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HER VALENTINE.
Inc Lady of France In Oiden Timss
Chose Him for One Year.

Chicago Times. Herald: For many
years 1t was the habit of the gay pleas
ure-seekers Of France. men and women.
10 enroll themselves in companies COM
posed OF valentines. Every 14th o.
February they would assemble in the
center OF the town. Here, two by two
IA lady and gentleman riding to-
se'her)' they would make the circuit OF
tue nelghborhood on horseback. The
procession would generally be ed by
CUPID, Mercy, Loyalty and Chastity,
attended by trumpeters, banner-bear-
ers and a crowd of persons, young and
o'u' Usually the procession would re-
turn to the town hail. where, in
rather sacrilegious fashion. the Val
ehtines worshiped Love in a mass
lhen each pair kissed and went their
separate ways, for each was now to
choose new valentine. The names of
al the gentlemen present, written on
SIPS or parchment, were now drawn
Dy the ladies from a casket. Thus each
Iauy received new mate for the COM
ing year. Each gentleman was bound
ny laws, Which were read aloud to the
whole company, to be faithful to the
'ady who had chosen him for a twelve
month, He was to supply her with
mowers, to make her stated presents,
10 act as her escort whenever she
wished, to compose songs In her honor.
10 light in her honor to resent every
insult offered her. II in any respect
ne tailed he was to be driven from the
society OF the other Valentines. The
code prescribed the manner OF his ex-
communication. the final token of
which was the burning of bundle OF
straw Oh his doorsill.
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TO TEACH WINE-DRINKINC.

Mrs. Frona Eunice Wait, a beautifui
and fashionable western woman, wants
to become recognized as Americas Off.
cial wine expert. She has made life.
study Of wines, and her self-appointed
mission is to go among society people
and endeavor to educate them 10 the
correct and refined way Of serving AMI
drinking the Juice of the grape. Mrs.
Wait is much in earnest in her mission
of wine-driRking teaching. She is rec
ognized among her friends as being
able to tell good wine from bad wine
with an expertness that can be acquir.
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| FAMOUS HUNTER.
ALVAH DUNNINC CLOSING A
CHARMED CAREER.


Alvah Dunning, the most famous OF
The North Woods guides, also the old
est at present engaged in the business,
has been spending several days in
Rome, N. Y, visiting friends and rela-
tives whom he had not seen in many
years. Famous men have followed
Mr.. Dunning through the forests and
streams of the great northern New
York wilderness, and have partaken
OF his hospitality and slept in his cab
in at Racquette Lake, where this old
man has been domiciled for sixty-three
years. The SHOWS of eighty-three win
ters have fallen upon him. and he is
still as hardy as the oak, and he lives
a simple and lonely life.
Around him on the lake shores are
the luxurious cottages OF the rich, who
come to the woods from the city in
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FOR WOMEN AND HOME.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FOR MAIDS
AND MATRONS.
some Notes OF Fashions 49, How the
spring Woman WIN Look---A Black
and white Toiict-ro Ease the Zoe,
Cooking school
Ere tho Day.

We wakened at the dawnIng, but we new
And We spoke our little prologue, but we
never reached the play.
ON! our love was sweet and certain TIL
gray sorrow dropped the curtain.
Ay, we wakcned at the dawning, but we
never saw the day.
There were buds within our garden, but
thoy never came to flower.
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DEATH IN POLITICS.
AWFUL MORTALITY RECORD
IN PHILADELPHIA.
Moro Deaths Than In war-watsr Ap-
propriations Withheld In the Hope
That City may Sell the works-Bad
State OF Affairs.

