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Show 1 INDEPENDENT. GRAND MEMORIAL FOR " CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS 5 P1L I UkCoWUC dUCINCb I IN 1 CHAT ABOUT STATESMEN I. C. Publisher. SUNiNY LAND OF AEXICG? OF NATIONAL PROMINENCE I 1 S a X-S V B L I aVa a a 1 .A 1- dikiP.vii ff rr v . pa 1 X In ' ordering two new battleships Chile has demonstrated that she ia' not so chilly. The Chinese General Ma has been defeated by the rebels. Now give General Gen-eral Pa a chance. - The New York man who shot his son's wife for making a poor omelet was evidently a bad egg. The J3.000.000 hotel to be erected right opposite the Yale campus will be quite a gorgeous new haven. The New York farmer who caused a bull to gore his wife to death has made Nero seem more human than ever. i-jj-s. Daisy Gentleman of Chicago has sued for a divorce. She sets up the claim that he is merely a "gent" Mrs. Astor has discovered that she la now in th same class with the favorite fa-vorite parrot that talked too much. The death is announced of the leading lead-ing medical expert In the treatment of diseases of the heart from heart disease. Prince Henry wishes to come back Incognito, perhaps for the purpose of discovering if we really eat 5100 doners do-ners every day. A movement Is on foot to admit men to membership in women's clubs. Thus man is gradually rising to equality with the other sex. It still remains a fact that few things are surer in this world than death and les barrine war taxes. They are more or less mtemment. But the parents of that Indianapolis baby that has been named "Prince Henry" needn't think the whole country coun-try 3s going to kotow to it The first railroad locomotive was capable of going twelve miles an hour, and Its speed was felicitously compared to that of a rocket. A Kansas man theorizes that Eve was tempted by a man instead of a serpen ser-pen But why revive the old scandal at all? Think of the family name! A Brooklyn, minister has started In to prove himself entirely different from other ministers by asking that his salary sal-ary be" reduced from $10,000 to $8,000 a year. Although authorized by its congress to do so. the government of Chile will not Issue any more paper money at present. Is the printing press out of repair? , After all what does the courting of American favor by- European powers mean but a recognition of the silent,' steady and irresistible growth of republican re-publican ideas? A Tennessee judge has declined a renominatlon after holding public office of-fice for forty years. It can't be possible, pos-sible, however that he is quitting because be-cause he neds rest OflawS' KuML1 - ""Vmuch mtraey to him. Mr. Morara' can reach up into the air almost anywhere and pull down more money than that The successor to Gen. Lukban In the Island of Samar has surrendered, having hav-ing heard very enticing reports as to the character of the rations issued at American headquarters. Three society women of Washington patronized a Paris tailor and found to their chagrin that their gowns, were alike. Perhaps they will patronize home Industry hereafter. The riots are the order of the day in China, probably because the courts will not Issue injunctions against the tax collectors. Civilization is still a few notches behind the times In China. Somehow it always seems as If K was the man with a small salary who has to sacrifice some of It in times of retrenchment Perhaps the theory is that he has so little he won't miss it. The 10-year-old caddie who is suing a New York minister for $5,000 says that the minister hit him on the head with a golf ball on the links last summer. sum-mer. A minister playing golf should exercise self-restraint in many ways. , The west is fast losing its individuality. indi-viduality. The Arapahoe bucks are preparing to celebrate Easter in "tan shoes and long frock coats, silk hats and red ties," which combinations combina-tions were once affected by eastern .aldermen, and the squaws are buying "silk and satin and hat decorations, as their sisters hereabout are. Fashion Fash-ion makes the whole world kin. Kansas is glad to announce that it has had rain enough for the present 'A Sumner county paper says: "The wheat is standing in a loblolly and the happy farmer is wading about his acres taking an inventory of his wheat crop." '. An arithmetic man calculates the newspaper and periodical output in the United StateB at 2,865,466,000 dailies, 1,208,190,000 weeklies and 263,452,000 monthlies; total, 4,337,108,000 copies, an amount of printed matter equal to 2,000,000,000 average novels. There may have been some method in the madness of the Kentuckiau .who asked Senator