The American Citizen

The only Daily and Weeklv Negro paper in this section of Country THE VOL 12, NO. 47 HOLDING THEIR OWN. BOTH SIDES ARE FIGHTING HARD IN SOUTH AFRICA. General Buller's March to Ladysmith Is at a Standstill—Enemy Holds Higher Ground—The Latest Dispatches From the Seat of War. London.—The following dispatch from General Buller, dated Spearman's Camp, January 23, 6:30 p. m., has been posted: "Warren holds the position he gained two days ago. In front of him, at about 1,400 yards, is the enemy's position, west of Splon kop. It is on higher ground than Warren's position, so it is impossible to see into it properly. "It can be approached only over bare open slopes, and the ridges held by Warren are so steep that guns cannot be placed on them, but we are shelling the enemy's position with howitzers and field artillery, placed on lower ground, behind infantry. "The enemy is replying with creusot and other artillery. In this duel the advantage rests with us, as we appear to be searching his trenches, and his artillery fire is not causing us much loss. An attempt will be made to-night to seize Spion kop, the salient of which forms the left of the enemy's position facing Trichard's drift, and which divides it from the position facing Potgeiter's drift. It has considerable command over all the enemy's intrenchments." General Buller's great turning movement, of which so much has been expected, has come to a standstill. His carefully worded message to the war office telling this, after a silence of two days, reads like an apology and an explanation. General Warren holds the ridges, but the enemy's positions are higher. The British artillery is playing on the Boer positions, and the Boers are replying. The British infantry is separated by only 1,400 yards from the enemy, but an approach to the steep slopes, across the bare open, would expose the British to a fearful rifle fire. General Buller's plans have reached their development. He declines to send his infantry across this zone against formidable positions by daylight, and discloses his purpose to assault the Spion kop heights during the night. This appears to be the key to the Boer defenses. If he takes it, and thus commands the adjacent country, an important and possibly decisive step will be accomplished. London.—The Daily Mail has the following, dated Sunday night, from Spearman's Camp: "There has been hot fighting all day. At dawn our attack was resumed along the entire line, all the brigades taking part. We soon discovered that the Boers still occupied the range of hills in force, their position being very strong. The range is intersected by steep ravines and many approaches very difficult of access. "To-day the Boers who were driven from their trenches yesterday took cover in dongas and behind the rocks with which the hills are strewn. The forces, therefore, commenced the task of driving them out and set to work with good heart in the early morning. Much firing took place and our progress was slow, but gradually British pluck told its tale, and the enemy fell back to another kopje. We swarmed on and occupied it, and then the attack recommenced with the utmost gallantry. "The country simply abounds in hills favorable to guerilla warfare, and our task is an arduous one. Nevertheless, it is being gradually accomplished. Whenever any of the enemy were observed taking up a fresh position, our field batteries poured in showers of shrapnel and the rapid movement of the guns, followed by accurate shooting, must have greatly distressed them. "The enemy were on the defensive almost the entire day, save once when they attempted to outflank our left and were signally checkmated. They relied almost entirely on rifle fire. A few shells were fired from a heavy piece of ordnance, but these fell harmless. "We now occupy the lower crest on the left, and are converging slowly but surely to the Boer center. The Boer loss is unknown, but must have been heavy. The killed and wounded are carried away to the rear rapidly. Strong rumors are in circulation that the Boers are retiring. The battle will be resumed to morrow. "A Boer prisoner who was brought in boasted that it would take us three months to reach Ladysmith." From Wichita to Paris on Only $4. Wichita, Kan.-John Naw and Louis Kistler have started for the Paris exposition. They took only $4 apiece and will work their way through. Rumors of a Big New York Consolidation The New York World says a consolidation of all gas, electric light and traction systems of the city under the AMERICAN C KANSAS CITY KAN., FEIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 26, 1900. TOPEKA. KANS Mrs. Ellen Huddieson, who has been confined to her room for several weeks, is slowly improving. Presiding Elder, J. R. Ransom, is able to beout again after several weeks of illness. Mrs. Georgia Saint Scere, of Galveston, Texas, has decided to make Topeka her home. Mrs. Ed. Drane entertained the Oak Leaf Club, Wednesday afternoon. The Golden Red Art Club entertained a few friends Thursday evening, January 18th, at the residence of Miss M B. Jordan. Those present were Misses K. Harris, M Bening, L. Spaulding, L. Thompson, N. Williams, C. Hancock, E. Williams, L. Phillips, E. Phillips, Lulu Smith, Carrie Johnson, Mrs. M. Chiles, Miss Arnicholas Chiles, Mrs. F. Davis and son, Messrs. C. E. DeFrantz, C. Whitaye, R. N. Tur. er, Rev. C. Peters, E. Gordon, Wm. Williams, Wm. Brooks, J. Patterson, S. P. Jordan, W. A. Jordan. After a pleasantly spent evening the Club adjourned to meet with Miss N. Hicks, Friday, Jan. 26th. THE GOVENORS VIEWS Topeka, Kan. Jan. 24. Govenor Stanley authorized an interview today in which he advocated the death penalty for premeditated murder. He expresses the belief that if the gallows had awaited the Meeks brothers at Fort Scott they would not have been lynched. "I believe" the govenor said "that punishment of murders should be left with the jury. Leach who was convicted ed in the federal court of murder. wts virtually sentence by the jury. They had liberty to select life or death for Leach, and they preferred that he expiate the crime by serving a life sentence in the penitentiary. I believe, that our present laws be changed so as to offer the same provisions to men pursued for murder in the first degree in this state. If the laws were amended so the jury in such cases would find or could find that a man was guilty of murder in the first degree, cold blooded and premeditate, I would have no hesitancy in signing the death warrant". THEY SAY. What's the matter with 'Squar' Lee for Constable? The Sea Foam Block is gaining in popularity because they have the small-pox there now. 'He will be 'His' best man and 'His' will be "He's" best man. We don't want any monkey by sines—come up strait colord gentelmen show your colors at the O.and M. Hall. It is almost time a few negroes were learning that one and one is two. The political pot is boling and some body is sure to be scalded. The negroes must be negroes and white folks will be white folks in the next election. It is going to be a double wedding and all the preparation having been made, now wait for your invitation. They both fell down the steps Ha! Ha! in the Sea Foam Block. If you want your dress to fit neat and trim go to the Dress Maker in the Sea Foam Block near the corner of 6th.St. B. J. DUNNING, The Jeweler, DEALER IN Watches, Silverware, Wedding Presents, Club Prizes, Lodge Emblems, Etc. OF ALL KINDS. A first class line of Jewelry always on display. Call and see us. 544 Minnesota Ave., Blue Front. KANSAS CITY. KANSAS. The negro's always 'burly' in the story, And the ugly little women is 'petite. The policeman's always ,big'. And the foundling at the station's always 'sweet.' The turn in the lane always come when we least expect it. EDITORIALLY Ler every colored citizen that is a man stop and consider first his importance in being a man, second, the nee s of his race. The time has arrived when negroes must quit their foolishness. If we ever expect to be a race of people it is time we were getting down to business. Old foggy notions, petty jealousies and the like should and must be laid aside. On next monday night a mass meeting of negro voters from every ward in the city is called at the M. and O. Hall. Now it is the duty of every negro voter to be there. Pack the hall from bottom to top. Let common sense and judgment rule your actions and peace and harmony pervade the hall. Remembering that together we must sweetly live, together we must die. In union there is strength. United we stand, divided we fall. We must decide on this night, at this hall, on one negro and only one to run for the offices we are after. One candidate for one office means victory, two candidates for the same office means defeat. The man who will not risk his chances before this mass meeting ought to and will be set down on by the negro voters—we want no independent candidates. A solid front—with ranks closed up. RAYMOND HARVEY, colored, who stabbed B. F. Ellet, of the Ellet Shoe Co., Kansas City, Mo., last August, was convicted Wednesday in the criminal court and sentenced to five years in the pen. Harvey claimed Ellet, the white man, insulted his wife. As is usual in such cases for lack of proof, it didn't stick. We know not the full particulars in this case, but if Harvey's wife was insulted and (we presume she is as much of a lady as any woman) Ellet should have been punished. It is the duty of every man to protect his wife if he is killed for it—let alone being sent to the pen. Geo. Walker, who was arrested last summer on the charge of attempted rape on one Miss Edna Perkins, was Tuesday found guilty. An application has been made for a new trial. We think an injustice has been wrought upon Walker by not allowing his case to be tried in another county, the prejudice existing here, caused by the undue excitement stirred up by some negro haters, did not warrant a fair trial here. Those who have followed the case closely, and there are a good many, are greatly devised in regard to his guilt. One of the witnesses, a white man, who swore falsely in order to carry points, committed suicide yesterday and it is announced that more sensations will be sprung and more ligh will yet be thrown upon this case. Walker should have a new trial. --- It is announced by the Health officials that small pox is at a standstill in Kansas City Mo., and under complete control. There is a few new cases in Kansas City Kansas, but very mild, it is to be hoped that it will be gotten under control in this city so the Negro will not be made the bone of contention and looked upon as something awfully frightful. We think that it is time for Kansas to wake up and serve the death penalty on a few of its criminals. The legislature should take this up at the next session. Missouri politics is waxing warm and the colored