The American Citizen

Oldest and Best Weekly paper devoted to the Race in this section of the Country GEORGE BEMARKT, THE CHOICE OF THE PEOPLE FOR MAYOR HAS THE BEST INTEREST OF OUR CITY AT HEART AND ALL GOOD CITIZENS WILL VOTE FOR HIM. TO HONEST MAN AND WOMANHOOD. TO VOTE FOR GEORGE BEMARKT, THE CHOICE OF THE PEOPLE FOR MAYOR. VOL 13, NO. 51 Oldest and GEORGE BEMARKT, T THE LAST TO HONEST MAN TO VOTE FOR GEORGE THE PEOPLE Upon every gust of wind that blows, over the silver crystals of frost and snow We hear it louder and longer grow, Bemarkt, Bemarkt for two years more, As all things must have an end we are called upon as citizens of the greatest city in the State, to exercise that grand and glorious privilege of free American citizens on next Tuesday, February 12th. At that time the question of whether Bossism and gang-rule shall predominate in this city or whether the people, the common mass, the toiling ones, the back bone and sinew of every prosperous city in the country, have any rights which must be respected. It is to be presumed that every citizen in this city has deeply interested him or herself in this municipal winter campaign, have thoroughly contrasted the two prominent candidates before them and have made up their minds regarding the two, from which a selection must be made between the hours of 1 P. M., and 7 P. M., of Tuesday. We stand as we have always stood, for the right as we see it, and that is for George Bemark; the man with a record, the man of the people and for the people as Mayor. The time has long since gone by when a city like Kansas City, Kas., should stoop to try experiments in its government. The beginning of the 20th century should mark a general revolution for the betterment of our city. Too long have the people been asleep to their own best interests and allowed gangs of political fixers to run affairs to suit themselves. It is time the great mass of the people should have something to say. There is no better time than next Tuesday to say that this must stop. There is no surer way to bring about these changes than to vote for a man of the people, Geo. Bermarkt, whose business record of PIN THIS IN YOUR HAT. If the M. R. T's is a secret organization for the purpose of purging politics in Republican ranks in this city, why can't negroes become members? Since there is not one negro member, we ask if its not a branch, a cousin, brother or some other kind of kin, to the Lilly Whites. Since George Bemarkt is the people's candidate, whose candidate is B.L. Short? Don't everybody speak at once. If you are a member of our race its your business to find out before you vote. Don't take the word of slick and oily tongued politicians. Facts are what we talk. Just make a few inquiries. B.L. Short the continuous office holding candidate of theoath bound secret gang of M.R.T.'s for Mayor sees the hand writing on the wall. His principal topic before Negro Meetings is what this paper says. The truth always hurts and the hit dog always hollers. The only excuse he has for our telling the truth is that 'we were bought' How flimsy. We are thankful to him at least for the free advertising he is so generously giving us. This is the First and best thing he has ever given the Negro in his whole Sixteen years of office holding. 'Hot air' is his long suit when it comes to a Negro. No taxpayer, no loyal and true to principle republican can honestly vote for Short. There is not a single Negro in the city who has the best interest of his race at heart that will vote for a man like B L. Short, who is not their friend, never has, been and never will be. Let every negro ask B. L. Short what did his pusher, Nat Barnes, do to the negroes when he was Mayor Ask him who are the Lilly Whites. THE K d Best Week T, THE CHOICE OF THE PE ST APPEAL. N AND WOMANHOOD. GE BEMARKT, THE CHOICE OF PLE FOR MAYOR. Poor little Gnat and B. L. Too. Are in the Soup for once, says sister Lu Whoop'em up, whoop'em up, let us thro' We will land Bemarkt if they do SUE. twenty years warrants all straight and upright people in advocating his cause. He stands upon the firm foundation of "established business," with a necessary interest in the proper management of our city's affairs. He is not a chronic office seeker nor has he held office for sixteen years. We ask the tax payers of this city—who under high heaven would they rather support, a business man with a successful record, who has great interests at stake, or a man who has did nothing but hold office in your midst and now has a position paying $1,800 a year and yet would be Mayor at a salary of only $1,000 a year. One job at a time should be the slogan—of the people toward men like this. Many citizansha lost their property you perhaps, dear reader, once upon a time owned a little home in this city, bought by the hard earned accumulations of years of honest toil—where is that home to-day? Why are you an out east so to speak? It's easy to tell, by putting irresponsible men in office, whose only interest in the welfare of the city was getting all they could out of it. Its your pre-operative to help yourself now by putting a man like Geo. Bemark in office, who has interests of his own to look after and must therefore look after your interest at the same time. This is a free country in which every man has a right to aspire for office, but its left for the people to decide his fitness. B. L. Short ran for the nomination of Mayor four years ago, if the people had believed he was the proper man, he would have been elected. What was true four years ago is true to-day. The people want a man for Mayor not a tool. and who are the M. R. T's. Let him explain the difference between the two. Ask him if there is a negro member of either organization. Ask him what he has done for the negro in sixteen years of office holding. Ask him how many negroes does he employ. He seldom, it is said, leaks a negro straight in the face. Why? FOR YOUNG MEN TO DO. It is well to be careful of one's company. Franklin says: "He that lives with erippes learns to limp," and "he that lives with wolves learns to grow!" It is well to be just; an ancient motto says: "The just man will prosper in spite of envy." It is well to be generous; Goethe says "He who does nothing for others does nothing for himself." Plato says: "He who spends himself for all that is noble, and gains nothing but what is just, will hardly be not bly wealthy or distressfully poor." It well to be reasonable; Hare says: "Instead of watching the bird es it flies above our heads, we chase his shadow along the ground; and finding we cannot grasp it, we conclude it is nothing." It is well to be honest; Ruckert says "He who says I sought, yet I found not,' be sure he lies; he who says, I sought not and found,' he decries; be sure he decries; he who says, I sought and found,' him believe—he speaks true." It is well to firm: Spurgeon says "When the sheep is too meek, all the lambs will suck it." It is well to be brave in misfortune: Goethe says "In spite of all misfortune, there is still enough to satisfy one." It is well to be 'neither too expectant nor too apprehensive: Schopenhauer say "In the good as well as in the evil of life less depends upon what befalls us than upon the way in which we take it." La Rochefoucauld says: We should desire few things with eagerness if we well knew the worth of what we are striving for, It is well to "brush up against the world." Goethe says: "Talent forms it self in secret, character in the great current of the world." AMERICAN KANSAS CITY, KANSAS, FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY, 8, 1901. NEGRO PROBLEM. SERMON ON THIS SUBJECT BY REV. JOHN R. SMITH, COLORED. Talks of the Prejudice Against he Negro, Who, He Says, is White Man's Friend. Rev. John R. Smith, pastor of the Gay street Christian Church, preached a special sermon yesterday on the condition of the negro. His text was from Psalms lxviii.:31: "Princes shall come out of Egypt;Ethiada shall soon stretch out her hands to God," He said in substance: "I rejoice as I read his prophecy, and look forward with longing anticipation to that time to come when the negro, the descendants of the Ethiopians, will spread forth their hands to God. If there was ever, a time the n-gro needed God's love and guidance, i. is now. He is opposed on every hand. Inhumanmey treated, persecuted, beaten, lynched legislated against and burned at the stake. "It is sad to think that such prejudice should exist in this, the dawn of the twentieth century, with its wounded civilization and advancement in science literature, art and the influence of the Christian religion. When I think of the condition of the American negro my mind goes back to the Israelites and their hardships and the three hundred years they served in bondage and cruel servitude. But, after all, were God's chosen people They trusted God, and if you will trust Him as they did in their allictions, He will lead you through the valley and shadow of death over into the land of promise. "Nothing impossible with God. He is the same to-day, yesterday and evermore shall be. He will settle and solve all questions and all perplexing problems that nations of earth cannot solve "Some questions have befilled the wisdom and virtue of the greatest insults of the world, and it has appeared that the genius of America, in freeing herself from British rule and tyranny and the abolition of Ameri an problems But another question, more destructive o human virtue and the advancement, and progress of a race, there is slavery famine, war, pestilence all combined, confronts the people of the United States. It is the awful crime of prejudices which has coiled itself like a serpent beside the King on his throne, and has defied the laws of society, the land' the Christian religion, with its love and sympathy, and even the laws of God. 'Do unto others as you would they should do unto you.' "Why such racial feeling should exist we cannot understand. Is it because the negro is laboring to become a better citizen, staggling to educate himself, to greater and nobler achievements? " The white people of the South have not ing to fear. The negro does not want to deminate; he does not seek social equality; neither does aspire to any closer relationship with the white man than that of friendly social relations in business. in affairs of state and nation. He is a citizen and should be granted the rights given to him by the Constitution of the United States. "The negro is the true and tried friend of the white man, and always has been. His 250 years as a devoted slave and servant, at all times willing to sacrifice his life for his maser or his master's family, and when his master was fighting to forge his ennails tighter he cultivated the fields, worked the soaps, run the mills and provided for the comfort of their wives and children and at night stood guard at the foot of the bed. No enemy could intrade; no power save that of God could do them harm. 