Walkerton Independent, Volume 33, Number 39, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 13 March 1908 — Page 2

WALKERTON INDEPENDENT W. A. ENDLEY, Publisher WALKERTON. - INDIANA Every gem known to the lapidary has been found in the United States. Berlin is to see an American musical comedy lor the first time. Never fear but that it will get the habit. It appears that some of the food preservatives cease to do much active preserving when they come in contact with the internal economj' of the sons of men. In Germany changes costing $125,000 have been ordered in a coal mine to make it safe for the miners, an action well calculated to make vested rights throw a fit. A St. Louis poet committed suicide because he discovered that the world had places only for men of action and not for dreamers. He ought to have given action a trial. A man who is 100 years of age recently climbed a 7,000-foot mountain in Switzerland. It is the men who are nearing the century mark who are do- “** AHS 7 stunts_these days. — A man in New York got married In order to escape a sentence in Sing Sing. He was certainly in a tight fix and time alone can tell whether he chose the wiser course or not. A Boston waitress has inherited $200,000. Doubtless many of the men who used to request her to bring on their beans and be quick about it now wish they had known she was going to be rich. A western physician claims to have discovered a new germ in milk. Good! We were beginning to get tired of bearing about the old ones, and since the price went up we felt entitled to something additional. The women of Japan are sharing in the advance of progressive ideas with the men. That is the reason why the nation is so far ahead in its progress of other oriental nations. They are bringing progress into the very foundation of the nation—the home. A Washington jury has decided that $2,100 is a suitable recompense for a woman w’ho, while waiting for a car caught a cold, resulting in the loss of ber voice. After the mean things that are continually being said about the feminine desire to talk, this valuation, while not extremely flattering, is comforting. The dowager empress of China, in the edict creating provincial assemblies, orders that “under no circumstances shall men of evil reputation, or local bosses who seek only their own advancement, be chosen.” This sounds like a good rule, which might be followed in every country with great profit. Official charting shows ’ that the Philippine Islands are about 2,600 in v -Wimberr-Before this-geveFßment made survey and took account of stock, the number of islands had been variously given from 1,200 to 2,000. It is no use trying to count them on an ordinary map, for most of the islands are too small to show. In order to convey an adequate idea of the magnitude of the work at Panama, the latest canal report says that the amount of concrete to be used in building the locks would be sufficient for the construction of more than 22,000 eight-room city houses. This is certainly a case where the concrete Is more impressive than the abstract. There are few able-bodied paupers in Holland. A tract of public land, containing 5,000 acres, is divided into six model farms, to one of which the person applying for public relief is sent. Here he is taught agriculture, and is subsequently permitted to rent a small holding for himself. Holland also has a forced labor colony, to which vagrants? are sent to do farm and other work, whether they like it or not. According to the report of the conFmissioner of internal revenue, only ten stills have so far been established in the entire country for the manufacture of denatured alcohol. This does not mean that denatured alcohol is not the commercial and mechanical boon which it promised to be. But it takes time to start a new Industry, to build up a system that will connect the consumer with the producer. A writer whose Christmas money perhaps ran short, and who is obviously trying to comfort himself with the thought that “her” birthday is yet to come, remarks that “the one kind of gift always acceptable to a woman " Is something, anything, in cut glass." It is a wise saying, and one to be explained on the principle that like attracts like. She, like cut glass, reveals new beauties the longer one studies her. Nothing succeeds like success Henry Farman, who made the trip in an aeroplane at Paris and won the SIO,OOO prize, is in receipt of invitations to repeat the performance at different European capitals. This goes to show the interest taken in the matter. But what the ordinary, everyday citizen would like to know is whether navigating the air is to be an accomplished fact. Airships for common, practical use must be produced before the average person will believe that the problem has been really solved. A chamber well known to devotees of chess for a good many years is the “silent room” under Prof. Isaac C. Rice’s residence on Riverside Drive, Manhattan. It is hewn out of and under solid rock, and not a distracting sound can penetrate its quiet. Cable matches with England and tournaments between colleges and notable players have often been played there. Now’ the house has been bought by Solomon Schinasi, but the new owner is a chess enthusiast himself, and the . room will remain sacred to the king | of games.

