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FEDERAL OFFICIALS
CUT OFF VERA CRUZ
FRESH FOOD SUPPLY
Husrta Soldiers Strongly Entrsnchec
There, However, and Rebel Sue
cess Is Regarded With
Considerable Doubt.

Vera Cruz, Mex. Special: The situa-
hon at Tampico and the effort OF the
Mexican governor of the state Of Vera
Cruz to cat Off tie food supply Of Vera
Cruz divided attention today. The re-
ported massing OF the rebel forces
against Tampico is regarded as i'm
portant. because IL Is felt to be certain
that the fall OF the city will have soTne
bearing on the immediate policy or tine
United States.
Many persons, who are well informed
OF the federal preparedness in Tampico,
are skeptical Of the predictions OF an
early rebel success. They point out
that three federal gunboats have thus
far easily repealed the attacks.
The situation OF the owl is such that
o force. cannot approach without ex-
posing itself to the fire OF four-inch
. quick fire guns. except from one direc-
ton. That point is defended by a triple
line of trenches and many machine
guns and field artillery. Gunboats and
soldiers are plentifuily supplied with
ammunition.
The rebels have heretofore been
without artillery. Unless guns have
reached them from the northern rebels
&C is believed impossible for them to
drive out the federals.
The fall OF Tampico into rebel hands
might help to solve the food situation
In Vera Cruz, In that event, 1t is pre-
surned the trade between Vera Cruz and
Tampico would be resumed and that
the territory about Tampico would sup
ply the market here to some extent
Supply Insufficient.
Just now the only supplies reaching
Vera Cruz are coming from the small
ranches near enough to the city for
owners to feel assured Of American
protection. Scores of natives, carrying
eggs and milk, arrive daily, but this
supply is absorbed almost without eff
feet on the demand.
with the order of the Mexican gov
ernor OF the state of Vera Cruz. threat
euing execution Of n bringing
| food to the city, effective. this small
supply will be cut off and the popula-
ton. both native and foreign, will be
forced to depend on goods shipped from
the United States and elsewhere. The
money Is also peculiar. The banks have
been virtually at a standstil for all ex-
cept small exchange business, because
of the lack of stamps required by Mex
lean laws now in force. Nearly
400, coo pesos worth Of captured stamps
were paced in circulation today to re-
Iieye the situation. It is getting almost
1 impossible to- find Mexican change
Sons merchants are doing business or
a double standard. Goods, bought IN
the United States o r abroad. are sold
only on a gold basis. while goods
bought in Mexico City, are sold fol
Mexican money.
II, W.. McClelIand, a pineapple grow
err. was twice strung up by 10 OF hi
workmen, robbed and left for dead. or
a plantation at FL Burro. near Santa
Lucrecia. He arrived here with othel
refugees yesterday. penniless, and wa
taken IN charge by the Red Cross. Tn
robbers got $4,000 in gold.
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tuition fees and Incidental charges, 10
$2,487. The Sun, continuing says:
Chicago university stands third In
endowment, with $18,145, 166: Yale
fourth, with $14,665,414; Rice institute
in Texas, founded by the man OF whose
murder Albert 7. Patrick was accused,
Is fifth, with $40, 900, 900; Cornell, sixth,
with $9,5S6. III; Columbia seventh,
with So, 695,474. Then comes Carnegie
institute, with $1,000, 600; Pennsylva-
mia, with $6,659, 1873: Johns Hopkins,
with $5,96s.ooo, and Princeton, with
S5,194, S6l. ~
Stanford has no tuition fee. except
$50 q year to ~nonresidents OF California,
and owns a great deal of land which
gives no profit. Its income Is, there
fore, rather small compared with that
OF some other universities which have
less capital. Columbia's income Is ST.
| 237, 5S4. Cornell's is $2,4S7, sos, Prince
TONS is $1,299.04 Chicago's is $1,74o,.
925, Pennsylvania's ia $1,905,l59 and
Some OF the state universities de-
pending largely on annual appropria-
tons, have bigger incomes than en-
dowments. The University OF Wis
| consin, for example, which has only
$674,764 in productive property, has on
income or 50, 155, Extraordinarily
more than Stanford's. The University
OF Michigan has $909, 709 In productive
capital and an income OF 1,615, $50.
Minnesota's capital is 81, sos, 1856 n It's
income $2,355, 1862. j.
Several theological seminaries have
big endoWments. Princeton's is So
250.OOOa and the General Theological
seminary in this city has $2,167,055.
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Why TEACHERS AGE EARLY
FearfuIAand Wonderful Excuses Given
for Occasional Nonattendance o.
Their Pupils.

