Wisconsin Weekly Advocate

WISCONSIN WEEKLY ADVOCATE DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF THE NEGRO RACE VOLUME VII. [Name not provided] SENATOR I. V. OUARLES. President Roosevelt sent to the United State Senate Saturday the appointment of United States Senator Joseph Very Quaries as United States district judge for the eastern district of Wisconsin, to succeed the incumbent, William H. Seaman, who in turn is made United State circuit judge for the Seventh judicial district, including Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana, thereby displacing Judge James G. Jenkins. The news caused a great deal of surprise in Milwaukee, as there has been 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 G o'clock Wednesday evenings. We would respectfully ask our readers to bestow at least a share of their custom upon those who advertise with us. The various remedies and hair restorers advertised in this paper can be had at the advertised price at the office of this paper. The readers of this column will be somewhat disappointed this week by the failure of the member of the staff of the Wisconsin Weekly Advocate in charge of it to gather his customary news items. There is to be an inauguration of a President of the United States at Washington, D.C., on the 4th inst., and Editor R. B. Montgomery has left the city headed for the big show. If he has the luck to ride the "blind baggage," the "bumpers," or a "through freight," he may reach the capital city in time for the festival, which in our mind is doubtful. Only ye editorial writer, the "devil" and the cat remain at the home office ensconced in the comforts it affords. Perhaps Montgomery will be heard from in a day or so, having been side-tracked somewhere between this burg and Kokomo, and perhaps from the nation's capital. At any rate, he is taking a chance. Hon. George Sewall Boutwell Death removed, since our last issue, the venerable George Sewall Boutwell, ex-governor of Massachusetts, ex-member of Congress, ex-secretary of the U. S. treasury. He was stricken with pneumonia and was ill only a few days. Extreme old age (S7) hastened his end. But few of the present generation of Negroes are aware of the important part Mr. Boutwell played in the affairs of this government before and preceding the Civil war. To the older ones he is gratefully remembered for his aggressiveness as an uncompromising abolitionist and for his services in Congress. Mr. Boutwell was a member of the judiciary committee which reported the fourteenth amendment and conducted the debate in the House. For more than sixty years Mr. Boutwell had been in public life. He was one of the founders of the Republican party, a personal friend of Lincoln's. It was during Grant's second term that he was a member of the cabinet. One by one the friends of the black race in America are passing away. They should not be forgotten, however, by those who are sharing in some measure today the benefits of their laborious efforts in molding public sentiment in behalf of the former bondman. Death on Railway Platform. Mrs. William Kees and her mother, Mrs. Octavia Lamous, dropped dead together on the platform of the railway station at Alexandria, La. Both women were believed to be in the best of health and their sudden death was a tragic surprise. Mrs. Kees and her mother had gone to the station to welcome a friend, The daughter, carrying her 2-mouths old considerable doubt as to what appointments would be made for these positions by President Roosevelt. Judge Kohlsaat of Chicago has been talked of for the circuit judgeship. He is likely to get the new circuit judgeship established by Congress. Judge Jenkins sent his resignation to the President last week. Judge Quarles will receive a salary of $6000 a year and Judge Seaman $7000. As presiding judge of the circuit court Judge Jenkins received $8000. child in her arms, walked rapidly to the station, outdistancing her mother. When she reached the platform she was out of breath. "I believe I'm going to faint," she said to her mother, who came up ten minutes later. She scarcely had finished when she fell forward on her face, dead. Mrs. Lamons stood as though paralyzed. A few seconds later she collapsed, falling across the body of her daughter. When assistance reached them both were dead. Mother and daughter were buried in one grave. It is believed heart disease caused their deaths. ENLARGES ITS WORK. The officers of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial institute of Tuskegee, Ala., have gradually matured a plan which should very deeply interest the young men and women of the race who are seeking an education. This plan enables young men and young women to attend school at night and work at an industry or trade during the day, or in the case of those who are able to pay a small monthly sum, to attend school during the day and at the same time learn a trade or work at some industry. This improved plan gives superior opportunity for literary and academic training and at the same time gives equal opportunity for the learning of a trade. Last year thirty-six states were represented by students at Tuskegee, and nine foreign countries. The attendance during the coming year promises to be very large and the class of students promises to be of a high grade. DOGS. CATS. BIRDS. ETC. Dog Market.—All kinds of pups; broken 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. Overwhelmed by Dogs. "For heaven's sake, send me no more dogs." writes Lieut. Gen. Von Trotha, commanding the German troops in Damaraland, German Southwest Africa, to a Berlin agency to which he had applied for canines to use as sentinels, for hunting the wounded in the thickets of the country and in tracking the natives. When the concern invited the gifts of dogs for this purpose it was overwhelmed with thousands. Yellow dogs, black dogs, big dogs, little dogs, collies, shepherds, hounds, bulldogs, and just common, ordinary dogs were shipped to South Africa. Every southbound steamer was filled with a howling, yelping group of the canines. At first the general sought to utilize the gifts. He detailed a squad to train them in their new duties. He commanded another to see that they did not run away. Within a little while almost an entire regiment was engaged in caring for the canines. The Dogs proved of little use. When finally they outnumbered his division, the commander appealed for relief. The world's largest dredger is now docked at Liverpool. It is 200 feet long, and can raise 1000 tons of hard material an hour. --- 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 cushing 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. Justice to the Negro. "Lynching is dying out in the south. I do not think it is so popular as it once was," said W. W. Egan at the Republican house yesterday. Mr. Egan resides at Nashville, Tenn. "The governors of several of the southern states have taken a firm stand against mob rule and an honest effort is being made to stamp out lynchings. A great many of the crimes for which Negroes have been lynched in the south were afterwards found to have been committed by a shiftless class of whites. Some one had to suffer, however, and a Negro was selected for the sacrifice. The shiftless whites are dying out in my state. In many quarters they have thinned out each other as a result of the feuds which exist between almost all these people. In Tennessee men were wont to shoot to revenge real or fancied wrongs that had been committed against some member of the family generations back. Sometimes these wrongs have taken place so far back that they were little more than traditions handed down from father to son and the quarrel would often be renewed by men who had never met each other until they pulled their guns. If a man was killed inquiry frequently showed that the great-grandfather on one side had killed the great-grandfather on the other side. A premium was put on these crimes by the fact that formerly a man sentenced to prison for a duel of this kind was released after serving a year or so of his time. Now he has to serve his full term. When a Negro was killed no questions were asked. The whites were outnumbered and they kept the Negro in subjection through fear."—Milwaukee Free Press. We publish the above to show our readers that the Southern Negro is not as black as he has been painted. This statement coming from the lips of a white resident of Nashville, Tenn., will prove a revelation, we hope, to many people in the north not familiar with conditions at the south. Should we undertake to say that this kind of thing is of common practice in certain parts of the southland, we would be accused of an attempt to distort facts through our zealous endeavor to protect the race, and in the minds of many our words would be doubtful. Well informed Negroes have been aware of the awful stigma that their race has had to bear for the last decade relative to the commitment of a most heinous crime and have exerted themselves to find out the truth of the matter. Their investigations have revealed many strange and unseemly things. For the sake of common decency we do not fell warranted to make public some of the knowledge that has come to light through careful investigation. Suffice it to say that not every mulatto child born at the south is the offspring of a Negro mother. But lynching has gone on to cover up traces of wrong-doing wherever it becomes too flagrant for the past forty years, and the southern press never gives a true account of the so-called crime. It is a very easy matter for the criminal white man to masquerade as a "burly nigger" when he desires to commit an act of depravation, but the Negro cannot masquerade as a white man. The leopard cannot change his spots, neither can the black man change his color. If in reality he commits a crime he has no manner of escape through the disguise of personal appearance and must, as he rightly should, bear the brunt of his odium. As Mr. Egan has said, there are many crimes committed by the whites in the south imputed to the blacks for which the latter are stigmatized with. We recall a case in the latter part of the '80s where a man prominent in social, political and financial circles in the state of Georgia disguised himself as a Negro and made his own wife surrender the keys to his safe for the purpose of robbery and was shot dead by her in an unguarded moment. At the inquest discovery was made that the woman had murdered her own husband, and that the motive of the latter had been to cover up a shortage in his accounts as county treasurer by placing the blame upon a supposed Negro man. We are familiar with another case too revolting to publish where a crime was committed by four young white men, under the guise of Negroes, which was quickly followed by the arrest on suspicion of four luckless Negroes who hap- pened to be together at the time, and without trial or even a hearing, more than the attempt to extort a confession by brutal and harsh treatment, they were swung from a bridge with a rope around their necks and their dangling bodies riddled by bullets. A few days later one of the white men voluntarily made a confession, naming his confederates and exonerated the dead Negroes. Some Negroes are bad, we will admit, but the wrost Negro is no worse than the "best white citizen" in certain parts of the south. It is a matter of geography, that's all. The Slime of the Serpent. The genius of the local organ of executive mendacity for imputing motives is well understood. Perhaps it has had no better illustration than in the charge of willful and iniquitous secrecy concerning the appointment of Senator Joseph V. Quarles to the federal bench. The organ is greatly concerned because the Wisconsin members of Congress were not called in to vote upon the name which should be recommended for the position. That's it. Mix her up. When the half-breeds are in a position to dictate the state must wait the nod of the melodramatic god who plays battledore and shuttlecock from the executive chamber with justice and human interests of every kind. When the half-breeds are not in control, fraud and deceit and all manner of wickedness mark the action of those who do manage public affairs. And this from a gang who wanted to saddle on the state a $20,000,000 capital because the architect is a relative of his excellency. Gilbert Roe! There is absolutely no evidence of scheme or undue haste in this matter. So far as the action is concerned it was orderly and in usual form. Mr. La Follette may contend that Judge Jenkins should have withheld his resignation until after Mr. La Follette takes his seat in the Senate. But no one will take such a claim seriously. Judge Jenkins was privileged to retire from his long and honorable service whenever he chose. To ask him to wait upon Mr. La Follette—would that have been scheming? Again we want to protest against the wicked defamation of Senator Spooner by the local organ. The annals of wicked and baseless vituperation do not reveal anything worse. Senator Spooner can afford to ignore it. His life and character and public value put him so high that such abuse only amazes the nation. But the disgrace to our state is one that it will take a generation to clear away. Is there no limit to this vileness? The Case of Berea College. The supreme court of the United States doubtless will make short work of the Berea college case. Briefly, it is this: Berea college is supported by private endowment and tuition fees. It receives no aid from public funds. For a half century it has pursued the policy of receiving students without distinction of color. Only such persons attend as wish to do so and can meet the published requirements of admission. The Kentucky Legislature passed a law in its last session prohibiting the coeducation of whites and blacks, the law being aimed at Berea college. A fine under that law has been followed by appeal to the supreme court. How do these blue grass solons expect to sustain their contention in the national court? This institution receives no state funds, but spends its own money. It does not bid for the mingling of blacks and whites. Its doors are open to all persons who desire to enter, and no question of color is considered. That is, Berea college is on the basis of straight American citizenship. To permit the triumph of such legislation against it will be notice to the world that America is not for any but white men, and that all the record of our nation has been repudiated. Kentucky again will learn something from Uncle Sam. Barnett Should Look Elsewhere. Hon. Ferdinand Barnett is an aspirant for appointment as United States minister to Hayti and Santo Domingo. While we appreciate the qualifications of Mr. Barnett and the important part he took in the late national campaign that proved so successful to the G. O. P., we nevertheless can see no valid reason why Minister Powell should be retired. Mr. Powell has been amply tried in his position as diplomat and proven himself of value to his government. During the excitement incident to the war with Spain the island of Hayti was the theater of much trouble because of its proximity to the seat of war, and at times relationship between the two republics was on the verge of breaking over controversy regarding the question of neutrality. It was during this critical period, when the island was in an uproar from political strife and the assassin stalked abroad by day as well as night, that Minister Powell upheld the dignity of American citizenship by refusing to give one inch in his contention of rights or to be coerced. We believe, inasmuch as the present incumbent is persona grata with the island government, the state department will feel that Minister Powell has well earned an uninterrupted continuance as the representative from this government. In our support of Mr. Powell we do not for a moment detract from the fitness and commendable worthiness of the gentleman who would succeed him. Mr. Barnett is fully equipped to fill as an important position as the republic of Hispaniola affords. We regret that he should have designs upon the place occupied by Mr. Powell as we feel very kindly toward him and would willingly support his claims for any other position under the federal government. An Outrageous Extortion Among the many outrageous performances of the hypocritical gang now in control of our unfortunate state, perhaps the most shameless is the bill to provide $5000 to pay Mr. La Follette's attorneys in the election case before the supreme court last fall. Mr. La Follette was not before that court as a state official. Nor, as claimed by the local organ of executive mendacity, was the secretary of state in the performance of his official duties. It was a question between two bodies of private citizens concerning the validity of their action in a private capacity. Suppose the late Democratic party had been the scene of such a conflict, and had gone to the supreme court for settlement. Would the La Folletteites demand that the state pay the fees, even though exorbitant, of the successful faction? It is an attempted steal, plain thievery. But go it while you can, gentlemen. The day of judgment is at hand when the solid people of our state will chuck you all into oblivion. Thank heaven if you escape state's prison. Mr. Arthur Simmons, for more than a generation a messenger at the white house, was recently transferred to the interior department by order of the President and his place was filled by the appointment of William B. Delaney, who has occupied the berth of special messenger to the President for several years. Simmons was first appointed to his post at the door of the white house by President Grant and has served continuously ever since. Both are Negroes favorably known to members of the race throughout the country. To Find Paul Jones' Body. Ambassador Horace Porter, at Paris, has new hope that he at last has discovered the remains of John Paul Jones. Four years ago a clue indicated that the remains of Jones, who died in Paris, had been interred in a small urban cemetery, but its site was covered with buildings. Mr. Porter believes the hermetically sealed coffin, if found, will still contain sufficient evidence of the identity of its inhabitant. The ambassador has suggested to President Roosevelt that to defray the cost of searching for the remains Congress be asked to appropriate a fund of $35,000, and the President, it is believed, will approve this recommendation. It is contemplated, in the event that the search is successful, that the remains shall be placed on a United States warship and brought to Washington to be interred in the National cemetery at Arlington. Romance and Cash with Bride. A romance involving the accidental meeting and quick love of a Kansas City young man for the reputed richest girl of Indian blood in Indian territory, and a present of a check of $100,000 to the groom at the conclusion of the wedding ceremony, will come to its climax at Erin Springs, Ind. Ter., when Miss Erin Murray of that thriving town becomes the wife of William W. Winstanley of Kansas City. Winstanley met Miss Murray during the St. Louis exposition. Miss Murray is said to be of Indian blood, the richest girl in the whole territory, both in lands and cash. The dot of $100,000 that is to be Mr. Winstanley's is vouched for by his connections in Kansas City. The wedding will take place in the Indian territory, in the presence of a large number of Mr. Winstanley's Kansas City friends. Dead but Still Alive. Simon Prall, according to his father, rabbi of the Herbew temple, Alwath Joseph, in Paterson, N. J., is dead. All the rites for the departed have been carried out. The son, however, says he has just commenced to enjoy life at his new home with his bride. The congregation of the temple is strictly orthodox and Rabbi Prall has made every effort to bring those who come under his teach- NUMBER 2. ings to conform to the Mosque laws. Some time ago Simon met Bessie Van Ness, a pretty gentile, at a dance, and fell desperately in love with her. They were married secretly. The marriage with a gentile in the cyes of the rabbi was suicide; the son was dead, and the father put in a week of mourning at the temple. The son attempted to explain, but the father looked upon him as a stranger. Only in case the bride adopts the Hebrew faith can a resurrection take place. CHILDREN'S MANNERS A PROBLEM. Boston Writer Says Secret Lies in Conduct of Elders. We hear much nowadays about disrespect for age, but did we ever hear anything about disrespect for youth? The first is by no means a graceful trait, but it is no more brutal and much less harmful in the results than disrespect for youth, which is so common that it is accepted for the most part as a matter of course. Among people who make any claim to being civilized, a stranger is treated with consideration, but how are children treated who come as strangers among us? How often are they ridiculed in the presence or visitors, punished without a hearing, their questions unanswered, and their mistakes roughly corrected? We disregard their wishes, force our attention, our kisses and caresses upon them, whether they desire them or not, and then we demand that they treat us with respect. Children come among us ignorant of our language and our customs, but we expect them to speak correctly, behave correctly without the help of proper example. We make fun of their mistakes, answer their questions carelessly, and even foolishly, to enjoy their innocent belief. We use the poorest English in conversing with and before them, but punish them the next hour for employing the expressions they have heard. We tell them that they must never interrupt when we are talking, but no conversation of theirs is too important to be rudely interrupted or silenced if we wish to talk. There is no doubt but what the manners of American children are bad, but so are the manners of their elders. Bad manners, indeed, seem in some quarters to be the hallmark of good social position. Not having intimate acquaintance with children of other countries, it cannot be said what the comparison may be, but let us hope for the good of the rest of the world that their manners are no worse. It seems to me that good manners should be taught in the public schools, if sufficiently competent teachers could be secured. In all private schools attention is given to teaching of the little courtesies which mark the character of true gentlemen and gentlewomen. Not that artificial manners are to be desired, by any means, but to appreciate and respect the persons and feelings of their associates.