Wisconsin Weekly Advocate

State Historical Society WISCONSIN WEEKLY ADVOCATE DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF THE NEGRO RACE ( JUDGE ORRIN T. WILLIAMS Judge Orrin T. Williams, whose portrait we have the pleasure of presenting to our readers, has made such a record for himself as a private citizen, a lawyer, a legislator and a jurist, that he is deserving of the support of all citizens who have the purity of the bench of Milwaukee at heart. As a private citizen the honorable and learned gentleman has earned for himself the respect of all irrespective of politics or creed. He is a devoted member of the Grand Avenue Congregational Church, but by no means a bigot, freely granting to all that liberty of conscience which he claims for himself. As a lawyer he built up an extensive and lucrative practice and had the confidence of a large clientage. In 1891 he was elected to the Legislature as representative for the combined Fourth and Sixteenth wards, and during his term of office introduced CREAM CITY NOTES. 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The preacher characterized this ejaculation of Jonah as a backslider's confession, going on to show that God had given him another opportunity, another chance of redeeming himself, although at the last extremity. The great lesson which Dr. Fenwick wished to impress upon his hearers from the subject was that a sin of omission was equally great with a sin of commission. In the evening there was a large audience, amongst which it was pleasing to notice numerous strangers attracted by the reputation of Dr. Fenwick. The reverend gentleman took for the subject of an eloquent and closely reasoned discourse, Hebrews XII. 1. 2. He carried his hearers in imagination by graphic description to the fields of Ancient Greece, where the youth of the day strove for mastery in the games. He depicted these as representing the race of life—the Christian life; not to be a walk or saunter, but a strenuous undertaking—and that the only sure way of reaching the desired goal was as to be found in his text, by casting off all unnecessary weights and especially beset and especially beset- VOLUME V. the civil rights bill, which, that being a Democratic Legislature, was defeated. He thereby has earned the gratitude of all the Negro voters of the county, and must not be confused with the Williams of Williams' bill fame, as some of our people have been led to believe. As a jurist, since being appointed to fill the unexpired term of the late Judge Sutherland his decisions have been such as to merit the confidence of the bar and the general public. Comparatively few of his decisions have been appealed to the supreme court, and of those that have been so appealed the majority have been sustained. Taking all these facts into consideration we have no doubt but that the electors of Milwaukee county will on Tuesday, April 7, irrespective of party, by an overwhelming majority, return the Hon. Orrin T. Williams as first judge of the new circuit court. ting sins, and by simply "looking to Jesus," as a savior, as an example, as a sympathizer and as a final rescue. The discourse was listened to with eager and devout attention and seemed to produce a profound effect. Next Sunday evening Dr. Fenwick will speak upon "The Influence of Negro Journalism." The usual weekly meeting of the Thimble Club in connection with St. Mark's Church, was held at Mrs. Bland's, 44 Eighth street, on Tuesday evening. This club meets alternately at the homes of its members to prepare work for a church "fair" to be held in Easter week, and incidentally for social intercourse and kindly gossip. Tuesday evening Mrs. Fenwick read a paper on the subject "Seize it," which was much appreciated by those present. Next Tuesday evening there will be no meeting, as Mrs. Fenwick and her CoMite-Missionaries have been asked to take entire charge of the nightly meeting at the Rescue Mission. This is a new departure and we trust will turn out to be a success. According to a writer in Cosmos there are some oysters toxic in themselves, but it is generally contaminated water that renders them poisonous. A yellowish black oyster having a peculiar odor is noxious in itself; and it is well to reject oysters which are a little open in the shell, as that indicates an alteration in them due to their having been too long out of the water. Oysters from beds suspected of contamination should be kept for eight days in a part of the coast where the sea water is quite pure. They have thus time to get rid of the contaminated water. Not every one cares for oysters, but some people find them an easily digestible but light nourishment. Brillat-Savarin mentions one who swallowed thirty-two dozens of oysters and afterward ate a hearty dinner. The Emperor Vitellius, according to historians, took twenty dozen as an appetizer, but that was before the Ostend oysters were invented. Dr. Gastaldi, a celebrated gourmand, is credited with swallowing from thirty to forty dozen; yet his example is not encouraging, for he died of apoplexy at the table. The digestibility of the oyster is enhanced by the salt of the sea water and the condiments added. Few ailments contain as many assimiable and degistible matters in a small bulk as oysters.—Lincoln Globe. —Improper street cries, songs, speeches or lectures are forbidden in Belgium by a law which passed the Belgian Parliament recently. Big Eaters of Oysters. THE WILLIAMS MARRIAGE BILL. THE WILLIAMS MARRIAGE BILL. Attorney Green Makes Vigorous Attack on the Measure Before Judiciary and Secures Its Indefinite Postponement Bill Afterwards Sent to Committee on State Affairs—Rev. Jameson Makes Williams Angry. Owing to the fact that the Williams bill was under discussion when we went to press last week we could not devote the space to the matter that its importance deserves. But few bills have been presented this session which have attracted more attention, and when the bill came up for argument, March 4, the committee room was crowded. The debate was opened by Mr. Williams, who presented the bill. He said that it was a good thing and that both colored and white people should be in favor of it. He denied that anyone in Milwaukee had said anything to HIM. He was here interrupted by Mr. Green, who wanted to know who did say anything to him. Mr. Green then began his argument. He said that he had frequently found men who were broad-minded upon every subject except the matter before the committee, and upon that they were exceedingly narrow. He hoped and believed that he was addressing men who were broad-minded on all subjects, and that unless they were, his task was useless. He characterized the introduction of the measure as an attempt to re-enact the black laws, which belonged to a legislation of a past age, and which had been repealed and repudiated since the war by almost every Northern state, and that no such laws were enforced in the Philippines, Porto Rico, island of Guam, the Sandwich islands, under the United States authority; and in no other portion of the civilized globe except in the Southern and one or two Northern states of this free country. He characterized it as class legislation of a most unnecessary and dangerous character. He then passed to the moral condition in states where such laws were in force, and gave figures to show that two-thirds of the mulatto children were of illegitimate parentage. He read authority after authority, showing that the law itself was defective. He showed that such a law exists in Virginia, while in the District of Columbia it does not, and then read a decision where "K," a colored man, and "M," a white woman, went from Virginia to Washington, D. C., and were there lawfully married. After remaining there ten days they returned to Virginia and began living together as husband and wife. They were arrested, indicted, charged with fornication and unlawful cohabitation, and sentenced to the penitentiary, and the supreme court of Virginia sustained the conviction and sentence. "What," he asked, "under this law would prevent a Negro from taking a white woman from Wisconsin into the state of Illinois or any other state where such marriages were legal, marrying her, living with her as his lawful wife, till he grew tired, returning to Wisconsin and having the marriage annulled. Gentlemen," he said, "your bill is fatally defective." He told them the present bill was the result of malice, prejudice and a desire to humiliate the Negro, and warned them that legislation based upon class hatred or race or other prejudice was never beneficial to the state. He read letters from prominent people all over the state condemning the measure, every one of which letters gave the name and address of the writer. Amongst these was one from Rev. Dr. Fenwick of St. Mark's A. M. E. Church, Milwaukee, condemning the measure in no uncertain language. Mr. C. E. Dickson of West Superior said among other things that he was a taxpayer and a citizen in the state of Wisconsin, but when that state stooped to the level of South Carolina he wanted to pay taxes in some other state. Dozens of other letters followed in the same vein. Mr. Green was followed by Rev. Jameson, pastor of the A. M. E. Church at Madison and acting chaplain of the Legislature, who volunteered his services. The reverend gentleman made a strong plea against the measure. He stated that while he was personally not in favor of such marriages, yet he opposed the measure because its enactment would be against public policy. He spoke of the loyalty of the colored man to the government and to the flag. He had sealed his devotion with his blood on the battlefields in the sunny South as well as in Cuba and the Philippines. He criticised Mr. Williams' course of action as a Grand Army man, which made that gentleman angry. Rev. Jameson closed with a passionate appeal to the committee to vote against recommending the measure. Mr. Williams then rose to his feet and in a somewhat coarse and vindictive manner referred to both gentlemen as blackguards. Every person present with the possible exception of Chairman Cady and Secretary Strong was intensely disgusted with Mr. Williams' action and showed such disgust in their faces. Williams stated that when he went to the war he went to fight for his country and not to free Negroes. Rev. Jameson rose and apologized at once. Mr. Green rose and stated that if anyone else but Mr. Williams had made such a statement he would have called it an insult. "If any gentleman present will arise in his place and say I have insulted Mr. Williams, I will apologize; otherwise I decline to do so." There being no response, the apology was not made. The committee went into executive session and by a vote of 8 to 2 recommended that the bill be indefinitely postponed. Several days later, and before the report reached the Assembly, Mr. Williams induced another member to move that the bill be re-referred to the state affairs committee, which motion was smuggled through. Mr. Green will leave again for Madison in a few days to appear before the committee on state affairs and make a second argument. He has made a thorough canvass of the Legislature and is satisfied with the result. Senator Hatten's Panacea At the present time, when public men from the President downwards are bestowing no little share of their thought to the solution of the supposed Negro problem, it is gratifying and pleasing to think that one of the legislators of this great Northwestern state has taken the initiative in formulating a scheme whereby according to his ideas this much to be desired end might be attained. Whether Senator Hatten's scheme if carried into execution would have this effect is very much to be doubted. We do not for one moment question the honorable senator's patriotism, and his single-minded desire for the greatest good of all his countrymen in proposing his resolutions, but we do fail to see that such if carried into execution would have the desired result—a solution of the difficulty to the satisfaction of all parties concerned, and for the greatest good of the greatest number. If this were a matter in which there was the slightest hope of, by the force of argument, bringing all parties to see alike, it might be different; but when men have deeply settled convictions on any point, it is perfectly futile to bring them together for argument. If such a conference as Senator Hatten suggests were held, it could only in our opinion give rise to heated discussion and a large amount of unnecessary friction; much, which had better be left unsaid, would be said in inflammatory language, and would, we feel, cause strained relations between the parties espousing the different sides of the question. And to what end? What possible good could accrue from such a conference? Nothing but a strengthening of the present embittered feeling, which it were best for all parties concerned to allay. Again, is it possible under the federal constitution that one state can compel another state to act in this matter? The governor of South Carolina flatly refuses to take the matter into consideration, saying that the personnel of such a conference could not but be an admixture of persons entirely lacking in an adequate knowledge of the subject in all its bearings, which they are invited to discuss. And he is not alone in his opinion. Many of the Negroes' best friends, both North and South, can see only evil resulting from the proposed conference, and the Advocate agrees with such. Let Congress do its part in passing and enforcing laws reducing representation in those states which have disfranchised the Negro, to its proper limit; and let the whole Negro race endeavor to make a long pull, a strong pull, and especially a pull altogether, and show that they are worthy of all the rights and privileges of citizenship which have been conferred upon them and in our opinion a greater step will be taken towards the solution of the so-called race problem than all that could be done at such a conference as has been proposed, we believe, in all good faith, and with the best intentions by Senator Hatten of Wisconsin. That there are differences of opinion in this matter, however, may be judged from the result of interviews held with two leading representatives of the race in Milwaukee. The Rev. Dr. Fenwick, the pastor of St. Mark's A. M. E. Church, says: "If there is a race problem it can be solved in one sentence. Leave the Negro alone and give him a chance. Any Negro who would endorse Senator Hatten's resolutions is disloyal to his race." Attorney W. T. Green says: "If such a conference can be brought about, if it does no other good than open the eyes of the Northern people to the true conditions in the South, it will have achieved the desired end." Attacked by Butterflies. According to the native papers of Tokio (Japan) a host of large butterflies, numbering about 50,000, entered a house and fluttered round an electric light in the parlor. The occupant of the house was frightened and ordered his servants to burn a fire in the street. The butterflies swarmed to the fire, and many of them were burned to death. But the survivors gathered round the lantern at the door of a "soba" house, and afterward charged the lamp of a police box in the neighborhood, but finally all perished. Four British and three German firms have been invited to tender for the supply of thirty-two locomotives for Japan. CAUSES OF FAILURE. Discouragement a Large Factor-Confidence in Self and Plans is Needed. Have you ever weighed a few words of praise, against many of reproof, in the discipline and development of your children and servants? Have you ever realized the effect upon yourself, after a season of self-disapprobation, of a sincere compliment from your husband or a bantering tribute of praise from your eldest son? When the human spirit gets down to its full ebb-tide of self-depreciation, and becomes submerged in that tenacious, muddy ooze compounded of our real and our supposed shortcomings and failures, it is apt to settle sluggishly in this unpleasant resting place, and while waiting for the flood to return and float it again, to be much poisoned by the microbes of the place. There is not in the whole category of destructive agencies anything more actively injurious to mental vitality and more dangerous to good judgment than a sense that we are weaker than fate and unable to struggle against circumstances. To have the bacillus of failure infest the brain, means that our thinking power is weakened, our enegies dulled, our vitality lowered, and the whole system out of tune. These are almost unsuitably trivial and frivolous illustrations of a great and most important influence upon our lives, but when once you can say to the dull child: "You have made an excellent recitation," there is an infusion of actual mental power into the slow mind, and tomorrow he will come to his class smiling and with hope in his eyes. As long as his daily meat was condemnation of his stupid work he saw no light upon his task. Tell your maid who is born with "a crooked eye" that you are so delighted by her accurate setting of the dinner table, and praise the beauty of the well set board, and she will strive to really get the fernery in the center of the cloth and the sides parallel with the walls, and succeed, too! In some subtle way she has received an illumination as to the relation of things to each other, which had heretofore been lacking to her endowment. In the great crises of our struggling endeavor it is harder to find the opportunity to kindle a strong flame of hope by our spark of encouragement. Women grieving over defective household government or feeling that their economic administration is unsound, or that home is unattractive to husband and sons, or that their influence seems as nothing in the face of temptation, can be inspired to really brilliant results by an unexpected hearing of a word of admiration or a trifling concession made for their sakes. I knew a woman sent by a turn of fortune's wheel from a noble estate to a very unpromising home, who in the midst of regrets and overwhelming doubts of ever being able to rehabilitate herself and her belongings, was suddenly inspired to a brilliant success by hearing that her son had said: "O, it will come out all right; my mother could make a delightful home out of an empty barn. Before a week is over you will hear father saying that he thinks a small house far preferable to a large one." The tired little woman actually had the joy of hearing this prophecy fulfilled, and through all her weary body felt a thrill of delight as her lately distressed husband took his friends through the small dwelling, bidding them notice the charm and "coziness" of each room. Neither man nor woman can commend themselves or their plans to others when they are without confidence in either. Take the measure of the whole world's achievement, and you will never find a doubting or discouraged mind among the victorious. So many noble men lose their grasp, so many good things are strangled at their births, that it seems almost presumptuous to say: "I will succeed." But be this as it may, it yet remains an unvarying truth that only those who have so said have accomplished anything great. To believe that because one obstruction is immovable, we have no other way to progress, is to be faint-hearted indeed. The brooks which we so dearly love to watch where in rocky New England they have their frequent and most lonely haunts, are such charming teachers of the value of finding a new way! Around how many a stern, forbidding boulder has a laughing stream found its bright way toward the sea? The formidable proposition of the huge stone, to the rippling water which it barred from proceeding, would seem but a repetition of the contest of the ruddy youth with his sling, against the giant. In a day or two we shall find that with gentle perseverance and obedience to the law of its being, it has embraced its enemy in encircling arms and is swiftly and joyously keeping on its way beyond his resistance. Always the current is stronger, deeper, more full of life and music after its struggle than before, and even the hindering rock has put on soft greenery of moss to hide its sternness. Two things we know about temporary defeats: "The greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising with every failure to use fresh energy toward success"—always, in everything, we have to fight for victory "as if we were not wounded." There is a tragic failure which embitters many a mother's heart when she has brought every loving wile, every intelligent force, every subtle and open influence, to guard and keep her sons from the pitfalls of the world, she sees no fruit of her labor, no token of resistance in either word or conduct. Usually, this form of apparent defeat is hidden from the world and the wound bleeds in a secret place, without a moan to betray its existence. But if the mother heart gives NUMBER 23. Beware of Impostors of different professions soliciting money in Wisconsin for purposes unknown to any person in that state and for use elsewhere. Driven out of other states they are overrunning this. We think it an imperative duty on us as being the only negro paper in the state, to protect its generous philanthropists. From now on, we shall warn the mayor and chief of police of every city in Wisconsin against such adventurers. up hope and lets her efforts die out into a passive endurance of what she has ceased to try to help, she may have given up just at the moment when she had begun, unknown to herself, to move the indifferent and stubborn nature of her child. If she has the loving art never to disclose her fears, but ever keep the smile of hope before her boy's eyes, she may even win her battle after she has ceased to be able to speak. On her grave her son may lay the laurel of a victory that she had ceased to believe possible. In our youth, especially in the youth of clever men conscious of power, discouragement is apt to come with the first real denial of recognition and reward in their chosen fields of labor. Just so surely as this insidious foe gets serious possession of the forces of brain and heart, the best work of either is impossible. They retreat and though they retire in good order they are yet succumbing to the opposing power. The brook's only real danger from the fallen boulder lay in the evaporation of its waters if it should lie inactive and lifeless, exposed to the greedy influences of the sun and air. It might seem a weary bit of toil to encircle the formidable enemy, but "heart within and God o'erhead," its safety was only to be obtained by a joyous, vigorous, hopeful perseverance. We all expect too much of life. We are not children let loose in a playground, but toilers and fighters every one. We must be content with small attainments, if, indeed, we attain at all, until we have gathered force for a forward movement. Even with things toward which patience seems cowardly and submission unmanly, we do best by calmly waiting opportunity with our minds unimpaired by the worry which disables a thousand fold more rapidly than the most strenuous labor. We hurt ourselves, too, by using strong and vigorous faculties to no end. We fight, but we beat the air. The enemy is not in position, and we are not in a place whence we can either reconnoitre, or dictate terms. To be strongly patient with the present and vigilant to find a vantage ground, is to gain, not lose strength. To struggle with intangible and impalpable things which we cannot control leaves us deprived of every weapon of defense. Fate, as we profanely call the controlling circumstances which encompass us, is but a figment of the imagination. A brave man fighting for a man's moderate share of this world's harvest of love and life will "win out" in the end, if he be reasonable in his desires, honest in his dealings, and never daunted by what men call ill-luck. But he must remember that he cannot lift the boulder, which he must cheerfully circumvent. Today, this year, this hour, are not fair specimens of our destiny. When we see how many lives are blighted lives, what wrecks are stranded on every dangerous reef within our knowledge, it is natural for a man or woman not inclined to overrate his or her ability to quail and be afraid. If we might be allowed to search for the reason for these disasters which so daunt our courage, it would. I am confident, be found to lie in their too quick despair and the waste of power in half-angry, half-defiant discouragement. To the women of this world the treasures of Hope belong; to them is fittingly entrusted the duty of looking with good cheer on that future which is as likely to hide a joy as a sorrow, and of imparting the buoyancy of possible relief to anxious hearts. It is their special prerogative to inspire their husbands and sons and "rouse them to the race and make them strong"—New York Evening Post. The Golfing Voice. Golfing, it seems, affects the voice of women. The necessity of frequently discussing a shot at long range in the open air naturally strengthens the voice, and women who spend the most of their days on the links forget to lower their tones when they are indoors. The bicycle face was recognized, when the fad for wheeling was at its height, and the golfing voice will also become recognized as a distinct outcome of the sport.