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TRADING IN SAMOA.
Uewella Pierce Chnrchlll in Llppin-!
cotts: Two youngsters in dirty laval
avas come and Bit on the veranda, wait
ing until the trader finishes his break
fast. They keep up a constant chat
ter, as children do the world around;
they explain to one another out of their
ignorance what the white man does
with all the strange gear about his
room. Time is no object to them; not
for any Samoan does time exist. They
could be content thus waiting for hours.
When the trader has finished his corned
beef or his salmon, when he has chop
ped the navy plug on the corner of the
table and has broken it fine for his
pipe by grinding it in his left hand
with the ball of his right thumb, when
his pipe is alight, be Is willing to traf
fic with iiis small customers. Take
this as a sample of native speech and
native custom:
"What is it, then, that you two
want," he asks In the native speech,
"that you sit on my portico, beginning
at sunrise and ending at all day?"
"O, Apa, it Is thus, and we two will
declare the truth to thy highness."
"Use not the high-sounding words of
the talk of chiefs; call me not excel
lency, nor yet highness, for by that I
know yon two are come to beg. That
thing do you two tell what you want,
and quickly."
"O. Apa, smooth out the wrinkle from
thy heart, but listen. In the insignifi
cant hut of the family of us two there Is
tobacco, and we have plucked the dry
leaves of the banana. But there is not
fire. That thing have we come to ask
of thy excellency; afford to us two the
fire-catcher. Just one box, for great is
the poverty of the family of us two.
"O pig-faced, it Is the lie, and you
two come to beg. It is true. It is right
that you two buy flre-scratchers; I do
not give away the articles of wealth,
lest 1 too become poor while you two
have all things."
"Thou knoweat, O Apa, the great pov
erty of all this Samoa, and that we two
are poor people and of no account. "We
have not wherewith to buy. But because
great Is the love of us two to thy excel
lency, we two give to thee the loving
Rift of the fruit of the hen, one."
"Not so is it true, Dirt and Pigs. If
you two love me, you give me fruit of
the hen, two. Give them now to me ana
my black-boy thing shall look through
them at the sun, and he shall spin them
In water lest they be bad."
"O Apa, thou art wise to drive a hard
bargain and Samoans are foolish. Here,
then, are these two fruits of the hen;
now give to us two the box -of fire-
ecratchers."
CONSUMPTIVE POOR.
The address of Dr. S. A. Knopf of
New York, at the national conference
nVarlHao onH nnrreotlrm In Detroit-
emphasizes the necessity of making
better arrangements for the treatment
cf the consumptive poor in the East.
Dr. Knopf pointed out that con
sumption, while a communicaoie dis
ease, does not belong to the diseases
that Dm nmnorlv palled daneerouslv
contagious. Much depends upon the
care of the patient in the first stages
i-,f tho .iikphsp. As matters stand to
day there is little chance for a poor
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person wno oecomea Burcaeu mm
consumption in any or me crowaea
Vaetnm nitlos Rad sanitary condi
tions in the tenement districts give
the disease a nrmer noia, ana mere i
practically no place where a consump
tive, without means, can turn for re
lief. What the Eastern cities need is
not only a bettering 01 sanitary condi
tions in the poorer quarters, but the
establishment of outdoor colonies,
where patients In the first stages of
the disease can receive proper care.
Dtantv nf fresh nlr and sunshine
will cure consumption, as the sani
tariums in tjoioraao nave yruveu.
Thooo nmanclM will Drove as effec
tive in the East as in the West, if the
patient receives them at the incep
tion of the disease. Dr. Knopf has
shown that tne large ciues 01 iuo
East have a great responsibility to
fana inii flint noma ' ndenuate mftDS
f lapino fni- tho rnnfmmntiVA noor
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should be provided. Denver Republi
can.
State of Ohio, City ot Toledo,
Lucas County ss.
Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he Is
enior partner of the firm of F. J. Chen-
ey & Co.. doing business In the City of
Toledo. County and State aforesaid, and
that said firm will pay the sum or uis js
HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and ev
ery case of Catarrh that cannot be cured
by the use of Han s caiarrn cure.
FRANK J. CHENET.
Sworn to before me and subscribed In
my presence, this 6th day of December;
A. D., 1S!S.
(Seal) A. W. GLEASON.
Notary Public.
Hall's Catarrh Cure Is taken Internally
and acts directly on the blood and mu
cous surfaces of tne system, eena tor lea
timonlnls, free.
F. J. CHENET & CO., Toledo, O.
Bold by all DrusRists, 75c.
