Wisconsin Weekly Advocate

MY FOX TERRIER A little demon, in defense; Brave as a lion he. I wish I had the courage Of this atom on my knee. A little universe of love; Unselfish as the sea. I wish I did by others As he has done by me. A little lump of loyalty, No power could turn from me. I wish I had a heart as true; From fear and favor free. In many villages of the Tyrol the use of red parasols is prohibited, as they irritate the grazing cattle. A fan that gives out instead of a cooling breeze a blast of hot air has been invented by M. de Mare, a Belgian. A water reservoir at Manchester, England, is sinking, and the cause is believed to be coal mining, nearly under it. The longest continuous stairway in the world is that which leads to the tower of the Philadelphia city hall. It has 598 steps. Some burglars not only stole the silver plate from a house in the suburbs of London, but carried off the owner's burglar insurance policy. Colorado will soon boast of a town by the name of Radium, which is to be located in the heart of the uranium belt, on the Grand river. —Half a century ago a little more than one-half of the population of England lived in towns. Today the rural population is only one-fifth of the whole. —There are 67,000 more men than women in Michigan and the state does not like to be reminded that there are more Michiganders than Michigesee. —Because it contained an article on the Darwinian theory of evolution, a Russian archbishop has suppressed the Georgian almanac. —Heather is decaying to such an extent on Yorkshire heaths and Scottish moors that sporting lessees and flock-masters are seriously concerned. The people of Portland say the government building at the coming Clark and Lewis exposition will surpass the one at St. Louis, and that the main exhibition building will "establish a precedent." Oklahoma now has the greatest broom corn producing district in the country, and will produce more this year than Kansas and Illinois combined. It is estimated that the crop will amount to about 25,000 tons. Shepherds started the fire which, in the last week of August, caused a damage of 8,000,000 francs on the island of Corsica. It lasted three days and destroyed many vineyards, orchards and other valuable grounds. Crowning the German system of industrial education stand the great technical high schools. Their name and fame have gone out into every country where men are interested in the application of science in industry. By means of an accidental short circuit in one of the junction boxes in an electric main in Melbourne, Australia, an alarm was sent in to every fire department station, and 1500 calls were received at the same instant in the head telephone office. Two votes were cast in Georgia in 1860 for Lincoln. One of the voters, Uncle "Billy" Bowers, is still living in Franklin, Ga., and is nearly 80 years of age. He was born in Georgia, and went to the place where he now resides when he was 3 years old. America is to manufacture typewriters for Syria, the machines being fitted with a new alphabet of fifty characters, which was arranged recently by Selim Haddad, a Syrian artist and inventor. The actual Syrian alphabet contains 630 characters. The only Persian newspapers which resemble those published in other countries are those issued in India and Egypt, which copy English models. The few papers published at Teheran contain little besides the Shah's proclamations and pictures of prominent officials. Some of the leading French statesmen, including Rouvier, Combes and Trouillot, have given their sanction to the socialistic scheme of granting every person aged over 60 a pension of $72 a year. This scheme if carried out would cost the country $60,000,000 a year. For military purposes a census is taken annually of the number of horses in France. The census of horses this year showed that there were only 90,147, against 91,016 twelve months before, a decrease of 869 in a single year, which is likely to become accentuated. The Australian government has adopted a nickel-in-the-slot machine which is quite novel. When a stamp cannot be bought conveniently a person can drop a letter, along with a penny, in a box, and the legend, "One penny paid" will be stamped on the envelope. The Japanese, always keen sportsmen, used to take most of their game with goshawks and sparrow hawks. The only dogs they used were spaniels, which flushed the game. But now they are taking to dogs, and many good animals are being imported from England. —When a brigade of mutinous troops took the city of Liuchufu, south China, the other day, they pillaged and slew for forty-eight hours. So great was their booty that they compelled 4500 of the inhabitants to help them carry it to the hills, where they joined the rebels. —Reporting on "Little Italy," one of London's most crowded districts, the health officer of the district says that the Italians are "generally superior" to the English persons who are their neighbors. They also take more care of their children, among whom the death rate is low, and they are sober. —The fact that about four million deaths from fevers, mostly malarial, are caused in India every year indicates the stupendous importance of the mosquito Professor Almon Fraliqua's IG-NA-CO THE RENOWNED FRENCH REMEDY for Lost Power Restores Health, Power, Energy, Tired Nerves, Vim, Vigor. A Full Manhood. Stops seminal losses and drains, $1 per box, 6 boxes for $5. Sent securely sealed free from observation. IG-NA-CO CHEMICAL CO. P. O. Box 763 Milwaukee, Wis. problem. It has been proven that people dwelling in houses situated a mile from the breeding grounds of the anopheles variety of mosquitoes are practically free from malaria. —The largest dam in the state of Colorado is being constructed for the Cascade reservoir in the San Juan country. The wall will be 105 feet in height and the water stored will reach a depth of 100 feet. The dam will store 3,071,000,000 cubic feet of water, or 500,000,000 feet less than the famous Cheesman dam, which stores Denver's water supply. As doubtless well known civet is one of the essential ingredients of nearly all the high-class perfumes made, so there is always a ready sale for it in the market. The Abyssinians put this civet in small cattle horns, which are packed in cases. It is sold by the ounce, the price ranging from 5 to 10 rupees ($1.60 to $3.24) per ounce, according to purity and color. A modern battleship costs probably ten times what a Constitution or a Victory cost a century ago, yet its life of active usefulness, even barring destruction in a sea fight, is comparatively brief. So rapid are the advances in the science of naval architecture and armament that within ten years of her launching a Massachusetts or an Oregon has become a relic of the past, and is doomed to speedy oblivion in the junk yard. THE DIFFERENCE A thousand men as one are slain—'tis naught: No human brother must by thee be slain. 'Tis well' 'tis ill! It is as we are taught: This act is Glorious War; that, Murder plain! A thousand men each side—they meet, they clash. They kill—for private vengeance all un- fain: Thon diest—if thou slay in anger rash!— One act is Glorious War; one, Murder plain! —Edith M. Thomas in Collier's Weekly. A LARK. (Salisbury, England.) A close gray sky, And poplars gray and high, The country-side along; The steeple bold Across the acres old— And then a song! Oh, far, far, far, As any spire or star, Beyond the cloistered wall! Oh, high, high, high, A heart-throb in the sky— Then not at all! —Lizette Woodworth Reese in Lippincott's Magazine. TRAVELS OF PRAIRIE CHICKENS. How the Birds Have Adapted Themselves to Codditions. An Emporia man advances the theory that prairie chickens are so scarce about Emporia now because they migrate west every spring to hatch their young. This sportsman was out trying to find some the other day and failed, although he went clear to the Flint hills. All the farmers along the way told the same story. Each said there was a big bunch of chickens on his farm until spring and they then disappeared. The farmers thought it was something strange that the chickens should go west to hatch their young, and are looking for chickens to come back next winter. As a matter of fact, prairie chickens are not among the migratory birds, but the chickens in this part of the country seem to be adapting themselves to conditions. This country is being settled up closely and put under the plough, and the birds want wilder territory where their young will be safer than in a well settled locality. Then in the winter the birds come back to the cultivated country because there is plenty of food in the fields. Last year the attention of sportsmen was attracted by great flocks of chickens that came in from the northwest in the duck season. It was the first time they ever saw chickens migrating. A flock was seen near Americus which was said to have had 400 chickens in it. Last winter there were a number of flocks of chickens within four miles of town, which was an unusual thing. The birds were supposed to have come in from western Kansas to get the benefit of the plentiful supply of kaffir corn, which the chickens relish.—Emporia Gazette. The Pelican Made a Mistake A strange thing happened in St. James' park the other day. A pelican was sitting on the rock which forms its usual roosting place, apparently asleep, and a gull was swimming close by the water. Suddenly the pelican darted out its huge bill and picked the gull up bodily. Up went the bill into the air and the gull disappeared into the long pouch. The swallowing capacity of the pelican was overtaxed, however, and one could see by the moving pouch that a life and death struggle was going on inside. Ultimately the bill of the pelican was lowered, the gull tumbled into the water and swam away shaking its feathers. It then coolly perched on another rock a few yards away from the pelican, looking none the worse for its exciting experience.—London Chronicle. Ibex with Gold-Coated Teeth. Particulars were given in several London papers recently of sheep, when killed, being found with gold coated teeth ewing to their having cropped short grass in gold bearing districts of Australia. The story was not new, but it has called forth the following information from Alexandria: A British army officer in Cairo, Capt. Timins, states that when he was ibex shooting in the Sinai peninsula, in May and June last year, he bagged two fine old raams, and one of the first things that he noticed when skinning the heads was that all the sides of the back teeth were coated with a bright metallic substance of the color of Australian gold. Capt. Timins asked his "shakarri" the reason of this, and was told that it was due to the ibex feeding on a certain shrub.-London Daily News. But She Got the Coin. "Oh, Henry," exclaimed his wife, as she threw her arms rapturously about his neck, "I do love you so! Don't forget to leave me £5 when you go to town this morning, will you, dear?" "And this," muttered Henry, softly disengaging himself from her fond embrace, "this is what you might call being hard pressed for money."—London Tit-Bits. The Cholmondeleys Lord Rocksavage, whose coming of age was celebrated last week, is the heir of that remarkable family which has so puzzled the North Americans since the return of a New York traveler who said that he had met a family who spelt their name C-h-o-l-m-o-n-d-e-l-e-y and pronounced it "Brown."—London Free Lance. Effacing Spots on Tables. A woman's magazine recommends salt and sweet oil for highly polished tables or trays that have got marked by hot plates or pitchers. Mix the two into a thin paste and leave it on the mark or ring for an hour. Then polish with a dry cloth and the mark will have disappeared. New York Tribune. "HOORAY FOR GEORGY." I. White man dunno whar I at: Hooray fer Georgy! Bale er cotton en a beaver hat: Hooray for Georgy! Banks en banks er 'taters sweet: Punkin' ple en 'possum meat. Banjo chune fer de daincin' feet: Hooray for Georgy! II. I raise my voice, en I sing my psalm: Hooray fer Georgy! I fills de cup, en I drinks my dram: Hooray fer Georgy! Mister Winter say he comin' on, But I fries my meat en I grinds my co'n: Kaze I ain't been lynched sence de day I bo'n: Hooray fer Georgy! Hooray fer Georgy! -Atlanta Constitution. A LOOSE ENGINE The little station at Clatworth had wakened from its usual noontide siesta, for the advent of the important trains of the day—one from Anderford Junction, bringing passengers from the London express, the other from remote country towns, conveying those who desired to catch the up-train at the Junction for Waterloo. A man who had alighted from the down train looked round him with a smile of dawning recollection. Clatworth again after five years! Curious that chance should have obliged him to get out here, on his way south, and return to the Junction to retrieve an important package he had left behind there. A feeling of satisfaction stole over him at the difference between his past and present self. In those old days, when his commercial traveling had necessitated a fortnight's sojourn at this dead-alive village, he had been of little account, either in his own or any other world. Then his chance had come, and he had taken it. Five years of rough-and-tumble life in every quarter of the globe, with a success at the end of it that landed him high and dry on the level of prosperity, had nearly effaced all remembrance of Clatworth. As he crossed the line to the strip of geranium bordered gravel that formed the up platform, odds and ends of reminiscences began to piece themselves in kaleidoscopic fashion through his brain. There was the stretch of dusty road that led to the pound and the mill; across the fields rose the tower of the old church, embowered in trees. He was about to overtake some recollection that evaded him, when the train came in, the engine pulling up just opposite to him, and as he moved toward the carriages he was suddenly arrested by a face that brought back vividly, like a bolt from the blue, the most unpleasant experience of his career. The engine driver, leaning a little over his brake, was looking him full in the face with astonished and uneasy recognition, and, as the traveler took in the sunburnt features, the dark, menacing eyes, the strong, brown hand that seemed to twitch toward him, he remembered everything. There had been a quarrel between this man and himself over a girl—Eppie, the village belle. The young commercial had interfered with their courting, had captured Eppie's truant fancy with his affection of superiority and town ways, and, after persuading her to throw the other over, had played fast and loose with her himself. It had been a fortnight's interlude of mock sentiment and passion to him, a lifetime of desperate love and grief to her. When he said good-bye to her in the mill lane, and she realized that he had failed her, she gave one bitter cry, and, in answer to it, some one had run across the adjoining field, had leaped the intervening hedge, and had struck him down with one swift, savage blow. He had picked himself up and gone away with a curse in his heart, not daring to risk a fight, for the discarded lover was mad with jealousy. And now, for the first time, they were face to face again. For an instant both were silent; then the engine driver said, hoarsely, "What are you doing here?" And the other, with a contemptuous smile, said, "How's Eppie?" The driver's furious gaze flickered, and the traveler intuitively looked past the engine, across the station yard, to a patch of green, where, at a cottage door, a woman, young and comely, stood with a child in her arms. The blazing sunlight shone full on their faces, ganting in the gold of their hair, enhancing the clear white and red of their cheeks; they looked the embodiment of spring and summer, of childhood's and womanhood's health, mental and physical, in its perfection. And looking back into the driver's eyes, the traveler read the intolerable suspicion and jealous fear that flashed into them, and understood what had happened in those five years. His moment of revenge had come; he had neither waited for it nor counted on it, but he would take advantage of it to the full. "I was coming along to the Junction," he said, "but I'll wait for the next train. Then I can have a talk with Eppie about old times." And he deliberately turned his gaze toward the cottage door on the green. The driver's hand fell like a sledge hammer on the brake, and he seemed as if he would leap from the engine; but the guard had given the signal of departure, and the train glided slowly out of Clatworth, while the words "Curse you!" smote the air like the lash of a redhot whip. The traveler smiled, carried his bag along to the parcels office, and stayed for a word or two of converse with the porter, reminding him of their acquaintance five years back. "I remember the old place well," he said. "It looks just the same as it used to—little changed, any more than the people." And he went toward the level crossing, where the gates still barred the footway from road passengers, though no train was due. "What's the matter with your boss?" said the station master at the junction to the stoker of the Cltaworth train. "He seems to have gone queer—says he must get home for a bit, and he'll be back to take the 5:15 out, even if he has to run the whole way. Is it——?" with significant pause. "It's to do with his wife," said the stoker, slowly. "He sets great store by her and he thinks there's trouble up. But he'll keep his word sure enough and be back in time for her." And he nodded toward the engine. Meanwhile, the driver had made his way to the "goods" just starting for Clatworth. It seemed an eternity to him until his cottage came in sight, and he stumbled out of the van like a man who had had too much strong drink; but the porter laid a detaining hand on him and pointed toward the waiting room, round the door of which a group of people clustered, peering and whispering. "What's up?" said the driver, huskily. "You remember that commercial chap as was hanging around here five years since or thereabouts? He came back this afternoon and missed his train somehow, so he went across to the parcels office and put his bag in, and stopped there along of me, it might have been a couple of minutes or more. I never thought to warn him of the loose engine as follows you up to the junction—'twasn't as if he was a stranger; he must 'a' known well enough. He could see the gates was back. He was looking over his shoulder as he set his foot on the line, and I shouted out to him then, for I could see the engine round the bend, and he nodded back, with something I couldn't catch; and then, before I could get to him—it was all over!" The man lowered his voice. "He was cut right in two," he said, "and he's in there. Best not look at him. I think"—he hesitated—"I think Eppie's wanting you. She saw it happen and ran across here to know who 'twas. And I wouldn't tell her. You'd best tell her yourself. She said it made her feel rare and nervous about you, and she'd be glad when the five-fifteen brought you back. She'll be main glad to see you before your time." The engine driver, shaking like a leaf, went across the green to the cottage door. It opened as he reached it, and Eppie's arms were around his neck. "Oh, Jim," she said, "if it had been you! Thank God, it wasn't you!"—Mrs. Heren-Max-well in The Sketch. Sudden Rain. They flash upon the window-pane From skies grown swiftly dark— The wild, keen lashes of the rain; They make my heart their mark! Even so can tears—tears not my own, The very daylight blind; Across my heart the griefs are blown Of all my human kind! —Edith M. Thomas in Smart Set. Corn Fodder. A writer in The Farmers' Review says: "The way that suits us best is to cut the corn when thoroughly matured, chock it and husk it when dry. The stalks are then stacked and shredded from time to time through the winter. By leaving the stalks whole until time for feeding, their aroma is better preserved, and the shredded fodder is then more palatable. We use shredded fodder mixed with dried brewers' grains, and steamed for the horses and colts which are running out, along with one feed of hay a day. By using shredded fodder for cattle once a day, we saved one feed of hay, and found that it did not decrease the milk flow. The top and bottom of stacks we cut for bedding, and it makes most excellent material for that purpose." Deep Plowing. Experiment has shown that deep plowing on some soils is the reverse to beneficial. It is safe to say, however, that there is no soil but would be benefited for the growth of most crops by being deeply stirred by subsoiling, which, loosens, without turning out, the subsoil, and the deeper this is done the more benefit received. Aside from any additional plant food that may thus become available, the mechanical condition permitting excess of moisture to rapidly settle away from the surface, where at times it is so detrimental and its retention in reach of the roots of the crop, at a time when it is absolutely necessary for the proper perfection of the same, are both of sufficient importance to make very deep subsoiling much more generally practiced than it is at this time. Farmers cannot too strongly have it impressed upon their minds that all plant food is assimilated in a liquid form. No matter how much plant food there may be in the soil, if from any cause it is unavoidable, then it may as well not be there for any benefit it is to the crop. Fertility is important, but not always of first importance, while the control of moisture is. In all stiff clay soils, which are especially benefited by disintegration by frosts, or by sunshine and rain, the turning over of the same to any depth will be beneficial; while light sandy soils deficient in depth would not receive any benefit and might receive temporary injury by turning over say to a depth of ten inches. Careful thought and observation will usually guide the farmer toward the proper treatment of his soil for the crops he expects to grow. When to Build a Creamery. The creamery swindles that are now being worked in various parts of Missouri when they have been exposed will probably make communities really adapted to dairying overcautious about engaging in the business. Prof. R. M. Washburn of the Missouri agricultural college, who has had wide experience in the creamery business, gives the following information that will help communities to determine when it is wise to build a creamery. "Wherever the milk from at least 400 cows can not be guaranteed within a radius of five miles," says Prof. Washburn, "the creamery had better not be built. The cost of making a pound of butter will be about 6 cents, and no farmer company can stand such expense. If 500 or 600 cows can be secured in the five-mile radius, the cost of making a pound of butter can be reduced to 3½ or 4 cents, which is a profitable basis of business, and the creamery will benefit the community. A good little creamery that can handle this amount of business can be built and equipped for $2000 or $2500, if the company will let the 'creamery proprietors' alone and buy an outfit of some reputable dealer. If a cheese factory is for some reason preferred, for the same number of cows it ought not to cost more than $1000 or $1200. As a rule it is best for the farmer to send his milk to a creamery already established, even if he has to haul it farthur, as this will help to increase the output of the plant and lessen the cost of making a pound of butter, thus enabling the concern to pay a higher price for butter fat." The Guinea Fowl. It would be a good plan for all poultry raisers to have a few guinea fowls about their premises. They are hardy, good-natured and beautiful. It is well to keep them as tame as possible, and always have them about the home, as they make an excellent "watch dog;" their shrill cry frightens away hawks and other murderers. The poultryman's greatest enemy in the south is the sparrow hawk, and, our neighbors have lost as many as a dozen chickens a day by hawks alone, while we never lost but three chicks from that source and we believe all credit due to the guinea. They live and prove profitable for eight or ten years, and no farm should be so crowded but that it could make room for at least one pair of guineas. They destroy a vast amount of insects, and clean the fields of seeds that would otherwise go to waste, costing almost nothing to raise, and no better meat can be found in the poultry line, unless it be turkey.