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GERMAN - MS KICK. THKT PROTEST AUAINST PROPOSED ANtiLO-AHKRICAN ALLIANCE. A MEETING IS HELD IN CHICAGO. Pormttr RuhJitrU of KiiUor Ktprrk* Tliolr Optnimia In HtmnfMt of Terina. N?wapa|H>r? Are Blamed. A Chicago special says: The Auditorium was tilled Mouday evening \%ith Qcriuan-Americaus called together to protest against an Anglo-American alliance atid the alleged false assertions ma le against Germany iu Connection uitli Hie recent Xnanish American war. Ex-Congressman W-Uiam Voike presided and delivered tlie opening address. The meeting was a very enthusiastic one and the following dec laration unanimously adopted: "With profoundest indignation we have noticed the persisteut efforts of English-American newspapers not only to incite among our people vicious prejudices against Germany and to defame the character of the German- ' Americans, hut also to drag tlic United States into an alliance with England. "As loyal citizens of this republic, it is our right, as well as our duty, to resist these wicked practices with all dne tirmucss. "The immigrants from Germany have brought with them to this land achievements of a civilization as high as it is old. Upon every field of the intell ectual life of our nation, as well as hi commerce, industry aud agrienl4....v il. .;. I ~ 1.. i_i i . iu'c, i-nr*ir cihm in uuvo i imiuii u<icm iu , the weal of our people and in peace as well a* in war they have at all times i faithfully fulfilled their duty. No part, of the Amerioau people liaa done more for the cultivation of music, sociability, the arts, the sciences, the churchea and the schools, than the German*. As Rood citizens of this country we cheerfully hand over the achievements of German culture to our youthful American people still in a state of development. \Ve emphatically object, therefore, to the attempt to stamp our people as Anglo-Saxons and to make it subservient to English guile. Not England, but. the whole of Europe, is the mother country of the white.inhabitants of the Uuited States "We demand that not only friendly relations lie maintained with Germany, that has been a faithful friend of our people for more than 120 years, but th t* peace and harmony be cultivated with all nation*, and we will therefore, Wushuigten, *? all times firmly oppose the formavion of entangling alliances with England as well as with any other country, whereby our country may lie involved in unnecessary war "We d?Mi I'ltice the detainers who have not only instigated public ill will against Germany, but who have by their gross slanders also sown the seeds of discord himiiif our iiuii nun. pie, and w? solemnly protest against the proposed -illianee with England. ' W> further declare that with all lawful uir'itns it our disposal, especially in political campaigns, we will ut all ' time* strenuously oppose all those who favor the wicked attacks made upon friendly nations and who labor to entangle out country into an alliance with England. We "all upon the committee that has had in charge arrangemenu for these meetings to invite all Oeruian-Ameri *an churches, societies aud orders m this city to send a delegate to a conventiou to he held at an early late for (he purpose of forming a permanent organization that the German citizens may ho called to action whenever it shall become necessary to protect the blessing of our American institution against wicked aud wily politicians. ' We call upon the committee to send copies of these declarations to the president of the United States, to his secret ?ries and the senators and representatives in congress." PICFsIIIIINT hl\A VKS UKOItUl A. Tho Oo mIIiva Worn Sniil Mo?t K?'g;rt'tfti)ly Ity Kvervoiu*. I'resi lent and Mrs. McKinley, Vice Piosidont Hohart, Postmaster General Em try Smith, Dr. ltixey. Assistant Secretary Oortelyon and Stenographer Batuee left 'i'liotiiaHville, (in , at o'clock Monday afternoon for Washington. The special train was run just outside the station so the people could gather ar >uml (he rear platform, upon which the president, Mrs. McKinley and Vice President Hohart appeared and liijwo'l their acknowledgment. Some imo called for three cheers for McKiniey, and then the president ma la a few remarks, saying: "We would rather he corning to Thomaavilte than departing from it We hi wo had a uioet restful and enjoy able time, and thank you all over and