The American Citizen

The only Daily and Weeklv Negro paper in this section of Country IT'S NO USE TALKING ABOUT VOTING IF YOU DON'T REGISTER WHY NOT ATTEND TO THIS MATTER RIGHT NOW THE HEIRS DIVIDE $10,000. Colored Man Who Found the Treasure Is Given $580. Cincinnati, March 7.— Nearly a year ago Charles Lawson, colored, while digging in the cellar of a building adjoining the Fair on 6th st, discovered $10,000 worth of bonds. They had belonged to the Britting bros, who buried them years ago. Lest week the bonds were sold, and brought $18,203.80. Seven of the heirs gathered today in the office of Archer & Osler, and a division of the proceeds was made. Martin Britting, a dancing master of Covington, received $7,066.90, and the other six heirs $1,565 each. Lawson the negro, was given a reward of $500. The Brittings were nearly all in poor circumstances, and were not aware that the bonds were in existence until Lawson made the find. The Brittings chief Chief of Police Delitsch for turning the property over to the probate court for distribution among the heirs, and today the case was dismissed. Appalling State of Affairs Exists in a Jackson, Miss., March 7.— An official report made to the Hinds county board of supervisors reveals an appalling state of affairs in Jonesville neighborhood, in the southern part of the county. The community is literally honeycombed with smallpox of the most virulent and loathsome form and during the past six weeks nearly 160 deaths have occurred. On some days the death rate has been so large that it was impossible to secure coffins, and rude caskets were made from rails. Whole families have been wiped out of existence and of several families only one or two children are left. Many of the patients who are new in a critical condition are without medical attention, and are dying at the rate of from three to five per day. The death rate exceeds, 75 per cent and the entire lower portion of the county is generalized. The board of supervisors will make an effort to check further spread, and at its main session carte blanche was given to the physicians to purchase supplies and medicine. A bill for forty-three coffins used within the past two weeks was allowed. TO THE NEGRO VOTERS OF THE NORTH SIDE. It is long pass the time that we, as a race of people, should stoop to do one another any low, dirty and mean trick. This is no time for trading horses. Let us be men, stand up in every stage of the game for what is right. With a unit-ed effort on our part and the help of a few Republicans that glory in principle, we can sleet Squire Lee, Constable of this district. Let us for once quit what can justly be called—"niggerism" and stand by Squire Lee. A WORD FOR OUR DAILY. It is of no consequence to hide behind this excuse and that—the Daily Citizen is here, and is here to stay. What it has been in the past many of you have helped to make it. What it will be in the years to come you will also make it. We are aware that it has not come up to all expectations in many respects but money, time and hard work will yet cause us to pass the most sanguine expectations of many—who will neither help us financially or speak one word of consolation in our favor. We are endeavoring to the best of our ability under much oppression, to establish in your midst a paper, that by its continued growth, will not only benefit you alone but the race in particular and the public in general. You have boys, you have girls—what are they going to do in life? How many business houses are open to them, on every hand we face the barred doors to an intelligent respectable and honest avenue of exiting out an existence. Will you help us break down these bars? We cannot hope to force open the different avenue unless you lend us your aid. The only sure and speedy way this can be accomplished is to establish, patronize and push business enterprises of your own—thus giving employment to your own boys and girls. It is the same old story, you can talk, heller, whoop and get wrathy, but you just as well quit your meanness and acknowledge to facts. Put your shoulders to the wheel and help shove the wagon up the hill. Waken you withhold your patronage from one single colored enterprise you place a stumbling block in the already narrow path of the race. The Second Baptist church Sabbath School), of Kansas City, Mo., will enrol deavor to raise a neat sum Sunday, fo the Orphans Home. VOL 13, NO. 3 SMALL POX RAG ING. REV. J. R. RICHARDSON TO LEAVE (Republished from our Daily by Request.) Rev. J. R. Richardson pastor of the First Baptist church whose resignation we print below has during his pastorage in our city made a host of friends. His labors here have been very productive. His presence has been an inspiration and as he leaves us soon, for new fields of labor he carries with him the best wishes and God speed of a host of people. During his stay in our city he has been one of our faithful friends and true to the Christian gentleman that he is, has been the friend of every negro enterprise of worth. Did this city posses more men whose hearts beat for and whose pocket books were in sympathy with the race and its struggles we would indeed be a better people grander and nobler in every respect. As in death the fairest of flowers are called first, so in life, we have met this Christian gent leman in all parts of the city, giving words of encouragement to the weary, soothing the broken hearted and admistering to the wants of the poor, that he will be missed goes without saying, that his post can be filled with another Richardson is nigh impossible for in his make up as a man he stands alone. The following Resignation has been accepted and soon Rev. J, R. Richardson takes his departure. KANSAS CITY, Ks., March 6, 1900. To the Members, Brothers, Sisters and Friends of the First Baptist Church. Dear Brethren, there is a time, or times, when necessity, wisdom and prudence, in keeping with our better judgment suggest separation from the warmest and friendlil est, which it is our duty and divinely ordered, and that duty seems to be a task, for it deals with our tender st sympathies, our sweetest affections, puri st joy and keenest senses. For it lies he availly on our conscience and our conscience are seated amongst and surrounded by a corps of strong constituencies that guards faithfully everything that's true, just, pure, holy and good amidst the sweetest test of adversity and darkness. First, "know thyself." Know thyself to be honest. Honest to every man, woman and child, sick or poor, learned or unlearned, deaf or blind, old or young. Be honest to them, theirs, then you can worship God in spirit and truth. Second, "know thyself," to have deep convictions of righteousness, temperance, goodliness, love, joy, peace and moral truth, of a deep rooted, sound faith in the Gospel, and you may know God, for 'God is Truth.' Thirdly, "Know thyself," know why you accept chaff for wheat, darkness for light, truth for error, ignorance for innocence, fiction for faith falsehood for truthfulness, raying and raging for reason, weakness for weeping. 'Know thyself,' find out thine own usefulness, your own possibilities, find out your own capabilities as a Christian, know thyself as an officer and as a member of the body of Christ, know thyself as a husband, as a father and as a citizen. Eighteen and ninety-four brought us together on the first Sunday in July, as pastor and flock, Shepherd and sheep—a family, therefore I resign the thirteen thousand in the state and your four hundred and fifty, rather than resign the state work, and remain at home. We collected for the church six thousand, five hundred dollars and twenty-eight cents, ($6,500 28.） There has been added and reclaimed to fallen sheep three hundred and fifty, preached one hundred and twenty-five funerals, married one hundred and steed at the bedside of two hundred and twenty-five sick and dying. Many have been honest and faithful they thanked God, and testified that a fervent prayer availeth much. We fed, warmed and clothed, with your help, three hundred and ten. buried by the church 3, and God has blessed us Your kindness to my family in sickness and health, your donation, your hospitality, open doors, warm room, fires and prayers have knitted tight and made strong the bonds of affection. I love you. I can't forget you. Every stream, every sea, has its billows, every care its serpents, every wicked heart its malice, every night its dancing ghosts, but I thank God they are very scarce, feeble and blind. I have had no occasion to accuse to man or God. I feel like a son leaving a loving parent, a brother leaving his only sister, and biding his dear brother good bye at the grave. AMERICAN KANSAS CITY KAN., FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 9, 1900. RESIGNATION But duty is duty, whatever it cost. I hope to meet you who have helped me you who have stood up and out for God hope to meet you who have stood out for the truth and the weak. Some of you wept and prayed with me, some sacrificed with me, we'll meet, we will leve perfectly and see clearly and understand thoroughly. Brethren, if I go first I'll get the Taylors, the Vincents. Mobleys, Romines, Browns, Smith and my mother, and her children, and we will come down to meet you—we will meet at the gate or stand under the shade of the Tree of Life. Brethren, live right, advise right, live for others, do not divide, be strong, stand fast, quit yourselves like men, do no strive to rule but to be ruled, do not fight to lead but to follow. There is more honor, beauty, joy, peace, love, fondness, God, Christ and religion, in filling your own place, than the other man's place. "Know thyself." Good night. Good bye. I am yours until death, J. R. RICHARDON. DEATHS. Mrs. Addie Bird of Kansas City Mo. daughter of Mr. Geo. Duval of 5th and Virginia who died Thursday in K. C. was buried yesterday afternoon in this city. Uncle Rushin of State ave, between third and fourth died Wednesday funeral possibly today. The little son of Mr. and Mrs. R. C Clark of the firm of Clark and Lee died yesterday of pnuemonia. Mrs. Malissa Davis, of 8$7 Nebraska avenue, died Wednesday, age 38 years. The funeral of Little Ollie K. Clark the 10 months and one day eld son of Mr. and Mrs. R. C, Clark of 845 N Jersey avenue who died yesterday will be held from the residence to-day at 10:o'clock Rev E. A. Wilson will officiate. BITS OF NEWS Remember that you need to register. Don't forget that, it is so very important. Laurence Calloway, of 257 Franklin avenue, is quite ill. The First Annual Ball of the famous Sextette with Rileys celebrated Orchestra at the Armory Hall Monday night promises to be the swellest event of the season. All the latest dances. A merry time for all Admission 25 cents or 50 cents a couple. Grand March led by Mr. and Mrs. B. S. Smith. Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Thomas entertained Rev. and Mrs. E. A. Wilson at tea yesterday in honor of Rev. J. L. Lyons, Ph. D., of Harrisburg, Pa., and his niece, Miss Woods, of Kansas City, Ma, and a very social and pleasant time was had. Anniversary Services will be held at the M. B. church on next Sunday a most entertaining programme will be rendered. Extraordinary efforts will be made to raise $100 on this day. Mrs. Mary Davis of 3481 Minn ave who has been confined to her bed for the past week is improving and her many friends hope she will soon be able to be out again Let us remind you again lest you forget that Squire Lee, is a candidate for constable of the North Side city court. Now it is a settled fact you cannot vote unless you have regis- tered, what is the use of fooling around when you know this, go right away and register then you can yell Lee, Lee, all you like and vote for him too. UNION SOLDIERS I will purchase additional rights of a who homesteaded less than 160 acres, prior to June 22nd 1874, even if they a bandoned their claims. Will buy fractionals if ever so small, also Government Land Warrants. Agents Wanted. R K.Kelley, 444 Sheidley Building. Kansas City Mo.. SATURDAY NIGHT. The famous Markee family Band consisting of a mother, father and 11 sons will give a grand concert at the Fifth Street Opera House. Also high class rag-time and many choice vocal selections will be rend ered b the mother Mrs. Lucy Markee, Admission 15 25 and 35 cents. They Say. It is clearly evident that the Derby Race will be alright. Bids are now being received for music on that occasion. Much speculation is rife as to the name of the horses to be entered. For information we will say Clerk Aclé is the steed who trotted it i 2.4. in the Garfield handicap. She will bet her money on the horse from the Sea Foam Block. Pard and Pards will be at the races. Mr. B. J. has called the Rabbit Foot club together to talk over the possibility of putting out some of their trotting stock. Much pressure has been brought to bear on the management of the coming Derby to postpon them till after Lent, it has been about decided to have them after the season of ashes and sack-cloth. The following are the Declarations adopted by the Tuskegee Negro Conference, at the session, Wednesday, February 21, 1900: 1. More and more, as a race, we feel that we are to work out our destiny through the slow and often trying processes of natural growth rather than by any easy, sudden, or superficial method, and while we are trying to make our-selves worthy citizens we ask the patience and good will', and appeal to the sense of justice of our white friends. 2. We desire to reaffirm what we have advised in previous years that, while not overlooking our rights as citizens, it should still be our main concern to use our energy in continuing to secure homes, better schools, a higher degree of skill, and Christian character, and in the practice of industry and economy. 3. We believe the race is making slow but sure progress, and we are glad to note the growing interest of the best Southern white in our elevation, as shown by the various conferences, held by them, for the discussion of the race problem. 4. We would call attention to the fact that our people, charged with crime, and in Southern prisons, have, as a rule, litte or no education, and are largely, without industrial and moral training. 5. We believe that the openings in the South for employment, especially in the direction of skilled labor, were never greater than now. 6. We urge all to become tax payers and to promptly pay their taxes, to keep out of the courts, to cease lapping on the streets and in public places, and to prepare to do well the work which the best interests of the community demand. Both in the Same Box. A parson who occasionally preaches in south London arrived to take the place of the vicar, who had been called away on account of some family bereavement and found an old and rather asthmatic lady struggling up the steps which led to the front door. He courteously gave her his arm to assist her and when they reached the top the dame asked him if he knew who was going to preach. "Mr. So-and-So," replied the parsen, giving his own name. "Oh, dear me," exclaimed the old lady; "help me down again, if you please; I'd rather listen to the groaning and creaking of a windmill than sit under him," and she prepared to descend. The parson gently assisted her downstairs and sighfully remarked as he bade her goodby: "I wouldn't go in either if I weren't the preacher." To Test Wall Papers Arsenic is very often present in the pigment used for wall papers, and as every one knows, if one covers one's walls with a paper containing deadly poison one's health must suffer. It is important, therefore to select wall papers which do not contain arsenic, and the method of testing them is simple in the extreme. Take a piece of paper and light it, and if arsenic be present you will notice an odor present like that of garlic. Do not inhale the smoke. Another way of testing the paper is to pour over it a little diluted hydrochloric acid. If the greens in the pattern become blue in this treatment it is because they contain arsenic.—Home Notes. Freaks of Explosions. Gunpowder explosions have one remarkable feature. The bodies of persons killed in such an accident are always found without clothing, but frequently one foot will have the shoe on. This is true of horses also. If one of the feet is in the air and another on the ground, the shoe will be found on the foot that was on the ground, and not from the other one. When men are killed in powder explosions the foot that happened to be in the air when the shock came will be found wearing the shoe, while the other foot will be bare. CITIZEN Baclll in Hair. Washington Times: A scientific investigator, who lives in Tunis, where beards are in fashion, has discovered that these hirsute adornments fairly swarm with bacilli of the most dangerous and violent character. He regards the clean shave as a prerequisite of immunity from awful things. But, if the whisker and the mustache are the happy hunting ground for bacillus, it is hard to believe that he does not equally inhabit the capillary covering of the head, in which case the Chinese clean shave, omitting the exception of pigtail, would appear to be the natural evolution in the direction of safety. Should public taste ever agree with revealed science, perhaps a bald head may be something to seek instead of avoid, as at present. Chinese Thrift A dollar in the hands of a Chinaman represents far greater purchasing power than it does in the hands of a European. In China a dollar will purchase 1,500 pieces of cash composed of copper and zinc. These cash, with a hole in the center and strung on a cord, weigh seven pounds. A servant or common laborer in Peking is glad to give 10 days of labor and a carpenter or mason six days to secure this amount of cash. This money would give a comfortable support to an average family. Three dollars a month, or $36 a year, would cover the living income of a Chinese family of the working class—Atlantic Monthly. Cause of Ill-Shaped Faces. The feather pillow, it is claimed, is the most fruitful source of ill-shaped faces. To its use may be attributed the accumulation of most of the flesh of the face around the mouth and nose, and forming around the mouth those concave lines called by the "Autocrat of the Breakfast Table" the parentheses. If the reader, when next in a crowd, will but open his eyes and gaze about him, he will find in the faces of those in the crowd, or most of them, deep prints of the hand and the pillow. There will be many tiny, deep-sunken eyes that have been thrust far back into the head by frequent hard rubbings. 