—St. James' Gazette. The Bee's Flight. A bee, unladen, will fly forty miles an hour, but one coming home laden with honey does not travel faster than twelve miles an hour. FIFTEEN PERSONS KILLED, Freight Train Breaks in Two : Near Olean, N. Y. OIL TANK EXPLODES. Spectators Attracted to the Scene are & Overwhelmed by Wave of Burning Naphtha. ee aT. Olean, N. Y., March 10.—Fifteex persons were killed and forty-five in jured in an explosion near here late last night. A freight train on the Erie, made up principally of oil tank cars filled with oil, broke in two near this city about ¢ o'clock, The two sections of the train came together with a ‘crash and one of the oil tanks was demolished. Fire started almost instantly and the exy was lighted up for miles. gpoaes A large crowd of people ieft this city for the scene of the fire. While they were lined up alongside the track a ter- rific explosion occurred. The flames com- municated quickly with the other tank cars and a second and third explosion followed each other in rapid succession. Sheets of flame shot out in all direc- tions, Scores of persons were caught within the zone of the fire and eu- veloped in flames. Men and boys ran screaming down the tracks with their clothing a mass of flames. Others fell where they stood, overcome by the heat. Bodies Reduced to Ashes. Many of the bodies were. incinerated. Some of the victims were killed in their tracks. Others were” hurled into the creck to die. Some tried to flee, but sue- cumbed to the fierce heat. The Olean general hospital was soon crowded with the injured survivors and every physician nnd nurse in the city were impressed. Some of the injured‘can not recover. Word was sent at ouce to Olean police headquarters by telephone. Every doc- tor and ambulance in the city was sum- moned. Grocery wagons and carriages of all kinds were pressed into service, and everything possible was done to bring the injured without delay to the hospitals for treatment. Large crowds gathered at the hospital and the faces of the injured were anxious- ly scanned as they were borne into the building on stretchers. Heart-rending scenes were witnessed when one of the blistered bodies was recognized by a father or mother or brother and it was with dufficulty that persons were re- strained from invading the operating room. The Dead and Injured. Owing to the fact that some of the bodies were incinerated in the fierce flames, or blown into the creek by the fierce ‘explosion, the exact number of killed will probably not be known for several days. The number of injured, too, is uncertain, as a large number of them were able to reach their homes and received treatment there. The known casualties are as follows: Dead: JOHN STEMLINGER, aged 17. NORMAN BROWN, 18. JOHN TOBIN, 16. JOHN M’ CREADY, 13, JOHN M’MAHON, 19. WALTER SWIFT, 19. MICHAEL DRISCOLL, 22. WALTER JACKSON, 13. WALTER ROTH, 16. RICHARD CONNELL, 19. HERMAN BOLLMAN, 15. RAPELO QUARINTO, CARMEN SITLIANO. MARTIN GALLAGHER, all of Olean. HENRY GOMDER, 18 years old, Bord- manville. The injured at the general hospital are: James McDonald, 16 yeurs old, limbs bad- ly_burned. Richard McDonald, his brother, badly burned, leg fractured. James McCready, 15 years old, burned about face and legs. Walter Jackson, 11 years old, burned about back, cbest, face and hands; in- haled flames; may dle. Son of Yardmaster Sullivan. Glen Cole, East Olean, struek by flying splinter, burned. "Two Blackwell boys of Bordenville. Bert. Miller of “Bordenville, seriously burned. ‘Three men bady burned; d‘d not leave names at hospital; seut to their homes. . Dozens of others were burned, but none seriously. Blown Into the Creok. At the hospital one of the patients said a young ber was blown into the creek near him. e tried to save the lad, but was unable to do so. The boy was drowned. < 'The scenes rollowing the explosion will never be forgotten by those who saw them. It was about 9 o'clock in the evening when the train was wrecked. An Erie freight train west bound broke in two on the hill two miles north of the city. At first the forward part of the train, released of all the weight of the ears behind, shot forward with increased speed. Brakes were applied and the front portion of the train was brought al- most to a standstill at the iron ‘bridge across Olean creek. The rear cars, gath- ering momentum as they came down the hill, crashed into the forward part of the train. Most of the cars in the train were tank cars filled with refined oil or gaso- line. They weighed thousands of tons and the impact was terrific. One of the tank cars caught fire soon after the col- lision. The exact cause of the fire is not known, but it is papnoeed to have started from a spark from the grinding pieces of iron in the wreckage. In a few minutes another car of gasoline caught fire and burst in flames with a terrific report. Portions of the iron domes of the cars were hurled a distance of several hun- dred feet. ‘Those in the vicinity of the wreck who escaped injury made valiant efforts to rescue the wounded who were still lying within reach of the flames. Boys were burned to death before their fathers’ eyes, while the latter stood helpless to save them. Men so badly injured: by the flying pee of iron that they could not move, laid in the gully with the flames rolling down upon them until they per- ished. Fiftcen Bodies Recovered. A short distance west of the iron bridge a line was established heyond which no one was perraitted to pass, as one of the burning cars was still thought to be in danger of exploding. It was about 1 o'clock in the morning when Deputy Sheriff Osterhout called for volunteers to remove the dead and injured. Three times as many as were called for stepped forward and the grue- some work was begun. In a short time fifteen bodies had been recovered and laid beside the track. Some of them were so badly burned and distorted as to be scarcely recognized. Several bod- ies were found in the ditch. The body of one boy was seen too close to the SYMPTOMS OF CHOLERA. SIX PEOPLE DIE UNDER PECULIAR CIRCUMSTANCES. Result of Pe aiestiacunnuss by the Health Officials at New York. New York; March 10.—The Anchor line steamer Karamania, from Marseilles, Palermo and Naples, was detained at quarantine today because a number of the crew and passengers died under pe- culiar circumstances on the voyage. Six died in all, two of the crew and four steerage passengers. Health Officer Doty, after an exami- nation, said: “All the symptoms of those who died on the Karamania are so similar to those of cholera that I propose to keep the vessel, crew. and passengers as if it were certain, The passengers, 733 in number, will be transferred to Hoffmann island and will be detained until I am sure they are free from in- fection.” gee pe PUBLIC HAS RIGHTS, Federal Judge Says Street Car Employes Must Exercise Care and Diligence. St. Lonis, Mo. March 10.—In the United States court of appeals an opin- ion handed down by Judge Thayer de- fines the rights and privileges of pedes- trians and vehicles upon street railway tracks and the duties of motormen in running their cars. The plaintiff, whose vehicle had heen wrecked and the occupants injured, set forth’ that the motorman was guilty of negligence, and the defense set up the claim that the plaintiff was guilty of coutributory negligence. Judge Thayer held that a motorman is under the same obligations to exercise ordinary care and prudence so as to ayoia collisions and injuring persons as those persons are to exercise care not to get in the way of street cars, so as to be run over and injured. He says pedestrians and vehicles have a right to cross the tracks of street raii- ways at any point besides the regular crossings and to use tracks for any dis- tance for a matter of safety or conven- lence, where they do not unnecessarily interfere with or obstruct the passage of the cars. A motorman, he says, has no tight to act on the assumption that he is entitled to a clear track at all times, and that pedestrians or vehicles are bound at their peril, no matter at what incon- venience, to get out of the way. He held that the plaintiff in this case had a right to use the street railway tracks as a convenience in avoiding the mudhole in the street and that the mo- torman was guilty of negligence in not taking proper precautions to reduce the speed of his car when he saw the vehi- cle, so as to bring it under such control that he could have avoided the collision. Judge Sanborn filed a lengthy dissent- ing opinion. He holds the trial judge erred in eerie to allow the claim of contributory negligence on the plaintiff’s veer NOW OUT OF POLITICS. Cleveland Says He will Act in Advisory Capacity Only—His View of Trust Issue. | New York, March. 10.—Former Presi- dent Grover Cleveland denied that he had ‘come to New York city for any political perce: “TI am not in politics,” declared Mr. Cleveland. “I am out for good. Poli- ties is furthest from my thoughts at pres- ent, although I always am ready to act in_an advisory capacity, if so desired. _ When it was suggested to him that Ke- publicans were claiming to be able to eliminate the trust evils by publicity meas- ures, while the Lemocrats and some part of the independent voters on the other hand claim the only adequate remedy is reform of the tariff, the expresident said- “You may say this for me, that Mr. Cleveland gave it as his euinton that the trust question will not be eliminated from the next presidential canvass, and ex- pressed himself as being entirely unable to see how that gnestion could be wholly divorced from the tariff issue, to say nothing of the absolute necessity of a good old-fashioned insistence upon tariff! reform for its own sake and what it would do for the people of the country.” ae eee CAUSED A PANIC. Man Fires Three Shots at Some One on the Steamer Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse. New York, March 10.—As the steamer Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse was leaving her dock today for Bremen a man stand- ing in the crowd on the pier fired three shots, apparently at someone on the steamer, The shooting caused a panic among the 760 passengers on the pier Max Felder was arrested and a revolver, three chambers of which had been emp- tied, was found in his pocket, but he de- nied that he had done the shooting. HOPES OF BIRD FAMILY DIE. Murderer Known to Have Been Hanged Despite Constant Pleading. Seattle, Wash., March 10.—A dispatch received from Sitka, Alaska, states that Homer Bird, who murdered two com- panions on the Yukon river, was hanged on Friday «according to the date set. Bird’s life had been begged of President McKinley and President Roosevelt on several occasions by Mrs. Bird and her daughter, Bernie Bird, whose unremitting efforts to obtain executive clemency at- tracted wide attention. Even to the last the wife and daughter had hoped some fortunate occurrence might prevent the execution. Bird made a short speech from the gal- lows in which he declared his innocence, theugh he showed little emotion and spoke quietly. He walked from the jail to’ the seaffold without assistance and mounted the steps firmly. ——__-____- —It has been estimated by an expert in the employ of the government that agricultural machinery reduces the num- ber of men employed to do a given amount of work to one-third, while man- ufacturing machinery reduces the num- ber to one-fiftieth. —A violin without a sounding box has been invented by Mr. Strob, an eminent scientist of London, a diaphragm and = being used to give volume to the sound. SEER —W. J. Van Patton, who owns the farm where Ethan Allen lived before the Revolution, has decided to present it to the city of Burlington, Vt., to be used as a park, et —Hot cakes and cider are the usual fare at Christmas eve supper in Devon- shire. a —The Clyde’s mouth must be enlarged to permit the exit of the two big Cunard steamers now being builded therein. ‘LEGISLATURE. ee Praceedings in the Senate. Fequesting the governor to call upon gov- esting the vernor to ca ope ds ernors of other states to sear en dele- tes to a convention to be held tn Atlanta, Ga, commencing July 4, A joint resolution was introduced fn the Senate this nea] to permit Mr. McGillivray to introduce a bil to authorize the chief clerk of the Senate to hire additional help for the rest of the ses- sion. No. 3448, relating to — for park leans ae eee re ordered en- and read a . Sree omualtive on state affairs introduced two bills in the Senate on the 6th, One :. mits O. N. Peterson and Gill to build a dam across Flambeau river. | Another amends the statute relating to the settle- ‘ment of federal war claims. The Senate joint resolution to permit the introduction of a bill providing for additional help in ‘the Senate was on the calendar for coneur- rence, but was laid over to March 26 with | only three or four votes against it. The bill ‘providing for the ‘taxation of railroad com: panies on the ad yalorem basis was firs: ‘un the regular calendar, and was finally {passed by unanimous vote, without a word lof debate. There were 87 votes for the bill jon roll call, 13 being absent. The commit- tee on manufacturers and labor feported ‘favorably on bill 1318, providing that no ‘ehild under 16 years of age shall work in a ifactory more than ten hours a day, nor qmore than six days @ week, The resolution ion the conference to consider the race gues- ition was laid oyer. ‘The following bills were passed: Relating to summons in case ‘of tenants holding over; relating to Jurisdic- ‘tion of justices in cities of the first class; roviding for state insurance on public Sutiaings; relating to the district court of Milwaukee county; to regulate “baby farms,” lying in hospitals. etc.; to provide for registration of trade marks; making husband or wife competent witness to a will; relating to drainage districts. The following bills were concurred In: Relating to form of process Issued by justice of the peace; relating to cutting of ice on mean- dered lakes. This bill provides for the re- peal of the law passed two years ago, which taxes Ice cut and sulpped out of the state; governing the importation of Western range horses; peanne to powers conferred on corporations. Mr. Bird offered an amend- ment to 218S, relating to the sale of mer- chandise, which was adopted and the bill advanced. No, 2148, relating to chattel mortgages, was indefinitely postponed. On motion of Mr. Johnson the action of the Senate on bill 1538, relating to the Tenth and Sixteenth judicial cfreuits, which the Senate refused to advance, was reconsid- ered, and the bill will come up on the 17th, when Mr. Kreutzer will return. The Sen- ate then adjourned to 9 p. m. on the 9th. Senator Kogers brought from Milwaukee and had introduced at the evening session of the Senate on the 9th, by Senator Hat- ten as chairman of the committee on state affairs a bill creating a juvenile court for Milwaukee county, and providing that the municipal judge shall preside over the new court. The bill also provides for relieving the circuit courts of trying cases of illegiti- mate parentage, and imposes that duty on the municipal court. The salary of the judge is to be raised to $5000 a year for these added duties, the increase from the present salary being $1400. The Senate on the 10th concurred in an Assembly amendment to the bill enabling married women to assign Interest {n life Insurance. Bill 3318, taxing inheritances, was laid over until tomorrow morning on request of Senator Munson, azier the roll call had been started on {ts passage. The Hudnall barbering bill, No. 1408, on the ealendar for indefinite postponement, was laid over one week on motion of Mr. Hud- nall. No. 2368 (Martin), establishing a beard of veterinary examiners, was laid over, as was 3458, relating to a dam across Flambeau. Mr. McGillivray asked that bill 347, preventing double taxation of banking Ren, be laid over until the 12th. Mr. Whitehead objected, but later withdrew his objection. Goy. La Follette’s veto of Senator Mer- ton's bill increasing the lng of the sten- ographer of the Waukesha county court ‘was overruled by the Senate after a long debate and the bill pean by a yote of 23 tov. The following bills were passed: Au- thorizing certaln corporations to consoll- date; authorizing boards of supervisors in certain counties to build bridges; to com- = railroad pent to rebuild thelr nidges over the Yahara river; relating to aetions and proceedings in partition: to prevent sale of unsanitary milk; relating to qualifications, duty and salary of state su- erintendent, the salary being raised to R500 per annum by the bill; relating to drainage assessments; relating to pension fund for firemen for members of the Mil- waukee department; relating to fees in county court; pee for a tax on In- heritances, — and drafts. ae tol- lowing Assembly bills were concurrt in: To appropriate $20,000 to cotppews Falls home; providing that stationery be provided for the superintendent of illuminating oil. Bill 668, relating to service of process on corporations, was laitd over. The Martin bil establishing a board of veterinary ex- aminers was ordered engrossed and read a third time without debate. The Hatten res- olution providing for a conference on the race question was then taken up. Mr. Hat- ten, at the request of some senators, asked that the consideration of the resolution be laid over one week. ‘The Senate at the evening session on the 1th debated the propriety of dispensing with 1ule 7, prohibiting smoking during the sessions. Senatorial dignity was upheld, the motion to amend the rule being lost by a vote of 20 to 9. Proceedings in the Assembly. The following bills were passed by the Assembly on the Sth: Requiring interurban roads which operate lines fifteen miles long to provide tollet rooms on all closed cars; providing that high schools shall not be re- quired to pay for the use of Camp Randall, the state university athletic field; authoriz- ing counties and towns to pay bounty for xifiing rattlesnakes; providing for the es- tablishment of local schools for the deaf upon the application of local boards of edu- cation, with the consent of the state board of control. The bill appropriating $20,000 for the completion ang equipment of build- ings at the Home for*the Feeble Minded, Chippewa Falls, was passed under suspen- sion of the rules. Two Senate bills were advanced to the third reading—the Roehr bill providing that married women may as- sign their interest in life insurance policies of which they are beneficlaries, and the Hatten bill amending the charter of Ripon College. The bill authorizing the reconyey- ance to Mary A. Hamilton of a strip of land in Fond du Lac was killed without debate. The Brittan bill, providing for the survey cee enon of Indian mounds, was The Williams bill to prehibit marriages between whites and negroes, on which the judictary committee is divided, was, ou motion of Mr. Coffland in the Assembly on the 6th, withdrawn from that committee and sent to the committee on state affairs. The bill providing for the establishment of a state park at Devil's: lake was recom- mended for passage by the committee on state affairs, with an amendment cutting out, the $00 appropriation. ‘The bill pro- viding for examination and license of bar- bers was recommended for passage by the committee on public health and sanitation with an amendment reducing the fee. Two Senate bills were concurred in: Mr. Roehr’s bill, 808, giving married women the right to assign their Innterest in life tusurance poll- cles of which they are beneficiaries, and Mr. Hatten's bill, 1208, amending the chas. ‘Tis of ‘Phee,” | members ee The barbers’ Hcense Will, which the Assembly refused to order to engrossment and _ third ek was given a new lease of life. The bill, 800A, which does away with the requirements that all Insurance statements must be published in the official state pa- Ree and with but one publication in papers lesignated by the insurance commissioner, was passed without debate. No. 181A, giving the state veterinarian jurisdiction over local boards of health in enforcing quarantine of diseased animals, was passed. The Merton bill, 178, giving physl- clans $4 per day for examination in _con- tested Insanity cases, was concurred in. Mr. Barker made another eet to Infuse life Into his bill, 191A, providing immunity for persons who turn state’s evidence {n bribery cases. After twenty minutes’ de- bate the bill was killed. The Kehrein bill requiring that all mem- bers of the state board of control shall be physicians was reported for indefinite post- ponement in the Assembly on the 11th. The bill providing for the purchase by the state of the Light Horse Squadron armory, Milwaukee, was favorably recommended by the military affairs committee to the com- mittee on claims. The bill limiting county appropriations for soldiers’ monuments to $10,000 was reported for passage by the committee on town and county organiza- tlon. The Lang anti-trust bill, aimed at the so-called druggists’ combine, was re- ported for passage by the judiciary coi- mittee, as was also the bill prohibiting “spite” fences. The bill appropriating $80,000 to the state board of agriculture was favorably reported by the committee on agriculture and went to the committee on claims. The joint resolution introduced by Mr. Thompson, direeting the tax com- mission to investigate and eo on the question whether the lumbering, mining und other interests in Northern Wiscon- sin are paying their just share of taxes, was reported for indefinite ee ee The Senate bill creating a municipal court for Sawyer county was concurred in. The Cady bill meng terms of county sehool superintendents four years and changing the time of their election to that of county judges was rereferred to the judiciary com- mittee at the request of its author, who said there is some doubt as to its constitu- tionality, the constitution prohibiting the election of judges at the same time as state or county officers. Gov. La Follette sent tothe Assembly at the evening session on the llth a message stating his reasons for vetoing the Merton bill, relating to stenographer’s salary in the Waukesha county court. The vote on passage over the veto was deferred for a day. $ OE UIN 2 SENN ANS VV Oe g Manager McGraw of the New York Giants has excnanged George Smith, who played second bast last year on the New York team, for Kid Gleason, the famous New York second baseman. Smith will | captain the Detroit American team, play- jing second base. ee * A deal has been consummated whereby Third Baseman Jimmy Burke of the Pittsburg Pirates