oirsr bono.
Under m the gran,
Orr me the sky,
I ran sleep and dream until
The night goes by;
Till the shadow pdM,
Till the atari depart,
Let a roving gipsy fill
Hi hungry heart!
Voice in the vine.
Viainna in the vales,
It i mine to know them all
Along green trails :
Wlien the morning ahinea
Like a roee above,
Let me hear the gipay call
Of bird 1 love!
Murmur of the stream,
Whisper of the tree,
I can understand the aong
They sing to me;
Mine the blissful dream,
Builded of delight,
Let the gipay 'a dny be long,
And brief hia night!
-Frank Dempater Sherman, in Mitnsey'
Magarin.
ad waited, getting crosaer and more
tired every minute. At eight o'clock
we sent the driver to find some farm
hones to take n to Brookton. It
waa after ten o'clock when we
reached the ntatlon, and discovered
that we had JCst mlsied a train. We
had an hour to wait, and we were all
o hungry. Irritable and peevish that
we couldn't apeak without almost
snapping off each othert' heads.
Father met na at the train when
we got In town. I had telegraphed
him, nnd he and Hetty's brother, who
was there, too, got the-erowd safely
home.
Arthur Knight called mc up this
morning and told me that the auto
mobile broke down fifteen miles from
everywhere and that they had a really
terrible time. He seemed to long for
sympathy, but he didn't get any from
me.
I hope Httty won't try to get np
any more excursions. Chicago New
Mint Farming in Michigan.
More Than Two Thousand Acres Devoted to the Industry ir
, One County Some Account of the Planting,
Cultivating and Distilling.
t
J. L. GRAFF, RAVENRWOOD, ILL.
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rALONGJUIHDAi1.
IN THE COUNTRY.
jmnmm
It was Betty Coman's idea a long,
quiet day In the country. It did
sound nice, but It turned out to be
the longest day I ever remember.
Betty Invited Beven of us girls to
go on an early morning train to
Brookton. From there we were to
drlvo eight miles to Linden Falls.
She said Arthur Knight had prom
ised to bring some of the men In our
crowd out in his automobile In time
for an early supper.
There was a wagonette waiting for
us at Brookton and we girls climbed
Into It and It waB nearly lunch time
when we got to the falls. We were
all hungry, but Betty said we must
ave the best things for supper, when
the men would be with us. So we
had only a little snatk of plain bread
and butter and spring water. After
that we thought we'd take a nap and
we Jay down In the shade, but the
mosquitoes were so plentiful that
sleep was out of the question.
Because we wanted something to
do we decided to arrange the supper
table. We spread a beautiful white
cloth that Betty brought and laid out
all the Bandwlches, salad, eggs, sar
dines, cake and cookies with heaps
of plckleB and jelly. Then we made
wreaths of maple leaves which we
wove. The lunch looked sq inviting
we could hardly resist it. For fear
we might be tempted to nibble, we
went for a walk, leaving our driver
In charge.
We strolled beside the brook Into
a deep wood, where we found quanti
ties of ferns that we thought would
add the finishing touch to our decora
tions, and we became so interested
In getting them we stayed longer
'-than was Intended. Then, suddenly
realizing how late It was getting, we
were afraid the automobile party had
arrived during our absence, and we
ran so faBt that we were all hot and
breathless.
Betty fell and turned her ankle.
She is always turning her. ankle.
She did it at almost every dance we
went to last winter. 1 can understand
that, for the men used to flock around
her and offer to carry her of tear up
their handkerchiefs for bandages,
but I can't see why she should turn
ankle out In the country with only us
'girls around. Of course we bad to
atop running and help her. She
leaned so heavily on me that I had
to get one of the other girls to take
my place.
Maybe we weren't surprised when
we got back to our picnic place and
found the horses, which had been
taken out of the wagonette and tied
to trees, standing on that handsome
tablecloth of Betty's. We rushed
upon them and shooed them away,
but we were too late there was
nothing left of our delicious luncheon
but a few olives and one pot of roque
fort cheese. The tablecloth was ut
terly ruined. Betty cried when she
saw the dreadful holes the horses'
hoofs had cut in it and all the jelly
spilled over It and trampled in. I
think it was silly of Betty to bring
a fine tablecloth. It waa just a bit
of ostentation on her part.
"What will the men say?" all the
girls asked.
"They'll be starving and we haven't
thing to give them," moaned Betty.
"I don't believe they'll be any hun
grier than. I am this minute," I said.
"If you had let us eat some of those
things at lunch time we would huve
been better off now."
