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.v.; in uoronrine Iowed Yollar Josh lied How a i f ye, Bob : WtchesJ V® 5tier* ". THE people have fought a light. The town is reeking tlie fumes of carbolic acid, the gutters are white with lime. good with and For past the lines. Then, it can't live here--- there's too much of this carbolic acid and stuff. No. fever can't live here." "Well," remarked one more energet­ ic, "you folks are a set of fools. I'm going to get out of here. You can stay and have it if you want to, but I'm goin' out in the piney woods, me'n the old wotnan'n the kids. Good-by, I'm gone." And he strode rapidly down the street. The sun shone with a brassy tinge; the heat radiated, from the sides of the buildings. The man hastened on to his home. He passed an acquaintance, an old in­ habitant, and the patriarch remarked dolefully: "Hit's .fine weather fer yaller fever. Now I remember when it wuz so bad in '78, we had jest this yer sort of weather, en hit spread like " He looked around, and found himself alone. The man was going on up the street rapidly. The old inhabitant chuckled like some old fiend. "He's skeered," lie mumbled, "he's skeered plumb to death. I hain't; I had it in '78. Lawd, Lawd. how skeer­ ed th' folkses is! If I hadn't ter had hit, I'd be skeered, too. Yaller Jack's er a bad ole boy. er mighty savigerous ole cuss!" And chuckling and croaking gleefully he ambled slowly down to> where the stores were, that he might play upon the fears of the men there. The houses were all closed. It seemed1 as though theipe.was a death in every one. Even tfife ehiidraili^u the galleries were too fri^Jytened wjppy. The town was strangslj^sileut, The man iiurried on. In his imag­ inings, the, grisly specter of yellow fever was right behind- him, with .ts skinny clawB outstretched. Although the day was fearfully hotj a sort of ner­ vous rigor came over him. He stopped and mopped the drops of cold perspi - tion front vlils brow, Slid his heart throbbed violently. He bad heard it said that yellow fever always com: meuced with a chill and a pain in the head. He put his hands to his head nervously. It already pained him. He thought of his wife and children, and whether he ought to go to them or not. His eyes were.bloodshot and wild. lie leaned against a fence and tried to ! think. No. there was no way for him to have become infected. He tried to emerged from the depot office and ran i calm himself, and then continued on down the middle of the street toward j his journey. MID tJazette office. He had a message ' He entered the house. His. wife was fior the paper. As he passed the crowd j cowering in one room, with the cliil- «f men congregated on the street cor- dren. gray with fear, clinging to her. aer ko held the large envelope conspic- She had packed the trunks and in a days the preparations to resist the in­ coming of yellow fever have been in jwogress. All the time it has been creeping nearer, nearer. The papers teitl of the quarantining of the many towns, one against the other. At fiifst. train loads of wildly frightened people rushed by with closed doors and win­ dows. At last the trains ceased to run. Nowhere could an asylum of refuge be found. Every door was closed to the wretched wanderers, and every man's hund was against them. The lines were drawn tighter and tighter. The trains i discontinued. With them ceased from the outside world. There had been no mail for several dajn Then came a paper--and it bore the news that the elusive disease had gradually been spreading and was com- inc. closer. The strain was beginning to teO upon the people. The quaran­ tine guards were doubled and no per­ son was allowed to enter. In the town the Inhabitants congregated upon the oorncrs and talked fearfully. Each tried.to be brave and to show his com- pauIOou that he was not afraid, but each knew, what the other was think­ ing!. ^ . TWlne town was strangely quiet. Peo- pfe spoke in awed tones of voice. A few of the stores were open--the major­ ity of them were locked. Ever should "the fever come there was no place to which the people might go. On every 'aide were determined men guarding the Boods, and they were armed with shot­ ting, which they would use without hesitancy should one attempt to pass the lines. Every person viewed the other with suspicion. They were afraid of each other--of themselves. It was worth as much as a man's life for him to say he felt badly. He would be hus­ tled off to the pesthouse to die like a The weekly paper, in a spirit of