The American Citizen

Oldest and Best Weekly paper devoted to the Race in this section of the Country GOD REIGNS AND THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IN WYANDOTTE COUNTY STILL LIVES LET US HAVE PEACE, FEWER ELECTIONS AND MORE WORK BE OUR SLOGAN Washington, D.C. Feb. 12. Invitations to the dinner which was to have been given by Charles A. Sprague the Massachusetts multi-millionaire congressman, in honor of the District of Columbia committee, on February 16 have been withdrawn. The dinner is now scheduled for February 26. New invitations have been issued to all who held original invitations except to White, the North Carolina negro conspirator. gresskin. The Sprague dinner for the 16th was advertised much and looked toward with anticipations of pleasure until it developed that the negro, who is a member of the committee, had been invited and had accepted, deputicabes and democrates alike sent their regrets and Mr Sprague was told the reason. He recalled the invitations and had them resumed for the latter date. Here comes another of the beautiful booklets from the Bureau of Publicity of the Pan American Exposition, Buffalo, N. Y. It consists of 16 pages and a cover in light green. The unique feature of it is the miniature reproduction of the famous poster, "The Spirit of Niagara," which has had a most remarkable demand. The envelope in which the poster booklet is mailed also bears a reproduction of this artistic work. The booklet is a popular picture book, the first page having an engraving of the magnificent Electric Tower, which is 391 feet high, and which will form the glorious center-piece of the great Exposition. On the same page is a miniature of one of the torch beaters which will dorn the wings of the Electric Tower, and besides it a picture of Niagara Falls. The second page shows a picture of the Electricity Buildings and five other small illustrations of the uses of electricity. The third page shows the syllabic group of buildings erased by the National Government and which will contain the Government enclosures, will be given daily by picked crew of ten men, during the Exposition. The fourth page is devoted to the wonderful displays of the government ordinance the fifth to the Machinery and Transportation Building and four other illustrations of modern machines and vehicles. The center of the booklet shows a sideeye view of the Exposition, and gives one some idea of the great extent of the enterprise upon which about $10,000,000 is being excended. The grounds contain 350 acres, being half a mile wide and a mile and a quarter long. Other pages how horticulture, graphic arts and mines, manufactures and liberal arts, the Music Temple, the Plaza and its beautiful surroundings the Stadium or athletic field, the agricultural, live stock and ethnology features, and a few of the 30 or 40 ingenious and novel exhibits which promise to make the Midway the most wonderful that has ever been prepared for Exposition, whereon the location of different buildings is indicated. The railroads will make low rates from all parts of the country durning the Exposition, which opens May 1 and continues six months, and the people of Buffalo are preparing to entertain comfortably the millions who are aided. Anyone desiring a copy of this book et may have it free by addressing the Pan American Bureau of Publicity. Wherever you go, wherever you stay, register pay your taxes and send your children to school, buy you a home, be a citizen, work and live within your means and be a man.—The Negro World. The charge of assault and attempted assault by colored men on white women has been recurring with siekening frquency, during the early days of the new century. 'Tis a very great pity that some of these accusations cannot be submitted to legal investigation. Despite the harsh and cruel environments around him the negro persistently declines to be discouraged and he will continue to do so, faithfully believing that a greater deliverance is coming. The colored people in Virginia own and pay taxes on real estate valued at nearly $14,000,000. This does not include any estimate of the valuation of personal property. BANQUEF DATZ IS CHANGED. Negro congressman causes panic among prospective delegates to washington Function. Congressman Cowherd who is a member of the committee, and who with the rest of his colleagues discovered that he had a pressing engagement that would prevent his presence at the Sprague dinner has examined his social calendar and finds that he will be able to attend on February 26. AN EXPOSITION BOOKLET. Another Beautiful Production from the Bureau of Publicity of the LITTLE NUGGETS THE Laziness is the Mother of Crime. The They say that the love of money is the root of all evil. The truth is that it is not the love of money, but the idleness. Laziness is the mother of crime. People who love money and work for it have little time to raise Ned. Loafers fill the jails. Loafing men have time to think up schemes that make society shudder. Loafing women are those whose doors are the portals of hell. Loafers are criminals in the chrysalis, which rich or poor, educated or ignorant, coarse or refined, black or white, savage or civilized. A law against loafers, properly enforced against the rich as well as the poor, would stop more than half the crime in the world. Work is man's greatest blessing. Take away the opportunity to work and civilization will slump to barbarism in ten years. When people feed well, whether on cereal bread and bacon or thick raper house, and let the devil run through their blood in idleness, nothing but their own cowardice can keep their hands from wickedness. Food is meant to sustain work. Work lifts man from the animals. Work brings his soul into the harmony with creation, which gives him moral strength and courage. Lawns should not be made with pliny nor mercy in them for drones. The world is a workshop. Heaven when it is properly understood, will be found to be not a place where people float in their nigaties "on flowery beds of ease," it will be a place where people will find all the work they want of the kind that they do best and are happy in the doing of it. Heli will be the place where the loafers will be crowded with yesterday's work. Whether you are doing to-morrow's work or yesterday's work it is the test of your success. But it is all work in this world and there is no happiness, no virtues, nothing of praise or of good report, without hard, joy giving work Go to work! - Emporia Gazette HENRY WARD BEECHER TO HIS SON The following letter from Henry Ward Beecher to his son, is authentic. It will interest not only our young men and boys, but other readers as well: "My Dear HEBERT.—You are now for the first time really launched i to life for yourself. You go from your father's home and from all family connections, to make your own way in the world. It is a good time to make a new start, to cast out faults of whose evil you have had experience, and to take on habits, the want of which you have found to be so damaging. "1. You must not get into debt. Make it a fundamental rule—cash or nothing. "2. Make few promises. Religiously observe even the smallest promise. A man who means to keep his promises cannot afford to make many. "3. Be scrupulously careful in all statements. Accuracy and perfect frankness, no guesswork. Either nothing or accurate truth. "4. When working for others, sink yourself out of sight—work for their interest. Make yourself necessary to those who employ you, by industry, credibility and scrupulous integrity. Selfishness is fatal. "5. Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Demand more of yourself than anybody else expects of you. Keep your personal standard high. Never excuse yourself to yourself, never pity yourself, be lenient to everybody else. "6. Concentrate your forces on your proper business—do not turn off. Be constant, steadfast, persevering. "7. The art of making one's fortune is to spend nothing. In this country any intelligent and industrious young man may become rich if he stops all leaks and is not in a hurry, do not make haste, be patient. "8. Do not speculate or gamble—you go to a city where everybody is excited and strive to make money suddenly, and largely without working for it. They blow soap bubbles. Steady, patient industry is both the surest and a feet way. Greediness and haste are two devils that destroys thousands every year. "9. I beseech you to correct one fault, severe speech of others. Never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be. Hasty fault-finding and severe speech of absent people is not honorable, is apt to be unjust and cruel makes enemies to yourself and is wicked. "10. If by integrity, industry and well earned success you deserve well of your fellow citizens, they may, in years to come ask you to accept honors. Do not seek, do not receive them while you are young—wait; but when you are established you may make your father's name known with honor in halls of leg-station. "Lastly, do not forget your father's and your mother's God. Because you will be largely deprived of church privileges you need all the nerve to keep your heart before God. But do not despise small churches and humble preachers." AMERICAN C KANSAS CITY, KANSAS, FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY, 15, 1901. OUR CAPITAL CITY RESUME POLITICS AND OTHER NEWS. Interesting and Other Very Newsy Bits Gathered by our Correspondents at Topeka, Kansas. (To late for last issue) Topeka has had excitement enough this week to last for time memorial, Mrs. Nation, the famous joint smasher has got in her work and proved a terroto the men who run jats. On Tuesday morning, promptly at six o'clock, with her five women recruits, she marched into one of the most pretentious joints of the city and, meeting with a very feeble resistance, began to smash right and left large plate glass mirrors, slot machines, liquor decanters, etc. Beer and whiskey flowed for awhile like water. After accomplishing her object the police arrived and placed her under arrest, she was taken before the Police Judges on the charge of joint smashing and released on her own recognizance to appear in that court to answer to the charge, on next Tuesday morning. The town is at this time in a high state of excitement and there is no telling when the agitation will end. Street fights and heated discussions for and against Mrs. Nation is the order of the day. It is safe to say that public sentiment here is overwhelmingly with Mrs. Nation—while they do not all agree with her methods, they approve and encourage the crusade. The capital city is normally a law and order town, but of late years the joint element have been successful in hoodwinking the people and they have placed in office men who are in sympathy with them, and as a result for sometime they have had full sway. Mrs Nation has announced her intention of