Wisconsin Weekly Advocate

State Historical Society WISCONSIN WEEKLY ADVOCATE DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF THE NEGRO RACE 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. George Washington It is a singular coincidence that the two most striking characters in American history—George Washington—the "Father of His Country;" and Abraham Lincoln—the "Saviour of His Country"—should have been born in the shortest month in the year—February. On the 12th, the martyred Lincoln's natal anniversary was celebrated; and on the 22d. inst., that of Washington. There are many Negroes who entertain erroneous ideas regarding the true history concerning Washington. They accuse him of having owned slaves and for that reason condemn him for having been an enemy to the race. It is very true that Gen. Washington did own slaves, in fact, was the largest slave owner in America up to the time of his death, but it is also true that Washington did not believe in the institution of slavery. He was a good and kind man at heart and bought many slaves from reputed cruel masters for the purpose of granting the poor beings proper refuge and protection. Washington, and his coterie of associates and advisors, were men of humane and broad-minded instincts, who believed in liberty in its widest sense, but the time was not ripe at the formation of this government for the general abolishment of slavery. So firmly had it become a fixture in this country under the rule of the British that moral sensibility was blighted; it could not be eradicated by the mere suggestion of a few men, the government was without money and the slave was chattel representing so much money in the coin of the realm. The question of compensating the owners of slaves by the government with the intention of liberating the former was a question that agitated statesmen after the Declaration of Independence had been adopted for many years. But there were other questions that in the perverted mental condition of men at that time that outweighed the emancipation of slavery and it was deferred from time to time until its settlement forced itself upon Lincoln, when as a war measure it was finally abolished for all time. Washington should not be held responsible for the sentiment that upheld slavery in his time. Conditions were peculiar and the right to own slaves had been upheld by the laws of England. It must not be overlooked that in the year of 1786 he wrote: "It being among my first wishes to see some plan adopted by which slavery in this country may be abolished by law." And in his will he provided for the release of all of his slaves. * * * Apropos of the natal anniversary of George Washington we are indebted to Mr. William E. Curtis, the distinguished Washington correspondent of the Chicago Record-Herald for the following information. Gen. Kosciusko was a contemporary of Washington, Hamilton, Jefferson and Adams and there is no doubt, judging from Mr. Curtis' recent discovery, but what the race question was a matter of grave consideration in the "continental" days. The Negro even then had many friends who were prominently concerned in the affairs of the government, who deplored slavery and hoped to find a system for its abolishment: There has recently been found, hidden away among the faded and rusty documents in the office of the clerk of Albemarle county, at Charlottesville, Va., the last will and testament of Thaddeus Kosciusko, the famous Polish patriot, who fought beside Washington in the revolutionary war and was the personal friend of Jefferson, Hamilton and other makers of the nation. After our independence was accomplished Kosciusko returned to Poland and participated in an unsuccessful revolution there in 1794. He was defeated and thrown into prison, but was released and banished by order of Emperor Paul of Russia. He came to America again, and settled in Virginia as a neighbor of Mr. Jefferson. The document reads as follows: "I. Thaddesus Kosciusko, being just in my departure from Americafi do hereby declare and direct that, should I make no other testamentary disposition of my property, I hereby authorize my friend, Thomas Jefferson, to employ the whole thereof in purchasing Negroes from among his own or any others, and giving them liberty in my name; in giving them an education in trades or otherwise, and in having them instructed for their new condition in the duties of morality, which may make them good citizens, good fathers and good mothers; and in their duties as citizens, teaching them to be defenders of their liberty and country, and of the good order of society, and in whatsoever may make them happy and useful. "I make the said Thomas Jefferson my executor of this. [Seal.] "T. KOSCIUSKO. "5th day of May, 1798." Unwise Beneficence Rev. W. S. Brooks, pastor of St. Stephen's A. M. E. church, Chicago, proposes to incorporate an industrial training school in connection with his church. He announces that cooking and domestic science will be taught the women, while the young men are to be taught the trades, such as shoemaking, tailoring, baking, gardening, wagon making, brick masonry, etc. The idea seems preposterous to intelligent people. By what authority has the reverend gentleman the right to establish a school in connection with his pastorage? It will require a considerable outlay of money to furnish the proper equipment and competent instructors. How does he propose to maintain such a work? It seems to us that the attempt to establish such a school without a sufficient endowment attachment is an unwise and impracticable move no matter how sincere its promoters may be in his desire to uplift and benefit the race. We will admit that there is ample need for work of the character suggested by Mr. Brooks, and while we do not pretend to know just what the public school facilities are in the section of the city where St. Stephen's is located, believe that more good can be accomplished in that direction by the church through its auxiliary branches by the organization of a movement having for its object the procurement of members of the race of all ages in need of helpful instruction and place the same in well organized schools of learning. By doing this the Rev. Mr. Brooks would render his race a service that would redound to his credit throughout the country, whereas, if permitted to carry out his present intentions, they will surely bring about censure and work an incalculable injury to the Negro. The attempt to establish separate schools in the north by would-be race leaders where the line of proscription is unknown should be met with strong condemnation, as it lends encouragement to those whites who are opposed to the mixed school idea and are ever alert to find an excuse that will justify sequestration. The Negroes of Chicago should block Mr. Brooks' scheme in its incipiency without waiting for the baneful effects that are certain to follow should it be permitted to mature. It has never occurred to us that the general conference of the A. M. E. denomination endorses the parochial school system or has any fund for educational purposes save the one that is applied to Wilberforce university, and we doubt that Bro. Brooks' idea would meet with the favor of that august body. Nowhere is there an overstock of gray matter or a superfluity of high moral character among the teachers of any school, consequently, the best of them are none too good for the work of training and imparting knowledge to the student. The day of the jack-leg has passed, be he teacher, preacher or politician. The same curriculum should rigidly obtain in whatever constitutes a school among Negroes as governs the white man's school. A poor school with incompetent teachers is worse than no school at all. Let these well meaning but misguided friends of the race refrain from drawing the "color line." We do not want a separate school system in the north, nor is there any necessity for one. A Regretable Affair. The impassionate utterances of Rev. Charles S. Morris, pastor of Abyssinian Baptist church, New York, at a reception tendered to Hon. Joseph Hayes of Virginia, relative to Prof. Booker T. Washington and, incidentally, President Roosevelt, is to be regretted by Negroes generally. The newspaper reports, we hope, have exaggerated the matter and upon investigation the language accredited to Morris may prove to be of a more pacific nature. Rev. Charles S. Morris is a man of intellectual brilliancy and an eloquent orator, but is consumed by the conceit of egotism. Several years ago while making a political speech at Washington, he was roughly handled by a gang of ruffians and violently ejected from the hall, his head striking the sidewalk with sufficient force to cause concussion of the skull, from the effects of which he hovered between life and death for many days. Since his recovery he has been regarded as erratic by relatives and personal friends. Morris is well connected, being the grand nephew of the late Bishop D. A. Payne, and received his education at Wilberforce, Oberlin, and Harvard universities. The whole matter will be deeply deplored by the entire race. Out criticism, however, should be tempered with the mercy of facts. Morris is an irresponsible crank. Rev. Brown in Error. In an article recently to the Milwaukee Sentinel Rev. George A. Brown, president of the Harriet Beecher Stowe institute at Danville, Ill., sets forth some very peculiar reasoning as regards the so-called "race problem." Mr. Brown starts in by stating his approval for an editorial upon President Roosevelt's "Lincoln day" speech that appeared in that paper, then shows up the short-comings of his race by way of admonishment. After raking the race over the coals he winds up by praising its advancement and accumulation of wealth. Among other foolish and ridiculous things the reverend gentleman indulges in the following statement: "All of our churches, schools and colleges have been paid for by the whites. Again, if in 1619, when fourteen negro slaves were landed at Jamestown, Va., the white man was in advance of us, and if we have improved, have not the white men improved also, and kept ahead of the Negro? This so-called Negro problem is simply an individual problem. Each man has his work to do. If a bootblack, do the work well; if a doctor, lawyer, etc., etc., do the work well. Keep out of saloons and gambling houses. Be a man, a real man; earn and save money; teach our boys and girls to work, and work hard, and much will be done toward eliminating prejudice and bettering our condition. As for the north and south, the Negro is aware of the fact that the southern white man is more friendly to us than the northern white man, and the question is really one belonging to the southern whites and blacks. The lynching question is simply this: If a Negro is suspected of a crime and lynched, because he is a Negro, we have no right to quarrel. Two wrongs do not make a right. If the same Negro really commits an outrageous crime, every Negro who really wants to do right should condemn him as if he were a mad dog. For it is such Negroes in all communities that bring the stigma and cast a stain upon those of us who desire to better our condition." Comment is hardly necessary, but we would like to know what Bro. Brown would have us understand when he refers to the lynching of a Negro suspected of crime? To lynch a human being upon suspicion and without a fair trial by a jury of his peers is one of the reasons for the present perturbed condition of affairs in this country and has given rise to organized condemnation of it everywhere—even in England and Germany—and yet, according to Mr. Brown, we "have no right to quarrel" for the commitment of such an act. Another thing that is an injustice to the race is his reference to the purchase of schools and churches. We deny the allegation that the whites have paid for all of our schools and churches. There are but few dollars that are donated to the payment of churches south of Mason and Dixon's line, and notwithstanding this fact, the most costly edifices have been erected. Without taking snap judgment upon the gentleman by accusing him of knavery, we would advise that when he desires to either condemn or praise his race that he will use a medium that more effectively reaches its members and not the white press. The columns of the Wisconsin Weekly Advocate are as free to Rev. Brown as are those of the Milwaukee Sentinel. Negress Gets Big Fortune New York, Feb. 22.—Justice O'Gorman in the supreme court yesterday informed Hannah Elias, the Negress; that she may retain the $685,000, or what there is left of it, for the recovery of which she had been sued by her friend and "benefactor," John R. Platt, for the money is hers and was not obtained as charged in complaint, by extortion. In the complaint, Platt 84, had stated that in the course of the years of their acquaintance the woman had gradually secured almost his entire fortune. If John R. Platt had been permitted to have his own way he would never have brought this suit. Busy bodies who could not bear to see a colored woman have so much money urged the poor old man on, with the above disastrous results. Even in Wisconsin we find the same state of feeling in many parts of the state. Several lawyers giving unsought opinions to the effect that Mrs. Elias would be compelled to return the money. We fear the wish was father to the opinions. If old Platt was foolish enough to give this woman $685,000, whose business is it? Preacher Killed by a Bee. Rev. S. W. Foulk, buried last week in Holton, Kas., was the victim of a bee sting. Nearly two years ago he was stung on the jaw, and a swelling appeared which no amount of treatment sufficed to cure. He was operated on once or twice, but the trouble grew worse until it caused his death. 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. and Mrs. Ben Tompkins, 38 Eighth street, gave a reception to their friends Tuesday evening last. Among those present were: Mr. and Mrs. Mason, Mr. and Mrs. Anderson, Mrs. Wise, Miss M. Jackson, Miss Georgie Love, Miss Rose Maxey, Miss Daisy Lisles, Mr. Charles Johnson, Mr. P. Palmer, Miss Kelley, Mr. William Thomas, Mr. Walker. Everyone present had a good time. *** Mrs. Sarah Jane Only, formerly of this city, made us a flying visit and spent last Saturday with her old friend. Mrs. Kate Jones, 77 Fifth street. Her visit here was on important business and her many friends welcomed her heartily, and she now resides in Fort Atkinson, Wis. CARD PLAYING IN JAILS. Sheriff Cary Says There Is No Law Prohibiting Harmless Games—No Gambling Allowed. Reports that the state board of control has prohibited card playing in county jails cannot be authenticated here. Sheriff W. J. Cary has received no such order. A dispatch from Racine said that the state board has put a ban on card playing there. "As far as I know there is no law that makes card playing illegal," said Sheriff Cary. "Prisoners here play cards occasionally, but never for money. Gambling is not permitted in the jail, and it would seem that gambling is all that is covered by the law. I think that games that are permitted at church entertainments should be proper at a jail." Too much praise cannot be given Sheriff W. J. Cary for his humane stand against this puritanical nonsense. There is very little brightness in the life of a prisoner incarcerated between the gloomy walls of a prison, behind iron bars, and a little harmless game of pedro or casino serves to while away the tedium of many a lonely hour. For these high salaried officials, all of whom are not unacquainted with places where gambling and card playing are much more common and disastrous than those harmless little pastimes among the prisoners in the county jails throughout the state, it seems might find a different use for their tremendous intellects than in attempting to darken the already gloomy life of the unfortunate prisoners. Sheriff Cary has the right idea and deserves the commendation of the public. Revival at Calvary Baptist Church. Unusually successful revival services are being conducted at Calvary Baptist church under the leadership of Rev. Duncan, one of the most successful evangelists in the Baptist organization. Rev. George E. Duncan was born in Pittsburg, Pa. When a small boy he was taken by his father to California, A. D. 1856. Entered the gospel ministry, A. D. 1867. Ordained to the pastorate of the Mount Olivet Baptist church of Marysville, Cal., 1870. Was called to the pastorate of the First Baptist church of San Francisco, Cal., A. D. 1882, and after a prolonger service of sixteen years, during which time his labors were signally blessed of the Lord in the building up of the church, he resigned, A. D. 1898, and went to Chicago, and in July of the same year was called to the pastorate of the Bethesda Baptist church of that city and continued with them for two years. He was sent to Milwaukee by Rev. Fisher, D. D., of Olivet Baptist church, Chicago, and he and Rev. Robinson are engaged in the good work of saving souls. A number have been converted already and are about to unite with the church. The meetings are held every evening and will continue for several weeks to come. Discrimination Andrew Graham Bell, the inventor, has been in Nova Scotia flying kites, and he had his Negro valet with him. The hotels at Sidney refused to entertain the colored man, and Bell has complained to the government at Washington. The Negro is a citizen of the United States. Refusing him entertainment was an affront to the republic. Somebody has got to apologize or fight. An official inquiry is being made by order of the President. It is time. There is not so small and mean a country hashery in the United States that it has not refused, would refuse if it had the opportunity, to entertain a Negro citizen if there were any white customers about who might object. Booker Washington could not get a place to stay in a decent hotel in Washington tonight. Is a Nova Scotia landlord not to have the same privilege to turn an American citizen out of doors that every WANTED 500 FAMILIES TO COME WEST To Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North and South Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Washington and Wyoming. By reading the Wisconsin Weekly Advocate you will find all the information needed. Our paper has the largest circulation of any Negro Journal in the West. Address WISCONSIN WEEKLY ADVOCATE 729 St. Paul Ave. Mi waukee, Wis. tavernkeeper in the states has?—Milwaukee Free Press. And this brings the attitude of the President on the "square deal" proposition as regards the Negro squarely to the front. The courageous stand taken by President Roosevelt is bound to bear fruit by crystallizing public sentiment favorable to the administration of justice to the down-trodden race.