The American Citizen

AMERICAN CITIZEN The only Daily and Weeklv Negro paper in this section of Country REGISTER, AND VOTE FOR MAYOR MARSHMAN WHO HAS DEMONSTRATED HIS FRIENDSHIP FOR THE NEGRO THE VOL 13, NO.5 THE LAST CALL. To-day, dear friends, you are called upon to exercise that God given right of free suffrage—you are to decide to-day who shall represent you in the renomination of President McKinley, as well as who shall have the right to aspire for the other various offices in the gift of the people through the Republican party in Wyandotte county. It is to be hoped that there are no doubts in your mind as to who are the proper men to vote for—no voter who has talen part in the battles of the grand old party in this state, county and city, is at a loss to know who to vote for, no man who has property i terest in this community ought to be told how he should vote, no man who has common sense and interest enough to keep up with the signs of the times should need any instructions as to what is just and right, in regard to the various aspirants of the same political faith. There are possibly some men who have had their minds made up right—yet by listening to the eloquence of political speakers have been so confused that at this moment they are at sea. To these, if any there be, we would say, use just a little common sense and you can tell for whom to vote, but if you allow us to advise you, we will tell you, who beyond all reasonable doubts, are the cream of the flock and are deserving of your vote. Mayor Robert L Marshman, our present Mayor, who by his immense popularity is serving his second term, is the man who should be elected to represent us as the delegate to the National Convention from this district. He is as fit, as competent and as justly entitled to it as any man in Wyandotte county. No man will do more towards bearing out the wishes of the Republicans of Kansas, standing up for proper recognition in the division of the spoils and be more ready and willing to help a deserving friend than Mayor Marshman. Give him your vote and you will honestly be doing the right thing. Hon. J. K. Cubbinson, the brainy and elequent lawyer, gentleman, is an aspirant for Senator, the best material we have, the man who always makes himself heard and generally gets what he goes after. He would do more in the interest of struggling humanity, the State of Kansas, and Wyandotte county in particular, than any man that can be sent to the senate at this present time. Among others are D. D. Hoag, for Representative of the 10th District, E. A. Enright, County Attorney, and so on down the line, it is not necessary to name none, because there is no opposition in the ranks against the others. Remember that! In going to the polls on to-day, the feet of every voter should be guided by 'the lamp of experience,' in casting his ballot he should remember that in his comparison of party and man, he has no way of judging the future but by the past." To be able to is to be able to protect one's rights in every way not to be able to vote is to be the foot stool of everybody. Now that you have that right please exercise it to-day and vote, and for the sake of all that is near and dear to you vote for the right. BITS of NEGRO HISTORY. FROM FREE STATE Peter Salem, a negro desired the battle of Bunker Hill by killing Gen, Pitcah. Ex Congressman Robt: Smalls, of South Carolina, was the first negro to command a United States navel vessel. Hiram R. Revels and Blanche C. Bruce, were the only United States senators ever elected who served. They were both from Mississippi. Hons. P. B. S. Pinback and C. C. Antoin, colorel, were each elected lieutenant govern rs of Louisiana early in the 70s. Hons. James Lynch and James Hill, were elected respectively and served as secretary of the state of Mississippi. The Veys, an African tribe, invented an alphabet. Crispus Attucks, a negro fugitive from slavery, fired the 1st gunoftherevolutionary war in Boston while resisting the advance of the British troops. UNION SOLDIERS I will purchase additional rights of who homesteaded less than 160 ac prior to June 22nd, 1874, even if they bandoned their claims. Will buy fractions if ever so small, also Governor Land Warrants. Agents Wanted. RK, Kelley, 444 Sheidley Building. Kansas City Mo.. KANSAS CITY KAN., FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 25 1900. CONSIDER WELL BEFORE YOU VOTE. The negro in the coming political contest in this county this year should carefully consider before casting his vote. Don't listen to the patient talk of politicians but know for yourself the men that are realy your friends when you know a man is a friend of the race stand by him if it takes the last limb. You can only judge the future by the past We have listened to the rantings of eloquent speakers who have at different meetings in this city endeavored to array the negro voters against Mayor Marshman for delegate to the National Convention. They have told them everything but the truth. They have painted Judge Holt as a perfect man and the best friend a negro ever had or ever will have. Now with all due respect to Judge Holt, who is a man of the highest type, yet Mayor Marshman in his make up is equally a man—and so far as being a friend to the negro, what man in Wyandott county holding an office has ever done more for them. In all the political meetings held in the interest of Judge Holt, not five negroes have gotten upon the rostrum to bear out the statement of the white men who would have you believe Mayor Marshman is your worst enemy. Only two negroes have spoken at all the public meetings in Judge Holts interest. One of them served two years under Mayor Marshman, and because he was discharged at the request of a large majority of citizens the beginning of the second term, is now fighting the Mayor and would have you believe he is one of the worst men our city has ever had for Mayor. The fact that such few negroes appear on the Rostrum and denounce Mayor Marshman, shows conelusively that he must be a friend of theirs. Now we ask of you voters that are men, that have some sense of your own and not afraid to exercise the right of manhood, to give Mayor Marshman your vote on to-morrow. Publication Notice In the District Court of Wyandotte County, State of Kansas. Annie Stratton. Defendant. The State of Kansas, to Annie Straton Greeting You will take notice that you have been aused in the District Court of Wyandotte County, State of Kansas, in a certain action, wherein A. W Straton is Plaintiff, and Annie Straton, is Desdant, for a divorce, on the ground of adultery, in which action Plaintiff prays, and unless you answer demur or otherwise object on or before the 20th, day of May, A. D. 1900, the allegation 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 & J. SMITH, Attorneys for Plaintiff. Attest, A. GUNNING. Clerk. Stop in at Union Pacific ticket office No. 1000, Main street, and see the wonderful moving pictures, and gaze at the grand scenery on the line of, and the flight of "The Overland Limited" over the Union Pacific Railroad, which will be shown free. Squire Lee has not gone anywhere—he is the Republican nominee for Constable of the North Side district. Do your duty honestly by him. Better register first. A CONVENIION OF NEGROES A CONVENTION OF NEIGHBORS. Columbia, S. C., March 20.