The American Citizen

Oldest and Best Weekly paper devoted to the Race in this section of the Country WEEKLY MEDIUM FOR ADVERTISERS WITH A RECORD OF THIRTEEN YEARS, NEVER MISSING AN ISSUE, REACHING THOUSANDS OF HOMES OF OUR READER. OUR GAPITAL CTY RESUME POLITICS AND OTHER NEWS. Interesting and Other Very News Bits by Our Correspondents TOPEKA KANSAS VOL 13, NO. 42 Oldest and WEEKLY MEDIUM FOR OUR CAPITAL POLITICS AND Interesting and Other Very New TOPEKA K Your correspondent, who has again located at the Capital City, the scene of all his journalistic conquests and disappointments, will endeavor to again push the pencil enough to give the many readers of the CITIZEN the doings of our people at the Capital City, making a specialty of politics and statecraft. The political horizon indicates a multiplicity of political h openings, the approaching session of the legislature, coupled with scramble for peace, the senatorial election, the local city election soon at hand, the coming county primaries, all bid fair to make interesting reading for the citizens here and over the State during the next few months. As a result of the recent great victory there will not be much shifting at the pie counter, in as much as it is customary to give the state officers a second term, and it has likewise become the custom to retain the subordinates with the administration. So all seems secure for two years to come with those who hold political positions under the present administration. The boys all worked faithful and certainly deserve a second sitting at the pie counter THE LEGISLATIVE SCRAMBLE. The scramble for places at the coming legislature is already on, representatives elect are already busy, besieged by applicants for position, who are making life a burden to most of them. The scramble for place bids fair to exceed that of 1893, when the legislature experienced so much trouble in getting the question of employees straightened out, it is to be hoped that some colored man will land something better than Janitor or ship. LOCAL POLITICAL EVENTS. The most ludicrous political event that has happened for some time was the recent attempt of a committee of apparently leading colored politicians under the leadership of J. H. Childers, editor of the Plaindealer, G. W. Hamilton, Geo. Curtis and others, to force County Attorney elect Nichols, to reverse himself. The committee waited until the appointment of W. T. Jamison had been announced before they waited on Mr. Nichols in behalf of their man, A. M. Thomas. Of course it was up to Jamison as to whether he would decline in favor of Thomas. The Plaindealer, edited by J. H. Childers, in a recent issue, had at article very complimentary of the Jamison appointment. So the matter seems at this writing to be in abeyance with Jamison as master of the situation. THE COMING CITY ELECTION. Politicians are trimming their asls for the coming city primaries, on, popular City Marshal, Fred Stonecrest, will again stand for renomination and election for a second term. There will in all probability be two colored men as candidates for the City Council. In our next week's correspondence we will endeavor to give a resume of the DOUGLAS HOSPITAL NOTES. The Matron of the Douglass Hospital wishes to acknowledge and thank the school children and friends for the following dona ions: Douglas School 3 bbls, and 20c. Bruce school, 1 bbls. sack of flour. Stowe school, 2 bbls. " " " " Philips school, 1 bbls. " " " " A surprise party, led by Mrs. Kittle Burton; the following was donated. Mr. M. A. Finney, Oatflake, Mrs. L. Hook, bread, Mrs. Galard bread and fruit, Mrs. Palmer, chicken, Mrs. Reynolds, oat meal and jelly, Mrs. Sayles, a plowcase Mrs, S. H. Thompson, fruits and 50c., Mrs. M. Bo tie, rice, Mrs. Drake, 3 cans of peas, Mrs. Allen, sugar, Mrs. C. Sheppard, bread, Mrs. K Burton, jelly, Mrs. E. B. Cnase, plowcase Mrs. W. Harrison, oat meal, Miss A. Taylor, pears, Mrs. A. Rogers, rice and jelly, Mrs. M. Matthews, peaches and sugar, Mrs. A. W. Johnston, fruit, J. Wakes out meal, tees, potatoes and apples, Mrs. I. Granham, jelly and butter, Mrs. Tillery, can peas, Mrs. North, bread, Mrs. Salle Brown, sugar, Mrs. Wakes, peaches and soup, Mrs. Graves, jelly and potatoes, E. Banks, pillow case, Mrs. A. Finney, can pears, Mrs. A. Gardner, tomatoes, Mrs. Hattie Jackson, can corr. Miss Warner, apples and potatoes, Mrs. R. Cox, garments, Mrs. E. Jones, potatoes, Mrs. Paluer, meal, beef, sugar and potatoes, Mrs. Young, potatoes, Mrs. Hogg, apples, corn and tomatoes, Mrs. Quaries, meal and potatoes, Argentine Smelter and employees $5,33, Mrs. S. H. Thompson, 50c, Dr. T. C. Unthank, 5c through Mr. and Mrs. Moppin, a turkey and jelly, through D. F. Jones, a turkey and oysters, St. Augustine, a Fath- --- THE d Best Weekly FOR ADVERTISERS WITH AL CTY RESUME ND OTHER NEWS. Newsy Bits by Our Correspondents KA KANSAS prospects of the nomination and election of a colored man for County Clerk at the Republican primaries, which are to be held sometime early in 1901. THE KNIGHT TEMPLAR CONCLAVE. THE KNIGHT TEMPLAR CONCLEAVE. The annual Knight Templar Conclave of the Kansas and Missouri Knights, take place Thanksgiving at the Auditorium before a good and appreciative audience, Kansas City, St. Joseph and Topeka participating in a competitive drill. St. Joseph, in their matchless wind drill, walked away from Topeka and Kansas City, although let it be said to the credit of Kansas City, that their tactics were not seen to advantage owing to the lateness of the hour that they came on the floor. The audience was rapidly v-casting the hall to catch the cars and by common consent St. Joseph was in the hearts of the audience a winner. Cyrene Commandry of Topeka, appeared in costumes, which was a revelation to the visiting comrades as well as the audience they were simply immense. The next concave will be held in St. Joseph. THINGS TO HAPPEN Calendar For the Next Legislative Session. The notable incidents in the political life of the state, beginning in January, are as follows: January 6, assembling of the legislature. January 14, inauguration of the state officers. January 15, election of a state printer. January 22, election of a United States senator. TOPEKA LOCALLY Miss Kate Harris spent last week in Fort Scott, the guest of Dr. McLemore. Mrs Sarah Buford who has been visiting her daughters for the past month returned to her home in Oklahoma Saturday. Mrs A. M. Ward has been quite ill for the past week. Miss. Ella Williams entertained The Golden Rod Club last Friday afternoon visitors present, Mrs. Cox of Cnn. O. Mrs J.M. Johnson and Mrs. Cliff Meaux The Oak Leaf Club meet Wednesday P.M. with Mrs. Annie Riyers on Tyler st. The Sawing circle of St John A.M.E. church met with Mrs Mary Bennett W 8th street Wednesday, an elegant lunch was served. Mrs. M. Jaccobs of Kan. City, Mo. spent Thanksgiving in our city the guest of Mrs J. M. Wright. Miss. Mary E. Reynolds of Qaindaro college spent Thanksgiving with her parent. Miss. Mayme Johnsen left Sunday eve for Emporia to attend the State Normal. er and Communicants, flour, rice, apples, chickens and $1.20, one dinner from from elder Berry's church, Mrs. Robinson, one ait tight beater. I. F. Bradley and family, $1.00, D. W. White, 25c. TO THE MEMBERS OF THE ALPHA ART CLUB, AND KIND FRIENDS. Words cannot express my gratitude and high appreciation of the ladies who so pleasantly called and completely suprised me last week with the sweets and daininess of life. Allow me to say,you could not have come at a more appreciative time. You came at a time when friends seem few and clouds of disappointment and discouragement gathered thick before me You told me by your presence and tokens of remembrance that you still had in your heart a warm spot of sympathy and love for me. May Heaven bless you all in perfect health. May the Club live long,do good and prosper by the care and sympathy it has for its members. On! may heaven smile and grant me the privilege to meet my Club and Friends again in the sweet bye and bye. jelly. Mrs. darder. coro. Mrs. pota ar and Mrs. Mrs. entine S. H. 5, 5c a tur- nes, a Fath- "If you have a loving word, Speak it where it can be heard. Souls are anguishing to-day, For the words that you might say. Earthly burdens sorely press, Loving word can make them less, And no soul can suffer loss. Thus who lifts his brother's cross, MRS. BURT CUNNINGHAM, No. 614 Group up. K. C. Ks Grisp opportunities as they present themselves, now is a most excellent time to subscribe for this paper AMERICAN KANSAS CITY, KANSAS, FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER, 7 1900. EDITORIAL PICKINGS. As announced last week, our "Turkey gobbler" prese ted for our Thanksgiving dinner esaped, and created havoc in our office. We are pleased to announce this week that our "devil," who was in hot pu suit, as we went to press on last Thursday, captured the feathered rascal and we dined quite sumptuously last Sabbath. Thanks to our country subscriber. We present in this issue a "eat" of Judge I. F. Bradley, one of the recent elected Presidential Electors. There were ten elected to cast the vote of Kansas, for McKinley and Roosevelt. Among that number is Judge Bradley, the only negro in the flock. It has been the desire of the numerous friends of the Judge that he be select d as the messenger to Washington, D. C., to carry the ballots and results of the Electors deliberations next month when they meet at Topeka. JUDGE I. F. BRADLEY. Judge Bradley represents the foremost element of our race. He is known throughout the State, and while there is nothing but "honor" attached to this coveted "temporary" position, it is nevertheless an honor, that not only will the Judge appreciate, but every negro voter in Wyandotte county and state as well, will appreciate, if he be selected to go. Since his white associates, by reason of color, have the advantage in securing positions under the administration, we voice the sentiment of every negro in the State (and we believe it to be just and right) when we say that this honor should be accorded the only negro in the flock. The powers that be will do well to consider the advisability of what we say. We believe when the loyalty and faithfulness of the negro is taken under consideration, and his always slim chances of securing much when pitted against a white man, that when these things are honestly considered, we have no doubt that Judge Bradley, the lawyer, the race man, the loyal true blue Republican, the upright and intelligent citizen, will be selected to bear the tidings from the sun flower State to the seat of government at Washington, J. C. Wants Pie. The Washington correspondent of the New York Age says: While the air is filled with rumors concerning probable changes in McKinley's cabinet after March 4, 1901, the colored politicians are figuring on possible changes in the coed "Advisory Board" of the administration. It is conceded by all that Register Judson W. Lyons will succeed himself, while John P. Green may be transferred to the office of Recorder of Deeds. Charles W. Anderson is slated for Fourth Auditor of the Treasury of the United States, or Stamp Agent, while P. B. S. Pinchback and Editor T. Thomas Fortune are expected to represent this government abroad. Greener, Gibbs and Powell are 'ooked' to remain at their-respective pests. Colonels W. Calvin Cuse and E. E. Cooper, are both expected to "randbag some lucrative district appointment." THE loyal Negro republican allies of Missouri are still making a warm hustle for pie.—go it: boys. UNITED efforts on the part of any nationality under the canopy of heaven is bound to bring success along any line undertaken. For thirteen long years editors of this paper have come and gone, yet those that are left continue year in and year out to preach the old truth: "In unity there is strength." What could not be accomplished if the negroes would unite as brothers, having one common interest, that of uplifting and bettering their conditions, as a down trodden race. We harp about our condition and the oppression of the white man—when right to-day the grandest and most glorious opportunities are presenting themselves to us to be something and somebody. We had an occasion to mention some several weeks ago the fact of a negro business enterprise being established in Chicago. Ill, under the head of a cooperative store, that has proved a glowing success, and set forth the possibility of "united forces." Just stop and think for a moment. A little over one year ago seventeen negroes in the great city of Chicago, came together like men and formed a company with a capital stock of $1,000, that: being a little over $58 to a man, leased a small store building and opened up a meat market and a grocery. Being negroes—they knew the wants of negroes, their likes and dislikes, so dealt in that which was most in demand. They didn't stop to argue and fuss who should be head and who had the most money invested, but picked out the best business men among them and went to work, the rest rallying to their leaders' support. They meant business and that's what was established. Today, great Scot! hardly a year's time, nearly every one of the seventeen men who laid the foundation stones are now employed at a salary in helping to extend the business Such success has been achieved now, after a year's business, they are to open a Department Store—manned by experienced and competent salesmen from different parts of the country, who have made a success along the branches they will handle in this Department Store. This is Chicago and a few of its negroes. Now what's the matter with Kansas? Are there not seventeen negroes who are making money enough to spare about $58 apiece to found a business that the whole world could point to