—Boston Traveler. MRS. DAVIS WANTS LETTERS. Asks Gen. Miles to Produce or Refrain from Talking. In a letter published at Savannah, Ga., recently Mrs. Jefferson Davis calls upon Gen. Nelson A. Miles to produce in full the photographic letter which he says he received from her, thanking him for his care of the president of the confederacy, or to cease his references to it, to justify his treatment of the president of the confederacy when Miles held Davis prisoner. This demand on Gen. Miles is: As I understand it, Gen. Miles claims he has such a note in his possession. I have not the least memory of having written such a note to him. It is conceivable that, whilst ignorant of the facts or hopeful of gaining some improvement in the treatment of my husband, I may have made some acknowledgment of what I may have construed as common humanity at a time when, had I known the facts as they existed, I never could nor would have written, save in indignant protest. Forty years have passed since Gen. Miles perpetrated the cruelties for which he now is undergoing some measure of punishment at the hands of his own public. During that period he has not hesitated to shift the responsibility for his act upon others. The publication of instructions under which he claims to have acted and the correspondence which led up to them long since have convinced every candid mind that his treatment of Mr. Davis was gratuitous and neither was justified nor required by the orders of his superiors. It long since has appeared conclusively that he invited authority to do what he knew to be unnecessary and cruel. He perverted instructions which he did receive into license to inflict indignity and needless suffering upon a helpless prisoner overwhelmed by misfortune and in the agony of physical pain. Public attention cannot be deflected from the terrible charges under which Gen. Miles rests by the controversy over a letter concerning even the existence of which no stronger proof is advanced than the bare assertion of Gen. Miles. But insofar as it may be of any importance, my estimate of Gen. Miles' character is such that I am conetrained to demand that if the letter exists a photographic reproduction, showing the date, place, writing, contents, and signature, be given the public. Awakened to the helenousness of his conduct by closer association with educated gentlemen, he doubtless reeks the shame which stabs and clings to him now that the passions attendant upon the war are passing away, and he stands forth revealed to his countrymen in his true light. We are cautioned in holy writ not to bring "ralling accusation against any sinner," however great his fault, and I do not desire any controversy with any one, ad especially not with one whose perceptions of truth are so vague and misty. V. JEFFERSON DAVIS A bee that works only at night is found in the jungles of India. It is an unusually large insect. The combs are often six feet long and from four to six inches thick. Iron was discovered in Virginia (the first metals found in America) in 1715. The Royal Mint of Vienna is coining $1,000,000 worth of new gold and silver money for Servia. It costs on an average $200 to put out a fire in London, and $700 to extinguish one in New York. Galalith, or "milk-stone," is being much used for decorating, and promises to take the place of marble. The unusual sight of the lion and the lamb lying down together may now be seen in a menagerie in Paris. Cornwall is the only county in England which has no theater. A scheme is on foot to build one at Falmouth. Capital punishment still exists in Switzerland, but all death sentences imposed within the last half century have been commuted. Pineapples are now sent successfully from South Africa to Europe packed in a special kind of peat, which prevents rot or mold. All well-educated Spanish women are taught from the earliest years to handle the sword, and as a result they are noted for their admirable figures and easy walk. Iceland seems to be hardly as destitute of trees as some suppose, an old idea being that it possesses only a single tree. An investigation shows that the island really contains woods having various trees of considerable size, and that the climate is not unfavorable to tree growth. According to a calculation every man of the German expeditionary force in Southwest Africa costs the government 28 marks per day, which equals about $2500 per annum. A German statistician says that the entire cost of the Boer war for England worked out at 14 shillings per man per day. London's places of entertainment would hold all the inhabitants of Milwaukee-312,000 about—and then there would be several thousand vacant seats. Study of an ancient bridge at Leucade has convinced M. Ph. Negris that the level of the Mediterranean is ten feet higher than it was 2000 years ago. An institute for cancer investigation, to be in the immediate vicinity of the Academy hospital at Heidelberg, will be begun soon, and its completion is expected in the spring of 1906. It will be the first large institution of its kind in Germany, and probably in Europe, where scientific investigation will be combined with treatment of patients. In the Island of New Guinea, or Papua, the chief adornment of the women is a necktie made of black ants. The native girls find the ants in the gardens, they bite off and swallow the lower end, throw away the head, and thread the thorax. One woman, the bride of a chief, wore a necklace 11 feet long, on which were the bodies of 1800 ants. What has been called "war insanity" manifested itself among the population of London and its neighborhood during the Boer war and afterward. A number of persons were admitted into asylums, believing that they were pursued by Boers, especially Kruger's relatives. The name "Spion kop" seemed particularly to fascinate persons with morbid fancies. —It is said that one of the justices of the peace in Indian territory finds time hanging heavily on his hands occasionally, and a lack of silver in his pocket. When this occurs he sends out a trusy messenger to round up a group of Indians and bring them in. The justice then marries a couple or pairs of the aborigines, and gets $3 a piece from them before turning them loose again. It is further said that the Indians don't mind much, and that no trouble is caused. HANDSOME PRIZES FOR BRIGHT MINDS. The Evening Wisconsin offers seventy-eight premiums having an aggregate value of $3200 to the correct or nearest correct solutions to the series of fifty-eight proverb pictures now running in that paper. The contest commenced February 13 and there will be published from day to day a proverb picture for fifty-eight consecutive days. All readers of The Evening Wisconsin may participate in this contest. It is interesting, entertaining and instructive. Get a copy of The Evening Wisconsin today and enter the contest at once. You may win the automobile or piano. Information pertaining to the contest may be obtained by writing the Proverb Editor, Evening Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Poor Shot. A little 5-year-old boy at York village aroused the curiosity of the storekeeper the other day, who had observed him every time he came into the store go directly to an advertising placard before which he would plant himself and regard it for some time with every evidence of great delight. The picture showed a man with a gun at his shoulder in the act of shooting some kind of a bird. Finally the storekeeper asked the child what it was in the picture that amused him so much. The little fellow cocked his head on one side and regarded it soberly for a second, and then burst out in pleased laughter: "Goo! that man can't shoot wurf a cent. He's been twiny to shoot 'at bird a year 'n haint hit 'im yet!"—Lewiston (Me.) Journal. A Homely Criticism. "Uncle Joe Cannon is sometimes too homely and direct and harsh in his comments," said a young journalist. "I was not at all pleased with the remark he made to me while I was speaking at the X banquet. "Of course I am an inexperienced speaker. I can't rattle off words like the veterans of the Senate and House. I began, if I remember: "Gentlemen, my opinion is that the generality of mankind is disposed to take advantage of the generality of—" "Here Uncle Joe interrupted me. "Sit down, son," he said. 'You are coming out of the same hole you went in at.'"—Kansas City Journal. Owl's Devotion to Dead Mate A remarkable instance of bird instinct and devotion is reported from Quaker Neck. Early last week Henry Brown, a farmer there, set several jump-traps about his farm to catch prowlers, of whatever nature, that had been playing havoc with his flock of fowls. A day or two later he missed one of the traps. Yesterday Bartus Thew, a neighboring farmer, discovered two owls in an apple tree. One a large horned owl, was in evident distress, trying to shield and warm its mate. To a leg of the dead bird was hanging Brown's jump-trap with chain attached. Elkton Cor. Philadelphia Record. Union Scale for Monkeys Union hours for monkeys when owned by Italian hand organ artists is one of the provisions of a bill passed by the Nebraska Senate. The measure in general prohibits cruelty to animals and was introduced at the request of the Nebraska Anti-Cruelty society. Its authors, however, were prompted to include the provision concerning monkeys by the methods of a band of Italian hand organists, who plied their vocation at the state fair last year, using monkeys from twelve to sixteen hours a day. OPPORTUNITY. He heard his loyal people cry Like children to a saint: "Help, Little Father, or we die! We starve and freeze and faint. The noble hears not for his crimes, The coldier, for his drum, The Procurator, for his chimes— At last to thee we come. "Tomorrow, with a faithful priest— God's best gift to the poor— A throng shall stand, as at a feast, Before thy palace door. And that with favor it be crowned, The prayer we bring to thee Shall to the Holy Cross be bound As Christ on Calvary. "And wives and children too shall come To move thy piteous heart, And when thou see'st them, pale and numb, Thy ready tear shall start. We blame thee not; how couldst thou know, With courtiers trained to hide? But thou wilt hear: our daily woe Shall woo thee to our side." He rose, resolved; but—fortune dire!— One glance his purpose crossed: And impulse from some recreant sire Triumphed, and he was lost. The flower is trampled in the sod; False dawn delays the day; And once again the Will of God Marches the bloody way. —Robert Underwood Johnson in Harper's Weekly. A COVETED TREASURE Easton Flavelle, not far from the utilitarian town of Northampton, is an unusually fortunate village. It possesses a palladium—still possesses it, despite a nefarious attempt made in recent times to abstract it. Some few years ago the vicar of Easton Flavelle was seated one evening in his study before a comfortable fire. The month was December. To be precise, it was Christmas week, and Rev. Edward Bullinger, a handsome man a little over 40, had much upon his mind—coal clubs, clothing clubs, charities, church decorations, and what not. His meditations were suddenly interrupted. A servant announced Mrs. Sparkston. The divine rose and advanced to meet the lady with considerable emPRESSION. "Welcome, my dear Mrs. Sparkston," he exclaimed as he grasped her hand. "You find me engaged in the usual parochial problems—problems which assume such formidable dimensions at this season. Behold in me—if you will pardon the solecism—a committee of one—a committee of ways and means, self-constituted, and of unlimited liability." "Can I be of any assistance?" inquired Alabama Sparkston, blushing perceptibly for some recondite reason. "I really called this evening to say how pleased I should be to send down some flowers from the hothouses for the church, and to undertake the decoration of the pulpit, if I may." "You are always so good and kind," replied the vicar, with conviction. "I need hardly say that I shall thankfully avail myself of both offers." The widow drew forth from her sealskin muff a delicious little portemonnaie, which she opened with trembling hand, and took out a paper that crackled crisply in her slender fingers. "I want to make a small donation for your poor," she explained, as she handed it to him. "I always feel so guilty amid my comforts and luxuries at Christmas when I realize how many there are suffering from want and hunger around me." Mr. Bullinger saw by the bright light of the fire—for the interview was a chiaroscuro one, if the expression may be allowed—that he was the recipient of a Bank of England note for £10. He was a good and charitable man—although a bachelor—and his deep voice trembled with real emotion as he murmured, "This is indeed generous. You are the guardian angel of Easton Flavelle. Your munificent gift will supply more than one poor home I wot of with abundant Christmas fare." Mrs. Sparkston, whom we have so unceremoniously introduced, was the relict of a millionaire ironmaster in the north. She was, moreover, an American, a scion of one of the wealthy Knickerbocker families of New York. Sole legatee of her husbaud, who, although their union had not been blessed with children, had nevertheless passionately loved her and possessed of her own enormous fortune, which had been settled upon her at marriage, she had made her avatar in Easton Flavelle during the early days of her widowhood, almost a year before the date at which our story opens. It happened in this wise: She had been staying with some friends in Northampton, and chancing to hear that the Manor house and estate of Easton Flavelle were in the market had promptly acquired them. Since her arrival she had been foremost in all good works in the village, had been regular in her attendance at church, and had rendered invaluable aid to the vicar in his philanthropic enterprises. Alas! with all this virtue the fair American had one damning hobby. She was a collector of antiques. Nothing in this way came amiss to her. We are almost ashamed to add that her ruling passion caused her to regard with eyes of unholy longing even the sacrosanct palladium of Easton Flavelle! That fetich formed the subject of her meditations now as she stepped daintily over the crisp snow on her homeward way. "I feel myself a traitress coming out of the presence of that excellent man," she sighed. "I wonder if he noticed my guilty manner. This craze for bric-a-brac is my besetting sin, and every day I am less and less able to struggle against it. It is a fatal mania, and, I fear, will be my ruin. To think that I, a millionairess as the world calls me, should envy him his one ewe-lamb—I mean, of course, that curious old sampler in the vesty!" "Yes," she went on, with feminine inconsistency, "and I am determined to have it, too, by hook or by crook! It would be useless and absurd to ask him to sell it. Even were he willing to do so—which I doubt—the church wardens and parishioners would never give their consent. Only one course is open to me, and that course my conscience utterly condemns, for it has an ugly look of dishonesty and sacrilege. After all, has conscience ever yet deterred a woman from gratifying the darling desire of her heart? Je m'en doute. I shall have free access to the church for the purpose of decorating the pulpit. I shall have an opportunity of carrying off the coveted treasure unobserved. Nobody will dream of suspecting the wealthy Mrs. Sparkston of the Manor house. I shall lock it up in the old Italian triptych in the drawing room, and shall be able, whenever I like, to contemplate it, to worship it, to call it my own—my very own." Alabama murmured these last words so softly and rapturously that a chance hearer would certainly have supposed her to be in love, and alluding to her lover. "Now I come to think of it," she argued, "it will be neither a sacrilege nor a theft. The thing hangs in the vestry, not in the body of the church; and I will bestow upon the parish a sum far exceeding its actual value." From all which it will be seen that priests and lawyers do not by any means enjoy a monopoly in casuistry. That Christmas the usual bucolic apathy of Easton Flavelle received two shocks—one of a painful, the other of a pleasurable nature. The vicar, entering the vestry betimes on Christmas morning, found, to his surprise and horror, that the palladium had been abstracted—that the ark of Easton Flavelle had presumably fallen into the hands of the Philistines; and some munificent person—whose identity people were not slow in guessing—gave in the offertory a bank note for £100. Mr. Bullinger piously thought of the mysterious law of compensation, without imagining how literally and vaguely correct he was: for, of course, the idea of "conscience money" never entered his head. As for the people, they sorrowed with an unavailing sorrow for their palladium; they felt that the glory had indeed departed from Easton Flavelle. The farmers overcame their rustic penuriousness so far as to offer a reward of £5 for the recovery of their lost fetich. All in vain; it never turned up. Winter rigors had yielded to the fickle delights of spring. The sun was streaming in at the diamonded lattice of the vicarage study, and the disconsolate figure of a lady in tears knelt at the vicar's feet. The good man strove to raise her, but she resisted his efforts. "Oh, Mr. Bullinger," she cried, despairingly, "I have known no rest, no peace, no happiness since I took it! I am a wretched criminal, unworthy to look upon your face." "Calm yourself, dear Mrs. Sparkston. Judged by a strict ethical standard, your action was—well, regrettable. Shall I say reprehensible? Still, antiques are your faiblesse. You sinned under strong temptation. I have no hesitation in saying that your offense, such as it is, is completely purged." "Oh, how thankful I am for your kind words! They have lifted a weight from my soul," exclaimed the widow, as she rose to her feet, smiling through her tears like a reconciled Niobe. "How can I ever prove my gratitude?" The vicar promptly rose—or rather stooped—to the occasion. Reversing the postures which they had hitherto respectively occupied, it was he now who dropped on his knees and made answer. "By giving me the right henceforth to share all your joys and all your sorrows, by allowing me to add to the titles of friend and adviser the still sweeter ones of lover and husband. Will you be my wife, Alabama?" Alabama Sparkston had asked a question and obtained an instant response. She felt that it would be illogical, nay, cruel, to refuse the petition.—Modern Society. TO WOULD-BE SETTLERS A Strip of Land Strewn with Skeletons of Prospectors. On June 15, 1903, one million acres of land in California were thrown open to entry. This may be taken up either under the Desert Land act or as home-steads in 10-acre tracts. The strip stretches from Mojave to the Colorado river. We wish to warn all intending settlers to let this land alone. There is a good deal of talk about "making the desert blossom as the rose." Some deserts blossom, but not this one. Nobody will ever do more for this desert than Mother Nature has done. The only blooming nature has brought about there is that its freckled bosom blossoms with large alkali pustules, or pimples, punctuated with sage brush and cactus. This sums up the flora of the new promised land. The fauna includes jack rabbits, horned toads, Gila monsters and venomous snakes. The soil is coarse gravel, and on top of the coarse gravel there is a fine alkali powder which, when the wind blows—and the wind blows often—sweeps over the scorching and barren land like the dreaded sand storms of the Sahara, which, by the way, they much resemble. Even far to the southwest, across the lofty mountain ranges, these desert sand storms sometimes sweep, reaching the favored dwellers in southern California in the midst of their orange groves. Even this distant touch of the desert winds causes trees to wither, grass to scorch and men and animals to suffer keenly. Over this dreadful desert the sun moves like a ball of fire across a sky of brass. Rarely does a cloud break the intensity of its pitiless rays. Those credulous persons who may believe that this is the kind of desert which, by irrigation, may be turned into a garden are-doomed to disappointment. There is no water on this desert strip. The waters of the Colorado may be led on the lands of the Yuma desert, but that is far lower in level than are these. Much of this Mojave strip is at an elevation of 2000 or 3000 feet. As for artesian water, the writer personally knows of one well which was bored for nearly 2000 feet, ending in igneous rock and producing nothing but profanity. The last hope for the settler on this barren land would be the discovery of the precious metals. They may exist there. We do not say they cannot be found. But we know that the land has been prospected by experienced miners for half a century. If a tenderfoot can find a gold mine where an old California miner fails he is a smart tenderfoot. But we doubt his success. We warn all eastern people not to be deluded by false, even if well meaning, representations concerning this strip of land between Mojave and the Colorado river. It is strewn with the skeletons of prospectors, the bones of animals. It is a place of skulls.—San Francisco Argonaut. Sheep Are Good Sailors. L. B. Harris of Lyndonville, Vt., says that he has noted an interesting fact in regard to sheep. He has just imported some sheep from England and the steamer had a rough passage. Although passengers, horses and cattle alike were terribly frightened by the heavy rolling and pitching of the big ship, the sheep paid no attention whatever and constantly chewed their cud throughout all the tossing. OUR DREAMS. I hate to read of millionaires, Because such reading seems To hypnotize me utterly And start me dreaming dreams. It starte me figuring at once What I'd be apt to do If I were in that fellow's place And had a million, too. Of course, I'd use my fortune well, More sensibly than he. For I'd give 10 per cent, at least To worthy charity. Another 10 per cent, would go To help along a few Deserving relatives of mine Whose bills are overdue. And then my duty to the Church, Of course a goodly share— Say, 25 per cent., or so— Would be devoted there. I'd give the latter quietly, Insisting that my name Must be withheld, that none might know Whence this donation came. I'd only let the pastor know— He'd have to know, you see— Because my name upon the check Would show it came from me. Another 25 per cent. Would do myself and wife; The income we'd derive from that Would keep us both for life. Then after that—well, after that I dream away and plan To spend still 10 per cents To help my fellow man; And after that my dreams would get A bit confused, and then I'd take a tumble and my feet Would touch the earth again. My common sense would tell me, as It stopped me with a jerk. I'd wated time enough to do A dollar's worth of work. —Catholic Standard and Times. New York Every Day. The suit of Gen. John C. Underwood of Kentucky against the Confederate Memorial association for commissions on sums raised for the association was decided in the United States circuit court in Brooklyn by a verdict for $16,000 for Gen. Underwood. Dr. Lewis O. Wilcoxon, the Klondike promoter, who was arrested charged with having in his possession a $10,000 United States government bond stolen twenty years ago in the Manhattan bank robbery, was released in $10,000 bail. Dr. Wilcoxon reiterated that he received the bond from Samuel W. Miller as part payment for stock in a copper mine. The board of education of New York city by a unanimous vote decided that women teachers in the public schools should forfeit their positions upon marriage. The board adopted a resolution directing that a bill be drafted for introduction in the Legislature authorizing it to dismiss, reinstate, reappoint or reemploy any teacher who may enter into the state of matrimony. At the annual dinner of the Newspaper Publishers' association at the Waldorf-Astoria, Col. George Harvey of Harper's Weekly said: "Despite the doubling of population and the multiplication of saies of the newspapers of this great metropolis during the last twenty years, the strongest and most comprehensive editorial page is made in Boston, and the most cosmopolitan newspaper in the United States is printed in Chicago." Members of the clergy of New York city and temperance workers are receiving a circular containing a diagram made by the proprietors of the Subway tavern showing the effect which that peculiar drinking place has had upon the old style saloons in its immediate neighborhood. Of the saloons on its seven adjacent corners three have gone out of existence. Two hundred workingmen are reported as lunching at noon at the tavern daily. William McGee, an ex-soldier and former resident of Texas, who claims to be the only member of Custer's force to escape the massacre of the command on the Little Big Horn, has been placed on trial here on the charge of killing Frank Mitchell, last December. McGee boarded with the Mitchells and the men quarreled over the proper method of concocting a kidney stew. Mitchell was stabbed with a kitchen knife and McGee surrendered to the police upon learning of his death. After ignoring for some years overtures to become members of the National Association