'Why continue to oppress the negro when he has been so loyal and patriotic? Why crush him, why curtail his opportunities to become a better and a more useful citizen? Why enact laws to humilize him and destroy his manhood and his aspirations?' "What the negro wants is the white man's sympathy and an opportunity to show to the world what he is doing to raise himself to a higher plane of civilization, a fair change to secure work at fair pay, fair and impartial trials at the bar of justice. "The situation of the negro is one of great delicacy. He must pave out his own destiny. Sympathy alone from the white man will not do it. Giantic influences for good must be brought about. Too many crimes are being committed by the young negro. Too many are imprisoned on account of laziness and idleness. The schools and churches cannot do it. Home training is neglected. You must teach your children morals, ethics, economy, politeness, industry and that labor is honorable. It is a crime against society and good government for a father to raise a son to disdain labor, and a mother's sin who does not properly rear and look after the needs of daughters entrusted to their care. "When you have done your best and have stretched out your hands to God, He will intervene and save this great question forever." EDITORIALLY SPEAKING. We would most strongly impress upon our people, both women and men, to register right away. Don't be cheated out of your vote by your own carelessness. NEGRO LABOR IN THE SOUTH From the Baltimore Sun. The attempt to utilize negro labor in a Charleston cotton mill has not proved a success. After a trial which has extended over a period of two years the experiment has been abandoned. The negro operatives, it appears, are not reliable. One of the managers of the mill is quoted as saying that they were "trifling and lazy and would not stick to the work." The Sun recently published extracts from a book written by William Hannibal Thomas, an author of negro descent, in which he severely arragis the race for its shiftlessness and lack of industry. In his opinion the disinclination of the negro to engage in continuous labor is one of the reasons why the race has made so little progress. It is not only in industrial pursuits, however, that the "man and brother" has proved disappointing even to his best friends. The agricultural labor of the south is composed almost exclusively of negroes, yet they are not as efficient as they should be and might be. While many of the farm laborers are faithful and industrious, most of them are utterly unreliable, quitting work whenever the spirit moves them. The same lack of stability is manifested by those who engage in domestic service, many of them being incompetent and not to be depended on. So great is the demoralization that a good servant is the exception rather than the rule, although there is a steady demand for such labor. The author of "The American Negro." the book referred to bove, frankly admits that the race must be regenerated before it can become efficient or make any advance from its present status. Booker Washington is undertaking to train negro youths into habits of industry by fitting them to be mechanics and farmers. There is a great field in the south for the race, but unless the black men and women make better use of their opportunities they will not share in the prosperity of that section, nor will they ever establish themselves elsewhere. If they continue to be inefficient and unreliable they will inevitably be sued by other labor. The best friend of the negro are those who teach him the necessity of cultivating habits of in dustry. THE NEGRO EXIT The only black man in congress at the present time is Representative White, of North Carolina. Mr. White's successor will be a white man, and than good by to the negro representation in the national legislature. The Southern states in which the black population is sufficiently num*erous to send men of its own color to congress have effectively disfranchised the race by constitution amendments. In the North, even in the districts where negroes are most plentiful, the contest for congressional honors among the white-politicians is to sharp to admit of the election of a black man, either as senator or representative, at least nothing of that kind has occurred up to date. Mr. White, therefore, was right when he de nominated his speech of a few days ago as "the validicity of the colored man." It probably was a mistake that the negro was clothed with full citizenship so soon after he was liberated from slavery and before he had acquired any intellectual qualifications. But that is as it may he was so clothed and his rights to a participator in the government of his country both as a voter and office holder became as good and as sacred as those of any white citizen. The national government was and is in duty bound to see that his rights are not abrogated or abridged by reason of color or previous condition. It is not an edifying sight to witness congress become a passive spectator to this plain violation of the national constitution declining to hold the disfranchising states re-possible for their acts by reducing their representation to correspond with the reduction of voting strength and thereby itself clearly violating the national instrument. The prevalent sentiment seems to be that the Southern negro was legally made a voter when he should not have been and that therefore the illegal wresting away of his vote should be indorsed or acquired in. I is queer doctrine for a highly civilized people who are supposed to be the best exponents of popular government on the face of the earth.—K. C. Journal. WE, publish in this issue a sermon bv our distinguished young educator well known in this City—Rev. Jno. R. Smith formally a teacher in. CITIZEN. our public Schools. Rev. Smith is now at Nashville Tenn., the Athens of the South, where he is holding his own as every Kansasan does. Where-ever his lot is cast. His exhortations on the "Negro Problem" should be read. We elip the article in this issue in this issue from the Nashville Tenn. Banner a White Daily. Vote for George Bemarkt, the Choice of the People for Mayor. We favor and heartily endorse the movement of the Ministers Alliance in this city, and we hope the citizens throughout the state will rally—not only with their mouth—but go down in their pockets and liberally contribute. We have one suggestion to make and we hope it will receive favorable consideration at the conference in Topeka on the 22nd. That is that in case the real perpetrators of this awful burning tragedy cannot be caught and brought to justice, that the money raised will be used in the establishment of some worthy negro enterprise that will give employment to some of the idle boys and girls, for if many had something to do criminals would be lesser and the race would be lifted higher in the scale of real worth. Idle brains is the devil's workshop. "Give us something to do" is the cry from young men and women of color all over the United States—these are young men and women who are striving against great odds to be something and somebody. Help, help is their ery. Nothing would be grander than a movement like this, in be half of the coming young negroes who drift off because of the barriers and great obstacles placed in their way—upward towards the top. If in case the murderer demons cannot be brought so justice and the above disposition is made of the money—we will head the list with a generous contribution. AMERICAN CITIZEN.—To the Public: Pursuant to a meeting held recently by the Fred Douglas-Memoril association of Kansas City, Kans., at which time the officers for the ensuing year were elected, the undersigned do hereby beg so solicit the aid and cooperation of all good citizens in making the memorial exercises to be held Wednesday night, February 20th at the First Baptist Church in honor of that grand old man, the late Fred Douglas a grand affair in every respect. An excellent programme is being prepared. The Rev. E. Arlington Wilson, S. T. B., the talented speaker will be orator of the evening, and we may expect great things from this beacon light. Let every one who has a spark of respect to the memory of Douglas, the great emancipator, turn out on this occasion. Nor content with burning a negro the contemptible Leavenworth wretcher made it so warm for Lawyer W. B. Townsend who unfortunately lives in that barbarous city, that he forced to leave town to avoid meets ing the same fate a. Alexander. Lawyer Townsend is one of the formest negros of the state, if not in the west, who never bits his tongue in the denunciation of what he believes to be right. It is only a puestion of time when another burning will take place in that heathen. It is well to be never cast down Elizabeth Barret Broving says: "Let no one till his death Be called unhappy. Measure not the work Until the days out and the labor done. It is well to study carefully cultivate tastes, Ruskin says, "Tell me what you like, and I will tell you what you are." It is well to study human characters Bodensiedt says: "In the face of every human being his history stands plainly written, his innermost nature steps forth to the light yet they are the fewest who can read and understand." There is not a "Coon" in that Secret political club known as the M. K. T.'s that wants you to vote for B. L. Short. Do they think the Negroes are all fools. Register at once and save you certificates You can Buy Rubbers here at these prices and keep your feet dry: Small Child's, 6 to 11, at ... 30c Misses' Rubbers, 12 to 2, at ... 35c Ladies' Rubbers, any size, at ... 40c Men's Rubbers at ... 60c Fancy Stone Set Braid Pins, worth 25c., choice ... 10c Celluloid Back Combs you cannot buy them for less than 25c., at ... 10c Child's Celluloid Round Combs ... 1c Table Oil Cloth, per yard ... 17c Fancy Stone Set Hat Pins, on springs ... 5c Spikes for ... 1c, 2c, and 2 for 5c Now is the Time to Buy Shoes. YOU Cannot Match These for Value. Boys' Shoes, 11 and 13 only, worth $1.00, at ... 69c Ladies' Shoes, good grade, patent tip, you pay $1 to $1.10 for them ... 69c Ladies' Shoes, the kind every one sells at $1.25, our price is only ... 98c Boys' solid leather shoes, 12 to 2, you pay $1.25 for them, always at ... 98c Men's heavy leather shoes, tap soles, pegged, good, solid working shoes ... 98c Ladies' kid goat shoes, new leather, solid $1.75 value, heavy soles, at ... $1.45 Girls No. 11, Button Shoe, worth 75c., cat to ... 50c BENNETT & CO. 609 Minnesota Avenue, Karsas City, Kanas. Kansas City Kansas Rev. G. McNeal the Gospel Sledge Hammer has closed his revival meeting at his church, Pleasant Green Baptist, with the following good results, 30 additions to the church and twenty one candidates for the water. Vote for George Bemarkt for Mayor. The women's Auxiliary of the Afro-American Business League was organized last Monday night with the object of raising $500.00 by Sept. 1st to launch a Business Enterprise. Miss Annie Taylor is Pres., Miss Brown Vice, Mrs E. Mosey, Sec., Mrs Mary Oliver, Treasurer. We doff our hats to these dear ladies who have the right idea in the solving of the Race problem. Remember Al. Baker for Councillman from the Second ward. Rev Frank Wilson the Chief Grand Mentor of the International Order of Twelve for the Kansas and Nebraska Jurisdiction, returned this week from an official visit to Omaha and Lincoln. He reports every thing pertaining to the under flying colors. At each place he was tendered an excellent reception. This order has long been the established leader in real beneficial fraternities who successfully live up to all oaths and obligations. Since last July $715.00 has been paid in endowments: Long live the noble order of Sur Knights and Daughters of the great and only International order of Twelve. Bemarkt Rallies To-night at Alexander hall and this office. Saturday night at M. and O. Hall ladies invited. Joseph Rogers and wife, of 1423 Cherry St. Kansas City, Mo., were burned to death in their home Tuesday morning supposedly by carelessness in the use of gasoline Mr. Rogers was 55 years old and an old soldier. Whatever can be said of men who mix up in political affairs of our prosperous little city, it can be placed to the credit of J. S. Heisy, the chairman of the Republican Central Committee, who could not be twisted by a secret gang. That he is an honest man destined to be recognized by the masses as their true advocates. That he stands for fairness and principle at all times, a broad guaged Republican true and honest in his convictions. To a person uninitiated in the affair of this city it would seem that some negroes have gone wild over politics, they seem to forget that this is a friendly struggle and men must naturally dffer and every negro who differs has not been paid. There are some negroes of principle still living here, if there a host of leg pulling "two face," "on the fence," "work both sides" ingrates with a big pull in our midst. Mr. and Mrs.U.F.Scales well known and respected Citizens suffered the sad misfortune of having their little home and entire contents destroyed by fire on last Monday night - They lived at 842 Jersey ave. Cause a defective flue We extend our sympathy to them. They Say. It's a very pleasant thought that summer days will come again. What's the matter wtn Al. Baker, the next Councilman from the 2nd Ward. Two to one he is a winner. A Certain minister has bought bim a Winchester rife and we saw it. That other wedding may not happen till the roses bloom again. We will see, just how much money these mouthy Colored population will give to the cause of punishing the leaders of the Leavenworth burning. We told you so, a good many Christian people, haven’t, seen in the church since Lena Mason left. Some people didn’t, like it because we spoke