The American Citizen

Oldest and Best Weekly paper devoted to the Race in this section of the Country Oldest and WEEKLY MEDIUM FOR Giving Value Rece THAT'S WHAT W Ladies' Heavy Button Shoes, sizes 3, 3½ and 4, at 50c Ladies' fine Shoes, three dif- ent styles, $1.75 kind, $1.45 Men's heavy Shoes, wide or narrow toes, $1.65c. kind, 1.25 Boys' Shoes, good quality at 1.25 White, Red or Grey, all Wool Fannel, per yard 25c Light or dark Tumis Flannel, per yard, 5c Men's Overall, at 45c Men's heavy Socks, at 5c Boys' Winter Caps, at 25c Bennett The Sunflo WEEKLY MEDIUM FOR ADVERTISERS WITH Giving Values for Money Received Ladies' Heavy Button Shoes, sizes 3, 3] and 4, at 50c Ladies' fine Shoes, three different styles, $1.75 kind. $1.45 Men's heavy Shoes, wide or narrow toes, $1.65c. kind. 1.25 Boys' Shoes, good quality at 1.25 White, Red or Grey, all Wool Fannel, per yard 25c Light or dark Tumis Flannel, per yard, 5c Men's Overall, at 45c Men's heavy Socks, at 5c Boy's Winter Caps, at 25c Men's Winter Caps, at 25c Men's Underwear at 25c Ladies Vests, heavy, at 25c Ladies Fleeced Lined Hose 15c kind, at 10c Ladies' Corsets at 25c Childrens' Houndkerchiefs, 6 for 25c Wide Red Ribbon, worth 15c. and 19c. for 10c Five pieces 2c. Matting, your choice for 15c Rev. John T. Morgan, of Washington, D C., Mount Pleasant Baptist church, was an agreeable caller this week. Nat Adams the prodigal sor has returned ed to town Miss Cordie Roberts, who has spent two months in Springfield, Mo., with relatives, returned home last week. Her. Wm Alpin, of 933 Walker ave. rue, has removed to 109 Armstrong avenue. Green B. Anderson, formerly Constable in this city, is in town again from Texas, visiting old friends. Mrs. Sylvia Robinson, of 412 Oak land avenue, has, after several years absence, returned to the Popular block to live. Prof Mayme is back from the East we haven't learnt whether the better half compaired him or not Judge I. F. Brad ey, our well known and popular attorney, and candidate for Presidential Elector, delivered a telling, spell binding political speech in White Cloud, Kas , last Saturday, to a large audience of colored and white. Pina Bell, a colored woman, was judged insincere this week in the Probate Court. Mr. Green B. Anderson, who is in the city, comes direct from the awful city of Galveston, Texas. He escaped the dreadful deluge, but has heart rendering stories to relate. He will remain several week in our city to recuperate from the dreadful feelings left after his late experience. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas, of North St. street, a fine girl. All are doing nicely. Suppose you heard about the wedding in the Saa Foam block we've been telling you about it long enough Washington Temple No. 25, and Rebecca Tabernacle No. 11, Sir E. Henderson, C. M and Dt. M. Harris, P. P., gave a thoroughly up to date literary and musical entertainment at M. and O. Hall, September 19th, to a large and appreciative audience, the participants being composed of some of the best local talent. When the writer says that each member of the programme rendered deserves the highest praise, we feel that he is not sying too much. The calling together this assembly of members and friends of the order was the occasion of paying off publicly two endowments—one an account of the late Sir Isaac Beasley by Washington Temple, and the other to the late Dt. Fannie Russell by Rebecca Tabernacle, G. C. S. Hopkins and J. D. G. I. J. W Wilson delivered a timely and well received address immediately following the auvitessed the payments of the endowments. The corner stone of Kirk Solomon Baptist church, on North 3rd, street, was laid Sunday by the Operative Son's Lodge of G. U. O. O. F. Quite a crowd witnessed the ceremonies. Mrs Annie Kenny of Colorado is the guest of her sister Miss Mary Hopes of Virginia avenue Rev. B. F. Watson, Secretary of the Church Ext. U. Department of the A. M. E. denomination, was in the city this week. VOL 13, NO.32 435 Minnesota Avenue, GOV. ROSEVELT SHAWNEE PARK, Armourdale, Kansas, TO-MORROW. KANSAS CITY KANS THE d Best W FOR ADVERTISE dues for received WE ARE 50c Men's Winter Caps at 1.45 Men's Underware at 1.25 Ladies Vests, heavy at 1.25 Ladies Fleeced Lines 15c kind, at 25c Ladies' Corsets at 5c Children's Houndker f.r. 45c Wide Red Ribbon, v and 19c. for 25c Five pieces 2 c. Ma- choice for Best Weekly FOR ADVERTISERS WITH es for Money reived. WE ARE DOING. Men's Winter Caps, at 25c Men's Underware at 25c Ladies Vests, heavy, at 25c Ladies Fleeced Lined Hose 15c kind, at 10c Ladies' Corsets at 25c Children's Hoodkerchiefs, 6 for 25c Wide Red Ribbon, worth 15c, and 19c, for 10c Five pieces 2 in. Matting, your choice for 15c & Co., Power Store KANSAS CITY, KAS. Mrs. Luila Johnson left this we k in company with her brother Mr. Theo Smith of New York on an extended vis it home to participate in a family re union, Louisville—"In old Kentucky." OUR PRESENT AND NEXT COUNTY ATTORNEY E. A. Enright, the present County Attorney, is a candidate for re-election. During his term of office he has acquitted himself with credit, and as a lawyer he ranks with the best. His administration has been conducted with an eye single to the best interest of the county. In recommending him for the consideration of the voters in Wyandotte County, we feel conscientious about the matter because, besides being a man and a republican, he has endeavored to do his duty by the whole people, the negro as well. He is entitled to another term for he is as honest and straightforward in his efforts to do justice to the people as any man at could be chosen for the office. Stand by him, tell your friends to do the same, and you and no one else will have courage to regret. S. H. H. E. A. ENRIGHT COUNTY ATTORNEY The Emancipation celebration at Kerr's Park, on the 22nd, in the point of attendance, was the largest; yet witnessed in the several years this occasion has been celebrated. Gov. Wm E. Stanley, as ora or the day, of the delivery a model Emancipation day oration untainted with politics, and Dr. G. H. Browne, our honored townman, delivered an address that evoked much applause. The little infant of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Wilson won the prize in the "baby show." The parade to the Park was per leipates in by a number of representatives from different civic societies, the old soldiers, the Fire Laddies of color from the two cities, and the Davis Military Band. AGENTS WANTED GERMAN ELECTRIC RAZOR HONE.—Guaranteed equal to the best Hone made. Can use water, oil or lather. Will last a life time. Each Hone packed in neat card-board case. Every one perfect Just the thing for private use. Price, 75c. We want an agent in each township to whom exclusive sale will be given. Write for sanpe and agent's outfit. Sent by mail. A Money coiner. Address, MARSH MFG, CO., No, 542 West Lake St., Chicago. --- AMERICAN A RECORD OF THIRTEEN YEARS, NEVER MISSING AN ISSUE, REACHING THOUSANDS OF HOMES OF OUR READERS AT HOME. Charity Begins at Home and Spreads Abroad. There is a selection of men on the Republican ticket in Wyando to county that are unquestionably reliable and thus worthy, who stand for the principles of the grand old party in every sense of the word. A vote for such a class of men means that the voter is a thinking, interested and thoroughly alive citizen, who believes in doing that which he believes is to the best interest of himself and everybody else as well. The Republican party has always stood for the best interest of the largest number of people. To it we must yet look for all that is really good and honestly beneficial. The county ticket that all should take most pride in standing for not only to the interest of voting yourself, but asking your friends to vote with you—is headed by Hon. J. K. Cubbinson, nominee for Senator from the 4th. District. A man of Mr. Cubbinson's calibre needs no introduction to the people in this county—nor in the state, because wherever and whenever the party wants a convincing, uncompromising advocate of the true doctrines of Republianism—"J. K.." is there. His eloquence has been heard far beyond the confines of our state and the citizens should deem it an honor to vote for such a noble representative of the "stand up for Kansas" man, as Hon. J. K. Cubbinson, our next State Senator. H. A. B ilev, candidate for Representative of the 9th. District, is a republican who is not an experiment, he has been there before and his record is of such a commendable nature that every honest voter believes it but just and right to send him back another term. G. L. Coat s, representative from the 10th. District, is another one of those republicans who stands for principle, and if elected will beyond all questions come up to the standard, far beyond the most sanguine expectations of the doubting Thomases. Give him your vote. D. D. Hoag, nominee from the 17th. District, is a candidate for re-election, and as a man in whom the utmost confidence can be placed, to do the right thing by his constituents. He will undoubtedly be elected because he is the right man for the right place. Alex Gunning, the present Clerk of the District Court, is a young man who is filling out his first term in that office. He is out for re-election and we believe all citizens who are abreast of the times, will cast their vote for him. Judge K. P. Snyder, Judge of the Probate Court, is one of those staid old repub icans who by his integrity and keen forsight as a justice dealer has won the highest esteem from his constituents, in is eed worthy of reelection. He has conducted wisely the affairs of his office and we have no hesitation in asking our friends and all the people, irrespective of party, to vote for Judge K. P. Snyder. He is one of the old boys in blue and fought a good fight. Prof. Henry Meade, Superintendent of Public Instruction, is a candidate for re-election. He is a staunch republican and has made an excellent official of whom we are justly proud. He is one of those young men who has by hard work carved out a future that indeed is at its beginning. Vote for him and you will give just recognition to a highly deserving young man. Mr. J. S. Perkins, a reliable old wheel horse republican, is a candidate for County Commissioner from the First District. If elected he will do to the best of his ability justice by all. He is a thorough going citizen who knows the true condition of the people in the county as well as in his own district. A vote for him is a vote in the right direction and a vote for the betterment of your condition. On equal taxation he stands alright, so give him your vote. If the Democratic party has ever been a friend to the Negro, the Negro doesn't know it.—Ex. BRYAN and his "conent of the governed," should disgust every thinking negro. The bleaching bones of our noble black boys on Southern battle fields and in the Island of Cuba should be enough to make us stand by the Republican party and the old flag. The old banner wherever unfurled represents more beautifully the principles of our old party, than any other. Our motto has always been to stand up for that which is right in advising the negro to stand nirm for the Republican ticket from the grand head down to the feet, we are but advising them to do what's right and honorable, as we have so often preached in the days gone by. There is nothing absolutely nothing, to be gained in supporting any single Democratic nominee for national, state or county offices. The best men are to be found in the Republican ranks, the best principles are fostered by the Republican party. All we ever did get in the way of freedom, equal rights and representation came by and through the Republican party. All we are today that party made us, all we can hope for in the future must and will come through this party. Now what's left to do but vote for this party. Talking of Imperialism and Gold bugs, silvertes, and all this might get some confused, but there should be no confusion about this matter. There is but one ticket that stands for anything and that is the Republican ticket, headed by Wm. McKinley, National, Wm. E Stanley in ou. State, and James K. Cubbison for the county. ABROAD HIGHLY IMPORTANT. In this glorious year of prosperity when the farmers of our grand old state cannot get cars to carry their wheat to the markets of the world. When the humming of machinery, the countless throngs of busy workmen, the long columns of black smoke ascending towards the heavens telling of happy homes and contented minds. It is indeed a pleasure unbounded to wish our readers and our race to continue in power the true Advance Agent of Prosperity, Wm. McKinley. Many of our readers no doubt remember the long stage of empty stomachs and empty dinner pails—when men left their homes and loved ones and went to the seat of government asking and praying that something might be done that they might earn their daily bread. All remember that the speakers on one side three years ago, told of the great calamity that would follow in the wake of republican victory. All doubtless remember that the speakers of the Republican party told you of the good times coming, how the fires in the mills and the great manufacturings would be rekindled, and how Providence himself would smile on you if you voted for and elested Wm. McKinley. Now three and a half years have passed, it is up to you again. It is needless to tell a wideawake citizen, who has kept abreast of the times, which prophecy came true. BISHOP TURNER certainly will not carry a dozen Negro voters into the Democratio party. A preacher had as well enter hell and become one of the devil's league as to enter the Democratio party that is responsible for the outrages perpetrated upon the Negroes of this country. No Bishop, we cannot go with you.