1900 Not a Leap Year. The reason why 1900 will not be a leap year, although it is divisible by four, is that according to the Gregorian system, on which our calendar is based, the closing year of a century is never a leap year unless it is exactly divisible by 400. The next leap year will be 1904, the last having been 1896. Ever since 1600 the leap years at the end of a century have been separated by a gap of eight years, but the year 2000 will interrupt the series. Kapsas Luck. The women of Wichita have been canvassing the town for subscriptions in aid of the poor. They tackled Mr. L. R. Delaney of the Santa Fe in a cigar store. He had just one nickel in his pocket. He took this out, walked over to the slot machine, and dropped it in. Out rolled $5 in nickels, which Delaney piled into the apron of one of the women. The Lord works in mysterious ways his wonders to perform. Didn't Want Much. Washington Spec. Chicago Record: A recent number of a London paper contains this advertisement: "Wanted, a man of light weight, who fears the Lord and can drive a pair of steady horses. He must, Lord willing, arise at 7 o'clock in the morning, obey his master and mistress in all lawful commands, sing psalms and join the household prayer, look after the horses and occasionally wait on the table." Women on Street Cars. In Chill women are employed everywhere as trein conductors. There was so much dishonesty among the men who were formerly employed that the tram proprietors filled their places with women, who have been found in every way satisfactory. They wear a neat uniform, work well together, and even run a small newspaper among themselves. Gold and Silver Purses Of sterling gold are the links of the wee purse. The gold mount is particularly handsome. These little purses are also seen in sterling silver and in steel. The steel are handsomen than the silver, but, of course, the golden purse is far and away the most gorgeous of them all. Army's Physician Requirements Modified. The requirements as to physical proportions of recruits for the army have been modified. A variation not exceeding ten pounds in weight or two inches in chest measurement below the standard will be permissible if the applicant is otherwise healthy. "Origin of Grog." Grog is derived from a nickname given by the sailors to the admiral who first caused rum and water to be served in the navy. of Country TTER RIGHT NOW Part of the Brain That Keeps Names. An Austrian savant has declared that the human brain contains a "name center." He says that it is the office of this cell to retain names. A striking case which would seem to confirm this theory recently occurred at Cleveland. A brakeman was shot by a conductor, and the former could not remember the names of persons and things, although he could perfectly well describe the functions of all articles exhibited to him. A surgeon probed for the bullet and found it in the exact spot necessary to affect the remembrance of names, according to the Austrian's theory. When the pressure of the brain had been relieved the patient remembered names as well as he had done before his injury, and told the name of his assailant.—Scientific American. Highest Clock in the World. The clock on the Philadelphia city hall is the highest in the world. It has the largest dials. If the dials were out of the way and tracks were laid, two trains could pass each other running through the holes. The glass in the four faces is fastened there by a ton of cement. The glass, if laced on the ground, would make a walk a square long and ten feet wide. The minute hand will finish its year's journey by completing a 110-mile trip on New Year's day. It is expected that this minute hand will travel 110 miles annually for many years to come. The clock is strong, and the minute hand is phospher bronze, and weighs 250 pounds. Where Goldfish Are Propagated. About three miles south of St. Joseph, on the King Hill road, is located one of the Missouri state fish hatcheries. Its chief interest lies in the fact that it is the only place in the state or in the country anywhere, where goldfish are propagated and distributed. Here these little aquarium beauties may be obtained for a mere "thank you," and many are they who avail themesles of this privilege. From October until January four goldfish each are given to every citizen of the state until the supply is exhausted. Gounod's Lost Opera. Few people are aware that Gounod once, in a moment of anger, tore up the manuscript of an opera he had composed, and, though he afterwards repented of his action, he was quite unable to recall its melodies. Gounod's opera "Faust" was nearly lost to the world by the religious scruples of the great composer. About the time he wrote it he determined henceforth only to write sacred music, but, happily for posterity, he thought better of his resolution. Rare Old Bible Found. A wonderful old Bible has just been discovered in Venice, the fortunate finder being Leo S. Olschki, a well-known antiquarian of Florence. It is in five large volumes, and was printed in Rome in the printing house of Don Pietro Massimo in 1471 and 1472. Soon after it came from the press it was purchased by a patrician family of Venice, and it was in the archives of this family that Olschki discovered it. A Czar's Novel Visiting Card From the Ladies' Home Journal: The Russians tell a story of the late Czar Alexander III. that upon the rare occasions when it was incumbent upon him to pay a call he would take a gold coin bearing his "image and superscription" and twisting it between thumb and finger leave it in lieu of a card—the only man in Russia who had strength for the feat. American Bottles the Best. American bottles are preferred to all others for the export trade, and especially in warm climates where American and English goods come into close competition. American glass is said to stand tropical climates better than the English, the reason being that it is better annealed. Transvaal Minerals. The Transvaal is the richest country in the world so far as minerals are concerned. In 1877 England annexed the Transvaal, but evacuated it in 1881. In 1848 England conquered and annexed the Orange Free State, but evacuated it six years later. Boer Horses Well Trained. The Boer horses are remarkably well-trained animals, and when the Transvaalers desire to form an ambush or firing line, their horses are taught to remain stationary as soon as they feel the reins dropped over their necks. Best Heads of Hair Fair-haired people have the best heads of hair, 140,000 to 160,000 being quite an ordinary crop of hairs on the head of a fair man or woman. Can't Whistle on Sunday. The trains are to be forbidden to whistle within the limits of the city of Toronto on Sunday. The American Citizen AMERICAN CITIZEN PUBLISHING AND PRINTING CO. Daily and Weekly $35 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. This paper or some Negro paper should be in every Negroes home to keep posted on what the race is doing. As this is the only Negro Daily in this part of the country it ought to receive hearty support. The American Citizen. Directory. Of KANSAS CITY, KANSAS AND KANSAS CITY, MO Church Directory 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. CHRISTIAN CHURCH 21st between Summit and Madison, *Augustine Mission*, 1025 Troost ave METHODIST EPISCOPAL. Asbury Chapel, 1620 Cherry street. Burns, 11th S. W. Cor, Highland ave Clark's Chapel, 819 S. W. Boulvard 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- bell street. Lincoln High School 816 East 11th st. Page Rochester N.E. Cor. Prospect Avenue. Penn 4241 Shawne. Business Directory. J. A. Wilson Jeweller 1616 W. 9th st. Chandler's Barber shop, Samuel Chandler Prop. S LClen ens Mgr 112 East 6th street. Restaurant Mrs Amus Prop. 114 East 6th street. Field's Barber Shop 102 East 6th stree Miller's Barber Shop 113 East 6th Midland Barber Shop Harsy Parson Proprietor 1 5 East 6th street. Palace Barber Shop Oarth & Warfield Proprietors 550 Grand Avenue. O' Bannon' Barber Shop W.T. O Bannon Proprietor 560 Grand Avenue. Manila Barber Shop Madison Bros. Proprietors 709 Independence avenue. McRay's Barber shop Ben McRay Proprietor 819 Independence avenue. D. M. Mitchell, Barber Shop, 576 Grand ave. Langston' Barber Shop 718 East 8th st Walker's Barber Shop 806 East 12th st H. J. George, barber shop, 1307 w 9th st. Cowden,s Barber Shop 704 East 12th st Restaurant J.W Gordon Prop. 554 Grand avenue. Restaurant H Powe Proprietor 572 Grand avenue. Restaurant Andrew Clark Proprieter 723 Independence ave. Saratoga Cafe L. Mason I proprietor 805 Independence ave. Chicago Cafe H Compton Proprietor 66 Independence avenue. Maupin's Barber Shop 1332 E 18th st. Brown's Barber Shop 1329 E 18th st. Berry's Barber Shop 1432 $ \frac{1}{4} $ E. 18th st Grocer, George Grear, Prop. 1211 E. 18th st, Physicians and Surgeons. 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. Grocery, A. Webb, Prop 19th and 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 10th Clark, & Lee, [junk store, 1104 north 3rd. st. Kansas City Kansas Soap Works, 4th. st., between Oakland and Freeman. J. R. McClain, Grocer, 1700 n 5th. st. J·R. Ruecker, Buteher, 1609 n 16th. st Douglass Hospital, 312 Washington ave., Miss L. V. Ashton, Matron. CHURCHES. METHODIST. St. James A, M. E., cor. 7th. and Ann. St. James M. E., Freeman ave., between 9th and 10th. C. M. E. Oakland ave., bet. 4th. and 5th. CHRISTIAN. 8th. St. Christian, cor. Everett and 8th. 9th. St. Christian, cor. 9th. and Nebraska. BAPTIST. 1st. Baptist, corner 5th. and Nebraska avenue. Metropolitan Baptist, cor. 9th. and Washington. Mt. Zion Baptist, Virginia ave., between 4th. and 5th. Mt. Pleasant, 3rd. st., between Oakland and Jersey. Rose Hill, Jersey ave. bet 9th. and 10th. Pleasant Green, Wood St. and Split-log ave. King Solomon Baptist, 3rd. and State avenue. 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. E. Stoakes 1510 N. 3rd st, BARBERS. J. T. Roberts & Tucker, 507 Minnesota avenue. south av. nw. J, Gross, 412 Minnesota avenue. G. McClellan, 613 Minnesota ave. M.T. Comer, 608 Minnesota ave. Robt. Keith, 315 Minnesota ave. M. Pattison, 1603 north 3rd. st. SHOEMAKERS. Lon McAdams, 34$ Minnesota ave. D. W. Wynne, 309 Minnesota ave. Lewis Blenchard, North 6th., State Line. Wilson, 5th. st. between Nebraska and State. J. W. Ready, No. 1609 $ \frac{1}{2} $ n 10th. st. HALLS. M. & O., 1306 north 8th. street. Sons of Protection, State and 6th. DRUGS. Wyandotte Drug Store, 1512 north 5th. street. S. H. Thompson, 1512 north 5th, st. 