The Wisconsin Weekly Advocate (Milwaukee, Wis.) 1898-19??
October 7, 1898

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MlllWfiife L' |l Jq •">>v; X f'”'”""” "»'h.iH /f f w n>problerT}. L 4 Oi XWISIiiS* 3 b Tkuliif^taskm^^ «vB ■WMnk^’ARHBm VOLUME 1. ///Z I 1 V 1 HON. JOHN C. SPOONER. Senator Spooner, whose career in the United States Senate has been alike cred itable to himself and to the state, was born in Lawrenceburg, Dearborn county. Ind., on January 6. 1843. Hist father. Judge Spooler, a lawyer of profound learning and a judge whose judicial abil ity and integrity were recognized far and wide, removed with his family to Madi son. Wis., in June. 1859. It was in the capital city that John C. completed his preparation for college in the public schools, finally entering the University of Wisconsin in 1860. From this institu tion he graduated with the class of 1864. This was. during the Civil war. and young Spooner lost no time in taking a hand in the affairs which at that time dominated the mind of almost evert' man. He en listed as a private in Co. D. Fourth regi ment of Wisconsin Volunteer infantry, and at the end of 11111 days' service re enhsted for three years as captain of Co. A. Fiftieth regiment, and was detailed tore is a Democrat and an admirer of Carter H. Harrison. He votes and works for the straight Democratic ticket. He is a musician of considerable ability and has a well-trained voice. Though we do not indulge in spirituous liquors, in our opin ion Mr. Moore has two of the ablest dis pensers we have ever met. They are Mr. Hugh Carter and Mr. Thos. Cain. They A. MK. PONEY MOOKE. are well educated and thorough gentle men. Among the guests sojourning with Mr. Moore are Mr. and Mrs. Day of Montreal. Canada, and Mr. and Mrs. James T. Morgan of Vancouver Island, and Mr. Billy Edwards of Ixmdon. Eng land. The representative of the Advocate has been from the Atlantic to the Pacific and can say that there are few who equal and none that surpass the Turf. Notice. The Independent Dancing academy will open OctoUr 18. 1898, at Jacob’s hall. 1222 Twelfth street. Miss M. Carter and Prof. F. C. Curry, teachers. All are cordially invited. The grand march at 9 o’clock. Char tered car will be ready at l:5o o dock. Some ofthe new dance? which will be taught at the dancing school will be (lanced by Prof. Curry and Miss Carter on that evening. Also very fine refresh ments will be served.

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TROOPS HUT MASSHCRED Official Information that but Six Soldiers were Killed. SITUATION IS GRAVE. Conceded that Indians Have the Beat of It—Reinforcements Anxious ly Awaited. Washington, D. C., Oct. G.—Secretary Bliss telephoned the war department that he had just received a dispatch from Agent Tinker in which he stated a boat had just arrived from the scene of bat tle and reports that Maj. Wilkinson, one sergeant and four privates were killed; also that a deputy marshal was wounded and an Indian policeman killed; that the 200 troops on the way to the battle field are not enough. The war depart ment has ordered additional troops to start immediately. AN INDIAN’S STORY. Confiirms the Report of Small Loss of Life. Minneapolis, Minn.. Oct. 6.—A special to the Journal from Walker, Minn., says: I have just met an Indian named Mah- Ge-Guh-80, w’ho came over from Bear island in a canoe at 3a. m. He says the loss of the whites is ten killed and fifteen wounded. He denies that the troops have been nr'.ake Mary M '—x _ ’v-K Kt) y Gracelan& C of I Jv J CHIPPEWA _/N O. RES ?J' k' i /L Georye dan. J w 3 Jr arN»op Mro. o- 0 T S 4 ^fßjaß'ce eManfiUce —7) Zate le B 7 I J JK COL BUAN <y \fSLAHOL. ft Lc^ca. 'A/ashi^rn-^S. J MAP SHOWING SCENE OF INDIAN TROUBLE. wiped out. but says the Indians have had the best of it. Their loss, he claims, does not exceed five killed and wounded. The force with Bacon is probably safe and more encouragement is felt about it. I have other information that there are fifty dead Indians within a mile of the landing. A later special to the Journal from Walker. Minim says: Maj. Wilkinson, six privates and one Indian policeman are dead. Col. Sheehan is slightly wounded. Thirty Indians are dead. The Journal dispatch boat has just returned from the battle-ground. There has been desperate fighting all the morning. Indians Fire on the Wounded. The Journal boat brought out H. S. Talman. deputy marshal, and Col. Shee han. Sheehan is not badly wounded. He is shot in the abdomen. While the boat was transferring wounded men she was fired on from the brush. This was the signal for an immediate reopening of hos tilities. The troops opened on the Indians and in a second there was as fierce a figUt in progress as that of yesterday. Beaulieu narrowly escaped with his life. He had his shoulder bored clear through. We handled provisions and medicines. The firing became so hot we were compelled to weigh anchor and steam out into the lake. The Indians appear to be in force. Ba con’s command is too small to take the aggressive. The detachment is en trenched in a good position and can hold out so long as ammunition lasts. The steamer Chief was met by my boat eight miles out and has arrived ere this. She carries a posse of armed men. Maj. Wilkinson was shot and killed while walking up and down admonishing the men to keep their heads low. No braver man or better officer ever lived. The men in his command are crazed with rage. When reinforcements arrive they will weak vengeance on the Pillagers in their own way. The fight is not half over yet—the biggest battle remains to be fought. Wilkinson was Plucky. Capt. Wilkinson was shot through the leg and he had his leg dressed, took the field again and was shortly afterwards shot through the body, lying in a pool of blood. He raised himself to mje ejbqjv and shouted to Gen. Bacon: “Give tnem hell, general; never mind about me.” These were the last words of a true sol dier. Pilothouse Has Been Armored. The pilothouse of the Flora was ar mored with sheetiron before she pulled out this morning. Several shots fired with Winchesters at close range penetrated, nut at longer range the plating will af ford protection. The boat will m^et with a hot fire at Squaw point, half way through the nar rows. There is no other way. I be lieve there will be twenty or thirty In dians at this place all day today. It would not be surprising if Dr. Camp’s outfit landed and wiped them out. That strip of land must be captured or there will be heavy losses in making runs to Bear island. Just to show that Maj. Wilkinson knew his business, when the fight started yes terday he shouted: “Steady now, make every shot count. Kill everything you see.” The squaws are more to be dreaded than the bucks, and Cuba’s vultures were not more to be avoided. Lieut. Morrison has won his spurs. I never saw more splendid bravery in my life. “Aim straight.” he shouted, “don’t get rattled, boys. Those devils can’t get us. Try again.” he said, laughing, as a ball touched his hat and knocked it off. The men cheered him right in the thick of it and 1 know he was pleased. SENSATIONAL RUMORS. First Reports were that the Entire Force Had Been Massacred. Minneapolis, Minn., Oct. 6.—Arthur J. Pegler, the staff correspondent of the Journal, wires, at 8:30 this morning, from Walker, Minn.: The force of eighty men under Gen. Bacon has been annihilated. I do not know whether Inspector Tin ker has more information than I have, but he sent word to the war department last night that the Third infantry de tachment had been wiped out. I got in very late from an expedition on the Flora. We started out to carry supplies and rations to the troops. It was very dark off the shore and we sig naled for an hour. Corp. Nettlekoven used the code in use at Santiago. Either the troops have been driven in land or there is not a man of them left. No answering signal of any sort was re ceived, although we lay off and on the whole length of the headland. Impossible to Land. To land was an impossibility in the dark, as the reinforcements from Brain erd have not arrived and there was only one old Winchester rifle on the boat. “Reddy” Lasard, captain of the Flora, is a dead-game man and he would have landed. There was no possible doubt that the small force on the boat would have been annihilated if this had been done. There were men aboard who preferred to die in an effort at rescue, however futile it might have been. We had with us blankets and rations for the bluecoats if any of them survive. They slept last night in the open. A heavy frost pre vailed there. There is not so much as a coffee bean to divide between the whole command this morning. At a later date I am going to tell the whole truth about this expedition. Gross Mismanagement. I never knew such gross mismanage ment or witnessed such criminal obstinacy as has been exhibited here. The men of Macon’s command were taken out under conditions that would disgrace a mili tia sergeant were he responsible for them. Even life that has been lost here is a useless sacrifice. It broke my heart to see the poor fel lows dropping. Had a proper force been sent here in the first place not a shot would have been fired. I have hopes that Bacon may have entrenched himself and that the failure to answer signals last night was due to his determination not to betray his location. The men had 120 rounds of ammunition each. I hardly think they have exhausted their supply The newspaper correspondents—Brill. Beaton and Knappen—are still with the troops. I went with the force, deter mined to save them if possible, but it was impossible to locate them. On my return from Bear island I sent my- chartered steamer with Gus Beaulieu, a friend of the Chippewas and a man who has Chip pewa blood in his veins, to pick the news paper men up if they are to be found, and as he is absolutely fearless I have strong hopes, but I dare not express my opinion of the outcome so far as they are concerned. Unarmed, ill-clad, out of condition, without food or drink, the press representatives with Bacon are in desperate straits. Bacon an Old Indian Fighter. I believe on our run last night we did all that human beings could have done to find the missing. There was some thing horribly ominous in the dead silence that came from the stretch of brush where the fighting occurred. I do not fully en dorse the belief that every man iri the command is dead, because Gen. Bacon is an old Indian fighter and however badlv handicapped, I doubt very much whether he would permit twice the number of Chippewas to get away with him. Corp. Nettlekoven. the sharpshooter, is worth hi. weight in gold. He dropped a couple of bucks ovei on the point yester day afternoon with his Krag-Jorgensen at 2000 yards. Both the Indians were distinctly seen to stagger and collapse after he had shot at them. Our fighting preacher is worthy of dis tinguished mention. After the pilot was shot and I had gone aboard the Flora after the marshal’s instructions. Rev. Mr. Chandler took the tiller, and with a storm of Winchester balls whistling round his head, brought the boats away into port. I do not know what sort of pulnit or altar Chandler may be behind, but he is a dead game fighting man with no frills. I have kissed my hand to more whistling rifle balls in the last forty-eight hours than ever I care to meet again. are still Lighting. But the Firing is Desultory—Waiting for Reinforcements. St. Paul. Minn.. Oct. G.—A Walker (Minn.) special to the Dispatch says: A boat from the scene of action has just arrived. Fighting is still progressing. Maj. Wilkinson, one sergeant and three privates were killed and eight wounded. Kay-Bay-Gway-Tish. chief of the Indian police, was killed. It was impossible to bring the wounded to town, for the In dians kept up a constant fire on the boat. A special train with 200 additional sol diers will arrive here at 2 p. m., when they will be transferred to the scene of action as soon as possible. Not more than four Indians have been killed and only two wounded. Capt. Sheehan, head deputy United States marshal, arrived on the boat with a flesh wound in the abdomen and one in the right arm. He says that the Pil lagers do not number more than 100, but they fight as only demoniacal savages can. Unless overpowered by superior numbers not one of them will* quit fight ing while he has any breath in his car cass. They are holding out now with the hope that the Cass Lake Indians will soon come to their assistance. If they should arrive before our troops art rein forced the soldiers will have a desperate time of it. After the reinforcements get here it will take two hours to embark them and two hours more for them to get to Sugar point, therefore the best tlvit can be ex pected is that they will not be able to render much assistance, excent as to the force of numbers, until daylight Friday. The newspaper correspondents are all right. REINFORCEMENTS SENT. Three Companies Go from Fort Snell- ing to the Scene. Minneapolis, Minn.. Oct. 6.—A special train left for Fort Snelling at 7:40 this morning with Cos. B, F and H, under command of Lieut.-Col. Itarbach of the Third infantry. It will be rushed to the front, but cannot reach Walker before 2 o’clock under the most favorable condi tions. There are 200 picked men in the detach ment and they have three days’ rations and an abundance of ammunition. A Gatling gun is part of the equipment and further reinforcements wdll be kept ready to start at an instant’s notice. A car was attached by the Northern Pa cific for the use of the newspaper corre spondents. Additional representatives were sent by all the Twin City papers. CORBIN WON’T TALK. Declines to Reply to Criticism of the Campaign. Washington, D. C.. Oct. G.—The war department up to 11 o'clock today had re ceived no dispatches bearing on the Indian outbreak. The charges of mismanage ment made in the Minneapolis Journal’s special were shown to Adjt.