en­ terprise. had undertaken to get out a daily issue during the excitement. It was a "yellow journal," for the fever was its sole topic. It got one or two ftiiort telegrams a day from more or less authentic sources, and these were andastriously padded out. One morning the telegraph boy with children. A happy-looking man, unkempt and rough-looking sat upon the seat driving,-and by him was his wife. The . old inhabitant was shuffling along, when lie looked up in surprise. Then he tottered out to the wagon and shook hands vigorously. • "How air ye, Bob? I swanny, I'm glad ter see yer 'n the old lady 'n th' chullen all lookin' so well. I 'lowed Yaller Jack had cotched ye shore." The man did not reply. He was look­ ing longingly at a house down the street. "You. wuz purty bad skeered that day I saw you, wuzn't you?" cackled the old inhabitant. "Yes," said the man; "thank God, I was." And he looked at his children and his wife and smiled. A moment later they were speeding on down the street and stopped in front of a home­ like looking house. The man leaned over and kissed the woman beside him. --St. Louis Republic. USEFUL PLANTS. ooiisly. The men shuddered as they eaogfrt sight of it. The Mayor came up and joined the crowd. He was the leading citizen and had the largest store in the place. He large goods box Was piled ail assort­ ment of provisions and cooking uten­ sils. In a few moments the wagon was ready. A pile of bedding and the trunks and provisions were placed in ?*egao to joke with them in a jovial 1 it. In a cloud of dust it vanished up manner. but he too had a hunted look. 25acli minute the scourge was coming | nearer. It slipped through the cordons j of determined men drawn about the towns. It seemed to be in the very air, | iavinclble in its onward march. Men! are brave when they have a foe they can fight, but in the presence of an un­ seen enemy they are cowards. The sun mounted higher and higher, The noon hour passed, yet the men did not thick of dinner. They are hungry for news. At last from down the street twosat&U boys bolted out from the Ga- asetie office holding in their arms a doz­ en or so copies of the "extra." "Kxiryr they bawled, "all about th' yaller fever. Twenty died yesterday-- aaxty new eases!" The men bought pa- pets* and devoured their contents in »er*«K» haste. It was the same old tale, of the onward march of the yellow death. There was not a rift of hope in sigh!. It was spreading, and was be- youd human control. "Wall," said the town drunkard--he Siad just had a drink. "I hain't skeered. Iter cole weather er eomiu' soon, en thetll fix Mister Yaller Jack." "Biir remarked the Mayor, solemn­ ly. "you're a fool. It's two months till frost. and in two months the fever'll be all ores- the face of the earth. And well bo. God knows where." f llie road leading to the pine forests that loomed up vast and dark and myste­ rious in the distance. The Mayor came hurriedly out o adore, He held a small sheet of y< f his How The fever had come. Insiduously, stealthily, it had crept in. There were at first only a few cases. They didn't know it was fever at first and the con­ tagion spread. Then one patient died, and the old doctor, after deliberating among the cobwebs and iodoform- fumes of his dusty and weather-beaten office announced it as yellow fever. There was a wild rush to get out of town. Men with blanched faces and staring, eyes rushed aimlessly about, each avoiding the other as far as possi­ ble. People were leaving the place on foot, on horseback, in wagons. The fright h!(jded'rtO; £he danger, and some were stricken as they endeavored to leave and wete'carried back to die. The church bell tolled constantly, and day after day the town hearse could bo seen wending its way to the lonely lit­ tle burying ground up on the red hill, where the pines whispered sadly. And the buzzards sat upon the house tops and waited, waited. There were few houses occupied. Most of them were closed, while some owners had left without shutting doors or windows; so great was their hurry. ..d\> i h i The frost had come. For three nights Vegetable Growths Upon Which Man Places Dependence. From the nature of the case, it is im­ possible to give with exactness the number of species of plants that have been employed for various purposes; much more is it impossible to mention in a brief enumeration all the human uses of plants. Root, stem, leaf, flower, seed, even spores, have been utilized. And there are numberless plants that contain some principle or value which so far