as a most lasting and benignicent monument to the centric race. True, in this city we have the A. C. L Coal and Feed Co., founded by negroes, along the same lines as the H. M. Turner co-operative store, in Chicago, it was a could have more, and why can't we? Kansas has always been first in everything, let us not give way to the windy city. We have among us negro business men who could manage, and successfully too, any undertaking, if they only had the backing—negroes who would be willing to risk a little money that they might gain future independence and make a place in the commercial world for our boys and girls. One of the greatest drawbacks here, as elsewhere, every negro wants to be head or hold an office, and have his name mentioned in big letters as being connected with the "firm." One negro is afraid another will beat him out of a little change, when the white man has been boating out of all kind of "change" for 240 years or more. The harvest is ripe—negroes must do business themselves if they expect to amount to anything. When negroes can employ one another and patronize one another—down goes the barriers, and in the white business establishments you will und negro clerks, salesmen, stenographers and book keepers. Why? Because they will want your trade. As long as a white man can get your trade without recognition, just so long will he take it; when that trade is cut off, he will make a bid for it. The negroes can raise among themselves thousands of dollars for every thing else under the sun but business. Let the school teacher tell his pupils. Let the preacher preach it to his congregation. Let negro editors continue to write that upon that one word "Business" hinges the future, yes, the whole future of the negro race. CITIZEN "Opportunity has flirted with boys behind the plow; she has caxed men from the ditch and bench; she has hired men to glory from the printers case and from the stonemason's board," says Will White. "Opportunity is never so hard up for a man that she has to climb over a picket fence and vank a dude out of a hammock to make a hero. Opportunity likes men with he bark on, virile men, who can do something besides play the bass part to chopnucks and roll a cigarette well, which is a s op bucket of all failure where the hafokaded fellows go, is full of starched boys-men, as old Bio Shakespeare said, who might be cut frm a cheese paring after supper. Read that passage, all of it, if you want to know what sort of fellows God and men hate, and mothers make by tasir couding of starched dudes." A TRUTH. A white man can always get one Negro to down another Negro if he wants it done, but a Negro would not dare to approach a white man. It is this principle that has made the white race so powerful. It is their inherent cohoesiveness. No race can amount to anything until they learn thoroughly this great principle in life.—Daily Recorder. AMONG THE POULTRY. "Good morning. How do you do this morning?" said me duck, meeting the hen. "None of your business," replied the hen. "You are no doctor." "Quack!" squawked the duck angry. "That's what I said," cackled the hen.—X. A party of young men met at this office Thursday evening and discussed plans for the organizing of a Young Mens' Oratorical Club. Strenuous efforts will be made to get it on foot. Next meeting will be held either at this office or the office of L. W. Johnson. Tuesday evening next. 4. Элемент управления Every Friday evening New York loses thousands of its residents, who go to other cities in the state and to Boston and Philadelphia. These people are citizens of Albany, Utica, Syracuse, Rochester, Buffalo, Elmira, Binghamton and the travelers to Boston and Philadelphia have their homes in these cities. All of these men do business in New York city. They return to New York from their homes on Sunday night, arriving Monday morning, and from that time until Friday evening they are going after the almighty dolar—Baltimore News. Nothing Personal Intended: Nothing Personal Indicates. When Lady Blessington sent D'Orsay to complain of some delay on the part of her publishers, Otley & Saunders, he used very high language. A dignified man in a high, white neckcloth, who was listening to him, said: "Count D'Orsay, I would sooner lose Lady Blessington's patronage than submit to such personal abuse." "There was nothing personal," said the count; "if you are Otley, then damn Saunders; if you are Saunders, then damn Otley." Ancient Manuscript Heirlooms Ancient Manuscript Heirlooms. John Beutler of Wapakoneta, Ohio has manuscripts and books that have been handed down from father to son since the ninth and sixteenth centuries. He has original manuscripts of the code of Justinian the Great, emperor of Rome, written in the latter part of the fifth century. He also has original manuscripts of the annals of C. Corneilius Tacitus, the Roman historian, written in Greek, about the middle of the ninth century. The Famous "Passion Play." Already arrangements are being made by the tourist agents to conduct parties to Oberammergau this year, the famous "Passion Play" having been fixed to commence on April 24. It will last as usual, till the end of September. Since 1633, with only slight remodeling, this mystery or miracle performance has been performed by village peasants in the Bavarian highlands every ten years. Old-Time Surgery. A grim souvenir of an old-time war was on view in a cutter's window in the east end of London recently. It is an ebony-handled saw, which, according to the inscription on a brass plate attached to the instrument, was used by a surgeon of the British army to amputate the limbs of wounded soldiers at Blenheim, Malplaquet and Ramallies. Banner Illinois Corn Counties Very few people, peckas, are aware of the fact that in the counties of Coles, Douglas and Moultrie, in Illinois, three-fourths of all the broom corn used in the world is produced. The amount used in the whole world is 35,000 tons, of which 27,000 tons are grown in these counties. Too Good a Target. Hitherto the regiments of the Highland Brigade which have worn the kilt have presented an admirable mark for bullets by reason of the dark tartan of which the national costume is made. Orders have been now issued that all Highland corps a.s.e in future to wear a khaki apron in front. EDITORS ROUND UP RACE GLEANINGS. A part of the $1,000 necessary to employ counsel to test the constitutionality of the Louisiana and North Carolina suffrage laws is already in the hands of its finance committee. Peter Nichols, a Negro of Milford' Deleware, was thrown into the Mississippi river by Negroes because he demanded pay for his vote. He was rescued by white spectators. The National Council of Women in session at Minneapolis a few days ago decided to admit the National Association of Afro-American Women to memberships. There was a general love feast over tae matter. Edior or Sumerlin, of the Mattoon, Ill., Commercial, and a prominent Democrat, fulfilled the first of a series of wheelbarrow rid s on November 22nd, when he trudged Dick Pope, a Negro, up and down the streets. The editor was garbed in black and wore a plug hat of the vintage of 1776. A procession of Negroes followed. In Macon, Ga., the white people, ism proportion to population, rent more real estate than does the colored man. The Negroes own more property in proportion. M. W. Thurston is superintendent of a silk factory in Fayetteville. N. C., in which 200 hands are employed, and they are especially engaged to instruct. W. H. Lewis, an Afro-American, coach of the Harvard foot ball team, is to day the most famous foot ball strategist in America. The success of the Harvard eleven in their contest with that of the University of Pennsylvania, on Soldiers' Field, Cambridge, recently by a score of seventeen to five, settled that fact for all time. A colored student is on Harvard' crack debating team, and colored students have represented her on her atelier nines and elevens. When there is a niche in the old university institutions that a black man can fill better than a white one he is pretty sure to be invited to fill it. They don't draw the color line against tree merit at Harvard. -Ex. "Louisiana carries away the palm so far this year for those southern fe-tivities ca led lynchings. She has nineteen to her credit. I would suggest she bang-her name, and instead of being known as Louisiana let her be known as Lynchana," and as a motto I would suggest the following in home-made Latin-Niggerum lynch are est oribus almus cheifus ("to lynch the mugger is our chief sim") X. There are 17,480 colored barbers in the United States, 4,000 of whom own and manage their shops. Speaking of the color line, would it strike you as a peculiar item if we should say that in about one-fifth of this number of shops Negroes are permitted the convenience and services required of this class of public servants? Mr. Charles Alexander was recently elected instructor of printing at Wilberforce University. The citizens of Chicago are preparing to give a public reception to Mrs. Agnes Moody who has recently returned from Paris where she so successfully managed the corn kitchen at the exposition Girls' Home of Rochester. N. Y., sent Mrs. X. Jerome Jeffreys as a delegate to the convention of the Federation of Women's clubs at Albany two weeks ago. Mrs. Jeffreys was the only colored delegate present. The Daily Evening News of Jacksonville, Fla., is the latest addition to dailyes published by Negroes. Only one colored soldier wears the Victoria cross, Vance Sergeant Gordon, of the West Indian regiment. A colony of 300 Texas Negroes have purchased 1,000 acres of land near Weiston, O. T., which they will divide into cotton patches. FOR SALE. Lot 30 in block 3, in South Park place, in South Park, Kas., at a bargain Call at this office for particulars. WANTED—Business men and women to take exclusive agency for a State, and control sub-agents handling Dr Whit's Electric Comb. $3,000 per month compensation. Fact. Call and I'll prove it. D. N. Rose, If a woman wears a cloak as many as three winters, she may as well make up her, mind that people will talk about it. Mr. Louis Middleton, a well know old pioneer citizen, died in the West E.I. Thursday night. Mr. and Mrs. T. P. Johnson, of Tauromie avenue, have returned from a pleasant trip home, Sedalia, Mo. Mrs. Sylvia Robinson, of the Popular block is still quite seriously ill. Revs. E. P. Green, of King Solomon Baptist church, and Rev. J. P. Anderson, left Monday evening for Vicksburg, Miss., and other southern points, on an extended trip. Miss Minnie Gillmore, and Miss Nellie Hilderbrand, were visitors in Leaven worth Sunday afternoon. Prof. J. R. Mayme was awarded the contract of carrying the U. S. mail from Armour Station to the Electric mail car, about 100 yards, this week, at $359, being the lowest bidder Eli Park er, one of the accused murderers of John Scanlon in a crap game, some months ago, was sentenced to 20 years in the State Pen, this week, in the Common Pleas court. Willie Morgan the man believed to have been the real murderer, was grant d a new trial. Mrs. Annie L Diggs, State Libarian, lecured Thursday afternoon before the Current Event Club (white) at Union Club Hall, Mrs. Diggs is the well known and celebrated Populist lady politician of Kansas. The Woman's Union met at the Ann street A. M. E. Church Tues., Mrs Boyce of the W U. T. U. read a paper on "Our Boys" which, for pathos and practical hints has hardly been equaled. The Union will meet next Tuesday Dec. 11 at First Baptist church at whi h will be given a lecture by Mrs. Lona Wallace. The Olympian will meet with Mrs. J. C Branche next Thurs. eve., in-tead of Friday, the regular night of meeting—This will be the last meeting before the holidays. Mrs. Bert Cunningham, of 614 Troup ave., accompanied by her cousin, Miss Jesse New, left Thursday morning for Las Vegas, New Mexico, on a trip for health. Mrs Cunningham, who is well known in the twin cities, has been in declining health for sometime; it is to be hoped by her many friends that this trip will bring back the rosy flush of health to her cheeks. Last Sabbath was the day set for the trip but sickness intervened causing a postponement. Rev M Phillips, who has spent several weeks in Louisiana visiting old acquaintances and friends, returned home this week. Jackson Donald, our old and reliable Pension Agent of St. Joseph. Mo., was in the city on business this week. In e-State Business League will hold and open meeting next Thursday night at St. James A. M. E. church, corner 7th and Ann streets. Mrs. Lula Cunningham entertained the Olympian Club last Friday night. The Kansas City, Mo. Whist Club headed by Prof. G. N. Grisham, met at the residence of Mr. J.C. Brauchs to contest for the champion ship with the K.C. K whist club, Thursday evening Result reported in our next. The Music Club will meet with Miss Carrie M. Davis Friday evening—Members and those desiring to become members, of the Author's Club will meet at 413 Armstrong street Friday evening Dec 7th to transact important business A large attendance is hoped for. Mrs. Barker of Topeka visited Mrs. Joe Bell 2019 Water street last week. Prof. Gregg of Atchison was in the city last week. Miss Robinson of Leavenworth was in the city the guest of Mrs L. E Cunningham the past week. Mrs. Mattie Martin of Minnesota avenue pleasantly entertained Mrs. McDowell of Hannibal, Mo. Tuesday evening, also a few friends from the Sea Foam block. Music and dancing were the features of the evening. A WONDERFUL INVENTION. They cure dandruff, hair falling, headache, etc., yet costs the same as an ordinary comb. What's that? Why, Dr. White's Electric Comb. The only patented Comb in the world. People, everywhere it has been introduced, are wild with delight. You simply comb your hair each day, and the comb does the rest. This wonderful comb is simply unbreakable and is made so that it is absolutely impossible to break or cut the hair. Sold on a written guarantee to give perfect satisfaction in every respect. Stamp stents for one. Ladies' size 50c. Gent's size 35c. Live men and women wanted everywhere to introduce this article. Sells on sight. Agents are wild with success. (See what column of this paper.) Address D. N. Rose, Gen. Agr. Deasur Ill. AMERICAN CITIZEN PUBLISHING AND PRINTING CO. Every Week at 417 Minnesota Ave. KANSAS CITY KANSAS W. C. MARTIN, EDITOR. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Weekly one year..... $1 50 Entered at the postoffice at Kansas City Kans., as second class matter. THEY SAY. Peter has a good many Christians names hanging on the hooks that will be challenged when they get to the golden gate. It is in order to hold revivals when Christian people walk in the light, that sinners may be lighted to the true faith. If you are not hit—keep still. All is quiet, but not well in the Popular block. Can a girl keep company with a young man and go to school? Somebody answer right quick. Who are the leaders in colored society circles? Oh! if the man in the mooai could talk what funny things he would tell on some people. We are nearing the close of the 19th century and a very few of the fast traellers of to-day will live to see the clo of the 20th. Who said there wasn't a few weddings on hand soon? That person connected with a newspaper office still finds an attraction in the Popular Block. There is a likelihood of that solitary gnat that is hovering so persistently over the Sea Foam block—flying away. Books and boys—don't work well together. How about it girls? Let our school girls answer. The big gnat flew out of the Sea Foam Block long enough Tuesday afternoon to buzz around the head of the lady from the West End. Shoo fly. Shoo fly. The big event happened last week and shame on the women who took front seats. Wonder what has become of Queen Bess? That debate in Tin Can Alley broke up in a row, for the married man had the best of it. S. H.—Never dreams of the far away Phillipinos any more—she often sighs. He used to be the caper but he don't go now. Poor boy. It is no use to think at any time you are all of it, for there are always others just as warm as you. Didn't they run when the preacha came in at the Sea Foam block. It was Sunday, and the usual rousing hot time was had in the Sea Foam block. This is one more block. SWAP5 HORSE FOR A BRIDE Groom Fails to Produce Animal at Appointed Time and Father Reclaims Daughter. Warensburg, Mo., Dec. 4.—Taylor Civils, a young farmer living near this place, swore out a warrant this evening charging his father in law, William Nickerson, with kidnapping his wife. According to Civils' atoty he was to give a white horse worth $15 for Nickerson's daughter. The wedding took place Sunday, and on Monday Civils failed to produce the horse and Nickerson took Mrs. Civils and disappeared with her. The entire Civils family is on the hunt for Nickerson. ANOTHER LEGACY STORY. Springfield, Mo., Dec. 4. —(Special.) Mr. and Mrs. R. D. See, of Fair Grove, this county, recently met with a streak of good luck. By the death of a relative in Ireland they inherit a two thirds interest in an estate of $90,000. Mrs. See is a first cousin of the late Lord Downey of Ireland. Mrs. See's oldest son, Fred, by right of succession, will now have the title of Lord affixed to his name. He can go back to Ireland and be a sure enough lord. Mr. and Mrs. See are both well educated. NEGRO ELOQUENCE Negroes sometimes axpress themselves as felicitously as do the Irish. Here is a case copied from a Texas paper. Some time ago one of Texas' widely known statesmen, who is now dead, was passing along a street in Dallas when an old colored man, who had once belonged to him, approached, took off his hat and passed a hand over his white wool as he asked: "Marster, gin do old man 50 cents. "Dam you are a robber." "How?" asked the astonished darky, opening his eyes, around which rough shod age had walked. "Didn't von see me put my hand in my pocket?" "Yes, san." "Well, you old rascal, you rob me of his pleasure of giving you money without being asked." The old man received a dollar, Bawing almost to the ground, white tears came out and coursed through the aged prints around his eyes, he replied: "Marster, wid, wid such a heart as you hab and I wid Abraham and Isaac and de Lord on your side, I don't see what can keep you out of heaven." TO TEST SUFFRAGE LAW. Washington, Nov. 30.—The Nationa. Afro-American council has appointed a committee to see that the validity of the Louisiana constitution of 1888 is tested before the federal supreme court. The opinion of a number of leading lawyers north and south has been obtained respecting the Louisiana and North Carolina laws restricting suffrage and the supreme court will have before it shortly cases that it is believed will secure an expression of its opinion respecting these suffrage laws. SHE IS ENVIED. The wife of Li Hung Chang has the credit of being not only the richest woman in China, but also of being the most luxurious, woman on earth. I twice daily Mrs. Li bathes in oil of orange and acacia flowers, and she has a staff of 1,000 servants. Her war robe is most extensive and is said to contain no fewer than 2,000 coats and 1,200 trouserlets. Mrs. Li is able walk only a few feet at time, being crippled like the majority of Chinese women; but if report be trustworthy, she is by no means an idle woman, for she is said to keep a detailed account of the expenditure of her vast household and to be an excellent woman of buil How Distranchement Works From the New York Sun. Mississippi adopted the policy of negro disfranchisement in 1890, or five years before Souh C. Crollina, eight years before Louisiana and ten years before North Carolina. In the presidential election of 1876, the whole number of votes cast in Mississippi was 164,000. In 1864, under a method of local disfranchisement of colored electors, the total vote of that state fell to 110,000, although the population had been increasing steadily. Four years later the vote was 113,000. Two years afterward a new constitution, adopted by a majority of the convention which framed it, but without submission to a vote of the people, provided for a registration of all voters, and required every elector to convince the registering officers that he was "able to read any section of the constitution of the state, or able to understand the same when read to him, or give a reasonable interpretation thereof." In the presidential election succeeding, that is, in 1892, the total vote of Mississippi was 52,000, in 1896 it was 59,994, and at the recent November election it was 59,104 of which number Bryan had more than 50,000 and McKinley less than 6,000. During the past ten years the population of Mississippi has increased from 1,289,000 to 1,551,000, or about 20 per cent; from 1880 to 1890 the increase in population was 150,000. This is how the figures compare: Population 1880.....1,131,000 Population 1900.....1,551,000 Increase in twenty years.....420 000 Vote in 1876.....164,778 Vote in 1900.....59,108 Decrease in twenty-four year 105,675 Mississippi, the first of the states to adopt constitutional disfranchisement, offers this year, in the official returns just canva-sed, the very best illustration of this method of vote reduction in practical operation. WANTEE—Ladies and gentlemen to introduce the "hottest" seller on earth Dr. White's Electric Club, patented 1899 Agents are coining money. Cures all forms of scalp ailments, headaches, etc., yet cost the same as an ordinary comb. Send 50c. a stamps for sample. D. N. Rose, Gen. Mgr., Decatur, Ill. Dec. 7-1 Go to the Sunflower Store 609 Mix nesta avenue for bargains. Duty on a Mouse. Uncle Sam is a stern stickler for form, and the amount of red tape employed in the custom house is really remarkable. It was demonstrated the other day that not even a tiny mouse can creep into our domains from foreign shores without paying duty, says the Philadelphia Record. A gentleman returning from Europe brought with him a pet white mouse, of which he had grown very fond. His "mouselets" was assessed at 20 per cent, which so enraged its owner that he vigorously protested. The case was appealed, and the board of classification of the board of general appraisers, after mature deliberation in solemn conclave, handed down a decision in which the protest was overruled. Rare Old Bible Found. A wonderful old Bible has just been discovered in Venice, the fortunate finder being Leo S. Olschki, a well-known antiquarian of Florence. It is in ve volle volumes, and was printed in one in the printing house of Don Pietro Massimo in 1471 and 1472. Soon after it came from the press it was purchased by a patrician family of Venice, and it was in the archives of this family that Olschki discovered it. A Czar's Novel Visiting Card From the Ladies' Home Journal: The Russians tell a story of the late Czar Alexander III. that upon the rare occasions when it was incumbent upon him to pay a call he would take a gold coin bearing his "image and superscription" and twisting it between thumb and finger leave it in lieu of a card—the only man in Russia who had strength for the feat. American Bottles the Best American bottles are preferred to all others for the export trade, and especially in warm climates where American and English goods come into close competition. American glass is said to stand tropical climates better than the English, the reason being that it is better annealed. GET IN THE SWIM THE AMERICAN CITIZEN PUBLISHING COMPANY. Take great pleasure in announcing many extra inducements to its readers at the beginning of the. TWENTIETH CENTURY The subscription price has now been reduced to $1,000, in advance, per year, of fifty-two issues. The iitor is preparing many new features. Articles of much worth from the leading negr writer's of the world on all subjects of vital interest to the race, will appear from n time to time. Don't fail to get in the swim. The AMERICAN CITIZEN is the oldest and best weekly negro paper in Kansas. It has a record of thirteen years without missing a single issue. Now is the opportunity of s life time. Wul you grab it? We want 5,000 new subscribers at the beginning of the 20th century, January 1st, 1901. Agents and Hustlers Wanted at Once. Write for list of valuable Prizes and splendid inducements offered to the persons sending in the largest list of subscribers by January 1st. AMERICAN CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO., No. 417 Minnesota Avenue, Kansas City, Kansas. BEN, MCRAY, Prest. MATT BOLEN, See v. and Treasurer. WAITERS EMPLOYMENT BUREAU We can furnish you with from one to 100 Waiters, for private parties, banquets, dinning cars and buffetts. The only place of this kind in America. In connection our Barber Shop is one of the THE, FINEST IN THE CITY. DON'T WAIT UNTIL THE Holidays are Here, Before Selecting Your Gifts. NOW IS THE TIME TO GET THE OHOICE OF THE STOCK. WE have on hand the largest up-to-date and most complete assortment of goo s in the city. Scarf Pins, Necklace, Watch Chains, Charms, Silver Tea Sets, Clocks, and anything in the line of Jewelry. We carry nothing but the best. Christmas and Birthday Presents a specialty. See us before purchasing. B. J. DUNNING, Optician and Jeweler, 542 Minnesota Ave., Kansas City, Kansas. Lewis Blandchard No. 6, Sta e Line, K.C. K Does all kinds of Boot and Shoe work. He does first class hand work, and also has one of the very latest and best Shoemaker's machine and guarantees the best and the cheapest work in the quickest time Give him a trial and see for you elf. THE AMERICAN Citizen, The oldest, and 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. 417Minnesota Avenue, KANSAS CITY. Emperor Willi and His Sister, The Queen and the Empress Fred erick have succeeded, in bringing about a full reconciliation, between the Emperor William airl his sister: the Duchess of Sparta, who spent a few days at Potsdam with the Emperor and Empress before she left Germany the other day on her return to Greece. The Duchess of Sparta was formerly the Emperor's favorite sister; but her sudden and unexpected "conversion" to the Greek church infinitely exasperated his majesty and he has since been on the coldest terms. No Use for It. Uncle Zebulon, from one of the back townships, was on a visit to his nephew in the big city, and the two had gone to a restaurant for dinner. They had given their order and were waiting for it to be filled, when the younger man, who had been glancing at a paper that lay on the table, said: "By the way, uncle, did you ever have cerebro-spinal meningitis?" "No," replied Uncle Zebulon, after a few moments' mental struggle with the question, "and I don't want any. I'd ruther have free life and bacon any day." J. L. BUSH. Kan- as City, WAIT IN THE are Here, ing Your Gifts, GET THE OHOICE OF THE LOCK. up-to-date and most complete assort- Diamond Ear Rings, see, Watch Chains, Charms, thing in the line of Jewelry. We as and Birthday Presents a specialty. NG, Optician and Jeweler, ansas. 