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The arrest followed Mr. Sherrick's summary removal from office by Gov. Hanly. The governor, to whom Sher- Tick had confessed his shortage, had -repeatedly demanded a settlement •and, failing to secure it, insisted that Mr, Sherrick resign. Sherrick refused to resign, and his summary removal followed. The governor appointed "Warren Bigler of Wabash as Sher- • /-Tick's successor. - British Railroad Statist**!. A recent report shows that in the year 1904 only six passengers were /killed by accidents on railways In the 'United Kingdom, and that 534 were injured. From statistics kept for the past thirty years, ending with 1903, it seems that an average of one passen­ ger was killed in every 35,053,064 journeys and one injured 'in every 1,100,527 journeys. Out of a total of 71,007 railway employes,, seven were killed and 114 injured during 1904. The average for the preceding thirty years was fourteen and 137, respect­ ively. This comparison shows an extraordinary improvement, for the -number of railway employes was greater in 1904 than the average nuw- i>er in the preceding thirty years. WORTHY OBJECT FOR A "BOOM.' I l l ino i s News Cliotee items from •varthifUft •fwcUlly Miected for our readers SsfiSo WARriiNG FROM PRISON Ed. J. Lewis, Convicted of Forgery, Writes Letter to Young Men. , From the seclusion of the Jollet; pen­ itentiary, where he wart sentenced for forgery, Edward J. Lewis ha^ written an open letter to the young men of Wheaton., Lewis was a real estate dealer in the place. The letter, given out, is as follows: "Remember, young man, that 'your sin will find you out.' You cannot escape it. I thought when I first sold & mortgage of $400 that I could easily repay this by a lucky strike or a com­ mission on some real estate deal. When I found that I oould not do this and the person owning the mortgage asked for her money I had to sell an­ other larger one to 'make good.' Then i thought it was so easy that I could keep up the crime forever. "Boys and young men, don't play poker. Don't start when you are young, sneaking back of the barn with other small boys and friends, and use corn for poker chips, and learn to play. "Don't, for God's sake, smoke cigar­ ettes. Don't drink your first glass of beer or whisky. Don't because you hear of some neighbor making money at the races, ,bet on horses. 'Your sin will find you' out.' "How many times In the last ten months have I stayed awake and thought and thought and thought! How many nights have I lain awake until 2 and 3 o'clock thinking and thinking and thinking of the sorrow, poverty and privation I was the means of making." fO LOWER DAM AT LA GRANGE Eastern Journal Welcomes Efforts to Bring Back the Bicycle. A western organization of wheelmen is hard at work with the highly laud­ able aim of starting another boom for the bicycle. It is an exceedingly dif­ ficult matter to create a boom by purely artificial methods, but we sin­ cerely hope that this effort will suc­ ceed. The bicycle boom is a boom which deserves to be boomed. Call it^ whatever you like--a craze or a fad'-- the popular interest and enthusiasm for the wheel which swept over the country a few years ago was one of the happiest and healthiest "crazes" that ever struck the American people, or any other people, and it cannot come again too soon or stay too long. How much those years of bicycle activity added to the sum total of in­ nocent human enjoyment, human vi­ tality and energy, it would be impos­ sible to estimate; but we venture the statement, without fear of contradic­ tion, that no other modern conrivance of human devising has contributed so largely to these benefits as the wheel --Leslie's Weekly, Japan's Imperial Family* The imperial family of japan Is said to dwell together in harmony un­ der circumstances that would cause domestic discord, if not disruption, in an ordinary American family. Her majesty the empress is several years •older, than the mikado and though she is the only wife he has ever had she is not the mother of the five chlld- dren--the crown prince and four prin­ cesses--of whom the emperor" is the father. In case she should become the mother of a son, which, ad she is t>6 years old, is exceedingly improb-4 things too big for me and then threw able, the illegitimate children of the emperor would have to stand aside. Now they fire accorded the full honors due to