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Q "7 ? j i i T i f ft PRESIDENT'S PROCLAMATION. Document Opening to Settlement the Wichit and the Kiowa, Comanche and Apache Reservations. Feontne Is the President's proclama tion opening: the Wichita, and the Kio wa. Comanche and Apache reservations to settlement: Br the President of the United States of America: A PROCLAMATION. Whereas, By an agreement between the TVichita and affiliated bands of Indiana on the one part, and certain coinmiaiuou ers of the United States on the other part, ratified by act of Concrete approved Alaxch 2. 1S9S 2 mat., b.o. &, lUe said Indians ceded, conveyed, transferred and rajiiuquiahed, torever and absolutely, w Kn out any reservation wnatever unto the United Stales ot America, ail iheir claim, title and Interest of every ainu and cnar acter In and to the lands embraced in me loiiowir.g described tract ot country now in the territory of OKlahoma. to wit: Commencing at a point in the middle of the main channel of the Washiua, river. Mr the baih meridian of weal Ioiiki tude crosses tne same, thence up tne middle of tne main channel of ssaiu river laa i tie line of ie degree and 4t minutes test lotia-nuue. thence on said Una ot 8 degreea and 40 minutes due north to the middle of the channel of the mam Cana dian river, thence down the middle of said main Canadian river to where it crosds the SSta. roeridtaa. thence uue soutn to the place of beginning. And whereas all of the conditions re Quired by law to be performed prior to tne opening of said tracts of land to set tlement and entry have been, as 1 bere l" declare, duly perlormed. AIOIST TUE BAY. Now, therefore, I. William McKinley. Presiuent of the L'mted St-ates of Antri c, by virtue of the power vested 1" me by law, do hereDy declare and make known that all of the lanus so as azore. mid ceued by the Wichita and affiliated bands of Indians, and that Comanche. vi wa and Apache tribes of inaians. re spectively, saving and excepting sections sixteen, thiriy-aix. tnirteeii and tnirty mree in eacn townsmp. ana all lanas located or selected by the territory of Oklahoma as indemnity school or edu auatlonal lanus. and saving and excepting ail lands allotted la severalty to individ ual Indians, and saving and excepting all lands allotted and confirmed to religious societies and other organizations, and aaving ana excepting the lands selected and set aside as grazing lands tor the use in common for said Comanche. Kiowa arid Apache tribes of Indians, and saving and excepting the lands set asiae ana re served at each of said county seats for disposition as town sites, and saving and excepting the lands now used, occupied, or set apart for military, agency, scnool. school farm, religious. Indian cemetery, wood reserve, forest reserve, or other public uses. will, on the oth day of Au icust. at S o'clock a. m.. in the man ner herein prescribed and not otherwise, be opened to entry and seaUlemeni and to disposition under the general provisions anf the humestead and town-site laws of Uie United Stales. Commencing at i o'clock a. m.. v ednes Aay, Julv 10. 11. and ending at C o clock p. m.. r'rldMV- July 26. 11. a repistration will be had ihe I nited Stales land ct fices at Kl Keno and Lanton. in the ter ritory of Oklahoma (the office at Uwtoi. to occupy ) . ('visional Quarter s in the im mediate vicinity of Fort Sill. Oklahoma territorv. until suitable quarters can be provided at Lawtoni. for the purpose of ascertaining what persons desire to en ter, settle upon, and acquire title to any of said lands under the homestead law. and of ascertaining their qualihcations so to do. Ine registration at each ofliee will be for both land districts, but at the time of registration each applicant wul be lequired to elect and state in which dis trict he desires to make entry. To ob tain registration each applicant wia be required to show himself duly qualified to make homestead entry of these lanrti tinder exiftln laws and to cive tho registration officer such appropriate mat ters of description and Identity as will protect the applicant and the government against any attempted impersonation. ieari strati on can not be effected through the use of the mails or the employment of an atfent. excepting that honorably discharged soldiers and sailors entitled to the benefits of section 134 of the re vised statutes of the I'nited States, a.i amended bv the act of Cnngress approved March 1. l'01 C1 Stat.. WTl. may present their annlications for registration ant". due proofs of their qualifications throuch an agent of their own selection, but no person will be Trmitted to act as agent for more than one such soldier or sailor. N'o person will be permitted to register more than once or in any other than Ills true namf. Each BroHz-ant who rhows himself duly qualified