The American Citizen

The only Daily and Weeklv Negro paper in this section of Country THE The only D WILLIAM McKINLE Mr. Foster Bell is once more a resident of this city. Miss Adora Young is much improved at this writing. James Drake, of Six Mile Station, Ks., is dangerously ill. Mrs. Richard Browning was over in our city calling this week. We are sorry to note that the Rev. Alpin is a victim of the small pox. Mr. J. D. Oglebsby, of 837 west 5th st., who has been ill for several months, is improving. Mrs. H. P. Drake, of Fairdale. Kas., who has been ill for some time, is improving. Rev C. C. Burnett, of 1640 St. Louis avenue, is able to be out again after a short illness. Miss Nellie Poage, of La Crosse, Wis, is visiting Miss Emma Miner, of 402 State avenue. Wait for the grand opening at the Spencer Restaurant, about May first. It will be a swell affair. Miss Emma Miner has just returned from visiting her sick friend, Miss Lillie Brysa, at Liberty, Mo. Go to the Spencer house Thursday evening. Refreshments of all kinds will be served. Remember the place, 504 Nebraska avenue. Prof. O. M. Wood, of St. Louis, has been appointed to a position in the office of the Collector of Internal Revenue in that city. The Sewing Circle of the Metropolitan church gave a social Monday night at the residence of Mrs. H. M. G. Spencer, 504 Nebraska avenue T. P. Mahammit, editor of the Omaha Progress, has been appointed inspector of Weights and Measures by the newly elected mayor. Cyrus Field Adams, editor of the Chicago Appeal, has been elected South Town clerk. The position is said to be worth $3,500 a year. Mr. M. Letcher and Miss Alice Obannon, of Leavenworth, spent Easter Sunday in the city, the guest of Mrs. W. H. Holmes, of 1813 North 10th st. Miss Emma Misrer is expecting a friend from Appleton City, who has been teaching on her way home to La Cross, Wis. Miss Nellie Prague. Mrs. Alice Garr, after an extended visit through the state of Nebraska and Missouri, returned this week with her name changed to Mrs. W. Thomas The death of Pinokney Pinchback son of ex Gov. Pinchback, occurred recently in Arizona. He was engaged in the drug business in Philadelphia at one time. A special inyitation is extended to all the members of the M. B. Sewing Circle to be present Thursday afternoon at the church. Business of importance is to be transacted. Mrs. Cora Allen, of 837 Nebraska ave. desires to thank the churches and many friends who so kindly assisted her during the illness of her father, Rev. Wm. Franklin. Miss Inez Stafford is one of the most proficient nurses we have in the city. She is new engaged at Mr. I. B. Blackburns, whose wife is very ill at her home, 818 Everett street. Mrs. Birdie Clemons, sister of Edward Mitchell, of 135 Lafayette avenue, died Monday evening at 2 p.m. Funeral will be from the First Baptist church on Wednesday at 2 p.m. Mr. J. N. Forceman and Mrs. E. E Spencer took a flying trip to Excelsior Springs last Sunday. They came back much refreshed after drinking water from several of the springs. Rev. F. G. Snelson, who returned from Africa last week, after spending several days in New York and Philadelphia, left for Washington, en route to his home at Atlanta, Ga. Rev. E. A. Wilson and Rev. Griffin exchange pulpits at the 11 o'clock service, so that Rev. Griffin will be at the M. B. church and Rev. Wilson at the A. M. E. church. God grant this union will continue. Mr. C. Patterson, one of our old and leading citizens, is now engaged in the coal and wood business in connection with the cesspoel and vault work His office can be found at 545 Minnesota avenue, and it is the impression of the citizens that he will do a splendid business as he is so well and1 favorably known. When wanting anything in his line give him a call. VOL 3. NO.47 LOCALS. Mr. Nellie Huffington, of 1618 Michigan avenue, is quite ill. Mrs. Dosa Batte, of Lee Summit, is in the city the guest of Mrs. Nellie Blackford of 1618 Michigan avenue. Mrs. Sarah Johnson, of Leavenworth, was the guest of Mrs. Walter Payne, of the North End, the past week. Mrs Mary E. Mason, of Topeka, Ks., is in the city, the guest of her aunt, Mrs. L. Wilson, of 807 Charlotte street. Mrs. L. Hale and Miss Minnie Hale, of 543 Lydia avenue, are spending some time in Omaha the guests of Mrs. Julia Cunterberry. The funeral services of Mrs. Birdie Fleming, who died Monday evening, were held from the First Baptist Wednesday afternoon. Mr. A. W. Williams, of St. Louis, is in the city, and will locate here and open up a shoe shop. We wish him much success. Miss Sadie Shaw, ef 701 Charlott st., left Wednesday for Winfield, Kansas, where she will make her future home with her parents. Mrs. Henry, of Springfield, Mo., who was called here to the bed side of her grand-daughter, Pansy Rudd, left Saturday, leaving her sick patient much improved. Hold the fort at once. There will be a May Pole cencert at the Pleasant Green Baptist church, May 30th. Admission five and ten cents. The funeral of Rev. Wm. Franklin took place at the M. B. church, last Monday. He died in the full triumph of faith. At the time of his death he was the pastor of the Zion Mission of Todalope. He leaves a daughter, sister, one son, and a host of friends to mourn his lost. Rev. E. A. Wilson, officiated. Miss D. B. Thomas, of 526 Nebraska avenue, spent Thursday in Argentine on business. Miss D. B. is a wide awake, up to date, active business young lady, and is ever ready to assist any worthy and legitimate enterprise among our people. Her euqua is for business, and lady like proclivities are few in this part of the country. The W. P. exercises at the Second Baptist church last Sunday, was quite elaborate, the exercises were to be commended and the programme was well rendered, bespeaking much for the energetic members of this organization. Rev. Kurkendall delivered a most excellent historical sermon, and our local Tenor celebrity, Mr. F K. Douglass, was up to the standard. KANSAS CITY, KAS., April 24, 1900. DEAR EDITOR --Allow me to say to your many readers that the Lord has blessed us in our revival meetings which have come to a close. We were blessed with (26) twenty-six candidates and nine restorals. We praise the name of our blessed Redecemor for His mercy endureth forever. We will baptise on the 2nd Sunday in May. The Waterbury (Conn.,) Daily American says: It does not seem to be known that the United States consul at Vladivostok, Russia, is R T. Greener, a negro, and a Harvard graduate. This we should say must be the only case of a man of his color receiving consular appointment to a country not inhabited by negroes. But it is not "the only case," says the New York Age President Grant appointed John F. Quarles of Georgia, Consul at Malaga, Spain, and later transferred him to Port Mahon, France; President Cleveland appointed H C, C, Smith, of Alabama. Consul at Santos, Brazil, and nominated C, H J. Taylor to be Minister Resident to Bolivia, but the Senate refused to confirm it, and besides Mr. Greener, President McKinley appointed Dr. Geo H Jackson, of Connecticut, as Consul at LaRochelle, France; Dr. H A. Furniss, of Indiana, as Consul at Bahai, Brazil; John R. Ruffin, of Tennessee, as Consul at Asunción, Paraguay, and Mahlon Von Horne, of Rhode Island, as Consul at St. Thomas, Danisb, West Indies. We have had many diplomatic and consular appointments in many parts of the globe, and it is a matter of gratification that not one of them was ever dismissed from the service for cause. We have made a splendid record in that service for efficiency and honesty. And this is also true in the main of the civil service, in which we are and have been since the administration of President Grant, very largely represented. Taoma, Wash., April 23. - Captain Bullen, a wealthy retired navigator, committed suicide to day on his ranch, on Fox Island, by blowing off his head with a shot gun. Despondency was the ause. KANSAS CITY, KAN., FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 27, 1900. SHOT GUN USED A YOUNG MAN AND A FIEM TO PATRONIZE We are always proud to speak of deserving young men of our race who against the great odds and all the deep seated prejudice, step a few paces to the front—and in the tumult and active struggle for existence, they hold their own. We were never more pleased in our life than to meet the gentlemanly young colored man in the employ of the Stout Tea and Coffee Co., 1709 Main street, Kansas City, Mo., on the thoroughfare of our city the past week. This young man of whom we speaks lives at 632 Campbell street, and is known as Edward Bishop. He goes about the business of his employees with all the makeup, push and energy of an old experienced salesman or solicitor, and possessing an oily tongue he seldom fails to convince a person that the goods his house carries cannot be duplicated. We have no hesitancy in introducing this young man and the firm he represents to not only the citizens in our humble little city but across the Kaw as well. Every white firm that recognizes in the negro manhood and intelligence, and is willing to go half way—if we as a race prove appreciative enough to go the other half, should receive the entire patronage of us all. Remember now if you are not visited by this young man, the firm he is with can be found at 1709, Main st., where you can find also teas, coffees, spices and extracts of the very highest grade. Give him a call. OHIO WOMAN'S CRIME Youngstown, O., April 23.