emu HOME CHOICE NEBRASKA PLEDGES PRESIDENTIAL ALLEGIANCE. democrats in session Al) Sorts of Warm Greetings Thrown at Man Whom Party Leaders Term the “Ideal American.” Omaha, Neb.—Friday was “Bryan Day” in Omaha. For that matter it was “Bryan Day” throughout Nebrasj ka. With the Democratic state convention as a nucleus, party leaders from every county and practically every primary district in the commonwealth pledged allegiance to the presidential aspirations of Mr. Bryan and to consider means for furthering his interests before the Democratic national convention at Denver next July. Enthusiasm was prevalent throughout Thursday. It broke loose early in the afternoon session of the convention and gradually gathering volume broke out in tumultuous vociferations when at the beginning of the evening sesa resolution. The resolution: “The Democratic party of Nebraska again declares confindence in, and admiration for William Jennings Bryan. In him we behold the ideal American citizen —the ideal Democrat. We rejoice that the principles which he has so -SwiiML QI William Jennings Bryan, ably advocated have been gladly received and as now’ generally accepted by the American people. Resolved, That the delegates by this convention chosen, be and are hereby instructed to vote as a unit for the nomination of Mr. Bryan for the presidency.” Brief as this official indorsement of Mr. Bryan's candidacy, it met in full the approval of the delegates. The ironclad instructions to the 16 men selected during the afternoon to represent the state at Denver will, it was thought, leave no doubt as to w’here Bryan's home state stands. Kansas Republicans for Taft. Topeka, Kan. —Kansas Republicans in state convention here Wednesday elected four delegates-at-large to the Chicago convention instructed to vote for the nomination of Secretary W. H. Taft for president. Minnesota Democrats for Johnson. St. Paul, Minn. —The Democratic state committee of Minnesota Friday afternoon, after a bitter fight, adopted a resolution indorsing Gov. John A. Johnson of Minnesota for the Demo cratic presidential nomination and recommending that he be named by the national convention at Denver next ‘July. The state committee besides adopting the Johnson resolution, voted that the state convention to elect delegates to the national convention should be held in St. Paul on May 14. The matter of calling a convention to nominate state officers was left to a committee of five to be appointed by State Chairman Frank A. Day. Duma Wants Big Loan. St. Petersburg.—The Russian Duma has adopted unanimously an interpellation asking M. Kokovsoff, the finance minister, to explain his reasons for inducing the emperor to issue a ukase about the end of January authorizing an international loan of $83,000,000 in violation of a provision of the fundamental law requiring the sanction of the Duma in all budget operations. Italian Is Slain. Moosup, Conn. —By the finding of the dismembered body of an Italian believed to have been Dino Pietro of New York in the Moosup river Thursday afternoon, a brutal murder w’as discovered. Salvatore Capagello, also Italian, 20 years old, accused by his wife of connection with the murder, is under arrest. Two Negroes Lynched. Hawkinsville, Ga. —Two negroes, Curry Robertson and John Henry, w’ere lynched Thursday near here and their bodies burned. They were charged with the murder of Mr. and Mrs. Warren Hart. One of the negroes confessed to the crime and said the motive w r as robbery. Receiver for Eastern Road. Baltimore, Md.—B. F. Bush was appointed late Thursday receiver for the Western Maryland railroad. Mr. Bush is president of the road. Indian Woman Slain. Black River Falls, Wis. —The body of Miss Rice Hill, an Indian woman, was found in a room at the Best boarding house Wednesday. Her death was caused by a stab wound inflicted by some unknown person. lowa Capitalist Drops Dead. Hollywood, Cal. —J. W. Greenwood, a retired capitalist of Washington, la., who has been visiting his son, G. G. Greenwood, cashier of the Hollywood bank, dropped dead of apoplexy while eating dinner at. his son’s home.

