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A Princeton football player has been run over and crippled by a locomotive. 1t is believed that he was practicing a new tackle and overplayed himself.

Nansen, the Arctic explorer, announces that next year Capt. Amonsden will make another dash for the north pole. Baldwin and Peary are still to be heard from. '

For the first time since 1869 the post oftice departinent, with the issuance of tle new series of stamps now in preparation, will make use of the American flag in one of the designs. This will be a part of the two-cent stamp, which, by the way, will bear little resemblance to the one now current.

_No one will 'sympéthize awvith the Paterson (N.J.) school siperintendent who is bothered to keep classes going because the teachers get married so rapidly. Paterson is rather to be congratulated upon the -charm of its teachers than condoled with for its vacant chairs. Let the superintendent hustle., e £

According to the figures of the Alpine club of Switzerland 63 persons were ‘killed while climbing the mountains last summer, and since that time two other deaths have occurred. This makes a total far in excess of that of any previous year. No fewer than 305 persons have - lost their lives on the Alps during the last ten years.

' ‘A typewriter for the pocket is one of the latest bits of Américan ingenuity, specially designed to meet the requirements of journalists and authors who need to take notes under conditions where a pencil and paper would not be convenient.- It may be worked without removing the hands from the pocket. Ttis four incheslong by three inches wide. =

- The urgent need of officers in the navy has led to the dropping of one year at the naval academy, the object being to put th. midshipmen into sea service the fourth year, where theoretical and practical instruetion will be combined. This change will not-give them commissions any sooner than if the course of four years were taken at the academy. -

fllxere is a rumor that the empress dowager of China is planning another anti-foreign upheaval. The Boxer ex perience, . shnould have been lesson enough. It is doubtful if the empress dowager is as foolish as the report represents her to be. At any rate, she will know better when Wu Ting Fang returns te China and posts her as to what she is up against when Sihe tries to fight all modern civilization. &

One of the most remarkable labor strikes on re¢ord was that of nearly 300 coal miners in Indiana, who struck in the interest of the mules employed in the mines. They declared that the animals were not properly cared for, were often worked without having been fed or watered and that they themselves would not work unless the mules were better tréated. It was a sympathy strike, and it did honor to the men. - no ;

Since the house of the fifty-seventh congress came into existence in March, 1901, 12 members have died, three have resigned and two have been unseated as a resnult of contests, making a total of 17 changes in less than two years. This, according to thoseintrusted with the compilation of data of this character, is “the greatest number of changes occurring during one session of congress in the history of that legislative body. 2 : 3

Though Admiral Dewey is universally ¥nown to be hale and hearty, hardly gnyone gives kim credit for possessing the|great personal strength with which Le iwgifted. One of the Spanish-Ameri-can war veterans, who had all but lost the power of walking, called on him at his Washington home and found the ‘admiral standing on the front steps. Dewey invited him in, but the disabled man locked doubtfully at the steps, seeing which the admiral reached into the carriage, picked him up bodily and carried him up the steps and into the drawing room. : : Two things will be noticed in particular by the report of the director of the mint which has recently been sent out. One of these is that the world’s goldsupply keepsgrowing.and another is that the United States is now the largest single contributor to it. In the year 1901, the figures for which the director has just compiled, the world’s” gold output was a little over $263,000,000, and the United States’ own sharve of it was nearly $79,000,000. Australasia, with $77,000,000, came nearest to the United States of all the other gold producing localities. - The British people and government have no tenderness for anarchists, but they have great regard for national dignity. And it is safe to say the Belgian authorities’ will hear from that incident in Brussels, where James Kier Hardie,a member of the British parliament, was arrested as an anarchist. ‘Hardie is queer in many respects, but ‘he is no anarchist. If he were an anarchist he couldn’t be a British M. P. Americans, with their disposition to gee fun in everything, might laugh such an affair away, but British officials take the matter seriously.

L WEEK'S HISTORY The Important Happenings of a Week Briefly Told. IN ALL PARTS OF THE UNION All the Latest News of Interest from Washington, From the East, the West and the South. THE LATEST FOREIGN DISPATCHES

FROM WASHINGTON.

President Roosevelt has completed his message and submitted it to members of the cabinet.

In his annual report Secretary Shaw will deal largely with evils of the present finanmcial system and urge reforms by congress. _ In the usual manner Thanksgiving day was generally observed throughout the country, and by Americans in many European capitals. The annual report of Postmaster General Payne recommends free mail delivery in all cities of 5.000 population or $5,000: gross receipts. The postal deficit for the fiscal year is $2,961,170.

Mr. Wilson, secretary of agriculture, has ordered a quarantine against cattle, sheep and swine in New England and prohibited their exportation or -shipment elsewhere. The foot and Vmou'th disease is epidemiec in four states.

