The Wisconsin Weekly Advocate (Milwaukee, Wis.) 1898-19??
August 20, 1898

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I x -jtffP i BI»W^gwBMB ’^•’K m l gSMBSBBE^^*^ w*i! h 4 J VOLUME I. SCOFIELD WINS OUT. Jesse Stone of Watertown Given Second Pla.ce on the Ticket. NOMINATED FIRST BALLOT. W. H Froehlich Nominated for Sec retary of State by a Close Vote. THE REMAINDER OF THE TICKET. Seo- La Fol- Esta- District livid. lette. Baenaeh. brook Flr.it ol «O 1 Second 31 65 Third 8 97 1 Fourth 58 42 3 Firth 66 40 Sixth 04 11 Seventh 67 28 Eighth S2J4 22^ 1 Ninth 103 18 2 Tenth 60 53 Total 820J4 43«^ 2 0 Milwaukee, Wis., Aug. 17. —The be ginning of the end of the greatest fight in the history of IVisconsin poli tics came at noon today, when the Re puldiean state convention opened. It was a great gathering, the largest ever held in this state, and one of the largest ever held in any state. It was larger than either of the last two national conven the big hall half way from end to end, and the spectators filled the long galleries. Seats had been arranged in tiers on the stage, and 21M) or 300 spectators occu pied them. Ladies were very much in evidence, both on the stage and in the gallery. There were also groups of them in tile spaces on the floor reserved for vis itors. dander's band was stationed in the gallery and played until the proceedings began. An enthusiastic delegate started the fun by proposing three cheers for John M. Ewing. A moment later a La Follette delegation came in, bearing a banner with "Little Bob’s” picture on it. There was some cheering, but it was too thin. It showed plainly that the Madison man’s friends in the convention were not very numerous. A moment later, at a few minutes past 12 o’clock, Chairman Coe of the state central committee called the convention to order, under the au thority of the formal call. Mr. Coe announced that John M. Ewing 'Wtl Jgjr**/''.^ jOolln Jr®/^ GEN? MICHAEL GRIFFIN. (Chairman of the Convention.) had been chosen to act as temporary sec retary. Mr. Ewing read the report of the state central committee, acting as com mittee on credentials, on the 1 contested del egations from Portage and Dodge coun ties. There was no discussion and no protest. Mr. Ewing then proceeded to the roll call, which was expected to take a long time, but by simply announcing the number from each district and allowing the chairman to answer, the roll was soon called. An amusing accident marked the begin ning of the call. Mr. Ewing “Green county” and the chairman responded, “All full.” The answer caused a great roar of laughter and when the next* ebnnty, Ke nosha, was called, the chairman respond <sl. “All here, but none full.” All the delegates were present and as soon as the result had been announced. Mr. Coe stated that Gen. Griffin of Eau Claire had been chosen to act as temporary chairman, and the announcement was greeted with cheers. Gen. Griffin stepped to the desk and there was a great ova tion. Gen. Griffin was frequently interrupted by applause, particularly when be referred to President McKinley and his administra tion, and when he finished there was pro longed applause. Col. L. J. Rusk of Chippewa Fails moved that a committee on permanent or ganization be appointed, consisting of a chairman and one member from each con gressional district. After some discussion the motion carried and Gen. Griffin ap pointed Col. Rusk as chairman of the com mittee on resolutions. That motion also j|k|iMyjk_' w '/y. iWnWW ISibk ^VT ill EDWARD SCOFIELD, £<W’i ica P Nf tf nin 4 carried and Col. Carter was made chair man of the committee. The various congressional committees then sent their lists of members to the desk. Judge Mead's motion to take a recess was then put. John Dawes tried to amend to make it 3 o'clock, but he was a little late, and the hour was fixed at 2:30 o’clock. The delegates and spectators quickly left and in a few minutes the hall was deserted. At the afternoon session the crowd of spectators was largely increased. It packed the galleries and far down the hall. There were a great many ladies present, on the floor, in the galleries and on the stage. Before the proceedings opened the band played patriotic airs, which were loudly applauded. The dele gates were slow to arrive and it was 2:50 o’clock before Gen. Griffin called the con vention to order. Col. Rusk, for the com mittee on permanent organization, report ed in favor of making the temporary or ganization permanent. The report was adopted and the announcement was greet ed with applause. Mr. Carter reported that the committee on resolutions had adopted the recom mendation of the state central committee as to the order of nominations and had made a slight change in the recommenda tion concerning the manner of taking the vote. As to the recommendation concern ing delegations in future conventions, it asked further time for consideration. The report was adopted. No platform was reported, and Senator Dennett of Sheboygan moved that the convention proceed to the nomination of a candidate for governor, and that the sec onding speeches be limited to five minutes. A motion was made to make the time ten minutes. Gus Leopold of Milwaukee ob jected to the nomination of a candidate until the platform had been adopted. The chair ruled the point of order not well taken. A motion was then made to amend the motion and delay the nomi nation until the platform had been adopt ed. After a hot clash the amendment was carried. A motion was then made to adjourn for half an hour. This was amended to make the time until 7 o'clock this even ing. The aye and no vote being taken, the chair declared that the motion to adjourn I s Zs W. H. FROEHLICH. Jr (Nom’nee for Secretary of State.) until 7 o’clock this evening had been car ried, thereupon the band struck up a live- MILAN AUKEE, WISCONSIN, AUGUST 20, 1898. ly air and the delegates and visitors slow ly dispersed at 3:30 o’clock. The committee on resolutions was com posed as follows: Eighth District—D. A. Frost, Stevens Point. Ninth District—D. O. Classon, Oconto. Sixth District —A. E. Thompson, Winne bago. Tenth District—L. 11. Mead, Shell Lake. Third District—Phil. Allen. Jr., Mineral Point. Seventh District—George 11. Gordon, La Crosse. Fifth District—F. A. Dennett, Sheboygan. Fourth District—W. E. Carter. Second District—T. L. Newton, Beaver Dam. First District—Wilbur Carle, Rock county. The new state central committee’s mem bers are the following-named Republic ans: Second District—L. M. Coapman, George E. Bryant. w- WWSX al ri I® X 'v\Wi J O. DAVIDSON. (Nominee for State Treasurer.) Fifth District—J. F. Bruss, Cedarburg; L. F. Fraser. Waukesha. Eighth District—F. A. Cady, Wood county; Charles Reynolds, Door county. Fourth District—Charles M. Gregg and William Stevenson. Milwaukee. First District —C. C. Gettings, Racine; Ninth District—Norman B. Black. Mari nette: James Houston, Price. Sixth District—Leander Ferguson, Fond du Lac; Ira Coon, Waushara. Perry Wilder. Rock county. Tenth District—lsaac H. Wing. Bavfleld; Frank Ostrander, West Superior. Third District—D. T. Parker, Fennimore; James A. Stone. Reedsburg. Seventh District—N. C. Foster, Fairchild; W. T. Searles, Monroe county. The new committee will have to elect a chairman and secretary. J. B. Treat of Monroe is the only avowed candidate for the former position, though J. C. Reyn olds of Lake Geneva and some others have been suggested for the place. The Evening Session. It was 7:20 o’clock before the conven tion reopened. The crowd of spectators grew impatient and called for Congress man Otjen. Eugene S. Elliott and other for a speech, but nobody responded. Aft er a long wait somebody began whistling popular airs and suddenly started “Amer ica,” and in a moment the vast audience was standing and joining in the singing. Then there was a period of “What’s the matter with Scofield?” etc., after which there was a call for George N. Wiswell to sing “Old Shady.” He sang it so well that the audience demanded more and Mr. Wiswell led it in singing “The z THKg^titi JESSE STONE, Republican Nominee for Lieutenant governor. Star-Spangled Banner.” The perform ance put the convention into very gooil humor, and an enthusiastic Walworth county delegate proposed to make Air. Wiswell the nominee for governor. Gen. Griffin said that Air. Wiswell declined to be a candidate until he knew what the platform was to be. Somebody said he might be willing to stand on the "Ohl Shady” platform, to which Gen. Bryant remarked: “I knew the original ‘Old Shady' ami he was the same kind of a nigger as Brother Wiswell, only a little blacker.” Gen. Griffin announced that the com mittee on resolutions, for which the con vention waited, would be ready to report in five minutes. At 8:45 Col. Carter appeared with the platform ami requested Secretary Ewing to read it. As Air. Ewing read, the dele gates applauded the various sentiments that pleased them. The report was as follows: The Republicans of Wisconsin in con vention assembled congratulate the na tion upon its magnificent achievements un der the wise and patriotic policies of the Republican party. Its most signal tri umphs both in peace and tn war, since the organization of that party, have been won under its rule. We heartily approve and endorse the ad ministration of President McKinley. His efforts to avert hostilities with Spain, and gain the desired end, through peace ful means, earn for him the approval of all 'good men, and were wise and right; when war became inevitable his quiet, reso lute, vigorous action demonstrated his thorough comprehension of the nation s needs and wishes, and when the powers of the enemy had been crushed and terms of peace were asked his magnanimity and sense of justice stood forth typifying the noblest traits of our American character, and commanding the respect and approval of the civilized world. We welcome the return of peace, and express our gratitude and thanks to the brave men of the army and navy, who have maintained the honor of our flag, and again prove to the world the qualities of American patriotism. We extend joy ous welcome to our returning Wisconsin boys who have deservedly gained the high est honors among the volunteer troops. We express our perfect confidence in the administration, to wisely and justly conclude terms of peace, having regard for the welfare of the inhabitants of the con quered territory and the best interests of our own people. We reaffirm the declaration of the last Republican national convention. We believe that the declaration in the St. Louis National Republican platform for the maintenance of the gold standard and the parity of our forms of money should be enacted into law. and the money of the American people should be made jF Jz EMMET R. HICKS. (Nominee for Attorney-General.) and kept, like all its institutions, the best In the world. We congratulate the nation -on the re turn of prosperity. We endorse the present state adminis tration. Wisconsin’s prompt response to the call of the President for troops and the attention given by our governor to the detail of the equipment and training, and constant solici tude for their health and comfort in camp and field, are the source of gratification. We demand the immediate enactment of such laws as may be necessary to compel all persons and corporations, engaged in busi ness within the state, except such fraternal and other associations as are now expressly exempted from taxation by law. to contrib ute their just and equal share towards the burden of taxation. We demand the immediate enactment of a law forbidding any railroad company, sleep ing car company, steamboat or steamship company, express company, telegraph com pany or telephone company to issue or de liver to any public official in this state any pass, frank or privilege of free transporta tion of himself or property or the free trans mission of messages over telephone or tele graph lines, and that the giving or receiving In B iiL f. ^L.^' A 7 L. D. HARVEY. (Nominee for State Superintendent.) of any such pass, frank or privilege shall be made a penal offense, both as to the giver and receiver. We believe in perfect liberty of conscience; non-sectaranlsm in public affairs, separation of church and state; In tree common schools, and the utmost independence of Individual thought, speech and action consistent with the law and the rights of others. Recognizing that the present caucus and convention law Is not free from defects, we favor such legislation as will secure to every citizen the freest expression of his choice in the selection of candidates. We condemn the practice, which we are informed has prevailed for many years both in Democratic and Republican administra tions, of making advance payments from the state treasury on account of salaries of of ficers and employes and we insist that such practice shall absolutely cease, and that no moneys be paid out of the treasury for any purpose otherwise than in strict conformity to law. The existence of the lobby at the seat of government during the session of the Legis lature to control legislation in the interests of private corporations, or special interests, is an evil that should be abolished by law. The report was signed by a majority of the committee. Gilbert E. Roe read a minority report of the committee which was the same as the majority report ex cept for one paragraph, the plank relating to the endorsement of the state adminis tration, which had been eliminated. Then question was then put upon the adoption of the minority report for the majority report, and the roll call had not been half finished before it became evi dent that the minority report would be overwhelmingly defeated and the Scofield men were jubilant. It was a test vote, NUMBER 16. and it made it clear that Gov. Scofield would be renominated. The vote by congressional districts was as follows: Ayes. Noes. First district 60 52 Second 65 31 Third 96 10 Fourth 39 Kt Fifth 38 69 Sixth 9 96 Seventh 27 69 Eighth 18Vi 8314 Ninth 15 108 Tenth 49 62 Total 41614 643% Upon motion of Col. A. L. Kreutzer the convention then proceeded to the nomina tion of a candidate for governor. On the roll call for nominating speeches A. H. Long of Prairie du Chien responded to nominate Mr. La Follette. Gov. Scofield’s name was presented by Ira B. Bradford of Augusta, Eau Claire county. Christian Doerfler of Milwaukee pre sented the name of C. E. Estabrook, mak ing a plea for harmony. There were a number of secondary speeches, and short ly after midnight the convention reached a vote. The resuits were announced by districts, and the vote was as follows: Sco- La Fol- Esta- Dlstrlct. held. lette. Baensch. brook. First 51 66 1 Second 31 65 Third 8 97 1 Fourth 58 42 3 Fifth 86 40 Sixth 94 11 Seventh 67 28 Eighth 82% 22% 1 Ninth 103. 18 2 Tenth 60 53 Total 620% 436% 2 6 The announcement of the vote caused a great uproar which lasted several min utes. A motion was made to proceed with the nomination of the lieutenant-governor, and Gen. Griffin declared it carried, but the deh gates began to leave and a motion to adjourn until 10 o’clock tomorrow morning went through with a rush. Thursday’s Session. Milwaukee, Wis,, Aug. 18.—At 10:21 o’clock Ghaimnan Griffin- npi»virrrd jhM* called the convention to order. He announced that nominations for lieu tenant-governor were in order. Upon the GRAHAM L. RICE. (Nominee for Railroad Commissioner.) call of the Second district being reached, Mr. Tower of Jefferson county went to the platform and nominated Jesse Stone of Watertown for the second place on the ticket. He said that for this office there should be named a man of ability, one who would command the respect of the people, one who would add strength to the ticket, one of experience in legislative matters and one of sound judgment. Mr. Stone filled the bill in every respect ami if the convention nominated him it would do itself proud. It was reported this morning that Frank L. Tucker of Omro, Mr. Stone’s only op ponent, had withdrawn, but when the roll call for nominations reached the Fourth district, C. G. Woolcock of Milwaukee presented Mr. Tucker's ifame to the con- EMIL GILJOHANN. (Nominee for Insurance Commissioner.) vention. The very slight applause follow ing mention of Mr. Tucker’s name left little doubt of the result of the ballot. On the call for seconding speeches, T. W. Sjience of Milwaukee briefly seconded (Continued on Fourth Page.)

