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Night Waterman Assaulted.

John Smith. night watchman at the
wharfboat of the Eagle Packet Company at
Alton. was painfully cut on Monday night
with knife by negro roustabout on the
steamer Quincy. who gave his name as
Whit Caldwell. When the Quincy reached
the Alton wharf Caldwell quit his job and
attempted to leave. He was stopped by
Night Waterman Smith. Caldwell drew II
knife and stabbed the night Waterman.
Smiths wounds are not thought to be fatal.
Caldwell was held to the Grand Jury by
Police Magistrate Ben Rose yesterday
morning in the sum of $500 on the charge
of assault with intent to kill.
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CORN IMPROVED IN MISSOURI.
In Many Sections 1t Has Made Marked
Advancement.
REPUBLIC SPECIAL.

REFUBLl SPECIAL.
Columbia. Mo-. Aug. 1.-THE following
bulletin was issued to-day by the Missouri
Division of the United States Department
of Agriculture:
The weather during the week has been much
more favorable for growing crops than for sew
eral weeks preceding. The temperature aver
aged very near the normal. There was good
percentage OF sunshine, and copious showers have
fallen In nearly all sections. In few localities
in the northern and eastern sections the rainfall
was too light to be of material benefit. but over
the greater portion of the state the total of
the week ranged from 1 to over inches. and
in some localities exceeded inches.
In many localities I'm the eastern and southern
counties. however, the showers were accompa-
MED by high winds which did much damage
by. fattcnnE and breaking down corn blowing
off apples and oyerturnne hay and grain stacks.
Destructive hailstorms also occurred in few
localities. and in portions of Usage County ex-
cessiye rains caused streams to overflow. de-
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Alton Notes and Personals.

y; c. Richardson of Medora ILL., was a visitor
The Reverend A. w Judd OF Inner Alton
went 10 Grafton ILL.,. yesterday
-. Ifhe g. r s. Louis Railroad ran n sne-
Chautauqua of the debate ' bet fa,,,
CONGRESSMAN Champ Clark and Charles II eros.
venor. IL ''os-
General Manager ". H. Gridley of ,4,a 9,
yesterday. IA Ai'oh
George NJ Lewis of Alton returned Yesterday,
from Atlantic City. y. J. '''
Onward Bieser of Alton aena,t.d ro. >-,y
York City yesterday. " w"
-John Moore. sr.. of Upper Alton has gone to
Robert Bradley of Upper Alton will ,oi,, -,
Interesting meeting this evening with Miss Lii
e c. Harlow of INNER Alton t, ,.. 4,
from Chicago. " 'ieu
The Reverend Robert Smith of Dow. Ill. was
a visitor in Alton yesterday.
Orleans. Ai'''' Ne"
John A!dinser OF Alton has gone to Cotcaro
r o. Rca has been appointed cashier Of the
BG r -Four Tb hfe Sa Ssee at Alton TO Hush
M. J. McMurreg Of Hillsboro III yv,s =,
visitor in Alton yesterday.
Lewis Haight Of Alton has returned from an
extended tour Of Michigan.
Professor and Mrs. j. II pickev of ,r,o,
have returned from Argenta. H.
Reverend H: NJ. Chittenden. rector of St
paurs Episcopal Church at Alton, has as returned
Ned Brown OF waverly. Ill. was a visitor in
Alton yesterday.
The Board of Review of Madison County COM
menced three days session at Alton yesteI tlsy
for the accommodation of the Alton property
owners who have complaints TO make 10 the
boafd.
deputy Clerk Frank A. Bierhaurn Yesterday
Issued marriage license to Joseph Perry and
Miss Anna c. jackson OF Alton.
The Reverend G. ". stritch of Upper Alton
series of evangeiistic meetings
Charles Coleberry of Peoria, Ill. is visitor
in Alton.