SENATOR PROCTOR IS DEAD VERMONT LEGISLATOR PASSES AWAY AT WASHINGTON. Both Houses of Congress Adjourn Mark of Respect—May Be Succeeded by Son. Washington. — United States Senai tor Redfield Proctor of Vermont died late Wednesday afternoon after an illness of one week. His ailment was diagnosed as the grippe, which developed into pleurisy with pneumonic complications affecting the heart. He was 76 years old. Gov. Fletcher D. Proctor of Vermont ■ was among those at the bedside when 1 I : a a Redfield Proctor. ’ death came to his rather. Besides the ' governor, the senator left his wife, another son, Redfield Proctor Jr., and a daughter. Miss Emily D. Proctor. After appointing a committee to escort the body of the late Senator Proctor to Vermont and adopting a resolution of regret for his death, the senate Thursday, as a further, mark of respect, adjourned for the day after a session of seven minutes. The committee appointed consists of Senators Dillingham, Daniel, Gallinger, Perkins, Taliafero, Overman and Hemenway. Notice of the death was officially conveyed to the house by one of the clerks of the senate. Resolutions of regret were unanimously adopted and the speaker announced the following committee to represent the house at the funeral: Messrs. Foster and Haskins, Vermont; Parker, New Jersey; Littlefield, Maine; Lamb, Virginia, and Slayden, Texas. As a further mark of respect the house at 12:32 p. m. adjourned. Senator Proctor was horn in Proctorsville, Vt., June 1, 1831. He was graduated from Dartmouth college and the Albany Law school. He became a colonel in the civil war. After the war he entered the marble business and controlled the largest marble interests in the world. He recently acquired the celebrated Carrara marble quarries of Italy at a cost of $10,000,000. He was governor of Vermont from 1878 to 1880 and secretary of war under President Harrison. Gov. Proctor is mentioned is a probable successor. Proctor. Vt — The funeral of the late Senator Redfield Proctor was held in the Proctor Union church here Friday, immediately after the arrival of the two special trains that brought the funeral party from Washington. KING LEOPOLD GIVES UP. Consideration for Surrendering Domain Is $21,000,000. Brussels.—The text of the new Congo annexation treaty was submitted to parliament Thursday by Premier Schollaert and. on his motion, was sent to committee without debate. According to the terms of the new treaty. King Leopold agrees to abandon the crown domain and the crown foundation to Belgium. Belgium, on its part, shall not only assume all the Congo obligations, amounting to $21,000.000. but undertake also to continue the king's part in the Congo revenues during his lifetime. Belgium is specifically required to respect the concessions granted to two American companies in 1906, in which Thomas F. Ryan ih interested. Millions Involved in Action. Portland, Me. —The American Trust company of Boston, trustees under the mortgage of the Consolidated Steam Lines of Maine and the Metropolitan Steamship company, filed bills in equity Wednesday in the United States circuit court for foreclosure of the respective mortgages. The Consolidated lines of Maine is involved to the extent of $60,000,000 and the Metropolitan company, $2,500,000. Receiver for Company. Laporte, Ind.—Judge C. Richter, in Laporte circuit court, on application of stockholders representing 2,000 shares of the stock of the ChicagoNew York Electric Air Line company, Wednesday evening appointed George F. Mull of Indianapolis receiver for the company, for the Co-Opera-tive Construction company and for the Goshen, South Bend & Chicago Railway company. Musician a Suicide. Waterbury, Conn. —Monetti Montrezza, a well-known local musician and his young son, William, died Friday as a result of taking carbolic acid and a six-year-old daughter was found nearly dead from the same cause. Twenty Die in Gale. London. —A violent gale swept the coasts of the British Isles Friday. There have been numerous wrecks of small craft. Most of them were on the east coast of Ireland. Altogether about 20 lives have been lost. Slays Wife and Self. Kirtland. O. —Lave Martin, 60 years of age, Thursday shot and killed his wife and then committed suicide. The tragedy followed a quarrel between the couple. Mrs. Martin had recently applied for a divorce. Town Is Fire-Swept. Pottsville, Pa.—The central part of Girardville, a mining town near here, was Thursday afternoon swept by a fire which burned seven houses and a store and slightly damaged a number of other dwellings.

