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WHY WOOLIN GOODS BAO. JLondon Financier tmith V*. diaries Rivers Wilson, president of Bke Grand Trunk Railroad, has just •eme to the United States for a short fiait. sir Charles* last transatlantic vOyage was made a few years ago for Hie purpose of investigating the affairs •f the road of which he Is the head, flat was the second time he visited America. The occasion of his first trip a year previously was as repre­ sentative of the European stockhold­ ers of the Central Pacific Road. The total foreign interest, $52,000,000, had *JC" JVep Tobvetrd 'Public OtomersMp. There is matter for more than pass* ing remark in the announcement Cornelius Vanderbilt has been elected a director in the New Tork Realty corporation. This concern has a cap­ ital of $3,000,000 and is engaged in the buying and improvement of real estate. Its command of almost unlimited capital and the presence of men like Vanderbilt, William P. Havemeyer, Henry Seligman, Oakleigh Thorne, James Speyer, Charles Steele of J. Pierpont Morgan & Co. and Charles H. Tweed in its directory mean that the same forces and economics of combi­ nation that have done so much for industry in America are to toe turned to the development and management of real estate in great cities. It also means that the best property in clt- iep like New Tork and Chicago will gradually pass into the control of men of large wealth or corporations which oan afford to improve it to the highest advantage to secure a moderate and certain return for the Investment. If the scheme proves successful it will prove a step toward nationalization of all land. CHARLES R. WILSON. loan Intrusted to his care. Until re* Oently Sir Charles Rivers Wilson was •omptroller general of the national Cebt of Great Britain. In this capac­ ity he had charge of £240,000,000. The Income of this sum was entirely in Mi control for investment, and his management of the Important office of oomptroller was in all ways excellent. This London financier is not unknown to American men of affairs. Although somewhat unlike the financial leaders of New York and Chicago in personal methods, he is yet a very shrewd and accute manipulator of capital. It was he who straightened out the famous Egyptian financial tp.ngle of 1876. His present visit is for the purpose of try- lag to prevent the floating of the Rus­ sian-Chinese loan In this country. Manama Canal for Sale to Vx. It is reported from Washington that President Hutin of the Panama Canal company has made a formal tender of the canal, with all rights and conces­ sions, to this government unincum­ bered by any provisions for joint ownership. Heretofore all proposi­ tions for the transfer of the Panama w»i»i contemplated making this gov­ ernment a large stockholder in the enterprise without giving It actual sovereignty over the water way, which, at course, could not be seriously en­ tertained by Congress. It is now re­ ported, however, that the government of Colombia, through its minister at Washington, has offered to permit the Panama company to transfer its rights to the United States, which leaves the way open for a direct bona fide sale of r|^ property and rights. . ' Stunting the "Brain. ; In many countries the heaviest bur­ dens the people have to carry are borne Upon their heads. In Mexico boys are early taught to carry heavy loads in this manner, huge water jars being balanced with wonderful skill. In nany Mexican localities months and •ometimes years go by without a drop An Ancient Vitiate Jc Pocahontas, III., the other day cele­ brated a semi-centennial celebration commemorative of the erection in 1851 of the village school house, still standing and in excellent condition for a frame building half a century old. The structure was built before the days of public schools in that sec­ tion of the country, and was conse­ quently a private enterprise at the start. Later the building was turned over to the public, and for many years retained its old name of Pocahontas Academy. The first name of the vil­ lage for Amity, and by some of the "oldest inhabitants" the school was Hearty all vootM food* especially made la America, have the rep* tation of fc*gfr<1*y at the point o| grsatest straln when made Into cur* menta and in some cases tailors make lit a point to call their easterners' at­ tention to the fact that they will not guarantee American-made goods from bagging at the knees and elbows, at Che same time bringing forth a pieee of goods that they claim to be Im­ ported, and which they will guarantee against bagging for a limited time. Ia