Wisconsin Weekly Advocate

WISCONSIN WEEKLY ADVOCATE DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF THE NEGRO RACE EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS. "We need to take our boys and girls from the streets and send them to school, and not let them grow up like weeds, and any man who expects to hold an appointment from me will have to teach THAT man of race difference." The rechant words quoted above was keynote of the address of Bishop Tyree, D. D., at the opening of the Mississippi conference of the A. Church. We would like to add to the following: If we had Bishop Tyree, who were fearful to express their honest opinion, if we all would take such teach ourselves, individually, and act in the future of the race might left in its own hands. that we cannot do better for rs at this, the opening of a new year and new century, than review briefly and quote largely from the reverend gentleman's address, for in our opinion it contains the root of the whole matter. After treating of elementary and college teaching, Bishop Tyree draws the distinction between instruction and education in a very masterly manner. He says that the Afro-American must be educated to "save his money, to treat all men right, to honor and respect women." He has no use for any man going over the country crying that he is having a hard time of it on account of his race or color. "I am as black as men get to be," he says, "and have never found any trouble on account of my color. Ignorance is the only thing we must fight. When a man insults you, put it down to ignorance, and pay no attention to it. Only one kind of man can insult me, and that is a gentleman, and no gentleman insults another." If all of us would only ponder deeply over these last five words, their beauty and truth will soon become apparent. Bishop Tyree points out the fact that it is quite possible to teach a youth to be manly without having recourse to physical force. The successful man, he says, is not the one with his fist always doubled up or with a big revolver handy in his hip pocket, but he who is willing to endure a little while raising himself. The following words from this admirable address deserve the honor of being placed among the best 1000 quotations from standard literature: "Teach the negro to attend to his business, for God knew that he was about when he made his large, that he might not walk in ford on paths; his skull thick that it keep out evil; his nose flat to prey from meddling with other peo business." If Bishop Tyree had in lifetime uttered no other words than these, his name deserves to go down to posterity. The reverend gentleman gives sage advice when he urges upon the race to rise above its environment in a humble way, without, we suppose, he means in any way being of the "Uriah Heep" order of human beings. His advice to those in his diocese is to teach race love rather than race hatred, in fact to put into effect the "golden rule." It is heartrending, he says, to see so many negro boys and girls loafing around the streets with their heads as empty as bass drums. We, in this last connection, would like if Bishop Tyree would pay a visit to our fair city of Milwaukee, where one very seldom sees negro children in the negro quarter about the street, but instead will find lots of the new generation improving and educating themselves by being exactly as other citizens are—attending school without compulsion, visiting the reading and reference room of the public library and such other things as tend towards the acquisition of knowledge. The Soudan a Good Field for Trade Following Lord Kitchener's policy of seeing everything for himself, the sirdar, Sir F. R. Wingate, has just left Omdurman, accompanied by a large staff of officials and engineers, on a tour of inspection of the provinces of the Blue Nile. It can safely be asserted that in two or three years at most the Soudan will have made such strides that merchants, manufacturers and mining prospectors will find a large field for their operations, and all nations will recognize the benefit to the world which accrued in the reconquest and the restoration to civilization by Britain of these immense regions. The work of cutting the Sudd on the upper Nile will shortly be resumed. Rivaled in Scotland. That famous illustration of procrastination, the statehouse in Albany, N. Y., has a close rival in Scotland. For twenty years the great house of Lord Bute, on the island of the same name, has been in the process of construction, and is not finished yet, the chapel remaining to be completed. When it is finished, however, Mount Stuart, as the place is to be called, will be one of the most gorgeous establishments in the world. The entrance hall alone, with its great marble columns and floor, walls and ceiling in marble of every variety and hue, will have cost $500,000.—Baltimore News. The world's stock of paper money is now $900,000,000, equal to the existing stock of gold coin. 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. 杂 杂 杂 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. Notice to Our Readers. We have removed our office from 209 Fifth street to more commodious premises at 327 Wells street, where we will be glad to see our patrons as of old. * * * Dr. Clifton A.-Johnson has begun suit against his wife, Marguerite E. Johnson, for divorce from the bonds of matrimony. The papers in the action were filed in the circuit court by Attorney Green December 28. The case will be tried in the January term. 宗 宗 Mrs. A. A. Gray, 325 Wells street, entertained her friends on New Year's eve, and as usual did so to the enjoyment of all those who were privileged to be her guests. ☆ ☆ ☆ Boys! let me bring my clothes back home. I'll never leave my happy home again for you-o-o.—Hackley. * * * Mr. George Winbush is making preparations to leave for the West in charge of a private car. In his absence he will be represented by Eugene Crowley. * * * During our New Year's calls we had the pleasure of visiting Mr. and Mrs. Richard Darrow, 38 Eighth street, who always make one welcome in their home. Their little daughter Mary is suffering at present from the usual childish troubles. ☆ ☆ ☆ Mr. Ben Shivers was shivering in the cold last week. We had a nice little remark concerning him, but on second thought relented and tried to let him down easy. Mr. Shivers' good nature is much appreciated by all with whom he comes in contact. Brilliant Social Function. One of the most successful entertainments ever given by the colored race in Milwaukee took place at Kaiser's hall on Thursday, the 27th ult. It was under the auspices of the Widow's Son lodge, A. F. and A. M., and the committee, consisting of S. A. Matthews, John Walls and J. B. Buford and R. Palmer, are to be congratulated on the success which attended their efforts. It is such gatherings as these that have a tendency to knit the race more closely together and this was clearly demonstrated on this occasion. Never before in the history of the race in Milwaukee have the people been more united and friendly. We have only one little remark to make to the management and that is that the press, however humble, expects an interchange of courtesies on occasions of the kind. The music, which was of a first-class order, was supplied by Prof. Doley. Altogether the gathering was a brilliant affair and the handsome and recherche costumes of the ladies was a subject of universal remark. While it would seem invidious to particularize we are forced to make mention of the taste displayed in their costumes by Mines. Darrow, Irvine Potter, Kemp, Liveless, Coleman and Hargrove. Among those present were visitors from La Crosse, Kenosha, Menasha, West Superior and Fond du Lac. Among the numerous town guests we noticed J. F. Adams, Frank Chamman, T. F. Richardson, George F. Beaul, Dr. C. A. Johnson, Manie A. Hooper, Mr. and Mrs. E. K. Blackwell, Mrs. W. M. Celeman, George Franklin, Lee Campbell of Chicago Prompter, Mrs. Cera and Miss Ida Nelson, F. Newton, John Wall, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Hawkins, Mrs. N. C. and the Misses R. B. and C. S. Black, Oshkosh: Minnie Williams, Lawser Horcock, F. B. Mead, Chicago; Belle Johnson, Anna Johnson, P. T. Kinnet, Thomas Watson, Mrs. Charles Coleman, Miss Lillian Davis, William M. Miller, Arthur Stevens, Carrie Harris, Philio Aldrich, Walker N. Hall, Mr. and Mrs. Whitman, Peyton Manning, A. E. Darrow, Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Keel, G. L. Vanbeest, Anna Blackwell, Mr. and Mrs. Cartwright, E. B. Shepard. In addition to the above list, which is necessarily incomplete, there was a full turn out of the railroad boys, who as usual were very popular with the ladies. We noticed among these Messrs. Shivers, Bizette, Barnes, Hackley, Winbush, Sheldon, Pierce, Lennox, Hardy, Wise and George. Salmon skin is about the best waterproof material that can be worn. The Eskimos use it for both boots and shirts. Should it become the fashion outside of the Arctic regions, however, the chances are that the expense would be too great for general utilization. STATES IN REBELLION. Ex-Gov. Brackett of Massachusetts Makes Sensational Speech Regarding Disfranchisement of Negroes. Boston, Mass., Dec. 29.—At the Middlesex club dinner today ex-Gov. Brackett made a remarkable speech in discussion of the subject of "election laws." He referred to the new apportionment of the states for national representatives and said that Congress cannot ignore the action of four Southern states in disfranchising colored citizens. He said that the representation from those states must be reduced and the states themselves in throwing out the colored vote, he maintained, were in rebellion against the United States. LYNCHED WEONG MAN. Deplorable Mistake is Made by Enraged Louisiana Mob. A New Orleans special says: I Lewis, the aged negro murderer of shal Richardson of Gulfport, Miss. not been caught, though bloodhe and posses are still after him. The negro Lewis, hung Thursday the mob, turns out to have been wh innocent of the crime. Further lynch is probable if the guilty fugitive caught. Prof. W. H. Dammond, C. E., former professor of mathematics at Pa Quinn college, and later occupying the same position at Wilberforce, is filling the lucrative and honorable position of assistant engineer in the Michigan Central railroad central office. No similar position is held by any colored man in the United States. It is the position once held by the brilliant F. B. Pelham, who died on the threshold of his career. B. Flinn, owner of a restaurant at Rankin, was convicted in court here Wednesday of a misdemeanor in refusing to serve a meal to J. Welford Holmes, the colored attorney. Holmes says he asked James Stevens for an order of ham and eggs. They told him it would cost 50 cents. An exclamation from Holmes raised the price to 75 cents. Holmes objected, telling the proprietor he would expect to pay $1 at a fashionable city hotel. Flinn then refused to serve him. Stevens corroborated Holmes as to the circumstances and stated he was told to charge high prices to colored people. Flinn said Holmes would have been served if he had paid 75 cents. He acknowledged giving instructions to raise prices on colored people and refusing to serve him because he was colored. Judge Evans refused to permit Flinn's attorney to go further, because of his client's admission, and instructed the jury to find Flinn guilty. They did so without leaving the box. Attorney F. W. Bennett moved for a new trial.—Pittsburg Independent. We cannot ignore the fact that there are thousands of youths here and elsewhere who have caught the spirit of the age and who are striving hard to achieve praiseworthy distinction for themselves and for those they represent. The future of the race looks bright indeed when one contemplates the doings and strivings of this class. The pity is that less is known and seen of them, while the lazy and vicious are apparently ever before us. It therefore devolves upon all who are interested in the cause of humanity to work harder than ever before for the uplifting of the thoughtless, the indolent and the ignorant. Mr. J. F. Cole, editor of the Rising Sun, that is published at Kansas City, Mo., has been appointed by the sheriff-elect, W. S. Pontius, as his stenographer and private secretary. We congratulate Mr. Cole on his appointment. He is well qualified for the position and will no doubt perform his duties in a manner that will reflect credit upon his race and party. The leading politicians are becoming cognizant of the fact that the press wields a great influence in political campaigns and they are beginning to reward them for their good work. Our lack of confidence in each other has hitherto been our embarrassment on business lines hence I hail with delight any evidence of the disappearance of this element of weakness. Arithmetic 3,600 Years Ago. Probably the oldest book for home lessons in arithmetic was recently unearthed in Egypt. The papyrus, which was in excellent condition, dates from about 1700 B. C.—that is, about 100 years before the time of Moses, or almost 3500 years ago. It proves that the Egyptians had a thorough knowledge of the elementary mathematics almost to the extent of our own. The papyrus has a long heading, "Direction How to Attain the Knowledge of All Dark Things," etc. Numerous examples show that their principal operations with entire units and fractions were made by means of addition and multiplication. Subtraction and divisions were not known in their present form, but correct results were obtained, nevertheless. Equations were also found in the papyrus.—Newcastle (Eng.) Chronicle. -A machine that washes and dries 8000 dishes an hour has been invented. and it is guaranteed that plates, cups, saucers and other dishes come out of the wash without a scratch. ANCE it has not yet reached the dimensions of an epidemic, smallpox is keeping the physicians and trained nurses polis on the jump. The patients are taken in ambulances to the wharf at Bellevue hospital, whence they by river steamers for isolation in the pesthouse on North Brother island. A NEW YEAR PROPOSAL. "What resolutions have I vowed to keep the coming year?" she, she beard, me, matte, fair, and straightway you shall hear: I've pledged myself to choose one girl from out the throng so gay. And love her with an honest love forever and for aye. "I'll work for her with brain and brawn, with all my might and main. Until I've won her everything that honesty can gain: I'll fill her life with all that's good till life itself is done— And while we train our minds and hearts we'll not neglect the fun. "Now tell me, won't you, maiden fair, what you have vowed to do— For I've laid bare my inmost soul to no one but to you?" "I've made no pledges," she replied in so demure a tone. "But, if you don't object, I'll try to help you keep your own!" - W. D. Vincent in Leslie's Monthly. LUCK IN ODD NUMBERS. The sportsmen were busy. The partridges winged out of the turnips three or four at a time, then by dozens, then in a whirling mass, sailing over the hedge. A brown-haired girl was counting the victims that had fallen to her gun. Just then Reginald Marby, Esq., sauntered up and lisped the usual inquiry. "Aw, how much did you get, Miss Veriton? Rather warm shop at the corner, wasn't it?" "Nothink warm about it, I assure you. Mr. Marby. I hope you did well. You were making noise enough." "Aw, very little. I'm off color this mornin, and—Jove, there's the guv'nor. Excuse me a moment, Miss Veriton. Aw, wait and let me introduce you." He swung off, but the girl did not wait. A young fellow was sitting lazily upon a fence some twenty yards away, his gun across his knees. He sprang down as she approached, and they set off together, laughing and talking. The corpulent general greeted his elongated son and heir with no great amount of effusion. "Who's that girl you were talking to just now?" he demanded. "Nobody much," drawled Reginald. "Miss Blanche Veriton. Soap or butter, or something of the kind. Awfully common, y'know." The general laid his hand on his son's shoulder. "Look here, Reggie," he said, gruffly, "don't let that youngster make all the running. You've get to net that girl. She's worth three-quarters of a million. Things are going bad in the world of stocks and shares." Reginald's chin dropped, and he gazed blankly at his sire. "But guy'nor—" he gasped. "Clear off," growled the general. "Go in and win, or I'll stop your allowance." So Reginald slouched off with shaking knees, for he had a wholesome dread of his father. He was too late, however, to endeavor to make himself agreeable to Miss Veriton. She was already seated at the lunch table, and his blood boiled when he saw her chatting gaily with the upstart pauper who had coached him at Oxford—Harry Bemrose. Lunch over, he determined to make a bold stroke. The next drive was to take place at the Long Common, two miles away, and his dog cart was waiting. He waylaid Miss Veriton, and thrust himself before her. "Aw," he began, "you're not going to wait surely? Awfully pleased to drive you. I've got a new mare that's a regular flier." "I'm very sorry, Mr. Marby," she said, "but I've promised to drive with Mr. Bemrose." She caught Bemrose's extended hand, jumped up beside him, and they were off. Reginald stared blankly after them. "The beast," he growled, as he turned the mare's head and drove back to the hall to interview his sire once more. "You can do what you like, guv'nor," he burst out, "but you don't get me to tackle that girl. I'm frightened of her." The general did not look up. His pen was racing across the paper at express speed. At last, after inserting the letter in an envelope and sealing it, he produced his check-book and filled a check. "Here," he growled, tossing the paper over his shoulder, "that's a quarter's allowance. You can go to Klondike if you like now, for that's all you'll get." "Aw—but I say, guv'nor," said Reginald, "this is a bit too rough. Miss Veriton—" "Get out of this," roared the general. "I'm going to marry Miss Veriton myself." It was a week later when Reginald nerved himself for the ordeal. Young Bemrose had been notified that he had taken the first place in the recent examination for the Indian civil service, and was away for London. Reginald proposed, and was declined with thanks. "You see, Mr. Marby," said Miss Veriton, with characteristic promptness, "I never change my plans. I decided a long time ago to leave England for a few years, and were I to marry you it would upset everything. Besides, the soap trade is so terribly unaristocratic." Reginald fled, and Miss Veriton crossed to the piano. Five minutes later, the door opened and the general appeared. Then he proposed also. His answer was also abrupt and decisive, and as he departed the notes from a song from "The Goisha" drifted after him. "Thank goodness," said the girl fervently, as she shut the piano, "there are no more in the family. I appear to be in demand today. Poor boy, I must write to him." On the following morning Harry Bemrose received the following: Parkhurst Hall, Yorks. My Dear Harry-I don't know what you will think of me when you read this. I can't call my life my own. I have had two offers of marriage this very day, and am in terror of my life. They say there's luck in odd numbers, so make the number odd like a good boy. I may have only fancied it, but I have often thought that it was only my wretched money and your own pride that kept you from speaking before. Besides, I should like to go to India immensely. Ever yours, Blanche Veriton. And Bemrose made the number an odd one.—Penny Pictoral Magazine. Waste Power Saved in Blast Furnaces The successive steps in utilizing blast furnace gases may thus be summarized: Thirty years ago they were considered of no value, and were often burnt off at the mouth of the furnaces. They were next partially used by retaining a portion to heat the air for the blast and burning a larger proportion under boilers to generate steam for driving the blowing engines. No attempt was made to burn the gases economically, and a considerable quantity was wasted. In 1894 attempts were made in Scotland, at Wishaw, near Glasgow: at Seraing, in Belgium, and at Horde, in Germany, to explode them in an engine cylinder, in the same way as producer gas, instead of under boilers. Complete success attended these pioneer efforts. It was found that when thus utilized the quantity required was only one-fifth of that needed when burnt under the old system, and this discovery has been very fruitful of good results, especially in Germany and Belgium.—Engineering Magazine. English Races Lead in Politics If we except the provinces of the Netherlands, the Swiss cantons and such tiny city-states as Monaco and San Marino, which retain their ancient institutions, there is not a nation on earth, making any pretense to freedom and civilization, which has not a constitution in great measure copied, within the present century, either from England or from the United States. Thus, whether willingly or not, does the civilized world confess the primacy of the English race in matters political.—Atlantic Monthly. RAIN-MEASURING MACHINES. Interesting News Which Raindrop Furnish for British Scientists. The British Rainfall association, as it now stands, is the result of half a century's unremitting labor. From something over 100 at the start, it has now more than 3000 reporting stations, which extend over all parts of the British isles. At each station is an agent of the association, armed with a rain gauge, making observations to be eventually dispatched to headquarters for embodiment in the annual report. On December 31 of each year printed forms are sent to all the agents, who are supposed to fill them in with the particulars of their observations for the entire twelve months. But new as to how the rain is measured. It is done by means of a gauge. There are various kinds of gauges, costing from about 12s6d up to several pounds. The Snowdon gauge is considered a very trustworthy apparatus. It consists of a long circular metal-galvanized iron or copper-reservoir, which is fixed into the ground by means of four wooden spiked stakes. It contains a glass bottle and a metal funnel. At the side of it, also fixed into the ground by means of a spiked stake, is a graduate glass, which will register from a hundredth of an inch to half an inch. The rain is caught in the funnel, which fits flush with the reservoir, and passes into the glass bottle. From this it is poured into the graduation glass and so measured. At Camden square (the headquarters of the association) there is a very elaborate and ingenious gauge, which measures and registers automatically. The rain is caught in a funnel and passes into a metal cup, which is connected with an index. As the cup fills it presses upon the index, which marks a line on a paper form wound around a cylinder. When the cup is full it turns over and empties its contents into a larger receptacle and returns to its former position, the index having registered exactly one inch and shifted its position ready to repeat the operation. At the same time a dial on the outside of the gauge also marks the working of the index. The former can be read at night by means of a lantern which is attached at the side. So that the depth of a rainfall may be ascertained at once by merely glancing at the dial fixed to the gauge. Another remarkably ingenious contrivance to be found at Camden square, and which took years to perfect, is an elaborate apparatus which will simultaneously measure rain, snow and hail and register them. It will also register thunder, lightning and the rate of the wind. It gives the duration of thunderclaps and the number of lightning flashes. It is altogether a most wonderful invention. The average rainfall of a locality is very useful knowledge to a farmer who contemplates purchasing land in a district he is unacquainted with.—London Express. Went Around the Spot. Before Bismarck reconstructed the map of Europe, and made a united Germany, a dozen little principalities used to annoy travelers by stopping them at their frontiers until they had satisfied the customhouse demands. A Yankee once had his carriage stopped at the frontier of a petty prince's country. The Herr Ober, controleur at the customhouse, came forward, and, much to his indignation, was received in a nonchalant way. The Yankee was ungentlemanly enough not to get out of his carriage or even to take off his hat. The Herr Ober sharply demanded the key of the tourist's trunks, which his subordinate began handling roughly. "Here, hands off," shouted the Yankee. "I didn't come from the United States of America to be controlled by you. Put those trunks back. I'll not go through you at all. I'll turn back. I'm in no hurry and don't care for losing a day. You're no country; you're only a spot. I'll go around you." And he did.—London King. IGNATIUS DONNELLY DEAD Author of Baconian Cipher Passes Away at Minneapolis. ILL: BUT A FEW HOURS. Was Elected Lieutenant Governor and Served Three Terms in Congress. Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. 2.—Ignatius Donnelly, politician and author, aged 70, died at 12:03 this morning. He was taken suddenly ill last night while visiting at the home of his father-in-law, Barton Hanson. 3022 Twenty-eighth avenue south. From the first Mr. Donnelly sank steadily and soon became unconscious. Dr. Murphy was summoned and when he arrived the sick man was still unconscious. The doctor pronounced it heart failure and stated early in the evening that there was little chance of the patient's recovery. Mr. Donnelly passed away surrounded by a number of his relatives. From the first they had understood that he could not live, as he was well advanced in years. He died without regaining consciousness. Ignatius Donnelly was born in Philadelphia on November 3, 1831. He was educated in the public schools and was graduated in 1849 from the Central high school of that city. He then studied law for three years in the office of Benjamin Harris Brewster, who was afterward attorney general of the United States, and was admitted to the bar in 1852. He was married in 1855. In the same year he was nominated for the Legislature by the Democrats, but declined the nomination. He emigrated in the spring of 1856 to Minnesota, then a new territory, where he resumed the practice of law in the town of Hastings in partnership with Archibald M. Hayes. In 1857 he was THE LATE IGNATIUS DONNELLY. nominated for state senator by the Republicans of Dakota county, but was defeated by a large majority, the county and state being Democratic. In 1858 he was nominated again for the same office and was defeated by only twelve majority. Elected Lieutenant-Governor. In 1859 he was nominated by the Republicans for lieutenant-governor and was elected after a canvass in which he made sixty speeches and traveled long distances by private conveyance, there being at that time no railroads in the state. In 1861 he was re-elected lieutenant-governor and in 1862 was sent to Congress by the Republicans of the Second congressional district, embracing a territory nearly as large as all New England. In that year there was a Sioux Indian outbreak and massacre in which several hundred settlers were murdered. Mr. Donnelly accompanied the troops sent to the relief of Fort Ridgley, where thousands of men, women and children were besieged by the Indians, and wrote a report to the governor of the state giving a history of the outbreak. This later was published in the official report of the commissioner of Indian affairs. Mr. Donnelly was re-elected to Congress in 1864 and again in 1866. He was an abolitionist and an earnest supporter of Mr. Lincoln's administration during the war, doing effective work by his speeches in Minnesota and elsewhere in behalf of the Indians. He nevertheless advocated the most lenient treatment of the people of the South after the war was over and made forcible speeches in Congress in behalf of liberal appropriations to feed the starving inhabitants of the conquered region. Wrote Notable Books. In 1873 Mr. Donnelly was elected to the state Senate and was re-elected continuously until 1878. In 1886 he was elected a member of the House for two years. In 1882 he published his first literary work, "Atlantis, the Antediluvian World," a book which passed through twenty-one editions in America and several in England, and was translated for publication in France. In this work he attempted to prove the truth of the theory as to the existence of the ancient empire of Atlantic upon a great island in the Atlantic ocean opposite the Mount of Mediterranean. Mr. Donnelly claims that the destruction of Atlantis is the fact that lies behind all the flood legends of mankind. In 1888 he put forth that one of his works which has attracted most attention, "The Great Cryptogram, or Francis Bacon's Cipher in the Shakespeare Plays." In this book he claimed to have discovered an arithmetical method cipher in the great folio of 1623 depending upon the paging of that work. Prof. Colbert of Chicago and George Parker Bidden of London affirmed the reality of the discovery. STOLE WIFE'S AFFECTIONS. Actor Brings Suit for $50,000 Against Michigan Man. Spokane, Wash., Jan. 2.—Frank Hodges, an actor, has begun suit against Ed E. Carpenter, a mining man of Republic, Mich., asking $50,000 for alienation of his wife's affections. Hodges claims that the woman eloped with Carpenter from a town in Michigan three years ago, taking with him Hodges' 11-year-old child and that he has been trying to trace them ever since. IRONWORKERS STRIKE One Thousand Men in Pittsburg Demand an Increase of Pay. Pittsburg, Pa., Jan. 2.—One thousand structural ironworkers struck today for an advance of 6 cents per hour in wages and a nine-hour day. Not a single man is working and a number of important contracts are tied up. Work on the new union station is entirely suspended. This afternoon a committee of strikers left for New York to confer with President Roberts of the American Bridge company. Abductor Feigns Insanity. Houghton, Mich., Jan. 2.—It is said that William Sullivan, with whom 6-year-old Raymond Thiery was found Sunday, is shamming insanity. It was thought the boy had been kidnapped, but Sullivan says he only picked the child up by the roadside and was taking him to a town. Sullivan is in jail and will be tried on the charge of abduction. BIG PLANT DESTROYED. Burning of the Bellaire Stamping Company's Factory at Harvey, Ill. Chicago, Ill., Dec. 31.—Fire destroyed the Bellaire Stamping company's plant at Harvey, Ill., early today, causing a loss of $400,000 and throwing 700 men, bays and girls out of employment. Insurance to the value of $375,000 was carried on the plant. A high wind carried great quantities of burning embers about the village, threatening its destruction. Frantic citizens, half clad in many instances, although the air was wintry, formed themselves into bucket brigades. In this way, and with the aid of garden hose, the fire was confined to the factory. The five companies which comprise the Harvey fire department responded to the alarm sent in by the factory watchman. Aid was asked of Blue Island and other villages near by, but these requests were countermanded when it was seen that the factory was doomed, but that the rest of the town was safe. The factory building was four stories, brick structure, 200 by 400 feet. The depot and freight-houses of the Chicago & Grand Trunk Railroad company caught fire several times, but the flames were quickly extinguished. Many barns and sheds caught fire, but were saved. Household property was bundled into the streets and for hours women and children, shivering in the snow, stood guard over it, while the male population worked to prevent the spread of the flames. At 3:30 a. m. the water supply gave out. To add to the excitement several tanks, two of them filled with naphtha, exploded. Fragments of iron flew almost everywhere, but no one was seriously injured. When the water ceased to come the firemen left the factory, which, after an hour's progress of the flames, was still burning fiercely to its fate, and turned their attention to surrounding property. At 6 a. m. the plant was a smouldering mass of ruins, but adjacent buildings were unharmed. Waterloo, Ia., Dec. 31.—Fire at 1 o'clock this morning destroyed nine business buildings at Fairbanks. The town had no apparatus and its entire destruction was prevented only by tearing down several buildings. C. M. Eckelbert of Waterloo and John McCunnis of Fairbanks were perhaps fatally injured. Loss, $15,000. Pittsburg, Pa., Dec. 31.—The Penn Petroleum company's plant at Coroapolis, Pa., was almost completely destroyed by fire today. Loss, $100,000. Williamson, W. Va., Dec. 31.—Almost the entire business portion of this town, including two squares, was wiped out by fire Sunday. The fire burned five hours and caused a loss estimated at $75,000. All structures consumed were of frame and uninsured. Grand Rapids, Mich., Dec. 31.—The entire plant of the Grand Rapids Bookcase company was destroyed by fire today, together with the greater part of the season's output. The loss is about $50,000. The Fred Macey company lost about $5000 worth of goods which were stored in the factory. Several foremen had narrow escapes from death, being surrounded by flames at one time. St. Petersburg, Dec. 31.—A fire at Baku has destroyed twenty-five naphtha springs and three warehouses. ALL GOT SAFELY OUT. Five Hundred Miners Were at Work When a Heavy Explosion of Gas Occurs. Wilkesbarre, Pa., Dec. 31.—A heavy explosion of gas occurred in the Hollenback mine of the Lehigh & Wilkesbarre Coal company today. It set fire to the woodwork was quickly extinguished. Five hundred men were at work at the time. All succeeded in getting out safely with the exception of two, who were badly burned. They are Ignatz Craary, miner, burned internally, and a laborer, name not given, badly burned. Both probably will die. Pittsburg, Pa., Dec. 31.—By the explosion of a kerosene lamp at 1203 Lake street, Allegheny, today, Lily Brown, aged 22 years, was burned to death and her mother fatally injured. DEEP SNOW IN WEST. Fears Entertained for Safety of Several Hundred Miners on Mount Blanc. Walsenburg, Col., Dec. 31.—It has been storming at intervals in this section for several days and the roads leading to the summit of Mount Blanc are impassable. Fears had been entertained for the safety of the hundred or more miners on the top of the mountain who had not yet laid in their winter's supply of provisions. People living at the base of the mountain say, however, that if they are in danger of scant food supply, some of them would have cut their way through before this and called upon neighboring camps for help. Cheyenne, Wyo., Dec. 31.—A general snowstorm has prevailed over the eastern and central sections of Wyoming during the past two days. On Powder River and Salt Creek the snow is very deep. Much difficulty in feeding stock is experienced, although no serious damage is reported as yet. WANTED IN CHICAGO. D'Essauer Says He will Not Go Back Without a Fight. New Orleans, La., Dec. 31.—The following dispatch was received from Chief of Police Kipley of Chicago: "Hold George D'Essauer, will send officer and man to identify him. He is wanted here badly." D'Essauer was greatly surprised and said he would not go back without a fight. Suicide by Asphyxiation. New York, Dec. 31.—A man and woman who went to Courtney's hotel, Brooklyn, Saturday night, were found dead in bed today. Two unlighted gas burners were turned on full. —Prof. C. W. Stiles of the agricultural department says that only the mosquito of the genus Anopheles carries the malaria germs. This species, the professor continues, can readily be distinguished from the common mosquito by its voice. The dangerous mosquito gives forth a deep, strong buzz, quite different from the gentler hum of the harmless mosquito. The Sole Exception.—The New Lodger—"I must look for another room, Mrs. Chamberhall. The noise in the neighborhood last night was simply unbearable! Three times was I awakened by the shrieks of some person in agony." Mrs. Chamberhall—"Oh, please do not be hasty. It is but one night in the week when the painless dentist keeps open."—Judge Through weary years he chased Success, And never seemed to gain an inch. Till, one day, his rich uncle died. Then on Success he had a cinch. —Brooklyn Life. —There are eight submarine cables of over 2000 miles in length. MME. PATTI'S CASTLE SAID TO BE SOLD. London Publisher Pays $1,250,000 for Craig y Nos, Summer Home of the Singer. London, Jan. 2.—Craig y Nos, Mme. Adelina Patti's beautiful castle in Wales, is said to have been sold to Sir George Newnes, the London publisher. The price paid has not yet been made public, but is said to be in the neighborhood of £250,000. Madame Adelina Patti (Baroness Rolf Cederstrom) confirms the report. In response to the request of the Associated press for her reason in taking this action, Mme. Patti has sent a telegram as follows: "Wishing to spend the summer months in Sweden, Crag-y-Nos, my summer resort till now, would become of very little use to me." ASSASSIN BEHEADED. Chinese Soldier Who Slew Von Ketteler is Publicly Executed in Pekin. Pekin, Jan. 2.—The murderer of Baron von Ketteler, the German minister, was beheaded yesterday in Hataman street, the principal thoroughfare of the capital. The execution, which was under German supervision, took place at the busiest hour of the day. A great crowd was present. German troops kept order. The murderer was made to kneel on his hands and knees in the middle of the street, and he was kept in this position for half an hour awaiting the arrival of German officers who wanted to see the execution. In the meantime the executioner, sword in hand, and his assistant, stood beside the condemned man. They each wore bloody clothes. The pair had just officiated at eight other killings and did not have time to wash. The man who was so shortly to die was cheerful during the period of waiting. He laughed heartily several times. He said that his name was an honored one and that he was an honest man. Two Blows Required. Upon the arrival of the German officers the assistant executioner made a double warp of twine around the man's neck, crossing the string under his chin. He then pulled on the twine and the man's cue, stretching his neck to the utmost. Meantime the executioner put a knee between the man's shoulder blades and his hands on his head. Then he jumped hard, shoving the culprit's face into the dust, after which he stepped back, took his sword and chopped his head off. Two blows were required to sever the head, which was subsequently placed in a cage and hung over the street. The murderer was a soldier. At the outbreak of the Boxer troubles he was stationed at Hatman street with orders to shoot any foreigner who tried to pass. The killing of Baron von Ketteler was done in obedience to these orders. It is admitted by foreigners, including Dr. Mumm von Schwartzenstein, the sent German minister, that the maid not have been executed in a E country. A Satisfactory Settlement. San Francisco, Cal., Jan. 2.—John Goodnow, United States consul general to China, with residence at Shanghai, arrived in this city on the City of Pekin. After a brief visit to Washington he will spend his sixty-day leave of absence at his old home in Minnesota. In speaking of the probable outcome of the Chinese troubles the consul general said: "I believe a satisfactory settlement will be reached along the lines laid down by the President. Those Chinese who are working for the integrity of their country are friendly toward the United States and are ready to assist in a prompt and amicable settlement. The uprising was by no means a popular move with the great mass of the peaceable Chinese population. From the very first they deplored the acts of their fellow countrymen." In regard to the missionaries and their position in China, Mr. Goodnow thinks there is still a great field for successful work and their presence in the Orient should be encouraged. He, however, is of the opinion that it would not be best to send missionaries outside the treaty ports until peace has been proclaimed. Mr. Goodnow has a good word for the American troops which were sent to China, and he also praises the work of a little band of women sent by a philanthropic committee of New York people, of which Mrs. Whitelaw Reid was chaijaman, to provide the sick and needy with hospital supplies and comforts. SECESSION IN CANADA. Principal Features of a Proposed Constitution and Declaration of Independence. Montreal, Jan. 2.—For some time past there has been some discussion about the doings of an alleged "Independence" club in Montreal, but the managers of the new movement did not appear to judge the time opportune for appealing to the public. A good deal of interest was added to the movement by the fact that during the Paris exposition a large number of young men appeared in Paris wearing "Independence of Canada" buttons, and an attempt was made to connect J. I. Tarte and J. X. Perrault, the Canadian commissioners, with the movement because a number of independent buttons were among the spoils recovered from men who had burglarized Mr. Perrault's house. Mr. Perrault explained, however, that these buttons were about fifteen years old and he had changed his views since. Now the Canadian Independence league has issued its platform and constitution, but has declined to publish its list of officers and members. The constitution consists of eighteen clauses, of which the first eight are: 1. Dissolution of the colonial relation and declaration of Independence. 2. New federation to be known as United States of Canada. ed States of Canada. 3. Provinces to become states with sovereign power. 4. Federal authority to have only such powers as shall be specially delegated to it by sovereign states. 5. No power shall be delegated to the federal authority except with the assent of the majority of delegates of each of the sovereign states convened in a national assembly. 6. Creation of a state militia under command of a federal officer. 7. Universal suffrage. 8. The great highways and services (railways, canals, telegraphs, etc.) to be public property. Others deal with changes in laws along socialist lines TWO FISHERMEN DROWNED. Lose Their Lives in a Storm on Lake Michigan. Laporte, Ind., Jan. 2.—Charles Ely and Fred Mecklenberg, Michigan City fishermen, started out on Lake Michigan to lift their hooks. A storm came up and their boat and fishing tackle were found cast upon the beach. Their bodies have not been recovered. Ely was 51 years old and leaves a family. Mecklenberg was 45 and unmarried. GREAT BRITAIN ALARMED. Disturbed Over Outbreak of Dutch in Cape Colony. HALF WAY TO CAPITAL. All Able-Bodied Loyalists Are Called Upon to Repel the Invaders. London, Jan. 2.—There is no question but, that the situation in Cape Colony has become a very serious proposition for the British government. Cape Town is reported as being in danger of falling into the hands of the Boers, who are now half-way to the capital. Owing to the growing Dutch disaffection the situation from a British standpoint is about as bad as it could be. Every able-bodied loyalist in the colony has been called to arms to repel the invaders. People here who understand the great preponderance of the Dutch in Cape Colony shake their heads at this. They know that the Cape government would never have adopted such a desperate measure were it not the last and only chance. For, if the English farmers obey the call, the Dutch will be forced into rebellion. They will not sit idly by while their kin are fighting a race war under their eyes. It is estimated that no fewer than 1500 Cape Dutch have joined the invaders, who have penetrated further south than ever. The Boers who trekked westward from Vryburg and were supposed to be going to Damaraland, are making for the Prieska district of Cape Colony. Boers Take More Prisoners. A dispatch from Colesberg, Cape Colony, says the Boers captured fourteen men of Nesbitt's horse, fifty miles southeast of Colesberg, and that the enemy, since increased to 800, has appeared near Weltevreden and is driving off stock. The Cape Town correspondent of the Daily Mail, referring to the seriousness of the situation in Cape Colony, says: "The Boer invaders now number 5000. The Western invasion gives the most concern. It has split into two divisions, which are marching like the prongs of a fork, one by way of Sutherland toward Malmesbury, and the other toward Beaufort west. "The Boers are now ranging over immense tracts of territory, necessitating the employment of an army corps to deal with them. Lord Kitchener has poured troops into the disturbed areas; but the fugitive tactics of the enemy have, to a large extent, neutralized his precautions." Importuning the Queen. London, Jan. 2.—Mr. Kruger is again importuning Queen Wilhelmina, says the correspondent of the Daily Mail at The Hague, to write personal letters to Emperor Nicholas, President Loubet and Emperor William with a view of stopping the war. It is reported that the Queen is not unwilling, but that the Netherlands' ministry is divided. The Hague, Jan. 2.—Mr. Kruger is suffering from a slight attack of bronchitis. While there is no anxiety as to his condition, he is obliged to keep to his bed. Reinforcements to Middleburg. Craddock, Cape Colony, Jan. 2.—A detachment of Boers entered Roodehoogte, southward of Middleburg, January 1. It is believed this force is going to Graat Reinit. The telegraph lines are cut between Carnarvon and Somerset West and Steynsburg and Maraisburg. Large reinforcements have reached Middleburg. Kitchener's Proclamation. Bloemfontein, Jan. 2.—In regard to Lord Kitchener's proclamation about burghers who surrendered being allowed to remain in laagers provided by the British, it is explained that the surrender must be voluntary and that the proclamation does not apply to Boers who surrender on the field of battle. Burghers who have taken the oath of allegiance and are again captured after they join the commandoes will receive the same treatment as other so-called enemies, provided it is proved that they have not induced or incited others to break their oaths. WRIGHT IS NOW FREE. Former Racine Man is Paroled Pingree-He Murdered Two Men in Michigan. Lansing, Mich., Jan. 2.—Gov. Pingree wound up his official career as chief executive of Michigan with a most generous distribution of pardons and paroles among the convicts of the state prisons. During December Gov. Pingree released over eighty prisoners, and the number includes many of the most noted criminals of the state. Four life convicts were among the thirty or more pardoned or parled. One of these is Charles J. Wright, the millionaire lumberman of Benzie county, formerly of Racine, Wis., who killed two men in 1889. When the case of Wright was under consideration a few months ago public feeling in Benzie county was aroused to such an extent that the pardon board thought best to drop the matter. Gov. Pingree commuted the murderer's sentence to seventeen years from 1889 and granted him a parole. The list of pardons and paroles follows: Pardons—Willis F. Tracey, thirty months, burglary; Lemuel Swank, nine months, assault with intent to do great bodily harm; Fred Demars, three years, assault; Adelbera Swartz, life, murder; James B. Daggett, life, murder; George Carpenter, fifteen years, assault; Frank Bird, fifteen years, burglary; George Higgins, life, murder; Larry Finn, life, murder; Bert Hubbell, fifteen years, manslaughter; Joseph Banchowski, six years, assault; William Repke, life, murder; Jane McEwen, three years, larceny; Joseph Moran, twenty years, assault; Clarence Brooks, fifteen years, assault. Paro'ces—Clarence Beverly, twenty-five years, murder; Michael Byrnes, five years, manslaughter; Elmer Bushey, fourteen years, burglary; Burt Rigdon, two years, burglary; W. H. Dyer, fifteen years, burglary; Thomas Fitzgerald, life, murder; Charles T. Wright, life, murder; Thomas Hoffman, ten years, burglary; Frank Gardner, five years, forgery. Commutations—Andrew Glenn, twenty years to ten years, murder; Thomas Q'Brien, life to fifteen years, murder. MRS. HAMMERS A SUICIDE Coroner's Jury Finds that She Killed Herself and the Three Prisoners Are Released. Chicago, Ill., January 2.—A verdict to the effect that Mrs. Nora Hammers had died from a bullet wound, self-inflicted, was returned by the coroner's jurv at the inquest held yesterday morning. After the verdict M. D. Hoff, the mining operator who was with Mrs. Hammers at the time of the shooting; her sister, Mrs. Amos Griswill, and Charles K. Gaussen, a book-keeper, all of whom were in the flat at the time, and who had been detained by the police, were released. Mrs. Hammers was found dead in her room at 2500 Wabash avenue at 3 o'clock on Sunday morning with a bullet wound in her head. AMERICAN TARS VISIT THE POPE. Jackies from the Cruiser Dixie Visit Vatican and Give Three Cheers for Holy Father. Washington, D. C., Jan. 2.—The visit to Pope Leo XIII. of Ensign Edward McCauley, Jr., with 106 men of the United States steamer Dixie, is the subject of a report made to the navy department. The men were taken from Naples to Rome early in December, when the Dixie was cruising down the Mediterranean sea. The party was given free access to many famous sights and places in Rome, to which entrance as a rule is prohibited. As a fitting climax to their stay in the city the men obtained an audience with the Pope, which Ensign McCauley describes as follows: "The Pope was carried in in state, accompanied by the noble and papal guards and a retinue of household chamberlains, priests of the church and choristers. The acclamation, greeting and applause was tremendous, and several times during the procession our men gave' three cheers and a tiger for the holy father.' The Pope in passing us rose in his chair as he gave the benediction. PATTERN PLANT FULLY DESTROYED. Defective Electric Wire Connection Causes Big Fire in Pittsburg Public Library Burned. Pittsburg, Pa., Jan. 2.