The American Citizen

Oldest and Best Weekly paper devoted to the Race in this section of the Country WEEKLY MEDIUM FOR ADVERTISERS WITH A RECORD OF THIRTEEN YEARS, NEVER MISSING AN ISSUE, REACHING THOUSANDS OF HOMES OF OUR READERS VOL. 13. NO. 29 Oldest and I WEEKLY MEDIUM FOR THE TWI THE TWIN CITIES. AT THE KAWSMOUTH The weather the past week has been dry and remarkably warm, and people from the country were very thick on our thoroughfares. Mrs. Frances Clark, of Freeman avenue, leaves Monday for Chicago, to spend outtime with her daughter, Mrs. Te Persons. Mrs. Fannie Brown, of 440 Minnesota avenue, has opened a first class restaurant and extends a cordial invitation to the public to call. The Grectan Festival takes place on Monday night at Mt. Pleasant Baptist church. Great things are promised in the way of entertaining. Don't miss it. Admission only 10 cents. The Equal Taxation sequestre promises to make it warm this fall in county politics. The question of Equal Taxation will doubtless be the issue in all Wyandotte county elections in the future. Great crowds from this side have attended the Gillis this week to see the "Hottest Coon in Dixie." Mr. J. W. Johnson, who tendered his friends a banquet at the M. and O. Hall last. Monday evening, takes his departure this week for McAlister, Indian Territory. Mr. George Diviny, an old friend of our editor, spent a few hours in the city the past week en route to Glens' Falls, N.Y. The roof of King Solomon Baptist church will be completed this week. Mr. Issae Parker and his corp of effie cut workmen, are to be complimented for their lustling skill and ability. Mrs. Fannie Gorman, of Minnesota State, spent several days in Jefferson City, Mo. Mrs. Z. B Christian, of 103 South James street, left Saturday night for Versailles, Ky., to spend a few weeks with her sis er-in-law, Mrs. Ellen Smith. Mrs. Arthur Clark, of 108 South James, will leave Saturday morning for Chicago to live. Miss Mamie McRoy left Monday evening for Leavenworth to spend a few weeks with Mrs. John Grozes. The Pleasant Green Baptist of Kansas City, Ks., will give a barbecue in Roseale, Sa.u.day, Sept. 8th., 1900. Mrs Fannie Ream, of Minnesota avenue, who was called to Chicago some time ago to attend the bedside of a dying brother, returned home Friday. Mrs. Laura Robinson, of the south-west Boulevard, and sister, returned this week from a pleasant stay in Columbia, Mo. There will be an old fashioned picnic in Holliday. Kas, to morrow, under the auspices of the First Baptist church of that little burge. Rev O. Davis, the pastor, says it will be a memorable time for all who will attend. Sunday the corner stone will be laid by the Masonic fraternities; a number of noted speakers will be present at the picnic. THEY SAY. The be s may yet be called off and the wedding may not happen. A' any rate the bells are still ringing throughout the live long night. You told me I'd need never work no more" for I see the hottest coon in Dixie. She said if you love your baby make Goo-Goo eyes, he said—I don't know now Truly in one sense "every race really has a flag but a coon." He stands "All alone." A LETTER FROM Congressman Bowersock to the "Old Boys." LAWRENCE, KAIS, Aug. 10.. 1900. CLIAS, L. McCLUNG. CHAS. L. MCCLELLAG, 36 yr Old Boys Rep. Club, 2112, North 10th st. Kansas City, Kas. MY DEAR SIR.—I have been ill for several days which has delayed my re- ply to your kind letter of Aug. Srd. I thank the "Old Boys Club," of Kansas City, Kas., for honoring us with mem- bersain. I am proud to be associated in my honorable way, with men who voted for Lincoln. As I think I have written one of your members, I will remember the campaign made for the first standard bearers of the Republican party—Freement and Dayton—"Free homes, free speech, free men and Frement." In 1856 I had not reached my majority, and while I felt a boyish disappointment because Wm. H. Seward failed to receive the nomination, I joined the "Wide Awakes," but on the oil cloth cap and cape, and carried a light for Lincoln and Hamlin. During this term, I first admire1, KANSAS. THE then respected, and soon learned to love the typical American President—the big brained, great hearted, kindly natured, martyred president who, in the hearts of all true Americans, is enshrined side by side with Washington. In 1864 I first cast a ballot for President, and I am now, and have been since that November day, thirty-six years ago, proponent of that vote than any other I ever cast. I lived in Iowa City, Iowa, then, and I enclose here with an original ballot of that day, which I have preserved through all these years. Some of your "Old Boys" may be old Iowa boys; if so they will recognize the familiar names on the old ticket. It is not w underful that the principles for which he gave his life should gradually permeate the nation; but it is passing strange that those who, in spirit, spat upon him while he lived, who reviled him, who sugmatzed him as a "bloody butcher," who held the clothes of those who made his life a burden, who were assisting unto his death, should now pose as his descripces, and as "Lincoln Republicans" endeavor to play upon the hearts of men in order to secure office. It is said that the devil is in hard lines when he fails to quote scripture. Into what abyss must the Demo-Pop party have fallen when it appeals to Abraham Lincoln. Bryan clamors for what he calls justice to the Philippine, but with no word of condemnation against those who are engaged in disfarming, by fair means or foul, the race which Lincoln lifted out of bondage. Sympathy, Bryan has, for the Tagel across the sea who has never known intelligent freedom, but no pity or commiseration for the blacks at our doers, who fought for the flag and for the Union, and of whom Senator Tillman says "No nigger shall vote or hold office in South Carolina." There must be no taxation with representation—except in he black belt of the Union, the solid Democratic states of the south. There never was a moment in his life when Lincoln was a demagogue. No demagogue can be a Lincoln republican. Next to my first vote for Lincoln, I will take greatest pride in my second vote for McKinley. Like Lincoln, McKinley follows the great heart of the nation, carelessly, consistently, conservatively and patriotically, in the fear of God. I confidently look for such a victory for McKinley and Rose velt over those who are trying now to frighten the people with the "male-in-Nebraska" scarecrow of imperialism, as overwhelmed the party that resolved in 1864, that "The War in a Failure" My right hand—both my hands, and my heart, go out to the Old Boys' Club of Kansas City, Kas Sincerely and Best Wishes. AT THE GILLIS OPERA AT THE GILLIES OPERA. "The Hettest Coon in Dixie" is the name of a musical production that played to a crowded house at the new Gillies Opera the past week. It consists of a rather well selected company of thirty-five colored artists with Wm. H. Proctor and Miss Neale F. Hawkins leading characters. A number of clever people perform and the show undoubtedly is a great big hit. The specialty work of some was exceptionally fine. Miss Hawkins, the prima Donna, is a very sweet singer with a wonderful range of voice, while many of her songs were old, yet the tended service to make them seem new. This play is on the order of "A Trip to Coon Town," and William and Walker's Policy Players, and much of the same can be said to be an exact reproduction, while the company as a whole is not far behind the acknowledged leaders and the "two real cools." This is its second season on the road. THE PASEO CLUB The Paseo Club, of 1510 E., 18th st., is one of the swellest resorts conducted by colored people in the Twin Cities, or in fact in the west. It is strictly an up-to-date, well managed establishment that caters to the public and the people that are endowed with enough common sense to appreciate something "Simply Grand." Mr. Frank L. Mapkins is President, Barton Cliff, Treasurer, Mess Henderson, Secretary, and Mr. Cras. A. Whitney, Manager. Gentlemen in every respect and who are earnestly interested in helping all other negro enterprises. May success be theirs. A HOT SEASON. The weather the past week has been vary hot. At the Gillis there was the "Hottest Coon in Dixie," and in the language of the street talker, it was said to be a "Hot Thing" commencing Sunday. "A Hot Old Time" will hold forth at the Gillis. AMERICAN CI KANSAS CITY, KANSAS, FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 7, 1900. RACE NEWS. Frank Gadsen is the proprietor of one of the bats stocked dry goods stores in Occla, Fla. Brook Haven Miss., has twelve business houses run by Negroes. Flora Batson is touring Australia with McAdoo's Georgia minstrels. Louis V. Harrison is conducting an art school for the race at 618 stin st., Houston, Tex. Chicago is soon to have a penny bank, owned and controlled by Negroes, $10,-000 hs been raised. D. U Mills, formerly of San Antonio, but now a United States soldier, has been sent to Cuba as a regimental print er. Causie Oscar Artis conducts a bicycle repair shop at Columbus, Ohio, and is patronized by both white and colored. There are two Negro drug stores in St. Louis. E. H. Taylor, 2601 Morgan st., and Ernest L. Harris, 2826 Market st. N. B. Dodeon is manager and general agent of the Greater New York Department of the Coored American Magazine, published in Boston. Maryland Afro-Americans are again attempting an organized movement against the law prohibiting the intermarriage of whites and blacks. The 500 Pullman car porters, with headquarters in Pittsburg, Pa., have decided to form a union and affiliate with the National Colored Men's Railroad Association. The Aurora Publishing Co., of Morris-Brown college, have purchased a press and printing outfit. They will issue a college paper monthly and do all kinds of job work. The house at Guineas Station, Va., where stonewall Jackson died, is now the property of a Negro. The Stonewall Jackson Memorial association has offered to buy the property for $5,000. The Free Mission Baptist people of Texas have purchased fifteen acres of land near Eagle Lake, Texas, and will erect a brick school building, where industrial education will be taught the Negro youth. At M. con, Ga., the other week, a new discovery was made from an unexpected quarter, which speaks well for the race. The fact is this, that more white people are paying rent than colored people. M. W. thurston is superintendent of a silk factory in North Carolina in which four hundred hands are employed, only two or whom are white, and they are specially engaged to instruct the colored employees how to do the work. At the recent graduation exercises of the Catholic University of America, Washington, (celored) a graduate, on receiving his diploma, conferring the degree of Master of Science, from the hands of Cardinal Gibbons, the entire assemblage broke into enthusiastic applause. S. W. Trice and F. W. Williams have formed a partnership and opened up a giant's furnishing goods establishment in Chicago under the firm name of Trice & Williams. These are two of Chicago's most industrious young men who have worked hard and saved their money and are now doing a good business as merchants. Out in Highland park, Pittsburg, Pa., near the moo, is a plot of ground owned by a colored family named Bullitt, which Director Bigelow has been anxious to add to the park grounds for a number of years. The matter was taken into court under condemnation proceedings, and price fixed is $10,209, which the city will have to pay. Prof. Frederick Dinslow Height, M. A., after having passed through a difficult ordeal of sickness and surgical operation, is himself once more. He announces to his many friends that he will be on the road again at an early date and will deliver lectures on the following subjects. "The Evolution of the Negro, "The Moral Dangers Besetting our new Responsibilities" and "The Negro in the Holy Writ" The Iron Moulders Union, of New York, by their just and equitable action in the annual meeting recently held, have put in motion a force that is calculated to revolutionize entiment in favor of the colored man, which means better support for his wife and children. At this meeting a rule was almost unanimously adopted that hereafter colored men are to be received into membership of the body on perfect equality with the white man. Atlantic City, N. J., the famous American summer resort, where the colored waiters are supreme, is doing a rushing business this season. It is well known that Atlantic City, like Boston, is a mecca for colored waiters. It is a gratifying significance that America's greatest summer resort has chosen the colored waiters as the ones most fit to serve man's innest inner man. In this beautiful resort, noted the world round for: surf bathing, large scenic ocean front and spacious board walks, are located over 200 hotels and cottages, most all of which employ colored waiters. There is a growing disposition of the segrogs throughout the country to differ in politics. A very few years ago John J. Nolan who is said to own something like sixty per cent. of the Black Patti company, was the press agent at Hammerstein's Olmpia, drawing not a very dazzling stipend, supposedly not a man of wealth. His friends insist that he is now worth upward of $100,000. So much for having that wisdom to invest in a Negro drawing card when the side for Afro-American attractions was at its flood. It would be interesting to know how much Black Patti is worth. Wilcox is a new town situated in the southern portion of Burlison county, Texas. Three-fourths of the population are colored people. Mrs. Amande Brooks, colored, is postmistress, and all the business concerns are owned and operated by negroes. ROCKEFFELLER'S GIFT TO A NE GRO OLLEGE. Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 6. - John D. Rockefeller has made Spellman seminary, a negro college of this city, a present of $150,000. The money has been paid into the treasury of the American Baptist Home Mission society of New York, which has charge of the college. CHURCHES TO UNITE. Two of the Bigge t Colored Congrega tions in Chicago to Consolidate. Chicago, Sept. 5 — The Record says: The African Methodist Episcopal Zion church, representing membership of more than 300,000, and the colored Methodist church, representing an organized body of 100,000, will consolidate and establish in Chicago a Methodist tabernacle that will be the most costly and imposing church structure owned by a colored congregation in the Unit d States. Preliminary steps to the consolidation were taken yesterday in a conference at Indianapolis, in which Bishops Alexander Watters, B. G. Harris and G. W. Clinton and John C. Daney, collector of the port of Wilmington, N. C., represented the Zion cathouse, and Bishop L. H. Holsey and Dr. C. H. Phillips, editor of the Christian Index at Jackson, Tenn., were the spokesmen for the colored Methodist church. Consolidation was practically agreed upon at the general conference of the two churches held last springs. At these meetings conference delegates were selected and given full power to act for their respective organizations. There appears to be no difference of opinion as to the course to be pursued in the matter. The name of the consolidated organization will be the A. M. E. Colored Zion chu ca, the present bishops of the two churches will be retained and the general officers divided in accordance with the numerical strength of the old organizations. PROPER REMEDY If the supreme court shall fail to decide that the amendment to the constitution of North Carolina, disfranchising Afro-American voters, is in conflict with the fifteenth amendment to the federal constitution, the proper remedy for the disfranchisement evil in that and other southern states will be the reduction of the representation of these states in the house of representatives. The fourteenth amendment to the constitution was framed to meet just such a case. It provides that representation in congress shall be based upon the total number of inhabitants of a state, not including Indians, but whenever the right to vote at congressional elections is abridged, except for participation in rebellion or other crimes, the representation of the state in congress shall be reduced in proportion to the number of citizens so disfranchised. Our people have been disfranchised by constitutional provision in the states of Mississippi, Louisiana, South Carolina and North Carolina. In the three states of Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina, the vote has fallen off since the disfranchise from 50,7,366 to 153,989, and if the representation in the house were reduced, as congress has power to reduce it under the fourteenth amendment to the constitution, those three states would be deprived of eleven of their twenty members of the house, and North Carolina would have to stand a similar loss. There seems to be no doubt that congress has authority to apply this remedy, and it should be applied at the next session when the new apportionment is to be made, if in the meantime the supreme court should fail to do its duty in the matter. President McKinley and Attorney General Griggs should take it into the supreme court at once. It is their duty to do so.—Cleveland Gazette. Everything may come to the man who waits—except another man who owes him money. The human mind is a gem, but it is very often inspired by the setting. CITIZEN The recent race riots, the organizing of a negro National Business League with that sage and distinguished leader, Booker T. Washington, in the foreground, the excluding of politics from the deliberations of the Afro-Americas National Council. The organization of negro corporations in different parts of the country, the flopping of Bishop Turner, Grant and Derrick, to the ranks of Democracy, the endeavor of all southern states to disfranchise the negro. All tell to the watchmen on the tower that there is a mighty time scheduled to come off soon. The flopping of the venerable A. M. E. church Bishops is receiving the earnest consideration of the race throughout the country. For the actions of these distinguished gentlemen we, as republicans, have no condemnation. The negro is an American citizen and taking his color out of the question, as such, he should be allowed his honest conviction and opinions in regard to our government. Fathers and sons in the white race are separated and divided on national issues, why condemn the negro for his views? We advocate the principles of the Republican party because we believe them in our judgment to be right. Other men advocate Democracy because, in their judgment, they believe it is right. This difference in opinion must be accorded the colored brother, as well as any other American citizen. As the negro rises intellectually, grasps and wrestles with the great questions of the day, he is bound to differ. The negro race as a mass must learn to respect those among them that differ to their way of thinning. Judgment towards our Bishops should be withheld, they might be like the great discoverer Columbus, who, seeing a sea weed floating in the waters of the Pacific, on his voyage of discovery, quieted the focusing muny by assuring his would be murderers that land was not far off, There may be land ahead, or in other words, the tread of southern sentiment towards the race, (which is on the increase in the north) may, be tarned. It is to be hoped that much good will come to the race from the recent organized National Business League at Boston. It has long siuece been a recognized truth by advance thinkers of the race that "Bus'ness" is the key to the solving of the Race problem. It has been what we have preached for years—"negro enterprise." We have told the people in our community time and time again through these columns that the building up of this paper for instance,gr at good would come to the race, because as we go up it demands help, and from the ranks of the hundreds of young men and women that are turned out from school each year, this help must come. Our success is the success of the race, likewise the same with all other negro enterprises. A SENSIBLE VIEW Race wars in New Orleans, Georgia, the Carolinas and even New York, show us that beneath the polite exterior of the everyday man lingerers a suspicion and a hatred of those not of his color. There is something radically wrong. The negro cannot be accused of endeavoring to oppress the whites, he is not in sufficient numbers, nor has he the strength or energy for that. Sometimes the negro is brutal and he is hunted down like a beast; that course will not tend to assist in removing old race prejudices. The negro is noonge a slave—he is a man and a citizen, and it is the most serious obligation on our part to give him a helping hard. He may not reach our plane at all once in a single bound, but he will get close enough to it gradually to perform his whole duty as a citizen, and in this republic that is all that we can ask. The school house, not the gun, is the weapon we must use on the regro. In time it will accomplish the work satisfactorily and completely.—St. Joseph Gazette-Herald. Poor old John Waller, way over in Cuba, sends up a wait against the grand old party and announces that he is "now for Bryan and Democracy." Another one of the fatted calves who at one time feasted from the Royalty table of the Republican party. After all as a man and as an American citizen still, he is entitled to differ. YOU CANNOT HELP BUT FIND THE STORE With the Yellow Front Now. That's the Place to Buy Goods Cheap. Three Bunches Hair Pins, 5c. Good Corsets, 25c. Dozen Collar Button, 3c. Black and Drab Corsets, 25c. Metal Back Combs, 5c. Drop Stitch Hose, 5c. Hair Brushes, 10c. Finishing Braid, 5c. Three Cakes Soap, 5c. Handkerchiefs, 5c. Fancy Set Hat Pins, 5c. Red Handkerchiefs, 5c. Two Black Hat Pins, 1c. Men's Secks, 5c. Bone Pair Pins, 5c. All Straw Ha's, 10c. Two Cakes Tar Soap, 5c. Bead Beauty Pins, 1c. Gold Band Rings, 25c. Gold Wire Beauty Pins, 3 for 1c. Bennett & Co. The Sunflower Store 435 Minnesota Avenue, THE SHIRT WAIST MAN AND THE NET WAIST GIRL. The shirt-waist man and the net-waist girl Go hand in hand to day. And the people year after year keep on Throwing their clothes away. The coat and the vest are tossed aside, And where is the fleecy shawl? Our clothes get thinner and fewer—what Will be the end of it all? O what will the shirt-waist man take next From the things that he has to wear, And what will the net-waist girl throw off From the shoulders, now half bare? The shirt-waist man and the net-waist girl Go rolllicking down the way— Have we started a style that is going to end With the old gif leaf some day? —Chicago Times Herald TOPEKA KANS. Mr. E. Hawkins left for Emporia Tuesday last. Mrs. Jane Thompson is here visiting her parents, from Chicago. Miss Hattie Moss has been in Dodge City all summer keeping books for her brother. She has returned to her home where she will attend school. Mr E. Malery lost his little son Willie, who died with heart trouble. Mrs. Hellen Ramson leaves on the 10th of Sept. for Sedalia, Mo., where she will teach school for the season. Miss Lucy Bledsoe will leave this week to attend the Boston Conservatory. to attend the Boston Conservatory. Mr. John Wright was married on the 4th of September to Miss Josie Rivers. The bride and groom leaves for Denver. Col, Wednesday noon. Mrs. Mollie Chiles is very ill at her home in Oakland. Mrs. Thompson is ill at her home, 11 86 Lane street. Mrs. Clara Kirk will leave soon for Ohio. Mr. George Moss has returned from Ohio, also his wife, who has been visiting friends in Kansas City. TUSKEGEE NOIES. In the death of Mr. C. P. Huntington. Tuskegee loses a most valuable friend. During all of the school years he has been interested in it. Only recently he gave $50,000 to the Endowment Fund of the school, besides valuable machinery for the Industrial plant Huntington Hall, the girls' dormitory, is given by Mrs. Huntington. A number of our graduates will return at the opening of the next school session for the purpose of taking postgraduate trade work. Three graduates received certificates from industrial divisions last year for advanced work. The equipment of the industriall plant is now such as to afford the best opportunities for those seeking the best training. Efforts are now being made by one of our teachers to secure the necessary funds for the erection of a new Model Training school. The money is to be collected wholly from the male graduates of the institution. CYBUS CAMPFIELD, Tuskegee, Ala. Sept. 1st. RIGHT YOU ARE The Negro should exercise his rights as a free man, and think for himself and the members of his race the same as the Anglo Saxon race, every nation under the sun, stands together as an adamant wall, but the negro, which should not be, because the negro is persecuted more than any other, and he should bind himself together for the good of his race, and his own self preservation. Until he learns common sense, he will always be considered the under doz. Negroes, exert your rights, stand together and be man or mouse. G. Observer. PR CETWOCENTS the Country HOMES OF OUR READERS T HELP BUT THE STORE Front Now. That's my Goods Cheap. Good Corsets, 25c. Black and Drab Corsets, 35c. Drop Stitch Hose, 5c. Finishing Braid, 5c. Handkerchiefs, 5c. Rod Handkerchiefs, 5c. Men's Seeks, 5c. All Straw Hats, 10c. Bead Beauty Pins, 1c. Gold Wire Beauty Pins, 8 for 1c. & Co., Power Store KANSAS CITY, KAS. PROF. HENRY MEAD, our present Superintendent of Public Instructions, is a candidate on the Republican ticket for re-election, he is a man eminently fit d and capable in every respect. He has demonstrated his complete fitness for the office by the keen conception of what is required of him as an official, filling such a responsible position. He has a record comparable with the best that have preceded him. As a reward for being a painstaking, reliable and worthy official, he should receive the support of every voter in Wyandotte county. The call for colored soldiers at the Sixth street recruiting station, under the charge of Capt. Willis Uline, appears to offer an attractive opportunity to negroes who desire to advance them selves in the scale of civil mishion. Service in the army is always associated with a certain degree of honor, and is rewaed by public gratitude. The black man who fights for the flag establishes a strong claim to the enjoyment of civil rights, which is sometimes questioned through the force of color prejudice. At the Soldiers' Home at Leavenworth, there are a considerable number of negro veterans who might be objects of charity had they no claim on the government. Enlistment in the army and meritorious service affords to the average negro a better chance to advance his standing as a citizen than he can find in any other way.—Star The past week ended the earthly career of two notable characters whose individual places cannot be filled. Ex-Gov. Lewelling, of Kansas, and A. E. Sewall, the Democratic vice presidential running mate of Bryan three years ago. Death is still the unconquered king. PERSONAL WALLER FLOPS Capt. John L. Waller, late of the 23rd. Regiment, and ex-Minister to Madagascar—now a temporary resident in Santiago, De Cuba, in a letter to Col. E. C. Littie, of Abilene, denounces the Republican party and comes out as a strong advocate of Bryanism and Democracy. Miss Bertha Owens, of 919 Euclide avenue, who spent four weeks at Tipton, Mo. has returned home feeling much pleased with her visit. Mrs. Lulu McHenry, of 1020 Penn st. is quite ill. Mr. Albert Robinson, of 330 Garfield avenue, is a young man of whom we are justly proud. He is thoroughly interested in the affairs of the race and is always ready and willing to contribute his mite in the interest of all race enterprises. For fourteen years he has been a faithful employee of Mr. Woodbury, at the above number, and has won the highest praise and commendation from his employees. ALEX. GUNNING, our present clerk of the District Court, is a candidate on the Republican ticket for re-election. He is a popular, efficient and well known young man, and is deserving of a re-election at the hands of the citizens in Wyandette county. He is from the ranks of the working people, having climbed by his own faithful efforts, and in his journey he has ever been the same wide awake, hustling, progressive "Alen" hat we find him to-day. No citizen who has the best interests in view can do else but vote for him. COUNTY Attorney Enright is a candidate for re-election voters bear this in mind tell your friends about him. He is a winner. AMERICAN CITIZEN PUBLISHING AND PRINTING CO. Daily and Weekly 417 Minnesota Ave. KANSAS CITY KANSAS W. C. MARTIN, EDITOR. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Daily delivered by carrierper week. 10c. Weekly one year..... $1 50 Entered at the postoffice at Kansas City Kans., as second class matter. 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 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, CHESTER I. LONG. COUNTY TICKET. Senator, 4th. District. JAMES K. CUBBISON. Representative 9th. District, H. A. BAILEY. 10th. District, G. L. COATES. 