Deboe for "a copy of every public document issued since the government was established." establish-ed." He may have desired not to perform per-form any prodigious reading feat, but to set up a paper mill or to spread the literature under carpets. Galveston county has voted for an Issuance of $1,000,000 in bonds for a sea wall. It is all right to lock the stable door after the horse is stolen provided you have got another horse. Turkey flatly refuses to pay anything any-thing on Uncle Sam's claim against the Bulgarian brigands. Neither restitution res-titution nor liquidation has yet found a place in the sultan's vocabulary. A medical journal asks if the stomach stom-ach "ever becomes tired." We would respectfully refer the inquirer to Dr Heinrich Hohenzollern of Prussia. As soon as the excitement over'Eas-ter over'Eas-ter hats shall subside, the male portion por-tion of society will take up the subject sub-ject of spring shirt waists. New Adulterant for Stock Food. 'A communication from the Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania station says: A sample of bran was submitted to the experiment station, a short time Blnce, for examination, with the statement state-ment that horses and cattle would not eat it Chemical analysis showed the presence of 8 per cent of protein and nearly 36 per cent of fiber or woody matter, whereas average bran contains 15.5 and 9 per cent respectively, of these constituents. Particles of yellow, yel-low, tough, parchment-like substance were present in large quantity; they proved, upon microscopical examination, examina-tion, to be portions of the Inner seed-coat seed-coat of the coffee berry. This has recently re-cently been put upon the market as a cattle food under the name "corna-line;" "corna-line;" according to analyses by the New Jersey experiment station it contains con-tains only 2.5 to 3 per cent of protein. J& to .7 per cent of fat and about 60 per cent of fiber; so that it has an extremely ex-tremely low value for feeding purposes. pur-poses. Dr. Wlnton, of the Connecticut experiment station, to whom a portion, of the sample was sent for examination, examina-tion, states that he had received, only a day or two earlier, a sample of bran from Massachusetts that proved to be adulterated with the same material. Its .microscopic appearance is highly characteristic; the Inner seed-coat of the coffee having, when magnified by thirty or forty diameters, a peculiar marking that much resembles that of the skin on the ball of the fingers. No other such adulterant possesses this distinctive marking Wm Frear. Wheat as Stock Feed. The following table Bhows the number num-ber of pounds of digestible nutrients in 100 pounds of both corn and wheat: Carbo- Proteln. lbs. hydrates. Fat lbs. lbs. 69.2 1.7 66.7 4.8 Wheat 10.2 Corn 7.8 The superiority of wheat over corn for young stock evidently lies in the extra amount of digestible protein which it contains. As seen above, each 100 pounds of wheat contains 10.2 pounds of digestible protein while the same quantity of corn has only 7.8 pounds. This shows the wheat to contain con-tain 30 per cent or almost one-third more protein than the corn. The wheat also excels the corn. The pounds per 100 in the digestible carbohydrates car-bohydrates (starches and sugars) it contains. The excellence of corn for fattening comes from Its extra per cent of fats to the protein as compared com-pared with wheat, the corn having about 10 pounds of these two ingredients ingredi-ents to each pound of protein, while the wheat has only 7. The Maine station sta-tion obtained better results from feeding feed-ing ground wheat to dairy cows than from corn meal. Both were fed in connection with timothy hay. I am convinced from a number of years' experience ex-perience in feeding wheat to cows at the Utah station that it Is fully equal to corn, if not superior for that purpose. pur-pose. Luther Foster, Wyoming Station, Sta-tion, Borne Feed Values. The following table shows the digestible di-gestible protein and carbohydrates in a flumber of our most common feeds: L Carbohy- f' ''Protein, crfates.' Green Fodder Corii fodder 1.10 12.08 Corn silage 56 11.79 Rye fodder 2.05 14.11 Oat fodder 2.69 22.66 Timothy 2.2S 23.71 Millet 1.92 15.63 Red clover 3.07 14.82 Alfalfa 3.89 s- 11.20 Kentucky blue grass .... 3.01 19.83 Orchard grass 1.91 15.91 Cowpea 1.68 8.08 Soja-bean 2.79 11.82 Hay and Dry Fodder- Corn fodder 2.48 33.38 Corn stover 1.98 33.16 Rye straw 74 42.71 Oat straw 1.58 41.63 Timothy hay 2.89 43.72 Millet hay 4.50 51.67 Red clover hay 6.58 " 35.35 Alfalfa hay '. 