AFTER THE ROOF COLLAPSED. I ( z V A ' \ ) J3l I - d-1 a ~ w pF f* 1 Drawing Made from Photograph of Collinwood, 0., School, Where Over 160 Pupils Lost Their Lives. AWFUL SCHOOL HOLOCAUST NEAR CLEVELAND KILLS 167 > . Mousing Elementary Pupils in the Suburb of Collinwood, 0., Burns, Bringing Death to Children.

Cleveland, O.—fenned and held In narrow hallways, jammed up against doors that only opened inward, 167 children in the suburb of North Collinwood Wednesday were killed by fire, by smoke, and beneath the grind ing heels of their panic-stricken playmates. The awful tragedy occurred in the public school of North Collinwood, ten miles east of this city. One hundred and sixty-five corpses were in the morgue at Collinwood Thursday, six children were unaccounted for, and all the hospitals and houses for two miles around contained numbers of children, some fatally, and many less seriously injured. All of the victims were between the ages of six and fifteen years. The school contained be tween 310 and 325 pupils, and of this entire number only about 80 are known to have left the building unhurt. Fire Drill Is Forgotten. The school building was supposed to be practically modern, although erected three or four years ago. The school children had been given fire drills, and were supposed to be in training for just such an emergency. When the crucial moment arrived the dritl was forgotten and not the slightest effort to effect an orderly or prompt escape availed. Victims Practcally Incinerated. As soon as tin men and volunteers could get close a.a»ugh, attempts were made to plucK^tfies from the death heaps at the d^'-. It was found that the flames had ^^<niy incinerated tlt^ bodies. FirW^with rakes, forks and shovels ^^ed up blackened bones, little blackened skulls and masses of cb«flesh, but bodies recogmzanie as'^raeh were no longer to be found. > jarful stench added to the horror scene. Miss Anna Moran, the principal of the school, who escaped, says that the children made a inad rush for the door as soon as the alarm of fire was sounded, but were driven back by the choking smoke. Later the flames prevented the escape of many of them from the burning building. County Coroner Burke immediately after the fire said: “The construction of the schoolhouse was an outrage. The hallways were narrow and there was practically but one mode of exit. The children were caught like *ats in a trap.” Terrible Scenes Enacted. Fearful scenes were enacted around the burning schoolhouse. Fathers and mothers raved, cursed or prayed. Many tried to break through the crowd and some got so far as to dash toward the flaming doorways. One big man in overalls and jumper was restrained by’ force. Explaining in broken English that his “kinder” were in the building he struggled desperately with the three men who held him. Finally they threw’ him to the ground and sat on him. forcing his great form downi n the ankle-deep mud. The building was completely destroyed, only the outside brick walls remaining standing.--. The floors and roof fell into the In Lrior early in the fire, making the rescue of intact bodies absolutely hopeless Dead Lai< 1 / Rest. Cleveland, O.— J iinwood Friday came t^^mfull K dization of her woe. B Slowly and solemnly the processions of death began tow wend thelr—way towards the__ceme*^’oo, bearing the battered and charre remains of some of the 167 children ■ Me lives were snuffed out in Weßesaay morning's catastrophe in the ■akeview school. Fire Threatens (Newburg, Ind. Newburg, Ind.—A fire which for a time threatened to kipe out the town of Newburg Friday; caused a loss of $50,000, covered by’ insurance. A tobacco warehouse, three store buildings and one residence were destroyed. Goldfield Troops Leave. Washington.-^The United States troops w’hich were ordered to Goldfield, Nev., to suppress mining riots three months ago, I&pke camp Saturday and returned tc their quarters. President to ’ isit Russia. St. Petersburg.—.. visit to Russia this summer by M Fallieres, the president of Franc?, is regarded in diplomatic circles as a practical certainty, in view of ’he extensive trip that has been planled for the president during which '. e will return the visits of Sweden an I Norway. — Boiler Makers Strike. Elmira, N. Y. —A ipecial says that between 200 and 30G r bqilermakers in the Lehigh Valley Ailroad shops at Sayre, Pa., went on strike Wednesday.