—Atlantic Age. THERE has been so much red fire throughout the country by negro spell banners and newspapers behind Ben. Tillman that we fail to hear much he says now adays. At any rate he has had his say. Go and hear ROOSEVELT To-mor night CITIZEN. No conscientious colored voter can vote the Democratic ticket. The Republican party gave us all the liberty we have enjoyed. It gave us more than freedom: it gave us the right to vote. the right to help make laws and the right to help to enforce them. The Republican party will and does make it promises good. It was Mr. Bryson's party which steadfastly opposed the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment. Mr. Bryan canvassed the sta.e of Kentucky in the i terest of the Goebel law which disfranchises all the Republicans, both white and black.—Ex. It is not for Republicians to be so carried off with prosperity, having become fat and indolent from living well to lay supinely upon their backs hugging the delusive phantom of hope until the enemies has bound them hand and foot, but be up and stirring, and stir everybody else, tell them we want to see just how big a majority we can give McKinley and Rosevelt in Kansas. OUR CONGRESSMAN A WINNER. Hon. J. D. Bowersock, our present Congressman from the 2nd. District, is a most important candidate for re-election at the hands of all loyal citizens, and the Republican party in the 2nd. District. Mr. Bowersock's qualifications are beyond question, for he is a man eminently fitted to fill the position with great credit. He has filled the same position two years now past—why should we doubt his capabilities two years more. He is a Republican of a type that commends respect and esteem. He is a business man and a citizen thoroughly interested in our affairs of government, a man who during the past two years has sincerely and concretely tried to do his whole duty by those who entrusted to his hands the duties that involve upon a Congressman. He is deserving of another term and we believe the voters in this district will see that he is returned to Congress as their representative. HOW'S THIS TALK In a speech in the senate last winter defending the action of his party in the south in disfranchising colored citizens, Senator Tillman said: "We took the government away. We stuffed the ballot boxes. We wshot them. We are not ashamed of it. With that system force, ti-sue ballots, etc.—we got tired ourselves. So we called a constitutional convention, and we eliminated, as I have said, all of the colored people whom we could under the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments." Last July the same Tillman stood upon the stage of the Kansas City convention and read th. Democratic platform in which the following occurs: "We declare again that all governments instituted among men derive their powers from the consent of the governed; that any government not based upon the consent of the governed, is a tyrany, and that to impose upon any people a government of force is to substitute the methods of imperialism for those of a republic." The party which will not allow the constitution to follow the flag through the Carolinas, through Mississippi and Texas, has no occasion to distress itself about the Consition's journey 4,000 miles across the sea." From the Republican State Platform, New York. THE ISSUES PLAINLY STATED. The Republican party stands for the following principles. 1. A fair vote and an honest count. No disfranchisement on account of race, color or previous condition. Down with the Red Shirt Shot Gun policy. 2. A sound currency, every dollar of which "can stand upon the full triumph of faith and say, I know that my redeemer liveth."" 3. A protective tariff which shall protect our home market from unfair competition and yet enable us to lead the world in our export trade. 4. Hold on to the Spanish islands which came into our possession, protecting the National honor and inter-st at home and abroad, recognizing always that "our priceless principies follow the flag." 5. No quarter to Democratic flap-doodle—The Age. Miss Lulu French, one of our High School graduates of the class of "96," who died in Houston, Texas, the past week of consumption, was well and favorably known in this city, she being the sister of the twin brothers, George and Arch French. The remains arrived yesterday. A little gust of wind that came this week merely as an advance agent of what is to come, made an awful rumbling in the coal stove and wood line, overcoats and fall wraps. THE JOY OF COMING HOME. There's joy in sailing outward Though we leave upon the pier, With faces grieved and wisful, Our very dearest dear— And the sea shall roll between us For perhaps a whole round year. There's joy in climbing mountains, In fording, rushing brooks, In porking ikto places We've read about in books, In meeting strange people With ux familiar looks. But the joy of joys is ours Untouched by any pain, When we take the home bound steam- er And catch the home-bound train— There's nothing half so pleasant As coming home again. —Margaret E. Sangs er, in Harper's Bazar. TOPEKA. KANS. Miss Addie James, of Kansas City, Mo., was in Topeka a few days last week visiting her sister, Mrs. Gertrude Jordon. The Baptist association is being held in Topeka this week, it began Tuesday. Quite a number of preachers is present. Rev. Shaffer, of St. John A. M. E. church, has been sent to Omahs, Neb. Rev. Ward will take charge of St. John A. M. E. church. Miss Mary Reynolds left last week for Quindard College, where she expects to finish this term. Ms. Ella Williams leaves Tuesday for Kansas City, Mo. The K P Lodge gave a reception for Mr and Mrs Wright, also Mrs Jordon, of Kansas City, Mo. The Reading Club of Topeka will give a reception Friday evening for Mr and Mrs Wright, also Mrs Jordon Prof Jackson's concert Monday night was quite a success Mrs Gertie Merrit, Owens and Mrs Cora Merritte assisted him with his concert Miss Hester Hawkins is teaching at the Madison school. Miss Madison is one of our young graduates FOUR NEGROES LYNCHED. They Were Suspected of Complicty in the Burialry of sj Louisiana House. Porchatoula, La, Sept. 21.—Four negroes were lynched here last night who were suspected of robbing the residence of Henry H-tield, whose home is in Tangiphoa parish. The vic. lms are. Charles Ehlott, aged 20. It is said there has been an epidemic of burglaries in the lower section of Tangipahos parish of late. A vigilance committee was long ago formed for the purpose of taking summary action when the opportunity presented itself. The opportunity came yesterday when Henry Hatfield reported that his residence had been entered the night before and robbed of $250 in cash. As soon as the fae s were known the authorities acted with promptness, arresting fourteen suspects during the day. These were confined in the small rail. During the day there was suppressed excitement in the town and it was evident that some of the negroes would be severely dealt with. Last night the doors of the jail were broken open and the four negroes who had been seized by the mob as the most guilty were taken out and hanged to the limb of a large oak tree which stands near the jail. The people of Ponchotoula, both white and black, deplore the action of the mob, and both races in mass meeting to-day appointed a law and order committee. RACE NEWS. D. U. Mills, formerly of San Antonia, Texas, but now a United States soldier, has been sent to Cuba as a regimental printer. Open the school house and the door of employment to the Negro on unequal terms, Mr. Caucasian and the Negro problem is solved. Maryland Afro-Americans are against attempting an organized movement against the law prohibiting the enterrriage of whites and blacks. Illiterarey in North Carolina is increasing, particularly among the whites. By the census of 1870 there were 88,111 illiterate white voters in North Carolina, in 1880, 44,430, in 1890, 49,570—an average increase of 800 illiterate voters—a total of 21 per cent of the entire white voting population. Rev. Cravath, the president of Fiske University, died in St. Paul, Minn., and was buried at Nashville, Tenn., Sunday, 9th, the funeral obesequest being held in Fisk Memorial Chapel. Henry O. Tanner's picture, "Daniel in the Lion's Den," and Miss Mets Vaxtt Warrick's statuary, are receiving flattering attention at the Paris exhibit. "OLD GLORY." Its One Hundred and Twenty-Third Anniversary—What It Stands For—Where It Waves. One hundred and twenty-three years ago, Sept. 11, 1777, the flag of our Nation waved over the army in battle for the first time, at Brandywine. What a gracious besediction to those who saw it float in all its majesty and beauty on that Wednesday morning and what a glorious inspiration it was to those he roses, many of them bare-footed and half clothed, who followed it through that long and weary struggle for American Independence. "Old Glory" has fought all of the battles of this nation from Brandywine to the Philippines and China. It has never faltered under any fire. Carried by brawny arms and elevated by iron hands their lify-blood has saturated its magnificent folds. Many the last glance of a dying soldier tingered lovingly on his country's' flag. The heroic color bearer goes down ridden with bullets or with shells, but "Old Glory" barely touches the ground are another grasps it and others actually struggle for the privilege of bearing it like a sunburst of Glory into the very jaws of death. To-day, "Old Glory" appears more beautiful than ever, and it means more tons than ever before, because it has received a new baptism of blood, and because its glory is not confined to our own country—for wherever the light of civilization has penetrated the oppressed and enslaved look upon the star and stripes as a beacon of hope and promise of deliverance. To-day it waves over a land so broad that the light of the sun never entirely ceases to shine upon it, over regions where snow never melts, and in climates where streams never freeze, and no power on earth can stay its onward course or withhold its crown of glory. To-day and henceforth the American people—heroes all—united together by patriotic devotion enabled by sacrifice, purified by fire, are united in a deathless brotherhood to protect the starry banner of our Union. To-day, every school house in our land is so thoroughly charged with the electric fluid of American Patriotism that the millions within such walls, with bright eyes beaming and loving hands pointing to Old Glory, pledge eternal allegiance to it. To-day, in the heart of every lover of liberty on earth, Old Glory has in instilled a reverence if not a love for it, and a respect for our country that places the United States easily at the head of the column, acknowledged among the nations of the world as the leader in the great work and march of universal civilization. In the vast and splendid family of flags of all the nations we must place Old Glory in the centre, the others to revolve around it like stars around a central sun, because it is the only flag that is true to the principles which gave it birth - pure and untrammeled