Wisconsin Weekly Advocate

State Historical Society WISCONSIN WEEKLY ADVOCATE DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF THE NEGRO RACE captain downwards everyone seems to vie with each other for the comfort of those entrusting themselves to their care. Everything is scrupulously clean—the berths and meals are excellent, the matrons and waiters attentive to all. Altogether we heartily recommend from experience this line to those who have to cross the lake, or go farther afield on the waters of the Great Lakes. PERE MARQUETTE LINE STEAMERS Manistee, Ludington, Traverse City, Saginaw, Detroit, Toledo, Toronto, Montreal and all points east. 3 p. m. daily. Tel. Main 717 Dock 68 West Water St Amongst some of the business men whom we have interested in our new departure, and who have been added to our list of subscribers we have pleasure in mentioning the following: Amongst the manufactures of this thriving city is the Manistee Novelty company, a branch of the National Novelty Company corporation. The company has for its specialty the manufacture of toy furniture, desks, tables, tool chests and trunks. The company does a thriving business and employs a large number of help. The New York office and salesrooms of the company are located at 826-828 Broadway. The choicest and finest of groceries can be had at all times at the handsome store of C. N. Russell, 435 River street. Prompt attention and immediate delivery are assured to the patrons of this establishment. Mr. Russell also has a large and select line of crockery ware, which he disposes of at a reasonable price. * * * In dry goods we note the firm at the head of which is F. C. Larsen, 353-355 River street and 78-80-82 Filer street, who besides, his dry goods business, wholesale and retail, also deals in clothing, hats, caps, boots and shoes. He also carries a large line of groceries and, in fact, his establishments can supply almost anything wanted by the house-keeper. One of the best, if not the best, laundries in the city is that conducted by J. E. Fredrichson, 340 River street, Phone 262. The work turned out by the City Steam Laundry is of great excellence and the prices charged are as reasonable as the quality of the work will permit. * * * Michigan is famous for its furniture manufactories, and one of the distributors of this industry is H. D. Bradford, 403 River street, who has a large and varied stock of all kinds of furniture, to suit all tastes and all pocket books. Mr. Bradford likewise conducts an undertaking business. Telephone 124. With him is associated as funeral director Mr. Henry Redens, whose night call phone is 356. Anyone wishing to take a drive to view the precincts of Manistee could not do better than call upon Hoffman & Peters, 443 Water street, or phone No. 15. They will do the rest. Their livery, boarding and sale stables are second to none in the city. Fair treatment and moderate prices are their rule and we recommend them to our readers. * * * We wish to inform our Manistee and Michigan readers that we are in a position to secure them competent help from the south. We are in constant communication with southern establishments and can confidently recommend the help we secure there. Our endeavor is to bring these direct without allowing a stopover in Chicago or Milwaukee. 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. Maj. R. R. Jackson, Chicago supreme deputy of the Knights of Pythias, desires us to inform our readers that he has been commissioned to institute a lodge of Knights of Pythias in this city. This commission comes from Supreme Chancellor Sir S. W. Starks of West Virginia. The major, in obedience to this command, will be in the city Sunday next to meet intending members and form the club. The appeal made by the Advocate last week in favor of Arthur Jones, who recently lost his limbs, and the persistent, self-denying and meritorious efforts of Mrs. Peoples, 519 Cedar street, have resulted in a great measure of success for the movement to raise a sufficient sum of money in his behalf. A few more dollars are still needed, and Mrs. Peoples will be glad to receive any donation, however small. Too much praise cannot be given to Mrs. Peoples for her Christian work in this sad and necessitous case. The two churches have liberally responded to the appeal, and now it only requires some liberal and charitable person to complete the work. MANISTEE, MICHIGAN. The Wisconsin Weekly Advocate has resolved to extend its circulation into the lower peninsula of Michigan, at any rate along its western coast, which is so closely identified with the Advocate's center, Milwaukee. The editor has met with considerable success in this endeavor and hopes to merit the approbation of his customers and readers by supplying them with a clean, up-to-date paper. We have pleasure in presenting to our readers the portrait of the above distinguished citizen of our neighboring state, who is a good example of a self-made man. Like all men of his stamp, Mr. Palmer is not imbued with any race prejudices whatever, but treats all men alike. The editor is indebted to him for courtesies received while in his city. The following is a sketch of his career: Manistee's efficient postmaster, Calvin A. Palmer, was born February 25, 1866, in Marine City, St. Clair county, Mich., where the first seventeen years of his life were spent. He attended the public schools of Marine City, and for two years was a student at the Assumption college, Sandwich, Ontario. After leaving college he came to Manistee and entered the employ of Backley & Douglas, with whom he remained seven years, during which time [Picture of a man in a suit with a tie]. CALVIN A. PALMER. he perfected himself thoroughly in the stenographic art, which he has since followed with unusual success. In 1887 Mr. Palmer was made official stenographer of Benzie county, which position he has since held. He has frequently been brought into requisition in the capacity of expert stenographer, and in 1892 was chosen by the select committee to report the proceedings of the pension office investigation, a work which consumed nearly four months' time. He also reported the investigation of the Soldiers' home in Grand Rapids Mr. Palmer has been a prominent worker in the ranks of the Republican party in this county; in 1895 was the chairman of the city Republican committee, and for four years held the office of secretary and treasurer of the county Republican committee. Twice during his official connection with the party organization did the city and county return a Republican majority, a victory which the party had not achieved for years. On February 4, 1897, Mr. Palmer was appointed postmaster of Manistee by President McKinley. In the fraternal circles of the Knights of Pythias, Mr. Palmer is a prominent figure. For five years he occupied the post of chancellor commander of the Knights of Pythias of this city, and was recently elected grand chancellor commander of the domain of Michigan. As grand chancellor Mr. Palmer becomes the directing head of 200 lodges in the state, representing a membership of 17,000 fraternalists. On his return to Manistee after his appointment Mr. Palmer met with an ovation by his fellow citizens. He said the secret of any success he had attained was following the motto, "Practice friendship." * * * Any one who is a lover of lake traveling cannot but be satisfied with the accommodation provided by the Pere Marquette line of steamers plying between Milwaukee and Manistee, Ludington, Traverse City, Saginaw, Detroit, Toledo, Toronto and Montreal. The editor has had occasion recently to cross and recross the lake several times, and cannot but compliment the line on their admirable arrangements for the comfort of their passengers. It has been his privilege to be on No. 4, which is under the command of Capt. John Stuffleheim, who has as his subordinates John Nolan, first mate; Walter Pebiosky, second mate; H. J. Jacks, purser; Frank Brown, steward; James Myers, engineer. From the Manistee, Ludington, Traverse City, Saginaw, Detroit, Toledo, Toronto, Montreal and all points east. 3 p. m. daily. Tel. Main 717 Dock 68 West Water St. * * * * * * ** * * * 亦亦亦 *** Rev. D. E. Butler, wife and four children have arrived in the city and taken up their residence at 519 Grand avenue. Provision had not been made by the church managers for a residence, and the new pastor and his family were in an awkward fix until finally a house was secured at the above address. This would seem to us to show the necessity, or at least the desirability, of having a permanent pastoral residence in connection with St. Mark's. Verbum sap. *** Rev. Mr. Butler preached at both services Sunday last. In the evening the church was crowded, and the pastor preached an eloquent and instructive sermon on the danger of vacillation, taking as his text John xix, 22—"What I have written I have written." The collection at both services was liberal and worthy of the occasion. *** A reception was tendered Mr. Sydney Bryant, and Mr. C. L. McAllister at Calvary Baptist church, Tuesday evening. Mr. Bryant, as mentioned last week, leaves today to pursue his studies at Nashville, Tenn., and Mr. McAllister leaves the same day to continue his ministerial studies at Atlanta Baptist colleges, Atlanta, Ga. We wish both young men every success in their aim and object in life. They have been model young men while in this city. ```markdown ``` Many of our readers will regret to learn of the sad death of Mr. Fred Goodyear, who was well known in this city. He was run over by a train at Grand Rapids, Mich., Monday night and succumbed to his injuries Tuesday. His mother and sister, Mrs. William Andrews, 430 Cedar street, left the city last night for Grand Rapids, where they will be joined by another sister from New York. When the family gets together arrangements will be made for the funeral. Great sympathy is expressed for the bereaved relatives. * * * We are sorry to learn that Rev. Harry Williams, who recently left this city for Columbus, O., is sick in that city. We hope that it is nothing serious and that he will soon be in our midst again. *** Mr. J. C. Leftwick, president of the Creek-Seminole College and Industrial institute, Boley, I. T., is at present in this city in the interests of his institution. We have had the pleasure of meeting the gentleman, who is an extremely interesting and charming conversationalist. His credentials are all O. K. and we recommend him and the cause in which he is interested to the favorable notice of the philanthropic public of Milwaukee. Simple Life in the Army. Only the "simple life" is possible for young army officers, according to Maj. Gen. Corbin, commanding the Philippines division. In his annual report Gen. Corbin says there is too frequently evidence that there are officers in the service not mindful of their financial obligations. The number of complaints on this point, he says, calls for drastic treatment. The general then lays down these principles: "The moment an officer begins living beyond his means he should be subjected to discipline. Young officers joining the service should be admonished that for them only the simple life is possible. The moment an officer is possessed with an uncontrollable desire for any other life he, as a duty to himself as well as to his regiment, should separate himself from the service and enter the fields in which the material rewards admit of more luxurious living." Brig.. Gen. Lee, commanding the department of Texas, is positively in favor of the re-establishment of the army canteen. He says that 80 per cent. of the soldiers drink stimulants. A majority drink beer and light wines, while a minority drink strong liquors, but only a small percentage drink to excess. Women Help Idle Workers The women of Irondale, a suburb of South Chicago are showing remarkable interest in the economic welfare of their community, by raising sufficient money to transport the only idle man in Irondale from that place. The marked man is Toney Hartford, 10,100 Bensley avenue, who said last Saturday that he had worked for three months, and now intended to take a three months' rest. Hartford is 30 years old, unmarried and in easy circumstances, but the women of the suburb fear that his idleness may set a bad example for their husbands and fathers. The cause of their solicitude is found in the fact that for seven years nearly all of Irondale's men were out of work much of the time, owing to the closing of the big steel mills. Last year the International Harvester company opened its new mills and this boom caused the Semet Folbay Coke company of Pittsburg and the Iroquois Iron company of Chicago to erect new plants, thus giving work to every man in Irondale. 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., 70 Wabash avenue, Chicago, Ill. ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE NEGRO RACE. Mr. Miller points out that people have a preconceived idea that the Negro is merely imitative. To disprove this he tells how the patent office recently sent out circulars inquiring as to the number and extent of colored patentees. One of the leading patent attorneys responded that he had never heard of the Negro inventing anything but lies. And yet the patent office records shows 250 colored patentees and more than 400 patents. Granville I. Woods has more than twenty to his record. One, the electric telephone transmitter, he assigned to the Bell Telephone company for a consideration of $10,000. Elijah I. McCoy of Detroit, Mich., has taken out thirty patents and his inventions are in use on locomotive engines of leading railways in the northwest, on lake steamers and on Canadian railways. Such are a few of the men of the race who have distinguished themselves in their several professions. Mr. Miller likewise calls attention to men of eminence such as Fred J. Douglas and Booker T. Washington, whose life and work assure them of a place in the history of their country. The author says this is only a meager frontage, but it is an earnest of what possibilities are inherent in the race. WOMEN BUYERS FOR STORES It Is Their Duty to Know the Latest Style. Among the women who of late years have gained a permanent foothold in mercantile life, an interesting type is that of the buyers in department stores, because, in every case, they have developed from common saleswomen. Their effectiveness is proved by the great num- ber of them in large stores all over the country. In New York and farther west their number has multiplied rapidly, and even conservative Boston has profited by their services. The experimental stage is that of a conservative house, where women act as assistants to its men buyers, thus relying on the women for taste and judgment in selecting goods, while the men have charge of the finances. But there are stores which give the women full charge of the department to which they are the better adapted and, in so doing, pay them good salaries and place large sums of money at their command. To obtain the places which they have today each one of these women has started at the bottom of the ladder, often as very young girls. One who has had a successful experience as a buyer of underwear and French goods, began her career when she was 16 years of age as a salesgirl at a handkerchief counter. She was six years a buyer in the east, afterward in Chicago for eight years, and now she is east again. Another woman of the same line has had a valuable experience in the west and in New York. The foreign buyer and costume designer of a large dressmaking establishment began at the glove counter of anotner house and a few have made their beginnings in the smaller towns where they have been in business for themselves. Most of them say very modestly, that openings have come to them one after another, but hard work, courage and persistent effort have had their share in preparing them as workers to fill the places when they did open. The salary of the woman buyer is often exaggerated, but as a matter of fact it varies very much according to the department and the demands made upon it. Many of them get $40 a week or $2000 a year, and here and there is one who gets a salary between $4000 and $5000 a year. But, while some have large pay, there are more who have not. There seems to be a tendency to the subdivision of departments, and as a buyer under these conditions requires a less wide experience, as well as less administrative ability, the pay is not as large. The work of the regular department buyer includes not only the supplying of stock, but the oversight of the whole department, the care of the stock and the superintendence of the help; and the latter, where the department is large, is an important feature of the work. The designing of new goods is usually one of the duties of the buyer, and it is also her work to keep informed on all new styles.-The Pilgrim. Works Like Magic. 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. Finds She Was Buried Alive. While the process of exhuming the bodies of three relatives of Miss Isypheue Hutchins was under way at Bloomington, Ill., a horrifying discovery was made. Miss Hutchins had planned the removal of the three bodies from an old cemetery to the new one in Logan county, and while the bodies of her father and mother were found undisturbed, that of her sister gave evidence of being buried alive. The skull was found face downward and the thigh bones were found crossed, one upon the other. This was taken to be indisputable evidence that the sister had been buried alive. She died at the age of 25 and had been an invalid all her life, due to swallowing a pin when an infant. Finsen Ravs Grow Hair A surgeon at the Polyclinic hospital, Philadelphia, Pa., who has been treating men for lupus with the Finsen rays, was astonished to find a crop of hair growing on the bald head of one of his patients. He will experiment further with the rays as a cure for baldness. By the Light of the September Full Moon the Massacre Begins in Maine. The September full moon is the time for hunting skunks in eastern Maine, and about 100 of the unemployed countrymen take dogs, and, going out to the meadows where the fat grasshoppers are asleep, select their game by the moon's rays and kill and skin all the dark-colored skunks they find, leaving those of a lighter complexion to survive the winter as best they can and bring up a new brood for next fall's killing. Fashion in fur regulates the price of skunk skins. Three years ago the coat of a dark skunk was worth from $2.50 to $3 and there were not enough to supply the demand. Since then the muskrat has supplanted the skunk as the wearer of a profitable skin, and only the very choice of skunk pelts sell for $2 this season. But when there are from ten to a dozen fat skunks to be had on every acre of meadow land, when a hardwood club is the only weapon required in the killing, and when every fat skunk, regardless of its color, holds more than a quart of oil, which is worth $5 a gallon wholesale, there are always men who will chase skunks for the money there is in the business. From 100,000 to 150,000 skunks are slain in Maine every year. The practice of killing the black ones and leaving those of a lighter color to perpetuate the race has reduced the income received from the furs to a small figure and has practically exterminated the dark skunks, but the demand for skunk oil is steadily growing and the price has gone up $1 a gallon since last year. The oil is used by residents of Maine, who esteem it highly for its virtues in curing rheumatism and stiff joints, and the druggists send many gallons out of the state to be sold in Boston and New York. It is probable that nearly 25,000 gallons of skunk oil is produced in Maine every year. Most of that used locally is pure, but some of the oil sent out of the state is adulterated with fat obtained from hens and woodchucks. As the impure oil seems to effect as many cures as the genuine article, the men who work the imposition on the public stand small chance of detection. Most of the skunk pelts taken in Maine are sent to Philadelphia, where they are tanned, dipped in a black dye and made up into furs for export to France and Germany, in which countries they pass as monkey skins. The killing of skunks begins in September and continues for about a month, by which time all the fat ones that contain oil have denned for the winter. It is estimated that the Maine skunks yield an annual revenue of from $125,000 to $150,000, which is double the sum made from all the honey bees in the state. New York Sun. PRACTICE LAW OR PREACH St. Louis Pastor Puts Questions Up to His Congregation. It is up to the members of the Hamilton Avenue Christian church of St. Louis, Mo., whether their pastor, Rev. F. W. Mayhall, will remain in the ministry, practice law or do both. Mr. Mayhall has been a preacher nine years, several of which have been spent at the Hamilton Avenue charge. For the last four years, in addition to his ministerial duties, he has found time to take a course in law at Washington university, from which he was graduated last spring. He has also collected funds for a new $35,000 church which now is in course of construction. The church, if not one of the largest, is considered one of the wealthiest of the denomination in St. Louis. Sunday Mr. Mayhall announced that in view of the social and financial standing of the members of the church it was necessary to increase the income of the pastor, that he might maintain an equal position. Two propositions were then made by the "lawyer-preacher" to the congregation, the first being that he continue to devote his entire time to the ministry, in which event his salary is to be doubled, or that he be permitted to divide the time between the practice of law and his pulpit at his present stipend. The church has until the 1st of October to decide if either proposition is to be accepted. If the decision is adverse to the pastor he will resign his pulpit and devote his entire time to law. Closer to Secret of Life. Prof. Jacques Loeb of the University of Chicago, who some time ago discovered a process of artificial fertilization of the eggs of starfish and sea urchins, has made another forward step in the discovery that a certain substance in the egg is extruded at the moment of fertilization, forming a fertilization membrane. Any chemical which will drive out this membrane and form the membrane will produce life in the egg. Prof. Loeb found that starfish eggs require oxygen for their development, but that when mature they soon die under the influence of oxygen unless they receive the male element or its chemical substitute. Prof. Loeb believes that his latest discovery will aid greatly in the artificial production of life. Woman Hater Is Married When Prof. H. Harold Higbie, an instructor of electrical engineering at the University of Michigan, registered a stern vow two years ago that his life should be devoted solely to the interests of science, and that in it Cupid should have no part, he had not yet met Miss Helen Burch, a stenographer to James Hazen Hyde. They were married the other day at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Colyer of Brooklyn. CHRONIC ERYSIPELAS Cured by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, Although Whole Body was Affected. Erysipelas or St. Anthony's fire is a most uncomfortable disease on account of the burning, the pain and the disfigurement; it is also a very grave disorder, attended always by the danger of involving vital organs in its spread. The case which follows will be read with great interest by all sufferers as it affected the whole body, and refused to yield to the remedies prescribed by the physician employed. Mrs. Ida A. Colbath, who was the victim of the attack, residing at No. 19 Winter street, Newburyport, Mass., says: "In June of 1903 I was taken ill with what at first appeared to be a fever. I sent for a physician who pronounced my disease chronic erysipelas and said it would be a long time before I got well. "Inflammation began on my face and spread all over my body. My eyes were swollen and seemed bulging out of their sockets. I was in a terrible plight and suffered the most intense pain throughout my body. The doctor said my case was a very severe one. Under his treatment, however, the inflammation did not diminish and the pains which shot through my body increased in severity. After being two months under his care, without any improvement, I dismissed him. "Shortly after this, on the advice of a friend, I began to take Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People, two at a dose three times a day. After the second box had been used I was surprised to notice that the inflammation was going down and that the pains which used to cause me so much agony had disappeared. After using six boxes of the pills I was up and around the house attending to my household duties, as well as ever." Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are sold by all dealers in medicine or may be obtained direct from the Dr. Williams Medicine Co., Schenectady, N.Y. METHODS OF CHINESE DOCTORS. Prescriptions of Many Ingredients— Treatment by Massage. Chinese physicians of much repute never visit afoot, but must be carried to the patient on a horse, mule or jack, or in a carriage. At the patient's residence the doctor first rests awhile, and in the meantime is served with liquors and confections and often with a formal meal. He usually collects no fee, but receives a percentage of the fees of the apothecary, if he does not himself have an apothecary shop. In all cases of cure, however, he is rewarded with rich presents, whose value depends on the rapidity and completeness of the relief. Apothecary shops exist in every village of any size. Prescriptions always consist of several drugs, as high as twenty ingredients being frequently the case. They are put up in pill shape or given in their natural condition and boiled together by relatives. This mess, usually of bitter taste (and whose odor generally horrifies foreigners) is always administered hot, and usually in big cupfuls. A Chinese medicine book, dating back to the Wing dynasty (1568-1644) contains no less than 28,739 receipts. Materials of the Meteria Medica Sinensis consists of vegetables, minerals and articles belonging to the animal kingdom, such, for instance, as the dragon's teeth, centipedes, scorpions, Spanish flies, roaches, beetles, tadpoles, etc. Chinese doctors are, however, not content with medicine alone. They are adepts in massage, especially of the head and of the stomach and bowels. When light massage does not work a cure or give relief (in pains of the stomach, for instance), the doctor will kneel on the stomach and rub and kneed with his knees and hands the painful part, and this he will keep up until the patient is relieved (or says he is.) Another of his remedies is acu-puncture, or plunging a needle into various parts of the body—a treatment that is said to be very effectual in many complaints, and is highly regarded.—Reynolds' Newspaper. DON'T MISS THIS A Cure for Stomach Trouble - A New Method, by Absorption-No Drugs. Do You Belch? It means a diseased Stomach. Are you afflicted with Short Breath, Gas, Sour Eructations, Heart Pains, Indigestion, Dyspepsia, Burning Pains and Lead Weight in Pit of Stomach, Acid Stomach, Distended Abdomen, Dizziness, Colic? Bad Breath or Any Other Stomach Torture? 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"A good many of my rich patrons," he said, "like to have among their heirlooms Bibles that have saved some soldier ancestor's life." He winked. "If you are a Son of the Revolution," he said, "what a nice thing it is to take down one of these perforated Bibles from a shelf in the library and hand it to your guest, saying: "This Bible saved the life of my maternal sixty-third cousin, Col. Adoniram McGill, in the night attack upon the British, led by Gen. Jones at Bear Creek, on the 3d day of August, and so forth, and so on." "Yes," said the dealer, "I sell a good many of these Bibles to people with ancestors. To own such things is one of the fads and fancies of the smart set."—Louisville Courier-Journal. Flo was fond of Ebenezer— Eb for short she called her beau. Talk of "tide of love," Great Caesar! You should see 'em Eb and Flo. —Cornell Widow. In Kindness. When Johnnie Jones began to cry His mother made a tart reply; Which is to say, the mother mild Did give a tart unto her child! —New Orleans Times-Democrat Asked and Answered "Dessert," said he, "I hope, is pie," His manner made her smart. She was not cross, but her reply Was "just a little tart." -Philadelphia Press. Temple of the Social Inanities. What makes life such a silly sell And such a grind eternal? Most people crack shell after shell And quite forget the kernel. A Historical Inaccuracy. Cleopatra observed. "That false tale Of the asp many ears may regale— What a fuss they all make About that poor snake! Why, the potson was sent me by mail." —Carolyn Wells in Smart Set. What She Really Did Said Miss Brown, who was thirty and coy. "Don't you dare kiss me, Archibald Foy, Don't you do it—it's bad; I shall 'holler' for dad." What she did was to "holler" for joy. --Kansas City Times. An Appeal. An Appeal Smithers—Your mother coming! Why, they say the Old Harry couldn't live with her. Mrs. Smithers—But you'll try for my sake, won't you. Charles?—Boston Transcript. Can't Be a Dove. "The bird of peace a dove!" exclaimed the Russian envoy bitterly. "Say, rather, a stork or a crane." "Why so, your excellency?" "Look at the size of the bill."—Pittsburg Post. Rodney—Why do you automobile men wear goggles? Sidney—If I tell you, you'll tell. Rodney—Never; honor bright! Sidney—Well, it's to hide the scared look in our eyes.—Harper's Bazar. Oh. Slush! Cholly—Yaas, I'm going in for wicket and golf and all that sawt of thing, y know. They're such manly sports, y know. Miss Peppery—The idea! You're becoming positively mannish, aren't you?—Puck. Fahrenheit. "How did that Boston girl strike you?" "She struck me as being about thirty-two." "Thirty-two years?" "No; degrees."—Woman's Home Companion. Johnny. Johnny—Paw, did Moses have the dyspepsia like what you have got? Father—How on earth do I know? What makes you ask such a question? "Why, our Sunday school teacher says the Lord gave Moses two tablets."—San Francisco News-Letter. A Kind Young Lady "You'll find I'm hard to discourage," said the persistent suitor melodramatically. "Some day I'll make you admit you love me, and then—and not till then—I will die happy." "I'll say it now," replied the heartless girl. "I don't mind telling a lie for a good end."—Sketch. A Jewel of a Juryman Lawyer—Have you formed any opinion on this case? Juryman—"No, sir." "Do you think, after the evidence on both sides is all in, you would be able to form any opinion?" "No, sir." "You'll do"—New York Weekly A Damper. Cecil (sentimentally)—Don't you feel gloomy when the sky is overcast with gray, when the rhythmic rain sounds a dirge upon the roof and the landscape's beauties are hid by the weeping mist? Hazel (sweetly)—Yes; it's dreadfully annoying. It does make one's hair come out of curl so—London Tit-Bits. On the Wrong Floor. "You want to marry my daughter, you say. But I don't recall that she has ever mentioned you." "You surprise me. Isn't your name Timmons?" "No." "Excuse me, I must have got into the wrong flat."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Poor Child! Mrs. Hanagan—My! but the Aherns are crazy-mad. Mrs. Hanagan—What's the matther with thim? Mrs. Hanagan—In an absint-minded moment they christened their baby "Aloysius Patrick." Just think o' the initials of him!—Catholic Standard and Times. Blocked "I'm afraid my hay fever is coming on," said Kloseman, trying to get some medical advice free of charge. "Every once in a while I feel an itching in my nose, and then I sneeze. What would you do in a case like that, doctor?" "I feel pretty sure," replied Dr. Sharp, "that I would sneeze, too."—Philadelphia Ledger. Didn't Like the Name. "What was the trouble?" "Squabble about the distribution of offices. The deacons were elected all right, but not a single woman in the bunch would accept the office of elder." —Cleveland Leader. Reward of Courtesy. "How do you get so many subscribers?" asked the visitor to the office of the great magazine. "Just between you and me I'll tell you the secret. All the manuscripts sent in I keep. I answer the contributors, and tell them the stuff will be used as soon as available. This makes them subscribers for life."—Indianapolis Star. Kaukauna on the Map. Kaukauna, Wis., not to be outdone by any other town in obeying the Bible injunction to "multiply and replenish the earth." is able to report the equal of the Wausau (Wis.) birth of three pairs of twins. Mrs. Nie Hentz has given birth to nine children in eleven years, three pairs of twins being among the number. There was a boy and a girl each time. "FRAIL SINGERS OF TODAY." Frail singers of today, your song is sweet. The words that ye repeat Are comely, making music as they pass Faint as the singing glass Rubbed by a moistened finger; round and round Mell sing a harbor way, Plucking rough chords of strength from lyres too rude. Ever to be subdued By this slight tinkling harmony of the hour. Awake, awake to power, Singers of songs-else die! Far better mute Were the enassemble lute. Who brook no counterparts! —Lee Wilson Dodd in the Century. MONEY FOR SOLDIERS AND THOSE WHO DISBURSE IT There they sit, from early morning until twilight, with coats off, working, working, just working. Before them are piles of sheets covered with names, letters, other data and figures. Figures for breakfast, figures for lunch, figures for dinner, figures and more figures. Papers cover their desks and are piled on chairs and tables, and they tell of millions of dollars received and expended. Once in a while one of these workers, in sheer desperation, gets up and walks about the room to steady his nerves, clear his head and give expression to feelings so long pent up that when they are expressed it seems as if the roof might well lift. Then he goes back to the desk and begins to run up long rows of figures again. There is a balance this time and a glad shout rends the air; the other three look up, pained at the outburst of levity. They haven't yet struck a balance. One has been trying for hours to find out where that infernal 3 cents went to. Another has found a discrepancy of $1.06 in the payment of nearly a quarter of a million of dollars. He must work and struggle, go over, mayhap, again and again the great mass of figures, names, letters and places, for that balance must be struck. For a week, two weeks, yes, frequently three weeks, this same hard, perplexing, nerve destroying, patience testing, constitution breaking struggle goes on, and yet the days are not long enough for these men of figures and hard work. When it is all completed, the desks cleared and they have had an opportunity to take a few long, free breaths, an order comes down from department headquarters directing another payment. These men of labor—and there are none in all of the lists of laboring men who work a greater number of hours per month or do harder work, than these obliging, well-informed, patient, persistent, tireless strugglers—are paymasters and their clerks. I am going to write something about army paymasters' clerks. There are, in the Philippine Islands, at present, about twenty of these workers, men whose capacity is tested and retested to the very quick, every month of the year, for when they are not applying their eyes, minds, hearts and their very souls to the performance of duties as intricate and difficult to solve as any connected with the most complex banking institutions, they are out on the high seas or wandering over rough roads on islands, visiting posts, as the veritable strong right arms of their chiefs, the paymasters. And I have yet to see a word descriptive of the duties, trials and tribulations of this class of successful, painstaking, loyal public servants. Each paymaster is entitled to a clerk. He is given the pay of a second lieutenant of the army, $116.67 per month, and draws travel pay at the rate of 4 cents a mile in addition to transportation. The position in the states, though a very trying one, is by no means as difficult to fulfill as in the Philippine Islands. Go with me on a pay tour and watch the clerk. In nine cases out of ten he sleeps on the deck of a small transport; in the rainy season he seldom fails to get a drenching. Reaching a station the clerk must figure out one of the company rolls and then compare it with the one figured out by the paymaster. That being over, he must name the amount opposite each soldier as his name is called by the company commander. He must apply his mind absolutely to this work, for a failure to name the exact sum means loss to the soldier or loss to the paymaster. When the payment is done he must go over the roll and note opposite each man who makes a deposit, enter the amount, count the money and pass it to the paymaster, who gives it a second counting. Then comes the call for checks. Some companies call for as high as fifty. The clerk writes the checks and the paymaster receives the money therefor. This, alone, at the average station, is an item of careful work, well calculated, after all of the rest of his efforts, to bring nervous prostration several paces nearer, for he must usually write on a wobbly table, surrounded by officers and men, a good share of whom, most of the time, are talking or asking questions which the paymaster and clerk are expected to answer. When all of these duties are done it is the clerk's part to see that all of the vouchers paid have been properly witnessed, gathered up and put away. A failure in either of these respects means loss to the paymaster and great inconvenience to both paymaster and clerk. Each voucher means just the amount of money paid on it. The loss, for instance, of a company roll means a loss of $3000 or $4000, hence that roll must be looked after and guarded as carefully as if it were three or four thousand dollar bills. In hundreds of instances in making landings, both the paymaster and clerk are obliged to sit in cramped, uncomfortable positions, in small boats, on guard over public funds, seldom failing to be drenched by high waves. Like experiences are gone through in the trips from shore to the steamer, for there are only a few places on the islands where even the smaller steamers go right to the wharf. A month of this kind of work, going from station to station, experiencing the same kind of dangers and hardships, doing the same kind of exhausting work, is the customary thing with the paymaster and his clerk in the Philippine Islands. Sometimes a tour lasts for six weeks, and every day a nerve wrencher Most of the clerks are so much interested in successful payments that they keep a close watch on the paymaster's counting, and often it occurs that the clerk's quick eye saves the paymaster generous sums. This is a good point at which to say that the paymaster's business in the Philippines is little, if any, less than a regular banking business. He frequently starts out with a quarter of a million dollars and pays it all out before returning to his station. The paymaster is president of the bank, vice president, the board of directors, cashier, assistant cashier and teller, and his clerk holds every other position in the bank. And there are hundreds if not thousands of banks in the United States that do not handle as much money in the course of a month as the paymaster handles in a Philippine pay tour, and the clerk accounts for in complicated records. This banking institution pays out large sums of money, receives money in deposits, retains allotments, exchanges checks for cash and supplies nearly every station with more or less in the way of small bills, silver, nickels and pennies. Owing to the hurry, hustle and bustle necessary in a pay trip the clerk cannot keep his books; can only pack away the vouchers and take them back to station. All of the unpacking, keeping of the records, everything pertaining to the paper of the bank, must be transacted after he returns to his station. It was to this work that I called attention in the opening of this chapter. The hardships of the paymasters in the Philippine Islands are greater than have yet been enumerated, much greater; but the hardships of the paymasters are no greater than have been those of their faithful clerks, and sometimes not as taxing. Their minds, if good clerks, are constantly active. They are very industrious—they must be—always painstaking, and they must be absolutely exact. There is no clerical position connected with the army that is so exacting, makes such constant drafts upon the energy and vitality. I have sometimes wondered why provision was not made to give the paymasters' clerks not only the pay of second lieutenants, but the rank, so that they might have the honors of officers, the honors and benefits, the pleasures and comforts. A good clerk earns all of these, and there would be a good many advantages to the paymaster were the rank given. It would entitle him to commutation of quarters and to the same mileage that his chief receives; and at retirement he would be ready for the rainy day. I hope some day to see the paymaster's clerk thus remembered, thus honored. Half a dozen paymasters have been attacked by insurgents. In all cases the clerks have been found to be brave and active in repelling the attack, when not ordered by the paymaster to remain with the funds. In such emergencies they have stood their ground manfully, rifle ready for immediate action. I have never heard of a cold-footed paymaster's clerk. Like the paymasters, they have not hesitated a moment to take their lives in their hands in crossing swollen rivers, in facing great storms in small boats, in traveling over country infested by the enemy, liable any moment to be ambushed. Indeed, these untitled officers, these bank officers of constant activity and most exacting effort, have been as loyal to country and superiors as any of the men sent to our new possessions.