some casts the goods are of foreign manufacture, but as often they were made in the United States, but by claiming to have imported them a bet­ ter price can be obtained and bagging to the means used to Induce the cus­ tomer to pay the higher price. In some instances the claim In just that certain goods will become baggy when sub­ jected to the strain of wearing, but It to unjust to claim that all American woolens will bag. There are various reasons why American goods or any other make will bag, the principal ones being Improper mixing of stock, soft twist and defects in weaving. In order to cheapen the cost the goods of wool are mixed and if the operation is prop­ erly performed the goods will not bag, but If the various grades are not thor­ oughly Incorporated bagginess will re­ sult, for the cheaper grades have very little felting properties,while the grade that does possess felting properties Is Intended to close up the fibers during fulling, BO that all danger of bagging will be removed. Thus if one grade lacks felting properties, the second is medium and the third Is good, the •took must be uniformly mixed or some parts of the finished fabric will be loose in texture, While other parts will be well felted. On the cheaper grades of fabrics there is no pretense of claiming that they will not bag, ow­ ing not so much to errors in manufac­ turing as to the substitution of Inferior stock. With the high grade of goods made for men's wear with a fair grade of stock bagginess can be prevented by careful attention to the various de­ tails of manufacturing. -- Chicago Chronicle. ; ••'a J i EASTMAN CHEERING HUSBAND. &RIAL. Bring together, and there to every ev-» idence of harmony among the accused, his1 wife and the widow of the maa he killed. Mrs. Grogan is small, slender and dark. She goes to the courthouse every day with her sister, but is* ex­ cluded from the proceedings, as she Is a witness. Mrs. Eastman watches the scene all day. She sits far from her husband, who under one of the many peculiar provisions of the Bay State law, is isolated in a silvered steel cage, the front of which is open. The cage floor is carpeted, the accused has an easy chair and Bits back com­ fortably making notes in a book, writ­ ing suggestions to counsel or reading magaslnes passed to him bf*v tia#; re­ porters." The Eastman murder trial at Cam­ bridge, Mass., has been exciting wide­ spread interest throughout the United States and even in Europe. Charles R. Eastman, accused of the murder of Richard Grogan, is a professor at Har­ vard University. The crime was com­ mitted in the latter part of 1899. A telegram from a correspondent who has been reporting the celebrated trial said: "Mrs. Grogan and Mrs. Eastman are King May Abdicate. The king of Denmark Is reported to be once again seriously thinking of abdicating the Danish throne in favor of the crown prince, and has only been dissuaded from doing so by the joint pleading of the crown princess and her husband. The king, however, is wearied at the continuous opposi­ tion of his ministers to any sugges­ tion he may put forward. The queen's death has considerably aged his ma­ jesty as well as shaken his constitu­ tion. Itanam 1* Obi «f Pufb The condition of Speaker Is much improved, the alarming Wtip- tons apparent having disappeatiriL ̂ Si to the bsllef of the physicians that the speaker will recover rapidly and <n complete all work left for him by the legislature in ample time to comply with the law. Mr. Sherman has na fever and neuralgic pains, which gave him so much trouble, have largely dis­ appeared, and there are signs of gen­ eral improvement The speaker tow been able to transact some bustn--fc and signed a number of bills that were passed by the legislature. Drs. Mo- Fatrich and Krider said the speaker was gaining ground slowly. They think in a week or ten days he will be sible to leave his bed. He is always sparing as regards his eating, and the physi­ cians experience difflc him proper nourishment* JSfebv Army "Re*>oIt>er 15hat Carries lib Shots s.J5 m.