Wisconsin Weekly Advocate

State Historical Society WISCONSIN WEEKLY ADVOCATE DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF THE NEGRO RACE JUDGE TIMLIN BREAKS A HIGH COURT PRECEDENT; NAMES A WOMAN AS PRIVATE SECRETARY. MADISON, Wis. Jan. 15.—William H. Timlin, the latest addition to the Wisconsin supreme bench, has shown his independence of court traditions by appointing a woman as his private secretary. Miss Kate Kershaw, who is honored by the first appointment to a position on the force of the Wisconsin supreme court, is a Milwaukee woman and is a sister of William J. Kershaw, the well known lawyer and Democrat of that city. Miss Kershaw has been a stenographer for Mr. Timlin for years and is said to be a capable stenographer and well versed in the law. The place which Miss Kershaw has been given pays a salary of $100 a month and is one of unusual responsibility, as the principal work of the place will be the transcribing of the supreme court decisions in which the opinions are written by Mr. Timlin. VOLUME VIII. JUDGE TIMLIN BREAKS A NAMES A WOMAN AS MADISON, Wis., Jan. 15.—William Wisconsin supreme bench, has shown appointing a woman as his private secr Miss Kate Kershaw, who is hon position on the force of the Wisconsin woman and is a sister of William J. Kern Democrat of that city. Miss Kershaw has been a stenographer is said to be a capable stenographer a The place which Miss Kershaw h month and is one of unusual respi place will be the transcribing of the s opinions are written by Mr. Timlin. A. V. KLEFISCH IS EXONERATED GRAFT CASE DISMISSED BY JUDGE VINJE BEFORE END OF TRIAL. EXTORTION WAS NOT PROVED. Even if Klefisch Received $50 from L. R. Stollberg, He Did Not Commit Malfeasance, According to Evidence. STATE HAD BUT ONE WITNESS. From the Evening Wisconsin, Milwaukee. The charge of extortion against Anthony V. Klefisch, committee clerk of the county board, was dismissed in the municipal court by Judge Vinje because the state did not prove the allegations of the indictment, and the jury rendered a formal verdict of acquittal this morning when court opened. The indictment charged that Klefisch demanded and received $50 during the winter of 1902-3 from L. R. Stollberg & Co. for his influence toward obtaining for that company a contract to place $500 worth of piping in the county hospital Prosecution Suddenly Quits. The defense was greatly surprised when Assistant District Attorney Guy D. Goff announced that he had called all of his witnesses when he had concluded with Louis R. Stollberg. Stollberg was the only witness to the allegations of crime. Mr. Klefisch's attorneys at once moved for a dismissal of the case. Lyman G. Wheeler argued that the crime of extortion must be proved in this case to have been committed "under color of office." He declared that the [Name] Extortion Charge Against Him Dismissed by Judge Vinje. (Photo by Klein.) state had not shown that Klefisch asked money for any services rendered, nor had it shown that Klefisch refused any services desired, or made any threats. "If every syllable that Stollberg spoke were true," said the attorney, "the crime of extortion has not been proved." Evidence Showed No Compulsion. After the arguments had lasted two hours, Judge Vinje said he would admit that the money was paid, if paid, unwillingly; but no testimony had been presented to show that Klefisch had refused to perform his duties or had threatened to prevent Stollberg from getting the desired contract if payment were not made. Whatever may be the ethical aspect of Klefisch's conduct, said the judge, the charge of extortion cannot be. Money Might Have Been a Gift. Mr. Klefisch was greatly pleased over the outcome. It had been rumored before the trial that the point decided by Judge Vinje would be the point at issue. Some said that the defense would make no denial of the receipt of $50, but that Mr. Klefisch would testify that he accepted it as a gift for several unofficial services rendered, and would attempt to prove that he had not demanded the money from Stollberg & Co., and had not been in a position to compel Stollberg to pay it, had Stollberg refused. During the argument, W. H. Rennett, attorney for Klefisch, said that Stollberg's testimony would lead one to suppose that he gave the money willingly, if at all. "The act was morally as reprehensible as either bribery or extortion," said Judge Vinie. Klefisch Admits Receiving Gift. Klefisch left the court room after the verdict was rendered, with some elation. In response to a question as to what he thought of the matter, he said: "It is plain that Stollberg did not consider the matter extortion, because while he gave me the money on February 2, yet on February 28, he invited me to attend the tenth anniversary of the existence of the firm of Stollberg & Pelunek. He would not have done that if he had considered the matter in the light of extortion. In fact he made me a present of the money, freely and willingly." ONE OF NATURE'S NOBLEMEN. [Name] Rev. Mr. Grier, Pastor Church of Good Shepherd, Racine, Wis. There are few men engaged in the work of THE MASTER anywhere who more richly deserves the appellation. A GOOD MAN, than the pastor of Good Shepherd church, Racine, Wis. He is not only a good man, but an able, brilliant one; consecrated to the business of his life, the saving of souls, and the pointing out the path that leads to clean, noble, decent lives. He is indeed a shepherd and in the discharge of his duties to church and fellowman day after day, regardless of race or environment, he belongs to those spirits, that in this age of commercialism and the disposition to fit religion to convenience and demand are rare indeed. The Advocate wishes him added years of usefulness and example. Ingratitude. We tried to report the Watson funeral to the best of our ability and in so doing we have received the praises of all who read the article. We publish the leading newspaper in Wisconsin devoted to the interests of the Negro race. Our paper is extensively read by the people of this and other states, both white and colored. Mr. Watson, being a colored man, having been born and reared in Milwaukee. When we learned of his death we sent our reporter to the house on Tenth street where his mother and sister reside, for the purpose of extending our sympathy to the family and procuring such material as we could connected with his illness and death for our paper. None of the white newspapers of the city paid them any attention whatever and we were the only newspaper who went near them. But our reporter got no farther than the door, where she was most impolitely snubbed and told that there was no news there for her and "if we want you we will send for you." It is all right in the estimation of some people, but we have only pity for those poor, misguided Negroes who, dissatisfied with their own race, are trying to be white, and there is no case which in our judgment furnishes a sadder illustration than this unfortunate affair. Will Be Complete in 2150. The French Academy hopes to complete the letter "C" of the eighth edition of its dictionary by the end of next season. The edition was begun in 1877, so that at this rate the entire work will be finished in 250 years. SPOONER STINGS TILLMAN HARDEST NEGRO QUESTION IS SUBJECT FOR RECORD INDICTMENT OF COLLEAGUE IN SENATE. South Carolina Lawmaker Says He Will Have to Take Time to Answer to the "Insults." WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 15. [Special.]—While Senator Spooner was asserting the President's constitutional power to dismiss the negro soldiers after the Brownsville riot, in the Senate, Tuesday, Senator Tillman "butted in" and was made the subject for such a scathing arraignment that he announced he would have to take time to prepare a reply to "some of the insulting allusions Mr. Spooner has made." Disclaiming any intention to abuse Mr. Tillman, the Wisconsin senator said it was his purpose only to make a plea for good government. He said he had not intended to be led into such a discussion, but had been goaded to it by Mr. Tillman himself. Has Much to Answer For. "And I want to say here," he continued, "that any man who encourages lynching, murder and lawlessness will have much to answer for, and the higher his position and the mightier his influence the more will he have to answer for. No man can come here with good grace to impeach the President for his dismissal of men because they were not identified as criminals, who comes to that accusation from a lynching bee or who justifies one." Mr. Spooner said he knew of no better way to perpetuate the struggle between the two races than to be constantly and violently declaring such trouble to be imminent and unavoidable. "Out of charity for the senator," retorted Mr. Spooner ironically. "I have sometimes wrought myself up to the conclusion that I had misunderstood him." Again Mr. Tillman sought recognition, but Mr. Spooner first undertook to learn the length of the question he purposed to ask. "I'll make my question like a bullet," said Mr. Tillman. "And shoot it very slowly, I suppose?" said Mr. Spooner. The question at last admitted was as to why the President had not adopted Maj. Penrose's recommendation for the ferreting out of the guilty. Has Mania for Attacks "The President of the United States will never require any defense from the attacks of the senator from South Carolina," was Mr. Spooner's reply. "He has developed a mania for attacking the President. He is so filled with animosity for the President and has so often taken occasion to express it that I do not believe his attacks will be taktn seriously by the people." Mr. Tillman attempted a reply, but Mr. Spooner declined to yield. He condemned Mr. Tillman for impeaching the motive of the President and ridiculed Mr. Tillman's claim that he stood for the fundamental principle of liberty. "Quote me accurately," shouted Mr. Tillman. "You quote yourself," replied Mr. Spooner. Hot Shot of Sarcasm. The South Carolina senator then said he had declared that it was the fundamental principle of English and American liberty that every man is innocent until he has been proved guilty. Mr. Spooner said that was the correct principle, and that the South Carolinian, contrary to that principle, had begun his speech on the race question by convicting the whole black race. He scored Mr. Tillman for the sentiment that "we shot 'em; we killed 'em, and we'll do it again." He said that frequently he had heard Mr. Tillman utter those sentiments in defending lynching in the south. "May I get in?" asked Tillman. "Why do you want to get in?" responded Mr. Spooner. It Gets Still Hotter. "Well, I should like to know how much provocation you are going to give a man without giving him a chance to strike back a little," said Mr. Tillman. "Well, get in then," said Mr. Spooner. As Mr. Tillman started to reply, he suggested to Mr. Spooner that he had better sit down a while. "No. I do not intend to yield for a speech; the senator can reply later. I will yield for a question," said Mr. Spooner. "Is that all?" asked Mr. Tillman. "That is all," responded Mr. Spooner, sharply. Gets In Bitter Arraignment. The South Carolina senator took his seat and was then subjected to one of the most direct and stinging indictments ever delivered by a senator against a colleague. Mr. Spooner quoted from Mr. Tillman's utterances defending the burn- ing of negroes at the stake, and said: "I have been shocked by the attitude of the senator from South Carolina on more than one occasion when he has spoken here in justification and support of the continuance of lynching. If there is one man who ought not to encourage it, it is the man who sits here as the maker of laws." After again stating his belief in the legality and justness of the President's action, Mr. Spooner concluded his speech with a brief discussion of the race question, declaring his belief that the majority of the people of the south did not entertain the radical views which had been expressed by Senator Tillman. ATLANTA, Ga., Jan. 16.—For the brave defense of a prisoner, which later caused his defeat at the polls, J. L. Merrill, custodian of the federal prison here, has received an advance in salary of $300 a year. Merrill is the former sheriff of Carroll county, Ga., who defended a prisoner from death in 1901 at the hands of a mob. The present raise in salary comes as an evidence of the interest President Roosevelt has taken in the case. AN ELOQUENT RACE CHAMPION M. B. W. Allison Sweeney. Senator Ben Tillman, Hoke Smith and several other prominent southerners, whose utterances on the race question have made them the points of attack both north and south, were held up to the most stringent ridicule by W. Allison Sweeney, the colored newspaper editor of Chicago, who spoke to a packed house at the Good Shepherd church Sunday evening. It was evident from the outset that Mr. Sweeney had either borrowed Tillman's pitchfork or had one of his own, as the manner in which he pitched into the Negro haters of the south was anything but moderate and at all times bore the earmarks of desperate earnestness and a determination to right at least some of the wrongs that have been perpetrated against the black man since the Civil war. The South Not Sincere. Mr. Sweeney spoke for an hour and a half and focused his whole argument on the assertion that the south is not sincere in its attitude concerning the Negro. The speaker maintained that the southern Negro is the same today as he was before the war, the protector of the homes of southern people, and the champion of the women and children. Not until a dozen years after the war ended did the whites of the south come to the conclusion that the Negro was a friend, unworthy of the respect of his white brothers. The cause of this conclusion, he averred, was the desire of the whites to secure entire control of the government, the same as in ante-bellum days, and realizing that this could not be brought about while the Negro was allowed a voice in the government, all kinds of charges were trumped up against him to disparage him in the eyes of the white race. The crimes that are frequently committed by the southern blacks Mr. Sweeney excused by the statement that an equal number if not more were committed by the whites of the same section. Talk of Race War Foolish. He characterized as foolish and ludicrous the talk of a race war as handed out every once in a while by Tillman and other prominent whites of the south, and showed that the Negro with a population of but 10,000,000, without arms and comparatively little wealth or education, would soon be exterminated by the 70,000,000 of whites with all the resources of the country in their hands. A race war, he said, was what the south wants to bring about. The presence of the Negro is a constant reminder of the Civil war and the conditions that prevailed previous thereto and the men who are demanding protection from the so-called black fiends have but one ultimate desire, and that is to completely exterminate the black race on the American continent—Racine Times. Lower Jaw Cause of Trunk. "The elephant's trunk," says Dr. Ray Lankester, "originated through a shortening of the lower jaw. Therefore, I am sorry to upset Rudyard Kipling's explanation that the length of the trunk was accounted for by its having been pulled by the crocodile." CREAM CITY NOTES. We would respectfully ask our readers to bestow at least a share of their custom upon those who advertise with us. The various remedies and hair restorers advertised in this paper can be had at the advertised price at the office of this paper. Mr. and Mrs. T. Lynn Rosa, the latter the sister of Mrs. Harry Lewis, have removed to Buffalo, N. Y., and will reside at 151 Court street in that city. Mr. and Mrs. Rosa will be missed in Milwaukee social circles. Their friends wish them success. The editor visited the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Lewis. 261 Fourth street, and was right royally entertained. We were charmed by the elegant refinement and general good taste displayed in the adornment and surroundings. Mrs. Lewis is formerly of Toledo, O., and is one of our brightest young women. Mr. Lewis has been connected with "The Fashion" for many years. They are among our oldest subscribers. * * * The Wisconsin Weekly Advocate has added to its office staff Miss Gladys Sellars, one of Milwaukee's young ladies. Miss Sellars will have charge of the office and report the Cream City news. Any courtesies extended to her by our readers will be deeply appreciated by the editor. ```markdown ``` Rev. G. J. Fox, who for the past weeks has been confined to his room on account of sickness is able to be out again, and on Tuesday evening left for Chicago to be present at the association which meets at the Ebenezer Baptist church, Chicago. Mr. L. H. Fuller, who went to Duluth, Minn., on a business trip, has returned. Mr. Fuller thinks the Negro of Duluth has an eve to business. ```markdown ``` Mr. S. C. Craig, who has been on the sick list for two weeks, is out again. The M. H. Wiltzius company is the largest store of its kind west of New York. They carry all kinds of church good, such as prayer books, religious articles, school books and are manufacturers of banners and regalia. Their clerks are polite and courteous to their customers and give them every attention in their power. Give them a call. * * * A. J. Milbrath, dealer in meats, hams, lard, bacon, sausage, poultry, game, oysters, fish. Orders taken and delivered. His spring chickens are the best to be had. Call him up. Telephone Grand 1600 幸 非 幸 We were sorry to learn of the sickness of Mrs. Simms, 424 Cedar street, but are glad to know that she is now convalescent. Mrs. Eli Logan, one of our prominent married ladies, of 194 Fourth street, wishes to thank her many friends and the general public for their many gifts during the holidays. Also for the attention they paid to her little son, Master Logan. Calvary Baptist Notes. Services at 11 a. m. Sunday last were well attended. The pulpit was occupied by the pastor, Rev. G. J. Fox, who based his remarks on Phil. III. 13-14. He delivered an instructive and soul striving sermon. Sunday school from 2 p. m. to 3 p. m., attendance good. Rev. Fox director. Services at 8 p. m. were well attended. Again the pastor occupied the pulpit, basing his remarks on 1 Cor. XVI., 22, delivering another strong ser- Hanging Up Their Houses. Not long ago three people were discussing the report that a man had mortgaged his house in order that he might buy an automobile. Each one of the three refused to credit the report; yet it proved to be based on fact. I have since heard of like cases, but did not begin to realize the state of things in the mortgage line that has followed the rise of the motor car craze until some figures were furnished me the other day. In a single city, and it is not among the very largest in this country either, I was told that mortgages on houses aggregating no less than $300,000 are held by dealers as pledges for the payment of automobiles, and that in a smaller city there are similar mortgages footing up to $100.,000. Obviously dealers cannot afford to accept automobiles as security for the debts incurred in the purchase of the vehicles; so the man with a motor car desire and a pushcart bank account must perforce mortgage the roof over his head—or do without.—Brooklyn Life. Arboreal Woodchucks. Thomas Redmond and David F. Barry had an unusual experience while hunting for squirrels in Peachbottom woods. The former saw an object up in a tree which looked like a large gray squirrel lying flat against a lamb. Taking good aim he pulled the trigger and fired, striking the object, which made only a slight sign of having been hit. He then called his companion, who was some distance away, to come to him, which he did. They both got their guns ready and when three shot had been fired at the same time, down came the animal, which NUMBER 41. proved to be a groundhog. They were surprised at the unusual occurrence, and are at a loss to know why the animal, whose natural home is on the earth, should climb the tree, which was about 35 feet tall. While this is rather strange, a similar thing happened last year when Curtis Dutton shot a groundhog from the limb of a tree, but not so high as this.-West Chester Local News. FOXES TREATED KINDLY Maine Farmers Find More Money in Selling Than in Killing Them. Within the last two years the practice or digging young foxes from their dens in the spring and rearing them in captivity until the following autumn and then selling them to owners of preserves and large country estates has developed into a profitable industry in Maine. At the start the business was conducted by taxidermists, who received as much as $15 or $20 for a pair of healthy young foxes. They were able to buy the foxes for from $1 to $1.50 The taxidermists were able to make from 500 to 1000 per cent, profit at the business until October, 1905, when the New York Sun published an account of the fox breeding establishment of Elijah Norton of Foxcroft, Me., in which it was stated that Mr. Norton was filling orders for the young of common red foxes at the rate of $20 and $25 a pair, and that he had orders booked for three years ahead. Since then there has been a great change in the sentiments of the country pepole who live among foxes. In northern Hancock county, where big and ruddy foxes have been abundant for years, and where men with trained hounds have been able to earn good incomes from hunting foxes for their pelts, the announcement led to the abandonment of hunting with dogs and the adoption of conciliatory measures toward the wild foxes, as if the people had received a sudden awakening. If a farmer sees a fox lurking about his hen pens in the early morning he no longer rushes indoors for his dog and gun, instead he hunts up cold meat and scraps of food and strews them about the premises for the purpose of toling Reynard nearer to the home. One result is that nearly all the hens and turkeys of Dedham which have been permitted to roam at large have been gathered in by foxes, and many back fields and pasture lots are strewn with feathers from the unfortunate birds. Instead of bewailing their misfortunes and asking the Legislature to place heavy bounties upon the heads of all foxes found at large the losers seem contented and are planning to get their money back next spring when they shall go forth with spades and picks and dig the precious young foxes from under the frozen ground of the woodlands and pastures. As a result of developing the new industry the neighbors have become jealous and watchful of one another, every man suspecting his rival of knowing the location of more fox burrows than he is willing to admit. Owners of wooded and unproductive tracts where foxes are presumed to have dug holes have posted their holdings with notices warning all and sundry concerning the legal penalties which may be invoked in case foxes are sought on the premises. The man or boy who discovers an inhabited fox hole in the woods or in a crevice of a hillside ledge preserves his secret as closely as if he had opened a new gold mine. Three boys who reside in the town have earned enough money to buy their winter clothing by selling the secrets of new fox burrows to the hunters. Kicking Up the Price. A slight rise in the price of mules in the local market is attributed by the stable superintendent of a large concern which uses many of these animals in its business to the Cuban revolution and Uncle Sam's resulting military activity. "Anything that results in a brushing up of our army," says this authority, "at once starts a stringency in the mule market. Most nations when making warlike preparations begin by raising money, but Uncle Sam, having plenty of that, goes at once to Missouri, where, speaking broadly, all mules seem to be raised, and proceeds to load up. This time, so far as we can learn, he is buying only 500, but he is paying from $140 to $160 apiece for them, which is a good enough price to bull the market. The mule, it is hardly necessary to say, is the greatest animal yet made for man's assistance, and I dare say it will stand the climate of Cuba as well as it did that of South Africa and every other place it was ever tried."—Philadelphia Record. To Build Rolling Stock in India One of the main schemes of the railway board is to have rolling stock built in part in India, which will give manufacturing firms in this country an opportunity for tenders for the construction of wagon frames and bodies. The experiment will also be extended to state lines, tenders being received up to 25 per cent. of the total number of wagons sanctioned for construction yearly, while axles, wheels, etc., will be obtained by each railway administration on indent from home and be supplied to contracting firms. From what the board have seen of the big workshops on the lines they have traversed they feel satisfied that rolling stock of the best quality could be turned out in India, although the steel would have to be imported. The wagon building industry would make rapid progress in meeting orders which the board guarantee.-Indian World. Advertise in Your Home Paper. THE WISCONSIN WEEKLY ADVOCATE MILWAUKEE, WIS. R. B. MONTGOMERY, Editor and Proprietor. Facts and Fancies. Mary—Do you care for birds? John—Well, I like a lark once in a while.—Town Topic. "Your wife and chauffeur have eloped in your auto." "Heavens! How will I get the car back?" His Worry. Little whiffs of winter, Little flakes of snow, Make us long for weather They have down below. —Baltimore Sun. "He is a prudent man. He is like a pin." "How is that?" "His head prevents him from going too far."