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 WE SELL THEM THIS WAY: Bennett & Co. The Sunflower Store VOL 13, NO. 30 Oldest and I WEEKLY MEDIUM FOR School Open Save Money or Supp WE SELL THE Dixon's high school M. B. Lead Pencils, each 2c. Ink or Muc-lage. 8c. Paper or Wood Lead Pencils, 1c. Flag Slate Pencils, six for 1c. Soapstone Pencils, eight for 1c. Good Leather Book Straps, 3c. P holders, 3 for 1c. B x Chaik. 9c. Assorted Pen Points, 2 for 1c. wood Slate Pencils, 1c. Eagle's School Drawing Pencils, each 2c., 3 for 5c. Bennett The Sunflo *35 Minnesota Avenue, KANSAS CITY KANS. Why do people like to trade with Bennett & Co., 435 Minnesota avenue? Because fair treatment is accorded all. Fair prices for fair goods prevails. Extensive preparations are being made for the Emancipation Proclamation celebration on September 2nd, at Kerr's Park. Among the features will be a baby show, foot race, speaking and a general good time. Gov. Wm. E. Stanley will be orator of the day. The Willing Worker's Club of Mount Pleasant Baptist church, who gave a novelty entertainment last Monday night had a complete success, $15.00 being realized. Mr. O. J. Brooks, our well known and popular artist, who by hard work and close application to business, has established his calling in our midst and despite the prejudice against a negro artist he is making success. He left this work for Chillicothe, Cameron, Stewartsville and other Missouri points in the interest of his business. Rev. James A. Addison, of St. Charles, Mo., has been called to the pastorial ship of St. Paul Baptist church, 4th, and Locust streets. Mrs. Julia Bingman, of Atchison, Ks., is the guest this week of Mrs. M. Bibbs, of 201 Franklin. Pleasant Valley Baptist church of Rosedale, Karsas, will hold Baptizing services on the fourth Sunday of this month at 2 o'clock p. m. Where is that teady going crowd bound? To Bennett & Co., the Sunflower Store and the yellow front. Mrs. Dorsay. Greene and Miss Bettei Clark, of I Lawrence, Kas, spent the day across the Kaw, Saturday, with Mrs. G. H. Bennett, of 619 E 6th. street. Mrs. J. O. Acres, of 833 Washington avenue, who has been spending some weeks in Frank/ort, Kansas, returned this week a companion by Mrs. M. Moran. Mr. J. O. Acres, of Washington avenue, who has been ill for over a week, is improving. Mrs. J. W Gordon and little son, of 545 State avenue, returned last Sabbath after a delightful five weeks stay in Chicago with the old folks. Her return doubtless lightens up the home of Rev. J. W. Gordon, who seemed to have grown rather faint in the ceaseless rounds of a busy person. At the First Christian, St. and Everett avenue church, Sunday morning, Elder Wm. Alphine will state reasons why he believes in the inspiration of the New Testament Scriptures. In the evening his subject will be "Religious Humbugs." REV. AND MRS. W. L. GRANT. Recipients of the Most Brilliant Reception Ever Tendered. This prominent colored man was tendered a very brilliant reception by the members of the First Baptist church and the leading citizens of Wyandotte county. The elite vied with each other in the happy role, in which each played his part. The lawyer, physician, newspaper man, clergyman, the merchant, arisan and tradesman, laid aside all business and mingled together as upon no other similar occasion. It was a unique affair. Much credit is due Mesdames A. Cox, K. Miner, and J. Cornell. The caterer, Lena Brown, Miss D. Burdett and M. Moberly, et al, for the beauty of arrangements, the precision which marked the unusual harmony and dispatch of the minutest details of the whole affairs. The following programme was rendered: THE d Best Weekly FOR ADVERTISERS WITH opens Monday. on Your School supplies. THEM THIS WAY: Pencil Tablets, 1c. 120 page Pencil Tablet, 2c. 180 " " 3c. 290 " " " 4c. 500 " " 5c. 5x7 Double State 18c. 6x9 " " 18c. 7x11 " " 21c. 8x12 " " 25c. 62 page Ink Tablet, 3c. Public School Ink Tablet, 5c. The Banner Ink Tablet, 4c. Pointer Ink Tablet, 5c. t & Co... flower Store KANSAS CITY, KAS. Ben Bent Bent all. Incade in cel Kerr's be a and a Stan- Mount save a night ing re- Instrumental, Mrs. I. F. Bradley. Invocation, Ex Pastor, D. Jones. Welcome Address, Prof. J. J. Lewis Vocal Solo, Mrs. J. Smith. Paper, 'Duty of Members to Pastor,' Mrs. Wadkins Instrumental, Miss M. Richardson Remarks, Judge L. F. Bradley. Instrumental, Mrs. J. Fitzhugh, of Lawrence, Closing Remarks, Rev. W. L. Grant. Oratory, music and literary entertain- ment were but a part of the whole. The following menu was served. Bullyn, Crackers and Olives. Orange Fillet and Cheese sticks. Veal, Cakes and Biscuit. Louis Loon. Bricks, Ice Cream, Cake and Coffee Covers were laid for 300 persons The church changed its appearance; the auditorium was made a large par- liament, lilac, fern, chrysanthemus and lilin forming the basis of nature's grandeur, left the blending of the season as an incomparable event. Rev, and Mrs. Grant comes to us at a most favorable time and enjoy the distinction of having the confidence of all the people. The following guests were present: Mr. and Mrs. Rev. W. L. Grant, Mrs. and Rev. E. A Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. Rev Green, Mrs. and Rev. W. Alfred, Rev. Fairax, Parsons, Kas., Rev. G. A Griffin, Rev. D. Jones, Rev. B. Richardson, Rev. F. W. Ewing, Kansas City, Mo., Rev. F. Hammonds, Rev. O. Davis, Alphin, Dr. S. H. Thompson and wife, Judge L. F. Bradley and wife, County Attorney B. S. Smith and wife, Prof. A. J. Neely and wife, Prof. J. J. Lewis and wife, O. B. Johnson and wife, K. Miner, A. Cox, J. Cornell, Lena Brown, D. Burdette, M. Moberly, M. Miner, A. Cox, J. Cornell, Lena Brown, D. Burdette, M. Moberly, K. Miner, R. C. Smith, D. Mobery, Joan Wilsonian I wife, Mrs. E. A Mobery, Chicago, C. Frey, L. Wadkins, A. V. Wadkins, Mrs. J. J. Bass, Mrs. J. N. Fitzbugh, Lawrence, Mrs. Burdett, C. Cox, P. K. Brown, S. L. Jenkins, Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Chase, M. Bout, Geo Brown, L. Bewall, M. J. Dyson and wife, J. H. Walke, M. Jennings, N. A Mockileon, J. F. Ready and wife, S. Taylor, J. Banks, Rev. Mrs. C. Richardson, E. L. Henderson, R. Geerman, V. Stephens, I. Black man and wife, M. A. King, H. Maddus, D. Maddux, E. D. Jones, C. Edwards, J. E. Smith, J. Wilson, S. Todd, V. Gueren, K. Bowman and wife, James Downs Geo Barnett, F. Moberly, J. W Haywood, H. Wakins, T. Taylor, E. Flomings, S. Brown, E. North, Martina Williams, Maud Williams, E. Banks, H. Gaines, N. F Lewis, S. Aidren, M. Anderson, L. Gerren, J. Flieming, Wm. Scales and wife, F Palmer, M. E Jenkins, A Cornel, A Jordon, J Smith, L Pallum, G Pallum, L E McAfee, Geo Miner, E Cox, L Miner, M Harris and wife, A Williams, E Smith, M Miner, A Smith, E Backburn, N Richardson, M Richardson, D Rollin, G Barues, D Ellard, Mr Rollin and wife, J Redd M Burdett, O Jenkins, M Alphin, G Gueren, Fred Jennings, George Davis S Burdette, M Barnes, F Jennings, M Rollin, P Dunn, L Waker, R Stevens, R Samuel Whitening and wife M Gueren, N Willams, F Burdette, M Hughes, A Taylor, With these and others whose names we failed to get, the evening wore away pleasantly. Respectfully, SAM'L. L. WHITENING. LENA BROWN. AMERICAN KANSAS CITY, KANSAS, FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 14, 1900 EDITORIAL PICKINGS. POLITICAL AND OTHERW.SE. WEBSTER DAVIS has undoubtedly shot his hat again, we fail to hear much of him lately. HAVE you heard from Maine? Yes. Maine's a forecast of what'll be done to the enemy on November 6th. THE negro must be considered a factor this year, both in county, state and national politics. It must be too, a before and after consideration. As the campaign advances it becomes more and more evident that the friends of good government, true patriotism, sound money and protection to American interests are uniting to oppose those who stand for the reverse of these civic virtues.—Ex. It is said that ex-Governor Leedy the populist Governor of Kansas, will shortly engage in the patent medicine business. He having, it is said, a guaranteed cure for fever. It is hoped he will open up for business in ti e to give his party a treatment, for after the 6th, of November they will surely need a fever cure. The Republican party stands for greatness. It is opposed by littleness. Expansion was not made an issue by the Republicans. The country simply grew into it and the Republican party simply kept pace with the advancement. The Democrats are viewing with much concern the progress that is being made and in their desperation Bryan has thrown himself in front of the moving procession. He will be crushed. There is no other way. It is destiny that is in the seat and destiny is a relentless driver.—The Lawrence World. We feel sorry for the man who does not read his home paper. He is no better than the man without a country. He is like a homeless cow that has no regular pasture,but grazes around promiscuously on the weeds and thistles. No matter what other papers he may read, the solid, safe and straightforward citizen always insist upon naving his home paper.-lx. --- It is generally believed that McKinley will be re-elected. It is not reasonable to believe that the people during the best time ever known in the history of the counry, will change administrations. To change administrations would result in a period of uncertainty that would do business harm. This seems absolutely certain, therefore the baiting is that McKinley will be re-elected. Mark Hanna says the greatest danger is in over confidence in Republicans remitting away from the polls, believing the success of their candidate to be sure.—Atchison Gobe. With the exception of Lincoln, no president of the United States has had so many new and difficult problems in statesmanship presented to him for solution as President McKinley. We believe it is now the concensus of public opinion, and we are sure it will be the conclusion of history, that no president, not even excepting Lincoln, has made so few mistakes in proportion to the number of problems presented as our present honored and revered chief magistrate. - Holton Recorder. We would most respectfully inform those who are expecting something for nothing, that we are not in the newspaper business for our health. Money makes talking good, money pays our hans and money is moving the world. We hope we will not have an occasion to mention this again. WHAT will the Democrats resort to next? Hoo. Wm. J. Bryan is to deliver an Emancipation celebration oration at Chicago. Old Ben Tillman will be attending negro church revivals soon confessing a change of heart. Any old, thing Lord to fool the Negroes and once we are in the saddle to h—with them. What's the matter with E. A. Enright, our present County Attorney? He is a candidate for re-election. Everybody ought to stand by him. He has stood by us now let us reciprocate. In the political elements the sun has soared up to a great height and our editor has fixed his telescope and will report the results. He has discovered spots in some places upon the sun's surface already. It is hoped that ere this great planet of ours sets on November 6th, that not only in Wyandotte county will glad tidings go out, but throughout the country. An analysis of the vote in certain pivotal states in 1898 shows that the negro holds a clear balance of power, and either by voting or refraining from voting can settle the battle for the presidency. McKinley's majority in California, 3,291, colored voting population 8,600, Delaware, majority, 4,195, colored vote, 6,300. West Virginia, majority, 12,000, colored vote 9,000. Three states cast 54 electoral votes. McKinley's vote in the electoral college was 271, the number required to elect be 244. By deducting the aforesaid 54 votes from McKinley's 271, defeat is certain. To illustrate the importance of the colored vote, take the result in Indiana for instance, where McKinley received 327,729 and Bryan 309,381. fully 10,000 negroes there voed the republican ticket, while 2,000 is a flattering estimate for the democratic candidate. A transfer of 10,000 votes would have given the state to Bryan by a majority of 1,579. The colored voters there still hold the balance of power, likewise in California, Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland and West Virginia, to say nothing of the wide swath they cut in New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Illinois and Michigan. The situation in worthy of patient study, and the wise party leaders will think twice before deciding that negro orators and negro newspapers will not be needed this year. The democratic party will bid strongly for negro support in the north, and the activity of such organizers as Lee, Turner, Manning, Ross, Taylor, Beck, Brown, Scott, Newby and others testify that 'encouragement is already being given out in goodly quantities. A TRUTH AND NOTHING LESS. It is an undeniable fact that the negroes in Wyandotte county are considerably stirred up. To tell the truth something more than has been done must be done in order to ring the colored brother in line for the grand old party. They have grievances, sore spots and a hundred innumerable things—that will not down—it seems. It is no use to gloss things over an say that the negroes are alright, because they are not. While we advocate the principles of the grandest old party on earth, and would have our people to believe with us—they are standing pat, and unless a change is undergone soon—the results in Wyandotte county, at least, on November 7th, will not make good reading to the world. It does seem to us that the negro, since he is a part and parcel of this commonwealth, might receive, at the hands of republicans at least—the treatment—like men. It's no use talking about what one party has done for the negro—but appeal to him now as an American citizen, accord him the rights and privileges as