-Gen. Corbin, who said: “It is a habit to criticise the management of military affairs now’.” He expressed doubt that there had been serious loss of life to the American troops. The following dispatch from Indian Inspector Tinker at Walker, sent this morning, has been received at the interior department: “Am informed 200 soldiers due here in four hours. Have not heard from Gen. Bacon's forces and do not know where they are.” HOW THE TROUBLE STARTED. The so-called Bear Island Indians be long to the Pillager band of Chippewas. They have been in Minnesota from time immemorial, and have hitherto been firm friends to the whites. Indeed, they have, on more than one occasion, rendered im portant services to the government and whites during past wars with the Sioux. This is how the pending trouble started: There were nine Bear Lake Indians be sides the chief to be arrested. Three hundred Indians participated in the dis turbance. The call for military assis tance came from the secretary of war, at the request of the secretary of the inte rior; Eight months ago Deputy United States Marshal Warren of White Earth tried to arrest Chief Bush Ear and nine other Indians of Bear island, but they resisted his authority. Some were charged with complicity in the illicit sale of whisky, and others are wanted as’wit nesses. Subseqeutnly all but the chief gave themselves up and were tried in the United States district court at Duluth. They were sentenced to serve thirty and sixty days. In the meantime the chief kept out of reach, and the chance to arrest him came only when the government paid off the India ns. Two weeks ago Deputy Marshal Mor rison of White Earth arrested two, one of them being the chief. The old war rant was sufficient. These prisoners were wanted as witnesses in several whisky cases, and also for resisting government authority. Deputy Morrison took advan tage of the circumstance of the govern ment paying the annuities', and had little trouble in making the arrests. The chief had come with the others for his pay. He was landed in rhe Indian jail on the reservation, but when he was being taken to the boat to start for Du luth a large band attacked the deputy and his posse, and the prisoners, includ ing Chief Bush Ear. escaped. On September 30 Lieut. Humphrey, with a squad of twenty men from the Third infantry, reached Walker under orders to assist the United States mar shal in rearresting Chief Bush Ear, and also take those concerned in the rescue of the old chief. The Indians kept away from the reservation and the troops, and spread ugly threats of their intentions in case another attempt was made to capture any of their number. It became evident that a trip to Bear island by the twenty soldiers would result in blood shed if not massacre of the entire forces The situation was wir d to Washington and orders await* d. Indian agents and inspectors assured the interior department that nothing seri ous was apprehended, but information re ceived in newspaper dispatches and from other sources gave another character to the situation. Lieut. Humphrey stayed at Walker and awaited instructions. De partment officials in Washington admit ted the Indians would have to be sub dued by a larger force if at all, and steps were taken to move a company of the Third infantry to Walker and see what effect the added strength would have on the Indians. The officers were given in structions to accompany the United States marshals and assist them in ar resting the turbulent Indians. Gen. Bacon took personal command of the expedition of eighty men, and, with Maj. Wilkinson, arrived at Walker on Tuesday last. The full seriousness of the situation was then made known. Col. Tinker. In dian agent, had been in conference with the Indians and the redskins had. with many dramatic gestures, announced that they would to the last man resist arrest. The start from ’Walker for Bear island was made Wednesday morning, Gen. Ba con and his force crossing I.eech Lake in tugs. They expected to find the Indians on Bear Island or trace their where abouts from there. A landing was made on Bog-a-Meg-Eshig Point, the habitation of the principal offender against United States laws, and after whom the point is named. The first shot was fired from Bog-a-Meg-Eshig’s house. ILOILO RETAKEN. Landing of Troops Causes Con sternation Among Insurgents —Most of Them Flee. Madrid. Oct. 6. —An official dispatch from Iloilo, Philippine islands, reports that the landing of troops there caused a panic among the insurgents and that 300 muskets, four cannon and a quantity of ammunition and a flag were captured. In addition eight Spanish prisoners were re leased and the insurgents were dispersed, the bulk of them withdrawing to the mountains and some of them surrendering. The clergy and the inhabitants, the dis patch says, have issued a manifesto in favor of Spain. Communication with Cebu has been re stored. In other encounters between the Span iards and insurgents recently thirty-six of the former were killed. MRS. GUILFORD INDICTED. Charged with the Murder of Emma Gill at Bridgeport. Bridgeport, Conn., Oct. 6.—Coroner Doten has completed his inquest into the death of Emma Gill, whose dismembered body was found in the yellow mill pond a few weeks ago, finding that she came to her death by felonious homicide at the hands of Nancy A. Guilford, assisted and abetted by Alfred Oxley and Rose Dray ton. The grand jury has indicted Nancy Guilford for murder in the second degree. This will facilitate her extradition from England. Col. Ray Goes to Manzanillo. Santiago, Cuba, Oct. 6.—Gen. Wood and Lieut. Wiley will await the arrival of Pettit's Fourth immunes before going to Manzanillo. The Fourth will be sta tioned at that point. Gen. Wood’s party will then begin the appointment of local officials. Capt. Mendosa left here with Col. Ray for Manzanillo, representing Gen. Lawton’s staff. Gen. Wood will vis it also the coast towns as far as Gibara and hence will go inland to Holguin, THE THIRD TOM HOME Gen. Ernst’s Brigade will Return to the Porto Rican Coast. ORDERED TO LEAVE Evident that it is the Intention to Withdraw All the Volunteers from the Island. *san Juan, Porto Rico, Oct. G.—The Ali <a,nte will sail for Spain today with 250 sick Spanish soldiers. Capt. Arlegui of the civil guard at Bayamo has been severely stabbed by some persons unknown. It is thought he will die. He is much disliked by the islanders. The officials at Bayamo promptly made several arrests, including a prominent physician, Dr. St. Hall. Capt. Arlegui and St. Hall have long been bit ter personal enemies. The physician is known as an American sympathizer. He had to leave the island during the war and but recently returned. When arrest ed he was on a sickbed from which he was removed to the jail. Popular opinion ac quits him of any connection with the stab bing. Trouble of this character has been for some time at Bayamo. A Spanish resi dent recently asked for American protec tion. Gen. Brooke replied that it was im possible to furnish this until the Spanish had evacuated the island and that in the meantime the Spaniards must look to the Spanish authorities for protection. The Bayamo occurrence increases the apprehension among the Spanish at San Juan, where there have been similar inci dents during the last few days. The United States postal authorities now at Rio Piedras will be ready to es tablish an office here at the earliest oppor tunity. The remainder of Gen. Ernst's brigade, the Sixteenth Pennsylvania and the Third Wisconsin, now at Cayey, has re ceived orders to proceed to Ponce on Friday next. It will take four days to make'the trip. At Ponce they will em bark for the United States, arriving be tween the 20th and the 25th. Since the cessation of hostilities the large percentage of sickness among these regiments has been largely due to inactiv ity and lack of interest, with severe guard and patrol duty. The men are overjoyed at the prospect of returning to the Unit ed States. Seven or eight old mortars, formerly on the city fortifications, were sold by the Spanish authorities and removed to the dock for shipment. The American com mission objected to the removal and the sale was declared off. The mortars will be replaced. It is said that Capt.-Gen. Macias, who has served Spain long and faithfully and has never known defeat or surrender, will leave the island before the formal delivery to the American government. The feeling which prompts this resolu tion is fully appreciated by Americans hero. FOUND IN A HOSPITAL. Private Shattuck of Co. L, Third Wis consin Turns Up. Sparta. Wis.. Oct. G. —[Special.]—The first letters received from Co. L. Third Wisconsin volunteers, from Porto Rico for two weeks arrived last night. Private John Shattuck, who has been missing from the company for a long time, was found in a hospital on the island. Corp. Fred Yanke. who has been in hos pital at Philadelphia for five weeks, ar rived here last evening. He reports his brother August, who was shot through the neck and arm. as doing well. The letters say the weather is getting cooler and that many of the boys who have had the fever are feeling fine. All the boys who came home on sick furlough are get ting along nicely. PROMOTIONS IN CO. E. First Lieut. Dawson Succeeds Capt. Boyer, Resigned, Camp Shipp, Anniston, Ala., Oct. G.— [Special.]—First Lieut. Dawson, Co. F. has been commissioned captain and Sec ond Lieut. Townsend first lieutenant to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Capt. Boyer. Preparations are being made for a grand field day to tak(* place a week from Saturday. The Fourth Wisconsin. Third Tennessee. Fourth Kentucky and Arkansas regiment will furnish the men to take part in the different contests and a royal good time is expected. Chaplain Jacobs has charge of the Wisconsin con testants. No more sick cases have been reported in the regiment. Today Lieut. Niemanu is officer of the day and Lieut. Leighy officer of the guard. WATER TROUBLES SUPERIOR. Sewage and Rust Make Consumers and Company Unhappy. Superior, Wis., Oct. 6.—[Special.]—W. S. Kirchofer, Baraboo’s city engineer, has resigned his position there to come to Superior to make an analysis of the city water supply and to suggest some plan for purifying it. The city supply is taken from a number of wells located on a point which projects into the lake and it has been found that the sewerage, which comes into the lake near by, goes through the sand into the wells and back to the city. The water also contains iron which enables a certain species of ba cilli to create much damage in the pipes by filling them with rust and also de stroying them. The plant is worth sl,- 125,000 and there is danger of its being ruined if the present conditions continue. NEARLY BURNED TO DEATH. Little Tillie Sladky of Manitowoc Suffers Fatal Injuries. Manitowoc. Wis., Oct. 6.—[Special.]— Yesterday afternoon at 4:30 o’clock smoke was seen issuing from one of the upper rooms of the building used by Wenzel Sladky as a saloon and boarding house and a fire alarm was turned in. Upon en tering the room. Tillie, the little 2^-year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sladky. was found with her clothes burned off her body and the bedding of the room on fire. The little girl is so seriously burned that her recovery seems impossible. The child was playing with matches. WAGON PASSES OVER NECK. Fond du Lac County Farmer Comes to a Sudden End. Campbellsport. Wis., Oct. G.—[Special.] —Frank Beaucage, a town of Osceola farmer who lived about eight miles north east of here, fell from his wagon last evening and broke his neck, dying in stantly. Mr. Beaucage owned two farms. He was hauling oats from one to the other. Suddenly a tug unhitched and threw the driver down immediately in front of the wagon, which passed over the neck. Mr. Beaucage was about 51 years old and leaves a widow and family of eight children. BOARDMAN RECOMMENDS Adjutant General Says Wisconsin National Guard Should be Like Army. Madison, Wis., Oct. 6.—ln his report to Gov. Scofield for the past two years Adjt.- Gen. Boardman makes some important recommendations for changes in the or ganization of the Wisconsin National guard and suggests legislation to that end. After a review of the past two years of the adjutant-general’s office he urges that the veterans of the Spanish war be re enlistcd in the state service and that the state military tactics and discipline con form as closely as possible to that of the standing army. Among other things he says: The reorganization of the Wisconsin Na tional guard to make it conform as nearly as possible to tlie United States army. The number of companies and battalions, and the number and grade of all officers in each regi ment should conform to the provisions for the same in the laws governing the organi zation of the army when war exists, in Wisconsin there have been some eight and some twelve company regiments, the state law allowing but forty companies of in fantry. There has been one more major and one more assistant surgeon in each regiment than are allowed in the United States army. In the state organization these extra offi cers should be dispensed with. Battalion adjutants should be detailed instead of per manently appointed, and the grade of regi mental adjutants, quartermasters and assist ant surgeons should be that of first-lieuten ant instead of captain. It is not necessary to make the number of men to a company provided for by the United States govern ment in times of war. as that would make the total number of men greater than the state needs, but the governor should be authorized in case of the outbreak of war and the use of the National guard as volun teers, to order captains of companies to re cruit up to the United States maximum. I believe also if the National guard system is maintained, as I think it should be, not for state service alone, but as a part of our national defense, that the state should strive to have the instruction of the organi zation placed more under the supervision of the United States government. This, it would seem, might be done without interfer ing with the state's authority over the troops. Ge::. Boardman makes other recommen dations, among them that the governor's staff be reduced to five aides de camp, and making military experience an essen tial to appointment as aide. This rec ommendation would result in materially reducing the nunier of colonels in the state in the future. Another recommendation is that regular army rations be issued to the troojis while at the annual encamp ment. This would accustom the men to the army ration, Gen. Boardman says, and have him prepared for it when he en lists in the United States service. Gen. Boardman also recommends the issuance of a complete field and'cooking outfit to each company, so that the troops shall be prepared for active service at any time. Another recommendation, and one which is likely to receive the attention of the Legislature at the approaching session, is that some legislative enactment be had, authorizing the payment of the troops, in stead of the state treasurer advancing the money each year, and awaiting an appro priation to repay him. MURDEROUS ASSAULT. Three Men Bound Over at Sturgeon Bay for Trial on a Serious Charge. Sturgeon Bay. Wis.. Oct. G.— [Special.] —George Thomas, William Carmody and George Papeneau of Egg Harbor were yesterday afternoon bound over to the cir cuit court by Justice Dehosen on the charge of stealing and assault with intent to kill. Emil Leiner is in a precarious: condition at his home in Egg Harbor from the effects of having been beaten on the head with rocks, his skull being frac tured. ELECTS NEW OFFICERS. Good Record of the Fond du Lac Ad vancement Association. Fond du Lac, Wis., Oct. G.—[Special.] —The Fond du Lac Advancement asso ciation. which was organized just a year ago, and which has held a prominent position in the history of the promotion of Fond du Lac’s business interests dur ing the year, held its annual meeting last evening. The association was formed after the Wisconsin had in its issues rec ommended that one be formed and after several leading gentlemen of this city had circulated a paper securing signers. The following officers were elected last evening: F. B. Hoskins, president; O. H. Ecke, secretary; J. C. Fuhrman, cor responding secretary; John W. Eggert, treasurer. The directors are Henry Boyle. John Hughes. L. A. Lange, L. F. Haas and George P. Dana. At the re quest of the members the secretary read a review of the work done during the past year. Among the business enter prises secured during the life of the as sociation are a canning factory, soap fac tory. Eastern Wisconsin Telephone com pany and an improved train service. As a result of the association’s work there will be two important conventions in this city next year. The November term of the circuit court which is the last in this city over which Judge Gilson will preside, lias a number of important cases. One of the most sen sational will be the acid-throwing case, for which Rose Sharp, the young woman who edits a paper at Oconto, is held. The Weightman murder cases and the Morri son green-goods case are others that will be interesting. TO LA CROSSE NEXT. State Convention of Good Templars Elect Officers and Change By-laws. Janesville. Wis., Oct. 6.—The Grand Lodge of Wisconsin Independent Order, Good Templars, elected officers today as follows: Grand Chief Templar, the Rev. W. H. Clark, Ripon; grand counsellor, Jasper Dex ter, South Wayne; grand vice-templar, Agnes Fuller, Oshkosh; grand superintendent of juvenile templars, H. A. Larson, Green Bay; grand electoral superintendent, E. W. Chaf in, Waukesha; grand secretary, Lieut.