remaining in Topeka until the joints are all closed. There are quite an army of colored employees in the house and senate; they represent the various counties throughout the State where there is any considerable number of colored people, and come from the various walks of life, in getting positions during the session the most of them simply aspired to get on the pay—any old thing to get $3.00 per day. Out of about twenty, with the exception of two, they are all Janitors C. Jones, of Douglass, and C. Penell, of Doniphan, are Doorkeepers, the former is a farmer, the latter a horseman, the others represent all phases of the industrial world, ministers, barbers, students, real estate dealers, gardeners, porters, laborers, contractors, etc. In the Senate each Senator has a clerk, besides there is various other positions besides menial ones but not: one of these have they given to their allies who have so nobly stood by them at all times and under all circumstances. It was a show down, either that or nothing, so the boys, in order to get the $3.00 per day, had to accept the menial positions. Amorganization known as the Negro Protective Association, was perfected Tuesday night by the election of James A. Page, as President, and J B. Bass, as Secretary. This organization is the result of the meeting held sometime back in relation to the Leavenworth burning, it is strictly a race organization which will devote itself to all matters pertaining to the welfare of the Negro race. THE CITIZEN is taking on a boom in the city—the lively touch up of things political and otherwise, is creating a demand and interest, and no doubt the plan of a sub-office will be a success, besides the natural large list of readers of its own, the addition of the largest colored paper which was ever printed in Topeka, The Call, and the addition of new subscribers weekly, there is no gain saying of the fact that the CITIZEN will be a facto in darktown journalism. For all Capital City up-to date news of interest to the Negro, read the Crir ZEN. TO THE OFFICERS AND MEMBERS of the I. O. O. T., of Kansas and Nebraska. Jurisdiction. We take this opportunity of letting you know what our Order has done since July last. We left Lincoln, Nebraska, after the close of the grand session, and started on the Taborian Sea. We left Lincoln and attended the grand session at Springfield. Ill., with Sir N. B. Jones, C. G. M., who is doing a great deal for the race. From there we returned to our own field of labor and began our year's work with the usual interest. The Taborion Sea seemed smooth, and is until yet. Our growth has been beyond our expectations, but our organizers have been at work. We have or organized at the following places: Bright Star Tabernacle No. 27. Lanapa, Indian Territory, organized by Dt. Lydia Garner. D. G. P., Tabernacle No. 2, Iola Kas., organized by Sir H. W Scott, P. C. G. O., Modern Tabernacle No. 28, Parsons Kas., organized by Frank Wilson, C. G. M. Tabernacle No. 29, Leavens enworth, Kas., organized by Dt. Lizzia As a result of Mrs. Nation's crusade against joints, the city is practically dry. All the joints have closed their doors, a thing which has not existed before in many years. The culmination of Mrs. Nation's crusade came to a head on last Sunday, when a large mass meeting, composed of 3,000 determined men assembled at the Auditorium and issued their manifesto that the unlawful selling of intoxicating liquors must immediately cease or they would take 'he law in their own hands, giving them until Friday to ship their effects out of town or suffer the consequences, and as a result Toppea to-day has no joints and they are fast shipping the bar fixtures out of town for fear of the wrath of a determined and outraged populace The Negro Protective Association recently organized, met Tuesday night and the outpouring of people and applications for membership denote a healthy growth. The Negroes for once seem to realize a crisis in so far as matters concerned to race are concerned, and are alert to meet it and do what is in their power to circumvent all that is detrimental to the race. This association will make all necessary arrangements to meet and welcome those who assemble here on the 22nd, inst., to hold a conference as to the interest of the race. CITY POLITICS The Republican City Central Committee met last Saturday night and set Saturday, March 9th, as the date of the Republican Primaries. From this time on the contest for supremacy for the various city offices will be very interesting. In our next issue we will endeavor to set forth the claims of the various candidates for the special information of the many city readers of the CITIZEN. The contest for Councilman from the 5th. Ward, this city, is spirted, this is the Ward at present represented by a colored man in the person of Fred. Roundtree. The rank and file of the colored people are anxious that he should be succeeded by a colored man, and they are making herculean efforts to harmonize things so that they may present a solid front with Prof. E. Ridley as their candidate to succeed Mr. Roundtree. There was a meeting of the colored voters of Shawnee county on last Monday night to get an expression as to the wishes of the people in regard to Prof. Fred Roundtree's candidacy for County Clerk. There was a large turn out and the sentiment was overwhelmingly that the colored voters should make an effort to retain this position, and it was agreed to adjourn the 28th, when it is hoped to get the largest possible attendance and then take definite action. There have been several law and order organizations formed among the colored people and they will take an active part in the pending campaign. J. S. War er, one of the Mayoralty candidates, is at this writing, we are informed, quite sick. It is to be hoped that it will not be so lasting as to interfere with his campaign. A Missouri editor sums up the situation of how much some men think of their dogs by saying that if a man had a $50 bull pup he would look after it carefully and not let it run all over town at night. But if he has a boy it is different. He is turned loose at a tender age to go to the bad, and people wonder where the great army o tramps, dead beats, loafers, gamblers and thieves come from. They are ger minated from pure seed, sown broadcast on the streets and alleys. The boy ought to be given an equal showing with the bull pup. Milton, D. G. P. Tabernacle, No. 31, Salt Lake City, Utah, organized by Sir James Thomas, D. G. M. Tabernacle No. 32, Butte, Montans, organized by Dt Ella Golden, D. G. P. Tent No. 20, Kansas City, Kas, organized by Sir J. W. Wilson, I. C. G. M. Tent No. 21, Leavenworth, Kas, organized by Dt. Ella McKinnis, D. G. P., Palatium No. 32, Atchison, Kas, organized by Sir Frank Wilson, C. G. M. All of the above numbers are doing nicely, vet the hand of death has arrived among us and a link from our chain here and there has been been broken The Lord still blesses us and our march is onward, at the command. Members stand together and at the proper time God will reward us. Yours Truly, FRANK WILSON, C. G. M. Mr. Haslon V. Eagleson a prominent colored man of Indiana is at the head of a movement to establish an industrial school at Bloomington Ind for colored people. They Say E. F. M. and Mr. E. B. will shortify be made as one. CITIZEN. Kansas City Kansas Prof. I J. Barton, of Merrange, La. a company with Andrew Britton. of St. Louis, made our office a pleasant call this week. Mr. Ed. Smith, quite an aged colored man, was killed in Kansas City, Mo. Wednesday, by a Broadway Street Electric car. He lived at Forty Third and Belleview avenue. Efforts are being made to found a colored drug store in Kansas City, Mo; We see no reason why such an undertaking should not be a success, when one contends the large negro population in that city. Kansas City, Kas, with less population, can beast of one—it's certainly up to Missouri. Mr. Riehard Lowe was shot this week at his home on Freemart. by Lee Duncan. The usual story, "over a woman." The woman in the case in this instance is a niece of Mr. Lowe, and it is claimed it was while defending her he was shot in the left hand. The woman received a shot also in the shoulder. None are seriously hurt. George and Hart's Extravaganza Company and Minstrel performers (colored) passed through the city this week and spent several pleasant days among many friends. Mrs. Lulu Johnson entertained several members of the George and Hart's Extravaganza Company this week. The women interested in a colored Kindergarten met with Mrs. J. C. Branehe this week for the discussion of plans for the establishment of the same. Kansas City, Mo., is indeed fortunate in the line of colored shows on the read this season. The theatre going people of our race have had the pleasure of seeing many of the best colored theatrical shows out this season. Next week the celebrated Black Patti Troubadors are to be seen at the "Gillis." This is said to be one of the very best colored shows on the road, and we predict crowded houses at each p-performance. Miss Lulu M. Tolson and Miss Inez M. Stafford, soliciting agents for the Douglass'Hospital and Training School spent a verv pleasant period of time in our office this week. They are two bright young ladies who are destined to reach their zenith in the world laboring in behalf of humanity. Little Austin Bishop, the son of Mr. Bishop had an operation performed and is improving aically. Mamie Harris of Washington ave age 14 died quite suddenly this week Rev. G·A· Griffith is on the sick list. Douglass Day Exercises. There is now every indication that Douglass Evening Memorial Exercises, to be held at the First Baptist church next Wednesday night, Feb. 20th. will be a success. The Memorial Association bega leave to make public the following program: Chorus, by Lincoln School Pupils. Invocation, by Rev. W. L. Grant, D. D. Chorus, by Douglass School Pupils. Annual Address, by President. Chorus, by Pupils from Stowe School. Eulogy on Fred Douglass, Rev. E. A. Wilson, S. T. B. Chorus, by Pupils from Lincoln school. Benediction. They Say. It was a lively scramble. You ought to see them falling over the vence to get on the band wagon. The women are very poor defenders of their sex. He who laughs last, laughs best, after all. Short was longer than he really was thought to be. The woods are full of "I told you so' people. We are always on the side of the right. There will be a Mighty Spring house cleaning in this city and there will be wailing and guashing of teeth. The Negro is the most forgetful and forgiving race under the blue canopy of heaven. Let the people stand aside and see how Municipal Reform Tigers (M.R.T.s) will start to reform politics in this city. We have opened books to record just what the Negro will get in the recent Political deal. We have parts labelled The Past, The Present and The Future. Many