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j TO EXHIBIT AT-PARIs.
First Step Toward Participation in the
1reat French Exposition.

First step Toward Participation in the
GREAT French Exposition.
WASHINGTON, April l5.-The first
step toward the acceptance of the invi.
tation from France to participate in
the Paris exposition of 1900 has been
taken by this government in the fol-
lowing action:
DSenator Mason of Illinois offered in
the senate a joint resolution accepting
the invitation and providing for the
appointment Of commissioner general
and an assistant commissioner general,
and nine scientific experts to represent
the United States.
The sum of $50, 900 is appropriated
to meet the expenses of the exhibit
The salary of the commissioner gen.
eral is fixed at $4,000 a year, of the
assistant commissioner general at ST.
900, and of the nine experts at 81 800 a
year each. The expenses of the COM
missioner and his assistant are also to be
met with the sums set aside for their
salaries, but separate appropriation
of $4,000 is made to pay for clerical
assistance for the nine experts. 1t is
pTONiueu IudI tleSe OlllCldlS Shall De
named by the president and confirmed
by the senate.
This resolution directs the president
of the United States officially to notify
the governors of states of the desire
of the government to be represented
at this exposition and to request them
to take proper steps for the representa-.
tion of all the states and territories in
the United States exhibit The resolu.
tion also provides that the expert as.
signed to the department of agriculture
shall begin at the earliest possible mo-
ment to arrange for the collection of a
suitable agricultural exhibit.
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PURELY DIPLOMATIC.
Senator wolcott Speaks of the First
Duty of the Monetary Commission.


Duty of the Monetary Commission.
WASHINGTON, April is. - Senator
Wolcott, in speaking of the recently
appointed monetary commission, said
that there appears to be mistaken
impression that the commission is ap.
pointed with the purpose in view of
having it represent the United States
at a conference only. While the COM
mission might be utilized in that way
if conference should be held, its first
work is to be Of a purely diplomatic
character, looking entirely to securing
European cooperation. The commits.
sion expect to leave this country about
the middle of May and Immediately
upon their arrival in Europe will SET
themselves to that task. Whether
there shall be conference at all will
depend upon how the advances of the
commissioners are received by the
principal powers.
Hopeful of Success.
Senator Wolcott is very hopeful of
success. He looks forward to hard
work, but says from what he learned
while abroad he is most sanguine of re-
suits. Senator Walcott believes that
in the selection of the commission, and
especially in naming Mr. Stevenson, a
silver man, who supported Mr.. Bryan,
President Mckinley has convinced
everyb body that he is an earnest BIZ
metallist Bimetallism at home and
abroad, he says, will be promoted by
this selection.
Opposition to the scheme for interna.
tional bimetallism has developed from
an unexpected source. Morton Ere.
wen of England, who has given great
deal of attention to the subject and
who has visited this country several
times, in the interest of silver, is now
opposing an international agreement
and declares that the money question
is one which each nation must settle
for itself.
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BRIEF BITS OF NEWS.

The wife of Commander Booth
Tucker of the Salvation Army has
given birth to son
Judge H. r. Sheldon, formerly a
member Of the Illinois supreme court,
and one of the wealthiest citizens OF
Rockford, is dead, aged So
Andrea De Gloria, Italian vice consul
in st. Paul, and one of the city's oldest
and most highly respected Italian resi-
dents, died from dose of sulphuric
acid taken with suicidal intent.
A cablegram received at the state
department from United States Consul
Vifquain, at Panama, containing the
one word yellow" conveyed the in
formation that yellow fever had made
its apnearance at that port.
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NELSON AND TARIFF.
Minnesota Senator Has Several Impor-
tant Amend ments to Offer.

