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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1904-04-27
BOMB ON BATTLESHiP.
Alleged Attempt to Destroy the Alex.
ander III.

Cronstadt, April PA sensational
ttory is afioat here of an attempt to
destroy the battleship Alexander Ill.
According to the reports a sailor saw
a stranger, wearing the uniform of an
officer, going down into the engine
room of the battleship, followed him
and saw the stranger attaching some
thing connected with wire to the dyna-
mos After the stranger lett the sailor
examined the attachment and found it
to be bomb. The sailor at once cut
the wires, ran up on deck to tell what
had happened and found that the
stranger had hanged himself. The
crew of the Alexander HI, it is added.
were instructed not to speak of the
occurrence and it is said that the
stranger was mailman or member.
of some revolutionary organization to
whose lot it bad fallen TO blow up the
Alexander HI
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1904-04-27
OFFICIALS AT VARIANCE.
Opinions Differ Regarding Opening of
Minnesota Lands.

Washington. April 27-Land Com
missioner Richards fagors an open auc-
tion sale for the disposal Of the eleven
towns OF Ped Lake reservation land
opened for settlement under the Steen-
erson bill
He has requested Senators Clapp
and Nelson and Congressman Steener.
son TO confer with him on the subject
and the matter was talked over dur
ing the morning The sealed bid plan
is favored by Secretary Hitchcock and
there are some officials who fayof
rawing by lots.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1904-04-27
MUST AWAIT RETURN TO. PORT.
Russian Officials Have No News OF
Vladivostok Squadron.

st. Petersburg, April 27.-The naval
staff has no confirmation of the reports
from I okio and Seoul of the cestruc-
ton of a Japanese merchantmen by
Russian torpedo boat destroyers at
Wonsan, or the appearance there of
three Russian cruisers belonging to the
Vladivostok squadron. Whether Cap
tain Essen, commander of the Nladi-
vostok squadron, has taken the squad
ron on raiding expedition down the
coast is a secret which, naturally,
would not be divulged If true, doubt
less it was for the purpose of de-
moralizing the people on the coast and
in the hope of playing havoc with the
Japanese transport fleet, but no official
news of the result of such raid could
reach st. Petersburg until Captain Es-
sen returns to port.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1904-04-27
NAVAL BATTLE EXPECTED.
Jap Fleet Will Pursue VIadivostok
Souddron

Toxic, April 27.-The commander of
the Japanese Northern fleet has been
ordered to pursue and attack the Rus
sian squadron which is lowering off tho
port of Gensan, on the east coast of
Korea, where it sunk Japanese mer-
chant ship. So far as known the Rus
sian squadron consisted of three cruis
ers and two torpedo boats.
1t is believed that other Russian
vessels are in the vicinity. A naval
battle is expected very soon.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1904-04-27
ALONG THE YALU RIVER.
Forty Thousand Russians Posted at
Various Points.

st. Petersburg, April 27.-Advices
from Mukden indicate that the Rus
slams have completed the concentra-
tion of their forces on the Mukden-
Liaoyang Yalu and Mukden New
chwang lines. Forty thousand men
are occupying fortified positions along
the Yalu river and 10000 are posted
at Takushan, at the head of Korea
bay, where the Japanese have threat
ened to make landing. The Russians
also occupy the banks of the Tumen
river from the Russo-Korean frontier
to Lake Taitji tPaiktousan), on the
Manchu. Korean frontier. near the
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1904-04-27
ASK INCREASED WAGES.
One Thousand Carmen on Wabash
Road on Strike.

Kansas City, April CIV. l.. Det
wiler, general secretary and treasurer
of the Brotherhood of Railway Carmen
of America, asserts that 1000 union
carmen on the Wabash railway have
gone out at different points along the
line in response TO the order to strike.
All the union carmen here and at Mo-
berly, Mo, went out during the day.
A 10 per cent increase in wages and
recognition of the union is demanded.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1904-04-27

source OF the laIu. Detachments or
Russian cavalry and light artillery
hold the towns of kiolin, Musan and
Zunduyan, along the river, and points
on the east coast of Korea offering
facilities for landings.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1904-04-27
All Quiet at Port Arthur.