—The Republican State Convention met here to day. It is composed of about 300 negroes and a dozen whites. A state ticket will be nominated and delegates to the national convention will be chosen. At 1414 N 5th st, is situated the Lady bor Home Restuarant. It's alright any should receive your patronage. Most any old time you are hungry drop in at this place and you will receive the very best attention besides the most palatable entables [to be found in any first class modern] Restuarant. Mrs. CALL FOR REPUBLICAN PRIMARY ELECTION For Wyandotte County, Kansas. Primary Friday, March 23rd., 1900 Convention Saturday, Mar. 31, 1900. A primary election is hereby called for the purpose of selecting a candidate from this county for delegate to the Republican National Convention from this Congressional District, and nominating candidates for the following named County and District offices, to wit: county Attorney, Clerk of the District Court, Probate Judge, County Superintendent of Public Instructions, County Commissioner for the First District, one Senator for the Fourth Senatorial District, one member of the Legislature for the Ninth District, one for the Tenth District, and one for the Eleventh District; also one Central Committeeman from each voting precinct in the county; also for the election of delegates to a County Convention to elect delegates to the State Convention. Also for the election of a member of the State Central Committee. The primary election for the purpose heretofore mentioned shall be held on Friday, the 23rd. day of March, 1900, between the hours of 2 o'clock p. m., and 7 o'clock p. m., in Kansas City, Argentine and Roseale, and in all other precincts, from 3 o'clock p. m., to 6 o'clock p. m. except Chelsea, Midland, Oakland, Mac-ajack and Ely precincts, which shall be open from 4 o'clock p. m., to 7 o'clock p. m. Said primaries shall be held and conducted under the Australian ballot system, so far as applicable, nominating all said officers by a direct vote of the qualified electors. The candidates for District Delegate to the National Convention,receiving the highest number of votes,shall have the right to name twenty-one delegates and twenty-one alternates to the Republican Congressional Convention to be held at Garnette April 5,1900, and he shall receive the proper credentials from the Chairman and the Secretary of this committee as soon as such list is filed with the Secretary for such delegation. The County Convention shall consist of one delegate for each forty votes or fraction thereof cast for George A. Clark for Secretary of State, at the November election in 1998, in each ward in the three cities and each precinct in the county, provided, no precinct shall have less than two votes, and the number of delegates based upon said vote to be elected from the various wards of the three cities and the precincts in the county, outside of said cities, First Ward. Five (5) Delegates. Second Ward, Fourteen (14) delegates. Third Ward, Eighteen (18) delegates. Fourth Ward, Thirteen (18) delegates. Fifth Ward, Ten (10) delegates. Sixth Ward, Eleven (11) delegates. Argentine City. First Ward. Two (2) delegates. Second Ward. Three (3) delegates. Third Ward. Two (2) delegates. Fourth Ward. Two (2) delegates. Rosedale City. First Ward, Two (2) delegates. Second Ward, Two (2) delegates. Third Ward, Two (2) delegates. Fourth Ward, Two (2) delegates. Bonner Springs: Three delegates, all other precincts two delegates each. The ticket receiving the highest vote in any precinct outside of the three cities shall be declared to be duly elected. The ticket receiving the highest vote in any ward in any of the three cities shall be declared to be duly elected delegates for such ward. A cross or X in the square on the right of such ticket shall be sufficient for the entire list of delegates, and will be to the County Convention, no ticket shall be printed on the ballot that does not contain a full list of delegates for each ward in the three cities, or for each precinct in the County outside of the cities, and no ticket for any ward in any of the three cities shall be printed unless the same has been accompanied by the written request of each delegate asking that such ticket shall be printed upon the official ballot. The name of no delegate shall appear twice upon the ballot. The delegates elected to the County Convention at the primary election held under this call, shall assemble in convention in Kansas City, Kansas, on Saturday, March 31 1900, at 11 o'clock am, at Armory Hall, and shall elect the delegates and alternates entitled to represent this County in the Republican State Convention. The delegation from each precinct or ward te said County Convention shall be entitled to cast the full vote of such precinct or ward. CANVASSING B2ARD The executive committee shall canvass the returns of the primary election held under this call. It shall have full and complete control of all matters pertaining to said e'lection, and It shall make such rules and adopt such regulations as it may deem necessary to carry out the object of this call. Said Canvassing Board shall meet at one o'clock, p.m., March 24th, 190), to canvass said returns, and shall then and there declare the result of said primary election, and prepare the noxification certificate for filing, according to law. In case of contest written notice of such contest shall be filed with the Secretary of this Committee before 12 o'clock M. on the 24th day of March, 1900, and the Canvassing Board in considering any such contest, shall follow the law governing contests of general elections. JUDGES AND CLEBK3 There shall be two Judges and two clerks for each voting place. The Judges and Clerks of said primary election shall be named by the Executive Committee, and those so named shall be selected unless a majority of the candidates to be voted for at the precinct shall object in which event others shall be selected by the Executive Committee who are satisfactory. CHALLENGED VOTE IS. Should the judges disagree as to the right of any person offering to vote they shall receive said ballot, indorse theremon the name of the voter offering said ballot and place said ballot in a separate box or package and return same together, ballots cast, poll-books, etc. to the Canvassing Board. at Police Court room in the City Hall in Kansas City' Kans, not later than 12 o'clock M. on the 23rd day of March, 1900. QUALIFICATIONS OF VOTERS. Every voter offering to vote at said primary election must be a known Re- publican voter in the precinct or precints where he offers his ballot. he must agree, if challenged, that he will support successful candidates at this primary election. REGISTRATION. A copy of the poll books of '99 1900 shall be used in Kans. City, Argentine and Rosedale, the voters to be checked from said poll-books by the judges who voted, Any voter whose name does not appear on said poll books will be permitted to vote upon presentation of his registration certificate for said year. CHALLENGERS. T two challengers shall be appointed in each voting place upon the request of any candidate made to the judges of said voting place, one of whom shall be appointed by each judge and whose station shall be outside of the room occupied by the judges and clerks. O'FICIAL BALLOTS. The ballots for said primary election shall be furnished by the Executive Committee, they shall be of uniform size and contain the names of all candidates grouped together on the ballot under the name of the office for which said persons are candidates, as well as the candidates for committeemen in their respective precints, and delegates to the County Convention. The voter will make a cross in the square at the right of the name he desires to vote for [except as heretofore provided for delegates to the County Convention] and will leave all other squares blank, as a voter can vote for but one person for each office. The official ballots after out, when called for by a voter desiring to vote, which shall be in the same manner as is now prescribed by the General Australian Ballot Law governing general elections; a voter that is unable to read or mark his ticket and desires aid in voting shall be assisted by both judges jointly, so to do. ELECTIONEERING. No person whatever shall be permitted to electioneer or solicit votes within any of the several voting places, or within 100 feet of such voting place in the cities of Kansas City, Argentine and Rosedale, and that the committee procure police assistance in each of said cities to enforce this provision. The judges at each of said voting places shall furnish some suitable place for the voter to mark his ballot, after so doing he shall deposit the same in the ballot box before retiring from the voting place. CANDIDATES. Every candidate for any office. (Committeeemen and delegates to County Convention