- * MEXICAN BOT WATER CARRIER, "lit rain, and all the water the people 'use has to be drawn from wells and Often carried long distances. In the picture is shown a Mexican boy water •arrier. You can see how easily he carries the great vessel, the only means for balancing the jar being a tingle rope. POCAHONTAS ACADEMY, called Amity Academy. A few pre­ ferred the name Hickory Grove Acad­ emy, because of the fact that for sev­ eral years the official name of the town was Hickory Grove, but ma­ jorities ruled in those days, and the majority, among whom were the foun­ ders of the school, gave it the name by which it was known most widely and longest--Pocahontas Academy. It will be observed that all insisted that the school should be called an acade­ my. Pocahontas is now but a small place with a few hundred inhabitants, and it was much smaller In the early 50s. Pocahontas is in Bond, one of the original five counties of Illinois, and on the "Vandalla railroad, abou' forty miles from St. Louis. F-: fel' • When, upon the wings of rainbow hues, Hope flits across thy pathway her And gently as the morninar breen Her waving pinion dries thy tear, ©h. yield not all thy soul to Joy, i Xiet not her blandishments allure: I'S greenest spot hath withered flowers hate'er thy lot, thou must endure. en the mountain's topmost cliff, _ ,*he flag of victory seems unfurled. Faith, exulting, sees afa'r _ Earth's idol, Error, downward hurled. 9eem not the triumph thou shalt there 1 God keeps his chosen vessels pure: xhe final reckoning is on high, ..On earth thy meed is to endure. #lth chastened heart, In humble faith, .Thy labor earnestly pursue, . 'As one who fears to such frail deeds iNo recompense is due faint ead an &saylng all else to God, be thou Wif not Thj hearted--while thou d water shall be sure; y bread ring all _ , __ Patient In all things to endure. " r " A J : Foreign Bondt a* Investments* The recent action of American capi­ talists in taking $50,000,000 of the new British war bonds gives timely interest to the article by Prof. Woolsey, in the May Forum, in which he discusses the risks in all kinds of foreign bonds. He points out the radical differences be­ tween government bonds and private loans. A government bond has no collateral behind it--no property on which the creditor may levy in case of default. The security of such a loan depends upon the credit and the good faith of the state that borrows. Nor can the bondholder proceed sin­ gle-handed against his debtor by ju­ dicial methods. His only redress Is through the diplomatic interference of his government If he be a small and unlnfluential holder he may have to wait long before he can set the gov­ ernmental machinery to work. As a matter of fact, all government bonds of all countries are purchased out of pure patriotism--nothing else. The bonds sold in this country go to British residents here anxious to re­ lieve the country to which they owe allegiance. In other words, the bonds were taken by branches of British banks doing business In the United States. PARIS 13 DRINK I NO MILK. •fee tkkw t« ttia LtxtMl Staid as a Bab«tlmt« for Abalnthe. Paris is rapidly becoming the great­ est milk-drinking city in the world. The increase of the milk habit has re­ cently called for extended comment from the local press. It has now be­ come the habt of Parisians to drink a glass or two of milk at the period be­ fore dinner known as the "aperitif hour. The change that has gradually been wrought in substituting milk for absinthe is said to be owing to the in­ crease in open air exercise among Frenchmen, which produces a "craving for milk rather than for liquor." Most of the cafes, particularly those on the way to the Bois, are now supplied with sealed bottles of milk, and in some places a cow Is kept in the window, with a sign Informing the thirsty bi­ cyclist or automobilist that "milk made on the premises is the purest in Paris." Under these circumstances it is natural that the subject of milk adulteration is just now receiving the attention of the health authorities of Paris, and Dr. H. De Rothschild has recommended that special inspectors be employed to ex­ amine all milk sold, although he deems that the danger of tuberculosis infec­ tion from milk drinking Is really less than is commonly imagined. On the other hand, he showed that Paris milk Is adulterated to a great extent and is full of Impurities. He further recom­ mends that a measure should be Insti­ tuted making it obligatory to have all milk sterilised according to the Pas­ teur method.