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MANILA HIS FALLEN. Dewey Bombards Manila and Spaniards Capitulate. SURRENDER OF CITY. Gov. Augusti Flees on a German Warship—The Engagement was Brief. London, Aug. 16—A special dispatch from Madrid says: “The surrender of Manila on Saturday by Gen. Jaudemes is officially announced. The United States troops immediately occupied the city.” Madrid is Notified. Madrid, Aug. 16. —4 p. m. —The gov ernment has been notified by the Spanish consul at Hong Kong of the surrender of Manila. It is not yet aware of the man ner in which the surrender was effected. Augusti was Bis missed. Berlin, Aug. 16.—Gen. Augusti,^ ac cording to a dispatch from Hong Kong yesterday, was dismissed from his post as captain-general of the Philippines on August 5. Gen. Jaudemes was ordered to take the command at Manila. The dispatch says: “The Americans notified the authorities at Manila that a bombardment by sea and land would com mence at once. The city surrendered on the 13th, and the American flag was hoisted forthwith. “The Spanish officers were allowed their freedom on parole. The judiciary and the administrative offices are to re main temporarily in the hands of the Spaniards. The insurgents remain out side of the town.” Washington. D. C.. Aug. IG—Up to 9:30 o'clock this morning no advices had reached either the state, war or navy de partments regarding the fall of Manila, except the cablegram from Consul Wild man, briefly announcing an unconditional surrender. Dispatches giving fuller in formation are expected momentarily. By Way of Hong Kong. Hong Kong. Aug. 16.—1 t was rumored here last night that Manila had surren dered. but no news is obtainable from the Spanish consul. Governor-General Au gusti refused to speak. The German con sul was called upon and he informed the correspondent that the outskirts of Ma nila were bombarded by the Americans and that the city had surrendered. No damage was done to the city proper, only the outskirts being bombarded. The date of the bombardment was unknown to the German consul, who refused to say more. Gen. Augusti told a lady that Admiral Dewey demanded the surrender of Ma nila in an hour. The Spaniards declined to surrender and Dewey began the bom bardment and the Spaniards hoisted a white flag. Gen. Augusti immediately jumped into a German launch which was in waiting anti went to the Kaiserin Au gusta. which sailed before the bombard ment was concluded. The bombardment occurred on the 13th. Washington Hears the News. Washington. D. C., Aug. 15.—The de partment of state has just issued the fol lowing: The following dispatch was received at the department of state at 1:15 p. m.. August 15. from Consul Wildman, Hong Kong: “Augusti says Deey bombarded Manila Saturday. City surrendered unconditionally. Augusti was taken by Germans in launch to Kaiserin Augusta and brought to Hong Kong. J credit report.” The information contained in Consul Wildman’s brief message aroused intense interest, but created no surprise among those officials who received it. For two br three daws news of the fall of Manila has been expected. The last dispatches received from Admiral Dewey and Gen. Merritt indicated that it was their pur pose to force a surrender of the city as soon as possible. It is believed that they joined in a note to Gen. Augusti, demanding the surrender of Manila, threatening to make a com bined sea and land attack upon the city unless the demand was acceded to. CUBAN IS SHOT. Was Caught Stealing Stores from the Wharves at Santiago de Cuba. Santiago de Cuba, Aug. 15, 4 p. m.— (Delayed in transmission) —The Olivette sailed this afternoon for Montauk Point with between 200 and 300 sick. Miss Wheeler is a passenger. This morning a Cuban was shot by a sentry, who caught him stealing com missary stores at the dock. Yesterday it was discovered enough goods had been stolen to make three cartloads, which had been taken out surreptitiously to the Cu bans in the field. The man under suspi cion returned to the wharf last night, evidently with the intention of continuing his thefts, but he was warned off. Early this morning he was again found there. When the sentry challenged him he ran, refusing to obey the order to halt. As he was likely to escape the sentry fired and killed him. The occurrence is regretted by Gen. Wood and the American officers general ly, but it probably will have a salutary ef fect, as raids on the commissary and the medical and Red Cross stores have been altogether too frequent to be tolerated any longer. The rainy season has now set in, with torrents daily. The troops therefore are moved none too soon, as the physicians are all agreed that the condition' of the men would have been greatly aggravated by the rain, dampness and consequent miasmas. All rejoice at the prospect of peace and an early return home. BANCROFT WILL LEAVE ARMY Brigadier General of Seventh Corps Steps Out of Service. Washington, D. C.. Aug. IG.—Brig.- Gen. Bancroft of the Seventh Army corps at Jacksonville has tendered his resigna tion to the adjutant-general, and requested permission to return to his home in Cam bridge, Mass., to resume his business oc cupation. His resignation has been ac cepted, as there is no longer any need of his services. RAISE SPANISH SHIPS. Two More Wrecking Pontoons will Leave Halifax. Halifax, N. S„ Aug. 16.—The American steam tug Gladiator has arrived to tow two wrecking pontoons from this port to New York and thence to Santiago. These pontoons are said to have been purchased by the United States to be used in an attempt to raise some of the Spanish warships. The tug will sail with the pon toons tomorrow. Gen. Wheeler Summoned. Washington, D. C., Aug. 16.—Gen. Wheeler has been ordered to Washington^ the secretary of war desiring to consult with him on the situation at Santiago. Gen. Wheeler, it is stated, has left the camp at Montauk, and is expected to reach here today. OFFICERS WERE FREE. Therefore the Kaiserin Augusta Did Nothing Improper In Taking Gen. Augusti. Berlin, Aug. 17. —The Nord Deutsche- Allgemeine Zeitung explains that the Kaiserin Augusta, which brought away Gen. Augusti from Manila, left the har bor after the surrender of the city and asserts that the Spanish officers were al lowed to go free, so that Gen. Augusti was able to go whither he pleased. “When Admiral von Diedrichs permit ted him to go to Hong Kong on board the Kaiserin Augusta.” says the Nord Deutsche-Allgemeine Zeitung, it was by agreement with the American command er-in-chief, if indeed, the German ad miral considered such an agreement still necessary. Moreover, it is also to be ob served that the Spanish troops at Ma nila may by mutual consent proceed to Spain or Hong Kong.” London, Aug. 17. —The Times in an editorial article this mornina says: “As the signing of the protocol could not have been known when the Germans ar ranged to remove Gov.-Gen. Augusti, the transaction comes remarkably near a de liberate breach of neutrality. But for the German action, Gen. Augusti would have been a most important prisoner of war. The whole story decidedly wants explanation.” The Pall Mall Gazette comments this afternoon on the “extraordinary action of the Germans in assisting the flight of Gen. Augusti from Manila.” In terms similar to those used by the Times this morning it sharply criticises the proceeding, drawing attention to its sim ilarity to the German action during the British bombardment of Zanzibar when the usurping Sultan sought refuge at the German consulate. The Pall Mall Gazette say's: “This Ma nila incident is uncommonly nigh a flagrant breach of neutrality and is certain to be regarded as an international dis courtesy, if nothing worse.” DASTARDLY ATTACK. Dynamite, with Slow Fuse, Placed at the Window of a Sleep ing Apartment. Chicago, 111., Aug. 17.—An attempt was made last night to take the lives of John Hill, Jr., his wife and two children by exploding a heavy charge of dynamite against Mr. Hill's residence in Belmont, a suburb of this city. None of the family suffered injury, although the frame and sash of the window where the explosive was placed were blown with great force into the bedroom where Mr. Hill was sleeping. The perpetrators placed the missile by means of a pole of sufficient length to reach the second story win dows. On the end of the pole was at tached a stick of dynamite or a bomb. A slow fuse was attached and the explosive was so arranged that it was directly against the frame of the window of the bedroom on the east side of the house, the room usually occupied by Mr. Hill and his wife. The crime is believed to have been in spired by racetrack men, against whom Mr. Hill, as an officer of the Civic fed eration, has conducted a crusade. Mr. Hill is a well-known board of trade ope rator. LAST BIG REVIEW. Not Likely 40,000 American Vol unteer Soldiers will Again be Seen on Parade. Chattanooga Park, Ga., Aug. 17.—The review at Camp Thomas this morning was one of the most striking pageants of years, and one which will long be remem bered by all who had the opportunity of witnessing it. It was especially interest ing on account of the fact that it was the last review of the last big army of the war. Over 40,000 men in their most gor geous array marching in perfect order, with bands playing and colors flying, made the occasion a truly inspiring one. A crowd of nearly 50,000 people were en thusiastic witnesses. THINK THEY HAVE HIM. New York Police Swear Out a Wai— rant for the Murderer of Miss Reynolds. New York, Aug. 17. —The police were so positive that in Dr. Samuel J. Ken nedy, dentist, they have the murderer of Emetine C. Reynolds, who was found dead in a room of the Grand hotel yes terday, that Capt. Price of the West Thirtieth street station made an affidavit in the west side police court today charg ing Kennedy with homicide. He was held without bail for examination on Fri day. C. K. DAVIS ACCEPTS. Minnesota Senator will Serve on Spanish-American Peace Commission. Washington. D. C., Aug. 17.—Senator Cushman K. Davis, chairman of the Sen ate committee on foreign relations, has accepted the tender of an appointment as a member of the Spanish-American peace commission. STATE SENATOR KILLED. H. W. Wall Murdered at Staunton, 111., by Otto Mattias. Staunton. 111.. Aug. 17.—State Senator 11. W. Wall was shot and instantly killed here last evening by Otto Mattias, who escaped after the murder. Senator Wall discovered a horse belonging to August Schadlich in his field and went out to cap ture it and take it home. While he was running after the animal Mrs. Schadlich came out into the field and a quarrel started between the two. The quarrel was of only a few minutes’ duration, when the woman returned hurriedly to the house, where Mattias, who boards with the Schadlichs. was standing. The woman came out of the house with a shotgun, which she handed to Mattias. What she said to him is not known, but he raised the gun to his shoulder and fired, the charge of shot entering the back of Wall's head, producing instant death. Mattias at once left the house and has not yet been captured. The sheriff is on his trail with bloodhounds. Mrs. Schadlich was arrested. Senator Wall had served several terms in the state Senate, and was one of the leading Democrats.©! the state. He was well known among politicians all over Il linois. He was senior member of the banking firm of Wall Panhorst of this city. Get a Cable to Manila. Washington. D. C.. Aug. 17.—The gov ernment has begun an effort, through its diplomatic channels, to re-establish cable communication with Manila. It is be lieved by officials that the efforts will prove successful, although some da vs may elapse before the diplomatic repre sentations have borne fruit. The cable out of Manila is under the control of a British company. The line is understood to be cut near Manila, but Admiral Dewey has buoyed the severed ends, so that a connection can be restored if the British government will now permit the line to be operated. BATTLE COST FIVE LIVES. Small Loss for American Forces with 10,000 Soldiers in Line. WENT WITH A RUSH. The Spaniards Made No Effort to Re ply to Admiral Dewey'* Bombardment. New York, Aug. 17.—A special dispatch from Manila Aug. 13 (via Kong Hong), to the New York Journal, says: Five Ameri can soldiers, were killed and about forty five wounded in the capture of Manila this afternoon. The stars and stripes were raised over the city at 5:40 o’clock in the afternoon. In the bay Admiral Dewey’s fleet thun dered a national salute. The combined naval and land forces were employed in the capture of the Span ish stronghold of the Philippines. At 9 o’clock in the morning the signal to begin tiring was set on Admiral Dewey’s flag ship. The authorities in the city and the con suls of foreign powers had previously been notified of the intended bombardment. For two hours great shells were thrown into the city. After tne bombardment the troops moved forward to attack the Spaniards in the trenches. There had been no reply to Dewey’s bombardment, but the land forces met with a hot reception. But the onward rush of the Americans could not be stayed. With a loss of five killed and over two score wounded, they drove back the Spaniards and captured the trenches. In a short time the white flag was hoisted by the dons and 7000 soldiers, 1200 rifles and a great quantity of ammu nition was surrendered. The Spanish loss has not yet been as certained. It is probably several times as large as that of the American forces. The Spanish forces numbered about 3000 men, but they were well entrenched. Nearly 10,000 Americans were engaged in the assault and tneir loss under the circumstances is considered small. Col orado troops were the first to storm the trenches and every man was a hero. When the white flag went up, Capt.- Gen. Augusti jumped into a launch from the German cruiser Kaiserin Augusta. The cruiser then left with him on board for Hong Kong. The Filipinos are glad that the strug gle is over. The shops are again open, the blockade has been raised and things will soon be just as they were before Admiral Dewey came to destroy Spanish rule here. Augusti Offered to Surrender. New York, Aug. 17.—A dispatch to the World from Hong Kong says: Augusti claims that he offered to surrender him self personally to Admiral Dewey ten days ago. Dewey refused to accept his surrender unless he surrendered the city at the same time. He told Augusti that if he had a good chance to run away he had no objections. Augusti requested the Germans to carry him to Hong Kong. The Philippine junta is delighted with the news, and delegation after delegation is crowding the American consulate tender ing allegiance. MILITARY RULE. Seizure of Manila Does Not Come Under Technical Terms of Protocol. Washington, D. C., Aug. 17.—The gov ernment received the first direct official information today of the surrender of* Manila after a combined land and sea bombardment last Saturday. It came in dispatches from Admiral Dewey, brought from Manila to Hong Kong on the dis patch boat Zarfiro. The admiral sent two dispatches, the first one briefly reciting the essentia) facts. The second dispatch from the admiral had not been deciphered up to noon. They were received early in the day and after the first one baa been translated Acting Secretary Allen carried it over to the white house and laid it before the Presi dent. While it bore out the news already brought by press dispatches, yet it estab lished the addditional point that some 7000 prisoners of war were now held by the American commanders and that no casualties in the navy or damage to ships had occurred. Now that the surrender is officially re- Eorted. it can be stated that Manila is eing held by virtue of the military occu pation and surrender and not by virtue of the protocol. The difference is said to cut no figure in political results, yet such as it is all of the officials agree that the occupation is the result of the combined military and naval operations. Accord ing to Admiral Dewey's dispatch, the sur render occurred about 5 p. in. last Satur day. The peace protocol was signed at 4:23 p. m. on Friday. It is said that the difference in time between Manila and Washington is such that the surrender, reckoning on Washington time, would be about twelve hours ahead of time at Ma nila, or about 5 a. m. Saturday morning. In point of actual time, therefore, the signing of the peace protocol preceded the actual surrender of Manila by a few hours. But it is a well-established rule of military law, accepted the world over, that a peace armistice, or cessation of hostilities, does not become binding upon commanding officers until they receive actual notice of it. This rule is explained in the United States regulations govern ing armies in the field, as follows: Article 139. An armistice is binding upon the belligerents from the day of the agreed commencement: but the officers of the army are responsible from the day only when they receive official notice of its existence. Under this rule. Admiral Dewey and Gen. Merritt would be bound by the armistice only from the time the notice of it reached them at Manila. This could not have occurred on Saturday, prior to the bombardment, as the cable was not work ing and no dispatch boat could have gotten through with the notice before Monday or Tuesday. In short, it is agreed in all offi cial quarters that the forcible taking of Manila was entirely regular and that the city and bay is now held on the basis of this military enforced taking rather than on the basis of the mutual arrange ment between the two countries. This may become material when the question arises as to the future of the Philippines, for it is likely to proceed from the Ameri can standpoint that Manila was taken by force of arms, and is so occupied. There has been no time to consider what will be done with the 7000 Spanish prison ers taken, but the fact that an amicable understanding had been reached with Spain as to the occupation of Manila will probably operate to lightea the condition of these prisoners. Grant Arrives at Ponce. Washington. D. C., Aug. 17.—Late last night Adjt.-Gen. Corbin received a cable gram announcing the arrival at Ponce. Porto Rico, of the transport Alamo, hav ing on board Gen. Fred D. Grant aid staff and a part of the First Kentucky, commanded by Col. Castleman. All told the Alamo had on board about 650 men. Gen. Corbin was also advised this even ing of the arrival at Ponce of the trans port Chester with the First Volunteer en gineers. WHITE FLAGS FLUTTER All is Quiet in the Vicinity of Ponce Except for Some Outrages by Spanish. Ponce, Aug. 15.—Evening.—White flags flutter at the Spanish and American out posts and all is quiet. The first report of outrages by the Spaniards within their lines was brought to the headquarters of Gen. Wilson by a priest, who headed a deputation from Ciales, twenty miles northeast of Utuado. The inhabitants of the place raised an American flag after the Spanish troops had left. The troops returned, tore down the flag and macheted ninety of the in habitants. This occurred Saturday. The priest appealed to the Americans for pro teltion, but the latter are powerless to in terfere in the present circumstances, even though a reign of terror be inaugurated. The Chester, with the first engineers, Col. Griffin, has arrived. Batteries A and C of the Pennsylvania light artillery, the governor’s troop and Sheridan troop disembarked from the Manitoba and are camped on the outskirts of the town. No disposition of these troops has yet been decided upon. The Columbia will sail for New York by way of St. Thomas and Key West. The warships Puritan, Terror. Prairie, Gloucester. Wasp, Leyden and Annapolis will go to Guanica and will remain there until they receive further orders. The harbor there is a good one. FRANCE AS HOST. Will Entertain Spanish-American Peace Commission in Elab orate Style. Paris, Aug. 17.—The Spanish-American peace commission will hold its sittings in the grand salon of the French foreign of fice, where the Behring sea tribunal met. This has been decided on, but the matter will be finally settled at the next cabinet meeting. This room is seen in Carl Gut herz’s historical painting of the tribunal, now hanging in the capitol at Washing ton. The French government means to re d^ive the commission in the usual elabo rate style. The French foreign minister will welcome the commissioners at the opening of the sittings, and President Faure and his ministers will give official dinners to the commissioners during their stay in Paris. CORTES TO MEET. Cannot Change Protocol but May be Able to Negotiate About the Philippines. Madrid, Aug. 17.—10 a. m.—The gov ernment has decided to reject the resigna tions of the governors-general of Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines. The Cortes, it is asserted, will reas semble on September 15. El Tiempo, the organ of Senor Silvela, leader of the Dissident Conservatives, continues its demand for a convocation of the Cortes, alleging that while the Cortes could not change the terms of the proto col, it may be able to influence the course of the negotiations regarding the Philip pine islands. The word “control” in article 3 of the protocol is translated by El Tiempo as signifying intervention similar to Great Britain’s occupation of Egypt. THREATEN TROUBLE. Philippine Insurgents are Mischief Makers—Must Discipline Them. fe^an Francisco,, Cal., Aug_ 17.—Advices from Manila of August 14 (via Hong Kong) say: Our troops met with much resistance in the attack on Manila, eight being killed and thirty-four wounded. The insurgents who are shut out of the city threaten to cause trouble. Malate only was bombarded. All the ships escaped injury. Rear-Admiral Dewey has raised the blockade, the shops have reopened and there is a general feeling of relief among the people of the city. It is stated that after the surrender of Manila Aguinaldo’s followers turned upon the Americans and attacked them, but they were easily defeated after a brief conflict. The United States monitor Monadnock. Capt. Whiting, which left San Francisco about six weeks ago, has reached Manila safely. HEATH IN A FIRE. Inmates of a City Workhouse at Niji-Novgorod Meet a Hor rible Death. St. Petersburg, Aug 17.—There was an other great fire last night at Niji-Nov gorod, about 250 miles northeast of Mos cow. The city workhouse was destroyed, the inmates jumping from the windows, many being killed and many more in jured. Thirteen bodies burned to a crisp have already been found in the ruins, and many of the inmates are still unac counted for. YOUNG PULLMAN MARRIED. Finally Induces a Parson to Make Miss Fernald a Bride. New York. Aug. 17.—After a chase which extended over most of New Jersey and all of the city of New York George M. Pullman, .Jr., son of the late sleeping car magnate, managed to find a parson who would and could marry him to Miss Liune Fernald, daughter of J. W. Fer nald of 4434 Greenwood avenue, Chicago. They’ were married secretly last night by the Rev. J. M. Neifert. at his home, 316 West Sixty-seventh street. Manager Harriman of the Holland house and S. J. Bissell of the New York Sun were the only witnesses of the ceremony. Mr. Bissell is a collegemate and personal friend of Mr. Pullman. After the wed ding Mr. and Mrs. Pullman returned to the Holland house and Mr. Pullmrn proudly added “Mr. and Mrs.’’ to his sig nature on the register. A PROTECTORATE FOR YEARS. Nothing New About British Suzer ainty in Arabia. London. Aug. 17.—High officials at the foreign office declare that the story, based upon a dispatch from Aden. Arabia, to the St. Petersburg Viedomosti to the ef fect that Great Britain has recently as sumed a protectorate over the whole of South Arabia, is nonsensical, as Great Britain has for many yvars exercised a protectorate over the tribes around Aden and tlyte has been no change in the situ ation tor the last two decades. Gen. Pando Wants Rest. Mexico City, Mex., Aug. 17.—Gen. Pando. who has been here, has gone to Vera Cruz and will thence proceed to Havana, expecting to accompany Gen. Blanco to Spain. He said to friends, while here, that both he and Blanco were unalterably’ opposed to making peace and that the war should have been continued. His visit here was merely one for rest and health. TWO MUTHS 11TMMP Typhoid Fever Carries Off Mem bers of the First Wisconsin. JANESVILLE VICTIMS. The Mother of One of the Soldiers was on Her Way to Jacksonville. Jacksonville, Fla., Aug. 17.—[Special.] —Private Albert J. Schwartof Co. A died at 2 o’clock this morning in the division hospital of typhoid malarial fever, after a long illness. He was 21 years of age and his home was at Pierceton, Ind. He enlisted at Janesville last June.”' The dis position of his remains has not been de termined. Private Harry L. Gifford, aged 21, of Co. A, died at 5:30 o’clock last evening of typhoid fever in the divi sion hospital. He was the first man of Co. A to pass away, and his death, fol lowed by that of Schwartz, caused much sorrow. His mother is expected here to day’, having been summoned to nurse her son. of whose death she has not yet learned; His body will be sent to Janes ville. The fever situation is improving. There were forty-three men on rite sick roll this morning, and nineteen men were ex cused from duty. Lieut.-Col. Young and Maj. Evans made a thorough inspection of the quar ters. this morning. There is talk of es tablishing an isolation hospital for the slightly sick men of the regiment to pre vent further infection. Camp Douglas, Wis., Aug. 17.—[Spe cial.] —Maj. B. Bray, an additional pav master of the United States army. De partment of the Lakes, arrived in camp at 5:30 this morning with over $20,003 to be paid to the officers and men of the Fourth regiment. He was met at the depot by a detail of fifty men and es corted to camp. Maj. Cambier brought his batta'ion (the Second) into camp about 5 o’clock yesterday afternoon. The men had marched for ten miles in a cloudburst, but not a man weakened. There is no change in the condition of Private Gram of Co. D. reported ill with typhoid fever a few days ago. Washington, D. C., Aug. 17.—Adjt- Gen. Corbin has prepared a list of the troops to be mustered out and sent it to the President. After lobking over the 1:^ the President changed it. but Adjt.-G;. Corbin will make public the list soon. It will take about ten days in which to mus ter these men out of service. In those which were on the list submitted to Presi dent McKinley was the Fourth Wisconsin Volunteer infantry. CAN INDIANS VOTE? Nearly 200 Winnebagoes to Insist Upon Suffrage Rights. Black River Falls, Wis., Aug. 17. [Special.]—The question as to the legal right of Indian suffrage will be contested in the courts should the authorities deny them the privilege at the coming election. There are somewhere near 200 who will vote in Jackson county if the Davis act is applicable to the Wisconsin Winneba goes. The tribe has disbanded and they all hold land in severalty, though no title will pass for a period of twenty-five years from the granting act. The same ques tion has been settled, according to dis patches from Bismarck, N. D., by the Supreme court in a recent decision de fining the status of the Fort Berthold Indians under the Davis act, the court holding that the Indians are entitled to exercise the rights of suffrage. This ruling was on an appeal taken from the county court, which maintained that tbe law >did not w?onteiupda&xthef, of the Indians until such times as i become owners of their lands. H UN TERSIN COURT. Game Wardens Busy in Ferreting Ont Offenders of the Law. Waukesha, Wis., Aug. 17.