While the law Of the land compeIa
children 10 attend school up to "a GER
tain age, there lis no law that makes
A. obligatory for them to be present
Nc svery session They may be EEK.
Duasdr on the written request OF par
ents. and we herewith present some Of
these reasonable excuses
sDier Miss Blank; Sadie had q
pAne IN her left hart end could not
come yesterday. If IT goes to cutin'
up today, plese let her went home ana
ebEdge
"Mrs. b. Ps g."
kind Friend Kindly excuse James
FOR lateness. / kneaded him after
breakfast.
rDere Miss H.: Willy was not
kaare yesterday becaws he had to
have his shoes h~alf-souled. They was
40 holey his feet got wet and | was
afraid he would get tonsilightous. His
k0nstitushion amt Of the best. II
- some Hereditary on his pas side
him being pulling. So excoose"-New
York Evening Post.
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Should Popular Songs Be censoredi
George weston in Woman's World.

Isn't II possible that we have started
the censor on the least important trail!
For a picture, though bad, soon grows
dim to the memory. But q song Is q
thing that can be memorized. We hear
1t, learn 1t. and we receive its effect
with added force at every repetition.
II the effect OF the song is good, we
are cherishing a blessing. But TX the
effect OF the song is bad. then indeed,
.cherishing a thing that has a remark
able resemblance to a curse
Look through any moving picture au-
dience and you will always see the
little daughters Of the poor, Il
All day they have drudged in fac
tory. shop or home. The bloom Of youth
Is still upon them. but poverty is be-
ginning to pinch.
In their adornments, cheap jewelry
and a brave show of style. one can see
alike their ambition and their ideal.
A moving picture comes to its end,
The singer takes his place upon the
stage. The title pag OF a song Is thrown
upon the screen and the laughter OF
approval greets some such heading as
this: When i Get You Alone To-
night"
The little daughter Of the poor huns
the chorus; for the song is all the go,
presently she leaves the movie show
and gains the street outside.
1t may be that she finds herself in
the street called straight.
Or 1t may be that she finds herself
In another street entirely, depending
somewhat upon the girl and somewhat
upon the influence around her and de-
pending particularly upon such fnfiu-
ences as the songs which she has just
heard and which she is humming 81
she steps out into the night.
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use Your pietlonarx EYery DAY.

Writing an article entitled Treasure
In Books in the Woman's Home Com
panion, Laura Spencer Portor gives the
following excellent advice about the ad-
vantages to be gained from the study
Of words: .". %
1.-THE study OF words: 1t may sound
to you a dry thing, yet / promise you
1t is not, very far from It.
And this brings me to suggest that
the habit of one OF the great writer's OF
studying carefully from a good diction-
airy five words each day Is one from
which we might all OF US get a good
deal OF profit. Or, take q good book
of synonyms, for instance, and learn
from it each day five words somewhat
similar, comparing and weighing care
fully tire meaning and values of them.
Notice the degrees OF force In the fol-
lowing. To dislike, to hate, to loathe, to
detest, to abhor-each note struck Is
q little stronger, higher. we might say,
like an ascending crescendo scale. So,
to instruct, to teach, to educate are
each quite different in meaning with
great nicely OF differences. So, rebuke,
reprimand, censure, blame are all of
n color but how differen shades of
meaning. So. too, misfortune. calamity.
disaster; 80, weak. feeble, decrepit; and
n delicate difference between fame
and renown, or feminine and womanly
and womanigh.
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fields where they are taught to observe
nature carefully and In consequences
nature in her simplest and truest state
is predominant in their drawings and
color schemes. The two principles en-
ployed by M. Poiret in his art are the
search for the greater simplicity and
the search for original detail.
These printed silks are the first OF
the kind to be made In America and
sold in Paris and London. The designs
are startling and bizarre in contrast to
the regular lines Of fabrics, but 1t must
be borne III mind, when judging them,
that the silks on which they are printed
are only intended to be used in con-
junction with such materials as black
charmeuse, chiffon, taffetas and rough
woven silks. or the "a patterns In the
full line, six are represented in thu
national museum collections, namely:
Pekin, a combination OF wide and mar
row stripes In brilliant colors, printed
on charmeuse and on crepe chinois;
Bishop, an odd floral design on Russo
let and fieur de jeunesse; Bouquet, a
floral design with stripes on Ruisselet;
and Lizerbn, black charmeuse with
flowers in vivid colors. The last pat
tern is hand printed from wooden
blocks, and is probably the first design
silk goods In the United States. The
samples are the gift Of the manufac-
turers.
Many other beautiful examples of the
new fabrics now being turned out by
American looms are also in the mu-
scum collection. These not only In
clude the standard weaves Of silk, and
cotton, but combinations OF cotton and
spun silk, cotton and art silk, and mer-
cerized cotton and wOod-pulp silk.
Samples of these weayes have recently
been deposited in the museum by the
Aberfoyle Manufacturing company, OF
Chester, Penn.
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Barber Supplies