members of the imperial fam- ' plant School of Philosophy. tits. Elizabeth Joy, wife of ex-Con­ gressman Charles F. Joy of St. Louis, has begun a movement in Los Angel­ es for the establishment of a school of philosophy, the institution to be located in a temple of science to cost $1,000,000. The school will be de­ voted to the-study of philosophy, eth­ ics and physiology, and its mission will be to prove that, in nature, there are no contradictions and that, at the base of all warring factions of mate­ rialism, sensationalism and institut- lonalism, there is but one fundamen­ tal and universal principle ^rhich unites them all and absolutely Iccords with science. Want Statue, of Heine at Birthplace. Another attempt is to' be made to erect a national memorial to Heine In the land of his birth. When an offer was made in 1897 to raise a memorial In his native city, Dusseldorf, it was curtly refused by the government on the ground of his anti-German prej­ udices, and the statue found a home In New York; But the burghers of Dusseldorf are bestirring themselves again and are now determined to create such a body of public opinion in favor of the proposal that the gov­ ernment will find it difficult to veto it Money on Its Annual Tour. Some New Yorkerfe are writing 'about the loss of money by the banks of that burg as if they didn't know what is the matter. The money is coming south and west, as it does every year at this season, to "move the crops." It is going into the pock­ ets of the cotton-pickers, the harvest­ ers, the farmers and the country mer­ chants, and into the bank accounts of the railroads that Jiaul the produce. It will return to the financial centers as fast as it serves its purpose of pro­ viding the agricultural regions with the commodities which the crops buy. t --St. Lquis Republic. ^ s ' . • 'v " Popular Writer** Retrospects*. Maurice Hewlett is one of the few writers of the day who possesses a university degree. He graduated from Oxford at the early age of li, but he says he never was a student. To use his own. words. "I bave wast­ ed my time, I dreamed, I tried to do them up at the first failure. I dili­ gently pursued every fake god. I don't think I was very happy and I am sure I was very disagreeable. 1 doubt if I was ever a boy except for it very brief period, when by right I should have been a man." Maxim Gorki in III Health. A German journalist who had occa­ sion a.few weeks ago to attend a lec­ ture given by Maxim Gorki at the Finnish summer resort Kuokola. was poinfully impressed by the famous novelist's appearance. His chest was hollow, his eyes deep in their sockets and bordered with dark blue shadows. His whole appearance was that of an invalid. His awkward movements and gestures made a lady in the audience exclaim<: "Comme il est maladroit!" His voice was so weak that it oould hardly be heard in the back part of the hall. Woman Proficient In Photography. WTss L. Bernie Gallagher, the assist­ ant photographer in the National mus­ eum at Washington, is the only wom­ an in that branch of the goverment service and her work has been sin­ gularly successful. She has been a most valuable aid to the veteran in photography. Prof. Thomas W. Smillie, who for thirty-five years has been the photographer of the mus­ eum and who has photographed more eclipses, probablx, thair W roan In the country. Pat Nickname for Earl Mlnto. Earl Mlnto, who is to succeed Lord Curzon as viceroy of India, is 60 years old and early in life was a lieutenant in the Scots guards. In 1898 he was appointed governor general of Canada, which position he held until a few months ago. It was while in Canada inat he was given the nick­ name of "Pepperminto," the origin­ ator of the name befing a subordinate official whom his lordship bad lectur­ ed severely for neglect of duty. His fame is John Elliott Gilbert and he is fourth Earl and Baron Minto. Large Private Library in Russia. One of the largest libraries in Rus­ sia is private property, belonging to the scholarly Genadi Wassilyewitch Judin. It-consists of over 100,000 vol­ umes, and the oddest thing about it is that it is not situated in a large city, but in the neighborhood of one of the most < inaccessible Siberian towns, Karsjonarsk. It was at first in that town, but after thec fire of 1881, which destroyed a great part of Jt, the owner got moved it to the Plan to Save Flooded Bottom Land Along Illinois