Julius vornard of Upper Alton departed yes
terday for Great Bend. Kas
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Bel,eviIle Marriage Licenses,

to: ,'
l.ihory Stein. "a Fayetteville: Anna RothIuch-
Der. =. ~. l.ihory. Henry 5. Germain IS Strea-
tor: Mary Hofmeister. 20 BelleyIIe
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Charles A. Ross of Chicago and Miss
Josephine II. Benham of Kansas City, Mo-
were married nj Alton yesterday afternoon
by Justice Francis Bra ndeweide The bride
groom is railroad man.
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60 ie. cramps and cholera morbus instant
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Neutrality-suspicious. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Iacalle
oNtftuft-pEliitus OifenhaCl
Hearts FiDNtTS 1Obant
WaltZ-lmpassioned Dream ................. Rosas
SPANISH Dalce-l.a PalOma ............... Yradisr
Grand potpourri from Faust .............. Ciounod
PART H.
Selection from the Bohemian Girl ......,.. I.aIfe
Sextet from Lucia di Lammermoor go. Donizetti
Grand Descriptive Fantasia = Remember
synopsis - Introduction. The sh,pyards. A
work the battleshp Maine. The Maine starts
long sea voyage. The crew Is hard at pIao-
tice. Work Is over The band entertains the Of
ficers and crew. The Maine enters Baltimore.
The sea. The sailors hornpipe. Havana
Harbor The band shore plays the Spanish
Royal March, Salute from Moro Castle The
officers invited to attend bull fight. The en-
counter. Death of the bull The officers aboard
the Maine. Letters from home. The girl l left
behind. AIS quiet. Taps. Sentry's call of aus
we'll. The explosion. The wreck. The Board of
Inquiry. Services over dead heroes De-
struction Of the Spanish fleet. The Maine
avenged. amid the glory Of the Stars and Stripes.
Cornet Solo-The Palms Observation-Disclosures. Faure
Performed by the great cornetist. Mr.. George
Glessner.
sialnr-Sir fna ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. z. Bafunno
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The park concert tor. will be given by Ba-
funno's Military Band Carr Park from : 20
IL. The programme is follows:
PART
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Waterloo. Ill, Aug. l1.-f'harles A. James OF
TINS CITY Yesterday was married nj Beeyille. Ill.
TO Nellie klinkhardt. daughter OF Theodore
kiinkhardt OF Red Bud Ill.
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ford died at the local Cove
afternoon. aged So years. |
river pilot and had spent /
river He leaves a wife +:
South Enterprise. Ind.
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East st. Louis Items.

The annual carnival of the East St Louis
Carnival Association will BE- held ON the St
Clair avenue grounds. the week beginning Sep
tember !.
The annual convention of the st. Clair County
Ttachers Institute, will lie held in Beleville
next week.
Mrs. William Flynn IS seriously i'll at her
home on st. Clair avenue.
Mr. and Mrs. George Ripley and daughter
have returned from Saylor Springs
Miss AIDA Ware Of Cleavc!and avenue is
visiting friends In Sparta. Ill.
Mr.. and Mrs. Powell are visiting In Louis
VILE. Ky.
Doctor W. II. Clark of Joplin. Mo. is in
town
Miss Inez Fredericts is visiting in Decatur.
Ill.
Joseph Murphy has filed suit aEains; the
Wabash Railroad Company for sa.CuD damages
for injuries sustained by of the company's
trains.
The funeral Of the child of Edward Powers
of No. 1902 Baker avenue Will take place this
afternoon.
Mrs. Bertha NJ. Scott has filed suit for di-
vorce from David r. Scott.
The Loyal American Lodge. No oOi will en-
JOY a lawn social tomorrow evening on the lawn
OF Doctor Little. No. 1e22 Rccli road
e W. Miller, who has been manager of
Wiess Cafe in the Arcade building mas been
made manager of the Wies Hotel.
The members of the Rob Moons Chapt.r
Easter Star. will give their picnic at Priesters
Park. August 10
Il; c: Haynes. general manager Of the East
81 LOUIS ana suburban Electro Railway is
confined to HIS home with a badly enri,iued
yesterday while n tour of inspection ~.