such. Only the other day a representative of this paper saw a white man hand to a negro a quarter and tell him to go and treat the boys (meaning his negro friends.) Now, if the negro hd been a man he would have hurled it back with the utmost contempt and stand upon his dignity as a man. Times like these demand men. It may not sound like the proper doctrine, but let those who doubt what we say in regard to the solidty of the negro this year stick a pin in what is herein said. For the information of those who seem to not know, we would say that Mr. W. C. Martin is editor of this paper, and Geo. A. Dudley, Business Manager, and they are doing business at 417 Minnesota avenue, in a two story brick, where there is a sign, "THE AMERICAN CITIZEN OFFICES," in big letters, 12 inches high, and the doors stand wide open from 5.30 A.M. till 10.30 P.M. CITIZEN WE STAND ON OUR RECORD. For thirteen years we have been before the public, printing a newspaper in the interest of our race. It has been an up bill business at times but we have never missed an issue, and to-day we can say without fear of successful contraction that this is a bona fide truth. In the last year there has sprung up in this city another nego paper, pretending to be a weekly paper, yet in a year about three or four issues have been gotten out, and with this record they prey upon the public as an all around regular weekly paper. We have refrained from saying anything about this little mushroom sheet because we have believed that there was always "room at the top" if the managers possessed those hustling qualities that negro newspaper men must possess. As negroes we ought to be the last ones to endurement to run down another' institution and build up ourselves on the fruits of such endevors. We have always extended the right hand of fellowship towards all negro enterprises when we have believed they were conscientious in their efforts to words establishing a legitimate business Fakes and Fakers ought not receive any consideration at the hands of the public, and at our hands they shall be exposed. Simply a hint to the wise is sufficient. We want it distinctly understood that the AMERICAN CITIZEN has no connection with the weekly paper in name only— In this community we stand upon our record of thirteen years without ever missing an issue—not one year with three or four sues. RIGHT FROM THE SHOULDER. It has been charged that newspapers are bootlickers on the money side of the question, that they are atrial to condemn a wrong, that is the duty of a newspaper to expose everything that is not exactly right and proper, etc. A man engages in the newspaper business to make a living just like any one in any other business. It is not the duty of a newspaper man to ferret out any mean or contemptible set any more than it is the duty of a citizen. The citizens of a community are responsible for the immorality of a town, for the breaking of the law—not the newspaper. How many business men are there in town who will condemn a wrong doer when they know it will lose them money and probably cost them their living? And yet that is what they expect the newspapers to do. The trouble is the (so called) honorable people people of a community haven't got the courage to stand up for the right. A majority of them if they indorse an article condemning the wickedness of some sinner, will come around to the editor privately, and tell him he has done right, when it comes to saying it publicly, talking it on the street and elsewhere, their nerve fails them and the editor is left to battle alone—probably against one of his best patrons. If you have any grievance to make do it publicly, if a newspaper attempts to reform that you know is right and will result in good to the town, give aim your support publicly. Don't sit back and say a newspaper man has not the courage to say until you yourself rise above the almighty dollar and stand for truth and honesty. It is the individual and not the newspaper that hasn't moral courage. Newspapers reflect the wishes of the people and are the result of existing conditions which must be changed, if at all, by individual effort.—Russell Record. DO YOU REALIZE A newspaper is a business institution conducted for the financial benefit of its owners. Their money is invested in it, their time and energies are given to it to make it a profitable investment for them. It is a simon-pure business enterprise, just as much so as your grocery store. If a grocery store or meat market sells its customers impure foods or tainted meats, it loses business and reputation, and possibly brings down the law, to say nothing of the loss of moral fiber and reputation how own must sustain. So with a newspaper; it will furnish its customers with such goods as they demand, encountering the same risks and temptations that fall to the lot of other business mer, and overcoming them in just about the same proportion. Do the grocers of the land never soil adulterated foods or the coal dealers never give any short weights? Constant evidence in the affirmative appears on every hand. Off course, the newspaper seeks financial ends. It would be short lived, indeed, if it did not, yet constant demands are made upon it to give of its only stock in trade free to all who may apply, and operate as a charitable institution, at the expense of its owners alone, but for the benefit of the entire public. Not until the clothiers clothes, the groceries feed, and the coal dealers warm men free, can the newspapers give of their columns without price.—Galesburgh (III.) Mail. AN APPEAL TO OUR RACE. Can we go Back on the Party that was Our Friend, is Our Friend, and all we are To-day Made Us. While we realize the rights of a negro as an American citizen, we stand appalled to know that in this great year of prosperity, a year in which the Republicans, the grandest old party on earth, have redeemed all of its promises of three years ago a party that has been our friends in years past—we are appalled to know, or even think, that the negro, in a moment of forgetfulness, should turn his back upon a friend. The Republican party has been a friend in use, and a friend in need is a friend indeed. When we think of all the damnable outrages heaped upon our race by the rank old Democracy, when we know that a party contains such negro haters as Morgan, of Alabama, Tillman, of South Carolina, Jones, of Arkansas, and a thousand and more such negro hating, moss back Democrats. It seems beyond mortal conception that negroes should, and will affiliate with such men, that they may come into power. The future of any party can best be judged by the past—we know that wherever Democracy has held sway—the negro has been disfranchised, outraged, murdered, lynched, ostracised, and in fact almost blotted from existence. In the name of all that is good, whither are we drifting? This is a year when the negro should stop and think and consider well before he decides to vote for other than the Republican party. God grant that those old gray headed fathers whose backs are scarred to-day from the whips in the hands of types of the same old rebels that would have you vote for them to-day, will not forget to soon the hands that changed these things. This may be waving the "bloody shirt," but dear readers, and you that are members of our race—when one sits down to compare the records of the two great parties in behalf of he negro—the past rises before you like a dream, and we are constrained to say, Great God! what do those members of the race expect to gain or accomplish in advocating the principles of democracy. The Republican national ticket, headed by Wm. McKinley, is one of the best and strongest tickets that could have been made—our own State ticket, headed by Wm. Stanley, is a strong and unsurpassable ticket. Our own County ticket, headed by that brilliant young orator, Jas. K. Cubbison, is one that commends itself to all thinking citizens, and no man who has the very best interests in view will think of voting for anything less than this ticket. THE great and awful catastrophe that befall Galveston, Tex., touches the heart of nearly every human being throughout the states. It surely demonstrates the feebliness and frailty of humanity when compared with the great and all powerful Jehovah. Man in the ceaseless hurry and scurry of the world, in his efforts at money getting, loses sight and forgets there is a God. In one awful moment he is brought to a realization that there is a power higher than I, while the whole country will freely and generously contribute of money, clothing and all the necessaries of life to the victims. The losses sustained, that absent mottner, that dear father, that little son or daughter's place, cannot be filled with all the money in the world. Administrator's Notice. State of Kansas. as. Count of Wyndotte. In the Probate Court in and for said County. County. In the matter of the estate of Howard Jordon deceased. Notice is hereby given that letters of administration have been granted to the undersigned, on the estate of Howard Jordon, late of said county, deceased, by the Honorable, the Probate Court of said county and state aforesaid, dated the 7th. day of September, A.D. 1900. Now, all persons having claims against the said estate are hereby notified that they must present the same for allowance within one year from the date of said letters, or they may be precluded from any benefit of such estate, and that if such claims be not exhibited within three years after the date of said letters, they shall be forever barred. L. W. JOHNSON, Administrator of the estate of Howard Jordon, deceased. --- UNLUCY FRIDAY. Columbus sailed from Palos on a Friday; discovered America on a Friday; the Mayflower arrived at Provincetown on a Friday; "Bunker Hill" was won on a Friday; Cornwallis surrendered on a Friday; Lincoln was shot on a Friday; Marat was killed by Charlotte Corday on the thirteenth; the French occupied Madrid on the thirteenth; Napoleon surrendered at Scandon on a Friday; France declared war against Prussia on a Friday; China asked Japan to stop war on a Friday. There are dozens of other dates; events happen on Friday and on the thirteenth of the month; just as well as on other days. "SOUP" PERKINS IS BROKE. The Great Negro Jockey Has Done Away With $50,000. Lexington, Ky., Sept. 11.—"Soup" Perkins, within the last decade the premier negro jockey of the west, and holding a fortune right at $50,000, is to-day penniless and in trouble. He was indicted as a nuisance at the last session of the grand jury, and to-day is to face Judge Parker in the circuit court on trial for the charge. Perkins made his appearance at the Kentucky association in this city about ten years ago. He was a very apt youngster and soon became a skillful jockey. His services were very much in demand. The late Byron McClelland engaged him at a salary of $5,000 per year. $25 per winning mount and $10 per losing mount, with the addition privileges of outside mounts. With presents and winnings from the box pool his earnings, when he became too heavy to ride, figured close to $50,000. This money he had intrusted to his mother. With it she purchased considerable property and built an elegant home. This was extravagantly furnished. The Perkins family lived on the fat of the land. Two years ago Perkins was married, and his mother gave him $2,000. This was soon gone, Perkins wanted more, and his mother refused it. He sued her and she answered with a plea under the old English law that the parent is entitled to the earnings of the minor child. As a compromise Perkins got a house and lot and a small amount of cash. He spent the money and mortgaged the house. WILD MOB MISSES ITS FLEEING VICTIM. Angry Negroes Attack a Railroad Train at Sedalia With Rocks and Guns Bent Upon Revenge, &c. Sedalia, Mo., Sept. 10.—Two hundred excited negroes, thirting for the blood of a man who had shot a Sedalia negro on a Missouri Pacific excursion train, made an attack upon the train at the Sedalia depot at 1 o'clock this morning and a lynching was only averted because the man was securely locked in the baggage car and the mob could not get at him before the train pulled out. The excursion train on which the shooting occurred was run from California to Kansas City. On the return trip the conduct of the negroes was riotous. In one fight Henry Jackson, of Sedalia, was shot in the side, by either Arthur or Theodore Christian, of California, Jackson claims that Arthur shot him, while other witnesses to the affair say that Theodore fire the shot. When the train reached Sedalia a mob of negro men and women was awaiting its arrival determined upon lynching the Californian, police officers were also in waiting to arrest the Christian brothers, but both of them were barricaded in the baggage car. Attempts to break in the doors failed. Then the windows were smashed with rooks, and one member of the attacking party fired several shots through the windows, which were responded to by the Christian brothers. The excursion train pulled out of the depot with excited men on top of the baggage car trying to find some way of getting a shot at the imprisoned men-Policeman Bolte accompanied the train to Tipton, where he placed the Christians under arrest. THE WYANDOT CE DRUG CO Notwithstanding the fact that little is said about this establishment it is one of the race enterprises founded upon a rock—that is here, and here to stay. It is as neat and well appointed drug store as any in the city and is coming in for its share of patronage. not stone from the race, but from both. We were informed recently by the management that they were indeed grateful to the citizens for the liberal patronage given, and if pure drugs, courteous treatment and reliability amounted to anything, they would continue to succeed. Mr. A. K. Laurence, a bright and promising young man, is in charge and gives your prescription all the care that his training and experience has taught him. They are located at No. 1512 North 5th street, and telephone W, 171, will also reach them. Besides drugs you can find stationary, cigars, tobacco, candies, all kinds of patent medicines, soaps and things usually kept in a first class drug store. AMERICAN CITIZEN PUBLISHING AND PRINTING CO. Daily and Weekly 417 Minnesota Ave. KANSAS CITY KANSAS TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Daily delivered by carrier per week. 10c. Weekly one year..... $1 50 Entered at the postoffice at Kansas City Kans., as second class matter. WILLIAM McKINLEY, For President. FHEODORE 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 Treasurv, FRANK. GRIMES. For Auditor, GEORGE E. COLE. For Attorney General, A. A. GODARD. 