liberty Whenever our flag has gone it has been the herald for a better day. It has been the pledge of freedom and Christianity. It is an inspiration to all who hate every form of government rule save that conceived only in the true spirit of freedom. Keep the flag waving, everybody. Carry its glory in your hearts and keep step to the music of Union. Let it wave as an object lesson to the young in the blessings of civil and religious liberty. Let it wave as a memorial of those who have died in its defense and of the living who taught to save it from dishonor. Let it wave as a prophecy of prosperity to the millions of free and happy people who recognize no law but the recorded law of the majority and no superior but that alone. Unfurl Old Glory! Every hand Shall be outstretched to shield it from a strain— Each soldier's heart thrills with a martial tune. Spurring him on to risk his life again— And safe beneath the glorious stars and strings stipes, Let all who seek for light rejoicing sing The joyous song of liberty and life. Till all the world with it hozzana ring, —George B. Loud in Afro-American The Frederick Douglass Memorial Association of Baltimore, Md., propose to erect a memorial window in Centennial M. E. church of that city in honor of Frederick Douglass. Mr. Douglass was, we learn, once a member and a exhorter or local preacher of the Centennial. D. P. W. Ray, the colored druggist in Brooklyn, N. Y., celebrated the fifteenth anniversary of his business life there, August 24th. Dr. Ray is 76 years of age, owns his drug store at the corner of South Second and Hooper streets, and has been in the drug business fifty years. The colored people of Mississippi have undertaken to furnish the building being erected at Jackson for the use of the colored blind of the state. AMERICAN CITIZEN PUBLISHING AND PRINTING CO. Daily and Weekly 417 Minnesota Ave. KANSAS CITY KANSAS W. C. MARTIN, EDITOR. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Daily delivered by carrierper week. 10c. Weekly one year..... $1.50 Entered at the postoffice at Kansas City Kans, as second class matter. WILLIAM MCKINLEY, For President. THEODORE ROOSEVELT, Vice President. STATE TICKET, For Governor. W. E. STANLEY. For Lieutenant Governor, H. E. RICHER. For Associate Justice W. A. JOHNSTON For Secretary of State, -GEO. A. CLARK. For Treasury, FRANK GRIMES. For Auditor, GEORGE E. COLE. For 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. Representative 9th. District, H. A. BAILEY. 10th. District, G. L. COATES 11th. District, DAVID D. HOAG, County Attorney, E. A. ENRIGHT. Clerk District Court, ALEX. GUNNING. 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. The Seventeenth Annual State Reunion of the Grand Army of the Republic, department of Kansas, will be held in Atchison, 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 Rassiur, Commander in Chief G. A. R.; Hon. J. W. Breideuthal 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. BOUZN. Sec. 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 1100, 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 office 1,000 Main street. Telephone 1109. Remember Dining Cars on the Union Pacific that now starts from Kansas City daily. Unexcelled service, restaurant plan Ticket office 1,000 Main street. Kansas City, Mo 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 kim 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. The American Citizen Directory OF KANSAS CITY, KANSAS, AND KANSAS CITY, MO. Church Directory. BAPTIST CHURCHES African 3914 East 15th street. Greenwood, 2005 Madison Avenue. Highland Avenue, 1119 Highland Ave. Macedonian ) Mission $216 East 21st street. Missionary, 2005 Madison Avenue. Mt. Calvary, 15 northeast cor. Norton street. Mount Gay, 2100 Wyoming Avenue. Mount Norail, 983 Bluff Street. Mount Olive Villa, s e. cor. Garnett. Mount Zion, 008 Hickory Avenue. Mount Zion, Primitive, 2815 Garnett street. Pilgrim, 705 Charlott. street. Pilgrim, Charlott between 6th and 7th Pleasant Green, East Forest. Round Top, Norton near 28th street. St James, 1411 East 18th street. St James Chapel, 518 High street. St. Marks, 1019 East 4th street. St. Pauls, 510 East 4th street. Second Baptist, Charlott. cor. 10th. Vine Street, 1825 Vine street. CHRISTIAN CHURCH 21st between Summit and Madison, s. Augustine Mission, 1025 Troost ave. METHODIST EPISCOPAL Asbury Chapel, 1620 Cherry street Burns, 11th S. W. Cor, Highland ave Clark's Chapel, 819 S. W. Boulevard Westport W, Prospect Place Cor, 23rd. King Solomon Mission 4th and Locust Colored Schools. Attucks 2108 East 18th street. Bruce 3914 East 15th street. Douglass 27th N. E. Cor. N. Prospect Place. Garrison Forest S. W Cor. 4th street. Lincoln School 11th N W. Cor Camp- bell street. Lincoln High School 816 East 11th st. Pege Rochester N.E. Cor. Prospect Avenue. Penn 4241 Shawne. Business Directory. J. A. Wilson Jeweller 1016 W. 9th st. Chandler's Barber shop, Samuel Chandler Prop. S LClemens Mgr. 112 East 6th st. street. Restaurant Mrs Amus Prop. 114 East 6th st. street. Field's Barber Shop 102 East 6th street Miller's Barber Shop 113 East 6th Midland Barber Shop Harsy Parson Propretor 115 East 6th street. Pice Barber Shop Oarth & Warfield Propretors 550 Grand Avenue. O'Bannon Barber Shop W.T. O Bannon Propretor 560 Grand Avenue. Manila Barber Shop Madison Bros Propretors 709 Independence avenue. McRay's Barber shop Ben McRa- propretor 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. 18th st. Grocer, George Grear, Prop. 1211 E. 18th st. D. M. Mitchell, Barber Shop, 576 Grand ave. Langton' Barber Shop 718 East 8th st. Walker's Barber Shop 806 East 13th s. H. J. George, barber shop, 1307 wf 9th st. Cowden's Barber Shop 704 East 12thst Restaurant H Powel Proprietor 572 Grand avenue. Restaurant Andrew Clark Proprietor 723 Independence ave. Saratoga Cafe L. Mason Iroprietor 805 Independence ave. Chicago Cafe H Compton Pr rieto 706 est 12th street Physicians and Surgeons. Drs. Shannon and Lambricht 1215 E. 18th st. Dr. J. N. Birch 1330 E. 18th st. Dr. T. C. Unthank 1233 Independence Ave. Dr. L. J. Holly 1112 Campbell st. Phillips 1917 Cherry street. Round Top 8178 Norton Avenue Administrator's Notice. State of Kaness. { ss. County of Wwyndotte. } In the Probate Court in and for said county. In the matter of the estate of Howard Jordan, deceased. Notice is hereby given that letters of administration have been granted to the undersigned, on the estate of Howard Jordan, 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. 1855, whose claims against the said estate, 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. (HUNSON) In the matter of the estate of Howard Jordan, deceased. Notice is hereby given that letters of administration have been granted to the undersigned, on the estate of Howard Jordan, 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. 1855, whose claims against the said estate, 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. (HUNSON) Administrator of the estate of Howard Jordon, deceased. ONE OF THE BEST RESTAURANTS In this city can be found at No. 25 Central Avenue, KANSAS CITY, _____ KANSAS. Everything in the line of eatables is cooked and served in first class style. Splendid meals served on short notice. Mrs. Annie Newell is well experienced in in restaurant business and knows how to treat her many customers. Don't forget the No. 25 Central avenue. MRS. ANNIE SEWELL. Proprietress. THE CELEBRATED BACK SOAP. Go to C. W. Chofelters grocery, No 68 Central Ave., and purchase a bar of his wonderful soap and give it a trial and you will use no other. No housekeeper should be without it. A.C.L. Coal Co. Main Office 402 Minn. Ave. E. F. Henderson, Mgr. D. W. White Furniturestore, 420 Minn. Ave. J. W Jones Grocery 400. Oakland Ave. M. Gordon Department store 1605 N 4th 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, Buteher, 1609 n 16th. s Deeglass Hospital, 312 Washington ave., Miss L. V. Ashton, Marron. CHURCHES METHODIST. St. James A. M. E., cor. 7th. and Ann. St. James M. E., Freeman ave., between 9th and 10th. C. M. E. Oakland ave., bet. 4th. and 5th. 9th. St. Christian, cor. 9th. and Nebraska. BAPTIST. 1st. Baptist, corner 5.h. and Nebraska avenue. Mt. Zion Baptist, Virginia ave., between 4th. and 5.h. Mt. Pleasant, 3rd. st., between Oak land 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. Restaurant J. W. Johnson's 6th and State. Mrs. Hall 507 Minn. Ave. Mrs. Sarah Thurston 1414 5th st. Mc Gees 448 Minn. Ave. 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. SHOEMAKER. Lon McAdams, 348 Minnesota ave. D.W. Wynne, 309 Minnesota ave. Lewis Blenchard, North 6th., State Line. Wilson, 5th. st. between Nebraska and State. J. W. Ready, No. 1609 $ _{1} $ n 10th. st. HALLS. M & O., 1306 north 8th. street. Sons of Protection, State and 6th. DRUGS. Wyandotte Drug Store, 1512 north 5th. street. S. H. Thompson, 1514 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 LIFE OVERLAND SOUTH WORLD'S PICTORIAL LINE SHORTFST LINE ACROSS THE CONTINENT The Union Pacific The Original Overland Route' always was, and is to-day, the shortest and best Line to the west. Two splendid fast trains leave Kan-as City daily over this old established line. No change of cars between Kansas City and Denver, Ogden or San Francisco. All trains solidly vestibulated and fully equipped with latest improved 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 Pintch Pintch Li. t Only line running two trains without charge from Kansas City to Denver Low excursion rates on sale to Colorado-Utah Idaho, Oregon. Washington and California. Don't complete your ars arrangements for a trip west until you have learned all about special inducements and attractions offered by the Union Pacific. For full information in regard to low rates time etc., call on address BRWL1. Gen. Agt., Union Pacific, 1000 Main street, Kassas City, Mo PUBLICATION NOTICE. In the District Court of Wyandotte County, Kansas. Ana Brown, Plaintiff, vs. William Brown, Defendant. To the above named defendant, you are hereby notified that you have been sued by the above named plaintiff in the aove 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 ren- dered against you, the nature of which will be a decree dissolving the bonds of matrimony now existing between plaintiff and defendant, and forever divorcing plaintiff from said defendant, and awarding to her her maiden name, as prayed for in the petition, and for cost of this suit. I F. BRADLEY, 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 member elected to each house concurring therein: Sec. 3. This resolution shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the statute book. 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. Fuller and Belle C. Fuller, Defen Under and by virtue of an order of sale issued by the Clerk of the District Court, in and for said County of Wyandotte, in a certain cause in said court, numbered 14049, wherein the parties above named were respectively plaintiff and defendants, and to me, the undersigned, Sheriff of said county, directed, offer for sale, at public auction, at hand, at the bidders, for cash in hand, at the front desk, for Court House, in the city of Kansas City, said county, on Monday, the 10th day of Sep ember, A D, 1900, at 10 o'clock a m., of said day, the following described real estate situated in the County of Wyandotte and State of Kansas, to-wit: All the right, title, interest and estate of the said Belle C. Fuller and William J. Fuller, i.e. and to lot forty-six (46), in block one hundred and nine, (109) in the former City of Wyandotte, according to the plan of Wyandotte City, made by John B. Miller and published by the Wyandotte City Co., and now o'le in Register of Deeds office of Wyandotte County, Kansas H A. MENDHALL. Sheriff of Wyandotte County. Publication Notice. State of Kansas. } ss Wyandotte County, Ks. } In the District Court of said County, Joseph Law, Plaintiff, v. Maria Law, Defendant. 