—The extensive pattern plant of S. Jarvis, Adams & Co., corner of Thirteenth and Aetna streets, in this city, was almost completely destroyed by fire today, together with a large number of patterns and moulds. The loss is estimated at $100,000 and is covered by insurance. The fire was caused by a defective electric wire connection. Seattle, Wash., Jan. 2.—The public library of Seattle burned last night. The total stock of books, numbering 25,000 volumes and valued at least $30,000, are a total loss. The building was built about ten years ago by Henry Yesler, Seattle's most famous pioneer, at a cost of $60,000. From opinions gleaned from city officials it is likely that a new building will be built at once. BOBS IS AN EARL. Queen Victoria Welcomes the Hero of South Africa to England. Cowes, Isle of Wight, Jan. 2.—The steamer Canada, having Field Marshal Lord Roberts on board, anchored off Osborne at 11:45 a. m. today. The ships in the roads were gaily dressed, the sea front was elaborately decorated with bunting and Venetian masts with festoons adorned the route to Osborne house, at the entrance of which was erected a unique tribute of the Queen in appreciation of the field marshal's work, in the shape of an arch of laurel. This was the first time such an arch had ever appeared there in honor of any subject of her majesty. After Lord Roberts' audience with the Queen he will join the Canada at Southampton and remain on board till morning. A large concourse of people awaited Lord Roberts' arrival at Trinity pier and landing. The field marshal landed from the Royal launch at 3:30 p. m., which was the signal for deafening shouts of welcome. Princess Beatrice, in her capacity of governor of the Isle of Wight, and the Duke of Connaught, representing the Queen, awaited Lord Roberts, whose arm was still in a sling as a result of being thrown from his horse in South Africa. He was warmly greeted and the party started in royal carriages for Osborne house. The route was lined with troops and thronged with cheering sightseers. The Queen bestowed an earldom on Lord Roberts, with a special remainder for his daughters. He was also made a knight of the Garter. Cowes, Isle of Wight, Jan. 2.—Lord Roberts stopped on his way at the town hall of East Cowes, where eulogistic addresses of welcome were presented to him. He then resumed his drive and entered the grounds of Osborne house by the Prince of Wales' entrance and proceeded up the noble, troop lined avenue to her majesty's Isle of Wight residence. After a hearty reception in the council chamber by a number of princes and princesses, Lord Roberts was ushered into the presence of the Queen. His audience with her majesty was quite private. Replying to the addresses at the town hall, Lord Roberts said he regretted that his return was not accompanied by immediate peace, but he added, while he feared hostilities would continue for some time, he had implicit confidence in Lord Kitchener and had no fear regarding the outcome. He concluded with an eulogy of the magnificent army of Greater Britain, all the components of which, he pointed out, pulled together splendidly. DEBUT OF MISS HANNA. Brilliant Coming-Out Party of the Ohio Senator's Daughter—Some Beautiful Gowns. Cleveland, O., Jan. 2.—The coming-out party of Miss Ruth Hanna, the youngest daughter of Senator Hanna, last night, was a pronounced social success. The guests included all the leading society people of Cleveland, 1500 invitations having been issued. The hall was decorated in a most artistic way with evergreens, holly, smilax and red satin ribbons. The debutante received in a bower of palms at one side of the hall. She was attended by her father, her mother, her sister, Miss Mabel Hanna, and her grandmother, Mrs. D. P. Rhodes. Miss Hanna wore a beautiful gown of white spangled gauze, made over white satin, and with a fold of pink liberty satin draped over the left shoulder and down the back of the waist, skirt and train. In her hair she wore pink velvet hows, a diamond crescent, and tortoise-shell combs. About her neck was a pearl necklace given to her by her father. Mrs. Hanna wore a magnificent court train of silver brocaded white satin, over a petticoat of pastel blue satin, with a flounce of duchesse lace, ornamented with rhinestones. HEAD-ON COLLISION. Five Trainmen Killed on Yazoo & Mississippi Railroad. New Orleans, La., Jan. 2.—Five trainmen were killed and one was badly injured in the head-on collision between two freight trains, reported on the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley railroad at Melton, Miss., last night. Both engines and several cars were demolished. WILHELMINA TO WED FEB. 7. Date for Her Marriage with Duke Henry is Officially Fixed. The Hague, Jan. 2.-The marriage of Queen Wilhelmina to Duke Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin has been officially fixed for February 7, 1901. A High Mark. The New York Almanac for 1901, issued by Chas. H. Fletcher of New York City, has set a high mark for similar publications during the new century, and shows remarkable enterprise on the part of the publisher when we consider that it is intended solely for free distribution. The numerous publications of this character are usually gotten up with the single idea of cheapness, while the thought of expense has certainly been set aside in the case of the New York Almanac. The artistic colorings of the cover, the accuracy of its calendars and its fund of information all go to make it well worthy of perusal and preservation. It has innumerable hints for mothers as to the care of children. A unique page is the "Baby's Record" page, which is in blank, to be filled in with baby's name, date of birth, cut first tooth, etc. The whole is a very creditable piece of work and may be procured at any drug store or direct on request, free. Swedish in Jamestown Schools Swedish in Jamestown Schools. The Jamestown board of education has introduced an optional course of instruction in the Swedish language in the high school of that city. As Jamestown has a very large Swedish population, it is very proper that that language should be taught the student of its schools. It has a very practical as well as educational value. The board of education selected A. J. Lannes, the editor of the Vart Land, to teach the Swedish language.—Buffalo Times. 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Write, HACK & ALTEN, 534 Clinton Street, Milwaukee, Wis. Past mountain and foothill, plain and lake, Where it links the East and West. The tense wire tingles from sea to sea, A river that runs unrest. As a two-stringed harp of haste it throbs With the rise and fall of states. And sings through a land of sun and peace Of far-off wars and hates. Through a glimmering sea of waving green, Of silence, and golden suns. As a thread of pain in the woof of peace From world to world it runs. But the tales it tells are idle tales, And the songs it sings are strange To us who follow the glad, gold trial Of the sun on the Open Range. AN AIDED ELOPEMENT. "I say, Hetherbridge, do you think I could earn my own living?" "Great Scott, no," I replied. Then I added, to soften matters: "There's so much competition nowadays. Everybody wants to live." "Well. I've got to do it," said George sadly. "Things have been going on badly?" I inquired. "They've gone. And there's the mater, you know." I puffed my cigar in silence. "It's come so suddenly," continued George. "I must do something. The mater can't manage on a little." "You must marry," I said with decision. "I hate that idea," said George, petulantly. "But for the sake of the mater?" "That's just it. I want to get work of some kind, which would mean—well, just rubbing along. She wants me to marry old Hepburn's daughter, whom I've never seen. He's a neighbor of ours, with a lot of money, made out of cheap boots or something." Where is the lady?" "Where is the lady." "On the continent, undergoing a social sandpapering! She'll be home in a few days now. The old man is awfully keen on it, I believe." "It seems all right," I observed cautiously. "It's beastly," said George. "Any prior attachment?" George blushed (He is quite young). "Weh, a chap can't——" he began. Then he stopped, and left me uncertain as to the limitations of a chap. "And the other lady?" I inquired, taking certain facts for granted. "How could I ask her now?" "But you propose to ask Miss Hepburn?" "That's different. It would be an arranged thing, you see. Old Hepburn has great ideas for his daughter—and of course we know a lot of people and go everywhere." George sighed deeply, and taking a pipe from his pocket began to stuff it with tobacco. The pipe was aggressively new and cheap. I watched him sorrowfully. Then I leaned forward and touched the atrocity. "Is it as bad as that?" I inquired. "I can't afford cigars." I took out my case. I took out my case. "If an old friend might——" "Thanks, no; you see I can't return the compliment. Besides, I must get used to this kind of thing." For a little time we smoked in silence. Then George said: "What do you advise, Hetherbridge? Do you think that I could get into a bank?" "A hundred a year?" I exclaimed. George shivered. "Or take a shop?" he said, with the air of a man nerved to some desperate deed. I put my hand on his arm. "Much better take Miss Hepburn," I said. "It would be awful." "Not a bit. You couldn't get the other one, anyhow—not into the shop." I said, following George's wandering thoughts. "Then what shall I do?" I attempted to put the case judicially. "On the one hand is work and penury; on the other hand wealth and—" "Miss Hepburn. There's a lot on my hands just now," said George, wearily. "What would your—your people say about it? Your sister would despise and hate me, I know." Now, I had my doubts as to whether my sister would ever despise or hate Master George. But I contented myself with remarking airily: "Oh, girls are so silly about these things." George rose and began to walk up and down like a caged lion. "I can't do it. I won't! She would hate me!" "The other one?" I inquired. "Yes." I left my seat and joined him, drawing his arm through mine. "That would surely be for the best," I said. "Now, you asked for my advice. I say, marry Miss Hepburn. You're a drone in the hive; that's the fault of your early training. You'll make her a good husband, I know, and she'll be happy. The mater will be comfortable, and you'll settle down and enjoy life with plenty of money to grease the wheels." George did not reply, but walked moodily at my side. "Think it over," I continued. "I must hurry away now, as I want to catch a train home this afternoon. Come, don't look so mournful; surely I drew a paradise." But George refused to be comforted. The world looked very beautiful that afternoon as I walked from the little country station, bright with flowers, to the old house perched on the white chalk cliffs, where my ancestors had dwelt for many centuries. I have always supposed that they came over with the Conqueror, and being tired of the voyage, built a house where they landed and stopped there. It would be just like a Hetherbridge—to be tired. I came over the vast expanse of green by the path which cut it with a thin, white line, through the old gray gates and into the garden. There I found my sister Isabel. She was looking out over the sea, her book lying unnoticed in her lap, and made a pretty picture in a frame of green. I found myself wondering what Miss Hepburn was like, and my pity for George increased. Rousing her from her reverie I proceeded to tell my news. "I saw George this morning," I said. "Is it as bad as—as—you thought?" asked Isabel anxiously. "Worse; they have lost almost everything." Isabel said nothing. "There is only one course open," I continued. "George must marry." "Marry! Whom?" "There is a lady in the case already, a certain Miss Hepburn." "Oh!" said Isabel, coldly. "There is also another lady," I added. "Who's that?" asked Isabel, turning quickly toward me. I mentioned no name. "Then he is going to marry that girl just for her money." "It is a useful thing to have in the house." "I call it shameful—disgraceful. I'll never speak to him again." Isabel left me, very angry, and I sat in her chair, gazing out at the blue sea glistening in the sunshine and thinking how contrary things were. For I have a great affection for George. Presently I felt two arms slipped round my neck and heard a voice behind me. "You're sure he said there was another—some one else?" it said. "Why certainly," said I. "He's awfully upset; doesn't care a bit for the Hen- UNIQUE CYCLORAMA AT PAN-AMERICAN. JOHNSTOWN FLOOD The most vivid scenes of the Johnstown flood, the accounts of which at the time of the appalling catastrophe electrified the entire civilized world, will be presented in a startlingly realistic manner by means of the scenograph at the Pan-American exposition at Buffalo next summer. The descriptions of eye witnesses have been followed faithfully by the artist in the portrayal of the scenes. The presentation, like the experiences of the survivors of the flood, is never to be forgotten by those who witness it. burn girl; only he thinks it is the right thing to do." "You're an old dear," said the voice. And then I felt a kiss on my forehead, and the voice came no more. Now. I wonder why Isabel called me "an old dear." A few days after came a letter from George announcing his engagement to Miss Hepburn and inclosing her photograph. Isabel and I regarded the letter together. "He can't care for a girl like that," said Isabel, whom I strongly suspected of having lately indulged in tears. Somehow the photograph seemed to cheer her a little. "She is not handsome, certainly," I concluded, "She may be very nice, however." "But spectacles—and that hideous hair. And then look at her dress!" "He will marry her now they are engaged. George is not the kind of man to consider a promise can be broken without very weighty reasons." "Jack—do something—anything to break it off." Isabel rested her head on my shoulder and sobbed out: "Because I love him! And I am so helpless! I didn't think I cared, until—until this came." Then suddenly she lifted her head. "Jack, am I the "other one" George mentioned?" "How should I know?" "But you do?" "Well—well—I shouldn't wonder?" "Then why didn't he ask me, instead of that ugly, spectacled thing?" "I think there were many reasons. In one case he gives social position for money. The whole affair is a blameless transaction. With you it is different; he does not know you care for him (you are a little contrary at times, sister mine), and if you did, he is too honorable to drag you to poverty." "He does not know of its existence. And he has to think of his mother." Isabel made a most unkind remark about George's mother and tore herself away from me. As the summer days slipped away I became very anxious about my sister. Her high spirits vanished, and she spent most of her time sitting idly on the cliff, gazing with sad eyes over the sea. She implored me to have no visitors, and I was at my wit's end to know how to rouse her and bring back the old merry laugh and saucy speech. Then came another letter from George, giving an early date for the marriage. I broke the news to Isabel. "A nasty pill is best swallowed quickly." I remarked. "And you must take honey afterward to get rid of the taste," she replied, bitterly, and went out of the house again to her seat overlooking the sea. She sat there nearly the whole day now, and the roses faded in her cheeks and her eyes grew sad. I cursed George, for I loved my sister dearly. About a week before the wedding, at my mother's invitation, George and his fiancee came to visit us. They were to stay one night and return to town early the following morning. Isabel refused to meet them and fled to a neighboring aunt. The moon was shining brilliantly as George and I walked along the cliff, smoking a last cigar before going to bed. It was the hour when men wax confidential, and George told me all his sorrows. "Why are you marrying so soon?" I inquired. "Old Hepburn insists on it. It appears that Mary got flirting with some foreign chap abroad, a music master, and the old man wants her married and safe from him. It's a queer case. The fellow is hanging about London, and Mary has been kept almost a prisoner in the house. She's out on bail now, and I'm surety for—what's that, Hetherbridge?" George caught my arm and pointed along the cliff. I looked, and the moonlight showed me two figures, a man and a woman, walking quickly away from us. "They came from the house," said George excitedly. "One of the servants and her lover," I said. "It's rather late, but this moon gets into their heads." "It's—it's Mary," gasped George. "Eloping with the music master?" I inquired. "Most likely. Did you ever know such luck?" exclaimed George. Then he extended his arms dramatically, making a strange figure silhouetted against the brilliant sky, and cried: "Oh, my darling! my darling! Go away from me! Go! Hulloa! they've gone." They had vanished as though the earth had swallowed them. "They've gone down the tunnel to the beach." I explained. George began to run. "You won't stop them," I cried. "I'm going to see where they go and help," he replied over his shoulder. Together we scrambled down the steep incline, in such complete darkness that I could scarcely see my companion. Only occasionally I heard his voice. The ground was rough, and he was wearing thin slippers. Once on the sands we saw our fugitives again. The man was launching a small boat. We saw Mary assisted in, but before her companion could follow George (who is slimmer than I) was by his side. The man turned, and the moonlight gleamed on a revolver. I ran panting over the wet sand. There was a French oath—a scream from the boat—and then the quiet tones of George's voice. "Put down that pistol. Get in, man," I heard him say. The man stood irresolute. "You shall not take her back," he cried. said George. "I'm here to help." Then, suddenly, he seized the hand that held the pistol, jerked it upward and, The artistic features of this exhibit have been marked out by Edward J. Austen of Newark, N. J., who has had much experience and success with cycloramic and scenographic productions, Mr. Austen also painted "Niagara in Winter," which created a furore in London several years ago. The scenograph, or living picture, differs from anything of the kind ever used for spectacular productions, and in this respect the presentation of the scenes of the Johnstown flood will be unique. with a dexterous push, tumbled the man backward into the boat, his legs hanging feebly over the gunwale. Before he could rise George himself with a mighty effort had sent his fiancee and her abductor out onto the sea. Willing hands make light work. We stood on the beach in silence, watching the man get out a pair of sculls and pull toward a large yawl that lay motionless a little way from the shore. They had almost reached it before George spoke. "She's gone of her own tree will—see!" he cried, pointing to the retreating boat. "I would have kept my word, but—well, this settles the matter. Hetherbridge, old chap, I feel like a man who has just escaped hanging." And certainly on our way home George behaved like one. He seemed to forget everything, even "the mater" in the thought of his release. We prescribed whisky for ourselves on arriving and then went to bed and dreamed mad dreams. At least I did. Assisting at an elopement, especially after supper, and when there is any running to be done, does not suit my constitution. Next morning we were both up betimes and walked to the scene of the adventure. "Well," said I, as we stood at the mouth of the tunnel, breathing the fresh salt breeze, "what are you going to do?" "Work," said George. "We come back to the point from which we started, then?" "Thank heaven, yes," replied George, fervently. "I am going up to London this morning to find something to do. I've got several good friends there who will help me." I made no further effort to combat this resolution, and at noon we set out for the station. "It's a goodby to all this kind of thing," said George, as we walked down the avenue to the lodge gates, "old wine, old houses, old trees, the grandeur of the immortal elms—the grace of life—all gone. Now for the stuffy little house, surrounded by squalling children, washing and the smell of neighboring dinners. Poor old mater!" George sighed deeply, and we walked on in silence. Suddenly I felt George's hand close on my arm and he stopped. If there had been a lion in the path he could not have appeared more disconcerted. As it happened, however, it was only my sister Isabel, who was standing by the great gray gate, a dainty figure in her clinging white dress. "You'll excuse me, Hetherbridge, I don't want to be rude, but if we could get out another way—" "Rubbish!" I said firmly, and led him down to the gate. Presently Isabel saw us, and from her movements I fancied she would have run away, too, if there had been an opportunity, but it was fated otherwise. "I was afraid I should miss you," said she, when we met. "I thought you were leaving by the early train. But where is Miss Hepburn?" "I am going to the station now. Mary has gone already," said George. "Gone!" exclaimed Isabel. "I think I will take a little walk," said I. "But my train!" said George. "There will be plenty more. You can't go today now," I replied, and walked away. I did not consider my presence was desired. They stood together in silence, looking after me. Retaining a couple of hours later, I met Isabel. "George is not going until tomorrow," she said. "Oh!" I remarked. "I have proposed to him, Jack," said she, looking on the ground. I whistled. "And he has accepted," she continued. "A most improper proceeding," I remarked severely. "It was the only way." Isabel looked up at me. Was it the roses coming back, or only a transitory blush? "So you are about to contract a mesalliance," I said. "Yes, please," replied Isabel, dropping a courtesy. Then she put her arms round my neck and whispered in my ear, "I am so happy, Jack." "Does he know about the money?" "Not a word. That is a surprise for our wedding day. He is going to work, and the mater will stop with us, and he is the very best and dearest fellow that ever lived, Jack." "I think you are right," said I.—The London King. English the Greatest Tea-Drinkers. And whither go the millions of pounds of tea which are grown in the gardens of the East? The answer is rather surprising. Most people would say that Russia is the greatest tea-drinking nation of the world and regard the samovar as the palladium. But it is Great Britain which is supreme at the tea table. Even sixteen years ago we consumed on an average five pounds of tea apiece every year. Now we dispose of nearly six pounds. No other country approaches us in this respect, for there is no European country but Holland in which more than one pound per head is consumed. After this it is not surprising to learn that the colonies surpass their mother country, and that Australasia drinks more than seven and a half pounds per head of its population. To put the case in a nutshell the United Kingdom drinks more tea than all the other European countries and the United States put together.—London Chronicle. —Automobiles have conquered the Alps. A German has made his way with a benzine motor from Frankfort to Italy over the Benner pass, with no great trouble. DISASTER TO THE BRITISH. BLOODY BATTLEFOUGHT BLOODY BATTLEFOUGHT Lyttleton's Command Loses 50 in Killed and Wounded and 200 Are Taken Prisoners. London, Dec. 31.—Gen. Botha's forces have dealt the British another serious blow in the eastern Transvaal. An entire garrison has just been completely routed at Helvetia, with the loss of fifty killed and wounded and 250 taken prisoners. Helvetia is on the Machadodorn-Lydenburg railway and stands in the midst of a mountainous region, wherein activity has momentarily been expected on the part of Gen. Botha's commandos, who have been idily intrenched on the hills for several months. The Dutch raiders dashed off from Helvetia as soon as they had laid the garrison low, while Col. Kitchener hurried in pursuit to the town and promptly reoccupied it. Re-enforcements hurried from Belfast. **Kitchener's Report to War Office.** The war office has received the following dispatch from Lord Kitchener: Pretoria, Dec. 30, 7:50 a. m.