—Evening Wisconsin. NON-REFILLABLE BOTTLES The Problem of Preventing Refilling of Empty Bottles Solved. So many devices have been invented and patented to prevent the refilling of bottles that have been used and discarded that surely some are of practical use. So far all have had some minor fault that excluded their usefulness, or were too costly to be manufactured for common use. The use of a ball inserted in the neck of the bottle is not a new idea, but a Massachusetts inventor ```markdown ``` NON-REFILLABLE BOTTLES thinks he has solved the one fault of this device. In the illustration is shown an ordinary bottle, having a valve seat located in the neck, the ball being placed between the valve seat and a stop, the latter preventing the ball from being tampered with and removed. This ball is made of cork, but is weighted, the weights being of greater specific gravity than the main body of the ball. It has been found by practical experiment that a ball constructed with weights in connection with a valve seat forms a perfect means for sealing a bottle so that liquid cannot be introduced into the interior thereof. When a vacuum is formed in an empty bottle and said bottle then connected with a supply of liquid, even under these conditions the liquid will not enter the interior of the bottle, where as if the same ball without the weights is used and the bottle subjected to a vacuum test, liquid will enter the interior of the bottle. The explanation of this result is that when the bottle is inverted, having previously had the air exhausted from the interior thereof, and the bottle connected to a supply of liquid, if the ball is not weighted, as the liquid rushes up through the neck the ball will be forced against the seat and immediately bounce backward therefrom. This allows liquid to enter the bottle by repeated movements of the ball of this nature before it settles against and closes the seat against entrance of the liquid. This is especially the case where cork is used for the main body of the ball, but where the ball is of cork and is weighted it comes to a bearing upon the valve seat and remains in that position, effectually sealing the bottle against the introduction of liquid. Shot Craps in Church. Theodore Pope, Elijah Scott and Adam Schields were arrested at Evansville. Ind., on a charge that during a revival service at the Liberty Baptist church they sat on a back seat and shot craps. For the Farmer. Autumn Leaves Flower and leaf of vine and tree, Grass of meadow, weed of mire— Summer gathered them to be Fagots for the Autumn's fire. Smoke-like haze on vale and hill: Flames of gold and crimson bright Into life now leap and fill Field and forest with their light. All the glory of the year Kindled into beauty so: Soon the Winter will be here, Soon the curfew—then the snow. When the Autumn's fire is dead. Frank Dempster Sherman in American Illustrated Magazine. Breeding Dairy Heifers Dairy heifers are nearly always stunted and frequently injured more or less for life if they are bred to calve before they are two years old, says a writer in Colman's Rural World. If the heifer was a spring calf it would be better to breed her to calve in the fall following her second birthday. Fall calving is profitable in more ways than one. When fresh, a cow will give a good flow of milk even on dry feed. In the spring the stimulating effect of the green grass will keep up and even increase the flow. A cow calving in the spring will usually shrink very materially in her milk flow when changed from pasture to dry feed in the fall. Again, the cow calving in the fall produces the largest amount of butter fat when prices are highest. A fall calf will usually fare better than his spring sister. The farmer has more time to give it attention that it needs, flies are not so bad and in the spring it is ready to go to pasture. Much depends on getting the dairy heifers in the habit of calving at the time of year when they will bring in the most profit. Pointers for Dairymen Milk quietly, cleanly, quickly. Cows hate haste. Too much sourness in cream causes white specks in butter. Keep the fresh, warm milk separate from the old. It keeps better. Keep the heifer, intended for the dairy. in thrifty, growing condition. Test your milk. It is not quantity so much as the quality that counts. Set milk after milking before it becomes as cool as the atmosphere. The cream will rise better. Have the milk for the calves sweet and of the same temperature as when it comes from the cow. If you are buying new milk utensils, see that all joints are smoothly soldered. Soft, white butter comes from hot cream. After a cow passes much beyond 9 years of age she begins to deteriorate. Milk set in shallow vessels is more liable to sour than in deeper ones. Never let the heifer become more than 3 years old before breeding. Cows which have been bred young are usually good milkers, says a writer in the Montreal Star. Cows and Their Milk. Here are some conclusions relative to cows and their milk reached by an English authority: 1. That when a cow is in full milk and full flesh she will give her normal quality of milk for at least a limited time, even though the quality and quantity of food be very deficient. 2. That when in good condition a cow will take off her body, whatever is deficient in food, in order to give her normal quality of milk. 3. That an extra supply of nutritious food at all times increases the quantity of milk, but the percentage of fat is not in any way improved by it; if anything, the tendency is the other way. 4. That an extra supply of nutritious food almost invariably very slightly increases the solids not fat of the milk. That a ration poor in food ingredients has a very slight tendency to reduce the solids not fat in milk, but has little appreciable effect on the fat. 5. That with a poor ration, a cow in full weight will lose carcass weight, while on a rich diet she will gain weight. 6. That although the percentage of fat in a cow's milk may vary, we at present seem unable to control these variations or to account for them. 7. That for limited periods, up to one month or thereabouts, all ordinary quantities and qualities of food seem to have no material effect on the quality of the milk. 8. That some foods exercise a material effect in raising the melting point of butter. 9. That the aim of all producers of milk, butter or cheese should be to feed what will give quantity, in moderate amount and of a mixed nature, and the produce will be the best that the cow can give. 10. That extra quality must be looked for by improving the breeds, and judicious selection, rather than by any special foods or methods of feeding. 11. That the variations in the percentage of fat in a cow's milk are caused by something, but what that something is we at present do not know, though if we did we might be able to influence the quality. TOM ATKINSON. Tom Atkinson was just a crank, So all the people said. He had so many strange ideas A-seething in his head They looked on him with pitying smiles Because he was so queer. And tapped their foreheads, and declared: "There's something lacking here." Well, Thomas nursed his strange ideas, And studied night and day. Until by constant, active thought At last he found the way. He got his patent, safe and strong, To make the thing his own. And then one fine day he announced "The seeing telephone." Nobody laughs at Thomas now, He's richer than a bank. And none admit they ever thought That he was just a crank. But they were strictly accurate When, seeing him so queer. They tapped their forheads, and declared: "There's something lacking here!" —Somerville Journal. Two Carnival Performers Hurt. Two performers, doing almost identical feats, were probably fatally injured within a few minutes of each other during the carnival and street fair at Belleville, Ill. The ropes holding the net placed to catch Mme. Demona, who loops the loop in a large ball, broke, precipitating the woman to the ground, a distance of ten feet. Hardly had the woman been removed to the hospital when Harry Russell, in attempting to loop a double loop and leap a gap fell from his bicycle while crossing the latter and landed on his head. School Teacher Is Married Wilber Ables, a school teacher of Adams, Ind., and Mary Lena Waterman were married on the tower of the courthouse at Fort Wayne, Ind., 200 feet from the ground. TALL TEEDS CELEBRATE. Eight in Family Over Six Feet Tall at Golden Wedding Anniversary. Eight persons, all standing over six feet or more in height, were present at the celebration of the golden wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Parker Teed, in Livingston, N. Y., recently. The tall ones are all members of the Teed family. Mrs. Teed is six feet tall, while her husband stands six feet two inches. Their son, William Parker Teed, is just three inches taller than his father. Another son, John Elmer Teed, is the same height as his father. Mrs. Lillian Frances Faulks, daughter of the aged couple, is the same height as her mother. William Parker Teed's son Jesse is now three and a half inches over six feet, and threatens to beat his father. Halsey, son of John Teed, is six feet one inch, and is growing yet. Mrs. Faulks' son is just six feet. None of the three boys is yet 21 years old, and their parents believe the boys will outgrow them. DEATH SEEMED NEAR How a Chicago Woman Found Help When Hope Was Fast Fading Away. Mrs. E. T. Gould, 914 W. Lake St., Chicago, Ill., says: "Doan's Kidney Pills are all that saved me from death by Bright's Disease, that I know. I had eye trouble, backache, catches when lying abed or when bending over, was languid and often dizzy and had sick headaches and bearing down pains. The kidney secretions were too conious by Bright's Disease, that I know. I had eye trouble, backache, catches when lying abed or when bending over, was languid and often dizzy and had sick headaches and bearing down pains. The kidney secretions were too copious and frequent, and very bad in appearance. It was in 1903 that Doan's Kidney Pills helped me so quickly and cured me of these troubles and I've been well ever since." Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. For sale by all druggists. Price 50 cents per box. What Hunger Is Scientifically Hunger is the sensation felt because of the contraction of the muscularis either of the pylorus or possibly also the entire stomach or of the duodenum, or of the contraction of the muscularis of all these structures. If the contraction is more intense it is felt as a painful hunger. If the contraction is slight, then the sensation of the hunger is also of a slight degree; it is evanescent. Hunger is a lesser degree of pain, and is produced by the contraction of the muscularis. This is the reason why hunger passes away after a certain lapse of time, even if no food has been taken; it means simply that the muscularis becomes tired and contraction gives way to relaxation. Absence of contraction, the inability to contract; relaxation, distention—these being the opposite, the reverse of contraction results in the opposite of appetite, anorexia, provided, however, that such distention is not caused by an overabundance of the irritating acid gases. Anorexia is the sensory symptom of distention of the stomach and upper portion of the intestine by non-irritating gases, accompanied by complete or partial relaxation of the sphincter. This is the condition we observe in chronic pyloritis, chronic gastritis, and chronic inflammatory conditions of the first portion of the small intestine.—Dr. Mark 1. Knapp in American Medicine. The Wrong Flavor A traveling man who sells flavoring extracts registered at one of the large hotels yesterday and told the clerk that he wanted a bath. The city water was exceedingly muddy, but the clerk forgot that. He assigned the guest to a room with a private bath attached. Fifteen minutes later the clerk was called to the house telephone. It was the new arrival who wanted him. "I've got a chocolate bath here," was the reply. "I wanted vanillia."—Kansas City Times. —There is a tigress in Burma which has a record for man-killing. It is said that she has killed over 800 natives. Now she has slain two English engineers and an edict has gone forth that she must be killed. Will stop any cough that can be stopped by any medicine and cure coughs that cannot be cured by any other medicine. It is always the best cough cure. You cannot afford to take chances on any other kind. KEMP'S BALSAM cures coughs, colds, bronchitis, grip, asthma and consumption in first stages. AGAINST THE STORM THERE IS NO PROTECTION IN THE WORLD LIKE TOWER'S SLICKERS FOR SALE BY ALL THE BEST DEALERS TOWER'S FISH BRAND A.J. TOWER CO. ESTABLISHED 1836 BOSTON NEW YORK CHICAGO TOWER CANADIAN CO. Limited TORONTO CAN. 25 CTS. PISO'S CURE FOR GURES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS. Best Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Use in time. Sold by druggists. CONSUMPTION GOSSIP FOR THE LADIES. The Way to the Forest of Arden. No signboards show which road to take To reach its ever-peaceful skies; Each one must his own journey make To find where Arden Forest lies. For who can tell how far to go? There is no book from which to learn; One may stop here or there, and lo! Its gates are just beyond the turn. The path that leads on straight ahead May take one farther from the goal; And this one which so many tread May still perplex and vex the soul. What route to take no one can say, 'Tis found on neither map or chart; Only the joyous find the way, to the kind and light of heart. The Class President. Amy is president of her class! Amy isn't the oldest girl in it, nor the prettiest, nor the best dressed, nor even the one of best scholarship. Ruth has higher marks, Edith has finer clothes, Florence is the class beauty, and Phebe is probably the girl with the largest number of birthdays. While we are young we esteem it a cause for congratulation that we are nearer 20 than somebody who is only 15. If we are 18 we are proud of the distinction. Only as time, the thief of so many happy things, steals away our pride in our years, do we try to hide them. You girls at school are all beautifully and blissfully young, bless your dear hearts, and you need not try to conceal the fact. A girl I knew once happened by chance to see a sentence about her in a letter not meant for her eyes. The letter said: "Theodora is very young, and her appearance indicates it." Though Theodora had apple-brown in her cheeks, and eyes like stars, and a mass of chestnut hair with glints of sunshine threading it, she cried when she found that people thought she looked young. She wanted to look old! Poor little Theodora! Why is a girl chosen as class president, why Amy rather than Sue or Rachel? Well, girls, probably for two or three reasons. A girl who is thus honored by the suffrages of her mates is a popular person. She has not gone around with a chip on her shoulder. She has never made enemies by unlucky speeches. She does not make fun of her friends, nor indulge in wit at their expense. This is on the negative side of the question. On the affirmative side the popular girl has lost no opportunity to do little kindnesses at the right moment. She speaks cordially of the absent. She performs graceful services graciously. She is in the public eye, more or less, and people know where they can find her. If asked to do anything obliging, she does it without a fuss. The popular girl has a troop of friends, because she is friendly. Every one can depend on her not to make a stupid mistake, and to say the proper word in the proper place. She possesses tact. To the average girl tact is a better gift than good looks or great learning. It makes a girl quick to understand people, and it makes them like her. A girl who has tact always helps other people to be at their best, and that is much finer than to be brilliant and showy in one's own character. The president of the class generally is a girl with charm. Amy has had charm from her cradle. What is it? How shall it be explained? Dear girl, it is impossible to define charm in set terms. It is the perfume of a flower, it is the sweetness of the violin, it is the soft shimmer of the moon, it is the sigh of the surf when last it breaks upon the shore. A girl who has charm steals into one's heart. She may be a gentle mouse of a girl, denure and quiet, or a merry breeze-like girl, coming indoors with the swing of the wind, but her charm, if genuine, will belong to her personality and be a part of her. City girls have this endowment and so have country girls. A good deal of it depends on being free from self-absorption. No girl who is thinking much about herself ever has charm. Homely girls often have it and pretty girls miss it, so you see it does not need to go with a roseleaf skin and dimples. But Amy wouldn't be chosen as class president if the other girls had not been impressed by her charm. Still another excellent quality, and one that a leader always has, is force. Without force nobody can hope to lead. Most of us are followers. Only here and there springs up the girl who leads. It is never by bluster or vehemence, by over emphasis and self-assertion or by any display of arrogance and bad manners, that a girl becomes a leader. Force of character is a flame within the soul that shines out in daily conduct. A weak girl takes the color of the last person who talks with her. Why, you may often tell with whom a girl has been associating by her inflections, her tones and her pet phrases. As for opinions, the weak person may think she has them, but in reality she has only prejudices, which are very different. But should you ask me what attribute in a girl will help her to be most successfully president of her class, I think I will pick out this beyond every other. She must have what we call initiative. That is, she must be able to suggest new lines, to strike cut in new paths, and to convince the other girls that her ideas are good. A girl who is a slave to system, who cares principally how things look, and is in terror about what people will say is not a girl with initiative. She must not be a coward, either. Not long ago a school play was to be presented. The rehearsals were over, the evening had arrived, and the spectators were there. But one girl who had an important part in the first act at the last moment refused to go on the stage because her gloves were too short. She sulked and pouted. Her gloves did not reach the elbow. Another girl, infected by her behavior, discovered that her shoes had not the right buckles. There was dismay behind the scenes. Katherine and Elinor stood there in rebellion. And the class president was sent for. "Katherine," she said, not elegantly, but positively. "shut up!" "Elinor, go on with your lines. They are waiting for you!" Both girls obeyed at once. They recognized the accent of authority. Girls, whoever else fails or succeeds, she who takes a front rank and is conspicuous must do the latter. She cannot fail. She must succeed. The president of her class must win the favor and confidence of her teachers, and must not be afraid to take a firm stand when occasion requires and to so act that her class is proud of her. She must learn a little bit of parliamentary law, so that in meetings she shall take the chair with ease and grace. This will help her to engineer a meeting well, and she must not have private ends when she does this, but must endeavor to be perfectly fair and to do what is best for the good of the whole. Unless she does not shrink from extra work and from taking pains, a girl would much better decline this honor. If she does accept it she must pay the price. Margaret Sangster in Washington Star. Betty's Twilight Chat A woman who has weathered a financial storm that threatened to leave her without a remnant of footing confided some valuable secrets to me. Pinching she had to do, but it was done where the world could not see it, and so she never fully lost her reputation of prosperity. Scheme after scheme she considered from all sides and eventually discarded, night after night she tossed about in her bed with no desire for sleep and no respite from anxiety, and after undermining her health and silvering her hair she acquired the ability to accept whatever was in store for her and bear it without worry. She had lived well from choice, and dressed well as an aid to business. Being obliged to spend the day away from home she had to have a competent housekeeper and pay her according to her ability. Naturally she looked at these details with a criticising eye when she began to consider retrenchment. She had an opportunity to rent her spare bedroom, but as the occupant would have to be more or less a member of the family, owing to the layout of the rooms, she concluded that the small weekly sum would not help her to any great extent, and the discomfort of an outsider would materially increase her misery. Her next move was a search for rents. There were plenty of them, but after putting down in black and white the actual expenses of making a change in residence she found that there would be no perceptible saving, so that, too, was given up. "Clothes are a good investment," she was wont to say, so she made no great change in that direction, and a trial of two or three cheaper house-workers showed her that her housekeeper had actually saved money for her. But these are some of the things she did. She dropped entertaining of all kinds on the plea of poor health—no fiction, by the way—gave up her summer outing, hired a seamstress to make the few changes necessary to bring her wardrobe up to date and took what rest and comfort she could get in her own home, with lounging robes, simple summer food and the companionship of books. I have seen her recently and assure you that she has improved in health and mind by the experiment and has pulled out of the financial quagmire that made retrenchment necessary. There is never any need of letting the great public know of one's misfortunes. A brave exterior will deceive all but extremely critical eyes, and such is achieved by thought and good sense. Renting rooms is an open confession of poverty which some do not mind, but which is injurious to those who depend upon the credit of the public. Good clothes are passports to those who can help you to success, and a competent homemaker is necessary to peace and comfort. No woman can divide her interests and achieve anything worth while, and with incompetency you must either submit to discomforts or remedy them, which takes time. It is infinitely better to bend your whole energies to one kind of work than dabble in two or more. Economy is more than a surface study.—Betty Bradeen in Boston Traveler. Learn to Listen, and Be Popular. "She is charming," observed the man, mentally, as he closed the door of her home behind him. "Yes, she's an unusually interesting woman," he repeated, as he turned the corner. And why? Simply because she had sat for two solid hours and listened. Because, by a tactful question or two, she had drawn him on to talk of what he liked, while she listened interestedly. Because, when he told her of marvelous achievements, she had seemed awed; when he spoke of a sorrow, her eyes had been all sympathy; when he related an amusing incident, she had laughed merrily. Always, she had listened, intelligently, understandingly. And in his eyes she was—charming, an unusually interesting woman. Since the days of the humorist woman has been laughed at and joked with because of her talking propensities. She has been likened unto a magpie, and she has been called a talking machine. She has been accused of never letting a man get a word in, in the proverbial manner, edgewise. Now, the clever woman lets him round out his every word, and occasionally she asks a question—a tactful, well timed question, and—listens. Listening is not merely making use of the two ears with which nature endowed human beings. The woman who has truly learned the art listens with her eyes, her mouth, her hands, her whole attitude is that of listening, of being interested in every word of the conversation. A man likes a woman with a limited perspicacity; he likes to feel that he is telling her something she does not already know. Therefore, the clever woman of today essays the role of pupil many times when, were she less tactful she would assert herself and give information rather than receive it. A good listener never lets her eyes wander about the room when some one is talking to her; she never seems conscious of anything but that she is being entertained. The topic of conversation is the very thing she has been thirsting for a knowledge of. She never interrupts the lines of thought, and she does not sigh as if relieved when it comes to an end; rather, she seems sorry. To listen alone is an insufficient art. It must be practiced in conjunction with a knowledge of tactful questions which will start the conversational ball rolling along the right channel.