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Who had been Officers in the Union Army, ard
q Journey to Russia with General Banks IA
1850. With Sketches OF Alexander ii ana
Abraham Lincoln. and Emancipation In the Eui
pire of Russia and the Republic of tile United
States Of America Prepared By Brevet Captain
During the War" Boston, Published by the
Author.
THE BINDwEED; Romantic Novel Concerning
the late Queen OF Servia. By Nellie X. Bills
sett. author Of From the Unsounded Sea- &C.
New York: The Mann vynne Publishing Com
pany.
BROKE OF covENDEH; a Novel. By J. G..
Snaith. Boston: Herbert B. Turner & Co.
HOPE HATHAWAY; a Story of Western Ranch
Publishing Company.
BRIGHT DAYS IN SUNNY LANDS With Illus
trations. By A. Van Doren Honeyman. author
of Bright. Days in Merrie England &c. Plain
field, n. j.. Honeyman & Co.
MUECHAUsEN Xxx; Being wondrous but Vera
cious Happenings which befell my Ancestors
here Translated and for the FIRST time printed
from Manuscripts found most Miracuously by
Myself BY The Baron. Illustra tons by Rich
ard Harvey Curtis. Chicago: Rand. McNally &
Co.
HEALTH, STRENGTH AND POWER. By Dudley
Allen Sargent, AN, Sc D.. MD. Director of
Hemenway Gymnasium, Harvard University
Illustrated. New York: III. NJ. Caldwell Com
pany.
DAILY CHEER; Year Book. Selected and Ar
ranged by NJ. Allette Aver, with Introduction
by Rev. Francis +. Clark, DID,. Boston: Lee
& Shepard. Washington: c. c. Purcell.
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Chapter II.

The next Sunday my eye fell upon the
following at the head Of the woman's club
column:
What does the club do for women?
Everything. From the woman who dwells
In a Lake Shore palace down to the wife
of the corner grocer, 1T broadens her no.
rizon and enlarges her sympathies.
THE club does not exist for the rich wom-
an alone; 1t Is not meant for the fashion
able lady, except as she shares it with her
humber sisters. The woman's club is a
democratic organization. 1t has leveling
effect on every woman who Joins it. It pros
vides place where the poor and unknown
woman, provided she has, the proper amount
or ambition may meet on terms of equality
the most famous women of the day. The
grocer's wife, provided she is attractive and
ambitions and tactful, may rise to as high
position in the club as does milady who
rides In her carriage clothed in sables and
wearing the costliest of Jewels. 1t all rests
with the woman; for theeclub is the middle
class womans opportunity
iaio down my paper with gasp. I
went about my preparations for church in
dream. and sat through the service with
out compromising It's And when reached
home again and my husband, comfortable
IN nus smoking jacket and slippers, said
oOahiiS, WnAtgFWdS Lie SeImOu
about? l had to confess my total igno-
rance of the subject
| could not recover my spirits even when
we went for our usual drive on Sunday
afternoon, my husband holding the reins
over ms spirited horse, or share his pride
IN the pneumatic-tired buggy which he had
acquired ahead of all his acquaintance.
The club is the middle-class woman's OPP
portunity.'
We were hopelessly middle-class. 1 had
grasped that fact in all its hatefulness at
the same time that had discovered myself
In an evening dress.
Hopelessly middle-class? No; not II the
newspaper spoke truly. Yet how to COM
pass II? There Was the problem.
But rate was beginning to have an eye on
me. had belonged for some time to q
young ladies' Bible class connected with
our church. 1t was a somewhat perfunc-
irregular. 50 that my circle OF acquaintances
was not much swidened. But the leader
made occasional calls on the members, and
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HEALrH. srRENGrH AND BOWER. nv Din,
FOR YOUNGER READERS.

