Wisconsin Weekly Advocate

WISCONSIN WEEKLY ADVOCATE DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF THE NEGRO RACE ```markdown ``` J. SENATOR JOHN C. SPOONER WATERTOWN NOTES. WATERTOWN NOTES. Watertown is a thriving city and it has a thriving, newsy newspaper in the Watertown Republican, owned and edited by Mr. C. W. Leichleidner, lately on the staff of the Evening Wisconsin of this city. The editor conducts a clean paper on broad lines. We do not think that his readers will imbibe socialistic ideas if they are guided by his views. The Republican, like all sensible people, is strongly opposed to a third term for our present erratic governor. * * * One of the representative men of this city is William Hartig, brewer and maltster, who has built up a prosperous business. Mr. Hartig is a man who has the welfare of his fellow men at heart. CLARK ENG.8 PTG.CO. MIL. MIL. CLARK ENG.8 PIG.CO. MIL. THE HON. EMIL BAENSCH. --- VOLUME VI * * * He has no race prejudice and thinks one man as good as another so long as he conducts himself as a man. * * * One of the prosperous business enterprises of Watertown is that of Otto Biefeld & Co., who do plumbing, sewering and gas fitting work. They also do everything in the way of steam and hot water heating. We were pleased to add the name of the president of the company to our mailing list. Mr. Biefeld likes to see every one prosper. —The pipe line from the Baku petroleum fields on the Caspian sea to Batum, on the Black sea, 560 miles, will be completed during 1905, and will double the transportation facilities for oil. A part of this line, 143 miles at the eastern end, has been in operation for several years. MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN, JUNE 16, 1904. CREAM CITY NOTES. We will be glad to publish news of local and race interest if left at the office, 79 Fifth street, before 6 o'clock Wednesday evenings. We would respectfully ask our readers to bestow at least a share of their custom upon those who advertise with us. The various remedies and hair restorers advertised in this paper can be had at the advertised price at the office of this paper. The Merchants and Manufacturers' excursion started on its annual tour of the state Monday. Besides being a business proposition, the members composing the party will entertain considerably on their trip, and of course not forgetting their noble selves. A small army of cooks and waiters accompanying them to see that this part of the programme receives proper attention. Milwaukee business men want the best of everything and consequently the railway company have sent along their most experienced and trustworthy men. The dining room crews consist of Edward Gaffney, John Reid, J. L. Tascott and George Lee, cooks. T. Townsend, G. C. Calhoun, P. Newsome, C. C. Cranney, D. McGee, Ed. Wise, D. Budd, Walter Miles, C. D. Howard, Ed. Bonds and George Walker, waiters. The first services in connection with the newly organized Calvary Baptist church were held Sunday last. There 9 T. E. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT. was a large attendance at both morning and evening services and the Sunday school was well attended. In the afternoon the Order of the Household of Ruth held their annual thanksgiving service, when there was a large turnout of the members of the order, their brethren, the Odd Fellows, and the general public. Mrs. L. M. Fenwick acted as mistress of ceremonies, and Rev. B. P. Robinson preached the annual sermon, taking as his text the words of Ruth to her mother-in-law: "Entreat Me Not to Leave Thee." etc. The sermon was much appreciated by the audience. A large collection was taken up. A novel form of entertainment known as a sock social was held Friday night last in connection with the church, which was largely attended and from which a considerable sum was realized for the benefit of the church. This little body seems to have taken on new life with its new name, and the different members seem to vie with each other in doing everything to promote the interests of the church and congregation. * * * Mrs. Perkins, local president of the W. C. T. U., visited the church Sunday evening to urge the formation of a branch of that body among the female members. The matter will be taken up by the ladies and a branch will be formed in the near future. Our quondam friend, Col. Ed Morris of Chicago, seems to be losing his grip, grit or gall, whichever it is he possesses. We notice that he is no longer a member of the Republican state committee, which position he had held for many years. We would advise Col. Morris to read Milton's description of the fall of Lucifer and apply the lesson. * * * We take pleasure in noticing that our young, talented friend, Miss Gertrude --- P. A. SAMPLE, JR. --- ```markdown ``` Irene Howard, has graduated in harmony, history and science of music from the Chicago College of Music. Miss Howard makes a specialty of playing the cornet, a rare accomplishment in her sex. We congratulate Miss Howard and wish her every success and happiness. Death in a family is always sad, but one took place in our midst Saturday last under specially sad circumstances. Mrs. Delia White had only rejoined her husband and family in this city for one short month, when she was called away forever. Her husband and two children—a boy and girl—had been in this city for some time, and she rejoined them here, and the reunited family had a happy home at 424 Wells street. Mrs. White, however, never very strong, succumbed to a complication of diseases on Saturday last and was buried Monday at Union cemetery. Rev. Jamieson of St. Mark's officiating. Great sympathy is felt and expressed for the husband and children in their bereavement. The family originally belonged to Birmingham. Ala., where they had many friends. The many friends of Mrs. Harding, 519 Wells street, will be sorry to learn that she is on the sick list. She is suffering from an acute and painful attack of neuralgia. Mrs. Harding is, however, fortunate in having as nurses two such helpful girls as her daughters, Lillian and Goldie. We wish her a speedy recovery. * * * The Literary society met last Thursday evening. The president after a month's absence filled the chair. An interesting and instructive programme was rendered. * * * We recommend our lady readers and friends who like a nice thing up to date in millinery to call at the La Mode Importing company, suite 6, Bradley build- 5 ing, 155 Mason street. There they will find everything the heart can desire or the eye covet. When we say that Miss C. S. Black is the managress of the establishment we have given a guarantee of the excellence of the goods offered and the attention bestowed upon patrons. * * * Mr. Horace Rice, who has been an employee at the Plankinton house for two years, has resigned and moved to Chicago. * * * Mr. E. J. Porter will spend Sunday in Chicago. * * * Mr. William Fisher will leave tonight for a three-day sojourn in the Windy city. Rev. H. W. Jamieson preached a special sermon to the bootblacks and porters last Sunday evening. A large congregation was present. Plankinton House Notes. While there are many of the waiters at the Plankinton house who have commendable traits, there are some who are very backward. They don't believe in the policy of "Live and let live." They would not spend one cent for a paper published by the race. The sooner we learn to foster our own enterprises the more we will have. Some of us never get economical until the agent comes around with the paper, or with some other enterprise conducted by colored people. * * * Randolph Robinson is quite a success as a ladies' man. He boasts of more girls being in love with him than any other waiter at the Plankinton. Ye editor already perceives a troubled expression in his face. Frank Chapman, who has been one of the most popular waiters at the Plankin- * * * ```markdown ``` [Image of a man with a mustache and wavy hair, wearing a suit with a bow tie. The background is plain white.] SENATOR JOSEPH V OUARLES ton but who, we regret to say, is no longer with us, has just returned from a trip to New York. Mr. H. W. Greene, the musical barber, will delight the members of the literary society Thursday evening with some of his choice mandolin selections. Mr. J. J. Miles, our congenial headwaiter and one of the strongest race men of the northwest, will attend the Republican national convention at Chicago next week. The Plankinton house men will hold the boards at St. Mark's A. M. E. church Sunday evening. Mr. Howell, who has been on the sick list, is able to be out again. "A rolling stone gathers no moss" is an old adage that should be heeded by waiters. The great horde of traveling waiters usually come without uniforms, and sell them to get away. The Plankinton house boys are preparing to storm Lincoln hall on the 27th. We hope the full crew will turn out and do homage to this Grand that so gracefully entertains Milwaukee society once a year. REVIEWS. McGirt's Magazine for June more than upholds its title rank among the first-class periodicals of the day. It reproduces the masterly discourse of Rev. Francis J. Grunke on the occasion of the G. A. R. encampment at Washington, D. C., in 1912, entitled, "A Resemblance and a Contrast," comparing and contrasting the Negro with the ancient Israelites in Egypt. An illustrated description of Howard university is well worthy of perusal. An anonymous colored woman makes an eloquent plea for her race. Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, who is representing her people at the International Congress of Women at Berlin has a very truchant article under the caption, "Where is the Conscience of the North?" which ought to stir up said conscience. The poetical selections are of a high order, especially a short gem by the editor, entitled, "A Balm for Weary Minds." We again commend this magazine to our readers. The Voice of the Negro continues to fulfill the high expectations of it at its inception. Our June number is not yet to hand, but that for May fairly teems with articles which should be read by all race lovers. An excellent feature of the magazine is the monthly "Review of Current Events." A contribution from one of the editorial staff on "Causes and Remedies for the Negroes Flocking to the Cities" is very ably written and deserves the consideration of thinking men. We eagerly await the arrival of the June number. Since writing the above the June number is at hand and contains some veritable gems of interest to the colored race. After the usual able monthly review Mrs. Mary Church-Terrell contributes a magnificent article on the graduates and former students of Washington colored high school. Portraits of a number of these grace the article. Such a showing is certainly a credit to any race. Every one should read this contribution. James R. L. Diggs answers Thomas Nelson Page's recent article on the "Lynching of Negroes—Its Cause and Its Prevention." Mrs. Josephine B. Bruce writes on "The Farmer and the City Folk," arguing much in favor of the former. T. Thomas Farburn gives in his usual style some incidents of his trip through the isle of Luzon. The "Equipment of the Teacher" is treated ably by Mrs. Josephine Silone-Yates. The short poetical pieces are of a very high order, and altogether the sixth number of his magazine proves that its success is assured. Joe Reed of Lynn and Walter Burgo boxed four rounds to a draw at Webster, Mass. ☆ ☆ ☆ WOMAN IN MIDDLE WEST. She Is Generous, Gracious and Her Supremacy Is Admitted. The social picture of the middle west as a whole, however, presents the sexes occupying different intellectual and moral planes. There the woman is indisputably the mistress in all that makes for culture—culture in letters and in art; the man is king in his own active realm. Each is most deferential to the other in that other's sphere. The books on the shelves, the pictures on the wall, are of the woman's choice or selection. The man speaks of her literary or artistic tastes, usually of both combined, with the reverence that is due to her superior intellectual and spiritual gifts and requirements. She is the hostess, and the host stands appropriately behind her. She is the instructed and leads the intellectual movements of her town. The book club, the Dante club, the entertainer of the lecturing or the traveling lion, is the woman. Often the clergyman assists; but she, through her influence over the surrendered man, has selected her clergyman, and on her he must count for the success of himself and of his work. She is, indeed, generous and gracious, and welcomes with joy every man who strays from business into the company of books and pictures, into homes which she has made. They call their houses homes, oftener than the east, and these homes bespeak the finer taste of the woman. Her education is likely to be more virile than that of her Eastern sisters, because it is acquired at schools and colleges where co-education of the sexes is the rule. Her domination in the home and her primacy in the higher life, as we are inclined to call it, are seen not only in the more obvious social affairs, but in the element of seriousness which marks most life in this midway of the country. As the man pays her high respect by recognizing her superiority in the kingdom of taste, of feeling, of the imagination, of the knowledge which comes from books, she returns his deference by venerating him as the active ruler of the world of affairs. This attitude was well expressed by a young woman student in one of the great education universities of the west. She was asked to write her view of Thomas Jefferson, and this was her response: "Thomas Jefferson was timid and sly, but lovely in his family." She could judge him as one of the "world of men," because she was not of his family; if she had been, the last part of her description alone would have sufficed. Henry Loomis Nelson in Harper's Magazine. 1900 THE HON. JOSEPH W. BABCOCK. Curious Condensations. It was stated in the House of Commons the other day that thirty members of the Irish Nationalist party had served terms of hard labor in prison. It is said that raisins absorb alcohol, and that if a beer drinker eats three or four of them with each glass of beer the alcohol will not enter the blood. The graduating class at West Point this year numbers 125, the largest in the history of the academy. The honor men are all from the south except one. Four of the cannon taken from the French off Finisterre in 1747 by Admiral Boscawen now fill the lowly, if useful, roles of curb posts and lamp posts in front of the house, 2 St. James' square, London, of Boscawen's descendant, Lord Falmouth. Exporters of gold always prefer to ship in bars rather than coin, simply because of the greater subjection of coin to abrasion in transit. They cannot be packed as closely as bars. It is said that $1,000,000 in American eagles may show as great a loss as $100 from abrasion in being carried from New York to Paris. The United States is not the only country to make war on quacks and quack medicines. The German police have begun a systematic campaign against them. They estimate that in ten years the population has increased 58 per cent., regular medical men 76 per cent. and quacks 1567 per cent. There are more women quacks than men. Asphalt continues to be the most valuable mineral if Trinidad. The value of the exports has increased from $537,000 in 1895 to $810,000 in 1903. Up to last year this industry had suffered to some extent from long and costly litigations, but a special commission of inquiry has recently made recommendations which it is hoped will prevent litigation. An enterprise in Algeria is to manufacture natural soap on a large scale from a tree known as "Sapindus utilis." This plant, which has long been known in Japan, China and India, bears a fruit of about the size of a horse chestnut, smooth and round. The color varies from a yellowish green to brown. The inner part of a dark color and has an oily kernel. The tree bears fruit in its sixth year and yields from 55 to 220 pounds of fruit, which can easily be harvested. Some of the girls at Wellesley college in Massachusetts carry pistols nowadays. The authorities of the college of late have been considerably alarmed by repeated visits to the college grounds of numbers of tough looking young men after nightfall. These unwelcome visitors, it is thought, come from nearby towns with the intention of "flirting" with or scaring the young women. So stirred up are the authorities over the matter that they have forbidden the girls to go out alone on the college grounds after dark. There are beetles in England (of the family known to scientists as Telephoridae) that are popularly called soldiers and sailors, the red species being called by the former name and the blue species by the latter. These beetles are among the most quarrelsome of insects and fight to the death on the least provocation. It has long been the custom among English boys to catch and set them fighting with each other. They are as ready for battle as game cocks, and the victor will both kill and eat his antagonist. Baroness Halkett, eldest daughter of Aunon Phelps Stokes, no longer makes even an outward show of living with her Austrian husband, and there will be legal separation before long it is thought. Their marriage was a splendid affair, and for a while the baroness shone in the exclusive society of Vienna, but eventually she quarreled with her middle-aged, high-tempered husband and returned to America. Her sister, who married Robert Hunter, head of the University Settlement, is leading a really happy life. She and her husband seldom stir from their country estate in Noroton. Here is a list of penalties for various crimes, according to Korean law: Treason, man decapitated, together with male relatives to the fifth degree, mother, wife and daughter poisoned or reduced to slavery; treason, woman poisoned. Murder, man decapitated, wife poisoned; murder, woman strangled or poisoned. Arson, man strangled or poisoned, wife poisoned; arson, woman poisoned. Theft, man strangled, decapitated or banished, wife reduced to slavery, confiscation of all property; desecration of graves, decapitated, together with male relatives to the fifth degree, mother, wife and daughter poisoned; counterfeiting, strangulation or decapitation, wife poisoned. Wouldn't Stand for Her. Oliver Moore "I shan't put up with your conduct any longer. I intend to go home to mother." "Well, anything is preferable to having her here." Where Woman Is Heroic. The determination to do her duty at all costs inspires the society woman of today as much as it did the defenders of the British flag at Trafalgar. She goes into action with a grim resolve to dance and dine as all her friends expect. Though her back is aching, her head splitting, and she knows she is gruesomely bored, she will heroically go through her day's programme, fortified by the consciousness of having done her duty.—Ladies' Field. Not a Corrective Gibbey—Lot of words misspelled in this letter, Miss Keyler. I shall have to devise some means of curing you of a bad habit. Guess I shall have to kiss you for every word spelled wrong. Miss Keyler—Mercy! That would make me so nervous I shouldn't be able to spell even the simplest word right.—Boston Transcript. Prospects of Watermelon Crop in Texas. It is feared now that unfavorable seasons will so reduce the Texas watermelon crop that it will not exceed 167,000,000 melons.