—Mrs. Lucy Christy tosnight shot her husband, Robert Christy, a roller at the Union Iron and Steel mill, and then shot herself in the head, dying instantly. Christy was shot in the neck, and will probably die. Although known as man and wife, Christy had declared they were not, and threatened to marry another woman. To-day Mrs. Christy secured a revolver and declared that she would kill Christy before he should live with another woman. They were heard quarreling just before the shooting. TRAGIC DIVE TO DEATH. Unknown Man Hurls Himself Into a Coke Oven by a Spectacular Leap. Connellsville, Pa, April 23.—Leaping high into the air as an expert diver would in taking a fancy pike into the water, an unknown man committed suicide this morning at the foundry works of the H. C. Frick Coke Company by driving into a coke oven. In less than a minute what had been a man apparently in the full vigor of life had mingled with the curling smoke of the ovens, distinguishable only by its beush brown color and nauseating odor from the gas smoke or the burning coal. A more tragic death never occurred in this region The coke worker saw him only for an instant as he prepared for the leap. He was well dressed, of medium height and weight and smooth shaven. For the slightest possible space of time he seemed to pause on the sloping ground behind the ovens, then quick as a flash, he ran down the slope, taking the quick short steps of a trained athlete, who gauges them precisely for the jump he intends taking. Eight feet from the overtops the man shot into the air, both hands poised above his head in the fashion of a diver, and descending swiftly, dropped head first into the trunck head of an oven that had burned to the sizzling white heat of coke just before it is drawn. For an instant the body clogged the trunnel head and the legs wringled as though a desperate effort was being made to squirm through and meet death quickly in the blazing oven pit. A rush was made for the oven pit by the horrified oven drawers. All there was to show of the man who but a few seconds before had been in life, was a charred mass of flesh not three feet in length. There is nothing about it that could be used as a means of identification. It will be buried to-morrow. The Boston Transcript says that 'the new and hopeful thing about the Negro problem in the South is that the white women are taking hold of the schooling and moral training of the colored children.' We welcome assistance from whatever source it may come; and it could come from no better source than from the white women of the South. If they will join hands with the white women of the North, who laid the foundation of such work in the South thirty years ago, we shall certainly get good results.—New York Age. CONTEST ON RACE QUESTIONS, That the North should ever be the prime battle ground for all questions involving vital human rights in our country is but in keeping with the order and progress of the past and the appointment of providence as well. That Philadelphia, the "cradle of American liberty" should be deemed the strategic point to be captured by those who would change the Northern mind on the great question of human rights, is to be taken for granted as a matter of course. In the face of such reflections the presence of stalwart Southern leaders on Philadelphia platforms in rapid succession, is not of doubtful meaning. The text of the matter is susceptible of more than one legitimate interpretation and we present some phases of the question at bar not given to the public, but which if forgotten or ignored will only darken all counsel on the subject, but add fearfully to the woes of a long aggrieved and misrepresented class of American citizens. By this class the Quaker City has always been prized as an asylum of liberty and in the issue now being waged to do them harm, they are happy to know that there is one great Northern city among a few others that will not unite in the "mad dog" cry against them. What Philadelphia and Boston are to the North, Atlanta and Montgomery are to the South, on the great question of human rights and freedom, Phillips and Franklin loom up before us as we think of the one and Jefferson Davis and what he stood for arrest our ideas as we think of the other sectional cities. Just now the messengers from the South would have the people of the North shut their ears to the pleasant echoes of our country's constitution, whose preamble tell us all of the common heritage of certain inalienable rights from the Creator. They would stifle for awhile the refreshing tones of old Independence Bell, but for what? Doubtless they have a standard and an ideal which if the North should accept would convey widespread gladness among their countrymen of the South. The dying words of the great chieftian of the Confederacy were. "Keep the diggers down," and one need not listen long to the talk of the Southern white man who would enlighten the Northern hearer on the Negro question before he is convinced of the former's determination to execute the grim mandate if possible. After all it is not so calamitous or objectionable that the enemies of the race should now and then signalize either their animus or attitude. By so doing the race has the two-fold advantage of preparing its own defense and enjoying the renewed support of those whose friendship could be counted on during the trying ordeals of the past. Such has been the value of the recent crusade referred to which closed in this city recently with an address by Dr. H. B. Frissell, of Hampton. There were six of these addresses delivered under the auspices of the "Star Center University Extension Society," four of which were by white men of Southern birth, and two by representative colored men. The addresses of the white men were, for the most part, like barbed arrows with poisonous tips, but their points were either broken or they fell short of the mark each time. To the credit of Mr. Walter Pagabe it said, he was an exception to the rule and strikingly illustrated the possibility of a white man from the South rising above the "social equality" bugbear, and recognizing in the colored man of mind and character, a man, a citizen and brother. A single swallow does not make a summer it is true, but the voice of one such John the Baptist in the wilderness, is destined to prepare the way for the smoothing of the rough places of the races both in the South and elsewhere. But the salvation of the race is not in the hands of others so much as in itself. So that in these trying times of intellectual combats when the race can rest its case with such champions as Profs. Miller, DoBois, and others who are specialists in the use of the bow and sling against the king's enemies, it need have little to fear from any antagonistic human source. THEY LEAPED TO DEATH. Dayton, O., April 23.—Albert J. Deadey and his 16-year-old wife, to-night jumped from a bridge into the canal and were drowned, each tightly clasped in the other's arms. Subscribe for now for the AMERICAN CITIZEN, the only live colored daily paper in the west. CITIZEN Burlington Route Grand Colore ATCHISO SUNDAY, A $1.00 Ro Trai's leaves the Union Depot same evening. Tickets at 823, Maun Trai's leaves the Union Depot at about 8.80, a. m. Returning the same evening. Tickets at 823, Main street and at Union Depot. A MODERN Resta Good Meals Co COLD LUNCHES ON SHORT THE BEST HOME MADE PIE CAKES AND CONFECTION When you want good Modern Restaurant Where you can always find de number, 504 Nobraska Avenue, Restaurant COLD LUNCHES ON SHORT NOTICE. THE BEST HOME MADE PIES IN THE CITY, CAKES AND CONFECTIONARIES. When you want good Ice Cream go to the Modern Restaurant Ice Cream Parlors Where you can always find delicious Ice Creams. Remember the number, 504 Nebraska Avenue, TOPEKA, KANS Mrs. Luia Jefferson is quite ill at her residence, 1807 Jackson street. Miss Jordan, of Joplin, Mo., is the guest of Mrs. Geo. Moss, 527 Kansas avenue. Rev. Guy, who has been confined to his home for several weeks, is able to be out again. The Oak Leaf met Wednesday afternoon with Mrs. Henry Washington, on Spruce street. The Ne Plus Ultra Club meet Saturday afternoon with Mrs Helen Ranson, on Lane street. Miss Minnie Beard died Tuesday afternoon of consumption, and was buried Wednesday afternoon. Mr. Bent Buckner, who has been suffering with rheumatism for the past week, is slowly improving. The Golden Rod club was very pleasantly entertained Friday afternoon by Mrs. Jeff Johnson, at her residence on Madison street. The Ladies Sewing Circle of St. John A. M. E. church, give a special dinner and rally Wednesday from 3 to 10 p m., at Mrs. T. Birds. Quite a neat little sum was realized. In the matter of the estate of Taylor McDonald, deceased. In the Probate Court in and for said County. Notice is hereby given that letters of administration have been granted to the undersigned, on the estate of Taylor McDonald, late of said county, deceased, by the Honorable, the Probate Court of the County and State aforesaid, dated the 3rd day of March.A.D. 1900. Now, all persons having claims against the said estate, are hereby notified that they must present the same to the undersigned for allowance within one year from the date of said letters or they may be precluded from any benefit of such estate, and that if such claims be not exhibited within three years after the date of said letters, they shall be forever barred. I. F. BRADLEY. Administrator of the estate of Taylor McDonald, deceased. Kansas City, Kas., March 20th., 1900. In witness whereof the undersigned, Probate Judge in and for the County of Wyandotte, State of Kansas, have hereto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Probate Court, this 18th. day of March, A. D., 1900. K. P. SNYDER, Probate Judge KANSAS CITY, PRICE TWO CENTS of Country NEXT STATE SENATOR. red Excursion TO SON KANS., APRIL 29TH. ound Trip. pot at about 8.80, a. m. Returning the Main street and at Union Depot. aurant. Cooked to Order. SHORT NOTICE. THE PIES IN THE CITY, TIONARIES, good Ice Cream go to the ant Ice Cream Parlors delicious Ice Creams. Remember the MRS. H. M. G. SPENCER, Proprietress. — KANSAS. Three Tennessee Murderers Hanged Side by Side. McMinnville, Tenn., April 25.