—Selected. How to Make Pin Money The unusual means by which a bright girl earned her summer pocket money last year may contain the germ of an idea for anyone earning her vacation fee this season. This girl—a college graduate of a month—made face cloths which she sold to women in large office buildings during perspiry days of June. July and August. The average woman scrubs with a handkerchief, but merely because a bit of soft chamois does not happen to be at hand. What she really enjoys is a chamois face rag. Dusted with good powder and folded into the pocket or chatelaine it represents warm day luxury. Miss S. began operations with one large strip of chamois, the entire skin, which she bought at wholesale rates. This she cut into squares rather smaller than a woman's handkerchief. The edges of some were neatly scalloped, of others buttonholed in siik. She sold the plainer sort at 10 cents, the fancier ones at a quarter apiece. Each was dusted with delicately fragrant powder and folded twice. It was impossible in most cases to sell to the toilers direct, but the forewomen in large establishments were both kind and enthusiastic. "Leave all you have with me and come around tomorrow. I know I can dispose of them for you," said the first to whom she applied. Surely enough. The next day all had been sold and a few more orders were waiting, as the supply had not been adequate. The work would, of course, only be possible to a girl in a large city or town, but to one so situated the hundreds of large office buildings offer an almost inexhaustible field. The young woman quoted plied her trade all summer long without exhausting the demand. In awaiting her opportunity for more ambitious work some other laborer may like to tide over in this way. Daughters and Home Duties. Where there is more than one grown-up daughter at home certain duties should be portioned out to each so that they will know what they are expected to do. To make the work pleasant and varied do not always give them the same tasks day after day, as they will naturally tire of them, and the work will not be done so well. Don't always give them the most unpleasant work to do, as this is often the cause of girls taking such a dislike to housework and causes much grumbling and discontent in the home. For instance, one daughter might take over all the cooking for one week and the other the preparation of the table for meals and the care of the bedrooms, and the next week they can change over, and then the work will not become so monotonous to them. This answers well in large families, too, and all who are capable should be made responsible for some piece of work. If this is done the work of the servant and housewife is made much lighter and the home will always be well kept, as the young people will vie with each other in trying to perform their task the best. Although it is annoying when your arrangements are all put out through some mistake that has been made by the young people, don't forget that they will learn by experience, and give them words of encouragement for well performed tasks. A Word to the Fagged-Out Woman. Even to the "energetic" woman there comes days—especially at this time of the year—when ambition flags, all the world is dust and ashes, nothing seems worth while, and the question, "What's the use?" rises continually to the lips, even if it gets no further. When this state of mind prevails it is time to call a halt. There is overwork, a liver out of order, or something worse. If you are so situated that you can run away from it all for a few days, do so. She who fights (as long as she can), then runs away. May live to fight another day. If you cannot possibly arrange to leave home, take the rest cure there; that is, as much as you can. Let things go for a few days; simplify the meals; let the children wash the dishes, even if they don't do it very well. Never mind the cleaning. Lie down and rest every moment that it is possible. Don't scourge and force yourself to the last limit of endurance. It won't pay. If you can have a room all to yourself, go in, shut the door, and, if necessary, stop your ears as well. Give Nature a chance to exert her Give Nature a chance to exert her powers of healing through rest. So shall you some forth strengthened and refreshed, ready once more to smooth out the tangles and make the household wheels go round.—Philadelphia Inquirer. The Girl to Be Admired. She who is just. She who is neat. She who can sew. She who can cook. She who is natural. She who never scolds. She who loves Nature. She who scorns deceit. She who is systematic. She who is sympathetic. She who loves children. She who does not sneer. She who is not fault-finding. She who loves dumb animals. She who earns her own living. She who is the same every day. She who sings about her duties. She who has risen above sorrow. She who has a charitable heart. She who is not easily discouraged. She who has a cheerful disposition. She who has but one set of manners. She who admires good literature and She who makes a confidant of her mother. She who has a faculty for looking "smart." She who is thoughtful of another's comfort. She who is particular of the company she keeps. She who early learns her faults and corrects them. She who hopes some day to be a wife and a mother. we are at heart. She who insists on a high standard for herself and others. She who looks as well in a $10 dress as others do in a $50 gown.—Exchange. How Hetty Green Learned to Be Economical. "The meeting doesn't begin until 7:30, and it's not yet 7 o'clock," explained Mrs. Hetty Green as she led me down the long aisle to the second pew and invited me to sit close to her in the corner of it. "My friend and I came early, in order to get good seats." "Is this church your shade of belief?" I asked. "Oh, no," she retorted in the confidential whisper which characterizes all her conversation. "No, I was bred a Quaker. But I go to every kind of a church, and I once held mortgages on twenty-eight. It doesn't matter to me what the denomination is; I believe that any of them will serve, so long as the people who attend them keep the commandments; but I am a Quaker, just the same. I believe in simplicity." "It's that, you know, that makes me what folks call 'mean.' The fact is. I prefer not to be extravagant. When I went to Quaker school they used to make us eat at the next meal whatever we had left on our plates. The directors said that if the rich girls did not learn to economize there would be no money left with which to educate the poor girls. So that was what made me like this."—Carol Ford in National Magazine. We Needn't Grow Old. Let us never grow old. We do not need to. Nor is our youth dependent on hair tonics and face powders. Did you ever see a jolly bald-headed old man or a merry toothless old woman who were younger by a score of years than the severe and proper grandsons and granddaughters around them? There are young people who never were young, and old people who never will be old. It's all a matter of disposition. Somebody has said that in every worthy man and woman there dwells a small boy and a little girl, who stays with us throughout life, if rightly treated, and who are precious possessions, bringing to us more real happiness than all the grown-up poise and dignity that ever existed. It is this little boy and girl we should cultivate during playtime; and then, when we are at work, they will come and whisper to us and keep us from despair. Let us never drop our acquaintance with them. We may learn if we will to look out on the world with their fresh young eyes, and to meet life's experiences with their hopeful hearts. This way, we shall never lose our pleasure in living, and thus we need never be old. ROASTED BANANAS. Bolt of Lightning Strikes a Fruit Steamer from the West Indies. With only the stump of her foremast left, one of her sailors with a stiff neck, her steel stays melted into a thousand twisted shapes, and several thousand bunches of electrically cooked bananas in her hold, the fruit steamship Bodo got in from the West Indies, says the New York Times of August 31, with a yarn to spin. It was all about a bolt of lightning that hit the vessel's foremast when she was two hours out of Port Antonio on August 24. The Bodo left Port Antonio on time and had just lost sight of the island city when she ran into a southwester, accompanied by electric pyrotechnics the like of which Capt. Figenschow declared he had never seen before in his long career on the sea. In addition to melting the stays, splintering the mast and cooking the bananas, the lightning also toyed with the Bodo's compasses, rendering them useless. Fortunately, Capt. Figenschow had a spare one, wrapped in rubber, which was not affected. It was about 10 o'clock in the morning when the Bodo ran into the storm. The gale came up suddenly, the electrical display increasing as the wind increased in violence. The flashes of lightning followed in rapid succession, the electrical streaks being of the zigzag, awe-inspiring kind, while the detonations were something terrific. Just before noon there was a blinding flash, followed by a deafening roar of thunder. It was this bolt that struck the Bodo's foremast. William Neilson, with several other sailors, were on deck watching the storm at the time. Neilson received enough of the electricity as it proceeded down the mast into the Bodo's steel hull to render him unconscious for a few minutes, while the other seamen were knocked down, but did not lose consciousness. When Neilson revived his neck was stiff. It was still as rigid as a piece of glass yesterday. The electricity played all over the Bodo's steel decks and railings and stays. The latter was melted, one of them, the signal stay, or, as it is called by the sailors, the "monkey gaff," being so melted that it fell into the sea. Leaving the deck, the lightning visited the cargo hold of the Bodo, where some thirty-odd thousand bunches of bananas were stored. About 5000 bunches were cooked to a crisp, while the rest were charged with enough electricity, according to the sailors, to run all the electric vehicles in New York a month. Next Capt. Figensechow found that his compasses were useless as a result of the electrical current, the instruments varying from 8 to 10 degrees, one to the southeast and the other to the northwest. Then the skipper thought of his little rubber-incased compass kept for the use of the lifeboats in case of disaster. With this instrument, and by taking soundings and observations, the captain managed to keep in the coastwise track, and arrived off Sandy Hook yesterday morning on time. HISTORY IS RESTORED Annapolis Statehouse Room Has Been Refurnished The work of remodeling the Senate chamber in the old state house at Annapolis, the room of national historic interest as the scene of the resignation of Gen. Washington's military commission, has been practically completed and it is said to be one of the most accurate and interesting pieces of historical restoration ever achieved in this country. The work has been under the direction of Architect Josiah Pennington of Baltimore, aided by the state building commission and a specially appointed commission of architects and historians. After careful research every important detail of the old chamber has been fixed upon with well-nigh certainty and reproduced minutely. The Senate chamber was reconstructed in 1876 in order to obtain additional room. The event with which the room is always associated took place on December 23, 1783, though this was not the only event of national significance connected with it, for there the treaty of peace which ended the war with Great Britain was ratified on January 14, 1784, and there (September 11-14, 1786) sat the delegates from the six states in the meeting which led to the calling of the federal constitutional convention of 1787. Fighting the Billboard. The agitation against the billboard as a municipal disfigurement has already reached goodly proportions, and the campaign is as yet in its infancy. Some efforts, and well meant efforts, have been made to improve them, partly by designing the billboard itself and partly by improving the designs of the signs. Nothing has, however, yet been accomplished that amounts to definite and general improvement, and hence it is pertinent to inquire if the billboard is to go? One of the most obvious steps in municipal betterment is to do away with unnecessary, unsightly objects. The billboard has been unsightly so long that many people regard it as permanently evil. At all events it is clear that if it is to remain it can only do so under much better conditions than now obtained, and it must be supported on broader grounds than the fact that a handsome advertising business has grown up through its promotion. No business can be successfully promoted by improper means; the billboard, glaring and staring at every point, approaches the limit beyond which business should not go. Its misfortune has been injudicious use.--American Homes and Gardens. Boy's Trip in a Balloon. Floyd Wallace, a 16-year-old boy of Oneonta, had an exciting ride in a balloon that escaped from the Oneonta fair grounds at Binghamton, N. Y., recently. The balloon was being pulled down in the regular manner. When it was about 200 feet from the ground the rope broke and the balloon rapidly shot upward and soon disappeared in the clouds, being rapidly blown toward the northeast. The balloon owner said that unless the youth opened the valve the balloon would not come down for twenty four hours. The balloon rose to a height of more than two miles before it disappeared. The boy, however, managed to get hold of the valve rope and allowed the gas to escape so that he succeeded in landing at Summit, thirty miles from Oneonta. He was two hours and forty-five minutes above the clouds. The Cheerful Idiot's Conundrum. "The Cheerful Idiot's Conclusion" "What's the difference," began the Cheerful Idiot, upon which there was a great shoving-back on the part of the other boarders. "What is the difference between Hetty Green and an American heiress, who marries a titled European pauper?" No query being in evidence, the Idiot coolly replied to his own query: "One husbands her finances and the other finances her husband." Whereupon he almost died laughing.—Baltimore American. For the Children. By the Sea in Summer Weather. "Roaring waves and slippery sand—Dear me! I prefer the land!" That's what Dora says, for she Thinks it's dull beside the sea; But aunties, Dot, and you and I— We aren't lonesome, are we, Guy? How can days be dull for her Here, where everything's astir? Fishlawks flap and dance and dive, And the marsh is all alive With the fluttering, rosy mallows. And the wee fins stir the shallows; Lantern headed dragon files, Gleaming like the blue green eyes In a peacock's gorgeous tail, Through the meadow sail and sail; Snipe above the breakers flit, With their tiny twit-twit-twit, Or perhaps go running past, On their magic stilts, too fast For the white-maned wave to reach As it races up the beach Gray song sparrows teeter, teeter, Swinging, singing, sweeter, sweeter, On the long, light green sea grasses, Swaying as the sea breeze passes. When the wind blows from the west. Every wave will wear a crest, If it's blue and sunny weather— One fine rainbow like a feather! Sometimes, too, the billow brings Scores of fishes, helpless things! And long the sands they shine In a leaping silver line, Showing just the last wave's track; And I try to put them back. Then the sunny afternoons All along the shining dunes! And the bathing! when you sway Up and down in foam and spray Till the breakers' plunging roar Sweeps you shouting back to shore! Where could any mortal be Happler than beside the sea! —Margaret Hamilton in St. Nicholas. Strange Animal Alliances. It is not so very unusual for boys and girls to be adopted, but it is rather infrequently that grown people, in fact, a whole family, get adopted, all at the same time, without any opportunity for conference or comment, and that, too, by a cat. But I was not long since adopted, along with my entire family, by a black cat which has some of the most singular tastes that I have ever known a cat to evince. I do not know the name of this cat, for, although she is old enough to have raised several families of kittens, always proving herself a loving and discreet mother, I doubt if she has ever been honored with a name. She is simply "the black cat" to us, and always has been, during the several years that we have known her intimately, dating back a long time before our adoption by her. It came about in this way: She belonged to some city neighbors of ours, good friends, who lived a square or more distant. From the time that she was a kitten she used to make frequent calls at our house, and was generally rewarded with something to eat. Our next door neighbors keep chickens, and for these the cat manifested great friendship from the first. That is no wonder at all, for her mother, too, was fond of them, and our benefactress' first home was a hen's nest. In it she was born, in it she was reared, and as soon as she was big enough to go to roost with the chickens she was taken up there by her mother along with her brothers and sisters, every night as regularly as the night came. Her fondness for the chickens is more marked than was her mother's. It is evidently an inherited, as well as a cultivated, affection. The chickens are great, stalwart Plymouth Rocks, and it is no uncommon thing to see the black cat go up to one of them, sidling up in a most affectionate, yet experimental way, rub against it, and if it remains still long enough, reach up her head and rub it against the chicken's neck or against its head, if it is not too tall for such a caress, as if to beg for some slight return of affection. But the chickens do not seem to return the black cat's affection with any warmth. They tolerate her and her kittens in their nests and allow them room on the roosts, but as for exchanging demonstrations of affection in broad daylight they seem to have decided objections perhaps on grounds of dignity. As the black cat sidles up to them and rubs against them they slide away, look embarrassed, we always think, and try to leave their ardent four legged admirer. And sometimes, if she is too persistent, they give her sharp pecks with their beaks, and then she sadly marches away, looking as if she thought this was a pretty cold world, wherein such return is made for such tender feelings as she certainly has for the ungainly bipeds. A year or so ago our neighbors, the owners of the black cat, moved into the country quite a distance from town. They did not take pussy along, probably feeling secure that she was able to take care of herself, and would have plenty of friends to help her if she were not. And so, when she went home and found the house deserted, she came over and without ceremony adopted us. And we have no objection to being her wards, so long as she is content to roost with the chickens and rear her families in their nests. Not a whit less strange than the tastes of "the black cat" were those of two setter puppies that a friend of mine recently owned. In the same barnyard where they often romped appeared every morning before pasture time and every night after being let out of pasture a motherly Jersey cow. Just how the puppies first became attached to the cow nobody seems to have discovered. But it became a matter of much amusement and comment that they followed the larger quadruped to pasture every morning. And a little later the still more astonishing discovery was made that they remained with her throughout the day and escorted her home every night. One night, as the owner of the trio was watching them while they wandered back home, he noted that the puppies were uneasy and used every endeavor known to their puppyish intellects to hurry the cow home. There was a little patch of blue grass not far from the barnyard, and the Jersey was accustomed to stop there each night, just long enough to bite off a few mouthfuls of the succulent blades, before going into quarters. On this occasion the puppies resented the delay, petulantly barking at their protege, snapping threateningly, but by no means viciously, at her nose as she tried to snip off the grass. Following to the barn the master discovered that the cause of the anxiety of the puppies to get there was that they were nearly famished. So great was their devotion to their big friend that they would remain in the pasture following every step she took all day, until they were as hungry as gaunt pigs, rather than leave her for a single half hour. But the most remarkable of their performances came one morning while they were on their way to pasture. Between the barn and the field extends a railway, which connects an important southern city with one of the great cities of the north by a single line. The engineer of a freight train which was moving up the road noticed some distance up the track the not unusual sight of the old cow and the two puppies on the way to pasture. He had grown to feel acquainted with the strange family, and felt deeply interested in them. That made it the more disturbing to him when the cow tried to cross the track rather dan- gerously near to the approaching train, and, instead of passing on over when the whistle gave its several shrieks of warning, turned up the road and commenced trying to run away from the engine at an awkward cow trot. The puppies took in the situation at once and ran after her, trying to drive her off the track. They leaped at her nose and barked and snarled, and tried every artifice they could think of to make their big ward do the right thing. But she could not understand. Meantime, the train being a light one, the engineer got it well under his control, and amusedly moved along behind this combination of cross purposes to see how the misunderstanding would come out. He allowed the train to approach so close to them that the puppies finally despaired of accomplishing their first purpose—that is, driving the stupid cow from the track—and with one impulse they turned and charged straight upon the approaching engine. And they were so fixed in their purpose to hold it up that the engineer was obliged to come to a sudden stand-still in order to save these brave little creatures from martyrdom to their strange devotion.