people in the world are radically wrong in their condemnation of a girl when misfortune overtakes her. Every woman should be to much of a woman and sister to scorn one of their sex in such cases. EDITORIALLY SPEAKING. A TRUE PICTURE. The following picture ghastly as it may seem when closely examined is nevertheless true to life and ought be indulibly impressed upon every negro youth who is the architect of his own fortune and the pilot of his own craft we clip the following extract from an article by J.N. Hughes in the Topeka Plaincalder. That the Negro is profigate, cannot be denied; that he is shiftless, cannot be gainaid; that he is falsely proud, cannot be controverted. It is urged by those who make excuses for the Negros weakness that his sphere is prescribed; that his vision is bounded, and does not take advantage of the limited opportunities presented to him and use them to the utmost for the substantial upbuilding of himself. His opportunities for money making, i.e the chance for securing lucrative positions are limited. The white boy gets a position as clerk in a store, or teller in a bank or bookkeeper in some establishment. The Negro boy gets a job a boot-black in a barber shop, or porter in a saloon, or hostler in a private family, or waiter in a hotel. Yet the Negro boy, making less than one half the wages of the white boy, will wear equally as fine if not finer clothes than the white boy. The white boy will deposit his money in the bank or invest it in real estate. The Negro boy will deposit his money in a tailor shop in payment for a suit of clothes or invest it around a crap table. In the course of time the white boy will become a gardner in the store, or president of the bank, or owner of the establishment, will settle down to married life in a handsome residence and live in comfort and splender. The Negro boy will still be porter, hostler or waiter, probably settled down to married life, living in a dilapidated, rented shack near the railroad or some out of way hole, quite likely has four or five children and has a $300 piano paying for it on installation plan. No one will deny but that this is a true picture, of the Negro and to find one doing otherwise is the exception and not the rue. DRIVING COLORED PEOPLE OUT OF THE STATE Dispatches from Indiana indicate the white people in the vicinity of Evansville, Ind., are determined to drive the colored people from that part of the State. Not long ago three colored men were lynched, the last of whom has been proven to have been absolutely innocent of any wrong doing; but the white people seem disposed to treat the master of killing an innocent man very lightly, and the purpose now is to go farther and drive out all the colored men from the county. This is to be accomplished by the wholesale indictment of colored men for illegal ejection frauds. Already one hundred and thirty (130) have been indicted, and the State's Attorney declares he will call them all to trial at once and convict all who are indicted. It is quietly suggested, however, if those who are indicted wish to avoid prosecution they may leave the State and no further attention will be paid to the matter. It is to be hoped that the colored people will resent any such judicial block-guardism, and will fight the case in the courts. Indiana is given to vicious treatment of its colored citizens, but the time is not yet come when the colored people will tolerate Southern practices such as are contemplated by this prosecution. Booker T. Washington the most powerful electric light in the world of Industrial Education and whose burning eloquence is to be heard all over the country, before the meeting of the Armstrong Association in New York, in the interest of Industrial Education in the south He dwelt at some length on the conditions of the negro and: In the discussion of the negro problem he asked that racial prejudices be set aside. He declared that Southern slavery wrought almost as much injury to the white man as to the black man. As long as the Southern negro was kept in ignorance on a dozen pretexts the white man would be dragged down also. The work of the graduates of the various schools for the education of blacks was of a twofold nature, he said, that of lifting the black race and that of converting the Southern white man to the belief that education of negroes was desirable. This last, he declared, was gradually and surely being accomplished. We must expect, he said, that the negro will believe that liberty means license for the first generation but it is not the educated class of men and women that commit crimes in the South, but the uneducated class. He pleaded that the colored race be no judged by its worst examples, but by its best. "What opinion would the world have of New York," he asked, "if it was judged by its worst men?" He quoted figures to show the extent to which negroes are acquiring property in the South, and added: "Yet some people say the nefro is going back to heathenism." He insisted that as the negro acquires property, character and possessions, he will be respected by the white. "If you you want to help negroes to be respected in 'heir own communities,' he declared, "help to teach them to be useful citizens." He had never been dissed he said, for he trusted in God and knew that his race had come out of slavery American Citizens, had gone in to slavery with no language and come out speaking the Anglo-Saxon tongue, and had gone into slavery pagans and come out Christians. A wave of applause swept over the congregation when Mr. Washington concluded. 'We have met the enemy and we are theirs' at least for the time being. The battle of Municipality candidates is at and end, and the dust covered heroes who fought with the vim and arder of true soldiers, are resting by the wayside and around firesides discussing the engagement. As an active participant in the battle, we stop in the solicitude of our retreat for a few moments of calm deliberation and reflection. From the outset till the last gun was fired. We were in the fight to win and for the cause we conscientiously believed was right. Notwithstanding the fact that we were labelled as ever thing but gentlemen, at the head of anything but a respectable Negro Journal by some of the most contemptible liars in our own race that ever breathed. We rightly differed with some. We have no apologies to make and no regrets. We fought a good fight, were sincere in the same, told a good many truths and will rest temporarily, to start with renewed energy in behalf of our race. Even in defeat we can derive consolation from the fact that we did our duty. Race News. Albert Means of Memphis, Tenn., owns one of the largest hat stores in that city. The largest grocery stores in Tuskegee is run by a graduate of Tuskegee, Mr. A. J. Wilborn. Through the efforts of Attorney Wilford H. Smith the Negro has at last been granted the right to serve on juries in the State of Texas. Mr J. M. Griffin, editor of the Albuquerque Amerian of New Mexico was unanimously elected journal clerk of the Council of the Territorial Senate. Fayette county, Pa. has a colored mail carrier who is a young lady of eighteen. She receives $110 a year for carring the mail daily from Union-town to Jumonville. J. J. Bunell of Brooklyn N. Y., is a colored grate uate of Pratt Institute in mechanical engineering has put into position most of the cancelling machines in use in the large post-offices in the country. Mr. Nathan Williams of Fair Haven, N J. and Mr. Wm B. Scott of Long Branch, N. J. have the hour of being the only colored men who have served on the jury in Monmouth county New Jersey. Mr. Scott is an employee of the New York and Long Branch Railroad at Long Branch and owns cons'derable property. When the whites shall apprise the fact that the Negro has some rights as a citizen, that should be repeated, then the race problem is nearly solved. In fact it is no race problem at all; it is simply a condition. The strong always dominates over the weak. The Negro is the "weak" in this case and it is entirely with him whether he will continue to be so, or whether he will help himself out of that condition.—The Progress. The Negro press, although poorly supported by a large majority of the Negro race, is manly doing its duty in the interest of the race. The American Negro not having reached that point of intelligence and actual experience in civilization and the business world, does not know the value of a race paper. He does not know the real good or harm of a newspaper. To try to explain to him the usefulness of a race newspaper is actually casting pearls before swine, or it is a useless expenditure of breath. Hence the hard row for Negro journalists. All those who are supporting race newspapers by paying for them and reading them are exceptions to the rule, and should not become offended at what we have said.—Ameri cane Eagle. AMERICAN CITIZEN PUBLISHING AND PRINTING CO. Every Week at 417 Minnesota Ave KANSAS CITY KANSAS W. C. MARTIN, EDITOR. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Weekly one year..... $1 50 Entered at the postoffice at Kansas City ans, as second class matter. Henry Clay and the Hunter. When Henry Clay was stumping Kentucky for re-election, at one of his mass meetings an old hunter of wide political influence said: "Well, Harry, I've always been for you, but because of that vote (which he named) I'm goin' again you." "Let me see your rife," said Clay. It was handed to him. "Is she a good rife?" "Yes." "Did she ever miss fire?" "Well, yes, once." "Why didn't you throw her away?" The old hunter thought a moment and then said: "Harry, I'll try you again." And Harry was elected. Crookedest River in America. From its four heads in the Boston mountains to Batesville, where it leaves the Ozarks and enters the Arkansas lowlands, White river is a succession of astonishing curves. No other river on the continent so often and so nearly doubles upon itself. From the source to the flat country is a distance on a straight line of perhaps 150 miles. White river between these points has a course of over 600 miles; some estimates make it 1,000 miles. Millions for Snowsheds. Thirty-two miles of answeeds, costing $661 a foot, or a total of $10,813,440, represents the price one transcontinental railway had to pay before it could run its trains over the Rocky mountain division of its road. That was merely the first cost; since that outlay fully $1,000,000 has been spent annually in keeping the sheds in repair and the exposed tracks free from snow. 