included) shall, before 12 o'clock M., of the 17th. day of March, 1900, notify in writing the secretary of this committee for what position he is a candidate, and deposit with said secretary the assessment as fixed by the Executive Committee, and the names thus received shall be printed upon the official ballot, any candidate failing to comply with the foregoing provision shall not have his name printed on the official ballot. The candidate for each of the said offices receiving the largest number of votes cast at said primary election, shall be the nominee of the party, if for county or district office, and if for Committeeman, shall be the legal Committeeman from said precinct for the ensuing year. The secretary of this Committee shall not receive the nomination papers from any candidate before 12 o'clock noon March 13th. 1900. The selection of judges and clerks and the location of the various voting places will be announced later, and will be published in the daily papers. By order of the Committee, J. S. PERKINS, Chairman A. W. PECK, Secretary. Prof. Heury Mead the present Superintendent of Public Instruction is an aspirant for the honors of a second term at the hands of the old party in Wyandotte County. Prof. Mead has acquitted his duties in the office which he is now filling with credit to himself and the public. He is honestly entitled to a second term and we believe that he will be awarded the office again by the people who put competency, manhood, honesty and the true principles of Republicanism foremost in the political world. No one questions the statement that he has made other than a highly commendable official—then, the proper thing to do is give him the nomination and elect him for another term. Topeka Locals. Rev Wm. H. Lacy, of Bermuda Islands is the guest of his parents. Mr. Bert Alexander is quite ill at his residence on King and Lain str. Mr. Henry Williamson died Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'clock funeral Thursday at 2 p.m. The ladies Sewing Circle met with Mrs. A. Williams 412 Buchanan st. An excellent lunca was served from 3 to 10 p.m. Mrs. L. Merritt entertained The Imperial Art Club and a few other ladies Saturday March 17 at a Birthday party. Quite a number of useful presents were received. Miss Maggie Vault entertained a few of her girl friends Thursday evening in honor of her 18 anniversary. The Ne Plus Ultra Art club met with Mrs. J. J. Clark Saturday afternoon. The Ministerial Union are preparing to tender a Reception to Rev. H. H. Lucas, and J.' L. Grant who leave for their Annual Conference March 27, which convenes at Marshall Mo. The Golden Rod Club met with Miss Missonie Benning Friday afternoons. A few days ago Paul Shirk, a local negro tough, was arrested for a minor offence. His attorney, W. I. Jamison, succeeded in acquitting him of the charge. Last night Jamison's house was robbed and several articles of jewelry were stolen. The theft was report- of Country FOR THE NEGRO ANNOUNCEMENTS I hereby announce myself as a candidate for the nomination for the office of Clerk of the District Court, subject to the Republican County Primaries on the 23rd. (Re election.) ALEX. GUNNING. I hereby announce myself as a candidate for the nomination for the office of County Attorney subject to the Republican County Primaries on the 23rd. (Re election) E. A. ENRIGHT I hereby announce myself as a candidate for the nomination of State Senator, subject to the decision of the Republican County Primaries on the 23rd. I hereby announce myself as a candidate for the nomination of Representative from the 10th District, subject to the Repu lican County Primaries. D. D. HoAG. I hereby announce myself as a candidate for the nomination of Superiutendent of Public Instructions of Wyndotte County, subject to the decision of the Republican Primaries, March 23rd. SAVED SIX LIVES. Wonderful Heroism of M. S. Anderson at a Fire. New York, March 21.—Six lives were saved by the gallant work of a young colored man during a fire at a flat house in West 13th street to-day. The man's name is M. S. Anderson. He detected the fire while on his way to work. The flames had gained considerable headway and in a window of the second floor stood a man named Nelson, with his six little children hovering about him, their escape having been cut off by the flames. With two passers-by, Anderson ran into the building next door, and up to the third floor. With his two companions holding his legs Anderson swung head downward and, swaying his body backward and forward menaged to reach the children as they were held up to him by the father. All were taken out safely in this manner. The firemen brought the other occupants of the building down the ladder. LOOK OUT FOOT PADS C.ief Mc Farland has offered $25.00 reward for every foot pad killed in this city in the act of robbing or holding up this reward applies not only to the officers but private citizens as well. The frequency of hold ups and daring ones at that has caused the chief to resort to this means of extermination. Mr. Wm. Dassey and John Canon-day of Lawrence Kans, are the guest of Nellie Twater of 911 Washington TAKE NOTICE. The Elite Dancing Academy is now the latest out. Every Tuesday night, beginning Tuesday night, March 27th Dancing will be conducted at Armory Hall. The very latest as well as all other artistic dances, will be taught Riley's Celebrated Orchestra will furnish music, and you may rest assured that it will be alright. No one who cannot act a lady or gentleman will be wanted. A. T. Donald, Business Mang'r., and Steve Lewis is Floor Manager. Admission 35 cents a couple. Miss Jennie Hendrucks, Mr Asa Graham, Miss Susie Jones, Mr. Hardy Steward, Miss Lizzie Dines and Mr. Hunter Gooch, of Kansas City, Mo., were the guest of Miss Mary Johnson. 242 Franklin ave., Monday evening. High Five and other social games was order of the evening. Mr. Eddie Ward, of 437 Virginia avenue, is quite ill. We hope to soon see him out again. Miss Saddie Reed, of 235 Franklin avenue, give a grand entertainment Saturday evening. There was a large attendance and they were highly entertained. It is hoped Miss S. R will give another one soon. Mr. Jimmie Williams, of Walker avenue, is getting quite popular down on Franklin avenue now a days. Oh, he is a live bird! Ha, ha. Keep it in your mind that Mayor 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 Kansas 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. BAPISTI CHURCHES. African 3014 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. Moriab, 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. Secord Baptist, Charlott, cor. 10th. Vine Street, 1825 Vine street. CHRISTIAN CHURCH 21st between Summit and Madison. 4. Augustine Mission, 1025 Troost ave METHODIST & PISCOPAL. METHODIST EPISCOPAL Asbury Chapel, 1620 cherry street Burns, 11th S. W. Cor, Highland ave Clark's Chapel, 819 S. W. Boulcvard Westport W, Prospect Place Cor, 29rd King Solomon Mission 4th and Locust Colored Schools. Attucks 2108 East 18th street. Bruce 3914 East 15th street. Douglas 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. Phillips 1917 Cherry street, Round Top 2817 Norton Avenue. Business Directory. J. A. Wilson Jeweller 1616 W. 9th st. Chandler's Barber shop, Samuel Chand- ler Prop. S LClenens Mgr 112 East 6th street. Restsurant Mrs Amus Prop. 114 East 6th street. Field's Barber Shop 102 East 6h street Miller's Barber Shop 113 East 6th Midland Barber Shop Harsy Parson Porsristor 1.5 East 6th reet. O' Bannon' Barber Shop W.T. O Bannon Proprietor 500 Grand Avenue. Manila Barber Shop Madison Bros. Proprietors 769 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 12thst Restaurant J.W Gordon Prop. 554 Grand avenue. Restaurant H Powel Proprietor 572 Grand avenue. Restaurant Andiew Clark Proprietor 723 Independence ave. Saratoga Cafe L. Mason Proprietor 805 Independence ave. Chicago Cafe H Compton Proprietor 706 east 12 h street Maupin's Barber Shop 1332 E 18th st. Brown's Barber Shop 1329 E 18th st. Berry's Barber Shop 1432 $ E. 18th st Grocer, George Grear, Prop. 1211 E. 18th st, Physicians and Surgeons. Drs. Shannon and Lambright 1215 E. 18th st. Dr. L.J. Holly 1113 Campbell st. Rising Suu J. F. Cole, Editor, L. W Wood.Manager 117 W. 6th st. Grocery, A. Webb, Prop 19th and Melissa. KANSAS CITY, KANSAS Ente: prises. A.C.L. CoL. Co. Main Office 492 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 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. Rucker, Butheher, 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 5 h. and Nebraska avenue. Metropolitan Baptist, cor. 9th. and Washington. Mt. Zion Baptist, Virginia ave., between 4th. and 5 h. 