of Lena Mason’s grace—its true nevertheless. It’s awful nice to be a “Do right” and when you are smacked on one cheek turn the other. Who’ll be the next Mayor of Kansas City, Kansas George Bernakt—why? Because the people are with him. Of course Lena Mason stopped in the Sea Foam block next time she will stop in the Popular block. TOPEKA KANSAS Mr. Ed Harris left Thursday A. M. for Kansas City. J. M. Rivers P. E. of the C. M. E. church spent a few days this week at home. Mrs. Luc. Jordan who has been indisposed for the past two weeks is able to be out again. The Williams & Walker Co. presented. The Sons of Ham to a large and appreciative audience Thursday eve. at the New Crawford. Mrs. J. M. Forbes entertained the Oak Leaf Club at a Thimble party $ ^{14} $honor of Mrs John Cooley of Lincoln Nebraska. Mrs. A. J. Williams entertained Tl$^6$ Ladies Sewing circle Wednesday afternoon. In spite of the disagreeable weather quite a few were present and elected The following officers for the ensuing year;Mrs. Mary Bennett President Miss El$^6$ Williams Secretary M. M. B. Jordan Trees., Mrs. E. Marian Chap. and Mrs. Brown chairman of Modes committee. The NePlus Ultra met Sat. afternoon with Mrs. H. G. Comer 1223 Land. st CITY POLITICS I hereby announce myself as candate for Mayor. Subject to the Republican primaries J. S. WARNER. City politics are slowly shaping up to a definite line the indications are for a short and sharply contested race between the various candidates for the different offices. The only candidate who has announced himself definitely so far is J. S. Warner whose announcement is above. There are others talked of but as yet they have not for some reason failed to announce. We suppose they are waiting developments. J. S. Warner whose announcement appears in this weeks issue of the Citizen is one of the most substantial business men of this city, as he has made a success in business we have no doubt if elected he will be equally successful in running the affairs of the city. He is running on his record and merits of citizenship and all seekers for political preference if he is elected will stand on the same level in their aspirations, of that merit. We have known J. S. Warner from the time he first entered the political arena as councilman from the 5th ward and can say that he has always and at all times stood for the best interest of the city, and that he has always been easy of approach and held a listening car for any perilous cause whether it be from one of our humblest citizen or those in high places, the city could not do more honor to itself than nominate, and elect J. S. Warner for Mayor. Fred Roundtree will no doubt in a short time announce his candidacy for County Clerk. At any rate the matter will be definitely settled at a consultation of his friends on Monday even next. For all Capital City upto date news of interest to the Negro read the Citizen (Unfortunately the bulk of the Capital City Resume arrived this week to late for publication in this issue—Ed.) AMERICAN CITIZEN PUBLISHING AND PRINTING CO. Every Week at 417 Minnesota Ave. KANSAS CITY KANSAS Entered at the postoffice at Kansas City ans, as second class matter. CALL FOR A REPUBLICAN PRIMARY ELBCTION. A Republican Primary Election is hereby called for the purpose of nominating candidates for the offices to be filled at the City Election to be held in Kansas City, Kansas on April 2nd, 1911, as follows: City Treasurer, Judge City Court. First District Clerk " " " " " Constable " " " " " Judge City Court, Second Dist.. Clerk " " " " " Constable " " " " " One Councilman from each ward One Member Board Education Second ward. One Justice of the Peace from each of the three Districts. Also one member of the Republican City Central Committee from each precinct. The Primary election hereby called shall be held on Tuesday, February 12th, 1901 between the hours of 1 and 7 p. m., of said day, and shall be by direct ballot under the Austrian Ballot System as far as applicable. JUDGES AND CLERKS. There shall be three ju ges and two clerks in each voting place. In case a judge or clerk who is regularly appointed shall fail or refuse to appear at the opening of the polls such vacancy shall be filled by the electors present. OFFICIAL BALLOTS The Ballots shall be of uniform size and color, and shall contain the names of the candidates to be voted for. The Ballots shall be delivered to the Judges at the voting places and shall only be given out by the Judges to persons desiring to vote, and each ballot given out must bear the initials of the Judge giving them out. None but official Ballots bearing the initials of a Judge and marked in the manner prescribed by the General Election Ballot Law shall be received or counted. Two ballot boxes shall be provided, one for the male and one for the female votes That immediately after the polls close the ballots shall be delivered to the canvassing or returning board in the manner hereinafter provided for' and the canvassing or returning board heretofore appointed, to wii; E. S. Earhar., chairma; A. McKay T. C. Russel, chas. Haug, C. D. Davidson, and J. B. Robinson shall be and constitute the canvassing or returning board for this primary election2. A voter who is unable to mark his ballot shall be asaisted by one or more judges or clerks. QUALIFICATION OF VOTER3. QUALIFICATION OF VOTERS. Republicans only shall be allowed to vote at this primary election, and every person offering to vote must give his place of residence. The person offering to vote, must if challenged, take and subscribe an oath to be furnished by the Judges that he will support the nominee selected at this primary for the various offices to be voted or at the City Election, should the voter refuse to give his address when offering to vote, or refuse to subscribe the oath if challenged, his ballot shall not be received or counted. PRINTING AND BALLOT COMMITTEE. The canvassing or returning board a bove appointed shall also be and constitute the printing and ballot committee for this primary election. The said Committee shall have charge of the printing of the call and all other printing matters, the printing and arrangement of the ballots and the distribution thereof, the fixing of and the procurement of the polling places, both meals, and supplies for the judges the fixing of the assessment and the time, manner and place in which candidates may file their name on the official ballot and giving due notice thereof, the appointment of the judges and clerks, and such other matter as may be necessary for a primary election. MARING AND CANVASSING RETURNS A uniform system of blanks for taking down the names and addresses of voters shall be provided. The ballots shall be counted as soon as the polls are closed and the result thereof set down on tally sheets to be provided or that purpose. The sheriff of Wyandotte county is hereby requested to appoint a deputy sheriff to be and serve in each and every voting place, whose duty and compensation shall be as follows. The s when counted and one set of poll books and returns shall be placed in envelopes to be provided and sealed up in the presence of the judges and clerks and bystand ers and given to the deputy sheriff appointed for that polling place who shall immediately deliver same to the chairman of the canvassing board at the 5th Street Opera House. The other poll book and returns shall be brought to the above place by one of the judges and clerks and delivered as above required. The deputy sheriff shall receive reasonable compensation to be fixed by the canvassing board. The canvassing board shall be in attendance at the above place as soon as the polls 'cose to receive the said returns and shall forthwith canvass the returns and announce the result. The canvassing board shall allow any and all persons to be present when the returns are being canvassed. CONTEST T. Any person desiring to contest the nomination of any person declared nominated at this primary, must, within twenty-four hours after the hour of closing the polls, file written notice thereof with the chairman of the board and also with the person whose nomination is being contested, which notice shall state the grounds of such contest. The canvassing board shall then be called together at a time of which both parties snail have justice and shall hear and determine the same. CHALLENGED VOTERS. Any qualified elector may challenge the right of any person offering to vote on the ground that be is not a republican or is not a legal voter at the time and place where his vote is offered. The judges shall require the person challenged to take and subscribe the oath herein prescribed, which if subscribed, the vote shall be received but shall not be counted, but shall be kept in a separate package and returned with the other ballots. Any candidate may appoint in writing, a challenger, who may be, and remain, in the voting place e during the entire casting of the ballots and the counting thereof. Should the judges disagree as to the rights of any person offering to vote, they shall receive such ballot and keep same uncounted, in a separate pacage to be returned with the other ballots. FILING. Candidates may file their names with the chairman of the canvassing board for the various offices commencing at Twelve o'clock noon on the 16th day of January until noon on the 24th day of January 1901 and shall deposit the assessment as fixed and receive a receipt therefor: ELECTIONEERING No person shall electioneer or solicit votes within one hundred feet of the poles. REGISTRATIN The Judges may require of the person offering to vote at such primary election certificate of registration and, for that purpose the poll books, and registration lists for the year 1900 and 1901 shall be used or a certificate of registration for the year 1901, and a person offering to vote who is not registered in one or the other years, may be denied the right to vote. VOTING PLACES, JUDGES AND CLERKS The voting places and the names of Judges and Clerks shall be announced later and announced in the daily papers. Published by authority of the Republician City Central Committee. Announcements. For Mayor, George Bemarkt. Subject to the Republican Primaries. I hereby announce myself a candidate for nomination as City Attorney for second term, subject to Republican primaries. F. D. HUTCHINGS. I hereby announce myself a candidate for City Clerk, for the second term, subject to the Republican primaries. W. B. TREMBLY. I hereby announce myself as a candidate for City Attorney, subject to the Republican primaries: M. J. REITZ. I hereby announce myself as a candidate for the nomination of Coastal of the North side District, subject to Republican primaries. Armored Glass A recent German invention is armored glass, or glass cast with wire gauze inclosed in their substance, so as to increase the resistance to pressure, shock, and the effects of heat. Tests of the new material have been made at the Chemnitz technological museum which show that the armored glass is much stronger, and where the ordinary glass broke under sudden applications of pressure the strengthened material only cracked, and the cracks caused by changes of temperature did not allow either damp or flame to pass. Publication Notice. In the District Court of Wyandotte County, Kausas. A. W. Fox, Plaintiff. Anna Fox, Defendant. No. 1517. The state of Kansas to Anna Fox, Greeting. You will take notice that you have been sued by plaintiff, A. W. Fox, for a divorce in the above named court, and that plaintiff's petition was filed January 7, 1901. That the grounds on which divorce is asked is abandonment for more than one year. Now, unless you answer demurge, or otherwise object, an or before the 17th. day of March 1, 1901, the allegation of said petition will be taken as confess- ed to be true and judgment render- d against you gran ing said divorce as prayed for. L W. JOHNSON, Plaintiff's Attorney, Attest, A GUNNING, Clerk. UNION PACIFIC THE OVERLAND ROUTE WORLD'S PICTORIAL LINE. SHORTFST LINE CROSS THE CONTINENT The Union Pacific 'The Original Overland Route' always was, and is to-day, the shortest and best Line to the west. Two splendid fast trains leave Kan-as City daily over this old established line. No change of cars between Kansas City and Denver, Ogden or San Francisco. All trains solidly vestibulated and fully equipped with latest improved Recilining Chair Cars free and Pullman Palace sleeping cars. Meals served in Pullman Palace dining cars on the restaurant plan at prices most reasonable. All cars lighted with the celebrated Fintsch Lig. t Only line running two trains without change from KansasCity to Denver Low excursion rates on sale to Colorado Utah Idaho, Oregon Washington and California. Don't complete your ars ramentions for a trip west until you have learned all about special inducement and attractions offered by the Union Ptsific. For full information in regard allow rates time. etc., call on or address to Gen. Agt., Union Pacific, 1000 M treet, Kansas City, Mo A transient repulsion. 