—Jno, Watson and Bill Brown, both white, and Sonnie Crain, a negro, were hanged here today. Watson was convicted of having shot his neighbor, James Hillis, from ambush in December, 1898. Brown was charged with complicity in the murder of his wife. Crain was a double murderer. He was convicted of having killed another negro, and while serving his sentence killed John Brown, a fellow prisoner, in jail here. OLD SOLDIERS, ATTENTION! The additional Homestead Claims of all Soldiers or Sailors who served in the Union army or navy, their widows or minor heirs. Who filed a Homestead claim of less than 160 acres of land prior to June 22nd., 1874? Such persons are entitled to enough more land, including the number of acres embraced in their original entry, without living upon it, to make 160 acres. If they homesteaded 80 acres, they are entitled to 80 more, if 40 acres 120 more, if 159 acres, one acre more, or any other number at. by your master as it may a pear. By late rulings and decisions its not necessary that final proof should have been made on their original entry, that is, they are now entitled to such additional rights if their homestead was abandoned, canceled or relinquished, and all transfers can be made at their homes, before a Notary Public. All such claims I am prepared to buy and will pay the highest market price in cash. AT ONCE. Will buy fractional claims even if not more than one acre each. If you did not make a homestead filing you have no claim to sell. Will also buy Government Land Warrants, and obtain them for soldiers who have not yet had them issued. This land is yours and don't wait but come to this office at once and get full particulars concerning this land. It is to your own interest to do so. GOOD PAY FOR AGENTS A big offer for only 15 days for agents in townships in Kansas and Missouri, near Kansas City. Send 66 cents for outfit and territory. W. M. JONES, General Weste r Agt., 335 Minnesota Ave. For P. W. Ziegler & Co., Publishing Co., Phiadelphia. MRS. F. H. BURNETT WHOSE RECENT MARRIAGE IS A SURPRISE. It Also Proved a Source of Regret to Several Admirers — Story of Her Struggle for a Position Among Great Authors. The recent marriage of Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett to Stephen Townsend, the English physician-actor, has created much interest, and not a little surprise in this country. When she left Washington a few years ago she positively declared that she did not have the slightest intention of marrying again, and yet she married almost immediately after reaching Genoa, Italy, where Mr. Townsend was staying. Mrs. Burnett's life has not been all roses. Her literary successes, great as they were in every respect, did not bring her joy. She is said ta have spent few happy days since she played with her sisters under the blue skies and in the sweet-smelling woods of sunny Tennessee. Mrs. Burnett is now fifty-one years old, and she has been a bread-winner ever since she was fifteen. She was born in Manchester, England, and came to America with her mother and sisters in 1865. The family was so poor that the little which she could earn as a country school teacher was most welcome. The change from the tall factory chimney scenes of Manchester to the open, new country of Tennessee, filled MRS. HODGSON BURNETT. the heart of little Frances with delight. It was during these early struggles that she conceived the plan of sending a story to the magazines. Her sisters sold grapes for the postage which carried her first effort to the publisher. From that time forward Mrs. Burnett's ascent to fame and wealth was easy as the proverbial descent to Avernus. Her first story was published in 1867, and the products of her pen have been in big demand since that time. The creator of Fauntleroy was celebrated as a clever story writer and romancer at twenty-four, and it was at that age, in 1873, that she married Dr. Burnett. Almost since that time Mrs. Burnett has lived in Washington. That Lass o' Lowrie's, one of her most widely-read stories, was written and published in 1877. From this success dated her career as a book writer. Mrs. Burnett first met Townsend in a professional capacity. Since then they have been almost inseparable. He was the cause of her divorce from her husband—an act that alienated many of her friends. Founded a Town. Though Blind. At the close of the civil war Gen. A. R. Johnson of the Confederate army, was left without money, with a wife and family to support and, worst of all, stone blind, his sight having been entirely destroyed by a shell during one of the last battles of the war. He removed to Texas and pluckily set about building up a fortune. In the days before the war he had been a surveyor, and he was thoroughly familiar with the topography of the state. Consequently his services soon became valuable in locating and setting up and claims. Twelve years ago he succeeded in interesting northern capital in his scheme for founding a town at Marble Falls, Texas. A city of 10,000 people sprang up there almost over night. Then Gen. Johnson built a big cotton and a shoe factory, and finally he succeeded in persuading one of the Texas railroads to build a branch line to his town. Still the prosperity of Marble Falls is growing and still its blind founder is its most honored citizen. Sudan Baby. In the Church of All Saints in Cairo took place lately an interesting ceremony, where an infant memorial of the overthrow of khallifadom in Africa was christened in the presence of a large gathering of English people and under the auspices of Queen Victoria. The small heroine of the gathering was the daughter of Col. Sir Reginald Wingate (pasha, sirdar of the Egyptian army and governor of the Sudan) and of Lady Wingate. The queen, represented by the Hon. Mrs. Talbot, was the principal godmother. The child was born the day after Sir Reginald Wingate's victory over the khalifa at Om Debrikat, where the dervishes were routed and the khalifa killed. Her majesty presented a diamond pendant to her godchild, who also received a handsome cup from Lord Cromer, a golden cross from the bishop of Jerusalem, who performed the ceremony, and a diamond cross from Sir R. Slatin. The child was christened Victoria Alexandrina Catherine. Seattle's death rate last year was eight per 1,000. Filipino Natives Who Have Proved a Great Aid to Uncle Sam. Great Aid to Uncle Sam. Capt. Mathew A. Batson, originator of the now celebrated Macabebe scouts, who played so important a part in the recent campaign in northern Luzon, is now in this country and will submit a proposition to the secretary of war to the effect that a regiment of Macabebe cavalry be formed to fight the insurgents and ladrones on their own ground and after their own fashion. Capt. Batson is most enthusiastic in his commendation of the Macabebes as soldiers and he will urge the formation of a cavalry regiment as a result of his six months' experience at the head of the first command of Filipino soldiers ever enrolled under the Stars and Stripes. "The Macabebes are born swimmers," he says. "Whenever we came to a river there was never any hesitation about crossing it. The command would march up and into it with scarcely so much as a preliminary halt, and I found, to my astonishment, that every man could swim, and swim well. I rode a Filipino pony during the greater part of my service in the field with my Macabebes, and I soon learned that the ponies swam as well as the men, or very nearly so. The idea soon occurred to me that a picked organization of Macabebes on the filipino ponies would be a most powerful force in ending the lawlessness in the island of Luzon. I know no more about the other Philippine islands than you do, or not so much. I'm sure. But Luzon I do know pretty well, and a regiment, such as I will urge, could follow the insurrectors and ladrones wherever they might go and so rapidly as to effect their complete disorganization. You see, the Macabebes live off the country. They therefore require no wagon train and all they need is ammunition. They can live on very little and as for water, there is really no need to carry a special supply beyond that which each man carries in his hanteen. Once in a while the men suffer a little for water, but these periods are never of long duration. The enemy will, as he is harder pressed, seek the swamps and bays and into and through these he must be pursued. There are no troops that we can muster in the United States so well adapted to this peculiar warfare as the Macabebes. They know the country and they hate the Tagalogs, and they are splendid fighters. The ponies, besides, being good swimmers, are strong little brutes and every Macabebe can ride." BOOTBLACK TO SENATOR. Timothy "Dry Dollar" Sullivan is a unique figure in New York politics who has been brought into public notice lately by his antagonism to the movement against gambling and other forms of vice in the metropolis. It is but natural that Sullivan should not be in sympathy with such a campaign. He was born and has thrived in the atmosphere of which District Attorney Gardiner is trying to rid New York and he sees no harm in it. Sullivan began life as a bootblack. Now he is a leader in the state senate. He was born in New York thirty-seven years ago and his boyhood was spent around the Five Points, where he blacked shoes and sold papers and was a leader of the gamins. As soon as he could vote the politicians took him up and at twenty-three he was able to demand a nomination for the assembly. He has been in office ever since, never tasting defeat. Since 1892 he has been in the senate. He has maintained his influence by befriending such of his constituents as ran afoul of the law, by organizing relief movements for the poor, and by giving "Dry Dollar" Sullivan picnics and balls to which the voters of his district are invited. He has a host of relatives, all of whom live in his district and every one of whom receives aid from the senator. When he moved into the upper house of the legislature he had his nephew, Timothy P. Sullivan, better known as "Boston Tim," elected to the assembly. Although he is looked up to as a very TIM SULLIVAN. generous man by his retainers, his enmity, once earned, attends his victim to the grave. His followers boast that he unhorsed Byrnes and drove McCullagh out. They will give you the names of half a dozen police captains who have suffered various forms of degradation because, as his henchman say, they have interfered with Sullivan's interests, political or financial. In his own district they look up to Sullivan as a feudal lord, and believe that neither money nor the law can defeat him. An Improvement. Dobbs—"I suppose you are a self- made man?" Bobbs—"No; if I were I should have built my stomach to correspond with my appetite."