—Fort Worth Record. SWEET ARE THE FRUITS. Sweet are the fruits that I've tasted off, Summers long-flown when zephyrs soft Kissed the cheeks, ruddy with glowing youth, Sparkling of eye and longing of tooth. Fair are the arbored paths that I've trod, Dark, spreading meshes o'er velvet sod-- Daring to climb the uttermost reach For treasures jeweled with dew. But oh for the unbrushed blush of the peach. The grape in its untouched blue! Sweet are the nectars that I have sought. Ecestasy deep a moment has fraught. The next in bitter repentance cast, Dead Sea fruit it had proven at last— Mellow the radiance Time has shed Over far scenes of the summer sped. Learned are the lessons experiences teach, Sifted the false from the true. But oh for the unbrushed blush of the peach. The grape in its untouched blue! —George Henry Daugherty in the Woman's Home Companion. A STRANGE LEGACY. Homeward through the murk and gloom of a November evening, through the dank night air and gathering fog, along greasy pavements and over slippery crossings, across the great bridge, with the yawning darkness on either side, and down the mean streets of southern London, wearily but steadily Mary. MacAllister bent her way. Three years of hard work as a typist in a city office, three years of lonely struggle with fortune had robbed Mary's cheek of the bloom it boasted when she was 19, but still she strode on her way, morning and evening, backward and forward to and from the city, where her work lay, a brave, earnest-minded, steady-eyed woman, a typical figure of London's women workers. Sometimes there would be a suspicion of moisture in the big gray eyes when work was more than usually irksome or employers more than usually irate and unreasonable. Sometimes for a moment her mind would stray from the dark, close office to the glorious fields and hedgerows which from babyhood she had looked upon as hers in time to come. Now and again as she ate her solitary meal in her poor little room in her shabby house in a third-rate street just beyond "the Elephant," the memory of the plenty in the old days brought a shadow for a moment, and then the memory of Dick—her Dick—would chase the little cloud away. If Dick could be brave and go away to Africa to win a fortune for her, she would be brave, too. Dick had faced the crash, which four years ago had ruined alike his father and hers, quietly and uncomplainingly. She had refused his offer to release her from the engagement to him, and with mutual protestations of love and fidelity they had parted—he to seek wealth across the seas, she to earn her living as best she could in the most world of London Many a letter from Dick lay carefully folded in her little workbox, letters which she had read again and again when the struggle was hard and her heart grew faint. They told of progress, slow but sure, until—until eighteen months before, when the black cloud of war lowered, and ruin had for the second time in his young life stopped at Dick Herrick's door. With the first clash of arms his employment ceased, the land he had invested his savings in was seized by the Boers, while he himself was commandeered and imprisoned as the result of his refusing to fight against his own countrymen. Since then—since she had lived at her present address—no news had come to lighten her sorrow, to relieve her anxiety. On her doorstep she met her landlady, Mrs. Bird, who had been shopping round the corner. Mrs. Bird was well meaning, but rather massive, and sometimes more than aggressive. "You are late this evening," Mrs. Bird asserted, tartly. "Yes—I—I—am, rather," nervously responded Mary; "I was a little behind at the office, and I've walked." "Walked, a night like this! Then you'd no business. S'pose you caught cold and got laid up?" "The buses were full, and I—I couldn't afford a cab, you know," Mary answered, smiling gently. "No, in course, though you might do that a night like this if you didn't go saddlin' yourself with that foreign fiddler man upstairs." Mrs. Bird closed the door with an angry little bang as she followed Mary into the passage. "Oh, hush, please. Mrs. Bird; think how ill the poor fellow has been." now in the poor yellow has been. "Ill—course he has, and you, with all you can do to keep yourself, must go and look after him. Nonsense, that's what I call it! What do we pay rates for, and keep up that there palace round the corner for, if it ain't for such as him?" "But, you don't understand, Mrs. Bird; he is not a common man; he is an artist and a gentleman. It would kill him to be sent to such a place—I know—I feel it—just as it would kill me to be sent there. Our cruel fogs have brought him to death's door, and as he has lain insensible—up there—delirious, raving—his tongue has told me the tale of his sunny home away yonder in Italy, of the poverty which drove him here to earn his bread, of his music, which is like life to him. And now—now he is better, be patient still for a little longer. I will give him all the attention I can, and save you as much as possible. The money that is owing you I will pay, gladly, willingly, a little at a time. See, here is some that I have earned working late. Take it, and let me have my own way, won't you? Ah, you will! Thank you, Mrs. Bird! As I tend him and help him, poor fellow, so I pray that a woman's hand may help the man I love, should he need it." She turned slowly and mounted the stairs. Mrs. Bird looked after her a moment irresolutely. "Humph!" she muttered, "that gal's too good for this world." * * * * * * * "You are better—ah, I'm so glad. Now, lie still, or I shall be angry." "Angry, you, cara mia! Ah, but no—how can an angel be angry?" Mary smiled. "Your illness has not made you forget your compliments," she said, lightly. Mary MacAllister had stolen into the sick man's room, after taking off her hat and jacket, and had found him up and dressed and sitting in front of the fire. The firelight shone on his handsome face, so drawn and pale, on his hands, so thin and white. Mrs. Bird had during the day given off some of "her views," and Carlo Terrini knew for the first time what Mary MacAllister had done for him in the hour of his extremity. "Compliments! What words of mine can be called compliments, after what you have done for me?" Mary started. "You know?" "Yes, the good Signora Bird has told me." "Then she ought not to have done so. It is nothing—nothing. I repeat. And you must not think of it again, or—" She paused and the man looked at her inquiringly. "Or what, Mees MacAlleester?" "Or I shall not be able to come and see you—or—or help you any more." "But." said Carlo, weakly, "I—I do not understand. It is but the truth. You have saved my life, mia cara mia. I must thank you—I must pour out my gratitude to you—from my soul." He stopped, exhausted for a moment, and then went on excitedly: "I—I have been thinking of you, longing to see you—to look on you—to, perhaps—be able to take your little hand—so—and kiss it, and let fall my tears—as of blood, on it. You have saved my life—you have done more—you have inspired me—I have been dreaming a picture of you, as I lay watching the fire, a vision of goodness, so high, so pure, so true, and the melody came. I heard, somewhere—away, up above me, in God's air, a host chanting your praises; the music they sang was the melody my soul has sought so long. I put it in my work. That work at last will be complete. It will triumph, for none can resist such music as this." He rose abruptly, with sudden strength. Then he staggered across the room to where a violin lay in its case. Mary MacAllister uttered a cry, and laid a restraining hand on his arm. "What are you doing?" she cried. "You will kill yourself if you exert yourself like this." The violinist took up his instrument and crept back to his chair. "No, it is life to me to play, and you must hear. Then you shall tell me if it is good enough for my opera." He seated himself and began to play. The girl, seeing remonstrance useless, quietly dropped into a seat and listened. For a few moments she heard only music she had heard him play before—in the days when he was well. Then suddenly her lips parted, and she sat breathless. From the instrument poured a melody almost unearthly. The man played as if inspired. It was as if voices from another world were speaking. On, on he went—from a paean of praise to a frenzy of passion, from a hurricane of hope to a dirge of despair. And then on again, higher and higher, faster and faster the liquid melody poured from the violin, until, with one great overpowering chord of grandeur, the music stopped and the bow fell from his nerveless hand, while the musician sank back panting, exhausted, but triumphant, in his chair. So engrossed had he been with his beloved music, so enraptured had been the girl with the marvelous strains that Carlo Terrini had evoked, that neither had heard the footsteps that had mounted the stairs, nor seen the form that now stood in the doorway. Gently the girl chided the poor violinist for his great exertion, sweetly she bade him good-night aud rest, slowly she turned from him to the door. For a moment she gazed, as if looking on the dead, then with a cry of passionate gladness she flew to the outstretched arms, crying "Dick" And as the lovers passed from the room and the door closed behind them, Carlo Terrini's head fell, and a great sob shook him from head to foot. Downstairs in Mrs. Bird's front parlor Dick Herrick's story was soon told. After months of imprisonment at Watervaal he had recovered his liberty, but not his rights. The Dutchman who had sold him the land was now in possession of it again, and was disputing his title. Too poor to take the necessary legal action to recover, he had returned to England as poor as he left it four years before. The next morning Mary, dressed for the city, paid her usual visit to Carlo Terrini before going. She found him very ill. He confessed that he had not been to bed. He had been working all through the long night, writing the music he had composed and played to her into his opera. "But now, now you have finished," she pleaded, "you will sleep—and rest?" "Yes, cara mia. I will rest—soon—I promise you," and as the door closed behind her, he added, with a wan smile, "forever." Two hours after she had gone Carlo Terrini let himself out of the house without a sound and made his way to a West End music firm, the head of which was a compatriot of his. After a few minutes' talk he persuaded him to listen to the opera, which he played through without a break. Astonished and delighted, the publisher instantly concluded a bargain with him, and Carlo Terrini crept home and fell exhausted on the bed, from which he never rose again. A few hours before he died he gave a letter, sealed, to Mary MacAllister, and whispered her to keep it till he was dead. The day after he was laid to rest Mary MacAllister, remembering the letter, opened it and read the last words of her dead friend. He had given her the opera which she had inspired, and which had cost him his life. Two years later Mary Herrick looked down into the face of her first-born. With the money which had poured in on her like a golden stream from Carlo Terrini's work her husband had fought and won his cause, and was now on his way to becoming a South African millionaire. With opulence around her, a child she adored, and a husband she worshipped at her side, there was yet a wistful sadness in her look as she gazed at her little one. Her husband caught her glance, and laid his hand gently on her shoulder. "You have something to ask me?" he said gently. "Yes, a little favor, dear." she hesitated. "What could I refuse you? Tell me." "Let our little one be named—Carlo." Let our little one be named—Carlo. "Your wish is mine, dearest. What better name than the name of that noble soul to whom we owe our all?"—London Tit-Bits. Wanted the Result. "Horse racing is a heroic sport, and to this feature alone is due its intense fascination," said Wallace P. Herndon of Chicago at the Galt house last night. Mr. Herndon had just come down from Latonia, loaded with his winnings. "People who condemn the sport seem to forget the heroic feature. "Recently I perpetrated a sorry trick on one of these folks, and it was a clergyman, too. As an eye witness I described the running of a great handicap, and to make it more interesting I proceeded to color my story a bit to tell how a certain horse was challenged repeatedly from the start and how the race was in doubt up to the last moment. "I left the field a few jumps from the finish. Then I said: "I knew a famous horseman once, who said that a race horse is of interest to only three persons—the kid that rides him, the lobster that bets on him and the thief that owns him." "Yes, yes," cried the clergyman, impatiently, "but which of those horses won on the day you spoke of?"—Louisville Herald. Safest Place to Draw It. Prof. E. G. Dexter, of the University of Illinois, whose interesting investigations have proved football to be a harmless game, is popular on account of his geniality. After a certain football victory Prof. Dexter entertained one night a group of students at his residence. A magnificent sword hung over the fireplace of the library, and during a space of silence Prof. Dexter took down this sword and brandished it impressively. "Never will I forget," he exclaimed, "the day I drew this blade for the first time." "Where did you draw it, sir?" a freshman asked respectfully. "At a raffle," said Prof. Dexter.—New York Tribune. Mint Color Anyway A novelty to serve with roast lamb is creme de menthe made like lemon ice, but using creme de menthe for flavoring A SUBURBAN CANDIDATE. "PULSUS." The suburban handicap is the great racing event of the country. Pulsus, recently purchased by Mr. Gebhardt, is to show his mettle in this great event. That the game racer must be reckoned with is shown in the betting, now being made The Mighty Explorers. Dicky and Tommy, one fine night in June, Walked out, to see t'other side of the moon. Not a word! not a sound! it was very late— Between a quarter to eight and eight! They went along till they reached a brook, When Dicky whispered to Tommy, "Look!" There in the brook, as it sang its rune, Was the glowing other side of the moon! They planned in bed, till the clock struck ten. How they'd look up Africa, when they were ow they'd look up Africa, when they were men! men. John Ernest McCann in St. Nicholas. Isidore, the Unwashed. Isidore Salinsky slept in a bathtub, and after all he might have done much worse. Some there are who cannot sleep at all; some who lie wide-eyed and restless on the silken couch of care. Some there are who would sleep, but who have no place wherewith to lay their weary heads. Isidore Salinsky belonged to neither class. He was a sleeper, and he had a place to sleep, and accordingly he slept. The bathtub in question was a stationary one, and occupied that portion of the Salinsky kitchen just between the stove on the one hand and the sink on the other. Not only was the bathtub a stationary affair, but little Isidore's bedding, which filled it, was also stationary. On no pretext was it disturbed. The bathtub had not always been on hand; but the landlord of the tenement, who had some peculiar ideas about hygiene and cleanliness, had, out of the goodness of his heart, furnished each family with one. And in all the house there was no family who hailed the innovation with such joy as did the Salinsky family. The first night that it was there the elder Salinsky, father of the younger one, grasped at once its portent, for the instant he saw it he stepped to where young Isidore slept upon the floor, and dumped him, neck and heels, into the tub. It was just the proper length. "A fit! a fit!" cried the elder Salinsky, who was employed somewhere in the depths of the clothing trade, "a lovely fit! What would we have done without it?" And to come down to a fine point, to what better use could the tub be put? Otherwise it had been a mere ornament, a useless luxury to be deplored rather than admired. But now—it was superb. Isidore Salinsky lived in the Fourteenth ward. In the Fourteenth ward there was a public school. There was one public school in the city where teachers were paid $10 more a month than at the other schools. The Fourteenth ward was that school. It was situated "down Neck," with all that that implies. It was on the other side of the canal. It had a record. The teachers earned their money. It might be said that they were tillers of the soil, for in a very large degree their charges were identified with that particular article. They did their work. They took the raw material in out of the gutter, and turned it out at the end of a few years clean and white and beautiful to look upon. The record for dirt in the Fourteenth ward school had been held for some six months by young Abe Abramson. On the dirt question no one could approach him—and no one cared to. But that was before Isidore Salinsky entered the arena of events. Miss Van Steenbergh, a girl in her teens, had charge of the third year at the Fourteenth ward school. This is two years higher than the sand-playing, clay-modeling class. Abe Abramson was of this class, and it was into this class that Isidore Salinsky impelled himself. And the instant that he entered the door Miss Van Steenbergh knew that Abe Abramson's reign was over—knew that Isidore Salinsky was the champion of the world. At the close of the day she took Isidore to one side, and interviewed him politely on the subject. "Isidore," she explained in as delicate a manner as was possible, "you are, oh, so dirty! You must wash your face and hands and keep yourself clean. You—you must take a bath. I—I want you to give this note to your mother when you go home. Will you?" "She won't take a bath, what do you think," remarked Isilore all in one breath. Then he added, "My papa says that maybe next summer, when it gets warm again, maybe I can take a bath. "I don't know," he continued, reflectively, "I don't know if I had one last summer or not. I fergit." Miss Van Steenbergh shook her head. "I know," she went on. "But you must take a bath now. Haven't you a bath-tub in your house, or some soap, or something? You must keep clean or we can't have you here you know." Isidore looked at her reproachfully. "A bathtub!" he exclaimed. "I stay in one every night! Sure." The teacher smiled upon him. "I'll tell you what to do," she said. "When you go home turn on the water in the tub and fill it full and get in. It's lots of fun, and there are quite a lot of little boys who do it. You can splash around all you want to. You'll try it, won't you? He looked at her aghast. "But my bed," he protested. "it would get wet—all wet. I could not sleep." The teacher suggested the advisability of taking out the best just for this once. Isidore shook his head. "My mamma would never let me move my bed—she never takes it out. There it must stay. But next summer," he added, doubtfully, "maybe I get a bath." The teacher's note did some little good, but Isidore still led the march—he still wore the laurels he had wrested so completely from Abe Abramson. The third year of the Fourteenth ward school was coeducational in its character, and to this fact is due the reclamation and redemption of Isidore Salinsky. If Isidore Salinsky was the dirtiest little boy in the class, it is quite as certain that the little girl in the third seat was the nicest and cleanest. Her name was Sadie Mergenthaler. She had light hair. She sat upon the aisle that separated the little girls from the little boys. The nearest boy to her was Isidore Salinsky. And as Isaac of old had looked upon Rebekah, and found her pleasing in his sight, and as Jacob had looked upon Rachel, so did Isidore Salinsky look wistfully upon Sadie Mergenthaler. But unfortunately for Isidore, it was a far cry to the converse of the proposition. And yet Isidore was not a bad sort of a fellow. The girls who sat over in the corner, and who could not detect the actual cause of the added duskiness upon the face of Isidore, these girls glanced coyly at him. But not so Sadie. She held aloof. "Ain't you going to like me?" he inquired, after he had been there some three days. She did not deign to answer and this cooled his ardor for a while, but as time passed he grew bolder. One memorable day he thrust forth his good right hand, and placed it directly upon the hand of Sadie Mergenthaler as it lay upon her desk. She gave a little scream and drew back, and jumped up from her desk, rubbing and rubbing her hand as she did so. "What's the matter, Sadie?" inquired the teacher. Sadie Mergenthaler made a face. "He touched me with his dirty, dirty hand," she replied, pointing at Isidore Salinsky, "that dirty, dirty boy!" Isidore looked at her blankly. Then he looked at his hand, and then he looked at hers. Hers was as pink and clean as any hand could be. And his—well. And then he understood. He saw at once that he wasn't in her class. He didn't belong, that's all. The next morning a very young man, apparently a stranger, entered the room, and stepped up to the teacher. "Teacher," he said, touching her upon the arm. The teacher turned to look, and gave a gasp of surprise and joy. For it was Isidore Salinsky with a clean bill of health. His beautiful plnk skin shone resplendent. He seemed clean from head to foot. "Teacher," he confided to her, "I had a bath—a real one in the tub, with real soap, good laundry soap what you buy. And every morning I shall wash now." He started away, and came back. "Every morning," he added, in a half-whisper. "I shall wash down to the cold shoulder. I told my mamma so." Little Abe Abramson is again the champion. The cleanest, nicest little girl in the class is still Sadie Mergenthaler. The cleanest, nicest little boy is—Isidore Salinsky. And so they think themselves.