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t) WEST 18 UP TO DATE ■■ ■ • ©I.l} SCENES OF THEi, _ FRONTIER DAYS HAVE PASSED AW A V TUCSON; ARIZ.; A MODERN CITY Howie Knives ami BueUinjc Ilroii ; clii m ilackrd Oft' tine' Stage by llatli Tubs and Telephone*. The West slips froni Ov''' ETasp. Civil ization, lying prostrate ove>' our country from X«\v York to Frisco, has- laid her lingers on the desert and everyv».^ere you are conscious of her contact. Ther£; are spaces left between her lingers In the Western country, fast narrowing spaces, s;r,s a correspondent of the New York Commercial Advertiser, but you must search painfully to find them. Indeed. ■you must begin the search soon, or you' Will not find them at all.* The bowie knife is following the buffalo; the com peiling Colt is passing. Aftrr you cross the Rio Grande, some how, you expect^ as your right, bowie knives and bucking bronchos, and instead y<>u };,> on finding telephones and bath tubs. Nay, more, the latest magazines, the Xow York paper, golf clubs and glr'.s who wear college colors. The drug stores in Tucson bear a discouraging resem- Wance to the drug stores in the Kast. There arc the same showcases filled with perfumes and toilet soaps; the same cool insr drink signs on the soda water foun tains. The drag clerk wears a linen coat and a silk dotted tie. He has the same weary-but-willing look ' that all drug clerks wear. Next door to him can be bought a Taxc-do coat, and across- the stiv<'t ),■ displayed tennis rackets and hammocks. As the hungry tourist eye travels along Congress street seeking the character istic arid picturesque, its bread and meat, it is a disappointing row of brick-front stores that presents itself. There are dry vr<")«(ls signs, moat markets, barber- shop l>n!es. opticians' wooden eyeglasses ami other symbols of the conventional busi ness life. 11.>- tourist's mind recurs to the. • leagues of glaring alkali desert and burn ins bowlders which give such rich prom ise yesterday. Aid this was the goal. He might as well be in Crestline. Still, there is some promise In the leather-col ored Mexicans, with their bad eyes and their Mii-.j-fihiic. (1 hatbands, who shuffle across the street or sit in silent rows on the wooden curbing. And the horses, too, couldn't bo seen In Crestline. There are four of them standing In front of the sa loon. Their heads hang almost between their knees; their ribs are visible, and their Hanks are scarred with brands. Each is supporting what seems more a palanquin than a saddle. It has a high and shining pommel and a cantel like a chair-back. From its sides dangle many tiiongp of buckskin, and some of these are in use holding a "slicker" or bundle In place. The tourist takes a long look at the horses rind the saddles and sighs hopefully. Then must be a West wher* they come from. While he stands there l<ili:i^-. a man conies out of the saloon, vaults Imr> one of the saddles and walks the horse away. He is dressed In overalls ■nd jumper, and with the exception of fils spurs resembles a machinist. He is a cowboy. ■ The tourist, with some misgivings for his appearance, filters the saloon; he is -sn obviously a tenderfoot—an Easterner. Stories of tenderfeet who were made to dance with bullets flying about their feet or had their hats shot full of holes have been haunting him for days. In the I stories, too, the tenderfoot always turn ed the tables in some adroit manner that won the admiration of his tormentors. Tii«* tourist pauses with Ms hand on the swinging tloor and is sickening, conscious he could »ot turn a single table. There is only one mnn standing at the oar. He wears a seersucker coat and duck trouse rs. I!** has a handkerchief in 0r.. --hand and :» glass of beer in the other. As the tourist enters, he sets the empty I glass down, and says: "Make it an- I other. Bod." The bartender is a young J man with a thin face, big nose and wet I hair. i!« asks the tourist, politely, | "What Is yours?" The tourist drinks his beer am) wonders why the bartender I doesii't wear cavalry mustaches, and why he didn't growl, "Name yer poison!" At a table near the bar are some men read ing papers. None of them pays the slight est attention to the tourist. None of them carries a revolver. The tourist forgets his deliverance from the dancing and the Jut plugging. "It's just like a saloon anywhere." he groans. 