-Col. B. F. Parker. Milwaukee; grand treasurer. Mrs. L. W. Parker, Milwaukee; past grand chief templar, William S. Frazier, Madison. A bylaw was enacted, providing that all persons who have formerly been members of this order and have lost their standing be reinstated if they have not again violat ed their obligation. S. D. Hastings presented the report of the committee on prohibitory action which recommended that the Grand lodge me morialize the national authorities to enact laws and make such provisions that in all territory hereafter acquired by the United States the manufacture, sale and importa tion of all alcoholic beverages be stopped. This report was unanimously adopted. There was a lively fight for the place of holding the next session of the Grand lodge. Milwaukee. La Crosse and Wau paca were in the contest, but La Crosse won, receiving 63 out of 117 votes cast. Becomes an Auxiliary Member. Madison. Wis., Oct. 6.— [Special.] Assemblyman George W. Taylor of Mari nette has been appointed auxiliary mem ber of the state board of control, the ap pointment dating from September 1. Cannot Recover. Fond du Lac, Wis.. Oct. 6.—[Special.] —Louis Landerman. who was shot yes terday while out hunting, is suffering great pain, and, it is thought, he cannot recover. The lead passed into bis hip and into the fleshy portion of his body. A SOLDIER’S ESCAPE. From the Democrat-ifessage, Mt. Sterling, Dt When Richmond had fallen and the great commanders had met beneath the historic apple tree at Appomatox, the 83d Pennsylvania Volunteers, prematurely raged, clad in tatters and rags, broken in body but of daunt less spirit, swung into line for the last “grand review” and then quietly marched away to begin life’s fray anew amid the hills and valleys of the Keystone State. Among the number Asa Robinson came back to the old home in Mt. Ster ling, 111., back to the fireside that he had left at the call to arms four years previous. He went The Soldver s Return. away a happy, healthy farmer boy in the first flush of vigorous manhood; he came back a ghost of the self that answered to President Lincoln’s call for “300,000 more.” To-day he is an alert, active man and tells the story of his recovery as followsi “I was a great sufferer from sciatic rheumatism almost from the time of my discharge from the army. Most of the time I was unfitted for manual labor of any kind, and my sufferings were at all times intense. At times I was bent al most double, and got around only with the greatest difficulty. Nothing seemed to give me permanent relief until three years ago, when my attention was called to some of the wonderful cures effected by. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People. I had not taken more than half a box when I noticed an improvement in my, condition, and I kept on improving stead ily. I took three boxes of the pills, and at the end of that time was in better con dition than at any time since the close of my army service. Since then I have never been bothered with rheumatism. Dr. Wil liams’ Pink Pills for Pale People is the only remedy that ever did me any good, and to them I owe my restoration to comparative health. They are a grand remedy.” Brains in Whisky. In his recent work “Pioneering in For mosa” W. A. Pickering relates that he received the most hospitable treatment from the aborigines, though he found that they are cannibals to the extent of an occasional treat of their enemies’ brains beaten up in a villainous kind of whisky. The Granary of China. Formosan rice is so good and so abun dant that that island has earned the title of the “granary of China.” The tea raised on the island goes mostly to Ameri ca. Other profitable products are sugar, petroleum, indigo and coal. —About the year 1329 the woolen trade of England became located at Worsted, about fifteen miles from Norwich, and it was at this place that the manufacture of the twisted double thread of wmolen, afterward called worsted, was first made, if not invented. An Opportunity that will Soon be Gone The opportunity of the citizens of Wis consin to visit the greatest, most in structive and complete exposition ever held in Milwaukee will be gone after Oc tober 15, at which time it will close for this year. Thus far the show presented has been well patronized, and the special rate of a fare and a third given by the railroads on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, tickets good until the follow ing Monday, have been taken advantage of by many people desirous of visiting the Exposition and the city. Thousands of people who have this year visited Milwaukee’s successful in dustrial show unqualifiedly pronounce it superior to any yet held. The manufac turing plants are more numerous, the art gallery finer in collection and greater in number of studies, and the daily concerts a dream. No one should miss these fea tures. —Dry weather in California this sea son has caused the shutting dow r n of a number of stamp mills and placers. This will reduce California’s gold output for the year compared with 1897. Where to Buy Your Piano. Write for our special price-list. We sell the finest pianos at manufacturers’ prices. New uprights from $l5O up. The S. A. Mondschein Piano Co. 418 Broadway, Milwaukee, Wis. —Mrs. Langtry, the Jersey Lily, pos sesses a solid silver bicycle. TELEPHONES FOR PARTY AND PRIVATE LINES. FOR THE FARM. FOR THE HOME. FOR THE FACTORY. Write for Catalogue E FREE. JULIUS ANDRAE SONS CO., Milwaukee. Wis. ®Made to Order 6f0r58.50 Write Today for Styles and Measure lilanks. 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AGNOLIA A- J x >'WBlWmxr 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. MOI)ERN GRANDM vTH ERS. You “wonder where they’ve gone to, those grandmothers of yore. With such (plaint oid nursery Jingles, that we always cried for more, With their spectacles and aprons, and their ruffled muslin caps, And their puffs of snowy hair and their broad, enticing laps?” Why. they've gone, dear, with the children of those old and happy days, When little ones were little ones, in thoughts and nets and ways; When everything was different and simpler lives were led. Those days are gone, “the times have changed,” with that, the whole is said. The grandma of the “modern child” must crimp and talk and dress. If not. I fear, the modern child might love her grandma less. For lads and lassies of these days are crit ical, I ween, With a grandma of “ye olden time” they wouldn’t once be seen. But, after all, beneath the dress, and this we won’t forget. That grandma’s grandma, now as then, her love is ours yet. And if the children turn to her—demand her love and care, They’ll find that underneath it all the grand ma’s always there. DAVE’S RESOLVE Sprawling down one hill and half way up another was a little village; at the corner of its main street stood the White Lion inn. The sun poured yellow light through the bar windows onto the sanded floor, and on. the figures of two men who sat talking at a table. “I tell you he’s sweet on my cousin Phoebe, dang him!” exclaimed the young er man, bringing his fist down on the ta ble. “And what’s tha got to say to it?” re fllied the other, in a slow, heavy voice. “Josh Tuckett ’ull never see no darter o’ his married to a drunkard.” “Dave ain’t no drunkard; he takes his glass and goes out. Dang him, 1 wish he wor.” The elder inan leaned forward and caught hold of the button of his com panion’s coat. “Answer me this, Tummas Rod.” he said, “didn’t his father die o’ drink?” “Ay, sure.” “And his grandfather afore him?” certain.” “Bain’t his three brothers lying in the cnurchyard at this very minet reglar soak mg the* place wi’ spirits; the grass niver growed casual over their graves the same a* it did over t'other folkses.” “"’hat's that got to de with Dave?” “Why, begore, he’ll come to the like sooner or later, mark my words es he don t. He's a drunkard now —at heart. Scores o’ times I’ve reckoned to hear his throat split and crack when the drink drizzled down it.” A heavy flush arose on Rod's face. “And may it; the sooner the better,” he said. “You and he wor thick enuff as boys,” replied the old man, rising and regarding him curiously. Rod' turned away and went back to the bar. “Didn’t I tell ’ee that he be sweet on my cousin and her on him?” he an swered, in a sullen voice. There was a sound of footsteps, and Dave entered, the old man taking his de parture at the same time. Rod glanced with quick scrutiny at the newcomer's gaunt but boyish face, as, dropping his bag of tools, he flung sixpence on the counter. “A half-and-half. Tom.” he said, “My throat ba reglar dring’d (squeezed up) with thirst.” The flush on Rod's face receded, leav ing it ashen gray. He filled a small glass to the brim with spirits and pushed it across the bar. Dave swallowed the con- ASK YOUR DRUGGIST STANDARD CHEMICAL WORKS tents at a gulp and stood fingering the glass nervously. “Take another nip.” said Rod. “Naw, wan ba anuff, thank ’ee.” “Come, I’ll stand yer.” Dave’s thin, white face reddened. “I dursn’t.” he said, turning away and pick ing up his bag of tools. The innkeeper burst into a rough laugh. “You puts me in mind of a maid before her first kiss, terrible afraid but wonder fully willing,” he replied. “Come,” he urged, unsteadily, “drink me success to something I’ve set my mind on.” There was silence a moment. “Ba it zummat pertikler speshil?” Dave asked at length. “I told ’ee I’d set my mind on it.” “Drink ba kindidling tempstone.” Dave muttered, half to himself, as he watched Rod filled two glasses with spir its. “Wull,” he added, gulping down the spirits with feverish impatience, “may ’ee git what ’ee want and more.” Rod looked at him a moment, his lips twitching: “To the damnation of Dave Vlint, body and soul!” he exclaimed, and, draining the glass, flung it across the bar at the wall opposite. For a few moments the men regarded each other in silence, then Dave turned on his heel, halted a moment at the door and glanced back. “Did ’ee mean they wuds?” he said. ‘Twor nort but a bit of fun,” Rod an swered, forcing a laugh. “Ther ain’t nort speshil vantysheeny (showy) in sich jokes,” replied Dave, and going out he left Rod alone. He made his way through the street and up the hill behind the village, where the pine trees stood massing the blue sky like heavy blue-green clouds. Leaving the road, he entered the wood by a footpath. It was autumn; the ground was strewn with cones; overhead the wind soughed with the sound of the sea. Standing be side a broken stile was a girl; her chest nut hair escaping from the kerchief that bound it, rippled and curled about her neck and forehead. Dave started when he saw her and advanced more slowly. She came toward him. and they stood to gether; she was not tall, about as high as his heart. “Wat’s come to ’ee Dave?” she ex claimed, in a soft guttural voice; “it’s three weeks since you’ve been a-nigh me.” He was silent, averting his eyes as if he were afraid to look into hers. “You made me love ’ee. you made me love ’ee.” she burst out, her voice trem bling. “and now—” “Phoebe, lass, ’tis better that I bide away.” “You ’shud o’ thort o’ that afore,” she said; bitterly. “Aye, sartin’ I shud.” She caught hold of the two lapels of his coat. “Dave, Dave.” she cried, “you don’t love me arter all; and you swore me true down by the Wishing well.” “I didn’t love ’ee then the zame as I do now by a deal,” he remarked, taking her hands in his. “Oh, lad, I can't fathom ’ee,” she said, with a sob. “Sweetheart, it is the drink I’m afraid of; ’tjvufi have me wan day like did my vather and brothers afore me.” “But I bain’t afeard.” “I might be cruel and hard on ’ee, lass,” he said, pressing her hands tight against his broad chest. “A man can’t answer for himself when the drink’s upon him.” Her dark-gray eyes filled with tears. “But I bain’t afeard, Dave,” she reiter ated. “I bain’t afeard.” He looked at her with great tender ness. “I dursn’t, dear heart; I dursn’t,” he said, and his voice shook. “Ther wud bathe times atween whiles,” she urged. Turning from her, he caught hold of a tree bough and steadied himself. “Lass, lass, don't put in mind o’ ’em.” “You ain’t loving me the same as you did, or ’ee wudn’t need no minding,” she A Skin and Face Food For Tan and Wrinkles exclaimed brokenly. “And I ain't fallen off in good looks.” She came around the tree, stood in front of him. and. unbinding her handkerchief, shook her thick chest nut hair about her shoulders. “See, Dave,” she continued, “it’s vine and long for all it loses in the curl; and my voot, too, Dave,” —she kicked off her shoe— “’t is wonderfully arched, and a deal smaller than the young ladies’ up to the gneat house. My arms, Dave,” she slipped back her sleeves—“they might be a chile’s, ther’s that bedimpled.” Stopping abruptly, she burst into tears. “Oh. lad, lad,” she sobbed, “you bain’t looking, you bain’t looking.” He let go the branch of the tree, took her in his arms and drew her close up against his breast. He put back her head with gentle force and kissed her mouth and eyes, her throat ami bosom. As they stood, molten in one mould, there came down the wind the sound of children’s laughter; hearing it, the man and woman fell trembling, then apart. They stood staring at each other like two people guilty of a crime. “There ba them that might ba born ar ter us,’ he said hoarsely. She watched the sudden hardening of his mouth. “Must us mind on ’em?” she pleaded; “must us mind on ’em?” “I cud niver fo’ce no chile o’ ours to bear wat I’ve been fo’ced to bear.” he answered; ‘twad ba devil’s wark—l cudn’t do it.” Her face grew white and hopeless. “I can't feel for the chikier; I ain’t no moth er yet,” she said brokenly. Desire shook him; he looked at her slight form that seemed to tremble into womanhood before his eyes, then, with an abrupt cry, he turned and left her. She flung herself down and wept— through the trees her wailing followed him, yet his heart cried out so loudly that he knew not if the wailing came from her lips or his own. Long he wan dered in the wood, but when night fell returned again to his cottage. Pushing open the door, the moonlight streaming after him. he entered the small kitchen. On the table, the cork withdrawn, was a bottle of spirits—the air reeled with the smell of it. He did not know whose hand had placed it there, but his harsh thirst demanded slaking, and forced him for ward. Clutching at his throat, striving to tear the thirst from it, he advanced, the bottle glistening in the moonlight, look ing as if it were alive. He cast an agon ized glance around the walls, seeking help from familiar things, and his eyes fell on his gun. A sob of relief broke from him; he took down the gun, loaded it hurriedly, the smell of the spirits drip ping onto his lips, he licked it down. lie snatched the bottle from the table, shoul dered his gun and went out —up through the woods, past the broken stile, where the coarse grass lay pressed close to the earth, and Phoebe had flung herself down and wept. With averted face he passed the spot and entered deep into the heart of the wood. At last he stopped; about him the trees grew close and thick; no eye but God’s could see his shame. He leaned his gun up against a branch; the moon light edged itself between the trees, and he held the bottle up. “So yer have got the best o’ me at last,” he said; “yer have got the best o’ me at last.” The bottle glistened; he brought it near er his lips, his thirst pressed for quench ing, the thirst that he would slake before he shot himself. “Yer smiling devil.” he burst out, with sudden fierceness, “yer reckon to catch me, do ’ee. No, by hell, yer don’t: I’ll die wi’out tasting ’ee,” and he dashed the bottle to fragments at his feet. A mo ment later he had flung himself upon the ground, striving to lick up the spirits with his tongue. “Dog that I ba. dog that I ba.” he sobbed. “No better than a dog—no better than a dog.” Sick with shame and horror, he re gained his feet; he took a piece of cord from his pocket, made a loop on it, at- 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 Agnol Pile Cure. An Absolute Cure for Piles. Polishine. The Best Putz Pomade for Cleaning and Pol ishing all Metals. taching one end to the trigger of the gun. He pressed the cold steel barrel up against his hot beating heart, and placed his foot in the loop. “A dog’s death for a dog,” he muttered. The moonlight shone on him, on the gun, and on the broken bottle at his feet; the glistening