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49ATI oomtnnn f eattona for tuts paper mux t accompanied by the name of tbe author; cot necessarily for publication, but aa an evidence of Rood faith on the part of the writer. Write only on one side of the paper Be particularly careful !u giving names an nates to have the l od ttature plaJ THE WOBLD AT LARGE. Summary of the Daily Hews. WASHI5GTOS VOTES. Tm annual report of the third as sistant postmaster-general for the past fiscal year shows the total expenditure for the year was 890,626,296. and re ceipts, $83,499,208, leaving a deficiency of $8,137,088. The number of postage stamps, stamped envelopes and postal cards issued was 4,195,665,523, an in crease of seven per cent, over the is sues of the previous year. The total number of pieces of mail matter regis tered was 15,106,336. A Washington dispatch on the 14th stated that there was high authority for saying that Secretary Carlisle is likely to succeed Senator Blackburn in the senate, and that a deal to that ef fect had been arranged between the sound money democrats of Kentucky and the republican leaders. The October fruit report of the ag ricultural department at Washington showed a heavy apple crop, and an especially fine quality in the northern tier of states, but prices were extremely low. The 11th annual encampment of the National Union Veterans' legion was called to order by Commander George C James at Washington, with about 1,000 delegates and as many more mem bers present as visitors. They had a parade through the streets which was viewed by President Cleveland. John O. Donahoe, of Wilmington, DeL, was elected national commander and Co lumbus, O. , chosen for the next meet ing. Adjt.-Ges. Rttggi.es has made his annual report to the secretary of war. He stated that there were 8,498 enlist ments in the army during the past year and 1,375 desertions. Assistant Secretary William E. Curtis, of the treasury department at Washington, has written a letter to Assistant Secretary Dabney, of the de partment of agriculture, in which he defends the New York bankers from the allegations often made that they are interested in the withdrawals of gold from the treasury. Baron Fava, the Italian ambassa dor, visited the white h'useonthe 19th and presented to the president, by di rection of the king of Italy, a testi monial of esteem in the shape of a set of 14 volumes, being a collection of papers relative to the discovery of America and the enterprise of Christo pher Columbus, as well as the Italian explorers in the hemisphere who pre ceded the great navigator. Chief Justice William A. Richard son, of the United States court of claims, died at Washington on the 19th, aged 75 years. He was formerly secre tary of the treasury. GENERAL NEWS. In a fight between two colored men named William Leach and Jacob Holmes at Waco, Tex., the latter struck the former on the head and killed him. The body of a man, supposed to be Henry Schumacher, of Springfield, Mo., was taken from the river at Chi-' cago on the 19th. The police believe he was murdered as his pockets had been tampered with. A gigantic swindling scheme carried on in America for the last five years is said to have been laid bare by the Chicago police. Seven men have been arrested in connection with the charges of fraud. The name under which the allied manipulators of the scheme and their agents are said to have been operating is the Royal Spanish Lottery Co. of America, which the police say has no connection whatever with the foreign concern. The Portuguese bark Venus, which sailed from Cardiff, Eng., for Lisbon, foundered in a gale off Skermer island and 20 persons were drowned. Cardinal Satolli, sailed from New York for Italy on the 17th. A head-end collision occurred at the trestle across Little Cypress bayou, 5 miles north of Orange, Tex., on the Southern Pacific, by which John 3ancy, from Unionville, la., was killed and the engineer, A. T. Toler, of Hous ton, who was running the westbound train, sustained a fracture of both thigh bones and a dislocation of the right shoulder. Five horses and some other farm stock iu the car with Clancy were killed. Three masked highwaymen held up the stage between Rock Springs, Wyo., and Hopkins on the 17th, but got noth ing for their trouble. Dun's review of trade gives the num ber of failures for the week ended the J 6th in the United States as 328, against 263 last year, and 40 in Canada, against 46 last year. John Island, a Creek counselor, was hot and instantly killed at Oaktaha, by Buz Hawkins. Island had driven off 27 head of cattle owned by Haw kins and