—Ed. [Name] WM. J. CARY, Milwaukee's New Sheriff Not in the history of Milwaukee county has a man been chosen as a public official who deserved and merited the enthusiastic popular support that W. J. Cary received at the hands of the electors of this county for sheriff last November. A young man of extraordinary ability, sterling business qualifications and a sincere purpose as well as a deep sense of every trust whether private or public; a man who has worked his way up from a telegraph operator in a commission room. Mr. Cary stands today one of the most exemplary of our citizens, and whom we all are glad to acknowledge and honor as such. Mr. Cary was elected as an alderman of the city from the Seventeenth ward for two successive terms and was serving his second term when nominated by the party for the position which he so ably fills. As an alderman it is only necessary to say that his fitness for the trust, his fidelity to his constituents and the city's interests: his frank, open and candid manner as well as his irreproachable and unquestioned character as an official is admitted and acknowledged on all sides, by friends and foes, which was attested by the unqualified endorsement of the "Municipal Voters' league." Upon all questions in the council affecting the people's welfare, Mr. Cary always stood up to be counted. To his excellent and exceptional record as an alderman is due the popular will expressed so frankly at the polls when he was elected sheriff. As sheriff it is noted that the same honorable straightforward business-like methods characterizes his conduct of that important office. Indeed, so thorough and systematic is his management of every department of this trust that many of the sheriffs in the state have, after visiting and noting the methods in vogue here, have adopted his manner and are running their offices in the line of Mr. Cary's. The inmates of the jail are a unite in praise of his humane and kind treatment as contrasted with the past. It is noteworthy to mark the scrupulously clean manner in which the records are kept and how all the employees and those connected with every department of this office regard their chief. Mr. Cary is a gentleman of kindred qualities and one who is working on similar lines to those of Gov. Deneen of Illinois, Gov. Folk of Missouri, and the Advocate predicts for him as bright, if not brighter, laurels than those achieved by the former gentlemen. Mr. Cary has always been and is now a very warm friend and sympathizer of our people and NUMBER 1. DO FAMILIES THE WEST Minnesota, North and South Washington and Wyoming. Weekly Advocate you will need. and Employment to subscribers circulation of any Negro ess EKLY ADVOCATE Mi waukee, Wis. no gentleman in our community has a warmer place in the hearts of the colored people than he. Every department of the sheriff's office is conducted with such minute nicety throughout that the most critical can discover no discord. The following is a list of the under sheriffs and other officials in Mr. Cary's office, all of whom express themselves as having one of the most gentlemanly, clever and businesslike chiefs that it was ever their good fortune to serve. The Advocate voices the universal verdict that our high sheriff is today without a superior and with few peers in the galaxy of states. W. K. Knell, undersheriff. David M. Snedden, bookkeeper. Gust A. Kissinger, deputy. Peter Welles, deputy. Ernst A. Ebert, deputy. N. W. Gans, deputy. Conrad F. Noce, deputy. A. J. Socha, deputy. Michael Doyle, deputy. Hiram F. Esch, deputy. Charles E. Ericson, deputy. Aug W. Gumz, deputy. George W. Heidelberg, deputy. A. D. Horlig, deputy. Edward Krech, deputy. William Leudche, deputy. Julius J. Margward, deputy. P. J. Matuszewski, deputy. Byron Olson, deputy. Daniel O'Connor, deputy. William Salzmann, deputy. Julius J. Stoltz, deputy. William Stevenson, deputy. James F. Sullivan, jailer. Herman P. Kunz, turnkey. Peter Diedrick, turnkey. Michael Delaney, watchman. Mims Must Answer to Charge of Murder Will Be Tried in Municipal Court. The preliminary examination of George Mims, charged with the murder of Perry Macklin, was held in the district court Tuesday morning. Mims is accused of having shot Perry Macklin in a saloon at 318 Wells street on the morning of January 30. The state was represented by Assistant District Attorney Otto Dorner and Assistant District Attorney Backus, while Attorney W. T. Green appeared for Mims. Coroner Brogman, Robert Macklin, a brother of deceased, Patrolman Murray, who arrested Mims and Dr. J. J. McGovern, who held the post mortem, were witnesses for the state. No testimony was introduced by the defense and no bail was asked for. defense and no bad was asked 101. Along with the plea of self-defense it is the general opinion that Attorney Green intends to attack the course of treatment of the wound at the Emergency hospital. Dr. McGovern was asked by him what he would have done had the wounded Macklin been brought to him. "I should have amputated the leg at once. I think that the only means by which his life might have been saved. Portugal's Ruler Wouldn't Bant. A trouble of King Charles', which he shares with many humbler mortals, is his tendency to embonpoint. In this connection amusing stories are told of the efforts of Queen Amelie, whose penchant for medical studies and experiments is well known, to treat and diet him. Eventually, it is said, his majesty was compelled, like so many others who have been put on a "diet," to strike and refuse to accept the regimen prescribed, preferring peace and plenty, even at the sacrifice of his figure, to the ascetic life.—Westminster Gazette. Helps Mr. Fairbanks' Daughter. A "bone setter" has cured Mrs. John W. Timmons, daughter of Vice President-elect Fairbanks of Youngstown, O., who for two years has been unable to walk. She fell at a dance, spraining her ankle. She has tried numerous doctors without relief. The "bone setter" originally was a mill man, and his healing power led him, fifteen years ago, to leave the mills and devote himself to surgery. Since that time he has gained a wide reputation. --- GOSSIP FOR THE LADIES. oT ti aD ea ahs 4s) grasses hide the door I) ivy-covered wall, your dull gray steps of stone which bore jie marks of Time—a hidden store Oo; memories sweet which evermore j.viors the years will call. she child who loved to stray \wiih book of fairy lore ju quiet paths, the boy at play, jie Wuntsman at the dawn of day, ji. lovers in the time of May, \\ill_keep their tryst no more, snore down the old stone filght Of steps, with mess o’ergrown, ouce passed the bride with roses white, ihe soldier eager for the fight, yhe dead who, living, made our light, ‘And, dying, left us Ione. The sunset’s fiery gold Makes radiant the sky; It shines upon the garden old snd Visions come like tales re-told, yo vanish as the night-wind cold Lreathes out a gentle sigb. —Pall Mall Gazette. Why Men Mase Becter Cooks Than Women. (ooking is undoubtedly a fine art, and »y accomplished chef is as much of an writ in his particular branch of work us a painter or a sculptor. “raoe is as much difference between vou! cooking and bad as between a sym- hoy performed by a great master on. a first-rate instrument and a so-called mel- ody yuayed by some out-of-tune barrel There is absolutely no question as to who makes the better coox—a man or a woman. If man did not excel, why should all the chief hotels and restau- rents of both British and continental cities place a man at the head of their culuary departments? 3 Women hold equally good positions’ in most vocations as men now, but a female chef, a woman “boss,” as you English say, does not reign in any large kitchen. in the ordinary domestic duties it is yery hard to find a man equaling, much Jess excelling, a woman—it is her sphere in life, but cooking rises far above a mere domestic duty, it is, as I have said hefore, a fine art. The reason that in cooking the palm has always _ been awarded to a “mere man” is not far to seek. It is not because man is more epicurean than woman, for this, though maintained by women, is not a fact. Woman is quite as fastidious over her food as the ordinary man, and bestows as much thorght over her meals as he does. It is simply that man is more thorough in his work, and thoroughness is at the root of all good cooking, as of everything else, A man is more particular over the vari- ous little details which are necessary to make up a really perfect dish. Take, for example, an Indina_ curry, containing so many little trifling ingredi- ents—all of which are equally important to make a perfect dish when finished. The loss of ene would mean the spoiling of the others, and the complete ruin of the flavor of the curry. A man knows this, and will have them all, None are too unimportant for his consideration—a woman, on the other hand, will manage with what she has got handy. This is very nice and obliging of her, no doubt, but it eventually spoils her cooking, and the dish is not a success. One of the chief faults in a woman's cooking is her want of accuracy over the smaller items—the exact amount of fla- voring, the right condiments to each dish, and that is one of the chief reasons why her cooking pales before that of a man, and makes his dishes preferable or all occasions to hers. _ Even in the case of amateurs, a man’s is more suecessful than a woman's for these reasons, and also because he takes more pride in his work of preparing a tempting repast. A great many people think that any- one cin cook who happens to possess a shilling cookery book, and a few pots and pans. What a fallacy! <A great chef is born like any other great artist— of course, he must learn his art as they do theirs, but he has a natural gift for lis work, even before he starts it. To a chef his work is a “joy forever,” and he invents new dishes with as much pride and care as a modiste or a milliner creates some new gown or hat, and he carefully studies the trifling details of each separate flavor before he sends his ANG masterpiece of culinary art before his patrons, Women rarely care to take much trou- ble over cooking, especially when they are not acting as proressional cooks. ‘The housewife in England who does her own cooking, considers it a waste of time to spend much of the day in her kitchen arranging for the family’s meals. Other things, far more attractive in themselves, claim her attention, and she appears to forget that upon her care in preparing and cooking the food depends the digestion of husband and children, and that upon their digestion hangs much ef their health and happiness. In France this is not so. ‘There, the mother of a fairly well-to-do family does not consider it a trouble to arrange all the meals herself, and is in consequence a far better cook than her English sister of the same class. When women have learnt that no trifle is too small for their consideration in the matter of cookery, then we may find them at the head of the kitchens of the chief clnbs and hotels, but until then there will certainly be at least one place where man can reign supreme.—Mons. A. Escottier, Chef of the Carlton Hotel, London, in Pearson’s Magazine. Ella Wheeler Wilcox Talks to Mothers. It has long been my idea that every young ladies’ seminary, high school and college should have a course of study on this subject of prenatal influence, and that it should be the post-graduate course of every man’s college, Time was when it would have been considered little short of indecent to men- Ton prenatal inuence in the presence of youns women or young men, and the publivter of such a tract or_ circular woul have been regarded as immoral; bat now that the religious organizations ‘re taking up the subjeet, we may hope «vcuiaally to see the schools following the same wise course and enlightening the fathers and mothers of the future on a most important topic in the whole There is nothing we cannot hope for for future generations once men and when are awakened to a realization of What parenthood means. More than a year ago a discouraged aud troubled woman wrote a friend of ber misfortunes, The husband was out “' employment. There were five chil- ‘ron to'feed and clothe and another child coming, ,,,,How can I be glad of this ehild, or ‘el anything but despair at the thought ef bringing another being into this trou- ‘ed lite?” she asked. “How can I give iv unborn offspring prenatal influences for anything but sorrow?” op Try." urged the friend in reply. Vice the inevitable with a courage Which shall eompel the respect of the jseen presences always about us, Se 7 4. me picture which pleases you and yl =pen it often, thinking you would “se sour child to resemble it. = ‘Sele ‘t some character in history, and “vex front your neighborhoed library ob- jtain books about that character, and | tead and think of the qualities which your child may acquire by your efforts. | “Foeus your mind upon this subject. Whenever you become melancholy ust your will power and say to yourself that the Creator of all life is great and@ good enough to care for you and protect you through your trial, and that the work for You to do is to mould your child into a beautiful character and to fit it for a comfort and joy to yourself and human- ity.” Meantime the friend sent the burden- ed mother books and letters to cheer her and made such effort as was in her pow- | er to obtain work for the father and clothing and fuel for the family. Recently the friend received a_ letter from the mother saying what changes the last year had brought to the family. The husband and father has a good position, and by the most careful economy they are able to satisfy the actual needs of the | eight members of the household and to pay a small sum each week to liquidate | their debts. And -the baby which was the cause of such despondency and almost de- spair to the expectant mother is the glory and joy of the household, Already the child seems to radiate sun- light and hope and to show unusual beau- ty and attractiveness, “Poor as we still are,” the mother writes, “my heart is full of joy all day long over our improved condition, and the control I learned to exercise over my mind those months and the lesson I learned of my ability to drive away mel- ancholy and invite cheerfulness have been worth all they cost me.” Time alone can tell just what will be the result of the mother’s concentrated effort to make her child an ideal charae- ie but surely the present results are so gratifying to this mother that they should encourage thousands of other women sim- ilarly situated who read this little story. Every expectant mother should feel it her first great duty to control and guide her mind toward some desirable ideal, no matter how difficult her position may be. Every good thought and impulse, every kind feeling and sweet act cultivated, ev- ery unworthy mood and __ rebellious thought governed at such a time means a work done for eternity. A woman who has liyed to see her son reflect every mood of her mental condi- tion before his birth writes me today that she feels her work in the future lies in giving talks to girls and women upon this all-important subject. “Before my son was born,” she writes, “a relative asked me if I knew the power of prenatal influence. I had been reared by a ‘modest’ mother, one of the old-fash- ioned kind, who had taught me that to mention an unborn child was indelicate. Oh, the misfortune such mothers have en- tailed upon their children! I was indig- nant at the relative who referred to my condition, and of course lost my Oper tunity to benefit by her knowledge. Not until I lived to see my own uncontrolled moods reflected in my child, and to suffer for the injury I had done him when he was helpless to defend himself, did I ‘awaken to the wonder and majesty and ‘terror of prenatal conditions. | “And now I am going to do what I ean to make other women realize their power to mold their children to be what they desire.” | This is a great work for any woman to undertake, and may success and joy at- ‘tend her.—Philadelphia Evening” Bulle- tin. Topics of the Household. | Among the wedding presents of a bride roca was a book with typewritten ‘yages bound in enametied cioth, from which kitchen smears may be removed ‘with a sponge without injury to the cover. For the book is intended primar- ily for kitchen use. In it are recipes of all sorts and kinds which are esteemed in the household of the giver and which have been collected by her during her quarter of a century of married life. A ‘feature of the recipe part of the book is the notes suggesting possible variations jot various rules and occasional changes that may be practicable. For instance, if milk is lacking when the recipe calls for it or if eggs are shorter than the rule demands a hint is given for the writer's way out of the dilemma and sometimes a terse little story foliows of an actual experience, Anecdotes, however, are few in the carefully edited yolume, Besides recipes there are careful in- structions as to the removal of stains of all sorts from different kinds of ma- terials and formula for cleaning fluids for various uses. A page or two is giv- en to home remedies and several pages to the care of plants or ordinary house cultivation. The last part of the book is devoted to paragraphs difficult to-clas- sify, but all of which relate to household affairs. Among these are suggestions for exterminating insects, packing of winter clothing during the summer, _ lists of things that should be . done when the house is closed fof the summer and opened in the fall ete. The book is, in fact, a second edition of a work begun when its author and compiler first went to housekeeping and kept faithfully as a diary by het from that day to this. In speaking of the trouble the first book cost, its owner said: “I early learn- ed that it is the little helpful idea that flits into one’s mind unealled or that comes as a result of experience that is |the hardest to lay hands on when one peeenies it later for use. And I deter- mined to treasure not only my own worthful ideas, but those that I took pains to glean from my friends. I keep a journal with my account book in my desk. When I go to the country or off for a visit the book goes along in my trunk, that I may record stray sugges- tions. picked up on my way. Every month or two I copy into my household book everything that 1 think worth, re- cording there. My household book is a goodly sized blank book, with contents arznged under various heads, such as cakes and pastry, puddings, breads, can- | dies, made dishes or entrees, meats, and fish, pickles and_ preserves, and miscel- laneous hints. Of course, for the book which I made for my friend I selected lonly the things that I thought would be most useful to her. I always have a re- liable cook book of late date in order to keep up with the times. I accom- panied the home made book with a copy of one of the new cook books which I myself have found very useful, and I marked in it recipes which I have tried with especial satisfaction, Had any one started me on my home making career with such an outfit of helps I should have been saved many humiliating failures and heartaches, besides a great deal of unnecessary work. Cook hooks, excel- lent ones, are plentiful, but to an inex- perienced girl there are labyrinthine wastes in the best of them through which she needs a little guidance.” “But what a lot of work,” is a_ first thonght when a_bookful of helps, all to be typewritten, is suggested. Yet not a whit more time was actually consumed by the task than by one of the elaborate pieces of embroidery or lace work over which no one once thought to eavil. And the book will endure when they are long past their fashion.