The American Citizen

The only Daily and Weeklv Negro paper in this section of Country LET US ALL TRY TO BE GOOD AND HAPPY THE WHOLE YEAR FORGETTING NOT THE UPBUILDING OF THE RACE THE OL 12, NO. 45 NOT FOR THEIR HEALTH ALONE SOUTH MCALESTER NEGROES MAKE PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT AS TO THEIR RPUBLICANISM. South McAlester, I. T., Jau. 3.--(Special.) The colored Republicans of South McAlester have issued the following unique call for organizing a colored Republican club at this place: We have made efforts to organize herefore in one general club of whites and blacks, but without success, owing to the unwillingness of some of our white Republican friends to organize with the Negro. The Republican organization has impeded progress: therefore we will say to them, as Abraham said to Lot. "Let there be no strife." We will divide as they did the grass plains and still be friends, but when the political horn shall blow her blast, we will take up our political arms and march to the front in protection of Republican rights, regardless of color or nationality. The world knows that we are not Republicans for our health alone. SPEECH MAKING GALORE CONGRESS WILL. TALK A GREAT DEAL. THIS WEEK. Washington, D. C., Jan 7.—The week in the senate necessarily will be given up largely to speech-making. Beginning Monday morning, Senator Pettigrew's resolution asking for information concerning the Philippine war will come up and he and probably other senators will speak upon it. This will occur during the morning hour. Senator Morgan has given notice of a speech on Monday in which he will discuss the race question in the south. If any time is left that day it will be devoted to the continuation of the discussion of the financial bill, some of the senators on the opposition replying o Mr. Aldrich. Tuesday Senator Beveridge will deliver his speech on the Philippine problem, and Wednesday will be devoted eulogies the late Vice President Hobart. The greater part of the remainder of the week will be devoted to the finances, the object of the managers of the financial bill being to give as much time as possible this measure until it is acted upon. It is now understood that almost all the senators opposed to the bill will talk upon it before the vote is taken, but there has not yet been any arrangement of the order in which they will address the senate. There is no program in the house for the present week. The only certain feature is the consideration of the urgent deficiency appropriation bill. It will be ready Tuesday or Wednesday. It will contain almost $50,000,000 for the army and navy and while it will pass when it reaches a vote it may precipitate a stormy debate upon the conduct of the war in the Philippines. The answer of Secretary Gage to the house resolution calling for information regarding the deposit of Government funds in national banks is expected early in the week. The report will not constitute a privileged question which will open up debate, but if it is deemed unsatisfactory to any one resolutions of investigation may follow. The Roberts case will not get before the house until the end of the week at the earliest and probably not then. The hearing have been adjourned until Wednesday and it is hardly inkey that the report can be prepared in time for presentation this week. 1:1 Attracts the Whole World of Art, America, France, and Egypt the scenes of his labor and studies. And now all the world bows to the great genius of a negro that elevates not only his race, but raises America in the eyes of the artistic world in general, rises her to a point that she should blush for shame that her arts, or position in the worlds of arts is sustained by a race she oppresses on every side. The Honors of Tanner are doubly meritorious under such circumstances of which the outside world know little about and which if known would place him higher still, where many of his race are destined in the near future to reach. We had occasion to mention the absence of a negro face in the New Year edition of the Times not one to represent thousands of a race of this country. But now we retract, in so short a time as this the 9th of Jan. 1900 we see faces and write ups of two negroes that does us honor. we take off our hat to the Times we appologize let the good work go on We are indebted to the Times for the following Special to the Kansas City Times. Pittsburg, Pa., Jan. 7. —Two paint- ings by Henry O. Tanner, the artist, son of Bishop B. T. Tanner, of Kansas City, Kas., were yesterday sold here. His "Judas" was sold at private sale. The aggregate price for the two is reported at $10,000. These two paintings have been here on exhibition at the Carnegie institute and have received universal admiration. Very few negro boys have climbed so far up the ladder of fame as has Henry Ossawa Tanner, the son of a poor African Methodist preacher, who thirty years ago was the pastor of a little negro church in the city of Pittsburg, Pa., where yesterday the fruits of his son's talent sold for a fortune. Young Tanner's color has been no bar to his success as an artist, for the work of his genius is so remarkable that people forget, when looking at his pictures, that the maker of them is a descendant of Ham. In the old days of American slavery it would have been hard to imagine that a kinkey-headed darkey would ever own a studio on the famous boulevard, St. Jacques, and be able to sell his paintings to the French government for the purpose of decorating the greatest art gallery in the world, but all this is true of young Henry Tanner, and he is a negro, but not of the coon song and cake walking variety. The artist is old enough to have been a slave, for he was 3 years old when the civil war ended, but he never felt the weight of shackles nor was he ever deprived of his liberty. His birth in the good old Quaker city gave him an equal footing with his white brother when he became old enough to battle with life problems, and he took a advantage of it to improve his mind and his position. The fact that he was a negro did not bother him. WHAT TOOK HIM TO PARIS. When he discovered that he had talent for drawing he set about developing it, and he has never stopped in his efforts to accemplish something worth while. When he painted all the scenery about his doorway he went into other parts of the city and sought new matter to work upon. When again his field became exhausted he left Pittsburg and went into the far south, where new subjects were furnished him. Then he grew needful of still newer things for his fertile mind and deft fingers to work upon, and he went to faraway Paris, where race prejudices are lost sight of in the struggle for supremacy among the geniuses of the world. Among that mad crowd of hungry foreigners that throng the art marts of the great French city young Tanner. the negro, took his place with brush and palette and gave the world a demonstration of his talent. That the French government voluntarily picked from among the bulky pile of paint and canvas his "Resurrection of Lazarus" and gave it a place of honor in the Luxembourg collection, which is the finest in the world, is an indication that there was something in the work. His brother artists told young Tanner when his picture was purchased by the government that he had reached the top round of the ladder of fame, but the negro boy wanted to bring up another section and increase the height of the ladder if he had so soon reached the summit. He painted more pictures and the world of art gave them a cordial reception. He was awarded a gold medal for his talents by the French government, and then he returned home to Pittsburg. For the encouragement of the literary aspirants of the young of our race, we will offer three prizes to the young ladies or gentlemen sending in the most interesting stories. First prize to be of considerable value. The competition will be open to any one, High School or College Students or members of Literary Associations, etc. The number of contestants will be limited from fifty to two hundred. The story must not exceed seven thousand word All persons desiring to enter the contes will send in their names at once. All tories must be in by the 22nd, of Feb. The names of contestants will appear in our columns the mo ent the names are sent in, every one is invited to take part. e will publish the articles offer as prizes later. The Jeweler and where the articles will be exh bited. Address Story Compition, AMERICAN CITIZEN, 135 Minnesota Ave., Kansas City, Kan. The prize Story will be published in crials in the AMERICAN CITIZEN. AMERICAN C KANSAS CITY KAN., FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 12, 1900. GRAND PRIZE. GREAT JUNK SHOP. Office 811 H ekory Street, Kansas City, Mo. IRON YARDS CORNER 8th. AND HICKORY. Iron, Rags, Bottles and Metals. Cash paid for scrap iron, rags, bottles and metals. Wholesale and Retail dealer in junk. Here's the p'ace where you can get correct weight and square dealing. SAM'L. DIGGS. SATURDAY. The last day of our Anniversary s the lot, for we will cut the prices th Boys Caps, worth from 20 to 35c; your choice, 10 Cents. Men's Caps, worth from 25 to 75c; your choice, 15 Cents. Ladies' Heavy Shoes, button, sizes 3 to 5, worth $1.50 to $2 00, 60 Cents. All our line of Ladies' 5c. Handker- chiefs, 3 1-2 Cents. Boys' blue or tan Underwear, 25 cts. kind, small sizes. 