— Poultry Herald. Guinea fowls are not appreciated on the farm; they are not only good for the purpose indicated, but they have an intrinsic worth that entitles them to a place in every farm barnyard. The young fowls come about as near an edible product as prairie chicken as it is for an animal to approximate another in this respect. The eggs are generally set under a chicken hen, that the young fowls may be kept tame by being raised about the house or premises, but the writer has a guinea hen that this year has raised two broods of young, one of thirteen and the other of ten, that are gentle and come to call with the other fowls. A peculiarity of guineas is that they continue to follow the mother hen until they begin to lay. They may take up with another hen, or even a rooster, while the mother is sitting, but as soon as she comes off with young chickens they will go back to her. Filial love is a commendable trait, but in this instance might well be dispensed with, as the guineas are liable to trample the young chickens.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Winter Poultry Directions. In order to get early eggs some extra feed in addition to the ordinary ration generally given by farmers is needed. As a rule the trouble on the farm is that after corn is gathered there is an overabundance of grain lying around, and in consequence the fowls became too fat. All farmers have hay to spare, at least they should have, and a few pounds per week fed to hens will greatly increase the egg production. Clover hay is best, but any kind is good. Feed as follows: Cut into as short lengths as possible (1/4 to 1/2 inch) and in the evening fill a 2-gallon bucket full, cover and place on the kitchen stove and allow it to boil as long as there is fire. When the morning fire is built allow the hay to heat again; then drain off the water and mix with the hay three quarts of wheat bran, or enough to make is crumbly. This will make nearly two gallons of feed. Give it to 100 hens as a morning feed. Remember, this is for cold weather and for fowls that are at liberty on the farm. In the evening late supply what they will consume of corn one day, and oats next, and so on. Be sure to give plenty fresh water every day, and on very cold mornings it is a good idea to make the water slightly warm. If you do not, it will freeze at once and be of no service. Be sure the henhouse has good, tight ends and sides and always front the house to the south. The warmer the fowls are in winter, without supplying artificial heat, the more eggs they will lay and the earlier they will become broody. If eggs are wanted for hatching purposes do not have too many cocks. One made to fifteen hens for the farm is much better than two, if all run together. Dispose of all hens that are past the profitable age, which is, generally speaking, three years, and do not expect fertile eggs from cocks four to six years old. It is best to use either one or two year old males.—North Carolina Experiment Station Bulletin. Pruning Fruit Trees. Begin early in the life of the tree to shape it. A young tree should consist of a central leader with the main branches distributed evenly about it, forming a well-balanced head. On no account should a tree be set with a decided fork in the trunk. The point at which a limb should be removed is just at the upper part of the shoulder which will be at the base of each limb where it joins the main trunk. If we cut closely, the size of the wound is increased without to any appreciable extent decreasing the size of the stub. If the cutting is further from the tree, the scar is still the same size; and a long stub is left over which it will take a tree years to grow. If possible, avoid removing large limbs, and the best way to do this is to begin when the tree is young and prune it systematically and carefully. If it is necessary to remove a large limb, use a saw, cutting it a short distance from the bottom first, then saw down from above, and the limb can be removed without fear of splitting off below. Large wounds should be smoothed over with a knife, then covered with gum shellac dissolved in alcohol. In a general way, summer pruning promotes fruitfulness, while if wood growth is desired, prune in winter. The explanation of this is that great growth and great fruitfulness do not go together. A plant must reach a certain degree of maturity before it will produce fruit and an abundance of plant food at the time the buds are forming is desirable for best results. Now, if by summer pruning part of the branch is removed, the growth is checked, and as the part removed lessens the demand for plant food, it can be devoted to the production of fruit buds. If the tree is allowed to go into winter quarters undisturbed at the end of the season, the roots and tops are in a sort of equilibrium, or balance each other. Now, if during the dormant period a considerable part of the top is cut off, a strong pressure of sap is brought to bear on the remaining buds and a greater supply of nourishment is furnished for growth of each. The result is that a large growth of wood results, and when the time comes the following season for the formation of fruit buds, plant food is not abundant and few blossoms are produced. A. Puzzler. Bishop Henry C. Potter tells a story of a clergyman out west who addressed a Sunday school class, says an exchange. After a short discourse he wound up by saying in a very paternal and condescending way: "And now is there a-a-n-y little boy or a-a-n-y little girl who would like to ask a question?" Getting no response, he repeated his query, and then a shrill, piping little voice, in the rear of the room, called out: "Please, sir, why did the angels walk up and down Jacob's ladder when they had wings?" "Ah, yes, I see," said the nonplused preacher. "And now, is there a-a-n-y little boy or girl who would like to answer little Mary's question?" A Polite Request. The Japanese proprietor of a tea shop in the east end of London has been much annoyed by the incessant howling of his neighbor's dog under his window while he was trying to sleep. There came a night when his patience gave way. He raised the window, stuck his head out, and called to his neighbor in terms that indicated that his English environment was gradually undermining his native politeness. "Mist' Jones," he said, "will you do the kindness for request the honorable dog that he stop his honorable bark? If you don't, by gosh, I knock his head off!"—London Tit-Bits. Salvation with Food Fourteen-year-old Emma, who had come home from her first day's schooling in elementary physiology, was questioned by her parents as to what she had learned. "Papa," she complained, "I don't think I lige physiology." "Why not, my dear?" "Well, teacher was explaining digestion to us today, and she said we had to mix salvation with every mouthful of food."—Harper's Weekly. Why He Changed His Mind "We have an invitation to float down White river with a canoe party," said a Nevada contractor to a Nevada lawyer. "I'm too busy to go—couldn't think of it," replied the lawyer. "They tell me," continued the contractor, "there is a bar about every half mile." "A what?" "A bar." "Every half mile?" "Every half mile." "How long does it take a canoe to travel a half mile?" "About ten minutes." "I might arrange to go," said the lawyer. "I need a rest. Tell the boys to hold the place for me. I'll be with them if I don't break a leg."—Kansas City Journal. Cure to Stay Cured. Wapello, Iowa, Oct. 10.—(Special.) One of the most remarkable cures ever recorded in Louisa County is that of Mrs. Minnie Hart of this place. Mrs. Hart was in bed for eight months and when she was able to sit up she was all drawn up on one side and could not walk across the room. Dodd's Kidney Pills cured her. Speaking of her cure. Mrs. Hart says: "Yes, Dodd's Kidney Pills cured me after I was in bed for eight months and I know the cure was complete for that was three years ago and I have not been down since. In four weeks from the time I started taking them I was able to make my garden. Nobody can know how thankful I am to be cured or how much I feel I owe to Dodd's Kidney Pills." This case again points out how much the general health depends on the Kidneys. Cure the Kidneys with Dodd's Kidney Pills and nine-tenths of the suffering the human family is heir to will disappear. Youthful Savings. Harry and Charlie, aged 5 and 3 respectively, have just been seated at the table for dinner. Harry sees there is but one orange on the table, and immediately sets up a wailing that brings his mother to the scene. "Why, Harry, what are you crying for?" she asked. "Because there isn't any orange for Charlie." When baby Alice first saw a cow with a bell around its neck, she thought it so funny that nothing could induce her to leave the spot. She stood watching the cow until it slowly walked away. Then, when the bell began to ring, she turned delightedly to her mother exclaiming: "Oh, mamma, does the cow ring the bell when she wants the calf to come to supper?"—Little Chronicle. THE UNITED STATES WILL SOON KNOCK AT THE DOORS OF CANADA FOR WHEAT. A Crop of 60,000,000 Bushels of Wheat Will Be the Record of 1904. The results of the threshing in Western Canada are not yet completed, but from information at hand, it is safe to say that the average per acre will be reasonably high, and a fair estimate will place the total yield of wheat at 60,000,000 bushels. At present prices this will add to the wealth of the farmers nearly $60,000,000. Then think of the immense yield of oats and barley and the large herds of cattle, for all of which good prices will be paid. The following official telegram was sent by Honorable Clifford Sifton, Minister of the Interior, to Lord Strathcona, High Commissioner for Canada: "Am now able to state definitely that under conditions of unusual difficulty in Northwest a fair average crop of wheat of good quality has been reaped and is now secure from substantial damage. The reports of injury by frost and rust were grossly exaggerated. The wheat of Manitoba and Northwest Territories will aggregate from fifty-five to sixty million bushels. The quality is good and the price is ranging around one dollar per bushel." Frank H. Spearman, in the Saturday Evening Post, says: "When our first transcontinental railroad was built, learned men attempted by isotherman demonstration to prove that wheat could not profitably be grown north of where the line was projected; but the real granary of the world lies up to 300 miles north of the Canadian Pacific Railroad, and the day is not definitely distant when the United States will knock at the doors of Canada for its bread. Railroad men see such a day; it may be hoped that statesmen also will see it, and arrange their reciprocities while they may do so gracefully. Americans already have swarmed into that far country, and to a degree have taken the American wheat field with them. Despite the fact that for years a little Dakota station on the St. Paul Road—Eureka—held the distinction of being the largest primary grain market in the world, the Dakotas and Minnesota will one day yield their palm to Saskatche Reducing Fat by Taxation. The British Medical Journal suggests that "as luxuries should be taxed rather than necessaries a superfluity of fat, which is mostly the result of luxurious living, may not unfairly be regarded as a fitting object of taxation." One municipality in Sweden already taxes superfluity of fat. —The eel has two separate hearts. One beats 60 the other 160 times a minute. AND WHEAT AT PRESENT IS WORTH $1 A BUSHEL The oat and barley crop will also yield abundantly. Splendid prices for all kinds of grain, cattle and other farm produce for the growing of which the climate is unsurpassed of which the climate is unsurpassed. About 150,000 Americans have settled in Western Canada during the past three years. Thousands of free homesteads of 160 acres each still available in the best agricultural districts. It has been said that the United States will be forced to import wheat within a very few years. Secure a farm in Canada and become one of those who will produce it. Apply for information to Superintendent of Immigration, Ottawa, Canada, or to Authorized Canadian Government Agent, T. O. Currie, Room 12, Callahan Bldg., Milwaukee, WI. GOSSIP FOR THE LADIES. --- A. Lucky Boy. I've got my parents and three aunts 5 Uncle Ned. and Jo. I've got my picture and these units And Uncle Ned, and Jo, been, and they're all - Elizabeth Lincoln Gould in Good Housekeeping. The Woman of Thirty. When one knows the age of a woman one knows the woman. The very fact that she permits you to know her age exposits her character. She no longer masquerades. She has lost a certain un certainty, an evanescent delicacy, that was irresistible charm. Women, like philosophy, are divided into two classes, the knowable and the unknowable. Also like philosophy, it is the unknowable woman who is the speculable. Therefore to get her at her highest capacity, she must be unmarried and about 30. The married woman presents certain inescapable tell-tale data. She has children, and those children have apparent ages, two facts which go far in determining her annals. If she is unmarried and is not "about 30," she is under 30, again a definite fact. Being "about 30" is indefinite. She may be more or less. No one hazards a guess. There is a delightful vagueness in being "about 30." It has nothing to do with dates; and many of us who from our youth up have felt no attachment for dates can forgive the unattached their confessed indifference—The Reader. A Woman's Happiness. An engaged girl, who went away for the summer, bore the separation from her lover very well as long as his letters to her were filled with loneliness and despair. Thus the first part of the summer was joyous and gladsome. Whenever she would get a letter that was particularly miserable she would put on her shortest dress, with open-work stockings, and, with boisterous spirits, would go out onto the piazza and flirt outrageously with the attenuated old professor, who, having lost his memory, still continued to visit the resort. She would also go to bed on these nights singing a song, and with a happy smile on her lips, after having re-read her lover's letter. It happened, however, that, as the summer wore on, her lover's letters grew somewhat less despondent and gave occasional accounts of little pleasures that had come his way, whereupon the girl got a grouch, and, failing to see the old professor, went for long walks alone, and noticed every time her mother's hat was on crooked, and began to find fault with her lover, and tell him that his melancholy letters had spoiled her summer. Moral--A woman's ideal of happiness is only fully realized when she knows some man is unhappy about her.-Cincinnati Times-Star. The Summer's End. Our grandmothers were firmly of the opinion that the only proper way to pack white things for the winter was "rough dried." Under this system they can be dumped into anything and stored away with no trouble. But the trouble comes in the spring, when they must be gotten out in a hurry, looked over and sent to the laundry before they can be worn. It is just as well to have them ironed now, as carefully as if they were to be worn tomorrow, and put away already for wear. Nor will they yellow by this process, if properly put away. The paper and white wax used in packing them will be yellowed, but the garments will come forth fresh and white in the spring. When the articles have been carefully washed and ironed begin packing, with a basis of supplies consisting of plenty of white wrapping paper, white tissue paper and thin cakes of white wax. Stuff the sleeves of frocks and shirtwaists with tissue paper, to prevent mussing. Fold and between each fold lay several thin slabs of the wax. Then wrap the whole garment in white paper, and close each edge, so that the air will not reach it. Tie firmly, and put away in the drawer or trunk where they are to repose until next season. No housewife need be cautioned against putting away things with even the least spot upon them. The tiniest stain will "set" and spread past all eradication. Draperies, muslins and cretonnes and such things, should have the dust beaten out, even if they do not require washing. Most of them do, however, and these should be carefully ironed and rolled around a thick round stick to prevent creasing. They should then be wrapped in white paper as the gowns have been and put away.—Selected. Relaxation for Women. In this busy world of ours—or rather in these busy cities—rest is absolutely necessary to the society woman, the housewife or the woman of business, for all women are high strung and need to put on the brake once in a while or trouble invariably results. Any stranger visiting our shores is impressed with the extreme nervousness of our people, which is shown in the many attitudes they assume within a short space of time and the difficulty with which they keep their hands still for more than a few minutes at a time. Indeed, it is not uncommon to hear women complain of being so tired out and so nervous that they simply must find something to do, being unable to sit still for any length of time. Such a state of affairs is deplorable, and bodes ill, not alone for the women concerned, but for the future generations as well. Rest is absolutely necessary to each human being; how else can we expect to be well poised, clear headed and self possessed? Extreme nervousness is akin to dementia, and the women of today must call a halt and put a stop to the pace that kills ere it is too late. It is advisable that every woman should rest each day for a short period. It is not necessary to sleep, but it is well to retire to one's own room, remove all tight clothing, don a lounging robe and lie down. Relax all the muscles; let go, as it were, feel all the tension under which you have been holding yourself slacken little by little, and shut out all care from your mind. There are those who claim this cannot be done, they have so much on their minds, their burdens are so heavy, and so on. Dear Woman, your burden is not so great but someone else has borne as heavy a burden before; you are not alone in your trouble, and you can forget it if you will, for it is your duty to be superior to all outside influences. Learn to take rest in activity, and you will learn a health-giving secret, and you must learn this if you wish to be well. By lying down for even fifteen minutes each day and relaxing (it is possible to lie down and fret arid worry quite as much as if standing up) much benefit will result, for this gives the tired, nervous woman time to collect her wits, and ap- pear fresh and in her right mind when evening comes and brothers, father or husband return from their daily labors. There are many little ways in which a woman may rest at other times. When waiting for a car at a station, it is wise to sit down squarely on the seat and calmly wait; not on the edge of the seat, fidgeting until the car arrives. That is the way, and the only way, to overcome this nervous, fidgeting affliction that has taken possession of our women of late.—Health Culture. The Earliest Influences It is supposed that every mother wishes her child to be perfect. She may have it so if she will observe the natural laws of life. Inheritance and environment are the keys to the situation. First, let her realize that the child inherits personal appearance, disposition, characteristics and disease from its ancestors, either remote or near, and she will try to bring her own personality to its highest standard. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes was right when he said we must begin to train a child two hundred years before it is born, but much may be accomplished by its own parents, if they do their duty. The expectant mother is exceedingly susceptible to all influences, and through her impressions, a child may be affected. At no other time is she so easily impressed; good or bad, beautiful or homely objects leave their indelible impress upon her and her unborn child. The ancient Greeks knew this, and those beauty loving people took pains to surround the woman with objects of grace and loveliness. Believing also in the laws of heredity, they made a law which each year compelled the most beautiful young man and maiden to marry, and thus perpetuate their beauty. Intellect is transmissible from parents to children, but it is not a proved fact that real genius is. It requires a special effort of nature to make a real genius, and as if exhausted from the effort rests for several generations. Shakespeare, Milton, Socrates, Buffon, Aristotle and Plato did not transmit their magnificent genius to their offspring but in one way we may explain this by saying that none of them had brilliant wives. Sons inherit their intellects from their mothers, and the wives of the men mentioned may have lessened the qualities transmitted by them. Those women who have been celebrated for their mentality have reflected the genius of their fathers. Hypatia, Madame de Stael, Arete and George Sand were all the daughters of philosophers. Walter Scott, Burns, Ben Johnson, Goethe and Byron were the sons of women famous for the brilliance of their intellect and language. Within our own circle of acquaintances we may not similar inheritances. We know that none of the great statesmen or literary men of our own times have brilliant sons, but many of them have daughters far above the average mentally. This explains sex-intellectuality.