Minnesota Senator Has Several Impor-
tant Amendments to Offer.
WASHINGTON, April 10. - Senator
Nelson has given notice of several
amendments to the tariff bill. One of
these abrogates after one year the Ha-
waiian reciprocity treaty. Another
declares trusts of combinations for the
restoration of trade or enhance the
market price of imports or manufac-
lures by two or more persons, either
one of whom is an importer, to be
against public policy, illegal and
void" and provides for the punish.
ment of the offense by both fine and
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and an international conference does
not secure foreign cooperation for the
restoration of bimetallism, the cause of
free silver will be stronger in 1900 than
in 1896, because many who hfAe been
inclined to rely on foreign aid. will see
the necessity of self reliance on the
part of the people of the United States.
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Picker at the White House.

WASHINGTON, April l5.-Ex-Repre-
sentative Picker of South Dakota, who
was strongly pressed for commissioner
of pensions, was at the White House
during the day. Rumor now connects
his name with the position of commits
sioner Of Indian affairs, but the Wis.
consln delegation, who have been urg-
ing W. A. Jones, say this place has
been Ire.empted by the latter
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imprisonment. A third amendment
authorizes the president to suspend by
executive order the collection of ali
duties levied upon any imported
article, the home product of which is
controlled by q trust.
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Will Pass sAppropriation Bills.

WASHINGTON, April 15.-An agree.
ment has been reached among the
leaders Of the various parties III the
senate under which the appropriation
bills which failed to become laws at
the last session of congress will be
taken up and passed at once.
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Japanese Cruiser for Hawaii.

YOKOHAMA, April l5.-The japanese
cruiser Naniwa will sail from this
port for Hawaii next Saturday, to pro-
vide against contingencies which
might grow out of the existing dispute
with Hawai- over the treaty authoriz-
ing immigration from Japan.
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WASHINGTON, April l5.-The presi-
ur ing it to make suitable provision
for adequate representation of the
United States at the Paris exhibition.
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The Idea Is Absurd, They Say.

LONDON, April l5-The Globe, St.
James Gazette and Pail Mall Gazette
all ridicule the idea of the United
States bimetallic mission having any
practical result.
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viii Call 1t Up Daily.

WASHINGTON. April l5. MIR. Morgan
in the senate asked to have time set
for a final vo.e on the Cuban resolu-
ton. Mr.. Hoar objected. and Mr..
Morgan gave notice that he would call
up the resolution daily until vote was
secured
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Hats &
Caps.

THIS is our great speciality.
We are positively headquarters for
everything good and fashionable
in hats and caps. We carry the
leading brands in the market in all
the latest styles and shapes.
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SHIRTS &
Underwear.

COME n and look over our
line of Shirts for spring. We can
give you any style you want.
Working shirts at 25c, 35c and SOC.
Negligee shirts SOC, 65c, 75c, soc,
$1OO, Sl.2o, $50 and $500.
White dress shirts SOC, 75c. S1.OO
and 81 %.
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Dangers OF Beer Drinking.

Those who believe that beer drinking Ia
helpful rather than harmful ought to read
what the insurance doctors are saying. At
a convention here last week thew discussed
the matter seriously and scientifically, and
they held that the habit is injurious and
makes persons bad risks for insurance. Dr..
Rogers, Of the New York Life Insurance
Co.. said:
Recently I had occasion to make some
study Of what happens among persons en-,
gagged in the manufacture of beer, defined
generally as brewers. My cases included
not only the workingmen engaged In brew
cries, but also the proprietors Of brewertes1
It is a curious fact that the mortality
among the proprietors Is about as high as
among the workmen, showing that they
are all given to copious Hbations. a.
Another curious fact Is that the data
that I have been able to secure indicates
that Urtello's point, emphasized by DE-.
Bernacki, that mortality Is very high at ad.
vanced ages, is very well borne out. The
mortality Is strikingly low among brewers
In early years. Up to forty or t~hereabouta
brewers seem to be about as good risks az
pretty much anybody else. After forty the
mortality rises very high, and I should say
that al ffty-ave or sixty years Of age about
three brewers may be expected to DIE
where one average person dies" ~
1t Is already clear that beer Is not q tenn
perance drink. Now, according to the
doctors, 1t saps the vital forces, and this ts
an extremely weighty indictment against
it.-New York Independent.
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ing, enough will be wasted in a few
years to pay for a building in which to
store it. The old notion was, that the
barn for storing hay should be open
ard that the doors should all be left
OPEN to air the hay, but now people
have learned that the tighter the barn
and the closer it is kept shut, the
greener the hay al be stored with
safety and the better it will keep. In
buying a lot Of clover hay in England
t. feed a flock of sheep which I was to
bring over, while on ship I was struck
by its dark color but delicious fra
g:ance and the fact that the sheep ate
every portion, even to the coarse stalk,
and from then till now I have been
trying to cure clover like it, and have
succeeded pretty we'll by curing it in
large cocks and putting into mows
quite damp.-New England Home
s@ead.
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as Great Britain, Germany and France