will be regis tered and given a non-transfrab!e certifi cate to that effect, which will entitle him to go uin and examine the lands to be. opened hereunder in the land district in which he elects to make his entry; but the only purpose for which he may go upon and examine said hands is that of enabling him lritwr on. as herein provided, to tmderstandinelv stlct the lands for which he will make entry. No one wi.l be permitted to make settlement u;on any of sid lands in advance of th" opening herein provided for. and during the first sixty days following suld open ing no one but registered applicants wll! be j-ermilted to make homestead settle ment upon any of said lands, and then onlv in pursuance of a homestead entry dulv allowed by the local land officers, or "of a soldier's declaratorv statement t'uly accepted by such officers. OT DRAWINGS. The order In which, during the rst sixty days following the opening, the reg istered applicants will be iermlttel to make homestead entry of th- lands opened hereunder, wiil be determined by Orawinr for both the El Reno and U ton districts publicly held at the United States land office at El Iteno. Okla.. com mencing at 9 o'cloc k a. m., Monday. July J5. and continuing for such jx-riod as may be necessary to complete the same. The drawings will be had under the supervision and Immediate observance ol n rommltt"' of three persons whose Integ rity is such as to make their control af the drawing a guaranty of Its fairness. The members of this committee will be appointed by the secretary of the Interior, who will prescribe suitable compensation for their services. Preparatory to thes---drawings the registration officers will, at the time r,t registering each applicant who shows h!mself duly qualified, mako out a crd. which must be signed by the applicant, stating the land district In which he a'esires to make homestead en try, and giving such a description of the applicant as will enable the local land officers to thereafter Identify him. This card will be at once sealed In a separata envelope, which will bear no other dis tinguishing Inbel or mark than such as may be necessary to show that It is to go into the drawing for the land district in which the applicant desires to make entry. These envolooes will be separated according ta land districts and will be careful I v preserved and remain sealed un til opened in the course of thai drawings as herein provided. When the registra tion !s completed all of these sealed en velopes will be brought together at the place of drawing and turned over to the committee In charne of the drawing. wh . In such manner as In their Judgment will be attended with entire fairness and equality of opportunity, shall proceed to THOUGHTS FOR EVERY DAY. Inopportune consolations Increase a deep sorrow. Rousseau. Fortune does not change men; It unmasks them. Mme. Necker. If you can not do what you like to do. try to like what you have to do. Two good ru?e3 for life are: Never be discouraged; never be a discour ager. Ariel. Shun idleness; it is the rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals. Voltaire. If all hearts were frank, just, and bonest. the major part of th virtues would be useless to us Moliere. How many languish in obscurity who would become great If emulation and encouragement incited them to exertion! Fenelon. If people would but do what they bave to do, they would always find themselves ready for what came next. George ilacdonald. Beware of him who meets yon ni-Ui a. friendly mien, and. in the midst uf a cordial salutation, seekf to aroid your glance. La rater. draw out and open the Seagate envel opes and to give to each Inclosed card a number In tne order In which the en velope containing the same Is Jrawn. While the drawings for the two districts will be separately conducted, they will occur as nearly at the same time as is practicable. The result of the drawing for each district will be certified by the committee to the officers of the district and will determine the order in which tho applicants ma)' make homestead entry of said lands and settlement thereon. Notice of the drawincs statinc the name J of each applicant and number assigned to mm ty the drawing will be posted eacn day at the place of drawing, and each applicant will be notified of his number by a postal card mailed to him at the address. If any. given by him at the time of registration. Each applicant should, however, in his own behalf, em ploy such measures as will Insure his obtaining prompt and accurate informa tion of the order in which his application tor homestead entry cin be presentee as fixed bv the drawintr. Applications foi noma, stead entry of said lands during the nrst sixty days toliowing tne opening can be made onlv by registered appli cants, and in the order established by the drawing. At each