of Retail Druggists, the leading pharmacists of New York city are reported to have decided to join that organization. A general conference of representatives of various city pharmaceutical associations has been held to perfect plans for a New York branch, to be formed in March, and by unanimous vote of the subcommittee of the conference the district plan has been approved. The will of William C. Prime, who was Mayor McClellan's guardian, has been filed. The real property is valued at about $100,000 and the personality at $10,000. Several bequests are made to relatives and personal friends, and this reference is made to Mayor McClellan: "I give and bequeath to George B. McClellan, son of my deceased friend, Gen. G. B. McClellan, the ring I wear, engraved with Cupid chasing Psyche, and to his sister May $250, wherewith I request her to buy some souvenir of her and her father's friend." It is reported that Richard Croker, who will sail for Europe after having arranged for the administration of his son Frank's estate, will hereafter reside permanently at his country place near Dublin. From conversations which his friends have had with him it is said to be evident that Mr. Croker intends to close out all his English interests, including Wantage. So far as known he did not express himself as to the action of those in control of Newmarket Heath in refusing to allow his trainer the use of the grounds there for his horses. Some indignation has been caused in the faculty of Wellesley college over a curious accusation from a graduate who charges the college with prudery. Ten students hotly resented it. The affair hinged on the demand of ten of the members of the graduating class for a scientific lecture on "Reproduction." They were peremptorily refused by the faculty and were made to understand that their request was looked upon not only as unusual but as indelicate. The incident was brought to light by the Questionnaire, issued by the Wellesley club of New York. Importers of wines and liquors must pay duty on the full quantity shipped from abroad, without regard to leakage or breakage in transit. A decision to this effect was handed down by the board of United States general appraisers. Many hundred similar cases probably will be settled in accordance with this principle. Should the entire contents of a cask of liquor leak out in transit the case would be one of non-importation and no duty would be assessable. Where breakage of a portion of the bottles containing imported wines or liquors occurs in transit, no deduction will be made. How large a part of New York life the subway has already become is shown in part by the newly published earnings of the road during the first three months of its existence. During the ninety-two days of the quarter the road is shown to have carried an average of close upon 260,000 passengers a day. If this average be maintained it would amount to nearly 90,000,000 in the year. But the daily average steadily increases as the road grows older and the people more accustomed to its operation. There is no good reason to doubt that by October 27, 1905, the end of one year after the road was opened, the total will have reached or exceeded 100,000,000. The first report of the trustees of the Mackay companies announces that a fifth cable to Europe is to be laid, to be put in operation next summer by the Commercial Cable company, and that the Commercial Pacific Cable company is completing arrangements for laying cables to Japan from Guam and to China from Manila. Both of these are to be in operation this year. Transfer offices have been opened in Boston, Montreal and Toronto, and arrangements have been made for the establishment of a transfer office in New York city. The Mackay companies have an authorized capital of $50,000,000 in preferred shares and $50,000,000 in common shares. During the production of John Drew's play, "The Duke of Killicrankie," at the Hyperion theater, New Haven, Conn., smoke was discovered coming through the floor at the rear of the orchestra circle and a hurried word to the manager caused him to go down in the cellar, where he found a small fire of programmes in the coal bin. The manager threw his overcoat on the flames, smothering them, and by the time he returned upstairs about twenty persons of the large audience had left the theater. The smell of smoke was strong, but the presence of mind of a newspaper man, who requested the audience to remain in their seats, doubtless averted a panic. President Butler of Columbia and eight of his young men, who are presidents of their classes in the two main departments of the university and known as the student board of representatives, exchanged letters recently indicating their views of what could best be done to prevent a repetition of the troubles growing out of the 'Gould affair." Dr. Butler asked the student board to do something to protect the university from its student correspondents, prevent hazing, regulate cheating at examinations, and devise means of taking charge of the new dormitories. One of the chief effects arrived at is the guaranteeing that Kingdon Gould will be hazed no more this year. Rules for correct spring dressing are already in the hands of the fashionable tailors. There will be no startling innovations, and on broad lines the following will be observed: Overcoat—For the street, a surtout of English walking length; for sporting occasions, a tan surtout or paddock; for evening, a frock coat. Coat—Gray or blue worsted or flannel for the street. Trousers—Semipeg tops, and bottoms turned up. Shoes—Low-cut, tan. Hose—Blue or tan. Belts—Very plain. Collar—Wings are at the height of style. Spats—More fashionable than ever. Neckwear—Cotton or silk goods in solid colors. Searfs with square ends. The favorite color is green. There is a new shade called aluminum. Heloise Titcomb, the South American concert hall singer, who was one of the gay party of actresses that the Grand Duke Boris started to take with him when he was ordered to the front by the Czar, was a passenger on the liner Baltic. The description of Miss Titcomb's beauty has not been exaggerated. "You Americans," she said, "have had a very exaggerated account of the Grand Duke Boris' trip. We hadn't a slow moment on the trip, but we had got only 200 miles on our way before the accounts of the trip reached St. Petersburg, and the duke had to send us all back and go on alone. But as long as it lasted we had a good time. The grand duke saw that we had all that we wanted to eat and drink." Handicapped by trailing skirts, a team of crack hockey players was defeated ignominiously by a team of girls in a Washington birthday match on the ice in the St. Nicholas skating rink. The final score was 4 to 3 in favor of the girls, who called themselves the "Drifters," while the team of men was called the "Spiders." The men, with the skirts dragging about their ankles, tripped and fell, revealing vividly colored hose and big buckled garters, while shrieks of feminine laughter added to their discomfort. The men played with grim determination and the game was furious all the time. In fact, so much rough play was indulged in that several players on both sides were ruled off by the referee. Washington's birthday was celebrated by Giovanni P. Morosini, the millionaire banker, by giving a dinner party to a few relatives at his country mansion at Riverdale-on-the-Hudson, in which he sought to do particular honor to little Mary Washington Bond Morosini, his granddaughter. The child's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Attilio P. Morosini of Mount Vernon, also were present. Mary, who is 4 years old and is a great-grandniece of Dolly Madison, is the tenth in the famous Washington line, and was named for her mother, who was Mary Washington Bond, the famous beauty of New Jersey. She in turn was named for Mary Washington, the talented and affectionate mother of "the father of his country." Randolph Guggenheimer of the smelter combine gave his annual Washington birthday dinner to 1000 hungry newsboys at the Newsboys' lodging house. "The custom of celebrating with you the anniversary of Washington's birthday is endearing itself to me more and more each year," said Mr. Guggenheimer. "I do not want to weary you, but there are a few things which it is well worth while for me to tell you again, and for you to adopt for your guidance. Remember that 'time is money.' Use it wisely and do not waste it in profitless pastimes. Newspaper selling is a good enough occupation for a poor struggling boy, but I hope your aspirations point to a higher goal, and you must prepare yourselves now if you want to lay the foundation for future success." In the course of a speech at the annual dinner of the Maryland society of New York at the Hotel Astor, Gov. Edwin Warfield of Maryland commended the speech of President Roosevelt on the negro problem made at the Lincoln day dinner of the Republican club in this city. Gov. Warfield said he was pleased that President Roosevelt followed in the wake of the southern orators and took such a fair and patriotic stand on the negro question in his speech at the Lincoln banquet. The governor said he was convinced that Mr. Roosevelt is beginning to realize the true status of the negro in the south. The governor said: "We interpret what he said as an earnest of his determination to aid in maintaining the relations now prevailing in the south and which are fast being accepted throughout the land as the proper relations to exist between the races in every section of the country. "He has my approval in the policy he suggests, to advance the negro along lines that will make him a better, a more useful man, and fit for the grave responsibilities of citizenship." Redeem Your Past Failures You may say that you have failed too often, that there is no use in trying, that it is impossible for you to succeed, and that you have fallen too often even to attempt to get on your feet again. Nonsense! There is no failure for a man whose spirit is unconquered. No matter how late the hour, or how many and repeated his failures, success is still possible. The evolution of Scrooge, the miser, in the closing years of his life, from a hard, narrow, heartless moneygrubber, whose soul was imprisoned in his shining heap of hoarded gold, to a generous, genial lover of his kind, is no mere myth of Dickens' brain. Time and again, in the history of our daily lives, chronicled in our newspapers, recorded in biographies, or exhibited before our eyes we see men and women redeeming past failures, rising up out of the stupor of discouragement and boldly turning face forward once more.—Success. Cured Her Diabetes. Halo, Ind., Feb. 27th.—(Special.)—If what will cure Diabetes will cure any form of Kidney Disease, as so many physicians say, then Dodd's Kidney Pills will cure any form of Kidney Disease. For Mrs. L. C. Bowers of this place has proved that Dodd's Kidney Pills will cure Diabetes. "I had Diabetes," Mrs. Bowers says, "my teeth all became loose and part of them came out. I passed a great deal of water with such burning sensations I could hardly bear it. I lost about 40 pounds in weight. I used many medicines and doctored with two local doctors but never got any better till I started to use Dodd's Kidney Pills. They cured me so completely that in three years I have had no return of the disease. I am a well woman now, thanks to Dodd's Kidney Pills." Dodd's Kidney Pills cure all kidney allments from Backache to Bright's Disease. Cure your Backache with them and you will never have Bright's Disease. Diabetes or Rheumatism. Lunar Ablutions. One little girl, member of an uptown family, has been possessed since her babyhood by a fondness for the noise and pyrotechnics of a thunderstorm. On one occasion when the father and mother were members of a dinner party at Yonkers, and the youngster, then about 5 years old, had been tucked under the covers for the night and was presumably revelling in the childish fancies of dreamland, a storm came up. The deluge of rain was accompanied by the roar of celestial artillery and the incessant play of lightning on the night-darkened landscape. Prompted by a natural solicitude, the mother of the little one excused herself from the company, merry in the story telling aftermath of the dinner, to go and see if her baby was sleeping while the storm was raging. Clad only in a "nightie" of summer weight, the child was leaning over the window sill, with her happy little face resting in a pair of chubby hands. Both hands and face were pattered with the moisture of the falling rain, and when the mother broke in on the scene she was joyously received. And in the terms of sentiment that only a child might coin she explained her occupation. "I am," said she, "just watching the moon take a bath."—New York Tribune. Triumph of the English Tongue. An English-speaking nation has grown up on the west side of the Atlantic which has done, and is doing, more than the parent country to give the tongue a world vogue. Two-thirds of the people who speak English live in the United States. The industrial and commercial conquests which this country is gaining tell in favor of its people's tongue. A century ago French, Spanish and German were far ahead of English in the number of persons who used them as a vehicle of speech. But in the lapse of time English has passed all of them and is spoken by more people today than is any other civilized tongue.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Of Interest to Dealers in Millinery Goods. Of Interest to Dealers in Millinery Goods. Milwaukee is known as the foremost manufacturing city in the west and in the last few years has also become prominent as a distributing point for millinery goods. The house that has contributed to this fact more than any other and through its advertising methods is known to dealers in every state and territory of the United States is the Progressive Millinery House of Milwaukee, the firm of Blumenfeld, Locher & Brown Co., located at 368 to 374 Broadway. It will be of interest to dealers to visit Milwaukee and call on this firm or get on their mailing list to receive their catalogues. They are especially well equipped to sell new opening stocks of either general Millinery or Merchant's Trimmed Hats. Second business excursion to Milwaukee March 4th to 11th. A Record Breaker. Among the army of Blackpool carriage drivers is an Irishman noted for his native wit. It stood him in poor stead one day, however. Pat was engaged by a gentleman to drive to a hydropathic establishment. On arrival at the gate the fare inquired: "What's your fare, driver?" "Well, sor," said Pat, "the manest jintleman I ever drove here gave me two shillings." "Is that so?" exclaimed the gentleman, who was a bit of a wag. "Well, here's a shilling for you, my man; I like the idea of breaking records."—London Tit-Bits. Eware of Ointments for Catarrh that Contain Mercury. as mercury will surely destroy the sense of smell and completely derange the whole system when entering it through the mucous surfaces. Such articles should never be used except on prescriptions from reputable physicians, as the damage they will do is tenfold to the good you can possibly derive from them. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O., contains no mercury, and is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. In buying Hall's Catarrh Cure be sure you get the genuine. It is taken internally, and made in Toledo, Ohio, by F. J. Cheney & Co. Testimonials free. Sold by Druggists, price 75c. per bottle. Hall's Family Pills are the best. Aunt Mandy's Trouble. "How does okra taste, Aunt Mandy?" "Fo Gawd! chile, ah danno!" "You eat it all the time, don't you?" "Yassir, ah eats it; but it go down so fas' ah ain't nebber been able to hol' it in ma mouf long 'nuff to fin' out how it do taste!"—New Orleans Times-Democrat About Stump Pullers. For clearing land of stumps, grubs and brush the Twentieth Century Stump Puller, manufactured by the W. Smith Grubber Company, of La Crosse, Wis., has no equal. It is not only warranted to do the work better than any other machine on the market, but warranted against breakage, besides thus making this stump puller doubly assured. The advertisement in another column of this paper makes interesting reading. One hundred million bushels of grain are sent every year to the mills of Duluth and Minneapolis. GOSSIP FOR THE LADIES. Love's Way Love makes the heart so light, so light. Like thistle-down its upward flight; Earth seems so very far away. And heaven so very near the day Love comes a-knocking at our door, And whispers all his cunning lore— Care cannot hurt, nor sorrow blight The heart that love has made so light. Love makes the world so bright, so bright; As silvery moonbeams do the night; Though storms may come and winds may blow, As through this weary world we go, Love sees the sun behind the cloud. Nor cares if north winds bluster loud— So much there is that gives delight In the world love makes so bright. Love makes the way so clear, so clear; No stumbling in the dark, no fear. The path before me lies so straight; And at the end the shining gate. It is so easy to do right. To toil, to hope, to climb the height. Since I have walked with you, my dear, Along the way love makes so clear. —Irene L. Dearing in Boston Transcript Lack of Personal Liberty in Married Life. Married life is dull because there is not enough freedom in it. Every metaphor that we use in regard to marriage has in it the idea of slavery. We speak of the "yoke of matrimony," of the "bonds of wedlock," of the "marriage tie," of the "fetters of matrimony" and so on. And it is because these similes foreshadow a great truth, and married people are no longer free but slaves, that marriage grows irksome. The thing that makes the yoke of matrimony gall us is the mere fact that it is a yoke It is this sense of there being no yoke that so often makes the irregular relationship that men and women establish have a permanency, a harmony and an undying interest and charm that marriage ought to have, and doesn't. This point is worthy of the serious consideration of every man and woman. The one unquenchable passion of the human heart is for liberty, and the person who deprives us of this does so at his or her peril. Yet the very first thing every man and woman do after they are married is to try to take away the freedom of the other one. The man has been in the habit of coming and going as he pleases; of selecting his own friends; and eating what he likes. The wife begins interfering with her husband's liberty of action. He must keep certain hours, as if he were a child, or a servant. She also revises his list of friends, and attempts to dictate whom he shall associate with. She decides what dishes are good for his digestion, and whether he shall drink ice water or wine with his meals. The husband adopts the same course toward his wife. He firmly believes that marriage gives him a right to take away every particle of personal liberty from his wife. She must give an account to him of every penny she spends. She must be able to furnish an alibi for every minute she is out of the house. If she wants to go off on a little visit she must ask his permission. If she happens to have different views on religion or politics she must conform to his, for he considers that marriage gives him the privilege of policing her very soul. Both husband and wife have done the best they knew to make home a penitentiary and themselves jailers for each other, and yet they wonder that married life is dull. It is dull. It is so dull that men fly from it to the corner saloon, where they may do as they please. It is so dull that women consider going to a woman's club where they have to listen to long-winded papers dug out of the encyclopaedia, a dissipation by contrast. It apparently never occurs to either husband or wife that by the time people are of marriable age they have worked out the scheme of life most in accordance with their taste, and it is a dangerous experiment to meddle with anybody's habits. A woman seems to think that a man marries her to get somebody to reform him. A man seems to think that a woman marries him to get a boss. There is not one wife in a thousand who lets her husband indulge his whims and hobbies in his own house. There is not one husband in ten thousand that respects his wife's right to hold different views, and pursue a different course of action from his own. Nowhere else in the world is there so little freedom of speech or action permitted as in the home. Neither husband nor wife has the intelligence or the liberality to accord to the other the great boon of personal liberty that they crave for themselves. Yet the whole secret of married happiness may be summed up in the two words—Hands off! The greatest mistake that husbands and wives make in dealing with each other is in not taking into consideration the peculiarity of human nature that makes whatever is denied us the most desirable thing on earth. The perennial row about the latchkey has made more men rove away from home than all other cancer combined The same rule works with women. The woman who feels she is bound to her house like a slave to a chariot wheel hates domesticity. It is the woman who knows that she can get away from it now and then who is the most enthusiastic housewife. In matrimony you have only to take down the bars to make both men and women satisfied to stay where they are House Furnishings. "Equipment of the house," said Miss Maria Parloa in a lecture on that subject at Teacher college on Friday, "should be in accordance with the style of living and the number of pairs of hands there are to do the work. It is not only foolish, but criminal, so to arrange and furnish a house that the work is double what the available hands can accomplish. "A large percentage of the housekeepers in this country break down from this cause. It is not uncommon to find the mistress and one servant doing all the work in a house so large and furnished in such a manner that there is work enough for three or four pairs of hands. "Every woman should have a laudable pride in her house, but it should not be an altar which claims her entire soul and body. Nor should there be anything in it for daily use. The equipment of the house includes two classes of objects—essentials and accessories. The essentials are the appliances for heating, lighting, sleeping, preparing and serving food, washing and cleaning. These essentials are found in some form, primitive or elaborate, in every class and nation. There is no economy in going without the essentials or purchasing those of poor quality. For the essentials buy well made articles free from ornamentation. This diminishes both the price and the labor of caring for them. "The markets are full of household goods which are not worth the space they occupy. After being in use a short time they become defaced and the work of caring for them is doubled. Their usefulness is of short duration, and it is demoralizing to have all these cheap, dishonestly made things around. We feel no respect for a thing which is made only to sell, without any regard to suitability and durability. "The draping of windows is not so expensive or difficult a problem as in former years, for fabrics suitable for this purpose range from 25 cents to as many dollars a yard. But when you leave the white goods the cheap fabrics are apt to be so pronounced that they fail to harmonize with anything else in the room. There are, however, many vegetable dyed, moderate priced India cotton that are free from this objection. "Wood finished in its natural color is easier to repair than that stained to imitate another kind. The simpler the construction of furniture and the less ornamentation it has, the easier it is to keep it clean and in repair, and if the lines are good neither fashion nor time can affect its beauty or utility. A piece of furniture that is highly polished can be marred more easily than one with