1 hen he discovers n back room, and ceases to groan. There is no door between the bar and the back room; just an open, wide-arched en trance. The tourist stands in this and i . MINNESOTA'S PRIDE ) ; i \ And among this butter Mil- «! | < ton's Star Brand is the best, f Best because purest, fresh est and finest tasting. Best because made under per fect sanitary conditions and sold to you the very day it I is made, not packed and re packed, as is the ordinary grocery store butter. You are invited to visit our new !j model-sanitary creamery, ;! corner Ninth and Wabasha streets, wherein you can S watch every process of but |j ter-making from the first to ; the last We think, after | seeing* how our butter is ! made, that you will prefer i "Star Brand" to the grocery <! store repacked butter. Star ; Brand is packed at the churn ;! ;in2, 3 and 5-pound jars. ]! I PRICE | i; peh p^a^Dk"; ,!; MILTON @WH DAIRY ■■ GV* "'"* || j I Cor. Ninth an* Wabasha. \|i looks. Gambling "in the open,". as it, were, looks odd to Eastern eyes. ; .The ] tourist looks from game to game. There are roulette, monte, erans, faro, poker and a Chinese lottery. It is a commo dious room with a stove in the middle. In one corner on a platform is a piano. The games are arranged around, the wall, excepting the monte and the poker games. There are not many, players; but after the lights are lighted the room will bo thronged. . Cowboys, prospectors, clerks, loafers and Chinamen will elbow each other at the games, and little brown Mexicans will squeal over the yellow pic- i tiire cards at the monte table. The China man prefer the lottery and faro. Faro is the most popular American game with the Chinese. "When do you have to close?" asks the tourist of the bartender. "We never close," replied the barten der, "but things begin to slacken up 'bout 3 a, m." . .; : The tourist's wanderings take him past the business-houses, the feed;stores and livery stables Into streets lined with compact trees making dense shade, and >hich bound pretty lawns, yellowed- in spct?> by rainless weeks, running back to cooSlool:ing adobe houses, one story high, with red- roofs and sunk like an old stone in trees ana ..vines and shrubbery. '•! always thought ii was a town of mud huts and unpainted pi^e buildings/ muses the tourist, "something.like the frontier towns that Remington draws." As. he returns to the hotel, passing a sprinkling cart, many bicycles and fresh, young American girls in white, the tour ist recalls some of the descriptions of Tucson ho has read in Western stories, He doesn't like to think the writers were liars, but it seems incredible that this Tucson has developed so recently out of a chaotic, Incongruous frontier town, "half Mexican,'' as he recollects one writ er called it. What he has. seen has shaken up his preconceived notions. As a center of adventure Tucson .s a dismal failure. This isn't the West he "reads about. This West would have no color, no characteristics, no value from the point of view of story-making. The old West is the best still for stories, he decides, but how hard it is on the West of today! What a reputation to live down when 'Eastern cousins put revolvers in their bags before they visit it. and think ev eryone wears a flannel shirt. He re calls the experience of a charming wom an from San Francisco;, how she was crossing the Atlantic and overaeard some fellow passengers ! discussing her. "She is from San Francisco, you say!" ex claimed an Eastern woman. "Why, she is quiet enough." No, the conventionalizing influence of our life in the last few years has spread more swiftly than we conceive, and has run -in unobserved streams far out and beyond the little ring or our familiar ground. And so, when we consign the vast • territory beyond the Rockies to the obliquity, of the "Wild and Woolly," we are only poking, our fingers: into our own eyes, losing sight of the great homo geneity of our American life —we who are all about the same from Bangor to San Diego, and yet a little different. Thus the tourist muses, rejoicing phil osophically in the advance of things, and yet humanely regretting- that the west had not sat still for thirty years and waited for him to see. However, with the thermometer at 110 degrees, he is glad to get back to a modern hotel, to black shade, a rocking chair, a cool drink and a newspaper. The tourist" had seen the figures "110 degrees" on a thermometer outside the drug store, It certainly was hot weather. He had perspired, it seemed to him, through ......... soles of his shoes. And yet, after ten minutes on th© veranda, he was cool. He felt the wind strike his neck and wrists with the pe culiar sensation of cold experienced by inhaling while eating a peppermint, drop. ' The tourist read through the Tucson paper, "Not a word about the heat," he commented; "no 'sweltering humanity;' nothing about 'Old Sol' or the weather man; no list of prostrations." And there would be none. There is* no record of a sunstroke in the terrritory, if exception Is made of ■ a man, two-thirds cnarged. with liquor, who once toppled over in Phoenix. Arizona enjoys the luxury of no humidity. The sun burns and blisters and starts the water from the body in streams. Then comes the dry air from plains which have not tasted water for months, and sets the "human evaporator in motion. The process of cooling the drinking water is the same. A jar tilled with water is wrapped with wet cloths, and in a short time the water is as cool as that from a