—New York Evening Sun. Their Sense of Responsibilitv. Se ne ee eS Se ee eee 5 SPE I have found it an excellent plan with my daughters to allow them to assist me in my housekeeping and they are not only ‘enthusiastic, regarding it as their highest pleasure, but the experience is most valu- able for them. ‘The housekeeper pro tem. is obliged to make out the menus for the day, give the orders to the cook and wait- ress (if there is one), superintend the dis- position of the laundry work (when sent out and when returned, or if done at home), and she is also expected to make the dessert for dinner. When I have no servant, one of them assists me with the cooking. while the other does the housework; but when we have a cook I sit still and sew or darn stockings. Ana how rapidly they learnt Their rivalry in such matters as blane- mange or pie or salads is most amusing and the results altogether gratifying. Re- flecting that they will be fully equipped for their new duties when the time comes for them to assume the charge of their own houses, I have no compunction about utilizing their vacation time in this way. There is scarcely any department of houschold work that they do not under- stand. and after they have left schoo! I mean to have them thoroughly instructed in_dressmaking and all sorts of sewing. | Each week one of them assists me in baking and I let her take some responsi- bility on herself in this line; either to make the bread into loaves, prepare some cookies or a pie or cake. Last Saturday I gave both of them an opportunity for a cake contest, to see which could make the nicest cake. One baked a layer cake and the other a solid cake. I believe you would have been surprised, as well as was I, if you could have helped eat them. I must say they were as nice cakes as L have seen for parties and weddings, and the interest they took in baking them was delightful, and certainly would be a pleasure to any mother. The change of work not only breaks the monotony, but teaches each one to do all kinds of work and better prepares them to meet the duties of wives, mothers and housekeep- eas The Rage for Filet Embroidery. The girl who has a distaste for fine sewing and delicate floss embroidery, and who chooses the darning of torn linen and family stockings as her share of the household. duties, will find a real friend in the new filet lace embroidery. In this lace work the designs are woven into a fine or coarse mesh net by darning in- stead of by the cross stitch, as in Russian scrim embroidery. In fact, the vogue for cross-stitch embroidery has rather given way to filet lace work, which closely re- sembles filet guipure. The real filet lace is enjoying a decided popularity for insertions and edgings on table covers, centerpieces, and counter- panes. At a large dinner given this month by a well known society woman the long table was covered with a mag- nificent linen cloth. Oblong insets of filet lace in orchid design, set at regular inter- vals, formed a square in the center of the cover, while the same oblong inser- tions outlined the edges of the table, and a filet lace edging finished the borders of the cloth. A square tea cloth seen recently at an afternoon reception was built from ten- inch medallions of filet, alternating with the same size squares of linen. The lace showed lordly roosters and peacocks sil- houetted in white against the linen mesh. Collars and cuffs, medallions and bands of filet lace will be much in evidence as trimming for the shirtwaist and linen frocks of the summer girl of 1905. The girl who cannot afford the real guipure can produce almost as striking effects in darned lace, with the aid of her book of cross-stitch designs. Colored laces seen so much on evening frocks this winter will be a feature of the washable dresses for warm weather, and for these the modish girl can embroider nets in the soft shades of blue, pink, yellow, and lavender, In making filet lace the net should be securely fastened to a piece of paper cambric or thin oilcloth. The mesh is so easily puckered and drawn out of shape that it must be watched carefully, or the result will be anything but satisfactory, The weaving is effected by a dull-pointed needle and mercerized cotton, silks, or crewels in self-tone. or contrasting shades may be employed for the darn- ing. The needle is drawn over one thread of the mesh and under the other, as in the simple darning process, the holes being filled in by two or three crossings of the thread. Another method of filling the holes is to have the threads pass diagonally over the tiny squares, crossing each other in the center. This gives a more lacy effect than the straight stitch. An extremely pretty insertion _ for shoulder seams, cuffs, belt, and chest straps of a natural linen blouse shows a star pattern darned into an eeru mesh with a darker shade of mercerized cot- ton. Medallions for a dimity shirtwaist should be made from the sheerest mesh. Any easy design is the shamrock darned in diagonal stitch with a finely twisted mercerized cotton. One clever girl who works out her own designs has her dressing table covered with heavy mesh net in ecru, over red sateen. Each end of the searf is inset yith an oblong medallion, showing the figures of a Dutch boy and girl in darned lace. The aeons is covered with a similar medailion.—New York Globe and Commercial Advertiser. The Ideal Wiie. Perhaps I may never find my ideal wife, but however lacking may be the substitute I would possibly put in her place, a little chamber in my heart sa- cred to that not impossible she whose image ever smiles in my _ visionary dreams and glimmers in the rosy em- bers of the dying fire. And what is she like? Beautiful as Venus? No! Strange as it may seem, I have never had any clear idea of my ideal’s physical attractions. She may be dark or fair, short or tall, but above all things she is lovable. And to be lovable in a man’s eyes means so many things, not of necessity any extraord- inary beauty of face or form, certainly not any overwhelming cleverness. Who wants a woman to be clever, if she is gentle and sweet tempered? And a loy- able woman is gentle and sweet tem- pereé sind tender hearted. Her voice is low aad has a sweet caress in its every accent. Her eyes look straight at a world that seems beantifui to her, and yet she is not wholly ignorant of its hid- den byways and the faults and follies of poor human nature, although in her sweet charity he loves the sinner eve! while she hates the sin. Her religion is a real thing to her, al- though she never makes any parade of it any more than she does of her love. It is simply a part of her daily life. She may be as illogical as she likes and as sweetly unreasonable as sne sees fit, vet she will be none the less lovable. She is willing to labor but not too good for nature’s daily food. Above all things else she is in love with her husband. She is willing to labor with him in common cause for their mutual benefit. She is capable of making herself and her home the two greatest and dearest attractions on earth. She is a good housekeeper and capable of leading to a higher and better ‘lite —Selected. Study Yourself. The woman who dresses attractively is the woman who studies herself and un- derstands the value of color, the possi- bility of color combinations, and above all the colors which she herself may wear to bring out the best lights of her com- plexion. There are certain things which women of certain coloring may wear and certain tints which are death to all their beauty. Fair blondes should avoid all the lighter shades of blue, for these give an ashy hae to the complexion. The darker velvety shades are theirs, how- ever, On the other hand, brunettes can sel- dom wear dark blue, unless they have a florid tint to their complexion, Green, foo, is a dangerous color for bruneties. Yellow belong to them, and is particular- ly becoming by gaslight. As a rule, a brunette can effectively wear red. How- ever, there is no color which has such a tendency to clear and brighten the complexion as certain tints of yellow. Find out what color belongs to you and then cling to it. A good many peo- ple will fail te find much truth in the theory of color vibrations, but neverthe- less, ‘there is an effect produced upon one’s mental and physical candition by the colors with which they constantly surround — themselves. Choose your gowns and your house furnishings from those colors which are most conducive to your beauty. Peace of mind and physical invigoration will follow in_the wake of such endeayor.—New York Daily News. - HUMOROUS ITEMS. eee eV COME WEE Verse, Poet—I can; I’ve got a poetic license. _A Los Angeles lady, aged 95, is cut- ting her third set of teeth. It’s the Cali- fornia promotion committee’s next move. —San Francisco News Letter. A deputy marshal named Bat said: “You can paste this in your hat: Don't get nifty with me, I'm a live one, by gee! And now you know where I am at.” —New York Matl. _ Uncle Rube—And then they had the piece de resistance. Aunt Maria—Land sake! I s'pose that’ at style for tough steak.—New York Sun. Plenty of people know how to make a fortune look like 30 cents, but it took the astute Mrs. Chadwick to make 30 cents look like a fortune.—San Francisco News Letter. “Did you buy your way to your pres- ent position of political prominence?’ “Certainly I did,” answered Senator Sorghum. “If there is anything I hate it’s a deadhead.”—Washington Star. His Kick. There was a young man in Tangier Who called to the waiter: “Look bier! I just wish to say I don’t like the way You are piling the foam on my bier.” —Houston Post. De Gay—I wonder why Bilkins dresses sv shabbily. His wife tells me she sim- ply can’t get him to buy new clothes. De Witt—Bilkins told me confidentially that he dresses that way so his wife can't drag him around to boring social functions.—Brooklyn Life. “My automobile has the very latest improvements.” “What are they?” “See that little arrangement? That registers the number of arrests per mile and at the same time drops out the amount of the fine.”—Cleveland Leader. Time for a Wig. If you'd know when you're getting bald, Just take this hunch from me! When folk say: ‘Why! your hair is thick- Er than it used to be! ‘Vhen you may know that you will sport A rink there presentlie. —Houston Post. “It is true,” said Rey. Goodley, “that women are more regular and devout at- tendants at church than the men.” “So they should be,” replied the say- age bachelor, “if they have any grat- tude. The church aids and abets them in committing matrimony.”—Dhiladel- phia Ledger. “Weary.” “Wot is it, Willy?” “Dat old gag about time bein’ money ain’t so.” “W’y ain’t it?” “W'y, if it wuz, you an’ me’d have Rockyfeller’s fortune lookin’ like a Chad- wick autograph, dat’s w’y!"—Cleveland Sie A Lagevard in Love. Weren't you once in love with Miss Pinkerly 7’ said Dashaway to Cleyerton. Cleverton sighed. “I am still,” he re- plied. “But,” remarked Dashaway, she re- jected you, didn’t she?” “Yes.” “Well, old man, now I’m in love with her, and I’ve come to you to know just what to do. What's the best way to act?” Cleverton took him by the arm. “Listen,” he said, “and I'll tell you the truth. If you want to win that girl take her to two matinees every week. “That's easy.” “Always go in a carriage.” panes. “Send her flowers every day.” “Very well.” “Never go near her unless you have something in view for her pleasure.” “Ah, yes.” “Don’t waste any time in prelimina- ries in—making love. Begin by throw- ing your arms around her. If she makes any objections kiss them promptly away. Don’t sit and talk. Spend all the money you have—and act.” Cleverton gazes suspiciously at his friend. “I'm very anxious to win that giri,” he said, “even if you do love her. Are you sure that what you are telling me is right?” “Absolutely.” “What makes you so sure.” Dashaway smiled a melancholy smile. “Because.” he said, “it is just what I didn’t do.”—Judge. Insulted Indian Territory Judge. A well known attorney from Vinita was in the courtroom at Wagoner await- ing a case te be called and absent-mind- edly was trimming his nails with a pen- knife. His case was called aud he got up before the judge and kept on using the knife, not realizing what he was doing. It was more than the judge could stand. ‘Where were you reared?” he said. “Have you no respect for the court, no decency and no idea of the propriety of this court?” “If the court pleases, I was reared in Kentucky, and I am a southern gentle- man. I came from a place where gentle- men are treated as such, both in court and_ out.” Then there followed an attempt to apologize to the court, but the judge would not listen to it. He considered the act an insult to the dignity of his court and could not be appeased.—Muscogee Times. > A Sportsman. The teacher of a suburban school asked: “Can any boy in the class tell me what harness is?” Not a single boy knew. “Well,” continued the teacher, “is there anyone in the class whose father works among horses?” One little boy shouted: “Please, teacher, mine does.”” “Well, what is it that yeur father puts on the horses each day?” “Please, teacher, every halfpenny he’s got.”—Illustrated Bits. ¢ Youne Folks’ Column. ! ¢ Uncle Neises Dog. Is you-all seen a dawg roun’ here Dat don" belong to you? I's huntin’ mine—he’s done been los’ For ‘bout a day or two. What kind er ae lemme see If I kin tell you dat; Fust place, he’s po,’ dough he sho" eats Enough to make ‘im fat. His ha‘r looks lak hit wuz put on bes any which-a-way, De color of it sorter mixed, Lak dus’ an’ yaller clay. He ain’ no high-tone gent’men’s dawg, Ner thoroughpred. but des A ewyday bench-legged dawg What looks lak all de res’. Ef you-all sees him hangin’ roun’, I hope you'll let me know, Hit’s funny how I wants dat dawg, 1 miss him mo’ an’ mo’. Es far as acshul value goes, I ain't got dat in sight. Hit’s des de wag er dat dawg’s tail When I comes home at night. —Elvise Lee Sherman in Lippincott's. Wedding of the Rats. yea eS a ee oe rat daughter. This daughter, Chu, was so graceful and clever that her parents loved her dearly, and regarded her as their most precious treasure. Great pains they took to bring her up. They allowed no rough wind to blow on her, no hard food to reach her mouth. For her studies, they let her nibble the edges of only the most refined, classical books; tor her accomplishment they let her gnaw the strings of harps and guitars. And at length she became the best edu- cated and the most attractive girl in the rat kingdom. _Chu had reached the age to be mar- ried. It was her parents’ desire to choose for her the best and the greatest husband in the whole world, for they thought that there was no other girl-rat so beautiful, so gentle, so accomplished as their daughter, and that it would be a pity to give her to an unworthy mate. Every day the father and mother con- sulted as to who should be Chu’s hus- band. “I think the greatest being in the uni- yerse is either the sun or the moon. The sun, however, is a little too bright and dazzling to be near. The moon is mild- er and gentler: I would have him for our dear Chu,” said the father-rat at last, and the mother-rat agreed. Accordingly Chubei, the father-rat, journeyed to the abode of the moon. Without any delay he said: “O moon, I presume you are still a bachelor. Will you please take cur Chu for your bride?” The moon looked yery much surprised. “What an extraordinary proposal! In this great world nobody has ever asked me to be a bridegroom! I thank you for your willingness to give me your daugh- ter, but I must decline the honor, for, you see, there is the cloud who is my hindranee. I cannot always act as I choose.” Chubei, conciuding that the cloud was greater than the thoon, then visited the cloud immediately. “O Cloud, I am told that you are above the moon. Will you be our Chu’s bride- groom?” The cloud, after a moment's hesita- tion, replied: ‘Well, I may seem greater than either the sun or the moon, for I soinetimes cross their way and intercept their light. But I have a strong enemy, the wind; he checks my course, blows me often far away. I cannot consent to your proposition.” ‘Twice refused. yet still persevering, and nothing daunted, the father-rat made | hig way to the wind. | “If you are still living alone, O Wind, please marry my daughter.” The wind, striking his bag. said: “Thank you, but, Chubei, I would rather not.”” “Why do you refuse?” “Think a moment. Every time I want to go on and on, blowing straight ahead, there is the wall——” “Then you think the wall is greater than you are?” P Ss “Why, of course. I can’t resist him. “Well, then, 1 will make him our bridegroom.” Chubei was soon with the_ wail. “Marry our Chu, O Wall.” “Ry no means,” the wall answered. “Why do you object?” “Yeu don't know the reason? While T am guarding against the wind, don’t you rats gnaw me and make large holes? You are above me.” “Oh, I see! It is just as you say. I will go home now and think it over.” Thus Chubei returned. At home, his wife was waiting impatiently. “How did the matter go? Did you find a good bridegroom?’ she asked eagerly. The husband, twisting his beard with his fingers, replied: “Be rejoiced. wife. The rat is the greatest being in the worid after all.” “What? Do you mean in the whole world?" “Yes; it is this way: The moon, seai- ed so high in heaven, has to retire when the cloud comes; the cloud is blown nway by the wind; the wind is checked by the wall; and the wall—do we not shaw him? So the cloud is greater than the moon; the wind is greater than the cloud; the wall is greater-than the wind; the rats are greater than the wall— greater than all things. It is better to choose a bridegroom for Chu from our own race.” As the father explained the mother be- came convinced. ‘Well—whom do we have among us suitable for our dangi- ter?” “[ have been thinking about that all the way home. How about young Chu- maru, at Ceiling square?” “He would do very well. But a cat lives near his house, and [ should not feel easy.” “How about Chukuro at Ditch street?" “He, too, is good. But a weasel’s house is somewhere near bis; it might be a dangerous neighborhood.” “Well, there is the young priest Chu- nen in the temple.” “His, sect is the Monto, and I hear oat the Monto seldom has offerings of feod.” “Each one has some fault! Where can we find the perfect bridegroom!” the father exclaimed. Both were very much troubled. All of a sudden, however. the wife said joy- fully: “What do you tink of this? Give up all those whom we have been talking about. Have we not Chusuke right un- der our reof? He has been with us from his childhood, yet not once have we found fault with him. He is ever loyal and faithful. Moreover, he and Chu have been playmates, they know each other well. There could not be a bettér husband for her.” Chubei, clapping his hands, answered: “O yes! Let us have Chusuke. I had not thought of him. Indeed he is a faithful steward, and I was planning to make him the head of the branch house this coming summer. He is well suited to our Chn.” Immediately: Chusuke, the. steward, was sent for. He came in, heard the proposal, and his heart was filled with joy and grvtitude. Crying “Chu! Chu! Chat’ he danced around the room. The preparations for the marriage were speedily accomplished, and at last the day for the ceremony came. Chu, thi bride, was beautifully dressed and placed in a magnificent sedan chair, which was followed by her ge relatives and many servants. ‘he procession then slowly marched from window sills to eaves, from eaves to rafters, toward the house where the bridegroom was waiting. All the neighboring rats crept out from the shelves, walls and screens to watch the bridal train. When the servants arrived with the sedan chair at the house, the groomsman helped the bride out and ushered her into the parlor where the bridegroom waited and where the marriage table and wed- ding cups were ready. The happy bride- groom and the shy bride were first seat- ed; the parents and_ relatives were grouped around them. Then the wedding ceremony was performed amid solemn silence. ‘Thus Chu became formally the wife of Chusuke, and they lived eee together all their days.