—-[Special.] —George T. Anderson and Frank Har land, who were arrested by Deputy Game Warden Meyers on a charge of shooting woodcock out of season, were discharged by Judge Tullar of the municipal court, the evidence not being sufficient for con viction. Eagle River, Wis., Aug. 17.—[Special.] —E. S. Brown, a justice of the peace at Star Lake, who was arrested on Plum lake by Special Deputy Game Warden Bissinger for hunting deer at night, pleaded guilty in Judge Graham’s court and paid a tine of $25 and costs. ACCIDENTALLY SHOT. Johnnie Huskins of Darlington In jured by Rifle Shot. Darlington, Wis., Aug. 17.—[Special.]— Johnnie Haskins, a‘young man about 17 years of age, camping with a party about three miles south of here, accidentally discharged a 22-caliber rifle, the ball en tering his breast near the heart. ball struck a rib and glanced off, pas out again. He is not considered in a se rious condition. Obituary Mention. Evansville, Wis., Aug. 17.— [Special.] Mrs. Angeline Whaley, aged 81 years, died Tuesday’ at the home of her brother. James M. Ballard, in this city, of general debility. The funeral services were held at the house Tuesday afternoon; the re mains were taken to Olean, N. Y., for burial. Sharon, Wis., Aug. 17.—[Special.]—Al. Lonsbury, member of Co. C, Thirteenth Wisconsin regiment, a former resident of this place, died Monday in Minnesota, where he has lived for a number of years. The remains will be brought here for burial. Portage. Wis.. Aug. 17.—[Special.]— Miss Edith Yanko, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Yanko, died last evening. The funeral services will occur Thurs day. Evansville, Wis., Aug. 17.—[Special.]— Mrs. Arthur Johnson of Chicago died Monday in Sioux Falls, S. D.. where she went four weeks ago for her health. Mrs. Johnson, nee Cora Reilly, ahvavs resided in Evansville previous to her marriage. She leaves a husband and three children to mourn her loss. Waldo, Aug. 17.—[Special.]—Fred Ho berg, aged 44, died yesterday after being sick three days with inflammation of the bowels. He leaves a wife and seven chil dren. He held a policy for SIOOO in the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance com pany. Viroqua. Wis., Aug. 17.— [Special.] Surprise and astonishment were mingled with expressions of regret when the ru mor was Circulated yesterday’ morning that George Michaelsohn of the- whole sale establishment of Grossman. Michael sohn Co. of Chicago was found dead in his bed. Mr. Michaelsohn had been conducting a branch business in Viroqua since closing out his business in Denver. Col., fifteen years ago. He was highlv respected in this community and was a man of sterling integrity. Guardsmen Equipped. Ashland, Wis., Aug. 17.—Sixty Spring field rifles were issued to the members of the new military company. The full membership of the company, sixty, was in evidence last night and an enthusias tic drill was had. The new uniforms are expected on every train. MANILA HEMP. Something About Which Every One Should Know a Little More. Every engineer knows what Manila hemp is, but few are aware that it is the product of a species of banana, which, is cultivated in certain localities in the Phil ippine islands. The plant, called by the natives “abaca,” throws up a cluster of leaf stalks to a Height of twenty or thirty feet, which spread out at the top into a crown of huge undivided leaves. When it is three years old it is cut down, and the stalks are torn into strips. These strips, while still fresh, are drawn be tween a knife and a wooden block, and the soft cellulose matter is removed. The fiber is then hung up to dry in the Open air until it is fit for use. Each stalk gives about-ft pound of fiber, and two natives will turn out about twenty five pounds a day. The inside fiber, which is thin and weak, is used by the natives for making articles of dress. The familiar Manila rope is made from the fiber of the outer layer, which is hard and strong. The whole supply of Manila hemp practically comes from the Philippines, and the United States consume 41 per cent, of it. TTast year this country took 417,473 bales out of the 825,020 bales exported, Great Britain coming next with 385,182 bales. The continent of Europe took 22,373 bales. A Greater State Show than Ever. The people of Wisconsin and Upper Michigan are reminded that the Milwau kee Exposition, which promises to be greater and more interesting than ever before, will open in Milwaukee on Septem ber 10, continuing open, daily except Sun day, until October 15. For this exposi tion all railroads will sell excursion tick ets, every Tuesday, Thursday and Satur day, from all points, at one and a third fare for the round trip, tickets to be good for return until the following Monday. More genuine attractions of an instructive and interesting character, have been ar ranged for the Milwaukee exposition of 1898 than ever seen in any former years, and no one can well afford to miss this opportunity of a profitable, cheap visit to the metropolis. Titian. No artist ever had so prosperous a ca reer as Titian. Success attended him from the first, and during his ninety nine years no cloud dimmed the bright ness of his horizon. To the end of that marvelous age he retained all his facul ties, producing masterpieces to the last, and dying finally of the plague, a hale, hearty old man. The princes and poten tates of the earth chose him to leave their image to posterity, and it was the monarch of Austria and Germany, of Spain and the Indies upon whose vest do minions the sun never set, who picked up the brush that he had dropped, saying that a Titian was worthy to be served by an emperor. As a colorist and as an exponent of the wholesome, strong beauty of this world he remains forever without a rival. Some critics abuse him because he has not the religious fervor of Fra Angelico, the di vine purity and elevation of Raphael. But it is well that it is so. He could not have improved upon them in their sphere, while in his own he is the undis puted master, revealing to us the beauty of terrestrial things, particularly the love liness of women, as no one else has done. It is an art that appeals chiefly to the mind and the senses and but little to the soul; but there is nothing morbid about it. It is as healthy as it is beautiful, and only the narrowest minds can blame him because he painted so well the loveliness of the world in which we live.—Sewanee Review. NO WOMAN IS EXEMPT. Regularity is a matter of importance in every woman's life. 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(O’ ^jr. o llPd^ R^Ep 4see~C? xx r p THIS discourse of Dr. Talmage is full of encouragement for those who know not which way to turn be cause of accumulated misfortunes; text, 1 Samuel xiv., 4, “There was a sharp rock on the one side and a sharp rock on the other side.” The cruel army of the Philistines must be taken and scattered. There is just one man accompanied by his body guard to do that thing. Jonathan is the hero of the scone. I know that David cracked the skull of the giant with a few pebbles well slung, and that 300 Gideonites scattered 10,000 Amalekites by the crash of broken crockery, but here is a more wonderful conflict. Yonder are the Philistines on the rocks. Here is Jonathan with his body guard in the valley. On the one side is a rock called Bozez; on the other side is a rock called Seneh. These two were as famous in olden times as in modern times are Plymouth Rock and Gibraltar. They were precipitous, unscalable and sharp. Between these two rocks Jonathan must make his ascent. The day comes for the scaling of the height. Jonathan on his hands and feet begins the ascent. With strain and slip and bruise, I suppose, but still on and up, first goes Jonathan, and then goes his body guard. Bozez on one side, Seneh on the other. After a sharp tug and push and clinging I see the head of Jonathan above the hole in the moun tain, and there is a challenge, and a fight, and a supernatural consternation. These two men, Jonathan and his body guard, drive back and drive down the Philistines over the rocks and open a campaign which demolishes the enemies of Israel. I sup pose that the overhanging and overshad owing rocks on either side did not balk or dishearten Jonathan or his body guard, but only roused and filled them with en thusiasm as they went up. “There was a sharp rock on the one side and a sharp rock on the other side.” Sharp Rocks of Trouble, My friends, you have been or are now, some of you, in this crisis of the text. If a man meets one trouble, he can go through with .it. He gathers all his ener gies, concentrates them on one point and in the strength of God or by his own nat ural determination goes through it. But the man who has trouble to the right of him and trouble to the left of him is to be pitied. Did either trouble come alone, he might endure it, but two troubles, two disasters, two overshadowing misfor tunes, are Bozez and Seneh. God pity him! “There is a sharp rock on the one side and* sharp rock on the other side.” In this crisis of the text is that man whose fortune and health fail him at the same time. Nine-tenths of all our mer chants capsize in business before they come to 45 years of age. There is some collision in commercial circles, and they stop payment. It seems as if every man must put his name on the back of a note before he learns what a fool a man Is who risks all his own property on the prospect that some man will tell the truth. It seems as if a man must have a large amount of unsalable goods on his own shelf before he learns how much easier it is to buy than to sell. It seems as if every man must be completely burned out be fore he learns the importance of always keeping fully insured. It seems as if ev ery man must be wrecked in a financial tempest before he learns to keep things snug in case of a sudden euroclydon. When the calamity does come, it is aw ful. The man goes home in despair, and ho tells his family, “We’ll have to go to the poorhouse.” He takes a dolorous view of everything. It seems as if he never could rise. But a little time passes, and he says: “Why, I am not so badly off after all. I have my family left.” Blessing of a Family.* Before the Lord turned Adam out of Paradise he gave him Eve so that when he lost paradise he could stand it. Permit one who has never read but a few novels in all his life, and who has not a great deal of romance in his composition, to say that if when a man’s fortunes fail he has a good wife —a good Christian wife—he ought not to be despondent. “Oh,” you say, "that only increases the embarrass ment, since you have her also to take care of.” You are an ingrate, for the woman as often supports the man as the man supports the woman. The man may bring all the dollars, but the woman generally brings the courage and the faith in God. Well, this man of whom lam speaking looks around, and he finds his family is left, and he rallies, and the light comes to his eyes, and the smile to his face, and the courage to his heart. In two years he is quite over it. He makes his financial calamity the first chapter in a new era of prosperity. He met that one trouble conquered it. He sat down for a little while under the grirn shadow of the rock Bozen. yet he soon rose and began like Jonathan to climb. But how often is it that physical ailment comes with finan cial embarrassment! When the fortune failed, it broke the man’s spirit. His nerves were shattered. His brain was stunned. I can show you hundreds of men in our cities whose fortune and health failed at the same time. They came pre maturely to the staff. Their hand trem bled with incipient paralysis. They nev er saw a well day since the hour when they called their creditors together for a compromise. If such men are impatient and peculiar and irritable, excuse them. They had two troubles, either one of which they could have met successfully. If when the health went the fortune had been retained, it would not have been so bad. The man could have bought the very best medical advice, and he could have had the very best attendance and long lines of carriages would have stopped at the front door to inquire as to his wel fare. But poverty on the one side and sickness on the other are Bozez and Seneh, and they interlock their shadows and drop them upon the poor man’s way. God help him! “There is a sharp rock on the one side and a sharp rock on the other side.” Sunlight of God’s Favor. Now, what is such a man to do? In the name of Almighty God, I will tell him what to do. Do as Jonathan did —climb; climb up into the sunlight of God’s favor and consolation. I can go through the churches and show you men who lost for tune and health at the same time, and yet who sing all day and dream of heaven all night. If you have any idea that sound digestion and steady nerves and clear eye sight and good hearing and plenty of friends are necessary to make a man hap py, you have miscalculated. I suppose that these overhanging rocks only made Jonathan scramble the harder and the faster to get up and out into the sunlight, and this combined shadow of invalidism and financial embarrassment has often sent a man up the quicker into the sun light of God’s favor and the noonday of his glorious promises. It is a difficult thing for a man to feel his dependence upon God when be has SIO,OOO in the bank, and $50,000 in gov ernment securities, and a block of stores and three ships. “Well,” the man says to himself, “it is silly for me to pray, ‘Give me this day my daily bread,’ when my pantry is full and the canals from the west are crowded with breadstuffs des tined for my storehouses.” Oh, my friends, if the combined misfortunes and disasters of life have made you climb up into the arms of a sympathetic and compassionate God, through all eternity you will bless him that in this world “there was a sharp rock on the one side and a sharp rock on the other side.” Way, of the World. Again, that man is in the crisis of the text who has home troubles and outside persecution at the same time. The world treats a man well just as long as it pays to treat him well. As long as it can man ufacture success out of his bone and brain and muscle it favors him. The world fat tens the horse it wants to drive. But let a man see it his duty to cross the track of the world, then every bush is full of horns and tusks thrust at him. They will be little him. They will caricature him. They will call his generosity self-aggrandize ment and his piety sanctimoniousness. The very worst persecution will sometimes come upon him from those who profess to be Christians. John Milton—great and good John Mil ton —so far forgot himself as to pray in so many words that his enemies might be eternally thrown down into the darkest and deepest gulf of hell, and be the under most and most dejected, and the lowest down vassals of perdition. And Martin Luther so far forgot himself as to say in regard to his theological opponents, “Put them in whatever sauce you please, roast ed or fried or baked or stewed or boiled or hashed, they are nothing but asses'” Ah, my friends, if John Milton or Martin Lu ther could come down to such scurrility, what may you not expect from less ele vated opponents? Now, sometimes the world takes after them, the newspapers take after them, public opinion takes after them, and the unfortunate man is lied about until all the dictionary of Billings gate is exhausted on him. You often see a man/wbratki yifn know to be good and pure and honest, set upon by the world and mauled by whole communities, while vicious men take on a supercilious air in condemnation of him, as though Lord Jeffreys should write an essay on gentle ness or Henry VIII. talk about purity or King Herod take to blessing little chil dren. Persecution Is an Inspiration. Now, a certain amount of persecution rouses a man’s defiance, stirs his blood for magnificent battle and makes him fifty times more a man than he would have been without the persecution. So it was with the great reformer when he said, “I will not be put down; I will be heard.” And so it was with Millard, the preacher, in the time of Louis XI. When Louis XI. sent word to him that unless he stop ped preaching in that style he would throw him into the river, he replied, “Tell the king that I will reach heaven sooner by water than he will reach it by fast horses.” A certain amount of persecution is a tonic and inspiration, but too much of it, and too long continued becomes the rock Bozez throwing a dark shadow over a man’s life. What is he to do then? Go home, you say. Good advice, that. That is just the place for a man to go when the world abuses him. Go home. Blessed be God for our quiet and sympathetic homes! But there is manj' a man who has the reputation of having a home when he has none. Through unthinkingness or precipi tation there are many matches made that ought never to have been made. An offi ciating priest cannot alone unite a couple. The Lord Almighty must proclaim banns. There are many homes in which there is no sympathy and no happiness and no good cheer. The clamor of the battle may not have been heard outside, but God knows, notwithstanding all the playing of the wedding march, and all the odor of the orange blossoms, and the benedic tion of the officiating pastor, there has been no marriage. So sometimes men have awakened to find on one side of them the rock of persecution and on the other side of them the rock of domestic infe licity. What shall such a one do? Do as Jonathan did —climb. Get up the heights of God's consolation, from which you may look down in triumph upon outside perse cution and home trouble. While good and great John Wesley was being silenced by the magistrates and having his name writ ten on the board fences of London in dog gerel, at that very time his wife was making him as miserable as she could acting as though she were possessed by the devil, as I suppose she was, never doing him a kindness until the day she ran away, so that he wrote in his diary these words: “I did not forsake her. I have not dismissed her. I will not recall her.” Planting one foot upon outside per secution and the other foot on home trou ble, John Wesley climbed up into the heights of Christian joy, and after preach ing 40,000 sermons and traveling 270,000 miles reached the heights cf heaven, though in this world he had it hard enough—“a sharp rock on the one side and a sharp rock on the other.” Despairing Women. Again, that woman stands in the crisis of the text who has bereavement and a struggle for a livelihood at the same time. Without mentioning names, I speak from observation. Ah, it is a hard thing for a woman to make an honest living, even when her heart is not troubled, and she has a fair cheek, and the magnetism of an exquisite presence. But now the husband or the father is dead. The expenses of the obsequies have absorbed all that was left in the savings bank, and, wan and wasted with weeping and watching, she Sp e forth—a grave, a hearse, a coffin behind her—to contend for her existence and the existence of her children. When I see such a battle as that open, I shudder at the ghastliness of the spectacle. Men sit with embroidered slippers and write heartless essays about women’s wages, but that question is made up of tears and blood, and there is more blood than tears. Oh, give woman free access to all the realms where she can get a livelihood, from the telegraph office to the pulpit! Let men’s wages be cut down before hers are cut down. Men have iron in their souls and can stand it. Make the way free to her of the broken heart. May God put into my hand the cold, bitter cup of pri vation, and give me nothing but a win dowless hut for shelter for many years rather than that after I am dead there should go out from my home into the piti less world a woman’s arm to fight the Gettysburg, the Austerlitz, the Waterloo of life for bread! And yet how many women there are seated between the rock of bereavement on the one side and the rock of destitution on the other? Bozez and Seneh interlocking their shadows and drooping them upon her miserable way. “There is a sharp rock on the one side and a sharp rock on the other side.” What are such to do? Somehow let them climb up into the heights of the glo rious promise: “Leave thy fatherless chil dren. I will preserve them alive and let thy widows trust in me.” Or get up into the heights of that other glorious promise, “The Lord preserveth the stranger and relieveth the widow and the fatherless.” O ye sewing women on starving wages! O ye widows turned out from the once beautiful home! O ye female teachers kept on niggardly stipend! Oye despair ing women seeking in vain for work, wan dering along the docks and thinking to throw yourselves into the river last night! O ye women of weak nerves, and aching sides, and short breath, and broken heart, you need something more than human sympathy. You need the sympathy of God. Climb up into his arms. He knows it all, and he loves you more than father or mother or husband ever could or ever did, and instead of sitting down, wring ing your hands in despair, you had better begin to climb. There are heights of con solation for you, though now “there is a sharp rock on one side and a sharp rock on the other side.” The Sharpest of All Rocks. Again, that man is in the crisis of the text who has a wasted life on the one side and an unilluminated eternity on the oth er. Though a man may all his life have cultured deliberation and self poise, if he gets into that position all his self-posses sion is gone. There are all the wrong thoughts of his existence, all the wrong deeds, all the wrong words —strata above strata, granitic, ponderous, overshadow ing. That rock I call Bozez. On the oth er side are all the retributions of the fu ture, the thrones of judgment, the eternal ages, angry with his long defiance. That rock I call Seneh. Between these two rocks 10,000 times 10,000 have perished. O man immortal, man redeemed, man blood bought, climb up out of those shad ows! Climb up by the way of the cross. Have your wasted life forgiven. Have your eternal life secured. This hour just take one look to the past and see what it has been, and take one look to the future and see what it threatens to be. You can afford to lose your health, you can afford to lose your property, you can afford tfe lose your reputation, but you cannot af ford to lose your soul. That bright, gleam ing, glorious, precious, eternal possession you must carry aloft in the day when the earth burns up and the heavens burst. You see from my subject that when a man gets into the safety and peace of the gospel he does not demean himself. Thore is nothing in religion that leads to mean ness or unmanliness. The gospel of Jesus Christ only asks you to climb as Jonathan did —climb toward God, climb toward heaven, climb into the sunshine of God’s favor. To become a Christian is not to go meanly down. It is to come gloriously up—up into the communion of saints, up into the peace that passeth all understand ing, up into the companionship of angels. He lives upward; he does upward. Oh, then accept the wholesale invita tion which I make this day to all the peo ple! Come up from between your invalid ism and financial embarrassments. Come up from between your bereavements and your destitution. Come up from between a wasted life and an unillumined eternity. Like Jonathan, climb up with all your might instead of sitting down to wring your hands in the shadow and in the dark ness—“a sharp rock on the one side and a sharp rock on the other side.” Copyright, 1898. Short Sermons. Incentives.—ls the Christian religion deals with genuine incentives to love and duty, its power to sway the lives of men will increase as the “abundance of life” in humanity shal slowly increase. —Rev. D. S. Jordan, Unitarian, Palo Alto, Cal. Life's Emotions.—The deep emotions of life are the ripe, full experiences of self-denying service. They are the fruits of obedience, the rich measure of reward for service well performed.— Rev. D. F. Bradley, Congregationalist, Grand Rapids, Mich. Science and Nature.—Science is essen tially a Christian product, and as such has contributed to the fulfillment of the idea of manhood by giving to man in creasing domination over the forces of nature. —Rev. A. V. G. Allen, Episco palian, Cambridge, Mass. A Fact of Life.—Religion as a funda mental fact of life, as elemental in hu manity, Is in evidence to-day as never before. This is a magnificent demon stration at the close of the nineteenth century. There is an immensely aug mented vigor, variety and fruitfulness of spiritual life, most Impressive where there is most enlightenment.—Rev. Henry Hopkins, Congregationalist, Kansas City, Mo. Our Spiritual Dock Yards.—One pe culiarity about our spiritual dock yards is found in the fact that they are filled with ships, ready built, but not yet launched so that they can go. If you are a Christian it is for some purpose. You are to move, to go. Oil up the ways, knock out the props, launch out from this hour to make your church a greater instrument of righteousness than she has ever been before.