the soft finish, that is, finished in oil. I would choose all my furniture of soft finish for two reasons—the greater ease with which it could be kept in good condition and the more restful effect on eye and brain. High polish also becomes cloudy where there is much dampness in the air, and this dullness is only removed with rottenstone and oil or water and a great deal of rubbing. "The bedroom claims special attention. It is a question which is the more important—food or sleep. Two persons should not occupy one room, but they do there should be two beds and two washstands. I suppose it is not necessary to say here that two persons should not use the same bowl, soap or towel. I like the English custom of a long washstand, with two bowls and two pitchers. "If one cannot have a bare floor in the bedroom, the next best thing is a good matting. A woolen carpet is not a desirable thing in a sleeping room. "The perfect bed is long, supporting all parts of the body in a perfectly horizontal position. The covering is long, light and warm; the pillows of such size and material as shall be most comfortable to the sleeper. When the bed is soft or the springs sag, the body sinks and lies at an angle. This results in restlessness, sleeplessness and backache, particularly in the case of heavy people. Box springs are the best kind. Springs inclosed between strips of wood should not be bought, on account of insects. Hair mattresses are best for comfort, but it is are more hygienic. A cheap hair mattress cannot be bought. When a hair mattress is cheap it is because it is adulterated with Florida moss, which is very dusty. "Granite or enameled ware, if of first grade, is satisfactory. The slightest bend of the utensil causes the enamel to chip off; therefore, when selecting the ware, see that it is made of firm, unvielding material. "Tinware makes good receptacles for many kinds of food supplies. Fat should be kept in it rather than in earthen and stone china, both of which absorb fat, while tin does not. Woodenware absorbs odors and fats, and is prone to insect raids when used as a receptacle for food. Its use should be confined to chopping bowl, rolling pin and so on. For baking dishes there is nothing better than French fireproof china. The heavy blue Japanese dishes are also excellent. Those little brown dishes, lined with white, called casseroles, absorb heat so intensely that the oven must be at a much lower temperature for baking in them than would be needed in granite ware. "If one must consider economy in tableware, a set of plain French china is in the end the cheapest. It can always be matched, the glaze does not crack, and if it is chipped the place does not discolor. Unless able to replace broken articles at any expense, stick to standard patterns. "A great amount of silver means great time and labor to keep it bright, especially in city houses, where there is so much gas. So the wise woman will substitute china or glass for silver wherever possible." No laundering can make a thin, coarse tablecloth look well; so she who cannot afford table linen of good quality must simply resign herself to a table which offends the eye. There should be a thread of cotton in table linen. If a housewife cannot afford one long and one short felt to be placed under the cloth it is best to purchase one long enough to cover the table when enlarged, to be doubled for ordinary use. "Chamber towels should be free from fringe, rough enough to get up a good friction, and soft enough to absorb the water. Nothing is better than huckaback. Cheeselcloth and loosely woven fabrics make the best cleaning cloths."—New York Tribune. Girls Who Don't Care. It is a great mistake to imagine that you can ignore public opinion. You can't; no one can. We have all got to give something if we wish anything in return, and you know it is a fact that no matter how casual we may be in our manner of treating others, we expect to be well treated ourselves. But that's a trait that was thoroughly grafted in human nature long before our time. How often you hear a person say, "Well, if they want me they'll have to take me as I am. I'm not going to change for anybody." The result is that this kind of person is usually let alone, and then he thinks he is misunderstood and that the fault lies with his friends. There is not a man, woman or child who does not want to be popular, but there are a great many who won't take the slightest trouble to make themselves so. If you want people to like you, you must do something to win their liking. You can't get something for nothing. Least of all can a woman afford to disregard the good opinion of others. There are certain prescribed rules that must be lived up to, and the least infringement of these rules is severely criticised. Never say to yourself, "I don't care what people think of me." You must care what people think of you, and down in the depths of your heart you know that you do care and that when you hear yourself criticised and censured it rankles and festers. There is nothing so precious to a woman as her good name, and the only way to keep it untarnished is by never doing anything that lays it open to criticism. Public opinion is quick to go against a woman if she gives it the slightest encouragement. It is the first to throw her down and the last to give her a helping hand when she seeks to rise. A young girl writes that her parents are always looking after her, making her keep early hours and insisting on knowing all about her men friends. She only sees it from one side, and feels it a bore to be always chaperoned. Her parents are doing the very best thing in the world for her, and some day, when she has children of her own, she will appreciate their wisdom. Even if she does not have quite as much gaiety as some of her less chaperoned friends, she will have less remorse. Men perhaps will not seek her as a companion in their revels, but she is the kind of girl they want when it comes to choosing a wife. No matter what happens, girls, hold your good name as the most valuable of your possessions.—Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. Telling the Future by Tea Grounds. To tell fortunes by tea grounds is a trick and requires a vivid imagination and a quick reader of nature. It is felly to attempt to tell things that everyone in the room knows. Trust to the cup for the inspiration and as the fortune proceeds gather as much information as possible. Certain it is that the hostess that searches in the cup for pictures and suggestions will find them. A few old symbols are all that are needed to make the fortune telling a success. First there must be grounds in the cup. The cup must be inverted over the owner's saucer. It must never be turned down in the saucer because that shut the evil under it. It must be turned quite around three times, either above the saucer or about the head, as the hostess dictates. While the cup is being turned the three times the owner must wish, keeping the wish well in mind until the telling of the fortune begins. If, when the cup passes into the fortune teller's hands, there are drops clinging to the inverted cup, it is a sure sign of tears to come. To read the grounds begin at the upper edge of the cup and read to the bottom and begin at the handle and read toward you and to the left. What is to be seen near the handle and next the edge is coming first. A succession of long lines, in the form of a path, signifies a journey. If broken and continued, a journey over a body of water. Short paths signify visits away from home, if leading to the edge of the cup, a visitor to come. Square or oblong formations, solid, indicate letters. Larger formation of the same mean packages. A circle means an engagement, a marriage or a proposal, this is to be determined by the fortune teller's knowledge of the owner of the cup. In the cup of a married woman a ring means a business proposition. A bird promises news, if the bird is light and apparently sprightly the news is good; a dejected, black bird means bad news. Cat means difficulties at home, and the formations about the animal often lead to an interpretation of the difficulty. Three dots in a row signify the fulfillment of the wish; near the edge of the cup, soon; toward the bottom, later. A heart signifies a secret lover. A broken heart, a broken engagement or a divorce. Many small dots in a group signify money; if near a letter, a check or order; if the cup contains a timber formation, it may signify the building of a house. A long hard stick, if upright, promises a visitor; if down, a sick friend. The complexion is told by the lightness or darkness of the tea stick. The cup should be turned three times, if there is time, once in case there are many guests. Particular pictures will appear, such as stoves, altars, horses, etc. These in connection with the symbols given will make a story of the fortune. Figures will frequently be turned and these are always convenient in timing the arrival or departure of friends and visitors, letters, packages, etc.—Philadelphia Inquirer. The Girl Who Goes to the City. "I know of nothing more pathetic," said a woman to me lately, "than the once face one is sure to find at every boarding house in New York—the face of the girl who has just come to conquer the city. To me such faces are more tragic than an army with baners. Why doesn't she go home?" Now, why should she go home—the girl who has just come to conquer the city? The women who are at the heads of their professions did not go home, and they are not going to keep their places always. Who will take their places if that army of eager, confident young women at the boarding house tables of New York should suddeniy go home? There came a girl to New York, three years ago, who went to see one of the successful women in her profession. "My dear young friend," said the successful woman, "go home. I have an average of ten girls a day who come to me as you have come. I know girls of refinement—college-bred and clever—who cannot earn $5 a week in this town. Go home and stay there." "But you didn't go home," suggested the girl. "That was because I didn't know what I was daring," replied the successful woman. To every girl who has come here to make her way I should like to say two things: First, know yourself; that bit of advice has never yet been equaled. Second, if it is not your pride, nor your desire, nor your discontent at home, but your sober judgment of your own ability and perseverance that leads you to believe honestly that you can win—then stay. Given health, and with no pressing call of duty at home, any girl who understands her own personality, and who stays in the belief I have just mentioned, holds her future in her own hands. In her own hands! There, alas, is the rub; for upon the way she juggles the future with her own clever hands everything depends, far more than on the intervention of fate.—Success. Every Girl Should Learn Tact. If one will but try to forget one's self and think only of the comfort, the pleasure, and the happiness of others there can be no self-consciousness. If in the company of the opposite sex, do not be always thinking of whether you are producing a good impression or otherwise; be constantly on the alert to find what your companion or companions are most interested in, and turn the conversation in that direction. If a girl allows herself to talk only of herself; of what she personally likes or dislikes, she will soon find herself alone, as far as young men are concerned. If she wishes to be sought she must find out by adroit tact in what especial way her companions can be entertained, and talk to them about the things that are interesting to them, no matter how uninteresting they may be to her, says the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Sometimes a man is only interested in himself; the girl who finds out this trait in him and shows eager interest in all he says about himself may be assured of at least one devoted follower. What he likes to eat, his favorite games, his favorite books, his favorite mode of exercise, what he thinks of any subject under the sun; all of these are of much more importance to that especial young man than any of the girl's likes or dislikes. Where one either is hard to please, is either thirsty, or too cold, or too hot, or too tired, or parading a grievance, there can be no wish for their companionship. Be interested and you will interest.—Selected. Women Who Retain Their Youth As a rule the women by whose youthfulness I have been struck most have been famous workers, writes Robert Hichens in the Sunday Magazine. Men who work hard and successfully, on the other hand, often appear careworn and elderly before their time. Women are becoming cleverer than men are, in this way, as in so many other ways. In comparing the women who live quiet country lives with those who drain life to the dregs, I must say that my theories and those of many doctors have been upset. Age, in the heart of the country, seems generally to make its appearance just when one would expect it to do so. Country women of 50 usually appear 50. I believe that a perpetual calm is decidedly aging, and that too much repose, even in fine air, induces a heaviness, a phlegm, which show youth quickly to the door. The human vegetable is seldom or never young. It always seems what we discreetly call "a good age." But the surest way of preserving youth is to keep your interest in people and things. Are modern women more keenly interested in their lives than modern men in theirs, and is this the secret of their remarkable youthfulness? Certainly the modern woman's life is constantly becoming more varied, more full. She does a thousand things now that she used to leave undone. Both in work and in play she has a far better time. Perhaps that is why she is getting to appear so preposterously young. She is gazing toward the horizon of time, and watching the far-off figures of coming joys, against a sky in which there are not so many clouds as there used to be. Her youth should put man on his mettle. THE POINT OF VIEW Trouble has a trick of coming Butt end first; Viewed approaching then you've seen it At its worst, Once surmounted straight it waxes Ever small, And it tapers till there's nothing Left at all! So' whene'er a difficulty May impend. Just remember you are facing The butt end; And that looking back upon it Like as not You will marvel at beholding Just a dot! —The Saddler's Gazette. THE DEBTOR. The dearest of my friends today Spoke wistfully: "I have a friend, Who, in more ways than I may tell, Hath served me well; But he doth owe a debt he cannot pay, And there is none to lend." Eager, I cried: "Thy friends are mine! Speak but his name, ere time is lost. What is his score? Whom does he owe? My gold shall flow To case his care, whose care, O Lord, is thine; Nor will I grudge the cost." "And is thy love so great?" he sighed. And turned from me, and, stooping, wrote— As once of old—with kingly hand Upon the sand; The while I waited, wond'ring, full of pride, Impatient to devote. At last he rose, and looked at me: His eyes were flames that burned through tears. For the last time-thy name, mine enemy, And that old wrong of years. —Annie R. Stillman in the Outlook. FACTS AND FANCIES. She—Do you suppose real angels have wings? He—Well, you haven't.—Yonkers Herald. Knicker—"Didn't the doctor build you up?" Bocker—"Yes; but he seems to think he built a bank."—Harper's Bazar. "Can you keep the wolf from the door?" asked the fond parent. "I can keep the Welsh rabbit away," replied the square-jawed young man. Wiping away a furtive tear, the fond father gave his blessing.—Harper's Bazar. Solon told how he gained his reputation for wisdom. "I was never counsel for Mrs. Chadwick," he explained. And with a glad smile he put the finishing touches on a brief.—Harper's Bazar. "I'd like to know what you policemen do for your money?" said the disgusted citizen in the New York business district. "Sure, we have to sign a receipt!" said the innocent patrolman.—Yonkers Statesman. "George has quarreled with his father." "What's the trouble?" "George's father wanted George to smoke up the cigars that George's mother gave George's father for a Christmas present."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. --- Hawkshaw, the detective, told how he got his start. "I guessed what a Christmas present a girl made me with her own hands was meant for!" he declared. Appalled by the man's genius, they made haste to do him reverence.—Harper's Bazar. "Well," said Mr. Titewad, putting down his paper, "that woman who got all that money from those bankers certainly was shrewd. Seems like a woman can always get money from a man, no matter how cautious he is." "She can," remarked Mrs. Titewad, "so long as he isn't married to him."—Judge. Bessie—How do you and Harry get along? Nettie—Oh, he's just awful! He brought some caramels one night, and when he asked me if I was glad he did I told him I'd prefer popcorn. Bessie—And what did he say to that? Nettie—He didn't say anything; but the next evening he came and brought a lot of popcorn with him! I was so provoked I could hardly treat him decently, the stupid!—Boston Transcript. For Uniform Electrical Units. Strong hopes are entertained that international uniformity in electrical units may shortly be secured. Our foreign office has the matter under consideration on the report of experts who attended the St. Louis Electrical congress. In all likelihood an international commission, which it is suggested should arrange such a system of electrical units—in terms of the ohm, volt and ampere—will foregather at Geneva or The Hague. In many countries, including Russia, Norway and Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, Portugal, Italy and Japan no electrical units have yet been legalized. London Telegraph. Young Folks' Column. A Penny a Day. "See-saw, Margery Daw, Johnny shall have a new master; He shall have but a penny a day, Because he can't work any faster. "Mother dear," cried little John, "I'd rather not have any If I must slave the whole day long For but a single penny." Said my mother unto me, Standing small beside her knee: "Honest work wins honest pay In the market any day. Stick to what thou find'st to do; Dig until thy work be through Of thine earnings save a penny; Mite by mite doth make a many. Penny lying on the shelf Whistles penny to itself; Each the other doth invest With a growing interest. Honest work is never slaving; Don't despise the smallest saving. Johnny, in my life I've learned A penny saved is a penny earned. Save thy pennies one by one; Soon the dollar will be done. Lay thy dollars on the shelf; Fortune follows of itself. Wouldst be rich? Be this thy way: Lay a penny by each day." Said my mother unto me, Standing small beside her knee: "Be thy saving great or small. Add it to thy capital Soon thou'lt find the saving true: 'Honest saving works for you.' Day and night, while thou dost sleep, All the pennies in the heap Gather pennies one by one; So great fortunes are begun. Wouldst be rich? Then here's the way: Lay a penny by each day." -John Bennett in St. Nicholas. A Human Salamander. It was a warm corner. Day after day the French soldiers had pushed their batteries nearer and nearer toward the besieged town, and now one could look out from behind the breastworks and plainly see the faces of the Austrian artillerymen, as they stuck to their guns with grim determination and sent their shots flying into the French forts. In one of these little mud-constructed forts a small party of French soldiers, under the command of a corporal, were busily engaged in returning the fire of the enemy. The corporal, a tall, gaunt young fellow of 20, was directing the work of his men. Often he leaped to the ramparts to note what effect the fire of his guns was producing. "Truly," said one of the soldiers, as the corporal jumped back among them. "though art a veritable salamander, for thou canst stand fire." "Who is a salamander?" inquired a gruff voice from the rear of the smoke-filled battery. The soldiers turned and saw standing there a small, pale-faced man in a general's uniform. One of the men pointed toward the corporal. "It is he, general," he replied. "A salamander! We will see!" reiterated the officer, as he ran his eye over the corporal. "Can you write?" he inquired. "Yes, my general!." "Follow me, then." Out into the shot-swept open the two passed, walking side by side. "You seem," remarked the general, pleasantly, "to be at least a foot taller than I. Kindly walk on this side," and he indicated the side nearest to the enemy. "It will be a great protection to me." Without a word the corporal took the place. Just at the moment a shell burst directly over their heads, but did them no harm. The officer cast a quick glance at his companion. He was not in the least flurried. He did not even quicken his pace. Presently they reached and entered a battery which was the nearest of all to the Austrian lines. It was filled with dead and wounded soldiers. Only one gun remained standing. Calmly seating himself on a broken gun carriage, the general gave the corporal paper and quill and ink, and commanded him to write as he began to dictate a letter. The corporal's hand did not shake. He wrote almost as rapidly as the general spoke. Suddenly, just as the letter was finished, there was a deafening report, and a huge cannon ball passed close above them and buried itself with a dull thud in the earth beyond. The wind caused by its passage overturned the two, and dust and dirt completely covered them. The general picked himself up in an instant. Calmly leaping upon the ramparts, the corporal waved the finished letter defiantly toward the Austrian lines. "Thanks, my friends," he shouted, "you have saved me the trouble of blotting it." A look of genuine admiration crept into the eyes of the general. "What is your name?" he asked, harshly. "Corp. Junot of the Ninth Foot, general." "Say rather 'Copt. Junot,' for I cannot afford to let such fellows as you remain corporals;" and Gen. Bonaparte—for it was he—clapped the young man on the shoulder. Eight years later Marshal Junot was decorted with the grand cross of the Legion of Honor by the Emperor Napoleon.—Frank E. Channon in St. Nicholas. Plucky Little Polly. They were a happy party of children—Kenneth, Arthur, Alice and Polly—as one bright, cool, summer afternoon, they drove along a country road in a capacious pony cart. The road which they followed, although near the sea, ran partly through pine woods and thickets and was bordered, here and there, with a tangle of wild rose and bay bushes, with no houses in sight. Suddenly the cart rolled into a clearing and approached a railroad track. Kenneth, who was driving, and had been cautioned about the danger near railroads, listened for a train. Everything was silent, so he chirruped to Rob Roy, the sturdy pony, encouraging him to cross the rails. Just in the middle of the track the pony stopped stock still and refused to budge. "He is balky," said Arthur. "Let's get out and see," cried Alice. They tumbled hastily out, and found to their dismay that one of Rob Roy's hoofs was firmly fastened in a "frog" in the track, holding him so that he could not move from the spot. The children tried with all their might to release him, but in vain did they tug and lift. Then the awful thought struck Polly that it was almost time for the afternoon train, and what would became of Rob Roy and the cart? She exclaimed, "We must flag the train!" The others screamed in scorn: "Flag the train! With what? A pocket handkerchief?" "No," said Polly, stoutly—and she was only 7—"I'll flag the train with my red flannel petticoat; red is the danger signal, you know." And she whipped off the petticoat and ran down the track, followed by a string of loyal supporters, Kenneth being left to guard the pony. Truly, there was a train, puffing along at its usual speed! The engineer leaned from his cab window, gazing with surprise at this group of hurrying children waving a red flag. Of course, he stopped the train, while the children were quickly surrounded by questioning passengers who raised a hearty cheer for Polly when she breathlessly told of the pony's perilous position and of her desire to save him. Strong hands released Rob Roy from his iron fetters, and the grateful children climbed into the cart, the passengers went aboard the cars, and the train steamed away, passengers and brakemen waving a parting salute to the intrepid four. That evening at a dinner party one gentleman remarked to the father of the heroine: "That was a clever thing which your Polly did this afternoon?" "What do you mean?" the father said. "Why, didn't you know that she flagged the down train to save the pony?" Then the whole story came out. They had been, each and all, afraid to mention the incident that afternoon, fearing they might be forbidden to drive Rob Roy any more, and not dreaming that anyone on the train would think that what they did was worth mentioning. As the pony's accident was not due to any fault of the children, their father allowed them to continue their drives, but they were urgently warned to avoid railroad crossings in the future.