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 sewell is well experienced in restaurant business and knows how to treat her many customers. Don't forget the No., 25 Central avenue. MRS. ANNIE SEWELL, Proprietress. MISS JANE WASHINGTON, FASHIONABLE DRESS MAKER. Plain, Fancy and other Sewing at reasonable rates. No. 1113 Barnett Avenue, KANSAS CITY, KANSAS. Half Rate Excursion. Plus two dollars) twice a month via Union Pacific to points in Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Idaho, Montana and Washington. Call us up - Phone 1109, or call at office 1,000 Main street, and let us te you all about these excursions. Short line to Salt Lake. The Union Pacific of course; hours quicker time. All the comforts of home Ticket of 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 Publication Notice In the District Court, Wyandotte County, Kansas L Brantly Bree, Plainiff, vs. Gussie Bell, Defendant. (14609.) The State of Kansas to Gussie Bell, You will take notice that you have been sued in the District Court of Wyandotte County, Kansas, for an absolute divorce and the petition of plainiff in said case filed charges of abandonment for more than one year, and unless you, on or be- come December 28th, 1900, answer de- fend otherwise object, the allegations of said petition will be take as true and judgment redered as pursued for. L. W. JOHNSON, Attorney for Plainiff. Attest _____ Clerk. First Published Nov. 15, 1900. CHURCHES METHODIST. St. James A. M. E., cor. 7th. and Ann. St. James M. E., Freeman ave., be between 9th. and 10th. C. M. E. Oakland ave., bet. 4th. and 5th. CH1CAGO and all intermidsate points The shortest, quickest and bes iline to Chilocote, Otumwa, Cedar Rapids, Dubnue, and La Crosse and Cedar Rapids, Rockford and Freeport: ....Pessenger Station at.... 22nd St. and Grand Ave. Take Westport Cable. F. J. LERGHPassenger Agent, Office 1951Main St. Kansas Ct. Publication Notice. A. W. Stratton, Plaintiff, vs. Annie Stratton, Defendant. (1428s). The State of Kansas to Annie Stratton. You will take notice that you have been sued in the District Court of Wyandotte Count, Kansas, for an absolute divorce, and the petition in said case filed, charges you with adultery with one Virgen Eoench, and unless you on or before the 18.h. day of December, 1900, answer demur or otherwise object, the allegation of said petition will be taken as true and judgment rendered as warrant for L. W. JOHNSON. Attorney for Plaintiff. Attest A. GUNNING, Clerk. First published Nov. 15th., 1900. Publication Notice. In the District Court of Wyandotte County, Kansas. George Washington, Pisintiff. vs. Laura Washing on, Defendant. To the above named defendant, you are hereby notified that you have been sued in the above named court, and that unless you appear and answer on or before the 5th. day of January, 1901, the petition will be taken as true, and a judgment rendered thereon, the nature of which will be a decree dissolving the bonds of matrimony now existing be tween the plaintiff and defendant, and divorcing the plain from the defendant, and for such other and further relief as in equity she may be entitled and for costs of this suit. I. F. BRADLEY, Attorney for Plaintiff. First published Nov. 23, 1900. EXECUTOR'S NOTICE State of Kansas, Wyandotte County, sy, see The Probate Court In the Probate Court in and for 'court' Uolfrif in and for matter of the Esta Jessie Notice is hereby given that Letters Testamentry have been granted to the undersigned on the Last Will and Testament of Jesse Pope, is e of said county, deceased, by the Honorable, the Probate Court of the County and State soforeasd, dated the 2nd day, of October A. D., 1900. Now, all persons having claims against the said estate, are hereby notified that they must present the same to the undersigned for allowance within one year from the date of said Letters, or may be precluded from any benefit of such claim, if that such claims be not exhibited within three years after the date of said Letters, they shall be forever barred NETTIE NEE WASHINGTON, DAISY SARAH REYNOLDS, Executor of the last Will and Testament of Jesse Pope Deceased. UNION PACIFIC THE OVERLAND ROUTE WORLD'S PICTORIAL LINE SHORTFST LINE ACROSS THE CONTINENT The Union Pacific 'The Original Overland Route' always was, and is to-day, the shortest and best Line to the west. Two splendid fast trains leave Kansas City daily over this old established line. No change of cars between Kansas City and Denver, Ogden or San Francisco. All trains solidly vestibulated and fully equipped with latest improved Reciling Chair Cars, free and Pullman Palace sleeping cars. Meals served in Pullman Palace dining cars on the restaurant plan at prices most reasonable. All cars lighted with the celebrated Pintsch Liit. Only line running two trains without charge from KansasCity to Denver Low excursion rates on sale to Colorado-Utah Idaho, Oregon. Washington and California. Don't complete your ars rampages for a trip west until you have learned all about special inducements in the Union Pacific. For full information in regard to low rates time, etc. call on address. J. R. FRAWLEY Gen. Agt., Union Pacific, 1000 Main street, Kansas City, Mo CANCER TRADE MARK Estab. 21 1rs. Used with perfect safety; harmless, soothing, non-irritating. We prefer to have patients come to the Sanitarium for a speedy cure. Cases that come to our Sanitarium need not pay until cured. Write to-day for our 36 page book. It contains much valuable information and hundreds of testimonials from patients we have cured of cancer. Sent free. Consultation by mail or in person, free. Address. DR. E. O. SMITH'S SANTARIUM, A. S. McCLLEARY, MANAGER, Rooms 6 to 11, N. E. Cor. joth & Plain Sts., KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI You Are Earnestly Requested to Call a_b The C. F. WILLNER Furniture AND Carpet Co. Looated at 618 and 620 Minnesota Avenue To inspect the largest and most complete line of House Furnishings In the city, at prices that will convince you that your money will go further here than elsewhere. We make it an especial effort to please and thereby retain your patronage and also your recommendation for your friends patronage. WE SEL. ON TIME PAYMENTS and know that OUR TERMS WILL SUIT YOU, and will be glad to show you OUR STOCK. We carry everything in the line of FURNITURE, CARPETS, DRAPERIES, OIL CLOTH, LINOLEUMS, SHADES, LAMPS, DINNER and TOILET SETS, also a complete line of RANGES and GASO-LINE STOVES. Don't forget the number and name. We sell the Celebrated Kroeger Piano. THE C. F. WILLNER, Furniture and Carpet Co. 618, 620 MINNESOTA AVENUE. Telephone W 130 ) 1009. ST. LOUIS AVENUE. 1009. Kansas City. Missouri. It is the swellest place in the city. A. C. L. COAL CO., - IS HEADQUARTERS FOR- THE CHEAPEST PRICES The Best Goods, the Quickest Sales, the Smallest Profits and the promptest deliveries. GET THEIR PRICES ON COAL, WOOD, FEED, FLOUR, AND BUILDING STONE, Wholesale and Retail. Office 402, Minnesota Ave. Tel. 152 West. Yard and Storage 917 and 919 North 3rd. St. E. F. HENDERSON Manager. W. B. RAYMOND. W. B. RAYMOND. Manufacturer of and Wholesale dealer in UNDERTAKERS * SUPP FIRST-CLASS CARRIAGES FOR ALL PURPOSES AT AN AMBULANCE FOR THE CONVEYANCE OF THE SICK A Undertaking Rooms, 431 Minnesota ave. Telephone W Factory Cor st St., and Riverview Ave. ARTAKERS * SUPPLIES CARRIAGES FOR ALL PURPOSES AT ALL FOR THE CONVEYANCE OF THE SICK AFTER BOOMS, 431 Minnesota ave. Telephone W. Factory Cor st St., and Riverview None. EAGERS in Drug Store MINNESOTA AVENUE DEALER IN. DRUGS, MEDICINES, CHEMICALS, SOAPS, Brushes, Combs, Etc. ERY AND FANCY TOILET ARTICLES. L. HENDERSON West 9th St., Kansas City, Mo. (Op. Named Doctor, Oldest in Age and Longest in Graduate in Medicine, Over 22 Years in Kansas City. Authorized by the state to treat Chronic, Nervous and Muscular diseases guaranteed or money refunded. All medicines furnished metercure or injurious medicines used. No detention free at a distance treated by mail and express Medicines from gaze or breakage. 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Lynch, 224 South Division street, Grand Rapids, Mich., writes: The Peruna Medicine Company, Columbus, Ohio: Gentlemen:—"I earnestly recommend Peruna to any suffering women as it cures quickly. I had a most persistent cough which nothing seemed to cure. Two bottles of Peruna did more for me than all the doctors seemed to do. In a couple of weeks I found myself in excellent health, and have been enjoying it ever since. Hence I look on Peruna as a true friend to women." THE OPEN-TOP CAR CHILILITLI. MANE 3500 XMAS GIFTS in DIAMONDS, WATCHES, SILVERWARE, CUT GLASS, NOVELTIES, ETC., from 25c to $500.00 Illustrated in our NEW CATALOGUE. You cannot do your Chr stmas buying to advantage without it. WRITE FOR IT. MAILED FREE. Mermod & Jaccard Jewelry Co. Broadway and Locust Ste., ST. LOUIS. Longest Electric Railway. The longest electric railway in the world is to be built in Montana. The proposed line is from Billings to Great Falls, some 200 miles, and the plan is to operate it entirely by electric power, which is to be supplied from generating stations on the Missouri and Yellowstone rivers. The road would have a considerable traffic in coal, ores and other heavy freights and would be the first line with such traffic to be worked by electricity. A NARROW LINE A GRATER MRS. F. J. LYNCH, G. Mrs. F. J. Lynch, 324 South Division The Peruna Medicine Company, Colu Gentlemen:—"I earnestly rec women as it cures quickly. I h nothing seemed to cure. Two be than all the doctors seemed to do myself in excellent health, and lience I look on Peruna as a true Chronic Coughs and Colds Are Catarrhal Diseases. Catarrh Is the Continual Scourge of Christendom. Catarrh hovers omnibusly over every city, and nestles treacherously in every hamlet. It flies with vampire wings from country to country and casts a black shadow of despair over all lands. Its stealthy approach and its lingering stay makes it a dread to the physician and a pest to the patient. It changes the merry laugh of childhood to the wheezy breathing of croup, and the song of the blushing maiden to the hollow cough of consumption. In its withering grasp the rounded form of the fond wife and mother becomes gaunt and spectral, and the healthy flush of manhood turns to the sallow, haggard visage of the invalid. Cough takes the place of conversation, speech gives way to spitting, the repulsive odors of chronic catarrh poison the kiss of the fondest lovers, and thickened membranes bedim sight, impair hearing and destroy taste. The very newest thing in railway car architecture is a passenger car for steam roads, built very much on the lines of the summer trolley car, except that this car can open up the top as well as the sides. The car was built by the Pullman Company for the American Tourist Association, of Chicago, and was intended as an observation car in the great canons of mountainous TAMARANDA Mexico. The car was invented by Reau Campbell, the Mexican traveler, and came about as follows: Some years ago when Mr. Campbell was travelling through the great Tamazosopo Canon, he had a seat on the side of the car next to the mountain, the rocks of the cliff were within two feet of the window, and of course he could not not even a glimpse of the canon, as all the windows on the other side of the car were taken up by the occupants of the adjoining seats. Determined to view the magnificence of the canon, Mr. Campbell returned to Las Canoas, and through the courtesy of railway officials made the world-famous ride on board what the super-intendent called his "trolley," an open car with seats for eight persons, and with this ride came the idea that the only way the magnificence of Mexico's 3500 in DIAMONDS, WATCHES, SILVERW from 25c to $500 NEW CAT You cannot do your Chr stmas WRITE FOR ITS Mermod & Jaco Broadway and Locus A News Telephone. A news telephone has been established at Buda Pesth. Its object is to keep its 6,000 subcribers supplied with all the latest news. The service has a main line 168 miles in length, and it is connected with private houses and various public resorts. From 7:30 in the morning until 8:30 in the evening twenty-eight editions of news are spoken into the transmitter by ten men possessing loud, clear voices, working in shifts two. ESCAPE. FATUL WOMAN. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. on street, Grand Rapids, Mich., writes: umbus, Ohio: commend Peruna to any suffering and a most persistent cough which bottles of Peruna did more for me. In a couple of weeks I found have been enjoying it ever since. friend to women." MRS. F. J. LYNCH. Like the plague of Egyptianians a cry of distress has gone out from every household, and the mildew of woe clings to every hearthstone. Catarrh in some form, catarrh in some stage lurks as an enemy in the slightest cough or cold and finishes its fendish work in heart disease and consumption. No tissue, function, or organ of the body escapes its ravages; muscles wither, nerves shatter, and secretions dry up under its blighting presence. So stubborn and difficult of cure is this disease that to invent a remedy to cure chronic catarrh has been the ambition of the greatest minds in all ages. It is therefore any wonder that the vast multitude of people who have been cured of chronic catarrh by Peruna are now the subject of this remedy? That the discovery of Peruna has made the cure of catarrh a practical certainty is not only the testimony of the people, but many medical men declare it to be true. As a drug store in this age of the world is incomplete without Peruna, it can be obtained anywhere with directions for use. A complete guide for the prevention and cure of catarrh and all diseases of winter, sent free by The Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, Ohio. mountains could be enjoyed to the fullest extent would be from a car without sides or top. The following season a coal, or gondola car, with board seats, was attached to the American Tourist Association train, and every traveler on that train climbed into it. Afterwards the Mexican government prohibited the carrying passengers in freight cars, and the coal CARNE BENEZIA CARNE BENEZIA car had to go. Then the building of a passenger car without a top was decided on, and the Chillillitl came in evolution from a work car to the coal car, and to the consummation of itself. The Chillillitl became famous, and from an observation car went on duty as a pavilion by the sea, and a roof garden, for it is electric lighted, and has an outfit of Chinese lanterns. But the favorite is also remembered as a dining car of the tropics, attached to a special train, that, during meal hours, could stand still or run just fast enough to secure a breeze, and not raise a dust. The Chillillitl is the largest observation or dining car ever built. There are seats (reversible as in a coach) for 68 people, and when the tables are in place 56 persons may sit down to dinner. XMAS GIFTS WARE, CUT GLASS, NOVELTIES, ETC., 1,000 illustrated in our TALOGUE. buying to advantage without it. MAILED FREE. Hard Jewelry Co. St Ste., ST. LOUIS. AROUND THE CAMPFIRE TO THE FLOWING LINE Our blood may be Yankee, or Irish, or Dutch. May have warmed to the blue, or the gray—just as much; But shoulder to shoulder we now keep in touch; Let fools prate of lusting for empire and power, Let them sneer at our soldiers while storm clouds yet lower. Our faith and our trust, in each war's darkest hour, They ree never betrayed by our army. Mid the mad mob's wild strife; in the dark forest trail; On the slopes of El Caney, 'neath Spain's leaden hall; The sons of America never did fall Their dear land which adores its brave army. Dear boys at the front, where'er the flag lead, The prayers of a nation shall be your "God speed." You are blood of our blood, and in word or in deed We will never go back on our army. British and Boer Artillery. Again, the Krupp shrapnel is better than the English. The latter is not by any means well made, as I hope to show in a later article. We have no lydite shells, chiefly because we did not trust them. We could not obtain from the government a gun with which the experiment with lydite, with the quite probable result of destroying the gun, and without trying we did not care to send lydite to the front, with the chance of its bursting a gun at the critical moment of a fight. The faults which, in my opinion, are possessed by the English lydite shells I prefer to state when the war is over. Our artillery is more effective than the English because the English soldier is much more of a "fighting man" than the Boer. The latter runs no more of a risk than he is obliged to. A. Militia Pig. In an old Kentucky history is found a peculiar incident related in connection with the invasion of Canada by the Kentucky troops in 1812. A company of volunteers, destined for Shelby's army, assembled at Harrodsburg, and formed a nucleus around which the military recruits of the country gathered, on the march to the Ohio. The facts as given below are vouchered for on high authority. On the outskirts of Harrodsburg the company pigs fighting, and delayed the march to watch the combat. When the march recommenced it was observed that the victorious pig was following the company, and when the men encamped at night the animal lay down near at hand. Of course the soldiers fed their new recruit. The next day the pig followed them, and this it did daily on the march to the river. When the men crossed on the ferryboat at Cincinnati the pig waited a bit, then plunged into the river and swam across and when the march was resumed the animal took its place in the flank of the moving column. Piggy now became a great pet, and was as sure of ratios as the men themselves, and destitute as the soldiers sometimes found themselves, no one even hinted at putting the knife to the throat of their follower. At Lake Erie the pig went on board the boat with the soldiers, but after reaching Bass Island it declined to re-embark, and remained behind in the care of a man who volunteered to jok after its wants. When the troops returned to the American side, to the surprise of all, the pig was soon discovered on the right of the line, ready for the return march toward Harrodsburg. The animal suffered much from cold on this trip, and at Maysville, where the army recrossed the Ohio river, it was decided to leave it in the hands of a friend, by Governor Shelby. Finally, the piggy was taken to the governor's home where it passed the rest of its days in piggish case and plenty. Signals from the Clouds. Though only an 'mateur aeronaut, the Rev. J. M. Bacon, rector of a small English parish, has solved the problem of communicating from the clouds to the earth without the use of wires. The result of his experiments, which have covered a period of seven years, have been made public, and will be of valuable assistance to scouts and commanders in times of war. In the past the war balloon has been of little practical service for the reason that wires have been considered necessary in notifying the troops below of the enemy's movements and because the wires have prevented ascensions beyond the reach of guns. The old balloons were limited to an ascension of 1,000 to 1,500 feet, while the Rev. Mr. Bacon is able to converse at an altitude of 2,000 to 6,500 feet. A huge black, collapsing drum hangs some forty or fifty feet below the car of his balloon, and this heats by means of electricity—the sounds being caused really by expansion and contraction. The dots and dashes of the Morse telegraph code have been used in Mr. Bacon's experiments and have been heard for several miles. An operator understanding the Morse code has been able to 'take' Mr. Bacon's messages without difficulty. Naturally, in time of war, the operator in the balloon using the Bacon system would, while using the dots and dashes of the Morse alphabet, communicate with his officers below in cipher. The enemy might hear the signals as plainly as the comrades of the operators, yet would not be able to understand what was said any more than he would a government message sent over the cable or telegraphic wires. The Rev. Mr. Bacon has interested both the British war and navy departments in his invention, and on one of his recent experimental trips had as a companion Admiral Sir Edmund R Fremantle. The admiral expressed himself after the voyage as favorably impressed with the system, and said he had no doubt that if adopted by the government it would prove of great value either on land or sea. Report of Pension Bureau. Report or Pension Bureau. The annual report of the pension bureau for the year ended June 30, states that of the $139,598,719 disbursements $249,000 was for the war of 1812, $1,815,812 for the Mexican war, $517,178 for Indian wars, $69,657,488 under general laws, $65,766,079 under the law of 1850 and $332,905 for the war with Spain, and the expenses of disbursement were $1,260,250. But one survivor of the war of 1812 remains. He receives a pension of $8 a month through the Buffalo agency. The agency at Topeka, Kan., heads the list with the largest amount of pension disbursements, $15,503,308. The aggregate amount of pensions received by soldiers was $104,205,612; by sailors, $2,615,378; by widows of soldiers, $26,227,338; by widows of sailors, $1,033,018; by minors and helpless children, army, $1,177,814; navy, $39,607; dependent relations, army, $1,177,814; navy, $68,068, and army nurses, $100,453. Curious Effect of Wound A curious effect of a bullet wound has just been observed in the Boer war. An English soldier in the storming of a position at the beginning of February last was struck in the face by a Mauser bullet. The projectile lodged in the head somewhere, but all attempts to reveal its precise position by the X-rays were futile. The soldier was discharged from his hospital as cured, and participated in several other battles. The only ill effect he experienced from the wound was a slight impediment in his speech. Some time ago he was seized with a violent attack of sneezing, and during his exertions disgorged what proved to be the missing bullet. It had been firmly imbedded point downward in the lower part of his jaw. Birds Roost on Vessel. The schooner J. M Weatherwax, which arrived at Port Townsend from Honolulu recently, had an unusual experience a few days before reaching port. When 150 miles off Cape Flattery the schooner ran into an immense flock of birds, resembling the wild canary, thousands of which settled in the rigging and other parts of the vessel. The sailors furnished the feathered visitors with food and drink and hundreds, if not thousands, of the birds remained on board till the schooner had port. How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall C. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Pros. Toleo, C. Cheney for the last 12 years and believe him perennially honorable in all business transactions Cheney for the last 12 years and carry out any obligations made by their firm. West & Truax, Wholesale Drugs, Toledo, Ohio, Marian, Wholesale Drugs, Toledo, Ohio. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, actively upon the surface of the system to minimize sentinel free Price per bottle. Sold by all drugsters. Hall's Family Pills are the best. Every little helps—especially little kicks when you're going down hill. There Is a Class of People Who are inured by the use of coffee. Recently there has been placed in all the grocery stores a new preparation called GRAIN-O, made of pure grains, that takes the place of coffee. The most delicate stomach receives it without distress, and but few can tell it from coffee. It does not cost over one-fourth as much. Children may drink it with great benefit. 15 cents and 25 cents per package. Try it. Ask for GRAIN-O. An economical woman tries to make her waist as small as possible. Best for the Bowel No matter what ails you, headache to a cancer, you will never get well until your bowels are put right. CASCARETS help nature, cure you without a gripe or pain, produce easy natural movements, cost you just 10 cents to start getting your health back. CASCARETS Candy Cathartic, the genuine, put up in metal boxes, every tabict has C. C. C, stamped on it. Beware of imitations. Old maids are all the more charming because they are matchless. You Can Get Allen's Foot-Ease FREE Write today to Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y., for a free sample of Allen's Foot-Ease. It cures Chiblains, sweating, damp, swollen, aching feet. It makes New or tight shoes easy. A certain cure for Corns and Bunions. All Druggists and Shoe stores sell it; 25c. The shorter the pleasure the more pleasant it is apt to be. HO! FOR OKLAHOMA! 3,000 G子，CRES OF NEW LADOS to settlement. subscribe for the E.I.O.WA CHIEF, devoted to information about these lands. One year, $1.00. Since copy, 100. Subscribers receive free: illustrated book on Oklahoma. Morgan's Manual (210 page Setters' Guide) with fine sectional map, $1.00. Map 25c. All above, $1.50. Address Dick T. Morgan, Perry, O. T. Beauty is nature's temporary gift to the fair sex. It is hard to avoid indigestible foods on Thanksgiving day, but it is easy to avoid Indigestion—take Garfield Tea, it cleanses the system and acts on the liver, thus promoting good digestion. True Christianity is as deep as charity is high. Keep looking young and save your hair, its color and beauty with PARKER'S HAIR BALSAM. HINDERDOORS, the best cure for corns. 15c. Heaven helps them who help themselves only to what belongs to them. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, always pain, cures wind colic. 2s a bottle An old bachelor says that marrying for love is but a tender deision. Throw phys to the dogs—if you don't want the dogs—but if you want good digestion chew Beeman's Pepsin Gum. Wine drowns care—and it serves care right for killing the cat. TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY. Take LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE TABLETS. All drugs refund the money if it fails to cure. E. W. Grove's signature is on the box. 250. Forethought is easy; it is the afterthought that pulls hard. Good Position. Trustworthy men wanted to travel. Experience not absolutely necessary. For particulari address Pocahontas Tob. Ws. Bedford Cp.Va. Wise is he who learns from the experience of others. I am sure Pice's Cure for Consumption saved my life three years ago—Mrs. Trios, ROBBINS, Maple Street, Norwich, N. Y., Feb. 17, 1000. Widow's weeds are often allowed to grow on a man's grave. C. H. Crabtreat, Des Moines, Iowa, will on request exp. ain all about the Gladiator Gold-Mining company; extremely interesting; write me. The poets who do the most posing are not Poes. When you buy bluing, ask for Red Cross Ball Blue. Large package 5c. Grand Excursion to Port Arthur and Return. $12 FOR ROUND TRIP. On December 11th the Kansas City Southern Railway (Port Arthur Route) will run a Grand Excursion from all points on the road between Kansas City and Joplin inclusive, to Port Arthur, Texas, and return at rate of $12 for the round trip. Tickets will be good going five (5) days from date of sale, and good to stop on road north of Texas at limit at any point on road north of Texas, 26th, 1900. Returning tickets will be good for fifteen (15) days from date of sale, or until December 26th, 1900. This excursion affords an elegant opportunity to visit the wonderful rice fields of Southern Louisiana and Texas, whose output in the last few years has made millions for their owners and attracted much capital to this territory, and to visit Port Arthur, already a winter resort known and frequented by people throughout the United States, in the near future to become a port city with a reputation. If you are looking for a new location to settle, no section of the country is so worthy of your attention. Special attention will be given to secure the comfort of each passenger and every effort will be extended to make the excursion a grand success. H. D. Dutton, T. P. A.; S. G. Warner, G. P. and T. A. J. H. Morris, T. P. A. Dr.Bull'S COUCH SVRUP Cures a Cough or Cold at once. Conquers Croup, Whooping-Cough, Bronchitis, Gripe and Consumption. Quick, sure results. Dr. Bull'S Pills care Constipation. 