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. Representa.ive 9:h. District, H. A. BAILEY. 10th. District, G. L. COATES. 11th. District, DAVID D. HOAG, County Attorney, E. A. ENRIGHT, Clerk District Court, ALEX. GUNNING. Probate Judge, K. P. SNYDER. Superintendent Public Instruction, HENRY MEADE. County Commissioner, First District—J. S. PERKINS. McKinley, Stanley and Prosperity should be the cry throughout the State. TOPEKA KANS. TOPEKA, KAS., Sept. 8 Mrs. Hickerson lost her little daughter, Hettie, she died with heart trouble. Mr. Thomas McAdoo left Sunday nigh for Washington. Mr. George Brandford will be at his home September 11. Miss Anna Buckner entertained a few friends at the Park Tuesday. The 23rd. Kansas band gave a grand concert at Garfield Park Sunday. Mrs. Clara Kirk left Tuesday for Kansas City, where she will spend a few days and then she will leave for Ohio. Miss May Jordon and Miss Cooper reports of having a lovely time in Chicago. Miss Emma Moss will be home from Manitah Springs, Sept. 16th. Mr. Tom Cannon will leave for Oklahoma September 13th., where he will take charge of his school. Mrs. Jos. Bass is sick with a broken leg at 1186 Lane. The Seventeenth Annual State Reunion of the Grand Army of the Republic, department of Kansas, will be held in Autichauzon, September 24-29, 1900. The 20th. and 21st. Kansas Regiments of the Spanish-American war will meet at the same time. One fare for the round trip. A partial list of the speakers: Governors Roosevelt and Stanley; Generals John C. Black and J. M. Longnecker, Past Department Commander Illinois G. A. R.; Hon. Leo Rassi-ur, Commander in Chief G. A. R.; Hon. J. W. Preidenthal Col. U. B. Pearsall, Mayor Wm. Warner, Hon. Chas. Curtis, Hon. Chester L. Long, and a score of others of equal ability and of national reputation. For information or privileges, address GKO. S. BOUXNE, Sec. A negro was arrested in Oklahoma City. Friday night for beating his wife with a broom stick. She was nearly dead when the police rescued her and arrested the brute. He says he whipped her for drinking. He was half drunk him self when arrested. BAPTIST CHURCHES. African 3914 East 15th. street. Greenwood, 2005 Maderson Avenue. Highland Avenue, 1119 Highland Ave. Macedonian } Mission } 216 East 21st. street. Missionary, 2605 Madison Avenue. Mt. Calvary, 15 northeast cor. Norton avenue. Pilgrim, 705 Charlott street. Pilgrim, Charlott between 6th and 7th Pleasant Green, East Forest. Round Top, Norton near 28th street. St James, 1411 East 18th street. St James Chapel, 518 High street. St. Marks, 1019 East 4th street. St. Pauls, 510 East 4th street. Second Baptist, Charlott, cor. 10th. Vine Street, 1825 Vine street. CHRISTIAN CHURCH 21st between Summit and Madison, s. August ine Mission, 1025 Troser ave. METHODIST EPISCOPAL Asbury Chapel, 1620 Cherry street Burns, 11th S. W. Cor, Highland ave Clark's Chapel, 119 S. W. Boulevard Westport W, Prospect Place Cor, 23rd. King Solomon Mission 4th and Locust Colored Schools. Donglass 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. Davis 1914 Business Directory. J. A. Wilson Jeweller 1016 W. 9th st. Chandler's Barber shop, Samuel Chandler Prop. S LClencens Mgr. 112 East 6th st. 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 Borgerstaff 115 East 6th street. Midland Barber Shop Harsy Parsor Proprietor 115 East 6th street. Ploce Barber Shop Oarth & Warfield Proprietors 550 Grand Avenue. O' Bannon' Barber Shop W.T. O Bannon Proprietor 560 Grand Avenue. Manila Barber Shop Madison Bros Proprietors 709 Independence avenue. McRay's Barber shop Ben 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 E. E. 18th st. Grocer, George Grear, Prop. 1211 E. 8th st. D. M. Mitchell, Barber Shop, 576 grand ave. Langston' Barber Shop 718 East 8th s. Walker's Parber Shop 806 East 12th s. H. J. George, barber shop, 1307 w 9th st. Cowden's Barber Shop 704 East 12th st. Restaurant H Powel Proprietor 572 Grand avenue. Restaurant Andjew Clark Proprietor 723 Independence ave. Chicago Cafe H Compton Proprietor 706 east 12th street Physicians and Surgeons. Drs. Shannon and Lambright 1215 E. 18th st. Dr. J.N. Birch 1339 E. 18th st. Dr. T.C. Unthank 1238 Independence Ave. Dr. L.J. Holly 1112 Campbell st. Rising Sun J.F. Cole, Editor, L. W. Wood, Dengright 17 W. 6th st. Grocery, A. Webb, Proj. Holme Philips 1917 Cherry street, Round Top2817 Norton Avenue There has been provided a machine for automatically cleaning shoes. The foot is inserted into a properly arranged opening and the railing of the machine is fiily grasped. A small motor actuates rotary brushes that removes the mud. The foot is next placed in the blacking arrangement proper, which acts as the dauber, and the and the third set of brushes is devoted to polishing. A needle on a machine indicates the various stages in the operation. A negro named Dennis Nolan, who killed his wife and was tried, convicted and sentenced to be hanged, cheated the gallows at Ardmore, Thursday, by dying in jail. The gallows has been taken down and stored away. Emperor Wilhelm, and His State. The Queen and he Empress Frederick have succeeded in bringing about a full reconciliation between the Emperor William and his sister: the Duchess of Sparta, who spent a 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 exaperated 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 ruther have free liver and bacon any day." 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 9th Clark & Lee, junk store, 1104 north 3rd. st. Kansas City Kansas Soap Works, 4th. st., between Oakland and Freeman. J. R. McClain, Grocer, 1700 n 5th. st. J. R. Rucker, Butcher, 1609 n 16th. s Douglas 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 5h. 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. 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 ave. M.T. Comer, 608 Minnesota ave. Robt. Keith, 315 Minnesota ave. M. Pattison, 1603 north 3rd. st. SHOEMAKERS. Lon McAdams, 348 Minnesota ave. D. W. Wynne, 309 Minnesota ave. Lewis Blenchard, North 6th., State Line. Wilson, 5th. st. between Nebraska and State. M. & O.,1306 north 8th. street. Sons of Protection, State and 6th. DRUGS. Wyandotte Drug Store, 1512 north 5th. street. DOCTORS. S. H. Thompson, 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 LA OVERLAND RULES WORLD'S PICTORIAL LINE SHORTFST LINE ACROSS THE CONTINENT The Union Pacific Tae Original Overland Route' always way, and is to-day, the shortest and best Lue 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 trans solidly vestibulated and fully equipped with latest improved Recilining Chair Cars free and Pullman Palace sleeping cars. Meals served in Pullman Palace dining cars on the restaurant plan at prices most reasonable. All cars lighted with the celebrated Pintsch Li, It only line running two trains without change from KansasCity to Denver Low excursion rates on sale to Colorado-Utah Idaho, Oregon. Washington and California. Don't complete your ars rangelations for a trip west until you have learned all the information offered by the Union Pacific. For full information in regard to low rates time, etc., call on or address J. R. FRAWLEY Gen. Agt., Union Pacific, 1000 Main street, Raggs City, Mo PUBLICATION NOTICE. PUBLICATION NOTICE. In the District Court of Wyandotte County, Kansas. Alma 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 named court, and that unless you appear and answer on or before the 12th day of October 1900, the petition is made against you will be taken as true and a verdict rendered against you, the nature of which will be a degree 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. It is resolved by the Legislature of the State of Kansas, two-thirds of the members elected to each house concurring therein: SECTION 1. The following proposition to amend the constitution of the state is hereby submitted to the qualified electors of the state for their approval or rejection, viz: Section 2 of article 3 of the constitution of this state is hereby amended so as to read: Sec. 2. The supreme court shall consist of seven justices, who shall be chosen by the electors of the state. They may sit separately in two divisions, with full power in each division to determine the cases assigned to be heard by such division. Three justices shall constitute a quorum in each division and the concurrence of three shall be necessary to a decision. Such cases only as may be ordered to be heard by the whole court shall be considered by all the justices and the concurrence of four justices, shall be necessary to a decision in cases so heard. The justice who is senior in continuous term of service shall be chief justice, and in case two or more have continuously served during the same period the senior in years of these shall be chief justice, and the presiding justice of each division shall be selected from the judges assigned to that division in like manner. The term of office of the justices shall be six years, except as hereinafter provided. The justices in office at the time this amendment takes effect shall hold their offices for the terms for which they were severally elected and until their successors are elected and qualified. As soon as practicable after the second Monday in January, 1901, the governor shall appoint four justice, to hold their offices until the second Monday in January, 1903. At the general election in 1902 there shall be elected five justices, one of whom shall hold his office for two years, one for four years, and three for six years. At the general election in 1904 and every six years thereafter two justices shall be elected. At the general election in 1908 and every six years thereafter three justices shall be elected. Sec. 2. This proposition shall be submitted to the electors of this state at the general election in the year 1900 for their approval or rejection. The amendment hereby proposed shall be designated on the official ballot by the following title: "The judicial amendment to the constitution," and shall be voted for or against as now provided by law under such title. Sec. 3. This resolution shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the statute book. Approved 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. Fuller, Defence. 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 under-signed, Sheriff of said county, directed. I will offer for sale a public auction, and sell to the highest bidder, 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 Feb ember, A D. 1900, at 10 o'clock a m. of said day, the following describable cell estate in the County of Wyandotte and State of Kansas. All the right, title, interest and estate of the said Belle C. Fuller and William J. Fuller, a and to lot forty-six (46), in block one hundred and ninety (10) in the former City of Wyandotte, according to the plan of Wyandotte City, made by John H. Miller and published by the Register of Deeds office of Wyandotte County, Kansas H A. MENDENHALL, Sheriff of Wyandotte County. Publication Notice. State of Kansas. } ss Wyandotte County, Ks. } ss In the Distic Court of said County, Joseph Law, Plaintiff, v. Maria Law, Defendant. The above named defendant, Marina Law, will take notice that she has been sued by the above named plaintiff, Josa. Law, in the above named court, where the petition of the said plaintiff is now on file, praying for a divorce against 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 said judg- ment thereon, thereby delivering vocabulary from said plaintiff, and dissolving the bonds of matrimony now existing between you B. S. SMITH Attorney for Plaintiff Publication Notice In the District Court of Wyandotte County, Kansas. Florence Toles, Plaintiff, vs. John Toles, Defendant. To the above defendant 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 p titlon will be taken as true and a judgment rendered against you, the nature of which will be a decree dividing this plaintiff from said defendant, and awarding to her her misdemeanor. Florence Foran, and for costs of this suit. ATTORNEY. Attorney for this. Try attending to your own busi- ness letting other folks business a- one, see how easy life will be. RAILROAD NOTICES. MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY, SUMMER EXCURSIONS. — West and North. To Pueblo, Colo. cold Springs and Denver and return, special summer excursions June 21, July 8, 9, 10, 18, and August 2, final return limit October 31, $19 for the round trip. summer tourist tickets on sale every day from June 1 to September 15, inclusive, final return limit Oct. 31, round trip $25 Homeeseks excursions to western and southwestern points on June 5 and 19 July 3 and 17, August 7 and 21. tickets good for twenty-one days, at rate of one plus $2 for the round trip. Tickets to St. Paul and Minnesota at $21 for the round trip, good going any day, returning any time up to October 1. Very low rates to other northern points. Special excursions June 21, July 7, B 9 10 and 18, and August 2 to St. Paul Mineapolis. Round trip at $15.55. Duluth and the Superiors at $9.858. Water ville, Minn., $14.40. Good to return Oct ober 31, 1900. From July 1 special round trip excursions to Ogden and Salt Lake City at $50.00. Liberal stop overs. Good to turn up for excursions. Good to return $6.00 June 20 to 25 Winfield and return $6.00 July 7 to 20, Ottawa and return $1.65 For particulars call or address. E. S. JEWETT, Passenger and Ticket Agent. City ticket coffee No. 901 Main street, Kansas City, Mo. Secure Tickets VIA THE.... Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Ry.... AND YOU GET.... Sleepers: & Ghair Cars .... TO.... CHICAGO and all intermediate points The shortest, quickest and bes iline to Chilocothe, Otumwa, Cedar Rapids, Dubnque, and La Crosse and Cedar Rapids, Rockford and Freeport: ... Passenger Station at.... 22nd St. and Grand Ave. Take Westport Cable. City Ficket Office, 915 Main street, Ridge Building. A. B. BRILGFS Gon'. South weste Agent F. L. JERLCH Passenger Agent Office 1915Main St. Kansas Cit. MONEY FOR OLD'SOLDIERS I WILL BUY The additional Homestead Claims of all Soldiers or Sailors who served in the Union army or navy, their widows or minor heirs. Who filed a Homestead claim of less than 160 acres of land prior to June 22nd, 1874? Such persons are entitled to enough more land, including the number of acres embraced in their original entry, without living upon it, to make 160 acres. If they homesteaded 80 acres, they are entitled to 80 more, if 40 acres 120 more, if 159 acres, one acre more, or any other number as it may apear. 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 from this building you have no claim to sell. This building courts and don't wait out come to this office and get full particulars concerning this land. It is to your own interest to do so. AMERICAN CITIZEN OFFICE. 41 MINNESOTA AVE. 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 printing done. Satisfaction guaranteed or no go. Correspondence solicited from all parts of the country, PUBLICATION NOTICE In the Di-trict Court of Wyandotte County, Kansas. V. 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 divo-ing 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, SHADEES, LAMPS, DINNER and TOILET SETS, also a complete line of RANGES and GASO-LINE STOVES. Don't forget the number and name, We sell the Celebrated Kroeger Piano. THE C. F. WILLNER, Furniture and Carpet Co. 618, 620 MINNESOTA AVENUE. (Telphone W. 180.) 1009. ST. LOUIS AVENUE. 1009. Kansas City. - - - Missouri. It is the sweliest place in the city. The Best Goods, the Quickest Sales, the Smallest Profits and the promptest deliveries. GET THEIR PRICES ON COAL, WOOD, FEED, FLOUR, AND BUILDING STONE. J. W. JOHNSON'S ICE CREAM PARLOR The only Ice Cream Parlors in the two Kansas Cities where you can get the BestIce Cream Soda, and Ice Creams, Fine lunch, Pies, Cakes AND Confectionaries Special attention paid to Churches, Lodges and parties. Ice Cream, wholesale, 75 to 90 cts. per gallon. Don't fail to give us a call. Corner 6th. and State streets, KANSAS CITY KANS W. B. RAYMOND Manufacturer of and Wholesale dealer in UNDERTAKERS FIRST-CLASS CARRIAGES FOR AMBULANCE FOR THE CONVEYA Undertaking Rooms, 431 Minnesota Factory Cor st St., KANSAS CITY. EAG Gem Dru MINNESOTA DEL DRUGS, MEDIC Fine Toilet Soaps, Brus PERFUMERY AND FAN UNDERTAKERS * SUPPLIES DRUGS, MEDICINES, CHEMICALS, Fine Toilet Soaps, Brushes, Combs, Etc., PERFUMERY AND FANCY TOilet ARTICLES. Lewis Blandchard No. 6, Sta e Line, K. C. K. Does all kinds of Boot and Shoe work. He does first class hand work, and also has one of the very latest and best Shoemaker's machine and guarantees the best and the cheapest work in the quickest time. Give him a trial and see for you elf. If You Didn't Die. 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. SUPPLIES ALL PURPOSES AT ALL HOURS NCE OF THE SICK AND WOUNDER. ave. Telephone West 32. and Riverview Ave. Telephone 25 ERS Dug Store AVENUE SAILER IN, LINES, CHEMICALS, Fines, Combs, Etc., EY. TOILET ARTICLES. Half Rate Excursion. Plus two dollars) twice a month via Union Pacific to points in Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Idaho, Montana and Washington. 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 fice 1,000 Main street, Telephone 1109 Remember Dining Cars on the Union Pacific that now starts from Kansas City daily. Uaexcelled service, restaurant plan Ticket office 1,000 Main street. Kansas City, Mo THE CELEBRATED BACK SOAP. Go to C. W. Clodfelters grocery. No 68 Central Ave., and purchase a bar of his wonderful soap and give it a trial and you will use no other. No housekeepers should be without it. KANSAS. Fox-Hanting Parsons. ‘The type of fox-hunting parsons has got yet completely run out in Eng- jst, although fox-hunting is not so popular as It once was. Lately the ger. E §. Milne has deen made the MF. H. of the Cattisock hounds, mak- fag two of his kind in England, the other being the Rev. BE. M. Reynolds pasier of the Coniston park. a About This In addressing Mrs. Pinkham you are com- aunicating with A Woman A woman whose expe- rienca in conan ils is greater that of any living person, male or females She has fifty thousand such testimonial letters asweare peuaratoe sc f se lishing showing that Lyaia & ee a Compound re- lieving hundreds of suf- fering women. Every woman knows some woman Mrs. Pink- ham has restored to health. Mrs. Pinkham makes no statements she cannot prove. Her advice is free. ued Goryan Mase “DON'T LET THE CHILDREN FORGET THEIR ATLAS IN THE MORNING.” Gp Sem ATLAS OATS are sold in two pounc packages only. ATLAS OATS are full of life giv- ing strength, hence health, ATLAS OATS is far more econom- ical than doctors and medicine. ATLAS OATS contains more nour- ishment than meat, flour or potatoes ATLAS OATS is nature's own foo or all_her ol , grown amid pureair and sunshine .. A two pound pack ATE Sontaton tore sueagth thus 2 ‘oeves of white bread or 3 pounds oi ATLAS OATS are kilo dried, not steamed; they have that sweet, nutty flavor (so desirable, | You grocer can (or you; insist Cider one ATLAS, OATS ATLAS OF -THE-“WORLD CSP eS lrcrael (a \ 2810 |} face rs? REI) esta} ATLAS () OATS ———> 0 G5 hana Sle anges smapigr ace eS pare Ri ate ask wa SoS ne ila “Waite "as foe lin TANSAS CITY OAT MEAL & CEREAL CO. ITY OAT MEM. & CEI a ERP ‘as Ai * ‘D N x “ISH BRAY” pS Tbe =e: SLICKER ik ces ieee fae SN carbene Zecca Perea MSBP m,. UNION SOLDIERS he Suir ian Meares ass = ditional right. Address 4:0 Stettiey Dating, Raasar Choy ala steo Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This ager WN. u, Kansas City, No. 37, 1900 fa Bt oor he SEE wee | CONSUMPTION " ne ae ge STRUGGLING TO AVOID PESTILENCE. AN Attempts at Burying the Dead Have Been Abandoned and the Bodies Are Disposed of in the Swiftest Manner Possible—Safety of the Living the Para- mount Questia. fo Vga etree cere eee eee eae: via Houston, says: All attempts at burying the dead have been utterly ‘Abandoned, and bodies are now being disposed of in the swiftest manner pos- sible. Scores of them were buried to- day and hundreds were taken out to sea and thrownoverboard. The safety of the living is now the paramount question and nothing that will tend to Prevent the outbreak of an awful pes- tilence is being neglected. This morning it was found that large numbers of the bodies which had been previously thrown in the bay were washed back upon the shore and the situation was thus rendered worse than before they were first taken in the barge and thrown into “the water. 1: will now never be known how many have lost their lives in this awful catastrophe. Estimates run all the way froin 1,000 to 10,000. ‘The tormer figure is given by Lieutenant Perry, anaid on General MeKibben's staff. No list of the dead has been kept and it will be utterly impossible to formu- ate one from now on. Mayor Jones of Galveston claims that the dead will amount to 5,000, and ‘others whose opportunities for judg- ing are less than that of the mayor, place it as high as 10,000, Relief committees from the interior ofthe state have commenced to ar- rive, and as usual, they are much too large in number, and toa certain ex- tent aren the way of the people of Galveston and an impediment to the prompt relief which they themselves are so desirous of offering. Some of the relief expeditions have had com- mittees large enough to consume 10 |per cent of the provisions which they | brought. Very little stealing was reported to- day and there were no killings. ‘The number of men shot yesterday for robbing the dead proved a salutary lesson, and itis not expected that there will be any more oceurrences of this sort. | ‘The loss of life among the regular ‘army stationed rt the barracks at the beach proves to have been largely overestimated. The first report was |that only eighteen out of the whole |number had been saved. Last night |and to-day they turned up singly and in squads and at present there are but twenty-seven missing, whereas the first estimate of casualties in this direction alone was nearly 200. It is probable that some of the twenty-seven will answer roll call latter in the | week Efforts were made this afternoon to pick up the dead bodies that have floated in with the tide, having onee (been cast into the sea, ‘This is awful | work, and few men are found with sufficiently strong nerves to last at it more than thirty minutes at a time. Allof the bodies are badly decom- posed, swollen to enormous proportions and of so dark a color that it is impos- sible to tell except by the hair whether the corpses are those of whites or ne- groes. General McKibben, United States army, and Adjutant General Scurry hare assumed entire charge of the city, with the result that conditions have very much improved as far as methods in the disposition of supplies and work [are concerned. Every effort is being made to induce ‘the destitute to leave, and they are transported free to wherever they wish to go. Cash is coming in in large sums for the relief of the sufferers, but the greatest need just now is for disin- fectants. Soldiers and policemen go about the city and impress at the point of guns, every able bodied man found, to aid in removing the Lodies of the dead and carcasses of animals that threaten a NINE KILLED OUTRIGHT, Special Car of Duncan Clark's Female Minstrel Troupe Wrecked. ‘The special car of Duncan Clark's female minstrel troupe was wrecked at Mounds, Ill., September 12, and of six- teen otcupants, nine are dead and six others are seriously injured, some of them perhaps fatally. ‘The wreck was caused by the break- ing of a car wheel on the theatrical car. Asthe wheel was rent asunder the ear veered around to the right and the rear end struck a switch engine on a parallel track. The force of the im- pact demolished the end of the car and the wreckage was strewn along the track for a hundred feet. ‘Mongotians File Claims. Claims aggregating 2 million dol- lars are the result of attempts to pre- vent the bubonic plague securing a foothold in Hawaii, -Japanese and Chinese quarters, where it was thought the disease might find lodging, were torn down. The Chinese ask about 2 million dollars and the Japanese about $200,000. The Japanese consul asked the Hawaiian authorities to set- tle the claims. President McKinley gave Governor Dole authority to ap- point a commission of five men to pass upon the claims. To this, however, the claimants objected. ‘heneneds Macmneset. All the correspondents in China are sending terrible stories of the whole- sale massacres of missionaries and na- tive Christians. It is asserted that during July between 15,000 and 30,000 converts were massacred in the north- ern provinces. Koulavitte Sends $10,000, Mayor Weaver of Louisville has ex- pressed $10,000 to the mayor of Galves- ton; the donation of Louisville to the sufferers in that city. _ TO THE WORLD AT LARGE, ‘The Situation at Galveston Summarized by & Newspaper Man, To Charles S. Diehl, General Mana- ger the Associated Press, Chicago: Galveston, Tex., Sept. 12—A_ sum- mary of the conditions prevailing at Galveston is more than human intellect can master. Briefly stated, the damage to property is anywhere between $15- 000,000 and $20,000,000 ‘The loss of life can not be computed. No list could be kept, and all is simple guess work. ‘Those thrown out to sea and buried on the ground wherever found will, each the “horrible total of at least 3,000 souls, My estimates of the loss on the isl- and of the city of Galveston and the immediate surrounding district is be- tween 4,000 and 5,000 deaths. The property on the island is wrecked; fully one-half totally swept out of existence altogether. What our needs are can be computed by the world at large by the statement here- with submitted much better than I could poss:bly summarize them, ‘The help must be immediate. R. G. Lows, Mesnmae Galenssen Wace Mayor Jones issued the following statement August 12: “Nearby cities are supplying and will supply sutieient food, clothing, ete., for immediate heeds. Cities farther away ean serve us best by sending money. Checks should be made payable to John Sealy, chairman of the finance committee. All supplies should come to W. A. MeVittie, chairman of the relief com- mittee, We have 25,000 people to clothe and feed for many weeks and to furnish with household goods. Most of these are homeless and the others will require money to make their wrecked residences habitable, From this the world may understand how much money we will need. All. com- munjeants will please accept this an- swer in lieu of direct response and be assured of the heartfelt gratitude of the entire population, “W. C. Joxes, Mayor.” FIFTY GHOULS SHOT DOWN. Sher Waluattes, The ghouls have been holding an orgie over the dead at Galveston. ‘The majority of these men were negroes, but there were also whites who took Partin the de-eeration of the dead. Some of them were