The American Citizen

Oldest and Best Weekly paper devoted to the Race in this section of the Country VOL 13, NO. 23 THE DARK GIRL GRADUATE. NEGRO WOMEN SEEKING HIGHER EDUCATION One of Their Own Roles Writes of the Difficulties Against Which They Struggle and Clies Some Ex- Boston, July 13.—The Afro-American woman, although represented from the earliest history of the country, side Phyllis Wheatley, a poet, and later Emmonia Lewis, an artist, Mrs. Harper, a poet and novelist, and Mrs. Charlotte Forten Grimki, an essayist, will not be a notable factor in the literary, artistic nor scientific life for America for many years. But she is coming out of the higher institutions of learning in fair numbers and with the average record. Raddeiffe, Vasar, Webesley, Smith—to say nothing of the smaler schools of mere local fame—have graduated and still are graduating colored girls, though not in large numbers. When, however, it is considered how comparatively recent is the movement for higher education and how relatively small and poor is the colored population, and the fact is remembered that most Southern girls go to the universities of the South—Atlanta, Fisk and Lincoln—it is seen that the record in the large colleges is most encouraging. Even before the college movement, the Afro-American girl exhibited her ambition and energy by invacing the high and normal schools of the North in good numbers. In short, the natural desire of the race for educational advancement has been most marked. At the close of the war the black race had been under a steady course of industrial training for 200 years, a long apprenticeship surely, and the large movement toward the production of well equipped teachers for the mental training of the race must appear both natural and laudable to thoughtful people It is very noticeable that whatever of power and of knowledge was gained by those early high school girl graduates, and later, by the college graduates, almost winnyl y has been turned toward the occupation of teaching, and that to-day the main current is silt in the direction. This tendency is both natural and gratifying. The constantly increasing and rapidly developing schools for the negro furnish a large field for the best talent, and our leading and most promising women are content to lose themselves in this work. The Wellesley M. A. of '88, Mrs. Ella Smith Elbert, taught in Howard University up to the time of her marrige in '93. Other Wellesley and Kadcliffe graduates have found their fields of work in teaching—the only other field seeming to off r opportunities to the college graduates being that of medicine, several of the collges sending out B. A's who later have become M. D.'s also. It is significant that the chosen fields are what might be called, in a degree missionary fields. This is no indication of limitation of ability; it is, on the part of the negro, an encouraging feature of the problem. Girls from Southern universi les are going every year by hundreds into the woods and mountains of the South, during everything, suffering everything in order to "sow a seed witt in itself." Modern times show no better exhibition of heroism and devotion than are furnished by these girls, who walk miles to their labors, put thir- tands to the ax and saw, stint them selves in food and clothing, become teachers, nurses, cooks, seamstresses, wood cutters and even carpenters in their efforts toward the elevation of those looking up to them. These girls are building up a determined, energetic and noble womanhood for the race. They are a promise of rich fruit in the future. It is in the log school house of the South, in the finely con- ducted high and grammar schools of such cities as Washington, D. C., Wil- lmington, Del., and Kansas City. Me, that the finest class of Afro-American women can be found to day. As the Southern schools turn out more and more graduates, it is inevitable that the Northern colored girls will be led to seek more individual fields of labor. At present one of the greatest bars to this kind of growth is the isolation of the race. To a large extent it still is shut off from any close intellectual companionship with superior minds of the other race, and is affected seriously and retarded in consequence. Genius may need no stimulus, but ability needs an atmosphere. Enlarged opportunities and a happy environment will be the greatest developers of the future. The restrictions of the present while hard to ear, probably have their uses; they are encouraging persistence and are giving lessons in a tolerance that Americans are losing from their category THE of virtues. They are uiding up inde pendence and breadth in the character of the Afro American woman. That a suitable environment will do much is proved by a few cases, notably that of Miss Baldwin, principal of the Agus siz school of Cambridge, who, by association with cultured intellects, is developing 'natural gifts of mind and spirit in a marked degree. The spiritual tone and intellectual beauty of her essays and speeches are delighting a large and increasing circle of admirers. There is one American condition which makes more marked the truth that much depends on environment for development, or lack of it, in literature, art and science. There are many women of distinction who are not known to be colored, but who have more or less negro blood, who find their fields of activity without being held back by race prejudice, and fill their sphere for what they are—American women. The colored women rapidly and solidly are preparing themselves for participation in the life of the nation, whatever they have gained has been through much suffering. In many respects the struggle grows harder, sympathy and interest in their careers are dying out with the old friends. They must meet this loss in one way with renewed courage and determination to depend upon themselves to overcome the obstacles so cruelly heaped before them. The dream of their not being a part of the movements of the future is futile; their growth in numbers and ability; their very training in adversity, are preparing them for a conspicuous place in the world' work. Specific examples of what has been done and is being done by them are not of gr at importance. It is sufficient to say that while the main talent is devoted to teaching, there are conspicuous examples in other directions—Miss Lytle in law and Miss Itemlings, Vassar, '98, who now is in the Boston public library, a linguist of talent, being versed in Spanish, Italian and Russian, besides the college Greek and Latin, French and German. Mrs. Consuela Clark Young, B ston university, '82, and Miss Rice, Wellesley, '88, are distinguished medical practitioners, one in Ohio, the other in Newport, R. I. In music, painting and modeling there are many promising students, both in America and in Europe, while in sculpture Miss Edmona Lewis long has been favorably known. JOSEPHINE S. P. RUFFIN. (The di tinguished writer of the above is from Massachusetts and is the lady whose appearances at the recent biennial meeting of the Federation of Woman's Clubs brought the color line into cenderation.) TUSKEGEE NOTES Several students, who received training in the D vision of Masonry, last term, are now employed by a white conractor in the erection of a large brick building in the town of Tuskegee. They are giving perfect satisfaction in their work. Nearly all the graduates of the present year's class are at work at the trades which they earned here. The heat of the school is much better than it has been for many years. Thanks to the D insight and efficient care of our Resident Physician and head nurse. Three leading institutions of the south have applied to Principal Washington during the past month for Tuskegee graduates to teach and conduct agricultural and mechanical divisions. It has been gratifying to recommend young men and women who will be able to satisfactorily meet any demand that may be made upon them. The public library in the town of Tuskegee, which was founded and supported by Principal Washington, is still being conducted during the vacation. ONE GAME NEIGHBOR KILLS TWO POLICE MEN WOUNDS ANOTHER. New Orleans, July 24. - By a trifling incident which began late last night, a series of tragedies followed which, it was feared for a time, would culminate in an outbreak similar to the Italian lynching in New Orleans several years ago. Police officers were attempting to arrest Leonard Pierce and Robert Charles, two colored men for some petty offense when the latter took an exception a battle royal followed, when the smoke cleared away Police Captain John T. Day and Patrolman Peter J. Lambert were picked up dead, also Patrolman August T. Mora seriously wounded. One Negro has been arrested, but the one that did the shooting is still at large, a reward of $350.00 is offered for his capture. A lynching is in order. LATER. — Troops have been called out. Several agents have been killed, over a dozen wounded. Mob killing every nugro in sight as we go to press. AMERICAN C KANSAS CITY, KANSAS, FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 27, 1900. DIGGIN' IN DE GYAHDEN. Diggin' in de gyabden, sun is mighty hot! 'Deed I nebber known a spade war weighin' sech a lot! I most fobgets my piety and speaks in wicked terms. Diggin' in de g abden, j-s' foh lettuce and pea I knows dar wont be any fishing worms a loafing round. Dey wiggles like dey's laughing at my unhappy state. A digging in de gyahden when I night be digging bait. PAUL DUNBAR. RACE NEWS. The Texas Negro Press association will meet at Waco, next month. At Victoria, Texas, two colored mne set up with the corpse of Simmie Purdy, a boy, who was accidently drowned July 7th. Through mistake they drk embalming fluid for liquor, and came near being poisoned to death. Some cheap John ecclesiastic who could not get to be a Bishop in any of the already established negro Methodist churches, has started at Memphis, Tenn. a branch of his owr, to be known as the American Methodist Episcopal Church. If he had gotten a few men of brains and push who, with a small capital, and started a factory of some kind where our boys and girls who are leaving school and becoming worthless, could find employment, he would have accomplished more for his race, and stand a chance of getting a few stars in his crown on the resurrection morn. But he has acted the fool by starting a concern of which is not of God and will finally go where the new one will—to the devil. COLORED SPORTS Joe. Gans, the Baltimore light weight, has deposited $1,000 with James J. Corbett to bind a match with Frank Erne, of Buffalo, for the light weight championship. George Dixon, the ex-teather weight champion, signed articles on the 24th with Tommy Sullivan, of South Brooklyn, to fight 25 rounds before the Sea side Sporting Club July $1st. Edward Courtney, a alcalp, mixed it up last Sabbath morning ten miles down the Missouri river, with Jack Lan ance, a white man. It was a rough and tumble affair it's said. The latter getting the decision. BATTLE W TH A MOB An Alabama bberiff Tries in Vain to Defend a Pisoner Huntsville, Ala. July 24—Eijah Clark, a negro who yesterday assaulted Susan Priest, a 13-year old girl, was taken from jail in this city last night and layed near the spot where his crime was committed. His body was riddled with bullets. Sheriff Fulghum defended his prisoner to the last, but a dense smoke from a combination of tar, feather and oil fired by a crazed mob, was too much for him, and he was dragged from the jail and under a physician's care. Will Vinnipa who attempted to rush through the crowd and up the jail steps, was shot by the sheriff and dangerously wounded. After battering down the doors and gaining an entrance to the jail, the mob drove the sheriff and his prisoner into the third story of the building. There, the sheriff held his ground until he became unconscious from the suffocating smoke, arising from tar and feathers, which burned on the stone floor in the main corridor In response to an appeal from Sherif Fulghum, m de earlier in the day, Governor Johnston ordered militia companies here from Birmingham, Montgomery and Decatur, but they failed to arrive in time to prevent the lynching THE DISTRICT SESSION OF THE ODD FELLOWS. The District Grand Lodge of the G. U. O. O. F., was held at Parson, Kas., on July 17, 18 and 19. A most enjoyable session it was, and the hospitality of the citizens in that city will long be remembered. Parson is a very beautiful city, and contains about 10,000 inhabitants. The Household of Ruth al-o held their grand session in the same city—perfect harmony marked the proceedings of each. Officers elected for the ensuing year, Mr. James L. Harper, of Wichita, D. G. M., W, H. Jackson, of Topeka, D. D. G. M., D. D. Hope, of Topeka, D. G. T., S. P. Johnson, of Emporia, D. G. S., M. W. Jackson, Kansas City, Kas., D. G. D. Dr. S. H. Thompson, of this city, was a delegate. The most important feature of the session was the changing of the insurance system, placing it upon a graduated scale—it now rests on the most substantial financial basis. Mr. James Andrews, a prom beat city zen of Springfield Mo., as i he city a short while this week, and paid us a call in company with our popular toso- lar ar it and his old friend Mr. J. T. oherts Giving the People Full Value for Their Money. IS WHAT We Have Been Doing. THE TWIN CITIES AT THE KAWSMOUTH 435 Minnesota Avenue. THE TWI AT THE K KANSAS. KANSAS. Mrs. Rbert Cox, of 1000 Walker avenue, is spending some time in Cincinnati, Ohio, with relatives and some odd nequaintances. Mrs. Alice Bailey of this city and Mrs. Fannie Butler, of Nebraska, spent Thursday and Friday in Atchison the guest of Mrs. Florence Gibson. Mrs. 3. C. Watson and Miss Rosa Winn will spend the 1st. visiting friends and relatives at Tonganoxie. A Barbecue will be given on the lawn of Douglass Hospital August. 