"Well, don't blame me. I didn't
know that those horrid horses were
going to spoil everything."
"The driver is to blame," Bald one
of the girls. "I'd like to know why
he didn't stay here to watch them
and where he is now."
"He's here," cried a'lother of the
girls who had wandered a little way
from the scene of the disaster. "He's
sound asleep. Shall I wake him?'
"Yes," we ull answered in an anrrry
chorus.
wnen ne openea nts eyes arter a
thrust in the ribs from a white em
broidered parasol ho looked around
stupidly. Theu he suddenly jumped
up, and asked excitedly, "Where are
them horses?"
Where were they? Not ono of us
had thought of them since we chased
them off the tablecloth and now they
were nowhere In sight. The driver
began calling and whistling aud tear
ing around in every direction, and we
girls, all except Betty, joined in the
search.
"Well, we won't see them animals
again to-day," said the driver at last.
"It'i dolIai-B to doughnuts they have
piked out for home. I seen their
tracks on the road and It's no use
hunting any more."
We looked despairingly at each
other foe a moment and then Betty
remarked that Arthur would just
have to tako us to the station in his
automobile- that we could all pile In
somehow. That thought cheered us
and I looked at my watch to see if
It wasn't time for the men to come."
"Why, it's after ate!" I exclaimed.
"They ought to have been here long
go."
"Thoy must come pon," said Betty.
But tiugr didn't come. We waited
Uncle Hez Makes
x Crtan Gtnawaj
By HTKfOKIjA :VI W. GIIJilLAN.
"Once," said Uncle Hes, onr oldest
vet, as he hitched up oa his crutch
and thoughtfully picked around over
the box of crackers until ho found
one that wasn't chipped, "I made
what some braggln' windbags 'round
hyer would call a party keen git
away." "Spin It, Hez; spin It. Don't let It
ferment on yer mind. 'Taln't rone
too strong, as 'tis," put In Oscar
Hamebuckle as ho shaved off a quar-tor-Inch
slice of cheese.
"I waa in Andersonvllle prison,
time o' th' war, an' I was wantln'
turrlble bad t' git out. The meali
wasn't what I'd be'n ust to t' home,
an' some other things about th' place
hed got us fellers some disgruntled
with th' management. I would ol
left a heap sooner, only them blood
hound dawgs was so allfired keen on
th' scent that mighty few o' th' boyi
that started ever got more'n a mil
or two before they was ketched.
"Once, though, I was hangin
'round th' drug-store o' th' prison,
when th' feller in charge steps out,
leavln' me standln' clost by th' dooi
unbeknownst t." him. A idee come
to me like a shot. I hustled inside
an' grabbed a big half-gallon bottle
o' chloroforfc an' got plumb com
plete away with It afore he returned
back.
"That night I fills in' boots full o
the stuff an' sneaks through a hole
V dug 'n under th' stockade. Away
wont, ltckety-spllt, an' 'twasn't
more n ten minutes afore I hears
them hound dawgs a-bawlln' on the
trail.
"I hurried on, hopln' my roose
might work, an' purty soon they
wasn't but one hound dawg a-bawlln'
on th' trail, an' he wos stoppin' right
in the midst of 'Is loudest and survi
gmsBest betters t' gape an' Btretcb
hisse'f. Ye could jest see 'lm a-doln'
it. Between his belters ye could heat
t'other hound dawg a-snorln' half a
mild furder back. I was still hopeful.
"Finally th' other hound dawg laid
down an' jlned in th' snorin', an' I
knowed I was saved. I tuck off m'
boots, emptied the rest o' th' chloro
form out o' my boots, worked over
my feet till I got 'em f set up an'
take notices, an' by mornln' I wob
out o' reach hoy, Oscar? What'e
that you're puttln' through ye?"
From Judge.
An Old "Ad."
"Nothing succeeds like persever
ance," said Mark Twain at a dinner.
When the luck seems most against
us, then we should work and hope
hardest of all. In moments of dis
couragement let us remember my old
friend, Henry Plumley, of Virginia
City.
"Henry Plumley ran a collar fac
tory. Times were reputed to be hard
with him. When his factory, which
was very heavily Insured, burned
down there was every Indication that
he had set the place on 9re himself
In order to get the Insurance money.
Virginia City was the soul of honor
in those days. Shocked beyond
words, it rose enmasse, seized Henry
Plumley, put a halter round his neck
and lynched him.
"But he did not die. The Sheriff
arrived and cut him down in time.
He was tried and found guilty and
sorved a term In jail.