50 pills 10c. SELF HYPNOTIC HEALING I have made a late d recovery that enables all to experience the hypoxic sleep in themselves instantly, awaken at any desired time, thereby normalizing diseases and bad habits. Anyone can induce this sleep in themselves instantly at first trial, conditioned to any desired number of conditions, visit any part of the earth, solve hard questions and problems in its sleep, and remember that the child will be sent to anyone for 100 silver, actually enabling him to do the show without further distress. Dr. Bull'S MUTTION SUPPLEMENT. PISO'S CURE FOR CURSES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS. Best Treatment. Use in time. Sold by druggists. CONSUMPTION 900 DROPS CASTORIA AVegetable Preparation for Assimilating the Food and Regulating the Stomachs and Bowels of INFANTS & CHILDREN Promotes Digestion, Cheerfulness and Rest. Contains neither Opium, Morphine nor Mineral. NOT NARCOTIC. Recipe of Old Dr. SAMUEL PITCHER Pumpkin Seed - Alex Stern - Richelle Salz - John Sweet - Peppermint Bittercough Soda + Milk Sugar Clinical Sugar Watergreen Flavor. A perfect Remedy for Constipation, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea Worms, Convulsions, Feverishness and LOSS OF SLEEP. Fac Simile Signature of Old Dr. SAMUEL PITCHER NEW YORK. 46 months old 35 DOSES = 35 CENTS EXACT COPY OF WRAPPER. CASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of Chas. H. Hitchner. In Use For Over Thirty Years CASTORIA THE CENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY. Trade Mark MAKES CHILDREN AS FAT AS PIGS And It's Origin. The above singular combination is the trade-mark adopted by the Paris Medicine Company of St. Louis and is used in their advertisements of Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic. To the many people who may be interested to know the origin of this odd trade-inark, the following information is given: In the spring of 1803, the little two year old son of Mr. E. W. Grove was taken quite sick with malaria. Mr. Grove, knowing the virtue of his own medicine, commenced giving him Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic. He had taken this prescription only a few days until quite a favorable change was noted, in fact, he grew so rosy, healthy and plump, that Mrs. Grove in describing his condition to her husband, remarked "Grove's Tonic makes our baby as fat as a pig". This led Mr. Grove to thinking that the expression "as fat as pigs" used in connection with babies, was a very common one, and suggested to him the idea of combining a child's face with a pig's body, with wording as above, "Grove's Tonic makes children as fat as pigs". It is an attractive trade-mark, and the remedy it represents—Grove's Tonic—is regarded by the public as being the very best prescription for Malaria, Chills and Fever. The record of the Paris Medicine Company shows that Nine Thousand gross—Ninety carloads—of Grove's Tonic have been sold this year from Jan. 1st, 1900, and as "orders are truly a good index of a medicine's worth" no one can doubt the virtue of Grove's Tonic. Druggists all sell Grove's Tonic on a no cure, no pay basis, for fifty cents a bottle. A booklet giving the population of all cities of the United States of 25,000 and over according to the census of 1900, has just been issued by the Passenger department of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway, and a copy of it may be obtained by sending your address, with two-cent stamp to pay postage, to the General Passenger Agent of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway, Chicago, Ill. Cunning is about the poorest counterfeit of wisdom. In Winter Use Allen's Foot-Ease A powder. Your feet feel uncomfortable, nervous, and often cold and damp. If you have sweating, sore feet or tight shoes, try Allen's Foot-Ease. Sold yu all drugstores and shoe stores 25 cents. Sample sent FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. Widowers are peculiar. Some of them pine away, and others spruce up. It requires no experience to dye with PUTNAM FADELESS DYES. Simply boiling your goods in the dye is all that's necessary. The fellow who eats with his knife must have a rather sharp appetite. It is easy to recognize those who use Garfield Tea; their complexions are good for their blood is pure and they are not troubled with constipation—the glow of superb health shines in their faces. The novels of to-day seem to be either historical or hysterical. The Best Prescription for Chills and Fever. It is Glowed, Massaged, CHILL TONG. It is simple iron and quinine in a tasteless form. No cure no pay. Price 500. It's a wise husband who allows his wife to engage his typewriter. Ask your grocer for Red Cross Ball Blue. Laurel 2.92, package 5 cents. 900 DROPS CASTORIA A Vegetable Preparation for Assimilating the Food and Regulating the Stomachs and Bowels of INFANTS & CHILDREN Promotes Digestion, Cheerfulness and Rest. Contains neither Opium, Morphine nor Mineral. NOT NARCOTIC. Recipe of Old Dr. SAMUEL PITCHER Pumpkin Seed Alkali Soda Rodentite Salts Anise Seed Peppermint Plantain Seed Honey Seed Clotted Sugar Witchgown Flavor. A perfect Remedy for Constipation, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea, Worms, Convulsions, Feverishness and LOSS of SLEEP. Fac Simile Signature of Grove Pitcher. NEW YORK. A 6 months old 35 Doses - 35 CENTS EXACT COPY OF WRAPPER. An Trade MAKES CHILDREN AS FAT AS PIGS And It' The above singular combination is the Company of St. Louis and is used in their a To the many people who may be interested following information is given: In the spring of 1883, the little two year with malaria. Mr. Grove, knowing the virt Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic. He had take a favorable change was noted, in fact, he g in describing his condition to her husband, as a pig". This led Mr. Grove to thinking t nection with babies, was a very common one child's face with a pig's body, with wording g as pigs". It is an attractive trade-mark, a regarded by the public as being the very b The record of the Paris Medicine Company loads—of Grove's Tonic have been sold this a good index of a medicine's worth" no one all sell Grove's Tonic on a no cure, no pay HOUSEKEEPERS as a rule find it very difficult to get up their linen in a satisfactory manner, chiefly owing to the USE of inferior starches. By using Magnetic Starch you will find it a simple matter to turn out as good work as the best steam laundries. Your grocers sells it. Try it once. It costs only 10c a package. Insist on getting MAGNETIC STARCH FOUR "EAUTIFUL INDIAN MAIDENS or the FOUR FAROUS WAR CHIEFS, Ceramique, Redwood, Mining Hall and Joseph, in colors and native costume. Each calendar page sheets, 10x10, on heavy paper tied with silk cord. Choices of either calendar 25c postpaid 80-page illustrated Indian catalogue or encre. 25d bougias St. Photographer, Omaka, Neb. What Shall We Have for Dessert? This question arises in the family every day. Let us answer it to-day. Try Jell-O, a delicious and healthful dessert. Prepared in two minutes. No boiling! no baking! Add boiling, water and get to cool. Flavors:—Lemon, Orange, Raspberry and Strawberry. Get a package at your grocers to-day. to cts. CASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of Chat. H. H. Flitchor. In Use For Over Thirty Years CASTORIA THE CENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY. Odd Mark is Origin. The trade-mark adopted by the Paris Medicine advertisements of Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic. to know the origin of this odd trade-in-mark, the old son of Mr. E. W. Grove was taken quite sick due of his own medicine, commenced giving him in this prescription only a few days until quita new so rosy, healthy and plump, that Mrs. Grove remarked "Grove's Tonic makes our baby as fat that the expression "as fat as pigs" used in con- , and suggested to him the idea of combining a as above, "Grove's Tonic makes children as fat and the remedy it represents-Grove's Tonic— isest prescription for Malaria, Chills and Fever. shows that Nine Thousand gross—Ninety car- year from Jan. 1st, 1900, and as "orders are truly an doubt the virtue of Grove's Tonic. Druggists basis, for fifty cents a bottle. MAGNETIC LAST ST TRADE MARK IMPROVED STARCH REQUIRES NO COOKING MAKES COLLARS AND CUFFS STIFF AND NICE WHEN FIRST BOUGHT NEW ONE POUND OR THIS STARCH WILL GO AS FAR AS A POUND AND A HALF OF ANY OTHER PREPARED FOR LAUNDRY PURPOSES ONLY MANUFACTURED ONLY BY MAGNETIC STARCH MANUFACTURING CO. OMAHA, NEB. IT CAUSES A WARM DEBATE IN THE HOUSE. MR. M'CALL ATTACKS HIS PARTY The Massachusetts Republican Congress man Denounces the Philippine Policy —Declares the Filipinos Should Have Independence —Cochran of Missouri Speaks Against Army Bill. The house devoted Wednesday to the army reorganization bill, which was brought up under a special order adopted at the opening of the session, which limited general debate to two hours on a side. Lieutenant General Miles and a number of army officers were the interested spectators throughout the day. Chairman Hull and Mr. Parker cf New Jersey of the military committee, Republicans, supported the bill, and Messrs. C. Chran, of Missouri, Kleberg, of Texas; McChellan, of New York, and Cox, of Tennessee, Democrats, spoke briefly against it. Mr. McCall, of Massachusetts, Republican, then aroused the only enthusiasm of the day against the measure. He attacked the whole Philippine policy of the administration. Although temperate in language, he was plain spoken in his warnings of the dangers which lay ahead of the government if a coonial policy was persisted in. He also criticized technically several features of the bill, especially that lodging in the President the dissection to expand or reduce the size of the army at will. In concluding he likened the unconquerable spirit which opposed our sway in the Philippines to that of Washington at Valley Forge. Love of independence, he said, was the "noblest heritage of the human heart." He declared that the United States should immediately give the Filipino people honorable assurance that they should have a government of their own. Mr. Cochran of Missouri, charged that the avowed purpose of the administration to use an army of 60,000 to enforce its mandates in the Philippines was the very essence of imperialism. In his opinion no army that marched on the face of the earth could accomplish the subjection of the Philippines. In the Senate Mr. Frye concluded his speech upon the ship subsidy bill. DYNAMITE EXPLODES. Twenty-Six Dead Bodies Recovered After a Mine Disaster in Mexico. An explosion of dynamite at the mines of San Adres de la Sierra, Mexico, killed or wounded many miners. At the latest advices, twenty-six dead bodies had been recovered. Fifteen injured persons, some of whom will die, were taken from the wreckage and the ruins are thought to contain other victims. Robbera Get $6,109. At Portland, Ore., six masked men held up the office of the Western Lumber company, securing $6,000, and escaped in the darkness. The robbery occurred at 6 o'clock, when a dozen men were in the velocity of the mill. Four of the highwaymen guarded the two entrances to the office, while the other two entered with drawn revolvers and ordered the four clerks in the office to hold up their hands. The money was in an envelope ready to be paid out to the mill hands, this being the regular weekly pay day. The robbers secured this and made their escape before an alarm could be given. A New State Bank for Emporia, Kansas A few Lyon county men have planned to open another bank in Emporia soon after February 1. L. R. Wright, state senator-elect on the Fusion ticket; William Wayman of the Allen bank, Fremont Miller of the Admire bank, and W. M. Addis, an ex-mayor of Emporia, planned the organization. It is to be a state bank with a capitalization of $20,000. William Wayman will probably be the president. To Absorb the St. Joseph & Grand Island. The report that the Burlington railroad has purchased the St. Joseph & Grand Island line has not been confirmed, but the Burlington has bought that part of the Grand Island extending from Stromsburg to Alma and from McCool junction to Fairbury, Neb., and is said to be negotiating for the rest of the line. Woodmen Saved from Loss The effect of an opinion by the Nebraska supreme court will be to reimburse the order of the Modern Woodmen of America in whole or in part of the sum of $27,000 deposited in the Bank of Commerce of Grand Island when it failed in 1896. The Kaiser May Decorate Them A bill was passed in the senate permitting Captain B H. McCalla and Commander W. C. Wise of the United States navy to accept decorations from the emperor of Germany. Red Men's Goat Explodes At Beverly, Mass., an explosion of chemicals, the use of which was for spectacular effect in the initiary rites in the Improved Order of Red Men, cost the life of Past Sachem Ira T. Crockett of Lynn and severely burned W. F. Rogers of that city, both of the Winnocken tribe degree staff. Roosevelt to Go Hunting Vice President-elect Roosevelt is going to Colorado this winter for a hunting trip the week before the New York legislature meets in January. The Canteen in the New Bill The canteen provision in the new army bill will probably cause much contention. Instead of prohibiting the sale of the liquor, it provides only that no army officer or soldier shall sell liquor. Klondike Output $23,000 Klondike advices state that Dufferin Patullo, chief clerk of the gold commissioner's office, estimates the past season's Klondike output at $20,000,000 as against $17,000,000 for 1899. AWAY WITH WAR STAMPS. Even the Beer Tax is to Be Reduced Twenty-five Cents a Barrel. The war revenue reduction bill has been reported to the house. In addition to the abolition of the stamp taxes on telegrams, express receipts and proprietary medicines, there is a reduction of the beer tax to $1.60. The present tax is $2 a barrel with a $7½ per cent rebate to $1.85, so that the reduction will be 25 cents a barrel. The decision concerning beer was arrived at after some discussion and by a divided vote. It was first attempted to make the reduction on tea, but this was not concurred in, and the question recurring to beer the reduction was decided upon. The stamp taxes were almost entirely wiped out with the exception of the stamp tax on stocks. Members of the ways and means committee estimate the aggregate reductions of the bill as framed at $40,000,000. The reduction on beer is understood to be by making the rebate 20 per cent instead of $7½ per cent. The 20 per cent rebate on $2 a barrel would be 40 cents, making the new tax $1.60. PENSION ROLL STILL GROWS. Secretary Hitchcock Forecasts an Increase This Year. Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock says: "The pension roll for the coming year will call for the expenditure of about $142,000,000, as against about $138,000,000 for the year just closing. There are a little less than 1,000,000 names on the roll now and these are being added by recent legislation. "Under the old law soldiers' widows not wholly dependent on their own labor for their support were not entitled to draw a pension. A recent law made it legal for a widow receiving an income not above $250 a year to receive a pension. This and certain amendments bearing on the construction of the disability of veteran applicants have added several thousand names to the roll." NEEDS $626,741,762 Estimate of Expenses for Coming Year Submitted to Congress. The secretary of the treasury has sent to Congress the annual estimates of the expenses of the government for the coming year. They aggregate $626,741,762, a slight decrease from the total estimates of last year. The appropriations for the present year are $584,655,362. The estimates cover every branch of government service. The war department estimate is $176,-658,345, and the navy department, $88,913,248. Among the public building estimates is that of the Kansas City, Kan., postoffice, $50,000. The total for rivers and harbors, including continuing contracts, is $33,811,817. The total for pensions is $144,000,000. AN OLD MAN A MURDFERER Killed His Companion at Blackwell, Mo., and Then Committed Suicide. At Blackwell, Mo., two men, supposed to be tramps, asked permission to sleep in the boiler room of C.V. Segar's saw mill. One of the men was about 50 years old and the other about 20. Early next morning the young man was found dead upon the railroad track, with his skull crushed and part of his clothing missing. It was evident that he had been murdered in the saw mill and dragged to the railroad track and laid across the rails. A posse started in search of his companion, who was caught about five miles away. When accused of the murder the old man drew a knife and stabbed himself. He died a few minutes later. TOWNE FOR SENATOR. Governor Lind Appoints the Free Silver Leader to Fill Out Davis' Term. Governor Lind of Minnesota has appointed Charles A. Towne United States Senator to succeed the late Senator C. K. Davis. Robbed Employer of $50,000. After having served for twenty-three years the firm of Frank & Dubois, New York, whose employ he entered as erand boy, and after having been advanced until he had full charge of the office as manager, William M. Gates, it is asserted, confessed that he had long been robbing his employers, and was involved in ruin. The full amount of his alleged steelings is not known, but it is believed he has taken $50,000. A Senate Temperance Lobby. The Senate committee on foreign relations has granted a hearing to the representatives of several temperance and reform a sociations in support of the treaty providing for the control of the liquor traffic in Africa. Among those present were Bishop Hartzell, bishop of the M. E. church for Africa Mrs. Stevens, president of the W. C. T. U., and also representatives of the Anti-Saloon league, the National Temperance society and a committee from the Presbyterian church. Governor Pingree has issued a call for a special session of the Michigan legislature to convene in the state capitol at Lansing December 12 for the purpose of enacting taxation legislation along the lines of the constitutional amendment adopted at the November election. This amendment permits the taxation of railroads, express companies, telegraph and telephone companies and other forms of corporate property on their true cash value instead of specifically on their earnings as was mandatory before the passage of the amendment. A Preacher Killed. At Williamson, W. Va., Ion. S. Davis Stokes shot and killed the Rev. John W. Wohl in a street duel there. Mr. Stokes being also dangerously injured. Rev. Mr. Wohl was recognized as one of the most forceful and eloquent of Presbyterian ministers of the state. Mr. Stokes is an ex-Virginia university president and comes from one of the best families of the old dominion. The tragedy was the outgrowth of strained relations between the two men. FOR NICARAGUA REPORT OF ISTHMIAN CAL NAL COMMISSION. ESTIMATED CCST $200.540.000 The Panama Route Canal Would Cost Much Less, but There Are Other Reasons for Prefering the Longer, More Expensive Route Under the Management of the United States. The report of the Isthmian Canal commission just submitted by the President to Congress gives as the unanimous conclusion of that body that 'the most practicable and feasible route for an Isthmian canal, under the control, management and ownership of the United States is that known as the Nicaragua route.' The commission estimates the cost of this route at $290,540,000. This estimate is much in excess of any heretofore made, and is due to increased dimensions and other features not heretofore considered. The commission also estimates the cost of a canal by the Panama route at $142,342,579 according to one route, or $156,378,258 according to another route. As between the Nicaragua and Panama route the commission sums up a number of advantages favorable to the former. It states also that under the concessions given by the Panama government to the Panama Canal company, that company is not free to grant the necessary rights to the United States except upon conditions made by the company. It is pointed out that the Panama concession, now held by the French company, prohibits a concession of rights to any nation or foreign government. The concession is limited, so that if the United States acquired it there would not be an absolute ownership in perpetuity, as the concession provides that the canal shall pass to Colombia after ninety-nine years. The commission has asked President Hutin of the French company to name terms upon which the company will dispose of its property and interests to the United States. The report says that the conferences have resulted in no offer to dispose of the property to the United States upon any terms, nor had the company expressed any desire to negotiate with the United States with reference to such a disposition The report is a document of about 17,000 words, almost as long as the President's message. OKLAHOMA STATEHOOD BILL Senator Fairbanks Introduces It Into the Senate. Senator Fairbanks of Indiana has introduced a bill to admit Oklahoma as a state, with two representatives. The usual provisions for a constitutional convention and the grants of lands for state institutions are made. Was a Coffeyville Boy Sergeant Vernie J. Edwards, whose death is announced in the dispatches from Manila, was a Coffeyville boy and enlisted in May, 1899, in Company G, Twentieth Kansas, under the late Captain D. S. Elliott. When the regiment was ordered home he re-enlisted in Troop F, Eleventh cavalry. He made a fine record as a soldier while a member of the famous Twentieth Kansas, participating in all the battles in which that regiment was engaged. A Philippine Supreme Court. Senator Stewart has introduced a bill creating a supreme court for the Philippine islands with five judges, who are appointed for life and each of whom is to draw a salary of $20,000 per annum. The bill provides for an appeal or writs of error to the United States supreme court in all cases involving more than $20,000 and in those in which the constitut ion of the United States is involved. Set Free by Pingree Governor Fingree has pardoned both General W. L. White, ex-quartermaster general, and General A. F. Marsh, ex-inspector general of the Michigan national guard, who were convicted of complicity in the state military clothing frauds, upon the payment of $5,000 fine by each One thousand dollars of the fine is to be paid January 1, 1901, and a like sum on the first day of January, 1902, 1903, 1904 and 1905. Eight Killed in a Wreck A work train, carrying its crew of between twenty-five and thirty track repairers, backed into reight train No. 201 a few miles east of Suisun, Cal., and in the wreck which followed eight men were killed and some twenty more injured, many of them seriously. Another Corn Corner. Indications on the Chicago board of trade are that there is another corner hatching in corn, this time in the December option. Who the factor in the operations will be is not known. More Trouble for Grinstead Pool Grinstead, the Wathena, Kan., editor, has been arrested by United States Marshal Prescott on the charge of improper use of the mails. Grinstead is accused of writing postal cards to Topeka parties, defamatory to the character of Cyrus Leland, United States pension agent at Topeka. Cost Nearly a Million Commissioner Peck's report of the expenditures of the Paris commission for the year ending November 15, 1900, was sent to the senate Tuesday. The total amount expended was $839.46. Sad Eater of an Alderman In the criminal court at Indianapolis, Ind., John M. Higgins, member of the city council, was sentenced to the state's prison for an indefinite term between two and fourteen years. Higgins was convicted for offering to accept a bribe, promising to push a measure through the council. Didn't Pay His Taxes. At Springfield, Mo., F. M. Wolfe, defeated democratic candidate for the legislative district, has filed a notice of contest against. E. P. Norris, the Republican representative-eler MR. GAGE'S ANNUAL REPORT. The Condition of the United States Treasury Given to Congress. The annual report of the secretary of the treasury calls attention to the marked irregularity in the receipts and expenditures, pointing out that while in July, 1899, there was a deficiency of $8,506,832.28, in June, 1900, a surplus of $17,895,158.86 was realized. The greatest difference between income and outgo any one day was $4,047,396.05 in favor of the treasury. The corresponding maximum deficiency was $2,318,621.42. In the face of such wide fluctuations the necessity forample available reserves is apparent, and the treasurer names $50,000,000 as a proper sum to keep in the government valuits. Promptly on the passage of the act of March 14, 1900, there were transferred to the division of issue and redemption the records and accounts relating to the issue and redemption of the government notes and certificates. Up to October 1 the total redemptions in gold from the new reserve fund of $150,000,000 were $22,330,854 in United States notes and $3,594,708 in treasury notes. The sums drawn from the reserve have been daily restored from the gold in the general fund. Exclusive of that reserve the assets and liabilities of the new divisions were $723,062,283 on the day of their creation, $723,544,179 on June 30, and $740,965,679 on November 1. Comparison of the state of the treasury shows an increase of $24,887,093.39 in the available cash balance, exclusive of the reserve of $150,000,0.00 for the year. The cash actually in the vaults of the treasury, as distinguished from the deposits in banks and other assets not consisting of money, increased by 86,621,398.14. The most notable increase was in the smaller denominations of paper currency, which are in demand for moving the crops. Of these the treasury held $14,062,172 more than last year. The excess of assets over current liabilities was, on June 30, $49,723,017.60 in 1899, and $50,327,501.76 in 1900. SUBSIDY BILL UP. Senate Begins Its Consideration—Displaces Philippine Bill on Calendar. What is popularly known as the ship subsidy bill was made the unfinished business of the Senate Tuesday, instead of the Spooner Philippine measure, and the discussion of it was opened by Mr. Frye, of Maine, chairman of the committee on commerce, from which the measure was reported. He addressed the Senate for more than an hour and a half. “The world,” Mr. Frye declared, “has entered upon a fierce commercial war, and it is to be a long and strenuous conflict. Each nation is seeking the advantage of its rivals in this conflict and is pressing forward to gain that advantage. Most of the foreign nations are looking for commercial advantage in the East. Russia, France, Great Britain, Italy and Germany are paying an aggregate of $5,000,000 per year in subsidies for the carrying ships of the Eastern trade.” Millions for Public Works. The secretary of war has sent to the House committee on appropriations a comparative statement of war department estimates for the fiscal years of 1901 and 1902, together with a statement of appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1901. The estimates for 1901 amounted to $186,903,551, and the estimate