—Maude Murray Millan in The Pilgrim. Arcady at Home. I may be writing to someone who has a home remote from her own kith and kin, a home apart from neighbors, with long intervals of silence and brooding. There are such homes. Fortunate it is if in them is a cradle in the living room, if little feet patter up and down the stair, and if there are friendly cats and dogs that make themselves a place beside the fire. A mother can never feel herself an exile if her children are around her. One such lonely woman wrote me not long ago, "I stand at the door, and listen to the sound of hoof-beats until they die in the distance, and know that I have seen the last of my husband for the whole day. He waves his hand at the end of the lane, and is gone. He likes this big new country, with its great spaces, and he lives in the future when we are all going to be rich. But I don't care for a big, empty, level landscape. I pine for the hills and the sea. I long for the dear people in the little home village, for the gossip and the familiar faces, and the church fairs, and the little things that happen. Nothing happens here. But, thank God, the children are rosy and healthy and grow like young colts. Won't you tell me what to read when winter days come, and I feel as if I were on the edge of nowhere? You live in God's country and don't know what homesickness means." You may imagine that it is a pleasure to correspond with a sister who is far away and discouraged, who in some of her low moods can hardly enjoy her children's company. In her case, as in that of many another, loneliness and home-sickness are aggravated by continual drudgery and the pressure of routine. Husbands have over wives the decided advantage that they go out for a daily change of scene, and return at night to an environment that greets them with cozy comfort and a smiling welcome. Office, shop, ranch, farm, field, whatever place of toil a man has, he goes to it daily, and in due course he returns. Out on the ocean the sailor may toss in a wild gate, but he does not lose heart, for somewhere on the shore, where the lamp is burning and the kettle sings, there is a home, there is a wife, there are babies. Heart's desire is always satisfied when one goes home, but not always does heart's desire incline to stay there. This is why, when you stand on the wharf and wave good-bye to the friends who are to cross the ocean, you need not waste a sigh on them. They are going away for a good time, and will return to their Arcady by and by. Your sympathy must be for the ones who stay at home, abide by the stuff, and accept the monotony of the daily grind. Margaret Sangster in Woman's Home Companion. A Weekly Sermon. Despite all efforts to lift housekeeping into the realm of high art, the average woman hates it. She may not say that she hates it, but she does. Back of her spasmodic, zeal in the cooking class and underlying her scientific roasts and artistic ices, is a deep and abiding distaste for the whole business. Yet there is no work in the world more healthful. There is no work that will drive away the blues or dissipate ill-temper like sweeping a room or washing dishes. I know one woman who says: "When I am so nervous that it seems as though I should fly into a thousand pieces I go into some closet or cupboard that needs overhauling and proceed to set it in order; and when it is done I have more than the orderly shelves, boxes and bags as a reward for my work. My nervous fit has disappeared. I am clear-brained and strong-hearted again. The doctors are wise to recommend light housework to their patients." But I've never heard my friend say that she would like to put cupboards and storerooms in order once a week, or even once a month, or that she would like to "do up" the daily breakfast dishes. Chief among the charges against housework is that it will not stay done. Rooms do not stay swept and dusted; pies disappear, while the appetite for the same remains. The laundry basket yawns and the darning basket likewise. The housekeeper who has set her house in order, who has replenished her larder with good things, is tempted to cry out, "If this could only stay so!" It does not, however. Housekeeping, like history, repeats itself, and because of this never-endingness women early learn the rhyme: A man works till set of sun. But woman's work is never done. Admitting that the last line of this immortal couplet is true, how about the first line? So far as I have observed, a man's work does not stay done any more than a woman's. The bookkeeper adds his columns today, but other columns confront him tomorrow. The editor lays his pen and scissors down tonight only to take them up again tomorrow; the real estate man and the book agent have use for their eloquence day in and day out. Hod-carrying and selling dry goods, teaching and making shoes seem to flourish the week round. As for man's work being till set of sun only, how many of them study, write, post books over hours, then begin again next morning and do the same thing over again? In truth, I do not know of any work in the world that is done once for all—not even the undertaker's. Was it Josh Billings who said that it is just as well not to know things as to know things that "ain't so?" Proverbs and their kin are said to be the crystallized wisdom of the ages, when, in fact, they are half the time neither wise nor true. The above quoted couplet plainly belongs to the class that "ain't so." And there are plenty others that should be accepted with the "grain of salt." Every day we hear someone say, "He who hesitates is lost." when the truth is that nine times out of ten it is he or she who hesitates that is saved. The impulses of the average human being are not so infallible that one can always trust oneself to follow them, and the sober second thought is often a great improvement on the first. "A penny saved is twopence earned," is another bit of precious nonsense. What folly it leads one into sometimes. The woman who pins her faith to this saying will walk miles to save a penny on a yard of muslin, not taking into account the expenditure of nerve force that is of more value than many nickels. "Economy is the road to wealth" only when it means a just estimate of relative values. A man may delve and save through a lifetime and die poor. It is he who sends his money broadcast at the right moment who wins. "Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well" is another one of the sayings that will bear investigation. Household tasks may now and then be slighted. Exacting as these demands are they may sometimes be set aside. It is the wise housekeeper who knows when this can be done. Better a little dust on the furniture, or a little comfortable disorder in the sitting room than go to bed with throbbing nerves or sacrifice the cozy chat with the children. There are some things for which absolute spick-and-spanness do not compensate. In sewing there are times when a good long stitch answers just as well as many fine ones. That work is well done which is done according to the requirements of the occasion. In these days of increasing demand upon brain, nerve and heart, the woman who knows how to practice the noble art of slighting with wisdom, judgment and conscientiousness has mastered a valuable knowledge.—Charlotte Perry in What To Eat. Points for the School Girl About Preserving Her Health. The girl who has spent the summer out of doors, as nearly every girl has, comes back to school feeling tired. The confinement of the schoolroom brings about a muscular reaction that is very depressing after a summer of sports. Her spirits, too, feel the strain and the difference between outdoor life and life of the books and atlases is very pronounced. She gets up in the morning feeling listless and goes to bed in the same manner. It is a severe test upon vitality this sudden change from outdoor life to indoor life. And it is not only the girl student who feels this change. It is felt by school children of all ages and by every child who has spent the summer in the country. The child who has lived in the open will have a tired, stuffy feeling indoors. But to return to the subject of indoor life. The student who has been away for her vacation and who now enters the schoolroom, and who feels the reaction of indoor life, must begin her treatment by taking care of her lungs. It is the cramped up things that make all the mischief. And the housewife who lives indoors and who feels tired and who is growing wrinkled and old and fat, can restore her youth and her health by changing the air of the house. Remember that the trouble is caused by several things. First, the sudden change from being out of doors to being indoors. The muscles have been given plenty of work to do and now they are idle. They do not work easily. It is just like letting a machine get rusty and out of sorts. Secondly, there is trouble with the indoor air. There is not one room in a hundred that is ventilated properly. To ventilate a room as it should be ventilated there must be a transom over the door and the window must be left open. If there is no transom, there should be two windows in the room, and both should be open. If possible keep windows open on opposite sides of the room. Open them wide so that there is no draught. The air will not hurt one. As for the dust, never mind it. If there is a little room with only one window in it, be sure to open the window both top and bottom. This makes a circulation of air. Fresh air comes in at the bottom of the window, while the air one breathes rushes out of the opening in the top. This is a very good arrangement for the small room. A lattice door is even better. For the air will play through the slats and the windows will keep a fresh supply always moving. The school girl can usually manage to have a window opened in the schoolroom. As for the girl's own room it will be to her interest to keep the air nice. Fresh complexions depend upon pure air to a great extent, and one can almost tell by the looks of a girl's face and by the light in her eyes the condition of the room in which she sleeps. A close, heavy dusty room will always make dull eyes and a nasty skin. Coming home from the country is trying for many other reasons beside that of being cooped up in a closed room. One misses many things which one gets in the country. And the principal thing is the change in diet. In the country one may not have had fresh meat, and one may have had poor tea and coffee, but one had plenty of fresh vegetables. Corn on the cob was plentiful, and one had stringbeans and spinach and plenty of other green things, not counting the fruit which one picked up under the trees and ate between meals. This miss-or-hit diet somehow did not give one indigestion. Indigestion comes when one gets home. And, though the roasts are done to a turn, as no country roast ever was done, and though the steaks would melt in the mouth, while the country steak was leather, and though the city chickens are tenderer and more plentiful than the country fowls, still one does not feel right! The trouble is a vegetarian trouble. More fruit of all kinds is needed. Less shell fish, less rich meat, less of nearly everything that goes on the family table, and a great deal more of the country diet. It was skimping on everything except raw fruit and fresh vegetables. But it was long on beets, on onions, on turnips and on potatoes. And these are the very things the complexion and the spirits need. Don't break off abruptly. But give them up gradually—if give them up one must. Now, the school girl who feels the change from the meadow to the schoolroom, or the city woman who feels the difference between the piazza and the parlor can still keep to her old diet. She can still throw open the windows and she can still dress in loose clothing. She can keep the same style of dress which she wore while away—loose, comfortable, light and pretty—and the result will be very apparent in her improved spirits. The city woman, home from the farm, misses the scents of the country. She misses the sweet odors which were so invigorating and she feels the needs of the spices which were wafted into her windows at early morning. The city woman can supply herself with these sweet scents if she will cultivate the rose jar. If she will keep great pots of pot pourri in the halls and in the rooms. Each morning, after the rooms are dusted, the tops should be lifted off the jars and the rose leaves stirred. In the big jars there are all kinds of pulverized grasses and these will give forth sweet smells and send them sweeping through the hallways. The school girl can have her jar of pot pourri, and so she can always obtain a sweetly scented room. But the schoolgirl must exercise, so she can keep her muscles in good shape and her lungs full of air, even though she is no longer in the country.—Brooklyn Eagle. MONGOOSE SAVED MAN'S LIFE. Remarkable Story from India of Little Animal's Fight with a Cobra. One sultry afternoon a gentleman who was staying in India was lying in a hammock swung on the veranda of his bungalow. He was whiling away the time eating fruit and biscuits, when all at once he saw a little sharp-nosed, bright-eyed creature all covered with smooth fur and looking something like a bandicoot rat and something like a squirrel, come creeping slyly along the floor. He threw it a bit of banana, which at first startled it, and it acted as though it was going to run, but pretty soon it seemed to think better of it, and turned back and snapped up the morsel. The gentleman grew interested and gave it some biscuit crumbs, which it ate, by degrees becoming more familiar and inclined to make friends. Just then some one approached and the creature ran away. Then the gentleman was taken very ill with a fever, and one day when he was just beginning to recover he sent his servant away, and composed himself to take a nap. Just as he was about to doze off into dreamland he saw a horrible sight. Describing it, he says: "Creeping into the room from the veranda, coil after coil, was a huge hooded cobra, the deadliest snake in all India, more than 7 feet long, and as thick as a man's arm. For a moment I was fairly dumb with horror, and then, although I knew it was no use, I instinctively called for help; but my voice was so weak that it couldn't even have been heard in the next room. "On came the snake, rearing up its horrid spotted hood angrily, and blowing out its head, as it does when it means mischief. It had already got to the foot of the bed, and was just preparing to crawl up when I heard a skirr of tiny feet across the floor, and I saw my squirrel-rat friend, little Tommy. The brave little fellow never hesitated for a moment, but went right at the cobra like a tiger, and gave it a bite that drew blood like the cut of a knife." The upshot of the matter was, Tommy and the snake fought a duel, and upon its victory depended the life of the sick man. Again and again the rat-squirrel attacked the reptile, biting and biting, and always escaping the enemy's blows, until at last the rat-squirrel actually bit off the snake's head. But just as this happened the snake in its floppings knocked some glass off a table and the attendants in the house, hearing the crash, came rushing in. As it turned out, the little rat-squirrel was a mongoose. These creatures are the greatestests serpent killers in the world. Thus this gentleman, by making a pet of the little mongoose, had found a friend that actually saved his life.—Pearson's Weekly. Trees of Many Fruits. Many people who live on city lots long for fruit trees of their own from which they can gather fresh fruit instead of being dependent on the markets, but, owing to cramped garden area, they feel that an orchard is an impossibility. Mr. Vaughn of Pasadena was confronted by just such a problem, but he has cleverly found a way out of the difficulty. On the back of his town lot he had room for six fruit trees. He planted navel oranges and peaches and plums, and when they had become strong and sturdy he grafted and budded other varieties into them. The operations were all successful and now Mr. Vaughn has numerous varieties of fruit that ripen at all times of year and furnish an abundance for table use. On one naval orange tree Mr. Vaughn budded a tangerine, a grape fruit, a lemon and a blood orange, making with the navel orange itself five kinds of fruit on one tree. They all bear profusely, and the fruit is of extraordinarily large size. The peach trees were budded with numerous varieties of early and late peaches, as well as apricots and nectarines. These trees bear from the first of July to the first of November. The plum trees have been induced to produce many kinds of plums. If all the fruit raised from these six trees came from individual trees of their own kind, it would take something like a five-acre ranch to accommodate the orchard.—Country Life in America. The large terrapin ponds of Frank C. Lewis at Hunting Creek were destroyed by the great storm Wednesday night. Mr. Lewis is the largest terrapin raiser on the Chesapeake bay and annually ships hundreds of the finest diamond back terrapins in the world to the large hotels in New York, to the United States Senate's restaurant at Washington and to his customers scattered over the entire country The terrapin are put in still ponds, boarded and wired in, and lay their eggs in the sand. Many young terrapin are raised in this way, and altogether the industry has been a most profitable one. The terrific wind brought in the huge tide and completely flooded the ponds and drowned nearly all the terrapin. The animals were driven from the ponds and killed by the tossing of the choppy sea. Some were driven ashore and turned on their backs, and when the waves would beat over them finally died from exhaustion. The number of terrapin killed is about 1500, valued at $4000.—Onancock correspondence Baltimore Sun. How Battleships Are Protected. The thickness of armor on modern warships is truly astonishing. The side armor of a first-class battleship usually varies from $16\frac{1}{2}$ inches thick at the top of the boat to $9\frac{1}{2}$ inches thick at the bottom. The gun turrets are often protected by armor from 15 inches to 17 inches thick. No Time of Day [“If anyone ever reaches the north pole he will find no north, no east, no west, only south, whatever way he turns. The time of day is also a puzzling matter, for the pole is the meeting place of every mer'dian and the time of all holds good.”] “What will they do?” said the midshipmite, “With the north pole, if they find it?” “Run up the flag,” quoth old Jack Tar, “And set the watch to mind it. “Every man Jack who round his back Against the pole to shore it Will find, when he attempts to tack, South—only south—before it; No north, no east, no western way; In fact, no proper time of day.” “No time of day!” said the midshipmite. “What could be more complete? All times of day must be all right Where all mer'dians meet. "So there will be, beyond a doubt, Na proper time for 'turning out.' Or knocking midshipmites about, And, in that blest retreat, No time the galley sweets to lock, But 'plum-duff' all around the clock!" Adele M. Harward in St. Nicholas. A Voluble Vowel "Ungrateful people! Oh, dear! Oh, dear!" piped a small voice. "It is too bad! I am not going to stand it much longer. I'll just leave the English alphabet, I will, and go over to France, where they do try to pronounce me, even if it is queerly." Helen, who was just starting for school, looked about her. Who was talking? There was certainly no one in the room. "Hello," she cried, trying not to feel scared. "W-h-e-r-e are you, and w-h-a-t's your name?" stammered Helen. "I am the fifth vowel, and the way I am treated is perfectly shameful. I could excuse the baby calling me 'oo,'" went on Master U, with rising passion; "but when men of letters are careless, it is too much! Letters, indeed!" spitefully. "They are hardly men of consonants. I should transport them to Siberia, or at least to Russia, and then they'd miss the vowels! But it's just because we are a small family and useful that we are so imposed upon. Sister E is really the only one of us they treat at all decently, she always works so much for them. And sister O they respect a little, though when I'm with her they turn and twist us in all sorts of ways, especially if G and H join us." "But what do they do to you?" asked Helen, much interested in this long speech. "Do!" screamed U. "Why, they slight me! I'm only safe in books, or when they call the roll, that is to say the alphabet. Please spell 'duty.'" "D-u, doo, t-y, ty, dooty," said Helen, glibly. "Oh, of course." bitterly. "Now spell tutor.'" "T-u, too, t-o-r, tor, tootor." "Yes, you are just as bad as the rest. Never give a fellow half a chance!" "What do you mean, anyhow? Can't you explain?" asked Helen. U paused a moment, and then said firmly: "Of course I can. Take the word 'mute.' You've heard of that, I hope. Oh, you have! Well, do you call it 'moot?' "Of course not," said Helen, with a laugh. "Then you have no right to call duty 'dooty'; or, when my double first cousin W is in a word with E, you certainly shouldn't say 'noos' for 'news,' which ought to rhyme with pews. Do you understand?" "Why, yes!" said Helen, admiringly. "It really doesn't seem fair, when you put it that way, does it? I must try and thing of U more." smiling. "I only ask justice," said U, plaintively; "and as for thought," holding his head up proudly, "the highest classes in England and America always respect me, and linguists and elocutionists honor me," with emphasis. "Tell me something about your family—do!" urged Helen. "Ah! I'm glad to see you are interested in us," said U, graciously. "Well, let me see! We'll begin with brother A, as he's the head of the house. In the first place our pedigree is a long one—'way back to the old Romans, you know.'" "To be sure—the Latin text!" cried Helen, anxious to show she knew something. U nooded. "A, I and O are the strongest of us. They often stand alone. But sister E is in everything nearly—quite intrusive, I think. However, as I said, she is quite overworked, and can't help herself, poor vowel! But, to go on, brother I is an egotist, always strutting by himself, when he gets a chance, and swelling into capital. E and myself never have a chance to be big, except when we lead a sentence or begin a proper name. Then, there's sister O, the most emotional creature when she's alone, always surprised or shocked or sorry or glad. And now for myself," complacently, "I'm very dependent, you must know. G guards me a good deal, and Q rarely quite me—he! he! See?" Helen looked rather dubious for a moment, and then brightened. "Of course!" "I hate some of the consonants, though." U chattered on, with a pettish air. "N is always making me unhappy or uncomfortable; and with R—rough old thing!—I get rude, rush about, and run into some trouble or other always. It's fun sometimes to be with F; but people are often very disagreeable when I walk out between D and N—ha! ha! I have to laugh. You know I'm the last vowel in the alphabet, for W is only my double first cousin, and Y is a kind of foster brother of I. But it's awfully dull down there with V W X Y Z; they hardly ever go with me." Helen nodded thoughtfully. "And now," continued the letter, brightly, "before I leave—" but as Helen listened eagerly, the scene began to change. She found herself in a schoolroom, with her head on a desk, listening to a chorus from the reading class, led by the teacher. "Not dooty, but duty; not tootor, but tutor; not noos, but news; not stoopid, but stupid." "You'll catch it, going off nodding like that!" said a familiar voice in her ear, which sounded very like that of Mabel Lawton, her deskmate. "But where is U?" cried Helen, eagerly. "Where is you!" mimicked Mabel, smiling. "Oh, my eye, what grammar! Why, here I am, of course," with a convincing pinch. This rouser was effectual, but Helen never forgot her two minutes' dream.— A. J. Backus in St. Nicholas. When Salt Was Money. Many, many years ago salt was so hard to obtain, but so necessary to have, that Roman soldiers were paid part of their wages in salt. Now the Latin word for salt is sal, and from that came the word salarium, meaning salt-money. Finally the soldiers were paid only in money, but the term salarium was still used to designate these wages. From this old Latin word comes our English word salary. Do you see, then, why we say of a worthless fellow that he "is not worth his salt?" A Distinguished Bedroom. The house in Portland, Me., where Longfellow was born is now a tenement in the poorest part of the city, mostly inhabited by Irish. A correspondent writes us that a few years ago a teacher in Portland was giving a lesson on the life of the poet. At the end of the hour she began to question her class. "Where was Longfellow born?" she asked. A small boy waved his hand vigorously. When the teacher called on him his answer did not seem to astonish the rest of the class, but it was a cold shock to her. "In Patsy Magee's bedroom," he said. —Youth's Companion. BEAST AND WIRE. New Diversions of the Animal Kingdom in East Africa. The animal kingdom in British East Africa looks upon the 2190 miles of telegraph wire strung through that region as an innovation to be utilized. The wires arouse curiosity and stimulate experimentation. A number of genera and no end of species are trying to find the adaptation of the telegraph to their special purposes; and so the routine of the telegraph business is more or less crowded with incidents of an unusual character, some of which are mentioned in the latest official report. This speaks of monkeys as incorrigible. Many of them have been shot and thousands frightened, but they cannot get over the idea that the wires are merely a new facility for their athletic performances in mid-air. They have ceased to pay much attention to the locomotive, and even the shrieks of the whistle are not permitted to interfere much with the fun of swinging on the wire. Three wires are strung on the same line of poles for 584 miles between the Indian ocean and Victoria Nyanza, giving an opportunity for more complicated performances. The Kikuyu forest is mentioned as a place where monkeys, in their evolutions, sometimes succeed in twisting the wires together. The gentle giraffe is also a source of annoyance. He sometimes applies enough muscular energy to the bracket on which the wire is fastened to twist it around, stretching the wire and causing it to foul with other wires. The hippopotamus is also a nuisance, because he rubs up against the poles and sometimes knocks them over. These creatures, however, do not steal the wire. Thievery was the greatest evil with which the telegraph builders had to contend and the evil has only recently been suppressed. When the copper wire was stretched northeast from Victoria Nyanza through the Usoga country, the natives cut out considerable lengths of it; and at one time about forty miles of wire were carried away and never recovered. Passing caravans found also that they could help themselves along the way by cutting the wire and using it in the barter trade. The temptation was great and not always resisted, for wire would buy anything the natives had to sell. A great deal of energy was expended in stamping out wire stealing and it now seems to be a thing of the past. Fifty-nine offices are receiving and sending telegrams in British East Africa and Uganda. Wires connect the seacoast with Albert Nyanza, where Emin Pasha was so long cut off from the world by the Mahdists. Telephone messages are constantly being sent between Mombasa on the coast and Nairobi, 328 miles inland, and the telegraph business last year amounted to 42,759 messages.