brother is right there. He may be ridiculed and accused of all the outlandish talk one ever heard, but he is sure going to cut a big bit in who shall be the future Mayor of Kansas City, It's zeml-Colon now. Half the 15th man city was burned. Perhaps the glare of the X ray can dare the bicycle face out of countenance. "Adieu, poke bonnets!" says the Salration Army. "All hall! poke bonnets!" mays society. The Twin Cities. Dr. S. H. Thompson was indisposed a few days this week. We are glad to note that Mrs M. C. Murphy is improving. Some of the young men who are well wishers of Douglass Hospital are making preparations for a Charity Ball for that institution to be given in the near future. Miss Emma Minor is able to be out again. Mrs J. W. Jones of 400 Oakland ave., who has been visiting in Nashville Tenn. or the past month she returned Tuesday. Mr. James F. Jackson will furnish the music at the mass meeting to be held at M. and O. Hall next Monday night. Mr Ed. Johnson will open a restaurant at 25d. and Central Ave. West. Bottoms next door to his barbour shop 23-2 Central Ave.. Mr. T. Harset of 411 Armstrang is is laid up with a very bad arm from vaxcination. Mr. Mote Graves is rapidly improving under the care of Dr.S.H.Thompson. Little A.ice Anderson daughter of Mr.and Mrs.A.A Anderson of 541 State Ave., who has beeu ill is improving. Mr.and Mrs. Johnson 407 Oaklaud Ave will remove to 333 Ninnesota Ave. Several names have been sent in for seats to the Paderewiski Recital at the Convention Hall Feb.28th. Mr Anderson has a few choice seats offered to to him by Mr. Kongberg of which he will dispose of to friends at a reasonable price.Others desiring seats please let him know. We intend issuing a reliable Negro Directory and in the preparation of the same we hope every negro business establishment whose name does not appear will send the same in, we want to treat all alike. Don't let the share of small pox keep you away from M. & O. Hall, Monday night Turn out. Let every negro in the 2nd, 3rd and 4th Wards come and act like men. We only want one negro to run for each office. We think there is a chance to win. Mr. L. Washington, whose run is to Des Moines, Iowa, reports the visit of Mrs. Lea* Mason, the famous female Evangelist, to that city. She is conducting a series of successful meetings at Rev. Lomax's church. It is said that the white people more than the colored are amongst the most enthusiastic listners. We can easily comprehend their amount of interest by our knowledge of that wonderful woman. DEATHS OF THE WEEK. Mr. Albert Alexander of 936 Everet ave. died yesterday. Mrs Margarite Parker of 529 State ave. died Wednesday night. Mrs Sarah Smith of Virginia Avenue, member of the First Baptist church died Tuesday. Miss Ella Douglass daughter of Mr. Henry and Rebecca Douglass of N. 3rd Street died last Wednesday in Butte Montana. The body arrived Wednesday evening, the funeral will be held Satuarday or Sunday afternoon. METROPOLITAN SPECIAL Collections for the first Sabbath in 1900 was $140.51. Those who contributed 50c. or more are as follows: Pastor Wilson. $1.00, C Patterson, $1.50, J. W. Smith, $1.00, Wm. Burch, 1.00, J. J. Thomas, $1.00, Mrs. Priscilla Thomas, $1.25, J. Beasly, 75c. Mrs. Cats, 50c., Mrs. F. Anderson, 50c., Mrs. Emma Taylor. $1.00, Miss Irene Taylor, $1.00, Wm. Miller, $1.00, G. W. Hubbard, $1.00, C. U. Anderson, $1.00, J. J. Pebbles, $1.00, T. S. Rooker, $1.00, J. A. Lewis, 50c., Mrs. F. Trent, 50c. Mrs. H. B. Cunningham, $1.00, Mrs. G. W. Hubbard, 50c., Mrs. J. J. Pebbles, 50c. Mrs. Ellen Stovall, 50c., Mrs. R. C. Clark 50c., Miss J. Paeu, $1.00, Mrs. L. Morgan, 50c., Mr. Jones, 75c., J. V. Brown, 50c. Many other friends and members contributed 25c, and less, but space will not allow us to publish all names who gave $2.50, etc. All means were thankfully received. The Ladies Sewing Circle gave the church $100. The President, Mrs. Anna Hubbard, and her faithful members. deserve great praise for their noble work during the past five months. Revival meetings are now in progress at the Metropolitan church. Dr. E. J. Fisher, the noted Evangelist, of Georgia will preach in these meetings. All are invited CITIZEN. NOTICE A public mass meeting of negro citizens will be held at the M. and O. Hall Monday night the 29th. Object the selection of a Councilman of Third Ward and a Constable of the North Side City Court. The drawing of the color line will also be aired. Let every negro voter in every ward in the city be present. Mr. H. Compton, the old reliable restaurant keeper and caterer, needs no flowery introduction to the citiz ns of the twin cities, he has an established reputation as being "one of the finest." A visit to his establishment will convince you that there is no exaggeration in the utterances, No. 706 E. 12th. street, the Chicago Cafe, is the place you will be treated royally and given the most palatable food that the market affords. Call once and be convinced. PUBLICATION NOTICE In the District Court of the 29th. Jud judicial District of the State of Kansas, Jacob Ricketts, Paintiff, vs. Jotham A. French and Thos. C. Foster, Defendants. To the above named defendants you and each of you are hereby notified that you have been sued in the above named court by the above named plaintiff, and that unless you appear and answer on or before the 2nd. day of March, 1900, the petition will be taken as true and judgment rendered thereon, the nature of which will be a decree foreclosing two certain mechanics liens heretofore filed upon let ninetee], in block one, in Morris and Early's addition to Wyandotte city, new a part of Kaasas City. Wyandette county, Kansas, and forever barring all right and title and equity of the said defendants in and to said premises, and ordering said premises sold at public sale according to law to satisfy said judgment and costs and ordering the Sheriff to make to the purchaser of said premises at such sale a good and sufficient deed for the same. JACOB RICKETTS, [Plaintiff By L. F. BRADLEY, his Attorney. NOTICE. Our business manager has recieved ier ter from Mr. Kronberg, under whose management the worlds famous Pianist, Paderwiski, 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 Con- vention Hall, on the night of the great pianiste recital, Feb. 28th. A special stage will be erected in the center of the hall building and every one will be able to see and hear. We as a race are possessed of much musical ability and will doubtless 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 Kansas City, Kas GO TO THE. Photos and Tin Types CHAS. GILLI, Prop. 520 Minnesota Avenue, 520, KANSAS CITY, KANSAS. WM. POSTLETHWAITE, 447 MINNESOTA AVENUE. GRAND PANTS MAKER. Special Sale of Trousers. Good Line of WORSTED nd Chevoits made up for $3.40. TAKE YOUR MEALS AT THE EMPIRE HOTEL. 335 Minnesota Avenue, KANSAS CITY KANSAS. Lunches at all hours. Board by day or week IF YOU ARE IN DOUBT RICHARDSON WALER & WOODEN DEALERS IN COAL and WOOD th. and Broadway, Kansas City. Mo., will always give you a square deal. This a firm composed of gentlemen. Give hem your t trade. IRJ 19 VCENT THE MARKETS Kansas City. CATTLE—Best beaves. $ 5 01 @ 5 00 Stockers. $ 4 09 @ 5 01 Native cows. $ 3 63 @ 4 09 Feeders. $ 4 53 @ 4 09 Western steers. $ 4 61 @ 4 85 Texas and Indian steers. $ 4 25 @ 4 50 ROGES-Choice to heavy. $ 4 70 @ 4 75 SHEEP—Fair to choos. $ 5 00 @ 6 00 WHEAT—No. 2 red. $ 70 @ 71 No. 2 hard. $ 60 @ 31% OATS—No. 2. $ 25 RYE—No. 2. $ 51 FLOUR-Patent, per bbl. $ 3 85 @ 3 15 Fancy. $ 3 73 @ 3 31 HAY-Choice timothy. $ 9 03 @ 9 53 Fancy prairie. $ 7 01 @ 7 53 BRAN-(sanked). $ 62 BUTTER-Choice creamery. $ 21 EGGS-Choice. $ 14 POTATOES. $ 35 @ 45 Chicago. CATTLE—Common to prince. $ 4 10 @ 6 55 HOGS-Packing and shipping. $ 4 10 @ 4 85 SHEEP—Fair to choice. $ 4 65 @ 6 40 FLOUR-Winter wheat. $ 3 50 @ 3 60 WHEAT—No. 2 red. $ 63 @ 3 64 CORN—No. 2. $ 31 @ 31% OATS—No. 2. $ 23% BUTTER-Creamery. $ 19 @ 32 LARD. $ 5 91 @ 6 00 PORK. $ 10 73 @ 11 73 St. Louis. CATTLE—Native and shipping. $ 4 00 @ 6 74 Texans. $ 3 83 @ 1 95 HOGS-Heavy. $ 4 53 @ 4 61 SHEEP—Fair to choos. $ 5 53 @ 6 53 FLOW-Choice. $ 3 31 @ 3 11 WHEAT—No. 2 red. $ 67 @ 6 76 CORN—No. 2 mixed. $ 12 @ 31% OATS—No. 2 mixed. $ 21% RYE—No. 2. $ 61. BUTTER-Creamery. $ 19 @ 21 LARD-Western mess. $ 5 07 @ 5 12% PORK. $ 9 03 @ 9 35 Houses-Choice heavy draft. $23@175 fancy saddlers. $10@200, cow horses. $13@253; choice chunks. $15@213, choice Southern horses. $20@27.0 Mules-Best prices range from $35 to $115 according to size. SHELDON'S CHRISTIAN PAPER To Be Given Control of the Topeka Capital for One Week. Topeka — The Topeka Capital will put its plant under the control of the Rev. C. M. Sheldon, author of "In His Steps," for the week beginning March 13. Mr. Sheldon will have complete charge of the editorial and business departments and will be given an opportunity to show whether a newspaper conducted on what he believes to be Christian lines will pay. In a speech at the Y. P. S. C. E. convention in Detroit last summer Mr. Sheldon declared that a newspaper that printed no news which he considered demoralizing and no liquor or doubtful advertisements would be successful. During his possession of the Topeka Capital he will publish one Sunday paper. He explains editorially that he cannot jeopardize the business by suspending publication on Sunday. He is opposed to Sunday newspapers. DEMOCRATS GET TOGETHER. Outline the Policy They Will Follow in Congress. Washington. The Democratic members of the Senate held a conference to consider the question of party policy on the various questions before Congress. The question of the policy to be pursued toward the Philippine archipelago attracted more attention than any other. On this point there was a general exchange of views, the consensus of opinion evidently favoring the policy outlined in Senator Bacon's resolution of protecting life and property in the islands until quiet is restored, when the United States shall provide the opportunity and prescribe the method for the "formation of a government by and of the people of There was also more or less discussion of the bills providing a form of government for the Hawaiian islands and for Puerto Rico. The preponderance of opinion concerning these bills was favorable to absolute free trade between the United States and these islands as a part of this country. With reference to the financial bill it was practically decided to offer a substitute providing for the free coinage of silver. One Way to Fight a Strike Anderson, Ind. — The American Steel and Wire company has sent word here to close the local rod mill indefinitely. The workmen went out on strike Moody and this is the answer of the company. This will throw 250 men out of employment. Kimberley Bombardment Ceases. Kimberley. — The bombardments have ceased, but the Boers are perpetually engaged in sniping. "Long Cecil" is doing excellent work, and Cecil Rhodes has personally fired several shells from the gun. Jesse James Is Wed. Kansas City, Mo.