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Spring Weight Clothing to Measure.

There's no better argument for the work OF this
department than the patronage it enjoys. If you
have ideas of your as to Just how you want
your clothes made, we'll carry out these ideas, en-
bodying them in garments that stand forth pre-enl-
nent as perfect specimens of fit and fine Workman
ship We show most comprehensive line of fab
RIGS that are exclusive. We insist that the wooens
show shall have no duplicates where Wash
ngton buyer is in any way likely to see them.
Like to show you through the lines of spring goods
if you're interested in custom tailoring.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-04
Return of Gen. Bristow.

The fourth assistant postmaster general.
Mr.. Bristow. who went to Old Point Com
fort for weeks stay to recuperate from
severe attack of the grip, has returned TO
the city. He has not yet resumed his du-
tie sat the department
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-04

Wheeler. Philadelphia, and Pendennis
White, New York. A meeting of the board
of trustees was held at 30 clock when
the convention adjourned, and the follow
ing officers were elected: President, Lewis
{. Slade, Saginaw; vice president, Lewis
Dill, Baltimore; second vice president
John NJ. Hastings, Pittsburgh, treasurer
Fred N. Cole. New York: sepretary, f. F.
Perry, New York. c. III. Prescott, jr., of
Cleveland was elected trustee to fill an I'M
expired term.
The association will meet in Washington
in March, 1905.
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For Surrender of Paul Biehl.

The State Department has issued a war
rant for the surrender to the government
authorities of Paul Biehl, charged with for
gerry at Oberglogau. Slesia, and now held
under commitment in st. Louis by Judge
Thayer of the circuit court
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-04
A New Counterfeit $40 Bill

Chief Wilkie of the United States secret
service has announced the discovery of a
new counterfeit $50 silver certificate of the
series OF 1891; check letter A, Tillman, reg
lister; Morgan. treasurer; portrait of Man
ming. The note is a very poor zinc etching
printed on good quality paper A few coarse
blue ink lines are used to initiate the silk
hber or the genuine. The back of the note
In hand is printed upside down.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-04
To Reopen Van Colt Case.

Postmaster General Payne yesterday ad-
nitted that it had been decided to reopen
the case of Postmaster Van Colt of New
York city in order to secure further infor.
nation on certain points about which more
night was wanted. Mr.. Payne declined to
give any details.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-04
Treaty Regarding Isle of Pines.

The President yesterday afternoon sent
to the Senate the new treaty with Cuba
concerning the Isle of Pines, and when the
Senate went into executive session 1t was
referred to the committee on foreign rela-
tons.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-04

fed. The soldiers at Fort Sill were ordered
out to fight the flames and rendered great
assistance.
AT Anadarko many farm buildings were
burned. No lives are reported lost but
there We're numerous narrow escapes
Women and children, scantily clad fled TO
plowed ground, while the men remained tn
hight the flames in an endeavor to save
property.
Summary of Losses
dispatch from Oklahoma City saws:
Driven by terrific gale from the north.
which at times reached a velocity of ninety
miles an hour, a prairie fire swept over
Io.0oO acres in Comanche county last night
INJECTING damage now estimated at s2Oe 600
The city of Lawton was saved only by ex-
treme effort, while many farm houses were
consumed. kiowa county was also visited
by a prairie fire during the storm. while
damage Is reported from all over the south
west The losses from wind and fire re-
ported to date follow:
Hobart, 100000; Wilson's. 5000: I.awtoD
S2o,O00; small country towns aggregate
5000; farm property. 100000
persistent reports of loss of life come
from rural districts. but owing to difil
culties of communication they have not vet
been confirmed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-04
A Guaranteed Cure for Piles.

Itching. Blind. bleeding Protruding Piles.
Your druggist will refund money II PAZ0 ONT
MENT falls to euro you In to II days zoe.
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PARKER, BRIDGET & CO.
PARKER, BRIDGET & co.
F LIGHTER WEIGHT COATS.
GARMENTS OF EXCEPTIONAL MERIT,
GRACE, STYLE AND CHARACTER.