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. TOPERA LOCALS The Club Honor will dance Tuesday eve, March 6th, at 118 West 8th, st. Mr. Thomas Starnes is quite 1. Miss Lizzie Spaldi g, is also numbered among the sick. Mr. N. Cniles and Little Messer Davis who have been confined to their rooms with chickenpox are able to be up again. Ross Johnson, recently of Kans, City died Saturday evening at the residence of his father Rev. Johnson, and was buried Sunday afternoon from Brown's Chapel A. M. E. Church. Mrs. Nannie Blakeman, died of consumption Monday right at her late residence 1213 Lincoln st. She leaves two small children a devoted husband and a host of relatives and friends to mourn her loss. Mr. Geo. Moss was united in marriage Tuesday eve, to Miss, Jennette Rodgers of St. Charles Mo., The body of W. M. Jackson, a colored farmer, was found near the Roek Island railroad tracks a mile north of Kilmer, last night. It is supposed that he was struck by a snow plow Monday night. One leg was severed and his skull was crushed. The engineers who passed over the road Monday night did not know of the accident. The body was brought to Topeka last night. Jackson owned a good farm north of Topeka, and was a member of the G. A. R. An inquest will be held. Daisy McNeal daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph McNeal died and was Finest Barber Shop in the City. Hair Cutting, 25c, Baths, 15c., Shaving, 10c., Newly Remodeled Bath Rooms, Poreelain Tubs. GEO. McCLELLAND, SOLE AGENT FOR Crane's Toilet Soap OF WYANDOTTE CO., KS. 612 Minnesota Avenue, Kansas City, Ks. DRUGS, MEDICINES, CHEMICALS, Fine Toilet Soaps, Brushes, Combs, Etc., PERFUMERY AND FANCY TOILET ARTICLES. W. B. RAYMOND. 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AND HICKORY Rags, Bottles and L scrap iron, rags, bottles and metals, Wh Here's the place where you can get correct we SAM'L. D GREAT JUNK SHOP. Wholesale and Retail. Office 811 Hickory 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 Retail dealer in junk. Here's the place where you can get correct weight and square dealing. SAM'L. DIGGS. Telephone, No. 126 Hickory, Kansas City, Mo. READ THE DAILY and GO J. W. JO ICECREA The only Ice Cream Parlors in th get the BestIce Cream Soda, and Pies, Cakes AND Special attention paid to C Ice Cream, wholesale, £75 to 90 o a call. Corner 6th. and State street KANSAS CITY American Citiz LY and WEE GO TO W. JOHNSON CREAMPARK Cream Parlors in the two Kansas Cities Cream Soda, and Ice Creams, FI Cakes AND Confection attention paid to Churches, Lodges and p holesale, $75 to 90 cts. per gallon. Don't 8th. and State streets, TY 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 Publication Notice. In the District Court, of Wyandotte County, State of Kansas. Walter Grant, Plaintiff. The State of Kansas, to Blanchie Grant, greeting. You will take notice that you have been sued in the District Court of Wyandotte County, State of Kansas, wherein Walter Grant, is Plaintiff, Blachie Grant, Detendant, for a divorce on the grounds of gross neglect of duty and other allegation, and unless you answer demur or otherwise object, on or before the 10th of April, 1900, the allegations of said petition will be taken as considered to be true, and upon proof, judgment will be entered as prayed for, granting to said plaintiff an absolute divorce from you. L. W. JOHNSON & C. W. FRYE, Attorneys for Plaintiff. SUPPLIES PURPOSES AT ALL HOURS ANCE OF THE SICK AND WOUNDED ave. Telephone West 32. and Riverview Ave. Telephone 28 NK SHOP. and Retail. Kansas City, Mo. ER 8th. AND HICKORY. tles and Metals. tles and metals. Wholesale and Reta you can get correct weight and square SAM'L. DIGGS. Kansas City, Mo. can Citizen, WEEKLY. TO JHNSON'S MPARLOR. the two Kansas Cities where you can Ice Creams, Fine Lunch, Confectionaries churches, Lodges and parties. s. per gallon. Don't fail to give us KANS The Drill by eighteen young ladies recently at the Fifth Street Opera" House will be repeated for the benift of the M. B. church. Mrs Mosby of Splitlog and Wood studied yesterday morning and will be buried Sunday from Pleasant Green Baptist church. Nearly 100 people attended the fune ral of a dog at Industry, Kans., the other day, says the Wichita Eagle. "The animal was a neiborhood pet, and once belonged to John Gilbert, who some years ago, in Dickinson county, murdered his entire family. The dog was placed in a nice casket decorated with flowers, and quired with elaborate ceremony." At the annual oratorical contest of the literary societies held in Wester ville, O., recently, Joseph Hannibal Caulker, native of Africa, took place His subject was, "Our Relations to the KANSAS A. C. L. COAL CO. 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Meals served in Pullman Palace dining cars on the restaurant pian at prices most reasonable. All cars lighted with the celebrated Pintsch Light. Only one running two trains without change from Kansas City to Denver Low excursion rates on sale to Colorado-Utah Idaho, Oregon. Washington and California. Don't complete your ars rangements 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. B. FRAWLEY. Gn . Agt., Union Pacific, 1000 Main e.g. KINGS 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., mee on the second and fourth Monday nigh at their hall, 1734 Grand avenue o'clock p. m. Visiting brethren welcome. JOHN S CANNON. J. W. WHEELER. C C. Queen Ester Court No. 43. I. O. I. 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James Porter, a Negro, said to be 108, the oldest resident of Jessamine county, Kentucky, and one of the best known colored men of that county, died Half good wont dol A “ may-cure” cough medicine won’tdo. If it will “perhaps” do its work, it’s worse than worthless. If it’s good, it’s worth ten times its Do you know where to draw the line between the good and the bad? This testimonial | should help. weds an Sas getline lief whatever. My little girl read about Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral be- ing such a wonderful remedy for coughs, so I bought a bottle. It relieved'me at once. renee seh Stennis aceuet aoe it is the most wonderful cough mixture ever known."—L. Haws, Neiwington, Ont., Bay 3, 1899. | Your doctor or druggist will bear us out. Three sizes: $1.00 size, cheapest in the long run: oc. size, just the thing fora cold that “hangs on”; 25¢. size, for an ordinary, mean, dis- agreeable cold, "elder Mottled in 1850. Mr. Warren Rowley of No. 41 Wind- sor ‘avenue, who is one of the most widely known of the older residents of the North end, passed the 824 mile stone on life's journey on Tuesday. During the evening members of his family and friends met with him, and ss a reminder of old days he brought out one of three botties of elder which he bottled himself in the year 1850. He remembered the incident well,.and that the cider came from Mr. Gurdon'e Place in the Blue Hills section. With all its years it was very palatable, not at all “hard,” and haying an odot faintly but distinctly that of cider brandy.—Hartferd Times, RT ee }Try Grain-O! ; Try Grain-O! | 3 Ask you Grocer to-day to show yon | packageof GRAIN-O, the new food ‘ drink that takes the place of coffee. { ‘The children may drink it without ; injury as well as the adult. All who « try it, like it. “GRAIN-O has that ; $ rich seal brown of Mocha or Java, : $ but it is made from pure grains, and | $ the most delicate stomach receives it ; $ Withoutdistrest. } the price of coffee. 15 cents and 25 cents per package. ; $ Sold by all grocers. , ‘Tastes like Coffee Looks like Coffee Inwst that your grocer gives youGRAIN-O | 9, Accept no imitation. eOPOTIICEEI I. ES: From fe4g9 Factory to USER, ae Saree a iso ene eT ae istpin ‘acres eel oer! ieictusarnatentiiayee Gives erect Scag alg a Ee eee in yaa eewae punne came Sass Ope nee, 4 neces , Ns ers. rg Fe | PRE A Hel ist pRaW iy "" a.tbe fled with a macktntost é ‘ ae DR. ARNOLD’ 'S COUG ROSEBERY IN FAVOR. MAY AGAIN BECOME BRIFAIN’S PRIME MINISTER. Petes oid om Wor ageiat the toun ates pcan enallay Sentiment in Great Britain is begin- ning to set in toward Lord Rosebery, and if present indications hold good he may eventually become prime minis- ter again. Lord Rosebery’s recent speech in the house of lords has Lrought him into high favor with tose who are not exactly satisfied with the way in which the war is be- ing carried on in South Africa, Some of his friends are stoutly urging him ‘or the portfolio of foreign affairs in Lord Salisbury's cabinet, wnile others are shrewdly hinting that he might serve the country to better advantage in Lord Salisbury'’s place. Just at present Lord Rosebery is doing effect- ive work by reason of his strong per- sonal influence coupled with his judi- cious exercise of the privilege of free speech in parliament, and he Is satis- fied to remain where he is, but if it becomes necessary to make some change in the administration of affairs he will probably yield to popular pres- sure and aecept the premiership. This description is given of Lord Rosebery: Tn person he is a little man, with cul- . oy tivated tastes and a fine presence, al- ways paying great attention to his dress, but never a fop. He fs the fifth earl of his name, the title having been given to his ances- tor in 1703. He was born in 1847 and succeeded to his title when barely past his majority. In 1878 he married Han- nah, the daughter of Baron Roths- child, and heir to his immense prop- erty. Twice in succession he won the derby—in 1894 