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, arriving Monday morning, and from that time until Friday evening they are going after the almighty dollar. Baltimore News. Nothing Personal Intended Nothing Personal Included 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. 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. Corneilus Tacitus, the Roman historian, written in Greek, about the middle of the ninth century. The Famous "Passion Play." The Famous "Passion Play." Already arrangements are being made by the tourist agents to conduct parties to Obermargerau 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, peeches, are aware of the fact that in the counties of Coles, Douglas and Monttrie, 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 are in future to wear a khaki apron in front. First Insane Indian Mrs. Blue Sky, the Indian woman who was recently sent to the insane hospital at Fergus Falls, is the first Indian woman in Minnesota to be placed in an institution of that kind, says the Detroit Tribune. The woman's mind during the trip to Fergus Falls was occupied with associations most dear to the Indian. She talked in Chippewa of trapping and of the woods. Her mind dwelt on such matters during most of the journey. Mrs. Blue Sky is a sister of John Bearcrease. TRADE MARK REGISTERED 1892. U.S. PATENT OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. BEFORE USING HARTONA AFTER USING HARTONA Hartona will make the hair grow long and soft, straight and beautiful. Makes the hair grow on bald and thin places. Restores GRAY HAIR to its original color. Hartona cures Dandruff, Baldness, falling out of the hair, itching, and all scalp diseases. Hartona does not have to be used all the time, as it straightens the hair and gives it fresh life and lustre, and the hair stays and grows naturally beautiful and straight after the use of Hartona. No hot irons necessary. No pasting the hair down with grease. Hartona is positively harmless—one box can be used by everyone in the family. Benefits and improves children's hair just the same as adults. To meet the popular and ever-increasing demand for Hartona Hair-Grower and Straightener, we have placed it on sale in 25c. and 50c. sizes, in our special round, patent box. See that the word Hartona is on every box. Money positively refunded if you are not absolutely delighted with the Hartona remedies. Remember, we handle no fake goods, and you are positively protected by our $100.00 guarantee to any one proving otherwise. All our remedies are trade-marked, registered and copyrighted at United States Patent Office at Washington, D.C., in the years 1892 and 1900. We refer you, as to our responsibility, to the City Bank of Richmond, Va., Adams and Southern Express Companies, and to the editor of this paper. We want lady and gentlemen agents, white or colored, in every city and town in the United States. Write to us to-day, no matter if you are employed or not, and we will show you how to make a splendid living, with easy and pleasant work, and no risk of losing your good money. Write to us and we will send you a book of over one hundred genuine testimonials in your own State of people who have used and are using Hartona remedies. Is this not fair and honest enough? HARTONA FACE WASH. Hartona Face Wash will gradually turn the skin of a black person five or six shades lighter, and will turn the skin of a mulatto person perfectly white. The skin remains soft and bright without continual use of the face wash. One bottle does the work. Hartona Face Wash will remove wrinkles, dark spots, pimples, blackheads, freckles, and all blemishes of the skin. You can regulate the shade of skin on neck, face and hands to any shade you wish. Full directions with each bottle. Hartona Face Wash is perfectly harmless, and is sent to any part of the United States on receipt of price, 50c. per bottle; securely sealed from observation. It is your duty to look as beautiful as possible. Thousands of delighted patrons send us testimonials every year. Please remember that your money is positively refunded if you are not perfectly satisfied and delighted with the Hartona remedies. We want agents in every city in the United States. Write to us, no matter if you are employed or not, and we will show you how to make money without risking any of your own money. HARTONA NO-SMELL HARTONA NO-SMELL Hartona No-Smell will remove all smells and bad odors of the body; cures sore and aching feet, chafed limbs, etc. Hartona No-Smell is a God-send to all persons suffering from disagreeable odors caused by perspiration of the feet, arm-pits, etc. Sent anywhere on receipt of price, 10 cents and 25 cents a package. Address all orders to Send us One Dollar, and mention this paper, and we will send you three large boxes of Hartona Hair-Grower and Straightener, two large bottles of Hartona Face Wash, and one large box of Hartona No-Smell. Goods will be sent securely sealed from observation. Write your name and post-office and express-office address very plainly. Money can be sent by post-office money order, or enclosed in a registered letter, or by express. Address all Orders to PATRONIZE The Wyandotte Drug Store, 1512 North Fifth Street. FOR THE PUREST DR And the best of every thing in Paints carefully compounded. Prices always and light. Ring night bell. Walter F. Bates, Ben.M. Manager, Prest. and ORIEL Tonsorial Parlors Waiters' and Porters' Head THE FINEST BAR H. PATTON, CHRIS 917 Baltimore Avenue, W. B. RA PUREST DRUGS AND CH every thing in Paints, Glass and Wall Paper ed. Prices always the LOWEST at our store night bell. Phone W. 171 Medicin Bates, Ben.McRay, J. W. Prest. and Treasurer. ORIEL CLUB, al Parlors in Conn and Porters' Headquarters and Informati E. FINEST IN THE CITY BARBERS, CHRIS. FOSTER venue, B. RAYMO FOR THE PUREST DRUGS AND CHEMICALS, And the best of every thing in Paints, Glass and Wall Paper. Prescription carefully compounded. Prices always the LOWEST at our store. Open day and night. Ring night bell. Phone W.171 Medicines Delivered. Walter F. Bates, Ben.McRay, J. Walter Fisher Manager, Prest. and Treasurer, Secretary. Tonsorial Parlors in Connection Waiters' and Porters' Headquarters and Information Bureau, THE FINEST IN THE CITY. W. B. RAYMOND Manufacturer of and Wholesale dealer in UNDERTAKERS * SURF FIRST-CLASS CARRIAGES FOR ALL PURPOSES AT A AMBULANCE FOR THE CONVEYANCE OF THE SICK A Undertaking Looms, 431 Minnesota ave. Telephone V Factory Corst St., and Riverview Ave. RTAKERS * SURPRISES CARRIAGES FOR ALL PURPOSES AT ALL TIMES FOR THE CONVEYANCE OF THE SICK AVE. Loms, 431 Minnesota ave. Telephone W Vectory Corr st St., and Riverview Ave. UNDERTAKERS * SUPPLIES FIRST-CLASS CARRIAGES FOR ALL PURPOSES AT ALL HOURS AMBULANCE FOR THE CONVEYANCE OF THE SICK AND WOUNDE. Undertaking Looms, 431 Minnesota ave. Telephone West 32. Factory Corr st St., and Riverview Ave. Telephone 28 Lewis Blandchard No. 6, Sta eLine, 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 guarantee the best and the cheapest work in the quickest time Give him a trial and see for you self. We would mest r spectfully inform our contemary ary the Daily Record er of Norfolk V.. that governor Stanly did not offer a reward or five hundred cents let alone $500,00 We are forced to admit that we have somewhat of a 'back-boneless' Governor, who did not deem the burning of a negro ( when the leaders are known. ) sufficient cause for not offering a reward. The true significance of the song 'Every nation has a flag but a coon' is each day more plainly exemplified. St. James A. M. E., cor. 7th. and Ann. St. James M. E., Freeman ave., be. KANSAS CITY. SPECIAL GRAND OFFER. BUGS AND CHEMICALS, Glass and Wall Paper. Prescription the LOWEST at our store. Open day Phone W. 171 Medicines Delivered. McRay, J. Walter Fisher Treasurer. Secretary. CLUB, in Connection quarters and Information Bureau, IN THE CITY. BERS, FOSTER J. L. BUSH Kansas City, Mo RYMOND, SUPPLIES ALL PURPOSES AT ALL HOURS NCE OF THE SICK AND WOUNDED ave. Telephone West 32. and Riverview Ave. Telephone 28 KANSAS. The compulsory education measures that is said will be introduced in the house at Topeka is a good thing and ought to be passen without a murmur. For it's a good thing an ought to be pushed along. Secure Tickets ...VIA THE... Chicago, Milwaukaa & St. Paul Ry ...AND YOU GET... Sleepers: & Chair Cars ...TO... CH1CAGO and all intermediate points the shortest quickest and besil to Chilocothe, Otumwa, Cedar Rapids, Pubnue, and La Cedar Rapids Rockford and Freeport: City Ficket Office, 915 Main stree, Ridge Building A. B. BRILGFS Gen'l Southweste Agent F. J. LERCHPassenger Agent. Office 915Main St. Kansas Cit tween 9th. and 10th. M. E. Oakland ave., bet. 4th. and ..HARTONA.. Preparations for the Hair! Matchless and Positively ening all Kinky, Harsh, Cut fairful. Makes the hair grow on bal- d out of the hair, itching, and all life and lustre, and the hair stay- ing the hair down with grease. I children's hair just the same as we have placed it on sale in 25c. a the Hartona remedies. Remember otherwise. All our remedies are the years 1892 and 1900. We refer yea- city and town in the United States did living, with easy and pleas- andred genuine testimonials in you high? FACE WASH in five or six shades lighter, and w nal use of the face wash. One bo blackheads, freckles, and all blen Full directions with each bottle of the United States on receipt . Thousands of delighted patre ne not perfectly satisfied and deli- no matter if you are employed on NO-SMEL ly; cures sore and aching feet, cl agreeable odors caused by persu- Address all orders to INA REMEDY CO., 909 E. M. AND OFFER. in three large boxes of Hartona M Smell. Goods will be sent secure plainly. Money can be sent by p D E. Main St., A. C. L. C — IS HEADQU THE CHEAP The Best Goods, the Quickest and the pro GET THE COAL, WOOD, FEED, Wholesale and Retail. Office 402 Yard and Storage 917 and 919 N EAG Gem Dru MINNESOTA DE DRUGS, MEDIC Fine Toilet Soaps, Brus PERFUMERY AND FAN MERRIAM, ELL Fire Insurance Matchless and Positively Unequaled for Straightening all Kinky, Knotty, Stubborn, HARTONA REMEDY CO., 909 E. Main St., Richmond, Va. THE CHEAPEST PRICES 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. DRUGS, MEDICINES, CHEMICALS. Fine Toilet Soaps, Brushes, Combs, Etc. PERFUMERY AND FANCY TOILET ARTICLES. Northeast Corner Fifth KANSAS CITY, DR. HENY 101 & 103 West Oih St., Kans The Old Reliable Doctor, Old A Regular Graduate in Med Practice...