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FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 1901
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W I A O PUBLISHER*
R. MKAD, EDITOR.
Official Paper of County.
PROCEEDINGS
—OF THE—
HOWARD COUNTY. IOWA.
April Term, 1901.
The Board of Supervisors met at the
County Auditor's office in Cresco, Iowa,
at 1:30 o'clock p. m. April let, 1901, and
was called to order by the Chuirman.
There were present Supervisors Wal
lace, Seavy and Dell and Geo. L. Chap
lin ex-office clerk of the Board.
Petition of J. J. Snyder et. al. for
ceunty road work on county line be
tween Howard and Chickasaw counties
was referred to Supr. Seavy.
Petition of J. J. Thomas for a refund
of a road poll tax for the year 1900 was
rejected.
Appointment and bond of C. A. L.
Loomis as deputy sheriff was approved.
Bond of Farmers & Merchants Bank
of Rioeville as a depository of county
funds was approved.
Recorder's report of fees for quarter
ended March 80th, 1901, showing fees
collected to the amount of 8378.20 was
approved.
Sheriff's repo'rt of fees for quarter
ended March 30th, 1901, showing fees
charged $436.42. fees received $132.86
and balanoe due 3323.56. was approved.
On motion, the bounty oil woodohucke
killed in the cbuuty is hereby abolished.
The following school fund loans were
approved: Arvine Woods, 8775.00
Joseph Mlady, 82180.00 John P. O'Brien,
$1100^00 and Joseph Komarek, $1700.00
Petition of JohnJUikes et. al. for the
alteration of a part of ro&d» No." 5 in
Howard townB|iig laid over.
On motion, the following resolution
wpaadopted:
WHEBEAS, The Executive Council has
certified to the County Auditor the
number of miles and the assessed value
per mile of the different railroads in the
county as follows:
C., M., & St. P... .24.38 miles $5000.00
C. &G.W 13.14 6175.00
W. & W 1.51 2200.00
THEREFORE: In compliance with sec
tion 1338 of the code of 1897, it is hereby
ordered and declared that the number of
miles of track of each road in the several
•taxing districts in the oounty is
Corp.) 1.00 6175.00
Corp. .Elma 1.057 6526.98
Ind. Dist. Elma,
in Afton (outside
Corp. .434 2679.95
Ind. Dist. Elma,
in Howard
(outside Corp.).. .775 4785 02
Afton 7.824 48313.20
Howard 1.08 6669.00
WHEREAS,
13.14 81139.50
WINONA IFC WESTERN.
Oak Dale.... 1.51 miles $3322.00
A. C. Campbell and G. K. Story were
appointed to help the Auditor destroy
the voted ballot of 1900.
P. C. Howe was appointed overseer of
the poor in the city of Cresco.
On motion, the following resolution
was adopted
There is a certain amount
of state tax due the state and charged to
Howard county on the books of the
County Auditor, and
WHEREAS,
It appears to this Board
that the County Treasurer has used
diligent effort to collect this tax,
THEREFOR BE IT RESOLVED:
That the
balance of state tax charged to Howard
oounty for the years 1893 and 1894 is
declared to be unavailable and the
Auditor of State is hereby requested to
credit Howard county with the balance
of state tax uncollected for the above
named years.
Board adjourned to 8:30 a. m.. April
2nd.
SECOND DA if.
Board met pursu ant to adjournment.
All members present.
Clerk's report of fees for quarter end
ed March 30th, 1901, showing fees col
lected and turned over to the County
Treasurer to the amount of $170.65, was
apprpved.
The following appropriations were
made.
$200.00 to Supr. Seavy on the bridge
fund.
$200.00 to Supr. Dell on the bridge fund.
$10000 to Supr. Wallace on the bridge
fund.
8800.00 tp Supr. Seavy on the county
road fand.
$800.00 to Supr. Deli on the county
road fund.
$800.00 to Supr. Wallace on the county
road fund.
The following resolution was adopted:
WHEHHA3,
There is
a
certain amount
I,
-c
J- %.
-\Lsj
of the one mill County Ro«d tar do* (|jt
incurporated towns of the c.iuu'y ui d.
the conditions set forth in Ese :tiin 153fl
of the code of 1897.
