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STATUE OP KAISER WILHELM THAf SI CAUSED BAD FEELINO IN QERMANV. jf:,; This Is the full figure statue of the " ^ falser which has just been unveiled > |n the Hall of Fame In the ancient j>v; . 'town of Barmen, Germany, after re- -ceipt of a curt note from Berlin that fe " "lio member of the royal household p; could be present at the unveiling ow- : jng to the criticism of the kaiser by H the people of Barmen following the W:' receipt by them of a bill from the * sculptor when they thought the kaiser was paying for the statue. Their original plan was to place an alle­ gorical group in the hall to balance a statue of Emperor Frederick and replace tt with a statue of the kaiser after his death- The kaiser, exercis­ ing the power given him by the Ger­ man law, vetoed the group, owing to artistic defects, and when Informed it was a temporary piece to occupy a place reserved for a statue of him­ self, to be placed there after his death, he gave a sculptor an order to make the statue at once and send it' to Barmen. The people of Barmen thought he was making them a pres­ ent of the statue, and hence the dis­ pute over the payment of the $4,000 It cost and the criticism which caused Barmen to be boycotted by the royal family. i z ; mmn kill it THE CZAR AND THE TRUSTS. Issues a Call for an International Con­ ference to Regulate Them. M. De Witte, the Russian minister of finance, is credited with being not only the greatest financier in Russia, but the ablest railroad manager in all Europe. It was he, it is said, who suggested to the czar the calling of an international conference on trusts for the purpose of regulating them, be­ cause these combinations of capital "cause depressions and unreasonable fluctuations in prices." New Kind of Measures. The transparency of sea \?ater has been measured by Herr Luksch of the Austrian frigate Pola, In the Levant, Aegean and Red Sea by submerging A white disc until it became invisible, Vays , the London .Globe. Transpar­ ency and color of the sea vary with temperature, wind, salinity or salti­ ness, altitude of the sun, etc. Trans­ parency is favored by blueness, great salinity, depth of water and low tem­ perature. It is least In summer, and for low altitudes of the sun It is In general 38 meters In the eastern Med­ iterranean, 31 meters In the Aegean and 21 meters in the Red Sea. The maximum depth at which the white disc could be seen was 48 meters, or some 26 fathoms. These experiments open up a question as to the best color for submarine boats to hide them from an observant enemy, say, in a bal­ loon. Apparently a color assimilating them to the sea water is desirable, and it might be worth while to make experiments for this purpose. Russians May Not Change fteliglon. In Russia every creed is tolerated. Those who are by birth Catholics, Jews, Methodists or Mohammedans are at liberty to worship in their own way; but, If an orthodox Russian changes his religion he is liable to imprisonment and exile to Siberia. Anybody who converts an orthodox Russian to another sect is deprived of his social and personal lights and sent to the mines for life. A peasant woman, Ckrinlkoff, was recently sen­ tenced to perpetual banishment to Si­ beria for having converted a Russian peasant to "Stundism," a protestant sectarian belief. Greatness Thrust Upon Them. A man isn't really great until the newspapers begin to print Jokes he has originated, which are so dreary they couldn't draw a laugh from a man with money in his pocket.--Atchi­ son Globe. Laborers on London Doeka. Sixteen thousand four hundred la­ borers In the average find employment daily it the docks principal wharves In London. In the Days of 81avery. . "The total white population of the south In 1860, according to the census, it is noted, was 8,099,760, of which 384,864 owned the 3,953,696 slaves in the country, excluding two owned in Kansas, fifteen in Nebraska, twenty- ine in Utah and eighteen in New Jer­ sey. One man alone owned more than 1,000 slaves and he wad a South Caro­ linian. Eighty-eight owners, in nine states, had more than 300 each, and thirty of the eighty were South Caro­ linians. One-fifth of all the slave­ holders or 77,322--owned but one slhve each, and the greatest number of these small holders in one state was In Virginia, which had also the largest proportion of slaves, 400,865. --Charleston News and Courier. EMINENT JEWISH RABBI DEAD. Dr. Jacob Josephs Was Chief of Rus­ sian Orthodox Jews. Dr. Jacob Josephs, the eminent Jew­ ish minister, Who has just