17 Cents. THE SUNFL BENNET THE SUNFLOWER STORE, BENNETT & CO. OTA AVE., KANS 435, MINNESOTA AVE.. EAGERS Gem Dru MINNESOTA DE DRUGS, MEDIC Fine Toilet Soaps, Brus PERFUMERY AND FAN W. B. RA m Drug St MINNESOTA AVENUE DEALER IN, DRUGS, MEDICINES, CHEMICAL et Soaps, Brushes, Combs, Et HERY AND FANCY TOILET ART B. RAYMO DRUGS, MEDICINES, CHEMICALS, Fine Toilet Soaps, Brushes, Combs, Etc., PERFUMERY AND FANCY TOILET ARTICLES. W. B. RAYMOND Manufacturer of and Wholesale dealer in UNDERTAKERS * SUPPLIES FIRST-CLASS CARRIAGES FOR ALL PURPOSES AT ALL HOSPITALS AMBULANCE FOR THE CONVEYANCE OF THE SICK AND Undertaking Rooms, 431 Minnesota ave. Telephone W Factory Cor st St., and Riverview Ave. ARTAKERS * SUPP CARRIAGES FOR ALL PURPOSES AT ALL H FOR THE CONVEYANCE OF THE SICK AN Rooms, 431 Minnesota ave. Telephone W Factory Corr St. , and Riverview Ave. UNDERTAKERS * SUPPLIES FIRST-CLASS CARRIAGES FOR ALL PURPOSES AT ALL HOURS. AMBULANCE FOR THE CONVEYANCE OF THE SICK AND WOUNDED Undertaking Rooms, 431 Minnesota ave. Telephone West 32. Factory Cor st St., and Riverview Ave. Telephone 28 KANSAS CIT! KANSAS 1512 NORTH FIFTH STREET, KANSAS CITY, KS. THE AMERICAN Restaurant and Boarding House MRS. R. P. TYLER, -- PROP gaurantees the best 10c Meals in the city. She also boards by day or week. Board and Lodging $3, and $3,50 per week. Her bed and and rooms are nice and clean. She is a fine cook a l a No.1. House Keeper. 811, Hickory Street. Men's Linen Collars, lay down or standing, worth 10c. to 15, 4 Cents. Men's Suspenders, worth 15 to 25c; your choice. Extra large honeycomb Towels, our regular 10c. ones, 5 Cents. Our regular 89c. Comforts,good quality, 69 Cents. 50c. sample Corsets, all size 21, 25 Cents. POWER STORE,] T & CO. g Store AVENUE COLLER IN, NES, CHEMICALS, mes, Combs, Etc., BY TOILET ARTICLES. RYMOND, SUPPLIES PURPOSES AT ALL HOURS. PICE OF THE SICK AND WOUNDED ave. Telephone West 32. and Riverview Ave. Telephone 28 KANSAS. Drug at the ug Company SEET, KANSAS CITY, KS. MERICAN Boarding House , -- PKOP the city. She also boards by and $3,50 per week. Her bed. She is a fine cook a1 a No. 1. Kansas City Kan KANSAS CITY, KS CITIZEN Our business maniger has cricvdde-letter from Mr. Kronberg, under whose management the worlds fairous Pianist, Padeiwiski, will appear in Kansas City, offering a few select seats to the colored people at a moderate price, and in a desirable location in the great Convention Hall, on the night of the great pianiste recital, Feb. 28th. A special stage will be erected in the center of the ball building and every one will be able to see and hear. We as a race are possessed of much musical ability and will doubless appreciate that finishe of the art represented by Paderwiski, the greatest of the world's pianists. Ladies or gentlemen desiring to ac company a select party for desirable seats, will please send names to ANDERSON. American Citizen. 335 Minnesota ave nue. Kansas City, Kas. $1,400 ROBERY IN KANSAS CITY MO. Patrolman Drevitts found on his Main street beat Monday morning a hole had been stove into Hershorn's Millinery store at 1117 Main street. It was also found that rings and other goods stolen brought the loss up to nearly $1,500. E. H. Phelps, real estate agent, 2110 Woodland avenue, Kansas City, Mo. reported to the Police that his house had been entered and robbed of silverware and wearing apparels worth about $300. This is the second time the house has been entered within three weeks. The first time, Dec. 21st., '99, when $150 in money and jewelry was taken. TOPEKA LOCALS. Dr Shaulet is Indispensed this week. Mrs J. M. Johnson has been on the sick list this past week. The Oak Leaf Club meets with Mrs Dr Davis at the Chiles Hotel Wednesday afternoon. Mrs Mary Cooper Died Saturday mourning at her home in High-land Park: and was buried Sunday. Rev. Mr. Palmer of Lincoln Neb. is expected to conduct a series of meeting at the St. Johns A.M.E. Church next week. The Go'den Rod Club met Friday afternoon with Miss Lizzie Spaulding at 1207 Buchannan st. Rev. J R. Ransom who has been confined to his room for over a week is reported much better. The Ladies Sewing circle met with Mrs Andrew Jordan Wednesday afternoon, quite a number of members and friends were present. EDITORALS We learn that I. B. Blackburn, is a candidate for councilman in the third ward. George McClelan is favorably mentioned, as a candidate for Constable, of the North Side City Court. Quite a stir is going in the second ward, as to the desire of putting a colored candidate in the field for councilman. The names of D. W. Whith, E. F. Henderson, and George A. Dudley are prominently mentioned. POLITICAL PERSECUTION Senator Morgan of Ala., made a bitter attack upon our race, in the U. S. Senate on the 8th of January. It behooves us to study the situation. In his discussion of the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the Constitution, he said that the attempt to place the black race into social, and political equality with the white race, was only to clog the progress of all mankind. The speech was manifestly a defense of the conduct of those Southern States which had enacted oppressive legislation to disfranchise the Negro It was an effort to palliate the wrong committed upon our people, almost defenseless when it is considered that in the south the blocks stand no show before the courts in a contest between the two races. Robbed of his political rights, and PR E TWOCENT privileges, reduced to the object position of menials, the colored man is indeed an object of pity to the civilized world. When a party leader dares to defend such wrongs openly, and justify such conduct in the very temple of justice, — the legislative department of the government, what may the If ever there was a time when every Negro should consider his present status, and willingly sink all personal difference, and labor for the best interest of his people, that time has come we would not be understood as attempting to defend our people in the wrong but all that we ask is justice in the south or elsewhere where oppression guides us down. we are not responsible for our Color Almighty God gave that to us. And we have only to remind the political Pharoahs that there is a day of retribution when every nation kindred and people will answer at the bar of a just Goo. A PASTOR AND WIFE SURPRISED Rev. and Mrs. E Arlington Wilson of the Metropolitan Baptist church, were most agreeable surprise by their congregation, Saturday night. December 23. '99. The happy band was led by Mrs. Mary Jennings and Mrs. Anna Hubborn. The entire party formed a chorus with Mr. C. Patterson, chorister. A number of selections was sung which aroused the Pester and brought him to the door. In came the enthusiastic band of donors with songs, Amens, and etc. As soon as seats were forwarded, Mr. T.S. Brooks arose and delivered a short address which was received with applause response by Mrs. Wilson. Appropriate remarks were made by Mr. J.J.Thomas. The merry crowd then dispersed leaving behind tokens of their affections as follows.