VIII be confined TO his home for two weeks
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eminent hospital this
He was a well-known
his entire life on the
and four children at
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mont GT 6 IT'D tsas Gqg
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-05-22
The + arm Colonies OF The
Salvation Army
Kind Practical Charity That Accomplishing Much Good

under a searching sun. But the pio-
neers were of the right sort, not
tramp or an idler among them; all
workmen, if workmen who had not
been successful in gathering to them
selves: goods. With will they went to
work.: feeling confidence, because
back of them was the power and the
wonderful organization of the Saliva
ton Army. That beginning was in
1898, only five years ago.
There were 20 people at the start,
Il families. To bring out and estab-
lish each family costs the army about
$500, and to engineer the whole enter
prise represented considerable capital
But the army was able to secure the
money, and at once set the laborers at
work to win their way and to pay back
what they had had to borrow: The
men were given work with wages of
two dollars day. They built houses.
put up fences, worked on the roads and
bitches. A man received dollar day
in cash, and the other dollar was APP
piled on his debt to the army. Thus
they got a good start and were able to
have about them little ready money.
One colonist paid off his entire debt,
of nearly thousand dollars, in a little
over three years; and during that time
supported a family of five and built
himself a nice stone cottage. But he
was an experienced farmer. The Fort
Amity colonists have already paid over
a fourth of their indebtedness to the
army, and all could dispose of their
holdings at considerable profit. Beet
sugar and canteloupes have contrib
uted very considerably to their pros
perity. Of the 40 original colonists,
only three have left. Which would sug-
gest that Fort Amity is not inappro-
priately named.
In the United States there are still
vast tracts of uncultivated land, land
that would richly repay cultivation;
and in the cities of this country there
are many thousands of people for
whom the city has no work to offer,
who are unsuccessful there and wretch
| ed. It seems that the Salvation Army
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certainly is doing good work in bring
ing the land and people together.
The army provides not only wisely
selected location for the colonist. but
also money wherewith to reach the
colony. Of course he is to pay it back
some day, but he cannot pay with
money the opportunity that miracu-
lousy came his way. Not many tene-
ment dweller would have taken the in
itiative himself, even in these DAYS of
:"return to the land" to cut loose from
the city and start anew as tiller of
the soil; but when he saw body of his
fellows interested in the agriculture
scheme and willing to go, he joined
hands and was not afraid to venture.
Commander Booth-Tucker thinks the
money now spent in relieving the dis
tress incident upon overcrowded cities.
were employed in well-organized ef-
forts for transplanting the unsuccess-
full from the city to the country the
money would be better invested. And
as the commanders enterprises in this
line have passed the experimental
stage, what he has to say on the sub
Ject certainly merits thoughtful con-
s1oeratlon. KATHERINE POPE.
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Office buildings. Yet it has acted, too,
like some foreign influence usurping
steam as the motor power in city trans
portation and giving promise of ulti-
mately taking the place of the steam
that moves the railway engines
whose Impotence to cross the Ameri-
can continent was the real cause of the
umphs possible.
Again, the building of the railways
has promoted engineering progress in
an indirect way. It has fastened the
development of the country to the ex-
tent that we are the foremost CONNER
cial nation in the world. We produce
four-fifths of the worlds corn and cot
ton, one-fourth of it's wheat, two-ffths
Of it's steel, one-third of it's iron, one
third of its coal, one-third of it's meat.
The marvellous agricultural develop
ment, constantly extended by the IN
limited use of agricultural machinery
has encouraged the drainage and irri-
cation of land, and similar hydraulic
problems.
Our natural wealth in coal and min
erals has fed the flame of engineering
progress in the mining field, not alone
because we have the wealth-other
countries have it, too. But rather be-
cause our progress has created first
great home demand for the coal and
ore. Here again the railroads are re-
sponsible for progress, not because
they made the marketing of minerals
and coal possible, but because they
themselves, as we'll as the great engin-
eering enterprises they had started,
depended upon these things for life.
Following the railway influence far
Their, we perceive that cities like Pitts
burg have grown great because Of iron
and cities like Chicago largely be-
cause of wheat. And the greatness and
rapid growth of cities have made mu-
nicipal engineering enterprises imper-
alive. Some of these, like the Chicago
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-05-22
Fad Of q Famous Jackdaw.