"On his release you wouldn't have
thought that he'd return to Virginia
City again, eh? He did, though. He
came back, reopened his collar fac
tory and prospered.
"What gave hlni his start was the
odd advertisement with which he an
nounced his return to business among
us. Preceded by a brass band,
Henry, in a great gilt chariot, burst
upon our streets. He Bat on a kind
of golden throne, and he held on a
crimson cushion In his lap an old,
old collar. Above the collar, on a
crimson banner, waved this Inscrip
tion in huge letters of gold:
" 'This is the collar we wore when
wo were lynched. It saved our life.
Be wise In time and use no other.
At all retailers, ten cents aplcua,
three for a quarter.' " Washington
Star.
A Story of Fire.
Figures collected by the Interna
tional Society of State and Municipal
Building Commissioners and Inspect
ors sbow that every week, on an av
erage, fires in the United States burn
up three' theatres, three public halls,
twelve churches, ten schools, two
hospitals, two asylums, two "col
leges," six apartment bouses, three
department stores, two jails, twenty
six hotels the llres at seashore re
sorts this summer will raise the hotel
average 140 "fiat" houses, and
160U .in. dweUlng houses. More
over, many of the buildings destroyed
would have been torn down It they
had not burned. A countryman who
suffered from a Blight fire said he had
lost two houses and three Darns, If
you counted the doghouses, the chicken-house
and the cowshed. In such
lists as the foregoing a house is a
house, be It ever bo worthless, and
a "college" may call Itself so even If
It occupies but threo rooms, and does
most of its business by mall.
Youth's Cunipar.lou.
Michigan mint farmers are anxious
as to the future of this now extensive
crop of the Wolverine State. In Ber
rien County alone there Is now being
harvested nnd hauled to the distillery
somewhere between two thousand
and twenty-flve hundred acres' pro
duction of peppermint plant. The
cause of the anxiety Is the low price
It Is now so low that some of the
producers claim that no great amount
of money Is made In growing It. Great
quantities of oil were held over from
last year In the hope that an advance
would come. One grower Is said to
be holding 13)000 pounds, another
1000 pounds, and others have not
oh) their crop of last year, stin hold
ing It for better prices.
All of this Is In face of the fact
that uses of mint oil are multiplying,
and there Is an increased demand
for the uses to which It has been ap
plied In the past. In late years there
has boen a falling off of the crop,
due to unfavorable weather and other
conditions. The surplus oil always
has been exported, but exports have
fallen off because of the competition
of Japanese growers, who produce a
much Inferior article.
This country annually produces in
the neighborhood of 200,000 pounds
of oil. Three-fourths of this quan
tity 1b distilled in Southern Michigan,
which has become the centre of sup
ply. Wayne County, N. Y., onoe held
this distinction, bnt It surrendered
to Berrien and other counties of
Michigan long ago. Up to this time
the best offers that have come to
any of the growers this season are
about $1.40 a pound. In other years
the price has gone to 13 and beyond.
It has been down as low as seventy
flve cents.
Despite the uncertainty as to the
future worth of oil, the acreage has
held Its own, if It has not Increased
There are a good many reasons for
this, the principal one being that
drainage operations have reclaimed
great tracts of land that are particu
larly well adapted to the growth of
mint. The other day I passed over
a farm of. two thousand acres near
Three Oaks, In Berrien County. Of
this big tract of land four hundred
acres had been planted In mint and
harvesting and distilling were then
in progress. Through this magnifi
cent farm had been dug an Immense
drainage canal that had saved thou
sands of acres of the finest muck land
In the State. This canal was six miles
long. It was at least thirty feet
across the top and from ten to fifteen
feet deep. On the bank of this canal
had been constructed one of the larg
est mint distilleries of the mint re
gion. The water In the canal fur
nished all of the requirements for
steam and cooling purposes, and this
distillery had a capacity of from
eight to thirteen forty-pound cans of
oil a day.
Other TWrsrms for Increased acre
age are that new and improved ma
chinery and implements for distilla
tion and cultivation have come into
use, so that crops may be handled
more easily and speedily. Then tho
growers have been educating thenv
selves as to the different new uses
to which mint oil 1b put. They are
banking on the fact that the Michigan
j oil Is the finest that can be produced,
j and that there muBt be an increased
demand and that prices finally will
! rise.
I The weather for t his year's crop of
mint, was not good. It was too wet,
and an Immense amount of labor was
' required to keep the weeds out of
the new patches. It was simply Im
possible to weed out the old patches,
I and to-day the weeds go into the vats
along with the mint, except that'
I which comes from the new patches.