—Rev. J. Shane Nichols, Presbyterian, Pittsburg, Pa. SOLDIERS’ STORIES. entertaining reminicences OF THE WAR. Graphic Account of Stirring Scenes Witnessed on the Battlefield and in Camp-Veterans of the Rebellion Re cite Experiences of Thrilling; Nature. The Fun of Foraging. Interest a veteran in the story of foraging expeditions made during his service In the army and he will talk much more readily than about the more serious affairs of hardship and danger through which he passed. It was fre quently inevitable that either party to the civil war must subsist upon the lo cality in which it found itself, and 'When this necessity did exist there was an irrepressible desire to supplement the meager bill of fare provided through the commlsary department. When Gen. Payne, commanding a brig ade in the Army of the Cumberland, was approached by a very angry wom an of the neighborhood who had lost her entire stock of poultry, he express ed regret, admitted his inability to pre vent foraging, and then added In a voice thrilling with patriotism: “The fact is, madam, we are going to push this war to a successful issue if it takes every d—d chicken in Tennessee.” This sentiment was widely prevalent In the army, though it was seldom so openly admitted by the officers, for they were expected, so far as consistent with the welfare of the Government, to protect the rights of private property. How far private soldiers go was illus trated In Washington when two men from a light infantry regiment recruit ed in Maine conceived and carried out the brilliant plan of foraging on the President’s rations at the White House. They stole into the big kitchen, “bow ing to a tall, fatherly looking man” on the way, laid out a generous supply of the provisions that best pleased them, and then one of them sought to relieve his conscience in a stern address to the cook: “Now, look here; we’ve sworn to support the Government. For three days we’ve done it on salt junk. Now that you've consented to let us have this stuff, it will help things along won derful.” The cook had done nothing of the kind and was about to raise an alarm when the “tall man” appeared in the doorway, laughing heartily while directing that the boys be given what they wanted, and it was the President, who at once saw to it that there was a better supply of provisions in the camp. Toward the close of the war, when the Confederates were hard pushed, not alone In the field, but for enough to eat, a big mountaineer from North Car olina became so desperate in his hun ger that he determined to forage even if he had to force some of his own com rades to make a division of grub with him. Stealing about the camp late at night, he came upon two coatless and hatless men, one of them busily engag ed in picking a goose. “Where did you get that goose?” roared the mountain eer as he dropped the barrel of his rifle significantly across his left arm. “Secured it in the neighborhood,” re plied the man who was making the feathers fly. His voice was low and pleasant, he had a kindly face and the man with the gun chuckled inwardly as he decided that he was dealing with a chaplain whom he thought it wvuld be easy to bluff. “I thought so,” in the same angry voice he had adopted in the outset. “That’s my goose, the last livin’ thing you thievin’ critters had left me. I want him now and I want him quick, or I’ll reckon there'll be the devil to pay 'round here. I haven't had a thing to eat for a year.” “For a year?” “Well, that may be drawin’ it a little strong, but there’s canary birds that get more to eat than I do, and I must have that goose.” “All right, my friend, if it belongs to you, if you have been starving for a year, and as you present your claim In so modest a manner, take it.” Then the big mountaineer hurried to his favorite messmate, and while the fowl was being prepared the two sharp ened their appetites by hilarity over the way in which the chaplain had been bluffed. The next day the man of gen tle manners and tone rode up beside the bluffer as he marched in the ranks, asked how he had enjoyed the goose and put some other social questions to which the mountaineer returned pert answers. As the “chaplain” was about to ride away he straightened up on his magnificent horse, the quizzical look on his face quickened into a command and he said: "I hope, my friend, you are as good a fighter as you are a forager.” “Good heavens'.” gasped the com rade who had helped devour the plun der, “is that the man you bluffed out of the goose?” “Yep. Purty durned good-lookin’ par son, hain’t he?” “Parson be d —d. That's Gen. Lee, commander-in-chief.” An Indiana regiment was fiercely at tacked by a whole brigade in one of the battles of Mississippi, and was deeply chagrined in falling back to find that its flag remained in the hands of the enemy. Suddenly a tall private sprang from the ranks, rushed through the bullet-swept space to the advancing toe, cleared a path with his clubbed rifle, snatched the colors and returned in safety to his regiment. He was at once surrounded by jubilant comrades and his captain made him a sergeant on the spot. But the big Hoosier cut everything short by saying: “Never mind. cap. It ain’t worth no fireworks. I dropped ray whisky flask over there and while I was foraging for it I thought I might jest as well bring the flag back with me.” In the advance upon Winchester In '62, Gen. Abercrombie, commanding the First brigade, having Cochran’s fa mous battery with it, strictly forbade all foraging. The next morning after they camped near Berryville the gen eral rode through the battery, and by the tent of the captain discovered the quarters of a fine young beef. Aber crombie’s face was black as he shouted to Sergt. Davis: “Where the devil did you get that beef? I gave the commissary no orders to issue fresh beef here.” Davis removed his hat and saluted, looking like truth embodied in the flesh as he related how the night before he had heard a great commotion in the camp of the Twelfth Massachusetts, how he had seen a steer coming thence, pursued by 100 men, how the frighten ed brute cleared the stone wall and a 30-foot road in a single leap, how its head struck a tree and how, in its terri fied state, it dropped its quarters while its head, horns, hide and legs kept right on running. It was very tender beef, and would the general enjoy a fine sir loin roast for his dinner? “How long have you served, young man?” with an irrepressible twitching about the mouth. “Six months, general.” “Well, sir, you have become a vet eran in half a year. I know it by the truth with which you make a report to a superior officer. If you were a green soldier I would order you under arrest. As it is I shall recommend you for pro motion,” and when his horse sprang away in response to the spurs the stern disciplinarian was shaking with laugh ter. At Annapolis Junction one of the soldiers on guard at some distance from the main body shot a pig. While the game was being eaten his transgres sion was discovered and the offender halted before some of the officers. He frankly admitted that he had bagged the pork, but solemnly asserted that it was in obedience to orders. “What do you mean?” demanded the senior officer. “I ordered that pig to halt, sir, but he kept right on. I gave him another chance by commanding him to advance and give the countersign, but he disre garded this, and then I realized that I must shoot.” The dignity of the court could not be maintained, and the soldier paid the penalty by hunting up the owner and paying him for the pig. At Falmouth, before the battle of Fredericksburg, Gen. Burnside ordered several hundred barrels of commissary whisky sent down from Washington to Aquia creek. A lieutenant of the Twenty-ninth New York, who was act ing as brigadier commissary in Getty’s division, sent frequently to the creek for a supply of the wet goods, but every barrel shipped was in some way appropriated by foragers. In this emergency he went personally to the creek, secured a barrel of the article, had it stood on end in a car, took his seat on the head and vowed that he would land it safely at Falmouth. Ar riving there he sprang triumphantly to the floor and gave the barrel a vigor ous pull, only to land hard against the side of the car. While the train had stopped at Potomac creek some one had bored through from below and drained the barrel. An Honor Medal. “The Secretary of War granted a medal of honor some time ago to a Federal soldier on the affidavit of a Confederate,” said Charles I. Evans, of Texas, “and it is probably the first in stance on record of this kind. The Fed eral soldier who received the medal was Thomas I. Higgins, now of Hanni bal, Mo. During the war he was the color-bearer of the Ninety-ninth Illi nois Regiment, and was holding that position at the siege of Vicksburg. In an assault, on the 22d of May, 18G3, the Ninety-ninth Illinois was ordered to charge and not to look back. I was a member of the Second Texas Regi ment, and we confronted the charging Illinoisans. We repulsed the Illinois regiment a short distance from the breastworks, and sent it back in confu sion. Higgins, however, was literally obeying orders. He never looked back. He never noticed the retreat of his reg iment, but came bounding forward, his colors flying as prettily as a soldier ever saw. When within forty yards of our works word was passed along the line not to shoot the brave soldier ,and all firing ceased. When Higgins saw his predicament he started to retreat with his colors, but we told him to come on or we would have to shoot him. Sev eral men ran out and brought him with in the breastworks. We kept him sev eral days, during which time we learn ed to like and admire him. He was then paroled. I was one of the men who witnessed his heroic deed, and made an affidavit to that effect. Several of my companions who remembered Higgins and his charge also made affidavits. On these the Secretary of War granted a medal. Higgins could have been vouched for by members of his own regiment, but the novelty of the recom mendation by his former foes led to that course.” —Washington Star. The One Chinaman in the Union Army The enlistment of a Chinaman in the volunteer army in California recently recalls the fact that there was but one Celestial in the war of the rebellion. His Chinese name is unknown, but the name under which he enlisted was Thomas Sylvanus. He was born in Baltimore about eighteen years before the outbreak of the war. When only a child he was taken to Pittsburg, where he acted as a servant for a wealthy family in that city. When the war broke out Thomas ran away and en listed in the army. He served Uncle Sam until the close of the war, shortly after which he turned up in Indiana, Pa., where he resided until his death, which occurred a few years ago. A hundred and twelve years ago France established a royal ordinance regulating the form of pocket handker chiefs in these words: “The length of the handkerchiefs made in this realm must equal their width.” Fashion, which ordinarily spares nothing, has re spected this regulation and handker chiefs are always square. Benefits of Organization. Investigations made by the United States Commissioner of Labor, and which will be made the subject of a spe cial report shortly, show that wages are higher by something like 20 per cent, on an average in places where labor is well organized than in places where organi zation is weak. There are a number of lessons that may legitimately be drawn from this fact, and It would make an appropriate text for a number of labor sermons. One obvious lesson is that organization is of tremendous advan tage to labor, and along with this les son and part of it is the other that la bor organization is of immense value to the whole community and to the na tion as a nation. For it will not be dis puted by men who are able to do any real thinking that there could not well be anything of greater advantage to a nation than the standard of living and comfort, and consequent intelligence, among its people should be high. An other lesson which those who employ labor in productive enterprises can learn with advantage is that the organi zation of labor Is of immense advan tage to them, for It tends to maintain at a high standard the purchasing pow er of the people, among whom they must look for purchasers of their goods. Still another lesson which is to be learned from this fact will be more evi dent if stated thus: Wages are lower where labor is not organized than where it is. Here is an effect, and stat ing the effect suggests the cause. Wages are not only lower where there is no organization, but are lower be cause of the absence of organization. Examining this last lesson more closely another suggests itself. Not only does the lack of organization curse the unor ganized with low wages, but it forces the wages of the organized to remain on a lower level than they would be but for the unfair competition of those who lack the intelligence or moral stamina to organize. France’s Liability Act. The most drastic employers’ liability act ever enacted went into effect in France Aug. 20 and imposes upon the employer the payment of an indemnity to workmen who are accidentally dis abled if they are idle as a consequence for over four days. Under the act if a workman is disabled for life the em ployer must pay him a pension of two thirds of the wages lost; in case of par tial disablement the employer must pay two-thirds of the wages the work man thereby loses; in case of death by accident the employer must pay a pen sion to the workman’s widow amount ing to 20 per cent, of the wages be earned, in addition to 15 per cent, for a single child, rising to 40 per cent, for four children, until they reach the age of 18 years. In the ease of orphans the pension to be paid by the employer is 20 per cent, of the wages formerly earned by the workman for each child, up to a total of 60 per cent. In the case of bachelors supporting their parents, under the law the pension goes to the parents. In order to secure these pay ments, even in the event of the employ ers’ insolvency, the bill compels em ployers to insure their workmen against accidents. United Garment Workers. The seventh annual convention of the National Garment Workers' Union met in session at Cincinnati recently. Del egates from the principal cities and towns in the United States and Canada were in attendance. The Garment Workers’ National Union, although one of the youngest, is at the same time one of the strongest and most progressive of American trades unions, the aggre gate membership at present being almut 20,000, and constantly growing. The organization was founded in New York City in 1890, and for the first few years of its existence the membership was mainly confined to the Eastern States. Gradually it spread the field of its usefulness through the beneficial features of the organization, until at present: it numbers 156 local bodies in as many cities and towns throughout the country. Big Plant Starts. The immense manufacturing plant of the Oil Well Supply Company, of Pitts burg, Pa., known as the Franklin mills, covering about seven acres of ground, has started In its rolling mill depart ment, nearly 1,500 men being employed. As soon as this department is under full way the pipe mill and several other departments will be started, giving work to 700 or 1,000 additional men. The entire plant has been fitted up for electric lighting, so that work can be carried on as successfully and conve niently by night as by day. Carpenter'* Strike Settled. The carpenters' strike at Kansas City has been settled, a compromise having been effected between the union and the packing houses on a basis of 27% cents an hour and ten hours a day. The agreement entered Into is the rec ognition of union men and the eight hour day to be established as soon as I>ossible. The boycott on the Swift Packing Company by the Trades As sembly, at the request of the carpen ters, has been raised. Will Not Withdraw, The referendum vote of the Interna tional Typographical Union on the proposition to withdraw from affilia tion with the American Federation of Labor was defeated by a majority of 3,422. Nickel, which has of late become a very Important metal, is practically supplied by two countries only—New Caledonia and Canada.

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H IFQ^FN 181 Martin Street, Van Buren Streets, MILWAUKEE. WIS. Latest in Chinaware. Table Linen and Best Quality Silverware to Ix>an for Parties, Sociables and Weddings. —Deaths in the state: Antone Freder ick of Sturgeon Bay: Edgar Delon, aged 42, at Green Bay; Alfred Coole, aged 62, at Heart Prairie. WIEUW OUT (Continued from the First Page.) the nomination of Mr. Stone, on behalf of a large part of the Milwaukee delegation. A delegate from Mr. Tucker’s Assembly district followed, seconding the nomination of Mr. Stone. After one or two more short seconding sjieeches, the convention came to a vote. It was by districts as follows: Districts. Stone. Tucker. First 100. 7 Second 59 37 Third 33 73 Fourth 57 42 Fifth 64 43 Sixth 96 7 Seventh 96 oo Eighth 86 18 Ninth 103 20 Tenth 62 51 Total 756 298 The nomination of a secretary of state was the next order of business and H. K. Butterfield took the platform to nom inate W. H. Froehlich of Jackson, Wash ington county. He made a splendid speech, beginning with a story of an old man who said to him as he was taking the train for Milwaukee: “I have known him from boyhood and the convention cannot do better than nominate William H. Froehlich.” He spoke of Mr. Froeh lich’s worth as a man. of his loyalty to the Republican party and of his experience in state affairs, ending with a review of his career in the Legislature and an appeal to the convention to put him upon the ticket. S. D. Hubbard of Mondovi presented the name of Walter L. Houser, laying stress upon the necessity for giving the Seventh district representation on the ticket. This was not considered a disqualifica tion in the Republican convention. Mr. Butterfield created a laugh at the close by using unwittingly the lawyers’ phrase, “Gentlemen of the jury” instead of “Gen tlemen of the convention,” but he carried it out and asked for a favorable verdict. Mr. Hubbard spoke of Mr. Houser's rec ord and his ability and told how once a Democratic legislator had called upon him to straighten it out when it had got its records hopelessly mixed, and kept him to the end of the season to keep it straight. He had a fitting education, he said, for this position of book-keeper for the state. Peter Weber, who introduced himself as “a farmer from the Second district,” sec onded the nomination of Mr. Froehlich on behalf of the Dodge county delegation. Charles Barker of Milwaukee also second ed Mr. Froehlich's nomination. This, under the rules adopted earlier in the session, exhausted the speeches, for Mr. Froehlich. H. S. Comstock of Buffalo and Ernest Warner of Dane seconded the nomination of Mr. Houser, and the limit for both sides having been reached, the convention proceeded to a ballot, which re sulted as follows: District. Froehlich. Houser. First 21 91 Second 44 52 Third 34 72 Fourth 82 18 Fifth 104 3 Sixth 66 38 Seventh 39 57 Eighth 30 9-14 73 5-14 Ninth 82 40 Tenth 48 65 The state treasurership was next in or der and there was a stir in the conven tion. because of the belief that it would be the hottest contest after that over the head of the ticket. Ogden H. Fethers of Janesville responded to the roil call, to present the name of Charles M. Ham bright of Racine. Mr. Fethers said that the convention should know something about its nominees and it was best to be gin with the stock from which they came. Mr. Hambright’s pa rents came from Hol land, he said, and the candidate himself was a native of Wisconsin. He spoke of Mr. Hambright’s record as a. soldier, a business man and a statesman. He sug gested that on this semi-centennial year of the state it would be a good thing to put a Wisconsin boy on the ticket. There was no doubt, he said, that he would win if nominated, because he had long ago shown his ability in that direc tion. He thought that every considera tion demanded the nomination of Mr. Hambright. A. H. Long of Prairie du Chien, who placed Mr. La Follette’s name in nomina tion last night, came forward to nominate J. O. Davidson of Soldiers’ Grove. He made a plea for his candidate on the ground that he fitted the platform adopted last night, and be allowed his feeling over Mr. La Follette’s defeat to show, by intimating that Mr. Davidson would be the only man that fitted. He devoted considerable time to geographical considerations, warning the convention against getting its candidates all from the east side of the state, and then spoke of the necessity of giving the Scandina vians representation. Dr. Dale of Waupaca county nomi nated A. G. Nelson of Waupaca, begin ning with a promise that whoever the nominee might ue ms county would give him hearty support. He pointed to the fact that Waupaca county had never re ceived any reward for always rolling up a Republican majority, and paid a tribute to Mr. Nelson’s record as a Republican. He thought the time had come when hie county should have recognition, and it and its candidate deserved the nomina tion. Dr. Trevitt of Wausau, nominating Al fred Cypreansen of Eau Claire, predicted success for the Republican nominees. He dwelt upon the wisdom of giving the western part of the state representation on the ticket. His candidate’s nomina tion would reflect credit upon the party and his election would be an honor to the state. Senator D. W. Wood worth of Ells worth made a brief speech nominating J. B. Jensen of Pierce county, another Scandinavian. Dr. Woodworth made an earnest plea for Mr. Jensen, and his speech ended the nominations. C. J. Smith of Viroqua seconded the nomina tion of J. O. Davidson and Charles Bar ber of this eity did a like service for Mr. Cypreansen. T. W. Spence, also of Milwaukee, seconded the nomination of C. M. Hambright and Mr. Comstock of the Seventh district again seconded Mr. Davidson’s nomination. Roy P. Wilcox of Eau Claire made a short but vigorous speech seconding the nomination of Mr. Cypreansen. W. E. Plumer of Pepin county seconded the nomination of Mr. Jensen and T. J. McGrath of Green Bay spoke on behalf of Mr. Nelson. Before a vote was taken an attempt was made to take a recess until 2 o’clock, but it failed. Judge Meade moved to take an in formal ballot, but it was defeated, and the convention proceeded to a formal bal lot. There were 1061 votes cast, making 532 necessary for a choice and Mr. Da vidson received 532*4, the vote being as follows: Ham- David- Cypreau-Jen- District. bright, son. Nelson. sen. sen. First 98 12 0 O 0 Second 9 86 0 0 1 Third O 106 0 0 0 Fourth 2 66 18 7 7 Fifth 4 77 6 10 4 Sixth 12 41 39 18 4 Seventh 1 28 7 25 25 Eighth 1 4(4 10014 0 0 Ninth 3 42 34 42 1 Tenth 1 60 3 18 31 131 532% 207% 117 ~73 Judge Mead moved to make Mr. David son’s nomination unanimous and the mo tion was numerously seconded. The mo tion was carried without a dissenting voice. The convention then took a re cess until 2:30 o’clock. The convention reconvened at 2:45 o’clock and Gen. Griffin at once called for nominating speeches for attorney general. Gen. Winkler of Milwaukee, standing on a chair in the middle of the Fourth district delegation, nominated John L. Erdal). He spoke very briefly. J. H. Foster of Winnebago county, for many years deputy railroad commis sioner, nominated E. R. Hicks of Osh kosh. Seconding speeches were made by W. W. Pollock of Lancaster for Mr. Hicks; C. C. Rogers of Milwaukee for Mr. Er dall. whose nomination was also second ed by G. E. Vandercook. assistant secre tary of state; G. L. Williams of Grand Rapids seconded the nomination of Mr. Hicks, which exhausted the seconding speeches. Mr. Hicks was nominated on the first ballot by a vote of 621 to 436. J. L. Sherin of Green county nomi nated L. E. Gettle for superintendent of public instruction. C. C. Rogers of Mil waukee nominated W. E. Anderson, and Senator Dennett named L. D. Harvey, president of the Milwaukee normal school, each speaking very briefly. A. H. Re«d of Lincoln county nominated John S. Roesseler of Sauk county. The seconding speeches gave the peda gogical element an opening, which was made the most of. Mr. Sprague of Wal worth and A. E. Bucknieister of Kenosha seconded the nomination of Prof. Har vey. n the ballot Prof. Harvey re ceived 792 votes; Prof. Gettle, 190; Mr. Anderson. 34. and Mr. Roesseler. 45. The railroad commissioner was next on the list. James E. Deganno of Wone woc nominated H. P. Burdick of Osceola Mills. Morris McKenna of Fond du Lac announced that Col. Hoyt A. Winslow had withdrawn from the contest. Solon L. Perrin of West Superior nominated Gra ham L. Rice of Superior, ami while he was talking the Superior people hung a big map on the wall, showing how the candidates were distributed over the state. Col. L. J. Rusk of Chippewa Falls nominated Frank M. Buzzell of Chippe wa. It was announced that John W. Gaines of Dodge county had withdrawn^ Senator Roehr of Milwaukee seconded Mr. Buzzell’s nomination. Mr. Rice’s nomination was seconded by a Seventh district man and W. C. Donovan of Eau Claire took the platform to second Mr. Buzzell’s nomination, which he did in a vigorous speech. Wheu Mr. Burdick’s name had been twice seconded, a ballot was taken, which resulted in 617 votes for Mr. Rice. 172 for Mr. Burdick. 259 for Mr. P.uzzell and 14 for Walter L. Houser. J. T. Nedderson of Milwaukee nominat ed Emil Giljohann for insurance commis sioner. Morris McKenna of Fond du Lac nomi nated A. J. Morse of Ripon. Attorney- General Mylrcn placed Dr. W. A. Fricke of Milwaukee in nomination. Mr. Giljohann was nominated. Judge Mead moved to invite the govern or and the other nominees to come before the convention, and Chairman Griffin ap pointed_ C. R. Barney of Juneau county. T. L. Newton of Dodge county and W. R. Born of Bayfield county, a committee to bring the gentlemen to the hall. The Chairman's Speech. Gen. Griffin said: Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Conven tion: The honor of being selected as your t were not in sympathy with their presid ing officer. (Applause.) And I have no fear here, fellow Republicans, but that you will give me your co-operation, and if you do. I will en deavor to do my duty with this work. 1 shall en deavor to treat every representative and every delegate with equal fairness. If there be any gathering within this state that ought to tie treated witli proper consideration it is the mem bers of a Republican convention where speech is free and they have a free exercise of their own thought aud action. Republican gatherings this year, wherever they may. be within the territory of which that flag is the emblem meet under auspicious circum stances. (Applause.) And this maguifleent as sembly. approaching nearer that of a pure dem ocracy of any convention that I have ever faced or witnessed or been present at in the state of Wisconsin, gives the good people of this state the assurance that whatever the result of this convention may be in its action today, or even to morrow. if it shall continue this session so long, will be ratified at the polls by the people of the state of Wisconsiu. (Applause.) We are all Republicans, and we are going to remain Republicans. (Applause.) When every gentleman in this assemblage shall have the right to express himself by voice and by vote as he believes the sentiment of this convention ought to turn, then he will have accomplished his duty, and whatever may be the eventuality of that action will receive. I am satisfied, and I asuie you it will be true, the united support of the Republicans of the state of Wisconsin. We are here, gentlemen, for the good of the Republican party. We are here for the good of the people of the state of Wisconsin. Our In fluence is not alone confined to the domain of this great commonwealth, lint our example would have a beneficial influence throughout every state of this union, not excluding our newly-acquired insular i>ossessions. Under ordinary circumstances, our thoughts might be permitted to rest with our state af fairs. but the last seventeen or eighteen months have made history for this country, such as no equal limit of time in the past has produced. We have, fellow Republicans, become a nation, uot only a natlou among the nations of the earth, but we have become one of the great na tions of the earth. (Applause.) We have dem onstrated by our ability, by our resources in every direction, that something exists in the Western hemisphere which those of the Eastern hemisphere has never before appreciated. We have at the head of this nation a patriot and statesman. (Applause.) To him much of the grand accomplishment which we have wit nessed, enjoyed and experienced since the 4th of March, 1887, is due. He has been a wise chief executive. Notwithstanding the momentous labors that have come to him as his duty to perform and discharge, he has not in a single instance—and I speak as a close observer of the chief executive of this nation—he has not In one single Instance or for one moment faltered or failed to do his full duty to the American people. (Great applause.) Not only this, gentlemen of the convention, but I am proud to say that he is a Republican. (Ap plause.) Without casting any reflections up >n the Democratic party. I say to you that it was well that in this trying emergency and during this time of intense feeling aud excitement on the part of the American people, we had our pa triot arid our Republican William McKinley in the executive chair of the nation. (Applause.) At the outset of the great struggle which l>e came of interest to us as our duty to engage in. between this country and Spain, the overzealous papers of this country—and their overzealmsness was due to the fact that they were not informed as to the conditions which prevailed even within the limits of the United States, were exceedingly anxious to rush into prominence, to rush into the forefront of battle without due consideration or preparation. At the time it became evident that war must be declared between this country and Spain, and I feel that I cannot emphasize the cool judgment and wisdom and the firm policy of the President too much in this regard—when it became known that war was inevitable in order to maintain the honor of this country. 