—William H. Osborne in Woman's Home Companion. Bet on a Sure Thing. The magistrate was German, but the prisoner at the bar wasn't. "You been here before, already," said the magistrate. "Sure, I has," said the prisoner. "How many times arrested?" asked the judge. "Aw! I been pinched more times than I got fingers an' toes," said Mr. Plugugly, "an' I was always discharged." The magistrate took a long look at the prisoner. Then, leaning toward him in a confidential way, he said: "I'll bet you $20 you're not discharged now." "Put 10 on that for me. It's a cinch," said the court policeman who stood near by.—New York Sun. Snake Doing a Flourishing Business. A prominent actor tells this story about two brother players and their experiences in a Maine temperance town. Feeling in need of alcoholic refreshment they made application at the local drug stores, but were told that stimulants were sold only in cases of snake bite. The actors had about decided to content themselves with such refreshment as the town provided, when they heard that a certain resident owned a rattlesnake which he kept as a pet. Securing his address they called on him and offered to hire his snake for use in some scientific experiments. "Nothing doing," answered the owner; "he's booked solid for four months ahead."—Harper's Weekly. —Every fifth boy in India is at school, and only every fiftieth girl. Painters are at work in upper Broadway, New York city, on a wall sign eleven stories high. This is the biggest ever. It is said to have cost the advertiser $8000 a year for the wall privilege and $4000 for the painting of the sign. J. Pierpont Morgan has not been in particularly good health. After taking the cure at Aix-les-Bains he went to Italy for a change and was laid up for several days at Milan. He is now better, but still not quite himself. He is expected in London soon for a short stay prior to sailing for home. The state transfer tax appraiser has filed his report on the estate of Frederick W. Guiteau of Irvington, an aged philanthropist, who died in 1903, leaving an estate valued at $217,000. Cornell university will receive $162,379. George Billups of Norfolk, Va., a cabin passenger on the Old Dominion Line steamer Princess Anne, from Newport News and Norfolk, jumped overboard while the vessel was steaming up the lower bay. The ship was stopped and a lifeboat launched. Within twenty minutes the man was taken on board in a dying condition. Every effort was made to restore life, but without avail. No reason for the suicide is known. At the annual meeting of the Actors' Society of America, the following directors were elected to fill vacancies on the executive board: James K. Hackett, Henry Woodruff, John E. Kellerd, Frank Burbeck, Ernest Lamson, George D. McIntyre, Edward McCabe. Miss Bessie Taylor, and Harold Hartsell. The old officers were re-elected. S. M. Wanamaker, a leading merchant of Philadelphia, and brother of former Postmaster General John Wanamaker, died suddenly in that city of heart disease. He is survived by a widow and four sons. J. S. Bearns, head of the New York stock exchange firm of J. S. Bearns & Co., was suspended from the privileges of the exchange for one year. The charge against Mr. Bearns was that he had carried a speculative account for an employee of another member of the stock exchange. Statistics show that steerage passengers from Europe have fallen off 100,000 from the figures of last season for the period from the first of the year to the present time. The eastward-bound saloon travel is 2000 behind last year and the eastward steerage travel 28,000 ahead. Khaki as a material for civilian attire has appeared in the Tenderloin. So far khaki trousers only are visible there; but summer may bring out the Norfolk jacket and other informal coats that have helped the disappearance of the shirtwaist man. The new trousers are said to have the advantage of wearing like iron and keeping their shape, which compensate for the disadvantage of showing a grease spot a block away. An agreement has been reached in the Plant will case allowing the removal to New York of the assets of the $16,000.-000 estate of Henry Bradley Plant, over which there has been long litigation. Attorneys in the case say that details of the agreement will not be made public at this time. Mrs. Cornelius Storers paid $20,046.67 to Assistant District Attorney Minor, the amount, with interest, of the forfeited bail for Dr. Richard C. Flower, who is said to have obtained $300,000 of the woman's money through mining schemes. Flower has disappeared. Mrs. Storers declared that he saved her from death: that she was grateful and had faith in him. Old Soldier's Story. Sonoma, Mich., June 13.—That ever in actual warfare disease is more terrible than bullets is the experience of Delos Hutchins of this place. Mr. Hutchins as a Union soldier saw three years of service under Butler Barke in the Louisiana swamps, and as a result got crippled with Rheumatism so that his hands and feet got all twisted out of shape, and how he suffered only a Rheumatic will ever know. For twenty-five years he was in misery, then one lucky day his druggist advised him to use Dodd's Kidney Pills. Of the result Mr. Hutchins says: "The first two boxes did not help me much, but I got two more, and before I got them used up I was a great deal better. I kept on taking them, and now my pains are all gone and I feel better than I have in years. I know Dodd's Kidney Pills will cure Rheumatism." GOSSIP FOR THE LADIES. ELABORATE SUMMER BLOUSE. ELABORATE SUMMER BLOUSE. M. This charming blouse of white habutai silk owes its ornate ect to fancifully applied insertions of Irish crochet lace. The collar and the cuffs are made of frilled valenciennes lace. The waist in the back is drawn snug to the belt at that point. In the front it pouches over the glove. Give her a flower to keep and hold, A waxen doll in a silken gown, A chain of coral with clasp of gold, A tiny kitten as soft as down: And sing, with your lips against her cheek, Love's dear lullaby whispering, Till sleep comes over her eyelids meek, Sing for the girl-child—mother, sing! The Boy-Child. Show him the bird in its daring flight To the cloud's brown edge. Teach him to know The flag that spreads to winds' wild night— Sweep of the rain, and whirl of snow— Laugh with him, run with him, romp and leap. Give him his will of the noisy day— But, when you pause at the gate of sleep, Oh, pray for the boy-child—mothery, pray! There is such continual and beautiful work in the world for mothers to do. Are you a mother, and do you tell me that you have "the artistic nature" and that you long for congenial occupation. Perhaps you are skilled with the needle and can embroider pretty flowers. You find great delight in seeing the leaves and buds spring from beneath your needle. Perhaps you paint and love to watch a design grow under your pencil or brush into a landscape or a marine. Or it may be music that appeals to you, and your happiness lies in weaving harmonies of sound. Did it ever occur to you that the development of a child's character and disposition was the most artistic work possible for a mother. The embroidery fades, the picture can be destroyed, the music hushes into silence. But the beauty and harmony of a loving, strong and agreeable character is indestructible. Teach your children early the charm of desirability of deportment. Learn yourself how to stand and walk and sit and make it a play time with your children when you talk to them of the necessity of knowing how to carry the body. After a time it will become as natural to them as breathing. Teach them correct and delicate table manners as soon as they can understand speech and observe actions. The manner of partaking of food is one of the important lines which divides the human being from the beast. Any mother, in however humble position, can instruct her child to eat slowly, to masticate his food and not to talk while in the process: to keep his elbows at his sides and his legs and feet quietly under the table and not to monopolize the conversation. No child understands these things naturally. Like all small, hungry animals, children are conscious only of a desire to satisfy the cravings of appetite. It should be a labor of love to train the little animal into a refined and graceful human being with consideration for the rights and feelings of others. Attitudes, habits and manners formed in early life are difficult to reform in mature years. Many a man in high place, where he is observed by multitudes, is made the target for ridicule or censure through the neglect of his parents to teach him the small courtesies and refinements of life. I have heard a statesman take his soup so audibly that it interfered with the comfort of people in an adjoining room; and again have observed a man of genius mistaking a drawing room for manicure parlors. It is a part of a mother's work in life to see that her boy is never subjected to criticism as a man because she has failed to teach him as a child. Then to make a child hopeful, wholesome and trusting is another beautiful work. The unformed brain cells can be awakened to fear pessimism and fault-finding instead if the mother does not guard her child from listening to the conversation of the majority of adults and if she uses no antidote in the way of personal effort to counteract the effect of such conversation. The child who sits and listens to a recital of sickness, surgical operations and disease will soon develop a terror of any passing pain and will be particularly susceptible to epidemics. Never permit a child to hear such things discussed at length and assure him he is strong, robust and vigorous and that he is capable of avoiding disease if he is temperate in his appetite and exercises and breathes properly, and sleeps with fresh air in his room. Do not make him a pessimist by talking constantly of the faults and short-comings of others. Assure him that every human being has good qualities and urge him to look for them. Look for them yourself, and call his attention to them. Implant charity and sympathy in his nature. He may need these qualities shown him by others some time. Awaken his sense of responsibility toward weaker things. Make him realize the love of a mother bird for her young and the loneliness and suffering of bird or beast babies when deprived of their mothers, and so arouse the humanitarian and humane instinct and not the destructive huntsmanulsion in his young mind. Speak always pityingly to him of the cripples and deformed and grotesque unfortunances of earth, that he need never wound their sensibilities by ridicule or too pronounced observation. Make him manly by appealing to him for assistance and care, and urge him to bestow thoughtful attentions upon older people. Hour by hour, day by day, year by year, such efforts will result in a beautiful work "of art" from your hands—a courteous, refined, well bred, thoughtful kind man. What greater life work could you ask.—Ella Wheeler Wilcox in Spokesman's Review. Beauty Counts for Little. There are women who would not budge from stilted rules of etiquette for bush-els of bonbons and gold shekels, but they would hurt the feelings of a fellow creature without a thought or care. There are men, too, who would do the same, for human failings are not confined to one sex. A lot of us who are sticklers for etiquette forget all about the good manners inspired by a healthy heart and a good, white soul. How we are running our heels flat seeking good looks and beauty, yet we will never reach the goal in a hundred years unless we realize that kindness and lovableness are parts of the interesting game. After all good manners are kindnesses in another form, just as wholesome health and beauty are one and the same. It doesn't matter how beautiful a woman may be, how perfect her figure, how exquisite the curve of her arm, how marble white the loveliness of her throat, or how downy soft the texture of her complexion; if she be tart of word, small of heart or dull of mind such physical beauty amounts to little. Some women have an amusing way of selecting one of their own set as a model. If they hear a clever woman make a little dash of repartee, they try to remember, but remember only uncertain fragments. They become a bit of human carbon paper, and when the opportunity arrives act as telegraph repeaters. The effect is often ridiculous, but oftener pitiful. You and I and the woman just described were all born with mental mechanism inside our head, which was put there for the purpose of thinking, of making ourselves self reliant, for furnishing us with piloting gear to sail our little lifeboat through the mists and storms and the sunny seas. There is no reason why you and I and the other woman should not be capable of making ourselves charming, sweet, lovable and mighty nice to know. We can, too, if we only get the right idea. Oh, it is a great thing—the right idea. Do you know what it is? Why just to profit by every good thing that comes our way and to edge away from that what is belittling, demoralizing and warping to the soul. It is to see only that which is good, so that the bad things are covered up and gradually fade from sight. It is also in learning humility, for in humility there is greatness. It is to plant in our hearts a little seed of tenderness for all the world, refreshing this seed with the waters of sympathy, helping it to grow with the warmth of cheerfulness and keeping it green and flourishing by good deeds, doing what we can for others today, tomorrow and next week.—Philadelphia Inquirer. A Woman's Age. "The familiar adage that a woman is as old as she looks is absurd," says a fashionable woman. "A woman is as old as her friends allow her to be. At seven and thirty we may look ten years younger, and we may feel twenty, while we may say we are anything we like, but we can never escape the relentless memory of that family friend who remembers not only the year, but the month in which we were born. There is always a horrible man, from whom there is no escaping, who remembers pulling out pigtail a quarter of a century ago, when he was in sailor suits, or a spiteful woman, who has a distinct recollection of us at her first ball, and we were 'quite on the shelf then,' she remarks. Should there be any doubt on the subject a year or two is always added, never by any chance taken off. A man marries a woman older than himself—it may be only a year, possibly only a few months; it promptly gets about, and for the rest of her life people will say that she is 'years and years older than he is.' Short of producing her birth certificate, nobody will believe anything to the contrary, and those family friends who are so found of airing dates as to prove how old you are invariably maintain a lament- able silence when it comes to proving how young you are. At the best they own to a faulty memory. 'She is the youngest of a large family, and may be anything.' they reply vaguely. These are the people who remember you as such a pretty child and tell you so with a look of disappointment which plainly denotes how sadly you have failed to fulfill the promise of your youth, and ask you in a loud voice if you remember being brought to see them in the early "70s."—St. Paul Globe. How to Educate a Wife. I am strongly of the opinion that women need to be taught their business. We have heard with persistent reiteration that home is a woman's place. I believe it with all my heart; but the business of the home is the last thing that she is usually taught. What does it involve? First, some sort of knowledge of commercial life, the power of buying and selling, of keeping accurate and orderly accounts, of understanding how to govern and superintend servants; and such superintendence can never be undertaken save by one who understands what her work should be and now it should be done. In these times, when it is difficult in England and America to acquire good servants, this seems to me to be essentially the business of the woman who makes home her first care. Again, there is another very important side to the business of a woman's life, and that is the art of wholesome, appetizing cookery. I suppose we have in mind whenever we think of this subject many instances of homes that have been practically ruined on account of the utter carelessness which women show for this special department of the homekeeper. Men suffer, children suffer, the household suffers, and it is generally mainly due to the fact that when a girl marries she has not the remotest idea how an omelet is made or a cutlet cooked. A few dainties turned out of a chafing dish form probably her entire knowledge of the culinary art, and in consequence of this great omission in women's education, both in England and in America, the custom is obtaining of living in hotel instead of making a home. From every point of view I deprecate the habit. I grieve to see all over this country the immense palace hotels opening everywhere. I think it sets a wrong standard of existence, destroys the ideas of simplicity and refinement, engenders the belief that soft carpets and marble halls, braying bands and French cooking and a hundred other expensive tastes are part of the necessary pleasures of existence. The fabric upon which such a concept is built is ethically wrong. The greatest charm that can exist in any home is the sense of quiet, of refinement, of individuality, of personal touch which can only be found in a well-ordered, well-ruled and well-managed house. So far, the business of woman has yet to be taught her, and I think I know nothing more engaging than the pretty, refined, well-dressed housewife who is not ashamed to own that many of the dainties on her table have been cooked with her own hands, for those are the women who hold the affections of their husbands and their children, not because they can produce that which ministers to their comfort, but rather because such a woman becomes the pivot upon which the whole household turns, to whom all go with their wants, their differences or their problems.—Lady Henry Somerset in Minneapolis Tribune. Women Who Play Golf. "But how do I look when I'm playing?" This is never a man's question. Whether a woman is more vain or more honest is not the point. That is debatable ground. But the quality of her playing is no longer debatable, and therefore her anxiety to look well on a golf course is no desire on her part to patch up bad playing by a picturesque pose. And to wish to look well on the course is the last thing to count as discredit. To look as well as one can is a part of one's payment for one's social keep, in golf as elsewhere. When a woman is dancing, dining, or driving, she frankly wants to look well. Riding, half her pleasure is spoiled if she presents a sorry figure on her mount. Why in the world then, should not a woman hope to look well while she is an observed figure out in the middle of a green course, playing her best golf? Graceful golf among women is made up chiefly of negative virtues. It involves a great religion of "Be careful not to do various things." And one of the first of these is "Be careful not to pose." For the woman who tried, by main strength, to remember to be graceful at every stroke, is likely to defeat this end and the game as well. Graceful golf lies deeper than this. It must be striven for in the early practice, and must become a part of the actual way a woman plays, and not a remembered effort every time. For instance, the woman who stands for a full second with her club upraised, and who executes a little curve of shoulders or head, ending her stroke with ever so tiny a flourish, presents a far less attractive appearance than the player who is honestly awkward. Moreover, so soon as a woman is beset with a desire to be graceful at golf without having worked hard to insure grace, she is certain to try for a certain delicacy of stroke which nearly always results in topping. "Be careful not to hurry," is a second negative instruction which sounds so alluringly simple, but whose disobedience is responsible for many an awkward play. The woman golfer is universally a believer in her own luck, if she can play well at all; so she rushes into her stroke without the one moment's consideration that is so necessary, as if she trusted to some kind spirit to lean out of the air and conduct her ball cup-ward. Sometimes the spirit does; but that hurried, pell-mell stroke is never "pretty." Before a stroke, she who hesitates—deliberately and not THE JAPANESE IN TWO ROLES. Here is a picture of the Japanese in action on the Yalu river. The telegraph stories tell of the wonderful execution their machine guns and artillery have done. The lower picture proves the Japs are giving good care to the Russian wounded within their lines. of industry has not been an economical success; and that, for woman herself, it has had mischievous physiological consequences. A special committee appointed in New York to inquire into the condition of 100,000 families, each of which was dependent on a woman's earnings, reported that these earnings did not exceed, on an average, 60 cents a day. As for the effect of work outside of the home on woman's physical organism, the statistics collected by the Massachusetts bureau of labor indicate that her constitution is so ill adapted to men's work that her choice of occupation should be legally restricted.