Wisconsin Weekly Advocate

WISCONSIN WEEKLY ADVOCATE DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF THE NEGRO RACE Pope John Paul II ARCHBISHOP MESSMER SOCIALISM---THE NATION OF FATHERLESS CHILDREN. Review of David Goldstein's Great Work Attitude of Roman Catholic Church. By the strong stand which the Roman Catholic church at the Vatican, in America and throughout the world has taken against Socialism she has earned the thanks of all true patriots of every cline and nation and has proclaimed herself the friend of good government and the avowed enemy of Socialism and its inevitable results, viz., Anarchy and revolution. That the all powerful influence of Pope Pius X., his cardinals and archbishops and the millions of Roman Catholics throughout the world should be thrown in the scale against this monster which threatens the very bulwarks of our civilization means more to the cause of organized government than tongue or pen can express. His Grace. Most Rev. Sebastian G. Messmer, presiding over the archdiocese of Milwaukee, has taken the lead in conducting the fight against Socialism now being waged by the church in the United States with no uncertain results. We are indebted to the archbishop for a copy of the work of David Goldstein, entitled "Socialism: The Nation of Fatherless Children." The work is edited by Martha Moore Avery; is published by the Union News league of Boston and is dedicated to the American Federation of Labor. The book contains 374 pages of tersely written matter and is one of the oldest arguments against Socialism ever written. The author, David Goldstein, has given many years of his life to the study of Socialism; for eight years he was one of its chief exponents. The George D. Herron divorce episode, to use his own words, furnished the parting of the ways. It disgusted everybody but the Socialists. His infamous treatment of his loyal and devoted wife; his disgraceful "Taking to wife" of another. The attitude of the Socialist press in handing Herron as being in power and virtue second only to Jesus Christ, caused Goldstein, Martha Moore Avery and the more liberal and less bigoted of the Socialist leaders to first protest and ultimately withdraw from Socialism and later as their intellectuality began to broaden; to expose its dangerous snares and pitfalls and universal rottenness. The remedy of the Socialist for all ills, his answer to all questions is "Dissolve the present." It is the fault of the system. "He fails to see the length, breadth and depth of the present order." Again "Socialism, according to the authorities I have cited, stands for the dissolution of civil law—for the dissolution of political action—in short for the abolition of the state. These Socialist authorities declare they have no respect for the present marriage system. They stand for the abolition of marriage. The children? Yes, there will be children under Socialism—but they will not belong to the mothers. The community will be the father and mother of --- VOLUME VII. them all. The guardians of all children legitimate and illegitimate." "Their arguments are based on falsehoods carefully prepared and facts purposely distorted." Time and space will not permit us to do justice to this wonderful book. A copy should be placed in the hands of every American family that "he who runs may read." FAD FOR MEXICAN HATS Fashion Due to Miss Roosevelt—New York a Market. A foreign market for Mexican hats has been found in New York. The tall, peaked variety is in demand as a result of a fad that may have had its origin when Miss Alice Roosevelt drove down Pennsylvania avenue one day a month ago arrayed in one of that type, but for the common little round crowned hat there is a growing demand that seems to have a foundation better than that on which a fad is built. Sam Rubin, senior member of the New Orleans hat firm of Rubin, Kahn & Co., is now at the Iturbide. He is here for the purpose of exporting these hats and in the last few days has been buying such hats as are made at Tehuacan and shipping them to New York in bales of 5000 hats each. Although a member of the New Orleans hat firm, this enterprise of Mr. Rubin is not firm business. He came here and learned something of the cheap production of the hats, already knew of the growing demand in t.e north and undertook to do what he could to supply the demand. It is the way he is spending his vacation. With the exception of the tall hat he is sending to New York, the price they are bringing there is 20 cents, gold, apiece. He pays far less than 40 cents Mexican apiece for them at Tehuacan. The high hats bring fancy prices, prices proportionate to the braid and trimming they bear.—Mexican Herald. A little Ozonized Ox Marrow applied to kinky hair makes it straight, smooth and beautiful, just like magic. It is wonderful how quickly and easily it does the work. It gives the hair life and stops it from breaking off or fallling out. Cures dandruff and feeds the roots of the hair, making it grow long and silky. Read what Mr. Joseph J. Wheeler, 14 Simpson street, Dayton, O., says about it in a letter, January 13, 1904: "I am using your Original Ozonized Ox Marrow and find it is superior pomade. It started a new growth of hair on a bald spot and I am sure it will do all you claim." Send us 50 cents and we will mail you a bottle postpaid. Address, Ozonized Ox Marrow Co., 76 Wabash avenue, Chicago, Ill. Cupid Takes Ball Player. Because he knocked out a three-bagger, which won the game for the home team, Shortstop J. W. Wells also captured the heart of Miss Gertrude Benfield of Oklahoma City, an enthusiastic fan. They were married at Altona, Kan. Works Like Magic. MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN, SEPTEMBER 7, 1905. CREAM CITY NOTES. We will be glad to publish news of local and race interest if left at the office, 38 Eighth street, before 6 o'clock Wednesday evenings. We would respectfully ask our readers to bestow at least a share of their custom upon those who advertise with us. The various remedies and hair restorers advertised in this paper can be had at the advertised price at the office of this paper. Monday evening last at St. Mark's A. M. E. church a benefit concert was given on behalf of Rev. W. H. Jameson, the pastor, whose second year of service expires at this time. Mr. Jameson is, we understand, anxious to come back to Milwaukee for a third term. If such is the case the farewell performance which he permitted to be held in the auditorium of the church will certainly not strengthen any claim he may have upon the conference at present being held at St. Paul. The concert was under the management of Mr. Walter Revels, who has for the last few years ungrudgingly and without reward given his valuable musical services to the church. Mr. Revels' part of the programme was of its usual high order, and we have no wish to reflect upon him in any manner. But we refer to the fact that ragtime music was permitted in a building consecrated to higher objects. The performer of one piece—a whistling solo—himself, we understand, said that he knew a church was not the proper place to render such in ragtime, and that as a rule he objected to do so, but he knew that the majority of the audience would not be content with anything else, inferring the fact that they could not appreciate anything higher. The applause which his performance justly elicited fully justified his statement. Again, we say, we have no fault to find with this gentleman or his performance. The only thing that we have to call attention to is that there is a time and PLACE for everything. And we think it was the bounden duty of a Christian minister to have put a stop to such an abuse of the "precincts of the temple." We earnestly hope that such a thing will never occur again in St. Mark's or any other place of worship, and that it will be made impossible to do so. This protest is written in response to remarks and objections of both men and women in the audience in whose judgment we have the utmost confidence. * * * Mrs. Crawford, the mother of Mrs. Laura Washington, 156 Sixth street, accompanied by her daughter, arrived at Mrs. Washington's Thursday morning. There was a happy family reunion. Mrs. Crawford, we understand, has rented her farm at Medford, Wis., and will make her home at the above address. She and her daughter will be a welcome addition to Milwaukee society. ```markdown ``` Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Gaines, who have been in the city for the past few days, left for Sioux City, Ia., this morning. * * * Mrs. Hannah Hill of Brutus, Mich., who has been making an extended trip amongst her relatives in Milwaukee and Chicago, returned home tonight. While in Milwaukee she was the guest of her son, Mr. James Mason, at 652 East Water street; her daughter, Mrs. Henry Barclay, 562 Market street, and her sister-in-law, Mrs. B. Tomkins, Thirty-eighth street. Mrs. Hill is a perfect type of the old school, and charmed everyone with whom she came in contact in Milwaukee. In Chicago she visited with Mrs. Rosie Taylor and Mrs. Julia Moore, and had intended staying longer when she was unexpectedly called home to attend to urgent personal matters. Mrs. B. H. Tomkins, 38 Eighth street, intends paying a visit next week to see her sisters and many friends there. Her husband, her friends and her pup will miss her sadly while she is gone. * * * Mr. J. C. Thorrell of the Plankinton house staff has left for Nashville, Tenn., where he will resume his medical studies at Meharry Medical school. Mr. J. A. Mason will follow next week with the same object in view. * * * Miss Delia Simmons, a young girl of promise, is now employed in the Boston store. That she will faithfully do the work assigned to her we have no doubt. * * * Mrs. Edward Wise, 38 Eighth street, who has been visiting with her mother and sisters at Oswego and Syracuse, N. Y., returned home last week after making a stop-over in Chicago for a few days, visiting with Mrs. Julia Hart, 450 Thirty-fifth street. Mrs. Wise feels much benefited by her trip. * * * Prof. S. J. Hunter, president of the Noxabee Industrial college, Mississippi, was in the city for a few hours today. He reports everything as very favorable and was in his usual happy vein. The school has now a library, a printing press, a first-class typewriter, sewing machines, all donated by parties interested in the school. Mr. Hunter's strong personality has had a great deal, or shall we say everything, to do in the success of his institution, which is located at McLeod, Miss. * * * At the request of the trustees of St. Mark's A. M. E. church, Rev. Harry Williams will preach at both services Sunday next. We understand that this will be the last time that Mr. Williams will appear in the pulpit in Milwaukee for some time at least, as he contemplates leaving the city in the very near future. It will be to the regret of the numerous friends he has made while here. * * * Rev. H. B. Alexander of Chicago is at present in the city, attempting to resurrect the defunct Bay View Industrial school. The time has passed when Wisconsin people can be asked to contribute towards the support of the waifs and strays of the big city at the foot of the lake. Mr. Alexander was formerly connected with the school in South Bay street. * * * It is refreshing and encouraging in the highest degree to notice the happy faces of the recent graduates from the Fourth ward public school, as they return from their forenoon or afternoon session in the east side high school. The secret is they have had the first touch of a higher plane, and in that higher plane they have not found the little difficulties which they formerly had to contend with. DANIEL J. HEALEY 28 YEARS ON DINING CAR. Daniel J. Healey is about to celebrate his twenty-eighth anniversary as a dining car conductor, and every railroad man in the west and hundreds of thousands of the traveling public are interested in the coming event. This is so because "Dan" Healey is known from boundary to boundary of the United States, and is the oldest in service of all the dining car conductors in this country, and in the world for that matter. Besides being the oldest, he is in a class all by himself by reason of the fact that during his long service he has never once made an enemy of a patron on his car. "Dan" is a born diplomat, for no matter how hard a man or woman kicks, he never permits any one to leave his car without feeling good and without wishing to come again. His reputation has further been enhanced because he will never permit anything on his car that is not the best money can buy. If it so happens the company has failed to provide it, "Dan" buys it himself and sends in the bill. For six years he has been running the largest dining car in the world, which is on the Pioneer Limited train of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul road. It is 84 feet long and carries six men in its capacious kitchen. "Dan" accordingly feeds more patrons than any other dining car conductor. Mr. Healey was born in Chicago on June 17, 1849. He started as a dining car conductor for the North-Western in 1878, and remained with that road sixteen years. As he is a politician as well as a diplomat, several efforts have been made to induce him to run for alderman of his ward, but he has withstood this temptation as well as the temptation that came with numerous offers to be placed in charge of the dining car service of various railroads and to take charge of big hotels in numerous portions of the country. So far as known Healey has never taken a vacation, but General Passenger Agent F. A. Miller of the St. Paul declares he must do so, beginning with his twenty-eighth anniversary, which the management is going to see celebrated fittingly. Styles in Whiskers. The most remarkable whisker novelty is to be found in France. Frenchmen for the last six months have been wearing box beards. A box beard is as square as a piece of carpentry, 9 inches long, 5 inches wide, 2 inches deep, every corner sharp and true and all the surfaces, upper and under side, smoothed as if with a plane. The box beard is neat and queer. It was introduced by the King of the Belgians. "The English have a new mustache—the butterfly. The butterfly is not more than 2 inches long. It is just a feathery little thing under the nose, with ends turning upward and inward. It has been adopted by all the young army officers. In Italy the patch is being worn. The Italian has his chin shaved smooth except for a tiny circular patch the size of a shirt stud, and in this patch he grows a little tuft a half inch long. It is as though the Italian has a mole there, but he has no mole really. The patch is just his coquetry. Women's Military Company. A military company composed of the daughters of Boone county farmers has been organized, with headquarters at Englewood, eleven miles southeast of Columbia, Mo. The organization's object is to demonstrate the fact that women, if properly armed and drilled, can make just as good soldiers as the stronger sex. The company is under the command of Mrs. Ernest H. Smith of Englewood, who tanks as captain, and under her instructions has become thoroughly efficient in the manual of arms. Their first public appearance took place at a logrolling at Englewood, where, in the presence of a crowd of curious visitors, the girl soldiers gave a striking exhibition, going through the entire manual of arms with the efficiency of veterans. China has just granted its first patent. This is for an electric lamp, the inventor of which is an inhabitant of Nankin, the old capital of the Chinese empire, who calls his lamp the "bright moonlight," and asserts that it is far superior to foreign glow-lights that hitherto have been sold at Shanghai and other Chinese cities. BECOMES AN INVENTOR. Fiction Writer Is Paid Big Sums for His Ideas—Would Revolutionize Warfare. "That is the most improbable story I ever read," a man explained as he threw down Morgan Robertson's latest magazine story, "The Submarine Destroyer." Robertson has been paid a fortune for only one of the ideas embodied in his little piece of fiction. He told of a queer craft that would revolutionize warfare, that would sink twenty submarine boats in a minute and make the now dreaded ships of war no more to be feared than a common wastub. That is the last story Robertson ever will write unless his mind is completely changed. He is now connected with a submarine boat company that manufactures the Holland submarine torpedo boat. It is said he got $50,000 in cash for the idea that first appealed to the Holland company's officials, an idea he had developed to go in the magazine story, without any thought of practical application. From now on the fiction writer will devote all his energies to putting his literary creations into the form of practical inventions. He believes firmly it will not be long before he can send every submarine in the world to the bottom of the sea. That he is no impractical visionary is proved by the big price paid for his periscope which is now controlled by the Holland company. In his last story Robertson has equipped his submarine destroyer with a fluorescent searchlight to light up the waters of the sea. So far scientists and inventors have been baffled in all attempts at making a searchlight that would light up the waters. "I have invented an invisible searchlight," is all Robertson will say for publication. It is declared to be a light that will be as a torch upon the sea for two miles around and yet cannot be seen, though it stands high above the surface of the water. Robertson expects this light to be transmitted through the waters so submarines of the enemy may be discovered a mile away. He will not tell how the light is constructed. In his story he gives only a vague hint, calling it a fluorescent light. It is known that the illuminating agent will be electricity. Robertson is careful in guarding the secret formula by which he veils the rays of light so they may be unseen. Robertson's debut as a practical inventor is as surprising to the public as if H. G. Wells were to build a warship of air, such as he used to such good effect in the imaginary battles in the "War of the Worlds." Just about ten years ago Morgan Robertson began to write tales of the sea. Robertson knew how to write stories of the sea, for he has been a sailor. He sailed before the mast for years and had positions on nearly every sort of vessel afloat. Before he went to sea he was a cowboy, hotel clerk, miner, prospector, railroad man, and nearly everything else that the world of experience could give him. He has worked all over the world and knows it like a book. The development of submarines and the wonderful possibilities of the little war vessels appealed to Robertson's imagination. He began to write stories of submarines. Not long ago he wrote a story of a Japanese submarine that was equipped with a wonderful periscope. This periscope enabled the submerged vessel to see the horizon for miles in every direction all at the same time. In fact, it gave a complete picture of the surface of the water and everything above it. The story was called "The Mistake." This fanciful periscope was laughed at, of course. Submarine boat people have wanted a periscope that would show all the horizon at the same time. One of the officials of the Holland company read and became interested in Robertson's story of the submarine. He got in communication with the writer. To his surprise, he learned that Robertson had not stopped at imagining a periscope, but had gone ahead and invented it. Robertson even had gone so far as to patent his invention. The Holland company wanted it and bought it. The price is said to have been $50,000 in cash, $500 for each boat equipped with a periscope, and $300 for each boat sold without the equipment. This, with other inducements, has persuaded Mr. Robertson to give up story writing for the more lucrative business of building submarines and submarine destroyers. He has given only a hint of his submarine destroyer, which he believes will be able to destroy every submarine in the world, and do the job in a few minutes. He says he did not dare go beyond the vague hints in his fiction story. The submarine destroyer of his creation is a curious craft, of circular form, like two salad bowls with their edges together, convex above and below, and concave near the edges. The edges extend sharply horizontally for about twenty feet from the termination of the convex curve, making a circular boat about eighty feet in diameter. The boat has no rudder, no propeller, and no visible means of propulsion. It has a combination engine for liquid air and oil. In general aspect it is a big globe. In the story this queer craft saves a fleet of American submarines from a fleet of Japanese submarines. Stuffed Pet Causes Delay. Frank Butler, a mine and ranch owner of Des Moines, Ia., stopped at Hoboken, N. J., as he was about to go west to attend to the business that had called him from Europe to await the arrival on a North German Lloyd steamer of the stuffed body of a dog. The dog had been, in life, only of the street variety, but Butler's 12-year-old daughter, Florence, became so attached to it that when the trip across the sea was undertaken she had persuaded her father to allow "Prowler" to go along. Unhappily the dog came in contact with a motor car on a boulevard in Paris. To please the child the dog's body was sent to a taxidermist, who had not finished his work when Butler's ship sailed. The little girl went aboard in the belief that the body of her pet was somewhere in the hold. When she learned, on the arrival of the steamer in Hoboken, that "Prowler" was to come on a later steamer, she was set upon remaining in Hoboken till what was left of him arrived. Butler finally yielded, engaged apartments in a Hoboken hotel, and waited. "Prowler" arrived. There was a reunion between the child and the stuffed pet, and the family started for Des Moines. It Straightened Her Hair. Dear Sirs: I enclose 50 cents for one bottle of Ozonized Ox Marrow. I have tried it and it is so wonderful for straightening kinky hair. I recommend it to all my friends.