The president has answered the objection of white citizens against a negro as collector of Charleston (S. C.) port, and declared he would not discriminate between whites and blacks showing equal ability for office. . . . ;

THE EAST.

. Tn .\Tassac_husef’ts foot and mouth disease has become almost epidemic among cattle. :

‘Officials of the Reading railroad refuse to countenance settlement of the coal strike out of court, and will insist that the president’s commission proceed with its work.

Burglars robbed the post office at Enon.Valley, Pa., of $482 in cash and $350 in stamps. : S The anthracite coal operators will grant ten per cent. wage increase to mimers if independent operators agree. - Francis G. Meyers, chief of the coin division at the sub-treasury in New York city, is dead. He was considered one of the best coin experts in the country. o < :

A settlement between the anthracite coal operators and miners outside of the arbitration commission has been refused by the operators,andthe hearing will go on. The refusal is due to the independent operators, who declared a ten per cent. wage increase meant surrender to the United Mine Workers. _ ‘ ; It is said that Chairman McPherson has sold his seat on the New York stock exchange, and will retire. The sale price is said to have been $BO,OOO.

WEST AND SOUTH. ¢

At Nichols, S. C., Duston Sarvis, a telegraph operator, shot Miss Jody Burns and committed suicide.

Ex-Chinese Minister Wu Ting-Fang issued a farewell address thanking all the people for uniform kindness and courtesy shown .him.

- The Central Pacific stockholders have sued C. P. Huntington estate for over $100.000,000, charging fraud in manipulation of finances of western roads. .

Express and railroad. companies have joined forces for the purpose of throttling the train robbing industry, ‘and a reward of $5,000 has been offered thief catchers. fe

‘At the age of 107 years Marie Catalina, last of the famous Serrano Indian baskeét weavers, died at San Bernardino. Cal. ;

- A bull fight scheduled for Thanksgiving day at Kansas City was forbidden by the police. In Salt Lake City the Ministerial alliance adopted resolutions opposing the election of Reed Smoot, Mormon apostle, to the senate.

The Wisconsin official returns give Gov. La Follette (rep.) a plurality of 47.5217. =

President Roosevelt will appoint Judge Francis M. Wright, now judge of the circuit and appellate court of Illinois, to the vacancy on the court of claims caused by the death of John Dawis. . 2 4

Two negro women and one negro man convicted of vagrancy at Lancaster, Ky., were sold by the sheriff to the highest bidder, one for three months, the others for two and three years, respectively. - While hunting John McCormick, former sheriff of Gladwin county, Mich., was shot and killed near Newberry by Bert Ensign, a companion. Ex-Chinese Minister Wu Ting-Fang sailed for China from San Francisco on the steamship Hong-Kong Maru. - The death of Capt.yA. P. Mordaunt, who is credited with having made the first discovery of pay gold at Nome, occurred in San Francisco, - :

The bank at Bancroft, Neb., was broken into by robbers, the safe brown open by nitroglycerin and $3,000 to $4,000 in cash secured.

Col. Thomas P. Ochiltree, journalist and eX-congressman, died at Hot Springs, Va., of heart trouble, aged 62 years, ]

In the mountains of upper East Tennessee, Richard Green probably fatally shot his wife and: daughter in an attempt to kill himself. He thien shot and killed himseif, using a shotgun. s At Bloomington, 111., Mrs. ZEliza Stansburg died, aged 75. She was a wealthy pioneer resident of central Illinois, and became noted through her generosity to religious institutions, -~ E. W. Pollock and Marion Pierson, of Bridgeport, Ind., were found dead in their room at the Arlington hotel. Death was caused by escaping gas. - On Sunday night the steamer Sylvanus J. Macy, with 18 men, sunk in Lake Erie during a gale. The news was brought to Detroit by the barge Mabel Wilson, which the Macy was towing. The steamer Bannockburn is believed to be lost in Lake Superior

Near Avon, Ind.‘, the St. Louis flyer oh the Big Four road was wrecked by a broken rail. It is believed that many persons were killed. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. C. V. Herdliska, United States consul at Callao, Peru, has tendered his resignation. : On board a barge on a river in the interior of Sumatra, Lieut. Dekok and 45 Dut¢h troops were recently attacked by a band of Achinese with the result that the barge sank and the lieutenant and 20 men were drowned. : ' It has been decided by the dowager empress to apprint Prince Chun to be the principal representative of China at the St. Louis exposition. The German emperor in his farewell audience of Ambassador White presented him with the gold medal of the empire for science and art, which is given once a year to a person, either a German or a foreigner, who in the opinion of the government is best entitled to it. .

Scores of people are dying from fever in Caolombia. So great is the mortality in some places that no attempt is. made to give burial to the vietims. ] y

In Siam the gold standard scheme has become law and the mints have been closed to the free coinage of silver.