—Mitsu Okada and Edith A. Sawyer in Modern Women. eee INSULT TO INJURY. I'm reatly fond of masic. I know a tune or two, An’ I often hum ‘em over When Be nothing eise to doe. But there's one that irritates me. it is temptin’ me to crime, When the organ grinder’s playin® "Bout the “Good Old Summer Time.” Shakin” at the cook stove An’ shiverin’ at the grate; Coaxin’ the thermometer From morning until late. Wishin’ that the mercury Would turn around an’ climt— An’ the organ grinder’s playin’ ‘Bout the “Good Old Summer Time.” I can stand the wind that’s piercin’, I can half-way hold my own When the grip is in my ‘system, If I’m only let alone. But it's clean beyond endurance When the man expects a dime For standin’ there an’ ee "Bout the “Good Old Summer Time.** —Washington Star. —_—_—_—_————= SHOT BIG BEAR IN A CAVE. Experience of Three Portland Hunters on Mount Hood. Shooting a 400-pound black bear in the darkness of a caye 200 feet in the side of Mount Hoed was the experience last week of three Portland plumbers who bave returned to the city with the pelt. ‘The hunters are Fred H. Schindler, Jesses S. Hayes and Roy S. Maxwell. lt was three days out from Portland that the party stumbled upon the bear's den, Tust after lunch they saw behind a large rock an penne, in the hillside. It was a hole about 6 feet deep. Maxwell dropped inside, the others following. A candle was lighted, and fresh bear signs were discovered, After going in 15 feet they found that the cave widened out a pitched forward. Hayes was in the ead. By this time the hunters were in dark- ness, except for the flickering light of the candle. Hayes was sure he had heard a bear moving about, so the trio _pro- ceeded with fear and trembling. they had come all the way from Portland to hunt bear, but to steal along in the semi- darkness of the interior of Mount Hood was not on the programme as arranged. When the party had walked 300 feet from the entrance and were down in the earth at least 200 feet, at the same in- stant all three heard the sound of claws on the rocky floor and saw two green eyes glaring at them, the bear fearing to approach nearer to the light. Hayes fired instantly. The report was deafen- ing, but as nitro-smokeless powder was used there was no suffecating smoke. ‘There was a half. stifled rear from the bear, and the hair of each man went straight up. Fearing an onslaught, all fired a volley of three shots each and awaited developments on the part. of bruin. But the bear was dead. Half the shots had been wasted. Not only the pelt was secured, but 25 pounds of meat as well. Bear meat at this season, however, is almost use- less for food. “No attempt was made to explore the remainder of the cavern.— Portland Oregonian. Woman Finds New Fossil Reptile. A new marine reptile, representing a hitherto unknown form of swimming creature, has been discovered in the Hos- selkus limestone in the upper triassie of Shasta county, Cal., according to Prof, John C. Merriam, head of the geological department of the’ University of Califor- nia. In a bulletin describing the strange creature, Prof. Merriam gives the eredic for the discovery of the reptile to Miss A. M. Alexander, who, declares Prof. Merriam, “has net only contributed gen- erously to the financial support of the work on the vertebrates of the marine triassic, but was herself the discoverer of the type specimen furnishing the larg- est part of our information concerning the group.” The find includes the an- terior two-thirds of the skull and a por- tion of the temporal region; also parts of over thirty vertebrae, numerous frag- mentary ribs, the principal elements of the pectoral and pelvie arches, and a considerable portion of au anterior limb. —San Francise Call. -_———___+____. A New Objection to Domestic Service. The mistress of a city flat had adver- tised for a girl for general housework, and was showing an applicant over the house. She had been very liberal in her promises of privileges, afternoons off, evenings out, ete., and it looked as though the two were about to come to some agreement, when the girl suddenly asked: “Do you do your own stretchin’?” “Do we do our own what?’ asked the puzzled mistress. “Stretchin’,” repeated the new girl. “I don’t understand.” E “Stretchin’,” repeated the gifl a second time. “Do you put all the stuff on the table at mealtime and stretch for it, or do I have to shuffle it around?” The family are “stretchin’,’ and will until they get a girl who is willing to wait on the table as well as cook the meal. Meantime the matron’s household vocabulary contains a new word. i A Frozen Stunt. An actress who plays a leading part ix a Broadway production tells of am amusing incident which happened in a country theater. She was playing a part in which she was supposed to jump from a cliff into a river. The river lay behind the cliff so that the audience could not see it. A mattress was con- veniently placed and on this the actress landed after her leap. One night the property man forgot to place the mattress in position. The actress made the leap and struck the hard floor with a bang that was heard by everyone in the theater. “Oh, heavens!” came a voice from the gallery, “the river is frozen!”"—New York Evening Sun. ea recipes A Mechanical Wonder. A recent mechanical wonder is a tele- graphic instrument that sends a thousand words a minute 1000 miles in length. A human operator can transmit fifty words a minute. —The Hollanders are not fond of lazy people, and they have a very good way of curing persons who can bat won't work. If a pauper who is able to work refuses to do so they put him in a cis- tern, to which a pump is attached, and turn on a stream of water. The stream ‘flows into the cisters just slowly enough ‘to enable the lazy person, by lively pump- ing, to keep the water from getting up over his head. THE WISCONSIN WEEKLY ADVOCATE R. B. 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TO CONTRIBUTORS: All communications must be sent with the name and address of the sender as an evidence of good faith, but not necessarily for publication. No manuscript returned if not accepted, unless accompanied by stamps. 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; broke en Llewellen setter; also hounds for sale D. P. REDD. 317 State street. Send stamp for reply. 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. HARDWARE ORNAMENTS. H. L. Bacon Exhibits Fine Trophies of the Chase. Two handsomely mounted deer heads arrived in North Milwaukee on Thursday for A. L. Bacon, proprietor of the Bacon House. The heads now ornament the dining room of Mr. Bacon's hotel and attract much attention. They are much prized by the owner, as both are trophies of Mr. Bacon's last deer hunt in the woods of northern Wisconsin. When the deer season opened last fall, Mr. Bacon went to Antigo where he was joined by his father, Gilbert Bacon, his brother, Chas. Bacon, Al. Smith and Mr. Webley, all of Antigo. The party went to Langlade county and built a camp on the west bank of the Eau Claire river and eleven miles from the St. Paul railway. They spent three weeks in the woods and were remarkably successful. They killed ten fine bucks and two does, trapped two wild cats, each weighing thirty pounds, and captured a number of fur bearing animals and had a grand good time. One night while the hunters were asleep a number of wild cats came into the camp and mutilated two of the dead bucks before they were discovered; later two of the cats were trapped and skinned. The two bucks killed by A. L. Bacon weighed about 200 pounds apiece. The weather was just right for deer hunting and when the hunt ended, the lucky sportsmen hung up ten of the deer to be photographed. The two does were frozen so that they were stood upon their feet, and, in the photograph present a very life-like appearance. The picture was taken by a member of the party and the twelve deer represented over 1,500 pounds of venison. The party started for home at the close of the hunting season and at Taylor, Wis., Mr. Bacon arranged with John Lambert, a skillful taxidermist, to have two heads mounted. Mr. Lambert completed the work last week and he never turned out finer specimens of his skill. Gilbert Bacon, the father of A. L., and Chas. Lambert came to Wisconsin over 60 years ago. He is now 83 years of age and expects to go deer hunting in the season of 1906. He uses a gun with a fine sight, hunts without the aid of eyeglasses and shot two deer in the last hunt. One day last fall he wanted to go to the railway station, eleven miles from the camp, and walked that distance without fatigue. He enjoyed the camp life and the hunting as much as the youngest man in the party and had two fine bucks to show that, although 83 years of age, he is still a mighty hunter. Sleighride Party. A number of the young people had a delightful sleighride party to Keipper's park, last Saturday evening. Among the guests were; Misses Ange and Rose Van Roo, Lydia Jahn, Tennie Luscher, Alma Stoddard, Ella Olm, Alma Schoel, Myrtle Ertlemeyer, Lizzie Langtry, Alma Schlapman, R. Miller, L. Miller and Mrs. W. E. Lund; Messrs. George Luscher, George Wille, Fred Oeflein, J. Van Roo, Alfred and Walter Maeghi, William Merkle, August and Albert Leitzke, Edward Zulacher, W. Lund, W. Meyer. The number of Russian prisoners of war in Japan last month was about 3000. SHOT SKIPS HIS HEAD. Jacob Fass of Appleton Narrowly Escapes Death. POLICE INVESTIGATING. Secret Investigation Begun of Woman's Case Found at Roadside—Du Pont Says She Is His Wife. Appleton, Wis., Feb. 24.—[Special.]—While sitting at the front window of his home about a mile and a half south of the city on Lake Row shortly after 8 o'clock last evening, Jacob Fass narrowly escaped death from a bullet from a 32 caliber which passed through the window and just missed his head. He hastened to the door and saw a large sleigh disappear in the darkness. He is unable to identify the occupants. The police are now investigating the matter. The occupants of the sleigh were singing when they drove past, and without a word of warning the bullet was fired. Secret Investigation Begun. That a secret investigation has been begun to sift down the case of the woman found on the State road, Monday night, was learned today. The investigation is not in the hands of the local police, which insists that there is nothing to the affair. Joseph V. Du Pont, at whose house the woman lives, has recently come here from Maxville Wis, with his family. Savs It Was His Wife. Du Pont claims the woman was his wife. He says that his wife had eaten canned peaches for supper and had become poisoned by them and was consequently violently sick. She then went outside in the air and had fainted there. He was carrying her in the house when a boy passed. He then says that he had called to the boy, telling him not to report the accident. Why he should warn the boy not to tell of this unimportant state of affairs he did not say. Mr. Du Pont said that he was a musician and named a prominent local orchestra with which he said he was soon to be connected. The leader of this orchestra denies that he has engaged Du Pont, and that an application for a position was refused. WHITE LABEL NO FAD. President B. C. Gudden Reviews a Year's Work of Consumers' Oshkosh, Wis., Feb. 24.—[Special.] With an optimistic prediction for the future, Mrs. B. C. Gudden, president of the Wisconsin Consumers' league, which is holding its annual session here today, reviewed the work of a twelve-month today in the president's address. Before the close of the session resolutions will doubtless be adopted memorializing the Legislature to further prohibit child labor, in favor of old age pensions, and similar measures, as suggested in the annual address. The annual convention is in session in the Century on High street. The afternoon session was largely of a business character and there was a large attendance representing numerous parts of the state. At 12:30 o'clock this afternoon all the presidents of the local leagues and the state officers were entertained at dinner at the home of Mrs. B. C. Gudden. At the afternoon session the principal feature was the annual address of the president. Mrs. B. C. Gudden. Mrs. Gudden spoke of the legislative work which the national and state leagues have accomplished, particularly in behalf of child labor and compulsory education. In this state, Mrs. Gudden said, several cities were brought around through league efforts to properly obey the law relative to the appointment of truant officers. The state league has been instrumental in returning a number of children to school from factories and has accomplished much for sanitary measures, seats for clerks in mercantile establishments, and other features. That manufacturers were coming more and more to recognize and admit the moral and commercial value of the white label, was her prediction. The league movement is no longer treated as a fad, she said. Mrs. Gudden announced that she was deeply interested in the pension measures before the Legislature providing for a system of old age pensions for superannuated laborers, workmen, teachers and public officials. Some of the legislative measures endorsed by the state league are: Bill prohibiting the playing in orchestras and public performances of children under 14 years of age; an increase of assistant factory inspectors from six to fourteen; making it possible to increase the number of juvenile courts in counties; prohibiting the farming out of convict labor, and an amendment giving the truant officer power and authority of factory inspection. The league showed opposition to the effort to extend the right of granting permits under the child labor law. DISPATCHERS MUST GO SUDDENLY North-Western Road Makes Sweeping Changes at Kaukauna. Kaukauna, Wis., Feb. 24.—[Special.] —A sweeping reduction in North-Western, the train dispatchers' force was made here yesterday, and one-half of the men were sent to Antigo, where a new train dispatchers' office for the Ashland division has been recently opened. The men sent to Antigo are Night Dispatcher T. McCoughlin, Dispatchers Robert Treat, Ralph McCullough, Henry Kircher and W. B. Murray and Operators Rogan and Cole, O. A. Janes of Mather is transferred to Kaukauna to fill Cole's position. T. M. Coughlin will be chief dispatcher at the Antigo office. The order came suddenly from the general offices in Chicago, and some of the men had to leave at once without having a chance to gather up their personal belongings. A change was expected, but it was not expected to be so radical in its nature. J. E. Splon, chief tarin dispatcher at the Kaukauna offices, will remain in charge of this end of the Ashland division. WRECK'S CAUSE UNUSUAL Rio, Wis., Feb. 24.—[Special.]—The railway accident Thursday morning, by which Roland J. Dickey, a Milwaukee brakeman, was instantly killed and Conductor M. McQueeny injured, was the result of a slight error in an order given out by a telegraph operator, made serious by the heavy fog prevailing at the time. The fast mail was thirty-five minutes behind time, and orders were issued to have the two trains meet at East Rio, instead of at Wyocena, the usual place. The operator at Watertown Junction, who delivered it to the fast mail, is said to have by mistake substituted the name of the usual passing place, Wyocena, for that of East Rio. The stop signals had been displayed at East Rio by the operator there, but in the heavy fog neither engineer could see these, and the head-on collision resulted a few second later. NO LOW RATES FOR ROUND-UP INSTITUTE Western Passenger Association Turns Down Supt. George McKerrow's Request for General Reduction. Eau Claire, Wis., Feb. 24.—[Special.] —Chairman McLeod of the Western Passenger association has sent a refusal to the requests of George McKerrow, superintendent of farmers' institutes in Wisconsin, and the Eau Claire Commercial association, for a reduced rate covering the entire state for the round-up institute to be held here in March. He offers a fare and one-third for a radius of 100 miles. The Illinois round-up institute is given what is refused to Eau Claire, it is claimed. KITTIES THRONG WOODS. Lake Superior Lumbermen Face New Race Problem—Mousers' Descendants a Strange Animal. Marinette, Wis., Feb. 24.—[Special.]—Domestic cats, running wild, and their descendants, born in timber, threaten to overrun the forests on the shores of Lake Superior. Several years ago a lumber company operating in that division of the state distributed about fifty cats among the camps to kill off rats, which were doing much damage. When the camps broke up most of the cats were left to shift for themselves and the result has been that they are now running wild. The kittens born to the wild conditions are much larger and fiercer than the old Dutch mongers. The new race of wild cats has no difficulty in making a good living in Lake county, which abounds in rabbits, wild mice and birds. With the instinct of the feline race the cats have their regular lairs for protection from wolves and cold, and for raising their litters. A lynx or a regular wild cat will not harm one of them, recognizing them as members of the same family. A Duluth timber cruiser says that within five years the Legislature will be offering a bounty for the destruction of the descendants of the staid old mousers. PLAN NEW BERLIN LINE. Wisconsin Capitalists Now at Head of Project Which Heretofore Failed in Other Hands. Ripon, Wis., Feb. 24.—[Special.]—The building of an electric railroad for passenger and freight service from Berlin to Fond du Lac, via Dartford and Ripon, is being considered by Berlin and Ripon capitalists, and unless present plans fail, active operations to that end will commence this spring. In the past few years a number of plans have been formulated for electric connections between this city and Fond du Lac and between Berlin and Oshkosh, but the present one appears the most practical. The proposed route from Berlin to Fond du Lac passing through Dartford and Ripon would require about thirty-eight miles of track, located in a thickly populated section. FRANTZ FAMILY OUSTED. Held Control of Kenosha Postoffice for Twenty-seven Years—Former Deputy Game Warden Gets Place. Kenosha, Wis., Feb. 24.—[Special.]—With the appointment of John B. Maloney as postmaster of Kenosha, which was made in Washington Thursday, Charles B. Reinardy, formerly deputy game warden for this county, was named as assistant postmaster. The appointment of Reinardy removes Charles Frantz, Jr., from the office and means that after twenty-seven years the members of the Frantz family have lost control of the Kenosha postoffice. Capt. Frantz has been postmaster for twenty-seven years and his son had been assistant for many years. It is expected that Postmaster Maloney will take charge of the office on March 1. DRAPE SENATOR'S DESK. McGillivray Finds Flowers at His Seat in the Legislature—Work of Democratic Jokers. Madison, Wis., Feb. 24.