—Sack of flower Mr and Mrs. G. W. Hubbard. Two cans of tomatoes, paaches, package of Uneeded Biscuits Mrs. Mary Jennings, Potatoes, chicken, can blackberries, glass of jelly and sugar by and Mrs William Miller. Uneeda ginger- wafers, oysters, package of coffee and money by Mr. and Mrs. S.L. Johnson. One pound of butter by Fannie Johnson. One can of tomatoes and can corn by Mrs. Anna Anderson. One jar of chow chow little James Hubbard. Three cans of corn by Miss. Luzzie Bagg. Cabbage and dried peaches by Mrs. Priscilla Thomas. Tomatoes by Mrs. Alice Anderson. Peaches Mrs. Walter Paynes. Sugar by E.L. Olive and wife. Peaches by Mrs. Priella Clay. Dresser scarf'd dried peaches apples apricots 'pares figs and prunes by Mr. and Mrs J.J. Thomas and Mrs. L. Paey. Roast, two cakes, cup and saucer by Mrs. Caroline Scales, Two cans of corn Mr. and Mrs J. M. Stovall. Plums and peaches Miss. Dollie triffin. Can of table syrup Mrs. Louvinia Straitor. Two cans of corn by Rawland Fitzherd. Three cans of tomatoe and can of table syrup by Sewing Circle Package of raisins and sugar by Mrs and Mrs Jesse. Williams. two cuns corn, peaches and duck, by Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Smith, 50c. in money by Mr. and Mrs. Taylor Jackson, dozen eggs by Mr. and Mrs. Bert Cunningham, broad, pies, jar of blackberries by Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Clark. GIFTS RECEIVED AFTER SUPRISE. Nuts, fruits, candies and chain bracelet, by Mr. and Mrs. John Scales and son, hardkerchiefs, book and toilet soap, by little Stella Saunders, handkerchief, by Mrs. Precilla Thomas, set or nut pickers, Miss D. B. Thomas, handkerchiefs, socks, neckties, and nuts, by Rev. and Mrs. Edwards. Pastor Wilson, wishes to extend a cordial invitation to his friends to call as often as they desire by way of surprise call. Among the presents given in the surprise was a large turkey given by the following families Messrs, Mesdames Peebles, Patterson, Beasly. Anderson, Hubbard Cunningham, and Moor. The Kansas City Dramatic Club entertains the Attucks at their next meeting in the auditorium of the Lincoln High School, Jan. 25th. A special programe is being prepared. Miss Maud McComack, of the Western University of Quindaro returned from holiday vacation last week, having passed the time in Norborne, Mo., where her father, Rev. McCormick, has his charge. Miss Dora Thwaits, Rosedale's fair schoolmistress, was conspicuous in a new becoming costume at the Metropolitan service Sunday. AMERICAN CITIZEN PUBLISHING AND PRINTING CO. Daily and Weekly 235 Minnesota Ave. KANSAS CITY KANSAS Daily delivered by carrierper week. 10c. Weekly one year..... $1 50 Entered at the postoffice at Kansas City Kans as second class matter. LET US Throw away the rag you are chewing Either fish or cut the bait. —Chicago Tribune. Everybody should subscribe for the AMERICAN CITIZEN, daily and weekly. PUBLICATION NOTICE. State of Kansas. } ss. Wyandotte County. } ss. In the District Court for said County. Francis B. Anderson, Plaintiff, vs. Green B. Anderson, Defendant Green B. Anderson, Greeting. You will take notice that on the 14th, day of October, 1899, plaintiff filed her petition in the above case praying that the decree of divorce entered in the case of Green B. Anderson and Francis Anderson, on the 13th, day of July, 1899, be vacated and set aside because the same was obtained by you by fraud. Now, unless you on or before the 16th day of January, 1900, answer demur or otherwise object to the said petition, the allegations there will be taken as confirmed by you to be true and judgment returned accordingly. FRANCIS ANDERSON, Atttest. Plaintiff. Publication Notice In the Court of Common Please in Wyandotte County, Kansas. Thomas S. Booker, Piaintiff, vs. John Doe and Dilicia Roe, whose true names is unknown. Defendants. To the above named defendants you and each of you will hereby take notice that you and each of you have been sued in the above named court, and that unless you appear and plead in the above entitled cause on or before the 15th days of December, A. D., 1899, the allegations in the petition herein filed will be taken as true, and judgment will be rendered the nature of which will be a decree dispersing and removing a cloud upon the plaintiff's title to lots thirteen and fourteen, in block eighty eight, in the former city of Wyandotte, now a part of Kansas City, in Wyandotte county, Kansas, according to the plan of Wyandotte city, made by John H. Miller, and published by the Wyandotte City Company, which said cloud exists by reason of an improvident and untrue statement made in a certain petition filed in the P. e Court of Wyandotte County, Kans., by one C. Patterson, for the appointment of an administrator of the estate of the said Felix D. Ewing, deceased, on or about February,1888, the said Felix D Ewing having died intestate, which said movident and untruthful se cut at large in the petition herein filed, and quieting the title of said plaintiff to the above described property to wit declaring him the sole and only heir ataw of the said Felix D. Ewing at the time of his demise, on or about February 13th, 1888, and for cost out. By I. F. BRADLEY, his Attoreey Secure Tickets ...VIA THE... Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Ry ...AND YOU GET... Sleepers & Chair Cars ...TO... CHICAGO and all intermedsate points The shortest, quickest and bes illite to Chilocothe, Ot- tumws, Cedar Rapids, Dubnque, and La Crosse and Cedar Rapids, Rockford and Freewort: 22nd St. and Grand Ave. Take Westport Cable. City Ticket Office, 915 Main street, Ridge Building. A. B. BRIDGES Gen'l. Southwester Agent F. J. LERCH Passenger Agent. Office 915Main St. Kansas City D. A. WYNNE Boot Shoe MAKER. ll kinds of neat, first class repairing done. Work warranted and patronage solicited. No. 309, Minnesota Avenue KANSAS CITY. KANSAS. In the District Court of Wyandotte County, Kansas. The Bellows Falls Savings Bank. Plain tiff, vs. Willie H. Consal, Effie Consal, Fred A. Miller & Company, New England Loan & Trust Company, Otto T. Bannard, Receiver of the New England Loan & Trust Company, the Real Estate Trust Company, of Philadelphia, Penn. Trustee, The Quivira Investment Company: John T. Parks and Eleanor T. Parks, Minors, Wm L. Priestly, Guardian of John T. Parks and Eleanor T. Parks, Minors. State of Kansas to Willie H. Consal, Effie Consal, Fred A. Miller & Co., New England Loan & Trust Company, Otto T. Bannard, Receiver of New England Loan & Trust Co., The Real Estate Trust Company of Philadelphia, Penn., Trustee, John T. Parks and Eleanor o T. Parks, minors. You are hereby notified that the plaintiff above named has brought suit against you, and filed his petition against you together with other defendants in the above entitled court, and that you must answer the petition aforesaid filed against you, on or before the 16th. day of February, 1900, or said petition will be taken as true and judgment accordingly rendered against you as follows: First. A personal judgment against Willie H. Consalu and Effie Consalu upon the note and mortgage set out in plaintiff's petition, for $4,000 with interest at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum from the first.day of August, 1896. Second—That the mortgage set out in plaintiff's petition be declared a lien upon the south half of the following described tract of land in Wyandotte County, Ks., to-wit: Commencing at the southeast corner of lot "A" in Irving Place, an addition to Wyandotte City, now Kansas City, Kansas, as shown by the record plat thereof, and running thence west one hundred and twenty (120) feet, thence north ninety-seven (97) feet, thence east one hundred and twenty feet, thence south ninety-seven feet to the place of beginning. The same being forty-eight and one half (48½) feet by one hundred and twenty (120) feet in the southeast corner of said lot "A," of Irving Place, for the amount of the aforesaid judgment, prior and superior to the lien or interest of any on the above named defendants, and that the mortgage set out in plaintiff's petition be foreclosed, and the aforesaid lands and tenements be sold without appraisement, according to law, and the proceeds of said sale be brought into court and applied, first, to the payment of the costs of said sale and this suit. Second, the paym ent of the aforesaid judgment, together with interest thereon, and the residue, if any, be held subject to the further order of said Court in the premises, and that from and after said sale and the confirmation thereof, all the above named defendants and each of them, or any person or persons claiming under, by or through them, or any of them, be forever barred and foreclosed from any right, title or interest in or to the aforesaid premises, or any part thereof. When wanting something to eat and a place to rest your weary bones call at the Empire House 335 Minn. No. 6, State Line, K. C. K. Does all kinds of Boot and Shoe work. He does first class hand work, and also has one of the very latest and best Shoemaker's machine and guarantees the best and the cheapest work in the quickest time Give him a trial and see for you elf. MASONIC LODGES Golden Leaf No. 6 Regular sessions firs) and third Tuesday of each Month at 2 P. M. Mrs: Annie Madison M. A M. Mrs. Bertha Carroll Sec. Queen Esther Tabernacle, Independent Order of Knights of Tabor and Daughters of Tabernacle No. 62. Meets every first and third Tuesday nights corner 5th and Main streets, Kansas City. Mo. MRS. R. P. TYLER, C. P. S. M. T. Gilbert Temple, No. 97. Meets at 6th and Charlott streets the 1st and 3rd Saturdays of each month at 1:30 p. m. MRS. A. THATCHER, M. W MRS. L. COLEMAN, V. P. MISS O THATCHER, See'y Lilly of the Valley Taberacle No. 56 meets at 6th and Charlott streets every 1st and 3rd Frid. yt each month M. E. BROWN C. P. MARY McEARLY, V. P. A. McCAMPBELL C. N. SPRANGLE & RICHARDSON, COAL, WOOD AND ICE. All orders filled promptly. Patronage solicited. No 929 Independence ave. KANSAS CITY. MO FINE JEWELRY LOOK INTO J.A. WILSON'S Show window, and if you want bargains in Mines, Clocks or Jewelry of a house or to make Christmas presents of, step inside a market. J. A. Wilson is Kansas City's Pioneer Negro Jeweler" and is found at 1616 W. 9th st., Kansas Power house. Watches, Clocks and Jewelry of a clothing. Persons from a distance will have the made. A MERRY Christmas to WE HOPE EVERYBODY WILL HAVE We more the merrier to others as well as yourselves. RELIABLE Shoe dealers, F. E. Arend, southeastern avenue, and buy a pair of those fine Shoes he desires that Beat the Market any day in this city for the celebrated Douglass St. Us Up To You And Why Shouldn't it be When ARK Furniture Co. —SELLS— s, Furniture, C DRAPERIES and everything else in the se Furnishing CASH OR ON TIME. 53. 