—Jesse E James, son of the noted bandit and Miss Stella Frances McGown were united in marriage at the home of the bride's parents in Landis court Wednesday night. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Dr. S. H. Werlein, pastor of the Central M. E church (South.) Two Colorado Towns Fireswept Boulder, Colo.—Nearly all the business buildings in both Ward and Lafayette were burned Wednesday. The loss at Ward is estimated at $75,000 and at Lafayette at $100,000. About fifty families in Lafayette are The American Citizen MERICAN CITIZEN PUBLISHING AND PRINTING CO. Daily and Weekly 335 Minnesota Ave. KANSAS CITY KANSAS TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION 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. Let us then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate. Throw away the rag you are chewing Either fish or cut the bait. —Chieago Tribune. Everybody should subscribe for the AMERICAN CITIZEN, daily and weekly. The American Citizen. Directory. Of KANSAS CITY, KANSAS AND KANSAS CITY, MO. Church Directory BAPISTE CHURCHES. African 3914 East 15th Street. Greenwood, 2005 Maderson Avenue, Highland Avenue, 1119 Highland Ave. Macedonian Mission 216 East 21th Street. Missionary, 2005 Madison Avenue. Mt. Calvary, 15 N. E. Cor. Norton Ave. Mt. Gay, 2100 Wyoming Avenue. Mt. Moriah, 933 Bluff Street. Mt. Olive, Villa, S. E. cor. Garnett. Mt. Zion, 3rd, N. W. Cor. Gillis. Mt. Zion, 908 Hickory Avenue. Mt. Zion, Primitive, 2815 Garnett st. Pilgrim, 705 Charlott street. Pilgrim, Charlott between 6th and 7th. Pleasant Green, East Forest. Round Top, Norton near 28th street. St James, 1411 East 18th street. St James Chapel, 518 High street. St. Marks, 1019 East 4th street. St. Pauls, 510 East 4th street. Second Baptist, Charlott, cor. 10th. Vine Street, 1825 Vine street. Campbellite, 21st between Summit and Madison. St. Augusts' Mission, 1025 Troost ave METHODIST EPISCOPAL. Asbury Chapel, 1620 Cherry street. Burns, 11th S. W. Cor, Highland ave. Clark's Chapel, 819 S. W. Boukward. Westport W. Prospect Place Cor, 23rd. King Solomon Mission 4th and Locust Colored Schools. Attucks 2108 East 18th street. Bruce 3914 East 15th street. Douglass 27th N. E. Cor. N. Prospect Place. Garrison Forest S. W Cor. 4th street. Lincoln School 11th N W. Cor Camp- Dell street. Lincoln High School 816 East 11th st. Fage Rochester N.E. Cor. Prospect Avenue. Business Directory. J. A. Wilson Jeweller 1616 W. 9th st. Chandler's Barber shop, Samuel Chandler Prop. S LClemens Mgr 112 East 6th street. Restaurant Mrs Amus Prop. 114 East 6th street. Field's Barber Shop 112 Fast 6th street Miller's Barber Shop 113 East 6th st Midland Barber Shop Harsy Parson$ Proprietor 115 East 6th street. Parch's Shop Oarth & Warfield, Proprietors 550 Grand Avenue. O' Bannon' Barber Shop W.T. O Bancen Proprietor $ (O Grand Avenue. Manila Barber Shop Madison Bros. Proprietors 709 Independence avenue. McRay's Barber Shop Ben McRay Proprietor 819 Independence avenue. Langston' Barber Shop 718 East 8th st. Walker's Barber Shop 806 East 12th st. Cowden's Barber Shop 704 East 12th st. Restaurant J.W Gordon Prop. 554 Grand avenue. Restaurant H Powel Proprietor 572 Grand avenue. Restaurant Andrew Clark Proprietor 723 Independence avenue. Saratoga Cafe L Mason Proprietor 805 Independence avenue. Chicago Cafe H Compton Proprietor 706 Independence avenue. Maupin's Barber Shop 1332 E 18th st. Brown's Barber Shop 1329 E 18th st. Berry's Barber Shop 1422 $\frac{1}{2}$ E. 18th st Grocer, George Grear, Prop. 1211 E. 18th st. Drs. Shannon and Lambright 1215 E. 18th st. Dr. J.N. Birch 1339 E. 18th st. Dr. T.C. Unthank 1233 Independence Ave. Dr. L.J.Holly 1112 Campbell st. Rising Sun J.F. Cole, Editor, L. W Wood.Manager 117 W. 6th st. Grecery, A. Webb, Prop. 19th and Holmes. KANSAS CITY, KANSAS. Enterprises. A.C.L. Coal Co. Main Office 402 Minn. Ave. E.F. Henderson, Mgr. D.W. White Furniturestore, 420 Minn. Ave. J.W. Jones Grocery 400. Oakland Ave. M. Gordon Department store 1605 N 0th s'. C. E. Cannon Butcher 1609 N. 10 st. Clark and Lee Junk Store, 1130 3rd st. Hotels The Empire House 335 Minnesota Ave. Dyson House 440 Minnesota Ave. Jamison House 417 Minnesota Ave. Restaurants. J. W. Johnson's 6th and State. Mrs. Hall 507 Minn. Ave. Mrs. Sarah Thurston 1414 5th st. Mc Gees 448 Minn. Ave. Mrs. R. P. Tyler 10 Joy st. E. Stoakes 1510 3rd st. BARBERS. J. T. Roberts & Tucker, 507 Minnesota avenue. J, Gross, 412 Minnesota avenue. G. McChellan, 613 Minnesota ave. M.T. Comer, 608 Minnesota ave. Robt. Keith, 315 Minnesota ave. M. Pattison, 1603 north 3rd st. SHOEMAKERS. Lon McAdams, 348 Minnesota ave. D. W. Wynne, 369 Minnesota ave. Lewis Blenchard, North 6th., State Line. Wilson, 5th. st. between Nebraska and State. HALLS. M. & O., 1306 north 8.h. street. Cons of Protection, State and 6th. DRUGS. Wyandotte Drug Store, 1512 north 5th. street. DOCTORA. S. H. Thompson, 1512 north 5th, st. Harvey, 440 Minnesota ave. G. H. Brown, 1010 Freeman ave. Jordan, 610 Minnesota ave. ARTISTS. O. J., Brooks, 70, New York Life Building. TEACHERS OF FRENCH AND ELOCUTION. Arthur A. Anderson, 541 State Ave. In the District Court of Wyandotte County, Kansas. The Bellows Falls Savings Bank, Plain tiff, vs. Willie H. Consul, Effle Consul, 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. Consul, Effle Consul, Fred A. Miller & Co., New England Loan & Trust Company, Otto T Bannard, Receiver of New England Loan and 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. Consauil and Effie Consauil 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 1st 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 the 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 out 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. JOHN C. HALL, Attorney for Plaintiff. When wanting something to eat and a place to rest your weary bones call at the Empire House 335 Minn. 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 FRANK GARNIER Jewelery and Loan Office Avenne. Branch Store. 631 K Watch and Jewelry Work Done and Guaranteed, Amouods, Watches and all kinds of Uuredeen-ed P Violins, &c. Big Machines, Revo- Pocket Knives, Catridges, Gun —ALSO— immings for dll String Instruments at the ED TRADE SOLICITED. Mention American C THE AMERICAN Restaurant and Boarding House R. P. TYLER, -- She best 10c Meals in the city. She also Board and Lodging $3, and $3,50 per week are nice and clean. She is a fine cook a Y Street, Kansas EAGERS m Drug St MINNESOTA AVENUE DEALER IN, DRUGS, MEDICINES, CHEMICA et Soaps, Brushes, Combs, Et IERY AND FANCY TOILET ARTIC B. RAYMO 536 Minnesota Avenne. Branch Store, 631 Kansas Avenue. Watch and Jewelry Work Done and Guaranteed. Barrains in Diamonds, Watches and all kinds of Uuredeened Pledges also Guitars, Mandoline, Violins, &c. Sewing Machines, Revolvers, Guns, Pocket Knives, Catridges, Gun Shells; ALSO Strings and Trimmings for dll String Instruments at the Lowest Pricen. COLORED TRADE SOLICITED. Mention American Citizen. 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 1 a No.1. House Keeper No. 10 Joy Street, Kansas City Kan DRUGS, MEDICINES, CHEMICALS, Fine Toilet Soaps, Brushes, Combs, Etc., PERFUMERY AND FANCY TOILET ARTICLES. W. B. RAYMOND W. B. RAYMOND Manufacturer of and Wholesale dealer in RTAKERS * SUPPLIES CARRIAGES FOR ALL PURPOSES AT ALL H FOR THE CONVEYANCE OF THE SICK A Rooms, 431 Minnesota ave. Telephone W Factory Corr st St., and Riverview Ave. CITY. GO TO THE AT JUNK SH wholesale and Ret Hickory Street, Kansas IRON YARDS CORNER 8th. AND HICKORY. Kags, Bottles and M scrap iron, rags, bottles and metals. Who Here's the place where you can get correct wei SAM'L. Dl Street, Kansas UNDERTAKERS * SUPPLIES FIRST-CLASS CARRIAGES FOR ALL PURPOSES AT ALL H AMBULANCE FOR THE CONVEYANCE OF THE SICK A DED Undertaking Rooms, 431 Minnesota ave. Telephone West 32. Factory Cor st St., and Riverview Ave. Telephone 26 KANSAS CITY KANSAS. GREAT JUNK SHOP. Wholesale and Retail. Office 811 Hckory Street, Kansas City, Mo. IRON YARDS CORNER 8th. AND HICKORY. Iron, Kags, Bottles and Metals. Cash paid for scrap iron, rags, bottles and metals. Wholesale and Reta dealer in junk. Here's the place where you can get correct weight and square dealing. SAM'L. DIGGS. American Citiz Dailly and Weekly The only Ice Cream Parlors in the two Kansas Cities where you can get the BestIce Cream Soda, and Ice Creams, Fine Lunch, Pies, Cakes and Confectionaries 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 KANS Jewelery 536 Minnesota Avenue. Watch a Bargains in Diamonds, Mrs. Mandoline, Violins, & Sewing M. Guns, Pocket strings and Trimming COLORED TRAD THE Restaurant MRS. R. P. gaurantees the best day or week. Board a and rooms are nice House Keeper No. 10 Joy Street E. Gem MIN. DRUGS Fine Toilet Soil PERFUMERY W. B. Manu UNDERT FIRST-CLASS CARRIAGE AMBULANCE FOR THE Undertaking Rooms, Factory KANSAS CITY GREAT Whole Office 811 Hckory S IRON, Kag Cash paid for scrap dealer in junk. Here's u dealing. 811, Hickory Street. Ame READ THE WINTER GOODS MUST GO. We intend to smash the prices for three days and see how much we can sell. The Best Goods, the Quickest Sales, the Smallest Profits and the promptest deliveries. GET THEIR PRICES ON COAL, WOOD, TEED, FLOUR, and BUILDIN STONE, Wholesale and Retail. Office 402, Minnesota Ave. Tel. 152 West. Yard and Storage 917 and 919 North 3rd. St. Ladies Wool Hose, 9c, Men's 50c Fleeced Underwear. 37 1-2c. Boys' $3.00 Suits, $1:00 Boys' Winter Caps, 17c, Beauty Rings, 10ct. Bottles Perfumes, 8c. THE SUNFL BENNET 435, MINNEOTA AVE. A. C. L. C. -IS HEADQU THE CHEAP The Best Goods, the Quickest and the prion GET THE COAL, WOOD, TEED, S Wholesale and Retail. Office 402 Yard and Storage 917 and 919 No SPRANGLE & RICHARDSON, DEALER IN COAL, WOOD AND ICE. All orders filled promptly. Patronage solicited. No 929 Independence ave. KANSAS CITY. MO -vi BURLINGTO UNION PACIFIC THE OVERLAND ROUTE WORLD'S PICTORIAL LINE SHORT LINEA CROSS THE COUNTRY. The Union Pacific 'The Original Overland Route' always was, and is to-day, the shortest and best Line to the west. Two splendid fast trains leave Kansas City daily over this old established line. No change of cars between Kansas City and Denver, Ogden or San Francisco. All trains solidly vestibulued and fully equipped with latest improved Reclining Chair Cars free and Pullman Palace sleeping cars. Meals served in Pullman Palace dining cars on the restaurant plan at prices most reasonable. All cars lighted with the celebrated Pintch Ligst! Only line running two trains without change from KansasCity to Denver Low excursion rates on sale to Colorado-Utah Idaho, Oregon. Washington and California. Don't complete your ars ranglements for a trip west until you have learned all about special inducements and attractions offered by the Union Pacific. For full information in regard to low-rates time, etc., call on or address J. R. FRAWLEY Gn. Agt., Union Pacific, 1000 Main e.g. PARK CITY, Mo Stringer Lodge No. 14 meets on the 14. 