Wisconsin Weekly Advocate

State Historical Society WISCONSIN WEEKLY ADVOCATE DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF THE NEGRO RACE VOLUME VI. 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. The Inauguration of a Rebel. It must have pained Jefferson Davis to take the oath of allegiance to the government of the United States at his recent inauguration as governor of the benighted commonwealth of Arkansas. As it was he made the most of it by appearing in a newly made Confederate uniform, with epaulettes, and assuming the proud dignity of a peacock, strutted about in the delivery of his message to the Legislature. Davis has gained considerable of a reputation as a "bully," having slugged several men in public since his election as governor of more or less prominence. His message dealt principally with the ittressubleness of the Negro, which, according to his judgment, is reaching alarming proportions. Gov. Davis is of the Vardeman stripe and believes that too much education is being subscribed for the Negro; that it unfits the latter from usefulness as a servant and creates general dissatisfaction. His remedy is the curtailment of the school tax for Negro schools. This ought to fix matters to suit the fancy of the belligerent governor, but it will not appeal to the more progressive and intelligent whites of the south as a settlement of the question. The Booker Washington idea has secured a firm root in the minds of the more enlightened element, south as well as north, and fully demonstrates the only practical solution to the problem. To do away with the facilities of the school means a carnival of crime and an increase of police power and prisons. Where then will the economy to the taxpayer come in? Men of the type of Davis, Vardeman and Tillman appeal more to the prejudice and passion of their constituents than to reason or logic. Fortunately for the south they stand in a class by themselves and the time is not far distant when their waning power will be shorn for all time to come. Jefferson Davis, while an unrepentent rebel at heart, poses for effect, and is not on the square. There may be something in a name, but the appellation by which this bruiser is known is rather odious to students of history in the north. As said before, he is of a passing type, the like of which will soon be unknown. "Jim" Davidson. In the event of Gov. La Follette's successful effort to break into the United States Senate, Wisconsin would be left in a pitiful plight. The succession of the present lieutenant-governor to the executiveship of the state would be a thousand times worse than the present incumbent. This man Davidson is absolutely unfit and incapable of filling the chair of governor of this great commonwealth and would prove a lamentable disgrace to its fair reputation. Are we to go backward? Have we as citizens grown tired and ashamed of our motton of progression: "Forward," through the anger that has been generated by factional party strife? Davidson is a mere creature of circumstances—that of birth—and was selected for a place on the ticket as a recognition of the Scandinavian vote without regard to ability or fitness. He is without force of character and is as pliable as putty. He was first elected to office as a stalwart, but with the rise of the La Follette tide he was one of the first to jump aboard the "half-breed" craft and denounce those responsible for him. For the sake of office—a chronic affliction of his—he would barter, betray and desert the tepee of big Chief Pompadour in the midst of a pow-wow. Knowing his appetite for plums it is to be hoped that both Senators Spooner and Quarles will join in having him appointed to a consularship in the "Land of the Mid-night Sun" and thus avert a possible danger that threatens the good people of the state. "Gov. Davidson—for-sooth! After all it pays best to be honest in this world. Think of a man—a Negro. If you please—after reaching middle life without character and reputation for good and realize if you can what a miserable and worthless being he is. He is shunned generally by society and worse. 3 still his family and offspring must share his ostracism. Without sufficient means to provide for material want the best asset a man can have in life is a good reputation. This does not necessarily imply that he should become a saint, but it does mean the practice of the Golden Rule, and a decent and clean life. The race is at a serious disadvantage in its upward struggle, owing to the unjust prejudice—the outgrowth of slavery—that surrounds it. Thus handicapped it should nourish and cultivate virtues that will command the attention and respect of every one—including its enemies. Recently a stir was created by residents of upper Fifth avenue, New York city, over the advent of Negro residents in that aristocratic section of the metropolis, and effort was made to oust them. Upon investigation it was discovered that the landlord—a wealthy Jew—had erected the dwellings for the special purpose of renting to the better class of Negroes, giving as his reason that it was the best investment he could make with his money; that after long years of experience as a landlord he had found Negroes to be his most desirable tenants; that they invariable paid their rent. This should be the record of the race in every community in which it resides. There has been some uncasiness displayed in certain quarters by certain people since the publication of our veiled article under the caption of "Three Old Women," and not without reason. It is the business of this paper to expose fraud, immorality and rascality wherever it is found and without regard to the parties guilty of such conduct. By doing this we hope to improve both the party thus exposed and the general morale of society. If there are any wolves in sheep's clothing in this neck of the woods we are going to keep after them until Milwaukee becomes too hot to hold them. We are getting ready to smoke a few more of them out from under their concealment. The shoe will fit the parties intended to wear it and we expect to hear "wailing and gnashing of teeth" before a great while. The United States Senate after a lapse of two years, has at last concluded to endorse or rather confirm the appointment of Dr. W. D. Crum as collector of the Charleston, S. C., port. It is unnecessary to comment at any length upon this case as our readers have followed it from its incipiency to the present. It might be pertinent, however, to ask what caused such a sudden change of front on the part of the Senate from utter indifference to the vote that approved the President's course in this case? Was it Tillman's withdrawing his opposition? Nay verily, for his was on record the same at the last as at first. Then what? Moral: Frankness and fair dealing from the outset is, after all, the "gem of purest ray serene." We, here, in the great state of Wisconsin have rights and privileges that are denied to many of our race elsewhere and it behooves us to take every advantage that is offered under its beneficient institutions. See to it that every child of school age is sent to school and kept there until it graduates from the high school. Those of us who have not had the opportunity to attend school owe it to our children to give them every right to acquire an education. The Chicago Broad Axe in its seventh anniversary edition has eclipsed all former efforts. Indeed, of all the anniversary numbers that have come to us this month, the Broad Axe shines was most resplendent ray. We admire Brother Taylor as a young writer of extraordinary qualities and wish him brighter and brighter laurels in the journalistic realm. The Legislature was convened this week. An even break was obtained by both factions on organization. We regret that we are going to press before the promulgation of the governor's message, as we had hoped to comment upon it. However, we will keep the public posted on events of interest from now on. The Negro must come to a proper understanding as to his status in the body politic of this republic. He must unceasingly strive to meet every opposing obstacle in the way towards higher citizenship. "Only English Republican Daily Newspaper Published in Milwaukee" is the glaring headline that outrages the delicate sensibilities of the classical eye that reads the morning "half-breed" organ. Ye gods, what diction! As a loyal defender of the flag of his country the Negro is second to none in his worship at the shrine of patriotism. An Evening of Rare Enjoyment. The pleasant and attractive home of Mrs. and Mr. Henry H. Goodrum, 724 St. Paul avenue, was the scene and occasion of one of the most fashionable, select, and enjoyable gatherings on Saturday evening, January 7, within the memory of Milwaukee society people. The object of the host and hostess on this occasion was to get together a company of friends and associates that would give stimulus and stronger tone to the social sect of Milwaukee, and it is unnecessary to say that the object of the entertainment was fully realized. Those invited were: Mr. and Mrs. George Wilson, Mrs. J. Nenidorf, Mr. Henry Howell, Mrs. J. Conture, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Revels, Miss R. K. Nortmann, W. S. Snell, Miss Elnora Young, Miss Margaret Conture, Mrs. W. D. Murphy, Mr. Ross Howell, Mr. A. P. Sample, Mr. William Fisher, Mr. and Miss Lewis Young, R. B. Montgomery, editor Wisconsin Weekly Advocate, Miss Edna Goodrum, Mr. Walter Goodrum, Mr. Earl Goodrum. The evening was pleasantly spent in enjoying cards, music and dancing and discussion of leading topics. A rich repast in the form of a most elaborate and bountiful supper was served at 11 c'clock. The professionals and amateurs showed keen interest and exhibited rare skill in the games. The prizes were carried off by the following: First prize was won by Mrs. Young, a handsome vase; second prize was won by Mr. P. A. Sample, a handsome cigar ash holder. Third prize was taken by Miss Contine; fourth prize was won by Mr. R. Howeil. Mr. and Mrs. Goodrum, by the royal manner of their entertainment, have made a new high water mark in Milwaukee's society; have made indelible pleasant impressions upon those composing the guest and thus made them always their debtors for one of the swellest entertainments ever tendered by host and hostess in the Cream city. The affair was carried far into the "wee sma" hours of the night, when dreaming eyes tho' sparkling souls turned to the sweet chords of home sweet home saying, vale, and many returns of the day. Hon. Gilbert E. Vandercook to Speak. Through the success of his lecture at St. Mark's A. M. E. church last week on his experience in the south two years ago, efforts are being made to have it repeated at the Pabst theater under the auspices of the People's Pulpit. Mr. Vandercook is an interesting speaker and does justice to the Negro. Every man, woman and child should keep watch on the date and avail themselves of the opportunity of hearing him. COUNT BONI'S PALACE Work Resumed in the Avenue du Bois de Boulogue. The house that Count Boni de Castellane built in the Avenue du Bois de Boulogne, Paris, is once more the sensation of the hour. Since its outer walls, forming an almost exact copy of the Grand Trianon palace at Versailles, were first displayed to an admiring public, a few years ago, it had ceased to be much talked about. Now Count Boni de Castellane and the countess, nee Gould, are astonishing Paris again by the splendor of its fitting up. After a lull of some years work has been resumed in the palace, and again Versailles is being copied. The grand drawing room is being decorated in exact imitation of the Salon d'Hercule in the palace of Louis XIV. The walls are to be almost entirely of white, pink and saffron yellow marble, with "dashes of emerald, ruby and opal," whatever those may be. The painted ceiling of the Hercules room is being exactly copied. The salon is 37 by 40 feet. There will be no curtains to the immense windows. In the evening gigantic mirrors, hidden in the woodwork, will be slid out in front of the panes, and will completely conceal them. The flooring is also to be an accurate copy of that of the Salon d'Hercule. In this respect, however, difficulties are met with. Louis XIV. had each piece of oak, after shaping and polishing, put away in the lofts, of Versailles for five years before it was laid down. The result is that not a board has warped by a fraction of an inch to this day. Such elaborate thoroughness is, it appears, impossible now.—London Telegraph. Workingmen's Insurance Consider the advance in the general spirit of kindness which is indicated by such a fact as the founding and successful operation of the system of workingmen's insurance in Germany. A certain sum of money is set aside for each workman every week (the employer and the employee each contributing half), and the government adds a supplement of $12 on each pension. Ten million workmen are thus insured against sickness, 17,000,000 against accident, 10,000,-000 against disability from old age. Six hundred and seven thousand persons receive the benefit of this fund in yearly pensions. Incidentally there has been an immense benefit in the increase of care and precautions to prevent accidents and to reduce dangerous occupations. The employer who is not yet willing to protect his workmen for kindness' sake will do it to escape heavier taxes. Everybody's Magazine. Moonlighters in Ireland. The reappearance of moonlighters as disturbing elements in the social conditions of Irish life is a feature which all who study those conditions, and are anxious for the prosperity of this country, must most sincerely deplore, says the Irish Times of Dublin. CREAM CITY NOTES. We will be glad to publish news of local and race interest if left at the office. 729 St. Paul avenue, before 6 o'clock Wednesday evenings. We would respectfully ask our readers to bestow at least a share of their custom upon those who advertise with us. The various remedies and hair restorers advertised in this paper can be had at the advertised price at the office of this paper. Mr. Clark Ellis of 729 St. Paul avenue, who has been spending the holidays with his parents at Ft. Atkinson, Wis., has returned and reports that he had a most pleasant time. Mrs. John Onley, formerly of this city, now of Ft. Atkinson, Wis., has been indisposed the major part of the winter. The Advocate and her many friends regret to learn of her illness and wish for her speedy recovery. * * * Our friend, Mr. P. A. Sample, who has been spending the holidays with friends in the city, left on Tuesday night last for Ann Arbor, Mich., where he resumes his studies at the state university. The Advocate and the host of his friends wish Mr. S. every success, as he is an exemplary young man, and a criterion for the young men of our city. Mrs. B. Parker of 515 Cedar street is quite ill. Her many friends will regret to learn this and it is hoped they may call and see her. Her early recovery is earnestly hoped for. Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Gudger, a bridal couple, are visiting friends in the city. They are stopping at No. 515 Cedar street. * * * Mrs. Sidney J. Davis, missionary of the First District Baptist convention of the central and western states and territories, auxiliary to the National Baptist convention, a resident of Keokuk, Ia., paid the Wisconsin Weekly Advocate a very pleasant call this week. Mrs. Davis will hold meetings at the Calvary Baptist church on Friday evening and Sunday next. All are cordially invited to attend these meetings. * * * We called on Mrs. Addie Blackwell and her mother, Mrs. Dyer, 659 Market street, on Monday. These two ladies are among the most ardent admirers of the Advocate and compose a portion of our sturdy and most substantial element of the city. Mr. John A. Ross of Chicago is a recent accession to Milwaukee's colored business and social colony. He has resided in Chicago for the past two years, but was formerly of Boston, Mass. Mr. Ross has purchased the barber business of John Green, No. 510 East Water street, where he will be pleased to serve all old patrons and the public. Prof. A. E. Willson, our time honored and esteemed friend, is our guest for a few days. Mrs. Willson and little "Boots" (A. E. Jr.) are at present spending the winter with her mother, Mrs. Isaac Fischer of Columbus, Ga., where she reports the weather as being balmy as a day in June in Wisconsin. ENLARGES ITS WORK. The officers of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial institute of Tuskegee, Ala., have gradually matured a plan which should very deeply interest the young men and women of the race who are seeking an education. This plan enables young men and young women to attend school at night and work at an industry or trade during the day, or in the case of those who are able to pay a small monthly sum, to attend school during the day and at the same time learn a trade or work at some industry. This improved plan gives superior opportunity for literary and academic training and at the same time gives equal opportunity for the learning of a trade. Last year thirty-six states were represented by students at Tuskegee, and nine foreign countries. The attendance during the coming year promises to be very large and the class of students promises to be of a high grade. DOGS, CATS, BIRDS, ETC. Dog Market.—All kinds of pups; broken Liewellen setter; also hounds for sale. D. P. REDD, 317 State street. Send stamp for reply. Revival in Car Building Carefully compiled figures show that during the past two months orders have been placed for 60,000 cars and about 800 locomotives. Present indications point to a general revival in business and heavier traffic in 1905, and orders for new equipment and rolling stock should show a steady increase from now on—Railroad Gazette. For Rent—Room. A well furnished room with heat, suitable for either one or two gentlemen of good repute, with a quiet and respectable colored family in a fine locality may be had through this office. Wisconsin Weekly Advocate. "A Wife for Every Man" Old Maids' Convention AUSPICES OF Advance Fountain, 1361 At True Reformers' Hall JEFFERSON AND PINE. THURSDAY EVENING FEBRUARY 2, 1905. 1ST GRAND PRIZE—Highest number of tickets over twenty-five, $5 in Gold. 2ND GRAND PRIZE—Second highest number over twenty-five, $2.50 in Gold. TO EVERY ONE—Selling twenty-five tickets, $1 in Gold. For tickets, apply to A. C. CASH. Ticket Commissioner, True Reformers' Hall. ARRANGEMENT COMMITTEE Mesdames Joicy A. Baker, Hattie B. Morgan, Leonora C. Hammond, Misses Willie B. Porter, Marina Wimberley, Ella Perkins, Bessie Clarke, Ella West Messrs. Henry Wilson. John B. Vashon. Jas. W. Grant. Thos. Erwin. MRS. JOSEPHINE BAKER, Chairman. ISAAC MURPHY, Secretary. Music by Great Western Band. Tickets 25c CLEANING FURNITURE. Suggestions for the Customary Fall Renovating. The sweeping and dusting which takes place at this time of the year are of a most particular kind. Moisten a cloth and fasten around a broom just over the broom part. This will keep the dust from rising and make the work easier. Sweep always with long, firm strokes, away and to the front of the sweeper. Always sweep away from and dust toward the worker. The dust cloths should be of soft old silk, and nearly every housekeeper has on hand old umbrella cases, gowns, petticoats, waists, etc., to furnish silk dusters; failing those of silk, cheesecloth is the next best, but do not use a cloth dampened with water. For varnished furniture dampen the cloth with kerosene, but for genuine polished surfaces a different treatment is required. When the polished surface of the piano is soiled and dull looking wet over with paraffin oil and let it remain for two hours. Apply the oil sparingly and at the end of the time polish with linen and chamois. This is cleaning, however, and not dusting. Always use two cloths for dusting, one in each hand. Then every time the left hand rests on a polished surface there will not be left the trace of soiled fingers and perspiration. It is a great mistake not to have on hand so generous a supply of dust cloths that one can afford to change very often, for dusting furniture with soiled cloths does much to injure the finish, especially of polished furniture. For carved furniture that is dusty use a fine paint brush, dipped in kerosene oil; brush over the carvings and they will appear bright as when new; or dip the brush in a good furniture polish. Who is not tormented with "white spots" on the dining room table? To remedy have ready three cloths and three saucers, containing, one kerosene, one alcohol and one sweet oil. Apply the kerosene first of all. If kerosene or raw linseed oil is applied as soon as the spot is first made it will often remove it at once. After the stain has been allowed to stand for some time, however, first apply the kerosene, then the second cloth with alcohol, and finally the third cloth with sweet oil or linseed oil, rubbing the last in thoroughly until the spot has disappeared.—The Housekeeper. Breeding Chickens and Pigeons at Sea. It is not every man who goes to sea that can order freshly laid eggs as a companion to his breakfast bacon, but Capt. Thaprich of the German oil tank steamer Burgermeister Petersen, in port, has by a careful study of the genus poultry been able to do so. On board he has a flock of chickens that receive much of his attention, and as a reward for his kindness they average one dozen eggs a day from November to May. Capt. Thaprich's fads are the breeding of chickens and homing pigeons. The homing pigeons are carefully raised from the egg—all on board, with the exception of two pairs to start the family, having been hatched on the ship. An incident of the instinct of the homing pigeon was developed on board the Burgermeister Petersen on her present trip to Balti- Every Man" Maids' ention CES OF Mountain, 1361 formers' Hall AND PINE. FEBRUARY 2, 1905. EVERY ONE number of tickets over twenty-five, $5 in west number over twenty-five, $2.50 in active tickets, $1 in Gold. SH. Ticket Commissioner, True Re- B. Morgan, Leonora C. Hammond, Timberley, Ella Perkins, Bessie Clarke, Vashon, Jas. W. Grant, Thos. Erwin. Ferman, ISAAC MURPHY, Secretary. In Band. Tickets 25c ALLY INVITED. more. Last Friday, when the vessel was off Hog island, making her way to the capes, the pigeons took an exercise fly, and all but one returned. Capt. J. R. Thompson, Jr., joined the ship at the capes to pilot her to Baltimore. At 3:30 p. m., after the ship had steamed seventy miles from the time the bird was missed, it came on board. Capt. Thaprich was then in the cabin taking his afternoon tea. He was the first one to know that his pet had returned. As the ship had made almost two sides of a right-angled triangle from the position where the bird was lost, it was assumed that it had flown across the land, cutting off the ship and joining it when thirty miles inside the capes, having left when the steamer was fully forty miles up the coast.—Baltimore Sun. Wear Loose Clothing in Winter "During the winter one should abjure tight shoes and tight clothing of all description if one would avoid additional suffering from the cold," Dr. Gustave Lippman says: "Drivers of vehicles often have their feet frostbitten, though they have made every precaution of which they may have knowledge against just such a contingency arising, and the reason they suffer frostbite is because they have gone to the extreme of wearing socks so thick that the feet are cramped in the shoes, the circulation is thus retarded and frozen toes under such circumstances are practically inevitable. Men who sit still in an exposed place, like teamsters, should never bind the feet at all. The wrappings for warmth ought be on the outside of the shoes, and never drawn tight. "Even a citizen who is not exposed to the inclenemency of the weather and who wears a tight shoe only in the evening will suffer severely with cold feet because of the retarded circulation. When the throat is bound tightly a cold in the head may develop, and women who lace the waist to an extreme degree are in danger of contracting cold in some part of the body which receives only a partial circulation of blood in consequence. All clothing worn in cold weather should be loose—not too loose, but sufficiently so to enable the blood to flow naturally and freely, and the chances of colds and frostbites being contracted will be much reduced when this is attended to.