The P.=B. Top Coat again emphasizes
the P.-B. ability to produce a garment of
eclipsing style and merit. We've had made
to our order, just as carefully as if they
were made to yours, a line of Top Coats
from fabrics that were selected with that
developed knowledge of quality and crit
les taste that has resulted i'm line we can
we'll claim to be exc usive-and that we cam
put forth with full confidence i'm the ability
of the Coats to meet unqualified favor. We
haven't made them up to be ''cfeap'' Coats
we've made them to be the 'best'' Coats
it is possible to produce-but we've priced
them where their value must be evident.
You can buy Top Coats here for as little as
you must pay anywhere for Top Coat
that woud be worthy of you-but you get
more. for P.-B. clothing at its price is the
biggest va4ue i'm clothing i'm America.
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CL0SESW|TH BANQUET
Lumbermen Entertain Public
Officials and Others.
PROMINENT SPEAKERS
SECRETARY coRTELYou DIS
CUssEs TRUE CoMMERCIALIsM.
Annexation Of Canada Predicted by
Speaker Cannon Of House Of
Representatives.

Probably the most noteworthy event in
connection with the twelfth annual conven-
ton of the National Wholesale Lumber
Dealers Association was the banquet at
the New Willard Hotel last evening, which
marked its close. Several members of the
cabinet and members of the Senate and
House of Representatives were present.
The officials of the administration and the
members of the two houses of Congress
were in attendance in response to special
invitations The list of speakers included
Secretary Shaw of the Treasury Depart
ment and Secretary Cortelyou of the De-
partment of Commerce and Labor, and
Speaker Joseph Cannon of the House of
Representatives and Senator Hepburn of
Idaho. The remarks of the speakers had
direct reference to the lumber industry and
matters in which the members of the asso-
citation are interested.
The banquet hall, in which the banquet was
held, presented pleasing appearance Dur
ing the progress of the business sessions of
the convention the hall resembled the quo
tauOn room of a lumber exchange, with
large charts, giving statistics and values
hanging about the four walls. The room
was entirely transformed last evening. 1t
was made to look like flower and plant
exhibition, so profusely was it decorated
After consideration had been given the
excellent manu Mr.. Louis Dill OF Baltimore,
Mo, as POSTMASTER, addressed the assem-
biage. He extended hearty welcome to
the guests and called upon Secretary Shaw
as the first speaker of the occasion. Mr..
Shaw made but few remarks, explaining
that he would have to beg off," owing to
the fact that he was yet quite weak from
his recent illness.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-04

LADIES Tan Surpass Vici XII
Turn Soles. Butcher and Regular c,
Oxfords; Made of Pretty 60 e
Ideal Lasts; Nobby Toe Eff y V'S
The Tupelo journal., 1904-03-25
lNCREDULlTY OF IGNORANCE
Keep an Open, Receptive Mind That
You May Know the Truth
Faith in God.

Il have known an explosion TO fol-
low the dropping of an idea into an
empty head"
Nonsense" cries one when news
comes that a telegram has been sent
through space without the aid of wires.
How can people be SO credulous?
what fools these mortals be-" But
10. the foloishness lies not In the ones
lnveighed against, but in the inveigher.
Carriages without horses or steam,
Impossible! shall not believe it till |
see It.. said n in the not very long
ago.
"A personal God! Incomprehensible,
| cannot understand it, and | will not
Delleve anything | cannot understand"
And so, says the Philadelphia Young
People, ~incredulity and skepticism run
riot. Instead of open, receptive minds.
ready to try all things, prove all things.
we too often ind minds resolutely shut
to whatever is new to them. to what
ever is outside their own little orbit.
The punishment is great. Ignorance
and bigotry follow in their wake. Elk
pansion is impossible.
The only hope for such is to face
about. You a.e not responsible for
the one-sidedness you are born to-"
says someone, but you are accounla-
BILE for the o~ne-sidedness you die in"
The Tupelo journal., 1904-03-25