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. ot R. & S Lincoln Lodge No. 9, o K. P., mee on the second and fourth Moyday nigh at their hall, 1734 Grand avenue, at 8 o'clock p. m. Visiting brethren wel- come. JOHN S CANNON, J. W. WHEELEB. C C. Queen Ester Court No. 43. I. O. I. Kansas City Mo., meets at their Hali no 9th, and Main streets at 2 o'clock p., on the 1st and 3rd Mondays of each month. Mrs. Julia Smith $ ^{h} $ M. B R Davis Chron. MASONIC LODGES Golden Leaf No. 6 Regular sessions first and third Tuesday of each Month at 2 P. M. Mrs: Annie Madison M. A.M. Mrs. Bertha Carroll Sec. Boys' 25 cents Underwear, 20c. Men's 50 cent Underwear, 35c. Ladies' Trimmed Hats, $1 to $3.00 kinds, choice 75c. Men's Winter Caps 25c O N T Thread, 4c Ladies Heavy Shoes, $1.00 POWER STORE, T & CO., GOAL CO., STARTERS FOR BEST PRICES At Sales, the Smallest Profits the smallest deliveries. OUR PRICES ON FLOUR, and BUILDIN STONE, Minnesota Ave. Tel. 152 West. North 3rd. St. E. F. HENDERSON Manager. Finest Barber Shop in the City, Hair Cutting, 25 cents. Baths, 15 cents, Shaving, 10 cents. NEWL MODLED BATH ROOMS, PORCELAIN TUBS. 612 Minnesota Ave., KANSAS CITY, KAS Lewis Blandchard 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 youelf. Secure Tickets VIA THE.... Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Ry.... AND YOU GET.... Sleepers. & Chair Car.... TO.... CH1CAGO and all intermedsate points. The shortest, quickest and bee lime to Chilocothe, Otumwa, Cedar Rapids, Dubnque, and La Crosse and Cedar Rapids, Rockford and Freeport: .Passenger Station at.... 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 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 Tabernacle 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. M.CAMPBELL C. N. Queen Esther Tabernacle, Independen Order of Knights of Tabor and Daughters of Tabernacle No. 62. Meets every first and third Tuesday nights corner 5th and Main streets, K1131 Ci Mo. MRS. R. P. TYLER, C. P. Seaport of the South. It has long been evident that the rapidly increasing movement of grain and merchandise towards the southern seaboard would demand an increase of shipping facilities on the Mexican Gulf. The most promising seaport city is La Porte, at the head of Galveson Bay. Peculiar natural advantages surround LaPorte, notably its being the fartherest inland seaport on the Gulf, having high dry land with perfect drainage and the purest artesian water, a climate unsurpassed in the south and an attractive city site. The American Land Co., 188 Madison street, Chicago, is interested at LaPorte and announces the first general sale of property will be held Feby. 14-17, 1900. Fremont Low Raised California F Popular Low Prices California Excursions The Santa Fe Route daily excursions to California in tourist sleeping cars are deservedly popular. Cars are of newest pattern and very comfortable, having every necessary convenience. These excursions are accompanied by Pullman conductors and porters, and are patronized by many of the best people. Low rate tickets. The Santa Fe California line is remarkably picturesque. Its middle route across the continent avoids extreme heat or cold. For descriptive literature, address Gerald A. FARRONCHE, 1000 N. 10th St. Sagua City, Camagua City, Mo. Queer Breed of Foxes Gilbertsville, Pa., can boast of either the boldest liar in the country or a breed of foxes hitherto unknown to natural history. A hunt club started a fox in that vicinity the other day, and reported that after seven hours' chase the fox, being hard pressed, took refuge in a tree, from which the hunters took him alive. Deafness Cannot Be Cured by local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure deafness, and that is by constitutional deafness, the condition of the mucus lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube is infused you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed deafness is taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh, and this tube is an inflamed condition of the mucus surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be treated with Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by Drug Store. Heavy Fur Pleats the best. Sun Spots and Cold Winter. Camille Flammarion is endeavoring to discover the connection between the excessively cold winters and the spots on the sun. He finds that intensely cold winters have reappeared at regular intervals during the century at periods of ten and twenty years. With the same regularity the sun's spots appear. Therefore he connects the cold with the spots. I Had a Bad Cough "I had a bad cough for six weeks and could not find any relief whatever. I read what a wonderful remedy Ayer's Cherry Pectoral was for coughs and I bought a bottle. Before I had taken a quarter of it my cough had entirely left me."—L. Hawn, Newington, Ont., May 3, 1899. Neglected colds always lead to something serious. They run into chronic bronchitis which pulls down your general health and deprives you of sleep; or they end in genuine consumption with all its uncertain results. Don't wait, but take Ayer's Cherry Pectoral just as soon as you begin to cough. A few doses will cure you then. But it cures old colds, too, only it takes a little more time. We refer to such diseases as bronchitis, asthma, whooping-cough, consumption, and hard winter coughs. If you've just taken cold a 25 cent bottle is all you'll need. For harder cases a 60 cent bottle is better. For chronic troubles, and to keep the $1.00 bottle is most economical. Most soaked in a few hours with KRAUSERS Liquid EXTRACT OF SMOKE. Made from hickory, maple, oak, clearer, sweeter, and saturer than the old way. Send for circular. L. KRAUSER & BG, Milton, Pa. PARALYSIS Locomotor Ataxia conquered at last. Doctor trained at recovery of patients thought insecure by. DR. GLAUSER, FOOD DENVER FOOD. Write me about your case. Advise and proof of cure. FREE. DR. CHASE, 224 N.10th St., PHILADELPHIA, PA. DR. ARNOLD'S COUGH CURES COUGHS AND COLDS. PREVENTS CONSUMPTION. All Drugssta. 25c. Ask your Dealer for Ash Grove Lime The Best on Earth. THE CHICAGO "LEVEE" THE CHICAGO "LEVEE" BLACK PLAGUE SPOT WHERE CRIMINALS REIGN. Wretched "Hypos" Who Herd Like Swine in Absconded Structures, and Beg the Pillence That Sustains Them—To Be Furried. Upon the heart of Chicago a festering sore has been fastened for more than forty years. It has fed upon the city and has waxed strong. For more than a generation it has been looked upon with complacency and toleration as a thing which must be, and now the official surgeons of Chicago declare they are about to cut it off, root it out and destroy it, and leave the spot it has so long infested strong, healthy and fair to look upon. This canker, which feeble efforts extended over many years have failed to cure or to restrain in its development, is the "levee." It is that black plague spot, more than a mile long and more than half a mile wide, which Chicago has turned over to the outcast, the scarlet woman and all the army of thieves and satellites which come in her train. Now it has been placed under the ban. The demands of commerce are imperative that the valuable ground occupied by these dives and bagnios and the motley crew of outcasts, male and female, who have made the place a stench in the nostrils of Chicago must go elsewhere. The "levee" is almost as oid as Chicago. Gray-haired men of today, who went to Chicago as striplings in eager quest of fortune in the days before the civil war, found the plague spot in the very heart of the ramshackle wooden town, which was wiped out by the great fire of '71. It was not where it is now, along Clark street and what was once called Fourth avenue, but over to the west, on what is now Fifth avenue, but was then called Wells street, south as well as north of the bridge, they found the resort of vice, misery and crime. Then came the great firz, which swept the whole outfit away in a night. In the ruins of some of those dens many a lost soul shrieked in vain for mercy, roused from a drunken slumber by the rushing flames. Many an outcast was incinerated on that fateful night on the "levee" drunk and hopeless. But the devastation of the flames carried away only the dens and brothels. When the fiery breath had passed away the denizens who were awake that night and had fled in terror to places of safety, crept back to the ruins of their old haunts and again took possession of them. The old red curtains, the old painted faces, the vice and crime which are as old as the human family, came back again. Probably nowhere else in the world are so many characters of divers kinds gathered together as in the foul, ill-smelling, unclean district of the "levee." There are hundreds of people gathered there nightly in out of the way lofts and dens who make their living by their wits in other parts of the city and flock there under cover of darkness to revel in the cheap delights of bad whisky, cocaine or morphine. Bergars, confidence men, mendicants, thieves of every grade from the porch climber to the pickpocket spend their leisure hours sitting around the "levee" saloons. When the police of the Harrison street station "want" a certain crook they go to the "levee" and get him. If he is not there tonight, he is up to some crooked work, and will be there tomorrow night. But they get him. In two barns not far from Harrison street, dirty, abandoned old structures, which the owners do not waste enough thought on to destroy, live about forty "hypos." They are the trembling wretches, male and female, who are given over body and soul to the use of cocaine or morphine in hypodermic injections. They are so numerous in the "levee" that they are regarded as a class in themselves by the police, and called "hypos." They live solely for the pleasure of "shooting" the drug into their emaculated bodies. They beg A man is being beaten by a man in a suit. In the background, a man in a vest is standing behind a desk. GARROTING A VICTIM. on the streets for the money to purchase brief forgetfulness of their misery. That accomplished, they want nothing more. Men and women, filth, ragged and repulsive, herd like swine in these two barns at night, and scatter forth in the daylight to beg the money for the precious morphine. There are about forty panel-houses in the "levee," houses to which a stranger is lured for the sole purpose of robbery. The women who do this work are sharp and clever in selecting their victims and in escaping after doing the work, but several of them have recently been indicted and sentenced, and that has had a quieting effect on the others, at least for