Three hundred and seventy -one per-
sons have died in Philadelphia Of ty-
phoid fever since Jan. /, 1899. The
shadow OF murder hangs over their
deaths, which can be laid to corporate
greed and political corruption, says a
dispatch from that city. These enc
mics Of civilization and of American
institutions have poisoned Philadel-
phia's water supply. Heretofore It
was supposed that only savages pols-
oned an enemy's wells. Philadelphia
fight against her two enemies is for
life; for the lives Of the young and
OF those who would easily succumb 70
disease. So Philadelphia sympathetic
ally watches New York's struggle for
clean streets and for fine, wide thor
ou2hfare that corporations and poli-
ticians would convert into deaths
crossing. Here are the new, the real
facts concerning this epidemic of ty-
phoid, which Is the greatest crime be-
cause the commonest honesty would
have prevented its occurrence: 1t was
not wholly because of factional poll
tics or to prevent the present admin
istration from spending money that
the ordinance appropriating $780, 600
for the Improvement OF the water sun
ply was held up or that the council
refused appropriations to the bureau
OF water In the hope that the water
supply would become so contaminated
that the citizens, as the only relief,
would demand the sale or lease of the
water works. which the city owns. to
one or other Of the corporations which
have been moving heaven and earth
to grab them. That hope has been
partly realized. Some of the results
are: Three hundred and seventy-one
persons have died OF typhoid fever
since Jan. l. 1899. and the most con.
servative physicians declare that %
per cent OF the deaths were due 20
the pollution of the water supply.
Such a death rate from typhoid was
unknown In this city or in any other
that pretends to care for her peoples
health. Since Jan. 1. 1899, 1892 cases
OF typhoid have been reported to the
board OF health. Forty-two more per-
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-04-14
PEenmntic Tirss ON Cahs.

The tires on the New York electric
cabs are quite formidable affairs, They
are nearly three-quarters OF an inch
thick and are five inches In diameter.
They are tested up to pressure ex-
ceeding that used in an ordinary loco
motive boiler. In practice sixty pounds
to the square inch Floats" as II Is
termed, the cab. The tire OF eacn
wheel costs thirty dollars.
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Wow.

When the rich old villain in the tank
play laid his gold at the foot OF the
young girl, she wavered for a moment,
partly, OF course, because the stage di-
rections told her to waver and partly
too, because she was more or less anx-
ious to marry well. But even in that
supreme moment her rare presence OF
mind did not desert her. Where did
iou get IT." she asked, with a mocking
laugh, recalling that salaries had not
been paid In six weeks. Curse you!"
hissed the hoary-headed miscreant,
staggering. She thought. now, of
Gondalfo; brave, strong Gondalfo, who.
when she was shipwrecked, had lashed
her to spar and held an umbrella over
her to keep her silk skirt from spot
ting! She would give Gondalfo her
hand, and he would lead her to the
footlights, and they would sing an IT.
lsh ballad together!-Detroit Journal.
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summer and bring their fashions with
them. Though he mingles with these
people, Uncle Alvah is uncontaminated
by the habits Of civilization.
Alvah Dunning is the picture OF
health. carrying his years well, and
his eyes have merry twinkle, their
vision still being too good for the use
Of glasses. When but ten years old he
went into the woods with a party Of
four hunters to carry birds for them
and ever since that time his life has
been mostly spent in hunting and trap
ping, and for the past seventy years he
has acted as guide. The last person of
prominence he guided through the
woods was former Gov. Black, while
the latter was on his fishing trip last
summer
Dunning Is personally acquainted
with all the noted guides, and has
trapped and hunted with Guides Wood,
Dunakin, Stormer and Shepard. In
eight years he killed 102 panthers; but
now they are extinct. he having killed
the last one seen in the woods at Lake
Emmonds, near Blue Mountain Lake,
about eight years ago. There were
three kittens" in tree and he and
the party he was guiding brought them
down in one, two. three order. They
were about eight months old, and
weighed about forty-five pounds each.
The day after killing the young ones
Mr.. Dunning found and killed the
mother panther, and this Is said TO
have been the last one.
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Twelve thousand Letters . Minute.

Uncle Sam has the greatest postofiice
in the world. Every minute. day and
night, during the entire year, 1900
letters and packages are dropped into
the malls. The average American
sends more pieces OF mail and receives
more than the average inhabitant OF
any other country on earth. In 1897
the number Of pieces of matter OF all
kinds mailed in this country was
about 100000 for every day In the
wear
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Van Dyck Tsrcsntenary.

In connection with the Van Dyck
tercentenary, which is to be celebrated
at Antwerp in August next, one mil
lion special postage stamps will be is
sued, which will bear portrait of the
great painter from drawing by Ge-
rard Postielje. In tho program of the
fetes, drawn up by the committee ap-
pointed for the purpose. is included an
historical procession representing the
development OF art from the earliest
known time TO the days OF Rubens.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-04-14
THE KITCHEN.