624, 626, Minnesota Avenue, K Watches, Clocks or Jewelry of any Sort, For your own use or to make Christmas presents of, step inside and buy at prices to suit your pocket. Remember that J. A. Wilson is Kansas City's Pioneer Negro Jeweler, is known as "The Reliable Jeweler" and is found at 1616 st., Kansas City, Mo., opposite old cable power house. Watches, Clocks and Jewelry repaired correctly. Bargains in everything. Persons from a distance will have their car fare refunded if purchases are made. Christmas to All. WL CORPORAL BROOKLYN MADE BUT, it will be more the merrier to others as well as yourself, if you will stop in at the OLD RELIABLE Shoe dealers, F. E. Arend, southeast corner of Fifth and Minnesota avenue, and buy a pair of those fine Shoes he is selling at Prices that Beat the Market any where. So'e agent in this city for the celebrated Douglass Shoe. Just drop in de for yousef. Its Up To You! Telephone W. 53. 624, 626, Minnesota Avenue, Kansas City, Kas. READ THE American Citizen, Daily and Weekly. American Citizen The only Ice Cream Parlors in the two Kansas Cities where you can get the Special attention paid to Churches, Lodges and parties. Ice Cream, wholesale, 75 to 90 cts. per gallon. Don't fail to give us a call. Corner 6th, and State streets, KANSAS CITY The Best Goods, the Quickest Sales, the Smallest Profits and the promptest deliveries. GET THEIR PRICES ON COAL, WOOD, FEED, FLOUR, and BUILDIN STONE, Wholesale and Retail. Office 402, Minnesota Ave. Tel. 152 West. Yard and Storage 917 and 919 No:th 3rd St. E. F. HENDERSON Manager. Perfumes, Soaps, Stationary, Hot Sodas. Everything to be found in first class house. See our Holiday display. Northeast Corner Sixth St, and Minnesota Ave. elephone West 122. KANSAS CITY, KANSAS PREMIER GROCER (Successor to Metcalf & Merrill.) Groceries and Meat —At the lowest prices and best quality in the city Everything in quantity and variety. —Special attention to— HOLIDAY SUPP. 606 Minnesota Ave., opposite Post Office. "Well, this is the first daily Negro paper I've ever seen I really enjoy reading it. Everybody ought to read it. Only 10 cents per week." "Well, this is the first daily Negro paper I've ever seen I really enjoy reading it. 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For full information in regard to low rates time, etc., call on or address J. B. FRAWLEY Gen Agt., Union Pacific, 1000 Main ee. K. K. City, Mo Stringer Lodge No. 14 meets on the 1s. and 3rd. Thursday nights of each month, at the M. & O. hall, at eight o'clock p. m. N. OSCAR BRYANT, C. C. MOSES BALARD, K. of R. & S. LINCOLN Lodge No. 9, o K. P., see on the second and fourth Monday night at their hall, 1734 Grand avenue. at 8 o'clock p. m. Visiting brethren welcome. JOHN S CANNON. Queen Ester Court No. 43. I. O. I Kansas City Mo., meets at their Hall no 9th. and Main streets at 2 o'clock p.m., on the 1st and 3rd Mondays of each month. Mrs. Julia Smith M. B R Davis Chron. S. SHANNON. J. W. WHEELEER. C C. and Meats and best quality in the city. and variety. attention to SUPPLIES e joy night. ents THE LADIE AUNLIARY ASSOCIATION St. Paul No. 1, meets at Summit st Christian church. 21st. and Summit. every Saturday, at 2 P.M. Mrs. F. C. MARSHALL. Pres. Mrs. LULA LILLARD. Sec'y. St John. No 2, meets at 14-16 Vine street, Mondays, at 2 P.M. Mrs. Annie Edwards, Pres., Mrs. Ada Graham, Sec St. Matthews, No. 3, meets every Sat urday at their hall, 1416 Vine street, at 2 P.M. Annie Lewis, Prest., Miss Irene McAfee, Secretary. Ruth. No. 6, meets at 1416 Vine st., Thursdays, at 7 P.M. Mrs. Pinky Williams, Prest., Mrs. Mosby, Sec'y. Rohe, No. 9, meets at No. 1416 Vine st., Fridays, at 7 P. M. Mrs. Amanda Macafee, Prest., Miss Irene Johnson, Sec'y St. Luke, No. 4, meets on the 2nd. and 4th. Thursdays of each month at 1416 Vine street. Miss Owens, President. Neomia meets at 1614 Vine street Tuesday of each month Elizabeth meets on the first and third Monday nights at 1614 Vine street. St. Marks, No. 5, meets Saturdays, at 1614 Vine street. Mrs. Carphew Prest., Miss Laura Wells, Sec 4 Sunshine No. 12 meets every Wednes day in the afternoon at 21st. and Sum mit streets. Mrs. D. M. WEST, Prest. MRS. LENA COBBS, Sec'y LON McADAMS, THE UP-TO-DATE BOOT AND SHOE MAKER ALL WORK FIRST CLASS AND GUARANTEED, Made to Order Goods Es pecially. No. 348 Mianesota Avenue. KANSAS CITY, KANSAS S. SHANNON. Phone West 155. Half a Bottle Cured Me "About thirty years ago I bought a bottle of Ayer's Hair Vigor to stop my hair from falling out. One-half a bottle cured me. A few days ago my hair began to fall out again. I went to the medicine shelf and found the old bottle of Hair Vigor just as good as when I bought it." — J. C. Baxter, Braidwood, Ill., Sept. 27, 1899. Keeps Thirty Years Ayer's Hair Vigor is certainly the most economical preparation of its kind on the market. A little of it goes a long way. And then, what you don't need now you can use some other time just as well. It doesn't take much of it to stop falling of the hair, restore color to gray hair, cure dandruff, and keep the hair soft and glossy. There's a great deal of good and an immense amount of satisfaction in every bottle of it. $1.00 a bottle. All druggista. Write the Doctor If you do not obtain all the benefits you desire from the use of the Vigor, write the Doctor about it. A. AYES, Lowell, Mass. Paderewski KANSAS CITY, MO., THURSDAY EVENING, February 8th, 1900. RAILROADS WILL MAKE RATES FOR TEN OR MORE. Reserved Seats only $1.00, $1.50 and $2.00. Boxes $15.00. Sale of scats opens Monday, January 8, at U. P. ticket office, Kansas City, Mo. Mail orders will receive prompt attention. NOTE—A Stage Will be erected in the center of the hall so that all can see and hear him. S. KRONBERG, Local Mgr. AMERICA'S MOST POPULAR RAILROAD Chicago & Alton R.R. PERFECT PASSENGER SERVICE BETWEEN KANSAS CITY CHICAGO. KANSAS CITY ST. LOUIS. ST. LOUIS CHICAGO. Direct connections at terminals and at junction points with through trains of connecting lines for ALL POINTS EAST. NORTH. SOUTH. you are contemplating a trip, any portion of which can be made over the Chicago & Allon. It will pay you the highest for maps, pamphlets, rates, time tables, etc. A HILTON General Agriculture Department, Grand Junction Ticket Office, North, Mahn and Delaware St. KANSAS CITY, MISSOUIL FARMS WESTERN CANADA FREE MILLIONS of acres of choice agricultural for settlement in Western Canada Hera is grown the celery WHEAT, which brings the highest price in the markets of the world; thousands of cattle are needed for market without being fed grain and secure a free home in Western Canada Write the Superintendent of Immigration, Ottawa or address the undersigned, who will mail the pamphlets, etc. free of cost. Mahn Crawford, 24 W. 10th St. Meat smoked in a few hours with KRAUSERS' LIQUID EXTRACT OF SROKE. Made from bickory wood. Cheaper, cleaner, sweeter, and super than the old way. Send for circular. E. KRAUSELL & BLOO, Milton, Pa. Have You a Horse and Wagon? Our Automatic Carpet Stretcher and Tacker Sells itself. Works on an entirely new principle. Operator stands in stretching and tacking carpet. Can stretch and tack two thicknesses. Stretcher draws your weight with the carpet. Don't pound fingers or wear outknees. Drives 40 tacks per minute. Every 10-minute guaranteed. Special prices to get a 20-minute guarantee. Express paid. Columbia Tucker & College, New York. Write further, call on Sir, Wood Cox. Splendish seller. Other Spec. One apron sold 24 sketches in three days. New is time to take others. Godard, Allen Co., $45. State St., Boston, W. CECIL RHODES AS HE AP- PEARS TO STEAD. Painting South Africa Red—That Is the Life Object of the Millionaire Diamond King—Said to Be a Socialist at Heart. A character sketch of Cecil Rhodes, by Mr. W. T. Stead, appears in a current magazine article, and