land office, com mencing Tuesday. August 6. lstol, at o'clock a. m.. tne applications of those drawing numbers 1 to 15. inclusive, for that district must he presented, and will be considered In their numerical order during the tirst day, and the applications of those drawing numbers lZo to -!m. in clusive, must be presented and will be considered in their numerical order dur ing: the second day. and so on at that rati- until all of Kaiil lands subject to en try under the homestead law. and desired thereunder, have been entered. If any applicant fails to appear and present his application ror entry wnen tne numoer assigna-d to him bv the drawing is readied, his right to enter will be passed until after the other applications aswigned for that dav have been disposed of. when he will be given another opportunity to make entry, tailing in wnicn ne win M omd tr Hiivo nhandoncd his right tn maka entrv under such drawing. 1 0 obtain the allowance of a nomesteau en- trv each applicant must personally pre- sent the certificate ot regisiranoii inc.- tofore issued to him. together with a Ftlar homestead application and the necessary accompanying proofs, and with the regular land orace fees, out an non- -aKii- diachirpi-; soldier or sailor ma hie his declaratory statement through the agent representing him at the registra tion. The production of the certificate of registration will be dispensed with onlv upon satisfactory proof of its los sidr:ng his regular application for entry luaTrornmag 0' of these lands, his application win be trat.ond' Tl'Li&i0 more than once hereunder, or in an or destruction. If at tn time oi con ether than his true name, or shall trans fer his registration certificate, he will therebv lose all the benefits of the regis tration and drawing herein provided for. and will be precluded from enterinig or trilling upon any of said lands during the tirst sixty days following said open ing. THE MTTEAL STRIP. Because of the provision of the said act of Congress, approved June 0. liwu: That tlie settlers who locate on that part of said lands called and known as the "neutral strip' shall have preference riirht for thirty days on the lands upon which thev have located and improved the said lands in the "neutral strip" shall for the period of thirty day after said openirg be subject to homestea! en try anal townsite entry only by thoim who have heretofore located upon anu im proved the same, and who are accorded n preference right or entry tor tnirty days as aforesaid. Persons entitled to make entry under this preference right will te i-armitted to do so at any time during said period or thirty days follow lng the opening without previous regis tration, and without regard to the draw ing herein provided for. and at the ex piration of that period the lands in said "neulr.il strip" for which no entry shnll have been made will come under the ganeral provisions of this proclamation. The intended beneficiaries of the pro vision in the said acts of Congress, ap proved, respectively. March II. 19;i. an: .Tune 6. lia-j". which authorizes a quallfie entryman having lands adjoining tt ceded lands, whose original entry em braced less than lw acres, to enter o much of the ceded lands as will make his hnmrstead entry contain in the se gregate not exceeding 1G0 acre. may ob tain Fuch an extension of his existing entry, without previous registration and without r-card to the drawUig herein provided for. only by making appropriate application, accompanied ry the necessary proofs, at tne proper new land office tt some time prior to the optning herein provided for. Any person or pernors desiring to found, or to susreest establishing, n town site upon any of said ceded lands at anv point not fti the near vicinity of either of the county sats therein heretofore selected End d'-slrnRled us aforesaid, mav at anv time before the opening herelr provided for. file in the proper local lund a-ffice a written application to that effect describing bv legrtl subdivisions the lfar.ils Intended to be -fTected. and statinc fully end unn-r oah ttie necessity or nronrieta.- of founding or establishing a town at thai place. The local officers wU) forthwith transmit said petition to tne commls sioner of the general land office with th-i recommendation in the premises. Furh commissioner, if he believes the nubl Interests will be subserved thereby, will, if the secra-tary of the intairior annrove thereof. Issue an order withdrawing the lanns flescr.oen in sucn petition, or any portion thereof, from homestead entrv pnd settlement, and directing that the rnme be held for the time being for town site settlement, entry, and disposition only. In such event the lands so with held from homestead entry and settle ment will, at the time of said opening and not before, become subject to settle ment, entry, and