10.58 37.33 Kentucky blue grass hay 4.76 37.33 Orchard grass hay 4.78 41.99 Cowpea hay 10.79 38.40 Soja-bean straw 2.30 39.98 Wheat straw 80 37.94 Baying- Animals. Too many men wish to settle the purchasing question by a certain financial fi-nancial standard, rather than that of first finding the individual suited to their needs and then talking cost afterwards. aft-erwards. Too many men desire to buy stock at hardly above butchers' prices, and express no, willingness to pay a premium to the man who is offering them animals that have been produced at great cost and effort We all need educating, but such men need it a little lit-tle more than others. One thing it will always be safe to recommend, and that is, if at all possible, purchase no stock until you have first personally .Inspected it It is an unsafe thing to rely on some one else to select that for you which is to be used to develop and improve your stock. We differ in our Judgment, and each man should as much as possible rely on his own rather rath-er than on another's judgment in buying buy-ing stock. Do not buy animals because be-cause they are cheap. Buy because you need them and they will do you good. Pay for quality rather than quantity. Get a good thing rather than a poor one, and do not find fault if you get a poor animal when you have paid the price for that kind. Prof. C. S. Plumb. The creamery manager may think that he has not the time to devote to telling the patrons of his creamery how to take care of their milk. He should, however, consider that any time put Into this work means labor saved in other parts of the work. The purer the . milk the easier will it be to make good butter from it Missionary Mis-sionary work must be done along this line and the missionary Is logically the man In charge of the creamery or factory. - - Hones in Argentina, With a population of 4,780,000 the Argentine Republic possesses 5,081,000 horses. It is the only country in the world that has a horse for every Inhabitant In-habitant ' Vanity is the daughter of selfishness. selfish-ness. Although ordinarj wood alcohol is a poison, Ohio is the only state which prohibits its sale on that account - Every farmer should make a study of seeds as $o vitality. With many there is a sort of fatality as to the germinating quality of their jseed3. They take It for granted they will grow. (Special WALK through a pueblo in some, remote district of Mexico will soon convince con-vince you that Byron was not dreaming when he said "A man may be rich in his poverty." Surely it is emphatically proven among these peons of the Southern Republic. No hut or jacal is too poor to be the pride of its proprietor, even though it be made of straw and clay held together by supple twigs. As you pause at his door (the only opening of his abode) and look in you are greeted with a cheery welcome and invited 1 enter. After a few moments' conversation your attention is called to the baby who loves cen-tavos cen-tavos (pennies). Of course you can't resist, and surrender your change. As you bid them , goodbye they tell you to come again soon, as "cqui tiene su casa" (here you have your house) a pretty ccmpliment used by all Mexicans Mexi-cans for mansion and hut alike. In this dwelling place, which rarely rare-ly consists of more than one room, you can always find besides the legal occupants, the pigs, dogs and chickens. chick-ens. Perhaps the senora has a little candy stand just outside the door or maybe she is one of the tortilla makers for the market. They always are busy, but prefer the occupation of switching flies off their dulces (sweetmeats) (sweet-meats) to making for their children. They are very economical dressmakers. dress-makers. The mother buys five yards of calico, makes herself a dress and with what is left clothes her five or six children. Her senor buys himself a sombrero and with what remains out of the little sum he has collected he purchases a suit of clothes. If he got the hat at a bargain he buys a ready made, but if not he brings home a few meters of white cotton and his .wife does his tailoring. Monday is the universal market day of Mexico. Thoy will waik all Sunday night to the nearest large town or city carrying their wares on their backs. Some of their loads would stagger a horse. A man will carry twenty-five two-gallon jugs and dozen chickens on his back In a huge aet The f ner crockery is packed in straw in a kind of crate. A woman will carry one of these weighing seventy-five pounds, and a baby besides. The youngest child is carried in a sort of sling made of a relalsa until it is about fourteen months old. Then he scraps for his own living with his numerous brothers and sisters. One scene in a market place I have particularly in mind. Pretty Indian girls were selecting