11th. District, DAVID D. HOAG, . County Attorney, E. A. ENRIGHT. Clerk District Court, ALEX. GUNNING. County Commissioner, First District-J. S. PERKINS. McKinley, Stanley and Prosperity should be the cry throughout the State Duty on a Mouse Uncle Sam is a stern stickler for form, and the amount of red tape employed in the custom house is really remarkable. It was demonstrated the other day that not even a tiny mouse can creep into our domains from foreign shores without paying duty, says the Philadelphia Record. A gentleman returning from Europe brought with him a pet white mouse, of which he had grown very fond. His "mouselets" was assessed at 20 per cent, which so enraged its owner that he vigorously protested. The case was appealed, and the board of classification of the board of general appraisers, after mature deliberation in solemn conclave, handed down a decision in which the protest was overruled. Obstacles to Art. Asked what she regards as the greatest obstacle to an artist's success, Mme. Suzanne Adams, the youngest of Mr. Grau's prime donac, replies, unhesitatingly, "Friends! who admire and love you and interrupt your studies, tempt you away from them and generally foll all your efforts to work conscientiously; who would not tell you of a fault lest they hurt your feelings, and never tell you of a virtue lest they stimulate your vanity." Constant musical study and care of the physical being, without coddling, are the principles Mme. Adams advocates as those likely to bring an ultimate success to the ambitious singer.-Harper's Bazar, Emperor William and His The Queen and the Empress dorcik have succeeded in bringing but a full reconciliation between emperor William and his sister the Duchess of Sparta, who spent few days at Potsdam with the Emperor and Empress before she left Germany the other day on her return to Greece. The Duchess of Sparta was formerly the Emperor's favorite sister; but her sudden and unexpected "conversion" to the Greek church infinitely ex- perated his majesty and he has since been on the coldest terms. No Use for It. Uncle Zebulon, from one of the back townships, was on a visit to his nephew in the big city, and the two had gone to a restaurant for dinner. They had given their order and were waiting for it to be filled, when the younger man, who had been glancing at a paper that lay on the table, said: "By the way, uncle, did you ever have cerebro-spinal meningitis?" "No," replied Uncle Zebulon, after a few moments' mental struggle with the question, "and I don't want any. I'd ruth have fries liver and bacon any day." BAPTIST CHURCHES. African 3914 East 11th street. Greenwood, 2005 Anderson Avenue. Highland Avenue, 1119 Highland Ave Macedonian } Mission 216 East 21st. street. Missionary, 2005 Madison Avenue. Mt. Calvary, 15 north east cor. Norton Avenue. Mount Gay, 2100 Wyoming Avenue. Mount Noriab, 923 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. Augustine Mission, 1025 Troost ave. METHODIST EPISCOPAL. Asbury Chapel, 1620 Cherry street Burns, 11th S W. Cor, Highland ave Clark's Chapel, 819 S. W. Boulevard Westport W. Prospect Place Cor. 23rd. King Solomon Mission 4th and Locust Colored Schools. Attucks 2108 East 18th street. Bruce 3914 East 15th street. Douglas 27th N. E. Cor. N. Prospect Place. Garrison Forest S. W Cor. 4th street. Lincoln School 11th N W. Cor Campbell street. Lincoln High School 816 East 11th st. Page Rochester N.E. Cor. Prospect Avenue. Penn 4341 Shannon Business Directory. J. A. Wilson Jeweller 1616 W. 9th st. Chandler's Barber shop, Samuel Chandler Prop. S LClemens Mgr. 112 East 6th stre t. Restaurant Mrs Amus Prop. 114 East 6th street. Field's Barber Shop 102 East 6th street Miller's Barber Shop 113 East 6th Midland Barber Shop Harsy Parson Provietor 115 East 6th street. on Proprietor 560 Grand Avenue. Manila Barber Shop Madison Bros Proprietors 769 Independence avenue. McRay's Barber shop Ben McRa- 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 $\textcircled{4}$ E. 18th st Grocer, George Grear, Prop. 1211 E. 18th st. D. M. Mitchell, Barber Shop, 576 Grand ave. Langston's Barber Shop 718 East 8 h s. Walker's Barber Shop 806 East 12 h s. H. J. George, barber shop, 1307 w* 9th st. Cowden's Barber Shop 704 East 12thst Restaurant H Powel Proprietor 572 Grand avenue. Chicago Cafe H Compton Proprieto 706 est 12th strect Physicians and Surgeons Drs. Shannon and Lambright 1215 E. 18th st. Dr. J. N. Birch 1339 E. 18th st. Dr. T. C. Unthank 1233 Independence Ave. Dr. L J. Bolly 1112 Campbell st. Phillips 1917 Cherry street. Round Top 2817 Norton Avenue Women Not Cowardly. When cowardice is described as a leading feminine attribute somebody makes a huge mistake. Women do the most daring things on record—take chances which would appeal a man. They may jump at the sight or mere mention of a harmless mouse, but they court death several times a year. It is one of the traits which makes femiline nature so puzzling. I have known women who were timid to a degree, under ordinary circumstances, come forth as heroes under the pressure of occasion. A woman who shudders at the sight of a small cut from which blood oozes will often exhibit a marvelous courage in a shocking accident. It is beautiful to think that dependence can be placed upon that species of recklessness which leads us into unnecessary trouble. Great Honor For German Crown Prince. It is a great honor which the queen of Spain is paying to the young crown prince of Germany by investing him with the collar of the Order of the Golden Fleece. The order is one of the oldest in Europe. It was founded in 1426 by Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, to commemorate his good fortune in "cleaning up" a large sum of money in a deal in wool. The uniform of the order is a cloak of scarlet, lined with ermine, and open at the throat to display the golden fleece and the motto of the order, which ornaments the collar. The order belongs of right to all the princes of Spain and Austria. A Bad Reputation. In Bloomsbury, London, was formerly a region known as the Field of Forty Footsteps. It was frequented by rough characters, and it is related that a struggle between two brothers took place there. The footprints of the men were indelibly impressed in the sod and no grass would ever grow there. The place was built upon at the beginning of the century. 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 1605 N 1th Clark & Lee, junk store, 1104 ncrth 3rd, st. Kansas City Kansas Soap Works, 4th st., between Oakland and Freeman. J. R. McClain, Grocer, 1700 n 5th, st. J·R. Rucker, Butheer, 1609 n 16th, s Deglass Hospital, 312 Washington ave., Miss L. V. Ashton, Matron. CHURCHES. St. James A. M. E., cor. 7th. and Ann St. James M. E., Freeman ave., be tween 9th and 10th. C. M. E. Oakland ave., bet. 4th. and 5th. CHRISTIAN. 8th St. Christian, cor. Everett and 8th. 9th St. Christian, cor. 9th. and Nebraska. BAPTIST. 1st. Baptist, corner 5th. and Nebraska avenue. Metropolitan Baptist, cor. 9th. and Washington. Mt. Zion Baptist, Virginia ave., between 4th. and 5th. Mt. Pleasant, 3rd. st., between Oakland and Jersey. Rose Hill, Jersey ave. bet 9th. and 10th. Pleasant Green, Wood St. and split-log ave. King Solomon Baptist, 3rd. and State avenue. HOTELS. HOTELS. Dyson House 440 Minnesota Ave. Restaurants. J. W. Johnson's 6th and State. Mrs. Hall 507 Minn. Ave. Mrs. Sarah Thurston 1414 5th st. Mc Gees 448 Minn. Ave. E. Stoakes 1510 N. 3rd st. BARBERS J. T. Roberts & Tucker, 432 Minnesota avenue. J. Gross, 412 Minnesota avenue. G. McClellan, 613 Minnesota avenue. M.T. Comer, 608 Minnesota avenue. Robt. Keith, 315 Minnesota avenue. M. Pattison, 1603 north 3rd st. SHOEMAKER. Lon McAdams, 348 Minnesota avenue, D. W. Wynne, 309 Minnesota avenue. Lewis Blanchard, North 6th., State Line. Wilson, 5th. st. between Nebraska and State. J. W. Resdy, No. 1609½ n 10th. st. HALLS. M & O ,1306 north 8th. street. Sons of Protection, State and 6th. DRUGS. Wyandotte Drug Store, 1512 north 5th. street. DOCTORS. S. H. Thompson, 151- north 5th. st. G. H. Brown, 1010 Freeman ave. Jordan, 610 Minnesota ave. ARTISTS. O. J. Brooks, 70, New York Life Building. TEACHERS OF FRENCH AND ELOCUTION Arthur A. Anderson, 541 State Ave. UNION PACIFIC LAKE OVERLAND ROUTE WORLD'S PICTORIAL LINE SHORTFST LINE ACRUSS 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 Recycling 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 Li, t. Only line running two trains without charge from Kansas City to Denver. Low excursion rates on sale to Colorado-Utah Idaho, Oregon. Washington and California. Don't complete your ars rampages for a trip west until you have learned all about special inducements and attractions offered by the Union Pacific. For full information required to low rates time, etc., click on or address BRANLEY Gen. Agt., Union Pacific, 1000 Main street, Raggs City, Mo PUBLICATION NOTICE. In the District Court of Wyandotte County, Kansas. Ana Brown, Plaintiff, vs William Brown, Defendant. To the above named defendant, you are hereby notified that you have been sued by the above named plaintiff in the above court, and that unless you appear and answer on or before the 12th day of October, 1500, the petition filed in said court against you will be taken as true and a judgment rendered against you, the nature of which will be a decree dissolving the bonds of matrimony now existing between plaintiff and defendant, and forever divorcing plaintiff from said defendant, and awarding to her her maiden name, as prayed for in the petition, and for cost of this suit. I F. BRADLEY. Attorney for Plaintiff PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION. House Joint Resolution No. 4, Relating to Justices of the Supreme Court. B it resolved by the Legislature of the State of Kansas, two-thirds of the members elected to each house concurring therein: Sec. 3. This resolution shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the statute book. Arproved March 4, 1899 I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of the original enrolled resolution now on file in my office, and that the same took effect by publication in the statute book May 15, 1899. GEO. A. CLARK, [SEAL.] Secretary of State. Publication Notice. State of Kansas, 29th Judicial District, County of Wyandotte. (NO. 14049). Jacob Rickett, Plaintiff, vs. Euretta M. Alexander, E. S Grigsby, William J. Fulter and Belle C. Fulter, Defendant. Under and by virtue of an order of sale issued by the Clerk of the District Court, in and for said County of Wyandotte, in a certain cause in said court, numbered 14049, wherein the parties above named were respectively plaintiff and defendants, and to me, the undersigned, Sheriff of said county, directed, I will offer for sale a public auction, and sell to the highest binder, for cash in hand, at the front door of the Court house, in the city of Kansas City, in said county, on Monday, the 10th day of Pep ember, A. D., 1360, at 10 o'clock a m, of said day, the following described real estate situated in the County of Wyandotte, in Kansas, to-wit: All the right, title in the county of the said Belle C. John and William J. Fuller, and to lot forty-six (46) in block one hundred and nineteen (199) in the former City of Wyandotte, according to the plan of Wyandotte City, made by John H. Miller and published by the Wyandotte City Co., and now o file in Register of Deeds office of Wyandotte County, Kansas H A. MENDENHALL Sheriff of Wyandotte County. Publication Notice. State of Kansas. **ks** Wyndotte County. **ks** In the Distric Court of said County, Joseph Law, Plaintiff, v. Maria Law, Defendant. The above named defendant, Maria Law, will take notice that she has been sued by the above named plaintiff, Jos. Law, in the above named court, where the petition of the said plaintiff is now being filed for a divorce. You, the above named defendant, for causes set out in said petition, and that unless you answer said 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 you from said plaintiff, and dissolving the bonds of matrimony now existing between you B. S. SMITH Attorney for Plaintiff Publication Notice To the above defend-ut you are here by notified that you have been sued in the above named court by the above named plaintiff, and that unless you appear and answer on or before the 14th day of September, 1900, the pition will be taken as true and a judgment rendered against you, the nature of which will invocing this plaintiff from said defendant, invoking this meisden name, Florence Roran, and the costs of this suit. I. F. BRADLEY. Attorney for Plaintiff A crying need—a handkerchief Try attending to your own business letting other folks business a one, see how easy life will be. RAILROAD NOTICES. 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, in close, 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 e or face plus $2, for the round trip. Tickets to St. Paul and Minneapolis at $21 for the round trip, good g. ging any day, returning any time up to October 1, low rates to other northern points. Special excursions June 21, July 7, 8, 9, 10 and 18, and August 2 to St. Paul, Minneapolis. Round trip at $15.55. Duluth and the Superiors at $9.85. Waterville, Minn. $14.40. Go to return October 31, 1900. From July 1 special round trip excursions to Ogden and Salt Lake City at $0.00. Liberal stop orders. Good to return until October 31. June 20 to 25 Winfield and return $6.60 July 7 to 20, Ottawa and return $1 65. For particulars call or address. E. S. JEWETT, Passenger and Ticket Agent. City ticket office No. 901 Main street, Kansas City, Mo. Secure Tickets ...VIA THE... Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Ry ...AND YOU GET... Sleepers: & Chair Cars ...10... Cars CH1CAGO and all intermediate points the shortest, quickest and besiline to Chilocothe, Otumwa, Cedar Rapids, Bubuque, and La Cedar Rapids, Rockerd and Freeport; A. B. BRID GFS Gun'. Southweste Agent F. L. JERCHPassenger Agent. Office 191Main St., Kansas Cit. MONEY FOR OLD SOLDIERS I WILL BUY The additional Eonestead Claims of all Soldiers or Sailors who served in the Union army or navy, their widows or minor heirs. Who filed a Homestead claim of less than 160 acres of land prior to June 22nd, 1874? Such persons are entitled to enough more land, including the number of acres embraced in their original entry, without living upon it, to make 160 acres. If they homesteaded 80 acres, they are entitled to 80 more, if 40 acres 120 more, if 159 acres, one acre more, or any other number as it may a pear. By late rulings and decisions is not necessary that final proof should have been made on their original entry, that is, they are now entitled to such additional rights if their homestead was abandoned, canceled or relinquished, and all transfers can be made to 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 steadily filing you have no claim to sell. This land is yours and don't wait out come to this office at once and get full payment. It is to your own interest to do so. AMERICAN CITIZEN OFFICE. 