Hall's Family Pills are the best
The H. F. Brammer Manufacturing
company of Davenport, Iowa, have a
unique puzzle souvenir, which they are
sending free to persons writing for
eamc. The Brammer company are
manufacturers of the O. K. Washing
Machine, one of the best machines ever
placed on the market. Any goods bear
ing this company's stamp may be relied
upon as being what the trade mark Im
plies, "O. kv-
TTnllotmipn nearly three Dounda in
weight fell during a recent storm at
Jessore. in Bengal. Metal veranda
rnAfa warn nerforated. cattle maimed'
trees beaten down and a man killed
outright by the downfall.
Mothers will find Mrs. Wlnslow's Boom
ing Byrup the best remedy to use for their
Children during me teeming; periou.
In the autobiography which he fur
nished for the congressional directory
Representative Davis of Florida tells
of his early struggles and subsequent
achievements, and gallantly adds:
"Before reaching his majority he was
married to Miss Mercer, and to her In
fluence is due whatever of sucbbs he has
attained."
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Wodchucks, crows, skunks and spar
rows increase in number as the coun
try becomes more thickly settled.
The year 1877 was so wet all through
the West that it came about that corn
was worth $1 per bushel and hay only
$1.50 per ton.
It takes lust as much of the fertility
of the soil to grow and mature a lot of
weeds as It does to grow a crop of use
ful vegetables or grain.
The crops of a dry season when not
too dry are always far more satisfac
tory than those of a moderately wet
season, quality better, lees waste In har
vesting.
The enormous crops of strawberries
raised in North Carolina, on the coast.
nave extended the season of cheap
strawberries for all the large Northern
cities one month.
The specific gravity of wood varies
more than one would think, a cubic
foot of white cedar weighing only 28
pounds when dry and a cubic foot of
lignum vitae 82 pounds.
One of the most profitable industries
of the Western farm today is the grow
ing of hogs. A 10-months-old pig
which now sells for over $20 will not
cost the producer over $10, if it does
that
The actual losses sustained on any
farm where colts are raised by turning
them into the pasture fenced with barb
ed wire will amount In two years to
more than enough to fence the pasture
with woven wire.
We never could see why It is that the
blackberry will grow wild where it is
not wanted and will not grow In the
garden. The blackberry has a good
deal of meanness about It, anyhow.
Dry season and scant crops result In
the storing of much plant food in the
fields ready for use when the rains
come and make the crop. All of the so
called waste arid lands of the West are
very rich In stores of plant food and
only need a water Bupply to make them
very productive.
The average cost in the state of Illi
nois of raising a bushel of corn as de
termined from an exhaustive line of
experiments was found to be 16 cents.
When corn thus raised commands 50
cents a bushel, it is easy to see why
good corn land in that state readily
sells for $100 per acre and upward.
Fifty cents worth of rape Beed sown
with the acre of barley will furnish
nearly three months' feed for and fat
ten for market ten medium sized sheep,
or It will keep ten shotes nicely for
threo months. One thus gets two crops
in one year and finely fertilizes the
land for next season's crops besides.
It looks to us to be a pretty mean
sort of thing to give a sitting hen
goose eggs to hatch. If old Biddy has
any feelings at all, how must she re
gard the fraud practiced upon her as
6he tries to feed and train the ungainly
goslings? Any self-respecting hen is
Justified in striking under such circum
stances. Duck eggs are bad enough.
A very few years ago the stock grow
ers were howling about the meat trust
and wanted an official Investigation be
cause prices were so low. Now the
stock grower is very quiet, while the
consumer is roaring at the prices he
must pay for his sirloin steak. The
law of supply and demand in its si
lent and irrresistible work never
pleases all classes.
A friend of ours who has quite a
large grove of matured red cedar trees
derives a considerable income every
spring by selling the little cedar trees
which come up by the hundreds in his
timber lot, the cedar seeds being car
ried there by the birds and finding un
der the shade of these deciduous trees
Just exactly the best conditions for
germination and development
The West had to take care of nearly
a foot of water on the level during the
month of May. There was a general
filling up of rivers, lakes, wells, cis
terns, springs, swamps, such an all
round soaking up as the territory cov
ered has not experienced for years. As
a timely agricultural topic, ditching
and drainage have crowded that of
conserving soli moisture to the rear.