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The Languages of India. Among the 145 distinct languages spoken in British India are some possessing only a few hundred words, others rivaling English, as Dr. Grierson says, or Russian, as I would say, in their copiousness; some in which every word is a monosyllable, others in which some are elongated by agglutination till they run to ten syllables, like da-pa-l-ocho-akauten-tae-in-a-e—a Sontali word meaning: "He who belongs to him who belongs to me will continue letting himself be made to fight." Some of these divers tongues lack verb and noun, others are as complex and systematic as Greek and Latin—Nineteenth Century. The text is too blurry to be accurately transcribed. NUMBER 47. Science for the Young. Thoughtful little Willie Frazer Carved his name with father's razor: Father, unaware of trouble, Used the blade to shave his stubble. Father cut himself severely, Which pleased little Willie dearly— "I have fixed my father's razor So it cuts!" said Willie Frazer. Mamie often wondered why Acids trouble alkali— Mamie, in a manner placid, Fed the cat boracic acid. Whereupon the cat grew frantic, Executing many an antic. "Ah!" cried Mamie, overjoyed, "Pussy is an alkaloid." Arthur with a lighted taper Touched the fire to grandpa's paper, Grandpa leaped a foot or higher, Dropped the sheet, and shouted "Fire!" Arthur, wrapped in contemplation, Viewed this scene of conflagration. "This," he said, "confirms my notion-- Heat creates both light and motion." Wee, experimental Nina. Dropped her mother's Dresden china From a seventh story casement, Smashing, crashing to the basement. Nina, somewhat apprehensive. Said: "This china is expensive, Yet it proves by demonstration Newton's law of gravitation." Curious Condensations. There are more counties in the United States named for Washington than for any other man. The capital, a state and two cities exceeding 20,000 in population also bear his name. At a recent conference of the trade in Leicester the president of the Institute of Carriage Builders said that practically the whole of the wheelmaking industry of England had been captured by America. Outside the polar regions there remains unexplored, it is estimated, about one-fifteeth of the land surface of the globe. Fifteen years ago the unknown portions were about one-eighth of the earth's total. There are 252,436 miles of ocean cable in operation today, and only 38,797 miles are owned by governments. The British cables, which connect London with all parts of the world, have a total mileage of 154,099. There are now 298 miles of railway in operation in the Congo Free State, and 1000 miles under construction, and 280 additional miles under consideration. The Free State's exports last year came to about $11,100,000, and its imports to a little over $4,000,000. The worker in a Massachusetts factory gets 27 per cent. of what he produces, while the laborer in South Carolina gets only 19 per cent.; yet the Massachusetts laborer produces in one year $715 more for his employer than the laborer in South Carolina. —Runaway horses are unknown in Russia. No one drives there without having a thin cord with a running noose around the neck of the animal. When an animal starts the cord is pulled and the horse stops as soon as it feels the pressure on the windpipe. —Machinists and ironworkers are greatly interested in the discovery of the art of welding cast iron, which W. S. and L. R. Schaap of Loveland, Colo., claim to have made. They declare that the compound which they have invented also will braze aluminum as successfully as borax will braze steel. A number of prominent physicians in the United States is advocating the organization of a rational society for the prevention of dust. It is believed the matter can be gotten under way by the time of the next meeting of the American Medical association, when it is probable organization will be effected. Figures published by the Tea Brokers' association of London for the five months ending October 31, 1904, show a diminution in the consumption of tea in the British isles to the extent of 4,000,000 pounds as compared with the corresponding time in 1903, an indication of dire poverty. A remarkable dinner was served recently by a farmer near Ault, Colo. The table was set for twelve, and the menu consisted of one $5\frac{1}{2}$-pound potato, one 15-pound cabbage, one 10-pound chicken, one 6-pound turnip, one 2-pound onion and three pics made from a $1\frac{1}{2}$-pound apple. For a winter climate Canon City, Colo., has a reputation second to no locality in the United States. During the winter of 1903-1904, hundreds of robins, bluebirds and turtle doves made their homes in that vicinity, and there was no weather during the whole season so severe as to harm the feathered creatures. The English market, which on account of its great importations of Brazilian rubber is the principal intermediary between production and French industry, is of much greater importance than all the other markets. The Belgian and German markets do not furnish France half as much as do its own colonies. British municipalities are now spending far less money than they were spending a few years ago in making improvements, and this fact has had a tremendous influence upon internal trade. It has perceptibly decreased the home demand in many lines of work. The "slump" in shipbuilding has also materially affected internal trade. The Sherlock Holmes department of Scotland Yard has a new problem on its hands. Thieves have kept step with the detectives, and since the finger-mark identification system was adopted they have learned that thin kid gloves, while not interfering with the manipulation of the "jimmy," effectually prevent the leaving of tell-tale finger marks. Immense beds of asphalt have been discovered in the district of Sukhum, in the Caucasus. Prof. Mendelveff has examined the deposits and reports that the asphalt is of excellent quality. This discovery is of great importance to the development of the briquette industry in South Russia, as the great quantity of broken coal lying unused in the Donetz coal region may now be turned to account. The Oblique Feminine Vision. Take an average man and any average woman, question them as to the dress and deportment of the people in any assembly where they were together and you will find that the woman has seen more than the man. For woman has been compelled to enlarge the angle of her vision and to see all round her hat without shifting an eve. From an early age instinct tells the girl, and convention seals the instinct, that she must not look directly at the man in the street. Therefore the honest woman walks through London looking straight ahead. The direct look at the stranger is forbidden. Yet human curiosity compels. So develops and enlarges that angle of vision. For no woman will deliberately blind herself. And therefore by continual exercise those calm conventional eyes that look to the horizon and the infinite have trained themselves to see the world out of the corners—obliquely.—London Chronicle. BIG, BONY, PURE-BRED Percheron, Clyde and Shire Stud Colts Bay, browns and blacks, at one-half usual prices. Write GEO. KLEIN, Fort Atkinson, Wis. TWO OF A KIND "A cur," they called him, just "a cur," He had no name but that; Beneath his hide and dingy fur There wasn't an ounce of fat. His r:bs, I counted, call them seven— 'Bout seven on a side; And if for dogs there is a heaven, He'd laid him down and died! The men would cuff him, kick him sore, And curse him' out of breath— If dogs could reason, what they're for, This dog would welcome death. The boys tied tin cans to his tail, And chased him down the street; The fatter dogs took up his wall— Sleek dogs of the elite. The housewives drove him from their door Whene'er he stole a bone; And by the mournful look he wore, I knew he was—alone! Along that way there came a man, His form bent low with age. Street urchins scoffed and 'round him ran To tense his helpless rage. The housewives turned him from their door Whene'er he begged a bone; And by the mournful look he wore, I knew he was—alone! He met the dirty, dingy cur, He stroked the upraised head; He smoothed the rib-lined, ruffled fur, "Poor thing!" was all he said. The old man went his listless way, But crowding on h's heels. The cur trots on from day to day— And neither lonely feels. THE EALEFUL EYE. A prominent store in Paris was that of Jean Guileau, baker, a widower with one child, Hortense, just seventeen years of age and very beautiful. Jean wisely took no part in the communistic orgies running riot in the streets immediately subsequent to the Franco-Prussian war; but, with plenty of provisions in his cellar, he philosophically closed the doors and windows, withdrew his sign of business, and smoked his pipe contentedly in the seclusive companionship and filial love of Hortense. One so pretty and piquant as she could not be exempt from a besieging of lovers. The two most prominent of these were her father's graduating apprentices, Henri Edouin and Guiseppe—"dark Guiseppe" and "the Baleful Eye" the latter was frequently appellated by his intimates, because of the treacherous glance in his hard, black orbs and a lurking smile forever fixed about his lips. To Henri Hertense had long since given her heart. It was quite late one night when Henri departed from the embrace of his promised bride. As Hortense retreated through the narrow doorway, an unexpected form, like an apparition from the gloom, confronted her. "Guiseppe!" she cried. "Oh, you frightened me! Whence come you so suddenly?" "From close beside, girl. Ah, thou coquette! A word. I have heard all——" "A listener--you? Shame!" "Tell me--is it true, indeed, I need hope no more to win you?" "You say you have heard all?" "Yes. I am not blind." "Much good may it do you, then, for you are answered!" And, with this sharp speech, she slammed the door in his face, angry at his having spied upon what was to her a sacred interview. For many nights after that her dreams were haunted by the baleful eyes of dark Guiseppe, and in her ears continually rang the fearful imprecation she heard him mutter, coupled with the name of Henri Edouin. The favored lover was greatly surprised, a few days later, at receipt of a communication from the Versailles government. It was delivered by an entire stranger, who whispered these ominous words: "For your eyes only. Be discreet." The sealed billet contained this: "Last dispatches by balloon acknowledged. Inclosed herewith an order for 500 francs, payable when France is redeemed from her enemies. "M. EDOUIN, Paris." Henri should have destroyed the mysterious scrawl instantly. Instead, he stood gazing at it in sheer amazement. He had had nothing whatever to do with the Versailles, though his heart was honest with those who struggled so nobly to save the country from the doom of anarchy. The few moments' stupefaction proved his greatest misfortune. There was a peremptory rap at the door. Guiseppe entered, grinning infernally; behind him "dressed" three ruffians of the national guard. "Ah, Monsieur Edouin!" he said. "Oh, is it you, Guiseppe?" replied Henri. Guiseppe advanced with snaky quickness, and ere Henri could anticipate, snattered away the fatal paper. Flourishing it alott, he cried: "Away with him! See what I hold—a paper that will have him shot unless I greatly mistake." And Guiseppe hissed maliciously into his rival's ear: "I am now a trusted spy of the Commune. Your death is certain. You will never wed with Hortense Guileau!" Unfortunate Henri was soon in prison. He fully realized his danger, and it required but little reflection to convince him of the foul trick played by crafty Guiseppe. The days of his confinement went tediously by, while ever before him loomed the horrid prospects of a violent death. Then Guiseppe confronted his victim, and accompanying him—could it be reality?—was Hortense. "I bring you a gleam of sunlight, Monsieur Edouin," said the dark-browed villain, with grinning sarcasm. Henri sprang forward to embrace his betrothed; but Guiseppe interposed. "Hold! I did not bring her here for a love scene. Give ear to me. Minutes for Henri Edouin are valuable. Judgment is to be given in your case within the hour. You know what it will be—death! I come to offer you life." "You?" "And pray, why not? I hold the document that is to riddle you with bullets. Say the word, and I will destroy it. I will retract my charge as a stupid blunder." "What word shall I say?" "Henceforth you will work and fight on the side of the Commune. That will save you—if I choose. Guisseppe the spy is quite another person to Guisseppe the baker's apprentice. Money and influence both are mine now. Besides, our prisons are cramming with too many hostages. Exchanges are slow, and we need men. So, come, I have your sworn word?" "Never!" burst from Henri's lips, indignantly. Throughout Hortense had remained passive. Now she threw herself on her knees, with clasped hands, before the man she so dearly loved. "Oh, yes—yes!" she cried, passionately. "For me—for your own precious life! Anything for your life! Promise! Swear! Here on my knees I beg you, Henri!" Her voice was broken with wild sobbing; her eyes were brimming with tears. The young man's head drooped, then raised desperately, while his eyes flashed on the treacherous spy. "So be it, villain Guiseppe! I give my sacred promise as you ask." The mysterious and convicting letter was instantly torn into fragments. Guiseppe had not boasted vainly. Two days later Henri Edouin was liberated and mounted in the national guard. For a long time he found no opportunity of seeing Hortense. When at last the lovers did meet, it was to realize the greatest sorrow of their two fond hearts. As the price of saving Henri's life Hortense had solemnly agreed to wed with Guiseppe. Ever memorable will be May 28, 1871, when the following proclamation appeared: "INHABITANTS OF PARIS! "The army of France come to save you, Paris is delivered. Our soldiers carried at 4 o'clock the last positions occupied by the insurgents. Today the struggle is finished. Order, labor and security will now survive. "M'MAHON, DUC DE MAGENTA, "Marshal of France, Commander-in-Chief." Crowds and columns of prisoners were being marched to versailles. The prisoners' camp at Satory was an anomalous picture, even shudderful to contemplate. A man with baleful eyes and snaky lips approached one of the entrances to the stable-pens. The prompt "Qui vive?" halted him. "Pardon!" was the affable, grinning response; "but I am a quartermaster. You have here, by a great mistake, a good cousin of mine, who will answer to the name of Henri Edouin. Be so good as to summon him to me. I am not so great a tool as to ask his release just now, but would speak with him, if I may." Villainous Guiseppe, ever treacherous, and fearing that Henri might escape to annoy him in the future, and jealous to insanity that the man should live to whom Hortense was so avowedly attached, had sought the prisoners' camp with murderous intent. In his bosom he carried a pistol, and with the weapon he was resolved to slay the rival he hated. His speech at the gate was interrupted by a savage cry. A bronzed gendarme, who was standing near, threw aside his musket, and, springing forward, gripped the pseudo-quartermaster by the throat. "This wretch lies!" he vociferated excitedly. "He is Guiseppe, of the Commune—Guiseppe, the spy—who ordered forty of my comrades shot. I alone escaped. I know him well!" A fierce struggle ensued. There was a flash, a bang, and the gendarme dropped dead. But simultaneously a musket butt crashed down through the skull of Guiseppe. The baleful eye was dimmed forever. It would be difficult to describe the tearful pleadings of beautiful Hortense before the gentlemen of the military bureau in Rue Story. She knew and revealed the trick which had placed Henri in Guiseppe's power; she told the story of her heart's sacrifice to save her lover's life, and his unwilling yielding to the proposition of his arch-enemy. It was an appeal to touch the deepest sympathy of her hearers. Henri Edouin was forthwith set at liberty. He and his true Hortense were shortly afterwards wedded, and when Paris had subsided to comparative quiet, old John Guileau gave a merry feast to the handsome couple.—New York Daily News. A Wonderful Woman The appearance of a woman competitor in a ploughing match in Derbyshire reminds the Sheffield Telegraph of one Phoebe Bown, who died just half a century ago, aged 80. This extraordinary woman, who lived with her mother in a cottage nearly opposite the High Tor, at Matlock Bath, could walk nearly forty miles a day when young, could lift a hundredweight in each hand, and carry fourteen score. She undertook any kind of manual labor, as holding the plough, driving the team, threshing wheat with the flail, and thatching the snacks. Hey chief avocation was breaking horses at a gainnea a week. She always rode without saddles, and was considered the best judge of horses and cows in the Peak But Phoebe had also a liking for sport and for art. She was a good shot, and carried her gun on her shoulder. She was fond of Milton, Pope and Shakespeare, and performed on several instruments, including the flute, violin and harpsichord, and played the bass viol in Matlock church. She was a carpenter, mason and smith, and mainly by her own hand labor built another room to the cottage for the reception of a harpsichord which a lady presented to her. At her own request a local clergyman wrote her epitaph, and here it is: Here lies romantic Phoebe, Knew He Couldn't Dodge. Lute Morse is telling a story about a green recruit from the old sod who was walking with his brother through a railroad cut on a pleasant Sunday afternoon. When a train came up behind them and whistled the experienced Irishman clambered up the bank while his brother struck off down the track as hard as he could run only to be overtaken and tossed about forty rods by the cowcatcher. The brother rushed to his side and shouted: "Moike, are ye hurted?" "Sure, I'm killed entirely." "Why didn't ye climb the bank?" "Well, if I couldn't bate it on the level," snorted the wounded Irishman, "how the divvel could I bate it climbing hills?"—Nebraska State Journal. All Set Servant—Mr. Smith is at the door Servant—Mr. Smith is at the door. Young Woman—Is his picture on the mantel? "Yes, ma'am." "Are the roses he sent me on the piano?" "Yes, ma'am." "Is that book he bought me on the table?" "Yes, ma'am." "Well, let the pug dog he gave me into the parlor and admit him. I'll be down in a few moments."—Kansas City Times Materials for Nesting. "There is a variety of materials used by poultry keepers for placing in the nest boxes for the laying hens, straw and hay being the most commonly employed. Both of these have the objection that they afford admirable refuges for insect vermin (chiefly hen fleas) unless special precautions are taken to guard against these pests. Straw is, in all cases, preferable to hay," remarks a writer in the Wisconsin Agriculturist, "being cleaner, and not requiring to be changed so often as the latter. Peat moss litter also makes a suitable nesting material, but it, too, harbors vermin. Dried bracken (fern) leaves, which are easily obtained in some districts, are much superior for filling the nest boxes to any of the three foregoing materials, as they keep free from insect pests. The same applies to wood shavings, which can very suitably be used as a nesting material if they are available. "Where straw or peat moss litter is used, it is a good plan to sprinkle some insect powder into the nest boxes as a preventive measure, or some sawdust soaked in naphthaline placed at the bottom of the nests will also serve to keep away vermin. The nest boxes should, of course, be well cleansed occasionally, and whitewashed at least once a year; but twice a year is better, and not too often by any means. Some paraffin should be added to the whitewash. It is inadvisable to use baskets as nests, because they are difficult to clean thoroughly." Renewing Meadows and Pastures. As pastures and meadows get old they become sod-bound and less productive. The available fertility of the soil has largely been exhausted and much of it is locked up in the inamense root system which has developed by the thick growth of the grass. If the field is one which can be used in growing other crops, the best plan is to break the sod when the grass has reached the stage described, and seed new fields to grass. If it is desirable, however, to continue the use of the meadow or pasture, a new growth may be secured with some grasses by thoroughly disking and harrowing the sod early in spring. This will have the effect of destroying part of the grass plants, whose roots will soon decay, furnishing plant food for the growth of new grass. The disking also breaks up the compact condition caused by the tramping of the stock, and aerates the soil, and the mulch of mellow earth acts to conserve the soil moisture, thus favoring the growth of grass. Now, if with the above treatment, fertilizers be applied the yield of gass may be profitably increased. No better fertilizer can be applied to grass than barn yard manure. The top dressing applied in the fall or early winter serves during the winter as a cover to protect the grass roots from the extremes of temperature. As spring opens the rain carries the nutriment from the manure down to the roots of the grass stimulating an early strong growth which continues throughout the season. During the summer the manure acts as a mulch to keep the water in the soil, thus protecting the plans more or less from the influence of drought. There is no more convenient place to haul the manure than on the grass land, and there is no crop watch responds more readily and gives more profitable results than does grass, and it is not necessary to wait until the pasture or meadow is old and worn out before making liberal applications of manure. When the purpose is to plow up the sod, the manure should be applied a year previous to the breaking. This will not only cause a larger growth of grass during the season following the manuring, but by increasing the root growth and adding to the humus of the soil the land will be left more fertile for seeding crops. A. M. Ten Eyck, Kansas Experiment Station. Potato Blight and Rot. Reports from many districts indicate that potato blight and rot again caused serious loss to the farmers of Canada. Although a good preventive is known in bordeaux, few growers seem to have sprayed their potatoes. There are two blights which affect the potato in America, the early blight, Alternaria Solani, and the late blight which causes the rot. Phytophthera infestans. The early blight causes the spotting of the leaves early in July. It does not attack the tubers and is not nearly as injurious as the other. If the leaves are punctured by beetles or from other cause the disease gets a foothold easier. The late blight causes by far the greater loss, both by lessening the crop and by causing rot. According to W. T. Macoun, horticulturist of the central experimental farm, this disease passes the winter in the tubers, and in the spring when the vines begin to grow, it begins to develop, growing up through the tissues of the potato stem. During the latter part of July it produces myriads of tiny spores, which in the mass have a frostlike appearance. It is from this stage that future infection takes place, as the spores are carried rapidly by the wind and alight on the foliage. They are also washed below the surface of the ground and reach the young tubers, and in time cause the rot. The potato rot itself is a dry rot; the wet rot comes through decay of the tubers. The blight begins to form when the little potatoes appear, just after the potato has passed the most vigorous stage. In Ontario potato vines usually dry up during the latter part of August. If the season is favorable the earliest varieties may be kept growing right on into September by thorough cultivation and spraying. The great gain is in keeping potatoes growing until late in September. Very marked results in spraying with bordeaux mixture for blight have been obtained by the Vermont station, and the Dominion experimental farms. With eleven varieties the average gains was 120 bushels per acre. The work must be thoroughly done. Spraying should be begun by the middle of July and the vines he kept covered with the fixture until the close of the season. It is generally recognized that some varieties of potatoes have greater power than others to resist this disease, and it is safer to cultivate only varieties which are superior in this respect. All diseased refuse from an affected field should be burned. It is also advisable to avoid using for seed purposes potatoes from a diseased crop, even though the tubers appear healthy.—Canadian Department of Agriculture. Treating Worn Land. The Ohio Experiment Station recommends the following method for bringing up worn or run down land: "Apply stable manure to land intended for corn, using it at the rate of eight or ten tons per acre. If possible, let the manure be taken directly from the stable to the field, and if it has been dusted during accumulation with acid phosphate or raw phosphate rock (flats) its effectiveness will be greatly increased for most soils. "A crop of wheat or oats may follow corn treated as above, without further manuring or fertilizing, and if clover be seeded with this crop, the clover sod to be manured and planted to corn (or potatoes) thus enabling a rotation in which clover is grown every third season in alternation with a manured and cultivated crop, the best conditions of fertility recovery will have been provided and a gradual increase in productiveness may be expected. "If for any reason a third crop of grain be grown before clover comes into the rotation, it should receive a fertilizer containing 4 or 6 per cent. ammonia, applied at the rate of 300 to 400 pounds per acre. Such cropping is likely to prove less profitable than where clover is more frequently grown. "When clover fails to prosper on land that has been liberally manured or fertilized, making a fair stand, perhaps, but showing a weak growth after the wheat has been taken off and finally dying out all together in spots, the use of lime is indicated. Present indications are that lime will produce more clover when applied to a crop preceding the heat by one or two seasons than when applied to the crop with which the clover is sown. No definite quantity of lime can be stated for all conditions, but it is safe to use a ton to the acre. "If a farmer's present system of management does not provide sufficient stable manure to carry out this plan, then it is time to readjust that system; for the Ohio farmer who undertakes to bring up an exhausted soil to a profitable state of productiveness through the use of commercial fertilizers alone will generally find that the margin between cost of production and value of crop will leave him a very meager compensation for his labor." Improving the Plan of Horse-Breeding. Improving the Plan of Horse-Breeding. Wisconsin draft horses are at the present time lacking in uniformity of blood, type, quality and weight. Most of them possess pure blood, but so little of it has been used, or so unintelligent has been the manner of using it that "scrub" characteristics still prevail. An attempt has been made during the past twenty-five years to grade up our native horse stock by top crossing with stallions of the imported heavy draft breeds, but no definite plan has been followed in breeding. First one breed and then another has been tried, but in few instances has any one breed been long enough used to obliterate native blood and establish blood purity of a distinct variety. The result is that most of our draft horses are mongrels and misfits, whereas, if five or more top crosses of the same blood had been put on, that blood would now have predominated and constituted pure-bred animals. Breeding operations are still being carried on in this unintelligent and unbusinesslike manner. Grade mares are being bred to pure-bred horses of specific draft breeds, but no attempt is made to persistently breed for a sufficient number of years to the pure-bred started with. Mongrel and cross-bred stallions are also being used in many districts. While such practices continue, no progress will be made, the blood of our stock will become further mixed and the host of nondescript horses increased in numbers. In every district of the state each owner of mares should decide which blood predominates and if the breed represented suits him and is adapted to his conditions and requirements, he should proceed to add the necessary number of top-crosses of the same blood to make his horses practically pure-bred. For horses of this class—of any of the recognized pure breeds of draft horses—there is a steady demand at profitable prices. For "scrubs," mongrels, misfits and plugs there is no active demand and the prices are low. We want uniformity in breeding, adequate feeding, proper care of the progeny and district specialization in the production of a given breed and class of horses. By such methods our horses will be made of standard type and quality, become famous throughout the country and attract buyers, who will come to us confident that they will find what they want and willing to pay what it is worth. A. S. ALEXANDER. Not to Be Fooled John W. Gates in the breathing times in his fight on the Gould system delights to tell a story of a German butcher in New York. "Dhere was a bretty young womans who one of my markets came at," runs the legend, "who a leg uf lambs for her dinner would buy. She had no married been long yet alretty, und vas greens about marketing, py grachus. "Vat kind uv legs uf lambs you will have? mine glerk he asks her, bolite as possible. "It is company ve vill have the dinner for,' she says, 'und my husband to get the best says.' "My mans the very best he has shows, and tells her how fine und tender they be, alretty the finest of the market, he say. "Id vas a joke then she says by my mans, und a good joke it vas, too, for she say, quiet like. 