funeral corteges. Those who had no dead to mourn as a personal loss stood in the streets with bared heads as the grim processions passed. There w’as scarcely a dry eye in Collinwood. One of the sad funerals was that of the three children of Janitor Hirter, held jointly with the services for three other little ones. Janitor Is Made Target. Mutterings against the janitor could be heard about the village as halfcrazed parents sought an object upon which to wreak vengeance, forgetting as they did that Hirter himself was walking with bowed head and broken heart behind the biers of three of his beloved. A detail of police was placed about the Hirter home when the hour for the funeral came. Fully 500 persons had gathered, but when the coffins were carried to the door way the crowd spread and opened the way for them without protest or expression of hostility. Altogether there were 50 burials Friday, and Saturday the grewsome task was repeated. Sunday will witness the last of the individual burials, and on Monday the remains of all those who are unidentified will be laid to rest with one funeral. Friday night there were 28 of these bundles of flesh that awaited claimants. Fire Testimony Heard. Testimony describing the mad rush to death of the school children w’as given Friday at the continued session of the coroner's inquest. Stories of heroism on the part of the,, women teachers were recited. F. P. Whitney, superintendent of the Collinwood schools, stated his belief to be that no fire department could have done any effective work after the fire had started. Two of the teachers told of their unavailing attempts to open one of the double doors at the rear, which they said was locked. The inquest also developed the fact that, after the first crush at the door, it was beyond human possibility to aid or save those whom the tongues of fire were devouring in the charnel house. The inquest will be resumed Monday. Partitions Cause Great Loss. In a statement Friday, Chief Wallace of the Cleveland fire department, after an examination of the ruins of the Collinwood school, said it was his opinion that the loss of life Would not have been so great had there been no partitions at the sides of the storm doors at the rear entrance. Scores American Milk. Washington. — Surgeon General Waiter Wyman of the public health service submitted to Secretary Corte’you Wednesday a “report on milk in its relation to public health.” The report is the result of an investigation ordered by President Roosevelt and conducted by federal experts. It declares much of the country’s milk is impure. U. S. Soldier Gets Raise. Washington.—The army pay bill was passed by the senate Friday. The bill provides for army officers a graded increase of pay ranging from five per cent, for lieutenant generals to 25 per cent, for junior officers. It also provides that "the average pay of enlisted men of the army as now established is 40 per cent.” Has Madison (IIL) Bartk. Madison, 11l. —J. C. Hinde, who was appointed by Judge Moore of the circuit court as receiver of the Tri-City State bank, Thursday took charge of the affairs of the institution. Two weeks ago the bank closed. Steamer Wrecks Bridge. Toledo, O. —Friday afternoon the big steel steamer Yuma was torn from her moorings by the rush of ice and water in the Maumee river and crashed into the bridge connecting the two sections of the city, tearing out a span and carrying it into the river. Wealthy Alton (III.) Widow Dead. Nashville, Tenn. — Mrs. Harriet Hathaway, a widow of Alton, 111., died at a hotel here suddenly. She had stopped for the night en route home from Florida, United States Convicts Two. Portland. Me.—A verdict of guilty on both counts of the indictment charging conspiracy to defraud the United States government was returned late Thursday in the case of George Fred Terry and Henry W. Boshan. Bur is Fatal to Two. Kewanee, 111. —Mrs. Bridget King of Sheffield is dead and her son, John, 15 years old. is fatally burned, following the explosion of a lamp in their home Thursday.

