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funnels and toasts and ventilators says Answers German men-of-war are generally painted gray in time of peace and carry bands on the funnote but for their war dress they have de cided for a sort of khaki war paint of a yellowish brown hue which their scientific experts pronounce as being most difficult to see both by day and night The French go in for a mourning dress of completeblack or black hulls with gray funnel and masts Their channel squadron rather favors a com plete suit of neutral gray drab which is almost invisible in gray weather The late Spanish navy was painted much after the English fashion excopt for those ships serving on their Ameri can and Pacific stations which were painted white The Austrian war vessels may be rec ognize by thclr black hulls white up per works and black funnels The Rus sians go in for black hulls yellow fun nels with black tops and white mastfl While you may cashy tell a Turkish man-of-war by her red if unnel and coat of dirt Hbmeaeekers Excursions Via Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad On the first ana third Tuesdays of June July and August the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad will place on sale Homeseekers Excursion tickets to various points in Alabama Arkansas Florida Georgia Indian Territory Ken tucky Louisiana Mississippi Missouri North Carolina South Carolina Tennes see and Texas One fare plus 200 for the round trip Tickets are limited on going trip fif teen days from date of sale with stop over privileges in Homeseekers Terri tory Returning tickets are limited days from date of sale Remember that we now have in service a new wide vestibuled trainbetweea Chi cago and Waco and Fort Worth Texas leaving Chicago daily at 150 p n Through Pullman sleeping cars nnd free fealining chair cars For further partic ulars call on or address any agent Chi cago and Eastern Illinois Railroad or C L Stone G P T A Chicago t The Dreams of Avarice TDorothy Pa I do wish we were rich- Dorothys Pa How rich would you likefr be Dorothjrv Ob awfully rich rich enough to snub people and still be called agreeable Chicago News Do Your Feet Ache and Burn Shake into your shoes Allens Foot Ease a powder for the feet It makes tight or new shoes feel easy Cures Corns Bunions Swollen Hot and Sweat ing Feet At all druggists and shoe stores 25c Sample sent FREE Ad dress Allen S Olmsted LeRoy N Y Vicarious Kevenjjc Ma I do wish 1 had a little sister So you would have some one to play with Freddy Nom soze evy time you washed my face I cd wash hern Chicago Record Mrs WlnsIoWa booTnrso arnur ror UMiaren teething Battens the cums reduces inflammation allays Dain cures wind colic 25 cents a bottle The mineral resources of Venezuela consist of great mines of Bessemer iron copper and gold Better Blood Better Health If you dont feel well to day you can be made to feel better by making your blood better Hoods Sarsaparilla is the great pure blood maker That is how it cures that tired feeling pimples sores salt rheum scrofula and catarrh Get a bottle of this great medicine and begin taking it at once and see how quickly it will bring your blood up to the Good Health point ssarsapars Ib Americas Greatest Blood Medicine Si ESSSfcsil MEe a mm -- CENSUS ARMY MOVES ENUMERATORS ARE COUNTING UNCLE SAMS MILLIONS Experts Say Heaults Will Prove that This la the Greatest of Civilized Nations Complete Figures Are Due December 1 The 52000 census enumerators arc making their rounds Two hundred and ninety seven supervisors have them in charge In addition to the staff atiiead quarters in Washington four chief in spectors are put on the road and more than 2000 special agents are also pre pared to jump into their designated fields of inquiry Fifty five thousand men to gather information about 75000000 It looks like a big army and it is bigger than any army the Boers have had in the field in South Africa But this is a great country The end of the century census the twelfth which Uncle Sam has taken is expected to show tht the United States is to day the greatest the most populous the richest the most prosperous and the most ijapidly growing modern nation The experts have already figured out that the total population will leap from 02000 000 in 1S00 to between 75000000 and 7G000000 in 1900 Mulhall the English statistician last fall figured the population of the United States June 1 this year at 77300000 The treasury experts made it still higher Census Director Merriam has estimated 73000000 or 74000000 but for obvious reasons he is conservative There are experts here who are willing towagei CENSUS DIRECTOR MERKIAM that the grand total when finally wound up will not bo over 70000000 nor under 75000000 It will beat the civilized world Germany has only two thirds as many people Franco and Great Britain only a little over half as many Russia and China have more but their hordes are not to lie reckoned in the category of fully civilized modern peoples Director Merriam expects to be able to announce the population of many Amer ican cities within the month Washing ton will come first and rapidly thereafter New York Chicago Philadelphia and all the large cities The census experts give a most inter esting prediction It is that Uiis census will show the United States to have a larger number of cities with a population