A cyclonic storm In early May swept
Into its folds a host of migrating birds
during the night, and they were blown
hither uud thither against buildings,
wires and fences and were picked up
by the hundred the next morning
grosbeaks, orioles, vireos, flycatchers,
tanagers, wood thrushes and scores of
other varltles. The keen bird instinct
is not always equal to the perils which
beset our little feathered friends.
The cauliflower is a difficult vegeta
ble to grow with us. Of B0 planted we
will only get a few good heads. Infe
rior seed and' too much hot weather
during the growing season seem to be
the cause. One needs the moist, cool
cllnate of England to produce this
vegetable at its best
Japan would hardly look at Ameri
can flour in 1888, using only 1,200
pounds all told, but last year she took
over 50,000,000 pounds. Breechclouts
and chopsticks have made way for
pants, plug hats and baking powder
biscuits, and more than any other peo
ple are tne Japanese ioaay auupuus,
the American type of civilization.
A discouraging and disappointing
fact is announced by the scientists. It
is now asesrted that the old stockyards
smell, the pregnant odor of summer
common to depot stockyards and feed
ing yards which has usually been abat
ed by boards of health on the ground
of its being a menace to the public
health, is in no sense unhealthful or a
source of danger to the health of the
community Just simply unpleasant.
that's alL But, then, unpleasant things
will sometimes Irritate men and move
them to action Just as quickly as would
dangerous things.
The best things always sown to have
the most enemies. Here Is the rose.
for Instance, which is beet with slugs,
aphis, spiders, mildew and lota of other
pests, while a burdock will grow un
cared for and Immune from all ene
mies. Here la the apple, the nice sorts
borer, blight, codling moth and canker-
worm anu what not to fret Its life out,
while a wild crab will grow by the
roadside untouched and fruitful. The
beetles will clean out a Hubbard squash
vine and let a pumpkin vine alone, and
no bug that we ever knew would touch
purslane, quack grass or cockleburs
There is evidently a sort of community
ol interest between the mean things of
this world.
The New Way.
A friend wishes us to explain why, if
the methods used and prices charged
by the so-called beef trust are unfair
and extortionate, the retail butchers do
not refuse to buy meat of the combine
and Instead buy and slaughter their
own cattle, sheep and hogs and be In
dependent An answer to this question
opens up the most pregnant and live is
sue In America today. In criticising
special results in special lines of busi
ness the average man Is apt to overlook
the fact of the radical and unprevent
able change which is taking place in
the foundation principles underlying
our entire system of business and com
merce. Little by little every manufac
turer has come to realize tha fact that
there are wonderful economies con
nected with centralization and combi
nation, and as the law which moves all
business along those lines offering the
least resistance is as irresltible in its
operation as is the law of gravitation
it comes that the methods of doing
business are being revolutionized. The
meat business is only one example, but
in its operation well illustrates tha rev
olution which is taking place. The
facts are that the savings and econ
omies connected with the killing and
dressing of the meats of the country at
two or three central points are so great
that the small concern which would be
rid of the evils now so loudly com
plained of flnas Itself handicapped at
every point When the fact is under
stood that the running expenses and
profits of the big packing houses are
provided for alicost wholly from what
Is realized out of the offal of the animal
slaughtered, and as the small concern
Is prevented in a score of ways from
such utilization of byproducts, it is
easy to see what an advantage the big
houses have. Then the further fact
that the animals killed by such con
cerns are inspected by government ex
perts and the meat properly cured be
fore being placed' on the block, giving
the consumer a better quality of meat,
is a big argument in favor of the com
bine houses. If the present legal con
tention shall settle how much of the
profits growing out of the economies
of the centralized system of slaughter
ing and dressing the meats of the coun
try belong to the retail butcher and
the consumer, It will be more than we
look for. The same question is
seeking solution on the fuel, transporta
tion, illumination problems in fact,
wltn nearly all manufacturing interests
of whatever kind or name. Competi
tion sought and found a remedy in co
operation, this co-operative effort
breeds trusts and combines, the trust
Is easily tyrannical, and tyranny the
American people will not endure, and
there you have it in a nutshell "Quo
Vadls?"
The "Water Witch.''
Here Is an Inquiry as to the prac
tical use of the "water witch" in the lo
cation of underground water supplies.