'Vas dot a Persian lam's leg?' Und she vas mad when my mans he smile and say, 'Dis ain't no furrier's ma'am,' for she blush and say real loud. 'If I vas new by the marketing business alretty. I know dot Persian lamb vos the most expensive, und it vas the verry best my husbands he wants.'"—New York Times. His Order for Eggs. There is a certain lawyer of the town who devotes all his leisure time to the perpetration of elaborate and solemn jokes. Nobody on earth is too august for him to tackle. He was in London last summer, and one morning he went into a restaurant with his most dignified air, and proceeded to order breakfast. "I want two eggs," said he to the waiter. "I want one fried on one side, and the other fried on the other." The waiter nodded and withdrew. A little later he returned. "Beg pardon, sir," said he. "but I am afraid I didn't quite catch your order. Would you mind repeating it?" "Not at all," said the American, solemnly. "I want two eggs, one of them fried on one side and the other on the other." "Thank you, sir," said the waiter. "I thought that was what you said, but I wasn't quite sure, sir." Five minutes later an apologetic waiter returned to the American's elbow. "I beg pardon, sir," said he again, "but the cook and I have had some words. Would you mind having those eggs scrambled?"—Washington Post. A Recompense. Young Edward, aged 6, was quite tired of staying in the house. His mother was ill and had tried to keep him in the room with her because her room was warmer than his playroom, but his toys were all in the playroom and he became restless to go to them. "Good-by, mamma," he said. "I will come back in 1000 years." "I will be dead and buried by that time, son." The little fellow stopped a moment with his hand upon the door, and thinking of the Creed he replied— "Never mind, mamma, you will rose again."—M. E. C., in Lippincott. Here's the Automobile Sleigh. Prince Khilkof proposes to use a new automobile sleigh and boat on Lake Baikal. It resembles a boat with steel runners, and is propelled over the ice by a spiked wheel driven by a gasoline motor, and over water by a screw propeller connected to the motor.—London Globe. The truthful story is told in Missouri that the throwing of a broad-brimmed hat to the ceiling of the hall of the House of Representatives in the capitol at Jefferson City made Francis Marion Cockrell a member of the United States Senate. The state had been stirred by a contest for the Democratic nomination for the governorship. The lines between supporters of opposing candidates were sharply drawn. In a state convention numbering a thousand delegates, Charles H. Hardin had won by the narrow majority of one-half of one vote. So close was the result and so bitter the feeling that the Democratic leaders feared irreconcilable division in the party ranks. The result, however, had scarcely been announced from the secretary's desk when the tall figure of the defeated candidate, Gen. Cockrell, was seen coming to the platform. A moment more, as the hush of expectancy fell upon the crowded hall, Cockrell's voice ran out. "No man," said he, "will more loyally support the nominee of the convention than myself. No man will throw his hat higher for Charley Hardin than will I." And away to the ceiling went the broad-brimmed Cockrell hat. The convention, frantic with enthusiasm, heard not another word, but the following spring Gen. Cockrell became United States Senator by the unanimous vote of the Democrats of Missouri. For five successive terms, since March 4, 1875, with never a Democratic vote against him, he has been elected to the senatorship, the first and only political office he ever held. No senator from his state has surpassed this record in length of years and none has equaled it, save Thomas Hart Benton, the great Missourian.—Walter Williams in The World Today. Especially for Women Champion, Mich., Jan. 9.—(Special.) A case of especial interest to women is that of Mrs. A. Wellatt, wife of a well-known photographer here. It is best given in her own words. "I could not sleep, my feet were cold and my limbs cramped," Mrs. Wellatt states. "I had an awful hard pain across my kidneys. I had to get up three or four times in the night. I was very nervous and fearfully despondent. "I had been troubled in this way for five years when I commenced to use Dodd's Kidney Pills, and what they caused to come from my kidneys will hardly stand description. "By the time I had finished one box of Dodd's Kidney Pills I was cured. Now I can sleep well, my limbs do not cramp, I do not get up in the night and I feel better than I have in years. I owe my health to Dodd's Kidney Pills." Women's ills are caused by Diseased Kidneys; that's why Dodd's Kidney Pills always cure them. TO DISPLACE PNEUMATIC TIRES. New Spring Wheel Said to Be a Perfect and Inexpensive Substitute. The difficulty of securing a motor wheel which shall combine the resiliency of that fitted with the pneumatic tire with the hard wearing qualities of that fitted with the solid is, apparently, some degrees nearer solution, inasmuch as a Beccles engineer has produced a spring wheel of which great hopes are entertained. Considerable ingenuity has been expended upon its construction, and it is claimed not only that it is vastly more durable than the wheel now in use and equally easy running, but that the strain set up by contact with the road is distributed over the whole of its mechanism, that it has a spring drive, that the shock of impact with any object is received by the tire alone and absorbed by the spring drive within the wheel, and that the chance of side slip is sensibly diminished. The principle of the invention consists in a number of short, laminated springs arranged tangentially within the wheel, and connected at their extremities by a system of levers with the apices of the star shaped frame of the wheel and with each other. The center of each spring is also attached to a carriage, which is free to move along a curved groove on the internal periphery of the wheel. To the outer periphery is attached a solid rubber tire. The star shaped frame already mentioned is rigidly fixed to the center of the wheel. On starting a car provided with wheels of this character, when the turning movement is given to the center of the wheel, the whole frame, springs and carriages move forward under resistance from the springs until the extremities of the grooves in the periphery are reached by the rollers of the little carriages. When this happens the wheel is rigid, and frame and periphery turn as one. Gradually, however, the tension between the periphery of the wheel and its frame relaxes, and then a steady balance is maintained between them.—London Express. --A traveler in Siberia is the authority for the statement that the natives along the coast eat much wood. The bark is stripped from the trees and cooked until it is a pulp. MIGHT HAVE SAVED IT. A Lot of Trouble from Too Much Starchy Food. A little boy of eight years whose parents did not feed him on the right kind of food, was always nervous and suffered from a weak condition of the stomach and bowels. Finally he was taken down with appendicitis and after the operation the doctor, knowing that his intestinal digestion was very weak, put him on Grape-Nuts twice a day. He rapidly recovered and about two months thereafter, his father states, "He has grown to be strong, muscular, and sleeps soundly, weighs 62 pounds, and his whole system is in a fine condition of health." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. It is plain that if he had been put on Grape-Nuts at an earlier period in his life, and kept from the use of foods that he could not digest, he never would have had appendicitis. That disease is caused by undigested food decaying in the stomach and bowels, causing irritation and making for the growth of all kinds of microbes, setting up a diseased condition which is the active cause of appendicitis, and this is more marked with people who do not properly digest white bread. Grape-Nuts is made of the selected parts of wheat and barley and by the peculiar processes of the cooking at the factory, all of the starch is turned into sugar ready for immediate digestion and the more perfect nourishment of all parts of the body, particularly the brain and nerve centers. Read the little book, "The Road to Wellville," found in each pkg. GOSSIP FOR THE. LADIES. An American Girl. Of all the charming things there are ‘To make thiz:-world a bright one, 1 choose—and know [ am not fat From pleking out the rght one— ‘A gitliot seventeen er 80, American completely, ‘A figure trim from head to toe, Gowned tastefully and neatly. Look in her eyes—what wells of truth, Of sympathy and kondness? sut not too Jong, enraptured youth, Lest looking brings love's blindness. Aun angel? Yes; but any one Who kuows gold is not copper, can see that she is full of fun, Vrovided it is proper. damnst confess, if Father Time \ould only let me stay 80, Hd step at XNI, and Pm Not half ashamed to say so: } en¢y much the lucky man The joy of his beginning Yo love this fair American— Bis wooing, and his winning. 0 who can lose his faith in this’ Our Lest beloved nation! jiere is our hope; she cannot miss ® App.tuse and approbation. Ge dare uot quite disparage one’s Ow: covatry until others Can show such prizes for their son, And such prospective mothers! Felix Carmen in Life. The House of Closets. Among the trials of househeepers none s more common than that of lack of closet room, says The Youth's Compan- ion. If she could only plan a house her- iff many a busy housewife | thinks. ler imagination revels in the vision of hig linen closets and dainty china clos- its, of preserve closets guarded by lock snd key, of hall closets for the constantly accumulating periodicals. She is certain ihat she could not have too many. ‘vere is, however, one house, described . “An Old New England Town,” which has closet room enough to satisfy the most ambitions hyusekeener; indeed, it_is possible, considering the inexorable de- mands of housecleaning times, that one might even be willing to dispense with a fow of the treasure places. ‘The house is re old Sherman mansion at Fairfield, Conn., and it is said to contain no less shan sixty closets—closets within closets snd closets within closets within closets. At the time that it was built it was the finest residence in the region. Tradition leclares that when the parlor carpets, or- lered from abroad, arrived 7 feet too mg, it was decided to build an extension t each eud of the parlor in order to ac- ommodate them. Certain it is that the wings were added, and cellars—it has bree—and closets. During the last years of her life Mrs. sherman was an invalid and unable to go inte the second story, yet so marvelous was her memory that she knew precisely all the contents of her great family of closets, and constantly dispensed the lin- n, flannel, calico, hams, pickles and _pre- serves, kept in their separate hiding places. Or late years the old mansion has be- me church property, and Mrs. Sher- muin's successors have found the closets t not wholly unmitigated delight. It is iit, however, that the minister submits with grace, cultivating a spirit of levity lien a dog, a book, a child, a suit of thes, a pet of jam or next Sunday’s ruiou goes into strict retirement for an hour. a month or a year. It is sure to be Uscovered sooner or later in one of the josets, The Lifelong Friend. Choose your intimates with care and a col deal of deliberation, if you like, but fowt call Miss Jones your dearest of con- ‘dauts this year and then forget her for Miss Brown pext year. It is a common habit, among young women, to “rush’’ particnlar individuals from time to time iy haunting the society of some girl com- pantou with the utmost deyotion and de- nanding an intimacy that is too close to la schoolgirls perkaps this silly fad my be overlooked, but not in grown wouen, and a very transient affection is ‘ways the result of the “rush methods.” Now, friendship, if you will believe me, is tost sacred tle, net to be assumed and rokeu on a moment’s faney, and IL can very nearly judge the quality of any indi- vidwal's character and charm by the life- ong friendships that he or she can boast. ‘The Hrelong friend is the finest testi- inony yon can possess to the gracious weetness of your mind and your man- ners, and if you claim them not yeu lack the hest elements that belong in the bear- uz and make-up of the popular individ- val. To cherish lifelong friends, and to Win hew oves, you must be kind and you unist be considerate. You must, further- nore, be ready to take pains in their be- half, and you eannot afford to be egotis- Ucal or selfish, “Hamlet speaks of grappling your tired friends to your soul with hooks of steel, and if you wish to know of what ‘hose hooks are made and how forged just try the powerful attraction of sym- pathy in your friendly associations, If you do not possess that subtle and in- ‘angible foree which we call animal mag- vetism and which draws human_ beings about you, use as a splendid substitute ihe charm of sympathy. Look and speak Your sympathy. You don’t know how ap- proachable it will render you. Nothing is so satisfying to one’s heart and vanity as to feel that our goings and comings, our Joss, our sorrows are of interest to an- viher, and I do not hesitate to admit that | like and love the person who takes tie ‘ime and the pains to listen with absorb- ‘ux attention to where I have been, what I have heard and done, ete. z ,! call my real friends those persons ‘hose sympathetic interest in me is very sreat and who take trouble on my ac- count; who, if I meet them after an ab- ~enee of ten yeers, greet me with glad wes and warm handshakes; who think ‘evil of me and will hear none said of ime and between whom and myself there <a mutual trustfulness and an unfailing ‘vurtesy.”— Adelaide Gordon, Pockets for a Woman. Vor one blessing man in enyiable—his vckets, Woman occasionally has a pocket. Int she can’t use it. “Put in a povsei,” sne pleads, and the dressmaker suds some the new skirt with a pocket stowed away in the recesses of a hook-up jacket hole. ft is not a workable pocket for three reasons: , Virst, it bulges if there is even a hand- herchief in it, destroying the symmetry of the outline, Second, things aimed at it rarely suc- cool in forcing an entrance, but. fall alongside, downward, with a whack on he floor, Third, who could fumble through a ‘nole row of hooks and eyes, placed m the center seam at the back? As a_tri- Hi is obsiacle in the way of blind manipu- ston it may be mentioned that such {OSs ave usually of a tricky patent, or Y would not stay fastened at all, < .\t the hem of the garment, under the ‘ovndation” frill, poekets like a tiny scent-shaped pon may also be found ‘x. A handkerchief can repose in ‘ s safety, merely involving some sup- “less in the owner, who must exeente wl of dive in withdrawing and rein- ne it, A silk fonndation sometimes “iinocates quite a practieal looking ‘acle, to which the unwary at first St even @ purse or a pocket knife, Hor hard ebjects dangling on a level with the knee are ill companions, and those who have once knelt on a latchkey never desire to repeat the experience. “I asked for pockets and they gaye me handbags,” is the plaint of the petticoat- ed throng, who wonder who. will invent them a third hand for their umbrellas while they guard their money with their right and with their left keep their gar- ments from the mud, In the meantime, says the London Graphic, while fashion is decreeing that sovereigns shall jingle in jeweled coat of mail trom the end of a slender chain, apparently designed for the ready pliers of the thief, womankind, more cunning than they seem, are carving a way out of the difficuity. They may carry their purse ‘for all the world to see, and a handkerchief peeps out of their sleeves, but in many a silken underskirt, where it will not interfere with the set, is a pocket, roomy and secure. There it is that the wise woman keeps her gold and her love letters.—New York Times. Social Pastimes Change. “There is no doubt about it,” said a clever young woman bachelor, who is en- joying her life intensely just now after her own fashion, and who is eclectic enough to be a fashionable woman, a sporting woman and a person of general culture all in one, “social life is under- going a great change—a change which, in my opinion, is decided for the better. Not so very long ago dances, dinners and the opera constituted what was known as the season's social life. If you did not put in an appearance at such functions you could not belong to the fashionable world at ail; but now, although they are part, or even the chief part, of the win- ter’s social curriculum, they have not nearly the same impertance, and I think it is safe to say that half the people ‘who give and who go to balls do it with a sort of feeling of noblesse oblige, and with no expectation of amusing themselves, while people like myself, who elect to enjoy themselves in their own way, are not now considered nonenities or frumps be- cause we are no longer seen at dances. ‘L think you are quite right, my dear,’ Mrs. Tiptop said to me when I told her L was not coming to her annual function; ‘such a thing is a horrid bore for all of us, and I hope to live to see the day when the big balls will be left to the common people altogether. There is cer- tainly nothing smart about them. She expressed exactly my ideas on the sub- ject; but, in view of her own entertain- ment, which comes off next week. I was rather surprised at finding that she, too, felt in the same way. “The opcra, too, is not considered near- ly as much of a fashionable sine qua non as it used to be. Not to be seen frequent- ly in the glittering horseshoe no longer argues that you are not one of the elect. A lot of people E know nowadays say they do nor eare for it and do not go, and others, who really love music, like my- self, prefer to go in the stalls. ~I simply hate to go with mamma in the family box, and criticise and be criticised by all those women. I love to go once in a while to the opera, byt I take seats with my mah and really enjoy it. I leave the social side to my younger sister, whe tikes to taik to her young inen, and mam- ma, who feels a sort of moral satisfaction in duty accomplished by gowning herself in velyet and putting on her jewels to see and be seen. Yet no one thinks I am eccentric now, although a decade back they would have said I was ‘queer.’ It all goes to show that social pleasures are beginning to mean something; that it isn’t all the froth on the champagne—at least it is the champagne itself.”"—New York Tribune. ; ‘The New Woman of 60 Plus. ‘The new woman of 50 is now a fixed ‘feature of city life. She is welcomed, moreover. She wears the same style of hats that her daughters do aad her in- terests are correspondingly youthful. There may have been a certain tender- ness in the former woman of 50 in her lace and violet bonnet which is lacking ‘in her successor with her Napoleonic beaver turned back defiantly from her brow. But as a change from conditions ‘that existed formerly, the new woman of 50 adds much to the beauty of out of ‘door life, even if she may not bring the same grace and gentleness as her prede- cessor to her own fireside. One has seen this new woman during the holiday season wandering through the shops with her daughter of 20 or less, the two dressed with so little difference in detail that they might be sisters. The debutante of 18 by the side of her moth- er of 38 seems very much like her. When twelye years more have made that maid- en a matron and her mother & grand- mother there will be little difference be- tween them in luoks, “Now that we have accepted the new woman of 50,” said an amateur sociolo- gist, “we have to accept also the newer woman in the next stage of her develop- ment. She is—well, the woman over 50. Say that she has reached the sixties or passed beyond them. Is she an agree- able substitute for her predecessor? “How many white haired, unamiable looking women one sees nowadays, cov- ered with feathers and furbelows and wearing clothes that are much too young for them. I see them fighting their way into theaters, elbowing themselves through the crowds in the Fifth avenue shops and calling harshly in rasping voices to girls in the stores, Are these women the results of the new women of 502” ‘The critics's views may be extreme, but it is a fact that elderly women are seen in public much more than they used to be. Nothing seems to daunt them now. They jump in and out of crowded trol- le cars With a pretense of youthful alac- rity, and they sparkle with gems at the opera. The new woman of 60 plus. She may be poor, and yet affect the same jauntiness that the Fifth avenue dress- makers try to provide for their custom- ers, who are over 60 years young. “It may be an improvement to have old women looking so much younger,” the ‘sociologist continued, “but I have ob- served that they try to substitute for certain recognized charms of age what poorly replaces the original gentleness, ‘tenderness and contentment—where are ‘they in the new woman of more than 607 | “It may be that the ability to wear a black jet hat with three ostrich feathers on the side was not possessed in former years by women who had long passed into the grandmother class. But ‘those earlier grandmothers had_ some other traits not possessed by their sue- | ceenors: and they were the qualities that ‘made old age restful and. lovable and above all, revered.”—New York Sun. Topics of the Household. Many a smiling hostess has concealed her feelings with difficuity when she has seen her guest deposit his or her empty glass on’a polished table or piano top be- fore the tray was returned for it. Even chairs, in hospitable homes open to fre- quent entertainment, are often marred by rings that*tell the story of caretess guests. Any polished wood will retain the trace of a dish placed upon it while wet, and even the unpolished woeds that ure in-use now are far from being im- proved by such usage. One housewife aiwayrs has en hand a mixture made of equal parts of cider vinegar, alcohol and olive oil. When there appears a ring or other blemish which goes uo deeper than the varnish, she holds a poker heated red hot an inch or so above the spot for a few seconds and then, after the spot has somewhat cooled, rubs it with a woolen cloth moistened with the solution and follows it with a brisk rubbing with another cloth. A bedroom that serves as sick room for any length of time, under the sway of a paid nurse or eyen of members of the family, seldom comes out of the ordeal with furniture unblemished. The most careful of nurses, if the illness is at all serious, finds occasions when the utensil or bottle in her hand must be dropped in the most convenient spot without thought of consequences. Linen covers, not only for the bureau and tabies but for the chiffonier and writing desk, if there is one, will save future anxieties. A stand for the nurse’s conyenience, if not for that of the patient, should be placed near the bed, if possible. This will save the employment of chairs for purposes for which they were never intended. If it is the housewife herself who is laid by she will be grateful for such foresight when she is once more on her feet. Turn ‘medicine from the side of the hottlé opposite the label. Everything in the sickroom should present as dainty an appearanee as possible and a soiled bot- tle is anything but sightly. Glass can be wiped cleitn. but paper eannot be refreshed, The same rule is, in fact, applicable to all the bottles of the house. The kitchen wagon, a step saver for the mistress of a big kitchen, is nothing more or less than a stand a little longer than it is wide, provided with casters on which may be rolled about easily. Be- sides the roomy top there is a drawer of ample depth and an under shelf. It is fitted with liooks at back and_ sides for hanging utensils. The “wagon” may be rolled near to the stove when frying or other cooking that requires several implements is going on, may be slid_into a corner when not in use.