was preparing to shin them when Hawkins found them. Some words ensued and Hawkins pulled oat nis pistol and killed Ireland. Both men are prominent Creek citizens, and the killing has created great excite ment. J. D. Kennedy-, a banker of Man chester, la., hanged himself. Bad in vestments said to be the cause. The connty workhouse prisoners at Chattaaooga, Tenn., mutinied while at work and 28 of them made a rush on the guards. The gosrds opened fire and wounded half of the men. all ne groes. The mutiny was queiled. Four negroes escaped, however, and four of the wounded mav die of their-wounds. A railroad train on the S3ar-Eifel line, i a Germany, conveying a large number of recruits, was thrown from the tracks and 50 persons killed and many more injured. A pitched battle occured at Hunts ville. Tex., between six negroes over family matters and two on each side were killed. Thx National Oil Co. 'a mill at Corsi cana, Tex., was recently destroyed by fir., together with a large quantity of cotton seed. One of the compresses in the mines near South McAleater, L T..' blew up recently, wrecking, the cAn press and destroying considerable property. The concrete roof of the lecture room of the state university at Char lottesville, Va. , collapsed on the 19th burying five workmen under the ruins. Two were fatally injured and the oth ers were seriously hurt. A battle occurred at the Bell Ellen mines in Bibb county, Ala. , between whites and blacks, which resulted in the death of two men and the wound ing of two others, caused by a deputy sheriff attempting to arrest a negro. A dispatch from Springfield, 11L, on the 19th stated that 300 coal miners had struck for an increase from 32 cents to 40 cents per ton, and that it was probable all the miners in that dis trict would be called ont B. P. Foster, grand secretary of the grand lodge of Odd Fellows, died at his home at Indianapolis, Ind., on the 19th. The town of Carney, 16 miles east of Guthrie, Ok., was held up on the night of the 17th by six masked bandits and the store of Trader Fonts was ran sacked and $800 in money taken. Fouts and bis son were taken a mile from town and bound to a tree. Three posses started in pursuit of the rob bers. The Joint Traffic association at Chi cago has declared a boycott against the Clover Leaf becanse the line cut rates and gave sleeping car and chair car privileges to holders of second-class tickets. The big steamer Australasia was turned on Lake Michigan and now lies at the bottom of Whitcfish bav. It was valued at $60,009 and was loaded with a cargo of 2,000 tons of coal for Milwaukee. The vessel and cargo are counted a total loss. The crew were saved. Over 10,000 railway employes parad ed in Cincinnati on the 17th, with pres idents, vice presidents, general mana gers and other general officers in line. The demonstration was in favor of "sound money." A fire broke out in the large ware house of the chemical and fertilizing works at Alexandria, Va., on the 18th. The total loss was estimated at $100. 000. Fifteen small buildings near the wharves were destroyed. A three-year-old child of John Morse, residing near Hopkinsville, Ky., fell into an open fire-place while left alone and was burned to death. Other children were playing near, but were too badly frightened to call help. Speaker Thomas B. Reed, of Maine, spoke at Fort Wayne, Ind., on the 15th, but was unable to resume his speaking tour the next morning on ac count of his voice giving out. The Army Correspondents' and Art- i tists' memorial was dedicated on South mountain on the 16th with military and civic ceremonies. Gov. Lowndes, Gen. Boy n ton, George Alfred Town send and others made speeches. On the monument are the names of 106 war correspondents, 11 southern corre spondents and 30 sketch artists. . It is 50 feet high and 40 feet wide, and through its open arches it affords ex tensive views of the battlefield country toward Washington and of Antietam and Harper's Ferry. Thomas E. Watson on the 16th for warded papers to Kansas from Thom son, Ga., notifying the secretary of state to take his name as nominee for vice president from the head of the Breidenthal populist ticket. Mr. Wat son's name will appear only once on the official ballot in Kansas, and that will be at the head of the middle-of-the-road populist ticket. Scott Benson, commercial agent of the Illinois Central Railroad Co., has sent in his report as to the ravages of hog cholera along the Central lines in Iowa. He reports a loss of 40 per cent, of hogs from Jessup to Fort Dodge. The disease prevails at Alden, Iowa Falls, Williams, Blairsburg and other