The Brixton jackdaw, which was
found dead recently in the bar of the
Angel Arms at Brixton, London, was
"a great celebrity in his own way. All
jackdaws have fads of their own, and
the favorite fad of this particular bird
was to travel all over London on omni-
buses, trains and cabs. He was thor
oughly well known to every 'busman
in the Brixton district; he used to
take his seat on bus beside the driver.
and would chatter most volubly till
the journey to the city or elsewhere
was accomplished, when he would fv
back to his Brixton home. He was a
bird of strong likes and dis1ikes, and
when any of his masters customers
failed to find favor in his sight he
would assail them with most embar-
RAISING flow of language.
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drainage canal, that cost $35, 100000,
are equal to national undertakings.
The old world is, of course, the scene
of some of the greatest engineering
feats in history, and yet it cannot show
an aggregate of modern engineering
achievements at all equaling that of
the new world. Russia, for the reason
that her rivers rise near each other,
and therefore invite the building of
connecting canals, can possibly record
more triumphs in this branch of
hydraulic engineering than America,
but not larger; and Great Britain, in
the Suez canal, can show probably the
greatest, but not the greatest number.
Many engineering projects of the old
world are the product of American
genius.
In short, it is almost impossible to hit
upon a phase of the development of a
new country which does not depend
upon the building of the railroads.
The nation that builds the most rail-
roads must Of necessity be preeminent
in engineering. That is why Mr.. Car
negie's statement can be substantiated
by the simple reference to the figures
that indicate the comparative rapidity
of railroad extension. Eva, 49,
MILTON MARKS.
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thread lace comes under the smart
classification of heavy lace. sSs#.
The rage for lace this summer
promises to Guido all previous rec-s
oTds. Then there is an immense de-
mand for dainty collars and cuffs, Of 3
lawn, muslin and lace, hemstitched
and insertioned in every possible
manner. r., s....S y u ~.
Skirts vary greatly in make-but
models, and mostly in the form OF
q yoke, from either side of front on
ly-thus leaving the front breadth
plain. s5
Very little material is taken up in
the gaugings, SO they can be adapted
to suit most figures. s
'Yokes are very popular for skirts,
Jokes Of lace; and mostly heavy laces
are preferred. Plated skirts are
popular, also plain gored ones, with
foot trimmings of numerous tiny.
founces. @
Tall slight figures look we'll in the
three or four tier skirts, each founce
being most beautifully shaped to-
cling to the under skirt, and each
edged with lace insertion, jet edg-
ing, or even fringe. By the way,
fringe is used on fichus, capes and as
border to canvas and silk skirts.
Used carefully it is stylish, but GER
tainly discretion is needed as to it's
arrangement. IL
Chenille insertions with jet, also
chenille fringes, are a great acquisi-
ton upon black lace and net gowns.
The combination of blue and em-
erald green continues fashionable,
but wants careful wearing just as
do the hairy or shaggy fabrics, and
women; of embonpoint should be care
full of many of the new fabrics, etc.,,
avoiding most decidedly startling
combinations of color, the rough ma
terials, especially in gray, and most
certainly the much faxed or blurred
fabrics, for there is something in
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Pygmies Of the Lonx Axo.

AGerman antAropologist, Herr Thi1-
enius, has recently shown that pygmies
now only found in the interior of A.
RIGA, were, during prehistoric times,
spread over parts of Europe. Numer-
Gus skeletons found in Silesia show
that the stature of the men they rep-
resent was not much above four and
one-half feet. There were pygmies
in Switzerland and in These
dwarf races were in no wise degen-
crates. They appear to have persist
ed up to comparatively recent times.
The pygmies of Silesia, for instance,
were contemporary with the Romans.
and they continued up to the tenth
century. At present there is no yes
tige of such q race, but their skeletons
remain to prove their existence.
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these which tends to increase the APP
pearance of size very materially. II.