Until last year mint was planted
I In the spring, but recently a young
' woman grower who had forty acres In
I mint adopted and Is now carrying out
a new plan. She plants In the rail.
Her farm Is well protected by Lake
Michigan. She argues that it la
much easier to smooth over tho land
In October than in March. Of course,
she runs the risk of tho plant being
frozen, but up to this time she has
profited by fall planting. It must be
understood that only a little planting
is done each year, for the old plants
continue to produce annunlly, but the
production of oil 1b leBB with each
ensuing year, so that finally Its pro
duction is too low to allow i. to stand.
As the old patches give out new ones
are planted.
The land on which mint is grown
Is black. It is prepared for mint just
as ground for a potato patch is pre
pared. A hand passes along in the
furrow carrying over his shoulder a
sack In which are the long stalks of
mint plant. These are dropped one
at a tlmo lengthwise in 'the furrow.
tho enda overlapping, so that there Is
a continuous row of plants from one
eud of the furrow to the other. The
modern way of covering is by the uso
of a plow, but a good many grow
era cover the plants with their feet,
tramp them down In tho soft block
10am ana cover tnem as tney pass
along. The shoots on the stem are
about two Inches from each other,
and in due course of time these shoots
take hold In tho ground and begin
to send up spears. In the fall-planted
mint the plants lie through
the winter. In early spring the shoots
I begin to show, closely resembling wa
tercress. At first It grows slow, but
after the middle of June the progreas
is rapid. The new mint has to be
hoed and weeded onoe a week. It
blooms in August and September.
The first year it is cut with a scythe.
A man goes up one side of a row and
back on the other. After the second
year, the furrow are ho levelled
down that tho cutter of an ordinary
mowing machine is able to get hold
of the stems, and from that oa the
cutting Is done by the machine. Af
ter being cut it lies about twenty
tour hour.., until the plant haa wilted
but not dried. A field of cut mint
closely reaorobles one of clover. A
"COME BACK-flRt'S OUT!"
rake the traw In small windrows,
and then It Is bunched.
It Is loaded on hay rack wagon
and hauled to the still. Nearly all of
tho Michigan growers have their own
stills, but recently a large structure.
of this kind has been built to accom
modate the growers, who do not own
u.ch a contrivance. These still cost
all the way from $700 to twice ai
much. The amallest 1 equipped with
a forty-horepower boiler to generate
the steam necessary for the vats and
for pumping water for cooling pur
poses. Generally one end of the building
1 lncloaed and the other end Is with
out side, so that teams may drive
close to a platform flush with whloh
are the top of the vat. The vat
are about nine feet deep and eight
feet In diameter and resemble large
wooden vinegar vats. Some of the
tills have four of these, but the
smaller ones have only two, located
next to the boiler end of the struc
ture. Bach vat has a movable plat
form In the bottom that may be raised
or lowered by means of one chain at
each side.
A loaded wagon Is driven up along
side the open side of the still, and
the mint Is pitched on to the plat
form and then into the vats, two men
tramping it down until there Is a
solid charge. Then a heavy top is
clamped on, the steam valve Is opened
and the steam Is admitted at the bot
tom. Tho oil colls of the charge are
ruptured by tho heat, the oil escap
ing upward with the current of the
stream, which, thus Impregnated
with oil, flows through condensers.
which are nothing more than tin
pipes. Cold water from an overhead
trough flows on the pipes, and the
oil-Impregnated steam Is converted to
oil nnd water. It empties Into a re
ceiver about the size of an eight-gallon
milk ran at one end of the worm
of pipes. The worm Is located In the
boiler end of the building and against
one of the sides.
The oil rises to the top In the re
ceiver, leaving the water in the bot
tom. An Ingenious contrivanco It
made use of to skim the oil from
the water. The mint In the vat Is
steamed for from forty to sixty min
utes, after which the top is un
damped. Then, by the ubo of a stout
crane, with which each still Is equip
ped, the charge is drawn from the
vat. The chains that extend down
to the movable bottom are fastened
to a steel spreader and the charge
Is then hoisted clear out of the vat.
This In turn Is loaded on a wagon and
Is hauled out to a meadow, where it
is spread out on the ground. There
it Is allowed to dry just as hay la
allowed to cure. Then It is raked
up and haqled to the barns, where
It Is stacked.