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 an 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, Malpiquet and Ramllies. Tall Men Scarce. The directors of the Great Northern of England have issued a circular letter to the station agents stating that in future the standard height for porters in the passenger department shall be five feet six inches, and in the goods department five feet four inches. This is a considerable reduction, forced by a scarcity of taller men. Bridge Burned With Electricity Bridge Buried With Electricity. A novel method of destroying a water hose has recently been tried with complete success. Weighted wires are placed across certain beams and heated by means of electricity, the wires burn their way through the wood, aided by the weights, and the bridge falls. World's Largest Idol The biggest idol in the world is Dia Buten, the Japanese god, which is over sixty feet high. The image is made of copper, tin, mercury and gold, and has been worshipped for more than twelve centuries. Part of the Brain That Keeps Names An Austrian savant has declared that the human brain contains a "name center." He says that it is the office of this cell to retain names. A striking case which would seem to confirm this theory recently occurred in Cleveland. A brakeman was shot by a conductor, and the former could not remember the names of persons and things, although he could perfectly well describe the functions of all articles exhibited to him. A surgeon probed for the bullet and found it in the exact spot necessary to affect the remembrance of names, according to the Austrian's theory. When the pressure of the brain had been relieved the patient remembered names as well as he had done before his injury, and told the name of his assailant.—Scientific American. Highest Clock in the World. The clock on the Philadelphia city hall is the highest in the world. It has the largest dials. If the dials were out of the way and tracks were laid, two trains could pass each other running through the holes. The glass in the four faces is fastened there by a ton of cement. The glass, if laid on the ground, would make a walk a square long and ten feet wide. The minute hand will finish its year's journey by completing a 110-mile trip on New Year's day. It is expected that this minute hand will travel 110 miles annually for many years to come. The clock is strong, and the minute hand is phosphor bronze, and weighs 250 pounds. No man is rich enough to afford the luxury of a bad temper. Before that 200-story New York building is finished we may hear something drop. Rudolph Spreckies is to be tried for high treason in Hawaii, which his pre- once owned. Banker Kopperl of Chicago began business without a cent—just where his depositors end. It was definitely settled by the priz- sight that Fitzsimmons was the greater Brute. That was all. It is evident that the only way to stop a political "machine," once it is manning well to break it Patti's Parrota. Patti has two wonderful parrots, one of whom talks all day long, and imitates its mistress' trills and staccati in an amazing fashion, and who (believe me, for I have heard him) can even compose the most elaborate melodies, says a correspondent. The other parrot—Jumbo by name—is an oddity. Patti bought him for $200 in New York, where he was reputed to be the finest talking parrot alive. Once in her possession he became dumb. In vain they tried to coax him to converse. Months went by until one morning the prima donna woke with a bad sore throat. "Send for the doctor," she cried, "for I have to sing tonight!" The room duly arrived. As he entered the room the parrot uttered his first and last words. "Oh! doctor," he exclaimed, in a strong Yankee accent, "I'm so sick!" And since that day, now several years ago, he has not uttered a word—Baltimore News. Favorite Perfumes. A great many well-known men and women have been fond of different scents, as is historically known, but it is hard to say how far their characters fit in with this new idea. For instance, Nero loved the scent of roses, whether distilled or from the freshly cut flowers; Louis XIV. delighted in the perfume of orange flowers; while Richelieu liked a different scent in each of the rooms; the Empress Josephine soaked her things in musk; and Napoleon is said to have emptied a whole bottle of eau-de-Cologne over his clothes when he was dressed; Victor Hugo rejoiced in wild flowers; Alexander Dumas loved the flowering myrtle, and Charles Dickens adored white jasmine. Motoring as a Tonic That eccentric genius, the late Frank Buckland, the naturalist, when he felt tagged took a railway journey, and, having armed his eyes with spectacles, hung his head out of the window, and averred that the perfect aeration of the lungs which he thus obtained was the finest stimulant he had ever discovered. Motorists experience the same invigorating effects of travelling at speed through the open air. One of the most cathusliastic "chauffeurs" in England was, and has been for some time, under the treatment of Sir William Broadbent for indigestion and nervous prostration at the time he invested in a motor car. From that daw the doctor's occupation has ceased so far as this automobilist is concerned, as he now enjoys the most perfect health, and he puts this down entirely to motor driving—London Daily Mail. Agile Bosr Ponies. Most of the ponies, for they are rarely more, that the Boers ride, come from the Free State and all have Basto blood in them. The Basto pony is to South Africa what the Welsh or Scotch pony is to Great Britain, as sure-footed over rocks as a goat, and with an ability to leap from crag to crag like a chamois. A Basto on his pony will come at a good pace down a mountain side that an Alpine climber would be careful in negotiating. Thanks to the Basto blood in their ponies, the Boers can move in small parties over the mountainous country, raiding farms and driving off cattle over the hill path Women Not Cowardly When cowardice is described as a leading feminine attribute somebody makes a huge mistake. Women do the most daring things on record—take chances which would appeal a man. They may jump at the sight or mere mention of a harmless mouse, but they court death several times a year. It is one of the traits which makes femitine nature so puzzling. I have known women who were timid to a degree, under ordinary circumstances, come forth as heroes under the pressure of occasion. A woman who shudders at the sight of a small cut from which blood oozes will often exhibit a marvous courage in a shocking accident. It is beautiful to think that dependence can be placed upon that species of recklessness which leads us into unnecessary trouble. Great Honor For German Crown Prince. It is a great honor which the queen of Spain is paying to the young crown prince of Germany by investing him with the collar of the Order of the Golden Fleece. The order is one of the oldest in Europe. It was founded in 1426 by Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, to commemorate his good fortune in "cleaning up" a large sum of money in a deal in wool. The uniform of the order is a cloak of scarlet, lined with ermine, and open at the throat to display the golden fleece and the motto of the order, which ornaments the collar. The order belongs of right to all the princes of Spain and Austria. Emperor Willis, and his Sister, The Queen and he Empress Frederick have succeeded, in bringing about a full reconciliation between the Emperor William and his sister the Duchess of Sparta, who spent a few days at Potsdam with the Emperor and Empress before she left Germany the other day on her return to Greece. The Duchess of Sparta was formerly the Emperor's favorite sister; but her sudden and unexpected "conversion" to the Greek church "infinitely exasperated his majesty and he has since been on the coldest terms. No Ese for It. Uncle Zebulon, from one of the back townships, was on a visit to his nephew in the big city, and the two had gone to a restaurant for dinner. They had given their order and were waiting for it to be filled, when the younger man who had been glancing at a paper that lay on the table, said: "By the way, uncle, did you ever have cerebro-spinal meningitis?" "No," replied Uncle Zebulon, after a few moments' meaura struggle with the question, "and I don't want any. I'd rather have tried liver and bacon any day." If You. Dle. Eating twelve pies between Christmas day and Twelfth day is said to insure the eater twelve lucky or happy months Curing the following reef. 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 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 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. 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Cases that come Estab. 21 11s. to our Sanitarium need not pay until cured. Write to day for our 30 book page. It contains much valuable information, and hundreds of testimonials from patients we have cured of cancer. Sent free. Consultation by mail or in person, free. address. DR. E. O. SMITH'S SANITARIUM, A. S. M.CLEARY, MANAGER. Rooms 6 to 11, N. E. Cor. tooth & Main St., KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI. St. James A. M. E., cor. 7th. and And. St. James M. E., Freeman ave., te. Can't Whistle on Sunday. The trains are to be forbidden to whistle within the limits of the city of Toronto on Sunday. In the District Court of Wyandotte County, Kausas. A. W. Fox, Plaintiff. Anna Fox, Defendant. No. 15107. 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 you answer demurge, or otherwise object, on or before the 17th day of March, A. D. 1901, the allegation of said petition will be taken as confessed to be true and judgment render'd against you graning 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 Kansas City daily, over this old established line. No change of cars between Kansas City and Denver, Ogden or San Francisco. All trans solidly vestibulated and tully equipped with latest improved Recilizing Chair Cars free and Pullman Palace sleeping cars. Meals served in Pullman Palace dining cars on the restaurant plan at prices most reasonable. All cars lighted with the celebrated Pintch Lig. It only line running two trains without charge from Kansas City to Denver Low excursion rates on sale to Colorado Utah Idaho, Oregon, Washington and California. Don't complete your arrays for a trip west until you have learned all about special inducements and attractions offered by the Union Pacific. For full information in regard allow rates time. etc., call on or adre Gen. Agt., Union Pacific, 1000 Russia; Russia Clux, Mo. 4. transient regulation. 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 Removal Intended Nothing Personal Intended. 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." Already arrangements are being made by the tourist agents to conduct parties to Oberammergan 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, peachs, are aware of the fact that in the counties of Coles, Douglas and Mouttrell, 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 kill 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 aaron 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 dwell on such matters during most of the journey. Mrs. Blue Sky is a sister of John Bear- HARTONA FACE.WASH. Manufacturer of and Wholesale dealer in Home Treatment that cures Cancers and Tumors. 