River. Capt. E. Wicks, a civil engineer for several years in the employ of the sanitary district of Chilcago, has com­ menced the work of removing two feet from' the top of the government dam at La Grange, a few miles below Springfield, congress having granted permission to do the work. The dam is 819 feet in length, thirty-three feet wide, -and it is estimated it will re­ quire a force of fifty men four months to do the work. The estimated cost of $15,000 will be borne by the sani­ tary district. It is hoped the removal of a portion of the dam will prevent the overflow of much bottom land along the Illinois river. In place of the portion of the dam removed will be constructed an automatic flush board two feet high. This will be raised during low water, making the dam as high as it U at present. In high water this board will drop auto­ matically, lowering the dam two feet. River men are divided in their opin­ ion as to the result of lowering the dam, many holding that as the volume of water to be turned into the drain­ age canal is to be increased, the change will have no effect whatever on the stage of the water. LE88EN8 THE DANGER IN MINES NOw Law Provides for More Than One Daily Inspection^ Attorney General Stead, In response to a request for an interpretation of the new mining law, has made a rul ing to the effect that where necessary an inspector must make more than one mine inspection a day. Prior to the enactment of the shot flrers' bill only one inspection was required. The new order of things is made neces­ sary by the fact that after the firing of shots there may be a heavy ac­ cumulation of smoke and gas in a mine, and if any considerable length of time intervenes between shifts this accumulation may become a men­ ace and therefore should be another inspection before the second' shift goes to work. Illinois Coroners' Officers. The first annual convention of Illi­ nois coroners since the reorganiza­ tion at Decatur last May was held in Danville. The election of the follow­ ing officers was had: Dr. Buxton, Decatur, president; Peter M. Hoff­ man, Chicago, first vice president; L. E. Tenabille, Kankakee, second vice president; Dr. R. Leslie Baker, Pe­ oria, secretary; W. P. Speakman, Dan­ ville, treasurer. The selection of a legislative committee and naming of Chicago as the place for the next meeting-en the second Tuesday in De­ cember constituted the business of the meeting. Big Deed of Trust. A deed 6f trust from the St. Louis, Vandalla, ferre Haute & Eastern Traction company to the Chicago Title and Trust company and William C. Niblack has been filed in the re­ corder's office at, Belleville. It is for $6,000,000, to secure the loan of funds with which to construct an electric line fro mEast St. Louis to Terre Haute, Ind. Fifty Years Lutheran Pastor. The Rev. Richard Julius Tillman of Arensville has concluded fifty years of active service in the ministry of the German Lutheran church and re­ tired permanently to his country home at Wapella, la. Dlea After Viewing Corpoe. Francis Stlllman, 55 years old, was killed by a train at Kewanee. Andrew HIppert, after looking at the mutilated body, walked a few blocks and fell dead. He was subject to heart weak­ ness. Offers Reward for Murderer. Governor Deneen has offered a re­ ward of $200 for the arrest and con­ viction of the unidentified murderer of Joseph Ricketts of Decatur, who was killed on the night of Aug. 25. Ricketts was beaten to death near the Wabash passenger depot in Decatur, wkC^re he was employed. Bank Cashier Resigns. W. W. Merz has resigned the as­ sistant cashiership of the Salem state to accept the agency for the Illinois railroad. WINS CUP AT PLOWING MATCH Cyrus Stark Gains Diploma and Per­ manent Possession of Emblem. Plowshares and politics were mixed with pumpkin pies and soft pillows at Leonard Wolf's farm, six miles out from Aurora, when the Wheatland Plowing Match association held its twenty-eighth annual match. The question of a champion plow­ man was decided by selecting a win­ ner in the post-graduate class, and to Cyrus Stark was given the much coveted diploma and the General An­ drew Welch cup. Mr. Stark Won the same honors last year, and now has permanent possession of the cup. The plowing match wa$ held early in the afternoon. The women began judging and awarding the honors for culinary art and skill with the nee­ dle at the same time, but the large number of entries and the