points. Farmers are alarmed and are shipping nnfattened hogs to market. Three firemen were killed and six badly injured at a fire at the chemical warehouse of Gilmour & Co. , at Mon treal, Can. The financial loss is 5100, 000. The International Typographical union, in session at Colorado Springs, CoL, re-elected W. B. Prescott, of To ronto, Ont., president and chose John W. Bramwood, of Denver, CoL, for secretary-treasurer. A law for a nine hour work-day was ordered to be voted on by subordinate unions and $2,500 was voted to prosecute a boycott against a printing firm of Kansas -City, Mo. Syracuse, N. Y., was chosen as the next meeting place. Two men held up the saloon of Chris Bauer at Galena. III., and killed the bartender and rifled the cash drawer. The sheriff and a posse started in pur suit of them. Through a misunderstanding of an order to the north and southbound trains on the Florida Central & Penin sula railroad they had a head-end col lision near Swansea, S. C, on the 14th. The engines of both, trains were, de molished and the tender of the south bound engine telescoped into the com bination mail, baggage and express car. Express Messenger W. D. Lines and Mail Agent L. A. Thomas were pinioned in the wreck, which caught fire from the coal oil lamps, and the two men were roasted to death. Flag man Ulmer wast supposed to have been burned to death also. Cor- Henry Spielman. of New York city, a wealthy merchant and clubman, was held up by two women just as he was leaving the Union League club at Chicago at 8:30 o'clock in the evening and robbed of his gold watch and $20 in cash. The assault was made at a time when many persons were passing. Two women were afterwards arrested for the crime. " The Tramway elevator at Julietta. Ida., was destroyed by fire, together with S3, 000 bushels of wheat and two freiirht cars. The Sre was the work of incendiaries. Seventeen women were recently ar rested in a pool room at Chicago. H. J. Schilling, a wholesale feed merchant of Kansas City, arrived at Tacoroa, Wash., on the 18th, complet ing a journey of 3.900 miles from Kan sas City on a wheel. He started on June SO.- The steamer Livingstone collided with and sunk the propeller Grand Traverse below the Colchester light on Lake Erie on the 19th. The sunken vessel was valued at $25,000 and was well insured. C H. Smith, at San Jose, Cal., took 51 2-5 seconds off the world's five-mile bicycle road record, setting the new mark at 10:20. Richard Hayes and his sister, who resided on a farm near St. Mary's, Ont., were instantly killed by a train while driving over a crossing near their place. Marion Kennard, of Wise county, W. Va., went home drunk after his family had retired. He awakened his wife, quarreled with her and then al most severed her head from her body with a corn knife. He afterwards killed his boy and tried to kill his daughter, but she escaped. After sleeping off his drunken fit he told his neighbors that a tramp had murdered his wife and child. L. W. Yeomans drug store at Belle ville., Ont , was burned on the 19th and the proprietor perished in the flames. Chairman Jones, of the democratic national committee, has issued, an ap peal that on Saturday, October 31, the national colors be displayed by all citi zens at their places of business and their homes. Five jieu called Lord R. T. Brooke to his door at his ranch near Tonka wa. Ok., at three o'clock on the iorning of the 19th and ordered him to hold up his hands, and he began firing at the band, killing two and wounding two others. A posse started afterwards on the trail of the gang. Robbery was the motive as the gang thought there was a lar?e sum in the house. A large steam gin near Selma, Ala., with six bales of lint cotton and 1,000 bushels of cotton seed was destroyed by fire. A negro dance near Scully ville, Ark., on the 17th broke up in a row. Two ne gro men were killed. A RIOT was caused at Portsmouth, O., on the ISth by the Sunday Observance league attempting to break up a ball game. Constables who tried to serve warrants were chased off the grounds by a howling mob of spectators and narrowly escaped alive. The police finally dispersed the crowd. Over 150 arrests will be made on the charge of rioting. Dr. Alfred Holt, of Hayes, Miss., shot and instantly killed Dr. P. S. Rhett, of Jonesville. La., in the ro tunda of a hotel at Natchez, Miss., on the 18th. The killing was the result of an old grudge. The largest fire that has occurred in Los Aneeles, CaL, in years started in the Fowler paper box factory, and be fore it was subdued over $100,000 worth of property had been consumed. Sev eral