—Gen. Lytleton reports that our post at Helvetia was captured yesterday morning by the Boers. About 50 were killed and wounded and 200 taken prisoners. Col. Kitchener reports that he is following with a small force in the track of the enemy, Helvetia being reoccupied by Reeves, who has been re-enforced from Belfast. Helvctia was a very strong position on the Machadodorp-Lydenburg railway and was held by a detachment of the Liverpool regiment. Am asking for further information. Evidence of a Bloody Battle. The troops which have borne the brunt of this latest disaster were a detachment of a Liverpool regiment which has several times figured in hard engagements during the summer campaign in the Transvaal. The size of the casualty list indicates that the fighting was bloody while it lasted. The London papers, with the Liverpool regiment's defeat as a test, bitterly attack the inadequate precautionary arrangements which permit the recurrence of these disheartening assaults on isolated troops. Reiterating the demand that the war office hurl more troops into South Africa, they decry the impropriety of rejoicings too elaborate over the return of Lord Roberts next Thursday, in view of these newest and most bitter tidings. Clements Facing More Trouble. Meantime Gen. Clements is confronted with more trouble in the western end of the Transvaal. In making his way westward to Rustenberg, the scene of his recent reverse at Nooitgedacht, he is stubbornly opposed by Gen. Delarey's commandos. The Transvaal burghers continue to play havoc with the British lines of communication. The eastern railway has been blown up near Para and a supply train held up near Standerton. Gen. Dewet is still dodging the British cordons in the Orange River Colony, though Gen. Knox has him "hemmed in" on the south. Boers Entering Cape Colony. Lord Kitchener reports that the Cape Colony situation remains the same. The invaders are said to be broken up into small parties closely pursued. To emphasize Lord Kitchener's covert admission that no progress is being made against the invasion of Cape Colony, a correspondent at Burghersdorp, wiring Saturday, says: "Two fresh commandos are entering the colony. One has already crossed near Knaapdaar, and the arrival of another is momentarily expected in the Steynsburg district. The Boers are said to have two or three horses each, though in bad condition. They have no guns or transport, but are well supplied with Lee-Metford rifles and ammunition. Captured Boers say that the intention of these commandos is to roam about and wait until Gen. Dewet appears upon the scene. Prisoners Used as a Shield. Gen. Kitchener, telegraphing from Pretoria Sunday, December 30, says: "The post at Helvetia was surprised at 2:30 a.m., the enemy first rushing a 4.7 gun. At dawn the officer commanding the post at Swartzkopjes sent out a patrol and shelled the enemy out of Helvetia, making them abandon the gun temporarily. The Boers, however, formed our prisoners around the gun and got away eventually. No ammunition belonging to the gun was captured. The casualties were four officers wounded and eleven men killed and twenty-two wounded. A column was sent out from Machadodorp, but owing to bad roads it failed to arrive in time." The Losses at Graylingstad. Details of the Graylingstad affair show that, while Colville's column was pursuing the Boers a second force of 400 of the enemy was seen moving toward the camp where the British transport was inspanned. The small British force made a plucky stand until reinforcements arrived with artillery, and, after a severe fight, the Boers were defeated. The British losses altogether were nine killed and sixty-three wounded and missing. The Boers are said to have thirty-one killed. Zeerest Practically Besieged. According to telegrams Zeerest is practically besieged, but has provisions sufficient for five months. The garrison at Ottoshoop has been withdrawn to Lichtenburg. A dispatch from Carnarvon, dated yesterdya, reports that the Boers who have been threatening that point were driven off and are being pursued. ENLARGE RACINE HOSPITAL. Gift of William Horlick in Memory of His Daughter. Racine, Wis., Dec. 31.—[Special.]—This morning William Horlick, proprietor of the Horlick Food company of this city, notified the Danish Hospital association, which holds a fifty-year lease on St. Luke's hospital, that he will build a $10,000 addition to the hospital in memory of his daughter, Alice Horlick, who died February 10, 1882. Z. G. Simmons of Kenosha has offered to fit up the new addition. GO TO CHICAGO TO WED. Three Wisconsin Couples Take Out Marriage Licenses. Chicago, Ill., Dec. 31.—[Special.]—Licenses have been issued here for the marriage of De Forest C. Burdick of Lake Geneva, Wis., and Mary E. Foley of Chicago; John Johnson of Vernon, Wis., and Carrie Hjelter, also of Vernon, and for William H. Liegler and Emma Kraynik, both of Racine. Hanged for Murder. Butler, Mo., Dec. 31.—Noah McGinnis was nanged here today for the murder of Frederick M. Barcherling. He said he only shot to scare Barcherling. MISS STEPHENSON TO BE MARRIED. Young Woman who Christened Battleship Wisconsin, Engaged to J. E. Morgan of Oshkosh. Marinette, Wis., Dec. 81.—[Special.]—The formal announcement of the engagement of Miss Eilizabeth Stephenson to J. Earl Morgan of Oshkosh will be made Wednesday at a dinner to be given in this city at the home of ex-Congressman Stephenson, father of the bride-to-be. FARMERS WILLING TO GROW BEETS. FARMERS WILLING TO GROW BEETS. Waukesha County Agriculturists Satisfied with Standing of Wisconsin Sugar Company. Menomonee Falls, Wis., Dec. 31. [Special.]—The prospects of the Wisconsin Sugar company are excellent and there is no doubt now of a successful season next year. The farmers are satisfied with the proposition made by the company and will grow enough beets for a full season's run. They have adequate security and will have no fears that they will be beaten out of their pay again. An expert has been engaged to take charge of the rebuilding and operating of the factory, and even the most captious can find no reason to grumble at the outlook. The company proposes to pay from $4 to $5 a ton for beets according to their quality, the lesser figure for those containing 12 per cent, of saccharine matter and the higher one for 16 per cent, or over. DECREASE IS GREAT. State Board of Control Asks for an Appropriation of $831,000 for State Institutions. Madison, Wis., Dec. 31.—[Special.]—Appropriations amounting to $831,000 will be asked from the Legislature at the coming session by the state board of control for the nine charitable and penal institutions under the supervision of the board, for their current expenses. This is $64,000 less than the appropriations made by the last Legislature for the same purpose, and in view of the fact that the number of inmates in the institutions had increased, in the home for the feeble-minded by about 150 and in the industrial school for boys 50, the showing is a most favorable one for the present management of the institutions, and the new system adopted by the board of purchasing all supplies on contracts let to the lowest bidder. The amount to be asked for does not cover the total cost of the institutions, as the receipts from various counties for care of patients chargeable to them, with some other smaller sources of income, are estimated at $427,000. The board has a surplus of $47,000, making the total estimated resources for the next two years, including the $831,000 asked from the legislature, $1,305,000. The current expenses of the nine institutions for the two years ended September 30, 1900, were $1,272,379.20, the cost at each institution being: State hospital for insane, Mendota ..... $218,787.43 Northern hospital for insane, Oshkosh ..... 260,618.50 School for deaf, Delavan ..... 82,969.80 School for blind, Janesville ..... 71,541.35 Industrial school for boys, Waukesha ..... 136,075.57 State prison, Waupun ..... 164,435.59 State public school, Sparta ..... 84,303.64 Home for feeble-minded, Chippewa Falls ..... 141,576.24 State reformatory, Green Bay..... $1,000 Each of the institutions had a surplus left from the allowance made in the estimate of two years ago, though in the case of the state prison and the home for feeble-minded it is small. The surplus of each of the other institutions, which is estimated by the board will be left at the end of the appropriation year, is: State hospital, $7000; Northern hospital, $18,000; school for deaf, $8000; school for blind, $5000; industrial school, $2000; state public school, $5000; reformatory, $2000. Wisconsin methods of caring for the insane, criminal and dependent classes through the state board of control, are heartily commended in an article to appear in the January number of the Annals of the American Academy, written by Prof. S. E. Sparling of the University of Wisconsin, who has made a careful study of the Wisconsin administration of charitable and penal institutions. Prof. Sparling devotes much space to a review of the history of the management of charitable and penal institutions. This history, especially in recent years, Prof. Sparling says, shows a strong tendency toward centralization of the management of all the charitable and penal institutions in a state under one central board. This system of centralized management, he goes on to say, has found its best example in Wisconsin and has here proved an unqualified success. COLD SNAP IN NORTH. COLD SNAP IN NORTH. Lumbermen Rejoicing Over the Severe Weather-Haul Logs on Ice Roads. New Richmond, Wis., Dec. 31.—[Special.]—Various points in northern Wisconsin report from 14 to 20 below. The cold snap is welcomed by all lumbermen as swamps and lake will freeze over and permit the hauling of logs, for which they have been waiting some weeks. There is little snow in the woods, but loggers everywhere have prepared to make use of ice roads as soon as the weather will permit. Wages are high and men and teams are going into the woods in large numbers every day. La Crosse, Wis., Dec. 31.—A cold wave is prevalent at La Crosse and vicinity and according to the local weather bureau it is quite general in the Northwest, while its southern extremity is Oklahoma and Texas. In many places east of here it is snowing. The mercury here has dropped thirty degrees in the past twenty-four hours. BECAUSE THEY ARE MARRIED. Stambaugh School Board Demands Teachers' Resignations. Marinette, Wis., Dec. 31.—The school board of Stambaugh, Mich., has demanded the resignation of two lady teachers, Mrs. Mae Dollar and Mrs. Josephine McDonald, nee Miss Mae Harrington and Miss Josephine Marscham. The ladies have refused to comply with the request. They were married in November and have kept the matter a secret for over a month. Members of the board, being opposed to married women as teachers, have declared their positions vacant, while the ladies will bring action for the full time specified in their contracts. FRACTURES HER HIP. Mrs. J. T. Jacobson of La Crosse Has a Bad Fail. La Crosse, Wis., Dec. 31.—[Special.] Mrs. J. T. Jacobson of this city, after alighting from a street car, fell and fractured her hip and received other severe injuries. She is the mother of the wife of John F. Dougherty, a prominent Democratic politician. --- The clothing store of E. J. Kohn was broken into and $300 worth of goods removed. Gustavius Ryquist, a boilermaker, was found dead in bed by the proprietor of the hotel where he lived. Johanna Applequist, a widow, 65 years old, died from the effects of muriatic acid which she drank accidentally. She mistook the acid for medicine. Fred S. Scouton, night telegraph operator at the Clybourn Junction station of the Chicago & North-Western railroad, was found dead at his home. Gottlieb Lawrich, 52 years old, was locked in a cell as apparently drunk, while he was dying of paralysis. Three hours after the police, learning his true condition, had hurried him to the county hospital he died. The body of a man whose identity is not known to the authorities was found in a Baltimore and Ohio freight car. Death was caused by internal hemorrhages. Daniel E. Root, ex-county commissioner and former president of the Cook county Democracy, died from apoplexy. He was born in Westminster, Md., in 1836. Fire destroyed the storage house of C. L. Robinson, causing a loss of $2000. The building was filled with paints and oils and was owned by William Lee. The tooting of a tug whistle was the direct cause of the death by drowning of a horse owned by S. T. Fish. The animal became frightened and plunged over a dock. --Harold Butler Wetmore, 25 years old, a young lawyer in the offices of Flower, Vroman & Musgrave, died from pneumonia at his home in Detroit, where he had gone to spend the holiday season. --Domestic troubles caused two women to take their lives yesterday. Kittie Frank, 30 years old, took morphine, and Martha Zwaisler, 31 years old, carbolic acid. --Mrs. Abbie H. Howes, wife of Allen Howes, for many years a member of the Chicago board of trade, died of pneumonia, at the age of 69 years. She leaves three sons. MARKET REPORTS. Milwaukee, Jan. 2, 1901. EGG AND DAIRY PRODUCTS. MILWAUKEE—Eggs—Market firm; fresh new, cases included, 21c; fresh, cases returned, 21½c; old, cases included, 211c; held fresh, cases returned, 16a18c; storage, candled, 17@19c; seconds, 10@12c. Receipts were 99 cases. Butter—Market slow. Fancy prints, 24½c; fancy or extra creamery, per lb, 23½c; firsts, 20@22c; seconds, 18a@19c; dairy prints, 19c; extra fancy dairy, 18c; lines, 14@15c; packing stock, 10@12c; whey, 10c; roll, 13@15c. The receipts today were 11,817 lbs against 20,948 Monday. The feeling is not encouraging at present, heavy receipts of dairy causing a decided weakness. Creamery is also easy and receipts heavy, resulting in a large accumulation of butter. The demand is good for choice dairy and 18c will be readily paid, but fancy dairy is scarce here. Low grades of both creamery and dairy sell slow. Cheese—Steady. Receipts were 3575 lbs today against 600 Monday. Full cream flats, new, colored, 11@11½c; New York, full cream flats, new colored, 11@11½c; Young Americas, new, 11½@12c; fancy brick, 11@11½c; low grades, 79c; limburger, per lb, No. 1, 10½@11c; low grades, 59c; imported Swiss, 12@12½c; Block Swiss, domestic, 11½@12c; choice loaf, 12@13c; No. 2, 9@10c; Sapsago, 16½@17½c; farmers', 10@11c. NEW YORK — Butter — Receipts, 13,714 pkgs; firm; creamery, 17@25c; June creamery, 17@23c; factory, 11½@16c. Cheese—Receipts, 3443 pkgs; firm; fancy large, fall-made, 11½@11½c; fancy small, fall-made, 11½@12c. Eggs—Receipts, 8079 pkgs; firm; Western, average packed at mark, 21@24c; Western, loss off, 26c. Sugar—Raw barely steady; fair refining, 33c; centrifugal, 96 test, 48c; molasses sugar, 33c; refined easy, crushed, 6c; powdered, 5.60c; granulated, 5.50c. Coffee—Dull; No. 7 Rio, nominal. Molasses—Firm. CHICAGO-Butter-Dull; creameries. 15@ 23c; dairies, 12@20c. Eggs-Quiet; fresh. 22c. Dressed poultry-Fairly active; turkeys. 91c; chickens. 9c. MILWAUKEE LIVESTOCK MARKET. HOGS—Receipts, 7 cars; market strong; light, 4.85@5.05; mixed and medium weights, 4.90@5.07½; common to good packers, 4.75@4.95; fancy selected hogs, 5.05@5.10. CATTLE—Receipts, 1 car; steady; butcher steers, medium to good, 1050 to 1300 lbs, 4.50@5.25; fair to medium, 950 to 1050, 3.50@4.25; helfers, common, 3.00@3.50; good, 3.75@4.25; cows, fair to good, 2.75@3.50; canners, 2.00@2.00; bulls, common, 2.50@3.00; choice, 3.25@3.75; feeders, 800 to 950 lbs, 3.25@4.00; stockers, 500 to 750 lbs, 2.75@3.40; veal calves, common to choice, 4.50@6.25; milkers and springers, common to choice, 20.00@40.00. SHEEP—Receipts, none; market firm; 3.00@3.75; bucks, 2.50@3.00; lambs, 4.25@5.00. Chicago receipts: Hogs, 26,000; cattle, 13.000; sheep, 13.000. MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH MILWAUKEE—Flour—Steady. Wheat — Strong and active; No. 1 Northern, on track, 78½c. Corn—Steady; No. 3 on track, 35c. Oats—Steady; No. 2 white, on track, 26c; No. 3 white, on track, 25@25½c. Barley—Firm; No. 2 on track, 61c; sample on track, 47@61c. Rye—Firm; No. 1 on track, 53c. Provisions—Higher; pork, 12.60; lard, 6.87. Flour is steady at 4.00@4.10 for patents; bakers; 3.00@3.10 and 2.95@3.05 for rye. Millstuffs are firm and quoted at 13.75@14.00 for bran, 13.25@13.50 for standard middlings, and 14.50 for Milwaukee flour middlings. CHICAGO—Close—Wheat—January, 74½¢; February, 75¢; May, 77½¢; Corn—January, 35½¢; 36¢; February, 35½¢; May, 36½¢; Oats—January, 22½¢; May, 24¢; Pork—January, 12.57½¢; May, 12.72½¢; 12.75¢; Lard—January, 6.92½¢; February, 6.97½¢; March, 7.00¢; May, 7.05½¢; 7.07½¢; Ribs—January, 6.52½¢; May, 6.62½¢; Flax—Cash No. 1, 1.57¢; May, 1.63. MINNEAPOLIS—Close—Wheat—Cash, 76½¢; May, 77½¢; 77½¢; July, 78½¢; 78½¢; on track. No. 1 hard, 78½¢; No. 1 Northern, 76½¢; No. 2 Northern, 73½¢. ST. LOUIS—Close—Wheat—Lower. No. 2 red cash, 73½¢; January, 73½¢; May, 76½¢; No. 2 hard, 72@73c. Corn—Weak. No. 2 cash, 35½¢; January, 35¢; May, 36@36½¢. Oats—Higher. No. 2 cash, 35½¢; Oats—Higher. No. 2 cash, 23½¢; January, 23½¢; May, 25½¢; No. 2 white, 26@26½¢. Lead—Nominal. 4.20. Spell—Dull. 4.00 sellers. KANSAS CITY — Close — Wheat — May, 69½c @69½c; cash No. 2 hard, 69@70c; No. 2 red, 71@71½c. Corn — May, 34½@35c; cash No. 2 mixed, 33½c; No. 2 white, 34½c. Oats— No. 2 white, 25¢a DULUTH — Close — Wheat — Cash No. 1 hard, 76½c; No. 1 Northern, 74½c; No. 2 Northern, 65½@70½c; No. 3 spring, 56½c 63½c; to arrive, No. 1 hard, 77½; No. 1 Northern, 75½c; May, 78½c; July, 78½c; Corn—34½c; Oats—24½@24½c. Rye—48½c; Barley—35½@55c. Flax — To arrive, 1.58; cash, 1.58; May, 1.64; September, 1.00. Receipts of wheat, 37.440 bus; shipments, 2583 bus. NEW YORK — Close — Wheat — January, 80½c; March, 82½c; May, 82½c. Corn— January, 44½c; May, 42½c. KANSAS CITY—Cattle—Receipts, 9000; steady to strong; native steers, 4.40@5.45; Texas steers, 3.80@4.95; cows and heifers, 3.50@4.75; stockers and feeders, 2.25@4.75; Hogs—Receipts, 13,000; stronger; bulk of sales, 4.97%@5.05; heavy, 4.97%@5.07%; mixed, 4.95@5.05; light, 4.85@5.00. Sheep—Receipts, 2000; strong; lambs, 5.00@5.50; muttons, 2.50@4.30. ST. LOUIS—Cattle—Receipts, 2500; strong, higher; native steers, 3.75@5.60; choice, 5.25@6.45; cows and heifers, 2.00@4.75; Texas steers, 3.50@4.70. Hogs—Receipts, 6500; strong to 5c higher; light, 4.90@5.00; packers, 4.95@5.05; butchers, 5.05@5.12%; Sheep—Receipts, 2000; steady; muttons, 3.75@4.35; lambs, 4.50@5.60. SOUTH OMAHA—Cattle—Receipts, 3000; steady; native steers, 4.00@5.40; Texas steers, 3.00@3.85; cows and heifers, 3.00@ 4.15; stockers and feeders, 3.00@4.40. Hogs —Receipts, 5500; shade higher; heavy, 4.95@ 5.00; mixed, 4.95@4.97½; light, 4.90@5.00; bulk of sales, 4.95@4.97½. 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Parties who secure situations through this agency are also expected to become subscribers. We have at present on our books: Cooks, General Servants, Waitresses, Laundresses, Nurses, Coachmen, Porters, Waiters. Office hours 9-12 and 1-4. R. B. MONTGOMERY, Mgr. 209 Fifth St., Milwaukee. Some men put their money into stocks and some put it into stockings. By promptly passing its proposed law making kidnapping a capital offense, Illinois will make a strong bid for millionaire immigration. The Christmas gifts in the stolen Montana mail pouch have gone "up the flue," instead of making the usual downward trip in the sooty path of Santa Claus. West Superior's shipping record supports the conviction that she is to continue in her proud place as second city of Wisconsin. The lake cities have the lead in commercial development. If all the bones that have been at different times asserted to be those of Father Marquette were really his, the first explorer of the upper Mississippi would be famous as the earliest and greatest "Ossified Man." With 1,000,000 tons of steel rails contracted for, to be delivered during the year 1901, the rolling mills ought to have a busy year. The rail contracts of course represent only a part of the work laid out for the men who manufacture steel. The announcement from Glasgow that Clyde shipbuilders recently placed orders for 150,000 tons of ships' plates in the United States, at a saving of $250,000 as against the English price, comes at an inopportune time for the shipping subsidy bill, as it will cause doubt as to the greater cost of American ships. Prominent women of Trenton, N. J., are interesting themselves in the purchase of the old British barracks, of Revolutionary date, to be converted into a museum for Colonial and Revolutionary relics. The barracks was the headquarters of British officers during the Revolution, and at present is occupied by the Old'Ladies' home. The coal-shipping interests of the Atlantic coast are looking toward the use of barges for a reduction in the cost of carrying coal. A number of barges with a powerful tug to tow them are now under construction. The barge business is successful on the Great Lakes, and there is no reason why barges cannot be towed along the Atlantic coast. The practice of swathing people in inflammable cotton for performances among menacing lights continues despite the numerous shocking fires which have warned people to refrain from impersonating Santa Claus. The festivities of this year have caused the usual suffering through the ignition of the clothing of Christmas merry-makers. The story from La Crosse to the effect that catfish caught in the Mississippi are sent to Chicago and Kansas City, where ingenious rascals flavor, color and can them for sale under the name of salmon, suggests a query as to what the state dairy and food commissioners are doing. Isn't it as bad to color imitation salmon as to color imitation butter? The industrial spreading out in the vicinity of Milwaukee is evidence of a development which will eventually make Milwaukee the leading manufacturing center of the West, if no retarding influences develop also, such as onerous taxes and assessments. In other words, good government is necessary to keep Milwaukee on the up grade—good government and more railroad facilities. At the coming session of the South Dakota Legislature a bill will be introduced to set aside a sum for the collection of documents, relics, etc., bearing on the early history of the territory now embraced by that state, and to furnish suitable quarters for the preservation of the same. The first Legislature of Dakota territory, which met in 1862, incorporated a historical society, which included among its members many prominent pioneers. The Mississippi Penitentiary Board of Control has made its farming arrangements for another year, leasing the same plantations that were worked this year. These several big farms, all of which are in the delta, comprise 9350 acres of cleared land, on which 720 convicts will be used. In addition to these the estate owns and farms 3000 acres of its own land, on which 80 convicts will be employed. Mississippi has found that farming with convict labor is profitable. Wine-drinkers may be interested to know that the German government is revising the wine law so as to make it prohibit the use of sugar and water to increase the volume of grape juice, and to prevent the manufacturing of "boquet" with dried fruits, acids and essences. Foreign wines are not always what their labels represent, and the man who wishes to avoid swindlers may soon have to stick to home-made wines and hard cider. The Duc de Loubat is reported to have presented to the Berlin Museum of Ethnology a valuable collection of Central American antiquities. The Duc de Loubat is well known for his deep and active interest in American archaeology. To him the American museum is indebted for a magnificent collection of reproductions of Central American sculpture, and he has also contributed liberally to the prosecution of archaeological researches by American students in Mexico and elsewhere. The superintendent of the capitol building at Albany, N. Y., has received from Auburn prison a consignment of 150 handsome new mahogany chairs upholstered in leather for the use of the assemblymen in the incoming Legislature. The chairs have strong springs and are built for comfort. The chairs formerly in use in the Assembly chamber were purchased in 1881 and were of cherry, and were invariably getting broken because of the lack of springs necessary to enable the statesmen to tilt them. Under the patronage of the United States Philippine commission, an experiment farm will be started some 200 miles from Manila, where the growth of all sorts of seeds and plants from this country will be tested. Prof. Bernard Moses of the commission has written to the University of California regarding the proposed work, and at his suggestion the state institution will send from its experiment stations the required seeds and plants. The work of the experiment farm will be conducted by Phelps Whitmarsh. The announcement that a boat-building firm of Quincy, Mass., will construct a large wooden centerboard yacht to compete for the honor of defending the America cup against Valkyrie II. is an interesting item of news to American yachtsmen. Advocates of the use of the centerboard have often declared that the yachtsmen of the United States made a mistake when they abandoned the centerboard type for the useless fin-keel with lead-mine attachment, and a test of a centerboarder against the big fin-keels would be a profitable spectacle. The Eiffel tower was erected merely for the purposes of demonstrating the possibility of constructing a building a thousand feet high, and of providing a unique attraction for the Paris Exposition of 1889. A time is likely to arrive, however, when Eiffel towers will be widely sprinkled over the surface of the globe. The United States Weather Bureau will soon equip fifty of its more important display stations with steel towers which are now under contract. They will not be a thousand feet high, but if they were it would be an advantage. The most serious need of the Weather Bureau at the present time seems to be facilities for taking observations in the higher atmosphere. In Great Britain the Woman's Emigration society is a thriving organization, by means of which women are helped to find employment and incidentally husbands in the colonies. During 1899 the society sent out to Canada, Australia and Africa 240 single women as nurses, teachers, governesses, helpers and domestic servants. Each one bore an excellent character, and was well trained, and many were in addition well educated. They are sent out free of charge, but money is loaned for traveling and other expenses, which has to be paid back by installments. In connection with the society there is a training home in Shropshire where, for a small weekly sum, wouldbe emigrants may become expert cooks, housewives, dressmakers and the like. A report made by ex-Fire Chief Bonner and Lawrence Veiller of the New York tenement house committee shows that there has been a shameful violation of the law requiring fire escapes on tenement houses. There are 80,000 tenement houses in that city, and the large number that are without fire escapes may be judged by the fact that out of 653 inspected in Manhattan 98 were without these necessary means of escape in case of fire. Out of 661 inspected in Brooklyn 283 were without fire escapes. "We believe," says the report, "that every tenement house which is not fireproof throughout should have fire escapes, both on the front and on the rear of the building, and, if fire escapes are to be omitted anywhere, they had much better be omitted on the rear than on the front, for there they are absolutely essential." A movement has been started in New York to turn over to the Naval branch of the Young Men's Christian association the contributions made for a permanent Dewey arch, aggregating $65,000. The branch will soon have a magnificent $400,000 building, the gift of Miss Helen Gould, and it is believed much good could be accomplished by the addition of the Dewey arch fund. Everyone admits that the Dewey arch scheme is dead. The committee dissolved by mutual consent and preparations were being made to return all sub- TRADE MARK REGISTERED 1892. U.S.PATENT OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. BEFORE USING HARTONA AFTER USING HARTONA Hartona will make the hair grow long and soft, straight and beautiful. Makes the hair grow on bald and thin places. Restores GRAY HAIR to its original color. Hartona cures Dandruff, Baldness, falling out of the hair, itching, and all scalp diseases. 