a time. It is extremely difficult to convict the women who operate the thieving places, as they move around so constantly that the victim is seldom able to point out the one who fleeced him after he discovers he has been robbed. When a pocketbook is taken, the proprietors of the panel-house and the woman who got the money disappear and a new set take their places, so that the stranger is dumfounded when he leads the police to the house, and discovers a number of indignant women, who vow they never saw him before and threaten to arrest him for slander. When he goes home the robbers return, and business goes on as before. Such is Chicago's "levee," without parallel in the world from many stand-points. A grimy, festering place of evil, without a redeeming quality, it now looks as though it would be wiped out at last, after its thirty-five years of triumph over law and order and de- A EJECTING A "PENNILESS." cency. And when it is gone, Chicago will wonder why it was so long tolerated. AN IDOL DEVIL-HUNTING. Curious Ceremony Practiced in China to Heal a Sick Woman. A gentleman writes from Wuhu, China, under a recent date: "An old woman here had been ill for some time and the priests were called in to decide what was the matter. Their decision was that she should be shut up for three days, as the devil was around. They also decided that the devil must be caught and destroyed. So they sent over the river and secured the services of the noted idol, Ri-Lunguang, the second dragon king. He reached here safely in the regulation Chinese chair with four bearers, and they began first of all to find out where the medicine was to heal the old woman. This was done by going round and round until they were too dizzy to stand, and the way the idol fell showed the direction in which they were to hunt. They searched half a day. At last, nearing a dirty pool of water, the idol took a lurch, and away the whole lot went head first into the pool. They came to the conclusion that the elixir of life was in here, for they waded around and time after time fell in. Once they lost the idol for a time in the water. They put him in a tub, but oh! sad to relate, the idol was too heavy, and down went tub, idol and all. After some time they rescued him and brought him to land. After this they asked the idol for further instructions and he told them by nods that they must search for the devil. The idol added that he was in the pond. So they got a broom and swept him out, and he ran for a graveyard near by. They soon located him on the top of a grave, and then they drove pitchforks into the ground and poured a circle of lime around. Then a fisherman's net was spread out over the grave and the net was rolled up with the forks, and Mr. Devil was safely tied up inside. He was led off in triumph to a neighboring field, which the idol had pointed out, and in which there was a strawstack. This they quickly gnotted and threw the net, devil and all in, and with great shoutings and burstings of firecrackers he went up in smoke." SHOT OUT OF TURN. A former member of the Gordon highlanders, the regiment which has distinguished itself so highly in the present war in South Africa, relates the following anecdote in connection with one of the Gordons who fought in the Anglo-Boer war of 1881, says the New York Commercial Advertiser. Just before the battle of Laing's Nek the highlanders and a force of the Boers were lying, under cover, opposite each other. The highlanders had been ordered to remain still and hold their fire. Persumably the Boers had received similar commands, for, with the exception of one burgher and one Gordon, who could not refrain from taking pot shots at so much of each other as they could decry, the men on both sides were silent. For some time the Boer and the highlander referred to conducted a duel. First the Boer would bob up from behind his shelter, fire at the highlander's cover and drop out of sight. The highlander would jump up, reply, and then hurriedly hide himself. About twenty shots had been exchanged in that way when exclamation of pain burst from the lips of the highlander. His left hand had been shattered by one of the Boer's bullets. "That serves ye right, MacKenzie," said his sergeant. "Ye waur tell'd tae be quiet." "Hoot, mon," replied the highland; "hoo did I ken he was gan' tae shoot oot o' his turn?" Charles Kendrick, the alleged defaulting cashier of the Citizens' bank, Sloux City, Iowa, has returned to that town and surrendered. Home of the Eck From the Baltimore Sun: There are eels that are the most palatable of all fish that swim, and eels that are not fit to be eaten. The habitat of the eel makes the fish delicious or repulsive. Where it lives affects it more than its habitat does any other fish. The eels that are bred and lie in the mill ponds, or on the muddy bottoms of fresh water streams, or in "mudguts," are to be regarded as so much carrion, and are fit only for crab bait. It's the same way, though not to such a great extent, with catfish, and even the shad, the prince of table fishes, is unfit to be eaten when taken in the muddy waters and ooze of the up-streams. Eels that are caught in clear salt water, on the hard and sand bottom of the flats, well down the rivers, are delicious for table use. The Health and Pleasure Resorts Of Texas, Mexico, Arizona and California are quickly and comfortably reached via the Southern Pacific Company's Sunset Route. Daily through service from New Orleans to San Francisco via Houston, San Antonio, El Paso and Los Angeles. Special semi-weekly service, Sunset Limited from New Orleans Mondays and Thursdays, compiled of Buffet Smoking Car, containing Bath Room and Barber Shop, Drawing Room Compartment Car, regular Pullman Sleepers, and Dining Car (meals a la carte), all of the latest design and most luxuriously appointed. Direct connections made at New Orleans from all points North and East. Detailed information cheerfully furnished by W. G. Neimeyer, G. W. A., So. Pac. Co., 238 Clark St., Chicago; W. H. Connor, Com'l Agt., Chamber Commerce Bldg., Cincinnati, O., W. J. Berg, Trav. Pass. Agt., 220 Ellicott Square, Buffalo, N. Y The Barrel Organ in Church: The Barrel Organ' in Church. To attend a church where the music is supplied by a barrel organ must be very like stepping into a bygone century, but it is an experience which the parishioners of Trottiscliff—a Kentish village within twenty-five miles of London—can every week enjoy. Its adherence to old customs may be pardoned, for a church was standing at the time of the Domesday book, and the existing chancel is more than 800 years old. Its pulpit is one that stood in Westminster abbey until 1824. The musical capabilities of a barrel organ are limited, but the parishioners of Trottiscliff have a choice of sixty, there being six barrels, each supplying ten tunes—most of them very old fashioned.—Notes and Queries. Big Battles and Ralp It is a curious fact—well known, however, to weather experts—that heavy firing will generally cause rain, even though the sky was clear beforehand. At Waterloo rain came down in torrents. So it did in several of the big battles of the American civil war—Gettysburg, for example. The tremendous concussion shakes the little globules of water which are always present invisibly in the atmosphere together, and so brings them down. It takes an authority on ways and miens to compile a book on etiquette. The Best Prescription for Chills and Fever is a bottle of GROVE'S TASTELESS CHILL TONIC. It is simply iron and quinine in a tasteless form. No cure—no pay. Price, 50c. Bad habits need no cultivation. One is sure to beget another. Reliable Help Wanted (Either sex, Bromo, Bromo and Sanitarium for Invalids and Health Seekers, incorporated Seed 12c in stamps for full information. Address J.H. Teltlebaum, Treasurer, Las Vegas, N. M. People who soliloquize may hear some good of themselves. TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY. Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund the money if it fails to cure. Esc. E. W. Grove's signature on each box. When an Arab leaves his home he always takes it with him. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, the grunts, reduces inflammation, always pain, cures wind colic. Esc a bottle. Smiles add much to a woman's attractiveness, and they are inexpensive. Facts For Sick Women First—the medicine that holds the record for the largest number of absolute Cures of female Ills is Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Second—Mrs. Pinkham can show by her letter files in Lynn that a million women have been restored to health by her medicine and advice. Third-All letters to Mrs. Pinkham are received, opened, read and answered by women only. This fact is certified to by the mayor and postmaster of Lynn and others of Mrs. Pinkham's own city. Write for free book containing these certificates. Every ailing woman is invited to write to Mrs. Pinkham and get her advice free of charge. Lydia B. Pinkham Med. Co. Lynn, Mass. WOMEN OF THE UNITED STATES Regard Peruna as Their Shield Against Catarrh Coughs, Colds, Grip and Catarrhal Diseases. 3 MRS. BELVA A. LOCKWOOD, LATE CANDIDATE FOR THE PRESIDENCE. Mrs. Belva Lockwood, the eminent barrister, of Washington, D. C., is the only woman who has ever been a candidate for the Presidency of the United States. She is the best known woman in America. As the pioneer of her career in the legal profession she has gathered fame and fortune. In a letter to The Peruna Medicine Company, she says: "I have used your Peruna both for myself and my mother, Mrs Hannah J. Bennett, now in her 88th year, and I find it an invaluable remedy for cold, catarrh, hay fever and kindred diseases; also a good tonic for feeble and old people, or those run down and with nerves unstrung." Yours truly, Belva A. Lockwood. Catarrh may attack any organ of the body. Women are especially liable to catarrh of the pelvic organs. There are one hundred cases of catarrh of the pelvic organs to one of catarrh of the head. Most people think, because they have no catarrh of the head, they have no catarrh at all. This is a great mistake and is the cause of many cases of sickness and death. "Health and Beauty" needs free to women only, by The Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, Ohio. THE PREMIUM HAY-STOCK GRAIN & COAL WAGON SCALE OF THE WORLD LISTS FREE U.S. STANDARD ADDRESS CHICAGO SCALE C9 OFFICIAL STOCK SCALE WORLD'S FAIR, CHICAGO, 1893 ALSO OMAHA EXPOSITION 1898 AWARDED DIPLOMA & GOLD MEDAL GET THE BEST AND SAVE MONEY THOUSANDS OF SPECIALTIES 932 1099 N. 2000 DOUGLAND CHICAGO, ILL. A few of man's troubles are due to love and the rest are due to friendship. FITS Permanently Cured. No fits or nervousness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. Send for FREE $2.00 trial bottle and treatise. Dr. R. H. KLINE, Ltd., 931 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa. Jersey lightning is about the only kind that ever strikes in the same place. CHEAP RATES. Special Inducements to Homeseekers. NEW RAIL ROAD OPENING UP Farming, Mineral, Timber, Bisc and Market Gardening Lands. I never used so quick a cure as Piso's Cure for Consumption. J. B. Palmer, Box 1171, Seattle, Wash., Nov. 25, 1895. A typewriter girl without any bad spells is a jewel. WANTED - Two traveling salesmen in each south west state, the permanent position, salary and expen- sure is not absolutely necessary. Addres- Pocahontas Tobacco Works C., Bedford City, Va. An ace in hail is worth four in the pack. For More Than a Century Baker's Chocolate bis has the standard. Made only by Walter Baker & Co. Ltd., Dorchester, Mass. The highway with a tollgate thereon is also a buy-way. FOR 14 CENTS No wish to gain this year 20,000 new quantity, and price of 1 Pigeon, Garden Marvel Cucumber 1 Pigeon, Garden Marvel Lettuce, 1 " Strawberry Melon, 1 " Early Dinner Onion, 1 " Early Dinner Onion, 1 " Brilliant Worth 10 Pigeon, worth $1.00, we will mail you free, together with our Custard and Custard, SALENE MILLION DOLAR PATATO upon receipt of this notice & 14c. stamp, we will invite you to know when you once try Sanzer's you will never do without. 