makes particularly interesting and timely reading at the present moment. Mr. Stead prefaces what he has to say with the following note: "It is my strange fate at this moment to occupy a position that is almost absolutely unique in its combination of incompatibilities. I am the uncompromising opponent of the war which is now raging in South Africa. At the same time I have been, and am still one of the most devoted of all the J. CECIL RHODES. Friends of Mr. Rhodes. Most of my Rhodesian friends cannot understand why I should oppose the war, and the friends of peace are equally at a loss to understand how it is that, detesting the war as I do, I should persist in my regard and admiration for Cecil Rhodes. Possibly when they read this sketch both parties may be better able to understand my position, and it may help some of those who have been misled into ignorant denunciation of the personality of a man they know nothing about to understand some of the reasons why those who know him best believe in him most." Of Rhodes in South Africa, Mr. Stead says, in part: Cecil J. Rhodes, a dozen years ago, was unknown outside the narrow confines of the Cape Colony. Gen. Gordon, who had been in South Africa, had met him there sixteen years ago, and formed so high an estimate of his character that when he started on his heroic mission to the Soudan in 1884, his first act was to telegraph to Mr. Rhodes, asking him to accompany him to Khartoum. Mr. Rhodes was then treasured of the Cape Colony, and so he was unable to accept Gen. Gordon's invitation. Had it been otherwise, the recent history of Africa, both Norrum and South, would have to be rewritten; for the life of one of these men and the death of the other are the two great factors which at this hour dominate the destinies of Africa. It is well to approach the study of Mr. Rhodes from the standpoint of Gen. Gordon's invitation to Khartoum. The ordinary standpoint from which Mr. Rhodes is judged is that of the financier or the politician. Those who look at him from either the Stock Exchange or Downing Street never discover the key to the strangely complex character, which is the fascination of his friends and the despair of his enemies. If you want to understand Cecil Rhodes, it is necessary to begin by remembering that Gen. Gordon knew him well and trusted him absolutely. Gen. Gordon was the Bayard of our generation. "No more absolutely selfless man ever served his country and his queen." Yet this man was the friend of Cecil Rhodes. Gordon knew him, believed in him and trusted him so much that in the supreme moment of Gordon's career when he took his life in his hand and fared forth to the post of duty—and as the result proved, of death—at Khartoum, his first thought was to send for Rhodes—Rhodes, who was not even a soldier or a diplomatist, and who had no experience whatever of the problems of the Soudan. Gordon, however, who was a keen, shrewd judge of men, knew Cecil Rhodes to be a man after his own heart. And I, who knew both men, can well understand the secret of his confidence in Rhodes. Cecil Rhodes is at this moment, notwithstanding his temporary eclipse after the unfortunate affair of the Jameson raid, the greatest personage in the British empire, bar two; the greatest man bar one. The queen and the queen's prime minister, Lord Salisbury, alone tower above the African empire builder in the estimation of the world, both within and without Greater Britain. After Mr. Rhodes, Mr. Chamberlain is a bad fourth. But Mr. Rhodes is so much greater than Mr. Chamberlain that he could afford to accept the odium of a parliamentary censure in order to save Mr. Chamberlain from an exposure which would have extinguished his political career, and to emerge practically unaffected by his sacrifice. It is not necessary here to introduce any detail as to the way in which Mr. Rhodes built up his fortune. It did not probably differ much from the methods in which other millionaires have made their ples. A fortunate selection of diamondiferous soil was the beginning of it all, followed up by patient manual toil in the digging and the washing of the dirt. Then when enough had been found to constitute a nucleus of a fortune, there began the speculation in buying and selling claims which goes on without ceasing in every mining camp. Young Rhodes was very fortunate in his financial operations. By degrees it became evident that he was coming to the top. The Jews there, as elsewhere, proved too many for the Gentiles. But there was one Gentile whom they could neither circumvent nor overcome. Ultimately, when the time came for the great amalgamation of all the various interests engaged in the diamond fields in one great trust or combine, Mr. Rhodes stood forth as the amalgamator, and the colossal De Beers company is the monument of his success. As the essential thing to aim at in an estimate of the man is his character, rather than the precise detail of his work. I relegate to a footnote the figures describing the capital, dividend, and operations of the De Beers company. It is the largest diamond-producing company in the world. Since its amalgamation in 1885, it has supplied the world with diamonds, which sold wholesale brought in no less a sum than £40,000,000. This, however, is by no means the chief distinction of the De Beers concern. It is chiefly notable because in its charter, or articles of association, Mr. Rhodes was able to secure the insertion of a proviso authorizing the directors to appropriate from time to time such funds as they deemed it advisable to set apart out of profits for political or imperial purposes. It was introduced by Mr. Rhodes, and assented to by his fellow-directors and shareholders solely out of deference to him. It was one of Rhodes' fads, they said; let him have his way. So he had it—as is his wont. They gave in to the commanding genius of their colleague, dominated by his will rather than convinced by his arguments. For Mr. Rhodes is far in advance of his class in realizing the responsibility of the millionaire for the stewardship of his millions. It is the curious fortune of Mr. Rhodes to be the special mark for the attacks of the Socialists of the baser order, and of those Radicals who are delighted to join in the hue and cry against any one whom the Socialists dislike. But if the Socialists did but know the man as he is, they would elect him honorary president of their association. He alone, so far as I know, among the millionaire class not only accepts the doctrines of the state socialist in theory, but acts upon them in practice. He is not a man of phrases. He is a man of deeds. He is reputed to be a rich man. It is true that he has the control of millions. But I seldom knew a rich man who had less ready cash. If any one were to give Mr. Rhodes a million sterling today he would not have a penny of it tomorrow. As soon as he gets money, he spends it or invests it in the service of the imperial idea. The Socialist, no doubt, would demur as to the wisdom of Mr. Rhodes' selection of the object on which the money should be spent. But that is a detail. The essential unity of idea on the part of Mr. Rhodes and the Socialist is that both absolutely agree that the money should not be spent upon self,and should be employed solely for the benefit of the community. Mr. Rhodes sees the community on its imperial side. The Socialist naturally confines his attention to the social side. But both are alike in believing that it is in the service of the community, and not in the building up of great fortunes for a family, that wealth should be employed. KRUGER'S. IRISH COACHMAN. Joseph Carey, whose picture is here-with shown, is an Irish Boer who for many years has been the coachman for the president of the Transvaal. Carey is the most noted whip in the Transvaal and has had many adventures in South Africa, one of the most famous being his capture during a A. KRUGER'S IRISH COACHMAN. Matabele attack on a stagecoach. He made his escape by seeking cover in some thick bush and was rescued soon after by a number of English officers. Music in the Parlor. Miss Howler (who sings)—That gentleman you just introduced me to was very complimentary. He said he would give anything if he had my voice. By the way, what business does he follow? Hostess—He's an auctioneer.