2, 3, 4 Dinner 15 cents. All kinds of meats will be barbecued. Everybody invited. Mrs. Frances Landers is visiting in Atchison and Oak Mills this week. Mrs. Dr. Holly of K. C. Mo., was the delightful guest of Mrs. Alice Bailey Wednesday afternoon, 450 Everett St The title family of Mr. Isaac Drake of the Popular Block, accompanied by Mrs. Winston Smith, of the same locality, are spending a few pleasant days at Topeka. Prof. Geo. Sneed, who has been spending his vacation in the city, will leave in a few days for southern Missouri. Mrs. C. Allen, of 837 Nebraska avenue, is able to be out after a few weeks of illness. Miss Ida May Marr, of 341 South 8th street, is spending some time with her grandmother in Macon, Mo. Miss L. Jones, of Macon, Mo. a graduate of the Western Baptist C liege, who spent five weeks in the city the guest of her sister, Mrs A T Mace, of 341 South 8th street, has returned home Mrs. Della Dwiggins, of Nashville, Tenn, is spending some time in the city visiting her father-in-law, Mr H Dwiggins, of 735 Walker avenue. Mrs Zulla Smith, of Kansas City, Mo, spent a few days on this side of the Kaw river last week, the guest of Mrs O B Johnson of 1319 North 8th street. Rev. Wm. Alpin was in Atchison a few days this week. Mrs Ella Harrison l ft Saturday for her home, Galva, Ill, to visit her parents. Mr James Freeman is enjoying a week's visit in Atchison and Frankfort, Kas. Miss Cordie Roberts is visiting in Springfield, Mo Miss Emma Minor, of this city, who has been enjoying the gentle breezes and the hospi ality of many admiring friends in La Crosse, Wisconsin, for the past two months, is now enjoying the lake breezes of Chicago, Ill. The funeral services of Mr. Smith Burdette, who was killed last Friday moraling by a live electric wire, was held Sunday afternoon from the First Baptist church. Mrs. R. L. Allen, of Austin, Texas, is in the city, and may possibly reside permanently. Mrs. Annie Martin, of Topeks, Kas., is in the city, visiting her daughter, Mrs. R. Pulley, of 325 South 8th street. Lieut W A Bettis, of Wichita, Kansas, late of the 23rd regiment, spent several days in our city, left *n*ednesday evening for Tepeka Lieut Bettis has been recuperating in South Dakota Nice furnished rooms to let at No. 414 Minnesota avenue, to married peo ple only, and at reasonable rates. Mr and Mrs T P Johnson have bought property out on 10th and Tauromie. The S. M. T.s tendered Mrs. Sylvia Robinson their Worthy Princess a Pound party last evening. CITIZEN KANSAS CITY, KAS. N CITIES. AWSMOUTH MISSOURI. Mr A Hays, of 1933 Flora avenue, has been quite ill for some time but is improving slowly. Mr J T Hal, of 543 Lydia avenue, has removed *513* Trove avenue Mrs Lua Ea ton, of 709 Holmes street, is improving slowly after a severe illness. Mrs. A. D. Scotte, of 1314 E 12th. st., was taken suddenly severely ill last week, but we are pleased to say that she is improving. Mrs. P. W. Upshaw and sister, Mrs. Zulla Smith, of 638 Charlotte who spent a few days at Camden, Mo., visiting their parents, returned home last week. Mrs. Mattie Ward will leave next week for Otterville, Mo., to visit friends and relatives. Mr C Arche spent some time in Sp ingfield, Mo., last week on business. Mr. D. M. Miobell, of 576 Grand avenue, is beginning to feel like his self again after several months ill-ness, and he invites his many old friends as well as new ones to call on him at his old stand, 576 Grand avenue. The many friends of P. W. Upshaw are pleased to learn that he is able to take his run on the road again after a short illness. J. Carter, 554 Grand avenue, has succeeded the business of J. W. Gordon & Wife, 552 and 554 Grand avenue, and would be glad to serve the old friends and patrons with good meals and refreshments, and all the delicacies of the season. Good first class meals at 10c. Every time a black man heps another to succeed in business he puts a stronger impulse into the success of the race along the avenues of business among us. -Omaha Progress. RAILROAD NOTICES Grand Excursion -Missouri Pacific Railway. Missouri Pacific Railway to Waconda springs and return, via Atchison, Frankfort, Greene-naef, Concordia and Beloit, Saturday, July 28, 1800. Round Trip Ticket $2.50. Excursion train depart at 9:55 p. m. Take a day off, visit the springs, partake of us waters and view the grand-cat w. eat and corn fields to be found in any land. A large hotel, surrounded by a broad veranda and shade trees, adjoins the springs, where all may be comfortably accommodated. Elegant day coaches, chair cars and Putman slepers will compose the equipment, affording a comfortable and pleasant trip for all. Excursion tickets at union depot, city ticket office, No. 901 Main street, and Depot office, City Ks. KANSAS WHEAT AND WOMEN. BENCHES WHEEL AND WOMEN. It will take nearly all the men, women and boys and girls of Ellis county to harvest the 147,076 acres of wheat that is ripening. Most of the farmers have their entire acreage in wheat, and to harvest it the wives and children of the farmers go into the fields and work with the men. Eighteen women of Hays City have engaged te go into the harvest fields. They will carm from $1.50 to $2.00 a day, and many a young woman will appear in chu ch this fall with new frocks that were bought with money earned driving a header. Probably the future looks dark because coming events cast their shadows before them --- PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE KANSAS CITY, KAS. Rev G McNeal, the time honored pastor of Pleasant Green Bapti-t church, who very often "drops in" to cheer the editor at his desk, the Business Manager in his round-, and the composers at the case, delighted all, this week, by the presentation of one of those "oblong and lucious, good and sweet watermelons," that ere the scorching rays of a summer's sun sank to rest—was "gently" dealt with. Here's to you Rev. Shake. Rev and Mrs J W Gordon, of 548 State avenue, were tendered a most pleasant reception at the home of Mr and Mrs Wm Anderson, of 1828 Highland avenue Tuesday evening of this week. Quite a number of friends were present and a very enjoyable time was spent. Mrs Gordon leaves next week for an extended visit-"back among the old folks" at Chicago, Ill Rev J W Gordon, of this city, is scheduled to preach at the Mount Zion Baptist church, of Liber y Mo., Sunday Mr. Nat. Gueren, of Kansas City, Mo., formerly one of the old boys from this side of the Kaw, was quite severely hurt by being thrown from a wheel in Kansas City, Mo., last Monday evening the 16th, in a collision with the street cars it is now being repaired at the home of his sister, Mrs. F. J. Jennings, of Franklin avenue. Rev J. S. Addison, the great Evangelist, preached for Rav. NeNeal's flock last Sunday night, one of his soul stirring sermons. The Metropolitan Church Choir furnished music for the Rally services Sunday, July 22nd, and it is well said that some choice music was rendered This church did not have any service on account of the rally and it was well represented Remember the rally at the Metropolitan Baptist church July 29th, the public is invited to attend Rev Gra t, of the First Baptist church, and his chair will be the main attraction of the evening. Exercises commence at 8:30 o'clock Miss Dora Young and Miss Katie Jordan is expected home this week after a month's vacation in Chicago Mr. Abner Robinson, husband of Mrs. Sylvia Robinson still remains quite ill at their home on Oakland avenue. Bishop C. T. Shuster, the newly appointed Bishop of the M. E. church, who succeeds Bishop E. T. Tanner in this district, was tended to a very creditable reception on last Monday evening at the A. M. E. church. Quite large gathering were present, including many noted divines. Rev. G A Griffith officiated and welcomed the prominent divine to our city. We are sorry to note the death of Mrs Tanner Scotte, who lived at 913 Nebraska avenue, Wednesday, after a long illness. Her funeral services were held at her residence Friday at 2 oclock. Rev Green officiated She leaves to mourn a husband, two children, mother and sister Peace be to her ashes A party of wellknown citizens leave Monday morning for a "Fish" and a few days cutting at Bean Lake. Mrs. O. B. Johnson, 1319 north 8th, street, is spending a few days in Kansas City, Mo., this week the guest of Mrs. P. W. Upshaw, of 633 Charlotte street. AT THE GRAND RALLY The clubs of the First Baptist church made the following report July 22ad: Ida B Well Club. $35 20 Bishop E A Paine. 66 12 4 T Cruse. 51 35 Songing Church. 25 35 Phyllis Wheeler. 17 00 Metropolitan Baptist Church. 7 71 E K Love. 91 30 Nat Turner. 108 00 The Nat. Turner Club, with its noble president, Miss Lena brown, with the banner club of six weeks' hard work. May this good work go on. Total amount raised that day $410 00 MARRIAGE WHIBLWIND Mis. Marv Jones, of 44 north James street and Mr. J. Bothwell, were married Wednesday. Rev. G. A. Griffith officiated. Cards are out announcing the approaching marriage of Miss Nannie Bongess and Mr. Bert G. Miner. At high noon on the 17th, at the home of Mr. and Mrs Frank Bush, 10th, and Nebraska avenue, two souls with but a single thought, two hearts were made as one. Mr. E. J. D. Morton and Mrs L. E. Slashwah, of Austin, Texas, were joined in the holy bonds of matrimony by Rev. G. A. Griffith, of the A. M. E. church, this city. This happy couple, whose future is to be with us in the great west, have our congratulations for long years of usefulness and happiness in our midst. They come recommended as well known and prominent citizens of Austin, and we sinceely hope that success may be theirs. Life at best, wherever our lot is cast is indeed what we make it. Miss Cora Hendricks a well known young lady of this city and Mr. Hardy D. Simmons also of this city were licensed to wed, Wednesday afternoon. Mr. Judson Early of this city and Miss Lucy Cr sby of Atchison were married in that city Wednesday night. PR CETWOCENTS TOPEKA, KAS. D. Johnson, of Colorado Springs is home visiting his mother, Bishop Shaffer, of Kansas City, arrived in our city Thursday morning to visit his brother and family, Dr. Geo. H. Shaffer. Evangelist Robinson, Nicholson and Mrs. Palmer are holding a ten days' meeting at the A. M. E. church. Mrs. Lizzie Davis is quite ill at her residence on Quincy street. Mrs. Lizzie Davis is quite ill at her residence on Quincy street. Homer Clark is indisposed this week, The Ne Plus Ultra Club met with Mrs. Geo. W. Smith, Saturday afternoon. Light refreshments were served by the hossess. The Golden Rod Club met Friday with Miss Nora Williams. A delightful afternoon was spent. Visitors present were Miss Mayne Slims, of Ottawa, and Miss Elsie Oar. Mrs. J. Jacco, of Fort Scott, is visiting her daughter, Mrs. H T. Comer. Miss Rosa Spencer left Monday to visit friends in the Indian Territory. ABOUT BUSINESS. We have been told many times later by substantial people that they believe the proper business men to patronize are the ones who advertise. There are several reasons for this. A man's advertisement is a standing invitation to call. It shows enterprise and a disposition to hustle for business. The man who lets people know what he is doing and what he has for sale always has business to do. His store is neat, clean and attractive, and there is a brisk air about the proprietor that is inviting. On the other hand the fellow who hasn't business enough to tell the people where he is at, doesn't know his business and is never busy only in fly time. His store is dirty and dust settles on his goods. Loafers find it a congenial place because the boss is but little removed from them. An advertisement is a business proposition, not a caritative donation to the editor as some people pretend to believe. If an advertisement doesn't pay it is the advertiser who doesn't make his promises good. A man in business who will let his personal prejudices interfere with his business will not remain in business very long. Business is business all the time, and the man who undertakes to mix personal likes and dislikes with his prunes will find a surplus on his hands. People in this community are up to date, they read the papers. - Powbattan Post. CRIPPLED BY TREASON. The United States has 63,000 soldiers in the Philippines. It ought to be able to send 20,000 to China to rescue and protect its citizens. The troops cannot go because resistance to lawful authority in the Philippines is fostered by Bryan and Bryanism, by the Kansas City platform and by such newspapers as urge withdrawal from the Philippines. This aid, comfort and countenance keeps the Philippines in the field. It maintains resistance. It prevents pacification. As Gen Lawton wrote, it is the one encouragement to the remnants of Philippine forces to continue a hopeless fight. They await the next presidential election. They look for an administration which will not enforce the authority of the United States in the territory of the United States. Yet those whose policy and politics in this country need necessary 63,000 in the Philipines have the temerity to urge the necessity of the presence of these troops in the archipelago as an argument in favor of the very pleas whose treasonous utterance fosters the resistance which requires these troops. But for aid and support in the senate opposing the ratification of the Spanish treaty, Aguinaldo would never have fired on the American flag. But for the mistaken hope of a Bryar majority this year the resistance begun last year would never have been maintained. But for the enouragement to the Philippines bands in the Democratic platform and in Democratic platforms and in Democratic newspapers, these misguided men would not still be in the field, and the American army in the Philippines could be reduced by 30,000 for use in China. The Sunflower Grand Lodge of K Ps of this state held quite and inter- ing session this week in this city at the M. and O. hall. Many promi- nent delegates were present. A splendid street parade headed by the Davis Military band and Uniform Rank with a picnic at Budds park was this closing feature Thursday. It doesn't pay to stick your nose into other people's business—unless you are a swer. American Citizen. AMERICAN CITIZEN PUBLISHING AND PRINTING CO. Daily and Weekly 417 Minnesota Ave. KANSAS CITY KANSAS TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Entered at the postoffice at Kansas City Kans., as second class matter. WILLIAM McKINLEY, For President. THEODORE ROOSEVELT, Vice President. STATE TICKET. For Governor. W. E. STANLEY. For Lieutenant Governor, H. E. RICHER. For Associate Justice, W. A JOHNSTON. For Secretary of State, GEO. A. CLARK. For Treasury, FRANK GRIMES. For Auditor, GEORGE E. COLE. For Attorney General, A. A. GADD... For Supt. of Public Instructions. FRANK NELSON. For Insurance Commissioner, W. V. CHURCH. For Congressman at Large. CHARLES F. SCOTT. For Congressman First District, CHARLES CURTIS. For Congressman Second District, J D. BOWERSOCK For Congressman Third District, GEO. W. WHEATLY. For Congressman Fifth District, W. A. CALDERHEAD. For Congressman Sixth District, W. A. REEDER. For Congressman Seventh District, CBESTER I. LONG COUNTY TICKET. Senator, 4th. District. JAMES K. CUBBISON. Representa ive 9 h. District, H. A. BAILEY. 