glass attracted him and he started at it. fresh thoughs crowding his brain. A tremor ran through him; raising his eyes, he fixed them on the moonlit heavens and gray windspun clouds. “Ther ba zombat in me a'zide the dog,” he said, slowly. “Ay begore, I’ll live game, ’ll zee it droo,” and drawing himself together, he turned his face once more in life. —Black- wood’s Magazine. American College Girls. American girls can go to college now by thousands and tens of thousands, as unconcernedly as they used to go to the grammar schools. It is now expected that a girl shall go to college if she wants to quite as much as boys, and some pa rents in moderate circumstances act upon the principle that it is rather more neces sary for girls to be well educated since there are more occupations wherein young men can succeed in the world than young women. Apart from possible professional or business life, says the Boston Tran script, the future home and society mak ers of America go to college for love of study and for the broader and better culture which college training gives them. If the great need of a nation is mothers, as Napoleon raid, it looks as if Twentieth century Americans are to have healthy and well-educated mothers to give the best possible start in life. There is no more nonsense talked about the health of col lege girls. Most of them improve in strength and in poise of nerves during their years with their books. Early hours, regular tasks and all the forms of modern girls’ athletics keep up the stand ard of good health during the years of special intellectual training of the daugh ters of America in all of her colleges and universities. Only a Crossing-Sweeper. A Lnodon crossing-sweeper, whose “pitch” is close to a fashionable west end club, recently went to the Isle of Wight for a few weeks’ holiday, while his pa trons were temporarily ousted from their quarters by the painters. He was re turning a few days since, riding in a sec ond-class carriage, well attired, and sport ing an immaculate silk hat. At a way side station one of the club members, an army officer, entered the same compart ment, and was saluted with a “How do, general?” The gallant officer courteously responded, and then, puzzled to know who his traveling companion was, remarked. “You have the advantage of me. May I have the pleasure of exchanging cards with you?” “I haven’t one with me, gen eral,”* was the response, “but I am cross ing-sweeper outside your club.” In re counting the adventure to an acquain tance the astonished officer asserted, with vehemence, that “not another penny” will the “gentleman” get out of him. Ancient Roman Hospital Found. An ancient Roman hospital has been brought to light at Baden, near Zurich, the discovery having been made in con nection with recent excavations at Win disch, the Roman Vindonissa. It con tains fourteen rooms, supplied with many kinds of medical, pharmaceutical and surgical apparatus, the latter including probes, tubes, pincers, cauterizing instru ments and even a collection of safety pins used in bandaging wounds. There are also medicine spoons in bone and silver measuring vessels, jars and pot for ointment, some still containing traces of the ointment used. Rabbit Skins for Sealskins. Australian rabbit skins are being con verted into sealskins for the American market. JOHN F. BURNHAM, President j HUMOROUS^ “Is he really so eminent?” “Well, I’ll tell you: He never indorses a patent medicine with less than a three column cut.” —Indianapolis Journal. Molly—“I wonder why those chickens are called leghorns.” Dolly—“ Don't you see the little horns on their ankles?”— Broooklyn Life. He —“A woman says no when she means yes.” She—“No!” He—“ Aha, then you admit it?” —De- troit Journal. He—“Do you know, when you walk you move just like a poem?” She (blush ing)—“Ah, do you really think so?” He —“Yes; one foot always right after the other.”—Cleveland Leader. The Comedian —“There is no doubt, my boy, that hunger is the best sauce.” The Tragedian—“ Very true—but, ye gods' we have nothing to go with it.”— Brooklyn Life. Doctor—“ That’s a bad razor-cut in your head. Rastus; why don’t you profit by this lesson and keep out of bad company?” Rastus—“Ah would, doctah, but ah ain’t got no money toe get er divorce.”—Life. “And why do you think he would make a good husband?” “Because he is always praising you, mamma.” “Silly dear.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Mrs. Vanderbeck —“This dress cost me many sleepless nights.” Mrs. Dyer— How was that?” Mrs. Vanderbeck —“I had to wait until Henry was asleep before I could go through his pockets.”—Town Topics. Warm—“ About the hottest thing I have seen lately,” Asbury Peppers remarked, as lie speared the best slice of melon, “was an old salt with a peppery temper who had just been mustered out.” —Cin- cinnati Enquirer. He was enjoying an ear of corn in the good, old-fashioned way. “You look as if you were playing the flute,” his hostess remarked, smiling. “Oh, no,” was the amiable retort; “it’s a corn-et I’m play ing. by ear.” —Judge. A new Flemish word has been coined to express the French word “automo bile.” Draw in plenty of breath and pro nounce its “Snclpaardeloozonderspoorweg petroolrijtuig.” To be correct, if not al ready accepted, the word has at least been proposed at a session of the Flemish academy at Antwerp.—London Chronicle. Crabshaw —“What do you mean by cheating me like this? You said this chain 1 bought here would last a life time, and here’s all the plating worn off in a month.” Goldstein—“ Mine frendt, I said dot shain would last you a lifetime, because vhen you puy it you look so sick I didn’t t’ink you vould live der veek oudt.”—Puck. A man had his purse stolen, and. un fortunately, it contained a good deal of money. One day. to his great surprise, he had a letter from the thief, enclosing a small portion of his property. The letter ran as follows: “Sir, I stole your munny. Remawse is noring at my conshense, so I send sum of it back. When it nors again, I will send sum maw.” —Tit-Bits. A youth who much desired to wear the matrimonial yoke had not sufficient courage to “pop the question.” On in forming his father of the difficulty he labored under, the old gentleman pas sionately replied: •’Why, you great booby, how do you suppose I managed when I got married?” “Oh. yes,” said the bashful lover, “you married mother, but I’ve got to marry a strange girl.”— Tit Bits. “I dunno’s as I kin git my money back,” said Mr. Corntossel, as he rue fullv rubbed his brow; “but I must say as how I ain’t going to recommend any AFTER USING. customers to that concern.” ‘Have you been making investments?” “I sent a dol lar to a man who advertised that he would tell a sure way to make money fast.” “Didn’t you get any answer?” “Yes. He says, ‘Put glue on it.’ ”—Wash ington Star. “How did the old charity dodge work last term?” was asked of the university student who is packing up his traps with a view to another go at the classics. “Did it add much to your allowance?” “Fiz zled clear out. I wrote the governor that I wanted some money to help a poor fam ily that was in an almost starving condi tion. Inside of forty-eight hours he sent me a barrel of flour and two hames.” —De- troit Free Press. Little Willie accompanied his mamma on a shopping tour the otner day and see ing a bear and seal in a window he asked if they were alive. “Of course not,” re plied his mother. “They were shot and stuffed ami stood up tv look as if they were alive.” “Are those ladies in the oth er window alive?” he inquired. “No, dear,” was the reply. “They are only dressed-up figures to show the styles in furs.” “And were they shot and stuffed, too?” queried the little fellow. TO NAVAL CONSTRUCTOR HOBSON. (On the Floating of the Maria Teresa.) Before, we were thinking Yon plucky for sinking The Merrimac down with a thud; And, now, we are praising Your skill in just raising That Spanish ship out of the mud. When ordered to sink Y'ou submerged in a wink Cervera's out-coming to balk. When ordered to float, All your air-bags you bloat And Maria bobs up like a cork. —George Crouch In the New York World. In a group of women in a New York police court stood a smartly-dressed col ored sister. When she opened her mouth to explain her conduct she displayed four teeth filled with diamonds, which glis tened brightly. The magistrate inquired about the diamond fillings, and the wom an said it was her fad. The wise lawgiver said: “A woman who can have her teeth filled with diamonds can pay a high line. I will asses you $10.” The other sinners were taxed only half that sum. The American Flag. It is not generally known that the Star Spangled Banner of the United States is older than any one of the present flags of the great European powers. It was adopt ed in 1777 by the Congress of the thirteen colonies of North America, then at war with the mother country. The yellow and red Spanish flag came out in 1785; the French tricolor was adopted in 1794; the red English emblem, with the Union Jack in the upper corner, dates from 1801; the Sardinian (now the Italian) flag first flut tered in 1848; the Austro-Hungarian flag was one of the consequences of the com promise of 1807; the present German flag appeared in 1871. and the Russian tri color is quite a recent affair. The only modification that the American flag has undergone since its origin consists in the addition of a new star every time a new state is taken into Ihe Union. The stars now number forty-five, and, unfortunate ly for Spain, it is more than likely that they have not yet come to the end of their multiplication.—Paris Figaro. To Cook by the Sun. An inventor in India has devised an ap paratus whereby the sun may be made to do the cooking. It consists of a wooden box lined with reflecting mirrors, at the bottom of the box being a small copper boiler, and is covered with glass to retain the heat centered by the mirrors ujion the boiler. In this apparatus food may Im quickly baked, stewed or boiled, the result depending upon whether the steam is re tained or allowed to escape. —Bret Harte is the guest of Mme. Van de Velde at her English place, Aveley Towers, in the Bourne district.

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READING SERVICES, 8 P. M. Prayer Meeting Every Tuesday, 8. P. M. Preaching Every Thursday, 8 P. M. Rev. J. B. ODEAM, Pastor, 223 7th St. ALL ARE INVITED. Representatives of this paper are fre qmntly Asked. “What party are yon sup porting? Is the Advocate a Republican, Democratic, or Populistic sheet?’ In re ply we wish to say the Advocate is not a political paper, but as you will we by the frontispiece, it is devoted to the* interests of the Negro Race. It is tied to the a] ron-strings of no political party. Where it finds a Strong and rugged man. an hem st. conscientious citizen, who is a frit nd of the Negro, we favor such an one for nomination and election, no mat tt r to what party he may belong. We would do everything in our power to bring about the defeat of one who was lacking in these- principles, regardless of the political party or faction of a party who were responsible for his nomination. This we believe to be the true policy which the Negro should adopt. The War of the Rebellion and the abolition of slav ery are dead issues of the past and have nothing to do with the present campaign. The question of the hour is, and one which the candidates of each party should answer is. What recognition are you going to give us* Which of the thousand positions which an* dealt out is to be given to the Negro? What is he to get? We are tired of men riding to wealth and political preferment on our shoulders and then turning us down. The f spe cial courtesy and was hospitably enter tained. St. Andrews’ Brotherhood is one of the strongest organizations in point of numbers in the city and Brother Mat thews is the only colored member. Wo are proud to say he acquitted himself with great credit and distinction. Ihe Advocate has upon its list Mrs. Carrie Alphonse Johnson, a competent stenographer and typewriter, who is de sirious of obtaining employment in a law office or some business house. Mrs. John son is a graduate of the Minnesota La dies’ seminary of Minneapolis. Minn., and is thoroughly comj>etent. Her husband. Prof. Alphonse Johnson is an accomp lished piano tuner and musician. He gives lessons on piano, organ and other musical instruments. The couple may be found at 248 Fifth street. Any person having anything in their line will do well to give them a call. Parties visiting Chicago should call on Mrs. T. Townsend. 86 Custom House place. She has an elegantly-furnished ho tel ami boarding house with all modern improvements. Her husband is one of Chicago’s prominent men. The Burmese. The Burmese will sacrifice any pros pect of money making to go io a feast. These are called pives. and often the en tertainment is elaborate. I remember going to one in Upper Burmah. There was a good deal of dancing, but neither the host nor his guests danced; that would have been undignified. The dancers were paid, and they twirled lazily or jumped excitedly as occasion required. Most of the time, however, was spent in chatter and smoking. Smoking is the only thing at which the Burmese are in dustrious. They start smoking at the early age of 3. and they smoke themselves into the next world. Girls smoke quite as arduously as the men, and as the cigars are very big, many a pretty mouth is strained to accommodate a giant cheroot.—Pall Mail Magazine. Would Need Saving. Prof. Wilson of Edinburgh University was recently appointed honorary physi cian to the Queen, says the San Francisco Argonaut. On the morning of his a>- pointment he informed his pupils vs the honor he had received by means of a blackboard in the laboratory, thus: “I’rof. Wilson informs his students that he has this day been appointed honorary physi cian to the Queen.” During his tempo rary absence from the room one of the students added the words: “Ged save th« Queen!” HON. JOSEPH V. QUARLES. One of the most successful lawyers, one of the clearest, most forcible and most eloquent advocates in the state of Wiscon sin, is Joseph V. Quarles. His father was among the earliest of the settlers of the state. He was born at Southport, now known as Kenosha, December 16, 1843. He was educated in the public and high schools of his native town, and when 17 years of age he began teaching school to earn money with which to complete his education. In 1862 he entered the Uni versity i f Michigan, but the same year left to enlist with the Thirty-ninth Wis- HON. JOSEPH V QUARLES, Milwaukee, Wis. cousin, with which he served with honor as first lieutenant of Co. C. At the close es the war be re-entered the university and graduated in 1866. He then spent one year in the Law r department, but his money being exhausted, he was compelled to leave, and he finished his law studies in the office of O. S. Head at Kenosha. Upon his admission to the bar, in 1868. he formed a partnership with Mr. Head, which continued until 1875. He was dis trict attorney of Kenosha county, mayor -i livery, Boardings Sale Stable 414-426 CRAND AVENUE, REAR, CARRIAGES: Nos. 12,16,17,50,63, MILWAUKEE, WIS. WITY NOT -^•buy;g 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 tor $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. AMATEUR FINISHING Interior and Exterior Views Made. PRICESON KODAKS AND SUPPLIES 531 Grand Avenue, Cor. Sixth Street. HARRY SAPIRA DEALER IN £2., FURNITURE Stoves, Carpets, Pictures BOUGHT, SOLD AND EXCHANCED 453 Third Street, MILWAUKEE, WIS. WHEN IN CHICAGO.^ Don't forget to Call at WILLIAMS’ OysterandChopHouse Cor. 29th and State Streets, wh*re you will be promptly served and guaran teed satisfaction. Ladies’ Private Dining Rooms, 293 State Street. Before Going Elsewhere You Had Better Apply to the Badger State Express Co. P. L. SAYLES, Prop. at 328 Wells St. or at 248 Fifth St. Prompt and polite attention rendered and safe delivery made to any portion of the city. Satisfaction Guaranteed.