We are aware that some extraordinary
claims are made for this method of lo
cating water; but nevertheless, we be
lieve the whole business is a harmless
fake, the outgrowth of a latent element
of superstition incident to an ancestry
which burned witches, ducked scolding
wives, regulated seed time and the
weaning of colts, calves and babies by
the changes of the moon and which to
day prevents many from beginning a
Journey or an imporant piece of work
on Friday and puts a ban on hotel
room No. 13 or that number at a dinner
party. The "water witch," like the
weather prophet, will, of course, be
right a part of the time, and, as with
the prophet, the successful predictions
are alone noted. Modern progress and
development In all lines are distinctive
ly marked by an entire absence of
signs, superstitions, legends and all the
mysteries which swarmed around the
ignorance of the past. It Is cool, ex
act, utterly unromantlc and scientific,
and the "witch of the water" will have
to go with all the other witches, fairies
and superstitions of a past age. As
well give a berlnged and dirty gypsy
wench a quarter to tell your fortune.
The fertilizing of land by feeding off
the crop grown where It was produced
is but little practiced in this country
and its value but little realized. In
other lands, England particularly, the
feeding off of the turnip, clover, vetch,
trefoil and clnquefoil crops by sheep
Is a prime factor in maintaining the
fertility of the fields so fed. The use
ot portable fencing makes the work of
doing this easy, especially so with sheep
and hogs.
Largely because of the fatal barbed
wire fence three horses have to be rais
ed to secure one perfectly sound animal
to xply the large markets. There is
J waste along this line.
Shortsighted.
The attempt to drain a tract of 18.-
000 acres of swamp land in a Western
state land which was almost worthless
and which when drained would bring
$G0 per acre met with the roost bitter
and senseless opposition from many of
the landowners through whose farms
the proposed ditch would have to pass.
Fortunately the laws of the state were
so framed that the rights of the own
ers of the swamp lands are fully pro
tected, and the ditch will be dug fca
spite of the protests.
Just a Common Boy.
Sixteen years ago there was Just an
ordinary common sort of boy attending
the public schools of a town in a West
ern state. . He was only fairly good in
his studies, undersized and no athlete
and found of mechanics. His parents
were poor, and when he graduated he
took up farm work with his father for
two years, in themeantlme reading a
good deal along mechanical and engi
neering lines. He then took a three
years" course at the agricultural college
of the state to fit himself as a mechani
cal engineer. While doing this he in'
vented and patented a very valuable in'
vention, and when he loft college he
had no trouble in commanding all the
capital he needed to engagu in the
manufacture of his invention. Today
at 28 years of age he is at the head and
manager of a manufacturing plant em
ploying 100 men and will soon become
a very rich man. This is no fairy
story, but Just a fact
If your dog seems out of Borts, take
no chances with him. Shut him up at
once or kill him.
Crows are becoming a great nuisance
in some parts of the West A thou
sand of them were shot in one day re
cently by a party of 100 sportsmen In
an Illinois county.
The output of genuine olive oil from
thw California orchardds la about 5,500
barrels, but before this product reaches
the consumer the amount Is largely In
creased by contamination with the
cotton field of the South.
The skimmllk from the farm eepara
tor Is conceded to be worth twice as
much for food for calves and the pigs
ds the milk frm the creamery separa
tor. This Is a fact which is bound to
grow in importance.
The American people can well afford
to sit down on the glucose, oleomarga
rine and cottonseed oil type of pro
gress, which, like the weeds In a corn
field, threatens to destroy the unadul
terated and genuine products of the
country.
The one fruit which most seldom dis
appoints the grower Is the strawberry.
It will do well on almost any soil if
furnished enough moisture and fertlll
zer. If people generally would pay
more attention to the strawberry and
less to some of the other fruits which
so often fail them, it would be well
The John Brown Fort.
A decree has been entered by th eclr
cult court for Jefferson count W. Va.,
in the case of Alexander Murphy
against the administrator ot the estate
of Miss Kate Field for the sale of a
tract of five acres of land, on which she
had located the John Brown Fort says
the Baltimore Sun. The sale Is order
ed to be made by special commission
ers of the court to satify a debt of $1,
116, which Miss Field owed Murphy for
the purchase of the land and money
loaned. This is the original John
Brown fort, with authentic record. It
Is the same building' that was on the
government property at Harper s Fer
ry at the time Brown made his raid,
and was the engine house intwhlch he
was captured. It was removed to Chi
cago during the World's fair and ex
hibited at that exposition. After the
fair Miss Field purchased it and re
moved it to this tract of land, about
ona mile south of Harper's Ferry. She
was never able to pay all the expenses,
and tier aeetn has caused its sale.
Warm Welcome for Wrong Man.