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 and judgment thereon rendered accordingly, and plaintiff, and dissolving the bonds of matrimony now existing between you B. S. SMITH Attorney for Plaintiff Publication Notice In the District Court of Wwaadotte 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 the hour, the pitton will be taken as true and a judgment tendered against you, the nature of which is a decree divoring this plaintiff from said defendant, and awarding to her her maiden name, Florence Forau, and for costs of this suit. I. F. BRADLEY. A crying need—a handkerchief Try attending to your own business letting other folks business alone, see how easy life will be. RAILROAD NOTICES. MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY, SUMMER EXCURSIONS. —West and North. To Pueblo, Colorado Springs and Denver and return, special summer excursions June 21, July 7, 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 home-seekers excursions to western and southwestern points on June 5 and 19 Jul. 1 and August 2 and 5 tickets good for twenty-one days at rate of one e-fle e plus $2 for the round trip. Tickets to St. Paul and Minneapolis at $21 for the round trip, good going any day, returning any time up to October 1. Ver. 1 waits to other northern points. Special excursions June 21, July 7, 8, 10 and 18, and August 2 to St. Paul, Minneapolis. Round trip at $15.55. Duluth and the Superiors at $9.85. Waterville, Minn., $14.40. Good to return October 31, 1900. From July 1 special round trip excursions to Ogden and Salt Lake City at $50.00 Liberal stop orders. Good to return until October 31. June 20 to 25 Winfield and return $6.00 July 7 to 20, Ottawa and return $1.65. For particular cases call E. S. JEWETT. Passenger and Ticket Agent. City ticket office No. 901 Main street, Kansas City, Mo. Secure Tickets ...VIA THE... Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Ry ...AND YOU GET... Sleepers: & Chair Cars ...10... CHICAGO and all intermediate points The shortest, quickest and bes tine to Chilocothe, Otumwa, Cedar Rapids, Dubnque, and La Crosse and Cedar Rapids, Rockford and Freeport: ...Pessenger Station at... 22nd St. and Grand Ave. Take Westport Cable. City Ficket Office, 915 Main street, Ridge Building. A. B. BRID GFS Gen'). Scotl weste Agent F. L. JERCHPassenger Agent. Office 915Main 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 acres more, or any other number as it may a near By late rulings and decisions it 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 each. If you did not make a homestead filing you have no claim to sell. This land is yours and don't wait but come to this office at once and get full particulars concerning this land. It is to your own interest to do so. AMERICAN CITIZEN OFFICE, 41 Minnesota Avenue. THE AMERICAN Citizen, The oldest, one of the best and 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. AMERICAN CITIZEN PUB CO. 417 Minnesota Avenue, KANSAS CITY, KANSAS PUBLICATION NOTICE. In the District Court of Wyandotte County, Kansas. William March, Plaintiff, vs. Julia March, Defendant. To the above named defendant, you are hereby notified that you have been sued by the above named plaintiff in the above named court, and that unless you appear and answer on or before the 12th, day of October, 1900, the petition filed in said court against you will be taken as true and a judgment rendered against you, the nature of which will be a decree dissolving the bonds of matrimony now existing between plaintiff and defendant, and forever divorcing plaintiff from said defendant, and for cost of this suit. I. F. BRADLEY, Attorney for Plaintiff. DENGLE SHOE CO., 7th. and Minnesota Ave., The Dengel Shoe Co. has no past three weeks, and we wish our expectations, and we hope honesty will please the people, become the Rapid Shoe Grower. Our stock is all new and justly up to eate. Our store is near you with the best of service. See that NAME and PRICE are stamped on soles IT TAKE NO SUBSERVIER THIS IS THE BEST $3. HAND PROC You will be well pleased with the BEST SHOE for the month. Thanking you for your past patronage, we The Dengel Shoe Co. has now had its doors open to the public for the past three weeks, and we wish to say that our business has far exceeded our expectations, and we hope to continue it so, and if fair dealing and honesty will please the people, we feel satisfied our small Shoe Store will become the Rapid Shoe Growing House of Kansas City, Kas. Our stock is all new and just from the factories. Our styles are strictly no to date. Our store is neat, and our c erks are always ready to serve you with the best of service. See that NAME and PRICE are stamped on soles We carry at all times a full and complete line of W. L. DOUGLAS' Union Shoes, Also the Strongest and Best Line of BOYS' SHOES, In the two Cities, If your boys' Shoes have not been giving satisfaction give us a call and we will guarantee that THIS IS THE BEST $3. SHOE IN THE WORLD HAND-SEWED PROCESS You will be well pleased with our SHOE3. We cannot only give you the BEST SHOE for the money, but we can save you money. Thanking you for your past favors, and sincerely soliciting your future patronage, we Remain Very Pruly, DENGLE SHOE COMPANY 7th, and Minnesota Avenue. Kansas City, Kas. You Are Earnest The C. Furniture Ca Looated at 618 and To inspect the large House F In the city, at prices that w further here than elsewhere, v ther by retain your patronage, friends patronage. WE SELL ON TIME PAYW SUIT YOU, and will be glad to s n the line of FURNITURE, CARPET LINOLEUMS, SHADE SETS, also a complete LINE STOVES. Don't forget the number and m We sell the Celebrated Kroeger For an Event VISIT THE MO Porters and C 1009. ST. D. Kansas City. It is the su A. C. L. are Earnestly Requested to U the C. F. WILLNE furniture AND Carpet C at 618 and 620 Minnesota A inspect the largest and most complete line use Furnishing at prices that will convince you that your r n elsewhere. We make it an especial effort your patronage and also your recommende e. N TIME PAYMENTS and know that OUR will be glad to show you OUR STOCK. We c FURNITURE, CARPETS, DRAPERIES, OIL CLOT EUMS, SHARES, LAMPS, DINNER and TOIL also a complete line of RANGES and GAS SLOVES. the number and name, rebrated Kroeger Piano. THE C. F. Furniture 618, 620 MINNESOTO You Are Earnestly Requested to Call au The C. F. WILLNER Furniture AND Carpet Co. Looated at 618 and 620 Minnesota Avenue In the city, at prices that will convince you that your money will go further here than elsewhere. We make it an especial effort to please and thereby retain your patronage and also your recommendation for your friends patronage. WE SELL ON TIME PAYMENTS and know that OUR TERMS WILL SUIT YOU, and will be glad to show you OUR STOCK. We carry everything in the line of FURNITURE, CARPETS, DRAPERIES, OIL CLOTH, LINOLEUMS, SHADES, LAMPS, DINNER and TOILET SETS, also a complete line of RANGES and GASO-LINE SLOTES. 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 Evening of Recr VISIT THE MODERN AND UP-TO-DATE s and Waiters M CLUB ! ST. LOUIS AVENUE, It is the swellest place in the city C. L. COAL C 1009. ST. LOUIS AVENUE. 1009. Kansas City. Missouri. It is the swellest place in the city. - IS HEADQUARTERS FOR- THE CHEA The Best Goods, the Qui and the GET COAL, WOOD, FEE Wholesale and Retail. Offie Yard and Storage 917 and N. B. MARSHALI., Agen', H W. B. R CHEAPEST PRICE at Goods, the Quickest Sales, the Smallest Prices and the promptest deliveries. GET THEIR PRICES ON FOOD, FEED, FLOUR, AND BU STONE, Retail. Office 402, Minnesota Ave. Tel storage 917 and 919 North 3rd. St. E F. HENDERSON ALL., Agent, Headquarters. 19½ Central Ave. B. RAYMO THE CHEAPEST PRICES The Best Goods, the Quickest Sales, the Smallest Profits and the promptest deliveries. GET THEIR PRICES ON COAL, WOOD, FEED, FLOUR, AND BUILDING STONE, Wholesale and Retail. Office 402, Minnesota Ave. Tel. 152 West. Yard and Storage 917 and 919 North 3rd. St. W. B. RAYMOND W. B. RAYMOND Manufacturer of and Wholesale dealer in UNDERTAKE FIRST-CLASS CARRIAGES AMBULANCE FOR THE CONV Undertaking Knoos, 431 Minn Factory Cor st KANSAS CITY EAC Gem D RTAKERS * SUPPLIERS CARRIAGES FOR ALL PURPOSES AT ALL TIMES FOR THE CONVEYANCE OF THE SICK AVE. Loms, 431 Minnesota ave. Telephone W. Factory Cor. St., and Riverview Ave. UNDERTAKERS * SUPPLIES UNDERTAKERS * SUPPLIES FIRST-CLASS CARRIAGES FOR ALL PURPOSES AT ALL HOURS AMBULANCE FOR THE CONVEYANCE OF THE SICK AND WOUNDER. Undertaking Kooms, 431 Minnesota ave. Telephone West 32. DRUGS, MEDICINES, CHEMICALS. Fine Toilet Soaps, Brushes, Combs, Etc. PERFUMERY AND FANCY TOILET ARTICLES. Kansas City. ( Telephone W 130 ) Kansas. to the public for the mess has far exceeded and if fair dealing and small Shoe Store will is City, Kas. Our styles are strict always ready to serve times a full and com- DOUGLAS' Shoes, best and Best Line of SHOES, the two Cities, our boys' Shoes have not a giving satisfaction give us a call and we will guarantee that cannot only give you money. soliciting your futura COMPANY Kansas City, Kas. to Call at NER, Co, Bata Avenue the line of things your money will go effort to please and commendation for your at OUR TERMS WILL We carry everything CL CLOTH, AND TOILET and GASO E C. F. WILLNER, Furniture and Carpet Co. NESOTA AVENUE. recreation -DATE, Musical 1009. Missouri. CO., PRICES smallest Profits BUILDING e. Tel. 152 West. PERSON Manager. Final Avenue OND, SUPPLIES SAT ALL HOURS ICK AND WOUNDER phone West 32. Ave. Telephone 28 KANSAS. Store CHEMICALS, s, Etc., ARTICLES. The De Laval Cream Separators have been awarded the GRAND PRIZE by the International Jury of Awards at the PARIS EXPOSITION, over many separator exhibits from various countries, the De Laval superiority being unquestionable in every material respect. Lesser awards of different grades of medals, were made to several other mares of separators. Made Inspector of Wild Animals. A recent dispatch from New Orleans, La, says that Professor George E. Beyer, who occupies the chair of biology at Tulane University, has been appointed special inspector of wild animals for that port. The commission comes from Secretary of Agriculture Wilson. The appointment is the first made under the Lacey law. WHAT A MOGUL CAN DO. That was a remarkable demonstration of what a Mogul can do, that occurred on the New York Central the other day, when engine No. 948, one of the new Moguls, hauled out train No. 11, the Southwestern Limited, made up of two mail cars, five passenger coaches and nine Wagner cars, sixteen cars in all. The total weight of the train was 1,832,000 pounds, or 916 tons, and the length of the train, including the engine, was 1,212 feet, or nearly a quarter of a mile. This engine made the running time of the train between New York and Albany, 143 miles, in three hours and fifteen minutes. There is no railroad in the world which has a better roadbed, more skillful engineers, or better equipment, backed by loyal men always alert for the safety of their passengers, than the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad. What road can match its corps of men, from President Callaway down the long line of employees, to the humble and faithful trackmen who watch their sections of rails through the long hours of the night and day, in order to safeguard the lives of the travelers on trains whirling by their humble shanties, many of which nestle closely to the rails under their guardianship.—Editorial from the Albany Times-Union. FOR HOMESEEKERS. The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railway will sell regular Homeesekers' Excursion tickets to all points in South Dakota, at one fare plus $2 for the round trip, on September 18 and October 2, 1900. This will enable parties to visit the Corn Belt Exposition to be held in Mitchell, S. D., September 28 to October 4, 1900, inclusive. This exposition is held to demonstrate the great agricultural resources, wealth and possibilities of this thriving state. The exposition is held in a gorgeously decorated corn palace which for beauty can hardly be excelled anywhere by a building of a temporary nature. There are thousands of acres of cheap lands left in South Dakota that will, under the present conditions in that state, rapidly increase in price, and the holding of this corn palace with its many attractions, that both amuse and instruct, should be an opportunity that all land and investment seekers should embrace. For further information apply to any ticket agent of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railway, or address Geo. H. Heafford, General Passenger Agent, Chicago. Secretary Hay 14 Athene Few men of his age are so agile and athletic as Secretary Hay. He is past 60, but still indulges in all sorts of exercises, including a fast walk every afternoon. Every morning at 7 o'clock he undergoes massage treatment at the hands of a skilled Swedish operator. Are You Using Allen's Foot-Ease? It is the only cure for Swollen, Smarting, Burning, Sweating Feet, Corns and Bunions. Ask for Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder to be shaken into the shoes. At all Druggists and Shoe Stores, 25c. Sample sent FREEL. Address Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy N. X. Amusements of Chlaamen. Outdoor amusements for Chinamen are few and not popular. They fly kites, carry birds on perches and throw seeds high in the air for the birds to catch, or row boats in a lazy fashion on the lagoons and rivers. They pitch copers, fight crickets, jiggle balls and play games with jackstraws and snap-sticks. The best Ball Blue is Red Cross brand. Large 2-oz. package 5 cans. Taking Down Wire Fence. Taking Down Wife Fence Under orders from the interior department hundreds of miles of wire fence is being taken down in Oklahoma, and cattlemen who put up the fence without any authority whatever are making loud complaint. The fence saved them a handsome sum in cowboy hire. HO! FOR OKLAHOMA! 