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He thinks the judges on the federal bench should be men in the prime of life when appointed, so as to insure physical as well as mental strength for the duties of the office and to allow a reasonable number of years of active service before retirement. Experience adds to the usefulness of a judge, and the public is deprived of this benefit when the appointee is an old man and his term of service short. Towne's Sharp Retort. At the conclusion of Mr. Towne's notable speech in the senate on the Philippines question he received many congratulations. Chancey Depew said: "I congratulate you, Mr. Towne, Your delivery was fine, your diction elegant, your peroration superb and your argument damnable." "Mr. Depew," replied Senator Towne, instantly, "I am delighted to know you approve of the only features of it you could comprehend." Saving a Town Two weeks ago, Rev R. M. Williams, a Southerner, started a revival in the town of Hiawatha, Kan. Since then the people have been carried away by the subject of religion. There are twelve churches in the place, and re- REV. R. M. WILLIAM vivals are being held in ten of them. Stores are closed on alternate afternoons in order that the proprietors and clerks may attend, and when a special service is held all business stops and the whole town takes a half holiday to attend. Grand Old Man Is Stern President Kruger, though able to speak German and English, has confined himself to his native tongue since leaving Africa, having declared his intention of speaking nothing but "taal." So literally does he keep his vow that when addressed by his granddaughter in German (she knows not a word of the language of the South African republic) he invariably replies through an interpreter. A Reformed Capitalist Tom L. Johnson, who wants the nomination for mayor of Cleveland on the straight-out democratic ticket, has retired from business and will devote his life to democracy, according to an intention he has had in mind for some time. He opposes the extension of street railroad franchises and is in favor of municipal ownership and 3-cent fares.—Ex. Merritt and the Hazers. When Gen. Merritt had charge of the military school he did all in his power M. to check the nefarious practice and succeeded to some extent, but the authorities refrained from supporting him and he was compelled to permit hazing in a modified form. He is strongly in favor of suppressing it and expresses the hope that congress will legislate it out of existence. Tired of Politics. Senator Butler of North Carolina announced the other day that immediately upon the adjournment of congress he would begin the practice of law in Raleigh, N. C., where he will also look after his newspaper. Dr. John L. Swander of Tiffin, Ohio, has transferred to the trustees of the Reformed Theological seminary in Pennsylvania $20,000 of his estate, to be used for the establishment of a lectureship. He reserves the right to teach. Dr. John I. Swander of Tiffin, Ohio, has transferred to the trustees of the Reformed Theological seminary in Pennsylvania $20,000 of his estate, to be used for the establishment of a lectureship. He reserves the right to the interest on the fund during the lifetime of himself and his wife. At the age of $4 the German novelist fax Ring has been honored with the title of professor. It was his ambition as a young man to become a professor, but the death of his father and the lack of means prevented him from taking a university course. A dull, throbbing pain, accompanied by a sense of tenderness and heat low down in the side, with an occasional shooting pain, indicates inflammation. On-amination it will be found that the region of pain shows some swelling. 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It may be that the nose and throat is the oftest affected by catarrh, but this is it is so only because these parts are more exposed to the vicissitudes of the climate than the other parts of the body. takes with very dry men on a moist, natural. I co physician with no disease kept growing had exhausted the ab Mochester's best physician advised me work and go south, ad me for one year. I was given a thorow with the X-ray to determine what my t of your testimonial papers seemed to me sideration, and I may try a bottle of Perbottle was half gone for the better. I am bottle, and have not anywhere. My bowe every day, and I have ten pounds of flesh Every organ, every duct, every cavity of the human body is liable to catarrh. A multitude of aliments depend on catarrh. This is true winter and summer. Catarrh causes many cases of chronic disease, where the victim has a catarrh that catarrh has anything to do with it. The following letter which gives the experience of Mr. A. C. 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MORRIS, Washington, D.C. Successfully Prosecutes Claims. Late Principal Examiner U.S. Pension Bureau. Sore Hands COLICITA SOAP MEDICINAL TOILET Red, Rough Hands, Itching, Burning Palms, and Painful Finger Ends. One Night Treatment One Night Treatment Soak the hands on retiring in a strong, hot, creamy lather of CUTICURA SOAP. Dry, and anoint freely with CUTICURA, the great skin cure and purest of emollients. Wear, during the night, old, loose kid gloves, with the finger ends cut off and air holes cut in the palms. For red, rough, chapped hands, dry, fissured, itching, feverish palms, with shapeless nails and painful finger ends, this treatment is simply wonderful, and points to a speedy cure of the most distressing cases when physicians and all else fail. Cured by Cuticura I WAS troubled with hands so sore that when I put them in water the pain would near set me crazy, the skin would peel off, and the flesh would get hard and break, then the blood would flow from at least fifty places on each hand. Words never can tell the suffering I endured for three years. I tried at least eight doctors, but my hands were worse than when I commenced doctoring. I tried every old Granny remedy that was ever thought of without one cent's worth of good and could not even get relief. I would feel so bad mady nights when I got up, to think that I had to go to work and stand pain for eight or nine hours, that I often felt like giving up my job, which was in the bottling works of Mr. E.L. Kerns, the leading bottler of Trenton, N.J., who will vouch for the truth of my sufferings. Before I could start to work, I would have to wrap each finger on both hands, and then wear gloves, which I hated to do, for when I came to take them off, it would take two hours and the flesh would break and bleed. Some of my friends who had seen my hands would say, "If they had such hands they would have them amputated"; others would say "they would never work," and more would turn away in disgust. But thanks to Cuticura, the greatest of skin cures, it ended all my sufferings. Just to think, after doctoring three years, and spending dollar after dollar during that time, Cuticura cured me. It has now been two years since I used it and I do not know what sore hands are. I never lost a day's work while I was using it or since, and I have been working at the same business, and in acids, etc. CAREER AND CHARACTER OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. An address by Joseph Chote, 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, Ill. AN INDEPENDENCE ASSURED 160 ACRE FARMS IN WESTERN CANADA FREE If you have homes in Western Canada, the land of plenty, of pamphets, giving of pamphets, of farmers who have been informed of information, of expatriates, of wheat, reports of information, of delegates, etc., and full had on application to the Superintendent of immigration, Department of Interior, Ottawa, Canada, or to S. Crawford, 24 W. Ninth St., Mt. Mt. Included with: Thompson's Eye Water eye, eye, eye. ABOUT EXPENSE DEBATE ON THE BIG APPROPRIATIONS. EXTRAVAGANCE, SAY DEMOCRATS Mr. Cochran, of Missouri, Makes a Savage Attack on the Recklessness of Appropriations of Present Congress—Electoral Vote for President and Vice President Counted—Washington News. The House devoted Wednesday, excepting an hour and a half consumed in counting the electoral vote and promulgating the result of the Presidential election, to the sunny civil appropriation bill. During the debate the opposition opened a general assault upon the extravagance of the present congress, Messrs. Bell, of Colorado, Richardson of Tennessee, and Cochran of Missouri, in turn making speeches, Messrs. Cannon of Illinois, and Moody of Massachusetts, defended the record of Congress in the matter of appropriation. Mr. Bell of Colorado, a member of the appropriation committee, opened with a speech on the extravagance of the present Congress. He said the people become alarmed at the rapid growth of expenditures. So callous had Congress become to vast increases in the appropriations, he said, that it was considered almost disreputable to call attention to the extravagance of the government. He produced figures to show that in a single decade the per capita expenditure of the mental machinery had increased from $4.75 to over $10. Business at this point was suspended to permit counting of the electoral vote. Upon conclusion of these ceremonies, Mr. Cochran of Missouri made an attack upon the recklessness of the appropriations in this Congress. He declared that the total for he nex年, if reckoned in gold, would exceed the appropriations of 1848, when the Federal government had, 1,200 ships on the sea maintaining a fleet of 1,000 men on land and 1,000 men on land engaged in the most tremendous military enterprise of the history of the age. Later, speaking of our policy in the Philippines and China, Mr. Cochran said: "Talk about progress and Christianity, if progress and Christianity mean marching under many flags of plunderers and the swords of Christian soldiers dripping in the blood of plunderers, it is time to quit or fling away the masquerade and say, 'Progress has turned freebooter, Christianity slumbers and God is dead.'" (Democratic applause.) Mr. Cochran also argued that, from any economic standpoint, the "game" in the Philippines was not worth the cost. "We have already," said he, "spent money enough then to build the Nicragan canal, fortify every foot of firearms we need, and we are to-day no nearer peace than when the first gun was fired. CARTER'S LATEST. His Attorneys Promise Sensational Disclosures Startling disclosures in the case of Captain Oberlin M. Carter have been made, and if what is disclosed is true a national scandal is brewing that will eclipse the Dreyfus case. Indeed, it is also the Carter's friend that suspects the involvement of burglar officials in the land and knock at the very doors of the capitol. John H. Atwood, attorney