The widow of the late Herr Krupp has given $750.000 to establish a benefit fund for the workmen at Essen, Prussia, in memory of her late husband. ;

The death is reported from Madras, India. of Theodore Parker Cahot, United States consul at Madras.

LATER NEWS,

“American corsets rule this market,” says United States Consul Mahin, reporting to the state department from Nottingham, England, on popular American wares in England. After eluding arrest for several months, Charles F. Kelly, the former speaker of the St. Louis house of delegates, who is wanted in the western city in connection with the bribery cases unearthed there some time ago, was arrested: He had just returned from Liverpool. : At Armourdale, Kan., Ernest Damns and Charles W. Tucker, packing house employes, fought a pistol duel over Mabel Randall, a waitress. Damns was mortally wounded, but before he died he shot Tucker twice, fatally wounding him. William Armstrong, one of the most prominent business men in Ot tumwa, la., and well known in Towa commercial circles, dropped dead while talking to a customer.

When the United Mine Workers meet in national convention, in In. dgianapolis,' Ind., in January, to pre. pare a new wage scale, Secretary Wilson will report’ the amount of money given by them for the strike, It is understood that the total was over $2,000,000.

Edward F. Croker, chief of the New York fire department, who Trecently was tried .on a series of charges, has been declared guilty by Commissioner Sturgis, and was. dismissed from the service;” the dismissal to take place on December 1. r 2 -

The plant and stock of the Curtis Fertilizer company, at Louisville, Ky., was damaged by fire to the extent of $50,000. The loss is covered by insurance, : ;

Dr. Joseph Parker, minister of the City Temple, London, is dead. . Weekly trade reviews report that cold weather has increased distribution in-certain lines. Railroad earnings are maintained and car shortage continues. °

Mrs. Kate Vance, a colored woman of Newton, Kan., is dead, aged 123 vears. Mrys. Vance had a daughter 60 years of age, and her husband died 4t the age of 105. Secretary Moody’s annual report declares a shortage of 577 maval officers exists, while new ships being built will need 623 more, and 100 will leave the serviee. Eight battleships under construction are from ten to 29 months behind the contract.

MINOR NEWS ITEMS.

Standard Oil dividends for the year total $43,875,000. ! :

Thirty thousand American settlers on Canadian farms is the record of the last 12 months. ’ President Roosevelt draws the line at automobiles and prefers to stick to horseback riding. Charles T. Yerkes’ plans for 100 miles of London underground railroad have been given royal consengt. The Irish land question will be the center of a nationalist fight in the British house of commons. '

Statehood boomers from Oklahoma, New Meikico and Arizona are beginning to fid Washington’s hotels. ° : Reap Admiral Schley was given a royar*welcome at Kansas City, where he spoke at the banquet of the Commercial club. :

William Duffik, M. P.,-ITrish nationalist, has been ' sentenced to three months’ imprisonment under the crimes act. : ;

Promoters of the Pacific cable announce their willingness and ability to comply with the requirements laid down by President Roosevelt. Panama fears the Colombia government will absorb all of the $7,000,000 to be paid for concessions and privileges for the isthmian canal,

- New York money inteyests are convinced that congress cannot seriously hamper the trusts by Sherman law amendments. Publicityis not objected fO. -

A report to the Daughters of the Confederacy, at their session at New Orleans shows there is $45,836.41 on hand for the building of & monument to Jefferson Davis. }

George J. Gould, H. C. Frick, and other eastern capitalists will establish an exclusive summer resort on Two Mile Beach island, near Cape May City, at $2,000,000 cost. : ; Miss Gertrude Young died at Minneapolis- after a fast of five days and the coroner says he will take steps to secure the prosecution of the cult of which she was a member., An attormey for three Virginia negroes appeared before the federal court at Norfolk and asked an injunction to prevent the. canvass of the vote for congress on the ground that the registration law is unconstitutional. T R

UNCLE SAM'S MAILS.

Postmaster General Payne’s Report Very Interesting.

A Decrease Shown in the Deficit= Benefits of the Rural Delivery : Service—l'mport:imt Recommendations Are Made, )

Washington, Nov. 28.—The annual report of Postmaster General Payne is made public. It shows the total receipts of the department for the year 1902 to be $121,848,047.86, as against $111,631,193.39 in 1901; total expenditures for 1902, $124,785,697.07, as 'a'gainst $115,554,920.87 for 1901; excess of expenditures over receipts, 1902, §2,937,649.81; 1901, $3,923,727.48—a decrease in the deficit from the previous year of $986,077.67. The -estimate of the revenues and expenditues for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1904, which has been transmitted to the secretary of the treasury, is $132,814,371; appropriation for 1903, $138,416,598. Esti‘mated deficit for 1903, $5,602.227; estimated revenue for 1904, $144,767.664; estimated expenditure for 1904, $153,010,520; estimated deficit for 1904, $B,242856, 3

Indication of Prosperity.