of the firemen were painfully in jured by falling timbers. The causa of the fire was not known. The hardware store of George II Cburchill & Co., at Galesburg, I1L, was recently broken into and revolvers, razors, cartridges and other articles stolen. Five boys, whose ages ranged from 11 to 16 years, were arrested and confessed and all the stolen property was recovered. Nelson Morris, of Chicago; John and Barringer Brown, of Crown Point, Ind., and several other large stock raisers along the Kankakee river have suffered heavy losses recently by valu able horses dying with an unknown disease. As soon as the disease attacks them their blood turns to water and they soon die. additional dispatches. A special from Washington to the New York Herald slated Postmaster General Wilson for the vacancy created by the death of Chief Justice Richard son, of the court of claims. Mrs. Con Reardon and her nine-year- old son were burned to death at Potts ville. Pa , on the 20th. The mother had escajTid from the burning build ing, but hearing that her child was in the house she rushed back to reccue him. The first car load of California oranges was shipped to Chicago from Los Angeles on the 19th, four weeks earlier than nsuaL Gov. Clarke, of Arkansas, recently pardoned an 18-year-old convict, whose mother, Mrs. Gillean, had tramped over 200 miles with a petition and a letter from the judge who convicted the youth. The fourth annual convention of the National Spiritualists' association be gan at Washington on the 20th. J. G. Pinkerton, master of transpor tation of the Kansas City, Memphis & Birmingham railroad, attempted to board a moving train at Suiligent, Ala., on the 20th, missed his footing, fell beneath a Pullman sleeper and was killed. By a decision of the court of appeals the San Francisco & California railroad has secured the title to 200,000 acres of land near Portland, Ore. The victory means a clear gain to the railroad and a corresponding loss on the part of the government. Robert Noe, a farmer near Harlan, Ky., became violently insane and at tempted to kill his family. One of his children was beaten into insensibility and will die. The man was committed to the insane asylum. Prof. Behrisg and Herr Knorr, of Berlin, have announced the discovery of a tetanus anti-'.oxine which is ex pected to greatly reduce the number of deaths from traumatic tetanus. The big distributing reservoir at Oakland, Cal., broke its walls on the 20th and 2,000,000 gallons of water were let loose. Beyond flooding the streets no great damage was done. The offi cials suspect the walls of the reser voir were blown up by dynamite by malicious persons. ' ' The steamer Arago was driven on the rocks of the jetty at Cooshead. Ore., on the 20th and while a boat with a load of passengers and crew at tempted to land it was capsized and 12 persons were drowned. The accident i occurred during a heavy fog. KANSAS STATE NEWS. There are 440 G. A. R. posts in Kan- A $5,000 creamery will be built at Canker City. A Marshall county man this year old 25,000 cabbages. Pittsburg has a new city hospital, thoroughly modern in every way. Burglars entered the post office at Manchester and stole $300 from the sale. The Elk state bank has been or ganized at Clyde, Cloud connty, with $25,000 capitaL Emma Dent, an Ottawa girl, has a so prano voice which her friends think will earn her fame. W. W. Gallins, an old soldier of Overbrook, fell from a barn he was building and broke his neck. An inexhaustible supply of zinc ore has been discovered near E:lis which is said to be 95 rer cent pure. Dr. M. M. Cloud, of Kingman, has been appointed physician - at Grand River school. Standing Rock, JN. IJ. E. A. Wordeman, of Arkansas City, has been appointed receiver of the Ar kansas City & Southwestern railway. There are 40,000 members of the Bap tist church in Kansas and 375 Sunday schools, all reported in good condition. Capt. Birkett, who recently shipped cattle from Greenwood county to Liv erpool, Eng., got $73 a head for them. One hundred and fifty men are em ployed on the new bridge across the Kaw at Topeka, and the job will last a year. The old soldiers of Wilson, Woodson, Allen and Neosho counties recently held a well-attended reunion at Cha- nute. It is estimated that 40,000 head of cattle will be fastened in Jewell county this winter. Jewell led in corn this year. The Kansas society of Friends re cently held a ten days' meeting at Lawrence. Next year they will meet at Wichita. The State University Athletic asso elation elected J. W. Green president, Tom Wagstaff secretary and R. K. Moody treasurer. Samuel Shaumberg, a