—New York Sun. Tramps Stay Away from Mountains "You never saw a cat bathing in the sea. You never saw a tramp in a mountainous country. Each spectacle is of equal rarity." The speaker, a geologist, smiled. The speaker, a geologist, smiled. "I know what I am talking about," he said. "In quest of geological truths I have traveled the country over many times, and I have yet to find a tramp among the mountains. Tramps avoid mountains as they avoid soap. "Hence New Hampshire, Vermont and the other mountainous states are singularly free from petty thieving and from all such troubles as hoboes cause. And hence, in those states, it is never necessary to lock the doors or the windows. "Tramps avoid mountainous districts because the walking is all uphill there and because the farms are few and far between. A fertile and flat country with the roads good and the farms close together suits the tramp."—Louisville Courier-Journal. A Philanthropic Joke. First a halfpenny and then a gold piece gave considerable amusement to a small crowd in the Rue Dounou, Paris. The former coin was placed on the pavement and lay untouched for an hour and a half before it was picked up by an old lady, who carefully placed it in her reticule, despite the derisive cheers which were accorded her by those who were watching. An American gentleman then placed a 20-franc piece on the ground, and as pedestrian after pedestrian passed without seeing it, they were startled by the uproarious laughter from doors and windows. They stopped short, looked confused and then hurried away with indignant glances at the merrymakers. The louis was at last picked up by a bent and feeble old man, who hobbled off with his treasure amid enthusiastic cheers.—London Daily Mail. Small. "How small have you felt?" she asked anxiously. "Well," he replied, "I have felt as small as a man in the presence of the head plumber." "That isn't enough." "I have felt as small as the Prohibition nominee for vice president." She shook her head. "Or as a man whose wife catches him in a lie." "That isn't anything." "I have felt as small as the man who made a righteous complaint to the president of a trolley line." She shook her head sadly. "That isn't anything to the way I feel," she said. "You know I have never been to Europe, and I've been talking with a girl who has just returned."—Life. How to Open a New Book. If books were rightly treated when they are newly bound there would be less likelihood of their backs being broken afterward by rough handling. The covers should be opened one at a time and laid as far back as the table upon which the book is resting; then gradually all the leaves, a few at the back and a few at the front of the book, should be laid upon the covers. The book will then be in condition for ordinary wear and the covers will not break away if not abused. When called suddenly away from a book which you are reading do not lay it face down on a table nor throw a handkerchief between its leaves, but have a book marker handy and place it between the leaves, closing the book.—New York World. Save Your Old Walnut. If you have any old walnut furniture keep it by all means. It is becoming rarer and more valuable all the time. Most of the pieces are ugly, because when walnut was in fashion taste was at a low ebb. An old bureau, table or chest or drawers may be made a thing of beauty with a little expenditure. In the first place the wood must be scraped of its disfiguring varnish and brass or glass knobs put on. Some pieces may have to be entirely remade, but this is frequently done with mahogany and other valuable woods.—New York Evening Post. 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 ADVERTISING RATES. One inch, one year. $15.00 Two inches, one year. 25.00 Three inches, one year. 35.00 Four inches, one year. 42.00 For larger space, special rates. Locals, 10 cents per line. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION One year ..... $2.00 Six months ..... 1.00 Three months ..... .50 Direct all communications to R. B. MONTGOMERY, 79 Fifth Street. HOW TO SEND MONEY.—Post Office Order, Express Order, Draft or Registered Letter. R. B. Montgomery will not be responsible for loss when sent in any other way. TO CONTRIBUTORS: All communications must be sent with the name and address of the sender as an evidence of good faith, but not necessarily for publication. No manuscript returned if not accepted, unless accompanied by stamps. EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS. "I know of the bravery and character of the Negro soldier. 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. Regular Republican Convention From the report of the Committee on Credentials to the REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION, which was unanimously adopted by that convention, June 22d, 1904. Your committee report it to be their final judgment that the convention which elected said John G. Spooner, J. V. Quaries, J. W. Babcock and Emil Baensch as delegates at large, and their alternates at large, to this convention from the state of Wisconsin WAS THE REGULAR CONVENTION OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IN WISGONSIN, and that the delegates elected by it are the regular elected delegates at large from the state of Wisconsin to the republican convention, and, as such, are entitled to seats in this convention. NATIONAL REPUBLICAN TICKET. For President of the United States— THEODORE ROOSEVELT of New York For Vice President— CHARLES W. FAIRBANKS of Indiana. At Large—A. R. HALL, Dunn. First—JOHN L. SHERON, Green. Second—J. M. BUSHNELL, Columbia. Third—JAMES H. CABONNIS, Grant. Fourth—FRED W. LORENZ, Milwaukee. Fifth—FRED W. CORDES, Milwaukee. Sixth—C. S. PORTER, Dodge. Seventh—H. A. BRIGHT, Jackson. Eighth—E. M'GLACHLIN, Portage. Ninth—GEORGE BEYER, Oconto. Tenth—M. D. KEITH, Forest. Eleventh—EDWARD L. PEET, Burnett. STATE REPUBLICAN TICKET. Governor— EDWARD SCOFIELD of Oconto. Lieutenant-Goveinor— GEORGE H. RAY of La Crosse. Secretary of Stae— NELS P. HOLMAN of Dane. State Treasurer— GUSTAVE WOLLAEGER, JR., of Milwaukee. Attorney General— D. G. CLASSON of Oconto. Railroad Commissioner— F. O. TARBOX of Ashland. Insurance Commissioner— WILLIAM C. ROENITZ of Sheboygan. Antwerp has passed Hamburg during the past year, and become the first port on the continent of Europe. Even in the old world this is an age in which nothing stands still. Michigan has produced some tall men, but now breaks her record by announcing that she has a 20-year-old youth who is 7 feet 8 inches tall and wears a boot 18 inches long. The population of Germany has increased 881,000 during the past year. It is now 59,495,000, and has increased 45 per cent. since the close of the Franco-Prussian war. Some of the new trolley cars at Cleveland have a speaking tube running from the rear platform to the front so that the motorman and conductor can talk with each other easily. The Czar has a brother, an uncle, four first cousins, ten second cousins, thirteen third cousins and a great-uncle. The first and second cousins are allowed to use the title "imperial highness." The Vermont State Society of the United Daughters of 1812 has recently come into possession of a piece of shell --- from a British ship which fought in the battle of Lake Champlain. The Peruvian government is about to establish a national museum of natural science at Lima. It will be divided into three departments devoted respectively to animal life, plant life and minerals. The town of Babylon, L. I., has begun suit to recover the value of clams taken from Great South bay, adjacent to the town of Islip, during May. Babylon claims riparian rights on the water front. There are a large number of rich Chinese bankers in this country, but, as a rule, they have confined their operations to Chinese colonies in the larger cities. One has now opened a bank on Wall street. The buildings in the burned section of Baltimore have all been renumbered since the great fire and none of them are numbered 13. People seem to be superstitions and have used $12 \frac{1}{2}$ when 13 should have been used. Irrigation plans already outlined in California, Oregon and the Dakotas will involve the expenditure, in round numbers, of $27,000,000, and reclaim a million of acres of land, capable of supporting a population of 500,000. It is fortunate for all concerned that the reported quarrel among the promoters of a Milwaukee airship has occurred before the ship is perfected far enough to take the contestants above terra firma to experience disastrous drops. A Bavarian electrician has found that an electric current will drive worms from the ground and has invented a machine, composed of a series of brass electrodes, which can be placed in a garden and so drive all the crawling things out of it. --- The baby czarowitz greatly outranks the German crown prince, for while the latter is only a lieutenant the former is already a colonel, and of a Finnish regiment at that. In fact, his command nearly lived up to its name at Liao Yang. A number of game cocks in express shipments have passed through New Orleans en route to the cocking mains of Matamoras. It is said about $10,000 worth of these birds are shipped into Mexico annually from the United States. About 60,000 water wheels are used for manufacturing in the United States, yielding 1,300,000 horse power, or one-quarter to one-third of the whole power used. Of this total 250,000 horse power is used by the 2000 mills in New England. A church of solid coral is a curiosity of the Isle of Mahe. This island, rising 3000 feet, is the highest of the Seychelles group in the Indian ocean, and its buildings are all from square blocks hewn from massive coral and glistening like white marble. It has been decided to remove the accumulation of smoke and grime from the exterior of the Masonic temple in New York. Six scrubmen are now at work with brush, soap and water, and hope to cover the 60,000 square feet of wall area in ten weeks' time. A novel scheme to induce birds to stay with us all winter instead of going south is suggested by a well-known New England ornithologist. He thinks that if there were a general building of bird houses, suitably arranged, they would be used as places of shelter. The longest telephone line in Germany is 742 miles in length and runs between Berlin and Paris. Then follow Berlin and Budapest, 612 miles; Berlin and Memel, 593 miles; Berlin and Basel, 577 miles. The line between Berlin and Frankfort is the most used, 485 communications being transmitted daily. The acknowledgement of Prof Orth of Berlin as to the superiority of the United States weather bureau, and similar frank compliments from the chief of the Berlin fire department concerning the American "fire laddies," ought to convince some doubting people that some superior things do not bear the brand "Made in Germany." The Prussian war department has determined to establish a sausage factory at Spandau for the purpose of supplying the garrisons in that vicinity with a product made from wholesome materials at the smallest possible cost. If the experiment proves successful other factories will be established at points where large bodies of troops are quartered. It has long been known that a boat sail shaped something like a Japanese umbrella would practically do away with all danger of a boat's capsizing, as the force of the wind on it would have no tendency to incline the boat. But no such sail had been found until last summer, when an English inventor made what he terms a "cyclone sail." It resembles a huge, flat sunshade pierced with holes and tilted slightly to one side of its handle, which represents the mast of the boat. Coal Dust and Lung Diseases. Some very surprising results which have attended a series of investigations made by a medical man in the mining districts of upper Silesia, Germany, are about to be made public. Among the many illnesses prevalent in his district lung diseases occupied proportionately a very low place, and consumptive persons on coming to reside near the coal mines recovered their health after some time without undergoing any special cure. These facts he is prepared to verify by statistics. The cures are attributed by him to the coal dust contained in the atmosphere, which, he alleges, has a drying and disinfecting influence on tubercle developments in the lungs. The probability of this statement is increased by the fact that the well-known lung remedy, creosote, is derived from coal tar, and it may possibly be present in a crude state in the coal dust in the atmosphere. It is now proposed to erect a sanitarium for consumptives in the district referred to, in order practically to test the efficacy of the new cure. London Standard. —Eighty per cent. of Portuguese peasants can neither read nor write. THE HOUSEHOLD Coconut Loaf Cake: Cream half a cupful of butter with two cupfuls of powdered sugar, and when very light add the well-beaten yolks of six eggs and a cup of milk. Gradually stir in two cups of flour with which have been sifted two teaspoonfuls of baking powder and a quarter of a teaspoonful of salt. Flavor the batter with the juice and grated rind of a lemon, and beat in two cupfuls of grated cocoanut. Last of all, fold in quickly and lightly the stiffened whites of six eggs. Bake in two loaf tins in a steady oven until a straw run through the thickest part of the cake comes out clean. When the cakes are cold cover them with an icing flavored with a few drops of essence of bitter almond. While icing is damp, strew thickly with grated cocoanut. Milk or White Bread. Into a bowl sift two quarts of white flour with a teaspoonful of sugar and a half one of salt. Into a scant pint of scalding milk stir a teaspoonful of butter and add a pint of boiling water. When this is lukewarm stir in a gill of lukewarm water in which a half-cake of compressed yeast has been thoroughly dissolved. Make a hole in the flour and pour in this liquid, work to a soft dough and turn out upon a pastry bread. Knead for ten minutes and set to rise in a bread pan for six hours, or until light. Make into loaves, knead each of these for at least five minutes and set to rise in a greased pan. Throw a cloth over them and stand for an hour, then bake. Sweet Apple Pickles. Select smooth apples below medium size and have them uniform. Peel carefully and leave the stems on. Allow two quarts of vinegar, four pounds of light-brown sugar, one ounce each of ground cinnamon and cloves. Tie the spice in little cheesecloth bags and some sticks of white cinnamon. When scalding hot put in enough apples to cook well. When they can be casily pierced with a broom straw skim out in a stone jar and cook the other apples. Pour the hot vinegar over the pickles, turn an inverted plate or saucer over the jar and tie up securely with white muslin. Home-Made Yeast. Three large potatoes boiled soft; a small half-cup of sugar, quarter-cup of salt. Pour the boiling water from the potatoes on the sugar and salt, mash the potatoes soft and mix all together. When lukewarm add a yeast cake dissolved in a gill of warm water. Cover and let it stand over night. In the morning beat it hard, take a large cupful out, cover and put it in a cool place to use instead of a yeast cake in the next raising. Then add a quart and a pint of water and milk to the remaining yeast, but no more salt or sugar. This will make five large loaves of bread. Dill Pickles. Make a brine so strong that an egg floats upon it, then add to the brine half its quantity of fresh water. Wash the cucumbers and put a layer of them into a crock, cover this layer with grape leaves, then with a layer of dill, using leaves and stems. Continue in this way until the crock is full. Fill the jar with the brine, tie a cloth over the jar, then place on this a plate and lay a weight on this. Every fortnight take off the cloth, wash it and replace. Rice with Tomatoes. Place a cupful of rice well washed in a double boiler, with two cupfuls of boiling water, adding a level teaspoonful of salt and a salt spoonful of pepper. When the rice is done pour in a scant pint of hot, cooked and strained tomatoes, that have been well seasoned with salt, pepper, butter and a little sugar. Stir the rice and tomatoes well together, arrange as a garnish around roast beef or pork. Barley Soup: Only beef stock is required in making a first-rate barley soup, if the grain is allowed to steep in it for some time before cooking. One-quarter the quantity of cold water should then be added, with a few kernels of allspice, and the simmering process conducted almost imperceptibly. Diced raw potatoes are thrown in about half an hour before serving, the cooking being then hastened to a gentle boil. Various Custards. Cooks with a little experience can produce a variety of custards by varying the flavors used, leaving the body of the custard the same. Oranges cut fine (often being peeled and seeded) can be used, simply adding them to a good custard; so can canned or fresh fruits, chopped almonds, grated cocoa nuts, chocolate and macaroons. Short Suggestions Soak gelatin in sufficient cold water to cover before adding it to jellies or creams. To remove any ordinary stains from ivory knife handles rub with emery powder. Yacht mops are great conveniences for dusting the bare floors to universally used now. Before boiling milk always rinse out the saucepan with cold water to prevent the milk from burning. When making mayonnaise sauce select a very cool place for the purpose. If made in a hot kitchen it is apt to separate in the process. HORSE WAUSAU LUMBER AND COAL CO. DUCHESS IS RESTLESS. American Girl Who Married English Noble Plans New Travels. The young Duchess of Manchester is experiencing a return of the traveling fever and instead of settling quietly for the winter at Tandaragee in London, as she had planned, purposes starting soon for Cincinnati to visit her parents, where she will be joined a little later by the duke, when both will set out for a trip through Japan, India and Egypt, reaching England next May. The duchess knows this ground well, having traveled it all before, but it will be new to the duke. As a side attraction she has a most striking enterprise in view, no less than to penetrate to Lhassa. The duchess long ago, after experimenting with other faiths, fixed on Buddhism as the only acceptable religious formula; and is consumed with the proverbial zeal of a convert to worship at the shrine of the grand lama. She intends to exert every influence to secure a safe conduct to the hitherto forbidden city. The journey will be impossible until next spring and even then fraught with great risks. But the duchess has seen Lord Curzon on the subject and he has promised to make inquiries as to whether her wish can be gratified. The duke, though not enthusiastic about Buddhism, regards the undertaking as rather interesting and warmly seconds his wife's efforts to achieve it. YOUNG CONVICTS AS FARMERS Instructed in Useful Trades While Undergoing Punishments. An interesting experiment is at present being tried with youthful criminals of from 16 to 21 years of age. Each class or grade is kept apart from the others, and wears a distinctive dress, according to whether it is penal, ordinary or special. The last grade is the highest, and contains those whose conduct is most satisfactory. The most important point of the code is employment in association in workshops or in outdoor labor, such as farming, gardening, etc., so that while the subjects are undergoing punishment they are also being specially instructed in useful trades and industries. Special attention is given to their education by instruction in the ordinary subjects of the elementary education code, by lectures and addresses, and by their being provided with books. Before the prisoner's discharge arrangements are made with some philanthropic society or benevolent person to aid in supervising his future. At the Young Convict settlement at Bostal, Chatham, these experiments are achieving very successful results.—London Chronicle. Good News. John Sharp Williams, leader of the minority in the House, tells the following as illustrative of the humors of the spoils system in office. "Years ago, before the passage of the civil service act, when every congressman's life was made a burden by the importunities of constituents seeking office, a friend of mine, then representing an Alabama district in the House, was approached by an old acquaintance who desired a clerkship in the treasury department. "The congressman informed the man that but a day or two before the head of that department had advised the statesman that there were no vacancies. Nevertheless the constituent of the Alabama representative persisted in his efforts to obtain the coveted clerkship and for weeks haunted the quarters of the congressman. "One evening, just as the member was sitting down to dinner he was a little vexed, to say the least, by the announcement of his servant that the persistent applicant for preferment at the hands of the treasury department desired to see him. "On entering the drawing room the congressman said: congressman said. "Well, what's up, now?" "Good news, sir!" exclaimed the office-seeker, in great excitement, 'I think you can get that place! A clerk in the treasury department died this afternoon!" Harper's Weekly. Snake Culture in Australia. Snakes, according to the prevailing popular notion, should be killed at sight as utterly useless and positively dangerous creatures, but in Australia they are now being systematically reared for the sake of their skins, which have a considerable commercial value in London, Paris and New oYrk. Snake skin is the fashionable material for slippers, belts, bags, purses, card cases, jewel boxes, dressing table accessories, etc. Rabbit trappers supplement their means considerably by catching young snakes and extracting the poisonous fangs. The blacks are also expert snake catchers. To them the snake is an agreeable article of diet.