has been derived from a few. Plants useful to man are estimated to number abont fifteen thousand. Among them are five thousand roughly classed as economic and food plants. The above includes eleven hundred edible fruits and berries, and three hundred edible seeds. Fifty are reckoned among the cereals, and forty as uncultivated edible graminoceonas seeds; Four hun­ dred and twenty are classed as vegeta-. blest- andi salads, and tw©> hundred and sixty are listed among the tubers. There are thirty-seven of the onion group, and thirty-two- of arrowroot. From thirtyTnine plants sugar may be obtained in paying qua;n>tiitiies. Vinous drinks are obtained1 from two- hundred plants; aromatics from two: hundred and sixty-six. Th?re aire fifty substi­ tutes for coffee, and one hundred and twenty-nine for tea. Tannin is present in countless plants, and lias been mentioned in one hun­ dred and forty-one, and caoutchouc In­ dia rubber) in ninety-six. The near relative of this substances, gutta-per- cha, named from one plant, lias been found in at least seven, white resin and balsamic gums are yielded by not less than three hundred1 and eighty-nine. There are ten wax trees and shrubs, and three hundred and thirty which have been made to yield essential' oils. From eighty-eight different plants, pot­ ash,"soda, and iodine have been extract­ ed, and six hundred and fifty are of use to the dyer, and to make ink. About three hundred have fibers that are of use in tlie textile arts. Forty- four or more are used in making paper. Forty-eight have been utilized in mak­ ing roofing preparations, and seven hundred and forty have been turned to account in miscellaneous building operations. Of ail plants known, only six hundred and fifteen are known to lie in any degree poisonous. Of grasses it estimated that there are nearly four thousand distinct species. Of these, fifteen arc used for lawn pur­ poses. For bay, there have been count­ ed as many as forty-five; Mr soiling, nine; for pasture, twenty-nine. For soil binders or soil builders, mention has been made of sixteen. WOMEN IN BUSINESS. CARROLL I). WRIGHT, in an ar­ticle in the Ch.autauquan on, "Are Women Hurting the GlianCes of Men in Business?" makes the following assertions:. "The fact is absolutely demonstrated that the proportion of females in all oc­ cupations followed is gradually in­ creasing, and that women are to some extent entering into places at the ex­ pense of the males. A.,closer study of all the facts, however, shows that while the statement just inadC is true, women are more generally taking the places of children. Through the influ­ ence of a higher intelligence and the action of law, the number of children employed in manufactures is constant­ ly decreasing. In 1S70 the percentage of children of the whole number of per­ sons employed in inanufacturing was 5.58, while in 1890 the percentage was only 2.(38. In very many classes, as children have been excluded through law and other influences, adult women have to some ex tent fa ken tliei r places. There.need not be any alarm, there­ fore, as to the encroachm< uts of women upon the occupations held by men.'"' J5il>s for the Baby.- It is claimed that the children off what is known as tlie i "400" wear cheaper and more serviceable articles of dress than those who. are less able to afford expensive ones. Be that as it may, it is certain that the little chil­ dren of the rich are noted for their tasteful dress, which is at the same time not in the least extravagant. In Gentral Park the other day. says an exchange, there appeared a nurse with the three little children1 of ai New York millionaire. They had' their lunch bas­ kets with them, and tliey wore little bibs that would attract your attention cliism, embroidery aud lace-making, and usually could read. But even in the eighteenth century men as culti­ vated as Rousseau denied the neces­ sity of education for women, while Na­ poleon shared the same idea. Even to-day Tolstoi thinks if a woman un­ derstands, the Bib'iC she has sufficient education, but happily Tolstoi is not an absolute dictator. Janet fcott's Long Journey. Journeying for a mouth across two oceans and one continent, a distance of nearly 10,000 miles, is a big task for a seasoned traveler, yet this is what a. r IK JANET SCOTT. • • • • V-V\ - . . « C |<s& $ £ rilll.u's llANWKKRCHIKK 1MB. Gnat Silenced His Voice. .T. ltussell Powell, the basso at Cen­ tral Avenue M. E. Church, was to have made his farewell appearance at tlie services Sunday morning, says the