as Great Britain, Germany and France
collectively"
He tells us further hat IN average
farm hand in the United States raises
at much grain as three farm hands in
England, by aso of his superior
machinery and tools. Whence we de-
duct the fact that the daily working
power, or capacity for productive
labor, of the United States is about
three times as great at least as that of
Great Britain.
Finally, there is the matter OF edu-
cation, and perhaps after all this is the
point of comparison of which We have
the best right to be proud. The
census Of 1890 shows that eighty-seven
per cent. of our total population above
the age of ten a both read and write.
In the words of Mr.. Mulhall, "In the
history of the human race no nation
ever before possessed Al, 900, 900 in
structed citizens"
Great Britain is no doubt the lead
ing nation in Europe in the matter of
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Foods.

While no n will question the ad.
disability of using fresh fruits, grain
and vegetables when they can be OBJ
tanned in O fresh and wholesome state,
it must be admitted that there are times
when properly-prepared condensed or
concentrated foods are extremely de-
sirable. It is also worth while to note
that inexperienced cooks and careless
housekeepers are often at q loss to
know just what to do in an emergency.
Gradually they are learning some OF
the advantages of prepared foods IN
der such circumstances. Among the
new introduotions are prepared soups
In cakes or blocks. These have meat
Juice with a sort of Julienne soup pre-
paration carefully blended, seasoned
and put up in a dainty and attractive
manner. When n wants a dish OF
soup all that is necessary is to provide
the proper amount of water, which
must be at boiling point, and In a yes
sci which must be closely covered. Put
as many of the meat blocks as are re-
auired into a given amount Of water,
cover closely and allow to stand for
twenty minutes. In emergencies less
lime will answer, but the full flavor OF
The soup is not brought out save by a
little time. This is destined to be-
come one of the regulation articles of
diet. There are also biscuits made on
The same plan. These biscuits are
wrapped in waxed paper and furnished
10 local customers.-The Ledger.
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WORKING

American manufactures increased in
value nine-fold, as against a two-fold
increase in the value of British man
features in sixty years.
Mr.. Mulhall, the celebrated British
statistician, has pointed out that "the
productive power of a nation a be
n assured at each census with almost
the same precision as that with which
the astronomer indicates the distances
of the heavenly bodies" An able
bodied male adult has a daily working
power equal to that required to lift
800 tons n foot. On this basis Mr..
Mulhall reports the physical power of
the American nation to-day to be equal
to 64O6 millions Of foot tons per day.
To that he adds the horsepower and
steam-power of the country, and re-
ports the total daily lifting power in
the United States at 129, 500 millions
of foot tons. The meaning of this
statement is better understood when
it is added that, by Mr.. Mulhall's
computation, 'the United States pos
sess almost as muchproductiYe energy
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A Total Abstinence Admiral.