for 1902 amounted to $171,773,855. The appropriations for the present fiscal year amount to $148,205,935. The estimates for public works, including rivers and harbors, fortifications, etc., amounting to $23,400,665, are $183,245 more than the estimates for 1901 and $24,710,851 more than the appropriations for the present fiscal year. A British Empire Cable It is officially announced that a tender of 88,975,000 has been accepted for the construction of a Pacific cable. This new wire will be pan-Brittanic. Wherever it touches any land it will find itself on British soil. Thus it will not only link together Great Britain and her far away colonies, but it will also connect Australia and Canada. What It Cost Stanley. Governor Stanley, of Kansas has filed a statement of his campaign expenses in the office of the county clerk of Sedgwick county as follows: Campaign contribution to the state committee, $223; newspapers, $55; eigars, $75; telegrams, $10; traveling expenses, $185; total $550. Volunteers Won't Re:Fallist The transport Kintuck has arrived at Tacoma from Manila. According to the statements of the Kintuck's officers, the army reorganization bill, including the three-year extension of service, is reported to meet with small favor among the American officers in the Philippines. Out of the twenty-five volunteer infantry regiments whose terms of service expire in June, the officers on the Kintuck state that not one will re-enlist, and that the regiments will have to be recruited from the states. A. Quartermaster's Sentence General W. L. White, of Grand Rapids, ex-quartermaster general of the Michigan National guard, pleaded guilty to the charge of complicity in the state military clothing frauds and was sentenced by Judge West to ten years in prison. The indictment charged that he stole military stores while the Spanish-American war was in progress and kept the money. White for a year was a fugitive from justice. He went to South Africa, but afterward gave himself up. Separate Negro Coaches. The Kentucky state law requiring railroad companies in that state to provide separate coaches for negroes was made the subject of an opinion in the United States supreme court Monday, the case being that of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad company vs. the state of Kentucky. It came to this court from the Kentucky court of appeals. The opinion was handed down by Justice Brown and the Kentucky court's judgment in favor of the state was affirmed. A collier wandering on some land belonging to Earl D——chanced to meet the owner face to face. His lordship asked the collier if he knew he was walking on his land. "Thy land! Well, I've got no land myself," was the reply, "and I'm forced to walk on somebody else's. Whaur did you get it from?" "Oh," replied the earl, "I got it from my ancestors." "And whaur did they get it from?" Inquired the collier. "They got it from their ancestors." "And whaur did their ancestors get it from?" "They fought for it." "Ah, well," said the collier, squaring up to the earl, "come, and I'll fight thee for it."—London Tit-Bits. ONE THING NEEDFUL. Customer—"But where are the holes?" Dealer—"Holes, sir! What holes?" Customer—"Why, any one who is donkey enough to pay $12 for this hat is entitled to holes to let his ears stick through." "What is the difference between a person suffering from heat prostration, and Allen's Foot-East? One feels the heat and the other heals the feet."—Life. Cheated. "Ah," said the groom, "here it is! Here's your friend Bardsley's wedding present!" "Well! It seems to me that after what I gave him and his wife they might at least have sent us a salad dish or a pickle fork!" Difficult Situation "Be as wise as a serpent," we suggested. The distraught wife wept afresh. "If you but knew," she exclaimed, "how extremely sensitive my husband is to any impression even remotely suggestive of serpents!" Plainly, here was a household wherein peace could be restored only by the exercise of the utmost tact—Detroit Journal. Most Discriminate "For mercy's sake, Mildred!" exclaimed Mrs. Highmore, shocked at the neglegh attire of her youngest daughter, who had gone to the front door to look at a fire on the other side of the street, "don't you know you never ought to argy in public with your collar unbuttoned and your sleeves rolled up except when you are playing golf?" Ocean Steamers Very Large The tendency steadily to increase the size of ocean steamers is explained by the fact that the larger the vessel the smaller is the coal consumption—the greatest item of expense—per ton of cargo carried. For a 4,000-ton vessel this is more than twice as great as for a 9,000-ton vessel. --- Another Tradition Fulled Down. Mrs. Billikins—They say that only people of unusual mental powers have hay fever—that it is an affliction which only people of genius are likely to suffer from. Mrs. Wadhams—Ol., pshaw! There's nothing in that theory. I never saw anybody who had it worse than my son-in-law has. The lawyer's best friend is the man who makes his own will. It Depends "The New York Sun asks if a man with $6,000 income should play poker with a man whose income is $60,000." "Well, it seems to me it depends a little on what kind of a dealer he is." —Cleveland Plain Dealer Pride "Did any of your ancestors come over on the Mayflower?" "I should say not! My ancestors had money enough to pay their way on boats run by steam!" His Little Joke The trembling Boxer knelt before Li Hung Chang and strove to explain matters. "I must have lost my head, I see no other reason why I engaged in the uprising, O Son of the Blue Sky," he wailed. "You are a trifle off in your grammar," interposed Li. "You should say, I will have lost my head." And the executioner stepped forward at the proper signal.—Baltimore American. Greek Millionaire Institutes Prize, Daniel Osiris, a Greek millionaire residing in Paris, has instituted a prize on the lines lald down by Mr. Nobel, though his offer is for Frenchmen only, except in a Paris exposition year, when it becomes universal. He has set aside a sum to be awarded every three years in perpetuity to the discoverer, inventor or producer of the most noteworthy idea or object for the benefit of humanity. The prize is to be never less than 100,000 francs and may be double that sum. Kansas News Notes. There is a Mormon colony in Pratt county. Conway Springs, with 1,000 people, is without a lawyer. Thirty-four state banks have been organized in Kansas this year. The leading real estate agent in La Harpe is Miss Sadie Travis. Government mineralogists are looking for zine in Greenwood county. Benjamin Franklin, a prominent citizen of Doniphan county, is dead at White Cloud. Harry C. Safford, a prominent Republican politician and lawyer of Topeka, is dead. Douglas county has twenty convicts in the Kansas penitentiary, eight black and twelve white. A Topeka man has manufactured three automobiles. He may start a regular factory, with 100 hands. State Senator J. C. Morrow has bought the controlling interest of the First National bank of Washington. An effort will be made at the coming session of the legislature to consolidate the Horticultural Society with the state board of agriculture and place Secretary Coburn, of the board of agriculture, in charge of the consolidated organization. Professor Haworth's reports on the analysis of the core of the Atchison coal well have been completed. It shows that the coal recently discovered there is valuable and probably of great importance, not only to the people of Atchison but also to the tributary country, and in a measure to the entire state. It cost Kansas $4,622,363.76 to conduct its public schools last year. From all sources $5,727,702.11 was collected for the purpose and June 30 there remained a balance on hand, above all expenditures, of $65,338.33. The various expenditures were: Repairs, $714,471.15; salaries, $3,173,062.38; libraries and apparatus, $3,240.98; buildings, $368,657.54; other purposes, $298,763.70. In Franklin county the other day a couple bearing the same name were married. When the license was applied for the probate judge asked, as the law requires, if the bride and groom were related. "Well, judge," responded the groom, "we kinder are an' we kinder ain't just what you might call relations. You see we were married together for quite a spell, but ma thought she wanted a divorce an' now we are goin' to try it over again." The doctor bill prepared by the legislative committee of the Kansas state board of health does not interfere with Christian Science, osteopathy or any of the other cures, so long as each system of practice is confined to its "school" methods. It is provided, however, that osteopaths must be graduates of a regular school of osteopathy before they can practice. Miss Mary E. Chapin, 87 years old, a veteran woman's seminary founder and teacher, died at the home of her nephew, Dr. S. N. Chapin, in Chicago, last week. Miss Chapin began to teach at the seminary in New Haven, and in 1860 helped found a woman's seminary at Milwaukee. She went to Lawrence, Kan., and there founded a seminary which later developed into the University of Lawrence. Captain E. J. Hardy of the Twentieth Kansas denounces the publication in the new history of Kansas of the statement that "Colonel Frederick Funston swam the Marilao river" and captured eighty prisoners during that regiment's campaign in the Philippines. Captain Hardy has taken the matter up with Frank Nelson, state superintendent and chairman of the state text book board, and asks that proper credit be given to Hardy and Privates Jack, Huntsmen and Wiley of Company H, who he claims swam the river and returned with a boat in which Colonel Funston later crossed. Senator Harris of Kansas, who is a member of the Senate committee on military affairs, is opposed to a permanent increase of the standing army of the United States, and is inclined to favor as a substitute for such increase an extension for two years of the law under which the present military organization was established. Frank D. Brooks of Lawrence is United States vice consul at Smyrna, Turkey, where the United States steamship Kentucky is now the guest of Abdul Hamid and his official family. Mr. Brooks was first appointed consular secretary at Smyrna, but was soon promoted to be vice consul. A former Abilene girl, Mrs. Orleana Fisher McCelian, daughter of the former banker there has been for a year the teacher of English in the native schools of Hawaii in Honolulu. She had had training in a normal school in this country and was asked to make the beginning in the new work of English classes in her new home. The Holliday Monument association will ask the legislature for a permission to place a statue of Cyrus K. Holliday in the state house yard. The jury in the case of Kowalski vs. the city of Emporia, returned a verdict giving Kowalski $2,500. The plaintiff claimed to have received permanent injuries by the breaking of an electric light pole at the top of which he was working. The case will be appealed. The Haskell Indian football team defeated the Columbus, Ohio Medies on a forfeiture. The Medies left the field on an unfavorable decision by the referee. Thomas Benton Murdock threatens to write a piece before long on "Some Snobs of Kansas." A company has been organized in Coffeyville for the purpose of putting in another big vitrified brick plant. It will have a capacity of 100,000 bricks per day, and will cost about $35,000. George I. Boswell, a local capitalist, is at the head of the company. Cost of Minnesota's Dependents. Minnesota paid $164 for the support of each inmate in her thirteen state institutions during the fiscal year which closed on July 31, $4 per capita more than during the previous year. Paradoxical Preaching An American minister who recently visited Ireland said he heard a presacher conclude his sermon with these words: "My brethren, let not this world rob you of a peace which it can neither give nor take away." Valued Policy Laws Eighteen states and one territory now have valued policy laws—that is, laws requiring fire insurance companies to pay the face of the policy, no matter what may be the actual value of the property burned. An Ancient Castle The castle it which Oswald d'Aurumene, a Belgian artist, has offered Mr. Kruger a home was built by monks 309 years ago as a convent. It has had a varied career, a former owner having entertained royalty in it, and was bought only a few years ago by M. d'Aurumene, who is wealthy, and restored all the old splendor, besides instituting all modern conveniences and comforts. Chess Players of Parliament The House of Commons has lost three of its best chess players—Horace Plunkett, A. Strauss and J. Howard Parnell, brother of the late Irish leader. All three took part in the matches which the House has on several occasions played against the press gallery, Mr. Plunkett was the captain of the legislators' team, and the most successful, for he always won, but Mr. Parnell was not a bad second. Words are like spectacles; they darken whatever you do not help us to see. AN ENEMY TO DRINK. One Woman Who Has Done a Great Deal to Put Down This Evil. Minneapolis, Minn., Dec. 3.—(Special)—When the Independent Order of Good Templars of Minnesota wanted a State Organizer they chose Mrs. Laura J. Smith, of 1217 West 32nd Street, this city, The American Anti-Treat League also selected Mrs. Smith as National Organizer. The reason is that she seeks this gifted woman has devoted life to a career against Drink and Drinking Habits. Her influence for good in Minnesota is and has been very far reaching. About two years ago however, it seemed as if this noble woman would have to give up her philanthropic work. 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