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. The Empire House 335 Minnesota Ave. Dyson House 440 Minnesota Ave. Jamison House 417 Minnesota Aye. 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. 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. SHOEMAKER. Lon McAdams, 348 Minnesota ave.. D. W. Wynne, 309 Minnesota ave. Lewis Blenchard, North 6th., State Line. Wilson, 5th. st. be'ween Nebraska and State. M. & O., 1306 north 8th street. Sons of Protection, State and 6th. DRUGS. Wyandotte Drug Store, 1512 north 5th street. DOCTORA. 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. GOOD NOTION OF ECONOMY Why the Smoker Gave Away the Best Cigar in His Pocket. From the New York Tribune: "Will you have a cigar?" asked one man of another, carefully selecting one of three which he drew from his waistcoat pocket. He handed this one to his friend. The other man smiled an) said: "I suppose this is the kind you buy to give away." "You might think so, but it isn't," rejoined the one who had given the cigar. "As a matter of fact, the one I gave you is much the best of the lot. I always give away the cigars of that brand which I receive. It's not because they are bad, but because they are good. This is how it is: For several years I have been buying my cigars of a dealer in Nassau street. I always get a kind which costs $10 a hundred. I am not overfond of the brand, but it is the best I can get for the money, and I feel that I cannot afford to pay more for my cigars. "For some time the dealer has been anxious to get me to smoke a cigar that costs $16 a hundred. He assures me that the difference between it and the one I get is far greater than the prices would indicate. Some of my friends also smoke this expensive cigar, and they assure me it really is exceptionally good. From time to time the dealer gives me one of the 18-cent kind to smoke, assuring me that if I will only try it I will buy no other. The truth is, I fear he is right, so I have absolutely resisted the temptation to smoke the gift cigars. Instead, I hand them a some friend. That is one of them. Do you believe now that I save you the worst?" The friend saw no further reason for doubting the cigar which he had resisted was the best of the lo The idea of electing a President without having plenty of "buttons" is not to be thought of. It is a pity that some of the fellows peddling them do not keep better butted us. Finest Barber Shop in the City. Hair Cutting, 25c, Baths, 15c., Shaving, 10c., Newly Remodeled Bath Rooms, Porcelain Tubs GEO. McCLELLAND, SOLE AGENT FOR Crane's Toilet Soap OF WYANDOTTE CO., KS. 6 Minnesota Avenue, Kansas City, Ks. EAGERS Gem Dru MINNESOTA DE. DRUGS, MEDIC Fine Toilet Soaps, Brus PERFUMERY AND FAN W. B. RA m DrugSt MINNESOTA AVENUE DEALER IN DRUGS, MEDICINES, CHEMICA et Soaps, Brushes, Combs, Et MERY AND FANCY TOILET ART B. RAYMO DRUGS, MEDICINES, CHEMICALS, Fine Toilet Soaps, Brushes, Combs, Etc., PERFUMERY AND FANCY TOILFT ARTICLES. W. B. RAYMOND. Manufacturer of and Wholesale dealer in UNDERTAKERS * SURF FIRST-CLASS CARRIAGES FOR ALL PURPOSES AT ALL HOS AMBULANCE FOR THE CONVEYANCE OF THE SICK A Undertaking Rooms, 431 Minnesota ave. Telephone W Factory Cor st St., and Riverview Ave. RTAKERS * SURF CARRIAGES FOR ALL PURPOSES AT ALL HOURS FOR THE CONVEYANCE OF THE SICK AVE. Rooms, 431 Minnesota ave. Telephone W Factory Cor st St., and Riverview Ave. CIT! UNDERTAKERS * SUPPLIES FIRST-CLASS CARRIAGES FOR ALL PURPOSES AT ALL HOURS AMBULANCE FOR THE CONVEYANCE OF THE SICK AND WOUNDED Undertaking Rooms, 431 Minnesota ave. Telephone West 32. Factory Corr st St., and Riverview Ave. Telephone 26 GO TO THE GREAT JUNK Wholesale and Office 811 Hckory Street, IRON YARDS CORNER 8th. AND Iron, Kags, Bottles Cash paid for scrap iron, rags, bottles and met dealer in junk. Here's the p'ace where you can get dealing. SAM'T AT JUNK SH wholesale and Ret Jckory Street, Kan IRON YARDS CORNER 8th. AND HICKORY Kags, Bottles and M scrap iron, rags, bottles and metals, Wh Here's the p'ace where you can get correct we SAM'L. D GREAT JUNK SHOP. Wholesale and Retail. Office 811 Hickory Street, Kansas City, Mo. ICON YARDS CORNER 8th. AND HICKORY. Cash paid for scrap iron, rags, bottles and metals. Wholesale and Reta dealer in junk. Here's the p'ace where you can get correct weight and square dealing. SAM'L. DIGGS. Telephone, No. 126 Hickory. Kansas City, Mo. REAL Ameri DAILY and GO J. W. JO ICECREA The only Ice Cream Parlors in the get the BestIce Cream Soda, and Pies, Cakes AND Special attention paid to C Ice Cream, wholesale, 175 to 90 o a call. Corner 6th. and State street KANSAS CITY READ THE American Citiz LY and WEE GO TO W. JOHNSON CREAMPARK Cream Parlors in the two Kansas Cities Cream Soda, and Ice Creams, Fifi Cakes AND Confection al attention paid to Churches, Lodges and p wholesale, [75 to 90 cts. per gallon. Don't 6th. and State streets, CITY American Citizen DAILY and WEEKLY. GO TO J. W. JOHNSON'S ICECREAMPARLOR. 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, 175 to 90 cts. per gallon. Don't fail to give us a call. Corner 6th. and State streets, KANSAS CITY KANS Publication Notice. In the District Court, of Wyandotte County, State of K Walter Grant, Plaintiff, vs. Blischie Grant, Defendant. 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, Defendant, 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. A. GUNNING. Clerk of the District Court. Register at your earliest convenience KANSAS CITY UG STORE AVENUE SALER IN NES, CHEMICALS, ches, Combs, Etc., EY TOILET ARTICLES YMOND, SUPPLIES PURPOSES AT ALL HOURS ANCE OF THE SICK AND WOUNDED Lave. Telephone West 32. and Riverview Ave. Telephone 28 INK SHOP. and Retail. Kansas City, Mo. ER 8th. AND HICKORY. tles and Metals. tles and metals, Wholesale and Retail you can get correct weight and square SAM'L. DIGGS. Kansas City, Mo. O THE can Citizen, WEEKLY. TO JHNSON'S MPARLOR. a two Kansas Cities where you can Ice Creams, Fine Lunch, Confectionaries churches, Lodges and parties. es. per gallon. Don't fail to give us KANS Live on Straw. Thousands of persons in Germany live literally "on straw," making it up into blankets, panniers, boxes, knickknacks, hats, bonnets, etc. Professional schools have even been founded where the trade is taught in all its varieties. White Hats a Sign of Mourning. White hats are worn for three years as a sign of mourning by every grown male in Korea after the death of a member of the royal family. Dured of Stuttering by Bullet Wound. A Mauser bullet passed through the throat of a soldier in a Colorado regiment at Manila. Before receiving the wounds he had been a stutterer, now he has no difficulty in talking. Central America Pyramid Builders. Barring the Egyptians, the ancient Mayas of Yucatan seem to have been the greatest pyramid builders the world ever saw. KANSAS The Best Goods, the Quickest Sales, the Smallest Profits and the promptest deliveries. GET THEIR PRICES ON COAL, WOOD, FEED, FLOUR, AND BUILDING STONE, Wholesale and Retail. Office 402, Minnesota Ave. Tel. 152 West. Yard and Storage 917 and 919 No:th 3rd. St. E F. HENDERSON Manager THEY ALL READ "Well, this is the first daily Negro paper I've ever seen I really enjoy reading it. Everybody ought to read it. Only 10 cents per week." Our Paper. UNION PACIFIC THE LOVERLAND ROUTE WORLD'S PICTORIAL LINE. SHORT LINEA CROSS THE COUN TRY. 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. 