—London World. Longevity has been characteristic of vice presidents in the past. Adlai Stevenson, for instance, is 69, and Levi P. Morton is 80. Millard Fillmore when he died was 74; George M. Dallas was 72, John Tyler was 71, Martin Van Huren was 80, Elbridge Gerry 70, George Clinton, who came from Ulster county, where Judge Parker lives, was 72. Aaron Burr was 80, Thomas Jefferson was 83, John Adams was 90. These vice presidents of the United States are examples of the longevity those who have held that office, though, of course, there have been a few vice presidents who did not attain old age. The youngest vice president at inauguration was 36, the oldest was 69. An Italian named Luciano Butti has perfected a photographic apparatus capable of registering the incredible number of 2000 photographic impressions per second. The most minute and least rapid and casual movements of birds and insects on the wing, which have hitherto defied science, can, it is claimed, be registered with accuracy, thus opening a new world of natural observation to ornithologists. The films used cost £2 per second for the 2000 impressions. Don't Trust to Luck when you go to buy lumber and building material, but come where you know the grades and prices are right. North Milwaukee, Wis. PENINSULAR Pipe Enamel the "little-big" things that go to make up k. A coat of it renews old stove pipe g the ravages of rust and doubling the it makes rusting impossible, the highly impervious to dirt, and the glossy finish ive in appearance. on off and make the house untenable for cost is very small. Try it. E PAINT & VARNISH CO. Stove Pipe Enamel This is one of the "little-big" things that go to make up a perfect paint stock. A coat of it renews old stove pipe effectually—covering the ravages of rust and doubling the life of the pipe. On new pipe it makes rusting impossible, the highly enameled surface is impervious to dirt, and the glossy finish exceedingly attractive in appearance. It does not burn off and make the house untenable for half a day, and the cost is very small. Try it. 193 THIRD STREET. --- The American Steam Laundry 173 SECOND STREET HELLO, MAIN 1524. We've got the best machinery, And expert help galore; We make your linen glisten and gleam Like sea-foam on the shore! And so we bid for patronage, At least a wholesome share Of collars, cuffs and shirts and gowns, And rumpled underwear. Laundry left before 8 a. m. can be called for at 6:30 p. m. same day, Saturdays excepted. WISCONSIN WEEKLY ADVOCATE MILWAUKEE, WIS. The H. Curtis, Which Never Lost a Man, Goes to the Deer Isle Graveyard. A remarkable old vessel was recently consigned to the marine graveyard at Deer Isle, Me. This is the schooner H. Curtis, which in more than half a century of seagoing never had a serious mishap or lost a single man. Geo. Burroughs & Sons MANUFACTURERS OF PREMIUM TRUNKS The Curtis was built at Deer Isle in 1850, as a brig, and at that time was considered an immense vessel—too large, in fact, to be handled conveniently, carrying 225 tons dead weight. None but the most experienced men were allowed to go in her, and she was queen of the Maine West India fleet. She made many voyages from Bangor to the West Indies, carrying pine boards out and bringing back molasses, sugar and rum. During the war she was engaged in carrying stores for the United States government to Virginia ports, and had many narrow escapes from the Confederates. In 1866 she was rebuilt and changed into a schooner, since which time she has been engaged in coasting between Maine ports and New York and Boston. A dozen of Deer Isle's best sailors have at different times been in command of the Curtis, and they all made money in her. She was what is known as a lucky vessel, and it is with regret that the Deer Islanders see her laid away on the beach. In the course of two or three seasons all that is left of the old vessel will be choped up and sent away to the big cities for firewood, this sort of fuel being in great demand on account of the many-colored flames it gives out. Senator Vest used to tell a story of good luck and hard luck without a counterpart. He says: "One day while I was a member of the Confederate Congress I lost a month's pay somewhere on the streets of Richmond. Just as the woman in Scripture who lost a piece of silver called together her friends and neighbors and sought diligently until she found it, I called my friends and went with them on what seemed a hopeless search through the snow covered, dimly lighted streets of Richmond. The chances were a thousand to one against success. "We hadn't been out fifteen minutes when a young lieutenant in our party stooped down and picked up my lost roll. I was in high glee and wanted to treat. We were piloted to a cafe which, pending some repairs, had a ladder of about a dozen rungs instead of stairs. We all climbed up, considering it a great lark, all the while talking about what a lucky fellow the young lieutenant was and predicting great things for him. As we climbed down again the young lieutenant fell from the ladder and broke his neck."—Saturday Evening Post. The finest grapevines in Europe is at Auchmore house, Lord Breadalbane's Scotch residence. It is double the size of the one at Hampton Court, and sometimes produces 4000 bunches of grapes in a season. --- Our wagons speed all over town, All hours of every day, Depositing and picking up Big bundles on the way. We do not slight an article, However coarse or fine; Oh, everything's immaculate On The American Laundry Line. 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. END OF A LUCKY SCHOONER Senator Vest's Hard Luck Story. 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MUNN & Co. 361Broadway New York Branch Office. 625 F St., Washington, D.C. WANTED—NURSE GIRL FOR FAMILY of two. Children attend kindergarten during the forenoon. Apply office of Advocate, 79 Fifth street. Value of Crown Jewels. The eight largest diamonds in the world are what are known as crown jewels, and their weight is given below. Some of them are in an uncut state and others are carefully cut and finished, so that there is a wide difference in their value. The Kohinoor, the smallest in weight, has been thus reduced by cutting and is much the most valuable of the lot and has been estimated at $2,000,000. None of these mentioned is estimated at less than $500,000. The list is as follows: The Braganza, part of the Portugal jewels, weight 1880 carats; Kohinoor, belonging to the English crown, 103 carats; Star of Brazil, 125 carats; Regent of France, 136 carats; Austrian Kaiser, 139 carats; Russian Czar, 193 carats; Rajah of Borneo, 367 carats. King's Collection. The King of Denmark has a very valuable collection of birds' eggs, which includes specimens of nearly every kind in existence. The collection is considered to be worth about $70,000. JAPS FLANK RUSSIANS. Kuropatkin's Army Worstel in Four Days' Fighting. Gen. Stackelberg's Cavalry Cut Off and in Danger of Capture by Tokio. Oct. 13.—9:35 a. m.—Field Marshal Oyama, reporting from the field Wednesday afternoon, expresses satisfaction at the progress of the operations and fighting between the Taitse and Hun rivers. The center and right armies made substantial gains. While the left army was desperately struggling to envelope the Russian right Field Marshal Oyama dispatched two telegrams, the first of which said: "The state affairs in the direction of Mukden is as follows: On the morning of October 12 the central column of the right army at 5 o'clock occupied Lokoulin mountain and the northern heights of Pacheatzu. The left column of the right army occupied the northern heights of Shaotakou and continues to pursue the enemy's central column. The right army succeeded in occupying Maerh mountain. The central army, beginning operations from midnight October 11, reached the heights extending from Sanchiatzu to Sankaushi mountain, on the northwest, and is probably pursuing the enemy. The left army continues to attack the enemy along the Sebili river and at Lungwangmino and Wulichieh since last night, but has not yet attained its object. At present, aided with reinforcements, the left wing is trying to envelop the enemy's right flank by means of a rear engagement in the direction of Penshsuhu and the fighting continues. Judging from the above state of affairs the operations in those directions are proceeding favorably toward the attainment of our first object." The second message is as follows: "In an engagement at midnight on October 11 we captured two field guns and eight ammunition wagons. Maj. Gen. Murui was wounded and one colonel was killed." Russians Almost Annihlated. Field Headquarters of the Second Japanese Army, Oct. 11.—5 p. m.—Via Fusan, Oct. 13.—During the night the Japanese occupied the hills held by the Russians, on the right and center of the line, the Russians falling back a distance of three miles. The Japanese infantry advanced within 1500 yards of the Russians' lines at noon and defeated the Russians in a fierce counter attack, almost annihilating the attacking force, who made three charges. The Russian artillery was not silenced despite a fierce shelling all day." Kuropatkin Again in Defense. Tokio, Oct. 12.—12 p. m.—Field Marshal Oyama has taken the offensive. A general advance of the main strength of his army is now in progress. Kuropatkin's advance has been checked at every point, and he has been forced to take the defensive. Terrific fighting between the two armies is now general over a wide area between Liao Yang and Mukden. A titanic struggle, which, it is believed, will decide the engagement, is believed to be in progress, between Yental and the Hun river. Flanking movements attempted by the Russians at two other widely separated points on the Japanese right have been checked after fighting of the greatest bitterness. A strong force of Russian cavalry, and infantry, which crossed the Taitse at a point thirty-five miles east of Liao Yang for the purpose of attempting to cut the Japanese communications with the Yalu has been isolated, and a report of its capture is momentarily expected. It has been completely cut off from the force supporting its rear. Sacrifices of Life Appalling The frontal attack upon the Yentai mines has been repulsed, but heavy fighting is still going on. In this part of the field operations it is estimated that 100,000 men were engaged. The battle raged incessantly, with unparalleled fury, for three days and nights. Positions were repeatedly lost and won by both sides. The sacrifice of life is reported to have been appalling. No official estimate of the losses on either side has yet been made. It is admitted in official circles here that the fighting now in progress is on a much larger scale than that at the first battle of Liao Yang, and that the losses on each side will be infinitely greater. The city is in a fever of patriotic excitement. Already it is claimed that the Russians have been defeated, and that Kuropotkin is in retreat. Hospital Trains Crowded. Mukden, Oct. 12.—11 p. m.—With steadily increasing fury the main forces of the Russian and Japanese armies are still fighting around Yentai. The night of the third day of the engagement has fallen upon the field, and the battle continues with unabated bitterness. Terrific fighting is now general along the front of the Japanese right and center. All that is certain is that Kuropatkin has found the Japanese lines impenetrable. His swift and terrific blow has failed to shatter Oyama's defense at any point. The latest reports received here are to the effect that the Russian army is now on the defensive, fighting desperately to stem a forward movement of the main strength of Oyama's forces. The losses in the three days' incessant fighting have been enormous on the Russian side. The Japanese losses can only be conjectured. Hospital trains crowded with Russian wounded are pouring into Mukden in a steady stream. Nearly all of the wounded are being sent farther north. It is inferred from this that the tide of battle is threatening to turn against Kuropatkin, and that there is possibility of another Russian retirement, which will this time not stop at Mukden. Stackelberg's Command in a Trap It is persistently reported that the major portion of Gen. Stackelberg's command, consisting of one brigade of infantry and 2000 cavalry, with several guns, has been completely cut off south of the Taitse river, and that its capture is imminent. The mission of this detachment was to make a desperate effort to cut Oyama's communications with the Yalu river. It is believed that it has rushed into a trap. The brunt of the Russian attack is delivered at the right wing of the Japanese army commanded by Gen. Kuroki. At two widely separated points Kuropatkin has launched strong divisions. The severest field The severestighting of the engagement has taken place at Bensihu, on the extreme right of Kuroki's position. Here a Jansen Here a Japanese detachment for more than twelve hours held back an overwhelming force of Russians. Knicki Repels Terrific Attack on Right. The fighting was of incredible fierceness. Repeated infantry attacks were repulsed by the Japanese. The losses on both sides were enormous. After defending their position devotedly the Ior- THE SEAT OF WAR. MOOKDEN RIVER GHA ROAD BENTYSIAPUYSS SHAMPINYAIDZE SIENCHUANG YENYAI YENYAI MINES TA PASO RAILROAD TO THE GREAT LIAO PLAIN LIAO-YANG RIVER TAITSE OLD IMPERIAL ROAD TO FENG IWANG CHEW SYRWANTUN N W E Latest dispatches from the seat of war in Manchuria show that the Japanese repulsed the Russian turning movement at Slenchuang and checked Kuropatkin's advance along the whole front, extending from Slenchuang west to a point several miles beyond the railway. Having done this, the Japanese began to advance toward Mukden, heavy fighting taking place north of the Yental mines and Yental. The battle is now in progress in that region. anese were re-enforced by a strong detachment and the Russians withdrew. A large column of Russians reached Ta pass, east of Yental mines, on the evening of the 9th. In the night a terrific attack was launched along the entire front of the right wing of the Japanese army. Fierce fighting raged during the night and the Russian attack was repulsed. No fighting of importance has yet occurred in the district occupied by the left wing of the Japanese, to the westward of the railroad. An immense Russian column is engaged in the frontal attack on the Japanese center, to the north of Yentai. In this part of the field of operations the fighting has been continuous since Sunday. Reports received say that the fighting around Yentai was of incredible fury. The Russian infantry, exposed in attacking to a sweeping force of the Japanese artillery, lost heavily. The heights to the north of the railroad station were alternately taken by Russians and Japanese after most terrific infantry fighting. Both Armies Show Amazing Spirit. In one of the assaults Gen. Danielloff was severely wounded, but refused to leave. The spirit displayed by the troops of both armies in this fighting was amazing. The Russians advanced again and again to the attack, raising their voices in song above the screeching of the shells. The Russian advance in this direction has been completely checked, and the Japanese have now taken the offensive. The Russian troops are fighting with desperate valor to retain the positions which they have taken. The battle here has developed into a close artillery duel and the firing in incessant. Here the fighting has raged all day and is still in progress. Fought with Bayonets. St. Petersburg, Oct. 13.—6:10 p. m. Private dispatches sent the night of October 11 from the headquarters of Gen. Bilderling, whose corps occupies the Russian center, describe the bloody and desperate character of the fight along the railroad north of Yentai station, where, on Monday, the Russians repeatedly charged the Japanese trenches at the point of the bayonet, the fight continuing into the night. The Japanese reserved the fire until the Russians, at the double, were almost upon them. An instance is given of a regiment getting within a few yards of the Japanese trenches, but recoiling before the murderous volleys of the Japanese, then coming on again with reinforcements literally under a shower of shrapnel, and finally succeeding in driving out the Japanese. But the Japanese artillery fire was so withering that the Russians were unable to remain in the trenches. That night the Japanese artillery bombarded the Russian center, preparing the way for a general counter attack, which Field Marshal Oyama ordered for Tuesday. The Japanese offensive extended to their extreme left, Gen. Oku's army being for the first time engaged. At nightfall Tuesday the Japanese had forced back the Russian right, but the center held fast, although a few positions had fallen into the hands of the Japanese. The latest newspaper reports say Gens. Rennenkempff and Kashtalinsky encircled the Japanese right, crossed the Taitse river and came out on the Feng Wang Cheng road, the Japanese retiring before them. The news from these mixed columns is three days old. A special dispatch to a newspaper, dated late last night, says the battle continued desperately along the whole front, the most severe fighting being transferred to the eastern front. Another newspaper dispatch, dated from Harbin, today, says the tide of battle is with the Russians. Upon the basis of this dispatch "extras," with flaming headlines announcing a Japanese retreat along the whole line, were sold by thousands. St. Petersburg Far from Cheerful. St. Petersburg, Oct. 13.—5:15 p. m. The war office up to this hour declares that no additional reports have arrived from the front. Gen. Sakharoff's report only brings the story of the battle up to the morning of October 11, when no decisive results had been obtained by either side, although he makes it plain that the Japanese had assumed the offensive and that the Russians had not been entirely successful in defending their positions. The atmosphere at the war office is by no means cheerful. The failure to receive news of the Russian left wing might possibly be interpreted as tending to confirm the Tokio report that the Russians operating against the Japanese right had been enveloped. Await the Baltic Fleet. Chefoo, Oct. 13.—7 p. m.—Local Russians confirm the report that the Russian battleship Retvizan was recently hit by a shell from one of the new big Japanese guns, but they claim that the damage done was slight. Two sailors were killed. Another shell burst near the Russian gunboat Giliak, killing her commander and injuring others. The Russians admit that the new Japanese guns furiously threaten the harbor, docks, etc. They believe, however, that the squadron at Port Arthur will remain inside the harbor until the arrival of the Baltic fleet. FREIGHT CARS THROUGH TRESTLE. Engine and Crew Safe—Temporary Structure Gives Way. Toledo, O., Oct. 13.—Six loaded coal cars on the Wheeling & Lake Erie railroad went into the Maumee river shortly after noon today, when a temporary trestle gave way. It replaced the span carried out by the ice last winter. The engine crossed safely and no lives were lost. ISAAC R. BAER DEAD. Civil War Veteran and Pioneer of Menomonee Falls Passes Away at Age of 73. Menomonee Falls, Wis., Oct. 12.—[Special.]—Isaac R. Baer, aged 73, died of paralysis at his home in this city. He was a native of Waterloo, Seneca county, N. Y., and came to Wisconsin in 1843, settling in the town of East Troy, Walworth county, where he attained his PETER H. HARRIS majority. In 1859 he married Miss Mary Clason of Beaver Dam, who survives him. Mr. Baer came to Menomonee Falls in 1859, and enlisted in Co. K. First regiment, Wisconsin Heavy artillery, and served to the close of the war. He was for years one of the prominent merchants of Menomonee Falls and was appointed postmaster during the Harrison administration. About ten years ago he relinquished his business interests, turning the same over to his sons. The funeral was attended by a number of the G. A. R. men. PATRIARCHS ENCAMP. Wausau, Wis., Oct. 12.—[Special.]—The first business meeting of the fifty-seventh annual session of the Grand encampment and Patriarchs Militant, I. O. O. F., was held this afternoon. There is a large delegation present, representing all the principal cities of the state, and one full canton of patriarchs from Janesville, the latter giving a military drill on the courthouse square. The meeting was presided over by Grand High Patriarch D. W. John of Marinette. The grand scribe, L. O. Holmes of Baraboo, stated that the past year had been a record breaker in point of new members admitted. The total membership of this branch of the order in Wisconsin is now 2765. The grand treasurer's report shows the order to be flourishing financially. Tomorrow new grand officers will be elected. Mineral Point is the most prominently talked of town as the place for holding the next encampment. The Rebekahs are also in session. TYPHOID IS EPIDEMIC. Disease Becomes Prevalent at Port Wash ington with Seventy-two Cases. Port Washington, Wis., Oct. 12.—[Speciai.]—Great uneasiness has been caused in this city by the typhoid epidemic. Up to the present time seventy-two cases have been reported. The family of A. D. Bolens, editor of The Star of this city, has suffered greatly. Five children were taken down at once. Dorothy Bolens died Saturday night. Other deaths from the disease are: Bertha Werner, aged 19 years; Elsie Gieeneisr, aged 16, and Eleide Peterson, aged 13 years. The state board of health has been trying to discover the cause of the disease. It was at first thought that the milk was the cause of it, and one milkman was prohibited from delivering his goods. It continued to spread, however, and one of the doctors said that the end is not yet in sight, and that the epidemic had just begun. DENIES CONSOLIDATION. Manager of Wisconsin Traction Says, However, That the Merger May Take Place Eventually. Appleton, Wis., Oct. 12.—[Special.]—H. D. Smith, manager of the Wisconsin Traction, Light, Heat and Power company, denied the report yesterday to the effect that a movement was on foot to consolidate the interurban lines between Green Bay and Fond du Lac. Mr. Smith says he has heard nothing relative to the proposed merger, but that no doubt the lines would eventually be consolidated into one. Green Bay, Wis., Oct. 12.—[Special.] —The Knox Construction company of this city, which built the interurban line between here and Kaukauna, claims to know nothing about an alleged merger of the lines between here and Milwaukee under one management, which, it is rumored, is now being planned. Local officials of the company deny that such a thing is contemplated, so far as it affects their line. WEDDING A SURPRISE. Marriage of E. Schnederman, Burlington Banker, to Miss Lyman of Syracuse at Chicago Was Unexpected. Racine, Wis., Oct. 12.—[Special.] There was much surprise caused in clubs and social circles here today, when it became known that Edward H. Schnederman, cashier of the bank at Burlington, Wis., had been married to Miss Mildred Lyman of Syracuse, N. Y., at Chicago. None of Mr. Schnederman's friends knew of it until a telegram was received here today. For several years he was local agent of the Goodrich Transportation company, coming to this city from Milwaukee. Mr. Schnederman attended the annual convention of the bankers of the United States at New York and arrangements were then made for the wedding to take place at Chicago. MAY FORM NEW LEAGUE Dropping of Rockford from "Three Eye" May Lead to Organization Including Beloit and Janesville. Janesville, Wis., Oct. 12.—[Special.]—The dropping of Rockford from the Three-Eye league, may result in the formation of an interstate league with Janesville. Beloit and Rockford as a nucleus. TEMPERANCE TOPICS Thousands of Lives, Characters and Fortunes Are Annually Wrecked Along the Gilded Pathway, Having Its Beginning in the Wine Room. Wine and other physical exhilarants, during the treacherous truce to wretchedness which they afford, dilapidate the structure and undermine the very foundation of happiness. No man, perhaps, was ever completely miserable until after he had fled to alcohol for consolation. The habit of vinous indulgence is not more pernicious than it is obstinate and pertinacious in its hold, when it has once fastened itself upon the constitution. It is not to be conquered by half measures. No compromise with it is allowable. The victory over it, in order to be permanent, must be perfect. As long as there lurks a relic of it in the frame, there is imminent danger of a relapse of this moral malady, from which there seldom is, as from physical disorders, a gradual convalescence. The cure, if at all, must be effected at once; cutting and pruning will do no good; nothing will be of any avail short of absolute extirpation. The man who has been the slave of intemperance must renounce her altogether, or she will insensibly reassume her despotic power. With such a mistress, if he seriously mean to discard her, he should indulge himself in no dalliance or delay. He must not allow his lips a taste of her former fascination. Webb, the noted swimmer, who was remarkable for vigor both of body and mind, lived wholly upon water for his drink. He was one day recommending his regimen to one of his friends who loved wine, and urged him with great earnestness to quit a course of luxury by which his health and his intellects would equally be destroyed. The gentleman appeared convinced, and told him "that he would conform to his counsel, and though he could not change his course of life at once, he would leave off strong liquors by degrees." "By degrees!" says the other, with indignation; "if you should unhappily fall into the fire, would you caution your servants to pull you out by degrees?"