Here 1b a very Interesting feature
of mint farming. Animals, horses,
cows, sheep and cattle generally eat
this mint straw. Up to this time it
Is not known exactly what value at
taches to this material as food fot
animals, further than it is consumed
ravenously. Mr. Kelley, who has
charge of the Warner farm at Three
OakH, where four hundred out of two
thousand acres of reclaimed land are
In mint, says that he has been accus
tomed to baul some of the chargel
just as they are drawn from the vat,
and to spread the material In tha
barnyard. He said he did this to keefc
animals out of the mud, but he soon
noticed that the horses and othei
animals left timothy to eat up the
mint straw as long as they could find
a spear. On thin farm the charge)
are now being dumped in great wind
rows alongside the drainage canal,
on both sides. It Is proposed to col
lect Btock along the bank and allow
them to feed there during the winter
months. It Is not expected that they
will eat all of it, but much will be
consumed.
The aim is to get all the way from
thirty to forty pounds of oil from an
acre of mint. Only the new mint
produces the larger quantity. Mint
distilling is handled at various speeds.
Twenty vats a day Is considered a
good day's work. It has occurred that
one vat whl fill a forty-pound demi
john with oil, but then all charges
do not make such a showing. It can
not produce at that rate when ther
is a large quantity of weeds among
the vats. It is claimed that only rag
and smart weed are injurious to th
oil. The product obtained from those
farm stills Is the crude or natural
oil.
Since mint farming has' assumed
such extensive proportions In Berrien
County more than one kind has been
grown. Some of the farmers are
producing spearmint. This Is largely
used as a flavoring agent In cookery,
having a pleasant aromatic odor.
Tansy also Is being grown and dis
tilled, the oil being used as a flavor
ing agent.
The help question largely enter
Into the mtnt-ralalng Industry. Forty
acres of mint requires a force of from
seven to fifteen men, who are paid
$1.50 a day and their board. Weed
ing requires an immense amount of
work, and the largest force la re
quired when the new patches demand
this kind of attention. In some of
the larger stills It requires a force
of from five to seven men to run the
still alone. The work of harvesting
and distilling begtus In tho latter part
of August and lasts until frosjt stop
the work. New York Tribune
Farmer.
"Jest Tooted an' Tack Kim."
In a Tennaecee court an old colored
woman was put on the witness stand
to tell what she knew about the an
nihilation of a hog by a railway loco
motive. Being sworn, she waa asked
if she had seen the train kill tho hog
in question. "Yeaaah, I seed it."
"Then," said counsel, "tell the court
In as few words as possible just how
t occurrerd." "Yo' honah," respond
ed the old lr.dy, "I shore kin tell yo'
At the Minstrel Show.
'Week's cleverest cartoon, by De Mar, in the Philadelphia Record.
ELECTIONS IN TWLLVL 5TATL5
Five Choose Full Lists of Officers Signifi
cant City Elections.
COMPLETE LIST OF CANDIDATES,
In a tew words. It Jest tooted an'
Ide delivery horse rake is used to-Xtuck him." New Orleans Picayune.
Kentucky.
DEMOCRATIC.
Governor S. W. Hagcr.
Lieutenant-Governor Suth Trimble.
Attorney-General John K. Ilendriok.
Auditor Henry M. Boaworth.
Treasurer Ruby Laffoon.
Secretary of State Hubert Vreeland.
Sunt, of Public Instruction M. O.
Winfrey.
Comr. of A rci culture J. W. Newman.
Clerk. Court of Appeal John B.
Chenoult.
REPUBLICAN.
Governor Augustus E. Willson.
Lieutenant-Governor - -William H. Cox.
Attorney-General James Breathitt.
Auditor Frank P. James.
Treasurer Edwin Farley.
Secretary of State Ben L. Bruner.
Sunt. Public Instruction John G.
Orabtie.
Comr. of Agriculture Merrel C. Rankin.
Clerk, Court of Appeal Napier Adams.
Maryland.
DEMOCRATIC.
Governor Austin L. Crother.
I'cmi roller Joshua W. Heriug- ,
Attorney-General Isaac L. Straus1.
Clerk, Court of Appeals Caleb C. Ma-aTuder.
REPUBLICAN.
Governor George H. Gaither.
Controller J. H. Baker.
Attorney-General Hammond Urner.
Clerk, Court of Appeal Thomas Parran.
Massachusetts.
REPUBLICAN.
Governor Curtis Guild. Jr.
Lieutenant-Governor Eben S. Draper.
Secretary of State William M. Olio.
Treasurer Arthur B. Chapin.
Auditor Henry E. Turner
Attorney-General Dana Malone.