st. Petersburg, April 27.-A dis
patch from Port Arthur says: "Ex-
periments with submarine boats here
have been attended with brilliant sue
cess. All is quiet in the region Of
the fortress"
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1904-04-27
RUSSIANS DENY THE REPORT.
Jap Fleet Said to Have Rombarded
NeWchwanu

Tientsin, April 27.-It is reported
upon good authority that the Japanese
fleet bombarded the town of New
tawang Monday night. The Russians
here deny that there is any truth in
the report.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1904-10-19
WHEN AN HEIR IS BORN.
In China an Elaborate Ceremony
Usually Follows the Great
Event.

On the evening Of the first day
afttvT the 5uby mas arrived tiuu
paterfamilias, according to the
Chinese custom, prOstrates him
self before a joss, and, touching
his head to the floor, voices thanks
to the gods and to the honorable
ancestors for the small son who
was sent perfect Of body and full
of health.
On the evening Of the second
day the ceremony is repeated, and
on the third day the voice of the
wife joins that of the husband in
Thanksgiving. Also on the third
day a limited number of relatives
and friends are called in to wit.
ness the first head-shave. The
rooms of the home are decorated
for the occasion with green
branches of either fir, cedar or
spruce, to insure fueng-suey, or
good luck, to the house.
Other ornamentations in honor
of the baby are long silk threads,
bearing little circles, squares and
hearts of gold and scarlet paper.
These are festooned from the
walls and are hung from the cell
ing.
A few feet away the threads are
invisible and the gay scraps of
paper appear to be floating in the
air. For the head-shaving the
guests are seated in a semi-circle
before the joss. The mother is car
ried to seat of honor to the right
of the joss, and the baby,
swathed in yards of scarlet and
purple silk, is brought in on an
elaborate pillow.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1904-10-19
CRAZY QUILTS OF THE PAST
Fewer Examples Seen Nowadays BE-
cause Women Lack Neces-
sary Patience.

Sewing machines and a dislike
for the tedious work of our grand
mothers and great-grandmothern
are making scarcer each year
those creations Of industrial
needlewOrk of our ancestors"
declared one of the judges Of
needlework at the state fair re-
Gently, says the st. Paul Pioneer
Press.
Strange to say, most of the
best work Is contributed by ladies'
more than so years old. The work
of the later generations ia put to-
gether in a more hurried manner
and lacks the signs Of years and
years of tedious toll shown in the
exhibits of our mothers and
grandmothers. Most of the work
sent in by the old ladies is of the
old type, in which both diligence
and the utmost patience are
called into play. There are beau
tiful tides, centerpieces and
handkerchiefs which represent
weeks and weeks Of toll"
The evolution Of needlework
can be seen in a trip through the
woman's building. Perhaps the
most antique exhibit is an old
sampler which In the early days
was a delight to the young needle
woman. This sampler was made
by a "Miss Louise Allen in the
year of our Lord, 1873" in the lit
tie village of East jefferson, Me.
This sampler is made on a dark
background and contains the al
phabet worked in five different
ways and each is executed in a
different stitch. Underneath all
is a long motto which savors
strongly of Isaac Watts pointing
out a homely truth in a homely
manner.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1904-10-19

Great Danes Taught by Germans %
Drag Bicycle Riders to the
Ground.

To let loose the dogs Of war II
TO be a veritable military maneu
yer, for dogs are nov being
trained by the German army to DC
actual battle. The bicycle is re
sponsible for this. Since its intro
duction into the armies OF Europe
German officers have been cOnsid
ering the best methods of combat
ing it, and the result has been a
decision to train dogs TO drag bi
cycle riders from their wheels.
The Great Dane has been select
ed for the purpose, as his size and
strength make him a powerful
and effective antagonist. At Der
lin there are now a thousand OF
these great dogs in training.
Every day for the last three
months they have been taken to
the parade ground and been given
a lesson in distinguishing the Ger
man and Austrian uniforms from
the French, Italian and Russian,
for it is necessary that they
should discriminate between
friend and foe. Then they are
taught to rush upon a bicycle
mounted enemy and dismOunt
him.
When il is remembered that
nearly all of the armies of Europe
have adopted the bicycle the ne
cessity Of the bestmethOdto lessen
their effectiveness can be appre-
ciated, and the German officers be-
lieve they have discovered the
the method.
The dogs are taken to the field
of operation where the cyclists
are urgedto attack the riders, who
are padded against harm. After
this lesson is learned they ere
turned loose upon soldiers wear
ing various uniforms, and when
they attack q German or Austrian
they are whipped, but when they
attack others they are rewarded.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1904-10-19
New Tourist Sleeping Car Ser
vice to California.