—Balti- more American. GOLD SEEKERS NOW WHEEL OVER THE FROZEN YUKON BRITISH ARISTOCRATS AT WAR. LORD CAVENDISH—BENTHICK EARL DUDLEY EARL OF DUDDONALD THE EARL OF ROSSLYN. DUKE OF HARLBOROUGH LORD BEAUCLER EARL OF SHAPESBURY Travelling in the Klondike has now become a pleasure instead of a hardship, writes a Dawson City correspondent under date of February 19. The mighty Yukon river has been converted into a winter bicycle path, and you can wheel from Dawson City to Circle City along probably the most picturesque path in the world. Since the Yukon has become solidly frozen there has been a boom in cycling. Every one who has a wheel is spinning along the glossy surface of the river, and bicycle parties and bicycle clubs are now more discussed than gold. In a word, the Klondike has the wheeling craze, and has it bad. The bicyclists in the states who heretofore have boasted of their century runs on hard dirt roads have had tame sport compared with the wheelmen of the Klondike. Imagine taking a century spin along a frozen river walled along the sides with snow-clad mountains, that sparkle like millions of diamonds. Think of a scene like this: of a river frozen solid and perfectly smooth for a distance of 365 miles. This is the wonderful road that is open to the cyclists of this part of the world, and they are making the best of it. The record trip of the Arctic cycling season was made in February by Morris Levy, between Dawson and Circle City. The distance between the two points is 365 miles. Levy made it in three days and four hours, or at a gait of better than 100 miles a day. Among those starting over the Dawson-Nome trail last month were two women, both riding bicycles. As many as 600 persons have started on the long journey of 1,000 miles over the ice with dog teams for Nome. Among them are women, chiefly variety actresses. The daily departures from Dawson to Nome run from ten to twenty men. The finding of a $64 nugget on No. 4 Guy Gulch and the combined sensational returns from Sulphur Creek, particularly No. 46, are the principal features of the Klondike mining situation. A conservative estimate of the year's output at Dawson is $30,000,000. No. 46 is literally alive with gold. Careless washing in the rush to get out the gold has not yet shown a pan bearing less than $6. One yesterday netted $50. NO REST FOR LINCOLN. Remains of the Martyred President Again in New Abode. Fate seems to have denied rest to the great emancipator even in death. When the body of Abraham Lincoln was taken to a temporary vault in Oak Ridge cemetery, at Springfield, Ill., a few days ago, it marked the eleventh removal of the remains of the martyred president. For thirty-five years the metallic casket has been shifted hither and thither to meet the exigencies of time and change. The following table gives the history of the unquiet remains of Lincoln, from the time of his death thirty-five years ago: Died in a house near Ford's theater, Washington, in which he was assassinated April 14, 1865. Removed to white house. Removed to capitol building. Removed to funeral car. Removed to capitol building. Springfield, Ill. Removed to receiving vault, Oak Ridge cemetery. Removed to temporary vault. Removed to sarcophagus, Lincoln monument. Removed to space between walls. Removed to bed of BRITISH ARISTOC LORD CANVEDISH - BENTHICK EARL CANVEDISH THE EARL OF ROSSLYN. BUKE OF MALBOROUGH EARL OF SMARTESBURY In England it is a time-honored tradition that there are only two professions which the blue-blooded aristocracy of that country can fittingly follow. One is the diplomatic service, the other is war. The great majority of Britain's imperial officers, therefore, are men of big titles and very blue blood. Notwithstanding this fact, however, it will be a source of surprise to many to learn that Great Britain has already sent to the battlefields of South Africa no less than three dukes and nineteen earls, to say nothing of a marquise, two viscounts, fourteen barons and a couple of dozen baronets. THE RACE FORTUNE HUNTERS WHEELING UP THE RIVER TO THE CAPE NOME GOLD FIELDS. cement. Removed to temporary, vault. For several years the Lincoln monument at Springfield has steadily fallen into decay. It was completed seventeen years ago, after fifteen years of labor. Soon after it was finished the base of the knoll on which it rested began to shift. Gaping seams appeared in the masonry, and the monument, which was one of the finest in the country, has long been in danger of total collapse. Recently enough money was appropriated by the state legislature to raze the old structure and re- FORTUNE HUNTERS WH build it on a foundation which goes down thirty-five feet to bed rock. This last removal of Lincoln's remains was made necessary on account of the rebuilding of the monument. The metallic casket now rests in a crude wooden box in a temporary vault in Oak Ridge cemetery. SCARE AMONG RICH MEN. Leaving Chicago to Become Citizens of the Metropolis. The exodus of wealthy Chicagoans to New York continues at a rate which bids fair to diminish rapidly the ranks of the "four hundred." The past two years have seen the departure of a large number to make their homes in the Eastern metropolis, and lately they have gone at the rate of one a week. For instance, James B. Breeze, the broker, left to make Gotham his residence. Recently Charles B. McDonald, the broker and golf man, announced that he would say good-bye. Next comes the departure of Frederick K. Pulsifer, one of the leading members of the board of trade, to swell the list of ex-Chicagoans in the east. One of Chicago's best known corporation lawyers will follow him in the early summer. Samuel M. Nickerson, late president of the First National bank, has bought a home in New York, and has also his son Roland, a popular young clubman. H. H. Porter, president of the Chicago and eastern Illinois railway, shook the Chicago dust from his shoes about two years ago and went to New York. He gave as his reason the excessive taxation and persecution against corporations. The removal of the steel and tin plate companies' headquarters took not only a train load of employees away from here, but also ex-Judge Gray, the RATS AT WAR. EARL DUDLEY EARL OF LONSDALE. LORD BEAUCLERM "Duke's son, cook's son, son of a belted earl," they have all been hurried off to South Africa to take up the struggle against the unpretentious and untitled Boer. In this connection, too, it is worth noting that there have been those military experts who have claimed that the present weakness of the British army lay in the fact that its officers have been chosen too closely from among the aristocracy. It was painfully obvious at the beginning of hostilities that the British were out-officered in nearly every move. Since then they have learned a few lessons, but they were very costly ones. The British officer, however inadequate he counsel. While Mr. Yerkes is still here, he maintains a home in New York, and is quite as much, if not more, in New York as he is here. James W. Ellsworth, capitalist and art lover, is no longer of Chicago, and recently resigned his South Park commissionership to reside in New York. W. H. Moore, the great promoter of multi-millionaire corporations, has moved into a Fifth avenue home he recently bought. D. G. Reid and W. E. Reis are among the other Chicago citizens who have given up their alegi- PEELING UP THE RIVER TO THE CA ance, and it is said that John W. Gates will follow their example soon. He maintains an office there now. It is estimated that altogether the city, by these and other removals of persons and corporations, has lost several million dollars—Chicago Inter Ocean. Stay-at-Home. Among Westerns the French and among Orientals the Chinese are the most stay-at-home nations of the world. Frenchmen are met with in all parts of the world, but their thoughts are always turning toward the happy days when they can once more return to La Belle France and breathe the air of the boulevards. The Frenchman never willingly expatriates himself for life. The Chinaman, on the other hand, is a stay-at-home by religion. He thinks that his hope of salvation depends upon ending his days in the Celestial Empire, and he is careful to provide that if he dies in a foreign land, his