41 MINTSLEY AVE. THE AMERICAN Citizen, The oldest, one of the best and most reliable Weekly papers for the ace in the State An unexcelled Advertising Medium, office at 417 Minnesota avenue, Kansas City, Kansas. Job Work, Bills, Programms, and all kinds of printed done. Satiss faction guaranteed or no go. Correspondence solicited from all parts of the country, AMERICAN CITIZEN PUB CO. 417 Minnesota Avenue, KANSAS CITY, KANSAS PUBLICATION NOTICE. In the District Court of Wyandotte County, Kansas. William March, Plaintiff, vs. Julia March, Defendant. To the above named defendant, you are hereby notified that you have been sued by the above named plaintiff in the above named court, and that unless you appear and answer on or before the 12th day of October, 1900, the petition filed in said court against you will be taken as true and a judgment rendered against you, the nature of which will be a decree dissolving the bonds of matrimony now existing between plaintiff and defendant, and forever divoing plaintiff from said defendant, and for cost of this suit. I. F. BRADLEY, Attorney for Plaintiff. You Are Earnestly Requested to Call at The C. F. WILLNER, Furniture AND Carpet Co. Looated at 618 and 620 Minnesota Avenue, To inspect the largest and most complete line of House Furnishings 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 ther by 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 STOVES. 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 sweliest 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 North 3rd. St. E F. HENDERSON Manager. N. B. MARSHALL, Agen', Headquarters, 192 Central Avenue 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 90 cts. per gallon. Don't fail to give us a call. Corner 6th. and State streets, KANSAS CITY — — KANS W. B. RAYMOND Manufacturer of and Wholesale dealer in UNDERTAKERS * SUPP FIRST-CLASS CARRIAGES FOR ALL PURPOSES AT ALL AMBULANCE FOR THE CONVEYANCE OF THE SICK A Undertaking Rooms, 431 Minnesota ave. Telephone W Factory 401 st St., and Riverview Ave. UNDERTAKERS * SUPPLIES FIRST-CLASS CARRIAGES FOR ALL PURPOSES AT ALL HOURS AMBULANCE FOR THE CONVEYANCE OF THE SICK AND WOUNDER Undertaking Rooms, 431 Minnesota ave. Telephone West 32. EAGH Gem Drugs MINNESOTA DEAL DRUGS, MEDICINE Fine Toilet Soaps, Brushes PERFUMERY AND FANCY EAGERS Gem Drug Store 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. Half Rate Excursion. Plus two dollars) twice a month vii Union Pacific to points in Colorado, Wy- oming, Utah, Idaho, Montana and Wash- ington. Call us up 'Phone 1109, or call at office 1,000 Main street, and let us te you all about these excursions. Short line to Salt Lake. The Union Pacific of course; hours quicker time All the comforts of home Ticket of face 1,000 Main street. Telephone 1109 Remember Dining Cars on the Unio Pacific that now starts from Kansas City daily. Unexcelled service, restaurant plan Ticket office 1,000 Main street Kansas City Mo. Eating twelve mince pies between Christmas day and Twelfth day is said to insure the eater twelve lucky or happy months during the following year. KANSAS CITY SUPPLIES ALL PURPOSES AT ALL HOURS NCE OF THE SICK AND WOUNDED. ave. Telephone West 32. and Riverview Ave. Telephone 28 ERS Bug Store AVENUE TOLER IN, NES, CHEMICALS, Nes, Combs, Etc., BY TOILET ARTICLES. Half Rate Excursion. Plus two dollars) twice a month visit Union Pacific to points in Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Idaho, Montana and Washington. Call us up 'Phone 1099, or call at office 1,000 Main street, and let us te you all about these excursions. Short line to Salt Lake. The Union Pacific of course; hours quicker time. 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 soak and give it a trial and you will use no other. No housekeeper should be without it. KANSAS LATE SUMMER VACATIONS. The Public Escape from Heat Into the Cool Resorts of the Mountains of Colorado. The hot spell has come late this summer, but it has arrived, and thousands of persons have taken advantage of the proximity of the Colorado mountains to escape from the enervating and prostrating surfeit of high temperature. The mountain resorts are more popular than ever and the railroads are doing a heavy passenger traffic, largely of tourists. The Missouri Pacific System, with its Short Line from Kansas City to Pueblo, has been one of the most favored routes, because of its luxurious car service and its rapid time and the desirable route. As the late summer and early fall days are among the most delightful in the mountains, the public still has its face to the West, enjoying release from business and home duties and reveling in the beauties with which nature has so bountifully endowed the popular Rocky Mountain resorts. Pure air and cool breezes work wonders in the way of restoring health, and change of air and diet, with rest, always repay the investment by storing new energy and revivifying force in weared brain and body. The expense is comparatively small, as special tourist rates are made low at this season. Twenty-four hours places the most eastern dweller of the state right in the heart of the great divide, and he has enjoyed such scenery as wealthy tourists cross the ocean to find. The Denver & Rio Grande road, the Great Scenic Route of the world, takes you at Paeblo or Denver and whirls you into canvons where there must have been enchantment, and where giant arms have dashed the boulders into their present resting places. The ride through the Royal Gorge displays the great ingenuity of its engineers and the obstinate determination of its builders. The rails are laid in almost inaccessible places, along the edge of the stream or torrent, which with wonderful skill has been forced out of the way to make room for the rock roadbed and the iron rails. At certain points the torrent maintains its supremacy, but the difficulty is met and surmounted, a set of hangers being made into the cliffs overhead to support the bridge work and track. The stream is still jubilant of its power over man, and laughs, booms and dashes by as the train passes, not caring for the queer shadows that fall into it, if it can only be supreme at this critical point. The canon is one of the grandest in the world, barely wide enough, in certain places, to admit of the stream and the tracks, the granite walls of giant mountains towering above and over all, and giving a still more impressive object lesson of the great force of nature. Especial attention is given to the tourist business at this season, and one may travel with the utmost comforts and conveniences, and at minimum cost. The combination of the Missouri Pacific System with the Denver & Rio Grande Route affords the greatest variety of scenery and the most comforts and conveniences, all of which are desirable adjuncts of a summer outing. If you haven't had your vacation yet this summer, now is the time to secure it, and every man and every woman should take as many days of recreation as can be obtained, especially during this heated term. Queen Margherita's Bicycle. Queen Margherita of Italy has the most beautiful bicycle in the world. The wheels are of gold, and the frame is richly inlaid with jewels and mother of pearl. KIDNEY TROUBLES OF WOMEN Miss Frederick's Letters Show How She Rellied on Mrs. Pinkham and Was Cured. "DEAR Mrs. PINKHAM:—I have a yellow, muddy complexion, feel tired and have bearing down pains. Menses have not appeared for three months; sometimes an trampled with a white discharge. Also have kidney and bladder trouble. I have been this way for a long time, and feel so miserable I thought I would write to you and see if you could do me any good."—Miss EDNA FREDERICK, Troy, Ohio, Aug. 6, 1899. "DEAR Mrs. PINKHAM:—I have used Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound according to directions, and can say I have not felt so well for years as I do at present. Before taking your medicine a more miserable person you never saw. I could not eat or sleep, and did not care to talk with any one. Now I feel so well I cannot be grateful enough to you for what you have done for me."—Miss EDNA FREDERICK, Troy, Ohio, Sept. 10, 1899. Backache Cured "Dear Mrs. PINKHAM:—I write to thank you for the good Lydia E. Pinkham. Vegetable Compound has done me. It is the only medicine I have found that helped me. I doctored with one of the best physicians in the city of New York, but received no benefit. I had been ailing for about sixteen years, was so weak and nervous that I could hardly walk; had continued pain in my back and was troubled with leucorrhoea. Menses were irregular and painful. Words cannot express the benefit I have derived from the use of your medicine. I heartily recommend it to all suffering women."—Mrs. MARY BARSHINGER, Windsor, Pa. TOWER'S FISH BRAND SLICKER WILL KEEP YOU DRY. Don't be fooled with a mackintosh or rubber coat. If you want a coat that will keep you dry in the hard- salt water, go with a Felt Brand Slicker. If not for sale in your town, write for catalogue to A.J. TOWER, Boston, Mass. For the Ladies. PRIESMEYER SHOE CO. SHOES THAT WEAR. Ask Your Dealer For Them. Had Gone to Geuda Springs for Resi and Recuperation—Grew Worse and Started for His Home in Wichita, but Got No Further Than Arkansas City—Sketch of His Career. Ex-Governor L. D. Lewelling died very suddenly and unexpectedly of heart failure at Arkansas City, Kan., at 11 o'clock Monday night. His physician ordered him to Geuda Springs, a local watering place near Arkansas City, for rest and recreation. The governor reached Geuda Springs Saturday but grew so much worse that he started Sunday to return to his home at Wichita. He did not proceed further than Arkansas City, but on reaching that place went to the home of his brother-in-law, G. A. Miller, where the end came. Although the governor had been suffering at times acutely, the heart complication was unexpected and his death came as a surprise. The governor's wife and little daughter were with him at the time of his death. Since the expiration of his term of office the governor had been engaged in the real estate business and was also largely interested in dairying enterprises. He had kept up an active interest in politics, both local and state, and continued to exert a very considerable influence in Populist councils. His ideas had been of late years verging upon socialism. Lorenzo D. Lewelling, ex-governor of Kansas, was born in Salem, Henry county, Iowa, in which state he filled the position of super-tenant of the Industrial School for Girls previous to coming to Kansas. He moved to Kansas April 1, 1886. At the time of his death he was 52 years old, and leaves a widow and four daughters. Before coming to Kansas he was a Republican. He was several times delegate to the National Congress of Charities, appointed by the governor; was a member of the board of regents of the state normal school, and was president of the board when he removed to Kansas. He was elected governor by the People's party in 1892 and served two years. He was delegate-at-large to the people's party convention at St. Louis that nominated Bryan for president. He was prominent in Masonic circles, and has held the position of worshipful master in two different lodges. He was at one time deputy grand marshal of the state of Iowa; was grand orator both for the grand lodge and grand commandery. He was also a member of the Mystic Shrine. After coming to Kansas he was a member of several benevolent societies. TWO POLICEMEN KILLED. Shocked to Death While Attempting to Telephone—Thirteen Others Shocked. Two St. Louis policemen were killed and thirteen other officers badly shocked or burned by electricity while attempting to telephone their central station. It is the duty of the patrolmen to call up their central stations at certain hours for orders, from the patrol boxes stationed along the streets. These boxes are connected by private wires with the headquarters of the various police districts by private city wires. Recently wires were strung by a new electric lighting company and 8,000 volts were loaded on them. One of these wires came in contact with the telephone service at some point, and when the patrolmen placed their hands on the transmitter to lift it from the hook, the terrific force either passed through their bodies or gave them a violent wrench before they could loosen their hold. Toneka Liquor Agitation Chief of Police James Ramsey, of Topeka has become tired of the criticism that is heaped upon him by the temperance people and resigned the place. This action is the result of a temperance agitation which has been going on for several weeks. Ramsey was accused of standing in with the jointists. Mayor Drew announces that he will likely appoint H. R. Hilton to succeed Ramsey. Hilton is a radical prohibitionist and is editor of the Good Citizen, a temperance organ. Aged Kansan Kllled by a Boll. Dr. J. C. Pitts, living five miles southwest of Osborne, Kan., was killed by a bull in his pasture. He was knocked down and trampled to death. When discovered the infuriated animal was standing over his dead body and was only driven off by two shots from a shotgun. Mr. Pitts practiced medicine and later practiced law. He was 77 years old. For Winter Quarters. Orders received from Washington direct that the 5,000 American troops be divided between Pekin, Tien Tsin and Taku for winter. Abundant supplies are now arriving and all that is necessary is being rapidly fowarded to Pekin. Gates Fleeced at Cards. John W. Gates former president of the American Steel and Wire Company, was fleeced out of $2,500 with marked cards on the Kaiser Friedrich on his recent trip to Europe. A Chairman in a Shirt Waist: "Millions for comfort, but not one cent for style," said President Woodworth as he called to order the convention of the National Association of Local Fire Insurance Agents at Milwaukee. He took off his coat and conducted the meeting attired in a shirt waist. Logan Sells For Manila The transport Logan has sailed from San Francisco for Manila with 1,638 enlisted men and eighty-four cabin passengers, including officers. MUST BE HARMONY. American Commissioner Rockhill Talks on the Chinese Strategy Mr. William