The New York Sun says that Secretary
Long Of the Navy has paid compliment to
the prohibitionists Of the country in giving
the name Of "The Foote" to torpedo boat
No. 8, now being built by the Columbian
Iron Works Of Baltimore. The sailors used
to sing Of Admiral Foote as the man
"Who raised our pay ten cents a day
And stopped our grog forever" ,
This was literally true. Away back In 1SAS
Admiral Foote conducted q total abstinence
campaign at the Philadelphia Naval Asyt
lum, where he was stationed, and persuaded
q number Of the inmates to give up their
rstions Of grog. Then he increased the
scope Of his temperance operations, devot!
ment to abolish the allowance Of liquor to
each enlisted man. In this he was success
full, and there has been no free grog In thr
service since. ;
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A Knowing Bird Dog.

Colonel J. W. Barnett, in New Or
cans, told q story of an unusually fine
bird dog that he once owned, the best
log, he said, that aver was in his pos
session. He had trained the dog with
great care to know a bird by the
feathers it dropped. Did a partridge
drop a feather the dog would take the
scent and find the birds retreat. One
day the Colonel hit a wild duck, but
only knocked out few wing feathers:
The dog shifted them and started
away. After a little his master called
him, but got no response, and at the
md of an exhaustive search OF the
neighborhood went home, expecting
the dog would come along later. But
the dog didn't come home until a week
afterward, when one day he appeared,
thin and bedraggled, just able to trot
slowly along the road, but carrying a
dead duck. The Colonel had saved
the wing feathers which he saw the
dog last sniff, and upon comparison
found that they had belonged to the
duck the faithful brute brought home.
Apparently the dog had followed the
quarry until he found its roosting place
md nabbed it asleep.-New York Sun.
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WORDS OF WISDOM.

Some people consider it hard to be
poor, but the majority of US find it
dead casy.
Don't get into the habit of vulgariz-
ing life by making light of the seuti-
ment of it.
Selfshness is often so refined that
it is deeply wounded at the least re-
monstrance.
If we had no defects, we should not
take so much pleasure in discovering
those of others.
There is no man easier to be de-
eeived than he who hopes, for he aids
In his own deceit.
A pound of water in the ocean tenn.
pest has no more gravity than in a
midsummer pond.
Our happiness in this world de-
ponds very largely on the affection we
are able to inspire.
The feeble tremble before opinion,
the foolish defy it, the wise Judge it,
the skillful direct it.
Don't express a positive opinion IN
less you perfectly understand what
you are talking about.
True genius much resembles a mus
tard plaster. The secret of its smart
ness lies in close application.
If a man tells us what he thinks OF
his neighbors, we al generally tell
what his neighbors think Of him.
He whose ruling passion is the love
Of praise, is o slave to every one that
has a tongue for fattery and calumny.
We are oftener more cruelty robbed
by those who steal into our hearts
than by those who break into our
houses.
Fun is the most conservative ele-
ment of society, and ought to he
cherished and encouraged by all law
full means.
It is an inevitable law that a man
cannot be happy unless he lives for
something higher than his own happi-
ness.-The Southwest.
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that the value of the annual exports
and imports of the kingdom rose from
800, 600, 900 in 1887 to nearly g.
500, 600, 900 in the nineties.
But we can dwarf these figures also.
Sixty years ago the total imports and
exports of the United States were less
than 5000, 900, 900 per year. Now they
are over 81, 500, 900, 900 ayear. While
British foreign trade has been multi
plying fve-fold American foreign trade
has multiplied seven-fold.
In the matter of railroads, MI. Stead
says truly that the great bulk of Brit
ish railroad mileage has been built
since Victoria began to reign. Even
so, our railroad building record beats
it sail hollow"
The total railroad mileage of the
United Kingdom to-day is about
81, 900 miles. The railway mileage Of
the United States is more than nine
times as large. We have over 100, 900
miles of railroads already built, and
that is more than the combined rail-
road mileage of all the nations of Eu-
rope put together.
Coming next to manufactures, Mr..
Stead gives a diagram showing that
between 1887 and 1897 the value Of
British manufactures has about dou-
bled. That is a good lively gait, but
it does not touch the pace at which
the manufactures have grown in the
United States. Our statistics are not
complete enough for close comparison
away back in 1887, but we have the
figures from 1850 to 1890.
In 1850 the gross value of the man
ufactured products of this country was
81, 900, 900, 900, using round figures.
In 1890 the gross valne of the product
Of American manufactures was &c.
400, 000, 900. So that in forty years
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computed total of the wealth of Great