spring. It is the kind of heat that you can stand. There is no enervation, no intol erable greasiness of skin. Better 110 de grees in Arizona than 90 degrees In New York. , When the tourist snapped out the elec tric light in his room that night he was still reflecting on the surprises the West had.provided him in the town of Tucson. "Perhaps," he thought, "everyone knows it is like this—modern, commonplace, civilized. Perhaps they know there is a university here, that they're singing 'Goo-Goo Eyes,' and that you see churches with notice boards on them say ing, 'Sunday School at 9:30; Preaching at 11.' Perhaps no one believes- in the pictures of Bret Harte and Dan Quin and Owen Wister any more., Bat 1 did, and ' I am" thirty years behind." m TELEPHOXE FIENDS. New Orleans Times Democrat. "The telephone habit has become a dis ease with a great many persons," said a New Orleans specialist yesterday, "for it is a curious fact that there are many persons who are almost constantly rush ing to a telephone for one purpose or another. I have a friend who is fear fully afflicted in this way, especially when he is under the influence of liquor. If I he gets a few drinks ahead of the normal ! supply he immediately begins to tele- j phone. He begins to call up his friends, and he will talk and talk until one would think that his tongue and ear would 1 tire. But he keeps it up, and there are many other men who do exactly the same thing under the same circumstances. .'"The telephone habit, however, is not confined to the men who occasionally get ! urder the influence of liquor. Sober men I frequently do the same thing. The wom en are by no means exempt. Take many of the younger women, and you will find that they aie passionately fond of calling their friends up over the telephone and chatting with them about the little noth ings of the girlish life. Now, there !s a serious side to this business of using the telephone to an excess. The telephone Is a great thing. Electricity is a healthy article. But it cannot be Successfully contended that talking over the telephone is the perfectly natural way of talking. There may be some harm in it. The- ear is pressed too close against the head, and the voice is greatly strained beyond the natural pitch. On the other I hand, however distinct the voice may be ! at the other end of the line, there is a I perfectly natural, but probably uncon scious ■ dread on the part of the listener that all that is said will not be heard ! and so the hearing is strained. So it I might happen that in course of time the ] physical appearance of the human ear would be changed if the practice is ii*, du'ged beyond the point of reason. The ear might be flattened out until it would be as smooth as if it had been pressed with a flatiron. It might be . without the little creases and curves I wh.ch add so much to the beauty of its appearance. The human voice, too, mjy lose something of its mellowness, and th .■ hearing may be considerably deaden ed. Of course, these are mere contin gencies. But this is an age of dreaming, and I guess I have as much right to dream as other men. It would- take prob ably several centuries to work the changes indicated, but the excessive use of the telephone will probably do the work. i "Just think of the awfulness of tho thing. Here is the telephone flattening out the human car, ami on- one side of the head at that, robbing the human ve.-.ce of its mellowness, and deadening the- hearing, and here is the bicycle humping the human back arid spraddling the human legs. Really, it is not a pret ty thing to look upon." ' — : —^ '■ :_; London's Xew Lord Mayor. LONDON, Sept. 28.-Sir Joseph Dims . dale, M. P., who is engaged in the bank ing business, was elected 1 lord mayor of London today at the GuiKhall; • "for the ensuing year, to succeed- Frank Green/ The election. was accompanied ,by the usual quaint customs. ..", ■ ■ .-■"■■-■.■- THE ST. PA UI, GLOB 13, SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 29, 1901, LOST M UMBRELLA •IT WAS MARK TWAIN'S, BUT HE WOVT 8»H IT AGAIN WAS THROWN OVERBOARD ■ ■ ~ __^__ ■■■ * Veteran Humorist Evens l.'ii - "*!-i — ters by Inserting Want V«I in the Daily V^:~ • Paper*. I According- to the coast survey charts of ■a certain place off the coast of JNova 1 Scotia there are forty fathoms of water there, says the New York Sun, and noth ing at the bottom but coarse white sand ■with 1 brownish specks. That isn't so. Mark Twain's umbrella' with all the con . tents is at the bottom there. But Mark Twain didn't know it any more than the coast survey, folks. That's why he has !