over again for your kind courtesies and your considerate hospitality. We bid you good by most regretfully." <J|!4Y'S Kit IKN Its TO (ONKilt. Their Oliief II? I'eelt too Hnolv In Meet Willi Them There were rumors in Hnrrishurg, Pa., M unlay night that a conference uf Senator fjnay's friends throughout the State " ill he held at the e\- iitive mansi mi to discuss the senatorial eontest. The story is that Mr. (Juuy mis n<>tili I his friends that l.e is fcid.ng too hall) t.o leave Florida at this tiui?',a:i(l will !?ave his candidacy in their hands. EVIDENCE AUAIAST (JUAT. Bribery InTrttliatlng Committee Hear* Some leterestInK Testimony. A dispatch from Harrisburg, Pa., says: The legislative committee investigating the charges of alleged bribery in connection with the consideration by the house of the McCarrell jury bill and the balloting for United States senator held sessions Tuesday afternoon and evening aud some iuterestiug testimony was presented. Representative Kemlell, of Somer *el, testified that a resident of Bedford county not a member of the legislature had told him if he could see his way clear to vote for Quay for United : States senator he would receive $5,000. ; He declined to name the uiau. Representative Lnubach, of Philadelphia, testified that a man named Frank Jones, of Philadelphia, asked him to vote for Quay and he refused. Later Jones told him if he voted for Oliav he il.Aiihscht could have the chief clerkship of the mint or the j custom house. Uepresontative Brown, of Union, <wore that a man had offered him $200 to remain away on that day of the first joint ballot for United States senator. When he refused the offer was raised to $300 and he was told if he would _fo into the convention and vote for Quay the price would be "altogether 1 different." All these offers were re- , fused. Mr. Brown declined to give the ! name of the mau to the committee,but after much urging uatned ex-Congressman M onroe H. Culp, of Shamokiu. Mr. Culp represented the seventeenth Pennsylvania district in the fiftyfourth and fifty-fifth congresses. The first important break in the balloting for United States senator took place in the legislature during the day, 1 when all the anti-Quay republicans deserted "favorites" and cast their ballots solidly for Congressman John Dalzell, of Pittsburg. SHERMAN AN INVALID. !.?* * Statesman a Physical Wreck?Cruiser Kcnctir* Norfolk. The cruiser which left Hampton Roads March 13th under orders to overtake the American liner Taris and transfer from that ship ex-Secretary of : State John Sherman, who had been tuken seriously ill, arrived at Old I'oiut Comfort shortly after the unon hour Tuesday with the distinguished invalid on hoard. The Chicago, after tAking Mr. Sherman on hoard, sailed from Santiago last Friday morning,proceeding direct to Newport News. The party that returned with the ex-secretary on the Chicago was composed of his nephew, Mr. Frank Wiborg, of Cincinnati; l)r. McOill, of Duluth, the physieiau who j has been in constant attendance upon the sick man, and Mrs. Danizer, the ; nurse, who leaves the patient. inu ttfeiV at lit with his features entirely concealed beneath a heavy black veil, was placed in a steaui launch and removed to the pier. Two officers and four men from the ship accompanied Mr. Sherman and his attendants. He was home in a litter to the hotel on the broad shoulders of four marines. A gust of wind, lifting the veil, disclosed the face of the invalid. It was wan, pinched and of a deathly pallor. A crowd of several hundred people witnessed the removal of the sick man to the hotel. At ? o'clock p. m. ho was again placed 011 the litter and taken 011 hoard the Washington boat. That Mr. Sherman is a very sick man, 110 one who got a glimpse of the tnvulid's ghastly pallid features can doubt. He has lost tlesh until little remains of the active and vigorous man hut a frame, and he is obviously far advanced iu general infirmity. (TBANS It EACH WASHINGTON. Tliey lteprenent tlie So-ChIIoI Annemlily and Art* After Mure Money. Senors Jetser Villalon and Hevia, who were appointed by the Cuban assembly to present to the Washington authorities the resolutions of that j .hotIt, have arrived in Washington, j Their mission, in addition to the presentation of the resolutions, is to explain in detail the situation with reference to the insurgent army. While the assembly did not reject the $3,000,000 which General Gomez arranged with Mr. Robert P. Porter I to receive and pay off the Cuban j troops, they believed it to be entirely j inadequate to meet the situation. ; They desire at least $10,000,000, and i as much more as can be obtained. K.1YNE MOORK RELEASED. A Komi la Kea?ilre<l of Her, However, On C'lntrgA of Larceny. A New York dispatch says: Mrs. Payne Stralian Moore was discharged Monday upon her own recognizance by Justice Fursniau in the supreme court under the charge of "badgering" Martin Muhon. She was, however, held in $1,000 >aii ou the charge of stealing silverware from the Waldorf-Astoria hotel. | She said she would furnish the bond. Mali >n, the complaining witness in j the ha Iger case, has remained out of he city, and the prosecution has been | limbic to secure his attendance at the j proceedings. HVE ltOIHES RECOVERED ?- . | i (Min thp l.uiiiH of Iturnfd \i nunir fplt H'orku I vi < V ('liica^o dispatch miv<: Five 1 oilies were 'J'uomIhv fro:.. 11> ? ? uins of tli?- Armour curled hair ami felt works, which were hurned M<>nlav night. The recovered bodies arc: Willi .m Ilickvockcr, John It. (ieoroe, Juiu-'s Flnnnpnn, John Smith, unidentified man, burned beyond recognition. BIS VICTORY OVER REBELS AttCINALDO'S ARMY WAS ftADLY ROUTED BY AMERICANS. JEN. OTIS' LOSSES WERE HEAVY *!? OntUnchl Wna FI?ro? and Farloai ?w ncoi'i cosset ueaon into the Hundreds. The New York World prints the following Manilla cable under date of March 24th: "A sweeping victory over Agninaldo's forces has just been won by the United States troops. "The total American loss is estimated at about 101), iucluding both the killed and wounded. "The Filipino loss is between and 400." A dispatch received at Washington from Manila states that the enemy are extremely active in the vicinity of Malabon preparing defenses, evidently anticipating an attack. They keep well under cover. A small body of rebels, however, emerged ffom the jungle on the satreme left Friday and tired upon the Kansas troops in the trenches, fatally wounding Private Cohen, of comnanv 1). and Private Muser, of company E. The Oregon volunteers and the Twenty-second regulars marched to the front Friday. The Third and Seventeenth regiments have disembarked from the Shermau. General H. G. Otis's brigade struck their tents Friday morning, and an early move is probable. Sixteen English refugees arrived from Dagupan, the railroad terminus, on board the steamer Saturnus. Thpy report that the natives are generally friendly, and the officers invariably courteous. Mr. Higgins, manager of the railroad, and about a dozen unmarried men in charge of various business interests declined to take advantage of the opportunity to leave. Nothing has been heard from the two American planters at Calumpit since hostilities began. According to Filipino accounts, a thousand Americans have been killed, the fatalities being especially heavy at Caloocan, where the United States troops "rushed like madmen against a storm of bullets." Two Spanish prisoners, who have escaped from Polo tc the lines of the Kansas regiment, report that the Filipinos have concentiated their forces at Malubon and Polo. They add that only Aguinaldo's body gu?*Ai?* ? .?nw iiitii tne Tenet leaders apparently intend to stako their fortunes on a tight at Malabon, where it was expected an engagement would take place Friday. If defeated, it is further I asserted, the rebels intend to disperse to the swamps and mountains. The rebels were putting their bolos , in front, believing that the bolosmen's ' chirms will avert the bullets. The bolos of the Filipinos greatly outnumber the rifles in their hands. The rebels are further said to have admit ted that they could uot stand the American shells and bayonet eharges. The escaped Spaniards corroborated the stories told of food shortage among the rebels, and they added that their hospitals are short of supplies. TO CKL'SII Abl lNALDO. Otis Is I'rt'puriim for His Final Advance t'lion Filipinos. Tt is understood at Washington that General Otis has so far matured his plans of campaign that within a week or ten days he will be able to begin the movement which is expected to mark the destruction of Aguinaldo's army. Although stragglers and fugitives may infest tha army of Luzon for some time, it is believed that nfcer Otis has delivered his next blow the insurgent army, ns an organization, will