silver earrings, wrinkled hags crouched by great jars of tamales with a pile of cabbage leaves to use as wrapping paper, swarthy mozos were buying sombreros which they put on over the old ones, brown babies rolled in the sun among the neaps of mangoes and bananas, servants with baskets were driving hard bargains in vegetables, with an eye to a margin for themselves, gossips gos-sips chattered blithely as they balanced bal-anced -their brimming pitchers on the fountain rim. one whole walk was spread vith rush sleepivg mats, a beautiful Indian girl with a skin like brown satin made a pretty color study behind a great heap of yellow pumpkin pump-kin blossoms. Yet the picturesque and the pathetic are hopelessly confused in Mexico. A hoardof gaunt, famished curs ran about among the booths, their nose3 to the ground, searching hungrily for any scrap, of refuse. They seemed to belong to no one and they never cast so much as a beseeching glance at persons who were eating; they evidently had no experience exper-ience In being fed' by human hands. A low-browed, heavy-set man, with a great black leather lash, dia nothing but steal upon the poor brutes K i jfs of Market Place 1c Tolaoa, and send the whip curling about their bruised, emaciated bodies. He bore aimself with tnc consciousness of duty well performed and no one else of high or low degree paid the slightest slight-est heed. I regret to say that it is all too common in Mexico to see animals ani-mals treated brutally. A society for the prevention of cruelty simply would not know where to begin, there are so many abuses to reform. Every town has a market place built by the state. A11 are under cover and well kept Stalls are rented by the day by the peons bringing in their stuff for sale. The Indians usually have beautiful baskets, and laces and all are sold at ridiculously low prices. The moment a stranger appears in the market place he is Instantly besieged to buy a cabbage, bunch of onions, piece of pottery, oranges, baskets, combs, lace, writing paper, in fact every conceivable article that he doesnt want or need. If he is unmindful un-mindful 'of their offers there Is one chance left He is surrounded fcy a group of little ones whose . pathetic sweet voiced "Un centavo nlno," and .-.;-e V TTKOCrKKKV K MIRKS. ' "' Y 3 Kfl 3 f .1 1U Letter.) tiny outstretched brown hands win day. Some of these little ones are tremely pretty, especially between ages of ten and thirteen, with fli developed chests and very straight bodies. The Mexican peon is a very haSpy being, contented with his lot and fma little ambition to better himself. Ifrn-less Ifrn-less urged by the authorities, he-4gesj not care to educate his children. S3 iililipp Special Delivery. in ere are many excellent pul schools all over Mexico, and splenVii opportunities for learning, thanksyto the strenuous efforts of their beloved President Diaz. F. E. A. WRIGHTto A Viewed by the Departing- Prliotyj, The Rev. Samuel S. Searing, chaplain chap-lain of the House of Correction, South Boston, frequently has" amusing experiences ex-periences with the prisoners who come under his care. He is required by law to have an interview with every man whose time has -expired and who la about to leave the house. It is the chaplain's duty to give the departing good advice and to exhort him to be a decent and honorable man in the future. In the course of one of the interviews inter-views the chaplain said: "Now, my friend, I hope you'll never have to come back to a place like this." The prisoner looked at him thoughtfully thought-fully and then asked: "I say, chaplain, chap-lain, you draw a salary here, don't you?" When Mr. Searling replied In the affirmative, the prisoner remarked: "Well, say, if me and the other fellows didn't keep coming back you'd be out of a job." The Professor's Proposition. The professor suddenly arose from his rocking chair, pushed his spectacles specta-cles up on his forehead, and went toward to-ward his wife with the expression and air of a man who had at last come to a final decision. "Now, listen to me, wife," he said. "And I do not want you to oppose me, do you hear?" "Yes, dear; what is it, then?" "Now, no opposition, mind! I wish the boy to be an "But, my dear, about? We haven "Oh vps til at that," said the professor as sumed his seat in the rocking This perfect example of th minded type has been transf the Norwegian wee Short Stories, without loss of ini uality. Youth's Companion. Dae to Nervousness. y "The constant blinking of the eyes is due to nervousness, and unless it Is nipped in the bud it will develop into a positive affliction," says an eye specialist. "Naturally, blinking is necessary to