>;• a $2. the price of a two hours' cab ride, to advertise for-the umbrella in this city. He feels sure that either Mr. H. 11. Rogers or the Hon. Tom Reed. stole it and hopes by offering a reward' to get it back. No questions will be asked. ' Mark first missed his umbrella last July wju-n he was' a guest of Mr. Rogers aboard; the good yacht Kanawha on a cruise down East. What really happened to the umbrella may be shown best by the following entry in the log of the Kanawha which will be produced .as documentary evidence for the defense if Mr. Clemens goes too far: "Kanawha—July 21, 44 degrees 10 minutes 13 seconds north, 62 degrees- 45 minutes 20 seconds west. Winds norther ly, light to very fresh. AH well on board, except the literary one and he's doing the best he caw. He doesn't know yet what has become of the umbrella which, with its contents', was dropped overboard- this day, by. the ship's com- I pany in 44 deg. north G2 deg. 1 -mm. west, dead reckoning. At the time he was leaning over the lee rail, reckoning that he'd better be dead and wondering what's the use of a 1 heavy ground swell. "When the umbrella was seized trom Mr. Clemens' stateroom it contained the articles which- he usually carries in it when afoot and. ashore, to wit: One in dividual tooth brush, cake of scented soap, one pair of button garters, one bot tle of restorer, box of dominoes, schedule of legal cab hire rates, MSS., galluses and. much miscellaneous loot. The spare socks were not in the umbrella at the t'me. "As a matter of form, the umbrella was shotted before it was dropped over the side. Mr. Reed spoke briefly, but his exact words would not be a proper part of this log. He intimated, however, that the action of himself and associates was justified, as it was intended to save Mr. Clemens from his only vice—the 37-cent fire-sale carry-all umbrella habit. Re marks of the same character were also made by Mr. H. H. Rogers, Mr. H. H. Rogers Jr., Mr. Augustus G. Paine and Dr. Clarence C. Rice. All the members of the crew were blindfolded and sent be low during the ceremony." Mr. Clemens didn't gat away from the lee rail and the ground swell until long after his umbrella had gone overboard and then nobody dared tell him what had happened. But by and by he discovered that something had. "There was a slight change that after noon at four bells," said Mr. Rogers, last night, "and then Clemens began to look for his umbrella. It was a pitiful scene. At first he thought he had simply mislaid It, and he searched the ship from stem to stern. Dr. Rice and/Speaker Reed had to use force to prevent him from going aloft to peek into the crow's nest. Finally he ; bribed one of the sailors to look there for him, and on top of that he posted an offer of a reward in. the fore castle. "After a While he suddenly began to show a melancholy interest in the charts and compass and worked all of one day in figuring and drawing lines fEat night after all the rest of us had turned in, he thl t°w Urs> ith his arms clasped on the taffrail, gazing astern. " 'Young man,' he whispered to one of the watch en deck, 'am I looking- in the exact direction of Manhattan island? Aye, sir,' replied the sailor, after squinting at the north star and backward over Mark head. " 'Should you say that I was looking to just about Fourteenth street?' 1 '£ ye V slr'' re Plie<i the sailor; 'you've got the bearing dead right.' "Then Mark said, more to 'himself than to the sailor, something about a depart ment store. The sailor told the bos'n all about it and the bos'n told me. t Th at I 'th- e way 5t was ever >' ni sht. In the daytime from eight bells to one bell and all the way back again, Mark roared about the ship looking, looking . for that umbrella. He lost all appetite. Finally, on the advice of Dr. Rice we decided to cut. the cruise short, and we came back to New York at top soeed Mr. Clemens was the first man ashore and ■ we heard him telling a cabman to get to Sixth avenue before the store clos "He went down East again after that; but he took a train. We heard of him next week on the coast of Maine with Tom Reed, roasting missionaries and broiling lobsters. In has ignorance of what had really happened off the coast of Nova Scotia Mr Clemens, still thinking over his loss* wrote this advertisement the other day LOST—On Broadway, or stolen, a com paratively new umbrella showing some ear: cost 97 cents at Sterne's fore part of January. Finder will be suitably re warded by leaving the Property at Dr. RICE'S in Irving place, where Owner will call for same. v - He suspects Mr. Rogers or Mr. Reed. and honing to shame either of them into surrendering he sent the copy of the ad vertisement to Mr. Rogers' office, with, a request that it. be published. The mail clerk opened it and, unsuspecting his em ployer's guilt, sent it to the newspaper in which it was. printed. Ever since, um brella have been delivered at Dr. Rice's L/p to midnight last night 117 had been received. After today the umbrellas will not be taken at the front entrance on Irving place, but at the basement door in East Nineteenth street. "All of these umbrellas will be sent to Mr. Clemens as soon as he arrives in town." said Mr. Rogers last night. "Where is Mr. Clemens now?" asked the reporter. •: ■ • . "Let me