The increase in postal revénues not only attests the wonderful prosperity- of the people and the dctivity of business .interests throughout the country, but also indicates that the extension of postal facilities carefully directed results sooner or later in increased receipts and diminished deficits. With phenomenal growth of population and other favoring conditions, the mail matter poured into the post offices has rapidly helped to lessen the percentage of deficiencies. Despite largely increased expenditures, the revenues gradually approximate the expenses after each added outlay has marked a new standard.

Deficits in the postal service are not to be viewed with apprehension. It is the policy, whenever. the postal receipts exceed or come near the expenditures, to extend postal facilities and cheapen the cost of the service to the public. :

Rural Free Delivery.

Rural free delivery service has become an established fact. It is mo longer in the experimental stage and undoubtedly congress will continue to increase the appropriation for this service until all the people of the country are reached, where it is thickly enough settled to warrant it. .

Free Delivery in Small Towns.

With the extension of rural free delivery thus actively progressing complaints arise in other communities. Cities of 10,000 population, or $lO,OOO gross postal receipts, receive a free delivery service at least twice a day, in many cases oftener. Residents of remote rural districts to which the rural service has been extended have a free delivery of mail brought within reachn of them once a day. Residents of towns of less than 10,000 population, or $lO,OOO gross postal receipts, have no free delivery at all. There is a popular demand, which is based on equity and reason, that the space which now intervenes between city and rural service should be diminished by extending free delivery to towns of not fewer than 5,000 population, or not less than $5,000 gross postal receipts.

Registry System.

There were transmitted in the registered mails during the year 22,831,400 letters and parcels. Of this number, 3,203,257 were free matter. As compared with the preceding year, this represents an increase of 2,010,865 in paid registrations. There was $1,570.251.44 collected in registry fees, an increase of $160,869.20 over the preceding year.

Suppression of Fraud.

The départment has continuedto enforce the status forbidding the use of the mails in the conduct of fraudulent schemes in the most vigilant manner, resulting in the issuance of fraud orders to the number of 247 during the year. These have been directed against the promoters of various fraudulent schemes, including bond-investment and debenture companies, schemes involving fraudulent or lottery features, and various fictitious tontine and insurance companies: : Legislation.

The postmaster general recommends to the consideration of congress legislation along many lines, including the following: s

That the extension of free delivery to towns of not le<s than 5,000 population, or $5,000 gross annual postal receipts, be authorized.

That the maximum fee for a money order be fixed at 25 instead of 30 cents. That the interstate commerce law be amended to prohibit common cafriers, to wit, telegraph and express companies, or any of their employes, from aiding and abetting in the green goods or lottery swindles, or any other scheme carried on partly by mail and partly by common carrier and which is in violation of the postal laws. That the department be authorized to adopt a system of postal checks.

That an act be passed conferring upon the department specific authority to introduce a system of reply postal cards and envelopes.

Stole $3,000.

Spartanburg, S. C., Nov. 28.—Burglars Thursday morning blew open the safe & the Enoree Manufacturing company, at Enoree Mills, and secured $3.000 in money, a part of which belonged to the local post office. Bloodhounds have been put upon the trail of the robbers. 5

Big Shipment of Coal.

Pittsburg, Nov. 28.—About, 3,250,000 bushels of coal were shipped to the southern markets by the Pittsburg river shippers Thursday. A swell in the Monongahela river made these shipments possible.

To Lease Manhattan Road.

New York, Nov. 27.—The official announcement was made Wednesday that the Manhattan Elevated Railway company will be leased to the Interborough company, which is to operate the subway now being built, to take effect April 1, 1903}.

Ne_gro_ Hanged.

.~ Bridgeton, N. J., Nov. 27.—Job Williams, colored, was hanged here Wednesday for the murder on October 27 last of John 8. Holmes, an aged farmer, and the latter’'s housekeeper, Miss Catharine Shutt.. The drop fell at 10:35.

COINAGE AT MINTS.

Director Roberts Issues Statement Showing Number of Pieces Made Last Year Breaks All Records.

Washington, Nov, 27.—George E. Roberts, the director of the mint, in his annual report, says that the coinage mints at Philadelphia, New Orleans and San Francisco were in operation throughout the fiscal year. In number of pieces the coinage of the year has mever been exceeded, aggregating 191,419,506, but in value it has fallen from $136,340,781 in 1901 to $94,526,678, this being due to the greater demand for the small denominations. Gold coinage dropped from $99,065,715 to $61,980,572, but the stock of gold bullion on hand increased from $100,219,493 to $124,083,712. ‘The. coinage of silver dollars amounted to $19,402,800, subsidiary silver coins to $10,713,569 and minor coins to $2,429,736.