natives and some had been allowed to go over from the .mainland — under the guise of “relief” work. Not only did they rob the dead, but they mutilated bodies in order’ to secure their booty. ‘Ten negroes were re- turning from a looting expedition. ‘They had stripped corpses of all valu- ables and the pockets of some of the looters were fairly bulging out with fingers of the dead, which had been ent off because they were so swollen the rings could not be removed. ‘The negroes were shot down and it has been determined that all found in the act of robbing the dead shall be summarily shot. Altogether fifty of the ghouls are said to have been killed. BURLINGTON TRAIN ROBBED, ne Man Went Through a Sleeper at Halgier, Neb. Westbound passenger train No. 3 on the Burlington railroad, which arrived in Denver Wednesday morning at 7:10 o'clock, was held up, five miles east of Haigler, Neb., at 1:40 o'eloele, by # lone masked robber. He secured about $400 in money, two diamond rings, one diamond stud, three gold watches and other articles of minor value, all the property of passengers. No women were molested. The robber, flourishing a revolver, made his way through the car, and forced the passengers to hand. over their vainables, threatening to shoot all who did not comply. A good deseription of the robber was secured and the Burlington officials at once offered a reward of $1,000 for his capture and conviction, NEW YORK DEMOCRATS, John F. Stanchiield Nominated for Gov- ‘The following ticket was named by the New York democratic state conven: tion: For governor—John P. Stanchfleld of Chemung. For lieutenant-governor — William Mackey of Erie. For secretary of state—John 'T. Nor- ton of Renssalear. For comptroller—Edwin 8. Atwater of Duchess. For treasurer—John B. Judson of Fulton For attorney general—Thomas F. Conway of Clinton, MeKinley's Niece Bride. Miss Mabel McKinley, a niece of the president, was married to Dr. H. L, Baer at Somerset, Pa. The President and Mrs, MeKinley were in attendance. KRUGER IN LORENZO MARQUES ‘The Announcement That the Transvaal President 14 on the Coast. President Kruger has arrived at Lo- renzo Marques. President Kruger is said to be feeble and apparently takes little interest in the military movements. He remains in his railway carriage, constantly reading psalms. It is believed that his ultimate intention is to take flight to- ward Koomatipoort. According to a small boy, @ eoine! dence is twins. BIG STRIKE IS CRDERED. ‘It Will Effect 142,000 Anthracite Coal Miners tn Pennsylvania. ‘The United Mine Workers of Amer- fea, on September 12, ordered a striice to take place September 17, in the an- thracite coal regions of Pennsylvania, which will call out 142,000 miners. ‘The miners ask an advance in wages, the abolition of company stores, and other grievances. Asa rule hard luck never associates with prudence and industry. LOCAL PERSPIRATION. and Cure, ‘Though the sweat glands are dis- tributed very generally over the body, local excess of perspiration is not un- common. Some people perspire freely about the angle of the jaw while eat- ing; In others, beads of perspiration may be seen standing in and near ihe eyebrows while the rest of the face is quite dry, and attacks of neuralgia are frequently accompanied by increased moisture over the painful area. Tho Darts most frequently and most un- Pleasantly affected with local sweating fare the hands and the feet. ‘The con- dition may vary from simple moisture ‘to. state in which the hands or face are constantly wet, or even actually ‘dripping. The greatest distress is caused by profuse sweating of the feet, for this may really incapacitate the ‘sufferer. In extreme cases, the skin of the feet is sodden and the epidermis peels off, leaving the soles raw and ‘tender. In addition, there 1s often a ‘disagreeable odor, which is not due to want of cleanliness, but which is ‘sometimes thought to be, and so men- ‘tal distress is added to physical. The treatment of perspiring fect 1s dimi- [eult, but by ao. means Bopeless:, for Whila the condition is not often cured, it can usually de ameliorated, Too much warm local bathing is not advis- able, and when the odor is not marked, once a day is often enough to wash the feet. Sometimes salt baths help. The feet should be patted—not rubbed— with a damp cloth, and then with a dry one several times a day, the stockings belng changed at the same time and the skin dusted with fuller’s earth, ox- ide of zine and magnesia, boric” acid and bismuth, Venetian tale, or some other smooth powder. The stockings may be dipped in a solution of boric acid after being washed, co that they ‘are constantly impregnated with this antiseptic. Sometimes better results are reached by using zine, bismuth, of borie acid in the form of an ointment. Sometimes lotions of tannin in solu- tion, or brandy, or some other astrin- gent will give relief. If these simple measures do not suffice, more severe ‘ones must be tried, but these should be undertaken only under the physi- clan's care—Youth’s Companion, COLD STORAGE FOOD. How Frozen Meat and Eggs Deteriorate. Meats frozen and kept in cold stor- age for long periods do not undergo organic changes in the ordinary sense —that Is, they do aot putrafy, soften or smelt bad, but they certainly do deteriorate in some intangible way, says the Sanitary Rezord. After a cer- tain time frozen meat loses some life principle essential to its nourishing quality. Such meat lacks flavor; it ts not well digested or assimilated, Its savorless condition cannot be remedied or successfully disguised by the use of sauces and condiments. Those who eat cold storage food for any length of time develop diarrhveal disorders, lose in weight, and would eventually starve to death unless a change of diet was made. The same reasoning applies to tinned fruits and vegetables. They should not be used after a certain pe- riod has elapsed. Especizlly should people be warned against using stale eggs and old milk and cream, Milk and cream are kept for days, rancid butter is washed and treated chemt- ally, but all food, and especially cold storage food, is damaged by long keep- ing, and will not nourish the body properly, There is the greatest abune- ance of food, but it does not satisty. Sicilia Sitar Gite The Chautauqua system of summer education was inaugurated in 1874. Its orginators were Lewis Miller, of Ak- ron, Ohio, and Rey. John H. Vincent, now a bishop of the Methodist Epis- copal church, These gentlemen, in August, 1873, selected a site for a sum- mer school on the northern shore of Chautauqua lake, Here an attractive city of more than 500 artistic and at- tractive cottages has been built, There is a well-equipped hotel and various buildings for public exercises, lectures and recitations, The first assembly began on the first Tuesday In August. 1874, and lasted three weeks. Since then an assembly has been held every year, The Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle was originated in 1878, and comprises a system of home read- ing circles, whose members pursue courses of reading laid out by the of- ficers in books and magazine articles approved by the board of counselors, ‘The total enroliment of the C. L. 8. C. since {ts organization has been more than £20,000, over 9,000 local reading circles have been organized in that time, and the present number of read- ers fs fully 25,000, Selnss Gieatteticie Meee The late Duke of Wellington was brought to Apsley House while an in- fant to be shown to his’ illustrious grandfather, the hero of Wellington. As the child lay in his nurse's arms the Duke bent over him, and the infant, crowing merrily, caught his grandsire by the rather prominent nose and pull- ed It, The nurse tried to interfere, but the Duke motioned to her to let the boy alone, and turning to Lord Derby, who was present, remarked: “I rather like the novelty!” Doubtless many years had elapsed since any one had dared to pull the Duke of Wellington's nose. Served Fastern Army, Gen. Sir Lloyd Williams Mathews. K. C, M. G, the Premier of Zanzibar and general of the army of the Sultan, who is on a visit to England, has been for twenty years in the service of the various rulers of that part 0: East Africa. Sir Lloyd took part in the Ashantee expedition of 1873-74, and for many years has prominently identified himself with the movement for the suppression of the slave trade in East Africa, Sg ta a me ‘The Danish author, Professor Bros. ball, best known as “Carit Etlar,” died recently at the age of 84. He was the most popular of all Danish pros writers. His books were mostly na tional historic novels. Several of his works ran through many editions anu were translated into forelg2 lan Frotesor of Embryology. Dr. Charles Atwood Kofoid has been appointed assistant professor of em- bryology tn the University of Call- fornia. He is now completing his work as superintendent of the state natural history survey of Illinios, and will not assime his new duties until the first of next year. HO! FOR OKLAHOMA! Pee ee ee cant 12 open to settiement, {Sabmaribg for THE KIOWA CHIE ‘devoted to noe ‘mation abet Uhese anda. ‘One. yout ia ‘einpte sebktaboma Monga rent ann pa seer Guide) with fine sectional toap, aah Rap eX stove, ois, “Aires, Dick f: Morgan, Perry, 0.‘ ‘Wakes Plans ens@ece, A Philadelphia woman makes a comfortable living in summer by tak- ing plants to “board.” When the wealthy residents of the city close thelr homes, preparatory to spending the season at the seaside, the woman calls and gets their plants and takes them to her own conservatory. Best for the Bowels, ‘No matter what ails you, headache to a cancer, you will never get well until your’ bowels’ are put right. CASCARETS help nature, cure you without @ gripe or pain, produce easy natural movements, cost you Just 10 cents to start getting your health back, CASCARETS Candy Cathartic, the genuine, put up in metal boxes, ‘every tablet has C. C. C. stamped on it, Be- ware of imitations, « Soap Lightens Labor. Tn the cleaning of a stove to use s little soap will lighten the labor. Wet @ flannel cloth and rub it over a piece of soap; then dip the cloth into the stove-polish and rub over the stove; finish with a dry cloth or brush. The polish will last much longer than it it had been used without the soap. ATLAS O* THE WORLD FREE. __ The Kansas City Oatmeal and Cereal Company, Kansas City, Mo., are giving away in connection with their brand of Atlas Oats a splendid Atlas, contain ing 91 colored maps and 97 pages of reading matter. It is the latest edition issued and none of our readers should be without it. Write them today re- garding it ‘lig Werte Genus, Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer, whose Plays once enjoyed a great vogue in ermany ta not yok oniey sorties for at east ‘one German, theater Mannheim, arranged a performance, which was well attended, of one of her Plays, to celebrate the centenary of Ber tit, are Tou Gag auate Foshmest It is the only cure for Swollen, Smarting, Burning, Sweating Feet, Corns and Bunions. Ask for Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder to be shaken into the shoes. At all Druggists and Shoe Stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Ad- dress Atien 8. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. ¥. sae Piece rie tuore tre 100 ner” of" lcbere, Aoating is, lana of Teo and til ote tort of ele obstructions fo aves between the nearest discovery to the pole and the pole itself. Perhaps some means of overcoming these dif- ficulties may present themselves with- ia the nett ceuttiy as eens bot ou in {ts progressive way. a Inst Soak cise eres 4 Dainty te A dainty idea that one may con- trive for oneself in a minute or two is the little cravat or inch-wide ribbon Velvet passed twice round the neck, the onde meting fogtber ins seat twist, and then hanging straight down on the front of the otic, thee en weighted with the dull gold ferrets, Baits Onteerh Ome feaconstataet cae, Pa nin Seon ia John H. Smith, the only native of Finland on the police force of New York city, recently secured the permis- sion of the elders of Calvary Presby- terlan church of that city to hold Sere he eect chureh building on Sunday afternoons. ‘The Finlanders of New York have never had a place of worship. err aren et sScmarmee es a. rigs nos ta pone acres of swamp land near Swan Bridges and will turn it into a breed- ies Stain dine becoming scarce, owing to the activity of northern hunters, and there is a steady demand for alligator skin. re ae te eee bumor that goes with it free. ee About thirty-five miles from Nisha- pour, in the Khorassan, are the cele- brated turquois mines of Persia) the nly mines inthe world producing tna stone. They are situated in a moun- tainous region, 5,000 or 6,000 feet above the sea level, and employ, per- ‘haps, 1,500 persons. rg ar a eo oe tr them n iano he Shah Is Propreive ‘The shah of Persia has sent an agent to this country for a brief ex- amination of the electric trolley sy# tem of Greater New York. The shah Purposes to establish a trolley car line between Teheran and a port on the Caspian sea, a distance of 93 miles, despre 8 ew nt Serene ot arvarts hirWant Detenden President Eliot of Harvard has de- clared himeelt tn favor of the ahi. waist man as student, Several mem- bers of the faculty complained of the fatigue costumes worn to lectures by students in June, but President Eliot did not sympathize with the complain- ing faction, ‘The Bluest Blue makes the whitest white, that's Red Cross Ball Blue, ee re Ballington Booth estimates that ‘over 1,000,000 persons have attended the meetings of the Volunteers of America during the year. 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St Louls, he, Zen Gocatest Aiawtenn Ratieetn A table showing the mileage con- trolled by the principal railroad com- panies of this country on July, 1900, has been compiled by the Railway Age. ‘The ten largest systems are as follows: New York Central.........