—Annabel Lee, in St. Nicholas. VANDERBILT FOUNDS A HOSPITAL Moved by Gratitude to Dr. Gautier, Who Cured Him of Rheumatism. In striking contrast with George Crocker's suit against Dr. Doyen, who demanded a fee of $20,000 for a few visits to Mrs. Crocker, is the case of Dr. George Vanderbilt, who cured W. K. Vanderbilt, Sr., of rheumatism. Dr. Gautier rendered a bill for $4 a visit, in accordance with the usual Paris rate. Mr. Vanderbilt paid him with a check for twenty times the amount of the bill rendered. He sent word to Dr. Gautier that 1,000,000 francs was at his disposal to found an institution where the poor might have the benefit of the light-ray treatment for rheumatism. While regretting that the facts had come out while Mr. Vanderbilt was still on the ocean, Dr. Gautier told the Chronicle correspondent the story was all true, although he preferred that Mr. Vanderbilt should make it public. The site for the light-ray hospital has been chosen at 18 Rue Leonardo Da Vinci, near the Place Victor Hugo, in the center of the "American quarter," an ideal spot. The house has a garden in front of it and all the latest discoveries of science, with all possible comforts for the patients, will be arranged. The hospital will be ready in two months. The Glass of Fashion "Whenever you're puffed up like a toad and happen to be thinking pretty well of your personal appearance," muttered the man about town as he tried to remove a permanent spot from the sleeve of his coat, "just step into a high-priced tailor's and survey yourself in a couple of those long mirrors they have—pier glasses, I think they call them—that show you up fore and aft. You'll come out with a chastened spirit. I don't know what it is about the deadly, polished surface of those reflectors, until you're more than half-tempted to throw a brick at them and clean out the shop. They make you look as if you'd never been shaved, as if the hair on your neck had been growing in riotous profusion since childhood, as if your clothes had been made by mother while you waited. And if you're trying on a garment they're fashioning for you, although it's covered with pins, basting and chalk marks, the contrast between the thing and the trousers and shoes you're wearing makes you wish you were in a skirt with a train to it. As I said, I don't know just how to explain the effect produced. I've a notion it's a trick of the trade to drive you to ordering a brand new outfit. It generally sends me into a Turkish bath."—Providence Journal. Tombstone in Evidence. In a suit brought in the probate court of Ray county recently to compel final settlement of an estate, the question devolved as to whether the heir in question was of age. The father swore that she was born December 22, 1886, which would make her of age December 22, 1904. The old family Bible in which a complete record had been kept was lost in the big flood during the spring of 1903. The witnesses all agreed that the child was born on the 22d day of December, but differed as to the year. Judge Divelbiss then struck upon the novel idea of letting the tombstone over the mother's grave decide the case, knowing that there could be no intention of wrongdoing when the slab was engraved. All parties agreed to this, and upon investigation the date was found to be November 27, 1889. As all witnesses testified that she lacked from November 27 to December 22 of being three years old when her mother died, then she was of age December 22, 1904.—Richmond (Mo.) Democrat. Manitoba Will Exhaust Soil. The Manitoba farmer has not profited by the experience of the wheat growers on this side of the boundary. Like them, he has proceeded on the theory that the virgin soil, which is a heavy loam, cannot be exhausted. Heavy crops of wheat have been taken from it in continuous succession, the straw burned, and none of the chemical elements taken from the soil in the form of crops returned to it in any form. In the older sections of the province the inevitable result is already apparent. The soil has greatly deteriorated and so has the quality of the product. "No. 1 hard," the grade raised in Manitoba and which is in demand by American millers for their export trade, is no longer produced in places where it was the rule, and the territory yielding it is steadily decreasing in extent in spite of the opening up of new districts. Cleveland Plain Dealer. Broken Neck Is Mended. Edward Pape of Brooklyn fell from a trolley and broke his neck. Physicians put it together at the hospital, and he is on the road to recovery. When Pape fell he landed on his head. The sixth cervical vertebra was thrown entirely out of place forward, so that it hung on the front articular process of the vertebra underneath. The patient was placed on his back. Three physicians took a firm hold on his body. Dr. Lennox took hold of the head, and another man took hold of him. The head was pulled in a straight line with the body for a half inch. Then it was bent forward to an angle of 30 degrees, when—crack—the dislocated vertebra snapped back into place. The operation took scarcely thirty seconds. Women's Cruelty. Mrs. Reginald DeKoven at a dinner in Washington adverted to cruelty. Washington advertised to cruelty. "Women can be very cruel," she said. "Some of them can be very cunning, too. Some of them can wound you so dextrously that before you know you have been wounded their escape is made. "Once I saw a young woman wound a slightly older one in that way. She approached the older one at a ball. She greeted her with a radiant smile. She inflicted her wound, and while her victim still thought the wound a compliment she walked away. This is what, in a very loud, clear voice, she said: "Oh, Helen, dear, that perfect gown! I think it looks lovelier every year."—Louisville Courier-Journal. THE WISCONSIN WEEKLY ADVOCATE. R. B. Montgomery, Editor and Publisher. The Wisconsin Weekly Advocate after three years' residence at 79 Fifth street, has moved its headquarters to 729 St. Paul Ave., where we will receive our guests and transact our business in future. A Representative Journal Devoted to the Interest of All the People. ADVERTISING RATES. One inch, one year..... $15.00 Two inches, one year..... 25.00 Three inches, one year..... 35.00 Four inches, one year..... 42.00 For larger space, special rates. Locals, 10 cents per line. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One year . $2.00 Six months . 1.00 Three months . .50 Direct all communications to R. B. MONTGOMERY, 729 St. Paul Avenue. HOW TO SEND MONEY.—Post Office Order, Express Order, Draft or Registered Letter. R. B. Montgomery will not be responsible for loss when sent in any other way. TO CONTRIBUTORS: All communications must be sent with the name and address of the sender as an evidence of good faith, but not necessarily for publication. No manuscript returned if not accepted, unless accompanied by stamps. Vaccination was made compulsory in the city of Madras in 1884. Before that date there were hundreds, often thousands of deaths a year; now the deaths rarely exceed ten. The only two countries in Europe in which no mines whatever are worked are Monaco and Montenegro. The latter country, however, is said to contain considerable deposits of iron, lead and tin. The London police have a rule that allows the officers a chance to go into hiding whenever they get a black eye in the course of duty. If it is not a serious one they are allowed to do night duty. A man, 104 years old, has been arrested for stealing at Washington, D. C., and is said to be the oldest thief in the world. As far as can be learned, he is not identified with either political party. Tea has been grown at Jamaica with a good deal of success recently. It has found a ready market in this country, and while not as good as that grown in the far east it is palatable enough to be popular. ```markdown ``` The consumption of coal per head of population is lowest in Austria, where it is only one-sixth of a ton per annum, and highest in Great Britain, where each person averages three and three-tenths tons per year. --- Canton, China, boasts of over seventy trades guilds. These guilds have fine halls and spacious courtyards, where their members meet daily and discuss the affairs of their respective trades and other matters. In one unbroken nocturnal flight the European bird known as the northern bluethroat has been known to travel from Central Africa to the German ocean, a distance of 1600 miles, making the journey in nine hours. A locomotive owned and operated by the London & Northwestern since 1882 had up to 1902 made 2,000,000 working miles. The time out of service for repairs averaged 12 per cent. of the working time credited the locomotive. The network of canals in Flanders, which terminates at the seaports of Neazen, in the Netherlands, and Ostend and Zeebrugga, in Belgium, offers an opportunity to use motor boats, the demand for which is increasing from year to year. --- Senor Modeste Garces, former President of the state of Cauca and now special engineer for the national government of Colombia, is examining the extensive coal deposits on the Pacific slope with a view to asking bids for their exploitation. It is stated that in one county in England foxes are so scarce that most of the hunting is done with one old fox, who has been hunted so much that he and the hounds are becoming friends. The hunters are trying, therefore, to find a new fox. A church of solid coral is a curiosity of the Isle of Mahe. The island, rising 3000 feet, is the highest of the Seychelles group in the Indian ocean, and its buildings are all from square blocks hewn from massive coral and glistening like white marble. The American Bible society has recently received a number of interesting communications from its agent in Japan, Rev, Mr. Loomis, who says: "We have donated more than 32,000 testaments and gospels among the 45,000 wounded Japanese soldiers." The name of every Japanese merchant vessel ends with "Marn." "Maru" means proud. The name of every Japanese war vessel ends with "Kan." "Kan" means war vessel. Now let some paragrapher rise to remark that the Japanese delight in rushing the kan. The rescuers who are to look for the members of the Fiala-Ziegler Arctic expedition in the neighborhood of Franz Josef Land, express a belief that Fiala may have reached the pole. It is one of the peculiarities of Arctic exploration, that rescue is necessary, even for the successful. Adult, Colo., seems to live up to its name, as shown by a recent dinner given by a farmer near that town. The table was set for twelve and the dinner consisted of one $5\frac{1}{2}$-pound potato, one 10-pound chicken, one 15-pound cabbage, one 6-pound turnip, one 2-pound onion and three pies made from one half-pound apple. The Improvident Little West Indian Republic... 0 bloodshed in their periodical revolutions. They are for the most part mulattoes of Spanish and negro origin. The few Spanish families that have not intermingled with the prevailing type constitute the aristocracy of the republic and hold themselves loftily aloof from their less fortunate neighbors. Education in its proper sense is practically unknown. The average Dominican has not yet awakened to the necessity of adding to the knowledge with which nature has endowed him. The mulatto population, numbering at least half a million, is not inclined to be quarrelsome, but trouble is fomented by political tricksters who are trying constantly to obtain an opportunity to loot the public treasury. The people are for the most part industrious and patient, submitting to continual misgovernment and official peculation with remarkable good nature. The president of the republic is practically a dictator. As often as suits his convenience he submits to an election, and he is careful to have it occur at a time when there is no well organized opposition. The general system of government is copied after that of the United States. Officials are plentiful, and the national revenues are far from sufficient to maintain the annual expenditure. Add to this the fact that a large proportion of the legally collectible revenue never reaches the national treasury, and the cause of Santo Domingo's bankruptcy becomes apparent. The annual revenue is $1,700,000, and the military establishment, including the navy, costs $4,800,000 a year. All the officials are the personal appointees of the President, and the army is composed of men friendly to his interests. Judging from the past, the chief object of each administration has been to mulct the people of the largest possible amount before a THE MUSEUM OF THE HISTORY OF TRAVEL SANTO DOMINGO'S NATIONAL PALACE. revolution brings about a new division of the spoils. Under these circumstances politics has become the chief business of the republic, and other and equally important interests have been neglected. Agricultural and commercial pursuits have suffered so greatly from the rapacity of the government and lack of encouragement THE LIGHTHOUSE VIEW OF THE COAST. that they are practically at a stand- still. Santo Domingo is the garden of the western tropics. Nature has given it a soil adapted to a wider range of products than can be found in any corresponding area in the West Indies. The list is a long one, including cocoa, tobacco, all kinds of tropical fruits, sugar cane, coffee, vanilla, rubber and many other valuable things. In the interior mountainous region forests of mahogany and other timber abound. The whole country is in a state of constant verdure, and thermal fluctuations are almost unknown. General Carlos F. Morales is the present head of the Dominican government. Animal Instinct in Winter With many forms of life the readiness for winter is not to secure a place to protect them from cold or even from freezing, but for security against sudden changes of conditions and of temperature. It is a protection in some cases similar to that of the plants on the lawn that were covered with straw by the gardener when he made them ready for winter. In some places of the kind, for instance in the squirrel's nest, there is undoubtedly real animal warmth and coziness. Fish seek the deepest parts of pools, where the temperature of the water is a little above freezing, and where it remains very near this point until spring.—St Nicholas. Yet We Are Matchless Some 4,000,000 feet of pine lumber is made into matches in this country alone each year. Nothing takes the conceit out of some men like being compelled to serve on a jury. The recent determination of the United States to assume temporary control of the finances of the Dominican republic once more brings that restless little West Indian government into public view, writes William K. Lane. It has been apparent that affairs in the republic have reached a critical stage. Its more brings that restless little West Indian government into public view, writes William K. Lane. It has been apparent that affairs in the republic have reached a critical stage. Its PRESIDENT MOHALES. chief difficulty, eliminating the ever present tendency to revolutionize at the slightest pretext, seems to be a wonderful capacity to get into debt and a corresponding incapacity to get out again. The national debt of the tiny mulatto republic now amounts to the respectable total of $35,000,000, which in consideration of the comparatively unimportant figure cut by Santo Domingo in the congress of western nations is altogether too great. That has been the opinion of its impatient cred- ENTRANCE TO SANTO DOMINGO HARBOR. itors for a long time, and more than one of them has protested that some settlement should be effected. Some of them have even declared their willingness to undertake a receivership, promising to wind up the affairs of the improvident republic with amazing celerity. Such a proposition from a foreign state—Santo Domingo has shown a remarkable impartiality in the selection of her victims, many of them being European—could not be tolerated by the United States. The shade of the late James Monroe would rise in indignant protest at the mere suggestion. If there is any adjusting to be done it is clearly the privilege of the United States to do it. There does not seem to have been the slightest objection to that way out of the difficulty. It is most satisfactory to the foreign creditors, and the Dominicans themselves were so enthusiastic over the proposition that they tried at once to borrow more money on the strength of it. In the carrying out of its interference it will be necessary as a preliminary first step for the United States to restore the republic to a condition of internal quietude. When this is effected the American readjusters will proceed to take charge of the country's revenues and pay off its obligations, those to American citizens receiving first attention. Reduced to its final terms, the proposition seems to be that the United States shall make the Dominicans behave themselves long enough to pay their debts. When that is accomplished the dusky republicans will be free to resume their spendthrift career if they so elect. It is possible that by that time they may become so enamored of the thrifty business methods of their guardians CARRERA SANTO DOMINGO STREET SCENE. that they will choose to walk in their footsteps ever after. It is certain that the Dominicans are ardent admirers of the greater republic. The island on which the republic of Santo Domingo is established is, next to Cuba, the largest of the West Indies. One-third of its area is devoted to the republic of Haiti, and the remainder constitutes Santo Domingo. These contiguous republics are often confused, but they are quite dissimilar in most features. The Dominicans are much more refined and circumspect in their ways than their neighbors and are less addicted to actual HORSE WAUSAU LUMBER 'Phone North 60. GWENDOLYN WHISTLER WEDS. Grand Niece of Famous Painter Married at Palm Beach, Fla. Miss Gwendolyn Whistler, a grandniece of the famous painter, was married at Palm Beach, Fla., the other day to Rev. Dr. Richard Lewis Howell, the world's richest clergyman. The ceremony was performed in the Episcopal church at Bethesda-by-the-Sea. The bride and her parents came from their winter cottage in a launch, and the groom and his attendants arrived in the former's steam yacht Genevieve. The bridal party walked under a canopy of cocoanut palms to the church, where the chancel was banked with tropical flowers. A wedding breakfast was served at the Whistler cottage, after which the bride and groom sailed in the Genevieve for West Indian waters, where the honeymoon will be spent. The bride is but 18 years old. It is whispered that she has not seen that number of years, but her Baltimore relatives place the year of her birth as 1887. Dr. Howell is 45 years old. His income from New York and Pittsburg realty operations and holdings is said to be not less than $250,000 a year. He recently purchased a number of apartment buildings in New York costing $4,150,-000. Until 1899 he was rector of St. Margaret's Protestant Episcopal church in Washington. His first wife died in 1903. Little else has been talked of in society and church circles of Baltimore since the engagement was announced. Although Miss Whistler's parents, Thomas Delano Whistler and Mrs. Whistler, call Baltimore their home and maintain several establishments there, the family has been abroad so much during the last ten years that the young daughter is remembered only as a beautiful child. Dr. Howell and Miss Whistler met in a Paris salon, where a painting by James McNeil Whistler was on exhibition. To his friends Dr. Howell was eloquently dilating upon the genius of the artist and told of his personal acquaintance with him. The tender words he used in describing the character of the artist so enthused the girl that she impulsively stretched out her hand and thanked the clergyman for the nice things he had said of her uncle. This was the introduction, and Dr. Howell from that day appeared to cast off the weight of mourning that had come by reason of his wife's death a few months before. He became a frequent caller at the Whistler hotel, and while he showed an extraordinary fondness for the daughter little was thought of it. It is said that his proposal for the young woman's hand was made a year ago and that it had been under consideration up to the day of the announcement of the engagement, a few weeks ago. What Russian Authors Earned. It is the custom for Russian writers of established reputation to sell their entire copyrights to the publishers more frequently than English authors do. Shortly before his death Turgienieff disposed of the copyright of all his works to a publisher for £9000. The different sums for which the productions of some of the best known Russian authors of the old school have been sold are given as follows by the informant: Those of Gogol were disposed of for £6000; Puschkin's and Gontcharoff's each realized about £3500, while Kryloff's fables brought about £1400, and the entire copyrights of many well known writers have been sold for much smaller sums than that.—Bystander. All Join to Ring Church Bell. With the entire congregation tugging at the rope, the huge bell of the Asbury Methodist Episcopal church at East Chester, N. Y., rang out the other afternoon for the first time. Years ago when the church was erected it was heavily mortgaged. A bell was purchased, but at that time doubts were entertained as to the ability of the church to ever meet its obligations. The bell was never rung, for when it was placed in the belfry the congregation decided to reserve this ceremony to celebrate the burning of the church mortgage. On the auspicious afternoon Rev. William J. Clarke burned the mortgage in the presence of the congregation and the long silent bell was heard. Wardrobe for a Costume. The police were puzzled at the opera ball in Paris, where a man appeared in the role of a wardrobe. The bottom was removed and he pushed his head through a hole in the top of the wardrobe. The door of the wardrobe bore the notice, "Don't unlock." But the key was hanging on a knob and one imprudent young woman, disregarding the notice, unlocked the door and screamed when she discovered a man absolutely unclothed. The police wished to eject the joker, but he protested that he was absolutely covered except his head, and the notice forbade opening the door. The police decided that he was within his rights, but confiscated the key. Insult to J. G. Milburn. The words, "For God's sake, let us forget," written in chalk across the portrait of John G. Milburn, which hangs at the Buffalo club, caused a sensation among the club members. An investigation has been begun by the club's officers, and there is talk of expelling the guilty man if apprehended. The damage to the portrait, however, is slight, and the marks practically have been removed. Personal jealousy because Milburn's picture was hung in the club against opposition or the anger of some holder of Pan-American bonds which paid nothing are the motives advanced for the insult to the man in whose home President McKinley died. A Blast for Tobacco. In the course of my association with tobacco, about twenty-five years, I have known men all this time, every working day, to be inhaling tobacco dust or fumes produced in the process of manufacture. Uninterrupted good health is the general rule of all persons engaged in tobacco proceedings of every kind and generally of large consumers.