The original gold deposits of the year amounted to $132,580,839. Gold bars taken for export amounted to $36,332,678, and for domestic consumption $14,402,578. The gross expenditures’ -on account of the mint service, including loss by wastage in - operating upon the metals, was "$1,910,503. The earnings from all charges and incidental gains, exclusive of seigniorage, aggregated $357,568. The seigniorage realized in the manufacture of one and five-cent pieces amounted to $l,919;370, and the total seigniorage accruing on the silver nickel and bronza coins made in the year was $11,013,856, which was turned into the general fund of the treasury. The feature of the report is a description of the new., mint at Philadelphia. The mnew edifice occupied during the last fiscal year is pronounced the finest building ever constructed for coinage purposes, and the equipment, which is practically new throughout, is believed to include the most improved machine and provide for the most effective methods in use in coinage establishments. -

The director says that the increased capacity of the mints at Philadelphia and San Francisco and the prospective opening of the new mint at Denver will give the country 'a much greater coinage capacity than it has heretofore had, while on the other hand the pressure on the mints is about to relax instead of increase. :

The coinage of 1,500,000 silver dollars per month, now required by law, will come to end soon by the exhaustion of the stock of bullion. This requirement now calls for the entire capacity of the New Orleans mint. When the dollar coinage ceases, that mint will be idle unless the work js diminished at Philadelphia and San Francisco to give it employment. When the Denver mint is opened the bullion output of Colorado and possibly of other mining districts of the west now going to Philadelphia will be cut off from the latter institution, and the report says it is not advisable to reduce still further its operations in order to supply work for New Orleans. It accordingly is recommended that coinage operations be discontinued at the latter institution at the close of the current fiscal year and that it be conducted hereafter as an assay office. : Attention is called to the fact that the gold coinage of the country is now entering almost entirely into storage, and that the coinage of the entire annual deposits is unnecessary. The treasury holds about’ $500,000.000 of coined gold, which the report says is doubtless more than will be called for in a generation to come.| Practically all of the current coinage is being deposited in the treasury for certificates. When gold is required for export it is wanted in bars, while for domestic ¢irculation the public prefers the treasery certificates,avhich with some modification of the statutes might as well be issued against bars. ‘ o

BRING GOOD PRICES.

Big Sum Realized from Sale of Some of Verestchagin’s Noted Paintings.

Ne]v York, Nov. 27.—Verestchagin’s picture of San Juan hill, *“Come On, Boys,” showing Roosevelt charging at the head of his men, brought $lB,OOO at public auction Wednesday night. In all, 31 pictures by Verestchagin were sold without reserve. The total amount realized was $43,045. The 20 pictures representing Napoleon’s disastrous campaign in Russia, which was included in the catalogue, were withdrawn from the sale. It was announced that they had been purchased by the Russian minister by order of the czar, for the museum of Alexander 111. at St.’Petersburg. The price paid for the 20 canvasses was said to be $lOO,OOO. | ° ‘

Well-Known Art Collector Dead.

New York, Nov. 28.—William H. Fuller, widely known as an art collector, is dead at his home in this city, at the age of 62. He was graduated from Yale in 1861, and spent most of his life collecting works of art, o 2 which he owned many choice examples. : :

Acquitted

Chicago, Nov. 28.—James H. Gormley was acquitted of alleged Masonic temple tax fraud by the jury, after 16 hours’ deliberation. The vote firsy was Bto 4 for conviction. Efforts to punish supposed gang of ‘“‘tax fixers” will now prebably be dropped.

Brought a High Price.

New York, Nov. 28.—Chairman MecPherson, ‘who has been a member of the stock exchange since November 4, 1880, and chairman during the past years, has sold his seat, and will retire. The sale price is said to have been $BO,000.

Convicted of Murder.

Philadelphia, N0v,27. — Joseph M. Bennett, a 17-year-old colored youth, has been convieted of murder in the first degree for shooting and killing Albert Briddell. The murder occurred last February und was the result of a quarrel which started in a billiard roQm. L

Gifts from the President.

‘Washington, Nov. 27.—President Roosevelt presented native Tutuila island chiefs each with a silver medal, watch, and chain. Sovereignty over 3,700 subjects hes been'voluntarily surrendered to the United States.

NEEDS OF THE NAYVY.

Most I pérative Is That of More . Officers.

Some Intveresting. Extracts from the Annual Report of Seéretary Moody—Value of Training Work—Future of Navy.