—Town Topics. Filling a Long-Felt Want. "Give us a national ode!" The American people cried. But Teddy's our National Him, And there's Uncle Psalm, beside. —E. G. Nedloh in Lippincott's. Ethel—"Good morning, Mr. Jones. You don't seem to mind the heat!" Jones (surely)—"I should say not. All my friends have given me the cold shoulder."—Translated for Transatlantic Tales from Journal Amusant." The Original Politician. "Who was the original politician?" asks a correspondent. Why, old man Noah. He controlled the floating vote. Exchange. Those Expensive Affairs In June they wed, A man, a maid. The wedding bills Are not yet paid. —Birmingham Age-Herald. Experienced. County Deacon—Our salary is $400 per year, and we give you two donation parties. How'll that suit you? Clergyman—Call it $350—and leave out the donation parties!—Puck. The Boy. He eats and eats, But is not through Until he can No longer chew. No Use Advertising for It. No Use Advertising for It. Griggs—Dropped into the courthouse this morning and lost my overcoat there, confound the luck. Briggs—That's nothing. Last week I lost a suit there.—Boston Transcript. Not Debatable. By appearing at 10, And saying: "I move we adjourn." Modernity. Departing Cook—Well, I'll be lavin' yez. The place doesn't suit me. But I have no objections to your usin' me name as a reference so long as I'm after stoppin' a couple days.—Town Topic. When he kindles a fire in a maiden's heart A fellow may find, all the same. That for ice cream and candy with cash he must part. In order to feed the flame. Old Masters for Modern. Lady—Have you any picture postcards of Raffles? Attendant—I am sorry, madam, I am quite out of them. But here are several of Murillo's, and some of Michael Angelo's.—Punch. Supreme Test. "Yes; she can even separate herself from a street car without reminding one very much of an awkward elephant."—Washington Herald. Feminine Inconsistency "There is one thing in which a dressmaker has an advantage over others in her trade." "What's that?" "She can make a miss fit suit her customers."—Baltimore American. Practical Friend (in the studio)—You will never sell that enormous picture. sen that chorous picture. Artist—That doesn't matter. I have painted it so that I can cut it up into four pictures, and I can easily get rid of those.—Meggendorfer Blaetter. Approval. "Do you think they approved of my sermon?" asked the newly appointed rector, hopeful that he had made a good impression on his parishioners. "Yes, I think so," replied his wife. "They were all nodding."—London Tit-Bits. Hid Treasure "Thought you said you were a mind reader?" said the caller. "So I am," replied the professor. "Well, why do you hesitate? Why don't you read my mind?" "I'm searching for it."—Yonkers Statesman. A Bad Night Uncle Reuben was taking his first ocean voyage down to Florida. "Not pertickler," he replied. "Them bustles ye haw't tie under yer arms kinda keep a feller frum restin'"—Life. Walking Sticks For men, of course. They're slender and light. The heavy sticks of some seasons since are "out." The new ones are not resplendent with ornament. In fact, the best ones are extremely simple. A bit of silver on the handle, maybe. Or a narrow silver band on the upper part of the stick. Bamboo, cedar, snakewood, mahogany and malacca are favorite woods. Handles are both square and crooked. Quite a number figured as Christmas gifts — Philadelphia Bulletin. First Aid Cabinets. The St. John's Ambulance association has placed a number of first aid cabinets in the streets of Leicester. England. The cabinets are kept locked, but readily can be opened by breaking a glass door in the same way as fire alarms. They contain splints, bandages and smelling salts, as well as other first aid appliances. THE LULLABY SHIP. A ship is sailing for Lullaby Land; And what may the cargo be? A woolly dog and a china cat. A trumpet of tin and an old torn hat. Are ready to go to sea. For Lullaby Land her sails are set— (O pray ye the winds be true!) She will gently glide 'cross the sea of Dreams, 'Mid the moonbeams bright and the star- light gleams, 'Neath the skies of sapphire blue. Now "All aboard for Lullaby Land!" (One tiny traveler to go)— The woolly dog and the trumpet of tin, Two chubby hands have folded within, While a golden head droops low. Fair Lullaby Land is reached at last; The captain's duty is done— By her sweet low voice, and her face so fair. She has sailed the ship—the rocking chair— To the land of the Setting Sun. Margaret Brooks, in the Home Magazine. A SUCCESSFUL LIAR. Wilson was out of health and out of spirits, and a physician advised him to go away. When he asked where, the physician waved his hand, meaning anywhere. So Wilson went into the orchard region of the southwest country, riding an easy going horse that he might loll along the way and breathe the scent of the apple bloom. Inquiry brought him to a restful place among the hills, a small, homelike tavern, an ancient house, moss covered on the north side. Here he sat down to rest and it was restful—the soft air, the mysterious woods, and a great spring of white water that burst with passion from under a rock. This was all charming enough, but to one of Wilson's sensitiveness the people were annoying. The fewness of strangers rendered the natives inquisitive, and immediately upon the arrival of a visitor they at once set about to discover his business and the source of his income. Had this been done with bluntness it would not have been so annoying to Wilson. He detested insinuation. Shortly after his arrival he was sitting in the "best room," in the presence of several local men, who hemmed and hawed at him, and glanced at one another. Presently a tall, gaunt fellow, with beard streaked with sunlight and shadow looked up and said "Don't reckon it's much use to ask if you are a stranger in these here parts?" "Not much," replied Wilson. "Mout have come from a putty good distance?" "Yes." "Well, about how fur?" "See that hill off yonder?" "Yes; it's plain enough." "Well, I came from farther than that." A silence fell, and the men smoked their tobacco and spat into the great fireplace, and after a time another one, holding the importance of a reserve force, spoke up: "I take it that you ain't a farmer?" "Whatever you feel like taking, help yourself," said Wilson, and the reserve force cleared his throat. But he knew the duties of his position, and was not ready to retire. "Of course," said he, "it is necessary—or, leastwise, we think so—for a man to have some sort of business. Don't you think so?" "Either that or he ought to be a pretty skillful thief," said Wilson. "Yes; that's what we think. And you have some sort of business, eh?" "Yes; a very flourishing business. "May I ask what it is?" "Certainly. I am—am traveling for a factory that makes cork legs and arms." They smoked on, and glanced at one another, and Wilson, looking round, saw a girl standing near the door. He had caught sight of her once before, as she swept like a vision from the dairy across the yard. She did not shrink as he looked at her now; her brown eyes met his, and he felt that his starving nerves were feasting as he gazed upon her. "And I reckon you have come here to take orders," said the reserve force. "Yes, that's my business." The men filed out, leaving Wilson alone with the girl, who still stood near the door; and when they were gone she came forward timidly, but with a sweep, and stood at his elbow. "My father lives over on the hill," she said, and then halted to gaze into his eyes. "He owns this place, but lets mother and me run it, because he can't get about me well, and don't want to be in anybody's way. He lost a leg in the army, and I want you to have him one made and brought up here." She was so earnest that Wilson had not the heart to tell her that he was a liar, that he had never seen a cork leg, so he replied "Yes, I will go over and see him—with you." They went over, and talked with the old fellow, and while they were there, up stumped the owner of an orchard whose fruit brought a good income, and said that he wanted a leg; and before long a man named Hicks ordered a right arm for himself and a left arm for his brother. A regiment from this community had led one of the most desperate charges upon Buller during the South African war, and had returned—those who returned at all—in a crippled condition. Wilson had now gone too far to retreat. The girl got into a cart with him, and drove him into another neighborhood, where he took orders for six legs and four arms; and then drove down the valley and took more orders. And he found an interest in the work. Sometimes his conscience would reproach him, but the sweetness of the girl's face and the brightness of her eyes made him forget his perfidy; and so the time grew, like the mellowing of an apple, and at last he found that he must return to the great wilderness called a city. He bid her good-bye, at night, the moon in her eyes, and he kissed her, and, without a word, hastened away, with a sweet sadness in his heart. The weeks passed, and he sat in an office—a miserable employment, obtained for him by influential friends—and his hands were at work; but his mind was in Devon, and down in his heart he saw a girl with the moon in her eyes. But he could not return to the hills—he had deceived those simple people. Was there no way to put himself right? He sprang out of his chair. Why couldn't he execute those orders? There must be a cork-leg factory somewhere in the city. He would investigate. He found a place—quite a large establishment—and told the manager what he had done. He had the orders with him. A liberal commission was allowed him. and a fitter was sent with him to try on the arms and legs. The girl's father stepped proudly down to the little inn, and a fellow who had just tried on an arm swore, in his delight, that he could throw stones. And again Wilson and the girl stood in the moonlight, and her lips, murmuring sweetness, were turned upward. He thought of the weary hours in his office and the heavy dullness of life without her. She inspired him with rest; she was the spirit of the wooded hills. "And will you be gone so long this time?" she innocently asked. And with all her innocence and frankness she sometimes touched him gently with embarrassment. "Not if I knew that I could sell any more of my goods about here," he replied; and she sighed softly. "Uncle Matt has begun work at a sawmill in Newton Abbot," she said, and he murmured "Yes" to relieve the growing embarrassment, wondering what Uncle Matt had to do with his early return. She sighed again and continued: "Uncle Matt isn't a careful man, and a sawmill is a dangerous place to work, and after a while—a short while—knowing him as well as I do, he might need an arm. Don't you think you might come up and see?" That was enough, and the smiling moon veiled her face for a moment with a floating fleece. This all took place more than several years ago. Wilson is now one of the principal owners of the establishment, and he told me the other day that he was just about to leave home for a time, to establish a cork leg factory in South Africa.—O. R., in Illustrated Bits. GOOD SOUPS. Soups in the class prepared without a stock foundation are those made with a basis of fresh vegetables and enriched by the addition of milk or cream. These, when finished, should be of a smooth, creamy consistence. They are quite nutritious, and can be used for either lunch or dinner; they also make a nice hot dish for a winter supper. Potato Soup. Boil four good-sized potatoes in salted water until tender but unbroken. In the meantime scald together one quart of milk, to slices of onion, six peppercorns, and either a stalk of celery or a sprig of parsley. Cook for ten minutes, draw back and drop in one scant tablespoonful of butter rubbed to a paste with a large tablespoonful of flour. Stir gently until this is dissolved and the liquid thickened. Press the potatoes through a ricer directly into the milk, add salt to taste, stir and cook for ten minutes. Rub through a sieve. If too thick, thin with a little hot milk. Reheat and it is ready to serve. Cream of Tomato Soup Cook some strained tomato until thick and reduced to less than a cupful, seasoning palatably with salt, pepper and parsley. Scald a quart of milk and thicken it as directed for potato soup and season to taste. When ready to serve take both milk and tomato from the fire. Add to the latter a pinch of baking soda and stir it slowly into the milk. Serve at once. If reheated it will curdle. Brown Onion Soup. This is soothing for a nervous person and especially good for children. Peel and thinly slice four large onions. In a large kettle melt two tablespoonfuls of butter, add the onions, cover, draw back and simmer slowly for twenty minutes, then draw forward and cook until pale brown. Sprinkle in three large tablespoonfuls of flour. Stir until absorbed and a nice brown color. Slowly add three pints of hot milk (or milk and water), stirring until thick and smooth. Add salt and pepper to taste, cover and simmer gently for fifteen minutes longer. This soup is not strained. Vegetable Soups. Cook any vegetable such as green peas, carrots, turnips, parsnips, string beans, cauliflower, etc., in boiling salted water until tender, then rub through a fine sieve. Measure, and, for each cupful, take three cupfuls of milk. Scald, thicken with one tablespoonful of butter and one of flour (as for potato soup). Add the pulped vegetable, with salt and pepper to taste, and simmer for ten minutes before serving. It is usually best, though not absolutely necessary, to again rub through a sieve before serving. WORDS OF WISDOM The surly man occasionally forgets the ordinary civilities of life. The woman with a continual grin believes herself to be irresistible. Some men are positively annoying through an exuberance of spirit. When a man gets a big name he feels his position to be the most dangerous. A woman usually gets full return for the money she spends on other women. Commonplace things can be said by some men in a way to make them appear humorous. A woman may acquire habits which she insists upon making everybody regard as pretty. Women command respect until they show the disposition there is in them to become frivolous. It is hard to make a woman understand that her way of doing is not entirely satisfactory. Man sighs for the possession of wealth as though it could not fail to bring contentment.—Philadelphia Bulletin. The Motor Eve and the Bridge Brain. The motor-eye is the latest development that the medical profession has to deal with. It appears that those who are continually rushing through the country on a motor car cause the eye to take a too rapid impression of the things it encounters and that this affects the mechanism of the eye. Nature did not prepare us for the conditions of modern times, and while it is adapting itself to them many unforeseen circumstances must occur. The bridge-brain has already attracted attention, it having been observed that women, especially young girls, who devote much of their time to the game seem more and more to understand all but the most ordinary things they read or hear. It is supposed that this is one of the chief causes of the serious decay of conversational power in English "society" of the moment. The wicket keeper attitude is one which is especially obnoxious to women who are familiar with the game; he always appears to be on the alert to catch his wife out!-Graphic. DICTIONARY GIRLS The liveliest girl I ever met Was charming Annie Mation; Exceeding sweet was Carry Mel; Helpful Amelia Ration. Nicer than Jenny Posity It would be hard to find; Lovely was Rhoda Dendron, too, One of the flower kind. I did not fancy Polly Gon, Too angular was she; And I could never talk at all To Annie Mosity. I rather liked Miss Sarah Nade, Her voice was full of charm; Hester Ical too nervous was, She filled me with alarm. E. Lucy Date was clear of face, Her skin was like a shell; Miss Ella Gant was rather nice, Though she was awful swell. A clinging girl was Jessie Mine, I asked her me to marry In vain—now life is full of fights, For I'm joined to Millie Tary. —Boston Transcript. BRIEF NOTES OF GENERAL INTEREST Fred Wadden of Leona, a teamster, is in jail at Green Bay to await examination as to his sanity. He has been scouring the northern woods in a vain attempt to find Santa Claus or, as he described him, "the man with long white whiskers who owes him money." Frank C. Egan, proprietor of a dramatic school at Seattle, Wash., ordered Henry Austin Adams, former clergyman, better known as Vincent Harper, off the stage and dispersed the audience of Socialists because Adams or Harper assailed the marriage relation. A trained dog belonging to the Holder circus, now in winter quarters at Wabash, Ind., kicked over a lamp recently and set fire to an old building where the animals were quartered. There was a panic among the animals, but the flames were subdued before any great damage was done. The highest price ever paid for an ear of corn was given for the prize ear of the Iowa Corn Growers' association show Thursday. The ear was bid in by its owner and grower, Dan Pascal of DeWitt, Ia., for $150. This price averages $8850 a bushel, as the ear weighed just nineteen ounces. Hammond, Ind., is to have a municipal "jag cure," and habitual drunkards will be forced to take the cure or be locked in jail indefinitely. It is reported that other towns in Indiana have found the new scheme to be practical. Mayor J. W. Murphy of Wabash having been the first to put it into use. The executive committee of the National Congress of Mothers has approved a bill which will be acted upon by the congress when it meets in Los Angeles in May, which has for its object the creation of a cabinet portfolio to be designated "the department of child and home." The function of the department will be to train parents in the art of raising children. Work in the office of the Kalamazoo (Mich.) Gazette was opened recently with prayer by Rev. R. S. McGregor, president of the Ministerial Alliance, who officiated at the invitation of John A. Ross, the managing editor. Only one member of the staff refused to attend the services. The prayer in the office is to become a daily feature, ministers of the town taking turns in officiating. The Lexington hotel, one of the oldest in Boston, has been closed, after L. D. Fanning, president of the Lexington Hotel company, had made an assignment for the benefit of creditors. The liabilities are given as $75,000 and the assets as doubtful. "Sunday blue laws and country village ideas;" according to Mr. Fanning were largely responsible for the financial difficulties. --- "Louis, that means bad luck for you," exclaimed Mrs. Josie Henrietta Mayer of Milwaukee, at Marinette, it is said, as she saw a hearse pass the justice's office where she was to wed Louis Nelson, a shipping clerk from Oshkosh. The bride explained that she had just secured a divorce in a Milwaukee court and her husband had had three wives previously, each dying shortly after the wedding. Fifty thousand acres of land in Refugio county, in the extreme southwestern part of Texas, have been purchased for a woman's colony. Announcement is made that the deal has been closed for Mrs. Mary F. Hayden of Chicago, who, it is said, will come to Texas in February to make the necessary arrangements for women to locate on the land, which, according to the prospectus, is to be an "Adamless Eden." --- Having inherited $1,000,000, Marlette Crouse, 22 years of age, until recently a Yale student, has founded a corporation to publish a national magazine to be known as the Journal of American History. Crouse was studying mechanical engineering at the Sheffield Scientific school, but, becoming enthusiastic over his work as manager of the Yale Scientific Monthly, he decided to go into the publishing business. A cook who did not leave, but was invited to depart, has been bothering the Chi chapter of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity at Beloit college, and recently in a justice court at Jamesville she secured a judgment of $16.50. She is Kate Guttenberg, who testified that she was engaged for a year and discharged before the time had expired. Representations of hard biscuits were not considered proper evidence for the defense. A new indoor sport that is a little more interestingly hazardous than playing with matches, butchers' knives, Paris green, etc., has been discovered by a Marshfield, Wis., small boy who in November toyed with the coiled spring of an old curtain pole. At that time it suddenly "snapped back" and Alexander Christianson, aged 12, son of Robert Christianson, has just left the operating table at Stevens Point hospital minus an eye. Though Miss Ettie Henderson of Sioux City, Ia., was awarded the prize as the handsomest woman at the St. Louis exposition and her desk is piled high with offers for the use of her photograph in advertisements, she has married Floyd R. Wilson, a dining car conductor, who fell in love with her picture at the exposition. Wilson met Miss Henderson by chance in Hot Springs, S. D., and a railroad courtship followed. Wilson formerly lived in Chicago. The terms of the lease of the Grand Opera house property at Chicago, were disclosed when the document was placed on record. The lease is from William Borden to John A. Hamlin. The lease is from May 1, 1893, to May 1, 1992. In the document is the declaration that the sum of $25,000 was paid to the lessor May 1, 1893, and the provision that 1611 ounces of pure gold, troy weight, of the value prevailing at the time of signing of the instrument is to be paid yearly. This is the equivalent of $25,712.25. A miniature tin canteen, about the size of a watch charm or locket and modeled after the canteens carried by Uncle Sam's soldiers, has been adopted as the emblem of a woman's organization which is planning a militant campaign for the restoration of the real army canteen. A formidable band of Washington women, who declare they are friends and relatives of the American soldiers, have organized by the election of officers, and they propose to spread the movement among their sex from Maine to California. Declaring that her present husband is insanely jealous of the ashes of his predecessor, kept in an urn in their home at Chicago, that he interfered with her in the management of her business, and that coincident with his disappearance the other evening diamonds valued at $2000 were missed from the flat. Mrs. Elsie Gramer, a wealthy south side matron, recently applied for an injunction restraining Fred W. Gramer from further molesting her. Incidentally, private detectives have been placed on the case with a view to hastening the return of the jewels. Baron Munchausen is pressed pretty hard by this from Cassville, Wis.: "The 8-year-old boy of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Smith met with a painful injury in a most peculiar manner one day last week. The boy is very fond of a dog which they possess and while playing with him he attached a cord which was fastened to the dog's collar, about his waist. They were near a high bank when suddenly the dog spied a rabbit and made a bound for it, carrying the lad off his feet and down the embankment with the result that the boy suffered a broken nose besides several bruises." Secretary Straus of the department of commerce and labor has issued a circular to prevent repetition of the embarrassing incidents attending the arrival in New York some time ago of Ambassador Nabuco of Brazil, who declined to answer certain questions of a personal character asked him by the customs officers. The circular instructs officers that detailed statistical information required in the manifests of vessels bringing aliens to the United States shall not hereafter be required in the cases of diplomatic and consular officers and other officials duly accredited by their governments, with their suites. J. Ogden Armour is at work on the creation of a model city. With fountains playing and garden spots abounding, with beautiful parks and patches of lawn brightening the landscape, and with cleanly cottages and paved, washed streets, the model city is to rise about the Armour packing plant in northeast Minneapolis. The complete details have yet to be worked out, but it is asserted that the Armour city at Minneapolis will be everything that "Packingtown" at Chicago is not. The building of the $2,000,000 Armour plant probably will commence in March or April. Exhausted after a wild night ride over twenty-five miles of slushy roads, Attorney J. B. Daniel, bearing a reprieve for William Spaugh, urged his staggering horse up to the jail at Centerville. Mo., a few minutes after the time set for the trap to fall. Hoping against hope that he might still be in time, he beat on the iron door, and was admitted by the sheriff, who informed him that telephonic communication with the outside world, which was cut off for several days, had been restored shortly after he left the railroad station, and that the reprieve had come by wire, thus saving the murderer's life. St. Charles, Mo., was in darkness a whole night owing to a deadlock in the city council which has tied up practically all city business, including the municipal lighting plant. Jules Buehmer, who has been acting city electrician for a month, although receiving the pay of an assistant, served notice on the council before its meeting that unless the regular salary of $100 a month was voted to him he would quit. Buehmer has been receiving only $60 a month. The result of the deadlock was that nothing was done, and Buehmer left the city in darkness. Much annoyance was caused in the United States Senate