think," said Mr. Rogers seems to me. he's in Elmira. Is there a leformatory in Elmira?' "Yes.". --"Well, that's the place. He's in El mira." . .. : O New Coats. • Of the bolero one never tires, but slow ly and surely a fancy is creeping in for basques and tabs. Some of the tailors are using them for mountain costumes, and once the cooler days are upon us we are often glad of a little more warmth in our coats. Long .swallowtails, too, will be wo-n out in Louis XVI. fashion, but their pop ularity will not become general, for they are not universally becoming. " j During the next few weeks the short i sack fluted coat will have an immense success, and really; with a good pattern this is not difficult for the home dress maker to manipulate. Striped, check and spotted flannels are the order of the day ■ : : .m*»- Return From Bridal Trip. W. K. Heffelfirger and Miss Alice Gilos. vli.i t.);ed Tu«adiy. • have re turned to Minneapolis. The wedding took place at La Cmsse,- YVis., Wednesday morning. The same day they went to La Crosse and remained there until yes terday. The newly married couple ar rived here on an afternoon train, and went to the home of relatives of Mrs lleffeUinger near Minnehaha falls. ; It is r-xpeeted that they will call on relative* today- and ask forgiveness for. an act which they do not regret. But it is un derstood that both want peace. -:W;.' llfiiriU ; Ibsen Improving;. GHRISTIANIA, Sept. 28.—The reports of Henrjk lsben's serious illness are un true.' He is. still improving and goes out' driving dally. , . Deplorable. Brooklyn: Eagle. ■ . . .:"«}•;'- Mrs. Naggs—l grow to believe moro ! and more In - the saying: "The way .to . a man's heart is : through his 1 stomach." • ■■- Mrs. Chatterton (wearily)— So do ' I! About the only/bargains; Henry takes any interest in in the department store ad vertisements; are those in- the grocery department. '.■■■:■-.:'■'-•.." - •" < ■>■■•■: J many wili be disappointed We are making special prices now, aSpe to get our order^SedT^ 1 earliest I possible moment, to enable us to proper care for them when delivery is wanted Neither price nor terms pre ;■ vent your ordering this week, We seil the .best Stoves and Ranges in the world THE JE^ -----,'^ I for $1.00 DOWN AND $1.00 A WEEK. lynges in tne world, mb JbWEL, and. we seh them #I^S S^S* P f^«. wort u,wara (p' Brcom Haneer-No kitchen com- J^^S^a. -^^^B. /i A""kS "^ 10° ers, targe oven, full /*> /^% <»\ ■ ■ «_ """. . ill \\ VfeSSff '^BS' '""^P nickeled, 1901 vboUCJU E»^^ t»a!ebra^ed /// ; \\\ "*^f Hi ' Woven Wire Cot, any 3 i 29 , just like QO n ■T-^R-n;;.»,,«TrZ^!i: "•■■>•»■»•! Heatepa /// \\\ --™^» 980 Sar.tfe $2250 4-™"™^^^/// \\\ T«rSf PMS . Pnce • V^&i^mWW -fully guarantsed. On« rkVH^fl "LJ J fu" n^keled. ebony r- LlJZ^WZrbk^ ; . Same ran C 8 with high shelf.and Ct>nK Hkacur:... V^^U-V^U IL>-^ hand,, like: cut. ■ all modern improve- vP^O $'-oo Down and $i.od a Week. Pear! Suit and siza lnt -JQr (9V^^VL ments . ' .. ' "'• M^Ai^^: vj v L Skirt O"^ Ui"l*l^ ** . lt3s.:. o Oown"ana'si:ooaW. ' He^rs^ th° c"ire »"« of th« >«» Han.er.......... IQC 4^'S."::::.^ Carving Set. rosewood handle. E ood A^ ! \ . -^ steel blade, per set.: ...... |■■ of Carpets and Rugs that should be «^§^v.yJ^N I , ejh ge. tf. b'?.!? d. Fruit Slicors' TOG fi S{ove Kaddrg Brush, lik a ',' .ic. I seen before you buy. You* are invited j^^^^^^,^3^^^^JwlJ-,-.M.'W i^O^ - • ■"■v/o II ■ °Ut "" 100 oricesUsome of t^cheTpTr J^^^Sv'&'ilr'g^g rg I^^ » Good Brussels rffi/l&.i^^rf. 0'*I^™ ** the !aieSt Surprise ifWW* I^^°:.^ 5C . Good two-ply Ingrain.... 3sc and 500 (i---^_ "^ ' ' '"^V^-^^^^ Ess H^®l_^^ j^f"^^, __jm. D „ ■■■,•.■■■■• .■ Z*^^^ • . Genuine turkey tail (f^ """g^gg} Best all-wool Ingrain 64c —^^*i ■'■ Ue**n. Bealei, . • and wing Feather Dust- —*^~" *"*if^ I Two hundred Misfits at Half-price. aißSffliSS!^ '... 25& lC US.."!!.."!!'IDS S^l^S.E'r.^.-.lt'.f^.aOC ■V- ■;.■:'- . '.-'.".. - m >EiJ I I fin fc i. Sal I 111 ■nm.i» MaMMMM » MJ i. uujm I_. .^iiu.^jjJ. ...jw.^—— .. ; - . In Labor's Field. 1 Trades Congress in Session. At the meeting of the 1 Canadian Trades Congress, the committee on reports deal ing with the president's address, report ed that instead of favoring compulsory arbitration, they would suggest compul sory conciliation. A resolution was passed that the letter carriers of the Dominion should have their wages "In creased 20 per cent, and another reso lution that the federal government be petitioned to enact a l*w making it nec essary for all barbers to procure a cer tificate or' three years' apprenticeship and pass an examination be/ore a board ap pointed by governments. The Socialist party of the United States and the Cana dian 1 Socialist leagues were commended ior their co-operation in the labor move ment. Minneapolis Plumbers Still Disagree It is becoming evident that there is a strong faction in the Plumbers' union of Minneapolis which is anxious that the organization break the contract