clear and moisten the eye. By natural blinking I mean about ten to the minute. The nervous blinkers, on the other hand, will often get a hundred twitches of the eyelid in a minute, which enlarges the tiny muscles and sets up an irritation that eventually affects -the sight Many children seem to acquire the habit unconsciously, un-consciously, and parents do not exercise exer-cise sufficient care in trying to break them of it" " Bard oa Senator Fryo. Senators Frye and Proctor are enthusiastic en-thusiastic anglers aaid every year the latter goes trout-fishing in Vermont at sunrise on the 1st of May. The other day Mr. Frye was sitting in his chair in the senate gazing at the celling when he was handed the following note: "Dear Frye How can you sit there when the ice is out of the lake? Proctor." Senator Frye sighed so loudly upon reading this missive that his colleagues felt sure he had received re-ceived bad news. Attends Daoghter'a Golden Wedding- Mrs. Nancy Irwin Butterworth of Warren county, Ohio; has Just enjoyed the probably unprecedented experience nf aftonrtinp' hpr daughter's rolden wedding. The latter, Mrs. Foster,' rv I sides in Athens. Tenn., and Mrs. Bui- terworth traveled thither alone from j her Ohio home. She is 92 years old but is still wonderfully spry. f la. SPIRIT OF THE F. Wellington Ruckstuhl, the sculp tor, has just completed a bronze group, called "Spirit of the Confederacy," for the Confederate Soldiers' Home and Cemetery at Higginsville, Mo. The group is thirteen and one-half feet high and represents a dying soldier ENGLAND'S BEAUTIFUL DUCHESS Wife of Duke of Sutherland Makes New Social Cut torn. The Duchess of Sutherland, who has made a new social custom by leav- tng informal Invitations to her dances on her calling cards, is one of the four daughters of the fourth Earl of Ross-lyn. Ross-lyn. Tnese sisters a few years ago created a furore In British society by (heir flawless beauty. Lady Millicent, the present Duchess of Sutherland, married the present Duke of Sutherland Suther-land in 1884. She is to-day one of the most stately and beautiful matrons in all England. " Unique Charitable Works-Germany Works-Germany seems to take the lead in novelties of a charitable nature. In the town of Haschmann prizes are offered of-fered yearly or the men who will marry the ugliest, most crippled, and the women over forty who have been jilted at least twice. The money was left by a big financier, and he, realizing realiz-ing that beauty Is an attraction hard to overcome, made a provision in his will that out of the incomo of the fund not less than $90 shall go to the ugliest girl in any year and the cripple shall receive $60. The four women over forty who have been jilted by a lover receive, when the funds will permit, $50 each, but the trustee can vary this amount and at his discretion offer a larger prize to someone who will marry an unusually ugly girl or one to whom nature has been specially special-ly unkind. " What Is the Shamrock? During recent years literature has been. atn-ndant in the attempt to prove ftnat the clover could not have been the ancient shamrock of the Irish, but that it must have been the Oxalis ace-tosella ace-tosella The main argument has been that the clover was an introduction from the continent of Europe and could not have been in Ireland at the time. A correspondent of the London Gardener's Chronicle, W. G. S., goes over the whole literature of the subject sub-ject He shows that it was not until 1830, when J. E. Bicheno, a former secretary of the Linnaean society, started a doubt on the subject in a paper read before that society. W. G. S. quotes from publications, with their Couldn't Fool Lord Kelvin. One of Lord Kelvin's favorite experiments exper-iments while teaching natural philosophy philoso-phy at the University of Glasgow was to spin an egg which wa3 suspended in the air. If the egg were hard boiled it would spin a long time; otherwise, owing to the friction between its contents con-tents and the shell, its motion would soon cease. Lord Kelvin inferred from this that the interior of the earth can not be a fluid, or the globe's rate of rotation would have been checked long ago. Once the students substituted substi-tuted raw eggs for the hard boiled ones provided for the experiment Not one would spin properly, but Lord Kelvin Kel-vin was not to be fooled. "None of them boiled," was his only comment In Memory of Gladstone. The library erected at Hawarden by national subscription to perpetuate Mr. Gladstone's memory is rapidly approaching ap-proaching completion. The site is the one chosen by Mr. Gladstone himself tor the temporary library in use before his last illness. It