the other day by a buzzing sound, which kept the engineers at the capitol on a still hunt all day. A page finally decided that it was emerging from Senator Pettus' desk. A search showed that a new device which the Alabama senator has to enable him to hear the proceedings of the Senate was the cause of the disturbance. The senator's ear equipment resembles the headgear worn by telephone girls, and is connected with a small storage battery which fastens under the coat. In laying the apparatus away in his desk Senator Pettus placed the ear piece and the battery in contact, and the result was the buzzing sound. For three years Charles Koran, a negro, has been obliged to ride in "the baggage ahead" because his enormous size would not permit of him going through a passenger coach door. Tipping the scales at 625 pounds and still increasing in weight, is the present status of this remarkable man who now makes Appleton, Wis., his home and is scarcely able to walk, being obliged to swing his shoulders and body as a pendulum in order to allow the muscles of his lower limbs to carry him. Charles Koran resides in Appleton at the home of Lottie Holmes, known as the Hindoo wonder. He is only 19 years of age, stands five feet five inches high and claims to be the fattest man in America. With a note lying near by, in which he had written that "life is a rarebit dream," the body of Albert A. Chittenden, an artist of some note, was found in his luxuriously furnished apartments on West Twenty-ninth street, New York the other day. Chittenden had committed suicide by inhaling gas and had been dead at least three days. He had first pasted heavy wrapping paper over every window and crevice in the apartment, and had then lain down on the floor with a gas tube in his mouth attached to a jet hanging over him. Pinned on his waistcoat was the foliowing note: "Life is a rarebit dream. Ha, ha! Such a funny dream, but enough. I am ready to awake to something less ridiculous." Though he is assistant professor of romances languages at Harvard, Phillippe Belknap Marcon has had the reputation among his associates and the students of having no romance in his soul. Yet he is the defendant in a $25,000 breach of promise suit. An action against the professor has been begun by Miss Annie L. Manley of Boston. Prof. Marcon's property in Cambridge, Mass., has been attached. The professor declines to deny or admit that he knows a woman of that name and maintains that his only position should be one of dignified silence. Prof. Marcon has lived in Cambridge twenty-five years and has long been known as a woman hater and a man devoted passionately to his work. He reads and speaks many modern lan- guages and has a library surpassed by few other private collections. He is wealthy. A suit has been filed in Baltimore by Redfern & Co., of New York against Miss Sarah Campbell Cowen, the daughter of the late President John K. Cowen of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, for $300. The articles which it is claimed Miss Cowen bought, but did not pay for, are riding breeches for $45, green covert riding habit, $125, black melton habit, $115. Six months' interest is included. Miss Cowen made her debut in society at the Sacheltors cotillon. On the evening of that day her mother appeared in court in Baltimore county resisting attachment proceedings sent out against her as a non-resident debtor. As Mrs. Cowen denied non-residence, the proceedings was dismissed, but other attachments have since been issued against her. All the property left her by her husband is incumbered with mortgages, and is to be sold under foreclosure proceedings. The "Skidoo" club, an organization of ten Muskegon, Mich., young women, furnished a highly romantic wedding recently in which Miss Lucy M. Schewgler of Muskegon and Harry W. Simpson, a locomotive engineer of Chicago, were principals. Miss Schewgler had invited all the members of the club to her home. When the club assembled Miss Schewgler announced her engagement to Mr. Simpson. After congratulations she said the entertainment of the night would be to help her prepare her wedding clothes, as the marriage would take place some time after the first of the year. While the merriment was at its height and refreshments were being served one of the young women proposed a mock wedding. William Schewgler of Chicago, a cousin of the hostess, went the suggestion one better, saying: "I dare you to make it a real marriage." Miss Schewgler refused to be dared, and instantly replied: "Come on, Harry; I never knew a Schewgler to refuse a dare yet, and we will show them." Harry hastened to the home of the county clerk and got a license. William Schewgler was dispatched to a minister's home, but after waiting fifteen minutes in the back yard of the Schewgler property came back and said Rev. M. Vang of the Swedish Evangelical Lutheran church was nowhere to be found. He did not believe then that there was to be a real marriage, but a second mission produced the preacher, a smiling and willing participant in the novel affair. In the meantime the bride had dismissed her friends and donned a light dress, which was to serve as the wedding dress. The belated bridegroom, unused to Muskegon streets, failed to arrive until the party had waited twenty minutes. When he put in an appearance the marriage was immediately performed. HUMOR OF THE BENCH. Witty Sayings of Famous Judges in English Courts. Mr. Justice Maule, one of the most notable of the Victorian judges, is the prince of judicial wits, says the Grand Magazine. "My lord, you may believe me or not, but I have stated not a word that is false, for I have been wedded to truth from my infancy!" exclaimed a witness, when cautioned by the judge. "Yes, sir," said Mr. Justice Maule, "but the question is how long you have been a widower!" At one time the baliff in charge of a jury was sworn to keep them "without meat, drink or fire." It was Mr. Justice Maule who gave the classic reply to the bailiff who inquired whether he might grant a juryman's request for a glass of water: "Well, it is not meat, and I should not call it drink. Yes, you may." Another characteristic display of Mr. Justice Maule's humor was occasioned by the appearance of a little girl in the witness box. It was the judge's duty, before allowing her to be sworn, to ascertain whether she understood the nature of an oath and believed in a future state. "Do you know what an oath is, my child?" "Yes, sir, I am obliged to tell the truth." "And if you always tell the truth where will you go when you die?" "Up to heaven, sir. "And what will become of you if you tell lies?" "I shall go to the naughty place, sir." "Are you quite sure of that?" "Yes, sir, quite sure." "Let her be sworn." said Mr. Justice Maule, "it is quite clear she knows a great deal more than I do." Nearly all Maule's good sayings had a strong touch of irony. "May God strike me dead, my iud, if I am guilty!" exclaimed a prisoner, when the jury found him guilty. Mr. Justice Maule waited a few minutes, and then said: "Prisoner at the bar, as Providence has not seen fit to interfere, the sentence of the court is * * * * " His humor was not always of the kind that makes the bar merry. "I am sorry to interfere," he once observed to an advocate whose speech was wanting in lucidity, "but do you not think that, by introducing a little order into your narrative, you might possibly render yourself a trifle more intelligible? It may be my fault that I cannot follow you; I know that my brain is getting old and dilapidated, but I should like to stipulate for some kind of order. There are plenty of them. There is the chronological, the botanical, the metaphysical, the geographical—even the alphabetical order would be better than none at all." Of judicial wit there are many kinds. Lord Bramwell is among the judges whose style of humor has not been wanting in variety. A prisoner was once tried before him at an assize town for stealing a ham. The day was extremely hot, the counsel was loquacious and the ham perspired in the crowded court. When at last it came to Lord Bramwell to address the tired jury, he summed up the case in these words: "There, gentlemen, is the prisoner, and there, gentlemen, is the ham. Consider your verdict." Lord Bramwell's wittiest saying, however, belongs to the Old Bailey. A barrister urged that his client, who was accused of shoplifting, was suffering from kleptomania. "That is exactly the disease I am here to cure," was the memorable reply. The Holy Land Christians call Palestine the Holy Land, because it was the site of Christ's birth, ministry and death. Mahometans call Mecca the Holy Land, because Mahomet was born there. The Chinese Buddhists call India the Holy Land, because it was the native land of Sakya-muni, the Buddha. The Greek considered Elis as Holy Land, from the temple of Olympian Zeus and the sacred festival held there every four years. Smallest Republic in the World The smallest republic in the world is Tarolaro, a little island in the Mediterranean, about seven and one-half miles from Sardinia. The island is only one and one-half miles across, and has only fifty-five inhabitants. The president is elected for six years, no public official receives any salary, and women have the same voting rights as men. GOSSIP FOR THE LADIES. Ee eee ] gently touched the weaver as he stood at & nis busy loom. “oO man, where is hidden the picture? Thou didst not speak me fair,” ] said, as the treadles’ stopping brought silence to the room. “Pye looked in vain for the beauty thou saidst was woven there. ‘Tis but ends and shreds of colors that cover your web of gray, Like a tangled mass of seaweed, by the wrath of ocean flung On the sands and shelving rocks out of reach of the dashing spray. See! naught are these but broken threads by your shuttles deftly strung.” Softly spoke the weaver as his eyes looked into mine: “Fair buds are strewn on the somber warp as forth my shuttle flies, And these blended strands are fashioned in a quaint and rich design; ‘Tis not on this, but the other side, the finished picture lies.” —Fannie Shugert, in The New Age. Shun Women Who Ask Questions. Of course we all know her! The moment the subject of askiug questions is broached we recail with a shudder some woman of our acquaint- ance with a genius for cross-examination that would make a prosecuting attorney turn his face to the wall while ie blushed and wept. Equally, of course, it is the tactless woman who asks questions with a sort of rapid firing attachment that tangles up all the varied emotions of your heart, soul and body. If you are well bred and polite, you don’t like to tell her in so many words that it is “none of her busi ness,” and when you hesitate to answer she is apt to feel horribly injured and add insult to injury by remarking in an offended tone and with an indescribable manner, “Oh, you need not tell me if you don’t want to,” with the result that you must be rude and risk her enmity for life, or else parry the question as best you can, If people want you to know anything they will tell you without impertinent questioning on your part. If they fancy that any little tid-bit of gossip will in- terest you they will take pleasure in re- tailing it, but there are people who per- sist in probing every nerve and jumping upon all your tender corns at once. I have seen sensitive women who were bravely bearing an agony of humiliation through some domestic or financial up- heaval be driven to the verge of hysteria by the probing and questioning, cruel and virulent, of women professing un- qualified interest in the other’s concerns, and taking the ground that their friend- ship licensed an attack at once cowardly and absolutely unjustifiable by any pal- liating considerations, Friendship is not an open sesame for impertinence, nor does it carry with it a patent grant privileging one to its abuse by a disregard ot izs noblest preroga- tives. A friendship that is worthy the name will shield its objest; not only through a persona: regard, but will also seek to hide from the world at large ali information caleulated to reflect directly or indirectly upon its object. ‘ If a woman who really loves her hus- band finds herself the victim of domestic srief of any nature she does not want the matter discussed or bruited about by anyone, and for a woman to take advau- tage of one’s humiliation to come rushing in with a “Oh, you poor dear, I am so sorry. Do tell me all about it,” and a Gatling gun fusillade of questions is nothing less than an unprovoked assault, and the woman so cruelly indelicate de- serves to be killed then and there. It is not sympathy in such cases, but an overwhelming curiosity lacking every sense of the delicacy that should hold the sorrows of another sacred. It is often a relief for one in trouble to unbur- den the whole sad story to a woman up- on whose judgment and discretion reli- ance can be placed, but even then the listener should be careful to soothe and comfort rather than to reopen and bruise the torturing wound to question probing. There is yet another class, aha pro- fessing the most abounding friendship, cannot meet another woman without seeking to know the whole story of a life. Not many months ago, as a matter of courtesy, L accepted an invitation to ac- company a friend to. a hen party. Now, I do not particularly enjoy “hen par- ties,” for which I guess a house full of brothers and being the only girl may be responsible, but I went prepared to be on mny very best behavior. 5 The first woman to whom I was intro- duced said: “You have the New York look, but the southern twang.” “Yes,” I twangeé in reply. “Negro servan:s absolutely ruin proper enunciation,” she complimented. “Yes,” I twanged again, and hating arguments, said “no more. “Southern women are so languid and nearly all are widows.” “Yes,” I twanged once more, and when I come to think cf ‘t lots of us are widows. That woman was a_ positive patent sifting process machine and she taxed all ny good breeding to be polite. S “Are you a widow, or only divorced?” (Poor Jones is really dead.) “How many years aye you been a widow ?”" navy have you never married?” (Alas why.) “How many children have you?” “Do you think you will ever re- marry ?” Ss f “Have you found more happiness in married than in single life?” ‘These were only a few of the thou- sand or more questions which she shot at me in rapid-fire suecession. My politeness oozed out in short order, and excusing myself, I sought my friend, ‘ud tearfully begged her to take me home, if she did not wang to fish me out fa real bad mix-up. Now, that woman prides herself ov hailing from genuine old Knickerbocker stock. and by birth, education, and en- vironment can lay claim to all the pre- roxatives of eultured womanhood, but she was inquisitive, rude, and ill-bred, nd aiter my friend allayed my fears that TI possibly looked like a musemwm freak, I congratulatea myself upon my escape. A little longer exposure to that wonntn's siftings and there would not have been even enough ashes left of me ‘o do duty for a eremation urn. There are women who cannot see one swathed in a new “glad-rag” of any kind without being seized with a curi- vsity panic, through the desire to eek “where you got it?” “how you. got it? “who made it?’ “what it cost?” and a londred otker details that are exasperat- ins.—Kate Tyson Marr in Exchange. How One Woman Divides House- work Feanamicalle Among AMS OLTVaRtS. * “I have three servants,” said.an eco- nomical housekeeper to a surprised xroup of friends, for she, like the rest of them, lived on a limited income in a small apartment. “One is a young maid who lives with me and knows my ways; she always sets the table just right and knows how to put the books on the library table the way I like them, and ean mend my xloves when I am hurried. She gets our breakfast and luncheon for me, my hus- band and all the children are away at ‘noon, and keeps the Sparirene clean. , She has the sort of disposition I like in a maid, and she likes to do things for ‘me. I can’t stand to have a maid around that I don’t take to personally. I always pick a girl out for her temperament rath- er than for what she can do. I pay her a ‘very small wage because she can do no heavy work and had never had any ‘training when I took her. - “Then I have a woman who comes and cooks my dinners. She is fat and uncomely, but she can cook to _ the -queen’s taste. She also takes home our washing and mends the clothes before they come back. She is a jewel. “Ihave had her for years. She is my most expensive servant, thougi: she costs less than most pele pay to have their laundry done alone. “Then I have a man who comes every week who does the windows and shines the brass. He is almost as invaluable as the other two, for one so often needs a man. He can beat rugs and move trunks, put up shelves and repair furni- ture. “I really believe, too, that I pay as little ior service us any woman. here. While my little maid is only too glad to have a good home and prefers this to higher pay, my cook has four children to care for and is thankful enough to be able to keep a home and be away from it only at dinner time for a few hours. She has othcy washings to do, and takes in sewing among her neigh- bors besides. “My man servant is the most peruse gentleman in the neighborhood. He tends furnaces and does what he does for me for a dozen families in the neigh- borhood. He told me iast winter that he made from $25 to $30 a week in fur- hace season. “This is by far the cheapest snd most satisfactory arrangement I haye ever had. I pay avout $30 a month for serv- ice, but this includes board for only one, and dinners for two. which reduces my bills a good deal, I find. As my little maid grows stronger I shall have her do part of my washing, increase her pay accordingly, and find some triends, and 1 always have plenty, to give their work to my laundress, that she may not lose by the adjustment. This is one plan I have: auother is that my maid shall learn to sew well enough that I may be able to use her one day a week as a seamstress for the children’s clothes, and pay her accordingly. “I have two friends who are school teachers that on my advice are trying ‘the same system of patchwork service. “They get their own breakfasts and then leave home. While they are away a woman goes every day, makes their beds, washes their dishes and does their marketing, She then returns to her family. “When the teachers come home it is to find a little maid in cap and apron, the chorewoman’s daughter, who makes them afternoon tea, cooks them a simple dinner with supervision and clears it away. This little girl is still in school, but is thus able to help out her mother, who can’t be long away from her babies. “The two young women have their heavy work done and yet never see any one but a dainty little maid who knows all their ways. The woman also does their laundry. Three dollars a week is all they pay for service.’—New York Mail. Corsets -nd Economy. “It's only a question of knowing how.” said the woman who made the as- sertion that she always cleaned her cor- sets herse!f and did it beautifully, too. “It not only means increased economy, but it means increased good looks as well,” she went on. “So many women think that they cannot afford expensive corsets because they must be cleaned so often. Therefore they buy cheap ones which they discard when they are soiled, and the consequence is that their gowns never fit as well as they would over corsets of a better make. “The first thing to do in washing them is to remove all of the bones and steels. If this is not done the steels will prob- ably rust and the bones will get out of shape. “If the binding at the top of the corset is carefully removed these are not. diffi- cult to remove, although it is rather a tedious job. “After I have taken them all out I ‘spread the corset on a wooden poard and with a stiff brush I give it a thorough scrubbing, using a good naphtha or borax soap. Then I rinse it well in cold water, to which I add a little bluing if nae corset is a white one. .: “It should be dried in the open, air and in the sunshine if possible. When quite dry I put back the steels and bones and carefully replace the binding at the top, and then I iron it. i “The greatest care is necessary in iron- ing, for a very hot iron must be used in order that the bones and steels may be pressed into the proper shape as well as that the material itself be made smooth. In ironing I never begin at the bottom, but always press from the top downward. Any bones that seem to be out of shape I throw away, put- ting new ones in their places at a cost of only a few cents. “A ‘corset should be ironed three or four times in urder to get it into good shape. Occasionally my corsets are stained with perspiration. In that case I make a solution of strong ammonia, hot water and laundry soap, and serub the stains thoroughly before washing the entire corset. “By understanding how to wash my corsets I am able to wear an expensive make that will outwear three or four pairs that my _ so-called economical friends invest in. I am not only more comfortable, but I have the satisfaction of knowing that my clothes: fit better than theirs and that none of my good points are lost by reason of an ill-fitting corset.” When the Family Interferes. _ Mary a good matrimonial ship, with its sunlit cargo of happiness and hope, has been wrecked on the rocks of family interference. It is in the first years of married life that foreign interference is most trying and dangerous and it is this very time when it is most conspicieus and dominaat. “These early years are times of gradual adjustment to new con- ditions, the formative period of harmo- nizing with a new environment, of growth in mutual understanding, perhaps of meeting disappointment and of rising su- perior to it, or of sadly revising golden dreams and unrealized ideals, of taking trial balances on the ledger of _happi- ness, of awakening to the wisdom of mutual concessions, of learning new les sons in the school of experience that ean never be learned vicariously. These are the problems of two that must be solved by them; they need only kind- ness, sympathy, generous co-operation. There is no need for the family to re- ‘mind the wife -that the husband is sot eighteen karat, that he will never make ‘a fortune, that they fear greatly and them let their fear expand into a long catalogue of detail that fades away into the dim perspective of the unspoken. After the goods are pought and sent home and cannot be returned, what is the use of discouraging the purchaser? Why not point out some good points, something helpful and inspiring? ‘Sometimes the interference of families becomes even more active and aggressive than this, and because of a fancied grievance or a genuine opposition it ac- tually comes between husband and wife and by harsh criticism or condemnation seeks to plant the seeds of discord be- tween them. Here instant loyalty of the one to the other should assert itself and refuse to listen to the voice; in an in- stinctive spirit of protection there should be a calm dignified protest of what if un- essential should never be spoken, and if of serious import should be expressed only in the presence of the one thus charged with what he or she should have the opportunity of denying or dis- proving before the weeds of suspicion have taken root themselves in the heart of the other.