-+++-10,480 Pennsylvania ....-..+--.+++++++10,392 Canadian Pacific.........--+++++10,018 Southern Pacific...........ss0++ 9,862 Chicago and Northwestern...... 8,468 Chicago, Burlington and Quincy 8,001 Southern Ratlway .......--++-++ 7,887 Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe.. 7,880 Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul 6.437 Union Pacific ..........++++++-+ 5,584 —From the New York Sun. In Acldulated Water. ‘When preparing apples for cooking drop them into acidulated water as fast as cut. This keeps them white and retains thelr flavor. A little lemon Juice is the best thing to acidulate the water with, but if nothing else is handy vinegar will do. Ladies Can Wear Shoes. One size smallerafterusingAllen’s Foot- Ease, a powder. It makes tight or new ‘thoes easy. Cures swollen, hot,eweating, aching feet, ingrowing nails, corns and bunions. Alldrazgists and shoe stores, 85c. Trial package FREE by mail. Ad Gress Alien 8. Olmsted, Le Rov. N.Y. * aan alcae wet ee” Vast quantities of shelled eggs are exparted from Russia in hermetically sealed tins, and are drawn off through a tap. One tin holds from 1,000 to 1,500 eggs. The eggs must be care- fully selected, or a bad one would spoil all the others in the can. WONDERFUL DISCOVERY! Ray's Eureka Ointment Remedies —Tt fs astonishing how quickly these remedies cure all discasest by anointing—enters at ‘once into the circulation, ‘They should be {n every house in case of Colds, Croups, Burns or any other accident. Retails at Ge; $2 per doz E.R, Ray & Co., Eu- eka Springs, Ark. Agents wanted. Victor Immannel’s Collectlons. Victor Emmanuel, the new king of Italy, besides having a good collection of old coins, has gathered what is prob- ably the finest collection of stamps owned by any one man in Europe. Up- on this he has spent many years and very large sums of money. It requires no experience to dye with PUTNAM FADELESS DYES. Simply boiling your goods in the dye fs all that’s necessary. Long Term ax Justice, Jullus C. Burgoyne of Laurel, Ind., aged 76, has been justice of the peace since August, 1866, having been first commissioned by Governor Oliver P, Morton. In all the many cases he has Passed upon in 34 years only one of his decisions has been reversed. PAAR A traveling salesman in each southern state; Soere ree fore aeest dress Penicks Tobacco Works, Penicks, Va erin alls Below 1,000,000 It is estimated that the population of Berlin will complete the 2,000,000 figure by the end of 1902, The present figure is about. 1,843,000. Red Cross Ball Blue makes clothes whiter than snow. 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Modern Hotel and Cottages, Beautiful Scenery and Pure Water. | Siloam Springs, Ark., is one of the best natural Summer eo ole South. The place abounds in spr of curative waters and nature has mada fe an ideal spot. Cheap Rates to Above Points. Write for illustrated folder, 8. G. WARNER, G. P. & T. A. J. H. MORRIS, Travi. Pass. Agt., een et | YES (gem Keep Out feet KE ) the : Nees) Wet | Sawyer’s Slickers ) semzeet “acetater Reped ute eae Sainemmeeseteae ae odeggh rig eredopenr dere tos eee == FAULTLESS nore a Rowe VslM abcd Sue Ae ue Pia alda) TOE-GUM Giie fait ids acoso IfaMicted with! Thamneanta Eva Wated DEMOCRA1S HAVING TROUBLE ABOUT IMPERIALISM. A. Interview with Judge McAtee, of the Oklahoma Supreme Court—Legal Aspect of the Question—Treaty Obligations—Dishonorable Inconsistency. An interesting and instructive interview with Judge John L. McAtee, associate justice of the Supreme court of Oklahoma, was recently printed in the St. Louis Globe Democrat. Judge McAtee has given close study to the legal aspects of the issue of "imperialism" as related to national history and the past and present attitude of political parties. He has searched the records of Democratic presidents, and shows that their position is distinctly opposed to that taken by Bryan in his speech of acceptance. Bryan's theory is traced to Calhoun, and the South Carolinian invented it to carry slavery into the territories. Benton denounced it as a new dogma. Judge McAtee's exposition of the subject is clear, logical and convincing. Judge McAtee says that there were a great many declarations in the Bryan speech of the principles of liberty with which all Americans sympathized, but that they were not applicable to the conditions which had been presented to the government in the Philippine and Porto Rican questions, but they were worked in rhetorically and not with direct and logical application to the subject. "When Mr. Bryan undertakes to deal with the facts," the judge said, "he does not include a consideration of all the things which should be considered, and he omits to include some things which should be included, and he includes some things which are not correct." Bryan's False Position: The reporter asked, "To what, particularly, do you refer?" "Well, take his proposition that the Porto Rico tariff law asserts that it is the doctrine of the Democratic party that the operation of the constitution is confined to the forty-five states. The Democratic party," Mr. Bryan says, "disputes this doctrine and denounces it as repugnant to both the letter and spirit of our organic law." "If Mr. Bryan's view is correct, the consequences would be very serious and embarrassing to the government, because it would result that the inhabitants of those territories, whether cannibal or otherwise, would have to be admitted to citizenship and the right of suffrage. It would necessarily follow, also, that a large portion of our federal revenue would disappear without remedy, by the free admission of vast quantities of the products of very cheap labor, to which the ports of the United States would, by such an interpretation, open, and would come into immediate competition with the products of American labor. "The United States, if this view were in fact correct, would probably have to drop the islands, no matter what motives of duty or obligation to other nations or to the Filipinos who have been friendly to us would dictate. "Nevertheless, all the great leaders of the Democracy are on record on the other side of this question. Several acts of congress were passed, in 1803, 1804 and 1805, providing a territorial government for Louisiana. It was provided that the military, civil and judicial power shall be bested in such person and persons and be exercised in such manner as the president should direct,' for maintaining and protecting the inhabitants of Louisiana in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property and religion.' The acts of congress passed for the territorial organization of Michigan and Illinois, in 1805 and 1809, were in like terms. Jefferson Against Bryan. "These acts, all approved by Thomas Jefferson, as president, excluded the idea that the people of the territories were entitled to any constitutional guarantees. The same course was pursued under the administrations of James Madison and James Monroe, for 1812, 1817, 1819 and 1822 acts were passed for the establishment of territorial governments for the territories of Oregon and Florida. The first act of congress organizing the territory of Florida provided that 'all military, civil and judicial powers shall be vested in such person as the president should appoint.' In 1836 congress passed an act providing a government for the territory of Wisconsin. It was thought that the 'laws of the United States, so far as they were applicable, might be extended to that territory, and this was accordingly done. President Jackson approved the act of organization. "Acts were afterward passed providing in like terms governments for the territories of Iowa and Minnesota, during the terms of President Van Buren and President Polik, who approved and signed them in 1848 and 1849. Constitution and Territories. Constitution and Territories. "These acts and approvals of organization are in flat contradiction of Mr. Bryan's proposition that the constitutional guarantees were operative in the territories, and that that is Democratic doctrine. In several instances, in these territorial organizations the whole power of government, with the power to give to the people and withhold all political and civil rights, were deposited in the president himself. The great men who founded the Democratic party and conducted its policy from 1800 up to 1850, including Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren and James K. Polk, approved of that interpretation of the constitution which 'confines the constitution to the states', and which Mr. Bryan says the present Democratic party 'disputes and denounces as repugnant to the letter and spirit of our organic law, and it is 'up to' men who have followed the Democratic leadership, as I have, to say whether they will take the acts of these great men who formed the Democratic party as the proper interpretations of what the policy and doctrine of that party have been, or whether they will take Mr. Bryan's best guess as to what those great Democratic leaders pronounced." The theory·which Mr. Bryan now declares to be Democratic doctrine was never invented until Mr. Calhoun undertook to announce it in the senate in 1847, for the purpose of carrying slavery into the territories. Senator Benton, who was certainly one of the most eminent leaders the Democratic party has had, describes it in his "Thirty Years in the Senate" as a "new dogma." He says that Mr. Webster completely exposed the fallacy of the proposition, and that the doctrine had never been heard of in the country before. The Dred Scott Case. "In the Dred Scott case, decided by the Supreme court in 1856, Judge Taney followed Mr. Calhoun, and announced the same doctrine, and the pro-slavery party persisted in it until 1860, when it nominated Breckinridge for the presidency and declared in its national platform that during the existence of a territorial government 'all citizens of the United States have an equal right to settle, with their property, in the territory, without their rights, either of person or property, being destroyed or impaired by congressional or territorial legislation.' "The Republican party accepted the gage of battle, thus thrown down by the pro-slavery Democrats, and announced in its national platform for the campaign of that year, that: "7. The new dogma, that the constitution of its own force carries slavery into any or all of the territories of the United States, * * * * is at variance with the explicit provisions of that instrument itself; * * * * is revolutionary in its tendencies and subversive of the peace and harmony of the country.' Election of Lincoln. "Upon that proposition Mr. Lincoln was elected president. The slave states seceded because of this proposition, now again announced by Mr. Bryan, following John C. Calhoun and Judge Taney. "That the constitutional guarantees do not go into the territories until congress so provides by express legislation, has been announced by Chancellor Kent and by Mr. Justice Story in their commentaries and by the Supreme court of the United States, both before the Civil war and since, except as to the Dred Scott case, and perhaps some cases which followed it, while Judge Taney remained as chief justice of the Supreme court. "It would seem that the result of the war would have settled forever that interpretation now sought to be revived by Mr. Bryan. Its only effect would be to interpret the constitution in such a way as to diminish the power of the federal government to deal with its enemies in time of war. "Mr. Bryan has misstated the doctrine. It was the doctrine of the Calhoun-Dred Scott-Judge Taney proslavery Democrats, and for the promotion of slavery alone. You can see the discussion in the second volume of Benton's "Thirty Years in the Senate." Bryan a False Prophet. What do you think of the other propositions advanced by Mr. Bryan? "His principal propositions are all equally fallacious. He asserts that the administration has wilfully violated the principles of liberty and has deprived the Filipinos of their freedom and that 'history furnishes no example of turpitude baser than ours if we now substitute our yoke for the Spanish yoke.' All of Mr. Bryan's large professions of generosity of sentiment and principle are based upon the assumption that, having gone to the Philippines, we can just as easily come away again, or as Chairman Jones is said to have expressed it a short time since. 