exceeding 100000 than any other nation We shall show about forty such munici palities and our nearest rival it is be lieved is India In this competition China is not counted as the population of Chinese cities is largely a matter of guessing and they are mere collections of villages at best The experts have also figured out that the center of popu lation in the United States has now trav eled about sixty miles west of Colum bus Ind and is -now not far from the Illinois line Westward the star of em Dire In increase of wealth the great West is expected to astonish the East As a new apportionment of the United States for Congress and the electoral college is to be made next winter upon the basis of this census as required by the Consti tution the growth of population in the West will speedily bring increase of po litical power Before Dec 1 Director Merriam expects to announce the total population of the United States so that Congress may upon its reassembling at once proceed to make the new apportion ment required by the constitution The total cost of the census is estimated at from 15000000 to 16000000 Just a hundred years ago Virginia was the first State 61 the Union with a popu lation of 8S00O0 This year it will fall back to about twentieth place At the beginning of the century Massachusetts stood third in the list Ten years ago it was sixth In this census it is pretty sure to be outstripped by Texas Indiana Michigan and Iowa The special agents who are to gather information as to American manufactur ing industries are- at work During the next three months they will finish their tasks On this score the results are like ly to he amazing This feature of the census more than any other will show the greatness of the United States SURVIVORS OF THE CIVIL WAR i Evans Estimates tlimt Union Veterans Number 9250OO Veterans of the civil war are dying off at the rateof about 3 1 3 per cent per annum Commissioner of Tensions Ev ans estimates that there are about 925 000 survivors of the civil war Of this number there were on the pension rolls last year 742467 During the year 24787 pensioned veterans died This number is slightly more than 3 1 3 per cent As suming that the death rate among those not pensioned is the same as among the pensioners the total number of veterans who died during the year would be about Brief News Items Mayor of Havana has issued an order prohibiting the playing of Spanish airs inj public A second volume of tho report of thci man again first Philippine commission gives a proc lamation of Aguinaldo asking the Fili pinos for a Christmas present Representative Shafroth of Colorado is looking after the preservation of a large number of monuments and cliff dwellings which are tho work of prehistoric man in Utah Colorado Arizona and New Mexico THE PRESBYTERIANS Creed Revision Discueeod and Referred to Special Committee Unusual interest marked the proceed ings of the general assembly of the Pres byterian Church in St Loais last week Creed revision was most unexpectedly brought forward Tuesday afternoon and the discussion which followed was of a decidedly heated character Situations at times a little short of dramatic came to the front and although speakers foe and against revision occupied the floor and made speeches that laid bare their thoughts upon the old confession no ac tion was taken at that session Consid eration of the subject was postponed un til Wednesday when it was placod in the hands of a committee of fifteen with the moderator added as chairman to re port what action if any should be taken by the church This committee will com pare analyze and summarize suggestions from the presbyteries which are invited to take action on the whole matter of a restatement of the doctrines most surely believed among us and which are sub stantially embodied i our confession of faith An hours intense and at times almost acrimonious discussion preceded the adoption of this report The settlement of the creed question as far as this assembly is concerned was not accomplished without comments being-made on subject from every shade of opinion represented in the church The leaders alone did not settle the matter but elders and pastors new to the assem bly voiced their opinions in no uncertain tone The decision to send the question to the proposed committee for investiga tion was in the end adopted by a major ity which completely overshadowed the few votes cast against the report This will leave the question open for the pres byteries to discuss in every form desired Their recommendations will do nothing but shape the report of the committee which in turn will make recominendi tions to the assembly next year AMUSEMENT BAN REMAINS The Methotlista Refuse to Change the Churchs Attitude The Methodist general conferpnee in Chicago after two days of turmoil dodg ed the amusement question On Satur day the minority report of the commit tee favoring no change in the discipline as to dancing theater going etc was adopted by a vote of 333 to 200 When the vote was announced in the conference Monday a motion was made that the re port be laid on the table This was agreed to by a vote of 256 to 253 and the presiding bishop ruled that the matter was no longer before the house Practi cally the question stands as it stood when the conference met technically the con ference has voted against a