500 acres new lands to open to settlement Bachelor's degree required. Apply to Eastern Boundary about these lands. One year, $410. Single Bachelor's degree required. Apply to Oklahoma. Mountain Manual (C10 page Settlement) with nine section map, 410. Map $25. All maps with nine section map, 410. Map $25. All maps TOWER'S FISH BRAND POMMEL SLICKER The Best Saddle Coat. Keeps both rider and saddle per- fect dry in the hardest storms. Sub- stitute with damp point As for Rifish Fish Brand Pommel Slicker— It is entirely new. If not for sale in your town, write for catalogue to A.J. TOWER, Boston, Mass. When Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This Paper. W. N. U. Kansas City, No. 39, 1900 PISO'S CURE FOR QUICK WHEEKS IN A BLEEK Best Oough Syrup. Tastes Good. Use in time. Sold by draggists. CONSUMPTION ARE ASKED TO RETURN. MINISTERS SEND NOTES TO THE CHINESE COURT. Emperor and Empress Dowager Invited Back to Pekin—Uncle Sam Displeased Over the Advancement of Prince Tuan as Grand Secretary— Conger's Instructions— Gen. Chaffee's Views. All the foreign ministers in Takin have addressed notes to Prince Caing suggesting the return to Pekin of the emperor and the court. Prince Ching undertook to deliver the notes. The outcome is a matter of speculation, the doubtful element being the influence of Prince Tuan and General Tung Fuh Shang, who may restrain the court. General Chaffee, discussing the probabilities, said: "I do not believe that any European monarch would enter the camp of his allied enemies, and I doubt that the empress dowager will do so. It is generally conceded that the restoration of the Chinese government is essential. I have favored the withdrawal of the main allied force to Yangtsun and Tien Tien, leaving 2,000 mixed troops to guard the legations." Minister Conger has received his instructions from Washington as peace negotiator. The state department has taken steps, through Minister Wu, to impress upon the Chinese government the undesirability of the appointment of Prince Tuan as grand secretary and the painful impression this appointment has created throughout this country. The effect of his appointment, if persisted in, it is said, might retard seriously the final negotiations, or, in fact, any negotiations at all. A SHANGHAI VIEW. Russia Is Preparing to Gobble Everything According to the Dishatch. A Shanghai dispatch says the situation in China is now more serious than ever before for those who are interested in preserving the integrity of the empire. The Chinese government is in the power of boxer lenders, who are not likely to submit to the empress dowager propositions unfavorable to them. Russia is holding all the forts and strategic points from Taku to Pekin. Russia's possession of the railway shows by the permanent arrangement which her officers are making that she intends to swallow the north of China. No one believes that Russia will ever move out except under overwhelming pressure from other powers. THE BARBAROUS RUSSIANS. Chinese Men, Women and Children Killed Indiscriminately by Cossacks. The London Times prints correspondence from Nuchwang declaring that the Russians have killed indiscriminately between 1,500 and 2,000 Boxers and Chinese civilians, men, women and children, both inside and outside of the walls. The correspondent adds that from all sides comes reports of the violation of women and that the Russians are carrying out a policy of the destruction of property and the extermination of the people in Kai Chau. Nearly all the villages have been burned and the inhabitants killed. A Ruskin Hall in Missouri Walter Vroman, founder of Ruskin hall, Oxford, England, has made arrangements with the trustees of Avalon college, Trenton, Mo., whereby the name of the institution is changed to Ruskin college and it becomes the center of the Ruskin hall system of the United States. It is to have branches in every state in the union and will be affiliated with the English institution. Murderers Break Jail Edward Burns and Richard Logan, charged with the murder of Night Officer Lowell Pew in Louisiana, Mo., escaped from the county jail at Bowling Green. Henry Weaver, an accomplice, was convicted at the last term of court and is now in the penitentiary for 10 years. Burns and Logan were to be tried at the November term of court. The good roads congress opened at Topeka September 26 with delegates from nearly all of the Western states in attendance. Secretary of Agriculture Wilson, General E. G. Harrison, government road expert, and Senator Martin Dodge, chief of the good roads department of the agricultural department, represented the government. King Leopold to Abdicate The king of the Belgians intends to abdicate, before the close of the present Belgian parliament, in favor of the Prince of Flanders. A Big Order for Railroad Cars. A contract has been filed at Savannah, Ga., by the Seaboard Air line for the construction of 1,000 flat cars, 700 plain box cars and 300 ventilated felt lined box cars. The estimated total cost of the cars is $1,354,000. Honston's Rapid Grow*h. The census bureau announces that the population of Houston, Texas, is 44,633, as against 27,557 in 1890. This is an increase of 17,076, or 61.97 per cent. Her Sult Over a Husband Mrs. Laura Atkinson, a woman of St. Louis, has brought suit for $20,000 damages in the circuit court at Mexico, Mo., against her father-in-law and mother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Atkinson. She asserts that they have wrongfully induced her husband to leave her and are keeping his where-abouts a secret. Bryan on His Lost Tear Bryan on his Last Year. W. J. Bryan has started upon his last tour of the country in the interest of his presidential campaign. AMERICA SWEPT THE BOARD. In the Lead at Paris Over All Nations Except France. The jury of final appeal in the Paris exposition awards has finished its work. The statement prepared for the United States commission, shows that America received the highest number of awards of any nation save France, and that she also received a majority except of grand prizes, of which Germany received a greater number. The figures, excepting for France, follow: Grand prizes, United States, 215; Germany, 236; Russia, 209; Great Britain, 183. Gold medals, United States, 547; Germany, 510; Russia, 346; Great Britain, 405. Silver medals, United States, 593; Germany, 517. Russia, 411; Great Britain, 575. Bronze medals, United States, 501; Germany, 321; Russia, 321; Great Britain, 410. Honorable mention, United States, 348; Germany, 184; Russia, 206; Great Britain, 208. BETTER ROADS FOR KANSAS Purpose of a State Organization Formed at Toncka. At the good roads congress held at Topeka last week a permanent state organization was effected, which will be incorporated under the name of "The Kansas Good Roads Association." The officers of the association as chosen by the congress are: John K. Wright, Junction City, president; Barney Sheridan, Paola, first vice president-at-large; Robert Stone, Topeka, secretary, William Sims, Topeka, treasurer. A committee will draft a bill to be introduced in the next legislature providing for the improvement of the roads of the state. Kansas Photographers The Kansas Photographers' Association, at its convention at Topeka, elected these officers for the years: President, C. J. Snyder, Topeka; first vice president, G. A. Streater, Junction City; treasurer, P. H. Bauer, Leavenworth; secretary, E. K. Porter, Sterling. P. H. Bauer, of Leavenworth won the interstate prize, with a "Picture of an Old Man." This prize-winner is sent to all the principal exhibits in the United States and Canada in competition. Mormon Father Is Sued. A sensational action was begun in the courts at Salt Lake City last week by three sons of Lorenzo Snow, president of the Mormon church, who charge that their father has refused to support his legal wife, their mother, and that she is in need. They also declare that the favorite wife with whom the Mormon leader is living is using every effort to induce him to deed his property to her and leave all his other wives and children in poverty. Lift for Bethany. In his address before the convention of the Episcopal church at Emporia Kan., Bishop Frank R. Millspaugh and announced that Felix R. Brunon and wife of Pittsburg, Pa., had given $3,200 to the college of the Sisters of Bethany at Topeka. The money will be loaned and the interest used to pay deficien eies, if there be any, keep up improvements, if there, etc. Climbed a High Smokestack Fired by a religious frenzy, Michael Folaski, a Polish laborer, climbed to the top of a 150-foot smokestack at the Illinois Steel works at South Chicago and hung there, muttering prayers and shouting hymns, preparatory to taking the leap which he fancied would land him in heaven. He was resued by John Sonaliak, a fellow workman, who climbed up after him. Check on St. Joe's Census Victor N. Olmstead, an expert statistician in the employ of the department of labor has arrived in St. Joseph to investigate the returns made by the census enumerators. St. Joseph's population according to the returns is a little over 102,000 and the bureau is suspicious that the count was not a fair one. The population of the city ten years ago was 52,000. Arming More Mine Police The commissioning of several hundred coal and iron mine police by Governor Stone, at the request of the anthracite companies, is taken to mean that each of these companies will undertake to break the strike by operating at least one of each of their coleries. The strike leaders say the attack will be a failure. To Fortify Against Strikes The most important action taken by the national convention of the United Typotheta at Kansas City, Mo., was the establishment of an emergency fund of $100,000. The purpose of this fund is to provide money to fight strikes and boycots in which the interests of any members of the typotheta are involved. Foreign Forces in China Following are the allied forces in China: Austrian, 494; German, 8,178; British, 8,353; American, 5,608; French, 6,576; Italian, 2,541; Russian, 20,934; Japanese, 15,570. Total, 68,253. Galveston Benefit in London. A performance for the benefit of the Galveston storm sufferers will be given in London October 16. The idea was or originated by Colonel Ochiltree, who immediately interested Sir Henry Irving in it. Won the $20,000 Purse. Crescue, the king of stallions, has added to his crown another jewel by winning in five hard driven heats the $20,000 race at the meeting of the New England Trotting Horse Breeders' association at Boston. "Grafter" Gets 200 Days Thomas Cloeman, a "grafer" with Buffalo Bill's show, was sent to the workhouse for 200 days by Police Judge Carolus of St. Joseph, Mo. He boasted that he had killed one Pinkerton detective, and would get the one who turned him up to the local authorities. George Siller Is a Bankrupt George Silur, the prize fight referee, and Lou M. Houseman, the boxing exhibition manager, have both filed petitions in bankruptcy. CONVICTED HA VING SHOT GOV. GOEBEL. His Sentence Is Fixed at Death—He Was a Famous Kentucky Feudist— End of a Long and Highly Sens- sational Trial—The Verdict Was a Surprise to the Public. The jury in the case of James Howard, on trial at Frankfort, Ky., for alleged complicity in the Goebel assassination, returned a verdict of guilty and fixed his punishment at death. The verdict was a surprise, as the general public were lead to believe that the jury