tailor of Rose dale, was arrested charged with sys tematically stealing the material to build a new bouse. - The Kansas railroads tre experienc ing a heavy business m wheat, corn and other grains, and there is danger of another car famine. Great herds of sheep will be fed in Dickinson and Geary counties this winter. Over 100,000 head were brought from New Mexico alone. The convention of the Central Evan gelical church at Abilene elected J. H, Tobias president, J. K. Young secre tary and Charles Linge treasurer. The Kansas State Baptist associa tion, in session at Topeka, refused to pas resolutions censuring Gov. Mor rill's attitude on the temperance ques tion. The Y. M. C A. state convention, in session at Leavenworth, elected Bruno Hobos, of Kansas City, president and George W. Fleming, of Arkansas City, secretary. The Kansas City (Kan.) medical col lege has been chartered with $10,000 capitaL The directors are C. E. and W. L. Seamen, G. W. Fitzpatrick, G. E. Tead and J. A. Smith. The drill in an artesian well at Abi lene broke at a depth of 750 feet. The efforts to strike a flow of water had to be abandoned and the drill containing diamonds to the value of $100 was lost. During the carnival at Leavenworth the other night three men entered Mc- Cool's restaurant and stole $100 from the cash drawer, but officers nabbed them a few minutes later, even before they had divided their booty. E. R. Potter, a young man who, while assistant postmaster at Abilene embezzled $540 belonging to the gov ernment, pleaded guilty in the federal court at Leavenworth and was sen tenced to one year in the penitentiary An Italian named . Torriani, who died recently in a New York hospital, confessed to having robbed the graves in Topeka cemeteries last winter, for which a number of officials connected with a Topeka medical college were arrested. Rev. Don S. Colt, who recently re signed the pastorate of the M. E. church at Wichita to accept a call to Allegheny City, Pa., is having trouble about the matter. Before Rev. Colt reached Allegheny City the Pitts burgh conference had designated member of its own body to take charge of the Allegheny City church. The annual meeting of the Anti Horsethief association was held at Hutchinson recently. It has 160 lodges and over 4.000 members, the largest lodge being at Humboldt. K. B. Cul bertson, of Sterling, was elected presi dent; J. W. Newland, of Earlton. vice president; George Kaufman, of Gales burg, secretary and treasurer. C J. Norton has compiled statistics for the Kansas Farmer showing that if 200 bushels of potatoes are raised to the acre, the cost to the farmer is not more than 2 cents a bushel. If only half a crop is raised, the cost is 4 cents a busheL If $3.50 is allowed per acre for the rent, wear and tear of tools, etc.. the cost of raising ten acres of potatoes will be .0385 cents per lusheL By careful economy, the price can be reduced to less than a cent a bushel, if there is a perfect stand of potatoes, with 18,000 hills per acre. W. G. Souther, a veteran Kansas newspaper correspondent and old-time printer, who claimed intimate friend ship with Abraham Lincoln, died in Topeka the other day. Mrs. Mary Ginter. of Kansas City, who had made four previous but un successful attempts to end her life, finally succeeded the other d3y in ob taining enough poison to shude her off. A railway man who had traveled over the state said the attendance from Kansas to the G. A. R. encamp ment at St. Taul would be very light, tae veterans preferring to wait and at tend the state reunion at Topeka. v KANSAS ODD FELLOWS tkS9tliAnnaI OOcen Klewtod H4 Reports Bfmda. Ltcavknworth. Kaik, Oct. 15. The Kansas grand lodge, 1 CLO. F., elected W. M. Glenn grand . master; W. L. Brown, deputy grand master; D. W. Kent, grand secretary; L. G. Beal, grand treasurer; W. T. Taylor, repre sentative. The terms of secretaries of subordinate lodges were made one year instead of six months. Grand lodge officers will hereafter be chosen by grand lolge delegates instead of by the members of the subordinate lodges. The membership has fallen off eight during the year, the present member sbio being 22.086. ' The total amount paid out in relief to indigent members and farail es amounted to $48,693.36; ot this amount $6,250.53 was for the burial of the dead. The expenses for con ducting the grand lodge amounted to $10,405, which includes salaries of of ficers, mileage and per diem of the last session. But two lodges have paid the special tax for the mainte nance of the orphans' home at Ottawa, and there is due on this tax $3,247.40. The grand treasurer re ported