THE MAKING OF MEME By Edith L. Gilbert,
author of The Froliesome Four" Illustrated
by Margaret Goddard. Boston: Lee & Shepard.
Washington: G.. c. Purcell
LITTLE DAME TRoT. By Mary Agnes Byrne
author of Little Woman in the Spout, &c
Illustrated by Bertha l.. Corbett. Akron, o.:
The Saalfeld Publishing Company.
CYR GRADED ART READERS-BooK TWO.
By Ellen NJ. Cyr Boston: CHM & Co.
DOROTHY DAINTY AT SCHOOL. By Amy
Brooks, author of Dorothy Dainty &c. With
illustrations by the author Boston: Lee &
Shepard. Washington c. c. Purcell
THE TANNING OF BETTY By Cally Ryland. Il
Illustrated by G. W. PickneI. Boston: Lee G
Shepard. Washington: c. c. Purcell
AN HONOR GIRL. BY Evelyn Raymond. Illus
trated by Bertha G. Davidson. Boston: Lee &
Shepard. Washington C.. c. Purcell
THE RANDY BooKS-RANDY'S GOOD TIMES.
By Amy Brooks, author of ''Randy's Summer
&c. With illustrations by the author. Boston:
: Lee Shepard. Washington: c. c. Purcell.
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well occupied; L belong to seven clubs and
hold office in five
This was my chance; I seized it.
'Oh, If L only could join woman's club
1 exclaimed eagerly. l was not sophisticat-
ed enough to approach the subject diplo-
matically. I'm dying here OF ennui. I
know no one outside of home. Nobody is
interested in me. I'm dying to mngle with
my kind-to do and be something"
"Why, my childi' answered Mrs. Par
sons; nothing is easier. I'll gladly present
your name, if you really want me to-.
want you to-" / exclaimed. "Of course
I do"
Let me see'' she went on musingly,
(which would be, the best for you? There
Is the Browning Club. Do you care for
Browning? No? The Self-Culture Club. Do
you wish to join for purposes of study?'
Not particularly answered truthfully.
I've no objections to taking up some study
if 1t doesn't require too much time; but
what 1 want most is social life.'
81 see,'' she said; you came here, gay
young girl from a town where you had
been a belle-to-" she heSitated
Eyes. To this l answered.
She gave a little laugh.
Never mind. Wen bring you out Of
this What you want is the-I suppose you
not a college graduate?"
i had to admit that was not.
well, them the Nota Bene. 1t is one Of
the largest clubs in the state-fye hundred
members There are departments, and
you'll have to be enrolled in at least one
working department; but 1t doesn't neces-
sariiy follow that you'll have to work. And
you'll get plenty of social life. I'm one of
the secretaries in the Nota Bene, and I'll
work you on to the reception committee.
Then you'll be in for a gay time and get
in for all the social functions.
"Oh. you're so goodr' exclaimed. How
can thank your"
Don't try to-" she responded dryly. ''If
you should happen to want to do me a
good turn at any time. why-my name Is
being put up by my friends for the next
presidency"
"How lovelyr I cried I'm sure nothing
could be better. II / could only get in in
time to be of to you"
We'll see that you do" was her answer
"And now I must be going. Yes, you'll do
well on the reception committee. Pardon
me, have you pretty gown or two?"
I thought of my evening bodice and
blushed.
you see ushers and members of the re-
ception committees must look WELL" she
exclaimed. women who read the papers
and do the intellectual work look
they please. but those of us who preside
and act as hostesses must be personally at
complacently at her handsome tailored
gown and her sables.
I'm afraid my clothes are not all they
should be-" I answered, remembering my
one silk dress. of the year before. But
could have new ono at any time"
"Fine," she answered. "Good clothes
give one a moral support which even 70.
iigion cannot supply Remember this and
get something pretty, for you'll need It."
And so saying. she departed. leaving me
in a glow OF triumph that one middle-class
woman was about to seize upon her oppor-
tunity.
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A Dog With "Convictions."
rom the London Spectator

From the London Spectator.
At the disruption of 1S43 the bulk Of the
shepherds joined the Free Kirk. But one
collie held by the establishment principle,
and refused to "come out" Every Sabbath
he went alone to the Established Church,
where he had been wont to accompany his
master. His master refused to coerce him.
ma, na," he said; hes wise dowg; I'll
no NEEDLE WI his convictions" The collie's
adherence to the Establishment had, how
ever a disastrous end He was accustom-
ed to lie on the pulpit stair during the
sermon, no doubt better to hear-the dis
course. Below him were placed the long
stovepipe hats Of the elders. On one I'M
fortunate day he fell asleep, rolled off his
step, and managed to get his head firmly
fixed inside one of the hats Bitterly morti-
fed. the dog fed from the kirk and ever
afterward. as his master said, had nae
trokings wi releegion.''
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WHEN THE KING CAME; Stories from the Fou
Gospels. BY George Hodges. Boston, Hougl
ton Milin & Co. Washington: Woodward
Ioth
BOOKS RECEIVED.