THEREFORE
HE TT REEOI.VED:
PetitiQa.dt W.
as
fol­
lows.
CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE & ST. PAUl.
Vernon Springs... .5.34 miles 8 26700.00
Ind. DiBt. of Cres
co (outside corp).. 1.45
Corp. of Cresco... .1.54
Howard Center... .26
Forest Oily 4.31
Ind. Dist Lime
Springs (outside
7250.00
7700.00
1300.00
21550.00
Corp) .1.75 8750.00
Corp. Lime
Springs .52 2600.00
Chester .4.25 21250.00
Ind. Dist. Ches
ter (outside corp.) 2.29 11450.00
Corp. Chester
Oak Dale .2.67 13350.00
24.34 121900.00
CHICAGO & GREAT WESTERN.
Corp. Riceville ... .97 miles $ 5989.75
Ind. Diet. Rice
ville (outside
That the
County Auditor bo and is hereby auth
orized to draw warrants on the County
Road fund in payment of bills certified to
by some officer, duly authorized to do so
by the Council of each incorporated
town, up to the amount which the said
one mill tax would rai.'e on the tf.siMe
I value of the property of each of said
towns for the year 1900.
Petition of Joseph Hayes et. al. for a
county bridge on the county line be
jtween Howard and Winneshiek counties
about one-half mile from the Minnesota
line was laid over.
Balance of day spent in the examina
tion of claims Bud Board adjonrned to
8:30 a. m., April 3rd.
THIRD DAY.
Board met pursuant to adjournment.
All members present and proceeded to
settle .with J. J. Ftesenden, retiring
steward of the Poor Fiirm, finding that
the sales since last settlement amount to
$75 98. Treasurer's rtctipts for the
amount to balance.
In the afternoon tho Board svfcut out
to visit the Poor F..nn iind speLt tlie
balance of the day in be examination of
claims.
Board adjourned to 8:30 a. m., April
4th.
FOURTH DAY.
Board met pursuant to adjournment.
All members pre3ent.
Additional bond of A. E. Barker,
ClerK of Yeruon Spriugs Twp wa? ap
proved.
Petition of J. M. Bowers for tha c«in
cellation of the 1900 tax on lot 1 and the
W. of lot J, block 6 of the Ir. Sur. of
the N. W. y4 and part of the S. W. )4 of
section 23 99-11 was granted.
Petition of Mrs. John I. Sturgiss for
rebate of taxes not paid and the can
cellation of all future taxes was granted
as to taiea due and unpaid.
E, Hoyl et. al. for a
Ktecfnorth of Elma was laid over.
(Continued next week.)
Speaking of poverty among school
children, a l'hiladclphia teacher is
A Pathetic Ca.e
OX Poverty.
Jiecord to have
ately fim]
the cases that need help the most
are those which are hardest to find
out about. Last year a strike iu
my section threw a good many men
out of employment, and, of course,
the children suffered. For a numbev
of days I noticed that a little girl
with a very sad face did not go out
with the other children during the
noon recess. Most of the children
bring their lunch and they generally
eat it out in the hall. But for sev
eral days this girl remained in her
seat and busied herself with, her
school work. One day, when I re
mained in the room during recess,
she brought out her little lunch bas
ket and I saw that she did not open
it. I then discovered that for over
a week that child had carried an
empty lunch basket to school, rath
er than let her schoolmates discov
er she could not bring anything to
cat, and I found that most of this
time she had had nothing all of each
day after the stale bread Goaked in
hot water, which was the best break
fast her mother could provide for
her."
Public dinners are so rarely re
munerative to the waiters, who in the
flow of post-prandial oratory are apt
to be forgotten, that where the tips
do not come in as they should the wait
ers have adopted a scheme for bring
ing absent-minded diners to a sense of
their obligations. Between the dinner
and the oratory at several recent feasts
a glass with a collection of small sil
ver at the bottom has been passed
along the tables as unobtrusively as
possible, with the whispered comment
that its contents were for the men be
hind the chairs. So plain a hint has
never yet failed. There are several res
taurants where so plain a hint would
not be tolerated, but many others are
not so particular, and the practice
shows how the waiter's tip is develop
ing from a gratuity to a charge.