will be exchanged for Shortstop Kruger of the St. Louis Cax- dinals. Frank De Haas Robison will probably throw in for good measure a few of the fifteen pitchers Capt. Pat Donovan has under contract. ee 8 Tey. Hugh Spencer Williams, pastor of the fashionable Cumberland Presbyterian Church at Memphis, has come out squarely in favor of Sunday ball. He says: “It affords a recreation to a large number of our people. It is not an im- moral form of recreation. It gives peo- ple a chance te stretch themselves, to raise their voices, to inhale the pure air. In a manner it allows the people to wor- ship God in a rational way, by enjoying themselves, by taking advantage of those outdoor attractions which a Se Creator never would have provided if He had not intended that they should be em- ployed.” s* 8 Robert Fitzsimmons, former champion middleweight and heavyweight of the world, arrived in Pittsburg last Sunday, met Philadelphia Jack O’Brien, and agreed to meet him for the middleweight championship of the world, during the moras of June and July at some point on the Pacific coast. see Dale Gear has added Billy Maloney to his corps of catchers for the Kansas City American Association team. .As soon as Cincinnati released the fast little catcher and outfielder Gear wired in a claim to President Hickey and not five minutes later a claim was received from Manager Cantillon of Milwaukee. Malone played under Hugh Duffy and was a general favorite, sf Manager Gear of the Kansas City American Association baseball club has given out the following lineup for bis 1903 team: Catcher, Maloney: first base, Grady; second base, Nance, Viox: third base, McAndrews; shortstop, Leewe; outtielders, Rothfus, Nance, Gannon, Ganley and Gear; pitchers, Gibson, Dur- ham, McDonald and Hill. Leewe has not signed as yet, holding off for more money. Joe Corbett, hrother of James J. Cor- bett. has signed to pitch for the Los An- geles team. Red Ehret, the olf Pittsburg twirler, will be: found with the Nashville team in the Sonthgrn League next season. Ehret pitched good ball in the South last year. s+ Dan M. Harper, the new burgess of Patton, Pa., has signalized his advent in office by issuing a permit for a fight be- tween Jack O’Brien and Jack McAvoy. Before Burgess Harper woald give his consent to the contest the managers were obliged to allow the burgess to appoint three reputable citizens to sell tickets and hold the cash until the fight is over, At the first sign or intimation that the scrap is a fake the spectators will receive their money back. The burgess states that the license was given for a fight, and not for a game of ping-pong. eee Tommy Cody, the Chiago feather- weight, is out with a challenge to Kid Abel or Hugh McPadden. Cody will make any weight demanded by Abel, and is willing to fight him winner take all. eee B. J. (Kid) Weller of “big store book” fame has opened up a future book in Chicago on the American Derby, to be run June 20. The Kid has made good on his prices, and, by way of comparison, it looks as though his former partner, Jim O'Leary, who was first in the field with a winter book on the Derby and other big turf events, will have to loosen up considerably with his quotations if he expects to cope successfully with the new book on the play that is likely to be accorded the Washington park Derby. A casual glance over their respective sheets shows Weller’s prices on the fa- yorite, Savable, to be 12,6 and 3, against O’Leary’s 10, 4 and 2. On Dick Welles, the second choice. the Kid lays 20, 10 and 5, while the best Jim will lay is 15, 6 and 3. Weller’s quotations also show an increase of from 5 to 25 points on nearly all the horses, which range from 20 to 1 to 100 to 1 straight, and a great- er increase for “place” and show bets. The Eastern nominations also fare much better with the Kid. Mexican, Grants- dale, Irich Lad, Lord of the Vale, Macey Dwyer, Merry Acrobat, Onatas and Yardarm are not, judging from his prices, taken as seriously as by O'Leary. On doubtful starters the Kid lays as good as 1000 to 1. i eee Charley Moth defeated O. M. Nelson, the heavyweight Scandinavian mat art- ist, last Tuesday at Minneapolis, winning three falls to two for Nelson, CONGRESS. Proceedings in the Senate When the Senate met at noon on the 5th for the special session called by President Roosevelt, the beautiful chamber was more like a conservatory than a hall of legisla- tion. Flowers abourded in Inxuriant pro- fusion. It was a fete day In the Senate, as large erewds had gathered to witness ‘the debut of fifteen new statesmen. After the proclamation of the President convenin; the Senate in extraordinary session had been read Senator Hoar made an announce. ment for the committee on privileges ana elections. It was to the effect that In the opinion of the committee the orderiy pro- cedure was to swear in any senator-clect who presented himself with a proper certl- ficate and to postpone consideration of any question that aa be raised as to his qualifications. This statement cleared the situation, if it needed clearing, in relation to Senator Reed Smoot of Utah. His was the only case {n which there was any ques- tlon as to the administering of the oath. As soon as the four men who were not sworn In appear in the chamber and take the oath of office the Senate will consist of 90 members, of whom 57 will be Repubil- cans and 88 Democrats. The Republicans will have a majority of 24, and will have within three yotes of two-thirds. When the Senate met on the 9th a letter was read from President Pro Tem Frye ap- pointing Mr. Kegan of New Jersey as pre- siding officer in his absence. The oath of office was-administered to James P. Clarke of Arkansas; W. J. Stone of Missouri, and Senator Gallinger of New Hampshire. Mr. Stone was escorted to the desk by Mr. Cockerell and Mr. Gallinger by Mr. Lodge. Mr. Clarke walked to the desk unaccom panied. There being no legislative business to transact, the Senate, on motion of Mr. Cullom of Illinois, went Into executive ses- sion and an hour later adjourned for the day. Soon after the Senate met on the 10th, Mr. Cullom, chairman of the committee on forelgn relations, referred to the action of the committee in passing a resolution call- ing on the secretary of state for the copy in Spanish of the pan-American canal treaty. “I have it,” sald he, “and I think it proper to present it. It is the original treaty signed by the parties in Spanish.” Mr. Cullom had overlooked the fact the Senate was in legislative session, and was proceeding to discuss the document when Mr, Allison moved an executive session. During the Inst Congress Mr. Cullom was very careful to see that the treaty was not diseussed except in executive session, and he showed signs of embarrassment as he promptly acquiesced In the motion to close the doors, which was done eight minutes after convening. When the Senate went into executive session Senator Morgan se eured consent for the attachment of the Spooner law to the treaty as provided in the preamble of the treaty. He also se- cured consent for a call upon the secretary of state for the correspondence leading up to the acceptance of the option for the pur- chase of the New Panama Canal Company's property for $40,000,000. At the opening of the session of the Sen- ate on the 11th, Mr. Frye, the president pro tempore, called the attention of sen- ators to the fact that under a strict in- terpretation of the rules only such business as properly belongs to the matters under consideration In executive session should be presented at this extra session of the Senate. Mr. Allison offered a resolution authorizing the committee on rules to re- examine the rules of the Senate with a view to Imiting debate. The resolution was referred. Mr. Hoar explained the need ef a manual of parliamentary law, and said he would at a later day Introduce a resola- tion directing the committee on rules also to consider this question. The Senate, then, on motion of Mr. Cullony, went Into execu tive session, and after ah address by Mr. Morgan adjonrned. # Chicago Matters. a LLLP LLL LALA —Fire destroyed the plant of the Al- ston Manufacturing Company, causing a loss of $10,000, —Thieves ransacked the home of W. R. Haines and carried away jewelry and clothing valued at $1000. —Frank Kressil drank carbolie acid in his barber shop because of despond. eney caused by business troubles. —Thomas McCutcheon, 50 years old, was found asphyxiated in the Dewey Hotel with a gas jet wide open. —Fred Seydel, 55 years old, died at the German Hospital from injuries re- ceived in a cable car accident Febru- ary 4. —William Gloss, 55 years old, fell in front of a switch engine in the Chicago & North-Western railroad yards and was instantly killed. —Mrs. J. Welsh, 81 years old, died at the home of her nephew, Hal Brink, from the effects of illuminating gas which she inhaled. John H. Miller, 53 years old, an employe of the Chicago City Railway Company, was instantly killed at a cross- ing of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern railroad in Grand Crossing. —More than a score of persons at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital morgue viewed the body of the woman who first kneeled in prayer on the bank of the river at Black- hawk street Sunday and then plunged into the water, but no one was able te identify her, -~An_ unidentified man, apparently about 22 years old, was found lying on the Chicago & North-Western tracks, and is believed to have been struck by a fast train, He weighed about 130 pounds, The name “Stack” was on the collar, —An increase of 5 cents an hour wil be paid the carpenters in the building season this year, This is in accordance with an agreement signed between the Carpenters and Builders’ Association and the Carpenters’ Executive Council, representing 7500 union carpenters. | —The mystery attending the disap- pearance of little Leona Blaney was solved when the father, Joseph Blaney, notified the pele that he had taken the child. As his reason for this act Blaney told the ponee he believed that the child was not being properly taken care of. —Striking teamsters pursued — two wagons of the John McCleod Company from the company’s establishment, drag- ging Andrew Dwyer, driver of the sec- ond wagon, to the street and assaulting him, Dwyer received a blow on_ the back of the head which is believed at ‘the county hospital to have produced concussion of the brain. _ Samuel Schoyer, 72 years old. who Was part owner in the Leader clothing store, died suddenly at the residence of ‘Mrs. Lillian L. Donnell. Mr. Schoyer had resided with Mrs. Donnell for the last four months, his former home being in New Rochelle, N. Y., where his wid. ow lives. --Walter Callahan, 10 years old, owes his life to his remarkable presence of mind. While crossing the Chicago & North-Western tracks his foot became caught in the frog of a switch as a freight train was approaching. 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Gillilan, in Baltimore American. The Return of Yesterday. When the exigencies of courtesy de- prived Harding of his seat in the Two- penny Tube, it did not happen to him to take note of the girl for whom he had risen. His mind was merely pondering the instinct which causes women, as a class, to crowd like ants into public vehicles at the time when all the world is returning from busmess, and mutely demand a seat. He resettled his hat upon his head, and, reaching out for a strap, continued to read his evening paper. : 1 he train hurtled and clanked _hila- viously through darkness, and Harding had to brace his feet to keep from being swung about. He shifted them after a while, and shortened his grasp of the strap. In doing so he glanced down at the girl beside him. Something about her struck an instant note of familiarity. He could not place it. It was just that degree which may be acquired by sitting opposite to a person for an hour in a rail- way carriage, yet with it Harding had a vague conviction that, somewhere, he had spoken to her. He studied inch by inch the poise of her black hat-brim, the slim, ungloved hands thrust into her jacket pockets, groping meanwhile in his mind for some definite association. It contrived to worry him. Presently the girl looked up. It was Margot. “Why—why——” he found himself saying. He bent and shook hands with her. “How queer our running up against each other like this!” The wonder in his mind was how he should not at once have known it was she. Suddenly, at sight of her face, the environment of the Twopenny Tube had faded, and he was back in the old fifth floor studio off the King’s road. with the smell of varnish and oil stove and plas- tered walls. He had a pastel sketch of her yet that he made in those days—he had come across it only a week ago among a pile of forgotten canvases. They exchanged the inconsequences of people who meet after four years. Hard- ing asked her how she liked the new railway, and enlarged upon the advan- tages of getting to the city in twenty minutes with all the enthusiasm of a man to whom time was of no value whatever. All the while he was busy defining in what ways she had changed. She looked older. Her clothes were shabby, but she was the kind of girl who could wear shabby things with ab- solute effect. Her face had to him a look of hollowness under the cheap pic- ture hat; her lips showed scarlet. Her big shadowy eyes roved the carriage while she talked, in swift continual note of fellow-passengers. _He remembered the old, restless trick of her hands in her jacket pockets. A little green signal was flashed upon the black of the tunnel. A moment later the jolting darkness gave place to a glim- mer of white-tiled walls. A cool draught blew down the back of Harding’s collar, and simultaneously the sliding doors at the end of the car drew apart to disclose the vision of an automatic conductor, who announeed “Ollan’ Park!” Harding suddenly realized that he had said nothing to her at all. “Look, you might get out here, can’t you?” he said. “You aren’t in a hurry? Come round as far as the studio with me, and we can have a chat.” _ Outside a thin flurry of snow was fall- ing, the first of the season, and the pave- ment gleamed wet under the street lamps. Talking became all at once pos- sible, “How are you getting on?” Hard- ing asked the girl. “Oh, pretty well. On and off, you know. It’s much the same.” _ She spoke flippantly. Her eyes rested for the space of a seeond upon his face. “Four years,” said Harding, thinking. “It's a bit of time. My Lord!” At length a wide Vestibule flung a comfortable square of light across the pavement. “Here we are,” Harding said. "hey paused under the gaslight in the tiled hall, while he brushed the melting | snowflakes from her jacket. The girl coughed; a rasping cough that: seemed | to shake the whole of her slim body. _ “Got a cold, haven't you?” said Hard- ing. genially. “So have I—beastly. Din! oan to get in out of that wet. It is a ght! He stooped and fitted a sey i | one of the doors. It opened eae and he held it for her to enter. 3 “No stairs here, vou see?? Don’t fall’ fhe, things and kill yourself, and Pl find. e gas. He struck a light, revealing a di | untidy room littered with are tall Dutch easel stood at one end, and costly hangings glowed in soft colors. ee were chairs of old carved oak and cane round mirror framed in beaten golttaet stood in the middle of the throat, Welle ane nee eee at’ inet » you've got on,” she said “What do you mean?” Harding paused, oe burnt mateh still ieee his ie this!” She indicated the sur- te gs With a little sweeping ges- az Oh, T don’t know,” returned ing; T don’t know. * * * git down,” 2 BISHOP’S MOVE A DRAMATIC SUCCES. | zi A Nt me any \ Pre 3B ay vais | iN ars sf — nae Bota aie sae : oP - Pe — ch : : ee ee: Segoe | & 3 eG ‘ ieee : a é oe The new comedy recently produced at New York brings out W. H. Thompson as a star. The play is written by John Oliver Hobbes and Murray Carson and is clever. Mr, Thompson gives a performance that is highly praised by the iwetropolitan critics. presently said. “Take your hat off awhile.” She had said at first that she could not stay, but it ended inevitably in her tak- ing off her hat and jacket, and hanging them on the easel. Without them she looked more like herself of old days. She had on a black frock with Jace about it, and her bronze-gold hair was twisted low upon her white neck in the knot he remembered. Harding surveyed her mus- ingly, stretched on the divan, with his hands behind his head. He had nothing to offer her but cigarettes. She smoked, flung back in the big oak chair that fig- ured in most of Harding’s portraits, her slim feet crossed in front of her, and chatted to him of forgotten things. As she talked the old familiar surroundings rose before him bit by bit through the opal smoke of her cigarette. “Do you remember Toto?” she cried. “And the coffee pot that always boiled over? And a day—the day you got fifteen shillings for the Ludgate drawing?” He could see it all as she spoke—the little disorderly room, the newspaper are for a table- cloth, and Margot bending over the tiny oil stove that stood on a soap box be- fore the empty grate. She tossed at him a whirl of questions about old student friends. “What has become of Guild? And Baker—I’ve often wondered about Baker?” To many of these Harding found himself obliged to reply, “Oh, gevting on, I believe,” or sim- ply, “I don’t know.” ‘She seemed to 2x- pect him to have kept up with all the men he used to know. Presentiy she rose and walked about the room. She was looking at every- thing. He watched her finger a little medallion photograph on the mantelpiece, and has glance toward him as she did so. He was expecting that she would ask him who it was. But, instead, she came over and sat down again on an arm of the oak chair. “It’s like old times,” said Harding, “to see you there.” She jooied at him queerly. “Paul,” she eried, “let’s play we are back in the old days again just for an hour or two? We'll pretend that every- thing is just as it used to be! We'll for- get that you’re famous and that ’'m—” “What?” he asked quickly. “About to beome famous!” She flung a smile at him. “How do we_ know? Tomorrow, perhaps, some one will come to me and say, ‘Mademoiselle, I come to offer you a three weeks’ engagement at a salary of £100 a night!’ And I would bow—so—and reply, ‘Monsieur, make it £200, and I close!’ But for an hour we will play that we have neither of us any money in the world; we can’t even run to baked potatoes. You see, I won't damage your reputation by sending you out from a Kensington studio—your own studio—to buy baked potattoes!” Harding laughed. Somehow her gayety infected him; he was feeling light-heart- ed as he had not done for years. The old forgotten days came back to him along the gray road of time. He looked dreamily at, the girl. Her cheeks were flushed; her eyes shone at him through the mist of smoke. | “Margot——” he cried. _ When Harding awoke the big studio was empty, and the early winter twilight was.ecreeping through -the crack of the opened door. He had aroused with a start and a shiver. He turned down the gas, beginning to flare yellow, and walked across to the window. The long, straight ‘London street confronted him, gray-mist- ed and hideous—a vista of somber pros- perity. He presently turned away, stretching, and looked at -his watch. Half-way through a yawn he stopped short. On the floor at his feet lay a small shabby feather from a hat. He picked it up clumsily, and stood there withg it for many minutes in his hand, thinking— Free Lance. The Albritton Family. | The attention of President Eliot is called to the Albritton family of Pierce county, Ga., that he may learn that chil- dren are still being born in parts of the country. Thomas Albritton, a farmer, died recently at the age of 104. He left eighteen children, some of whom had set- tled in Polk and De Soto counties, Fla. Three of these sons have 563 descend- ants, and of all the clan it is estimated there are now Jiving 3000 members. Trip- lets, the report says, have been such a common occurrence in the family that they pass almost unnoticed. Where is Zola now and his Fecondite? HISTORY OF STARCH. Introduced Into England in the Time of Queen Elizabeth. Starch originated in Flanders. It was introduced into England, with the big raff, in the time of Queen Elizabeth. It was like our starch of today, except that it was made in colors—red, yellow, green, blue. The effect of this was to tint deli- cately the white linen to which the starch might be applied. Before Queen Eliza- beth’s time ruffles and ruffs were made of tine Holland, which required no stiffen- ing. Then the ruffs of cambric came, and these must of necessity be starched. When the Queen had ruffs made of lawn and cambrie for her own princely wearing there was no one in England that could tell how to starch them; but the Queen made special means for some women that could starch, and Mrs, Gull- ham, wife of the royal coachman, was the first starcher. In 1504 a Flanders woman, Frau Van- der Plasse, came to London and estab- lished there a school for the teaching of starching. The school succeeded. The Flanders frau got rich. She charged $25 ‘a lesson, and an extra $5 for a recipe for the making of starch out of wheat floar, bran and roots. Yellow was the most fashionable color in starch among ‘the nobility, The fast, racing set went in for green. The Puritans used blue ‘araren, though at first they had been against the stuff altogether, dubbing it ‘a certains kinde of liquide matter which they call starch, wherein the devil hath willed them to wash and dive their ruffes, which, when they be dry, will then stand stiffe and inflexible about their necks.” ‘Starch is made from wheat, corn and no- tatoes, and starving men have often sub- sisted on it, finding it nourishing, though not tasty.—Philadelphia Record. RUSSIA’S STANDING ARMY. Over a Million Men, Even in These Piping Times of Peace. _ The standing army of Russia in time of peace numbers over a million, rank and file, or 4 per cent. of the male popu- lation between the ages of 21 and 60 years, It is divided as follows: Six hun- dred and twenty-seven thousand infan- try. in 25 army corps, 52 divisions, 209 regiments and 836 battalions; 117,000 cavalry, in 28 divisions and 634 squad- rons; 138,000 artillery, with 412 batteries of field artillery and 46 of horse artillery: 34,000 engineers, 34,000 commissariat, transportation, medical and other depart- mental troops, and 60,000 Cossacks, Lia- bility to military service is general be- tween the twenty-second and forty-fourth birthdays, the only exemption being in favor of the Cossacks of the Caucasus. who have a special organization; the set- tlers in Turkestan and the territories of the Amur; the non-Russian population of Astrakhan, the Asiatic provinces and Archangel. A million men have every October 1 attained the military age, but only 300,000 are required to bring the standing army up to its peace establish- ment. Every urban and rural district has its recruiting board, which is in- formed of the number of recruits it must furnish to each arm. Selection is made between October 15 and November 15. Usually about 48 per cent. of the con- script candidates are exempt or ineligible. —Detroit Free Press. Historic Buildines. The government buildings at Fort Gib- son, Ind. T., are advertised for sale on March 4. Here are a few ashes from the Muskogee Phoenix: “These buildings and the ground on which they are located are to the terri- tory what Monticello and Mount Vernon are to Virginia; what Canton is to Ohio, what the Hermitage is to Tennessee, what the Alamo is to Texas, what Bunk- er Hill is to Massachusetts and what Osawatomie is to Kansas. “There it was old Rough and Ready ‘Zack’ Taylor, as post commander, first won his spurs and laid the foundation for a career which ended only_in the white house. Here the Plumed Knight, James G. Blaine, battled for weeks with the grim monster, and by the most narrow margin won a victory over death. Here Henry M. Stanley, the world’s greatest explorer, dreamed of Darkest Africa and a seat in Parliament, and here Gen. Sam- uel Houston had his first vision of the empire of Texas, as, living with the In- dians, he conceived the idea _and_plans for the Lone Star republic. Here Wash: ington Irving wrote his name on the tab- lets of American literature in undying letters when he planned the “Tales of a Traveler.’ Here Mrs. Bootes Dewey lived and reigned ‘the belle of the frontier post in the land of the red man. y “A place so rich in historic memories should not be sacrificed. A place so in- tertwined with the politics, wars, litera- ture and love of a nation should not be destroyed.” A.A. PENNELL 1S KILLED, Corespondent in Burdicx Divorce Proceedings Meets Death. ACCIDENT OR SUICIDE? Auto in Which He and Mrs. Pennell Were Riding Plunges Over Cliff Into Stone Quarry. Buffalo, N. Y., March 11.—Arthur R. Pennell, one of the chief figures in the mysterious murder case of Edwin L. Burdick, was dashed to death in an_au- tomobile accident last night. Mrs. Pen- nell, who was also in the automobile, was probably fatally injured. A story is current to the effect that Pennell did not lose control of his ma- chine as at first supposed, but instead steered it madiy over the precipice be- cause he had been suspected of knowing who murdered Burdick. Pennell had been named as corespondent in the suit Burdick instituted against his wis. Pennell and his wife were speeding along Kensington avenue when they neared an old stone quarry that is close to the street. The quarry is about 30 feet deep and has a bottom of loose, jagged stone. Dashed Into Stone Quarry. The machine was running at remark- ably fast speed and when near the quar- ry suddenly swerved from the read and dashed oyer the precipice, hurling Pen- nell to instant death on the rocks below and inflieting mortal wounds on Mrs. Pennell. Her recovery is considered ex- tremely improbable and there is little likelihood that she will ever regain con- sciousness. 2 Mrs. Pennell had a cut about the wrist, the index finger of her left hand broken and her face was badly eut. Her breast and body were badly bruised. It is con- sidered probable that she sustained se- vere internal injuries. A friend who called Mr. Pennell up on the telephene about 5 o'clock was in- formed that Pennell was in, but that he was just going for a drive. Mr. Pennell himself answered the telephone and_said that he would be back between 6:30 and 7 o'clock, making an appointment with his friend for that hour, ‘ “Would 6 o'clock do?” he was asked. “Oh, well, you might come at 6 o'clock, but you better make it later,” said Mr. Pennell. Relates to Burdick Murder. It is learned that the matter mentioned in the telephone talk was something Pen- ‘nell considered most serious and which weighed heavily on bim. It was in con- nection with the Burdick murder. Re- cently Pennell made the following state- ment: About this ease of Burdick, I have told the authorities I went away to New York before the murder and that I met Mrs. Burdics: while I was away. In fact, I saw Mrs. Burdick near New York two or three days before the murder of Mr. Burdick. I came home again Wednesday, the day be- fore the murder. I have told it frankly and the meeting was a proper one. But they seem determined to drag all this business out in the papers. I would do anything to stop It. Since the murder Pennell appeared morose and seemed to be breaking down. A couple of days ago Pennell wrote to a friend in Pottsville, Pa., showing the state of worry he was under. The fetter is as follows: I presume you have seen the newspaper accounts of a mysterious crime here at Buf- falo in which my name has most unjustly found — publicity in the mass of sen- sationalism and yellow journalism which has followed the affair. The truth was ut- terly lost. I had no connection with the crime. My name was brought in through the divorce proceedings which were then pending. There was no truth in the charges in those proceedings. They were absolute- ly 4 under oath by the defendant and myself. Twas dragged in out of vindictiveness be- cause my wife and myself had taken the part of the wife against the husband and she had come to me for legal adyice and protection, The man in the case was all the time in intimate relations with other Ytomen. The case would have been quickly tried and the charges disproved, but just at this tlme and at the most unfortunate time occurred his death at the hands of some unknown woman and the whole mat- ter became public. Then came a deluge of Nes and falsehoods which had no basis of fact. ‘The notoriety has been almost unbearable. I want you and some of the friends I care about to have the truth, and I know that you will believe in me. I have been very much broken up inall. A. R. PENNELL. Pennell’s Life Heavily Insured. Pennell carried $200,000 in life insur- ance. Besides his wife he had no heirs except his mother and brother, Fred. J. Pennell. The medical examiner and authorities are watching by Mrs. Pennell’s bedside to obtain an antemortem statement in case she revives from the state of coma in which she now is. It is believed that such a statement from Mrs. Pennell would reveal whether Pennell deliberate- ly drove the automobile over the preci- pice. At 1 o'clock this afternoon it was stated by the surgeons at the Sisters’ Hospital that Mrs, Pennell’s tempera- ture and pulse are rising rapidly, There is no hope for her recovery. An examination, of the wrecked auto- mobile was made today. It was stated that the brake of the machine was set tight. The lever was back on the re- yerse motion and the power was shut off, indieating that Pennell had tried to save himself from plunging into the quarry, Search Pennell’s Office. A policeman is on guard at Pennell’s office in the Austin building today and it is believed that the attorneys are now making a search of the papers and be- longings of the unfortunate victim. It was also stated a search is being made of the residence of the Pennells at 208 Cleveland Avenue. It is known that de- tectives have been at the honse since last night. Identification evidently had been a fad with Pennell. On the back case of the handsome gold watch, which was stil) ticking in his pocket, the intricate mon- FEDERAL JUDGE CENSURED. Wabash Injunction Condemned by Mis- souri Assembly. Jefferson City, Mo., March 11.—A reso- Intion was adopted by the House yester- day reproving Judge Adams of the United States district court of St. Louis for granting the recent Wabash injune- tion. —— Pickets are Withdrawn. Colorado Bpringe, Col., March 11.— Gov. James H. Peabody is expected in Colorado Springs this afternoon to in- vestigate for himself the strike condi- tions. The infantrymen placed as pee ets around the strike headquarters have been withdrawn and quiet prevails. SITUATION GRAVE. Sentries are Patrolling the Levees Along the Mississippi River. : _ Caruthersville, Mo., March 11.—The old levee, the greatest danger point along ithe Mississippi, a mile and a quarter south of here, is caving, wiih the river ‘showing a rise of four inches and rain falling heavily. The situation is grave. Government engineers regard it as the Auost critical Hood point along the river. Four hundred men are building a new levee. Landing places along the river are ‘submerged, many towns are entirely sur- rounded and the river, waich continues 2 rise, has backed up for miles. The levees alone are between the flood and corneas le with 5000 inhabitants, who are in fear of destruction and the surrounding counties with farming and ere, interests representing $3,000 | Mississippi Steadily Rising. Memphis, Tenn., March 11.—The Mis- | sissippi river is rising steadily at this point, the gauge this morning marking a rise of five-tenths of a foot in the past ‘twenty-four hours. It is believed that ee river will reach 38 feet at Memphis. Reports from Mississippi and Arkansas today indicate that the gravest apprehen- ‘sion prevails regarding the flood situation. In some districts armed sentries are pa- trolling the levees. All streams and riv- ers in» Arkansas are overtiowing. In North ea the flood has already be- gun encroaching at certain points and it will take but a few inches more of water to render work impossible at many of the lumber industries in that section of the city. Occupants of cabins there have ‘been compelled to flee to higher ground. Vessels Cannot Reach Landings. Evansville, Ind., Mareh 11.—The Ohio river reached 42.4 fect this morning and was stationary at that point. At the weather burean it was expected that the river would begin going higher during the day. Navigation is now difficult and at numerous points vessels cannot get to landings. Ten miles below here the tlood is above the foundation of the houses near the river. At Rhams station the water is 2 féet deep in houses and business is suspended. Several shanty boats ou the Wabash and Green rivers have been crushed in hy the flood and loss of life is feared. ‘Farmers about Mount Vernon have tled from the high waters, taking their house- hold goods and live stock. A large force of men are at work where the Evansville & Terre Haute railroad crosses White river. At this point a trestle 2000 feet long is necessary to keep the high water from touching the railroad tracks and to prevent the bridge washing away. Situation at Cincinnati. Cincinnati, O., March 11.—The river here is stationary, but the local forecast says it will pass the 52-foot stage Thurs- day. The outlook now is that there will be no disastrous flood at Cincinnati. New Orleans, La., March 11.—The river is rising here very slowly. The gauge today marked 18.4, a rise of only one-tenth in the past twenty-four hours. The stage is still over a foot under the record. Rainy weather is having the ef- fect of softening the levees and all Louisiana is praying for a return of sun- shine. Six hundred men are at work today strengthening various points along the river front. The engineers report. the levees be- tween Southport and Carrollton in ex- cellent condition and able to stand a much greater strain than they have thus far been subjected to. River Banks Breaking. Little Rock, Ark., March 11.—The Ar- kansas river will pass the danger line in the next twenty-four hours. The banks of the stream are reported to be badly caving. Factories at Devil's bluff have been compelled to close. Vicksburg. Miss., Mareh 11.—~The river here has risen four-tenths of a foot in the last twenty-four hours. Rain is falling. There has been no reports of breaks in the levee. Ice Goes Out of Grand River. Grand Haven, Mich., March 11.—Dan- ger here from the ice gorgé in Grand river is over. ‘Tlie ice went out today without damaging the bridges. Forty thousand logs which escaped from a raft above the city were captured and boomed. DUE TO INCENDIARY. Destruction of Portiand Oe Dock and Other Property—Loss Estimated at $1,000,000. Portland, Ove., March 11.—The Vie- toria-dock, situated on the east bank of the Willamette river, north of the rail- read bridge, was entirely destroyed by fire, together with 10,000 tons of wheat and 2000 tons of salt stored on the dock. Soon after the blaze had been put out Canning, Wallace & Co. and Zan Bros., wholesale houses, and the Oregon Rail- way and Navigation Company's Ash street docks were set on fire. The tota loss will not be iess than $1,000,000, It is believed that the Victoria dock fire was started by an incendiary, as a man qwas seen leaving the dock after the fire had gained some headway. Three times during the last fortnight fires have been started on docks in this city, und it is supposed that the same tan is responsible for all of them. The barkentine Amazon was moored near the dock and had it not been for the fact that the wind was blowing from the west she would haye been burned. Earlier in the day the half block of frame buildings bounded by Mississippi, Russell and Goldsmith streets, in Al. bina, not far from Victoria dock, was destroyed. Eighteen families who lived in the block were rendered homeless, The ground floor was occupied by sey- eral small stores. Criminal Proceedings Begun Against Di- fector of London Finance Cor- poration. London, March 11.—A warrant for the arrest of Whitaker Wright, director uf the London & Globe Finance Corpora- tion, Limited, was issued today. Following the order issued yesterday to the official receiver of the corporation by Justice Buckiey of the chancery di- vision of the high court of justice to criminally po Mr. Wright, a sum- mons for the latter was obtained yester- day Sree: but when an officer went to his residence he Was informed that Mr. Wright had gone to the contintent on account of his health, hence the issue of the warrants. In the House of Commons today, Swift MaeNeill, Irish Nationalist, asked Home Secretary Akers-Douglas what _ steps were being taken to prevent Mr. Wright from escaping justice. The secretary de- clined to answer such a question without notification. —_—________. Destructive Fire in Denver. Denver, Col. March 1.—The Evans biock at the corner of Fifteenth and Law- rence streets in this city was gutted by fire this eis The total loss is esti- mated at $100,000. The Hurlbut Gro- eery Comer stock, valued at $50,000, was destroy: Every Six Years. Mr. Pettus, whose well-worn frock coat and baggy trousers have long been a fea- ture of the Senate, startled his colleagues recently by appearing in the Senate chamber in a new suit of clothes. No sooner was the full truth of this surpris- ing innoyation appreciated than the ge- nial Alabama jurist was made the butt of numerous jokes, and it was slyly hint- ed that he was becoming a “dude.” Fi- nally, rising to the full height of his 5 feet 10 and the dignity of his 82 years, Mr. Pettus said: “Gentlemen, I'm a new senator, and I consider I’m entitled to a new suit of clothes. .I expect to pur- ae a new suit every time I'm re-elect- — The Sneed Puzzle J. Scott-Montagu, M. P., the well known English automobilist, gives in the Car the different estimates of a motor ear’s speed per hour, which were forth- coming in an inquiry at a police court. Here is his table: Miles. Private opinion of mechanic in charge.. 12 His opinion when talking to his friends. 20 His opinion when in court.............. 8 Policeman's private opinion............. 14 Policeman’s opinion in court........... 28 Farmer's opinion when his pony was laker’s guaran’ MND b<ns iva rsese: Actual speed. ....:...0..decesscsccecsscs 20 ——— LATEST MARKET REPORTS. MILWAUKEE, MARCH i1, 1903. Pree AND NAIRY MARKETS. MILWAUKEE — E; Market firmer. There Is a better feellag and dealers ar getting a shade higher prices for fresh good, The demand Is fairly good. Storage eggs are dull and not wanted. Strictly, fresh, loss off, cases included, 16c; fresh, cases returned, 15%c; fancy storage, 10@ lic. Receipts were 375 cases. MILWAUKERE—Eggs — Market weaker. There is an easier Seong owing to the in- creased receipts, and a decline is noted; fresh eggs bringing lic. Storage eggs are dull and not wanted. ‘Strictly fresh, loss off, cases Included, 15%c; fresh, cases Te- turned, 15c; fancy storage, 10@lc. Re- celpts were 480 cases. Butter—Market firm. There ts a good de- mand for all grades of creamery, which is very scarce just now and wanted. There Is an unusual shortage of fancy butter, both in creamery and dairy, and all such grades arriving is taken quickly. Cream- ery, per Ib, 2749c; prints, 28c; firsts, 23@24¢3 seconds, 17c; June creamery, 18@24c; extra say Sais. 18¢; site: ISOS ay = 2 offerin; ver, entiful. ecelpts: 20,000 Ibs. Cheese — Firm. The demand continues good; full cream flats, fancy, 14@l5c; good to choice, 13¢; Young Americas, 14%4c; low. ee jo@tic: Babee 2S es i i3i4e; low les, ag Swi Sse; Block Swiss domestic, 1gige: fancy loaf. 12%@13%c; No. 2, Ae; Sapsago, 20c. Receipts’ were 12,300 Ibs. CHICAGO — Butter—Steady; creameries, 18@2iiee; dairies, 14G@24c. Eggs—Firmer; at: mark, cases Included, lic. Cheese— Steady: twins, 12 wGlahe: daisies, 1300 13%c; Young Americas, 13@134c. Dressed Doultrs“Easy; turkeys, 15@18e; chickers, ioe ee eee een ee eee ee eS eR ne HOGS—Receipts, 5 cars;_market strong: light, 130 to 160 Ibs, 6.70@7.10; mixed, 180 to 225 Ibs, 7.15@7.45; good to choice, 200 to 250 Ibs, 7.25@7.50; selected heavy. 250 to_ 300 Ibs, 7. 65; pigs, 50 to 110 Ibs, 5.50@6.25. CATTLE — Recelpts, 2 cars: strong; butchers’ steers, medium to good, 1060 to 1300 Ibs, 4.50@5.50; fair to medium, 9%) to 3080 Ihe, 3-75@4 50; spelters, common. —— 50; good, 3.75@4.50; cows. fair to > 3.00@8.75; ‘canners, 1.75@2.00; cutters, 2.50 8.00; “bulls, common, 2.75@3.25; cholce, 3.50@4.00; feeders, 800 to 950 Ibs. 3.7383 4.50; stockers, 500 to 750 _ Ibs, ee % veal calves, vee 90 to 105 Ibs, 4. 505 — 110 to 140 Ibs, —. Milkers— Common, ee: choice, 35.00@45.00. SHEEP—Recelpts, 1 car; steady; 3.00@ 4.25; bucks, 3. 00G8.50; lambs, common to cholee, 5.00@T.00. Chicago receipts: Hogs, 25,000; cattie, 14,000; sheep, 15,000. MILWAUKEE HAY MARKET. setts firm; cariots, choice Reetaze -12.00@12.25; No. 1 timothy, 11.50@11.75; No. 2 timothy, 9.50@10.50; clover and clover mixed, 9.00@10.00. Prairie hay steady; choice Kansas, 11.50 S207 te 1 Kansas, 11.00@11.25; No. 2, Straw, steady; rye, 8-75@7.00; oats, 6.008 6.50; wheat, 4m OR: ber ng hay, 6.50. Wisconsin praitie, 6.50@7.30. WITWATKEER POTATO MARKET. Potatoes—Market quiet. Cariots, on track, per bus, Rurals and Burbanks, oe. large, = Rose and Peerless, 38@0c; small stock, WARKETS RY TELEGRAPH. MILWAUKEE-—Flour—Steady. Wheat — Firmer; No, 1 Northern, on track, 79¢; No. 2 Northern, on track, 78e. Corn—Steady; No. 3 on track,« se Gue-Someer: No. 2 white, on track, 35%c; No. 3 white, on track, Souggsse, Barley—Steady and un- changed; |No. 2 on pack, 64c; sample on track, 46@65c. Ry@-Steady; No. 1 on track, 52c. Provisions—Firmer; pork, 18.37; lard, 10.22. Flour market steady; patents, 3.90@4.00; bakers’, 2.90@3.00; rye, 2.90@3.00. Millstuffs are firm ‘and quoted at 17.00 for bran, 17.00 for standard middlings and 18.00@18.50 for Milwaukee flour middlings In 100-1b sacks; red dog, 20.00, Delivered to country points, 50c extra. CHICAGO—Close — Wheat — May, T5%e; duly, pe September, 70%e. * ‘Corn— March, 45%¢; May, 47%@4A7%c: July, 44%e: September, 43%c. Oats—March, 3354@ Bake: May, 34igaadse: July, 31%; Sep- tember, 28%c. Pork—May, 18.8212; July, 17.82%; September, 17.65. Lard—May, 10.22%: July, 10.12%: September, 10.0744. Ribs— May, 9.97%; July, 9.7714; September, 9.77%. Rye—May, Sic. Flax—Cash N. W., 111; $. W., 1.00; May, L1Mg@1.12. Tim- othy—Mareh, 3.50. Clover—March, 11.75. Barley Cash, 42@b6c. NEW_YORK—Close—Wheat—May, S0%c; July, 77%e. Corn—May, 52%c; July. S05%e. KANSANS CITY—Ciose—Wheat—May, 6514 @e%c; July, 68%@83ise; cash No. 2 hard, ma7e; No. 2 red, 70c. Corn—April, 37" @37%c; May, STHGST AC: duly, 37%e; cash No. 2 mixed, 30@40%c; No. 2 white, 30:4@ de. Oats—No. 2 white, 36%c. | FOLEDO— Wheat Dull. strong: cash, 75c; as: Tie; July, 73%e. Corn—Duil, higher; /Mareh, 45c; Mas, 44%c; July, 45c. Oats — Dull, steady; March and May, B5%c; July, ‘B2c." “Rye—No. 2, S8ige. Seed—Active, easler; cash, 7.05; March, 6.95; — 6.90; October, 5.40; prime timothy, 1.60. MINNEAPOLIS — Close — Wheat—May, TKe; July, LaGTAMe: on track, No. 1 hard, 77%e;_No. Northern, 76%c; No. 2 Northern, T5%e. ST. LOUIS—Close—Wheat—Bhigher; No. 2 red cash meri, See. somtnel, May, C9Y%a6v%~e; July,, oe: 0. 5 ho 73e. Corn—Hi ser; No. 2 cash, 41c, nomi- nal: May, le; July, ee Oats— Higher: No. ‘i E 35e,/ nominal; May, oe at whe: vee ae Lead —Firm, 4.26%. Spelter—Firm, . | DULUTH—Close — Wheat —Cash No. 1 hard, 75e; No. 1 Northern, T4c; No. 2 ‘Northern, 72c; No. 3 spring, 69: to ar- rive, No. 1 Northern, 75%ec; No. 2 North- ern, 73%¢c; May and July, Toye. Flax— Cash, 1.08%; on track and to arrive, 1.00%; May, 1.10%; July, 1.12; September, 1.12; October, 1.1, Oate-To arrive and on track, B2igc; May, % ‘e—To arrive and on eee 49%ge; nag sige. Barley —35@51c. Receipts—Wheat, 65,101. Shipments—None. KANSAS CITY—Cattle—Recelpts. 8000; steady to weraeg: beef steers, 3.00@9.25; ‘Texans, 2.25@6.00; cows and helfers, 1.754 4.75; stockers and feeders, 2.50@4.55. Hogs Receipts, 6000; strong to Ge _bigher: Dery erin” Raat 6 ogo. sheep ers, .32%;" pigs, \. eee: en sheep, 3.3006.00; ml , WaT LOUIS—Cattle—Recelpts, 2000: ‘steady to strong; beef steers, 3.50@5.20; stockers and feeders, 2.35@4.00; cows and helfers, 2.254450: Texans, sete. Boge— Receipts, ‘4500: steady; pigs, 4 7.25; packers, 7.20G7-00;, haters’. 7. 7.70, Sheep—Receipts. ; firm; sheep, 4.00@5.75: lambg. 5.)0di7.40. ¥ | —Mrs. Laura B. Alderman is a suc- cessful apple grower in North Dakota. When she started her orchards the neigh bors all prophesied failure. 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In the Civil war he came 400,000 strong, and I believe he sdved the Unien.”—President Roosevelt. —_—_—————_ Now that Masecagni’s business troubles have been turned over to Italian juris- prudence, he ought to be able to shake them off. —————— Here in the north it is nearly spring, yet the government troops in Honduras, it seems, have not yet got through with Christmas. After all their talk, it would seem to be impossible for either Jeffries or Cor- bett to “land” a blow without striking the mouth, Sailors will be interested in the achievement of a New York modiste, who has invented a heavy-weather skirt with neither reef-points nor ballast. It has been agreed that Jeffries and Corbett may continue to fight with their mouths until July, at which time they must resort to their fists, in the prize ring. — People who have hopes of the toast cure as a remedy for indigestion are begged to observe that it has nothing to do with the kind of toasts that prevail at banquets. The decision of the Massachusetts su- preme court as to a reporter’s proprietary right to news of his own gathering strikes a blow at the mysterious system of “grape vine specials.” A side-light on one of the phases of coeducation is cast by the order of Presi- dent Jordan prohibiting flirting in the quadrangle and library of the Leland Stanford, Jr., University. Itheca’s hard struggle with a typhoid epidemic should be a warning to munici- palities which are at all doubtful as to the purity of their drinking water. “An ounce of prevention,” etc., ete. —— Dr. Alfred Russell Wallace, the scien- tist, is jollying an immense constituency. He says the earth is the whole thing, and that it is the center of a stellar system that is operating entirely for man’s ben- efit. The mowing down of a mile or two of telegraph poles, near Babcock, Wiscon- sin, by a piece of timber that swung out of place on a flat car, illustrated the extreme phase of the railroad right of wary. A German physician announces that he has found 2,000,000 bacteria in half a pound of strawberries. They don’t sell strawberries by the box in Germany, and purchasers get a good deal for their money. Ee As for that Ann Arbor orator who has been stricken from the interstate competi- tion list because he tried to palm off as his own a speech by Indiana’s junior senator, he isn't the first university youth who has got into trouble by the too free use of Beveridge. The editor of the country weekly cap attend the convention and leave the task of fulminating opinion to the galley boy, if he likes; but the editor of the city daily must stick to his grind. This reflection gives point to the old saying, “God made -the country; man made the town.” The news of the establishment in Mil- waukee of a “clearing house for bottles” may provoke thirsty souls at a distance to volunteer their services for the work to which they are led by its name to suppose it to be devoted. This would have been avoided if it had assumed the designation of a bottle exchange. There is nothing oppressive in legislat- ing that every automobile shall be marked so that if it does any damage it can be distinguished, and its own- er can be held responsible. No automo- bilist who means to treat the public fairly will object to the enactment of a law providing for this equitable precau- tion. WIDOWS OF MA. KAISER; There are Two Who Claim Hid Estate. , HE MARRIED TOO OFTEN| Sensational Evidence Expected in wit Case at Manitowoc—Alleged Wife in Germany. Manitowoc, Wis., March 12.