have ceased to exist. The new movement will be, it is understood, by a combined land and water attack, though it is not expected that the navy's part in the program will be particularly prominent. Otis has procured thirteen of the Spanish gunboats formerly owned by the Spanish government, and those are to play an important part in the development of the campaign. TO INSPECT CANAL ROUTES. Com in Inm I on of Smxlur* anil Kcprriiaiitit11 von Will Soon tttnrt Out. On the Panama liner Alliance,which is to take a delegation of United States senators and representatives to Central America to view the proposed Nicaragua and Panama canal routes, elaborate preparations are being made. The vessel probably will start from New York within a week. After viewing the canal routes the senators and congressmen, on the homeward trip, will view the scene of t'ervera's defeat at Santiago and stops will he made at other points in Cuba The expenses of the trip will be paid by th<< new Punaum eaiial company. UAHMEVT WORKERS STRIKE. !'iir|>i>a<- In Abolition of llir Sub-C!ontrnetliiK Sy?l?*in. The executive committee of the fiarment Workers' Union at Philadelphia ordered a strike of the 11,000 garment makers of the city, beginning Saturday at noon. The purpose of the strike is principally to secure the abolition of subcontracting as well as higher wages and increased rates for government work. BILL m WEEKLY LETTER THE BARTOW PHILOSOPHER TALKS OF ASTRONOMY. REY. CADMflN RILES WILLIAM. Dltacrcrncnl Hrtw?*n the 8nn and Moon Prodoelnt a Ureat Host of Lunatic*. Dr. Baker says tbat all these late disturbances of the elements are owing to the moon, and that we havent had a left-handed moon before in forty years. The moon has been passing through a cycle of years, and is just turning back to go the other way, sorter like the sun, when it crosses the line and makes the equinoctial gales. ' And that's is the reason," says he, "why everything is out of joint, both in the heavens ubove and the earth beneath, for the moon is pulling one way and the sun is pulling another. And that accounts for the extraordinary weather and the ; storms and floods and cyclones; and | this left-handed moon seems to effect ; the people too, and so we are having , a hullabaloo about the jug and wliis ky business, and tbey bavo got it down so fine now tbnt if a rattlesnake was to bite a man be would die before : they conld get a drink of whisky io ; save him. And here is all this devilment 1 going on abont iuo1>h killing up the nig! gers, and to my opinion it's all owing tc this left-banded moon, for you know ! that when a man goes crazy they call him a lunatic, and that word came from Ijuur, the moon, and so I reckon thai about this time we are all crazy, iuort or less, and don't know it; I am, ] know or else I would have so'd 1113 cotton when it was at the high-watei mark, and I dident." Dr. Baker is an old-fashioned phil 080])her and has his opinions and som< superstition about the moon, am' also abont screech owls snd grave ! yard rabbits, and the like; but he ii wrong about the cycle of forty years. Tt takes the moon only eighteen years to complete its cycle, and I reiLembei ! that eighteen years ago we had a verj 1 late spring, and never got e. chuuce ti break up the land at all, but had t< list it in April and plnnt anyhow. \V< made a good crop, though, and so w< will trust in the Lord, who said tha ! seed time and harvest should not fail This moon business has perplexe* 1 me all my life. I can't keep up witl I it?I can't foretell whether the nex i new moon will set flat and hold wate I or set up and down and spill it, n& ; whether it will ride high in the zenith o j Ann?*er? 1 ntr ^own in southern sky I It is the most mysterious orb in tn< | heavens, and its movements the mos ' complicated, but to the astronomer i i is the regularity of irregularities. I | revolves around the earth in twenty seven days, but as the earth is speed ing around the suu it takes the moot 1 twenty-nine days to keep up with i 1 and make the circuit. Its orbit is ai I ellipse, and sometimes it is near u ! and sometimes more remote. It wal) ' hies and has a new path around th i earth every time for nine years, an< then gets hack again in nine year ; more. It has its lihrations on latitudi ; and longitude and its nodes am ' aspides, and, with all these complies , tions, no wonder the people have tliei: signs