—Lancet. 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LOOK WELL TO THE CREDENTIALS OF SUCH MENDICANTS AND INQUIRE OF SOME REPUTABLE NEGRO CITIZEN REGARDING THE TRUTHFULNESS OF THEIR STATEMENTS. "The Ideal Woman" was the after breakfast topic at he annual breakfast given by the National Society of New England Women in New York city. Mrs. Philip Carpenter, president of the state federation, spoke of the ideal woman known only to husbands. She said: "The ideal woman is a woman nobody knows but a woman everybody has heard of many times—mostly from husbands. She's that wonderful woman who can make fine pies. She never sees the clock when her husband comes in late, never says anything but 'had a good time, dear?'—even when he appears as if he had. 50 Per Cent. Commission ADDRESS WISCONSIN WEEKLY ADVOCATE MILWAUKEE, WIS. "I want to tell a story of a man who had three wives—I suppose he thought them all ideal. The first one, he said, used to patch and darn his clothes to the last thread. No. 2 used to tie up the holes with strings, and the third wife used to throw the clothes away when they looked worn. He put an epitaph on one stone for his three wives, which read: 'Blessed be pitch patch, cursed be tie up, and devil take throw away.' Geo. Burroughs & Sons MANUFACTURERS OF PREMIUM TRUNKS VALISES, SAMPLE CASES, Etc. "You see," said Mrs. Carpenter, "it is always the previous wife that is nearest the ideal." Sam Johnson, a Centerville negro ventriolquist, went to Denton, Md., and was invited to a funeral. The parson was reading a psalm and the pallbearers had started to lower the body into its final resting place when, suddenly without warning came in stentorian tones from the casket: "Let me down easy, boys." In a few moments the cemetery was minus mourners and preacher. Only Johnson remained behind. Finally some of the mourners decided to give the corpse air to keep it from smothering. They burst in the coffin lids. 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Chemists' Report Shows That Bottle Contained Strychnine. POISONER IS UNKNOWN. Bottle Had Not Been Opened from the Time Mrs. Stanford Left San Francisco. Honolulu, March 1-9:56 p. m.—The chemist's report on the analysis of the bicarbonate of soda, of which Mrs. Stanford took a dose, shortly before her death, states positively that the soda contained strychnine. Victim of Diabolical Plot. Mrs. Stanford realized as she was dying that she was the victim of a diabolical plot. She came here from California on her way to the Orient like a fugitive from these mysterious foes. She lived here ap- [Image of a man with a white hair and a dark shirt. The background is a solid black circle.] parently in terror lest their efforts to kill her succeed and she died with that one thought in her final words of accusation: "I have been poisoned. This is the second time they have tried it." Her Secretary's Statement. Miss Berner, Mrs. Stanford's secretary, tated today: tired today: "Mrs. Stanford and I went to a picnic Monday. Our luncheon consisted of the ordinary cold dishes prepared at the Hoana hotel, and there was nothing in it of the canned variety. Mrs. Stanford ate heartily. She expressed great enjoyment in her trip and said she felt well. "We returned to the hotel at 4 o'clock, and Mrs. Stanford retired to her room for a rest. Later she dressed for dinner. Mrs. Leland Stanford Lived in Wisconsin. When Mrs. Stanford married Leland Stanford he was a struggling young lawyer at Port Washington, Wis., and after their marriage she went there with him to live. Their residence in Wisconsin was of brief duration. All they possessed was destroyed by fire, and when the young lawyer looked about him on the ruins he determined to go to the Pacific coast and start a new life. The wife did not join him for three years. When she arrived at Sacramento she found her husband awaiting her in the simple wooden house he had prepared for her. When the soup was served she said that would be sufficient, as she was not hungry. "At 8:30 Mrs. Stanford sent for her maid, Miss Wilson, whom she had recently employed. Given Bicarbonate of Soda. "She then said to me: "I shall retire and take my medicine; please get it for me." "I got a teaspoonful of bicarbonate of soda, one purgative tablet, and a bottle of mineral water. Mrs. Stanford forgot to take the medicine and lay down and slept. As soon as she awoke she took the medicine and again retired. "Mrs. Stanford soon afterward was seized with convulsions which threw her out of bed. The maid and myself came in answer to her call, as did also a guest from a near by room. She said: "I am poisoned." "The convulsions continued in spite of the efforts of the physician. Drug from San Francisco? "The bottle of bicarbonate of soda was purchased by me at Adelaide a few years ago, but I think it had been refilled for Mrs. Stanford at San Francisco. I don't snow by what druggist." The bottle containing the bicarbonate of soda bears the label of Charles Fells & Co., 60 King William street, Adelaide, Australia. Mrs. Henry Highton of San Francisco, a guest at the hotel, declared Mrs. Stan- Used Her Millions to Make People Happy. Mrs. Leland Stanford was left an estate estimated at from $30,000,000 to $40,000,000. Under her husband's will she was in sole management of the great property. With her husband she spent more than $37,000,000 in building and supporting the Leland Stanford Jr. university at Palo Alto, Cal., as a memorial to her son. Her life was insured for more than $1,000,000 for the benefit of the university. She has given millions to charities. This was her belief: "The greatest blessing that millions can bring is the power to make other people happy." ford, shortly after her arrival here on February 21, said: "The reason I left San Francisco was because an attempt had been made on my life—an attempt to poison me—and enough poison was used to kill twenty persons." SHE BELIEVED IN SPIRITUALISM. Mrs. Stanford Intended Founding Chair of Occult Science. Honolulu, March 1,—10:20 p. m.—(Delayed in transmission.)—Mrs. Highton, wife of Henry E. Highton, the well-known San Francisco lawyer, says that Mrs. Stanford cried when telling her of the attempt which nad been made to poison her in San Francisco, and that she could not conceive why anyone should try to do so. Believed in Spiritualism. During a discussion of Spiritualism Mrs. Stanford said she believed in spirits and intended to establish a department at Stanford university for the investigation of psychic phenomena. Miss Berner, her secretary, says in regard to the alleged attempt at poisoning in San Francisco that Mrs. Stanford frank a glass of mineral water with the decarbonate of soda, the strychnine of which made her violently ill, so much --- strychnine being absorbed that the stomach rebelled and she finally recovered. Bottle Was Not Opened. Miss Berner says Mrs. Stanford's maid, May Hunt, agrees with her in their statements to the police that the bottle containing the strychnine was packed in San Francisco five weeks ago, preparatory to coming here, and that it remained untouched since then, until it was opened last night by Mrs. Stanford herself before taking the dose. On arriving here from San Francisco on the steamer Korea, Mrs. Stanford said that she had left San Francisco unexpectedly and in a great hurry. The police here will not express any theory regarding the unfortunate occurrence. FIRST ATTEMPT ON HER LIFE. Detectives Could Discover No Motive for the Deed. San Francisco, Cal., March 2.—Detectives who investigated the first attempt to poison Mrs. Stanford could discover no possible motive for the deed. The facts were briefly as follows: On the night of January 14 Mrs. Stanford drank from a bottle of mineral water after a hearty dinner. Almost immediately she complained of being ill and her maid gave her an emetic of salt and warm water. This relieved her and she suffered no serious ill effects. Narrow Escape of Mrs. Stanford. Mrs. Stanford at once called her maid, Evelyn Richmond, and, hurriedly telling her of the occurrence, the latter also drank sparingly from the same glass of water and was also made to feel its effects. The maid, however, hurried to the kitchen and brought some hot water and salt, which was administered to Mrs. Stanford, and the secretary, Miss Bertha Berner, was called. She tasted of the contents of the bottle and at once noticed its bitterness. Mrs. Stanford was nursed that evening by Miss Richmond and Miss Berner, and the following day the bottle containing the water was taken to Chemist Wakelee for analysis and Dr. Boericke was hastily summoned, as Mrs. Stanford grew very ill. The poison was placed in the bottle by some person or persons between 11 o'clock in the morning and 9 o'clock of the evening of January 14. The bottle was brought to Mrs. Stanford's room by Ah Young, a Chinese assistant to the Chinese butler, who had been brought from the Stanford residence in Palo Alto. When the chemist who analyzed the water found that it contained strychnine, a consultation was had between Mrs. Stanford, her brother, Charles G. Lathrop, and her attorney, M. S. Wilson. It was concluded to employ private detectives and find the culprit at any expense. Investigation Proves Fruitless. Every employee of the house was cross-examined. Chinese interpreters were brought in to question the Mongolian, but no light was shed on the crime. "Mrs. Stanford, on learning of the attempt, cried aloud, 'My God, I never thought anyone would wish to hurt me. What could it benefit them?'" The Poland water was supplied in cases by Ludwig, the caterer, early in January, preparatory to a proposed entertainment. The remainder of the bottle in the case from which the bottle containing the poison was taken were all removed to the chemist for analysis and they were all found to be in good condition. It is obvious that the poison was thrown into the bottle during the day, while it was in Mrs. Stanford's room. The chemist who analyzed the mineral remaining in the bottle declared that he found enough strychnine to kill a score of persons. It was so strongly impregnated with the drug that it was apparent at the first taste, and it was this fact that saved the life of Mrs. Stanford. She noticed the bitter taste and therefore drank only a small quantity. CRISIS AT HAND. Authorities Are at Their Wits End and Fear Bloody Uprising—Bombs Against Troops. St. Petersburg, March 2.—The strike situation throughout Russia has been rendered distinctly more critical by the demands of the St. Petersburg workmen yesterday confronting the government again with the necessity of yielding everything in the face of a threat or of seeing all hope of a permanent settlement of the strike here and elsewhere through like agencies dashed to the ground. But the worst of the situation is that the authorities are not convinced that the leaders of the workmen in pursuance of a deep political plan are managed by a shrewd hidden agency which is deliberately trying to prevent a settlement. The authorities seem at their wits' end and in the meantime rumors are again afloat that the action of yesterday was preliminary to a big demonstration on Saturday. There are similar reports of a projected demonstration of workmen of Moscow to signalize the emancipation anniversary. The police apparently do not know what to expect, but their general fear of the outcome is based on the discovery at Moscow and at Wirballen, Russian Poland, of quantities of bombs, many boxes of which have been smuggled into Russia, and it is reported that the demonstrations may be backed by the use of bombs against the troops. The strike movement has suddenly assumed active form in the Ekaterinoslav and Don Cossack governments. All the miners of the Donetskiy coal mines, numbering over 200,000, threaten to walk out on Monday. Emperor Nicholas yesterday replied to the recent address of the Moscow bourse expressing attachment to the principle of autocracy, saying: "In this year of grievous trial this evidence of loyalty to the old foundations of Russia's political life has afforded me special gratification." According to reports from Moscow several rioters have been killed in conflicts with workmen of the Orechow Sujewo manufacturing district. It appears that the fighting was between a faction who assaulted the manufacturers and others who intervened for their protection. Troops were dispatched to the scene of the disturbance. Another 10,000 men struck today in the large factories of the Viborg quarter of St. Petersburg. Russian Troops Desert. London, March 2.—According to the Vienna correspondent of the Daily Mail, a whole squadron of Russian dragoons, with the exception of its officers, has deserted and escaped into Austria. Moscow Situation Serious. Moscow, March 2.—The strike area in the city and suburbs is extending. There are now 60,000 men out. EDITOR DECLINES ORDER. St. Louis, Mo., March 2.—Edward J. Pretorius, editor of The Westliche Post, has declined the decoration of chevalier of the Royal Order of the Red Eagle, formally tendered last week on behalf of Emperor William. No explanation is offered. JACKSON AT THE HEAD Janesville Lawyer Elected President of Bar Association. ANNUAL MEETING OVER Resolutions Call for More Stringent Rules of Admission to Law Schools and Practice. Madison, Wis., March 2.—[Special.]—A. A. Jackson of Janesville was elected president of the Wisconsin State Bar association at the annual meeting closing last night with a banquet in honor of Judge Bunn, who has retired from the federal bench. Other officers are: Vice president—First circuit court district, Thomas M. Kearney, Racine; second, Charles Quarles, Milwaukee; third, Charles Barber, Oshkosh; fourth, L. J. Nash, Manitowoc; fifth, Philo A. Orton, Darlington; sixth, Kay S. Reld, La Crosse; seventh, E. E. Brown, Waupaca; eighth, John W. Bashford, Hudson; ninth, John M. Olin, Madison; tenth, Orlando E. Clark, Appleton; eleventh, R. H. Grace, Superior; twelfth, B. B. Kirkland, Jefferson; thirteenth, Edwin Huribut, Oconomowoc; fourteenth, S. D. Hasting; Green Bay; fifteenth, C. A. Lamoreux, Ashland; sixteenth, Neal Brown, Wausau; seventeenth, R. J. McBride, Neilsville. Secretary—C. I. Haring, Neilsville. Treasurer—John B. Sanborn, Madison. Chairman of committee on education—Prof. H. L. Smith, university law school. Chairman of committee on publication—Earnest N. Warner, Madison. Resolutions were adopted endorsing movements to make the state a party in divorce actions, to raise the requirements for admission to the state law school and the bar, and other legislation. A paper by Charles Quarles of Milwaukee was read by Frank M. Hoyt of Milwaukee, which in a humorous manner argued that codification of the laws would not be of material benefit to lawyers, as the laws were constantly changing. At the banquet the list of toasts was: T. E. Ryan, Waukesha, "The Business Side of the Profession;" F. C. Howe, Cleveland. "Is Democracy on the Wane?" Chief Justice J. B. Cassoday, "The State and Federal Courts;" Judge James G. Jenkins, Milwaukee, "Welcome the Coming, Speed the Parting Guest;" Judge Charles E. Dyer, Milwaukee, "Opinions of an ex-Judge." STATE GETS WAR CLAIM. Controller of Treasury Allows Wisconsin $725,981 and Congress Is Asked to Pay the Cash. Washington, D. C., March 2.—Judge R. S. Tracewell, controller of the treasury, has decided that the state of Wisconsin is entitled to receive $725,981 in final settlement of its claims against the United States growing out of the Civil war. Judge H. S. Comstock, the attorney representing Wisconsin in prosecuting these claims, called on Senator Spooner with a request to secure the incorporation of an appropriation for the amount in the general deficiency The bill already has passed the house and quick work must be accomplished if the item is to get into the bill. Wisconsin won on every contention made, except that Controller Tracewell allows but 6 per cent. interest on the trust funds. The total claim aggregated $846,525.05, and of this the amount found by the controller to be due is $725,981.88. HE WILL PLEAD GUILTY. Angelica Man Charged with Murder Gives Property to Children and Awaits Shawano, Wis., March 2.—Xavier Przibilinski, charged with the murder of his wife at Angelica on February 21, has been bound over for trial in the circuit court. Przibilinski has turned over his property to his children, and it is said that he intends to plead guilty and accept the consequences. A daughter, who was in the house at the time of the crime, said that her father struck her mother with a stove lid. Przibilinski is about 50 years old and is the father of thirteen children, nine of whom are living. "WRECKER M'NAIR" DIES. Well-known North-Western Railway Man Succumbs to Injuries Near Wausau While Following His Profession. Wausau, Wis., March 2.—[Special.]—"Wrecker McNair" is dead, aged 57 years. John McNair was a North-Western railway wrecking crew conductor, and was fatally injured Saturday, when a log struck him as he was lifting it from a wreck with a tackle. He was well known on the entire North-Western system. He was born in Scotland. One of his sons is J. J. McNair of the Plankinton Packing company, Milwaukee. KILLED IN SCHOOLYARD. Girl Struck by Falling Limb of Shade Tree Cut During a Recess. Marinette, Wis., March 2.—[Special.] The 14-year-old daughter of Ed Vigue was instantly killed at Goll by a falling limb. She was playing near a school, where choppers had been working during the noon nour, and a hardwood bough fell on her head, causing instant death. DICE CAUSE HIS DOWNFALL. Superior Telephone Employe Charged with $500 Embezzlement. Superior, Wis., March 2.—[Special.]—Benjamin A. Glover, cashier of the People's Telephone company, is charged with having embezzled $500 and is a fugitive. Glover performed his duties faithfully for six years. The young man's infatuation for dice and gambling is said to be the cause of his downfall. Glover complained of illness and asked for few days' vacation, stating he would go to his brother's home at Minneapolis and rest up a while. He remained away several weeks. This led to an investigation of his accounts, with the result above stated. Glover, who is 28 years old, came to Superior from West Bay City, Mich. ESTATE TO SUE FOR DEATH. Manitowoc Town and Interurban Hold Each Other Liable. Manitowoc, Wis., March 2.—[Special.] —Censuring the town of Manitowoc fo failing to open the road, the coroner jury on the death of Otto Rehbein, killed by an interurban car Monday night, laid the foundation for a damage suit by the family of the dead man. The jury declared that the town was responsible for not clearing the road, and the town officers claim that the Traction company had failed to comply with the order for removing snow. ```markdown ``` PENINSULAR FLOOR PAINT It's the kind that makes you rfloors the envy of your neighbors. Milwaukee Paint and Varnish Co. 191-193 THIRD STREET. 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COULDN'T LIFT TEN POUNDS. Doan's Kidney Pills Brought Strength and Health to the Sufferer, Making Him Feel Twenty-five Years Younger. J. B. Corton, farmer and lumberman, of Deppe, N. C., says: "I suffered for years with my back. It was so bad that I could not walk any distance nor even ride in an easy buggy. I do not believe I could have raised ten pounds of weight J. B. CORTON. J. B. CORTON. from the ground, the pain was so severe. This was my condition when I began using Doan's Kidney Pills. They quickly relieved me, and now I am never troubled as I was. My back is strong and I can walk or ride a long distance and feel just as strong as I did twenty-five years ago. I think so much of Doan's Kidney Pills that I have given a supply of the remedy to some of my neighbors, and they have also found good results. If you can sift anything from this rambling note that will be of any service to you, or to any one suffering from kidney trouble you are at liberty to do so." A TRIAL FREE—Address Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cts. Threading Needles My mother's sight failed so that threading a needle is a task almost beyond her. After an absence from home I learned that a young friend had helped her over this difficulty by threading her needles for her. She simply took the spool of thread and paper of needles, and, without breaking the thread, threaded the whole paper of needles as one would string beads. When a needleful of thread was desired, all that was necessary was to take the first needle, draw off as long a thread as desired, fasten the outside needle to the spool and leave it ready for next time.—National Magazine. So named because 50 acres produced so heavily, that its proceeds built a lovely home. See Salzer's catalog. Yielded in Ind. 157 bu., Ohio 160 bu., Tenn. 198 bu., and in Mich. 220 bu. per acre. You can beat this record in 1905. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THESE YIELDS? 120 bu. Beardless Barley per acre. 120 bu. Beardless Barley per acre. 310 bu. Salzer's New National Oats per A. 80 bu. Salzer Speltz and Macaroni Wheat. 1,000 bu. Pedigree Potatoes per acre. 14 tons of rich Billion Dollar Grass Hay. 60,000 lbs. Victoria Rape for sheep—per A. 160,000 lbs. Teosinite, the fodder wonder. 