INDEPENDENT CITIZEN.
Governor Henry M. Whitney.
DEMOCRATIC CITIZEN.
Governor Henry M. Whitney.
Lieutenant-Governor George A. Scho
field. Secretary of State Odilon Z. E. Charest.
Treasurer Daniel F. Doherty.
Auditor Joseph A. Conry,
ANTI-MERGER.
Governor Charles W. Bartlett.
Lieutenant-Governor--James T. Catiill.
Secretary of State Thomas T. Riley.
Treasurer William T. Connerv.
Attorney-General Harvey H. Pratt.
Auditor Daniel L. Shea.
DEMOCRATIC, (WHITNEY).
Governor Henry M. Whitney.
Lieutenant-Governor George A. Scho
field. Secretary of State Odilon Z. E. Charest.
Treasurer-Daniel S. Doherty.
Auditor Joseph A. Conry.
DEMOCRATIC, (BARTLETT).
Governor -Charles W. Bartlett,
Treaaurei- William T. Conuery.
Auditor Daniel L. Shea.
Attorney-General Harvey H. Pratt.
Mississippi.
DEMOCRATIC.
Governor E. F. Noel.
Lieutenant-Governor Luther Manship.
Secretary of Stat J. W. Power.
Auditor E. J. Smith.
Treasurer George R. Edwards.
Insurance Commissioner T. M. Henry.
Superintendent of Education P. C.
Powers.
Land Commissioner E. W. Nail.
Clerk of the Supreme Court George C.
Myers.
Comtnisbioner of Agriculture W. E.
Blake.
Revenue Agext Wirt Adams.
Attornev-Oeneral R. V. Kletclier.
Rnilroad Commissioners John A. Webb,
J. C. Lee, W. R. Scott.
Penitentiorv Trutsjs T. . Montgom
ery, C. C. Smith, Le Roy Taylor.
Pennsylvania.
STATE TREASURER.
Republican John O. Shoatz.
Democrat John G. Harman.
Rhode island.
REPUBLICAN.
Governor Frederick H. Jerkson.
Lieutenant-Governor Ralph C. Watrous.
Secretary of State Charles P. Bennett.
Attorney-General Win. B. Gresnougb.
General Treasurer Walter A. Read.
Khodc Island,
DEMOCRATIC.
Governor James H. iliggins.
Lieutenant-Governor Charles Siaton.
Secretary of State Robert Grieve.
Attorney-General Edward M. Sullivan.
General Treasurer J. B. Archambeault.
New York.
REPUBLICAN.
Associate Judges Court of Appeals Ed
ward T. Bartlett. R.; Willard Bartlett, D.
DEMOCRATIC.
Associate Judges Court of Appeal Wil
lard Bartlett, D.; Edward T. Bartlett, R.
INDEPENDENCE LEAGUE.
Associate Judges Court of Appeals.
Ruben Robie Lvon. 'Joint T. McDonougb.
PROHIBITION.
Associate Judges Court of Appeals Cole
ridge A. Hart, Erwin J. Baldwin.
SOCIALIST.
Associate Judges Court of Appeals
Thomas Crimmins, Thomas A. Hopkins.
JUSTICES OF THE SUPREME COURT.
Second Judicial District :
Democratic, Republican and Independ
ence League--William J. Gaynor.
Socialist Louis B. Bondin.
Socialist-Labor Timothy 'Walsh.
Prohibition Harold W. Watson.
Seventh District:
Republican Samuel Nelson Sawyer.
Democratic John D. Abbott.
Eighth District:
Republican, Democratic and Independ
ence League Charles D. Wheeler.
Socialist Albert L. Purdy.
New York County.
FUSION (REPUBLICAN AND INDE
PENDENCE LEAGUE).
Justice Supreme Court M. Linn Bruce, R.
Justices General Sessions Charles S.
Whitman, R.; Melvin G. PallSJer, L L.;
Nathan Vidaver, I. L.
Judges City Court William H. AVad
hams, K.; Douglas Mathewsou. R.; Isidore
Wasservogel, R.; H. C. 8. Stimson, I. 1. ;
James A. Donegan, I. L .; Edwin S. Mer
rill. I. L.
Sheriff -Max. F. Ihmsen, I. L.
DEMOCRATIC.
Justice Supreme Court James W. Ger
ard. Justices General Sessions Edward
Swann, James T. Malone, Joseph F. Mul
queen. Judges Citv Court Edward F. O'Dwyer,
John H. McCarthy, John V. McAvoy,
Alexander Finelite, Thomas F. Donnelly,
Peter Schmuck.