10th. District, G. L. COATES 11th. District, DAVID D. HOAG, County Attorney, E. A. ENRIGHT. Clerk District Court, ALEX GUNNING. Probate Judge, K. P. NYDER. Superintendent Public Instruction HEENY MEADE. County Commissioner. First District—J. S. PERRINS. No negro can conscientiously vote for Bryan and Stevenson this year for there is absolutely nothing to be gained. Who is at the bottom, on top and around the sides in the disfranchisement of the negro in the South? Ask Ben Tillman. While the great hubbub is being raised about the national standard bearers, it is well for the Republics of Wyandotte county to remember there is a county ticket to be elected, likewise a State ticket. In the course of human events there often comes a time for swapping horses—but in this glorious year of prosperity there is no time for swapping. Let us all come up straight with three cheers for McKinley, Rosevelt, Stanley and Prosperity. No negro who has at heart the interest of himself and the race can stomach Pitchfork Trillman, of South Carolina, the mess back negro hater who is a sample of almost the best type of rank old Democracy. NO MAN who voted against Bryan in 1696 can give a good excuse for voting for him this year He stand-for everything now that he did then and in the language of the street a-blamed sight more. Now that the Wyandotte County Democrats have made their choice for the different offices within the county to be filled, we are more than confident that the Republican county ticket as already named, can wipe up the earth with it. The state ticket headed by our present Governor, Wm. E. Stanley, is a winner by long odds. 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. Preserving Telegraph Poles. A new method of preserving telegraph poles is to surround the portion in the ground with an earthenware pipe like a drain pipe. Into this space between the pole and the pipe is poured a mixture of sand and resin. Church Directory. BAPTIST CHURCHES. African 3914 East 15th street. Greenwood, 2005 Maderson Avenue. Highlaud Avenue, 1119 Highland Ave. Macedonian ) Mission { 216 East 21st street. Missionary, 2605 Madison Avenue. Mt. Calvary, 15 northeast cor. Norton Avenue. Mount Gay, 2100 Wyoming Avenue Mount Noriah, 933 Bluff Street. Mount Olive, Villa, s e. cor. Garnett. Mount Zion, 908 Hickory Avenue. Mount Zion, Primitive, 2815 Garnett street. 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, s. August ie Mission, 1025 Trosst ave. METHODIST E PISCOFAL Asbury Chapel, 1620 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. Attu ks 2108 East 18th street. Bruce 3914 East 15th street. Douglass 27th N. E. Cor. N. Prospect Place. Garrison Forest S. W Cor. 4th street. Lincoln School 11th N. W. Cor Camp bell street. Lincoln High School 816 East 11th st. Fage Rochester N.E. Cor. Prospect Avenue. Penn 4241 Sha ne. Business Directory J. A. Wilson Jeweller 1016 W. 9th st. Chandler's Barber shop, Samuel Chandler Prop. S LClienens Mgr 112 East 6th street. Restaurant Mrs Amus Prop. 114 East 6th street. Field's Barber Shop 102 East 6th stree Miller's Barber Shop 113 East 6th Midland Barber Shop Harsy Parson Proprietor 113 East 6th street. Ponce Barber Shop Oarth & Warfield Proprietor 550 Grand Avenue. O'Bannon' Barber Shop W.T. O Bannon Proprietor 560 Grand Avenue. Manila Barber Shop Madison Bros. Proprietors 709 Independence avenue. McRay's Barber shop Ben McRay Proprietor 819 Independence avenue. Maupin's Barber Shop 1332 E 18th st. Brown's Barber Shop 1329 E 18th st. Berry's Barber Shop 1432 4 E. 18th st Grocer, George Grear, Prop. 1211 E. 18th st. D. M. Mitchell, Barber Shop, 576 Grand ave. Langston' Barber Shop 718 East 8th st Walker's Barber Shop 806 East 12th s H. J. George, barber shop, 1307 w' 9th st. Cowdens Barber Shop 704 East 12th st Restaurant J. W, Gordon Prop. 554 Grand avenue. Restaurant H Powel Proprietor 573 Grand avenue. Restaurant Andrew Clark Proprietor 723 Independence ave. Saratoga Cafe L. Mason Proprietor 805 Independence ave. Chicago Cafe H Compton Proprietor 706 12th street Physicians and Surgeons. Drs. Shannon and Lambright 1215 E. 18th st. Dr. J. N. Birch 1339 E. 18th st. Dr. J. N. Birch 1599 E. 18th st. Dr. T. C. Unthank 1233 Independence Ave. Dr. L.J. Holly 1112 Campbell st. Rising Sun J.F. Cole, Editor, L. W. W. c. Manget 117 W. 6th st. Grocery, A. Webb, Prop 9th and Holmes. In the matter of the estate of Taylor McD. naid, 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 sa'd 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. Fansas City, Kass., March 20th, 1900. In witness whereof the undersigned, Probate Judge in and for the County of Wyandotte, State of Kansas, have hereo set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Probate Court, this 18th. day of M.rcb, A. D., 1900. K. P. SNYDER, Probate Judge KANSAS CITY, KANSAS Enterprises. A.C.L. Coal 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 1465 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 50th, st. J.R. Rucker, Butcher, 1609 n 16th, st. Douglas Hospital, 312 Washington ave., Miss L. V. Ashton, Maron. CHURCHES 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 4 h. 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. HOTELS. D.ison House 440 Minnesota Ave. Pictures Dyson House 440 Minnesota Ave. Restaurants. J. W. Johnson's 6th and State. Mrs. Hall 507 Minn. Ave. Mrs. Sarah Taurston 1414 5th st. Mc Gees 448 Minn. Ave. E. Stoakes 1510 N. 3rd st. BARBERS J. T. Roberts & Tucker, 507 Minnesota sota avenue. J. Gross, 412 Minnesota avenue. G. Mcellon, 613 Minnesota aven. M.T. Comer, 608 Minnesota aven. Robt. Keith, 315 Minnesota aven. M. Patinson, 1603 north 3rd. st. SHOEMAKER. Lon McAdams, 318 Minnesota aven. D. W. Wyne, 369 Minnesota aven. Lewis Blenchard, North 6th., State Line. J. W Ready, No. 1609] n 10th. st. HALLS. M & O.,1306 north 8.h. street. Sons on Protection, State and 6th. DRUGS. Wyandotte Drug Store, 1512 north 5th. s rect. DOCTORS. S. H. Thompson, 151, north 5th. st. G. H. Brown, 1010 Freeman ave. Jordin, 610 Minnesota ave. ARTISTS. O. J. Brooks, 70, New York Life Buildig g. TEACHERS OF FRENCH AND ELOCUTION Arthur A. Anderson, 541 State Ave. UNION PACIFIC OVERLAND WORLD'S PICTORIAL LINE SHORTFST LINE ACROSS THE CONTINENT 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 Recrolling 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 lightened with the celebrated Pintsch Light! Only line running two trains without charge from KansasCity to Denver Low excursion rates on sale to Colorado-Uah Idaho, Oregon, Washington and California. Don't complete our arraysanges 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 Publication Notice. State of Kansas. Wyndotte County, Ks. In the District Court of said County, Joseph Law, Plaintiff, v. Mar. a Law, Defendant. The above named defendant, Maria Law, will take notice that she has been sued by the above named plaintiff, Joa- Law, in the above named court, where the petition of the said plaintiff is now on file, paving for a divorce against you, the above named defendant, for causes set out in said petition, and that unless you answer petition on or before the 7th day of August, A. D. 1900, the same will be taken as true and judgment thereon rendered accordingly, divorcing the lords of matrimony now existing between you. B. S. SMITH Attorney for Plaintiff. A NEGRO WHO SPEAKS THIRTEEN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES. From the Institute of Renee says the Pittsburgh Commercial Gazette, the highest college of the Holy Father's in the world, to shining shoes in a diamond and silver barber shop, is the strange story of the career of a bright colored man, who reads and writes thirteen different languages and speaks nine of them fluently. Ill health and mistake in action are responsible for his present position. He has reformed, however, and says he will not touch liquor again. He hopes to regain his lost position by diligent work. "Col. W. J. Reed is the name and title of this colored man, who is one of only three of his race who ever studied in that college and received honors from the holy father that would be envied by any Catholic in the world. Reed was born in 1867, in this city. His father was J. W. Reed an early settler in this city, and his mother was Julia Floyd, also a native of this city". When Reed was quite a young man he received education in the public schools, and his father, being fairly well off in this world's goods, sent him to the Western University of Pennsylvania to complete his studies. Some time after he entered that school he embraced the Catholic religion and became so devoted to his new faith that his parents and family refused longer to educate him. He was a friend of the late Dr. Oldshep and often studied in his office. He did not work for him, as had been supposed, but through his influence he was sent to St. Vincent's college, where he had graduated in a class of 400. Fifty of this class took a competitive examination for a course of study at the Prop ganda, and he was the successful student. "At the expense of the college and Catholic clergy of this country he was sent to Rome, whore he spent five and one half years studying theology, languages and sciences. Then an unfortunate stroke of paralysis compelled him to stop his studies. This, he says, was brought on by inflammatory rheumatism typified pneumonia and Roman fever. With an attendant he was sent at the expense of the c liege, on a trip around the world. He had only six months of work to complete his course and become an ordained priest of the highest standing. His travels took him to Africa, Asia and to almost all of the cities of the world. This took two years or more, and he returned to this country, intending to go back to Rome and complete his work. A second stroke reduced him to the ranks, and caused him to give up his work until he became stronger. Since that time he has fallen lower and lower until he has been compelled to blacken shoes to keep himself, but he says that he will yet teach his proper station and make a showing for himself. After leaving the Propganda he spent some time at the Grand Seminary, Paris, and the Seminary of St. Louis at Munich, but found that his studies there could not be continued on account of his health. Reed was selected to make the Latin oration at the celebration of the jubilee of the holy father, the present pope, in 1887. He was the only American out of sev'th five who was successful in getting a degree, and was third in standing out of 5,000. Ore was a German named Schaffer, and another from Newfoundland, Mr. Morris. He was in ster of ceremonies for four years at this college, and sang baritone in the vicar chan. Among the 13 languages he reads, writes and speaks are English, German, Italian Spanish, French, Latin, French, Greek, Chalaisic, Syrian and Hebrew. After he returned to this country he secured a position a interpreter and assistant superintendent with the Frick Coke company at Mount Peasant, Pa. He has done much work in the courts here, and entered a comp titive examination for appointment as court interpreter, but GW. Hassings appointed a man named Frank, who was a G. A. R. man, and had the backing of that organization throughout the state. Mr. Frank had Senator Fain is ardent and backing. Since that time he has tried unsuccessfully to secure a position where his health would not be jeopardized, and has accepted his present position to keep himself from starvation. He is employed by F.ed Vogel. In Diamond street, and is one of the best shoe polishers in the city, although he does not like the work. Among his classmates at St. Vincent's are many well known priests of this city. Reed has spoken at nosed Catholic gatherings throughout this country, and was orator at a convention in Chicago. He is a communicant at the cathedral, and has directed the coor at St. Reneol's courn, Overhill street THE TABLE. "The way to a man's heart is through his stomach," and the way to his stomach is through his eyes. Every woman of refinement takes more real comfort with her table than with her piano. First, it should be large enough to avoid a crowded look, and be covered with a silene-cloth, which also saves wearing the linen. The linen should be white, with such fancy pieces as one's strength and purse will allow. If the dishes are decorated, the white crocheted or tasted dollies are best. If they are plain white, those embroidered in pate tints give just the touch of color needed. Tray and carving cloth are useful in saving the table cloth, and a pretty white spread under each child's plate is a great help in keeping the cloth clean. If all the dishes that have been around the store are wiped on the bottom before serving, there will be no excuse for those hideous red affairs some people morify their tables wih, in the vain hope that they will not show dirty they are. A pretty table always has a center piece, a spray of flowers, a pot of fern. a stand of fruit, or even a glass of celery. Even if something has to wait on the side-board, this should not be rowed out. When the table is properly laid with glass, silver and china, it should be covered securely from dust with a light, snowy spread. When thus laid and covered, it saves many steps for the housewife, and she can afford to be more palestaking than if every arice had to be handled three times a day. Of course, a crum brush and tray are necessary. But a word of warning about using too many of your pretty things at once. A few at a time and a change every week will be a wonderful appetizer — Farm Journal. RAIL ROAD NOTICES. MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY, SUMMER EXCURSIONS. — West and North. To Pueblo, Colo. radio Springs and Denver and return, special summer excursions June 21, July, 8, 9, 10, 18, and August 2, final return limit October 31, $19 for the round trip. summer tourist tickets on sale every day from June 1 to September 15, inclusive, final return limit Oct. 31, round trip $25. Homeeeks' excursions to western and southwestern points on June 5 and 19, July 3 and 17, August 7 and 21, tickets good for twenty-one days, at rate of one dollar per round trip. Tickets to St. Paul and Minneapolis at $21 for the round trip, good g ing any day, returning any time up to October 1. Very low rates to other northern points. Special excursions June 21, Jul. 7, 8, 9, 10 and 18, and August 2 to St. Paul, Minneapolis. Round trip at $1.55, Duluth and the Superiors at $9.85, Waterville, Min., $14.40. Good to return October 31, 1960. From July 1 special round trip excursions to Ogden and salt Lake City at $0.00.00 Liberal stoorers Good to return until October 31 June 20 to 25 Whited out return $0.00 July 7 to 20, Ottawa can return $1.65 For particulars call us at JEWETT. Passenger and Ticket Agent. City ticket office No. 001 Main street, Kansas City, Mo. Secure Tickets ...VIA TBE... Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Ry ...AND YOU GET... Sleepers: & Ghair and all intermediate points. The shortest, quickest and besi line to Chilocothe, Otumwa, Cedar Rapids, Dubnque, and La Crosse and Cedar Rapids, Rockford and Freeport: ..... Passenger Station at... 22nd St. and Grand Ave. Take Westport Cable. City Ficket Office, 915 Main stree, Ridge Building A. B. BRIDGES Gauk Southweste Agent F. L. JER HPassenger Agent, Office 915 Main St., Kansas City FOR OLD SOLDIERS I WILL BUY The additional Pomestead 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 and 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 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 reliquished, 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. This land is yours and don't wait but come to this office at once and get full particuliers concerning this land. It is to your own interest to do so. AMERICAN CITIZEN OFFICE, 41 Minnesota Avenue. THE AMERICAN CITIZEN, The oldest, one of the best and mo-t reliable Weekly papers for the race in the State An unexcelled Advertising Medium, office at 417 Minnesota avenue, Kansas City, Kansas. Job Work, Bills, Programms, and all kinds of printing done. Satisfaction guaranteed or no go! Correspondence solicited from all parts of the country, AMERICAN CITIZEN PUB CO. 417 Minnesota Avenue, KANSAS CITY You Are Earnestly Requested to Call at The C. F. WILLNER, Furniture AND Carpet Co. In the city, at prices that will convince you that your money will go further here than elsewhere. We make it an especial effort to please and thereby retain your patronage and also your recommendation for your friends patronage. WE SELL ON TIME PAYMENTS and know that OUR TERMS WILL SUIT YOU, and will be glad to show you OUR STOCK. We carry everything in the line of FURNITURE, CARPETS, DRAPERIES, OIL CLOTH, LINOLEUMS, SHADES, LAMPS, DINNER AND TOILET SETS, also a complete line of RANGES and GASO LINE STOEVES. Don't forget the number and name, THE C. F. WILLNER. We sell the Celebrated Kroeger Piano. Furniture and Carpet Co. 618. 620 MINNESOTA AVENUE 1009. ST. LOUIS AVENUE. 1009. Kansas City. Missouri. It is the sweltest place in the city. 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 No th 3rd. St. E F. HENDERSON Manager. J. W. JOHNSON'S ICE CREAM PARLOR The only Ice Cream Parlors in the two Kansas Cities where you can get the Best Ice Cream Soda, and Ice Creams, Fine lunch, Pies, Cakes Confectionaries Special attention paid to Churches, Lodges and parties. Ice Cream, wholesale, 75 to 109 cts. per gallon. Don't fail to give us a call. Corner 6th, and State streets, KANSAS CITY Manufacturer of and Wholesale dealer in UNDERTAKERS FIRST-CLASS CARRIAGES FOR AMBULANCE FOR THE CONVEYANT Undertaking Rooms, 431 Minnesota Factory Cor st St., KANSAS CITY. EAGLE Gem Drugs MINNESOTA DEAL DRUGS, MEDICINE Fine Toilet Soaps, Brushes PERFUMERY AND FANCY 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. DRUGS, MEDICINES, CHEMICALS. Fine Toilet Soaps, Brushes, Combs, Etc., PERFUMERY AND FANCY TOILET ARTICLES. Lewis Blandchard No. 6, Sta e Line, K.C. K Does all kinds of Boot and Shoe work. He does first class hand work, and also has one of the very latest and best Shoemaker's machine and guarantees the best and the cheapest work in the quickest time Give him a trial and see for you elf. If You Didn't Die. If You Didn't Die. Eating twelve mince pies between Christmas day and Twelfth day is said to insure the eater twelve lucky or happy months Curing the following year. SUPPLIES ALL PURPOSES AT ALL HOURS ANCE OF THE SICK AND WOUNDED ave. Telephone West 32. and Riverview Ave. Telephone 25 ERS Bug Store AVENUE COLLER IN, NES, CHEMICALS, ches, Combs, Etc., Y TOILFT ARTICLES. Half Rate Excursion (Plus two dollars) twice a month visit Union Pacific to points in Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Utah, Montana and Washington. Call us up - Phone 1109, or call at office 1,000 Main street, and let us tell you all about these excursions. Short line to Salt L ke. The Union Pacific of course; hours quicker than all the comforts of home Ticket of fice 1,000 Main street, Telephone 1109. Remember Dining Cars on the Union Pacific that now starts from Kansas City daily. Unexcelled service, restaurant plan Ticket office 1,000 Main street, Kansas City, Mo THE CELEBRATED SACK SOAP Go to C. W. Clodfelters grocery. No. 68 Central Ave., and purchase a bar of his wonderful soap and give it a trial and you will use no other. No housekeeper should be without it. KANSAS. THEY DID THE SAME. DEMOCRATIC PRECEDENT FOR FIGHTING THE FILIPINOS. War in New Mexico After Its Conquest by Direction of Democratic President Who Claimed "the Fullest Right of sovereignty"—Official Records. Little by little it becomes apparent that the Democratic criticism of the methods of the present Administration in regard to newly acquired territory is a criticism of the methods followed by its own leaders and Presidents. All of the vast territory added to the area of the original thirteen States was under Democratic control, and the leaders of the party, in and out of office, planned and plotted and schemed to add the islands of Cuba and Hawaii as long as a desire for more slave territory stimulated them to activity. Driven from their former positions by these developments, they now undertake to criticise the fact that the President is using the army to put down the insurrection, notwithstanding the fact that the treaty with Spain was ratified by Democratic votes after that insurrection had been begun. It seems hardly credible that men could attack the President for carrying to a finish a war that was in existence when the purchase of the islands was authorized by their own party leaders. Yet such is the fact. The attack of the Philippines forces upon our troops in the Philippines, began on February 4, 1899, and on that same night Aguinaldo issued his proclamation declaring war against the United States. Yet it was not until February 6, two days after, that the treaty was ratified, and that by ten Democratic and three Populist votes. The statement has also been repeatedly made that some of these votes were cast for the treaty by the "advice and consent" of William Jennings Bryan. By this action the leaders of the Democratic and Populist parties deliberately bought a fight already going on, agreeing that the United States should pay $20,000,000 for it, and in so doing placed upon the shoulders of President McKinley the duty of carrying it on. He could not do otherwise. Yet they are criticising his course, though, of course, it is well understood that the criticism is for political effect only. But the leaders of the Democratic party did, in another similar case, just what President McKinley is now doing, and did it by the direction of a Democratic President. Papers compiled by the War Department show that, after the conquest of New Mexico by the military forces of the United States was accomplished by the campaign of 1846, General Kearney, the officer in command, organized a civil government for the occupied territory, and filled the executive and judicial offices by appointment. These civil functionaries entered upon the discharge of their duties in apparent unconsciousness of exposure to more than ordinary peril. In December, 1846, the native inhabitants organized a conspiracy to overthrow the United States authority in New Mexico. On the night of January 15, 1847, the governor, the sheriff, the circuit attorney, the prefect, and a number of others, citizens and officials of the United States, and Mexican supporters of United States authority, were assassinated in the town of San Fernando de Tayos. On the same night seven other Americans were killed at Arroyo Hondo and two at Rio Grande. It was then apparent that the insurrection was general, and the purpose was to kill all the Americans and those Mexicans who had accepted office under the American Government. Col. Sterling Price was then commander of the army of New Mexico, with headkuarters at Santa Fe. He learned of the uprising and attendant atrocities, January 20th, 1847, and that the army of insurrection was marching against Santa Fe. He took prompt and vigorous action and marched out to meet the insurgents with a force of about 400 men. There were many serious and sanguinary engagements, but the enemy was no sooner dislodged from one position than it took refuge in another, and maintained a determined resistance throughout. The losses were heavy on both sides. Owing to the mountainous character of the country, and the fact that the campaign took place in the winter time, the American forces suffered many hardships before reaching the town of San Fernando de Tayos, where the governor and party had been foully assassinated. A particularly severe engagement occurred at Pueblo de Tayos, which had been strongly fortified. The insurgents took position in a large church which they had pierced with embrasures for rifles. The Americans were compelled to retreat to Fernando. The following day they returned and renewed the assault, but the artillery fire seemed to have no effect upon the church walls. Ladders were then made and holes cut in the walls with axes, through which the soldiers with their hands threw fire and lighted shells into the interior. Another assault was made on the church door, which again failed, with loss. The artillery was then brought up within 60 yards, and after 10 rounds had been fired, one of the holes which had been cut with the axes was widened to a practicable beach, through which a storming party entered, dislodged the enemy, and took possession of the church. The next morning the enemy surrendered. The loss sustained by them was about 150 killed. The number of wounded was not known. The American loss in killed and wounded was 52. Under date of January 23rd, Captain Hendley, commanding at Vegas, N. Mex., reported to Colonel Price that every town and village, except Vegas and Tucoloti, had declared in favor of insurrection, and that the entire population seemed ripe for it. The insurrection in eastern New Mexico was inaugurated by the murder of eight Americans at Mora, January 20th, 1847, and was continued in force until the following July, having been marked with many atrocities on the part of the insurgents. Thereafter the insurrection dwindled into depredations committed by various bands of Indians instigated and led by Mexicans. Hardly a party, large or small, traders or soldiers, crossed the plains of New Mexico without being attacked. Many men were killed and large numbers of horses, mules, and cattle driven off. In the latter part of 1847 comparative safety was secured by stationing the troops at various points. Of the insurgent prisoners, fifteen or twenty were executed by sentence of court-martial. The otherrs were turned over to the civil authorities. The events resulting from the insurrection did not escape the attention of Congress. That body on July 10th, 1848, passed a resolution calling upon the President for information in regard to the existence of civil government in New Mexico and California, their form and character, by whom instituted and by what authority and how they were maintained and supported; also whether any persons had been tried and condemned for "teason against the United States" in New Mexico. President Polk replied to said resolution in a message dated July 24th, 1848, in which he discussed the character of military government, taking the broad position that such a government may exercise "the fullest rights of sovereignty," thereby explaining the action of the military authorities in suppressing the insurrections. The records show that a similar course of action was followed in suppressing the insurrection in California in 1848, and re-establishing the sovereignty of the United States. TRADE BALANCES. Nothing so perpetuates the debtor condition of the United States as its annual payment to foreign ship owners of some $200,000,000 each year. When to that amount is added the sum paid for insurance, banking and exchange to foreigners because they control the means of transporting our exports and imports, the cash or its equivalent in our products annually drawn exceeds $200,000,000. To so legislate as to foster an immense ship owning and ship building industry in the United States—sufficient to enable our own people to carry our imports and exports in American ships—would be equivalent to securing the retention at home of a minimum sum of $200,000,000 each year that now goes out of the country to afford employment to aliens at our expense. To keep such a vast sum at home would rapidly transform the United