—Great Thoughts. The internal revenue laws of the United States provide that— "Any person who shall carry on the business of retail liquor dealer without having paid the special tax as required by law shall, for every such offense, be fined not less than $100 nor more than $5,000, and shall be imprisoned not less than thirty days nor more than two years." The government officials contend that this law has been violated in this manner: The express agent in a Kansas town would be the selling agent of the Kansas City dealer. He would receive from the dealer, say, a dozen cases of whisky, each containing four quarts, the case valued at $3.50. Each case would be addressed to some fictitious name. It would not be shipped in the express agent's name, because he would then be an out-and-out whisky dealer. He has always in his express office a half dozen or more cases. When anyone in the town wished to buy whisky he would go to the express agent who would say: "Well, there's a case here addressed to So-and-So; he has not called for it, so if you pay the express charges of $5.50 I'll let you have it." The agent would keep 50 cents for his commission and remit $3 to the dealer, who, upon receipt of it, would ship another case under the same name to the agent. Thus the express agent was really the agent of the dealer, and the more he sold the more he made. The government has at last taken hold of the matter and directed that the war upon this species of business begin, and many extra revenue inspectors have been sent into Kansas and local option counties in Texas to gather evidence. Temperance Notes. There are nearly 2,000 women saloon keepers in the United States. New York leads with 348, Ohio has 337. Illinois has 196, and Pennsylvania 183. In California there are only twenty voters to every liquor dealer; in Louisiana the proportion is even greater, there being one liquor dealer to every fifteen voters. Illinois has one liquor dealer to every fifty-one voters. The proportion is smallest in North Carolina, where there are 124 voters to every liquor dealer. In Utah the proportion is one liquor dealer to every 114 voters, which would seem to indicate that the Mormons, whatever else their faults, are not greatly given to drinking liquor. There are 650 towns and cities in the State of Illinois in which prohibition has been enacted into law. All the State of Iowa but twenty-five cities is still prohibition. There are 300 prohibition towns and cities in Wisconsin. Indiana has 140 prohibition towns. In Kentucky—wonderful to say—total prohibition is the law in forty-seven counties; in thirty-five there is but one license town each; in nineteen counties there are two license towns each, and in eighteen counties license is unrestricted. The whole State of Tennessee is prohibition except eight cities of 5,000 population and over. North Dakota, Maine and Kansas are the only three States in the Union which are entirely prohibition. THE "TURF" CAFE DINNER BILL Regular Dinner 25c Dinner 11:30 to 2 p.m. and 5 to 8 p.m. Sliced Tomatoes, 10c. Radishes, 10c. Cucumbers, 10c. Green Onions, 10c. Lettuce, 10c. BEAN SOUP. Boiled Trout and Mint Sauce, 25c. Boiled Leg of Mutton, Egg Sauce, 25c. Roast Pork and Apple Sauce, 25c. Short Ribs of Beef with Brown Potatoes, 25c. Fricasseed Chicken, 25c. ENTREES. String Beans. Green Peas. Boiled and Mashed Potatoes. Apple and Lemon and Custard Pie. Rice Pudding. Coffee and Tea and Milk. Anything ordered not mentioned on this bill will be charged for extra. 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But 'stead of being happy, then, And nice and satisfied. As I'd 'a' been, that beggar boy Egg inspectors, also known as egg testers, have organized and now have a union scale of wages here. The organization was named the Egg Inspectors' union, and has received a charter from the American Federation of Labor. Mrs. Denman Thompson, wife of the famous actor and author of "The Old Homestead," died recently in West Swanzey, N. H., after a long and painful illness of cancer. Mrs. Thompson was 65 years old, and leaves three children. Louis Wunn of Oakland, Cal., who was returning to his home after a trip abroad, died suddenly on the steamer Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, on the passage from Bremen to Southampton. His body has been landed at the latter place. Former residents of Michigan have organized a state society in New York city. John T. Newcomb was elected temporary chairman and arrangements were made for a dinner to be given January 26, when the society will be permanently formed. Notice of a 5 per cent. advance in prices abroad has been received by diamond importers and cutters in New York city. This makes the eighth similar advance in two years. The present advance applies to all rough goods and the cut stones are expected to follow promptly. President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia university has informed the trustees of the institution that $2,000,000 is needed for the college hall, the university hall, and the law school, although nearly $5,000,000 has been donated to the university the last three years. Some of the very rich New Yorkers have private theaters in their out-of-town establishments, and that of Mr. and Mrs. George J. Gould at Georgian Court, Lakewood, is perhaps the finest. Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Q. Brown have one of their own also at their Dobbs Ferry place. A special train in the new subway, carrying a party of more than 100 newspaper men, made the distance from the Brooklyn bridge entrance to Ninety-sixth street, a little more than seven miles, in ten minutes and forty-five seconds. The air in the long tunnel is seemingly as good as it is at the surface. A company has been started in New York city to insure eyeglass wearers against loss from the breakage of their lenses or frames. On the payment of $1 the company agrees to keep frames in repair for a year and to replace glasses not more than once. It will cost $1 to renew the insurance after each loss. Samuel Kronberg has begun a suit in the supreme court against Mme. Marcella Sembrich Stengel, the opera singer, better known as Mme. Sembrich, to recover $2595. The plaintiff claims this amount is due him as his percentage of the receipts from concerts arranged by him at Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland (Ore.), Seattle and Spokane. Mystery surrounds the identity and the injury of a man who was found unconscious on a New York Central train at the Grand Central depot, the man having been shot through the head. He was put on board the train at Purdy's Station by several men, who immediately disappeared. Arriving at the Grand Central station the man was found to be in a dying condition. Charged with forging the name of former President Grover Cleveland to a check for $25, Charles E. Ilston, a Swede, has been arrested in Philadelphia. It is alleged he tendered the check in payment for storage charges on his household goods. The police expressed the belief that he was formerly employed in some capacity about the Cleveland home at Princeton. One hundred drinking basins for cats and dogs have been padlocked to lampposts in various parts of the city. The nucleus for the fund with which they were purchased was donated by Mrs. Fiske. They are attached to trees or lampposts by strong chains, fastened with a padlock. Arrangements have been made for the street cleaning department to keep the basins cleaned and filled with water. Angry because of his attempts to force his undesired affections upon her, and determined to repulse him at any cost, she declares, Mrs. Rosa Barbadi, 22 years old, shot and killed Michael Rago, in an east side tenement house. Mrs. Barbadi made no attempt to resist arrest and was taken to a police station carrying her 2-year-old baby, which she held in her arms when she fired the fatal shots. The engagement of Max Heinrich, the singer and composer, to Miss Anna Held, the German philanthropist, student and musician, has been announced from San Francisco. Miss Held is at present the guest of Madame Helena Modjeska at Arden. Miss Held is no relative of the actress of the same name. The marriage will take place during the holiday season at Green Dragon, the home of Miss Held. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence H. Mackay will probably give the finest affairs of the winter in the way of dinner cotillons and opera suppers at the Waldorf-Astoria. The dwelling of Mrs. Mackay's aunt, Mrs. Frederick Bronson, on East Thirty-third street, is now being put in readiness for Mr. and Mrs. Mackay, though they will not close their house at Roslyn, L. I., until the holidays. They will now and again entertain week-end parties there. Thieves have long been looting the baggage room at the Grand Central station and defying the detectives. In three months they have stolen seventy-four trunks, only one of which has been recovered. It is thought the trunks contained goods worth from $15,000 to $20,000. Only one arrest has been made, for, in spite of the vigilance of railroad detectives and the regular police, the thieves have so cleverly carried on their operations that the thefts could not be traced. James J. Van Alen has closed a lease of Rushton Hall, a fine old estate in Nottinghamshire, England, and will sail in December to take possession. Mr. Van Alen's lease is for so long a team that it is practically a life ownership. On the estate is a game preserve of 150 acres, which attracted Mr. Van Alen to the place. He will spend about $60,000 in repairs, and his friends believe that when Rushton Hall has been fitted up to his liking he will spend much of his time there. Marine underwriters in New York city are putting up rates on steamers carrying railroad material for Japan. The rate recently current has been three-quarters of 1 per cent. This premium has now been raised to $2\frac{1}{2}$ per cent, for a steamer to go by way of the cape with rails and locomotives on board. This change in the insurance situation has caused several of the China and Japan lines from this port to announce that they will omit Japan altogether or refuse railroad material if the steamers make Japanese ports. Among the passengers on the Campania was Maj. Baden-Powell, brother to Maj. Gen. Robert S. S. Baden-Powell, the defender of Mafeking during the Boer war. Maj. Baden-Powell brought with him two of the hexagonal kites with which he has been experimenting as a substitute for balloons in warfare. "The axes of these kites are twelve feet," he said. "I am taking them to the St. Louis exposition, where I hope to exhibit them. They were used with success in South Africa in taking photographs of Boer camps." James Henry Smith will give a grand ball and other minor affairs at his new residence, the old Whitney dwelling. It is said that Mr. Smith's first function will be a coming-out affair for Miss Stewart, daughter of Mrs. W. Rhinelander Stewart. Mrs. Havemeyer, who did not entertain for some years before going abroad, will be absent this winter again. Mr. and Mrs. Ogden Mills will add to the season's gaieties by one or two big dances. The ballroom in their house extends over the rear of the adjoining dwelling of Mrs. Mills' mother, Mrs. Maturin Livingston. Mrs. Adair will set a new fashion this winter. She is coming over from England and is going to her Texas ranch. She is bringing over a lot of furniture and household belongings, which will be put in the big farmhouse. She will entertain many of her friends from New York and Britishers who have a craze for the far west. Mrs. Adair values her Texas property at $1,000,000. Her son, J. Wadsworth Ritchie, who was for a few years on a ranch before he came to Ngwport, is likely to come over with her. Possibly Craig Wadsworth, her nephew, may join the Texas party. Problems that are causing trouble generally between those who walk and those who ride in automobiles, may be settled by chauffeurs bearing the recommendation of the Y. M. C. A. Announcement has been made by the West Side Y. M. C. A. that it will shortly institute a class of instruction for chauffeurs. After long consideration and planning it was announced finally that the association is to have not only a class for chauffeurs but a regular educational department for the owners of machines. The work will be conducted by experts and the courses will cover from three to six months. An amazing story of duplicity and revenge, recalling the famous Barbara Aub-Langerman case, occurred in Jersey City, when 12-year-old Lizzie Wooden confessed in open court that she had committed perjury in securing the conviction of Louis Golden, aged 21, and his sentence to the Snake Hill penitentiary for eighteen months. "He was innocent," sobbed the girl, "and I only accused him because I wanted to get even with a girl that I thought was in love with him." Young Golden has been in the penitentiary a month. The charge the girl made against the young man was of the most serious nature Herbert Cassard, a mining speculator of Baltimore, collapsed in the dining room of the Waldorf-Astoria and died soon after in his room. The cause of death was fatty degeneration of the heart. Mr. Cassard sat at the table over his coffee, when he was seized with violent pains in the region of the heart. Before he could cry for help he was stricken. The guests were told by the waiters that the man fainted and they returned calmly to the consumption of food and the drinking of their wines. Sealing wax does not contain a particle of wax, but is composed of Venice turpentine, shellac and cinnabar. Mrs. Elizabeth B. Custer, widow of the famous Indian fighter, arrived on the North German Lloyd steamship Bremen after a trip around the world. "We visited the Philippines out of patriotism," said Mrs. Custer, "but the China sea took all the patriotism out of us. That is the most terrible sea during a gale that it was ever my misfortune to be on. But the Philippines are noble islands and the United States should guard them zealously. A Russian cruiser bothered us a great deal while we were on our way from Hong Kong to Ceylon on a Pacific and Oriental steamer. For twelve hours the Russian bear waltzed about us, but did not interfere with us beyond making us feel uneasy." With an estimated record of nearly 15,000 marriages, the fifty-sixth anniversary of the Church of the Transfiguration, known far and wide as the "Little Church Around the Corner," has been celebrated. Special services were held and large congregations were in attendance, including many theatrical persons, among which the church is particularly popular. Speaking of the many marriages celebrated in the church, the rector, Dr. Houghton, declared that he turns away many more couples than he marries; in fact, those whom he refuses average fifty couples a month, including divorced persons and young people who are unable to swear that their parents' consent has been obtained. Under the advice of Corporation Counsel Delaney and as a direct result of the fight led by Henry S. Redmond in behalf of himself and other property holders, including William and John D. Rockefeller, Isaac Hopper, commissioner of building, will order a revocation of the permit under which the eighteen-story addition to the St. Regis hotel is being constructed. Neighboring property owners have had a long fight against Col. John Jacob Astor's hotel, and he probably will force the city to appeal to the courts. If an adverse decision be rendered, it will cause the pulling down of the new building, which has reached the seventh story at a cost already of nearly half a million dollars. Col. Astor's foes raise the point that the addition covers a greater percentage of the ground area than the law permits. Miss Helen Gould, who for several years has shown a lively interest in the welfare of the railroad branch of the Young Men's Christian association, will within a few days make a tour of the west and southwest for the purpose of stirring up interest in the branches of the organization along the Gould system of roads, meeting personally the workers in that field and encouraging them. Miss Gould has given generously to institutions for the carrying on of the work of the association, and in other ways has promoted its interests. Her coming trip is expected to result in much good in the improvement of the condition of the men the organization seeks to reach. Miss Gould will visit Peru, Ind.; St. Louis, Mo.; Hoisington and Horace, Kan.; Denver and Colorado Springs, Colo.; Las Vegas, N. M.; El Paso, Big Springs and Dallas, Tex.; Pine Bluff. Texarkana, Hoxie, Little Rock and Van Buren, Ark.; Palestine, Tex.; Coffeyville, Kan., and Kansas City and Moberley, Mo. At each association receptions will be held for railroad employees and citizens interested in the organization. W. E. Lougee and C. J. Hicks of the international committee of the Young Men's Christian association and their wives will be with the party. Mr. and Mrs. Carnegie will return from their Scotch castle before the holidays and may give a grand ball during the season. The establishment of Senator and Mrs. Clark is not yet completed and will not probably be occupied this winter. Both Senator Clark and his son have wives to introduce to New York society. Mrs. Vanderbilt's splendid ballroom has been practically waste space. A coming of age ball was given in it for Alfred G. Vanderbilt by his father, the late Cornelius Vanderbilt. Mr. and Mrs. William Douglass Sloane will be apt to give, as usual, two smart affairs in their beautiful ballroom this season. Mrs. Astor and Mr. and Mrs. John Jacob Astor have a ballroom that extends over the rear of their adjoining houses and also serves for the picture gallery. Mrs. Astor and her son and daughter-in-law will give two big dances in it this winter. Clarence E. Dally, a young electrical engineer, lies dead in his home at East Orange, N. J., a martyr to science. His death resulted from experimental work in connection with the Roentgen rays. For seven years he endured terrible suffering and underwent seven operations which finally culminated in the amputation of both his arms. Dally was burned by the X-rays seven years ago because he passed his hands before the rays continuously in his preliminary work. He suffered no pain from these burns, but his hands looked as though they had been scalded. Six months after the first indications of scalding appeared, Dally's hands began to swell and fester. He suffered in this way for two years and then went to Chicago, where he was employed by an incandescent lamp company. Cancer finally developed on his left wrist, and he went east for treatment, intending to return to Chicago. It was found necessary to operate. The disease steadily spread and finally both his arms had to be amputated. Stage-struck Chicago women were also victims of the swindlers who used the name of Henry W. Savage, theatrical manager, to lure them into a trap. This came out in connection with the case of Mrs. Albert M. Rihl of Philadelphia, who was lured from Philadelphia with a promise of an operatic engagement, only to have $1500 worth of jewels stolen from her in a cab in Central park. The Chicago frauds in the name of Mr. Savage were perpetrated by a man calling himself "Frank P. Cheney," the "nephew" of B. P. Cheney, a Boston millionaire, whose wife (Julia Arthur) is well known to the stage. The method pursued was to insert advertisements in the Sunday papers for chorus girls. These advertisements were signed "Henry W. Savage," and were to the effect that fifty chorus girls were wanted by him for the New York stage. A season of forty weeks at $18 a week was guaranteed. Applicants were directed to meet the representative of Mr. Savage at the Saratoga hotel. IS IT THE MISSING LINK? New Kind of Monkey Is Found in Darkest Java. The Brussels Soir says a new animal, much resembling a monkey, but much nearer in habits and culture to man, has been discovered in Java. A merchant named Van Beuren happened to get lost in a forest and was obliged to spend the night under a tree, on which he discovered a giant nest with a circular opening measuring eighteen inches in diameter. This nest was occupied by a family of animals much resembling the ordinary monkeys, with the difference that their heads were covered with long, brown hair. After his return to civilization M. Van Beuren told an American scientist, Dr. Werdehouse, of his discovery and they returned together to the spot, where they spent several months studying the habits of the animals. Contrary to the custom of monkeys, these animals, which the natives call "asch perrizlz," are very fond of bathing, and the females usually adorn their necks with collars made of fruit kernels. They take good care of their little ones, but seem to be little prolific and near extinction. The mothers rock their little ones, singing like human beings in an articulate language of very few words. They eat fruits, birds' eggs and fishes, and like to be near a fire, although unable to light one. Dr. Werdehouse, who classified these animals at pithecanthropes, has been unable to capture any of them and had not the heart to kill one even in the interest of science. A scientific expedition has been formed to explore the island and capture one of the animals if possible. Louisville Largest Bottle Market. That Louisville is the largest glass bottle market in the country is a fact that is known to few persons, with the exception of those who make the bottles, sell and buy them. A congress of bottlemakers is being held in the city at this time, though no meeting place is designated and none willingly lets his competitor know what he is doing. The representatives of ten of the largest bottle manufacturing concerns in the country are in Louisville, and will be here for a week or more until enough bottles have been contracted for to accommodate the entire amount of whisky which will be bottled during the fall and winter. E. O. Ward of Terre Haute, who represents one of the companies, said last night: "If there were any way to arrive at just the number of glass bottles which will be sold in Louisville during the next two weeks, the total would startle even those who are in touch with the situation. They will be all shapes and all sizes, all shades and colors, with private trademarks and brands, and other just plain glass bottles. The indications are that the amount of whisky bottled next winter will be unusually large. The first indication of whether or not the whisky business will be good during the approaching season is the amount of bottles which the wholesalers buy, and this year the prospects are for a heavy movement." —Louisville Courier-Journal. American a Real Papal Chamberlain. Francis MacNutt has this week been appointed one of the six Camerieri di Cappa e Spada di numero in the pontifical court. It is the first time this honor has been conferred on an American—indeed, until recent times all the Camerieri di numero (a title which might, perhaps, be best translated as active chamberlain) were Italian, and Mr. MacNutt is the third non-Italian to be appointed. Several of the archbishops of America petitioned the Holy See to nominate Mr. MacNutt for the first vacancy, and the holy father was graciously pleased to grant their wish. Apart from the four great hereditary offices which belong to Roman families, Mr. MacNutt's new dignity is the highest to which a layman can aspire; it is a life appointment, and requires constant residence in Rome.