for Carter, has given out a telegram from Savannah, Ga., stating that an effort is being made to arrest Carter immediately should he be released on bail by the Federal court at Leavenworth, pending the appeal of the habeas corpus proceedings to the United States court. The attorneys for Carter declare that in the event the application for bail is denied, or in the event officials now said to be en rule to Leavenworth to intercept Carter should succeed in their purpose and prevent a full investigation of the charges made by Carter, they will make disclosures that will startle the nation. These disclosures will be made of evidence and evidence showing that Carter's trial and incarceration were the result of a gigantic civil and military conspiracy by men high in authority to get Carter out of the way and prevent an exposure of rottenness in military and civil official life. MACARTHUR HOPEFUL AGAIN The following cablegram was received at the war department from General MacArthur Wednesday: Colonel Simon Tecson, seven officers, seventy-one soldiers, fifty-nine guns, 2,000 rounds ammunition, surrendered unconditionally February 11, San Miguel de mayumo, Luzon. This breaks up group insurrects heretofore operating mountains east of Balacan; removes from Northern Luzon lance; midable organized force exequating in first district; Rewrite government proclamation December 20. Spontaneous action people through Federal party peace, self protection, are producing most satisfactory results; encourage hope entire suspension hostilities early date—MacArthur." Senator Platt's Wife Dead. Mrs. Thomas C. Platt, wife of United States Senator Platt of New York, is dead. How Burglars Do in Chicago. Two men drove up to the door of the residence of Chauceyne J. Blair, a millionaire Chicago banker. One man he the horse while the other climbed up the front porch, pried open a window and carried out a safe weighing 300 pounds, in which Mrs. Blair usually kept her jewels. It happened, however, that she had removed them and the safe was empty. The rooftop was discovered as a house, but the burglary was committed while many people were passing and in the glare of an electric light which stands in front of the house. Generals all Conirmed: The senate held two executive sessions Wednesday, with the result that all the presidential nominations to the office of brigadier general were confirmed. The nominations which caused discussion were those of General John McCain and Senator Pettigrew criticised General Bates' nomination, because that officer had negotiated the Sulu treaty, which treaty he attacked sharply. Mrs. Carrie Nation, "joint" smacker, has resigned to take charge and edit the Poorik, lil., Journal for one day, on Tuesday, February 26. KANSAS RAILROAD BILL. Provisions of the Measure Prepared by the Sunflower Lawmakers. The new railroad bill before the Kansas legislature provides for a board of three commissioners to be appointed by the governor. Not more than two of the commissioners may be of the same political party. The salary of the commissioners shall be $3,000 a year, and the board shall have a secretary at $1,500 and a stenographer at $1,200. The original railroad law of the state, adopted in 1883, which this bill follows in general terms, gave the executive council power to remove a commissioner at will. The new bill does not contain that provision, and removal may be made only by impeachment for cause. This omission protects the executive commissioners by the whistle of the executive council and insures their independence of action. The bill does not clothe the board with power to enforce its own orders, but this may be done by a proceeding in mandamus in the supreme court. Any person who has a reasonable grievance may institute this proceeding, and if the attorney general believes a disobedience of an order of the court is warranted, he shall institute the court. All actions of this character shall be in the name of the state upon the relation of the attorney general. In such cases the practice shall be the same as in ordinary suits. The court shall control the time of trial without regard to the time the issues are joined, but they are not joint. The litigation except criminal cases. Refusal to obey the mandates of the court is contempt, and in addition to the usual punishment the court may fine a company $1,000 a day so long as the disobedience continues. The costs of all proceedings by the attorney general are to be paid out of the funds upon the approval of the governor, the attorney general and the auditor. Railroads are made responsible to shippers in actual damages and, in addition, in punitive damages of $2 a day for failure after a reasonable time to furnish cars. The passenger fare fixed by the bill is three cents a mile, as now, but an excess of ten cents a mile is required by a passenger neglects to buy a ticket, the amount to be refunded at any station upon presentation of the conductor's receipt. The railroads shall not charge more for a short haul than for a long haul going in the same general direction and in the same territory. This is a flexible rule, however, to be governed by the law of the land. When the board establishes a rate it is presumed to be reasonable until the contrary is proved, and if any railroad company ignores it it shall be published in the official state paper for the information of the public. Where two railroads have automatic appliances for public safety at grade crossings, approved by the board of railroad commissioners, the law requires railroads to come to a full stop before passing over shall not be in force. WHAT IS EXPECTED OF CUBA. The President and Secretary Root Send Plain Tems to Gen. Wood As a result of a conference between President McKinley and Secretary: Root supplementary instructions were sent to General Wood to call the attention of the Cuban constitutional convention to the importance and necessity of including the requirements of this government in the constitution. It is demanded that the Monroe doctrine shall be recognized; that Cuba shall not mortgage the island to any foreign nation; that the United States received the right to establish naval stations at Havana, Guantanamo, Nipe and Cienfugos, and a right to maintain at least a part of the present military force in the island, and that the United States shall assist Cuba in maintaining a stable government. On account of the situation in Cuba there has been renewed talk of the probability of an extra session of Congress. The President has reiterated his desire to have Congress take action in the matter, and asserts his possible moment and advice from General Wood within the last two days are said to be of such a character as to make an extra session practically imperative. FRANCHISE TAX BILL Governor Dockery Earnestly Recommends Derive Action In a Special Message Governor Dockery has sent a special message to the two houses of the Missouri legislature urgently recommending the enactment of a franchise tax law. He says in his message: "In considering legislation of this character the difference between private business corporations and those owning public utilities, performing public service and possessing special and peculiar provisions, conferred upon them the power to make public palatits, must not be overlooked. There is an obvious distinction between the character and nature of the franchise conferred upon a private corporation formed to conduct an ordinary business enterprise, and the franchise conferred upon a quasi-public corporation. "If the mere right 'to be a corporation' is not taxed, either in case of private corporations or of quasi-public corporation, but only the special franchises and other privileges given by it certainly cannot be claimed that any discrimination is made. Such privileges or franchises are valuable, and although intangible, constitute 'property.'" The fellow who always tells the truth loses lots of friends. Army to Reach the Ldmit. **ARMY** Accustomed to the present plans of the war department, the army is to be recruited to its full authorized strength of 100,000 men. The regular army now consists of about 67,000 men, including the troops in the Philippines, so that the new enlistments are limited to about 33,000 men. A Railroad Attorney Killed L. M. Trumbull, ex-general counsel for the Texas Pacific Railway company, was killed by a passenger train at a crossing in Webster Grove, St. Louis county, Mo. He did not see the train coming and stepped in the way. Wreck a Winfield Joint Wreck a Winfield Joint. At Wreck a Winfield had determined citizens armed with guns, axes, hatchets and other weapons raided Schmidt's joint and completely demolished it. Windows, doors, bar fixtures, liquors and everything breakable were smashed. Several ministers and college students were in the crowd. Abilene Wants a Library At Abilene, Kan, the women's clubs in charge of the plan for a new public library have sent a request to Senator Burton to present Abilene's claims to Andrew Carnegie and to secure, if possible, a gift for the library. COST OF ARMY THE QUESTION DEBATED IN THE HOUSE. $2.828 ANNUALLY PER SOLDIER The German Soldier Costs $227 and the French Soldier $232—The Army Appropriation Bill Passed by the House—Interesting Debate on Military Matters. The House Tuesday passed the army appropriation bill and entered upon consideration of the sundry civil bill, the last one of the big money bills, confined largely to the question of passing bills to remove the charge of desertion against soldiers and was made notable by a statement of Mr. McClellan of New York, comparing the cost of the soldier in European armies with the cost in the United States. According to his figures, including the cost of pensions, etc., each United States soldier involved an annual cost of $2.238, while a German soldier costs $227 and a French soldier $232 the appropriation bills the letter reflecting upon Mr. Perry S. Heath, which Mr. Sulzer introduced into the proceedings Monday, was expunged from the record. Mr. Shayden of Texas, a member of the committee, devoted thirty minutes discussing the growth in bills to remove the charge of desertion against soldiers of the civil war. During the present Congress, of the 2,300 private bills referred to the military committee, 2,000 were to remove the charge of desertion. Mr. Boutell of Illinois and Mr. Clayton of Alabama contended that these were many meritorious among the claimants for the removal the charge of desertion. Each cited cases Mr. McClellan of New York made an interesting statement as to the total which he said was $128,799,760. To this must be added, he said, $154,052,949 for the cost of past wars, pensions, etc., bringing the total up to $282,851,761. Other such aid, not counting pensions, etc., therefore would be $1,288; including pensions, $2,828. The cost of the German soldier, including pensions