closeness of the competition occupied the time till the middle of the afternoon. In the plowing matches first prj^ would have received practically noth- wias $15, second $10, third $8. The winners were: Men's walking plow--Frank Erlck- son, Du Pago township, first; John Erickson, Du Page, second; Morton Fry, Wheatland, third. BoyS under 17, walking plow-- -Matthew rEipers, Du Page, first; Frank Boardman, second. Boys under 17, riding plow--Hen­ ry Shoger, Wheatland, first; Henry Lombard, Wheatland, second; Frank Clow, Wheatland, third, i Boys under 15, riding plow--Arthur Shoger, Wheatland, first. » Men's riding plfw, single and gang --George Brossman, Wheatland, first; Walter Thomas, Big Rock, Kane coun­ ty, second; Milton Eichelberger, Wheatland, third. Post graduate class, diploma and cup--Cyrus Stark. Prize winners' class, riding plow- Charles Susemiehl, Wheatland, first; Henry Susemiehl, Wheatland, second; Thomas Quantock, third. For women and girls there were a large number of contests offered for every article known to home cooking and home sewing. Nearly 200 rib­ bons were given out to the successful competitors. VETERANS CHOOSE OFFICERS. SEEK CONTROL OF LEGISLATURE Illinois Federation Will Place Candi­ date! in Every District. The convention of the Illinois Fed­ eration of Labor, which will qpnvene. at Danville Oct. 17, promises to be one of the most important;;.!n the his­ tory of organized labor in the state. The question of entering the do­ main of politics will be brought up for consideration, and James F. Mor­ ris of Springfield, secretary treasure er, declares that next year union la­ bor will have a candidate in the field in every legislative district of the state. In dismissing this phase of the question Mr. Morris said: "The working people of the state have had their eye teeth skinned by the tactics used in both houses of the last session. Had it not been for the assistance given organized labor by the chief executive and the pre­ siding officers of* both houses we Annual Reunion of 113th Regiment la Held in Kankakee. The annual reunion of the One Hundred and Thirteenth Illinois in­ fantry was held at Kankakee. Thirty- nine of the veterans of the command answered the roll call. At the camp fire addresses were made by D. H. Paddock of this city, Dr. H. B. Os­ borne of Kalamazoo, Mich., and there were recitations by Mrs. George Styles of Momence and Mrs. Amelia Arnold. Officers were elected as fol­ lows: President, John Frith, Watseka; first vice president, John S. Darrough, Watseka; second vice president, Wm. Shortridige, Sheldon; third vice presi­ dent, F. Frlsble, Onarga; fourth vice president, C. H. Sheverly, Chicago; fifth vice president, Garrett Duzenber- ry, Iroquois; secretary and treasurer, A. B. Baldwin, Palatine. A remark­ able tiling about the regiment is the fact that none of the officers survive. Sunday School Convention. The annual convention of the Sun­ day school of the Nashville district of the German Evangelical church was held in the church at Cordes. Delegates were present from Cen­ tralis, Central City, Nashville, Hoyle­ ton, Irvington and Cordes. Services in the* morning were conducted by Rev.- M. Schroedel of Hoy let on. In the afternoon a number of interesting papers were read. The following of­ ficers were elected for the ensuing year: President, M. ^Schroedel of Hoyleton; vice president, J. W. Gaebe of Cordes; secretary, Miss Bertha Touve of Centralia; treasurer, J. D. Nickel of Nashville. It was decided to hold the convention j£ Hoyleton next year, Find! $147 Burled Money. John Altmann, living between Be- thalto and New Douglas, found $147 In mutilated currency while digging In a coal house. The bills were rotten but were in good enough condition to insure the possessor getting them re­ deemed by the treasury department. The finder turned the bills over to a Mrs. N. Cotter of St. Louis, who is a daughter of the deceased former own­ er of the place. Milk Prices Aro Low. Contracts for the next six months' supply of milk were let the Borden Company at Elgin at an average at $1.38 1-3 a can. This is 12-3 cents less than for the corresponding period last year. Farmers declare they will be forced out of the dairy business and into cereal raising if the price of milk declines and present high. prices of grain prevail. Alton Y. M. C. A. Fund. At the annual meeting of the mem­ bers of the Y. M. C. A. In Alton the subscription