—The above letter was written by Mrs. Ennis Colbert, Vanderbilt, Pa., June 22, 1904. Ozonized Ox Marrow will straighten your hair, too, no matter how kinky it is. It also cures dandruff, stops hair falling and makes the hair grow. Never fails. Warranted harmless. Send us 50 cents and we will mail you a bottle postpaid. Address, Ozonized Ox Marrow Co., 76 Wabash avenue, Chicago, Ill. American Woman a Flirt. "The American woman is a pastmaster in the art of flirtation," declared Toyakichi Iyenaga in a lecture at the University of Chicago. "She studies all her life to flirt, and to win love and money. The Japanese woman, on the other hand, has a higher moral sense than the Japanese man." Dr. Iyenaga resents the American accusation of the immorality of the geisha girl's. "As far as they are concerned," he said, "they have no thought of indelicacy in their dancing. It is their business to entertain. Westerners are too hasty when they judge Japanese women by the geishas." "The Japanese women," he said, "though strictly confined to their households, are willing slaves. It is their wish to be self-sacrificing. Until the coming of Buddhism it was the women who made Japan's first literature. Until then there was no such great differences between the sexes as now exists." According to Dr. Iyenaga, marriage ought to be a pleasure in Japan, for there the "men never have to slt up at night with some squalling baby. The women do that." Character in Curtains. Did you know you can tell a good deal about character from window curtains? A woman who has been running around hunting a housemaid says she knew as soon as she saw the front of a house whether the person within who had advertised for a place would answer the purpose or not. There were houses with dirty curtains of cheap lace, looped back with soiled and tangled strings; houses with filthy window panes and no curtains at all; houses where the curtains made a feeble effort to keep up with the tawdry style, and houses where the glass was clear and the curtains poor but spotless. And in all cases the inmates bore out the first impression. "The woman I finally got," she said, "came from a house where the shades were green and clean and pulled exactly even distances across the spotless window panes. And I knew before I went in how orderly the room would be, and how clean and neat a person she would be herself."—Pittsburg Dispatch. Woman at Her Worst. In every sense the most objectionable dress ever worn by English women was that of the early '60s. I defy any lady to appear refined in the correct fashions of that period. I was just old enough to look at them in picture books and gaze in my perambulator at the common objects of fashion with infantile astonishment. The hair stuck out at the back of the head, as a chignon or bun (really resembling a loaf), surmounted by a little black turban with a feather stuck in it; tight-fitting purple jacket strapped and crossed with black or red braid; panniers of gay color—bright yellow, say—on which were worked startling patterns in red braid; short full skirt—say of red—with wide upright stripes of purple braid; a red parasol, yellow gloves and violet boots completed a costume that our oldest gentlewomen still alive once wore.—Harry Furniss in the Gentleman. Overworked Babies. The London county council announces that hereafter school managers may exclude from board schools children under five years old. The Hospital heartily commends the decision and says: "The most serious argument against the system which has been tolerated so long is that it is absolutely injurious to the children thenselves. The brains of infants under five ought not to have the strain of any kind of school curriculum imposed upon them. "There is a great deal of speculation as to the reasons for the growth of insanity. We have no doubt that the development of baby intelligence at school when it should be devoted to toys and childish amusements is a contributory cause." —Many aristocratic ladies in London are said to have gambled away their jewelry at "bridge," and have had to buy imitation sets. NEGRO TURNING WHITE. Stamford Man Covered with Patches of Caucasian Fairness. Edward Kennedy, a negro of Stamford, Conn., is turning white. His hands and a good part of his face are white as those of any American born Caucasian, and the contrast is so great as to arrest attention. The change has been going on now for six years. It began at the finger tips and gradually every bit of the hands became white until today Mr. Kennedy's forearms are perfectly white. The same thing is true of his face in the vicinity of the mouth, the chin and the neck. The space about the eyes is perfectly white and gives him a somewhat grotesque appearance. Behind the ears there is a circle of white and Kennedy says that his entire body contains patches of white skin. Kennedy is just as much at a loss to account for it as is the ordinary observer. Edward Kennedy was born in New York at 9 King street, in 1841. His father, Thomas Kennedy, was janitor of the city hall building in New York. Kennedy has two sisters living in New York, Mrs. Robert Davis and Mrs. Jacob Pelham. Kennedy came to Stamford when he was 6 years old, and just as soon as he was able to work adopted the life of a fisherman and oysterman. For thirty years he lived about the shore front here. About twenty years ago he entered the restaurant business, his present occupation. While in Stamford he has had but one serious illness, about twenty-five years ago. He was sick some little time then from bilious fever. In the last ten years he has not been ill a day. He believes his freedom from illness is the result of a preparation of herbs he brews and takes twice each week. He also believes that the continued use of this preparation may have something to do with his change of color. Physicians who were asked about the matter here today said the herbs had nothing to do with it. Medical men agree that the change of color is due to a loss of pigment in the blood. Kennedy said today: "I am not sick and I have lost no sleep worrying over the change in my color. It has been going on for six years, and of late the white patches have been coming out quite rapidly. I am 65 years old and feel perfectly well, and sometimes I feel that I shall live long enough to see myself a white man." Sure Cure at Last. Monticello, Miss., Sept. 4.—(Special.) Lawrence county is almost daily in receipt of fresh evidence that a sure cure for all Kidney Troubles has at last been found, and that cure is Dodd's Kidney Pills. Among those who have reason to bless the Great American Kidney Remedy is Mrs. L. E. Baggett of this place. Mrs. Baggett had dropsy. Dodd's Kidney Pills cured her. "I was troubled with my kidneys," Mrs. Baggett says in recommending Dodd's Kidney Pills to her friends, "my urine would hardly pass. The doctors said I had Dropsy. I have taken Dodd's Kidney Pills as directed and am now a well woman." Dodd's Kidney Pills cure the kidneys. Cured kidneys strain all the impurities out of the blood. That means pure blood and a sound, energetic body. Dodd's Kidney Pills are the greatest tonic the world has ever known. CASED STAMPS. A Reminder of War Time Days When Currency Was Scarce. Henry C. Ezekiel is now at work gathering a collection of encased postage stamps which circulated during the Civil war in place of the regular metal coin. The case was the invention of John Gault of Boston and was made a necessity on account of the people hoarding metal coin until they were able to sell at high premiums. Gault secured the consent of Congress to issue the cases in lieu of regular coin. They were made of brass and mica. The cases were sold at an advanced price to the merchants whose names or advertisements appeared on them for the purpose of circulating them as currency. Mr. Ezekiel has been gathering facts about the issue of these peculiar coins and finds that they were put into circulation by thirty-one firms, and up to the present time has found records of 172 different names, varieties and denominations. In this list there were only six dry goods firms in this country to issue the cases, and four of these were Cincinnati houses. 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"One of the fifty-seven German varie ties of getting drunk to music, my son." —Town Topics Possible! Hasked—I don't object so much to Fanny kissing her dog, but I prefer her to kiss me before, and not after. Wasper—I know, but don't you think that the dog has his preference, too?— Answers. A Small Matter Ethel (from the motor)—What is the trouble. Harry. Harry (from beneath it)—I'm afraid the boiler is burned out. Ethel—Well, never mind. It doesn't show, does it? When It Grew Tiresome. "I never thought," said the conceited lecturer, "that my voice would fill that hall." "No," replied the candid man, "I thought at one time it would empty it." —Philadelphia Ledger. Filling the Bill. Said the gas office clerk, "I'm performing my work With great and exceptional skill. It is widely agreed That I always succeed In thoroughly filling the bill." -Washington Star. His Memory System. Johnny—I jest can't remember them blamed history dates. How do you do it. Bill? Bill—It's dead easy. Why, if it's 1804 fer instance, I jest remember the time when de Giants beat de Athletics 1S ter 4.—Council Bluffs Nonpareil. A Slip of the Tongue. Stounder—Murphy and the Frenchman were drinking together, and when they got good and glad the Frenchman tried to tell Murphy that he was "the stuff," but got mixed and said "a stuff."—Town Topics. Are You a Mason? Mr. Smith—I was held up and relieved of all my valuables on the way home from my lodge. Captain of Police—What did the robbers get? Mr. Smith—Everything except the password—Pittsburg Dispatch. Mark Twain's Drydock Definition. It is told of Mark Twain that during a conversation with a young lady of his acquaintance he had occasion to mention the word drydock. "What is a drydock, Mr. Clemens?" she asked. "A thirsty physician," replied the hu morist—Boston Herald. Difficult to Say. Passenger (train just emerging from tunnel)—What a peculiarly sour expression that young lady in the far corner has? Friend—Yes; she is evidently mad because the young man with her kissed her coming through the tunnel, or maybe she is mad because he didn't.—Judy. A Reasonable Appeal. Rev. F. A. Strough of Kalamazoo, Mich., a brother of ye editor, with his wife, and five children, are guests at our house. These, with our family of thirteen, fill a large table. Will our subscribers in arrears please make a note of these sixty meals a day we are now furnishing and try and help us out?—Theresa (N. Y.) Gleaner. Signing a Deed "You sign this deed of your own free will, do you, madam?" asked the lawyer. "What do you mean by that?" demanded the large red-faced woman. "I mean there has been no compulsion on the part of your husband, has there?" "Him!" she ejaculated, turning to look at the meek little man sitting beside her. "I'd like to see him try to compulse me." —London Tit-Bits. Good Motto for Them. "We've got a good motto for our paper," remarked Kidder. "What is it?" asked the slight acquaintance. "What we have we hold." "Oh. I see; referring to your circulation. By the way, I didn't know you were a publisher." "We're not; we manufacture fly paper."—Philadelphia Press. Secretary Shaw's Kindness. When Secretary Shaw arrived at his old home at Dennison, Ia., the other day, where he was to speak at a farmers' day celebration, he found a cab at the depot to meet him, but with the cabman slumbering peacefully on the back seat. Unwilling to awake the weary Jehu, the secretary mounted the box and drove himself to the home of Eugene Gulick, a brother-in-law. Here he awakened the astonished cabby and dismissed him, with more than the usual fee. Large Shipment of Redwood. An important deal has just been closed at San Francisco, Cal., contracts having been signed for the shipment of 1,500,000 feet of redwood to New York city. It is the largest single shipment of redwood ever made direct to New York and the first to go by the water route. Under the contract the cargo is to be loaded at Eureka by the middle of November and delivered in New York in April. The value of the cargo will be about $75,000. Placed Husband's Belongings on Grave. A large wooden box on the grave of George Price at Trenton, N. J., placed there by his widow, and containing the personal effects of the deceased, has been mysteriously destroyed by fire. The box long had been known as the "curiosity box," and its contents were kept secret until Mrs. Price, stirred by comment, said she had it built to contain Mr. Price's belongings because their presence in the house saddened her. Woman Is Millionaire. Mrs. W. S. Flower of Pittsburg, Pa., will receive $7,500,000 from the estate of her father, Charles Lockhart, the Standard Oil magnate, who left a fortune variously estimated at $60,000,000 to $140,000,000. This averts a contest of the will, which practically disinherited her because she married a dentist. Judge Webster Decides Will County Judge Webster of Portland, Ore., ruled that Mrs. Amanda Reed's legal domicile at the time of her death was in Portland and not in Pasadena, Cal., and that the $1,000,000 designated in her will for the establishment of an educational institution in Oregon should go for that purpose. THE HEAVEN-BORN. Not into these dark cities, These sordid marts and streets, That the sun in his rising pities, And the moon with sadness greets, Does she, with her dreams and flowers, For whom our hearts are dumb, Does she of the golden hours, Earth's heaven-born Beauty come. Afar 'mid the hills she tarries, Beyond the farthest streams, In a world where music marries With color that blooms and beams; Where shadow and light are wedded, Whose children people the Earth, The fair, the fragrant-headed, The pure, the wild of birth. Where Morn with rosy kisses Wakes ever the eyes of Day, And, winds in her radiant tresses, Haunts every wildwood way; Where Eve, with her mouth's twin roses, Her kisses sweet with balm, The eyes of the glad Day closes And, crowned with stars, sits calm. There, lost in contemplation Of things no mortal sees. She dwells, the incarnation Of idealities: THE MISER. The door of the doctor's house was closed almost noiselessly and John Breen went slowly down the short flight of steps, his grayish countenance working with fury. "A guinea for prescribing more rest and nourishment, plus a bottle of druggist's filth!" he muttered. "What on earth possessed me to consult him?" Reaching the pavement, he began to walk swiftly, but a throbbing behind the old scar on his temple compelled him to slacken his pace. "I suppose it was that that made me take fright," he said to himself. "I never used to have headaches. * * * If I'm not better by tomorrow I'll take his prescription to the chemist, though I believe it's all nonsense." A hansome driver hailed him invitingly, but he shook his head impatiently, and quickened his steps in spite of the dull throbbing that caused him to half close his eyes. It was a chilly evening, and, as he turned from the quiet street into the busy thoroughfare sleet began to fall; but instead of taking a 'bus he set out to walk the two miles that lay between him and his place of abode. His home was an old-fashioned, neglected looking building in the neighborhood of Russell Square, and he was the sole occupant. A charwoman came for an hour every morning and made a pretense of cleaning up generally, although her work consisted chiefly in removing the ashes of the parlor grate (in winter) and washing the dishes which her master had soiled the previous day. He placed both in the hall, for she was not admitted to the parlor. John Breen did his own cooking, such as it was, at the sitting-room fire, and his bed consisted of the sofa and a traveling rug in the same apartment. The other rooms, eight in number, of the house were unfurnished. On entering the hall, which echoed his steps, he locked and boited the door with exceeding care, and made his way in the dark to the parlor, situated on the same floor. It was necessary to unlock the parlor door, and having done so he entered and locked it again behind him. The inside of the door was covered with sheet iron and fitted with heavy bolts fitting into sockets at top and bottom. The fire, under a layer of dross, glowed faintly, and was slow to ignite the spill of paper that he presented between the bars. When he did procure a light he applied it to a candle on the mantelpiece, and in its glimmer he beheld his face in the dirty mirror. "Yes," he muttered, "if I'm not better by tomorrow I'll go to the chemist. I can't afford to be ill. I'm glad I didn't go to a doctor close at hand. He might have found out who I was and insisted on attending me. How my head does ache." He sat down in the worn-out easy chair and inserted a few slips of wood between the bars of the grate. Small flames pierced the blanket of dross, and presently he set a little kettle on the hottest part. "A cup of tea will pull me together." He rose and crossed the room to a bookcase void of books. From a lower shelf he took a loaf of bread and a cut of cheese, also a plate and knife, and carried them to the table close to the side of the easy chair. Then suddenly he began to smile and rub his hands softly. The window shutters, iron-bound like the door, were closed and bolted, but he went over and examined them and drew the faded curtains together. After that he peered into all the corners and under the sofa, smiling and fingering something in his hip pocket. John Breen was not a timid man; he was merely careful. When he was quite satisfied that he was alone he went back to his easy chair, and stretching out his right hand opened the paneling at the side of the fireplace, disclosing the door of a small but apparently deep and supremely strong safe. Inserting a couple of keys, he manipulated them until the locks yielded and the stout door swung open. The safe was packed with little bags of gold, parcels of notes and buidles of negotiable securities. The latter papers represented John Breen's capital—his father's legacy to him—the notes and gold the interest, less his trifling expenses, of nearly thirty years. The investment's were as safe as the nation's credit, and the owner had never sought to alter them for others bringing a larger return. The stream of gold from them may not have satisfied him with its bulk, but at least it was steady, and he loved to mark on a calendar the days on which he would present his coupons with the certainty of receiving the value printed thereon. This very day he had collected the interest represented by certain coupons, and now he brought from his breast a dark soft leather bag and poured the tinkling contents on the table—£125. He began to count the sovereigns, but somehow when he came to twenty-seven he could not proceed. He tried again, with the same result. His head ached more than ever, but he made another attempt—and failed. "I wish the kettle would boil," he sighed, laying back wearily. "A cup of tea will put me right. But when the kettle boiled at last he paid no attention. The throbbing, which for some minutes had been almost unbearable, had abruptly ceased, and a sense of peace had descended upon John Green. His eyes closed, he lay unconscious, his hard features wonderfully softened. Strangely enough he dressed well, and as he lay there in the poor light of the candle and the increasing glow of the fire, which failed to make clear the poverty and wretchedness of his surroundings, he might have been taken for a well-to-do and rather handsome elderly gentleman enjoying a nap. The kettle was dry and ruined, the fire was almost out, and the candle was within an inch of its socket when John Breen came back to life again. He sat up feebly and looked curiously about him. He felt no pain, but he was greatly puzzled. An expression of disgust dawned upon his face when his eyes caught sight of the bread and cheese. but being desperately hungry he cut a piece of the former and ate a portion. He was chilly, too, and felt a craving for hot food. Then he beheld his wealth. He began to tremble violently and tears rolled down his cheeks. Awe-stricken, he whispered