disposition under th ceneral townsite laws of rhe a'nlted States. None of snid ceded lands will be subject to settlement, entry or dlsnosl tion under such general townsite laws except in the manner herein prescHbl until sfter the expiration of sixty days from tne time or saia opening. TOWN SITES. Attention Is hereby especially called 1e the fact that under the special provision of the said act of Congress, approved March 3. ISO!, the townsite selected and designated at tlva county seats of the new counties Into which said lands have been formed can not be disnosed of tin dcr the general townsite laws of the T'nlt"fl States, and can only be dispnsnd of in the special manner provided in said act of Congress, which declares: "The lands so set apart and designated shall. In advance of the opening, be aur veved. subdivided and platted under thf? direction of the secretary or the Interior into appropriate tots, blocks, streets, nl levs and sites for parks or public build It.irs. so as to make a townsite thereof: Trovlried. That no person shall purchase more than one business and one residence lot. Such town lots shall be offered and sold at nubile auction ta the highest bid er. under the direction of the secretary I WISE OR OTHERWISE. No philosopher can give a reaso.i for half that he thinks. A man without a conscience is a man without principle. The high premium on honesty proves that it is the best policy. Pride and folly cost some people more than their actual necessities. Spite enables the fool to believe he is happy in his unhappiness. A good business qualification is the ability to attend to one's own business. No man is truly great who i3 unable to realise how insignificant he real ly is. Good humor is the blue sky in which the stars of talent brightly shine. Some people seem to think they are bestowing a favor every time they smile. Physicians sometimes enable men to postpone the payment of the debt of tatura. Tie smaller the wife's pocketbook J the ofteser the kitshEnd i cHed upoa to 3 it. I f tha Interior. t sales to be had at the f opening and subsequent thereto." I All persons are especially admonished that under the said act of Concress. ap proved March S. 1S01. It is provided that no person shaH be permitted to settle upon, orcupy oi enter any of said eedul lands except in the manner presafrlbed in thta; proclamation until after the ex piration of sixty days frqm the time when the same are opened to settlement and entry. After the expiration of th said period of sixty days, but not before any of said lands, remaininig undisposed of may be settled upon, occupied and en tered uadty the general provisions of tlu tiomestead and townsite laws of tht United States in like manner as If the manner of effecting such settlement, or rupancy and entry had not been pre scribed herein Ui obedience to law. It appearing that there are fences around the pastures into which, for con venience, portions of the ceded lands' have heretofore been divided, and that these fenf?s are of considerable value and are still the property of the Indian tribes ceding said lands to the United States, all persons going upon, examin ing, entering, or settling upon any of said lands are cautioned to respect such fences as the property of the Indians and not to destroy, appropriate or carry away the same, but to leave them undisturbed so that they may be seasonably removed ind preserved for the benefit of the In dians. The secretarv of the Interior shall pre scribe all needful rules and regulations necessary to carry into full effect the opening herein provided for. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of th United States to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington this 4th day of July, in the year of our Lord 1!01. and of the independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-sixth. WILLIAM McKIXLET. Bv the President: JOHN HAT, Secretary of State. IN THE FLOWER GARDEN. Many Groups Iare Greater Attentloa ThM They R -celva. Among the most popular flowers of to-day are the lovely peonies In va ried tints of rose, pale crimson and purple. The petals of some varieties are as large as saucers, and being of a Krinv texture, and drooping in i ,.. t 1enl fciuceiui iuiuo, ".lw.. " or attention. It IB pleasing ii th trAft roniea wm arrow In mat tnese tree peonies will siuw i- I aDv good soil Without much trouble. BhOU'd be found a place in every garden. They give a fine effect In beds on lawns, or may be grown in pots and taken Into the conservatory at the present season when at their fullest beauty. Some of the newest kinds measure nine Inches across the bloom. These peonies die down in autumn, and start growth with renewed vigor in spring The gold-flowered Ethio- pian lily is another beautiful thing that ladies procure as a fitting com panion to the pure