Cabbage and Nut Salad.-Shred with
slow cutter enough white cabbage TO
make three cupfuls, then chop 1t fine
and you will find II enough nicer to
pay for the extra trouble of shredding
1t first Then mix 1t with a coffee
cupful OF chopped hickory nut meats
and small! teaspoonful Of salt. Turn
into bowl, garnished with lettuce
leaves. Place a large lettuce leaf on
| each salad plate, and at the table put
heaping tablespoonful OF the mixed
salad on each leaf and cap with a tea
spoonful o. mayonnaise dressing. To
be served very cold.
Nut Salad-Chop two cupfuls OF Eng
lish walnuts moderately fine and add
an equal quantity of celery; cut fine
with a sharp knife; serve on lettuce
leaves with q few whole nut meats
strewn over and pour over the whole
one cupful OF mayonnaise dressing in
to which two-thirds cupful OF whipped
cream which has been previously stir
red.
Apple and Butternut salad-Pare and
cut into dice sufficient sour apples to
make two cupfuls; add two cupfuls of
blanched butternut meats and pour
over mayonnaise dressing. Arrange
three crisp lettuce leaves clover leaf
fashion on individual salad plates and
place on them tablespoonful of the
salad.
Shell enough nuts to make two cups
OF meats and boil them In salted water
with a slice OF onion. half dozen pep
percorns and blade OF mace for ten
minutes; then turn them into a dish OF
cold water and remove the skins. Cut
crisp celery into small pieces: for the
stated amount of meats have three
cups OF celery. Wipe the nuts with a
soft cloth and mix them with The cell
cry and mayonnaise dressing. Serve
each portion upon delicate lettuce
leaves. This Is a delicious salad.
Puff Paste TO every pound OF ilour
allow six ounces OF butter, four ounces
lard, not quite half pint OF water:
mix the -four to smooth paste, tnen
roll II out three times. the first time
covering the paste with butter. the Sec
ond time with dard, and the third with
butter; keep the rolling pin and paste
slightly dredged with -four to pre- rent
them from .cking and 1t will be ready
for use One pound -four, one-half
pound of butter dripping or lard may
be used), pinch Of salt, and one ia
OF baking powder; mix
well the baking powder and salt with
the -four and rub in half the butter.
adding as much milk or water as re-
quired; spread the remainder of the
butter In small Jumps over the pas.e
and roll II twice.
Bath Buns-Take a pound of Vienna
-four, warm it, pass 1t through a sieve.
then rub into 1t an ounce of butter.
Mix an ounce OF yeast with a gill CT
warm milk. pour into the center OF
he flour, add two well beaten eggs.
md mix all into a dough. When
thoroughly kneaded, cover with a cloth
md stand In warm place to rise for
IN hour and half. Now knead In
hree ounces OF castor sugar, and form
he dough into buns. Place on bug
cred tins and scatter little crushed
ugar on tho top. Bake In a ou,.k
ven for twenty minutes.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-04-14
Gracefully Submitted.

New York Tribune: NJ. Ernest Le-
souve, the senior member of the French
Academy. has just received by vote Of
his fellow-members the $4,000 prize Of
the Jean Reynaud Foundation. He
wished himself to give II to the author
OF "Cyrano de Bergerac." but submit
ted with good grace to the choice
based on mis- works concerning educs-
tion and family life.
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A Coantry of Poets.

Chile is said to have more poets, In
proportion to population, than any
country In the world.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-04-14

The beginning of a letter Is Infinitely
harder to write than Its ending.
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this year. for already the leaders OF
New York fashions have begun TO wear
their toilets OF grenadine, crash and
net made over silk; and to be in the
fashion In New York city means that
you are up to date with the modes OF
Paris every time.
or all the thin. silky fabrics net
seems to be the most desirable. There
is something even about the little
notches scattered through It that
makes a toilet Of net dressy. With a
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Black and White Toilet

II diaphanous materials we're fash
ionable last season, they are raging
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-08-10
THE RACE PROBLEM,
Striking Remarks Before Georgia
Agricultural Society,"
AT PARTING OF THE WAYS
WhiteMan and Negro Have Reached
This POiIt.
souTH-nATERs CAUSE OF TROUBLE
This Section should stop TOndying
10 the NOrth-Whites should Ala
Negroes I'm Their Efforts Toward
Emigration.