with Ladas and in 1895 with Sir Visto. In the same years, 1894-95, he was prime minister. Lord Rosebery’s oratorical gifts manifest- ed themselves at a very early age, and as a member of the house of peers he has often been called upon to put these gifts to account. His many pub- lic services outside of parliament have won him great thanks. Especially did he accomplish good things for the elty of London while chairman of the Lon- don county council between 1889 and 1892. He has been Lord Rector of the universities of Aberdeen and Edin- burgh and has done much for educa- tional interests in Scotland. His ideas are in the main very liberal, and while he has been often accused by his opponents with dealing more in word than in facts, in practical life he has been very effective, putting his ideas to good use. For instance, the ten- ants of his large estates, both in Eng- land and in Scotland, have much cause to rejoice at the enlightenment of their landlord. Joke Reacted on Her. A Portland woman wagered a box of chocolates with her young man and lost. One evening when they were on the way to a whist party, she produc- ed the candy. During the evening the young man thought that to pass the chocolates around would be a nice thing to do, but the young woman earnestly protested when she saw what her escort contemplated, told him the chocolates were intended all for him, ‘and even threatened not to like him any mere if he gave any of them away. He concluded to run the risk of in- curring the lasting displeasures of his best girl, and invited the company to help themselves. The confection look- ed too tempting to resist, and so the ‘acceptance was general. Then a very remarkable scene ensued, which would give a man from the street the impres- sion that a new social diversion had been introduced in the shape of a spit- ting contest. The chocolates had a soap filling, and the whist party came to a premature end. The innocent vic- tims have not yet forgotten and forgiv- en, while the young man fs cogitating whether it would be safe for his future happiness to ask the young woman to leave her happy home for him.—Wake- ville, Me., Mail. a aati ate ai a A minister in a town not a thousand miles away, on a recent Sunday sur- prised his audience by reading the fol- lowing announcement from the pulpit: “The regular session of the Donkey club will be held as usual after the ser- vice. Members will line up just ont- side the church door, make remarks and stare at the ladies who pass, as is their custom. Any member known to escort a Indy to church like a man, and sit with her like a gentleman, will be promptly expelled from member- ship.” The effect was marvelous.— GENERAL SPORTING, ‘CURRENT EVENTS IN VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS. ‘The Death of the Marquis of Quoons- berry Recalls His Connection with the Rules That Govern the Art of Self- Dotense—Het the eat Orighhate ‘The marquis of Queensberry, whose name was most prominently associated in the public mind with the boxing rules which bear his name, died on Feb. 1, as announced by cable from London, England. He was born July 20, 1844, and succeeded to the title in 1858. He visited America in 1882, shortly after having been barred from his seat in the house of lords as a rep- resentative Scotch peer on the ground that he had been heard publiciy to deny the existence of a God and an- nounce his adherence to free love doc- trines. That he was not the originator of the boxing rules bearing his name is shown by the appended extract from Land and Wate: of London, written in 1886, not long after the death of J. G. Chambers, sporting editor of that jour- nal, and identified with rowing and boxing: “Nineteen years ago the marquis of Queensberry, himself a good boxer, taking much pleasure in the sport, placed three silver cups as prizes for sparring among amateurs in the hands of the late Mr. Chambers. Beautort house grounds was the first venue chosen for the contests, and the open- ing meeting, in 1867, gave sufficient in- @ication that sparring competitions among amateurs would soon become an institution, and an essentially English pastime added to the category of Brit- ish sports. For a long time the ‘Queensberry cups’ held their own, and the annual meeting would, no doubt, have been the chief boxing event of the present day had the ar- rangements met with the approval of the large number of boxers who were called into existence thereby. When the cups were given, the donor, if we remember rightly, made no stipulation as to how they were to be awarded other than that they should be held for a year, There were no rules as to the duration of rounds, and the decision of the judges, who called ‘time’ whenever they pleased, were not always satis- factory. The ‘Marquis of Queensberry’s rules,’ therefore, of which we hear so much, as a matter of fact never ema- nated from the marquis himself, and his name has for many years been made use of for professional glove fights in England, America and the col- onies in the most unwarrantable man- ner. His lordship, however, is a thor- ough sportsman at heart; consequently his reticence in the matter may be ac- counted fer. During the progress of these challenge cup competitions, which on and after 1869 took place at Lillie Bridge grounds, most of the best amateur boxers of the day until re- cently have taken part in them; and if sufficient reality was not instilled into the earlier contests to please some of the ‘gluttons’ of the present day, the sparring generally was by no means to be despised. At one time the uni- versities sent competitors to West Brompton, but as boxmg became more and more popular the exclusiveness which for so long was maintained was broken down. Many amateur boxing clubs were formed in London and dif- ferent parts of the country, and al- though at first their entries were not always acceptable to the ‘executive,’ they could not be very well excluded, and the old order of things became changed. The Amateur Boxing asso- ciation started about five years ago, in- stituting championships under fresh rules and regulations, and as they held their meetings in London the Queens- Aen y oy lee ‘SS Ril Vy hae, Mell “ee Wu UG Bg cs ee ; sa Me Ca fame \ \ Zr PN. Ge ELIT MARQUIS OF QUEENSBERRY. berry cup championships became far less attractive.” eed cs eh cee Those who believe that Jim Corbett and Jim Jeffries will clash at an early date are likely to be a bit disappoint- ed, writes Macon. In the first place, Jeffries’ left arm, the tendons of which were torn and injured by a “medicine ball” while he was in training for his bout with Tom Sharkey, is far from being well. There is a bare possibility that it will never be as sound as it was before the accident. Jeffries knows that if Corbett gets into anything like first-class condition he will not be an easy man to defeat. Corbett is fully aware of the extent of Jeffries’ in- juries, and I have no doubt that it was because of that information that he was so desirous of getting the first chance at the champion. That is one reason for the doubt. Another is the fact that Jeffries will not risk his rep- utation with any good man unless he has the assurance that his left arm will de @ fool to fight again in a crippled conditivn, as he was when he met Sharkey. The fight will take place in Apriz, } ities ttt Set fe Joe Goddard is still on earth, and be- Meves he has enough stamina left to stand a few more fights. He is matched to box Sharkey six rounds in Philadel- phia, Peter Maher and Gus Rublin in all probability will meet soon. Maher is anxious to tackle Rublin in a limited- round bout, and Peter Lowry, the Irishman’s manager, says that he is prepared to sign articles. Visitors to the Paris exposition will probably have an opportunity of wit- nessing several important internation- al fistic events, William A. Brady has decided to hold a fistic carnival during the exposition, in which the best box- ers of England and America will take part. McGovern and Palmer may meet there again. Tom O'Rourke is wrathy over the criticism that has been heaped upon him of late. He says: “I've had ab- solutely no connection with the Broad- way club this year, and yet most of the criticism which has had to do with the Choynski-McCoy fight has been leveled against me, Whatever my sins may be, I am as innocent of any con- nection with that mill as is the man in the moon.” ‘The Champion Woman Bowler. ‘The dest woman bowler in the world is Miss Rose M. Murray of Toledo, Zep Zz La os = OB fue/ S a WK iow) a a \ Ws 3 [. a\ Me if PEON X ret WW ROSE M. MURRAY. Ohio. Miss Murray is fond of athletics of all kinds, but has developed a pro- ficiency at tenpins that makes her the equal of any bowler in Toledo, where the game is very popular. She recently rolled a total of 236, and to show that it was no fluke rolled another score o! over 200 on the same day. Miss Mur- ray works hard in an office all day Her father is so pleased at her skill at tenpins that he is having an alley built in his residence. Bam Wise Still in it Sam Wise, the veteran player, whc has been in active service on the greer diamond for nearly a quarter of century, intends placing ‘a semi-profes- sional team in the field at his home ir Buffalo, N. Y., next season that wil give the best of them “a hard run for his white alley.” Wise said, in recent ly speaking about his team: “I am going to get up a team that will sweer the “semi-profesh” off the map o! western New York. Why, we will just eat them up. They will think that the champion Brooklyns are in front o! them. Why, look at my colts and talk sevenup to me. There is Billy Nash Elt Chamberlain, Dan