the amount on hand and the re ceipts from all sources during the year as being $23,411.14 and that he had paid out $16,543.42, leaving a balance on hand at the opening of the grand lodge of $C,867.72. The in surance feature of the order re ported having paid 14 claims, amount ing to $12,187.45, and having collected $15,454.27. Since this feature was or ganized, November 1, 1892, the amount of $74,946.48 has been paid to the heirs of deceased members. In the Rebekah lodge officers were elected as follows: President, Mrs. Blanche M. Dryden, of Spring Hill; vice president, Mrs. Ida E. Fladon, of Waterville; secretary, Mrs. Lydia Shep herd, of Wichita, re-elected for the fourth time; treasurer, Mrs. Ida M. Blum, of Kansas City, Kan. The Re bekah degree will meet in Topeka next year with the grand lodge. SUIT AGAINST ODD FELLOWS. Mrs. Martlnella Wants to Recover Title to Property Donated for the Erection of an Orphans Home. Topeka, Kan., Oct 15 Mrs. Mar- tinella, of France, has instructed her Topeka attorneys to bring suit against the Odd Fellows' organization of Kan sas to recover title to $17,000 worth of property in Franklin county which was donated by her brother for an Odd Fellows orphans home. The grand lodge at one time refused to accept the gift, for the reason that the will pro vided that the first board of trustees should serve for life, and this refusal is made the basis of the suit by Mrs. Mar tinella, who seeks to obtain posses sion of the property as her brother's heir. Santa F Taxes a Big Fortune. Topeka, Kan., Oct. 15. It will -take $100,000 a month for the 12 months of this year to pay this year's taxes on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fa road proper. This amount has been set aside monthly on the estimate of the tax commissioner, his statement placing this year's taxes at $1,200,000 This amount will be paid to eight dif ferent states through which the road runs, the proportion for Kansas being about $700,000. Kansas Baptists In Session. Topeka, Kan., Oct. 15. The annual meetings of the Kansas Baptist asso ciation, the Kansas Ministerial socie ties and the Kansas Baptist Young Peo ple's union are all in session in this city. The association elected the fol lowing officers for the ensuing year: President, W. C. Simpson, Emporia; vice president, J. W. McWharf, Fort Scott; recording secretary, W. Elliott, Argentine; treasurer, John R. Mul vane, Topeka. Two Apple Crops This Year. Atchison. Kan., Oct. la. M. S. Mor rison, a farmer living near here, has a lars;e orchard which is yielding its sec ond crop of apples thin season. ' The first yield was large, but the trees soon bloomed again, and the apples, which have since formed on them, are about matured. Although they are not aa large as the first crop they are sound, and have an excellent flavor. Kepford In Brant's Place. Topeka, Kan., Oct. 15. Rev. A. JP. Kepford, of Fort Scott, was yesterday placed in nomination for the governor ship in the place of Rev. J. E. Brant, who withdrew. ,The central commit tee of the independent prohibitionists accepted. Rev. Brant's withdrawal, after which, with little opposition, the name of Rev. A. E. Kepford was sub stituted and the vote was made unani mous. Swedish Lutherans of Kansas. McPherson, Kan., Oct. 15. The an nual state conference of the Swedish Lutheran church of Kansas convened yesterday in Lindsborg with a large number of ministers and lay delegate present, representing 5.000 communi cants in the state. Organization was completed and a two days' programme of religious papers begun last night. Reed Will Speak at Wichita. Wichita, Kan., Oct.'-l.t The repub lican county central ' committee has been notified that Thomas B. Reed, of Maine, has consented to speak in this city on October 24. It is expected that the greatest republican demonstration of the campaign in Kansas will occur on that date, as this is the only speech he will make in this state. Ballot-XSoxes Too SmalL Topeka, Kan., Oct. 15. Secretary of State Edwards says that owing to the size of the tickets to be voted this fall the ballot-boxes Dow ih" use - will not hold half the ballots that will be east in many precincts ' He says the only way to remedy the difficulty is for the county clerks to .purchase -new ballot boxes. , . ' "'l -'-' '' LesTeaworth Soldiers Home. ' Leavenworth," Kan., Oct. 15. There were present at' the home -yesterday 2, 3S6 members; 763 are absent on leave, making a total number" on the rolls of 3,143. Two hundred and seventy are sick -in the hosoitaL MEN'S MARRIAGEABLE AGE. Old Subject Discussed From a "fw Pom ot View. . It is a singnlar fact