—New York Sun. fo Her Energy Was Eaual to Her Ambition. | When I was 16 years old the height of my ambition was to go to college, and ‘thus fit myself to earn my living by teaching. But I was an orphan, and while the college expenses would be at the lowest estimate $150 a year, my. in- come was only $90, the rent of a little house that L owned. But, still hopeful, I wrote to the president of a college, and received this reply: “Come on, and if your energy is equal to your ambition you have nothing to fear.” So I entered col- lege. Soon after leaving the dining room after my first meal in my new home 1 heard the housekeeper complaining of a very careless and inefficient dining room assistant. ‘Try me,” I said. We had an interview and a consultation with the president, and as a result L took my first situation. Before and after each ‘meal I helped in the dining room and ‘pantry, receiving for this service $4 a ‘month, and at the end of the year I_had ‘earned and saved in this way $36. Soon after this I secured a situation to sew at a dressmaker’s every Saturday afternoon at $1.50 a day, and at the end of the year I had saved $40 sewing money. During the Christmas holidays I worked in a toy shop, and added $9 to my fund. ‘Thus with my earnings and the $90 house rent 1 was able to pay all my college bills ($164), and had $11 left. In the summer vacation I worked for u dressmaker and for a milliner, and also helped my relatives, who were market gardeners, and so made enough to pay my expenses, returning to my second college year with $161. I had the same dining room and sewing situations. I studied and worked and spent a happy and suc- cessful year, and after paying all ex- penses I carried $20 home with me. I could not afford to be idle during the summer, I must do at least $50 worth of work for somebody. One day about the middle of July a girl friend told me that she would begin to grade tobacco at ‘a certain plantation at $2 a day. That gave me an idea. I immediately applied to the owner of a near-by pisuiedony and secured work at $1.50 a day. I graded about eight weeks, and took several extra ae of tying tobacco at night. I saved I returned to college the third year with only $150. I found a new housekeeper and corps of assistants, who did not need me. My dressmaker hdd left town. I was anxious. I had barely enough money for actual expenses. Finally, however, I secured a position im a milllinery store, | working all day Saturdays and from 3 until 5 every afterncon, and receiving $2 | a week, I paid all my expenses and had $40 left. During my third yacation I sewed a yale and then graded tobacco, making Thus I began my fourth year with $178. It was the busiest and happiest Year of all. My only regret was that i could not afford to study music. but I graduated with credit. I haye been for- tunate, I know, in meeting kind people to help me, but I worked faithfully and gave good service for every cent paid me, and I practised economy and absti- nenece im a way that. would fave done credit to a stoic. I did not buy a piece of candy or an unnecessary article of clothing. The difference between what I made and what I saved was spent en- tirely for necessary materials—books, pa- per, ete. 5 All this was six years ago. Daring the first year after my graduation I taught a private school. The following year I secured a position in a graded schooi, ana have held it ever since, a happy, contented, perfectly independent woman. And it has been my privilege to help those who helped me in my early days of dependency.—V. M. in Woman's Home Companion. Sentence Sermons. Love leaps over the lines of liking. | The empty head needs a haughty air. The Sunday suit never made the Mon- day saint. Worry is the worst wolf that comes to our doors. ‘As soon as you are proud of your hu- mility is dies. The more helpful the deed the more holy the day. Burdeps may be the ballast that saves the ship. Trickery in the pulpit will not lead the pews into truth. Many are willing to lose this world—by swallowing it. A little sorrow may teach more than many sermons. Kickers hide the best things in life in the dust they raise. Canned charity may feed the hungry, but it cannot fill the heart. The gloomy church is likely to be filled with tombstone saints. The great thing is not so much to fill the pews as to fill the people. The man with a big sign of sainthood usuaily has something to hide behind it. ‘The people in the primary of life are al- ee first to show the graduates how to do it. A little sympathy that gets into our feet is worth a whole lot of sorrow that never soaks deeper than our feelings. The man who has only a 2-inch lake of wisdom always thinks he has to dam it in with a big wall of words.—Chiecaze ‘Tribune. —Whitechapel, London, the districi where so many crimes were committed several years ago, including the notorious “Jack-the-Ripper” murders, has been transformed by the police into 2 fairly respectable district. YOUNG FOLKS’ COLUMN . “Seeeeeececeeeeecececececeesecceceeeceeccecceecees For You, Little Man. And he sald unto the beauty: | Ry = on? T have some good advice for you, Pee wee eee ee My merry little man, $2 . Tapir, ‘Tis this: where’er yout lot is cast, |Site to eras aos. © do the best you cant nut Stwould brlghten, letter: brighte And find the good in everything, | S361 pasoed rat your aide, No matter what or where; Oh, my charming young. Agouti, And don’t be always looking for lyon shail Bee om tuceltrattl, The hardest things to bear. = If you'll ont: | Be the. lonely © do not ‘stand with Idle hands, | Tapir's bright and blooming bride: Aud wait for something grand, While precious moments slip, wvay | Bat the Agoutl “didn't see it— Like grains of shining sand! Sala “not-imuch he wouldn't be it:* But do the duty nearest you, | Ana she mocked him, shocked him, m And do it faithfully, him For stepping-stones to greater things | ror he-tett inclined to faint. ‘These little deeds shall be. | And De raised an anguished clamor {At her woeful Jack of grammar In this big world of ours, my boy, -) When she said: “What? marryin’ tap There's work for all to do, Well, ! rather guess I ain't!" Just measure by the golden ‘rule 2 That which Is set for you; And hie grief was so tremendous, And try it with the square of truth Se ee eee oneattca, And with the lines of right; That he darted, started, darted In every act and thought of yours, Through the jungle with a yell: © keep your honor bright!” And perhaps the Gongo got him, —Companion, {nd perhaps the Shongo shot him, a You cannot be Elephant Rock. Informed by me: SC PEARY SOCK, CRC Jase Fema ine Ae the most colossal idol of the fast fading western Indian, stands out ‘against the sky a few miles southeast of Meacham, in the Blue mountains, where it is a landmark to the whites and a symbol to the Indians of the power of their gods and a sign of their ancient. greatness, says the Portland Oregonian. The tourist, in making the journey through the mountains by the old stage road, can look above him and see the xiant clephant. moulded in the rugged and crumbhng stone, as he juts out against the skyline, perfect in every bart, and he will wonder as he gazes at the likeness, the perfect lines of the great hulk, at its natural attitude as it stands stretching longingly toward the north, and if he is a friend of the aged Indian who may be camped by the roadside he may hear the legend of Elephant Rock. An old ana tottering chief, upon whore toatted, grizzled head the suns of count- less simmers have beaten until the brightness of their glare has burned out the light from the sunken eyes, and has turned the world from day to night, knows the story betler than all the rest, for he is the descendant of those to whom the secret was imparted by the good god Coyote, the chief deiry of the Cayuses, he who has always had the good of man in bis heart and whose hand is soft for his children, Long, long ago, so the story runs, the white man had not come with his hordes to drive back the Cayuse and take from him the land along the swirling Umatilla and the Indian was prosperous and happy. His lodges were full of children, whore happy laughter gladdened the heart of the warrior as he returned frou the hunt laden with the juicy venison or the swift flying woodfowl. The ground yielded bountifully, the forest teemed with game, the Umatilla dimpled with the salmon as they sprang from the wa- ter in sport, and the Indian was glad and at peace. } ut the day, in the midst of their hap- piness, a creat misfortune visited the land. While the hunting parties were in the woods seeking food for the lodges, they noticed the game fleeing to the south in great fright. Soon a greut crashing was heard through the trees, aad vast shapes appeared, driving before them te inhabitants of the forest. On the inya- ders rushed in a line, waving what looked to be great tails at their heads. while the canyons rocked with the echoes of their cries, The strange visitors tore the larg- est trees from the ground and hurled tlie giant trunks in sport over the mountain sides. The warriors fled in a panie to the hills, while the monsters took possessien of the land. In time they came to the Uma- tilla, into which they plunged with glad cries, tossing the water high in the air and churning the current into mud and foam until the frightened salmon threw themselves on the banks to die or were trampled beneath the great feet. Those that escaped fled for their lives to the River of the North, where they spread the news of the strange demons who trampled the Umatilla into spray and crushed them into the ground. As a consequence. the Caynses, skulk- ing from their hiding places, conld find no food. The deer had seattered to the winds, while the Umatilla was a slug: gish creek of raud, in which nothing could live. A council was called by the head men, and a solemn feast was made, at which the head medicine man offered. sacrifices and called upon the good god Coyote for relief. Now, Coyote, from his lair on the high- est mountain top, had been watching the elephants and had noted their doings. He had seen them come from the north, and knew that they had been sent by the evil spirits to harass the Cayuses. So, when he heard the voice.of his ¢ehildren raised in supplication, he hastened to tlte land of the Umatilla. Arriving there, he called sae elephants before him and told them to return immediately to tieir home in the far northland, amid _ the never changing snows. The herd obeyed, though reluctantly, and peace once more came to the starved Cayuses. The game began to return to their haunts, and the salmon once more ventured up the stream. The king of the herd, however, longed for the green hills and cool, pleasant forest, and ventured back in spite of the orders of the Coyote, and roamed the woods and bathed in the stream. 5 One day, while standing belly deep in the cool waters, he saw Coyote coming toward him over the mountain. Now the king of the elephants was the bravest animal on earth, but he feared the wrath of Coyote, and attempted to steal away. The god, however, had seen him in the river and overtook the fugitive on the mountainside, where he gently upbraid- ed him for his disobedience. , ‘The elephant, thinking from his man- ner that Coyote was awed by his great size, grew headstrong and impudent, and insulted the god, who thereupon cursed him and decreed that he shouid stand on the monntain forever, through winter's cold and summer's heat, as a warning to all evildcers. y And there the elephant is today, look- ing with stony eyes toward the north- iand. The years haye come and gone, and the snows have worn away the smoothness of his great bulk and left him furrowed and seamed. The little birds are not afraid of him, and nestle in the clefts made by the flight of time. The deer and the wild fowl rest in his shadow, and the Indian builds his camp- fires around his feet. But the vast shape pays no heed. His head is stretched out toward his home, and his eyes seek for a friend. If any animal comes into the land to do harm he warns him away lest he also be chained to the mountainside lif the solid rock to suffer forever and forever the pangs of remorse and the pain of a great disobedience to the good god of the Cayuses. The Enterprising Tapir. ‘A nonsense jingle of the jungle, © good English “isn't spoke.) Once an enterprising Tapir a Started out upon a caper Through the jungle, jungle, Jungle In the island of Ceylon: And upon his joyous route if Met a charming young Agoutl, And he sald unto the beauty: “Shall we fare together on?" t ‘ Said the enterprising Tapir, “Life is Sect lke a vapor, But “twould brighten, Ughten, brighten_ If I passed it at your side. Oh, my charming young Agouti, You shall live om tutt-frutti, if you'll onl Ke the. tonel Tapir's bright and blooming bride=* Bnt the Agouti “didn’t see it’— Said “not much she wouldn't be it;” And ae mocked him, shocked him, mocked md, TUL he felt inclined to faint. And De raised an anguished clamor At her woeful Jack of grammar When she said: “What! marryin’ tapirs? Well, } rather guess I ain't!” And his grief was so tremendous, And his rage was so stupendous, That he darted, started, darted Through the jungle with a yell; And perhaps the Gongo got him, And perhaps the Shongo shot him, You cannot be Informed by me; T promised not to tell! ~—Laura E. Richards in St. Nicholas. The Killine of Storm. What a stormy eee that was!—with wind in gusts and the rain in splashes We had heard a mournful ery m a de serted causeway, and at the door found 2 woolly, puppy, rolled up like a hedge hog, very wet and shivefy. But at last the long black curls dried out, the big overgrown “fee: spread sleepily over the hearth rug, and’ the blue eyes Closed in a puppy's glad dream. he children fed him by hand ov minced bread and milk, and soon his puppyhood waxed into doghood. In the daytime they coaxed him into the garden. One excursion up and down the. stairs tired« him so that he was glad to sleep for hours, and so was out of mischief | The cat, who was taller, towering over the newcomer by a head, abused him shamefully, and the children had to look | sharp to keep her claws out of his eyes. For all of this the dog repaid her with interest, later on, when the tables of size were turned. When he came his neck could be spanned by a gold bracelet. At six months he had attained the dignity of a collar and tag, for he was now large enough to be attractive to the dogeatch ers. They called him Storm, because he eamo in one; and when he bit holes iu) the stockiugs and playfully tore the | clothes from the line, or dug up the roses: in his hours of ease, looking for a last week's bone at the root, and capped the climax of his mischief by chewing up the | shawl a guest had hung before the fire. to dry, his mistress thought him weil named. . He was certainly a bouncing ‘fellow. When the children were at school, he rode like a monareh on the seat of a coai wagon, barking ferociously at all dogs nfoot. But however far he was from. home, he never failed to meet the children at the gate at 3 o'clock. He had a regu- lar engagement, and a marvelous sense of time. As years went by Storm reached the limit of his infirmities. He.was so crip- pled that he could scarcely walk. In his sleep he groaned dismally. One day a family council was called, and it was de- cided that it was cruel to let poor old Storm live longer. All the dog powders and remedies had been tried. There had been all sorts of dog cakes, and finally the family doctor had been called in. The mistress declared that Storm's groans made her heart ache, but she hastened to add that she could not act as executioner. The boys made excuses to leave the room, and came back cough- ing ostentatiously. The neighbors were appealed to, and at last one with a suffi- ciently hard heart was found. This was the grown son of a farmer who lived too Zak Orne to have known Storm at ali well. He came down one morning armed with his father’s doublebarreied ducking gun. He marched up boldly enough to where Storm was lying, but, stranger as he was to the dog, he could not withstand the pathetic look of appeal that came from the soft eyes of the faithful old animal. He lowered his gun and valiantly faced those few of his friends who had fol-| lowed him to the yard because they pew his nerve would fail him in the end. Tt was finally decided that poor old Storm should die of prussic avid. This was chosen because it was quick and certain, and the girl messenger cried all the way to the drug store and back. The druggist said that a single drop on the tongue would be enough—so deadly and powerful was the poison. Storm was taken into the back yard and we all fancied we could see the re- proachful look in his eyes. He was be- ing betrayed, and he knew it—we said. A gulp, a swallow and it was all over. Storm fell over at the feet of his mis- trees, and the tears were flowing down the faces of those who loved him. ‘They wished with all their hearts that they had not done it, but had let him live out his days with all his aches and pains. They left him lying there, and walked around the house to find the prrieeee place in the garden in which to lay him. They chose a spot where, as 2 puppy Storm had loved to lie in the dappled shade. In half an hour the grave was dug, and they came back to bury Storm. He was not there! Instead of lying stiff and cold, he ac tually trotted toward them, briskly wag ging his tail! He pranced, he twirled, he pawed them. He frisked and leaped as if he were a young dog again. And his family? They covered hir with embraces, and all sat down an cried over the dog who had miraculous!7 come back to life! , The neighbors are stiji trying to ex plain it. Most people think that ‘he druggist’ made a mistake, or that he liked his little joke and didn't give us prussic acid at all. But if that is sc, why should Storm have fallen over like a dead dog, and what became of his rheumatism? The druggist declares that it was prussic acid, and the family doc- tor declares that Storm took enough te kill a dozen horses. But certain it ix that Storm did not know what was ex- pected of him.—Mabel Craft in St. Nicholas. haa ae I ee A Step Downward. This is told of a Philadelphian vy sse mother-in-law was alarmingly ill. One night the physician shook his head and said impressively: “She has got to go to a hot climate. Mind, I don’t mean a warm place, but a hot one.” The son-in-law disappeared, but su emerged from the cellar carryIng an a<> Handing it to the dector, he exclaime:!: “Here, you do it! 1 can't!’—Lippia- cout. —_—_—_———_. Workingmen’s Insurance. - Consider the advance in the general spirit of kindness which is indicated by such a fact as the founding and succe=s- ful operation of the system of workinz- men’s insurance in Germany. A _ certain sum of mouey is set aside for each work- man every week (the employer and the employe each contributing half), and the government adds a supplement of $12 on each pension. Ten million workmen are thus insured against sickness, 17,000,000 against accident, 10,000,000 against dis- ability from old age. Six hundred and seventy thousand persons receive the ben- efit of this fund iu yearly pensions, In- cidentally there has been an immense benefit iu the increase of care and pre- cautions to prevent accidents and to re- duce dangerous occupations. The em- pleyer who is not yet willing to protect his workmen for kindness’ sake will do it to escape heavier taxes. And the com- munity which silently compels him to do this, the community which says to the laboring man, ‘If you will perform your duty, you shall not starve when you are sick and old,’ is certainly growing more kind as well as more jnst.— Everybody's Magazine. Sea ee FILIPINO CHARACTER. a. BO TES. An experience of three years in the Philippines has brought me to the con- clusion that the Filipinos are incapable of self-goverament. They are managed by a few ambitious leaders. They have not yet cultivated a sense of fair play and tolerance for those who differ in opinion, and yet, although the gift of seif-covern- ment in fell measure was not possible, the United States bestowed it to a degree by granting practical autonomy ia pre- vincial and municipal affairs. There are some. €00 towns in which natives have, in the main, the same contre! over their loeal affairs as is enjoyed by the resi- Jeuts of town of corresponding size in the United States. But a concentration of governmental powers has been found. Very few of them, however, show ex- ecutive ability, and some of them betray obstinate inefficiency and inactivity. The tendency everywhere in the east is in the direction of gq e-man power, and, too often in the Pimippines the mayor, or pro- vincial governor, dominates everything so far as he can. He is very ready with promises; but, as some oue has said. “the Filipino never says ‘ne,’ but never does ‘yes.’ When asked for iaformaticn he studies you and is inclined te give you the auswer be thinks you want. Tadirect- ness is a trait and the giving of gifts by subjects to those in authority a custem common in the Philippines.” From in- stinct, the Filipino agrees with the boodler’s opinion that there-is no use in holding an oitice unless it can be tarued to profit. It is hard for Filipines to understand that the giving of presents to government efficials is not right: it is very difficult for them to believe that a man, because he happens to be white, has any scruples against it. Ther look with a measure of contempt upon a mau who refuses.—World’s Work. -He Was Taken Back. At a dinner to the Archbishop of Can- terbury in New York. Bishop Chauncey Breyster of Connecticut decried self- praise. “Is there anything tamer,” he said, “than to hear a man praise himself—than to hear a-judge praise a decision he has just made, or a surgeon praise an appen- dix cperation he has performed, or a cler- gyman praise a sermon he has preached # | “Let me tell you about a certain self- praising clergyman. “At a dinner similar to this one he be- gan to talk of his own eloquence. He talked of it a long time. Finally he de- scribed a sermon wherewith he had raised enough money to build a magnifi- cent new church. “He said that this sermon had throwh the congregation inte a transport of lib- erality. From all sides of the auditorium there had resonnded announcements of subscriptions of $1000, of $2000, even of $5000. Women had advanced to the al- tar and thrown in their watches, their rings and their bracelets. One young woun had even—— “But here a distinguished bishop inter- rupted. He bent forward and tapped the speaker on the shoulder. ‘Could you lend me that sermon? he whispered.”—Buffalo Enauirer. Waiters Mystified by Candle. The waiters of the Hotel Walton, Phil- adelphia, Pa., were somewhat mystified a few days ago when an elderly lady, ac- companied by a younger one, entered the dining room, selected a table near the door, and, before eating her dinner, light- ed a small candle. The room. as usual, was brilliantly illuminated, and the fiut- tering candle looked very odd indeed. Every night the two women entered the dining room, and the elder one always lighted the little candle, and when she had finished invariably carried it away, with her. . On the third evening the elderly wom- an explained to one of the waiters that she had very poor eyesight and that it was necessary for her to-have a candle to see to eat. . She was recognized as Miss Haner- shann of Annapolis, and her younger friend as Miss C. R. Hedges of Balti- more. On the fourth ear. the two breakfasted at the hotel and then departed, leaving the odd little candle behind, but the day following there came a telegram from Miss Habershann at Annapolis asking the proprietor to forward the candlestick immediately to her. Indian Wives Are Best. From the Missouri to the Big Horn 4500 squaw men testify that there is no wife lie the Sioux woman, because there is no mother-in-law like the Sioux moth- er-in-law. This is why many a ranger argues that the Sioux tribe will be as- similated by the whites. Facts confirm this prediction, for reports from the res- ervations are that more than 300 Indian maidens became the wives of whites last year. A. J. Callandar, one of the squaw men and proprietor of a large ranch, de- clares that he would not trade the dusky woman who presides over his household for any white woman he has seen. “It is one of the oldest customs of the Sioux Indians,” he says, “that the son-in-law shall not look upon the face of his moth- er-in-law, or communicate with her more than is alsolutely necessary. The cus- tom is probably the outgrowth of family brawls. arising from their erude way of living, huddled together in tepee and wigwam. At all events, it is an inyiol- able rule.”—Kansas City Journal. Ss Enclish Tailors’ Vernacular. The plaintiff in a recent libel action was not the “ninth part of a man,” or he would have known that “jiggery-pokery” was tailor’s slang for humbug. There are still many terms employed by the trade which are unknown to the outside public and some of them show a pretty turn of fancy. A young lady friend is a “iong haired chum,” a man’s own wife is his “left forepart,” and the master’s wife is the “marm puss” or “jiffess.” “Legs and arms” is beer with no body in it; and to “give his pint for a man” means that he will youch for him to the utmost of his power; going to America is “crossing the damp pot.” To spoil anything is to “make pig or pork” of it; a badly worked buttonhole is a “dead sow’s eye;” and a collar or lapel too large for the coat is a “pig's Ing.” A “paralytic fit” is a mis: fit, and a “misfit” is a man of awkward figure—London Chronicle. ge . —In rural Finland a bride wears to church a curions combination of wedding veil and wedding bonnet. It is a great cap with ribbon streamers behind and in front a fall of lace which shadows the face. Over her dark cashmere dress she ties a handsomely embroidered white aprch. 4 THE WISCONSIN 3 eee ris ae ht. B. Mentgomery, Editor and Pubitster The Wisconsin Weekly Advocate after thre: vears® residence at 79 Fifth street, has moved its headquarters to 729 St. Paul Ave., where we will re- ceive our guests and trans- act our business in - future. A ftepresentative Journal Devoted toe the Interest of All the Pecple. ee ADVERTISING RATES. Que inch, one YOM. eee cee eee eee ee $15.00 Two inches, one year......-.s++++-++ 25.00 ‘Taree 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 RR STEERER Tarra Six months 2... eee cere cece esse etee cress 1.00 Three months ....--+-s+es+-sereeere tt 50 ee Direct all communications to Kk. B. MONTGOMBRY, 729 St. Paul Avenue. HOW TO SEND MONEY.