—[Spe- cial.]|—Two women, each claiming to be the widow of Lawrence Kaiser, who died last week, promise to make things in- teresting in the probate court. A woman claiming to be Mrs. Elizabeth Kaiser has written from Germany making inquiry as to the property of the deceased. She claims to have been married to Kaiser in the early ’60s, previous to his departure to America, and has seven children. Since 1878 she had heard nothing of him until Jenuary. 25 of the .present year, when she received a letter from Mr. Kaiser in which he told of his serious illness and told her to prepare proof of her relations to him in order that she might claim a portion of the property. ‘The records of the court here show that Kaiser was married on February 12, 1867, and that his wife received a di- vorce in 1870 on grounds of cruel and inhuman treatment, One daughter by that marriage, Minnie, resides here. During the last years of his life Kaiser married Mary Dotter. He made his will in 1892 and. left nis property to her. She claims the widow's share. There is promise of sensational! developments in the case, page Why the Carnegie Library Matter at Ripon Has Gotten Into the Courts. Ripon, Wis., March 12.—[Special.]— 'The differences over the Carnegie library site in this city have reached the stage of a mandamus from Judge Kirwan to the common council either to make pro- vision for the payment for the site se- lected and purchased by the library board of directors, or to give the reason why before the circuit court March 31. The council has stood equally divided on the questions involved in the controversy and Mayor Strauss gave the casting vote against putting the amount re- quired in the tax levy, and when a reso- lution to issue bonds passed by a ma- jority, he vetoed it, because he claimed ‘a resolution for a bond issue requires a three-fourths vote. The location of the site by the library board is the real is- sue and the mayor and objecting alder- men claim eer. desire to have the ques- tion submitted to the voters and de- termined in that way. LARGE NORMAL SCHOOL. eee Wili Give the Money for Institute at Menomonie to Prepare Manual Training Teachers. Menomonie, Wis., March 12—L. D. Harvey, former state superintendent of schools, has spent the week here with Senator Stout, inspecting the Menomonie city and county schoo! systems, and strongly advises the estabiishment of au extensive normal school here for fitting young men and women for teaching man- ual training and domestic science. The demand for teachers of this class is in- creasing rapidly now, but no school in the country is prepared for the work in all its phases. Establishing a school of that character would mean the outlay of a re sum of money for new apparatus, and it is said great care wot be re- quired in the selection of competent teachers, but that after the first year the school would be nets supporting. It is understood Mr. Stout is willing to bear the expense of establishment if compe tent teachers can be found. EVERY ROOM IN HOTEL ROBBED BY BURGLARS. ae None of the Twenty-five Guests Awake While Their Property was Being Taken. West Superior. Wis.. March 12.—[Spe- cial.]—A clever and daring burglary was perpetrated here this-morning~about 1 o'clock. Two men dropped down through the skylight at the Detroit boarding house, where ore dock workmen room. There were twenty-five in the house at the time. The burglars went through ev- ery room in the house, took all the mon- ey they could find, about $150, and took a collection of jewelry. The best in each room was selected and the cheaper jewel- ry was left. Not a person in the house awoke and the men left by way of the front door, which was found unlocked from the inside in the morning. It is supposed that the burglars took some out- going freight train directly after the bur- giary. —____._____ WON'T SEND SOLDIER’S BODY HOME Government Refuses to Pay for Its Transportation. Racine, Wis., March 12.—Relatives of Sergt. Chris Hanson, who died at San Francisco while en route home from the zp eaipoiiees, were notified by the com- manding officer of Co. B, Nineteenth In- ear. that the government refuses to pay for the transportation of the body to Racine and that burial will take place in San Francisco unless relatives are willing to pay the charges. An appeal was at once sent to Congressman Cooper. eo STRIKES GOLD AND COAL. West Superior Man Thinks He has Masle a Rich Strike. West Superior, Wis., March 12.—[Spe- ‘cial.]—Constable August Fradrick of this city, while bonne a well on his land just outside the city limits, struck a lay- er whith is claimed to contain coal and traces of gold and other mineral. It was struck at a depth of 130 feet. He is having an analyses of the stuff and will search further if his expectations are realized. — Survives Serious Accident. Mellen, Wis., March 33 ees) Pat Cay a top loader, was badly crushed and bruised Ea rer giving way at the Foster & timer mill while ee He was caught between a large pile of logs, several rolling over his body. Strange to say, no bones were broken and the man bids fair to recover. epee eens Drops Dead in Doctor's Office. Eau Claire, Wis., March 12.—[Spe- cial.]—Gus Kitzman, are 42, dropped dead in Dr. Ashum’s office yesterday of apoplexy. He had gone there for treat- ment_ THE FIELD OF BATTLE INCIDENTS AND ANECDOTES OF THE WAR. The Veterans of the Rebellion Tell of Whistling Bullets, Bright Bayoneta, Bursting Bombs, Bloody Battles, Camp Fire, Festive Buge, Etc., Ete, ‘like this,” said Pat. “I carried, at Stone River, the cleanest and bright- est rifle in the company. And all the boys knew it. When the rebs shot that rifle out of my hands I couldn't budge on account of being stunned and boil- ing over mad. Right at my side was Mike Higgins, with as dirty a rifle as ever a good soldier carried, and he was firing as fast as he could load and pull the trigger, and he was yell- ing et me why in the devil didn't I ‘shoot, when I decided to slap him once for luck. Just then something élappat me on the side of my right foot, and slapped both feet from un- der me. Mike lifted me up and said whatever it was that slapped me never touched me. Then he shouldered me off toward the rear. “It was a case of must, Mike said. I had to use my legs or be captured. At first my feet were like wooden blocks, but the further I walked the better they felt, and finding a bright, clean rifle on the field I became in- terested in the shooting and forgot all about slapping Mike or being slapped by something that Mike said never touched me. That night I found two bullet holes in my hat, three in my overcoat, two flesh wounds on one leg and three scratches on the other, and I never thought of my foot. My right boot was full of blood, but Mike said it came from a wound just above my knee and I let it go at that. “But that blood came from my foot and from that day to this I have had the jumping toothache in that foot, whenever a storm is brewing. Rheu- matism? No, sir, I can stand in the water or in the snow all day and have no pain. But three or four hours be- fore a heavy rain or snow sterm is due, there is a jumping, thumping toothachey pain in that foot and no questions asked. That continues until the rain or snow comes, and then the foot is as easy and comfortable as any foot in this world. Mike told me la- ter that the thing that struck me seem- ed to fly up from the ground, but the air was so full of flying things that he thought I was lucky to escape with a bruise, when a dozen of the boys were shot through and through. This was the view I took of the matter then, and I never counted my lame foot as n wounded foot, and yet it gives me more trouble than all my other wounds put together.” | “It was often the case,” said the Ma- jor, “that the wound which seemed trifling at the time proved more se- ‘rious than the wound that received the attention of surgeons. In one battle I was shot through my sword arm, and about the same time was strack on the shoulder by a falling branch of a tree. The wound in the arm healed rapidly, but the shoulder is lame to this day. A man in our com- pany had two fingers shot off and re- ceives a pension, but in a mountain fight at a later date he sprained his ankle. The wounded hand gives him no pain or. trouble, whereas the ankle that was only sprained, and which received little attention at the time, has been for forty years a seat of discom- fort and pain. “At the last reunion of our company © man shot through the body at Shi- loh was one of the most active of all those present. A man whe escaped all the flying bullets at Fort Donelson and caught cold the second night was one of the most feeble. One of the boys who had a toe shot off at Cotton Hill was the best dancer, and the best marcher of the oid days was as stiff as a spavined horse. A man who had been thrown twenty feet in the air by a mine explosion was as lively as a cricket, and the fellow burned, through putting his lighted pipe in his pocket to escape the notice of the of- ficer of the guard, was a cripple. Our Colonel, wounded three times in as many different battles, was there in more robust health than he evet had in the army, carrying his €5 years as easily as he carried h\s 28 on the march to the sea, while our Captain, who had been struck by a spent ball in front of Atlanta, counted himself an invalid. “That reminds me.” said the Ser- geant, “of my own experienee with a spent ball. We were going up Look- out Mountain from the west. Things were moving our way with a whirl, and I never felt better in my life; a musket ball struck me in the abdo- men, and I never felt worse. I stag- gered, dropped, and the boys, not ex- pecting any one to be shot at that time, ran on with the rejoicing line sweeping up the mountain. I was a disappointed and miserable man, the pain of the wound driving me nearly wild. I yelled for help and put my hand inside my blouse to discover what sort of a hole had been bored into me. I found no wound, but my neryous fingers clutched a musket ball as die aie coe ein Mee ee ficer, and he looked as miserable as I felt, It was explained that the Gen- eral had been severely wounded. He eta assisted off his horse and was ‘laid at full length not ten feet froin me. | “He groaned and swore and asked ‘the doctor to be quick and give him ‘some relief from the damnable pain. The doctor opened the General's coat, ‘felt about a minute, and then, hold- ‘ing out his hand to the aid, said: “Thank God, it is only a spent ball.’ ‘Instantly the General, who had heen stretched out, relaxed and nerveless, sat up and said roughly: ‘What's that? A spent ball. Here, get out of the way. Put me on my horse. I would give all my year's pay to lick the man who hit me with a spent ball.’ Once on his horse, he rode away to the front, like a charging cavalryman. The doctor, looking after him. said to the surprised hospital men, ‘A little exer- cise will help him.’ Taking the hint, I scrainbled to my feet and staggered up hill, but the doctor shouted after me, ‘Hold on, there; every step you take makes the treatment of your wound more difficult.’ “I thought what was good for a Brigadier was good for a Sergeant, and I struggled on. The doctor, think- ing I was crazed by pain, rode after me. When he came up to me I held out my hand, with the musket ball in it, and, looking at the ball in his own hand, he said: ‘I see. Two of you.’ I went on to my company. ‘om, Dick, and Bluffer didn’t care anything about the spent ball, and I got no sym- pathy on that score. The spot where the confounded ball struck, however, is sore to this day, and occasionally I wake up in the night as miserable as I was that day on Lookout Moun- tain. I don’t brag about being hit in that battle, but I never was harder hit in all my life.”—Chicago Inter Ocean. A Prayer Bricade. Among several thousand others Dave Day was a prisoner at Anderson- ville, says the Denver News. Since an occurrence which he relates in the prison he has’ had great faith in the power of prayer. The little slugzish stream from which the prisoners were supplied with water became unfit for use in 1863, at the time Dave fell into rebel hands, and they were not allow- ed to get water from outside. He Says the suffering thousands organized what they called a prayer brigade, consisting of about five hundred men. Dave was a member. Among his com- rades he was noted more for his bray- ery than his piety, and they argued that a good soldier must of necessity be a good Christian away down in his breast, where sits his “bosom’s lord.” Dave was elected as Lieutenant of cne of the praying squads, who were on two hours and off four, as in regular picket detail. He says the boys went to work with a will and made a busi- ness of praying for water, never di- verting either to the right or to the left. They prayed from early morn- ing until the shadows lengthened out across the grayer ground to meet those of the setting sun. The prayer bri- gade was joined by volunteers, until at length nearly every miserable pris- oner in the cruel stockade was down on his knees praying for water. For twenty-eight days the work was kept up, never a backslider showing up in the force. It was water or death, and death seemed to look over and mock the solemn scene. But still they prayed. Some went crazy—stark, rav- ing mad—while* many ‘died on their bended knees! The dead-wagon came in every morning and hauled away the poor victims—dying for want of water, and while praying for it. There was no cessation, and the good work went on. They were mocked from the out- side, but the prayers went on until the very stench of the awful prison was turned into insence, floating away to heaven, which seemed to deny their appeal. On a beautiful June morning, while the boys were forming for pray- er, 2 great stalwart skeleton of a pris- oner mounted a platform in front of the brigade, and shouted out at the top of his shattered voice: “There is no God!” The men started, speechless, at the speaker, who repeated the terri- ble sentence, which was drowned amid a volley of prayer and song. Over there, on the highest ground in the prison, at this moment burst forth from the parched earth a stream of sparkling water, which was named “Providence Spring,” and to this day its waters continue to flow, and seem to say to the traveler as it did to the poor prisoners: “Ye that are athirst, come.” Gen. Grant's Nam-sake. A number of years ago a son was born to a colored woman in.the South. and, as he was her first, she looked upon him with pride, and was much at loss to find a name for him. Relatives and friends, including her mistress, were appealed to, but although many names were suggested, all were dis- carded. After many days of deliberation, she said one morning to her mistress “Miss Mary, I’se found a name for my boy; I'm going to name him Deli- cious.” “Why,” said the lady, “where did you get that name?” “Oh,” she replied, “I'm going to cal him that cause I want to name him for Mr. Grant.” When it was explained to her that the great hero was named Ulysses, and not Delicious, she was somewhat disturbed in mind, but Ulysses did not please her, so the boy had to be. gin life burdened with the name, Eg bert Eugene.—Exchange. A fine person or a beauteous face are in vain without the grace of de- portment.—Churchill. . Schiller, Jr. Fish and Oysters Green Sis: Wis: Packing House & Freezers, Foot of ECONOMY {74 Fifth Street Shirts 6c Each Peivere Other Work Proportionate. BEST WORK IN CITY. | i, | Th Ale ltee. , ae | Wheeler & Wilson HAS ADVANTAGES CONTAINED IN | NO OTHER SEWING MACHINE, : Three Times | . The,Value of 3 Any Other | One Third Easier One Third Faster: ae dee oe es. point. Sse 406 Grand Avenue, Milwaukee. CORN AS SUBSTITUTE FOR COAL. Has Been Used for Fuel in the Farming Districts. Substitutes for coal have for many years commanded attention. and espe- cially so during the past eight or nine months in the United States, with coal prices at abnormal figures as a result of the anthracite miners’ strike last year. Peat and briquetted sawdust, wood, oil and many other substances, have been under consideration, and among them also corn, this last particularly having been spoken of as something quite new, though, as a matter of fact, corn has, for a long time, been used as fuel in the farming districts of the western sections of the United States, and that, too, with very satisfactory results. In a general way, it was recognized there that when corn was abundant and cheap, and coal was expensive, the former made a cheaper fuel than the latter, although no scientific determination of their rela- tive efficiency had been made until a few years ago, when tests were made by the department of agriculture of the Uni- versity of Nebraska. An account of these, given in these pages at the time, showed, among other things, that an acre of land will produce from 40 to 86 bushels of corn, which, if burned, will yield from 22,512,000 B. T. U. to 45,- 024,000 B. T. U., not counting the heat that could be obtained from the stalk. Since a ton of good coal will give up from about 20,000,000 to 26.- 000,000 B. T. U., an acre of ground is each year capable of producing _ fuel which is equal to from 0.87 or 1.28 to 1.74 or 2.56 tons of coal. The stalk will probably inerease this amount by one- fourth or one-third. The experience gained from boiler tests with corn fuel made it appear doubtful whether corn would be a practicable fuel ‘for the generation of power, unless it were burned in some special furnace that would insure the perfect combustion of the volatile matter which forms so large a percentage of the whole corn and which is driven off at a comparatively low heat. ‘Some form of automatic stoker would ‘also be desirable, since the corn burns rapidly and must be frequently fired, making the work of the firemen very arduous and at thé same time tending to cause incomplete combustion by the ex- cess of cold air entering through the fire door. Undoubtedly corn may, at times, be a cheap and economical fuel for do- mestie use. It is cleaner and more easily handled than coal and contains but a very small amount of ash. It burns rapidly with an intense heat and this is apt to be destructive to the cast iron linings of the stove. Here, again, there- fore, some special form of firebox, that will not be injured by the heat, and that will utilize as much of the heat as_pos- sible, should be used.—Cassier’s Maga- gine. Bad for the Baptisis. Senator Kean was reading some statistics in the Senate today to show that the Mormon Sy te ‘had made greater progress in the peepee new states of Arizona and New Mexico than the Methodists, Baptists and other de nominations had made in other sections of the country. Senator McComas asked: “Does the senator know whether the Baptists have decreased in numbers in Arizona aud New Mexico because those territories are arid and there is a searcity of water, interfering with the immersion feature of their faith?” Mr. Kean couldn’t answer.—New York World. 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None knew better than Jesus that temptations are at once a menace and an opportunity, and as our secret of safety He indicated a twofold attitude of mind, a sense of shrinking lest we be overconfident and fall of our equipment, a sense of security lest we falter and fail of the victor's crown. The petition is not a cry for escape, but a confession of dependence. There is no escape possible but victory. To ask to be taken out of temptation is to ask to be taken out of the world. In the old parable of Eden the tree which represented temptation stood with its fruit low-hanging and inviting, a standing challenge, in the very center of the garden, where all must pass it every day. For all men all life is a series of testings; every day is a judgment day. The daily decisions of life test and attest us. Here is some call to duty; shall we accept it or decline it? Pain comes to us; shall we fret and chafe under it or bear it bravely and try to see its deeper meaning? Some richness of life is ours, knowledge, position, ability, money. Shall we clutch these things for ourselves or hold them in trust for the enriching of another's life? No man can escape these questions, and upon his answer depends his value of the social order. Temptations are the penalty of manhood: they are the sign of a progress upward. Only a moral nature can be tempted. Temptations are the appeals of the lower nature, the impulses to be untrue to one's highest vision, and to carry into a higher stage of life the characteristics of a lower. In the nature of the case, therefore, they do not separate us from God. Only yielding does that. There is no experience of human life that lies outside the sphere of His purposes of grace. God never meant our lives to be artificially screened from danger. The safe life is not the sheltered life, but the victorious life. Untested virtue is only a possible virtue. The process of proving is for the purpose of approving. Testing manhood temptations reveal it and prove its worth. Every morning brought a chance And every chance a noble knight. But testing implies the possibility of failure and a moral failure is no trivial thing. The issues of eternal life are at stake upon the battlefields of the heart. Temptation met means the molding of character; yielding means its sure and terrible prevention. Consider it a matter of no moment when a tongue of flame destroys a canvas beyond price, break without a thought an infinitely precious vase, but do not call it a trifle when the higher faculties of the soul are deadened, when lofty ideals are eclipsed, when one is severed from the greatness and the glory of life. Knowing human frailty, Jesus did not hesitate to teach us to walk warily. His own prayer in Gethsemane is the exact counterpart of this petition. He shrank from the trial whose shadow was deepening over His life, yet He did not decline to meet it. The bravest are not those who know no fear. He who alone of all men was never found wanting, taught that the only way to be safe was never to be overconfident. Had the disciple who denied Him gone into the palace offering Jesus' prayer instead of vaunting his own strength, he would not have gone out into his night of bitter remorse. If the inevitable testings of life are a menace, perilous indeed are the testings that can be avoided, and if the petition invokes a spirit of dependence upon God, moment by moment, supremely does it rebuke a spirit of presumption. While it is profoundly true that God leads us into temptation, he does not lead us into all temptation. Into some we lead ourselves. But when one willfully makes a choice of circumstances or actions that are hostile to the higher life of himself or of others, he simply places himself at the mercy of the forces of evil. Compromise is fatal. There is no possible security outside the pathway of God's guidance. A prayer of dependence and a prayer of confidence. Not a request that we be taken out of temptation, but that we be kept in temptation. We need falter in no testing into which duty shall lead us. When in loyalty to life's highest standard it is your purpose to try as best you can to do the right thing, count it all joy when you fall into manifold temptations. They are a bugle call to battle in which you may win the crown of an eternal life. Yet ever let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall. Evil is whatever harms men. If God is good, why is there evil in the world? This is the sphynx problem. The explanation of a horned and hoofed devil to whom we can attribute all of the world's evils is now seen to be a childish explanation. The devil is out of date. No sane mind any longer believes in a devil. Evil is the only devil there is. How account for it? Possibly no explanation will be wholly satisfactory. As a general proposition, however, we may assert that evil is the result of the wrong use of what is intended for good. Water and fire are blessings. Misuse them and they become the very fiends of destruction and suffering. Another cause of evil is greed. Industry and commerce, for instance, are in their proper and legitimate use great blessings. Controlled by greed they become instruments of robbery, of injustice and suffering. There is no force, material or spiritual, which properly used may not bless men. Inseparably connected with this is the power to injure men if they misuse these forces. There is no devil who divides the empire of the world with God and good. Man, evil of purpose, ignorant, careless, greedy, misusing beneficent forces, is the only devil known to modren knowledge. There are devils enough. Devils in homespun and in rags. Devils in silk hats and dress suits. The real devils whom humanity ought to fear are the men and women who pervert the sanctities of life and of nature and fill the world with evil and suffering. Evil abides. The church and society need no longer fight the traditional devil. The modern fight is against evil men and evil women. The devil against which the church ought to fight is the devil of ignorance, of greed, of selfishness. The real problem of the times is not how to get people out of this world safely into some harp-playing world, but how to teach them to live decently and in order here. CHURCH KEEPS ITS HOLD. By Rev. Leander Are the churches losing their hold upon the people? They are not, nor can they. Christ said of the church. "The gates of hell shall not prevail against it." The church is doing what it was established to do. The cry that the church is losing its hold upon men is wholly owing to misapprehension of what the church is and what it exists for. Simply an assembly or association of true believers in Christ. The exercises of the primitive church were praying, singing, observance of the memorial feast of the Lord's supper, and, in a word, the simple, spontaneous expression of a life of trust and communion with God. There have probably always been churches of this type, and in the main the Disciples, Baptists, Brethren and some other bodies are so to-day. The church served two main purposes. It strengthened the spiritual life of believers by their association together. There is great conserving and developing power in association. It is this power that is depended upon in the founding of schools and in wellnigh everything done looking to social and intellectual progress. Heaped up coals glow, but scattered embers die. The church was meant to make the spiritual life of its members an aggressive force in the world for truth and righteousness. Both the ends for which the church was planted have been accomplished and are being accomplished to-day. There is no hint in the New Testament that the church was intended or expected to gain the hearts of all men or even of most men. SERMONETTES Our Religion.