that the discus sion of matrimony in all its aspects is. always made relative to the woman. Its is as if she was the most interested of the two persons in the case, and had looked upon marriage in the light of an achievement, upon whose laurels she could rest for the remainder of her life. The age at which - she should; achieve matrimony . is gravely dis cussed; also her qualifications for that picturesque institution of society. Yet marriage is not a one-sided affair. There is a man in the case. What of him? -. - ..... . At what age. should a man marry? This experiment of home-making con tains as many complex elements, some, hidden. some apparent,for him as for the woman. Much of its success depends upon the way he has approached it, and the way in which he has approached! it depends upon his age. A man at 34 will see differently and act differently from his manner of seeing and acting at 24, that is, if he has developed in mind and character during the inter vening ten years. Broadly speaking, the marriageable age of men should not be placed under 25; not alone be cause men under that age are not, as a rule, in a financial position to marry;, chiefly because they have not sufficient maturity of character to judge wisely. Judgment is, indeed, out of the ques tion in those tender years between 19 and 25. The man is a boy whom the world has not yet taken into its confi dence; and in spite of its absence of idealism the wisdom of the world is a necessary wisdom. Goethe (although not by any means an example to be held up to young men) was wise when he did not allow his youthful love for Frederika Bremer, the coun try parson's daughter, to lead him into marriage with her. He realized, per haps, with the intuition of genius, that love can never "make up for the absence of intellectual sympathy be tween a man and a woman. Men who are not Goethes marry at 21 or 23 the object of boyish love, only to find, as they mature, that the wife, by her lim itations, can be a housekeeper, but never a friend. V This does not imply that men do not marry rashly after 30, hut that they are less likely to marry solely because they happen to be "in love," a sopho moric experience which has never known to occur more than once to tho same person. N. Y. Commercial Ad vertiser. Had the Bulge on the Old Lady. There was a new baby in the family a funny, little helpless creature that five-year-old Myra and three-year-old Burton admired with a condescending wonder. That mamma sat all day in a chair in the room with the baby, and did not wander all over the house, as was her custom, they also learned as a surprising fact, to which they soon be came accustomed. They liked, how ever to play in the room with mamma and the new baby, and they were not always quiet. "Children," said mam ma, one day when they had been more than usually noisy and she was tired, "if you are not more quiet I shall punish you.". Myra regarded her mother some time from across the room with a thoughtful air. Then she turned back to her play and to her little brother. "Don't you mind her. Burton," she said with a wise air, "she can't walk." N. Y. Times. The Singing Shad. A reader of the Republic residing at Bentonville, Ark., writes as follows: "I read your 'note oa "vocal fishes' in Notes for the Curious on September 12 and wish to say that along the coast of Florida and Georgia I have often heard the musical notes of what the old fish ermen call the singing shad.' They differ from the common shade in being smaller and also in the formation of their mouths. Their sinsing is pleas ant at first, but soon grows monoto nous, owing to the fact that it is a con stant repetition of the same sounds." St. Louis Republic. Her Favorite. He Permit me to present you with a copy of my new collection of poems. She Oh, thank you! I like poetry bo much. "And who is your favorite poet?" "The man who wrote 'Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-aye. " Then be ran. He feared that she might want to sing to him. Cleveland Plain Dealer. Care of your physical health. Build up your system, tone your stomach, enrich your blood, prevent colds, pneumonia and fevers by taking Sarsaparilla The Best In fact the One True Blood Purifier. HrvrvH r rlearethe only pills to take 11UUU f1112 withUood'sSarsaparilla. Send yosr name for a Seavenir . ot Uic Works of Eugene Field, FIELD FLOWERS Cbc Cagnie field tQcsHveta Soswrir The most beautiful Art Production of the century. "A small brine b f the most iram-RBt of b ! gathered from the broad ecre mt Eugeoe Field's Farm of Love." 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