—[Special.]—Senator McGillivray's desk in the Senate chamber was draped with an American flag and a large bouquet of roses was placed on top of it this morning as a recognition of his valiant speech on behalf of the taxpayers in regard to the new capitol Thursday. The senator does not know from whom the testimonial comes, but it is whispered that it is the work of Senators North and Randolph, Democratic jokers. WATERTOWN PIONEER DEAD. Daniel F. Kusel, One of Most Prominent Lutherans in State Watertown, Wis., Feb. 24.—[Special.] —Daniel Kusel, Sr., a pioneer resident and business man of Watertown, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. H. Winkenwerder. He had been in good health up to six weeks ago. He was born in Mecklenberg, Germany, August 30, 1811, where he was a manufacturer of tin and brass goods, but owing to the war in his native country in 1848 he emigrated to the United States, locating in Watertown June 22, 1849, over fifty years ago. He soon opened a tin shop and hardware store on the present site of the store of the D. & F. Kusel company. He was one of the founders of the first Lutheran church in Watertown in 1850, and was active in the promotion of the Northwestern university, of which he was president and one of the trustees until the encroachment of age made it necessary for him to retire. Mrs. Catherine O'Malley. Waunakee, Wis., Feb. 24.-Mrs. Catherine O'Malley, a sister of M. P. Walsh of Milwaukee, is dead here, aged 77 years. She lived in Milwaukee in 1847 and later at Westport. WAUKESHA MAN PROMOTED S. R. Jacobs Now Chief of a Division in State Department. Washington, D. C., Feb. 24.—Sidney R. Jacobs of Waukesha county, a clerk in the office of the auditor of the state department, at the head of which is Col. E. G. Timme of Kenosha, has been promoted from an $1800 clerkship to be chief of a division at $2000. ONE YEAR FOR CHECK RAISER Marinette Woodsman Sentenced for Raising $14 to $1400. Marinette, Wis., Feb. 24.—[Special.]—Edward Riley, a woodsman, was sentenced to one year at Waupun today for raising a time check of the Davis & Stitt company from $14 to $1400 and cashing it. HORSE SPOINCHER PET CLUB WAUSAU LUMBER AND COAL CO. 'Phone North 69. NORTH MILWAUKEE NOTES. Joseph Lavin has returned from Manistee, Mich, and is once more in the shops of the Luther Bros. Co. Frank Barth, popularly known as "Short," is on the sick list. William Riley is with the Wausau Lumber company. There are rumors of new shops coming to the village but no definite information can be obtained. Landlord Bacon has decided to engage in the chicken business. He has made a thorough study of chicken farming and is planning to go into the business on a large scale. It is his intention to purchase a farm located near North Milwaukee. He has already purchased some fine Plymouth Rocks from Bradley Bros., the famous chicken breeders of Illinois, and expects to be a full fledged poultry raiser before another year. Sixty people from the city of Milwaukee enjoyed a masquerade ball Sunday night at the Park hall. There was no rural mail delivery on Wednesday, Washington's birthday, and a large quantity of mail accumulated in the postoffice, which was delivered Thursday. The ladies of the Milwaukee Liedertafel enjoyed an afternoon at Park hall. "The Deestrick Skule" was presented Thursday evening at the Park hall. The entertainment was given for the benefit of a local church. The schoolhouse flag floated on the breeze on Washington's birthday and the pupils had the usual holiday. Dr. J. H. Rohr, county physician for the northern towns and villages of Milwaukee county, reports little sickness in the country. G. Zieburske will treat his friends to a hasenpfeffer lunch March 5. Rev. S. A. Kose of Milwaukee was the guest of A. N. Miller Tuesday. Miss Emma Schuppert is visiting friends in Chicago and Racine. Miss Ione Whorton returned to Appleton Wednesday. Mrs. Charles McCally will entertain the Ladies' Aid society next Thursday afternoon. Misses Hilda and Edna Schuck of Milwaukee spent Wednesday with their cousins Florence and Elnora Miller. Miss Agnes Clark of Milwaukee was an over-Sunday guest of her cousins, Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Clark. Mrs. George Wells went to Duluth on Tuesday to attend the funeral of her brother, Dr. Phalen. Mr. Parker of S. & B. Co. spent a few days with his family at Evanston, Ill., this week. Mr. and Mrs. Herman Klatt will occupy one of the McHenry cottages on Thirty-sixth street and Hampton avenue. Mrs. Mahnke and Mrs. Lawye of Milwaukee spent Sunday with Mrs. Zieburske. Martin Knuteson spent last Sunday with his sister in Chicago. H. Gordon spent a part of the week in Poynette, Wis., with friends. John Schultz and Miss Sallie Zieburske attended the bowling tournament at the Expo Thursday evening. Albert Seider is spending a few days in Chicago. Miss Jessie Dowling of Milwaukee and Frank Barth of North Milwaukee will be married March 8, 1905. On the sick list are Lillian Sandow, Mrs. Arthur Schwan, Frank Barth and Arthur Sherwood. William Riley has accepted a position with the Wausau Lumber company. Mrs. Ava Beatty left Saturday for a few days' visit with Chicago friends. Otto Brandes of Lannon, Wis., is home for a visit with his parents. P. J. Clark of Green Bay was in town for an over Sunday visit with his family. Joseph Lavin of Manistee, Mich., came on Tuesday to visit friends. Mr. and Mrs. S. V. Bassett of Milwaukee spent Sunday with her sister, Mrs. Peter Godfrey. Miss Clara Jahn left Wednesday for her home in Thiensville. John Clark and Jesse Drost left last week for Kentucky. Frank Bauer of Mayville called on friends here Tuesday. Otto Sohoweide and lady friend were guests of Milwankee friends on Sunday. Otto Sonowede and lady friend were guests of Milwaukee friends on Sunday. Dr. and Mrs. J. Schwendener, Sr., were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. A. N. Miller. Mrs. P. J. Clark spent Thursday in Milwaukee with Mrs. C. H. Mosher. Quite a number from here attended the Arion concert in the city Tuesday evening. Battle with Four Bear Cubs. C. A. Angel and Jacob Miller of Black Duck, Minn., are the heroes of a battle with four bear cubs which set out to avenge their mother and were bested. While the men were passing the den, the old bear, weighing 250 pounds, came out and Mr. Angel killed it with his rifle. Union hearing the commotion outside four yearling cubs came out with a rush and made for the men, who retreated to a sleigh, where Miller got an axe. For half an hour there was "something doing every minute," and finally the cubs were all killed. France's Rounded Nickels. The French are having a hard time with their nickels. The old ones were so much like the silver frame piece that the people protested; they kept giving a piece worth twenty cents for one worth five. At last they have changed the shape. The new nickel will be rounded with acute corners so that by the simple touch the difference will be perceptible. About 20,000,000 will, in a few days, be thrown into the circulation.--Brooklyn Eagle. when you go to buy lumber and building material, but come where you know the grades and prices are right. AND COAL CO. North Milwaukee, Wis. venue Tailoring Co. and Gents' Clothes Pressed and Repaired VENUE, MILWAUKEE. TELEPHONE BLACK 8221. WARN THE BENEVOLENT PUBLIC AGAINST GARS FOR ALLEGED CHARITABLE INSTITUTE THE NEGRO RACE. LOOK WELL TO THE CREMENDICANTS AND INQUIRE OF SOME REPUTA- REGARDING THE TRUTHFULNESS OF THEIR Grand Avenue Tailoring Co. Ladies' and Gents' Clothes Cleaned, Pressed and Repaired 510 GRAND AVENUE, MILWAUKEE. TELEPHONE BLACK 8221. WE CONTINUE TO WARN THE BENEVOLENT PUBLIC AGAINST THE NUMEROUS BEGGARS FOR ALLEGED CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS IN BEHALF OF THE NEGRO RACE. LOOK WELL TO THE CREDENTIALS OF SUCH MENDICANTS AND INQUIRE OF SOME REPUTABLE NEGRO CITIZEN REGARDING THE TRUTHFULNESS OF THEIR STATEMENTS. MR. C. C. THOMPSON, has rented the 8-room house, 223 Sixth St., beautifully furnished for roomers. --- Carborundum One of the Marvels of the Age. One of the new factory plants of North Milwaukee is that of the Luther Bros. company, manufacturers of hand and foot power grinders, hardware specialties, gasoline engines and milk testers. The company is prospering and their plant, situated on Western avenue, is turning out large quantities of finished products. But the wonder of this manufacturing plant is carborundum, a wonderful compound which is made into wheels, sharpening stones, carpenters' and barbers' hones, knife, axe and scythe sharpeners, and other articles used in cutting steel and other hard substances. Geo. Burroughs & Sons MANUFACTURERS OF PREMIUM TRUNKS VALISES, SAMPLE CASES, Etc. 124 7 426 East Water St., Milwaukee ELK EXPRESS CO. G. J. CHARLESTON, Mgr. 63 E. Sixth Street, ST. PAUL, MINN. The Luther Bros. company of North Milwaukee have the exclusive right from the manufacturers to use grinding wheels made from carborundum and they have a trade that reaches to all parts of the country. Carborundum is a discovery of Edward G. Acheson, a graduate of "Edison's college of invention," who attempted to make diamonds out of clay and coke dust and discovered something of far more value to the world than diamonds or rubies—a new substance as hard as the diamond, capable of being used as a substitute for the diamond and the greatest abrasive capable of application for common use and in the arts. With sand, carbon and salt and a powerful electric heat Mr. Acheson produced a new substance in the form of crystals formed just as they are formed by nature. Carborundum is manufactured at Niagara Falls, N. Y., by the Carborundum company. The great electric dynamos of the company are operated by power from Niagara Falls. These dynamos have a capacity of 10,000 horse power and are capable of generating 22,000 volts. Large ovens made of fire brick are used and the intense electric heat destroys the oven and a new one must be made for every fresh "batch" of carborundum. The abrasive value of carborundum is thus explained in the Saturday Evening Post: "It is used both to polish the most delicate china and to shape the pistons on the engines of our great ocean liners. It hones the razor and puts an edge on the sword. It polishes the diamond and points the tool that punches rivet holes in the armor of the great battleships. It polishes the shoe sole and the kid glove, and smoothes down the angles of the great telescope lens." The Luther Bros. company of North Milwaukee does not manufacture carborundum. North Milwaukee has no Niagara to operate dynamos of 10,000 horse power, and generate volcanic heat of 22,000 volts. There is but one Niagara in this country. But the Luther Bros. company have been granted the exclusive use, in the United States, of carborundum wheels when used on hand tool grinders or foot power machines. And these wonderful tools and machines are being shipped to all parts of the country, each shipment adding to the fame of carborundum or artificial diamond dust. A jolly sleighing party of twenty North Milwaukee people went to West Allis Saturday night and took supper at the Alpen Huette, where the genial host, H. S. Berninger, made all welcome and produced the best of everything. --- ROOMS Give him a call. A WONDERFUL COMPOSITION. Jolly Sleighing Party Tel. White 9343 WANTED--AGENTS We want 100 agents in every city, town and hamlet in the U. S. for the Wisconsin Weekly Advocate. It will be devoted to the interest of the Negro race and will contain the news of their sayings and doings throughout the world. 50 Per Cent. Commission ADDRESS WISCONSIN WEEKLY ADVOCATE MILWAUKEE, WIS. Before Starting on Your Travels CALL ON Calvary Baptist Church 221 Seventh St., Milwaukee Morning service, 11 a. m.; Sunday school, 1 p. m.; evening service, 7:45. B. P. Robinson, pastor. Luke 19:13—Be busy till I come. Shooting with King Alfonso. When the King of Spain was at Xeres he greatly admired a horse belonging to Senor Rivero, one of the notables of the town, who at once presented him with the animal. The King refused the gift, but the other day, at the pigeon shooting at the Casa de Campo, near Madrid, a match was arranged between the King and Senor Rivero. The stakes were, on the King's side, a gold piece of 100 pesetas, and on Senor Rivero's a souvenir of Xeres. Like a skilful courtier, Senor Rivero lost, and sent the King the horse which he had so much admired as a souvenir of Xeres. The King could not refuse to accept, but he at once sent the senor one of the best horses in the royal stable in exchange.—London Sketch. Goats to Kill Snakes. That useful animal, the goat, is being put to a new use on a farm ten miles northwest of Columbia. A carload of them was turned loose today on a piece of ground on the Branham-Hearn farm for the purpose of exterminating rattlesnakes. The plot of ground is thickly covered with undergrowth and there are so many rattlesnakes on it that workmen are afraid to enter it to clear it up. Goats were suggested and Hewitt brothers, the proprietors of the farm, ordered a carload at once. The experiment is being watched with much interest. Goats on the state farm at Columbia have proved their efficiency in the clearing of thickly covered ground, but some doubt if they will be able to exterminate the snakes as well—Kansas City Times. Our wagons speed all over town, All hours of every day, Depositing and picking up Big bundles on the way. We've got the best machinery, And expert help galore; We make your linen glisten and gleam Like sea-foam on the shore! We do not slight an article, However coarse or fine; Oh, everything's immaculate On The American Laundry Line. And so we bid for patronage, At least a wholesome share Of collars, cuffs and shirts and gowns, And rumpled underwear. We set the pace and from our point Our banner shall not fall, We fling it to the breeze and reach Going higher than them all. Laundry left before 8 a. m. can be called for at 6:30 p. m. same day, Saturdays excepted. Beware of Impostors Beware of Impostors ot different professions soliciting money in Wisconsin for purposes unknown to any person in that state and for use elsewhere. Driven out of other states they are overrunning this. We think it an imperative duty on us as being the only negro paper in the state, to protect its generous philanthropists. From now on, we shall warn the mayor and chief of police of every city in Wisconsin against such adventurers. The Oliver Typewriter.. The Standard Visible Writer GOLD MEDALS AND FIRST AWARDS. Philadelphia, 1899. Earls Court, London, 1899. Omaha, 1899. Paris 1900 Venice, 1901. Lille (France), 1901 Buffalo, 1901. 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"Before our company had been six months in the service it had made several forced marches in the rain, had waded rivers on three different occasions, had fought its bloodiest engagement on Sunday, and the boys had revised their army regulations to read, 'An officer may do with his men what he pleases, providing always that he licks the enemy.' "At Stone River a captain of the best disciplined company in the regiment ordered his men, retreating in line, to stop and pull out a gun carriage jammed in between two trees. The captain and two men stepped out and the company went on. The captain and his two helpers were prisoners in five minutes, and word came to the company that the captain had sworn he would have them all punished for disobedience of orders as soon as he was released from prison. "In due time he was released and returned to the regiment in a new uniform. He came up with the column just as the men had been ordered to throw up intrenchments, and when he reached his company the men were as muddy as so many ditchers. They suspended work only a minute to give the captain a cheer. In that minute the wag of the company asked: 'Where is the cannon, Cap?' This forced the issue, and the captain, laughing, said the joke was on him. In fifteen minutes he was working as hard as his men, and his new uniform was a sight to behold." "I played sapper and miner," said Dan R. Anderson, "down at Spanish Fort in 1864. I was detailed to go out with men from other regiments. I remember two men in line ahead of me were from the Thirty-third Illinois. At the entrance to the zigzag we were furnished with tools. The two Thirty-third boys were given axes. A spade was my trump, and all the rest but one drew spades or shovels. That one had a pick. We were marched to the end of the zigzag, led by a great, stout engineer. I would like to know his name, and if he is alive and sees this he will remember the incident, and me, as I tried to pull him over a big pile of dirt, thinking him badly wounded. Arriving at our destination, it was revealed to us that a large limb of a fallen pine tree was directly in the path of the zigzag, and must be cut away. No. 1 was told to get up and cut it off. He said: 'I can't chop.' Then No. 2 was asked. He made the same excuse. How could a man raised in a prairie country be supposed to know how to chop? Then it came my turn, and I was asked: 'Can you chop?' 'Not very well with a spade,' I said. And no sooner had I said it than I was proffered an ax by each of the two Thirty-third Illinois boys. "Only a few years previously I had prided myself as being a chopper from away back in Posey County, Indiana. If only I had the ax to suit me, but these two—good Lord! One had only half of the bit left; the other was no chopping ax. I took the one with a broken bit and mounted the log. It was about a foot in diameter and within twenty yards of the rebel rifle pits. I took in the situation and wondered if I would be recognizable after I cut that limb off, for I meant to cut it off, dead or alive. I heard a rebel officer say to his men to come up this way; 'they's choppin' right out thar' close. Now, listen, an' you uns all git the sound where it is, and get ready and all fire at once.' I wished then that I was the thicknss of a sheet of writing paper. I waited till I thought it time for them to fire, when I quietly dropped down on the lee side of the log and kept pecking away at it. The ruse worked. They fired, and I up and at it again. I again heard the order to load, and kept ready to drop instantly I heard the word 'Ready.' All fired again and never touched me. "I chopped, and as shot after shot came my way I had the limb nearly cut through when a bullet struck the handle of the ax, splintering it so badly that I called for the other one, and was delighted when I had bruised through and the limb was out of the way. I was pulled down in the pit by the engineer, and was told that my share of digging was to be done from below the danger line. The engineer climbed up and told the rest of the detail to follow, and he marked out each man's allotted space in which to dig, which took some of them right in the face of the rebel pickets, but by stooping quite low the protection of the fallen tree trunk enabled them to soon get out of danger, not, however, before one of the Thirty-third Illinois boys got panicky and came tumbling in on top of me, knocking hard against the engineer, who had in the meantime returned. The tumbler flatly refused to return when so ordered by the engineer. The next day I saw him being escorted through the camp in a 'barrel' suit to the tune of the 'Rogue's March,' and I was glad that it was not I. What was the name of the engineer? Who knows if he is alive? "In the rear of the Twenty-sixth Indiana was a hill over which we had to go for cimmissary supplies, for water, etc. Inside of the field works of Spanish Fort was quite a lot of large forest trees, one of which was utilized by a rebel sharpshooter, who was a good shot. He worried us not a little. He kept a steady stream of bullets playing on the thoroughfare, none of them going wide over twenty feet, and he pinked several of the boys as they were crossing over, until it was seen that he had range on a certain spot. Then a detour was made at accelerated speed, and everybody was on the lookout for the undesirable shooter. It was a couple of days before he was located in a tree far back and well concealed by other trees. When found he was made a target of for the whole of our brigade, and may be the whole line of guns; cannon were trained on him next. Little did he know of the means being used to put him out of business. He had nailed cleats to the tree up as high as forty feet to where the tree forked, and had built a platform to stand on while he rested his gun in the fork. He had fastened several pulleys to the tree, each supplied with a cord, to which was slung a gun, and operated from the ground by confederates. "The plan for his undoing was for one of the gunners from the Milwaukee, who was considered a good shot, to have the first shot, and for all the cannons to be trained on the tree, and all the infantry that could see the spot was, in case the first shot missed, to fire. "All eyes centered on the pot where stood the man whose destiny was certainly and speedily drawing to a close. I stood behind the gunner who was to have the first shot and watched him arrange his gun; a little higher, now lower, a little to the right—'Now look out!'