TheKleeblatt BARRIERS Supply 90. ,6lS Piercest.
AAloux City Ia. will treat youright. Write them
SIOUX cry PTo. co, NO. 2o-1st4.
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The False Nate.

Elizabeth woodbridge. IN ne Atlantic.
The note of sex-antaGonism in suffrage
argument ought to be deeply deplored and
a~ntagonism we have. Perhaps we shall
have clasS-war. To some this seems In
evitable, TO others probable, to all II seems
possible, because even with the extinction
OF one class, society could still 20 on.
But Ii is not possible for one sex 10 wish
the extinction OF the other. The well-be-
ing OF each Is bound up with the well-be-
Ing Of the other, and we must distrust
every leader who does not recognize first
Of all that, wherever safety lies, Il does
not lie In separation or hostility. 30
ciety Is like a bird with two great wings,
woman m man. IL has not been able to
fly very we'll because one OF its wings has
been broken. At last this wing IS coming
20 its full strength WIN II help, then,
20 cripple the other winK7
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Mothers Almanac.

I tell you. when II zones to dates,
My Mother Is Just 1.-THE boss!" q
n tells me all I want to know
'Thout ever gettin' cross,
You'd think she'd get mixed up sometimes
At school i know I do
Bout Washington, and Plymouth Rock
And 1492
But Mother says: THE war with Spain
Wa fought In '98-- .
The ear you all had chickenpox.
Exceptin' little Kate.
THAT year. OF course, the Spanish ships
Were sunk in Cuba,s channels:
IT was summer, for I'd put away
You children's winter hannels. Il
"The Boer war in Africa
That was a dreadful thing
Began in 80, / know,
Jack broke his arm that spring.
II was nineteen-foYr. and winter, too,
When Japs n Russians fought.
You almost had pneumonia then
From that bad cold you caught"
There Is six OF us, and we re mixed up
With hist'ry just that way.
Sometimes It's measles, Group or mumpl
But there's no date that ever Btumps
Ny Mother, night or day!
&C. Leo. In the April ST. Nchcsas.
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NEW AMERICAN SILKS OF
BIZARRE FRENCH DESIGNS
IN THE NATIONAL MUSEUM

washington, d. C.-Samples Of some
truly wonderful surface printed broad
silks, which were shown for the first
time during the past few weeks in
Paris, are now on exhibition in the d.
vision OF textiles In the United States
national museum at Washington. These
fabrics which are known a. the Mar
tine silks. have been woven, printed
and finished in the American plant of
the Duplan SILK company In New York.
under the direction OF Paul Poiret. M.
Poiret is the originator; and his ideas
In color and design are held by some
to be the last word in the world OF
fashion. His school OF design Is call
ed LEcole MARITIME. In honor OF his
daughter, and here all his wonderful
fabrics known by the same name are
designed. The pupils OF this UNIQUE
school are children frora the age Of
IL years upward, who are left much to
their resources ~ TO study and
design They frequent the woods and
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A laugh is worth 100 grcans In any
market-ChArles Lamb.
Have a heart that never hardenH, q
temper that never tires, and q touch
that eve hurts.-Dickens.
Never yet was a springtfme,
Late though fingered the snow,
Tha the sap stirred NOT at the whisper
or the south wind. sweet and low;
Never yet was a s~pringtItne
When he buds forgot to blow.
Margaret r. Sangster.
-. .H'. .#..a .##a- $3.50 #rH -.-Es ..r#
Ths notes / love the 6earest
Are those / hear in spring,
when on b budding boughs the birds
Come back to US and sing.
They tell OF balmy breezes,
OF walks by stream and glade:
They draw US forth to know aud love
The word that God hath made.
II A Horton.
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WAR CODE GOVERNS /.
ATTACK ON MEXICO