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THATCHER, See'y The Militaer Zeitung states that there are at present in America over 100,000 men who fled to this country from Austro-Hungary to escape conscription, and who should be in the Austro-Hungary army of reserves. On one occasion, at the mobilization of a body of reserves, only 1,500 men out of 5,000 appeared. Captured an Arctic Auk A splendid specimen of the little or Arctic auk has been captured in a pool of water in the run channel on the High street at Brigend. The bird is supposed to have been driven inland by the high winds. A specimen was got in the district about three years In the bay of Plenty, New Zealand, is one of the most extraordinary islands in the world. It is called White island and consists of sulphur mixed with gypsum and a few other minerals. Over the island, which is about three miles in circumference and which rises between 800 feet and 900 feet above the sea, floats continually an immense cloud of vapor, attaining an elevation of 10,000 feet. In the center is a boiling lake of acid-charged water, covering fifty acres, and surrounded with blowholes from which steam and sulphurous fumes are emitted with great force and noise. With care a boat can be navigated on the lake. Deafness Cannot Be Cured by local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the car. There is only one functional remedy. Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of the mucus lining of the ear. If you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when lively entirely closed deafness is present, and unless the inflammation can be taken care of, condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are caused by cataract, and four are an inflamed condition of the mucus lining. We will give One Hundred Dollar for any case of Deafness (caused by cannibal) that cannot be cared by Hall's Catarra Cure. Send for circulars, free. W. J. CHENEK & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by Drugsists, 75c. Hall's Family Pills are the best. 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Some men are born great, some achieve greatness and some are n. g. Are You Using Allen's Foot-Ease? It is the only cure for Swollen, Smarting, Burning, Sweating Feet, Corns and Bunions. Ask for Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder to be shaken into the shoes. At all Druggists and Shoe Stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y. Anticipation is one of the principa charms of human existence. Weak Women Made Happy by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound -Letters from Two Who Now Have Children. "DEAR MRS. PINKEAM:—It was my ardent desire to have a child. I had been married three years and was childless, so wrote to you to find out the re- lowing vice a E. P table ca a bo h fa than cine lowing your kind advice and taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. I became the mother of a beautiful baby boy, the joy of our home. He is a fat, healthy baby, thanks to your medicine."—MRS. MINDA FINKLE, Roscoe, N.Y. From Grateful Mrs. Lane "DEAR MRS. 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Brooklyn, New York. The receipts of the patent office for the calendar year 1899 were $1,325,475 a sum but twice exceeded in 64 years. In a new apparatus for handling goods arranged on shelves the upper half of the shelving is suspended by means of pulleys and ropes to slide up and down in movable guideways, with clutches for securing the pulleys to revolving shafts to raise or lower the shelves.—Philadelphia Record. Dear Sir and Friend—We had a lucky trip, made good connections and got to Wetaskiwin Monday afternoon; stayed there all night, bought a pony and saddle for the boy and hired a three-seated rig for the balance of us, and got home to dinner next day; caught the boys cleaning up and getting ready to come after us. Wednesday the snow was all gone and we had bare ground and bright sunshine for a month, and it has been pleasant weather ever since. The ground is frozen about two feet and about six inches of snow—just enough for six sleighing. We had one cold spell in December. The thermometer went down to 32 below zero, but we did not suffer with the cold at all. We have worked every day all winter, are all well and feeling well; have built a log house 18x18, two log stables 16x18, and are now busy on a well. We have 10 cows, three other cattle and six head of horses. The boys send their best respects to Mr. Huchison, and say they will talk to him enough to pay for not writing when he gets up here; will write you again next spring and tell you all about the winter. We all unite in sending you and family our best wishes and respects and hope this will find you all well. Dutch Auction at Cape Town. A Dutch auction at Cape Town is frequently exciting. If a house is to be sold the auctioneer offers "fifty golden sovereigns for the man who first bids £5,000." Nobody bids. A pause, and then "fifty golden sovereigns for the man who first bids £4,900." This is kept up until a bid is secured. But it by no means follows that the house is sold to this bidder. No, the auctioneer is then at it again. Say that £4,400 is the first bid. The auctioneer cries: "There are 25 golden sovereigns for the first man who has the courage to bid £4,600." Perhaps no one has it. Then £25 is offered for a £4,550 bid. If there is eventually no bid above the £4,400 the man who made that bid is saddled with the house. Otherwise he pockets his bonus and gets off free of it all. An application has been before the Paris municipal council, with a view to obtaining from that body a plot of ground for the construction thereon of an American academy, wherein young persons of both sexes from the United States could terminate their literary, artistic and scientific studies. The proposed foundation is to be organized on lines similar to those of the French schools in Rome and Athens. The initiative in the matter is due to the American National Institute. It is affirmed that a sum of £50,000 has been set aside by the institute mentioned for the construction of what will, no doubt, be called the American school in Paris, just as the French talk of the "Ecole de Rome" or "Ecole d'Athens." The Paris municipal council has granted a sit with a long lease for the new institution.—London Telegraph. GOOD NIGHT! GOOD NIGHT! Sweet Soothing Slumber Man's Greatest Blessing. Nothing Kills so Quickly as Loss of Sleep. Rest Needed for Repairs. How to Obtain it Without Fail. When you don't sleep well, look out for yourself. Nothing breaks down a person so quickly as loss of sleep, that boon of mankind drives the exhausted system rest for repairs. No time for repairs means destruction of the machinery. It is so with the human body. You are nervous, have a load on your chest, are troubled with unaccountable anxiety and forebodings of evil, and roll around in light. 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It is doing as much for Idaho, where the mountains are so located that ample valleys, and plains of millions of acres, may be easily and economically watered. On the Nile, in Italy, Spain and elsewhere in Europe, irrigation has prevailed for centuries. Indeed, 60 per cent of the world's breadstuffs and cereals are grown by irrigation. Where "the vine-clad hills and citron groves" around Vesuvius in sunny Italy are found, a great population has been sustained for many thousand years—and the land has never worn out—its wonderful vitality being due to underlying strata of lava which by some curious chemistry renders the soil immortal. Idaho's wonderfully productive soil covers lava strata deposited by volcanoes long ago extinct. The rejuvenation of the land results not alone from this lava, but from rich fertilizers annually brought to it by the irrigation waters. It is almost an aphorism that land is good where sage brush grows. Marvelous must therefore be the fertility of Idaho, for everywhere the green of the sage is seen. Wheat,corn, oats, barley, alfalfa, timothy, rye, flax, tobacco, broom corn, sorghum, sweet and Irish potatoes, beets, cabbages, hops, and fruits, such as prunes, apples, pears, plums, peaches, cherries, apricots, nectarines, grapes