passed away, was the chief rabbi of the Rus­ sian orthodox Jews of the United States, and possibly in many ways the highest American authority in Jewish law, philosophy and religion. Dr. Jacobs was the author of several mum A, \t' standard works on these subjects and was widely known among the learned men of his faith. He was 52 years old, a native of Wilna, Russia, and attained rare distinction in learning at the very youthful age of 18. He had been rabbi of the Beth Hamedrash Hagadol congregation in New York city for fourteen years. •« No Good for Home Consumption. Secretary Shaw has received a re­ quest from an old neighbor at his former home for a letter of recom­ mendation which can be used, by the friend in procuring more lucrative em­ ployment. One sentence In particular delights the secretary: "Out here In Iowa, where both of us are known, of course such a letter would have no weight." The recommendation, it is perhaps needless to' say, will be promptly forthcoming.--Boston Tran­ script. Supplements Rhodes' Gift. Sir A. L. Jones, of the Eider-Demp­ ster line, announces that he will give free passages to and from England jbnee a year to any of the f Rhodes scholars sailing from the Canadian and Jamaican ports served by his firm's steamers. Noah Forgot. "I never heard of any bottle of wine being broken over the bow of the Ark," remarked the Observer of Events and Times, "and yet it was considered a pretty good sort of craft, I believet"--&oqkers Statesman- %,iv THEN SHE WOKE UP $ Vti Sleepy Wife Suddenly Fonnd Something Interesting In Husband's Story. The man who won't take the time to work off any conversation upon his wife until after they are in bed, and who then begins to tell her the day's stock of funny stories after she is too sleepy to stay awake, so that she always goes .to sleep on his hands while he is talking to her, had an awfully funny one to narrate unto her after he had doused the glim and crawled into bed a few nights ago. "Ha! ha! ha!" he gurgled, as he settled back on his pillow--his wife had been in bed for about 15 minutes then. "Heard a Jim Dandy of a story about Billy Fantoids this afternoon. It seems that Billy took it into his head to go fishing up the river one afternoon last week, and, b'jing, he hired a leaky skiff over In George­ town without knowing that the blamed thing was leaky. Well, when he had rowed out to the middle of the river, why, ho-- At this stage of it the narrator heard an exceedingly gentle feminine snore alongside of him. "F'jee, if she hasn't gone to sleep on me again," he said to himself, aggrievedly. "Mary," he said, aloud, "are you awake?" There was no reply. "Huh! wonder she couldn't Just be civil enough to keep awake while a fellow's telling her a good story, anyhow," he growled to himself, and then he had a sudden idea. "Well," he proceeded, in precisely the same tone that he had employed In starting out to tell his funny story, "as I was saying, this swell queen that gave me the goo-goo eye this afternoon weighed about 158 pounds, and 6he was built from the ground up, too, I'm a-telling you, and she had the swaggerest bunch of golden hemp and the niftiest violet eyes you ever saw, at that; and so when I pranced up to her and asked her if I hadn't met her somewhere and then took her around the corner to have a bite of lobster and a little something to drink and a quiet little chat, why, we--" ^ "John Forwhich, how dare you have wthe hardihood to lie there and con­ fess such outrageous things to me!" his wide-awake spouse broke in just at this psychological moment, and °then he had to spend a good part of the remainder of the night explain­ ing to her that he was only fooling in order to see if she would wake up, and it is not altogether a cinch that she isn't suspicious of him yet, at that. GREED OF MAN THREATENS TO CAUSE JVIOCKING BIRD 'S EXTINCTION The influence of the New Orleans bird fanciers has prevented the Lou­ isiana legislature from passing a law for the protection of birds. One re­ sult of this is to increase the danger of the extermination of the mocking bird in Louisiana, Audubon's state. The mocking birds were once the most abundant of all birds In Louisi­ ana. The legislature even proposed to substitute them as the state bird for the pelican. But in the past 30 years the bird has been slaughtered as though the aim and purpose of the people were to get rid of it. The slaughter began in 1865, when the negroes first owned shotguns. The mocking birds, because of years of safety, were the tamest and most im­ pudent of birds, and therefore