-22 Yr Authorized by the state to Cure guaranteed on every no need or injurious mea- tments at a distance treated by free free care or backlog. Charge low. Over 60,000 case Consultation free and confide Seminal Weakness and 101 & 103 West Olin St., Kansas City, Mo. (Opposed by Workers' Bridge) The Old Reliable Doctor, Oldest in Age and Longest Located. A Regular Graduate in Medicine. Over 27 Years Special Practice--22 Years in Kansas City. Sexual Debility. the results folly and excesses—causing losses by dreams or with urine, pimples and biotches on the face, back, confused ideas and forrestfulness, bafffulness, aversion to society, loss of sex power, power manblood, etc., life, life, restore lost sexual power, nerve and brain power, enlarge weak parts and make you fit for marriage. Syphilis, that terrible disease, in all its form and stages cured for life. Blood Pollution, Skin Diseases, Ulcers, Sweilings, Soros, Gonorrhoea and Glect, and all forms of Private Diseases, positively cured or money refunded, radically cured without Stricture these of instruments. A New and Infallible Home Treatment. No The Citizen Better keep you PILES! All diseases of the rectum treated on a positive patient is cured. Send for free 164 page book of estimial letters, valuable to anyone in need. The Citizen is in the Push Better keep your Eyes open. PILES NO MONEY TILL CURED. All diseases of the rectum treated on a positive Guarantee, and no money accepted until patient is cured. Send for free 104 page book; a treaties on retail diseases, and 40 testimonial letters, valuable to anyone afflicted. Also our 40 page bookcase, and both sent free. Address, Dvs. THORNTON & MINOR, 10th & Oak St., Kansas City, Mo. KANSAS. The Original and Only Hartona. and Positively Unequaled for gling all Kinky, Knotty, Stubby, Harsh, Curly Hair. Does the hair grow on bald and thin places. R hair, itching, and all scalp diseases. Hair stre, and the hair stays and grows naturally down with grease. Hartona is positiveily just it the same as adults. To meet the need it on sale in 25c. and 50c. sizes, in our ana remedies. Remember, we handle no fake All our remedies are trade-marked, register and 1900. We refer you, as to our respons e editor of this paper. own in the United States. Write to us to-d- with easy and pleasant work, and no risk one testimonials in your own State of peo E. WASH. We shades lighter, and will turn the skin of a face wash. One bottle does the work. Freckles, and all blemishes of the skin. Y tations with each bottle. United States on receipt of price, 50c. per bo- nds of delighted patrons send us testimon- iously satisfied and delighted with the Hartona if you are employed or not, and we will sho -SMELL. Store and aching feet, chafed limbs, etc. Odors caused by perspiration of the feet, orders to. BDY CO., 909 E. Main St., Richmon- OFFER. Large boxes of Hartona Hair-Grower and Stra- oods will be sent securely sealed from observ- ney can be sent by post-office money order Main St., Richmon C. C. L. COAL CO. IS HEADQUARTERS FOR— CHEAPEST PRICE Best Goods, the Quickest Sales, the Smallest P and the promptest deliveries. GET THEIR PRICES ON WOOD, FEED, FLOUR, AND B STONE, and Retail. Office 402, Minnesota Ave. Tel and Storage 917 and 919 North 3rd. St. The Best Goods, the Quickest Sales, the Smallest Profits and the promptest deliveries. EAGERS m Drug St MINNESOTA AVENUE DEALER IN DRUGS, MEDICINES, CHEMICA ilet Soaps, Brushes, Combs, E UMERY AND FANCY TOILET ARTU RRIAM, ELLIS & BEN Insurance, Real E MERRIAM, ELLIS & BENTON WYANDOTTE BUILDING, neast Corner Fifth and Minnesota CITY, R. HENDERSON 3 West Oih St., Kansas City, Mo. (For a Reliable Doctor, Oldest in Age and Longest regular Graduate in Medicine, Over 27 Years' Practice,--22 Years in Kansas City. Authorized by the state to treat Chronic, Nervous and Cures guaranteed or money refunded. All medicines furni- sure no mercury or injurious medicines used. No detention fee as a sentence treated by mail and express. Medicine free from gze or breakage. No medicines sen. O.D., on Chancery. Great success cured. State laws. Consultation free and confidential personality or by letter. Northeast Corner Fifth and Minnesota Ave... DR. HENDERSON. Authorized by the state to treat Chronic, Nervous and Special Diseases. Cares guaranteed or money refunded. All medicines furnished ready for use—no mercury or injurious medicines used. No detention from business. Patients at a distance treated by mail and express. Medicines sent everywhere. Mail and express. Charges low. Over 60,000 cases cured. State your name and send for terms. Consultation free and confidential, personally or by letter. Citizen is in the or keep your Eyes open LES NO MORE TILL CUR of the rectum treated on a positive Guarantee, and no mon- Send for free 104 page book; a treaties on rectal diseases, ers, valuable to anyone affected. Also our 48 page book for Drs. THORNTON & MINOR, 10th & Oak Sts., Kana ```markdown ``` Unequaled for Straight Knotty, Stubborn, Early Hair. and thin places. Restores GRADE scalp diseases. Hartona does not and grows naturally beautiful and Hartona is positively harmless—or adults. To meet the popular and 50c. sizes, in our special rounder, we handle no fake goods, and we trade-marked, registered and copied, as to our responsibility, to the sales. Write to us to-day, no matter at work, and no risk of losing your own State of people who have SH. will turn the skin of a mulatto per piece of the skin. You can register of price, 50c. per bottle; securely send us testimonials every year, written with the Hartona remedies not, and we will show you how to LL. afed limbs, etc.iration of the feet, arm-pits, etc. Brain St., Richmond, Va. Hair-Grower and Straightener, two by sealed from observation. Post-office money order, or enclosed Richmond, Va. GOAL CO.. ARTERS FOR— BEST PRICES Sales, the Smallest Profits fastest deliveries. FIR PRICES ON FLOUR, AND BUILDING TONE, Minnesota Ave. Tel. 152 West, 3rd St. E F. HENDERSON Manager ERS Lug Store AVENUE COLLER IN NES, CHEMICALS. mes, Combs, Etc., Y TOILET ARTICLES. IS & BENTON. e, Real Estate H and Minnesota Ave., KANSAS DERSON. Kansas City, Mo. (Opposite New- York Life Bldg. In Age and Longest Located, ino, Over 27 Years Special ers in Kansas City. The Chronic, Nervous and Special Diseases, mandated all medicines furnished easily and used. All medicines furnished easily and used. No deduction from business. Personal and express. Medicines sent everywhere medicines sen. O. D., only by agreement sured. State your use and send for furni- tal personality or by kgs. pain and no exposure. No canes, cutting boules or sounds. No detention from in- surgery. No skin grafts. No guarantee guarded or money refunded. Send stem wound. No cellulose. Varicose cells = enlarged veins in the vous debility, causing it to tease, etc., permanently cured without pain. Hydrocele = dropsy of the sclera. Phimosis = see book - cured in a few days without pain. Book for both the pain and the pictures true to life, with full description of above diseases, the effect on skin in plain wrapping for out- cents in stamps. Free Museum of Anatomy for men Thousands of curiosities A sermon without words OFFICE HOURS: 8 a.m. t. 8 p.m. Sundays, 10 to 12 is in the Push. or Eyes open. NO MONEY TILL CURED Active Guarantee, and no money accepted until treaties on social disease, and hundreds of Mao cur. 46 year book for women; both sent RP, 10th & Oak Sts., Kansas City, Mo. CAUGHT BY THE GRIP. Released by Pe-ru-na----Congressman Howard's Recovery----Congressman Geo. H. White's Case MISS EMMA JOURIS D.L.WALLACE MRS.T.W. COLLINS. MRS.M.A. SHARICE MRS.DR.G. D. POWELL. LIEUT. CLARICE HUNT. --- No black powder shells on the market compare with the "NEW RIVAL" in unformality and strong shooting qualities. Sure fire and waterproof. Get the genuine. WINCHESTER REPEATING ARMS CO. - - - New Haven, Conn. La Gripe is epidemic catarrh.—It spares no class or nationality. The cultured and the ignorant, the aristocrat and the pauper. The masses and the classes are alike subject to la gripe. None are exempted from the grip? Or, rather, has the grip got you? Grip is well named. The original French term, la gripe, has been shortened by the busy American to read "grip." Without intending to do so a new word has been coined that exactly describes the case. The grip was clutched us in its fatal clasp. Men, women, children, whole towns and cities are caught in the baneful grip of a terrible monster. Pe-ru-na For Grip. Mrs. Dr. C. D. Powell, President of Epworth League, also President of Loyal Temperance Legion, writes from Chealhalls, Wash.：“I have used several remedies in cases of severe colds and la gripe, but none I consider of more value than Peruna.”—Mrs. Dr. C. D. Powell. After-Effects of La Grippe. Miss Emma Jouris, President Golden Rod Sewing Circle, writes from 40 Burling street, Chicago, ill., as follows: "This spring I suffered severely from the after-effects of la gripe. As the doctors did not seem to help me I bought a bottle of Peruna."—Miss Emma Jouris. Congressman Howard's Letter. Fort Payne, Ala. The Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, Ohio: Gentlemen----"I have taken Peruna now for two weeks and tind I am very much relieved. I feel that my cure will be permanent. I have also taken it for la gripe and I take pleasure in recommending Peruna as an excellent remedy to all fellow sufferers."—M. W. Howard, Member of Congress. La Gripple Leaves the System in a Depolarize Condition. D. L. Wallace, a charter member of the International Barbers' Union, writes from 15 Western avenue, Minneapolis, Minn.: FROM MANUFACTURERS TO USER MANUFACTURERS OF THE FAMOUS SPLIT HICKORY VEHICLES, AND HARNESS. WINGCHESTER "NEW FACTORY L No black powder shells on the market for formity and strong shooting qualities. Succ WINCHESTER REPEATING ARNS CO. An Attractive Investment Returns will be decidedly larger than on Bonds, Mortgages, Railroad and Industrial Stocks. Company managed by competent and responsible business men. Stock of $0 per value offered for a short time at $3.00 PER SHARE. Dividends in the near future. Further particulars upon application to DAVID PFEIFFER, Dealer in Investment Securities, 18 Wall St., New York. DROPSY NEW DISCOVERY; gives quick relief and cures worst cases. Book of treatment and 10 DAYS' treatment FREE. DR. H. H. GREEN'S SONS, Box E, Atlanta, Ga W. N. U. Kansas City, No. 6, 1901 PISO'S CURE FOR CURE WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS. Best COUPONS. Use in time. In stock by druggists. CONSUMPTION "Following a severe attack of la gripe I seemed to be affected badly all over. "One of my customers who was greatly helped by Peruna advised me to try it, and I procured a bottle the same day. Now my head is clear, my nerves are steady, I enjoy food, and rest well. Peruna has been worth a dollar a dose to me."—L. D. Wallace. *Cape Corps* *D. Furmont* Mrs. M. A. Sharkic, chaplain G. A. R. Woman's Relief Corps, writes from Fremont, Wash: "When la gripe was the prevailing illness in this Western country I was laid up the whole winter, I partially lost my hearing, and had a very bad case of catarrh of the head and throat. I read of Peruna, tried it and had my hearing restored and catarrh cured. I cannot speak too well of Peruna."—Mrs. M. A. Sharkic. *La Gripe Cured in Its First Stage.* Leutenant Clarence Hunt, of the Salt Lake City Barracks of the Salvation Army, writes from Ogden, Utah: "I was months ago I was suffering with so severe a cold that I could hardly speak. "Our captain advised me to try Peruna, and procured a bottle for me, and truly it worked wonders. Within two weeks I was entirely well."—Clarice Hunt. Congressman White's Letter. Tarboro, N. C. Gentlemen—"I am more than satisfied with Peruna and find it to be an excellent remedy for the grip and catarrh. I have used it in my family and they all join me in recommending it as an excellent remedy."