54,000 lbs. Salzer's Superior Fodder Corn —rich, juicy fodder, per A. Now such yields you can have in 1905, if you will plant my seeds. JUST SEND THIS NOTICE AND 100 in stamps to John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis., and receive their great catalog and lots of farmseed samples. [C. N. U.] —The custom of numbering houses in cities did not begin in Europe till the Eighteenth century. AN OLD-FASHIONED WOMAN. No clever, brilliant thinker she, With college record and degree, She has not known the paths of fame, The world has never heard her name. Home is her kingdom, love her dower— She seeks no other wand of power. Around her childish hearts are twined, As round some reverend saint enshrined, And find all purity and good In her divinest motherhood. She keeps her faith unshadowed still— God rules the world in good and ill. This sad old earth's a brighter place All for the sunshine of her face; Her very smile a blessing throws, And hearts are happier where she goes, A gentle, clear-eyed messenger.. To whisper love—thank God for her! —L. M. Montgomery in Congregation- THE night was dark and dreary; no moon shone in the heavens to light the paths of the late wayfarer. Even the electric lights seemed to have forgotten to throw their cheery glow over the scene. Down the darkened highway stealthily crept the deep shadowy form of a man on mischief bent. His clothes were rough, his hat drawn low down over his eyes, and the collar of his coat was turned up, although it was not very cold. Now and again he would stop and listen, and when the solitary policeman walked his beat near him once, he darted into a near-by doorway. Cautiously, keenly, he looked at every house until he came to one a little more pretentious than the rest. Producing skeleton keys, he silently unlocked and opened the side door, let himself in and, by the aid of a dark lantern, he swiftly made his way toward the dining room. There, he knew, was the sideboard; on it would be some valuable silverware, well worth his pains and he thought the table, too, might yield a rich booty. He was hard up for money, they had plenty and could spare a little just as well as not. But for the very people that house now sheltered, he, too, might be happy, loving, loved and, above all, honest. His wife should wear the silks, the velvets he knew Mrs. Markham now flaunted. Often had he cursed her as she had passed him on the crowded street, drawing her rich skirts more tightly about her,lest they should become contaminated by contact with him. Him! What was he to her? Nothing worse than nothing! Just such thoughts ran through his fevered brain while hunting for the dining room door. Into the room he went, and cast his light around. At the farther end hung a picture, over the mantel shelf. Going to the shelf he threw the rays upon it, and suddenly started back. He looked at the picture again. It was a likeness of himself! How came it there? "Oh, God of heaven," he murmured, "what does it mean? Is she here?" At one side was a smaller picture. As the tiny ray of light fell upon it he saw the picture of a child, with his own brow, eyes and general expression. "My God, thou who hast been so good to me, spare my baby now! Oh, don't take my only comfort, my only one! My baby, I cannot, cannot part with you!" From the other room, a low, sweet voice in agonized, pleading tones came sobbingly to his startled ears. "Father in heaven, bless my baby's papa, he who never saw his child; send him back, oh God! Tell him, Lord, I love him now after all these long, heartbreaking years of silence, just as much as when I married him!" As the sweet tones became fainter and fainter and more broken, the man in the mask fell on his knees. With folded hands and bowed head, he murmured: "My little faithful wife! It is to good to be true. She has kept her love for me, thank God, but she must never know how low I have fallen. Please God, I will turn about. I will, I swear it. I will be honest from henceforth!" And picking up the little lantern he silently turned, looked once more at the pictured face of the baby, and, making his way out, he shut and locked the outside door and disappeared down the silent street, a wiser, a better man. At first, for many a long month, it was hard, uphill work trying to be honest, but those pleading words, that sweet, wee baby face, were his guiding stars, his guarding angels. One day a sweet, sad-faced little woman was hurrying along the street, and unknowingly, she dropped her glove. There happened along just behind her a tall, handsome man dressed in well-fitting, new-looking clothes, who, as luck would have it, was none other than the gentleman whose countenance, when he first appeared to us, was well concealed by a slouch hat and a black mask. He saw the glove fall, hurried forward and picked it up. But the crowded street was no place for the blessed, tender meeting he hoped would follow the return of the dainty little glove. It is said that "drop your glove, you'll meet your love," and when the little lady turned to answer the respectful words of the gentleman who had touched her arm it proved no untruth in her case. It was just in front of the house. "Pardon me, madam, but I believe this glove belongs to you, as you dropped it," he said. The words sent a thrill through her entire being. Eagerly she glanced up. "Charley, Char- [Illustration of a military officer in uniform, with a crown and eagle emblem in the background.] General Trepoff, the man of blood and iron, who now wields autocratic power as governor general of St. Petersburg, comes of a family detested in Russia. His father, also a general, held the same position in the Winter Capital twenty-five years ago that his son now occupies. He was known as the "Emperor of St. Petersburg," and droshky drivers used to tumble off their seats, go down on their knees and bump their foreheads on the curbstones whenever he passed them in the street. It was at the elder Trepoff that Vera Sassallitch, the first woman terrorist in Russia, fired a revolver, but the bullet went wild. Four attempts have been made to kill the present General Trepoff, but he seems to bear a charmed life. The present governor general won his gory record while chief of police at Moscow. There his "repressive" tactics resulted in the sacrifice of many lives. ley, don't you know me? Oh, Charley, it is none other! Don't you know your own Addie?" she cried, in a low, tense voice, looking pleadingly up at him. "Yes, my darling, I know you; it is your own Charley come back once more, never to leave you again. Say you forgive me, pet, and I will make you as happy as I can." "Come in, Charley, come into my own, our own, little home, for, darling, this beautiful home is ours once more. I have worked hard for it, dear, but I have something else to show you. More precious to me than all else beside." And she led the way into a little room just off the dining room, straight toward a small white bed. On it lay a child, sweetly sleeping. The parents knelt beside the bed, those two, long-parted and so recently united, and then and there pledged once more their everlasting love. Angels seemed to tell the sleeping child the glad news, for the little face was wreathed in smiles, the blue eyes opened wide and a curly head touched theirs. And the man shuddered to think how nearly he had lost all this, had it not been for his plan, though not meaningly, or robbing himself and his wife. Truly, the ways of providence are mysterious, and Charles Boardeau and his wife were drawn together at last.—Indianapolis Sun. HONORS FOR NEGRO SOLDIER. Jamas H. Wolff to Head the Great G. A. R. Parade. The parade of the Grand Army at its annual encampment in Denver during the present year will be headed by James H. Wolff, a Boston negro veteran. Mr. Wolff has just been elected Department Commander of Massachusetts, and as the parade is always headed by the leading officer of the department to which the commander in Chief JAMES H. WOLEF. belongs, this distinction goes to Wolff. Gen. Blackmar, the Commander in Chief, being a resident of Massachusetts, Wolff is the first colored man to achieve such a distinction. He was born at Holderness, N. H., in 1848. At the breaking out of the civil war he tried to enlist in a New Hampshire regiment, but objection was made to his color, and so he entered the navy, serving four years with great credit to himself. Then he went to Boston and studied law for three years, after which he took a two years' course in the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the bar in 1875. He went to Baltimore shortly afterward, and after strong opposition was admitted to practice in the United States courts. Returning to Boston in 1880, he soon became conspicuous in Grand Army circles. Last year he was chosen Senior Vice Commander without opposition, and his election as Commander was nearly unanimous. You can't always judge a man's bank account by the artistic decorations on the front of his office safe. TWO BOYS KILL A PANTHER. Lad of 14 and Brother, Aged 8, Conquer Mountain Lion. Two boys, one 14 and the other 8 years of age, the sons of Day Stevens, of Aurora, did some pretty nervy work for boys in killing a mountain lion a few days ago, says the Salt Lake (Utah) Herald. The lion had killed a pig belonging to their father in Lost creek, and he sent the boys to town for some strychnine to poison the carcass for the lion. When the boys were returning with the strychnine and as they were emerging from a bunch of willows close to where the pig lay they discovered the lion devouring his prey. The elder boy had a shotgun and he at once fired at the lion. The shot took effect and the animal gave a loud growl, which so frightened the boys' horse that it turned and ran back. In trying to control the horse the gun was switched out of the boy's hand by the willows. The younger boy jumped from the horse, grabbed up the weapon and fired the other barrel into the lion just as it was leaping upon him. It was a well-directed shot, entering the throat of the lion and tearing away a portion of its brisket. It bounded into the air and fell dead. The animal measured nine feet from nose to tail tip and weighed close to 200 pounds. The boys got a cart, loaded the body in and drove home in triumph with their game. There are a number of wild animals, such as lions, coyotes, etc., in the mountains in the east part of this county, and a splendid opportunity is afforded for hunters who have the nerve to penetrate unbroken timber in quest of the animals. At the head of Daniel's canyon, on the east side, between Fish lake and Grass valley, is a regular camping ground for these animals. As many as seven bears have been seen at one time in this vicinity and one or two frequently. About a year ago a man in Glenwood had a very narrow call with a bear there. The animal attacked him when he was getting out some timber, and he had only an ax to defend himself with, but he used it to such advantage that the bear was shortly afterward found dead. These animals have become very bold and destructive. They have killed a number of head of cattle this season and in seasons past, and about a month ago one was so daring that it killed a riding horse which had been tied to a tree and which the rider had left for a few minutes. The patch of timber in which these wild animals have their home is very dense with quaking asp and underbrush and affords an ideal shelter for them. It is not much use for a single person to undertake to hunt them, because the animals take alarm and get out of the way before being seen. The Hobo—Could youse erblige me wid er cold bite, ma'am? The Lady—Certainly. I'll get the stepladder, and you can help yourself to those icicles hanging from the roof. No ethnological heresy is wider spread among the English-speaking than that the 80,000,000 or so citizens of the United States are Anglo-Saxons. Two young women had been discussing the undoubted firmness of character possessed by the one named "Sallie," says the Chicago News. "Your nose and chin," declared Jeannette, "denote great decision and executive ability." "Well," said Sallie, "I have been to your tailor, and I want to know what you sent me to him for." "Why," said her friend, "I sent you to him because I like him. He knows so well what I want. He takes everything out of your hands." "He simply does!" said Sallie. "I went in there to-day and told him I wanted to have a brown suit made up. 'You don't want brown, madam,' he said. I said I did. He contradicted me: 'You have too sallow a skin to wear brown, madam. Here is a cloth suitable for you,' and he showed me a hideous mixed thing in gray and black." "Did you take it?" asked Jeannette. "I did," replied Sallie. "But for a long time I was very firm about not wanting the goods. That was while we were talking about the way to make the coat. I mentioned an Eton. But he smiled at me in pity. 'Oh, no, madam,' he said, sadly, 'you can't wear an Eton. It takes a very young lady to wear an Eton. What you want is a coat cut just four inches below the waist line.' "Then he asked me to stand up, and I stood up, and he whipped out his tape measure and measured me while I was trying to tell him I didn't want anything to do with him. I talked the way you talk in a nightmare, you know, realizing perfectly well what you want to say and not being able to say it." Sallie paused dejectedly. "What I want to know is," she continued, after a moment's silence, "how it happened. For I've got a Duke of Wellington nose and all the other features that go to make up a strong-minded person, and you know very well that the nose of that tallor is a snub, and he hasn't any chin!" "Well," said Jeannette with a little giggle, "you'll like your suit." "Shall I?" said Sallie, hopefully. WILSON VETERAN OF CABINET. Came Into Office Under McKinley in '97, Will Remain Four Years More. The dean of the administration and the sole survivor of the original McKinley cabinet is James Wilson, secretary of agriculture. He took up his present duties March 5, 1897, and has been invited by President Roosevelt to serve a third term. Twelve years in the cabinet is a record rarely made in K. L. LINDSON JAMES WILSON. American politics. In his line Secretary Wilson has made quite as creditable a record as has Secretary Hay in the department of state. To be "head farmer" for a nation as large and rural as the United States is no small undertaking. Some idea of the vastness of the farm interests in the United States may be gathered from the fact that every year this nation exports $337,000,000 more of agricultural products than the total amount imported. James Wilson is the fourth secretary of agriculture. Before it was raised to the dignity of a cabinet portfolio the department was a division of the interior department. Too Generous. George-I have been invited to a "flower party" at the Pinkies'. What does it mean? Jack-That's one of the newest ideas this season. It is a new form of birthday party. Each guest must send Miss Pinkie a bouquet containing as many flowers as she is years old, and the flowers must have a meaning. Study the language of flowers before ordering. Florist's Boy (a few hours later)—A gentleman left an order for twenty of these flowers to be sent to Miss Pinkie, with his card. Florist—He's one of my best customers. Add eight or ten more for good measure. The teacher of English was hopeful, although he had met with disappointments at every turn. "Now here is an interesting situation," he said, eagerly. "Let us analyze Just what is the meaning of the line 'Doth not Brutus bootless kneel '" "Why, I take it to mean that Brutus, being in a hurry, had come off without his boots, sir," said the pupil, with his usual promptness. Some woman somewhere (we regret a bad memory for details) said upon her deathbed: "I have had a great many troubles, but the greatest never happened." Think of this the next time you are worried; isn't it over something that may never happen? A CLEAR COMPLEXION. A Simple Home Treatment for Blackheads, Red, Rough and Oily Skin and Disfiguring Humors. If you are afflicted with pimples, blackheads, red, rough or oily skin, or disfiguring humors, you will find this simple home treatment most agreeable, speedily effective and economical. Gently smear the face with the great emollient skin cure, Cuticura Ointment, but do not rub. Wash off the ointment in five minutes with Cuticura Soap and hot water, and bathe freely. 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In order to induce you to try them, we make you the following unprecedented offer: For 18 Cents Postpaid 1000 Early, Medium and Late Cabbages, 2000 Pine Juice Turtles, 2000 Kish Nutty Lettuce, 1000 Splendid Onions, 1000 Rare Luscious Radishes, 1000 Gloriously Brilliant Flowers. Above seven packages contain sufficient seed to grow 10,000 plants, furnishing bushels of brilliant flowers and lotus seed lots of choice vegetables together with our great catalog, telling all about Flowers, Roses, Small Fruits, etc., all for 16c in stamps and this notice. Big 148-page catalog alone, 16c. JOHN A. SALZER SEED CO. CNU. La Crosse, Wis. 100 Three Styles—All Sizes. Feed Mills, Saw Machines, etc. LOWEST PRICES Write for descriptive circulars and price list. Agents Wanted. GILSON MFG. CO. 9 Park Street, Port Washington, Wis. SECOND HAND AUTOMOBILE FOR SALE First Class Condition. R. A. Schwartzburg, 504 Matthews Bldg. Milwaukee, Wis. 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Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick women to write her for advice. Her advice and medicine have restored thousands to health. Address, Lynn, Mass. Gas-House Coke heats poorly with coal, we door draft. House Coke requires only have to shut off all the drafts, plendid glow. It's easier up. House Coke doesn't go dealer. If he doesn't keep THE GAS COKE drop us a Light Co. 182 Wisconsin Street us on "How to Burn Gas Coke.") W. L. Douglas makes and sells more Men's $3.50 shoes than any other manufacturer in the world. $10,000 REWARD to any one who can disprove this statement. n Boxes a Year. VORITE MEDICINE avets ATHARTIC ILE YOU SLEEP All Druggists LOVE ON THE LINKS. "There!" she said, turning to him with a pleased look. She had just holed out (the third hole) in forty-five. She had done the first in thirty and the second in thirty-nine. It was a sixteen-hole course. The young man shuddered. "Perhaps we had better practice now instead of going on round," he said when he could trust his voice sufficiently. "Oh, very well," she said, a little disappointed. "It's more fun playing, I think. But just as you like. Shall I hit my ball first?" "If you will be so good as to drive," he said. "Allow me." He substituted a grain or two for the small castle of sand on which she had teed the ball. "You will find that easier I think," he added. Hadn't you better take a——" He was going to say "practice shot," but she swung at the ball before he could utter the words. It rolled a few inches to the left. "How silly of it!" she cried. "What did I do wrong?" He could not nerve himself to say she had done everything wrong. He only explained in simple words, like one speaking to a child, that she had not slowed back, or kept her eye on the ball, or taken the proper stance, or attempted to follow through. "However, Rome was not built in a day," he concluded with a sickly smile. "Perhaps you will do better this time." This time she stood with an affectation of precision, fixed her blue eyes (violet, he had called them once) on the ball, as though it were a serpent, moved her club slowly back, swung—and missed. "Nasty thing!" she said. "And I was looking at it the whole time hard!" "Yes, but—try again," he said. "Try He turned his head away as she drove. It was too painful a sight to watch. A week ago he had loved her—thought her divine. He could have sworn that there was grace in every limb, and that her small wrists were as supple as a man's. And now, after a week's coaching, she could no more lift a ball than she could lift a mountain. He had made a mistake and fallen in love with a doll. The noise of her slice recalled him to himself, and he turned to see the ball had bounded about twenty-five yards. "That's better, isn't it?" she said, triumphantly, as they followed it up. He assented in a spiritless way and handed her a driving mashie to get out of the entanglement into which the ball had rolled. "Try to get underneath it," he said; and at the fifth attempt she succeeded. The lie was a good lie, though not at all in the direction she ought to have gone. "Look where you want to aim," he implored, as she took up her stand again. "And don't get so much over the ball. Think of those photographs I showed you, and model yourself on them." He referred to some pictures of our leading lady golfer, taken in the exact position that players should aspire to. Up to the time of his engagement—a week ago—he had thought no woman could match those perfect attitudes. Then Kitty had come into his life, and he had forgotten to ask himself how she would look on the links. Some men—even some golfers—would have thought her attitude piquant enough as she stood there calling back to him: "But how can I model myself on her when I haven't got on a Tam o' Shanter?" "Do your best," he replied curtly. Her levity was out of place. He recollected with a growing indignation that when he had shown Kitty the photographs in the first place she had criticised the lady golfer's skirts—had said that they did not hang nicely or were not well cut or something. As if it mattered!" "For goodness' sake," he said, as Kitty circled at the ball, "try and get a little more snap in your wrist." Kitty pouted at him, and the ball flew into some heather at right angles to the green supposed to be waiting for it—as he reminded her. "And it's probably lost again," he said, hurrying after it. "Was it an india rubber one?" she asked, sympathetically. It was not the price of the ball he minded, though as a matter of fact it was the eleventh two-shilling ball she had lost in the course of a week. It was the artlessness, the unintelligence, the absolute obtuseness she displayed toward the whole spirit of the game that drove him to madness. Kitty obtuse—that he could think it even to himself—it was too terrible. He groaned in spirit and found the ball. For the next half hour he suffered more than can be told in words. Kitty sliced and dug, and topped and sliced again—sometimes through sheer carelessness, sometimes even when she was obviously trying. The certainty that he had made a mistake, that he could not live his life with this girl, that it would be manlier to confess as much than to sacrifice her future and his—particularly his—to such a ghastly error, increased every minute. He had given up imploring her and instructing her. Kitty, too, had become strangely silent; as he stooped to tee her ball for the last hole he was aware somehow that she, too, had realized that they were at a crisis in their lives. She addressed herself to the ball, slowed back and drove. The ball flew straight and fair—a good hundred and thirty yards. It fell close to the green, and—"Viola!" said Kitty, throwing down her club. "I said to myself, I will hit one ball properly, and after that I will be killed before I try to hit another. So now, sir, you know, and you must make up your mind accordingly. Of course I shouldn't dream of holding you—" She turned her face away. The young man forgot all his certainty of the minute before as he seized her in his arms. "Forgive me!" he said. "I'm the fool to want you to play this sickening game. I'll never ask you to do it again." Then, as a foursome appeared over the hill, he put her down, and they went back to lunch.—R. E. Vernede in Black and White. Found After Twenty Years. Mrs. George Fenstermaker of Findlay, O., has found her daughter, whom she had mourned as dead for twenty years. Being indigent during the infancy of the child, Mrs. Fenstermaker gave over her daughter to the Protestant Orphans' home in Cleveland. Soon after the mother was informed through some source that her child had died. Instead, the girl was placed in a good home in Canton, where she married Lewis Green. The mother and daughter met at Canton. 9.00 DROPS CASTORIA A Vegetable Preparation for Assimilating the Food and Regulating the Stomachs and Bowels of INFANTS & CHILDREN Promotes Digestion, Cheerfulness and Rest. Contains neither Opium, Morphine nor Mineral. NOT NARCOTIC. Prep of Old Dr. SAMUEL PITCHER Pumpkin Seed - Alx. Stenna + Rochelle Salts - Anise Seed + Peppermint - Bit Carbonate Soda + Worm Seed - Clarified Sugar Wintergreen Flavor. A perfect Remedy for Constipation, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea, Worms, Convulsions, Feverishness and LOSS OF SLEEP. Fac Simile Signature of Char. H. Flitchen NEW YORK. At 6 months old 35 Doses - 35 CENTS EXACT COPY OF WRAPPER. CASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of Char. H. Flitchen In Use For Over Thirty Years CASTORIA THE CENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY. SHELTERED MANY TRAMPS. Peter M. Deysher's Name Synonymous of Strange Philanthropy. A name synonymous with generosity among all the "pedestrians of the pike" in the eastern part of Pennsylvania is that of Peter M. Deysher, who has in the year just passed given shelter to 1831 tramps in his barn, which adjoins his Berks county home. During 1903 Mr. Deysher gave shelter to 1467 tramps; 1904 saw an increase of 364, which was due in part to the moving away of a neighboring farmer who had up to that time given shelter to many tramps. The Deyshers are kind hearted, hospitable people, and they are well known all over Berks county, where the old stock of the family moved in 1818. Since that time some one of the Deysher family has continually given shelter to tramps who have stopped at the farm, and in the past fifty years the number thus cared for would aggregate nearly 50,000. The Deyshers are dairy farmers, and the work of sheltering tramps in their large barn is conducted in a businesslike manner. The building was, for this purpose remodeled, and many additional windows cut in and an up-to-date ventilation system installed, which keeps the temperature uniform at all times, and the warmth from the cows' and horses' bodies, of which there are many, is sufficient to make the barn very comfortable to sleep in over the cold winter nights. Mr. Deysher has come to know many of these tramps, some of whom have visited his farm regularly for the past twenty-five years or more. One of them is a splendidly educated former priest; another a wonderful mathematician, and a third a splendid penman. The Flamingo's Plumage. There are about seven specimens of flamingoes, three of which are in America, frequenting the Bahamas, Florida and Cuba. In height the flamingo averages about five feet. If its curved neck were stretched to its full length, the bird would tower above the head of an ordinary man. During May and June, the breeding time, the birds' bright colored plumage is faded, but reassumes its most radiant hues in winter. When first hatched the young have straight bills, which, after a time, develop into a bent shape. The first plumage is grayish white, and passes through various tints of pink, rose, carmine or vermillion to the full scarlet of the adult, which reaches its deepest shade on the wings. Several years are necessary to perfect the gaudy plumage.