—William George Jordan in the Delineator. Acknowledging Weddine Gifts. When a girl is to be married there is added to the inevitable hurry and ex- citement of the last few days a burden of numberless little notes of thanks. The presents come in droves, and if each is to have a separate acknowleg- ment elaborate lists must be kept that the gratitude for the butrer knife may not go to’ the sender of the asparagus fork. Her pleasure in the gift is genu- ine, for no human girl can be indifferent to the ownership of silver, goid and cut glass; but their muntiplicity makes it a great strain. - One of the independent spirits has in- vented a new way of acknowledging her wedding presents. A conventional | phrase was chosen and written across a number of visiting cards, which fitted into little envelopes. Whenever a present arrived one of ‘these envelopes was dispatched to the giver, and so the bride went to the altar a degree farther removed from nervous prostration. There is no denying her method was not satisfactory from the viewpoint of those who have brought the offerings. When one has denied oneself in a_hun- dred little ways for the pleasure pf giv- ing the new couple something that shall! be of lifelong value to their household it is a_ little disconcerting to \ receive back, “Many thanks for your pretty present,” while “With much gratitude for your lovely remembrance” _ loses some of its foree when one finds it ap- plied equally to a silver toilet set and a pair of plated sugar tongs. This wholesale asknowledgment is likely to leave an injured sense that one needn't have bothered oneself, and yet it is a real boon to the bride. After all, it comes down to the question whether one sends wedding presents for the | pleasure of giving or of being thanked. When Making Pies. Do not roll the paste out too thin, for if it has not sufficient substance it will, when baked, be dry and tasteless. Preserves should not be put into coy- ered pies; strips of paste may be laid over the top, but a top crust is never satisfactory over preserved fruit. Remember to flour well both the board and the rolling pin when rolling out the paste. If the fruit for pie is not ripe, it should be stewed with sugar and then allowed to get cold before being put in the crust. If put in warm, it will make the pie heavy. Butter the tins well before putting in the under crust; burnt or lardy crusts are most distasteful and unwholesome. In cold weather the pies should be placed on the mantel of the range or in the oven for a minute before being served. Sweet apples are not meant fur pies; the regular sour cooking apples have much better flavor when cooked. Sweet apples, when cooked, are most insipid. Cranberries and gooseberries should be stewed with sugar before being put in the paste. It is better to put too little than too much sugar in the pie, for it may be added at the table if necessary. Mince pies are always made with a top crust, and if made the day before using should be heated before being eaten. The stones of peaches, plums or cher- ries should be extracted before being put into pies. Peaches should be halved or quartered. When Making a Shirtwaist. The making of the unlined shirt waist or blouse is a very simple matter if proper attention is given to the little details. kt is most important that the pattern be laid on according to the thread of the material, especially in wash fabrics. Shirt waists are usually unlined, although those of silk and flan- ‘nel are sometimes made with a lining. If the shirt waist closes in the front, ‘the right edge is generauy finished by ‘a box plait: stitehed on each edge. But- tonholes are worked through the center of this plait and buttons sewed to the left side, which is hemmed or finished by a lap. French seams are used, and ‘the gathers are put in at the waist line according to the perforations in the pat- ‘tern. The belt and peplum that is now used to finish the lower edge do away with any unnecessary fullness below the waist and give a trim appearance and smooth fit over the hips. The making of the sleeves is usually ‘considered by the amateur as the most ‘difficult part of thé waist. First the sleeve lining must be accurately cut and basted, care being taken that the cor- responding notches come together, and ‘then tried on to see that the elbow is ‘in the right position. After the seams are stitched and pressed they should be bound with seam binding. An inter- lining of crinoline about two ~ inches wide should be pines in the lower edge. In sewing the sleeve in the arm- hole hold the waist so that the sleeve ‘is toward you and bind with a_ bias strip of the lining.—Philadelphia Press. A Man Does Not Admire A self-opinionated girl. Not that te gbjects to the opinion exactly, but the ideal woman must at least be willing a. be converted when her error is shown er. A cold girl, or one whose manners give the impression of coldness—for in nine cases out of ten it is rarely a man- ner. Sometimes it arises simply from shyness, sometimes from a too whole- hearted desire to be coy. The most beautiful face ceases to be attractive to the would-be lover when he begins to susnect its owner has little else to bestow. A girl who is the least bit rapid in her manner or speech. He may talk to her, flirt with her, perhaps, but in his heart he’ dislikes her, ‘An untidy girl, The girl whose but- tons are forever coming off, whose hair is always ill-dressed and who _ habitu- ally wears a half-finished air never finds favor in his sight. A dainty freshness ‘possesses a potent charm for the mas- ‘culine beholder. He cares little that ‘the gown may be of the year-before- ast’s fashion, so that it fits perfectly, and all the little details of the toilet. especially boots and gloves, be above reproach. An affecting girl—the girl who is for- ever pretending to be something she is not. Such a transparant pretense as it invariably is, too, deceives no one. Visiting with Your Children. Some women will not go visiting if they must take their children, because, as everyone knows, these little visitors usually mar a pleasurable jaunt; then their conduct is not always to be relied upon, since the inquisitive youngsters ask all sort of questions and oft times place the mother and hostess in an em- barrassing position by their conduct. Again, we have the woman who takes her children where she goes, and they are permitted to run at large in and out ef the house, and the hostess smiles— though it may be an artful smile—and tells the mother not to worry. In fact, this kind of a mother does not worry; it is the hostess whe must bear that af- fliction, and the riotous children take more liberties while visiting than they dare do at home. Pictures are soiled by their handling, valued books are tak- en from tables and given the children to keep them quiet. At the table they ask for things, ery if denied, and usually make a dinner anything but a pleasant affair. It is not an easy thing to govern children, and there is no rule which works well tor any two children. But it certainly lies within the power of any mother to make a child vehave when away from home. In ease this is im- possible, then leave the charge at home with a nurse or some one to keep it in charge. A woman with unruly children is the most unwelcome guest in the world.—Exchange. Excellent Food for the Skin. An excellent skin food well com- mended for removing freckles also is compounded from one ounce each of clarified mutton tallow, lanolin and cocoanut oil heated with two ounces of oil of sweet almonds. Beat until smooth, adding one ounce of extract of which hazel and one teaspoonful of benzoin. The skin of the face can be strength- ened and whitened with this lotion, said to be favored by Sarah Bernhardt: Two ounces each of spirits of ammonia and benzoin and half a pint of alcohol added to sutlicient boiling water to make a quart. Pour into a bottle and thorough- ly shake before using—the bottle, not yourself. This lotion, well rubbed into the skin every day, is said to be very soothing to nerves, and so, doubly beau- tifying. For a pallid skin apply daily equal portions of liquid ammonia and glycer- ine, mixed with double the quantity of water. Eat good rare beef, drink the native red wine of your country, and spend as many hours on horseback as you possibly can. There's nothing like good air to color the cheeks and give one an appetite for nourishing food.— Woman's Gazette. The Girls the Men Marry. Men seldom ask girls with whom they laugh and bandy jokes to share their homes. They enjoy being amused for an hour by the girl who is witty and clever, who is sparkling and gay, and they will heap admiration to the full measure upon the girl who is beautiful. Men are, as a rule, far cuter than folks imagine when it comes to the point of marriage. True, so many sacrifice everything for the sake of a pretty face, but the ma- jority are wiser in their generation. They see the mistakes of others and take warning. Beauty fades, wit and clever- ness pall if they are backed up with 20 more solid virtues, and the happiness and comfort of a home cannot degend upon the power of being amusing. When a man marries lre wants a helpmeet, not a beauty upon whom he must be for- ever dancing attendance, not a brilliantly clever woman, at whose feet he must be forever sitting in admiration, but a wom- an full of love and sympathy, a partner who can bring into the partnership what he himself lacks, one who will help him and for whom he will never tire of working and serving devoutly. —American Queen. ———__—————_ REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. A girl can love lots of people; she is never in love with more than one. Lots of women marry for money and don't get even a housekeeper’s pay for doing more. Divorces may cost a lot, but those who get them seem to think they are worth it all. r A woman is terribly afraid of getting her skirts dusty when she has on pret- ty stockings. When a man doesn’t get mad with the way a girl plays whist it’s a sign she is mighty pretty. When they aren't hungry people will eat a free meal so as to be able to tell how good it wasn’t. Before a girl refuses to marry a man she gets a guarantee from him that he will not ask her again. When a girl says she had a happy dream it either had to do with a foreign nobleman or a pearl necklace. A woman tries to make other people believe she trusts her husband in the hope she can make herself believe it. Next to dodging the Custom House a Woman seems to like best not having the street car conductor collect her fare. Farmers blame the Lord for their poor crops, and when they are good, the railroads for charging to haul them. It’s astonishing what a lot of money a man could have made if he had trusted to luck instead of relying on judgment. Marriages would be a great success if a man’s wife would let him wear his old clothes and not make him put on rubbers. - A man can get more excited about the national dignity being hurt in China than about being chased around town by his own creditors. One hopeful thing about changing cooks is the way you keep on guessing you can't get anything worse in spite of how you are always fooled.—New York Press. Tea Drinking in India. The custom of drinking tea was prac- tically unknown among natives up to twelve years ago. Government servants were the first to be taken up, and it is at present in somewhat of this class. Grad- ually its use extended to village land- lords, and even to the more well-to-do cultivators and village officers, especial- ly within the last three years, the ex- ample of railway irrigation employes having materially assisted its introduc- tion. Some cultivating castes have a special liking for it and drink it even three or four times a day.—The Indian World. Seed A British Institution Falling. As regards the long and deadly war- fare between the turkey and its flat breasted rival, the goose, for the prime honors of the Christmas dinner table an expert confesses that the goose’s defeat in popularity is probably irretrievable now. “The flesn is proving,” said he, “too rich for the delicate tastes of most well-to-do people, and there is not enough of it for the poor. None the less, for the real trencherman who has a healthy gusto and well filled purse, your turkey, which has to be helped out with sau- sages and bacon to give it a_ flavor, is nowhere in it with your goose.””—London Daily Chronicle. ——_+__—- Old Style of Churns. Butter in Armenia is made in churns suspended by ropes from the rafters and shaken from side to side by the women. THE CALL OF THE GRUB. To one ‘twas the Call of the Wild, To another the Call of the Blood; To this one the Call of the Child, To that one the Call of the Flood. But sometimes it seems that these calls Are merely a lot of flub-dub— For the call that man hears when it calls Is the beautiful Call of the Grub! Ayaunt with the Call of the Book, The calling of music and art; The pad of the Soul and the Call of the Joa! And the call of the cold, flabby heart! For none of them fall on the ear Of the world with such rubby-dub-dub As the message full sweet, bringing all to their feet, - When the dinner bell calls us to grub! The Call of the Wild—cut it out! The Call of the Tame—let it die! What the world really needs is a call that proceeds _To call it to pudding and pie. Yea, bother your calls that are called By the authors of modern flub-dub: What the world listens for, with its mill- tant roar, Is the beautiful Call of the Grub! —Baltimore Sun. ! Sete SON aes ieee Seas ee DR. JAMES B. ANGELL, distin- guished both as an educator and diplo- mat, was born in Scituate, R. 1., January 7, 1829. He entered Brown university in 1845. In 1849 he graduated, and but for throat trouble he would have studied for the ministry. He spent severai years in the south and in Europe, and upon his return he became a professor of modern languages at his alma mater. He con- tinued to teach for seven years and then became editor of the Providence Journal, which work he followed for six years. He became president of the University of Vermont in 1866, and in 1871 moved to Ann Arbor to become president of the University of Michigan. In the early "SOs he served for a time as United States minister to China and acted as commissioner in negotiating several im- portant treaties. He has been a member of several important international com- missions and also served for a year as United States minister to Turkey. But when the important work of diplomacy was concluded Dr. Angell has always been glad to return to his duties at the University of Michigan. He has served as head of that famous institution for thirty-five years, and if to this is added his five years’ service as president of the University of Vermont, it makes him the senior president of a great university in America. In point of continuous service his record is eclipsed only by that of President Eliot of Harvard. WILLIAM A. CLARK, the multi-mil- lionaire mine owner who is serving what will probably be his last term in the United States Senate, was born on_his father’s farm near Connellsville, Pa., January 8, 1839. He received a com- mon school education and studied civil engineering in a local academy. In 1860 he started for the west, hoping to find his fortune in the gold mines of Cali- fornia. After trying various places and many pursuits, farming, mining and merchan- dizing, he finally accumulated a capital of $5000. With this he bought a store of provisions and reached the great pla- cer bonanzas in Madison county, Mon- tana, just when the mining boom was at its height. He disposed of his stock of provisions at a handsome profit and went in for mining in the vicinity of Butte. Thougn at first he was not very successful he later struck it rich and be- gan the accumulation of the many mul- lions he now possesses. In 1888 Mr. Clark entered politics as |a candidate for delegate in Congress and was defeated. In 1890 he was_nomi- nated by the Democrats for United States senator, and claimed the election, but was denied a seat in the Senate. In 1898 he was again a candidate and was elected. But a contest ensued at Wash- ington and before the investigation was concluded Mr. Clarke resigned. In 1901 he was elected for the term which will expire two months hence. QUEEN HELENA of Italy entered upon her thirty-fifth year Jan. 8, but owing to an interesting event expected to take place aioe the birthday anni- versary was allowed to pass almost un- observed at the Quirinal. The impend- ing visit of the stork is looked forward to with joy in the royal household, as well as throughout Italy, for it is the cherished wish of the young King and Queen to rear a large family. The royal couple already have three children, the Princess Yolanda Margher- ita Milena, born on June 1, 1901; Prin- cess Mafalda Maria Elizabetta, born No- vember 12, 1902, and the heir to the throne, little Prince Umberto Nicola Tommaso Giovanni . Maria, Prince of Piedmont, who was born September 15, 1904. Queen Helena has always been more than content to devote herself to the care of her children, holding herself aloof from affairs of state, and rearing them with the care and attention that a wom- an of the plebeian_ranks would bestow on her offspring. Esseutially a woman- ly woman, the Queen is perhaps the most attractive royal personage of the day and certainly she is the most beloved and admired woman in the kingdom of Italy. GEN. SAMUEL BALDWIN MARKS YOUNG, the first man who shouldered a musket as a common sol- dier to attain to the position of _com- mander of the army of the United States, was born in Pittsburg, Pa., Jan- uary 9, 1840. He entered the army as a private of company Twelfth Pennsylvania vol- unteer infantry, April 25, 1861, and_five months later was made a captain of the Fourth Pennsylvania volunteers. One years later he was promoted to the grade of major. In October, 1864, he had reached the grade of lieutenant col- onel, and two months later was placed in command of his regiment. April 9, 1865. he was Se gener- al of volunteers for mspicuous gal- lantry, and was honorably mustered out of the service July 1, 1865. The follow- ing year he was appointed in the regular establishment, with the rank of second lieutenant of the Twelfth regular in- fantry. Later in the same year he was transferred to the cavalry arm of the service with the grade of captain. Thence he climbed grade by grade until the outbreak of the Spanish war when he was given the rank of brigadier gen- eral of volunteers and assigned to duty as Las Guasimas, Cuba. After the war Gen. Young was made a brigadier general in the regular army and sent to the Philippines. Then fol- lowed a daring and successful campaign in- Luzon, conducted under the special direction of Gen. Young. Upon his re- REV. DR. THEODORE L. CUY- LER. noted throughout the world of Presbyterianism as a pulpit orator, tem- perance advocate and philanthropist, ceie- brated his eighty-fifth birthday Jan. 10 at his home in South Oxford_ street. Barents Friends from New York to California remembered the birthday an- niversary and the letters and messages of congratulation received during the day by the famous divine would fill a bushel basket. Dr. Cuyler is a native of New York state and a graduate of Princeton The- ological seminary. He was ordained to the ministry sixty years ago and during the greater part of his active career was poe of the bars Se Avenue Pres- yterian church of Brooklyn. RAMON CORRAL, who appears des- tined to become President of Mexico in succession to President Diaz, was bern in the state of Sonora, January 10, 1854. He was born in a village, was the son of an editor of an insignificant news- paper, was educated inthe public schools, and at the age of 20. was him- self actively engaged in the profession of journalism. . In 1875 he engaged in a successful revolution, the same which made Diaz the head of the Mexican government. was elected to the Legislature and made secretary of state for Sonora. He made a good record; his ability as a politician and administrator was demonstrated; we was promoted to the position of governor and continued to conduct the affairs of Sonora so wisely that in 1900, when his term expired, Diaz brought him to the capital and made him governor of the federal district. s Having given him a thorough trial, he took him into the cabinet as minister of the interior in January, 1903, and a _lit- tle over a year ago he was elected vice- president and placed m the direct line of succession. LORD CURZON of Kedleston, who has just returned to England after a short visit on this side of the Atlantic, was born January 11, 1859, the son of the fourth baron Scarsdale. His early education was received at Eton, Later he attended Oxford and left that famous institution of learning to became private secretary to the Marquis of Salisbury. then premier. As a young man Lord Curzon traveled extensively in central Asia, Persia, At- ghanistan, Siam, Indo-China and Korea and thereby gained a knowledge of those countries that was to prove useful to hint in his future career. His real entrance into public life dates from 1891, in which year he was made under secretary of state for India. - Later he was for three years unde’ secretary of state for foreign affairs, which position he resigned in 1898 to be- come viceroy and governor general of India, one of the highest and most hon- ored positions in the gift of the British crown. Lord Curzon served in India for six years and resigned in 1905 be- cause of continued poor health. In 1895 he was married in Washing- ton to Miss Mary Leiter, daughter of Levi Z. Leiter, who made his millions as a merchant in Chicago. Lady Curzon se last July leaving two infant daugh- ers. JACK LONDON, the young Ameri- can author whose works have attracted much attention during the past few ‘years, was born in San Francisco, Jan- uary 12, 1876. His education was received in the public schools of his native city and at the University of California. He is a man of many talents whose adventurous life made him at various stages of his career a sailor, gold miner, tramp, au- thor, Socialist, lecturer and journalist. After serving at divers times in various forecastles, he developed an interest in sociology and economics. Swayed partly by this and partly by the fascination of the enterprise, he tramped oyer the United States and Canada, many thousands of miles, and having more than one jail experience, because he possessed no fixed place of abode and no visible means of support. Later on he repeated his vagabond ca- reer in the east end of London. He went over Chilcoot Pass with the first of the Klondike hush in 1897. In 1904 he visited Japan, Korea and Man- churia as a war correspondent. His best known publications are “The Call of the Wild,” “The Son of the Wolf,” “A Daughter of the Snows,” “The People of the Abyss.” “The Sea-Wolf,” “The Cruise of the Dazzler,” and ‘The God of His Fathers.” | LORD CREWE, who has been very much in the public eye of late by reason ‘of his skillful work in piloting the edu- cation bill through the English House of Lords, entered upon his fiftieth year on January 12, and was the recipient of ‘many congratuations. Lord Crewe is one of the most popu- dar men in society. He is a man of the world in the fullest and best sense. He is president of the Literary fund, a prominent members of the Jockey club, owner of about 25,000 acres of land, and the pounce of four country places and a charming town house. He is a writer of no mean merit in prose and poetry, and’ in public controversy has been the author of many a trenchant let- ter to the press on various political sub- jects. Lord Crewe was married seven years ago to Lady Posey Primrose, daughter of ‘Lord Rosebery. When at home at Crewe hall his lordship is fond of sport, and is a bold rider to hounds. But in’ pri- vate life he is most notable for his liter- ary tastes, which he undoubtedly ’in- herits from his father, Lord Howtétiton! whose literary genius was fully recog- nized by Mr. Gladstone and his cotitem- poraries. aes > — : - S$IR WILLIAM PURDIE ‘TRE- LOAR, the present lord mayor of Lon- don, was born January 13, 1843. After graduating from King’s college he gist his father in business. Today he is sole ‘proprietor of the famous linoleum, car- pet and mat business, whose warehouses ‘are a conspicuous feature of odes hill, not far from St. Paul's eath 1. Sir William entered municipal life in 1882 as a member of the common coun- ‘cil, became alderman in 1892, and sheriff in 1900. He was knighted in the same year. | For many years ke has been known and spoken of as the “Children’s Alder- man.” He is noted for his devotion to the suffering children of London, and especially the little pues of the Rag- ged School Union. Every year he or- ganizes a great distribution of Christmas hampers for the little cripples, and takes ‘a personal interest and part in the un- dertaking. < ss In_addition to his philantropic work Sir William is deeply interested in bid London, and especially in the Fleet street district, which is full of historic interest, and he has written an_inter- esting book telling all the stories he knows in relation to that part of the city of London. Scap and Alum as a Waterproof Com- pound. The cement reservoir of the new wa- ter system at Uxbridge, Mass.. which leaked water at the rate of 25,000 gai- Jons.a day when tested. has been treat- ed with an inside coat ef a compisition of oe and alum. The composition is made by heating soap, alum and water in a kettle until the mixture is the thiek- ness of paste, when it is Sepned while hot with brushes. It is believed that this will fill the pores in the cement and prevent the water from leaking through This process has long been known to engineers, and in spite of the theory of ‘some that it will not last has given en- tire satisfaction on more than one ocea- ie --Cakient Age. THE WISCONSIN WEEKLY ADVOCATE R. B. MONTGOMERY; Editor and Proprietor. The Wisconsin Weekly Advocate after three years' residence at 79 Fifth street, has moved its headquarters to 430 Cedar St., where we will receive our guests and transact our business in future. A Representative Journal Devoted to the Interest of All the People. ADVERTISING RATES. 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He saved my life at Santiago, and I have had occasion to say so in many articles and speeches. The Rough Riders were in a bad position when the Ninth and Tenth cavalry came rushing up the hill carrying everything before them. The Negro soldier has the faculty of coming to the front when he is needed most. In the Civil war he came 400,000 strong, and I believe he saved the Union."—President Roosevelt. "There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill becomes any of us to talk about the rest of us." Senator Spooner's Speech The speech of Wisconsin's senior senator in the Senate Tuesday past was a notable event, worthy of the man and the culmination of incidents that called it forth. It goes without the saying that his interpretation of the constitution guaranteeing the legality of the President's action in his wholesale discharge of colored soldiers, was strong from Mr. Spooner's point of view, and plausible, but it was his arraignment of Tillman, the race incendiary and blatherskite, that afforded the ginger of the speech, and will be read and remembered as the severest castigation administered for many years in the upper house of Congress. It commences to look as if Brother Tillman was apoaching the end of his tether and that an awakening public sentiment was preparing to relegate the South Carolina ruffian to the oblivion and contempt he long ago earned. Fishes' Defensive Armor Two fairly well defended creatures now before me serve to explain that fish are generally seized as prey from above, because nature invariably puts the armor where it is most needed. One of these is the horned shark, which has two defensive spears, each high up on a separate dorsal fin; and the other is the trigger fish. In both cases the bayonets are pointed for the enemy as when a battalion receives the order to prepare to receive cavalry. But the trigger fish has a sort of pocket knife attachment for his. It folds down into a groove which reaches along his back, exactly as the blade of a penknife may be turned down when its use is not required. The trigger fish is a huge head propelled by a short, broad tail with no intermediate body to speak of; and in this questionable shape he seems as unlike a true product of nature as the animals of the heraldry office. He received his name when muskets were of an ancient pattern, and when he is at full cock he is not to be trifled with.