—Geo. H. White, Member of Congress. Remained in Feeble Health After Cured of La Gripe. Mrs. T. W. Collins, Treasurer Independent Order of Good Templars, of Everett, Wash., writes: "After having a severe attack of la gripe I continued in a feeble condition even after the doctor called me cured by blood transfusion and paurined cured me"—Mrs. T. W. Collins Address The Peruina Medicine Co. of Columbus, O, for a free book on Anvone—Anywhere Our vehicles and harness are shipped to any point in the United States on approval, and for comparison with any other goods. We are willing to take chances on pleasing you. Are you willing to save money without taking any chances? Our Split Hickory Vehicles are right in style, in quality and in price. Write for our new catalogue and prices on seventy-six (76) different styles in vehicles and large assortment of harness. Buy direct from us, and save all dealers' commissions and profits. We are manufacturers of the famous Split Hickory Vehicles. Ohio Carriage Manufacturing Company Station E. COLUMBUS, OHIO. HESTER NEW RIVAL" OADED SHOTGUN SHELLS compare with the "NEW RIVAL" in unleather and waterproof. Get the genuine. New Haven, Conn. DON'T GET WET! TOWER'S FISH BRAND Oiled Clothing BLACK OR YELLOW WILL KEEP YOU DRY NOTHING ELSE WILL TAKE NO SUSTITUTE. FREE CATALOGUE, SHOWING FULL LINE OF GARMENTS AND HATS. A.J.TOWER CO. Boston. Mass. LOWA FARMS$4. PER CASH BALANCE & CROP TILAGE Kansas Legislature January 31—House: The judiciary committee killed Riling's bill to abolish the days of grace on notes. The education committee killed the bill for the establishment of a state normal at Concordia. Landry's bill to prohibit jack-leg lawyers from operating was also reported unfavorably. Lailing of officers and employees and employees pay from the first day of the session, and it was adopted. Hayden presented a petition signed by 500 people urging the legislature to pass a compulsory education law. The senate resolution to appoint a committee to investigate the Quantrell raid claims was killed. The proposition to wipe out off year elections was referred to the judiciary committee. The bill to require farmers to trim their hedge fences was knocked out by the committee on roads and bridges. The house committee on military affairs recommended for passage the bill to authorize the organization of cadet corps at the three state educational institutions. The cigarette bill was also recommended for passage by the teacher committee. The house passed the following The house passed the following bills: By the ways and means committee—To appropriate $2,500 for postage for Coburn's biennial report. The senate spent another hour in discussing Section 6 of the Pestana discussion paper in the committee of the whole, but the noon hour arrived before the section had been thoroughly considered and the committee rose, reported progress and asked leave to sit again. February 1: Senate—A general fee and salary bill affecting county officials was introduced in the senate by Branine. It was drawn up by a committee of county officers. It seeks to readjust the fees and salaries of the various county officers of the different counties, but, on the whole, it is said, it does not raise the fees or salaries. The Pestana anti-fusion election bill was finally pushed through into committee of the whole and ordered placed on the floor. The Bucklin bill for the suppression of the grain trust was the subject of another debate in the house. It was made a special order for Tuesday. The committee on ways and means knocked out the bill for the continuation of the geological survey by the state agency. February 2: The house passed a large number of local bills with barely a quorum present. The senate held no session. February 4—In the senate Noftzger of Harper introduced a bill to recall the alien land law. He claims that the law has kept a number of big corporations from establishing plants in Kansas. Senator Henley introduced a bill authorizing the employment of convict labor on public highways. The house was in session but an hour. It received reports from a few strenuous bills on various local bills and then adjourned, out of respect to the memory of ex-Speaker T. P. Fenlon. February 5. In the senate a bill was introduced to appropriate $41,335.26 to pay the Santa Fe road for bringing home the twentieth Kansas regiment from San Francisco. The Pestana anti-fusion election bill, by a vote of 28 to 6, was passed. A number of other bills were passed. Gleisler, of Logan, introduced a bill in which he proposed a law under which loan and interest companies can be organized. This bill gives them about the same rights as the banking law does the state and private banks and places them under the control of the state bank commissioner. Nation introduced a bill to amend the present state text-book law to give state uniformity, district ownership and suppression. It is the bill prepared by the legislature to prepare the State Teachers' association. Senator Leidy also introduced the same bill in the senate. Why the Water Freezes. Water in a shallow pan, in a sheltered place, will freeze even when the thermometer is above the freezing point. This is due to the rapid loss of heat of the earth after nightfall. In some hot countries ice is obtained in commercial quantities by setting shallow earthenware pans of water on the ground protected from the wind. Corn Stubble Cuts Throat L. T. Davis, a farmer living near West Union, W. Va., had his throat cut by a corn stubble and almost bled to death before assistance reached him. While hauling fodder he fell from his wagon, his throat striking the sharp-pointed stubble. A tearing gash was the result. Game for the Adirondacks. Ex-Secretary Whitney and other prominent New Yorkers are interested in a project for restocking the Adirondacks with certain wild animals that hunters and civilization have driven out. An organization has been effected called the Association for Restoring Moose to the Adirondacks. The Shah as a Caricaturist The Shah of Persia is a great caricaturist. The walls of his private apartments are covered with plain white paper, and on these he scribbles funny pictures whenever the fancy takes him. When he grows tired of them they are washed off or the room is re-papered. Depredations of Texas Coyotes Depredations of Texas Coyotes. Citizens of McMullen and adjoining counties of Texas are in a state of terror because of the depredations of coyotes, which are killing scores of cattle. Worse than that, the slinking brutes are spreading hydrophobia among the stock. A man living in Tilden was bitten by an infected colt and died in a few days. Ways and means of getting rid of the pests are being considered. The skilful man should know how to disguise his skill. The Mikado of Japan. The Mikado of Japan is a man of much energy and endurance, in spite of the fact that he is a great cigarette smoker. He is fond of outdoor sports, and has warmly encouraged the introduction of football into Japan. He is a hunter and fisherman of no mean reputation, and is a good shot with a rifle. His devotion to lawn tennis is marked, and he is clever as a wielder of the racket. The baker who mixes his dough properly has a soft thing of it. Convict Demands Creamed Trouseres William McFadden, a Hardin county, Ohio, forger, was severely paddled at the penitentiary because he insisted on wearing creased trousers. He demanded of the guard that he be supplied with fresh creased trousers each day, and became so insulting because he was not furnished with the duddlish outfit that the guard reported him for infraction of the rules. Natty Little jacket A natty little jacket, open-fronted, and made with double revers, one of cream cloth, striped with gold braid, the other of brown Melton, like the jacket, has a vest of cream colored peau de sole, figured with brown silk dots, with matching undersleaves gathered into a gold-edged band of the cloth Late Senator' Davis' Library Mrs. Cushman K. Davis, widow of the late Senator Davis of Minnesota, denies that she intends donating her husband's fine library to the state university, but will keep it in remembrance of the senator. The library is one of the finest private collections of high-class literature in the country. Telephones on Europeas Continent. By arrangement with the governments of France and Germany, a telephone has been inaugurated between Paris, Frankfort and Berlin. The charge for the use of the wire between Frankfort and Paris is 80 cents for three minutes, and between Paris and Berlin 51.25 for the same time. PRESIDENT OF PRESIDENTS. A Diatungushed Lady Indeed, Is My Fear, E. Searh of Widgery Ind Mary E. Poole, of Whitney, Ind. Whiting, Ind., Feb. 4, 1901-((Special.)—The Presidents of the Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic have an association composed exclusively of the Presidents of the different State Associations. This Presidents' Association chooses a President, and to this very high and distinguished position Mrs. Mary E. Poole of this place has been elected. Mrs. Poole is thoroughly deserving of this great honor. Her devotion to the interests of the Association is very marked, and her experience with the old soldiers of the G. A. R. is wide. Mrs. Poole is never slow to take advantage of anything that may benefit the veterans, and her zeal has resulted in much that is good to these grand old men. 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The average man's ambition is to lower his record. Many complicated diseases and much suffering result from constipation. Garfield Tea, the great Herb Tea, will cure the most obstinate case. The Beamont-Port Arthur Oil Strike. Experts claim that the wonderful discovery of oil between Beamont and Port Arthur, Tex., has produced the greatest oil gusher ever known in the world. The flow from the well is estimated between because and twenty-five thousand barrels per day. This strike is at once a benefit not only to the territory in the vicinity of the well, but to the entire state of Texas and the South. It is a well known fact that coal is a very scarce commodity in Texas and it is already predicted that oil will soon be used by the railroads in lieu of coal as a result of this great discovery. Hundreds of people are flocking to the new oil district, which is located in the Kansas City and Southern Railway, seeks jobs and benefits. It adds one more attraction to the list of resources for which this railway is already noted. The Kansas City Southern Railway operates solid through trains, with free chair cars and sleepers from Kansas City to the Beaumont-Port Arthur oil district, leaving Kansas City 11:10 a. m. daily. Arriving at Beamont 3:42 p.m. Arriving Port Arthur 9:30 p. m. **Low Rates West and Northwest.** On February 12th, and on each Tuesday until April 30th, the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway will sell one-way second-class tickets at the following very low rates: To Montana points.....$25.00 To North Pacific coast points 30.00 To California.....30.00 These tickets will be good on all trains and purchasers will have choice of six routes and eight trains via St. Paul and two routes and three trains via Missouri river each Tuesday. The route of the Famous Pioneer Limited trains and the U. S. Government Fast Mail Trains. All Ticket Agents sell tickets via the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway, or for further information address F. A. Miller, General Passenger Agent, Old Colony Building, Chicago. CAREER AND CHARACTER OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. An address by Joseph Choate, Ambassador to Great Britain on the career and character of Abraham Lincoln—his early life—his early struggles with the world—his character as developed in the later years of his life and his administration, which placed his name so high on the world's roll of honor and fame, has been published by the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway and may be had by sending six (6) cents in postage to F. A. Miller, General Passenger Agent, Chicago, III. The Bluest Blue makes the whitest white, that's Red Cross Ball Blue. A "I am so nervous and wretched." "I feel as if I should fly." How familiar these expressions are! Little things annoy you and make you irritable. You can't sleep, you are unfit for ordinary duties, and are subject to dizziness. 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OWING to the fact that some exceptional people have from time to time questioned the genuineness of the testimonial letters we are constantly publishing, we have deposited with the National City Bank, of Lyon, Mass. $5,000, which will be paid to any person who can show that the above testimonial is not genuine, or was published before obtaining the writer's special permission.—LYDIA E. PINKHAM MEDICINE Co. US NAMES ADDRESS food farmers and free Address X Quincy, Ill. Patents MILO B. STEVENS & Co., Estab. 