1 say those who were anxious that war with Spain should be inaugurated and that Spain as a ca tion should be snuffed out at.once, little realized that we were in a less advantageous position for engaging in that war than was Spain itself. I apprehend that when subsequent evidence devel oped to the people of this country the fact that all the time that was taken, all the delays that were proposed and all the hesitation that was apparent on the surface, was a diplomatic play for time to put our navies and our army in prop er condition to meet the foe. (Applause.) However much President McKinley may have seemed to be dilatory, I approve of his dilatory conduct. (Applause.) To that is due the mag nificent victories which we subsequently ac quired and secured. What a calamity it would have been to this countrj- to have entered into that war without sufficient preparation to take care of everything that came along and secure an unbroken series of victories as the result has shown. To President McKinley and his advisers we owe the fact that In every instance victory has crowned our banner whether upon sea or upon land. My friend, as Republicans, this j s as essential that the great policy inaugurated by President McKinley shall be carried to a suc cessful conclusion as it is that he should bare The Afternoon Session. Tribute to McKinley. entered upon this war for the maintenance of the honor of this countty. And when election time conies this year n Xoremher 1 trust that every Republican not only in this convention, or in this state but every Republican throughout the United States and I will not limit it to Republieans-every other natrfot every man who desires to see the results f this’ war such as they ought to be under Re nubliean policies will spring into line and sup hort the advisers of President McKinley and his administration. (Applause.) To do this you have a charge and an important one. to discharge. Everv nominee for Congress on the Republican ticket is as absolutely essential to be elected this fall in order that thia policy may be carried out as it is that we should have President Mc- Kinley In the ehair as chief executive. Must Have Congress. Without Congress and without the Senate, and without the House in harmony with his policy no man can foretell what doom may yet await the American people. We want unity of action, unity of support in the administration. We want a Republican majority in the House of Repre sentatives for the Fifty-sixth Congress, or 1 as sure vou that the present Congress cannot pos sibly in three months’ time, which is the limit of the short session, cannot possibly take care of the great questions that shall result from the war which has recently been brought to a glori ous peace. These conditions of legislation will be fully as important as was the carrying on the war to a successful conclusion. Now, my friends, if there is anything that you feel to be of greater import than any other, I admonish you that it ought to be the election of ten Republicans, members of Congress to the House of Representatives at the election in No vember. Oftentimes it happens that a district being so large the member of Congress is for gotten in the large list of officers—it being gen erally supposed that they will take care of them selves. But I tell you today that that is one of the essential questions for you to act upon and act upon rightly at the election in Novem ber. I have but little criticism to make of the rank and tile of the Democratic party in the country. I think they have with but few exceptions been strong supporters of the admin istration in its war policy. But I say to you, my friends, from experience, that in the House of Representatives and in the Senate of the United States the leaders of that party are not in har mony with Republican policies or Republican measures, not only affecting the war but as to those questions which grow out of it. Hence the imperativeness of a proper discharge of the duties to which I call your attention. We have a gLnous country. We are proud of our coun try. We are proud of what she has accom plished in the last few months. We are proud of the station that we have secured for our country among the nations of the earth, and Wisconsin shares in this glory. (Applause.) No matter how much other states have been criti cised because they were too dilatory in sending forward their quota of troops, not a breath was wafted on the air to the seat of government from Wisconsin. Wisconsin responded promptly, efficiently and effectually. Her officers were not asleep or dilatory in the performance of their duty. (Applause.) Anu her sons, the flower of the state, have gone forth to preserve with their comrades of the other states the honor of our flag. They have won laurels in Porto Rico of recent date. It is one of the proud boasts of this nation. It Is something that every Ameri can ought to be more than proud of ‘to think that in the short space which has elapsed since the necessity of war became apparent, this coun try has been able to call into service and equip to fight battles 200.000 volunteers and increased the regular army from 26,610 to 61,000. Not only that, but while doing so they have con quered one of the nations of the earth and obliged it to sue for peace. (Applause.) This under a Republican administration. I am not here to say that under a Democratic administra tion we would not have done likewise, but I do say ami contend that there is not the same har mony in the Democratic party with reference to the eventualities of this war that there is in the Republican party. Hence I say all these questions ought to be settled by a Republican ad ministration and by a Republican Senate and House. (Applause.) The most dangerous cry that the Democratic party could raise against the Republican policy is found in their charge that we are tending to imperialism. My, what an awful, forbidding word or expression that is! Imperialism! Because a war begun for the sake of humanity has placed us in the position where good faith obliges us to extend the protection of our flag over some of our Insular acquirements and take others in under our wing and annex them. Why, my friends, it would seem that this country had never progressed or advanced one step in the way of acquiring territory from the time its independence was declared, and the orig inal thirteen colonies became states. And yet when you look at our country, that they have engaged in imperialism from a few years after they became a union. We began in 1803, and we have never ceased to add territory to tly original thirteen. Have you ev&r heard anyone until the present war say, “Why, we are tending toward imperialism; we are pursuing a wrong policy.’ Did any man in the United States of independent thought and action ever say: “Why we have forfeited a part of our liberty because we have acquired threw times as much territory as the original thirteen states." Did they ever present any serious objection until the cry was raised recently? Why, my friends, that cry is intended to deceive. The Democratic party voted for war. They voted for .ipppro priations to carry on the war and then they ob structed us in subsequent legislation because as they thought war would render McKinley's ad ministration unpopular, and when they found it would popularize the administration and the Re tmjdican party, then they said: “Boys we have -Kn-.tie a mistake, let us pull out our foot if we can and tight this thing as best we can.” That Is the situation, and they are going to make that the situation until all these questions have been settled and adjusted. I feel that you should realize the responsibili ties therefore or sustaining the federal adminis tration. and if you do. as i am satisfied the Re publicans and the people of the whole United States will do, we will at the end of President McKinley’s administration have a nation of which any people on the face of the earth may feel proud. 1 thank you. Scofield's Name Presented. Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Con vention: The hour draws nigh when you are to select a standard bearer who is to lead us to victory at the approaching election. From the farm, the workshop and all the varied walks of life you have been selected, not so much to advance the interests of any particular individual as to serve the higher interests of the Republican party. Never before in the history of our state have so many representative men gathered in a nominating convention; and the people whom you represent have a right to expect your work to be done better than ever be fore; such being the ease it behooves us to calmly draw around our Republican hearth stone, remembering we meet today upon the same platform, belong to one family and are of the same household of faith, differing only in our individual choice of candidates. Then let us smother any feeling of animos ity and ass-ime the duties of the hour with a deteimination to be true to our noble party. During the canvass which has preceded this convention, in the individual desire to advance the interests of their personal choice of a candidate, some have permitted their zeal to exceed iheir discretion to the great injury of our party, aud the discordant tumult created thereby has caused the slum bering hosts of Wisconsin’s Democracy, buried as they were two years ago, beneath the Republican avalanche of one hundred thousand majority, to arouse, and already we behold their sentinels peering over their battered battlements, smiling at the pros pective factional contest in the Republican ranks, the continuance of which, they hope, will make possible a Democratic victory. But gentlemen, when I look into your faces and read therein your devotion to the Republican party. I say to our Democratic brethren, return to your slumbers, this is not your resurrection morn, for when this convention shall have completed its labors there will go forth from this hall ten hun dred and sixty-seven loyal supporters of the nominees of this convention, bearing with them to the remotest corners of the state a zeal that will kindle the watchfires that in sures a Republican victory. Two years ago the Republican convention assembled in this city, selected as its stand ard bearer our present executive: at the suc ceeding election the people ratified the nomi nation with the largest majority ever given a governor in this state. Coming as he did. from the active scenes of a successful private life, he brought to the office no material executive experience, but he did bring an earnest desire to serve the best interests of the people, ami from that time to this he has courageously done what he conscientiously believed to ‘be his duty in all matters, swerving neither to the right nor to the left, as from time to time he met with unjust criticism of his enemies or the flattery of his friends. Business-like, he first familiarized himself with the great institutions of the state and insisted that in all appontments to positions the qualifications of the applicant alone must determine (he appointment, that the inter ests of the state might be properly cared for. As to the success of his efforts the im proved efficiency of our institutions amply testify. Turning his attention to the financial condi tion of the state he discovered that for years our annual expenses had exceeded our income, that we were rapidly absorbing our capital, a more timid man would have passed the dilemma, as a legacy, to his successor, but he. true to his convictions of duty, asked for a direct tax to replenish the treasury, which was the wise and only proper thing to do in the interest of the people, but most unfortunate for his personal interests, as the attacks of his enemies have demonstrated. Believing that the people should better understand the finances of our state, he carefully prepared and published last Feb ruary the most comprehensive and com plete statement ever given to the public, showing the source from which all moneys were received and for what thev were disbursed. A careful study of this state- ment fully answers the criticisms against our ever-increasing expenditures. When we complain of this increase we forget that we live in a state that is increasing in population at the rate of 60,000 a year, and that the annual increase alone in eur disbursements for educational, charitable and penal institutions, judiciary and main tenance of our chronic insane is about SIOO,OOO. When the celebrated “sleeping car and express companies bills'' came before him for approval on the last day of the first session of the Legislature, upon examining them as his duty required, he discovered what he conscientiously believed to be an error in their passage, which would in validate them as a law and involve the state in much expensive litigation, sub mitting the question to his advisers they agreed with him. Upon the one hand he knew that to sign them would please the great mass of our people and apparently would be a wise stroke of personal policy; upon the other hand lay his official duty and the bitter attacks of his enemies, whom he well knew would impugn his motives. If you had occupied his position at that moment and had conscientiously believed as he believed, what would you have done? Did he hesitate? No, he sacrificed every selfish interest and courageously returned the bills to the Legislature at the first opportunity, calling their attention to what he believed to be a fatal error in their passage, entering no objection to a single word of their contents, he urged upon them the importance of the measures and rhe necessity of their proper enactment before their final adjournment, that these companies might be made to pay their just proportion of taxation. When the nation's call came for troops to fight a foreign power, guided by h's experience acquired during his three years of active service in the Civil war. he gave such personal attention to the detail and equipment of our regiments that they promptly went forth equal to the best and exceeded by none from our sister states. That there has been some mistakes in his administration I do not gainsay, but. gentlemen, contemplate with me the many intricate problems submitted to the execu tive of this state, then tell me if sits there a man in this convention, or walks he in the vast domain of the state of Wisconsin, who, no matter how great his ability or how honest his purpose, could so adminis ter the affairs of this office that there could be no mistakes fofind in his admin istration at the close of his first term? Wisconsin has had many a noble governor of whose administration she is justly proud, yet there is not a single one but that a designing hand might record against it some mistake; man is not perfect. In the calm, unprejudiced light of his tory, when the present administration is written beside that of his illustrious prede cessors, you will find it compares favor ably with the best. And he now adds to his many qualifica tions another valuable acquisition—execu tive experience. Notwithstanding the tre mendous efforts that have been put forth to defeat his renomination he has main tained the dignity of the office by quietly attending to its duties, looking to you, gen tlemen, for the approval of his administra tion. The name of this gentleman I now pre sent to you. I trust for your favorable con sideration for this nomination, is Gov. Ed ward Scofield. La Follette Nominated. Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of this Con vention: It is time that we came to our senses. This is a great seml-centenn'al year of this great commonwealth. Badger dom is on top. Everything that partakes of Wisconsin is celebrating the fifty years of our statehood, and I ask you. my friends here tonight, to nominate by this conven tion a Badger boy for the next candidate for governor. (Great applause.) I am com missioned here by one of the greatest dis tricts in this state, a district that cast as many Republican votes in proportion to its population as any district in this state, a district of which this state is proud, by virtue of what the measures by which men and institutions are calculated to be weighed. I am commissioned to nominate as our candidate for governor a Badger boy, Robert M. La Follette. (Great applause and loud cheering.) You ask me who he is. lie is a boy born in Dane county. He grew up from the common school, from the university, and then, after having taken a short course in law, was elected as district attorney of Dane county, and during all the time that he served there as prosecuting attorney of that rieh county, he made not one single mistake (Great applause) concerning which anybody had to debate when it came to a question of endorsing his record. (Great applause.) When but 29 years of age, a poor noy, he was elected by the old Third congressional district as its representative in Congress. He went to the house of Congress and made a record that placed him third on the list of the great congressmen during the last twenty-five years. (Great applause and cheering.) He stood next to William Mc- Kinley on that committee that framed the great McKinley bill, a bill that brought us more prosperity than we have ever known in this country until tonight we are all wishing we were back to the good old prosperous times of 1892. He had charge of the agricultural schedule of that bill, that schedule that made that bill from its enactment such a beneficent thing for all the industries of this great country. That bill made William McKinley President of the United States. (Applause.) My friends, Robert M. La Follette is not a seeker for office. (Laughter and jeers.) Ah. I know that those who have sought to turn the tide against him laugh at that statement, but I say to you, my fellow delegate who is here without instructions, who is seeking to do the best for the Re publican party, that that is the fact, that President McKinley offered him one of the best positions within the gift of this gov ernment, that of comptroller of the treas ury. practically making him master of our finances, and Bob La Follette was large enough to say “No, no. I prefer to re main at home with the Republicans of my state and to make a campaign for principles that shall redeem the Republican party of Wisconsin from a condition of things that are wrong.” (Wild applause and cheering.) I tell you that any man who laughs when I say that he is not a seeker for office is laughing with a prejudiced mind and is unfit to vote on this great matter before this convention (Great applause.) I tell you that he said to the people of the state, “I prefer to stay at home and advocate the principles which you, my friends, have to night adopted in this platform here.” And when you adopted the principles of Robert La Follette, as advocated during the last twelve months in this state, you admit his leadership and you approve of his candi dacy in this great convention. (Great ap plause.) Ah, my friends, this is too severe a path. I shall cut it short. There are many things I could say. I want to talk to you delegates who are heie without instructions. You have but one commission, and that is a commission from the people to protect your consciences, your honest judgment, and every time you vote to put that honest judgment In the ballot that may be passed among you I say to you, my friends, that this is the greatest Republican convention ever held in this state. I say to you that it devolves upon you more sacredly than upon any previous convention to ask here without prejudice or without bias. I say to von. when you go back to the polls with the platform that Robert La Follette has made and that you have endorsed, the people will demand of you that you should have put its maker upon that platform. (Great ap plause.) I want to say to you one and all that by all the common honesty of logic there is no other conclusion that can be reached, and w hen you go back to the people and say, “We adopted this plat form, but we did not have the manhood to adopt his leadership, that has stamped on this state one of the most brilliant epochs in Republican history.” that you are doing an injustice and illogical thing and a thing which you cannot explain. (Applause.) My friends, this I know is a critical hour. I want to say once for all to some of you gentlemen that sit here within the sound of my voice that Robert M. La Follette has not adopted dishonest means to get a bal lot In this convention. (Great applause.) I say that he has not said one single un kind word of any man, that he is far from prejudice and bias, and as he says in his platfoim. “while I live, I will comhat for those principles that shall make the Re publican party free.” (Great applause.) This is indeed a glorious hour in the history of Republicanism. A little over one year ago only the Republican party of this nation came into power. Its record is one of the most. aye. the most brilliant record in the history of our great republic. This is a glorious hour. Ah, we have not crucified mankind upon a cross of gold, but we have set upon the brow of American citizenship a crown of glory, and It re mains for you. gentlemen, here In the Northwest, with this platform, with Rob- ert M. La Follette standing upon it, to place in that crown the brightest diadem that shall shine to glorify the history of the Republican party. (Great applause and long-continued cheering.) MADISON DOTS. Rev. G. Crafton preached a very inter esting sermon to a large congregation last Sabbath at the new mission in the old Sal vation Army hall. The reverend gentle man is blind and has been for the last forty-five years. The people gathered with eager hearts and attentive ears to lis ten to him. The fact is the people are actually carried away by the good, sound, plain preaching that the poor, blind man rendered. All honor to the good, blind brother. We wish him success, although many clouds darken his course. The Douglas Literary society gave an ice-cream sociable Monday' evening. Ev erybody spent a pleasant evening. Mrs. F. Williams is on the sick list. Mr. George Samuels left for Paris. Ky., this morning on business. We wish him success and a safe and pleasant journey. The Douglass Literary society will give a picnic Thursday. August 25, across Lake Monona at Winnequah. A splendid programme will be rendered during the day. Races and games of all varieties. Some of the prominent speakers of the day are Francis E. Stewart. Rev. Peterson. Alen Henderson. Charles Anderson and others. All are cordially invited. WAUKESHA PENCILINGS. Mr. A. Reese and C. H. King spent a pleasant afternoon last week fishing aud were quite successful. Mr. Charles Clifton and Chester How and gave a show at Spring Bank, Wis., last Friday and had a great success. Mr. Clifton remained to give another Frblay night. Mr. Howard, however, has re turned to Waukesha, where he is the guest of Mr. Charles H. King, where he will remain until Charles Clifton returns, then they expect to return to Chicago. We wish the boys success aud hope to see them again. Mr. Harry Taylor has changed his mind in regard to his trip to the South and for the present is at J. J. Valentine’s as head waiter, where he gives perfect satisfac tion and splendid service. Mr. C. Howard and C. H. King spent Tuesday afternoon fishing, where they were successful in landing a nice string of fish. In the evening they went wheel ing. We hope that the cakewalk at the Waukesha Beach will be a grand success as Doc Truss is a clever as well as enter taining gentleman and we wish him all the success due to anyone. The Misses Nellie Brown. Marie Arm strong. Beatrice and Gertrude Reese spent Sunday at the Bethesda Spring. In passing the Reese’s home the other evening 1 heard the pleasant strains of the old dilapidated linen time played ujion the piano and I must say for ladies that deny their talent as pianists they were very well rendered. How about Miss Nellie B. and Marie A? Mr. Reese is very busy now as lie is hard at work at the school preparing it for the opening, which will be in a few weeks. Mrs. Bowlding gave an evening recep tion fur the young ladies from St. Paul and I hope that they had a pleasant time. MASONIC. WIDOWS’ SON LODGE NO. 25, A. F. A. M.—Meet first and third Tuesdays, at 88 Wisconsin St. W. T. Green, W. M.; W. H. Hargrow, Secretary. Visiting brethren welcome. ZOROASTER CHAPTER NO. 14. ROYAL ARCH MASONS.—Meets second Tuesday in each month at 88 Wisconsin street. Visiting companions welcome. W. T. Green. M. E. High Priest; F. Newton, Secretary. HOLYROOD COMMANDERY. KNIGHTS TEMPLAR.—Meets fourth Tueswtays ar. 88 Wisconsin street. Visiting Sir Knights welcome. J. J. Miles, Eminent Command er; Gilbert Hamilton, Recorder. TADMOR CONSISTORY, A. A.. SCOT TISH RITE, 32 degree, S. P. R. S.—J. J. Miles, Ills. Commander-In-Chief; D. F. Coates, Recorder. Meets fourth Thursday, 88 Wisconsin street. NOBLES OF THE MYSTIC SHRINE. BAALBEK TEMPLE.—NobIes of the Mys tic Shrine, W. T. Green, Illustrious Po tentate: D. T. Coates, Illustrious Record er. Meets second Thursday, 88 Wisconsiu street. PRINCESS ELLAH CHAPTER NO. 22, ORDER OF EASTERN STAR— L. H. Palmer, Worthy Patron; Mrs. P. D. Thomas, Worthy Matron; Mrs. Minerva Hawkins, Secretary. Meets first and third Tuesdays at 88 Wiscon sin street at 2:30 p. in. BUSINESS DIRECTORY. Those who wish the Advocate should call on DAVE BOWLER, 330 Main street, Osh kosh, Wis. HENRY BLAND, Barbershop. 230 Third street. Shaving. Hair Cutting, Shampooing. DANGERFIELD. FRANK, 217 Third street. Haircutting, Shaving, Shampooing. W. M. SMALLWOOD, Barber, 146 Reed. W. H. THOMASON. 247 Wisconsin street. MISS JULIA M’NAMEE, Hairdressing and Massage, 264 Eighth street, Milwaukee. W. T. GREEN, Lawyer and Notary Pub lic. Rooms 17-18 Birchard Blk, 105‘Grand avenue. Milwaukee. JOHN GOODWIN, Turkish Baths, 523 Broadway. MILWAUKEE BUSINESS MEN’S COL LECTION COMPANY, Rooms 17-18, 105 Grand avenue. S. A. MATTHEWS. Turkish Baths and Massage, Masonic Temple. D. T. COATES, Turkish and Electro Ther mal Baths and Massage. 194 Biddle street. SHELTON M. MINOR, News Clerk. Hotel Pfister. WILLIAM HAWKINS. Law Clerk, office of J. H. Stover, Pabst Building. R. Whitfield. Clerk. Attorney Walker. Loan Trust building. JOHN MILLER, janitor Cawker building. MISS MARION BERRY, clerk in office of Dr. Becker. Colby Abbot building. JAMES A. JOHNSON. Delivery Clerk, Gimbei Bros. WM. TATE. Assistant Janitor City Hall. S. It. BANKS, Tonsorial Parlors, 224 Wells street. WAUKESHA BUSINESS DIRECTORY. Valentine Tiller—Restaurant, 714 Clin ton street. Jackson —Whitewasher and Painter, 620 Main street. C. W. Brown—Barber Shop, 228 Broadway. C. H. King—Manager Waukesha Baths. A. J. Valentine, Proprietor of the Valen tine Hotel, 311 Madison street. Tiller, R. C'.—Cook, 714 Ciinton street. Reese, Miss Gertrude and Beatrice—Hair Dressing Room. 307 South street. Mr. Reese—Janitor of High School, 309 Madison street. He Touched Him. Charles Thorne, of happy memory, was at all times, day and night, surrounded by spirit friends, who. as we well know, have a habit of raising the hair and caus ing one to feel all over in spots by deli cately touching the shoulder en passant. One day the actor was leaning against the bar in the old Coleman honse sipping a cocktail when this customary spirit mani festation caused him to turn suddenly and look over his shoulder. His eye falling on his brother, standing several feet away, he asked: “Did you touch me?” “No.” replied the younger Thorne. “I haven’t yet, but in about two seconds I’m going to touch you for fifty.” He got it. —New York Preac.