report to leave the discipline unchanged This action leaves the controversy open itnd was reached in opposition to the advice of the majority of a committee guided by ex Gov Pattison of Pennsyl vania and after a stormy debate -The majority of the committee headed by ex Gov Pattison presented a report to strike from the trial code mention of specific amusements and to add to the chapter of Special Advices an affirma tion of the churchs historic attitude to ward worldly diversoions The minority recommended that no action be taken Ilaving transacted all the business that had accumulated the conference Tuosday adjourned Before the 750 ministers and laymen in attendance as delegates closed the session and departed for their homes in every part of the United States and in foreign countries of every continent tiey rushed through a number of smaller mat ters of business left over from the earlier days of the session But many members of the conference had gone away and the galleries were almost empty so that in terest in the subjects voted on was small GO TO PRISON FOR LIFE Welland Canal Dynamiters Sentenced to the Penitentiary At Welland Ont the dynamiters Dullman Nolin and Walsh were found guilty in short order and Chancellor Boyd sentenced them to life imprisonment in Kingston The public mind was thoroughly aroused and no other verdict than that which was given would have been well received by the public in Canada The crime for winch they were convict ed was an attempt to wreck lock 24 of the Welland canal with dynamite Walsh and Nolin were the active participants XOLIX WAl SU DAL I MAX in the crime having lowerbed two bo uses filled with dynamite and with fuses attached alongside the lock but owing to a mistake in calculating the distance to the waters edge the force of the ex plosion was minimized and the damage was trifling Dullman accompanied the men to Niagara Falls and directed pro ceedings from there The three were caught almost red handed The jury was s only five minutes arriving at the guilt of the accused Neither made any remark on receiving sentence Odds and EsmIs Anotiher flood at Austin Texas New warship Kentucky has gone into commission Five men drowned in the waters about New York in one day recently Thomas Murray Joplin Mo tried to escape from officers and was fatally- shot In a duel over a woman at Beckville Texas C A Baxter killed Malcum Ju ner Big zinc combine has been formed to develop Missouri territory Capital S10 000000 Columbus Ohio report says thai Hon- na will be the national Republican chair- President McKinky will go to Canton Ohio the latter part of June to remain three weeks The Germania yard at Berlin has j gun to make torpedoes for -which supe riority is Ted Brockman colo Fort Worthy Texas killed Ms wife wh a knife then slashed his own threoL Ji9 H iir V y wi TxWWfJ iHOKflMMMMMMMNAaNgMiM Southern Politeness I was given a good example of southern politeness the other night said a gentleman from the north I had gone to the Com us ball and had agreed to esctfrt a lady home She was also a stranger in the city and was stopping with some friends on Bour bon street about three blocks the other side of the opera house As it was only a short distance we decided to walk I was of course totally unacquainted with the street and when we had left the lights of the opera house I felt very much at sea The houses were dark ami I could not see the numbers and it was only by number that the lady could identify her boarding place as she had only been there once Ahead of me was a small man I asked him if he knew where the number was He answered very politely that he did not but was going that way andwould help me hunt He told another man m front of him about it and that man told some of his friends In a few minutes these gentlemen had formed an advance guard in our interest We walked calmly behind while they went in front on either side of the street strik ing matches and looking for the num ber There were eight of them and their matches would go off one after the other It was a regular flambaau parade I was overcome Here it is shouted an advance scout We ap proached the house rapidly and found the eight gentlemen standing before it It was almost with emotion that I raised my hat and thanked them for their efforts Nothing at all they said politely and the entire eight raised their hats and walked into the dark ness New Orleans Times Democrat Humility and Honesty Of the late Dr N T Burton pastor of the Park Church Hartford his son th poet Richard Burton tells this beautiful story Among my fathers effects was found an old check yellowed by age and torn across the date isfo or there abouts It had been sent by the editor of the Independent with an urgent re quest for a contribution the amount of the honorarium to be written in ac cording to the contributors judgment and pleasure a rather dangerous lib erty to allow some of the literati But the checlr remained never filled out in his poeketbook The incident is typical It was fairly pathetic to see how distrustful he was nf Ilia iwvn nwrnnnliohmontc coif depreciating Yet at rare intervals he realized he had done something not or dinary and then in fitting privacy and with a beautiful frankness would say so Tuckermans Ravine One of the remarkable scenic fea tures of the 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