Stearns, Higt Patton, Doc Amole, Jimmy Kilroy Puddles Boehm, Joe Dobson Jack Bat tles and your Uncle Sammy, beside: many others on the reserve list. Dé you think that there is another base- ball aggregation within 100 miles thal can stand up before us? If you know of any have them send their challenge: early, for we expect to be a very bus} team when the season opens.” Gites Seimei amamneae ‘The young duke of Westminster is said to care little for the turf. It ap pears that the great racing stud of the late duke is the property of his widow and the young man has no interest whatever in the racing horses. A num. ber of the horses will be sold shortly. Bech Olsen, the wrestler, who ar rived in this country recently, is de- scribed as a tremendously big fellow standing more than six feet high. Hi: match with Ernest Roeber for the world’s championship will be ai Graeco-Roman style, best two in three falls. “Muggsy” McGraw declares positive ly that he will stick to the new Amer fean association, all reports to the con: trary notwithstanding. McGraw wil probably manage the Baltimore team ‘if the new organization becomes ¢ reality, and it looks very much as i ‘it would. It was a clever move on th part of the new association when i signed a lease of the Union park bal grounds in Baltimore, thus leaving National league club in that city with: out a playing field. Last season the Cincinnatis were th first into training quarters. They wen! south a week in advance of any othe! league team. This year the St. Loui: Browns will break the ice. They wil go to Hot Springs March 1, one wee} in acvance of the Reds. It is quit likely that the Chicagos will also trair at this favorite health resort. Th Pittsburgs will do their training a’ ‘Thomasville, Ga., or Asheville, N. 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Millions of Women Use Cuticura Seap Exclusively for preserving, purifying, and beautifying the skin, for cleansing the scalp of crusts, scales, and dandruff, and the stopping of falling batr, for soften ing, whitening, and soothing red, rough, and sore hands, in the form of baths for ‘annoying irritations, inflammations, and chafings, or too free or offensive per- spiration, in the form of washes for ulcerative weaknesses, and for many sanstive antiseptic purposes which readily suggest themselves to women, and especially ‘mothers, and for all the purposes of the toilet, bath, and nursery. No amount of persuasion can induce those who have onve used it to use any other, especially for ‘(reserving and purifying the skin, scalp, and hair of infants and children. Cure / cona Soar combines delicate emollient properties derived from Coricuma, the great skin cure, with the purest of cleansing ingredients and the most refreshing.of dower ‘odors. No otk er medicated or toilet soap ever compounded is to be compared with it for preserving, purifying, and beautifying the skin, scalp, kair, aud hands. No other foreign or domestic toilet soap, however expensive, is to be compared witht | for all the purposes of the teilet, bath, and nursery. ‘Thus it combines in Oxa Boar at Oxe Price, viz., Twenty-Five Czn7s, the bzsT skin and complexion soap, ‘the rst toilet soap and rest baby soap in the world. Giticuara S22 tet eT a ty Se ae eee The Sot, $1.25 fase Grae eters encase a Dems wahoo ed eg i Se gan a, Cost of Christmas Gifts, It is estimated that $10,000,000 were spent for Christmas gifts in Philadel- phia, $13,700,000 in New York city, $9,- 200,000 in Chicago, $5,000,000 in Bos- tom and $2,000,000 in Washington. Love ot har, which often mars the prettiont tae, "isoasooust, ie bestcure fc. 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Blood Humors Are Cured by Hood's Sarsaparilla "I always take Hood's sarsaparilla in the spring and it is the best blood purifier Miss Pearle Griffin, Baldwin, Mich. It Purifies the Blood. "Erupt'ons that came on my face have all disappeared since I began taking Hood's Sarsaparilla. It cured my father of catarrh." ALPHA HAMILTON, Bloomington, Ind. Cures All Eruptions. "I had scrofa sores all over my back and face. I began taking Hood's Sarsaparilla and in a few weeks I could any sign the sore's gone. I Moore, Mount Hope Wls. Eradicates Scrofula. Killed in Spanish Bull Fights. The average number of horses killed in Spanish bull-fights every year exceeds 5,000, while from 1,000 to 1,200 bulls are sacrificed. C. P. R. Immigration Literature. The Canadian Pacific Railway Company has just issued two excellent immigration pamphlets for 1900—"Western Canada" and "British Columbia"—which contain a great deal of useful and accurate information about the country west of Lake Superior, and are of special interest to those who contemplate settling either in the Canadian North west or British Columbia. Large editions of these pamphlets are distributed gratuitously in Great Britain and the United States, as well as throughout the Dominion, and are eagerly read by those who are seeking a new home and desire to know something of the best country in the world in which to find one. For pamphlets and further information address J. Francis Lee, Genl. Agt. Pass, Dept., 228 So, Clark st., Chicago, Ill. A man may shun other men, but he can't get away from himself. MAN'S MECHANISM Delicate Machinery That Needs Constant Care. Absolute Cleanliness and Regulation as Necessary as for Any Other Kind of Machinery. How to Keep it in Working Order. There's a screw loose somewhere! One little screw in the big machine gets a trifle loose and the whole apparatus clogs, balks and refuses to work properly. A skillful engineer can tell by the "feel" of his engine when there's a screw loose. Occasional constipation—call it costiveness or billiousness—needs prompt attention. It clogs the whole delicate mechanism of man, and must be removed skillfully without force or shock. Only a vegetable laxative should be used, and Cascarets Candy Cathartic, which you can eat like a piece of candy, are the most agreeable, natural and effective of all laxatives. Cascarets are the only antiseptic cathartic, and not only make the liver lively, remove obstructions in bowels, strengthen the intestines, but kill all germs of disease in the body. Therefore prevent as well as cure. Buy and try Cascarets to-day. You'll find them in the store, but do not what we say they'll do, that will leave drummers, 10c, 3c and 50c, or will mail for them. Set, booklet or free sample. Address: Sterling Ave., Co., Chicago; Montreal, Can.: New York. This is the CASCARET tablerunner, the genuine Cascarets bears the magic letters "C C C." Look all the tablet before you buy, and use it with imitations and substitutes. CCC IS LIKE NAPOLEON. "OOM" PAUL TO BE CONFINED ON ST. HELENA If the Tide of Battle Goes Wrong with Him In South Africa—Rumor Predicts This Fate for the Grand Old Farmer President. The statement that has been going the rounds of the English press to the effect that if Oom Paul Kruger is captured he will be imprisoned on the island of St. Helena, draws attention to this island retreat, which has been immortalized as the home of the first Napoleon. The island, which lies over 1,000 miles west of Africa, was discovered by the Portuguese in 1501. At that time the discovery was of considerable importance, for the island lay on the route of ships going around the world, or part way around it, to India, and it was looked upon as a safe and convenient stopping place for vessels. The island was accordingly well stocked with "goats, asses, hogs and other cattle" for the benefit of passing ships. The first human inhabitant arrived in 1518, and the event came about in this way: The Portuguese had won a victory in India, and had taken captive a number of Portuguese deserters. The victorious general ordered that the deserters should have their ears, noses, right hands and left thumbs cut off, and that they should be sent in that condition back to Portugal. But in returning they were mercifully landed at St. Helena, where they were given poultry, fowls of different kinds and partridges, and other wild fowls were set free on the island for them. Vegetables and fruits were also left that they might have subsistence. The few inhabitants grew in numbers and prospered, planting fruit trees and vegetables, which grew abundantly. In June, 1588, Thomas Cavendish, the English explorer, sighted the island, and the first account of it was given to the English public. In 1600 the British West Indies company was organized, and the island was more frequently visited by the English as well as by the Portuguese. But the latter people had made numerous settlements along the coast of Africa, and they no longer needed the island for the benefit of their ships on the way to India, so they abandoned it. Thereupon the Dutch seized it with alacrity. But in the middle of the seventeenth century also abandoned it, leaving it for the more promising colony of the Cape of Good Hope. It is interesting to remember that it was at that time that the Dutch took their hold on South Africa, leaving a way for the English to occupy St. Helena. Out of the Dutch occupation of Cape Colony, followed in the beginning of the century by the English occupation thereof, has arisen the present trouble in the Transvaal. It would be passing strange if that trouble should result in President Kruger's occupation of the island. When the Dutch left for the Cape of Good Hope the English took possession of the island of St. Helena; that is, the East India company took it, for a stopping place for their ships. The first governor of the island under English supremacy erected in 1658 a fortification. In 1672 the Dutch recovered the island by strategy, but