to himself, "And I might have died tonight, I might have died, and no one, not even myself, have been the better for my having lived." He took the notes, the bags of gold and the documents from the safe, laid them in a heap at his feet, and began to reckon his future. It was easily done, for each bag was stamped with "2500," while each bundle of securities had a slip of paper attached bearing its approximate value. Besides, he found no difficulty in counting now. The grand total came to a few hundreds and odd over eighty thousand pounds. "I must leave this accursed house at once," he said suddenly. "I must lose no time, or I may be too late." Within an hour he left the house in a cab with a couple of ancient portmanteaus. In his pocket he carried a letter addressed to his charwoman and containing instructions for her not to call until notified to do so, which he intended to post at the first opportunity. The letter also contained ten £5 notes. It was past midnight when he reached the large hotel in Northumberland avenue—the name of which had somehow occurred to him as he stepped into the cab—but he managed to get a fairly good supper before retiring. He slept little, for he had many plans to make for the morrow. Still, he arose in the morning with nothing worse than a feeling of tiredness, which, however, seemed to affect his memory rather strangely. For instance, he could not remember where he had come from the previous night; and as the day wore on he was occasionally perplexed regarding other matters of the past. The bunch of complicated keys in his pocket puzzled him, and when he happened upon the doctors' prescription in another pocket, he could not recollect the visit to the physician. Most of all the revolver in his hip pocket troubled him. He did not know what to do with it, and he was afraid to unload it lest it discharge. For the time he decided to lock it in a drawer in his bedroom. He spent the forenoon in studying the newspapers, and in the afternoon he paid a visit to the poorest quarters of the East End, returning, with a white and troubled face, to play with his dinner and to spend the evening, locked in his room. A few days later people began to call upon him—prosperous looking gentlemen and fine ladies—and earnest conversations took place in the elegant sitting room he had engaged in addition to his bedroom. Other men and women, pinched and sad, began to watch for his coming to their miserable dwellings. One evening toward the end of May Mr. Breen gave a little dinner party in his private sitting room. Ten ladies and gentlemen, all keenly interested in philanthropic work, were present, and even those of them who were high in the land treated their gentle-faced host with unfeigned respect and seemed to regard him with sincere affection as well as admiration. Although the weather had unexpectedly become oppressively hot, the spirits of the guests did not suffer depression. Only the host appeared somewhat wearied when, the dinner itself being over, the time came for him to explain a new scheme of charity which he had lately been deeply considering, and which all present were eager to hear about. "I must ask you to pardon my leaving you for a moment, my friends," he said, suddenly. "I find I have left my notes on the scheme in my room." With a word of thanks for the permission readily granted, and a pleasant smile to all, Mr. Breen left the room. "He is a wonderful man," remarked a countess. "Is it really the case that he has given £40,000 to the children's hospital in Whitechapel?" "He handed the money to us yesterday," said an old man with kindly twinkling eyes. "And it was only a first installment, he assured me. But he has made so many magnificent gifts recently that one fears he must soon exhaust himself. Truly it was Providence that allowed John Breen to become a rich man." "He ought to be Sir John at least," said a pretty woman, "though I fancy he would scorn a title." Meantime Mr. Breen was in his bedroom searching for the slips of paper on which he had set down the details of his scheme. He could not remember where he had put them. Drawer after drawer he tried without success. As he drew open the last drawer a vivid flash of lightning lit up the chamber—he had not thought it necessary to switch on the electric light, as he had sufficient light from the open door—and almost immediately a terrific peal crashed overhead. John Breen's fingers closed on something in the drawer, and presently a look of amazement overspread his countenance. The philanthropists waited in vain for his reappearance. Drenched to the skin, he sat in his draggled evening clothes, staring at the empty safe, a creature of utter despair. He had a faint glimmering that he had given away his wealth, but to whom he could not remember. He tried very hard to remember. The glimmering went out, and he could not remember anything at all. He only knew that he had no money left. No money left? He searched his pockets and found a few notes, sovereigns and some change. Thirty pounds odd. Also a revolver. * * * * * * * * The surgeon who examined him afterward directed a colleague's attention to the scar on his right temple. "Yes," said the colleague, "it might have something to do with the case, though he must have got the smash a long time ago." He referred, of course, to the case of suicide. But which was the real John Breen—the miser or the philanthropist?—J. J. Bell, author of "Wee MacGreegor," in Black and White. Revises Town's Name President Roosevelt has ordered that hereafter Wilkes-Barre, Pa., name shall be spelled with a hyphen and a capital "B." When he visited there August 1, Mayor Kirkendall told him how the citizens objected to the arbitrary action of the postoffice department some years ago in spelling it without a hyphen and with a small "b"—Wilkesbarre. He learned that the city was named after Col. Wilkes and Col. Barre, and promised to have it spelled as the citizens desired. Church Is Social Organization. A criticism of the American Protestant churches was voiced by Rev. G. Campbell Morgan D. D., who has been working in the late Dwight L. Moody's place at East Northfield, Mass. When on the point of sailing for Europe on the Baltic, Dr. Morgan said: "The American church does not seem to be much more than a social organization now. Its members spend more time developing along social lines than they do along spiritual lines. The business men, the influential Christians and others do not do their duty. Wrapped up in their own affairs or busy in the pursuit of frivolity, they lose track of the way and forget the pledges they made to their church. The old fire and the old-time spirit are lacking and without this what can be expected by social clubs, but a leading away from God and the path. How can a business man expect to have an influence with his employees when they know his life, his methods and just how far he practices what he preaches. "What the churches want is more of God and less of dress and social position; more of the spirit of the master and less of a strife for place and money, and more religion by example and life than by preaching and talking." DOUBLE TROLLEY POLE. Double-Wheeled Device That Will Be the Means of Saving Time. The ownership of the trolley patent is a matter which has until recently been in the courts. This industry has been a monopoly enjoyed by two great electrical companies which had jointly secured the patent rights from the original inventor, but some years ago the matter was questioned and taken into court. After years of legal contention, the question has been passed upon by the United States court of appeals in New York, which recently delivered a verdict in favor of the two companies, which will continue to make trolley poles for the whole world unless some better idea can be discovered. Many efforts have been made in this direction without success. Numberless inventions have been brought out to displace the under-running and trailing trol- DOUBLE TROLLEY POLE. ley pole, but nothing has yet been found which will take its place entirely in the popular estimation. The most serious shortcoming of this pole is the tendency of the bearing of the trolley wheel to quickly wear out under the unusual service to which it is put. The wear and tear at this point is increased by the frequent arcing of the current, so that the renewal of these wheels being frequently necessary is a matter of serious expense. Experiments are being conducted by one of the principal electrical manufacturing companies of this country with a device which combines the features of the trolley pole and the bow which is used to a great extent in Europe, and this is said to be very promising and may be the means of introducing something new which may be superior to the present arrangement. Another suggestion of this nature was recently granted a patent in this and other countries, and this is shown in the accompanying cut. It consists of a double trolley pole, which is said to have a number of redeeming features. In the first place, the wear is distributed between two wheels and always, in the event of one of these becoming disabled, there is another to take its place. Another feature is evident where cars are on a "shuttle run," that is, where they are sent back over the same track by simply reversing the pole. In this operation much time is frequently lost, and this could be saved by the device presented here. This arrangement of pole is much lighter than the others in general use, and it is possible to control it by a couple of ropes from the platform of the car. UNIQUE SPELLING BOARD. Cuban Invents an Educational Device Which Should Be of Value. Foreign inventions of real value are generally patented in the United States also, but seldom is there an application filed at the patent office at Washington from Cuba, Porto Rico or the Philippines. A resident of Matanzas, Cuba, presumably a Cuban, has patented the unique spelling board shown in the illustration below, as in all probability he has recognized the value of such a device in our new island possessions—a X WORDS FORMED FROM THE LETTERS help to those ambitious natives who are anxious to master the English language. The construction and the mode of application of this spelling board are far superior to any so far placed on the market. Mounted on a movable frame is a large display board, in the center of which are fastened three or four rails, these rails being offset from the board except at the extreme end. Around the edges of the board are marginal compartments, fifty-two in number, into which are placed the "demonstrators," these consisting of two of each letter of the alphabet, one for each capital letter and one for each lower-case letter. These blocks are U-shaped in cross section, the object being to straddle the blocks over the rails and have them easily detachable and movable thereon. Evidently one of each letter would not be sufficient to spell some words, but this is overcome by having several letters in each compartment, one overlying the other. The practical operation of this unique device is shown fully in the illustration, and needs no further explanation. Left Lawsuit as Legacy. Members of the Stroudsburg (Penn.) bar are interested in a will left by Charles B. Wallace, who spent his last years as a porter in an Albion (Mich.) hotel. Wallace bequeathed to Etta G. Von Etta, who cared for him in his last illness, a lawsuit, instituted before his death, for a half interest in the large estate of William W. Wallace of this town. Men Wanted. We can use from fifty to one hundred good able-bodied young men, and offer them steady employment for the balance of the year at wages according to their ability. Simmons M'f'g. Co., Kenosha, Wis. Didn't Black King's Boots. Fred Racik of San Francisco, the bootblack who went to England to fulfill his ambition to shine King Edward's boots, was obliged to content himself by performing that office for the Lord Mayor of London. Racik went to Buckingham palace and got past the policemen at the entrance gates, bearing a letter he had written to Lord Knollys, asking his assistance in placing himself physically and figuratively at the King's feet. Lord Knollys refused to aid, him. —There is no meat trust in Australia. There mutton sometimes sells for as little as 2 cents a pound. W.L. DOUGLAS $3.50 & $3.00 SHOES FOR MEN W. L. Douglas $4.00 Gilt Edge Line cannot be equalled at any price. W.L.DOUGLAS SHOES ALL PRICES BEST IN THE WORLD ALL STYLES THE WORLD'S GREATEST SHOEMAKER SOLE AGENTS FOR W.L.DOUGLAS SHOES Established July 6, 1876. W.L. 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Sold by druggists. CONSUMPTION 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 trans-act 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.....42.05 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, 38 Eighth Street. HOW TO SEND MONEY.—Post Office Order. Express Order. Draft or Registered Letter. R. B. Montgomery will not be responsible for loss when sent in any other way. TO CONTRIBUTORS: All communications must be sent with the name and address of the sender as an evidence of good faith, but not necessarily for publication. No manuscript returned if not accepted, unless accompanied by stamps. EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS. "I know of the bravery and character of the Negro soldier. He saved my life at Santiago, and I have had occasion to say so in many articles and speeches. The Rough Riders were in a bad position when the Ninth and Tenth cavalry came rushing up the hill carrying everything before them. The Negro soldier has the faculty of coming to the front when he is needed most. In the Civil war he came 400,000 strong, and I believe he saved the Union."—President Roosevelt. A WARNING. We have been informed by friends in Janesville and elsewhere that certain persons of questionable reputation have recently been engaged in a house to house slander concerning The Advocate and its editor, throughout the state generally and more particularly in the cities of Janesville and Beloit. We have placed the matter in the hands of the police department of those cities and we warn these individuals that for any further repetition of these misrepresentations we will invoke the full penalty of the law. AN EXAMPLE OF LAW ENFORCEMENT Saturday and Sunday night reporters for The Record-Herald made an investigation of the dance halls on the three sides of the city, and found that the law for their regulation was being almost universally obeyed. Apparently the action taken by the authorities in the Freiberg case was construed as a notification that meant business. We have now had a demonstration that so far from being an impossible task it is really an easy matter to keep these places under proper restrictions. Their proprietors were not defiant. From the moment that they were convinced that the law was to be enforced they resolved to take no chances. They refrained from challenging the police or from presuming on the favor of a pull. Such a showing makes it clear that there need be no repetition of the abuses of the past, and after the revelations of the last year the duty of preventing them should be obvious to all but the vilest of the vile. For it has been proved that while these dance halls were conducted without restraint they were a most serious menace to the morals of the community, that under their degrading influence many young men and women started upon careers of vice and crime. Considering the ruin that they have wrought every decent official should rejoice to be an instrument in the policy of repression. The German Empress usually spends Ler summers at Kadinen on the north east coast of Prussia. Kadinen is such a small village that its railway station is simply a waiting room; tickets have to be bought on the train. The royal residence is a plain two-story cottage, so small that the Emperor, who prefers 'o spend his summers on his yacht, never remains more than a few hours. From the park adjoining the house one gets the views of the Danzieger bay. One of the Kaiser's Potsdam gardeners takes care of the flower garden, the Empress's favorite flowers being roses, mignonettes and heliotropes. Senator Clark owns 98 per cent. of the United Verde mine and, according to popular opinion, his income from it averages about $600,000 a month. He can make as much more as he likes, but is satisfied with that. The mine produces an average of forty million pounds of copper a year. Last year the output was 46,600,000 pounds, which, at 15 cents a pound, was worth $6,999,000, and this is said to have been all clear profit, because the by-products—the gold and silver found with the copper ore—more than paid running expenses. ```markdown ``` Mrs. Teresa Richardson has the distinction of being the only English lady who has been with the Japanese Red Cross society. She has received the highest decoration for ladies in Japan, conferred upon her by the Mikado, the accepting and wearing of which has been sanctioned by King Edward. She has also received the highest order of the Japanese Red Cross society and two other decorations. HEADGATE—CARSON RIVER CANAL. NEVADA. Conquest of the Great American Desert The millions of acres of arid lands of the west already thrown open to the farmers by irrigation and the millions more to be thrown open, will, it is claimed by irrigation experts, open the way for the mightiest Anglo-Saxon settlement the world has ever known. It is estimated that about 50,000,000 acres of land in all, will be reclaimed by the government projects. The work which the government is executing in constructing great stor- IN THE COLORADO DESERT. age and diversion dams and in buildin canals, laterals and headgates is the largest undertaking of the kind in the history of the United States. The reclamation act provides that funds from the sale of certain public lands shall be applied by the government to the building of irrigation works. At the present time the fund amounts to about $28,000,000 and is increasing at the rate of $4,000,000 annually. This fund is self-continuing. After the irrigation works have been HEADGATE—CARSON R constructed the sum expended in any work is to be returned to the government in ten equal annual installments by the settlers prorata. At the end of the first year after any one project has been completed one-tenth of the original amount expended on that work is to be returned and put into other projects. Among the great projects of the government is the Shoshone project, Wyoming, which will irrigate 160,000 acres of public land; the Uncompahgre Valley project, Colorado, 100,000 acres; the Belle Fourche project, South Dakota, 85,000 acres; the Salt River project, Arizona, 200,000 acres; the Malheur project, Oregon, 90,000 acres; the Hondo river project, New Mexico, 10,000 acres; the Fort Buford project, Montana and North Dakota, 60,000 acres; DROP ON THE IMPERIAL CANAL. the North Platte project, Wyoming and Nebraska, 300,000 acres; the Minidoka project, Idaho, 130,000 acres; the Yuma project, Arizona and California, 500,000 acres and the Sacramen-Carson project, Nevada, 350,000 acres; the Klamath project, Oregon and California, 500,000 acres and the Sacramento valley project, California, 2,000,000 acres. Besides the projects enumerated which total is not less than 3,000,000 acres the engineers of the reclamation service are preparing surveys on a great many other projects which will be undertaken as rapidly as the fund expands and is returned to begin work. The Yuma project on the Colorado river is of especial interest at this time because it is located close to the Imperial valley country on the Colorado desert where is located the largest irrigation works, either public or private, in the United States. Within four years 100,000 acres have been put under actual irrigation in the Imperial valley through the diversion of waters from the Colorado river. Of this 100,000 acres, almost half is in barley, 10,000 acres is in alfalfa. On the American side of the Imperial valley there are some 50,000 head of cattle a large part of which is dairy stock, and there are 10,000 head more on the Mexican side. The Yuma project contemplates the irrigation of land on both side of the Colorado river in California and Arizona. The government has planned for the ultimate extension of the canals of the Yuma project twenty miles or more from the Laguna dam ten miles above Yuma to the Imperial valley. When this is done the most arid portion of America not excepting Death Valley will be all under irrigation and highly productive. Although the government contemplates irrigation works for the benefit of homeseekers and endeavors so far as possible to undertake works with the view of bringing water to available government lands, yet in the event that individuals are willing to subdivide their lands and to sign a contract which will prevent land speculation and anticipating increased values through irrigation, irrigation works will be undertaken under the reclamation act where the land is in private ownership. This is the case in the Salt river valley, Arizona, where a dam capable of impounding enough water to irrigate 200,000 acres of land will be constructed. The