the most easily killed. Thousands were slaughtered to make potpies for the negroes of the quarters. The negro hunters have been fol­ lowed by the bird fanciers, who will probably succeed in extinguishing all song birds or birds of bright plumage in the state. They want live mocking birds to sell. It is said that 20,000 mocking birds and other song birds are shipped from New Orleans each year, most of tnem going to Europe, and to Germany in particular. The loss in birds is much heavier than this. It is probable that four 6r five are caught for every one ex­ ported. The mocking birds do not take to captivity, and prove very delicate cage birds, although strong and vig­ orous when at large. Like the cen­ tral American quetzal the old birds pine in captivity and soon die. The mortality is heavy among the young birds. It is still a popular be­ lief in Louisiana that the parents of young birds, preferring to see their offspring dead rather than in cap­ tivity, poison them when they find them caged, and it is a fact that the older birds do gather around the cage of the young captive and offer it food. So rare has the mocking bird be­ come through these persecutions that one can travel year after year through the woods and never hear it sing save in captivity. FIND FOUNDATION OF CHVR.CH BVILT IN EARLY CHRISTIAN DATS The Greek Catholic monks, who are In possession of the chief portions of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, are now going to build a bazaar oppo­ site it, where pilgrims irfay purchase souvenirs of their visit to Jerusalem. During the process of clearing the site the foundations of an old mediae­ val church, forty meters long and thirty wide, with three apses, were discovered. A number of fine capi­ tals, fragments of basalt pillars and baB-reliefs, with symbolic animals, were found, all these remains having doubtless belonged to the choir of the church. Last year a valuable silver shrine containing a piece of the holy cross and relics of the Apostles Peter and Paul--according, at least, to the inscriptions on them--was found at the same place. The patriarch of Jerusalem, It is said, is keeping other discoveries se­ cret Those mentioned above are all the more important as it can be ascer­ tained to what church they belonged. According to th$ statement of a mediaeval traveler the hospice and the monastery which the citizens of HADNT FAR TO GO. Irishman's Remarks to Smallpox Pa­ tient Not Encouraging. William L. Hearne, son of Frank J. Hearne, president of the National Tube company, spent several months thin year in Black Diamond, one of the new mining camps of Arizona. As It was his first experience in the west he accumulated a multitude of impres­ sions and stories. "When I first went to Black Dia­ mond," he said the other day, "there had been but one death In the camp. They buried the unfortunate in a lone­ ly grave midway between the mine and camp. Immediately they began to call the spot 'graveyard.' A few days after my arrival a miner named Cobb was taken with smallpox. The manager was away and they tele­ phoned to him for Instructions. •* 'Build a shack for him down near the graveyard,' was the answer the wires brought "The orders were carried out to the letter, and the shack was built right up against the grave. The patient was permitted to move himself and left to fight the disease alone. The next day an Irish miner hailed the shack from the trail. *"I say, Cobb,' he cried, 'how are jim comin' on to-day?' - -Badly, rather badly,' was the weak reply fcrom the sick man. " 'Don't you worry, Cobb,' answered the Irishman in a tone that was meant to be encouraging. 'Don't you worry, you ain't got far to go, anyway, If bad comes to worse an' that. Jlst remem­ ber you're living in the cemetery al­ ready.' " t •<%* 4 HAD A GOOD EXCU8E. Happy Idea by Which Pat Escaped Death. It was several years ago, while As­ semblyman James T. Rogers was a itrii|frlii'ig 'young attorney at Amalfl founded about the year 640, as a refuge for western pilgrims, were situated due south of the holy sepul­ cher, about a stone's throw away. The first church was built in honor of St Mary de Latinis and the second, the ruins of which have now been found, in honor of St. John the Baptist The French monk Bernard, who lived there in 870, highly praised the hos­ pitality and the large library of the hospice. A Mohammedan historian says it was destroyed by the Khalif Hakem and rebuilt shortly afterward, while according to another account it prospered down to the time of King Baldwin of Jerusalem, from 1100 to 