titles are if flies, crickets, grasshop-
pers or katydids are thrown to them.
Frequently, when one has seized a par
ticularly fat grasshopper, another will
attempt to take it away. They are also
fond of reaches. but care nothing for
hard-shelled beetles. They viii not
seize an insect unless it is moving,
and one often knows when the attack
is to be made, as the lizard opens its
mouth just a little way before spring
ing upon it's prey. 1t uses it's tongue
with the same agility as does the frog
or toad, and gorges a large insect pref
ty much the same way as a snake swal-
lows a toad.
In burrowing in the sand they make
several strokes with the right or left
forefoot, changing from one TO the
other; but when this dirt is to be
worked out of the way. they use their
hind feet with alternate strokes with
great rapidity. The female in this
way evidently digs into the ground,
where she deposits a dozen or more
white eggs, which she leaves for the
warm earth to hatch.
| know of nothing else so easily
tanned. When caught in the hand they
seldom attempt to escape. Placed on
ones clothing, they often sit in this
same position for a long time. Know
ing this popularity, | decorated my
little son with 10 lizards, just to prove
to some skeptical people that l was
willing to back up my assertion with
a demonstration Yet one observer who
witnessed 1t declared hat it was risky,
and that he knew a man who had lost a
finger from the venomous bite of a
fence lizard. A teamster who was not
afraid to handle a snake could not be
persuaded to touch a lizard, although
they both saw a finger thrust into a lit
tie saurian's mouth. Ignorance is hard
to Danish, but it easily drives away the
truth.
They are not only harmless, but bene-
fetal. Lying on the fences which sur
round the field of growing crops, they
devour many insects is these attempt
to enter the fields, thus benefiting the
farmers, who have no appreciation of
their value.-A. r. M. Spaid, in Sciep-
tific American.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-03-25

suddenly, and she let her false tooth
slip out of her mouth and it got lost
she told me So" M
Mr.. Lion was very much fattered,
and said that he was sorry Miss Kan
CARGO had lost her false tooth. Then
the little fox lady went over to call
on Miss kangaroo. "Oh, MIR. Lion is
so sorry to hear that you've lost your
false TOOTH" she told that lady. "He
says he's coming yer to apologize for
roaring so much. I'm sure | think he's
a very delightful old gentleman"
Then, as she saw Mr. Lion coming,
she hurried home. Mr.. Lion was
dressed in his best. He made a fine
bow and apologized to Miss Kangaroo
for startling her so. Miss kangaroo
could not fail to be delighted, and she
smiled and bowed, too, and invited old
man Lion to stay for tea. After that
the lion and the kangaroo were al
ways fast friends, and | am sure that
the little fox lady is a very good sort
of person to have in a neighborhood.
st. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-03-25
Prison-Made Binding Irvine.

The Minnesota board of control met
recently at the Saltwater penitentiary
to consider prospects Of the prison
Irvine plant. 1t is expected that the
plant will the coming year manufac-
ture over 5000, 900 pounds of Irvine, a
larger output by over 1000, 900 pounds
than ever before. Every pound of this
Irvine will have been sold to farmers,
which indicates an unusual demand for
the prison Irvine. Many dealers have
tried to get hold of it, but it will all
be sold to the farmers direct, and the
entire output is already spoken for. If
possible, the output will be increased to
1000, 900 pounds in 1905. The saving
to farmers this year will amount to
$3.50, 900, as the regular market price
of Irvine is much higher than that of
the prison product.-Country Gentle
man.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-03-25
LUCKY TED.

That was the nickname they called him
by
The boys al HE school-aud this vas why:
lie was bound TO win from the start, they
said.
II was always the way with Lucky Ted,
The earliest lowers in his garden grew:
The sums on hts slate came soonest true:
he could sail a boat, or throw a ball,
Or guess a riddle. the best of all.
You wondered what could his secret be.
But watch him for awhile and, YOU would
see.
He thought ii out till the thing was plain.
And then went at 1t with might and main.
Trusting but little to chance or guess,
He learned the letters that spell Success.
A ready hand and a thoughtful head
SO much for the luck" of Lucky Ted!'
Blanche Trennor Heath. in Youths Com
panion.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-03-25
SILENT PRAYER.

Oft %corroding cares Cypress us,
Crushing meath a weight of wrong,
Would we ease the anxious signing
Would we change 1t TO a song?
There is remedy unfailing.
It's a safe and certain cure:
Close the eyes and in the turmoil
Pray for patience to endure.
In the conflict faint and weary,
Pause, look up and ask for light,
Through the silent prayer grow stronger,
Walking bravely in His sight;
Meath the worldly trials laden,
Stop and whisper soft and low, g.
God will hear. and We may trust Him,
He will help us, He will know.
When the cross would press us downward,
With its cruel weight of care,
Heavenward watt a simple message,
On the wings of silent prayer;
Gladly then resume life's duties,
For His presence draweth nigh,
And W. find each burden lighter,
When to Him for strength We cry.
Mrs. Margaret Scott Hall, in n. Z. Ob-
server.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-03-25
HAD A PROPHETIC VISION.
Russian Writer Foretold Disasters
That Recently Befell His Coun-
try's Navy at Port Arthur.