settlers in that section have gone ahead and accomplished marvels; the government is coming to their aid. In the Sacramento valley the land individually in large holdings, there being individual ranches of 100,000 acres in extent. Thirteens on a Silver Quarter Superstition seems to be a part of the mental composition of everyone, and it commonly centers to a rooted antipathy to the number thirteen. This first of the teens has had to stand for many an action that was ridiculous, and yet there is hardly any persons who would sidestep an inch or mournfully rail at fate should he spy a silver quarter on the sidewalk. Have you ever taken the trouble to scan closely this small piece of silver? If you have not, you may be surprised to find on the eagle side that there are thirteen arrows in the bundle, which is clutched in the left claw, thirteen laurel leaves on the branch in the other claw, thirteen stars at his head, thirteen letters in the Latin inscription, "E pluribus Unum," thirteen let- RIVER CANAL. NEVADA. ters in the word "quarter dollar," thirteen stripes on the shield, and on the front of the silver piece thirteen stars surrounding the liberty head and thirteen leaves in liberty's crown. This array of thirteen is in commemoration of the original thirteen States which comprised the Union—New York Press. When the Pope Dines. Like Emile Loubet, Pope Plus X. has a desire for simplicity and informality that equally distinguishes him from his predecessor. It was only natural that the man who, as a Patriarch at Venice, was always at home alike to the humblest artisan as well as to the richest and grandest patron of the church, should retain his simple mode of life when raised to the papal chair. As befits one occupying such a position, his meals are always quiet and informal, never elaborate, and, unlike Leo, who always dined alone, Pius X. is never so happy as when he is surrounded by members of his household or high dignitaries of the church. He sits at a table, raised a little higher than that at which his guests sit, but this is the only trace of formality that is observed. In the Pope's dining room the ordinary ornaments of such an apartment are replaced by those which have some ecclesiastical significance. The sideboard has two large crosses on either end, another cross hangs above the Pope's chair, and the one ornament not strictly religious in its symbolism is a marble bust of one of Pius' predecessors. A Peril Nearer Home. To Mr. Hippendyke, who had followed with absorbing interest the progress of the war between Japan and Russia, there was something sinister and terrible in the uniform success of the Japanese. "I tell you, Flanders," he was saying to his neighbor on the other side of the backyard fence, "those fellows are going to make trouble for us all. The Japs have found out how strong they are, and they're teaching the Chinese. Some day there'll be a Chinese army of fifty million men, with Japanese officers. They'll take our possessions in Asia and they'll overrun the whole civilized world. That's the yellow peril we've got to face some time or other. You mark my words." Just then Mrs. Hippendyke came to the kitchen door. "Henry," she called out, in a highkeyed voice, "if you want to put a stop to the only yellow peril that's threatening you or me, you get after that yellow dog of Wilkinson's that's out in our front yard, digging up all my plants." Not His Favorite Surgeon. Gunner—You don't seem to have much faith in Dr. Lance as an appendicitis expert. Guyer—Faith? Why, I wouldn't let him cut the appendix out of my dictionary.—Judge. If you are not naturally fair and honorable, counterfeiting is pardonable. HORSE when you go to buy lumber and building material, but come where you know the grades and prices are right. North Milwaukee, Wis. Phone North 69. NEW RACE ENTERPRISE Telephone Main 1811 DELIVERED I Orders Taken at "THE TU CHOOSE YOUR CHILD'S FRIENDS. NEW RACE ENTERPRISE J. L. Slaughter & Hansett WOOD AND COAL Telephone Main 1811 590 EAST WATER STREET DELIVERED IN ANY QUANTITY. PROMPT DELIVERY. Orders Taken at "THE TURF," 217 WELLS ST. GIVE THEM A TRIAL. Parents Should Be Cautious Before It Is Too Late. The friends that children make just at the formative period of their lives have a most decided influence upon their future, and where the friendship is between young people of the opposite sexes the relation is one of peculiar importance. 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B.—Mr. "Barber," we have a Supply Catalogue that will interest you and prices that will suit you. A copy mailed upon request. It is ordinarily useless to interfere after the attachment is formed and young love in its strength has been given. The time to save a child from such sorrow is before matters have gone so far. If you possess your children's confidence, and know their friends as you should, you can help them to form sound judgments in regard to them, and the only way for you to know their friends is to make yourself their companion; but how can you do this if you allow your daughter to receive her young men friends alone in the parlor, and never ask the giris whom your son admires to your home? Barbers' Supplies and High-Grade Furniture JANESVILLE, WISCONSIN, U. S. A. BUYERS PLEASE MENTION WISCONSIN WEEKLY ADVOCATE The boys and girls who drop in of an evening should be welcomed to the family circle, and the father and mother should join in the young people's amusements. Let the little tea-table be ready, arrayed in its embroidered cloth and set with pretty dishes, and pass around the social cup of tea or cocoa. The hours will fly as if on wings for the lads and lasses with each entertainment as this, although it is so simple. They will be eager to come again, and you will find plenty of opportunity to read their characters. Knowledge so gained will enable fathers and mothers to talk to their children about their friends while they are still able to listen to reason, and they can help them to form a just estimate of the worth of their companions. The Wisconsin Weekly Advocate is in a position to secure Desirable Situations for trustworthy and competent Colored Help of both sexes, in Wisconsin, Michigan, and neighboring states—more especially in the smaller cities. Many such are constantly on its list. Applications are solicited from the rural districts and smaller cities of the southern states. Address Management, 729 St. Paul Avenue, Milwaukee, Wis. I know it is a difficult thing to win a child's confidence in this regard; you are touching the most sensitive side of his nature, and unless it is done with perfect delicacy and tact he will not unfold to you; he will talk to a schoolmate, or to somebody else, but you will not know what your child is thinking about. The least suggestion of amusement, not to say ridicule, on the subject is enough to make the child close his heart, as a sea anemone closes its petals at the least jarring touch. And yet it is only when a child does talk freely to his father and mother about the friends which he makes that we may be sure he is sate. W. J. CANNON DEALER IN New and Second-Hand HOUSEHOLD GOODS Storage For Household Goods JANESVILLE, WISCONSIN I believe in the free companionship which our American society permits among young people; but if we accept such social conditions we should train our children accordingly. Their moral standard should be so exalted that they will maintain exactly the same behavior when they are alone together that they do when they are with us. If we succeed in such training—and it is quite possible to do so—the character produced has a peculiar nobility and purity; but too often parents are blind just where they should have the most insight, and are cold and severe just where the utmost tact and gentleness are needful. I am very sure that the children who can go to father and mother not only with their joys and sorrows, but with their youthful faults and follies as well, knowing that the reproof, if it must be given, will be loving, knowing that they will be trusted to try again, are the ones who ultimately develop the strongest and most perfect characters.—Children and Home. No More Banners. TO ALL actual settlers who buy a quarter section of land from us during the next six months: Come to our cattle ranch at Long Lake, Chippewa county, Wisconsin, and get a young cow and calf free. Two head of blooded stock given away with 160 acres of choice land, either in Chippewa or Gates counties, the best clover belt of the United States. Terms of payment for the land, one-quarter down, balance on long time at 6 per cent. interest. Address, The Pullman company has issued orders that no banners hereafter will be permitted upon the outside of Pullman cars. It is stated that in several instances banners have caught fire and injured people, causing the company to pay damages. Kills Silver Tip Bear. The largest land owners in the state. We have about 600 head of blooded Polled Angus, Herefords and Durhams. Gen. Frank D. Baldwin, while hunting near Fort Duquense killed a big silver tip bear just as the animal charged at Judge John Packer of Trinidad, who had wounded it and whose horse had thrown him. P. CANAR. G. CANAR. CANAR BROS. LAUNDRY 522 State St. Telephone Main 357 Milwaukee. Before Starting on Your Travels CALL ON Geo. Burroughs & Sons MANUFACTURERS OF PREMIUM TRUNKS YALISES, SAMPLE CASES, Etc. 124 1 426 East Water St., Milwaukee --- The American Steam Laundry 173 SECOND STREET HELLO, MAIN 1524. Our wagons speed all over town, All hours of every day, Depositing and picking up Big bundles on the way. We've got the best machinery, And expert help galore; We make your linen glisten and gleam Like sea-foam on the shore! We do not slight an article, However coarse or fine; Oh, everything's immaculate On The American Laundry Line. And so we bid for patronage, At least a wholesome share Of collars, cuffs and shirts and gowns, And rumpled underwear. We set the pace and from our point Our banner shall not fall, We fling it to the breeze and reach Going higher than them all. Laundry left before 8 a.m. can be called for at 6:30 p.m. same day. Saturdays excepted. Beware of Impostors of different professions soliciting money in Wisconsin for purposes unknown to any person in that state and for use elsewhere. Driven out of other states they are overrunning this. We think it an imperative duty on us as being the only negro paper in the state, to protect its generous philanthropists. From now on, we shall warn the mayor and chief of police of every city in Wisconsin against such adventurers. The Oliver Typewriter . . Philadelphia, 1899. Earls Court, London, 1899. Omaha, 1899. Paris 1900. Venice, 1901. Lille (France), 1901. Buffalo, 1901. It is displacing old style machines everywhere, and holds first place in the estimation of the majority of leading representative business and professional men. Write for Catalogue. 434-434 Broadway. 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FARM AND GARDEN Shade for Small Stock. Most farmers make some attempt to provide shade in the pasture for their horses and cows, but let the swine, sheep and poultry go without it, which is certainly a mistake, for all animals and birds like shade in summer. It is an easy matter to erect a number of small shade places on the pasture, and at small expense, if one is willing to invest the small amount of labor necessary. If there is a wood lot on the farm what is easier than to cut a number of poles to use for posts, and then a number of lighter branches to use as the foundation for the roof. Set the poles firmly in the ground, making four posts for the corners, then, with the branches and a lot of waste hay or straw, a thatched roof is easily constructed. Spend enough time on the work to make it strong enough so that the wind will not blow it over. When you finish ```markdown ``` you will have a shade house something like that shown in the cut, and the stock will enjoy it and be all the better for it. They would thank you for it if they could, so spend a little time building some, even two or three, by way of experiment.—Indianapolis News. Feeding Too Many Fowls. When the hatching season is over there is no necessity for retaining the roosters, as the hens will lay without their presence, and their room is valuable, while they cost more for food than they are worth, says Farm and Fireside. It is well to retain the best of the early pullets, but all pullets that do not show evidence of thrift or of reaching maturity before winter should be disposed of. The young cockerels should be disposed of just as soon as they are large enough for market or the table. It is better to give the growing stock plenty of room than to crowd them. The poultry house is usually a warm place in summer when well filled with birds, due to the animal heat of the bodies, and the flock should consequently be reduced to the lowest number consistent with the facilities. Potato Quality. The quality of potatoes is the subject of interesting tests by the New York Experiment Station. There is reason to believe that good quality is developed in a soil temperature of 65 degrees to 75 degrees, and the tubers growing from one and two to five inches below the surface are subject to these conditions. Great fluctuation in the soil temperature is detrimental to the best development of potatoes, and tubers growing too near the surface are subject to this fluctuation. A too low temperature also injures the development of ripening and the soil texture probably has sometihng to do with ripening and flavor. Hence, if potatoes are planted shallower than three inches or deeper than six inches the conditions are unfavorable. Shropshire Ram. THE CHAMPION SHROPSHIRE. This champion Shropshire ram is owned by George Allen, of Vermillion County, Illinois. Treatment for Fence Posts. A cheap and effectual method of preventing the rotting of fence posts is said to be practiced by French farmers. The posts are piled in a tank and the whole thickly covered with a quicklime, which is gradually slacked with water. Another plan, used in this country, is to char the posts to the depth of half an inch, and then dip them in coal tar, but the coal tar should be so used as to extend above the surface of the ground, when the posts are in place. While this may not prevent decay, yet it will prolong the period of durability of the posts. Borrowed Troubles. There are people who have genuine troubles, but the woe of genuine trouble is nothing compared to troubles which are expected and which never come. Too many farmers borrow trouble when it rains, because of the fear that the rain will continue too long—the downfall will be too great. When it discontinues for a few days the fear and the prediction is that a drought is in prospect that will destroy the crops. All this borrowed trouble is wholly un- necessary, and if it affects the general result at all, it affects it for the worst. It is better to be cheerful and make the most of conditions as they arise and take chances for the future without worry.Journal of Agriculture. Working in the Wheatfield. Most people are probably familiar in a general way with the principles and methods used in wheat shocking. Yet there are details the conformation to or neglect of which makes all the difference between a first-class job and a poor one. I wish to show here some of the details which make for convenience and excellence in the work, says a Rural New Yorker writer. I find the following plan of setting up a shock most satisfactory: Set down four bundles in a row and follow with one in the middle on each side. Now place a bundle in each of the four vacant places and put on two caps. For caps select bundles with long straw above the bands. They will cover the shock better and will not fall off so easily. Place the heads of the caps in the direction from which the strongest winds blow. If the heads face the wind the caps will not blow off as readily as they will if the butts face it. Here are a few general suggestions: If the shock has been set up as here directed it will contain twelve bundles. Experience teaches that this is very nearly the right number. Some little variation, of course, is allowable. But if a shock is much smaller it lacks stability, and the same is true if the shock is much larger, especially if the wheat is dead ripe. When the wheat is dead ripe the heads stand out, and, especially in a large shock, the bundles are liable to fall down. If the heads stand out it is a good plan to hug the shock tightly before capping. In a large shock slightly green wheat is apt to mold. When starting a shock if convenient start it in the middle of the bunch of bundles. This will save the time and labor involved in carrying bundles around the shock. Weather Fakes. The United States Weather Bureau takes no stock in the monthly and seasonal forecasts by the so-called "weather prophets" whose predictions are based upon signs of the moon, conjunctions of planets, and other astronomical phenomena which, as far as scientific men can learn, have no appreciable influence upon our atmosphere. Frequently, of course, they hit a snow storm or cold wave in winter and thunder and wind storms in the summer, as all are liable to occur in their respective seasons, but to predict the nature of the weather more than three days is not possible by the National Weather Bureau, even with constant connection with hundreds of observing stations in all parts of the continent. All forecasts sent out by the Weather Bureau are based upon actual conditions at the time, but the unexpected often happens to upset what seems likely to occur. Low-Down Rack for Corn. Whoever raises sorghum for any purpose but grazing and cuts corn stalks whole will need a low-down rack for this sort of work. No job on LOW-DOWN RACK. the ordinary farm is more laborious than cutting and handling this kind of forage and anything that facilitates the lifting and loading is a good thing to have. It saves both time and muscle, for both corn stalks and sorghum, and especially the latter, are very heavy to lift and load on a high rack. In the absence of a "low-down" wagon, a rack like the accompanying illustration will be found to be a great help. Production of Hogs. There is little danger of an overproduction of hogs. The difficulty is to get enough of them. Curtailing the production will not send up the price correspondingly, as people will pay only just about so much for any one kind of meat, and then will turn to something else. There should be millions more hogs produced every year than are. With an animal as prolifile as the hog there is no reason why the supply should not be adequate to meet the demand. It is doubtful if the farmer can raise any animal that is more profitable than the hog. Farm Notes. Poor food for the cow and poor treatment effect the milk supply. Cows in the stable can be protected from flies; nets and screens are both used. Sponge off the horse thoroughly and dry him well before putting him in his stall. New York City consumes on an average about 35,000 sheep and lambs weekly. Do not use any preservative to prevent milk from souring; keep it cool and clean. Pick tomatoes as soon as they begin to turn color and spread them out under glass. This will help them to ripen quickly. Pull up onions as soon as the bulbs are well formed and leave them on the ground until cured. Then spread them thinly under cover until wanted. Try five or six moth balls in each nest, but be careful that they do not touch the eggs. Persian insect powder scattered under the hay helps much. Keep outside leaves of grape vines cut off, also weak shoots. This will let the sun ripen the grapes and throw the strength of the vine into the fruit instead of the foliage. HOUSEHOLD DEPARTMENT For a small pudding use one quart of raspberries, half a cupful of tapioca, half a cupful of sugar, half a teaspoonful of salt, one tablespoonful of lemon juice, and one cupful and a half of cold water. Measure the tapioca and turn it on the molding board. Crush it as fine as possible with the rolling-pin. Now wash it, and soak it in the cupful and a half of cold water for three hours or longer—better over night, if there be time. Put the soaked tapioca in a double boiler and cook it until it is perfectly clear. If it has been soaked over night it will cook in half an hour, but if soaked for only three hours it will require cooking for an hour and a half. When the tapioca is clear, add the sugar, salt and lemon; then take the dish from the fire and stir in the raspberries. Rinse a bowl with cold water and pour the pudding into it. Set away to cool. At serving time turn out the pudding on a flat dish and surround it with whipped cream; or it may be served with plain cream. Economical Cooking. Shall we have to go to the army to learn how to cook food cheaply? Experiments are being made by the Commissary Department of our army in what is called fireless cooking. Food is put over the fire and boiled a few minutes, then, while still boiling, the kettle is placed inside of a box that is made with double walls and the space between the walls filled with powdered cork, or even with hay. This keeps the heat in, as the walls of the refrigerator