—Los Angeles Times. Lutin. Superstitious Frenchmen of a former time might have found significance in the name of the ill-fated submarine Lutin. This word, now used as an adjective meaning frolicsome, roguish, was originally the name of certain spirits corresponding with the Scottish brownies. They specialized, apparently, on viisting houses at night, and if they took the householder into favor would guard his house, his fields and his cattle, perform domestic services for him, and even trim his beard. In this and other respects they resembled our kobolds; but they were at least as often malignant, and would substitute stones for meat in his pot, cause him to fall over precipies when out of doors, and on occasion strangle him in bed. To offend the "lutins," in short, was terribly rash, and an old time believer in them might have hesitated to annex their name for a risky vessel without leave.—London Chronicle. King Pays to Travel Emperor William spends half a million yearly in traveling around his kingdom. Many Kinds of Bugs. In all 240,000 different species of insects are known to exist on the earth. COLLECTING UNCLE SAM'S REVENUE IN THE FROZEN NORTH FLOATING A STRANDED AIR LOCKS WATER LINE COMPRESSED AIR COMPRESSED AIR COAL REMOVED COAL REMOVED AIR BAGS AIRLOCKS SHADING SHOWS TIMBER BRACING TO PREVENT DECKS FROM BLOWING UP COAL REMOVED COAL REMOVED BOILERS COAL REMOVED HOLD FILLED WITH COMPRESSSED AIR TO FORCE WATER OUT AND FLOAT SHIP WATER BLOWN OUT OF BOILERS BY COMPRESSED AIR DIAGRAM SHOWING HOW THE WRECKED RM S BAVARIAN WAS FLOATED BY COMPRESSED AIR. A LABRADOR MAIL-CARRIER. --- The popular idea that all government employees lead a life of ease is justifiable to some extent, but now and then one rises up and lives the strenuous way, and one of these is John A. Cameron, deputy collector of internal revenue at Nome, Alaska. Mr. Cameron is a deputy of the district of Washington and serves under B. D. Crocker of Tacoma, the collector of the district. He is a "sour dough"—that is, he has seen the ice jam up and freeze Alaska off from any intercourse by water with the outside world, seen it rot beneath the climb of the sun and wash out from the harbors long locked by Jack Frost. And more; he is an old-time "dog musher," familiar with the winter ways and trails of all Alaska. His duty demands that he travel far and wide. There are taxes that must be collected, and until he was detailed to his present place there was much of "hoott making," as illicit distilling of ardent spirits is designated in that land of snow. The drift of men into Alaska in search of gold brought bits of human flotsam of all types and from all quarters of the world. At first each man was a law unto himself, and all the justice that existed lay in the right of might. The strong prevailed all over Alaska, and until John A. Cameron outfitted and started to collect the taxes due the government he serves, there was no one to see that all the laws were-honored and the tithes paid in. Collector Crocker knew his man and Cameron knew the country. Their conference was brief, for both are of the West that was—few-worded, quick to act and slow to speak—and when they separated Cameron was a deputy collector of internal revenue, with all Alaska, from the bleak north shore washed by the Arctic Ocean to the pleasant waters of Chatham Sound; from where Siberia lifts across the Behring Sea to Rampart House in England's northwest territory. The land was his to travel over and control. There was no way to go except by dogs and Klondike sled; no way from town to town save half-seen trails where To turn a 12,000-ton steamship into a huge steel bubble by pumping her full of compressed air, and float her off rocks on which she had been impaled for more than a year, is a feat which has been accomplished in the wrecked Allan liner Bavarian, at the suggestion of Captain Leslie, the well-known wrecking expert of Kingston, Ont. With a full passenger list and valuabie cargo, the Bavarian ran on Wye Rock, thirty-eight miles below Quebec, on the night of Nov. 3, 1905. Many of the Bavarian's compartments filled with water, and the ship settled down on the rocks. The ship's bottom plates were badly torn, and when the wreckers made an examination it was declared that the floating of the vessel would be a most difficult job. After the Allans had worked for several weeks to get the vessel off she was turned over to Lloyds, and the under- The mail carrier of the Labrador coast is a man of endurance who does not fear the worst of weather. There is no road at all. There are no bridges and no ferries. In some parts of the country the houses are as much as twenty miles apart. There are mountains to climb and rivers to cross, bogs to pass, impenetrable barren uplands and large lakes. In "Off the Rocks" Dr. Grenfell tells of one mail-carrier whose route is about 100 miles long, and who receives as compensation $10 a trip. We were pitying ourselves one night as we turned into our comfortable sleeping-bags on the floor of our host's tilt—pitying ourselves because it had been a heavy day on our dogs, and it was nearly 10 o'clock before we reached shelter. When I awoke in the morn- windblown snow sifted back and forth as dry as sand. Hootch making was rife throughout the country. Illicit stills, scarce hid from view, made moonshine for those who had the price. It was a fiery stuff, throat burning, with a strength of alcohol that bit into the blood. The Indians of Alaska quickly found it out and under its influence sold the furs that they had trapped with utter disregard of real value. Distilled from anything that would ferment, it finally became a menace to the whites, and many a brawl and murder was traceable to it. To put an end to this condition of affairs was the intention of Collector Crocker when he appointed Cameron, and to-day, throughout the length and breadth of all Alaska, while one hears whisperings of stills close hid and dripping hootch, there is no open breaking of the law. When he had outfitted, Cameron set out at once upon his travels, and mysteriously, as word flies in the wild, news went the length and breadth of Alaska that the government must have its own. Men made returns and paid taxes that had slumbered lightly upon their conscience for years, and hootch makers hid their stills underneath the snows. The government, personified by Cameron, went far afield. Men who had forgot that law can penetrate behind the bind of ice grew to remember it and obey. Fifty-mile journeys across wastes of snow are only little trips for Cameron, and sometimes his day's travel covers a hundred miles, from one tiny group of winter-prisoned houses to the next. His is a life of hardship and bitter work. Camping at night, sometimes in solitude of snow that reaches endlessly, he cooks his food, cares for his dogs and then seeks rest in his small tent, a man alone in an eternity of snow. Often when the time comes for him to travel on again—there is no morning there—he finds that wind-blown snow piles high above his tent and to his call sees his dogs plunge out from banks of snow, where they have slept away their rest time in snow caverns hollowed by the warmth of their bodies. Once, when the drop of mercury had caught him unprepared, frost mastered him out and a drowse crept upon him that presaged death by freezing. Scarce knowing what he did, or caring, for the luxury of numbness was upon him strong, he lined his dogs out for ANDED OCEAN LINER BY PUMPING SHADING SHOWS TIMER BRACING TO PREVENT DECKS FROM BLOWING COAL REMOVED BOILERS COAL REMOVED HOLD FILLED TO FORCE V WATER BLOWN OUT OF BOILER BAVARIAN writers set to work to save their money. All the old methods for raising vessels were employed, and failed. At last the underwriters gave it up. The big liner lay on the rocks throughout the whole of the winter, and when spring came, and it was seen that the vessel had not suffered from the winter storms, hopes began to revive that perhaps she might yet be saved. Captain Leslie visited the wreck and after a careful examination gave it as his opinion that the big vessel could be successfully floated. He proposed to employ compressed air to do the work. Such a thing had never been done before, but Captain Leslie succeeded in interesting Canadian and United States capitalists and engineers in the enterprise. All the ship's compartments were made as nearly air tight as possible. Hatch after hatch was closed by plat- ing, as the gray dawn was stealing in through the little window, I thought I heard a movement by the stove. There seemed something almost uncanny about it until I made out what it was, and could distinguish a tiny, erect figure, sitting bolt upright where none had been overnight. It proved to be Peter Wright. He had arrived about 2 in the morning, noiselessly stationed himself by the stove, and gone straight off to sleep, sitting on the settle, without a word to any one, as satisfied as if he were in a feather bed. Now this place was where three carriers meet. The one from the westward was late, and Pete did not get his mails handed over until 9 in the evening. He had thirty miles to his next station, and the temperature was 20 below zero. At 10 he rose to go. "What, Pete, never going to leave at this time of night, are you?" "Why, sure." he replied. "With a moon like this 'tis better in the woods the nearest settlement, wrapped himself up as best he could, told the dogs wearily to start up and went to sleep. When he woke up the fires of a thousand white-hot needles prickled in his veins, and he found that his team, true to the trust that he had placed in it, had followed the guidance of the wolfish leader and brought him to where rough-handed rescue waited him. Some of Mr. Cameron's trips circling from Nome up along the bleak north shore and back down the Yukon figure up 2,500 miles, and among the experiences that have been his is a 2,000mile chase after the worst hootchmaker who ever distilled illicit spirits for the sodden Indians or the reckless whites. Charles Williams, the man's name was, and his photograph is one of the ornaments of the rogues' gallery of the Northwest mounted police at Dawson. Cameron had heard of him, and found some of the hootch distilled by him. With patient carefulness, he traced it to its source, found and destroyed the still, then set to work to track the man down. Williams fled toward the British possessions in the Northwest. The mounted police, warned by Cameron, were watching for him and captured him at once. On his release from imprisonment last year Williams decided to stay away from Alaska, for there was the old charge of illicit distilling against him, and a man who never forgot awaiting him with eagerness. Cameron sees to it that all the laws and all the regulations promulgated by the Treasury Department that he serves are observed to the letter, and in the farthest mining camps the United States dog team is well known. The winter's zero weather does not hinder him. Snow, blown before cold winds, that piles in drifts and changes all the face of nature in a night, delays perhaps, but through the hardships that are part and parcel of winter travel in Alaska he mushes on, sleeps out in wastes of snow where there is not the slightest trace of life. His journeyings are ceaseless. The end of one trip sees but the beginning of the next, and, while the winter binds the land with ice and zero temperature is pleasant warmth, he travels east and west and north and south, beating the path before Lis dogs where snows are light and travel hindering, thinking perhaps of his cozy house at Nome, but bound by his oath of office and duty driven across unending seas of snow. HER FULL OF AIR. WITH COMPRESSED AIR WATER OUT AND FLOAT SHIP BY COMPRESSED AIR ing, which was simply laid under the hatch combing, so that when the air pressure was applied the covers would be held in place. Air locks were placed on the compartments which had filled with water, and the "sand hogs" as the tunnel workers are called, felt as much at home as if they were in their New York tunnels. As the air was forced in, the water rapidly receded and the workmen were able to stop the leaks with temporary plating. As the tide rose the air compressors were set to work and the full power of the plant used in forcing air into the hold of the ship. Suddenly there was a movement of the great hulk and as she lifted herself from her rocky bed a cheer went up from those on board. Five minutes later the Bavarian was in possession of her own again and floated clear of Wye Rock in sixty feet of water. than when skeeters are about. So long, doctor!" and with that he went out absolutely alone. Pete is always ready to oblige, and never happier than when the space on his back, ordinarily monopolized by his official bundle, permits him to carry a ten-pound tub of butterine or a couple of jars of molasses, just to oblige. It isn't for the money alone that Pete works. It is lucky he does not have to pay hotel bills as he journeys from place to place. There would be little left of the salary beyond enough for "skin boots" if he were charged for meals. But there are no hotel bills on the coast, and we are incapable of an idea so original as to ask Pete to pay for anything. Willing to Chip In. He—I told your father I couldn't live without you. She—And what did he say? He—Oh, he offered to pay my funeral expenses.—Half Holiday. THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC SHORT, IMPRESSIVE TEMPERANCE SERMONS. Many Dangers Lurk in the Flowing Bowl—Bright and Influential Men Have Been Dragged Down by the Demon Drink. "The fashion of the present day in the United States sets strongly toward the substituting of beer for other stimulating liquors. An idea appears to be gaining ground that it is not only nutritious but conducive to health, and, further, that there does not attach to it that danger of creating intemperate habits which attends the use of other drinks. The subject is one of great magnitude, and deserves the attention of medical men as well as that of the moralist. "Many years ago, and long before the moral sense of society was awakened to the enormous evils of intemperance, Sir Astley Cooper, an undisputed authority in his day, denounced habitual beer drinking as noxious to health. Referring to his experience in Guy's hospital, he declared that the beer drinkers from the London breweries, though presenting the appearance of most rugged health, were the most incapable of all classes to resist disease—that trifling injuries among them were liable to lead to the most serious consequences, and that so prone were they to succumb to disease that they would sometimes die from gangrene in wounds as trifling as the scratch of a pin. "We apprehend that no great change, either in beer or men, has taken place since the days of the great surgeon. "Of all intoxicating drinks, it is the most animalizing. It dulls the intellectual and moral, and feeds the sensual and beastly nature. Beyond all other drinks, it qualifies for deliberate and unprovoked crime. In this respect it is much worse than distilled liquors, "A whisky drinker will commit murder only under the direct excitement of liquor, a beer drinker is capable of doing it in cold blood. Long observation has assured us that a large proportion of murders deliberately planned and executed without passion or malice, with no other motive than the acquisition of property or money, often of trifling value, are perpetrated by beer drinkers. "We believe, further, that the hereditary evils of beer drinking exceed those proceeding from ardent spirits. First, because the habit is constant and without paroxysmal interruptions, which admit of some recuperation; secondly, because beer drinking is practiced by both sexes more generally than the spirit drinking; and thirdly, because the animalizing tendency of the habit is more uniformly developed, thus authorizing the presumption that the vicious results are more generally transmitted. "It will be inferred from these remarks that we take no comfort from the substitution of malt drinks for spiritual liquors. On the contrary, it is a cause of apprehension and alarm that, just as public opinion, professional and unprofessional, is uniting all over the world in the condemnation of the common use of ardent spirits, the portals of danger and death are opening wide in another direction."—Circular by the officers of the Home Life Insurance Company. Alcoholism and Consumption. In a recent address before the American international congress on tuberculosis Dr. T. D. Crothers of Hartford, Conn., the head of an institution in that city for the treatment of inebriates, took occasion to point out the close connection that existed between alcoholism and tuberculosis. The principal point presented by Dr. Crothers in his address is that alcohol weakens the blood vessels of the respiratory system and invites consumption; that the roll of consumptives receives annually vast additions from the ranks of moderate drinkers. A reduction of our national drinking capacity, therefore, means a reduction in the number of victims of the great white plague.—Philadelphia Press. Temperance Notes. In Chicago the inspectors have declared that so-called "pure apple cider" is not cider at all, and is in no sense "pure." Other "soft drinks" have been analyzed in the municipal laboratory and brought under suspicion. President Roosevelt says: "The liquor business tends to produce criminality in the population at large, and law-breaking among the saloonkeepers themselves. It debauches not only the body social, but the body politic as well." And he is right. No one can refute this damaging indictment. The North Carolina Baptist says: "There is now on deposit in the banks of Fayetteville $937,000—nearly a million dollars. Five years ago there was only $275,000. There has been a gain of nearly four hundred per cent in five years. This shows the prosperity side of the old town. Say, how about prohibition killing a town?" At the National Anti-Saloon convention, in its closing session at St. Louis, Nov. 22, a national commission was recommended to investigate the direct and indirect causes of crime, poverty and labor troubles, and especially to domestic infelicity. The bill to prohibit liquor selling in all government buildings, and the bill by which liquor, passing from one State to the other, shall become subject to the law of the State in which it is received, was approved. Popular Science. Blast furnace gas is to be utilized in Russia for power purposes. La Societe des Acieries de Donetz is substituting a number of large gas engines for steam engines. At a mild red heat, good steel can be drawn out under the hammer to a fine point; at a bright red heat it will crumble under the hammer, and at a white heat it will fall to pieces. An ingenious beacon is located at Arnish Rock, Stornoway bay, in the Hebrides, Scotland. It is a cone of cast iron plates, surmounted by an arrangement of prisms and a mirror which reflect the light from the lighthouse on Lewis island, 500 feet distant across the channel. At a recent conference held at the ministry of commerce, St. Petersburg, it was decided that agricultural machinery required by peasant emigrants to Siberia and other portions of the Russian empire would have to be ordered abroad this year, as the Russian factories would be unable to deliver in time. Next year an attempt will be made to introduce Russian machinery among the settlers. An instance illustrating the exact methods now followed in all branches of science is furnished by the recent upsetting of all the results of the Geodetic Survey of Algeria based upon the station of Voirol, which had been chosen as the point of origin of co-ordinates. It has been found that, owing to some subterranean peculiarity affecting the direction of the plumb-line, there is a strong deviation from the vertical at Voirol, and as a result, a new starting-point for the triangulation must be chosen and new calculations made. The discovery was made by comparing the astronomical latitude of the new observatory about three miles from Voirol with its geodetic latitude as calculated from Voirol data. "Welwitschla Mirabilis," a plant which is described as one of the wonders of the vegetable kingdom, illustrates the adaptations which sometimes render life possible amid conditions that seed to forbid its existence. The plant gets its name from its discoverer, Welwitsch, who found it in the sandy deserts of Southwestern Africa. Its short conical trunk is buried in sand, and its only leaves are the two cotyledons, or seed-leaves, which persist during the life of the plant, and in old specimens attain a length of from six to nine feet. The trunk measures three or four feet in diameter at the crown. The plant derives water for its growth partly from the dense night fogs, but principally through a very long root which taps subterranean water-sources. The terrible earthquake in Chile, following so soon after that in California, enormously increased popular interest in the science of seismology. Among the interesting facts brought into prominence by the many discussions to which these disasters have led in the scientific journals, is the clear distinction that seems to exist between earthquakes like those that destroyed San Francisco and Valparaiso and the shocks that damaged Charleston in 1886. The Charleston disaster is thought, at least by some geologists, to have been due to overloading of the earth's crust by accumulation of deposits on the ocean floor near the coast. The New Madrid earthquakes of 1811-12 were ascribed to a similar cause, resulting from depositions made by the Mississippi River. But the Californian and South American earthquakes are believed to have been due to the mountain-building forces which are still in operation along the western edge of North and South America. Story of Moses Is Retold. The social settlement worker had been telling the story of Moses to a class of small children in a mission school. "Now, children," she said, "you shall tell me the story. Who found the baby lying in the river?" "A beautiful lady," came the prompt reply. "To whom did the princess give little Moses to be taken care of?" "His mother," shouted the delightful class. "What did Moses' mother do with him when he grew a little older?" asked the teacher. For an instant there was silence. Then a small girl was seized with a sudden inspiration and replied: "I know. She put him into pants."—Harper's Magazine. First Word a Knock. James I. of England, and VI., of Scotland, was as every one knows, deficient in vigor and steadiness. Having heard of a famous preacher who was very witty in his sermons and peculiarly so in his choice of texts he ordered this clergyman to preach before him. With all suitable gravity the learned divine gave out his text in the following words: "James first and sixth, in the latter part of the verse, 'He that waverth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.'" "Ods-chickens! he's at me already," exclaimed the king—Scrap book. The Jealous Wife. "I don't see why she isn't happy with him. He's certainly very attentive to her." "That's just it. She argues that he couldn't be so attentive to her if he hadn't a lot of experience with some one else."—Catholic Standard and Times. P. CANAR. G. CANAR. 