In­ dianapolis Journal, and a large number of the friends of the promising young singer had come to hear him sing his last song there. Mr. Powell had tvro of the best numbers in his repertoire for that morning and was in excellent voice when he reached the church, but a most curious circumstance silenced his voice temporarily. Just as Mr. Powell stepped into the church door­ way a small gnat flew into his none ,.nd caused him to sneeze violently, and iho sneeze brought on a .severe cough, which in turn ruptured one of the small blood vessels near t he vocal cords. He took his place in the choir, but soon found that he could not utter a sound audible live feet away. Mr. Powell left the choir, and a doctor, who was in tl« audience, was summoned to attend him. l«apcr in his hand--ano it trembled till j in succession tlie ^xiiind was white', the paper r&ttled. 'He was an ashy col-t The wewls- ^ere blackened and drear, «r. mad Iris eyes , had a strained look and the.lea,ye§ were falling fast. The dwut them. He walked rapidly to the fever could live 119'longer. corner where the idle men congregated. They saw him coming, and a sort of j ferrous tremor went over them. "Boys," he said, "it's coining; I. just xok this telegram from tlie Mayor of C&riHfc--you know that's only fifteen lnHist away. It says there are live cases «it® re. There was a silyi'uce for a moment or ftxtvand then someone ejaculated slow-. j|y solemnly: "Cod have mercy on «*r Ttiff others could hardly comprehend St. They expected it, yet they could not itctalaze that it was actually so. "It can't get in here," said One, re- CectiYcIy; "it ain't possible for it to get One by ouC the stvogghvrs came back. Where\W1IO1Q families had, gone away, one or two members would return. Some were never heard of again. A few skeletons lying iiUdtr the magno­ lias and bay trees in'the, lowlands, and the buzzards sailing,ftliWhlly above in the deep blue sky cotiid'have told tlie tale. . "Y'} , . Some of the itore6ci'eop,ened aud some remained closed, for.-tWre was no one to undo the rusty locks. Some of the houses worfi'the sanle. • The people wlift returned were saddened and cowed. They had passed through, the Valley of the Shadow.>t,,y,-.i.,»-> . Eminent Stammerers. A great many people do not know that Moses, the prophet, stuttered so badly that Aaron, his brother, did most of the talking for him. It may also be balm to some people who stammer to know that Aesop, Virgil and Demos­ thenes were likewise afflicted. Demos­ thenes is said, to have cured himself by learning to talk with a pebble in his mouth. Mrs. Inehbold, tlie famous English actress, was another who tri­ umphed over a difficulty of speech. More than one of the French Kings have been stammerers, as were also Claudius Michael II., Emperor of the East; Mahomet-el-Rassor, King of Spain; Eric, King of Sweden; Admiral Aunebant, Tartaglut, the Italian ,en gineer; Boissy d'Auglas, the painter David, the critic Hoffman, Camillo Des- moulcris and a host of others: * A man may be self-possessed and still Down the ^ti'cet came a wagon filled , not have any taxes to pay. right, away because they were so pret­ ty. They were made of linen handker­ chiefs. and their pattern lias been ob­ tained for the benefit of the woman's department. Don't (live Iioby Mamma's Name. Young matrons should hesitate be- forV giving or allowing their husbands to give their own baptismal names to one of their little girls, as they will find later on that it will involve them in numberless complications and bring about an actual loss of identity when the child becomes an adult. With boys the use of ".Ir." obviates the greater part of this difficulty, giving a recog­ nized distinction in the signature or address, and the masculine parent lias only to endure the indignity of being called "Old Bob" or "Old Ilarry." as the case may be. when the youth takes his place in society. A woman, however, lias no such pro­ tection to her perstHialitv. If she signs her name to a mute the answer is apt to come to her daughter, while the hit­ ter's cruder efforts are ascribed to her. oftentimes to her great annoyance. An­ other irritating sequence of such no­ menclature is that the mother ceases to be called by her first name (a dis­ tinctive mark.of young womanhood) much sooner that, she otherwise would. She is forced' to abdicate, so to speak, before she is ready to resign the pleas­ ant familiarity which makes her feel as if she still belonged to the younger et. Overcoming the ?toop. Many growing