was divided upon the question of the guilt or innocence of the defendant. It developed that the delay in reaching a verdict was over the degree of punishment, some of the jurors favoring the life imprisonment while others stood out for the death penalty and finally won their associates over. Howard took a part in the famous Baker-Howard feud. He killed George Baker, father of the feud leader, Thomas Baker. Thomas Baker killed Howard's brother, Wils Howard, sheriff of Clay county. Thomas Baker was the last killed. DAWSON WANTS MORE ICE. Alaskan City Will Manufacture Article for Summer Use. Some interesting facts regarding the situation at Dawson City are contained in the report of Consul J. C. McCook, under date of August 22. He says there has been an abundance of wild berries, currants, raspberries and cranberries this summer. The cattle herders on the hills and a few Indians gather the berries and bring them to Dawson, receiving $1 to $1.50 per quart. The idea of building an ice plant in Dawson seems like "carrying coals to Newcastle." The lack of ice in summer, however, has been seriously felt, and a contract has been given for an ice machine to be placed in a cold storage warehouse. The cost of ice this summer has been 5 cents per pound, or at the rate of $100 per ton. Consul McCook says more mining claims have been worked this summer than in any other season because the heavy rainfall has afforded sufficient water for sluicing. Machinery is now found everywhere in the district and no one thinks of working a claim without boiler, engine and pump. The amount of gold sent out this season, as per consular invoice, is $12,500,000. It is possible that a quarter of a million more has gone out without any record. OUTPOSTS ARE UNDER FIRE. Americans Have Another Brush With the Fulipinos. On Monday night vigorous insurgent attacks were made upon the United States outposts in the district near Zapote bridge, Las Pinas, Paranaque, Bacoor and Imus, two ve miles south of Manila, the scene of the fighting last October. It is estimated that the rebels numbered 400 and they were armed with rifles. The inhabitants took refuge in the churches. The Americans have since energetically dispersed the enemy, killing and wounding fifty. What Bryan Says of Mob Being shown a telegram to the effect that Theodore Roosevelt was assaulted at Vic or, Col., by a band of hired ruffians, Mr. Bryan wrote the following statement: "From what I know of the people of Colorado, I am not willing to believe without further evidence, that they denied to Mr. Roosevelt or to anyone else a fair hearing. If it proves true that he was mobbed or in any way interfered with, I am sure that it was not the work of any political organization. There can be no justification for a resort to violence in this country, and those who resort to it injure the cause which they represent." Tolstol Is Excommunicated A secret circular, addressed by Joannius, the metropolitan of Kieff, to all the Russian archbishops, virtually excommunicating Tolstoi, the Russian novelist and social reformer, is published. 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Ex-Minister Woodford Weds General Stewart L. Woodford, ex-minister to Spain, was married to Miss Isabel Hanson of New York. The bride was the private secretary of General Woodford at Madrid at the outbreak of the Spanish-American war. She is about 30 years old and General Woodford is 65. This is his second marriage. His first wife died about two years ago. Thought She Was a Wit Thought she was a Witch. Mendo Rodriguez was found guilty in the district court at Raton, N. M., for killing Anna Maria' Duran. Rodriguez, who was ill, conceived the idea that the old woman had bewitched him. Best for the Bowela No matter what alls you, headache to a cancer, you will never get well until your bowels are put right. CASCARETS help nature, cure you without a gripe or pain, produce easy natural movements, cost you just 10 cents to start getting your health back. CASCARETS, Carp, tartaric, the genuine, put us in metal boxes, every tablet has C. C. C. stamped on it. Beware of imitations. 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Is adjudicated claim, after Water TOE-GUM Curca Corus 150; all Druggists (If it fails—it is free.) OUR POLICY RIGHT. SENATOR NELSON LAYS BARE THE AGUINALDO PLOT. Protectorate Plan Advocated Would Violate Our Treaty Pledges and Turn the Llands Over to the Tagul Assasins. Senator Knute Nelson opened the Republican campaign at Alexandria, Minn., September 1 with a masterly speech on the Philippine question, delivered in his usual concise and convincing manner. The town hall was packed to the doors. Senator Nelson held the attention of his audience and at times the applause was deafening. He was at his best. The speech was entitled "The Philippine Question in Its Various Aspects." Senator Nelson opened with this convincing statement: "That our country had good ground for declaring war against Spain and that the war was a just one, fairly and humanely carried on to a most successful, honorable and glorious issue, is conceded by all, and is not a matter of controversy. The American people, without regard to party, are responsible for the war. The bill appropriating $50,000,000 for war preparation and the resolution declaring war were passed by a unanimous vote of both houses." He then rapidly stated the events which led to Dewey's victory and to the advent of Aguinaldo on the islands by the courtesy of Dewey. Suspicion was first directed toward Aguinaldo by General Anderson when on July 18, 1898, he notified the war department: "I suspect also that Aguinaldo is secretly negotiating with the Spanish authorities as his confidential aide is in Manila." On the 24th of the same month Aguinaldo advised General Anderson of the "undesirability of disembarking North American troops in places conquered by the Filipinos without previous notice to this government" (meaning to himself). Review of Events at Manila Senator Nelson renewed the events of June and July in a rabid manner effectually disproving the time worn and long disproving argument that Dewey entered into an alliance with Aguinaldo. As early as June 9 Aguinaldo is known to have been in secret negotiation with Captain General Augustine, the Spanish commandant at Manila. His idea was an alliance to drive the Americans from the islands. LATER ON A GENERAL MASSACRE OF OUR FORCES AND OF ALL WHITE PEOPLE WITHIN THE CITY WAS CONTEMPLATED. On the 7 of January, 1899, Aguinaldo wrote from Malolos to a friend in Manila, among other things, as follows: "I beg you to leave with your family and to come here to Malolos, but not because I wish to frighten you. I merely wish to warn you for your satisfaction, although it is not yet the day or the week." Senator Nelson gave full details of the barbarous orders from Theodore Sandico for an uprising in Manila, to be accompanied by the burning and looting of the city and the murder of all foreigners including Chinese. Concluding Senator Nelson said: "I have thus almed, in this brief but authentic narrative of Aguinaldo and his insurrection, to show you the inception and nature of the Tagal rebellion in Luzon, and the character and purposes of Aguinaldo and his military chiefs. Aguina do's Lust for Power. "It is evident that lust of power and self-aggrandizement, rather than the real freedom of the Filipinos, has been the aim and purpose of Aguinaldo and his chiefs from the beginning till the present time. "The insurrection which he and they started in 1896 they abandoned for a price in December, 1897. When war came on with Spain and Dewey was about to start for Manila, they saw an opening and easy way to start another insurrection. To Dewey they professed a desire to aid him in expelling the Spaniards—their hereditary tyrants and oppressors. "Among themselves they planned, through the aid of Dewey and his forces, to enter Luzon, procure arms and start an insurrection, ostensibly against Spain, but really in hostility to the United States. They came to Luzon under false pretenses and with base treachery in their hearts." "They had no sooner landed and gotten their insurrection afloat and armed their forces with weapons, furnished by Dewey, than they began to open negotiations with the Spanish commander, for the purpose of combining with him to expel our forces from Manila. Falling to get this cooperation, they lald siege to Manila for the purpose of capturing and looting it before the arrival of our forces. When our troops finally landed, they received them in an unfriendly and hostile spirit, and continued to harass and annoy them in various ways. And when Manila was captured by our forces, without their co-operation, and they were not permitted to enter and loot the city, they throw off the mask and assumed a belligerent attitude to our forces. They next opened negotiations with Gen. Rios at iliolo, for the purpose of making common cause, and combining him against our forces, and through his piancy they secured possession of the city before the arrival of our forces." Surrender of Manila When Manila surrendered and there were no longer any Spaniards to fight, they renewed their siege against the city and our forces with increased vigor. They planned to burn, sack and loot the city, and to strike down and slaughter every living human being in it, except their own people; and two brutal, though abortive, attempts were made to carry out the barbarous and demonic plan. If we study the records and proceedings of their so-called government, it is apparent that it is nothing but a pure dictatorship—a mere military oligarchy of Aguinaldo and his chiefs (all Chinese Mestizos)—with no basis of choice or consent among the masses. It exists and is tolerated, such as it is, through fear and ignorance. Ig- norance of the Americans, their character and system of government; and fear of Aguinaldo, his junta and armed followers. Is it not plain to any unbiased mind, after studying the record of Aguinaldo and his junta ever since the insurrection of 1896, that it is as much our moral duty to relieve the Filipino people from the incubus and tyranny of this military oligarchy as of Spanish rule? It would be a greater misfortune and greater calamity to hand the Filipino people over to the merces of such a government than to have left them in the hands of the Spanians. Is it not our moral as well as our legal duty to suppress, first of all, this insurrection, started under such false pretenses, with such treachery and under such auspices and leadership as this Tagal rebellion in Luzon? Bryan Indorsed Administration We acquired the islands fairly by conquest, ratified and confirmed by a treaty, which had the indorsement of Mr. Bryan. He was at Washington on the eve of its ratification and urged his party to join in ratifying the treaty. The insurrection of 1898 would never have had an inception nor flourished but for the fact that our flag was in the islands, and permitted Aguinaldo and his chiefs to land. Coming into the islands under our flag, our protection, and our assistance, as they did, Aguinaldo and his chiefs had no more legal or moral right to set up a claim or title hostile to the United States than a tenant, coming into possession by the permission of his landlord, has the right to question or set up a hostile title to the latter. We acquired, by conquest and treaty, as complete a title to the Philippine islands as to Porto Rico, and we have taken no more steps to obtain the consent of the Porto Ricans than of the Filipinos. The government we have established for the Porto Ricans is a government we have given them, and not a government they have given themselves. Mercely a Tagal Affair According to the most conservative data, the Philippine group embrace an area of about 120,000 square miles and a population of 7,000,000. Luzon has a little more than one-third of this area and a little less than one-half of this population. There are three different races and over eighty different tribes, of various degrees of civilization, in the group. Most of the people belong to the Malayan race; less than one-half million belong to the other two races. The principal tribe is the Visayas, occupying the Visaya group of islands, situate between Luzon on the north and Mindanao on the south. The Visayas occupy an area of 28,000 square miles, number about 2,600,000 and are as civilized and intelligent as the Tagals. The next tribe, in