200 Prices to deliver each earliest Tomato Giant on earth, ym- JOHN A. SALERE SEED CO. on CROSS, WI. LA PORTE Situated at the head of Galves. tined to be the 'MOST PROSPEROUS CITY on the Gulf of Mexico. It possesses unequaled natural advantages, geographically and from every point of view. It is the most beautiful of the U. S. Government is now spending a large amount of money in Harbor improvements. La Porte is the natural seaport for the pro-development Middle, Northern and Western States and for Houston, the great railroad center of Texas. Excursions at reduced rates are the two choices. The Literature and full descriptive LITERATURE and full particulars to Salzer's Rape gives Rich, green food, at 25c. a Salzer's Seeds are Warranted to Produce. Mahon Luther, E. Troy, Pa., astonished the world by growing 250 bushels Big Four Oats: J. Breider, Michieco, Wis., 478 bus. barley; and H. Lovejoy, Red Wing, Minn., by growing 220 bush. Salzer's corn per acre, if you doubt, write them. We wish to gain 200,000 new customers, hence will send on trial. 10 DOLLARS WORTH FOR IOC. 10 pgs of rare farm seeds, Salt Bush, the 3-carred Crop-Spelt, producing 60 bushes, food and 4 tons per acre, the greatest grass on earth; Safer says so. Rape, Spring Wheat, &c., including our ram-mooth Plant, Fruit and Seed Catalog, telling all about Salzer's Great Million Dollar Potato, all exiled for 100, postage; could only be 500 to get start. Seed Potatoes $1.20 a bbl. and up. 85 pgs artisanal vegetable seeds, $1.00. Catalog alone, &c. w/n: NEW RAIL ROAD OPENING UP Farming, Mineral, Timber, Rice and Market Gardening Land. BUY AT ONCE WHILE CHEAP. Your choice of land from snows of the North to sunshine and flowers of the South, to woodlands and AUROR ROUTE, Kansas City to Gulf of Mexico. CHEAP RATES - On the first and third Tuesdays of each month throughout the year we sell Hoomeekers' Excursion tickets for up to eight hours, where Howe, T. to, all up on our road, one way rate is seven dollars (E6) or more, at the rate of ONE FARE PLUS $2 FOR THE ROUND TRE. STOP-OVERS will be allowed on the gong trip of these tickets at any point south of West Fork within them (15) down from time of sale, there a Dear a limit of twenty-one (21) days. For full information address: H. C. ORR, CENERAL PASSENGER AGENT, KANSAS CITY, MO. International Type-High Plates Sawed to They will save time in your company when you can be handled even quicker than type. WESTERN NEWSPAPER UNION KANSAS CITY, MO. 100 P.O. BOX 10 FARMS IN WESTERN CANADA MILLION of acres bound on cultural LANBS opened for settlers in Western Ou Herds grown tha of acres of choice agricultural LANDS are opened for settlement in Western Canada. Heri's grown the celebrated NO. 1 HARDY WHEAT, which brings the highest price to the markets of the world; thousands of cattle are fattened for market without being fed grain without a day's shelter. Send 1 for information and scrape a free home in Western Oklahoma. Write the Superintendent of Immigration, Oklahoma, or address the undersigned, who will mail you atases, pamphlets, etc., free of cost. J. H. Crawford, 214 West Ninth St. Kansas City, Mo. PENSIONS Get Your Pension DOUBLE QUICK Write CAPT. O'FARRELL, Pension Agent, 1425 New York Avenue, WASHINGTON, D.C. CARTER'S NK Just as cheap as poor ink. DROPSY NEW DISCOVERY, quick relief and cure cases. Book of testimonials and 10 DAYS' treatment FREE. JR. H. H. GREEN'S BOSS, Box K, Minneapolis. When Answering Advertisements Halt Mention This Paper. W. N. U. Kansas City, No. 4, 1900 PISO'S CURE FOR CURSE WHEN ALL ELSE FAILS. Best Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Use in time. Sold by drugstores. CONSUMPTION OUR CLOCKS ABROAD. TIMEPIECES SENT TO EVERY QUARTER OF THE GLOBE. Demand For Cheap Goods so Great the Manufacturers Cannot Meet It—Poorliarities of the Trade—Round Clocks for China. American-made clocks and watches are now shipped direct from this port to every quarter of the globe where civilization has made or is making its way, says the New York Evening Post. They are for the most part of a kind with the nickel alarm clock and the dollar nickel watch—machine-made goods, with which the foreign manufacturer cannot compete. The export demand of last year has been the greatest the manufacturers have known; they have not resources sufficient to supply the whole of it. The shipments in the ten months ending October aggregate in value nearly $1,500,000; which is the same as saying about a million and a quarter clocks and watches. In 1878 the exports were valued at about $1,000,000; in 1889, at about $1,300,000, and it is estimated that for 1899 the value will reach about $1,700,000. The clocks go to Hongkong, Buenos Ayres, Bombay, London, Cape Town, Manila, Arabia, northern Africa—everywhere; even, in some considerable quantity, to Switzerland. The clockmaking industry in the United States is just as old as the century. It is on record, however, that Elli Terry patented and manufactured an equation clock in 1797. In 1807 this same Terry entered into a contract with a clockmaker of Waterbury to make 4,000 thirty-hour clocks with seconds pendulum, dial and hands, and all for $4 each. He was given three years to complete his contract. There was then a clockmaker at Plymouth, another at Salem Bridge and another at Roxbury—all distinguished in their profession. In 1814 Terry perfected a thirty-hour clock of a new construction and at once all the makers took it up successfully. Since then the industry has rapidly developed, until now one concern, the Ansonia Clock company, makes eight clocks and cheap watches a minute, or 5,000 a day or 1,500,000 a year; and another, the Seth Thomas Clock company, makes, of clocks alone, two a minute, or 1,200 a day, or 400,000 a year. It may be said, in passing that the cheapest nickel clock requires 450 "handlings" to complete. "I estimate," said a manufacturer, "that about 10,000 clocks a day are made in the United States. That this enormous supply continues is simply explained. The cheap clock or watch will keep good time for about two years. Then the oil drills and clogs the wheels; and the owner buys a new one rather than go to the expense of having the old one repaired. Here's a little clock called the 'bee.' It was invented in twenty minutes, it has gone all over the world, and I shouldn't wonder if it held its own in the market until 20,000,000 are sold. You must know that clockmaking some time ago reached a point in progress near perfection. The important improvements of recent years have been few." In ten months of 1898 $11,000 worth of clocks and watches were exported to China and $170,000 worth to Japan. The Japanese are teaching themselves clockmaking; in the corresponding ten months of this year only $50,000 worth of clocks and watches were exported to that country. The demand in China, however, has increased; and it is peculiar concerning it that nothing but round or octagon clocks can be sold to the Chinese merchants—old fashioned wooden, large dial clocks, such as have hung in country schoolrooms and churches for years, and which now must be made to supply this demand. The Chinese are beginning to make the cases for themselves, as the Japanese did long ago; for the most part only the movements to fit are sent to these countries. The amount saved to the buyer is extremely small. The manufacturers have tried vainly to introduce clocks of an improved form and movement; but there is practically no sale for anything other than the octagon style, which can be shipped in any position, and therefore first made their way so far east. The nickel alarm clock goes to the mining camps of Alaska and the Hudson bay posts of British North America and to North Africa and Arabia—even to the tents of the Bedouins. In the orient, however, the sale is small, as it is to all indolent peoples. Queer orders come to the manufacturers from such places. The catalogues of the various firms drift through many countries, being carried to this place by a commission salesman and to that by a traveling merchant, being lost and found and traded and sold, gathering business for the firm all the time. Often orders arrive in New York that were put in the mall in some out-of-the-way corner of the world six or nine months before. It turns out usually that the selection is made from a long out-of-date catalogue, and sometimes it happens that the clocks are out of date, too, being made no more at all. When such orders are filled the packing cases are wired tightly, as they are in all shipments to eastern countries; for the thieves are many and find it easy to loosen a board and abstract clocks from the cases in transit. A Renegar'e Englishman. The edifor of Voortrekker, a Krugeradorp paper, which has gained notorietly of late by its violent attacks on the British race in general and the troops in particular, is an English curate, and late head master of Allwai public school. Iron gates, through the bars of which landscapes and gardens could be seen and admired, were brought into vogue by a settled feeling of public security, says the Magazine of Art. They were among the earliest outdoor ornaments of a civilization which had become national in its force and industrial in its aims. They proved that the social spirit, long fostered by religion, by commerce and by law, had at last triumphed over the fierce pride, the tyrannical lust of power, which during so many years had set the nobles at variance with one another and with growing townships, making the drawbridge and the armored gate of wood as necessary as were a