One of the most remarkable instances
of political prophecy that have come
to light in recent years is reported by
DR.. E. j. Dillon. A Russian named Lev
itoff published recently at Port Arthur
a pamphlet urging hat the Russians
do everything possible to gain time and
that they withdraw the fleet as an in
cumberance and depend upon their nu-
merical superiority on land. With great
clearness he pointed out the perils of
meeting Japan on the sea.
"The Yellow Bosporus" (the Straits
of Corea) lis a trap into which the
Japs, at England's instigation are try
ing to entice us. So long as we steer
clear of a sea fight" he continues, .the
command of the sea and the Anglo
japanese alliance are not worth a
sucked egg. If we resolve to keep out
of an engagement on water and if we
are further prepared to do without our
fleet, not only by refusing to increase
it but by getting rid of it wholly and
without reserve, then the Japanese doc
trine, Asia for Asiatics, becomes mean
ingIess and we have a free field on
which to continue our work Of culture
in that part of the globe"
The Tupelo journal., 1904-03-25
BIG SHRINKACE IN GRAIN.
Facts and Figures Show That Holding
Crops for Higher Prices Is Not
Always Profitable.

The advantage to the farmer of stor-
ing his grain and holding it till spring
is not always represented by the in
creased price he may get for it. The
shrinkage during the winter storage
must be taken into consideration, and
this shrinkage not infrequently more
than offsets the increased price.
In such cases it pays the farmer to
sell his grain as DON as it is in shape
to go to the market. A good many
Investigations have been made to dis
cover the percentage of shrinkage in
various grains. The results have varied
immensely
In some of the humid states and with
early gathered crops the shrinkage has
been as high as 80 to 40 per cent, while
grain raised in arid states and hauled
to humid states and stored has gained
in weight during storage. The shrink
age of wheat has not generally been as
great as that of some other grains.
Wheat stored in Michigan elevators
lost from five to ten per cent, during
winter. A lot of corn very heavy and
little dry at the time of storing lost 80
per cent. in weight by February. Tests
made in other states have shown
shrinkages of ten to 16 pei. cent.
One lot of corn, that was gathered
at the time of year when it was we'll
glazed, but contained as large an
amount of water as possible and pass
in a state fair competition, shrank
about 40 per cent. Oats shrink little,
but are recorded to have lost about
four per cent. in weight during a win
ter.-St. Louis Republic.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-03-25
FUNNY LITTLE BOBBY BIRD
An Oceanic Fowl That Seems to Have
Less Sense Than Any Other
Known Creature.

The BOBBY bird, an oceanic fowl, is
probably the funniest and most stupid
bird in the world. 1t appears to have
as little intelligence as the old ex-
tinct dodo had, according to the an
cient accounts.
The BOBBY nests on islands far out
in the Pacific ocean, and will not stir
out of the way when men land there.
but remains squatted on the ground,
staring at intruders stolidly.
1t can fly very well indeed, and
goes long distances; but when it is
sitting on the water it will remain di-
rectly in the course of a ship. so that
1t happens often that a steamer will
go clear over a BOBBY that could cas-
lily have swan or flown out of the
way.
Sometimes BOBBY birds will fly on
the deck of a ship and lie there with
their legs sprawling under them. max
ing no attempt to rise, as if their be-
wilderment had quite numbed their
weak intellect.
The bcoby does not feed its young
as other birds do. by carrying food
TO them in its bill. Instead of this.
the BOBBY swallows the food. and
then the young bird thrusts it's head
into the throat Of the parent and fishes
the food out.
When two young boobies are
hatched in the same nest. the one that
is out Of the egg first will often at
tempt 10 a its younger brother or
Sister
When a shot is fired at a BOBBY
bird, 1t generally falls down fiat on
the ground and screams pitiably, even
II 1t has not been hit at all; so that
1t happens frequently that a gunner
gathers in entirely unhurt BOBBY birds
that have simply been frightened into
helplessness.-Boston Globe.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-03-25
BEN FRANKLIN ON PRAYER
Told the Federal Convention of 1887
That "God Governs in the
Affairs of Men"