—Post Office Order, Express Order, Draft or Registered letter. R. B. Montgomery will not be re- sponsibtc for ioss when sent in any other way ‘yO CONTRIBUTORS: AN communications must be sent with the name and address of the sender as an evi: dence of good faith, but not necessarily for publication. No manuscript returned if not heeepted, unless accompanied by stamps. ee Glass houses may soon be made stone proof. Silesian glissmakers are turning out giass bricks for all sorts of building purposes, and hope that the proverb will soon haye no significance. _—_—— The judges at the London dog shows dy nex allow the rank of the exhibitors to affect their decision, Of King Edward's dogs none received more than a third prize at the last: show. Phe coal measures of Conhuila district are being extensively developed. They are the only extensiv coal mines in Mexi- co, The minimum daily output is 3000 tons of coal and 1500 tons of coke. The enitivation of hops in Great Brit- ain is restricted to some six counties of England, the total area in hops ontside these counties neing only I8S acres, as romparedl with 47,611 acres within them. Value and duty on a shipment of 5000 hoghsheads of tobacco from Kentucky to Messrs. Gallaher of Belfast, amounted to $3,000,000, which constitutes, says Tobacco, a vecord for tobacco imports into Irctand. An Bnglish naval cadet who, on his training ship, took eleven first prizes and in the first examination obtained 97.6 per cent., was rejected at the medical exam- ination on account of a small defect in one little toe The construction of the following rail- way lines is projected in Japan: From Okoyama to Uno Bay, 18 miies in length: from Gifu to Nagasa, 43 miles, Electric and electrical railroads are also being built in Janan. A German has patented a microphone for suspension in the water, in order te record on a connected telephone the pres- ence of shoals of fish, which by thei tapping on the microphone case will be- tray themselves. In traveling the 1900 miles from the northern extremity of India to the south ern one passes through as many politica divisions as there are great divisions ot Europe, and differing us widely in. cli- matte and cnstoms. The Berlin Jaw courts have decided against the claimant in an action to re coyer 5 cents, the value of a stamp seni to cover postage for reply to a_ letter. Vhe court held that the stamp was the legal property of the receiver. Many of the Pritish soldiers suffered greatly fron snow blindness in ‘Thibet. The native Thibetaiis escape snow blind- ness as do the inhabitants in other snowy parts of the world, by greasing the face and then blackening the skin all around the eyes with a burned stick. —_—_ A sidelight on Chinese immigration or importation into South Africa is cast by the following remark in the South Afri- can Press-Bulletin: “Quarrels and fights with drawn knives between Kaffirs and Chinese are of almost daily occurrence in Market square, Johannesburg.” Fremantle, Western Australia, is a town with some queer names. ‘The may- or is a Cadd, the chief printer is Cant, a coutractor named Thick has just sued a locai soup preserving company, and a aman named Offspring Webb was recent- ly fined for keeping an unlicensed dog. The Chinese of An-Sang recently sold to the Kast China railroad the franchise for running a branch of their railroad through the city cemetery, an almost un- heard-of thing, as the Chinese have be- Ueved it the worst sacrilege to permit a railroad near the burying places of their dead. Five pensioners are on the roll on ae- count of the Revolution, 1116 on account of the War of 1812, 4874 on account of the Indian wars aud 13,874 on account of the Mexican war. The great bulk of the rell is as follows: Civil war, inva- lids, 708,456; widows, 248,390; Spanish war, invalids, 9200; widows, 3662; regu- lar establishment, invalids, 9170; widows, oon The following notice was posted up re- eently in an art exhibition in Tokic, Japan: “No visitor who is mad or in- toxiented is allowed to enter in; if any person found in shall be claimed to re- tire. No. visitor is allowed to carry in with himself any parcel, worbrella, stick, gnd the, like kind, except his purse, and js strictly forbidden to take. within him- ~elf dog, or the same kind of beasts. Vis- itor is requested to take care of himself from thievely.” SILENCED. a i i en Oem 3 ee : | ear sarge er: meee | "By Scobie ath : Saas aie a fete eS ey Be ngs TO CR 32 PE: aig Go ae Bo ger ct ET am AMM i, a elias a paar othe! or ; te Ny os baa 2 4 os - A eee or ig ee cy, WA : oe, \ aa pap es oy : | Cane ; ay ‘ : ea Vi hy ee oe ee iB ae at \ eee pe : ‘z ei a ee, er Nee oe! t gee! - ia rages SAO a F i ie) ae a ite! a, ~ 5 pple oe as See a i ee ate (orm eee, > so] gs } : ow iw at ak . ee co ra. re eae a ap sulk sear 3 aoe be sss Sie: AR Papas ee i ie Sy ee, i alae Aeee. apes eee a 0 creates ele He eRe | fe AW IRS 1 US| eee PR 5 tee Se Pe eae By oe a de a oes ay PE eR LF Seats is PS PN Ae ee a Ses RRA ey Stree Aen ce ee as make, Set ete ei NN Nee a Be Be ee ae oe Fe PEGS Ae CNIS LE RE LET ae ELS Y roa Cire ey ee AN EPISODE IN THE DEFENSE OF PORT ARTHUR. ‘There were days when the Japanese guns scarcely ceased to shell the fortress from dawn till night. The gallant defenders stuck to their work in spite of the terrific bombardment. Sometimes, indeed, a gun was only si- lJenced because, as in the fllustration, there was none left alive to man it. The picture was drawn from a sketch by a correspondent of the London Graphic. a — SS NEW AMBASSADOR TO GREAT BRITAIN. or a U7, WN A iS Wie. NSS H ad SSN i eee | SS Gas eG say pa ei ox P a igaey), [s —, Va a MZ = LIRR PE AER LO SN q Ms COR Ree? We Fis, 5 Re eect - Gi ig a Rens pe ti IANS Vi ENGR Le MEN Nes Sie BN ON WR ; Lio i. ig eg i on Side ae Ue Ae ie RES iy J Gees i Litem eae YY oes SED V/A LAE New York Tribune after Mr. Greeley’s death, brought him Into Interna- tional prominence. Mr. Reid took the stump for General Fremont. In the Civil War he was volunteer aid-de-camp to General Rosecrans in the West Virginia campaign; was war correspondent with the armies of the Cumber- land and of the Potomac, and witnessed the battles of Shiloh and Gettys- burg. From 1863 to 1866 he was librarian to the House of Representatives and correspondent at Washington for the Cincinnati Gazette, of which paper he subsequently became a part owner, after trying his hand in the fields of Alabama and Louisiana as a cotton planter. In 1868 the literary and news- paper work of Mr. Reid came so favorably to the attention of Horace Gree- ley that this famous editor invited Mr. Reid to come to New York and asso- ciate himself with him on the Tribune. When Mr. Greeley was candidate for President he placed the paper in Mr. Reid's charge. In 1892 Mr. Reid was candidate for Vice President on the Republican ticket with Mr. Harrison. ‘As minister to France and when special ambassador to Great Britain for the jubilee of Victoria, and later to the coronation of King Edward, as well as commissioner to Paris for the treaty of peace between Spain and the United States, Mr. Reid received warm welcomes. His list of publica- tions, including works on war and expansion, have made him famous among savants. THE COMMUNISTIC CHICKEN. Mr. Sanderson and his wife were ‘picking their way across the small plot of ground which separates their ‘home from that of the Mitchells, at | whose house they had just had dinner. “Most agreeable people,” comment- ed Mr. Sanderson, genially, “and an excellent dinner.” “yY-es,” said Mrs. Sanderson, not yery enthusiastically. “Those broilers were perfect,” con- tinued Mr. Sanderson. “I wonder why we can’t have such chickens? Oh, I believe he said they were of his own raising, didn’t he ” “Yes,” Mrs. Sanderson replied with awakening spirit, “that was what he said, and it vexed me so I could hard- ly keep still.” “*Vexed’ you? questioned Mr. San- derson. “Yes, and it would vex you if you had any spunk,” returned Mrs. San- derson. “We raised those chickens, James Sanderson!” “What do you mean?’ asked Mr. Sanderson; in bewilderment. “We've never had a chicken on our place.” “Yes, we have—the Mitchells’ chick- ens have been there all summer!” re- torted Mrs. Sanderson. “If it hadn't been for my garden those broilers | wouldn’t have been half so fing. And when everybody was praising them, all 1 could think of was the garden seeds and vegetables those birds have de- | voured since they were hatched in the “spring! And there Mr. Mitchell sat, -and took all those compliments as WHITELAW REID. OSS SSSSSSSOOSSOSOOOS Whitelaw Reid, chosen ambassador to Great Britain to succeed Joseph Hi. Choate, is known to two hemis- pheres as a man of affairs with wide experience of the world, having ex- tensively traveled; accustomed to deal- ing with eminent people and a thor- oughly schooled master of diplomacy. Tried as United States minister to France, he made un enviable reputa- tion for himself as a diplomat and ‘statesman. Covering so many fields in his busy carecr, Mr. Reid is eredited ‘with the ripe judgment that makes him valuable in any mission selected for him by his country. Born Oct. 27, 1837, near Xenia, Ohio, he was gradwated when still young from Miami University, taking scien- tifie honors of his class, and subse- quently given degrees by several unl- yersities. Entering the political field, he soon assimilated a great knowledge of editorial work, which later, when he became the principal owner of the calmly as if they really belonged to him! “It think it was very poor taste,” Mrs. Sanderson concluded, with dig. nity, “with us right there at the table. It would have been merely decent tc have bought chickens when we dined there” tt, at almost any time of the year, we walk through the woods where the red, scarlet, black or pin oaks are growing—that is, where we find those that ripen thelr acorns in two seasons and therefore belong in the pin-oak group—we shal! probably find on the ground fallen branches that vary in size from that of a lead pencil to that of one’s thumb, or even larger. These, at the broken end, appear as if cut away within the wood, so that only a thin portion is left under the bark. Within the rather uneven cut, general. ly near the center of the growth, ts a small hole tightly plugged by the “powder post” of a beetle larva. Split open the branch or twig, when a bur row will be seen, and the little, white soft, hard-jawed larva that made it will be found, or perhaps the inactive ‘ npupa.—St. Nicholas. Proud Parent—And just think—she _| plays that away an’ never tuck a les- _| son in her life! i Bored Guest—Oh, that’s what's the || matter, is it?—Baltimore American. It is better to keep in the old rut '!than to climb out only to fall in the | ditch by the wayside. . A-man can get sick now almost as | easy as he can sin, and you all know || how easy that is. igi SE ie a Sa The Baby Beetle's Cradle. ‘Thet Exniained ie = ‘Trust toLuck QO ge A Dontlrusttolue frat 0) LE ae oe ea i day ee oe when you go to buy — ee S jumber and building ~~ pee See material, but come 2 ee fb where you know the - an so. grades and pr.ces are right. ’Phone North 69. North Milwaukee, Wis. NOTICE! We are making a speciality of hauling Trunks to and from all depots for 25c. Three trips daily, 9A. M.,1P.M. and 5 P.M. Special trips 35c. waaiauen? HARD AND SOFT COAL #3% : 2807 STATE STREET. WM. C. LOGAN 226 czas sreeer. “SEs § 8'PHONE GREEN 9( | Open Day and Night. For Ladies and Gentlemen, The Turf Cafe Oysters, Game, Fish, Steaks, Chops and Every Delicacy the Seasons Afford, ‘Banquet Rooms for Dinner Parties, Etc. Cuisine Par Excellent. ) Table D’Hote. NOTE— We have neither private rooms, nor ‘private’ people, but cater to the . general public. DINNER FROM 5:30 TO 8:00; 35¢. Ay | MONROE BROS., Prop’s. 194 Third Street, Milwaukee, Wis. NEW STUFF FOR COMBS. Tinted Horn Is the Material Over Which Paris Is Now Raving. ‘The newest materiai used for combs, and one over which Paris is now raving, is tinted horn, It is dificult to comnect ® material so uncompromisingly tongh and utilitarian with the delicately lovely ornaments fair women place in their tresses, yet to see is to admire the almost transparent pieces that are tinted in won- derful opal shades, showing in some lights seashell pink, in others a faint blue. Horn looks as lovely, or slmost, as blond tortoise shell, a paler edition of which it is, and it will not break. a char- acteristic in which it is superior to tor- toise shell. The best dressed women al- ways keep for morning wear a set of three plain tortoise shell combs te match their hair in color, either dark or blond, reserving their jeweled combs for the evening. It is not quite good taste te wear many combs of a conspicuous char- j acter in the afternoon, even with the | gown of ceremony, but just one low | casque, as it is called, set with diamonds, Been embellish the back of the coiffure from the nape of the neck to the summit, or ‘a Spanish comb with a trelliswork of precious stones at the top may hold the loose locks of the “hind hair,” as our an- | cestresses called their back’ locks, in a elose embrace. | The ivory comb, which sometimes may be seen on the dusky coiffure of a bru- nette, is rather a rarity; but the jet oue in a blond woman's tresses looks very handsome, and in Paris is deemed quite one of the smartest ornaments of the hour. Ash-white hair is the kind par ex- | cellence that looks well with flashing, | light jet combs to set off its peculiar lack luster quality. Upon the counters devoted to Christ mas presents at the posticheur’s, the jew- | eler's and the fancy goods purveyor’s combs now abound, so that it is quite possible to spend £500 or oniy Sd upon something pretty in this way. The wel! | dressed head is not complete without |a comb, unless it is graced by a tiara, an aigrette or a diadem. At the opera during this present autumn season num- bers of crowns and tiaras haye been seen, though not so many as during the daz- alingly brilliant nights of May, June and July. But where a_ tiara has been absent its place has been taken by a scarcely less beautiful comb. The province of the comb is, of course, a dual one. It may ornament and it must support or gather together the tresses. A casque comb, for instance, hides in the hollow beneath it the twist given to the hair at the back, which it keeps in form. Such a casque may be in form somewhat ike a snake, and may be heavily en- erusted with diamonds, in which case several hundreds of pounds will be the | rice asked for it. Jeweled side combs, delicately diapered upon the rim with starlike brilliants, serye the purpose of pushing and keeping the puffs of hair over the ears outward that ctherwise would fall flat against the hair. Many of these are, of course, rsimply gemmed with good paste or tiny pearls, but the wealthy woman who pays two or three guineas for a plain shel: set docs not object to a bill for £25 for a set studded with real stones. The imitation ones come to about two guineas apiece, when the stones are good and set with as much delicacy and care as if they were real ones. Turqucises are much less medish then they were, owing to the very base and cheap imitations of them that abound. A very lovely comb is an enameled one. The enamel is executed on silver, and the top of the comb is rimmed with it. One exquisite design is a peacock’s feather, for women are now so far removed from superstition that thes are quite. willing to risk all ill effects in order to bind their hair up with an ornament that shows the plumage of the peacock in all its splen- did brilliance. Anether enameled device is = simple bar showing all the colors of the rainbow deliertely blended upon silver. with each color separately repre- sented by little bails set upon the rim of the bar. _In the same category with combs, and admitted to it because of the utility part they play are slides and pins both of Don’t Trust to Luck when you go to buy jumber and building material, but come where you know the grades aad pr.ces are right. BARTER OMaAgEK CN CHR. RITTER FRED. RITTER Christian Ritter & Son UNDERTAKERS ———— AND EMBALMERS 276 Fifth St. Milwaukee, Wis. which may be and are amply ornamenta! Women who wear their hair brushes straight up from the alae of the neck are sporting broad slides right across them, to keep the straggling tresses together. Outside, the view of the slide is most ar- tistic. In one base diamonds imitate a ribbon, carelessly twisted and_ tied iv French Louis bows at the ends. The price of such a slide in imitation dia- monds is two Benesh while in real ones it is about £250, though the charge varies, according to the size and quality of the stones used. The latest hairpin partakes of the nature of a slide. It is called the automobile pin because it is so constructed that it cannot possibly fall ont; though built on the principle of a corkserew, as it is, it is also rather difit- eult to extricate from the hair after its tenacious task is accomplished and its wearer would free her hair from its em- brace. Other new pin combs have pro- jecting half moons,: or crooks, specially constructed to keep a_firm hold upon the hair.—London Daily Mail. Seek erecta tic Feeds Homeless Cats. In Thirteenth street, in Greenwich Vil- lage, N. Y.. there is a mysterious woman who nightly takes food to the homeless cats of the neighborhood, those which cannot lay claim to the title fireside sphinx, but are wanderers on the face of the earth. She always appears at the same hour carrying a bag in her hand. She calls kently, “Puss, puss, puss,” and from every direction come cats of all kinds,, colors and degrees. The woman empties the contents of the bag in a clean spot in the gutter, and departs as silently as she arrives. There is no need for the services of a street cleaner by the time the eats are sitting on_ their hanneches washing their faces. Every night, be the weather clear or stormy, spring, summer, fall and winter, the cats and the woman meet at the appoint- ed hour. aie aa Made Tafty by Wholesale. The Bridgeport and Holloway division of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad was ali but put out of business recently by a gang of Italians. The men while empty- ing big tanks of water from a water train into a tank at Fairport got a big tank of molasses mixed with the water. There were twenty-five tons of the molasses mixed with the water, and the fact that it was in the water was not discovered till half the engines had taken en their supply. The heat literally made_ taffy on the boilers, and the engines affected are heing tied up in yards until they can be seraped out. eS Will Sleep Himself to Death. John A. Smith, an Ohio soldier, recent- ly sent home from the Philippines, is at the insanify ward of the hospital at San Franeisco, Cal., a victim of a peculiar malady brought on by exposure at the islands. | Constantly he sleeps, except when, with great difficulty, attendants succeed in arousing him sufficiently to eat. The surgeons think he will sleep himself to death. Smith's malady is sleeping sickness, a disease peculiar to tropical Africa. 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Write your name and address plainly to OZONIZED OX MARROW CO., Wabash Ave., Chicago, Illinois: Agents wanted everywhere. --- MEMORIES OF THE WAR "You never could tell," said the Colonel, "what kind of a man you were picking up when a man enlisted in the first year of the civil war. All sorts of men were eager to get into the service, and most of them were humble-minded. I remember that in one of the earlier regiments mustered in Ohio we found a college president, three lawyers and four doctors among the privates, and hundreds of men who were reticent as to their previous standing in life. Much the same conditions prevailed, I know, in Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin. In that day the best of us did not believe that any man was too good to carry a musket in defense of the flag. "Many of them who enlisted incognito were not found out for months or years. For example, when we were going through the Carolinas in the last year of the war, Surgeon McCauley, of the Ninety-eighth Ohio, overtook an Irish sergeant on his way from the field hospital to the front. Artillery and skirmish firing in front indicated that the brigade was having a hard fight, but the sergeant, well equipped as to arms and ammunition, and well fortified with 'spiritus frumenti,' obtained at the field sopital, where the surgeons were too busy with the wounded to protect their supplies, seemed indifferent. "Surgeon McCauley, taking in the situation, said: 'Pat, what are you doing back here, when the regiment is having a fight in front?' Pat saluted and said in reply: 'Faith, and bedad, doctor, it is meself that is going to the same front where the boys are fighting. I carried Jamey back there to the hospital and strapped him to a dure while they took off his leg. It is a sorry day for the poor lad. These field hospitals are little more than butcher shops—a dure for an operating table. Bad luck to the whole of them.' After frudging along quietly for a few moments Pat said, explosively: 'If I were no better sawbones than the spalpeens back yander I would never take a scalpel in my hand again.' "A change in the bearing of the man, a change in the tone of voice, led the doctor to suspect that Pat was something more than a straggler who had drifted back to the field hospital simply to get a drop of the crather, and he piled him with questions so skillfully that he soon learned that Pat was a graduate of Dublin Surgical College and had practiced surgery. A few days later, Pat, at the suggestion of Surgeon McCauley, was detailed to assist in the field hospital. He proved to be, when sober, an expert with saw and knife, and in a few days made the quickest and neatest amputation recorded from Perryville to Bentonville. Later, he made a hip joint amputation, regarded at that time as very difficult, and placed to his credit one of the noted operations of the war." "I remember," said the Major, "several men with histories who enlisted in the first three months of the war to carry muskets. There were a full hundred men in my company in the three months' service, but I didn't know the antecedents of more than twenty of them. All were well-appearing men, and a few seemed to me rollicking dare-devils looking for trouble or adventure. I noticed in the first week's drill in the mud of camp one man who was disregardful of injury to a very fine pair of trousers, which he wore every day. These would be crusted with mud half way to the knees some days, and yet the wearer was never disturbed. "Every garment that he wore was of fine material, and he started in every morning clean as to person and apparel. However, he trotted around with the most awkward of men, making no remarks, until some visitors identified him one day as the son of an old army officer who had run away from school and enlisted. For years I watched with interest his steady promotion in the regular army. Another man puzzled me not a little. He was a fair-skinned, pink-cheeked, slender young fellow, very choice in his speech and gracious in manner. One day there was a scrap in the mess and he handled himself so well that I asked: 'Where did you learn to use your fists?' Taken off his guard, he said, 'At Eton, sir,' and in a few weeks I learned that he was a young Englishman who, traveling in this country, had bolted his tutor and enlisted. He served a year and was sent home by the British Minister. "In one of the early drills I noticed a man who seemed to regard the drill officer with smiling wonder, but who was stupidly or perversely awkward in executing commands. One day I ordered him to the front and said, goodhumoredly, 'The awkward squad will give an exhibition drill for the benefit of officers and men.' Without more ado I put him through the French zouave drill, and, much to the amazement of the men, he executed every movement with marvelous dispatch and precision. I then put him through his own manual, and he did as well as in the zouave drill. He had been having lots of fun, but the next day took up without protest the work of drillmaster for several companies. "In a few days he complained of a 'darned Dutchman' in one of the companies, given, he thought, to deriding his methods. I sent for the quiet German and asked him what he had to say for himself. He said at once: 'That Frenchman is not a man to drill others for practical work. He is too much inclined to frills and showy movements when you are not watching him, and he has no character whatever, but I never meant to make any complaint, because all this is none of my business.' A few questions brought out the fact that I had in the company half a dozen men who had received military training in Europe, and most of them were serviceable in a larger field later in the war."—Chicago Inter Ocean. Civil War Losses. O. W. Norton, in a letter to the Chicago Post, says: Many of your readers are interested in the war between Russia and Japan, and following the accounts of the battles are appalled by the great losses reported in each of the armies. These losses seem enormous, and the impression is general that the world has not seen before such desperate fighting. Comparatively few of your readers are old enough to remember the fighting in our own civil war, and fewer still have made any study of the statistics of our own losses in battle. Modern weapons, especially the small arms with their small bullets, are much more merciful than those used in our great war, when the bullets were one inch long and fifty-three one-hundredths inches in diameter, causing fearful wounds. The papers report that a very large proportion of the men wounded on both sides of the present war have already recovered and returned to the ranks. The newspaper accounts of the great slaughter in these battles are usually exaggerated and the figures greatly reduced by the official reports. Perhaps your readers would be interested in some statistics of the civil war, comparing them with reports of battles in the East. The following figures are taken from a book compiled by William F. Fox, entitled "Regimental Losses in the Civil War." This book is accepted as authoritative, and by far the most reliable publication in the statistics presented. The figures are not estimated losses, nor taken from the accounts of sepcial correspondents in the field. They are compiled from the muster rolls and official reports on file in the War Department. The following table gives the percentage of loss in several regiments in one battle to the number of men engaged in that battle, ranging from 60 per cent to 82 per cent of the men who entered any one battle. In the table from which I copy these figures there are a large number of other regiments in which the losses exceeded half the number engaged, but this list is long enough to show what stuff our American soldiers were made of. The list includes killed, wounded and missing. A small portion of those reported missing were taken prisoners, but the greater part were reported missing in battles where no prisoners were taken, and were so reported, because at the time the report was made it was not known absolutely whether they were dead or severely wounded and left on the field: Regiment and Battle— One Hundred and Fifty-first Pennsylvan- vania—Gettysburg 75.7 One Hundred and First New York— Manassas 73.8 Twenty-fifth Massachusetts—Cold Har- bor 70 Thirty-sixth Wisconsin — Bethesda Church 69.8 Twentieth Massachusetts—Fredericks- burg 68.4 Eighth Vermont—Cedar Creek 67.9 Eighty-first Pennsylvania—Fredericks- burg 67.4 Twelfth Massachusetts—Antietam 67 First Malne H. A.