white variety. There is also quite a novel pink flow ered form, but as yet quite rare; It was discovered recently in Rhodesia. Many dwelling houses are now adorned with the lovely climbing Wisteria sinesis, which is unequalled for the purpose when in flower. The fine pendulous ra cemes of a rich lavender color remind one of a bunch of grapes from the way they hang on the branches. They are produced so Hrely that at the pres ent season there seem more blossoms than laves. The Wisteria is quite hardy and Its stems extend to a great length each summer. Young p;anrfl can be bought very cheaply, and we strongly recommend this elegant climber to those who do not know it. A group of pretty flowering plants that deserve greater attention than they receive are the double-flowered ivy leaved geraniums. Few plants compare with them for balconies or window boxes or to hang down from stagings in the conservatory or from baskets; the foliage alone is handsome. whilst the flowers which are prodU2ed so freely, right through the summer. are both bright and lasting. They look magnificent when trained along trellis work in sunny positions. THE PRICE OF CHOCOLATE. Much Cheaper in Araerl than IB Countries Where Grown. When, on drinking your cup of choc olate at breakfast, you find a sediment deposited in the bottom of the cup, you may feel sure that this insolubla stuff is the adulterant with which the chocolate is cheapened to such a de gree that the beverage far from its source of production costs less than It does in the place where it is produced. In Sou en America the retail pric e for the better grades of chocolate averages about ?1 per pound, while in Italy, France, England and in the United States the better grades sell at a much lower price. In America the ordinary chocolate sells for about one-third of the price that is charged for it where it Is produced. The cause of this, the producers say, is that the original product ts adulterated greatly before reaching its final market, a cheaper ar ticle than the cocoa bean constituting the large proportion of 90 per cent of the chocolates of commerce. The cocoa bean from which chocolate Is manu factured is produced in Its finest form in Venezuela, though various other parts of Central and South America grow and export large quantities. Tw9 crops of the bean are gathered each year, and the manufacture consists simply in grinding up the beans Into mal and then adding sugar and arrow root, with the necessary flavor usual ly vanilla or cinnamon. The mass is moistened until It is in a semi-fluid state, after which it is run Into molds of the proper shape. New York Press. Miarlc Barrymore'B Witty Retort. The clever wit of the recently de mented actor, Maurice Barrymore. Is still the foremost subject in the circle of the unfortunate man's friends. On one occasion, when Barrymore was visited by a number of friends, one of them dropped a 50-cent piece on the floor, and. search high and low, the money could not be found. "Won der where it went to!" one remarked. "Went to the devil, I guess." said the loser. "Trust you for making 50 cents go further than any one else," said Barrymore. New York Times. Never Pronounced Capital rnnlnhmcnt. The late Baron Fitzgerald, an Irish judge, who was on the bench for twen ty j-ears. never once pronounced a capital sentence, and Lord Morris, who sat for twenty-two years, never hanged a criminal. Weight of Crack Oarsmen. At an unofficial weighing in London. the University of Pennsylvania creir totaled 1.274 pounds, an averaee of 159 pounds. The Leanders average 174 pounds. ElepKants Feet J The feet of elephants in captivity have to be looked after carefully all the time, and once or twice a year, anyway, specific treatment is required to keep them in order. If the elephant is in a traveling show, where he is do ing more or less marching in street parades, and it may be in moving from place to place on the road, his feet are worn down to something like what they would be in nature. In such a case they would have to be regularly overhauled only once a year, at the close of the winter season. In the case of elephants remaining in one spo all the time, in a stationary men agerie, where they would do no marching, and would scarcely wear their feet down at all, their feet are looked after twice a year. A captive elephant on the road might suffer in his feet from stone bruise, or might pick up a stone, or a tock. or any one of forty things; or he might have corns or have something the matter with his toenails; or possibly have suffered the loss of a toe nail by some accident. From some such injury the elephant might go lame, or suffer otherwise. It might be that the foot would need to be protected under treatment, and there is used for such purpose a ba? with a shirring around the top. which, drawn over the