QUlIMAN, GA, August 9.-At the meet
ing of the Georgia state Agricultural So
ciety here to-day, the race problem came
prominently 10 the front as a topic of dis
cussion Hon. Pope Brown, president OF
the society, an extensive and prosperous
planter Of the State. asserted that the
white man and the negro are at the part
ing of the ways and said the former
should assist the latter in his efforts 10
leave this country.
That portion Of his address on the ne
gro question was loudly applauGed. In
this connection ne was also bold and I'M
equivocal in declaring that the South
should stop toadying to the North.
MI Brown said in part:
PLENTY OF SOUTHHATERS.
1T is between the white people Of the
South and the negroes Of the South. The
South-haters of the North are at the bot
tom of all the trouble. and we need not
natter ourselves that those South-haters
are few and far between. There are plenty
Of them. In my opinion, the majority OF
them have no use for US, except when
they think they are making something
out Of us. Mr. Thurber, of New York.
rendered us a great service few days
ago by telling us exactly what he and his
people think Of us. / think it is time we
were letting them alone. Quit running
after them, and quit toadying to them
The small politician also causes friction
between the races. BY submitting every
question-county, municipal, and State-to
white primary, this trouble could be
averted, and better government would Dc
secured in all cases.
COLONIZATION SCHEME.
"The leaders Of the negro race are
preaching discomfort. and whether the
scheme OF colonization is practical or not
/ am not prepared to say, but / do be-
lieve that it is to the interest Of the peo-
pie Of the South to aid and abet the negro
in his efforts to leave US. A few days ago,
when certain prominent citizens " ere
called upon by the press to say how we
should protect our families against GER
tain crimes. there was a response that
seemed TO meet the approval of the press.
1t was this. Make a miniature arsenal Of
every country home / say if it has come
TO this. il is time for the parting of the
ways. Shall we part i'm peace or strife?
1 would say i'm peace and let US stand
not upon the cost"
PRACTICAL EDUCATION.
Among the otner speakers was Hon.
Hoke Smith. of Atlanta, who discussed
practical Education
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-08-10
COLUMBIA AGAIN WINNER.
Gives the Defender the Worst Beat
ing In Her History.

NEWPORT, X. l.. August 9.-The run
of the New York Yacht Club cruise from
Gardeners bay 10 this port to-day.
distance Of forty-three miles, was full
of interesting brushes. While the yachts
ran the last half of the forty-three miles
in constantly-increasln southeast
breeze, the ,irst half Of the day was
huky. IL IS no disparagement To the
Columbia to say that her defeat of the
Defender by over twenty-five minutes
was due more 10 bad judgment and hard
luck on the part of the latter boat, which
left the boat I'm a soft spot than TO ac-
tual superiority. Still the new boat
showed herself very able in a broad reach,
with a constantly-increasing breeze. and
IT Is not too much TO say that she
made an average Of fully thirteen knots
IN the run al0ngshore from Watch
Hlh to Point Judith. so rapidly
dropping the Defender that when
she gybed round the whistlng buoy of
Point Judith her rival was hull down
TO the westward. over five miles astern.
On the run up from Point Judith. dead
before the wind the Columbia gained a
minute or two more. so that at the finish
the old Defender had received the worst
beating i'm her history
There was never a moment during the
day when there was not wind enough 20
fill the sails. while the last fifteen miles
was sailed in grand breeze from the
southeast.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-08-10
OTIS UTTERLY INCOMPETENT.
Sacrifice OF His Men PitifuI, Says an
Englishman.

CHICAGO August "a special TO the
Tribune from Victoria, b. c., says: Com
mander 81. John, Of the British cruiser
Peacock. who arrived here from Manila
by to-day's Empress of Japan. en- route
home. declares that General Otis Is ut
terly ignorant of the necessities or re-
sponsibilities Of a campaign in the tropics
He has 5000 dead TO his account. the
British officer declares. and his hesita-
ton has already shown his forces that
he has no grasp on the situation.
Otls's iield-transpOrt service Is de-
clared 10 be wretched and insufficient; his
hospital corps a farce. and his plan Of
campaign calculated to advance the enc
mys interests as no other could \ seri-
Gus breach Is declared to exist between
the United States army and navy at the
front. and Commander ST. John says the
FIRST thing the United States Govern
mcnt should DO is 10 recall this man. IL
is really pitiful to see the sacrifice of the
splendid men of his army"
incidentally. Commander ST. John says
that the press censorship Is carried 20
the extreme I'm Manila. 10 save Otis from
being swept down I'm a flood of popular in
dignatiOn.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-08-10
FATAL FIRE IN OMAHA.
Four Men Victims of n Live Electric
Wire.