now i» force with the master.plumbers. At the last two meetings the matter was the subject of heated debate, 'and although the plumbers are, as a rule., very secre tive in regard to the inward workings of their organization, sufficient has leaked out to indicate that there is a hot fight on. Hosn of Gamnrinus Meet. The Brewers' union held a meeting last night, when Vice President Domian oc cupied the chair. F. l.andskiet and A. Fuebert were initiated, and Albert Milcke was accepted as an apprentice. The fol lowing new officers were elected: Pres ident, E. Domian; vice president, William Haag; recording secretary,!!. Dege; finan cial secretary. F. Lucksmger; treasurer, G. Daniels; guard, John Fitzontiu; ban ner carrier, F. Pollack; marshal, Henry Dege; guardians, John Andreas, L. lend ers and A. Kleiler; 'delegate to the Trades and Labor assembly, C. J. Krieke and Henry Gcier. Receipts, 54C; dis bursements, $34.50. Bakers Report Business Good. In the absence of the president and vice president, Recardin:* Secretary Hein inger presided at a meeting of the Bakers' union iast night. Financial Secretary Carlson having left the city to accept a position at Hudson, Wis., the vacancy caused b^his resignation was fil.'ed by the election of John Patir. The ball com mittee reported that they had made ar rangements for the »jall of the. season to take place Oct. 12. .Receipts, $33.50; disbursements, $ 7 :'5. Coremakers Are Prosperous. The Coremakers' union was never in a more prosperous condition than at pres ent when trade is reported good, all members of the union being employed. In the absence of the president and vice president, Chas. O. Hiler tilled the chair at the meeting last night, which was devoted to routine business. Re ceipts $19; disbursements, $13. LABOR NOTES. The Federated Trades and Labor Council of Milwaukee was directed to grant no representation to boxmakers unless they became attached to the Amalgamated Woodworkers' Interna tional union, which organization has jurisdiction over the trade. The team drivers of Minneapolis will raise the initiation fee to $2 after Nov. 1. Labor Commissiono John O'Donnell and his assistant, Mr. Hammond, are in Buffalo this Week attending the an nual convention of the facjtory inspect ors of the United Sta,tes. The law for the exclusion of Chinese, unless re-enacted by congress, will terminate by limitation in March, Ifti2. President Gompers, in behalf of tho American Federation of Labor, will ask for the re-enactment and. extension of the law by congress. The boycott of the Sioux City unions against the Sioux City Traction com pany has been declared off! Tho street railway company recedes from its posi tion prctiiljiung a union among its im ployes. The United Shirt and Collar company, of Troy, N. V., who are the makers of the "Lion Brand," have started a fight against the unions and the rest of the firms in the combine have looked out their cutters. There are about 350 cut ters out now for the past few weeks, and in several shops the starchers and ironera are out. Directly and indirectly there are several thousand workers involved. The entertainment committee of the Dressmakers' union met last night to for ward arrangements for their 'social to be held Oct 4. They will meet again Tues day night and arrange the programme. The steamr.tte s of tho city will meet in Federation hall Monday night for the purpose of forming a unio"n. SMYTH'S LONG WALK former, ""UNITED states consul WILL CROSS CONTINENT ON FOOT DOING IT FOR HIS HEALTH Carries His Bedding and Culinary Apparatus, Together With ; Small Tent in Which He Will Sleep. Clifford Smyth, a former . United States consul to Cartagena, Colombia, who two months ago started to walk from the At lantic to the Pacific, has returned to his home here, at 418 Putnam avenue. He had reached Cumberland, : Md., on his long tramp across the continent, says the Brooklyn Eagle, when he was summoned to Brooklyn to attend to some important business matters. As soon as he can man age those things which just now claim his attention, Mr. Smyth will •: depart for Cumberland to resume his journey of 4,000 miles on foot. Mr. Smyth, whose profession Is that of a journalist, planned his long tramp pri marily for the purpose of recovering ro bust health. It is also his intention to write a book of his travels. He left Brooklyn alone, about July 15, and had reached York, Pa., when he was joined by Frank L. Hawthorne, a son. of Julian Hawthorne, the author. He was accom panied by Mr. Hawthorne Into Mary land. It was in that state that Mr. Smyth was informed that certain matters at home required his attention, and he re turned to this city. Mr. Smyth said last night that it was probable that Mr. Hawthorne would be unable to resume the tramp, but that would in no way in terfere with his plan to walk from New York to San Francisco. When Mr. Smyth left Brooklyn he knew of nothing that would prevent him from