--Paris Corre. Chicago Chronicle. Molar of Mastodon. That great scenic wonder, the Grand Canyon of the Colorado river, which to located almost entirely in northern Arizona, reveals many things of inter­ est to scien­ tists and ge- o 1 o g i s 184 T h e r e a r e nnmer ous traces of the pre hlatoricj people that d w e l t i a c l i f f s a n d caves and occasionally startling evi­ dences are found of the civilization that prevailed ages ago. The most recent find was the tooth of a masto­ don which Is now in the possession of the editor of the Williams, Arizona, News. The length of the tooth is sev­ en inches, and the thickness of the enamel a quarter of an inch. It is well preserved and is treasured as an in­ teresting relic by its owner/ Whet* Sana partita Com During the summer many boys and girls--and grown people, too--line up before the soda fountains in our cities and call for sarsaparilla without stop­ ping to think, and perhaps without knowing what that extract is that gives a rich brown color to the bever­ age. Sarsaparilla is taken from the root of several species of smilax, a great vine that grows in Sduth Ameri­ can forests. Jamaica, Mexico and Cen­ tral America also export quantities of the smilax or the extract. One species of smilax grows to prodigious size in the great forests of the valley of the Amazon, and the Indians of that re­ gion sell large quantities of it to white merchants. The Indians dig the root of this smilax, which sometimes reaches nine feet in length, growing horizontally from the stem. It is then dried and is usually shipped in that state, the sarsaparilla being extracted by manufacturers. These Indians of the Amazon, however, although far down in the scale of civilization, place great faith in the medicinal qualities of the juice, and perhaps the nature of the region in which they abide is re­ sponsible for this. They show much skill In extracting the sarsaparilla, which to done through a process of boiling. Capable of discharging 116 bullets ' a minute, at high initial velocity, the new automatic pistol adopted by the Board of Ordnance and Fortification for the United States army is In many respects a remarkable weapon. As a first step toward the equipment of tne army with the new arm, an order for one thousand of the pistols for the use of the cavalry has been placed with the manufacturers. Exhaustive tests by government experts have been made, which seem to Indicate that the principle of the automatic field gun and the magazine rifle have been com­ bined in practical form in a pistol no heavier than the revolvers with which the army is now equipped. Named for its inventor, George Lu- ger, a former officer in the Austrian army, the Luger automatic pistol Is made by the German Arms and Am- unition factories. This concern has manufactured about five million Mauser rifles for European nations, and has also brought out several types of automatic pistolB. H. Tauscher, one of the representatives of the company who came to this country to submit the Luger pistol to the government, said recently, when seen at his hotel, that the new pistol was the result of ten years' experiment. Recent tests in Springfield armory covered accuracy of aim, penetration, velocity of projectile, speed of fire, en­ durance and the usual dust, rust and sand tests, and a speed of 116 shots per minute was attained, while the accuracy of aim with rapidity was shown by a score of twenty-four bull's eyes out of thirty shots by one man, who could make only nine out of twenty-eight with the other styles of pistols In the competition. South America Is Sttfe. The European countries that are iinft jyjrc ' 'teimifiji jisiiMfc rofrrtrre-y ' It*u>R from Mattoo*. The new Board of Education, at tta first meeting, held in Mattoon, elected 85 new teachers for the coming term. They retained Principal Wilkinson at a salary of $1,800 per year, and Prat. Will Marlowe, principal of the Mattoon high school, at a salary of $1,000. The Mattoon Heat, Light and Power com* pany has increased the capital stock of the company to $100,000. The com­ pany has purchased additional ma­ chinery and will erect a new fire-proof brick building on the site of the old structure. The new building will be built around the present structural which will then be removed, thus en­ abling the company to run their plant continually while renaira are Mu madej' <, ; Tlr* la Kaaft 8t> twrih Two frame houses on Fifth Just outside the city limits of Bast 9L •Louis, were completely destroyed by fire. They were owned and ooctxpled by William Brewer and John Gray. The fire was started by the explosion of a lamp. Mrs. Brewer had gone ont to the woodshed carrying a lampt While returning she stumbled, drop­ ping the lamp, which exploded, the flames Igniting the shed and from there quickly communicating to the two houses. Both families were able to save nearly all their furniture. The loss to each house is about $1,000. grumbling because the United Statea does not let them divide up Argentina and Brazil may take comfort in the re­ flection that Argentina has from twen­ ty-five to thirty times and Brazil at least a hundred times the population of the two South African republics com­ bined. Considering England's experi­ ence in South Africa, a European at­ tempt to partition South America might not be such a very profitable un­ dertaking, even if the United States were out Of the way, says a Fxeach paper. » Philadelphia, with 1,500 miles of streets and 60,000 arrests in a year, has 2,780 policemen. ^ England's Commercial Marriages. ^ most beautiful and accomplished women in England would shrink from a union with such a creature. And besides being ugly Before 1880 little was known la China of kerosene. In 1890 more that 100,100,000 gallons wen Import̂ #, Carlos Rolof, the new treasurer of Cuba, was born in Poland fifty-eight years ago, and came to this country when a boy. He fought as a confeder­ ate soldier during the civil war, and in 1868, upon the outbreak of the ten years' war in Cuba, he went to that Island and offered his services to the revolutionists. He was made a briga­ dier-general, and afterwards rose to the rank of major-general. In 1878 he went to New Tork, where he remained until the beginning of the recent rebel­ lion In Cuba. For a time he served as secretary of war of the Cuban repub­ lic. Since the American occupation General Rolof has been connected with the fiscal affairs of the government. / Mmdm lawm by Bwdlif Ifovals. Frank Fleetwood, the 20-year-old Mm of Jacob Fleetwood of Tipton, Ind., has become mentally deranged from the effects of reading novels. A few days since, he became violent and .drove his parents from the house. It to said he read over 1.000 novels. The less you are talked about the Imml ««" «"> nfritiatxl The commercialism of the marriage contract in England was seldom more forcibly brought out than In the case of Georgiana, the Dowager Countess of Dudley, in Eng­ land, who a sh time ago was su for the non-pay* ment of her debta. For six years sho, owed a London contractor.' Recent- ly she placed an of- der for the redecoiv; atlon at an expentt of $55,800 of * house she leased In London. It was then that the con­ tractor sued on th# old debt, and it df| veloped that a check given by tifc* countess as a part payment was twice dishonored by the bank. The countess was a beauty in her day, and still re­ tains much of her youthful attrac­ tiveness. But her husband, the late Earl of Dudley, would be a drawing card in a side show as the ugliest man in the world. To make matters worse, he was In­ sane, and only his wealth an social position kept him out of a madhouse. One would think that one of the DOWAGER COUNTESS OF DUDLEY AND DAUGHTER. and insane, he was Old and a widower. But he had an Income of $3,000,000, and Georgiana was poor, while Georgiana's mamma was ambi­ tious. And so Georgiana accepted the sacrifice and became the earl's wife. It is an ironical commentary upon this commercial union that the Dowager Countess is either unable or unwilling to pay her debts. Her income is $60,- 000, but people can be poor with ten times this income. IBoom in Immigration. A natural but almost unnoticed fa* suit of the present good times in the United States is found in the records of the great steamship lines which bring steerage passengers across the water. Without exception these transatlantic steamers are carrying more immi­ grants just now than they have had to carry before for years. Each of the big boats arriving at New York brings with it from one to two thousand Eu­ ropeans who are coming to make their homes and, if possible, their fortunes in the United States. As has been the case for a number of years, a large proportion of these new citizens are natives of the south of Europe or of some one of the Slavonic countries. When business is depressed immigra­ tion falls off. Just now business is at the flood tide and the steamers from Europe are consequently crowded be­ low decks. 8aptixed a Hig Boat- Dorothy Cramp, the 10-year- old daughter of Edwin S. Cramp, the superintending engineer of the Cramp Shipbuilding Company, broke the bot­ tle over the Ward Line steamship Monterey, Recently launched at the big shipyard in Philadel­ phia. Tha 1 a u a c hing| w a s w i t ­ nessed by the largest number o £ p p e c tators since t h • American liner St. Paul took her maiden plunge. The little girl was heartily congratulated by the Russian and United States naval officers for the charming manner in which she performed her part of the ceremony. Although so young, she has christened four big steamships built by the Cramps. She is regarded by the firm aa their mascot, inasmuch as not the slightest accident has ever happened to any one of her proteges. The of the Monterey waa one of the most successful