1864 Dv. 2, 847-1401 Street, WASHINGTON, D.C. Branch office: Chicago, Cleveland and Detroit. that dreadful fiend that threatens the life of rich and poor, can attack and kill only those whose bowels are not kept thoroughly cleaned out, purified and disinfected the year round. One whose liver is dead, whose bowels and stomach are full of half decayed food, whose whole body is unclean inside, is a quick and ready victim of appendicitis. If you want to be safe against the scourge, keep in good health all the time, KEEP CLEAN INSIDE! Use the only tonic laxative, that will make your bowels strong and healthy, and keep them pure and clean, protected against appendicitis and ALL EPIDEMIC DISEASES. It's CASCARETS, that will keep and save you. Take them regularly and you will find that all diseases are absolutely MRS.W.P.VALENTINE. Lincoln's Early Life Abraham Lincoln was born in Hardin county, Ky., on Feb. 12, 1809. He was the son of Thomas and Nancy Hanks Lincoln and descended from Samuel Lincoln of Norwich, England, who emigrated to Hingham, Mass., in 1638. Some of the descendants moved to what is now Berks county, Pa., and subsequently to Virginia. Abraham L. Lincoln, father of Thomas, followed Daniel Boone to Kentucky, where he was killed by the Indians while clearing his farm in Jefferson county. Thomas Lincoln was shiftless. He subsisted in a precarious way by doing odd jobs of carpentry; but he married Nancy Hanks and took her to a wretched cabin in Hardin county and tried to make a living at farming. In this hovel the future president was born, and came up at haphazard until he was seven years old. By walking four miles to school he contrived to get a very little of such rudimentary education as the backwoods afforded; but his schooling did not include more than a year of desultory instruction, and he had no home encouragement. At this formative period, Lincoln owed nothing to home training or home atmosphere. His father was a shiftless creature with very ordinary intellectual gifts, and his mother, a frail woman, was broken by the ceaseless and hopeless struggle to keep body and soul together. In 1816 Thomas Lincoln pulled up stakes and started with his family and LINCOLN'S RESIDENCE AT SPRINGFIELD meager household effects for Ohio. He brought up in Posey county, Ind., sold his boat and took up land in the wilderness of Perry county. Here the wife gave up the unequal struggle and died. Abraham was nine years old and was left without any care whatever. He was neglected, ill-clad and cuffed about when he got in his father's way. The elder Lincoln was not consciously brutal, but he was impatient and unregarded of the boy's interests. A more forlorn childhood, or one less likely to develop the qualities which Lincoln displayed in after life, it would be hard to imagine. But in the midst of this depressing life, the lad was giving himself the moral training for which he became so conspicuous. Within himself he was building a strong and solid foundation of moral character. He became what was called a "serious boy." This seriousness gave him an air of maturity and was quite as much the cause as the effect of his pondering upon such grave problems of life as his undeveloped mind could grasp. His education was limited, but he was of a studious turn, and pored over the few books which fell in his way. When Abraham was about twelve years old a new element entered into his life. His father took for a second wife a woman with whom it is said he was in love before he married Nancy Hanks. This woman had energy and soon wrought a revolution in the domestic economy of the Lincolnns. She cleaned and clothed Abraham and his sister, and, better still, took a real motherly interest in them. She was especially fond of the boy, and seemed to discern in him qualities above the average. Probably she pitied the forlornness of the silent, awkward lad. At all events she was kind to him and the heart unused to kindness. She encouraged him in his studies and gave him the warmth of sympathy which expanded his nature and for the first time made him feel that he was a human being and that somebody shared his hopes and aspirations. Lincoln always retained a loving remembrance of this woman, and in after life he referred to her as 'saintly.' Abraham grew with amazing rapid- ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND SCENES OF HIS EARLY LIFE. (From Portrait Taken In 1858.) ity, and before his seventeenth birthday was a strapping lad six feet four inches tall. He was strong and sinewy, with enormous hands and feet. He was described as having "disproportionate length of legs and arms, and over all a rather small head; his skin was yellow and shriveled, and his complexion swarthy. He were coarse, home made clothes, and a coonskin cap; his trousers, owing to his rapid growth were nearly a foot too short." He attended school irregularly until he was 17 years old. At that age he quit school for good and all, but his studious habits remained with him and to them he owed an education self-acquired. After leaving school Lincoln earned money by working at odd jobs, and at the same time acquired a more or less deserved name for laziness. But what boy that had spindled up to six feet four inches in seventeen years would not be lazey at times? Even at that time he was noted for his propensities for story telling. He did not love work perhaps, but he loved reading and study. "He would lie under a tree or in the loft of the house, and at night sit in the firelight to read, cipher and scribble on the wooden fire shovel." He read everything he could get hold of. He had a retentive memory and a taste for speaking in public. He familiarized himself with grammar by the study of a borrowed book, and his first dip into the law was through reading the statutes of Indiana borrowed from a constable. The year he was 16 years old he worked on a ferry boat on the Ohio river for $6 a month. A couple of years later he went down the Ohio and Mississippi as first mate of a flat boat. This trip gave him some knowledge of the outside world and awakened in him a desire to do something for himself. But the Lincolnns had remained in Indiana as long as the restless Thomas could stand it so in 1830 the family migrated to Illinois, settling at a point near Decatur. Shortly after arriving at the destination, young Lincoln came of age and launched out for himself. In 1832 he went into the Black Hawk war in a company enlisted at Sangamon. He served with credit, but without particular distinction, and ever afterward was disposed to speak jestingly of his military experience. Young Lincoln established considerable popularity soon after reaching his majority. His physical strength, quaint humor and infinitive stories appealed to the Westerners, and in 1832 he was a candidate for the state assembly. But he not elected. His platform was straight Whig doctrine. To quote his own words in declaring himself a candidate: "I presume you all know who I am; I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by many friends to become a candidate for the legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance. I am in favor of a national bank; I am in favor of internal improvement and a high protective tariff. These are my sentiments and political principles. If elected I shall be thankful; if not, it will be all the same." Having been defeated in his canvas, Lincoln embarked in a disastrous mercantile enterprise at New Salem with one Thomas Berry. His partner fled and Lincoln assumed the debts of the firm, the last of which he paid off in 1849. In 1833 he was appointed postmaster at Salem, and served three years. The salary was almost nothing. The mails came but once a week and as Lincoln could not afford to hire a room he carried the letters around in his hat and delivered them. In 1834 Lincoln was an acknowledged Whig leader and was elected to the legislature, where he first met Stephen A. Douglass, the "Little Giant," who was to become his competitor for the senate and for the presidency. A Wrestling Match. A story is related of Lincoln when he was a clerk in the store of Denton Orufft, at New Salem. Orufft had a great opinion of Lincoln's mental ability, but a positive admiration for his feats of strength, and never tired of dilating upon the latter. It seems that a somewhat notorious gang of terror lived in a neighboring settlement. They prided themselves on their ability to wrestle and fight and put every new comer to the test. They soon heard of SCHOOL HOUSE SPLITTING RAILS. Lincoln and were anxious to try his mettle. Lincoln was not a brawler and did not court contests of that character except as a means to an end; but Orfutt entered readily into the spirit of the thing and bragged so much about what Lincoln could do with the terrors that affairs reached a crisis and he had to yield to public clamor. A match was arranged with a chosen champion of the gang by the name of Armstrong. The latter is described as a perfect specimen of physical manhood, powerful and agile and versed in all the tricks of the wrestler. When the match came off, all business was suspended, and the partisans wagered their small possessions freely. The contest was a draw, as the men were so evenly matched that neither could throw the other. But when Armstrong found that he could not throw Abe he resorted to foul tactics. This angered Abe, who abhorred dishonesty in sports as in everything else, and he seized Armstrong by the neck and shook him until the breath almost left his body. Abe was not so expert a wrestler as Armstrong, but in strength the latter was an infant in the former's hands. Scrupulous Honesty When Lincoln was a struggling young lawyer, whose office furniture consisted, as he said, of "a chair, a three-legged table and a rat hole," he collected thirty-six cents for a client. Several weeks passed. Lincoln was hard up, and only through the kindness of a friend was he clothed and fed. Like other young lawyers he had hope from day to day of additional THE COURT HOUSE AT PETERS- BURG. (Where Lincoln and Douglas Met in Debate) business with accompanying fees, but he did not touch the money in his hands, and finally turned over to his client the identical thirty-six cents he had received. It was a small matter, but it showed the character of the man in small things. The money paid to him was the money he turned over. It was his rule in after life to keep separate the money in his hands belonging to other persons. Cutting Red Tape "Upon entering the president's office one afternoon," says a Washington correspondent, "I found the president busy counting greenbacks. This sirt, he said, is something out of my usual line; but a president of the United States has a multiplicity of duties not specified in the constitution or acts of Congress. This money belongs to a poor negro who is a porter in the treasury department, at present very bad with the smallpox. He is now in the hospital and could not draw his pay because he could not sign his name. I have been at considerable trouble to overcome the difficulty and get it for him and have at length succeeded in cutting red tape. I am now dividing the money and putting by a portion, labeled, in an envelope with my own hands, according to his wish." Good Advice. To a man who offered him a case of doubtful merit, Lawyer Lincoln wrote: "Yes, there is no reasonable doubt but that I can gain your case for you. I can set a whole neighborhood at loggerheads; I can distress a widowed mother and her six fatherless children, and thereby get for you $600, which rightfully belongs, it appears to me, as much to them 'as it does to you. I shall not take your case, but I will give you a little advice for nothing. You seem a sprightly, energetic man. I would advise you to try your hand at making $600 some other way." It is far easier to form an impression than it is to destroy it. LINCOLN'S FIRST SWEETHEART store. I made Abe a pair of pants once for a Christmas present. They struck him middle always between the knees and ankles, not like they wear them now, and he was proud of them, too Hodgenville, Ky., Correspondence.