Here Is a story which the late Con
gressman Amos J. Cummlnes was fond
of telling: A member of congress was
going home late one night when he met
a young man who was satisfactorily
'loaded." The congressman happened
to know where the young man lived,
ana mnuiy guiuea mm home. The con
gressman bad no sooner pulled tne bell
than the door was thrown wide open
and a tan, husky woman appeared. She
never said a word, but grabbed the
young man by the collar and shook him
till she fairly loosened his teeth; then
into tne hail she took blm and slammed
the door.
The congressman was descending the
steps when the door was thrown open
a second time, and his friend flew out
of it as if thrown by a catapult At the
foot of the stairs he landed, and the
congressman picked him up. Much
frightened and considerably sobered,
tne young man gasped: "We don't live
here we moved last week."
In a Thicket
Secretary of War Root la credited
with a story about a New Yorker who
ien nis ciuo ratner late, ana, proceed
ing homeward, encountered a tree. He
reireaiea ana aavancea again, meet
lng the same tree. He sat down oi
the street and pTnlnlmpd In n aai
tone: "Lost, lost in an impenetrable
toreBi: -
Excellent Suggestion.
Gardner Here, sir, are a few dead
trees that will have to be felled.
New Owner It's too bad to lose
them. Why not raise dried fruit on
them T New York Time.
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DOO POLICEMAN NAMED BUM.
He Goes Out on Patrol, Catches Bur
glars and Has Many Friends.
New York Sun: The policemen all
like Bum, nnyhow, and It is not re
corded that he has any enemies in the
precinct, except possibly some burglars
who have felt his teeth.
He arrived at the police station on
Eighty-eighth street far over toward
the East river, one bitterly cold night
four winters ago. Captain Freers was
in command at the time, and he hap
pened to be sitting beside Sergeant
Tom Reilly behind the desk. The Btreet
door opened and a diminutive blacfc-and-tan
dog dodged in at the heels of
Roundsman Hawkins.
"Here's a poor little bum almost
frozen to death," said the roundsman.
"Lets thaw him out."
"Sure," said the captain; "let him lie
down by the stove."
But Bum didn't like' the stove. He
was so benumbed by the cold that he
could hardly walk. He managed to
drag himself around behind the desk,
however, and curl up by Sergeant Reil
ly's chair.
That was the beginning of their
friendship. Sergeant Rellly was his
favorite from the first, and has con
tinued so.
"He looked up at me in such an ap
pealing way," said the sergeant, "I
could not help but pity the little crea
ture." Bum was not the spick-and-span-looking
dog then he is today. He was
Email, scraggy and half-starved. Ser
geant Rellly sent out and bought him
some meat and liver when he was
thawed out It was probably the first
square meal Bum had evr had.
His next acquisition of fortune was
an old blanket to He on upstairs In the
dormitory. The men all came to know
him soon, and his fortune prospered
correspondingly.
He made his home about the police
station and began to go about the pre
cinct with the men when they went on
post. But he stuck to Sergeant Reilly
more than any of the rest and ever
since that time they have ben accus
tomed to take long walks together.
The name "Bum" stuck to him from
the remark made by Roundsman Haw
kins the first night he came Into the
house. Before long the policemen in
the house chipped in and bought him a
handsome collar, inscribed "Bum" and
also bearing regulation brass figures
"28," used to indicate the number of
the precinct.
He Is very fastidious about his meals
now, but he has friends about the pre
cinct who give him anything he wants.
The night watchman at the Astoria
ferry house has a plate of cooked meat
or liver ready for him every night at
11 o'clock. And Bum Is usually on
hand. So between the policemen in
the house and his friends on the out
sit! ehe fares pretty well.
He always turns out with the mid
night platoon and barks bis approval as
the men march out
The conductors on the Eighty-sixth
street crosstown horse cars all know
him, and he rides with them Just like
a policeman In uniform. He has learn
ed the limits of the precincts from the
men on post, and has never been
known to go below Seventy-ninth street
or above Ninety-sixth Btreet -
He has the record also of having fas
tened his teeth in the trousers of more
than one burglar or thief running to
escape arrest Bum always managed
to Interest them until a policeman
could make the capture.
Altogether the men of the Twenty
eight precinct think they have a pretty
intelligent dog.
Spain to Send a Minister.
Madrid, June 16. It was announced
today that the government has de
cided to appoint a minister to the
Cuban republic
A New York book publisher says It is
impossible to sell many copies of a
book without a great deal of advertis
ing. He has tried many knds of pub
licity, even employing persons to lec
ture about the books, as well as dress
lng up persons to represent characters
in the stories and sending them
through the streets; but he finds that
nothing brings such large results as
newspaper advertising.