—Petersburg 66.5 Ninth Louisiana (Colored)—Milliken's Bend 64 One Hundred and Eleventh New York— Gettysburg 63.8 Twenty-fourth Michigan—Gettysburg 63.7 Fifth New Hampshire—Fredericks- burg 63.6 Ninth Illinois—Shiloh 63.3 Ninth New York—Antietam 63 Fifteenth New Jersey—Spottsylvania 62.9 Eighty-second New York—Gettysburg 62.9 Fifteenth Massachusetts—Gettysburg 61.9 Sixty-ninth New York—Antietam 61.8 Fifty-first Illinois—Chickamauga 61.2 Nineteenth Indiana—Manassas 61.2 One Hundred and Twenty-first New York—Salem Church 60.9 Fifth New York—Manassas 60.6 Ninety-third New York—Wilderness. 60 A remarkable scene was witnessed a few years ago, when the Czar of Russia ordered that the private manufacture of vodka (the national drink) should cease, and that the business should be taken over by the state and conducted on temperance lines. The new state monopoly was inaugurated in a remarkable way. Priests attended at all the drinking shops by official command and conducted special services. The public houses were dedicated to God, and prayers offered that under the new regime drunkenness might be abolished and the spiritual welfare of the people improved. The number of timber sleepers on the railways of the world is calculated to be about 1,494,000,000, and their value is estimated at about $900,000,000. This item makes a serious drain on the timber supplies of the world. The general introduction of street cars in English towns has diminished the consumption of beer. Workingmen, on their way home to the suburbs in the evening are now carried past saloons at which they used to linger. Five women at Washington, D. C., are still drawing pensions as widows of soldiers who served in the War of the Revolution, which ended one hundred and twenty years ago. A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken stream.—Prentice. THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC SHORT, IMPRESSIVE TEMPERANCE SERMONS. Dangere that Lurk in the Flowing Bowl-How Bright and Influential Men Have Been Dragged Down by the Demon Drink-Suppress the Traffic. "The secret of mastery" was the subject of a powerful sermon preached in Chalmers Church, Montreal, recently, by the Rev. G. C. Heine, the pastor. Mastery, he said, is the common desire of all men. It might be called the passion of the race. There are various kinds of mastery—physical, mental, moral, spiritual—all of which develop the amplest joy, the highest possible life, the ideal. The secret of mastery is temperance—self-control. Total abstinence from all intoxicating liquor is the best possible rule to achieve mastery in one's calling. Luxury in eating and drinking was disastrous to real success. Human wrecks are seen on every hand—men who have failed in mastery because lacking self-control. It has been said by an able writer that the effects of strong drink on posterity are in the end the destruction of the physical, mental, moral and spiritual well-being of the individual, family, community or nation. No man can preserve his physical or mental vigor apart from self-control. Dr. Bickerton observed: "Alcohol, which is at all times a poison, even when taken in the smallest quantities, shortens a man's life. Hospital experience shows that without alcohol we could close our hospitals, asylums and workhouses." And yet men will drink, though they know the evil consequences." This curse is the foe of physical, intellectual, moral and spiritual mastery in every nation to-day. In St. Paul's day drunkenness was largely confined to the rich and those in high social and religious circles. It has been well remarked: "What would he have said if he had seen what we have to see, the demon of drunkenness eating out the manhood of the 'lower orders,' and become the vice of the working classes?" Mastery is vastly better than this. Mastery is splendid, grand, whether in the individual or in the nation. Mastery is possible for both, but the price is self-control, reasonable and necessary abstinence from liquor and luxury. And the reward is glorious. In the case of the Christian it is a crown of life, life in its highest possible condition, eternal life, and the glory of having overcome the evils and temptations of the world. Lincoln as a Temperance Man. Leonard Swett tells us that Lincoln told him not more than a year before he was elected President that he had never tasted liquor in his life. "What!" said Swett, "do you mean to say that you never tasted it." "Yes," replied Lincoln, "I never tasted it." When we take into consideration the habits of the times, this is a most remarkable testimony of Lincoln's temperance principles, the stability of his character, and the iron quality of his will power. C. C. Coffin, a most distinguished journalist of the day, who accompanied the notification committee from the Chicago convention to Springfield, at the time of Lincoln's first nomination for the Presidency of the United States, related in his newspaper an incident that occurred on that occasion. He says that, after the exchange of formalities, Lincoln said: "Mrs. Lincoln will be pleased to see you, gentlemen. You will find her in the other room. You must be thirsty after your long ride. You will find a pitcher of water in the library." The newspaper men crossed the hall and entered the library. There were miscellaneous books on the shelves, two globes, celestial and terrestrial, in the corners of the room, and a plain table, with writing materials upon it, a pitcher of cold water and glasses, and no wines or liquors. There was humor in the invitation to take a glass of water, which was explained to Mr. Coffin by a citizen of Springfield, who said that, when it was known that the committee was coming, several citizens called upon Mr. Lincoln and informed him that some entertainment must be provided. "Yes, that is so. What ought to be done? Just let me know and I will attend to it," he said. "Oh, we will supply the needed liquors," said his friends. "Gentlemen," said Mr. Lincoln, "I thank you for your kind attention, but must respectfully decline your offer. I have no liquors in my house, and have never been in the habit of entertaining my friends in that way. I cannot permit my friends to do for me what I will not myself do. I shall provide cold water—nothing else."—The Pioneer. Temperance Notes. Justice Greer of the United States Supreme Court has said: "If a loss of revenue should accrue to the United States from a diminished consumption of ardent spirits, she will be the gainer a thousand fold in the health, wealth and happiness of the people." New York has a population of 3,437,000 people and has 10,832 saloons; Chicago, 1,698,000 people, with 6,460 saloons; Philadelphia, 1,294,000 people and 1,799 saloons; St. Louis, 575,000 people and 2,000 saloons; Boston, with 561,000 people, has 799 saloons; Baltimore, 508,000 people to 1,988 saloons; Cleveland, 381,000, 1,888 saloons, and San Francisco, 343,000 people, 3,007 saloons; Washington, 278,000 people and 513 saloons; Manila, 229,000 people and 129 saloons. MR. JAMES EDWARDS, of 1622 Gav St., St. Louis, Mo., would like to find his niece, MISS PHOEBE THOMAS, who belonged to Bob. Thomas of Lynchburg Va., Halifax County, during slavery. 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You say you've got a pearl. Who only wants three afternoons, Two nights, and has a beau. And who won't work up stairs if she has To do the work below? Well; what's the price of pearls today? What? Six per week? How nice; I didn't think that one could get A hard to reach a price. What's that? She doesn't like the street We live in? Well, we'll move; You've got another? What's she like? What's that? She's not a pearl? Well, send her up if she is like An old-time hired girl. She isn't? Why? They're out of style? Just wait a minute. I— Well, send her up. Perhaps we'll suit. At least, I know we'll try. —William J. Lampton in Leslie's Month! Magazine. A CASE OF KIDNAPING. Dora pushed back her sunbonnet, and looked up, with furtive admiration, at the stalwart figure giving the finishing touches to the huge load of hay. "Ethel had to help about dinner and couldn't get away, but she made me come. She said it was too bad for you to have no company for the last load." "I am sorry you were compelled to come," he replied, a little stifly. "Oh, I wanted to; I wouldn't have missed it for anything. I was never on a load of hay. But mercy! how shall I ever get up there?" He glowed at her warmth, but with a brief "I'll help you up," he slid to the ground, placed a short ladder against the lead, preceded her, and reached for her hands. With little shrieks of alarm, and declarations that she never could do it, Dora at last gained the top of the ladder and put her hands in his. His heart leaped fiercely, and he paled a little under his tan, but made no sign of the tumult accused within him. But she was as well aware of it as he, and with malicious intent, clung to him in affected fright noting, with pleasure, his suppressed agitation. It was a short ride from the field to the pay-barn; besides, he had the horses to attend to, so there would be no chance for him to go beyond the limit she had set for him, and ask the question she had been fencing for weeks. She was not sure that she was ready to be bound; but she was certain that she did not want to give him a negative answer; she wished to postpone it; besides, there were "others," and she being a born coquette, was enjoying herself and did not want a definite change. With much skill she had played him and evaded his efforts to obtain an opportunity to bring matters to a crisis. She meant him no harm; she reasoned that a little suspense would perhaps do him good, and she loved the excitement of the game and reveled in the narrow escapes she contrived to experience. "This is the last of the hay, now there is nothing to prevent you joining our tennis party this afternoon," she said, cuddling down in the hay at his feet, while he stood easily and firmly, guiding the team through the gate into the big road. "If you will be my partner," he replied, sitting down beside her, letting the horses, now they were through, go their own gait. "But I've promised Harry Payne; and Jessie Carpenter plays much better than I—besides, she is always trying to get you," she insinuated, demurely. "Hang Harry Payne, and Jessie, too, for that matter! See here, Dora—" "Oh, there's Ethel on the porch waving to us," she interrupted hurriedly. "Harvest home! Harvest home!" she shrieked as they passed the house, scrambling to her feet, with one hand on his shoulder. The wagon lurched, and she dropped down again, flushed and laughing, and began scattering hay over him. He did not respond, but sat with averted face. "Crosspatch!" she said, lightly. "He wants his dinner, so he does! Well, it will not be long, now. Dinner is to be unusually early on account of our party; the men are going to the house." He was still silent, and she pouted. Suddenly she shrieked again: "Why, Nat Bruner! you've passed the gate—it's away back there! Didn't you see it?" "I didn't want to see it," he said, shortly. "What do you mean?" she cried. "I mean that you're not going to get away from me this time till I've had my say!" "I won't listen! I won't listen!" She thrust back her bonnet and put both hands over her ears. He drove on quietly, with no attempt to coax or compel her attention, down a long hill, up the other side and around a corner. "It's all right, boys," he said to the horses, as they turned their heads, with an inquiring look, when the noon whistle view at the village. "It's all right," and they plodded along soberly, perhaps reflecting on the unreasonableness of a master who set off to market from a hard forenoon in the field, without dinner Dora sat, obstinately stopping her ears, and watched the long mile slip by, then another, and he showed no sign of relenting. Once he turned, saying politely: "I am afraid the sun is making it rather uncomfortable for you. I am sorry I have no umbrella." Though she did not hear, of course, she scowled an answer. They made several turns, and she noted, hopefully, that they seemed going in the direction of the farm. He was giving it up? Not so! To her consternation, they finally came out in the broad road, headed for the village. "You're just scorching me," she complained. "Well, you've scorced me often enough," he growled. Being so near the noon hour they had seen few people, but now, down the road a crowded wagonette whirled toward them, the tennis party from the village. She jerked her bonnet over her face and tumbled flat on the hay, moaning: "Oh, I wouldn't have them see me for a million dollars!" When they had passed, with gay banter at him for deserting them, she straightened up with blazing cheeks and the fire of battle in her eyes. "It's the silliest, the most ridiculous thing I ever heard of! And you're the meanest, meanest man alive! I should think you'd hate yourself to death!" "I don't aspire to great wisdom, or perfection," he returned, serenely, driving on. "You know how I've locked forward to this afternoon, and what plans we've made for it!" "If you hadn't systematically disarranged so many of my plans I might be more considerate of yours." "It's so contemptible, your trapping me like this." "You came voluntarily. I've a right to market my hay when I please." "You don't mean——" But they were entering the village and she crouched down again out of sight. He did not stop, and when they had left the last house behind she began, piteously: I was never so hungry in my life! "I was never so hungry in my life! I'm positively faint!" "You'll know how to sympathize with the poor, then," he suggested. "You don't care how much you make me suffer, and you profess to——" She broke off in some confusion, conscious that she was too near the brink. "Yes, I profess to love you," he finished for her. "I've never tried to hide it—and I suppose, after all, there is little need of words. I ought to have understood without having it said. You've shown me plain enough that it is useless, and yet——" he halted, meditatively. Some intuition within him declared that she was not so indifferent as she had assumed to be. "No," he continued, "I will have it in words! Dora, you know I love you devotedly, with all my heart; will you be my wife?" He turned to her with a deep tenderness in his face and shining in his serious eyes. "Cousins can't marry," she evaded. "My step-mother's niece isn't a very close cousin," he commented. "But I ought to thank you," he went on, presently, with a rather wan smile. "You might have been more harsh in your refusal of me." He turned the horses about, saying: "You will not be very late at the game." Then he turned his back in a stolid silence. If he suffered, she should not see it. The minutes passed slowly as the horses jogged along the hot, dusty highway. The sun poured down its scorching rays. Nat sat at its post like a graven image, oblivious alike to the blistering heat and the presence of his pretty and unwilling passenger. The silence was suddenly broken by a storm of sobs from Dora. He writhed anxiously, until he could bear it no longer, and burst out: "Don't cry, Dora, darling! I'm a brute, a perfect beast! I don't know how to treat a girl, even when I love her so—you did right to refuse me!" "But—but—I haven't refused—y—you! I—I said cousins co—couldn't marry—I didn't say—" "Dora!" he spoke sternly. "You must not play with me any longer. I can't bear it." "I'm not playing now. But if you—you don't want to understand—or if you—you think I'm going to say 'Yes!' any pl—plainer—" She sobbed the rest out on his shoulder.—Louise G. Strong in the Housekeeper. HOWCOPPER KILLS BACILLI Discovery Which Promises to Overcome Cholera and Typhoid Epi- Man would seem to have at ast discovered an effective weapon against typhoid fever, Asiatic choiera and similar merciless scourges which invade our intestinal and digestive organs through polluted water. It is yet too soon to declare positively that we shall exterminate these dread diseases, but we have good reason to believe that we shall be able to drive them out of cities and towns, and camps and prisons, and wherever men are living herded close together. The weapon is not of steel or iron, but copper, the most convenient form being the common compound of copper and sulphur known as blue vitrol, copper sulphate. Every school laboratory contains some beautiful blue crystal of copper sulphate. Every schoolboy for generations has dabbed with these blue crystals, or has watched his teacher use them for ordinary classroom experiments. And yet who would have imagined that a pinch of these crystals dissolved in the water tank in the attic, or in the cistern or well, would kill any typhoid germs that might be lurking there; that its use would insure healthful drinking water in a crowded military camp; that it would exterminate malaria-and-yellow-fever-carrying mosquitos in stagnant pools and swamps by destroying the vegetable organisms on which the mosquito larvae feed; that it would, in a few hours, make the water of an evil-smelling and foul-looking city reservoir, containing billions of gallons of water, clean and sweet; and that the amount of copper that accomplishes all this is so small that while it kills the bacteria in the water it does not make teh drinking water poisonous or injurious to the human system? It has been known for a long time that copper destroys bacteria, but the metal has not been much used heretofore for the purpose, because scientists have generally believed that the dose required to kill the bacteria must be very concentrated—so concentrated, in fact, that it would poison the water or substance containing the bacteria and make the cure worse than the evil. A specialist of the United States government, Dr. George T. Moore, has now come forward and announced, with the authority of the government behind him, that he has discovered how to get the good effect of copper without any dangerous result; that he has a way of using copper so diluted that it cannot hurt a baby, and yet so active that it will destroy virulent cholera and typhoid bacilli in four or five hours.—Century. Sang His Own Funeral Dirge. Herr Paul Turon of Teschen, in Austrian Silesia, sang a hymn at his own burial. He had intoned the hymn into a phonograph shortly before his death and directed that it should be reproduced at his funeral service. This was carried out by the heirs, who, under the terms of Herr Turon's will, had to sacrifice $500 of his estate to a charity if they failed to comply with his wish. "Take what you can, sirs" (thus the story runs). Sald a poor scholar, who for dearest book Had loved his Virgil; and the wretches took The book away from him, and thought his sun's So, 'gainst all spite of theirs or envious time' Holding it safe-a flawless heritage. So, dearest, since I have you in my heart, Like that poor scholar I those powers defy Which threat to rob me: You may live or die, But nevermore from me shall you depart. I have you safe; "Take what you can," I say; "Here she abides, and will abide alway." John White Chadwick in the Atlantic. New York Every Day. W. Safonoff, director of the conservatory at Moscow, Russia, arrived from Europe on the steamer Philadelphia. The Phoenix line steamer British Princess, from Antwerp, brought among a large general cargo 1100 tons of wheat. It is announced that Edna Wallace Hopper will give the ground for a newboys' home in Oakland, Cal. The dedication will take place during her engagement in San Francisco. Word has been received that the court of appeals had affirmed the judgment awarding Victo. Herbert, conductor of Herbert's orchestra, $5000 damages and costs against the Musical Courier. Plans for the erection of the largest and most completely equipped sailors' home in the world, to be erected in New York city, are being prepared for the American Seamen's Friend society. The society has on hand $750,000. New York city's financial condition, according to Mayor McClellan's message, shows a gross funded debt of $558,265,517. Against this there is a sinking fund of $157,330,352, leaving a net funded debt of $400,935,164. The present borrowing capacity of the city is $86,326,727. Edward Groh, considered one of the best authorities on ancient coins in the country, and who was curator of the American Numismatic and Archaeological society of New York, is dead at his home in Brooklyn. His personal collection of ancient coins is valued at thousands of dollars. The profit sharing plan of the United States Steel corporation, under which the employees are permitted to subscribe to the preferred stock, will be renewed in a short time. When the plan was first put out the subscription price was $82.50 a share. Late in 1903 the subscription price was reduced to $55 a share, the stock having had a corresponding decrease in value. The big hotels in the uptown districts of New York city alone have an underground population of fully 10,000. Some of the recently built skyscrapers have a basement, a subbasement, a cellar and a subcellar, thus making four floors under the curb line. New York cannot spread out laterally, so it is going up and down, and the inhabitants must adjust themselves to the new building conditions. Brevet Brig.-Gen. Edward R. Warner, retired, died suddenly of heart disease in the Mariborough hotel in New York recently. He was born in Pennsylvania and served in the Civil war as lieutenant colonel of the First New York artillery, retiring from the volunteers as brevet brigadier general in 1885. He enlisted in the regular army and served as captain and as major of artillery and retired in 1887. The New York Times has moved into its new building, referred to by experts as one of the notable architectural triumphs of the world. It is situated in Times square, is thirty-one stories high and the tallest structure in the city. The presses are situated fifty-five feet below the level of the street. The editorial and composing rooms and executive offices occupy from the fourteenth to the twenty-fifth stories. After receiving favorable opinions from Corporation Counsel Delaney and ex-Judge John F. Dillon, an authority on municipal corporation law, the board of estimate made a preliminary move toward building the municipal electric lighting plant. The two opinions were similar in the advice they gave. Both agreed the city had power under the charter to run a plant of its own for public lighting and that additional legislation was unnecessary. One thousand dollars reward will be paid for information leading to the discovery of Owen Kelly, living or dead, who disappeared from Philadelphia October 25. The reward is offered by his brother, Patrick Kelly of Philadelphia. Owen Kelly is a well-to-do Philadelphia grocer and woolen manufacturer, and a prominent member of several Irish societies. Relatives believe him in New York. In a letter received from Patrick Kelly he says: "Within the last few days a friend in the Clan-na-Gael has told me that the factional fights there were at times so bitter that he feared for Owen's safety." The demurrer interposed in behalf of the Mercantile Trust company of New York city in an action brought by Jacob Edwards of Boston against the Mercantile Trust company and the Bay State Gas company of Delaware was sustained in an opinion given recently by Judge Ray in the United States circuit court. This dismisses the action which has dragged tediously through the federal courts since filing the original complaint in September, 1902. The action asked the court to appoint a receiver for the Bay State Gas company and to require the Mercantile Trust company, as trustee, to render an accounting of $1,500,000 of the capital stock of the Bay State Gas company. Upon the arrival of the steamship Indian at Philadelphia from Boston it was reported that Thomas Harbin, a passenger, had been drowned at sea. Harbin, whose nome was at Braintree, Mass., disappeared from the steamship near Block island and it is thought that he committed suicide because of domestic troubles. He was about 32 years old. He married Miss Susan E. Porter of Braintree, Mass. He left that place and some days after his departure a note was found saying that he proposed to commit suicide. Mrs. Slade, a sister of Harbin, says Harbin had recently discovered that his former wife, whom he married in England and whom he supposed to be dead, was still living. Charged with robbing their employers, Stern & Stem, of silks worth $6000 since December 1, Walter Bryan and John Messer, two young clerks, are under arrest and one is said to have confessed to a plan of robbery so clever and complete that it astonished Inspector Mc- Clusky, whose men had worked for a month in vain on the case. Bryan disclosed the conspiracy. He said he and Messer engaged Herbert at $5 a day to work for them. Herbert, it is alleged, called daily at Stern & Stern's, went to Bryan's counter and was handed rolls of silks, as though he had come from a regular customer of the firm. They averaged about $350 a week, representing about 20 per cent, of the value of the goods, according to Bryan, and each had a bank book with $400 or $500 deposited since December 1 to his credit, besides more than $100 which each had in his pocket when arrested. Every clear day an old man leading an Angora cat by a leather leash appears on Riverside drive. He walks for several blocks with the cat before he takes a seat on one of the benches to read his newspaper. The cat jumps on his lap and purrs contentedly until it is time for the two to disappear—an hour or so after noon. Whither they depart or whence they come no one seems to know, but the strange couple arouse comment from all who pass them. Rev. Dr. Carlos Martyn, formerly of Chicago, at one time pastor of the Bloomingdale Reformed church in New York and later pastor of the First Reformed church of Newark, N. J., was arrested on a charge of grand larceny in connection with the tangled affairs of the