girls, especially tluv.e tnli for their age, are inclined to stoop, and well-meaning persons often advo­ cate the use of braces or shoulder- traps as a means of correcting this. The braces may force an upright car­ riage, but they do not give the wearer any means of maintaining it. since they prevent the exercise of those muscles which should be trained to produce an erect figure. Any exercise which strengthens the-muscles of back and diouldcrs will aid in correcting this defect. Tennis, handball, shuttlecock and battledore, or even a vigorous game of l>ean bags are excellent for this purpose. Old-fashioned mothers used to drill their stooping daughters in walking with a plate carried on their head, and this is really a good practice. High pillows and very soft mattresses are blamed as an aid in producing this defect, and without doubt, a fiat, rather hard bed, with low pillow is preferable for growing children. A stooping,. wk- ward walk detracts so mucn from the appearance that there is eveyy reason to avoid it, apart, from the bad effect it exercises on the physical condition. For the Descontented Woman. In the middle ages women were taught to "pray and obey." In Rus­ sia. where one of the proverbs is that "a hen is not a bird and woman is not a human being," the woman of the middle ages was instructed in alj things by her husband, who is recom­ mended in a book of tlie time to im­ press his orders upon her with the aid of a whip. A big religious congress gravely discussed the question wheth­ er or not women had sfouls. Four hun­ dred years ago. when^ woman's posi­ tion had somewhat improved, she was «oiii;Vu!-bred and taught the vauv- bo-nnie Scotch lassie, who has seldom' been many miles from her home be- fov«-,. has been doing to meet her sweet­ heart. Her name is Janet Scott, and she is front Edinburgh. Seven years ago John S. Mwfirhead left this bonnie lass in Scotland' and crossed the seas to make his fortune. He settled in Honolulu, and1 lVi» sweetheart in Edin­ burgh waited! yea® after year for him to make a-'sufficient sum to warrant their marriage The time often seem­ ed long, but love was strong in the heart of Jla^iet, and patiently she look­ ed forward- fo>the time when their sep­ aration should end. A few weeks ago she received word from her betrothed that the time for their union' had come, and lie asked her to hasten to the home he had in readiness for her on the island in the Pacific. Miss Scott waited for no sec­ ond bidding; She crossed the Atlantic, came over tlie continent and in San Francisco boarded the steamer Mari­ posa to take her to the man she loves, Benefit from a Good Cry. A well-known physician says that women derive a good deal of benefit from a good cry, and asserts that if many who are always complaining of feeling unwell would shed a few more tears than they do they would not feel so poorly. He says the benefit derived is partly due to the increased depth of respiration and the improvement in the often languid circulation thereby in­ duced, but to a large extent it is the re­ sult of the muscular exercise involv­ ed. by which the general vascular ten- sin, and especially tlie blood pressure iu the brain, is much reduced. The profuse flow of tears no doubt also acts strongly on the cerebral circulation in still further reducing tension. The sob­ bing movements, again, have a good influence upon the venous circulation in the abdominal and pelvic viscera, which the exhaustion produced tends to cause sleep, and thus to give the nervous system its best chance of re­ cuperation. Bewitching Bows. 1.--Restoration collar in batiste, edg ed with a narrow double ruche. Cra­ vat of black satin., 2.--Linen collar with velvet stock and niousseline tie sole bow. M.-- Collar with double round­ ed points, ornamented with tine ein- broiderv; lSMO cravat in silk plaid. v To Whiten the Teeth. A homely set of teeth will spoil the prettiest mouth ever fashioned after •Cupid's bow string. On the other hand, a common plain face becomes positive­ ly attractive when the lips open and disclose two rows of clean, well-kept ivories. They need not be like denti­ frice advertisments, and tlie "pearls" of the old-fasliioned heroine aye in this practical age but lightly esteemed. But there must be about the well-brooiued mouth a wholesome, cleanly look. Pre­ cipitated chalk will keep the teeth in fine condition. Have a lex of it al­ ways on your toilet stand and see what it will do toward freshening up a dingy mouthful of teeth. A Good Thing to Remember. An unmarried