States into a creditor nation. During the last four years the apparent balance of trade in favor of the United States has closely approximated to two thousand millions of dollars. Were that an actual rather than an apparent favorable trade balance we would soon cease to be a debtor nation. But when we deduct about one-half of that trade balance because of the payments made to foreign ship owners, bankers and insurance companies, and again deduct the large but unknown amounts, consisting of interest due foreigners on investments in the United States, money spent abroad by Americans and the sums remitted by immigrants, we find our favorable trade balance dwindles down to very small proportions. As a consequence, we are but slowly emerging from our condition of foreign indebtedness. Free silver advocates must see, however, the golden opportunity our present enormous exports in excess of imports gives us to once and for all free ourselves from foreign indebtedness. Did our own people but earn the $200,000,000 or more each year now paid to foreigners for charges incident to the carriage of our imports and exports, European gold would be forced into the United States at an enormous rate to meet the balances due us, or else Europeans would send back to us the American securities which they now hold in such enormous sums and which at present keep this country a debtor nation. We have in the past forty years paid to foreigners easily four thousand millions of dollars for doing our foreign carrying, a sum that has gone out and stayed out of the country, to its permanent impoverishment. Our national wealth today is all of four thousand millions of dollars less than it would have been had American ships carried the same proportion of our foreign commerce during the past forty years that they did during the preceding seventy years. More than that, to keep on paying foreigners at the rate we are now doing for the carriage of our imports and exports will, during the next quarter of a century alone, take out of the United States fully five thousand millions of dollars additional. Not only will the country be drained of this colossal amount, but American labor in the mines, the mills, the factories, the ship yards and on board the ships, will be denied the employment incident to the building of ships, from the mining of the ore and the felling of the forests to the completed ships. The passage of the shipping bill, which will quickly put an end to our present dangerous and impoverishing dependence upon foreign shipping for our foreign carrying should, for the few reasons outlined, if not for the very many others unstated for lack of space, command the active support of not only every monometallist but of every bimetallist in the United States. Not a True Democrat Congressman George B. McClellan has disqualified himself for the second place on the Kansas City ticket by voting to give the government a sufficient number of troops to suppress its foes. An offense of this sort cannot be condoned by the Democratic party. If the Democratic party is half in earnest about granting self government to the Filipinos, it would be well to prove it by granting half justice to the negro of the south. The Party of Fesslmists Resentment of prosperity and promotion of calamity have always constituted the leading Democratic features. HOW WAGES INCREASED. Factory Pay Rolls Have Doubled in Five Years. Akron, O.—"In the campaign of 1896, Mr. McKinley made one remark which went to the hearts of the people from one end of the country to the other. It was, 'Open the Mills,'" said General Charles Dick, secretary of the Republican National Committee. "Those three words met with a responsive chord from those tens of thousands who had been idle during the last Democratic administration, and the empty dinner pail brigade went to the polls and voted for a full dinner pail, and for the opening of the mills. "In order to gain some idea of the effect of restoring the home market to our own people, the Republican National committee sent out blanks to members of the National Association of Manufacturers, asking them to kindly furnish us with the number of men whom they employed in each year from 1890 to 1899 inclusive, as well as with the total amount of wages which they had paid during the same years. "We have received 200 replies. These show that there was a steady increase in the number of hands employed in the 200 factories until the year 1893, after which there was an immediate drop of 10,000 men in 1894. But under President McKinley's administration the increase in the number of men employed by these same factories has been startling. In 1894 they employed 90,483, in 1897 they employed 109,600, in 1898 they employed 131,428 men, and last year they employed 174,645 men. In short, the number of wage earners employed by those same 200 factories has increased from 90,483 men in 1894 up to 174,645 last year, almost doubled in fact. "But the contrast is even more striking when applied to the amount of wages paid, and the following table shows the returns received from the same 200 manufactures: Year. Wages Paid. 1890 $45,149,081 1891 49,875,858 1892 53,619,418 1893 48,966,250 1894 40,803,866 1895 52,851,317 1896 53,202,420 1897 54,412,774 1898 62,247,940 1899 78,835,069 Years. Averages. 1890-92 Inclusive 1890-94,119 1893-96 " 48,957,713 1893-96 " 65,155,261 "The amount of wages paid by these same 200 manufacturers increased steadily from 1890 to 1892, then there was a drop in 1893 and another drop in 1894. During the next two years wages picked up, but it was not until 1897 that these same manufacturers were paying out as much money in wages as they had paid in 1892. The increase of their pay rolls in 1898 and 1899 is as gratifying to me, as it must be to the men who are now busy at good wages. "Between 1894 and 1899 the 200 manufacturers of the National Association, who reported to us, had increased their payrolls by upwards of $38,000,000, in fact the amount of wages which they distributed last year was almost double what they paid out in 1894. "If this ratio of increase were applied to the whole country, without taking into account the numbers of new factories that have been started in the last few years, who can deny that general prosperity has visited the country. And what a depth of meaning those three words 'Open the Mills', uttered by Mr. McKinley less than four years ago, has really conveyed." ECKELS AGAINST BRYAN Former Comptroller of the Currency Prefers to Be a Republican A dispatch from Chicago says that James H. Eckels, controller of the currency during President Cleveland's second administration, is as firm against the election of Bryan as president as he was in 1896, and will do his utmost to encompass the Nebraskan's defeat. He says: "No issue set forth, no matter how cunningly devised and arranged, can be made paramount to the issue of Mr. Bryan himself." "No man is fitted for the presidency who proclaims, in the midst of a demonstrated better condition of affairs, the reverse to be true in order to forment a discontent which will gain to himself and party a political advantage. "Mr. Bryan hardly appeals to the thoughtful citizens when upon the one hand he is presented by the Populists and on the other by Tammany. The joining hands with the one constitutes an offense against safety in governmental administration; the alliance with the other an offense against political decency. "If elected president the public must be prepared to see Bryan as chief executive, and those associated with him as cabinet counsellors, construe every law bearing upon the currency and the powers of the treasury department in such a manner as to nullify, as best they can, its provisions in so far as they bear upon the question of the maintenance of the gold standard. "I shall be surprised if any German voter, heretofore the bulwark of the country against every assault upon the integrity of the country's currency system and protesting against any debasement of the country's coin, will now aid and abet such a proceeding because of a belief in any injustice done by Great Britain to some affiliated race ten thousand miles away. "I do not believe any man benefits his country by being a preacher of discontent. "As between Republicanism and Populism, filtered through the channel of Bryanism, I prefer Republicanism." Will Need It There. Perhaps Delegate Croker has shaved off some of the Tammany Ice Stock to take along with him to Kansas City as a "cool camp-agn fund!" Mr. Pettigrew still holds the record as the champion slush-singer of the Senate Chamber UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME KETTEN, PARK, JULY We call the attention of our readers to the advertisement of Notre Dame University, one of the great educational institutions of the West, which appears in another column of this paper. Those of our readers who may have occasion to look up a college for their sons during the coming year would do well to correspond with the president, who will send them a catalogue free of charge, as well as all particulars regarding terms, courses of studies, etc. There is a thorough preparatory school in connection with the university, in which students of all grades will have every opportunity of preparing themselves for higher studies. The Commercial Course, intended for young men preparing for business, may be finished in one or two years according to the ability of the student. St. Edward's Hall, for boys under thirteen, is an unique department of the institution. The higher courses are thorough in every respect, and students will find every opportunity of perfecting themselves in any line of work they may choose to select. Thoroughness in class work, exactness in the care of students, and devotion to the best interests of all, are the distinguishing characteristics of Notre Dame University. Fifty-six years of active work in the cause of education have made this institution famous all over the country. Loch Lynn Heights, a little mountain town in Maryland, has had a lesson in the evils of political indifference. Only fifteen votes were polled at the town election, recently, and when they were counted it was found they had elected a ticket up by somebody for fun. The election, it appears, is going to hold. Supreme Court Sustains the Foot-Ease Trade-Mark. Justice Laughlin, in Supreme Court, Buffalo, has ordered a permanent injunction, with costs, and a full accounting of sales, to issue against Paul B. Hudson, the manufacturer of the foot powder called "Dr. Clark's Foot Powder," and also against a retail dealer of Brooklyn, estraining them from making or selling the Dr. Clark's Foot Powder, which is declared in the decision of the Court, an imitation, and infringement of "Foot-Ease," the powder to shake into your shoes for the third time, now so large and advertised and sold all over the country. Allen S. Olmsted, of Le Roy, N. Y., is the owner of the trade-mark "Foot-Ease," and he is the first individual who ever advertised a foot powder extensively over the country. He will send a sample Free to any one who writes him for it. The decision in this case upholds his trade-mark and renders all parties liable who fraudulently attempt to profit by the extensive "Foot-Ease" advertising, in placing upon the market a spurious and similar appearing preparation, and that the price is too high to be made. Similar sales will be brought against others who are now infringing on the Foot-Ease trademark and common law rights. Always think twice before purchasing anything offered at a sacrifice. Red Cross Ball Blue makes clothes whiter than snow. Large package Electric Traction in Mountains. In Italy, eighty-three miles of steam railroad track are now being changed to electric traction. On small lines the ground is covered by electric traction is being even more electric and proposals for the construction of several hundred miles of such lines are under consideration. The New Railroad to San Francisco. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Co. has completed an extension of their route to San Francisco, and opened it up recently for passenger business, opening for freight business having been made several weeks ago. Hereotefo, San Francisco and the other cities of central California have been connected with the east by only one transcontinental line, and the entry of the Santa Fe route to compete for public patronage may be expected to result in much better freight and passenger transportation for those cities. The Santa Fe road is now the only railroad under one ownership and management all the way from Chicago to San Francisco. isappointment is the saucer belonging to the cup of sorrow. The most important change made at the recent provincial chapter of the Congregation of the Holy Cross at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, was the transfer of Rev. James A. Burns from the head of the community house to the presidency of Holy Cross college, which is situated in Washington in affiliation with the Catholic University of America, Father Burns, who has been professor of chemistry at Notre Dame after brilliant work at Harvard and Johns Hopkins, is one of the ablest as well as one of the youngest of the Catholic educators of America, and as head of the post graduate institution in Washington he has a great field for further progress. Talk may be cheap, but good parrots are always expensive. Best for the Bowels No matter what alls you, headache to a cancer, you will never get well until your bowels are put right. CASCARETS help nature, cure you without a gripe or pain, produce easy natural movements, cost you just 10 dollars, getting your health back. CASCARETS Candy Cathartic, the genuine, put up in metal boxes, every tablet has C. C. C. stamped on it. Beware of imitations. _____. The dressmaker's work is a mere matter of功劳. Indian Crows Railroading. The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad is building a line in Montana down into the Big Horn Basin toward Yellowstone Park, and as the Crow Indian reservation is near at hand, a contract has been made with the red men for grading a section of roadbed. The managers of competitive lines threaten to enter a complaint to the Western Passenger Association, making the charge that the Burlington has made a deal with the "Scalpers." The width of a broad grin is equal to the length of a smile. SEND 47 cts. New Plane & Ornamental made at halftime. Sugar Versus Starvation. Experiments by Professor Mosso in the University of Genoa have shown that sugar administered after a period of starvation or a long fast, restores vitality much more rapidly than bread does. The temperature of the body quickly increases with the administration of sugar. The Best Prescription for Chills and Fever is a bottle of GROVE'S TASTELESS FILLER. It is simple iron and quinine in a less expensive form. No more than 100 ml. World's Wine Production In the harvest of 1839 there were 1,265,601,644 gallons of wine produced in France; 766,107,500 gallons produced in Italy; 594,332,750 gallons produced in Spain, and 158,560,000 gallons produced in Roumania. The total production of the world is estimated at 3,338,101,704 gallons Hall's Catarrh Cure Is taken internally. Price, 75c Gold Mines Compared Comparing Canada's gold mines with those in South Africa, the Quebec Chronicle says that the Johannesburg main reef is about fifty miles long by seven miles wide. In western Canada the Lake of the Woods gold district alone is about 250 miles long by about 150 miles wide. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, soothes the gums, reduces fumigation, allays pain, pain wind cools. 2 bottles For Catching Insects Small insects are automatically caught by the invention of a Maine man, comprising a lamp inclosed in a conical shield and resting in a basin partially filled with a liquid, into which the insects fall after striking against the chimney or shield. I do not believe Piso's Cure for Consumption has an equal for coings and colds—JOHN F BOVEN, Trinity Springs, Ind., Feb. 15, 1900. Proposed Educational Qualification. A proposed franchise act in Manitoba prohibits voting by persons who are unable to read and write the English language. This provision is almed at the newly arrived Galac'ans and Doukhobars, who are disposed to retain their former language and customs and who are said to be undesirable citizens in other particulars. FITS Permanently Cured. DIST or nerovessness after first day's use of dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer, D. R. H. Kline, Ltd. 911 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa. Refused to Tell Their Age. Refused to Tell Their Age. Some maiden ladies in Newark refused to tell the census enumerator their ages, or even their names, because the take g of the census is for the purpose of getting the names of all single women in the country and fusing them $100 for not having husbands. To Care Bandruf Outokir To Cure Daudriff Quickly use Coin Daudriff cure, money refunded in use Coin Daudriff cure To Cican Nickel Ware. Rub rust stains with sweet oil, in a few days rub well with cloth wet with ammonia. If spots remain, remove them with diluted hydrochloric acid, and polish with tripol powder. Nickel trimmings of stoves keep bright by rubbing with cloth and ammonia. Nickel-plated lamps are cleaned in this way. Did You Ever Run Across an old letter—ink all faded out? Couldn't have been Carter's ink if it didn't fade. Philadelphia's Bldg Alizator The latest arrival at the Philadelphia Zoological Gardens is an alligator measuring eight feet in length and weighing over 135 pounds. The big saurian is a native of Santiago, Cuba, and was consigned to the gardens by Major Scott, an aid on the staff of Governor-General Wood, of Cuba. Please Try Faultless Starch careens you will never use any other. All groats are safe. Memorial to Titled Englishman. The imperial memorial to Sir George Grey, the British statesman, who proposed south African federation forty years ago, is to take the form of a bust, to be placed in the crypt of St. Paul's cathedral, and a portrait to be hung in the National Portrait gallery. Prof. Herkomer will paint the portrait, and E. Onslow Ford will execute the sculpture. Write to Dr. C. J. Moffett, St. Louis, Mo., for his valuable little TEETHINA Wash-List Book, Valuable Phiatella Collection A postage stamp collection has been sold in England for $150,000, which is believed to be the largest philatelic transaction on record. The collection was that of the European stamps of Mr. Castle of Brighton, a vice-president of the London Philatelic Society. NOTICE—Two traveling salemen wanted in each state. Salaries and expenses expect no pay. The salemen host a hoaxes Tobacco Works, Bedford Cig. Virginia. "Old Home Week." August 11 to 13 has been selected by the governor of New Hampshire for the observance of "Old Home Week." The governor will issue a proclamation within a few days inviting the absent sons to return to their old homes and make merry. Many causes induce gray hair, but PARKER'S Hair Day encourages our country to honor the bravery of our firefighters, the best men for firefighters. 15cts. Candidates' Names: The rival candidates for congress in the First district of Illinois are Mr. Mann and Mr. Organ. In the congressional election in Kentucky, two years ago, Mr. White was the republican and Mr. Black the democratic candidate in the Eleventh district of that state. The Bluest Blue makes the whitest white, that's Red Cross Ball Blue. Velocity of Cirrus Clouds. The average velocity of cirrus clouds is about eighty-nina miles an hour, while in winter they have sometimes been known to travel at the rate of 220 miles an hour. The stomach has to work hard, grinding the food we crowd into it. Make its work easy by chewing Beeckman's Peppin Gum. SPECIAL OFFER: Cut this ad, and send you this Virgin Gum by mail to us and we will send you this Virgin Gum at your office and if examination. Examine it at your express office and if it is reproducible, and the most wonderful bargain you ever have to bear, it will be worth $2.10 or $1.20. 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BUY A DOUBLE BARREL BREECH LOADING $15 SHOT GUN for $7.77. NEW WINCHESTER RIFLES, $3.07, NEW BREECH LOADING SHOT GUNS, $4.47, NEW WINCHESTER SHOT GUNS, $15.97, Winchester and I. X. C. Located Unit, $1.90 per Nitro Powder Loaded Shells, $1.77 per MO. GET SHOT, GUNS AND AMMUNITION Our large Caucasian catalogue containing 96 pages, size 9x18 inches, will be posted on our website for any one returning this ad and mentioning this paper. We can save you big dollars on guns. Write at one. We can supply good quality, durable, lightweight guns. HOUSE IN THE WORLD. Tenants, Hunting Costs, Hats, Cap, Belts, Boots, Shell Bore, Dog Whistle, Insurance, Furniture, Goods and Timing. T. M. ROBERTS SUPPLY HOUSE, 717-781 Nicollet Avenue, MINNAPOLIS, MINN. Coroner Ninety-Three Years Old. Dr. A. Boyakin, the coroner of Marshall county, Kanss' s, is 93 years old. On being asked by a local paper for his biography he wrote this modest paragraph: "I was born in the country—barefooted and bareheaded, they told me. I lived in the country thirty-one years. I then moved to the city and lived thirty-one years. I then went back to the country and have lived thirty-one years and three days." Value Clause in Law Suit Two paintings valued at $3,000 were delivered to the Adams Express Company in Boston for transportation. They were lost and their owner brought suit to recover $3,000. The supreme judicial court of Massachusetts sustains a verdict for the defendant on the ground that there was a clause in the receipt limiting the liability t $50 and that the receipt bore the s..mp, "Value asked and not given." Immigration Is Large. Immigration to the United States is unusually large at the present time. The figures for every month of the current year show an increase over those for the corresponding periods in any previous year with one or two exceptions. The total immigration for the month of May is given as 56,812, and the figure for the present month is sure to be much larger. Unfortunate House Cat Now that the period is at hand for long summer vacations, friends of domestic animals are making a cry for mercy to the house cat. The cat will stay about home and starve, while the dog will take care of himself in some way or other, if he is not taken along with the family or left with some friend who can't get away from town. —Pittsburgh Dishant Largest Alfaifa Field Buffalo county, Nebraska, boasts the largest alfalfa field in the world. It is under the management of H. D. Watson and is from one-half to two miles wide and eight miles or such a matter long. It yields three cuttings a season and the total yield per acre for the three cuttings averages close to eight tons. Churchs, Families, Wives The University Avenue Methodist official board of Syr'use has a woman in its employ, Miss Ellen Morton. Her duties consist in the collecting of pledges for the church finances and benevolences, visiting among the congregation and looking up absent and missing members. At two other Syr'use churches women are employed. Ancient Fountain in Athens The Athens correspondent of the London Daily Mail says: "The excavators of the American school have discovered the only fountain mentioned by Pausanias in the Agora. It is absolutely intact. The bronze lions' heads, through which nowed the water are still in their places in the wall." Heat of Intolerant Lamp The amount of heat given out by an ordinary incandescent lamp is greatly underrated in the popular mind. An ordinary sixteen-candle-power lamp immersed in a quart of water will heat it to the boiling point in an hour. Celluloid in contact with a lamp bulb may be ignited in a few minutes, while silk shades close to the bulbs are scorched in a few hours. We Must Speak Truth Herbert Spencer, in a conversation reported recently, replied to the question as to when he thought society would be perfect by the statement: "When it is truthful. No one is now. We all exaggerate; we all use 'very' when we do not mean it. Truth is the one foundation-stone possible for perfection." Horse Hair for Bows There is a vast amount of horse hair annually used in the United States for making and repairing violin, violoncello and bass viol bow. All of the hair comes from Germany and Russia, in which countries the tails of horses are generally allowed to grow much longer than here Successful Mining. One of the mining companies at Junneau, Alaska, saved last year from 166,654 tons of ore, $231,841, or $1.40 per ton in the mill. Sulphurets yielded $115,574, bringing the total returns to $474,415, or $2.69 per ton. The reports show the great advance made in the treatment of low-grade ores. Millions of Passengers The tramways, omnibuses, and underground railways in and around London, within a radius of five miles, carry each year about 53,000,000 passengers. HEALTHY WOMEN Mary J. Kennedy, mourn & Co.'s Exhibit Mississippi Exposition a writes the following o manager of Ar- at the Trans- at Omaha, Neb, of Peruna, as a cure for that common phase of summer ca- sation as indigation Miss Kennedy says: M. "I found the continual change of diet incidental to eight years' traveling completely upset digestive system consulting several physiciansthey decided I suffered with catarrh of the stomach. "Their prescriptions did not seem to help me any, the remarkable cures effected by the use of Peruna I decided tory it and soon found my- "I have now used Peruna for about three months and feel completely rejuvenated. I believe I am permanently cured, and do not hesitate to give unstinted praise to your great remedy, Peruna. Causes of summer catarrh are first, chronic catarrh; second, derangements of the stomach and liver; third, impure blood. Such being the case anyone who knows anything whatever about the operations of Peruna can understand why this remedy is a permanent cure for summer catarrh. It crackles at the start of the stomach, invigorates the stomach and liver, clears the blood of all impurities, and therefore permanently cures by removing the cause—a host of maladies peculiar to hot weather. The cause being removed the symptoms disappear of themselves. "Summer Catarrh" sent free to any address by the Peruna Medicine Co. College, Duluth, MN. Home Seekers' Excursions South First and Third Tuesdays of Each Month. SUMMER RESGR S. Visit Mt. Mena, Ark., (Rich Mt. Station). Most delightful Summer Resort to be found. 3,000 feet above the sea. Modern Hotel and Cottages, Beautiful Scenery and Pure Water. Siloam Springs, Ark., is one of the best natural Summer Resorts in the South. The place abounds in springs of curative waters and nature has made it an ideal spot. Cheap Rates to Above Points Write for illustrated folder. S. G. WARNER, G. P. & T. A. J. H. MORRIS, Travl, Pass, Agt. Kansas City, Mo. 图 THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME, NOTRE DAME, DECEMBER Cassics, Letters, Economics and History, Journalism, Art, Science, Pharmacy, Law, Architecture, Professional Electrical Engineering, Architecture, Preparatory, Commercial Courses, Ecclesiastical students at student Rooms Free. Junior or Senior Year, Collegiate Schools. St. Edward's for boys under 18. 