Some time ago a militia regiment
in North Carolina decided to have a
Latin motto on its flag, and a wicked
wag persuaded the committee in
charge of the matter to adopt the fol
lowing: "Xunquam animus, sed ignis
via." For the benefit of those not fa
miliar with Latin it should be ex
plained that, though these are good
Latin words, the sentence as a whole
has no meaning, but the words literal
ly translated, "Never mind, but fire
away," makes a fairly good regimental
motto.
One of the most prominent Baptist
Ireui'hers in the vicinity of New York
has made it a practice in all his pas
torates to write his resignation with
in a week of his entrance upon a new,
field, sign, seal and deliver it to the
proper official with the remark:
"There, now! Never ask m» for inv
resignation. Whenever you want me
to go just break open the envelope,
write a date to the document and offer
it to the congregation."
It is estimated that fully 10,000
"laws" will have been enacted before
all the legislatures adjourn. That is
to say, the 30 lawmaking bodies, ex
clusive of congress, that assembled
this winter will have passed and the
governors will have signed that num
ber of good, bad and indifferent bills.
Last year there were 13 legislatures
in session and they enacted 5,772 new
laws.
What lie Did.
Kentuckian—He called me a liar,
•ir.
New Yorker—And what did you do?
Kentuckian—I went to the funeral.
Vvtrolt Free Press.
A YALPABLE BOOK.
Government Issues Beautiful Work
Descriptive of Eskimo Life.
The Work of Mr,
NPIHOII, IYIHMC KX-
plorjilii)])* ilnvp IU'CII AlmuMt He*
yonil Valnp from Wonderful
Versatility of Knowledge.
By far the most beautiful and elab
orate publication over produced by
the government has just been issued
by the bureau of American ethnology
and is a minute study of the lives of
Uncle Sam's curious Kskimo childeu
about llehring strait. The work is
that of Mr. Edward William Nelson,
whose explorations for the govern
ment have been almost beyond value
from the wonderful versatility of his
scientific knowledge, without which
an explorer is of little benefit, to man
kind
There are hundreds of the most
beautiful illustrations in Mr. Nel
son's work, made by Mr. Wells M.
Sawyer, illustrator of the bureau of
American ethnology, telling in pic
tured story the art* anl crafts of
these curious Indians. The writer
gives a most minute detail of the
house life and social customs of the
Eskimos, their moral character, curi
ous religious and mortuary customs,
totems and family marks, wars among
the various tribes, and even a close
study of the games and toys, music,
dances, feasts and festivals, wihile the
literature is rich and fascinating with
folk lore tales and mythology. He
makes one know this semisavage race
as though they were right here on our
own soil instead of thousands of miles
away over a trackless waste of frozen
country.
In order to further his work Mr.
Nelson had to enlist as a private ip
the regular army, and in connection
with this comes a tale of the snobbish
side of army and navy life at the
capital. Upon his return to Washing
ton his name was proposed as a mem
ber of the famous'Cosmos club, which
is composed principally of the best*
known scientists of this and other
countries, some of whom are army
and navy officers. These men object
ed to the famous explorer and sci
entist upon the ground that he was a
pyivate in the regular army. The old
scientists of the club got wind of the
matter, and had it come to a contest
they would have made it lively for the
snobs. Luckily tne matter was not
brought up, and Mr. Xelson never
knew how near he came to being os
tracized on account of his enlisting In
the army in furtherance of science.
The present volume on the Eskimo is
the first, and another and even more
elaborate work is still in the hands of
the printers and binders, and will be
itMied in the next few months.
TO SEARCH FOR WINDWARD.
Etaamer Whli'li Took Mri. I'enry and
Hl»» Peary North to Be
Looked l'j.
The Peary Arctic club held its an
nual meeting the other afternoon
and reelected President Morris K.
Jessup, Treasurer Henry W. Cunnon
and Secretary Herbert L. Hridgeman.
and referred to the executive com
mittee the work of the coming sum
mer. It is likely that a steamer will
be chartered and dispatched to find
the Windward, from which, since its
departure from Godhaven, North
Greenland, August 20, 1000, with Mrs,
Peary and Miss Peary, nothing has
been heard. Ihe instructions to
Capt. Bartlett, of the steamer, were
definite not to remain north except
upon express orders of Lieut. Peary,
and the inferenoe therefore is that
the party have wintered at his head
quarters, where abundant supplies
are stored, and would be likely with
the opening of arctic navigation to
return.