woman, in writing to the New York Herald, in answer to the question, "Why dou't men marry?" remarks that neither sex belongs ex­ clusively to the "angel nor devil fam­ ily." If married folk always bore that in mind perhaps wives would receive more reward for good deeds and hus­ bands more mercy for bad ones, and there would be fewer unhappy mar­ riages. <•: SECRETARY WILSON'S WORK. A Year's Operations of the Agri­ cultural Department. ^ Secretary Wilson has presented his re­ port to the President reviewing the opera­ tions of the Department of Agriculture for the past year. The moyt important recommendation made by0him is one that agents for the department should he sta­ tioned at each, of our "more important American embassies for the collection of information of interest to American farm­ ers. Referring to this subject, he says: "We are endeavoring to fec-t information j froiii foreign countries with which- We compete in the markets of the world, re­ garding crops and prices. We are also taking steps to ascertain what crops are grown on different, thtfimal Ti.rjes so that seeds and plants mivy intelligently be brought to this country to assist in the diversification of our crops and add to their variety. There is necessity for American agents in every foreign, coun­ try to which we send representatives, who have had education in the sciences relat­ ing to agriculture. The agricultural col-, legos endowed by Congress are educating along these lines." • The Secretary tefers to tlie efforts, of the department to extend the foreign mar-, ket-s for our dairy and live stock products, which he thinks can be*done by mailing the foreigners familiar with them." In­ stead of sending abroad for-seeds he says the policy in the future will he "to en­ courage the introduet:.ioin-of such sBeds as will .enable wir -po'ople to; diversify, their crops and keep money at home that is no\y sent abroad to buy >vbat-..the-Unit­ ed States should produce/V - - Mr. Wilson says the department will eoiitiimc'lts pioneer work in the en con r- agement of i lie stigar beet and expresses the opinion'that the country will within a fe\v years raise all the sugar it requires. He expresses the opinion that nearly all of the 8*382,000,000 sent abroad last year for sugar, hides, fruits, wines, animals, ri.ee, flax,- hemp, cfteese, wheat, barley, beans, eggs' and silk might have been kept at home. He also thinks the United States should grow their own chicory, cas­ tor beans, lavender, licorice, mustard, opium, etc. • - - With /Xerence to horses tile Secretary says: "The American farmer can grow horses- as .cheaply as lie can grow cattle. We have a heavy and profitable export trade in cattle and may have an export trade equally heavy and profitable iu Horses. The department is gathering facts regarding our home industry at home and the requirements of purchasers abroad, so that our farmers can learn what foreign buyers demand." The most important work in which the animal industry bureau has been engaged is,.he says, that looking-to the destruction of the cattle tick, for which, it is believed, that an agent has been found in a petrole­ um product known as paraffin oil, in which infected cattle arc dipped. The extens ion of the meat inspect ion to nbot fo i l ' s engaged in in ters ta te bus iness i s recommended; as i s the cont inuance of the inspect ion of expor t an imals in order to mainta in the market which has been secured for them in o ther count r ies . The Secretary criticises the present sys­ tem of crop reporting. lie says it is ex­ tremely cumbersome. He recommends the employment of a principal statistical agent in each State. i CHICAGO MORSE SHOW. Society Turns Out in Force on the Opening Night. Ten thousand enthus ias t ic Chieagoans gave emphat ic approval to the i r f i r s t horse show in the beaut i fu l ly decora ted and br i l l ian t ly i l luminated Col iseum. Socie ty on the opening n- ig l i t f i l led the boxes and graced the ' spac ious promenade which en­ c i rc led the r ight . I t was fu l l an hour ^ X .TIIF. ClJNTAfn OF TO-PAV. af ter the opening before the p laces of honor were t i l led by many Chicago nota­ bles . The bes t , the handsomest , the f lee tes t and the most a r i s tocra t ic members of the fami ly of horses were ga thered to rece ive the i r admirers dur ing the week. The Col iseum had been decora ted e labora te ly , music added to the a t t rac t ions of the show, and near ly $ .">0,000 wor th of pr izes wore g iven to successfu l compet i tors . The event was of unusual in teres t , and pre­ sented an a t t rac t ion of the grea tes t in­ te res t . The horse less age is s t i l l fa r in the fu ture , a l though recent invent ions have ' removed th is fa i thfu l and in te l l i ­ gent an imal f rom many f ie lds in which he was former ly usefu l . The success of ex­ hib i t ions of the horse in many c i t ies has demonst ra ted the in teres t which i s fe l t in the noble animal . I&f Grays iu Fashion. Of all the colors that the. season seems likely to make famous none stands a better chance than gray? It promises to be popular not only on jts own account, but as an aider and abet­ tor to other colors: in other words. In combinations. . Flatterers are often dangerous; a bee always buzzes loudest when he Is stealing °a flower's honey. 'Oambliiig-maida is npvv accepted in FKance as a ground for divorce. After all, the ideal foot-ball colors are Mack and blue. The health department of Baltimore wants- kissing abolished "on the ground that, it is a public menace." Why pub­ lic? " The country hears less of General Miles since he came home than when he was abroad. He was more popular when lie was Miles away. A St. Louis newspaper contains an ad­ vertisement reading as follows: "Wanted: A woman to cook." Is this a result of the Luetgert trialV Kansas women are setting the fashion of .removing the hat upon entering church!; It is an old custom to avoid the hat at church services. And now the professor of chemistry at the University of California says he can make gold from silver. If "so many per sons can do that why don't some of them do it? In Oneonta, N. V., the other day a pros­ pective bride called off her wedding at the last, n-oment because she saw a ciga in her low 's .vest pocket. Then what be­ comes of the pleasing assertion that love is blind7 ' ^ That Colorado man who has sued for divorce because his wife has cold feet seems to have imagined that marriage is one' long, sweet hascburner. He should at least have waiifel for the usual Jan­ uary, thaw. o " NASHVILLE EXPOSITION ENDS. Ringins Bells and Booming Cannon Sound the Adieu. The Tennessee Centennial Exposition closed Saturday night, the event being Jie.ralded by the ringing of chimes, the blowing of whistles, the booming of can­ non and the sounding of horns in the hnnds c.f young and old. There were many thousand of persons on the^ grounds, the attendance during the entire day having been large. < T]'? events of the closing day included concerts in the afternoon at the Woman's Building and iu the Auditorium, large audiences being present. At night inter­ esting exercises were held in the Audito­ rium. The building was packed, although the exercises did ,not begin until 10 o'clock, and were concluded only at mid­ night. Addresses were delivered by Hon. Tully Brown, G. H. Baskette, Director General Lewis, Mrs. Turkman, president of the woman's board, apd President Thomas. The speakers reviewed the his­ tory of the exposition, and congratulated-- the people of Tennessee upon the succes3 attending the great show. The speaking was followed "by a salute of sixteen guns in honor of the first sixteen States of the Union. At midnight the chimes rang, the; whistles blew, the' horns sounded and the exposition was closed. ' The total attendance at the exposition since the opening on the. first day. of last May is estimated at 1,750,000. President Thomas officially announced that the ex­ position will pay out dollar for dollar, and this promptly. The largest day of the exposition was President J. W. Thomas day, Oct. 28. The attendance was 84.- 493; this is nearly "30,000. more than the .attendance at Atlanta on, their red letter day. The estimate of attendance by the chief of the bureau of promotion and pub­ licity 2,000,000. and his limit would have bejya surely reached but for the senseless yellow fever scare. Not a sin­ gle casualty occurred at the exposition during the six months of its existence. The order maintained at the exposition was magnificent. Dr. Charles W. Dabney, president of the Government commission, on behalf of all trie Government officials 6ent a long communication to the executive commit­ tee, in which lie paid high praise to Pres­ ident Thomas,. Director General Lewis and Chief of Promotion and Publicity Herman Justi, for the great work .per­ formed by them' and also thanking them for their uniform kindness to everyone connected with his department. HAS IT COME AT LAST? Is This California Treatment the Lions- Looked-For Consumption