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OWTHEWINNER Fourth District Delegates Again Name the Bay View Man for Congress. Milwaukee, Wis., Aug. 16, 1898.— The convention held at West Side Tur jjcr hall today to name a Repub lican candidate for member of Congress from the Fourth district nominated Theo- Laid Otjen, the present representative of the district. The first informal ballot resulted as fol bw's: Otjen, 174; Stafford, 78. The rules were suspended and the in fi iinal ballot was made formal, nominat- l Mr. Otjen. The nominee was es corted to the platform by Julius Bleyer ami Thomas Sheriffs, and made a speech of thanks and acceptance. Chairman Hill of the Republican conn ry committee called the convention to or der shortly after 2 o'clock, with a sharp rap of the gavel. He wore the regulation Republican badge, which will be seen at rhe state convention tomorrow. Secretary t’ricke sat next to him in a black alpaca oat and invited holders of proxies to step forward. The 254 delegates occupied most of the floor space, the odd numbered wards being upon the north side of the hall ami the even numbered wards on the. south side. The county delegates from the towns of Franklin. Greenfield. Lake, iak Creek, the city of South Milwaukee arid the village of Cudahy sat at the rear. X number of delegates to the Fifth dis trict convention, which was held in the -.atne hall in the morning, remained to this convention. The faces of many peo ple more or less prominent in Milwaukee inditics were to be observed in the hall, both as delegates and as spectators. On account of the heat and the hutnidi tv of the atmosphere, it was a shirt-sleeve convention, as many a delegate removed his coat. At 2:25, after the proxy busi ness had been arranged, Chairman Hill read the call f>r the convention. Secre tary Fricke then called the roll of dele gates. which occupied twenty minutes. In the Seventh ward one man had a third f a vote and Rev. J. S. Norris, who had another third, got a proxy and secured two-thirds of a vote. Each of these men had 120 votes in the caucus. Tin re were a couple of colored men iu the Fourth ward delegation. Upon the conclusion of the roll call it was an noumed that two delegates were absent and 252 present. (OXGKESSMAN THEOBALD OTJEN. (Reuonainated in the Fourth District.) Chairman Hill called for the election -of i permanent chairman. Mr. Barkel of he Nineteenth ward nominated Wade I. Richardson of the Eighteenth. No über nomination was made and Mr. ’ichardson was unanimously chosen. He nude a brief speech of thanks. Upon the all for nominations O. J. Fiebing arose uni nominated W. H. Stafford, newsboy, dlegian and lawyer. J. E. Wildish irose to nominate Mr. Otjen, but Mr. [•’iebing was well on his way to the plat orm by that time. A slight cheer arose is Mr. Fiebing took his place on the plat orm. .1. E. Wildish nominated Mr. Otjen, mentioning his work at Washington for the harbor of refuge and public building, his support of the Dingley and bankrupt :y bills, his pension work and ether points in his good record. References to the war and McKinley w re applauded. Percy Kandah seconded Mr. Otjen’s nomination. There was lorad .cheering for Otjen. H. fl. Zahn seconded .tire nomination for Stafford for the Sixth ward and Henry Fescher of the* Eleventh spoke for otjen. .1. B. Powell of the Fifteenth look the platform in behalf he ran against and defeated Robert Schilling, fusion nom inee of the Democrats and Populists. Mr. Otjen lives in Bay View and formerly represented the Seventeenth ward in the common council, where he made a good record. EASY FOR BARNEY. The Fifth District Congressman is denominated Without Opposition. •Milwaukee, Wis., Aug. IG.— The Fifth istrii t congressional convention, which in t this morning at West Side Tur !l r hall, was a most enthusiastic mid harmonious gathering, anti (Congress man Samuel S. Barney of West Bend "as its unanimous choice. No other name Wt M wwi wJ A lAr' 7? ONGRESSMAN s. s. barney. _ It nominated in the Fifth District.) "as placed before the convention, and af t-r the nominating speech of H. K. But terfield of Washington county, the chair man of each county, town and ward dele sation. seconded the nomination. _ Wau keshn county asked that the nomination made by acclamation, which carried "as a renewed outburst of applatwe and "bthusiasm. Mr. Barney was escorted before the convention and thanked the delegates for the honor in a few earnest and patriotic BARGAINS IN LIMITED QUANTITIES THIRD AND PRAIRIE Can give you all you would buy at the prices named. We wish to give as many as possible the chance to secure the bargains. Ladiss’ Light Colcrsd 50^ Percale Dresses.. DUC- One to a customer. $2.00 quality Shirt Waists, 25c Two to a customer. 10c quality of Fancy Outing Flannel DC Ten yards to a customer. Large bar of Laundry Soap at............................. 1 C Ten bars to a customer. Hen's Colored Front Over- shirts 1 VC Two to a customer. 15c quality Figured Lawn, -j _ per yard DC Ten yards to a customer. SI.OO qualify Ladies’ Lace Five to a customer. Grocery Department 2-pound package Best Rolled Oats, 1- per package T’C Two to a vustomer. 6-pound box Best Gloss Starch for ZdL Two to a customer. 6-pound sack Granulated Crystal Salt Two to a customer. remarks, at the close of which the conven tion once more broke into hearty applause, fully apreciating his reference to the ad ministration, the war and the action of the war Congress. It was 11:15 when Chairman John R. Riess of the district committee called the convention to order. The roll call of del egates followed, by W. A. Fricke, secre tary of the committee. Attorney T. W. Parkinson was select ed as chairman of the convention, and in taking the chair Mr. Parkinson warm ly thanked the. delegates for what he said was a totally unexpected honor. He said he regarded it a high honor to preside over a convention of the Republicans of the Fifth Congressional district, especial ly this year, when Republicanism meant so much to all. and he felt certain that the convention would nominate a worthy man and one who would represent the district at Washington with fidelity and credit alike to himself and his constitu ents. Mr. Butterfield of Washington county then took the platform and pre sented the name of Samuel S. Barney. The following names were presented as members of the Fifth district committee for the ensuing two years: Milwaukee county and city, Charles Elkert; Sheboy gan county, Jolm«R. Riess; Waukesha county. E. M. Rogers; Ozaukee county, L. E. Jachem; Washington county, E. M. Rogers. W. A. Fricke declining the ap pointment of secretary. Caesar D. Marks of Milwaukee was selected. The convention then adjourned, and many of the delegates mounted the plat form to congratulate the nominee. I Cj^M aT Y NOTC All persons having news items for the local column of the Advocate will please send them to the office. 248 Fifth street, not later than Wednesday of each week. Mr. Jerome Fuller is in possession of a very tine set of stereopticon views of the late war of 1861 to 1865. He has given entertainments in nearly all of the district schools in this city, giving per fect satisfaction. Everything is first class in these entertainments. Mr. Da vid Thomas is an expert with his lime light lantern. Mr. J. E. "Wildish explains these views very satisfactorily. The very fact that he has visited the liattlefields frequently enables him to descri.be accu rately. Mr. Jerome Fuller takes a great dad of jiride in making very fine selec tions in stereopticon views. He has also some fine views on the present war and continually adds to his selection. The singing of the war songs and the fine reci tations add very- much to these entertain ments. Churches. Grand Army posts and Relief eotips will make no mistake in having an entertainment of this kind. It is a war concert to the fullest extent. Those that have not as yet been to one of these entertainments have missed a rare treat. Mr. Jerome Fuller’s resi dence is at 299 Mitchell street, Milwau kee. Wis. Messrs. Montgomery and Burgette were kept busy- during the great Repub lican convention. They made many friends. Next Saturday they go away for a trip over the entire state in the interest of their paper. Mrs. Roberts and her little daughter, Lulu, left for Chicago last Tuesday morn ing. They went on a visit to friends and will return in a few weeks. The state convention just closed was, in some respects, the greatest of its kind ever held in the state. In regard to the number of delegates and to the intensity of factional feeling, it stood head and shoulders above all previous state conven tions. But the Republican party of Wiscon sin in convention assembled has declared who.its standard-bearer shall be and it has spoken to the tune of 620 delegates. Its standard-bearer is Gov. Edward Scofield against whose administration some sharp criticism has been made. but who will now enjoy consolation in the fact that his administration has been endorsed by a large majority in the convention and that he* has been renominated amid deafening shouts of applause and apparently with the warmest sort of backing among his sturdy constituents. Yet we cannot but cherish the highest admiration for the courage and manhood of the defeated candidate, Mr. Robert M. La Follette, whose integrity and ability are second to none in the land. Mrs. Releford of 45 Eighth street is still reported on the sick list. We regret to hear it and wish for her speedy recov erv. Misses Jennie Ellis and Cora Robinson of Chicago, but recently of Milwaukee, departed last Wednesday for Lake side. where they will remain for the sum im r. We wish them success. Quite a number of the delegates to the State convention visited our office this 1 AT the: Boston Store] Hisses’ Black Silk Hitts, Or’ Five pair to a customer. Silk Windsor Ties, Cr- each D C Five to a customer. Ladies' Lisle Gloves, black C\c and colored, per pair VC Five pair to a customer. Ladies' Fast Black Seamless Five pair to a customer. Child's Ribbed Vests and g* Pants, each DC Two to a customer. Infants' Absorbing Diapers, Five to a customer. Cotton Crash Toweling, c per yard 4iC Ten yards to a customer. week. Among them were the editor of the Green Bay Daily Advocate, Mr. F. M. Clarke, editor of the Thresherman, and Mr. John Tollefson of Madison. Call again, gentlemen. Messrs. J. J. Miles and J. B. Buford were the colored delegates to the Fourth congressional convention that recently nominated Hon. Theobald Otjen for re election to Congress. Mr. )tjen has made a good record while in the legislative halls of the nation, and the district is to be congratulated on its work. The barbecue which was enjoyed at Cen tral park August 2 and managed by the St. Mark's A. M. E. church of this city, proved a financial as well as a social suc cess. Total receipts $136.58 Expenses 84.33 Clear profits $52.25 The managers, through the Advocate, return thanks to the many friends who have lent their presence and assistance in their noble efforts and wish that their pathway in life may be strewn with fragrant flowers and that the protection of heaven may overshadow them as long as they shall live upon the earth. Mrs. R. Capponi, wife of our city edi tor, to the regret of her many friends whom she has made during her brief stay in this city, departed last Friday for De troit. Mich., where she will reside, until joined later by her husband. We wish Mrs. Capponi the success she so richly de serves. The XVaternwkm Feast and Ice Cream Sociable at St. Mark's A. M. E. church last Thursday evening was reported to be a grand success. Those present enjoyed themselves to a high key and much credit is due the managers. Rev. Higgins, pastor of St. Mark's A. M. E. church, has distributed a large num ber of dollar money envelopes to the mem bers and friends of the church, the pro ceeds of which will go toward meeting the claims of edueation. missions and other Ae partmehts of the church. The canse is worthy; let everyone give a helping hand. Mrs. Miles has returned to the city from her summer residence in Batavia. 111., on business. She will go back in a few days. Miss Julia Hall of Batavia. 18.. 5s the guest of Mrs. J. J. Miles during her stay in our beautiful city. Mr. John Roland has returned from Lakeside, where he says that he spent a fine summer. He gives a glowing de scription of the great number of colored boys and girls they have employed out there—the first time in the history of Wisconsin that a summer resort employed colored chambermaids. That is a Wel come adventure, we trust it will grow. Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Rice of 191 Fifth street are receiving congratulations from their host of friends upon the advent of a son. We also congratulate Mr. and Mrs. Rice and wish the family happiness and prosperity. Mrs. Dewes of 41 Fifth street will cele brate her birthday on Monday night, and cordially invites her friends to be with her on that momentous occasion. We congratulate her on having arrived at her —th birthday and wish her a most en joyable occasion. On Wednesday, August 24. Miss Della Morgan will have a grand cake-cutting at Isaacs’ hall. East Water street, under the management of her father, who will spare no pains in making the event grand and attractive. The event will be held in honor of the fact that Miss Morgan was the successful winner of the handsome cake at the jubilee celebration at Central park on the 16th and the prize cake win then and there be divided into fractional parts. The friends are cordially invited. The Advocate man called at the David son and was interviewed by the worthy head waiter of that noted hotel. Mr. Ma son is the head waiter. He is a nice gen tkman and is much liked by all his men. He carries a nice otw of men. They are as follows: Messrs. Frank Chap man. Andrew Douglas. Ward Dwering, "William Taylor. John Walls. Mr. Napo k on Berdy is porter; Messrs. Percy Hill and "Willie Goodman; Mr. J. W. Depier rey is the chief: he has under him Mr. Richard Thomas, Miss Birch and Miss Trainer. Miss Birdie Johnson was married to Mr. William Kenner, a worthy voting man of onr city. We wish them a long and happy union. Mr. John Brown has just arrived in the city from Mackinac island on his way to Chicago. He is the guest of Mr. A* G. Hurgette. Mr. Brown is chef of one of the fastest yachts on the lakes. It is owned by W. R. Crawford of Chicago. Mr. C. H. Mason, the head waiter at the Davidson hotel, is one of the most pleasant gentlemen in the business. He is always courteous and in fact one of the finest entertainers in the city. Mr. Mason has an elegant staff of waiters at bis command. Special Bargains in Our Bargain Basement Carpet Department Sofa Pillows, full size, with fancy silkoline Hie. ruffle, worth 40c each Z IC Two to a customer. Windoxfr Shades, pat. spring roller in new |n_ shades of green, worth 35c each. Each..., IzC Four to a customer. Hotel Davidson News. THIRD AND PRAIRIE. Feather l icking, zx Ten yards to a customer. All Linen Glass Toweling, per yard DC Ten yards to a customer. White Pillow Casis, 42x36, g Ten to a customer. Genuine Wool Soap, per cake DC Five to a customer. Paper Cover Novels, -g Five to a customer. 10-foot roll of Crepe Paper, at DC Five to a customer. Clarke’s six cord Machine Thread, per spool DC Five to a customer. NOTICE. Look Out for the Prize Cake-Walk and Concert, at Waukesha Beach, Thursday, Sept. 2, Tendered the Public by the Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light Company. Mr. Young, the star of the famous Mc- Cabe and Young Minstrels and a well known specialist, will be manager. The old favorite Doc Truss, with his Band of Creoles, will take part in the cakewalk and concert, and there will be a hot time in the old town. Many prominent citizens will be present as judges and spectators and thousands will be there to greet the star performance of the season. A long list of professional cakewalkers and the best music will be on hand. Come and enjoy the cream of fun. MISS DELLA MORGAN Scores a Brilliant Victory in a Swell Cake-walk. Cake-walks are apparently becoming the rage at this season, and well may they be 1W there is nothing more amusing and downright fascinating than to see elegantly-dressed ladies and gentlemen of color manipulating the modern cake walk. The gracefulness and curved move ments that can be assumed by a well formed human female when coupled with the contrasting poise of a manly part ner. furnish to the average spectator a scene at once imposing and sublime. But of all the cake-walks to this date, the one pulled off at the celebration at Central park, last Tuesday evening, was by far the most conspicuous and enter taining. The music was good, the registered contestants were of the highest skill and the cake which furnished the focus for all effort, was actually superb. The judg es who formed a capable coterie and in whom all parties concerned cherished the highest possible confidence, were Messrs. Luther Hooper, W. B. Sullivan, H. N. Bagley and N. H. Barker. The successful couple into whose hands the palm of victory now luxuriantly waves, consists of Miss Della Morgan, the queen of cake-walkers, and a Mr. Harris. In al! probability if Venus, the goddess of love and beauty, were present at this extremely elegant performance, she would have felt that she had found a fair rival in the graceful and poetic move ments of Miss Morgan, the supple and wiry dancer and cake-walker, whose fame has gone forth in the land. Much praise may be rightly bestowed, also, upon Messrs. Harris and Boody, whose attitudes and movements were strictly first-class. Great credit is due to the skill and en gineering ability of Mr. Sumter White, tin* expert floor manager, who success fully generaled the whole affair to the gaze and delight of the hundreds who steed and sat in tin* hall. The visitors were all well pleased with the [>articipants and if Mr. White ever manages another cake-walk wherein Miss Morgan wiil trip her agile foot, thou sands. no doubt. will be present there* with smiling faces and well-filled pockets. St. Mark's Church Notes. “Many will say to me in that day. Lord. Lord, have we* not prophesied in Thy name and in Thy name have cast out devils and in Thy name done many won derful works,’’ Matthew 7th chapter. 22d verse. From the above* scripture and to a fair audience at St. Mark's A. M. E. church last Sabbath Rev. Higgins, the* es teemed pastor, delivereel a plain, practical and impressive discourse. The time for the reverend gentleman to leave* for the conference and. perhaps, thence to new fields of labor, is drawing near at hand, and without reflection upon the resources of the* A. M. E. church, it may be said that, in many respeetfc. it will be difficult to duplicate the pastor during the ensuing church year. His piety and general good nature in connec tion with his Christian virtue, should en dear him to any people ami should prove a magnet that will ultimately draw to ward itself the* best support ami apprecia tion of any charge. And no doubt to his amiable ami Christian companion who lends him great moral support in his se vere trials through life much is due and great will be her reward. A Card of Thanks to Mr. H. Jessen, of 181 Martin Street. We wish to extend to Mr. Jessen our many thanks for his kind hospitality for the lovely cake he presented to us for our grand entertainment which was given at Central park on Tuesday. August 16. 1898. We had the extreme pleasure of sending a carriage for Jessen's lovely family and took them out to the picnic, which they enjoyed very much. TELEPHONE 567. OPEN DAY AND NIGHT JAS. E. PATTERSON, Agent Livery, Boardings Sale Stable 414-426 GRAND AVENUE, REAR, CARRIAGES: Nos. 12,16,17,50, 63. MILWAUKEE, WIS. 1 VW I Ji |r The Great HOME GAME KARINO. Everyone should play Karino. It’s the greatest and most instructive game in the world. It is not only a game, but a Center Table for the Parlor of any house. Write for particulars. Address, N. O. STARKS, Patentee and Manufacturer, R. B. MONTGOMERY and A. G. BURGETTE, Sole Agents, 248 Fifth Street WHY NOT R II V Zl T IN Misfit and Uncalled-for Custom Tailor-Made Clothing when you can get them for less than half of the price of ready-made clothing? Remember that we carry custom tailor made clothing only. Our Suits were made from $lB to SSO. You can buy them from $7.50 up to $15.00. Spring Overcoats were made from sls up to $25. You can buy them for $4.50 up to SIO.OO. The finest of custom-tailoring. Remember the place, 221 West Water St. between Wells Street and Grand Avenue, the new home misfit clothing house. HARRY S API RA DEALER IN EZ. FURNITURE Stoves, Carpets, Pictures BOUGHT, SOLD AND EXCHANCED 453 Third Street, MILWAUKEE, WIS. AMATEUR FINISHING Interior and Exterior Views Made. PRICESON KODAKS AND SUPPLIES 531 Grand Avenue, Cor. Sixth Street. W. T. GREEN, LAWYER, Rooms 17 18, Birchard Block, 105 GRAND AVE. MADISON, WIS. MR. S. A. MATTHEWS, IWMWIMMIIIEIM rheumatism cure a specialty Indigestion and bad coldi. Also chiropodist treatment carefully attended to. I 470 Joffmon St.,MilwaukM,WK. Masonic BMg.