RACHEL: a Story of the Great Deluge. With an
Introduction giving the results of the author s
investiga lions into the question Of the location
of the lands of Eden and Nod, and incidentally
explaining the origin of the American Indians.
By Ernest U. Smith. Illustrated by Five Maps.
New York: The Grafton Press.
LITTLE LOVE STORIES OF MANHATTAN. By
Melville Chatter New York: The Grafton Press.
WHAT HAPPENED TO JOHNSTON. By J. P.
Johnston, author of Twenty Years of Hus'
ling" &c. Illustrated by Howard Heath. Chi
cago: Thompson & Thomas.
THE DYNAMICS OF CHRISTIANITY; Study of
the Vital and Permanent Element In the Chris
tian Religion By Edward Mortimer Chapman.
Boston: HOughton. Miffiin & Co. Washing ton
William Ballantyne Sons.
TOASTS AND TRIBUTES: Happy Book of Good
Cheer, Good HeaIth, Good Speed, Devoted to
the Blessings and Comforts of Life South of the
Stars. Edited by Arthur Gray. New York:
Rohde & Uaskins-
SELF BUILDING THROUGH COMMON SENSE
METHODS. By Gorilla Banister. Boston: Lee
& Shepard. Washington: G. G. Purcell.
RUSSIAN LIFE AND SOCIETY; as Seen in 1866
81 by Appleton and Longfellow, Two Young
Travellers from the United States of America,
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man, the wife Of grocer, the mother of
two babies at an age when society girls
were still enjoying themselves. with no out
look on life, no future. l looked In the mir
ror again. Yes, my looks would fit me for
any position to which it might have pleased
society to c& me. And the angel Of dis
content CAM and sat with me for long
time in that stuffy little parlor.
BY and by l heard my husband putting
up the shutters below. flew into the bed
room, exchanged my low-cut waist for a
kimono. and hid the thing which he would
call immodest. When he came up stairs 1
was crocheting placidly on a hood for the
baby.
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ivory" mainly obtained from boarded stores
of African chiefs, who are shrewd enough
to put their commodities on the market only
in driblets. The most interesting part OF
the letter is however, the statement that
the great bulk of this boarded ivory is OBJ
tanned from elephant cemeteries'-spots
met with here and there in the jungle.
where elephants have resorted for CEN
turtles to die. Much of the ivory that comes
to the market may, therefore. according to
this letter, be several hundred years old.
The marvel is why it is not devoured in the
jungles by porcupfnes, certainly happens
with tusks of the Indian elephant which
are left i'm the jungle.
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The Supply Of Ivory.
From knowledge and Scientific News.

From knowledge and Scientific News
During recent visit to the London docks,
her ma jesty, the queen, was informed that
the stock of ivory then shown represented
on an everage, the annual slaughter of
some 10000 African elephants. This state
ment has been contradcted in two letters
in the daily papers. In one of these Messrs.
Hale of 10 Fenchurch avenue state that at
least So per cent of the supply is dead
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deferred from enjoying the advantages ana
rest of a foreign tour by bugaboos which
he hopes to dispel. So his little book serves
as discourager of hesitancy. he tens
how time and money can be saved, ana II
he does not prescribe a sure preventive OF
seasickness ii Is because he has none Bu.
then, he says, ito quote the boy VINO plageu
hockey. what's five minutes licking to five
hours fun?'" The descriptions OF the
travel experiences and the sights abroad
are brisk and entertaining as well as IN
aft ffx.a
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could be hit more fully in the center. OF
all the mongrel forms of dress ever seen
here that seems to me to be the limit
Where on earth did the idea originate, and
where are the censors of the War Depart
ment who are always on the lookout for
something to find fault within
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Mrs Henning" she said I'm truth.
/ cannot wonder. Since many
of the young women have become
active in club affairs, think their interest
in Sunday school work is on the wane.
I'm ashamed to confess it, but the class is
steadily diminishing, and I think seriously
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-11-26