Washington, Nov. 29.—The annual ' report of Hon. William H. Moody, secretary of the navy, is made publie. It says: A statement of the operations of the fleet reveals an'activity characteristic of all branches of the naval service of to-day. The cooperation of the army and navy has everywhere been cordial.. The navy has done its gshare in restoring order in the Philippines. The conditions throughout the islands have so far improved that the eonstant presence of a large mnaval force is no longer necessary. Five gunboats have been put out of commission or laid up for repairs. The disturbed conditions in the West Indies and, Caribbean have required the constant “ presence of our ships charged with the | duties of maintaining order by moral influence, protecting the interests of our citizens and those of other nations committed to us, and of preserving the treaty rights of the government. These duties have been performed in harmonious cooperation with the department of state. The navy rendered essential aid in the relief furnished to the inhabitants of the islands of Martinique and St. Vincent afflicted by the volcanic eruption oceurring in May last. Ocean surveys have been continued to the extent which the number of available officers, men and ships would permit. ; :

Future of the Navy.

"Among the most important lessons learned in the war with Spain was that a modern navy cannot be improvised during a war or upon the threshold of a war. Much money was then expended for the purchase of ships. Many of them served useful auxiliary purposes, but it may well be doubted whether they added matérially to the fighting efficiency of our fleet. The time best suited to the development and perfection of our navy is the time when there is neither war nor threat of war. Happily the present is such a time, and 1% ‘permits a dispassionate consideraticn of the future. The country approves, with hardly a dissenting voice, the policy of strengthening our power upon the sea. What would have been an adequate navy some years ago is totally inadeaquate for the performance of the duties growing out of our new possessions in the Pacific and Atlantic and the determination of congress to construct a canal across the isthmus. If, then, the .policy of strengthening our power upon the sea to the point°where it can respond to the national needs be not abardoned, the navy has manifold needs. There must be additional naval and coaling stations; more ships, fighting and auxiliary; and an increase of officers and men. In all -of these respects congress in the past has dealt with the navy wisely and generously, and I doubt not that in the future it will as acurately register the will of the people.

Need of More Oflicers.

The most imperative need of the navy to-day is of additional officers. I do not overstate this need. It invites the instant attention of congress. The administration of the department is embarrassed almost daily by the lack of officers below command rank. This condition has been approaching for years, and waselearly apprehended and stated by my predecessor in office. It is acute to-day, and, when the ships already authorized are completed, it will be desperate unless there is early action.

Enlisted Men.

The number of enlisted men in the naval service on June 30, 1902, was/21,433. Of these 8.032 were landsmen for training and apprentices. All mennow enilsted are required to be either citizens or to have declared their intention to become such. Eighty-nine per cent. of the enlisted force are now citizens, and 76 per cent. are native born.

Increase of Ships.

After most careful consideration, I believe it to be my duty to recommend a continuance without interruption of the increase of ships. The precise type of ships authorized must, of course, like the authorization itself, be referred to the wisdom of congress, to whose committees recommendations in detail may be made. Differences of opinion existamong naval authorities, but all agree that not less than two battleships should be amcng the number authorized. Whether the others should be of the armored-cruiser type or‘of the unarmored ecruiser and gunboat type which have proved so useful, may well be left for future discussion.

Plenty of Welsh Cloal.

Ogdensburg, N. Y., Nov. 29.—Welsh coal ordered during the coal strike for Montreal. is being brought up the St. Lawrence river in large quantities, going to western points. Deulers are anxious to get it off their hands as it is 20 per. cent. dust.

Portrait of Lincoln in South.

Jackson, Miss., Nov. 29.—A portrait of President Lincoln will be placed in the Mississippi hall of fame. The picture was furnished by Robert T. Lincoln, of Chicago, in response to a request and will be placed alongside that of Robert E. Lee. ;

Mont Pelee Again at It.

St. Thomas, Danish West Indies, Nov. 29.—The royal mail steamer Yare, which arrived here Friday, passed ‘Mont Pelee, island of Martinique, during Wednesday morning and reports that the volcano was then erupting violently.

Football Player Dies of Injnries:

Westchester, Pa., Nov. 29.—Charles Carr (colored), 21 years of age, of Philadelphia, died at the Chester county hospital from injuries received during a football game Thursday. Carr’s neck was injured in a mass play, and he was rendered unconscious. ;

Vietim of Apoplexy.

Los Angeles, Cal.,, Nov. 29.—Rev. S. T.. Hamilton, a leading member of the Methodist conference and long connected with the University of Southern Californid, died Thursday night at his home in thig city of apoplexy.

Why He Is Called a Martyr. - Teacher—Jamie, can you tell me why Lincoln is called the martyred president? Jamie—'Cause he has‘to stand for all t.e Lincoln stories. — Chicago RecordHerald. . ; . Crabs and misers hate to shell out.— Chicago Daily News. : Only 5% per cent. of the globe’s land surface is fit for cultivation. . ' Liberality consists rather in giving seasonably than much.—Cicero. : The Moscow asylum for children is supported by the Russian tax on - playingcards. 3 5 It is easy to find fault, because there is so_much of it.—Chicago Daily News. - Unbecoming forwardness oftener' proceeds from ignorance ‘than impudence.— Guville. - S .