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A member of the Dewey Arch committee expressed his approval of this transfer of subscriptions, and every contributor will have a chance to let his name stand for the new cause. In a report recently submitted to the Medical society of the District of Columbia by a special committee appointed to investigate typhoid fever in the District it is stated that the deaths from this disease during the past ten years numbered 1987, or 993 more than the average for the entire country. During the same period of time there have been developed in the District 9930 cases of typhoid, which have cost the community, according to the committee's estimate, not less than $5,000,000. The weak spot in public sanitation there is in the water supply. "Filtration of the Potomac water on a large scale," says the report of the medical experts, "is imperatively called for in order to diminish the excessive typhoid fever death rate." A series of actual tests at Washington and careful study of systems of filtration already in operation in this country and in Europe led to the conclusion by the committee that natural sand filtration offered by far the best possible means for purifying the public water supply. The medical experts find no difficulty in agreeing absolutely with the eminent civil engineers and sanitarians who have already unqualifiedly indorsed the natural sand filtration system. Army Wives Follow the Flag Manila fell in August. The flag went up on the Ayuntamiento and prices on the Escolta. And along in the autumn, to the consternation of the commanding general, certain devoted army wives made their way to the Orient, and no sooner was it known that the ventureures some half dozen were actually there than half a hundred others were inspired with like ambition. Peace for a season bade the world farewell as far as the commanding general and the quartermaster's department were concerned, for the number of women with missions to Manila outnumbered the staterooms on the transports, and, to put an end to importunity out came the order that none would be taken. This barred women who couldn't afford the journey at their own expense.—Saturday Evening Post. British Coal Fields. A French author, M. E. Loze, has recently discussed again the question of the probable duration of the British coal fields. Assuming that the prosperity and power of Great Britain depend upon her supply of coal he thinks that "the end of Britain" is due within the coming century. He fixes the date 1950 for the complete exhaustion of the attainable supply of coal in the British isles. To this statement the English scientific journal Nature replies that M. 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A railway now runs to Carthage from Tunis. The summer palace of the bey may be visited, but superficially. A walk through the courtyards is allowed, surrounded by thickly-iatticed windows, but one may not stand still within the precincts. Not on the direct road to Carthage, but easily reached during the same drive, in the museum at Bardo, opened in 1888 in the old harem adjoining the bey's public palace, and full of most interesting results of recent north African excavating. Catalogues can hardly keep pace with discovery and additions, so that of many beautiful things a verbal description by the intelligent attendant comprises all available information. Especially rich in mosaics, the museum contains room after room filled with fine examples of wall and floor decoration, those found in Suza (Hadrumetum) being generally in a better state of preservation than the Carthage remains. The ancient inhabitants would seem to have pleased themselves by reproducing with their bits of colored stone many familiar scenes, and so "fishing," with men and boats and nets, a seashore banquet, quite elaborately worked out, the "chase," with dogs, hunters and flying game, appear. In 1897 a very large pavement design was discovered near Zajhrun, representing the signs of the zodiac in a circle, surrounded by the seven days of the week. In addition to the earlier mosaics, there are many exhibiting Christian designs. But mosaics by no means comprise the chief wealth of the museum. Hundreds of Punic lamps of earthenware are gathered, simple but showing graceful forms and decoration, weird masks with ingenious varieties of contortion in the features, tear vials and water jars and fine bits of sculpture. Three statues have been recently excavated together at Carthage, perhaps the most beautiful at Bardo. The central figure in this exquisite group is thought to be a Ceres, and is more perfect than the others. A few fine relics of gold and silver are shown, and altogether the Musee Aloui would be an enthralling spot for months of study.—Scientific American. The Beer Mug in Germany. A young German was looking in a Chestnut street window at a display of beer mugs yesterday. "They have no significance in this country beyond being decorative," he said to a friend. "In Germany they have many rights and privileges. A man will sit and enjoy a concert all evening while sipping a single mug of beer, for so long as the cover is Matchless and Positively Unequaled for Straightening all Kinky, Knotty, Stubborn, Harsh, Curly Hair. closed down his mug is supposed to be full. If he leaves the cover of the mug open any student or other drinker near him may place his own mug on top of that of the heedless drinker, in which the man with the open mug has to pay for all the beer consumed by the man who has topped his mug. Among students this is so thoroughly understood that a newcomer often has to pay for all the beer consumed by five or six men who have managed to get their mugs on top of his while it has the cover up."—Philadelphia Record. Opening an Andree Buoy. At a meeting of the Academy of Science yesterday, and in the presence of the Arctic explorers Nordenskiold, Nathurst and other savants and experts, the Andree buoy which was found recently near Iceland was opened. The buoy bore the inscription "Andree's Polar Expedition, No. 3, 1896," and, apart from having lost its original color, it was quite undamaged. It was remarked that, owing to the defective construction of the worm in the screw of the upper portion of the buoy, the latter could become unscrewed very easily, either by the action of the waves or by pressure from the ice. It was also noticed that the buoy could not have fallen either on land or on ice, as the under portion, which is of copper, bears no indentations as the result of such a fall. This is the first Andree buoy which has been picked up with its upper screw and copper shell in their proper condition. Hitherto they have been missing.Stockholm Dispatch to the London Globe. The American Duchess' Way At one of the big bazaars which have been such a feature of the past season an ill-bred young man was heard to express his admiration of a certain charming lady serving at an adjoining stall. "What do you bet I don't go and ask her name?" he demanded of his companions. Apparently the bet was taken up for the bounder went swaggering up and said with a smirk, "What might your name be, my pretty maid?" The fair unknown dropped a curtsey, and "The Duchess of Marlborough, sir," she said, was the unexpected reply, to the extreme discomfiture of the questioner, who slunk off precipitately. An Englishwoman would probably have accorded him silence and a freezing stare, with not a quarter of the crushing effect which attended the American duchess' smile. London Outlook. —Welsh papers are agitating for the formation of a regiment of Welsh Guards similar to recently-formed Irish Guards. on the choice juicy meats served by us is just what our athletic bicycle riding, tennis playing and golfing twentieth century men and women need. P days have gone with the spin ning wheel. Good bone, muscle and tissue is what is needed now. You can get them by patronizing the Chicago Market. Our meats are fresh, tempting and choice, and are sold at prices that will let you feast in comfort. WILLIAM RASCH GENEVA LAKE, WIS. The Chicago Tribune is a newspaper for bright and intelligent people. It is made up to attract people who think. Is not neutral or colorless, constantly trim ming in an endeavor to please both sides, but it is independent in the best sense of the word. It has pronounced opinions and is fearless in expressing then, but it is always fair to its opponents. Matters of national or vital public interest get more space in THE TRIBUNE than in any other paper in the West. For these reasons it is the newspaper you should read during the forthcoming political campaign. THE TRIBUNE'S financial columns never mislead the public. Its facilities for gathering news, both local and foreign, are far superior to those of any other newspaper in the West. It presents the news in as fair a way as possible, and lets its readers form their opinions. While it publishes the most comprehensive articles on all news features, if you are busy the "Summary of THE DAILY TRIBUNE" published daily on the first page gives you briefly all the news of the day within one column. Its sporting news is always the best, and its Sunday Pink Sporting Section is better than any sporting paper in the country. It is the "cleanest" daily printed in the West. ARCTIC RESEARCH A Young Prince of the House of Savoy Reaches the Farthest Point North Yet Touched. --- NORTH POLE 1908eg ABRUZZI 86°14 NANSEN 86°14 85° UNEXPLORED C. CHELYUSKIN STELLA POLAR DAMAGED WINTER-1899-1899 80° FRANZ JOSEPH LAND SIBERIA NOVAYA SEA KARA SEA RUSSIA ```markdown ``` HERE is a fascination about Arctic exploration which nullifies the dangers and privations, and impels adventurous men to brave the terrors of the frozen solitudes and nations in generous rivalry to send expedition after expedition to wrest from the ice-locked bosom of the North the secret which it has guarded successfully since the creation of the world. Little by little, one degree after another has yielded to the determined heroism of man, but the goal is still 200 miles distant. It is doubtful if the contribution to science and geographical knowledge resulting from the discovery of the North Pole would be commensurate with the awful loss of life and vast expense attending the effort to reach it. But love of adventure, honorable ambition to achieve what so many have failed to accomplish, and man's conquering spirit which cannot rest while any obstacle remains to overcome, have induced scores of attempts which hitherto have failed of the main purpose, but have not weakened the determination of others to battle with the awful soli- DUKE ABRUZ SUN DIAPERING BELOW HORIZON COMMENCES STRAIGHT SPITZBERGEN 80° ```markdown ``` tudes, terrible rigors, and enormous difficulties of the unknown North. The latest expedition has been the most successful of all. The Duke of Abruzzi, a young scion of Italian royalty, has recently returned from a voyage of exploration which penetrated further into the polar regions than man has ever been before to the knowledge of the world. Even Nansen, the intrepid, who, until Abruzzi's voyage had the honor of going farthest north, did not get nearer than 260 miles of the pole, a distance, to be sure, less than from New York to Buffalo, but 19 minutes of latitude, or twenty miles, short of Abruzzi's highest point. This does not seem to be a great advance, but it is a distinct achievement and brings the pole twenty miles nearer than ever before, and represents an achievement which never before crowned the endeavors of man. The nearer one approaches the pole, the greater the difficulties. To advance a single mile is often a physical impossibility on account of the ice barrier. Twenty miles may represent the labor of weeks under conditions which would appall any but the stoutest hearts and exhaust all but the most robust physiques. The North Pole Described. What is the North Pole about which so much is heard? An answer to this question is found herewith: It is simply the mathematical point which marks the northern termination of the axis of the earth. It is a place where there are 90 degrees of latitude, or none, and 360 degrees of longitude, or none at all, just as one prefers to look at it. A man standing at the North Pole would have to go south whichever way he stepped. There is no north, no east, no west. Should he stand at the pole for a year he would have but one night and one day. The sun would rise on March 21 and set on Sept. 21, not to rise until the following March. "After rising," says a writer, "the sun would circle through the heavens as if rolling along the horizon, ascending every twenty-four hours a little higher, until on June 21 it would be $23\frac{1}{2}$ degrees above the horizon. Then it would gradually sink until sunset, Sept. 21. During the night at the pole all the heavenly bodies would move in horizontal cir --- cles instead of oblique circles as here." There will be nothing to designate the pole when it is reached, except the observations which fix the geographical point. The explorer takes frequent observations of the sun along his route to determine his latitude and longitude. By computation he should know when he has reached the earth's apex. The series of observations are afterward corrected whenever the exploring party reaches the base of operations or wherever the standard chronometer is left. Peary, for example, who is now in the north, and may have reached the pole, has with him six chronometers rated for different times, and showing Greenwich mean time, Washington mean time, and one rated at some convenient camp, and indicating the local time of that place. By this chronometer his more northern observations would be computed, with corrections or errors added or eliminated, this to indicate precisely the places of observation. Again, when civilization is reached the observations would be again computed with astronomical observations made ZI'S ROUTE TO THE POLE NORTH POLE 190 deg ABRUZZI 86°33' NANSEN 86°14 85° UNEXPLORED C.CHELVUS SHELLA POLE DAMAGED WINTER. 1899-1899 80° FRANZ JOSEPH LAND NORWAY SEA KARA SEA RUSSIA at Washington, and would then be added to the various nautical tables that are supplied to maritime nations. That an explorer had reached the pole could be proved from his observations, and would resolve itself to a matter of mathematical calculation. Other Expeditions. Intense interest is felt in the result of the investigations being made at the present time, in which so many nationalities are interested. Lieut. Peary will probably be the first to be heard from among those who during the past summer have been engaged in efforts to reach the limit of latitude. His expedition operates from his northernmost supply on Western Greenland, from which he was scheduled to make a 400-mile dash for the pole. The Russian expedition, which has been equipped for the discovery of the pole, has winter quarters in Matthew Strait and its main objective is Nova Zembla, with possible advances farther northward. The Norwegian expedition now is supposed to be locked in the vicinity of the pole. It is under the command of Capt. Otto Sverdrup, the indomitable lieutenant of Explorer Nansen, and the noted Fram is the vessel on which the expedition sailed. A German expedition under the command of Capt. Bauedndahl of the German Imperial navy, has started in a small schooner with the determination to reach the North Pole. The last heard from the Danish expedition of which Lieut. Andrup is in command, was that it had reached 7412 degrees north latitude on the east coast of Greenland. The Kolthoff expedition is in the same vicinity and after exploring Sabine Island, proposes making a dash northward. Robert Stein is exploring the unknown territory of Ellsmere land on his own account. FRENCH METHOD. Whereby Habitual Criminals Are Forced to Become Good Citizens. In France they manage the habitual criminal question better than in any other country in the world. For in- stance a pickpocket, a professional beggar, or a habitual "drunk and disorderly" is brought up for his or her fourth or fifth conviction. It is proved beyond doubt that he or she is incapable of performing the duties, and therefore of exercising the rights, of a free citizen; sentence is passed for the last time, a term of imprisonment is imposed which is really a preparation for the new life which the hopeless case, the piece of human refuse, is to lead: "At the expiration of your sentence you will be placed in relegation," says the judge. That means banishment for life. The criminal never sees his old haunts, never mixes with his old companions again save in exile. It will no longer be possible for him to commit crime, or to contaminate the society which has now finished with him. Moreover, he has got to work, and if he won't do that, he will find his food cut down and himself in a prison, which is made just about as uncomfortable for him as it can be. France possesses two of these dumping grounds for human refuse, as they may be called. One is French Guiana, which is about one of the best places in the world to get out of and stay away from. The other is the Isle of Pines, which is a coral-fringed paradise far away in the South Pacific, one of the most beautiful spots ever trodden by human feet, or darkened by the presence of human crime. Their working day is about seven hours and a half. They are well treated, well fed, and by no means over- LAR REGIONS. SIBERIA worked. Of course, very few of them know anything about a trade. Their only idea in life has been to loaf from the cradle to the grave. Those who can never be made into workmen or workwomen are put on the fields, farms and coffee plantations. Others are taught trades, and gradually the aimless, shiftless loafer of the slums becomes a more or less skillful carpenter, blacksmith, wheelwright or stonemason. Compressed Air for Canal Locks Compressed Air for Canal Locks. On the Erie canal at Lockport, N. Y., a pneumatic balance lock is being substituted for a flight of old-fashioned stone locks, says the Youth's Companion. The new lock consists of two steel chambers one for ascending and the other for descending boats. Each chamber is divided into two parts, an upper one containing water to receive the boats and a lower one containing compressed air on which the upper chamber floats. When a boat has been run into the upper chamber it is either lowered or raised, as may be desired, by filling or exhausting the air chamber beneath it. Where Peter the Great Lodge Where Peter the Great Lodged. In the quaint town of Zaarndam, in Holland, Peter the Great came in 1697 to learn the trade of shipbuilding. He worked like any ordinary workman, under the name of Peter Michaelhoff. He lived by himself, doing his own washing and cooking his own meals in his hut of two rooms. The cottage, which now leans in all directions, still contains the rude furniture which the great Peter used—a bedstead, table and two chairs. It is incased in a building erected for the purpose and over the mantel is a tablet erected by Alexander of Russia in 1814. Snake as a Rat-Catcher One of the men employed at the zoological gardens in New York has a black snake that has the run of his house. It has the reputation of being the best rat catcher in the entire borough of the Bronx. It is also a family pet. It is folly to draw a bill on a blind man payable at sight. TEMPERANCE TALKS. TEMPERANCE TALKS. THE RUM TRAFFIC SHOULD BE SUPPRESSED. Dangers that Always Lurk in the Flowing Bowl - How Bright and Influential Men Have Been Dragged Down by the Demon Drink. It was a cheerless winter night. The fierce wind from the north blew the falling snow full into the face of the bloated wretch who forced his way with bowed head and bent frame against the storm that cut to the marrow of his bones. In the heart of the great city, with its hundred thousand homes, he was all alone. No place to sleep, no home, no friend. God, how the cold clutched at his heart! He must be warmed without and within, or die. There is a saloon across the street, a warm fire and plenty to drink. Just one drink. How it would warm and cheer him! Just one. He will try. No money with which to buy, he must beg, but he will try. He crosses the street and enters. How cheerful. He hugs the stove a moment and its warmth cheers him on to the attempt. He stands at the bar. Almost within reach are the tempting bottles full of the liquor for which his whole being craves. Oh, how he would love to clutch them one by one and drain them to the last drop. He begins to plead. "Mister, just one drink. I have no money and no place to sleep: It's a bitter cold night. Just one drink, please, sir!" "Out, you sot!" The words cut like a knife to his heart. "Get out! You are a disgrace to my house!" He reeled from the counter as if he had been struck. Again he hugs the stove, trying to warm the wretched rags that cover his shivering body. "Come, get away there," cries the barkeeper. "John, kick this loafer into the street." John, a burly negro, seizes him by the shoulders, drags him to the door, and kicks him far out upon the pavement. The door is shut behind him and he is out again in the storm. The cat purrs upon the window sill and rubs her hairy sides against the panes. The dog warms his cold nose by the fire within; but there is no comfort for him. The wind howls and moans and tugs at his rags, as if it was trying to tear them from him. He draws them closer to his shivering frame and wanders away into the night. The morning comes, clear, bright and cold. Two blocks away from the saloon door in a narrow, dark street he was found half buried by the white drift in the gutter, frozen to death. Dead! Buried in the potter's field, unhonored, unwept— Unwept, did I say? Ah, no. A thousand miles away in the old homestead the white-haired mother weeps for her erring, wandering boy, and prays that she may be spared to see his dear face once more. Years ago he wandered away and she has lost all trace of him. Every night since he left she has prayed the good God to help him and bring him back again to the home he used to love so well. But he will never come. Thank God, she will never know that the last night he spent on earth he was kicked from the place of his ruin, a vagabond into the street. She will never know that with the cry of "Lost! Lost! Lost!" echoing through the chambers of his soul, he sank into the gutter, and his life currents froze where he fell. God be praised this cup of sorrow she shall not drink! Young man, take your choice-temperance or intemperance. Temperance is a virtue; intemperance a vice. Temperance brings prosperity; intemperance adversity. Temperance gives joy, peace and comfort; intemperance sorrow, trouble and want. Temperance brings strength of body and mind, a rugged life, a hale old age; intemperance a polluted body, a feeble mind, a wretched life and a besotted old age filled with a thousand unspeakable woes. Temperance is a blooming flower; intemperance a piercing thorn. Temperance is an orange tree, rich with a crown of golden fruit; intemperance a barren tree withered in leaf and branch. Temperance is a beautiful virgin with an angel's face; intemperance a painted harlot. Temperance is honor; intemperance dishonor. Temperance is divine; intemperance brutal. Temperance is lovely; intemperance hateful. The one makes the heart leap for joy, the other creates a hell in the human breast. Look upon this sad picture of a wasted life and dreadful death, and then, young man, take your choice. National Advocate. Is It Fight? Is it right to preach salvation to men and women, and then vote to perpetuate an institution that brings damnation to them? Is it right to teach your boy to be honest, and then vote to license a place where he may be taught to gamble? Is it right to teach your boy to restrain his passions, and then vote to license a place where his worst passions will be inflamed? Is it right to preach justice and charity, and then vote to license a thing to rob wives and children of their bread and bring lasting disgrace and misery upon them? Hustlin'. Farmer Greene—Glad t' see ye home Silas! How's things in N' York? Farmer Brown — Hustlin', Joshua, Hustlin'! Why, th' way folks rush aroun' there ye'd think th' caows wuz loose in th' cabbage patch th' hull tar nation time.