1118, when the two communities of St Mary and St John adopted the latp ter as their joint protector. This was the origin of the Knights of St John. The remains now discovered, there­ fore, are the ruins of the cradle of this order. It it most unfortunate that the preservation of these very inter­ esting remains seems impossible, ow­ ing to the ill feeling which exists be­ tween the Greeks and Roman Catho­ lics in Jerusalem. Broome county bar, that he was en­ gaged to defend an Irishman who was indicted on the charge of murder. That was before the young lawyer ever dreamed of sitting in the Albany "House of Commons" or had aspira­ tions for the speakership of the assem­ bly. He accordingly took the Irish­ man's case on payment of a retainer of $100 and the understanding that $200 more was to be paid if the fel­ low was acquitted. The young attorney secared an ac­ quittal on the ground of temporary in­ sanity at the time the crime was com­ mitted. It was several months before he saw his client again. Meeting the Irishman on the street one day he stopped him, when the following con­ versation followed: "Well, Pat, isn't it about time you paid me that other $200?" "Faith, an' what two hoonderd Is thot?" "Why, the $200 that you promised to pay me for saving your worthless neck." "Sure, an' did Ol promise thot; Oi don't ramimber?" "Why, Pat, you know you promised it" Pat scratched his head in perplexity for a minute, then looked up with a beaming smile as he outlawed the claim with the explanation: "Oh, well, but ye know Ol was crazy thin."--New York Times. Priceless Land In Texas. Judging from a recent report of a sale of oil lands at Beaumont, Texas, real estate in that lively and progres­ sive commonwealth is rising to a mar­ ketable value. The reports speak of a, parcel in the section named sold at the rate of $1,280,000 an acre. The same land could have been bought, It Is said, before the oil strike, for $10 per acre. Fame may be a bubble, but some fad it a football of fate. Illinois News Items State Happenings Succinctly Told by Our Special Correspondents ILLINOIS PARK ASSOCIATION Secures Land for Purposes That Will Interest All Citizens. The Illinois park association has secured the old Robert Pulliam farm, in Ball township, Sangamon county, as a site for Its proposed park. The society was incorporated for the pur­ pose of aiding and advancing the Illi­ nois society in historical, monumental, social and educational lines. On the site selected the 102 counties of the state will be laid out in miniature as they appear on the map, each to have a proportionate piece of ground on which to erect monuments, exhibit their resources and make any desired improvements. Besides these, a me­ morial hall will be erected, to be oc­ cupied by a library and a collection of historical curios and relics. The ground contains also the site of the first cabin built in what is now San­ gamon county. The enterprise has been given the Indorsement of Gov. Yates, Episcopal Bishop George F. Seymour, Auditor McCuliough, Secre­ tary of State Rose, Judge James A. Creighton and other gentlemen promi­ nent in the state who are members of the association. fe FORTY-FOURTH DISTRICT MEET STRUCK BY SLIVER OF STEEL. Peculiar Accident to a Chicago & Alton Railroad Man. P. H. Dillon, a well-known railroad man living at Shipman, was taken to Alton suffering from a wound in the left side of his abdomen. Mr. Dillon was superintending' work of track con­ struction on the Chicago & Alton when a .sliver of steel flew from an iron maul which wat In the hands of a workman and struck him in the side with dangerous force. It is believed the piece of steel lodged in his abdom­ en, but It cannot be found. Bitten by a Snake. A snake crawled into the bed of Mr. and Mrs. N. J. Keefe at Murphysboro. Mrs. Keefe, feeling something cold, moved one of her feet toward the foot of the bed. She thought she struck a hat pin and her screams aroused her husband. A copperhead snake was then found crawling toward the woman's head. Not a Good Woodchopper. Theodore Elberg was severely in­ jured while chopping wood at his home near Fosterburg. The ax he was using struck a clothesline overhead in its descent and, slipping from his hands, struck him on the forehead with the sharp edge, inflicting a very serious wound. He will recover. 