. that’s Powning. He holds the automobile record. Myer—Automo- ile record? Gyer—Yes; ran over thir- teen people In one afterncon.—Boston Journal. Encouraging: Mr. Prancer—I'm sorry ‘Um such an awkward dancer, Miss Perkins. Miss Perkins—Oh, you're ‘doing fairly well, Mr. Prancer. I’ve seen you jerk around lots worse than this with other girls.—Indianapolis Journal, “Yes, it’s true,” boasted Colonel Bragg, “i've been in innumerable en- gagements, and yet I never lost my head.” “And I've been in hundreds of them,” replied the Summer Girl, “and never lost my heart.”’—Philadel- phia Press, Family Pride: Miles—My grandfather celebrated the one hundredth anniver- sary of his birth one day last week. Giles—That’s nothing. If my great- grandfather were alive to-day he would be one hundred and fifty-two years old. —Chicago News. Professor (to student of surgery)— Please inform the class the names of bones forming the skull. Student—Ah —er—I do not at the present time re- member, but I know that I have them allin my head. (Uproar in class.)—In- dianapolis Journal. The Professor's Wife—The professor is in the laboratory conducting some chemical experiments. The professor expects to go down to posterity—— (Feom the laboratory: Br-r-r-r, Bang!) {he Visitor—I hope the professor -\Wesbingluod Star. Ee en eT ne Ral phe CMa Enemies THIRD AND PRAIRIE STREETS. F FUL STOCK DUCING SALE! . Great Leaders for Friday and Saturday # # #% #% # Blankets Cloaks Undervwvear, Shoes Men’s e view UNderWear Srecewas x Jackets, Capes, Waists 200° News fomen’s Se Astonishing values in Underwear. cerns 9 p 7 Around —— a dollar has Unloading our surplus stock. ge This is a chance cf a lifetime for those who wish to buy stylish garments PEO a TORE way: Here are : PEGS F : : four reliable items a cia) m Men’s Shirts and . 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Hartona does not have to be used all the time, as it straightens the hair and gives it fresh life and lustre, and the hair stays and grows naturally beautiful and straight after the use of Hartona. No hot irons necessary. No pasting the hair down with grease. Hartoya is positively harmless—one box can be used by every one in the family. Benefits and improves children’s hair just the same as adults. To meet the popular and ever-increasing demand for Hartona Hair-Grower and Straightener, we have placed it on sale in 25c. and 50c. sizes, in our special rouné, patent box. See that the word Hartona is on every box. : E Money positively refunded if you are not absolutely delighted with the Hartona remedies. Remember, we handle no fake goods, and you are positively protected by our $100.00 guarantee to any one preving otherwise. All our remedies are trade-marked, registered and copy- righted at United States Patent Office at Washington, D. C., in the years 1892 and 1900. 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Hartona No-Smell is a God-send to all persons suffering from disagreeable odors caused by perspiration of the feet, arm-pits, etc. Sent anywhere on receipt of price, 10 cents and 25 cents a package. Address all orders to HARTONA REMEDY CO., 909 E. Main St., Richmond, Va. SPECIAL GRAND OFFER. | Send us One Dollar, and mention this paper, ang we will send you three large boxes of Hartona Hair-Grower and Straightener, two _ large bottles of Hartona Face Wash, and one large box of Hartona No-Smell: Goods will be sent securely sealed from observation. Fes Write your name and post-office and express-office address very plainly. Money can be sent by post-office money order; or enclosed | in a registered letter, or by express. Address all Orders to . s s HARTONA REMEDY CO., 909 E. Main St., Richmond, Va. THRIFTY ART STUDENTS. How They Spend Their Summers ana Make Ends Meet. |. There are thousands of art students liv- ing in Paris, and for the most part they do not stay in the city during the sum- mer. They are a thrifty set, in spite of the many gay things said about them, and are very glad to get some money from their studios while they are away. They go to the south of France to sketch and paint pictures, or over to Holland or to Switzerland. The regular art stu- dents of Paris are off to the country by July, | Almost without exception their furnished studios are to rent. Informa- tion could be obtained at the American club or the Woman's ciub. It would be an exceedingly cozy way of living for a party of students to make their quarters in’ such ready-made sur- roundings. The greater number of_stu- dios of students are between the Lux- embourg, the Pantheon, Mount Par- nasse and the Hiffel Tower, only a short walking distance from the exposition grounds. The great body of tourists have to go to crowded hotels simply be cause they do not know how to find any thing better. The student may find these delightful rooms at little cost. When- ever it is possibie, Nes the price at once and in advance. It is the custom with the French to rnn bills for a long time, even with students, and they are not in the least hasty about asking for money; but when the bill does come in it may contain unexpected items, which. on ac- count of lapse of time, are difficult to eontradict.—Art Amateur. RUSSIA’S ADVANCE ON CHINA. Methods Employed by the Muscovites in Extending Their Boundary. For nearly thirty years the boundary between China and Russta remained as agreed upon in the treaties of 1858 and 1860, But already ihe commercial and political activity of the Russians was overstepping it. They had established themselves in large numbers in the cities of Chinese Mancheuria—in Wiakhta, Mukden, Kirin and Tsitsihar, the resi- dence of the Mandarin governor. The nayigation of the Ossuri and the Sungari rivers fell wholly into their hands. The steamships of the Amur company put Russia in rapid communication with Ja- pan_and San Francisco. “Scientific Missions” traversed China in all directions. At Pekin the Russian colony acquired a continually greater im- portance and the ambassador of the Czar wielded more influence at court than the representatives of any other European power. His open-handed liberality won him the favor of the courtiers, the man- darins and the generals. In all the sea and river ports the colonies of Russian merchants multiplied, and these seemed to live on better terms with the native population than the traders of other for- eign nations. _On the arrival of the Czarovitch, in 1891, he was honored with a series of royal entertainments.—Inter- national Monthly. The Western Field is Prolific. Deep excavations in nearly all parts of the Western section of this country have almost always resulted in producing some relic of antiquity in the form of bones and tusks of mammoths and other hnimals. _ Scientists, and antiquarians take much interest in these discoveries and believe that there remains in this country as big a field for scientific inves- tigation as can be found anywhere. The bones of the animals when brought to the air, however, in_ almost every case crumble into dust. It is the tusks that maintain their hardness.—Washington imes.