stands near the church, on an eminence overlooking the Dee 'estuary. COIfFEDERACT," ' reclining in the arms of Fame, who holds aloft the crown she will place on his head. It also suggests the splendid splen-did services -of the Southern woman, who, by her Spartan spirit, nerved her sons to the last measure of self-sacrificing devotion. dates, going back hundreds of years, showing clearly that the shamrock was clover and nothing else but clover. Indeed the correspondent shows that in very early Christian times, long before St. Patrick's birth, the clover leaf was used as an emblem of the Trinity. Meehan's Monthly. PASTOR CHARGED WITH HERESY JUet hodlit I ivine Avows Belief in Doe-trine Doe-trine of Relociirnation. Rev. Columbus Bradford, who must answer a charge of heresy for his advocacy ad-vocacy of the doctrine of the reincarnation reincar-nation of souls, is well known in Chicago, Chi-cago, where from 1896 to 1900 he was pastor of St. Paul's Evangelical church at Longwood. Until his recent dismissal dismis-sal he was pastor of. the Methodist Episcopal church at Okawville, I1L, "Tina was remarked for his very liberal opinions in religious doctrine. Dr. Bradford finds grounds for his belief in reincarnation in the passage, "Ye must be born again." The human race, he says is in process of rising from animalhood to angelhood. He thinks that the soul is born again and again into new bodies and this action continues until all possibilities of human hu-man development are exhausted. These views and their elaboration Dr. Bradford has incorporated into a book which has shocked the religious sensibilities sen-sibilities of the Southern Illinois conference.. con-ference.. The case will be prosecuted by Rev. L)r. J. W. Van Cleve of East St Louis, and an adverse decision is regarded as almost certain, owing to the extraordinary character of Dr. Bradford's teachings. The Impressionable Englishman. Some years ago an Englishman "visited "vis-ited Washington and met a statesman belonging to the minority party, who gave a most startling account of the corruption existing in the government and the terrible struggle he had had against it. "Do you mean to say, sir," asked the stranger, seriously, "that you are the' only honest man in the American government?" "Well," replied re-plied the statesman, stroking his beard meditatively, "I wouldn't go so far as that There may be four or five more somewhere." Took for Like Good Fortune. William Halleck Deming, a wealthy citizen of San Francisco, called a friend up by telephone one morning, and was much Impressed by, the soft and gentle tones of the girl at the central cen-tral office. He managed to make her acquaintance,, found that her entire personality, was in close harmony with her voice, proposed and wa8 accepted. The former "hello" girl will travel in Europe with her husband this summer and San Francisco business men have lately noticed a strange sweetness in the voices of the girls still in the central cen-tral office. Scruples That Tost Much. Tolstoi has always been a warm admirer ad-mirer of the Russian Society of Friends. Upon the publication of "The Resurrection," he gave orders that all the money brought in by the book should be turned over to the friends. ' Recently the official representative repre-sentative of the society returned the large sum sent them, explaining that as the book was indecent the friends could not accept the proceeds of its sale. (Special ENATOR KITTREDGE of South Dakota is a slave to duty. He wanted to go to the baseball game on the opening day, but he stayed at the Capitol like a good boy, who would -not play "hookey" for anything in the world. If there is one thing upon which Senator-Klttredge fairly dotes it is a baseball game. He knows .all the lingo of the diamond, he can tell the percentage of any player, and keeps the history of the baseball field at his tongue's end. Consequently the opening open-ing day of the ball season appealed to Mr. Klttredge. He has not missed the opening day for many years. But Mr. Klttredge had work to do at the Capitol, and so the game went on without him. "What would my ronltituehls'say," remarked Mr. Klttredge, Kltt-redge, "if they learned that I was out at a baseball game when I ought to be attending to my work." There is a ping pong table in Senator Sen-ator Hanna's house. It is set in the large reception room down stairs, where there is plenty of space for the players. In the Hanna household the game is now all the rage. Mr. Hanna does not participate in the fascinating sport He stands off and applauds the clever strokes of the players. , Someone asked him the other night to keep score. "Keep score?" queried