and superstitions, and believi in a wet moon and a dry moon and i [ left-handed moon, and see had luck ii i looking at the new moon over yonr lef I shoulder or through a brushy tree top i and almost everybody has a theory I about planting in the light or dark o I the moou. But if the moon ever does make lu natics it is making them nowadays and we are deeply concerned abou those northern Methodist preachers? , we see from the New York papers tha 400 of them recently held a conventioi with Bishop Andrews at their head and listened with approval to the ut terances of Rev. Mr. Cadman, of tin "Metropolitan church, who declare* that the time had come when the onb } test of religious faith should be Chris | and His teachings, and that all tin | miracles ot the Old Testament sliouh lie discarded as tables and as contrail to human reason. "We must cease t< believe," said he, "that Moses openei a way through the sea for the child ret of Tsrnel to pass over, or that he math water to gush from the rock, or tha Rot's wife turned into a pillar of salt, 01 the tower of Habel story, or tlint Dan iel went into the lions' den, or tha Hhndraek, Meseliack and Abednng< wnlked through the fiery furnace. 01 that the sun stood still at the eommaiu of Joshua, or that the whale swallowei , J.onah," and so forth. The papers sa; I that th?re "as almost unanimous ap plause when he closed, and no one re plied to or controverted the nrgumen | of the reverend gentleman. Whit does all this mean? The pres. . says it looked like a perfect upheavin; | and overturningof the very foundation! of Methodism and orthodox Christian ity, and that this was the most repre sentative body of clergymen that eve met in America. Can this be possible Have they ignored Moses and tin prophets of whom this same Chris whom they pretend to believe quotei i anil indorsed time and again to Hi: disciples? Dident lie sny to the I'har isees: "Remember Hot's wife?" Diden He say in one of His parables: "I they will not believe Moses anil tin prophets neither would they believi ; though one rose from the dead?' i Dident Paul preach a sermon on faitl and quote Moses and Klijnli and spent of the very miracles they pei formed' I confess that I was shocked when I read the Rev. ('adman's new depurturt from the faith of the fathers and stil I more shocked when the 400 cheered him. It seems that thej were not surprised, for Cadman had been for ' some time delivering himself on this same line, and had made manv coni verts among them. "Our belief must : conform to human rensou," said he, 1 and yet the idiot cau't tell how his will raises his hand, nor how he winks his eye, nor how the leaves of the tree 1 expand and grow and all conform to the savne shape and size/ nor how the rose takes on its beautiful colors. All nature is a miracle aud gives evidence of the existence of a Supremo Being, and it is only the fool who saith iu his heart there is no God, or I that there i? no truth in the Old Tes. tament. So far as I am concerned, I feel as if I was nothing, and less than nothing in the scale of existence, for I do not know whence I came nor where I am going,nor by what power I think, nor what makes my heart to beat while I am sleeping. If I did not put my trust in a great and good Creator in whom I live and move and have my being I would be mont miserable. Ho made me and He will take care of me. , I The Bible has stood as the bulwark i | and foundation of the Christian's faith for niueteen centuries and now tlia . Rev. Cadman aud these 400 propose to strike down and annihilate the Old Testament. Moses and the prophets and the ten commandments must go, for they cannot strike out the miracles and leave the rest to stand. As yet, we have seon no reply to or explanation of this astoundiug departure from ( the faith of the fathers. Are the times out of joint in the closiug of this (* century? Are wars to continue? Are mobs to administer the law? Are negro soldiers to tramp through this | ( goodly laud and outrage the people i and make them desperate? I ! This reminds me of a letter that . Bishop Turner wrote to us in kind re- : c membrance of our late wedding. I j s have known this eminent negro j [ preacher for thirty-five years and I r never knew anything but good of him. j In 18(>5 he was at Rome and used his j talents and eloquence in pleading for peace between the races and in giving J , his people good