and all of the small bush products, grow profusely. Particularly do the apple, pear and prune attain to perfection in size and flavor. Alex. McPherson of Boise City realized $600 per acre from apples. Geo. L. Hall of Mountain Home sold $800 worth of peaches from one acre. T. J. Phifer of Boise City realized $800 from two acres of Italian prunes. Instances like these can be multiplied ad infinitum. But Idaho does not depend entirely upon agriculture. Its mountains are filled with mining camps which furnish a home market for far more agricultural products than the state is now able to produce. Snake River Valley contains about 3,000,000 acres and some of the finest pastoral scenes there presented are in the midst of gold placer mining operations. Many farmers there realize handsomely for work during spare hours—washing shining powdered gold from the river's bed. In a state having so many productive portions to select from it is hard to suggest particular locations, but settlers will find room for any number of new homes. Different state and private agencies are sending out printed information about Idaho. Perhaps the most conservatively prepared matter is that now emanating from the general passenger agent of the Oregon Short Line at Salt Lake City, Utah. This railroad permeates almost every agricultural region in the state and stands ready to furnish to homeseekers every courtesy in the power of its officers. At the present rate Idaho will soon be as thickly populated as Utah. It is in the same latitude as France, Switzerland, Portugal, Spain and Italy, and its climate is incomparable. Vast timber areas furnish lumber of excellent quality. Cyclones and destructive storms never occur. The winters are short and people work out doors all the year. The annual death rate is the lowest of any state in the Union. Verily Idaho is a wonderful state and destined to become the home place of many times its present population. Dried Food for Birds Dr. Sauermann, an Austrian, has obtained results in coloration by feeding birds on food dyd with aniline. Pigeons became of a beautiful red with methyltrabromo- fluorescine. Other birds turned a fine blue with methyl violet (a mixture of the hydrochlorides of pentamethyl-parasaniline and hexamethyl-parasosaniline). Canaries were soon bred with the rainbow. The experiments promise to have important results in this direction. The Cockney sparrow by a little art in his nourishment might emulate the humming bird. Whether his transfiguration would be to his advantage is another question. We are afraid that fashion might cast envious eyes upon him and cause him to regret his sober livery.—The London Globe. German Enterprise. German is the business language of the Balkans. Russian diplomacy complains that Constantinople is becoming as German as Berlin. Asia Minor is slowly being converted into a German colony; and now the Bagdad railway will carry the same influence 2,000 miles onward to the Persian gulf, placing the greatest military power of the world upon the most direct of all roads to India. Even the old English scheme of a Euphrates railway is at last in German hands—London Telegraph. CAMPFIRE SKETCHES SOME SHORT STORIES FOR THE VETERANS. Melbreadth Escapes on the Battlefield— An Effective Censorship—How Too- Zealous War Correspondents Were treated in the '60's. Battle Hymn of the Republic. [Written by Julia Ward Howe during the sung to the air of "John Brown's Body."] He hath loosed the fatal lightning of His terrible swift sword; His truth is marching on. I have seen Him in the watchfires of a hundred circling camps; They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps; I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps. His day is marching on. I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel; He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat; In the beauty of the Lilies Christ was born across the sea. With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me; As he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free. While God is marching on. Hairbreadth Escapes on the Battlefield. Hairred teeth escapes on the Battlefield. At the battle of Modder river Sergt. Penderend was struck by three bullets in less than as many minutes, and escaped practically unharmed. "First," he says, "a shot glanced off the side of my boot and struck my rifle just in front of my face, filling my eyes with dust and splinters. I rose up a little, when another shot struck the middle finger of my left hand. I got on my knees, when a bullet struck me fair in the chest on the buckle of my haversack, breaking it through the center and causing a slight puncture of the skin and bruising my chest. I have been congratulated on being the luckiest beggar in my battalion." One of the American soldiers in the trenches before Manila had a still more astonishing escape from sudden extinction. One bullet grazed the top of his right ear, a few seconds later another took a microscopic slice from the lobe of the left ear, while a third bullet flashed along the top of his head, removing the hair in a perfectly straight, narrow line. As the soldier put it in a letter to his parents, "It was very kind of them to part my hair so beautifully for me, and it will save me a lot of trouble for some time to come." One of the most remarkable of recorded experiences was that of a corporal in the late frontier campaign in India. After several hours of fighting, during which the bullets had been flying thickly around him, he was congratulating himself that he not even been touched, when on removing his helmet he saw a small perforation in front which could only have been made by a bullet. On turning the helmet round to look for the point of exit of the bullet, he found not one but two holes, and could only arrive at the seemingly incredible conclusion that two separate bullets must have struck his helmet at exactly the same point, and made two separate openings for their exit. Each bullet in its passage through the helmet must have gone, literally, almost within a hair's breadth of the top of his head. One of the men wounded at Wynberg had a still narrower escape from death. A bullet entered one temple and came out at the other; and yet the man has made a complete recovery and suffers nothing from the terrible wound beyond an occasional headache. Told By the Orderly. The orderly was telling the story. "Scared? Why, I was never so scared in my life. But I had to sit up there on that grave and make a bluff that I wasn't afraid. My feet were so cold that they would have froze snowballs. The old man deployed the company as skirmishers. The firing was so hot that they couldn't advance, but laid down behind a rice dike and kept a blazin' away until the big guns could get up and drop a few shells. The old man fixes the men so they're all right. Then he goes and sits down on a grave on the hill just back of the company. Well, of course, he couldn't have got any place where the gugies could have got a better chance at him. But he just sets there, cool like, and lights a cigarette. Well, I'm the hot stuff orderly with a reputation to sustain. So I have to put up a big front and sit down behind him on the same grave and light a cigarette, too. The bullets come a-flying around there and dug up the dirt and went 'pop, pop' overhead, and say, honest, the orderly was scared to death. But the old man pushes his cigarette and he says, 'Orderly,' he says, 'I guess they are a-shooting at us.' And the orderly, he says, 'Yessir,' and you ought to have heard his teeth a-rattling. Then the old man says, 'Orderly,' and I says, 'Yessir.' 'We don't, do we, orderly?' says the old man, and the orderly says, 'No, sir.' He was just a-holding himself by the shoulders to keep from getting up rolling and down the other side of hill. 'Orderly,' says the old man, 'there ain't a bullet made hit you or me, is there?' 'No, sir,' says the orderly, and his feet were so cold they almost froze together. Then the gugies fired another volley, and a bullet went through the old man's hat and another one spun past the orderly's ear. 