—Harper's Weekly. Loneliness. What is loneliness? You may find it anywhere, perhaps most forcibly when you are among thousands of other people. There may come a feeling of being apart—of a solitary state—while you walk about and jostle a teeming population. You may be genuinely lonely among people whom you know quite well. And it is not to be supposed that this means any lack of feeling on the part of anyone, for there come times when the thoughts of one cannot place themselves in harmony with those of others. The lowest creature, as well as the highest in all the world, may feel himself out of gear with others, and especially is this true of the average, every-day sort of people, who often experience a sort of aching void of companionship. It happens just occasionally that way. It is only an affected person who always complains that "nobody understands" him. This man or woman may join with the great majority, in so far that some of his actions are misconstrued—who is there that has not had that experience, with all its bitterness? But as a matter of fact, it is comparatively seldom that we are not pretty well understood by our close associates.—Charlotte (N. C.) Observer. She—Time gets the best of us all. He—Oh! I don't know. The leader of the orchestra beats it. Jesse Lewisohn is a collector of pictures. The other day he was conversing with Robert Henri, the painter. "Art galleries and exhibitions." Mr. Lewisohn said, "are interesting places to haunt. I wish I had noted down all the odd comments I have heard in them. "Only last week I stood behind two young women from the country in a Fifth avenue picture shop. One of them called the other's attention to an atrocious animal piece. "Two Dogs: After Landseer," she read from the frame. "I can see the two dogs, but where is Landseer? "The other young woman studied the painting closely. "Where is he?" she said. "I guess this must be one of them puzzle pictures." New York Tribune. In one of the neighboring cities a family was seated at dinner when the doorbell was rung. The servant went to the door. It was noticed that she held long parleying and it was surmised, consequently, that there was some element of uncertainty in the interview. On her return the master of the house inquired: "Well, Bridget, who was it?" "It was a gentleman, sir, looking for the wrong house."—Philadelphia Public Ledger. nervously—is, not lost, but graceful.— Caroline F. Manice in Outing. Nonsense of Love. Your practical man—let me say again that I really do abominate him!—generally has no heart, according to his own showing. He calls romance, one of the most beautiful glories of a rather sad and very puzzling world, "all stuff and nonsense." If, in a burst of confidence, very ill-placed, you venture to tell him that your whole life has been turned from gold to gray by the death of one you loved, he says: "Take my tip. 'Sleep with your window open, jump out at 6 into a cold tub, go for a brisk walk two miles before breakfast, and you'll forget all about it." Poor, silly practical man. He has about as much knowledge of the mysteries of human nature as a wax doll has of the fiscal question. Let him eat his porridge, ply his dumbbell and hold, if he can, his tongue. He talks of one "nice girl" as if she were exactly the same as another nice girl. And, no doubt, to him she is so. He is the type of person who replaces a dead wife within the year, and makes one muse on the starved heart that has ceased to beat, says Robert Hichens in the Queen. But sentiment is not sentimentality, whatever the practical one may bellow with machine-made eloquence. There are people, and often they are the very finest, the most sincere, the most delicate, the most truly human, who, having once given their hearts, can never take them back. They do love once, and once for all. Matthew Arnold—no fool, I fancy!—wrote of the "twin soul!" that halves one's own. I hear the practical man's guffaw. The very word "soul" always sets him off. Nevertheless, roar his ribs out as he may, it is a fact that thousands, millions of people, both men and women, go through life consciously or unconsciously, seeking that twin soul. The seeking is hope. The finding is joy, as perfect as exists in this uncertain world. Few who have really studied human nature, who have watched its infinite variety, smiled over its unending capacity for folly, grown grave over its strange nobilities, grave with pride and awe, who have laughed with the lovers, wept with the mourners, hoped with the patient, worshiped at the feet of the brave—few of these will venture carelessly to prescribe for a bereaved heart. Good man have "gone under" for love's sake, and good women, too. Men have been made as gods by love, and men, by love, have been made criminals. Women have been lifted up to the angels and cast down into nameless abysses. And who are we that, seeing these things, seeing life as it is, should glibly talk about "as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it," and so forth? Life is full of mysteries. The practical man sees them not. How should he? He thinks all permanence contemptible, all faithfulness imbecile. He is that most awful phenomenon of modern times—"a hustler." Well, let him hustle! But he can never mustle human nature into being anything but what it was, is, and ever will be—a great puzzle, a thing of lights and shadows, desires and dreams, fickleness and fidelity, lovelessness and love. Do not all who think and watch say of human nature at one moment: "How petty it is!" And, as the greatest thing in human nature is love, we should surely be wise to treat it with a certain reticence, even a certain reverence, not with sugary sentimentality, but especially not with the rough and tumble idiocy that the fool hath said in his heart is the "practical point of view." Worker a Frightful Failure? There seems to be current some misunderstanding of the remarkable article, "The Truth About Women in Industry," contributed by Mrs. Flora McDonald Thompson to the May number of the North American Review. Nobody knows better than Mrs. Thompson, who herself is a successful journalist, that it would be absurd to describe every woman who undertakes to support herself by mental and physical work as a failure. No such term would be applicable to George Sand, Rosa Bonheur, or George Eliot. Neither would Mrs. Thompson dream of asserting that a woman who has neither a father, a husband, nor a brother to support her should be debarred from attempting to earn a livelihood in any field of industry. She is not writing, however, from a sympathetic or humanitarian view-point. There seems to be conclusive evidence that the entrance of woman into the field His Business. FYETTE Heard in a Picture Shop. He Found It. --- IT IS SO STATED. He sought to kiss A girl from Wis. She murmured, "Oh, You must not—No!" He sighed, "Marie, Don't you love Me?! And then said, "Pshaw! Don't call your Pa." Coaxed thus, the Miss. Gave him the kiss, Till he took Tenn. —Judge And yet again, AN INDIANA "ELM PEELER" He Gathers Slippery Bark Which Furnishes Basis for Patent Medicines. Call an Indiana man an "elm peeler" and you wreck his pride. Usually it draws from him a venomous retort. The term "elm peeler," according to the old masters of the Hoosier language, constitutes a slur. At Peru, however, it stands for money, and lots of it. If you don't believe it, ask A. L. Hiller, the "elm peeler" of Peru. He knows. The "elm peeler" is the benefactor of mankind. He is the Hoosier medicine man, and is not of be spoken of disparag- Twelve years ago Hiller began peeling elm trees in the forests surrounding Peru. His sale of the medicine freighted "peel" was light at first, but gradually chemists began to realize that the elm peel was curative, and Hiller's business increased with the years. How he can not get it fast enough. Most of Hiller's product of the forest goes to a Chicago medicine manufacturing company, and he gets 9½ cents a pound for it. Recently, with five assistants, Mr. Hiller gathered 7200 pounds of elm peel, receiving $684 for the shipment. It required fifteen days to gather the lot. The season for peeling elm trees is from April 10 to June 1. Hiller and his "elm peelers" go to the woods and camp during the peeling season. Frequently they work from fifteen to eighteen hours a day—in other words, they "make peel while the sun shines." The trees must be ten inches or more in diameter before they are felled and peeled. The elms are sawed near the bottoms and then rolled to a spot convenient for peeling. The rough outside covering is removed, and then a large knife is used to dissect the "slippery" part of the elm. There the peeler has the "slippery elm" so dear to the heart of every boy. The boy who doesn't know when the "slippery elm" season is on is a juvenile dyspeptic. After the trees have been peeled the logs are abandoned and are later cut into stove wood. Elm Peeler Hiller insists that, unless the planting of elms is made an extensive industry by the farmers, in a few years the elm will be extinct, and it is necessary to have them for the medicine they contain.—Chicago Tribune. Race for Women at Berlin A large crowd of spectators was attracted to Treptow racecourse, near Berlin, yesterday, to witness the footraces open to women from all parts of Germany. There were three races, of 110, 220 and 330 yards respectively. Two of the competitors boldly donned jerseys and knickerbockers, but the remainder ran in skirts. Several appeared on the track in high-heeled boots. A considerable number dropped from exhaustion within fifty yards of the starting point. One sprained her ankle, another fell and broke her arm and a third fainted from excitement before the signal was given to go. Most of the fair competitors appeared to be absolutely untrained. The winners were crowned with wreaths and cheered, while a band played "See, the Conquering Hero Comes."—London Daily Express. Music Hath Charms. A cousin of mine was engaging a new cook. Having tried a series of "experienced" ones in vain, she at last engaged a fresh-cheeked lass from the country, with visions of tasteful home cooking. The new maid glanced about the tiny parlor of the flat as she received her orders and remarked: "You haven't got a piano." "No," replied my cousin politely, "the rooms in a flat are so small that a piano would crowd us." "Oh," cried the cook with frank disappointment, "how I will get behind with my music!"—Helen Sherman Griffith, in Lippincott's. THE WISCONSIN WEEKLY ADVOCATE R. B. Montgomery, Editor and Publisher. P. A. Sample, Associate Editor and Business Manager. Published Every Thursday at No. 79 Fifth Street. A Representative Journal Devoted to the Interest of All the People. ADVERTISING RATES. 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He saved my life at Santiago, and I have had occasion to say so in many articles and speeches. The Rough Riders were in a bad position when the Ninth and Tenth cavalry came rushing up the hill carrying everything before them. The Negro soldier has the faculty of coming to the front when he is needed most. In the Civil war he came 400,000 strong, and I believe he saved the Union."—President Roosevelt. TO OUR READERS. Recently we have been frequently asked the question as to where the Wisconsin Weekly Advocate stands in the present situation as regards the political situation. To each and all our answer is "We stand pat" Verbum Sap. WHITE AND BLACK OUT OF SYMPATHY. Younger Generation of Both Races Further Apart Than Their Fathers, Bishop Says. Tuskegee, Ala., June 7.—The most important feature of the commenment exercises at Booker T. Washington's institute was the address of Bishop Galloway of the M. E. church. He said: "Speaking here and elsewhere as the friend of the Negro, I will not conceal from you the fact that in my judgment this is the most critical period in the history of your people. The older persons of both races, with their peculiar and pathetic attachments are fast passing away. Between the younger generations there are no such ties of sympathy, but rather, I fear, a growing estrangement. "And then there are others who have pronounced education a discredited experiment—a demonstrated failure in the elevation of the race. That instead of being a potential agent in the redemption of a people, it has wrought them injury and threatens their ruin. A few have gone so far as to declare that education has increased immorality and crime. Now, all this I have publicly and emphatically challenged, and I call upon you, young people of this institution, by the purity of your living, and the fidelity of your service, to make good that challenge. Demonstrate the fact that the agency which has been all powerful in the history of every other people shall not meet its first defeat at your hands. Answer these criticisms—many of them honest and sincere—not by harsh and defiant speech, but by the overwhelming argument of unassailable character and unquestioned integrity, and unchallenged achievement. "Let me counsel you to cultivate the spirit of patience and Christian charity. Be strong enough to abide the vindication of right living through all the testing years, and be Christian enough to meet complaint without malice or revenge. Above all things whatever the provocation, emulate the man of Galilee, and never harbor hate in your hearts. And remember that your characters are your own priceless possessions which can never be taken away." With every word of which the Wisconsin Weekly Advocate is heartily in accord. Last week we said a few words under the heading "Encouragement" and now we can only repeat this: viz., that the present time is the most critical period in the short history of the civilized period of the Negro race, and it therefore behooves its member and its well wishers to walk very warily and to show the metal of which they are made. In another column we publish the experience of our city editor while down south and reading this no unprejudiced person can declare that the Negro is not progressing. The tendency of youths of the present age, the whites as well as the blacks, is to aspire to professional life. All are not fitted for such and all cannot succeed. But the meanest toil can be ennobled by being performed to perfection. It is more praiseworthy to be an excellent mechanic than an indifferent doctor, lawyer or minister. It is ludicrous to observe how many of our member have a "call to preach the gospel, while they are by their want of education entirely unfit to do so. Good work can be done for the Master just as well at the workman's bench as from the pulpit, and better, if the occupier of that pulpit is not head and shoulders intellectually above his hearers. The re- cent A. M. E. conference in Chicago took a step in the right direction when they declared in favor of an educated ministry. A SOUTHERN TRIP. We have pleasure in presenting to our readers the portrait of Mr. P. A. Sample, business manager and city editor of this paper. Mr. Sample is a Kentuckian and a very good specimen of the natives of that famous state. He is at present engaged as amanuensis to the aged Mr. Cramer of the Evening Wisconsin. He has, as we have already reported, recently returned from a combined pleasure and business trip in the south and gives an interesting account of it. After leaving Milwaukee Mr. Sample stopped over at Chicago to take in the General Conference of the A. M. E. church, where he met many of his old friends and schoolmates. He then proceeded to St. Louis, where he visited the conference of the A. M. E. Zion church, then in session. He also visited the general board of the C. M. E. church, which was also in session at their beautiful church on Fairfax avenue. Among the prominent men were Bishops Holsey, Lane, Cottrell, Williams and Phillips. He had also the pleasure of meeting the Rev. J. W. Luckett, a life-long friend, and one of Kentucky's most noted preachers. After, of course, taking in the fair, where he did not find any race discrimination, he proceeded to his old home in Paducah, Ky., where he was much impressed by the rapid strides made by his people since he left two years ago. He found there two additional doctors, two lawyers, a pharmacist and a photographer, all doing a good business, while the old settlers such as Moore, Husband and Watkins were still at their old stands and doing an increasing business. He thinks Paducah a good field for a Colored newspaper and had many inviting offers to attempt the same. The Lincoln high school was nearing the close of its term under the leadership of Prof. E. W. Benton, to whom Mr. Sample says he is indebted for much that he knows. While in Paducah a 1200-pipe organ was placed in Washington Street Baptist church, of which the members are very proud. Leaving Paducah Mr. Sample proceeded to Princeton, Kv., where he was the guest of Dr. S. H. Warfield and was entertained as only the doctor can. Dr. Warfield is just starting out in life with every prospect of much success. Mr. Sample next visited Hopkinsville, meeting there many prominent colored people, among them being Peter Pastelle, Jr., who is now managing the business of his late father, who since the emancipation amassed a con- [Picture of a man in a suit and tie]. MR. P. A. SAMPLE. siderable fortune. Hopkinsville has now a colored daily paper, with seemingly a brilliant future before it. He found the people of that city as well situated financially and as progressive as any in the south. The commencement of the M. E. F. college took place while he was there. Prof. Councils, an educator of wide reputation, addressed the graduates. While in Hopkinsville Mr. Sample was entertained by Miss Madie Morgan, one of the most accomplished school teachers of that city. After quitting Hopkinsville Mr. Sample visited with his father, Rev. P. A. Sample, the pastor of the Methodist church at Allensville. Here he experienced much of that hospitality for which Kentucky is famous. He discovered that the majority of the colored people there are worth from $1000 to $20,000 and nearly all own their own homes, have a good education, and are thrifty and industrious. He was royally entertained by Miss Tandy. While in Paducah Mr. Sample and Mr. Alvin Logan, pharmaeist of Macon, Ga., were delightfully entertained by Mr. and Mrs. Mansfield of South Seventh street. Mrs. Mansfield intends spending part of the summer in Milwaukee as the guest of her daughter, Mrs. W. P. Ross. Altogether, Mr. Sample's trip was very encouraging, both as regards the interests of this paper and the evidence shown that the Negroes in all the places visited are progressing along the right lines. There is "old maid" insurance in Denmark. Women who think they may become old maids pay so much a year, and at 40 receive pensions for life. If they marry before 40 what they have paid in premiums goes to swell the amount available for the benefit of their less fortunate sisters. The American Steam Laundry Our wagons speed all over town, All hours of every day, Depositing and picking up Big bundles on the way. We've got the best machinery, And expert help galore; We make your linen glisten and gleam Like sea-foam on the shore! We do not slight an article, However coarse or fine; Oh, everything's immaculate On The American Laundry Line. And so we bid for patronage, At least a wholesome share Of collars, cuffs and shirts and gowns, And rumpled underwear. We set the pace and from our point Our banner shall not fall. We fling it to the breeze and reach Going higher than them all. Laundry left before 8 a. m. can be called for at 6:30 p. m. same day, Saturdays excepted. WANTED-NURSE GIRL FOR FAMILY of two. Children attend kindergarten during the forenoon. Apply office of Advocate, 79 Fifth street. CAPT. NORCROSS ELECTED Janesville Man Becomes Department Commander of G. A. R. Madison, Wis., June 16.—[Special.]