The rules under which the
American battleships may at
tack Mexican ports are laid
down strictly by international
law, adopted, by the civilized
nations OF the world at the
second peace conference held
at The Hague In 1907. The
rules follow: ~
Article XxV-Ths attack or
bomhardment, by whatever
means, OF towns, villages or
buildings which are undefended,
is prohibited.
Article XXVI-The officer In
command OF an attacking force
must, before commencing a
bOmbardment, except in cases
OF assault, do all In his power
to warn the authorities.
Article xxVu-In sieges
and bombardments all neces-
sary steps must be taken to
spare, so far as possible, build
ings dedicated to religion, art,
science or charitable purposes,
historic monuments, hospitals
and places where the sick and
wounded are collected, provided
they are not being used at the
time for nniaatry purposes. It
is the duty OF the besieged 10
indicate the presence OF such
buildings or places by distinc-
tive and visible signs"
..| #4.. #.r-e.M .#H.
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Wins Both way,.

From the Richmond Times Dispatch.
1t occurs to us that Mr.. Wilson has II
on that earlier statesman who would rath-
err be right than president. Mr.. Wilson
has copped both p~ennants.
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Faint Heart.

Tim rather afraid Clara We're de
We're ie going into q decline"
why do you think sog
'Tm going to propose to her this
evening IL / get a chance.p-Judge.
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lREzl9
:zSSEEzsasTFyD1T11S
-1lAz 49, g.
Conducted by the National Worngn's
Christian Temperance Union)
A VIEW OF HIMSELF

The following story Is going tina
rounds of the newspapers and Is we'll
worth passing on:
A young man OF fine family and
splendid gifts was going down as fast
as II was possible for a man to go.
through strong drink. His friends had
pleaded with him. but he had taken
their warnings as an insult. One OF
them. who was a court stenographer.
was sitting In a restaurant one eve
ming when the Young man in question
came In with a companion and sat
down with his back to- him at the adj
joining table. He was lust drunk
enough to be talkatfve about his pri-
vate affairs. and on the impulse OF the
moment the stenographer pulled out
his notebook and took n shorthand re-
port OF every word he said 1t was
the usual maudlin folly OF young
man with his brain muddled BY drink
and included a number of highly can
did details OF his daily Iife-things
which, when he was sober he would
as soon have put his hand in the fire
as speak about to a casual acuraint-
ance. The next morning the ste
nographer copied the whole thing
neatly and sent it round to his office.
In less than ten minutes he came tear
ing in with. What is this. anyhow"
It's stenographic report of your
monologue at the restaurant last eve-
ming" his friend replied, and gave him
brief explanation
Did | really talk like thgt?' he
asked family.
Il assure you it is an absolutely YER
batim report" was the reply.
He turned pale and walked out He
never drank another drop.
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AN gx-PREslperrs oPlNsons.

ihe friend OF the saloonkeepera
denounce then opponents for not
treating the saloon business like any
other The best answer TO this is that
the business is not like any other bust
ness, and .bat the actions of the sa-
ioonkeepers themselves conclusivelN
prove this TO be the case. Il tends
to produce cylminality m the populs-
ton at large and lawbreaking among
the saloonkeepers themselves. When
the liquor men are allowed tO do az
they wish. they are sure to debauch.
not only she body social but the body
paditic 2lsO-TheodDre Roosevelt.
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INFLUENCE OF SALOON