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The spoons have been cleaned, and are of silver and gilt. They are dated 1529, and a local jeweler has valued them at $250 each. THE BATTLE-FIELDS. OLD SOLDIERS TALK OVER ARMY EXPERIENCES. The Blue and the Gray Review Incidents of the Late War, and in a Graphic and Interesting Manner Tell of Camp, March and Battle. "Sergeant David U. McCollough," said the captain, "was carrying the colors of the Fifty-Second Ohio when we made the assault on Kenesaw, June 27, 1864. He was at the abattis in front of the main rebel works when he was shot through the shoulder. As one of the color guards caught him and lowered him to the ground McCollough handed Major J. T. Holmes, then in command of the Fifty-second, the colors and said: 'Take them, Major; they never touched the ground.' "The Major grasped the colors, gave them to one of the corporals of the color guard, and led the way through the obstructions. At first the colors were planted on top of the rebel works. When they were shot down and the flagstaff splintered, the boys cut a canteen in strips, repalred the staff, and planted the colors in the loose earth at the foot of the works. I remember that a rebel captain was killed in trying to get the flag while it was on top of the works, and when the burial parties went out between the lines to look after the dead, the adjutant of the Rock City guards told me that he saw Col. Dan McCook on top of the works, and said further that officers and men were amazed to see him there and to hear him coolly demand their surrender. For a minute no one fired. Then came the fusillade that fatally wounded the colonel. "When we raeced the works, Major Holmes and myself lay down against the glacis face of the fortifications, our heads close together, and our feet wide apart, our bodies making a letter 'A' on an inverted 'V.' Walters, of company H, came up and lay down between us, his head near the Major's feet. We were watching the rebels on the opposite side of the works and keeping them under cover. Major Holmes spoke to Walters and told him that he would be in less danger if he came closer to the works, and explained that, located as he was, the rebels could put their guns over the Breastworks and fire, whereas, if he was on our line, they would have more difficulty in depressing their rifles and we could divert the shot by striking the guns aside. "Walters was watching for an opportunity to get in a shot, and was so eager that he rose to his knees, then stood up. Before he could fire, however, he was severely wounded on the left side of the neck, the rebel bullet missing the artery, but making an ugly wound, which bled profusely. Before he was struck Walters had been full of fight. After he was struck we stood as one dazed, holding his gun mechanically away from his body. Then, as he saw the blood spurt out and run down his breast, he dropped his gun, turned, and started on a run back down the hill. "He never halted until he reached General Morgan's line on the hill across Noyes' creek, where we had formed for the charge. It seemed to me that the whole rebel division in front of us opened fire on Walters as he ran, but he escaped without another scratch. I never laid eyes on him again until we arrived at Columbus, Ohio, to be mustered out, when he marched into camp, and reported to company H. He told me privately that that shot at Kenesaw took all the sand out of him, and when he got back to Big Shanty he was so confused that he couldn't remember to what command he belonged. He was sent from Big Shanty to Chattanooga, from there to Nashville, from there to Louisville, and from there to Columbus. His memory did not return to him, he said with a smile, until his old regiment marched into camp to be mustered out. "At Peach Tree creek, companies H and K crossed the creek on a foot log, and made their way toward the timber in front. Before we had gone far we met a heavy column of rebels, and, deploying as skirmishers, we fell back on a house with a paling fence about it. Corporal Coleman of company H, in trying to make his way through the fence in front of the house, was held for some minutes under the fire of the enemy. He got his body through all right, but his knapsack caught in the palings, and in a way to hold him fast. He struck out with hands and feet like a man swimming, but in a few minutes got a grip on himself, coolly unbuckled the straps of his knapsack, left it hanging in the fence, and rushed on with the company to the house, where he did good service, until we were re-enforced by a full brigade." "Several stories," said the Major, "have been told of that burial party at Kenesaw. I was a witness to the interview between Geeral Cheatham and some of our men, who approached him and asked for tobacco. He said jocularly: 'I understand. You want to say, when you get back home, that you met General Cheatham of the Confederate army on the battle-field, and asked him for a chew of tobacco, and he gave it to you. It would make a very good story for you to tell, but I am not going to give you the tobacco.' One of the men said: 'That is not the case at all, General. We have no tobacco, and we want some badly.' Thereupon the General called his orderly, instructed him to go back to camp and bring from his quarters a generous supply of tobacco. This he distributed among the men of the burial party. "Mrs. Louise Wardner," said the Sergeant, "has a story that is worth telling. She is the wife of Dr. Horace Wardner, who served through the war as surgeon. Mrs. Wardner was with her husband at the front the greater part of the time and had a good many adventures. Immediately after the battle of Corinth, in October, 1862, she went on horseback over the battlefield looking after the wounded of General Oglesby's brigade. She came upon a German desperately wounded. "She dismounted to comfort what she supposed was a dying man. She discovered that one leg had been amputated, that there was a wound in shoulder, and a third wound in the other leg, another wound in the lower part of the face. All these wounds had been received on the first day of the battle and all were in bad condition. Mrs. Wardner cleansed the wounds as best she could, tore bandages from the skirt of her dress and bound up the wounds, and then reported the case to the ambulance corps, out looking for wounded. "The next day the brigade surgeon asked her to look at the worst case he had ever seen in hospital. She went to the hospital and found her German patient of the battlefield. She did not accept the theory that he could not recover, but gave him special attention. When the brigade moved from Corinth she left him greatly improved, but did not see him again for ten or fifteen years. Crossing the Rush street bridge in Chicago, one day, she was startled by the bridge-tender calling out, 'Mein Gott, it is the woman what saved my life,' and the man so desperately wounded at Corinth hobbled toward Mrs. Wardner, to meet a very kind reception."—Chicago Inter Ocean. Christmas on the Picket Line. The armies under Lee and Meade occupied the opposing lines of siege work at Petersburg, Va., on Christmas Day of 1864. I had ridden over from General Warren's headquarters to eat my holiday dinner with an old comrade, Will Gilder, who afterward became famous as an Arctic traveler. I found him and General Egan in a bomb-proof near Fort Hell, on the Jerusalem plank road, and enjoyed a hearty meal amid the shriek of shell and loud detonations of artillery. After dinner and a peaceful pipe Major Gilder and I paid a visit to the outer line of pickets, being obliged to crawl on our hands and knees for two hundred yards to avoid the bullets which were constantly whistling over our heads. Finally we reached the picket line, having given to a brother officer a portion of the good things we had been discussing. As the Captain finished his dinner there was a perceptible slackening in the artillery and musketry fire, until a deep silence fell upon the long lines of trenches. "The Johnnles have hoisted a flag, sir," said a sergeant, as he emerged from a pit near by. "What for?" demanded the Captain. and think we have wasted enough ammunition." "Well, they say it's Christmas Day, Looking over the edge of our breastworks I saw that the enemy's line was scarcely one hundred yards away, and along its ragged edge were ranged thirty or forty heads of the Confederate soldiers, our own line being also alive owing to the implied truce. "Say, Yanks," cried a tall, sunburned Southerner, "what did yer hev for yer Christmas dinner?" "Turkey, apple-sauce, cake and raisins," replied one of the men at my elbow. "That sounds like old times. I didn't know there were any turkeys nowadays. Say, Yanks, hev yer anything left over?" With one common impulse half a dozen men sprang to the top of the embankment, their hands full of good things to eat. "Come over!" shouted a corporal who stood at the elbow of the entrenchment. "Guess we've got enough left to give some of you a Christmas dinner." Three men in butternut clambered over their earthworks and met our men as they advanced over the debatable ground between the lines. To our surprise the Federals came back with a good supply of tobacco, which was quickly distributed. "Say, Yanks," said the Confederate who had opened the conversation, "we 'uns wish you 'uns a Merry Christmas." "Same to you," we all shouted back, and there was no more shot or shell along that part of the line during the remainder of that the last Christmas day of the war. Self-Evident. "Don't you think," said the gloomy young lady, with a scientific twist, "that the pleasures of the table induce rapid consumption?" "Sure," answered the practical young man, "what else are they put there for?"—Baltimore American. Do Not Look Around! GO TO Mrs. LAURA HAWKINS 426 WELLS STREET. For Good, Clean, Southern Cooking Strangers, Travelers and Home Folks Equally Welcome. MEALS 25c to 35c. THE TURF CAFE J. L. SLAUGHTER 194 THIRD ST. MILWAUKEE, WIS. 'PHONE GRAND 3024 THE LITTLE SAVOY BUFFET Telephone South 855 GUS. C. SCHMIDT When M North Si SCHMIDT Succ 139-141 Washington W. J. New and Second-Hand HOU Storage F JANESVILLE, PROF. G. W. CHIROPO Corns, Bunions and Ingrowing and All Ailments of the Fe 430 CEDAR ST. SCHMIDT JOS When Marketing Call at North Side Meat Market SCHMIDT & WAAL, Prop's. 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Address, CO., Milwaukee, Wis. CHICAGO SCALY ERUPTION ON BODY. Doctors and Remedies Fruitless-- Suffered 10 Years—Completely Cured by Three Boxes of Cuticura. "When I was about nine years old small sores appeared on each of my lower limbs. I scratched them with a brass pin and shortly afterward both of those limbs became so sore that I could scarcely walk. When I had been suffering for about a month the sores began to heal, but small scaly eruptions appeared where the sores had been. From that time onward I was troubled by such severe itching that, until I became accustomed to it, I would scratch the sores until the blood began to flow. This would stop the itching for a few days, but scaly places would appear again and the itching would accompany them. After I suffered about ten years I made a renewed effort to effect a cure. The eruptions by this time had appeared on every part of my body except my face and hands. The best doctors in my native country advised me to use arsenic in small doses and a salve. I then used to bathe the sores in a mixture which gave almost intolerable pain. In addition I used other remedies, such as iodine, sulphur, zinc salve, ——'s Salve, —— Ointment, and in fact I was continually giving some remedy a fair trial, never using less than one or two boxes or bottles. All this was fruitless. Finally my hair began to fall out and I was rapidly becoming bald. I used ——'s ——, but it did no good. A few months after, having used almost everything else, I thought I would try Cuticura Ointment, having previously used Cuticura Soap and being pleased with it. After using three boxes I was completely cured, and my hair was restored, after fourteen years of suffering and an expenditure of at least $50 or $60 in vainly endeavoring to find a cure. I shall be glad to write to any one who may be interested in my cure. B. Hiram Mattingly, Vermillion, S. Dak.. Aug. 18. 1906." COWBOY AS AUTHOR Is Publisher of Book on Ingersoll--Has Romantic Career. Vere Goldthwaite, one of the most interesting personalities of the Boston bar, has had a romantic career. He is the son of a well known Boston physician and for a number of years traveled with a wild west show. For a time he was one of the best known cowboys of Colorado. He attracted considerable attention recently by publishing a book on Ingersoll. Coffee Set for Bravery. A few months ago Capt. Matthew Turner of San Francisco, owner of a schooner, rescued the crews of two Norwegian vessels that had been wrecked in the South Pacific. He has just received a handsome silver coffee set from the Norwegian government in acknowledgment. Waterspout in Bay of Biscav. With an estimated height of 150 feet, and a width of about 40 feet, a gigantic waterspout was witnessed in the Bay of Biscay from the deck of the Union Castle liner Norman on her way to the cape. Women Clerks of Long Service. In the executive departments in Washington, where the business of the government is carried on, there is no belief in the Osler theory as far as the women clerks are concerned. Several of the most valued ones working for the secretary of state passed threescore and ten long ago. Mrs. Eliza Gridley, mother of the man who commanded the Olympia at the battle of Manila, is almost 80, yet she holds a most responsible position in the general land office and knows more about records and land law than any six clerks in the department. Miss Mason, who is nearing the same age, is a pillar of strength to seekers for information in the library of war records. She is the daughter of a former minister of France. In the department of justice are women nearing 70, some of them wives and daughters of former judges, who work faithfully and intelligently and who are prized more highly than the younger women who compose the greater working mass in the department.—Boston Globe. Discreet. There is a Chicago lawyer who, his colleagues aver, has a positive genius for malapropos suggestion to his witnesses on the stand. Recently this lawyer was counsel in a suit for divorce, wherein he was examining a woman who had taken the stand in behalf of the plaintiff. "Now, madam," began the attorney, who is always saying the wrong thing. "repeat the slanderous statements made by the defendant on this occasion." "Oh, they are unfit for any respectable person to hear!" gasped the witness. person to hear! gasped the witness. "Then, madam," said the attorney, coaxingly, "suppose you just whisper them to his honor, the judge."—Harper's Weekly. Bolivia to Have Suction Gas. Suction gas plants are being introduced on the Bolivian tablelands, says a British consular report. The fuel problem there is a serious one, and these suction gas plants are being used in Bolivian mines with anthracite for fuel as the most economical power. COSTLY PRESSURE. Heart and Nerves Fail on Coffee. A resident of a great western State puts the case regarding stimulants with a comprehensive brevity that is admirable. He says: "I am 56 years old and have had considerable experience with stimulants. They are all alike—a mortgage on reserved energy at ruinous interest. As the whip stimulates but does not strengthen the horse, so do stimulants act upon the human system. Feeling this way, I gave up coffee and all other stimulants and began the use of Postum Food coffee some months ago. The beneficial results have been apparent from the first. The rheumatism that I used to suffer from has left me, I sleep sounder, my nerves are steadier and my brain clearer. And I bear testimony also to the food value of Postum —something that is lacking in coffee." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. There's a reason. Read "The Road to Welfville," the quaint little book in pkgs. WHEN SHE SINGS. "Are you fond of music?" asked the bill clerk, as he jerked himself into his new overcoat and settled the lapels with rather more than usual care. "Why do you ask, my son?" responded the cashier. "Is it your intention to surprise me with a phonograph or a piano player? Some people labor under the impression that those things are musical devices. Perhaps you want to take me to a concert? Sixteen, twenty-four, twenty-nine, thirty-eight, forty-two dollars and eighty-three cents precisely, and that makes the balance. Hello! What's the matter? Do you know that it's two minutes and several seconds after 5 o'clock? What's keeping you?" "I don't know anything about music myself, but I know what I like and what I don't like. I was sort of wondering. They tell me I've got a musical ear, but I don't know. Suppose that I have got a musical ear, do you think that in course of time I could get used to something that didn't seem to me very darned musical? Do you think that I could get to like it?" The bill clerk spoke with some anxiety. "It depends," replied the cashier. "You might, and then again you mightn't. I've heard of instances where people with musical ears resided in the immediate vicinity of boiler shops and in the course of time got so they didn't mind it a particle—rather liked it. I never lived near a boiler shop myself, so I couldn't pretend to speak with authority. I never heard of anybody getting used to a parrot, however. Is there a parrot in the flat below you? If there is, I wouldn't go to the trouble of getting used to it. I'd lodge a complaint with the agent. Which of your ears is musical? I hadn't noticed any difference in them." "You're a fierce josher," said the bill clerk, sarcastically. "Well, it isn't of any particular consequence, only I don't see why you can't ever answer a civil question without trying to be smart." "Don't be offended," begged the cashier. "Wait till I put these books away and I'll consider your question seriously. I had an idea at first that you were working some gag on me, and if I said 'yes' you'd tell me to do some idiotic thing or other and make me lose my temper. Do I think— Say, state your case? What? it that you want to get used to?" "I'll tell you," said the bill clerk, confidentially. "I'm calling on one of the nicest girls you ever saw." "Nothing new about that," commented the cashier. "They're all the nicest An undying and peculiar charm lies in doing the unusual, declares Mrs. Grace Ellery Channing-Stetson in an article upon Italy, published in the New York Post. She describes her visit to a mountain village where tourists do not often go. This excursion was accomplished by the aid of Margherita, pearl of maid servants, who was born in the hills, and who offered the party the hospitality of her home. Petrella Liris, a name like a bird-song, lies on the borders of the Abruzzi. "A pair of hours," said Margherita, in general terms, out of Rome, and then an hour or so beyond Tagliacozzo. "An hour north, south, east or west?" we asked. "Neither, signora; an hour straight up." In Pretella we made the discovery that not only were we Margherita's guests, but we were the guests of the village; for the village was but one extended home. Margherita led us into one fine old building which had once been a palace. From the coffered ceiling hung strings of the beautiful yellow corn of Italy. Margherita complacently pointed out a portion, observing, "This is my granturco." And presently, leading us into another house whose rafters were fine with such decorations, she remarked again: "Those are my sausage, my bacon, my smoked pig." Well, one could accept that; but when in the afternoon we came to a splendid chestnut grove, and Margherita casually pointed to two particularly fine trees and said, "These are my chestnut trees," credulity began to halt. "How came they to be yours?" I asked. Margherita shrugged her shoulders. "Who knows? They have always been mine." "You mean," said I, "that no one else would take chestnuts from your tree? They would just let it alone?" "Ma che, of course!" said Margherita. "Everybody in the village has his trees; these are mine." "Who owns that land down there, Margherita?" I pointed to the great fields ripening with grain below. "That belongs to Petrella," answered Margherita. "To whom in Petrella?" "Why, just to Petrella, the country of Petrella," replied Margherita. "But I ever saw. You've got the largest acquaintance among nice girls I ever heard of. I don't quite understand how they can be really all they're said to be if they let you hang around. They may be all right at heart, but they're certainly a little weak in the head." "That's all right," said the bill clerk. "You can say all you want to about me, but I want to tell you that I don't stand for any funny business with respect to this young lady. She's all right, and you don't want to forget to remember it. I'm not fooling now." "Serious matter, is it?" "You bet it is. She's the real thing. She's a looker, and she isn't only a looker, but she's there with the goods in every other respect. If I— Well, I'll tell you. On the dead, there isn't anything the matter with her, only she's been taking a lot of singing lessons and she's a little swollen on her singing. I am, too. She's a singer, all right, only— Well, some of those pieces that she sings are fierce. Do you know 'The Holy City?'" "It seems to me dimly that I've either heard of it or heard somebody sing it." "That's one of the things she's stuck on," said the bill clerk. "'The Palms' is another, and she sings 'Dearie.' Most always when there's a bunch of company she obliges the lot with 'The Holy City' or the other thing. I liked to hear her at first, but it's getting old. She sings 'Dearie' or 'Last Night the Nightingale Woke Me' when I call on her by myself. We'll be sitting all comfortable and a nice line of talk going on when she'll jump up and say, 'I'll sing to you.' And she does it. I've kind of hinted around that I'd sooner visit, but it ain't no use. Now, if we was to get—well, if I had to hear it all the time would I get used to it? Her folks seem to like it, and they've had more of it than I have. What would you do?" "I'd reason with her," replied the cashier. "I'd say, 'Maud, darling, forgive me if I tell you that the partiality of parents and friends has fostered in you an unhappy delusion. You think that you can sing, but believe me, you can't. You can't sing for sour apples; it's painful to listen to you. Dear girl, cut it out.' Be frank with her. She'll appreciate it." "You're crazy," said the bill clerk. "You asked me my advice," said the cashier. "You tell her what I told you and I'll bet she'll never sing to you any more. It's the only way I know to stop 'em." — Chicago Daily News. those fields over across the valley belong to the next country." There is no Mayor in Petrella, there are no public offices, there is no police, there is no sanitation, but the torrents of rain and fresh mountain winds keep the place fresh and sweet. Nobody is rich, but nobody is poor. There is not a real shop, only a place where you can buy some cotton, and another where you can buy meat, fortune favoring. It may well be called "the happy land of Italy." A Curious Fact. Did you ever notice that the dummy clocks in front of jewelry shops are always set at 8:18?" "Yes, I have noticed that." "And do you know why these clocks are always set at that hour?" "No. Why is it?" "Well, some people hold that George Washington was born at 8:18, and that the clocks commemorate that auspicious moment. Others hold that at 8:18 the writing of the Declaration of Independence was completed. But there is no truth in such ideas. We don't need to go so far back in order to find out why all dummy clocks mark 8:18. "These clocks are all set at that hour for the reason that such an arrangement of the hands gives the most room on the dial for the jeweler's name and address." Fish in Inclosed Waters Many, not without education and a general knowledge of natural history, are mystified by the presence of fish in inclosed waters. For many years there was open-mouthed wonder over the perch, bream and crayfish found in the newly cut dams near the Markuarie river in New South Wales. In some cases the water had scarcely settled after the rain had filled the dam when the fish were observed and the Australian farmers started a theory of spontaneous production. This obtained and gained wide credence until a Sydney professor chanced to pick up a wild duck and found its breast feathers and webbed feet well dotted with fertile and almost hatched fish ova, on which the "spontaneous production" theory was promptly withdrawn. Failed to See the Joke. "I say, D'Orsay, have you ever heard that joke about the guide in Rome who showed some travelers two kinds of skulls of St. Paul, one as a boy and the other as a man?" "Aw, deah boy—no—aw, let me heah it."—Boston Transcript. Many young folks can't find anything to talk about until the old folks have gone to bed. "I see by the papers," said Mr. Grillfinby, "that the last quotation for whalebone in England was £1750 or, say, about $8750 a ton, making whalebone worth now somewhere in the neighborhood of $4.50 a pound—a pretty costly commodity. "I can remember a time when whalebone was cheap, very cheap; when we used to burn whale oil in lamps and use whalebone for umbrella ribs. Those old-time whalebone ribbed umbrellas were not much like the present steel ribbed close rollers. "No. They were of the bulgy out sort of gingham umbrellas that you see now sometimes reproduced after a fashion on the comic stage but which are now never actually used by anybody, though once they were used by everybody, umbrellas with whalebone ribs. And what I was going to say was this: "People are out all the time looking through the country for old furniture, quaint old colonial, and that sort of stuff. Why couldn't we hunt up those umbrellas—there must be millions of them lying around in country garrets—why couldn't we look up those old whalebone ribbed gingham umbrellas, for the whalebone there is in them? Don't you think there may be an idea here for making money? WEEKLY PAPER FOR BLIND. London Daily Mail to Issue Edition— Much Attention Is Paid. The announcement that the London Daily Mail is about to issue a weekly edition for the blind draws attention to the other British journals published in Braille type, which have had a long and useful career, though they have seldom been seen by the general public. The first weekly newspaper for the blind was published on June 1, 1892, and called the Weekly Summary. It has always been issued below cost price, and its promoters derive no benefit from its publication. Another was started only last year, called the Braille Weekly, and issued from Edinburg. PRINCE OF WALES TO GO ABROAD? Rumor Is Circulated That He and Princess Will Pay Visit to South Africa. The Prince and Princess of Wales, should they carry out the intention with which they are credited of paying a visit to South Africa, will add another to their record of things which no prince or Princess of Wales have done before. The first prince of the blood to visit South Africa was the Duke of Connaught. Prince Arthur of Connaught made a brief appearance there, in his regimental capacity, toward the finish of the war. As Prince George of Wales the present heir apparent and his brother, the late Duke of Clarence, saw Cape Town in their midshipman days, when the Bacchante touched there. RUBBER GETTING SCARCE. Annual Output Decreasing, but It May Be Made from Wheat. In an article entitled "Rubber Made rom Wheat" William T. Walsh writing in reference to this matter says: "The importance of the discovery can scarcely be overestimated, coming as it does at a time when the world is anxiously asking whence its future supplies of rubber are to come. In half a decade, it is said, the annual consumption of the elastic material will be at least 80,000 tons. Even 100,000 tons is regarded by many as a conservative estimate." UTTERLY WORN OUT. Vitality Sapped by Years of Suffer- ing With Kidney Trouble. Capt. J. W. Hogun formerly postmaster of Indianola. now living at Austin, Texas, writes: "I was afflicted for years with pains across the loins and in the hips and shoulders. I had headache also and neuralgia. My right eye, from pain, was of little use to me A. B. for years. The constant flow of urine kept my system depleted, causing nervous chills and night sweats. After trying seven different climates and using all kinds of medicine I had the good fortune to hear of Doan's Kidney Pills. This remedy has cured me. I am as well to-day as I was twenty years ago, and my eyesight is perfect." Sold by all dealers, 50 cents a box. Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Snake in Hen's Nest; China Egg in Snake. Mrs. H. M. Tolson of Stafford county, Va., had a bad scare yesterday. She went to her hen house and saw what she supposed was a black hen lying dead in the nest. She attempted to take it up, but as soon as she touched the object she discovered it was a large black snake coiled up in the nest. The snake had eaten all the eggs it could find and also swallowed a china nest egg. Mrs. Tolson made a rapid retreat. The snake measured nearly six feet. It was killed.—Washington Post. How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh than cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by his firm. WALDING, KINNAN & MARVIN, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Testimonials sent free. Price 75c per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. Chinese Cotfins Heavy. Chinese coffins are made of timber 8 inches to 10 inches thick. It is calculated, therefore, that over 8,000,000 feet of timber is utilized yearly for coffins in China. TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY. Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine Tablets. Druggists refund money if it falls to cure. E. W. GROVE'S signature is on each box. 25c. French Make Macaroni, Too. Macaroni does not all come from Italy. The French city of Lyons last year produced 33,000,000 pounds. CASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of Charles H. Hatcher. THE HOUSEHOLD The Family Silver. In the first place, keep it bright. If never allowed to get into a deplorable condition, its cleaning will be no hardship. Regularly once a week wash it thoroughly in very hot soapsuds. Remove one piece at a time from the suds, polish it at once and drop into very hot clean water. When ready to dry take only one piece at a time from the hot water, dry at once, and polish with chamois skin or flannel. This method is much better than heaping the wet silver on a tray, to get cold before dried. Silver not in general use should be wrapped in white tissue paper and kept in a canton flannel bag. A special kind of tissue paper and flannel for this purpose can be bought at a reliable silversmith's. Mark each bag plainly with its contents. When wanted, silver kept this way will always be found bright. Fried Egg Plant. Cut the vegetables in slices about half an inch thick, and pare. Sprinkle the slices with salt, and pile them upon one another; put a plate with a weight on top of the slices. Let them rest for an hour; then remove weight and plate. Add one tablespoonful of water, half a tablespoonful of salt and half a teaspoonful of pepper to an egg. Beat well. Dip the slices of eggplant in the egg, then in dried bread crumbs. Spread on a dish for twenty or more minutes. Fry till brown in deep fat. A Good Plum Pudding. Here is one of the best recipes for plum pudding: Three-quarters of a pound of flour, 2 ounces of baking powder, 2 ounces of bread crumbs, $1 \frac{1}{2}$ pounds of suet, 2 pounds of ralsins, 1 pound of currants, 10 ounces of sugar, 2 ounces of almonds, 1 pound of mixed candied peel, salt and spice to taste. Mix the ingredients well together and add six eggs well beaten and three-quarters of a pint of milk. Divide into two and boil eight hours. Potsdam Cakes. Sift into a mixing bowl 2 cups of flour and 2 teaspoonfuls of baking powder. add to this 1 cup of granulated sugar and one-half cup of butter softened, but not melted. Break into a cup two whole eggs and fill it up with sweet milk. Stir this and pour into the mixture. Beat all briskly with a wooden spoon, flavor with vanilla and bake in gem pans. (Delicious cakes made by an easy and inexpensive recipe.) Germany. Dishwashing Up to Date. The table dishes do not need to be wiped if they are washed in warm suds, scalded in boiling water and turned in the drainer to dry. A cloth spread over them will keep off dust and flies. The glasses may be rinsed in cold water, after the suds washing, and turned on a folded cloth to dry. Before scouring the steel knives and forks, stand them in a can of hot suds up to the handle, and they will come bright much easier. Sweet Potato Biscuit. Rub through a sieve one cup of boiled sweet potatoes; add one teaspoonful of sugar and one tablespoonful of butter, one teaspoonful of salt. Beat up one egg well; add two cups of milk; add these to the mixture, then sift in one pint of flour and two teaspoonfuls of baking powder; mix well; turn out on a floured board; roll out; cut with a cutter; lay on greased tins and bake in a quick oven. Apple Cake One cup thinly sliced sweet apples, cooked until transparent in one cup maple sugar, and water to make a good sirup. When cool, add one cup dry maple sugar, two eggs, one heaping teaspoonful mixed spices, one-half cup butter, one-half cup cream, one teaspoonful soda, flour till the spoon will stand in the midlde without falling. Quick Muffins. Sift two cups of flour with a level tablespoonful of sugar, two level teaspoonfuls of baking powder and a salt-spoonful of salt. Beat two eggs, add one cup of milk. Rub one level teaspoonful each of lard and butter into the flour and pour in the egg and milk. Beat and bake in well-greased muffin tins. Hulled Corn or Hominy Put a peck of dry shelled corn into a large kettle. Fill a cloth bag with a quart of good wood ashes, drop this into the kettle, fill the kettle with cold water and boil steadily until the skin comes off the corn. Drain, wash the corn in several waters, then boil until soft. Fruit Salad Chop apples, bananas and white grapes (removing the seeds and skins) in small pieces; mix with mayonnaise dressing and after scooping out the interior of fine red apples, fill with the mixture; the stem end of the apples should be neatly cut off in a round slice and put on when the apple is filled Oyster Stuffing for Turkey Season dry bread-crumbs with parsley, thyme and sweet marjoram, and moisten with melted butter. Stir in twenty oysters, chopped and fill the cavity in the turkey with this mixture. LIEUTENANT BOWMAN. A. H. IN FORTY-EIGHT HOURS PE-RU-NA CURED HIM. Cold Affected Head and Throat Attack was Severe. Chas. W. Bowman, 1st Lieut. and Adjt. 4th M. S. M. Cav. Vols., writes from Lanham, Md., as follows: "Though somewhat averse to patent medicines, and still more averse to becoming a professional affidavit man, it seems only a plain duty in the present instance to add my experience to the columns already written concerning the curative powers of Peruna. "I have been particularly benefited by its use for colds in the head and throat. I have been able to fully cure myself of a most severe attack in forty-eight hours by its use according to directions. I use it as a preventive whenever threatened with an attack." "Members of my family also use it for like ailments. We are recommending it to our friends." Chas. W. Bowman. Ask Your Druggist for Free Peruna Almanac for 1907. ADVICE TO PIPE USERS. Canadian Journal Says People Don't Know How to Care for It. The Canadian Cigar and Tobacco Journal gives some hints to those who smoke pipes. Everybody thinks he knows how to smoke a pipe, but to do it perfectly is not easy. "Time is a keynote of successful pipe smoking," says the Journal, "and another is gentleness. Take it easy. Don't crowd the pipe to the top of the bowl. Never get a pipe hot. Keep cool and keep your pipe cool. You can relight a pipe, and if you are an old smoker you will be all the better for it. When you have finished do not refill a heated pipe." Prize Rent Dodger. At St. Osyth, Essex, England, an ejectment order has been granted against a tenant who, it was stated, had paid no rent in forty years. United States Makes Large Sales. Germany bought of the United States in 1905 $69,924,400 worth of cotton and $31,987,200 worth of copper. The Modesty of Women Naturally makes them shrink from the indelicate questions, the obnoxious examinations, and unpleasant local treatments, which some physicians consider essential in the treatment of diseases of women. Yet, if help can be had, it is better to submit to this ordeal than let the disease grow and spread. The trouble is that so often the woman undergoes all the annoyance and shame for nothing. Thousands of women who have been cured by Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription write in appreciation of the cure which dispenses with the examinations and local treatments. There is no other medicine so sure and safe for delicate women as "Favorite Prescription." It cures debilitating drains, irregularity and female weakness. It always helps. It almost always cures. It is strictly non-alcoholic, non-secret, all its ingredients being printed on its bottle-wrapper; contains no deleterious or habit-forming drugs, and every native medicinal root entering into its composition has the full endorsement of those most eminent in the several schools of medical practice. Some of these numerous and strongest of professional endorsements of its ingredients, will be found in a pamphlet wrapped around the bottle, also in a booklet mailed free on request, by Dr. R. V. Pierce, of Buffalo, N. Y. These professional endorsements should have far more weight than any amount of the ordinary lay, or non-professional testimonials. The most intelligent women now-a-days insist on knowing what they take as medicine instead of opening their mouths like a lot of young birds and gulping down whatever is offered them. "Favorite Prescription" is of KNOWN COMPOSITION. It makes weak women strong and sick women well. Dr. Pierce's Medical Adviser is sent free on receipt of stamps to pay expense of mailing only. Send to Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y., 21 one-cent stamps for paper-covered, or 31 stamps for cloth-bound. If sick consult the Doctor, free of charge by letter. All such communications are held sacredly confidential. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets invigorate and regulate stomach, liver and bowels. CATARRH ELY'S CREAM BALM CATARRH ROBE-COLD CURES COLD HEAD HAY-FEVER DEARNESS HEADACHE ELY BROS. NEW YORK HAY FEVER It cleanses, soothes heals and protects the diseased membrane. It cures Catarrh and drives away a Cold in the Head quickly. Restores the Senses of Taste and Smell. F Taste and Smell. Full size 50 cts., at Drugsists or by mail; Trial Size 10 cts. by mail. Ely Brothers. 56 Warren Street. New York. STIFFNESS, STITCHES, LAMENESS, CRAMP, TWISTS AND TWITCHES, ALL DECAMP WHEN YOU APPLY ST. JACOBS OIL THE OLD-MONK-CURE PRICE 25 AND 50 CENTS THE GRAND TRUNK PACIFIC RAILROAD AND WESTERN CANADA. Will Open Up Immense Area of Free Homestead Lands. The railway facilities of Western Canada have been taxed to the uttermost in recent years to transfer the surplus grain crop to the eastern markets and the seaboard. The large influx of settlers and the additional area put under crop have added largely to the grain product, and notwithstanding the increased railway facilities that have been placed at the disposal of the public, the question of transportation has proved to be a serious one. It will, therefore, be good news to everyone interested in Western Canada to know that an authoritative statement has been given out by Mr. C. M. Hays, president of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, that that railway will do its share towards moving the crop of 1907 from Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba to tidewater, and thus assist in removing a serious obstacle which has faced the settler during recent years. Mr. Hays, who has just completed a trip from Portage la Prairie to Edmonton in a prairie schooner, a distance of 735 miles, which was covered in eighteen days, is enthusiastic about the country. This will be gratifying to settlers in the Canadian West, even if Mr. Hays declines to be bound to a time limit with the exactitude of a stop-watch. The Grand Trunk Pacific road will be in a position to take part in the transportation of the crop of 1907, and that will be satisfactory to the settlers in that country when the harvest is garnered. The wheat crop of 1906 in Western Canada was about 90,000,000 bushels and with the increased acreage which is confidently expected to be put under crop next year it is safely calculated that fully 125,000,000 bushels will be harvested in 1907. The necessity for increased transportation facilities are, therefore, apparent, and the statement made by Mr. Hays will bring encouragement to the farmers of the Canadian West, new and old. The opening up of additional thousands of free homesteads is thus assured by the agent of the Canadian government, whose address appears elsewhere. FINED FOR SELLING DEAR ALE. Mayor of London Has Brewers Arrested for Raising Price of Malt. Trusts were sometimes death with summarily in old England. For instance, the records of the Brewers' company show that "on Monday, July 30, 1422, Robert Chichele, the mayor of London, sent for the masters and twelve of the most worthy of our company to appear at the Guildhall for selling dear ale. After much dispute about the price and quantity of malt, wherein Whityngtone, the late mayor, declared that the brewers had ridden into the country and forestalled the malt to raise its price, they were convicted in the penalty of £20 ($1000), which objecting to, the masters were ordered to be kept in prison in the chamberlain's ustody until they should pay it or find security for the payment thereof." DODD'S KIDNEY PILLS FOR ALL KIDNEY DISEASES CURES RHEUMATISM SE BRIGHT'S DISEASE DIABETES BACKACHE discontinued the use or our use of imitations. The public may rely on our package. (63 Pounds to the Busker) Are situated in the Canadian West where Homesteads of 160 acres can be obtained free by every settler willing and able to comply with the Homestead Regulations. During the present year a large portion of New Wheat Growing Territory has been made accessible to markets by the railway construction that has been pushed forward so vigorously by the three great railway companies. For literature and particulars address the Superintendent of Immigration, Ottawa, Canada, or the authorized Canadian Government Agent, W. D. Scott, Superintendent of Immigration, Ottawa, Canada, or T. O. Currie, Room 12, B. Callahan Block, Milwaukee, Wis., Authorized Government Agents. Please say where you saw this advertisement. Fine Milwaukee Meat Market At 871 Kinnickinnie Ave., Milwaukee, Wis. Receipts over $60 per day; rent only $25 per month. Machinery cost more than price asked for market. Will sell, if taken at once, for $1000 cash. Investigate. JAS. L. WARNES, BROKER, 1342-3 Wells B'dg. WHEN WRITING TO ADVERTISEERS please say you saw the Advertisement in this paper. Reliable Purchaser's Agent No mail order catch. You write for quotations on anything. I quote prices to you. If satisfactory, you send order and I see to it that goods are right. Anything in Milwaukee markets. JAS. L. WARNES, BROKER. 1342-3 Wells Bldg. PARIS WOMEN'S HOTEL For Employees of the Postoffice, Telegraph and Telephone Services. There has just been opened in Paris a hotel with 111 rooms for the sole use of girls and women employed in the postoffice, telegraph and telephone services, who are without family or home in the city. It is a handsome six story structure, built by an association of women. The smallest rooms measure about 9x12 feet and rent at $3.50 a month; the most expensive is $7. They are lighted by electricity and steam heated. On every floor there are bath rooms and wash rooms with hot and cold water, wardrobes and rooms for brushing and cleaning clothes. The restaurant is open to any working woman. The kitchens are strictly hygienic and wholesome and sufficient meals are guaranteed at very low prices. A regular dinner is served for 17 cents. The employees of the postoffice, telegraph and telephone offices not living in the house can enjoy the use of the reading and garden for 10 cents a month. The book shelves are being filled up by gifts from Paris publishers, women interested in the enterprise and by the girls themselves.—New York Sun. THE FIRST TWINGE Of Rheumatism Calls for Dr. Williams Pink Pills If You Would Be Easily Cured. Mr. Frank Little, a well known citizen of Portland, Ionia Co., Mich., was cured of a severe case of rheumatism by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. In speaking about it recently, he said: "My body was run down and in no condition to withstand disease and about five years ago I began to feel rheumatic pains in my arms and across my back. My arms and legs grew numb and the rheumatism seemed to settle in every joint so that I could hardly move, while my arms were useless at times. I was unable to sleep or rest well and my heart pained me so terribly I could hardly stand it. My stomach became sour and bloated after eating and this grew so bad that I had inflammation of the stomach. I was extremely nervous and could not bear the least noise or excitement. One whole side of my body became paralyzed. "As I said before, I had been suffering about five years and seemed to be able to get no relief from my doctors, when a friend here in Portland told me how Dr. Williams' Pink Pills had cured him of neuralgia in the face, even after the pain had drawn it to one side. I decided to try the pills and began to see some improvement soon after using them. This encouraged me to keep on until I was entirely cured. I have never had a return of the rheumatism or of the paralysis. The pills are for sale by all druggists or sent, postpaid, on receipt of price, 50 cents per box, six boxes $2.50, by the Dr. Williams Medicine Company, Schenectady, N. Y. Orders Men to Shoot at Him with Ball Cartridges. A sergeant major of an infantry regiment stationed in Bremen was recently sentenced to a slight disciplinary punishment for having mortally wounded a man with a revolver in the course of a fight. He appealed against this, but was informed that his appeal had been rejected. He then ordered his men to load their rifles with blank cartridges, but during their absence reloaded them with ball cartridges. He then drew up his men in firing line and carefully showed them how to aim their rifles straight at his heart. With the utmost calm he then ordered "Fire!" and fell with four bullets through his heart. TO TRANSMIT POWER 750 MILES. Work Will Soon Be Undertaken to Lead Pipes to Gold Fields. Engineers have never doubted the possibility of transmitting power from the Victoria falls of the Zambesi river to the great gold fields of the Transvaal, 750 miles distant, but they have questioned the economic soundness of such an undertaking, an a commercial scale. Nevertheless, contracts have been let which show that the work will be undertaken. It is the most extraordinary electric power scheme ever attempted. Always to Be Depended Upon. When a person gets up in the morning with a dull headache and a tired, stretchy feeling, it is an almost certain indication that the liver, or bowels, or both, are decidedly out of order. At such times Nature, the wisest and best of all doctors, takes this means to give warning that she needs the help and gentle assistance which can best be obtained from that old family remedy, Brandreth's Pills, which has been in use for over a century. They are the same fine laxative tonic pill your grandparents used, when doctors were few and far between and when people had to have a remedy that could absolutely be depended upon. Brandreth's Pills can be depended upon and are sold in every drug and medicine store, either plain or sugar-coated. How Names Are Twisted. How some people come to figure with an alias on police records was illustrated the other day when an Italian was called upon to come into court under the name of Mikado. His name figured on the docket at "Ricardo," but it turned out that he had given his name to the court officer correctly as "Genero." PILES CURED IN 6 TO 14 DAYS. PAZO OINTMENT is guaranteed to cure any case of Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Piles in 6 to 14 days or money refunded. 50c. Attorney Has Father Fined. A Connecticut prosecuting attorney had his father fined $5 for violation of the sidewalk ordinance. IT GIVES THE FURNACE SHAKER A SHAKE. [Officers of the United States geological survey declare that there is no occasion to worry about the coal supply, as there is enough coal to last for 5000 years.] You may say, if you please, there's no cause for anxiety; It's a kind reassurance, we have to confess; But perhaps we may tell you without impropriety If you think that's enough you are missing your guess. You may say there is coal for remotest posterity. But will that make the prices seem any less high? Will it mitigate this present season's severity? Tell us something, we beg, of this winter's supply. We're not worrying now very much for futurity— Not, at least, to the point of some thousands of years— But we do feel a sort of sad insecurity; The four months to come are exciting our fears. Will the twelve tons on hand of the common bituminous Run the furnace that long or some more should we buy? Your predictions we find insufficiently lumious. Tell us something, we beg, of this winter's supply. It is nothing to know that the calamities stratified In abundance lie under the Pemian cap. You may think, if you like, we are very much gratified; As a matter of fact we're not caring a rap. Of the months before May we must think apprehensively, For it's awkward to find that your coal's running shy, And we don't want to buy a new lot too expensively. Tell us something, we beg, of this winter's supply. Chicago News. IN THE LABOR WORLD. This year's convention of the New Jersey division of the National association of Letter Carriers will be held at Montclair, on May 30. According to investigations made by the California promotion committee, the labor situation in San Francisco is rapidly assuming normal conditions. The Mexican Central railroad has granted its conductors an increase in wages, making their pay equal to that of conductors in the United States. Over 6000 men are benefited by a 10 per cent. increase in the wages of coal miners in southern Colorado districts. The increase amounts to $600,000 a year. The French employers' liability act recently adopted is based upon an equal division between employer and employed of the pecuniary consequences of every accident. A movement is under way with good prospects of success to bring about a general agreement among the stone working trades for the elimination of internal disputes in the future. The Journal of the American Medical association, says: "Child labor means two evils—under-development and illiteracy. That children should be sacrificed for the support of adults, no matter how indigent, is a reversal of the law of nature. Child labor is the truest form of race suicide." The latest development in England's struggle between employer and employed is Sir John Bingham's offer to subscribe $50,000 to a fund to fight strikes. Sir John, the head of one of Sheffield's greatest cutlery firms, sees no escape from the tremendous labor troubles and urges the manufacturers to join hands for a finish fight. Dr. Charles H. Hughes, a noted St. Louis neurologist, is the author of a comprehensive monograph in which he states that the recent appalling accident records of the railways are to be attributed almost entirely to mistakes resulting from the brain strain of overworked employees. The hours of those employed in the train dispatching, engineer and switch service are entirely too long, the physician declares. WISDOM OF AN EMPIRICIST. Most wisdom is in advice; not action. A good way to get rid of friends is to loan them money. Being good is awfully easy if you have locomotor ataxia. Some men are so expert in reform that they do it once a week. When a man has money in the bank that is where he always has it. Love is blind, and sometimes its votaries would have it deaf and dumb. The renter is a slave to his household goods, although he claims to own them. That angels have been entertained un- awares gets many a hoooh a square meal and a night's lodging.—St. Louis Globe When a man has nothing else to worry about, he frett because the coal supply will be exhausted in 10,000 years.