The woman with small purse, or
limited pin money, can dress just as
stylishly as her richer sister, if she
but exercise taste, and instead of
signing to possess things utterly be-:
yond her purse, she will be content
with simple and well cut gown, and
spend her energies and pocket money
in the accessories of the toilet, such,
for instance, as a smart hat, ire
proachable shoes, a pretty neck ruf1es
or cape, nice gloves or petticoat, all
of which mean so much to a woman,
and tell the secret of the art of sue
cessful dressing.
Shoulder capes appear upon every
garment, from the simple morning
blouses upwards; anyway, if not e !;
cape exactly, then very large collars
Smart, indeed, are the new capes
for outdoor wear, with stole erds
more or less long, as may be pre-.
ferred, and long chenille ends / go
well with the lace or ribbon shoulder
tippets or, capes. ~ ..ss.ts ss.fs, Ess.ss .Ssl
Everything lies fat on the shoul-;
der in collar effect, and falls over the
arms to give the shape now sconsid-.
cred correct. y. :. =s s=.ss
Nothing is hard IN outline this year.,
even flowers are mounted carelessly,
as it were, just q gathered bunch
tied with grass, and to hang softly
Linen suits-skirts and bolero, or
skirt and the short coat-promise to-
be immensely popular, and they ara
plain little coat or with train skirt
and coat trimmed with lace Insertion
and allions = enerfffe lace wheels
being especially nice for trimming
linen gowns and for fashioning the
large collars and capes now so much
sought after. All thin fabrics have
the preference this season, such as.
wolfe, de1aine, muslin, soft silk, etc.
gaugings and tucks are Immensely
used. }sss 4 n.
The new dust cloaks are OF canvas
like fabrics, canvas linens and tus-
sore silk, and are made in sacquei
shape, with large lace collar and bell
| sleeves. ELLEN osMoNDE, s
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vate those acres as profitable as posi-
BILE. Ten years are allowed the colonist
in which to pay his debt. He pays in
terest for his land and on what ever
else has been provided him, teams, cows,
Implements; and pays the principal in
annual installments. On the whole,
the results have been highly satisfac-
tory: number of the colonists becom-
ing so prosperous and thrifty as to
make payments before they were due,
thus 1essening the interest.
When announcement is made of the
army's plan for the establishment of
a land colony, hundreds of needy city
dwellers put in application, but not all
the applications are granted; for the .
applicants are carefully examined with
reference to the possession of the
qualifications necessary for good pio-
neers. Among the applicants there
are always a few that have learned
trades in the past; it goes without say
ing that the services of the skilled
workmen come in well in the building
up of the new communities.
It is not only members of the Saliva
ton Army that are eligible to become
colonists, others being accepted and
welcomed. Since the farms are of small
area. the farmers are not isolated like
those living on large, scattered tracts
of land. There is much opportunity
for social life, and the children enjoy
good school advantages. At Fort Am
ity, the army has placed it's Cherry Tree
orphanage, where about hundred
children from crowded city slums can
enjoy the blessings of the country; and
can grow up farmers instead of tene-
ment house folk.
In looking about for suitable loca-
tions for their colonists, the army de-
cided to try arid lands where irriga-
ton has to be employed to make them
fruitful. The valuable cooperation of
| railroad and irrigation company Of
Gals was obtained, and lands secured
| in large tracts and on advantageous
terms. With the new methods of agri-
| culture in operation on irrigated lands,
the inexperienced farmers were drilled,
and an oversight of their work was
kept up. The success of the co1onists
has been very gratifying to those whose
Judgment led to the choice of the new
lands. Improved methods of irriga-
ton will add still farther to the value
of the holdings, and no doubt the Sal
walton Army farmers generally will
have good cause to bless the day they
gave up city for country life.
Fort Amity is the oldest of the colo
MES and can be said to have left behind
it's experimental stage. An article in
the April number of Country Life in
America gives interesting information
concerning this colony. Fort Amity is
situated near Pueblo, Col. When the
first colonists landed on the spot where
now stands their prosperous little vii
lage, therewas little to gladden. the eye;
a seemingly barren land stretching out