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Colorado's Live Exhibit Will Contain
Millions of Workers State
House of Bee Hives.
St. Louis dispatch: The liveliest
live exhibit at the Louisiana Purchase
Exposition In 1904 will come from
Colorado." Thus spoke Van E. Rouse,
the Colorado Springs mine owner and,
capitalist, during his visit to St Louis
this week with the Colorado World's
Fair Commission, of which he is an ac-'
tlve member. "The world generally
knows that as a mining country Colo
rado leads all nations on the globe,"
continued Mr. Rouse, "and this has
naturally created the Impression out
side of Colorado that all the wealth of
our magnificent state is hidden under
ground. Our exhibits at the World's
Fair will show Colorado to be not only
great In mining, but that it 1b a world
leader in horticulture and agriculture."
"The World's Fair management ira
their plan and scope of the exposition
declared they wanted live exhibits, so
in casting about for plans to make our
exhibit conform to thnt idea we inter
ested one of our wealthiest and most
public Bplrlted citizens, Mayor Swink,
of Rocky Ford. Mr. Swink is an api
arist, and he has, perhaps, the largest
bee plnnt In America. He Is going to
bring his bees to the World's Fair, and
they will "work here from the time the
Exposition opens until it closes. Mr.
$10,000 of his own money, is to bring
to St Louis enough beehives to con
struct In miniature a counterpart of the
Colorado state house at Denver. The
bees will then be turned out to find ma
terial for honey making in the country
surrounding the World's Fair grounds.
It will require about 640 hives to con
struct the little state house and in It
about five and one-half million beea
will work. It will be a ereat exhibit
In Colorado we make the finest honey
In the world. We have one bee man
who works his bees all the year
through. In summer they work In hia
alfalfa fields in Colorado, and in the
fall he ships them to his plantation in
Florida, where they work among the
flowers and orange groves until time
to return them to the West in the
spring.
"In Colorado we have each year a
"Watermelon day at Rocky Ford, a Po
tato day at Greeley, a Strawberry day
at Canon City, and a Fruit day at
Grand Junction.. These are holidays,
and all Colorado turns out to the cele
brations. In 1904 these celebration
will be held in St. Louis, and we expect
many trainloads of people here to par
ticipate In them, and on these days Col
orado fruit will be as free as water for
those who celebrate with us."
The Colorado exhibit will cost a total
of $300,000. The commissioners ap
pointed by the governor under the law
creating the World's Fair Commission,
have so far refused to draw on the
stare appropriation for their services,
preferring to leave the money in the
treasury to be used in making the ex
hibit Notes of the Fair
Two more rivals ot Santos-Dumont
the wizard of the air, have come Into
public notice during the past week. One
of these is a Prof. Barnard, of Lynn,
Mass., who has a flying machine all but
ready for the contest in the air at the
Worlds Fair. The other is Parvln
Wright of Denver, CoL, a mechanical
and electrical engineer of twenty years
experience. Now that Santos-Dumont
has packed his aerial craft and gone
back to Paris from London it is quite
probable that daring aeronaut will be
kept busy until 1904 perfecting his fly
ing machine for the World's Fair races.
Iowa has more button factories than
any other state In the union, according
to the United States census report, ahd
this fact prompts an Iowa editor to sug
gest that it would be more appropriate
to erect a "Button Palace" Instead of a
"Corn Palace" at the Louisiana Pur
chase exposition. . ,
Sir Sydney Fisher, minister of agri
culture for Canada, has appointed Mr.
WMllam Hutchison as Canadian com
missioner to the World's Fair at St.
Louis. Mr. Hutchison will have charge
of all the preliminary arrangements for
Canada's big exhibit at the exposition
in 1904. His headquarters will be with
the department of agriculture, Ottawa,
Canada.
Rev. Samuel I. Lindsay, secretary of
the World's Fair Religious Building
and Exhibit committee, has Written
President Francis of the Louisiana Pur
chase Exposition, conveying to that of
ficer the thanks of the committee for
the kind consideration he has already
shown their request for the erection of
a building of sufficient capacity and of
suitable architectural design to accom
modate the vast exhibit contemplated.
There will be no difficulty, Dr. Lindsay
says, in securing the united co-operation
of all the religious bodies Involved
for making an exhibit worth y of the
World's Fair and the cause of religion.
The plan of the religious, committee
bas been unanimously endorsed by, each
general religious body before which l
has been laid. ', ' . '
CENTRAL N. V. NO. 17-03