committee reported that $7,500 must be raised by the first of the year or the subscription already made toward the new building would be void. The subscriptions thus far show a total of $17,500, and it will be necessary to raise $25,000 to make them binding. The following directors were chosen: E. A. Smith, P. H. Paul, W. C. Gates, William D. Arm­ strong and' William P. Boynton. * 8isters of St. Joseph Sue County. The sisters of the St. Joseph hos­ pital in Alton have brought* suit against the county of Madison for $823 for keeping patients of the coun­ ty in the hospital at Alton, fo. 1903 the members of the county board re­ duced the per diem from 40 cents to 20 centsj but the sisters refused to ac­ cept the reduction, claiming that the county bad no right to fix rates for a hospital. The amount sued for repre­ sent^ tfte between ratcp. W;: Tng. "As long as the working people are represented by the champions of rail- roada and other corporations they will; never get labor legislation. "I predict the Danville convention will push the matter andt that there will be labor candidates next year In evefy senatorial district of the state. "We have the votes to select our men without going to the corporations for assistance in choosing the men to represent us .in the next legisla­ ture." MINE IN8PECTOR8 ARE NAMED Governor Deneen Appoints Tsn Men Under New Law. Governor Deneen has appointed David Christie of Murphysboro on the state mining board and named ten mine inspectors provided under the. new law, which increases the mining; districts from seven to ten. The new­ ly appointed inspectors are: First district, Hector McAllister, Streator; second, Thomas Hudson, Galva; third, James Taylor, Peoria; fourth, Thomas Weeks, Bloomington; fifth, Thomas Hannah, Riverton; sixth, FraSSc J. Campbell, Maryville; seventh, William Williams, Marissa; eighth, Waltofi Riitledge, Alton; ninth, John Dunlop, Ctntralla; tenth, Thomas Little, Herrin. Little succeeds William Atkinson, who was killed in the Ziegler mine catastrophe. Hannah, Campbell and Williams are the new appointees for the additional districts. PEORIA PREACHER A FINANCIER Rev. George H. Simmons, Pastor Off Church and President of Bank. The Rev. George H. Simmons, pas­ tor of the First Baptist church and president of the Interstate Bank and Trust Company of Peoria, has pur­ chased the People's Savings bank, capitalized at $50,000. Mr. Simmons' first business venture was three years ago, when he organized a company witb $100,000 capital to manufacture a cereal coffee. He then organized the Interstate Bank and Trust Com­ pany, with a capital Btock of $200,- 000. In addition to this he is at the head of a movement to beautify the city and now is conducting a flower festival In Peoria. One of his inno­ vations was holding religious services in the Coliseum, seating 7,000 people, United States Minister Merry. Map of Nicaragua, Showing Location of * Amapala. Octotal and Jatapa. United States Gunboat Princeton, Minister Whom It May Convey to Nic­ aragua and Points to Which «e Will Travel to Investigate Alleged Outrage on an American Citizen. ALBER8 DEALT WITH UNJUSTLY. Dorothea Court of Inquiry. Adjt. Gen. Scott has ordered a court of inquiry to report upon and fix the responsibility for the grounding of the United States steamship Dorothea on the night of Aug. 7 in the straits of Mackinac. The members of the court include Commander Charles O. Y. King, Commander Louis C. Roberts and Lieut. Commander Edward R. Ma­ son of the Illinois naval reserve. Criticises Qulncy Workhouse. Judge Humphrey of the United States district court has publicly an­ nounced that he wlll» sentence no more prisoners to the workhouse in Quincy. He inspected the place and was quite severe with criticisms on its management. He thinks the pris­ oners are underfed and objects to the use of heavy shackles which prisoners are compelled to wear. License Csndidate Wins. At the special city election Ed De- moulin, former mayor In Greenville, was elected as the municipal reform candidate over Frank N. Blanchard, the anti-license candidate, by a major­ ity of 133. The election was held to fill the vacancy caused by the removal from the city of W. A. Orr, who was elected mayor last spring. ..1 Leans from Cab Window. 