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When We Advertise We Have Something Interesting to Tell I Why Do You Want to Ride a 4-C Bicycle You want to ride a 4-C Bicycle be cause you want to have a better or as good a bicycle as others have. If you ride a 4-C bicycle the only people who have as good a wheel as yours are those who ride the 4-C —and there are many of them. After you examine the 4-C bicycle— both inside and outside—you learn that it is made of Thor parts —that the mate rial is of the highest grade—that the work manship is the finest on every point. You learn that it is a better bicycle than most bicycles people are paying twice as much for. At the present time we have a num ber of bicycles, for both men and women, which we are selling at never equaled prices. These bicycles are slightly shop worn, but such small things don’t tell on a 4-C bicycle. CREAM CITY CYCLE CO., 413 Grand Avenue. 7 7

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I Manufactured Bvtfa^z^ New York K .JmMMmmIM ff ..THE.. WHITE RABBIT CIGAR Is made for us by JACOB STAHL, JR. CO. OF I\EW YORK Guaranteed by them to be the best cigar for the price they ever produced. Ihe established high quality and standing of cigars made by this firm need no further recommendation. Ask your druggist for them. JERMAN, PFLUEGER KUEHMSTED CO., ZS mSTKIBUTING AGENTS, MILWAUKEE, WIS. When We Advertise We Have Something Interesting to Tell Why Arc Wc Giving Half Clothing Away? a W hen we decided to clear out every article in our furnishing department we decided to do it quick. When a concern has an exceedingly large stock and wants to clear it out quick, prices must be sacrificed, _ No matter how lo w we placed the prices on our fine line of ft® Cyclists’ Clothing, Sweaters, Shoes, Belts, etc., the value would remain W same We W vJ/ have a repu- 1 tation for carrying the finest line of cyclists’ fur nishings in the city, but to clear it out we will give one-half of the stock away. You pay half price but get the whole article. CREAM CITY CYCLER 413 Grand Avenue. ■DID YOU EVER ENJOY A GOOD CIGAR?- You Can Repeat that Pleasure by Smoking 1 WHITE RABBIT CIGAR The IVkite Rabbit Cigar is a strictly long Havana filled cigar, thor oughly seasoned. The general verdict of the public is A 10c SMOKE FOR 5c JUST SMOKE. BUT WHAT A SPLENDID SMOKE IT IS. A DREAMY REALITY OF TOBACCO GOODNESS. NOTE-EACH CIGAR IS TAGGED 2 5 of these tags pasted on a card (which your dealer will furnish with the cigars) and mailed to Jacob Stahl, Jr. Co., 3d Ave. and 168th St., New York, will entitle you to a handsome ster ling silver Rabbit’s left hind foot watch charm. This rabbit was killed in a graveyard at mid night, when the moon was full, by a cross-eyed red-headed negro. If worn as a reminder of the White Rabbit Cigar it is sure to bring good luck. When We Advertise We Have Something Interesting to Teil Why Do Wc Sell the Most Cycle Sundries Did you ever step into a cycle store in Milwaukee that carried a larger line of cycle sundries than we do You know that big buyers can sell cheap. We are the biggest sundry buyers in the city and our prices are therefore the smallest. For example we sell 75-cent foot pumps at 35 cents. No other store claims to equal that —no other store does. Our Cycle Livery is furnished with new ’9B 4-C Bicycles. Every time you rent a wheel from us you save some money —have a better wheel— a finer ride. No matter how rough you handle a 4-C Bicycle we know it won’t break and that’s the reason we can rent our wheels at lower rates than others can. CREAM CITYTyCLE<; 413 Grand Avenue, CT'—l 11U..1 —IB.—। IW B J Htv Yoak!

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IS i YOUR HAIR TURNING GRAY? What does your mirror say? Does it tell you of some little streaks of gray? Are you pleased? Do your friends of the same gge show this loss of power also? Just remember that gray hair never becomes darker without help, while dark hair rapidly becomes gray when once the change begins. Auer’s Hair Vigor will bring back to your hair the color of youth. It never fails. It is just as sure as that heat melts snow, or that water quenches fire. It cleanses the scalp also and prevents thefprmation of dandruff. It feeds and nour ishes the bulbs of the hair making them produce a luxu riant growth. It stops the hair from falling out and gives a fine soft finish to the hair as well. We have a book on the Hair and Scalp which you may obtain free upon request. If you do not obtain all the benefits you expected from the use of the Vigor, write the Doctor about it. Address, DR. J. C. AYER Lowell, idasa. Established 1780. Baker’s Chocolate, t celebrated for more than a century as a delicious, nutritious, and flesh-forming beverage, has our well-known Yellow Label on the front of every package, and our trade-mark,“La Belle Chocolatiere,”on the back. NONE OTHER GENUINE. MADE ONLY BY WALTER BAKER CO. Lid., Dorchester, Mass. Lazy Liver “I have been troubled a great deal with a torpid liver, which produces constipa tion. I found CASCARETS to be all you claim for them, and secured such relief the first trial, that I purchased another supply and was com pletely cured. I shall only be too glad to rec ommend Cascarets whenever the opportunity is presented.” J. A Smith, 2920 Susquehanna Ave., Philadelphia, Pa. C A N DY W CATHARTIC toaouw) trade mark registered Pleasant. Palatable, Potent. Taste Good. Do Good. Never Sicken, Weaken, or Gripe. 10c. 25c. 50c. CURE CONSTIPATION. Bt.rlfof Remit; Company. Chltapo, Montreal. New York. 320 NO.TA.RAP 8(11(1 and guaranteed by all drug nu I U-DAU gists to CtRE Tobacco Habit. SHOOT nVINCHESTER lOADED" ^hot Gun Shells Used byAlltheCmpion Shots* &hd Namc on* Postal qoid, FOR 152 PAGE /UUSTRATFD QTALOGUF. Winchester Repeating ^rms 180 Nnfttmn, A CURIOUS FIND. A correspondent writes to the Buffalo Express from Lockport, N. Y.: “Work men up the cnnal. employed by Hughes Bros. Bangs, the contractors who are building the Buffalo breakwater exten sion, have recently made a remarkable find. Three men are loading into canal barges loose stone which was thrown out of the deep rock cut through which the Erie canal passes, and the stone is sent to Buffalo harbor for- the rubble founda tion. While working at some of the stone heaps, thrown out when the canal was enlarged about a half century ago, the men came upon quantities of ice and snow. The ice is clear as crystal and the snow, after the surface was scraped away, was white as though fresh fallen. _ “There is little room to doubt that this deposit has lain where it was found since it was covered some winter's day a half century or more ago.” THE HOBSON-ARNOLD KIBB. Ob. the glamour And the clamor Or the Hobson-Arnold kiss! Lovely Emma! Sweet dilemma, which the hero couldn't miss! At the seaside. On the leeside Or a summer hostelry. Came the issue, “May I kiss you?’’ Chirped the maid to Richmond P. Eyes appealing Set him reeling Luckiest he of living men! Cuss the Dago! Santiago Had no charms for Richmond then For it true is That St. Louis Girls are neater, sweeter far Thau all others (Like their mothers) Makes no difference who they are So the maiden, Beauty-laden. Glued a kiss upon his lips That were cheerful 'Neath the fearful Rain of lead from Spanish ships. Hobson, go! You Have all we owe you. What are shells that madly whirl To the blisses Of the kisses Of a sweet Missouri girl? —“J Geteher Gunn” in St. Louis Post-Dis patch. (jRIEF NOTES 01 NOTABLES. —The coming visit of the Lord Mayor of London, the Right Hon. Horatio David Davies, member of Parliament for Chatham, to America is purely a pleasure trip. —The first woman has presented her self for the degree of doctor of philosophy in Berlin university and has submitted her thesis. She is a Fraulein Neumann, and her subject is physics. —lt is said that Col. John Hay, our ambassador to England, during the two days following Schley’s victory shook hands with over 4OUO people who came to congratulate him on his country's tri umph. —Frau Henschell, proprietress of a well-known locomotive factory at Cassel, has contributed 200,000 marks to the re lief fund for the benefit of her operatives on the occasion of the wedding of her son with a Miss Martin of London. —Miss Eva Leon, who has recently been honored by the French government with the title of "Officier d’Academic,” makes her home in New York, but is well known in Philadelphia through her teaching in one of the prominent schools in that city. —Middle-aged and old people in Gales burg remember when Shafter, the Santi ago hero, was a hustling employe of the Burlington road at that place. He is re membered as a manly, ambitious young fellow, the leader in spelling and wrest ling. —Mme. Sara Bernhart, in the forth coming play by M. Edmond Rostand, whose “Cyrano de Bergerac” has at tracted so much attention in Paris and London, will act the part of the Duke of Berctosfadt. The new play will be called “L’Aiglon.” —The death is announced of M. Andre Prosper Victor Massena. Prince d'Ess ling. He was the grandson of Marshal Massena, whom Napoleon I. used to call the “Darling Child of Victory.” The ti tle passes to the Duc de Rivoli, brother of the late prince. —Charles Brasso, now in Havana, writes to a friend in New York that the “jack flag” of the Maine is now offered for sale in Havana by a Spaniard who wants SSOOO for it. The Spaniard showed Brasso a written offer from Spain of SISOO for the flag. —Enrique Trujillo, who has edited in New York for several years the Cuban weekly paper, El Porvenir, will sail with his plant and editorial staff for Santiago, where the sheet will be issued until the America^ soldiers have chased the Span iards out of Havana, —Cecile Loraine, the young soprano who will appear in this country during the coming season, is said to be of a most prepossessing appearance and an artist of rare ability, possessing a most beautiful voice. Although an American by birth. Miss Loraine has never been heard in her own country. —Christine Nilsson, whose beautiful voice made such a lasting impression on American opera-goers a number of years ago, invested some of her savings in American real estate, which soon rose in value. The other day she disposed of her last holdings in Boston, consisting of mercantile houses, which brought over $150,000. —Harmsworth, the English publisher, whose successes with periodicals have been even more phenomenal than some of the end-of-the-century prodigies in this country, rebelled against the railroad bookstall monopoly held Dy Smith Sou last week, and the first number of his 6-cent weekly, freely advertised in con sequence, circulated to the extent of nearly 1.000,000 copies. —Rev. Mr. Bevan, pastor of a church in Melbourne, Australia, says that on the even of starting his famous Midlothian campaign Mr. Glad stone called and asked for books bearing on the provincial church councils of the Eleventh and Twelfth centuries. Asked by the astonished bibliophile why he wanted such books at such a time, the great statesman simply replied: “Oh. I am going to take them with me to read in the train.” Don’ts for Stay-at-Homes. What not to eat and what not to wear are considerations which are more im portant to the woman who stays in the city all summer than the positive side of the question is to those who go to water ing places for the season. If you wish to keep cool, do not eat ham, or pork in any form. Do not eat cornbread or cakes. Do not eat “boiled dinners.” Do not believe the popular delusion that hot drinks are cooling. Do not wear high-neck dresses in the house. No matter how bony your throat may be, the improvement in your tem per will be sufficient compensation to those about you for all its spareness. Do not eat much confectionery. All the sweets necessary to the system are supplied by the fruits which should be the chief article of diet. Do not wear high shoes at all. Do not wear three or four skirts for modesty’s sake. Comfort and health are much more important. Do not wear a corset cover. With ging ham shirtwaists it is not necessary, and there should be no other reason than ne cessity for any garment on a hot day. Do not wear a corset at all, if your figure will permit of its removal. Do not wear tight sleeves. Fashion does not require them in summer dresses. Do not wear gloves. Both comfort and economy will be gainers thereby. Do not wear a jacket on the street un less it actually conduces to your comfort. Even man goes without his coat over a negligee shirt in midsummer and nobody criticises uim for doing so.—Pittsburg Dispatch. Soup for Breakfiut. In London two months ago Henry White, the swell secretary of the Ameri can legation, invited friends to break fast; and the first thing on the menu was soup. He told them that the Prince of Wales’ set bad recently adopted the idea from the French, and that all London was rapidly taking up the custom. Mr. White sets the pace for Americans oyer there, and whether or not he entertains all of his countrymen who visit London he can introduce enough of them to this new fad to cause the whole outfit to come back home singing its praises. It is really oue of the most sensible gastronomic innovations one can imagine. Soup, when properly made, is both sooth ing and stimulating. The overtaxed stomach of the average American needs both to be soothed and stimulated the first thing in the morning. Therefore we look for the soup idea to become imme diately popular when it is brought oyer by the tourists. Doubtless they will in vent a name for it, as the fashionable folk of this country are afraid to risk their standing among the gourmets by eating for breakfast a dish with so plaiu and vulgar a name as soup. snap shots. A locomotive engineer had better go slow about going fast asleep. Watered stock sometimes turns cut to be a floating debt. We cannot same the best-known baker, but Job was the most famous boiler. A stale cake is a cracked old made, and a tin of dry biscuit a crusty old batch. “Oh. I can stick up for myself,” said the tack on the chair. “I won’t be sat upon long at a time.” It doesn’t take more than one whisky straight to get some men terribly twisted. Bicycles and anti-fat are responsible for a considerable falling off in the popu lation. The prisoner who wants to be bailed out would not find any relief from eating sponge cake. It isn’t leap year, but some women cannot even get out of a cab without of fering a man their hand. —Philadelphia Bulletin. THE RUSSIAN SOCIETY WOMAN She Knows but One Thing, and that Thing is Fashion. A Russian society woman knows only one thing—fashion. Art is a stranger to her. She loves admiration and flirta tion, but her heart remains cold, though she may be burning other hearts with the fire of her eyes. Nowhere is woman more dangerous than in Russian society. To begin, a Russian girl seeks a husband only for the position he gives her. Matri mony is only a question of fashion, and if a Russian girl cannot find a husband within a reasonable time, she can fill no place in good society, and she is ridi culed by all her acquaintances; thus, she watches with agony the approach of the end of her youth. Every tentative is thus made to win the grand prize of mat rimony. Even her friends are as anxious as she is, and as fearsome lest she may be an old maid. Then, when all efforts have failed, when no more hope remains, she takes advantage of the sole remedy left to her “maiden widowhood.” She travels. She goes to Paris and Nice. She stays away three years, maybe, then returns to Russian society, no longer an old maid, nor even a wife, but a widow. Nobody asks whom she married, nor how she became a widow. She is a widow; that suffices. As a widow she is re ceived everywhere, and is somebody. Gladstone and Gordon’s Famous Dis patch. It was on this morning that the mem orable dispatch from Gordon, describing Mr. Gladstone's conduct as an “indelible disgrace,” was published. The first paper which reached Breechin castle was the Dundee Advertiser, which had been laid on the library table about 10 o’clock. Mr. Gladstone had breakfasted in his room, coming into the library, and was writing letters at a table in the corner, facing the window through which “streamed the red autumn sun.” I opened the paper, and on the page op posite. head-lined and double-leaded, blazed out. I read it, and looked over to Mr. Gladstone. He was writing tranquilly, and his face wore his ordinary expres sion. Plainly, he had not seen the dis patch. It was not a dispatch one could take pleasure in handing him, but was, of course, one he ought to see, and see at once. After hesitating a moment, I folded the paper with this telegram out side, walked across the room, laid the Advertiser on the table, telegram upper most, and said: “The Advertiser has just come in, Mr. Gladstone. Perhaps you have not seen it.” Without lifting his eyes, he thanked me. and went on writing; it was characteristic of him to finish the business he had in hand before turning to any other. A moment later he took up the paper, his eye instantly fell on the telegram, and he read it through. As he read, his face hardened and whitened, the eyes burned as I have seen them once or twice in the House of Commons when he was an gered—burned with a deep fire, as if they would have consumed the sheet on which Gordon’s message was printed, or as if Gordon’s words had burnt into his soul, which was looking out in wrath and flame. He said not a word. For per haps two or three minutes he sat still, his face all the while like the face you may read of in Milton—like none other I ever saw. Then he rose, still without a word, left the room, and was seen no more that morning.—From “Mr. Glad stone,” by George W. Smalley, in Har per's Magazine. Cause of Stuttering. According to Dr. Gutzmann, whose re port has been adopted and published by the German government, involuntary mimicry plays a great part in stuttering. Like yawning it is catching. The quick er a child is and the more imitative, the more apt it is to imbibe any defects of speech on the part of those by whom it is surrounded. Conclusive evidence of the contagious nature of stuttering is to be found in the fact that the number of stutterers in a school increases steadily as the children pass upward from class to class. In the public school of Berlin, for intance, the number of stutterers among the children in the lower class was .52 per cent, of the total force of the class. This proportion rose from year to year, as the children passed upwards in the educational scale, until in the high est class the percentage was discovered to be 1.61, or more than three times the number found when the same children were in the lowest class. He Got Anxious. Signor Arditi was once appointed con ductor of an opera company touring in Ireland. The proverbial wit of the Dub lin gallery boys was not found wanting at a performance of Macbeth. “A funny in cident,” says the maestro, “occurred that night during the performance, and one which, although it had well-nigh escaped my memory, is worthy of record. In the sleep-walking scene of Lady Macbeth, when the nurse and the doctor appear on the stage together and confabulate with one another, a loud voice suddenly called out from the gallery, causing a roar of laughter in the middle of a most serious scene, ‘Hallo, doctor! Well —is it a boy or a girl A Joke on Balfour. First Lord of the Treasury Balfour was once made the victim of a rather effective St. Patrick s day joke. On the occasion alluded to an oak box, about ten inches long, was sent to him at the House of Commons. On. this being opened a sprig of shamrock with a card bearing the in scription. r rom a sincere admirer,” was disclosed to view, and through a layer of some compound a steel spring could be seen, says Cassell's Magazine. Mr. Bal four is well known for his extreme cool ness and scorn of seeming danger, but the whole thing was so strongly sugges tive of an infernal machine of the worst description, that the services of an ex pert were immediately requisitioned. Tv™. ex P. er t arrived Mr. Balfour joined him in his endeavor to solve the baffluig mystery. At first both were puz zjed; but. the expert having placed a par ticle of the compound on his tongue, dis covered that it was only powdered sugar, flavored with lemon. The box was in verted, and out tumbled an old corkscrew, a spiral spring, a well-worn nutmeg grater and a piece of paper, on which was written, “Buy the whisk}* yourself; you can then concoct the famous lemonade of Ballyhooly.” The Father Said Too Much. An amusing incident occurred in an A., B. C. car on the afternoon of the Fourth, lour young couples, evidently out for an enjoyable day, were seated on one side of the car having a decidedly good time. While their merriment was at its height a 7-year-old boy across the aisle suddenly leaned forward. “Say, mister,” he called to one of the young men don’t you kiss your The young man looked up in surprise and the girl—a pretty girl, too —blushed. “Talmage, Talmage,” said the boy’s father, “what do you mean by such The boy looked at his father in sur prised disgust. “What’s the matter with you, dad?” he cried. “You told me you’d do it if you was him!” And the father found the landscape de-, cidedly interesting until the young people left the car.