'We went there in ships, and I suppose we can come away in ships'—or perhaps he said 'boats.' "Those who are not responsible need not be definite in their plans or propositions. The country has had great difficulties to deal with, and somebody has had to deal with them, not upon glittering and rhetorical propositions, but upon the facts and the law. "It would be a great gratification to many curious observers to see Mr. Bryan shuffle together all the noble and irrelevant sentiments which he has quoted from others and the large and generous and irrelevant sentiments which he expresses on his own account and be compelled to mix those up with the actual facts of any given case and see what would come of it. When Mr. Bryan begins to soar, if he would only start from the facts and conditions which have to be dealt with, or when he comes down and lights if he would sometimes light on the facts and conditions which have to be dealt with, we might guess how he would act in a given case if the management should be actually intrusted to him. Dewey at Manila. "When Admiral Dewey destroyed the Spanish navy the Spanish sovereignty was obliterated. The obligation to protect persons and property on the islands, and preserve order and force obedience to law upon them, passed over, under the law of nations, and devolved upon the United States. "This country became, by conquest and by the treaty which Mr. Bryan advised, responsible to all law-abiding citizens upon the islands. It is a simple principle of international law that the sovereign is bound to protect every person who obeys the laws and remains in the country. Any neglect to do so is a breach of international law, and gives to the nation of which the person is a citizen just ground of complaint, and, satisfaction being refused, for war. "And in case of mobs and popular violence, public faith requires that full satisfaction should be made by the governing power in cases in which the government could, by the exercise of proper care, have prevented them. "The law as I have stated it is to be found in all the standard authorities upon international law, from Vattel to the present time. Agnivaldo and Bryan: It would, no doubt, have suited Aguinaldo to have carved on the internal government of the islands, including the unrestrained collection and the unrestrained expenditure and appropriation of taxes, while the power and resources of America were employed in sustaining a navy to protect him and to pay the indemnities incurred by their ignorance, viciousness or savagery at the cost and out of taxes collected from the American people. By that arrangement Aguinaldo and his particular Tagalo followers would have had all the pleasure of domination, while the United States would have had all the responsibility to make compensation in damages for injuries suffered by citizens of other nations residing in the Philippines, as well as for the injuries suffered by law-abiding Filipinos themselves, by reason of nobs, riots, insurrections or any of the multitudinous violence liable to be perpetrated under any affection of government which Aguinaldo and his followers would have set up there. "Mr. Bryan has entirely ignored these obligations and liabilities." Bryan Becomes Ridiculous "What do you think about Mr. Bryan's statement that the 'consent' of the people should have been procured first?" "The practice of the United States has been to take possession of the territories which have come under our jurisdiction in the confidence that we may secure the 'consent' of their occupants by extending to them our institutions and the protections of our government. "How would Mr. Bryan proceed to obtain the consent of these multifarious tribes, of different races and origins, and speaking so many different languages, and with so dwarfed and undeveloped a capacity for political intelligence?" "There are about 1,000,000 members of the Visayan tribe upon the island of Luzon, and about 1,000,000 of the same tribe upon other islands. They are hostile to the Tagals. Would Mr. Bryan indicate to which of these two tribes the government of these islands should be 'surrendered?' Shall it be given to Aguinaldo, who incited the insurrection, and brought on the bloodshed, or shall it be surrendered to the Visayans, who are equally intelligent, equally numerous, almost entirely friendly toward our government, and peaceful, or shall it be surrendered to the Moros, who are almost as numerous and much more savage and warlike? And when the management and government of these islands is surrendered, and the United States troops are withdrawn, what tribe will prevail, what government and institutions will be established, and what will be the condition of ascendancy, subordination or equality of the fifty or more tribes who are not in rebellion? Consent of Governed. "One of the two largest islands of the Philippines is Mindanao. It is governed by an accomplished savage named Datto Mandy. He is the head of the Moros and has unquestioned powers of life and death. Recently a newspaper man who was visiting the island expressed a wish to see him in the attitude of striking down an enemy, and when he was made to understand the wish he had a sword brought to him, together with one of his servants, and was only prevented by way of exhibiting his martial capacity, from cleaving the skull of his subject, by the intervention of an American officer, who was present. In obtaining the 'consent' of this portion of the Philippines, would it be the wish of Mr. Bryan to have the 'consent' of Datto Mandy, or of the slave whose skull he was about to split for amusement a few days ago, or do we understand him to say that now that the United States has taken these islands by conquest and by treaty, which he himself advised, that the opportunity of ameliorating suffering, relieving the helpless from the brutal, and establishing the institutions of civilization and Christianity among these people, should be abandoned and thrown away, while Datto Mandy and his like sacrifice the lives of their dependent subjects at their will. Bryan Ignores Truth "Mr. Bryan may ignore the condition of things which prevails in the Philippines and declare what the great party which he has come to speak for, in so singularly controlling a manner, shall believe on this subject, but to leave the mass of these people in the hands of these half-civilized, semi-barbary and barbaric rulers seems to plainer minds simple cruelty, or, as Mr. Bryan would probably say, 'brutality.' "The Ameracon commissioners have certified to the American people that the people of those islands are incapable of self-government. The American commissioners who speak concerning facts coming under their immediate observation, is superior in moral and logical force to the inferences of politicians speaking forth political documents for campaign purposes. "We have been dealing for fifty years with the Orientals, and to-day a myriad of the Chinese race surround our honored and beloved representatives and fellow-Americans in Pekin, clamoring and thirsting for their blot. It is not charity, and there is no obligation upon us, to deal with these people or with those who are in an analogous condition, by either leaving them alone in their barbarism, or by attempting to deal with them upon the supposition that they are civilized and capable of self-government until we have evidence that they are so. And the United States ought never to give up the control which it has acquired over the Philippines, by conquest and treaty, until it can be assured of the safety of its own citizens, and of all law-abiding citizens of the Filipinos themselves, in every square foot of the Philippine archipelago. His plan ignores and denies all national responsibility and obligation. "Mr. Bryan makes statements about the government taking away the freedom of those people." Those people were never free. They do not know that freedom means. Our freedom consists of free institutions. They never had them, except by American aid and all intelligent Americans certainly know that this is true." Bryan Really for McKinley's Polley. "What do you think of Mr. Bryan's declaration that the Filipinos ought to have a stable government." "It is a belated promise. The President, in February of 1899, declared that: "It is our duty to emancipate and redeem them and set them in the pathway of the world's civilization. * * * The treaty now commits the free and unfranchised Filipinos to the guiding hand and liberalizing influence, the generous sympathies, the uplifting education, not of their American masters, but of their American emancipators." "And when the treaty of Paris was ratified by the Senate on the 14th of February, 1899, the Senate declared that, "It is the intention of the United States to establish on said islands a government suitable to the wants and conditions of the inhabitants of said islands, to prepare them for local self-government." "You understand what I mean, then, by saying that Mr. Bryan's promise and the promise of the Democratic platform are belated. They are only promises, and they are promises made a year and a half later than better promises made by the President and the Senate. "Besides, the President is well on the way toward establishing a 'stable' government in the Philippines, and is supplementing his promises and the promises of the Senate by performance, not only in the Philippines, but in Cuba, where the administration is rapidly preparing the people to live under a constitution of their own device, which will give to them complete self-government." Bryan and Democracy. "Do you think Mr. Bryan really represents the Democracy of the coun "Well, he undoubtedly represents what remains of the pro-slavery Democrats and the Populized Democracy, which he has created. I am a very busy man, most of the time very much overworked, and had no time to examine carefully the financial question in 1896. I supposed at that time, in company with multitudes of Republicans, as well as Democrats, that the platform of 1896 represented what would have been best for the country. You will remember that the Republican Oklahoma platform of that year declared for the free coinage of silver, and most of the Oklahoma Republicans strenuously advocated that platform, but when prosperity forthwith began to come immediately upon the defeat of Mr. Bryan, and his prophecies were all refuted and prosperity came, I investigated the subject more closely, and I concluded that the old leaders of the Democratic party were right, and that the proposition of 16 to 1, as announced by Mr. Bryan, was only a disturbing element in the business of the country. "I made up my mind that the influences which could throw all of those men overboard and take for leaders in their places the small try that now surround Bryan, and Mr. Bryan did not come out of a party to which I owed any allegiance whatever, and that, having misled me in the campaign of 1896, these men should not mislead me again; nor do I believe that the people of this country, who must know with almost practical unanimity that those people misled them on the money question in 1896, would think them any more likely to be right now than they were then, or any better qualified for wise and prudent leadership now than they were then. The rank and file of a great party, such as the Democratic party was, have the right to demand of those who seek prominence and secure control of the influences of the party that they shall lead them right, and I know that these managers have misled the Democratic party on the money question, as well as on the question of the extension of the country by acquiring possessions, from the traditional and established policy of the historical Democratic party of the country." Bryan Looking for Office. "What do you think of the spirit of Mr. Bryan's speech of acceptance?" "If Mr. Bryan's statements are accepted, he and his people are animated only by Christian 'love' and the spirit of 'loving their neighbors better than themselves.' He says 'our (that is, his) feet are shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace, and we (that is, he) wear the breastplate of righteousness, and we (that is, he) carry the sword of the spirit,' and that the others (that is, President McKinley and those who support his policy) are 'making merchandise of human blood, addressing arguments to the nation's pride,' putting up Phariseelism to chast 'church members,' are guilty of 'the swaggering, bullying, brutal doctrice, with which they are managing in the Philippines and that for what they have done history furnishes no example of turpitude baser than ours, if we now substitute our yoke for the Spanish yoke.' The Crown of Thorns. "Now, I remember that crown of thorns pressing on the brow of labor, which he was sworn at Chicago, in 1896, never to rest until he had life, and now, I think, can it be that he has forgotten that the 'brow of labor' is bleeding with the crown of thorns, and has abandoned that 'brow of labor,' and is hurrying away with that light and airy and irresponsible oratorical flight of his to new scenes and objects of oratorical triumph to relieve the Filipinos from the 'yoke' which they labor under, by reason of the 'turpitude' of President McKinley? According to Mr. Bryan, all are base save only he and they who follow him. "Mr. Sibley must have been making a study of Mr. Bryan when he wrote that somebody was "Fighting phantoms for foemen, boasting your bravery. Prove yourselves honest, charging others with knavery; Abandoning principles, having no plan; Lauding as statesmanship catch as catch can." Student Princes. The German crown prince is to complete his education at Bonn and his brothers will also study at the university there in due course. The emperor has purchased Prof. Finkler's villa, a fine large house, with a pleasant garden, as a residence for, any Prussian princes who may be studying at Bonn, and it will be occupied next winter and spring by the crown prince. Mark Twain's Wife as Critic. It is said that Mrs. Clemens, the wife of Mark Twain, is his most severe critic. All that he writes passes under his eye, and if she disapproves of any part of it there is nothing for the genial humor to do but to write it over or allow it to go to the waste basket. Men set the powder to blast women's reputations, but it is other women who fire the blast. A TAX-PAYER'S VIEW. Mr. Editor: I have read the discussion in your columns on the subject of fire insurance, and, with your permission, I desire to give my experience as a property owner and former resident in a state where there is a law prohibiting fire insurance companies to combine to charge certain rates. When this bill was before our legislature I championed it, but afterward saw it was folly and tended to raise rates. A rate on a building or stock is made scientifically. The fire insurance companies see what the profit or loss has been on a certain kind of property for several years. They then fix a rate on a standard building and charge an addition for those that are not up to the standard, thus encouraging good construction. These rates are given agents, and when a man