—puff! bang! It was a center shot. It knocked that Johnny out of his cozy nest, and he was seen by thousands as he went whistling toward Mother Earth. What a shout went up. "Within a few minutes all the cannon of Spanish Fort opened on us with solid shot and shell. Our guns, being trained on the aforesaid tree, could not at once respond, but when they did get ready the concussion was so great that you couldn't stand still or lie down without rolling; and you could scarcely hear yourself think. I know that I went fast asleep while it was all going on. I would like to hear from others that saw that sight, and hear their version of it."—Chicago Inter Ocean. Stonewall Jackson's Plan The Charlotte (N. C.) Chronicle publishes an interesting article on Stonewall Jackson's plan for conducting the Confederacy struggle. Mrs. Jackson is writing her husband's biography, and making some corrections in what Dabney says in his "Life of General Barringer, has furnished her with a report of a plan outlined by Stonewall Jackson in a council of war on July 14, 1862. General Lee approved it, but President Davis vetoed it. The plan was to organize a few independent camps at important points in the South and use the best troops as light, movable columns of not over forty or fifty thousand each, made up of the very best men, under picked officers, and lightly equipped for quick marchers. These he would hurl against the enemy as it invaded Southern territory, or use them to make rapid incursions to capture badly protected Northern towns, would levy five to ten thousand dollars on each town, and destroy places that refused the demand. If too closely pressed he would swiftly retreat. No prisoners would be taken except high civil officers, who would be held for ransom. The rank and file would be paroled on the understanding that if ever caught fighting again they would be killed. Jackson would not attempt to hold the less important points in the South. Barringer says that after Pope was whipped by Jackson, at Cedar River, Jackson expected this plan to be instituted, but Lee decided to remain inactive, and afterward invaded Maryland with his whole army, and was overwhelmed at Sharpsburg, demonstrating the superior wisdom of Jackson's idea of isolated attacks. Disenchanted. Clarissa—You don't seem to be a bit impressed by Mrs. Snobson's imperiousness. Estelle—Not a bit! You see, we happened to be staying at the same hotel one summer when it took fire in the night."—Detroit Free Press. His Early Training "If the senator never went to college where did he get his flow of language?" "He used to break mules for a living."—Illinois State Journal. For London's Dead. Twenty-three acres of ground are needed to bury London's dead of one year. Compulsory education will become general in Cape Colony in three years' time. SHORT TEMPERANCE SERMONS. "It's all very well for teacher to speak of influence. He may have it, and ministers, and fathers, and mothers, and grown-up people, but who minds what a boy like me does? What would it matter? How could it make anybody better or worse?" Johnnie was thinking as he left the Sunday school. The text for the night had been "No man liveth unto himself," and the teacher had been trying to impress upon the boys that every word and act and look have their consequences, far-reaching often, beyond what we can conceive. It was little wonder, perhaps, that Johnnie thought that his doings could be of little importance. An errand boy in a big, busy shop, he was running at everybody's beck and call from early morning till night, and though the poor, overdriven little fellow did his best, he was often scolded for being late or too slow over his messages. At the evening classes his teachers often thought him stupid, and called him so, when he was really too tired to learn, so poor Johnnie had a very humble opinion of himself or anything he could do. "Who's got any pennies?" said one of the boys next Sunday night, as they were passing an ice cream shop. "We'll club them and have a jolly spree here. They've rattling good sweeties with liquor inside, the real stuff, you bet," with a wink. Coppers were readily produced. Many of the boys indeed were too good customers for these sweets with the strong, hot liquid inside the sugar coating. "Come, Johnnie, out with your penny, if you've got one—not likely," with a laugh. "You never have." For a wonder, Johnny had a penny. His mother could not spare him one, but a shopman had given it to him for running an errand very late on Saturday night. He flushed at the coarse laugh in which the boys joined. The penny was already in his hand. It would be grand for once to do as the other boys did. Then with a gulp he thrust it back into the empty little pocket. "I have a penny, but I'm not going to spend it in a Sunday shop. Mother said I mustn't." "We'll not ask you to spend your only penny then. It's so precious seldom he has a penny, eh, boys?" jeeringly. "But we're not all of us so stingy; we'll each give him a sweetie apiece, and he can tell his mammy he didn't buy them." To poor Johnny who seldom tasted them, a sweet even offered in this fashion was a temptation. He clenched his chapped, reddened fists hard. "I won't take them. Mother says it's wrong to buy them, so it's no better to eat them, and if there's liquor in them, I can't and I won't, for I promised I would never touch it—so there!" in hot defiance, which was not far from tears. The boys looked at each other, some laughed tauntingly, but others remembered with shame the promise which, like Johnnie, they had given, but which, unlike him, they had been afraid to keep. "Johnnie's right," said one at last with an effort. "I promised, too, and I'll do like him this time and stick to it." "And so will I," said another, gaining courage, too. "I'm off for school then or we'll be late," said Johnnie, and the three walked away together, while the group left behind at the shop door lingered a little and then melted away without entering. As Johnnie took his seat, his heart was full. He had learned that his teacher was right, that it was not only grown-up, important people who had influence, but that for good or for evil it did matter what even a little boy did, for "Even a child is known by his ways."—National Advocate. A Temperance Lesson. John Barleycorn, John Barleycorn, The day that first we met, I had a bank account, John, I would I had it yet. Your warmth was so engaging, Your spirit thrilled me through, I drew out my account, John, And gave it all to you. John Barleycorn, John Barleycorn, The day that first we met, I had a steady hand, John, I would I had it yet. I was the master, then, John, But in the years somehow You've put me on my back, John, You are the master now. —J. W. Foley. Alcohol Needless. From The Journal of Hygiene is taken the following interesting statement concerning the success of the London, England, Temperance Hospital: The London Temperance Hospital contains nearly 100 beds, which in one year accommodated 1,036 persons. Dr. Collins, surgeon for many years, says that, although not a total abstainer, he must confess that of the 2,000 cases that have passed under his care, not one has suffered in any degree from the non-administration of alcohol. His whose systems were entirely free from it made the more rapid and satisfactory recovery. 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. 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And ever yet failed to see the person attacking man uncomfortable by this observation—which is is made. Once in a long time the average man is his friend who makes a practice of saying kind others and with this refrains from saying up. There are not many of this sort of man—per lifetime sums up the usual experience. Yet fort comes from the knowledge that here is the least who is a self-elected guardian of "my" as he is of the good names of all his others in his single person gives the lie to that cynical statement, "God save me from my take care of my enemies." There are always plenty of the sort of feel to you with mean things some one else has sent of you. They are the kind "who mean it" who repeat often in justification the statement are the wounds of a friend." It is only the strangers can say little to wound, friends can and relatives can—and often do—say the saying kind things the reverse appears to be. You meet some one and come to know him highly. You hear after a little that he has express admiring you. How much more pleased you some one you know well has made the same if a kinsman of yours had said it, you would thought of it at all. Our lives depend upon the good opinion and in this lies the explanation. The company stands more for the great world in your own those who are connected with you by ties of blood, since he is not already prejudiced in you stands a better chance of speaking the truth spoken of—that is all many of us live for cause along. There is a slang expression which shows how deeply this is felt. When some one is saying unkind things of another some jesters have taken advantage of this state of feeling to observe of the person attacked, "He always speaks well of you." And no one has ever yet failed to see the person attacking made thoroughly uncomfortable by this observation—which is the reason it is made. Once in a long time the average man is blessed with a friend who makes a practice of saying kind things about others and with this refrains from saying unkind things. There are not many of this sort of man—perhaps one in a lifetime sums up the usual experience. Yet what a comfort comes from the knowledge that here is one person at least who is a self-elected guardian of "my" good name, as he is of the good names of all his other friends! He in his single person gives the lie to that desperately cynical statement, "God save me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies." There are always plenty of the sort of folk who come to you with mean things some one else has said or written of you. They are the kind "who mean it for the best," who repeat often in justification the statement, "Faithful are the wounds of a friend." It is only too true that strangers can say little to wound, friends can say more, and relatives can—and often do—say the most. But in saying kind things the reverse appears to be true. You meet some one and come to know him very slightly. You hear after a little that he has expressed himself as admiring you. How much more pleased you are than if some one you know well has made the same remark; while, if a kinsman of yours had said it, you would hardly have thought of it at all. Our lives depend upon the good opinion of the world, and in this lies the explanation. The comparative stranger stands more for the great world in your own idea of it than those who are connected with you by ties of friendship or blood, since he is not already prejudiced in your favor. He stands a better chance of speaking the truth. To be well spoken of—that is all many of us live for. Let's help the cause along. DON'T OVERLOOK THE "NEXT BEST THING." When, for good and sufficient it comes impossible to carry through in the best way, do the "next best the edge of just what this next best the emergency of the affairs of life to the business of doing it. But free the judgment has put its seal upon of the thing next to be done, the having been able to do the first stuns the individual until the opportunity for thing is irrevocably past. A great cleaning powder was stumbled up first, who saw a fortune in it. But the prac men, upon whom it would devolve to sell the an insuperable difficulty with the market. The of a shade seemingly impossible of produc of whiteness that was the powder's chic couldn't sell that stuff without hypnotic power expert opinion of the man who knew the man manufacturer knew the "next best thing." It was so objectionable to the market was GUPID ON THE GRIDIRON. When, for good and sufficient reason, it becomes impossible to carry through business plans in the best way, do the "next best thing." Knowledge of just what this next best thing is in any emergency of the affairs of life is essential to the business of doing it. But frequently when the judgment has put its seal upon the necessity of the thing next to be done, the shock of not having been able to do the first thing intended individual until the opportunity for the next best irrevocably past. A great cleaning powder was stumbled upon by a chemist, who saw a fortune in it. But the practical business men, upon whom it would devolve to sell the stuff, found an insuperable difficulty with the market. The powder was of a shade seemingly impossible of producing the degree of whiteness that was the powder's chief merit. "I couldn't sell that stuff without hypnotic powers," was the expert opinion of the man who knew the market. But the manufacturer knew the "next best thing." The shade that was so objectionable to the market was scarcely more POLLY slid the ring back and forth on her finger, watching the reflection of the flames in the sparkling stone. "I—I fancy you had better take this back," she said, her glance meeting that of the young man on the hassock at her feet. "Polly!" "And you'd better call me Miss Westcott, too—or at least Peauline," she continued. "Polly!" Huntington did not remove his gaze from her face. "Here," she said, handing him the ring. "If I have to go to all the dances and 'proms' and theater parties with other men, I will not wear your ring." There was an air of finality about Polly which very much amused her companion, but he had more tact than to give evidence of it. "You had better keep it, dear," he said. "Miss Westcott, please," Polly corrected, her eyes flashing challengingly. What right had he to take his dismissal so cooly? Huntington took the ring and fastened it on his Kappa Sigma pin pendantwise. Polly watched him. "I hate football," she cried with vehemence. "It was at a football game that we met," reminded Huntington. "Was it? I had forgotten." Huntington hugged his knee and watched the flames dance. He knew she had not forgotten. "You became engaged to me on the way home from a football game, too," he persisted. "I had forgotten that also," she retorted, frigidly. Huntington supressed a smile which, had it been allowed to escape, might have ended in uproarious laughter. "And it is over football that we have become—er—disengaged — temporarily?" It was with trepidation that the big halfback added the final word. "Temporarily, indeed!" Polly could not summon voice for further utterance. His presumption with without precedent. Huntington nodded his head at her, and dangled the ring on his waistcoat. "I want you to understand distinctly, Mr. Huntington, that our engagement is at an end, definitely and finally." --- ```markdown ``` I "Polly!" By Wallace Rice. "And may I ask why?" "For the good and sufficient reason that you refuse to take me to the dance on Friday night, and all because you are in training for that wretched game. O, I have plenty of friends who will be glad to go with me, but I will not put them to a disadvantage by asking them to escort an engaged girl—so now!" Polly's cheeks had taken on some of the more delicate hues of the burning logs in the fireplace. Huntington was silent. Polly was in earnest then. She had broken their engagement because he must adhere to the rules laid down for men in training for the big game. His college team counted him among their strongest players; he could not go back on them. Surely, Polly must realize this. "See here, Polly," he began, but she interrupted him. "I will not listen, Mr. Huntington, and I might add that you may close the present interview as soon as you like." She leaned back in her chair and hummed a snatch of song, utterly ignoring him. Huntington rose and took his hat. "All right, Polly! When you are ready to talk sensibly and wear this ring again, let me know," and before she could look around, she heard the big door close and he was gone. Alone, she slid from her chair and sat on the little hassock he had left so abruptly. How queer and unadorned her left hand looked and—yes—there was an odd, indescribable feeling somewhere else—on her left side. Why did anyone invent football? And yet, Polly soliloquized, had it not been for the game, she might never have met him and loved him. It was his big, handsome presence on the field which had first attracted her, and it was after a splendidly won game that she had accepted him. Polly buried her head in her arms on the big chair and cried—because of football, of course, and its evils. "Huntington's playing the game of his life," said Teddy Lathrop, when time had been called on the first half of the big intercollegiate game. "Yes?" Polly Westcott's reply was given in a far-away tone. She wished they had not called time. She did not want the players to leave the field at all. She could not see them during the intermission. "He's been in strict training this season, and he's in fine trim," went on the innocent Lathrop, shifting about to see what Polly was staring at. He could see nothing interesting in the vacant space on which her glance was focused. than strongly suggestive of its failure as a bleacher. The chemist was called upon for a harmless shade of artificial coloring that would so accentuate the natural shade as to allow the purchaser to see nothing else but that color. Then the cleaning powder was named to carry with it this color description as the chief distinguishing feature of the powder. To-day to change the name of the powder probably