pushing right along and finishing before the roses again burst into bloom, but hia return home has so changed his plans that he expects that it will be in the early part of next summer when ho walks the streets of San Frincisco. Ho averaged at the start twenty miles a day, then increased the distance covered every twenty-four hours to twenty-five miles, and finally to thirty miles. * Ho hopes to increase even the last named figure as he proceeds. When on the road, Mr: Smyth wears a regulation pedestrian costume—knickerbockers, neglige shirt, alpine hat and bicycle shoes. The shoes, of reindeer skin, have a top sole. The traveler carries no cane or staff, but on his back Is strapped a pack weighing about twenty-two pounds. This is made up of a small tent, one large rubber and two woolen blankets, a few aluminum cooking utensils and a hatchet. By his side when en route there trots a Ken tucky bloodhound which answers to the name of "Watena." This faithful animal, taken from the public pound at York, Pa., guards and protects his master. He will be trained to carry the pack. Speaking of his travels, Mr. Smyth said: . -^ • "I am taking a southwesterly route to California and shall thus avoid, I hope, crossing the Rocky mountains, and es cape the rigorous winter that prevails there. I leave Cumberland by the old Washington turnpike, an ■ Indian trail, lea.ding to Sprlnglield, Ohio. . From. that point 1 shall travel south, going through Cincinnati and entering the state'of Ken tucky. I expect to enter California at the | southern end, througH Arizona, and hope to' reach there during the early part of the coming summer. I average now about thirty, miles a day, but I : expect to in crease that a bit. I conceived this trip for the purpose of improving; my. health primarily, but aleo for the purpose of securing material for a book which I contemplate writing upon my return. - I anticipate that I will be able to pay. my expenses during the long trip to the (oast, by delivering humorous lecture, entitled "Confessions of a Consul." - - "In this lecture I tell of my experiences tin ■ United•;• States, consul at Cartagena, Colombia. -During the years 1894 and 1898 1 was stationed, there as consul. I was joined at York. Pa:, by Frank L. Haw thorne, a son of Julian Hawthorne,, the author, and he accompanied me on the walk to Cumberland. ; The. Indications are,; I regret to say, that he ■ will :be I unable to; continue' the journey with me. 1 should dearly like to have him as my travel ing companion. "This dog," said Mr. Smyth, stroking the head of a bloodhound that lay crouched at his feet, "I got at York. I have called him Watena, and expect him to be of great assistance to me. The dog I procured at the public pound, and tho keeper had to enter the cage pistol in hand and lassoo him. He was a fierce beast, but since our acquaintance he has become as docile as a lamb, except when intruders approach, when I have left him guarding my property. "The tent which I carry is six feet in measurement, and weighs seven pounds. It is not of the well known 'dog tent' of tjie army, but more comfortable and con siderably lighter. It can be quickly staked to the ground and affords ample security from wind and rain. For sleeping pur poses I carry one large double blanket and two woolen ones. Wherever I stake my tent for a night's camp I usu ally manage to get an armful of fresh straw from some nearby farmyard. My cooking utensils weigh but three and a half pounds, are of aluminum, and those together with a small hatchet and one firearm, a pistol, comprise my complete outfit. "I camp beside the highways or in the hedges or open fieldst wherever the op portunity affords, and when I get fur- LHTEST TICKS OF THE TELEGRfIPH - < hair of Gaelic at Xotre Dame. . NOTRE DAME, Ind., Sept. 28.—A chair of Gaelic at Notre Dame. University is soon to be filled by Hugh O'Gallagher, who will, at the Catholic University in Washington, study this language under Dr. Hennebry, one of the most cele brated Gaelic scholars in America. Death of "Jack" Haverly. SALT LAKE, Utah, Sept. 28.— J. IT. ("Jack") Haverly,' the former famous minstrel leader, died at St. Mark's hos pital today. Heart trouble was the im mediate cause of death. Mr. Haverly, since coming to this, city two years ago, has been engaged in mining enterprises. O.shkoNh Water Company Bankrupt. OSHKOSH, Wis., Sept. 28.— W. G. Max cy, president and treasurer of the Osh kosh water company, was today appoint . Ed receiver for the concern, and his bonds fixed at $50,000; The appointment of ' a receiver was rendered , imperative by the foreclosure of a mortgage of $200,000 upon the property of, the company, which had been weakened by a long tight with the city over pure water and fire pro tection. Mine Tipple Fired. On. , "T F ARLINGTON, Ky.. Sept. Many shots were fired at the tipple of the Car bondale Coal company, near here, today, by men in ambush. None of the men working on the tipple were hurt, but the mines shut down/ This was the first shooting since the arrival of the troops at Madisonville early this week. Adjt. Gen. Murray is here. About forty arm ed men passed today en route to the new union camp near Carbondale. Trust Imports Glass Worker*. MUNCIE, Ind., Sept. 2S.