counsel. I remember I his public address there on one ocen- I siou, (luring reconstruction times, when he and Albert Berrien both $ threw themselves within the breach, and how they counseled the insolent Spanish captain and provost marshal, De La Mesa, to stop arresting the , white people on every trivial complaint of the necroes. Thev had i/ood influence over that conceited and re- [ 3 vengeful officer and alarmed him into ? milder treatment of the rebel traitors, as he called us. There is something very touching and pathetic in this long-continued devotion of Bishop 1 Turner to his people. He has lived ' to see them all free and many of them r to prosper, but his discouragement r has at times almost driven him to der spair. * He sees the alienation between the races is growing wider and deeper and ' that it lias ari;en more from political fac* i to s n 1 for political purposes than from ; iace, color or condition. He sees not ( less than 4,000 of them in the chain- I gangs of Georgia and a like proportion ' J in the other southern states, when j there was not one in slavery days, and ' all this in (lie face of a degree of education that the African never had before, for it is a fact of record that 75 1 per cent of these convicts can read and but few of them are old enough to 3 have known what slavery was before 3 the war. He has lived to read of a 1 thousand outrages and n thousand lynohings when there was not one in r slavery days. No wonder he is beg0 ging and pleading with his people to , 1 go to Africa. Here is part of his letter to u . "Btl.l. Arc, Esq.? Dear Doctor: Please ' permit a member of the junior race, or as j you are pleased to call It, tin' inferior race, to tender you nnd your distinguished con- ! sort his sincere and unfeigned oongrntula- | tions upon reaching your golden wedding I ^ and being abb', through the providence of (lod, to celebrate your fiftieth mnrriage aui- J ^ versary. The privilege of spending fifty ^ years with a devoted companion is r.n exalted honor nnd should call for a reconrc- ! ' eration of time and talents to the service of tied and the betterment of mnnkind. Once i 8 ^ in a while you have hurled some heavy , blows at the degraded portion of my race, | j but you have evr been charitable and i R always conceded the fact that there are | j some good,honest and Christian negroes. I j pray Ooil that the remainder of your days : . ami the days of your loving companion may ^ j be pleasant and felicitous, nnd finally ter- I , I minate amid the smiles and sunshine of our ! i i s common Father Your wide reading, your i j bright intellect, your wit and humor and ! r wisdom, and your ceaseless industry will j rank you among the grent and notable men ' t of (leorgla Again I tender you my con- , > gratulntions. Next July I will celebrate the p fiftieth anniversary of my connection with ! j i the Methodist church at Abbeville, S. C. 1 Yours with liiL'b esteem 7 Henhy M- Turner. ' We are pleased to place this pood letter in our wedding seraphook with t all the rest.?Bill Ahi? in Atlanta | Constitution. * (1Iak<;ki> with burglary. K linptiMl miiiihot It o a ml Over Ity Jtm- | ti?'P of tll?t I'pucc. Rev. C. C. Childreas was arrested r by Slier ill" Land at Fairmont, Cordon ? county, (la., upon a warrant charging & him with burglary. Dr.W. B. Vaughn, t a prominent physician, alleges his 1 house was burglarized and ?800 taken. ? lie charges Rev. Childress with the crime and claims to have recognized t him when the burglary was committed I At the commitment trial a large | : number of witnesses testified. There ' was no direct evidence produced of Childress' guilt, but 'Squire Tinslej, i before whom the case was tried, saw j ; enough in the evidence to bind the ' ' defendant over for appearance at the i 1 August term of the superior court and ' | placed his bond at ?500, which wus ! I i readily made. I AMERICANIZATION OF SANTIAOOl Oar Ideas Take a Strong Hold oa Men, Womta and Children. I was greatly Interested In seeing how rapidly the town of Santiago do Cuba Is becoming Americanized, writes George Keuuan, lu the Outlook. ragged Cuban bootblack shouted at me, "Shine? Shine 'em up?" How these Suutlago street arabs have acquired precisely the words, voice, tone and pronunciation of the ferryboat bootblacks Jn New York I don't know; out they linve. Many of them can also count in English, and, I am sorry to