foot, and up a little on the leg above it, can be closd around the leg to keep out gravel or anything else that might otherwise work in and ir ritate the foot. This elephant with the sore foot would, of course, be spared all the walking possible. He would not ap pear in the parade, but in the case of a railroad show, for instance, he would on arriving at or leaving a show town, limp along with that bag over his foot from the car to the show lot. or from the show lot to the car, by the shortest way. Incidentally the elephants' feet are being looked after all the time; the annual or semi-annual over-hauling is to keep them down to their nat ural proportions and conditions and make them less liable to injury. In its general shape the bottom of an ele- plant's foot is somewhat like a blunt ed oval. The sole is a flat pad or cushion, tough, but elastic, being of a gristly or cartilaginous character. Commonly this pad would be about an inch in thickness. The elephant's to?s do not project separately out beyond the rest of the foot, but are virtually inclosed within the front rim of the foot, their presence marked by the toenails, which are in appearance as much as anything like big black hard- 'She Mysterious LKsssl With the hope that he may ulti mately penetrate the mysterious Thib etan city of Lhassa. Dr. Berthold Lauf er, who is connected with the Museum of Natural History. New York city, is about to renounce the world and his friends for the solitude of a Buddhist temple. He will leave in a few days for Pekin. where he will settle in a Lamaistic monastery to live the life of a recluse and to be among the priests, studying their language, customs and ceremonies. He hopes to obtain one of their official degrees which would facil itate him in his attempt to reach th holy city of Lhassa. All the specimens he can secure will be sent to the New York museum. Dr. Laufer believes that in view of the increasing commercial relations between China and the I'nit ed States, greater knowledge should be had of that country and its people. But one other foreigner has ever lived in a Chinese temple. He was a Hungar ian, Cosma de Koros. and death cut short his labors. A number of scientific men are interested in Dr. Laufer's mis sion. Acrentaa by Phonograph. It has long been supposed that France, or a Frenchman, is necessary for the acquisition of a proper French accent. This is no longer so now that an economical substitute for the Frenchman has been found in the phonograph. It is underwood that a corps of distinguished French profes sors are spending their whole time in conversing into phonographs. A pro fessor's day's work is to fill thirty phonographic cylinders. These cylin- I California's Promising Future. "The attention of the ea?t is being attracted to California in a marked de gree," said a man from the Pacific coast the other day. "The great field for the eastern investor will henceforth be found in the northern part of the state. The development of gold and copper mines in Shasta county, and particularly the discovery of oil in the northern counties is assuming such proportion that they cannot longer be hidden from the investment seeker, and eastern capital will not fail to dis cover the great possibilities. The oil industry of California will reach this year an output of over 10,000,000 bar rels. The Santa Fe and Southern Pa cific railroads are burning oil on their locomotives; the sugar refineries, street railway power houses and manu facturing industries are substituting it for coal. Four months ago the home consumption for fuel only amounted to ever 400,000 barrels a month. Coal in California costs from $S to $14 a to-V 1t is imnnrffi fro Washington. British Columbia and Australia. Hence petroleum, of which four and a half barrels equal a ton of coal, is proving a boon to California." Aatra'ln. the K!chaait Country. The richest nation in the world pro portionately is not Great Britain, not fat little Holland, not even the United States. For the greatest average in dividual wealth we must look to the Australian commonwealth. Last year the total value of the pro ducts of the colonies forming the Au stralian commonwealth amounted to fully $500,000,000, of which their pas toral industries represented $150,000,- R.egulak.r Pedicuring to Keep Them in Condi tion. "V- - m V- shell clamshells set around on tne front edges, five to a foot in the case of the Asiatic elephants and four in the case of the Africans. With no use of its feet, nothing to keep them worn down as they would be kept in nature, the pads may grow to be two inches thick, and come to have crevices or seams in them in which foreign matter may lodge, and the elephant Is in more danger of pick ing up things, which may become im bedded in the tough pad and get out of sight and work through into the quick. The toenails