—When "Uncle John" Gollahra breathed his last up in the hills of LaRue county a year ago, it was said that the last and only living childhood playmate of ex-President Lincoln had died, and that the stories still to be told of the boyish pranks of the great emancipator would be only an echo of the dead. But still another survives, Aged, infirm, and bent with the weight of 93 years, Miss Sallie Castleman lives all alone in a little log house back in a secluded portion of this county, almost within a stone's throw of the little log schoolhouse where Abe Lincoln, Austin Gollahra, she attended SALLIE CASTLEMAN school together four score years ago. All the old structures that clustered around the hills of that section have one by one rotted and disappeared, until now the little log hut stands alone, and she, the last of little Abe's companions, its sole occupant, is quietly winding up the last years of her allotted time. Retiring and unassuming, Miss Castleman is beloved by those of her acquaintances, and her memory, which is remarkable, has gained her considerable notoriety. It is seldom, though, that she assumes a retrospective mood when she converses. "Yes, she said. I knew Abe Lincoln when he was a boy, but I don't think that it is anything wonderful that I should, just because he was president. I went to school with Abe in a little schoolhouse that stood up on the hill. He was just such a common, green country chap, like the rest of us in those days, only that he was awfully smart, more intelligent than the average boy. Yes, I felt glad when they told me that Abe was made president, and when the papers referred to him as President it sounded a little strange to me, as I always called him Abe, and would have done so had I met him on the streets in Washington after he was president. "Oh yes, I know of several incidents connected with the boyhood life of Little Abe. Yes, I was a part to one of them. You know, nowadays a girl ain't a girl unless there is a bit of romance connected with her life, and I suppose it was always thus. Well, I was Abe's sweetheart. "Well, I guess I'll have to tell the whole story of mine and Abe's life. My father was a pioneer. He came here from Virginia and settled where we now live. This is the same old house that he built. It was a plain old log house then, but it was weatherboarded many years ago. I was born in 1808 in this very house. Abe's parents came to this county in 1808 and settled on the now famous Lincoln homestead, on the other side of Hodgenville. Abe was born in 1809. When Abe was but nine years old his parents moved from near Hodgenville to this section. They lived on a farm near this one. They were poor, but hard-working people. Abe's father was a carpenter, but didn't make much. He couldn't in those days. My father was tolerably well off. The next year Abe and I started to school together. About twenty of us chaps were going. Austin Gollahar was among the number. Austin was Abe's best boy friend and I was his best girl friend, so Abe said. No, Abe wouldn't tell a story. You see. Abe was too poor a boy to buy any books, and so was Austin, so I let them use mine. Abe was a good student and when we had hard lessons he always knew his. When lessons were hard I was glad to let him use my books, because he would then help me get my lessons. In that way we were together a heap, and naturally, a common liking for each other soon ripened into love. Our school teacher was strict with us, and sometimes he wouldn't let us sit together, then we wrote notes. Since Abe was made president I wish I had saved some of them, but we were afraid the teacher would catch on, so we tore them up after reading them. "The nearest church in those days was miles from us, and my father and mother used to go for Abe's parents every Sunday and take them to church. Then Abe would come over and stay with me and we would have a time. We would go that stream of water down there under the hill and wade all around it. "Abe was a fighter in school, and in my mind he was a hero. I suppose, though, it was because he whipped a boy for insulting me one day. The boy was of the bully sort, and was much larger than Abe. One day he hit me. It didn't hurt me, but it fired Abe and he thrashed him soundly, while I stood off and cried. I don't know what I was crying about. Girl's never know. The boys often made fun of Abe's ragged clothes, and of his gawky movements. Abe was awkward. They teased him, too, because he minded his mother. He would often say because they pulled at his clothes and tore them, but he wouldn't tell his mother, for he knew it would make her feel bad. I sometimes mended his clothes to keep her from knowing they were MADE BY A LINCOLN IN THE AGRICULTURAL MUSEUM OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS. "Abe made speeches in school, and they were good ones, too, I thought. He always was a talker. My father owned a slave at that time, and Abe thought a heap of him. He was a mean negro and my father had a great deal of trouble with him, and often whipped him. This made Abe feel sorry for the negro, and I have always believed that then was the first time the idea of emancipation entered his head. "Abe used to make ink out of polk berries and sell it in school. He had a little store. He made money out of chips. "Abe's father went from here to Illinois when Abe was about thirteen years old. I hated to see Abe go. He kissed me good-by, and told me with tears in his eyes—we were both crying—that he would some day come back and claim his boyhood sweet-heart. He worked on a farm in Illinois a year or two and then clerked in a country store. He then studied law awhile. I then lost trace of him until I heard he was president, and I was happy. Well, he deserved to be president. When I heard he was assassinated I couldn't at first believe it, and don't you know I cried when I realized that he was dead. "Yes, I am now the only living childhood acquaintance of Lincoln's living." When asked how she passed away the time alone, she said: "Oh, when I am not busy with my daily duties I read the time away very pleasantly. I never get lonesome," and going to a corner in the little room she raised a curtain, showing a row works of the best authors from Milton and Shakespeare down to the latest literary works." Miss Castleman is an extraordinarily intelligent old lady, and talks quite interestingly upon any subject that is broached, her manners are refined and her appearance rather striking. A recent rearrangement of relics in the agricultural museum of the University of Illinois brought to light the old ox yoke made by Abraham Lincoln and presented to the university in the early 70s. By orders of President Draper the yoke was inclosed in a glass-topped case made of boards from the old Lincoln home at Springfield. LINCOLN INCOLN Day, Fee 12, is generally observed by Republican organizations much as Jackson day is the occasion for the annual gathering of Democratic clans. The custom of celebrating the anniversary by appropriate exercises in INCOLN Day, Feb. 12, is generally observed by Republican organizations much as Jackson day is the occasion for the annual gathering of Democratic clans. The custom of celebrating the anniversary by appropriate exercises in the public schools is extending as time reveals more distinctly the magnitude of the work Lincoln wrought, the true proportions of the man and the fundamental character of the principles he exemplified. It is a notable fact that in all the lists of the ten greatest men of the century the world has produced Lincoln's name is found near the head in all and foremost in many. The entire world now recognizes his greatness. Not alone in mind was he great, but in heart and character. He was typical of the American idea of equality of opportunity. He was in the fullest sense a self-made man. Not merely that he hewed for himself a pathway from obscurity to the highest civic honors. Other men have done that. It is that he formed for himself a character upon which his fame was built. Born to abject poverty, to neglect and abuse, the miseries of his childhood and the sorrows of his youth deepened the shadow with which his spirit was endowed by a wretched mother. Reared in backwools settlements, with the advantages of only one year of regular schooling, pursued by adversity until he reached almost the prime of life, his strength of mind and heart conquered every obstacle. He was born to a heritage of gloom, but he was a capital companion and a good story-teller. His quaint humor and wit were due to strangely original and sometimes grotesque intellectual perceptions and to a marvelously fertile fancy. He indulged these faculties as much by exercise of will in order to throw off the depression which weighed upon his own spirits as for the purpose of affording enjoyment for others. In his later years, when cares of state almost overbore him, the relief afforded by this relaxation is said to have averted utter collapse. In the most serious crisis he would make some quaint remark or an tell an apposite story that would cause a laugh, and would immediately relapse into profound melancholy. But he did not obtrude his gloom upon others. He was always companionable in social intercourse. He was the soul of honor, scrupulously clean in his life and had a great, tender heart, pulsating with sympathy for every creature in distress. He could not bear to see anything suffer. Other men have been admired for their intellects or honored for their achievements. Abraham Lincoln was loved for his great heart, human sympathies and sorrows. He yearned for "peace on earth, good will to men," he agonized over the horrors and sufferings which war entailed, but governed by an unfaltering sense of duty, his iron will carried him through every trial. There was not a moment during the four years of fratricidal strife that he was not ready to hold out the olive branch if thereby peace and union could have been secured. Destiny had forordained that the arbitrament of arms should settle the questions at issue once and for all, and Providence raised up Abraham Lincoln, mighty of mind, mightier still in the power of common sense, strong in resolve and tender of heart, to be the ruling spirit of the times, to temper firmness with mercy. There was not a drop of blood of hatred in Lincoln's body. During the feverish days of the civil war he was one man whose motives were never questioned, whose wisdom was trusted, whose strength never failed, whose ear was always open to appeals which his heart was only too ready to grant.—New York Ledger. PERSONAL APPEARANCE The appearance of the president when he was inaugurated March 4, 1861, is thus described by Ward Lamon: "He was six feet four inches high, the length of his legs being out of all proportion to that of his body. When he sat on a chair he seemed no taller than the average man, measured from the chair to the crown of his head; but his knees rose high in front. He weighed about 180 pounds, but was thin through the breast, narrow across the shoulders and had the general appearance of a consumptive subject. Standing up he stooped slightly forward; sitting down he usu- NCOLN MADE BY NCOLN OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS. The yoke was made by Lincoln when he was on a farm near Decatur. For several years it was in service about the Lincoln homestead. The yoke is of black walnut, and shows evidence of hard use. The workmanship is rough, the iron parts being especially crude, indicating that they were made at a country blacksmith shop. ally crossed his long legs or threw them over the arms of the chair. His head was long and tall from the base of the brain and the eyebrow; his forehead high and narrow, inclining backward as it rose. His ears were large and stood out; eyebrows heavy, jutting forward over small sunken blue eyes; nose long, large, and blunt; chin projecting far and sharp, curved upward to meet a thick lower lip, which hung downward; cheeks fabby, the loose skin falling in folds; a mole on one cheek and an uncommonly prominent Adam's apple in his throat. His hair was dark brown, stiff, and unkempt; complexion dark, skin yellow, shriveled and leathery. Feature of the man—the hollow eyes with dark rings beneath, the long, sallow, cadaverous face, intersected by those peculiar deep lines, his whole air, his walk, his long, silent reveries, and startling exclamations, as if to confound an observer who might suspect the nature of his thoughts—showed that he was a man of his thoughts—he was not of today or yesterday, but long-treasured, deep, bearing with him continual sense of weariness and pain." He drank very little and ate sparingly. He was never a member of a church, yet was not a scoffer. When urged to issue the Emancipation proclamation he besitched. He doubted its policy. Being told that the emancipation idea was the will of God he said: "I hope it will not be irreverent for me to say that if it is probable that God would reveal His will to others on a point so connected with my duty, it might be supposed he would reveal it directly to me, for, unless I am more deceived in myself than I often am, it is my earnest desire to know the will of Providence in this matter, and if I can learn what it is I will do it." President Lincoln's connection with the war is universally known and need not be repeated. The closing tragedy of his life came at Ford's theater, Washington, on the night of April 14, 1865, when John Wilkes Booth fired the fatal shot. Lincoln had just entered upon his second term and hoped to carry out his liberal policy for the reconstruction of the Union. Alaska is a popular impression that Alaska is a frozen zone and that the soil is barren and worthless. This is a mistake. 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