The club, however, prefers to be on
the safe side and to leave nothing
doubtful, though the only promise to
Capt. Bartlett was that if the Wind
ward did not return during 1901 a
steamer would be sent to his relief
in 1902. It is not likely that the
Peary club's steamer wiil take nny
passengers, either scientific or sports
men, the cruise being restricted to
t^e urgent business in hand.
Th« club is confident of the com
plete success of Mr. Peary's under
taking and holds absence this winter
Indicates his sure return next sum
mer, after having visited the pole.
When the dove flew out from the ark
it brought back to Noah an olive leaf.
When King Solomon was settling accounts
with the workmen who built his temple
he gave 160,000 gallons of olive oil as
wages.
In southern Europe, for hundreds of
years the olive groves have been the for
tunes of their owners. It is said the
gnarled and kfiottcd olive trees in Geth
semane are the same trees under whose
branches Christ prayed. It Is said Italy's
olive crop Is worth 1120,000,000 a year.
In one year an olive tree will jrield 100
gallons of olives, and they sell from CO to
78 cents a gallon. A young tree gives »5
profit a year, and in California, where the
olive tree has been transplanted, it begins
to yield fruit much sooner than in its
original home. One oounty in California
has a grove of £00,000 trees.
TOM.11V AS HIIJIIT.
Teacher—Now, Tommy, how many
months have 28 days?
Tommy—All of 'em.—Chicago Intel
Ocean.
1" 1"»1» Culture in Canada.
The waters of the province of On
tario, Canada, are to be extensively
rvtsiuekttd with fish in the spring.
A CONVICT'S CAKE.
Sent to PoNtiuaitvr General Smith
from Colorado—Made of Ca»
i'«led l'OHtnice Stamps.
Postmaster General Smith has re
ceived a unique walking stick, which
is known as the. convict's cane. It was
made by tin inmate of the penitentiary
at Canon City, Col. The cane lias been
placed in the museum of the post of
fice department, it is made of thou
sands of canceled postage stamps,
wound round a thin steel rod, subject
ed to heavy pressure, and then highly
polished. The convict who made the
cane scut it to the postmaster general
with the following letter:
"I ship you by express, prepaid, a
cane made from canceled stamps af
fixed to a three-sixteenth inch spring
steel rod, at the same time being sub
jected to a high pressure, and then
worked down into its present form,
polished and finished. I have been a
year in making this cane, working at
it during my leisure time, and have
taken great care and pains to make it
durable. My purpose in sending this
cane is that I am shortly to be dis
charged and will try to live honorably
in the future. 1 am serving a tevm for
my first offense and am heartily sick
of the life. I leave the penitentiary in
the dead of winter and it may be some
time before 1 can find employment. 1
am trying to raise some money to en
able me to live until 1 can obtain em
ployment. If, after you have exam
ined the cane, you would like to keep
it, whatever amount you will send mo
will be greatly appreciated and I will
be truly grateful for your assistance.
If you do not want the cane you can
return it at my expense. Respectfully,
"Number 4,598."
Upon receipt of the cane the post
master general wrote to the warden
of the penitentiary and inclosed a
check for the convict.
THE GOVERNMENT FARM.
In Bad Shape (or Exparlmantu Owing
to Laud Belnir I'aed In To
bacco Culture.
Secretary Wilson has a oorps of
men at work at the government farm
adjoining the Arlington national
cemetery, but it will be probably a
year or two before the place will be
in shape where experiments in farm
ing can be conducted. In tnlking
about the government farm Secre
tary Wilson frankly said it was un
doubtedly the worst piece of land he
ever saw. It needed grading, drain
ing and fertilizing, and it will be
some time before the land will be in
shape to grow grass.
This land has been used for the
production of tobacco for so many
years that the fertility has been com
pletely exhausted, hence it will be
necessary for the agricultural de
partment to fertilize it to put in
shape for farming purposes.
The secretary has not outlined a
plan to be conducted in connection
with this farm, but will wait for con
gress to say what must be done.