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ST' What’s a wife when a man can af ford to own a good dog? A man generally wears his first dress suit about the way he carries his first baby. The more trust a good woman puts in a man the more she will generally find in him to trust. If the women get to working in Chris tian Science on love affairs there won’t be any hope for the men. Women are better than men are. Men very seldom love their enemies, but women ’most always kiss them. When a girl tells another girl that she is engaged to two men at once she tries to talk in a hushed, subterranean voice. You can always tell from the outside of a house which is the spare bedroom by the way the window curtains are fixed up. A married woman is probably anx ious to get all the girls she knows mar ried off so the man can’t teach them to crow over her. The mission-school habit is probably the strongest while it lasts, but the sachet habit makes a girl's family a lot more uncomfortable. The reason why it takes a woman so long to make up her mind is because she wants to think up all the ways she can possibly change it. A woman has to have a lot more pa tience to let the cat in and out than she has for her husband, because if she didn't it would leave her. if the average man wore as brave and handsome as his wife believes he is. lie would probably have married some other—better-looking—woman. HOME-MADE CANNON. Luilt for Use Against the English During the Boer War. This, says the Wide World Magazine, represents a cannon made by the Boers for use against the English during the Boer war. The intelligent looking gen tleman standing beside the ‘'field gun" is the sole inventor and maker of this I I W S >l l■ home-made field gun. not too deadly weapon. It is composed of ordinary tire-iron, such as is used to-day for the huge wheels of Boer trek wagons; and even the imposing look ing carriage upon which the gun is mounted is nothing more than the after part of a cumbrous bullock wagon. FOR ATHLETES. Machine Especially Desicaed for Gen eral Physical Training. A machine especially designed for aquatic and general physical training, but which is also finely adapted to road and track work, is soon to be exhibited by an eastern company, under the di rection of which it has been construct ed. In effect, this new apparatus for gymnasium and road use is a bicycle and rowing machine combined. As the accompanying illustration indicates, the machine is propelled by oarlike attach JI Ilf W \/7 I v UI Wi- v V toy ritOPKLLKD LIKE A BOAT. meats. It is propelled, steered, brake applied, gearing changed and bell rung all without changing position of the hands. Most Renowned Pianists. Women nave divided with the men. almost equally, the honors of excellence as soloists on the piano, violin and oth er instruments. Among the men the greatest names are Thalberg, Henselt, Mayor. Dreyshock, Heller. Litolff. Kul lak. Hans von Bulow. Hans von Bron sart, Tausig, Bendel, Schulhoff, Scholtz and Brassin. Among the ladies are to be found Theresa Milanollo, Wilhel mine Neruda. Tvresiua Tua. Arma Senkrah, Wilhelmine Szavardi, Clara Schumann. Mary Krebs. Engeltorg Bronsart, Anna Mehlig, Sophie Menter Arabella Goddard, Marie Wieck, An nette Essipoff, Vera Timanoff, Mar garethe Herr-Stern. Laura Rappoldi and Martha Remmert. The leading piano artist of the present day is Pa derewski, who undoubtedly stands at the head. After one name of acknowl edged excellence is mentioned the num- Iht of those who stand second is so great that discrimination might prob ably be unfair. The man who invented advice never intended that any one should take It. This was not in the specifications. Whose duty is it ait your house to put down the windows when it rains? 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 iu 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 Tuesdays at 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. i. 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 Wisconsin •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. m. COLORED PEOPLE’S 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 Raths ami 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. 11. Whitfield. Clerk, Attorney Walker. Loan Trust building. JOHN MILLER, janitor Cawker building. MISS MARION BERRY, clerk in office of Dr. Becker, Colby -‘bhot building. JAMES A. JOHNSON, Delivery Clerk, Simbel Bros. WM. TATE. Assistant Janitor City Hall. S. R. BANKS, Tonsorial Parlors, 224 Wells street. MR. G. L. GAINES. 192 Third street. MR. J. J. MILES. 408 Wells street, or Plankinton House. MR. “AL.” DANDRIDGE. Messenger, St. Paul Station. MR. N. F. BUTT. 194 Third street. DR. J. A. JOHNSON, Dentist, No. 56, Loan Trust Building. MR. A. V. HAINEY. Mail Clerk for Wis consin Central Railroad. MR. JOHN SLAUGHTER. 180 Third st. Mr. WM. WATSON, with Wisconsin Cen tral Railroad. MR. ASBURRY, 315 Wells street, or 99 South Buy street. MR. IRVING POTTER, Davidson Hotel. MR. L. M. BANKS, 584 Grand avenue. WAUKESHA BUSINESS DIRECTORY. Valentine Tiller—Restaurant, 714 Clin ton street. Jackson—Whitewasher and Painter, 620 Main street. C. W. Brown —Barber Shop, 22S Broadway. C. 11. King—Manager Waukesha Baths. A. J. Valentine. Proprietor of the Valen tine Hotel, 311 Madison street. Tiller, R. C. —Cook, 714 Clinton street. Reese, Miss Gertrude anti Beatrice—Hair Dressing Room. 307 South street. Mr. Reese—Janitor of High School, 309 Madison street. MR. SIDNEY BLACK. Pastor. GEOSKEy,'S Restaurant and Sample Room. cor. of Clinton street and Broadway. LAND OF MANY THIRSTS. Natives of Egypt Do Not Waste Water by Drinking It. The Egyptian never travels without his goolah. He fills it with filtered water and in tlie morning can command a pint or more of water cooled by evaporation through the unglazed clay. This precious fluid he does not waste on unsatisfied thirst. Taking off the long white wrap and the piece of cloth that covers his head during sleep, the native pours the water over his head, neck and hands. The European, with all his instinct for cleanliness, seeks first to relieve his over mastering thirst. There are in Egypt as many thirsts as plagues, but the dust thirst is the worst. Every pore is sealed; the throat is a lump of dry clay and one feels what it must be to be a mummy.— London Standard. Not Exchangeable. “I hear you have a little sister at your house,” said a Chicago grocer to a small boy the other day. “Yes, sir,” said Johnny. “Do you like that?” was queried. “I wish it was a boy,” said Johnny, “so I could play ‘mibs’ with him, an’ baseball an’ tag. an’ all those things when he got bigger.” “Well.” said the storekeeper, “why don’t you exchange your little sister for a boy Johnny reflected for a minute. Then he said, rather sorrowfully: “We can’t now. It's too late. We’ve used her four days.” Particular Footman. Recent proceedings in bankruptcy have apparently been attentively watched by at least one intelligent footman. He has quite made up his mind that it is advisa ble to keep clear of the service of “guinea pigs.” In a letter to a West End registry office, requesting to be put down for a vacancy, Jeames says: “Having been ac customed to be with noblemen. I should like to get into the service of one, if possi ble, but not a professional company direc tor, as a future reference from such might conduce to my detriment." It is to be hoped that this fastidious man of plush will be suited. —Westminster Gazette. Ample Proof. “I don’t know whether you were in the army or not.” said the street car conduc tor, who had been instructed not to collect fares from soldiers. “You haven't your uniform.” “That’s a fact. But taste this.” “It's quinine.” “Yes. Watch me swallow it. There," he proceeded, as he smacked bis lips: “that ought to be proof enough. When a ■man can eat a handful of quinine without making a face, the chances are about a hundred to one that he has been in one of Uncle Sam’s camps for a while."—Wash ington Star. Good Ke as ons. The queerest grounds for divorce yet advanced are those alleged by a certain Ida Jenks in Topeka. Kas., who asserts in her petition that her husband, Amos D. Jenks, wears his underclothes con tinuously and indefinitely. It is his cus tom. she alleges, to put on a new suit and wear it until it is worn out. The plea has a grotesque look, but it must be admitted that as divorces go in the West. Mrs. Jenks has a very substantial griev ance. Jenks is a pig. Who would live with a pig, if one could help it? Friday’s Special Trading Opportunity AT the: Bargains on every hand. Seasonable goods at a saving of and *4 Special Time Sale in Flannel Dep’t FROM 6 TO 9 A. M. S 10c Light Colored Flannelettes, 6c Shaker Flannel, 6c Outing Flannel, ■^/•Yardc 6c Cotton Flannel, J 10 yards to each buyer. s Children’s Cloaks Children’s Eiderdown Cloaks, sizes from 1 to 5 years, in tan, blue, lavender and fancy stripes, also white, handsomely trimmed with silk cord, baby ribbon and Angora fur—several very pretty styles, none d? ft worth less than $2.50, our price >0 t SPECIAL IN Collarettes A Fine Electric Seal Collarette made with Astrakhan yoke, deep storm collar, full sweep, lined with best quality Farmer’s satin, a beauty, worth fully $6.50. Our Price, $4.98 Trimming Braids. Fancy Braids in great varieties, all IQ an ,i OEp new designs, special at IV, ZuL per yd. Soutache Braids, all colors, mohair, fine quality, t Oz^ piece of 24 yds IVL Millinery Opening The following Special Prices for Friday and v- Saturday: Large Quills, _ Fancy Feath-| c °l° rs -IC ers, all colors V Pretty Colored Birds—large range of Iflzv colorings A C Ostrich tips, Ostrich Plumes, 3 in a bunch...at 39c, 29c and IzL -69 c A Large and Varied Assortment of Ladies’ and Children’s Untrimmed Hats, all colors, for Friday and Saturday, 19c Still a chance to secure a pair of those $1.50 and SL7S Gloves a mos a h sizes, fine glace kid, undressed kid, lace nv aud clasp all plja des, a a pair P™ ij l bargain at Ladies’ Fine Vici Kid Shoes, new Lenox or English toes —button or lace styles, worth every cent of $2.25, Special at, ....$1,48 Boys’ and Youths’ School Shoes they wear like iron, worth Qfiz. $1.50. Special at, a pair VOL Lace Department Just Received a lot of Elegant All Over Laces, in the newest ORr designs for yokes and bodices from .VOL up Drapery Nets, 4-5-inches wide, plain nets, new /xOf’ Bayadere effects at WL yd LOUIS RIPPLE, JR. DEALER IN BOOTSSSIIOES 317 Third Street, MILWAUKEE, WIS. Branch Store, 509 Mitchell St. Those wishing to get first-class ac commodations should go to the FESS HOUSE GEO. E. FESS, Proprietor. 113-119 East Doty St, Madison, Wis. Steam Heat Throughout Rates Si.oo per Day. s. r.brpks SHAVING PARLOR 224 Wells Street, j MILWAUKEE. HARRY JONES. Foreman Boston St ore THIRD AND PRAIRIE. Shoe Bargains Misses’ Fine Kangaroo Calf Lace or Button Shoes—new coin toes, worth $1.50, at, a pair...OVL Children’s Hand-Turned Button or Lace Dongola Shoes, sizes 5 to 8, worth 75c, 49c J. BOEHM, Manufacturer and Jobber of Stove Repairs WATERFRONTS, STOVE POLISHES, STOVE PUTTY, FIRE BRICK, ETC. REPAIItS roll ALE STOVES. 395 Third St., MILWAUKEE, WIS. The American TAILORS. Leaders in Style Workmanship Prices that beat Competition. LOUIS DENIS, Meat Market Oysters, Game and Fish IN SEASON. 626 Wells Street. Milwaukee. Wi& Special Time Sale in Linens and Muslins FROM 8 TO IO A. M. 75c 2-yard wide Cream Table Linen, -j _ per yard- uDV s 10c Half Bleached Toweling, Cr’ s 5 yards to each buyer. 2 Winter Shirt Waists Ladies’ Diagonal Plaid Flannelette Shirt Waists, V very latest patterns, yoke back, full pouch front, good value at SI,OO, 79c w Ladies’ Shirt Waists, made of good quality Ail ladies-cloth, yoke back, full front, detachable collar, good value at $1.50. OQz-» ^J OurPrie VOv Ladies’ Best Quality Farmer’s Satin Shirt Waists—separate waist lining, detachable collar, i yoke and pleated back, prettily trimmed with tucks, and black Juby trimming, (P QQ good value at $2.75. Our Price Jewelry Dep’t “Booming” Some Leaders flentioned for FRIDAY AND SATURDAY Among a Great Assortment of Gold Rings, set and unset we offer you K SOLID GOLD children’s band rings, J? Among a Great Variety >^^B of Steel Buck!es, we offer a fine line, at •^s’* Among Our Great and Varied Assortment of Jeweled Belts, we offer a fine line M m A at the stunning price m M Friday Specials in the Carpet Dep’t 175 pounds of Live Geese "IQp Feathers, worth 50c, pound...OS'L Fancy Sofa Pillows, made of new denims, with large ruffles, c worth 49c, at Underwear Dep’t f Ladies’ Merino Vests and Pants, others sell them for 50c, our price, each Ladies’ Fleeced Union Suits, worth 69c Ladies’ heavy Fleeced Hose, double heel and toe, "J extra good quality vvv Ladies’ Eiderdown Dressing Jackets, in blue, red ‘TCZz-’ Boys’ Grey Half Wool Vests and Pants, Qz” Bovs’ Heavy Fleeced Vestsand Drawers, lriz-» each 1"L Children’s Wide-Ribbed Wool Hose, worth 35c, T pair, at IOC Notions —Friday Specials. Creamery Buttermilk Soap Cz-» 6 cakes for OL Perforated Toilet Paper, _ roll 1 L Goldeyed Needles, package IL Pure Mohair Colored Skirt Lie Braid, best quality .........Uv yd?' 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 dally at 2:15 and 7:45 p. m.: returning, leaves Whitefish Bay at 5 and lo:15 p. in. Sundays: going at 10:25 a. in ,2. 5 and 8 p. m.; returning, at 11 a. m.. 3, 6 and 10:3O p. m. CAPT. RICHARDSON, Prop. ROUND TRIP ONLY 25c Persons visiting Hartford should stop at the Central Hotel. P. KREUTZ, Proprietor. STEAM HEAT. LARGE ROOMS. Best accommodations for the traveling public. Large stable room in connection. HARTFORD, WIS. 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, THIRD AND PRAIRIE. Special Time Sale in the Calico Dep’t. FROM IO TO 12 A. M. 10c yard-wide Percale, per yard OC 12jc yard-wide dark colored Sateen, per yard VC 6c dark colored Calicoes, short lengths, per yard ^C 36-inch Fancy Lace Effect 'Ji^, Scrim, yard ^2C An Elegant Pair of Lace Curtains, full length, buttonhole stitched edges, worth 98c. Special at, a pair OVC Good Lead Pencils, doz vV Darning Cotton, fast black, dozen cards for. VC Paper Covered Novels to close at IC A. J. BAUM, DEALER IN Fresh, Salted and Smoked ^nd all Varieties of Sausage, Poul try, Fish and Game, 408 STATE STREET. 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. Telephone Main 1009. Union Laundry and News Co. 328 Wells Street GEO. W. SAYLES. All Work Carefully Done. Lowest Prices and Satis faction Guaranteed.