8wap Real Estate. John M. Cartwright has sold to Hen­ ry M. Cartwright the old Eben Badley farm in Woodriver township and Hen­ ry M. Cartwright has sold to John Cartwright the old home place of the Cartwright family in the same town­ ship. The value of each of the farms Is $14,000. Aid for Miners. The committee appointed by Mayor Hall of Duquoln to solicit financial aid for the striking miners in the anthra­ cite coal fields has forwarded a check for $315.45 to Secretary-Treasurer Wil­ son at Indianapolis, Ind. Will Visit the Fair. A large number of the business men of Qulncy will attend the Brown coun­ ty fair to be held at Mount Sterling on Thursday, August 21. Chester Citizens Arrange to Entertain Visitors to Soldiers' Reunion. The citizens' committee having Jn charge the arrangements for district soldiers' reunion, to be held at Ches­ ter, Sept. 17-19, have secured ample funds for the proper entertainment of visitors. The location has been fixed at Chautauqua heights, a beautiful spot overlooking the Mississippi and Okaw valleys, between the town and the prison and on the line of three railroads. The association's territory embraces the Forty-fourth senatorial district, composed of the counties of Jackson, Monroe, Perry, Randolph and Washington. SURGEON CONTRACTS CHOLERA Illinois Man Is Stricken While Attend­ ing Filipinos. Dr. E. C. Lemen of Alton received a letter from his son, Lieut. H. R. Lemen, who has been serving as a sur­ geon in the army in the Philippines. Dr. Lemen wrote that he was recover­ ing from a severe. attack of cholera, which he contracted while attending some natives at San Roque. He was removed to the nospital at Santa Cruz. Dr. Lemen has been in the Philippines several years and is plan­ ning to return to his home in Upper Alton. Nabbed in Male Attire. Three girls out on a lark in male at­ tire were reported to the Alton police and one of the girls, Minnie Corn- stobbel, was arrested while wearing boy's clothes on the street. She said she donned male attire for a lark. The probation officer will have her sent to the training school at Geneva because of her passion for dressing in boy's clothing. Miners Sue for Damages. Suits aggregating $10,000 have been filed by Thomas Black and John Gra- chowski against John W. Moore and Robert Solomon, owners of the Black Diamond coal mine at Springfield Junction. The complainants say that th6y were badly injured by an explo­ sion of coal dust in the mine on the evening of January 3 last. Negroes on Strike. About 250 negroes employed at the Sangamon river in raising the Illinois Central railroad bridge and approach­ es are on strike. The railroad is con­ ducting extensive operations between Springfield and Clinton, straightening the track, lowering grades and raising fills. Y. M. C. A. Change. The resignation of Norman Cough- lin as secretary of the Springfield Young Men's Christian association has been accepted to take effect Septem­ ber 1, after which Mr. Coughlin will go to Jacksonville to take charge of the association in that city. Lightning Does Damage. During a storm lightning struck the barn on John F. Madden's farm, near Hunt City, killing four horses. The barn was burned, with its contents of hay and grain, and also a near-by broom-corn shed. Boer 8couts to Meet Clarence Dodd of Sangamon will at­ tend the reunion of the American scouts who were in the recent Boer war. The reunion will be held at the home of Guy Davis in Indianapolis. CHURCH OF THE REDEEMER AT ALTON. COULDN'T RESIST DEM MELONS. The new church of the Redeemer, at Alton, which has just been com­ pleted, Is said to have one of the best auditoriums iu the country for acous­ tic qualities. The auditorium is octa- 8ettles Long Strike. The Illinois state board of arbitra­ tion has settled the long strike of the glove and mitten workers' union at the Boss company's factory at Ke- wanee. Needles will be provided free to employes. Honor for Newton Doctor. Dr. J. H. Maxwell of the Newton pension board has been appointed a member of the executive committee of the national association of pension examiners. Falls Down Stairs Mrs. Alexander Crawford fell down a flight of stairs at the home of her son, Robert Crawford, at Alton, and was severely injured. It is feared be­ cause of her advanced age that the in­ juries may prove fatal. Randolph County Personalty. An abstract of the assessment of personal property of Randolph county shows a total of $673,238, based on one-fifth fair cash value, being an in­ crease of $7,099 over last year. Son in shape, and 35 feet high, and has a handsomely vaulted ceiling. The exterior is of buff brick, with stone trimmings, and the roof of light-green slate. Thrown From Horse. Fred Hamilton, son of W. J». Hamil­ ton, of Decatur, was badly injured at Montlcello. He was riding Sallie Re­ gent, a running horse, in a race, when he was thrown violently to the ground. It is feared death may result from coii- oussion of the brain. : 'J,' Darkies Destroy Many Green Ones and Land in Jail. Three negoes were arrested at East Alton on a charge of committing ma­ licious mischief in a melon field be­ longing to George Walls at East Al­ ton. The negroes went Into the field to find some ripe .watermelons, and during their search they broke open many green ones. They were caught in the act and locked up, In the East Alton Jail, where they declined to give heir names. The East Alton melon growers have decided to adopt severe measures in dealing with person who destroy unripe melons In their efforts to steal ripe ones, and the negroes will be prosecuted as an example. DEDICATE SHAFT TO SOLDIERS. •'Vi' v?-4. '4-®; .c'.r- Handsome Monument Unveiled Crown Hill Cemetery, Ridge Farm. * Miss Jennie Busby unveiled the aew , ^ granite soldiers' monument at Crown i Hill cemetery. Ridge Farm. Speeches were made by the Hon. J. G. Cannon, Governor Isaac Clements of the Na­ tional Soldiers' home, W. R. Jewell, and others. The monument waa erected by Charles A. Clark post No. *1 mm It Is built of Vermont r 184, G. A. % granite, and stands nineteen eight inches, the figure surmoupting b e i n g t h a t o f a s o l d i e r a t p a r a d e r e s t ^ standing six feet two inches. On the east side of the die is carved a G. A. R. badge; on the north, stacked arms; and on the west, two crossed cannons. The post erecting/ the statue was/ named for Captain Clark of the Tw©o<- ty-Fifth regiment, company A, of UU- , nois. He is a brother of Colonel Ter- 5: ranee Clark of the Seventy-Ninth 1111- , nois, celebrated as one of the men . who tunneled out of Llbby prison. •VV "A £;,v; § ;'.h •: ,T 0'A : "•'1 •Mi •4 v-4. 'VJ -ii# Melon Baskets Are Scarce. A scarcity of melon baskets in the American bottoms at Alton is causing the melon growers loss, because of the .. impossibility of shipping melons with- out baskets in which to place them.?-; s* Five car loads of melons is an average a ally shipment from East Alton and ifr good shipments, are made from points also. J * Sunday School Convention. The annual convention of the Carri* gan township Sunday school will be held in the Methodist Protestant church on Sunday, Aug. 17. Boy Is Brave. At Effingham Charles George was placed In jail on a charge of attempt­ ing to kill his wife. He used a razor as a weapon and his 10-year-old son knocked the razor from his hand with a poker. Mack Tanner, Orchardtst -Col. J. Mack Tanner of Springfield, secretary oi the state board of chari­ ties, has purchased forty acres of land in Louisville township and will plant an apple orchard. Kills Himself at Eighty. Emberson Gray, a uighly respected- citizen and prosperous farmer residing six miles east of Chester, committed suicided by hanging himself with a clothes line to a tree in the rear of his barn. He was 80 years of age. Continued ill health and the infirmi­ ties of old age are assigned as the cause of his act ! f-'l' iVi ptf : *v. •T4 AS - M Broom Corn. The broom-corn harvest Is on in the vicinity of Edwardsville. The firm of Berry & Hotz, broom makers, have ninety acres of fine corn to cut which Is turning out first class. Apples $3 to $5. Salem shippers of early apples are receiving from $3 to $4 per barrel and some fancy apples have been shipped for which $5 per barrel was received. Fatal Gasoline Explosion. Ralph, the 10-year-old son of J. T» Bayless, lost his life by the explosion of a forty-gallon gasoline tank at At- water. Worklngmen's Ticket The organized worklngxnen el Quincy are contemplating placing a ticket in the field for the fall elec­ tions. Evaporating Plant. Edwin R. Allan oi St Louis has par- chased a tract of land at Flora to be used as a ske for an evaporating plant Work will begin on the con­ cern at once, and the plant, which will oe the largest of the kind In day county, will handle this season's crop. Combination Reunion. • reunion of the old settlers, Mod­ ern Woodmen and civil war veterans, will be held at Orchardville August 19-22. Annual Fish Fry. ** The Beardstown city council appro- ; "S priated $50 to be used by the commit- • 'fj tee which has in charge the arrange- ^ ments for the annual fish fry, thick will be held in the city park on Aug- ust 22 and 23. . ^ Walks Out 'of a Window* ̂ • f if ̂ •*><*• Awakened by an alarm of Are Joe Grlssom walked out of the seoond- story door at his home In Qreeuit and fell to the sidewalk, recetirtaf i»> juries from which he disd. -