Sheriff Thomas F. Foley.
New Jersey.
REPUBLICAN.
Governor John Franklin Fort.
DEMOCRATIC.
Governor Frank S. Katzenbaoh, Jr.
Nebraska.
REPUBLICAN.
Justice of the Supreme Court Moneak
B. Reese.
Railroad Commissioner Henry T.
Clarke, Jr.
Regents of tho State University Charles
B. Anderson, George Coupluud.
FUSION, (DEMOCRAT AND POPU
LIST). Justice of the Supreme Court. George
L. Loomis.
Railroad Commissioner No nomination.
Regents of the State University R. J.
Millard, John L. Sundean.
Cincinnati.
MAYOR.
Republican Leopold Markbreit.
Democrat Edward J. Dempsey.
Cleveland.
MAYOR.
Republican Theodore E. Burton.
Democrat Tom L. Johnson.
San Francisco.
MAYOR.
Republican Daniel A. Ryan.
Democratic and Good Government League
Edward R Taylor.
Salt i ... i. .- City.
MAYOR.
American (Anti-Mormon) John S.
Rrausford.
Democrat Richard P. Morris.
Republican- -Charles O. Pluuimei .
By A. B. LEWIS
Mr. Bone "Muh-muh-muh- jils
tah Interlocutor?"
Interlocutor "You have got the
floor, Mr. Bones." .
Mr. Bone "I' dun guh-Ruh-guh-Kith-got
a now one for you tuh-tuh-tuh-tuh-to-nlght,
uh. If about a
muh-muh-miih-man who st-st-at-at-st-stuttahs."
Interlocutor "You ought to tell a
story of that kind to perfection, Mr.
Bones, seeing you stutter so badly
yourself.
Mr. Bonos (Indignantly) "I duh-duh-duh-don't
stuttah, suh!"
Interlocutor -"You don't?"
Mr. Bones "N-n-n-n-na, suh. I
only Bt-st-st-st-stammah. "
Interlocutor "Oh, you only stam
mer, eb? Will yon kindly tell us the
difference hctveen stuttering and
stammering?"
Mr. Bones "Why, when you st-st-st-Bt-st-st-st-stuUah
you tuh-tuh-tuh-talk
like this; but svhen you st-st-st-st-st-st-st-Btammah
you only tun-tub
tub -nil. -tub -talk like that."
Interlocutor "Oh, that'll It, eh?
Well, you may go on with your story
about the man who stutters; but be
careful you don't get Into the habit
yourself."
Mr. Bones "Well, suh, h-h-he
went Into n ruh-inh-ruh-ruh-restaur-ant
and looked over tho buh-buh-buh-buh-blll-of-fare
and saw st-st-st-at-st-st-st-strawberry
shortcake on It."
Interlocutor "Yes, Mr. Bones. A
man who stuttered went into a res
taurant and looked over tho blll-of-fare
and saw strawberry Bhortcake on
It. ' Well, did he get some?"
Mr. Bones "N-n-n-n-no. suh. Butt-buh-bnh-biih-by
the time the puh-puh-puh-puh-poor
fellow guh-guh-Biiti-gtih-gave
his ordnh Bt-st-st-st-t-Bt-Ht-st-strawberles
were out of Bull-Buh-sub-senson."
Interlocutor "Very sood, Mr.
Bones very finod, sir. And now. Mr.
Leader, If you'll give us some more of
your good music, Mr. Johnson wi!.
sing us that pathetic little ballad -
titled 'What Is Homo Without a
Razor?' " From Judge.
Rogers Guilty of Murder.
After deliberating fifteen minutes,
the jury In the trial at Goshen, N. Y.,
of Charles H. Rogers, for the murder
of Fred R. Olney, on October 6, 1505,
returned a verdict of murder in the
first degree.
James Rcddick Killed.
James Reddlck, of Chlccgo, chair
man of-the Cook County Republican
Committee and a close friend of Gov
ernor Deneen. was killed In an auto
mobile accident near Llbertyvllle, 111.
The Realm of Athletlcw,
Sam Llebgold, the cUumplon heel
arid toe artist, will not be allowed to
compete In the Indoor championships.
Not since the new rules have been
In vogue has there iJ n such a won
derful display of open football aa
that of the Indians.
Harvard freshmen aud Andover.
will not meet this season, owing ta
the manager of these teams beln)
unable to agree upon a date.
Coach McCoy, of University of
Maine, says that Brown has a back
field that I even better tbau Harvard.