defunct Abbey Press, of which he was at one time president. It is charged that the company was insured in excess of the value of its property and endeavored to collect insurance on supplies which were not burned in a fire in 1903. While the investigation was on the firm failed. In the cold evenings and during the early morning passengers on the Brooklyn Rapid Transit lines may notice big red cans on the downtown stations each guarded by a colored employee, who puts one aboard each of certain trains in charge of the motorman. The cans contain about twenty-five gallons of hot coffee, and are made of zinc with asbestos lining. The coffee will stay hot for about three hours. The cans are carried to the ends of the divisions and their contents distributed on the way to the employees of the road. They are supplied by the company. A wagon drove up to the arsenal in Central park the other day, and the driver unloaded a dozen small houses of rustic build and fine workmanship. The driver informed Secretary Willis Holly of the park board that a woman had sent the little houses on behalf of her children for the park squirrels, and requested that they be put in trees, so that the little animals could have a warm home during the cold weather. The interest shown in the welfare of the squirrels by visitors to the park is often talked about by the officials. The squirrels are as fat as butter from generous feeding. If some of them do not suffer from dyspepsia, it is not the fault of the public. At the Berkeley Lyceum theater, the home of dramatic experiments. Robert T. Haines has put on a Spanish play written by his wife, and called "Once Upon a Time." The local color in it was so thick it could be cut with a knife. There were priedieux and wax candles and images and gypsies, and tassellated hats and shoes, to say nothing of the song of real canaries supposed to be Andalusian, and the chimes of monster bells. Against all this background is limned a simple plot, much met with in Spanish literature of today. All the actors were heartily applauded. The audience called for the author and a speech, and Mr. Haines said a few words of thanks on behalf of his wife, who advanced to the footlights with him. The publication of a remark by Emperor William of Germany to Ambassador Charlemagne Tower that he hoped an interchange of lectureships on German and American civilization might be arranged between the two countries has elicited the fact that the purpose of the Germanistic Society of America is identical with that of the Emperor. The society is already organized and has announced that its object is "to promote the study and knowledge of German civilization in America, and of American civilization in Germany, by supporting university instruction on these subjects, by arranging public lectures, by publishing and distributing documents, and by other means." The total appraised value of merchandise imported at New York during 1904 was $552,709,959.40, as against $553,225,905.97 for 1903 and $524,871,410.45 for 1902. Among the items in which there was a marked increase was that of automobiles. There were 602 such machines, of all descriptions, imported, their total appraised value being $2,209,492. In 1903 325 automobiles were imported, the total value being about $1,300,000. In 1902 the appraised value of cigars imported was $1,564,976, in 1903 it was $2,450,434, and for 1904 it was $2,881,997.47. The imports of precious stones and pearls, in round numbers, was about $24,673,000, a decrease of about a million and a half. Of wines and liquors the appraised value was $10,527,790, as against $10,327,132.15 for 1903. More than a score of persons were injured in a collision at Eighty-eighth street and Avenue A between a trolley car and a big touring automobile. The machine burned, following an explosion of the gasoline tank. The car was thrown from the track and almost overturned. The automobile, going at a fast pace across, ran into the rear platform of the car, which was bound for a ferry, loaded with men, women and children. The rear end of the car was thrown from the rails, while the passengers were hurled about, and the men in the automobile were thrown some distance away. Jammed with passengers returning from Brooklyn theaters, two trolley cars came together in a rear end collision in Joralemon street, immediately beside a shaft of the subway tunnel. Eighteen persons were injured. District Attorney William Travers Jerome has gone after the evangelical ministers of New York to enlist their aid in his campaign against the present conditions of the liquor traffic in New York. It was at a meeting of ministers and prohibitionists. "Here is the proposal," said Jerome. "I do not intend to have you gentlemen duck it. I will go with you to Commissioner McAdoo and ask him to enforce the so-called Raines law as it stands upon the statute books; if he refuses to enforce it or fails to enforce it I will go with you to the mayor and ask him to remove McAdoo; if the mayor refuses to act on our proof that McAdoo failed to do his plain duty I will then go with you to the governor of this state, Higgins, and ask him to remove the mayor and McAdoo. I ask you to aid me in this amendment or the enforcement of this law." Francis Wilson made his first step aside from comic opera at the Criterion into what for the occasion may be called legitimate comedy—and strewed his path with an abundance of old fashioned sidesteps. The play was so good, in fact, and gave such scope to his abilities at their best, that, however much the stage of song may be said to have lost, the present stage has gained more than enough to make up for it. His vehicle was "Cousin Billy," adapted by Clyde Fitch "with many liberties from a play by Eugene Labiche." The original is "Le Voyage de M. Perichon," which, if not quite a legitimate comedy, is about as near to it as Labiche ever came, and in its way of sheer irresponsible gayety, tempered by a philosophic insight into human nature, is undoubtedly a masterpiece. The evening was one of continuous merriment. Miss Helen Gould is sending a missionary to the unregenerate railroad men of the west. "Tom" Keenan is his name, and he will preach in Illinois, Indiana and other western states. This "Moody of the Rails" is an engineer, 70 years old, and in his mission he will address his own people and in their own tongue. Fifty years of his life were spent in the service of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western railroad. Now he has given up the throttle for the Bible. Miss Gould has taken him under her protecting wing and all his time hereafter is to be given to touring the great railroad systems of the country to preach temperance and religion. Once Keenan was one of the hardest of drinkers. He is absolutely without polish. He had little or no schooling and has none of the graces of the orator, but the simplicity of his statements appeals more strongly to the men he addresses than the most fervid eloquence of pulpit orators. Reports to the health department show that pulmonary and bronchial diseases are causing great mortality in New York city. Inclement weather before Christmas, combined with fatigue from overexertion in preparation for the holidays, caused the epidemic. There were 309 deaths from pneumonia last week, an increase of 36 over the week previous and 37 more than in the corresponding week of last year. Pleurisy, bronchitis and colds of all degrees flourish. Officials of the department say the death rate from phthisis has been steadily rising, and that since January 1 more than 12,000 new cases have been reported in the city. Added to those already known and allowing for unreported cases and for deaths during the year, it is estimated that there are now between 25,000 and 28,000 cases. To prevent the spread of the disease and to cure or aid those suffering from it the board of health has opened a free clinic and is trying to find a suitable site for a sanitarium outside the city where incipient cases may have a chance for recovery. An association has been formed among wealthy New York men for the purpose of equipping an expedition to reach the north pole. It will be known as the Peary Arctic club, after the explorer who will lead the expedition. Lieut. Peary, in speaking of the expedition, said: "The organization has been incorporated for the purpose of completing the geographical conquest of the large unknown area in the north polar basin and thus securing to the United States the honor of attaining the extreme top of the earth. The club is now building a special ship, of exceptional strength and powerful engines, to be completed about March 1, 1905. This ship will be the first ever constructed in this country for Arctic discovery and the ablest ever built anywhere for that purpose. She will come to New York to fit out and will make trial trips from here to limber and adjust her machinery. The expedition will start from here and will be a direct, right-at-home, tangible reality, not a remote abstraction." The president of this club is Morris K. Jesup. Former Senator Edward Wolcott of Colorado was seated in the cafe of the hotel of the same name with several friends on New Year's day. Waiters came in carrying great platters with turkeys, salmon and salads, depositing them in tempting array upon the white table-cloth. The head carver was busy when a white-coated deputy cook from the kitchen came rushing in and made a grab for the bowls of chicken and lobster salad. "Hold up!" cried Senator Wolcott, "I want some of that salad! What are you taking it away for?" "The chef, Mr. Fox, sir," exclaimed the deputy cook, "has lost his $300 diamond ring and he thinks it may be in the salad." Senator Wolecott insisted that he and his guests should be served with salad before it again passed through the hands of the chef, declaring that he was willing to take a chance on the ring. The deputy cook, however, escaped with the salad bowls. Mr. Fox inspected the salad through a microscope and he afterward returned it, but he had not found the ring. "BALLED" PARTRIDGES Peculiar Misfortune to the Young Birds in England. In certain districts where the soil is exactly right (or rather exactly wrong) the partridges so carefully preserved in England are likely to be attacked by a peculiar misfortune known as "balling." The word means simply that a partridge hatched out on a clay soil in wet weather may find mud adhering to its feet as it struggles along after the mother bird. This is a small beginning, but the chances are that the earth accumulates. Sometimes, indeed, the soil attached to the foot of a little partridge will increase from a mere speck to a weight of several ounces. A writer in Badminton says that the heaviest ball he ever knew weighed 4 ounces, and the bird which carried it was only half a proper size, although the rest of the covey were full grown. The little creature could only move along in a kind of flying scramble, dragging the ball on the ground. The clay was baked as hard as a brick, so that it was no easy matter to remove it. Finally it was soaked off, and then it became apparent that the bird, without its accustomed ballast, did not know how to fly. With every effort it tumbled head over heels, and learned the natural mode only after long trying. The fate of a "balled" partridge which is not rescued by some kindly hand is a cruel one. Day by day the burden grows heavier, and the more the chick scrambles after its companions the larger its burden becomes. Finally, it is no longer possible to move at all, and then the little thing can but give up and die. Naturalists say that the balling of birds is one of nature's provisions for scattering seeds. It is easy to demonstrate this, and the "answer comes true." One experimenter scattered the earth from a 3-ounce ball over the top of a pan of ordinary dirt, which had been baked to destroy the seeds in it. Ten plants sprang up in due time, and developed into seven varieties.—Youth's Companion. "Absent Treatment" for Animals That the healing power of Christian Science is not only applicable to human beings, but that the ailments of dumb animals can be cured by the mental administration of a disciple, declares Mrs. Ida N. Case, a Brooklyn Christian Scientist. She has the utmost confidence that by the "absent treatment" she has saved the lives of a litter of seven collie pups, which were at the point of death from pneumonia and dysentery. Mrs. Case stated that she received a telegram from her sister bearing the news that Highland Lassie, the mother collie, was seriously ill with pneumonia and her puppies were in the same condition. Mrs. Case says she began at once the "absent treatment." She was overjoyed later when she got a letter from her sister informing her that a decided change for the better had been observed in the puppies, which were doing well. GERMAN WOMEN GARDENERS Attractive Mingling of Flowers, Fruits and Vegetables. Most American travelers in Germany go to the principal cities, see as much sights of art, architecture and scenery as possible and return without having the chance to stop on the waysides and learn of the real home life of the people. No existing guidebooks lead to such roads. Mecklenburg-Schwerin, with its little sister state, Strelitz, is only twenty-eight German miles long and fourteen broad, but it is one of the most fertile agricultural districts existing. The finest breeds of farm animals, the richest crops of grain, fruit and grass are raised here. Husbandry in all its branches is studied from long experiences, and when we consider that all farm land has been for centuries under cultivation, with no loss of productiveness, we see that there must be some reason and effort which keeps it up to so high a standard. Every family has a garden and the work in it is done exclusively by women. In the villages, where a minister resides, who always has a big farm to cultivate as his support, his wife is the leading spirit in the garden. In other places, perhaps the wife of the schoolmaster or forester takes the lead. Often there is a friendly contest to see who shall have the first peas and carrots for the table; of course, everything grows in open air. On Whitsunday all try to have the first lettuce, and, if possible, a young chicken or pigeon for dinner. Generally the garden is close to the house; when surrounded by a stone fence, the main path runs in the middle. If the green hedge incloses it, the path runs all around next to it, because close to the hedge nothing will grow. All beds are laid out in straight lines, no turf whatever. Garden land may not be wasted and grass grows in the meadows. Along the main walk on both sides are beds about 5 feet wide called rabbats. At each end is generally a clump of lilacs or cherries. Rose, currant and gooseberry bushes are planted at intervals in the middle of these beds, and are trained to resemble little trees. This leaves room for diverse perennial flowers underneath. Gooseberries grow to excellent size and flavor. For Easter they have the first shives and as the season advances each variety, as it matures, is greeted with delight and thankfulness by the family. Asparagus is one of their favorite vegetables. It is grown in raised beds, and cut three times daily for fear that the heads of it turn blue or green when exposed to the sun. They like it white. Green, long shoots are not eaten. Beans they have, but they prefer long, very fleshy pods of Lima, as the latter is almost unknown, as are also sweetcorn and tomatoes, except at the rich domains, where gardeners are employed. Of peas they have, besides other kinds, very large pod bearing, called "sugar peas," which are cooked whole, like string beans. Parsley is raised in two distinct varieties, the curly for decorating, the plain for its roots, which are used in soups. Of celery, the turnip rooted is only known and prepared, when cooked, for salad and soup. An immense amount of different sweet herbs, for use in the household, always find a place. Caraway seed is cut twice during the season. The broad bean is grown in single rows between the potatoes. Pear, plum and apple trees are distributed all over the farm in single specimens. Orchards of one kind are seldom found. Peaches, apricots and grapes are grown on trellises in some protected spot, or on the south side of a house or barn. Onions, carrots, turnips and similar crops are sowed broadcast on the beds; children and old women do the weeding. Particular stress is laid on such vegetables as can be preserved for the winter, either in mature, natural state or dried. Nothing is wasted; even the rose leaves are gathered, before dropping, and exchanged at the drug store for something necessary. Privet hedges are very much valued, and at a certain time a long blue and green looking fly appears, which feeds on the leaves. It is the Spanish fly; the children are eager to pick them off and sell them; they are used for making fly blisters. The gardens of the more wealthy people and noblemen's estates are laid out in English style, with curved walks and the turf dotted with beautiful flower beds. The women are all good housekeepers, take a personal interest in all matters, oversee the garden, and help, often, to gather the vegetables for dinner. All summer, in fair weather, before and after school hours, women, accompanied by their servant girls and children, go with little hand baskets or wagons containing a lunch a-gardening. They work, enjoy outdoor life, fresh air and healthy recreation. Afraid of the Wet. The crew of a certain life saving station on the New England coast has many times proved itself brave and efficient in time of need, but of late its skill and bravery have been useless, like so much treasure locked in a vault. There has been no wreck. The sea has been kind as a big dog. Inaction had inevitably bred soft habits of life, and the idle crew had given the summer visitors much to joke about. Their satirical comments were rather ungrateful, for the practice drills of the crew were a part of the entertainment of the seaside resort. Twice a week the crew pulled out the brass cannon, shot a rope over a dummy mast which is set up on a point of land, and then practiced sliding down in the breeches buoy. The small boys of the place were glad to play the part of rescued mariners, and altogether this serious drill, required by law, was a pretty holiday sport. One rainy day, at the appointed time, the crew failed to appear at practice. The summer boarders on the hotel veranda waited in vain for the exhibition which should vary the monotony of a dull day. Finally, one of them went over to the quarters of the crew to learn the reason. "I say, aren't you going to practice today?" Then the brave life saver, hero of many rough seas, made an explanatory gesture toward the weather and said: "What, in this rain?"—Youth's Com- "What, in this rain?"—Youth's Companion. Oregon Farmers Driving Out the Sheep. From nearly all sections of eastern Oregon come reports of the reduction in the size of the flocks of the sheep kings, whose extensive operations in the past have made Oregon famous as a wool and sheep country. A few of the largest operators who took time by the forelock and secured title to vast areas of government land while it was still cheap will continue in the business on a large scale for a few years longer. The greater number of moderately large sheepmen, however, will reduce the size of their flocks and some of them will abandon the business entirely. This change has been brought about by the steady encroachment of the farmers on the lands where for many years the sheep have had free range without any cost to their owners. The policy of the government in permitting these vast flocks of sheep to wander at will over such a large portion of the state of Oregon has often been criticised, especially by the cattlemen, who would have preferred to pasture their herds on a portion of the land that was tramped into barrenness by the sheep.—Portland Oregonian. St. Jacobs Oil The Old Monk Cure For Soreness and Stiffness From cold, hard labor or exercise, relaxes the stiffness and the sore- ness disappears. Price, 25c. and 50c. TWO YEARS OF AGONY. One Cake of Cuticura Soap and One Box of Cuticura Cured Baby's Awful "When my sister was eighteen months old a humor broke out on her shoulder, extending clear across the back. For two years it caused her intense suffering. It would scab over and then crack open and a watery matter ooze from it. Then the scabs would fall off and it would be raw for a time. We had several different doctors and tried everything we could think of, but without effecting a cure. Then we got one cake of Cuticura soap and one box of Cuticura Ointment, which cured her completely and without scar or blemish. (Signed) Little Chase Walker, 5 Tremont St., Woodfords, Me." Plan Funeral for Living Man. Plans for the funeral of a living man were considered by the New York board of aldermen. The subject of the discussion was Hiram Cronk, the last surviving veteran of the War of 1812, who is now living at Ava, N. Y., at the age of 104 years. Ald. Wirth introduced a resolution declaring that as all of Mr. Cronk's life has been spent the state of New York and in view of his honorable part in many battles of the War of 1812, it would be fitting that the chief city of the Empire state lead in honoring him by a soldier's burial and that his remains lie in state in the city hall. Ald. McCall said that while he approved of the spirit of the resolution, he thought it would be better to wait for the hero to die before providing for his funeral. The resolution finally was adopted with the following amendment: "That in the event of the death of Mr. Cronk the president of the board of aldermen take cognizance of the fact and appoint a committee to provide for a public funeral." France is spending large sums in having maps made of her possessions in West Africa. One map, in seventeen parts, has just been issued by the army department, and surveys are in progress for a larger one in sixty parts. TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund the money if it falls to cure. E W. Grove's signature is on each box. 25q. Vast orders for Scottish tweed materials have been placed with various manufacturers in Scotland by the Japanese government, says an Edinburgh newspaper. ALWAYS CALL FOR A CIGAR BY ITS NAME "CREMO" MEANS MORE THAN ANY OTHER NAME BROWN BANDS GOOD FOR PRESENTS "Largest Seller in the World." FARMS IN WESTERN CANADA FREE Twenty Bushels of Wheat TO THE ACRE IS THE RECORD ON THE FREE HOMESTEAD LANDS OF WESTERN CANADA FOR 1904 The 150,000 Farmers from the United States, who during the past seven years have gone to Canada, participate in this prosperity. The United States will soon become an importer of Wheat. 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We want agents. A postcard will bring samples and prices. E. P. MUELLER, Milwaukee, Wis. MEXICAN Mustang Liniment cures Cuts, Burns, Bruises. St. Jacobs Oil The Old Monk Cure PASSING OF PIONEER TOWN Removal of Postoffice Is Final Blow to Le Beau, S. D. The removal of the postoffice from Le Beau, Walworth county, S. D., to a farm belonging to the newly appointed postmaster, half a mile from the town site, marks the passing of a town which in pioneer days was regarded as the future metropolis of the northern part of South Dakota. Le Beau was a flourishing town in the early '80s and dreamed of metropolitan honors to be achieved in the future. Her citizens believed both the Milwaukee and the North-Western railroad systems would extend lines to the town and from there build westward across the Missouri river and the state. They hoped, also, to see the town become the capital of South Dakota when Dakota territory was divided and admitted to the union of states. But the railroads did not materialize, the county seat was removed to another town and the division of Dakota territory into two states left Le Beau at one side of a commonwealth instead of near the center. The final blow came with the removal of the postoffice the other day to a point outside the corporation limits and nothing now remains of the old Le Beau except the name. ALL DONE OUT. Veteran Joshua Heller, of 706 South Walnut street. Urbana, Ill., says: "In the fall of 1899, after taking Doan's Kidney Pills I told the readers of this paper that they had relieved me of kidney trouble, disposed of a lame back with pain across my loins and beneath the shoulder blades. During the interval which has elapsed I have had occasion to resort to Doan's Kidney Pills when I noticed warnings of an attack. On each and every oc casion the results obtained were just as satisfactory as when the pills were first brought to my notice. I just as emphatically indorse the preparation to-day as I did over two years ago." Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y., proprietors. For sale by all druggists. Price 50 cents per box. Buried Money Fearing Panic. Fearing a financial panic, the late George Bauernschmidt, a wealthy brewer of Baltimore, buried a quantity of his gold five years before his death. Now some of it is missing. There is a controversy over his estate, which includes the sale of the Bauernschmidt brewery to the Maryland Brewing company for $1,000,000 cash and $1,000,000 in stock of the latter company. Frederick Bauernschmidt, a son, says that he aided his father in burying $14,000 in gold coin, which had been placed in a steel box beneath the steps of the family residence, which at that time was in Gay street. Later, when the family removed to a residence in North avenue, the gold was dug up and was again buried by his father in a similar manner. Bauernschmidt, it is said, desired to have some cash on hand in case of a riot or financial panic at any time, and for this reason buried the gold. How It Began. Representative Hay of Virginia tells of an altercation in a colored club in Richmond that resulted in nearly all the members being haled before a police magistrate. "You were present during this trouble?" asked the magistrate of a witness. "Yes, yo' honah." "Then tell us, in a few words, just how the difficulty began." "Well, yo' honah," replied the darkey, with much gravity, "I think it was when the chairman of de entertainment committee swatted de secretary ovah de head wif de lovin' cup."