numbers, is the Tagals, who occupy Luzon, and number 1,664,000—about one-half of the population of this island. The insurrection is a Tagal insurrection, and the insurrectionary government is a Tagal government. The other tribe and the people of the other islands had no voice and were not represented in the formation or management of this government. The Tagal government of Aguinaldo in Luzon originated in and rests wholly upon military force, and has not, even in Luzon, to say nothing about the many other important islands, come into existence or continued by the free choice or voluntary consent of the people sought to be governed. Its scope and authority is limited to the territory occupied by its armed bands and detachments in Luzon. The consent of the governed is neither asked, sought nor expected. The great mass of the people are as helpless and within reach of the Tagal government under as abstent subjugation under Aguinaldo's military oligarchy as they ever were under the Spaniards in the years that are past. Bryan Would Haul Down Old Glory. It is to such an insurrection and to such a government that our adversaries would have us lay down our arms and surrender our control and authority. It is this insurrection and this government that we should have encouraged and set up as a permanent establishment and have made ourselves the protectors of. It is to this government of Aguinaldo's that we should retrocede the title and authority we acquired from Spain. When we ratified the treaty we should have given assurance of all this, and then all would have been well. It is because we have failed to do all this and because we are suppressing the insurrection, bringing order out of chaos and attempting to give the Filipinos a just, safe and liberal government—superior to any they have ever had or possibly could acquire through Aguinaldo and his chiefs—that we are guilty of imperialism and guilty of threatening the liberties of cur own people by an increased standing army. Bryan's Imperialism. BUT IT IS ONLY ON HIS CRITICISMS THAT MR. BRYAN IS LOFTY AND SOARS TO IMPERIAL HEIGHTS. WHEN HE COMES TO LAY DOWN A PROGRAM OF HIS OWN HE IS LESS ELUSIVE, LESS STARTLING, AND APPROACHES REPUBLICAN GROUND NEARER THAN HE APPREHENDS. In his Philippine program he would, first, establish a stable form of government. That is exactly what the Republican party aims to do. But this implies that there is no such government there now, not even Aguinaldo's government. What Mr. Bryan admits by implication we assert as a positive fact, and we further assert that the first step in the establishment of a stable form of government is to suppress the existing insurrection and insurrectionary government, and that a stable form of government can not well be established before this is done. Different in Case of Cuba. Even this Mr. Bryan admits by implication, for he says we should do as we have done in Cuba. And what have we done there? When our forces went to Cuba there was a Cuban republic and a Cuban army. There was no Filipino government nor Filipino army when Dewey entered Manila bay. In Cuba, through our efforts, and aided by the good sense of Gomez and his chiefs, the Cuban republic has been permitted to expire and the Cuban army has long ago been disbanded. and by the aid and co-operation of the Cubans we are engaged in the effort of establishing de novo a stable government there. Had Aguinaldo and his chiefs followed the example of Gomez and his chiefs we should before this have been long on the way towards establishing a stable government in the Phillipines. Under the circumstances we have not, as Mr. Bryan contends, been dilatory in establishing such a government. In 1846 our armed forces took possession of California, and continued to hold it pending the Mexican war, the ratification of the treaty of peace, and until it became a state in 1850. California never had a territorial form of government, but remained under the control of the amy from 1846 until it became a state. There was no insurrection in California, and yet for upwards of two years after the treaty of peace, it was governed through the military department of the government, and this was held by our supreme court to be a valid and constitutional government, nor were we accused of being dilatory in giving California a state government. But it is assured that the Filipinos are entitled to absolute independence, and that we have no right to govern them without their consent. Our Duty a Sacred One If this is true, what right have we to permit any form of government upon them? They may insist that they have the right to establish just such a form of government as they see fit and that it is not our business to establish any form for them. What then? Are we to abandon the scheme or are we to watch, wait and pray for their consent, or are we to go on regardless of it. And in case we do go on to establish a stable government without their consent, and they see it to resist and to go into an insurrection—as they are now doing—against our present efforts to establish a stable government, and we resort to arms to repress such resistance and insurrection—as they are now doing—against our present efforts to establish a stable government, and we resort to arms to repress such resistance and insurrection and insist upon establishing a stable government at the point of the bayonet, will not this bring us back into the slough of imperialism with the ghost of a standing army in the background? There is only one sure escape from such a gloomy outcome. It is to leave it to the Filipinos to say what constitutes a stable form of government. But if we do that there is really no occasion for our giving any consideration at all to their form of government. There is no need of giving them any form of government at all. That should be left wholly to themselves. As to a Protectorae. Having given the Filipinos a stable form of government, Mr. Bryan would give them their absolute independence and then protect them from the interference of other nations. If it is our duty to establish a stable form of government, it follows that it is our duty to see that such a form of government is maintained, for without it, we cannot afford them adequate protection against other nations. If we assume a protectorate over the islands, foreign governments would expect and require, and would have a right to expect and require that we maintain a stable government there. A government that would protect the life, property and commerce of foreigners to the same extent as amosg the civilized nations of the world. Without such a government we would, before the world, have no more right to say in foreign nations, you must keep out of the Philippines, than we have to say to foreign nations at this time, that you must keep out of China. The Protectorate Humbug. If we were to assume a protectorate over China it would be our duty to see that China accorded ample protection to the lives, property and business of foreigners. And recent events have demonstrated what a task this would be. And the Filipinos, in all their entirety, with their more than eighty different tribes and their varied and inferior degrees of civilization, are far less fitted for self-government than the Chinese, who have maintained an organized government for centuries. Aguinaldo and his chiefs represent the most civilized and intelligent element of the native races, and yet we know it was their purpose to burn, sack and loot Manila and to slaughter all foreigners in the city. The independence the Filipinos would enjoy under such leaders as Aguinaldo and his chiefs would be such independence as the people of Haiti and Santo Domingo enjoy—brute lawlessness, partly restrained by brute force, and revolution succeeding revolution." The Work of an Oak. A single oak of good size lifts 123 tons of water during the months it is in leaf, says Mr. Frank French, in Scribner's. This moisture is evaporated and rises to form rain-clouds. All the trees are busy doing the same thing and the rank ferns and mosses and deep mould of the forest depths, acting as reservoirs for the rain which falls upon them, in their turn feed the springs and brooks. From this we can gain some idea of the immense forces which the forests exert in equalizing the evaporation and precipitation, and preventing periods of inundation and drought. Was England's Premier Rose-grower. Was England's Premier or Rose-grower. The death is announced of Mr. Ben Cant, the premier rose-grower of England. In 1899 his firm carried off the six great trophies open to all England. When Mr. Cant saw or heard of a new rose he spared no expense to obtain it. Perhaps his greatest "hit" was made in 1853, when he secured three roses which have never been excelled—viz. Glorie de Dijon, Jules Margottin and General Jacqueminet. During a long life he had woken 2,050 silver cups, pieces of plate and first prizes. Men become more fretful as they grow older. A man who could stand any sort of annoyance at 30 probably cannot stand it at 40. This is not devilishness; it is nature. Haven't you noticed that an old dog is not as playful as a pup? AS THE WORLD MOVES ROUND LABOR AND CIVILITY JUSTICE ENVIRONMENT EVENTS TIMES NEWS POLITICS JUSTICE A man standing in front of a filing cabinet. MICHAEL COOPRIANOFF FORMER LIEUTENANT OF COSSACKS AST NEWS PUBLIC RIGHTS GOOD WELL INDUSTRY Rear Admiral Montgomery Sicard fled of apoplexy at his home in West- rnville, N. Y., the other morning. The attack was quite unlooked for and was rapidly followed by death. In 1894 Admiral Sicard was promoted from the rank of captain to that of commodore and for three years was commandant of the Brooklyn navy yard. In 1897 he was commissioned a rear admiral. Admiral Sicard. was rapidly followed by death. In 1894 Admiral Sicard was promoted from the rank of captain to that of commodore and for three years was commandant of the Brooklyn navy yard. In 1897 he was commissioned a rear admiral. Admiral Sicard. His last active work as a sailor was that done while he served as commander in chief of the North Atlantic station, from May, 1897, to March, 1898. About that time his health began to fail, and a board of medical survey pronounced him unfit for service. The navy department placed him upon the sick list. After his recovery he was appointed a member of the naval war board, upon which he served as president. Lester T. Garfield, a grandson of Thomas Garfield, the only brother of President Garfield, has enlisted in the regular army as a private and been assigned to the Seventh artillery, now stationed at Fort Grobel. His parents, who live in Georgetown, Mich., son-sented to his act. A New Light o MICHAEL COOPRIANOFF, FORM Michael Cooprianoff, former imperial Cossack and attached to the Ninth Russian Cossack regiment, is a resident of Chicago, says the Tribune. From Cooprianoff, whose picture is shown, some new light comes on the question as to what the Russian Cossacks really are. Americans are wont to imagine the fearless Russian rough riders to be men as savage as the American Indian and as cruel. False stories have been printed in America telling how Cossacks have impaled their victims upon the points of their sabers, carried heads on short spears, and no English written romance dealing with incidents in Russia is complete without some allusion to the barbarities of the Cossack horseman. Mr. Coopriplanoff not only does declare the statements that his comrades at arms are brutal a lie, but he says that there is not a body of men so generally well educated and disciplined and so thoroughly merciful in their mode of warfare as the Russian Cossacks. Fame in a Romance. Margaret Horton Potter, whose historical romance is attracting much attention, was born in Chicago in 1881. She is young, therefore, to have accomplished a literary work requiring so much judgment, skill and preliminary study. Miss Potter prepared for Bryn Mawr at a school in Chicago, but ill health prevented her attending col- therefore, to have accomplished a literary work requiring so much judgment, skill and ornellinary study. Miss Potter prepared for Bryn Mawr at a school in Chicago, but ill health prevented her attending college. She has since made, however, post-graduate studies in Latin, Greek, English, history and philosophy. Miss Potter resides with her parents in a beautiful home on the lake shore drive. The great ambition of Novelli, the much-talked-of Italian actor, is said to be to act Hamlet in English in the Memorial theater at Stratford-on-Avon. --- A President's Son in China. Lieutenant-Colonel Webb S. Hayes, who has gone to China, is announced to have been sent as a special representa- tive of the president. Colonel Hayes is a son of the late President Rutherford B. Hayes. At the time of the Spanish-American war he volunteered for service, and was made assistant adjutant general, in which post he achieved no little distinction. M. B. distinction, for Webb C. Hayes. the reason that he brought to his duties a capacity for business, industry, and a general capability that was a marked contrast to the attitude of some of the volunteer officers. Later Colonel Hayes saw active service in the Philippines, where he served with distinction, but sent in his resignation. It was stated at the time, because of disagreement with the methods of General Otis. He has been in the United States for some months now, but ever since General Otis has returned from the Philippines has been anxious to re-enter the service.