Woodville Rockhill, special commissioner of the United States government to investigate and report conditions in China, in an interview at Shanghai, emphasizing the importance of the harmonious action of the powers as a measure of self-defense, said: "If the Chinese government is able to break the concert of nations and to bring about a disagreement on the part of any government, in such a way as to secure any relaxation of the joint demands, all the foreigners in China may as well pack up and leave. "This is the best opportunity to settle for all times the status of foreigners in China. If that matter is not settled now the Chinese will be encouraged to persist in their present policy and the powers will have the whole trouble to thrash over again every two or three years." ARKANSAS ELECTION. Democrats Elect Entire State Ticket— The entire Democratic ticket, headed by Hon. Jefferson Davis of Pope county, for governor, was elected in Arkansas. H. L. Remmel, the Republican candidate for governor, made a good showing and his increased vote over two years ago reduced the usually large democratic majority. There was no opposition to the Democratic ticket for any office except the governorship. A fair estimate places the total vote as follows: Davis, Democratic, 100,000; Remmel, Republican, 40,000; Files, Populist, 3,000; Davis' majority, 57,000. BRYAN AND ROOSEVELT. Both Candidates Make Labor Day Speeches in Chicago. In Chicago on Labor day Bryan and Roosevelt reviewed the labor parade from the same platform and afterward addressed the labor unions on the labor issues of the day from the same stand. The two distinguished gentlemen also sat down to a luncheon given by the labor people. It was a "flag of truce" luncheon, for the trades union men had declared that in the celebration of Labor day there was to be no politics. Will Fight It Out. The Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance company has filed application for a stay of execution in the federal court at Leavenworth, Kan., but, at the suggestion of Judge Hook, the application will be made to Federal Judge Thayer at St. Louis, Mo., the time for hearing to be fixed later. The application was made by Attorneys Barker and Green, representing the insurance company, and is to stay the sale of the lands in Leavenworth county attached to satisfy the judgment in the Hillmon case. The attorneys intimated that the life insurance company intends to fight the case all the harder since judgment was rendered against it and the execution levied. Sends Body by Freight. The body of a woman shipped by freight in a car load of furniture arrived in Chicago over the Chicago & Northwestern from Randall, Iowa. The health authorities took charge of the car. The body was that of the wife of J. R. Johnson of Randall, Iowa. Wishing to remove to Chicago at the smallest cost, and bring his wife's body with him, Mr. Johnson had the body disinterred and boxed and then shipped it under the head of "household goods." Six days were occupied in transit. Robbed by His Managers. There will be some pretty sore managers in different parts of the country when Fitzsimmons' latest talk reaches them. He makes the bold statement that he has been worsted for no less than $15,000 in different ways in this country. He claims that $80,000 of this amount came from purses he fought for and never got, while the other $45,000 he claims was taken from him by his various managers, who were supposed to look after his interests. Germans Request Americans to Vacate. The Germans have formally demanded for themselves all the buildings and grounds of the camp of the United States troops at Tien Tsin, explaining that these will be needed by the large German forces soon to arrive. As the American camp lies in the German concession, the demand will probably be complied with, and a new camp for the United States troops will be established outside the city. Chinese Hanging Themselves According to a dispatch from Tien Tsin, dated August 25, to the Standard, an epidemic of suicides has broken out among the Chinese in Pekin, where entire families are hanging themselves. The Boers on St. Helena. On the island of St. Helena 20,000 Boer prisoners of war are confined in a barbed wire stockade one-fourth of a mile square. Plan Thirty Story Building. The office building which the Aetna Real Estate company propose to erect in New York city, will be the tallest structure of its kind in the world, and will cost, with the land, about $2,500,.000. It will have an elevation of 100x100 feet, and will cover a site 100x100 feet. Ll Hung Chang Intriguing. Li Hung Chang still remains at Shanghai. He is thoroughly discredited, but is intriguing to get the foreigners to quarrel among themselves. Pretty Fair Missouri Oats. W. H. Lazenby, of Union township, Nodaway county, Mo., has just finished threshing out an eight and a half acre crop of oats, the total yield of which was 623 bushels, or more than seventy-three bushels to the acre. He thinks this is a record breaker. Fire Wines Ont Alaska City The business section of Atlin City, Alaska, was nearly wiped out by fire. Ten of the largest business buildings were destroyed. The loss is over $40,000, with little, if any, insurance. We ask no money until you have examined the machine and convinced yourself it is much a machine as was never before offered at anything like the price. OUR OFFER, Kention No. 91 if you have any use for a serving machine. 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ROBERT'S SUPPLY HOUSE, Minneapolis, Minnesota Takes Interest in Born Evert Jansen Wendell is a blue-blooded Knickerbocker, a member of one of the oldest New York families, and rich. He is known all over New York as the "best friend of bad boys." He carries on a correspondence with no less than 2,000 boys who at one time most people would have put under the category of "bad." Mr. Wendell has been instrumental in placing almost all the boys with whom he corresponds in good homes on western farms or in western villages. Highest Town in Country Altman, Col., is said to be the highest incorporated town in the country, being 12,000 feet above the sea level. A justice of the peace who had fired a disorderly character $10 and costs said in reply to this prisoner's announcement of appeal: "What? Appeal, would you?" asked the astonished court. "You don't come any o' that, now. This is the highest court in the United States, and you can't appeal." WONDERFUL DISCOVERY WONDERFUL DISCOVERY! 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Must Capture Bear The Smithsonian Institution in Washington has commissioned Ed Hofer, long known as a hunter and guide in Yellowstone park, to go to Kadikai island in the Gulf of Alaska and capture one of the monster bears which live there. The bears are of the Polar variety, weighing from 2,500 to 8,000 pounds, and none of them has ever been caught alive. M. M. Moore, Clerk City Council, Columbus, 5a. write; I have known TRETHINA (Teething Powders) to remove worms when all other remedies had failed. Larger Ports Holes Referring to the recent disaster in New York harbor, Lord Archibald Campbell writes to the editor of a Glasgow paper, asking why the law does not compel ship-owners to have the port-holes of their ships made large enough to allow a person to escape in cases of fire as when the doors are blocked up. A dyspeptic is never on good terms with himself. Something is always wrong. Get it right by chewing Beeman's Peepin Gum. Revenue of Tasmania. Official returns recently issued show that the revenue of Tasmania for the past six months amounted to £95,700, being an increase of £44,600 as compared with the corresponding period of 1899. The value of the mineral exports for the past six months amounts to £736,600, being an increase of £139,000. This year's revenue will probably exceed £1,000,000, which would be the highest on record. Red Cross Ball Blue is the best in the world. Large 2-oz. package 5c. Strange Uses of the Flag. A notable feature of the American celebrations, and of the United States at the exposition itself, and in general of the American tourist in Europe during these recent years, is the inordinate use of our flag. Young women are dressed in it, young men wear it around their necks for a cravat, it is twined round the head of the colored cook at the corn kitchen. PUTNAM FADELESS DYES are fast to sunlight, washing and rubbing. Geography Sea Superlatives. Asia still claims the highest mountain and the deepest valley, the basin of the Dead Sea being several hundred feet below the level of the Mediterranean, and Africa maintains her unavailable prestige in the matter of deserts, but America can boast the longest mountain range, the grandest caverns and the greatest waterfall, the longest river, three broadest rivers and the largest sweetwater lakes. HO! FOR OKLAHOMA! Congress has authorized the famous Kluwer-Commander the reservation (8,000 acres) opened, under the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, in the Manual, (Standard Authority), (210 pages), describes these lands, tells how to initiate and perfect claim to them, and prices with a fine Sectional Map, $1.00. THE KLIWA CHEIF (devoted to news and information) provides a detailed planation. Sizing date of opening, Paper (one rn). Manual, and Map—all for $1.75. With the above information, you can obtain Oklahoma. Agents wanted. Address Dick T. Morgan, Land Attorney, Perry, OK. Boer Prisoners Get Bibles The British and Foreign Bible society is providing all Boer prisoners with Bibles printed in Dutch, and the plan will be carried out within a few weeks. The society might save its money. It's a queer sort of Boer who doesn't carry a Dutch Bible, and most of them, like Oom Paul, know much of it by heart—Exchange. SEND NO MONEY. To ask no money stuff but a machine as was never known No. If you have an assistant you will send this drop in any expert to examine it, if every one pronounces it is in your mouth you will send it not perfectly satisfactory it is our best excuse all previous attempts a T. M. ROB USE FAULTLESS THE BEST STARCH FOR LAUNDRY WORK FOR SHIRTS, COLLARS, CUFFS, AND FINE FINE LOW RATE EXCURSIONS. Via Missouri Pacific RY., and Iron Mountain Route. To points in the West, Southwest, and Southeast at half-rates (plus $2) for the round trip. 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New Germany Chelle The laying of the German cable via the Azores to Coney Island will begin soon, the cable boat Anglia being now on the way to Cone Island with the cable. The length of the cable will be 2,350 miles. It will be owned by a German company, but operated in New York, by the Commercial Cable company, and in the Azores will be connected with the telegraph system of the German government. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is taken internally. Price, 75c. Horner in England's Army Every horse in the English army is numbered and has a little history kept for it all to himself. The number is branded upon the animal's hind feet—the thousands on the near hind foot and the units, tens and hundreds on the off hind foot. Thus the horse whose number is, say, 8,354, will have an 8 on his left hind foot and 354 on the other one. FITS Permanently Cured. — of its or nervousness after first day's use of Dr. Kilne's Great Nerve Restorer. Send for FREE $2,000 trial bottle and treatise. Dr. R. H. Kilne, Ltd., 931 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa. Foreign Schools at Athens Four foreign countries—Germany, France, England and the United States—now have schools at Athens. The United States school has thirteen students and twenty-three colleges contribute to its support. The school has distinguished itself by its explorations at Corinth, according to the Scientific American. The students go to Corinth vacations, rent a house and pursue their investigations. The Best Prescription for Chills and Fever is a bottle of Grove's TASTEEL CHILL TONIC. It is simple iron and quinine in a syrup. Mexican Women Tourists. An American woman, Miss Harriet C. Fay, is chaperoning a party of eight young Mexican women, lately graduated, who are making a tour of the United States for the purpose of examining the schools. The state of Vera Cruz pays all the expenses. They have visited St. Louis, Chicago, Buffalo, New York and Boston. I am sure Piso's Cure for Consumption saved my life three years ago—Mrs. Thos. Robbins, Maple Street, Norwich, N.Y., Feb. 17, 1900. McMonnies' New Honors Frederick McMonnies, the Brooklyn sculptor, will be awarded the gold medal of honor for his exhibit at the Paris exposition, which consists of seven pieces—the historic "Bacchante," "Sir Henry Vane," "Shakespeare," "Venus and Adonis," two groups of horses and a marine and an army group. Carter's Ink Is Scientifically compounded of the best materials. If your dealer does not keep it he can get it for you. Good Oralities of Sugar. 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. Beautiful, Fine Linen is best preserved by the use of "Faultless Starch." All grocers—100 a package Uncle Sam's Youngest Employer Uncle Sam's Youngest Employee Miss Jane Ward, a young Denver girl of 16, is probably the youngest person in the employ of the United States at the Paris exposition, where she is official interpreter to her father, William S. Ward, assistant director of mining and metallurgy to the United States commission at the exposition. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children, softens, soothes the stress in children, alleviates anxiety. See a bottle. England's Administrations. The present conservative government of Great Britain celebrated its fifth birthday on July 2. England has had a total of twenty-eight administrations in this century, eight of which were longer than the present one. The longest was that of Lord Liverpool, which lasted from 1812 to 1827, a period of fourteen years and 319 days. If you wish to have beautiful white clothes ask for Red Cross Ball Blue. Brasília and Japan's Navies. The navy of Russia has 459 fighting vessels, 658 heavy guns and 4,308 secondary and machine guns. Japan has 146 fighting vessels, 178 heavy guns and 1,312 secondary and machine guns. Loss of hair, which often mars the prettiest face, is one of the most common injuries. Hindebrouca, the best cure for burns. 16cts. M. W. H. The above picture shows the house where George Dewey was born December 26th, 1837. It was occupied by the Dewey family until after the death of the Admiral's father. It then came into the possession of Captain Edward Dewey, who sold it to its present owner and occupant, T. R. Gordon, Esq., in the summer of 1889. Mr. Gordon moved it to its present site in the following February, 1890, and has occupied it until the present time. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon are unfailing in their courtesy to the thousands who visit this shrine, the birthplace of Admiral Dewey. A recent letter from T. R. Gordon to the Peruna Drug M'f'g Co., Columbus, Ohio, reads as follows: "It is with great satisfaction that I find myself able, after an extended trial, to write you in this am现ation of the good your Peruna has done my wife write out in this emphatic manner of the good your Peruna has done my wife. The good, the good, and whenever she has a cold, or any unusual condition of the weather, life is often unusual, and seemed more than she could bear. The dropping in her throat at night prevented refreshing sleep; in fact, we had come to look upon it as incurable, and from the many remedies used in vain we had reason to. "We are thankful and happy to say that your 'Peruna' has been of great benefit to her, and I confidently look for a complete and entire cure. High praise is due to you, and I would like to thank you, London. Address The Peruna Medicine Co. Columbus, Ohio, for free book on cataracts. BOOKLETS FREE SAMPLE DAILY WEEKLY POP J. & G. MADUQUIRE'S EXTRACT CURES Colic, Choleera Morbus, Diarrhea, Dysentery and Bowel Complaints. NEVER FAILS! In the market since 1841. Recom- mended by leading Physicians. Used by our Army and Navy. J. & C. MADUQUIRE MEDICINE CO., St. Louis, Mo. ROLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS FREE Our 160 page illustrated catalogue. FREE WINCHESTER SHOTGUNS and FACTCRY LOADED SHOTGUN SHELLS the winning combination in the field or at the trap. All dealers sell them. WINCHESTER REPEATING ARMS CO. 180 Winchester Ave., New Haven, Conn. Winchester Factory loaded shotgun shells, "NEW RIVAL", "LEADER," and "REPEATER." A trial will prove their superiority. TEETHINA was first used by Dr. Charles J. Moffett, a graduate of Jefferson medical college, Philadelphia, Pa., in his nursing school. He was the first to teach children in Georgia, in overcoming the troubles incident to teething and the hot summers. TEETHINA (Teething Powder) counteracts the effect of hot weather and keeps the digestive organs in a healthy condition, and has saved the lives of thousands of children in the doctor's office. It is safe for children of all ages, and it is criminal in mothers of our section to allow their babies and little children to suffer TEETHINA and perhaps when relief can be so easily obtained by giving Costs 25 cents at Druggists, or mail 25c to C. J. MOFFETT. M. D.. St. Louis, Mo. New York Hebrew Charities In New York the United Hebrew charities report that of those who sought aid in 1894, 60 per cent did not return later, 73 per cent were absent after 1896, 80 per cent after 1896, 85 per cent after 1897, 93 per cent after 1899, leaving now only 7 per cent of the applicants of 1894. THE DEWEY The above picture shows the house when 1837. It was occupied by the Dewey family father. It then came into the possession of its present owner and occupant, T. R. Gord, moved it to its present site in the following present time. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon aunds who visited this shrine, the birthplace of a recent letter from T. R. Gordon to the reads as follows: "It is with great satisfaction that I fill write you in this emphatic manner of the gosh she has been troubled with cata has a cold, or any unusual condition of and scared more than the could bear vented refreshing sleep; in fact, we had co the many remedies used in vain we had real "We are thankful and happy to sa benefit to her, and I confidently look praise is not too much to bestow upon your Address The Peruna Medicine Co., Colu ABSOLUTE SECURITY. Genuino Carter's Little Liver Pills. Must Bear Signature of Newt Good See Pac-Slimile Wrapper Below. Very small and as easy to take as sugar. CARTERS LITTLE LIVER PILLS. FOR HEADACHE. FOR DIZZINESS. FOR DILLOUSNESS. FOR TORPID LIVER. FOR CONSTIPATION. FOR SALLOW SKIN. FOR THE COMPLEXION GRUPLES MUST MARK SIGNATURE. Purely Vegetable CURE SICK HEADACHE. W. N. U. Kansas City. No. 36, 1900 PISO'S CURE FOR WHERE WHEN LATE USES Best Cough Brug. Tastes Good. Use in time. Sold by druggists. CONSUMPTION Long Aqueduct Proposed. There is a plan now before the Italian parliament for providing the three southern provinces of Foggia, Bari and Lecce with water from Caposele, in the Appennines, by building an aqueduct 162 miles long, with branches that will bring up the total length to 80 miles. HOMESTEAD. The George Dewey was born December 26th, July until after the death of the Admiral's of Captain Edward Dewey, who sold it to n. Esq., in the summer of 1889. Mr. Gordon February, 1890, and has occupied it until unfailing in their courtesy to the thous-Admiral Dewey. The Peruna Drug M'T'g Co., Columbus, Ohio, and myself able, after an extended trial, to hod your Peruna has done my wife. The birth from childhood, and whenever she the weather, it was worse than usual. The dropping in her throat at night preme to look upon it as incurable, and from on to, that your 'Peruna' has been of great for a complete and entire cure. High remedy." T. R. GORDON, abus, Ohio, for free book on catarrh. PORT ARTHUR ROUTE "Straight as the Crow Flies" TO Kansas City and the Gulf. Improved Train Service. Two Trains Daily. Shortest Line and Quickest Time to Kansas City, Pittsburg, Joplin, Ft. Smith, Texarkana, Shreveport. Through Sleeper to Houston and Galveston. Home Seekers' Excursions South First and Third Tuesdays of Each Month. SUMMER RESORTS 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. Kansas City 10 San Antonio Without Change Via the Santa Fe Route. Through Pulman Palace Sleepers and free Regalhal cans to Cars to Ft. Worth. In and San Antonio, daily at 10 p.m. from Kansas City. Absolutely no change of cars. Round trip taken on airplane automatically reduced rates. The A. T. & S. F. RY. G.W. HAGENBUCH, G.A. P.D. Kansas City, Mo. Or W.J. BLACK, G.P.A. Topeka, Kan. FOR SALE - Second Hand Job and Body Type, Racks, And Stands, and everything needed to equip a first class newspaper. Cheap it taken at once. Address: MARK, 300 W. 10th Street, Kansas City, Mo. MONEY FOR SOLDIERS' HEIRS Heirs of Union Soldiers who made homesteads of less than 160 acres before June 22, 1874 (no matter homesteaded), if the additional homestead right was not included, will be paid to all particuliers. HENRY N. OOPP, Waltham, MA. ANSWER TO "PROPERTY OWNER." from the Standpoint of An Insurance Agent. Mr. Editor: As an insurance man, it is a duty I owe myself and the public to answer "Property Owner" in his inquiry as to why companies object to the "Valued Policy Law." "The annual destruction of property in this country by fire is appalling. In the last eight years it has exceeded in amount what the national debt was the beginning of this year, to wilt over one billion dollars. It is attributable in part to improper construction; to inadequate fire extinguishing facilities and to incendiarism, which latter generally goes unpunished by reason of the public not realizing they themselves are the parties who are taxed to pay such losses, it being apparent that the destruction of property by fire is a direct loss to the community and the state. It wipes out of existence so much taxable, property; so much accumulated wealth and, if insured, the public pay for it in the end in the shape of an insurance tax of which the companies are simply the collectors. This is so clearly set forth by Gov. Shaw of Iowa vetting this year an Iowa Valued Policy Bill that I quote from it as follows: Laws of this kind are not novel. They are found on the statute books of several states, and fortunately, therefore, we are not confined to theory, but the practical and actual effect of these laws is obtainable. I have availed myself of the statutory period allowed me to make such investigation. Representatives have been sent to several states where similar laws are in force, and a large amount of evidence has been gathered. I have in my possession the sworn record of over 800 policies, collected in the southern tier of counties of Iowa and the northern tier of Missouri, giving the company, the number of the policy, the amount and rate, and the name of the assured. These reports cover insurance written both prior and subsequent to the enactment of the valued policy law in Missouri, and in many instances the property is identical. It is impracticable to set out this evidence in detail, but I submit a synopsis of the same as an appendix hereto, and the affidavits will be subject to examination if one desiring to investigate the question further. To my mind they are as conclusive as such evidence can be that the rate of insurance has been very materially increased by reason of the valued policy law—in many instances it has been doubled, and in some cases considerably more than doubled. For instance, I have the affidavit of eleven business men of Kahoka, stating under oath that farm rates in Clark County, Missouri, have been doubled since the passage of the valued policy law; and an equal number of business men in Lancaster swear to the same state of facts in Schuyler county of the same state. Similar results are shown to exist in each of the counties comprising the northern tier of the state. I am further credibly informed that there are whole counties, if not blocks of counties, in that state, where farmers are unable to obtain insurance at any rate, or on any terms. The same effect, though not in so marked a degree, is shown by letters and correspondence in my possession, and personal interviews in such portions of Nebraska, Minnesota and Wisconsin, as I have been able to investigate. I would promptly sign the bill if I were not convinced of its evil effect, and if I were not quite sure if once placed upon our statute books it would remain forever. If rates were to gradually advance, as they surely would, popular opinion would charge the companies with having formed a combination. Few would be ready to admit the element of self defense. The bill is not relected in behalf of insurance companies, but because such investigation as I have been able to make convinences me that it increases insurance rates far out of proportion to any possible advantage that may be gained thereby. In 1883 Gov. Pattison, of Pennsylvania, vetoed a similar bill, and in the course of a very able argument in support of his action, said: "Over-insurance and over-valuation are conducive to fraud, perjury and arson; they breed crime—the most dangerous and demoralizing. Commonwealths which, in obedience to a false public clamor, have ingratted a contrary principle upon their insurance laws have reaped the whirlwind, and in the end honest insurers have to pay the penalty in increased rates. The experience of our sister and neighboring state of Ohio has been that under the valued policy The Chinese Army. The regular army of China is said to consist of 323,000 men. Besides this, the emperor's army, there is a national army of 650,000 men, who are paid about 5s. a month. The cavalry receive about 15s. a month, feed their own horses, and if they are lost or killed are required to replace them out of their pay. Cape Colony's Census The prime minister of Cape Colony has notified that he will introduce a bill in parliament to authorize expenditure necessary for taking the census of the Colony in 1901. The Cape will thus come into line with the rest of the empire in the "counting of heads." Archbishop's Salaries The English church pays the archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Temple, £15,000 a year, while his colleague of York and the bishop of London, are paid £10,000. Hawaii and Porto Rico The Hawaiian islands are a territory of the United States the same as Arizona, New Mexico and other territories of the United States. Porto Rico is not such a territory. The one is under civil rule and the other under military rule. Lighting Plants for Russia Three electric light plants are being built in New York for shipment to Rusha. One is for an American concern at Irkutsk, Siberia; another for the Siberian mine near Chita, and the other is for a mine in Manchuria. law the amount of risks written increased rapidly, but the losses increased even more strikingly." In the same year, Gov. Altgeld, of Illinois, vetored a similar act, and in the course of his discussion used this language: "Insurance is an indemnity, not a speculation. It is intended to protect a man against loss, not to give him something for nothing. Its object is to make a man whole so that he shall be no worse off after a fire than before. The principal involved in this bill would enable a man in many cases to be twice as well after a fire as he was before. In all cases where a dishonest man could, by convining with agents or in any other way, secure insurance for more than the real value of his property, a fire would be a blessing. There would be a standing bribe, a perpetual inducement to allow his property to burn—I will not say to have it burn—and it is remembered that a fire in one building always endangers property near by, which often is not insured, be bad policy for the state to permit a condition of affairs to exist which, to say the least, tends to increase fires. * * * It is true that several of the states have adopted acts similar to this bill, except that they provide against fraud, which this bill does not" (neither does the bill under consideration, except in case of concurrent insurance), "but in these states experience has shown that the proportion of fires has greatly increased; consequently the insurance rates have been raised in all of these states, and the general public, which pays insurance, has in this way been taxed to an extent which it would otherwise not have been, and this largely for the benefit of the very few who were fortunate enough to have a fire which totally destroyed their property." In 1899 Gov. Thomas, of Colorado, vetoed such a bill, and in the course of his discussion of the question, used this language: "The experience of other states under legislation like this is most instructive. In every one of them the proportion of fires has greatly increased, and the ratio of that increase presupposes incendiarism. The natural and necessary result has been an increase in the rates of insurance, which means an additional tax upon the insuring public. The increased burden which these laws impose upon the insurer is shifted by him upon the mass of policyholders, and