The saloon is sending more children
into the factory, the mines, the mills
and shops, that ought to be at schools
or play. than the influence OF the trade
union has been able to eliminate, Ell
ther by direct action OF by legislation.
The attitude Of organized labor uDen
the employment of women in industry
Is just the same as it is with chiIdren.
The saloon influence is driving by, the
thousands women into the industrial
world who ought to- be at home.-Iphn
lennon. Treasurer American Fedora
tiCu OF Labor and, General Secretarv
Of Journeyman Tailors' Union of, AIMEE.
lea.
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to use all her influence with the people
she knows" she went on. $50 | am
going to ask you not to let your coun-
try ever go, to- war against mine while
you are chief OF staff"
Mine against yours?" he equivo-
Gated. Why, YOU live almost within
gunshot of the line! Your people have
as much Gray as Brown blood in their.
veins. Your country! My country.
Isn't that patriotism
patriotism, bat not martial patriot
ISM" she corrected him. My thought
is to stop war for both countries as
war, regardless OF sides. Promise me
that you viii non permit it,"
IL not permit IT," He smiled with
the kindly patronage OF great man
who sees a charming woman founder
ing in an. attempt at logic. 1T is. for
the premier to, say. merely make the
machine ready. The government says
the word that makes it move. ] able
TO stop war! Come, comet"
But you can-yes, you can with, a,
word" she declared positively.
How" he asked, amazed. How
he repeated blandly.
Was she teasing him? he wondered.
What new resources Of confusion, had
ten years and tour around the world'
developed in her? Was IT possible that
the whole idea of the teachers of poace
was an invention to make converse
h"n at his expensei II so, she carried
II OFT with "a sincerity that suggested
other depths yet unsounded
Very easily" she answered. You.
can tell the premier that you can1lot
win. Tell him that you will break your
army to pieces against the Browns
Qualifications
Fie gasped Then an inner voice
prompted him that the cue was
comedy
Excellent fooling excellent" 10
said with laugh Tell the prennier
that ! should lose when / have five
million men to their three m4H3Onl
What a harlequin chief OF stan I
should be- Excellent foolingi You al.
most had me-"
Again he laughed. though in IN,
fashion OF one who had hardl,e unbent
his spine. while ne was wishing for
the old days when he mighs take tea
with her one or two Afternoons a week
II would be fine tonic after his isola-
ton at tho apex OF the pyramid sur
veying the Difference ~ the lower
levels. Then he saw that her eyes
shimmoring with wonder, grew dun
and her lips parted in a rigid. pale line
as n she we're hurt
GRO RE CoNTlNUED)
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then had any Significance. Yes. the
old human impulses would predomi-
nate and the only enemy would be on
the otner side OF the frontier They
would be pawns OF his will-the yilI
that Marta Galland had said would
make him chief OF staff.
Wasn't war the real cure for the
general unrest? Wasn't the nation
growing stale from the long peace7 He
was ready for war now that he bad be
come Wcs-Chisf. when the retirement
Of His EXcellency, unable 20 hear the
weight Of his years and decorations In
the field would make him the supreme
commander. One ambition gained. be
heard the appeal Of another: to live
Co see the guns and rifles that had
fired only blank cartridges In practice
pouring ont shells and bullets. and all
the battalions that had played 40 sham
war 10 maneuyers engaged in real
war. under his direction. He saw his
columns 5wceping up tho slopes OF the
Brown range. Victory was certain He
would Doe tho first 20 lead a great mod
ern army against a great modern
army. his place as the master Of mod
ern tactics secure in the minds ~ all
the FoIdier5 Of the world The public
would forget its unrest In the thrill Of
battles won and provinces conquered.
end ts clatter would be that OF &C
claim for new idol OF It's old faith.
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DANGERS IN egER-oRINkINe.

DR., s II. Burger. practitionerrfor-
50 years, 2S in Toledo, O.. says:
My attention was first called to the,
insidiouS effects of beer when began
examining for life insurance. I.passedl
as unusually good risks five Germans.
young business men. WIN seemed in,
the best OF health. and to have superb,
constitutions. In a few years l was
amazed TO see the whole five drop off.
one after another. with what ought 20,
nave been mild and easily durable
diseases. On comparing my expert.
ences with those of other physicians. L
found they were all having similar
tuck with confirmed beer drinkers, and
my practice since has heaped coufrr.
nation upon confirmation"
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ADVANCE

The Catholic church has always en-
couraged total abstinence among it's
people. The Catholic Total Abstinence.
Union of America has 100000 mem
bers, and upon that society the church
through her last four popes has in
voked the blessing of heaven-to the
envy We are told, OF all other Catho-
lie organizations who have not been
thus favored. This church. moreover,
through her bishops and priests. ad.
ministers the pledge to tens of thou
sands Of children every year on the
occasion of their confirmation or first
communion.
Last summer saw the first organized
move on the part of Catholics look
ing definitely toward the abolition of
the liquor traffic. conference OF
Catholics of the United States and.
Canada in the interests of prohibition
was held at Niagara Falls and adopted.
most radical resolutions. Hereafter
moral suasion methods will be backedi
up by a legal suasion policy.