during the week following my awakened
interest in the womans club column she
appeared in my little parlor. l had always
felt drawn toward her. and had wished L
might know her better. This afternoon we
got on particularly well. We talked of
domestic affairs first, and 1 showed her my
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He-"You say that she is business wo-
man, this friend of yours. What business
is she interested imp
Everybody s."-Detroit Free Press.
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This book records for boys and girls the
stirring adventures of Tobiah Stillman and
Jethro Pike during the year 1777, when
they served the colonies against the king.
Two sixteen-year-old lads had enough
things happen to them and barely escaped
enough others to suit the most excitement
hungry reader but the book escapes SEN
sationalism. and. as well as being fine
story I'm itself, contains much unhackneyed
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-10-21
LIST Of DELINQUENT
Real and Personal Taxes
For the Year 1903. and also
Personal Taxes for
Prior Years

I, N. Forsberg, the duly elected, qualified and acting
Treasurer in and for Grant County, South Dakota, do
hereby give notice that the annexed liet containe the
descriptions Of all lands in Grant County. South Dako-
6. on the which tsxes Of the preceding years being the
real and personal taxes due for the year 1893. and also
"a lands will be sold for said taxes, with added costs,
accruing ~ provided BY statute, commencing
THE FIRST MONDAY OF NOVEMBER NEXT,
being the
vEN DAT OF NOVEMBER. A. d. 1904.
between the hours Of Q o'clock .. N. and 4 o'clock p.
n. OF said day, and said sale will be adjourned and con-
tinued from day to day until all of said lands have been
offered for sale, as provided by law; that the ssid
sale will be held and take place as aforesaid at the Office
Of the county treasurer In the court house in the city Of
Milbank. Grant County. South Dakota. that the amount
given in the annexed liet for each description includes
the real estate and personal taxes dine and delinquent
for the year 1903, and also personal taxes for prior
years. with interest and penalty to date Of sale. and the
statutory cost Of advertising.
1904.
N. F~ORSBERG,
Treasurer OF Grant County, South Dakota.
AmOunt Of
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rewn of Kevillo

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center of section. thence
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rde., thence w. Is rds.,
thence y - rds. to be-
ginning .................
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LIST OF DELINQUENT TAXES CONTINUED
ON FIFTH PAGE
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The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-05-06
NEW HAVEN COUNTY CAUCUS
Mir. Troup in Complete CcntroI--MCabe
 for National Delegate

Hartford, May 5.-The county cau- cuses followed the adjournment of the democratic state convention tonight. The New Haven county caucus devel- oped some exciting situations. Frank Gnilfeile, of Waterbury, was tenn porary chairman, and the first fight was over the matter of admitting prox- ies for absent delegates. So excited did the delegates get in their arguments that parliamentary rule was lost sight of. The committee on credentials, when asked to pass on proxies, got in q wrangle over the fact that three dele gates had presented credentials from North Branford when that town was entitled to but two. Ebert M. Rose and Edward M. Field were the accred- ited delegates, and Willis T. Williams. who also had credentials, protested MT. Field.
 The committee stood five to five and several of the members got so angry that nothing was agreed upon and the matter went before the convention. Then it was that the fight was trans ferred to the delegates, and for half an 1ouI 1icIc Wdo q WoIuy WdTs du aL- tempt even being made to usurp the power of Mir. Guilfoile. The situation was clarified by the roll, call on an ap- peal on the refusal of the chair to put a. motion which if passed. would have seated MT. Williams in MT. Fields place. The appeal was lost. 62 to 53 The sixty-two represented the Hearst men. which showed that MT. Troup con- trolled the convention.
 After MT. Williams was declared seated in place of Mr. Field he with
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-05-06