the community is the ultimate sufferer. From every standpoint the measure is a vicious one. From none of them can its policy be defended. Protection against loss is the only possible basis of sound fire insurance, and any departure from it will pave the way for the perpetration of fraud and wrong." In 1891, bills similar to this were introduced in the legislatures of fifteen different states, and were passed by none. In 1899, similar bills were introduced in fifteen states, and passed in four, three of which were vetoed. Gov. Thomas of Colorado, Gov. Wells of Utah, and Gov. Sadler of Nevada, promptly vetoed. Gov. Atkinson of West Virginia, allowed the bill to become operative without his signature, but filed a memoranda of his objections to the bill, from which I quote a part, as follows: "It is against public policy." "It cannot accomplish the object for which it was intended." "It applies only to real estate, and not to personal property, and is therefore class legislation." "The bill under consideration is also vulnerable to this objection." "It requires the adjustment of a loss by an insurance company before any loss occurs, which is inconsistent, unreasonable and expensive, both to the insurance companies, and the insured." "It will drive out of the state many solid and safe insurance companies, that are a public necessity." "*Valued policy* laws of this character have not proven satisfactory in the states that have tried them, and it seems to me we ought to profit by the experience of older states." The town council of Aberdeen, Scotland, is petitioning parliament to allow it to pass a by-law for the suppression of betting. A number of residents of the town do not approve of this, and have sent a counter petition to Lord Rosebery, asking him to assist them in preventing the bill from passing. Junk from the Sea. An enormous quantity of old iron, in the shape of old anchors and chains, is annually rescued from the sea. During one period of twelve months as much as 150 tons' weight was dredged up on the east coast of England alone. Cost of Street-Widening. The widening of Ludgate hill, London, fifteen feet resulted in an expenditure at the rate of £2,000,000 per mile; the Fleet street widening, ten feet, £3,000,000 per mile, and the Strand widening, £6,000,000 per mile. There are now thirteen cable lines across the Atlantic in successful operation, yet the charge for sending messages remains what it has been for twenty years or more—25 cents a word for commercial messages, and 10 cents a word for press dispatches. Made Hay While the Moon Shone. It was quite impossible to make hay while the sun shone in Bedfordshire and Bucks. Gangs of men, women and children had to rest by day and work by moonlight. Large fields of hay were fired and farm horses dropped dead.—London Express. "The demand for the passage of this law comes in the character of a public clamor, based upon a false idea, and it is never safe to yield to a clamor of any sort. Such measures always react with terrific force." Similar bills have been introduced in the Iowa legislature at nearly every session for years, but a painstaking investigation of the subject has heretofore saved the people of this state from what I believe would prove a calamity, and I doubt not the same result would have followed the bill this year as heretofore had time permitted more deliberation. Nor is this all. The insurance commissioners of every state, I think, where such laws exist, have repeatedly called attention to their unfortunate effects. The insurance commissioner of Ohio, in 1895, in his annual report, uses this language: "I fear that the heavy loss ratio in this state can be traced to some of the obnoxious legislation enacted with reference to insurance companies." In further explanation of his views, he copies into his report a letter which he wrote to an official of another state making inquiry as to the effect of the valued policy law in Ohio. In the course of his letter, he says: "To say that fires have steadily increased since the enactment of this obnoxious law is to put it mildly. In my judgment, no man ought to receive from the insurance company a dollar more than his actual loss. • • • The legislature of Ohio ought to have repealed the law years ago • • • The rates have steadily increased since the enactment of this law, clearly showing that the honest people in the end are compelled to pay for the dishonest losses. The existence of this law in Ohio has, in my judgment, been the cause of the destruction of hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of property belonging to innocent persons." The insurance commissioner of Wisconsin, criticising this law in his report of 1895, says: "The very foundation principles of fire insurance are opposed to such a law. 'Fire insurance is indemnity; it should never be bain;' it is intended only to make good the actual loss sustained, and to make a company liable in case of total loss for the full face of the policy irrespective of the value of the property has been the means of increasing the number of fires, and has compelled the payment of thousands of dollars thus increasing the rates to the honest man." In 1894 the superintendent of insurance in Missouri, after describing the law and its effect, says: "This is simply an incentive to perjury and arson. Neither the insurance company nor the insured should be permitted to enter into such contracts. * * * The law should require that every person should help to insure his own property." The insurance commissioner or Michigan, in 1893, warned the legislature against unhealthy legislation says: "Among the most obnoxious of these acts, on the statute books or some of the states, the one attempting to 'do up' the business, by what I known as the valued policy law, stands pre-eminent as an example of legislative folly. It should be in all cases entitled 'An act to encourage incendiarism and facilitate the business of selling out to insurance companies at inflated prices.' Similar quotations might be multiplied almost indefinitely. Insurance commissioners are certainly well qualified to speak, and their utterance should be accepted as made in behal of policy-holders, rather than in the interest of policy writers. The proposition to amend the constitution so as to provide for biennial instead of annual elections, seems to be conceded on all hands certain or adoption. This will result in the 29th General Assembly, being composed of the same men who constituted the 28th General Assembly, and the present Chief Executive will be continued in office pending that session. If upon further investigation it shall be deemed wise to re-enact this bill, it will not be necessary to pass it over a veto, for it will be promptly signed. I simply avail myself of my preoperative and re-submit the bill to the same men who originally passed it, that they, pending the delay, may make such individual investigation as may be deemed expedient, and thereafter take such action as shall to them seem wise, and for the best interest of the people of this commonwealth. LESLIE M. SHAW May 6th, 1900. Governor of Iowa. "The importance of the subject is my apology for the length of this article I believe, however, it is worth the space and hope it is now clear to you many readers. INSURANCE AGENT. August 30th, 1900. Emperor Friedorich's Letters. Emperor Frederick's Letters. Among the letters advertised in a recent catalogue of a Berlin bookseller are several written by Emperor Friedrich during the ninety-nine days of his reign. One of them gives expression to his aversions to courtly ceremonies, and refers to various reasons why he should not be expected to attend the receptions given by ambassadors. Victoria Likes Military Music An English journal says that Queen Victoria is fond of the stirring strains of muscle of a good military band. She gave one of many recent evidences of this liking when, not long since, the band of the First Light Guards was playing in the Grand Quadrangle at Windsor Castle. Her Majesty was wheeled out from her apartments, and, after listening for a considerable time with evident enjoyment, she sent for the bandmaster to say how pleased she was with his band. The larynx of a man in Sydney, Australia, became useless, through disease, and he lost his voice. Professor Stuart, of the University of Sydney, made an artificial one, and it can be so regulated as to make the voice so soprano, tenor, contralto or base at will. A New Religion: Koreshanity is a new religion. Dr. Cyrus Teed, itz propounder, teaches that the inhabitants of this earth are living on the inside of an enormous shell, with the sun only 900 miles away. There are about 10,000 converts to this new belief. ATTACKS FOREIGNERS WHAT CHAIRMAN JONES REALLY THINKS OF THEM. He Made a Speech to the Arkansas Legislature in Which His Views Game to Light—Aimed at the Germans and Irish—Wants Their Votes Now. "These comprised fully one-half of the number of votes received by McKinley."—Delliberate assertion of Democratic National Chairman James K. Jones. "He believed devoutly that Bryan had been elected and was swindled out of the presidency." "He believed that in 1900 the bimetallic forces would win a great victory." His declaration that the principles of 1896 are "absolutely essential to the welfare of the country." The man who advocated the gold standard denounced as "no better than a vile thief." (From the address of United States Senator James K. Jones, chairman of the Democratic national committee, before the Legislature of Arkansas.) "Hundreds of thousands of ignorant foreigners, who were here taking bread out of the mouths of honest labor, voted at the last election at the dictation of McKinley's supporters. These foreigners comprised fully one-half of the number of votes received by McKinley." These are the words of the man who conducted the Democratic campaign in 1896. The same man is the present chairman of the Democratic national committee. He owes his position to the wish of Mr. Bryan. The language quoted above was used in a speech. It is no remembered scrap of idle conversation. It was uttered in no heat of discussion. It was a deliberate expression. "Hundreds of thousands of ignorant foreigners," said Chairman James K. Jones of the Democratic national committee, "who came here taking bread out of the mouths of honest labor, voted at the last election at the dictation of McKinley's supporters. These foreigners comprised fully one-half the number of votes received by McKinley." And then on this basis that the Republican party owed success in 1896 to "ignorant foreigners," Chairman Jones proceeded to hold the hope of success in 1900. "Can there be any doubt," he asked, "as to which shall prevail, the six and one-half millions of intelligent Bryan voters, or the three and one-half millions of ignorant foreigners who voted for McKinley?" It will seem to sensible people almost incredible that the chairman of the Democratic national committee could make such statements in a public speech, But the Hon. James K. Jones did it. More than two months after the election of 1896 he uttered the assertions quoted. The occasion was no less serious than an address before the legislature of Arkansas. Senator Jones had just been elected to his third term in the United States senate. On the 20th of January, 1897, the senator appeared before an informal joint session of his state legislature at the capitol in Little Rock. He returned his thanks to the people of Arkansas through their representatives, the legislature, and then he proceeded to discuss the defeat of Bryan, speaking as the chairman of the Democratic national committee and the head of the management of the Democratic campaign. He said that he "believed devoutly that Bryan had been elected and was swindled out of the presidency." He declared his belief "that in 1900 the bimetallic forces would win a great victory." This still makes 16 to 1 the paramount issue. He reasserted his conviction "that the principles he spoke for were absolutely essential to the welfare of the country." That is 16 to 1. The senator spoke for over an hour. Running through his speech were two principal thoughts. One was this idea that Republican success had been achieved through the "ignorant foreigners," a result which the senator resented in the name of the native southern population which was "more American." The other central idea with the senator was the injustice of the unequal distribution of wealth. Upon this he dwelt with almost the emphasis which he gave to the "ignorant foreigners." "What has been the cause of this great struggle?" the senator asked. "The people are as honest and as industrious as they ever were. What then was the matter? The last census report shows that the wealth of the country was $65,000,000,000, or about $5,000 to each family of five members. The senator quoted figures to show the inequality in the distribution of wealth. Why was Massachusetts so much better off than Arkansas? They were more industrious and more deserving? He considered that the southern people rank fully up to, if not ahead of the people in the balance of the country. The southern people are more completely Anglo-Saxon than those of the other states and therefore more American." At this point the chairman of the Democratic national committee made one of the most remarkable of this series of startling statements for Arkansas consumption. He illustrated his assertion that the southern people are "more American" than the rest of the country in this way: "It took the people of the combined north and east four years to conquer the southern people, and the latter bad built for them a pension list that was appalling." The senator's speech bristled with assertions intended to incite the spirit of class prejudice. He said: "Millionaire and paupers grow on the same bush. When you make a millionaire you make dozens of paupers." The man who advocated the gold standard the senator described as "no better than a vile thief." Montana Safety Republicans Montana Safety Republican. Montana, it is said, will go Republican this year. This is mostly because the paramountcy of "imperial- QUESTION AND ANSWER. 