keep heat out. After one or two hours, meat, beans, rice and other foods were taken out perfectly cooked, though some experience is needed to know just how long it requires to cook them well, but there is little danger of food burning, if left in too long. What a boon one of these fireless stoves would be to a farmer's wife with temperature up to 100 degrees in the shade. The present system of canning has made it almost unnecessary for the housekeeper to study methods, since it is cheaper to buy, above all, if it can be done in quantities at wholesale rates, than to spend time in preparation. But in remote districts where buying is hardly practicable, string beans may be treated in two ways. They can be cooked thoroughly, but without any seasoning, and canned in glass or tin, being careful to the utmost in admitting no air, as vegetables are more difficult to keep well than fruits. The second method is to put a layer of beans in a deep stone pot and then a layer of salt, adding day by day till the jar is full. Cover closely, and when to be used, soak over night like dried beans, in order to remove the salt. Roasted Ducklings. Clean the birds thoroughly, put into each one an onion and apple cut in halves, dredge with flour, salt and pepper, and roast about twenty minutes, according to size. Baste from time to time with melted butter. Take out the birds when done. Into the pan in which they were roasted pour a little stock, thicken this with browned flour, add a dozen olives chopped and serve as a sauce for the ducklings. By the way, remove from the ducks the onions and apples, which are to be used for the purpose only of imparting a little flavor to the birds, and of absorbing, if need be, any strong flavor of the ducks. Haricot of Ox Tail. Divide an ox tail into pieces about three inches long, dip them in seasoned flour and fry in hot fat until brown. Drain them and put them into a stewpan with a sliced and fried onion and a pint of hot stock. Bring to the boll and then add a turnip and a carrot cut into small dice. Simmer the whole very gently for two hours, then lay the pieces of ox tail round a hot dish, put the vegetables in the center, and strain the thickened gravy over. Bohemian Cream. One quart of cream, two tablespoonfuls of sugar, one ounce of gelatine, dissolved. Whip half the cream to a stiff froth. Boll the other half with the sugar. Remove from the fire, add the gelatine, and when cooled a little the beaten yolks of five eggs. Beat until it begins to stiffen, then beat in quickly the whipped cream. Pour into wet molds and set on ice. Salmon Fonda. Stir together one cupful of minced canned salmon, one cupful of rolled crackers, three eggs, the yolks and whites first beaten separately, and one cup of milk. Whip this mixture steadily for five minutes. then turn into a pudding dish and bake for twenty minutes in a hot oven. Cream Biscuits. One quart and a half best flour, one pint sour creahm, two tablespoonfuls white sugar, one scant teaspoonful soda, one-half teaspoonful salt, one scant cup half lard, or fresh butter, mixed soft, knead lightly and bake quickly. Delicious Fritters. One quart of water, butter the size of an egg, boil a few moments, stir in flour to make it as thick as mashed potatoes, pour this into a bowl and beat six eggs into it—one at a time, add salt and nutmeg, then fry in hot lard. WANTED 500 FAMILIES TO COME WEST To Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North and South Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Washington and Wyomg. By reading the Wisconsin Weekly Advocate you will find all the information needed. Our paper has the largest circulation of any Negro Journal in the West. Address WISCONSIN WEEKLY ADVOCATE 729 St. Paul Ave. Mi waukee, Wis. 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Special trips 35c. We Also Handle All Kinds of HARD AND SOFT COAL Sold by the Ton or Basket. JOS. POLACHECK, Prop. Suits to Order $15.00 Leaders for This Week UNCALLED FOR SUITS AT HALF PRICE. WE CONTINUE TO WARN THE BENEVOLENT PUBLIC AGAINST THE NUMEROUS BEGGARS FOR ALLEGED CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS IN BEHALF OF THE NEGRO RACE. LOOK WELL TO THE CREDENTIALS OF SUCH MENDICANTS AND INQUIRE OF SOME REPUTABLE NEGRO CITIZEN REGARDING THE TRUTHFULNESS OF THEIR STATEMENTS. IN PRAISE OF — When beefsteaks rare to cereals yield And vegetarians muster. Seeking the first fruits of the field, The market place, they duster. The rose, we're told by one who knew, Would shed its fragrance sweetly, And charm our senses, should we change Its cognomen completely. Does this apply to things we eat, For white folks or mulattoes? If so, we'll eat—and never filch— Raw, stewed or baked tomatoes. —Philadelphia Record. THE LADY OF THE IRIS. Oh, purple flowers, for delight. And white flowers for delight. They're rooted flowers in daylight hours, But mortal malds by night. And fair are they by night or day, And slim and tall they stand; But they rob the rest from an Indian's breast, And the strength from an Indian's hand. "But do not sing of them, my husband," pleaded Juana, as she and her newly-taken husband went out together from the little village in the least-known part of Yucatan, where they had both been bred and born. "Do not sing of them, my heart, lest she hear and heed, and make a song of thee. Nay, do not cast my hand away, Luis * * * even the padres say that the Lady of the Iris has a long arm and long ears." "Oh! but that is not so, mi alma," said a laughing voice, as a young Indian girl came out from the last hut in the village and fell into step beside Juana, "for my father saw her, and said that she was fair to see, straight and slim as a rush, with yellow hair, and eyes purple as her darkest iris flower. Have you ever seen her, friend?" "No," said Luis shortly. "Maybe you will see her, if you desire it. Do you, amigo?" "No—no!" Juana said hurriedly. "No, indeed, we desire no such thing. We go to a new life in the village of Todos, where my husband's brother is head man." "But I do desire to see the Lady of the Iris," Luis said, holding his wife's hand closely in his strong brown fingers. "And I think that I have met her, Matshi Skoneon!" The Indian girl looked at him and laughed softly. "Oh, but you are bold, Luis, son of Luis," she said. "How did you guess that I was the Lady of the Iris?" "I saw a devil looking out of your eyes, Matshi Skoneon," Luis answered frankly, "and so I knew. Hush, my heart!" as Juana stopped short, sobbing and trembling, and entreating him to turn back. "Hush! I ran my races, and trained my arms, and wedded thee for this thing alone, Juana; that I might lift from my people the curse of the Iris-woman." "Ah! but am I not fair to see * * * fairer than your Juana, Luis? Look at me now." The Lady of the Iris walked on his right now, and her semblance had changed from that of a young Indian girl to the appearance of a tall, slim white woman, with long, loose yellow hair, half hiding her naked bosom, and deep, blue eyes gleaming mischievously under a loose wreath of flag-flowers. "And you are beautiful, yes!" Luis said resolutely. "But I have come here to slay you, Matshi Skoneon." "You must walk far, then," the Lady of the Iris said, with a wicked smile, "for my home is in the middle of the marshes." "I have come prepared to walk far," Luis answered her quietly. "My feet are strong, Matshi Skoneon, and you will not tire me out." So they went on, by tangled paths and wet passes, where the thorns were thick along the way, and scarlet fungi grew on the great trees, and still the Lady of the Iris and Luis walked shoulder to shoulder. The way was long, and the path was rough and thorny, but the Indian patience is endless, and when Juana's feet gave out Luis carried her; and presently, when the stars were out, there came to Luis' weary eyes the gleam of wet marshes and the glitter of many wandering lights—possibly lost souls of the witch's many victims. "Here is my house," the Lady of the Iris said, "and you are welcome. I must go and see how my children the irises have done without me these four days." Husband and wife waited in silence till she had been gone some minutes, then Luis lifted his half-fainting wife from the ground and kissed her on lips and forehead with grave, gentle kisses that had in them something of farewell. "You shall rock no child of mine, Juana," he said, softly; "and I shall not see you wither, and then have to take to myself a younger wife, as I might have done. Now listen, and swear to me that you will obey me, Juana—no, not by San Domingo or Santa Maria; you shall swear by the devil who is Matshi Skoneon's master." "I swear by El Diablo," Juana muttered, "that I will obey you, my husband; and"—crossing herself hastily—"may San Domingo stand between me and my oath. What am I to do? Luis, you will not send me from you?" "She will think that you have gone back the way we come," Luis answered, "but you shall lie hid in those thornbushes yonder and watch, Juana, and hold your peace, if you love me." "And see her kill you, Luis, as she has killed others?" "Why not, Juana? Now, see, I am your husband," Luis whispered rapidly, "and you must obey me. Stay there and watch, Juana, and when she falls a-weeping, go back to the village and bring the medicine men—not the padre, Juana; and then—they will know the rest—they will know what to do." He put out both hands and pushed her away from him. "She is coming back; you must go, Juana. You are not to come to me; you are to wait and watch—and then—" Juana bent her head silently and crept back to her hiding place in the low thorn bushes. She did not look at first, but listened; then her curiosity grew too strong for her prudence, and in spite of pricked fingers she made a little peephole among the thorns and looked cautiously through. The witch's fire was burning very low now, but there was still light enough to see the fair witch herself, seated on the ground, with her slim hands twined among her long, loose vel- low hair, and Luis lying at her feet like one crucified, with outstretched arms on which the great muscles stood out knotted with pain, and a face drawn and changed out of all youth and comeliness, with half-closed eyes and set lips. "Why will you not cry out?" the Lady of the Iris was asking, as Juana bent forward, looking at her with horror-stricken eyes. "Are you stronger, then, than my master? And stronger than me? For I took the peons, Juanito and Teodor, and I tortured them; and because my master heard them crying he was pleased with me. Cry out; and then I will let you die Luis." Luis shook his head, but no words passed his lips, and the Lady of the Iris bent over him again, entreating and ca joling. "Oh! but cry out—cry out," pleaded the witch, with a glimmer of tears in her large. eyes. "For unless you cry my master will not hear me—and then he will be very wroth. Oh! cry out, man, until your wife hears you, and then she will come, and I shall have two." "You shall have but one," Luis said, unclosing his lips for the first time, "so be contented with what you have. Woman of the Iris." "Cry out—cry out," she entreated again, "and I will let you go free, Luis, son of Luis. Are not your wife's lips warm and her arms kind? Cry out, and you shall go back to them." "I put no faith in you, Matshi Skoneon," Luis said sharply, "and you shall have no more words from me, good or bad." The Woman of the Iris settled herself in her former crouching position, with her beautiful eyes fixed on the man lying at her feet. "I never harmed you, and I will bid the pain cease if you do but obey me, man! Oh! who has made your heart so strong against me? Ay de mi! ay de mi!" She was weeping now, and without an instant's delay Juana leaped to her feet and crept away. Beyond the shelter of the thorn hedge she took to running, and soon the marshes were behind her and the cleared path before, and still she ran on desperately, conscious only that Luis had bidden her bring her kinsmen to take his enemy alive. So before the dawn was red in the tops of the forest trees Juana was in the village street, panting out her message; and when the party of avengers set out she went with them, guiding them to the iris marshes with feet that never once faltered for doubt or fear. Soon the beds of irises came in sight, and the black quaking marshes, where so many little children and young lovers had been brought to die. And there, by the dead fire, lay Luis, and his dead lips were smiling; and beside him crouched the Lady of the Iris, moaning, moaning. So they kindled the fire again, and fed it with dry thorns, and they tied the witch hand and foot and threw her into it to burn, and she shriveled up into the likeness of a withered flag flower. But Juana fell upon her husband and kissed him desperately; and before they laid him in his grave, so kissed him all the women of the villages of Alle and Aga, for had he not saved their husbands and lovers to them, and stopped the deadly mischief wrought by Matshi Skoneon?--Nora Hopper in Illustrated Bits. The Doll Fair. A dolls' fair is always of the greatest interest to children, but it may be no less charming to grown people if it is skillfully planned. Indeed, it may be more than a mere fair, and an admission fee may be charged that all may come in, at least to see what it is like. Bootis should be made to represent the different rooms in a doll's house, and those who serve in them may be dressed to represent dolls. The first booth may be the kitchen, rung around with saucepans, pots and kettles, with a small range and kitchen table at the back. The dining room booth is managed by some one dressed as a waitress doll, and about the family table is seated a group of dolls from father and mother to the baby. All the doll furniture and the paperi-mache food on the table may be for sale as well as the dolls. The third room, the parlor, has sofas, tables and chairs, and here are the most fashionable dolls, men, women and most beautiful young-lady dolls. Beyond this may be the nursery with baby dolls being bathed, dressed and fed, with the cradles, high chairs, nurse dolls and furniture for sale; and last there may be the sick room, with white enameled beds and cribs and lovely trained-nurse dolls. Besides these rooms, there may be booths with doll tableaus; a wedding, of course; a football game with players in appropriate costume; a golf field with players and caddies using or carrying scarf-pin sticks; and tourist parties of dolls with suit cases and shawl straps.—Harper's Bazar. Flywheel Insurance Only one company issues flywheel insurance, because only one man can write it. He is monarch of all his inspectors survey; his right there is none to dispute. Two years ago he was a professor in a small engineering college with some theories and figures of his own about flywheels. His success is largely due to his own formula, for flywheel insurance is almost pure mathematics. When a wheel is revolved at a high enough speed the centrifugal force exceeds the centripetal and the wheel flies apart. Solid cast iron explodes when the speed at the rim is, roughly, three miles a minute. A thick rim explodes just as easily as a thin one of the same material. Wood explodes at a greater speed, jointed iron at a less. The underwriter allows a rim speed of a mile a minute, one-third the explosion rate, as a safe limit for solid iron wheels. This permits a two-foot pulley wheel sixteen revolutions a second, while it keeps a sixteen-foot fly-wheel down to two. A jointed wheel is allowed still less. The underwriter has only to name the number of revolutions he authorizes, and to proportion his premium to the size of the wheel. The larger the wheel, of course, the more destructive its explosion. Tax Citizens' Physical Weight. A small French town in the Pyrenees district has struck a novel way to increase revenue from taxation. The ordinary channels not bringing enough to carry out certain projected improvements, the municipal council decided to place a tax on the physical weight of the citizens, arranging the following scheme: Below 130 pounds, no tax; from 130 to 200 pounds, $3 annually is demanded; from 200 to 270 pounds, $6; for all weights above this figure the tax increases at the rate of $6 for each twenty pounds. Trouble came when the authorities tried to collect the tribute. Most of the fat people formed a committee to appeal to the prefect, who represents the federal authority in the district. Thus a stay was gained. But it appears probable that the town could put into execution the new law. A PALACE SLEEPING CAR Have you loitered in the smoking room Of a palace sleeping car, Keeping tab upon the water tank As you smoke your last cigar? Have you observed the tumbler? Has it occurred to you The many different uses That people put it to? Here's a fellow with a colli- His face is pale and drawn— Pours paregoric in it And bids his pain begone. Next comes a billious drummer, Who at the tumbler halts And fills the vessel blithely With a slug of epsom salts. He's followed by a person With the customary whim That a seidlitz powder nightly Is just the thing for him, And on his heels comes some one Who fancies something hot And takes a swig of Radway To touch the chilly spot. One takes a morphine tablet, Which the tumbler has to drown, And another drinks a bumper To help a blue pill down. One mixes up a gargle And one a lemon squash; Another gives his mouth a bath And thep his teeth a wash. You may talk of golden beakers; You may boast of pewter mugs; You may chortle over tankards And rave of silver jugs, But there's not a drinking vessel In restaurant or bar That's in it with the tumbler Of a palace sleeping car! —Detroit Journal. New York Every Day. J. M. Riddle, recently appointed United States minister to Roumania and Servia, sailed for Bremen on the steamship Kronprinz Wilhelm. A carrier pigeon was found nesting on the roof of the New Netherland hotel in Fifth avenue. The nest, made of dry twigs, contained two eggs. Mother bird and eggs were taken to the Central park menagerie, where Director Smith made a place for the newcomer in the big flying cage. Since the first of the year permits for buildings representing a total of $158,706,000 have been filed in Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx. Alterations aggregate $13,826,000. In the corresponding period of last year permits represented a valuation of $88,126,000 and alterations $11,014,000. This year beats all previous records in the building line. During a Wagner concert at the Cafe Bellevue, Marienbad, Bohemia, recently, Mrs. Potter Palmer of Chicago drank coffee with King Edward. The royal party occupied seats at a specially reserved table. Those in the party, which numbered twelve, were all personal friends of his majesty. Mrs. Palmer, in the next few days, it is rumored, will entertain the King at dinner. 