—Scientific American. For Winter Wear. In the order of their prominence the modish materials are chiffon velvet, velveteen, taffetas, supple cloth, crepe de Chine, cashmere, serges and tweeds.—New York Globe. Ask Your Dealer for Allen's Foot Ease, A powder. It rests the feet. Cures Chilblains, Corns, Bunlons, Swollen, Sore, Callous, Aching, Sweating Feet and Ingrowing Nails. Allen's Foot-Ease makes new or tight shoes easy. At all Druggists and Shoe Stores, 25 cents. Accept no substitute. Sample mailed FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. Giraffes Cannot Swim. The giraffe is the only animal which is unable to swim. This is on account of its long neck. Every other animal can, if put to it, manage to keep itself afloat. TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund the money if it fails to cure. E. W. Grove's signature is on each box. 250. Work for Georgians. It is up to the people of Georgia to raise more hominy and less homicides. Macon Telegraph. "Dr. David Kennedy's Favorite Remedy cured my wife of a terrible disease. With pleasure I testify to its marvelous efficacy." J. Sweet, Albany, N. Y. Hamburg is to have a school for training servants. It is not intended to compete with existing schools which provide training in domestic science for girls of well-to-do families. I have used Piso's Cure for Consumption with good results. It is all right. John W. Henry, Box 642, Fostoria, Ohio, Oct. 4, 1901. While the ratio of insane persons to sane in England is 1 to 288, in Chicago it is 1 to 150. MRS. WINSLOW'S SOOTHING SYRUP for Children teething; softens the gums, reduces inflammation, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25 cents a bottle. The first newspaper advertisement appeared in 1652. THE OLD FOLKS AT HOME MR and MRS. SCHWANDT; Janborn, Minn. MR and MRS. JNO. O. ATKINSON, Independence, Mo! Remarkable Cures Effected By Pe-ru-na Under date of January 10, 1897, Dr. Hartman received the following letter: "My wife has been a sufferer from a complication of diseases for the past twenty-five years. Her case has baffled the skill of some of the most noted physicians. One of her worst troubles was chronic constipation of several years' standing. She was also passing through that most critical period in the life of a woman—change of life. "In June, 1895, I wrote to you about her case. You advised a course of Peruna and Manalin, which we at once commenced, and have to say it completely cured her. "About the same time I wrote you about my own case of catarrh, which had been of twenty-five years' standing. At times I was almost past going. I commenced to use Peruna according to your instructions, and continued its use for about a year, and it has completely cured me."—John O. Atkinson. In a letter dated January 1, 1900, Mr. Conviction Foll When buying loose coffee or anything to have in his bin, how do you getting? Some queer stories about could be told, if the people who hard speak out. Could any amount of mere talk housekeepers to use ion Follows loose coffee or anything you how do you know t queer stories about coffee t the people who handle it ount of mere talk have per Conviction Follows Trial When buying loose coffee or anything your grocer happens to have in his bin, how do you know what you are getting? Some queer stories about coffee that is sold in bulk, could be told, if the people who handle it (grocers), cared to speak out. Could any amount of mere talk have persuaded millions of housekeepers to use Lion Coffee, the leader of all package of a century, if they had not found it Purity, Strength, Flavor all package coffees had not found it superior to length, Flavor and U the leader of all package coffees for over a quarter of a century, if they had not found it superior to all other brands in Purity, Strength, Flavor and Uniformity? This popular success of LION COFFEE can be due only to inherent merit. There is no stronger proof of merit than continued and increasing popularity. If the verdict of MILLIONS OF HOUSEKEEPERS does not convince you of the merits of LION COFFEE, it costs you but a trifle to buy a package. It is the easiest way to convince yourself, and to make you a PERMANENT PURCHASER. LION COFFEE is sold only in 1 lb. sealed packages, and reaches you as pure and clean as when it left our factory. Lion-head on every package. Save these Lion-heads for valuable premiums. SOLD BY GROCERS EVERYWHERE WOOLSON SPICE CO., Toledo, Ohio. GROCERS WHERE CE CO., Toledo, Ohio. Married life on an average lasts twenty-eight years. CASTORIA For Infants and Children. In Use Overears W. SMITH LA CROSS National Park SEND FOR Note--The above is the the world and GREGORY Have satisfied when others have failed. M. N. U.... RIA ARK CITY. PISO'S GURES W Best Cough B in time. CONS Atkinson says, after five years' experience with Peruna: "I will ever continue to speak a good word for Peruna. I am still cured of catarrh."—John O. Atkinson, Independence, Mo., Box 272. Mrs. Alla Schwandt, Sanborn, Minn., writes: "I have been troubled with rheumatism and catarrh for twenty-five years. Could not sleep day or night. After having used Peruna I can sleep and nothing bothers me now. If I ever am affected with any kind of sickness, Peruna will be the medicine I shall use. My son was cured of catarrh of the larynx by Peruna. — Mrs. Alla Schwandt. When old age comes, catarrhal diseases come also. Systemic catarrh is almost universal in old people. Address Dr. S. B. Hartman, President of The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, Ohio, who will be pleased to give you the benefit of his medical advice gratis. Follows Trial or anything your grocer happens you know what you are about coffee that is sold in bulk, who handle it (grocers), cared to we talk have persuaded millions of age coffees for over a quarter and it superior to all other brands in flavor and Uniformity? LION LION COFFEE WOOLSON SPICE CO WOOLSON SPICE CO OFFICE Established 1863 Printing by C. W. H. B. & S. B. B. B. The largest enders of steam powers in the world. Power of the Machine: 256 Tons. 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Terms: Send $17. with your order, to guarantee freight charges, and we will make shipment and collect balance C. O. D. W. SMITH GRUBBER CO. LA CROSSE, WIS. U.S.A. REFERENCE: National Bank of La Crosse, Wis. SEND FOR FREE CATALOGUE. Note--The above is the largest stump puller factory in the world and perfectly reliable--Editor. GREGORY Have satisfied when others have failed. SEEDS Catalogue free. J. J. H. Gregory & Son Marblehead, Mass. M. N. U.... No. 9, 1905. WHEN WRITING TO ADVERTISERS please say you saw the Advertisement in this paper. PISO'S CURE FOR CURES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS. Best Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Use in time. Sold by druggists. CONSUMPTION SPECIAL NOTICE THE “TURF” CAFE ——- DINNER BILL —— Regular Dinner 25c Dinner 11:80 to 2 p. m. and 5 to 8 p. m. Sliced Tomatoes, 10c. Radishes, 10c. Cucumbers, 10c. Green Onions, 10c. Lettuce, 10c. BEAN SOUP. Boiled Trout and Mint Sauce, 25c. Boiled eS of Mutton, Beg Sauce, 25c. Roast Pork and Apple Sauce, 25c. 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Jeni ES Three positions are held concerni; —— the destiny of the impenitent—name! er eternal conscious suffering in hell, u: versal restoration and, lastly, that ae ea t with God.” | final and everlasting destruction. “How should man be just w: Gi tsck we tadhay ( otaren b e This cry, “How may I be right ” is the cry of the ages. Human history is the record of our attempt to answer it. Man is naturally a truth seeker, and this is the search of all truly great souls. The enduring monuments of literature are those that have in some measure answered this question. All things that have been worth while have helped us to know and to realize the right. Health, happiness, freedom, morality, all are but parts of the right; all are but sections of the sublime whole for which man ever seeks. The search manifests itself in different ways; it may be as science, the passion for the knowledge of the right rela- tions of things; as justice, for right re- lations amongst men; as philosophy, as ethics, as religion. Back of all our life is the instinct of progress; we push toward the perfect. Amd perfection we now know rests not in more things but in bringing all the things that are into right relations with one another. The idea that any man can be right regardless of others we scout as ab- surd. The ideal civilization we work for here, even the heaven we long for, is simply a condition of living where the things that separate, despoil, and introduce discord are no more. The hope of the race is to be in right rela- tions with all things. All the great religions are as the footprints of peo- ples who have sought the truth that would lead them to be right and just with one another, with the world, and with the great unseen powers behind all being. Our universal sense of wrongness is but part of our passion for rightness. The sense of imperfection and the desire for improvement have marked all religions that have influenced men. In the Jew this desire for righteous- ness was supreme. Job is but a type. Coming to himself amongst the ruin of all the things he counted most pre- cious, he forgets their loss in his desire to solve the great problem. What is right and how may I reach it? Some- where he knows there is a solution to all the riddles of his friends and the questions of his own heart. An order- ly universe is not crowned by a being whose life must ever remain an unsolv- ed riddle. Men are not adrift in a fog with no hope of taking bearings. If men have marked the natural world with lines of letitude and longitude for the guidance of its travelers, the moral world is not without its markings. Job’s very question contains the only answer that has ever satisfied man. God himself is the great meridian of all morality. From him we may meas- ure all relationships and get them right. That is the essential message of the Bible; it strikes that first of all in “In the beginning God——” Every life is right in the measure that it adjusts itself to the unvarying will; amongst the nations they have the kingdom who do his will. The world bas made progress in precisely the pro- portion that this will has been realized. The promise of the present is that this great standard, this universal law by which all may find the right, has been made known to all through a life. One of our own has set forth God. One has lived who has shown us how to live. For every problem there is now an example of its solution. For every difficulty there is something better far than a declaration of duty; there is the great Doer of the deed. He has come near to man than men might come near to one another. He reveals the right. THIRST OF THE SOUL. By Rev. R. @. Pindley. The Palmist says, “My soul thirsteth for thee as a thirsty land,” and we elther are or have been in that same condition. Thirst taking hold upon us, and death staring us in the face, as it confronts the thirsty land, or the men in the open boat, for the Master says: ‘Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the water.” Have you ever wanted a glass of water on a warm summer day, and al- though there were other things in plen- ty—ice cold milk, lemonade and other drinks to tempt you—you were not and could not be satisfied until you got the water? So men may drink of the pleas- ures of the world, but their thirst will not be satisfied until they come in touch with Christ and thus get “the living water.” JOINING TAE CHURCH. ey nov. srederice ©. Friest. The church is an association of those who profess belief in the teachings and example of Jesus Christ. What does the church aim to accomplish? To in- struct people in the teachings of Jesus Christ, to incline their hearts to love him and to influence them to follow in bis footsteps. Does the church fulfill its atm? Yes, in millions of instances. It seems almost superfiuous to in- quire why people should join the church. And yet there are obvious rea- sons why this question should be rais- ed and answered. Multitudes of peo- ple—more than half of the nation’s population—are not members of the church; they need the church; the church needs them. They should con- sider this question, and should consider it in a manner becoming manhood and womanhood. DOOM OF THE IMPENITENT. 4 By Rev. Orrin R. Jenks. Three positions are held concerning the destiny of the impenitent—namely, eternal conscious suffering in hell, uni- versal restoration and, lastly, that of final and everlasting destruction, The first view, though held by many in the past, is being largely abandoned by thoughtful men. A teaching thai puts sinners into a burning hell, where they are tormented unceasingly for millions of ages, is a doctrine that is unbearable and one that men can no longer preach nor intelligently believe. While the second view, that of uni- versal salvation, appeals strongly tc many minds and has able advocates, yet it is fatally lacking in scriptural) suport. The Bible is certainly strong in its teaching of future punishment. The last view, that of the final ex- tinction of the wicked, is believed by a large number of people, and is com- ing more and more to gain the assent of thinkers. The end of sin is death Sin and sinners are doomed to total. final and everlasting extinction. TRIUMPH OF THE HEART. By Bishop Fallows. Men will differ in the doctrinal views which St. Paul the apostle of intellect is supposed to have taught. They will establish rival pez Ma churches on the F mai) purely metaphysic a s iY al, theological or a beh ecclesiastical opin- Y in Acemey/, ions which their Ler: rss F Mp leaders may hold by & { The unity of the church is an impos- eoieemee sibility seen from i) ae: this survey point. => Like confronting BISHOP FALLOWS. mountain peaks (haan hadiae nav fhilaitiac SS SS a 5 a 4 yy Fea Ws. A aaa.” ot Maer, Lee OS BISHOP FALLOWS. these bodies of COnbristian believers stand. But below these peaks lies the same great mountain range. Below all thes« oppositions which spring from the re- ligion of the head is the great bed rock of the religion of the heart. Logic al: ways divides, love always unites. The Christian’s heart is full of sym- pathy, full of generosity, full of toler. ance, full of patience, full of love. We must bring the heart into business, in spite of the teaching that “business is business,” which means that all the higher sentiments must be removed from industrial or commercial transac. tions. The unnatural war between la- bor and capital will never end until justice, which is simply love in righte. ous action, shall prevail. CONSEQUENCES OF SIN. See ees ee Sees) eee A common remark :n religious circles to-day is: “What we need is a new and deep conviction of sin.” If for the time being men seem to be less conscious of crime against God, they are under- going a tremendous searching of heari as they come to appreciate more keen- ly the wrongs consciously or uncon- sciously done their fellow men. You can be guilty of no meanness in the shadow, you cannot even be faith. less to yourself, but that you send a twinge of pain to society's outermost verge. The day is past when a man can say: “My conduct is no one’s bush ness, so long as I harm only myself and am ready to take the conse quences.” It is everybody’s business. for everybody takes the consequences. If you do not believe it, try the go-as- you-please policy, and see how quick- ly society, with its incalculably height ened sensitiveness of conscience, wil bring you up with a turn. Bhort Meter Sermons. Every true man seeks truth. Braggards are always laggards. You cannot lead without love. Hiding in sin prevents its healing. Soft soap usually has much lye in it. Pessimism is the worst of all here sies. The only living art is the art of liv- ing. The empty head needs a haughty air. Work is the only coin that buys wisdom. Labor for God is vain without love for man, Humility gives the level head on the lofty height. The public kickers often have but weak private consciences. When the Bible hides your brother it is time to dig through it to him. A man has to have some roots before he can have any worth while fruits. It is always easier to go ahead in slippery places than it is to turn around. Many are willing to give the Lord seed corn if only they can have a mort gage on the crop. It’s a good thing to have high ideals, but there’s no sense in keeping your bread in a balloon. ‘The boy who is afraid to strike back will never make the man brave enough to turn the other cheek. If the man who thinks only of saving his own soul ever gets into heaven, he will probably fall out through a knot- hole. The people who sing most about wanting to be angels would have na trouble in getting their neighbors ta Andorse their applications. ¥ TEMPERANCE TOPICS MR. JAMES EDWARDS, 1622 Gay St., St. Louis, Mo., would like to find his niece, MISS PHOEBE THOMAS,who belonged to Bob Thomas during slavery in Lynchburg, Va., Halifax county. The lastaccount of her that she left St. Louis, Mo., aad went west. Any information concerning her, please, write to us WISCONSIN WEEKLY ADVOCATE 729 ST. PAUL AVENUE. HOMES ARE RUINED SY STRONG DRINK. Thousands ef Lives, Characters and Fortunes Are Annnally Wrecked Along the Gilded Pathway, Having Ite Beginning in the Wine Room. | The London Lancet, the recognized authority of the medical profession, in reviewing the work of a commission which has been experimenting with alcohol in order to determine its food value, says: i “The results of this investigation have brought conviction to all except those who do not understand the na- ture of evidence. They have shown that alcohol is a true food material, for in moderate doses not more than 2 per cent leaves the body unchanged, the remainder being ultimately oxi- ‘dized into water and carbonic acid.” | Well, one may ask, what of it? Sup- pose alcohol, in moderate doses, is a food material; what has that to do with the question whether a man should use or abstain from alcohol? - It would seem to have some bearing ‘on the matter if there were no other food but alcohol in all the world, and if we had to use that or starve to death. But there are plenty of other foods that are harmless to mind or body and alcohol is perfectly unneces- sary. / There is no need to enlarge upon the deleterious and generally disas- trous effects of alcohol. The Lancet says that, for example, it increases the secretion of uric acid and impairs the oxidative powers of the liver; but that is trifling with the subject. _ Of the three hundred and odd vo- lent deaths in Chicago during the month of November just past, forty were credited to alcoholism, while it ‘is safe to say that 90 per cent of the suicides, the homicides and the fatal eases of consumption and some other diseases could be traced to the same -eause. As for the misery, the sin, the crime, and the poverty in the world, alcohol is the source of nearly all of it. | The commission, which included President Eliot, of Harvard Univer- sity, insulted the intelligence of the country by devotng its labors to so absolutely unimportant a matter as the food value of what we ail know to be the deadliest of poisons.—Chicago Journal. LA MODE IMPORTING CO, PARISIAN MILLINERY 573 Fourth St. MILWAUKEE, WIS. eee — Clothing to fit without being measured for. Prices less than you ever bought them for. Our | specialty is misfit and uncalled-for custom tailor- | made clothing. Tailors’ prices for full dress or Tuxedo Suits from $30 to $50; our price from $15 to $18. English Walking or good Business Suits made to measure by best of tailors from $18.00 to $35.00. Our price $8.00 to $18.00. Every suit bears our guarantee label. All gar- ments bought of usare kept repaired and pressed free of charge for one year. To be convinced see our window display. MILLER BROS. 213-15-17 West Water St., Milwaukee, Wis. Open Evenings Till9 P.M. Sundays Till 12 M. NE I EE ee OS BOREL Co ete eS ae One-Third Saving Sale ——_—_—_————————————- On ——_—_—_—_—_—_—_—— Warranted Watches, Fewelry, Szlverware, Clocks, Opera Glasses, Ee Cutlery, etc. C.J. DEWEY, 334 WEST WATER ST. Poison in Booze. | The chemist of the South Dakota food commission extracted enough coal tar dye from a bottle of port wine taken from an original package, in the presence of members of the Legisla- ture, to dye a brilliant wine color nine square feet of heavy woolen cloth. Dr. Wiley, chief of the agricultural department bureau of chemistry, says that 85 per cent of the whisky sold ‘over the bar in this country is adul- terated. In a dozen cities the discov- ery has been made that whisky is dangerously adulterated with wood | alcohol. | But who is alarmed by these por- tentious facts? Certainly not those who drink the stuff. _ He who will ignore the far more deadly dangers of pure whisky is not going to shy at a little common pot- . He who will risk his own strength of mind and character and the happiness and hope of those near- est and dearest to him will not be scared out by a little physical danger. The wrongs done the world by adul- terated whisky may be many, but they are not to be compared with the wrongs done in the world by whisky that is pure. A few graves may be filed by the one, but by the other are filled the prisons, poor houses, hos- pitals and insane asylums for genera- tion after generation. Of the two, the adulterated is the safest. It is quickest in its action and most merciful. It kills but once. It kills but one at a time, not whole fam- flies, and it does not damn generations SN A. CLARK. J. CLARK. | When You Need Anything in Our Line Call on | CLARK BROS. | GROCERIES, SALT MEATS, | FRESH EGGS AND BUTTER Cigars, Tobacco and Candies. Tel. 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Estimating their support at ‘the cost to Kansas of those in the ‘Home, it shows that $93,655 is annu- ally saved to that one commonwealth in the way described. Dr. Theodore L. Cuyler, the beloved Presbyterian Nestor of Brooklyn, has issued to the churches an appeai for new devotion to temperance endeavor. He proposes the regular maintenance of monthly temperance meetings, ad- dressed by the most effective speakers obtainable, and enlivened by such lit- erary and musical features as will be calculated to attract the interest of the young people. He recommends in con- nection with this, the organization of a temperance league in each congrega- tion on the basis of a pledge against | arin and kindred evils for all mem- bers. PEOPLE’S TAILORING CO. Suits to Order $15,00 ae J. MUNKO hee PRACTICAL SHOEMAKER 2 aR %, oe ¥ , Ke . 126 2nd Street, Milwaukee. Become ...REPAIRS NEATLY DONE... —