There is an annual appropriation of
$10,000 for conducting the farm, but
in addition to getting the land in a
fertile condition buildings and out
houses must be constructed.
It wiil be a long time before the
farmers of the country wiil gain any
practical benefit from the govern
ment farm at the national capital,
but in the meantime the experi
mental stations throughout the coun
try are at work making experiments
which will ultimately result in finan
cial benefit to the farmers and will
lessen their work.
KEPT ON SIDING FOR WEEKS.
Dftayatelier'M For^ETFUIIIVHH llolda a
Freight EiiKtu«er Twenty
One
"Side-track at Hamptoa Junction
and await orders'' was the message
Hiram Adams, an engineer on the
jersr'-y Crmrul, a branch of
Mie
For 60 Years
Dela­
ware, Lackawanna & Western rail
way, received on December 15. There
had been a small freight wreck on
the line and it was thought best to
switch his train in temporarily. Alt
er the first three hours went by Ad
ams got hungry and went to a hotel.
The day passed and no further orders
came. After sending the order the
train dispatcher forgot Adams. Final
ly an investigation was made and the
startling discovery came that Adams
had been forgotten for three weeks.
He lias filed a bill for his hotel ex
penses and time and a half after the
first ten hours on the siding. He says
he did not report for the reason that
once before he had asked for further
orders and received a sharp repri
mand.
mothers have been giving their
children for croup, coughs and
colds
Shiloh's
Consumption
Cure
Mothers—:have
SHILOH in
you
the house at all times Do
you know just where you can
find it if you need it quickly—
if your little one is gasping
and choking with croup? If
you haven it get a bottle.
It will save your child's life.
"•'Shiloh »lw*y» lur.d my baby of creup,
fena"r i,
not be
"»»hout
MRS, J. B. MARTIN, HuaUvlUe, AU.
Shiloh's Couiumptlon Care lc sold by all
86.0' 60°.
*1.00 a bottl.. A
printed Knarante* goes with avarr bottle.
Iflon u« notntliM (o to your druggist
and gat your money back.
^.^5 'or illMtraUd book on consumption. I«|
without tort te yon. «. C.W«1U Co., L.JUr,St
Every Woman
is Interested and flliould know
about tlie wonderful
MARVEL Whirling Spray
The new Vaginal rlogr. JnjtC'
itoii uml
*s'Hrtitm. Beat—suf.
eat—Most Convenient.
(It'Qu.i'. 1 us! r. till j,
Atlt your fur U.
If he i'jimi'otsiiniriy Die
ntiivm,, umi'iiiu
clhfT, biut-eiift BLiimit for 11
lttsimieil liutiK—t-.lft.ii VM
ml) rirtlrtiliuxt'n i: i.-t.-.
Yiiluii.iiutnlHtllfi.
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fr nr.,
Hu«iu Tiuit'j^dKo.Vc v.
Vcrk.
rf
If you have it, you
know it. You
a
a
a el in
rinthe
stomach, the
formation of gas, the
'nausea, sick headache,
and general weakness of
the whole body.
You can't have
it
it
a week
being impure and your
a a
There's just one remedy
for you
JRYQFS
sanapaiiiia
There's nothing new
about it. Your grand
parents took it. 'Twas
an old Sarsaparilla before
other sarsaparillas were
known. It made the word
Sarsaparilla famous
over the whole world.
There's no other sarsa
parilla like it. In age and
power to cure it's The
leader of them all."
II.M bottle. AU draifliti.
Ayer's Pills cure constipation.
"After Buffering terribly I was
induced to try your Sarsaparilla. I
took three bottles and now feel like
a new man. I would advise nil iny
fellow creatures to try this medicine,
for It has stood the teat of time ana
Its ourative power oannot he ex~
celled." I. D, GOOD,
Jan. 30,1899. Browntown, Va.
Wrttm fhm
Doctor.
If you have any complaint whatever
and deiire the best medical adrtce you
can poiiibly receive, write the doctor
freely. Tou will receive a prompt re
ply* without cost. Address,
DB. J.
0. AYER,
Lowell, Hats.
EDUCATION OF INDIANS.
Compulsory Training of Children of
Red Men Considered \oceinnrj
for Their Welfare.