—Springfield (Mass) Republican. When the Devil Is Loose in Mexico. A big fire, a suicide and a number of accidents in the city and a heavy wind and rain storm here and numerous crimes and accidents in many parts of the Republic were the natural consequences, it is to be supposed, of the annual one day's leave of absence taken by his diabolical majesty the devil yesterday—a leave of absence which his majesty spends in his earthly planet doing a number of devilish tricks. It is a common belief among almost all Mexicans that on the day of San Bartolo, which was yesterday, the devil is loose and many unpleasant things happen. The devil is supposed to be very busy all the year around roasting bad people in the inferno, but on the day of San Bartolo he takes a little rest and comes to the earth to see how things are going on. That is, he comes on a trip of inspection to see the prospects for the coming year. Many people are so superstitious about this that they stay at home all day and refuse to receive calls because, according to tradition, it occurred one time that the devil disguised himself and called upon people whom he wanted to carry away. The object of the visit was briefly explained and the interested parties were so scared that most of them dropped dead, whereupon the devil carried away their souls. The superstition is much more widely spread in the states of the interior. In Guadalajara, for instance, they claim that San Bartolo's is the day when the city shall be destroyed by a flood and a hurricane, according to the prediction of a priest who died many years ago, although nobody knows the name of that prophet nor the year when he made his prophecy.—Mexican Herald. Trout Pulls Boy Into Stream. Edgar Hagar, a 12-year-old boy, came near losing his life while fishing in the Truckee river near here recently. The youngster hooked an immense rainbow trout in an unexpected manner. The big fish immediately gave battle, actually pulling the boy into the turbulent stream. The young fisherman was pulled down the stream, finally striking a whirlpool, which landed him under the bough of a willow tree, which he grasped. In this position he kept himself above water with one hand and with the other held on to the fish line until he tired the fish, and with his prize dragged himself to shore. The trout weighed in the neighborhood of ten pounds, the largest rainbow captured in the Truckee in many years. The Hagar boy will not tip the scales at sixty pounds.—Reno Cor. Sacramento Ree. Cause for Remorse. A western lawyer recounts a story of a trial he once witnessed in a Texan court. A hard-looking tough was the defendant. His counsel, in a voice apparently husky with emotion, addressed the jury something in this wise: "Gentlemen, my client is a poor man. He was driven by hunger and want to take a small sum of money. All that he wanted was sufficient funds wherewith to buy bread, for it is in evidence that he did not take the pocketbook containing $500 that was in the same bureau drawer." At this point the counsel for the defense was interrupted by the convulsive sobs of his client. "Here, man!" exclaimed the judge, "why are you crying so?" "Because, your honor," replied the defendant,—"because I didn't see der pocketbook in de drawer."—Harper's Weekly. Hid from College Tasks. After having hidden her identity for over a week, Miss Ethel Shoemaker, a 19-year-old Chicago girl, was found working in a canning factory at South Haven, Mich., by her father. Miss Shoemaker lived in dread of going to college, and as the term approached she disappeared from home, went to South Haven and secured a position in the factory under the assumed name of Ethel Gilbert. When she applied the clerk was impressed by her refinement and dress and her natural unfitness for the work. She was assigned to a room in the dormitory and put to work pitting peaches. The girl went home with her father. Editor's Lion Is No More. Editor Clarence Wolfe's lion, at New Harmony, Ind., bought to keep the poets away from the office of the New Harmony Times, is dead, and the Possey country muse has revived. As soon as the news spread about the village the verse writers, who had accumulated quite a stock of poetry in the three weeks that the animal had kept guard at Mr. Wolfe's door, descended on him in a body with epitaphs. The lion was bought three weeks ago, and so successful was it that the editor is looking for a larger and stronger animal. Mouse Up Preacher's Leg. Standing in the pulpit of the Methodist church at Terril, Ia., Rev. Mr. Sutton continued his discourse to the members of his congregation, though a mouse had run up inside his trousers leg. He did not wish to lose his dignity or frighten the feminine members of his congregation, and finally managed to catch the little animal between his knee and the pulpit. After vigorous pressure he released it, and it fell to the floor, unable to do further harm. Roosevelt's Name Again Honored The public square of the canton of Ninove, in Belgium, has been named Place Roosevelt by order of the canton's legislative body, in appreciation of the President's share in concluding the peace treaty between Russia and Japan. The new Roosevelt square, or Place Roosevelt, was formerly known as the Place Communale de Ninove. For Smokeless Pittsburg. Gen. A. J. Warner of Marietta, O., has interested H. C. Frick and George Westinghouse, Jr., in a plan to make Pittsburg smokeless. Gen. Warner's plan is to erect a mammoth power plant about twenty-five miles from the city, near a coal mine, where the coal is to be converted into electricity and power which will be fed to Pittsburg by cables. ST a = ooo THE “TURF” CAFE —— DINNER BILL == Regular Dinner 25c Dinner 11:80 to 2 p. m. and 5 te 8 p. m. Sliced Tomatoes, 10¢e. Radishes, 10¢, Cucumbers, Ine on Onions, 10c. BBHAN SOUP. Boiled Trout and Mint Sauce, 25c. 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B See occurrences were impressive. In way the final agreement reached PO Japan and Russia marked a “gett “TAINTED MONEY.” together” of nations long separated And Jesus sat over against the treasury and beheld how people cast money into the treasury.—Mark xil., 41, There is no moral quality resident in money nor can a moral quality be imparted from the giver to the gift. Money is impersonal. It is simply a representative value and morally negative and colorless. It cannot re- ceive any taint in the method of its acquirement nor in the hand that be stows it. Many persons would regard money | acquired in the brewery business as tainted. And yet there recently died a brewer, of unimpeachable integrity in business relations, a member in good and regular standing in an evan- gelical church, who, when asked on bis dying bed if he had any counsel or admonition he would like to give, replied: “I am thankful I can look God in the face and say that I never brewed bad beer.” But the most important question for the Christian church to consider is, What was the teaching and example of Jesus Christ? Here is the famous episode of our text. In the Temple of Jerusalem and within the court of the women boxes were conveniently ar- ranged to receive the offerings of the worshippers. And it is said that Christ sat over against the treasury and be- held how people cast money’ into the treasury. Probably He saw the ostentatious giver, with head erect and stately tread, approach the casket and then with flourish of hand drop into the treasury several loud resounding pieces, while his neighbors looked on with praise and applause. As he turned away he may have heard his Master say, “Verily, he hath his re- ward.” The Pharisee may have been fol- lowed by the unlovely and grumbling giver, who with a scowl on his face and night in his heart draws near to the fatal receptacle. He hangs dog- gedly and sullenly with his hand in his coin bag as page he feared to take it out, dnd thei with & groan he drags out his coppers and with a _Sig-._hears them, rattle at the bottom, of the treasure chest. Does Christ say: “Verily, he hath his reward?” In the procession there may have paraded the mercenary giver, the man who expects something heavenly or earthly in réturn for his dole, the earthly more generally preferred, There was the oblivious giver, the man who is so anxious that his left hand shall never know what his right hand is doing, though he need not have been so careful, for from beginning to the end he was never known to blunder and give a shekel instead of a farthing. There came the judge, who had the reputation for devouring widows’ houses, and directly behind came one of the widows. She could not give as much as the judge, but Christ said to her: “This poor widow hath cast in more than all.” God’s treasury accepted the offering of all, of the men who devoured widows’ houses as well as of the widow whose house had been devour- ed. And Christ looked on and made no protest. The gifts were acceptable even though the donors were not worthy. Did Christ protest when Mary Magdalene anointed Him with the precious ointment? She was regard- ed as a disgraced woman, and yet Christ speaxs of her gift in terms of highest commendation. Zaccheus was a publican, which meant that he was an extortioner and a despised man, and yet when he told Christ of the gifts and the fourfold restitution he proposed to make there is not a re- corde word from the lips of the Savior showing any disapproval ef such use of ill-gotten gains. The attitude of the church toward all classes and conditions of men should be the attitude of Jesus Christ. The question for the church to decide is, What would Christ do? Directed by His example, as given in the gos- pels, the church would receive the gifts of men, even though condemning the methods of acquisition. Let the church speak in no hesitat- ing or uncertain tone concerning dis- honesty, trickery, fraud, deception in trade. Let is condemn in severest terms all efforts to accumulate wealth through plunder or ropbery. Let it show most certainly that no man can buy his way into the kingdom of heav- en. But why should it refuse to accept the services or gifts of men when such services or gifts are rendered in a right spirit? Christ received the gifts of the abandoned, the unjust, the de- spised. Shall the church make her- self holier than her divine Lord? LESSONS FROM PORTSMOUTH. as Gee 2 “ES Glee Be. oe ee ee a ae Two things happened at Ports- mouth, encouraging to the lover of the human race: The first was the cor- dial and, according to the report, sin- cere exchange of handshaking and good wishes between the Russian and Japanese envoys at the conclusion of the Joining of the priests of the Angli- ean and the Greek churches in the service of thanksgiving at which the Russian envoys were attendants. Both occurrences were impressive. In a way the final agreement reached by Japan and Russia marked a “getting together” of nations long separated by their antagonistic interests, and for a still longer time kept apart by racial divergence. Also, in the church serv- ice, the uniting of representatives of the two churches signified what was, for the time at least, a laying down of long-held differences between two prominent church systems in the world. Those who take the story of Geti- esis as a literal account of the origin of mankind point to the eighteenth and nineteenth verses of the ninth chapter and the statement regarding the sons of Noah—Shem, Ham and Japheth—who, it is said there, “over- spread the whole earth.” Scholarship is not prepared to trace the origin of the different nations back to three stems; and, on the authority of Emanuel Swedenborg, the famous ‘Swedish Bible student and scientist, it may be stated definitely that Shem, | Ham and Japheth, referred to in this ‘part of the Bible, were not intended te be the names of individual men. They are, according to him, the names not of men, but of faculties of the mind, and they belong to a part of the holy word taken from a more ancient word written like real history, but not his- tory. It was, in other words, a writ- ing in the style of pseudo-history, but containing an inner or allegorical sense. And according to this sense Shem, Ham and Japheth refer to quali- ties of the mind of men. Shem is the name for that inner plane where the soul has its greatest freedom and de- ‘velopment made possible by the cul- tivation of love for the Lord and for the neighbor. Ham is the name for that inward kind of knowledge of wis- dom that should properly go along with Shem, but with some men becomes perverse and leads to a state of mind in which a mere knowledge of things of religion is considered sufficient without deeds or love, Japheth is that outer part of the mind which is most in contact with the outer world and which with the religious man is where the liking for outward religious cere mony, or external religion, is devel- oped. Wé should be unwise if we regarded the meeting at Portsmouth of the en- voy from the far east with the mes- senger from the far north at the friendly solicitation of the great states- man of the far west as really signal- izing a union, even partial, of the in- terests of the races respectively repre- sented. But may we not look beneath the surface? May we not see that any meeting, such as this one was, between envoys of nations which had hitherto been wide apart in interests if not actually hostile, to agree upon some basis for common understanding and commercial intercourse, does represent a “getting together” of the Shem, Ham and Japheth faculties of the human mind? In this case the Anglo-Saxon nation might perhaps be considered as the Hammite, or intellectual or rea- soning faculty by which was made possible the bringing together of the Japanese or interior oriental spirit, with the more demonstrative exterior part of the mind typified by Russia. The real lesson of the Shem, Ham and Japheth story is, however, found in its application to the individual mat. regardless of nationality. The individ- ual man only enters into a state of “peace’ when his inner aspirations and ideals represented by Shem and the outward performance of his life, his exterior life, represented by Japheth, act together in harmony, and this con- dition is brought about through the agency of the reasoning or thinking faculty typified by the second or inter- mediate son, Ham. SHORT METER SERMONS. Love alone can lift the lost. Surfeit is the foe of serenity. Opportunity is only the observe of obligation. Wherever a lie alights its progeny arise. Consideration for cthers is the noblest courtesy. Resentment bears heavy fruitage of regret. He who is a friend only to himself is a foe to all men. The things of life are likely to get in the way of life itself. God never calls a man to command until he has learned to obey. Most men are made by their enemies Po marred by themselves. Where there is no heart in the work there is always plenty of hardship. No man wanders more easily than ‘he who watches only another’s ways. Frozen faith is effective only in freezing the faithful. Men who spend their time knocking never open any doors. It is always a pleasure to the aver- age man to boost another sinner down. ‘The religion that cannot stand camp- ing out had better be left at homme in the ice box. There is a good deal more charity in withholding the word of malice than in giving any kind of a wad of money. THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC To Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North and South Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Washington and Wyom’.g. By reading the Wisconsin Weekly Advocate you will find all the information needed. We Find Homes and Employment to All Our Subscribers Our paper has the largest circulation of any Negro Journal in the West. Address _ WISCONSIN WEEKLY ADVOCATE _ 729 St. Paul Ave. Mi waukee, Wis. SHORT, IMPRESSIVE TEMPER- ANCE SERMONS. Dangers that Lurk in the Flowing Bowl—How Bright and Influential Men Have Been Dragged Down by the Demon Drink—Suppress the Traffic. We ought not to drink in modera- tion, because no human being can be absolutely certain that he will be able to long remain a “moderate” drinker. Of the many young men whom I have known, those who have “done well,” as well as those who have “done bad- ly” as the world goes, I have never yet known one who set out as a “moderate drinker” with any intention to become | or fear of becoming a drunkard. Ev- ery man of them began to drink with & strong determination to continue a “moderate” drinker as long as he lived. We ought not to drink in modera- tion, because even if we were abso- lutely certain that we would never out- step the bounds of moderation our- selves, there are all round us in life young men and maidens, engaging in. the struggle for existence, who, whether from inebriate inheritance cr from some other nervous defect of constitution, are totally unable (from no.misdoing of theirs) to drink in mod- eration, They can abstain and they can drink to excess, but to drink “mod- erately” is beyond their power. Such handicapped ones are the very per- sons generally whose mental balance is so delicate, and whose resisting power is so defective that.they are often the least able to restrain alto- gether. If they try to follow your ap- parently safe practice of “moderation” they cannot continue “moderate” to the end. We ought not to drink in modera- tion, because intoxicating drinks are unnecessary and useless in health. We need, to live at all, well or ill, fresh supplies of certain things to repair the waste of substance, heat, fluid and energy, which is constantly going on in body and brain. Does alcohol meet any or all of these wants? It does not, neither does it give healthy tissue por internal vital heat (though it makes our skin hot)! Alcohol cannot build up a sound frame. Although it qakes us feel warm, it robs us of our very life’s heat, and if too much is ithdrawn from us, leaves us too cold fo live. We are practically two-thirds ater, which conveys the nourishing atter over the system, cleanses our ies and preserves our personal iden- {tity like a liquid paste or glue. Every ‘addition of alcoho! impairs this three- fold beneficent capacity of nature's everage, “honest water that left no ie Y the mire.” Therefore moder- te drinking is extravagance alike for peas and for purse, What we pay for ur liquor, if intoxicating, is simply wasted, wasted as if we threw our qmoney into the ocean. We ought not to drink in modera- tion, because this is a practice injuri- pus to health. Alcohol is an irritant poison. It irritates and inflames the stomach, liver, kidneys and other vital organs, overworks the heart and dis- turbs the brain; not much, perhaps, at first, but certainly in the long run. Of drunkenness I do not speak. No one de- fends that nowadays. I limit what I say to so-called “moderate” steady drinking. Medically and pathological- ly, the man who gets abominably drunk once a month for a couple of days and is a strict teetotaler in the intervais, humanly speaking and leaving aside the ethics of the question, will, other things being equal, undermine his health less than the man who prac- fices day by day such “moderation” as a glass of spirits, three glasses of wine, or four half pints of beer or stout. It ds your regular drinking, whether lim- {ted or unlimited, that Induces the dis- ‘ease. | There are many good reasons why we should avoid drinking entirely. I will add only one more. Alcohol, in any appreciable quantity, reduces mus- ‘eular force, and lessens mental sharp- ‘ness. Carefully conducted experiments ‘have shown this. Alcohol takes the keen edge off our perceptive faculties, so that we take some seconds longer to see an object, while it mocks us by causing us to think that we have seen At sooner, So with thought. Thus is it that an abstainer can often do busi- ‘ness more to his own advantage when ‘the person with whom he is dealing has taken a glass of wine or spirits. Alcohol is a reducer, a blinder, a paral- -yzer.—Norman Kerr, M. D., in Na- | tional Advocate. | Temperance Notes, 7s i reeerye 4 The Place to Meet Ali Prominent = Race Men When in Washington 3 ce ey ee ee a : WILLIAM HILL 3 3 TONSORIAL PARLOR = E All the Latest That Can Be Obtained 3 : Hair Cutting, Shaving, Sham- ’ e pooing and Massaging. 3 : In Porters’ Exchange, 105 6tti Street, N. W. 3 Phone Main 4122-R 3 Politeness. Attentiveness. - pj obbbt Oita Ais cba buh Oita chih Atala chsh ts bib os lp nih Ose dy duh Ata das Clothing to. fit without being measured for. Prices less than you ever bought them for. Our specialty is misfit and uncalled-for custom tailor- made clothing. Tailors’ prices for full dress | . or Tuxedo Suits from $30 to $50; our price from $15 to $18. English Walking or good Business Suits made to measure by best of tailors from $18.00 to $35.00. Our price $8.00 to $18.00. Every suit bears our guarantee label. All gar- ments bought of usare kept repaired and pressed free of charge for one year. ‘To be convinced see our window display. MILLER BROS. 213-15-17 West Water St., Milwaukee, Wis. Open Evenings Till9 P.M. Sundays Till 12 M. One-Third Saving Sale ————————— on ————— gm Warranted Watches, Fewelry, Silverware, Clocks, Opera Glasses, eee Cutlery, etc. C. J. DEWEY, 224 WEST WATER ST, NOTICE! We are making a specialty of hauling Trunks to and from all depots for 25c. Three trips daily, 9A.M.,1P.M. and5 P.M. Special trips 35c. We stenecle HARD AND SOFT COAL #2. 