coffin, with his remains, shall be sent back to China. The frightful over-population of the Chinese empire has driven Chinamen into all quarters of the world, especially to Australia, but they always hope to return to their own land. The Hindu loses caste if he leaves his native country, but he is a member of a religion rather than of a race, and as a set-off the Mohammedans, who form a very large proportion of the Indian empire, are the most persistent pilgrims on the face of the earth. "Sicilian Vespers." "Sicillan Vespers" is the name given to the massacre of the French in Sicily on the day after Easter (March 30), 1282, the signal for the commencement of which was to be the first may have been as a strategist, was never lacking in valor. The result was a deplorable loss of life among not only the leaders of the British forces facing the Boers, but also among the rank and file, who were led blindly into Beer traps. Yet, although many a blue-blooded fighter went down under burgher bullets, England has plenty of noblemen, and they have nothing much to do, and they all seem ready and willing to fight. The three dukes at the front at present are the duke of Mariborough, the duke of Westminster and the duke of Roxburghe. The earls include the earl of Lonsdale, the earl of Essex, the earl of Warwick, the earl of Errol, the earl of Albemarle, the earl of Wicklow, the earl of Airlie, Earl Granard, Earl Longford, Earl Dudley, Earl Cowley, Earl Dundonald, Earl Rosslyn, Earl de la Warr, Earl Sondes and Earl Beauchamp. In addition to this long list of earls there are, of course, a large number of "courtsey lords" now at the front in South Africa. There are also the heir apparents to the dukeds of Atholl, Westminster and St. Albans, the marquisate of Lansdowne, the earldoms of Aningdon, Erne, Gosford, Fitzwilliam, Listowel, Lansborough, Dunmore, Arran, Rosse, Derby, Granard and Radnor. There is also to be found at the front the heir of the dukedom of Richmond. There are likewise a few princes at present in South Africa, as, for instance, Prince Christian, but these same princes will all be kept well away from the firing line, for princes are too big fish to be shot at. Count Gleichen, who was one of the many British officers who fell at Modder river, could claim the relationship of cousin with Queen Victoria. Prince Francis of Teck is also at the seat of war, but it is not likely that he will be able to claim many Boer scalps when the struggle is over, as he is there more as a gilded spectator than as a combatant. --- strke of the vesper bell. Charles of Anjou, the brother of Louis IX. of France, had deprived the Hohenstaufen dynasty of Naples and Sicily, and parceled out these kingdoms into domains for his French followers; but his cruelty toward the adherents of the dispossessed race, his tyranny, oppressive taxation, and the brutality of his followers, excited among the vindictive Sicilians the deadliest animosity. On the evening of Easter Monday the inhabitants of Palermo sprang to arms, and turning on their oppressors PE NOME GOLD FIELDS. put to the sword, every man, woman and child of them, not sparing even those Italians and Sicilians who had married Frenchmen. This example was followed, after a brief interval, by Messina and the other towns, and the massacre soon became general over the island; the French were hunted like wild beasts, and dragged even from the churches, where they vainly thought themselves safe. More than 8,000 of them were slain by the Palermitans alone. The 600th anniversary of the Sicilian Vespers was celebrated with much enthusiasm in Palermo in 1882. WITHOUT FUEL. This Engine Runs, Furnishing Conderable Power. A new power engine, which is operated without fuel, steam, electricity, or other propelling force, is the invention of W. G. Simons, of this city. The machine is the nearest to perpetual motion that can be made, and is in successful operation. The invention is simple and inexpensive. It consists of two upright axles, between which steel balls work upon worms. The weight of the balls forms the power. There is no fuel, no water, no trouble. All the expense of operation is for lubricating oil, and the machine will run until it is worn out, without any attention except to check it when not in use. The plan is simple. There is one upright axle, about which is constructed a worm, arranged so that it winds closely. Held against this worm are case-hardened steel balls, kept there by a hardened steel axles, upon which they cannot move sideways. At the base, of this is a cog wheel moving in the same direction as the worm, and this works into another cog wheel, which operates another upright axle, upon which is another worm. The second worm is only one-sixth the diameter of the first one, and the colls of the worm are four times as far apart. The principle o f the machine is that while four balls are descending on the large worm one ball is being forced up on the small one and moves up with four times the rapidity with which it had come down. This keeps four balls descending while one is being elevated, and after it has descended it drops back again to connect with the large worm. There is a governor at the top to check the speed of the machine. Mr. Simons has a model, a very small affair, to which he has attached a sewing machine, but even with this he finds too much power. It is estimated that these machines may be made to develop high power, although the cheapness of construction would probably favor more machines and not such large ones, where great power is needed. The larger and taller these machines the greater the gravity and a consequent increase in speed and power. Pronunciation of "Automobile." Two ways of pronouncing the word "automobile" are defensible, according to current orthoepic authorities, and two only, although at least five have been suggested. As a noun the word is not given in any dictionary. It is in the Standard as an adjective, pronounced au-to-mo-bil. The noun, of course, is only the adjective used absolutely, to mean something that is automobile or self-moving. The commonest pronunciation is au-to-mo-beel. It is simply "auto," self, and "mobile," movable. The Standard, Webster and many other authorities give mo-bil as the pronunciation of "mobile," and Worcester and some others prefer mo-beel—Inland Printer. Canadian Towns Prospering. Canadian towns and cities are steadily growing and many of them rapidly. --- THE SCARLET SPIDER. "Love, the Scarlet Spider, will in a night hang between two that have been apart a web too fine for either to see; but the strength of both will never be able to break it." Who was he? She hardly knew. A partner—she thought of him as nothing else. All the women were given partners as a matter of course. "Dick," their host had said, "will you have the goodness to look after my niece, Miss Blynn? Edith, let me present Mr. Kirkland." They bowed. They could not well see one another's faces there in the starlight. It was a skating party, at Lake Geneva, W12., and two big companies had come down for a week of winter sports, throwing open the houses which ordinarily knew the sound of human voices only in the summer time. The two parties met the first evening after dinner on the ice. It was cloudy, with rifts of indigo where the stars showed, and there was a gusty, cold wind from the west. Now the ice looked bright—a silver ribbon would appear to stretch itself out waveringly—now it was shadowy and mysterious. Miss Blynn held out her hand automatically to the man to whom she had been introduced. "I see your skates are on," she said, indifferently. "So are mine. Let us skate rather slowly with a longsweep." A band began to play in the boathouse by the shore. "I didn't know we were to have music. It is a waltz. Now I am ready, Mr. Kirkland." He took her mittened hand in his firm grasp. They moved slowly away down the gleaming floor. They crossed the silver ribbon and entered the shadows. "We shall presently be out of sound of the music," protested Miss Blynn, gently. Not that she cared. She and her new companion were moving along with perfect rhythm. "Perhaps if we listen hard we shall hear the music of the spheres," he said. "The shadows are black," she remarked. "And the wind is cold. After all, this is too serious for pleasure. It is hard to be frivolous in a place like this. See how forbidding the trees look on the shore, and how solemn and menacing the sky is. This is a sermon—this winter night. Or it is a tragedy. Let us go back to the house where the lights are burnig." "There is a fire in the boathouse. I heard your uncle say coffee was to be served there. But if you are too much oppressed I wish you would listen to the tragedy a little longer." "Listen to it? I look at it. It is a tragedy for the eyes, not for the ears." They swang along together with fine momentum. They were conscious of their youth and strength and vigor. Miss Blynn gave voice to her thoughts in an indirect fashion. "Some people," she said, "are old and weary, and sit by the fire and wonder if the winter will never pass." They both laughed at this—it made a harmonious but startling duet, that laughter, and it echoed from the wooded shore. "Some people," he responded, "go to winter and drag him out of his den, and shake him out of his sulks and make him dance like a trained bear." They laughed again, though neither of them had been witty. "I have been skating with you an hour," he said at length, "and I have not an idea of how you look." "I have been skating with you an hour," she retorted, "and I do not know whether you have red curls or black elf locks." "Come to the boathouse," he suggested, "and see." They went in