'Orderly,' says the old man. Say, the orderly was so near dead by that time that he could just grunt, 'Sir.' 'Orderly,' says the old man, 'they didn't used to have bullets that could hit you or me, but I guess they're a-making a new kind now. We will get off our perch,' and the old man climbed down from the grave, and you ought to see the orderly roll up and hug that rice dike. But cold feet? Say, honest, my feet won't lach out until next summer."—Chicago Tribune. An Effective Censorship! In contrasting the rigors of the present press censorship in the Transvaal with the lax methods pursued during the rebellion, former State Senator Harmon W. Brown of Ohio, who held a responsible place on the staff of Gen. Rawilins during the civil war, related a few days since the following incident: "One day before Vicksburg the correspondent of a copperhead paper went to Gen. Rawilins for news. The general pondered for a moment and took me one side. 'Take this young man,' he said, 'up to the top of those trenches, within a stone's throw of the enemy. Take him up there and lose him. I don't care what happens. Understand?' I said I did, and we started through the lines. Both of us were mounted. I pointed out a crest overlooking the enemy and told him he could get a good view from that point. 'Ain't you coming, with me?' he asked, 'No,' I replied. 'I know all I want to know.' So he started. As soon as the top of his hat and the tip of his mule's ears showed above the crest there came a volley of musketry 10 yards wide that cut the air like a knife blade. The crown of his hat was sliced off as with shears; he managed to drop to the ground in safety, but the persevering mule was literally filled with lead. After the firing ceased the correspondent crawled to the spot where I was. 'Did you learn what you wanted to know?' I asked. 'Eh?' gasped the correspondent, wiping his face and looking at his hands to see whether they were bloody. 'What I wanted to know? Oh, yes, of course. The enemy are over that ridge all right.' When we returned to headquarters Gen. Rawilins saw us and hailed me. I went inside his tent. 'I thought I told you to lose that copperhead correspondent somewhere,' he said testily. I did the best I could sir,' I answered. He came back, but I have the honor to report the mule a total loss." Gen. Lawton's Song. During the early years of the civil war a party of young men walked out of a theater in New York after the performance of an opera then popular, "Maritana." Standing head and shoulders above his companions, Henry W. Lawton, then a captain of the Thirteenth Indiana, was perhaps the most conspicuous of the group. He had only recently been promoted from the first lieutenancy of the Ninth Indiana, and he was on a short furlough to New York. He grew enthusiastic over the performance. He had not been able in Indiana to see much of opera, and, together with his natural liking for music, the martial spirit of Don Cesar de Bazan completely won him. The tenor on that occasion was an excellent one, and the young captain was taken with the famous solo beginning: Yes, let me like a soldier fall Upon some open field. At the conclusion of the many encores Capt. Lawton turned to his friends and remarked that the song expressed his sentiments in their entirety. As Lawton walked out of the theater he tried to sing the words, but beyond the first few he could remember little. When he returned to his regiment he went to the bandmaster and asked him to get the music and to learn the piece upon which his fancy had fallen. When the selection arrived, the bandmaster was dismused to find that it was almost strictly a tenor solo. Nevertheless, so persistent was Capt. Lawton that he turned the solo into a march, which the band played as one of the favorite pieces of the regiment. And, during the continuous rise of Capt. Lawton through the various grades to that of colonel of the regiment, he never lost his love for that bit of song. After the war his love for the piece continued, until, among his friends, it became known as Lawton's song.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The Modern Bullet "The modern rifle, while it greatly exceeds in range, accuracy of fire and general effectiveness its immediate predecessor," says a soldier, "is not so likely to kill at certain ranges as was the old Springfield. A Mauser or a Krag drills an exceedingly small and perfectly clean hole, and there have been many instances of men being wounded and remaining unaware of the fact until long afterward. One major in the battle that preceded the capture of Manila was knocked heels over head in a trench, but immediately got upon his feet, and, after making a minute examination of his person, could find no evidence of a wound. There wasn't much time to speculate just then on the cause of his stumble, but he was certain that he had not been knocked over by a shot. That night, however, when undressing, he discovered a hole in his trousers between the knee and hip, and close examination revealed a corresponding one in the rear. He then for the first time became conscious of a slight stiffness in his leg. A surgeon was called in, and his practiced eye discovered that a Mauser bullet had gone clean through the major's leg, but he never suffered in the slightest degree from that wound. I only give you that as an instance of a Mauser wound that came under my personal observation, but the medical records of the war abound in cases of wounds received far more curious than that." AGAUNST THE BOERS. JOHN HAYS HAMMOND SAYS WAR IS JUST. Participant in the Jamison Raid Condemns Oom Paul in His Policy—Says That the Farmers Were at Fault from the Start. According to John Hays Hammond, the American engineer, whose activity at Johannesburg while associated with the Rhodes mining interests at the time of the Jameson raid in 1896, came near costing him his life at the hands of the Boers, America's sympathies in the British-Boer conflict should not be with Oom Paul, but with her majesty's forces. Mr. Hammond gave expression to this view at a brilliant dinner given him a few days since in Chicago. He spoke of the condition of affairs in the Transvaal prior to the war and took the opportunity to say that England was carrying on a just war and that the Boers were wholly to blame for the present difficulty. Mr. Hammond made the assertion that the Transvaal mining industry would never have achieved success were it not for the fact that English capital and American ingenuity became interested and entered the field. The outlanders, he said, were invited to the territory by Oom Paul, who, when they had served his purpose, denied them the right to exist there by reason of the oppressive laws he directed against them. The outlanders paid nine-tenths of the taxes and yet had little or no voice in the government owing to the franchise law. This law provides that the applicant must renounce in the first instance allegiance to all other countries; he is then under probation for a period of fourteen years, during which time he is liable to be called upon by the state for military duty. After the expiration of fourteen years he may secure citizenship, provided he obtains in writing a petition signed by two-thirds of the burghers in the district in which he resides, and provided furthermore that he receives the sanction of the president and executive council. To this law the outlanders objected and they were also dissatisfied with the jury system, which debarred them from serving on juries; the alien expulsion act, by which an outlander could be put over the border at any time without cause; the prohibition of free speech, to the maladministration of laws as to native labor, official corruption, and many other wrongs which, Mr. Hammond said, became unbearable and eventually caused the war. In Mr. Hammond's opinion, the present strife was forced upon President Kruger by his inability to longer control the widespread conspiracy he had built up against England. Oom Paul, said Mr. Hammond, was waiting for a rupture between Great Britain and some other power, when