Compulsory pcluo.'iiion of the Imliar.s
Is advocated by the superintendent ol
Indian schools,
WIID
shows that, only
half of the 40,000 Indian children at
tend school. "Civilization only conies
to a people by the slow process of edu
cation," says the report of the super
intendent of Indian schools,
"and unless
we educate and civilize the majority
of the children the down pull of the ig
norant will be greater than the uplift
of the educated.
"The government Is endeavpring to
prepare the Indian for independence
and citizenship, and to confer this boon
tipon a people without first requiring
their education is the greatest unwis
dom. It is necessary for the protec
tion of the state and the nation that
the youth of the country be educated,
for upon the virtue and intelligence ol
the people depends the stability of tha
governnienU With education will come
morality, cleanliness, self-respect, iu
dustry. and, above all. a Christianized
humanity, the foundation of the world's
progress and well being.
"If we would be successful in our
work, the Indian child must be placed
in school before the habits of bar
barous life have become fixed, and
there he must be kept iuit.il contact
with our life lias taught hlin to aban
don his savage ways and walk in tlie
path of Christian civilization. Instead
of roaming
witli pa rent s, riding wild po
nies, sitting by railroad stations, learn
ing the white man's vices, the children,
if in school, would have the example oi
right living in present- and past history
set before them daily, and be taught to
look upward for their ideals, to have
a right respect and obedience for con
stitutional authority."
How's This?
We oiler One Hundred Dollars Re
ward for any case of Catarrh that can
not be cured by Hall's Caiarih cure.
J'\ J. CHENEY it CY/, Props.,Toledo, O.
"We the undersigned, have known F.
J. Cheney for the last 10 years, acd
believe him perfectly honorable in all
business transactions and financially
able to carry out any obligations made
by their lirm.
WEST
&
TIU
AX.
Wholesale Drug­
gists, Toledo, O., WALDING, KINNAN
& MAUVIX, Wholesale Druggists. To
ledo, Ohio.
Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken intern
ally, acting directly upon the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system.
Price 75c. per bottle. Sold by all
Druggists. Testimonials free.'
Hall's Family Pills are the best.
"Last winter I was cnlined to my
bed with a very bad cold
on
the lungs.
Nothing gave me relief. Finally my
wife bought a bottle of One Minute
Cough Cure that ell'ected a speedv
cure. cannot speak too highly of
that excellent remedv, "—Mr. T. K.
Houseman. Manatawney, Pa.-~Sbut
tleworth Drug Co,
Arc Vou I'hing Allen's FUOL-KUHU.
Shake into your shoes Allen's Foot
Ease, a powder. It cures Corns,
Hunions, Painful, Smarting, Hot,
Swollen feet. At all Druggists and
Shoe Stores, ilc. Sample Ftt-KE.
Address, Allen S. Olmsted, Le Boy,
N. Y.
"1 had piles so bad I could get no
rest nor find a cure until 1 tried De
Witt's Witch Hazel Salve. After us
ing it once. I forgot I ever had any
thing like Piles.K. C. 1
Juice, Som-
ers Point, N. Y. Look out for, imita
tions. He sure you ask for DeWitt's.
—-Shuttleworth Drug Co.
What Shiill Wo liavo for Dessert?
This question arises in the family
every day. Let us answer it to-day.
Try Jell-O, a delicious dessert. Pre
pared in two minutes. No baking! add
hot water and set to cool. Flavors:—
Lemon, Orange, Raspberry and Straw
berry. At your grocers. 10 cts. 6w-l
Those famous little pills, DeWitt's
Little Early Risers will remove all im
purities from your, system, cleanse
your bowels, make them regular.
—Shuttleworth Drug Co.
SURPLUS .OF WOMEN.
England Anxious to Send Them to
Her Colonies.
Chnmliei'lniii Deelnre* Tlint Hnppy
llonti-H
IIIMI
an Abun«ltint l.lv-li-
IMIOII
Awnit Million* U'ill
intt'to I in ml urate.
"More women in our colonies!" hns
become llie war cry of a large num
ber of persons, official ami unofficial,
throughout the I'.rilish empire. Mr.