in the history of the Kensington plant. She will be rapidly pushed to completion, and is expected to be in the New York^and Cuba Mail Steamship Company's ser­ vice by midsummer. Carpet- "Beatmg Machine j That there is a field for a carpet- cleaning machine which will whip the carpets without tearing them or rip­ ping the seams is apparent from the condition In which many carpets are returned from the cleaners; and this has Induced George F. Ricker to de­ sign the machine shown in the cnt. By its use the carpets can be whipped almost as carefully as by hand, and with great rapidity. The shaft carry­ ing the drum is rotated rapidly to drive the beating straps against the surface of the carpet, the latter b^ ing drawn under the beaters either by hand or mechanically, with means for regulating the feed in the latter case. The base on which the carpet rests while being cleaned is composed of a series of spring slats, which are se­ cured only at one end. thua aiding to drive the dost through to the aader Hesults the Sam*. The Chicago fire was set by an over­ turned lamp in a barn; the Jackson­ ville fire by an electric wire in a fac­ tory. It marks an era of great prog­ ress, but the outcome seems to be about the same.--Springfield Repubii- side. An exhaust blower is used to draw the dust out of the chamber and prevent it from settling on the car­ pet again. The illustration shows the small machine used for cleaning single i - ' ' i • M.- CARPETS CLEANED WITHOUT TEARING. breadths of carpet, but by extending the drum and suction chamber whoi« carpets can be cleaned with the mam eaee and ragMMf; •prlagldil t«Mhm Qo ta _ Sixty substitute teachers were die- " trlbuted among the schools at the opening of the spring term in Chicago Monday to take the places of teachers who have not returned from their spring vacations or are on their way to Europe to spend the next tour months. Applications for leaves of ab­ sence have been less numerous this year than usual, only thirty-eeven having been granted, but of thto num­ ber twenty-one will sail for foreign lands. The average daily attendance of pupils in the schools of Ghtoa-- afc the end of April was 219,768. Fay*tta Conoty'a Karal IMIrajk The rural free delivery route from Browns town, Fayette county, has been In operation since April 1. Over one hundred metal boxes have been placed by the patrons, and the carrier ex­ pects to furnish half as many mora within the next month. Applications are In for two more routes to be sup­ plied from Brownstown. There are now six rural routes in Fayette county, three at Vandalia, two at Ramsey and one at Brownstown. ' Htltabor* C*M«tl ComHttaa*. v Mayor Henry Randle has appointed the following new committeea of the Hillsboro city council: Finance, Aid. Paden, Sharp and Mey; streets and alleys, Aid. G. A. Clotfelter, Canaday and Paden; water, Aid. Sharp, Mey and A. H. Clotfelter; purchasing, Aid. Sharp, G. A. Clotfelter and A. H. Clot­ felter; police, Aid. Mey, Sharp and Paden; ordinance, Aid. A. H. Clotfel­ ter, Canaday and G. A. Clotfelter. Itfklatart'i AdJowaMat Fl*a**s Dawta Now that the legislature has ad­ journed sine die, Rev. John Alexander Dowie may take a deep breath and pro- pare to pursue unmolested hto favorite employment. Not only did the legisla­ tive investigation into the management of Dowie's Zion City bank prove a failure, but the various bills to place private banks under state control atoo went by the board. Kx-Coarr*aamaa la VOrmer Congressman Oscar Tumor of the fifth Kentucky district and Miss Mary Jane Caldwell of Chatham.daugh- | ter of Congressman Benjamin F. Caid- well of the seventeenth Illinois dto- ; trict, were married Monday night at the Christian church, SpriagfleM* T ^ : SBM by a KOlag Wa. Jessie Bailey, aged 13, was instantly v killed near the Wabash railroad In Litchfield by being strwjk by = Will o on toot at C*at**lla. Proceedings have been commenced In the Marion county probate court at Centralis to contest the will of the late Robert K. Merkle. He left $20,000 In realty to his wife. Charles Kahl- hoffer of Chicago, a half-brother, to the contest .,„g pnnart eavtacs ^ ^ • aatchel containing $2,000, the sea- gon'a savings of Durno, the magician, stolen from the stage of the opera at Kewanee. ^ ~r'.;" Theater at F*orka lire destroyed the Auditorium thea­ ter at Peoria. The origin of the Olaaa to unknown. Adjacent property waa threatened for more than *n hoar, but the department kept the flames within bounds. Dr. W. A. Gray, the owner, estimates his loss at $35,000, with l»- of $30,500. 3mmm R. Brock, of Harried to Maggie Klsm. o<