2807 STATE STREET. WM. Cc. LOGAN 226 EB. 28th STREET. —_—“ooommmmee PHONE CORED ——————— There are $5,000 liquor shops in Paris. The Pope has forbidden Catholics joining the Good Templars. The German Emperor tells his sol- diers that Russia’s defeat at Mukden was due to enervation caused by im- morality and drunkenness. Moral: Let the German army be sober and pure. Dr. Charles Gilbert Davis, the emi- nent physician, says: “For more than fifteen years I have pursued my pro- fessional work in hospital and private practice, and while within the bounds of civilization have not found it neces- sary to administer alcohol. I am not at all prejudiced against its use. Be- yond scientific medical associations, I belong to no temperance society. My action is based entirely upon scientific thought, observation and experience. I pelieve that in most, and probably all, cases disease can be better removed and surgical operations more success- fully performed without its employ- ment.” Sate | PEOPLE’S TAILORING CO. Suits to, Order $15,00 WE CONTINUE TO WARN THE BENEVOLENT PUBLIC AGAINST THE NUMEROUS BEGGARS FOR ALLEGED CHARITABLE INSTITU- TIONS IN BEHALF OF THE NEGRO RACE. LOOK WELL TO THE CRE- DENTIALS OF SUCH MENDICANTS AND INQUIRE OF SOME REPUTA- BLE NEGRO CITIZEN REGARDING THE TRUTHFULNESS OF THEIR STATEMENTS. THE WEDDING OF BILL. ‘Thar wasn't no sentiment in Bilt, when Bit! ‘Jes’ herded cattl>, An’ wane ways didn't iat'rest him at all; Iie offen said he couldn't stand ter hear their tittle-tattle > Au’ said be thought a women was all gall. ‘They're all fer dress an” a An’ they ain't no use fer drinkin’, z Au’ yer never seed oue yet that wusn't jeatous: Au’ th’ average female pussun, If she ain't kep’ busy fussin’. 7 Has her lungs a-going like a Diacksmith’s bellus.” ‘That aa Bill talked of wimmin "fore a little eastern fairy trotted inter camp an’ reckoned she would say; ‘She was plump and full of Sgger and she wuzn't a bit seary. Or she never would bev opened 3 cafe. See a — in a beanery is migh purty scenery, Espeshuliy when Cowboys want ter eat; But it's mighty hard perbaps When those rough an’ xeeey cbaps Git to sweariu’ “bout the quality of meat. ‘They meant no disrespect of course to Mary. but the same Was language that a lady shouldn't beat: And it didn't take a second look 1o Know the little aame Woz gettin’ rather warm bebind the ear- ‘Au’ she up an’ said one day, In an independent way, That the swearin’ bee was over for all time; And she wouldn't serve a bean To the man who didn’t mean Zo behave bimself—for swearing is # crime. Now it struck the crowd as funny an’ they laughed an’ swore some mere, But Bill jes’ riz an" had his little say: We could tell that he wuz narvous when he pulled bis +4, An’ swung it round in such @ careless way. “Ye hev heered what Mary told yer ‘An’ I guess it ought ter hold yes. If it don’t 1 reckon I know jes’ what will; Now there ain't no sens¢ in fussin’, There will be no further cussin’, Or ton ‘hey ter settle quick with Unele It wezn't two months after Bill an’ Mary were good friends. An’ we noticed, too, tha: Bill commenced __ ter save; Ye kin tell’a man is lovesick by the money that he spends, An’ wen he’s always wisbin’ fer a shave- Some wimmin air contrary, But not so little Mary, An’ Bill jes’ up an’ married her one day; An’ once more the gang is cussin’ An’ there isn’t any fussin’ For Bill is now the boss of the cafe. —Detroit Free Press. TWO LINCOLN STORIES. By Lieut.-Col. J. A. Watrous, UL. S. A. “4 Lincoln story is never unwelcome.” ‘That is the response to the query: “Do you want a story about President Lin- coln?” ‘This one is fresh from the lips of Dr. Walter Kempster, tue nation’s commis- sioner to Russia some years ago. He told it at a reunion. “When the Twelfth New York left the state for Washington I was with it, a siim, pale and weakly boy who ought to have been spanked and sent to bed in- stead of being sllowed to enter the army; but they couldn't keep me from going. “Our regiment reached Washington in May, 1861. and was encamped at the Georgetown side of the white house, and close to it. That was before the white house was so carefully fortified by walls and iron fences. a “One forenoon, soon after going into camp, while 1 was standing on the steps of the white house, and 1 think I was looking more homesick than usual, a tall man 1 had seen on several occasions came up to me and placing his large hand on my head, in a way I shall never forget, and which seems but yesterday instead of more than a third of a cen- tury ago, began to talk. ““My boy, where did you come from? “*New York, sir.’ “What are you doing here?’ “‘T am a soldier iz the ‘I'welfth regi- meat, sir.” “*We don’t want little boys like you in the army; we want strong, large men; you go into the house and play with the children.” “| felt indignant, at first, but quickly forgot it and and did go into the white house and play with Mr. Lincoln's chil- dren—Robert. Willie and Tad—went ev- ery day the command remained in that camp—and the Lincoln children always welcomed me.” eee “Some years ago, when Robert Lin- coln was our minister to England, I called upon him. After the customary introduction, ‘Mr. Lincoln, we have met before. Think back, away back, a thou- sand years, measured by American prog- ress, and see if you recall me.” “"“f am obliged to confess that I do not remember to have met you before this visit,’ said the dignified American minister.” “Do you remember, soon after you went to the white house, that a New York regiment camped at its west side?’ ‘Very well. 4 caused my father and the officers a good deal of trouble by mingling with the troops at all hours of the day and evening, asking questions and interfering with discipline. Were you one of the men of that regiment?’ “I was the boy of the regiment.’ “*The little fellow who used to come into the house and play with the ciil- dren? «~The same.” “Then we two men shook hands again and spent some time in talking over the days whose events were so full of in- terest, so startling, and meant so much for the nation.” see “I have just come from shaking hands with President McKinley,” said a gray- haired man to a friend as they met or Pennsylvania avenue. “How did he impress you?” “All right, I think, but really I can’ tell just how I was impressed. He looked and spoke kindly, but, importan: as the event was to me, my thought: went back to the only other time a Pres. ident took my hand and looked and spoke pleasantly—went back so obsti nately that I forgot to say to Mr. Mc Kinley what I intended to say—no about an office, mind. Did you ever have memory xnd feelings take posses sion—such firm possession that you wer their prisoner—at a time when you great ly desired to be free? I hope not. Tha was my condition all the time I wa: looking at President McKinley.” “Who was the other President you hac in mind?” “Abraham Lincoln. Our regiment hac been called to Washington the week aft er the first Bull Run battle. and wa: in camp at Kalorama heights, then ; long ways from Washington, but whic! is now a beautiful part of the capital Myself and brother were given a pass t spend the day in the city. The attrac tions then were not as many as now and we were ready to return to cam by the middle of the afternoon. “While we stood in the street lookin at and talking about the white hous« Mr. Lincoin slowly walked from the building out upon the grounds, and for some time stood with his hands folded looking into the trees. Both of us hac aaarched with the Wide Awakes th: year before and many times shoutec ourselves hoarse in efforts to make peu ple see the need of making Mr. Linco}: the President. We thought of that anc felt that we had earned the right t spenk to the successful candidate. Pass ing through the south gate. with ow hearts pounding the new gray uniform: —that was the color our state had chosen, but had to give up—we reaches the side of the great President while li: was yet searching the limbs of the trees. Not daring te speak, we remained as if transfixed. ae at that homely but kindiy face. At last his eyes were tak- en from the trees and centered on the strangers, a pair of young western boys whose rosy cheeks had not yet felt the pull of a razor. “*Exense me, gentlemen, I did not know you had come. However, I am glad to see you.’ and he buried our right hands as he gave us a typical western handshake. The Lineoin hand, | you know, was like the Lincoin, made from a generous — “The two boys were still dumb. Their admiration for their candidate and their President was so ample that it was glory enough for them to gaze at him in silence. ‘So you have come to help me save the country. 1 am glad of it. We shall lave a hard task, I expect, but with pleaty of such partners as you young gentiemen we shall save it. Be sure of that.” “We young fellows grew a foot in self-esteem at the thought of being the partners of Lincoln—of our candidate— in a country saving enterprise. Do you blame us? “What regiment? | “We told him and he then asked us if we would like to go into the white house. “Of course we wanted to. and did. “When we left he shook hands and said, ‘When this trouble is over come and see me again.” “When the trouble was over I did not feel like going to the white house. Why? Lincoln was dead and my precious broth- er was sleeping on a_ southern battle- field, where he fell. This was my first visit to the white house since August. 1S5i. Biay be it is not strange that memory took me back to that first visit.” —Ervening Wisconsin. AUTOMATIC RAILWAY GATE. Safety Device for Use on Country High- ways. In the majority of the large cities the railroads are compelled by local legisla- tion to maintain guard gates at street crossings. Where many trains are passing every day and the highway traf- fie heavy, safety gates, with an attend- ant. are generally the means adopted. ee | .N This is not the case in the less sparsely settled districts, an automatic bell, which rings on the approach of trains in either direction, being deemed sufficient. A vast improvement on this is the auto- matie railway gate shown in the illustra- tion here, the invention of a Pennsyl- ‘yanian. In this apparatus the gates, ‘four in namber, are hinged to as many posts placed at the corners of the cross- ‘ing. Mounted on the bottom of each post and extending outward is a rod which passes through openings in the rail, the inner end of this rod connecting with a bar which extends inside and along the track. The space between the bar and the track gradually increases, its farthest point apart being reached at its connection with the rod of the gate. Normally the gates are swung across the track, but when a train ap- proaches the flanges of the wheels of the railroad ear will engage the bars and press them in toward the rails on each side. The rods being connected to the bar are also pushed in, the mechanism operating to swing the gates across the road. When the train has passed the action of a spring bar causes the gates to swing back automatically across the track. This apparatus would perform the double function of keeping traffic off the tracks when a train is passing and of preventing stray animals, ete., from wandering along the track when the highway is open. ROOFING COMPOSITION. Makes a Flexible smaterial Impervious to Moisture. An Ohio inventor has patented a roof- ing material, which be claims is an im- provement over those used at the pres- ent time. We show in the illustration three sectiona! views of a protion of a roofing embodying this invention. _In the first view the middle section consists 2of a strip of woven materiai, preferably burlap. surrounded on both sides with a coating of the inventor's filler compo- sition. This composition consits of elas- EK iE | tie baking japan, asphaltum and rosin. In producing this improved roofing the filler composition is baked on the burlap in a furnace and is mixed about in the following proportions: Elastic baking japan, 40 per cent.; asphaltum, 50 per cent. and rosin, 10 per cent. In the sec- ond view, reading from left to right, the first and third sections are composed of the filler, the second section the burlap and the last section an understrip of pa- per, the paper and woven material being secured together by means of the filler. There is thus provided a roofing in which the central portion or base consists of a woven material, such as burlap, which is made impervious to moisture by the ad- dition of the filler and_ its life greatly lengthened. Such a rooting could not be easily torn, while the filler makes a thick coating, which should wear a number of years. MY TWIN. I haven't got a twin— I wish I had! I'd love that kid like sin, I'd be so glad; I'd let him use my toys, If he was good, Aud play with ether boys— Indeed, I would! I guess my twin would be About my size, But not as strong as me, Or half as wise; And when to school we came, I'd say, “Look here, You watch your Unele’s game, And uever fear.” I'd teach my twin to swim, And shoot a guu, And take such care of bln, He'd have great fun; And if some fellow tried To punch his face, I'd say, “You step aside, Til take your place.” I'd teach bim manners, too, And if he kieked, The way some fellows do, Why, he'd get licked! I'd show—what's that?—he might Lick me some morn? Gee-whiz! perhaps you're right— I'm glad he stayed unborn! —W. W. Whitelock in New York Tim {New York Brery Day. | New York Every Day. William Waldorf Astor has_ filed a claim against the eity of New York for $1,000,000, asserting that his property | has been damaged by the changing of grades. Great activity in social circles has be- gun with the arrival in this country of the Duchess of Marlborough. Newport's set is making extensive plans for a fu- rious social whirl during her three weeks’ stay here. Nearly every hostess of fash- ion is preparing some sort of an affair at which the duchess is expected to be pres- ent. j Isaane Schamus, the young man_ who | recently attempted to secure an andieuce with President Koesevelt at Oyster Bay. in order to submit to the President « scheme for settling the coal mining ques- |tion, and was arrested at the instance of secret service agents, was adjudged insane and committed to the state hos- pita! for the insane at Central Islip, N. Y. Sir Gilbert Parker, author, playwright and member of Parliament, is in New York on his way to England after spend- ing several weeks in Canada. He is en- thusiastic over the western part of the dominion and says it is one of the rich- est agricultural countries in the world. He claims it is being settled rapidly and that half of the immigrants are from the United States, and who, as a rule, are becoming British subjects. A telephone message from Baltimore to New York, notified Roche's hotel, New York city, that J. S. Green. a Baltimore boy, probably was dead in his room, The caller said she was the sister of Green, and that she had just received at her home in Baltimore a letter from the young man announcing that he intended to commit suicide. The hotel manage- ment found the bey in bis reom dead. with a bullet wound in the region of the heart. Active work is going on in New York looking toward a permanent world’s fair, to be opened in 1909 in celebration of the tri-centennial celebration of the discovery of the Hucson river. Offices Lave been opened in Manhattan and Peekskill for the promotion of the enterprise, and op- tions have been obtained on a ‘large tract of land at Verplanck’s point. on the east bank of the Hudson, near Peekskill, where it is proposed to locate the expo- | sition. Raphael Hawaweeney, said to be a clergyman in the Greek church in Brook- lyn, was arrested with six other men and held without bail as the result of 2 riot in Brooklyn. The trouble, the police say, grew out of articles published in a Syrian paper, to which the clergyman and his followers objected. Hawaweeney and twenty others called at the editor's house. A riot followed, during which a score of shots were fired and one man was wounded in the leg. Police reserves were called ont to quell the disturbance. The “deadly vacation” is the latest peril against which the health authorities have issued a warning. Outings spent in small farmhouses, poorly ventilated, with bad drainage and contaminated water supplies are declared by several leading physicians of New York city to threaten an epidemic of typhoid fever during the autumn. The doctors declare that string- ent measures will be necessary to pre- vent a great amount of sickness from these causes among persons who spent the summer days in the country. sup- posedly enjoying a change of air and fresher food than they get in the city. Charles Edwards, a notorious eracks- man, was found dead in a New York stable. The kick of a horse had torn the top of his head off. Edwards was a member of the famous “Jimmy Hope” gang and wss known as “Second Story” Edwards. He had been in jail_thirty- eight times, several terms being for bur- glaries. He was also a noted trickster, having traveled all over the country with yarious circuses, and had often amused the children by sticking needles and hat pins into his body and eating glass. His widow and three children refused to claim the body and it will be buried in the potter's field. The great liner Etruria steamed away from New York for Queenstown and Liv- erpool on her last trip carrying just 15 passengers in her first esbin. * attling about in the quarters built to accommo- date between 600 and 700 persons, the Etruria’s guests seemed lost and some- what overwhelmed with the prospect of having the great ship all to themselves. On the trip over they will have about seven stewards each vo minister to their wants and to receive the inevitable tip. Likewise each man jack of them will be surrounded by a swarm of waiters if he is lucky enough to escape mal de mer and retain his appetite. _The salary of the comptroller of New York is $15,000 a year, which is 3 per cent. interest on $500,000. Mr. Grout finds it too little for his family expenses. He can save nothing fora rainy day. In his letter to Mayor McClellan regretting the necessity of retiring from the office he has filled so ably, he says: “While _|the salary of the office is generous, as || publie salaries go, it is no greater than | had been earning at my profession, ,j While the demands of office and the in- _|erease in expenses, and in the require- ‘ = of aT ee have been such that _jeach year ave spent $2000 $300C ,| more than my neces = |. Bishop Samuel Fallows of the Re | formed Episcopal church of Eiiceen: | preaching at the Fifth Avenue Presby- _|terian church, said: “The day of per | sonality has gone by. The man whe writes the editorial articles in the news- | paper is unknown except to a few. It | 38 so with the teachers in the public schools—perhaps to a greater extent tham [any other calling. The absurd and un | just discriminations that have heretofore '} been made against a woman because she is a woman are ceasing. The individual SR Pe RE RRS er is not the unit of society. The unit ot society cousis.s of a man and a woman, united in holy wedlock.” After being separated from his wife and child for two years, during which time he worked hard in order to prepare a home and send passage money so that his family could join him, Alexander Szvitay arrived in New York from Chi- cago to meet them. He was informed that on examination by. the Ellis island. medical officers after arrival on the Noor- dam, the 4-year-old son was found to be mentally weak and with bis mother was ordered ——— After pleading in vain with the immigration officials to allow him to see his ehild, Szvitay decided to return to Hianenty. He will return to Chicago to settle up his affairs. Wealthy residents of Larchmont have raised a fund of $200 to pay as a reward to the person who will rn the names of the occupants of a green touring au- tomobile that ran down and killed “Scotty,” a mongrel dog and mascot of the Larchmont Yacht club. The dog was the pet of Larchmont, and there is grief among the yachtsmen over his untimely death. Every place “Scotty” went he was at home. He dined every day at the Larchmont Yacht club and at night he slept in the carriage of Mrs. F. O. O'Donnell, daughter of F. F. Proctor, the theater manager and owner. The dog was named after the miner of Death Valley. Reports received by the Bureau of Equipment of the navy department state that the Fessenden Wireless Telegraph company is trying a_novel_ experiment. It is-now erecting at Brant Rock, Mass., a tower which has a steel mast 420 feet high, insulated at the base, in place of the usual wooden masts to prevent induc- tion. At its head it carries two fifty foot spars crossed, and from these de- pend wires which catch the vibrations of the ether waves and take the place of wire antennae, A similar mast has been erected at Machrihanish Bay, Scotland, and it is the hope of the company that communi- cation will be possible over the interven- ing three thousand miles. _The body of the suicide who ended his life by hanging recently. at Mamaro- neck, near New York city, was identified as that of a young man who had repre- sented himself to be William A. King. the son of a wealthy cotton mill owner of Augusta, Ga. The identification was made by Mrs. George E. Jardine, at whose house the young man had stopped. Young King had told Mrs. Jardine that he was penniless, having spent all of the allowance from his father. He had been warned by the latter that if he overlived his income he would have to shift for himself until che next installment was due. King said he had met a number of women while stopping in New York and had squandered his money on them. - Mme. Linda Ross Wade has resigned the vice-presidency of the National Dressmakers’ association and will devote her talents to, constructing a corset for man. ‘My corset demonstrations in re- gard to women were founded on a study of