" More people might wake‘fig to find themselves famous if they woul n't sit up so late at night.—lndianapolis News: :

“No,” said the bride-to-be, “I didn’t aeccept Jack the first time he proposed.” “How could you?’ replied Miss Wryvell. “Why not?” “You:weren't there.’—Philadelphia Press. ;-

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“Some men bets on a hoss race,” said Unecle Eben, “an® den talks about ‘bein’ onlucky instead o foolish.”—Washington Star. . - .

Do not believe Piso’s Cure for Consumption has an equal for coughs and colds.—J. F. Boyer, Trinity Springs, Ind., Feb. 15, 1900.

Self-laudation abounds’ among the . unpolished: but nothing can stamp .a man more sharply as ill-bred.—Buxton. 49

All creameries use butter color. Why not do as they do—use June Tint Butter Color.

Most people would succeed ip- small things if they were not . troubled with great ambitions.—Longfellow. S

Towa Farms 84 Per Acre Cash, - | bal. }; crop tillpaid. Mulhall, Sioux City, Ia

Fame is a glorious thing, but a small-reg-ular income is much more-satisfactory-to the average man.—Chicago Daily News.

WONDERFUL WORK.

Case No. 18,077.—David .M. Bye, P. 0. Address Box 297, Midland, Mich,, says: “Three months 1 was almost incapacitated from laber; could not sleep at night; had to walk the floor, owing to terrible pain in the hips, in the small-of the back, in my instep and ankle of the right'leg. - . “L was treated for sciatic rheumatism in the hospital, -but received no benefit. One month ago I returned home and was given a box of Doan’s Kidney Pills. To-day residents of this city can bear witness to the fact that lam able to work, and can also walk to my work without the aid of a walk-ing-stick or crutch, e “In speaking of the immediate effect of Doan’s Kidney Pills, I did not find them to deaden the pain, but quickly and surely to eradicate the cause .of it. L S

“I am of the opinion that Doan’s Kidney Pills is the best remedy. for kidney ailments that can be. procured. I was. especially careful “in my diet, in order to give the treatment fair play. N “In conclusion, I shall be pléased, at any time,/to answer any inquiries regarding my case, from anyane desirous of obtaining it.” Sl Gl A FREE TRIAL.of this great kidney medicine which eured Mr. Bye will be mailed on application to any part of the United States.' Address-Fos-ter-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. For sale by all druggists, price 50 cents per box. . -

FROae S\ 2R . 63, <) PLEASANT MR S e “.' 'vy;"r("\ ERQ s Gff o) S :'& Wl7 P @ g v BN A e A THE NEXT MORNING | FEEL BRIGHT AND NEW AND MY COMPLEXION IS BETTER. My doctor says it acts gently.cn the stomach, liver and kidneys and is a pleasant laxative.” This drink is made from herbs, .'mg is ?rennred for use as easily as tea. Itiscalled ¢“Lane’s Tea’’ or Z s LANE’S FAMILY MEBICINE All druggists or by mail 25 cts, and 50cts. Buyitteday. Lane’s Family Medicine moves the bowels each day. In order to be healthy thisis necessary. Address, Box 295, Le Roy, N. Y. T e A AL R R AR, T sAR B L T A S S SR EN ' *Frisce System — New OGbservation 2. . Cafe Cars. wl In addition -to through chair car and Pullman Sleeper service the Frisco System operates on its trains ‘out of Saint Louis and Kansas City = very handsome Ohservation Cafe Cars, —undeér management of Fred Harvey. These cars are equipped with every convenience, ircluding large library observation room and platform; the former supplied with easy chairs, writing material, lastest neyspapers and periodicals. Electric tights and electric fans add to the comfort of the passengers. These trains leave Saint Louisand Kansas City daily via the Frisco System. el . It is said that when a hungry Indian goes hunting he kills the first thing he sees, if it is only a crow. 1f he kills a duck, he drops the crow and if he gets a deer, he throws away the duck. Some girls are regular Indians, aren’t they?— Lane New Leaf. . s W g ‘ Californisa. : The Passenger Department of-the Chicago & Northwestern Railway has just issued a beautiful book of 60 pages, relating to California and the best'route to the Pacific Coast. The book is_artistiecally ~arranged, beautifully printed and fully illustrated—portraying the scenic beauties, hotel and transportation advantages, and delights of outdoor life in the favored climate of the Coast. s B 3 s This publication is of special value to those interested in California or contemplating a trip to that State, and may be obtained on receipt of four.cents in stamps, sent to W. B. Kniskern, Passenger Traffic Manager, Chieago, 111. i : T W s—" - Willing to Leave It Out.—“ Sweet are the uses of a%iversity,” quoted the philosophical friend. “Perhaps,” admitted the .prasaic man, ‘“‘but I’m not hankering for that kind’ of sweetness.”—Chicago Post. . .~ .