also get long, and they may curl under the sole of the foot and they become thus more liable to be caught, and the situation is then one of inconvenience and danger to tb.2 animal. But before they reach this stage the elephant's feet are trimmed down into shape. The feet of the ele phants in the Central park menagerie got one of their regular overhaulinga last week. "Tom." said Elephant Keeper Snyder to the larger of the two elephants, on one of the days when this work was going on, "give us your feet." And the big elephant lifted his foot as a horse might have lifted his on a like request. "Tom can tell you what you are thinking about when you look at him." 6ays Keeper Snyder. Jule, the other elephant is net so tractable or not so intelligent, and it takes more diplomacy and effort to get at her feet for the work necessary to be done upon them. But even with the most docile of elephants it takes two men to do the work conveniently, and, at the menagerie in the park when the elephants' feet are fixed Head Keeper Shannon gives Keeper Snyder a lift. It might not be expected that these elephants would pick up any thing here in their long-accustomed quarters, whose floor they have trod den for years, but on this occasion in one of Jule's feet Keeper Snyder found a die, one out of a set of dice, which had already been worked in out of sight, and in one of Tom s feet was the bowl of an iron teaspcon. the handle having been broken off. The metal of this spoon could be seen when the foot was lifted up. but it was imbedded sufficiently so that it took quite a pull with the keeper's elephant hook to pu:i it out. How these two odd and curi ously different things found their way into the elephant's cages to be picked up in their feet could not be said for certain, but it is probable that they were thrown in by thoughtless chil dren. New York Sun. May Eventually bo En tered by Dr. Berthold Laufer of New York City. ders are destined to go forth bearing precious French accent3 into thou sands of happy English homes. A book has now been prepared, called "The Pictorial French Course." It contains thirty lessons, each illus trated by a picture ingeniously por traying the objects alluded to in the lesson. Each lesson corresponds word for word with one of the phono graphic discourses. All that the stu dent has to do, therefore, is to s?t his phonograph going. The book will tell him what it is savin?. It will be seen that the new Fystem is pictorial-oral. London Daily Mail. Inrentors of Wood I'nlp Taper. A writer in a London newspaper, speaking of the ingenuity of wasps in building their nests, says: "Like a trained spaniel, she finds at last soma old stump or sill of wood, some fallen trunk or weatherworn wound in grow ing timber whereon she settles and proceeds to bite off bits of wood and chew them into paste. With this sh? flies to the hole again, and with jaws, and head and feet, molds the thin drawn paste into fine gray paper, silky, strong and waterproof.. Here is an invention "paper from wood-pulp" which has been littered before the blind eyes of man ever since in pre historic ages he first destroyed wasps' nests, but was reserved to be his ''tri umph" at the end of the Nineteenth century of our modern era! If you are not a friend to labor, yoa are no friend to God or man. 000, their agricultural $140,000,000, their mineral products fully $100,000, 000. and their manufacturing and other industries the remaining $160,000,000. The wool alone from the 120,000.000 sheep raised in 1900 was worth $100, 000,000. The mineral resources of Australia cannot even be guessed at. In the last 48 years the country has produced gold to the value of $1,800,000,000. in the last 20 silver to the value of $150, 000,000. Diamonds are found in one district, rubies in another. There is at least one emerald mine in New South Wales, and opals equal to any in the world are found in Queensland, while the pearl fisheries of the north western coast produce a considerable portion of the most valuable pearls of commerce. Rabber Ti real on Fire Fnglnes. A set of rubber tires suitable for use on a fire engine cost from $350 to $450. There is no question about the advan tages of their use. With rubber tires an engine goes less often to the repair shop and so is mdre continuously in commission. And if you should happen to see a rubber tired engine go around a corner or get into o. out of the tracks of a street railroad, you'd think the ad vantage gained there was enough to pay for the tires. The engine doesn't swing or slide, but it follows true and the driver knows just where he can go and what he can do with the machine when he's under way. Birds' wings and breasts now vary both quills and flowers in the decora tion of outing hats. 1 Green and red will go together. Give a man pler.ty of greenbacks ana