good sword and a heavy suit of mail. Thus the smith's craft, after long ministering to the needs and passions of those unquiet times when war was an instinct, became, little by little, not only the agent of a warfare which had been raised into a art, but also the necessary friend of many peaceful industries; and we all know that our own civilization is bound up with the history of iron, is really dependent on the active working of this metal. Long may it be so; for a general decay in ironworking has ever been a sign of national weakness. Thus it was in Italy, in Flanders, in Spain, as Mr. Starkle Gardner points out in his well-known handbooks on smithing; and thus we see how readily we may pass through an iron gate into the vast field of modern history—the history of civilization in Christian times. As might have been expected, iron gates were first set up on sacred ground, within church and abbeys. They were known then as grilles or screens, and they inclosed the choir and the added side chapels. A very old one has been handed down to us—namely, the St. Swithin grille in Winchester cathedral, that takes our thoughts back to the red-handed days of William II. These gates, we must remember, were slowly evolved out of much older type of grille, a grille in bronze, which came into use either late in the seventh century or early in the eighth. Other ecclesiastical gates of iron have yet to be mentioned; they were of later date, and were put outside a good many sacred buildings. Some are still extant in this country, the oldest of all being probably those in front of Cirencester abbey, which are supposed to be early Elizabethan. Like the younger gates at Canterbury cathedral, they close the principal doors. TWO BLUFFS. A Pleasant Meeting Between the Editor and the Reporter. Jack Rogers was a newspaper reporter and broke. He had hung around the Dubuque newspaper offices for a job until he had been requested to move on. So he decided to move on to Des Moines. But how to get there was the question. Jack put on his thinking cap, and the result was that two hours later he found himself on a train and the conductor standing by his seat. "Ticket!" said the conductor. "See here, conductor," said Jack, easily, "my name's Rogers, and I'm a reporter on the Des Moines 'Air Blast.' I'm broke and I'm in a hurry to get back home with a big scoop. You let me ride and the office'll fix it up with you. See?" "Well," said the conductor, "I guess that'll do all right. The road feels friendly toward the 'Air Blast.' In fact, the editor is in the back coach. Come along and I'll introduce you. If he says you're all right it goes." Jack was knocked all in a heap at the turn things had taken, but he had nothing to do but to follow the conductor. They halted in front of a man in the coach, and the conductor said: "Mr. Smitem, this is Mr. Rogers. He says he's a reporter on your paper, and wants the office to pay for his transportation when he gets to Des Moines." "How do you do, Mr. Rogers?" said the editor pleasantly, extending his hand. "Glad to see you. Sit down here with me." The conductor didn't wait for any more, but went off. "Well, this is nice of you," said Jack, too astonished and embarrassed to talk straight. "Of course, I'm not on your paper, but I'm broke and yarned to the conductor, hoping to get a job and square it up later." "Oh, that's all right, my boy," said the other. "Neither am I on the paper. I'm only riding on the editor's pass."—San Francisco Bulletin. What the Dog Got. A very curious circumstance happened at Clinton in the fox hunt recently. The dogs were hard on the heels of a fox, when the fox darted into a hole, but some obstruction impeded its passage, and it only entered far enough to conceal its body, leaving the end of its bushy tail sticking out of the hole. When the men came near they saw one of the dogs tearing across the field with the brush in its mouth and the fox flying in another direction, with nothing left of its beautiful tail but the skinned stump. The dog had literally pulled off the hide, and having obtained the brush retired from the contest. Several shots were fired at the fox, but failed to bring him down.—Hartford Courant. Making Her Happy. Sunday-School Teacher—Have you made anyone happy this week? Little Girl—Yes'm. Mrs. Highuph has a baby, and it's a awful squally, red-faced little brat; but, we'n I met Mrs. Highupp yesterday, I told her she had the sweetest, prettiest baby I ever saw. There are critical moments in every life when we must act and act quickly.—Rev. D. C. Garrett. FAIR INDIAN WOMEN. CONSENTED TO VISIT THE PARIS EXPOSITION. Charming Neola and Blue Wing—The Latter of Whom Feared That Death Would Follow if She Had Her Pleture Taken (Special Letter.) Doubless all women want to go to Paris in 1900, but an unkind fate will keep most of them at home—at least most white women. Two Chicago Indian women, however, are certain of the joy, and remarkable to relate, they ratier undervalue the opportunity, and are decidedly of the opinion that they would much prefer to remain on this side of the ocean. These two women are the Princess Neola, last of the royal family of the Tuscarora Indians, and Blue Wing of the Winnebagos. Neola comes of a family distinguished not only in Indian annals, but in the records of the United States. Her uncle was a military attache to President Grant. She is the wife of Mr. George Fuerst, a trapper and guide, and chief assistant to Mr. Thomas R. Roddy, who has charge of the Indian ex- BLUE WING. hibit at the Paris exposition. Neola speaks English fluently and correctly. She was educated by her aunt, Caroline G. Mountpleasant, the peacemaker queen of the Senecas (Wolf tribe). Mr. and Mrs. Fuerst have a beautiful six-year-old son, who will accompany them to Paris, whom they call Ock-cok-ah, which means the third child born. In point of physical beauty Ock-cok-ah seems to combine the nobler characteristics of both white and red races. So much of the old belief does Neola yet entertain that when she sets sail she will doubtless consign several balls of red feathers and tobacco to the waves of the stormy Atlantic. These balls will, in Neola's imagination at least, prevent the evil spirits dwelling beneath the waves from swallowing her soul, and so keeping her forever from the happy hunting grounds. But if Neola is superstitions, still more so is Blue Wing of the Winnebagoos. She is a pretty and bashful girl of 18 summers, or thereabouts. Not only is she fearful of the ocean voyage, but she was moved to tears when Mr. Roddy insisted that she have her photograph taken. Blue Wing was educated on a reservation in Nebraska, and all her book learning could not eradicate her belief that sure and sudden death would follow the photograph episode. But her picture was taken last summer, and Blue Wing is still a beautiful and blooming Indian girl—by no means a spirit. These two women—Neola and Blue Wing—owe their forthcoming visit to Paris to Mr. Roddy's eloquence in overruling their Indian timidity. And it is Mr. Roddy's rare power of understanding the character of the red man which has given him a career more unique than that of any of the Indians in his outfit. City of Crime The Italian city of Artena, situated about forty miles from Rome, is known as the City of Crime. Ever since the sixteenth century every criminal who has escaped from prison or done his time has emigrated to Artena, and today practically every inhabitant is a criminal or the child of criminals. Every family takes the law into its own hands, and it is reported not a day passes without many murders being committed in the streets. The Italian authorities have now come to look upon Artena as hopeless, and remark that it is far better that criminals should kill criminals than that innocent persons should be their victims. It is said that on one occasion, when 23 murders had been committed in that city in one day, the fact was reported in one of the Italian papers in the following terms: "Since our last issue (24 hours before) there have been 23 sudden deaths in Artena." And no further notice of the murders was taken or expected. May Crowd Out Much Iron. Experiments in the Sibley laboratory at Cornell (N. Y.) university have shown that an alloy of aluminum and zinc possesses remarkable qualities. It is white and takes a fine finish, and is equal in strength to cast iron, but superior in elasticity. On the other hand it melts at so low a temperature that it can be liquefied in a ladle over an open fire. In the liquid form it fills a mould, running into all the small parts much better than brass, but it is more brittle than brass. Its use does away with the foundry furnace, and its technical advantages are obvious. The strength of this metal is 50,000 pounds per square inch. 1. ONGEVITY OF THE JEWS. From time immemorial physical vigor has been considered an essential condition to longevity, and yet the Jew satisfy this condition. Physically, the Jew is poorly developed. Centrifugal oppression have stamped out his physical vigor, if not his vitality. The European Jew is undersized, and markedly so. His mental vigor, however is unimpaired, and probably on the whole is superior to his neighbor's. He is a city dweller and betrays the inherent dislike for hard manual labor or for physical exercise or exertion in any form. He is averse to out-of-door sport. He prefers to live by his brain, rather than his muscle. His chest capacity is limited, and he possesses many other features of physical degeneracy. In fact, his physical makeup is what one would expect to find in a short-lived man. And here is a surprising feature. Possessing so few of the elements so long considered as necessary to longevity, the Jew is probably the longest lived of any race of people now in existence. His tehacity of life is remarkable. In spite of the social conditions which surround the mass of the Hebrew population the world over, and especially in the large cities of America, where they form a large percentage of the population, the death rate among the Jewish inhabitants is but little over half of that of the average American population. William Z. Ripley, in his papers on the racial geography of Europe in the Popular Science Monthly, discusses the question very ably and very fully. He states that if two groups of infants each, one Jewish and one of average American parentage, be born upon the same day, one-half of the Americans will die within 47 years, while the first half of the Jews will not succumb to disease before the expiration of 71 years. According to Lomboso, of 1,000 Jews born 217 die before the age of 7 years, while 453 Christians, more than twice as many, are likely to die within the same period. The immunity of the Jewish population from accident on account of their indoor occupation, will account for some of the discrepancy, but