and expenses of past wars, he said, was only $227, and of the French soldiers, also including pensions and the expense of the Franco-Prussian war, was $232. Before the end of the war, the military establishment would cost over $300,000,000. This grand total did not include any of the expense of maintaining the navy. TOPEKA JOINT WAR. The Liquor Dealers are Getting Ready to More. Out. Topeka is a middling dry town. The joints are all closed and the drug stores are only doing business under the written application system. The jointists seem to have taken the people in earnest and decided to quit business rather than have their fixation and desire to travel. Chief Police Stahl paid a visit to each of the jointists. He simply had one little speech for each. Many of the places were closed so he couldn't make his talk to the proprietors. However, he shoved a notice under their doors ordering them to stay closed and to reorder their futures. To those who he got to see he would make this speech: "Last week you were informed that for the safety of yourselves and the public it was best that you should close. There was a meeting held yesterday where it was demanded that the joints close. That meeting was perfect organization and the safety of the public I order out to close. I understand there is an armed organization of a thousand men to move on you and your joints. I have been round this morning and will visit every joint and leave these papers with you. they explain themselves." The jointists are getting ready to leave town. They have been given until Friday to get their traps out and they will be doing the drug stores that sell liquor will be required to comply strictly with the law or be regarded as joints and subject to the same treatment. No Anti-trust Bill. The anti-trust bill was again under consideration by the Senate judiciary committee Monday, but no progress was made toward securing a report. Some of the members of the committee expressed the opinion, after the close of the meeting, that no report would be made at the present session of Congress. The bill as it passed the Republican's satisfactory neither to the Republican senators nor to the opposition. The latter element has, however, proposed that the bill be reported as it passed the House, with a view of getting it before the Senate, and there attempting to amend it, but the Republican senators have taken the position that the bill should be perfected in committee. The committee has agreed to amend Hoar's amendment exempting labor organizations from the operations of the present law, but has made no other definite progress. A. Suclde to Suclde, to a Mob. At Crested Butte, Colo., while a mob was besieging the jail and threatening to lynch George Buric, he committed suicide by hanging himself to a window bar in his cell with an electric light wire. Buric was arrested for criminal assault, but declared he was innocent. Mrs. Nation in Chicago. Mrs. Carrie Nation arrived in Chicago Tuesday over the Rock Island road, and within fifteen minutes after reaching the city she was facing a somewhat diminutive audience, gathered under the auspices of local members of the T. C. U. T., in Williard the Writter awaived that she delivered a number of short addresses from the rear end of the car, speaking at nearly every station where a stop was made. Her coming was marked by no special incident, contrary to the expectations of the ladies who had invited her to visit Chicago. Drink Tons of Arsenic. Dr. Campbell Brown, the city analyst, testifying at a beer poisoning inquest at Liverpool, England, estimated from samples examined that the average weekly consumption of beer in Liverpool in summer time would contain 300 pounds of arsenic, enough to kill 1,000,000 people if administered in spinal doses and at one time. Conger Would Accept Governorship. Major E. H. Conger, United States minister to China, has cabled to an Iowa friend that he will accept the Republican nomination for governor of Iowa, but will not make a a-fat for it. Mules-Best price ranges from $55 to $135, according to size and weight. BOERS MAY COME TO KANSAS. A Lieutenant in the Burgher Army Hunt Jan Krige, South African gold miner, farmer and a lieutenant in the Boer army, who escaped from Portuguese territory and hurried to the United States to avoid imprisonment by the English, is on his way to Kansas and Colorado, where he will pick out a location for the colony of Boer refugees which, it is rumored, will come to Kansas. Mr Krige has solved Kansas and Colorado as his objective points because he climate of these states correspond more closely to that of South Africa than any other part of the United States. He will make an exhaustive study of the agricultural conditions and is armed with letters to aid him in his mission. After ten years in the countryside, the completion of his countrymen is the result. Mr Krige will smuggle himself back to the Transvaal and resume his position in the Boer army as aide to General Botha. THE SAVANNAH CASE TO DROP. A Report That The Grand Jury Will not Indict Mrs. Richardson It is stated on apparently good authority that the Savannah murder mystery is at an end. The beginning of the end was reached when Mrs. Addie L. Richardson removed to St. Joseph soon after she waived a preliminary trial and was bound over to the grand jury. The latest information is that the grand jury will not indict anybody for the murder. Lincoln's Birthday. The ninety-second anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln was honored by banquets all over the country. The Republican Club of the city of New York gave a banquet at the Waldorf-Astoria. General Henry E. Tremain, the president of the club, presided. With him were seated at the guests' table Robert C. Morris, Rev. George T. Puris, George B. Sloan, Cornelius N. B. Bliss, Whitelaw Reid, Senator J. M. Thurston, Senator Deelect Joseph N. Baldwin, Senator Joseph N. Baldwin, Senator Hanna, Attorney General John W. Griggs, Senator N. B. Scott, Senator Edward T. Bartlett, Hugh Gordon Miller, Frederick S. Gibbs and Charles A. Case. They all made speeches. Michigan Can Tax Franchises. The Michigan Supreme court has handed down an opinion affirming the decision to allow the county courts bench, that franchises received from the city are taxable. The decision was in the case of what is now the Detroit United Railway company, the corporate name of the consolidated street railway systems of the city, against the city assessors of Detroit. Last year the assessors increased the assessment of the railway company from $2,600.00 to $1,842.100, on the assumption that the assessment would be confirmed by the circuit court confirmed the assessor's action and the case was then carried to the supreme court. Chicago's Drug Store Trust More than fifty of Chicago's leading retail drug stores have fallen into the hands of a syndicate, commonly referred to as "the drug store trust," and it is predicted that as many more will be captured during the next few months. The syndicate is incorporated under the name of the Dearborn Chemical company and has a capital stock of $125,000. Will Retire at Once The retirement of Generals John M. Wilson and Fitzhugh Lee will take place immediately after the confirmation of their nominations as brigadier generals by the Senate. General H. C. Peterson, the commissioner of Colorado, will take charge of the department of Missouri, in conjunction with his present duties for the present. Barrel of Whlsky Smashed. Barrel of Whisky Smashed. In the Santa Fe freight depot at Winfield, Kan., a barrel containing twenty gallons of whisky was smashed with a crowbar. Two promotions prohibitions are imposed, and they were seen in the depot a fw minutes before the smashed barrel was discovered. They will neither admit nor deny the deed. Death in an American Duel. A duel with revolvers was fought near Thacker, W. Va., between William Carrison and John Ray. Ray was killed. The duel was the result of a long standing grudge. Treated as a Political Hero It is stated that that John L. Powers, who is under indictment for complicity in the murder of Governor Goebel, left Knox county last September and went to Harrisburg, Pa., where, through the influence of the Republicans, he secured an appointment to office under the administration of Governor Stone. A. Big Oil Strike In Indiana. An oil well which has a flow of more than 7,000 barrels a day and has already inundated five acres of land with petroleum, was struck in the Blackford county field. A Collar and Cuff Trust Now The long talked of syndicate of Troy, N. Y., collar, cuff and shirt wholesale houses is now regarded as a certainty by the manufacturers concerned. No outside capital will be required to swing the combination, the name of which will probably be the American Collar, Cuff and Shirt company, representing a capital of $20,000,000. Nearly the entire plant of the Rochester Tumbler works of the National Glass company, the largest in the world, located at Rochester, Pa., was destroyed by a fire Tuesday. The loss will amount to about $600,000. WOOL CONSUMPTION. NOT MATERIALLY DECREASED BY THE USE OF COTTON. Production Standily Increases and In Time the Domestic Grower Will Be Able to Meet All Requirements Allike as to Quantity and Quality. Without pursuing further the inquiry as to the true inwardness of the opening up of the wool tariff question in the December "Bulletin of the National Association of Wool Manufacturers," it is interesting to note that the position taken by that journal on the subject of quality, supply and decreased per capita consumption has called forth not a little comment and criticism. Among the significant statements appearing in the "Bulletin" is one that "the per capita consumption of wool in the United States has decreased through the increased use of cotton from 9.07 greasy pounds in 1890 to 6.70 pounds in 1900." It is an almost necessary inference that the purpose of this statement was to show that, owing to the present duty on wool, the cost of clothing has been so greatly increased as to compel the substitution of cotton and shoddy as adulterants, and that the tariff on wool is to blame for this enforced use of cheaper ingredients. Free-traders all over the country have so construed it, and on the strength of this statement there has sprung up a renewed agitation for a return to the free wool basis of the Democratic tariff of 1894. Give the domestic free-trader an inch and you will find him taking an ell. Once you concede that a duty is too high, he will abuse that concession by urging the removal of all duties. It appears, however, that Secretary North has considerably overstated the case in asserting that the per capita consumption of wool in the United States has fallen from 9.07 pounds in 1899 to 6.70 pounds in 1900. Mr. Theodore Justice, a standard authority on this question, in the January