— Capt. Pliny Norcross of Janesville was elected department commander this morning by 280 votes to 143 for Duncan McGregor of Platteville. The La Follette element defeated McGregor by making it appear that he was their candidate. Other elections were as follows: Senior vice department commander, Henry S. Miller of Madison; junior vice, Byron S. Williams of Wautoma; medical director, Dr. Hugo Phillor of Waukesha, re-elected; chaplain, L. G. Carr of Fond du Lac; trus- M. H. tees of Veteran's home, F. A. Wilde of Milwaukee, C. H. Henry of Eau Claire. Delegates to national encampment—At large, Wade H. Richardson of Milwaukee, J. H. Tate of Viroqua; alternates, J. C. Martin of Mineral point, J. W. Ganes of Fox Lake; first district, R. B. Lang, Racine; second, Frank Luckes, Princeton; third, J. S. Worthman, Baraboo; fourth, E. R. Winter, Milwaukee; fifth, M. L. Snuder, Waukesha; sixth, George Spratt, Sheboygan Falls; seventh, R. E. Osborne, La Crosse; eighth, A. J. Smith, Amherst; ninth, H. E. Mann, Marinette; tenth, H. R. Allen, Merrill; eleventh, D. J. Dill, Prescott. Alternates—First district, W. H. Grinneu of Beloit; second, H. G. Kleinfelter of Jefferson; third, A. S. Brooks of Reedsburg; fourth, Louis Sholes of Milwaukee; fifth, Hugo Philler of Waukesha; sixth, L. D. Hinkley, Waupun; seventh, L. A. Brace of Eau Claire; eighth, W. R. Brown, Waupaca; ninth, J. A. Donlevey of Oconto; tenth, F. M. White of Colby; eleventh, W. H. Howlson of Chippewa Falls. Council of adminitsration—M. Herrick, Hudson; D. J. Ryan, Appleton; F. A. Copeland, La Crosse; Louis Sholes, Milwaukee; B. S. Miller, Wausau. Adjt.-Gen. C. A. Partridge, Chicago, visited the encampment as representative of Commander-in-Chief John C. Black and made an address. A past commander's badge was presented to the retiring commander. J. P. Rundle, by Chief of Staff Hazlewood. In behalf of his staff, Commander Rundle presented Adjt.-Gen. Richardson a handsome badge in recognition of valuable services. The officers-elect were installed this afternoon, closing the encampment. Sons of Veterans elected the following Commander, John Hazlewood, Jefferson; junior vice commander, L. F. Small, Madison; division council, Fred B. Fox, Plover; A. B. Swisher, Bloomer; J. H. Coon, Endeaver. Memorial Services. The encampment devoted an hour of yesterday afternoon's session to a memorial service in honor of the 302 members who had died during the year. During this service the doors were thrown open and the relief corps came in, in a body, to participate. E. E. Clough of Chippewa Falls, senior vice department commander, delivered a memorial address. The relief corps contingent returned to their convention and spent the remainder of the afternoon in memorial services. Miss Belle Bliss of Baraboo, past department president, was the orator of the occasion. Home in Excellent Condition The rest of the afternoon in the incampment was taken up with the reports of the Wisconsin Veterans' home at Waupaca and the resulting discussions. The reports all showed that the institution is in excellent condition. Relief Corps Reports The Relief Corps reports show that new corps were instituted during the year at Monticello, Genoa Junction, Burlington, Plover, Crandon, Iola and Beaver Dam. The president recommended that the visiting committee to the Veterans' home be abolished as an unnecessary expense, since the conduct of the home is so carefully looked after by the Grand Army. The sending of jellies, jams and fruits to the home was also criticised and it was recommended that it be stopped, as with the best the corps can do in that respect, all the inmates cannot be supplied, and to discriminate only arouses jealousy. A per capita tax of 1 cent was recommended to raise a fund for the purchase of magazines, books and papers for the home. During the year the Relief Corps has bought a new piano for the institution. The financial reports show that the Woman's Relief corps has expended over $8000 in relief for 2046 individuals in the families of veterans. Report of Veterans' Home. The annual reports of the Wisconsin Veterans' home shows that there are 733 members in the institution and that there have been forty-one deaths during the year, involving an expense of about $1200 for burials. La Crosse for Next Reunion. The last act of the encampment yesterday afternoon was to choose La Crosse as the place of the next meeting by a unanimous vote, the invitation from the Citizens' Business league of Milwaukee not even being presented. Campfire Held A campfire was held last evening in the gymnasium which was largely attended. Speeches were made by a number of leading Grand Army men and E. O. Kimberly of Jamesville sang patriotic songs. Norcross Makes Appointment. Commander Noreross appointed E. O. Kimberly of Janesville assistant adjutant general. Celestia L. Edwards of Oconomowoc was elected counsellor by the relief corps. PRISON FOR LEIMER. Ex-Cashier of Princeton and Montello Banks Gets One Year at Waupun. Green Lake, Wis., June 6.—[Special.] —The case of the state of Wisconsin versus J. E. Leimer, charged with forgery, came up in the circuit court here at 3 o'clock p. m. yesterday. The district attorney entered a nolle as to the charge of forgery and Leimer was arraigned M. J. E. LEIMER upon the charge of making false reports to the commissioner of banking. Leimer pleaded guilty to the charge and was sentenced to imprisonment for one year in the state prison. Represented by Milwaukeean. The state was represented by E. J. Cockrell, district attorney, and Frank E. Clark of Princeton, and the defendant by Charles Barber of Oshkosh and A. H. Blatchley of Milwaukee. During the proceedings Leimer sat with bowed head and when sentence was pronounced, he broke down completely, and was led from the courtroom weeping. Arrested Last October. Leimer was arrested on October 19, 1903, on the charge of forgery. He was, at the time, cashier of the Princeton bank and vice president of the bank at Montello. Shortage About $70,000. His shortages were estimated at nearly $70,000. The stockholders made good the losses. He is about 35 years of age and was born in Appleton. His downfall was caused by speculation. LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY COMMENCEMENT WEEK. Programme Is Laid Out for Exercises at the Appleton College—Dr. Bronson to Preach. Appleton, Wis., June 16.—[Special.]—The commencement exercises at Lawrence university will begin tonight with the first annual recital by the school of expression. From then until next Thursday exercises will be held daily. Dr. S. Bronson of the Garrat Biblical institute of Evanston, Ill., will preach the annual sermon before the religious societies next Sunday morning and Bishop Samuel Fallow of Chicago will deliver the commencement day oration. The programme for the week is as follows: June 17, junior exhibition; June 18, graduating exercises of the academy; June 19, commencement love feast; sermon before the religious societies; baccalaureate sermon; June 20, prize rhetorical exhibition; June 21, class day exercises; exercises of the school of music; June 22, society reunions; alumni business meeting and reception; June 23, commencement exercises; president's reception. THINKS HUSBAND LIVES. Mrs. George Geist Believes That Report of Prairie du Chien Surgeon's Death a Hoax. Prairie du Chien, Wis., June 16.—[Special.]—Mrs. George Geist, whose husband, the chief surgeon of the sanitarium here, died of hemorrhage at McGregor, Ia., yesterday, was visiting at Ypsilanti, Mich., when the news was brought to her. She refuses to believe that her husband is dead, thinking her husband is only playing a practical joke on her. When Mrs. Geist left her husband he told her jokingly that if she did not return in three weeks he "would make life miserable for her." Mrs. Geist thought nothing more of the matter until Monday, when she received several telegrams telling of her husband's serious illness, and these she looked upon as a continuation of the joke, as the three weeks allowed her by her husband were up that day. Yesterday afternoon she received a telegram announcing his death, but put it down as a continuation of the joke. She left for Albion, where her mother resides; for a continuation of her visit. William H. Geist left for Iowa to bring the body of his brother to Detroit. Dr. Geist was 30 years old and a graduate of the University of Michigan. PORTAGE ENJOYS FIREMEN'S VISIT. Portage, Wis., June 16.—[Special.]—Portage is in gala attire today. On every store and business block are banners, bunting, flags, festoons and garlands of evergreens. Three arches handsomely decorated span Cook street in the heart of the city. The South Milwaukee and Cudahy delegations also came yesterday afternoon. In the big parade of uniformed firemen this forenoon one of the interesting features was several members of the old Oregon company No. 1, the first fire company Portage ever had. At a business meeting last evening, Jay W. Page of Elkhorn was elected president; W. T. Burdick, Reedsburg, first vice president; H. H. Niemeyer, Portage second vice president; F. H. Henry, Jefferson, recording secretary; Charles J. Beecher, Rio, corresponding secretary Fred W. Brown, Oconomowoc, treasurer The 1905 tournament will be held at Rio IRON FOUND IN CELLAR. Sheboygan, Wis., June 16.—[Special.] Iron ore has been discovered in the cellar of the dancing hall belonging to Mayor Charles A. Born. The ore was analyzed at the chemistry department of the high school and was found to contain large quantities of iron. John Hartmann, aged 20 years, was kicked in the face by a horse yesterday and was badly injured. He will recover. Jacob Reiss of New York reached Sheboygan yesterday afternoon in his big 2800-pound touring car. He had five punctures on the trip. "FOR A CLEAN SMELL." CREOLIAN DISINF TH DISIN Kills bad odors, germs and a well. No damage to furnishings. "Cheaper than dirt," because o to be sick. The price is low, too—about or REOLIAN SOLUBL CREOLIAN SOLUBLE A DISINFECTANT THAT DISINFECTS odors, germs and all kinds of vermin. Does image to furnishings. No offensive odor. than dirt," because dirt means disease, and it is low, too—about one cent a gallon. Kills bad odors, germs and all kinds of vermin. Does it easily and well. No damage to furnishings. No offensive odor. "Cheaper than dirt," because dirt means disease, and it costs money to be sick. The price is low, too--about one cent a gallon. 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Sta- kelberg was foreed back before greatly superior numbers and retreated to Vant- sialin, thirty miles north of Vanfangow. ‘The otticials here deny that there was anything in the uature of a rout. _ The enemy uad over four divisions in action. St. Petersburg, June 16.—6:10 p. m.— It is rumored Unroughout the city that Gen. Stakelberg has sustained a disas- irous defeat at Vafangow aud that his retreat is being cut off, Loudon, June 16,—A dispatch to the Central News from Tokio says that the Japanese, after fierce fighting yesterday, captured Telissum, between txaichou and Sculantien. ‘Lhe Russians lost six guns aud many regimental colors. Tokio, June 16.—In a fight which is reported to have taken place at Telissu, ou the railroad, xbout eighty miles north ot Port Arthur, the Hussians lost 500 men killed, JOU taken prisoners and four- teen guns. ‘Lhe casualties on the Japa- nese side are estimated at 1000 men killed and wouuded, News has been received, but has not yet been officially published, of a great Japanese victory near Fuchou, on the railway, seventy miles north of Port Ar- thur, The Russians were overwhelmed, Jost 1000 men, lost all their guns on the field und retreated in disorder. St. Petersburg, June 16:—7:20 p. m.— A special dispatch from Liao Yang to ‘Phe Official Messenger says the battle of Vafangow raged the whole of yesterday und the Japanese receiving considerable reinforcemeuts, crushed the Russian left flank and compelled the Russians to re- tire northward. No estimate of the losses is given and no mention is made of the loss of Russian guns, Tokio, June 16,—7:30 p. m.—A detach- ment of the army under Gen. Kuroki cap- tured the town of Sin. Yen on Sunday after routing and defeating a force of 300 Russians and 300 mounted Chinese ban- dits. The enemy retired toward the Tao river, leaving behind them 3 dead and 2 wounded men belonging to the Fit- teenth East Siberian regiment. The total of their losses is not known. The Japa- nese sustained no casualties. This is the first actual report of Chinese bandits fighting with Russian troops and it may mean that the Russians have enlisted large numbers of these irregulars. New Chwang, June 16.—8 a, m.—Fir- ing has been heard distinctly in the di- rection of Kaichou since 10 o'clock last night. 'wo batteries of artillery rushed Cost of War io Japs Has Been Wonderfully Small. London, Jane’ 16.—The correspondent of The Stindard xt Tokio says. that, according to trustworthy calculation, the cost of the war to Japan has been wonderfully small and ihat no further loan will be needed until April, 1905. through town at midnight. The second division of Gen, Kuroki's army was re- ported to be marching towards Kaichou yesterday afternoon for the purpose of taking the enemy in the rear. It is posi- tively known that Russian forces in the vicinity of Kaichou are divided. | Half are at Kaichou and the remainder at ubout twenty miles east of there. The entire force numbers 35,000 men, includ- ing 600 Cossacks. There are rumors here of fighting at Port Arthur with the Japanese almost in the city. St. Petersburg, June 16.—1:32 p. m.— The result of the battle at Vafangow (north of Port Arthur), which has now been in progress for three days, is await- ed here with breathless interest. Ex- citement prevails in all eireles. ‘The losses on the Russian side, more than 300 on Tuesday, shows that the fighting has been of a desperate character and Gen. Kuropatkin’s report this morning proves that both armies are determined to foree matters to a decisive issue. Kuropatkin’s dispatch given out this morning brought the report up to 2:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon, bat stopped at the most critical point of the battle, when Stakelberg was meeting an attempt to turn his right wing by a similar move- ment arounml Nozu’s left flank. Stakel- berg’s reserves had already been brought up and the Japanese had been heavily re- inforced, This dispatch reached the Em- peror yesterday afternoon, but through a blunder in transmission the war commis- sion cid not receive it until this morning. There was no intention to withhold its contents from the public. Nothing fur- ther has reached the war office up to this hour, Exactly what portion of Stakelberg’s Cossacks was engaged at Vafangow is not ascertainable. It consists of the First, Second and Sixth East Siberian rifles, divisions. The Sudi_meuated bri- gade and the First East Siberian sapper battalion. Gen. Gerngross, who was wounded, commands the First Siberian division of four regiments and a machine gun, battalion, Gen. Samsonoff commands the Usuri mounted brigade. Beginning of the Battle. The operations leading up to the bat- tle of Vafangow date back to June 11, when two Japanese divisions, one com- manded by Gen. Nozu, advanced from the Buiantien-Pitsewo' line, probably prompted by intelligence that the Rus- sians were receiving reinforcements. A sharp skirmish took place the night of June 12 at the village of Oudiaden, five miles west of the railroad and seven miles south of Wa Fang Tien, and an- other skirmish occurred on the heights near the village of Lidiatun, ten miles east of Oudiaden. The Japanese were repuised, but the Russian advance posts retired. On June 18 two Japanese divisions were five miles north of the scene of the skirmish, their left wing resting on the village of Vafaugow and their right on EXPRESS CLERK NOT GUILTY. Bloomington, Ill, June 16.—After a long trial, which attracted much atten- tion, Cyrus Freed, clerk with an express company, was tonight declared not guilty of the theft of a package containing $1000, consigned to Elliott, Il. oe GEN. LEE IS COMMANDER. Nashville, Tenn., June 16.—The United Confederate veterans elected Lieut. Gen. Stephen D. Lee of Columbus, Miss., as commander-in-chief, the valley of the Tassa, which flows parallel with the railroad, falling into the sea ten miles south of Pitsewo. Af- ter a days’ rest the enemy advanced fifteen miles June 14, and attacked the left of the Russian position, four miles south of Vafangow. Russians Win First Day. The Russians had the best of the first day’s fight, anniliating a Japanese cav- alry squadron and taking some prison- ers, although at nightfall both armies retained their positions. Yesterday’s battle extended over a rough country where artillery was very effective. The Russian lines extend«d between the village of Lan Chou, near the railroad and Fa Fan. The Japanese were between Tafan Chou and Hun Chou, Stakelberg’s re- serves were held at Si San, a short dis- tance from Vafangow station. The Jap- anese reserves were south of Tafan Chou. Japs Begin the Attack. Gen. Nozu’s artillery began the dey by shelling the Russian right, while his sharpshooters were busy with the other wing. Stakelberg was not certain from whence the main attack would be deliy- ered and sent out cavalry to the heights of Lan Chou to reconnoiter. Having as: certained that the enemy was not moving in that quarter, he attacked the Japanese center and left in order to drive the en- emmy against the railroad. The Japanese countered by moving up reserves in an ef fort to turn the Russian fight. Half a» hour later Stakelberg ordered his reserve: to move from Si San to repel the Japa: nese flanking tacties, in the meanwhile continuing his attack on the enemy’s lef and center. ‘This was the situation wher sin tnak acletane Seles wacditeel JAP SHIPS ARE SUNK. Heavy Loss of Life Crippies Muikacos Army. St. Petersburg, June 16.—The Vladi- vostok squadron has returned safely to Vladivostok. Tokio, June 16.—8 p. m.—It is report- ed that the transports Hitachi and A Sado carried only 1400 men. | If this is true, the loss in lives probably is less than 1000. The transports, however, had many horses and large quantities of supplies on board, 'The survivors report that the Sado and Llitachi were sunk by torpedoes, | Tokio, June 16,—6 p. m.—All doubt as to the sinking of the transports Hitachi and Sado by the Russians has been re- moved. Three hundred and ninety-seven ‘survivors of the Hitachi arrived at Moji pang 153 survivors of the Sado have ar- rived at Kokura. Details of the destruction of the two transports and the full extent of the casualties are not obtainable. The transport Hino, which has re- turned to Moji, reports that she en- countered the Russian Vladivostok squadron at 11:20 a. m. yesterday, twen- ‘tty miles west of the island of Shiro of the Oki group. ‘The transports Hitachi, 6172 tons, and the Sado, 6219 tons, were seen two miles to the westward, The weather was foggy and the sea was calm. When the Hino sighted the Russion fleet she turned, ran and signaled a warning to the Kanazawa and they both took refuge inside the island Chiyt. Both signaled danger to the Ibu, which also escaped. The Hino saw the Hitachi and Sado surrounded by Russian vessels. The loss of life will probably be heavy. Tkio, June 16.—7 p._m.—Details ob- tainable from the survivors of the ill- fated Japanese transports show that the Hitachi and the Sado met three Russian }waiships near Iki island at 10 o'clock Wednesday morning. The Russians fined on the Japanese ships and stopped them and soon afterward they torpedoed and sank the helpless transports. The captain ot the Sado and_ several other men were captured. Over 100 men escaped in the boats and landed at Ko- kura. A message has been received here from Hagi, saying that the survivors of the Hitachi had drifted north to Shimonoseki and been saved. | ihe tranaport tuuel twat steal: KUROPATKIN INTERRUPTED. At Critical Moment important Message to Czar Stops. St. Petersburg, June 16.—Emperor Nicholas has received the following dis patch dated June 15, from Gen, Kuro- patkin: “An engagement occurred June 14 at Wafangtien (north of Port Arthur) with a Japanese force numbering at least two divisions. Our losses in killed include Col. Khoastonnow, commanding the first regiment of eastern Siberian rifles of your majesty, and Second Lieut, Dragos- laff Nadochinsky, adjutant of the regi- ment. The wounded include Maj.