—Stray Stories. The sea of Gallice is 33 feet below the Mediterranean. KANSAS NOTES Sign of spring: The seed catalogues re now rolling in. A goat ranch has been established near Kingman. Ex-Governor L. D. Lewelling has been commissioned a notary pu blie. Williamsburg says her joints can't run any longer. Home-grown apples are selling in Kingman county at $1.50 a bushel. A Coolidge man lost $10 betting or the proposition that this is leap year A temperature varied in Kingman A temperance revival at Lincoln Center has netted 500 pledge signers. Antelopes are making their appearance in large droves in Western Kansas. Rockefeller is building a $20,000 house on his farm in Southwestern Kansas. A new telephone company recently formed in Atchison has 700 subscribers. There seems to be a few more pension attorneys than members of the Twentieth regiment. The chances are that the census will show that Kansas has more people now than she had in 1890. The season when the central committees feel the public pulse and make other touches is now advancing. The trust that is hardest on merchants according to the Arkansas City Traveler, is the trusting of dead beats. Owing to the sharp advance in the price of white paper, some of the Kansas papers are advancing the price of subscription. A Downs widow who was recently granted a pension of $5 a month received back pay to the amount of $1,260 Christmas week. The daughter of Mary Ellen Lease has been awarded a prize in New York for a drama called "Love Laughs at Spice Cakes." W. L. Hutchison, a member of the Twentieth Kansas, has returned to the firing line and will run a new Populist paper at Anthony. During December the Topeka post-office sold stamps to the amount of $11,785, an increase of $1,200 over the same month in 1898. Kansas will be a good place to live in whether you believe this is the end of the nineteenth century or the beginning of the twentieth. The average yield of fruit in Kansas, according to the estimates of the secretary of the Horticultural society, is worth $20,000,000. A Simeca girl, who fell from a street cur in Kansas City during the last Carnival has sued the company for $20,000 damages. The Mormon temple that is to be built in Attica will belong to a branch of the church that is opposed to the polygamous crowd. While being tried for insanity at Emporia, Charles A. Wicks addressed the court and said that he knew he was of unsound mind and that he ought to be in the asylum. He said he had spelled in which he was unkind to his mother, and that the knowledge of this made him feel pretty bad, the jury took him at his word and sent him to Topeka for treatment. Peter Anderson, the Swede of Dickinson county who went to the Klondike and got great riches, has given $10,000 to a Swedish hospital in Chicago. It was in this hospital that Anderson met the young woman who joined him in California on his return from Dawson and became his bride. Hugh I. Strait, brother of Miss Stella Strait, register of deeds in Bourbon county, went to Manila as a member of the Colorado regiment. On his return he found that a Cripple Creek mine in which he had a large interest had been yielding about $3,000 a week. Speaking of his good fortune a local paper says: "None but the brave deserve the ore." Five hundred cows are owned by the stockholders of the creamery now being built at Barnard; which ought to give it a big push, toward success. A Coffey county farmer who is very sore on sportsmen who love the gun and dog and indulge in wing shooting occasionally, and who will "never allow any hunting on the place," sneaked about four dozen quails into town and sold them in violation of law one day recently. He traps and pots the birds when the snow renders them partially helpless, and his boys hunt on the lands of all his neighbors. The musical critic of Atchison complains because all of the songs are written about roses and maidens and love and trysting places and sunsets. and never about men. Coming to it of it, though, he remembers, "Father, Dear Father, Come Home With Me Now," in which the old man gets drunk in the first verse. Kansas holds Oklahoma warrants to the amount of $43,000 for taking care of territorial convicts at the state penitentiary. Oklahoma has no "pen" and keeps her bad men at Lansing. Farmers in three Kanss县counties—Reno, McPherson and Rice—produced half the broom corn raised west of the Missouri river. Their crop sold this year for nearly $200,000. Senator Baker has been asked to secure government aid in the protection of the banks of the Missouri river near Pope. The river has cut away several hundred acres of land and carried away a half dozen farm houses and a railroad station there within the last eight years. Sixty-three cars of Marshal county corn filled the bushel measure. It weighed 32½ pounds. The combined length of the sixty-three cars was 879 inches or 73¼ feet. Visitors to the Paris exposition next year will see that bushel of corn in the Kansas department. - Missouri Valley Farmer. U. S. SENATOR ROACH Hon. W. N. Roach, United States Senator from North Dakota. Hon. W. N. Roach, United States Senator from North Dakota, personally endorses Peruna, the great catarrh cure and tonic. In a recent letter to The Peruna Medicine Company, at Columbus, Ohio, written from Washington, D. C., Senator Roach says: "Persuaded by a friend, I have used Peruna as a tonic, and I am glad to testify that it has greatly helped me in strength, vigor and appetite. I have been advised by friends that it is remarkably efficacious as a cure for the almost universal complaint of catarrh." Senator Roach's home address is Larimore, North Dakota. Peruna is not a guess, nor an experiment; it is an absolute, scientific certainty. Peruna cures catarrh wherever located. Peruna has no substitutes—no rivals. Insist upon having Peruna. Let no one persuade you that some other remedy will do nearly as well. There is no other systematic remedy for catarrh but Peruna. Address the Peruna Medicine Company, Columbus, Ohio, for a free book on catarrh, written by Dr. Hartman. AN APPEAL TO HUMANITY GENERALLY We need your assistance in announcing to the world the GREATEST REMEDY that Science has ever produced, and you need our assistance to secure relief for yourself and friends through SWAT. DROPS Read carefully what Mr. L. R. Smith, of El Dorado Springs, Mo., writes us under date of Nov. 27, 1899, also Martan Bowers, of Caraghan, Ohio, west of Ohio, 1899. I do not know how to express how wonderful I think your "5 DROPS" medicine is. I was suffering intensely with NEURALGIA and thought for a month that I would have to die. One day a lady called to me and brought me an advertisement of your "5 DROPS" medicine. 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The Best Prescription for Chills and Fever is a bottle of GROVE'S TASTILLESS CHILL TONIC. It is simply iron and quinine in a tasteless form. No cure—no pay. Price, 50c. A young man's best girl is never too good to be true. I shall recommend Piso's Cure for Consumption far and wide.—Mrs. Mulligan, Plumstead, Kent, England, Nov. 8, 1866. Savages wear nose rings. Civilized women wear ear rings. WANTED—Two traveling salesman in each southern state. Permanent position and necessary experience not absolutely necessary. Address Pocahor* as Tobacco Works Co., Bedford City, Va. As a midnight entertainer the average cat is a howling success. **Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup.** For children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, allays pain, curbs wind colic. Zoc a bottle. There is an end to all things. $-2x$ except one's desire for new things. **Attractive Booklet Sent Free.** Choice Recipes for making Cocoa and Chocolate. Address Walter Baker & Co. Ltd. Dorchester. Mass. 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It has a name of God for it. It will do very well over my body, when I get to the door to the floor without suffering great pain. Have TISM and got no relief until I got your 45 DROPS." BANTAN BOWERS, Box 83, Caragbar, Ohio, Dec. 16, 1899. PS" at feast a tral, we will send a sample bottle, prebottle will convince you. Also, large bottles (650 doses) WATED In New Territory. Don't wait! Write now! CO, 160 to 164 Lake St., Chicago, Ill. 500% situated on Galveston Bay, is destined to be the most prosperous city on the Gulf of Mexico. It is the natural seaport for the product of the entire Middle, Northern and Western states and for Houston, the great railroad center of Texas. The U. S. Government has provided for harbor improvements, Capital is flowing for wealth and influence are making investments. An investment in a town lot in La Porte will not you $30 per cent in 5 years. Write for FREE MAPS, DESCRIPTIVE BOOK and ART ILLUSTRATIONS to MERICAN LAND COMPANY, 138 Madison St., CHICAGO. RELIGION IN INDIA. Hinduism a Multiplicity of Secta — Bhattisham Fiction World Hinduism is a multiplicity of Sects — Neither a Philosophy Nor a Worship. Hinduism is not a single religion, but a huge encyclopedia of distinct and independent worship; it is not a unity either of thought or custom, but an immense multiplicity of sects and their observances. It may be described as the amalgam of all the religious ideas and usages