—The— party Of 240 Belgians who recently left Brussels bound for Muncie, will work in the fac tories of the American Windowglass com : pany. It is said this means that the American company has planned a gen eral importation of Belgians to man its factories, as there is a great shortage of American skilled workmen. Wreck on Omaha & St. I*»ulk. OMAHA. Sept. 28.—The wreck which was reported last night to have occurred on the Wabash railroad near Council Bluffs, during the early part of the day, as a matter of fact occurred on the Omaha & St. Louis railroad, and not on the Wabash. Mr. J. Ramsey Jr., presi dent of the Wabash, telegraphs the Asso ciated Press that the Omaha & St. Louis is in no way'conneted with the Wabasti system, and that his road is in. no waj responsible for the wreck. Brazilian Parliament Prorogued. RIO JANEIRO. Sept. 88.— senate has sanctioned the prorogation of par liament until Nov. 1. i 4 •>*.;■; Army Outlines. WASHINGTON. Sept.. £8.-Col. Chailes A. Dempsey, commanding the Thirteenth regiment of infantry in the Philippines, was placed on the retired list of the army today, after forty years' service. He is a native of Virginia and was g-ad itated; from 1 the West Military acad emy in the class of 1805. ■'. His" retirement makes the following promotions. -Lieut: ■ Col. Charles R. Paul, . Twentieth infant ry, to be colonel of the Thirteenth in . fantry. E .Maj..- Marry aL, Haskell, lof j the Thirteenth infantry, *. to ; bo lieutenant col- ther out into the wilds and primitive wildernesses of the far West I expect to make foraging expeditions, short, of course, and thus provide myself with fresh game. My experiences so far have been most interesting and mv health ia already greatly benefited. When L re new my travels, which I hopa to do next Wednesday, I will go forth aided by the experience of B. P. Magee, of Lancaster, Pa., who is the head of the bicycle league there, and who has made many tours awheel to various parts of the country. He has informed me of his ex periences and I shall profit thereby. "One night while I was camping by the roadside I was awakened by a terrific shouting. Rushing out, I looked for the cause and discovered a man. a farmer, making the wildest kind of gesticula tions and using his lungs to their full ca pacity. The man disappeared when he saw me, but when daylight came I learn ed that he had mistaken my tent for a ghost the night before after returning home from a spree, and his cries were those of fright. This is only one of the amusing incidents to which T can refer." Mr. Smyth at one time was editor of the Daily Herald at Yonkers, X. V.. and while acting as editor received the ap pointment as United States consul to Cartagena, Colombia, from President Cleveland. He was graduated from Urbana college, Ohio. onel of the Twentieth, and Capt. William B. Abercrombie, of the Second in" try, to be major of the Thirteenth infantry. \eiv !fK Counterfeit. WASHINGTON. Sept. 2S.—The treasury department today issued a warning that a new counterfeit $5 silver certificate is in circulation. It -is of the series of 1599, check-letter B plate No. 37, and bears the portrait of Indian Chief "One papa." The counterfeit Is printed from photo-etched plates of fair workman ship on good quality of paper, bearing lines In imitation of the silk liber of the genuine. Smallpox at Fond da Lac. "WASHINGTON. Sept. 2S.—The bureau of Indian affairs has been notified that two cases of smallpox of a virulent typo have broken out on the Indian reserva tion at Fond dv Lack, Wis. The cases, the dispatches say, were brought from the white settlement along the railroad line. There are many cases of smallpox at reservations all over the country, but they are of a mild type. Not*" Torpedo Boat Launched. NEW YORK. Sept. 38.— United United States torpedo boat Wilkes. j which has been under construction at tre shipyards of Charles L.',Seabory & Co., in this city, was successfully launch ed today in the presence of the govern mental officers and a large crowd of people. The christening of the boat was by Miss Harriet E. Rankin. a thir teen-year-old daughter of the late Ad miral Wilkes, for whom the boat is named. - Asperate Case Of Piles Cured. Mrs. \\'m. Kenmore, So. Omaha, writes: "I suffered many many years with pro truding piles and dared not risk an.op • eration. My case became . desperate. I took • Pyramid Pile Cure and in a short time was entirely cured,with no return of the trouble." Sold by all druggists, 60 cents a. box. . Book,- "Piles, Causes' and" Cure" mailed free, Pyramid Drue Co., ; Marshall. MlcOi. c -^. : w.^ •;-.■.. v ■ .. -..-.,