where the fire crackled and where their friends stood in groups drinking coffee and chatting. He undid his cap with its ear laps; she unied her scarlet velvet hood. What she beheld was a young man of 24 or 25, with deep-set gray eyes, a dark skin, dark hair, heavy brows, a smooth face, and a large and sensitive mouth. What he beheld was a woman with a snow-white skin, black eyes, melan- choly and timid in their expression, a high brow, abundant dark hair and a mouth that, essentially serious, broke into unexpected, illuminating smiles. "It would be rude of me to say what a service the light has done me," he said stupidly. "The light has told me a number of things," she responded daringly. "What?" he imperturred. "That you have been a student, lovingly solitude; that you are melancholy oftenter than you are merry, and that you like a good book better than a good friend." "No, no! not the last!" She laughed, and took the cup of coffee he offered her. He took note of her gray skating frock with its edgings of black fur, of her scarlet velvet vest and little hood, and the white, sensitive face peering above her voluminous boa. She fell to talking with some others, and presently she flashed up to him for a second. "I was rude to you with my personal comments," she said under her breath, speaking quickly. "Please forgive me. I knew at the time that I was doing wrong." Before he could get over thinking how quant a speech this was she was gone. He saw her no more that night. There was nothing, it would seem, in this brief association, to keep him making till dawn. There was nothing to make her hold her fingers close upon her eyes, as if to shut out a vision. The mystery remains always beyond explanation—there is no defiition to the magic word—there is no fashion in which the necromancy can be accounted for. The morning found him eager to see her, and found her wondering by what means she could avoid him. There was ice boating, and while he searched for her he saw her flying by in one of the skimming craft, sitting erect and fearless, while the great white boat took to itself the wings of a reckless bird. In the afternoon there was a muscale, and he saw her sitting demure and sober in a corner where he could not reach her; and later, at dinner, in all the witchery of her gleaming toilet of white, he had the sorry satisfaction of glimpsing her as she went down to dinner with another man. In the evening she seemed to flit before his eyes like a will-o'-the-wisp. He could never get near enough to speak. He gave up at length, and went away, angry and hurt. And the next morning a telegram came, calling him back to town. He said to himself that he would meet her somewhere, though he was quite aware that her life was much more given up to fashionable pleasures than his own. But the winter wore away and he met her nowhere. He could not think of trying to call upon her. She had not asked him to do so; she had seemed not to care for him after that first night, but accuse himself as he might of having been an infatuated fool, he could not rid himself of the idea that for a few hours his soul was nearer to hers than it had ever been to that of any other human being. To be sure, their happiness and sweet intimacy had been hidden under badinage and an affection of indifference, but it was there all the same. Summer came. "I shall see her at the lake," said Kirkland, and put himself in the way of being invited up. But she was not at her uncle's house. She had gone to the Canadian lakes with an English family. Kirkland concluded that he ought to see Canada. A man really had no business gadding off to the other side of the world before he had seen his own continent. He went rowing on Canadian lakes, and nearly lost his life, but after a fortnight's patience he found his way to the lodge where Miss Blynn's friends lived. "Miss Blynn grew tired of our grim solitude," said her host. "She says Chicago is pleasant in the summer—though I myself have yet to see the time when I could call it pleasant—and she has gone back home to study something or other. I never knew her so studious." "She's restless," commented Kirkland. "I wonder why." He put all shyness and sense of propriety behind him and determined to find out why. The morning after reaching the city he made himself gay in white duck and boldly called at her house. She was out on a porch at the rear of the severe-looking city hous; and had made herself a miniature country seat there, with palms and ferns and flowers. The hammock was moving as if she had just quitted it, but when he met her she was arising decorously from one of the chairs that surrounded a reading table littered with the midsummer magazines. "You haven't your skates on!" she cried mockingly, extending her hand. Her eyebrows went up and came down in a funny, nervous little way and the corners of her mouth seemed tremulous. "Is it necessary for me to have my skates on in order to recommend myself to your favor?" he inquired. "I cannot tell," she responded, "till I see how well you converse in Oxford ties and summer ducks." They talked nonsense like this for half an hour, but both of them were desiring to keep still and enjoy the happiness of being together again. Neither had the courage to become serious. He arose finally. "I know how impertinent I have been in calling," he said. "It is justified only by—by my temptation." "We can resist everything but temptation, a clever man once said," smiled Miss Blynn. "Then I may come again?" "You may come—in two weeks." "I am coming in a week or not at all." "Then let it be in a week," she laughed. But it was not a week. It was three days. "I've been miserable for seven months through not seeing you," he explained. "I won't stand it any longer unless you condemn me to it." Her eyebrows went up and down in that curious way of hers. "I shan't condemn you to it," she said. "Because—well, because I came back from Canada, because—well—" "Well, why?" "Because it was such a long way from—from Chicago." But something in the accent of the speech made it personal and precious to Kirkland. And he lifted her hand to his lips.—Chicago Tribune. A four-leafed clover is said to be an omen of success, but industry is a better one. MORRIS CREEK BRIDGE. BRIDGEOFTRAGEDIES BRIDGEOFTRAGEDIES TO LOSE IDENTITY AT HANDS OF REBUILDERS. Bands of Indians Fought There Years Ago, And Horrors Have Been Continued There Ever Since—Rendezvous of Robbers. Probably no place in the United States has been the scene of more crime than the Morris creek railroad bridge, near Montgomery, W. Va., which is soon to lose its identity at the hands of bridge builders engaged to remodel it, and the creek which it spans. The original owners were the Morris brothers, who held the patent from the state of Virginia, and from these brothers the creek bears its name. How many tragedies occurred here before the white man came is not known, but tradition says the creek was the scene of a number of conflicts between the Mingoes and the Shawnees, and the quantities of arrows and stone hatchets which can be found there bear out the correctness of this statement. At one time this creek was one of the prettiest bits of scenery in the Kanawha valley, but the railroads and coal矿es have taken away much of the beauty which it once possessed, and the beautiful stream of water is now but a discolored drain for all the impurities of the different mines along its course. In August, 1894, Dr. J. W. Davis, a prominent physician of Montgomery, was returning from a professional visit up this creek, when he was fired upon and received wounds from which he died in a few hours. This assassination was carefully planned, and fire was opened upon the doctor by his invisible assailant before he had got into dangerous range. The doctor whipped up his horses and tried to escape, and in so doing was compelled to drive nearer to the ambush of his foe. He drove MORRIS CR through a hail of bullets, three of which took effect, wounding him mortally. Bloodhounds were placed on the trail of the assassin, and in a day or so Bud Clendennin, a man who but a short time before had recovered from an illness through which the kind-hearted doctor had treated him free of charge, was captured. He was tried, convicted at Charleston and given a life sentence in the penitentiary, where he subsequently died, protesting his innocence to the last. The fact that it was on the eve of an election, and that for some of the jurymen to vote it would be necessary for them to dispose of the case that night, saved Clendennin from the gallows, as 11 of the jury were for hanging, the other was not, and declaring his intention of holding the fort, the rest gave in, so that they might vote. In the same year, and but a few months later, the body of Dr. J. C. Aultz, a well-known surgeon, was found a lifeless mass under the fatal bridge. Unknown parties attempted to blow up the bridge with dynamite during a strike in 1894, but owing to the fact that they were not familiar with the explosive the force of the explosion was unconfined, and though the bridge was somewhat weakened, comparatively little damage was done. During all the time that the Lewis gang of robbers and murderers existed this was their rendezvous, and every move which they made was planned under the shadow of the old bridge. Here it was that John Cochran, miner, was coaxed one night in March and murdered, robbed and then his lifeless body cast into the inky waters of the creek, and washed out into the bosom of the Kanawha river. Vlers, who led the white element of this gang, made an effort to throw the responsibility for this murder upon an innocent man named Lewis, who was