the statistical records of the past four years The present membership of the church was reported as S,O31, ,91S, an increase of 13S.025 during the four years. The Sunday schools include an aggregate of 3,124,644 The world wide scope of the work of the church was in- dicated by the brief review of the. ad- ministration of bishops in foreign lands Three features of the last quadrennium were emphasized as standing out prominently the twen- tieth century thank offering movement, which brought $2OOO0,O 900 into the treas- ury of the church for the work of edti- cation, philanthropy, and debt paying; the open door emergency missionary re- vival, which has inspired the church with new generosity, and the biennial observances which all over the English speaking world commemorated the two lhundredth anniversary of John Wes- ley's birth. The American university at Washington was commended as we'll as the woman's college of Baltimore, which indirectly suffered severe losses during the recent fire in that city. The relations of the Methodist Episcopal church and the Methodist Episcopal church South were declared to be grow < ing more fraternal and intimate. A common hymnal, a common catechism and uniform order of service are al- most ready for publication, and these will draw the bodies still more closely together The suggestion was made that some mutual arrangement should be made whereby transfer of ministers and members from one of these denom- nations to the other should be expe- dited. The question of supervising foreign mission fields was urged upon the conference as one of the most inn lportant questions to be considered. The time limit in the pastorate was referred i to as claiming attention.
 Warnings were given against polit- ical corruption the liquor traffic, the tyranny of trades unionism, the greed of interruptions employers, lynching, the negro question, and Mormorism. A chapter of popular amusements be added to the discipline, admonishing Methodists to guard their spiritual life and to avoid such amusements as have a dangerous or demoralizing tendency. The chapter is intended to take the place of the present paragraph. No PAS,
 which occasioned much discussion at | the general conference at Chicago four years ago. The address made a deep impression and was received at the end with hearty applause.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-05-06
WATCHING CHINA.

Effect of Russian Disaster Being
 watched With Keen Interest.
 St. Petersburg, May 5-The effect of the disaster to Russian arms on the Yalu river upon the Chinese is watched with keen interest and considerable ap- prehension. The Russian government appears to be satisfied with the situa- tion Cor the moment and Paul Lasser, the Russian minister at Pekin is mak- ing daily reports to the foreign office. The report received from the minister to-day contained nothing disquieting.
 The Pebin government, according to Russian reports, seems to be acting in perfect good faith and insists that it is intent upon preserving neutrality. It is turning a deaf ear to the appeals of anti Russian leaders, who want China to throw in her lot with Japane and is doing all possible to suppress anti-for- eign agitation among the people.
 Nevertheless, the Russian authorities regard China as a powder magazine. They realize the danger inherent in the situation and the necessity for constant
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-05-06
Other Cnucuses.


 The Middlesex county caucus voted in favor of J. Taylor Flynn of Middle town as county delegate, Louis Fisk of Branford as district delegate and Hom- CT S. Cummings of Stamford for dele gate-at-large.
 Holland county caucus declared in fa- vor of Charles B. Pinney of Stafford for county delegate and Thomas J. Noone as district delegate. It had no prefer ence for delegate-at-large 1t is under stood that Holland will join with Hart ford county on candidate. Fairfield county favored John J. Walsh Of Norwalk as the county dele- gate and Hartford county caucus nam ed H. c. Dissell of West Hartford as Ither court delegate.
 The New London county caucus se- Ilected Thomas Warren for county del- egate and Thomas F. Foran Of New London for district delegate. , Litchfield county caucus named James sP. Woodruff for the county delegate and Nathaniel B. Stevens as district delegate.
 At the Windham county caucus Ed ward Mullens of Putnam was named as county delegate and D. F. Dunn of Will l |limantic as district delegate, but the latter declined to stand. The third congressional caucus voted for Dr. P. H. Hartman of New London as delegate.
 At the first congressional district cau- GUS ex-Mayor I. A. Sullivan of Hartford was named aS delePate
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-05-06
Bridgeport s, New London 2.

New London, May 5.-Bridgeport de- feated New London to-day, to '. The game lasted eleven innings. Smythe, who pitched five innings for the locals, had neither speed nor control and he practically threw his game away He was succeeded by Mclaughlin. In the seventh Nichols, for Bridgeport, weak ened and the infield went to pieces. Mccullough relieved Nichols in the eighth. The score by innings:
 R.H.E. New London0 0101 104O1O0-7 8 1 Bridgeport Q O2O3O0 % IS 12 S Batteries-Smythe, Mclaughlin and Armbruster; Nichols, Mccullough and Beaumont.