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Wy. AL arr o* r I ■OriM^/W wlf ^OK j( lU '^W^^Jl X r ^^77 DR. TALMAGE, drawing his illus trations from a deer hunt, in this discourse calls all the pursued and troubled of the earth to come and slake their thirst at the deep river of divine com fort; text, Psalms xlii., 1, “As the hart panteth after water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.” David, who must some time have seen a deer hunt, points us here to a hunted stag making for the water. The fascinat ing animal called in my text the hart is the same animal that in sacred and pro fane literature is called the stag, the roe buck, the hind, the gazelle, the reindeer. In central Spria, in Bible times, there were whole pasture fields of them, as Sol omon suggests when he says, “I charge you by the hinds of the field.” Their antlers jutted from the long grass as they lay down. No hunter who has been long in “John Brown’s tract” will wonder that in the Bible they were classed among clean animals, for the dews, the showers, the lakes, washed them as clean as the sky. When Isaac the patriarch longed for venison, Esau shot and brought home a roebuck. Isaiah compares the sprightli ness of the restored cripple of millennial times to the long and quick jump of the stag, saying, “The lame shall leap as the hart.” Solomon expressed his disgust at a hunter who, having shot a deer, is too lazy to cook it, saying. “The slothful man roasteth not that which he took in hunt ing.” But one day David, while far from the home from which he had been driven, and sitting near the mouth of a lonely cave where he had lodged, and on the banks of a pond or river, hears a pack of hounds in swift pursuit. Because of the previous silence of the forest the clangor startles him, and he says to himself, “I wonder What those dogs are after.” Then there is a crackling in the brushwood, and the loud breathing of some rushing wonder of the woods, and the antlers of a deer rend the leaves of the thicket and by an instinct which all hunters recognize the creature plunges into a pool or lake or river to cool its thirst and at the same time by its capacity for swifter and long er swimming to get away from the foam ing harriers. David says to himself: “Aha, that is myself! Saul after me, Absalom after me, enemies without number after me; I am chased; their bloody muzzles at my heels, barking at my good name, bark ing after my body, barking after my soul. Oh, the hounds, the hounds! But look there,” says David to himself; “that rein deer has splashed into the water. It puts its hot lips and nostrils into the cool wave that washes its lathered flanks and it swims away from the fiery canines and it is free at last. Oh, that I might find in the deep, wide lake of God’s mercy and consolation escape from my pursuers! Oh, for the waters of life and rescue! ‘As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.’ Like a Deer at Bay. Well, now. let all those who have com ing after them the lean hounds of poverty, or the black hounds of persecution, or the spotted hounds of vicissitude, or the pale hounds of death, or who are in anywise pursued, run to the wide, deep, glorious lake of divine solace and rescue. The most of the men and women whom I hap pened to know at different times, if not now, have had trouble after them, sharp muzzled troubles, swift troubles, all de vouring troubles. Many of you have made the mistake of trying to fight them. Some body meanly attacks you, and you attack them; they depreciated you, you depre ciated them, or they overreached you in a bargain, and you tried, in Wall street parlance, to get a corner on them, or you have had a bereavement, and instead of being submissive you are fighting that be reavement. You charge on the doctors who failed to effect a cure, or you charge on the carelessness of the railroad com pany through which the accident occurred, or you are a chronic invalid, and you fret and worry and scold and wonder why you cannot be like other people, and you an grily blame the neuralgia, or the laryn gitis, or the ague, or the sick headache. The fact is you are a deer at bay. In stead of running to the waters of divine consolation and slaking your thirst and cooling your body and soul in the good cheer of the gospel and swimming away into the mighty deeps of God’s love you are fighting a whole kennel of harriers. I saw in the Adirondacks a dog lying across the road, and he seemed unable to get up, and I said to some hunters near by, “What is the matter with that dog?” They answered, “A deer hurt him.” And I saw he had a great swollen paw and a battered head, showing where the antlers struck him. And the probability is that some of you might give a mighty clip to your pursuers, you might damage their business, you might worry them into ill health, you might hurt them as much as they have hurt you. but after all it is not worth while. You only have hurt a hound. Better be off for the upper Saranac, into which the mountains of God's eternal strength look down and moor their shad ows. As for your physical disorders, the worst strychnine you can take is fretful ness. and the best medicine is religion. I know people who were only a little disordered, yet have fretted themselves into complete valetudinarianism, while others put their trust in God and come up Irom the very shadow of death and have lived comfortably twenty-five years with only one lung. A man with one lung, but God with him. is better off than a godless man with two lungs. Some of you have been for a long time sailing around Cape Fear when yon ought to have been sailing around Cape Good Hope. Do not turn back, but go ahead.. The deer will accom plish more with its swift feet than with its horns. I saw whole chains of lakes in the Adirondacks, and from one height you can see thirty, and there are said to be over 800 in the great wilderness of New York. So near are they to each other that your mountain guide picks up and carries the boat from lake to lake, the small distance between them for that reason called a “carry.” And the realm of God’s word is one long chain of bright, refreshing lakes, each promise a lake, a very short carry between them, and though for ages the pursued have been drinking out of them they are full up to the top of the green banks, and the same David describes them, and they seem so near together that in three different places he speaks of them as a continuous river, saying, “There is a river the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God:” “Thou shalt make them drink of the rivers of thy pleasures;” “Thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water.” But many of you have turned your back on that supply and confront your trouble, and you are soured wit^ jour circum stances', and you are fighting sociely, and you are fighting a pursuing world, and troubles, instead of driving you into the cool lake of heavenly comfort, have made you stop and turn around and lower your head, and it is simply antler against tooth. I do not blame you. Probably under the same circumstances I would have done worse. But you are all wrong. You need to do as the reindeer does in February and March—it sheds its horns. The rab binical writers allude to this resignation of antlers by the stag when they say of a man who ventures his money in risky enterprises, “He has hung it on the stag's horns,” and a proverb in the far east tells a man who has foolishly lost hi-s fortune to go and find where the deer sheds her horns. My brother, quit the antagonism of your circumstances, quit misanthropy, quit complaint, quit pitching into your pursuers, be as wise as next spring will be all the deer of the Adirondacks. Shed your horns. The Redeemer’s Reward. But very many of you who are wronged of the world —and if in any assembly be tween here and Golden Gate, San Fran cisco, it were asked that all those that had been sometimes badly treated should raise both their bands and full response should be made, there would be twice as many hands lifted as persons present—l say many of you would declare, “We have always done the best we could and tried to be useful, and why we should become the victims of malignment or invalidism or mishap, is inscrutable.” Why, do you know the finer a deer and the more ele gant its proportions, and the more beauti ful its bearing, the more anxious the hunt ers and the hounds are to capture it? Had the roebuck a ragged fur and broken hoofs and an obliterated eye and a limping gate the hunters would have said, “Pshaw", don’t let us waste our ammunition on a sick deer.” And the hounds would have given a few sniffs of the scent and then darted off in another direction for better game. But when they see a deer with antlers lifted in mighty challenge to earth and sky, and the sleek hide looks as if it had been smoothed by invisible hands, and the fat sides inclose the richest pasture that could be nibbled from the banks of rills so clear they seem to have dropped out of heaven, and the stamp of its foot defies the jack shooting lantern and the rifle, the horn and the hound, that deer they will have if they must needs break their necks in the rapids. So if there were no noble stuff in your make up. if you were a bifurcated nothing, if you were a forlorn failure, you would be allowed to go undisturbed, but the fact that the whole pack is in full cry after you is proof posi tive that you are splendid game and worth capturing. Therefore sarcasm draws on you its “finest bead,.” Therefore the world goes gunning for you with its best Maynard breech-loader. Highest compli ment is it to your talent or your virtue or your usefulness. You will be assailed in proportion to your great achievements. The best and the mightiest being the world ever saw had set after him all the hounds, terrestrial and diabolic, and they lapped his blood after the Calvarean mas sacre. The world paid nothing to its Re deemer but a bramble, four spikes and a cross. Master of the Hounds. Yes, for some people in this world there seems no let up. They are pursued from youth to manhood and from manhood into old age. Very distinguished are Lord Stafford’s hounds, the Earl of Yarbor ough’s hounds and the Duke of Rutland’s hounds, and Queen Victoria pays $8,500 a year to her master of buekhounds. But all of them put together do not equal in number or speed or power to hunt down the great kennel of hounds of which sin and trouble are owner and master. But what is a relief for all this pursuit of trouble and annoyance and pain and be reavement? My text gives it to you in a word of three letters, but eatt-h letter is a chariot if you would triumph, or a throne if you want to be crowned, or a lake if you would slake your thirst —yes. a chain of three lakes—G-O-D, the one for whom David longed, and the one whom David found. You might as well meet a stag which after its sixth mile of running at the topmost speed through thicket and gorge, and with the breath of the dogs on its heels, has come in full sight of Scroon lake, and try to cool its projecting and blistered tongue with a drop of dew from a blade of grass as to attempt to satisfy an immortal soul when flying from trouble and sin with anything less deep and high and broad and immense and infinite and eternal than God. His comfort —why, it embosoms all distress. His arm, it wrenches off all bondage. His hand, it wipes away all tears. His Christ ly atonement, it makes us all right with the past and all right with the future, all right with God and all right with man and ail right forever. Goi’s Promise, For him I thirst, for his grace I beg, on his promise I build my all. Without him I cannot be happy. I have tried the world, and it does well enough as far as it goes, but it is too uncertain a world, too evan escent a world. 1 am not a prejudiced witness. I have nothing against this world. I have been one of the most for tunate, or, to use a more Christian word, one of the most blessed of men—blessed in my parents, blessed in the place of my nativity, blessed in my health, blessed in my field of work, blessed in my natural temperament, blessed in my family, bless ed in my opportunities, blessed in a com fortable livelihood, blessed in the hope that my soul will go to heaven through the pardoning mercy of God, and my body, unless it be lost at sea or cremated in some conflagration, will lie down in the gardens of Greenwood among my kindred aud friends, some already gone and others to come after me. Life to many has been a disappointment, but to me it has been a pleasant surprise, and yet I declare that if I did not feel that God was now my friend and ever present help I should be wretched and terror stricken. But I want more of him. I have thought over this text and preached this sermon to myself until with all the aroused energies of my body, mind and soul I can cry out, “As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.” Through Jesus Christ make this God your God, and you can withstand any thing and everything, and that which af frights others will inspire you. Oh, Christian men and women, pursued of an noyances and exasperations,- remember that this hunt, whether a still hunt or a hunt in full cry, will soon be over. If ever a whelp looks ashamed and ready to slink out of sight, it is when in the Adir ondacks a deer by one tremendous plunge into Big Tupper lake gets away from him. The disappointed canine swims in a little way, but, defeated, swims out again and cringes with humiliated yawn at the feet of his master. And how abashed and ashamed will all your earthly troubles be when you have dashed into the river from under the throne of God, and the heights and depths of heaven are between you and your pursuers. Oh, when some of you get there, it will be like what a hunter tells of when push ing his canoe far up north in the winter and amid the ice floes and 100 miles, as he thought, from any other human beings! He was startled one day as he heard a stepping on the ice, and he cocked the rifle, ready to meet anything that came near. He found a man, barefooted and insane from long exposure, approaching him. Taking him into his canoe and kindling fires to warm him, he restored him and found out where he had lived and took him to his home and found all the village in great excitement. A hundred men were searching for this lost man, and his family and friends rushed out to meet him, and, as had been agreed at his first appearance, bells were rung and guns were fired and banquets spread and the rescuer loaded with presents. Well, when some of you step out of this wilderness, where you have been chilled and torn and sometimes lost amid the icebergs, into the warm greetings of all the villages of the glorified and your friends rush out to give you welcoming kiss, the news that there is another soul forever saved will call the caterers of heaven to spread the banquet and the bellmen to lay htfld of the rope in the tower, and while the chalices click at the feast and the bells clang from the tur rets it will be a scene so uplifting I pray God I may be there to take part in the celestial merriment. Copyright, 1898. SHORT SERMONS. Personality.—The greatest power in the world is a living personality. Man, made in God’s image, is greater than any of man’s works, and is God’s own greatest creation. We all know the magnetic influence of personality. Christ felt that power was imparted from him when the woman touched the hem of his garment.—Bishop J. H. Vin cent, Methodist, Detroit, Mich. Trust in the Lord.—Wheat Jesus came near the disciples, walking on the waves, they did not know him, and were alarmed. So in the midst of our trials we sometimes fail to recognize the hand of our Divine Master. If we only knew that God's hand was in it all, and that he as surely loves us as he did his lone disciples on the sea, it would give us hope and till us with courage.—Rev. Mr. Winship, Method ist, Cheyenne, Wyo. Secular and Sacred.—We have drawn an arbitrary" line between secular and sacred. Such a line does not really ex ist. God is not up or down. He is in the midst. The high priest ministering at the altar is no more sacred than the servant who in a reverent spirit carries out the ashes. Whatever needs to be done in high work or low work is God’s work.—Rev. Myron W. Reed, Independ ent, Denver, Colo. Acquainted with God.—He that dwelleth in the secret places of the Most High shall abide in the shadow of the Almighty. The power that we see manifested in nature is better under stood and we learn to know more of her wonderful workings as we increase in our knowledge of her creator. Our power to further develop the sciences, our grasp of intellect and our spiritual force cannot fail to be enhanced, as history abundantly testifies, by a per sonal knowledge of the true God. Bishop I. W. Joyce, Methodist, Detroit, Mich. God's Hand.—God’s hand rests on the wheels of history. Even the wrath of man can be turned to account. The world moves between the efforts of the angelic and demoniacal forces. The influence of Christianity on warfare has dimindshed the frequency of it. War at first was a pastime with them. Later came the instinct of self-ag grandizement by the adding of terri tory. Now we have come to a war which is not for a selfish end. but for the liberty of other people. We have stepped in Lietween a bully and his prey.—Rev. Frank T. Bayley, Congre gationalist, Denver, Colo. Christian Victory.—God causeth us to triumph. We do all things through Christ. He fights for ns: we must tri umph. If God be for us, who can be against us! Oh. what a world this will be when the Gospel shall have fully realized its divine mission! I believe that that period will one day come. Sin’s thunderstorms will not always beat on this world. Every conflicting element shall lie hushed. Every cloud shall melt into sunshine, every moun tain and every valley shall blossom with beauty. The great God shall look down on the moral world as he did on the material, and pronounce all things good—Rev. Dr. Mingins, Methodist, Asbury Park, N. J. 