-Gen. Gerngross, who remained in the field, and Capt. Grintsky of the general staff. ‘Twenty officers, whose names at present are unknown, were also killed or wound- ed, besides $11 soldiers, of which the first regiment of Siberian rifles lost 12 officers and 200 men and the first brigade of artillery 6 officers and 50 men. Attack in the Night. “The following night was quiet until 2 in the morning, when a fusillade began on our right flank, along the line of our out- posts. The firings soon slackened. At 5:30 in the morning the Japanese artillery opened on our left flank. Shortly before this our cavalry discovered on our right flank the presence southward of Tafan Chou of a considerable force of the ene- my. The Japanese infantry opened fire on our cayalry occupying the heights be tween Tafan Chou and Tin Chou, on the edge of a wood. Towards 6:30 the enemy, consisting of a regiment of. in- fantry, with artillery, attacked from those woods. At the same time the cannonade on our left flank became heavier. Turn Enemy’s Flank. At 6:30 Gen. Baron Stakelberg passed with part of his force to the attack, turn- ing the right flank of the enemy, towards Wafangtien and Hun Chou and directing the other part of his foree against the enemy's front. Towards 10 in the morn- ing the enemy sent a brigade of infan- try, cavalry and a battery of artillery against our right flank and, having re- pulsed our detachments of cavalry, pro- ceeded through Hun Chou, turning the right flank of our position. Jap Reinforcements Arrive. “Gen. Stakelberg, at 10:30 in the even- ing, advanced his reserves to check this movement. According to information re- ceived the enemy, during the morning of June 15, brought up considerable rein- forcements and as the main Japanese force consists of upwards of three divi- sions— The dispatch break off at this point. PREFERS HANGING TO CHAIR. Columbus, O., June 16.—Lewis Har- mon, not knowing his sentence of elec- trocution had been suspended, made a third attempt to commit suicide by hang- ing himself. os Grant More cf Bandit’s Requests. Tangier, June 16.——Two of Raisuli’s followers, who were imprisoned at La- rache, have arrived here. This is_con- sidered another proof that the govern- ment is gradually complying with all conditions propesed by the bandit. | SHORT TEMPERANCE SERMONS:: 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. During the past few years, we have become so accustomed to hearing of the alcoholic troubles of France that the country of Alphonse and Gaston is no Jonger referred to by wineomaniacs as the ideal home of “true temperance conditions.” ‘These patriots now refer to Spain as the wine heaven where all is bliss and nobody drinks too much. _ Senor Don Carlos Garcia Arujo, of Madrid, in his various Spanish topics for the Standard Encyclopedia of Tem- -perance gives much interesting !nfor- mation on that subject. It appears ‘that the consumption of alcoholic drink in Madrid has increased from 45.49 ‘liters per capita in 1850 to 82.72 liters ‘per capita In 1903. That means that the per capita concumption has near- ly doubled in fifty years. | And along with this increase in the use of alcoholic drinks, drunkenness. crime and disorder have so increased as to attract the attention of Spanish | reformers and patriots. | Thus a “temperance reformation” has become necessary and has been Anaugurated in the very home of model wine drinking conditions The walls of Madrid have been placarded with posters warning people against the dangers of the.use of wine. The subject has also become a topic of common conversation. Only a few | months ago “La Lectura,” the stand- /ard magazine of Spain, had a sympos- fum of leading Spanish medical men on the question: “Is the moderate use of wine at meals beneficial or the con- ‘trary?’ Of the 76 physicians respond- ing, 35 declared that such use of wine was injurious, 88 declared that it was beneficial and 9 were non-committal. _ Dy. Garcia del Moral, of Satander, the Spanish sociologist who made ex- _haustive investigations of the relation between the tabernas (wine shops) aod crime, compiles most valuable statis- tics showing that the ratio of crime ‘to population rises and falls with the paar of wine shops. | Similar results were obtained by the investigations of the distinguished Jur- Ist Senor Jimeno Azcarate into condi- tins in Asturias. He shows that dur- ing the years 1898-97, there was a heavy increase in the use of wine and, | during the same period criminality in- creased 58 per cent. | As the result of his investigations, he concindes that in Spain intemper- “ance causes 40 per cent of the homi- cides, 62 per cent of the assassina- tions, 74 per cent of the serious _wounda, 62 per cent of the Nght _ wounds, 70 per cent of resistances of ‘arrest, 64 per cent of family quarrels, | 60 per cent of the thefts and 76 per porate of offences against morality. | In 1901 the Spanish Society of Hy- _giene offered a prize for the best es- say on the effects of alcohol and the best methods of fighting the evil. 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The govern- ment is fostering temperance reading in all the public schools. and it is not ancommoz now to see pecple in restau- ‘ants drinking non-intoxicating bever- iges solely, J. MUNKO | Manufacturer of RAZO R ST RA PS | Practical Shoemaker ee ia » MILWAUKEE CHILDREN STILL. We seek no more a daily prize, Nor triumph in our dreams, Ev changed the Iuster of the skies, So faint and few the gleams. Yet comes anew, when others play, That unforgotten thrill. And are we dull and old to-day, Or only children still? We loved the battle once, but now We are not overbold, ‘There's wisdom on the weary brow, And in our hearts the cold. Yet in the light of eager eyes We lose the wintry chill, And then we are not overwise, Lul simp! children still. The visions of our glorions youth Have faded loug ago; We hope uo more to find the truth, And should we care to know? Not ours to scale the viewless height, But there’s a purple hill, And still we gladden at the sight And climb as children still. Ilew much of al} the good we planned Is perfect or begun? Who watched the lifting of God's hand, And waits for his “well done’? fut when the children whom we love The good we missed fulfill, hank God our hearts prevail to prove The hearts of children sii!!. —Lendon Saturday Review. Her Inconsistency. ~AAAAAA ae a ee ere a. ee. a ey Mer music by the orchestra in the ballroom on the further side of the house, softened by distance. Moon. light, broken up by intervening trees into bars and splotches of golden ra- diance, lay ail about them as they walked up and down the veranda. “The right kind of a woman always appreciates a proposal of marriage from any man as a great compliment. Coming from you it is the much more to be valued, but I cannot marry you,” said the woman. “Tt have to thank you for having lis- tened to me so patiently. Might I tres- pass a little more upon your good na- ture and ask permission to discuss the matter further with you?” “No amount of discussion can profit either of us, so far as I can see. But, as I have said, in asking me to marry you a great compliment was paid me, and, In return for that compliment, I suppose I owe you permission to in- dulge your love for discussion or argu- ment.” “Thanks for the permission,” said the man, still in his stolid manner. “I cannot recognize my proposal as, in any sense, a compliment, but I am willing that you should, if you wish, take the manner in which I mede it as a compliment. Recognizing the splendid development of your own logical faculties, [ have made my offer ef marriage in perfectly business-like form. I have heard you often declare that a contract of marriage is like any other contract, and should be en- tered into only when both parties are fully aware of what they are doing.” “Do you think women are ever en- tirely consistent?” interrupted the wo- man. The man looked a trifle surprised and replied: “At least I give you credit for hay- tag a splendidly consistent mind. You do not mean that I have erred in my mauner of proposing, that you would jave preferred more of an air of ro- mance, and all that sort of thing?’ “Now the situation is something like this,” continued the man in very much the same tone of volce that he would have used in arguing an im- portant case before the Supreme Gourt. “You are twenty-nine—or is it thirty?—years old, have a reputa- tion as a beauty, and all that. You ean, | know, marry any one of two er three men who can offer you at least as much as I, but modesty was never a prevailing characteristic of tine, and I have not feared to meas- ure myself with these other men. “On the other hand, I can give you pretty much anything you desire that costs money. I stand well in my pro- fession, and have prospects of soon being near the top of it. Altogether, 1 am satisfied that any one would call it a very suitable match all around.” “Does the prosecution here close its ease?” inquired the woman, laughing a little. “I hardly care to regard the matter as one of prosecution and defence,” said the man imperturbably, “but if you wish to use the terms | am forced to admit their applicability. Will the defence rest its case on the testimony submitted by the prosecution, or will it elect to submit an argument?” “The defence will submit an argu- ment,” replied the woman. “I admit that the match would be, as you say, pronounced suitable to every one. As for the two or three other men whom you aver that I can marry at any time, I cannot answer. I have noticed that the number of my proposals has been falling off of late, and attributed the fact to alvancing age—you were right when you said [ was thirfy. I may eciose the discussion by saying that I daave made up my mind to become an old maid.” “Far be it from me to say anything against those estimable members of society—the old maids,” said the man, “but 1 do not think you will ever be lone of them. 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SD N Loe ea = » 1497s ee LA ne ae mnie eeigiaate 4 A AS ADT ONS fee ee ae Re ERAS cae POOF era 1 RE iN Ko Sie eal eM. og 1 ee Rese ye se pein 2S Oe ee ee ie ieee SEO aera a eee " Meee ig oe, nes: Satta: Pe ahs i ROE OR Pe ESS ie Be ee 3 One of the great necessities incumbent upon Russia in the present East ern war is that of keeping open her railroad communications with the west- ern portions of her great empire. Over the single track Siberian railroad must be forwarded all her re-enforcements and supplies, so that any serious interruption of traffic, whether by bandits or Japanese spies, might prove disastrous. The railroad is carefully patrolled in the entire Manchurian region by Cossacks and so thorough is the system of supervision that no serious Injury has been inflicted on it, notwithstanding that the country is swarming with bandits, said to be organized and In cases led by Japanese officers. Russian staff officers frequently inspect the line and see that the Cossacks are performing their duties. These officers are mounted on tri- cycles, with which they readily cover great distances. Our illustration is from the Illustrated London News. marry. Surely you do not come in either class?" “No,” said the woman, reflectively, “I can’t say that I do, and yet-——” “Perhaps,” said the man, and now his voice was very gentle, as though he feared he might here touch some old wound unwittingly, “there is in your life some romance which I have not guessed. Believe me, I would not wound you for worlds, and I trust you will pardon my clumsy speech.” “Oh, I am not a blighted being, nev- er fear,” this with a laugh that did not ring altogether of merriment. “Then your refusal to marry me is not based upon the ground that you prefer some other man?” “No, I am not in love—with some other man.” “Then why not marry me?” “IL have given you the best of all a woman's reasons, ‘because.’” “But your refusal of me is final, I may take it?” “Yes’—the “yes” with an almost inaudible sigh, a sigh so nearly inaud- ible that it did not reach the man. He bad thrown away his cigar and stood for a moment gazing out toward the trees. Then he began to speak, and his voice was harsh with feeling that had been restrained. “| think I quite forgot to mention one thing in my proposal. I did not say that I love you very dearly; that, not wishing to be a beggar of love, I have waited all these years to be in a posi- tion to offer you the things which I mentioned as rendering me eligible for your hand. You, who are so cool and calm, what can you know of love and passion? Now, I know that I have worked all these years in vain—no, not altogether in vain—for I.am go- ing to kiss you once, here and now, if it means the loss of all the little that is left me of your regard.” He gathered her in his strong arms and kissed her, not once, but many times, on her forehead, on her eyes and on her lips, and then released her, with the full consciousness that he had done an unpardonable thing which he did not regret. But the woman held out her arms to him and sald: ‘Oh, Jack, dear, why didn't you tell me that you loved me at first.”—San Francisco Call. CUT THROUGH SOLID ROCK. Centuries Elapsed Before Completion of Corinthian Canal, “Speaking of canals,” said the en- gineer who had been talking about Panama, “a very interesting canal, and one not much heard of, is that connecting the Gulf of Corinth and the Gulf of Aegina in Greece. It's some older than any we have in the Western hemisphere, also, for Perian- der, tyrant of Corinth, proposed to cut through the isthmus as long ago as six hundred years before Christ. Superstition stopped him, however. Julius Caesar and Caligula took it up again when Rome had hold of Greece, but it was too much for them. Then came Nero, and he went at it with vigor, but the work stopped when he died, Others kept pounding away at it for the next several hundred years, but it was not until 1881 that real work of the Nero energy was put upon it. Then Gen. Turr, aide-de-camp to Victor Emmanuel of Italy, organ- ized a company and worked on till the money gave out in 1890, the chief obstacle being some kind of a flint which dynamite couldn't break. “About $10,000,000 was spent up to 1890, and then Mr. Syngros took hold, organized a new company, with $965,- 000 working capital, and finished the job in 1898. It is only about four miles long, but it is 69 feet wide at the bottom, about 80 feet at waterline, 26 feet and 3 inches deep in water, and it is cut nearly all the way through solid rock, rising at some points for 269 feet above the canal. It is like a canyon, and ships do not take kindly to it, the entrance being bad, a strong wind blowing through it as through a great air shaft, and there is at times a strong reverse current. It is an interesting trip through the canal, and it saves 123 miles of very rough water and 20 hours of time; but so far skippers pre- fer to go around the peninsula rather than through the canal, though with ‘some changes which will be made it ‘is believed the canal will become of general use as soon as a few ships begin to use it and remove the pre- judice now existing against it."—Com- fort. Tacginge a Fish. The United States fish commission has contracted the small boys’ habit of tagging fishes. Metal tags are fas- tened to marine fishes, which are let loose in the ocean with the idea of identifying them in case they are caught at any future time. The tag, which is light and made of copper, is securely fastened by a wire passed through a fin near its junction with the body. No two tags are alike. each having its own markings. Fif- teen hundred cod were thus duly tagged and released last spring on the New England coast. The object of the tagging is to ascertain the rate at which a cod grows, the frequency of its spawning and the extent of its travels in the ocean, The same experiment is being tried this year with young salmon, artifi- cially hatchet, for the rivers of the Pacific coast. The fishes are “finger- lings,” about three inches long. In this way it Is expected that the age at which the salmon comes from the sea to spawn will be ascertained; also the rate of growth and the percentage of fry that attain maturity. The ex- periment is an interesting one and has an obvious bearing on fish culture problems. One Genius and Another. “A genius Is a genius whether he's rich or poor. ‘There's really no differ- ence——" “Pardon me, there is a slight differ- ence. A rich genius can afford to ‘et his hair grow long; 2 poor genius can't afford to get it cut.”"—Philadelphia Press. A Hard Worker. “You oughter git me a job,” the of- fice seeker said. “Why, I done the work of a dozen men fur you on elec- tion day.” “You did?’ replied the successful candidate, incredulously. “Sure! I voted for you twelve times.” —Philadelphia Public Ledger. “Workingmen’s Wages. Wages in the United States in the average are more than twice those in Belgium, three times those of Den- mark, Germany, Italy and Spain and one and one-half those in England and Scotland. EIGHTY MILLION POPULATION. More People Than Any Other Nation Except China and Russia. It is only by association and com- parison that we can grasp the dimen- | sions represented by the 80,000,000 | population which the census bureau at | Washington estimated were in the United States in 1903. This is more ‘people than are in any other nation in the world except China with its 400,000,000 and Russia with its 130,- 000,000. Computed on the capacity of its units this 80,000,000 stands for an immeasurably greater productive value than does China’s or Russia’s total, according to Leslie's Weekly. | When Alexander, of Macedon, in the middle of Asia, was weeping because there were no more earths for him to conquer he had fewer subjects than ‘the United States of 1904 has sover- eigns. Under Caesar's eagles, when Rome ruled the world, were less people than are under the stars and stripes in the days of Theodore Roosevelt. With seven per cent of the world's land area and five per cent of its popu- lation the United States has twenty- five per cent ef the world’s wea!th. The value of the United States’ prop- erty, real and personal, in 1900 was $94,000,000,000, as compared with $59,- 000,000,000 for Great Britain and Ire- land, $48,000,000,000 for France, $45,- 000,000,000 for Germany, $32,000,000,- 000 for Russia, $22,000,000,000 for Aus- tria-Hungary, $15,000,000,000 for Italy and $12,000,000,000 for Spain. More- over, the United States’ lead of all the other nations in wealth is increas- ing faster than is her preponderance over them all, except Russia and China, in population. Franklin told the British parliament just before the revolution that the population of the thirteen American colonies was doubling every twenty- five years. The gain is slightly jess than that now, though it is greater than that of any other nation. Through natural increase, immigration and an- nexations the population of the Unit- ed States multiplied fifteen times be- tween 1800 and 1900, while it multi- plied 105 times in those hundred years in wealth. Without allowing for increase in ter- ritory, but keeping the diminishing ratio of growth in mind, our 75,000,000 population of 1900 will, there is good reason to believe, be 150,000,000 in 1930, 300,000,000 in 1970 and 500,000,- 000 by the year 2,000, while the ag- gregate of its wealth in the last-named year will be up in the dizzy heights of mathematics. Nothing in the Arabian tales is so marvelous as is the expansion in pop- ulation, wealth and power of the Uni- ted States. Why Women's Tecth Crambie. It is estimated by a surgeon dentist who caters to the wealthiest families | in the fashionable world that fully 60 per cent of the women in society who have reached the age of Mrs. Hermann Oelrichs wear false teeth. He says their teeth begin to ache and crumble soon after 35, whereas the average man in the same station in life main- tains his dental integrity until he is past 60. Sweetmeats are put down as the principal cause for the early decay of the teeth of women—not because there is any effect on the protecting enamel by actual contact with the saccharine substance, but because of the creation of an acid condition in the stomach, which appears to have a corrosive effect on the outer hard Bes of the teeth. Men do not eat much candy—smokers especially—and ‘they have almost enough tooth strength to bite a tenpenny nail in half. _ This same dentist, in common with /many of his fellows in the profession, has discovered it is possible to fill cav- ities in the human tooth with a sub- stance far more enduring than gold, per absolutely to retard disintegration. Gold has been the favorite “filling” for years because of its non-corrosive qualities. A cement came into vogue about fifteen years ago, but it pos- sessed no lasting qualities, and its use was only a temporary expedient. The new filling is of porcelain hardness, and can be tinted to the exact color of the tooth—so perfect in resemblance ‘that If the operator is skillful a pow- erful magnifying glass is necessary to “detect its presence. The operation is an extremely delicate one. The small- ‘er the cavity the more difficult the ‘filling. ‘The substance is not a pro- prietary article, but can be manufac- | tured by any dentist who has a bake oven and who has been taught the ages proportions of the ingredients. Once set, it will outlast the natural ‘enamel! itself—New York Progress. Many Sealskins Are Shams. According to a report sent to the state department at Washington by Richard T. Greener, the first negro to graduate from Harvard, and who has for fifteen years been consular agent at Vladivostok, the eastern Si- berian fur dealers are disgusted with the tricks of the manufacturers of fur products in Europe. With the scar- city of fur-bearing animals the trade has fallen off over one-half in the last few years and to cap the climax of disadvantage the manufacturers are utilizing cheap and common furs for ‘the most expensive garments. | By peculiar processes which they have discovered they are able to tan ‘a rabbit skin and dye it so that only experts can tell it from genuine seal. A common Arctic fox pelt which can - bought for $2.50 they handle in a way to make it look like a $50 brown or black fox skin. All Wasted. “I begin to realize that there's no satisfaction in saying ‘I told you so.’” “No?” “No; because you can never get any- body to admit they remember that you iid.”"