the next year the English regained possession. From that time until 1834 the island remained in possession of the East India company. It then became a possession of the British crown. The event, however, which made St. Helena famous for all time was the banishment of Napoleon Bonaparte to its rocky shores, and his death there after the battle of Waterloo. Napoleon landed on St. Helena in November, 1815. The population of the island was then but a hundred or so more than 4,000. The former emperor occupied a residence and grounds known as "Longwood." This was situated on a plane at the summit of a mountain about 2,000 feet above the sea. The grounds embraced 1,500 acres, and were three and a quarter miles inland from the little town of Jamestown. Here it was that the great soldier spent his last days, and it was here that he finally passed away May 5, 1821. Value of Small Change "It isn't safe to start out without a pocketful of pennies any more," remarked a member of the House the other day. "Yet I can remember when I came down into this section of the country, in army blue about thirty-eight years ago, a five cent piece was very small potatoes. We were camped awhile out here in Virginia, and my headquarters were in the big plantation home. A son of the house and myself became good friends, although he was five and I nearly thirty-five. One day, in lieu of the candy, which I had forgotten to bring him from the near-by town, I gave him a silver half dime. I had forgotten all about the incident, when some two weeks later he came into my room, and, opening his hand, held out to me on his little pink palm the silver piece I had given him. 'Heah, Mr. Captain, you can have it back', he said plaintively. 'It won't buy nuffin'."—Washington Star. Just Like a Man. When a young man, the late John Lewis, R. A., went to India and Egypt, and was away about eighteen years. When he returned to his mother's house in Portland place he almost immediately pulled off his boots and commenced to hunt about at one end of the parlor fender, and seemed terribly put about. His mother, of course, asked him anxiously what he wanted. "My slippers," said he. "When I went away I left them just down there. Now, where are they?"—London Tit-Bits. A NOTED JUDGE SAVED BY PERUNA. 8 HON. GEORGE KERSTEN, OF CHICAGO. Hon. Geo. Kersten, a well-known Justice of the Peace, of Chi- "I was afflicted with Catarrh for nine years. located chiefly in my head. I tried many remedies. I applied to several doctors, but they were not able learned of the remedy, Peruna, through the daily new taking the remedy for 18 weeks I was entirely cured. cure permanent, as it has been two and a half years sin Hon. Geo. Kersten, a well-known Justice of the Peace, of Chicago, says: "I was afflicted with Catarrh for nine years. My catarrh was located chiefly in my head. I tried many remedies without avail. I applied to several doctors, but they were not able to cure me. I learned of the remedy, Peruna, through the daily newspapers. After taking the remedy for 18 weeks I was entirely cured. I consider my cure permanent, as it has been two and a half years since I was cured." Any man who wishes perfect health must be entirely free from catarrh. Catarrh is well-nigh universal; almost omnipresent. Peruna is the only absolute safeguard known. A cold is the beginning of catarrh. To prevent colds, to cure colds, is to cheat catarrh out of its victims. Peruna not only cures catarrh, but prevents it. All families should provide themselves with a copy of Dr. Hartman's free book entitled "Winter Catarrh." This book consists of seven lectures on catarrh and the l grippe delivered at The Hartman Sanitarium. It contains the latest information on the treatment of catarrhal diseases. Address Dr. Hartman, Columbus, Ohio. HOT SPRINGS.ARK Forty Thousand Injured Yearly. The commissioner of labor statistics for New York state estimates that not fewer than 40,000 people are injured in manufacturing industries of this state yearly. Beware of Ointments for Catarrh That Coutain Mercury. As mercury will surely destroy the sense of smell and completely derange the whole system of the body, such articles should never be used except on prescriptions from reputable physicians, as the damage they derive from the good you take internally will derate from the Hall Cure. Manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Foledo, O., contains no mercury, and is taken internally by the body to absorb and mucous surfaces of the system. In Boulevard Hall's Catrarch Cure you sure get the genuine, taken internally, and made in Toledo, Ohio, by F. J. Cheney & Co., free. Sold by Druggists, price 75c per bottle. Hall's Family Pills are the best. Dormant American Volcano. Scientists make the assertion that there are undoubtedly dormant volcanoes in the United States which will some day become active. NONE SUCH Nothing hobbles the muscles and units for work like SORENESS and STIFFNESS Nothing relaxes them and makes a speedy perfect cure like St. Jacobs Oil will be refunded on receipt of your first order. This catalogue quotes wholesale prices on EVERYTHING you purchase from USE Established JOBE SMITH COMPANY 1957 189 to 166 West Madison St. Order by this No. A 11 CHICAGO, ILL. ```markdown ``` Notice of the Peace, of Chicago, says: h for nine years. My catarrh was tried many remedies without avail. it they were not able to cure me. I through the daily newspapers. After I was entirely cured. I consider my to and a half years since I was cured." All families should provide them- selves with a copy of Dr. Hartman's free book entitled "Winter Catarrh." This book consists of seven lectures on catarrh and la gripe delivered at The Hartman Sanitarium. It contains the latest information on the treatment of catarrhal diseases. Address Dr. Hart- man, Columbus, Ohio. The World's Sanitarium and All-Year-Bound Pleasure Resort, reached only via this line. Resort Sublime Scenery; Delightful Climate; Healing Hot Springs. Pulman Baited Sleeping Cars, without change, from St. Louis. Reduced Round Trip Rates all year round, from all coupon points in the U.S. and Canada. The writer, Company's agents, or H. C. TOWNSEY, General Passenger and Ticket Agent, ST. LOUIS, MO. Salzer's Kape gives Rich, green foe, at 50c. ton BUY NORTHERN GROWN SEEDS Salzer's Seeds are Warranted to Product. Mahon Rich, H.Troy, Pa., astonished the world with his new seed collection. Minicott, Wis., 113 bus. barley; and H. Lovydoy, perf. if you wish, write them. We wish to spend 200,000 new customers, hence will send on trial 10 DOLLARS WORTH FOR 100c. Cornse-Spell, producing 100 bus. food and 4 oats hay per acre; producing oats and barley. Bromus inermis rape, Spring Wheat, &, including our mum- mish Plant. Prouted and Seed Catalog, telling all potato, Great Yellow Potato, Potato, all mailed for 100, portage Seed Plant. $2.20 a bus. and up. Please send this adv. with 10c. to Salzer. 50 pgs captive vegetable, $2.00. Catalog alone, 50c. wnu: — 1,000 NEWSPAPERS Are now using our International Type-High Plates Sawed to LABOR-SAVING LENGTHS. They will save time in your composing room as they can be handled even quicker than type. No extra charge is made for sawing plates to short lengths. Send a trial order to this office and be convinced. WESTERN NEWSPAPER UNION, KANSAS CITY, MO. W. L. DOUCLAS $3 & 3.50 SHOES UNION MADE. Worth $4 to $6 compared with other makes. Indored by over 1,000,000 weeners. The printers' name and price stamped on bottom. Take no substitute claimed to be as good. Your dealer should keep them not, we will send a pair of genuine price and age extra for carrying. State kind of leather, size, and width, plain or canoe. Cat. free. W. L. DOUCLAS SHOES CO., Brockton, Mass. EXCURSION RATES FARMS WESTERN CANADA FREE to Western Canada and particulars as to how to secure 160 acres of the best wheat-growing land in the country. can be secured on appli- cation to Supt. of Immi- gration, Ottawa, Canada, or the undersigned. Spe- cially conducted excursion to Ottawa, Minn., on the first and third Tuesday in each month, and specie all low rates on all lines of railway are quoted for excursions leaving St. Paul on March 26 and Apall 4 for Manitoba. Also available by mail to St. Crawford, 214 W. Ninth St., Kansas City, Mo. MONEY for OLD SOLDIERS Union soldiers and widows of soldiers who made homestead entries before June 22, 1874 of less than 60 acres (no matter if abandoned or relinquished) if they have not sold their additional homestead rights, should address, with full particulars, giving district, &c. KENNY N. GOPP, Washington, D. C. PENSIONS Get Your Pension DOUBLE QUICK Write CAPT. O'PARRELL, Pension Agent, 1425 New York Avenue, WASHINGTON, D. C. Ask your Dealer for Ash Grove Lime The Best on Earth. CARTER'S INK Ever use it? You should. RUSSIAN LACEMAKERS. Pensant Women Who Employ the Winter Hours at This Calling. The Russiax peasant women are among the finest lacemakers in the world. The lace made by them is strong and practically indestructible. The women make heir lace in winter, for during the summer time they are much occupied with agricultural duties. Lacemaking is entirely a home industry, for the peasants even produce their own materials. If they have seed they grow the flax, spin the thread and weave the lace; or, if they have sheep to yield them wool they spin and finally convert it into the celebrated and beautiful Orenburg shawls. Sometimes a woman makes her lace from the very beginning—that is, from the sowing of the flax seeds—that she may even sell the lace for herself, but that is not always the case. It often happens that some women raise the flax and spin the