computed total of the wealth of Great
Britain.
England's total wealth to-day is
estimated by her own famous statisti-
clan, DR.. Robert Giffen, at $50, 49,
900, 900. So she is behind the United
States in the size of her pile by about
S14, OOO, 900, 600. Uncle Sans farm is
worth more than John Bulls in the
proportion of at least thirteen to ten.
In the one item of real estate the
valuation of this country stands rela-
ti-ely to that of Great Britain as two
to one. The lands and buildings of
the United Kingdom were last valued
at about $40, 600, 600, 900, and those of
the United States at just about S4O,-
900, 900, 600.
The wealth in houses in this Gland
of the free" represented an annual in
vestment of about $12.5 so per inhabit-
ant for the twenty years ending with
1890. The annual average in Great
Britain represented IN annual invest
ment of less than Sc per ~inhabitant for
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by conquest, treaty or settlement, IN
the reigns of Victoria's predecessors,
yet the population and development
thereof have been accomplished mostly
within the past sixty years.
1t is not the number of square miles
that make a nation great, but the num-
Der and the quality Of the men to the
miles.
In 1871 (the year of the first Vic
torian ~census) the United Kingdom
had 81, 900, 900 inhabitants. In 1891
it had nearly SO, OO0, 900. 1t appears
that the Queen is ruling to-day over
about IL, 900, 900 more subjects than
she did in 1887.
During the same period the United
Kingdom has sent out about 5000, 600
surplus population, one-half of whom
have come to the United States.
The actual increase in the number
of the Queens white subjects at home
and abroad appears to have been about
%, 600, 900. Sir Walter Besant esti-
mates that, scattered over the whole OF
the British Empire, there are now
about so, 900, 900 people speaking the
English language.
But the growth of the United States
in population has been far greater. In
1910, three years after Victoria became
Queen, the population of the United
States was about 1900, 900. In 1897
the population of the United States,
according to estimates made for the
World by the Governors of the States
and Territories, was over "a, 600, 900.
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SWANS NEST UPON A ROCK.

. SN'F'N WV
A Unique Sight In New York's Great
Pleasure Ground.
There is a swans nest in Central
Park, and two big black swans take
turns in guarding it. There are four
big oval eggs in the nest, and they are
very precious, for they are the only
swans eggs that will be laid in the
Park this year. The nest is built on
a bare open rock ten feet in diameter
and rising but little more than a foot
above the water. 1t is in the lower
pond, near the arch of the new stone
bridge and only fifteen feet from the
wooded and rocky shore.
The nest is shallow, but measures
five feet across. It is round and is
built of large twigs, grass and leaves.
It is in the very centre of the little
rocky islet.
The female sits on the nest almost
all of the time, while the male seeks
for food, or lies in wait near by, ready
to dash at any enemy that may ap-
proach the nest. The Matching will be
a matter of weeks. Once in a while
the male bird relieves his mate from
duty, and takes a turn at keeping the
four eggs warm while the female flies
up and down the pond.
Big swans are formidable foes, and
when angered by anyone approaching
their nest fight with wonderful fierce
ness. 1t is a bold man who dares to
risk his eyes in q battle with them.
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A Rat Killing Duel.

A bet was made at Villa RIGA, Ca, a
few days ago between ". H. Barton
and John Bass as to who could kill the
most rats in two hours time. The
two men repaired to Barton's barn. 1t
was full of corn and fodder, and an in
viting home for rats. They moved the
corn and the rats moved out in great
numbers. Each man was armed with q
club. Barton killed AL and Bass
436, Barton winning by five rats. In
a cotton basket the dead rats were put
and weighed an even hundred pounds.
-Douglasville (Ga.) New South.