the Senator. "I don't know how." "Why, it's just like scoring tennis." "I never played a game of tennis in my life," confessed Mr. Hanna. Chile's new envoy, Mr. Walker Martinez, Mar-tinez, has won golden opinions In the few months of his residence here. As a matter of fact hg is one of the cleverest clev-erest statesmen in the South American republic he represents and was a potent po-tent factor in the overthrow of the ambitious am-bitious Balmaceda. At the recent Pan-American Pan-American Congress he played a conspicuous con-spicuous part and he has served his country both in Argentina and Brazil, where he succeeded in re-establishing the friendly relations that were broken off at the time the republic was founded. found-ed. -Mme. Martinez and his four children chil-dren accompanied him to Washington. - One of the expert gardeners In the agricultural department has been sent to the white house to trim the rose bushes In the flower garden just west of the president's residence. He had been working for an hour or so when a man in a slouch hat with a short coat buttoned close up to his neck approached the gardener and offered some suggestions. "You are cutting those bushes too closely. There won't be any flowers on them this year," said the stranger. "That so?" asked the workman, as he continued snipping off the twigs, "well, I have been trimming rose bushes for thirty years and if you knew as much about this job as I do you might be doing it yourself." The other man turned on his heel and walked into "the white house, where he entered the president's private pri-vate room, sat down at the president's desk and went to work at his own job- Representative Burkett of Nebraska was formerly an Iowan, and he well remembers his first visit to the state of which he is now a citizen. "When was a boy," said Mr. Burkett Bur-kett recently, "I wa3 a great baseball crank. I was the catcher on the nine of the Missouri Valley College, and we went over to Nebraska to play against a nine in the Tri-State League. Iowa was a prohibition state, whereas in the town of Blair, where we made our first appearance, liquor was plentiful. plenti-ful. Our nine, I am sorry to say, yielded to temptation. When the game was called I was the only sober man in the party. I remember that the shortstop, in trying to stop a grounder, fell down and did not get up for twenty twen-ty minutes. When the score stood 76 to 0 against us we gave up." Mr. Burkett has never lost his love for the game, and may be relied upon to constantly grace the grand stand with, his distinguished presence. Senator Tillman pronounces the Mm a, Sldkey Bey. Wife of Secretary, Turkish Legation. word "gyrate" as if the "g" was hard He says "guy-rate." So does Senator Foraker. When the pronunciation rell upon the ears of JJenator Hoar recently he shrugged his shoulders. He is a stick ler for correct English, and it was remarkable re-markable that he did not express in the open senate his sorrow at hearing a word mispronounced. "It is 'ji-rate,' " he said later, when someone asked him about the word. "But" he added, "I haven't the time to play schoolmaster here." The defeat of Representative Woolen Wool-en of Texas leaves his colleague, Albert Al-bert Sidney Burleson", without a rival as to the wearing of a Napoleonic lock. Upon Wooten's classic head are only a few scattering hairs, but these are carefully brushed down to the middle mid-dle of hii forehead, so that they duplicate dupli-cate the pictures of the Napoleonic fashion of hairdressing. Mr. Burleson Burle-son also has a curl right In the middle of his forehead, and his smooth-shaven features intensify his resemblance to the great French soldier. With Wooten out of congress, Burleson will stand alone as the possessor of the Napoleonic lock. - Senator Hernando de Soto Money of Mississippi, who recently achieved unenviable un-enviable notoriety because of his fracas with a street car conductor, is an ex-Confederate soldier and a planter plant-er of means. Before entering the senate sen-ate he served six terms in Congress, and is prominent in the ' councils of his party. He was born in Mississippi t ti A m - ' 1 ft' Letter.) - and has lived all his life in the states His home is at Carrollton. Among the recent visitors to Washington Wash-ington is Governor Douglass H. John- ston, chief of " the Choctaw Nation, who comes to the capitol in the interest inter-est of his people. He is a tall, handsome hand-some man, showing in his straight and erect bearing and the manner he has of carrying himself his origin, but in no other way is his Indian parentage parent-age suggested. Governor Johnston has been a most successful executive) officer. His tribe give him their full confidence -and are firm in their belief be-lief that he will do the utmost fur their welfare. The governor also represents rep-resents the Chickasaws, who are closely close-ly related to his own tribe, from which, it Is thought, they originally r- iT1?"