—Tablet. —Many Chinese temples have windows made from the white mother-o'-pearl found in oyster shells. We'll live upon a patent food, And draw a patent breath, Until upon a patent bed We die a patent death. Then after that we will be sure To criticise and carp, Unless on patent golden streets We play a patent harp. —McLandburgh Wilson in Life. AMERICA'S BEAUTY SHOW Traveler Says Pretty Girls Are Most Numerous in This Country. An American gentleman who is a close observer recently made a trip to Europe his first one. He traveled through Great Britain, France, Belgium and Holland. A few days after his return he happened to walk through lower New York city at the noon luncheon hour, and he said: "I saw more fine looking and pretty girls in one hour in New York than I did in all the cities of Europe while I was away. You can't see such a sight in any European city as this daily American noon hour beauty show in our large American towns. Women don't go out to business there as they do here, and if they did they would not draw attention by their good looks. I never noticed it before I went to Europe, but I tell you American girls are the most beautiful in civilization. Our working girls are well dressed. I just watched those stenographers and cierks going to their luncheon. They are not only pretty, but tall and well developed, and they hold their heads and their chests up and walk along with a free stride that shows they feel themselves to be 'somebody.' They are independent and self reliant and can take care of themselves. There is an American girl type sure enough, a finer type than has been developed elsewhere. The American girl, besides being handsomer than her sisters of other nations, is more intelligent than they and knows the world better, and this adds to her attractiveness. Oh, the American girl is stunning, no mistake." It is quite true that the American girl is superior to maidens of other nationalities, and all the world acknowledges it. She is more attractive physically than any other. She is also better educated and has more liberty. She is brought up to know that she can protect herself, and she does it. This undoubted superiority of the American girl comes wholly from superior opportunity. It shows what the whole female sex will become with liberty and education. Women were scarce in this new land in the beginning and were made much of. Men could not do enough for them. Whatever a woman wanted she must have. She wanted an education; colleges were thrown open to her. There are today more American women graduates of colleges than are to be found in all the other countries put together. Women wanted to be doctors, lawyers, ministers and teachers of higher branches. All these they are. Married women wanted the right to own property in their own names. This, too, they have. Our country has the most abundant and the best food of any land. American women have been generously fed for generations. The American girl has the noblest opportunity for education of any of her sex. She has been taught to fix a high value on herself, to feel there is no social station she cannot aspire to it. An American lady recently presented at the British court and the recipient of courtesies from the royal family itself formerly earned her own living in the states. No British lady of noble birth is more polished and gracious than this American, and none knows exactly what is what better than she. Another American woman, now the wife of one of the wealthiest men in the world, was for many years a teacher. The American girl is easily adaptable and can suit herself to any position. She can make her own social standing. The highest compliment that can be paid to a lady's external attractions is to say she is as handsome as an American. There is so much for this splendid American girl to achieve and be that the very vastness of her field is a temptation to fritter herself away on many things, even oftentimes on frivolities. If she only lives up to her opportunity she will present to mankind a new and nobler type of womanhood than has ever been known; thence will come the molding of a new and finer race.—Colorado Springs Telegraph. HE SANG "GAUDEAMUS." A Tramp's Passport Into a Company of College Men in the Country. "You know the old Latin college song, 'Gadeamus Igitur'?" said the recent graduate. "Well, I suppose that it comes pretty near being a grip and pass word with university men the world over. Something that happened this month made me understand how it stands for a college man wherever you hear it. "I was on my vacation up in New Hampshire. Tramping through a little mountain town. I happened to meet three or four men of my own fraternity. I stopped with them that night, and in the evening we went to a roadhouse on the outskirts of the town for a little saengerfest. "Of course, before we finished we sang 'Gaudeamus'—you know it—'Let us rejoice, therefore, while we are young.' When we came to the last stanza a voice joined in from the doorway. "We turned around. There stood an old, dilapidated tramp. He came over to us without any hesitation and said, in a fine German accent: "Verever you see a university man you hear "Gaudeamus Igitur." Heidelberg, '73. Shake.' "He was a Heidelberg man, too, I suppose—a degenerated gentleman, for he knew college ways and songs and he showed that he was a well-educated man. He got all the beer he wanted out of us that night, and the price of beer besides, which shows that a college education sometimes pays."—New York Sun. Bovine Fire Alarm in New England. Fire broke out in the rear of Trachier's restaurant. Loss not over $200, mostly from water. One of our citizens who has liberally used his tongue and pen in denunciation of the old "fog horn" alarm, resulting in its removal from the present electric alarm, knew nothing of the general alarm being rung in until Mrs. Cobb's calf, which had in some way become loose, running up and down the streets with a megaphone voice, gave one vocal blast with a B-r-r-r directly under Whit's window, which brought him out of bed to see the crowds rushing by. Following the procession he heard the alarm ringing and subsequently heard the calf at his heels, but he declares he never would have heard it had it not been for the quadruped, and at the next precinct meeting will have an article inserted in the warrant to abolish the electric system and employ the aforesaid vocalist.—Granite State Free Press. Went Barefooted to Save Her Shoes A pretty blonde stenographer created a sensation on Fifteenth street recently during the storm. She had gone out to lunch and when she left the restaurant she saw that it would be impossible to return to an office in the Mining Exchange building, where she was employed, without damaging her new white low shoes and a pair of fancy stockings. So she deliberately removed the shoes and stockings and started down the street barefooted. Policeman Michael Horkans stood at the corner of Fifteenth and Curtis streets when he saw the young woman coming down the street. She was followed by a big crowd and was running to escape. In her hand she carried her shoes and stockings. Horkans attempted to find out what all the trouble was about, but the young woman disappeared in Mining Exchange building. "What did you do it for?" asked the policeman. "I had no idea it would attract any attention," replied the young lady. "I had to get back here in a hurry and I didn't want to ruin my shoes." On the desk in front of her were the shoes, a pair of white kids.—Denver Republican. PEACE DOVE'S LONG FLIGHT. Released in Jerusalem It Is Caught in Northern Sweden. The carrier pigeon released on Easter at Jerusalem has traversed a continent, perhaps, seeking a land route to its home in New York, whence it is to be sent to the President of the Universal Peace union. The following letter from Miss Ackerman, our peace envoy to Europe and Asia, explains how the faithful bird was found and how it will be forwarded on its mission. Following is the message already received perfectly preserved. April 17, 1904.-Greetings from Jerusalem to the Universal Peace Union.-Jessie Ackerman.-Any one finding this bird, which was sent home today from the Mosque of Omar, Jerusalem, please address me Apollo, Penn., U. S. America. Following is Miss Ackerman's letter from London: "Dear Mr. Love—I have such good news that I can hardly wait to write it. A letter is just at hand from the northern part of Sweden, away up near the North Cape, saying that the homing dove was found on the 10th of May, and is safe in the care of the writer of the letter, who asks what shall be done with the dear little creature. I write today to ask to have it sent to me. "I am unable to say the number of miles traveled by the little messenger, that fraternized freely with a foreign flock, only distinguished from its kind by the red, white and blue ribbon sewed on one leg. The message was enclosed in the letter, and I send it on to you as a 'relic' of a pleasing incident. Now, good friend, what shall we do with the birdie? To whom does it belong? As a terrestrial pilgrim, I cannot well provide comfort for the wee alien, that contributed much to my pleasure at sea—so sweetly cooling the days away. For its long, faithful flight it must be rewarded with care and home. Whose is it 'to have and to hold?' "Its snow white pintons spread to the breeze are a fitting symbol of all that we have woven in sentiment about it. May the nations one day realize all that we hope for them and the sons of men dwell in peace and harmony. JESSIE ACKERMAN. "Lyceum club, 128 Piccadilly, London, June 21, 1904."—The Peacemaker. SOUR MILK A LIFE ELIXIR. London Professor of Pasteur Fame Announces the Discovery. According to an interview with Prof. Eli Metchnikoff of the Pasteur institute in London, which appeared in the October number of the Pall Mall Magazine, the nearest approach to the elixir of life is sour milk. Any one desiring to attain a ripe old age is recommended by Prof. Metchnikoff to follow the examples of the Bulgarians who are noted for their longevity, and who consume large quantities of this cheap and easily obtained beverage. Sour milk, states M. Metchnikoff, contains a large bacillus, remarkable for the great quantity of lactic acid it is capable of producing. This microbe does not exist normally in the human body, and can be introduced with great benefit to the health, as it preys on the hundreds of thousands of microbes which infest the large intestine. It has been noted that there is a great similarity between old age and disease. The study of certain diseases has proved that there is no difference between the mechanism of senile atrophy and that of atrophy caused by the microbe on the person. In fact, on the approach of old age, a veritable battle is waged in the innermost parts of the body. Research is therefore being prosecuted to discover some means of strengthening the vital elements of the body on the one hand and to weaken the aggressive tendency of the harmful microbes on the other. When this end has been attained, Prof. Mechnikoff hopes to be able to prolong life considerably beyond the present average. Vacation at a Seaside Resort. On the beach; monsieur and madame, just arrived from the city, looking at the sea: Madame—How beautiful! Monsieur—Superb! Madame—And how it rests you after Paris. Monsieur—Ah, yes; how far it is from dinners and town! Madame-And visits and the theater! Monsieur-And from the club! Madame-And from the shops and dressmakers! Monsieur—What time is it? Madame (looking at her watch)—What! Already five o'clock. I must fly. Monsieur—Where are you going? Madame—To try on. I have ordered a little dress at the English tailor's on Grand street, you know; the same one who made for me last year this cloak which you like so much. I must hurry; someone will get my turn. And you, what are you going to do? Monsieur—I like to loaf around the club to see if there is any bridge going on there. Madame—Don't come in too late to dress; you know that we dine with the G's at the Casino. Monsieur—That's a fact. The A's will be there, and they don't like to dine late. Madame—You ought to get a box at the theater; it will be polite to take them there. Monsieur—What do they give tonight? Madame—Oh, I don't know; but they say it is very well done. Monsieur—That's the essential; all right. Madame (giving a last look at the sea) —Isn't this beautiful, eh? Monsieur—Superb!—Figaro. Pennsylvania Dog and Cow Story. Ben Record owns a cow which he believed to be one of the best milkers in all this country until a few weeks ago, when she began to "fall off" suddenly. The shortage became more and more noticeable until the animal developed into a third-class "stripper." Mr. Record also keeps a full-blooded terrier pup, whose rapid growth and portly appearance has occasioned remark, although the dog seldom ate anything that was offered to him by the family. Both mysteries were cleared up the other evening, however, when Mrs. Record went to the barn to milk, for there lay the cow contentedly chewing her cud, while the terrier pup, his feet spread far apart, leisurely extracted the precious lacteal fluid so much desired for making ice cream or constructing pumpkin pies. Since the discoverey the cow has become reinstated in the good opinion of the family, but the terrier takes his milk after it has been skimmed.—Punxsutawney Spirit. The clarion in the distance fades; The echoes of the full-mouthed pack Fainter and fainter travel back; The western sky gleams through the glades; The shadow grows more deep and black. The vesper-bell its gentle call Sounds through the ever-whispering shades; The peace of twilight all pervades. While where the blue hills rise and fall The far-off horn, forgotten, fades. —J. J. Frank in Lippincott's. ENGLAND WANTS ICEMEN People Tired of Lukewarm Drinks and Spoiled Food. The supply of pure ice in this country for domestic purposes is not as abundant or available as it should be, and it is absurd that practically the only shop where it may be obtained is that kept by the fish-monger, who keeps it not for the purposes of consumption, but for the cooling of fish. The fishmonger's shop does not always represent an environment that is, sanitarily speaking, satisfactory; yet, when ice is wanted in sickness or in health the only tradesman that can be found to supply it is the fishmonger, and his supply is usually limited. It seems ridiculous that in the English summer the demand for ice should not be sufficient to warrant the establishment of a special agency for its supply. We feel sure that if such a scheme could be organized it would be widely appreciated and would succeed as soon as the public realized how much better and how much healthier it is to have their food and beverages kept cool during the days of a hot and seasonable summer. As it is, they have to be content with semi-liquid butter and mawkish luke-warm beverages which should be cold, especially those which are aerated. A cheap and abundant supply of pure ice for domestic purposes would give the housekeeper a chance of keeping a cool storeroom in which meat, poultry, eggs and other perishable articles of food could be preserved. Not only would waste of food be so prevented, but the ravages of the putrefying agencies of hot weather would be checked and the food saved from becoming unwholesole if not positively dangerous. In fact, we imagine that nobody will deny the very great advantages derived from keeping certain foods cold in the summer and preserving them in a state fit for consumption and attractive to the eye and palate; and yet practically no steps are taken to supply such an important and very evident need.—London Lancet. ECONOMY IN LITTLE THINGS Rockefeller's Daughter Saves Gas and Makes All Her Pin Money Eternal vigilance in watching the gas bills is the way to get pin money in the household of John D. Rockefeller, according to the statement of the oil king himself. Mr. Rockefeller, who makes a hobby of economy in the little things of life, says "always watchful" is the way his eldest daughter manages to keep change in her pocket. This statement was brought out by Mr. Rockefeller's disgust with the way in which members of a Standard Oil party were spending money on a recent trip in a private car. At every stopping place Mr. Rockefeller's associates put so much money in circulation that he was shocked at what he termed profligacy and plainly showed he disapproved of such actions. At length some member of the party spent such a large sum that the oil king could bear it no longer and remonstrated with all of them in no uncertain manner, intimating that their display eventually would react against the company. "Why," said he, "every member of my family practices economy. It is the only way to have money—the only way. Do you know how my oldest daughter earns pocket money?" There was no reply. "By economy, sir; by the strictest economy, she earns every penny of it. Our house in Cleveland is large, and we consume a great deal of gas. Now, for years we have kept the gas bills, so that we know almost to a dime just how much the bills should go down in summer and just how much they should go up in the fall. "Now. I said to my daughter, 'All you can save on these bills you can have for your own.' Every night after the gas is lighted she is on the watch. If a careless servant has turned the burner too high she sees it and turns it down a bit. If a member of the family leaves the room without turning out the gas she's right there to attend to it. She is always on the watch. "And you really would be surprised." continued Mr. Rockefeller, with paternal pride, "how much my daughter saves for herself by looking after that one item of expense." An Old Frigate's Wheel. The steering wheel of the steam frigate Minnesota, which has been received by the Minnesota Historical society, will occupy a conspicuous place in the new capitol as soon as the society moves into its new quarters. The wheel is constructed of oak and mahogany, is four and one-half feet in diameter, and is mounted on a wooden frame. The steam frigate Minnesota was constructed in accordance with an act of Congress passed April 6, 1854, which provided for six frigates for the United States navy. The Minnesota in 1857, 1858, and 1859 was the flagship commanded by Samuel F. Dupont of the foreign squadron, which went on a special mission to China, and was present at the operations of the French and English forces against China, notably at the capture of the forts at Pehio river. After visiting Japan, India and Arabia, the ship returned to Boston in 1859, where it was out of commission until 1861. At the opening of the Civil war the Minnesota was put in commission under Capt. S. H. Stringham as flagship of the Atlantic blockading squadron. It was present at the capture of Fort Hatteras and Fort Clark at Hatteras inlet, North Carolina, and was at Fortress Monroe at the encounter between the Monitor and the Merrimac, when the Merrimac sunk the Cumberland and burned the Congress, and the Minnesota went aground. The ship was also present at the capture of Fort Fisher, January 15, 1865. After the Civil war the Minnesota was used from 1865 to 1882 as a training ship, and was put out of commission in 1882. In 1895 it was loaned to the state of Massachusetts for the naval militia until 1897. Four years later the famous boat was dismantled, having been sold to Thomas Butler & Co. of Boston for $25,738.38, $10,738.38 more than the appraised value. The Minnesota society applied for the steering wheel a year ago, and through the efforts of Senator Moses E. Clapp and Congressman F. C. Stevens the society was made custodian of the famous relic.—St. Paul Pioneer Press. An Illustration Wife—What is meant, John, by the phrase "Carrying coals to Newcastle?" Husband—It is a metaphor, my dear, showing the doing of something that is unnecessary. Wife—I don't exactly understand. Give me an illustration—a familiar one. Give me an illustration—a faint one. Husband—Well, if I were to bring you home a book entitled "How to Talk," that would be carrying coals to Newcastle." London Tit-Bits THIS WOMAN KNOWS WHAT ONE OF THE SEX DISCOVERED TO HER GREAT JOY. Mrs. De Long Finds that the Indescribable Pains of Rheumatism Can be Cured Through the Blood. Mrs. E. M. De Long, of No. 160 West Broadway, Council Bluffs, Iowa, found herself suddenly attacked by rheumatism in the winter of 1896. She gave the doctor a chance to help her, which he failed to improve, and then she did some thinking and experimenting of her own. She was so successful that she deems it her duty to tell the story of her escape from suffering: "My brother-in-law," she says, "was enthusiastic on the subject of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills as a purifier of the blood, and when I was suffering extreme pains in the joints of my ankles, knees, hips, wrists and elbows, and the doctor was giving me no relief, I began to reflect that rheumatism is a disease of the blood and that, if Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are so good for the blood, they must be good for rheumatism and worth a trial. "I was in bed half the time, suffering with pain that cannot be described to one who has never had the disease. It would concentrate sometimes in one set of joints. When it was in my feet I could not walk, when it was in my elbows and wrists I could not even draw the coverlets over my body. I had suffered in this way for weeks before I began using Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. Two weeks after I began with them I experienced relief and after I had taken six boxes I was entirely well. To make sure I continued to use them about two weeks longer and then stopped altogether. For several years I have had no reason to use them for myself, but I have recommended them to others as an excellent remedy." Dr. Williams' Pink Pills furnish the blood with all the elements that are needed to build up healthy tissue, strong muscles and nerves, capable of bearing the strain that nature puts upon them. They really make new blood and cure all diseases arising from disorders of the blood or nerves, such as sciatica, neuralgia, partial paralysis, locomotor ataxia, St. Vitus' dance, nervous prostration, angemia and all forms of weakness in either male or female. They are sold by all druggists. Deep Gold Mines. The deepest gold mine is still to be credited to Bendigo, in Victoria, Australia, although the time is coming when the Rand, South Africa, will claim the record. For the present the Victoria quartz mine, at Bendigo, has probed deeper into the earth than any other digging after gold; work is now going on in this mine at 3950 feet, a winze having been sunk 250 feet below the lowest level, at 3700 feet. Among its neighbors the Victoria quartz mine has the New Chum railway, with work proceeding at 3850 feet, and the New Chum Consolidated, 3583 feet. The celebrated "180" mine, the property of George Lansell, and long the deepest gold mine in the world, is being exploited at 3250 feet, although the shaft itself is 200 feet deeper.—Engineering and Mining Journal. The Brain of a Jap The brain of Taguchi, the Japanese anatomist, weighed 1520 grammes, and it stands thirtieth in the list of brain weights of men distinguished in the professions, arts and sciences.—London Globe. —There are 3000 words used alike in French and English, without variation in spelling. DO YOU COUGH DON'T DELAY TAKE KEMP'S BALSAM THE BEST COUGH CURE It Cures Colds, Conghs, Sore Throat, Croup, Influenza, Whooping Cough, Bronchitis and Asthma. A certain cure for Consumption in first stages, and a sure relief in advanced stages. Use at once. You will see the excellent effect after taking the first dose. Sold by dealers everywhere. Large bottles 25 cents and 50 cents. NORTH-SOUTH-EAST-WEST YOU WILL FIND TOWER'S FISH BRAND WATERPROOF OILED CLOTHING EVERYWHERE. 