4 loiter Roe was killed five miles south of Beardstown while leaning from a cab window. Nips Part of Hostler's Ear. John Russell, a hostler at the livery stable of Sam Seibold, lost a large part of his right ear, which was bit­ ten off by a. horse. A surgeon was instantly summoned, but the missing piece of anatomy could not be found. Permit for New Bank. A permit to begin business was is­ sued by State Auditor McCullough to the Clay County State bank at Louis­ ville, UK, with a capital of $25,000. Lewis Dillman is president and W. A. Harron cashier. Juntgen Is Indicted. Walter W. Juntgen, former book­ keeper of the wrecked Edgar County National bank of Paris, was indicted by the federal grand jury for making false entries and abstracting funds from the bank. The.indictment con­ tains twenty-five counts. American Traveler Says Accused Man . Is in the Right. It has been decided that a warship shall be sent to one of the Costa Rican ports to convey American Minister Merry northward to the nearest point on the coast of Nicaragua or Hon­ duras to the place where William S. Albers, an American citizen, and his brother are confined pending a trial on the charge of resisting legal pro­ cess and of insulting the president of Nicaragua. The gunboat • Princeton, now at Panama, is the nearest warship to Ocotal in the province of Segpvia, where Albers is Imprisoned. But the last-named town is seventy miles in­ land over a rough mountain range from the coast and the trail is not passable by any vehicle. Amapala, on the gulf of Fonseca, on the southern boundary of Honduras, appears to be the nearest port to Ocotal. The Port ~L.imon company, whose agent Albers was, has sent a lawyer from Philadel­ phia to Ocotal to assist in his defense. Cause of the Trouble. An American who has been travel­ ing in Central America for the "past few months engaged in scientific work, has „ written a detailed account of the Alters case to friends in Baltimore, which has reached here. He reports as follows: "The Llmon company, of which Wil­ liam S. Albers is the manager, is lo­ cated at Jalapa, Segovia, near the border of Honduras. This corporation is engaged in gold and silver mining and in raising wheat and tobacco and has made investments in good faith. "In March, 1905, a company of armed men, alleging that they tfere sent by the go vera men t tobacco syn­ dicate, demanded of Albers that he permit them to enter and carry away his stock of tobacco under seizure. "Albers replied that he had no con­ traband tobacco; that he obeyed the law; that he paid the government in full; that he held regular official re­ ceipts for all tobacco In his stores. "He furthermore said that the first man who tried to enter his dt^y would be shot, but that he would p"mlt the leader to inspect the tobacco in order Hthat his assertions might be proved. This was done and no contraband to­ bacco was found. Permits Are Refused. "Following the search of the Litnon company's premises, the executive of Managua, the capital of Nicaragua, issued a decree ordering that any one holding tobacco in stock should obtain a permit and that should he fail to do this his tobacco would be confis­ cated, whereupon several Americans holding tobacco applied for the per­ mits and were refused them. "These American holders, there­ upon, arranged to sell their tobacco to the syndicate, with the exception of Albers. But the treatment received from Albers, who had in his place American employes who could have enforced his threats if necessary, caused the syndicate managers to mis­ represent and exaggerate tie actions of Albers when they reported it to the president. File Charges Against Them. "As a result, charges of resistance to authority and violent abuse of the 8chwab's Costly Dinner Service Charles M. Schwab has placed an order for a carved silver-gilt dinner service at a cost of $150,000. This splendid collection of sliver, it is said, will be the finest ever made for a private dining room. It is being man­ ufactured by a firm at Providence, R. I., which makes a specialty of elab­ orate silverware. With the gold effect the set will make a most striking ap­ pearance. Antique lines will be fol­ lowed in the manufacture and elabo­ rate hand work will be a notable toe- tor in the cost. executive, which i9 a serious offense- in many Latin-American countries, were made at the court of the district* situated at Ocotal. ^Judicial warrants for arrests wero^ issued and both Albers and his broth** er were taken into custody." GOOD |N CHILD STUDY RCLE. Parents' Association a