—Our religion is just good citizenship, with strong, clean life. That is all there is in it. It is all there is in any religion.—Rev. Dr. Hall Unitarian, Cambridge, Mass. Walk with God.—The man who walks with God meditates upon his works. He is confronted at every turn by tokens of the divine favor and evidence of his creative power.—Rev. W. F. Wykoff, Methodist, Akron, Ohio. Toss Doctrines. Our capacity to toss doctrines from goal to goal as a football is tossed will not avail. The rising of the Christ in the dying self, the deeds of love and mercy, down even to the cup of cold water given-this will be the final judgment. Rev. Dr. Clampett, Episcopal, San Francisco Cal. Mission of the Church.—To preach the Gospel and to minister to the poor is the mission of the church. God designed His church to be a great benevolent and charitable institution in the world. He evidently did not intend that His poor saints should be supported by civil governments or by secular charitable institutions. We do not hear of the early church casting off its poor saints upon the charities of the Roman government.—Rev. Dr. Holderby. Presbyterian, Atlanta, Ga. 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. I suppose it's only natural that every parent should think his own boys and girls the cleverest and best-looking children in the world. And this was just me with my two little bairns, Victor and Cherry. They were twins, and the only children we possessed, and I often said to the wife, "They're worth more than all the children in the town." They were only 7 years old at the time of which I write, and healthy, bonnie little twins they were. Cherry was clever with her needle, Victor was more than clever with his drawing. All the time when he wasn't at school he had his pencil in his hand, and his pocket-money, instead of being expended in sweets or toys, always went in drawing-books and crayons. "I'm going to be an artitec, Dad, and, like Sir Christopher Wren, I'm going to build a great cathedral." I like to see a boy determined what he's going to do when he gets a man, so I encouraged him all I could, and got him to bring his drawings to me when he had finished them. At this time I was a drinking man, a hard-drinking man, but I didn't think the children knew antyhing about it for my sin was committed when they enjoyed the innocent sleep of happy childhood. But little pitchers have long ears, and little children have sharp eyes. It happened one night that I returned home sober. I had been offered a post abroad by a relative, and I wanted to talk the matter over with my wife, and to see if we could make up our minds to leave the old country for the sake of bettering our position in life. In order to write down some matters connected with our proposed journey, I wanted a pencil and paper, and not having either at hand, I opened my little Victor's drawer and took out one of his pencils and a drawing-book. This drawing-book was marked in large letters "Private," and my curiosity was aroused, so I opened it. To my great astonishment and dismay, the first few pages, which were all that he had filled, were covered with drawings of whisky bottles! Whisky bottles in all sorts of attitudes, with faces of men, and arms and legs of men. Some of the bottles were reeling through the street, some fighting at the street corner, some lying in the gutter with a policeman in the rear. And at the bottom of each page was written in a big, bold hand "Poor Old Dad!" I forgot all about the offer to go abroad. I felt thunderstruck, and never so ashamed in my life. Our little Victor aware of my sin! Our little Victor pittying his dad! Our little Victor ashamed of me, too! When I had recovered the shock of the discovery, I showed it to the wife. "How did he know?" she exclaimed. "How did he know?" "Children know everything," said I sadly. "But he shall soon unknow this. I'm not going to be held up to ridicule by my own little son. Poor old Dad, indeed!" Never was I so determined in my life about anything. It was a powerful challenge to me to fight my sin, and I accepted the challenge. To make a long story short, we accepted the offer to go abroad. We packed up our traps, but we left the whisky bottle behind! My little Victor is grown up now, but I have that drawing book still in my possession, with the clever sketches of whisky bottles, and the big, round writing at the bottom of every page, which reminds me, whenever I look at it, that these bottles were once true representations of Poor Old Dad!—National Advocate. The Drunkard Never Looks Up. Take the best man on earth, soak him in whisky for a few years, and you have a sot—and a sot is quite unprepared to understand you when you appeal to his better self. The better self still exists, but the whisky has distorted it, paralyzed it, and even when the vision is not altogether gone the will is so weakened that it is hard for it to act. It is said of Robinson Crusoe that, having vainly tried to catch the goats on his island by approaching them on the level, he finally succeeded in capturing them by coming down on them from the hillside. The goats never looked, and by coming at them from the highlands they were taken before they realized it. 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Mr. Errant contended flatly for the right of the druggists to fix reasonable prices by agreement, and said it could be left to the courts to determine what reasonable prices are. "I stand for the under dog," he said. "You are not going to reach the big fellows by any legislation you may enact, and you know it." E. Williams, a Madison druggist, said the trouble started with men outside the drug trade. Department stores put in lines of proprietary medicines which they sold near or even below cost, to attract other trade. This not only spoiled the druggists' trade in these goods, but gave the inference that they made big profits in all lines. No other class of men, Mr. Williams stated, receive so small compensation for such hard work and so long hours as the druggists. Fred Brockhausen, who is representing the Milwaukee labor organizations before the Legislature, broke into the argument with the statement that all the anti-trust blis before the Legislature, aimed at the association of persons for mutual protection, are in reality aimed at labor organizations. In executive session after the arguments were concluded the committee decided to recommend the bill for passage. The committee also decided to report for passage declaring a fence over six feet in height, built on a line between neighbors, a nuisance. These are what are commonly known as "spite fences," samples of which are found in almost every city. For Monument at Shiloh. Capt. F. H. Magdeburg and D. Lloyd Jones of Milwaukee and ex-Department Commander David James of Richland Center addressed the Senate committee on military affairs in behalf of the bill appropriating $10,000 for the erection of a monument to the Wisconsin soldiers on the Shiloh battlefield. Mr. Magdeburg declared Wisconsin had furnished more soldiers for the Union compared to the population than any other state. The commission wants $8500 for a monument and $1500 for its expenses. The committee decided to report the bill favorably, but it still has to go to the committee on claims. Judge Brazee's Disclosures. It develops that the Barker bribery bill seeking to grant immunity from punishment to persons who turn state's evidence was for the purpose of obtaining evidence necessary to convict city and county officials of Milwaukee who "hold up" citizens doing business with or having measures pending before the Milwaukee common council or the Milwaukee county board. This fact develops from a letter sent by Judge Brazzee of the municipal court in Milwaukee to Assemblyman Barker, who fathered the bill. Judge Brazzee makes some very interesting statements in his letter, which is as follows: My Dear Barker: Referring to the bill of which we spoke to you on Saturday, will say the real object of the bill is to enable the district attorney to obtain the evidence necessary to commit any official who holds up citizens doing business with, or having measures pending before, the common council or board of supervisors. As the law stands, every person paying (even on demand) any sum to any public official is equally guilty with the one demanding and receiving. Under the circumstances, no man can be expected to criminate himself, no matter how he may have been outraged. The law (if it becomes a law) will enable the district attorney to convince such persons of the power to protect them in case they tell the truth. My experience teaches me the necessity of some such measure. The investigation of criminal cases, both in the office and before grand juries, has shown me that men will refuse to answer unless some assurance can be given of immunity. I do not suppose the necessity is so apparent to judges in farming communities, where the corruption that exists in larger cities is almost unknown. But in this city, and in this court, which probably tries as many criminal cases as all circuit judges in the state put together, we see and know of the necessity. Of course the court must be trusted to exercise a wise discretion in the matter, but this is always so, and a judge unworthy to be trusted is unworthy to be a judge. We must trust the governor in pardon matters; why not the judge on the bench? No Power in Case of Felony. No Power in Case of Felony. If it be said the judge may suspend sentence if he see proper, just remember that our own supreme court has held that the bench has no power to do so in a felony case, and, therefore, one testifying would be obliged to plead guilty, enter upon the service of a sentence and be incarcerated for at least a month before there could be a hearing before the governor, and then, perhaps, be refused a pardon. No testimony could be obtained under such a condition of affairs. I trust the committee will consider this bill in all its bealings, for I am certain once it is passed beneficial results will be realized. You may use this letter if you think proper. Very truly yours, A. C. BRAZEE Notwithstanding the statements of Judge Brazee the bill was killed because of letters sent to the Legislature by Judges Belden, Siebecker, Webb, Lindsay, Clementson, Burnell, Goodland and Dick, who feared it would cause prisoners to commit perjury in securing the conviction of other persons in order that they might secure immunity for themselves. Up to the present time the supposed object of the bill was to cure difficulties that developed during the Lydon trial. Opposed to Eight-Hour Day. John H. Moss, representing the Rockwell Manufacturing Company, Milwaukee, appeared before the Assembly committee on manufactures and labor yesterday afternoon in opposition to the bill providing for an 8-hour day for all labor employed by the state or a municipality. If the bill was to become a law, he said, he could not see how its provisions could be enforced. For instance, the company he represents receives lumber and manufactures it into all kinds of goods, some of which may be sold the state and some sold to individuals. It would necessitate having some 8-hour men and some 10-hour men and was utterly impracticable. It would amount, he said, to a confiscation of 20 per cent. of the wages of men employed on state work. The bill ought to be labeled, "A bill to rob every laboring man of his ambition." Several of the states have an 8-hour law, but in most of those states where it has been enforced it is now a dead letter. HEIR TO A MILLION. R. D. Townley, a Druggist of Waukesha, Hears that He will Receive Fortune Waukesha, Wis., March 11.—[Special.]—According to facts known and proofs possessed by him, there seems to be no doubt in the mind of R.D.Townley, a leading druggist and well known business man of this city, that he is heir to a fortune of $1,020,000. Mr. Townley received a letter yesterday from his brother, William, who resides in Oregon, enclosing a letter that he had received from a John Townley of Lovelock, Neb., asking if he or any of his family had been keeping track of the litigation in progress over the property of Lord Townley in England and Scotland. The letter stated that after years of litigation the property of the Townley estate had been satisfactorily apportioned and that a large amount was due to the American heirs of Lord Townley of Scotland. "I have known of the existence of this property and the fact that a suit was being carried on over it for many years," said Mr. Townley this morning. "In fact my father used to receive communications from English law firms in regard to it as long ago as twenty-five years. It had since slipped from my mind, but after receiving this letter yesterday there is no doubt in my mind but what I and my brothers and sisters are some of the legitimate heirs to this property. You may not have noticed it, but it is a fact that you can almost count the Townleys in the country on your fingers. It is a very uncommon name and I have traveled extensively in my time and have run across but few of that cognomen." The letter stated that according to the apportionment of the courts, each American heir will receive as their portion of the estate the sum of $1,020,000, to be held in equity for four years, drawing interest at 2 per cent., making the payment of the moneys due in 1906. According to Mr. Townley there are but few relatives or namesakes of his in the country, and he stated positively that he was very sure that he and two brothers and two sisters and a nephew were among the American heirs to the Townley estate. Mr. Townley now proposes to follow up the affair and will write immediately to get further particulars to aid in the locating of all the heirs. DIDN'T KNOW HE WAS SIGNING A RELEASE. Injured Man Says He Did Not Waive Right to Sue for Damages Fond du Lac, Wis., March 11.—[Special.]—The case of Phillip Gardner and the Paine Lumber Company in circuit court before Judge Kerwin completed the testimony today. The arguments have been made and the facts will be ready for the jury by Thursday morning. The evidence yesterday afternoon was very interesting. Dr. M. E. Barnett of Oshkosh, who attended the complainant's wound, was put on the witness stand to testify for the defense in regard to the alleged receipt given by the plaintiff in full satisfaction for the damages of the loss of his right hand while in the employ of the defendant company. The defense alleges that Gardner signed a receipt for $75 in lieu of the claim, but the plaintiff endeavored to show that he was lead to believe he was signing an order on the company for the doctor's bill. The suit is for $10,000 damages. BRODHEAD TOBACCO SORTERS ON A STRIKE. Demand Increased Wages, but Decline to Compromise—Hundred and Twenty-five are Out. Brodhead, Wis., March 11.—[Special.] —Because their demands for increased wages were refused, 125 tobacco sorters employed by the American Tobacco Company at this place went on a strike yesterday. They have been receiving 80 cents per 100 and demand $1 per 100. The company offers to compromise at 90 cents, but this the strikers refuse to accept and the plant is shut down. The company will make no effort to open the plant for the present. SEVEN LESS POSTOFFICES. New Rural Routes to be Established in Wisconsin. Washington, D. C., March 11.—[Special.]—An additional rural free delivery route will be established April 1 at Ellsworth, Pierce county, with one carrier; length of route, 22 miles; population, 517. These routes will be established April 15: Allenville, Winnebago county, with one carrier; length of route, 24 miles; population, 550. Fremont, Waupaca county, with two carriers; length of route, 44 miles; population, 895. Larson, Winnebago county, with three carriers; length of routes, 74 miles; population, 1350. Menasha, Winnebago county, with one carrier; length of route, $ 2 4 \frac{1}{2} $ miles; population, 535. Omro, Winnebago county, with three carriers; length of route, 75 miles; population, 1695. Rush Lake, Winnebago county, with one carrier; length of route, 25 miles; population, 560. Postoffices at Big River, Trimble, Zietau, Orihula, Winchester, Boom and Kero are to be discontinued. INJURIES CAUSE DEATH. Old Man is Knocked Down in a Saloon and Dies. Rhinelander, Wis., March 11.—[Special.]—A report comes from Woodboro, a town west of here on the Soo road, of the death of a man under circumstances which will probably result in complications. Joseph Manger, 70 years old, became mixed up in a controversy regarding land matters in a Woodboro saloon Monday night, and being quite pronounced in his opinions it is alleged he was struck in the face by a bystander. Manger fell backwards and struck his head on the floor, injuring the brain. He died this morning. Manger owns forty acres of land in the town of Woodboro and has lived alone for years. He has a family in France. NORMAL ORATORICAL CONTEST. It will be Held at Oshkosh Friday, March 20. Oshkosh, Wis., March 11.—The Wisconsin internormal oratorical contest will be held in this city March 20. All the normal schools will be represented except River Falls. The speakers and the subject of their orations are: Oshkosh—Robert Wendt, "The Destined Rulers of the World." Platteville—Guy C. Plits, "Aaron Burr." Stevens Point—Walter Muratt, "Alexander Hamilton." Milwaukee—Louis Limper, "The Epoch Makers." Whitewater—Nellie Walseman, "Our Social Unrest." Superlor—Clair F. Hedgers, "The Spirit of the Trust." FIGHT AGAINST FLAMES FIGHT AGAINST FLAMES Citizens of Hancock, Wis., Battle Hard to Save Town. Hancock, Wis., March 11.—[Special.] —Battling to save this village from destruction, everybody able to carry a bucket fought desperately for hours against the fire fiend. Word was sent to Plainfield asking that assistance be sent, and that city promptly responded by sending fire apparatus. The Plainfield firemen arrived at a critical moment and were able to check the devouring flames. Fire was discovered in the basement of the M. Plank & Company's department store at 10:30 last night. The cause is unknown, but the flames spread with great rapidity and soon the entire store and the Bank of Hancock next door were burning. The smoke was so dense that all efforts to save the goods were futile and only a few goods in the show windows were gotten out. There was time, however, to carry out the bank fixtures and papers before the flames gained a very great headway in that building. The office and residence of Dr. Woods, on the second floor of the store building, was burned, but part of his property was saved. For a while it seemed that a dozen surrounding buildings were doomed and it was at that time that help was called from Plainfield. Just before the Plainfield department arrived the Commercial Hotel, a three-story building, was found to be on fire. Guests and employees dragged out all their property into the streets and got to places of safety. The bucket brigade worked strenuously and saved the hotel from destruction. The meat market and Hancock News buildings were badly scorched and were saved only by faithful work on the part of the citizens. Losses are as follows: M. Plank & Co., loss on store and goods, $25,000; insurance for about one-half. Bank of Hancock, loss on building, $2500; insurance for $1700. Dr. Woods, Commercial Hotel, meat market and Hancock News suffered slight losses, covered by insurance. There is no fire protection except the bucket brigade. The vault of the bank has not been opened, but it is in good condition and it is not supposed that it has been damaged. ADVISED REMOVAL OF MISS STUCKI. University High School Inspector Said Milwaukee Teacher Had Better Give Up Brodhead Place. Brodhead, Wis., March 11.—[Special.] The school board has issued a statement in regard to the school trouble. It says that Miss Stucki of Milwaukee was removed at the advice of the University of Wisconsin inspector of high schools and that the responsibility rests entirely upon the board. The statement says that four months of careful investigation took place before the board acted and that since the removal of Miss Stucki the work of the school has been carried on without interruption and the standard of scholarship has not been lowered, although the reputation of the school has suffered as a result of ill-devised attempts to overthrow the government of the school. BEAUTIFY OLD CEMETERY. Progressive Association of Prairie du Chien Takes Up Work. Prairie du Chien, Wis., March 11.—[Special.]