- ' Senator Money. sprang, since the tribes speak a simi lar language and share the sa ends and traditions. An old gentleman was wandering the other day through the old library portion of the capitol. He was lost. Presently he met a senator. "I want to go to Senator Quay's room," said the old gentleman, "and I have lost my way. Can you help me?" "Certainly," was the reply; "I will show you." And so the senator carefully piloted the old gentleman through the devious passageways and helped him into the elevator and finally conducted him Into Senator Quay's room. "This is Senator Quay's room," said he to the stranger. "Whom do you want to see?" "Senator Quay," was the response. "I am Mr. Quay," said the senator. The old gentleman nearly collapsed. FATHER SPANKED THE WRONG BOY Detroit Man Acted a Little Hastily la Administering- Pnubhment. A Detroit man was traveling with his son, and, wishing to transact some business with the conductor, he said: "Now, Willie, I'm going to be away just a few minutes. You sit right here and don't move a bit If you do, I'll spank you good and hard. So don't stick your head out of the window. You might have it taken off. If you ffo"rThen yotTwOufdn't have any head, and you'd get a spanking besides." The father went away to find the conductor. After a few minutes he came back. There was little Willie, just his feet and the seat of his trousers sticking in through the window. He appeared to be more outside than inside, and whenever a telegraph pole whizzed by and looked especially close he would make a lunge for it, as if trying to catch it The father did not hesitate. He made a' grab for the boy just as the latter made a lunge for a pole. He pulled him in by the heels, laid .him over his knees, and began to fulfill his promise. The little fellow yelled and yelled until he almost drowned out the noise of the train, but during a lull in the uproar the father heard a snicker behind him. He laid the boy down and turned to see what it meant There, two seats behind and across the aisle, was his son, with two fingers stuffed in his mouth to keep his merriment mer-riment in. The man rubbed his eyes, and looked t-gain, but there was no mistake. . He looked at the boy in his lap. Behind Be-hind the tears v, as a face he had never seen before. He had spanked some other man's son. Peculiarities of Chinese. A San Francisco writer gives the following examples of the independence independ-ence of Chinese cooks: "I knew one who, being asked by the mistress of Yta Timica in mnVe a enn nf rnfff for axcaiapT.cwHMK;ifc!u mib to De be-, neath his dignity and preferred to dismiss dis-miss the fellow with a gratuity out of his own pocket. The same man, being presented by the master of the house with a handful of cigars, did not accept "them without politely intimating in-timating that he had plenty to give away to his friends. Nor must I fall to record that this individual, who was notorious for the economical methods he followed out in kitchen management, gracefully refused an offer of-fer of Increased wages on the grounds both that he had no need of the money and that the expenses of his department depart-ment were, he conceived (in his delightful de-lightful pigeon-English), already sufficiently suf-ficiently heavy." The Single-Rail Railroad. The first practical trial of a new system of the single-rail railroad Is to be made at the Crystal Palace, London. Lon-don. The line, which is to be one and a half miles in length, willjje worked by electricity. The difference between this system and the prevalent type of monorail is that the line is on the ground and large wheels projecting from the middle of the carriage run on it, while on each side of the carriage car-riage there are safety rollers upon guide rails. In the monorail the line is elevated, with the carriage overhanging over-hanging on each side. . A Witty- Daellnttloa. ' A New York club determined to give a planked shad dinner "in honor of the heroes of the war with Spain." Among those invited was a volunteer officer who distinguished himself during dur-ing the brief "spell of fighting in Cuba. His reply to the club secretary included in-cluded this sentence: "I am obliged to decline your kind invitation, as I am neither a hero, a shero nor a shadroe." The man who halts between a gues3 and a think-so generally depends on some other man to do his brain work.' t , 4 |