lie can paint the town a deep red. Lad)ea Can Wear 8he. One size smaller af U?r u-in jrAllen'S Toot Ease, a powder. It makes tight or new ahoeseasy. Cares swollen, hot.sweittinjr. aching1 feet, infrrowmy nana, crn anu bunions. All 1 ,wTo.lti T,d Khfo ntnrea. rtFHFKhVmil Ad- 5. Olmsted, LeLoy.N.l. 5c. Trial pa dress Allen & If you would be reveng'd of your nemv pnvern vnnrRplf " v - -' ' Laundering Thin tUrasawa. To launder the exquisite creations of mtift lin and lace in which this aea.on abounds has become quite a problem, yet the mo-t delicate materials wiil not be injured if wanhasd with Ivory Koap and theu dried In the shade. But little starch need be nfctxi. ELIZA R. I'AI'KIL A good man is seldom uneasy, ill one never easy. an jo lamny. enop. Fnip. camp or per- son should be without Wizard Oil for every painful accident or emergency. But I mean such wives as are none of the best. I am sure Plso s Cure for Consumption saved bit life three years uco. Sirs. Tror. K JDDIN3. Maple Street, Norwich. N. V.. Feb. 17. 1900. As charms are nonsense, nonsense is a charm. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is tateD internally. Price, 75c. Hope resembles the head of a pin and disappointment the other end. DO TOrR CLOTHES LOOK 1TLLOWT If so. useRa?d Crosw Ball Bluo. It will make tbem white as suow. - oz. package & ceuts. If a man looks upon the wine when it is red it is very likely to cast re flections upon his nose. It is one of the unsolved mysteries how two men can exchange umbrellas and each invariably get t he worst of It. DO YOU SHOOT? If you do you should send your name and address on a postil card for GU InTCATALOGU E. IT'S FREE. It illustrates and describes all the different Winchester Rifles, Shotguns and Ammunition, and contains much valuable information. Send at once to the Winchester Repeating Arms Co.. New Haven, Conn. 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Cuticura Soap combines delicate emollient properties derived from Cuticura, the great skin cure, with the purest of cleansing- ingredients and the most refreshing of flower odors. It unites in ONE SOAP at ONE PRICE, the BEST skin and complexion soap and the BEST toilet, bath, and baby soap in the world. rnJiriXTE EXTEE5AI. ASD I3TTEE51L TKElTIEJtT FOB 1TEBT nriOB, fllllAllrin Consisting of Citwttra Fap. to cWne the skin of cmt M I I K K ti I and;alea.ail.fteiitha)ttiia'keiiJcntlrle,t rTlCT RA i!irr- ataHvmm MENT.to mnuinuy allay injliiuc, inllaniniauri. hii.l irrils--TP .p tion,and sKjtha and heal, ami CVtioi ka Kroi.vr j.t. 10 I HF Xr I 0001 Md clen th blaKid. A Hi vle Sirr is often saifli lib Ubl cietittaicurotheuiost torturinjr, diuflpirinc, jj'hltar, nn- me. ana scaiysiiin, scai j. ana pkkmi ouniurs, 2 Sol 1 hoii r-oia tnroupnmiT tne onu. jiniihu iejH.i: . rwuERT aS Hons. 27-23, Oiarter house Bq ..London. I'OTlllR Vuva aho Cazn. (joutn Bole ITopt, liusioa, U.S. A. WANTED, SALESMEN. &AoL; men to sell the best-grown nurmvrY BtOCk In the United States. Liberal Commissions paid. Cash advauosd waiekly. Writ .aj for particulars. KlTing references. Oregon NurSCry Co., Salem, Oregon BUV CO RIM AND OATS!! zr&irzxnssz tlous warraat llgbm VTieem. Snd for our book, 'WCCEJiSTXI. SPECt'LATlON." ata-at tre. J. K. COMSTOCK flt CO., Tradars' BW9., CHICACOb ' Ak your grocer for DCFJANCE ' STAKCH. ten only ic oz. xatkage for 10 cents. All other lO-cn: tstarr h con tains only 12 oz. Satisfaction guaran teed or money refunded. A wicked hero will turn his back to an innocent coward. 1 uur K .a. - rrrri xT ' STARCH, the only 16 cz. package lor Satisfaction guaran- , teea or money rerunaea. . . n . . .... A woman may jove iiautry blu jt dlepise an awkward flatterer. GREATLY KKIU'CED RATES rta WABASH r R. J13. 00 Buffalo and return f 13.00. $."1.00 New York and return J" I 00 The Wabash from CMc;ik vll! rail tickets at thi above rata-s daily. AFid from these rates, the Wubafh run throuch trains nier its own rails from 1 Kansas City, St. Louis nnd Cheapo an 1 i offer many -special rates riming the ! cummer months, allowing topoers at ! Niapara Falls and Buffalo. Ask your nearest Ticket Apnt nr ad- i dress Harry K. Moores. tJt-neral Akt.1, ! Pass. ler.t., Omaha. N-b., air rt. ! Crane, G. 1'. & T. A., Ft. Louis, Mo. It might be well to remember that ; the oldest families are likely to have the most to be ashamed of. Ask your grocer for DEFIANCB STAKCH. the only 1C os. ra'. kage for JO cents. All other 10-cent rtarch con tains only 12 oz. Satisfaction guaran teed or money refunded. You can rely on a man keeping his word when it is to his advantage to do bo. There Is plenty of riMm at the tcp but as soon as a man gets there te tries his best to occupy it all. iCALE AUCTION B1D3 BY MAIL. YOUR OWN PRICE. Jones. He Pajrs th Frelcat, liiagBaatea. ft I. w3 TUT witn loss or nalr.whain all t tails. t n y- -J