would ruin its prestige. A wise business man had done the next best thing. The greatest problems in life continue to be expressed in the world's query. What is the next best thing? That "first" best thing will continue to be in the untried mind the easiest of determinations; it is on the rock of the "next" best thing that fortunes are wrecked or find foundations. WHY CHINA HATES MISSIONARIES. China nothing is more complicated than the very question. It is complicated because it is not only the question of religion but the issue of political rights and social customs. Conflict between an uncompromising faith inside and of an equally uncompromising its ethical phase on the other. It is a conducted by people in pursuance to a call to spread the light of the gospel in the heat once the proudest and the most cond, a people with a devotion to the faith yet nor cannon nor even the sacking of efficient to shake. Believe in their Bible as sincerely as the Christian does in his. They believe it conom that is worth learning in this world. Should be anything else would be equal to that there ought to be another additionment. Yet the doctrines of the Chinese used, and other teachings are offered that into the Chinese mind as air is to fish. The whole history of missions in China, a ray of hope until he comes to the Chi-aty of 1903. In that treaty is a clause first step toward the solution of the mission China. In that treaty is provided that it not interfere in lawsuits, and that no one made in the Chinese courts to Christian convert is exempted from contributions to idols, and the missionary may purchaseion of buildings for mission purposes, but out of the individual. Thus for the first time in China is built upon the foundation of fraud. In China nothing is more complicated than the missionary question. It is complicated because it involves not only the question of religion but the question of political rights and social customs. It is a conflict between an uncompromising faith on one side and of an equally uncompromising faith in its ethical phase on the other. It is a conflict conducted by people in pursuance to a divine call to spread the light of the gospel in the midst of a people at once the proudest and the most conceived in the world, a people with a devotion to the faith that neither bayonet nor cannon nor even the sacking of their capital is sufficient to shake. The Chinese believe in their Bible as sincerely as the most orthodox Christian does in his. They believe it contains all the wisdom that is worth learning in this world. To suppose there should be anything else would be equal to telling a Christian that there ought to be another addition to the New Testament. Yet the doctrines of the Chinese Bible are denounced, and other teachings are offered that are about as alien to the Chinese mind as air is to fish. In surveying the whole history of missions in China, one does not see a ray of hope until he comes to the Chinese-American treaty of 1903. In that treaty is a clause which takes the first step toward the solution of the missionary problem in China. In that treaty is provided that missionaries shall not interfere in lawsuits, and that no distinction shall be made in the Chinese courts to Christian converts. The convert is exempted from contributions to the temples and idols, and the missionary may purchase land for the erection of buildings for mission purposes, but not for the benefit of the individual. Thus for the first time mission work in China is built upon the foundation of truth and not of fraud. THE NEGRO'S STATUS IN BERMUDA. By President Eliot of Harvard University. In Bermuda, with a great preponderance of negroes in the population, there is absolutely equal suffrage based on an educational and property qualification. With the whites in the minority there, they yet rule, and rule satisfactorily. Every one is taxed to support the public schools, yet all the colonial schools are occupied by negro children, while the white children go to private schools at a slight additional cost, as would be the case in the South if the Southern people would attack the whole question in a like sane and We know how to settle the question, quickly if only our Southern brethren the courage and justice to do as the done, and so wipe out the whole "negro but then Lathrop was a freshman and had not known. "Now watch him," he cried as the signal for the second half was given. As if Polly would do anything else! Cheer after cheer went up from the grandstand as one good play after another took place on the gridiron, but Polly saw only one of the two elevens, though she cheered mechanically with the others. How proud she was that Huntington had not gone to the old dances, but had kept in good trim. Anyway, she believed the dances were not so jolly as they had been formerly—she had not enjoyed them very much. "Huntington's hurt!" cried Lathrop, switching Polly's train of thought suddenly. "What?" Polly's eyes followed the little procession which was carrying a man off the field. "Take me off the stand quick!" Lathrop took her arm and they hurried from the grandstand. "Where shall I take you?" he asked quite at a loss to comprehend the situation. "To—to—over there!" she cried, running in the direction of the little shed which the teams called the "hospital." Without asking permission she entered and looked at the man on the low cot. "Is—is he much hurt?" she asked. "Let me," she insisted, rubbing Huntington's forehead, and kneeling beside him while the others stood around in blank astonishment. "Just knocked silly, I reckon, Miss Westcott," drawled a big Kentuckian, who knew both Polly and Huntington and—Cupid. "Hello, Hunt!" he said, as Huntington opened his eyes. "Come, fellows, he's all right." Polly flashed him a look of gratitude as the crowd left the little room. "Mr. Lathrop, you mustn't miss the game, really," she added, as the freshman stood politely impatient. And although Lathrop was only a freshman, he noticed that when he took Miss Westcott home after the game she was happier than she had been on the way out, and that she was wearing a diamond he had not observed on her hand before.—Indianapolis Sun. "That Hustly seems like a plucky chap." "Guess he is all right. He has plucked everybody in this negihborhood."—Detroit Free Press. The "rest cure" is bound to become popular with the average man. [Image of a man with glasses and a suit] intelligent fashion and would do it would muster up Bermudans have question." CRISIS IN SWEDEN. Temporary Abdication of King Oscar May Be Sovereign's Last Public Act. The temporary abdication of King Oscar in favor of the Crown Prince Gustave gives Sweden two kings-infact—one abdicated, the other regent. Several times Oscar has done this, as the law requires the king shall, when incapacitated. Each time he has taken up the scepter again. But Oscar is old and feeble—a sick man—it would not surprise his world if he never reigned again. The crown prince is Oscar's eldest son. He was born June 16, 1858, and is a strong, healthy, sensible, capable man, not well beloved by his people. He was married in 1881 to Princess Victoria of Baden, and they have three A. sons. The eldest of these is the heir apparent, Prince Gustavus Adolphus, who will become crown prince on Oscar's death. He is 22 years old and more popular than his father. The union of Norway and Sweden took place in 1814. By the treaty of Kiel, Jan. 14 of that year, Norway was ceded to the King of Sweden. A charter was established and this provided that the fundamental law was the irrevocable union of the two nations. Recently there has been talk of a separation, and it is probable that Oscar felt the need of a younger mind and a stronger hand to deal with the political crisis that seems imminent. Here are some facts about the country: Population of Sweden 5198572 Population of Sweden, 5,198,572 (1902). Population of Norway, 2,240,032 (1900). Area of Sweden, 172,876 square miles. Area of Norway, 124,130 square miles. Total population, 7,438,784. Total area, 297,006 square miles. Population by race, 99 per cent Scandinavian. Population by religion, 98 per cent Lutheran. Education, less than 1 per cent illiterate. Chief industries, agriculture, mining fisheries, commerce, timber, manufacture. A TUNNEL GUARD ON THE CIRCUMBAIKAL RAILWAY. T The cut shows a tunnel on the new railway which the Russian government has constructed around Lake Baikal, a point on its Trans-Siberian line. The lake has been a great obstacle to navigation, making a serious break in the rout to Manchuria and having to be crossed by boats in summer and by a temporary railway laid on the ice in winter. The new road around the lake, 50 miles in length, has been built at great expense, having 38 tunnels and 13 covered galleries. At the entrance and exit of every tunnel are guards who are on duty night and day. Posts are established at suitable distances. In Pastel Colors. Suavity of line and delicacy of tint characterize the art of advertising in Japan. "Our silks and satins are as soft as the cheeks of a pretty woman, as beautiful as a rainbow," announces one progressive house. "Our parcels are packed with as much care as a young married woman takes of her husband," says another. "Our wrapping paper is as strong as the hide of an elephant. Goods forwarded with the speed of a cannon ball," boasts another merchant of the "hustler" type, oriental variety. An "Auld Licht." Scotch humor burns low in the church, but it is never wholly extinguished. "Weel, friends," said the minister to his congregation, "the kirk is urgently in need of siller, and as we have failed to get money honestly, we will have to see what a bazaar will do for us." We have noticed that when we find a really good country sausage an imitation soon appears that is just as good. Ask your dealer to show you the new Western Lady It is a perfect shoe, the final result of years of experience in shoe making—graceful in every line, handsomely modeled after the newest patterns; very stylish, extremely comfortable and unusually durable It represents the highest type of shoe quality produced under the Mayer name and trade-mark. If you want the most for your money get the "Western Lady." Your dealer has or can get Mayer "Western Lady" shoes for you. Send us his name and receive our elegant new style book. We also make "Martha Washington" shoes. Our trade-mark is stamped on every sole. F. MAYER BOOT & SHOE CO. MILWAUKEE, WIS. Alabastine Your Walls THE ALABASTINE COMPANY has prepared a complete set of 50 hand-made side wall and ceiling designs—3x7 inches—done in two colors in ALABASTINE. It is the most beautiful book of tints that was ever prepared. It is done with the same material that you buy of your dealer. In order to introduce this dainty book of ALABASTINE into your home, we will send it, with full instructions, for 25c, with the understanding that if it is not entirely satisfactory when received we will promptly refund the money. The possession of this book of designs entitles you to the FREE SERVICES OF OUR ARTISTS in working out any color scheme for any building which you may desire done with ALABASTINE. The purchase of five packages or more from any dealer entitles you to a FREE STENCIL OF ANY FRIEZE shown in the book upon presentation to us of the dealers' sales slip. This stencil sells from 50 cts. to $1.00. We send them ABSOLUTELY FREE TO YOU. charges prepaid. ALABASTINE is the most beautiful, the most durable, the most sanitary wall finish ever prepared. It can be applied to any room, for it restores old walls and improves new ones. THE ALABASTINE COMPANY, Grand Av., Grand Rapids, Mich. New York City, N. Y. THE FARMERS FARMS IN WESTERN CANADA FREE ON THE FREE HOMESTEAD LANDS carry the banner for yields of Wheat and other grains for 1904. 100,000 FARMERS receive $55,000,000 as a result of their wheat Crop alone. The returns from fares and other taxes as well as cattle and horses, and considerably to this. at once, or purchase from some reliable dealer while lands are selling at present low prices. Apply online to Ouanda Information, to T. O. Currie, Room 12 B, Ouahah Block, Milwaukee, WI. Authorized Government Agent. DO YOU COUGH DON'T DELAY TAKE KEMP'S BALSAM THE BEST COUGH CURE It Cures Colds, Coughs, Sore Throat, Croup, Influenza, Whoooping Cough, Bronchitis and Asthma. 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It’s made by the same process that makes a loaf of bread out of a lump of dough. {| In the retorts gas, tar and smoke-produc- ing, volatile matter are driven off. ‘| The solid carbon is left. {| This is Coke. §, Ton for ton, Genuine Milwaukee Gas Coke goes just as far as hard coal, AND COSTS 30% LESS. | Order from your local dealer. If he doesn’t keep GENUINE MILWAUKEE GAS COKE, drop us a postal. & Milwaukee Gas Light Co. & (Send for our Booklet on “How to Burn Gas Coke.’’) ygumt 1S THE FIRST ESSENTIAL 1t Helps Women to Win and Men's ‘Admiration, Respect and oe Woman's greatest gift s the power to inspire admiration, respect, and love. 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There have been two Congreaations? Presidents—John Adams, e second President, and John Quincy Adams, his son. President Roosevelt is the second Pres- ident of the Reformed Dutch church, Martin Van Buren having been the first. Millard Fillmore was a Unitarian, the only Unitarian President. Washington, William nies Harrison, John Tyler and Zacha: ‘aylor were Hpiscopalians, as was ‘Chester A, Ar ur. There have been five Presbyterian Presi- dents—Andrew Jackson, James K. Polk, James Buchanan, Benjamin Harrison and Grover Cleveland. President Garfield was a member of the Church of the Disciples. Prior to the Civil war there had been no Methodist President of the United States. Since 1861 the following Presi- dents have been Methodists: Abraham Lincoln, Johnson, Gen. Grant, R. B. Hayes and William McKinley. There has never been a Lutheran nor a Roman Catholic President—New York un. BABY CAME NEAR DYING ¥rom an Awful Skin Humor— Scratched Till Blood Ran—Wasted to a Skeleton—Speedily Cured by Cuti- cura. “When three months old my boy broke out with an itching, watery rash all over his body, and he would scratch till the blood ran. We tried nearly everything, but he grew worse, wasting to a skeleton, and we feared he would die. He slept only when in our arms. The first application of Cuticura soothed him so that he slept in his cradle for the first time in many weeks. You don’t know how glad I was. One set of the Cuticura Reme- dies made a complete and permanent cure. (Signed) Mrs. M. C. Maitland, Jasper, Ontario.” —<—. A Sound Reason. “T’d like to have the day off next Ib ostet 6 sir,” said young Thompson to the senior partner. The senior partner frowned. He did not approve of holidays. “We don’t like to establish the pre- cedent of giving time off,” he said. “But I have some rather aeeec business on hand,” urged young Thomp- son. “And I suppose no one possibly could attend to this important business but you?” sneered the senior partner. “Well, not very well, sit, because, you uo “Young men are too prone to over- rate their own importance,” interrupted the senior partner. “It’s a common fail- ing among, them to consider themselves indispensab!e, when nine times out of ten they are only blocking the way of better man. Now, ae, no doubt, if neces- sary, you could depute some one else to attend to for you—some one just as able and fare as willing as yourself.” “Without doubt, sir,” said young Thompson; “but as I’m to be married, the lady has conceived the notion that 1 am indispensable to the ceremony.”— Tit-Bits. 10,000 Plants for 160. This is a remarkable offer te John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Croase, |.» makes. | SEGA Gh | Salzer Seeds have a national reputation as the earliest, finest, choicest the earth produces. They will send you their big plant and po catalog, together wit! enough seed to grow 1,000 fine, solid Cabbages, 2,000 rich, juicy Turnips, 2/000 blanching, nutty Celery, 2,000 rich, Pee. Lettuce, 1,000 splendid ions, 1,000 rare, luscious Radishes, 1,000 gloriously brilliant Flewers. This great offer is made in order to in- duce Se to try their warranted seeds— for when x once plant them you will grow no others, and ALL FoR BUT 160 PosTAGR, providing you will return this notice, and ee ii esad them 26c¢ in postage, they ill add to the above a big package of the earliest Sweet Corn on earth—Salzer’s Fourth of a 10 days earlier than Cory, Peep o’ Day, etc., ete. [C. N. U.] —Norway’s coast line—1700 miles in a straight line—becomes 12,000 miles if followed around the fjords. In these fjords are over 150,000 islands. ss A GUARANTEED CURE FOR PILES. Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Piles. Zour druggist will rotund money if PAZO OINT- MENT fails to cure you in 6 to 14 days. 50c. as —By_Cape Horn the distance between New York and San Francisco is about 14,840 miles. The Panama canal will reduce this to something less than’ 5000. ———_>——___— —The exports of Siam in 1903 were valued _at So and the imports at $17,747,632. SHADOW EVIDENCE. I. Swift o'er the sunny grass 1 saw a shadow pass With subtle charm; So quick, so full of life, With thrilling joy so rife, I started lest, unknown, My step—ere it was fown— Had done it harm. a IL. Why look up to the blue? The bird was Fone, I knew, Far out o! spit Steady and keen of wing The slight, impassioned thing Intent on a goa! unknown, Has held its course alone In silent flight. Ill. Dear little bird, and fleet, Flinging down at my feet Shadow for song: More sure am I of thee— Unseen, unheard by me— Than ef some things felt and known, And guarded as my own, All my life long. —Mary Mapes Dodge in The Century. WHAT WILLITS DID. [Swe PORRE Ur. “YV 3S PUL. OFS: brass plate in the exclusive Royal avenue there were those who said it was utter folly. For young Willits was entirely dependent on kis own exertions, having ‘run through most of a small capital in the years that made up his medical course. | He was a thorough youth whe believed | that he needed Vienna and its schools at a time when all his advisers told hin that he needed the beginnings of a prac- tice. He took Vienna. _ After two years there he was back in town, ready at last in his own mind to begin the practice of medicine. Here again he found his crities. They said it behooved yourg Willits, in his al- most penniless condition, to get a small hospital position or to go out in some rapidly growing subirb and make a quick start of some sort. Cheap buildings were mentioned; part- nerships were suggested.. In the very teeth of his friends young Willits took 2 small but flawless West End apartment and waited for patients—waited because professional ethics forbid advertising. He waited six months—nine montlis. Then he began to allow himself to won- der if, after all, those friends of his had been wise and he had been foolish. He went out walking one afternoon simply because he could not stay indoors On that afternoon he met for perhaps the seventeenth time in as many days Miss Ethel Wynne, a young woman of much beauty, whom he remembered ix his dancing school days, and who evi- dently remembered him. She greeted him this afternoon with a shade more cordiality than she had ever shown him before. She stopped the ear- riage and beekoned to him, and in an- ether moment he was whirling down the road beside her. Jt was on this afternoon that Miss Wynne realized that the suit which Dr. Wiliits was wearing then was the swen- tical one that he had worn on every one ot the consecutive days of the last three weeks in which she had seen him. Miss Ethel was a young woman of a logical bent, and she swiftly deduced the painful fact that it was the young dov- tor’s only suit—a state of atiairs wich meant to her intolerable poverty. Now, the Willetses were an old family which had all but died out, and in their day they had owned the very spot where the Wynnes’ house stcod at present. “So Miss Wynne planned swiftly and exe- cuted with dispatch. Paul Willits must be helped to specdy comfort—helped professionally, for, un- fortunately, ne was not a chureh, to be aided with a bazaar; nor an orphan asy- lum, to be aided with a lawn fete. The next day Dr. Willits received a sudden call to the Thrashers’ home. That Miss Maude Thrasher was Miss Wynne’s bosom friend he could not be expected to know. The Thrasher governess was ill, and Dr. Willits easily rose to the oc- casion. That afternoon he was called to the Caldwell mansion, to prescribe for Miss Kadith Caldwell’s little dog, and Miss Edith held the strangely calm animai herself and eyed Dr. Willits with in- terest. Those girls worked like Trojans. Dogs, governesses, all were grist, and when one day Corinne Bertram happened to* put her wrist out of joint she was incoher- ently begged to do it again and send for Dr. Willits. Im six months’ time Dr. Willits had been advanced, solely through the media of Miss Wynne’s interested circle, from dogs to children, and from governesses to unimportant members of great fami- lies. By the end of the year he was the lion of a select portion of Kensington. He had become the fashionable fad, pro- fessionally and personally. His practice was worth his time and much money, and his whole method of study and practice had become justified. Then what did young Dr. Willits do? Not what he might have done. He went back to Vienna again—a trip made pos- sible only because of the dogs and gov- ernesses that were thrown in his way— and he brought back with him the fair German girl who had waited for him all those years to enjoy. the prosperity which he owed to— Whenever Dr. Willits told the story he always called it simple luck.