physiology,” said Mme. Wade. “That is why they ‘were so successful. Now, this corset for men will be built on the same principle, only, of course, it will be nothing like the woman's corset. The man’s corset will net go in at the waist, but it will be constructed so as to sup- port the abdomen. There is no ,more excuse for a man haying a big stomach than a woman, Men's stomachs can be reduced the same as women’s by the cor- rect wearing of corsets. Men's corsets must be constructed so as to lift up the stomach.” Anthony Comstock, back from a long vacation, appeared in the Tombs court at New York city as complainant against Isidor Knopf, 51 years old, of 7uO East Ninth street. Knopf’s arrest followed that of a bey taken into eus- tody by Mr. Comstock for selling im- proper post cards on the street and who was released after he had declared that he had purchased the cards from Knopf. After Magistrate Breen had held the prisoner in $500 bail for examination Mr. Comstock announced his inten- tion to cause the arrest of every person he catches selling what he termed improper post cards on the street. He declared that during his two months’ absence from the city the immeral post eard evil had grown to enormous pro- portions. Simultaneously with the reopening of the public schools in New York city. there were also reopened in the five beroughs of the city 140 free Roman Catholic parish schools, into which more than 80,000 boys and girls were received to acquire an elementary education. These children will be taught by more than 1700 teachers, lay and religious. Four of the schools are opened for the first time. In ten years every parish ebureh in the boroughs of Manhattan, Bronx and Richmond will have its school, and then the Roman Catholic school register of ihe city will count 150,000 names. Since it costs the city about $40 a year to educate each boy and girl in the public schools, the Roman Cathvlic schools represent an annual budget of about $3,000,000, That he might have a place to meet his friends, S. R. Lawrence paid the rent for a drug store in Brooklyn, dur- ing the last two years until his death, at the home of his brother, Dr. E. Y. Lawrence. in New York. But during the two years he had refused to make a sale of goods of any kind. If anyone who did not know his peculiarities en- | tered the drug store and asked for medli- j|cine, he would turn them away with a laugh. “[ have nothing here that would do you any good,” he would say. “What you want to do is to go home and eat a good big beefsteak. That will do you |imore good than all the medicines in this Sn ae How does it feel to a millionaire es- corting a duchess and be mistaken for a cabman? ‘Ask O. H. P. Belmont, and if he does not get too mad to talk he can give you a good idea of the sensation, for he him- self had the experience when leaving the White Star line pier with his wife and her daughter, the Duchess of Marlbor- ough. ‘ Mr. Belmont got mixed up somehow with the mob of cabmen who were crowding on the pier for fares, and a passenger stepped up and, singling Mr. Belmont out of the mass of excited jehus as about the most decent looking one of the lot, directed him where he wished to be driven, “The idea,” said Mr. Belmont, turning to the duchess, “that chap takes me for a cabman.” The passenger lost no time in getting away when he discovered his blunder. Charged with the larceny of $1800 from the Houston, Galveston & Inter- urban Railroad company and with a to- tal larceny of about $23,000 from vari- ous other corporations, Charles Augustus Seton and Harrison H. McElhiney, com- posing the firm of C. Augustus Seton & Co., dealers in stocks and bonds in New York, were arrested. Seton, according to the police, has been arrested before, his picture being in the rogues’ gallery in this city and in Cleveland, Ohio. The concern, according to the police, was in the habit of writing to newly incorpo- oot eg ne wees VE. 2. Seees0n, a director of the Houston, Galveston & Interurban company, came to New York in response to such a letter and is al- leged to have paid Seton $3,500 to cover the cost of engraving $3,000,000 worth of bonds. The bonds were never de- livered avd recently J. M. Coleman, an attorney of Houston, came here to in- vestigate,-and at the suggestion of the district attorney's office caused the ar- rest of Seton and MeEthiney. 2 mei A mother’s desire to see more of her boy, now in the eustody of his father, has brought out a story of how a rich New York cotton broker paid her hus- band $5000 to set her free so he could wed her. The woman is Mrs. Paul Mac- Cormac, who is living in New York city. She formerly was the wife of Charles E. Converse, a Poughkeepsie merchant. The record of this agreement by which Converse sold nis wife for $5000 was filed in the Duchess county court. It was a written agreement by which Mac- Cormac agreed to secure for Converse $5000 for himself and $2000 for his law- yer if he would get an absolute divorce. The agreement was carried out, then MacCormac married Mrs. Converse. Mrs. MacCormae did not know how she had been bartered, according to her law- yer. A. H. Hummel. The woman said: “I did not know till long after- ward that MaeCormac had paid Con- verse any money. I agreed to the suit to avoid publicity, with the stipulation that I was to see my boy when I de- sired. I have been allowed to see him | only three hours a month, so L have started a new fight, and all this has_ come out.” The Fabre line steamer Roma from Marseilles and Naples arrived at New York with eight wan and weary men and women, late of Joe MeCaddon’s Great International cireus, whieh did not make a hit in France and had stranded at Grenoble. Billy Voght. treasurer: Wyoming Jack and Mrs. Ws-| oming Jack, Gracie, the bearded woman: Deadwood Dick, the knife thrower and_ sword swallower: Charles MeLeod, ad- vance agent and bareback rider; and Holman brothers, horizontal bar artists, | were the eight. Mr. and Mrs. Wyoming Jack and the bearded woman headed for a restaurant, a plain one, with German waiters. Tuck- ing her luxuriant beard into her shirt- waist, Grace attacked a schooner of Pilsner, then went through an inch thick sirloin steak like a_buzzsaw through a soft pine board. Refreshed.¢ she dis- cussed the sorrowful history of the great international’s tour through France. “Young man,” said bearded Gracie, impressively pointing to her plate, “do you want to know what I have been eating? Yes? Well, elephant; an old elephant at that. “Don't ever speak to me of Franc: again. If ever the Dutch got into an- other row with the bloomin’ frog eaters I'll *hoch der Kaiser,” and that’s some- thing I never thought I'd do.” Albert T. Patrick, the iawyer, who is | under sentence of death for the mur- der of William Marsh Rice, the Texas multi-millionaire, has been re-elected | “mayor” of the deathhouse in Sing Sing by his four fellows in misfortune. As mayor of the deathhouse Patrick must settle all disputes. All matters of death- house etiquette are referred to him, His word is law. Lf, for instance, one of the immates wants to play checkers, it re- quires the unanimous consent of all the other inmates for the game to proceed. For the only way that the condemned men can play the game is by calling off the figure and the moves on the board which each mau has in his cell. This is Patrick's third term as mayor of the deathhouse: When the court of appeals fixed his day of execution for the week commencing August 7, Pat- rick’s term as mayor of the deathhouse had expired. There was talk about re- electing hiia then, but Patrick said he was too busy preparing his own case for a further hearing before the court of appeals. The other inmates of the gloomy place insisted, however, that there should be no election held and that Patrick should be considered a holdover. Patrick agreed to this. Patriek’s application for a rehearing | before the court of appeals has acted as a stay of execution, and his fellow convicts have re-elected him for another | year. A burglar of the “gentlemanly” type invaded the apartments of William F. Milliaer, an employe of the Metropoli- tan Life Insurance company, and ae wife, in Brooklyn. It was about 4 o'clock that Mrs. Milliner awoke and discovered a strange man at the foot of the bed. Mrs. Milliver cried out, at the same time getting out of bed without disturbing her husband. “Who's there?” she demanded. “It is I, madam, do not be disturbed.” was the man’s reply. As the woman ad- vanced toward him he suddenly flashed a pocket electric light upon her and drew a revolver. - “Madam,” he said, softly, “do not make any outery. the best thing for you isto return to bed. If you do you will ‘not be harmed.” 3 Mrs. Milliner did as she was directed and, by the light of the street lamp, saw the burglar go tu the dresser and ex- amine five rings she had placed there, valued at $450, The burglar remarked that the rings probably were heirlooms and he would not take them if madam would give him whatever money she had. Mrs. Milliner said there were only « few dollars in the house, but she did not propose to surrender them. The burglar then told her that, much as he regretted it, he would have to take the rings as a souvenir of his visit. Bid- ding her good morning and apologizing for disturbing her he departed. It was not until he was gone that Milliner awoke. ' A few years ago when the stereopti- con was a novelty, the public was in- terested to see the views even though the slides were all in black and white. Now, however, since colored pictures have become so popular, nearly all slides are tinted, and Mrs. Gail Clem- ents of Battle Creek is one of the most successful artists in this very exacting work. The coloring of the glass slide— which is a “positive’—must be done with the aid of a magnifying glass, since the misplacement of the tiniest dot of color might be a serious blunder when the picture was thrown on the sereen. In addition to coloring every variety of “slide” pictures, Mrs. Clem- ents makes anatomical charts, also in water-color, which require as much skill and care as the tiny bits of glass, though many times larger in size. Besides her commercial work im water-color Mrs. Clements finds time to do exquisite sketches in oil, notably fruit and flower pieces. She is most enthusiastic over her achievement, and believes many women would find such employment not only fascinating, but remunerative—The Pilgrim. oe Fiancee’s Relatives Get Fortune. The will of Neill Wolfe, who, with his fiancee, Miss Maria Hamill of Ger- mantown, Pa.. was killed in an automo- bile accident at Atco, N. J., leaves his whole estate to Miss Hamill. The es- tate will revert to her relatives. EARTH'S GREATEST CITIES. Probability That New York Will E: Leng Be the Greatest of All. ‘There are now in the world nine citi< of more than one million inhabita:-s each. ‘Three of these—namely, N-», York, Chicago and Philadelphia—are cir. ies of that new world which was only dreamed of 500 years ago and was un- dreamed of when Thebes, Babylon ani Nineveh vaunted themselves as impor- tant centers of civilization. No other nation than the United States has more of these big towns, the others being Lon- <a Berlin, Vienna, Canton and The new state census will probabir show a population in New York city of close upon 4,000,000 inhevitants. The unrevised figure is 3,987,696. This is a gain of over 100,000 a year since 1900. when the first enumeration after the con- solidation of New York and Brooklyn showed a — in Greater New York of 3,437,000. London pase pop- ulation at present of 4,536,641. New York is thus a close second and in all probability will overtake and 7 ag Lon- don within another generation. The contention that this is improbable be- cause the metropolitan area of London includes 6,581, inhabitants is un- founded, because we have to remember that the actual urban district of New York city iticlides Jersey City. Ho- boken, Newark, Elizabeth, Paterson and Yonkers, which are not comprehended! in the municipal corporation of New York city. For ten years past the opinion has been gaining ground that the rapi! growth of great cities in the nineteenth century will not continue throughout the twentieth. The new developments al- ready achieved and to be expected in the utilization of electricity are undoubt- edly to make life relatively comfortable in the country and in the suburban vil- lages. The trolley car and the telephone wonderfully extend the area within which the man whose business is in the city -may choose his residence. Electricity is increasing also the possibility of conduct- ing manufacturing operations in rela- tively isolated spots. Six Doctors Failed. South Bend, Ind. Sept. 25.—(Spe- cial.)\—After suffering from Kidney Disease for three years, after taking treatment from six different doctors without getting relief, Mr. J. O. Laude- man of this place found not only retief but a speedy and complete cure in Dodd's Kidney Pills. Speaking of his cure, Mr. Laudeman says: “Yes, I suffered-from Kidney Trou- ble for three years and tried six doc- tors to no good. Then I took just two boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills and they not only cured my kidneys, but save me better health in general. Of course I recommended Dodd's Kidney Pills to others and I know a number now who are using them with good results.” Mr. Laudeman’s case is not an ex- ception. Thousands give similar expe- riences. For there never yet was a ease of Kidney Trouble from Backache to Bright’s Disease that Dodd's Kid- ney Pills could not cure. They are the only remedy that ever cured Bright's Disease. A Convict’s Invention. Referring co the fact that the new jail in Newburg, when completed, will have an automatic arrangement for locking and unlocking a series of cell doors or a single one in any section, the Port Jervis Gazette says the idea originated with Zoy Schoonover, a crim- inal of this county, a noted’ character in his a and for many years an in- mate of Sing Sing prison. Schoonover took kindy] to prison dis- cipline and in time came to regard the institution as his home. He was what is known in prison parlance as a “trusty,” and was given considerable liberty by authorities of the institution. He was sometimes even sent on errands outside of the prison. On one such oc- easion he remained away until after the usual hour for closing and was locked out by the turnkey and unable to cain admission until morning. As soon as the doors were open he sought out the offending official and berated him se- verely for his action. Inside of prison walls Schoonover’s character and con- duct were wholly exemplary, but he found it difficult to conform to the regu- lations of civilized society, and hence was never long at liberty. He pos- sessed considerable inventive talent, and is said to have invented and perfected the original device for automatic lock- ing and unlocking of switches now em- ployed in most of the prisons and peni- tentiaries of the United States.—Walieu IN. VV) Citizen. John Mitchell Is Everything. During the questioning of applicants for citizenship in the naturalization court at Wilkes-Barre, Pa., John Selate, a mine worker, was asked: “Who is the President of the United States?” “John Mitchell,” he answered with a confident smile. “And who is governor of Pennsylva- nia?” the court questioned. “John Mitchell,” replied Selate. ee ee GET POWER. The Supply Comes from Food. If we get power from food, why not strive to get all the power we can. That is only possible by use of skil- fully selected food that exactly fits the requirements of the body. Poor fuel makes a poor fire anc & poor fire is not a good steam producer. “From not knowing how to select the right food to fit my needs, I suf- fered grievously for a long time from stomach troubles,” writes a lady from a little town in Missouri. “It seemed as if I would never be -able to find out the sort of food that | was best for me. Hardly anything that I could eat would stay on my stomac!. Every attempt gave me heart-burn aud filled my stomach with gas. I got thinner and thinner until I literally became a living skeleton and in time was compelled to keep to my bed. “4 few months ago I was persuade! to try Grape-Nuts food, and it bad such good effect from the very besin- ning that I have kept up its use ever since. I was surprised at the ease wit which I digested it. It proved to '° just what I needed. All my unpleasant symptoms, the heart-burn, the inf nted feeling which gave me so much pain disappeared. My weight gradually “0- creased from 98 to 116 pounds, my "= ure rounded out, my strength came back, and I am now able to do "ys housework and enjoy it. The Grape Nuts food did it.” Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. A ten days’ trial will show anyone some facts about food. “There’s a reason.” IN THE BEST OF HEALTH SINCE TAKING PE-RU-NA FF SANS SEN 0 GSS Sees ; ae. aN SSSSRSSEERESS ROUSE 8 NY ey) HN ; es a pee. 8 | . ] a . 7 Bo ty | ae OO oS al 1 7 / a fr a (=. al I (ee Al | ee | _ re al ieee ee a i : ee sea ettef | ee ig: re feseciees | [ee Pes SS — a} ORY SSS es A ee ey R\ \ ne Me} SRS SSE ae eR “2 LENA eee Nes ign Ce NORE 2 Rao IN POOR HEALTH. PAINS IN BACK. SICK HEADACHES. PE-RU-NA CURED, Mrs. Lena Smith, N. Cherry street, cor. 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Keep vigil, Venus, overhead— I wateh the open gate. —Lrdia Schuyler in the Century. ee a ee ee Sy Pe eras ee re) tee ee So changed, and for a few minutes a bewil- jered crowd swayed hither and thither n the greasy pavement before a drop- curtain of impenetrable fog. Then came a momentary lifting of the vaporous bar- vier, and with coat-collars up and coy- ered mouths the various groups pressed stoically forward—for a second wraiths, weirdly indefinite, then suddenly invisi- ble, engulfed in the mysterious beyond. Phantom vehieles emerging from the gloom glided noiselessly away with the occupants of boxes and stalls, and the street settled into silence, “Is that you, Jack?” an anxious voice demanded pantingly as a fragrant odor diffused itself into the murky atmosphere and a glowing point of light advanced slowly toward the speaker. “It is not—Jack, Sue,’ the owner of the cigar said quietly. “Have you lost your party!” “You, Edward? How very lucky! I ran back for my fan, and didn’t find it just at once. Jack must have thought [ was in the other carriage, and naturally they concluded he was waiting for me.” “Naturally.” His tore was colorless, but her quick glance at him was imquiring, and lingered thoughtfully. “What are we to do in this appalling darkness?” she asked, shivering. “Could we get somewhere for tea?” “I will try to unearth a conveyance if you will remain here until I return. Don’t move away or | may miss you.” He went a few steps, paused irreso- lutely at the sound of her cough, and slipping out of his fur-lined coat re- turned with it over his arm. “You are much too lightly clad—as usual,” he observed curtly. “Put this on. Nonsense!” as she protested; “you don’t particularly want an attack’ of pneumonia, 1 suppose.” As he strode off into the fog she drew the garment more closely about her. It reached almost ‘to her“ feet, and she looked down at herself with an inseru- table smile as she nestled into its warm folds. Despite the chill atmosphere, the gen- eral discomfort, she fell into a reverie as she leaned idly against the theater door waiting, and when the waiting was over it was to the uppermost thought of those that had possessed her that she present- ly gave ‘utterance. “How quaint for you and me to be driving about together in a hansom!” “Very”’—dryly. “We conform most scrupulously to ‘the dictates of ‘the fash- ionable world. We neither go out to- gether nor stay in together; we see as little of each other as possible. We are a model couple.” “It might be—better—if we were not.” ‘There was something unwonted in her tene, in the whitening of her lips, and the restlessness of the small bare hands almost hidden in the big sleeves of his coat. He looked at ‘her curiously. “Did you enjoy the piece?” “The piece? Oh, yes, as well as most pieces.” Her voice was weary. “I did not see you there.” “No, I stood most of the time—almost under your box. De you think in the long run the neroine came to love the fussy photographer with whom she con- soled herself ?” “No. He was a refuge, that was all. She spoke of him as a ‘good little man.’ ” “Well—I don’t quite see——” “She wouldn’t even have thought of his stature if she had loved him.” “Wouldn’t she?” imquired the man, whose six feet two of Jength was but ill accommodated in the half of.a hansom eab, and a faint smile fiitted across his face. “No, and she certainly would not have troubled to correct herself if she had chaneed to refer to ‘him in such terms.” “I don’t follow your argument, Sue.” “She would be so sure of herself, of his dignity, and her own recognition of it under all circumstances that she would not be always on guard against forgetting it—always jealous lest some outsider should ignore it.” “And,” her compamon pursued with slow deliberation, “do you—since you are such a student of human nature—sup- pose she confided entirely in her ‘good little man’; told him how near she had come to wrecking her life?” “Possibly—probably. If so it is certain he wept over her woes and quite failed to see she had been wrong, because, of course, in his eyes it was unthinkable she could be. Had he not been ‘little’—” “Well—had he not——?” “—_ it would have depended on the measure of his greatness whether she told him or net.” “Sue”—he turned on her, with an ab- rupt ehange of subject—“why did you marry me?” “Why—?’ “Let me have the reason, once for all, be the consequences what they may. The question eomes between me and my work, between me and my every thought, and I ean find no answer to it. You don’t spend money like other women of your class—you care nothing, apparent- ly, for the luxuries it places within your reach——” “You think it was for your wealth! You think that!” “But what then, what else, since it is certain you do not, and never did, love me?” “And if it were true! Did you not need my _ title—my connections—to— to—-?” 