一 Mrs. William Redmond, formerly a well-known actres, is dead at her home in Piermont, N. Y., from a complication of diseases. She was better known by her stage name, Mrs. Thomas Barry. Mrs. Redmond for many years was connected with the Boston theater. She was born in England and came to America in 1854. She was the leading woman of the Globe theater in Boston when it burned in 1873. Through the instrumentality of Robert J. Collier, a publisher, the birthplace of Abraham Lincoln is to be preserved and restored. He is the party who purchased the property at public auction at Hodgensville, Ky., for $3600. "I have not as yet decided," said Mr. Collier today, "what will be done with the property. It coexists of 110 acres of farming land, and on it is the house practically as it was when Lincoln was born. Announcement is made of the engagement of August Belmont, Jr., and Miss Alice de Goicouria. The date of the marriage has not been fixed, but it is understood it will take place late in the autumn. Miss de Goicouria is descended from one of the Spanish families which first settled Cuba. She is 20 years old, an accomplished musician, expert tennis player, and one of the finest women whips in this part of the country. She is the daughter of Elbert V. de Goicouria. Theodore Wallace Todd, for more than fifty years head of what is said to be the oldest business establishment in New York city, is dead. He was 80 years old and the firm of which he was the head until he retired five years ago was established prior to 1790. Mr. Todd belonged to one of the oldest New York families. His people have been prominent in the social, business and religious life of the city for two centuries. Among his numerous surviving relatives is President Roosevelt. A strange ailment, for which a physician could find no cause nor remedy for Herbert Sutherland of Cabin Hill, N. Y., nearly cost the man his life, when, as a last resort, an operation was performed. The cause was a hen feather, which had been traveling around through the glands of the neck. The feather was an inch long and evidently had entered the glands through the mouth. Abcesses formed which weakened the patient. The operation disclosed the feather deep in the flesh. Seven prominent financiers and business men of New York city have joined in the novel undertaking of building a clubhouse exclusively for themselves and their families. This club is to be called the Home club and to be erected on three city lots at 11 to 15 East Forty-fifth street, the whole property to represent an investment of $900,000. The Home club is a close stock corporation. The president and treasurer is Wilbur C. Fisk of the banking firm of Harvey Fisk & Sons. The names of his six associates have not been revealed. It would appear from a canvass of 1000 churches of New York city that the spiritual needs of the 1000 congregations are not so pressing in summer as during other seasons of the year. Of these 1000 avowed enemies of Satan 700 are on vacation, leaving the care of their flocks to subordinates or closing up their churches. Fifty-three churches are closed tight, and will not open until the ministers of them return. There are 424 churches in which the services that conduce to spiritual growth are cut in twain and only one is given each Sunday, the congregations choosing to worry along on half spiritual rations during the summer months. Miss Myra Kelly, the author of the "Little Citizens" stories on east side life, was married at the Marble Collegiate church to Allan MacNaughton, president of the Standard Coach Horse company of Teaneck, N. J. The couple, it is said, decided suddenly to wed, and only a few friends and immediate members of the families attended the ceremony. Immediately after the marriage ceremony the bride and bridegroom were driven to Cedar Ridge. Mrs. MacNaughton intends to go ahead with her literary work, using her maiden name. The couple were reported to have been married recently, but this was denied. Mrs. Mary B. Portwood, widow of Dr. Robert L. Portwood, an army surgeon, telephoned to the Bellevue hospital, New York city, that she had read that "Mary Hall" was a patient there, suffering from tetanus, and that she had an almost certain cure, which she wished the doctors would try. When asked to describe her cure she said: "Put twelve large cockroaches in a teacup, add a pinch of salt and cover with boiling water. In a few minutes there will appear a milky substance, which is to be forced down the throat of the patient, a teaspoonful every fifteen minutes, until the jaws become relaxed. I assure you," she added, "this remedy has been tried many times with success." An investigation which the district attorney of New York has in hand promises to show up a series of marriage brokerage places on the east side, where professional bigamists are employed to inveigle young girls into marriage contracts for the purpose of defrauding them out of their savings. The matter was brought to the attention of the district attorney's office through the complaint of a pretty young Hungarian girl, Celia Speilberger, who told an interesting story of her unfortunate marital experiences. The girl paid $500 and was married to a saloon keeper reputed to be worth $10,000. The husband disappeared after three days. Investigation shows he had half a dozen wives. Birds, horses and other animals, including Dick, the goose; his chum Phoebe, the educated pig, and Tubby, a trained Connecticut turkey, all of which are to appear at the Hippodrome, New York city, have been insured for $100.,000 by a New York agency. The premiums were paid by the dozen foreign horsemen and horsewomen whose steeds come from the royal stables of various European capitals and will be seen for the first time on any American stage when they exhibit at the Hippodrome. Clyde W. Powers insured Dick, the famous goose, which made such a hit last season at the Hippodrome, for $2000. Phoebe, the pig, was insured for $300 and the bronze Connecticut turkey, Tubby, for $200. The horses insured number about fifty and every one of them is a thoroughbred. Angered by their arrest four Orthodox Jews turned the Mount Vernon police station, New York city, into a synagogue and annoyed the members of the department to such an extent that men who were asleep in the dormitories were compelled to go home to rest. The Jewish prayers and hymns so unnerved Chief Foley that he took a carriage ride to get away from the noise. It was not until the prisoners fell asleep that the turmoil subsided. The Jews were plastering a house when arrested, charged with a violation of the Sunday law. They tried to bribe the policeman by offering a dollar for their freedom. When the prisoners learned they would have to remain in jail for a day they immediately started to annoy the department with their prayers and singing, and all efforts to stop them were in vain. Adolph Finkelstein, a peddler, when arraigned in the west side court revealed the fact that he rarely makes more than 35 cents a day, averaging $8 a month, though he is the master of thirteen languages. The man could speak only a little English, but when Interpreter Spielberg began to question him he found him to be an astonishing linguist. He told the court that he spoke French, Italian, German, Russian, Roumanian, Turkish, Hungarian and five other languages with fluency. This so impressed Magistrate Cornell that he dismissed the technical complaint of not having a license and gave Finkelstein a letter to an educational society asking that employment be given him. The court said: "This man is an astonishing linguist and it seems to me to be on outrage that he is able to earn only 35 cents a day. I will do what I can to see that he puts his linguistic ability to some more profitable use than peddling. At the present rate of progress in the work of improvement it is expected that three months will see the Grand Central station, New York city, razed and work begun on the magnificent structure which is to replace the only railway terminal at present existing on Manhattan island. Only the non-completion of the temporary offices for the railroad company prevents the work of tearing down the old structure at once. Work on the improvements has gone as far as it can go without entering the station or causing an interruption of the train service. Where two years ago stood several hundred houses, in the section beside the tracks between Forty-fourth and Forty-ninth streets, today is an excavation quite extensive in itself, but only a fraction of the great hole that will be made in the nineteen square blocks which the terminal will cover. The plans of the railroad company call for the expenditure of $25,000,000 on the improvements. When the Cunarder Umbria, from Liverpool, docked at New York city on her last trip the officers reported that on the second day a giant sea had curled over the liner forward, striking three seamen, probably fatally injuring one of them, and doing more or les damage to the starboard side of the ship. At the time more than half the passengers were on deck. Robert Slade, the seaman most dangerously injured, was on the forward hatch. The wave struck the liner squarely on the forward quarter, and Slade was unable to get away quick enough. He received the full force of the comber. Slade was swept across the deck and rendered unconscious, and when the Umbria reached port Slade was still unconscious. He had no broken bones, but seemed to be paralyzed. He was sent to St. Vincent's hospital. One of the passengers on deck when the comber came aboard was Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, former chancellor of the exchequer, chief secretary for Ireland, and colonial secretary. He is on the way to the far east. He was not injured. Simon Lake, the inventor of the submarine boat that was not accepted by the government, arrived in New York city from Antwerp, much displeased with the attitude of his fellow Americans toward the Lake boat. He had been abroad six months and announced as he landed that just as soon as he can settle up his affairs he would expatriate himself and become a resident if not a citizen of Germany. He declared he would open an office in Berlin without American connection, and would build submarines capable of remaining under water forty-eight hours without endangering the lives of the crew. Lake said he had secured many fine contracts on the strength of the performance of his boat. He declined to tell what governments had ordered his boats, but permitted the inference that Russia was one. Lake intimated that Germany, Spain, France and Italy were more alive to the value of the submarine than the other nations. He seemed to regret that this government had not given him what he called a fair chance to demonstrate the efficiency of his boat. George J. Gould, his wife and three children arrived in New York on the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse after a tour of Europe. Mrs. Gould had to be carried from the vessel to the pier in an invalid chair. She is suffering from the effects of an attack made by peasants on an automobile in which she and her husband were riding in Italy. She was unable to leave her invalid chair during the voyage. "My wife is suffering from a slight abscess, but more from shock," said Mr. Gould. "She was badly frightened in the attack of those peasants. "I consider myself fortunate that the injury to my wife was no worse than it is. We might have all been killed. I am more than glad to get back to the United States, for certainly a country where the people are in such a state of savagery as to attack persons just because they are riding in a vehicle they don't like is no place for an American. "I complained to the Italian government of the incident, but could get no satisfaction. The government apparently took no notice of my complaint. The assault on our automobile was altogether uncalled for and totally without excuse." THE GIRL WITH NOTHING TO DO. To Be Busy in Life Is Far Better. "The old order changes," and no better proof of this can be found than the present symposium, in a magazine devoted to charity, as to the problem of the well-to-do unemployed young girls. George Eliot speaks somewhere of "the perishing upper classes," and it is in this spirit that the writers of the various essays approach the well educated young woman, living at home, going out in society, and well supplied with pocket money, novels, open air exercise and other luxuries. It might be supposed that such a young girl is frankly enviable. But it appears that the young girl knows better, and that her case is one of peculiar hardship, owing to the total lack of sympathy in the community for her problems, and the total absence of provision for her needs. For consider what such a healthy, energetic, educated, capable young woman is expected to do with herself in the five or ten years that elapse between her graduation from school or college and her probable marriage. If her mother is in good health, there is no housekeeping opening for her energies. She can pay calls, keep up her accomplishments, read, exercise and go to social functions. Of definite, systematic activity, with tangible results, she has none. And as it is in the very air of America to do something and be something, she becomes restless and discontented. Her parents truly express it when they say, "Ethel needs to be taken out of herself," but neither they nor Ethel knows how to administer this vague prescription. A rush to a social settlement, an unsuitable "career," or even a mistaken marriage often closes the chapter. Certainly, Ethel is an object of charity, in the sense of pitying desire to help. The remedy, as agreed upon by the symposium, is systematic social service. Why should these young capacities go utterly to waste? Why not utilize these real forces in needed work for the community? One suggests normal courses of training in nursing, teaching, philanthropic work, and so on, for a definite short period, so that the girl can give her best activities for immediate use. Another believes in kindergarten and nursery classes, gymnastics, library work among the poor, stamp savings banks; and a third advocates home hygiene and household economics, applied both at home and among the tenements. A fourth believes that every girl should take this chance, in the free years of her youth, to learn a trade thoroughly, whether it be cooking, stenography, dressmaking, or what not, the only point being that "she shall delve and not dabble." In all cases, the writers maintain (and the majority of them are married women) the girl, by becoming a happier member of society—for "sensations pall with repetition, while all activities augment their joy,"—will be both more companionable and cheerful at home, and more likely to marry acceptably. Her service is not to be paid for, and not to take her away from her home, of course. Whether we agree with its possibilities or not, it is certainly an interesting discussion of a modern girl's problems. The theories advanced are not new, but there can be no difference of opinion as to their timeliness. And one thing is very certain: The girl who is busy—healthfully, pleasantly busy—is far more happy than the one who "has nothing to do but kill time." Why He Changed His Mind. "In understand old Closefist has bought an automobile." "Why, I heard him say he would not give his carriage and horses for all the autos in Texas." "Yes, but his wife prevailed on him to get the auto." "Why so?" "Well, she found out that her daughter intended to marry the coachman." "Well." "Well, she thought it would be disgraceful for her to marry the coachman, so she concluded to get an automobile and save the family from social ostracism by having the coachman become a chauffeur."—Dallas News. Many Accidents Do Not Kill. Henry Shafer of Eldora, Ia., for the second time in his life, was struck by lightning, but is alive and will recover. When a boy he barely escaped drowning as a coal miner, has figured in two mine cave-ins, was picked up for dead here one Fourth of July by the premature discharge of a cannon, losing an arm, an eye, and two fingers, has been in two runaways, and last fall fell from the top of a 50-foot cliff. Still he lives, supports a large family, and works as hard as any man in Iowa. Adventure of King Alphonso King Alfonso has just had a curious adventure at Madrid. He left Granja incognito. He guarded his identity so strictly that no one suspected his presence and when he presented himself at the royal palace the sentry refused him admittance. The King inspected the apartments being prepared for President Loubet and then sent a summons to the astonished ministers to come and hold a council. Cow Chews Up Money. Ike Austin while driving cows to a slaughter house at Traverse City, Mich., dropped his pocketbook containing $70 in fives, twos and one dollar bills. A cow immediately devoured the green-backs. Austin killed her, opened the stomach and secured the money, which was chewed into a tight little wad, only a few dollar signs showing. He will send the bills to Washington in an endeavor to recover part of their value. Almost Perish in Mountains Josephine Hudson, aged 15, and Percival Hudson, aged 12, nearly perished in an attempt to reach the summit of Pike's peak from Manitou. They were lost in a blinding snowstorm and were almost frozen to death when discovered by Charles Hunt, a tourist from Garnett, Kan. FOREST PYGMIES. Most Curious Tribe Ever Discovered Found in the Congo. Col. J. J. Harrison, who has just returned to London after a four months' expedition to the Congo forest, has received permission from the British foreign office to ship for England six of the pygmy denizens of the forest who have accompanied him of their own free will and with the permission of the Congo government as far as Cairo. Naturally, the adventurous explorer did not get into touch with this curious tribe without some interesting experiences, which he has related as follows: When once I had gained their confidence they were quite friendly, and eventually six of them—four men and two women—volunteered to come with me to England. They freely conducted me to their villages, and at night time erected leafy structures, under which I slept. They are of an extremely low order of intelligence, and know absolutely nothing of what goes on around them. They seem to have no religious instincts and possess no idea of a Supreme Being. Their average height is from 4 feet to 4 feet $3\frac{1}{2}$ inches, and, curiously enough as a rule the women are taller than the men. The women have also better physical development. The men seemed to me to be starved to death. A noteworthy fact was the prevalence of a terrible cough, due, perhaps, to the dampness of the atmosphere. All the pygmies alike suffered from this to such a degree that it was difficult to sleep at night. I had quite expected to find that serious lung trouble was prevalent, but was surprised to discover, as a result of medical examination of the pygmies who accompanied me back to Egypt, that the lungs were quite healthy. A striking characteristic of the people is their extraordinary silence; they will sit for hours without uttering a word. They are nomadic, and their only wealth is in spears. The number of spears determines the number of wives these people can afford. They are practically nude. The womens' only clothes is a few leaves, while the men's attire consists of a scrap of skin around the waist. Their whole personal belongings consist of a poisoned spear or two and an old clay cooking pot. The women carry their infants slung across their sides. They are fearless hunters, and will boldly attack an elephant by rushing up to it and planting a poisoned spear in the brute. They are also a very warlike little people, and only a short while before my arrival in the forest they had sallied out, attacked and looted a Belgian caravan and killed seventeen porters. There were no white men with the caravan, and the native soldiers bolted. They eat like animals, even gnawing the bones of their prey. When an animal is caught they cut it up, skin and all, and put it in the cooking pot. Life in the forest is dreary in the extreme. It is always twilight, the sun never penetrating through the dense foliage, and for nine months of the year it pours with rain.—Africa. Patriotic Theft. In Paris the police have discovered a woman who has exhibited a peculiar sort of patriotism. She was arrested recently for having robbed a German merchant of £68. To the magistrate she made a strange declaration. She said that her main object in life was to decoy Germans and to rob them. She went about with them to cafes and music halls, and while affecting to be very interested in them she picked their pockets. In this way she had annexed for several years past over £700. She had picked the pockets of exactly sixty-seven Germans, and she was proud of it. As her reason for thus acting the woman said that in 1870 her family in Normandy had been completely ruined by the German invaders, who stole her father's cattle, pigs, fowls and even plate. She was then obliged to go out as a dairymaid, but not being accustomed to servitude she came to Paris and began waylaying and robbing Germans. The magistrate listened to this tale calmly. It made no impression on him.—London Telegraph. Rabbit Skin Blankets. "I don't suppose that many of the Post's readers ever slept under blankets made of rabbit skins, but that's an experience I recently had during a pleasant sojourn in the Canadian woods," said T. R. Mersey of Cleveland, at the Arlington "These skins, which make a delightful covering, are very light, and as warm as the heaviest woolen blankets. These blankets are made by the Indians. The peltry is cut into strips about one-half an inch wide, woven squarely, and apparently tied at each crossing. The fabric is very delicate, and you can poke a finger through the interstices. The prevailing color is white, with delicate brown shadings, and the price is $12, which is very reasonable. In fact, but for one defect the cost would be several times that figure—the trouble is that the white hairs will come out, and so to use these beautiful articles they must be covered with silk on both sides."