—Illustrated Bits. Complimentary. At an “at home” a young man came in and made his way to the hostess, greeting her and apologizing for his Jate- ness. “Awfully glad to see you, Mr. Blank,” said the hostess; “so good of you to come. But where is your brother?’ “I am_commissioned to tender his re- grets. You see, we are so busy just now that it was impossible for both of us to get away, so we tessed up to see which of us should come.” “How nice! Such an original idea! And you won?’ “No,” said the young man, absently, “I lost.’”—Ilustrated Bits. ee Reasons for Laughter. When the young mistress of the house entered the kitchen she carried herself with great dignity. She had come to eall the cook to account. “Mary,” she said, “I must insist that you keep better hours, and that you have less company in the kitchen at night. Last night I was kept awake be- cause of the uproarious laughter of one of your women friends. “Yis, mum, I know,” Mary replied, cheerfully, “but she couldn't help it. f was telling her how you tried to make eake yesterday. morning.”—Birmingham (England) Post. ANTLERS VS. HORNS. HAD CATARRH THIRTY YEARS. Congressman Meekison Gives Praise to Pe-ru-na For His Recovery. awe G25 RORCwW L126 Won- derful Protection. How many persons, among the many thousands that annually visit our zoolog- teal parks, realize, as they Pause to ad- mire the noble bucks of the deer family— particularly the wapiti, or American elk— that their branching antlers are cast off annually and renewed and well hardened within the short period of seven months? Before describing the manner in which elk shed their antlers, I should tike to ex- plain the difference ' between “antlers” and “horns.” All the members of the deer family—the moose, caribou, elk (in Burope the animal which we call moose is known as elk), and smaller deer—pos- sess antlers, while the appendages on the heads of goats, sheep, cattle and the like are known as horns, and, with one ex- ception—the American antelope, or prong- horn—are retained by their owners throughout life, Blk shed their antlers about the first of | February, though much depends upon the locality and upon the age and health of the animal. It often happens that one antler is carried several days after the other has been dropped. The new antlers push off the old ones, and when they ap- pear they resemble scars on the animal’s forehad, but soon take the form of two black velyet buttons about the size of sil- ver dollars. As they continue to grow a re in length only, and by the first of July they have attained their full size. If you could examine them now, es would find them soft, rather flexible, eee a pig: oF incased a a ick, tough skin cove with velve' BS The antlefs aré now “in ie melee? as the hunters term it, a most critical pe- riod for the owner, who seems to realize it, for he is careful to avoid contact with anything liable to injure them. Should an accident Eeppen and the skin get brok- en or the antler disfigured, it might re- sult in the elk’s bleeding to death, or in his ak a deformed antler until the following February. age & process of nature the blood vessels that have fed the antlers are shut off about the middle of July, and then they begin to harden. A few weoks later the elk may be seen rubbing them against trees or thrashing them about in ‘the brush while endeavor- ing to rid them of the velvet, and in a few days it hangs in shreds and soon dis- appears entirely. The elk is now lord of the forest, and is ready to combat with his rirals or enemies.—St. Nicholas. CEE hay). 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Write your name and address plainly to OZONIZED OX MARROW CO., 76 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Illinois. Agents wanted everywhere. By Dr. Emil G. Hirsch. Impatience of intervals of time and interference of space may rightly be ascribed as the salient factor in what has come to be styled "the modern spirit." To this intolerance of slow processes the triumphs of modern civilization are openly ascribed. Technology is stimulated to giant efforts by this obsession to eliminate distance and A. DR. E. G. HIRSCH.inate distance and minimize time. Speculation anticipates the slow and deliberate rounding of the seasons and operating with wireless telegraphy toys even with the jealousies of the oceans. But it is not merely in the domain of commerce that this passion is enthroned. In our thinking; yea, in the realm of the spiritual, it is sceptered as well. Children of the day that has indeed made orient and occident closest neighbors so that dearth in Calcutta affects at once the quotations of the London or New York stock exchange, we begrudge and regret the hours as wasted which nature claims as her own in the development of thought and the upbuilding of character. The mere high school boy poses as a philosopher, and, what is worse, he is acclaimed as such. Immaturity marks speech and argument on the deepest themes of life as well and as pitifully. The student of the "new" theories, hailed as the ultimate announcements on duty and destiny on the meaning, or rather the meaninglessness of life, is struck with the ravages wrought by this obsession of the day. It is not too much to claim that much of current atheism and agnosticism is directly traceable to this impatience. A pernicious fever for results is burning to ashes our very soul. And, as in the divine plan processes count for more than results, small the wonder that in the evolution of God's plans we fail to see the guiding will. In order to find once more the true focus we must ponder deeply and painfully again on the old Hebrew poet's deeper conviction that "in the sight of God a thousand years are but as yesterday." Failing to remember this unimpeachable truth that time is a rhythm of the eternities and as such cannot be eliminated from the equation of Providence, men have declared history to be a meaningless succession of events without coherence or purpose. Of course, if one terrestrial day is expected to bring about results righteousness and justice are unrevealed in the course of human happenings. But, where the standard of the divine, the thousand years that are but as a watch in the night, is applied, the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of nations, the tread of armies, and the trek of peaceful emigrants, the rearing of cities, and the clearing of forests cannot but be read in a light rendering visible the underlying purpose, the manifestations of a design, the revelations of a power not ourselves that makes for righteousness. One must be abnormally constituted that may escape the pressure of this sublime confidence when standing in the forum of Rome or walking through the ruins of Pompeii, where the voice of the stones proclaim it. Yea, there is a slow working out of a divine intention through the measured lengths of the centuries. Often in the din and tumult of the strife that rages around us, in the petty rivalry of interests, in the bitter antagonism of racial or national or religious antipathies these voices may be drowned. Yet the Jewish proclamation that God reigneth is true for all that. In late decades the Jewish heart has again been sorely tried. We had been enchanted by the dream that justice and humanity had dawned above the horizon of men with the promise of the glories of the day of fulfillment. But this beautiful dream was once more disappointed by all the bitterer reality. Russia, Germany, France, yea, even America, have been showing more than passive hospitality to the Jew baiter and Jew hater. Still, within recent days, in the city where, as long as the popes ruled, Jews were forced to attend church services and hear their religion denounced, on the spot where the gates of the Ghetto barred in the sons of Jacob, right in front of the church over the portals of which in Hebrew and Latin the inscription may be read denouncing Israel as a God accursed people, a new synagogue has been erected. It is a monument to the juster spirit that at last, after a thousand years, has come to hold sway in the councils of the Italian peoples—a proclamation that the God of Israel reigneth, though men may plot and rage and kings may take council together. No, he who will learn that in the sight of God a thousand years are but as yesterday will not be tempted to place chance on the throne of the universe or despair of the foreordained triumph of justice and the inevitable ascendency of right over wrong or truth over falsehood. THOUGHT MUST BE FREE. If blind acceptance of dogmatic authority is our ideal in religion, then, but then only, can free thought be regarded as one of the snares of that ever-active and most potent deity, the devil. But if we are to think we cannot be satisfied with that type of religion. Thought is not thought unless it is free. So long as it is bound to the fixed ideas of ages which we have long left behind, colored by some attempt to wrest it into conformity with anything other than the facts of present knowledge and experience as they grow, it may be prejudice or dogma, but it is not free and it is not thought The time already dawns when reason, wholly loosed at last from prejudice and passion and fear, shall be supreme in the highest realms of life. Whenever religion comes to mean our getting into right relations with the universe then free thought is her inevitable ally. Then she may hope to lead and inspire the enlarging life of men. The revelation of the laws of life and society opening everywhere to fuller investigation will replace the imperfect statements of any ancient volume. The religion of fear of the supernatural and unquestioning acceptance of statements of faith is slipping from us and in its place there may come if we will the fearless religion whose thought is open to every light of wider knowledge. Her calm and fearless vision, kindling within us the love of ever-growing truth and creating the eager courage and inspiration of widening outlook, will then be in truth the power and joy of life. CENSURES MODERN DANCING. The value of dancing must ever be a matter of private judgment. If the old Hebrew customs where the sexes danced separately were in vogue now dancing would not be so popular. The phrase, "We must have a good time" contains a fallacy. The largest draughts of pleasure do not come to those who live to have a good time, but to those who seek to give others a good time. No young people enjoy life better than those young people in my church who give of their time to relieve the sick and the aged and the poor. They have learned the art of making others' hearts dance and that is better than dancing with the heels. Dancing butterflies are pretty, but 'tis the bee that gives honey. The mignonette lacks in brilliance, but we all love it for its sweetness. The men and women whose memories we will not let die are those who lived to bless society. Flatulent follings and gay butterflies may foot it well at the dance, but the sweetest joy in life comes to those young people who are filled with passion for God, the fire of patriotism and the enthusiasm of humanity. Dancing hearts are better than dancing heels and toes. WILL INHERIT THE EARTH. Much of the preaching of the past has made death the stepping stone by which man will be borne away to some unknown, ethereal region, where sense and body and everything in the shape of an audible sound or a tangible substance are forever unknown. Paradise is pictured on the other side of death as a lofty, aerial region, where the inhabitants float on ether or are suspended upon nothing. The inhabitants are represented as spooks, phantoms, specters and ghosts. Heaven is painted as an immaterial, invisible and intangible fog bank. But the reward that the Bible assures to the saints is an inheritance of substance, of land, of the earth and of eternal life. It will be this world of ours made new and filled with the glory, riches and righteousness of the heaven where God himself abides. The struggle has been long and the conflict fierce, but the hour is surely hastening when the right shall triumph and when this earth shall be redeemed from the curse of sin and death. Short Meter Sermons He who does not give does not live. A joy unshared is always short lived. Happiness is the harvest of helpfulness. Worry never made anything—but wrinkles. Making a life is greater than making a living. Peace on earth waits for the peace from heaven. There will be good will in all when God's will is over all. Running in old ruts may be more risky than blazing new trails. You cannot touch men as long as you think of them as masses. The man who sows nothing always reaps something a good deal worse. The man who suspects everybody is surely a suspicious character. You can't expect a nickel's worth of religion to list you over Monday. It is easy to preach on the benefits of walking when you are in the band wagon. There's something wrong about a man's piety when it provokes others to profanity. HOUSEHOLD TALKS About one-half pound of cold cooked salmon, one-half pint white sauce, one teaspoonful of anchovy essence, browned crumbs. Remove all skin and bone from the salmon and break it into flakes. Butter some china fish shells or scallop shells, and put in a tablespoonful of the sauce which has been flavored with the anchovy essence. Then put in some flaked fish and cover again with the sauce. Shake browned bread crumbs over all. Put a for eight minutes in a moderate oven. Serve hot. For the sauce, if none is at hand, take one ounce of butter, three-quarters of an ounce of flour, one-half pint of milk. Melt the butter, stir in the flour smoothly, add the milk and stir until it boils. Season and use. If preferred, the salmon may be served in one fireproof dish or ple dish instead of shells. Pepper Pot. Boil two pounds of tripe slowly for six hours, take from the liquor and cut small. Make good veal stock; cut the meat from the veal bone and cut small. Put the two soups together and let them stand over-night to get very cold, then skim off every particle of fat. Return the liquid to the fire and add as many soup greens as you wish, with a bay leaf, a minced onion and two potatoes cut into dice. Add the tripe and veal, season all to taste and cook gently until the potatoes are tender. Thicken with a white roux and add a large quantity of small dumplings. Cook for ten minutes and serve. Cream of Tomato Soup. Four large tomatoes cut up, or one can with half a cupful of water added, two slices of onion, two sprigs of parsley, one teaspoonful of sugar, half a teaspoonful of salt, quarter of a teaspoonful of soda, one quart of milk, one tablespoonful of butter, one tablespoonful of flour. Cook the tomatoes with the onion, parsley, sugar and salt for twenty minutes. Mix in the soda, and stir well—this is to keep it from curdling the milk. Mix the milk, flour and butter as usual; strain the tomato, mix with the thickened milk and strain again.—Good Housekeeping. Pickled Pigs' Feet. Clean, cover with slightly salted boiling water and boil until tender. Pack while hot in a stone jar and cover while you make the vinegar ready. Into a half-gallon of vinegar stir a cup of white sugar, three dozen black peppers, a dozen blades of mace and a dozen cloves. Boil all together hard for one minute, then pour over the feet. It will be ready for use at the end of forty-eight hours, but will keep for weeks. Apple Dumplings Make a puff paste and cut into squares. In the center of each square lay an apple that has been cored and cut into quarters. Put a spoonful of granulated sugar in the middle of each apple with a pinch of cinnamon. Pinch the four corners of the pastry square together and put all in a baking pan. Bake in a steady oven to a rich brown. Serve hot with a hard sauce. Beet Salad. Cook half a dozen beets until quite tender; when cool, remove skins and cut beets into small squares; place in the salad bowl and pour the juice of a lemon over them; chop the whites of two hard boiled eggs and sprinkle in fancy shapes on top, alternating with a spoonful of the yolk mashed fine. Serve dressing in a separate bowl. Peaches and Tapioca. Soak a cupful of tapioca over night, and in the morning add a quart of water and cook until perfectly transparent; when done add a cupful of sugar, a teaspoonful of lemon extract and six fine peaches pared and cut in thin slices; stir lightly together and set away to harden. Canned Tomatoes. Scald the tomatoes and remove the skins, laying the tomatoes in a colander to drip. Put into the preserving kettle and stew for fifteen minutes. Dip out the superfluous juice, season the tomatoes with salt, pack boiling hot into jars and seal immediately. Whipped Cream. Have the cream and the shallow dish containing it ice-cold. Sweeten to taste, and, with a wire egg-whip, beat in long, steady stroke to a thick mass. If the room in which this is done is cool, it will not take more than five minutes. Flavor to taste as you beat it. Ginger Cookies. Two eggs, one cup of sugar, one cup of lard, one cup of molasses, one cup of sour milk. 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