On Aug. 10 the Missouri Pacific
Railway will establish a daily
through Tourist Sleeping Car Line,
st. Louis to San Francisco. Trains
=:!l Leave s. Lcs is daily .l: : 2.
m. The route will be via Missouri
Pacific Railway to Pueblo, Colora-
do, thence via Rio Grande to Salt
Lake City and Ogden and South
ern Pacific to San Francisco and
Los Angeles. This is the famous
scenic line of the world-through
the picturesque Rocky Mountains.
The service and accommodation
will be up-to-date and will be per-
sonallY conducted.
Very low rates will be in effect
from Aug. Is to Sept. 10, via
Missouri Pacific Railway to the
principal Pacific Coast Points and
return. Also low rate colonist one
way tickets will be sold from Sept.
15 to Oct. Is, For rates, informa-
tion and reservation of berths, APP
ply to A. A. Gallagher, D. P. A.,
419 Walnut St., Cincinnati, o.
Aft
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1904-10-19
OLD AGE BROUGHT NO INFIRm-
IfTEs.
TO "Fhe Autocrai Of the Break
fast Table"

Oliver Wendell Holmes, aftel
eighty years of life had rolled ovel
his head, declared that he wai
"eighty years young" So may
every man and woman in Mt. Sterl-
ing, said Druggist w. S. Lloyd
IF they will take proper care Of
themselves, keep built up and their
bodily tissnes from ssastirr
Il wish l could persuade every
person in this vicinity who 'feels
old, whether they are so in years
or not, to take our splendid cod
liver oil preparation, Vinol. 1t is
by far the greatest tissue builder
and invigorator in the world for
old neanl4 Vinol 10 not . natant
medicine, but simply contains the
bodybuilding, strengthening
properties Of cod liver oil actually
taken from fresh Gods livers, and
we guarantee that it will repair
worm tissues, checks the natural
decline and replaces weakness with
strength
rinrie are hundreds Of old peo-
pc in This vicinity who need just
such a strength-msker and tissue
builder as VInol. Their blood is
thin and sluggish, but we guaran-
tee that Vinol will enrich and
quicken the blood and build up the
system. 1t contains no whiskey O.
strong stimulants, which have a
bad after effect and weaken and
break down, and we therefore wish
every person who feels old in this
vicinity wouid try Vinoi on our
guarantee to return their money if
they are not satisfied VIM. s.
Lloyd, Druggist.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1904-10-19

This is the place to bring your
job work as we are prepared to do
all kinds Of fine printing.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1904-10-19
The Blue Grass Traction Company

Gears leave Lexington for Paris
every hour from 6 a. m. to z p. m
and at 8 p. m. Leave Paris every
hour from z a. m. to 8 p. m. and al
10 p. m.
Leave Lexington for Georgetown
every hour from Z a. m. to IL p. m
Leave Georgetown every hour from
6 a. m. to 10 p. m.
Car IA, carrying freight, express
and trunks, leaves Lexington for
Georgetown at 4 p. m. Leaves
Georgetown at 10 a. m. Leaves
Lexington for Paris at IL :35 a. M
Leaves Paris at p. n.
Freight rates, or special rates for
excursions, for supper and theater
parties and for school, "Busi-
ness" and Family" tickets can be
had on application at the Compa-
ny's Office, 404 West Main street,
Lexington. E. L. Phone, 610;
Home Phone 1874.
Y. ALEXANDER, President.
$780,
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1904-10-19
Vicious Man.