thread and then exchange with the lacemakers, but the whole thing is done by the peasants among themselves, and it is entirely peasant labor, the men even making the spinning wheels and the looms for weaving. The women get up early in the morning, it may be at 4 or 5 o'clock, and they work on until 12 or 12 at night. But for all that they are a gay people, and in the evening a great many will assemble at one house and will sing as they work. Occasionally they will stop for a little while and will dance, and then start working again. They are happy, and as they all work for themselves and have no masters they are at liberty to use the design they like working best and to labor or rest according to their own convenience. Many of the lace designs are old, while others are made by the workers from things they see around them, the frost on the windows being a frequent source of inspiration. Every thread in a piece of lace has to have a pair of bobbins. The children begin with a piece of narrow lace with about ten pairs of bobbins, and experienced workers use more or fewer bobbins, according to the width of the lace. Lacemakers generally live in one place, and the women who do other kinds of work are together in other towns. Near Moscow there is a town which is filled with lacemakers, and on approaching it one can hear the sound of the bobbins. WHOLESALE DEALER IN FAKES "The most incorrigible faker that ever spilled ink on a daily paper is at present a director in a big trust in the northeast," said an old reporter last evening. "The way he got out of the newspaper business was rather peculiar and as the story is now pretty generally forgotten it may be worth telling. He had persuaded one of the big northern dallies to send him on a trip to Hawaii to write up the sugar industry, but after he arrived at 'Frisco he concluded it would be foolish to make a long ocean voyage when there were so many good cyclopedias at hand, and proceeded to grind out his letters from a room in the Palace hotel. The correspondence attracted a good deal of attention, and his description of island life were generally regarded as the most truthful and graphic that had ever been penned. Just how he arranged about getting his remittances I don't remember, but he fixed it somehow and kept the thing up for several months. Then he was supposed to return, and at last really took the train for the east. En route he got broke in a Pullman car poker game. It was then he executed his great comp. He got off at a little town in Arizona and telegraphed his office: 'Just held up by train robbers. Got all I had. Wire me $250.' The office answered: 'Money sent. Rush in full account hold-up.' In response he promptly wired a lurid story of a train robbery on the great American desert, which his paper printed under glaring headlines next morning, and when a few western correspondents denied it later on they weren't believed. The superintendent of the road, however, was very sore, and took the trouble to send a bunch of affidavits to the merry romancer's editor. When the young man was confronted with the proofs he said calmly that a chap on the Pullman had held a sequence flush against his four aces, and if that didn't constitute train robbery he would like to know what did. The argument was ingenious, but it didn't save him. He was ignominally fired, and now, as I said before, he is a bloated trust magnate, rolling in riches. I always thought he would come to some bad end."—New Orleans Times-Democrat. Floors Now Laid with Cork: Cork, as everyone knows, is one of the best nonconductors of heat or sound. That it has not been more widely used in building is due chiefly to the difficulty of obtaining it in an unadulterated form. A product called cork tiling has recently been placed upon the market, which is made of what is known to the trade as "virgin cork," ground, compressed and otherwise treated by a patented process, and which is free from the cement and glue usually employed to hold the particles together. We are informed that the tiles made of this pure, compressed cork form an admirable flooring which, besides being noiseless, waterproof, warm and germ proof, is capable of withstanding hard usage. By varying the degree of compression and modifying the manufacturing process slightly sheets of cork different in color and density are obtained, which sawed and finished in the form of panels, can be used for wainscoting alone, or in connection with cork tile floors—Scientific American. RICHEST FARMING COUNTRY IN THE WORLD. A Complete System of Irrigation Relieves the Anxiety About Rain That Prevails in Other Parts of the United States—East and West Compared. We are permitted to publish an extract from a private letter written by a gentleman who has recently been devoting his time to the personal investigation of practical farming by irrigation in the west. His vivid portrayal of the advantages of that system will no doubt interest our readers. He says: "There is a vast, an immeasurable difference between farming in the east and farming in the west. If the farmers of the east could only be made to understand the advantages enjoyed by their western brethren, I verily believe there would soon be no land for settlement in the great irrigation states. The irrigation farmer has absolute certainty of crop, and certainty of its perfect maturity. He never plants that he does not reap, and when I say reap I don't mean the reaping of scattered stands of half matured grain such as the eastern farmer cuts at the close of a dry season; but the reaping of fields that frequently average 50 bushels of wheat to the acre—every grain of which has reached the perfection of development. There is no anxious scanning of the skies for the cloud no larger than a man's hand' and fervent prayers that it may envelop the heavens and send down water to the thirsty fields. The irrigation farmer never thinks about rain. He watches his growing crops, and the day and the hour moisture is needed, he is out with his hoe flooding his fields with water from canals that skirt them. "Everything grows in the west that grows anywhere else in the United States north of Tennessee. Potatoes frequently yield 500 bushels to the acre, and barley is grown far better than any raised in the east. The fruits are delicious. I never saw any to compare with those grown in Idaho, where apples, peaches, plums, cherries, pears, apricots abound, and where there are thousands of acres of Italian and German prunes which I am told have made fortunes for their owners. "To my mind, Idaho is the best watered and most inviting arid state in the Union. I made a careful investigation of the great Snake River valley in that state, along and tributary to the Oregon Short Line Railroad, and saw there evidences of prosperity such as I have never seen elsewhere in the United States. This wonderful valley is said to contain over 3,000,000 acres of arable land. It is threaded with great irrigation canals in every direction, and there are vast tracts awaiting only the touch of the farmer to make them productive. The sun doesn't shine on finer or more fertile land. When I saw the happy homes, the well filled granaries, the sleek, fat stock, and the smile on the face of nature reflected in a smile of contentment on the faces of the farmers, my heart went out in plty to the thousands in the east who are struggling along from year to year, tolling against adverse climatic conditions, and never knowing how soon a drought will wipe out the profits of prosperous years. "Lands can be bad in this Snake River valley almost for the asking, but they are going, day by day. The Oregon Short Line is making extraordinary efforts to bring the advantages of Idaho to the notice of eastern farmers, and is flooding the country with conservatively written descriptions of the state. Write to the General Passenger Agent of this Railroad at Salt Lake for printed matter about Idaho, and read it carefully. It will be a revelation to you and I sincerely believe will end in your removal to the west." A Queer Superstition. The inhabitants of the Andaman Islands, not far from India, have some strange superstitions and traditions. It is their belief that the first human being fell into the water and was drowned, being transmuted thereby into a whale. The first man's wife and grandchildren went hunting for him in a small boat, but lo and behold, the whale came along and tipped the boat over. The wife was turned into a crab and the little ones became lizards. All fish and many birds they believe to be ancestors who have been change in form. A species of fish which has a poisonous prong on its body, they say, is the form into which murderers are transmuted. Rare Books in Vatican Library The oldest library now existing is that of the vatican and it probably contains more Literary treasures than any other. It belongs always to the reigning pope and only he can give permission to enter. Though there are only 225,000 volumes, they are the rarest in the world. The vatican library has the only known copy of the new testament written before the end of the fourth century; the original Dante, the oldest existing copy of Virgil and a Tecce which goes back to the fourth century. France's Pension System In France military pensions are granted only for wounds or for disease contracted in the service. Their amounts range for privates from $120 to $145 per annum, for corporals from $125 to $153, for sergeants from $140 to $168, and so on up to adjutants, whose maximum is $236. The limit for officers is $600 for captains, $800 for chefs de b'taiton, $1,000 for colonels, and from $1,600 to $2,500 for generals.