on this very account they should be more liable to epidemic and other disease. This is not wholly true, however. They show an abnormally small proportion of deaths from consumption and pneumonia, which are responsible for the largest proportion of deaths among the American population. Prof. Ripley ascribes their immunity from this, as well as from other diseases, to the excellent system of meat inspection prescribed by the Mosaic law. Hoffman says that in London as much as one-third of the meats offered for sale are rejected as unit for consumption by the Jews. Probably the temperate habits for which the Jews, as a race, are noted will account to some extent for their longevity. AN ASPIRING CAT. This family cat is certainly a family's pride. It is not every cat that has the common sense to climb a ladder, and rest quietly while the photographer makes a picture. Every cat hasn't common sense, anyway, for some members of the feline race don't know enough to leave alone the backyard fence at midnight. But here is a graceful exception to the rule. Probably kitty has been trained from childhood to "do tricks" such as this, and educated cats are very interesting. One frequently sees troupes of trained dogs on the stage, but troupes of trained cats are almost unknown. Here C "PETER THE FIRST." evidently is an opportunity for the lover of animals to gain a new occupation. evidently is an opportunity for the lover of animals to gain a new occupation. A Movement Against Footbinding. There is now in China an energetic movement to abolish the barbarous custom of footbinding. This custom, it may be said, is not universal throughout China, never having been adopted by the Memchus and Tartars. This class, fortunately, now includes the Dowager Empress—the best thing that can be said of her—and the imperial princesses, and the example of royalty as well as in Europe has had more effect upon the public mind to induce an abolition of the barbarous custom than all the work of missionaries and the more enlightened Chinese combined. Handy Dog. Among the good points of a dog advertised for sale the other morning were these: "He will eat anything and is very fond of children."—Clineinnati Enquirer. BELOVED BY DEWEY. BUT DEATH CLAIMED HIM FOR ITS OWN. The Late J. uut, Brumby, the Admiral's Flag Lieutenant at Manila—He Was a Close Personal Friend of the Admiral—Son of Georgia. The death of Lieut. Thomas M. Brumby, which occurred in Washington recently, removed another of Admiral Dewey's gallant officers who were with him at the naval battle in Manila Bay. Brumby was the flag lieutenant of Dewey during the Manila campaign, and was besides a close personal friend of the admiral. The latter reposed great confidence in his flag lieutenant, so much that it was he who was sent as Dewey's representative to Admiral Von Diedrichs, in command of the German squadron, after the battle of Manila, when the actions of the German admiral were so annoying to the American commander. Brumby did LIEUT. THOMAS M. BRUMBY. his work well and the affair was smoothed over in a manner satisfactory to all concerned. Lleut. Brumby was born in Georgia 44 years ago, his father being Col. A. V. Brumby, who commanded the Fourteenth Georgia Infantry during the civil war. Col. Brumby was for some time principal of the Georgia Military Institute at Marietta, where his son remained for a time. Young Brumby attended school at Atlanta and then went to the Annapolis Naval Academy, where he was graduated in 1879. He saw service on coast survey vessels and receiving ships for some time and was commissioned a lieutenant in 1893. His commission as flag lieutenant to Commodore Dewey dated from January. 1898. Lieut. Brumby returned to this country with his chief and was made a popular hero. A couple of months ago he received a rousing reception in Atlanta, Ga., where he was presented a sword and the freedom of the city. Soon after his return to Washington he manifested symptoms of tropic fever and November 25 was sent to Garfield hospital, where his death occurred. The remains of Lieut. Brumby were taken to Atlanta for interment. The lamented officer has an aged mother residing in Marietta, Ga., to whom Secretary Long sent a letter of condolence, expressing the esteem in which her son was held. A HOSPITAL CAR It Is a Unique Feature of Belgian Railroads. In Belgium there is in use in her railway systems a specially designed hospital car, which is available in case of serious railway accidents, and also to convey invalids from one point to another, as from inland towns to health-giving seaside resorts. The interior has a large main compartment with two small rooms at the end. In the larger room are 24 beds, with two small windows, which can be opened, in front of each, a movable table being provided, which can be lowered over each bed. There are lockers in the corridors for the chests, provisions and linen. If necessary a portion of the large room can be shut off from an operating room. In connection with this railroad hospital is a small chapel for religious services. In view of the serious accidents which often occur upon our own railroads such a hospital car should form a part of the equipment of every wrecking train. These accidents often occur in places remote from hospitals, and the victims are of necessity subjected to much inconvenience, if not actual danger from poor accommodations and lack of proper care and timely attention. With such a car, with surgeons and nurses always ready for an emergency call, the victims of a railroad disaster would be much better and more speedily cared for, and could be at once taken to well-equipped hospitals in the city. On the humanitarian side this would prevent much needless suffering, and even death. On the financial side it would materially lessen the amount of damages against the railroad. Last of the Maoris. Judging from the recent report of the registrar general at New Zealand, that fine martial race, the Maoris, is going the way of all aborigines whose country has been colonized by the whites. They may not become absolutely extinct for a few more decades, but their doom is sealed. Among the causes officially assigned for the thinning of their numbers are the high infantile mortality resulting from improper food, exposure and the want of ordinary care, constitutions, debilitated by past debauchery, the belief in native doctors and neglect of the sick, and the adoption of European habits and costumes, leading to diseases of the respiratory organs. Don't wait until sickness overtakes you. When that tired feeling, the first rheumatic pain, the first warnings of impure blood are manifest, take Hood's Sarsaparilla and you will rescue your health and probably save a serious sickness. Be sure to get Hood's, because Hood's Sarsaparilla Never Disappoints A MINNESOTA FARMER Does Well in Western Canada Virginia, Mon, Nov 18, 1909 Virden, Man., Nov. 18, 1899. Hon. Clifford Sifton, Minister of the Interior, Ottawa, Canada—Shr: Thinking that my experience in Manitoba might be both useful and interesting to my fellow-countrymen in the United States who may be looking to Manitoba and the northwest with the intention of settling there, I have much pleasure in stating that through information received from Mr. W. F. McCreary, immigration commissioner at Winnipeg, I was induced to visit Manitoba in February, 1898. When I called upon Mr. McCreary he spared no pains to give me all the information, etc., in his possession, the result of which was that I came here with a letter of introduction from him to the secretary of the Virden Board of Trade. That gentleman provided me with a competent land guide, and, although there was considerable snow on the ground, I had no difficulty in selecting three homesteads for myself and sons. Having made the necessary homestead entries at the land office in Brandon, I returned to my home in Lyon county, Minnesota, and came back here in May following, accompanied by one of my boys, bringing with us two teams of horses, implements, etc. Our first work was to erect a temporary shanty and stable, after which we broke and leveled seventy-five acres and put up thirty tons of hay. I went back to Minnesota about July 20, leaving my son here. I returned in October, bringing my family with me. I found that the land we had acquired was of good quality, being a strong clay loam with clay subsol. Last spring I sowed 100 acres in wheat and fifty acres in oats and barley. (Seventy-five acres of this grain was sowed on "go-back" plowed last spring.) My crop was thrashed in October, the result being over 2,700 bushels of grain in all. Wheat averaged fifteen bushels per acre and graded No. 1 hard, but that which was sown on land other than sod ("go-back") went twenty four and one-half bushels per acre. To say that I am well pleased with the result of my first year's farming operations in Manitoba does not adequately express my feelings, and I have no hesitation in advising those who are living in districts where land is high in price to come out here, if they are willing to do a fair amount of work. I am ten miles from Virden, which is a good market town, and nine miles from Hargrave, where there are two elevators. This summer I erected a dwelling house of native stone and bought a half-section of land adjoining our homesteads, for which I paid a very moderate price. There are still some homesteads in this district, and land of fine quality can be purchased from the Canadian Pacific Railway company at $3.50 per acre on liberal terms. Good water is generally found at a depth of from fifteen to twenty feet. I have 175 acres ready for crop next year. The cost of living here is about the same as in southern Minnesota. Some commodities are higher and others lower in price, but the average is about the same. I remain, your obedient servant. (Signed.) JACOB REICHERT. Gullt of Men and Women. An article on "Women and the Emotions," by Prof. Mantogazza, in the Humanitarian, says that man bears false witness 100 times to a woman's 17; man for forgery and counterfeit coining was convicted 100 times to a woman's 11; in France women are summoned before the tribunals four times less than men. Taking the whole of Europe, women are five times less guilty than men. -Tit-Bits. Vast Silver Output of Mexico For 300 years Mexico has produced one-third of all the silver that was mined. The production at present is more than $60,000,000 annually. Go to your grocer to-day and get a 15c. package of Grain=0 It takes the place of coffee at 1 the cost. Made from pure grains it is nourishing and healthful. Instel that your grocer gives you GRAIN-O. Accept no imitation. WINCHESTER GUN Catalog Free Send your name and address on a postal, and we will send you our 156-page illustrated catalogue free. WINCHESTER REPEATING ARMS CO. 174 Winchester Avenue, New Haven, Conn.