-Collier's Weekly. The Daily Newspaper. Are you a reader of daily newspapers? If so the Evening Wisconsin is noted for its interesting special features which have anchored it in the homes of Milwaukee and the state at large: The "Spinning Wheel," a department of humorou stories and witticisms; the "Woman's World," a page devoted to the interests of women; a review of books and periodicals, and Sunshine and Christian Endeavor news. A daily short story is also a strong attraction. If you are not already reading the Evening Wisconsin you should do so. Terms, $1.00 for three months by mail. THE EVENING WISCONSIN CO. Admiral Dewey's Own Story. As early as 9 o'clock Admiral Dewey walks into his office in the Mills building, diagonally across from the navy department, sits down at his desk and gets to work with the same precision that he might use if still aboard the Olympia. In the corner opposite his desk is a cedar chest which was made for the Admiral in Manila. He pointed to it and said: "In that chest will be found the real records of the battle of Manila, never yet published. I hope to prepare them for publication and that they will be made public after my death."—National Magazine. How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. We the undersigned have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by their firm. WEST & TRUAX. Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. WALDING, KINNAN & MARVIN, Wholesale Druggists. Toledo, O. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Price 75c. per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. Ireland boasts of the oldest cyclist in the person of Dr. Woods of Dublin, who is 94 years old, but still practices medicine. He visits his patients on a tricycle. The gold production of the entire Alaskan district for the present year is estimated at $26,000,000. Boy Weather It's boy-time when it freezes, it freezes when it grows. JULIE. Lancing and Julie have scuttled out of the hotel, and stop for an instant at the top of the courtyard leading to the Strand. Lancing (breathless)—Hansom? Julie (panting)—It's very kind of you to say so, Lord Lancing. Lancing (looking back anxiously)—I mean, will you have one? Julie—It all depends on what mamma says. Lancing (with a gaspy laugh)—I mean, will you have a cab, not a husband? Julie—O! why, yes. Say, I'm sorry. I hadn't a notion you called these chocolate boxes on two wheels by such a misnomer. Uglys, I should call them. (She steps into one recklessly.) Cabby—Where to, sir? Lancing—Anywhere you like, and be quick. * * * By Jove, you ought to be in command of the Russian forces, Miss Carryl! Julie (taking a peep at herself in a battered piece of looking-glass)—Yes? How's that, anyway? Lancing—The way you managed to convey to me by one look that you were going to put your hat on and leave that gang to your mother was superb. A mostarly retreat, if ever I saw one! I congratulate you. Julie (giving Lancing both her eye wide with amusement and admiration)—Well, say, that's fine, just fine! You congratulate me on something I never did. Lancing—Well, we won't pursue the subject. What a ripping day! Julie—Just a minute before you commit a tangent. You came up those stairs seven at a time, leaving all our Minneapolis friends constructing schemes, and absolutely laid down this plan of action. I congratulate you, Lord Lancing. It was perfectly darling. Lancing (gravely)—It's very kind of you to say so. Julie (looking about her)—Say, where are we now? Lancing—This is Trafalgar Square. Julie—Who's the poor fellow with his head stuck in a cloud? A sky-pilot? Lancing—No, that's Nelson. Julie—O, say, how bully. I used his soap for years. And what's that rambling building with the bee-hives on the roof? I guess that's a reformatory or a lunatic asylum? Lancing—We call it the National Gallery. Julie—Why call it that? Lancing—It contains all the best works of art collected from other countries. Julie—I see. On the same system as the one you have of putting red splashes on foreign maps and calling them British. And, O, look at the lions! Why are they there? And why do they turn their backs on the fountains? Lancing (after a moment's hard thinking)—So that they shan't see the aliens washing free of charge. Julie—And what's that nice white building? Lancing—Cox's bank. Julie—I see—the place where those dear little men who steer your university boats put their money. Lancing—Very possibly they do. But primarily it's the place into which stinting parents pay in their hard-earned money in order that their sons may play at soldiering—a quite expensive English hobby. This is Whitehall. Julie (looking at the filthy-looking houses on each side)—Which? Lancing—All of it. Julie—Well, say, you have queer ways of calling things on this side. What goes on in those houses? Lancing—Nothing. They're government offices. Look straight ahead—a little to the left. Julie—At the Dutch-looking building with the high tower? Is it a water works? Lancing—No, the St. Stephen's gas works. It's still called the House of Commons. Julie—Oh, your Senate? Say, I'm glad to see it. Are the members sitting now? Lansing—No, this is the entr'acte. The company are waking up for the next scene. And there's the Abbey. Julie (with a little catch in her voice) —O say, it makes a stir in my heart! To think that it's just stood there all these years without moving. It's far away better than anything I've ever seen. It makes rings around the Astoria. Did Pierpont Morgan buy it? Lancing—No; he wanted to do so to turn it into a private Turkish bath; but the government were afraid the "Telegraph" would start a correspondence on the subject, and so they reluctantly refused his offer. This is Birdcage Walk. Julie (wide-eyed again)—What a nice place for it! On our side we haven't any special place devoted to that kind of dance—except the musical theaters, and in those they do it all the time. And this is a park, anyway? Lancing—A kind of park. It's really the place the London county council runs for men who won't work. They sleep here, y'know, and have picnics under the trees. You see the place we're coming to now, through that archway? Julie—O that's fine! Lancing—That's another county council playground, only it is mainly devoted to soldiers for flirting purposes and actors who run theaters, in order to be able to hire very old horses. .ulic—Don't we go inside? Lancing—No, cabs aren't allowed. They frighten the motors. This is Park Lane, or, as some people call it, Johannesburg Alley. Julie—O, there's a bully place! Lancing—Very fine, isn't it? All done on diamonds. Wonderful place. The home of our aristocracy. Julie—Say, I've got a notion we'd better turn here. Lancing—O why? Are you in a hurry? Julie—No, but mamma will be! Lancing—But we've only been five minutes! Julie—And yet this horse doesn't look like a racer. No, just ask the coachman to get right back to the Cissle. I'm nervous about mamma. Lancing (sees to it reluctantly)—I say, do you mind if I revert to our conversation on board the Minneapolis? Julie (with a slight addition to her color)—Which one? Lancing—The one that was interrupted by your sending me for your mother's lofting iron? Julie (hurriedly)—Not here, please. Some other time. I promised mamma—I mean I—well, I just can't, anyway. Yes, you may keep on holding my hand. Lancing—By Jove, I'm sorry. How confoundedly absent-minded I am! Julie—Then—why not keep on being absent-minded, Lord Lancing? Lancing-Thanks, most awf'ly. (He does, in a wonderful silence.) Cosmo Hamilton in Black and White. HUMOROUS ITEMS. Ida—Reggy De Fake says he moves in high society. May—Moves? Then he must drive a furniture van.—Kennebec (Me.) Journal. "She seems to have a very happy disposition; at any rate, she's always smiling." "That's not her disposition, but her teeth."—Philadelphia Press. Help! The jokesmiths turn the same old wheels And grasp the same old spokes; From New Year's till Fourth of July Teacher—Can you tell me the difference between "like" and "love." Small Boy—Yes, ma'am. I like my papa and mamma, but I love pie.—Chicago News. Mary—Have you any idea how old Jane is? Ann—She must be getting on. I know that she always locks her door before she washes her face.—Brooklyn Life. The Present Hero. No more do we talk Of the man with the hoe Here's the man with the shovel To clean off the snow. -Washington Star -Washington Star. Comedian—So our manager has been sick. What did the doctor say? Comedian—H'm! The doctor must have seen the show.—Modern Society. To Society Reporters. Why drag her father in, and say He "led her to the altar?" The average bride would make her way Alone, and never falter. —Philadelphia Ledger. "Pardon me, but did you see a dachshund near here?" "Yes." "Where was he?" "Partly on Euclid avenue and partly on Erie street."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Candid Critic—Awfully good song that! You ought to be with Carl Rosa. Jones (feeling rather flattered)—Really, do you think so? Awfully kind of you to—er—but Carl Rosa is dead. Candid Critic—Yes, I said you ought to be with him.—The Tatler. Tommy—I can count up to five on me fingers, can't I, ma? Ma—Yes, Tommy, but don't brag. I saw a little boy no older than you today who could count up to fifty. Tommy—Gee whiz! Where did he get all them fingers?—Philadelphia Press. An Accident. A spinster once who was antique Daubed lots of rouge upon her chique, But by mistake She made a brake And got a little on her bique. The people saw the crimson strique And laughed until they all grew wique. The spinster saw. She—You don't call on the girls much, do you? He—Oh, yes. She—I thought you didn't like "small talk" and all that. He—I don't like small talk that amounts simply to "No."—Philadelphia Ledger. The Bracer. "The bracer" is the name popularly given to a so-called patent, that is, not patent, but very secret concoction, sold at "soda water" fountains by the nostrum drug stores. In some towns or small cities, and in some parts of our country, it is said that practically every one has this form of the drug habit, for such it is. Narcomia is being extended by this means to an extent that is frightful. "Clerks and office men are hardly able to go to their work until they have had four or five glasses of these secret drugs, and the laboring population is almost as bad." The attention of the Woman's Christian Temperance union (which thinks the medical profession responsible for alcoholism and drug habits) is respectfully called to this atrocious abuse. Saloons also help in the degrading horror of drugging the already wretched quality of the liquors sold. All true temperance people will unite with the medical profession to check this abuse. Women's civic improvement clubs and leagues might well devote some of their energies to getting good laws passed and in getting bad men to execute them. If they would set about it, the women could outroot this and many similar evils. Possibly no new laws are needed, and that only scientific analyses of these drugged drinks should be made in a thorough-going way, followed by prosecutions of the criminal manufacturers and sellers, followed by jailing the wretches who thus defy every demand of law, medicine and health.—American Medicine. Why Women's Shoe Laces Come Untied. "Why is it that a lady's shoe becomes untied so much more frequently and apparently easier than a man's?" repeated J. V. Ladd, the shoe salesman, after me. "Well, I don't suppose I would be in any better position to answer a question than any one else, had it not been for the fact that a few days ago a couple of ladies, customers of my place, were discussing that very point, and their deductions appear to solve the riddle perfectly. "It is not that a woman's shoe laces will not tie in as firm a knot as any other's; the reason for the frequent annoyances to which women are subjected is apart from that. In the case of high shoes the trouble is altogether in their height. The shoe laces further up on the leg than a man's, usually fits more snugly, and, therefore, encounters a greater strain on the knot when a woman is walking. The result is that it becomes loosened within a very short time, whereas a man may walk all day without the laces of his shoe becoming untied. Where low shoes are worn, the skirts flapping around the ankle do the work of loosening the knot."—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The buildings of the Lewis & Clarke exposition at Portland, Ore., are approaching completion, although the exposition is not to be opened till June 1. MI. HUILA Miss Whittaker, a prominent club woman of Savannah, Ga., tells how she was entirely cured of ovarian troubles by the use of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. "DEAR MRS. PINKHAM:—I heartily recommend Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a Uterine Tonic and Regulator. I suffered for four years with irregularities and Uterine troubles. No one but those who have experienced this dreadful agony can form any idea of the physical and mental misery those endure who are thus afflicted. Your Vegetable Compound cured me within three months. I was fully restored to health and strength, and now my periods are regular and painless. 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It was related that one day he went into a house where a young girl was sick, and like a physician sat beside her bed. He looked at her, and she resembled a lily, her face was so delicate. He touched her hand and a faint blush came into her cheeks, as we have seen the fire flash from a pearl as we turned it toward the sun. He spoke, and she opened her eyes. He smiled and she smiled back, and her mother kissed her and there was great joy in that home. He was always doing things like that, and is it any wonder that a man who hated to admit the fact was compelled to say, "I find in him no fault at all?" An old instrument hung upon a castle wall. No one knew its use. It was covered with dust and the strings were broken. A stranger came one day, knocked at the gate, and entered the hall. He reverently brushed the dust from the instrument, reset the strings, and all hearts were thrilled by the music he was able to bring from it. It was the master long absent who had returned to his own. If we should travel around the world we would find that castle and instrument everywhere. And the instrument would be unstrung, unused, out of tune. And many do not seem to know that the castle is the body, a temple of the holy ghost, and the instrument is the soul. And would we know the secret of a happy life? Open the heart every morning to him in whom there was no fault. Let him repair the strings that sin has broken, and every day will be like the beginning of a new year, and every night the star of Bethlehem will shine in the skies above us. Once there was a little flower. It was unhappy, because it seemed to be living only for itself. It had no color and it was odorless. It heard a step in the grass, and it wondered within itself, Will I be crushed under the foot of that man who is hunting? Will a dog tear me up by the roots? I wish I could hide from all of these dangers. I do not know why I want to live, but I do not want to die. And so the little flower was in a state of great excitement, when the stranger stopped and said: "Well, well, little flower, what are you doing out here all alone? Why did you look at me? You need not be afraid. Not a sparrow falls to the ground but your Heavenly Father seeth it. He clothed the grass of the field, and he will care for you." So the little flower looked up into a face in which there was no youth, and it said. "I am quite miserable, because I have no beauty, and no one cares to have me in the house, because I am not sweet. And besides I have neither neighbors nor friends. I do not seem to be doing anything at all." "Well," replied the stranger, "I will see what I can do for you." So he beckoned the sunbeams, and they penciled the little flower with beauty, and the evening came and the dew filled its cup, and the next morning its breath was sweet. Close beside it flowers began to grow that were just like it, and thus it soon had plenty of society. And the wilderness and the solitary place were glad, and the desert blossomed like a rose. Perhaps sitting on his trunk in a hall bedroom a young man will be glad the holidays are over, which he has spent for the first time alone in a big city among strangers. He feels like that flower in the field. He wonders whether life is worth living, and why he has no friends. But in the next room he may hear a step. Up and down some one is walking. First he thinks it is strange. Then he thinks it is "none of my business." Then he thinks ti will do no harm to see. So he knocks at the door, and it is opened. And he says, "Hello! I thought I heard you walking up and down as though there was something troubling you." And the neighbor replies: "There is." And one will tell the other about it. And they will laugh together, and when they part each will have only half the burden to bear they carried when they met, and they will not feel so lonesome as they did. And there are men and women like the flower everywhere. But the world is getting better, because we are being helped to be useful. And there will be fewer faults in the world as we become more like him in whom there was no fault at all. And once there was a young man, and he thought he was smarter than his father, and he did not have brains enough to appreciate a mother's love. And he had more confidence in strangers than in friends. And he went out to see the world, and he saw it, and when he got through he was a beggar. His air castle looked like a banquet hall after the guests have departed. The next day he met the young woman who had given him her most sacred promise, but she did not appear to see him. He appealed for help to those who had frequently received his assistance, and they were all very sorry; would like to help him, but they did nothing for him. So he began to think he had better retrace his steps over the wrong road he had taken. It seemed as if it would be long and hard. But he met a stranger. And who do you suppose it was? The young man whose shadow fell on the wall of his shop in the form of a cross. The one who reset the strings of his instrument in the castle. He who spoke to the flower in the field. There is no one like him in all the world. "I find in him no fault at all." THE TWO STANDARDS. By Rev. Cyrus Townsend Brady. For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.—James il., 10. Lest the title mislead, let me say that the reference is neither to politics nor finance, but to religion—things which unfortunately seem to have little in common. Yet politicians and financiers may read this with profit. A short time since a young man said to me, "Well, you know there are two standards of conduct, the ideal and the real; the one we think by, the other we live by." That is doubtless a prevalent opinion which is certain to lead into trouble. The young man in question had got into difficulties because in a certain instance he had conformed to the low rather than the high standard. When actions are to be appraised at their true value the world has an unpleasant way of measuring the individual by the ideal. However it may be with the precious metals, there is but one standard of character, character being the resultant of action; action the expression of thought. The impression of this singularity of standard upon the moral conscience is one function of religion. Add to this the enforcement of conformity to the standard and you approach the complete definition of religion—to believe in God, to strive to be like Him through Christ. Many men are lovely and pleasant in their homes and the reverse outside their doors. Many men are upright and honest in society and crooked and deceitful in business. Many men are conscientious and honorable in business and hopelessly venal and corrupt in politics. This is the result of the double standard. It would be brutal and unmanly to be cruel to wife or child, but any treatment of an employee, an inferior or a competitor is warranted. It would be disgraceful to tell lies among friends, but any duplicity is legitimate in business. Commercial honor is the basis of credit. Without credit business is impossible, but any sort of a deal goes in politics. To die grandly for a principle is an alluring proposition; to live to do a petty duty is a bore. The mere statement of these things is convincing. No further argument is needed for a single moral standard. A thing is either right or wrong. Your information may be inadequate, your judgment inaccurate; when one is not certain he does his best according to his lights and is so judged, but the fault is not in the standard. A thing which is wrong in one case is wrong in another. If it is right to be gentle at home, it is right to be gentle in the world. If it is right to be truthful in society, it is right to be truthful in business. If it is right to be upright in business, it is right to be upright in politics. "Whatsoever thou hast to do, do it with thy might," says the Wise Man. There are degrees in sin, but no sins of small degree. The payment of the tithe of mint, anise and cumin is altogether admirable when the weighter matters have been attended to. The laws of God cannot be divided and applied at random. They are to be kept as a whole. Jesus Christ, the exemplification of God's law as well as of His love, did not shrink from the imperative mood. He was as peremptory as Moses. He is the standard. There can be no other since God is one. Nor is He impossible for man. God is just; He does not require from us conformity to the unattainable. To strive to be like Christ sums up the law and the gospel. Choose you this day, that one standard and keep it. Thus it is written in Deuteronomy: "Cursed is he that confirmeth not all the words of this law to do them. And all the people shall say, Amen." Love is never afraid of overwork. The angry man always lashes himself. Religion for reward would be sin for a raise. A bed of roses soon wears down to the thorns. The sure sign of a fool is that he forgets his folly. HOUSEHOLD TALKS Select large ones and wash them well, leaving the stems on. Prepare two quarts of vinegar, six pounds of sugar, stick cinnamon and ground cinnamon, cloves, each two ounces. Boil together. Some prefer to steam the apples and pour the liquid over them; others cook the apples until you can put a straw through them, then put in cans or jars. Use eight pounds of apples for this rule, and cook liquid ten minutes after you have taken the apples out. Nut Croquettes. Take two cupfuls of mashed potato, one-half cupful of grated walnuts, one-half cupful of grated cracker crumbs and the same of chopped parsley. Mix thoroughly together, using the necessary quantity of sweet milk, or, better, cream. Season with pepper and salt, add three tablespoonfuls of melted butter and beat in two eggs. Form into croquettes, dip in beaten egg, roll in fine cracker or bread crumbs, and fry in hot lard. Serve very hot with tomato sauce. Baked Apple Roll. Roll biscuit crust out very thin; on this spread apples cut quite thin and fine; roll the dough so that it will form a smooth roll and place in a narrow, deep tin, add a little water, sugar and butter, and bake. Serve in slices, and spread with butter and sugar; or make a liquid sauce of creamed butter and sugar, a beaten egg, and a pint of boiling water poured over the egg, sugar and butter; flavor to taste. Onion Stew. Peel the onions, slice and let them stand in cold water half an hour. Put them on in fresh, cold water and let boil three minutes, then pour off the water, add more, let it boil the same as before, and repeat this three times. In the fourth water let them cook until tender, strain and put in milk; season with butter, pepper and salt to taste; thicken with a little flour. Vanilla Wafers. Cream a cupful of butter with two cups of sugar, add a cup of sour cream, two beaten eggs and three cupfuls of flour that has been sifted twice with a teaspoonful of soda. Flavor with vanilla extract. Add enough flour to make the dough of the consistency to roll out, roll very thin and cut into rounds. Bake in a quick oven. Sweet Pepper Saute. Remove the tops and seeds of six sweet peppers, cook in boiling water for half an hour, then take out and drain. In a small pan put two tablespoonfuls of butter, and when hot turn in the peppers, cover the pan and cook slowly for twenty minutes. Serve them over chopped meat cakes that have been boiled. Arrange on a hot platter and season. Waffles. Sift a pint of flour with a teaspoonful each of baking powder and salt. Beat three eggs light, the yolks and whites separately. Into the yolks stir a pint of milk, pour this into the flour, beat for a minute, add the stiffened whites and drop the mixture by the spoonful into the greased and heated waffle-irons. Buttermilk Muffins. Beat well two eggs into a quart of sour buttermilk, stir in flour enough to make a thick batter; about a quart, add a teaspoonful of salt, three of sugar and dissolve a teaspoonful of soda in very little hot water; add the last thing and bake in well greased tins in a very hot oven. Rag-a-Muffins. Roll out cream of tartar biscuit dough into a half-inch thick sheet. Spread with butter and sprinkle profusely with maple sugar. Over this shake a little cinnamon; then cut into strips about an inch wide and roll each one up tightly. Bake in a moderate oven. How to Wash Milk Jugs. The proper way to wash milk and cream jugs is always to wash them in cold water first. If they are put straight into boiling water, it has the effect of causing the milk to sink into the ware. Maple Frosting Without Cream. Hints for Washing Day. Add a few drops of ammonia to the blue water to whiten clothes. Try washing red table linen in water in which a little borax has been dissolved. Wet fruit stains with alcohol or pour boiling water through them. Clothes turned right side out, carefully folded and sprinkled are half troned. Kerosene in the boiling water whitens clothes safely, especially such as are yellow from lying away. Put a tablespoonful to each gallon of suds. For very yellow or grimy things, make an emulsion of kerosene, clear limewater and turpentine in equal parts. Shake them together until creamy, then add a cupful to a boilerful of clothes and boil for half an hour, MR. JAMES EDWARDS, 1622 Gay St., St. Louis, Mo., would like to find his niece, MISS PHOEBE THOMAS, who belonged to Bob Thomas during slavery in Lynchburg, Va., Halifax county. The last account of her that she left St. Louis, Mo., and went west. 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