35 The 57th Year will open September 4th,1900 Catalogues Free. Address REV. A. MORRISSEY, C. S. C. Here's of Union Soldiers who made homebase of less than 100 acres before June 24, 1914 (the matter is abandoned). If the additional homesteads right to particulars, HENRY N. COPP, was lost in | A MURDER MYSTERY. TWO ARRESTS MADE AFTER THREE YEARS fm Connection with the fratat Kiting fof Money Lender Reed and His Sister at North Adams, Masn—Htlstory of Mas cules, After a lapse of almost three years @ strenuous effort is being made to solve the mystery of the brutal killing of Henry F. Reed and his sister, Blanche M. Reed, who were found murdered iu their home in North Adams, Mass., on August 7, 1897. Two arrests have been made and the cases ‘Of the prisoners are Alexander Grant and David King, both of Clarksburg, ‘Will soon come up for a hearing. ‘The murder of the Reeds was a most cold-blooded affair and the mo- tives for it, so far as the public is concerned, are still unknown. Reed came to that place nearly thir- ty years ago, and engaged In the musi- eal instrument business, in which he made considerabie money. Eight years before his tragic end he bought a house on a lane leading off Holden Street, near the center of the city. Here he conducted a regular pawnbroker’s Dusiness. He would advance money om any kind of an article brought to him, and after a time he began taking Up mortgages In the country districts. He was close and exacting, and nat- urally his business made him enemies. His sister, who kept house for him, had his characteristics. With both gold was their god. Their lives ‘were centered in their business, for the sister could make as sharp a deal as her brother and was equally interested 4m the conduet of affairs. ‘Their home was a regular curio shop, ‘Wherein was stored a vast variety of articles, and it was always open. Peo- ple called their at all hours of the day ‘and night and Reed was ever willing Pe y hs WW ge to make a dicker with anyone, black Or white, sober or drunk, provided he could get the best of the deal. ‘Owing to the frequency with which people calied at the Reed place at un- Seemly hours, the neighbors paid but Uttle attention to such visitors. And ‘thes when shortly after midnight on Ea ind papel abof, saw & man seated in a bug- sy driving up the lane from the Reed place she paid but little attention to it at the time. The bugey was follow- ed at a short distance by a man on foot. Soon afterward other people saw a buggy, in which were seated two ‘men driving off in the direction of Clarksburg. Eis Soest bas 8 srster stents: éance on the forenoon of August 7. when it was discovered that Reed and hhis sister had been murdered. At 11 O'clock on that day Hiram Tenney, ‘who had some business to transact with Reed, called at the house, but could get no response to his repeated knocking. He notified David Fair- field, who lived nearby, ang together they entered the Reed house. Lying on a bed in a room downstairs they found the body of Reed. The head had Been pounded almost to a jelly and in the mouth was a gag of coarse cloth. Neapby was a wooden mallet with which the murder had been accom- plished. After the police had been notified a further search was made of the house and on the landing upstairs was the body of Miss Reed. She had been shot four times. Three of the bullets hay- {ng taken effect In her head, and the fourth in her shoulder. She had evi- dently been aroused by the noise made im killing her brother and was about making her «ay down stairs when the murderer was upon her. The bullets ‘were fired at such close range that her face was burned with the powder. Im- mediately after the commission of the erime the state police were called in to help unravel the case. Every man who had the slightest dealings with the murdered man was examined but practically no light was thrown upon the mysterious murder. An aggre- gate reward of $1,500 was offered for information in the matter, but it bore no fruit. ‘The latest work on the case has been done by _ Detective Dunham of the state police, ‘who came there at the instiga- tion of the attorney general. Lawyer Mark E. Couch das also given the ase much attention ever since the commission of the crime, and some time ago enlisted the support of At- torney General Knowlton. For a Jong time past the prisoners, Grant and King, bave been closely watched. ‘and their arrest wes not much of a surprise. The state claims to have a strong case against them and between twenty-five and thirty witnesses will be called on bebalf of the people when the case comes up. Alexander King ‘and David Grant are natives of Scot- Jand. The latter came to Newport, R. 1, eleven years ago and there met King, who had been in this country six years. Both became inseparable com- panions and four years ago they lo- cated in North Adams, Grant purchas- ed a farm at Clarksburg from Reed for $1,200 and on this there was a mort- ‘gage for $1,250. Grant was to pay for the property In small sums. At the time of the murder Grant, who was a ‘Daker by trade, was employed in shop and King, who made his home with Grant, was employed in the Ar- “nold print works. They drove togeth- “er to the city every morning and ‘Print works were running until 10 p. 'm., 80 that Grant, who quit work at 4 ‘DP. m., and then drove to his farm, usually returned at a late hour to con- vey King home, On the evening pre- ceding the discovery of the murder Grant says that he did not return to North Adams for King; that the latter walked home and that he (Grant) did not leave his house after supper, so that he could not have committed the murder. The state, however, claims to have many witnesses who will swear ‘that they saw both King and Grant in the city late that night. The state will also show that the object of the crime was robbery, as Grant, the prosecution will claim, was aware that Reed had money in his house. There is one thing that the friends of Grant Adduce in his favor. The mortgage on the property he had purchased from Reed was not recorded and nothing was known of it until Grant, unasked, stepped forward and gave information about it. CONTADINI EXCITED. Ce anes Converse with Agparitien of Virgin A trivial event in the little village of Alice-Bellecole, near Acqul, in south-eastern Piedmont, has recently been the cause of great excitement among the contadini of the district. The fourteen-year-old daughter of a poor widow was sent by her mother to gather clover on a vineyard slope. The girl soon returned with a pate face and the news that while she was gathering the clover the Virgin ap- peared to her and kissed her lightly on the mouth like a breath of wind. ‘The peasants at once believed the girl, and from that moment the little vil lage has been besteged by thousands of blind, crippled and consumptive people. “At an early hour every morn- ing the young girl goes to the vine- yard and, apparently in a state of un- conscious ecstasy, holds converse with the Madonna, whose wishes and com- mands she then announces in a quiet voice to the kneeling throngs around her. A small chapel is now being built where the first appearance fs said to have occurred. Some of the peas- ants, who dared to doubt the truth of the girls’ statement, have been mal- treated, while thelr houses were de- stroyed and then razed to the ground. ‘The exeltement among the country people grows more and more; only a few nights ago nearly 12,000 people passed the night on the hills round the village, and thetr singing could be heard for miles. The prosaic prefect has ordered a battalion of infantry to proceed to the scene of the reported appartion—Ex. Chinese Eat Frieasced Dog: At a grand dinner the Chinese be- gin with sweetmeats and conclude with soup. They sit sometimes at table for five or six hours, with a midway interval or recess, during which bowls are brought in and the members of the party wash their hands and heads in hot water. Fric- aseed dog fs a favorite dish, a special breed of poodies being raised tor eat- ing purposes. Stewed rat is another delicacy, and the Chinese are also fond of eggs when they have passed the point where even the cold storage man could call them fresh. Sharks’ fins, bird nests, peacocks’ livers, green ginger, cocks’ combs, and fogAs' hearts and brain are dishes which might be found on the menu of & high-class Chinese banquet. ‘Setieeet gn tk iin ae Paris Cable New York Journal: The ‘Maharaja of Kapurthala gave a dinner at the Elysee Palace Hotel in honor of Daisy Leiter and her sister. It was one of the most sumptuous affairs ever given in Paris, The table deco- ‘rations were of the rarest flowers and the mena contained the chotcest dishes the chef could devise. The dinner was given in return fot cour- testes shown to the Maharaja in in- dia by Lord and Lady Curson. Both Kapurthala and his companion, an- other Indian Prince, wore innumer- able decorations, and their blazing jewels made a gorgeous appearance. ‘The Maharaja is reported to have five wives with him visiting the exhibl- tion. Dangerous to Call a Man a Boer. It is expensive to call a man a Boer in Great Britain nowadays. The other day a young Irish girl painted “I am @ Boer” upon a gate belonging to a nurseryman at Wick, near Littlehamp- ton. Her reason was that the nurséry- man did not hang out a flag in cele- bration of the relief of Mafeking, but this means of expressing her displeas- ure cost her £3 118 6d in court. The chairman of the bench said that he would not be called a Boer for £100, adding that the defendant's conduct might have led to the prosecutor be- ing lynched in the present state of public feeling. iit ee A young theological student who supplied the pulpit in a Vermont vil- lage one summer, had a habit of em- phasizing pronouns which his instruc- tor in elocution had endeavored in vain to correct. The involuntary smiles of his rural congregation one Sunday, however. worked the change for which his fr » and professors had longed. He wa. ading the thirteenth chapter of First Kings, and on coming to the twenty-seventh verse, he said distinct- ly: “And he spake to his sons, saying, Saddle me the ass, And they saddled him.” River Gives Up Dent. ‘The bodies of eleven colored long- shoremen were the other day recovered from the Elizabeth river, near Norfolk, Va., by dredging. The bodies were of men who were thrown overboard and drowned when the Merchants’ and ‘Miners’ passenger steamer Essex, bound for Providence, crashed into an Old Do- ‘minion Steamship company’s barge and sank it, Ninety-three men are known to have been aboard the barge and it Is now believed that others were aboard whose presence were not then known of. Big Woman, Big Nam~. One of the biggest women in the world lives in Greece, at a little village near Corinth. Her name is Vassilik Caltiaudji, she is twenty-two years old, and her height is six feet seven an: ee ee ae eee. POte. oeee +44 + + 444%: $44044° 4404 iEseesstteosses ossonststeesssseettssoettt toes sth: : < Fi x H ( limbs Sir Wiliam M$ 3 Fie ; Conway Now % ; peiway eR # Mountains ne 2 2 os # # : : PESOS, OOO. 0440, 4444, 4004. >+, ooo 4 4 oooo,, soos TeSgeostetecsettestecteottetectetgestgeseegtttee thes Sir William Martin Conway, the dar- ing explorer, always finds a warm cor- ner and a hearty greeting in the hearts of the people of the United States, for they themselves are daring and fearless. During the last twelve years Sir William has explored the Hima- layas, searched for information in Egypt and in the far east, traversed the Alps, the Andes and Spitzbergen, and approached the confines of dis- covery in the arctic regions. He is no common traveler and explorer, He goes for scientific and geographical research that the world may know more of what it contains. Sir William fs enroute to Bolivia to make a second exploration and survey of the Andes. In 1898 Sir Willam conceived the idea of exploring the Andes to ascer- tain thelr secrets and compare them with what he had discovered in the Alps and the Himalayas, He ascended the Illimant peaks, the highest one be- ing 22,500 feet above the level of the sea. He was the first white man, and more than likely the first human be- ing, to explore these peaks since the days of the Incas, a once powerful and highly cultivated people, but who were in thelr decline as a nation when Pi- zarro swooped down upon them with Spanish soldiers and took their coun- try from them. Traces of the Inca civilization still remain showing that people to have been a superior race. Their system of Jand tenure was not so very unlike the Henry George theory of land owner- wg: Ji "WT ; rae Cs e \ gr~ A 3 Vid An GE. Oe st \ yl \ EN NK SIR WILLIAM M. CONWAY. ‘ship. In addition to that the govern- ment was something like a cross be- tween communism and socialism. As ‘a race they were agriculturists and stock ralsere—mostly sheep herders. The law was that when the planting season opened the men would plant the king's flelds first, and then pass on from field to field until the flelds of all the people had been planted. Cuiti- vation and harvesting followed In like manner, Gold and silver were used for ornaments, but not for money, except with foreigners, and all other kind of trade was done by the government. The business of the people between themselves was strictly trade and bar- ter. Aa to thelr mechanical skill, It Is said that the world has nothing to show in the way of stone cutting and fitting equal to that displayed in Inca stone structures, many of which are standing. It 1s but reasonable to sup- pose that such a people would explore ‘every foot of the Andes for precious ‘metals as well as for general informa- tion, Sir William found as much difficulty in persuading the superstitious Indians to carry his packs as he did in reach- ing glacters zigzag fashion and work- ing around gaping crevasses. The In- dians still revere and fear the tradi- tional god of the Illimant, for he ts not the kind of a mountain god to take kindly to trespassing upon _ his premises. No diffleulty worth men- tioning was experienced up to the 16,700-foot level, but it took three days of perilous _travel- ing in an atmosphere Intensely rari- fied to travel the other 6,000 feet. At nearly every step there was danger of going down to death in a crevasse or of being crushed by the fall of ice and snow from above. Twice Sir William caught himself walking In his sleep from sheer fatigue. It was a climb from a lower to a higher sumit all the way, and when the top of the highest peak was reached there was nothing to do but retrace his steps which was done with great difficulty. ‘The party was roped together. The head of the line would drive an fron pin deep into the frozen snow and then those in the rear would pass for- ward, the rear becoming the front, when another pin would be driven, In the little villages 12,000 and 15,000 feet above the level of the sea people and houses were found—Indians mostly. though some of them are descendants of the old Incas, who refuse to conform to the religion or customs which Spain forced upon their ancestors 500 years Nhe a fe: Soren ie ee (Special Letter.) ‘The first night out from the 16,700- foot level the party pitched their