—St. The trouble with books is that you have to read so many to find out which are worth reading that your taste is so vitiated that you can't know. THE GENTLE CYNIC. Appearances are almost as deceptive as trying to keep them up. Fame often merely makes it harder for a man to dodge his creditors. A girl seldom dreams of a career until she has been disappointed in love. Many a man who is clothed in his own righteousness has a mighty poor fit. Marriage generally proves that two can live quite as expensively as one. All the world loves a lover, especially the jeweler, the florist, and the confectioner. A girl naturally prefers short engagements. She can get so many more of them in. We, being civilized, must be taught to love one another. Cannibals do it instinctively. Naturally a woman hates to remove her hat in the theater. It generally costs her ten times as much as the man behind her paid for his old seat. New York Times. Buried Literary Treasures. It makes one's mouth water to think of the literary treasures that may be awaiting discovery, after twenty centuries of seclusion, beneath the hardened mud that covers Herculaneum, says the London Outlook. The find of a single complete library of the first century A.D.—and there must have been many such in this pleasure city of the Roman world—would in itself be value for the money spent, even as a speculation. Few publishers could "put a name on" the price of the copyright of Sappho and Menander, which, according to a recent decision of the court of appeal, would vest in the owner of the manuscript. We can imagine no more agreeable hobby for a millionaire of classical tastes than to undertake the complete investigation of Herculaneum. The discoveries at Oxyrhynchus, described by Dr. Grenfell this week, show what a rich harvest remains to be reaped in this kind. Hitherto only a few gleanings have come to light, and yet among them we count a new work by Aristotle, a new poet like Herondas, new odes of Pindar, and even fragments of an unknown Gospel. Any day we may hear that the library of a scholar has been disinterred containing not merely the fragments which we owe to publishers' waste-paper baskets, but whole rolls of classical writers. The poems of Sappho and the plays of Menander, the lost books of Livy and Tacitus, may yet be brought to light, so that we can judge for ourselves of writers whom we only know by their vast reputation, or add to our knowledge of those whose every word is a possession forever. SOME APPETIZING DISHES In the Chafing Dish.—A delicious chafing-dish savory combines celery and oysters. Have ready a big tablespoonful of minced celery. Put it into the blazer with a tablespoonful of butter, a tea spoonful if lemon juice, salt and paprika. When the mixture bubbles turn in twenty-four oysters and cook them until they are plump. Then add a cupful of cream and when it is thoroughly heated serve on toast. Oysters and Tripe.—Boil until tender one pound of honey-comb tripe and cut into narrow strips. Place in a saucepan one tablespoonful of butter and one small onion, chopped fine. Cook under a cover until soft but not brown. Add one tablespoonful of flour gradually, one-half cup of milk and when they begin to boil put in the tripe and twenty-five oysters. As soon as the gills of the oysters curl season with one-half teaspoonful of salt and a dash of pepper and serve. Tales of Thaddeus Stevens Many a joke is credited to Thaddeus Stevens, who led the Republicans in Congress during the Civil war and reconstruction periods. One of the very keenest of his jests, which is undoubtedly authentic, is so common-place in sound that one might easily be forgiven for failing to take in its meaning. In his last days David Reese and John Chauncey, two employees of the House of Representatives, used to carry him in a large armchair from his lodgings across the public grounds, up the broad stairs of the capitol. "Who," he said to them one day, "will be so good to me, and bear me in their strong arms, when you two mighty men are gone?" Such a question implied nothing short of a sense of intellectual importality. When he had taken to his bed for the last time a visitor told him he was looking well. "O John," was the quick reply, "it is not my appearance, but my disappearance that troubles me!" One day a member of the House of Representatives, who was noted for his uncertain course on all questions, and who confessed that he never investigated a point under discussion without finding himself a neutral, asked for leave of absence. "Mr. Speaker," said Stevens, "I do not rise to object, but to suggest that the honorable member need not ask this favor, for he can easily pair off with himself!" One anecdote always remembered in connection with Stevens illustrates his unostentatious charity. A beggar woman met him one morning as he was limping to the House. "O, sir," she said, "I have just lost all the money I had in the world!" "And how much was that?" "And how much was that: "O sir, it was 75 cents." "You don't say so!" he replied, putting a $5 bill in her hand. "And how wonderful it is that I should have found what you lost!"—Washington Star. English Changing Drinks There has been a decline of nearly 2,500,000 barrels of beer in the annual consumption of the United Kingdom during the past six years, notwithstanding that the population increased by 2. 000,000. Official figures for the fiscal year 1906 give the amount retained for consumption at 33,504,000 barrels, or 27.9 gallons per capita. The decline of 11 per cent has taken place entirely in the English and Scottish consumption, since that of Ireland exhibits a slight actual increase over the six years previous. That the people of the United Kingdom are not making up for their beer frugality by imbibing more spirits is shown by the statistics, from which it appears that the total amount of consumption of spirits decreased from 1.1 proof gallons to nine-tenths of a gallon. The spirits retained for consumption in the 1906 fiscal year was 34,487,000 gallons of homemade and 6,735,000 foreign. Measured by the population the decline in the amount of British spirits consumed is about 15 per cent, whereas in respect to foreign spirits it is about 29 per cent. Furthermore, the practice of private brewing has decreased enormously in the last decade. The sale of beer to the trade is being centered in the hands of the large producers. English journals draw as a deduction from these figures that the habits of their people are improving. The British are evidently giving up alcoholic drinks more and more and becoming still greater tea drinkers, their imports of tea for home consumption having been for the first seven months of 1906, 155,767,710 pounds, an increase of over 10,000,000 pounds above the same period in 1905. Long Words. The French academy has at its summer sittings been devoting itself to its famous and interminable dictionary. The academy is at present at the letter C of the eighth edition. The edition was begun in 1877, and the letter C will probably not be finished before 1907 or 1908 at the earliest, so it will be seen that the academy will have taken thirty years to revise the first three letters of the alphabet. If they continue at this pace, the eighth edition of the dictionary will take place between 200 and 250 years to bring out. But the French academy has always scorned the modern craze for speed. The last edition—the seventh—of the dictionary was begun in 1835 and completed in 1877. It lasted forty-two years. The first edition took fifty-nine years—1635 to 1694. The second to the sixth editions went a trifle quicker, taking on the average only about twenty-eight years each.—London Globe. Church Days for 1907. THE DISCOVERER Of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, the Great Woman's Remedy for Woman's Ills. LYDIA E. PINKHAM No other medicine for Woman's ill spread and unqualified endorsement. No other medicine has such a rec hosts of grateful friends as has Lydia. For more than 30 years it has been Inflammation and Ulceration, and con. It has cured more cases of Backache one remedy. It dissolves and expels the Irregularities and periodical pain Bloating, Nervous Prostration, Headache also deranged organs, causing pain Under all circumstances it acts in h. 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Mayer "Work Shoes" like all Mayer shoes are built on honor and wear like iron. Get them from your dealer, but be sure the Mayer trade-mark appears on the sole. For a "dress-up" shoe wear the "Honorbilt" for men. F. Mayer Boot & Shoe Co., Milwaukee, Wis. Mackerel in Church. During a harvest festival at the fishing town of Puneknoll, Dorset, England, mackerel, hung across the chancel, formed part of the church decorations. MRS. WINSLOW'S SOOTHING SYRUP for Children teething: softens the gums, reduces inflammation, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25 cents a bottle. About 1,750,000 acres grow the world's tobacco. --- --- MARY BURTON It pays to advertise. PHONE GRAND 685 MADAM S. PARKER 156 Sixth Street, MILWAUKEE - - WISCONSIN Manicuring, Shampooing, Facial Massage, Parker's Skin Foods, Parker's Lotion FORD'S HAIR POMADE FORMERLY KNOWN AS "OZONIZED OX MARROW" Makes the Hair Long, Soft and Easy to Comb READ WHAT THE PEOPLE SAY Key West, Fla., Aug. 28, 1904. I used only one bottle of your pomade and my hair has stopped breaking off and has greatly improved. When I started using this wonderful preparation my hair was seven inches long and now it is ten inches or more. Yours truly, 314 Southard St. MINNIE FOASTER. Brookhaven, Miss., Aug. 13. Gentlemen: I must confess I never tried any preparation so excellent for the hair. My hair was turning gray and was rather deadly but since I have been using your hair pomade my hair has turned black like it was when I was a girl and it has a lively, glossy color. C. L. ROBERTS. Atlanta, Ga., June 6, 1800. Gentlemen: I have used your pomade and have found it to do more than it is recommended to do. It stops the hair from falling out and breaking off, and cleans the scalp and makes the hair soft, pliable and glossy. MAGGIE REND. I have seen the original letters and testify to R. B. MONTGOMERY, Editor FORD'S HAIR POMADE, formerly straightens Kinky or Curly Hair that it with its length, and is the only safe preparative Hair straight, as shown above. Its use in curly hair soft, pliable and easy to treatment; 2 to 4 bottles are usually sufficient POMADE ("OZONIZED OX MARROW) fishing, invigorates the scalp, stops the hair, and by nourishing the roots, gives it new life. Howeless, it is a toilet necessity for ladies POMADE ("OZONIZED OX MARROW") about 1858, and the label, "OZONIZED OX M." Patent Office in 1874. In all that long period of from the hundreds of thousands we have sold, and effective, no matter how long you keep it hair STRAIGHT, SOFT and PLIABLE. Best HAIR POMADE ("OZONIZED OX MARROW") only in Chicago and by us. The genuine hair package. Refuse all others. Full direction druggists and dealers. If your druggist or do his jobber or wholesale dealer, or send us 50 bottles, or $2.50 for six bottles, express paid points in U. S. A. When ordering send post of paper you saw this advertisement in. Write THE OZONIZED OX MARR Dept. N, 76 Wabash Ave., Chr. (None genuine wit hout my signature. Agents Wanted final letters and testify to the genuineness of the statements. FONTGOMERY, Editor Wisconsin Weekly Advocate. POMADE, formerly known as "OZONIZED OX MARROW," so called Curly Hair that it can be put up in any style desired consistent with the only safe preparation known to us that makes Kinky or Curly hair above. Its use makes the most stubborn, harsh, Kinky or flexible and easy to comb. These results may be obtained from one of the are usually sufficient for a year. The use of FORD'S HAIR POMADE OX MARROW") removes and prevents dandruff, relieves scalp, stops the hair from falling out or breaking off, makes it grow, roots, gives it new life and vigor. Being elegantly perfumed and of necessity for ladies, gentlemen and children. FORD'S HAIR POMADE OX MARROW") has been made and sold continuously since 1891. "OZONIZED OX MARROW," was registered in the United States in all that long period of time there has never been a bottle returned thousands we have sold. FORD'S HAIR POMADE remains sweet when long you keep it. Be sure to get Ford's, as it's use makes the PLIABLE. Beware of imitations. Remember that FORD'S POMADE OX MARROW") is put up only in 50c. size, and is made for us. The genuine has the signature, Charles Ford, Prest., on each others. Full directions with every bottle. Price only 50c. Sold by off your druggist or dealer cannot supply you, he can procure it from the dealer, or send us 50c. for one bottle, postpaid, or $1.40 for three bottles, express paid. We pay postage and express charges to all in ordering send postal or express money order, and mention name advertisement in. Write your name and address plainly to FORD'S HAIR POMADE OX MARROW CO. Albash Ave., Chicago, Ill. (by signature. Agents Wanted everywhere.) I have seen the original letters and testify to the genuineness of the statements. R. B. MONTGOMERY. Editor Wisconsin Weekly Advocate. FORD'S HAIR POMADE, formerly known as "OZONIZED OX MARROW," so straightens Kinky or Curly Hair that it can be put up in any style desired consistent with its length, and is the only safe preparation known to us that makes Kinky or Curly Hair straight, as shown above. Its use makes the most stubborn, harsh, Kinky or curly hair soft, pliable and easy to comb. These results may be obtained from one treatment; 2 to 4 bottles are usually sufficient for a year. The use of FORD'S HAIR POMADE ("OZONIZED OX MARROW") removes and prevents dandruff, relieves itching, invigorates the scalp, stops the hair from falling out or breaking off, makes it grow, and by nourishing the roots, gives it new life and vigor. Being elegantly perfumed and harmless, it is a toilet necessity for ladies, gentlemen and children. FORD'S HAIR POMADE ("OZONIZED OX MARROW") has been made and sold continuously since about 1858, and the label, "OZONIZED OX MARROW," was registered in the United States Patent Office in 1874. In all that long period of time there has never been a bottle returned from the hundreds of thousands we have sold. FORD'S HAIR POMADE remains sweet and effective, no matter how long you keep it. Be sure to get Ford's, as it's use makes the hair STRAIGHT. SOFT and PLIABLE. Beware of imitations. Remember that FORD'S HAIR POMADE ("OZONIZED OX MARROW") is put up only in 50c. size, and is made only in Chicago and by us. The genuine has the signature, Charles Ford, Prest., on each package. Refuse all others. Full directions with every bottle. Price only 50c. Sold by druggists and dealers. If your druggist or dealer cannot supply you, he can procure it from his jobber or wholesale dealer, or send us 50c. for one bottle, postpaid, or $1.40 for three bottles, or $2.50 for six bottles, express paid. We pay postage and express charges to all points in U. S. A. When ordering send postal or express money order, and mention name of paper you saw this advertisement in. Write your name and address plainly to THE OZONIZED OX MARROW CO. Dept. N, 76 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Ill. (None genuine wit hout my signature. Agents Wanted everywhere.) CHURCH-WORKER'S FREE BOOK OF MONEY RAISING PLANS HOW TO RAISE MONEY' is the title of a valu- able, instructive book just published, ex- plaining many new and successful plans for raising sums of money from $8.00 to $200.00, quickly and easily without investment, for churches, schools, ad societies, charity or any other purpose. This book is sent absolutely free, postage prepaid, to in- terested persons. Address Wisconsin Mfg. Co., Dep't 280, Manitowoc, WI. SEND FOR IT TODAY. 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ROREETS West Chester, Pa., Meh. 30, 1905. I had typhoid fever and my hair all came out. I used three bottles of your pomade, and now my hair is nine inches long and very thick and nice and straight. Most every one seeing how good your pomade did my hair, they too are anxious for it. My hair is an example to every one. Yours respectfully, ELLA BYE. Colvert, Tex., Meh. 31, 1905. I have used one bottle of your pomade and my hair is now perfectly straight, soft and black as silk. I will not be without it. RHODA EDWARDS. Colvert, Tex., Meh. 31, 1905. I have used one bottle of your pomade and my hair is now perfectly straight, soft and black as silk. I will not be without it. RHODA EDWARDS. Paris, Mo., July 15, 1889. Gentlemen: When I began using your po- made my head was so bald I was ashamed of myself, but now my hair has grown three inches all over my head and I have been using it only two months. IDA PRETER THE Popular Pulpit Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth, and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes; but know thou that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.—Eccl. 11:9. So said Solomon—Solomon the great, the wise, the magnificent. He had drunk to the full of all the "pleasures" that the world could give him and at the last in his old age he could find no pleasure in them. Sated, worn, weary, he said: "Vanity, vanity, all is vanity." Very likely he was thinking of the Solomon that then was and the Solomon that might have been—recalling his superb gifts, his magnificent opportunities. Perhaps he had been thinking of the time when as a boy he ascended the throne of David, of the time when God appeared to him in a dream by night, saying: "Ask what I shall give thee." Who ever had such an offer? And yet, with all the world to choose from, the young Solomon said: "Give thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad." Well would it have been for him had he remained of that mind. But even Solomon was not always wise. With luxury came temptation; with success came sin; with sin came sorrow. In the end came weariness and a dreary gift of years when he could only say, "I have no pleasure in them." Looking from his roof garden wall he saw the young men go trooping by and, thinking of the time when he, too, was young and full of the joy of life, he said: "Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth, and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes; but know thou that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment." God had brought Solomon into judgment. In his old age he was paying the penalty that always comes soon or late. The sins of his youth, of middle age, of old age, had found him out at the last. As it was with him it will be with all that walk in wicked ways. What wonder that he said: "Know that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment." So said Solomon. He found it to be so in the days of his sin-darkened old age. Yes, for wasted opportunities and sinful self-indulgence God was bringing him into judgment. All literature is full of such confessions. On his thirty-third birthday—a time when a man should be at his best, the very age when the Redeemer gave his life for us all—Lord Byron said: Through life's dull road, so dim and dirty, I have dragged on to three-and-thirty. And what have these years left to me? Nothing, except three-and-thirty. He had sown to the wind. He was reaping the whirlwind. What wonder that still later in his short life he should say: My days are in the yellow leaf, The flower, the fruits of love are gone. The worm, the canker and the grief Are mine alone. Ah, how many, when it was too late, have regretted vainly the sins of their youth. Hartley Coleridge was the gifted son of a gifted father. He was young, brilliant, highly educated, with every prospect for a great future, but he wasted his opportunities, and little by little became a slave to strong drink. While yet young he wrote on the flyleaf of his Bible, his dead mother's gift: When I received this volume small My days were barely 17, When it was hoped I should be all Which once, alas! I might have been. And now my years are 25, And every mother hopes her lamb, And every happy boy alive. May never be what now I am. Let us think, however, of the injunction of the text as an incentive to noble purpose and high hopes. "Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth." You may. You should. Know that in doing it you have the sympathetic interest of all good men and good angels, yes, and of your Lord and Savior, Christ, who said: "I am come that ye might have life and have it more abundantly." He would not rob you of any real true joy in life. Rather He would add to every pure pleasure the crowning joy of all—the knowledge of God and the peace of God, which passeth all understanding. THE POWER OF RELIGION. By Rev. Henry Knott. Text.—"Be ye therefore perfect even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect."—Matthew 5:48. The Sermon on the Mount contains the sum and substance of Christianity. In other words we find it to be the very heart of the Gospel; its divine precepts transcending in moral grandeur the loftiest conceptions ever thought or spoken by mortal man. Great souls aflame with the sacred fire of inspiration have but mirrored the shadows of the tremendous realities of the future, and the mind of genius searching for truth apart from revelation has failed to discover the meaning and the end of life. Here we have a command uttered by One who gave to humanity (The author of this hymn is a descendant of the great William Wilberforce, the philanthropist, and a son of Samuel Wilberforce, the Bishop of Oxford, and later of Winchester. He was born in 1840 and became Canon of Winchester in 1878 and, later, Bishop of Newcastle. This is his only hymn which has attained popularity and this has been of recent growth. It was written for a morning prayer at private devotions.) Lord, for to-morrow and its needs I do not pray; Keep me, my God, from stain of sin Just for to-day. Help me to labor earnestly And duly pray; Let me be kind in word and deed, Father, to-day. Let me no wrong or idle word Unthinking say; Set thou a seal upon my lips Through all to-day. Let me in season, Lord, be grave, In season gay; Let me be faithful to thy grace, Dear Lord, to-day. And if, to-day, this life of mine Should ebb away, Give me thy sacrament divine, Father, to-day. So for to-morrow and its needs I do not pray; Still keep me, guide me, love me, Lord, Through each to-day. the key to perfection. The Christ has drawn the veil aside and disclosed the way, the truth, the life. By revealing the character of God—a holiness radiant with love—we are brought face to face with the possibility of attainment through the law and the spirit hid in Calvary's cross. By imitating the example of holy self-sacrificing we shall grow into that glorious perfection of the Father manifested in His only begotten Son. True religion forms an upright mind; it elevates the judgment above prejudice, and creates a noble purpose to receive knowledge through all legitimate channels. It endows a man with sincerity and a quality of fair dealing which no university can teach. It breaks down the barriers of set opinions and destroys the bitterness between sects and parties. It opens the heart to conviction and a ready candor to confess error. The intellect was never intended to be bound to set rules or encompassed with man made regulations. Its density is an upward, onward march toward truth, and true religion fashions all our inquiries and misgivings with reverence and ever leads us to the feet of Him, "with whom there is no variableness nor shadow of turning." THE LORD'S SUPPER Text.—Luke 22:19. When a friend is setting out on a long journey, or when, perhaps, he is passing away from earth forever, he likes to put into our hands his portrait, or something he has used, or worn, or loved, and he is pleased to think that we shall treasure the keepsake when he is gone. So our blessed Lord, on the eve of His death, wished that His friends should have a memento by which to remember Him. The dying gift of a friend becomes very dear and sacred to us, and when we gaze at the portrait or touch the very pen worn smooth by his fingers, we then remember very vividly the happy times we spent together and the loving words and the wise counsels that fell from his lips. Just so the Lord's Supper is very sacred to Christians, and by means of it we remember our Redeemer more vividly, and all He did for us and His precious words of grace. It is a memorial or remembrance of our Savior's dying love. The host was the Lord Jesus, and He tells His guests, "With desire I have desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer." He availed Himself of the bread and wine on the table as fitting memorials to recall His death. The bread is "My body broken for you," the wine is "My blood shed for many." In this Sacrament we are helped to recognize Christ as an actual living person, who, by His body and blood, saved us. When Christ is said to be present in the bread and the wine, nothing magical or mysterious is meant. It is meant that He is spiritually present to those who believe. These signs, the broken bread and poured-out wine, which God puts into our hands to assure us of His gift of His Son to us, help us to believe that Christ is given, and make it easier for us to rest in Him. When the heart dries up religion soon leaks out. Human evolution may be but divine revelation. It is always better to lead a man than to carry him. Power in life is simply putting our passions into harness. The force of great deeds rests on small personal fidelities. The glory of the cross does not depend on your being cross. Many a man is missing a spiritual meal by choking on the letter. Capacity for heaven depends on the creation of happiness here. There is no service of the real without recognition of the ideal. 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