WAR IS TOKYO CRY STEAMER SEIZURE BY CHINA CAUSE FOR STRIFE. LONDON REPORTS PEACE English Capital Said to Have Heard of Apology by Oriental Emperor —Pekin Dispatch Says “No Settlement. Tokyo.— Fates seem about resolved to embroil Japan and China by fair means or foul. No sooner does one diplomatic issue appear to be on the eve of satisfactory settlement than another one crops up to prolong the agony and keep the Tokyo foreign office and the Chinese foreign board more or less busy. The Kanto, a boundary, the Tsin-Min-Tun-Fakumen railway, the North Manchurian customs and the telegraph questions—all these have now ceased to excite much concern in the minds of those who can see below the surface of the political current, but on the other hand, as though the Chinese themselves were determined to furnish the Japanese opposition with its strongest arguments in favor of a more spirited ■ tbp mtaaio kingdom, whose Chinese warsnips seized a Japanese merchant steamer —the Tatsu Maru —in Chinese territorial waters, just outside Macao harbor, and escorted her to Canton on the charge that she was engaged in an attempt to smuggle arms and ammunition into China. To add to the irritation inseparable from such a course of action, the Chinese commander hauled . down the Japanese flag en route and ran up the Chinese dragon ensign in its stead. London. —A special dispatch received here states that China has apologized to Japan for hauling down the Japanese flag when the steamship Tatsu Maru was seized. Pekin. —The Japanese and Chinese governments have not as yet come to an understanding in the matter of the seizure of the Tatsu Maru. CONVICTS KILL A WARDEN. Effort to Break Jail Causes Murder at Deer Lodge, Mont. Deer Lodge. Mont. —Warden Frank Conley of the Montana state penitentiary was dangerously wounded Sunday and his first assistant warden, John Robinson, was killed when three life convicts. George Rock, W. H. Hayes and another whose name is not given, made a dash for liberty. Robinson’s throat was cut from ear to ear and the jugular vein was severed. Conley's throat was gashed and he was stabbed several times in the shoulder and groin before he was able to draw his revolver and shoot two of the assailants down. Convict Hayes and Rock were both shot down by Conley after the latter had been woituded. It is believed that the warden will recover. EVANS’ VOYAGE NEAR END. San Diego, Ca!., in Wireless Communication with Fleet. San Diego, Cal. —Sunday the Point Loma (Cal.) wireless station reported a dispatch for the navy department from Admiral Evans on board his flagship. the Connecticut, which with the remainder of the battleships comprising the Atlantic squadron, left Callao, Peru, for Magdalena bay February 29. The Point Loma operator was unable to determine the position of the Connecticut as the signals which doubtless would have indicated the whereabouts of the fleet, were indistinguishable. Nothing could be learned as to the contents of the message. Ask New Mail Plans. Washington.—An effort is being made before congress to secure a just apportionment of the recompensation now given by the government for the transportation of United States mails by rail. More than 200 "short line” railroads have joined in a petition to congress for a readjustment of the pay for carrying mails. Wealthy Horseman Slain. Kansas City. Mo. —David Waldo, a wealthy . horseman well known । throughout the United States, and who formerly owned a race track here, was killed near Independence, Mo., in a runaway accident. Conductor Killed by Own Train. Toledo, O. —Frank Taylor of Sylvania, conductor on the Toledo & Western Traction road, was thrown from a box car and killed at Frankling Junction Sunday. Confederate dead. New Orleans. —Congressman Adolph Meyer, formerly an assistant adjutant general in the confederate army, died at his residence here Sunday. Columbian Official Dies. Lima/ —Ramirez Arbelaez, the Columbian charge d'affaires, died here. Fire Costs SIOO,OOO. Kalamazoo. Mich. —Fire which broke out Sunday in the storeroom of the Superior Paper company did damage estimated at SIOO,OOO. It may be several days before the fire is finally extinguished, as it is burning among a mass of rags and old papers. lowa Authority Dead. Boone, la. —Charles Aldrich, curator and founder of the state historical department of lowa, died Sunday of grip and kidney trouble. He was born in 3828 in New York state. Pass Bogus Money Orders. South Bend, Ind. —One thousand blank money orders, stolen from station 129, Chicago, and filled in in amounts varying from $25 to SSO. are being passed on merchants in various towns in northern Indiana, southern Michigan and eastern Illinois. Slays Adopted Daughter. Rapid City, S. D. —During a quarrel over a trivial affair Saturday Mrs. Charles S. Barbour shot and killed her adopted daughter, Rose Adams, aged 17.