—Puck. THE HOUSEHOLD In sections of the country where large crops of fruit are harvested every year it is a tiresome task to pull each individual apple, pear or peach from the tree with the hands, and this is necessary order to preserve the fruit to the best advantage. As an aid in a coomplishing this work Nicholas A hand holding a knife. B. McChee, of Orange, Cal., has designed the fruit clipper which is illustrated herewith. It comprises a pair of blades pivoted together at one end and provided with rings to attach the clipper to the thumb and forefinger. A slight pressure with the thumb and finger is sufficient to close the knife, and sever the stem. It will be noticed that the clipper allows the use of the hand to catch the fruit the moment the stem is severed, thus enabling it to be gathered rapidly with one hand, while the other is used for drawing in the boughs of trees or for holding a receptacle. The clipper could also probably be used to advantage by florists in gathering their flowers for market. By adjusting the position of the two rings the leverage of the clipper can be increased a will or severing large and small stemmed fruits. Polishing Floors. Floors may be easily varnished and waxed by a delicate woman in this way: Take a very low chair or stool, so low that a brush held in the hand can easily reach the floor without stooping, and, by moving the chair along, the entire surface of the floor can be easily covered first with the varnish and afterward, when dry, with the wax. Where a heavy weighted floor brush is not available, the old French way may be substituted-i. e., wrapping up the feet in flannel and shuffling over the floor or skating on a brush. It is funny to see a servant who has been trained to wax floors in this way in Europe at his work, performing a sort of shuffling dance over the floor, with his feet looking like pudding bags and his eyes fixed on vacancy, as he solemnly dances to and fro, quite unconscious of the laughable spectacle he presents. Little Conveniences. To misplace a kitchen fork or spoon may burn to a cinder the most carefully prepared dish. The convenient holder lost from its nail may burn the cake or burn the pie, and incense the cook. A cook table, full of drawers, where flour, spices, roling pins and cake cutters are kept, with bake pans hanging over it, will save you miles of travel and hours of time. A small shelf near the stove, kept for extra salt and pepper, will save you fifty miles of travel in ten years. Only for one day, count how many times you go from cook table to stove, seasoning various dishes, and you will see what this means. In finding places for kitchen utensils study every time to place them where it will take the fewest steps to reach them. Pumpkin Pie. Stew the pumpkin in as little water as possible until tender. Press through a colander. To every half-pint of pumpkin add butter the size of a walnut and a quarter teaspoonful of salt. Let stand until cold. Take one pint of pumpkin, one pint of milk, half teaspoinful of ground mace, the same of cinnamon and one teaspoonful ginger. Sweeten to taste. Add four eggs well beaten. This will make four pies. Bake in a quick oven about thirty minutes. Curry of Turkey. Put two tablespoonfuls of butter in the chafing dish, with good-sized onion chopped fine, eight or ten pepper corns, a dish of mace and two or three bay leaves. Stir until the onion is nicely browned, then add two tablespoonfuls of flour, one tablespoonful of curry powder, juice of half a lemon, salt and pepper and one pint of good stock. Let simmer for ten minutes, strain, and add one pint of cold boiled turkey cut into dice. Any kind of cold meat may be substituted for the turkey. Thicken one cup of hot milk with one tablespoonful of butter and flour rubbed together, and season with salt and white pepper. Household Hints. Do not put salt into soup until you are done skimming it, as salt will stop the rising of the scum. When baking bread, have the oven quite hot when the loaves are first put in, and let the heat diminish. Don't fail to add a drop or two of vanilla flavoring to a pot of chocolate, as it is a great improvement. When grating a nutmeg, always start from the blossom end. Why? Because it will grate more rapidly. Scald out and air bread and cake-boxes twice a week. Bread molds quickly, and extra care is necessary. To have a custard pie of an even, nice brown when baked, sprinkle a little sugar over the top just before putting into the oven. When stoning raisins, rub a little butter on the fingers and knife. It will relieve the task of raisin-seeding of its stickiness and discomfort. 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. UNITED TYPEWRITER and SUPPLIES CO. Agents for Wisconsin and Northern Michigan—414 Broadway, Milwaukee, Wis. Northwestern House APPLETON, WIS. JOHN A. BRILL, - Proprietor. Terms $1.00 Per Day. Accommodations the best in the State. When in Appleton stop at the NORTHWESTERN TONEY THE ARTIST FINE ART Shining Parlor 2161 GRAND AVENUE Opposite Flanner's Music Store MILWAUKEE, WIS. Money Loaned on Securities and Wages Collected Notary Public and Real Estate Brokers. Houses and Flats to Rent. W.F. Hunter&Co. 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Mailed postpaid for only 50c. VAL. SCHREIER SIGN WORKS, Milwaukee, WI. MR.T.W. BARTO. of 511 Wells Street. has opened up a new Bakery and Lunch. Has stocked his store with Choice Goods, Fresh Bread, Rolls, Pies, Cakes and Candies and Choice Family Groceries, Milk and Tobacco and Cigars. Don't forget to give him a call. Phone 405 Black. Before Starting on Your Travels CALL ON Geo. Burroughs & Sons MANUFACTURERS OF PREMIUM TRUNKS VALISES, SAMPLE CASES, Etc. 424 & 426 East Water St., Milwaukee. MRS. PLEVA IS PARDONED Gov. Scofield Sets Free Woman Who Killed Her Husband. SERVED THREE YEARS. William Friedrich and Jacob Beischer of Miiwaukee, Guilty of Burglary, Given Their Liberty. Madison, Wis., Jan. 2.—[Special.]—Gov. Seofield today granted a pardon to Mrs. Maria Pleva of Kenosha, who has served a little more than three years of a fourteen-year term in state prison for killing her husband, having been convicted of murder in the second degree. She effected his death by putting poison in his coffee. The district attorney, who prosecuted the case, petitioned for her pardon and appeared before the governor to argue in favor of it, and Judge Fish, who sentenced her, sent a strong letter to the governor recommending the pardon, stating that Mrs. Pleva was a very ignorant woman with a family of children, while her husband was a brute who abused his family and threatened to kill her on several occasions. The night before the poisoning he had threatened to shoot her and all the children in order, he said, to get rid of them. Milwaukee Boys Pardoned. Pardons were also granted today to William Friedrich and Jacob Beischer, two lads of 18 and 19 years who on March 17 last pleaded guilty to a burglary in Milwaukee and were sentenced to three years in the house of correction. Judge Waller who sentenced them and Judge Brazee, then district attorney, who prosecuted both, recommended the pardon. It was stated that if the young men had not pleaded guilty they could not have been convicted of burglary, their offense being really a petty larceny. Attorney Ed Loew appeared before the Attorney Ed Loew appeared before the governor in behalf of the young men. KILLED BY TRAINS. Two Meet Death and One Terribly Injured-Fatal Crossing Accident on New Year's Day. Marinette, Wis., Jan. 2.—Stephen Boozie, a well-known resident of Marianette, was almost instantly killed, and Charles Colleghon was fatally injured in Menominee yesterday. They were driving and their cutter was struck by a North-Western passenger train and demolished. Boozie was carried a quarter of a mile on the snow plow and died soon after. Colleghon had both legs taken off and will probably die. The horse escaped injury. Both men leave widows and large families. Mauston, Wis., Jan. 2.—Charles Hauer's child, Leonard, aged 7, was struck yesterday afternoon by an engine of Train No. 5 of the Milwaukee road and so badly injured that he died in a few minutes. QUARANTINE LIFTED. Danger of Epidemic of Diphtheria at Green Bay Reformatory is Averted. Green Bay, Wis., Jan. 2.—[Special.]— The threatened diphtheria epidemic at the state reformatory has been averted. The last one of the six inmates who were attacked by the disease was returned to his cell yesterday, after Dr. D. J. O'Connor had pronounced him entirely cured of the disease. The quarantine placed over the institution by Supt. James E. Heg after the outbreak of the malady closes today. Work will be resumed tomorrow in all departments. As a preventive against the possible outbreak of smallpox in the institution every officer, attache and inmate has been vaccinated. BLAZE AT FOND DU LAC. Joseph Ligday Fur Store is Damaged by Fire. Fond du Lac, Wis., Jan. 2.—[Special.] —Fire which had a very mysterious origin broke out in the Joseph Ligday fun rooms in the second story of the W. W. Clark block at the corner of Main and Second streets Monday night at about 10:30 o'clock and caused a loss of about $2000 on the building and the loss to occupants of the block with Ligday's estimate up in the thousands greatly exceeds that amount. Much damage was done by water. La Crosse, Wis., Jan. 2.—[Special.] —The Recreation Gun club house burned to the ground today. The loss is $10,-000. It was built ten years ago and for a time was a favorite place for society folks to have an outing trip from the city. J. E. Wheeler was the owner. The fire originated from a defective chimney and, as it was outside the city limits, no help could be given. Sheboygan, Wis., Jan. 2.—[Special.] Fire is still burning in the large coal piles at the Reiss dock and it will probably be three or four days yet before it is entirely out. The company has refused to give out any statements regarding loss and amount of insurance. Work will be commenced as soon as possible on the work of reconstruction, so that the docks can be used for a part of next season at least. A UNIQUE ENTERTAINMENT. "Trip Around the World" by Beloit Club Women. Beloit, Wis., Jan. 2.—The enterprise of the Woman's federation of this city in a "Trip Around the World" was a delightful affair and a success financially. Five beautiful homes of the city were opened and represented as many nations, as follows: China, at T. L. Wright's; India, John Paley; Holland, M. Reitler; America, Mrs. Vale; England, W. M. Brittan. The costuming in all cases was elaborate and rich. The federation will apply the proceeds of the affair to advancing educational interests. HOLDERNESS' GOOD WORK. Excused from Taking Entrance Examinations at West Point. Kenosha, Wis., Jan. 2.—[Special.]—Roy Holderness of this city, recently appointed a cadet at West Point by Senator Quarles, has been excused from taking any of the final examinations for entrance. Holderness has done excellent work at the academy and is placed among the first fifteen in the entrance class. ANOTHER DIVIDEND DECLARED Creditors of Defunct Dane County Bank Get 10 Per Cent. More. Madison, Wis., Jan. 2.—[Special.]—An additional dividend of 10 per cent. was authorized by the circuit court to the creditors of the defunct Dane county bank of Stoughton. A dividend of 30 per cent. was declared some months ago, so that the creditors have thus far received 40 per cent. of their claims. QUARANTINE VILLAGES. Bragg, Radisson and Caledonia in Columbia County Are Under Strict Guard. Portage, Wis., Jan. 2.—[Special.]—Postmaster C. F. Mohr of this city yesterday announced that all mail matter addressed to Bragg and Radisson post-offices in this county would be held in this office until the contagious diseases raging in these neighborhoods have abated; nor will any matter mailed at these offices be received. Diphtheria is alarmingly prevalent at Radisson, while the affliction at Bragg, which was pronounced smallpox by the attending physician, has so far developed no new cases. The nine cases of the disease in Caledonia are all in the Shaughnessy, Dunnigan and Corridon families—all relatives. Seven of these cases are already convalescent. The first case developed more than three weeks ago and no physician was called in any of the cases until Saturday, when Michael Corridon became ill. If the disease is smallpox it is of a remarkably mild character. A quarantine in the afflicted neighborhood has been established and will be rigidly maintained awaiting further development in the spread of the disease. A great many persons have been exposed, but it is a singular fact that the disease has been confined to the three families named, all relatives of young Dunnigan, who is supposed to have contracted the disease in Minneapolis, and with whom the young man had been stopping. La Crosse, Wis., Jan. 2.—[Special.]—Glen Haven and Cassville, river towns on the Wisconsin side of the Mississippi, report smallpox cases in alarming numbers. In the latter place it is not so prevalent as in the former where the townpeople are quite alarmed. There are no deaths reported and it seems that the disease is in a mild form as it is in many other places in the Northwest. WISCONSIN THANKED. The First State to Respond to the Relief of the Galveston Sufferers. Black River Falls, Wis., Jan. 2.—[Special.]—The department treasurer of the W. R. C. has received the following letter from the national treasurer, congratulating her on sending so much money raised by the Wisconsin department for the Galveston sufferers and being the first state to respond: I must stop all work and take off my lat to Wisconsin. All honor and glory to her always. What a noble band of workers, and how proud you must be to be treasurer of such a department. I am sure I am proud of you all. As I write to the national president, I shall take unalloyed pleasure in informing her of the noble generosity of your W. R. C. women. Tell every one you meet that their national treasurer is so proud of them and is eager to take them by the hand, and look into their faces and congratulate them on their nobility of character. God bless them, every one. I have heard very much about your beautiful home at Waupaca, and I hope some day to visit it. Oh the Western people have a good deal more heart than the Eastern, and I think I shall have to emigrate to your grand country. We have much to be thankful for in this fair land of ours, and we ought to bow in reverence before that Great Power who is watching over and guiding us. We do in our hearts, but this life is so full of work and care that we sometimes forget that it is not all our efforts that are shaping our destinies. I am not going to preach a Thanksgiving sermon, but your letter has made me thankful for my blessings, and I hope the dear Lord will bless you abundantly. ROAD WILL BE BUILT. Promoters of the Proposed La Crosse, Black River Falls & Neilsville Railway Active. La Crosse, Wis., Jan. 2.—[Special.]—Paul McHugh, who with his brother has spent about $20,000 and much time in making a survey for the proposed La Crosse, Black River Falls & Neillsville railroad, states that the present quiet in the operations of the promoters will not last much longer. Contrary to the general understanding, the motive power is to be steam instead of electricity, and the roadbed is to be of standard gauge, so that the cars of any of the connecting lines may be sent to any point on the line. Last summer an effort was made to have the towns to be touched upon vote aid to the road, but it failed in most instances. Some of the towns had lawsuits impending and others were short of cash on account of flood damage. This summer it is hoped that the circumstances and sentiment will be changed and another effort will be made to interest the people of the localities through which it will go. Mr. McHugh states that he already has a permanent survey and options on the right of way, and in some instances has deeds to the land. La Crosse has offered forty acres for terminals. WOLVES BOTHER FARMERS. Big Hunt in Pepin, Dunn and Eau Claire Counties. Eau Claire, Wis., Jan. 2.—[Special.]—Farmers in the counties of Pepin, Dunn and Eau Claire, in the neighborhood of Rock Creek, have been terribly annoyed by the destructive raid of a pack of wolves which have infested that region of country and have destroyed great numbers of sheep. Eighteen farmers from the counties named, all mounted and armed and accompanied by a pack of good dogs, started in pursuit of the wolves. The wolves were tracked to their lair and routed out. There were ten of them in all, full-grown timber wolves. Men, horses and dogs got after them in full cry. But they all got away with one exception, and he would have got away too, but for a timely bullet from the rifle of Warren Young of Springbrook, in this county. Black River Falls, Wis., Jan. 2.—[Special.]—Wolves are quite numerous in this vicinity this winter. A. C. BOSSARD RESIGNS. Well-Known Employe of North Western Road at Kaukauna. Kaukauna, Wis., Jan. 2.—[Special.]—A. C. Bossard, who for twenty-seven years of his life has been identified with the business of railroading and who has been in Kaukauna sixteen years of that period as agent, first in South Kaukauna for the Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western, and later, when this division was purchased by the Chicago & North-Western Railroad company, acted in that capacity at both stations, resigned his position, to take effect January 1, 1901. It is his purpose in resigning to become treasurer of the new paper manufacturing company organized here to build at Grand Rapids, Minn. He will also become resident manager for the new company. RIPON MILITARY COMPANY. Membership Limit of 68 Has Been Reached. Ripon, Wis., Jan. 2.—[Special.]—The military company in this city now has a full membership, sixty-eight men being on the rolls. This is the largest number of men enrolled by the officers in five years—excepting at the time of the Spanish-American war. BIG FIRE IN SHEBOYGAN. BIG FIRE IN SHEBOYGAN. Flames Raging in the Coal Dock of the C. Reiss Company. RIVER FRONT BURNING General Alarm is Sent in and Firemen Battling to Save Adjoining Property. Sheboygan, Wis., Dec. 31.—[Special.] —Fire broke out at 12:30 o'clock this afternoon in the Reiss Coal company's dock No. 1. In a moment the entire dock was wrapped in flames. A general alarm was sent in and the department is working hard to save adjoining property from destruction. There are thousands of tons of coal on the dock and the loss will reach $75,000. There was a terrific gale blowing and the flames advanced rapidly. For a time it was feared that the other docks would be destroyed and the whole river front seemed in peril. The fire burned fiercely and the Frost veneering plant was in danger and the firemen had to work hard to keep the flames from attacking the plant, but by banking engines between the docks and the plant the progress of the fire was arrested. Shortly before 3 o'clock the fire was in control, and confined to dock No.1. The great mass of coal is on fire and will burn for several days. The dock and four hoisting derricks were completely destroyed and several loaded coal cars on the North-Western road were burned. Shortly after 1 o'clock the flames spread to the salt docks of the Reiss company, but were extinguished before much damage was done. The cause of the fire was spontaneous combustion. Tons of soft coal were consumed. The company refuses to make any statement at this time as to loss, insurance or cause of the fire. EAU CLAIRE HOTEL ON FIRE. Firemen Working Hard to Save Hart House from Destruction. Eau Claire, Wis., Dec. 31.—[Special.] —The Hart hotel caught fire in roof at 1 o'clock this afternoon. The fire spread rapidly. The firemen are working hard to extinguish the flames. Waukesha, Wis., Dec. 31.—[Special.] —Fire broke out at 2 o'clock this morning in the residence of R. J. Seltzer on Maple avenue. The building was damaged to the amount of $1200. The fire originated in a staircase in the second story of the house and is supposed to have been caused by a defective chimney flue. The fire department, at the signal, turned out in full force, but when the firemen arrived the fire had gained considerable headway. All the roof had been burned off and nearly the upper story was in flames. Very little household goods were saved from destruction. The loss is almost fully covered by insurance. PRIEST AVERTS PANIC. Altar at St. Patrick's Catholic Church at Green Bay Takes Fire. Green Bay, Wis., Dec. 31.—[Special.] One cool, present-minded man averted a threatened panic in St. Patrick's Catholic church in this city yesterday morning. It was during the celebration of high mass and there were about 800 worshipers in the church. The elaborate altar trimmings for Christmas had not been removed. In some way burning tapers set fire to the decorations on a side altar and the flames began to spread with almost lightning-like rapidity. Men, women and children became frightened and rose to their feet to rush pell-mell for the doors, but they were held in check by a cool command from the pastor. Rev. M. J. O'Brien, to remain in their seats. A score of men rushed to the altar, but stood still before the flames, apparently helpless. Another man in the congregation rushed to the altar, removed his overcoat and undercoat, and with these garments succeeded after a few minutes in suffocating the flames, but not until several hundred dollars damage had been done by breaking costly vases and other bric-a-brac and decorative pieces on the altar. When the fire was completely extinguished a subdued ripple of applause swept through the congregation, for the worshipers realized that the man had done a brave deed. DANCED. THEN DIED. Racine Society Woman Seized with Congestion of the Lungs Shortly After Close of a Ball. Racine, Wis., Dec. 31.—Miss Lizzie K. Sneeberger, a popular society lady of the west side, attended dancing school at the Odd Fellows' hall Saturday evening. She seemed in the very best of health and was the happiest and liveliest in the party, and when she started for her home at 11:45 o'clock in company with her brother, she bade her friends a cheerful farewell and within an hour after reaching her home she was dead, having been taken suddenly ill and all efforts of physicians to save her proved unavailing. The cause of her death was attributed to acute conjestion of the lungs. Miss Sneeberger was 31 years of age. She was a well-known member of the Woman's Relief corps. Ladies of the Maccabees and the Ladies of the Fraternal Alliance. TWO BADLY INJURED. Girls Thrown from Carriage During Runaway at Prairie du Sac One Loses an Eye. Prairie du Sac, Wis., Dec. 31.