P« the School Sysl Mrs. Charles Schoff, the Mothers' congress, de? the parents' associations connection with the public tem form one of the most potl lies of the system in the counti cording to the New York The Child Study circle, composed the parents In one school district, stituted a 5-cent hot luncheon, served "v5" each day--hot chicken soup, six gal­ lons of it, served in turn by membersr of the older classes, and supplied ano directed by members of the ChiM Study circle. * Another circle has quietly provided shoes or stockings for children who . were kept at home for lack of them, - Still another circle, seeing the crowd* * ed and unsanitary condition of the ' school, went before councils and - showed the conditions so clearly that, r $25,000 was appropriated and a fine 1 new building erected. In many other-f • associations there are similar reports : of large appropriations for school pur- poses. a . , . - < Swept from Car Platform. jQbn Roeenbeck of Ogden was fatally injured on the Danville and Champaign interurban railway. He was swept off his car by the iron work on tie. sido of ffco . Immigrants Seek the Cities. The volume of immigration during. ; the past four years ha? never beea- equaled. One million came to this^ country from abroad last year, and they are coming faster than ever* What is to be done with them? The V; tendency of late years is to congre- • gate in the cities. In earlier days thOJ^'j tide of immigration spread out ovet ^ the country. A majority made the fertile lands of the west their destina#i; lu> tion. There they fixed themselves**^," •absorbed the spirit of our institution# ^ and "grew up with the country." A generation ago, agriculture was the ' main source of national wealth. To-, day, manufacturing and trade make the greater demand upon the service of our workers, and instead of the open plains the crowded cities are^- ^ sought by those who come here tOf'~ find employment and to better their x,; - condition in life.--Boston Post. Wonders to Be Seen at Homo. ^ Within very recent years the Ail ican people in general have beent, ^ learning as they never did before thej^ ^ wonders of their own country. Theyf.;' \ went abroad for scenery and to view! • places of historical interest, unmind-£ : ful that their own land contained! J spectacles unrivaled elsewhere aiHt:" relics of a civilization that is prehis-? . toric. Places that only a few yearsffff ago had hardly a visitor now attract V many thousands annually. The Yel-v/f^ lowstone park has become well . known, so also the stupendous canyon&V<l of the Colorado, the terrific domes of K', the Yosemite, the imposing Sierras rising abruptly almost from the seat 4 level to heights of nearly three miles^fe^jj America abounds with miracles of na^' ture, grandly impressive or marveloust ly beautiful.--Buffalo Courier. IjJS Washington Rich at 27. Examination of the records of Fair fax county, Virginia, show that George Washington owned 50,000 acres of land when 27 years old, and at the fall slaughtering in 1780 the Washington family killed 150 hogs for their own use The examination also, brought out the fact that in 1787 the father ot his country sowed 580 acres in grass, 400 acres in oats. 700 acres in wheat, and 700 acres in other grains. He owned 140 horses. 112 cows. 500 sheep, and had 260 negroes oa the plantation v •v.'i'i.,' Praise for Missouri Mule. In an address at the Missouri state"f ^i|j fair Congressman W. D. Vaadiver de-i-A*|| clared the Missouri mule had made hls V.^j state famous the world over. He con- ;..«J| eluded his address by saying: "I take i off my hat to the Missouri mule and stand at a respectful distance. The only animal with no ancestor of his fj?! own type and no hope of posterity erf any type, he maintains his import- ance in war and agriculture and de- ^ mands his price wherever men strug- gie for supremacy, whether la. ^ or war." 5 ^ To Apply Lotions. *' • r: ""Dhe very good way to apply a lotion to the face, when time is not taken : | into account, is to pour as much as Is needed into a clean saucer and nso sterilised absorbent cotton or game, ^ which can be purchased for a trifting sum of the chemist. Make some little balls or pads of the cotton and keep them in a clean, wide-mouthed jar. ' < with a screw top, and use as needed. Dip them into the lotion and gently < *» wash it over the face, using fresh one* yj from time to tiaae duriBg the procM*.'