—The question of preserving and beautifying the old federal cemetery in this city was taken up by the Progressive Association at a meeting held in the council chamber last night. Owing to a misunderstanding in the title of the property the work has not been done up to this time although Congress made an appropriation of $3500 for that purpose several years ago. An extension of time was procured by Congressmen Babcock at the last session, however, and the Progressive Association will take steps to have the title cleared and the improvements made during the coming summer. It is proposed to buy 100 feet fronting on Church street, directly in front of the cemetery for an entrance and to enclose the whole with a neat 5-foot iron fence and a beautiful arch entrance; to erect a monument to the unknown dead, besides beautifying and preserving the old monuments and vaults. HEIRS QUARREL OVER CORPSE Court force to Interfere and Appoints an Administrator. Monroe, Wis., March 11.—Considerable comment has been caused here over a quarrel which has arisen among the surviving relatives of John Moreland, who dropped dead in his garden Monday, over the disposition of the remains. The body was first taken into the home of Miss Emma Newman, who for years was Mr. Moreland's housekeeper. When two of the sisters heard of this they immediately demanded* the body, and it was removed to the home of one of them, Mrs. Thomas McPhillips. When the remaining sister and an adopted son heard of this they demanded that the body be returned to Miss Newman's home. The controversy became so heated that County Judge Becker appointed J. Henry Durst special administrator, and directed him to take charge of the body. It was removed to the Presbyterian Church. WISCONSIN CENTRAL WINS Carries Its Point at Park Falls and will Lay Track. Park Falls, Wis., March 11. After a serious contention, lasting a period of two weeks, during which time a crew of trackmen were driven from their work with water and the citizens had placed a cannon on the scene to prevent them from returning, the Wisconsin Central railroad has won its point with the Flambeau Paper Company and will begin work Monday laying the sidetrack over which the trouble arose. The Central has been given exclusive right of way. CHURCH TRIAL AT MANITOWOC Trouble in Polish Catholic Church is Investigated. Manitowoc, Wis., March 11.—[Special.—Trouble of long standing threats to disrupt the congregation of St. Mary's Polish Catholic Church in this city and an investigation is now under way. Representatives of Archbishop Katzer were here yesterday to conduct a church trial. The trouble started two years ago and culminated recently in a riot in which two policemen of the city force were roughly handled when they attempted to interfere. Sensational charges are alleged to have been made. FAILED TO REFORM. Abel Brown Once More Behind the Bar He is an Interesting Genius. Oshkosh, Wis., March 11.—Investigation reveals that Abel Brown, now serving a sixty days' sentence in the county jail for the theft of an overcoat, is an old offender, having served nine years in the Joliet penitentiary for robbing a jewelry store in Bloomington of over $20,000 worth of watches and gems. He also served seven years in the Albany penitentiary and minor terms elsewhere. He was recently before Judge Brazee of Milwaukee on the charge of stealing clothing. Despite Brown's confession of guilt, he was let go on promises of future good behavior. Just previous to his trial before Judge Brazee Brown had been released from the Milwaukee house of correction, where he had been incarcerated on conviction on a similar charge. While there he busied himself in literary work and wrote an article entitled "How Shall We Help the ex-Convict?" which was published and widely read. At the time he confessed to the general public his past record in an advertisement soliciting employment. Brown has in his time done much literary work and is a scholar of great attainments. He claims to have once been secretary of the Young Men's Christian Association for the state of New York, and that his wife was a graduate of Vassar. He alleges that, when 27 years of age, his wife and children died and that he took to drink. He is 52 years old, and says he will yet lead a useful life and put his talents to their proper uses. While in Milwaukee he was befriended by the Y. M. C. A. and when he came here brought a letter from Secretary Willis to the local association, asking that all possible aid be given in his evident desire to reform. RELIEF FUND FOR SHEBOYGAN FIREMEN Death of Chief Foley and Milwaukee Firemen Causes the Organization of Association Sheboygan, Wis., March 11.—[Special.] The Sheboygan Firemen's Relief Association has been organized by the members of the local department and the following officers elected: President, Ed. Bedford; vice president, Frank Zurn Butler; treasurer, John Ireland; secretary, Anton Buechle. A death indemnity of $100 will be paid during the first year, to be increased as the fund grows larger. It is the intention to have the city take charge of the fund later on as a relief and pension fund. An entertainment is to be given in the near future under the auspices of the association, the proceeds of which are to be turned over to the fund. The project has been talked over on many occasions for the past few years, but it was not until the recent fatal disaster at Milwaukee that it assumed any definite shape. Mike Mueller, Ferdinand Holz, Charles Knaabe, Theo. Mollenhauer and John Mueller, who Sunday afternoon created a disturbance in the saloon of Henry J. Schulz on the Calumet road, were fined $5 and costs each in the municipal court, the total amounting to $41.37. All of the crew showing effects of a close acquaintance with the beer glasses dexterously handled by Mr. Schulz in trying to defend himself. The boys were able to pay their fines, their many friends in the audience contributing to the fund. Seven men at the city water plant walked out yesterday morning because the company refused to pay double wages for overtime. The places of the strikers were filled immediately. WILL OF F. A. HOFFMAN. Leaves Library to Northwestern University at Watertown. Jefferson, Wis., March 11.—The will of the late Francis A. Hoffman, former governor of Illinois and of national reputation as an agricultural writer, was filed in probate yesterday. Northwestern University at Watertown, Wis., gets the bulk of the library. The ornamental works are left to his wife, as well as personal property not otherwise disposed of. The distribution is as follows: Sons—F. A., Jr., Chicago, Edmund Burke's works; Julius C., Chicago, complete sets of Fliegende Blaetter; Adolph, Cleveland, O., Chambers' Encyclopaedia; Gilbert, successor as agricultural editor and writer, all agricultural works and writings. Sixty-five hundred dollars' worth of bonds are divided into five portions, one going to Mrs. Marie Hoffman of Chicago, widow of a son, and the other four to Hans and Grethe, grandchildren by his son Gilbert. Personal property otherwise goes to the widow, who is named executrix. TERRORIZED PASSENGERS. Negro Brandishes Knife on Train and Throws Water. Portage, Wis., March 11.—Charles Green, a negro, terrorized the passengers and defied the crew on a train between this city and La Crosse yesterday and was only placed in jail here after a struggle. Green became noisy and the conductor endeavored to quiet him. He refused and began throwing water on the passengers and with a big jack knife threatened to kill everybody in sight. He ran through the car, brandishing the knife, and the terrified passengers dodged him as he went. When the train reached Portage Green was put off, but he climbed on the pilot of the engine and with his knife held off anyone who attempted to interfere with him. The train was delayed twenty minutes while officers were called. After a struggle, Green was finally arrested. GRACE DALTON STRICKEN. Milwaukee Teacher at New Berlin Has the Scarlet Fever. New Berlin, Wis., March 11.—[Special.]—An epidemic of scarlet fever has broken out among the pupils of school district No. 5, New Berlin. The teacher, Grace Dalton, of Milwaukee, was stricken with the disease Wednesday morning. Her case seems more serious as she evidently did not give up in time. It is hoped, however, that under careful treatment she will speedily recover. The school has been closed for a period of three weeks. Wautoma, Wis., March 11.—[Special.]—Several cases of scarlet fever have broken out in the village of Pine River and a number of families have been placed in quarantine to prevent a further spread of the disease. NO PARDON FOR MURDERER. Henry Ripple of Oshkosh Must Remain in Prison. Oshkosh, Wis., March 11.—Gov. 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They helped me right from the start, giving me great relief, and finally cured me." A Fence of Horns. A fence nearly 200 feet long at Livingston, Mont., is made entirely of horns of the elk—more properly called wapiti. These animals, like the others of the deer family, shed their horns once a year and grow new ones. The old horns are found in large numbers in the forests, and are used for various commercial purposes.—Exchange. Thousands of Americans for Western Canada. "There will be thousands of Americans coming up here in the spring," was the remark made by a farmer from the vicinity of Langdon, North Dakota, when he arrived in Winnipeg, Manitoba, the capital of Western Canada, a few days since. He was the advance guard of a large body who are following him, and he has already invested in several farming sections for himself and others and purposes to take up his permanent abode in this country. He went on to say: "Hundreds are coming from my district alone. I know this to be a fact, for many of them are neighbors of mine. The chief topic of conversation with the farmers is the coming immigration in the spring." "The impression general in the pa of Dakota where I live that farmers can get from 10 to 15 cents more a bushel for wheat on the American side of the line than on the Canadian has not prevented people from turning their eyes to Canada as a place to live in. They know they can get land in this country which is every bit as fertile as that in Dakota at about one-quarter the price. It is safe to say that the exodus from Dakota into Canada this year will exceed the expectations of all Canadians." The Government has established agencies at St. Paul, Minn.; Omaha, Neb.; Kansas City, Mo.; Chicago, Ill.; Indianapolis, Ind.; Milwaukee, Wis.; Wausau, Wis.; Detroit, Sault Ste. Marie and Marquette, Mich.; Toledo, Ohio; Watertown, S. D.; Grand Forks, N. D., and Great Falls, Mont., and the suggestion is made that by addressing any of these, who are the authorized agents of the Government, it will be to the advantage of the reader, who will be given the fullest and most authentic information regarding the results of mixed farming, dairying, ranching and grain-raising, and also supply information as to freight and passenger rates, etc., etc. —Apples upon the surface of which are perfectly reproduced the photographs of the Emperor and Empress of Russia and the President of the French republic have been shown in France. —The French Chamber of Deputies has adopted an amendment to the army bill appropriating $240,000 to provide wine for the soldiers. —Christmas day, 1876, was the wettest in the past century. TRADE MARK. How? By soothing and subduing the pain, that's the way St. Jacobs Oil Cures Neuralgia Price, 25c. and 50c. THE REASON WHY more wheat is grown in Western Canada in a few short months, is because vegetation grows in proportion to the sunlight. Therefore 63 pounds per bushel is as fair a standard as 60 pounds in the East. Up in Western Canada, 1902-1987, 350 acres. FARMS IN WESTERN CANADA FREE Free Homesteads of 160 Acrees Plentiful, the only charge being for entry. Abundance of water and fuel, building material, good grass for pasture and hay, a fertile soil, efficient rainfall and a climate giving an assured and safe season of growth. Send to the following for an Alaskan or other literature, and also for certificate giving you reduced freight and passenger rates, etc., etc.: The Simi intendent of Immigration, Cittaw, Canada, or to T. O. Currie, Callahan Building, Milwaukee, and J. M. MacLachlan, Wausau, Wis., the authorized Canadian Government Agents FOUR YARDS OF THOUGHT. Tom thought That Dick thought I thought It was thoughtless To think Of the thoughts It was thoughtless He thinks he thought That the thoughtless Thinkers Are not worth thought. And then he thought That the thought He thought Is a thought The thoughtless Would not think. I am trying to think While reading these thoughts. I think You will think I am thoughtless To think Of so many thoughts That are thoughtless. —Baltimore Sun. Mrs. Theresa A. Oelrichs, wife of Herman Oelrichs, swore off her taxes, claiming a residence in San Francisco. Dr. Daniel C. Gilman, for many years president of Johns Hopkins University, has been elected president of the American Bible Society. Former Sheriff Peter Bowe is dead at his residence here from pneumonia, in his seventy-first year. He was elected sheriff in 1879 on the Irving Hall ticket. The "Amen Corner" Club on April 17 will give a dinner at the Fifth Avenue Hotel to all the great political leaders. Prominent men of all professions will also be invited. Manager T. M. Hilliard of the Waldorf-Astoria says the report that George C. Boldt, proprietor of the hotel, is interested in building a $2,000,000 hotel in Chicago is not true. About 250 employees of Tiffany's glass and decorating company are on strike because their daily supply of beer has been cut off by the firm. The men say the water is unfit to drink. George R. Sheldon, a member of the New York stock exchange since 1880, has sold his seat for $82,000 to H. A. Harrison of H. A. Harrison & Co. This is a new high record, the highest price heretofore being $81,000. The former home of the Knickerbocker Athletic Club at the southeast corner of Madison avenue and Forty-fifth street has been sold for $550,000. It is understool the new owners will convert it into an apartment house or hotel. James J. Hill sailed on the Celtic for England. He will also visit the continent, the trip being for a rest and recreation. Sir Thomas J. Shaughnessy, president of the Canadian Pacific railroad, also is a passenger on the Celtic. Trustees of Barnard College announced recently that a gift of $1,000,000 had been made to the college by a person whose name President Butler and Treasurer Plimpton suppressed. The money is to be used for the purchase of land adjoining the college. Several Atlantic liners reached port bearing evidences of an unusually rough crossing. The big Wilhelm der Grosse and the Oceanic came into quarantine with stories of high winds and tremendous seas. Both were compelled to go under reduced speed for five days. According to the report of President Lederlee of the health board, based on figures compiled by his inspectors, the population of New York is 3,732,903, divided as follows: Manhattan, 1,917,676; Brooklyn, 1,291,597; the Bronx, 268,341; Queen's, 182,681, and Richmond, 72,608. While hunting wild flowers in a cemetery near Mamaroneck, Nellie Tyler, a 7-year-old school girl, discovered in some underbrush a mail bag filled with valuable registered packages and letters containing checks for hundreds of dollars, which was stolen from the local railroad station four months ago. The fifth afternoon sale of the Ada Rehan collection of art curios brought $8178, making the sum total to date $32,215. An agent of the Chicago Museum of Art was the successful bidder for a bust of Ada Rehan as Katherine, the work of J. F. Hartley. He paid $425 for the bust, which cost Mr. Daly $1600. Rev. William G. Murphy of New York has been chosen by the authorities in Rome as vice rector of the American College there. Father Murphy was born in New York in 1864 and was graduated from St. Francis Xaviers' College in 1884. At Rome he pursued his studies at the institution of which he is now vice rector. Miss Helen A. Taylor, chief inspector of the women immigration boarding officers, slipped and fell while jumping from the rail deck of the steamship Erica and dislocated her left ankle. The accident to Miss Taylor recalls the criticism against appointing women as inspectors, on the ground that they could not board vessels without much personal risk. News comes from Brussels of the death of Mrs. Charles J. Murphy, wife of "Corn Bread" Murphy, which took place February 5. Mrs. Murphy was Miss Catherine Tone, a lineal descendant of the Irish patriot, Theobald Wolfe Tone. She was deeply interested in her husband's propaganda of Indian corn in Europe and accompanied him on his journeys. The retail cigar war reached an advanced stage when Morten & Co. of 44 Beaver street announced they would give cigars away. Last week Acker, Merrall & Condit and the United Cigar Stores Company cut the prive of imported Havanas. Now Morten & Co. have published this announcement: "We're in it, too. We will give away cigars to all customers on our books to date." The directors of the Winifred Masterson Burke Relief Corporation, formed by John M. Burke, who last July set aside property to the value of $4,000,000 to be held in trust for the relief of worthy persons who are willing but temporarily unable to support themselves, held a meeting at Mr. Burke's office and elected Lyman J. Gage vice president to succeed the late Abram S. Hewitt. Manager Maurice Campbell announces that the rumored deal by which Miss Henrietta Crosman was to appear under the Belasco management next season is off and that he had definitely arranged with Harrison Grey Fiske for Miss Crosman to open her New York engagement at the Manhattan Theater next year. This will be in an elaborate revival of "As You Like It," on September 7. Tyrone Power is to be starred by Charles Frohman in Stephen Phillips' epic drama, "Ulysses," a role in which Beerbohm Tree made a great success here. The American production will be made all the more interesting by the fact that Mr. Phillips will cross the Atlantic next September to personally look after its production. Mr. Frohman is at present at Brighton with Mr. Phillips. John Byron Taylor of Watertown, a member of the firm of Taylor Bros., wholesale leather merchants, and a son-in-law of the late ex-Gov. Roswell P. Flower, paid $500 for a train to carry him from Syracuse to New York on a business errand. He did not get Pullman service, either, although it would have been furnished him at the same price had there been an available palace car in the Syracuse yards. Members of the Finnish Relief Society in New York city have just received some of the "bread," which is almost the only food that can be obtained by their starving countrymen at home. It is made of the bark of pine trees and looks like brown sandstone. It is almost as hard as stone, and no one would ever suspect that it could be eaten. Its only redeeming feature is that it lasts for years in as palatable condition as when fresh. Stuart Robson was 67 years old last Wednesday, and, though not able to celebrate his birthday because of illness, he received many congratulations from old friends in the form of letters and telegrams. Some of these sent to his home at Holyoke were from Grover Cleveland, Joseph Jefferson, Clara Morris, ex-Secretary of the Navy John D. Long and Senator A. P. Gorman, with whom he haw away from Paltimore as a boy. Both became pages in Congress. James Henry Smith will erect a mansion at the northeast corner of Fifth avenue and Fifty-second street on part of the Hotel Langham site, opposite the residence of William K. Vanderbilt and W. D. Sloane. The price paid, judging by the figure quoted 10r the entire property, is between $750,000 and $1,000,000. The southeast corner of Fifth avenue and Fifty-second street was purchased several months ago by Morton F. Plant as a site for a new residence for $750,000. John B. McDonald has awarded to the Westinghouse Electric Company and to the General Electric Company the contract for equipping the trains to be operated on the subway system. The cost of fitting out the subway trains will be $2,000,000. The companies will get the cars ready for operating as quickly as they can be built. It is the purpose of E. P. Bryan, who has charge of the operation of the system, to have all rolling stock ready by October, by which time it is planned to have cars in regular operation. Ferdinand La Prince, a retired wealthy architect of this city, was found insane at Fire island. He was lurking behind a rock and threatened to shoot a number of the life saving crew who discovered him. He said the life saver was one of the evil spirits which infested the beach at night. He was finally persuaded to get into a boat and was sent to New York. Mr. La Prince has been spending the winter at Point o' Woods, Chautauqua, on Fire island beach, where he has been engaged in building an addition to his mother's cottage. A postal card was received at Central park addressed "To the Stork, Central Park Menagerie, New York." It was mailed in Brooklyn, and written in German. "Anyone here by the name of Stork?" asked the letter carrier of the clerk who receives the mail. "Must be a new appointment. There is no one by that name on this floor," said the clerk. The card finally was taken to Commissioner Willcox's secretary, who translated the message as follows: Kind Mr. Stork—Please bring me a little baby boy, and bring him tonight, so we will find him in the morning. Please let him have blue eyes and yellow hair. A. W. H. The writing seemed to indicate the sender is grown. Nicholas Corelli, 13 years old, of Long Island City, because he preferred stealing rides on William K. Vanderbilt, Jr.'s automobile to going to school, was sent to the Brooklyn Truants' Home. Young Corelli hitched on Mr. Vanderbilt's automobile one day as it slowed up and rode all the way to the station. He repeated the experiment several mornings, until finally the millionaire took a fancy to him and allowed him to get up behind in the rear seat. Lately nothing would persuade him to go to school while there was a chance for an automobile ride. After his arrest he scribbled the following note: Dear Mister Vanderbilt. They pinched me for ridin' on your autermobil. Can yer please help a feller out o' the Tooent jug. NICK, yer friend. Frank A. Munsey, the publisher, was arrested by a policeman of the bicycle squad for speeding his automobile along Riverside drive at a rate exceeding eight miles an hour. Mr. Munsey, accompanied by his chauffeur and two fashionably dressed women, was speeding along the drive, and at Ninety-sixth street the machine was going at the rate of eighteen miles an hour, according to the policeman, who timed the vehicle six blocks. In the west side court Mr. Munsey told Magistrate Pool his machine could not make the rate of speed alleged, and offered to take the magistrate out for a ride to prove the assertion. He also offered to bet $1000 to $100 with the magistrate that the machine could not make the rate of speed alleged. The magistrate, however, declined to accept the offer, and discharged Mr. Munsey with a warning not to violate the ordinance again. A Lively Shark. The representatives of the principal Australian papers were taken out to sea about fifty miles from Brisbane in the pilot boat to meet Mme. Melba on September 16. She was traveling from Canada to Australia by the mail steamship Miowera. While the pilot boat was waiting for the Miowera the ship's company had a most remarkable and probably unprecedented experience. A great gray shark about twelve feet in length was hooked on a schnapper line, which broke. The second big fish got on the schnapper line and escaped. Then a large shark hook with a chain was thrown out and the ravenous brute grabbed it and was caught. All hands—pilot, cook and press men—tugged the shark to the vessel's side. A huge hook on the anchor tackle was put through his jaw and one eye, and the fish was then hauled out of the water. One of the crew ripped the monster open from the head to the tail. The vital organs and entrails were thrown overboard and then both jaws were hacked out for the sake of securing the teeth, nothing but the shell of the fish remained and the shark was lowered overboard. A rush was made to the side to see him sink, but the company was astounded to see him make off. First he swam about fifty yards away, returned to the steamer, then went off on another tack of about thirty yards, came back to the vessel and swam astern and was still swimming when he was lost sight of. That the fish could swim away with the whole of his interior from head to tail and the jaw and one eye gone, simply raised the hair of the pilots and crew, who had never seen or heard of the like before.