Stock I a. It nine aiuffcred.
While the Ill-effects of hoarding
money were felt In every branch of
business, the inability to obtain
money was most disastrous to the
New York Stock Exchange, prices of
tho sixty most active railway shares
falling far below all records since
1900.
lire to Aid Japan.
A tiny American bee is about to bo
charged with a task beyond the Bfl I M
of man to accomplish a task whlc.i
means nothing less than changing the
agricultural status of a nation. if
succeHsful and results already Indi
cate favorable progress of tho experi
ment it will mean wealth and pros
perity for hundreds of farmers in
Japan. Instead of trylna unsuccess
fully to raise fruits, such as apple
and pears, the soil-tiiler of the
"Land of the Cherry Blossom" will
yield in abundance, and the natives
will rejoice In luscious fruits and de
licious vegetables which, because of
the lethargy of their native bee and
its failure to carry pollen, it baa been
impossible for them to raise.
The bee to which Ibis task is as
signed is the golden bee. It is raised
In America and was produced by an
American, and already many little
queen golden bees have been stent to
Japan to begin their task.
The native Japanese bee Is an In
dolent. thing and does little more than
crawl about to meet the needs of it a
day. Because of its apathy it has
been Impossible to cultivate such
fruits as apples and pears and such
vegetables as cucumbers, tomatoes
and melons. The male and female
blossoms of the bellflower varletle
of fruits and vegetables are usually
ho far apart that It Is necessary for
some agent of nature to carry the
pollen. In many other countries the
busy little bee, In its search for
honey, 1b the means of fructification.
In Japan the bees simply refuse 10
work. Harper's Weekly.
Coffee Substitute Culture.
A syndicate of Stockton capitalist
haB purchased a 600-acre tract of
very rich land on Robert's Island, one
of the numerous fertile river Islands
west of Stockton, and expects soon to
commence the cultivation of "coffee."
They are going to put this large
tract Into "blackeye beans," which
are used extensively In the manufac
ture of the cheaper grades of coffee.
The bean takes a nice brown color,
has a good flavor, and cannot be de
tected from the genuine coffee bean
the Imported article except by an
experienced expert; and even such a
person would find It difficult to detect
the counterfeit In a ground mixture
of the real article.
The blackeye bean owing to the
demand for It in the manufacture of
coffee Bells readily for five cents pei
pound; much cheaper than real coffee
can be purchased for. The blackeye
bean 1b not at all Injurious, aa has
been determined by repeated experi
menting and chemical teste; but, on
the contrary, It make a very nutri
tious drink when mixed with real
coffee, as is always tho case, and ths
flavor is delicious. In fact, about the
only thing against the blackeye bean
Is, that it is not coffee, and no enthu
siastic coffee drinker would knowing.
ly drink any substitute. . This Is the
first attempt to cultivate tbu blackeye
bean In California. Scleutlflc American.
Clearing House Certificate Used.
The movement for the general
adoption of the clearing house certi
ficate plan has been concurred In bv
the greater cities of the country.
A I.obeter Monstrosity.
Charles A. Chase, of Bath, cap
tured a freak in the lobster line on
Monday afternoon, while ushlng ten
miles east ot Seguln. He hauled in
lobster which measured thirty-two
Inches and weighed thirteen poun U.
The shell was covered with barnacles
and was judged by old fishermen to
be at least ten years old. It was the
largest lobster caught In thut vicinity
for many year. Kenut bee Journal.
Hy Tick and FUih.
Wireless telephones are being
placed In a number of the vessels ot
the British home fleet.
The Japanese feel the newly com
pleted Anglo-Russian alliance moans
that pesos In Asia will be kept.
According to a special Bt. Peters
burg dispatch the cholera is still
ipreadlng lu Russia, 7 00 caaes having
i-.een reported from Kleff In the last
fortnight.
It has been decided to improve all
the roads in the environs of Paris,
about which automoblllsts have made
many complalntp.
Lusitanla Atque Mouretania,
Lusltanla was a Roman province
'.bat at one time embraced the greater
part of what is now Portugal and ex
tended over into Spain. The Lust
taniaV sister ship, the Kaurotania,
derives her nam from tho ancient
designation of northwestern Africa.
Merlden Journal.
The Female Whlpnoorwill.
Though the whlppuoi will's I .r
cream-speckled white egg are laid
wiMt Mmnltijl carol ii kVn
ground, s.io is uo; t... :1-ks -,it hn
young, pi ''an lhw v a dM
a kitten if tiisngio' .witc,