Cure? Sixteen consumptive patients, who had been healed by Dr. Joseph O. Hirsch- felder's lymph, called oxytuberculine, were examined last week at Cooper Med­ ical College, San Francisco, and a coun­ cil of the best physicians decided that in every case marked improvement had oc­ curred, and that in some a cure was sub­ stantially effected. One of the worst cases was that of Thomas H. Williams, a wealthy young horseman, to whom was allowed six months only of life by Chi­ cago experts. He was so much reduced when he began that he panted at the least effort. Now he can waJk five miles with ease or run up stairs. Dr. Levi C. I^ane, founder of Cooper College, said in regard to Hirschfelder's cure: "Lam absolutely certain that Dr. Hirsehfelder has made one of the great­ est discoveries of modern times. His consumption cure is marvelously effective. At a meeting of tlie faculty of Cooper Medical College I appointed a committee to investigate the cure. The committee consisted of nearly all the members of the faculty. Sixteen of Dr. Hirschfelder's pa­ tients were examined. Their oral state­ ments were token. Some of them were stripped and careful, minute physical ex­ aminations were made. Fourteen were found completely cured, and the other two showed marked improvement. "This is the first detailed inquiry as to the cure that has been made by a com­ mittee of doctors, but when Dr. Hirseh­ felder announced his discovery last April to tlie State Medical Society, forty per­ sons whom he had been treating with his cure sat in the hall for three hours and not one of them coughed during all that time, though they had had consumption in the first, second and third stages, be­ fore treatment began. Some of the pa­ tients who were cured came from long distances to give their evidence to the committee on account of their gratitude. They are from 21 to 35 years old. and. among them are women as well as men. It had been demonstrated with the micro­ scope in each case that they were infect­ ed with germs of consumption before treatment began. It was shown that these genus were absent before treatment was ended and afterward." , ,, ,, Dr. Hirsehfelder prepares! iiis" !ljnriph from veal in which 1 uKercuHn-e is inject­ ed, and he appears to have solved the problem which Koch attempted to solve. He has spent $30,000 in three years hia experiments. -'.l'- .'.t- jg \ SOUTHERN TRADE PROSTRATED By the Yellow Fever Bugaboo in Many of the States. < A very distressing .state of affairs exists in the States of Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana on account of the yellow fever plague. These States have quarantines against each other. . Commerce has been almost entirely abandoned in the southern half of these States and the railroads have practically ceased running. The plague coming at the beginning of the cotton marketing season will work an injury that it Will probably require several years to rejxrir. TTKTpanic that follows the announce­ ment of a case of yellow fever in a South­ ern town cannot be imagined elsewhere. This disease is the Southern bugaboo. It is a mysterious malady that travels al­ most entirely by night, and tbe physi­ cians have never learned much about it. The disease in each epidemic is so differ­ ent in its manifestations from what it Avas in preceding epidemics that the phy­ sicians are almost invariably misled in diagnosing the first cases that appear, and the plague is epidemic in most places be­ fore it is recognized as yellow fever'. This has been tlie experience of al­ most every city that has been affected this year. Montgomery, Ala., had about fifty cases, it is believed, before the ex­ istence of tlie disease was announced by the Board of Health. Under the State quarantine law every town, city, ha pile t and community stood quarantined against Montgomery. The people became panic- stricken at once. ^The trains from there had to pass through ihe State without stopping, but as rapidly as they could be filed into stations they were loaded down with passengers. The mad rpsh has con­ tinued almost up to this time. To!<2 in a Few X.isc9. William Carr, a farmer of Liberty, Mo., was arrested on a charge of having drowned his 2-year-old daughter. The supposed grave of ,Kve is visited by over 40,000 pilgrims ia cmvh year. Those1 people will "never go back on mother." The wife of Julius Jagot, a saddler of Berlin, Germany, has eloped with Ed-, ward James, colored, of Jacksonville, Fia. The couple took with them 300 masses °ba- lonying to the woman's husband.