—Sydney Telegraph. Threatened With Loss of Hearing, Smell and Sight From the Ravages of Catarrh. Pe-ru-na Cured Him. "I Feel Like a Young Man Again." Mr. J. W. Fuller. A GREAT many remedies to temporarily relieve catarrh have been devised from time to SAVE THE COUPONS FROM PEERLESS STANDARD EXCELSIOR KING BIRD OLD TOM BADGER SMOKING TOBACCO. A GREAT many societies have been devised from time to time, such as sprays, snuffs, creams and other local applications, but, as a rule, the medical profession has little or no enthusiasm in the treatment of catarrh. It is generally pronounced by them to be incurable. It therefore created a great sensation in medical circles when Dr. Hartman announced that he had devised a compound which would cure catarrh permanently. The remedy was named Peruna and in a short time became known to thousands of catarrh sufferers north, south, east and west. Letters testifying to the fact that Peruna is a radical cure for catarrh began to pour in from all directions. Thousands of such letters are on file in the office of The Peruna Medicine Co. Rev. E. Stubenvoll, Pella, Wis., writes: "I feel obliged to extend you my personal thanks for my complete restoration. All through the winter I suffered from throat and lung trouble, but recovered my entire health by the use of your excellent remedy, Peruna." The following letter from a prominent gentleman of Los Angeles is a case in point: Mr. J. W. Fuller, President of the Jewelers' Association of Los Angeles, Cal., has been in business in that city for seventeen years out of the forty-five that he has been engaged in business. Concerning his experience with Peruna he says: Frog Skins for Books. India could supply frog skins by the million. They are used in bookbinding—not in general bookbinding, but in the fantastic sort—used, in fact, as chicken skin was used at one time in fanmaking. Frogs' skin makes a very fine, soft leather, and in dyeing it will take the most delicate colors. A noted English binder has achieved some of his best effects by the judicious employment of frogs' skin as a decorative agent.—Capital, Calcutta. —The ratification of the action of the Brussels beet sugar conference by France saves the government $20,000,000 a year in sugar bounties and leads it to reduce the tax on sugar 60 per cent. This will reduce the retail cost of sugar from 11 to 8 cents a pound. —Liverpool expects a profit of $350,000 on last year's working of its municipal tramway system. MRS. WINSLOW'S SOOTHING SYRUP for Children teething: softens the gums, reduces inflammation, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25 cents a bottle. —Four new and rich tin mines are being developed in North Queensland. JUNE TINT BUTTER COLOR makes top of the market butter. —Untruth is better than friction.—Chaparral. "I was troubled with catarrh of the head for many years. It affected my sense of smell, hearing and sight. I spent lots of money with doctors and the use of local applications to relieve me but to no purpose, until my attention was called to the wonderful effects of Peruna. "I must say that I met with most surprising and satisfactory results. Peruna took hold of the complaint and drove it entirely out of my system. "Although well along toward the allotted span of man's life I am pleased as a child over the results, and feel like a young man again."----I. W. Fuller. Such letters as the above are not used for publication except by the written permission of the writer. A pamphlet filled with such letters will be sent to any address free. This book should be read by all who doubt the curability of catarrh. If you do not receive prompt and satisfactory results from the use of Peruna write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a full statement of your case, and he will be pleased to give you his valuable advice gratis. Address Dr. Hartman, President of The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, O. ELY'S CREAM BALM CATARRH ROSE COLD HAYFEVER CURES COLD HEAD DEATHNESS HEADACHE ELY BROS. NEW YORK TRADIEMARK Ely's Cream Balm Easy and pleasant to use. Contains no injurious drug. It is quickly absorbed. Gives Relief at once. It Opens and Cleanses the Nasal Passages. Allays Inflammation. Heals and Protects the Membrane. Restores the Senses of Taste and Smell. Large Size, 50 cents; Trial Size, 10 cents, at Druggists or by mail. ELY BROTHERS. 56 Warren Street, New York. Saint Thomas Aquinas DR. McNAMARA. Established 1861 for the cure of Nervous Debility, Exhaustion of Brain Energy, Sexual Weakness, Kidney Afections. Blood Diseases, Barrenness, Monthly Period and Marriage. Unsurpassed facilities and life-long experience. Apply in confidence at 580 Broadway, Milwaukee, Wis. If afflicted with weak Eyes, use Thompson's Eye Water The Medicated Air Treatment BREATHE IT IN will cure Coughs, Colds, Catarrh, Headache, Asthma, Bronchitis, and all nasal and throat diseases. Prevents La Grippe and Pneumonia. Sold by all druggists or sent by mail on receipt of price. Send address on postal card for further information STEDMAN & CO. Milwaukee, Wis. SALZER'S SEEDS Beardless Barley is prodigally prolific, yielding for Mr. J. E. Wells, Orleans Co. N. Y., 121 bu. per acre. Does well every whirl're 20th Century Oate. The oat marvel, producing 500 to 300 bus. per acre. The U. S. Ag. Department calls Salzer's Seed Oats the best. That Pays. Golden Cate Corn. (New) 300 bushels per acre; truly a wonderful variety. Macaroni Wheat. Greatest wheat on earth for arid, dry, hot soils—yields 63 bus. per acre. Introduced by U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. It's a wonder. Speltz. Greatest cereal food on earth—50 bus. grain and 4 tons magnificent hay per acre. That Pays. Victoria Rape makes it possible to grow hogs, sheep and cattle at a cost of but 1 a lb. Marvelously prolific, does well everywhere. That Pays. Bromus Inermis this and Billion Dollar Grass are the two most wonderful grasses of the century. BROMUS produces 7 tons and Billion Grass 12 tons of hay and lots and lots of pasturage besides, per acre. Grows wherever soil is found. Potatoes. $2.50 and up a barrel. 1,000,000 bus. elegant seed. $10.00 for 10c. We wish you to try our great farm, seeds, hence offer to send 10 farm seed samples, Macaroni Wheat, Teosinte, Rape, Giant Clover, Speltz, etc., (worth $10 to get a start) with our great catalog for 10c postage. John A. Salzer Seed Oo. LA CROSSE WIS. The PRIDE of TELLFAIR BY Elmore Elliott Peake A story of love and business in a small Illinois town. AUTHOR OF "The Darlingtons" HARPER & BROTHERS FRANKLIN SQUARE, NEW YORK FREE PAXTINE TOILET ANTISEPTIC PAXTINE TOILET ANTISEPTIC To prove the healing and cleansing power of Paxtine Toilet Antiseptic we will mail a large trial package with book of instructions absolutely free. This is not a tiny sample, but a large package, enough to convince anyone of its value. Women all over the country are praising Paxtine for what it has done in local treatment of female ill, curing all inflammation and discharges, wonderful as a cleansing vaginal douche, for sore throat, nasal catarrh, as a mouth wash, and to remove tartar and whiten the teeth. Send to-day; a postal card will do. Sold by draggists or sent postpaid by us, 50 seats, large box. Satisfaction guaranteed. R. PAXTON CO., 218 Columbus Ave. Boston, Mass. Farm For Sale. 50 acres Portage Co. House, barn and other buildings; 40 acres under plow. Horses, machinery, tools, etc. included. Price $2000. Write to HILES & MYERS, G-14, Mack block, Milwaukee, Wis. M. N. U.....No. 11, 1903. WHEN WRITING TO ADVERTISERS please say you saw the Advertisement in this paper. Always ask for tickets via the THE SHORT LINE BETWEEN Chicago, indianapolis, Cincinnatl, Louisville Six trains daily between Chicago and the Ohio river. For folders, rates, etc., call at any Monon ticket office or address FRANK J. REED, Gen’! Pass. Agent, Chicago. S. B. JONES, C. PR, Agent, 232-Clark-8t., Chicago. . : Turning Mill and Box Factory Rockers and all kinds of Restaurant Biécks, Extension Ladders, Tea Cad- dies, Boxes, Turning, Sawing, Mitchell Improved Washers, Trestels, Swinging Scaffolds. 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Anyone sending a sketch and description mo quickly ascertiin our opinion free whether ab. Tivention is probably patentable. Commumrea- tions strictly contidential. Handbook on Patents sent free. Oliest ager\cy for securing patents. Patents taken through Munn & Co. receive special notice, without charge, ithe Scientific American, A handsomely illustrated weekiy. Largest cir- ulation of any sclontitig journal, ‘Terms, $3 2 four months, $1 Sold byali newsdealers. MUNA § Co,20100020~. New York ‘Branch Office, G25 F St.. Washmgton, D. C. ue. oom 8 Beg eee EE a = id BABS II Se EES Bee aS GRiIc ODF ON ag iM) ee cy an A fey grt ere rari SL PUB ae TBP NY yee RoR dea Lee ae ee NE Uinta AQ ey ee ee eo oe a 6 Cg = GP Pia? Ot] | paint, with the addition of a stron ‘ ait, 42 \ solution of washing soda, makes o t Pa oe cae be ae MA | of the most lasting washes. A solt ag 4 Re 5" eS tion of one pound of commercial po! AB SE ee we 3, aoe oe ash in from two to four gallons ¢ \ a NE Cr water is also very good.—Canadia i$ oe ME || Horticulturist. Dee cee How to Harvest Clover. re -t2%~ {| ‘The proper way to harvest clover | aS ee, 6°W \ the proper way and there is but on proper way. In the first place do n was cut it too green, nor allow it to get to Economical Fertilizing. ripe. When about half the top bloom There are many farms throughout the country whose owners cannot af- ford to fertilize them heavily or even to give them the quantity needed to keep them in fair condition. As a re- sult such farms are running down be- cause the cfops consume more fertiliz- ing material than is supplied by the farmer; in other words, the crops are drawing too heavily upon the stored- up fertility of the soil just as men sometimes draw too heavily on the stored-up or surplus vitality of their bodies. Any soil to do the work required of it should be fertilized so that it will be ag nearly fertile after the crop is ‘taken from_it as it was before, hence fertilizers must be supplied in excess of the needs of the growing crop. To bring up a rundown farm is not an easy task, especially when one is ham- pered in the free use of fertilizing material, but it may be done and in- expensively by the combination of green manures, commercial fertilizers, stable manure and tillage. Rely mainly on the legumes such as cow peas, crimson clover and the vel- vet bean for humus and nitrogen; use stable manure scattered thinly over the ground, and for commercial fer- tilizers use mainly those richest in potash and phosphoric acid. Supple- ment these fertilizers by frequent and thorough tillage and the farm will gradually improve.» In growing any crop one should have all the knowl- edge possible of what plant food that crop will take from the soil in the greatest quantities, and in fertilizing apply that particular food in excess of the needs of the crop at least to the extent that is taken from the soil. This is a complex study, but one which surely needs close attention, for upon it depends largely the future re- sults from the farm. Clever for Logging. A very convenient logging arrange- isent for use in the wood lot in the winter time is a travoy. It is made of two crooked tree trunks about 5 or 6 irches in diameter, 6 feet long. The crooked ends are bolted together, as shown in the cut. The bent or bolster is bolted about two-thirds of the way hack. This piece should be strong and nested a little in the center to form a hollow for the log to rest in. The log 1s held on by a chain, *which is hooked around one end of the bolster at a, passed over the log and under the bolster at the other side of the travoy. From there it is carried over the front crosspiece, b, then under the crook at the point, c. ‘To load the travoy, it is laid bottom up on top of the log, or leaned against its side, according to convenience. The chain is put into place and the team hitched on, drawing sideways. This turns the travoy over and the log comes up on top. The team ts then unhitched, the chain passed through Se : HAULING LOGS MADE EASY. under the point and rehitched to the double tree and the log is loaded ready to haul to the skidway.—H. L. Smith, in Farm and Home. : Nail Panctures. We are frequently asked the best treatment to pursue for nail wounds in the foot of a horse, says an exchange. When the nail has been removed, fol- low the puncture through the sole or frog to the soft tissues, then fill the cavity with a solution made of equal parts of gum camphor and carbolic acid and pack with cotton. This treatment should be repeated daily until recov- ery is complete. Where this treatinent is promptly and properly carried out nail wounds in the foot of the horse rarely result in abscess and suppura- tion. Where abscess of the foot has occurred remove all loose horn and dress with cotton saturated with the solution given.. The cotton should be held in place by a bandage around the foot. Grain Smut Prevented. In experiments at the Canadian cen- tral station for the prevention of grain smut, the best results were obtained by spraying the seed with a solution of half pint of formalin to five gallons of water. The cost of two treatments does not exceed one cent per bushel. It was found to be an almost perfect pre- ventive of smut. Whitewash, Ordinary whitewash, as frequently used, has very little effect except to disfigure the trees. To destroy the in- sects and eggs hidden in the crevices of the trees very much stronger appli- eations have to be used. Soft soap, reduced to the consistency ef a thick paint, with the addition of a strong solution of washing soda, makes on of the most lasting washes. A solu- tion of one pound of commercial pot- ash in from two to four gallons of water is also very good.—Canadian Horticulturist. How to Harvest Clover. The proper way to harvest clover is the proper way and there is but one proper way. In the first place do not cut it too green, nor allow it to get too ripe. When about half the top blooms get ripe and brown and some of the leaves begin to brown then it is the time to cut it for hay if the weather is dry; otherwise-let it stand a few days longer—for its better to let it * grow than to get it wet in the swathe. It does pot ripen fast in rainy weather, but continues to grow. Do not begin mowing until the dew has gone off in the morning. Never cut it when wet—or the hay will be damaged. It is best to cut for only a few hours and if the clover is not un- usually heavy it can be raked late in the afternoon in windrows and shock- ed, when it can stand several days be- fore stacking. This is the best way, if the weather is favorable, as the hay cures brighter and better. Otherwise let it stand in the windrow and spread out the next day to cure, and stack In the afternoon. By putting it in the windrow it saves it from getting wet by the dew, which is almost as bad on it as a rain. _ Should it rain on it, spread out and dry thoroughly—never stack it green, as it will mold. Remember to have it cured as thoroughly as it is practicable to handle it without the leaves falling off. A gallon or two of salt to the load sprinkled over it at the time of stack- ing improves it in color and prevents it molding. It should be stacked in the barn, or, if outdoors, covered” with straw or something that will turn wa- ter. If there are weeds in it, more time will be required to cure it. Never put it in the stack until the stems ars dry enough that you can’t wring water out of them. The hay should rattle.— Missouri and Arkansas Farmer and Fruitman. The Stocky Wyandots, In several Eastern States the Wyan- dots lead in popularity, as shown by | their great majority in the entries at. iit tel te poultry shows, Sis PS Be, < a | Wail fy/:f says a writer in fl ALY ge Farm and Home. ic \ They are good 1g £3 & 3 ;| layers, have light Bt! 4) lumage in the atl ge Ni hugiarnawhi ye! Ne a RS rieties, and are wiped ie heavy enough to ‘sae «6make good market Hit fam poultry shows, (SS pS BS. H | i el trick says a writer in tl Par Farm and Home. ‘gw ‘ s v They are good | j| layers, have light ag }é} plumage in the a eee Ff Mt Kure and white ya- NG a PS rieties, and are wt? 2N heavy enough to Cea rae make good market WYANDOT COCKEREL poultry. ‘The blocky build, as shown in the illustra- tion, gives compactness, abundance of breast meat, and a weight greater than the apparent size. In the at- tempt to produce extra large speci- mens for the show room, some breed- ers have developed a more rangy type at the expense of one of the most practical qualities of the breed; its blockiness, which also goes with early maturity of growth, and adaptation to the broiler business. Alfalfa Instead of Bran, A ‘Texas dairyman has found he can use alfalsa as a substitute for bran with good results in feeding milk cows. As a test he submitted for three weeks an equal quantity by weight of cut al- falfa hay for the bran =. uad been feeding. ‘Lune cows gave an increased Yield of both milk and butter as a re- sult of the change to alfalfa. The al- falfa was cut to half inch lengths. The analyses of bran and alfalfa show a composition almost identical, and it is not to be wondered that the feeding trial should show tne same re- sults, The dairyman wav .as a few acres of alfalfa can be very independ- ent of all kinds of combinations that tend to raise the cost of feed unduly. Farm Notes. The Iowa Agricultural College has an “excursion day” each year. The railroads give special rates, and farm- ers from all over the State visit the college. Last year nearly ten thousand came and were well received. Asparagus tops should be cut off close to the ground and burned. The soil should then be covered with rot- ten manure. This fall treatment wil) help to prevent the rush next year and to insure an early growth of grass. A spring dressing of nitrate of soda will be an additional help. Lime, sulphur and salt make 2 dead- ly mixture for scale insects in climates so dry that the coating will not wash off. In the California climate this wash slowly decomposes and gives off poisonous vapors, which destroy the insects under it. Rains spoil this ef. fect and leave on the trees only a coat of ordinary whitewash. Those who, purchase fruit trees and vines should read their contract with the salesmen very carefully. It is well known that, some contracts are so worded as to permit of the substitutiou of other varieties “Just as good,” if the kind wanted cannot be supplied. the consequence being that it is rare to get the preferred varieties, especial. ly of peaches, the trees seldom produc- ing fruit according to the name of the varieties tagged on them when recely. ed. Of course, some seedsmen are very careful, but the buyer should never agree in writing to substttution Mh gates (lah be eee : Ladies Wishing to Have the Very Best _ Easter Hats and Bonnets Should pay a visit to the establishment of M.MORGAN& CO. : 513 Grand Avenue. ‘ 4 Sa Salt-Rising Bread. Put a half-teaspoonful of salt into a pint of hot water in a two-quart pitch- er. When a little more than luke- warm add one and a third pints of wheat flour. Mix well and set the pitcher in a vessel of water of the same temperature as that used in mix- ing. Let it stand in a place where the temperature of the batter will not de- crease until it has risen to twice its original bulk. The process will re- quire from five to eight hours, and the batter may be stirred once or twice during the rising. At the end of the time add a sponge made of two and a half quarts of flour and.one quart of hot water. If a little more flour Is necessary in order to make a soft dough it may be added. Mix well and leave in a warm place to rise. When light, make into loaves, taking care to keep the dough as soft as it can be handled; lay the loaves in buttered tins and after they have risen once more prick them and bake. WE CONTINUE TO WARN THE BENEVOLENT PUBLIC AGAINST THE NUMEROUS BEGGARS FOR ALLEGED CHARITABLE INSTITU- TIONS IN BEHALF OF THE NEGRO RACE. LOOK WELL TO THE CRE- DENTIALS OF SUCH MENDICANTS AND INQUIRE OF SOME REPUTA- BLE NEGRO CITIZEN REGARDING THE TRUTHFULNESS OF THEIR STATEMENTS. WOpen Day and Night, For Ladies ond Gentlemen, The Turf Cafe Oysters, Game, Fish, Steaks, Chops and Every Delicacy the Seasons Afford, ‘Banquet Rooms for Dinner Parties, Etc. Cuisine Par Excellent. Table D’Hote. NOTE—We have-neither private rooms, nor “private” peeple, but cater to the general public. DINNER FROM 5:30 TO 8:00, 35¢. j. L. SLAUGHTER, Prop. 194 Third Street, Milwaukee, Wis. Cyster Patties. Make a rich paste, and put in a cool place. Put the oysters in a saucepan iz their own liquor; skim, and add but- ter and cream with salt and pepper; roll out the paste quickly, and line some small tin with it; put three or four of the oysters in each with as ‘much gravy as it will hold, then cover ‘with a top crust. Bake twenty min- utes in a quick oven, Glace over the top with a little sweet milk or a light- ly beaten egg, and set back in the oven for five minutes. 3 5 “The Bachelors’ Home” Steam Heat. Electric Light. Telephone in Every Roomwesee ..1HE TURF EUROPEAN HOTEL... A New and Modern Establishment for Gentlemen Only. 217 Wells Street, J. L. SLAUGHTER, Milwaukee. Prop. and Mgr. Cafe In Connection: Prices Moderate and Consistent with Accommodations Furnished. Cinnamon Bune. Sift one pint of flour, add one cup of milk, one cup of butter, four eggs beaten separately, one cup of sugar, half a teacup of yeast, one teaspoonful of cinnamon and one grated nutmeg. Knead well, roll out, cut in large bis- cuits, let rise and bake; when taken from the oven sprinkle with white sugar and ground cinnamon. Strawberry Ice. The juice of two quarts of straw- berries, mashed and pressed hard; the same quantity of water that you have juice; three heaping cups of granu- lated sugar. To draw out the juice mash the ber- ries and cover with the sugar, leay- ing for an hour, then strain, add the water and freeze, Floating Island. Make a custard of a quart of milk, the yolks of five eggs and a cup of sugar and flavor with vanilla. Set aside until ice cold. Stir in eight crushed macaroons and turn into a glass bowl. Make a meringue of the whites of the eggs, sweeten and flavor to taste and heap upon the custard. GOLD MEDAL © Folding Furniture Gold Medal Camp Furniture Mfg, Co, Chocolate Caramels. Cook together two pounds of brow! sugar, a half-pound of chocolate anc a small cup of water. Boil until ¢ little dropped in cold water hardens add two tablespoonfuls of butter anc two teaspoonfuls of vanilla, pour int a buttered tin, and, as it cools, mart off into squares. Brief Suggestions. Some sort of a sharp relish is al ways acceptable with cold meats. Lemon pies and lemonade can be made without lemons by the use of acid phosphate and lemon essence. A smooth, thick chocolate icing Is one of the best to put upon a fruit eake. Curiously enough, the various flavors combine deliciously. A cement that will unite card to tin is made by boiling one ounce of borax and two ounces of powdered shellac in fifteen ounces of water till the shellac is entirely dissolved. If when frying fish of any kind a little salt is sprinkled on the bottom of the pan when it is hot and the fat boiling the fish can be easily turned without breaking in the least. 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