an enemy, but on the scaffold his nerve failed him, and he confessed that his former statements were false, and that Lewis had nothing to do with the murder. Back in 1880 the first lynching that ever took place in that section occurred within a few hundred yards of this bridge. Mart Lee, who had assaulted a white lady, was turned over to the sheriff of Fayette county by the sheriff of Kanawha on this bridge, which was then the dividing line between two counties. In a short time a mob overpowered the sheriff, and, taking Lee, swung him over the river from the first available tree. Many people have fallen between the tracks of this bridge, and sustained serious injuries. The last of these was only a few months-ago, when an insane soldier from the Philipines, in charge of two guards, en route to one of the eastern army infirmaries at night, and while the train was passing over the bridge, leaped out, and was immediately followed by one of the guards, who was permanently injured. The insane man was never found. SNAKE'S LONG FAST. Venomous Indian Cobra Hasn't Eaten Anything for 23 Mouths. All bona-fide fasting records have been broken by La Tosca, the great Indian cobra at the Zoo. This snake has been under close scientific observation for 22 months past, during all of which time the reptile has not tasted a morsel of food. Bacteriologists from several medical colleges and others representing pharmaceutical concerns have been endeavoring to secure specimens of the big snake's venom, which brings instant and horrible death to all forms of animal life, but La Tosca, in her voluntary fast of 22 months, has never once opened her mouth wide enough to enable these scientists to secure the venom by any of the ordinary methods of snake handling. The venom-fang is a long, sharp conical tooth of the upper jaw, by means of which the poisonous fluid is injected into the punctured wound. This fang is attached to the maxillary bone, and may be thrown forward or laid flat by a peculiar mechanism by which the bones of the upper jaw change their relative position. This tooth or fang is folded upon itself for the conveyance of the venom, and is also connected with the duct of the receptacle which contains the poisonous fluid. The mechanism of the bones is such that the opening of the snake's mouth widely causes the erection of the venom fang, and when the mouth is closed upon the object bitten the same movement injects the venom, and death ensues forthwith. Some of the bacteriologists seem to think that the EEK BRIDGE. venom might have some curative properties that would make it a valuable adjunct to the materia medica, and for that reason they are making renewed efforts to get some of the poison. La Tosca sleeps most of the time, and pays no attention to anything that is transpiring about her. She was brought here from Borneo about two years ago, and, after eating the three snakes that made the voyage with her, refused all descriptions of food, and seems to get along very well without it. This variety of reptiles never eats anything but snakes. They have been known to kill bears and horses, and are feared by all the natives of Borneo, Java and the smaller islands of the East Indies, where they are found. La Tosca is the only specimen of her kind in America, and, unless she can be induced to eat, must, sooner or later, die. She measures 14 feet in length.—Philadelphia Record. Confessed and Was Lynched. Charles Humphries, who entered the room of Miss McCoy, daughter of a wealthy farmer near Phoenix City, Ala., was lynched by a party of men. The young woman recognized Humphries, and a mob immediately started in pursuit. They came upon the negro about ten miles from Phoenix City. He confessed and was then strung up. Indians Charged with Murder The steamer Cutch, which has arrived at Vancouver, B. C., from Skagway, brought news of the arrest of nine Indians, the perpetrators of a murder there last October. The victims were Mr. and Mrs. Frank Worthing, who were shot down over their fire at night. The bodies were hidden in a cave. Tranayal Horse Sickness. Horse sickness has broken out earlier than usual in South Africa. As a rule it comes in February. The Boers being entirely a mounted force, the trouble will affect them more than it will the English armies. Killed Husband. Shot Herself. Early the other morning Mrs. Leonard Wagner killed her husband and then shot herself at their home near Sandusky, O. The cause of the crime is believed to have been jealousy. A Query. Edith- He says if I don't marry him he- he doesn't know what he'll do! Ethel-Ah! has the poor fellow no trade?-Puck. DIVINE HEALER FAKE NIPPED IN THE BUD BY BOSTON POLICE. Francis Truth, the Self-Styled Divine Healer, Operated by Mall All Through the United States on a Remarkable Large Scale. One of the most gigantic frauds of recent years received its death blow the other day in Boston when Francis Truth, the self-styled divine healer, was placed under arrest. Truth occupied luxurious apartments in Boston, and had established his healing business on a large scale throughout the United States. The great bulk of the correspondence taken in possession by the police after Truth's arrest was found to be from such distant parts as Texas, California, Washington and Florida, although operations were being conducted by him in practically every state in the Union. When the business was taken in hand by the police it is estimated that the "healer" was taking in on an average about $30,000 a week. In his office he employed 30 girls to answer to his advertisements, and it took the girls all their time writing in a very rapid rate from 8 in the morning until 6 at night. Advertisements were placed in the leading papers all through the United States and in the Boston Sunday papers half-page advertisements were taken. The result of this extensive advertising was that Mr. Truth's mail became larger than that received by any firm in Boston. The postal authorities were induced by this fact and the character of the advertisements in the newspapers to look into the matter. Postoffice Inspector Evans, assisted by Inspector Swift, made an investigation and their suspicions were at once aroused. About the same time Chief Watts of the Boston Criminal Investigation Bureau thought that Mr. Truth's career had reached a crisis,and he also investigated the scheme. He arranged matters so that a young man of his acquaintance was employed by Truth as door tender. This young man kept a close watch over all that was going on and promptly reported all that he learned to the chief. The climax was reached when the postoffice inspector's department heard from Washington officials that a fraud order would be granted for the suspension of Mr. Truth's mail. A warrant was then secured for the man's arrest on the charge of "devising a scheme and artifice with intent of using the United States mail for the purpose of defrauding the public." An arresting party composed of Chief Watts, Deputy Marshal Waters and Postoffice Inspectors Evans, Swift and Letherman, congregated at the Revere house, directly opposite to Truth's establishment, at a time when he was FRANCIS TRUTH te receive a wagon load of mail from the postoffice. When the huge bags of mail were being carried in at the front door Deputy Marshal Waters and Inspector Evans went across to the Truth place and entered. The inspector was troubled with rheumatism and the deputy had to assist him as he hobbled up the stairs with a pair of crutches. When they were ushered into Truth's private office Mr. Evans said: "I have heard a good deal about you, doctor,and I think that you might help me." Then followed a colloquy about the price and Mr. Truth said: "I receive $2 a visit, but if the treatment is given by letter I charge $5 a month." "You want personal treatment, don't you, Uncle George?" asked Waters. "Oh,yes, I want personal treatment," was the reply of Mr. Evans. "It is a good deal better for you to have letter treatment, but if you prefer it, you can have personal treatment," replied Mr. Truth. And so, as Mr. Evans insisted on it, and as he laid down the required $2, the "treatment" was given. Truth commenced by rubbing the legs of Inspector Evans, and he succeeded in causing quite a glow. After the treatment was all over, and Truth had specified a time for Mr. Evans to return and pay another $2 for being cured of his infirmity, the deputy marshal said to Truth: "Now, let me try the same treatment on you." "Oh, I am not sick, and do not need it," replied Truth. "But just let me try it, and see how I do it," said Waters. "Perhaps you can do it as well as I can," said Truth, "but I do not need it, and so there is no use in trying it." "Sit down in that chair, and let me try it," commanded Waters, and as he spoke he pushed Truth into a chair. Truth had hardly become seated in the chair before Waters remarked: "I have a treatment that will make you sick," at the same time slipping a pair of handcuffs from his pocket and placing them on Truth's wrists. As he was being escorted to the jail by the chief and deputy, Truth remarked that it was rather hard on him to be arrested when his labors were just beginning to yield fruit. During the first year or so after he commenced the healing business he spent about all his income in advertising, and his business had just reached a point where he was receiving an enormous amount of money with comparatively small expenditure. Truth operated the healing business both by personal treatment and mail. It was the custom of Mrs. Truth to open the mail and extract the $5 which was demanded in absent treatment. Then the letters were sent out to the mailing department and were