—Philadelphia Public Ledger. % OTHE Ch AD bi a For Infants and Children. SS EOE Saianss sn Va. Seiseerag the Kind\You Have eens §6Always Bought: inlet te oandegla- ingtteSouccisandborelsot (im) Bears the INFANTS “CHILDREN , —— Signature || Promotes Digestion. Cheerful- |} || ness and Rest.Contains neither f as, peep nor Mineral, |f 0. OT NARCOTIC. ; ¥ Recipe af Otel Lr SAMUEL PITCHER pobre eee | : In rare tate « eae : Use ness and LOSS OF SLEEP. |p For Over Fac Simile Signature of Us avons. | irty Years 3 ) D és st 35 eee <4 Eeesdiacctetdhanetaamammesnidapetailioneamateie EXACT COPY OF WRAPPER. CA | RATTLER SWALLOWS A RATTLE. ‘Infants at Play Are Unharmed by Snake Before It Is Killed. Warren county, N. J. has more snakes this year than ever were heard of in past years. ‘They have become trouble- some since warm weather set in. The other day a five-foot rattler crawled up on the back porch of Harry Cooper, one of the men employed on the estate of Rutherford Stuyvesant, at Alamuchy. Two infants of the Coopers were playing upon the porch, but were not harmed. When Cooper saw the snake it was coiled up under a bench. Cooper killed, it, and when he went to skin it, intending to preserve the skin, he found inside of the snake a white doorknob, a_ full-grown rat and a baby’s rattle. Each article had been swallowed intact. The rattle was one which one of Cooper's children had owned. William Smith killed a black snake at Mineral Springs a couple of days ago which measured seven feet three inches. He saw it going up a railroad embank- ment with a live chicken in its jaws. | Although the chicken fluttered desperate-| ly, it could not release itself until Smith | had chopped the snake’s head off with | his shovel. ( How to Keep House. With all the luxuries and pleasures of this life, its big enjoyments and its smaller comforts, there is an offset or antithesis which we have to con- tend with in the form of aches and pains. In some way and by some means every one has a touch of them in some form at some time. Trifling as seme of them may be, the risk is that they will grow to something great- er and rack the system with constant torture. There is nothing, therefore, of this kind that we have a right to trifle with. Taken in time, the worst forms of pains and aches are easily subdued and cured by the free use of St. Jacobs Oil. No well regulated household should be without a bottle of this great remedy for pain. It is the specific virtue of penetration in St. Jacobs Oil that carries it right to the pain spot and effects a prompt cure even in the most painful cases of Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Lumbago, Sciatica. You want it also in the house at all times for hurts, cuts and wounds, and the house that always has it keeps up a sort of insurance against pain. j No Time for Names. The late Amos J. Cummings of New York used to tell this story of his first assignment as a newspaper reporter. He was sent out to write up an accident where an Irish hodcarrier was injured in a fall from a building. He arrived just as two officers were assisting the in- jured man into the ambulance. “What’s his name?’ asked Cummings of one of the officers, at the same mo- ment pulling out his pad and pencil. The Irishman heard him and, mistak- ing him for the timekeeper on the job, exclaimed, with a look of disgust cover- ing his face: “Isn't it trouble enough to fall three stories without being docked for the few moments I lose goin’ to th’ hospital?” Se The Dailv Newspaper. Are you a reader of daily newspapers? If so the Evening Wisconsin is noted for its interesting special features which have anchored it in the homes of Milwau- kee and the state at large: The “Spinning Wheel,” a department of humorou stories and witticisms; the “Woman's World,” a page devoted to the interests of wom- en; a review of books and periodicals, and Sunshine and Christian Endeavor news. A daily short story is also a strong attraction. If you are not already reading the Evening Wisconsin you should do so. 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Brown, 21 Cedar tecvatas Hot Springs, Ark., Vice President Mothers Ctab.— $6000 forfelt if original of above letter proving genuineness cannot be produced, Whale Scratched Its Back. On the night of April 29 the steamer Mauna Loa, while tying at Keauhou, shook and trembled, then she heeled over to port and then heeled over to starboard. Hverybody sleeping atoard was awak- ened, everyone awake became alert; something had happened. Somebody de- clared it was an earthquake. A similar experience had been met by the Mauna Loa months before. Capt. Simerson learned, however, that it was not an earthquake at all that moved the boat, but a whale. An enor- mous leviathan of the deep had sea hives, Its back itched; it felt the sensation that so many people experience in the tropics, it wanted to scratch its back. There was nothing on which to scratch until the Mauna Loa was sighted. The whale was reported by native fishermen to have dived underneath the boat and seratched its back on the keel of the vessel. The shaking and rolling of the vessel were caused by the whale, so the fishermen claimed, rubbing its back against the bottom of the Mauna Loa. When the whale bad gotten relief from the marine hices it swam away.—Honolulu Pacific Comnm al Advertiser. Told iu California. mops kidneys is helping the whole body, for it is the kidneys that remove _ thie poisons and waste from the body. Learning this simple lesson has made many _ sick men and wo- men well. - Indce A. Je Rog Sa eS) tn iH i Feiter of 318 So. E St., San Bernar- dine, Cal., says: “For 18 years my kid- neys were not performing their func- tions properly. There was some back- ache, and the kidney secretions were profuse, containing also considerable sediment. Finally the doctors said T had diabetes. Doan’s Kidney Vills wrought a great change in. my condi- tion and now I sleep and feel well again.” A FREE TRIAL of this great kid- ney medicine which cured Judge Fel- ter will be mailed to any part of the United States. Address Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Sold by all dealers; price 50 cents per box. —_—_-_—_— THE SUPREME COURT. Probable Changes in Its Membership Un- der the Next Administration. ‘The presidential election this year will have an important bearing on the supreme court. A Democratic President would in all probability mean that for the first time since the Civil war period a majority of the justices would be Democrats. In that high tribunal politics are not sup- posed to cut much of a figure. None the jess, political parties have considerable pride in seeing men of their own faith wearing the ermine, Three of the nine justices are now Democrats—Chief Justice Fuller, appoint- ed during Mr, Cleveland’s first term: Jus- tice White and Justice Peckham, both ap- pointed during his second term. Four of the justices will be eligible for retirement before March 5, 1909, when the next pres- idential administration will have come to an end. Of these, all except Chief Jus- tice Fuller were appointed as Republic- ans, he chief justice is eligible for re- tirement now, but being in excellent health and fond of the duties of his high office, he is uot expected to relinquish his place for some time yet. Justice Harlan js also eligible. If he does not retire be- fore next Maren, he probably will do so in the course of two or three years. It is certain that Justice Brown will retire as soon as he becomes 70 years old, which will be March 2, 1906, and Justice Brew- er will also become eligible for retirement a little more than a year thereafter. President Roosevelt has already had the appointment of two members of the court. He, as his own successor, or his Democratic rival for the executive office, will almost to a certainty have two or three more appointments. Especially in view of the several close decisions in great legal questions, like the insular cases and the merger suits, the personnel of the court becomes a matter of no secondary importance in the future.—Washington Set Heaven's Artillery. Coadjutor Bishop Greer tells of a society woman he was gently chiding for being remiss in her attendance at church. ae don’t you come oftener?’ he asked. “To be frank, I’m afraid,” he replied. “I don't understand.” “Well, there are times when it is pos- itively dangerous to enter an Episcopal church.” “When, pray?’ asked the astonished clergyman, “When there is a canon in the reading desk, a big gun in the pulpit, or when the bishop is charging the clergy.”—New York Times. ——— eee HAS TRIED BOTH. Travel for Health vs. Dieting. A man who was sent to Europe for his health and finally found cure in a little change in his diet says: “L was troubled with dyspepsia for five years, and two doctors here in senosha that treated me for over a year both told me there was no help for me. Then I had an expert from Chicago but still received no. relief; then followed another expert from Chicago who eame to our house two ‘mes a month for four months. He eave ine up like all the others and told me to take a trip across the ocean, which I did in the year 1899 and came home about as bad as when. I started. The doctors told me my stomach lin- ing was full of sores, ‘Then I began to Study my own case and learned of the diet recommended by the Postum Cer- eal Co., so I gave up coffee, pork and ail greasy foods and began using Postum Food Coffee, Gradually I got better and better until I am well now us I ever was in my younger days, have no trouble and eat anything St to eat. “Sometimes away from home I am Dersuaded to drink coffee, but I only take a sip of it, for it tastes bitter and disagreeable to me. but the longer I use Postum the better I like it and the better I feel. I could say a great deal more of my experience with Postum, bot think this will give every one a f0od idea of what leaving off coffee &nd using Postum can do.” Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Look in each pkg. for the famous little book, “The Road to Wellville.” TIRED. Would I were lying in a field of clover— or woe cool and soft, and scented eet, With dusky clouds in deep skies hanging over, And scented silence at my head and feet— Just for one hour to slip the leash of worry In — haste from Thougbt’s impatient rush, And watch it rushing in its heedless maar: Disdaining wisdom's call, or duty’s hush. Ab! it’ were sweet, where clover clumps are meeting, _And daisies hiding, so to bide and rest; No sound except my own heart's sturdy beating, Rocking itself to sleep within my breast— Just to le there, filled with the deeper Iweathing 3 That comes of listening to @ wild bird's sone: Our souls require at times this free un- sheathing— | All swords will rust in seabbard kept too long. And 1 am tived—so tired of rigid duty, So tired of all my tired hands find to | do- ‘1 yearn, I faint for some of life's free beauty. Its looser beads with no straight strings run through, Ay, laughs If laugh you will, at my crude speech, Bt women sometimes die of such a greed— Die for the small joys held beyond their reach, And the assurance they have all they need. Mary Ashley Townsend in New Orleans Picayune. A KING’S TRAGEDY. 1 was a King, even In My Crane, I had been born, I had to die. The only two things they said I could share with my people. Majesty! It hemmed me in on every side. The reverence of it filled the lulla- bies that were sung in my baby ears. At every turn I was implored to remember it. It made me 2 thing apart. "Bor twenty years I was a stranger to everything that meaus life! = * * And then I awoke in spite of them, in spite of my kingship! * 2 * I awoke! * * * My God, the awaken- pingt A ray of sunlight crept inte my poor, starved, ignorant soul, = = ‘The king was a thing apart no longer. TL was ill, so ill that they grew fright- | exe, and sent me into the apple gardens of Brittany to recover. And I met her ‘there! She was not a princess of the iieod. not a lady of quality. She was just a little girl with a wealth of love in he: eyes, and a golden youthfulness that “hewildered me, and that made the Gar- |den of Eden real to me. For one brief commer I was allowed my birthright, and “reamed my dream, as other men. I ‘heard whispered words of love, ariazing love, bewildering love * * * TI Kissed ‘the eyes that never knew my royalty and never guessed the gulf between us. The nummy had been torn frem its wrap- pings, and the man breathed God's air, “ima realized God's earth! She was all the world to me, all this | and the next, and my kingship was oblit- erated. 1 flung custom to the winds of ‘heaven, She made me realize that love ‘can burst the hearts of empires and level ‘majesty in the dust. I loved her! For | a fash of time 1 was left in peace, alone | with love. * * * Memory was a dead _ vampire, sorties! Then they came for me. * * * I -erned for merey; but the vampire was alive, and I had lost my dream. I re- turned to captivity, a helpless fugitive | from tate. In time, they told me that I had set- 'tled down again with wonderful ease. / But I knew better. The man in me, | the awakened man in me, refused to be smothered out of existence again and | made the court a purgatory. | All day, all night, I thirsted for her. Love was all-powerful. I could not beat it out of my aching heart. L starved it; ‘but it thrived apace. I tried to murder it: but it sprang to life again and again, and stronger each time. And, at last, it drove me back to her. I saw her again. * * * She had pohanged * * * — She prayed to me to | justify her * * * and I had to tell ther * * * * that I was King. She stared at me like a dying woman. Later I heard the awful thing the vil- | lagers whispered about her * * * and | the name they called it by * * * She | came to me again, before they parted us | forever. She was ill, and the gold had gone from her hair. ‘But mystic love re- mained like a fairy wreath about her. She kept staring at me, imploring me to be impossible, un agony of longing for the King to abdicate, and the man to ‘live, in her eyes. But the King was a | devil and as hard as stone. The man }was a pitiful coward and cried for mer- Be But the King strangled him with a brutal force, and urged that a whole empire blocked the way. * * * She was unable to realize the barrier, the immense barrier! I was dragged back to my kingdom to play the King again. ‘This time it was forever, though the old longing, the same love, swept into my empty soul aud fought for mastery as it had done before. But the King, God bless him! con- quered again and again. And the man, God pity him! was a heap of despair and loye, like a broken bauble—was a phan- tom that was half sweet, all bitter to re- aneniber. Soe SAM SS 8ST have nothing left of that summer * * * “nothing but the memory of her eyes blaz- ing with hope, dulling with despair, black Things wrapped hollowly in mists of pale- ness, leading me away from Life and Majesty and Duty, drawing me step by step into those fathomless deeps the world calls graves, where men lie, and worms eat them: where I must lie when at last the man conquers the King. and Death in his turn takes the conqueror captive. * 2 « : Ah! * * * then a toi!—Maurie! Pollesteh ui Gendt eee a The Length of a Dream. “The other afternoon,” said a doctor, “T called to see a patient, and, much te my satisfaction, I found him sleeping soundly. I sat by his bed, felt his pulse without disturbing him, and waited for ‘him to awaken, After a few minutes a dealer's cart, with discordant ringing bells, turned into the street, and as’ their first tones reached me my patient opened his eyes. “Doctor,” he said, ‘I’m glad to see you, and awfully glad that you woke me, for I have been tortured by a most dis- tressing dream that must have lasted for several hours. I dreamed that I was sick, as IT am, and that my boy came into the room with a string of the most horribly sounding bells and rang them in my ears, while I hadn't the power to move or speak to him. I suffered tor- tures for what appeared to be intermin- able time, and I'm so glad you awoke me. “The ringing of those bells for one sec- ond had caused all of that dream, and just at the waking moment.”—Liyerpool Post. The Beecar’s Watch. Dr. Edward Everett Hale, who is ad- yorating a pension of $2 a week for all indigent men of 6 or more who have paid a poll tax for twenty-five years, is a foe to the professional beggar. “The professional beggar is nearly al- ways a bad man, a hypocrite, a sham,” he said the other day. “Did you ever notice how many stories there are about professional beggars’ frauds? Where there is smoke there is usually fire, anc I am convinced that more than a_ little truth is contained in some of these stories. “A veteran pensioner told me the other day that in his boyhood he had come upou a blind beggar on a country road. | “He dropped a coin in the beggar’s cup, and then he entered into a conver- sation with the man on the begging trade. Finally he said: “ ‘Sitting here like this, how do you tell wheu it is time for you to go home?’ “‘By the heat of the sun,’ the blind beggar answered. “*But suppose the sun is clouded? “The Poe smiled. “«Then,’ said, ‘ creep behind a bush and take a peep at my watch.’” nea eas A JAPANESE SOUVENIR. Bell at Annapolis Was Presented to Com- modore Perry Fifty Years Ago. One of the reminders of the early friendship of Japan for America now | adorns the grounds of the Naval academy at Annapolis, Md. Suspended in a pagodalike structure just off “Lovers” Lane” is a queer looking bronze bell of unique design, It usually attracts the attention of visitors, but few ever learn that it possesses a history of importance, It was presented to Commo- \dore Matthew Perry on July 12, 1854. | hy the regent of the Lew Chew islands, a dependency of the Japanese empire. Com- | modore Perry was at that time com- | mander-in-chief of the United States | squadron in the Asiatic seas and minister | plenipotentiary, charged with the duty of | opening intercourse between Japan and | the United States. After his death, in | 1858, Mrs. Perry presented it to the Na- | val aeademy, in fulfilment of his wish. |, The bell is covered with an inscription in Japanese, which was recently translat- ed by a young Japanese who was at one time a student at the Naval academy. ‘The inscription reads as follows: 2 | In the eighth year of Riraku and Ko- | noye Tara of the reign of the King of | Lew Chew. Kei-shi-yo-hi-ho-o offered 2 | prayer of benevolence for the people and | afterwaid ordered a large bell to be | founded, He did this as an act of thanks- | giving, and presented it to the temple of | Daisey Anji, in the kingdom, in order | that the King might reign prosperously and live long, and that the people of the three worlds, Heaven, Earth and Hades, | might be saved from infernal doctrines. and therefore it was that he instructed | Shiono An-sai to frame this inscrip- | tion: ‘This beautiful bell has been found- | ed and hung in the tower of the temple. | It will awaken dreams of superstition. | If one will bear in mind to act rightly | and truly, and the lords and_ ministers | will do justice in a body, the barbarians | will never come to invade. The sound of the bell will convey the virtue Tuski, and will echo like the sonk of Tsniray, and the benevolence of the Lord will continue | forever like these echoes. | * ‘rhe 20th day, 10th month, 7th ¢ oe: year, Kaitai. s | : Shui Eishi : : Chief Priest of the ‘Temple, : : Emonoske Tujiryara Kumimito, = i Founder of the Bell. : | As the “7th year Kaitai” refers to the | year 1456 of the Christian era, this bell | is exactly 448 years old. Did She Get It? CX GQ ey Gi ( sq \ Rat \ Poe Si A IN ae z PRETO ED A, FRR RO foe! Sgys oe SUS ENS ie, { | Were Mrs. Wise—Would you like to see my new silk waist? Mr. Wise—Yes. Mrs. Wise—Then give me $5 and Il show you one. dich, { : ¥ iy, | 4 a s | Wak Bi AION) | ig PS ol ieee , LE: ced fe MLA i. TRON f\ eS, o Pe RE eX . : "i [ ( Ne wi He—I don't see why she should love him. She—There are thousands of reasons why she should love him. He—What are they? She—Dollars. Where the Boss Made a Mistake. A senior of one of our large manufac- turing concerns came through the store recently and noticed a boy sitting on » counter, swinging his legs and whistling merrily. The senior eyed him severely as he confronted him and inquired: “Is that all you have to do?” “Yes, sir.” “Very well; report to the cashier and tell sa to pay you off. We don’t need bovs like you around here.” “But, sir,’ said the astonished boy, “I don’t work for you. I have just bought some goods and am waiting for the Dill!” —Louisville Courier-Journal. <<. In the Twentieth Century. Church—Don’t yon dislike to smell that odor from those automobiles? Gotham—No; like to smell it. “You do?” “I certainly do. You know you can’t smell the odor until the machine has gone by.” “T know it.” “Well, if the machine has gone by, and you can smell at all, you’re pretty sure that you haven't been struck.””