—New York Mall and Express. Major General George Henry Marshall, who presided at the court-martial held in Pretoria on Hans Cordua, the would-be kidnapper of Lord Roberts, had never seen any active service until he went to South Africa, though he has been nearly forty years in the army. He went out to command the artillery in the war. The Arabic letters in the Khedive's recent poem to Victoria have a numerical value of 1900 when counted up. on the Cossack. ER LIEUTENANT OF COSSACKS. "Our officers," says he, "are not only not brutal, but brutality on the part of the men would be severely punished on the instant. "No finer body of horsemen can be found on earth than a regiment of genuine Cossacks. The real Cossack is an educated man, even though he does not belong to the royal family or even to the aristocracy. He speaks Russian fluently and correctly. He must do this or he could not be a Cossack. He must be able to distinguish between right and wrong, and always at any rate while he is in the czar's uniform, stick to the right. Cruelties on the part of the soldiers form one of the principal articles in the Russian army code, and while Russia's enemies are careful to hide this fact there is more mercy in a regiment of Russians than in the entire army of Great Britain. A Russian never gloats over the necessary killing on the battlefield. He does his duty and does it as quietly and mercifully as possible. That is the Cossack through and through." Only Seven: Weights 180. Green county, Ark. boasts one of rk, boasts one of the heaviest girls in the United States for her years. She is Elmar Spear and her age is only 7. Despite this she weighs 180 pounds and has a bust measure of 46 inches. Her height is 51 inches. Elmar is phenomenally strong and can readily lift a man weighing 200 pounds and carry the heaviest girls in the United States for her years. She is Elmar Spear and her age is only 7. Despite this she weighs 180 pounds and has a bust measure of 46 inches. Her height is 51 inches. Elmar is phenomenally strong and can readily lift a man weighing 200 pounds and carry him across a room. She enjoys excellent health and her mind is as bright as her body is abnormally developed. If her present rate of growth and development is maintained she will probably be the largest and heaviest woman in the world. The biggest fool is the man who considers himself the wisest. SAYINGS and DOINGS Kawai's Right Hand Man Kaiser's Right Hand Man. Bernhard von Bulow, Emperor William's right-hand man in the Russo-German diplomacy concerning China, has but lately acquired the importance he now possesses, and was the occasion of a great sensation by his promotion to the highest place in the diplomatic department of the empire. He entered the service of which he is now the head in 1874. His first mission was that to Bucharest, and he was afterward minister to Rome. With only this much preliminary experience at the youthful age of 48 he was suddenly placed at the helm of the foreign department by Emperor William. Herr von Bulow is not re- VON BULOW garded as having any policy of his own but rather as an admirable and willing instrument of the kaiser in all affairs which affect the prestige of Germany among the nations of the earth. Was a Delegate In 1836. the ninety-fifth anniversary of his birth at his country home in Long Island. Mr. Silliman is truly a gentleman of the school whose archaic mannerisms and courtliness almost persuade one that he just stepped out from B. D. Silliman. the pages of one of AustinDobson's ballads. He takes but a passing interest in current politics, which is easily condoned in a man who has been a delegate to national conventions as long ago as 1836. He has been a trustee of Greenwood cemetery during all the time the population of that necropolis has grown from zero to upward of 300,000. He once had an interview with Aaron Burr, was president of Yale Alumni association for twenty years, voted in convention for the nomination of the first President Harrison, and ran for congress in 1842. These are some of the things which distinguisgh Mr. Silliman probably from all other living men. During his active career Mr. Silliman was a practicing lawyer. To Rede in a Fortune. D. J. Mackey, the former railroad magnate, who, having lost one fortune, has just begun the battle of life anew at the age of 67, is one of the most remarkable of Indiana's business men. He has wiped out liabilities upward of $500,000 by going into bankruptcy, and now with Millionaire Fairbanks of Terre Haute at his back D. J. MACKEY. he will try the hazard of a new fortune. Mackey was born in Evansville in 1833. At 15 he was left with a mother to support and rose from office boy to clerk, and from clerk to partner in a business house, meanwhile investing his surplus capital in southern railroads. From this beginning rose the Mackey system of railroads, and its owner was a rich man when he began the fatal experiment of making Evansville the great city of the West. By degrees he lost his holdings, and his affairs became hopelessly entangled. About five years ago the crash came. C. P. Huntington's will left nothing to California. He never visited the state if he could avoid it, for the experience of his later years was mortifying and painful. He thought that the people of that state were ungrateful for what he had done for their benefit; that the newspapers treated him unjustly and even brutally; that the men whose prosperity and wealth had come to them through his efforts and influence had deserted and betrayed him. Hon. George P. McLean Hon. George P. McLean. Hon. George P. McLean has been nominated by the Republicans of Vermont for gubernatorial honors. Hon. Mr. McLean is one of Hartford's best known lawyers and up to a few days ago was associated in partnership with ex- Congressman Lewis Sperry and Austin Brainard with offices in the Aetna building Hon. G. P. McLean torial honors. Hon. Mr. McLean is one of Hartford's best known lawyers and up to a few days ago was associated in partnership with ex-Congressman Lewis Sperry and Austin Brainard with offices in the Aetna building Hon. G. P. McLean THE LAST ACTS OF THE BOERS. All Destruction When the British En- tered Komatnoort. The Boer disaster is complete. As the British entered Kamapiotop the Boers destroyed everything they could. The bridges had been wrecked by dynamite, the stores, buildings and home steads looted and burned, as had been also the railway property. All the chief stations were masses of smoking ruins, among them Kapa Muiden, Heetorspruit and Kamapiotop. At the last place there is an enormous area over which the Boers have wrought destruction. Hundreds of wagons trucks and carriages which have been burned, together with all kinds of stores of clothing, ammunition, forage and provisions, such as sugar, coffee rice, flour and stationery. At Kotamiport there were, besides the burning stores, hundreds of tons of ammunition, all kinds of caps, gunpowder and other explosives, and ready-fused shells for gus, from the pom-pom to the 6-inch, broken rifles and cannon. The enemy had left standing many tents. The great waste in the effects of the Boers was evident. Trunks, furniture, provisions, clothing and other articles were lying about in every direction. In the rocky bed of the tumbling, foaming river bed were yet more enormous quantities of stores, ammunition, rifles, cannon and foodstuffs. ROOSEVELT MOBBED Attacked by a Riotous Crowd of Roughs at Victor, Colo. Governor Roosevelt had a most exciting experience at Victor, a few miles from Cripple Creek, among the mines, where a demonstrative crowd had assembled. The governor had a narrow escape from serious personal violence. The incident was the only one of the kind it has occurred during the progre t of the trip and it is said that t he double was occasioned by a small body of roughs. The men engaged were few in number, but very violent in their attack. One man made a personal attack upon Governor Roosevelt and succeeded in striking him a blow in the breast with a stick. The assailant was immediately knocked down by Daniel M. Sullivan, postmaster of Cripple Creek. Many of the mol were armed with sticks and clubs some with rotten potatoes, stale eggs and lemons. FOR VOLUNTEER'S PLACES. The War Department Preparing to Push Through Its Bill for 100,000 Men. The war department will make a strong fight to have the project for an increase in the regular army put through Congress. The time is fast approaching when the present volunteer force in the Philippines must be withdrawn. To maintain the necessary force in the Philippines another volunteer army must be authorized, or else an increase in the regular army, and it will be the endeavor of the war department to point out that the latter plan is the only feasible one. The plan now in contemplation is for the authorization by Congress of enough additional regiments to raise the strength of the army to 100,000 men. Keep the Captured Flag The tenth biennial reunion of Crocker's Iowa brigade, consisting of the Eleventh, Thirteenth, Fifteenth and Sixteenth regiments, was held at Keoku with a larger attendance than usual. At the business meeting a proposition to return to the state of South Carolina the flag which Colonel J. C. Kennedy, now in the national home at Milwaukee, captured on the capitol at Columbia, was finally unanimously voted down and the flag will remain in the rooms of the Iowa historical society at Iowa City. Big Red Apple Wins Again L. A. Goodman of Westport, secretary of the Missouri Horticultural society, has received a letter from G. P. Brackett, United States pomologist at the Paris exposition, stating that Missouri apples had been awarded first prize at the exposition for the eighth time. Prizes were awarded in the apple competition by consignments of ten bushels each. Germany Has Two Allies. Italy and Austria are the only powers which have replied favorably un conditionally to Germany's note. It is certainly a fact that the replies of France and Russia are almost identical advocating the punishment of the originators of the anti-foreign assaults but not making their surrender an absolute condition of the peace preliminaries. Grain Trust. The existence of an organization of grain dealers whose purpose is to perpetrate a gigantic swindle on the farmers of the Central Western states has just come to light. The organization has at the present time upward of 600 members, including the elevator proprietors of many cities and towns in the territory between St. Paul and Kansas City. With Gold and Boer Officials The German steamer Herzog, who has sailed from Lorenzo Marques for Europe, had among her passengers the Transvaal postmaster general, Van Alphen; the assistant secretary of state, Grobler; the state treasurer, Maltherbe, and a large quantity of bar gold. Flor Islands to Federate The Fiji islands are taking steps to federate with New Zealand. The Fijis are located about 1,000 miles due north of the New Zealand islands. Both are British possessions. Tuan Appoluted Premier It is stated in diplomatic quarters that definite and official information has been received that Prince Tuan has been appointed President of the privy council of China, instead of grand secretary, as was first reported, and that a number of other Chinese officials prominent in the recent uprising, have been similarly honored. Patrick O'Malley for the dis-