A WELL MAN, AT 81. The Interesting Experience of an Old Settler of Virginia. Daniel S. Queen, Burrell Street, Salem, Va., says: “Years ago while

lifting a heavy weight a sudden pain shot through my back and after that I was in constant misery from kidney trouble. One spell kept me in bed six weeks. My arms and legs were stiff

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and I was helpless as a child. The urine was discolored and though I used one remedy after another, I was not helped until I used Doan's KidneyPills, and I was so bad then that the first box made only a slight change. To-day, however, I am a well man, at 81, and I owe my life and health to the use of Doan's Kidney Pills.” Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. HER SUSPICION. pYfS MY NARI 2\\ % . “Does your husband ever admit that he was wrong?” “Yes, frequently, but I don’t suppose he ever really believes it.” PUBLIC LAND OPENING. The state of Wyoming will shortly throw open for settlement under the provisions of the Carey Act of Congress 245,000 acres of irrigated Government land in the Big Hom Basin. This affords an opportunity to secure an irrigated farm at low cost and on easy payments. The drawing will be held on May 12th. A report containing illustrations, maps, plats and full information has been published by the Irrigation Department, 405 Home Insurance Building, Chicago. Anyone interested may obtain a free copy by applying to the Department A Little Too Soon. Sam Jackson’s wife was to be buried this afternoon and the bereaved colored man was shaking with grief over the coffin, when a comely young darkey maiden stepped over to his side and said, tenderly: “Don’t, Mistah Jackson; yo’ mus’ try an’ bear up. Let me help yo’ to fo’get!” “Oh, Miss Johnson!” uttered the weeping man, between sobs, “it am berry kind in yo’t’ offah such consolation, but ah mus’ wait till aftah de fun’ral befo’ ah engages in marriage talk!”—lllustrated Sunday Magazine. REDUCED COLONIST RATES. One-w-ay tickets at special low rates on sale daily throughout March and April, from all points on The North Western Line to San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland and Puget Sound points. Daily and Personally conducted tours in tourist sleeping cars via the Chicago, Union Pacific & North Western Line. Double berth only $7.00 through from Chicago. For full particulars write S. A. Hutchison. Manager, Tourist Dept., 212 Clark St., Chicago, 18., or address nearest ticket agent. Lesson in Music. Little Marion s music teacher, while endeavoring to make plain to her the different note values, used an apple as an illustration. Cutting it in two, Marion announced: “Those pieces are halves.” On bisecting the halves, she replied “Quarters,” but when it came to dividing one quarter to bring out the idea of eighths, here was the wise response: “That’s a bite!” The Editor of the Rural New Yorker, than whom there is no better Potato Expert in the country says: “Salzer's Earliest Potato is the earliest of 38 earliest sorts, tried by me, yielding 464 bu. per acre.” Salzer’s Early Wisconsin yielded for the Rural New Yorker 736 bu. per acre. See Salzer’s catalog about them. JUST SEND 10c IN STAMPS and this notice to the John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis.. and they will mail you the only original seed catalog published in America with samples of Emperor William Oats, Silver King Barley, Billion Dollar Grass which produces 12 tons per acre. Sainfoin, the dry soil luxuriator, etc., etc., etc. And if you send 14c we will add a package of new farm seeds never before seen by you. K. & W. Diplomacy. “Whv yw make a practice ot predicting bad weather?” “It's the safest plan,” answered the professional prophet. “If the bad ■weather prediction comes true, people have to admit I am right, and if the weather is pleasant they feel too goodnatured to care whether 1 was right or wrong.” There Is more Catarrh In this section of the errantry than ab other diseases put t .pettier, and urtn the last few years was supposed to be Incurable. For a great, many years doctors pronounced it a local disease and prescribed local remedies, and by constantly falling to cure with local treatment, pronounced it Incurable. Science has proven Catarrh lobe a constitutional disease and therefore requires constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & < 0.. Toledo, Ohio, Is the only Constitutional cure ch the market. It Is taken Internally In doses from 1« drops to a teaspoonful. It acts directly on the b!o d and mucous surfaces of the system. They offer one hundred dollars for any case It falls to cure. Send for circulars and testimonials. Address: F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo. Ohio. Sold by Druggists. 75e. Take Hail’s Family Pills for constipation. Wouldn’t Burn. The coal man came down like a wolf on He jingled with silver, he tinkled with He sold us his specialty—“walnut" by And we si c - 4 r ar roof in the spring witn the same. Important to Mothers. Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA a safe and sure remedy for infants and children, and see that it In ' Fe: ' • .'M : = The Kind You Have Always Bought. Actors who are egged off the stage ought to make a fresh start.