improves his property his rate is decreased. If laws are passed to prohibit companies from using these rates, invariably they stick to the old rates and when a man improves his property he has no advantage in his rate. These laws therefore keep rates up and companies can not pool their experience to see if they can be reduced. Since 1893, rates in all states in this country haying no anti-compact laws have materially declined. The average rate in these states for twelve years has been $1.11 on every $100, or eleven points lower than 1893. The average rate in states loving laws preventing combinations or rates for the same period is $1.27 or one point lower than 1893. In the last seven years rates of fire insurance have been lowered 17.2 per cent while in anti-compact states they have been lowered only 7.8 per cent. In Kansas, for example, which has an anti-compact law, the average rate for fifteen years is $1.35. In states having no such law it is $1.07 for the same time. The average rate in Kansas since 1893 is $1.32, in states having no anti-compact fire insurance law, $1.11. States passing such laws, and there are sixteen, hoped to force companies to reduce rates, but it will be seen such was not the result. These figures are taken from the state insurance departments. These anti-compact states like Kansas have not participated in the benefit of reduced rates because the companies were not allowed to combine and see if the results warranted a decrease. Kansas to-day does not know whether its rates are correct simply because the companies cannot figure out their combined experience. Knowing that to abandon rates is to invite disaster, companies will stick to the old rates, therefore anti-compact law states get no benefit at all of new rates, based upon standards that give reductions. I, for one, see that these laws are failures and should be repealed. Left-Handed Parties Left-handed parties amused some of the Chicago stay-at-homes during the hot summer. The invitations are written with the left hand and the host greets you with the left instead of the right hand. The guests must draw pictures or write with their left hands and prizes are given for the best and worst effects. To Supersede Coolies. The electric fan bids fair to supersede the punkah coolies of India. The regular price for four coolies to divide up the twenty-four hours is 6 cents each. With electrical fans the work can be done for one-third of the cost, and considerable inconvenience may be avoided. C. P. Huntington's Shrewdness It is related of the late C. P. Huntington that a young man once called on him to sell some much-needed rails at $75 a ton. Mr. Huntington said he had rails to sell himself, amused the caller by a half-hour's chat and got him to sell at $66 a ton, with a six-months' note for pay. Then before the man left Mr. Huntington discounted the note for 6 per cent off, and paid the cash. Sermon and Stud Poker Writing from a ship en route to Cape Nome, a Thayer, Kan., man says: "This Sunday morning Rev. M. Scott is preaching a sermon up in the bow. Down below a stud poker game is the attraction and 'aft' a dance is in progress." Glasgow Bays a Picture The Glasgow corporation has just given $2,000 for a picture, "The Coming of Spring," by E. A. Hornel, the most advanced impressionist artist in Scotland, one of the original members of the "Glasgow School." Mr. Hornel's works are for the most part gem-like color schemes resembling mosaics. Too Ill for Nursing A nurse visiting her patients in a Cape Town hospital ward, found her favorite soldier fast asleep. Pinned to his coverlet was a scrap of paper on which he had scrawled, "To it to be nussed to-day, respectfully J. M." Streets Paved vth Glass In Geneva, Switzerland, glass blocks are used to pave the streets. They are made of the refuse from the glass factories and give great satisfaction. They are pleasant to the eye and very durable. Alfred Vanderblit and John Davis, two of the Newport summer colony's millionaires, shocked the pious people of the resort on a recent Sunday by racing their automobiles through the streets just as the churches were dismissed. Status of Foreigners' Wives The decision just rendered by the United States appraisers declaring that American women who are married to foreigners are alliens is regarded by lawyers to be perfectly legal, as it is based on recognized international law. DEATH LIST WILL PROBABLY EXCEED 1,500. As Details Are Developed It Becomes More Apparent That One of the Most Awful Tragedies of Modern Times Has Visited the City—Inhabitants Were In a Death Trap. The first reports from the appalling disaster which has stricken the city of Galveston do not seem to have been magnified. Communication with the island city by boats indicate that the death list will exceed 1,500, while the property loss cannot be estimated, although it will reach several millions of dollars. The burial of the dead has already begun. At the army barracks near San Antonio a report is current that more than 100 United States soldiers lost their lives in Galveston. The stricken city is in imminent danof a water famine and strenuous efforts are making to supply the sufferers. Reports from the interior confirm the loss of life and destruction of property first reported. Richard Spillane, a well known Galveston newspaper man who reached Houton after a terrible experience, gives the following account of the disaster at Galveston: "The wreck of Galveston was brought about by a tempest so terrible that no words can adequately describe its intensity, and by a flood which turned the city into a raging sea. The weather bureau records show that the wind attained a velocity of eighty-four miles an hour, when the measuring instrument blew away, so it is impo-sible to tell what was the maximum. "The storm began about 2 o'clock Saturday morning. Previous to that a great storm had been raging in the gulf and the tide was very high. The wind at first came from the north and was in direct opposition to the force from the gulf. While the storm in the gulf piled the water upon the beach side of the city, the north wind piled the water from the bay into the bay part of the city. "About noon it became evident that the city was going to be visited by disaster. Hundreds of residences along the beach front were hurriedly abandoned, the families fleeing to dwellings in higher portions of the city. Every home was opened to the refugees, black or white. The wind was rising constantly and it rained in torrents. The wind was so fierce that the rain cut like a knife. By 3 o'clock the waters of the gulf and bay met and by dark the entire city was submerged. The flooding of the electric light plant and the gas plants left the city in darkness. To go out on the streets was to court death. The wind was then at cyclonic velocity, roofs, cisterns, portions of buildings, telegraph poles and walls were falling and the noise of the wind and the crashing of the buildings was extremely terrifying. The wind and waters rose steadily from dark until 1:45 o'clock Sunday morning. During all this time the people of Galveston were like rats in traps. The highest portion of the city was four to five feet under water, while in the great majority of cases the streets were submerged to a depth of ten feet. To leave a house was to drown. To remain was to court death in the wreckage. "Such a night of agony has seldom been equaled. Without apparent reason the waters suddenly began to subside at 1:45 a.m. Within twenty minutes they had gone down two feet, and before daylight the streets were practically freed of the flood waters. In the meantime the wind had weeded tb the southeast. "Very few, if any, buildings escaped injury. There is hardly a habitable, dry house in the city. When the people who had escaped death went out at daylight to view the work of the tempest and the flood they saw the most horrible sights imaginable. "The flood left a slime about one inch deep over the whole city, and unless fast progress is made in burying corpse and carcasses of animals there is danger of pestilence." CLEVELAND HAS DECLINED The Answer to the President's Offer of the "Pence" Appointment. Ex-President Cleveland has declined the president's appointment as a member of the international board of arbitration under The Hague treaty. Ex-President Harrison has accepted the appointment. Mrs. O'Day Gets Divorce Mrs. Alice O'Day has been granted a divorce from her husband, Colonel John O'Day, the Springfield, Mo., millionaire. She is given property worth $250,000. Unlora Suffer In Porto Rico Labor leaders report to the New York Central Federated union that they have received a letter from more than 100 representatives of Porto Rican labor organizations, who have been imprisoned in the municipal prison at San Juan. The letter says that all labor organizations known to exist are suppressed by the military authorities. Those now in prison, it is said, include the presidents, secretaries and members of the arbitration committees of nearly all the labor unions of any consequence in Porto Rico. A Caldwell County, Kan., Banker Dead. Abner Bourne, cashier of the Stock Exchange bank of Caldwell, Kan., died of congestion of the stomach. Mr. Bourne was formerly connected with the First National bank at Hutchinson and the State bank at Harper. More Students Than Ever at Kens employees Ivan Ever at Kansas. The enrollment at the university of Kansas is 150 more than on the same last year. For present indications the attendance will be as large as any of the school officials expected it to be. Grain and Live Stock Quotations From Kansas City, Chicago and St. Louis. KANSAS CITY. Mules-Best price ranges from $55 to $135 according to size and weight. GALVESTON ASKS FOR AID. An Appeal to the Outside World—The President Orders Tents Sent. The great storm has left Galveston helpless and her stricken people are compelled to appeal to the outside world for aid. The President has received a telegram from Mr. Spillane of Houston, Tex., in behalf of the mayor and citizens' committee of Galveston, which in a few words gives the President the general situation in Galveston and says that money, food and clothing are needed immediately; also that they must be furnished by the state and nation. He calls upon the President for aid. The President has replied, stating that he had instructed the Secretary of War to immediately furnish tents and provisions for the destitute people in Galveston and expressing his sympathy with the suffering. President McKinley also sent a telegram of sympathy to Governor Sayers in which he says that he will instruct the secretary of war to supply tents and provisions to the flood sufferers upon his request. FIRST SIGNS OF SETTLEMENT The Chinese Emperor Gives Earl Li Ful Power. The Chinese minister at Washington has received an imperial edict conferring on Li Hung Chang extraordinary power for the complete settlement of the Chinese trouble. It gives him an authority to make any terms according to his own discretion, without referring them to the emperor. This is unusual authority, and it is asserted at the Chinese legation, gives Li Hung Chang credentials adequate to meet all objectives heretofore raised as to his power to negotiate for peace. The Chinese minister in London, Sir Chih Chen Lou Fen Luh, has received credentials authorizing the opening of peace negotiations. It is intimated that similar powers have been conferred upon the Chinese ministers at other capitals and that their credentials are such as will satisfy the American and European governments. SABINE PORTS ARE SAFE No Loss of Life at Port Arthur or at the Pass. Sabine Pass and Port Arthur passed through the terrific storm of Saturday night with comparatively little damage. At Port Arthur the water spread over the townsite, but it did not reach a depth sufficient to destroy buildings. The town pleasure pier was washed completely away, as was also the pier in front of the Gates and Ellwood homes. The dredge Florida, property of the New York Dredging company, which cut the Port Arthur channel, sunk at the mouth of Taylor's bayon. There was no other property lost of consequence. At Sabine Pass the water reached a depth of about three feet, but only small buildings near the water front were washed away. MAINE ELECTION Republicans Carry the State by 31,000—Democratic Vote Increased. Maine went republican at the state election, September 10, by about 30,000 majority, the usual republican majority. The republican state ticket was elected with all four congressmen and a great majority of the legislature. The Democrats gained considerable satisfaction from the returns, showing, as they did, a gain in four years of from 18 to 20 per cent. This increase over the 1896 vote did not apply to any particular locality, but seemed to be general throughout the state. General Wheeler Leaves the Army. General Joseph Wheeler, a picture- esque figure in the United States army has retired to private life, having reached the age limit of 64 years. General Wade will be temporarily in charge of the Department of the Lakes until General Otis, appointed to the place, arrives. General Wheeler will go to his home in Alabama and follow- ing this he and his daughters will take a trip abroad. The worst enemy of labor is a work- ingman who will not work. The Kansas City World Sold. The Kansas City World, an evening newspaper which has been the pro- perty of the Scripps-McRae league since 1896, has passed from its hands and will hereafter be published by F. F. Kellogg and L. V. Ashbaugh. With the change of management Arthur Hopkins, managing editor, will retire from the paper. Big Income of Beggar Big business When searched, a New York beggar was found to have 531 cents in his coat. He had collected them in less than half a day. At this rate his income would be $2,630 a year.