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 Thrillins Nature. rpHE veterans of the d I two old armies, and I -A all close readers of tn 81 history, will remem- V Y ber that the Rumujer of 1 862 when Mc- Clellan was on the peninsula and Mc- y v<- v' M Dowell and his 30,- u* 000 men at Fred- ericksburg, between fifty and sixty miles away, Jackson was sent into the Shenandoah Valley with a view to threatening Washing ton and preventing the sending of Mc- Dowell and his large corps to join Mc- Clellan. The plan worked to perfec tion. McDowell, who had made a day’s journey toward McClellan, expecting to join him, was halted aud started for the valley, getting as far as Thorough fare Gap, when word came that Jack son had accomplished his object and gone away. McDowell was ordered back to Fredericksburg. McClellan had worked his way up close to Rich mond. The north was daily expecting that he would capture the city. Sud denly every Northern heart was filled with gloom. McClellan was falling back. He had delayed too long. John son’s “foot cavalry” had hurried from the valley in time to join Lee in an agressive movement against the Army of the Potomac, and as a consequence it was sent whirling back over the roads upon which it had victoriously marched to the very gates of Rich mond. Great battles were fought and thousands of lives lost; a great Confed erate victory was won. It could not have been won but for the genius, en ergy and generalship of Stonewall Jackson. Lee could not have forced McClellan back from Richmond; Lee without Jackson could not have pre vented McClellan from taking Rich mond in 1862. After a brief rest Jackson's corps was directed to check the onward march of Gen. John Pope, who had but recently been placed in command of the Army of Virginia. On the 9th of August it was a portion of Jackson’s corps that met and defeated Banks at Cedar Mountain. It was Jackson's corps that showed so bold a front that General Pope stopped advancing and for a time rested in and about Cul peper, and a little later began his memorable retreat which continued un til the second battle of Bull Run. It was Jackson who, without the knowl edge of the Union army, crossed the Rappahannock River and hurried around Pope to Manassas Junction, where the government had several million dollars’ worth of rations for sol diers and animals, supplied himself with all his men could put into their haversacks, burned the rest and start ed back to form a junction with Lee’s army. No portion of the Confederate army proved so stubborn and difficult of management as Jackson's in the sec ond battle of Bull Run, and I quite agreed with the New York soldier when he said that if there had been no Stonewall Jackson and his “foot cavalry” General Lee and not General Pope would have been defeated on that occasion. After the capture of Harper’s Ferry, with its 11,000 “Yankees,” Jackson hur ried to Antietam. He reached there at an opportune moment—at a time when he was absolutely needed to pre vent a Confederate rout. That battle, which began at sunrise and ended after sunset, would almost certainly have ended by the middle of the after noon in a crushing defeat to the South ern army but for Stonewall Jackson. As it was. General Lee was enabled to cross the Potomac without the loss of a gun, a wagon or a horse. One of the most skillful moves of the war was that of General Hooker in preparation for the battle of Chancel lorsville. With that done, great gen eralship seemed to come to an end on the Union side. There had been hard fighting, but little advantage gained on either side. Lee and Jackson talked over the situation. Jackson proposed to move his corps around the Army of the Potomac and surprise its right flank. Late in the afternoon Stone wall Jackson’s corps, with astonishing impetuosity, pounced upon the Elev enth corps and drove it back in confu sion. The disaster to the right of the army was the direct cause of the de feat and hurried retreat of Hooker’s army to its old camps on Stafford Heights and up and down the Rappa hannock River. This was the last of the great gener al’s campaigns. That night himself and staff were mistaken by the men of one of his regiments for the enemy, fired upon and mortally wounded. When Jackson died Lee lost his right arm. He never won a great victory after that.—J. A. Watrous, in Chicago Times-Herald. Frotn Deck to Camp. As some of the prisoners captured from Grant’s Virginia Army were halting, when on their way to Libby prison, a Southerner, observing a rath er good-looking foreigner among the number—and stepping up to him, said, “What! are you down here fighting us you are no Yankee.” “No, sir,” said the soldier, hanging his head. “Why, then, do you come to fight us,” con tinued reb, “if you have no common sympathy with the Yankees?” “Well, sir,” said the prisoner, “I will tell you. I am a foreigner. I landed in New York not more than a month ago. I got drunk and the first thing I knew I found myself in camp.” This shrewd inate-up did not save him from enter- ing the portals of the reben prison house. Made Toddies for Rebels. In August, 1862, the armies of Gen. Lee and Gen. Pope confronted each oth er on the Rappahannock river, In Vir ginia. Gen. Lee had determined to at tack Pope, and conceived a plan as bril liant as it was daring. He proposed to leave one-half of his army under Long street, in front of Pope, and throw the other half, under Jackson, by a cir cuitous march to a point twenty-one miles exactly in the rear of Pope’s line of battle, and exactly between him and Washington. On Aug. 24,1862, Lee had fifty thousand troops, while Pope could muster, with Reno's corps of Burn side’s division, and Reynolds’ division of Pennsylvania reserves, about the same number; but two days later Pope’s army w r as increased to seventy thousand by the arrival of the corps of Fitz John Porter and Heinzelman. When the disparity of numbers of the contending parties is considered, Lee’s strategy would be pronounced danger ous by any competent military critic. In pursuance of his plan, and to fa cilitate its execution, a day or two be fore Jackson started, Lee determined to throw his cavalry, under Stuart, twelve miles in Tope’s rear, at Catlett’s Station, a point on the railroad connect ing Pope with his capital. At that place were encamped the reserve, bag gage and ammunition trains of Pope’s army. There, too were his headquar ters te its, with his personal effects. Stuart captured a number of officers and mon, a large sum of money in a safe in one of the tents, dispatches and other papers, but the rain fell in such torrents, and the night was so dark that it was not possible for Stuart to damage the railroad to any great extent, or to burn the railroad bridges or the acres of wagons befdre him; all of which, with the cutting of the telegraph wires, would have seriously crippled Pope. My command was in advance on that terrible rainy night. I was riding with the lieutenant commanding the platoon which formed the advance guard, when I suddenly saw, between the flashes of lightning a man run across the road. Under the influence of the spur, my horse in a single bound, reached the man, and under the influence of a pistol held to his head, he told me that he was a servant of Gen. Pope, and was there with his headquarter tents, which he said were pitched in a clump of pines close by. I made him get up in front of one of the troopers, and guide a squad, which I detached from the leading regi ment, to the tents in the pines. On reaching the spot, I quickly sur rounded the Federal headquarters, and seeing a light in one of the tents, dis mounted, and with one of my men en tered it. It was vacant, but filled with a large number of papers showing where some one had been recently writ ing. There were also two glasses of toddy on the table. A few days thereafter I captured a squad of the Federal dragoons, under Major Thomas Hite of the regular ar my, whom I had formerly known as a cadet at West Point. One of the offi cers, who had just arrived from Wash ington, told me that he was at Willard’s Hotel in that city, and, seeing a crowd around Major Clafy, Pope's chief quar termaster, joined the group and found Clary telling of his escape from the “rebels” at Catlett's Station a few nights before. The major said that he and Lewis Marshal, the latter being an aid de camp of Pope, and a nephew of Gen. Lee, were in one of the tents that night, and that he had been working all day over the quartermaster papers, and in view of that fact, as well as the tempestuous character of the night, he proposed to Marshal that they should take a drink.. “The whisky was brought out,” continued the major, “sugar was put in glasses with the proper amount of water, to which a liberal allowance of whisky was added. I was just pour ing the toddy from one glass to the other, thinking how soon the situation would be improved by swallowing it, when I heard the noise of horses’ hoofs and the discharge of one or two pistol shots. I quickly put the glasses down, saying, ‘I believe that is some of that d—d rebel cavalry.' At this point of the narrative the ma jor paused and after looking around, added: “Gentlemen, if you believe me, I do not know whether I drank that toddy or not. The rebels were on us so quick that Marshal and I lifted the side of the tent and rolled down into a friendly ravine, and remained there, shivering in the drenching rain, until after the rebels rode off.” It only remains to say that Clary and Marshal did not drink the toddies they mixed, but that they rapidly disappear ed down the throats of the two wet reb els who found them.—Maj. Gen. Fitz hugh Lee, in the Lost Cause, Louisville, Ky. Dear Little Child. Her Little Brother—Set down in the parlor. Sis’ll be here as soon as she gits through givin’ her face a swipe with the powder rag. Mr. Slmperllng—And what did she say when you told her I was here? Her Little Brother—She said she knowed when the window come down on her thumb Monday mornin’ that this was goin’ to be a unlucky week fer her.—Cleveland Leader. It Looked Suspicious. Mrs. Diggs—l’m afraid my husband is planning some mischief. Mrs. Biggs—What reason have you for thinking so? Mrs. Diggs—His anxiety to have me go to the seashore for a month. Mrs. Biggs—And are you going? Mrs. Diggs—Am I going? Not in a thousand years! Knew What He Wanted. Irate Parent —Tell that young Soft leigh that he must cease his visits here. I forbid him the house. Daughter—But, papa, he doesn’t want the house; it’s me that he's after. Bermuda Lilies ’n Danger. United States Cons\* Green writes from Burmeda that ok' of a total of 10,642 acres, only 3000 are un der cultivation. He adds: The ground often yields four crops of differ ent vegetables within a year, but the majority of the farmers are ignorant and shiftless and fail to take advantage of the opportunities afforded by the fertility of the soil. In contrast with this general condition are the estates of the skilled planters. Upon one such estate one acre planted in tomatoes yielded a crop worth SISOO, and an acre of lilies brought a return of SIBOO. The principal exports, which all go to the United States, are onions, tomatoes potatoes and lilies. The lily plant, which is the most important of all the produc tions of the island, is now suffering from a parasitic disease. This has not only at tacked the lilies, but is also seriously af fecting the crops of onions, potatoes and other vegetables. It is receiving careful investigation, but a remedy has not yet been discovered. Bermuda formerly produced a great number of fruit trees, including the peach, pear, plum, orange, lemon and oth ers more tropical in their nature. The banana is the only one remaining, the oth ers having perished through disease. Wore a Hat Forty Years. There is a woman living within a short distance of this city who has worn a hat forty years. Moreover, she has worn that hat almost constantly during that time, and, until a few days ago, had nev er had it retrimmed. She is Mrs. Eliza beth Bradley, the wife of a farmer. She said she bought it forty years ago in this city of the Lumm sisters. "The hat,” she said, “was at that time considered very pretty. I do not re member ju. t what it cost, but 1 believe my husband paid $2.50 for it. Since that time I have worn it for all occasions, never realizing that it was getting out of style or even becoming shabby. In fact, I believe I never looked at it when I put it on—no, not even to see if it was on straight! "1 have not worn the hat all this time, because we could not afford a new one, but simply because I never thought of buying a new one; and I’m not sure that I like it as w’ell now that it has been retrimmed, as I did in the old way.”— Sterling (Ill.) cor. Tacoma Herald. A New Invention Tested. A new and highly-important invention was tested at the German naval maneu vers. It was in the shape of a Greek Phoenician fire, invented by a Berlin en gineer. It ignites on contact with the air or water, and cannot be quenched by either water or earth. It burns with a brilliant flame exceeding big searchlights, and it °'u be sunk under water or under ground and when brought to the surface instantly bursts into flame. It was tested during the night evolutions off the island of Heligoland and off Kiel, and proved most efficient in detecting the presence of the enemy. The Cost of Freeing Cuba. The United States are entitled to retain possession of the Philippine Islands if the peace commissioners so decide, for the cost of the war runs far into the millions. To free the stomach, liver and bowels from dis ease, however, is not an expensive under taking. A few dollars invested in Hostet ter's Stomach Bitters will accomplish the task. It Surprised the Smoker. The other day a smoker in Bath, Me., was smoking a pipe with a celluloid stem ■when the mouthpiece exploded, burning his mustache and filling the room so full of smoke that he had to leave it. The celluloid took fire, probably from a spark drawn into the stem. —An insurance company has applied to the Maine state authorities for informa tion as to the number of persons killed or injured while hunting in the woods last year, with the view of issuing a new form of life and accident policy, especial ly for sportsmen. Lane’s Family Medicine. Moves 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. —“Laila Rookh,” the cottage at Mus wellhill in which Tom Moore lived for some time, is likely to be destroyed. Moore was living here in 1817, when Longmans paid him the astonishing price of $35,000 for his most celebrated poem. Pure Blood Good Digestion These are the essentials of health. Hood’s Sarsaparilla is the great blood purifier and stomach tonic. It promptly expels the impurities which cause pimples, sores and eruptions and by giving healthy ac tion to the stomach and digestive organs it keeps the system in perfect order. Hood’s Sarsaparilla I» America's Greatest Me Heine. SI; six for 90. Prepared only by C. I. Hood Co., Lowell, Mass. Hnnri’c Dalle are the only pills to take o a 111.3 W ith Hoot’s Sarsapariba. 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Somebody over near Dupont Circle owns a small boy who is unmistakably destined for greatness. He was playing in the circle just the other day, and a mite of a girl, presumably his sister, was annoy ing him greatly. Presently she tried him too far and he gave her a push that sent her headlong to the pavement. Her screams attracted the attention of every body except her nurse, who was gossiping with another nurse some distance away. The usual woman who reproves other peo ple’s children was on hand, however. “Oh, little boy.’’ said she, “what made you strike little sister? Don’t you know it's very, very wrong to do so?” The boy went on with the hopscotch dia gram he was drawing. “Oh,” he remarked unconcernedly, “that’s all right. I’ll feel sorry by and by and then I’ll ask her pardon like a little gentleman. That’ll fix it.” —Washington Post. No One Home. “Is your father at home?” asked an Englishman of a Welsh boy, whom he met at Llandrilloynthos. “No, sir; he’s gone to work at Llansant ffraidglan Conway.” “Is your mother in, then?” “She’s gone to the fair at Llanfairma thafurneithaf.” “Dear me! But is your sister at home?” “My sister has gone to Llanfairpul g w y ngyllgogerychwyondrobullsanttysili gogoeh.” “Good gracious!” exclaimed the Eng lishman.—London Punch. Took it Very Cooly. The vicar certainly had a pretty wit. People said that he was sarcastic and he tried to live up to the reputation. But he was not always a success. On one occa sion a gentleman came into the church in the middle of the sermon. The vicar broke off from his discourse and ad dressed the newcomer: “I am glad to see you, sir. I am always glad to see those late who can’t come early.” “Thank you,” replied the gentleman with perfect self-possession. “Would you kindly favor me with the text?”—Tit- Bits. Don’t Bother Him. A Park avenue lad, aged 6 years, has been taught since the war began to pray for the President of the United States and for the army and navy. Last Friday night he knelt at his mother’s knee and said his prayers, but he closed without referring to the military and naval arms of the government. “You forgot to pray for the army and navy, Harold,” said his mother. “Oh, what’s the use,” said the lad. “They’re able to take care of themselves without botherin’ God.”—Omaha World- Herald. Wore a Shawl. All Scotland knew Prof. Blackie and his plaid, but comparatively few knew how he came to wear the plaid. When he re ceived his first professorship he told A. B. Todd of Cumnock he was scant of cash. His wife insisted on his having a new black coat. This, however, he could at that particular time but ill afford, but he got Mrs. Blackie to wrap her pretty plaid around his shoulder. That hid the bare ness of his coat, gave him a picturesque appearance and “made him decent until money came in.” The professor, howev er, never discarded the plaid, and when we think of him today we also think of the plaid.