There Is an exceedingly interesting
of state, at Washington, in Franklin's
own handwriting, and consisting of his
draft of a motion which he submitted
to the federal convention of 1887. Some
there thought it not necessary to have
prayers; it must have been a surprise
when Franklin presented the following.
After alluding to their failure to come
to any agreement, he says:
In the situation of this assembly,
cropping, as it were, in the dark to find
political truth, and scarce able to
distinguish it when presented to us, how
has it happened, sir, that we have not
hitherto once thought of applying to
the Father of Lights to illuminate our
understandings? In the beginning Of
the contest with Great Britain, when
we were sensible of danger, we had
daily prayers in this room for the Di-
heard, and they were graciously an
swered. All of us who were engaged in
the struggle must have observed fire.
quent instances Of a experimenting
Providence in our succor. To this kind
Providence we owe this happy oppor-
turi.y Of consulting in peace on the
means Of establishing cur future ma
tional felicity. And have we now for
gotten that powerful Friend, or do we
imagine we no longer need Its assist
ance? have lived, sir. a long time and
the longer | live the more convincing
proofs l see in this truth: That God
governs in the affairs of men. And, if
a sparrow cannot fall to the ground
without His notice, is it probable that
an empire can rise without His aid? .
81 therefore beg leave 20 move that
henceforth prayers imploring the as
sistance of Heaven and it's blessing on
u deliberations be held in this assem-
bly, every morning before We proceed to
The Tupelo journal., 1904-03-25

In a letter dated January /, 1900, Mr..
Atkinson says, after five years expe-
rience with Peruna:
"I wiHeVerC continue to speak a good
word for Peruna. In my rounds as a
travelling man I am q walking adyer-
hsemenf for Peruna and have Induced
many people during the past year to
use Peruna with the most satisfactory
results. lam still cured of cafarrh."
John o. Atkinson,
BOX Z7Z, Independence, Mo.
When old age comes on, catarrhal dis
eases come also. Systemic catarrh is al
most universal in old people.
Thisexplains why Peruna has become
SO indispensable to old people. Peruna
is their safeguard. Peruna is the only
remedy yet devised that meets these
cases exactly.
Such cases cannot be treated locally;
nothing but an effective systemic rem
edy could cure them. This is exactly
what Peruna is.
If you do not receive prompt and sat-
isfactory results from the use of Peruna,
write at once to DIR. Hartman, giving a
full statement of your case and he will
be pleased to give you his valuable ad-
vice gratis.
Address DR.. Hartman, President of
The Hartman S~anitarium, Columbus, o.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-03-25
THE SEED TAAT WE SOW.
No Sewer Can Tell what His Reaping
Will Be in the Eternal Har-
vest Fields.

"A sower went forth to SOW" and
he has been sowing ever since. The
seed, says the United Presbyterian, is
self-perpetuating. 1t grows. it blooms.
IL ripens and the seeds fall back TO
earth, and herein lies the multiplying
and the ~reduplication or the first SOW
ing, Tor each seed will continue to yield
after its kind. The third and fourth
generations will reproduce the charac-
terlstlcs OF the fathers and mothers, at
least the influence they have exerted on
their children will reappear in the
llVes n characters of children yet I'M
born. Someone has said that a word
once spoken goes on repeating itself
forever There is a sense in which
our influence never dies. 1t may not
face b world in the same form, but
1t Will face it in some form. Our
WORDS, our smiles, our loves and hates
touch other characters and mould
other destinies. The seed of the brain,
the lie germs of thought, fall into the
SOIL Oh a chllds heart. 1t grows there:
1t blooms and ripens there and fills
thai soul with efiorescence and fruit.
Inc mental characteristics of the par
ent nave given character to the child,
and through the child these are trans
mltted to the c%hildren's children and
through them these influences branch
out into lives and spheres that are in
defnable. So that no soWer can tell
and all men are sowers-what his
reaping will be in the eternal harvest
nelos. May not n of the joys of the
mort life be the coming back to us
from many generations, and from lives
which we have never known, of the
happy influences which have sprung
mmorta from our own unconscious
planting? the blessed fruits returned
and laid at our feet from generations
OF the redeemed? Who can tell? Shall
not the good come back to us? Shall
we plant, consciously or unconscious
~, and neither in this world nor in the
next see the reward of our planting?
Snail the good seed go on bearing
rru1t after we have passed into glory
ana we remain forever unconscious of
the influence we have thus exertede
But what If, in the eternal world. our
evil deeds should come back to curse
us and fill our souls with the ~blacknes3
OF remorse! May not the memory of
wrongs once done, and unforgiven, be
n source of punishment to the un-
cody. Surely there is food here for
thought. Meanwhile the sower is SOW
ing ana the seed is talking root and
the haryests are surely coming. Let us
be thoughtful. for God shall direct the
reaplng, and it will be las we SOW"