100.000 FOR BRYAN'S CAMPAIGN FUND TRADE MARK Adopted from Bain N.Y. MERALO. Why does the man with the fat wallet (would-be Senator Clark of Montana) pay such a vast sum into the Democratic campaign fund? Answer: He is simply trying a new method of securing a seat on the Democratic side of the Senate. ism, Bryan and other national issues, are o'er shadowed by the state "paramounty" of Senator Clark, who secured such "paramounty" by official national party recognition over the Daly wing, though the $100,000 contribution to the Democratic campaign fund. "Free silver" in Montana means increasing millions of ex-Senator Clark so that he can make silver still freer among the "statesmen" of the Democratic party who have made him "paramount." Between Senator Clark and Honesty in Politics, the voters of the state indeed have a splendid chance to decide with emphasis which shall be "paramount." farm animals in Kentucky was $64,776,020. But the ruthless hand of Democracy and the Wilson bill and tariff for revenue only fell on the land and in 1896 the total value was but $41,894,847. A loss of the enormous sum of $22,881,173 under the Democratic administration. The figures are from the official reports of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. What do the farmers of Kentucky think of them? Jan. 1, 1892, Jan. 1, 1896 Horses ... $27,890,626, $14,521,755 Mules ... 10,472,211, 4,740,183 Milch cows ... 6,965,742, 6,189,035 Other cattle ... 7,923,866, 8,786,668 Sheep ... 2,456,889, 1,603,257 BRYAN AND THE SOUTH DISAGREE ON TRADE. Mr. Bryan expects to have a solid south with him in the coming conflict of the voters, and there seems to be a general disposition here in the north to concede that his expectation will be realized. Yet we find the south strongly arrayed against the Democratic candidate on what he has tried to make the paramount issue of the campaign. The south is for expansion—not such expansion merely as shall lead to the absorption of Porto Rico, Hawaii and the Philippine islands, but it demands that we shall have a free footing in China, even if we have to fight for it. The Atlanta Constitution feels, to quote from its editorial columns, "that the time has come to speak for the people of the south, whom it so largely represents, and for the welfare of the whole country in whose honor it rejoices." And what, as represented by our esteemed contemporary of Atlanta, do the people of the south desire? Here are some of the things the Constitution has to say on the subject: "China is a victim today in the hands of the leading powers of the world. Her 400,000,000 people are in need of cotton and of iron. Her wants will give employment to the artisans of the world for a century to come. It has been estimated that, with the gates open, China alone could consume 20,000,000 bales of cotton annually—the equivalent of two years' production. . . . The question, then, is plain. The Chinese government has fallen, and if replaced it will be by the creatures of the allies whose forces are on the field. "Our duty is to be on the ground floor of Chinese opportunity, not through English grace or German courtesy, but through our own inherent right to be there. "We must have absolutely free access for our goods and our commercial men, who should be subjected to neither entrance tariff nor to passport annoyance, either at the hands of local or of protectorate authorities. No Russian sentinel should halt the American on the way to his customer. No port fee should be exacted by English or German custom house officer. No indemnity should be collected by any one of the powers which must be dependent for its source upon American cotton, either in the hands of the merchant or upon the back of the wearer. No loophole, no device—but absolute and unrestrained free trade. "This is a question in which the cotton states of the union are vitally interested. It is the right of these people to raise all the cotton they can, and to deal in the widest possible market which can be made for them. Cotton is king, and the United States army should remain in Pekin to see him duly crowned." This, we are told, is the voice of the south, the Democratic stronghold upon which Mr. Bryan depends for three-fourths of the votes that will be necessary to give him a chance in the election. But what are the Nebraska candidate's views on the securing of trade in the far east? "I would not put one American citizen on the block and sell him for all the trade of the Orient if I had to buy it by his blood." This sentiment was delivered by Mr. Bryan the other day at Manhattan, Kan. Not even for the purpose of opening up new markets for the cotton raisers of the south would he have one American soldier exposed to the dangers that necessarily exist where conflicts rage. Not even for the purpose of securing a market for 20,000,000 bales of cotton annually would he have our troops remain for an hour in China after it is possible to withdraw them in safety. How are Mr. Bryan and the south going to get together on this trade proposition? Perhaps the esteemed Constitution, which speaks for the south, can explain. WHY KENTUCKY IS REPUBLICAN On the farmers of no state did the blight of the Wilson bill and Democratic rule fall more heavily than in Kentucky. In 1892 after four years of the Harrison administration and the McKinley bill the value of the farm animals in Kentucky was $64,776,026. But the ruthless hand of Democracy and the Wilson bill and tariff for revenue only fell on the land and in 1896 the total value was but $41,894,847. A loss of the enormous sum of $22,881,173 under the Democratic administration. The figures are from the official reports of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. What do the farmers of Kentucky think of them? Jan. 1, 1892, Jan. 1, 1896. Horses ... $27,890,626 $14,521,659 Mules ... 10,472,211 4,740,184 Milch cows ... 6,965,742 6,189,039 Other cattle ... 7,923,866 8,786,659 Sheep ... 2,456,889 1,603,257 Swine ... 9,066,686 6,053,946 Total ... $64,776,020 $41,894,847 PINGREE'S NOSTRILS. Gov. Hazen S. Pingree of Michigan says he will probably "hold his nostrils and vote for McKinley." The presumption is that there is something in the political atmosphere of the Republican party that is offensive to the sensitive Pingree olfactories. There is little likelihood that the Republican managers will send out a smelling committee to locate the odors that are distasteful to Pingree. Neither will they add to the expenses of the campaign by trying to deodorize Pingree's surroundings. Even if a few gallons of violet water would suffice to make things agreeable for the fastidious Pingree, the one vote is not worth the trouble of shipping it to Lansing. But a good many people who like Pingree's pugnancy and originality and who think he is a good thing to have in politics will wonder why he feels compelled to compress his smelling apparatus while supporting the present national administration. They know that under McKinley the nation's finances have been placed upon a sound and stable basis through the enactment of a gold law, that the "endless chain"—the fruitful source of panics—has been destroyed, that business confidence has been restored, that industry has been revived and the opportunities for labor vastly multiplied, that our commerce has been pushed into the remotest markets of the earth, that our army and navy have liberated millions of people from the tyranny of Spain, that American valor has planted the flag at the gateway to the Orient. Do these things offend the delicate nostrils of the finicky Pingree? Is it because of these achievements that Pingree must hold his nostrils when he votes for McKinley? Oh, no! The trouble with the Pingree snuffers arises from the fact that his overweening desire to be the boss in his state has got him in bad odor" with his party. Mr. Pingree had several pet taxation measures for driving capital out of Michigan. He thought they ought to be passed. The Republican legislatures did not agree with him. Being a man of unusual vigor and very fond of work, he thought he would occupy his idle moments in retiring Senators Burrows and McMillan from public life. But the national administration opposed him and the Republican legislatures did not agree with him, and each was re-elected to the senate. And so Pingree finds himself "outside the breastworks," the odors are never pleasant outside the breastworks. There is the smell of decaying hopes and ambitions. No wonder Pingree holds his nostrils. SWINE RAISERS PROSPER Seventeen nations figure in the swine statistics of commerce, and out of a total of 122,376,000 hogs, at last accounts, the United States possessed 69,000,000, and Austria-Hungary, Russia and Germany came a good way after, with between 10,000,000 and 11,000,000 each. Next in hog producing importance is France, with 6,283,000, while the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland has only a beggarly 3,638,000, and all the British colonies scarcely 2,500,000 more. The American hog raiser is receiving nearly twice as much today for his produce as he under the disastrous free trade administration of Grover Cleveland. Not Give Up Half Their Savings. The German-Americans are being asked to vote for Bryan because of "imperialism." The German-Americans are undoubtedly a kind-hearted, whole-souled and "with malice toward none, and charity for all" generous people. It is however asking a good deal of them, to ask them to give up more than one-half of their savings, and of their wages, through 16 to 1 dollars, in order that Aguinaldo may be given power and the means of self-enrichment in the Philippines. FOR A G. A. R. UNIVERSITY. Patriotism to Be in the Curriculum of a Proposed College. With assets and pledges amounting to upward of $200,000, the Sons of Veterans are making active preparations to begin work on a national college, which is to be dedicated to the G. A. R. and in commemoration of the men and women of civil war times. The money and pledges were secured after one year's actual work, but four years of planning preceded the vigorous campaign resulting in the collection. While the money has been raised for the erection of the buildings and the endowment of the institution, the location has not been selected. Washington, Mason City, Iowa, and Milwaukee are bidding for the school and at the annual encampment of the Sons of Veterans in Syracuse, N. Y., September 13, the matter will be settled. Patriotism and American history are to be leading features of the curriculum. PRESIDENT WASHBURN DEAD The Head of the Memphis Railway Passes Away in the East. Edward S. Washburn, president of the Kansas City, Fort Scott & Memphis railway, died at Rye Beach, Me., at 11 o'clock Friday morning. Mr. Washburn had been ill some time from a stroke of paralysis. Edward Stevenson Washburn was born in Boston, Mass., April 20, 1844. In every particular he was a self made man, working his way upward step by step, by means of industry and ability, from a clerk to the presidency of a great railroad system. RUMORS OF $100,000 BOOTY. The Union Pacific Robbers said To have Gotten Away With a Large Sum. An unconfirmed report is in circulation that the Union Pacific car robbed by five men at Tipton contained $100,000 in gold destined to pay off the soldiers in the Philippines. It is said the robbers secured the whole shipment. Sult to Break a Will. Three suits involving 2,500 acres of land, worth about $45,000, and money, notes and personal property to the value of about $23,000 has been filed in the circuit court at St. Joseph, Mo. They are to set aside deeds to lands alleged to have been conveyed by William Moore, deceased, to his sons, George and William Moore, and to set aside the will made by their father. A dozen nephews, nieces and other relatives are the contestants, on the ground that the rich man was incapable of transacting business when the will was made. The parties are prominent. Bodyguard for Mr. Bryan Detective Charley Sanderson of Kansas City, Mo., will accompany William Jennings Bryan on his tour through the country during the campaign and will act as a body guard to the presidential nominee and aid the police of the cities in which Mr. Bryan will speak in identifying and possibly placing under arrest all suspicious characters who attend the meetings. His expenses will be paid by the Democratic national committee. Gold Medal Awarded Walter Baker & Co. Gold Medal Awarded Walter Baker & Co. Paris, Aug. 20.—The judges at the Paris Exposition have just awarded a gold medal to Walter Baker & Co. Ltd., Dorchester, Mass., U. S. A., for their preparations of cocoa and chocolate. This famous company, now the largest manufacturers of cocoa and chocolate in the world, have received the highest awards from the great international and other expositions in Europe and America. This is the third award from a Paris Exposition. Canton Newspapers Suppressed. The acting vicegeroy of Canton has suppressed all the native newspapers on the ground that they have been publishing false news detrimental to the maintenance of peace. Shirt Walst Unheld Agala A woman passenger on a Southern railway train having complained that a man wore a shirtwaist without his coat in a ladies' coach, the matter was referred to the legal department of the road, and it has submitted an opinion holding "that, so long as a man is decently dressed, whether he has on his coat or not, his appearance cannot be offensive to any sensible person." Says Miners Will Strike "In my opinion there will be a strike in the anarchistic region of Pennsylvania, and it will be the biggest that the United States has ever known," said President John Mitchell of the United Mine Workers of America. Mr. Mitchell had just returned from a trip east, during which he was present at the convention of the miners at Hazelton, Pa. Quincy, Ill., Has 36,252. The census bureau announces that the population of Quincy, Ill., is 36,253, against 31,494 in 1890. This is an increase of 4,758, or 15.1 per cent. Is Accidentally Killed Captain Benjamin Wigginton, an old citizen of Richmond, Mo., met a tragic death at his home. He arose early, as was his custom, and went out to his barn to kill some rats, taking his shotgun along with him. While climbing over the fence the gun was accidentally discharged, the load entering his breast and causing death almost instantly. Oregon Ordered to We Suns The United States battleship Oregon and four German battleships have been ordered to Wu Sung. **Kansas Youth Killed by Lightning.** During a heavy storm, at $a$ betha, Kan., lightning struck a large barn belonging to John Strahm, setting fire to it and completely destroying it, together with a large amount of grain and some implements. Mr. Strahm's son, aged about 19, was in the barn at the time and was struck and instantly killed by the lightning. **Will Burn 100 Slot Machines.** At St. Joseph, Mo., the sheriff seized 100 slot machines, valued at $8,000 and will burn them. The machines had been in use in all parts of the city.