—Yonkers Statesman. CATARRH IS THE CAUSE OF MOST KIDNEY DISEASES. PE-RU-NA CURES CATARRH. ee ee se PASAG COGAN | RUNGE SS | AGN a . RT ee MP Pes | AN SG me NV TAN Bee S Aaa VAN ee Pa SSS iH NN es Pome rah \ i & Seek SA URE i ae Po AS ce Aaa ee Sr i) if OT ed Botosani vate \ \ eo ae pcciths Ca cS Ni ¥ P OE S © O73 a = a) § BS BE} AN) SUE RSPR Nf Or Ramice Fs RESTS (Gy =~ CP Lv S pv — QO Me D))\ | Samuel R. Sprecher, Junior Beadle Court Angelina, | 422, I. O. O. F., 205 New High St., Los Angeles, Cal., l vrites: “I came here a few years ago suffering with catarrh q f the kidneys, in search of health. I thought the Ni limate would cure me, but I found I was mistaken. ) sut what the climate could not do Peruna could and el id do. Seven weeks’ trial convinced me that I had i e right medicine, and I was thena well man. I know i f at least twenty friends and members of the lodge | o which I belong who have been cured of catarrh, | ladder and kidney trouble through the use of Peruna, \ nd it has a host of friends in this city.’’ a SAMUEL R. SPRECHER. Catarrh of the Kidneys a Common Dis- ease —Kidney Trouble Often Fails to Be Regarded as Catarrh by Physi- cians. Catarrh of the kidneys is very com- mon indeed. It is a pity this fact is not better known to the physicians as well as the people. \ People have kidney disease. They take some diuretic, hoping to get better, They never once think of catarrh. Nid. ney disease and catarrh are seldom associated in the minds of the people and, alas, it is not very often associated in the minds of the physicians. Toc few physicians recognize catarrh of the kidneys. They doctor for something ee Clock Fell When Man Fell. Here is a strange, but absolutely true story, in which a clock plays a mysterious part. It was a small American timepiece, which stood on the mantelpiece in the sit- ting room in a Liverpool builder's house, At a quarter past 11 one morning, a few weeks ago, the timepiece fell from the mantelpiece to the floor, When picked up it was found to be quite uninjured and still going as if nothing unusual had hap- pened. 'There seemed to be absolutely no rea- son why it should have fallen, but an hour later, when the builder came home to his midday meal, he remarked that at a quarter past 11 he fell from the top of a building, but happily without sustain- ing any injury. His wife then described how the clock had fallen at the same time, and the couple pondered in vain over the curious and utterly inexplicable coincidence.—Liverpool Post. a Rie Flenhant Never Lies Down. Bolivar, the African elephant at the Fairmount Park Zoo, has not lain down for sixteen years. Four pronounced de- pressions in the asphalt floor of his apatrt- ment mark the spot where night and day the great beast has shifted from one leg to another, Of course the elephant sleeps, but he sleeps standing, with legs braced and well apart. He closes his eyes, and, his keeper says, snores at night. En- press and Lizzie, companions of Bolivar, sleep in a recumbent posture. Bolivar entered the Zoo in 1888. He was pre- sented by Adam Forepaugh, and is said to be one of the heaviest elephants in captivity. He is a vicious brute, and is never allowed the freedom of the pad- dock.—Philadelphia Public Ledger. ALLEN’S For Hot, Tired, Aching, Swollen Feet. nS ALLENS | Bs b=) Foot-EAse| > Be 2 ae Se INTO YOUR if, ff, SHOES We Allen’s Foot-Ease, a powder. Tt cures painful, smarting, nervous feet and ingrow- ing nails, and instantly takes the sting out ofcorns and bunions. It’s the greatest com- fort discovery of the age. Makes tight or new shoes easy. 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Swanson writes from 607 Harrison St., Council Bluffs, la., as follows: “As my duties compelled me to be out in all kinds of weather 1 contracted a severe cold from time to time, which settled in the kidneys, causing severe pains and trouble in the pelvic organs. “TI am now like a new man, am in splendid ) health and give all praise to Peruna.”—A. C. Swanson. ANAS Ce Nt \ i re a “ wh . AN aN CF A NAW SSNS : pa oe x * \ - CAPTAIN JAMES L. DEMPSEY. else. They try this remedy and that remedy. The trouble may be catarrh all the time. A few bottles of Peruna would cure them. Pe-ru-na Removes the Cause of the Kidney Trouble. Peruna strikes at the very center of the difficulty, by eradicating the catarrh from the kidneys. Catarrh is the cause of kidney difficulty. Remove the cause and you remove the effect. With unerring accuracy Peruna goes right to the spot. The kidneys are soon doing their work with perfect regularity. Thousands of Testimonials. 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If you do not derive prompt and satie fuctory results from the use of Peruna, write at once to Dr. Hartman, giviug a full statement of your case, and he will be pleased to give you his valuable ad- vice gratis. Address Dr. Hartman, President of The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, 0. Gles @rholisalve Instantly stops the pain of i Barns and Scalds. | ad Always heals without scars, Fir 3. Caleb Go. Black hiver Waller Wis KEEP a BOX HANDY M,N. U. No. 25, 1904. Be WHEN wena 79 ADVERTISERS please say you saw the Advertisement in this paper. ” FISO’S CURE FOR. 1 CQNSUMPTION .& SECOND MEETING. Commencing June 20th, 1904, Chicago, Illinois. OBJECT. The object of this Convention is to invoke the aid of the Republican Party in National Convention assembled to the end that Southern Disfranchisement may be broken up. REPRESENTATION. Each state will be entitled to a representation equal to the number of her Congressional representation. RATES. Delegates attending this Convention will be able to avail themselves of the rate to the National Republican Convention, one fare for the round trip. HEADQUARTERS. The National Negro Suffrage League operates at Washington, D.C., a Bureau of Publicity and Promotion, from which a campaign will be directed against Southern Disfranchisement. Tres., Rev. J. A. Taylor, Wash'n, D. C. Eastern Organizer, Rev. J. A. Churchman, N. J. Western Organizer, J. C. Leftwith, Oklahoma. For further information, address JAMES H. HAYES, Attorney-At-Law, Washington, D. C. The "Turf" Cafe. DINNER BILL. Regular Dinner 35 Cents MAY 21. 11:30 to 2 p. m., 5 to 8 p. m. Lettuce, 10c. Radishes, 10c. Cucumbers, 10c. Green Onions, 10c. S. Tomatoes, 10c. Celery Hearts. SOUP. Mock Turtle. Baked Trout, Egg and Parsley Sauce, 25c. Baked Chicken and Dressing, 25c. Boiled Ox Tongue and Tartar Sauce, 25c. Prime Roast Beef. ENTREES. Veal Loaf, 25c. Apple Salad, 15c. Asparagus. Boiled and Mashed Potatoes. DESSERT. 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It will be devoted to the interest of the Negro race and will contain the news of their sayings and doings throughout the world. WISCONSIN WEEKLY ADVOCATE MILWAUKEE, WIS. While in city visit . . . STEPHENS' HOTEL and RESTAURANT First-Class Accommodations Home Cooking a Specialty... No. 2832 State St., CHICAGO, ILL. ELK EXPRESS CO. G. J. CHARLESTON, Mgr. 63 E. Sixth Street, ST. PAUL, MINN. --- THOUSAND DIE IN FIRE Horrible Disaster to Sunday School Excursion Party. New York, June 15.—Laden with 1500 excursionists, mostly women and children, the big steamer, Gen. Slocum, caught fire in the waters of Heil Gate today and from 1000 to 1100 persons perished in the flames or were drowned. It is impossible to more than estimate the loss of life. The disaster is the most appalling that has ever occurred in New York harbor and is made more distressing by the fact that most of those who lost their lives were women or children of tender age. Sunday School Excursion. The excursion was given under the auspices of St. Mark's German Lutheran church, of which Rev. George C. F. Haas is pastor. The Gen. Slocum left her pier at the foot of Third street, a few minutes after 9 o'clock. The steamer proceeded up East river, every deck crowded with merrymakers, the band playing and flags flying. The Slocum had reached a point near the Sunken Meadows, eastern end of Randall's island, when fire broke out in the lunch room in the hows. Members of the crew endeavored to extinguish the flames. Their efforts were unavailing and in a short time the fire gained uncontrollable headway. Wild Panic on Steamer. Clouds of smoke rolled back through the crowded decks. The flames followed instantly and a wild panic ensued. Penned in by the rocks of Hell Gate the captain was unabled to turn his vessel in the channel and crowding on all steam he made for North Brother island, directly ahead. According to the best evidence no attempt was made to lower boats or life rafts. With the first rush of smoke and fire those on the forward deck were driven back and many persons were crushed against the rail and pushed overboard. Many Spring Into Water. As the panic spread many sprang over the rail, at first by twos and threes, and as the first rushed aft they were crowded off. Crazed parents threw children overboard and followed themselves, only to drown in the swift waters of Hell Gate. As with her engines driving her at full speed the big vessel churned toward the beach of North Brother island, she left a train of dark forms in her wake and how many thus perished probably will never be known. Before she was beached the crowded hurricane deck gave way and precipitated hundreds into the fiery 'tween decks, already choked with a struggling, panic-stricken mass of women and children. Rush to Rescue. The continuous blasts of the Slocum's siren brought dozens of tugs and small craft to her side and the work of rescue was quick and daring. Some of the tugs stuck to her side until they themselves were afire or were driven off by the flames. When the steamer was beached quite a distance of open water lay between her and the shore, and here many persons perished, either in the flames or were drowned in efforts to reach shore. Many of Injured Will Die When the alarm was turned in to police headquarters and the appalling extent of the accident became known, the police reserves of all the near-by stations were called out, all the available patrol wagons hurried to the scene, and the hospitals in the northern part of the city each sent all the available surgeons and nurses. At 1 o'clock several hospitals were compelled to turn away the injured, their accommodations being already crowded. Most of the rescued are badly burned and many will die. The Slocum burned to the water's edge after she was beached. Upper Deck Collapses An eye witness said that greatest loss of life was due to the collapsing of the heavy-upper deck. It fell with a crash soon after the fire started, crushing hundreds of persons who had gathered on the lower deck. It was then that the greatest panic ensued amid the living stream of persons going over the rail into the water. As far as eye witnesses can determine, the flames originated on the forward part of the boat. Persons who saw the accident from the shore say that almost instantly persons who occupied places on the forward deck began to jump overboard. Policemen in the Bronx and Harlem saw the blazing boat steaming up the river and immediately began to turn in alarms for ambulances and fireboats. Insane from Fright. All the boats at North Brothers' island were sent to the assistance of the people in the water and as fast as they were brought ashore were cared for in the pavilions there. The patients in the hospitals on the island became almost insane from fright at the terrible scenes they had witnessed. A large part of the crowd on the doomed steamer were children and there was little hope for them after they had gone overboard. The current in the East river at this point is very strong, and scores of little ones were sucked in by the whirlpools at Hell Gate. One man who went out in a rowboat said he saw at least fifty children perish in these whirlpools before he could reach them. Many of Injured Are Dying Many of those picked up alive in the river will die in the hospitals. Most of them were frightfully burned, having delayed leaping from the boat until their clothing caught fire. Some died in the improvised ambulances in which they were hurried from the shore. Bodies Horribly Burned Many of the bodies recovered were horribly burned. Wreckers say it will be hours before the fire in the hold of the boat is out and the bodies there can be recovered. Both firemen and wreckers say that the greatest loss of life, extending into the hundreds, will be found in the hold. There are forty bodies on North Brother island, eighteen on the fireboat Zopher Mills, and eleven on Riker's island. The board of health has sent 100 doctors and FORMER GOVERNOR NASH ILL Columbus, O., June 16.—Former Gov. George R. Nash is seriously ill at his Jefferson avenue home. He has lost strength steadily the last two months and has just suffered an attack of heart trouble. Minister Called to Oshkosh Oshkosh, Wis., June 16.—[Special.]—Rev. Augustus M. Ayers, pastor of the Eleventh Presbyterian church, Chicago, has accepted a call to become pastor of the First Presbyterian church here and will undertake his new charge in a few days. 1. 500 policemen are on the scene. 500 policemen are on the scene. Every man on board who could swim went overboard loaded down with children. Many of these heroes lost their lives because burdened as they were they could make no headway against the overpowering swirl of the tide as it rushes from the East river into the sound. John Edell. 22 years old, one of the survivors of the disaster, gave the following account of his terrible experience, his mother and little brother being drowned before his eyes: Tells Story of Disaster. "When we left the pier the decks were packed to the limit of their capacity. The band was playing, the children were frolicking about and we were all having a fine time. "As we neared Hell Gate children were called down to the lower deck, where ice cream and soda water were served. "The children were falling over each other in an effort to get to the tables which held the refreshments. With my mother and my little brother Paul I went to the engine room to watch the machinery. Burst of Flames. "Suddenly and without the least warning there was a burst of flame from the furnace room that rushed up through the engine room and flashed out about us. The flames spread with the rapidity of an explosion, setting fire to the clothing of the women and children who were grouped about the engine room watching the machinery. "There was the most terrible panic as the burning women and children rushed out among those surrounding the ice cream and soda water tables screaming with pain. Burning People Jump Into Water. "In the terrific scramble my mother and little brother were swept from me and carried toward the side where the children and women with their clothes burning had begun to jump into the water. The flames spread in bursts that soon had the entire deck enveloped. "The crew were helpless to render any assistance or make efforts to check the advance of the fire. We were just passing out through Hell Gate when the fire started. The captain headed the boat toward North Brother island and the pilots who were with him yelled frantically to us to stay on board until they beached the boat." Leap Into the Whirlpool. "But in a moment after the flames had burst from the engine room great numbers began to jump overboard. The women were wild with怒 and snatching their children to them leaped into the whirlpools that carried them toward the rocks on both shores. "I endeavored for a few minutes to break through the mad crush and get to my mother and little brother, but I was swept into one corner of the boat and held there unable to move. "As the boat kept on her way the breeze drove the flames toward the after part of the ship, where those who had not jumped overboard were huddled together. It seemed but a few seconds before the flames had swept down upon the children who were struggling about the ice cream tables and set their clothing alzbe." Vast Crowd Carried Into Water. "They all rushed to the after part of the ship in a stampede that carried those who were near the rail overboard against their will. "At one time it seemed to me as if the women and children were pouring over the sides like a waterfall. As we made for the shore the captain blew his whistle in one continuous blast and soon boats of all descriptions were making for us from every side of the river. "I was rescued by a launch just as the boat was settled close to the shore. Many Burned to Death. "When she was grounded the flames had spread over the entire upper and lower decks. There were only a few spots on the boat untouched by the flames and in these were piled up men and women who had fainted and falling had pinned others to the deck. "The men from the tugs who could get near the steamboat shouted for those on board to jump, and then the small boats picked them up by the score." Pastor's Family Perishes. Rev. George C. F. Haas, pastor of the church, was saved, but his wife Gertrude and his daughter Anna are among the dead. Mr. Haas told this story of the disaster: "The fire started in the kitchen in the forward part, when we were off 134th street. I understand that some fat that boiled over started the blaze. At that time most of the women and children were jammed in the rear end of the boat, where the band was playing. "Why the captain did not point the boat for the Meadows I do not understand. He kept on and the fresh wind from the sound drove the fire back through the decks. Horrible Scenes on Boat. "In three minutes from the time the fire started all the decks were ablaze. Such scenes as followed I do not think were ever witnessed before. I was in the rear of the boat with my wife and daughter. Women were shrieking and clasping their children in their arms. Some mothers had as many as three or four with them. "When the fire shot up to the top deck and drove the crowd back the panic was terrible to witness. The women and children clung to the railings and stanchions, but could not keep their holds. I, with my wife and daughter, was swept along with the rest. "I believe that the first that fell into the water were crushed overboard. When they went there seemed to be a general inclination to jump. The women and children went over the railings like flies." Fighting for Life. "In the great crush many women and children fainted and fell to the dock to be trampled. Little children were knocked down. I got my wife and daughter out on the rail and then we went overboard. I was in such an excited state that I do not remember whether we were pushed over or jumped. "When I struck the water I sank and when I rose there were scores about me fighting to keep afloat. One by one, I saw them sink around me. But I was powerless to do anything. "With a great effort I managed to keep afloat, but my strength was about gone when a man picked me up." Ship Inspected May 5. At the office of the United States steamboat inspection bureau it was said the Gen. 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