answered by the girls. As soon as the letter was received from a sick person, provided the $5 was inclosed, the following typewritten letter was sent: "Dear Friend—Yours of even date, with inclusion of $5 for one month's absent treatment, at hand. Thanking you very kindly for same, I will do my utmost to heal you by divine power, and trust you will do your part in bringing about the desired result. Please observe carefully the inclosed special directions, as they form a very important part in restoring you to permanent health and strength. Wear the handkerchief upon your chest next to the flesh. Send a clean handkerchief to be prepared after the inclosed is soled. Please write about once in two weeks how your case is progressing, as I like to keep in touch with my patients. Wishing you well, believe me, yours for health and happiness. Diccated by Francis Truth. There were other forms of letters which were sent to patients, after one two or three months' treatment. Truth also edited and published a monthly paper called the Divine Healer. He gave instructions personally and by mail to persons who wished to learn the art of divine healing. For a course under his personal supervision, consisting of thirty private lessons at the Truth institute of divine healing, he charged $100, payable in advance upon entering the institute. The mall course, including 15 lessons, he gave for $15 a week. To aid him in advertising the concern, Truth had hundreds of testimonials purporting to be from various parts of the United States. These letters were published broadcast, and thousands of easy victims were led, by reading of those marvelous cures, to answer the advertisements and "drop" their coin. It is needless to say that most of these testimonials were fakes and without foundation. SHOT THROUGH THE HEART. The shooting through the heart of James Hile by Joseph Noland created considerable excitement in the oil center of St. Marys, W. Va. Noland is the ex-prosecutive attorney of Pleasants county. Last January Hile had him arrested for intimacy with his (Hile's) wife, and also instituted a $20,000 damage suit. The case was tried in February with the result that Noland was acquitted. Hile recently bragged that either he or Noland must die. He then got a gun and started after Noland, who escaped into his own house. The men met again and Noland once more retreated to his own home. The latter went into a room and locked the door. When Hile tried to break it down Noland fired through the door, shooting Hile through the heart, killing him instantly. Noland surrendered to the authorities. Eight Skeletons Unearthed. Eight skeletons, believed to be those of traders murdered many years ago, were unearthed by laborers building a switch near Guthrie, Ky. A close examination of the skeletons disclosed a murder. The skeletons are the remains of men who had been buried at least twenty years. In the spring of 1852 eight traders left Nashville for St. Louis with a large herd of cattle. They disposed of the stock, and a few days later started upon their return home. Nothing more was ever heard of them, although they were traced to a section where the skeletons were found. It Made Him Insane Bleached hair of the young and pretty wife of Andrew Maxwell, a farmer living near Newkirk, O. T., has driven her husband insane. Mrs. Maxwell's hair was jet black, but she recently had it turned yellow by a hair dresser. When the young husband came home and found his wife with different colored hair he fretted over it until he lost his mind. Mrs. Maxwell has already paid twice the sum she spent in having her hair dyed to get it black again, but to no avail. It is now a pale green. Molineux Plays Checkers. Roland B. Molineux is the champion checker player in the "dead house" at Sing Sing prison. The players never meet, but by a system of numerals, which they shout across the corridors, they manage to keep tab and get over the board in reasonably fast time. Molineux has a new checkerboard and a series of games between he and Dr. Kennedy, the murderer of Dolly Reynolds, resulted in a victory for the former. AMERICAN CITIZEN PUBLISHING AND PRINTING CO. Daily and Weekly 235 Minnesota Ave. KANSAS CITY KANSAS TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Daily delivered by carrierper week. 10c. Weekly one year..... $1 50 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. BAPTIST CHURCHES. African 3914 East 15th Street. Greenwood, 2005 Maderson Avenue, Highland Avenue, 1119 Highland Ave. Macedonian ( Mission 216 East 21th Street. Missionary, 2005 Madison Avenue. Mt. Calvary, 15 N. E. Cor. Norton Ave. Mt. Gay, 2100 Wyeming 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, 4 Augustine Mission, 1025 Troost ave METHODIST EPISCOPAL. Absbury Chapel, 1020 Cherry street. Burns, 11th S. W. Cor, Highland ave Clark's Chapel, 819 S. W. Boulevard Westport W, Prospect Place Cor. 23rd. King Solomon Mission 4th and Locust Colored Schools. Attacks 2106 East 18th street. Bruce 3014 East 15th street. Douglass 27th N. E. Cor. N. Prospect Place. Garrison Forest S. W Cor. 4th street. Lincoln School 11th N W. Cor Campbell street. Lincoln High School 816 East 11th st. Page Rochester N.E. Cor. Prospect Avenue. Business Directory. J. A. Wilson Jeweller 1646 W.9th st. Chandler's Barber shop, Samuel Chandler Prop. 8 LClemens Mgr 112 East 6th street. Restaurant Mrs Amus Prop. 114 East 6th street. Fance Barber Shop Oarth & Warfield Prodictors 550 Grand Avenue. O Bannon' Barber Shop W.T. O Bannon Proprietor 560 Grand Avenue. Manila Barber Shop Madison Bros. Proprietors 700 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 Andrew Clark Proprietor 723 Independence ave. Saratoga Cafe L. Mason Iproprietor 806 Independence ave. Chicago Cafe H Compton Proprietor 706 east 12th street Maupin's Barber Shop 1332 E 18th st. Brown's Barber Shop 1339 E 18th st. Berry's Barber Shop 1432 $\ddagger$ 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 1112 Campbell st. Rising Suu J.F. Cole, Editor, L. W Wood.Manager 117 W. 6th st. Grocery, A. Webb, Prop 90th and Holmes. KANSAS CITY, KANSAS Enterprises. A.C.L. Coal Co. Main Office 402 Minn. Ave. E.F. Henderson, Mgr. D. W. White Furniturestore, 420 Minn. Ave. J. W. Jones Grocery 400. Oakland Ave. M. Gordon Department store 1605 N 0th 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, Buteber, 1600 n 16th. st Douglass Hospital, 312 Washington ave., Miss L. V. Ashton, Matron. CHURCHES. METROPOLIS. 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. 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 Gee's 448 Minn. Ave. E. Stoakes 1510 N. 3rd st. [BARBERS. J. T. Roberts & Tucker, 507 Minnesota avenue. 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. Lon McAdams, 348 Minnesota ave. D. W. Wynne, 309 Minnesota ave. Lewis Blanchard, North 6th., State Line. Wilson, 5th. st. between Nebraska and State. M. & O., 1306 north 8th. street. Sons of Protection, State and 6th. DRUGS. Wyandotte Drug Store, 1512 north 5th. street. DOCTORS. 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. UNION PACIFIC OVERLAND ROUTE WORLD'S PICTORIAL LINE SHORT LINEA CROSS THE COUNTRY. The Union Pacific 'The Original Overland Route' always was, and is to-day, the shortest and best Line to the west. Two splendid fast trains leave Kansas City daily over this old established line. No change of cars between Kansas City and Denver, Ogden or San Francisco. All trains solidly vestibulated and fully equipped with latest improved Reclining Chair Cars free and Pullman Palace sleeping cars. Meals served in Pullman Palace dining cars on the restaurant plan at prices most reasonable. All cars lighted with the celebrated Pintsch Licht! Only line running two trains without change from KansasCity to Denver Low excursion rates on sale to Colorado-Utah Idaho, Oregon Washington and California. Don't complete your ars rangerings 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. Gen Agt., Union Pacific, 1000 Main street, Kansas City, Mo Finest Barber Shop in the City. Hair Cutting, 25c; Baths, 15c., Shaving, 10c., Newly Remodeled Bath Rooms, Porcelain Tubs GEO. McCLELLAND, Crane's Toilet Soap OF WYANDOTTE CO., KS 6 2 Minnesota Avenue, Kansas City, Ks DRUGS, MEDICINES, CHEMICALS, Fine Toilet Soaps, Brushes, Combs, Etc., PERFUMERY AND FANCY TOILET ARTICLES. W. B. RAYMOND 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. and Riverview Ave. Telephone 26 GO TO GREAT JU Wholesale Office 811 H ekory Street, IRON YARDS CORNER Iron, Rags, Bot Cash paid for scrap iron, rags, bot dealer in junk. Here's the place where dealing. GREAT JUNK SHOP. Wholesale and Retail. Office 811 Hckory Street, Kansas City, Mo. IRON YARDS CORNER 8th. AND HICKORY. Cash paid for scrap iron, rags, bottles and metals, Wholesale and Beta 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 Ameri 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. 175 to 90 c a call. Corner 6th. and State street KANSAS CITY American Citiz and WE GO TO V. JOHNSO CREAMPAR from Parlors in the two Kansas Cuts Soda, and Ice Creams, kes CONFECT ention paid to Churches, Lodges and ale, 175 to 90 cts. per gallon. D and State streets, American Citiz n. 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. |75 to 90 cts, per gallon. Don't fail to give us a call. Corner 6th, and State streets, KANSAS CITY KANS Lewis Blandchard No. 6, Sta e Line, K.C. K. Does all kinds of Boot and Shoe work. 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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. KANSAS. A. C. L. COAL CO., THE CHEAPEST PRICES 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 North 3rd. St. E F. 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