he would make his effort to attain independence. For many years the Boers were actively pushing a scheme of conspiracy for driving the English from South Africa and were buying guns, building fortifications and hiring foreign officers in anticipation of a conflict. All that is wanted by the outlanders, said Mr. Hammond, is the establishment of the principle that there shall be no taxation without representation. It might be supposed that Mr. Hammond was prejudiced in the matter in favor of the English because of his participation in movements against the Boers, but this view of the matter would be wrong, he claims. He spoke as an American, he said, and put the facts of the case plainly before his auditors. That Settled It. A story is told of a very popular cavalry officer. He was being tried for drunkenness, and among other witnesses was his Irish orderly. The court, anxious to give the officer every chance, put several questions to this witness with a view to eliciting any facts that might be in his master's favor. When the orderly said that his master, on going to bed, had expressed a wish to be called early, the members of the court-martial were distinctly pleased. A man who gave special instructions to be called early could not, surely—they argued to themseives—have been drunk. Hoping to get favorable particulars, the judge advocate put a further question. "And why did the major wish to be called early?" they asked. "Faith! an' he told me it was because he was to be queen of the May," came the answer. That settled it.—Collier's Weekly. Coffee lp New Form: Take a pill from your pocket, drop it in a cup of hot water, and in a twinkling of an eye have coffee as black as your hat and as strong as a team of Percherons. That sounds like an apochryphal tale, but it is true. This new preparation of caffeine, which is to do away with all the boiling and clarifying and fuss which make the coffee barely worth while, has just been discovered by two German chemists. If their expectations are realized the making of compound pellet, containing the coffee ingredients, along with the milk and sugar. This is only one of the almost incredible triumphs of German chemistry, which has already produced a quinine which cannot be distinguished, so far as therapeutic quality goes, from the original article. Sime Thing. Daughter—"If I can't have Percy Pinkhedd for a husband, I want nobody." Father—"Well, what's the difference?"—Puck. RULES FOR MARRIED MEN. 'I do wish some one would write a few rules for men,' said a young married woman recently to the Baltimore News writer. "I'm awfully tired of reading in magazines and newspapers that I must meet my husband when he comes home from his office 'pleasantly and cheerfully.' That the house must be like a new pin, I must be prettily gowned, the dinner must be daintly cooked and served and that he mustn't be worried with the recital of the troubles of the day, no matter if delirium supervenes for me. These precepts are all right theoretically and under ordinary circumstances are practical. Every woman follows them instinctively who wishes to retain her husband's admiration, but why aren't there a few laws of this sort laid down for men to follow? Why isn't there some one to tell them to look cheerful when they come in and to forbear to grumble if dinner is a trifle late for any good reason, to be a little sympathetic and affectionate, and remember that theirs are not the only troubles in the house. According to the ordinary writer, a woman's whole married life should be spent in practicing expedients to keep her husband's love from growing cold, while he apparently may pursue any course he pleases, civil or uncivil, tyranalical or gentlemanly, and be sure of retaining hers. This may not be the masculine idea of the case at all; the sterner sex may not really expect to get the whole globe and give nothing in return, but it is not the writer's fault if they don't. I sedulously keep all such articles away from John, for he's a very good husband and I'm afraid such literature would put ideas into his head and spoil him. Now, poor, unenlightened soul, he has an idea that my side of the partnership has its own worries, and he tries to help me straighten them out, but he knows how he would change if he ever discovered that he is really made of china and has to be handled with care to keep from being broken?" TRICKS OF THE IMAGINATION. How a Doctor Took Hold of a Patient and Brought Him About "Morbid delusions of the 'fixed idea' variety are very common things," said a New Orleans physician who makes a specialty of diseases of the nerves. "I usually have three or four cases under treatment and some of them are extremely curious. Delusions of the type to which I refer do not necessarily indicate insanity, but are merely the result of an overwrought nervous condition and yield to treatment. I had a patient, for example, a lady, who conceived the grotesque idea that she could not cross the street car tracks when a car was in sight, and as a result became practically a prisoner on her block. Others imagine they can not mount a flight of stairs, and until the delusion is removed it is really a moral impossibility for them to do so. Sometimes ago there was a man on the south side of town who had been bedridden for five years. He was supposed to be suffering from an obscure form of spinal disease and claimed that he had no control of his body from the waist down. His limbs had become thin and shriveled from inaction and presented some of the appearances of paralysis, but the other symptoms were lacking and I was persuaded that it was simply a case of morbid fixed idea. Acting on that theory I told the patient that a sure cure for his malady had just been discovered in Germany, the principal feature being to pass a peculiarly modified electric current through the affected parts. Then I fixed up a 'fake' apparatus, made impressive by plenty of magnets and wires, put his legs inside, and gave him a mild shock. He jumped out of bed perfectly cured, and as far as I know has been a well man ever since. If I had attempted to argue with him and had insisted that his trouble was all imaginary he would have been lying on his back at this moment. Tact, not medicine, is required for such patients."—New Orleans Times-Democrat. Organ Worked Hard. In a small church in a little village near Brighton, England, about forty years ago, the congregation could not afford to pay an organist, and bought a self-acting organ, a compact instrument well suited to the purpose, and constructed to play forty tunes. The sexton had instructions how to set it going, and how to stop it, but, unfortunately, he forgot the latter part of the business, and after singing the first four verses of a hymn before the sermon, the organ could not be stopped, and it continued playing two verses more. Then just as the clergyman completed the words "Let us pray," the organ clicked and started a new tune. The minister sat it out patiently, and then renewed his introductory words, "Let us pray," when click went the organ again, and started off on another tune. The sexton and others continued their exertions to find out the spring, but no man could put a stop to it, so they got four of the strongest men in the church to shoulder the perverse instrument, and they carried it down the center aisle of the church, playing away, into the churchyard, where it continued clicking and playing away until the whole forty tunes were exhausted. Loss on Gold Colns. The yearly loss in value of gold coins by wear and tear while in circulation amounts to about $2,000 in every $5,000,000. Healthy Countries The only European country which has a lower death rate than England is Norway. Come to a certain percentage of all the people. Probably 75 per cent. of these people are cured every year by Hood's Sarsaparilla, and we hope by this advertisement to get the other 25 per cent. to take Hood's Sarsaparilla. It has made more people well, effected more wonderful cures than any other medicine in the world. 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