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. The Enormous Gold Product of 1898. From South Africa, the Klondike and Australia gold is being shipped in large quantities. This year’s output will nearly double that of any previous twelve months. The sale of Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters are also increasing very fast. This famous remedy will cure dyspepsia, indigestion, constipation, nervousness and weakness. A Sad Experience. A Washington woman who has just re turned from Omaha tells the Troy Tinies that she heard the most remarkable name out there that it has ever been her for tune to come across. It belongs in the Estabrook family, and wnen one says Estabrook in Nebraska, it is as if one said Lee in Virginia or Adams in Mas sachusetts. The owner of the name is a grandson of old Gen. Estabrook, the family’s pioneer across the Missouri. When the child was born his parents de sired to give him the names of his two grandfathers. Gen. Estabrook’s name was Experience—Gen. Experience Esta brook. The other grandfather’s name was Asad. It was the intention to give Gen. Estabrook’s name as the first name, but at his particular request the other grandfather’s name led off, and the luck less boy was actually christened Asad Experience Estabrook. Shake Into Your Shoes. Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder for the feet. It cures painful, swollen, smarting feet and instantly takes the sting out of corns and bunions. It’s the greatest com fort discovery of the age. Allen’s Foot- Ease makes tight-fitting or new shoes feel easy. It is a certain cure for sweating, callous and hot, tired, nervous, aching feet. Try it today. Sold by all druggists and shoe stores. By mail for 25c in stamps. Trial package FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. Chinese Customs. In some parts of China the young wom en wear their hair in a long single plait, with which is intertwined a bright scar let thread. The style of ornamentation denotes that the young woman is mar riageable. Silver Producing States. The chief silver producing states and territories of the country are now Colo rado. Montana, Utah, Arizona, Idaho and Nevada. Wheat 40 Cents a Bushel. How to grow wheat with big profit at 40 cents and samples of Salzer’s Red Cross (80 Bushels per acre) Winter Wheat. Rye. Oats. Clover, etc., with Farm Seed Catalogue for 4 cents postage. JOHN A. SALZER SEED CO., La Crosse, Wis. —The first stone of a monument to be erected in Dublin to the memory of Wolf Tone and other United Irishmen who were executed in 1798 has been laid on the site of the old Newgate prison. Coughing Leads to Consumption. Kemp’s Balsam will stop the cough at once. Go to your druggist today and get a sample bottle free. Sold in 25 and 50- cent bottles. Go at once; delays are dan gerous. —Parisian barbers are legally com pelled to wash their hands after attending a customer and before waiting on another. They must also use only nickel-plated combs. Lane's Family Medicine Mores the bowels each day. In order to be healthy this is necessary. Acts gently on the liver and kidneys. Cures sick headache. Price. 25 and 50c. —London has street lamps in operation which supply pedestrians with tea, cof fee, cocoa and hot water on the penny-in the-slot system. Hall’s Catarrh Cure Is a constitutional cure. Price 75 cents. —Corks for bottles were first manufac tured in Spain and Italy, some time dur ing the Fourteenth century. Corkscrews were contemporaneous with corks. CITO Permanently Cured. No fits or nervousness after I I I V first day’s use of Dr. Kline’s Great Nerve Re storer. Send for Fit EE AS.OO trial bottle and treatise. Dk R H. Kuxt. Ltd., 931 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pa- —The most extensive system of canals in the world is in the great plain of China, which is fairly seamed with canals. I believe my prompt use of Piso’s Cure prevented quick consumption. —Mrs. Lucy Wallace, Marquette. Kas.. Dec. 1~, 95. —A railway guard says that the fastest trains are always the safest. «rs- YVlnflow’s soothing syrup for fthtl Aren teething, softens the gums,redneesinflarn. mation.allayspain.cures windcolic. £sca bottle —Women generally commit suicide by drowning, men by shooting. WANTED.—Caseof bud beau h that KTP-ANS will not benefit. Send 5 cents to Ri nans Chemical Co., Kew York, for 10 samples and 1.000 testimonials. One hundred new words are annually added to the English language. "Ul CURES WHEKE AU ELSEIaH-S- Eg Q Best Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Use gj in time. Sold by druggists. Muse of Eighteen. Paris’ call for a muse to be crowned at the Michelet anniversary was answered by 350 young women, chiefly of the gri sette type. The one selected to represent the Muse of Paris is a brunette, 18 years of age, a dressmaker by occupation. —Few European orators can boast of a wider audience than the German Empe ror. During the ten years of his reign his speeches have been anxiously perused in the political circles of the world, and their effect has been as remarkable as their vigor. An enterprising publishing firm of Hanover has collected the more noteworthy of the Emperor’s public utter ances and they will be published shortly in a handsome volume entitled “Kaiser worte, 1888—1808.” Bai Hl n GAME PLAQUES exact reproductions of the SIO,OOO originals by Muville, which will be given you ABSOLUTELY FREE by your grocer on conditions named below. These Plaques arc 40 inches in circumference, are free of any suggestion of advertising whatever, and will ornament the most elegant apartment. No manufacturing concern ever before gave away such valuable presents to its customers. They are not for sale at any price, and can be obtained only in the manner specified. The subjects are: American Wild Ducks, American Pheasant* English Quail* English Snipe. The birds are handsomely embossed and stand out natural as life. Each Plaque is bordered with a band of gold. ELASTIC STARCH has been the standard for 25 years. TWENTY-TWO MILLION packages of this brand were sold last year. That’s how good it is. ASK YOUR DEALER to show you the plaques and tell you about Elastic Starch. Accept no substitute. Remember if you are dissatisfied with the size of piece or with the quality of the chewing tobacco you are now using— Baffle ^LUG and you *ll get your money’s worth. The 10-cent piece of Battle Ax is larger than the 10-cent piece of any other brand of the same high quality, and is the largest piece of really good chewing tobacco that is sold for 10 cents. Remember the name 1 x when you buy again. Bear in Mind that “The Gods Help Those Who Help Themselves.” Self Help Should Teach You to Use SAPOLIO »CURE YOURSELF! rritations or ulcerations •t membranes. Painless, and not actrin gent or poisonous. ••Id by Dracvtata, or sent in plain wrapper, .7 P r *P» i(l for •1.00. or 3 bottles, »2.75. Circular sent on request. —Kansas will this year raise 100,000,- 000 bushels of wheat. Warm Weather WEAKNESS is quickly overcome by the toning and blood enriching qualities of Hood’s Sarsaparilla. This great medi cine cures that tired feeling almost as quickly as the sun dispels the morning mist. It also cures pimples, boils, salt rheum, scrofula and all other troubles originating in bad, impure blood. Hood’s parilla America's Greatest Medicine. 81; six for 85. Hood's Pills cure biliousness, indigestion. A Beautiful Present FREE for a few months to all users of the celebrated ELASTIC STARCH, (Flatiron Brand). To induce you to try this brand of starch,so that you may find out for yourself that all claims for its superiority and econ omy are true, the makers have had prepared, at great expense, a series of four How To Get Them: All purchasers of three 10 cent or six 5 cent packages of Elastic Starch (Flat Iron Brand), are entitled to re ceive from their grocer one of these beautiful Game Plaques free. Tho plaques will not be sent by mail. They can be obtained only from your grocer. Every Grocer Keeps Elastic Starch. Do not delay. This offer is for a short time only. PENSIONS, PATENTS, CLAIMS. JOHN W. MORRIS, WASHINGTON.O.O. Lata Principal Examiner U. 8. Pen Bion BnreM. in la«t war, 15 adjudicating claims, atty. «u*a PENSIONS”""^ Writs Opt. O’yABBZLIi, Peutoa Agrat.WMMagttn, S.X M. M. U. „No. 34, 9» WHEN WRITING TO ADVEK TIHFKS please say you saw the Advertisement in this paper.

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^WPF^W^k'B wiP ^n|l|j]yaijjß^iß^^ BEFORE USING. Agnolia. An Excellent Face Food. Agnol Cream. A Sure Cure for Sunburn, Black Heads, Ec zema, Salt Rheum, etc. AGNOL CREAM thing for children’s whooping cough. 11 has more penetration than goose grease that mothers use for children. Ask your druggist for Agnol Cream. One trial will prove what we claim. CLINTON BURNHAM, Sec’y and Treas. After weeks of hard, incessant labor and asainst all sorts of hypocritical op position, we have, at length, succeeded in pulling off the great celebration hereto fore announced in these columns and ad vertised throughout the city. That we have had to engage in any amount of determined, bull-headed hust ling in the premises, goes without saying. Really. we have had to kick down moun tains and swallow up rivers in order to snatch victory in the teeth of unfriendly criticisms and underhanded mischief. But, through it all, we are thankful to ivport that we are alive and are taking matters as serenely as a cucumber in an ice-box. Further, it might here be said that our efforts have wrought a victory ■of which all right-minded persons should feel proud and which further emphasizes the fact that horn st. persistent labor is always sure to earn a reward that tends, in some way, to lighten the burdens of the struggling hero. The victory alluded to is not one that brings to us a pile of glittering gold, not Mme that places over our brow a wreath of imperishable fame, net one that coup les our name with the glory of literary or scientific achievement, but it is rather a victory that comes quietly into the bosom of an individual who has struggled suc cessfully in a lichle cause against the sly and cunning hand of treachery or against the mighty clash of a contending foe. About two weeks ago. we announced to the' citizens of Milwaukee that we would prepose a celebration at Central park on the 16th inst. for the purpose' of aiding the plans and purposes of our Helping Hand mission. We stated that <our mission, because of unusual expenses and larger fields of operation, was en cumben d with obligations that should be liquidated at once in order to place it im •on a solid and self-sustaining basis. We printed hundreds and hundreds of bills, tickets and other advertising matter. We announced our intentions at the hatches, on the streets and in the homes of those we thought friendly to us. We worked unceasingly day after day and wight after night, ofteu without food and vest, so anxious were we to accomplish the task which we had undertaken. Oiir object was a worthy one. Every one knew or heard something of the work we had done for the unemployed and friendless that flock to our city. Our register and drawers are filled with the names of those who have sought and se cured situations. Our doors are ever open to those who are true, pure and Honest. Our race interest is warm and we have never yet failed to aid in any movement that tends.to the upbuilding of ike negro. We, therefore, felt sure that we would have the co-operation of the -entire race in this city, which, with the nid of our charitable white friends, would have insured us a complete and lirilliant success. But, alas! we were sadly mistaken. Our own people, with a few noble ex ceptions. were either unconcerned about our success or else were vigorously inter ested in our failure. Many whom we took to be our friends were found to be plotting our ruin or. at least, rejoicing in ■our failure. Scarcely a word of cheer and encouragement came from the lips of man or woman, to show appreciation for the great and good task we had un dertaken. Yet there were exceptions and these exceptions now shine the more brightly as our opposers shrink into contemptible blackness. To those of our own people who have really stood by us and have honestly es poused the' cause we represent, who were willing to toil with and for us to the last ditch and who really enjoy arid ap preciate victories for any member of the race, we now and here express our sin <*re gratitude and wish them Godspeed. To our white friends who have aided us STANDARD CHEMICAL WORKS coldness and the hypocrisy of some of so nobly and have made it possible for us to have reaped a victory despite the our so-called friends, we tender our hear ty gratitude and the assurance of our highest appreciation. For those who have smiled in our presence and chatted with us on terms of friendship and have been recipients of favors at our hands ami in the face of it all have gloried in our defeat and have labored for our dis aster. we express our supreme contempt, mingled with sad pity for their miserable condition. And truly may it be said right here that unless the colored people in Mil waukee as elsewhere, will come together and patronize race efforts and appreciate race victories, and stand up like men for race honor and race integrity, their doom will ere long be sealed and their future in this city will he blasted with the damnable curse of incompetency. Do not take it that we are at ail sore headed over recent results, We have worked hard and manfully and it is suf ficient that we have done our whole duty. These statements are made from a large and long experience with our peo ple in this and other places and we trust they will, at least, consider their situa tion and endeavor to correct in the fu ture any mistakes they may have made in the past. Again, thanking those who have really proved themselves true friends to us in a time when friendship was needed, we close this brief discus sion. A Card of Thanks. The managers of the Colored Helping Hand Mission makes use of this oppor tunity to extend their thanks to Messrs. J. J. Miles of the Plankinton and J. B. Buford, who so ably assisted in the ce Te bration at Central park on the 16th. Through their efforts many young men at tended the celebration and rendered much financial strength to the noble cause. Mr. and Mrs. Maxey. Mr. Lindsay How ard. Mr. William Miller. Mr. Beatty, Mr. Alexander, Mr. John Newbern. Mr. Na poleon Brodie and quite a number of others whose names we have not in our possession at this writing, were present and generously contributed to the social and financial success of the affair. Much credit is due the gentlemen and our hearty gratitude is hereby returned. Was Ku filed. “Oh, dear! I never was in such a worry in all my born days.” remarked Queen Elizabeth to a court attendant, as she picked up a pen and sharpened it. prepara tory to signing a few death warrants: “I feel all out of sorts.” “Yes, I noticed your majesty was a good deal rutiled this morning." replied the courtier, and then Liz walked over to the cheval-glass to see if her collar was on straight.—Watson's Illuminator. —Charles Johnson, a traveling cigar maker. who claims no place as his home, fell under a train near Belvidere. 111., and one of his feet was crushed off. He was brought to Beloit. Before Going Elsewhere You Had Better Apply to the Badger State Express Co. F. L. SAVLES, Prop. at 328 Wells St. er at 248 Fifth St. Prompt and polite attention rendered and safe delivery made to any portion of the city. Satisfaction Guaranteed. A Skin and Face Food For Tan and Wrinkles Our Friends Should Call on AUG. H. GEIER, DEALER IN FRESH, SALTED and SMOKED MEATS OF ALL KINDS Also Fresh Fish and Oysters in Season A Full Line of Vegetables. 502 WELLS STREET. Teltplume Jlniu lOOif. WHEN IN TOWN DON’T FAIL TO GO TO Whitefish Bay To get there take the Steamer BLOOMER GIRL AT GRAND AVE. BRIDGE Leaves the bridge daily at 2:15 and 7:45 p. m.; returning, leaves Whitefish Bay at 5 and 10:15 p. m. Sundays: going at 10:25 a. m., 2. 5 and 8 p.m.; returning, at 11 a. m„ 3. Hand ]O:3Op. m. CAPT. RICHARDSON. Prop. ROUND TRIP ONLY 25c DR. A. L. HERRON Office, 508 Grand Avenue, MILWAUKEE, WIS. OFFICE HOURS: 8 to 10 a. m., 1:30 to 3:30 p.-m., 7 to 9 p. m. LOUIS DENIS, Meat Market Oysters, Game and Fish IN SEASON. 626 Walls Street. Milwaukee. Wis, Union Laundry and News Co. 328 Wells Street GEO. W. SAYLES. All Work Carefully Done. Lowest Prices and Satis faction Guaranteed. is manufactured out of the fat of sheep’s wool with all the free and poisonous acids taken out of it. It goes through a process of from thirty-six to forty hours and we guarantee it absolutely pure; good for all skin dis eases, blackheads of the face liver spots arising from disordered stomachs, burns, scalds, croup and a splendid TELEPHONE 1258. Agnol Pile Cure. An Absolute Cure for Piles. Polishine. The Best Putz Pomade for Cleaning and Pol ishing all Metals. WWIM! You Can Get a Fine Vlh?ei for Nothing—A LADIES’ or COLUMBIA by bringing to this office, during the next thirty days, 30 paid yearly sub scriptions. For 25 yearly subscriptions, $lO in cash For 10 yearly subscriptions, $2.50 in cash The only condition is, that they are yearly subscriptions, paid in advance. If you do not get enough to compete, bring them in anyway, and. we will pay you a liberal commission. NO BLANKS! DAN’L T. COATES PROPRIETOR OF Electro-lhermal and Turkish Cabinet Baths For Nervous Debility, Dyspepsia, Neuralgia, Paralysis Sciatica, Rheumatism, Gout. Etc. Galvanic, Paradic and Static Electricity and Massage FOR LADIES AND GENTLEMEN lai Biddle si., Miiwoukee MISS JULIA G. ROMETSH. Lady Assistant. For Ladies i For Gentlemen Tuesday, Thursday Monday, Wednesday and Saturday and Friday. Ladies Solicited... A Shoe Polishing Parlor, Ex clusively for Ladies, is an Innovation at ROBINSON’S, 89 Wisconsin St. Your Patronage Will Make it a Success DR. C. LINGER SON, DENTIST, Office: 307 Third st., Milwaukee, Wis. USE DR. LINGER S ALL-HEALING OIL. S. R. SHAVING PARLOR 224 Wells Street MILWAUKEE. HARRY JONES. Foreman JOHN F. BURNHAM, President LOUiS RIPPLE, JR. DEALER IN B00TS&SH0E8 317 Third Street, MILWAUKEE, WIS. Branch Store, 509 Mitchell St J. BOEHJVI, Manufacturer and Jobber of Stove Repairs WATERFRONTS, STOVE POLISHF:S„ STOVE PUTTY, FIRE BRICK, ETC. REPAIRS ion AH STORES. 395 Third St., MILWAUKEE, WIS. MRS. JNO. V. WALLS Only Colored Lady Tailoress in the City. Practical Dressmaker.. Gents’ Clothes Repaired, Cleaned, Pressed and Dyed a Specialty. PRICE TO S PIT THE TIMES. 256 Seventh St. TONEY BURGETTE A first-class man fior Parties, Balls, Weddings and Receptions. Will also furnish Waiters and Lady Attendants. BUSINESS ADDRESS, 246 FIFTH ST. Proprietor Wisconsin Weekly Advocate. Residence 709 Wells St., Milwaukee. Wis. 5. f. PEACOCK 11 Funeral Directors AND EMBALMERS 431 Broadway. MILWAUKEE, WIS. 'Si •X?. x-, Aly JT 2ai«R< i i< s AFTER USING. Persons Desiring First-Class Groceries, Go to D.e.ADRMS ..GROCER.. And Jobber in Catsups, Mustards, Olives and All Kinds of Coun try Produce. K™* Cor. Third and Wells Sts. SILK HATS MADE TO ORDER Phn.lHWann&Co. HHTTEHS DEALERS IN HATS, CAPS, GLOVES, FURS and UMBRELLAS 416 East Water Street, MILWAUKEE, WIS. Before Starting on Your Travels Geo. Burrongiis 4 Sons PREMIUM TRUNKS VALISES, SAMPLE CASES, Etc. 424 426 East Water St, Milwaukee. A. J. BAUM, DEALER IN Fresh, Salted and Smoked And all Varieties of Sausage, Poul try, Fish and Game. 408 STATE STREET. Those wishing to get first-class accom modations during the Centennial Celebration, should go to the FESS HOUSE GEO. E. FESS, Proprietor 113-119 East Doty St, Madison, Wis. Steam Heat Throughout. J* J* J* J* J* J* Rates SI.OO Per Day. CALL ON MANUFACTURERS OF