—St. James Gazette. Ladies Can Wear Shoes One size smaller after using Allen’s Foot- Ease, a powder to be shaken into the shoes. It makes tight or new shoes feel easy; gives instant relief to corns and bunions. It’s the greatest comfort dis covery of the age. Cures and prevents swollen feet, blisters, callous and sore spots. Allen's Foot-Ease is a certain cure for sweating, hot, nervous, aching feet. Sold by all druggists and shoe stores, 25c. Trial package FREE by mail. Address, Alien S. Olmsted, Lock Box 852, Le Roy, N. Y. A Mammoth Peach. The prize poach story of the season comes from Portertown, Md., where the largest specimen of the fruit ever grown is said to have been found in the orchard of Emory Thomas. The peach grew on a twig less than an inch long, springing from one of the main limbs. It is 27 inches in circumference and 9 inches in diameter. 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. —The Ruby mine on Weston Pass, above Leadville, Col., has been sold to Illinois men for $25,000. CfiSTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the ZM»Q« Signature /Au of a Jp^ I" /waK se 1/ For Over Thirty Years CASTORIA THE CENTAUR COMPANY, NEW COTTAGE TO CASTLE. Remarkable Career and Personal ity of Hall Caine, the Author. Th? expressed purpose with which Hall Caine, the author of “The Chris tian,” “The Deemster” and “The Manx man,” comes to America is not to read from his works but to lecture on the pleasant relations which, as one result of the war, have been established be tween the United States and England, says the New York Herald. No doubt, however, Miss Viola Allen’s coming pro duction of his dramatization of “The Christian” has not a little to do with his visit, which will certainly add interest to the event. From a crofter’s cottage at Ballaugh, on the Isle of Man, to the stately Greeba castle, on Greeba mountain, in the center of the same island—that is the stride, from the worldy point of view’, which Hall Caine’s literary career has enabled him to make. If in these days of clap trap literary successes (rarely lasting, however) any one wants to prove the val ue of a high, fixed purpose in literary work, let him look, first at the crofter’s cottage, where Hall Caine passed much of his youth, then on the castle in which he now lives. He Lives in a Fine Castle. Greeba is an imposing pile on the slope of the mountain from which it is named. It is in the interior of the island and midway betw’een Douglas and Peel, the former a summer resort and landing place of tourists, the latter a quaint old fishing town. The island being about eleven miles broad at this point, Mr. Caine is five and a half miles from the flow of civilization on the one side and the same distance from what is perhaps most characteristic of his “own people” on the other. From the high tower of Greeba castle Mr. Caine has a sweeping view in all di rections, except over the mountain that rises in its rear. Gorse and heather and farm land slope away toward the sea. and the faraway view includes the Mull of Gallowey. Greeba, with its towers, reminds one of a small Windsor castle. It is a beau tiful stone structure. The absence of moat and portcullis and other features incident to a fortified place suggest that it was built for a residence, and not to withstand a siege. But since Mr. Caine has lived there it is often besieged by curiosity-seekers, autograph-seekers and what nots, the author of “The Manx man” and “The Deemster” being now’, as much as Peel castle, one of the “sights” of the Isle of Man. It was once said by a punster that not only were Manx cats and Manx chickens tailless, but that the Isle of Man itself, though offering a most inviting field to literary workers, had re mained “taleless.” Fortunately Mr. Caine has, through his stories, made this atro cious pun pointless. He Writes in Rosetti’s Chair. But if Greeba castle is besieged, there is one room in it which never capitulates. This is the author’s own stronghold—his study, the sanctum sanctorum in which he has penned tne works which have made him famous. When he purchased Greeba he remodeled the interior, produc ing, especially with a plentiful use of carved oak, superb massive effects in keeping with the exterior. This style of remodeling was also carried out in the room which he chose for his study. It is an ideal apartment for its purpose—a large, square room, with windows dis closing beautiful views. Bookcases are ranged along two of its walls. But it lacks one article of furniture without which a study is usually consid ered incomplete. It has no desk. Mr. Caine never writes at a desk. He holds the paper on his lap and uses a fountain pen. His handwriting is small and fine. The chair in which he sits might well in spire an author, for it belonged to Dante Gabriel Rosetti, the poet and painter. Much of the furniture in the room is of the same origin. These articles were obtained at the sale of Rosetti’s effects. But to Mr. Caine they have far more value than that which attaches to them merely as relics of a famous man. They are mementos of a dear friend. Mr. Caine had lived with Rosetti for some time before the lat ter’s death, and Rosetti died in his arms. Burne-Jones, the artist, was one of very few’ who were admitted to Rosetti’s resi dence while Mr. Caine lived with him, and during this period these two famous men were almost the only persons with whom the future author of “The Chris tian” had intercourse. His Resemblance to Shakespeare. On Rosetti’s death the “bungalow” where he and Mr. Caine had lived be came so crowded with people who, either from ties of relationship or friendship, thought themselves entitled to remain there until the funeral, that Mr. Caine gave up his sleeping quarters and chose the death chamber for his room. He was asked if he did not object to sleeping in the apartment where the corpse lay. “It is Bosetti,” was his simple answer. The resemblance of Mr. Caine’s features to Shakespeare’s has often been commented upon. Unfriendly critics have insinuated that he endeavored to emphasize this re semblance in every way and even went so far as to have a bust of Shakespeare in his study, in order to attract attention to this likeness. As a matter of fact, there is a bust, and only’ one, in his study. It is Rosetti’s. People who have enjoyed the gracious hospitality of Greeba castle and others who know Mr. Caine personally say that his resemblance to Shakespeare grows upon his intimates, and that it is really far more striking than his photographs show. He is a slender man of more than fair height. He has long, delicate, ar tistic hands. His expression is marked by great gentleness, yet his carriage is always dignified. Keeps a Record of His Earnings. He chose Greeba castle for his resi dence not only because of its beauty and because of his family associations with the Isle of Man, but also because the temperature of the island is most equable and he feels better and can work better there than anywhere else. When at work on a novel he does most of his writing in the early morning, between 5 and 8. He believes that the early bird catches the literary worm. The rest of the day he spends in ridng about the country or in long walks, of which he is very fond. Of a reflective turn of mind, he finds in these walks invaluable op portunity for thought. He is also an indefatigable reviser of his manuscripts, and this, although his stories are practi cally written mentally before he puts pen to paper. Mrs. Caine is very charming, very sweet and pretty, and, naturally very proud of her husband, who at the age of 45, is one of the most famous living Englishmen of letters. They have two boys—one old enough to be at King Wil liam’s college, the other young enough to be romping around Greeba, to his par ents’ delight. These boys’ childhood has been very different from that of their father. Hail Caine was the son of a blacksmith, who. however, left the crofter’s cottage at Ballaugh and became a ship’s smith at Liverpool. Hall Caine was born at Runcorn, in Cheshire, but his childhood ■ecollections are mainly confined to the many days he spent at his grandmother's thatched cottage at Ballaugh, where his bed was so close under the roof that he says he can still smell at Greeba the de licious scent of the “scraa,” or thatch. A NOTED SOCIETY WOMAN. Mrs. August Belmont Whose Death Oc curred in Paris a Few Days Since. New York society people were greatly shocked by the death of Mrs. August Belmont, which occurred in Paris on Monday evening, September 26. It had been known that Mrs. Belmont was in poor health, but no fatal result had been anticipated, even by those intimate friends who were presumably best ac quainted with her condition. During the last eight years Mrs. Bel mont. by reason of the death of her hus band s father, and more recently that of her own mother, has been much in re tirement. She was suffering ill-health in the spring and wert to Europe with her husband in July to take the cure at Plombieres, in France, from which, however, she derived no benefit. She remained in Paris under the care of physicians while Mr. Belmont returned to New York on September 10 with his son. August Belmont, Jr., to place him at school and with the purpose of arranging some of his business affairs. He was to return to Europe to bring Mrs. Belmont back in November or De cember. Contessa Muccioli, formerly Miss Ter ry of New York, an old friend of Mrs. Belmont’s girlhood, was with her at the time of her death, as well as her aunt, Mrs. Sophia Robbins. Mrs. August Belmont’s maiden name was Bessie Hamilton Morgan. She was the daughter of Edward Morgan and granddaughter of Matthew Morgan, who was well known to the elder generation as one of New York’s leading bankers and merchants. The families of Mrs. Bel ment and her husband were very intimate during the early part of the century and it was in Matthew Morgan’s opera box that August Belmont, Sr., first met Miss Perry, who later became his wife. Mrs. Belmont will be well remembered as the beautiful Miss Bessie Morgan dur ing the winter of 1880, and in 1881 she married August Belmont. Jr. She has al ways represented among the younger ma trons of the day the society woman whose home life and children were pre-eminently her first thought, although she kept fully in touch with the best social life of the metropolis, and she and her husband were pioneers in devoting a country life to out of-door sports. Mrs. Belmont was looked up to as a leader in the younger married set in so ciety. About four years ago August Bel mont took the house at 190 Madison ave nue, where he and his family have lived during the winters, going to their Hemp stead place. Blemton manor. arly each spring. She was a constant attendant at the races in the neighborhood of New York when her husband’s horses were running. She was always with Mr. Bel mont at Sheepshead bay, often in the pad dock or on the green. She was also a capital whip, ami was extremely fond of driving. Airs. Belmont is survived by her hus band. three sons—August, Jr.: Raymond and Morgan—her father, a sister, Airs. Butler Williamson, who is abroad, and a brother, Edward Alorgan, Jr., who mar ried Aliss Faith Walcott. Our Grandmothers. Grandmothers, their white or gray hair surmounted by lace caps, are being de manded by social observers, who declare that the assumption of a youthful pose at present the habit of ladies of 50 and up ward is neither becoming nor fit. The de mand will fall upon deaf ears, says Vogue, for the extension of the time of youthful feeling and youthful appearance is rapidly being reduced to working formulas which are eagerly carried out by most women over 30. Much of the recommendation is in the line of attempted visual deception by the means of cosmetics, hair dyes, severe corseting or padding out, but the intelli gent proportion of the no longer young are coming to realize that the preservation of a young appearance is the result of in ward experience rather than outward ap plyings, and in the quest for rejuvenation the seeker comes to appreciate the truth of the old copy-bcok maxims, such as those which enjoy a curbing of the temper and a subjugation of that vampire, worry. Settling down resignedly to old age is no part of the modern woman’s inten tion, and her frantic dutchings after youth are not infrequently ridiculous and inef fective; but if her passionate desire to remain attractive and vigorous stimulates her to the cultivation of bodily health, mental activity and moral purity and sweetness, the motive may be pardoned for the sake of the results. Quite an Off'er. A few weeks ago, according to the Sydney Daily Telegraph, Queen Vica Maar of St. John's island, in the South Pacific, received the following letter: “Her Gracious Queen: I hope you will most willingly excuse me for having the impudence to write to you in this man ner, and the reason for my doing so is when I was reading the paper yester day I read about the steamship Bo nanza being drifted in this island, and the women under you began to select husbands from the crew, and that the captain of the ship would not let them go ashore, and moreover that you, my queen, wanted for a husband a man that would love you and make you happy. I have been thinking the mat ter over, and I have come to the con clusion that if you will have me for a husband, write back and let me know, also that you should send me the money for my passage out, so as I can come to you. and I will repay you the money when I get to you.” Hypnotized Him. Buyer—“Lookee here, you! You said this horse was sound and kind and free from tricks. The first day I drove him lie balked a dozen times, and he’s as bad today.” Dealer—“ Um—you've been wondering if I cheated you, maybe?” “Yes, I have.” “And the first time you druv the boss you sort o’ wondered if he hadn't some tricks, didn’t you?” “Of course.” “And you kept saying to yourself, T wonder if that there horse will balk,’ maybe?” “Probably.” “And you had your mind on it a good deal, most like?” “That's true.” “That’s wot’s the matter. You’ve hyp notized him. See?” —New York Weekly. He Changed Hie Mind. Gem Chaffee, whose brigade did such brilliant work in the fight at El Caney, is a rather undersized man. in the thick of the battle Gen. Chaffee was on the firing line encouraging his men and issu ing what orders were necessary. Gen. Chaffee’s uniform did not show his rank and doubtless to some of the green troops he appeared to be making himself “fresh.” During a lull when the Spanish fire had been momentarily silenced and the companies were waiting the orders to take a more advanced position, one giant recruit, over 6 feet tall, roared out: “Who in h—l is that fellow? I’m goinu’ to lick him just as soon as this thing's over. I won’t stand it to be bossed around by a little cuss like that, nohow However, the recruit changed his mind or learned the general’s rank, for no on< sought to do him violence after the fight —According to the Bozener Zeitung the Roman church in Austria alone (with out Hungary) has capital and property amounting in value to 609,709,890 florins. HAPPY MOTHERS AND HEALTHY CHILDREN. Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Oompound Goes Straight to the Cause of All Female Troubles and Assures a Healthy Maternity. Mrs. M. Singeb,'lO4 Hudson Ave., Rochester, N. 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My leg did not trouble I LZ/f I 1£ V i me at all this time. I had no after pains and ZdL/7 u I was not as weak as I had been before. n f I cannot praise Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vege- I j table Compound too highly. May God bless X you in your noble work.” Mrs. J. W. Pruett, Medford, Oregon, says: “My health, also the baby’s, we owe to Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound.” 7s^ Mrs. John W. Long, Wyoming. lowa, writes: I had shooting pains all over my body, was very weak and nervous. I could not straighten up. I wished to become a mother but was afraid I never could. Seventeen months ago I got some of your Vegetable Compound, and after taking half a bottle was much re lieved. I took four bottles and was cured. Nov/ I have a big baby boy which 1 feel I owe to your Compound. Many thanks for your kind'advice.” A Million Women Have Been Benefited by Mrs. Pinkham’s Advice and Medicine w Hurrah 1 Bat.xe Ax has come. Everybody who reads the newspapers knows what priva tion and suffering were caused in Cuba —by the failure of the supply of tobacco provided by the Government to reach th* 'amps of the U. S. Soldiers. 1 RatlleAKfe PLUG S When marching—fighting—tramping—wheeling I instantly relieves that dry taste in the "mouth. Demember the name 1 x when you buy again. “Cleanliness Is Nae Pride, Dirt’s Nae Honesty.” Common Sense Dic tates the Use of SAPOLIO He Finally Remembered. There is a little boy in Denver who is as bright as an 1898 dollar, but he doesn’t always have a ready command of language. The other day his sister got married and Willie was the happiest boy in the crowd, for his newly-acquired brother-in-law had been generous in his purchase of candy for the little fellow. After the ceremony was over and the time for the shower of congratulations had arrived, Willie was one of the last to reach his sister and her brand new hus band and when he did get there he took hold of their hands and studied for some time before he could say anything. “Poor little fellow, he is almost crying, too.” said the bride. “No. I ain’t,” was the brave reply; “I have forgot that thing I had fixed up to say and was trying to think of somethin’ else—oh, yes, wish you many happy re turns of the day—that’s what I had thought up—wish you many happy re turns of the day.” And his little face brightened up while a suppressed laugh passed around the room.—Denver Times. —English women are said to average two inches more in height than Amer ica ns. M. N. 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