Grimes-They tell me Wickly
has married his boarding mis-
tress. How did it happen?
Grant, haven't heard the par
ticulars, butt suspect he married
her in spirit of revenge.-Boston
Transcript.
Alton Drexel, government=.agent
in the Transvaal, visiting Lexing-
ton to study tobacco cultivation,
says Texas fever is raging,in. South
Africa.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1904-10-19
MEAL FOR 4 sULLFRoc.
Lamitsd Only by Size Of Any Katabls
Object That Comes With
in Reach.

Many years ago when collect
ing birds in southern New Eng.
land, / shot on the salt marshes a
swallow, which fell in a shallow
pool in the marsh, says Forest and
Stream. Ny brother, who hap
pened to be standing near the
pool, saw the bird fall and saw a
huge bullfrog make two or three
sprawling leaps over the mud and
through the water and swallow
the Dlrd. when came up the
head of the bullfrog still remained
above water with the wings of the
swallow sticking out of the cor
ners of his mouth.
Recently a story was told me
by a friend who resides at Flush
ing, r. l., of certain happenings on
a neiohhar's nlaea The naiDhhor
has some water inclosed in which
he keeps some domesticated wild
fowl, and not long ago, the op-
portunity occurring to purchase
five gigantic bullfrcgs, he intro
duced them into the water.
This spring, as it seemed a POS
sibility that some of his wild
ducks could breed. an effort was
made to get rid of the frogs for
fear they might injure the duck
lings, and three of them were
killed, but the other two could not
be found. Some time in May a fe-
male pintail duck came of with
three young ones which, after two
or three days, disappeared and
were not seen again. A day or
two after their disappearance
the missing bullfrogs were seen
and killed, and in their stomachs
were found the remains of the lit
tie pitfalls. fancy that there ia
nothing living that bullfrog will
not eat.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1904-10-19
The Winning Blow.

One of the favorite maxims Of
Gen. Grant, and one certainly in
accord with human nature, was
that in every closely contested
battle there comes a time when
both sides are exhausted. When
this condition arises, he said, the
army that first breaks the lull and
puts itself in motion is likely to
win. A blow then is worth a doz.
en- previous ones.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1904-10-19
Trained Horses Tricks.

Hans, the performing horse
which made a sensation in Berlin
for a few days because it was
thought he could count, spell, etc.
has been proved fraud, or his
owner has. His groom has con
fessed. AS to the counting, al
long as the groom kept his eyes OH
the ground Hans continued
stamping with a hoof. AS soon as
the groom looked up the horse
ceased to stamp. All his tricks
were done by signal.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1904-10-19
Germ Destrovers.

A French bacteriologist de.
clares that lemonade, cider, seltz.
er and similar drinks will kill ty.
phoid germs, while alcohol at %
percent. destroys microbes, and al
2 per cent. prevents their develop.
ment.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1904-01-12
SOUVENIR STAMPS
Postoffice Department Has Adopted ST.
Louis Fair Stamps

The postoffice department has adopt
ed a stamp for the ST. Louis worlds
fair, and it will be issued in the spring.
All postoffices in the country, 1t is
stated, will receive consignments of the
souvenir stamps. Designs have been
decided upon, and the portraits of the
men that are to ornament the stamps
have been selected. However the de-
signs have been adopted tentatively and
there may be some changes made in
them.
The stamps will be the same in size
as those issued for the Pan American
exposition at Buffalo. which were but
slightly larger than the regulation
stamp. They will not be as large as the
Columbian stamps used for the Chicago
exposition, but will be oblong-that is,
their greatest length will be laterally
when placed on the envelope. The col
ors, under the universal postal union
requirements, must correspond to those
of the regulation stamps of correspond
ing denominations
The portraits will be as follows:
cent. Robert r. Livingston, minister to
France who conducted negotiations for
the Louisiana purchase; 2 cent, Thorn
as Jefferson; cent. James Monroe,
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1904-01-12
SLOW Girl
1 She Should Wake Up IN
n hsaf44~fstEe-
'"HE bachelor gave a cynical little