of all the Indian peoples through all their past, says the Contemporary Review. To no two classes in no two places is it exactly the same thing. Its one permanent and distinctive feature is its social order; where caste is Hinduism, is where caste is not. Hinduism will not condescend to be. Grant this fundamental institution and it will be tolerant beyond the wildest Occidental dream of toleration. It spreads not by the conversion of individuals, but of tribes or peoples. Its anit is not the person, but the family; or the individual it has no place; with him it can do nothing and for him it does not care, but the family, or the aggregation of families, which we term caste, is to it all in all. It is more by his fulfillment of his domestic duties, his fidelity in his paternal functions and obligations, than by his ritual conformity, that a man's orthodoxy is judged. Hinduism is neither a philosophy, nor a particular worship, nor a belief, nor any specific theology, but simply caste. Of course, caste may carry with it most of these other things, but not in any uniform or authoritative shape. There are various philosophies, but they are concerns of the school; there are many worships, but they are affairs of the temple or the shrine; there are an infinity of beliefs, but they are conditioned by time and place; there are a multitude of theologies, but they belong to the sect. The one thing inviolable and universal is caste. It fixes the lines within which a man must walk, the customs he must observe, the social laws he must obey, the means by which he must earn his living. It is at once ubiquitous and invivible; has lived amid the wars and divisions of states, keeping the people one while the kingdoms were a multitude; it has continued and spread in the face of lingulistic and racial differences, and has thriven by means of the agitations and controversies that have in Europe created heresies and schisms. But the one thing caste will not allow to be touched is the family; its omnipotence lies in its power to isolate the individual and to reduce him to a condition of more absolute helplessness than could ever be experienced by any solitary in any solitude—the helplessness of living in a tembling world which has no place for him and where he is known of no man. This is a power which may grow, but which could not be made; which the conversion of individuals may do more to confirm and define than to change, and which can be dissolved only by a process as gradual and as inexorable as the process which formed it. Shoot Him on Judgment Day. "I will have to give a word or two in explanation in order to insure a thorough appreciation of this story," said J. R. Rockhill, of Chicago, at the Fifth Avenue hotel. "In the southern Illinois town where my father lives there used to be a selectman named Watkins, who had held office so long and reached so advanced an age that jokes about 'few die and none resign,' he had solved the question of living forever,' etc., were constantly applied to him. Another selectman by the name of Lindsey, who was something of a wit, was very sick and not expected to live, and while he was in this state Watkins fell ill of pneumonia, from which disease he subsequently died. A friend calling on Lindsey told him of Watkins' sickness and that his death was momentarily expected. A twinkle crept into Lindsey's eye as he whispered to his friend: 'No; Watkins won't die this time. He'll never die. They'll have to shoot him on judgment day.'"—New York Tribune. The Hat D don't Come Back. "George, George, mind; your hat will be blown off if you lean so far out of the window!" exclaimed a fond father to his little son, who was traveling with him in a railway carriage. Quickly snatching the hat from the head of the refractory youngster, papa hid it behind his back. "There, now, the hat has gone!" he cried, pretending to be angry. And George immediately set up a howl. After a time the father remarked: "Come, be quiet; if I whistle your hat will come back again." Then he whistled and replaced the hat on the boy's head. "There, it's back again, you see." Afterward, while papa was talking to mamma, a small, shrill voice was heard saying: "Papa, papa, I've thrown my hat out of the window! Whistle again, will you?" The Exiled Ranavalona One contented exile has been round in the queen of Madagascar, who certainly seems quite contented with her lot. According to the London Globe, during the course of a banquet offered at Rambouillet to M. Laferriere, governor-general of Algeria, M. Loubet asked after her majesty and inquired how she supported her exile. M. Laferriere was able to reassure the president of the republic on that account. The queen, in fact, has manifested several times to the governor-general her great satisfaction for the care and attention bestowed on her in her villa of Mustapha, which she has found to be more comfortable than her palace of Antananarivo. She reckons on coming to Paris next year to see the exhibition. About the Size of It. Hixon—Do you believe that woman is man's equal? Dixon—Well, that depends upon who the man is and who the woman is.—Chicago News. GREAT WORK OF TO-DAY IN RAISING SUNKEN SHIPS Ferryboat Chicago Lifted by Pontoons, and the Liner Macedonia to be Floated by Air Bags. THE BATTLE OF THE BAY OF FORTS THE FERRYBOAT CHICAGO, JUST AFTER SHE WAS RAISED, SHOWING THE TREMENDOUS GASH IN H.ER SIDE By a piece of skillful engineering the Pennsylvania Railroad company has recovered the ferryboat Chicago, and will rebuild her at once. It was in the early morning of Oct. 31, that the sleepy passengers on the Chicago were startled by a shrill whistling, followed almost immediately by a shock and the sinking of the boat. The City of Augusta, a Southern liner, had struck the ferryboat almost squarely amidships, and the water rushed greedily into the great wound, says N. Y. Press. Fortunately almost all the passengers were rescued before the helpless THE FERRYBOAT boat settled to the bottom, leaving only her topmost portions above water to indicate her position. The next day a wrecking company began work upon the boat, and she was turned over to the railroad company to be restored to a condition of usefulness. Although the oldest ferryboat of her line, she was a stanch steel craft, her estimated value being $100,000, so that she is amply worth the money that has been expended in raising her, plus the amount yet required to put her in shape for service. The work of raising the Chicago was of an unusual kind, and was difficult on account of the position of the wreck so close to the ferry slip, and almost in the direct path of the incoming and outgoing boats. About a week was occupied in getting up the cargo. Several wagons had gone to the bottom with the boat, and one of these, an express wagon, contained silver worth about $30,000. This and other articles were brought up by the divers. Four or five human bodies were recovered also. Then the work of lifting the Chicago began. The upper deck, smokestack and other impeding parts of the boat were cut away, so as to afford scope for the wreckers and their machinery. The first thing was to get the chains in position around the hulk, which at this time had settled into forty-three feet of mud and water. The divers began with a thick wire to make a passage under the boat,following this with a small chain and gradually working up to one $2\frac{1}{2}$ inches in diameter and weighing about eight tons. Ten of these were banded about the ferryboat, whose weight of nearly 1,000 tons was to be lifted. The lifting was done by means of pontoons, partly of the submergeable kind and partly of the ordinary sort. The latter were driven down by hydraulic jacks and lifted the boat by their buoyancy. The submergeable pontoons were filled with air. All had to work together and equally, so that there should be no more strain on one chain than on another. It was a delicate piece of work, but it was successful, and the great hulk rose slowly through the two-score feet of water, until it rested on the surface. It was found, however, that she drew too much water to be carried into the East river, where she was to go into dry dock. She was, therefore, taken up the North river to Edgewater, where she was so shoaled up so as to draw less water. That is, the pontoons were driven down, raising the boat to a corresponding degree. She was then conveyed to the navy yard and placed in dry dock, her pontoons being removed. Here the big break in her side was patched up and she was made fit for going into the water, without the help of pontoons. A few days ago she was taken from the navy yard to the Pennsylvania company's docks, in Hobo- LIFTED FERRYBOAT BEING TOWED UP THE NORTH RIVER BY THE FLOATING WRECKING VILLAGE. ken, and