OMAHA, NEB., August -Four fire.
men lost their lives tonight in a blaze
on an upper floor Of the Mercer Chemical
Companys building. at Eleventh and
Harvey streets The fire in itself was
insignificant. The fatalities resulted
from contact with a live wire. The dead
firemen are. Joseph Adams. lieutenant;
Otto Geiseke. tillerman; George Benson,
pipeman; Charles Hopper. relief driver
Fireman George Farmer and Albert
Livingston. Of the chemical company, also
suffered severely from the shock.
When the fire had been brought under
control the firemcn set 10 work 10 lower
the big extension truck upon which they
had been working. Suddenly. there was
"a spluttering and a succession Of flashes.
The men who were working at the crank
lowering the ladder writhed in agony a
moment and then fell 20 the pavement
lying limp and apparently lifeless. In
being lowered the ladder had come in
contact with a live electric-light wire
carving a current Of 1000 volts. The
injured men were at once carried into an
adjoining building. and doctors who We're
present used every means known TO
revive. Hopper revived IN a few minutes
and saving ne was an right, started 70
walk away. lie had only gone about
fifty feet when he dropped dead.
Geiseke showed signs Of reyivng. but
only partially rallied. sank back, ana
expired. The other two never al any time
showed any signs Of animation, and were
doubtless dead when picked up.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-08-10
THE WEST INDIAN STORM.
Much Damage Done in Porto Rico
Several Fatalities.

WASHINGTON, August 9.-Aleagre de-
| tails Of the. West Indian cyclone began 10
reach the Navy and War Departments
| late this afternoon, in the shape Of the
| following messages:
"San Juan de Porto Rico, August g.
Acknowledgement, Washington: Terrible
hurricane. Cavalry barracks destroyed.
Storehouses and other buildings damaged.
Iron roofing and lumber required.
(SigneO GLEN"
"sdn Juan de Porto Rico. August O.
Signal Office, Washington: Cyclone just
passing over island Has Frustrated tele-
graph and telephone lines. Several killed.
My quarters were wrecked and signal bar
racks partially demolished. Many other
public buildings likewise. Hundreds Of
native houses destroyed. Centre ana
(SieneO "GLAsSFORD."
The Navy Department late this after
noon received a cable from Captain Snow,
in command OF the naval station at San
Juan, announcing that the hurricane had
destroyed 5000 worth Of property at the
station there.
DAMAGE TO THE SOUTHWARK.
ST. THOMAS, D. ". l.. August "a
severe hurricane swept over the Island OK
St CrOX Monday night. The lowest re-
cord of the barometer was 29l2. Much
damage was done, but no deaths have yet
been reported.
The force Of the storm was also eX-
perienced at st. Thomas. but the damage
done was slight. Negro huts were the
chief sufferers. Enormous seas, however,
did damage 10 the wharves, but there
was no loss of life.
ST. Kits and Antigua are believed TO
have suffered, but communication with
those islands is temporarily interrupted.
TURKS ISLAND EXCITED.
KINGSTON. JAMAICA. August 9.-The
barometer is alarmingiy low here. and
Turks Island reports Il hurricane blow
ing with. rapidly-faliing barometer, al
800 L. NJ. causing great excitement.
T.. s. CONSULATE WRECKED.
WASHINGTON. August 9.-The follow
ing cablegram has been received at the
State Department:
Point Pitre, Guadalupe Island, Au-
gust S.-Secretary of State: Serious hurr-
cane suddenly commenced at 10 O'Clock
YESTERDAY morning. Blew severely until
night. Roof OF United States consulate
blown or Everything wraps. personal
property-total loss. Great many small
boats lost. The damage IN this city Is
great. No details from the country,
VS." tsisne6 "AYME. Consul"
ON NORTH DOMINICAN COAST.
PUERTO PLATA. August 9-3 A. MA
hurricane has swept the north coast since
last nlght. and increases In violence.
Shipping in the port is I'm peril. but up 10
this hour no vessel has been damaged.
The destruction on land Will probably be
considerable.
FATALITIES IN ST. CROIN.
ST. THOMAS. ID. w. l., August o
Later reports from ST. Croix increase the