tents at an altitude of 18,800 feet with great satisfaction, for it was evident that the outworks of the mountain fortress were now passed; it only remained to deliver the assault on the final peak. Before 2 o'clock next morning the party were winding upward among great yawning crevasses by the light of a candle. Fiteen miles away, across the great valley of the La Paz river, another twinkling light was visible, shining through the window of a re- mote farmhouse. ‘The night was not cold (only 21 degrees Fahrenheit), but the snow was as hard as a board and rapid progress was made. Once one of the party fell into a crevasse but, be- ing roped, no harm was done. The old moon rising over the snow field ren- dered the lantern needless. Two hours and a half after starting the head of the glacier was reached, the very crest of the Cordillera Real, and we looked down an appalling precipice of at least 14,000 feet into the black depths of some valley of fertile Youngas, It was still night. ‘The party when it next rested was 20,700 feet above the sea. Here the first view of the culminating peaks of Illimant rising out of the great snow Plateau was had. Four snow-white peaks besides the Pico del Indio rose out of it The two on the extreme right and extreme left respectively were evidently higher than the other but which of these two was the cul- minating point was uncertain, The ‘same uncertainty exists in all views ot IMlimani. Opinions were in favor of the western peak. In point of difficulty there was little to choose between them, All the great difficulties of the climb were already overcome. After about three hours of slow, con- tinuous plodding the party stood upon a flat, wide saddle, which presently dropped away before them in the steep descent that faces La Paz, The alt tude’ was 21,760 feet at this point. But they could not halt long, for the sum- mit was now too near at hand and only a wide and easy snow bridge sep: ‘arated them, Slowly, very slowly, they wended their way up it, conscious o Iittle except the toll and overwhelmed by a fixed determination to get the summit gave way to another, but the real one came in due season. “‘Mon- sleur, a vous la gloire,” sald one of the mountaineers as he stepped aside for Sir William to stand first upon the highest point, It was 11:30 a. m. The altitude was between 22,500 and 23,200 feet, esiebias te: tases ae Thomas B. Reed was met by an ad- mirer the other day who addressed him as plain “Mister” Reed. ‘The former speaker looked at his admirer with an expression of surprise, and then, ex- tending his hand, drawled: “I am glad you addressed me as mister. You are @ scholar and a gentleman. Every- where I go nearly everybody calls me Mr, Speaker. Now, every American who keeps up with the times knows that Tam not now speaker, and every well-informed American knows that the title of speaker, unlike that of col- onel or judge, docs not adhere to the wearer after he resumes the post of honor in private station, I like the title of mister. It is better than judge or colonel, and is far more distinguish- ed ia this day of military heroes and Just and learned interpreters of the lew. You show by calling me Mr. Reed that you are a man of sense, and there- fore you will please accept my assur- ‘ances of my most distingulshtd con- siderations.” —Portland Oregon!an. Japs In Hawallan Istands During the last year 25,000 Japanese landed in the Hawalian islands, With- in the current year 50,000 of these yan- ‘ees of the Orient will come to the Pa- cific coast, if the movement is not in- terfered with, About 2,000,000,000 bicycles have ‘been made in Europe and America. PRINCE HARRY. AFTER SECURING A’ FORTUNE FROM A MINE We Set Out to Spend It and Succeeded Se Well That He Was oon Reduced to Poverty and Ended is ite with cane ‘The old saying that “a fool and his money are easily parted” never per- haps received a better illustration than in the career of Prince Harry of Tombstone. His real name was Hen- ty W. Bennett, and he rose from the estate of a tattered mining prospector, Worth lees than $300 altogether, to the ossession of $150,000 in a few months. For seventeen years he had searched for mines in Arizona and New Mexico. He had lived among the Navajo and Moki Indians, and had subsisted on the most primitive fare for weeks at a time. In the course of his wanderings he located a ledge of sulphurets, that 4s, a combination of gold and silver ores mixed with base metal—that was In the summer of 1877. The Apaches were particularly hostile to white men that season, and Bennett got out of Cochise county before he had a chance to do much work on his claim. Later that season Ed Schoeffelin and Rich- ard Gird located the famous gold and silver mines of Tombstone, about a milo away from where Bennett had bullt up the piles of stone to mark the corners of his mine. When the stam- ede began to Tombstone, Bennett was One of the first ones on the scene, He set about developing his own mine, the Boston, and by pick and shovel” he s00n Inid bare enough of his ledge to show that he had a fairly good mine. Tombstone was growing at the rate st 1,000 Inhabitants a month, and the People were mine crazy. In a few weeks he sold to George Hearst for $150,000 cash down, It was practically the only money ‘Bennett had ever had, and he was be- side himself with joy. He went to El Paso, Texas, and put his money in a bank. Then be began to wonder how he was going to have the fun he had planned during all his long years of prospecting and hardship. It was days Tallest of Al Living Men... ‘The biggest living man is Lewis Wil- kins, who {s now arousing great inter- est in the scientific circles of Europe. Wilkins was born on a farm near St. Paul, Minn., in 1874. When he was but 10 years of age he measured 6 feet in height and now has grown to the tre- mendous height of 107% inches—just three-quarters of an inch less than 9 feet—and weighs 364 pounds. There have been other tall men and women before Wilkins, and scientists have striven in vain to account for these freaks of nature. Only lately a plaus- ible story has been put forward by a French physician, Dr. Marie, who says that gigantism is nothing more or less than a disease. This disease generally occurs in patients between the age of 18 and 35, and is first called “acro- ‘megaly” (from two Greek words mean- ing “enlargement of the extremities.”) If the patient is not attacked until af- ter he Is 18 the ends of the bones in the arms and legs are enlarged and prolonged slightly, but if this disease Ghe Abyssinian Boasts of Being a Christian But His Christianity is Bogus The Abyssinian is pretentious and, like), but narrowing to a shar domineering to his inferiors, yet | It is worn on the right side, a cringing and obsequious to his super-| When mounting a mule or h lors, His business being that of a sol- | #!Ways does so on the right, or ‘dfer, he is more or less, though at times. Besides these weapons, he uses a ¥ e ,. | fare a large, round, basin-shaj energetic, a lazy Individual. He, bossed leather shield, often orn though not a trader, is willing to take with silver work. inseparable companions are his rifle, fast, though a few, very few c cartridge belt and sword. The first is ‘tively, attend church on early often of the most antiquated pattern, | ortings na ones o8, is which, even when mule driving and | doletul, cracked-pot sounding performing long marches, remains} be! Whatever is the cause, tl His sword is strapped tightly to his| he ts amuch worse lian, th walst, and is acharacteristic one, be-| cheat than his neighbors about ing short, very much curved (cimiter- ders. seal ort succto atl SIE According to the Chinese habit of do- ing most things backward, a visitor in Shanghai says he fully expected to see the first Chinese cyclist he came across pedal backward. “To our astonish- ment,” he wrote, “he rode forward In the proper manner. His attire was such as is not easily forgotten. The baggy trousers were hauled up over the knees, disclosing a pair of shiny sticks swathed in dishrags or something. This ‘was done to prevent his trousers from tearing in the chain, Bare feet on rub- ber pedals, a big yellow balloon shirt, bulging out like the spinnaker of a racing yacht, and a flying pigtail under ‘a small tin can of a cap topped by a button, He was a wealthy merchant, We are tid, and looked as if wheeling agreed with him in spite of his clothes.”—Buflalo News, Damages on a Pass, Boston special to New York Jour- nal: A decision handed down today by the United States Circuit Court of Ap- peals in the case of Charles A, Whit- ney against the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad company, holds that a person traveling on a pass on a railroad may recover damages for an injury sustained in spite of the stipu- lation on the pass by which he as- sumes all risks through the neglect of ‘agents of the road or otherwise. The ‘court says public policy will not per- jmlt it ta enforce the stipulatien. | before he realized that he was really rich. He went into the bank a hall dozen times the first week to make sure that his money was there and was awaiting his order. He knew a poor Mexican woman in Paso del Norte, Mexico, whom he had long ad- mired, and he went across the Rio Grande and married her. Rennett Starix tn to Spend. Some one told Bennett that he was a fool not to hurry up and enjoy his money, and he started in to spend It. Bennett and his bride went to Den- ver and San Francisco and exchanged thelr cheap old clothes for the finest that money could buy. ‘They kept tail- ors and dressmakers busy for weeks. He bought eleven hats and a trankfal of shoes for himself in San Francisco, and he told the dry goods merchants to give his wife two dozen of the finest dresses to be had. The couple had one room of the suite they lived in at the Baldwin Hotel filled with trunks and boxes of thelr newly bought finery. In one day Bennett bought some $8,000 worth of diamonds for himself and wite, and they gave tips of $5 and $10 for the simplest service to the hotel servants. Tiring of San Francisco, Bennett and his wife went down to Tombstone, determined to show the population that they knew how to lead fashion in the mining camp. ‘They went to New Orleans for the Mardi Gras celebration in 1881, and seyen trunks of clothing went, too. The couple lived in the most_costly suite at the St. Charles hotel. On that trip Mrs, Bennett saw opera glasses for the first time. When the couple returned to the mining camp each had an opera glass of solid gold, and they seldom drove out behind thelr well- known team of white stallions that each did not carry a gold opera glass and occasionally survey the country through it. On that trip, also, Bennett and his wife learned that some rich people bathed in perfumed water. ‘They, therefore, bought scores of bot- tles of the finest Parisian perfumes, and neither ever bathed without pour- ing a liberal quantity of perfume into the. water. ‘That was about the beginning of the end, When his last dollar was gone, Bennett ended his life with a bullet. i European Scien- tists Are ¢ Interested in a g Resident of is Minnesota. has attacked a child at or soon atte birth gigantism is the result. The bones are prolonged all along thelr length, grow unnaturally and the re- sult is a giant, When you see a big man it is therefore a question whether he fs unusually strong or whether he is suffering from acromegaly. All giants have not been acromegalic, ac- cording to Dr. Marlé, He mentions two giants in the French army who aid not belong to this class. One was Charles Freuet, a cavalry soldier, who was 6 feet 11 inches, and another was Marnat, a drum major in the Ninetieth regiment infantry, who measured 6 feet 9 inches. Perhaps the greatest giant who ever lived before Wilkins was Charles Byrne, an Irishman. He measured 9 fect 2 inches. His skeleton Is still preserved, proving beyond ques- tion his enormous size. He was prob- ably acromegalic. Other glants are Constantine, born at Zurich, in Switz- erland, 8 feet 1 inch; Herold, born at Lelpste, 7 feet 5 inches, and Lady Em- ‘ua, 8 feet 1 inch. like), but narrowing to a sharp point. It Is worn on the right side, and thus, when mounting a mule or horse, he always does s0 on the right, or off side. Besides these weapons, he uses in war- fare a large, round, basin-shaped, em- bossed leather shield, often ornamented with silver work. He boasts of being a Christian, but the Christianity he professes is ‘only in evidence in the keeping of feast and fast, though a few, very few compara- ‘tively, attend church on early Sunday ‘mornings, in response to the call of a doleful, cracked-pot sounding, tolling dell. Whatever is the cause, the Abys. siutan has deteriorated, for apparently he % amuch worse Mar, thief, and ‘cheat than his neighbors about his bor- ders. rn. To Make Absinthe Here. Paris correspondence New York Journal: The firm which makes prac- tleally all the absinthe in France is arranging to establish largo absinthe distilleries in New York, St. Louls and San Francisco, in an attempt to popu- larize in America the drink which un. dermines so many Frenchmen, The Plans are incomplete. There is consid. erable indignation among the Amer can temperance women in Paris, wh¢ declare they will call upon the womer of the United States to repel th threatened invasion, ee Sine a Tee , 2¢ soil of Peru contains the larg. est number of mineral species—at Pin- ria, in the north, petroleum and sul- phur; silver, lead, copper and coal in the great mining basin of Cerro de Pasco, in central Peru and phosphate, quicksilver, auriferous grounds and Dorax at Arequipa, Carabaja, in the South. At the present time the num- ber of mines in exploitation ts 2,500, employing 70,000 workmen. The value of ore has Increased by more than 61 Der cent within the last two years, Captain Has Great Name. Capt. Alexander Nikolayevitch Ga- netzki, the late commander of the Rus- sian volunteers of the Boer army, be- longed to a most distinguished family. His father was the most famous gen- aral of the Turkish war of 1877-78. OVARIAN TROUBLES, Lydia E. 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