will be rebuilt for ferry service. Another interesting attempt to raise a sunken vessel is being made by Capt. Frederick C. Miller, who has a force of about forty men working on the Macedonia, which went down about six miles off Seabright last summer. He is using the air bags which were made for Lleut. Hobson's work in raising the Maria Theresa. Capt. Miller formerly was in command of the Red D steamship Valencia. During the Spanish-American war he commanded a dispatch boat, and at the close of the war CHICAGO, JUST AFTER SHE WAS R. bought the Catherine Whiting, which was lost in a gale last October. The bags are the same that were used by the United States government. A few went down with the Maria Theresa, but those that came back have a lifting capacity of between 1,400 and 1,500 tons. A wrecking company hired some of them not long ago for getting the Fairfax afloat near Norfolk, Va. Others have been used in Cuba. In view of what has been accomplished with the bags, Capt. Miller is sanguine of success with the Macedonia. If he does get her afloat, it will be a profitable undertaking. Already he has been offered $138,000 for her, but he says that she will be worth much more than that, especially as she will have an American register, which will add one-third to her value. She was a new vessel, one of the best of the Ward line, and the divers report that she is in excellent condition. The LIFTED FERRYBOAT BEING TOW THE FLOATING W gash made in the Macedonia by the Hamilton of the Old Dominion line was fifteen feet deep, ten feet wide at the top, and one at the bottom. The engines and the boilers are intact. The cargo, which consisted mainly of sugar and tobacco, of course, has disappeared. The insurance companies have agreed to make no claim if Capt. Miller succeeds in his enterprise. There are about thirty feet of water above the vessel, but she lies on a gravelly bottom, which favors her being get off. The weather, too, is favorable for the work, although the men have encountered one southeast gale which interfered with their efforts for a day or two. There are eighty of the air bags, most of them being 15 by 6 feet, each of which is capable of lifting about fifteen tons. They are made just heavy enough to sink in salt water. The divers carry them rolled up and place them in position in the interior of the ship, where they are inflated by air passed through a tube from a compressor on one of the lighters. The bags to be used on the outside are covered with a netting that they may be attached more readily. As the work advances toward the point where it seems probable that the boat is about to float, great caution will have to be exercised to prevent accidents. Canvas, instead of rubber, bags will be used to furnish the ultimate lifting power, and the lighters will be removed some distance, furnishing the air through long tubes. There will be no one on the wreck at the moment of floating, so that whether she comes bottom side up or any other way, no lives will be in jeopardy. To prevent the deck being torn off by the weight of the hull pulling against the upward lift of the air bags when the vessel rises above the water and is relieved of its pressure, Capt. Miller has stowed several bags in the lower RAISED, SHOWING THE TREMENDOUS hold. The water will be blown out of the boilers by means of compressed air. If successful with the Macedonia, Captain Miller will try to raise the Meverick in Hallifax harbor, by the same method, for the Standard Oil company. CHINESE CUSTOMS. The Position of Clerk No Sincure—Repulsive Beggars Met Everywhere. It is said that the life of a Chinese clerk is the embodiment of servitude. He begins his labor at daylight and continues it far into the night. It is his business on no account to set a possible customer escape, and if nothing else remains to be done, Arthur H. Smith informs us, he is set to work to look over the day's cash—as the brass coins of every-day commerce are called—to see if there is among them any ED UP THE NORTH RIVER BY RECKING VILLAGE. of peculiar value that could be sold to the curio collector. The worker of metal, the tinker of copper kettles, sets up his forge and his half-naked workmen ply their trade, like all others under the eye of the passerby. It is a mixed population, certainly, but until they are roused to demonstration a peculiarly quiet one. Beggars in filthy rags display their sores and deformities: old women even more repulsive and filthy beset you with sticks of incense, the ordinary collie in his blue cotton, thick-soled shoes, bare-headed, adds to the throng, and occasionally a man of the better class appears in garments of silk and brocade. But this rarely happens, as men of his class take their airings on their well-fed mules, in carts, or in sedu chairs. They make their purchases through intermediaries, and goods are brought to the houses. Little effort is made to decorate the bottles or shop: one or two were festooned with tassels of scarlet wool, and over another I saw a row of grotesque heads of metal supplied with long antennae of fine spiral springs capped with an acorn; these vibrated continually in the wind. Besides the people, the middle of the street is crowded with carts, donkeys, mules and horses, and with all these flocks of sheep being driven to the market-place without the gaces, and strings of camels loaded with salt or coal from the northern mines. All the coal used in Pekin which comes down from the north is brought to Pekin in this way, and as the quantity is necessarily limited, fuel—not from lack of a natural supply, but from the difficulty of transportation—is very costly. To make it last longer the coal dust is mixed with earth and water, reduced to a paste and molded in balls, which are put into the sun to dry. Much of the cooking in houses is done in stoves heated by these coal balls. The fuel question is a paramount question in China, and this, too, in the face of the fact that the coal mines in northern China are the largest in the GASH IN H ER SIDE. world. They are poorly worked, and the country being destitute of highways and railways, camels are the only means of carrying it to the markets. Wood is scarcely to be had, especially on the almost treeless plains of the north. Nothing, therefore, is wasted that can be burned; grass is tied into tight bundles for fuel, and dead leaves are used for the same purpose.—Boston Post. Troubles of Sovereigns. The sovereigns of the world are not having a good time at present. Queen Victoria, sorely against her will, was forced to consent to the war with the Boers, and so give up her hope of ending her record-breaking reign in peace, the kaiser is angry with his people and chides them for not having proper confidence in him. "Germany is in bitter need of a strong fleet. If reenforcements had not been refused me during the first eight years of my reign, in spite of my urgent requests and admonitions, while scorn and mockery even were not spared me, how differently we should be able to push our thriving trade and interests over sea! Yet the feeling for these things is only gaining ground in the fatherland, which, unfortunately, has spent strength in too much fruitless strife of factions." The amiable little Queen of Holland is anxious about the Dutch in South Africa, but Europe refuses to pay attention. The czar of all the Russias is a broken and disappointed man. The Emperor of China is appealing to his brother of Japan to save him from assassins. The King of Italy would like a bankruptcy law for monarchs. And so it goes. There are compensations in being non-regal—New York Sun. Finding Thackeray Out In Mr. Lewis Melville's recent life of Thackeray there is a diverting description of the first meeting of the great novelist and Charlotte Bronte. She had formed an ideal and expected him to live up to it, and, austere little genius that she was, was inclined to be angry with her favorites if their conversation or conduct fell below her ideal. "Behold, a lion cometh out of the north!" she whispered, as he entered the room. "O Lord!" said Thackeray, when this was repeated to him, "and I'm nothing but a poor devil of an Englishman, ravenous for my dinner!" She sat opposite to him at table. "I had," he says, "the miserable humiliation of seeing her ideal of me disappearing down my own throat, as everything went into my mouth and nothing came out of it. At last, as I took my fifth potato, she leaned across, with clasped hands and tears in her eyes, and breathed imploringy: 'O Mr. Thackeray! Don't!'." Cider is said to be fatal to the ty- cold fever bactias. "Proof of the Pudding Is in the Eating." It is not what we say, but what Hood's Sarsaparilla does, that tells the story. 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