—Washington Post. Roosters Must Lot Crow. Roosters are forbidden to crow, dogs to bark, bells to be toled and engines to toot their whistles in the suburb of Mount Vernon, N. Y., between 10 o'clock at night and 6 o'clock in the morning according to decision reached recently at a meeting of the board of health. The ban was placed on these so-called nuisances the other day and now owners of indiscreet fowls and restless watchdogs will be subject to fines ranging from $5 to $50. It is said that the ordinance is aimed at two railroads which handle all of their freight to Mount Vernon at night. These roads bring most of their freight into the city between 1 and 4 o'clock in the morning. Aside from the corporations, however, the new regulation reaches nearly every resident as the majority of them possess either a dog or a chicken and most of them have both. Big Shark Is Captured. A big man-eating shark was brought to shore at Cos Cob, Conn., by Judge George W. Brush. It was towed behind his catboat. The shark was nine feet long and had a double row of teeth. It weighed 400 pounds. A party of Stamford fishermen reported being chased by a shark near the Stamford Yacht clubhouse, and the description of it tallies with the one caught by Judge Brush. In some manner it became entangled in a fisherman's net, and was knocked insensible by blows with anchors and boathooks. The spot where it was caught was directly off E. C. Benedict's private bathing beach at Indian harbor, and the commodore's family are congratulating themselves that the shark did not get further inshore. A $500 Pair of Scissors. The German Emperor not long back received a peculiar present—a pair of scissors, but so exquisitely made as to be valued at nearly $500. A steel merchant was the donor. He had the Emperor's portrait and some celebrated historical buildings engraved upon the scissors. The engraver is said to have worked five years at his task. FEVER'S AFTER EFFECTS Did Not Disappear Until the Blood Was Renewed by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. Typhoid fever is sometimes called nerv vous fever. During the course of the fever the nerves are always profoundly disturbed, and when it is over they are left so sensitive that the patient has to be guarded against all excitement. In the tonic treatment then demanded, regard must be paid not only to building up flesh but also to strengthening the nerves. A remedy that will do both, make sound flesh to repair waste and give new vigor to feeble nerves, is the most convenient and economical. Such a remedy is Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People. One proof of this the experience of Mr. Charles Worth, of East Vassalboro, Maine. He says: "I had a severe attack of typhoid fever late in the fall which left me very weak and debilitated. My heart palpitated, my breathing became difficult after the least exertion and there was numbness in both hands. I suffered in that way for fully six months. As I did not grow out of it, did not in fact see the slightest improvement as time passed, I decided to use Dr. Williams' Pink Pills as I knew of some cures they had effected in cases like mine. "Almost as soon as I began taking them I could see decided improvement and after keeping on with them for several weeks I was completely well. I consider Dr. Williams' Pink Pills a most valuable remedy, and I am in the habit of recommending them to others afflicted as I was." When the nerves ache and tremble it means that they are starving. The only way to feed them is through the blood, and the best food is Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. They are absolutely guaranteed to be free from opiates or other harmful drugs. They are sold by all druggists, or may be obtained directly from the Dr. Williams Medicine Co., Scheneotady, N. Y. Priest Holds Up Trains. With folded arms and a look of defiance on his face, Father John Wilms, director for the United States of the Society of the Holy Childhood, held up all the trains on the Pennsylvania lines at Pittsburg, Pa., by standing on the tracks and defying the engineers to run over him. Archbishop Francis Albion Symon, the Polish prelate, who had just arrived there from New York city, was delivering an address to an immense audience in St. Stanislaus Polish Catholic church at the corner of Twenty-first street and the tracks. The trains on the railroad dashed past the church doors every few minutes and it was only with the greatest difficulty that the speaker could be heard at all. Finally Father John was seen to slip from the church. Then passing of the trains ceased and the prelate was able to finish his address without interruption. Ancient Case to Be Heard. An interesting French spoliation case which has been in preparation for a great many years for a hearing will begin in the probate court at Norwalk, Conn., before Judge Henry W. Gregory, when administrators of the estate of next of kin will present their valid claims for indemnity. In 1799 the schooner Washington sailed from Norwalk for a trading cruise in the West Indies, and while on the high seas she was seized by the French cruiser Le Ronominee and condemned as a prize at Bass Terre, Guadaloupe. The schooner was built in Norwalk in 1793 and was owned in equal parts by James Selleck, Eliphalet Lockwood and William Lockwood of this place. It has been decided that her seizure and condemnation was illegal and the heirs of the owners of the vessel and her cargo have been granted redress. Newfoundland Dog Tramps Miles. Stub, a Newfoundland dog belonging to G. H. Henning, of Omaha, Neb., left with friends when the family went for a summer vacation, apparently has tramped some 600 miles, from Omaha to Superior, Wis., in an attempt to find his master and mistress. The dog had been missed from Omaha, and recently the city clerk received a letter from Thomas B. Mills of Superior, saying a dog bearing Omaha tag No. 400 had been there several days. The tag served to identify the dog. Stub was taken to Superior last summer, and it is surmised that when he found himself deserted this year he started for the resort. OUST THE DEMON. A Tussle with Coffee. There is something fairly demoniac in the way coffee sometimes wreaks its fiendish malice on those who use it. A lady writing from California says: "My husband and I, both lovers of coffee, suffered for some time from a very annoying form of nervousness, accompanied by most frightful headaches. In my own case there was eventually developed some sort of affection of the nerves leading from the spine to the head. "I was unable to hold my head up straight, the tension of the nerves drew it to one side, causing me the most intense pain. We got no relief from medicine, and were puzzled as to what caused the trouble, till a friend suggested that possibly the coffee we drank had something to do with it, and advised that we quit it and try Postum Coffee. "We followed his advice, and from the day that we began to use Postum we both began to improve, and in a very short time both of us were entirely relieved. The nerves became steady once more, the headaches ceased, the muscles in the back of my neck relaxed, my head straightened up and the dreadful pain that had so punished me while I used the old kind of coffee vanished. "We have never resumed the use of the old coffee, but relish our Postum every day as well as we did the former beverage. And we are delighted to find that we can give it freely to our children also, something we never dared to do with the old kind of coffee." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Postum Coffee contains absolutely no drugs of any kind, but relieves the coffee drinker from the old drug poison. There's a reason. A VOICE FROM THE SEA I am a whale, and words must fail To tell my deep content That while the blaze of Summer stays I'm in my element. No crowded car takes me afar To seek the breezes free; I need no boat when I would float Upon the bounding sea. On bathing styles I spend no whiles To follow Fashion's whim, Nor recks it yet how smart the set— I'm always in the swim. For fancy fads I spend no scads, I seek no leader's trails. But all are free to follow me; I am the Prince of Whales! The trusts may fly their prices high, But why should I repine? For when I grin the fish come in, And I proceed to dine. And, by the bye, the "octopi" I neither scold nor shrive; But if they stray across my way I eat 'cm up alive. I need no wealth, and for my health I feel no foolish fears; I keep the rules we get in schools And live a thousand years. --New York Times. THE BROKEN IDOL Dora Virginia Brook was a good girl as a rule, and as pretty as she had any need to be. But she was of a romantic disposition. Therefore it was a great pity that being in the book department of the stores with her dear mamma her eye should have lighted upon a little vellum-bound volume entitled "Flames of Passion." She picked it up, looked at the frontispiece, read a verse or two, and said, "I will take this." "What for?" said her dear mamma. "I don't know," said the girl—which was quite untrue. She had bought it because she was greatly interested in the portrait of the author, which formed the frontispiece. He was depicted on horseback, a singularly handsome type—tall, clean-shaven, muscular, with magnificent eyes. Consequently, when Dora Virginia Brook came to read those poems she found that they were very good and lovely. As a matter of fact the verses were about of the usual badness, as most verses are. They were full of passion, somewhat of the eat-on-the-tiles order, calculated to strain the upper register of the thermometer, and they would have been quite unsuited to Miss Brook if Miss Brook had realized what they meant. But she did not, which was good for her; and women adore most that which they do not completely understand, which was good for the author. There was a little preface which Dora examined with greatest care. It suggested a dark past and other interesting things, and it gave the author's private address. This was a house with a Japanese name which I am quite unable to spell, but that matters less, as even if I could spell it you would be quite unable to pronounce it. The house was situated in Croydon, which seemed to Dora to be all wrong. On the other hand, Croydon has the advantage, as anybody who lives there will tell you, of being very handy. There could be no harm in writing to tell an author how much one appreciated his work. Dora had almost decided upon the step when the almost excessive handiness of Croydon made a frantic and successful appeal to her. She went to Croydon in the afternoon, which was quite wrong of her, and I deeply regret to add that she told her mother that she was going down there to see her old governess, being fully aware at the time that her old governess had been called to her eternal rest some three months previously. It was really a most extraordinary thing. Nobody at the station had ever heard of Hector Leroy or of the house with the Japanese name. The policeman did not know it, even postmen disclaimed all knowledge. Dora began to think that culture in Croydon was in a bad way. She lost herself in a tangle of back streets; rows of mean little houses depressed her. In desperation she stopped a baker's boy, showed him the name of the house written down and asked if he could direct her. "Why, there it is bitin' yer," he said. It was, indeed, as he had intended to imply, the dirty little pig of a house before which she was standing. The name was painted on the fanlight and some of the paint had come off. The front door was open and an elderly gentleman in a frock coat, without collar, tie or waistcoat, was engaged in the simple act of taking in the milk. Him Dora approached. "Is Mr. Hector Leroy at home?" she asked. "Great Scott!" said the man. "Yes," he added. "Won't you walk in?" They entered a dirty room with a littered writing table. "You see," said the elderly man, "I'm not often called by that name. My real name's Peter Bunn. You can't stick that on a title page, you know." Dora sat down abruptly and said faintly that she saw. "The same thing with the photo," went on Mr. Bunn cheerfully. "The one I've got in the book is a fair knock-out. It's really the photo of a chap who got lynched for horsestealing in Texas. But it struck me that he looked just the kind of man to write that kind of thing. Not a bad idea, was it?" Dora murmured that it was very clever and looked at her watch. "It's made the book go," said the old man. "We've done 300 copies actually sold. Of course I don't do that sort of thing for a living. I'm employed in some chemical manure works. But you were wanting to see me about something, I suppose?" "Nothing whatever," said Dora, with sudden energy, and ran as it had been for her life. The old man looked puzzled, observed to himself that it was a funny game, and resumed his preparations for tea. Dora had a bad accident with her copy of "Flames of Passion" when she returned. It got a good deal burned; in fact, it was all burned.—Barry Pain in the Tatler. Bill Nye's Reply. The late Bill Nye replied as follows to a correspondent who inquired about his habits of work and life: "When the weather is such that I cannot exercise in the open air I have a heavy pair of dumbbells at my lodgings, which I use for holding the door open. I also belong to an athletic club and a pair of Indian clubs with red handles. I owe much of my robust health to this. "I do most of my writing in a sitting posture or in an autograph album. When I am not engaged in thought I am employed in recovering from its effects. I am very genial and pleasant to be thrown amongst. "I dress expensively, but not so as to attract attention. In the morning I wear morning dress, in the evening I wear evening dress, and at night I wear night dress."—Denver Times. LOOSE-LEAF LEDGER. A Locking-Bar Attachment Which Keeps Leaves Firmly in Place. The loose-leaf ledger, when first introduced, was not received with much favor, its worth and utility not being recognized. Recent improvements have greatly enhanced its value, banks and other large corporations using it extensively. Its advantages are many over the old-style ledger, the most important being the ease and convenience with which an old leaf, which has lost its value and is of no use, can be removed and discarded without destroying the ```markdown ``` FILLS UP THE VACANT SPACE value of the remaining sheets. The one disadvantage of most loose-leaf ledgers is the impossibility of keeping the leaves in a firm position, unless there are a sufficient number at all times to fill up the space between the covers. A California man has invented a locking-bar that can be placed in loose-leaf ledgers which will keep the sheets always in a firm position. It consists of two bars the length of the ledger, these bars being separated and kept apart by means of small-shouldered notches attached to the inner edges directly opposite to each other. The notches on one bar overlie the notches directly opposite, one being movable in the other. Resting against the ends of the inner notches are springs which contract the space between the two bars as much as the contents of the ledger will allow, tending to fill up all the vacant space remaining. RAIL FOR CAR SEATS. A Much-Needed Addition That Would Be Appreciated. Only in the past few years have the electric railway companies adopted the cars in which the seats face in the direction the car is going. Wherever introduced they have proven popular in the extreme, and are much superior to the old-style seats. A small detail so far overlooked is the provision of a suitable T handhold for the person getting up from the seat to leave the car, it generally being necessary to grasp the top of the back of the seat immediately in front. This seldom affords a sufficient hold, especially if a person occupies the seat ahead. A Missouri man has patented a device designed to overcome this fault, an illustration of which is shown here. It needs no explanation, the idea being simply to provide a rail, secured to the top of the seat back, with subdivisions at the ends, which serves as a handle. Railroad cars would also be much improved by the addition of this device. ILLUMINATED SIGNS FOR DOORS. No Trouble to Find the House if It Were Universally Used. We all know the trouble and vexation trying to locate a certain house in a block at night, and although we are sure of the number the difficulty is in locating the exact house. Unless it is directly in front of an electric or other light the number is indistinguishable, even to the best of eyes, and, unfortunately, only one out of a hundred can afford to have a light burning in the hall to aid the visitor in his hunt. A Baltimore man 615 has patented a scheme to overcome this difficulty, which would certainly fill a long-felt want, but its use and practicability would depend upon having all the houses in the block equipped in the manner he suggests. In this device a casing is secured to the upper part of the door frame, in advance of the transom, the latter bearing the usual sign number. An electric light is placed inside the casing and connected with an electric button mounted in the door frame, similar to an electric bell button, so it can be operated by a person standing on the steps. A reflector inside the casing throws the light onto the number on the transom. A person looking for a certain house, and in doubt, presses the button and quickly assures himself whether he is at the number wanted. SEA BIRDS ARE DISAPPEARING. Many Species Have Become Extinct and Others Aire Threatened. No one knows better than the sailor or the shore hunter how the sea birds may be exterminated, and no one better than the Indian or the trapper of the deep woods how sometimes the wildest and most abundant land species may disappear. The wonderful great auk, or garefowl, has, within the memory of men now living, been hunted from the face of the earth, so that its skins and eggs are now worth their weight in gold. Practically the beautiful wild pigeon which once darkened the skies with its vast and cloud-like flight, has met the same fate, though small colonies of it in remote spots undoubtedly still exist. The eastern pinnated grouse is also practically extinct. In the Chatham islands alone, in the Pacific, seventeen species of birds have become extinct. On all the islands of the sea and at all the shore spots to which sea birds resort the work of slaughter is being carried on quite relentlessly. Largely for purely humane reasons and incidentally in the interest of science the National Association of Audubon Societies is engaged in the work of trying to save the sea birds from extermination. Several species are being systematically destroyed for their feathers. Fashion, of course, does not care whether these beautiful creatures are exterminated or not. The scarcer they become up to the point of their actual disappearance the greater are the prices realized for their feathers and the deeper the joy taken by the wearer of the ornament. And when at last they are all gone—why, there will be another of God's creatures to put through the same process. This association has forty wardens guarding some of the key colonies of these sea birds. This may guarantee them from total destruction at present, but does not insure the maintenance of the birds of the species in question in such numbers as to render their preservation sure. Instead of forty wardens the society ought to have 300.—New York Mail. CHIMES RANG: NO GHOULS. Only an Electrician Trying to Fix an Organ. Summer residents of Garden City, L. I., were enjoying their first nap the other night when they were suddenly awakened by a violent ringing of the cathedral chimes. Men and women scantily clad armed themselves and streaked across lots to the cathedral as it was thought that an attempt was being made to steal the body of A. T. Stewart. Some years ago ghouls tried to steal the body of Mr. Stewart, and when it was placed beside that Mrs. Stewart in the crypt of the cathedral electrical connection was made between the belfry and the crypt. Six feet of solid masonry was placed upon the iron and steel box within which are the coffins of Mr. and Mrs. Stewart. As an extra precaution electric wires were attached to the large chimes in the cathedral tower, and these also were connected in such a manner with the slab and coffins that in case ghouls attempted to molest them an alarm at once would be sounded. While the startled folks were preparing for attack, the big doors opened and out stepped Norman Gardiner, an electrician, who some time ago was requested by officers of the diocese to electrically connect the chimes with the big organ. Mr. Gardiner is busy all day and selected night for doing the work. When he explained, the excited populace was much relieved and went back to bed. SENATOR SULLIVAN Says He Has Found Doan's Kidney Pills Invaluable in Treating Sick Kidneys. Hon. Timothy D. Sullivan of New York, Member of Congress from the Eighth New York District and one of the Democratic leaders of New York State, strongly recommends Doan's Kidney Pills. O Senator Sullivan writes: "It is a pleasure to endorse a remedy like Doan's Kidney Pills, having found them of greatest value in eliminating the distress caused by sick kidneys, and in restoring those organs to a condition of health. My experience with your valuable remedy was equally as gratifying as that of several of my friends. "Yours truly, (Signed) "TIMOTHY D. SULLIVAN." Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. For sale by all druggists. Price 50 cents per box. Recovery Almost Miracle. A remarkable case of the recovery of the use of power of locomotion was that when Ethel Vandersloot, daughter of Edward F. Vandersloot of York, Pa., who had not walked in twelve years, said to her father: "Papa, I want to get up and walk," straightened up, raised her feet, and proceeded to cross the room unaided. For a dozen years she had been an invalid, and for the first time in six years the girl ate dinner with her parents at the table. The best physicians in this city pronounced her case hopeless, and the father has spent thousands of dollars in the effort to effect a cure. Mr. Vandersloot says that he knows of no other reason to which he might ascribe her cure than that of the prayers of friends. Physicians have been unable to diagnose her ailment. Of Interest to Ladies. The New York Millinery Trade Review in an editorial says that no Jobbing or Manufacturing Center of Millinery Goods has made such rapid strides as Milwaukee. This is principally due to the progressive firm of Blumenfeld, Locher & Brown Co. The Trimmed Hats and Tailored Hats produced by this firm have been recognized as standard by all of the leading dealers of the United Trimmed Hats and Tailored Hats produced by this firm have been recognized as standard by all of the leading dealers of the United States, being of artistic workmanship, elegant design, dependable quality, and at the same time can be sold at such prices that they can be purchased by any lady. See that the Hats you look at have the Monogram B. L. B. Co. on the label and insist that your dealer show such hats to you. You can make no mistake when you buy one of them. They are all guaranteed style. Comb Ignited by Fireworks. The ball of a Roman candle set off while the Emil Groth association was marching in New York city struck Mrs. Reh of Union Hill on the head and ignited her celluloid combs. She was carried in a fainting condition into a store and two women, assisted by an exempt fireman, put out the blaze. Mrs. Reh's hair was badly scorched. WINCHESTER Winchester Rifle and Pistol Cartridges of all calibers are loaded by machinery which sizes the shells, supplies the exact quantity of powder, and seats the bullets properly. By using first-class materials and this up-to-date system of loading, the reputation of Winchester Cartridges for accuracy, reliability and excellence is maintained. Ask for them. THEY SHOOT WHERE YOU HOLD Sale Ten Million Boxes a Year. THE FAMILY'S FAVORITE MEDICINE ascarets CANDY CATHARTIC THEY WORK WHILE YOU SLEEP 10c. 25c, 50c. All Draggists BEST FOR THE BOWELS MUST LIVE IN BATH TUB. Man with Strange Disease Compelled to Remain in Water. A deer chase is the rarest disease known to medical men. Nathan Feinberg of Dayton, O., has been taken to Boston, Mass., and is now in a private hospital under the care of one of the leading specialists in skin diseases. His bed is a bathtab, so constructed that a stream of water, heated to the temperature of the body, flows into the tub and out again at the other end, thereby remaining constantly pure and fresh. Air-filled rubber cushions float in the tub to buoy the body and the neck and feet rest on canvas straps. A year ago Feinberg, who has an excellent university education, came to this country from Koenigsberg, Germany, the protege of a wealthy uncle in Dayton, who placed him with a jeweler of that city to learn the trade. Six weeks ago a sudden rash broken out all over his body and the local physicians were puzzled. Then pimples appeared, which spread from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head, and bursting, developed into huge sores. At the height of this development he was taken to Boston and to the specialist, who pronounced the disease as pemphigus, whose origin is shrouded in mystery. Some medical writers ascribe it to a nervous shock and others again to some gastric disturbances, but all agree that it is fatal. Feinberg, who is only 20 years old, will receive every attention that money can procure, but will be obliged to live in a bathtub for weeks to come unless death ends his sufferings earlier. 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. Repeat this morning and evening and you will soon be rewarded with a skin soft, white and clear. Cuticura Soap, the best toilet and complexion soap in the world, assisted by Cuticura Ointment, will preserve, purify and beautify the complexion and keep the skin in a healthy condition, preventing blackheads, pimples, eruptions or the return of eczema and other skin troubles. Used as a shampoo it cleanses the scalp of crusts and scales, removing dandruff and promoting the growth of the hair. For red rough hands, itching palms and painful finger ends, Cuticura Soap and Ointment achieve marvelous results, often in a single night. Deserter Blames Canteen. Joseph A. Morse of Newport, R. I., a deserter from the American navy, gave himself up to the police at Peoria, Ill., and asked to be sent back to Newport. He blames the abolishment of the army canteen as the cause of his desertion. Morse said for weeks he had been without a drink of beer while aboard his ship, and when he reached shore he hastened to the nearest saloon and drank too much. When he found out he had broken his shore leave he concluded not to return. "It was this way," he said. "When we had the canteen we drank when we felt like it and were not allowed to get drunk. Since they abolished the canteen aboard ship the sailors make for the nearest saloon when they get to shore, and, as I did, they drink too much. I did not keep faith with my captain, and I did not want to face him. I am tired of traveling and dodging the officers, so I gave myself up." Merchants' Excursions to Milwaukee. The Milwaukee Association of Jobbers and Manufacturers has secured for the dealers of Wisconsin and other western states a rate of one and one-fifth fare for the round trip. Tickets will be on sale September 2d to 9th. Good for return home to September 19th, both inclusive. Ask your ticket agent for particulars. It will pay you to go. More matches are used in Britain than in any other country in the world. It has been estimated that every Briton uses an average of eight matches per day. Piso's Cure for Consumption always gives immediate relief in all throat troubles.—F. E. Bierman, Leipsic, Ohio, Aug. 31,1901. Near the Panama canal exist gold mines abandoned by Spain centuries ago. They will soon be reopened. "Dr. David Kennedy's Favorite Remedy gave me prompt and complete relief from dyspepsia and liver derangement." B. T. Trowbridge, Harlem R. R., N. Y. Among Chicago's 2,272,750 people there are 6700 Johnsons, 5900 Smiths and 4400 Andersons. MRS. WINSLOW'S SOOTHING SYRUP for Children teething; softens the gums, reduces inflammation, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25 cents a bottle. The cost of cremating a body in France is only 60 cents. AND CONSIDER THE ALL- IMPORTANT FACT peri- men's great reely it is ate u- That in addressing Mrs. Pinkham you are confiding your private ills to a woman—a woman whose experience with women's diseases covers a great many years. You can talk freely to a woman when it is revolting to relate your private troubles to a man—besides a man does not understand—simply because he is a man suffer in silence and drift along from bad to worse, knowing full well that they ought to have immediate assistance, but a natural modesty impels them to shrink from exposing themselves to the questions and probably examinations of even their family physician. It is unnecessary. Without money or price you can consult a woman whose knowledge from actual experience is great. Mrs. Pinkham's Standing Invitation. Women suffering from any form of female weakness are invited to promptly communicate with Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass. All letters are received, opened, read and answered by women only. A woman can freely talk of her private illness to a woman; thus has been established the eternal confidence between Mrs. Pinkham and the women of America which has never been broken. Out of the vast volume of experience which she has to draw from, it is more than possible that she has gained the very knowledge that will help your case. She asks nothing in return except your good-will, and her advice has relieved thousands. Surely any woman, rich or poor, is very foolish if she does not take advantage of this generous offer of assistance. If you are ill, don't hesitate to get a bottle of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound at once, and write Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn. Mass., for special advice. When a medicine has been successful in restoring to health so many women, you cannot well say, without trying it, "I do not believe it will help me." AT BED TIME I TAKE A PLEASANT HERB DRINK THE NEXT MORNING I FEEL BRIGHT AND NEW AND MY COMPLEXION IS BETTER. My doctor says it acts gently on the stomach, liver and kidneys and is a pleasant laxative. This drink is made from herbs, and is prepared for use as easily as tea. 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Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living."—Job xxvill: 12, 13. Why is wisdom so far harder to find than anything else? Why can man read every riddle of nature except the one riddle that fascinates him? In action he can lay his hand so powerfully upon Nature and open out all her hidden stores. Nothing here can escape his scrutiny; nothing can bar his advance. Look at him, the chapter says, as he digs and mines and searches and sifts and purges the dross with fire and gathers in the assorted wealth. Look at the track where he unearths his silver and at the furnace where he refines his gold. Or, here, again, he is digging the iron out of the ground, and here he is melting stone into copper. He sinks a shaft far down where the workers hang, as it were, forgotten, away from the feet of passers by. There he gathers in sapphire stones and amasses the precious ore of gold. He can cut canals through the rocks and bind the waters within canals and upturn mountains by the roots. Nothing can be hid from his cunning. And yet, in spite of all this practical supremacy, this masterful intimacy over nature, is he at all nearer to the discovery of her ultimate secret? Can he dig up the truth as he can a diamond? Can he wring it out of the mine or dive for it in the sea? Can he buy it in the market for coral? Nay, what avail his pearls and rubles? Somehow the secret is ever eluding him. Just when men seem nearest to it it slips from out of their clutch. Nature is forever suggesting it, yet forever concealing it. The sea which had seemed to be murmuring it aloud in its dreams now says, "It is not in me;" the depth, which had enticed us into its brooding wonder now says, "It is not with me." Somehow they all stop short. The living things of Nature pass by with a look that hints, provokes, excites; yet if you follow they do but flee; they have no message to give and no path to show you. MONON ROUTE THE SHORT LINE BETWEEN Chicago, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Louisville STEPHENS' HOTEL and RESTAURANT S. F. PEACOCK & SON Funeral Directors AND There are eleven thousand electrical specks rushing together within one atom of oxygen; sixteen thousand within one atom of sodium; one hundred and sixty thousand within one tiny atom of radium. This is science's final statement of what Nature really is at the bottom. And what frightens us is that all this mechanical universe into which we are scientifically introduced omits us, ignores us, goes on without us. That which is our real life—our thought, our will, our imagination, our affection, our passion, these cannot find themselves there; they cannot be expressed in terms of mechanism. Practical science says, "It is not in me." Organized science says, "It is not in me." Where shall wisdom be found? Is there any other road of search? Where is there a better promise of arrival? Well, there is an offer which I think carries us a long way nearer than physical science. ELK EXPRESS CO. G. J. CHARLESTON, Mgr. 03 E. Sixth Street, ST. PAUL. MINN. WONDERFUL DISCOVERY Curly Hair Made Straight By It is that of Art. In the creative impulse, in the imaginative emotion kindled at the sight or sound of beauty, we have that which seems to open the door into the secret of existence, into the mind with which Nature was made. Nature explains itself to us best as a majestic spectacle, as a living effort that finds its joy in being what it is. That is what all Nature cries to us. Life teems, life swarms, life dances, life sings; it is a glory just to be alive. Is not that the truth at which the sons of God shouted in the first morning of creation? The earth was so superb a fact; it stood as a picture; it grew like a poem, and it moved like music. God found His joy in flinging out His power in all this radiant majesty; He loved it for being alive; for being the expression of His love. And that joy of God in sheer existence passed into all things to become their soul. Beloved, you are not asked to despise or to condemn the wonderful world disclosed by science or revealed by art; you are not asked to think little of that vast universe, with its rolling spheres, because there is set before you here on earth this sole and supreme purpose—to fear God and to hate evil. For in this moral issue lies the secret of the entire sum of things, and the pure will of Jesus is the will on which all existence is framed. Win there and you will win victory; win there in the moral struggle and, behold, "all things are yours—things in heaven, things in earth, and things under the earth." 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He does not say much about it, but what little he writes is highly significant: "Her light was like unto a stone most precious, * * * clear as a crystal." The passion of the present day scientist may be described as a search for new light. Faraday led the way by his discovery of the electric light. Roentgen followed in the detection of the very penetrative "X rays." Recently, several bodies have been found which will emit light in dark places after exposure to the sun. But here is a crystal, dug out of the darkness, and, though kept away from exposure to the sun, radiates its searching, burning, and shining light in every direction. It, moreover, imparts to other objects around it something of its light, so that they, too, shine in the darkness. The palm for making radium known to the world must be given to a woman. Madame Curie, a native of Warsaw, went to Paris University in 1891. Intent on obtaining her Doctorate of Science, she took for her thesis the subject of radio activity, and so successfully did she pursue the matter, that the Austrian government placed at her disposal many tons of residue of the ore from certain mines. Eight tons of ore would yield but fifteen grains of this material. It is, therefore, of great value, its price being 3,000 times that of gold. It is indeed "a stone most precious." We are told that radium emits rays which cannot be seen, but which, after a time, can be felt, and that their effects are inexorable. They can arrest cellular development and kill disease. If the qualities possessed by the rays of a disintegrating crystal can be so varied and powerful, what, we ask, may not be the potencies of the Spirit? There are the rays of truth, the emanations of which are very slowly, but effectively, killing the microbes of error. There are the rays of justice, which are secretly arresting the development of the germs of crime. There are the rays of love, which, to the man of evil ways, may be invisible, and their influence on the sin and selfishness of the world inappreciable, but which are, nevertheless, burning away the cancerous growths of evil in society and in human hearts. SHORT METER SERMONS. Duty is a door to delight. Hidden sins cannot be healed. Worship is but the voice of love. Disinterested men get the greatest interest. Nothing proves culture better than kindness. You never find a beautiful life with boastful lips. This world needs new impulses more than new ideas. Some men would be most miserable without their miseries. He who would do divine work must not be afraid of dirt. You cannot advertise men into affection for the Almighty. The Lord have mercy on the boy with a faultless father. He who loves men needs not to pray for power to love God. It takes more than milk and water to make the meekness of Moses. Warm friendships are not likely to be fused in heated arguments. Most men imagine that a fizzle in business furnishes a fitting for the ministry. Life is but our name for that which the great Master may call the first lesson. No man is fitted to oversee any great work who cannot overlook some small things. The world always will choke on a religion made out of philosophies first petrified and then pulverized. The more money a man has the more he gets to believe in the impossibility of expressing plety in concrete terms. The judgment is more likely to ask "How many shoes did you wear out in works of love?" than "How many prayers did you offer?" The tallow tree is an odd product of China. Its fruit is in clusters of three nuts each, the stones being surrounded by a substance very much like tallow. The Chinese melt it, mix a little oil with it to give it greater softness and use it for making candles. Paper floors are growing in favor in Germany. They have no joints to harbor dust, fungi or vermin, and feel soft under foot. They are also cheaper than hardwood floors. The paper is spread in the form of paste, rolled, and when dry is painted to imitate wood. THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC SHORT, IMPRESSIVE TEMPERANCE SERMONS. Dangers that Lurk in the Flowing Bowl-How Bright and Influential Men Have Been Dragged Down by the Demon Drink-Suppress the Traffic. "So essential are steady hands and bright wits in our trade that under the rules of our union no drinking man can stay in the organization. The first time a member of the union goes on a job under the influence of liquor he is suspended for a month and fined. For the second offense he is summarily expelled, without hope of reinstatement. It's pretty drastic treatment, but we have found it the wisest way to deal with the matter." This plain statement, made in a Philadelphia paper by a constructor of elevators, is as good a temperance sermon as ever was preached It is practical and goes to the point. A man doesn't need a "better nature" to be appealed to by such an argument as this. It hits all alike where the nerves are tenderest, in a vital spot. There used to be a widespread delusion that worked incalculable injury, especially to the impressionable and unthinking young. It was to the effect that the best workmen, in all lines, drank. That delusion is rapidly dying. And it will be a happy day for mankind when all men thoroughly recognize the fact that no man who drinks much liquor is as efficient a man in any line of labor as he would be if he did not drink at all. The building of elevators is by no means the only business in which drinking is a disqualification. The railroads, the telegraph companies, and all the other big commercial, industrial and financial organizations are drawing the lines closer and closer every day against the man who drinks. Why, hard drinking is held to be a disqualification even in the saloon itself. The drinking bartender cannot hold his own against the sober one. No business man on earth knows better than the saloon keeper himself that sobriety is the first essential of successful business. And the value of the man who "never drinks behind the bar" is at a premium. There is a lesson here that ought to be easy for every man to learn and for every boy who hopes to make the best of himself in life to store away as one of the most precious and important treasures of his education. To the youth who is tempted to drink there is no more important lesson than this, that in these times, as never before, temperance is not only a virtue, but, like all other virtues, it pays, and is one that, in all the catalogue of virtues, pays most directly and best.—Minneapolis News. Somebody's brother was buried to-day, The empty hearse from the grave came back; And the morning bright turned sad and grey, While I paused to think as it passed on its way; Why the clouds had shadowed the sun's bright track. Some child's father was laid "at rest," To sleep in the bosom of earth so cold; And the hands, now white, are cross'd on the breast, Nor heart nor lips returned the caress E'er that form went back to its native mold. A soul went out with a sickening groan, That ghastly look tells its own sad tale; And a lone wife weeps with a bitter moan, She thinks of a soul at the judgment throne, While she hears the despairing drunk- ard's wail. Oh, I could weep for the sorrow and shame Of that drink cursed home, and its widowed heart, But the drink shop stands with the brand of Cain, And the license sullies our land's fair name. While men by their votes with the sin take part. I heard her cry from the depths of her woe, For relief from pain and sorrow sore And I pray'd that each one God's will might know. And by vote declare the saloon must go; Then the drunkard's death will not lie at our door.—J. R. Wylie. Alcohol and Consumption. Alcohol and Consumption. Following upon the remarkable speech delivered by Sir Frederick Treves on "The Physical Effects of the Use of Alcohol," in which he denounced alcohol as "a pernicious poison," another great physician, Sir William Broadbent, in a striking speech, delivered at a meeting of the British National Association for the Prevention of Consumption, declared that "alcoholic excess was one of the principal factors in the progress of consumption." Alcohol now stands condemned by the doctors, the churches, the judges and the labor leaders. A drunken fool was this afternoon standing in front of a bar, paying his hard-earned money for liquor he didn't want. "Barkeeper," the fool said, "have something." 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