—[Special.]—Two daughters of Henry Bliven, a farmer of Sauk Prairie, were seriously hurt in a runaway in this city. Their horses became unmanageable and threw the girls out of the buggy, cutting them severely and injuring the eye of one of them so that the sight is destroyed. The carriage was totally wrecked. BELOIT'S NEW CHAPEL W. B. Strong One of the Prime Movers in the Enterprise Beloit, Wis., Dec. 31.—[Special.]—A new $1200 chapel in the northwestern part of the city was opened yesterday with appropriate exercises. W. B. Strong, who gave Gridley chapel to the people living in the northeastern portion of the city, was one of the prime movers in the enterprise, contributing the first $200. The chapel is an independent organization which will take up its work under the direction of the American Sunday School union. Sheboygan Fire Loss Settled. Sheboygan, Wis., Dec. 31.—The Zschetzsche Sons company settled with the insurance adjusters on their losses by the recent fire to their tannery, the amount allowed being $123,500. The company will begin rebuilding at once. HARVEY REPORTS ON RURAL SCHOOLS. He Makes Important Recommendations to the Legislature—Advocates Township System. Madison, Wis., Dec. 31.—[Special.]—State superintendent of schools, L. D. Harvey, has made some important recommendations to the Legislature in his report. He discusses the township system of school government which he has advocated for years, and gives considerable space to the question of better teachers for the country schools. The common schools, their present backward state, their needs, and the means of supplying the needs, and improving their conditions, indeed, might almost be called the keynote of the report. Among his recommendations some of the more important are: County training schools for teachers. Increased facilities and appropriations for teachers' institutes. Higher qualifications for common school teachers. Better pay and a limit to the time a person may teach on a third-grade certificate. Among other valuable information in the report is the following statement of the enrollment of pupils in the state: The superintendent says that there are too many small schools where the teachers are too poorly paid. The township system, by placing all the schools of each township under the control of a single school board, would make it possible to consolidate the smaller schools in proper localities and transport the children from considerable distances to the larger centrally-located schools. There is a law, however, Mr. Harvey points out, by which the same thing may be done. The wages paid teachers in the common schools of the state are classified in the report as follows: 174 teachers get less than $20 a month. 2764 teachers get between $20 and $26 a month. 258 teachers get more than $50 a month. Mr. Harvey comments on the large number of teachers who get less than $25 a month, and are employed only seven or eight months in the year. It is impossible, he says, for teachers who get this meager pay to make any extensive preparation for their work. Consolidation, Mr. Harvey thinks, would result in the employment of higher-paid, better-prepared teachers. If higher qualifications are to be demanded from the country school teachers part of their training should be in the art of teaching. The county training school system, such as is in operation in Marathon and Dunn counties at present, is suggested as a means of giving this professional training. The state appropriation for teachers' institutes should be increased from $12,000 a year to $20,000. Mr. Harvey refers to the bill introduced in the last Legislature abolishing the county superintendents of schools and substituting a system of district superintendents to be appointed by the state superintendent. This bill was killed by the Legislature. Mr. Harvey takes the same position he did then in favor of the change, and says he had little hope for the passage of the bill, but desired to draw the attention of the public to the evils of the county superintendent system. The report advocates that teachers' examination papers written under the supervision of the county superintendents shall be marked by some central authority removed from local and personal influences. Mr. Harvey recommends the establishment by the next Legislature of county schools of agriculture and domestic economy, under the same general plan as the already existing county training schools for teachers. THINK HER INNOCENT. Appleton Friends of Miss Amy Sesselberg Go to Her Assistance. Appleton, Wis., Dec. 31.—[Special.]—Miss Amy Sesselberg, accused in Chicago of stealing a diamond ring, was located Saturday night as having lived for some time, about a year ago, in the family of E. M. Stannard, while studying kindergarten work. She left here a year ago. Friends in this city are confident of her innocence, and Mr. Stannard promises a suit for false imprisonment on her behalf if she is proven innocent. J. J. Watson of Kaukauna, assistant division engineer of North-Western railway, went to Chicago and furnished bond for the girl. Her examination will take place Wednesday. The young woman was kept all night in a cell at the Chicago police station. She is said to be in a terribly nervous condition. SCHOETZ GETS VERDICT. Millionaire Davis of Neenah Must Pay for Hitting the Ex-Mayor of Menasha. Oshkosh, Wis., Dec. 31.—[Special.]—After being out about five hours, the jury in the case of former Mayor M. M. Schoetz of Menasha, against J. R. Davis, the millionaire manufacturer of Neenah, brought in a verdict of $150 for plaintiff. On September 10 last, Davis and Schoetz became involved in a political discussion on an interurban car between here and Neenah. Davis struck Schoetz a blow over the eye, cutting it, and pinioned him down in the seat until taken off by the conductor. Davis' defense was that Schoetz was a quarrelsome man and that he thought that Schoetz was going to attack him. WILL TRY SILK THIEVES. Woman will be Taken to La Crosse to Answer Charges. La Crosse, Wis., Dec. 31.—[Special.]—Mary Ann Sullivan, Mollie Morris and Annie Perry, the three Chicago women who are suspected of shoplifting in this city, some time ago, and who have been sentenced in St. Paul to ninety days for a minor offense, will be brought to the city immediately upon their release in the twin cities and will have to answer the charge of the theft of much silk and other goods. PASTOR WILL SUE FOR HIS SALARY Rev. Joseph Moran of Eau Claire to Take Legal Steps to Secure Money Due Him. Eau Claire, Wis., Jan. 2.—[Special.]—Rev. Joseph Moran, until recently rector of Christ Episcopal church and rector of St. Edward's Mission chapel, will, it is said, sue the vestrymen of Christ church for back salary. It is stated that the reverend gentleman claims $400 back salary due him. It is also stated that the reason he resigned was on account of being unable to draw his pay. C. W. PINKHAM DEAD. A Pioneer of Fond du Lac County Dies After a Long Fond du Lac, Wis., Jan. 2.—[Special.] —Calvin Wilder Pinkham, a pioneer of the county, died yesterday morning at 10:30 o'clock. He had been ill for over a year and was confined to his bed most of the time. Mr. Pinkham was 74 years old, and was born in Canada. He came to this county forty-eight years ago. It was a founder of the local Presbyterian church. A daughter, Susie J. Pinkham of this city, and a son, James B. Pinkham of Chicago, survive him. The funeral will take place tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock from the family residence, 15 Eighth street. Rev. Louis Peeke, assisted by Rev. H. W. Thompson, will conduct the services. George Tomlinson, Racine. Racine, Wis., Jan. 2.—[Special.]—George Tomlinson died, aged 74. He was one of the most prominent and respected residents of Racine. He lived here for over half a century. In 1849 he came to this city. He was a carpenter and contractor. In the early days he went West as a miner and made considerable money. He returned in 1860 and was for several years tax assessor and city marshal. He was a Mason. No relatives survive except Mrs. James Tomlinson of Burlington, his sister-in-law. The funeral was held this afternoon under Masonic auspices. Mrs. Sawyer, Waukesha. Waukesha, Wis., Jan. 2.—[Special.]—Mrs. F. S. Sawyer died this morning at 3 o'clock of pneumonia at the home of her son in West Superior. She was ill only a short time. She was 88 years old and born in Chester, Vt. She came here in 1852. For the last ten years she has been living with her sons, George S. Sawyer of Chicago, W. P. Sawyer of this city and C. E. Sawyer of West Superior. Black River Falls, Wis., Jan. 2.—[Special.]—Nathan Palmeter, aged 69 years, died at his home near Shamrock yesterday. FREE FROM DEBT. The Kenosha Y. M. C. A. Receives Many Contributions on New Year's Day. Kenosha, Wis.. Jan. 2.—[Special.]— The Kenosha Young Men's Christian association starts into the new century free of debt. Yesterday there were debts hanging over the new building to the amount of $3200, but the last cent of this has been raised. A general call for help was sent out on New Year's day and the people responded in a befitting manner. There were hundreds of small gifts and many gifts of $50. Among the larger gifts were the following: W. W. Cooper, $500; unknown friends, $500; unknown friend, $200; Mrs. O. S. Newell, $100; George A. Yule, $100. A total of 264 new members were received into the association on New Year's day, making the association self-supporting. SISTERS BURNED OUT. Fire Destroys the Home of Teachers of Parochial School Appleton, Wis., Jan. 2.—[Special.]—Fire broke out yesterday morning in the dwelling occupied by the sisters employed as teachers in St. Mary's parochial school. The sisters, ten in number, were absent at church, and the fire gained great headway before it was discovered. It is supposed to have started from the furnace in the basement. Only a portion of the furniture was saved and the loss is considerable, partly covered by insurance. While working at the fire, Chief Anderson had his leg severely injured by a ladder, though no bones were broken. ALLEGED CATTLE THIEF. Walter Bassett Held at Oshkosh on Charge of Stealing Cows. Oshkosh, Wis., Jan. 2.—[Special.]— Walter Bassett was arrested yesterday morning on a charge of stealing a heifer from Wm. Robbins, a farmer, residing on the Omro road, six miles from here. Bassett was held for trial. The police claim he has confessed. It is alleged that Bassett has stolen several cows and sold them to local butchers. NEW BRIDGES AT MERRILL. Milwaukee Company is Awarded One of the Contracts. Merrill, Wis., Jan. 2.—[Special.]—At the meeting of the board of public works the proposition to build a bridge over the Wisconsin river at the foot of Genesee street for the sum of $8425, submitted by the Milwaukee Bridge and Iron company, was accepted, while a second proposition from W. L. Hewett to bridge the Prairie river on Third street for $3300 was also accepted. TOUR OF THE WORLD. Stevens Point Man is Sent on a Long Journey. Stevens Point, Wis., Jan. 2.—[Special.]—A. P. Williams, formerly foreman of the Central carshops here, has been sent on a trip of investigation around the world by his present employers, the American Car Foundry company of Jeffersonville, Ind. He will go by way Honolulu, New Zealand and Australia expecting to be gone about six months. CHANGES ITS NAME. Hotel at Ripon Now Known as the Englebright. Ripon, Wis., Jan. 2.—[Special.]—Ripon's chief hostelry, formerly Wood's hotel and later Hotel Ripon, will enter the new year under a new name that of Hotel Englebright. The hotel has been completely remodeled and now has fine new office, parlor and bar furnishings. Edward Hughes of Oshkosh is the present manager of the house. Fire in Eau Claire Hotel. Eau Claire, Wis., Jan. 2.—[Special.] The fire in the Hart house, which for a time on Monday looked as though it would consume the hotel, was extinguished by the department. The loss was $150, covered by insurance. EXPORT OF AMERICAN FRUITS Apples from Oregon and California Flood the British Market. The Evangeline, the new fruit boat belonging to the Furness line, has just brought thousands of barrels of Canadian apples to London, and they were all in splendid condition. The striped Graversteins and the crimson-cheeked Baldwins looked as fresh as when they were pulled from the trees in the Annapolis valley. The successful importation of fruit from Canada is due, the manager explained to the Daily Mail representative, to rapid transit and to storage between decks ventilated by natural means, not by electric fans. With a carrying capacity of 30,000 barrels, or 90,000 bushels of apples alone, the Evangeline will largely increase the apple supplies of the United Kingdom. The fruit she brought made the highest prices that have been reached this season, and therefore fruit shippers on the other side will be encouraged to export as much fruit as they possibly can. Her next consignment was for the Christmas market. Fruit from the vast orchards of Oregon and California have also flooded London and the large provincial towns. The imports for this season have so far been phenomenal alike in quality and quantity. 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It cost something like $1000. Some idea of the extent to which the amateurs go into theatricals may be gathered from the expenditures of The Strollers for their recent performances at the Waldorf-Astoria, which amounted to more than $8000 in all. And public support of their enterprise was sufficient to carry this costly venture through without loss. Almost $17,000 has been contributed for the Admiral Philip memorial fund. It is hoped the fund may amount to at least $50,000. The income of the fund is to go to Mrs. Philip as long as she lives, and after her death it will be devoted to the maintenance of the naval arch of the Y. M. C. A. in Brooklyn, a work in which Admiral Philip was deeply interested. One of the big speculators in the Street recently went to a banker and said that he wished to borrow $1,000,000. "All right," was the response. "What is your security?" "My check," was the airy and surprising reply. 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She wore a superb tiara of diamonds, and around her throat was a black velvet band, studded with diamond stars. Her neck was almost entirely concealed by diamond necklaces, and garlands of these gems fell onto her low bodice. She wore a diamond girdle made in Vandyke points, which fell over her skirt. Mrs. John Jacob Astor was with her and wore white net embroidered with silver. She wore a rope of diamonds around her neck, looped up with an immense sapphire, and diamonds in hair. The New York Press tip-of-the-tongue man gives instances to prove that rigid economy is the mother of accumulation. One of the busier business men of that city, with offices in Broadway, never purchased a scratchbook in his life, and never wasted a fresh piece of paper on a memorandum or a column of figures. Every envelope that comes in his mail is sliced apart, back from the front, and the front or address side is preserved for use. The inside forms a clean, smooth sheet $3\frac{1}{2} \times 6\frac{1}{4}$ inches. One of the millionaires of Boston made his start by saving empty nail kegs and selling them back to the nailmakers for 10 cents each in trade. His clerks were accustomed to kicking in the staves and burning them in the stove. When the big North German Lloyd liner Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse came in the other day, all the floating cash was in the pockets of Herr H. Morgen Hill and of Herr L. Lorillard, two men who rarely, if ever, played poker before. Herr Lorillard, the smoking-room experts say, "cleaned up" $10,000 and Herr Hill about $4000. Neither would admit his winnings, but both were tipping stewards, porters and dockhands with a reckless profuseness that is shown only by him who has suddenly got a lot of money he didn't expect. Herr Hill is a financier in San Francisco. Four men started poker in the smoking room, among them Herr Lorillard. The ship was pitching in a rough sea, the wind was from the west, and it was dark and cold. The players needed a fifth man, and someone aroused Herr Hill, who was sitting in a corner thinking of the Golden Gate. Hill didn't want to play—the man who wins everything is always he who has to be driven into the game by sheer force. But Hill sat in, more to be amiable than to make money. They played and the honors were easy. Then someone, by way of a bluff, made a large bet. It was seen and raised. In an incredibly short space of time there were hundreds of dollars in the pot. Someone had four or five aces. This was the conclusion of the onlookers, who were sure also that besides the aces someone else had a hand worth holding. When the sum in the pot reached $1150, Herr Hill called. Herr Lorillard showed ace high and the others had nothing as good except Herr Hill, who took the $1150 with a pair of deuces. After that Herr Hill played some more. The ending of the voyage also ended his gains. His pockets bulged with money. The old poker players, who knew all about when to go in and when to stay out and could calculate to a nicety the value of a hand, gnashed their teeth as they saw Herr Hill and Herr Lorillard walking off the Hoboken pier with their money. "I don't know anything about Hoyle," said Herr Hill. "and wouldn't recognize him if I collided with him in the street." "It was the first time I ever played poker for money," admitted Herr Lorillard. Indian Silks. From time to time reports reach this country as to the condition of the silk industry in India, but seldom is an official publication so interesting as "A Monograph on Silk Fabrics Produced in the Northwestern Provinces and Oudh," written by A. Yusaf Ali, and published at the government press, Allahabad. At the present time two striking efforts are being made in India to improve its prosperity by the culture of silk. Many experiments, indeed, have been tried since the early '60s; but Lord Masham, on behalf of the great firm of Listers, has been successful in inducing a number of the Dehra Dun district to take up the rearing of silkworms as an auxiliary employment. This work is, however, upon a very modest scale compared with that undertaken by the Maharajah of Cashmere, who sought the practical help of Sir Thomas Wardle in endeavoring to place the industry upon a sound commercial basis. Only four years have passed since the start was made; but last year Cashmere was able to send to this country over 300 bales, or 43,000 pounds, of raw silk, which realized 16s9d a pound in the open market. This season a larger and better total still is expected, and meantime the Maharajah and his enlightened advisers are planting mulberry trees incessantly to provide the food required by the silkworms. Silk is in such wide demand nowadays that ladies cannot fail to be interested in all projects that may tend to lesson its cost, and in the opinion of experts the supplies to be expected from Cashmere will have a very marked influence upon the trade in exquisite finished satins, brocades and velvets.—London Telegraph. DEMANDING VICTIMS. London Public Wants Responsibility for South African Reverses Determined. London, Dec. 29.—Miserable rain, fog and dirt made Christmas week of evil memory for England. Depressing gloom, in thorough harmony with the weather, settled over the country. The coasts were strewn with wrecks, commerce was out of joint and the public was bitterly digesting the criticism of the British army. The demand for Major.-Gen. Sir Henry E. Colville's resignation, thrown as a sop, only served to whet the ravenous appetites of those who are howling for the responsibility of the reverses in South Africa being brought home to individuals. More heads are demanded. Where so many must be blamable it is felt that the selection of Gen. Colville is woefully inadequate, if not unfair. Indeed, it is already said that had not the yeomanry force at Lindley, which Colville failed to relieve, included some of the nobility and other influential persons, Colville would never have been recalled. The bitterness felt by these yeomanry at being compelled to surrender because, as they allege, Colville refused to render the aid within his power, has never died out and it will probably result in one of the most interesting court martials in the annals of the British army, upon the result of which will depend the fate of several other high officers who have proved unequal to the occasion. Will Infuriate the Dutch. The Liberal papers comment severely on the acceptance by the war office of a contingent of Maoris from New Zealand. The Star says: "The effect of this stupid blunder on the Dutch will be terrible. After declining to employ Indian troops, we are taking a paltry hundred Maoris. This will not only infuriate the Dutch but it will insult the Indian troops who will regard it as a declaration of their inferiority to an inferior colored race. Go on, O government of muddlers; even the gods could not save you from your own invincible folly." However, there are signs of the dawn of that common sense, the lack of which the English critics so deplore in the military system, for the cavalry now going out to South Africa is discarding the lance and carbine and substituting for these weapons rifles and sabers. After over a year's fighting the authorities have wakened to the utter uselessness of lances and carbines, considering that thousands of British soldiers have never seen a Boer during the many engagements. While Great Britain is tied hand and foot to South Africa, the navy, which is not escaping the wave of criticism, is quietly increasing its strength and morals. For months both men and ships have been kept in an unusual state of readiness, and there are now building in British yards no fewer than eleven battleships, nineteen cruisers and fourteen smaller vessels, totaling nearly 400,000 tons. These exclude vessels which have been tried, but are unfinished. Social Barriers Removed. The gradual removal of the social barriers which formerly restricted English political and educational life, were never better instanced than by the appointment this week of Joseph Owen to a fellowship at Oxford. Six years ago Mr. Owen was a millhand at Oldham, helping to support his poor parents. He attended at night the university extension lectures, and so much ability did he show that the lecturers got up a fund and sent him to the great university, where, with his wife, he settled down in a humble cottage. He knew no Greek and little Latin. His first success came when he won the Brackenburg history scholarship, to the surprise of many learned, aristocratic competitors. Four years of determined uphill work passed and the final examinations drew near. On a position in these depended Mr. Owen's whole future. A few weeks before the ordeal, his young wife died suddenly. Mr. Owen's friends thought it impossible for him to accomplish anything; but the millhand's grit stood the strain and Mr. Owen gained the coveted first class, with the degree. His appointment as extension lecturer quickly followed and Mr. Owen lectured where, six years previous, he had learned. The climax in his career came this week, when Pembroke college elected Mr. Owen, out of all of the Oxonians, to the lucrative and honored post of fellowship. A Picture of Washington. There are few original pictures of Gen. Washington in England, hence the discovery of another miniature is interesting. It is by Sam Folwell and is dated 1791. Another by the same artist is now in the possession of the Historical society of Philadelphia, dated 1796. The new find is supposed to be an excellent likeness. It represents Washington wearing a pigtail. Glasgow, which the Christmas and New Year season has made notorious for the drunkenness exhibited in its streets, has acquired possession of an old mansion house situated in a deserted part of Ayrshire, at a cost of £7000, where habitual drunkards will be sent for terms varying from three months to two years. The authorities hope to effect cures by making the inmates do farm work. JACK STRAWS. High and dry—champagne. We have seen a well-read man and also an unwell Red man. A lingering glance—when a man says: "Here's looking at you." The stock exchange furnishes quotation marks for the up-to-date girl of the period. It isn't expected that the middle man will be satisfied with doing middling well. The school of acting is most useful when it convinces young people that they can't act. It is safe to say there are no "bad pennies" known to be among the employes of the mint. Though a vegetarian, the hen-pecked husband may have tongue served up to him three times a day.