ME Dacnelor gave cynical little
laugh.
We'll. the slow girl is better
than the rapid girl" be re-
marked
why. the ideaw cried the worldly
/ wise woman. But let me tell you that
while there are undoubtedly some-er-
young ladies who would do we'll to
( slow down there are even larger num-
/ bers who need the spur rather than the
checkrein.
Most women would rather be COM
Portable than anything else" remarked
the bachelor sententiously.
I'm. That sounds as If it had come
from a book; but even so, much de-
ponds on the meaning of the word
comfortable Most of the slow girls
know are not even comfortable in the
sense OF being at ease in their minds.
They simply lay the trouble to bad
/ luck, that patron saint of the lazy. In
nine cases out of ten 1--WE will leave that
tenth case for real hard luck they have
themselves to blame. Any girl who is
alive has no business to stand doleful-
ly at the window with lonely written
all over her and watch the fun of the
rest of the world. Let her sit down
and make out list of the women she
knows and why they don't call or in
vite her any more and Of the men she
knows or might easily know and the.
reason why they don't come around.
Perhaps she hasn't asked them! Well
If she waits for men to ask permission
to call in this busy, overrushed world
| am afraid the dear girl will sit alone
in her studio, parlor. reception room
or whatever ii may be more than one
evening in the week. There is a way
of doing things that is not bold or sen.
timental "a frank look in the eyes,
like a nice boys; cordial intonation
in the voice and How would you like
TO run up some evening next week and
take dinner with me. Mr. Smith, And
she doesn't need TO make any fuss for
him. Men hate fuss and formality.
ITS the same way with a girls
friends. She is worse than silly to
contine her attentions to one or two
merely contenting herself with paying
formal calls on the others She must
circulate among them, introduce those
whom she thinks will be congenial.
bring around the men and make them
meet her girl friends or better still.
plan little foursomes in which she will
bring man for the other girl and the
other girl will bring one for her. II
she is selfish and stuffy and poky. she
never. never will have friends And
why are some girls afraid to make
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1904-01-12

friends with influential peopie-people
who can help them along in the world
They are just as easy to entertain as
ordinary folk If a girl can make her
| self interesting. and If she doesn't know
how to do that let her study how.
Il should like to say to every girl
who Is slow: If your surroundings
swamp you, change your surroundings;
If your lack of means cramps you, find
some way of augmenting those means
and 1t not infrequently happens that
your very work will bring you friends.
But move along. Get ahead. whatever
you do. Let only one thing worry
you-the thought that you are idle.
that you are not making the most of
life. that you are not advancing. That
ought to worry you to death if you are
frittering your time.
And for goodness sake. whatever
you do, keep your eyes open. Look
straight ahead. Don't I've In the past,
and don't believe that stupid saying of
old women, 1T will all come right
somehow. In won't come right unless
you make Ii So
don't believe in planning for the
future. 1t will all come right some
how murmured one of these femi-
nine weaklings as she dropped few
gentle tears over faded packet of
love letters. Not that she cared par
ticulariy. but there being nothing else
to do that afternoon she beguiled the
tedium of her lonely life by taking out
or her trunk the almost forgotten love
letters and crying over them. Great
pity she couldn't better her condition
by doing something practical"
Upon the whole" murmured the
bachelor. Il don't think | should care
to be the slow girl
There is such a thing as a happy
medium" the worldly wise woman an.
s~nred. with dignity
NAUD RnRTNSO$
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1904-01-12
PLANNING FOR
The CONVENTION
Chicago Probably the Place and
July a Likely Date For Meet.
ing of Unterrified

Especial Telegram to Evening Teller.)
WASHINGTON, D. c.. Jan. a.
When the democratic national commit
tee went into session at the Shoreham
hotel today to decide upon the date and
place for the national convention there
was no one who could predict with any
degree of certainty as to what would
be the result of the committees delib-
erations.
When the republican national COM
mittee met here a few weeks ago its
work had been cut out in advance and
its duties were largely perfunctory.
That such Is not the case at today's
smeeting is evidenced by the wide diver
sity of opinion expressed by usually
well informed leaders as to what city
will capture the convention and what
date will be selected for the gathering.
A majority appears to entertain the
opinion that Chicago will get the con-
vention, but st, Louis delegation is
on hand with a strong plea, and there
is a movement of some consequence
in the interest of New York
AS to the date, 1t Is probable the