2 “Burnish my plebeian goid and cloak my obscure origin?” he concluded as she broke off sobbingly. “Is that what = his face stern and set, and for a moment two destinies trembled in the balance. Then, “Is the past tense inevitable?” she whispered. “Have not you, too, be- lieved what ‘they said?” Her hand touched his, to be instantly covered, clasped in a grip that was an- swer enough. “Then it is not ‘Jack’ nor another?” “Are you a ‘great man,’ Edward?” ~ His eyes searched hers and drew con- tent from their clear depths. “Perhaps, if there were need. But there is none.” “No, there is none. Edward, the fog is lifting.” “And the sun is shining,” he said.— “Annie Q. Carter in the Tatler. —_—_—_—_—_ TOOLS FOR TRIMMING LAWNS. For Use :n Places Inaccessible to an Or- dinary Lawn Mower. The ordinary lawn mower is generally all that is required to keep the grags on the lawn trimmed and looking neat. but the straggiing grass that grows near the walk has to be cut away with a vair of shears. A Michigan mun has invented a tool that is designed to overcome these faults of the lawn mower, an_illustra- tion of which is shown here. This: tool consists of a slightly curved spade blade, at one end of which is a socket for the reception of a handic. Near the end of the blade is a slot through which a roller, journaled on upright lugs, projects and engages with the ground. To one side of the roller is attached an adjustable hook- shaped trench cutter, which is regulat- Cy : NT « AS | 4h ‘ 91] tS 2s ) te re (y \ } \\ f pe AX \ Ka) . o- RY Lar TRIMS THE EDGES OF THE LAWN. ed by means of a bolt and thumb screw, and working in grooves. The edges of the cutter are beveled, as is also the edge of the spading blade, the inner edge of the latter being rounded. This tool is especially devised for the purpose of trimming lawns adjacent to cement, stone or concrete walks, where the grass is apt to stra¢gle over the walks. As it is impossible with an ordinary lawn mower to trim the grass very ciose to such walks, it is usually found necessary to remove such straggling grass with a spade or with chppers. In operating ‘this tool it is pushed or pulled over the walk with the inner vertical pastcn of the hook in contact with the edge of the walk. By the first operation a narrow trench will be cut from which the sed may be readily removed, while by subse- quent operations simply the steaggling grass will be cut, leaving the edges of the lawn in a neat and trim condition. The depth as well as the widtn of the trench may be reeulated by properly ad- justing the eutter, the roller engaging the walk and facilitating the operation of the device. The trench cutter, having front and rear cutting edges it is ob- vious that the tool may be manipulated either by pulling or by p-shing. The rear edge of the cutter will be found ex- tremely useful at corners and at the ends of the walks, where portions of the sod not otuerwise accessivie may be readily trimmed with the cack edge of the trimmer. During the operation of the device the front end of the spading blade may be caused to bear upon the walk, so as to clear the weeds and strag- gling grass in advance of the cutter. BEQUEATHS BRAIN AND ARM. Gen. Wistar of Philadelphia Also Gives $2,000,000 to Medicine. Gen. Isaae J. Wistar of Philadelphia, Pa., bequeathed his brain and right arm to the Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology of the University of Peinsy- vania, in his will, which was filed the other day, and incidentally left a fortune of nearly $2,000,000 to the institution whicn he founded. The gen- eral’s arm was shattered by a gunshot wound during the Civil war, and was saved by“an interesting operation, which he wished the students of the institute which he founded to examine. Gen. Wistar also bequeathed to the institute weapons he used in the Civil war along with trophies, pictures and various pieces of furniture. After be- queathing an aggregate sum of $50,000 to his brother and four sisters, $3000 to a niece and $4000 to his housekeeper, Gen. Wistar leaves the residue of his estate to the Wistar institute. The pATAREADE in the will disposing of his body is_as follows: “I bequeath to the Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Bi- ology my right arm, said to be a_desir- able specimen of gunshot anchylosis, aud also my brain, both to be removed by said institute promptly after my death, and I direct my executor, before per- forming any other act of administration, to cause the remainder of my body to be eremated with all convenient dispatch. without ostentation or unnecessary ex- pense, and to deposit the ashes thereof in an urn or other small vessel of inex- pensive character, to be marked and sealed up, in the mural erypt or recess prepares for that purpose in the main nail of the said Wistar institute’s mu- seum building.” Unfortunate. A certain merchant of Baltimore, who is well known for his philanthropic spirit was approached one day by an Irishman, formerly in his employ, who made a tonching appeal for financial assistance. Said he: “I trust, sor, that yell find it con- yanient to help a poor inan whose house an’ everything in it was burned down last week, sor.” The merchant, although he gives with a free hand, exercises considerable cau- tion in his philanthropy, so he asked: “Have you any papers or certificates to show that you have lost everything by fire. as you say?” The Irishman scratched his head as if bewildered. Finally he replied: “I did have a certificate to that effect. sor, signed before a notary; but unfortu- nately. sor, it was burned up with the (ag of me effects!”—Harper’s Weekly. maleate eters Automobile Pillows. The latest luxury for the automobile is the pillow. Now when my lady goes out to ride in her motor ear she reclines not only on the soft leather cushions with which the seats are upholstered, but alse on the soft, silk down affairs which have hitherto been part of the cozy cor- ner, but which now may be observed in the erations of motor cars.—New York Sun. PUTNAM FADELESS DYES cae re en ely ie yh fs en ar er Rel me i ey ae ee BACHELOR MAIDS IN VENTURE. Rich New York Girl to Spend $25,000 Year Fach Five young women of New York’s so- cial set known to their friends as bach- elor maids have attracted attention by a recent discussion of the expenditures of keeping a menage in the metropolis. The five are: Miss Olive ee Miss Margaret A. Chanler, Miss May Van Alen. Miss Faith Moore and Miss Eve- lyn Van Wart. The average yearly ex- pene oO. each of these young women is_$25,000, _ Miss Moore has the distinction of pay- ing more for her apartments than any other woman in America. Miss Van Alen, Miss Chanler and Miss Trowbridge are householders in their own right, own- ing the handsome dwellings fa which they live. Miss Van Wart eclipses all the bachelor maids by having not only bachelor quarters in New York, but a tawn house in London and a magnificent coftintry place in rural England as well. The bachelor establishment of Miss Faith Moore dfffers from that of the oth- er girls in many respects. From the viewpoint of conventions the first note of divergence is sounded in the fact that Miss Moore has a chaperone with her in the person of her aunt, who also is single. Fifteen thousand dollars a year is the price of her luxurious flat in the Estates building at Sixtieth street and Fifth ave- nue. Miss Moore is 25 years old and is the daughter of J. G. Moore, who died in 1899 leaving his youngest daughter with a fortune of $7,000,000 one a coun- try house at Winter Harbor, Me. hé gets a good deal in space, luxu- rious fittings, convenience, and comfort for her $15,000 a year in a city apart- ment. The elevator opens into a spacious hall, from which one enters a foyer that corresponds to the living hall in a coun- try house. The dining room, 18x20 feet, opens off this with a kitchen and butler’s pantry in the Fifth avenue corner. The cenae aes adjoins the dining room and is 25 feet, while the library is 15x26. There are three bedrooms and a boudoir in the Se besides a room for a cook and two for the maid servants. The butler has a room on the top floor of the building, where all the men servants are quartered. SALT RHEUM ON HANDS, Suffered Agony and Had to Wear Band- ages All the Time — Another Cure by Cuticura, 3 Another cure by Cuticura is told of by Mrs. Caroline Cable, of Waupaca, Wis., in the following grateful letter: “My husband suffered agony with salt rheum on his hands, and I had to keep them bandaged all the time. We tried everything we could get, but nothing helped him until he used Cuticura. One set of Cuticura Soap, Ointment, and Pills cured him entirely, and his hands have been as smooth as possibje ever since. I do hope this letter will be the means of helping some other sufferer.” ae eliaieapeeaneotiadh Not a Wholesome Place. When Mr. and Mrs. Grant removed from the city of New York and_pur- chased a home in a Maine village one of their first visits was to the cemetery. “We want to select a burial lot,” Mr. Grant remarked, “and life is uncertain, so we had better attend to it during this dry spell while the walking is good.” it occurred to Mrs. Grant that this was Headly a sufficient reason for so rompt a decision, but she made no ob- Jeedea: to the plan and their first walk was to the cemetery. “There seems to be a good deal of room op the high land.” remarked Mrs. Grant. “We can easily find a good lot there.” “It's too high,” eae Mr. Grant; “that’s too much of a hill to climb, Let's look down toward the lake.” The lots toward the lake pleased Mrs. Grant even better than the hill. “There Frederick,” she said, “let's decide upou one of these.” n Mr. Grant looked at his wife in sur- rise. “Why, Mildred,” he replied, “I fia think you had better judgment; I shouldn’t think of being buried in this low, marshy place. It's the unhealthiest spot in the whole cemetery.”—Youth’s Companion. — Street Lichting in London. At the annual conference of the Insti- tution of Gas Engineers the president in the course of his address congratulated the corporation of the city of London upon their recent decision to improve the lighting of the streets and save the taxpayers money by giving up “the costly electric are lamps and substituting for them high-form incandescent gas, which is both cheaper and more effective.” At- tention was ealled to the fact that the fruits of recent inventions as to incan- descent light were all to the benefit of the public; that in streets, places of busi- ness and in homes the public got ten times more light than formerly for the money they paid. Such fancies as the cheap “eight or nine candle” gas of great heating power, imagined to be the need of the age by the recent royal commis- sion on coal supplies, would not bear the rude touch of statistical truth, There was n0 such thing in existence, and there was great difficulty in seeing whence it was to come. Sarena Gener Concerning Ladies’ Hats. In these advanced times it has become a necessity for every lady to select her headwear with care, to correspond in a measure with the dictations of late fash- ions. Even the smaller dealers are now enabled to furnish their customers with stylish millinery, more especial- ly, if poe handle hats made by the Blumenfeld, Locher & Brown Co., known as the Progressive Millinery House of Milwaukee. The hats made by this firm are sold by promi- nent department stores and milliners, and are recognized by the trade as being perfect «. (s and unsurpassed in style and workmanship. Ask your saleslady to show them to you and look for the B., L. B. 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Poell, who was fireman on the St. Joseph & Grand Island road, saw the child ahead on the track, but it was too late to stop the train. Poell rushed out of the cab, reached the pilot, grabbed the child and hurled it from the track, then fell under his engine. The child was only slightly bruised, but Poell had his left leg literally torn off below the knee. The nomination was unanimous. Poell in attempting to express his gratitude said: "Gentlemen: I have little to say—because—and here his voice broke—"because—it kind o' hurts me." There was scarcely a dry eye in the There was scarcely a dry eye in the convention hall when he took his seat. Three Years in Rope's Shadow. A man, convicted of murder in the first degree, and sentenced to be hanged, has been allowed to lie in jail at Walla Walla undisturbed for nearly three years. Oscar Bradshaw was convicted in Franklin county in December, 1902, and was sentenced to be hanged. He gave notice of appeal and was remanded to the Walla Walla county jail. Bradshaw never prosecuted his appeal and has been allowed to remain in jail undisturbed ever since. The prosecuting attorney for Franklin county now asks what he can do about it, and the attorney advises him to file the record in the supreme court and move a dismissal of the appeal for want of prosecution. --- DANES LAUNCH A BOOM DANES LAUNCH A BOOM Commercial Relations with America to Be Strengthened. RACINE EDITOR'S PLAN Danish-American Association Starts on One of Largest Projects of Its Kind Ever Attempted. RACINE. Wis., Sept. 28.—[Special.] —An association of international interest has been organized in this city and it will, in due time, exert a considerable influence on the mercantile life of the United States. Responding to an invitation from Ivar Kirkegaard, editor of "Norden." Halvor Jacobsen, San Francisco, Cal.; Eckhardt V. Eskesen, Perth Amboy, N. J., and Charles J. Ryberg, Chicago, made the long trip to Racine for the purpose of launching the enterprise. Strong Financial Backing. Several conferences were held, and the result was that an organization, named the "Danish-American Association," was incorporated. The society rests financially on a strong basis. Ivar Kirkegaard was elected secretary. The announcement is as follows: It is a well known fact that the bonds between Danes in America and in Denmark become more and more solid and secure. Representatives of Danish commerce and industrial enterprises have thoroughly realized the advantage of becoming more intimately connected with America, as have also actors, authors and newspaper men. But as yet practical results are missing. To Strengthen Relations. We, the undersigned, have come together in Racine, Wis., to organize an association, with a scope large enough for every American Dane. Our purpose is to strengthen the material as well as the spiritual connection between Denmark and America. We do not intend to make money on this undertaking, which is to be conducted along the strictest rules. The time for such a society is ripe. The Danish manufacturers send their goods to our world's fairs, sell but a small part of it, and are forgotten until the next exposition. As yet no Danish business firm has established branch houses in America. In agricultural respect Denmark is recognized as being a leader in the world's market, and those men who are agricultural experts at home, are authorities in their lines. Such men can be induced to come over here, deliver lectures and gain valuable experiences. In regard to public schools Denmark has a high standard, even if the American schools in some respects are superior to the Danish. We can make America as well as Denmark profit by inducing Danish school authorities to visit our schools. Encourage Danish Drama. Our association can arrange conducted excursions to Denmark. excursions to Denmark. As yet no Danish dramatic company composed of first class actors and actresses, have visited our shores, chiefly because a guarantee fund was lacking. Our association is in possession of this guarantee fund and can arrange for a tour of lectures, singers, actors, etc., in such a way that no time is wasted, and all necessary expenses fully covered. Favored by Secretary Wilson. It is understood that Secretary Wilson of the United States department of agriculture already has displayed ardent interest in the enterprise. It is also said that during the preliminary arrangements prominent business men, scholars, authors, etc., in Denmark have pledged their active assistance. Octogenarian is Dean of Wisconsin Turf. PLYMOUTH, Wis., Sept. 28.—William, better known as "Dad," Walsh, is the dean of the turf in eastern Wisconsin, and in all probability the oldest active horseman in the state. Mr. 1930 "DAD" WALSH. Walsh is nearly 80 years old. During the Sheboygan county fair, held here the first week in September, he drove the winning horse in one of the races. At the present time "Dad" is campaing in the western part of the state with his trotter Dexioneer, and is finishing inside the money every time he starts. GAME WARDEN NABS 24 DUCK HUNTERS Raid Made at Shawano Lake Before Daylight—Prominent Men Said to Be in Toils. MARINETTE, Wis., Sept. 28.—[Special.]—It is reported that the game warden at Shawano lake has arrested twenty-four men for shooting ducks before daylight, against the law. Among those who were arrested are many well known business men of Shawano and Cecil. SCHUMACHER IS FREED. Trevor Tavern Keeper Who Had Wanted to Plead Guilty Acquitted of Manitowoc Man's Murder. KENOSHA, Wis., Sept. 28.—[Special.]—Nicholas J. Schumacher, the Trevor tavern keeper who has been on trial in the circuit court here for the last week, charged with the killing of John Wren of Manitowoc, was acquitted by a jury this morning. The jury considered the case for less than three hours. Schumacher was overcome by emotion when the verdict was rendered and was carried from the courtroom by his friends. HOUSEHOLD DEPARTMENT How to Make Soap. All fat and grease from the kitchen should be carefully saved, tried out and made into soap before accumulating and becoming offensive. When people burned wood they made their own lye of green wood ashes; but now it is easier to make it of salsoda. For soft soap allow to five pounds of grease three pounds of washing soda and four gallons of boiling water. Put into a small tub and let it stand for several days until the grease is eaten up. Stir every day, using a wooden paddle. If too thick add more water. If wood ashes are used instead of soda, boil the mixture. You can tell when the grease is all absorbed by dropping a spoonful of the melted soap into a glass of water, when any grease remaining will show on the surface. If thick or ropy, add a little more lye. Mixed Pickles. For mixed pickles one may put together cauliflower, cut in flowers, button onions, tiny cucumbers, string beans cut in two, nasturtium seeds, small peppers, lima beans, morsels of watermelon rind and green tomatoes cut in slices. Drop them into scalding strong brine and allow them to cook in it for a few minutes, dip out with a skimmer and drain in a colander till quite dry. Pack into cans and over each pour a prepared pickle made by boiling with one quart of vinegar, two tablespoonfuls of sugar, one teaspoon of salt and four tablespoons of mustard. Pour over the pickles while hot and seal immediately. Vegetable Salad. Cut two boiled potatoes into squares and slice thinly one onion, one cucumber and two ripe tomatoes. Shave a little celery and some cabbage very fine and place the whole in ice water to become crisp. Arrange the vegetables on lettuce leaves with a dressing made as follows: Mix one-half cup of water, one-half cup of vinegar, one tablespoonful of made mustard, salt and sugar to taste, one cup of cream and a piece of butter the size of a walnut. Boil this mixture until it thickens, and when cool stir in the yolks of three eggs and cool one minute. Peach Preserves. Pare, halve, stone and weigh choice freestone peaches, adding the kernels from about a fourth of the pits. Allow three-fourths pound of sugar to every pound of fruit and to 4 cups of sugar a cup of water. Dissolve the sugar in one-fourth the amount of water; skim, and in the syrup cook the peaches a few pieces at a time until they are clear, then lift each piece out separately with a fork or skimmer. Condense the syrup, and when quite thick strain, reheat, adding the fruit, and after boiling seal in jars. Strawberry Fool. This is a most delicious sweet. One pot of strawberry jam, one pint and a half of milk, one egg. Press the jam (or fresh fruit) through a hair sieve with the back of a wooden spoon; simmer the milk with the yolk of an egg beaten up in it, add half a pint of cream when cooling, and stir all the ingredients into the fruit. Serve in a glass dish when cold. To Make Cucumber Boxes. Do not peel the cucumbers nor halve them, but cut an oblong opening in the top of each one; take them and scoop out the centers; fill with the green or white salad. Place a rose across the opening, put on the covers, leaving the rose at one end and the end of the stem at the other. The guests will remove covers by pulling out the rose. Wheat Gema: Beat one egg light, add two cups milk and one teaspoon of salt and gradually beat into it two cups wheat flour; put it into hot, well-greased gem pans and bake about twenty minutes. Kitchen Helps. Iron pots may be kept in good condition by being blackleaded on the outside. Let children's meals be as frequent as is necessary, but do not allow eating between meals. Tissue paper should never be thrown away. Save it all up for polishing windows and mirrors. Shoes without heels are much more healthful for the young, because they strengthen the ankles. Sweets should never be eaten on an empty stomach, but they are comparatively harmless at the end of a meal. To wash anything that is greasy use hot soda water. The alkali turns the grease into soap, which will do its own cleansing. When you have a greasy kettle after frying cakes or the like try cleaning it with a cupful of cornmeal and see how neatly it does the work. An artist's palette knife or druggist's spatula is a vast improvement on the vegetable or case knife in the kitchen for innumerable purposes. To clean zinc mix whiting with ammonia into a smooth paste and apply it to the zinc with a soft woolen cloth. Let the whiting dry and then rub it off with a piece of flannel. Kitchen tins may be brightened by boiling them in strong borax water. 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