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Some kippered herrings, the midribs of a balibut, a piece of ice and some parsley composed the stock, and the odor was such as one expects in such a place. He himself stepped forward from a little glazed counting house as I entered. He was a short, spare man, with a dried-up appearance like the herrings, and a worried look about the eyes. He was dressed unobtrusively in a fishmonger's apron. "Yessir?" he said. "Kippers is cheap too——" Thank you," I said, stopping him. "I am not wanting any fish today. My purpose in coming is to interview you, if you have no objection." "Interview me?" He looked almost suspiciously vacant. "For 'Black and White,'" I said. "You are, I believe, Mr. Tosh, by profession a fishmonger, but you paint in your spare moments, and you sent in a picture to the Royal academy?" The little man gasped. "How did you know?" he said. "It's our business," I said magnificently. "The public likes to know these matters. so we find out. I may as well tell you that, as a fishmonger, you're much more likely to make a hit with anything you paint than you are as a mere artist. Mere artists are too plentiful, and they've been to art schools and spent their lives in having opportunities of studying. You, of course, never had any opportunities?" "Not many," said Mr. Tosh. "I——" "You've always loved art, however," I interrupted. "Exactly; and even as a child you used to paint?" Mr. Tosh nodded. "Do you remember if your father ever beat you for drawing upon the white-washed walls of his cottage?" I inquired. "No." "Perhaps your mother did?" I said hopefully. "No? Well, it's a pity we can't work in any of these details." "My uncle used to beat me," said Mr. Tosh with a sudden inspiration. "What for?" I demanded. "Running away from school. He brought me up. "Quite so," I said. "You were an orphan? It was your habit to steal away from school into the woods and watch the sunset, while you ought to have been doing subtractions? It is to this that you attribute your ability to depict clouds and trees, and——" "Figures are my subject," said Mr. Tosh in rather a hurt way. "It doesn't matter," I said. "You gained your insight into the human figure by watching the London crowds in the London streets. You longed to be an artist, and every day the yearning grew stronger. But your uncle, a practical man—himself a fishmonger—would not hear of it. He apprenticed you to his own business. You loathed it. You were limited to the study of still-life. The only drawings you were able to make were of lobsters, and your inspirations were drawn from—" I had paused to see if Mr. Tosh were assenting to my sketch of his early life and struggles—which I wished to have accurate. "Haddocks!" he said, completing the sentence for me, with the most cunning wink. "That's right," he added, slyly. "You're the man for me. I wish I had your imagination. I tell you what, though. I'll give you a couple of guineas if my picture goes at the price I want for it." I had never seen a man so changed in a moment. The dull, vacant look had vanished, and in its place was a preternatural sharpness. "That's what I'll do," he said, and winked again. "What do you mean?" I said indignantly. "Don't you recognize me?" he returned. "I thought you did. I—I—" He dropped his head guiltily; but it was too late. I had recognized him. "You're James Brown, the fireman, who painted a picture called 'Hero Waiting for Leander' for the Academy last year; you're Morton Griggs, the postman-artist, who was boomed the year before for his 'Cleopatra;' you're Rev. John Pitts, the East End clergyman, whose 'Massacre of the Innocents' was a feature in 1900, because it was painted during moments snatched while changing your surplice in the vestry; you're George Jennings, bo'sun of H. M. S. Emerald, who wielded an artist's brush during the long night-watches on the China seas, and produced in '99 'The Tussle of the Triremes;' you're——" I pursued the indictment as my memory served me. I had interviewed some of these men myself, but not until now had I recognized that one and all were the same, and that none other than the littie man in front of me. "You're a fraud," I ended up. "In a sense," he said sadly, "I am a fraud. My name is Robinson, and I am in reality an artist, and nothing else." "These various businesses——" "Were assumed for the purpose of selling my pictures. I found it was the only way. If it is a fraud to pose as a clergyman or a chimney-sweep, instead of as—what you have called 'a mere artist,' the public has encouraged it. It will buy a fishmonger's picture when it will buy no other. I have a wife and family. I ask you not to denounce me." "I must," I said sternly; and though he pleaded with me at great length, I have, as is plain, kept to that stern necessity. The public must be defended at all hazards.—R. E. Vernese in Black and White. Mary's Lamb—New Version. Mary had a little lamb, It had a fleecy coat, She did not care to raise it, so She changed it for a goat, She tried to lead it by a string, Ere she a word could utter, She learned a most surprising thing, The goat had turned to butt her. HUMOROUS ITEMS. If hoopskirts do come in again how are the people who live in flats going to pass one another in the hall?—Somerville Journal. It is pretty hard for a bride to reconcile the sound of the wedding bells to the rattle of the dishpan.—Philadelphia Evening Telegraph. She—Did you meet with any cyclones out west? He—No, but one caught up with us.—Yonkers Statesman. “He made a lot of money in that deal, and yet he looks glum.” “Yes, his wife found out in some way just how much he made.”—Philadelphia Press. "Jimmie, Jimmie, don't you know it's awful to say those swear words?" "I was dus' playin' I was papa huntin' for his collar button."—Detroit Free Press. She—It must be awful to owe money and not be able to pay it! He—Yes—almost as bad as lending it and not being able to get it back!—Detroit Free Press. Sue Brette—Do they charge your company full rates on the railroad? Foote Light—Going out, they do. We don't pay anything coming back.—Yonkers Statesman. Young Wife—What do you think of my biscuits, Charles? Young Husband—Splendid! So economical, you know. Why, they'll last a lifetime."—Boston Transcript. Sharpe—The major says he lost a limb during the late war. Whealton—Yes, he was up a tree and the enemy shot away the limb he was sitting on.—Kennebec (Me.) Journal. "My dear," said the learned man, "I think that I shall write a dictionary." "What for?" asked his wife. "Then I can at least get a word in here and there."—Cleveland Leader. Demi----! A woman thought the Man she loved A Demigod in truth; She married him, and found him out A Demiljohn forsooth! —Town Topics. Mamma—Johnny, how many times have I told you about pulling that cat's tail? Johnny—I don't know, mom; but from de wav de tail is worn it must be a lot.— New York Telegraph. "Well, major, I notice that you're runnin' for office again?" "No, sir. It's the same old run. I got headway on durin' the war, and I haven't been able to stop myself since!" -Atlanta Constitution. "Say, pa?" "Why does that man in the band run the trombone down his throat?" "I suppose it is because he has a taste for music"—Town Topics. for music. Town Topics Miss Rapidde (in dark hall)—O-o-o-h, mercy! Who is that? . Bob Gayleigh—Jack the Hugger! Miss Rapidde—Oh, how you scared me! Come right in here where we shan't be disturbed.—Town Topics. Papa Beancater—Thomas, tell James to leave the carriage out for awhile. Tommy Beaneater (who has just begun to learn the meaning of words)—James, father says you may omit the carriage for awhile.—Baltimore American. Orphaned Have you heard of the nice motor-car Which papa one time gave to mamma? They went out alone On a ride of their own. Do you ask if we're orphans? We are! —Judge. Biggs—It's a pity young Swift doesn't take advantage of the mary good opportu- nities offered him. Diggs—Yes; but I guess he finds it less strenuous to take advantage of those who offer the opportunities.—Kennebec (Me.) Journal. "They say," remarked the observant man, "that the darkest hour is just be- fore the dawn, and"— "Gee whizz," exclaimed Laziman, "that's my brightest and happiest hour. I'm invariably asleep then."—Philadelphia Press. "Beatrice will certainly look sheepish this fall." "Because she is going to have mutton-leg sleeves?" "Not only that, but she is going to marry a man with mutton-chop whiskers."—Baltimore Herald. Myrtilla—I never encouraged your brother, but he has proposed to me. I am sure he has no reason for wanting me to marry him. Miranda—No; he hasn't any reason at all; that's what we all said when he told us about it.—New York Telegram. "He's got the most self-conceited, superior airs about him." "Of course. He's a New Yorker." "But he's the worst of all the New Yorkers I ever met." "Yes, he only moved there recently from Hoboken."—Catholic Standard and Times. "I'm thinkin' seri'us of going' ter jail," sighed Meandering Mike. "What's the matter?" "Wid beef, eggs, chicken, butter and milk so high de best handout yous kin git is bread and water, and den yous have to beg so hard dat it is work."—Detroit Free Press. Mrs. Counterhop (with an injured air)—You told me before we were married that you were the highest salaried clerk in the store. Mr. Counterhop (equally injured)—So I am. I'm two inches and a half higher than any other salaried clerk in the whole establishment.—Chicago Tribune. "Why don't you ever want to go to a wedding?" snapped Mrs. Enpeck. "I don't believe you've ever been to a wedding since you attended your own." "No," mildly responded Mr. Enpeck. "I haven't. And," he added, softly, to himself, "I sometimes wish I hadn't attended that one."—New York Telegraph. "This is a queer-looking spoon-hook," said the customer. "That, sir," said the dealer in sporting goods, "is the very latest. It is called the 'Angler's Delight.'" "What's the idea in it?" "It is a combination spoon-hook and prockscrew."—Catholic Standard and Times. "Oh, yes," said the first girl, "he's a real Italian count. May Gidday had quite a talk with him." "Did she? What did she find to talk about?" "Oh, she was real nice to him; told him she was passionately fond of peanuts and bananas and all that."—Philadelphia Press. FARMER BOY SOLVED IT. Suggested to Railroad Men How to Start Their Locomotive. An Ottawa man, traveling through southwest Kansas, went from Harper to Anthony on one of the trains of the new Orient railroad. The cars were all right, but the engine was a dilapidated affair. "Just after going down a grade one of the side rods on the engine broke," said the traveler to a Herald reporter, "and the other side stopped on a 'dead center,' so that after the broken rod was taken off it was still impossible to move. The traveling engineer, the engineer, the conductor and all the passengers took turns going over the thing and trying to devise a way to make it run. Finally a boy came out of the field where he had been plowing to see what was going on. He crawled through the wire fence and sat down on the bank and fanned himself with his straw hat. "If you'd back that last car up the grade an' let 'er come down kerchunk, that 'u'd start 'er,' he finally suggested, deliberately. "The railroad man sniffed contemptuously, but the passengers sided with the boy. Finally the conductor gave orders that the rear car be uncoupled. No less than fifty passengers, among them the Ottawa man, took hold and slowly pushed the car up the grade. Once at the top the car was let go, while the passengers made a run to get on board the main portion of the train. The loose coach gained momentum as it came down hill, and in spite of the engineers admonition to 'let 'er come down easy,' the emergency battering ram crashed into the train with a tremendous thump. The engine was pumped off 'center' all right; in fact, the train was shoved some yards on its way, and the engineer, in order to avoid further risks, kept it going."—Kansas City (Mo.) Journal. ALL BROKEN DOWN. No Sleep-No Appetite-Just a Continual Backache. Joseph McCauley, of 144 Sholto street, Chicago, Sachem of Tecumseh Lodge, says: "Two years ago my health was completely broken down. My back ached and was so lame that at times I was hardly able to dress myself. I lost my appetite and was unable to sleep. There seemed to be no relief until I took health was completely broken down. My back ached and was so lame that at times I was hardly able to dress myself. I lost my appetite and was unable to sleep. There seemed to be no relief until I took Doan's Kidney Pills, but four boxes of this remedy effected a complete and permanent cure. If suffering humanity knew the value of Doan's Kidney Pills, they would use nothing else, as it is the only positive cure I know." For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. That Was Enough. "It was on a train going from New York to Washington," said Albert Barnes of Toledo. "Among the passengers was a newly married couple, who made themselves known as such to so great an extent that the occupants of the car began to make sarcastic remarks about them. "The bride and groom stood the remarks for some time, but finally the latter, who was a man of tremendous size, broke out in the following language at his tormenters: "Yes, we're married—just married. We are going 100 miles farther, and are going to spoon all the way. If you don't like it you can get out and walk. She's my violet and I'm her sheltering oak." "During the remainder of the journey this couple was left in peace."—Boston Adoption $100 Reward. $100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. 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Imagine how the poor woman is torn between her desire to display the necklace and the fear that when she wears it everybody will be counting the diamonds."—London Tit-Bits. Country Shippers. The attention of produce shippers is called to the character of the commercial reports published in the Evening Wisconsin. They embrace the complete Milwaukee and Chicago quotations on produce, livestock and provisions and the closing figures on the New York stock exchange each day. In order to keep posted daily subscribe for the Evening Wisconsin. Terms, $1.00 for three months by mail. THE EVENING WISCONSIN CO., Milwaukee, Wis. It is proposed to build a small concrete church on the top of Croagh Patrick, County Mayo, Ireland, for the celebration of the annual pilgrimage mass. The church will be almost 2600 feet above the sea level. Do you want to earn a little extra money? Five to fifteen dollars per week. Every household needs my preparations. Good profits, easy sellers. Write S. H. 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Some days I would remain unconscious for a whole day and night. My neighbors thought I could never recover, but, thanks to your medicine, I now feel like a different woman. "I feel very grateful to you and will recommend Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to all. It has now been four years since I had the last spell of nervous prostration. I only weighed ninety-eight pounds at that time; now I weigh one hundred and twenty-three. "I consider your Vegetable Compound the finest remedy made. Thanking you many times for the benefit I received from your medicine, I remain, Yours truly, Mrs. J. H. FARMER, 2809 Elliott Ave., St. Louis, Mo." Remember Mrs. Pinkham's advice is free and all sick women are foolish if they do not ask for it. She speaks from the widest experience, and has helped multitudes of women. $5000 FORFEIT if we cannot forthwith produce the original letters and signatures of above testimonials, which will prove their absolute genuineness. Lydia E. Pinkham Med. 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REE from Disease? alfalfa-Nutrient Locomotor-Ataxia, all Stomach, and all Nerve and Blood Dis- and address and we will mail trial treatment of this wonder- scientific booklet, "How to ." Address NUTRIENT CO. born St., Chicago. In Our Line Give Us a Call LOGAN Store Coal, Wood and Ice AND MOVING CHICAGO, ILL. REEN 976. ler, Jr. ESALE... Oysters ay, Wis. Freezers, Foot of N. Jefferson St ELK EXPRESS CO. G. J. CHARLESTON, Mgr. 63 E. Sixth Street, ST. PAUL, MINN. THE PO By the Rev. James S. Stone, D. D. "We are laborers together with God."—I. Corinthians iii., 9. It was the consciousness that they were workers together with God that sustained the apostles in their struggle against the powers of paganism. God was working out a purpose, and they were working with him in that purpose. So is it with every man who is striving to do his duty. God made us in his own image. Our mental and spiritual qualities, though inferior and finite, are nevertheless of the same kind, and after the same pattern, as the mental and spiritual qualities of God. We are his children, like unto our father, and we are made not only to share in his love and glory but also in his work. He has done much, but he has left something for us to do. Thus the vast, sublime, and magnificent wilderness, untamed and uncultivated, is of little use to human life till man has gone into it. He brings out its powers, avails himself of its possibilities, and works together with God both for the beautifying of the earth and for the bringing out of the powers that lie within it. Hence it is that a garden is far more lovely than the wild woodland, and the rose cultivated and trained much more beautiful than the flower that struggles recklessly for life in the wilderness. The man, therefore, that trims a tree, thrusts a spade into the ground, gathers the ore from the mine, purifies it, shapes it, say, into the machinery that shall weave clothing or into the engine that shall speed him from city to city—the man that gathers the lightning from the clouds and guides it into the many uses now discovered for electricity—is a worker together with God. His labor, oftentimes irksome, worrying, wearing, is yet divine. The laborer in the field or workshop is indeed a priest, a mediator between God and nature, a worker with the great Creator for the uplifting and development of humanity. This truth may be applied fearlessly in all directions. The lawyer who is striving for justice and peace is working with God. Governments and legislatures that would discover and observe law, rule in equity and judgment, avert war, and advance the prosperity of the people have in mind the same purpose that God has. So is the physician fellow to him who went about healing the sick, alleviating pain, and prolonging life. What is the man doing who sells us our coal and clothing and food, but helping God in his work of preserving our life? God would have his children to be happy. True, there are some people who think we ought not to seek after happiness, or at least we ought not to be too happy. They think something bad is about to happen to them if they are unusually happy. Many of their kind deliberately seek to make themselves miserable. But it would be impossible to prove, or for the most of us to believe, that this is the will of God. Indeed, the misery that is in the world to-day is here because men have refused to be workers with God for its removal. If man had always done his duty there would be no poverty, distress, sickness, or sorrow. God would break no one's heart. But man has neglected his work, or has complacently allowed evils to go on, upon the supposition that either the evils were unavoidable or had an element of good in them. The weeds will remain in the wilderness and misery will continue in the earth till man honestly and faithfully sets to work with God for their elimination. So it is that when we do a kind deed or say a loving word to one in distress, sorrow, or need, we are helping God in his purpose to make that weary one happy. You take up in your arms a little child that is sobbing and crying over some tiny trouble that has come into its heart. You try to comfort the fragile soul, and without thinking, perhaps, in a moment you are doing that which we are told God shall some day do himself—wiping away the tears. In a thousand and one ways we strive with God for the same end. And it means so much more when you do the work yourself. We must have societies and bureaus to do much of the benevolent duty of a great city, and they ought to be well supported; but better far is it for you to do something yourself. If you cannot personally meet the people that are in distress, you miss knowing either what distress really is or the joy of helping to alleviate it. If you knew the distress or the joy you would be eager to give of your time and means to the work in which God is interested. The same principle applies when we try to make other lives useful. Man untaught and uncivilized is like the wilderness untamed and uncultivated. He may have a certain rugged beauty; that is the best he is likely to have. But do with him as with your wild land; train, develop, educate, awaken and direct imagination, intellect, and memory, inspire him with lofty and noble purposes, and you make of him that which nature alone could never make. You become a worker together with God to make the child worthy of his heavenly father. All this is true also of our work in reference to ourselves. God leaves us something to do for ourselves. We have powers, but we must develop and use them. We have food for our bodies, minds, and souls, but we must appropriate it. We are not born wise or learned or skilled; we must draw out ourselves. These considerations should teach us, first, that all honest, true labor, in field, workshop, office, store, study, or schoolroom, or wherever our lot may be cast, is dignified and consecrated. NEED OF BIBLE TRAINING. By Rev. William P. Merrill. Human life is a tangle of problems. But one thread has in it the secret of unraveling the mass; it is the training of children. Find out what to do with the little child, and you solve all problems. The greatest thing that ever happened to the world's life was the birth of a little babe; we still observe the anniversary as our happiest day. Yet we treat the child too often as his world treated him. "No room for him" as a child; no use for him when he grew to manhood; only to be cut off, killed, put out of the way. The great need and right of every child is a knowledge of the Bible. I want to make clear three propositions (1) every child needs and has a right to the Bible; (2) the school does not give it to him; (3) the church and the home are the only institutions that can give it to him. Every child needs the Bible. He needs it for culture. The best minds say so. Matthew Arnold and Thomas H. Huxley, agnostics, pleaded that the Bible be made a part of the public school curriculum in Great Britain on account of its incomparable value for culture. The child needs it for forming that most needed force, a social conscience, training him in how to live helpfully, not harmfully, with other people. He needs it above all to secure to him a sane and real religious experience. Now, the school does not give this knowledge. It can not. Once it did. The curriculum in the Boston public school in 1781 was made up altogether of religious and moral studies. We have separated church and state. It is well we have. Our school system, even as it is, is immensely better than that of Boston, 1781. But our schools do not and, in the present status of things, can not give definite knowledge of the Bible or of the Christian religion to the pupils. So we reach our third proposition—the church and the school are the only institutions that can train the children in biblical knowledge. This emphasizes the importance of the church Sunday school, kindergarten and other means of religious training of the young. No work is more important for the church than this. But, above all, such work of biblical training belongs to the home, to father and mother—both, for the father can not throw the whole burden on his wife. You, fathers and mothers, can give your child the best part of his education, and you have the solemn knowledge that if you do not give it he will never get it as he should. John Ruskin said that the one essential part of his education was the work his mother did in setting him to learn chapters and verses while a little boy. THOUGHT AND LIFE. By Rev. R. A. White. Right or wrong conduct is based upon thought. As a man thinketh so he acts. Believing the world is governed by cruelty and injustice man himself becomes unjust. Believing that social progress is largely a myth; that evil is stronger than good, he ceases to fight the battle of righteousness from sheer desperation about the issues. In citizenship thousands of men and women are evading their civic duties simply from a profound disbelief in the recuperative power of social forces. Politics are corrupt and irredeemably so, they say, business is a covert form of brigandage, commercialism is polite throat-cutting, "what's the use." The remedy for much of our civic inaction is a reconstruction of our faith in the final supremacy of right things and forces. We shall never have better things anywhere until an increasing number of people think we can have them. MANKIND AS AN ASSET. K. h. W. 4 In the midst of all our talk of the law and what it should accomplish in stamping out crime, one factor in a Christian civilization seems to have been forgotten, and that is the attitude of the church as represented by Christ himself. We read that as he looked out on sinning, sick and riotous multitudes, he saw them with eyes of compassion. That is the most difficult state of mind—to have compassion on those who would seem to be candidates for the penitentiary. Yet it is the divine one. Liberty falls where the law fails. Love alone can interpret the law. Faith has a way of looking right over the top of facts. The men who make a noise in this world are always the quiet ones. 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