—Philadelphia Bulletin. —As the result of an election bet two black bears will march in the inaugural parade in Washington next March. W. M. Hoey and William Taggart of Nogales, Ariz., made the bet. The former won and by the terms of the wager will lead the bears, which were captured in the Santa Rita mountains. After the parade they will be given to the Washington zoological gardens. THE DISCOVERER OF Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound The Great Woman's Remedy for Woman's Ills. Yours for Health Lydia E. Pinkham No other medicine in the world has received such widespread and unqualified endorsement. No other medicine has such a record of cures of female troubles or such hosts of grateful friends. Do not be persuaded that any other medicine is just as good. 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WHEN WRITING TO ADVERTISERS please say you saw the Advertisement in this paper. PISO'S CURE FOR CURES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS. Best Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Use in time. Sold by druggists. CONSUMPTION TALMAGE SERMON A. H. N this discourse Dr. Talmage shows an open door for any one who desires to be useful and illustrates how a little thing may decide one's destiny. The text is Proverbs xxv., 11 (revised version), "A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in baskets of silver." A filigree basket loaded with fruit is put before us in the text. What is ordinarily translated "pictures" ought to be "baskets." Here is a silver network basket containing ripe and golden apples, pippins or rennets. You know how such apples glow through the openings of a basket of silver network. You have seen such a basket of fruit on many a table. It whets the appetite as well as regales the vision. Solomon was evidently fond of apples, because he so often speaks of them. While he writes in glowing terms of pomegranates and figs and grapes and mandrakes, he seems to find solace as well as lusciousness in apples, calling out for a supply of them when he says in another place, "Comfort me with apples." Now you see the meaning of my text. "A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in baskets of silver." You see the wise man eulogizes just one word. Plenty of recognition has there been for great orations. Cicero's arraignment of Catiline, the philippies of Demothenes, the five days' argument of Edmund Burke against Warren Hastings, Edward Irving's discourses on the Bible and libraries full of prolonged utterances, but my text extols the power of one word when it refers to "a word fitly spoken." This may mean a single word or a small collection of words—something you can utter in one breath, something that you can compact into one sentence. "A word fitly spoken"—an encouraging word, a kind word, a timely word, a sympathetic word, an appropriate word. I can pass right down the aisle of any church and find between pulpit and front door men whose temporal and eternal destinies have been decided by a word. Choosing an Occupation. I tell you what is a great crisis in every man's history. It is the time when he is entering an occupation or profession. He is opposed by men in middle life, because they do not want any more rivals, and by some of the aged, because they fear being crowded off and their places being taken by younger men. Hear the often severe and unfair examinations of young lawyers by old lawyers, of young doctors by old doctors, of young ministers by old ministers. Hear some of the old merchants talk about the young merchants. Trowels and hammers and scales often are jealous of new trowels and new hammers and new scales. Then it is so difficult to get introduced. How long a time has many a physician had his sign out before he got a call for his services and the attorney before he got a case! Who wants to risk the life of his family to a young physician who got his diploma only last spring and who may not know measles from scarlatina, or to risk the obtaining of a verdict for $20,000 to an attorney who only three years ago read the first page of Blackstone? How is the young merchant to compete with his next door bargain maker, who can afford to undersell some things because he can more than make it up by the profit on other things, or has failed three times and had more money after each failure? How is that mechanic to make a livelihood when there are twice as many men in that trade as can in hard times find occupation? There are this very moment thousands of men who are just starting life for themselves, and they need encouragement. Not long harangue, not quotation from profound book, not a page, not a paragraph, but a word, one word fitly spoken. Why does not that old merchant, who has been forty years in business, go into that young merchant's store and say, "Courage!" He needs only that one word, although, of course, you will illustrate it by telling your own experience, and how long you waited for customers, and how the first two years you lost money, and how the next year, though you did better, illness in your household swamped the surplus with doctor's bills. Why does not that old lawyer go into that young lawyer's office just after he has broken down in making his first plea before a jury and say that word with only two syllables, "Courage!" He needs only that one word, although, of course, you will illustrate it by telling him how you broke down in one of your first cases and got laughed at by court and bar and jury, and how Disraeli broke down at the start, and how hundreds of the most successful lawyers at the start broke down. Why do not the successful men go right away and tell those who are starting what they went through, and how their notes got protested, and what unfortunate purchases they made, and how they were swindled, but kept right on until they reached the golden milestone? Even some who pretend to favor the new beginner and say they wish him well put obstacles in his way. The Need of Courage. There are so many men who have all the elements of usefulness and power except one—courage. If you can only under God give them that you give them everything. In illustrating that one word show them that every man that ever amounted to anything had terrific struggle. Show him what ships Decatur had to fight, and what a mountain Hannibal had to climb, and what a lame foot Walter Scott had to walk on, and that the greatest poet who ever lived—Milton—was blind, that one of the grandest musicians of all the ages—Beethoven—was deaf, and that Stewart, in some respects the greatest merchant that America ever saw, began in his small store, dining on bread and cheese behind the counter in a snatched interregnum between customers, he opening the store and closing it, sweeping it out with his own broom and being his own errand boy. Show them that within ten minutes' walk there are stores, shops, and factories, and homes where as brave deeds have been done as those of Leonidas at Thermopylae, as that of Horatius at the bridge, as that of Colin Campbell at Balaklava. Tell them what Napoleon said to his staff officer when that officer declared a certain military attempt to be impossible. "Impossible!" said the great commander. "Impossible is the adjective of fools." Show them also that what is true in worldly directions is more true in spiritual directions. Call the roll of prophets, apostles and martyrs and private Christians from the time the world began and ask them to mention one man or woman greatly good or useful who was not depreciated and flailed and made a laughing stock. Racks and prisons and whips and shipwrecks and axes of beheadment did their worst, yet the heroes were more than conquerors. With such things you will illustrate that word "courage," and they will go out from your presence to start anew and right, challenging all earth and hell to the combat. "Good morning! How do you do today?" said a clergyman in New Haven many years ago to a stonemason who was covered with dust and mortar. The stonemason was sour with the world and cross and crabbed, but at that salutation of the clergyman looked up in surprise and stopped and asked some one who was passing who that man was who spoke to him so kindly and was told he was the pastor of a church on that street. The stonemason next Sunday went to that church to hear its pastor preach. The stonemason was converted under the sermon and prepared for the ministry and became one of the most useful and brilliant and foremost ministers in the Baptist denomination. I heard him in my boyhood say on the anniversary platform in Broadway tabernacle that that good morning on the street of New Haven many years before saved him for this world and the next. Words of Comfort. That word "courage" fitly spoken with compressed lips and stout grip of the hand and an intelligent flash of the eye—well, the finest apples that ever thumped on the ground in an autumnal orchard and were placed in the most beautiful basket of silver network before keen appetites could not be more attractive. Furthermore, a comforting word fitly spoken is a beautiful thing. No one but God could give the inventory of sick beds and bereft homes and broken hearts. We ought not to let a day pass without a visit or a letter or a message or a prayer consolatory. You could call five minutes on your way to the factory, you could leave a half hour earlier in the afternoon and fill a mission of solace. You could brighten a sick room with one chrysanthemum. You could send your carriage and give an afternoon airing to an invalid on a neighboring street. You could loan a book with some chapters most adapted to some particular misfortune. Go home to-day and make out a list of things you can do that will show sympathetic thoughtfulness for the hardly bestead. How many dark places you might illumine! How many tears you could stop, or, if already started, you could wipe away! How much like Jesus Christ you might get to be! So sympathetic was he with beggary, so helpful was he for the fallen, and so stirred was he at the sight of dropsy, epilepsy, paralysis and ophthalmia that whether he saw it by the roadside, or at the sea beach, or at the mineral baths of Bethesda, he offered relief. Cultivate genuine sympathy, Christlike sympathy. You cannot successfully dramatize it. False sympathy Alexander Pope sketches in two lines: Before her face her handkerchief she spread To hide the flood of tears she did not shed There are four or five words which, fitly spoken, might soothe and emancipate and rescue. Go to those from whose homes Christ has taken to himself a loved one and try the word "reunion"—not under wintry sky, but in everlasting springtide; not a land where they can be struck with disease, but where the inhabitant never says, "I am sick;" not a reunion that can be followed by separation, but in a place "from which they shall go no more out forever." For emaciation and sighing, immortal health. Reunion, or, if you like the word better, anticipation. There is nothing left for them in this world. Try them with heaven. With a chapter from the great book open one of the twelve gates. Give them one note of seraphic harp, one flash from the sea of glass, one clatter of the hoofs of the horses on which victors ride. That word reunion, or anticipation, fitly spoken—well, no fruit heaped up in silver baskets could equal it. Of the 2,000 kinds of apples that have blessed the world not one is so mellow or so rich or so aromatic, but we take the suggestion of the text and compare that word of comfort, fitly spoken, to apples of gold in baskets of silver. A Word of Warning. So also is a word of warning. A ship may sail out of harbor when the sea has not so much as a ripple, but what a fool-hardy ship company would they be that made no provision for high winds and wrathful seas. However smoothly the voyage of life may begin we will get rough weather before we harbor on the other side, and we need ever and anon to have some one uttering in most decided tones and words "beware." There are all the temptations to make this life everything and to forget that an inch of ground is larger as compared with the whole earth than this life as compared with our external existence. There are all the temptations of the wine cup and the demijohn, which have taken down as grand men as this or any other century has heard of. There are all the temptations of pride and avarice and base indulgence and ungovernable temper. There is no word we all need oftener to hear than the word "beware." The trouble is that the warning word is apt to come too late. We allow our friends to be overcome in a fight with some evil habit before we sound an alarm. After a man is all on fire with evil habit your word of warning will have no more effect than would an address to a house on fire asking it to stop burning, no more use than a steam tug going out to help a ship after it has sunk to the bottom of the ocean. What use in word of warning to that inebriate whose wife was dying from wounds inflicted by his own hand? As he held the hand of his dying wife he made this vow: "Mary, I will never take another glass of strong drink until I take it from this hand which I now hold." In an awful way he kept the vow, for when the wife was in her coffin he filled a glass with brandy, put the glass into the dead hand, then took the glass out of her hand and drank the liquid. Too late does any warning come to such an one. But many a man now high up in usefulness and honor was stopped on the wrong road by a kindly hand put upon the shoulder and a word fitly spoken. Ah, yes, fitly spoken—that is, at the right time, with the right accentuation, with the right emphasis. A dictatorial way, a condemnatory manner, a fault finding tone of voice, a manner which seems to say, "Look at me, and do as I do," will only make matters worse. From such a reproval the inebriate will go out to take a drink sooner than he would have taken it, and the dissolute man a worse plunge into sin. The word of warning must be charged and surcharged with sympathy. You will practically say to the man, "I suppose you got into your present habit through overwork, and you took stimulus to keep up and do the work you must do;" or, "I suppose it was through illness, and you took an intoxicant first as a medicine;" or, "You are a hail fellow well met, and you took the liquid in sociability;" or, "You were the representative of a commercial house that expected you to treat customers. I understand it all. If I had been in the same circumstances, I would probably be fast in the same thraldom." By some such alleviating introduction prepare the way for a "Beware!" that will halt your friend on the wrong road as suddenly as any platoon of soldiers was ever halted. Swing the red lantern across that track, and stop that train before it reaches the chasm! Speak With Patience. There must be no impatience in the warning we give others. We must realize that but for the kindness of God to us we would have been in the same rapids. That man going wrong may be struggling with a tide of evil inherited from father and grandfather and great-grandfather. The present temptation may be the accumulated force of generations and centuries. "No," you say, "his father was a good man. I knew him." But did you know his grandfather? Evil habit is apt to skip one generation, a fact recognized in the Ten Commandments, which speak of the third and fourth generations, but say nothing of the second generation. Or the man astray may have an unhappy home, and that is enough to wreck any one. We often speak of men who destroy their homes, but do not say anything about the fact that there are thousands of wives in America who by petulance and fretting and inconsideration and lack of economy and all manner of disagreeableness drive their husbands into dissipation. The reason that thousands of men spend their evenings in club houses and taverns is because they cannot stand it at home. I know men who are thirty-year martyrs in the fact that they are awfully married. That marriage was not made in heaven. Without asking divine guidance they entered into an alliance which ought never to have been made. That is what is the matter with many men you and I know. They may be very brave and heroic and say nothing about it, but all the neighbors know. Now, if the man going wrong has such domestic misfortune, be very lenient and excusatory in your word of warning. The difference between you and him may be that you would have gone down faster than he is going down if you had the same kind of conjugal wretchedness. The Gospel Bell. In the Kremlin at Moscow, Russia, is what is called the "king of bells," but it is a ruined bell, and it has rung no sound for near 200 years. It is 67 feet in circumference, and in height it is more than ten times the height of the average man, and it took a score of men to swing its brazén tongue. It weighs 200 tons. On the 19th of June, 1706, in a great fire it fell and broke. It broke at the part which was weakened by the jewels, which the ladies of Moscow threw into the liquid metal at the casting. The voices of that bell are forever hushed. It will never ring again, either at wedding or obsequy or coronation. What majestic and overpowering silence! Enthroned and everlasting quietude! One walks around it full of wonder and historical reminiscence and solemnity. On it are figures in relief representing Czar and Empress and Christ and Mary and the evangelists. But as I stood before it last summer I bethought myself of a greater bell and one still ringing. It is the gospel bell, ages ago hung on the beam of the cross. It has vaster circumference and with mightier tongue sounds across seas and continents and awakens echoes amid Alpine and Himalayan and Sierra Nevadan ranges. The jewels of affection thrown into it at its casting by ransomed souls of earth and heaven have not weakened it, but made it stronger and more glorious. But it requires now no great strength to ring the bell. With this weak hand, yesterday formed and to-morrow turned to dust, I lay hold that gospel bell in invitation to all so whom these words shall come, on whatever land or whatever sea, in high places or low. I ring out the word, "Come, come!" Come and have your sorrows solaced. Come and have your wounds healed. Come and have your blindness illumined. Come and have your fatigues rested. Come and have your soul saved. Do you not hear the very last proclamation from the heavens which the seer of Patmos was commissioned to make: "The Spirit and the bride say come, and let him that heareth say come, and let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will let him take the water of life freely?" Aye, hear you not the chime of many gospel bells in the invitation this moment sounding from the heavens, "Come out from among them and be ye separate," saith the Lord. "And touch not the unclean thing, and I will receive you and will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters," saith the Lord Almighty. Come and sit down at the King's banquet. Was there ever such a brilliant feast or so many royal guests? Here are the chalices filled not from the breweries of earth, but with the "new wine of the kingdom." And here are the ripe, purple clusters of Eschol, and pass them around to all the banqueters—"apples of gold in baskets of silver." The borrower's plan is to get and forget. we advertised last week for $7.50 to $25.00, go now this Week Only. NS we'll unload for $13.50 This Week Only. body or taste, last week $8.50 to $25.00 This. ou a wider choice and a lower price than anybody. MISFIT CLOTHING HOUSE ATER STREET, Opposite Barrett's Dep't Store. u Can Show Cause. Open EVENINGS 'Till 10. low will prove it to you. UNION... y and News Co. 432 State Street W. SAYLES CAREFULLY DONE... and Satisfaction Guaranteed. Holiday Gifts The OVERCOATS that we advertised last week for $7.50 to $25.00, go now for $5.00 to $18.00 This Week Only. These swell $18 RAGLANS we'll unload for $13.50 This Week Only. SUITS to fit anybody's body or taste, last week $8.50 to $25.00 This Week $6.75 to $16.50. TROUSERS — We give you a wider choice and a lower price than anybody. 213-215-217 WEST WATER STREET, Opposite Barrett's Dep't Store. Your Money Back If You Can Show Cause. Open EVENINGS 'Till 10. A good look in our window will prove it to you. THE BAKERY M RINGS-LOW PRICES BRETT & SON, EMBALMERS and FUNERAL DIRECTORS JAMES T. BRETT & SON, 307 REED STREET and 410 GRAND AVENUE. Always Open MRS. JAMES T. BRETT, Lady Undertaker. Telephones: South 122. Grand 2467. Milwaukee, Wis. KEG and Rev. JOSEPH A. JACKSON, Pastor. --- Diamonds, Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Rings, Silverware, Large Assortment, Reliable Quality, Low Prices MONOGRAM RING JAMES T. BR M. WHEN IN MADISON Call at the Avenue Hotel... M. J. REGAN, Prop. $2.00 Rate . . . . Free 'Bus. WHEN IN KENOSHA Our stock doesn't fit the store right—it's too big. Watch the scissors of low prices "cut it down" to fit. The real trouble is that the cold weather hasn't come soon enough. We find that we're overloaded with heavy clothing. We're going to unload a bit this week and it will pay you to help us. Don't look for these bargains next week. C. J. Dewey JEWELER 234 West Water Street. ST. MARK'S A. M. E. CHURCH Corner Fourth and Cedar Sts. REV. T. W. LEWIS, PASTOR. Residence, 256 Seventh Street, MILWAUKEE, WIS. SERVICES SUNDAY 10:45 and 7:45 SUNDAY SCHOOL 3 P. M. CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR 7 P. M. ALL ARE WELCOME. BayView Mission ST. JOHN'S E. M. E. CHURCH 310 SUPERIOR STREET. Services at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Sundays. Wednesday and Friday Evenings, at 8:30 p. m. BLACK SKIN REMOVER. REGISTERED IN PATENT OFFICE U.S. BEFORE AFTER A Wonderful Face Bleach, AND HAIR STRAIGHTENER Both in a box for $1, or three boxes for $1. Guaranteed to do what we say and to be the "best in the world." One box is all that is required if used as directed. A WONDERFUL FACE BLEACH A PEACH-LIKE complexion obtained if used as directed. Will turn the skin of a black or brown person four or five shades lighter, and a mulatto person perfectly white. In forty-eight hours a shade or two lighter will be noticeable. It does not turn the skin in spots but bleaches out white, the skin remaining beautiful without continual use. Will remove wrinkles, freckles, dark spo's, pimples or bumps or black heads, making the skin very soft and smooth. Small pox pits, tan, liver spots removed without harm to the skin. When you get the color you wish, stop using the preven THE HAIR STRAIGHTENER that goes in every one dollar box is enough to make anyone's hair grow long and straight, and keeps it from falling out. Highly perfumed and makes the hair soft and easy to comb. Many of our customers say one of our dollar boxes is worth ten dollars, yet we sell it for one dollar a box. Any person sending us one dollar in a letter or Post-Office money order, express money order or registered letter, we will send it through the mail postage prepaid; or if you want it sent C. O. D., it will come by express, 33c, extra. In any case where it fails to do what we claim, we will return the money or send a box free of charge. Packed so that no one will know contents except receiver. THOS. B. CRANE, 122 West Broad St., RICHMOND, VA. WONDERFUL DISCOVERY Curly Hair Made Straight By TAKEN FROM LIFE; BEFORE AND AFTER TREATMENT. 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Write your name and address plainly to OZONIZED OX MARROW CO. 76 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Ill. For the Safest and Quickest Road between Milwaukee and Chicago Take the Chicago; Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway. NORTHERN WISCONSIN RAILROAD LANDS Are increasing in value from year to year. Railroads are the great civilizers, for they give the settler as well as the manufacturer equal opportunity to work in undeveloped fields, thereby rapidly settling the country and bringing forth its undiscovered riches. Northern Wisconsin is rich in iron ore, clay, kaolin, marl, timber and fine farm lands. It has made many a settler independent and added to the wealth of manufacturers who have sought this territory. Opportunities have not passed, as there is still a generous supply of land which can be obtained at low figures and on easy terms. THE WISCONSIN CENTRAL RY. Was one of the first roads to penetrate the vast Northern Wisconsin Wilderness which stretches across the State from east to west. It, also, has developed from year to year and today offers the best of transportation facilities, enabling all to ship the products of that section to any market in the world. Illustrated pamphlets and maps which are interesting as well as instructive can be obtained by addressing W. H. KILLEN. Land & Industrial Commissioner: Geo. T. Jarvis, Gen. Mgr.; Burton Johnson, G. F. A., or Jas. C. Pond, G. P. A., Colby & Abbot Building, Milwaukee, Wis. Pabst MaltExtract The Best Tonic Builds up both the body and nerves; brings refresh- ing sleep, insures a healthy appetite, aids digestion and feeds blood, brain and bone It cannot fail to benefit in every case where more strength is re- quired Once tried, you will never take a substitute. AT YOUR DRUGGIST ---