wool circular of Justice & Bateman, corrects Mr. North by citing the fact that during the year ending June 30, 600,000-000 pounds of wool were manufactured into textiles in the United States—a quantity exceeding that of any previous year. In addition to this, the importations of woolens during that period represented 48,000,000 pounds of unwashed wool, making a total of 648,000,000 pounds, or a per capita consumption of $8\frac{1}{2}$ pounds, and this at a time when the substitution of cotton for wool was admittedly increasing. Mr. Justice adds: "Ignoring the fact that wool is being replaced by cotton in foreign countries to a much greater extent than in the United States, the free-trade newspapers clamor for a, return to conditions existing under the Wilson tariff law, when a greater quantity of cotton and shoddy debased goods were imported into this country than ever before. "The Dingley bill has also been attacked on the ground that the wool growers in the United States have failed to increase their flocks, so that within a few years we would be able to supply our entire needs with homegrown staple, similar to the remarkable development of the tinplate industry; but a review of actual facts will clearly show the fallacy of this charge. "The wool clip of the United States in 1897, after three years of a most disastrous experience with free wool, was 259,000,000 pounds; but in 1900, after wool had been protected for about the same length of time, the clip had increased to 289,000,000 pounds, or about 11 per cent over that of 1897. "This increase is at a greater rate than the increase in population during the same time. "In 1894 the wool clip of the world was about 2,693,000,000 pounds, while in 1900 it had fallen about one-half of 1 per cent to 2,655,000,000 pounds; and in those countries where free trade conditions exist, wool production has decreased, although the population has increased. "In Great Britain, where climatic conditions and the habits of the people more closely approximate those of the United States than elsewhere, wool production has fallen off 5 per cent since 1891. "In view of the decrease of 5 per cent in wool production in Great Britain, and $2 \frac{1}{2}$ per cent in the Southern Hemisphere, where there is no wool tariff, it is manifestly absurd to maintain that the duty on wool is responsible for the failure of the American clip to increase at a greater rate than 11 per cent in three years." Relative to the "Bulletin's" claim that domestic sheep raisers are making no progress toward meeting the requirements of manufacturers in the matters of supply and quality, a recent statement by Senator Warren of Wyoming, a standard authority on questions of sheep and wool production, is pertinent and convincing: "The greater variety of our climatic conditions is wonderfully favorable to the production of all kinds and grades of wool, and it is not surprising that no other wools make more desirable clothing. Under these conditions the contention is well made that manufacturers know that their prosperity depends upon a full domestic wool supply, and should co-operate with the growers in encouraging the production of wool to meet all ordinary requirements of clothing. American wool consumption should be mainly of American production, and with the hearty co-operation of the manufacturer the wool grower can be expected to increase the varieties and quantity of his product, and thus meet every demand that may be made upon him. There can be no doubt that our flocks are less in number than they were in 1893 or even ten years prior to that time, but it is also true that they are now increasing rapidly, and I believe that within a few years they will surpass any previous figures. Already the wool grower is striving to meet a diversified demand, and if manufacturers desire a selection from all the wools of the world they soon can find practically every variety of real value without going out of the country. This point is well enforced by a list published in a recent bulletin of the Department of Agriculture showing the existence of more than twenty-five dif ferent breeding associations, covering practically all the desirable grades of wool. In this connection the wool exhibit at the Paris Exposition just closed was a wonderful exemplification of the extent to which the wool growing industry in the United States has been diversified. These exhibits afforded the people of other countries an idea of the great variety and high character of American wools, and indicate that it is within the power of the American wool grower to produce practically any grade that the manufacturer may demand." Finally as to the correctness or otherwise of the "Bulletin's" content that there has been no perceptible increase of flocks under the operations of the Dingley tariff, it is in order to quote the sheep raisers themselves. Early in 1900 the American Protective Tariff League obtained from sheep raisers in thirty-nine states and territories replies to questions as to the number of sheep owned by them in March, 1896, and March, 1900, and the average value per head in those two periods. These replies showed an increase of 71.44 per cent in the number of sheep owned and an increase of 121.59 per cent in their average value. While it is not to be expected that the government census figures of 1900 will bear out this tremendous rate of increase, it can safely be asserted that they will conclusively refute the statement that there has been no material increase in the sheep flocks of the United States under the Dingley tariff. RETAINED AT THE HELM. PROSPERITY FOR ALL. The Non-Capitalistic Classes Are Getting Their Share. During the late campaign the opposition charged that the boasted "McKinley prosperity" was only among the capitalistic classes, and that little or none of it filtered down through the masses of the people. The majority of the people did not accept this view, as was evidenced by the result of the voting. The election is now over, and there is no object in misrepresenting the situation, therefore the following dispatch: which was recently sent from Omaha, Neb. is interesting; "So scarce has manual labor become through the west that employment agents representing railroads operating west of the Missouri have been sent to New York and other eastern cities to secure men to work on the tracks and grades through Nebraska, Wyoming and Utah. . . Wages of railroad workers are now $2.50 per day and board throughout the west. This is double what this form of labor has commanded in past years. . . Not in the history of the west has railroad labor been so difficult to secure as today. On every hand railroad work has been suspended because the labor cannot be secured." Prosperity for workingmen has sometimes been described as that condition where two or more jobs are looking for one man, instead of two or more men looking for one job. If this is a correct diagnosis, the situation described in the Omaha dispatch is certainly indicative of prosperity among the non-capitalistic classes. Railroads have come to constitute an excellent barometer of the condition of general business. If the railroads are crowded with freight and passengers, earning a surplus, paying good wages to their employees and good dividends to their stockholders, it may be taken for granted that the people and the industries upon which the railroads depend for business are also prosperous. There never was a time in the history of the country when the railroads, as a whole, were doing such an immense and remunerative business as now, or when their stocks and bonds were in more eager demand at advancing prices.-Minneapolis Tribune. LOST THEIR GOOD CLOTHES. The Democrats did not appreciate good issues when they saw them. They could have got on the right side of the currency and "imperialist" questions as well as the Republicans could. But they "wandered off after strange gods," as Mr. Cleveland puts it. To change the figure, they are like little boys who have been swimming in unclean waters, who weary of their venture after a while and "want to be good," but on emerging from their brackish pool find that certain other little boys, who have had no desire to swim in disagreeable waters, have appropriated their clothes. There appears to be nothing left for the Democracy to do but to be as good as it can and hope for new habiliments.—Providence (R. I.) Journal. DR. M'KINLEY'S PROSPERITY PILLS. These celebrated pills are the best known remedy for the empty dinner pail cramp, the empty flour barrel fever, the children's empty stomach croup. Agrees with all sorts and conditions of men without regard to race, color or previous condition of servitude. None genuine unless the word "Protection" is stamped on the bottle. Many a man by virtue of his ancestry is only the shadow of a mighy name. Congratulations from Many Lands Professor Cornellus Tiele of Leyden university, on the occasion of his seventieth birthday, the other day, received congratulations from all parts of the world, especially from England, where he is known by his Gifford lectures in Edinburgh. The universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Dublin and other learned societies have sent addresses, and Edinburgh university has made him a doctor of law honors causa. New Bridge for Boalphorns A new bridge is about to be built across the Bosphorus, bearing the name of the sultan, Abdul Hamid. It will be constructed of granite and metal by the Bosphorus Railway company, which designs a function between the railways of Europe and the transasiatie railway of Bagdad, now being built by the Germans. The narrowest dividing line of sea has been chosen for the point of construction. Dog Meat Not Served. Indians living on the eastern end of the Keshena reservation, near Ocomo, Wis., recently held their annual "dog feast." In old days dog were fattened specially for these feasts, roasted and eaten with relish, in these time degenerate civilization the braves content to eat turkey, chicken, goose and other delicacies, all of which were plentiful at the Keshena feast. Song Birds for Northwest. Sir Henry Joly, the lieutenant governor of British Columbia, with the assistance of the Natural History society of that province, is taking steps to import large quantities of song birds from England and eastern Canada. It is believed that they will be rapidly acclimated and will thrive in British Columbia. MUSIC Mrs. Julia Dent Grant denies the stories of her husband's dislike for music. "He did not," she said, "core for musical gymnastics, as he called them, but he was most fond of music, and often asked me to sing for him." ONE DOLLAR PER PILL. Cincinnati, O, Feb. 11, 1901.—(Special.)—Miss Netta Hixon is Sergeant-Arms of Camp No. 1, Patriotic Order of America. Her home is at No. 1717 Hughes street, this city. 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