Chamberlain took up the slogan the
other afternoon, when lie addressed
the British Women's Immigration asso
ciation. lie said:
"Here at home wo have millions
more women than men. They cannot
look forward to becoming wives and
mothers and heads of households.
They jostle one another in their strug
gle for existence, and Ihcir wages
often fall below tlie level of makingan
honorable subsistence possible. We
must reduce the disproportion which
have mentioned by sending suitable
women, suitably protected, to places
where the proportion is exactly iu the
opposite direction. Our colonies hold
out the promise of millions of happy
homes for women now fighting for a
scanty living in the mother country."
Mr. Chamberlain spoke especially
for South Africa, where he professed
to expeet an era of great prosperity
to dawn shortly.
Lord Stratheona, lord high commis
sioner for Canada, is exerting- all his
influence and power to direct the
stream of emigration toward the do
minion's sparsely populated district in
the northwest.. Representatives from
South Africa. Australia. Xew Zealand
and other parts of the empire drum
for their respective countries. Yet,
despite this zealous missionary work,
of the 350,000 persons who annually
emigrate from the British isles, about
two-thirds of them go to the United
DIES AFTER LONG ILLNESS.
John M. B. Sill, Former Coimal Gen
eral of Ignited SfnteM to Corpa,
t'ntmcH
Alviij-
at
Detroit.
Detroit, Mich., April 8.—John M. B.
Sill, minister resident and consul gen
eral for tlie United State's to Corea,
from lS'.lli to 1897, died at Grace hos
pital Saturday. For a year or more—
in fact, since his return from the ori
ent, when his health was shattered—
Mr. Sill lias been failing, and since
Christmas has wasted rapidly away.
Mr. Kill, who was born in Black
Itock, X. V., in 1S31, was minister to
Corea during the Chinese-Japanese
war, and his legation was the refuge
of many, of the Corean court dignitar
ies after the sensational assassina
tion of the queen of
that,
RtK Kire In Aluluc
TOITII.
Lisbon Falls, Me., April 8.— A fire
which started in the Everett block
here at ,t:H0 o'clock in the morning
resulted in tlie destruction of 28
buildings in the business portion of
tlie town and it is believed the Joss
will approximate a quarter of a mil
lion dollars. With tlie aid of engines
from Lcwiston and ISath, the fiaine«
were controlled at 4:30 o'clock.
Bill Against I'rize Fluhdujc.
Nashville, Tenii.. April 8. —In the
lower branch of the state legislature
Saturday a bill to prohibit prize
lighting was passed amended so as
not to apply to "football, baseball or
any harmless SDorfc."
Tc» T«»air nxsln,
St.-iVlrrslMtr* Tiit!i Mi':iy. April 4.—
Tt is s!:t tv| tiwif DitKc -Miehm
Collapse.
kingdom. He
occupied a prominent, position as an
educator, having been superintendent,
of the Detroit schools and principal of
the state school at Ypsilanti. He was
the author of two grammars, which
are in wide use. He is survived by a
wife and two children.
CENSUS OF UNITED KINGDOM.
Eiiitcted Tliut the Latest Count Will
Shovr Tltnl Ureal Drltain IIu*
00,OOO,0KI People.
New York, April 8.—The census of
the United Kingdom, taken last Sun
day night, will not, be tabulated for
some time, says a London dispatch to
the Journal and Advertiser, but the
indications arc. that the population of
England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales
is mori than 50,000,000.
The percentage of increase is less
than in the previous decade. Depopu
lation of rural districts in favor of
cities is most marked. Ireland's popu
lation is Ics&than it was ten years ago,
und probably lower than at any of her
time in th* nineteenth century.
1
!,
Hi*' lu'ir nfijKttvnf. u-ilJ a
intir if In* cm for liio purpo.se oi
Studyiiiy id
ii) is
I I ion liictJiuds*
Another C'liaitcc.
Susan—I just hate these conundrum
fiends.
Kitty—Indeed? Why?
Susan IJecause tht* other evening
Mr. SfubKins asked me: "Will you he
my uiiy?" and when I said "Yes," he
.said he would »ive
me
—Detroit Free Press.
another guess.
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In many forma
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9!
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and functions go oil a strike. That's
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worse, so I used it about eiplit weeks longer,
when I was permanently cured."
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