Bay, swear fluently in the same language. Half the street boys in the city cun whistle our bugle calls, "After the Hall" and "The Star Spangled Banner." I happened, a night or two ago, just before sunset, to be standing on the edge of the parade ground in front of me ruiu inruuixy uhitui-kh wuuu nv treat" was sounded and tbe national colors were slowly lowered to the music of "The Star Spangled Banner." A large number of dirty, ragged street urchins, of all ages, sizes and complexions, had assembled to watch the drill Snd the dress parade. The Instant liat the band struck up "The Star Spangled Banner" and the flag began td descend slowly from its staff every boy who wore a hat or a cap promptly took It oft and stood bareheaded in re* speetful silence until the ceremony ended. I don't know what they though* nor how much they understood, but I am told that they began this practice months ago of their own accord, when they first noticed that American bystanders followed It, and that they have strictly observed the custom ever Bince. There can be no doubt, I think, that American customs, American ideas and American methods are beginning already to influence not only the boys, but the men and women of this city. In dress, in social habits, in commercial transactions and in a growing regard for neatness and clenuliness, one sees everywhere the slow but sure working of the leaven of civilization and enlightenment. One year ago, under the Spanish regime, there was not a public school- i house in the city?that is, a building originally Intended for educational purposes?nor was there anything like a system of free public instruction. Now there are seventeen elementary and grammar schools and a high school, wii.i an average number of 1,922 pupils. and the private houses rented for temporary use as school buildings are wholly inadequate to accommodate the number of children who have applied for admission. Major Haccardl, who is ex-otttcio president of the Heard of , Public Instruction, has just recommended that thirty more schools, with accommodations for l.r>00 more scholars, be established within the limits of the municipality, us soon as there la money available. Knows Hotter. "What is your idea of a humorist?" "A real humorist is a man who gets mad when he hears a pun." Day* of the Home Numbered. The greatest electrician In the world declares that the daya of the horse nre numbered, and that In a short time electricity will completely supplant nmn'a in< st useful animal. In 20 years, he asserts, the horse will he a curiosity. Placates ot the stomach, liver, kidneys nnd blood would also bo a cutloslty If all sufferers would take IIc>stetter's Stomach Hitters. There would then be practically no dyspepsia, nervousness, sleeplessness, Indigestion, constipation, malarial fever or ague. At Plymouth. Mass.. a man was killed by lightning while ringing a church hell. To Care Coustlpatlon Forever* Take CaScarots Cdndv Cathartic. lOoorSSe. If C. C. C. fall to cure, druggists rotund money. The true Christian can he trusted as far as God can see him.?ltam's Horn. "Peace Hath Her Victories cNj) less renowned than war,'' said Milton, and now, in the Spring, is the time to get a peaceful victory over the impurities which have been accumulating in the blood during Winter's hearty eating* The banner of peace is borne aloft by Hood's Sarsaparilla, It brings rost nnd comfort to the weary body racked by pain* of all aorta and kinds. Its lienolIWal effects prove it to bo the Kroat specific to bo rolled upon for victory. Hood's nrvrr disappoint*. Rheum "My mother was seriously afflicted with salt rheum and painful rnntiin>: sores. No inediclno helped her until Hood's Sarsaparllla was used, which made her entirely well." Kssk K. mapi.ehtonb. lifts i tenrhurn Street, Chlcaifo, 111. Tlrod Feelins "I hod that tiro<l, dull feeling, dysp.-psia, headaches and sinking , spoils, but H'md's Rarsaparilla made mo a new man. 1 never was better than now." John Mack, Oskaloosa. Iowa. cf toCcES S(VUatKVul(a _ Hoods Pills core liver ills, nonlrntntlng and tho only cathartic to lake with Hood's Saras pari I) a. on Athletic Goods tnsistupon Spalding'6 IIiihImiiiic ( '.it?r?< A. It. M'Al.lJl.Nii a; iUlOS., York. Chicago. J'cnvor. \\' ANTED- Ciw of bar. health that RIl'ANI *? will not benefit, bond 6 ci*. to lti|>?nN Olieuiical T Oo.. New York, for lu saiuides and low testimonial*. \ J