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; — = A Prominent Chicago Lady Cured - by Pe-ru-na. | Miss Maggie Welch, secretary of the Betsey Ross Educational and Benevolent Society, writes from 328 North State street, Chicago, 111., the following -glowing words concerning Peruna: : “Last fall T caught the most severe cold I ever had in my life. I coughed ‘night "and, day, and my lungs and throat became so sore that I was in great distress.” All cough remedies AT S §, N 2 ; R = = —_— NS \g"@' N A = E"“K\ N ";N S = = ’# 3 NN s = \.\:—?/a_%, . A 7 N . AN ‘ T > - Vi -_” O . : A X S\\S; ) T \\\\ ; 27 /. N 5 /’"j,é.",‘ = NP , ////:/ N : )///”}'// (;;,/

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nauseated me, and nothing afforded me relief until my doctor said rather in-a joke, ‘I guess Peruna is the only medicine that will cure vou.’

“I told him that I would certainly try it and immediately sent for a bottle. . T found that relief came the first day,.and -as I kept taking it faithfully the cough gradually diminished, and the soreness left me. It is fine.”—Maggie Welch. , Address .the Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, Ohio, for free literature on catarrh.

4 I L e s T e i YRy o = : C 3 ] ; & r“‘ > EJE ! oty Pet A % E— R ig/)|—= S FG [ T A A /r' = £ ‘wz RERINR ) e [ < <\ e O :r"\.\\ ~ = { S 5 SISO S YUK A i— R RER / BRSO PR “-"( f <X ;Ps 9 ¥ ':T'"‘VNW:'—‘—.‘C;‘ \ | M -\l B j P 7 I 7 . if your vocation is offics work, out- - B 4 door work or farm work, what is 7 -oth=rwise a pleasant task to you will 3 By be irksome if you have any of the : many ills caused by indigestion, con- y stipation, liver and°kidney zilments. i 7 g N ’ < Dr. Caldwell’s | : (Laxative) ; | Pepsin| : Is guarantecd -to cure any form of ¢ B stomach or bowel trauble. If it fails # - ~—your money right back. < B 21U Druggists. Soc and $1 Bottles @& _. We will send you a sample bottle B # T and a book on mach Troubles . b free, if you write us.\}} ~ A )/ < § PEPSIN SYRUP CO:, Monticello, Ilis. §

B a3\i=d To prove the healing and PAXTI NE‘ cleaillzsin‘glpower of Paxtine RSB ITo el 'Toilet Antiseptic we will o _TQI,LE_f-_;_,_ mail a large trial package T G St with book of instructions : BTN ] absolutely free. This is 2y .*“ notatiny sample, but a large W < A /'} package, enough to cenvince . anyone of its value. \Women aBl I % JX all over the country are = £ praising Paxtine for what it PEPNBAR AR, has done in local trea:= ment of remale ills, curing.all inflammation and discharges, wondcrful as a cleansing vaginal douche, for sore throut, nasal catarrh, as a-mouth wash, and {o remove tartar and whiten the teeth. Send to-day; a postal card will do. Sold by druggis(l or sent postpaid by us, 39 cents, large box.. Satisfaction guaranteed. THE R. PAXTON CO., 201 Columbus Av., e HBoston, Mass. T P s S YTTR T I OPT % J There is no time like January for 1 satisfactory buying. The holiday B 8 . rush is over and the early Spring IS B trade has not yet begun. InJanaary you always get first pick of all the earliest Sprin s i “goods and there is ample time to fill nns 3 % ship your orders with greater promptuess. & Send 15 cents TODAY forourlarge General B By Catalogue No. 71.'1t gives pictures, descrip- § i# tions and prices on almost everything you BB B} eat, wear or use. Save X 4 to 12 on everything & by You purchase by sending your orders to ki N MORTGOMERY WARD & CO. § & % CHICAGO *“The House that Tells the Truth.” S

Dr. August Koenig’s Hamburg Drops, as a blood purifier, strength and heaith restorer, and a specific for all stomach, liver and kidney troubles, leads all otker similar medicines in its wonderful sales and marvelous confidence of the people, especiaily pur vast German population. It is not a new and untried produet, but was madeand sold more than sixty years ago. i

Seeking a New Home? Why not try the Great Southwest? Interesting information about conditions and business chances in- Missouri, Kansas; Indian Territory- and Texas will be cheerfully furnished by James Barker, Gen’l Pass. & Tkt. Agt., M. K. & T. Ry, 518 Wainwright Bldg.; St. Louis. e : F Al e e - v Immaterial.= g Politician—Congratulations,: Sarah, I've been nominated. : ; - Sarah (with delight)—Honestly? “What difference does that make?”’—Detroit Free Press. :